I was going to root my Sprint Hero and I was following a guide, I was at the HBoot screen, I got the fastboot message but when I ran fastboot devices from the command prompt nothing happened so I was going to give up and try again later, I hit the home button hoping to exit the hboot screen now my phone is stuck showing an exclamation point in a triangle and a phone laying on it's back, what should I do?
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This may be a weird question, but instead of trying to get into fastboot, I've got problems getting out of fastboot. Here's the situation:
I installed Villianrom 3.1 without any trouble, and downloaded the 3.2 update to my SD. I went into recovery and, without wiping first, tried to install the update. It reported an error on line 5, and cancelled. Since I didn't feel like wiping and having to setup the phone again, I decided to stick with 3.1 and rebooted the phone. I happened to be connected to my pc at the time.
All I got was the black boot screen with the silver HERO logo, and "FASTBOOT USB" in red in the top left corner.
"Fastboot devices" returns the device, so fastboot is active.
"Fastboot reboot" returns "Rebooting.." but has no effect on the phone.
"Fastboot reboot-bootloader" gives me "rebooting into bootloader.. FAILED <Command write failed <unknown error>>"
Since I have a recent nandroid backup, all I want to do is get back to the recovery screen, but I don't see how I can do that from here. I'm reluctant to pull the battery, since that is how I bricked my HTC Magic.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
EDIT: never mind, after about 3 hours of waiting the device shut itself down. I booted into recovery and it's restoring right now.
never had a problem from pulling the battery in fastboot, but "reset device" just reboots iirc.
I did all the steps to root the phone, 1 and 2, but got stuck in a bootloop. The sprint log stuff would come up, the the 4g, then back to sprint etc. I flashed the PC36IMG.zip of the shipped version, but now I can't get the RUU to take the phone into a fully factory state. It starts, then gets stuck waiting for bootloader with a black screen and htc on it. I really just want to make it factory again and start over with the root process. Any ideas?
Hold power and volume when turning on phone, then select fastboot and have the selection for bootloader highlighted, then start the RUU it should work then.
OK, so I tried the volume down + power btn deal, but still no dice. I really don't undestand wtf happened, cause before doing the 2nd part of root, I was able to load Damage ROM, now anything I load besides the PC36IMG.zip from part 1 just bootloops. Crazy
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I did all the steps to root the phone, 1 and 2, but got stuck in a bootloop. The sprint log stuff would come up, the the 4g, then back to sprint etc. I flashed the PC36IMG.zip of the shipped version, but now I can't get the RUU to take the phone into a fully factory state. It starts, then gets stuck waiting for bootloader with a black screen and htc on it. I really just want to make it factory again and start over with the root process. Any ideas?
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ive seen this answered in the RUU threads. they mentioned the RUU doesn't automatically reboot the phone into the correct mode, i think it was bootloader? manually booting it into the correct mode, then connecting the USB, resolved the issue.
you might want to search/reference the RUU threads for more details as i never had the issue and am only recalling off the top of my head what ive read, which cant be 100% accurate!
When RUU stops/freezes and your phone has the black screen with "HTC" on it.... do not restart your phone or anything leave it the way it is. What you do is exit out of the RUU program by clicking "exit" when it freezes up. Then without doing anything to the phone, just restart the RUU program and it should pick up where it left off and complete the process. I found this fix in "Q and A" part of the Evo forum and it worked for me.
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You need to format the phone rest and format cashe then install the rooted image and it will boot. I had the same problem.
Thanks for the responses, it is working again, YEAH!
So I have had this US beta streak since around January, the one that says 'Dell Confidential' at boot up, but it's never really worked correctly. I purchased it from a person that I know that got it through some sort of beta testing; the details weren't provided and I didn't press him for them. Anyways, I am currently trying to get the clockwork recovery flashed and able to be booted into, although the streak is giving me every possible problem I can imagine. I'll try to provide as much background info as I possibly can.
Firmware: 1.5
Baseband Version AUS_090716_01_BOSS_EVT2_3135
Kernel Version 2.6.27
Build Number QTC_3135
OEM Version: AustinBuild_090724_03_boss_evt2_3135_FixTouchSuspend
Under About Phone > Status
IMEI 011954000020995
IMEI SV 00
Service Tag FF8R6K1 (which dell.com cannot find)
The Problems:
When I try to get into bootloader to get into fastboot, by holding the camera button down while hitting the power button, rather than going into the screen that is shown in all of the different tutorial threads, I instead go into some sort of a diagnostic menu that doesn't have an option for fastboot, as much as I have seen. There is a picture attached below.
I (think) that I can get the phone recognized by adb, although I am not totally positive. When in cmd in windows, and I type adb devices, instead of getting the proper serial number of my devices, it shows instead 0123456789ABCDE (I may not have that exact, but it does start at 0 and ends in hex at E or F, I can't remember right now and don't have it connected at the moment.)
There was one time where I was able to flash recovery.clockwork.img to where it said that it successfully flashed the img, but when I go to try and boot into recovery by holding both volume up and down at the same time, and then hitting power, the phone just hangs at a blank, black screen. It will stay there for 30 minutes and not do a thing, I can't see it via adb or fastboot.
So I then gave recovery.alt.img a shot, was able to successfully flash that, or so it told me that it was successful, but still the same problem: just a black screen.
The reason that I think that it actually was working was that after flashing the recovery image both times, I sent the command adb reboot recovery, and the phone reboots, but not into recovery, just into android. adb reboot-bootloader doesn't work at all and returns an error or nothing, I can't remember.
I then focused my attention on trying to get fastboot to work, assuming that adb was not working at all. This is where fastboot gets strange. The only way for me to get the command 'fastboot devices' to show anything at all is by holding the volume down button prior and then hitting the power button to start it. This puts the phone into essentially a 'soft brick', which my friend calls 'safe mode', where it gets totally stuck at the 'Dell Confidential' screen and will not progress past it no matter what.
So, once I am in 'safe mode', I am able to then issue a 'fastboot devices' command, which ... partially works? I hope that my totally unsure tone of voice was able to be conveyed through that message, because the info returned once that command is sent is totally confusing to me. Unlike before, where I feel as though the Streak is just lying to me by saying 0123...DEF for the device ID, for fastboot devices it just gives me a question mark .. yes, simply a ?
The weird thing is that it will follow commands. I was able to flash recovery.clockwork.img to the streak, it gave me a read out that said successful, and I got very excited. And then I pulled the battery, put it back in, held both the volume buttons, and .... the same result, the black screen. So, not allowing myself to be deterred, I got right back into fastboot, or at least my quasi working version of fastboot which may not be working at all, and flashed recovery.alt.img, which turned around and told me that it was successful as well. This time, not allowing myself to get excited, I pulled the battery and, with both volume buttons held down, hit power to try to get into recovery.
Again, I was let down and found only a blank screen. At this point, I have no idea what else to try. With the bootloader not being where it's suppose to be, not really being able to get into fastboot or adb (I think), I turn to xda to try and find some answers. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what I am doing wrong or might be missing. I am hoping that it is something that is really obvious that I feel very stupid, like I'm hitting the wrong set of volume buttons, but ... I don't think it's that easy.
Again, I feel as though the phone was getting the commands from fastboot because I sent fastboot reboot recovery, and the phone rebooted, just not into recovery but android. Same thing for bootloader, it just didn't work at all
Also, as for android 1.5 itself, almost nothing works. This appears to be running a very early edition of android where most apps just end up with: Sorry! No applicatons can perform this action, so the One touch root is kind of out of the question.
I was able to do the dialer unlock method to get EMList, but the similarities end there. I don't have the Unknown sources option or anything else after leaving dialer.
Any and all suggestions are appreciated and will be accepted and followed (within reason). I'm just at the point where I'm hoping that it's not totally broken and that with determination and hard work and some critical thinking I (we) will be able to get it working again. Hopefully it isn't a paperweight.
Thanks,
Thursday
I'm using this method:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1182871&page=61
The phone rebooted and said "Failed to boot 0x1000
No OS detected, going into RSD mode in 5 seconds
Press a key to stop countdown... etc."
I accidentally pressed a key or two...
EDIT: Never mind. I fixed it
How did you fix it? I had the same thing happen to me and I haven't been able to find a fix.
Thanks!
LOL -- your post reminded me of this:
Anyway, I just unlocked this week but didn't use this script. I did, however, end up at exactly this place... I didn't notice my phone had rebooted and pretty sure I missed the 5-second window. My phone listed several different modes (RSD, recovery, etc.) but when I looked carefully, it also said "Starting fastboot protocol support" at the bottom -- that is, it automatically chose fastboot when I didn't make a selection.
If that's what yours is doing, try issuing the "fastboot oem unlock" command (this is assuming your phone is still plugged into the computer at this stage) and proceeding from there. It worked when I did it.
I'll go ahead and note that my phone froze on the splash screen (with "Unlocked" at top left" at the next reboot; a battery-pull and second reboot solved that problem.
First time I tried to do bootloader unlock same thing happened. Got stuck at fastboot while flashing sbf because drivers took a while to install. I just did fastboot oem unlock and then reset, that did it.
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I got this message after trying to unlock bootloader using this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1202883
The RSD program got stuck at 96% and them eventually said failed. I took out the battery and put it back in and got the same message. Even though the program said failed, the Atrix has actually been unlocked because if you try to unlock again, it'll say failed instantly. So after that you can continue on with the fastboot & cmd part.
Use the volume keys to select fastboot and keep going.
It seems that I'm in a pickle here.
I already had swiftdroid installed but then I wanted to re-install it. So I tried but after flashing euro+fast.kdz , I got stuck in boot-loop. I tried doing the steps but I think I might be doing something wrong. Well, to get into fastboot to test if it went through would be holding the "camera" button or is it "home+camera" button during reboot? Thanks. Been at this all day.
Oh, and it appears every time I try to power on and hold the camera button first, it just goes to a black screen. So, by that have I already installed the rom properly even if it gets stuck on the android logo?
and an update as to what's happening:
going into download mode detects my phone on "device and printers" but as soon as I click on "Launch software update" I lose all the icons and KDZ returns a message saying "Phone was not found" I just noticed this now. What should I do?
I already uninstalled all drivers installed on my pc and re-installed them. After doing so, my phone detected a whole bunch of LG devices. Now on Android logo -- That after doing the Euro+fast and now am trying to do the out.kdz. By the way, even if my phone restarted during the "Launch software update" I waited for it to say finish right before I took out the battery and the usb cable.
After param 207 my phone went into boot stage and my pc re-detected the LG stuff. Now my phone is on the LG logo and it's been like it for a minute+.
I am following several steps on doing this procedure.
--Now question is again.. After this step should I be able to launch fastboot via "holding the camera" button? Do I need to do this while the phone is plugged in to the computer?
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already tried euro then the out then euro using phone cs_emergency. Currently on Android bootloop. So I think I'm kinda back to step 1. Because initially, when I had swiftdroid, I just did euro using phone diag then afterwards, it went to bootloop. Now when I tried to restart my phone then I press and hold of the camera button, phone goes into a black screen. But looking at the "devices and printers" page, it shows "unspecified--android" on the bottom. What should I do then?
So right now, I'm currently on Android logo bootloop and if I reboot then hold the camera button, it goes to a blank black screen. What should I do next? Thanks
Update:
so yeah, after dwelling on the black screen, I tried to open up Mur4ik's old thread looking for the files I downloaded last year. Tried the command prompt and typed this in
fastboot -w
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot reboot
After doing so, phone rebooted okay. Right now, phone status seems fine. Some adventure I had. Will try to work on how to upgrade the version on this unit.
Nice work dude I too did all that stuff, its really adventures
Now I came over it and now I'm trying all roms
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
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