Let me begin by admitting that I'm the original Newb. I bought myself an unlocked, second hand G1 (ex-T-Mobile, UK), and absolutely loved it. My wife was envious of me new(ish) phone, so I bought her one as well, naively thinking "there are two kinds of G1's - white ones and black ones". As I began to explore the world of Android, I discovered that things were slightly more complex than that, AND that there was another, seemingly identical phone called the "developers' edition". Having finally summed up the courage to root my G1 and "play" with ROMs... I realised that MY phone - although plain white - seemed to be already unlocked (Although, as it's second-hand, its history is unknown to me) and under "settings", the phone claims to be a G-1 developers' model.
I remembered reading about them - and seeing illustrations that showed a fancy design silk-screened on the case (mine doesn't feature a fancy design) I went back to take a second look at the forum posts which had mentioned these rarities... and they seem to have vanished.
Whatever... when I boot into recovery mode, I get a WHITE screen, featuring three little Android figures on skateboards, plus a yellow line across the page. NOT what I was expecting. Can anyone give me advice? What IS it that I am looking at? The phone works perfectly well - running Cupcake. Access to the Market is restricted compared to the other G-1, offering fewer items (The other G-1 is black, and running Donut - and it's not been rooted) My guess is that the software on the white phone has been modified, then put back to a semblance of "vanilla" before being sold. I want to be able to install new ROMs on the phone... but have been put off by the differences between what the instructions say SHOULD happen... and what IS happening before my very eyes. Kind of like following clear instructions to turn off the M25 at junction X and discovering that the road leads not to Uxbridge, as I'd been told, but to Ulan Bator. HELP!
BigRonW said:
Let me begin by admitting that I'm the original Newb. I bought myself an unlocked, second hand G1 (ex-T-Mobile, UK), and absolutely loved it. My wife was envious of me new(ish) phone, so I bought her one as well, naively thinking "there are two kinds of G1's - white ones and black ones". As I began to explore the world of Android, I discovered that things were slightly more complex than that, AND that there was another, seemingly identical phone called the "developers' edition". Having finally summed up the courage to root my G1 and "play" with ROMs... I realised that MY phone - although plain white - seemed to be already unlocked (Although, as it's second-hand, its history is unknown to me) and under "settings", the phone claims to be a G-1 developers' model.
I remembered reading about them - and seeing illustrations that showed a fancy design silk-screened on the case (mine doesn't feature a fancy design) I went back to take a second look at the forum posts which had mentioned these rarities... and they seem to have vanished.
Whatever... when I boot into recovery mode, I get a WHITE screen, featuring three little Android figures on skateboards, plus a yellow line across the page. NOT what I was expecting. Can anyone give me advice? What IS it that I am looking at? The phone works perfectly well - running Cupcake. Access to the Market is restricted compared to the other G-1, offering fewer items (The other G-1 is black, and running Donut - and it's not been rooted) My guess is that the software on the white phone has been modified, then put back to a semblance of "vanilla" before being sold. I want to be able to install new ROMs on the phone... but have been put off by the differences between what the instructions say SHOULD happen... and what IS happening before my very eyes. Kind of like following clear instructions to turn off the M25 at junction X and discovering that the road leads not to Uxbridge, as I'd been told, but to Ulan Bator. HELP!
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Maybe some info would help:
If you turn the phone off, then hold down the back button and press power, you will get a screen with some text at the top. What does it say there? This is the fastboot mode.
If you turn the phone off, then hold down the home button and press power, it will boot you into recovery. Some of them have a version number like "Build : RA-dream-v 1.7.0." That might help people figure out what you have.
You can do this with the other phone as well! Then you will be two steps away from flashing ROM after ROM until your buttons wear out.
Fewer items in Market on Cupcake is normal. You won't find uncompatible apps and a lots aren't meant to be running on 1.5 these days.
This white screen with android guys on skateboards... you have to have a few numbers on it, post it pls. Propably there will be smth like "spl 1.33.2003" or "spl 1.33.2005". And this is not recovery, it's a bootloader. You enter recovery with holding home while booting phone.
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Hi,
Phone info :
ipl : 3.08
SPL: 3.08
GSM: 01.12.10
OS : 4.0.0.0
Using a rom i upgraded a year ago.
So yesterday i decided to update my music on the phone, so not a big deal, but when i tryed to play 1 my telephone said it was out of memory and just went really slow, so i decided a reset, bad move.
After the reset it goes to the 2nd loading screen and just hangs there, i cant do anything.
When booting i can go into the screen with all the colors. (gotta press the cam button).
I already googled 2 days but cant find anything to fix this.
Any idea's ?? or is my phone dead ?
didnt remember this forum to be this dead.... any word ?
All my snarky comments about your misplaced impatience can be set aside for later abuse.
For now, here's how you fix it:
Charge on a wall charger with phone turned off. Verify green light before going any further (flashes don't work on less than 50% charge, and a full charge is the only way to be sure when you can't boot the OS).
Let it boot until it's stuck in bootloader mode (the three-color screen).
Hook it to a computer that you have previously synced to the phone with. Verify that "USB" appears in the bottom of the screen. If not, you're probably hosed.
Flash the ROM you loaded again (or get another ROM, doesn't matter...the one in my Sig is pretty nice, if you re-skin Manila after loading it). If you unlocked this phone before adding the ROM you last had, do NOT flash back to OEM ROM unless you can flash a ROM that removes the unlock (for G4, it's the Remove HardSPL procedure).
After that, you can stave off a lot of these kind of memory problems in the future by loading some kind of RAM indicator (QuickMenu has a built-in one, can manage running programs, and gives you a Windows desktop-style start menu for programs instead of the dumb endless folder parade) to let you know you have too many programs running, and you need to do a soft reset every once in a while, just to jog it clean. It also would be wise for you to load a cleaner to clear out your temp files...you'd be shocked how much crap piles up under the OS when you're not looking.
One last thing, do us a favor and put all your phone's info in your Sig...it helps others have a strong footing for making suggestions...not everyone would know off-hand that you have a G3 or a G4 without that info, and your problems can be made a LOT worse by someone offering the wrong answer based on not clearly identifying your hardware.
Hi,
First, Sorry for my impatient, it kinda sucked to have to go back to my old phone and recharge every 30 mins
In this impatiency (dont know if its a word but it sounds cool ) i found out my t-mobile contract was up for renewal, so i did that and ordered a new HTC Touch HD (will update my sig assoon as it ships )
So i guess ill fix this phone, and find a dutch ROM and give it to my dad, he's always working with excel etc and i think this is perfect
Thanks for your response and fix, sorry again for my impatience.
Sorry, double post, pretty slow forum lately
Well, technically I didn't do anything.
I just bought an HD2 off Craiglist, T8585, previously unlocked, so it would already play nice with my AT&T.
It had some SPB shell on it, so I went in to do a full data wipe and it reboots into something not stock-sense.
I attempted to boot into the bootloader and nothing happens--it just boots normally.
((Vol. down does work normally, mind you--the button is not broken.))
Any ideas as to what might be going on? I'm trying to see if they have the stock bootloader on this still, but the non-stock reset is throwing me off, as is the fact that I can't actually boot into the bootloader.
If I hold down both volumte buttons, I get a tricolor+white screen with an error, "Error: Copying file from SD Card failed, system will shut down."
Pictures attached to show current home-screen and error screen.
Thanks for your help.
Did you try without SD card? If there is something "flashable" on it, maybe your device tries to do something, but reading existing data fails.
My bro if im not wrong this hd2 seems like hd2 clone not original... so be very carefully when you try something with flashing ....
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Well, technically I didn't do anything.
I just bought an HD2 off Craiglist, T8585, previously unlocked, so it would already play nice with my AT&T.
It had some SPB shell on it, so I went in to do a full data wipe and it reboots into something not stock-sense.
I attempted to boot into the bootloader and nothing happens--it just boots normally.
((Vol. down does work normally, mind you--the button is not broken.))
Any ideas as to what might be going on? I'm trying to see if they have the stock bootloader on this still, but the non-stock reset is throwing me off, as is the fact that I can't actually boot into the bootloader.
If I hold down both volumte buttons, I get a tricolor+white screen with an error, "Error: Copying file from SD Card failed, system will shut down."
Pictures attached to show current home-screen and error screen.
Thanks for your help.
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wats d purpose of you wanting to check bootloader ?
I assume all you want back is Sense UI ?
Sense UI would be a start, yes, but I would have liked to flash WP7 and/or Android onto it, too.
Emm, i think that thats not HTC HD 2, thats MKT HD2, a clone looks almost 1:1 compared to htc hd 2.
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Sense UI would be a start, yes, but I would have liked to flash WP7 and/or Android onto it, too.
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Simply go to Start--Settings--
home--Items--Check HTC Sense and uncheck all the rest
that should do...
also if it is an hd2 and you have wm on it there are many endkeys / apps that have a reboot into bootloader.
ex:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=786524
vegaobscura said:
Well, technically I didn't do anything.
I just bought an HD2 off Craiglist, T8585, previously unlocked, so it would already play nice with my AT&T.
It had some SPB shell on it, so I went in to do a full data wipe and it reboots into something not stock-sense.
I attempted to boot into the bootloader and nothing happens--it just boots normally.
((Vol. down does work normally, mind you--the button is not broken.))
Any ideas as to what might be going on? I'm trying to see if they have the stock bootloader on this still, but the non-stock reset is throwing me off, as is the fact that I can't actually boot into the bootloader.
If I hold down both volumte buttons, I get a tricolor+white screen with an error, "Error: Copying file from SD Card failed, system will shut down."
Pictures attached to show current home-screen and error screen.
Thanks for your help.
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from looking at the picture, its hard to tell if it is a clone...if it is not an HTC HD2, but rather a clone, more photos of the device would clarify it. the body is not clearly visible in the two pictures you've attached.
if it is a clone, that would explain the little "surprises" you are encountering here and there
Further investigation yields that the hard-reset ROM does not have Sense stock, so I'm guessing that this is, sadly, a clone.
I had no way to tell at the time, as the previous owner had some shell installed and I couldn't tell from the body alone--it looks like a real one, and it was advertised (and had the box/materials of) a legit HTC phone...
Sucks that I've been scammed and that I'm out the amount I paid. First time I've ever been burned off CL.
vegaobscura said:
Further investigation yields that the hard-reset ROM does not have Sense stock, so I'm guessing that this is, sadly, a clone.
I had no way to tell at the time, as the previous owner had some shell installed and I couldn't tell from the body alone--it looks like a real one, and it was advertised (and had the box/materials of) a legit HTC phone...
Sucks that I've been scammed and that I'm out the amount I paid. First time I've ever been burned off CL.
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how do you know its a clone ? may be the ROM is a NON-Sense D) ROM !!!
"MTKProfessional" is an appearance type on the phone. This, combined with the quirks and comparing it to a review of the "HD9" leads me to believe it's in fact a clone--and not even the pretty impressive v2 clone.
I'm disappointed, really.
it looks so real !
Holy ****, Vagues.
theres previous news & complain about the HD2 KIRF edition, almost look the same but weight & hardware quality is different.
try to get a refund
Sent an email. No response.
He obviously knew...further investigation yielded an account bearing his name on "asianfoneforums".
I'm disappointed in people right now, man.
vegaobscura said:
Sent an email. No response.
He obviously knew...further investigation yielded an account bearing his name on "asianfoneforums".
I'm disappointed in people right now, man.
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To be honest, I wouldn´t have noticed that you might have a clone just from the pictures you posted - but another poster discovered that fact.
Now, that´s what I call criminal - no less. A fake with a kind of a "phantasy" name is one thing, but to sell a copied device, which carries the real brand, as a real product, is indeed criminal. In my country, it´s even an official crime.
I´m sorry for you, mate. It´s not nice getting ripped off like this.
I wonder if you can't turn that guy in at the police.
I think you have all the evidence that he know this was a fake.
Also if you look at the loudspeaker grill (where you put your ear at), mine is black and this one looks silver.
seems like a clone to me. the sensors (light and proximity) are larger, and the bootloader screen is a bit different.
Hw do u know if one is a clone?
Hey there,
I'm looking to buy a used HD2, and came across one at a good price on Craigslist. The owner says that the phone has "no operating system installed" and needs a new ROM. I was planning on throwing Android onto the phone anyways, but do not want to buy a bricked phone.
The seller has a picture of the phone screen which I could PM but can't link to since I'm a new user. Basically, the screen is divided into 4 parts: red, green, blue, and white, and there is text on the top, red section. Does anyone know what this might mean?
Thanks.
its the bootloader, means it can be flashed by any rom, but form this tricolor screen you cannot check the phone condition.
It means that you can easily install winmo rom/android/winphone7.
For android, install MAGLDR when the phone is at that state: hold (Red button + Voldown button), and plug into computer.
Then, using cwm, you can install any of the android roms on here.
Make sure u ask the guy if everything else on the phone is in working condition, and the only problem with it is that there's no OS on it.
You guys forgot to mention that this could be a fake HD2 from China.
Can you post a picture of the tri-color screen so it can be verified.
Tbh I wouldn't really trust buying it either way if it doesnt currently have a rom on. It takes minutes to put one on and if the seller hasnt done this for purposes of selling it would make me suspicious, It could have bad hardware or a corrupted nand or anything.
Sold it to someone else, thanks for the help though!
Hello all; apologies in advance if this is retreading old ground, but I couldn't find anything about this on the forum as is.
So, while taking some video the other night, my Razr M (all recent software/OS updates, stock software + commercial apps , no flashed ROM/no root/hell, I wasn't even using GoLauncher anymore) decided to freak out on me. By the end of the night, it got itself stuck on booting, and by the next day, it's more or less bricked. Called, got my replacement phone from Verizon, but before I ship this off, figured I'd plug it into the PC and see if there was anything I could do to salvage data -- most things are backed up, but the video/things from that day obviously aren't.
So, no screen. When I plug in, I get the little green light intermittently. For fun, I tried getting to a boot screen (Vol down/Vol up/Power), and now I have this fun thing where my PC tells me it's installed "Fastboot SMQ S" drivers, and is "searching preconfigured folder drivers". Every few seconds, the phone's light will be green, a few seconds later, it will go off. Likewise, my device manager keeps trying to recognize a Human Interface Device, and now and then Windows tells me a connected device has failed. (Once every now and again it tells me it can't recognize it, for about a half second.)
I should note that at no time during any of this does the screen on the phone itself give me any sort of image or feedback.
This leads me to think there's still something inside the phone fighting to work -- as stated, I don't need it to get back to functionality per se, but if there's enough left to work with to at least pull data off of it before it clinks out, I'd be quite happy.
This seemed like a question for the XDA folks, even though it isn't mod/dev related, because you guys are usually the forum I read when I have questions, as you all seem to really know the insides of the phones and systems. If there is a better forum/place for asking this question, please just let me know. I'd be grateful for any sort of advice/insight you may have.
Thank you, and have a great afternoon!
p.s. I assume, based on other similar threads, that the whole "stealthily open the case, yank out of the flash and kitbash it into my pc while somehow not voiding the warranty" route is unfeasable/undoable. If this is not the case, I'm game for that. I'm not a phone dev, but I've seen the inside of an electronic device or ten in my time, so I might be able to pull it off.
Hello Guys,
I am posting this thread with a great deal of frustration and of course i'll try to leave the emotions out of this, although it's pretty hard (since that's NOT how i imagined i'll unbox the OPT which i was waiting for, for so long).
Anyways,
I'll cut to the point, I received my OPT package and happily went a head opened the box (hoped not to get a broken phone or anything (like someone who posted a thread here), and indeed the package looked okay and the device looked good (physically speaking).
I started the phone, and i can see the black background white android logo, and then.. Black Screen... I'm telling myself "Ahh that's probably nothing.. let's wait a bit or worse case another restart" waiting didn't help and as you probably know restarts did not help as well.
Okay, since i am not newbie to the android troubleshooting, i said to myself, probably a bad OS boot or some sort of OS issue, let's enter the RECOVERY to reset / wipe / factory reset.
Volume Down + Power Button, can't enter recovery just a Black Screen showing.
Starting the phone again regularly shows the Black Screen but the buttons are glowing blue and if i click on the volume buttons i can hear the sound tick.
Okay, at that point i was getting a bit worried, no recovery, several reboots and Black Screen when going to recovery or normal mode.
So now, i knew i had to go over and search the forums (XDA | One Plus) for more solutions on soft bricked / hard bricked devices.
I found the restoration thread of:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-2/general/oneplus-solution-hard-bricked-device-t3183449
Including the QualCom driver method and 2 FULL restoration kits (1 Hidro OS 1 Oxygen).
I followed the steps (trying first the lighter Hidro Kit (without .img's of system etc') finished the process but when it should logon to recovery SAME result.
Then i went ahead and tried the OxygenOS recovery kit, same procedure it finished, phone restarting but same Black Screen.
This is where i am at right now, very frustrated, i raised a TT to the one plus support, i will update how it goes, i assume i passed most of the troubleshooting phases but if anyone has ANY ideas on how to proceed or assist i would be glad to try it out.
In addition i will use this stage to also update on the OnePlus support (refund wise, and TT dealing wise) as i think it's also important to report on the support when actual problems occur and how they handle it.
In any case guys, thanks for reading this, i really hope you will receive your products WORKING as they should, there's not much worse things when it comes to getting a NEW device starting it for the first time and not being able to use it, after waiting for so long for it.
--Video is also attached below.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33088939/20151005_132402.mp4
I will keep you updated.
Thanks & Regards,
Rest in peace. Contact Oneplus support m8 and send that **** back
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Small Update: I just wish you all to never wait for the OP customer service / technical support. (waiting time is really outrageous for a company which support customers online).
In addition, the technical support team sent me files to download (while i'm explaining her that i tried all of those already) + sending me ROM for OPO (Cyanogen........)
I was in a kind of a shock, while i'm correcting her and telling her there's no CM for OPT and the files she sent me (CM11s?!) are not the correct ones, she sent another mail.
Anyways, i guess you have to go for that "entire process" until they allow you to get a refund.
Hate to type it, but for me it's probably "Never Again" instead of "Never Settle".
CS is the same for most companies, someone in a call centre with little knowledge and a book of instructions to follow. There's no point you saying "I did this already" because they get in trouble if they don't follow the script they have.
I have got the black screen of death too and im a couple of mot=nths into using it
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Tricepz said:
Hello Guys,
I am posting this thread with a great deal of frustration and of course i'll try to leave the emotions out of this, although it's pretty hard (since that's NOT how i imagined i'll unbox the OPT which i was waiting for, for so long).
Anyways,
I'll cut to the point, I received my OPT package and happily went a head opened the box (hoped not to get a broken phone or anything (like someone who posted a thread here), and indeed the package looked okay and the device looked good (physically speaking).
I started the phone, and i can see the black background white android logo, and then.. Black Screen... I'm telling myself "Ahh that's probably nothing.. let's wait a bit or worse case another restart" waiting didn't help and as you probably know restarts did not help as well.
Okay, since i am not newbie to the android troubleshooting, i said to myself, probably a bad OS boot or some sort of OS issue, let's enter the RECOVERY to reset / wipe / factory reset.
Volume Down + Power Button, can't enter recovery just a Black Screen showing.
Starting the phone again regularly shows the Black Screen but the buttons are glowing blue and if i click on the volume buttons i can hear the sound tick.
Okay, at that point i was getting a bit worried, no recovery, several reboots and Black Screen when going to recovery or normal mode.
So now, i knew i had to go over and search the forums (XDA | One Plus) for more solutions on soft bricked / hard bricked devices.
I found the restoration thread of:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-2/general/oneplus-solution-hard-bricked-device-t3183449
Including the QualCom driver method and 2 FULL restoration kits (1 Hidro OS 1 Oxygen).
I followed the steps (trying first the lighter Hidro Kit (without .img's of system etc') finished the process but when it should logon to recovery SAME result.
Then i went ahead and tried the OxygenOS recovery kit, same procedure it finished, phone restarting but same Black Screen.
This is where i am at right now, very frustrated, i raised a TT to the one plus support, i will update how it goes, i assume i passed most of the troubleshooting phases but if anyone has ANY ideas on how to proceed or assist i would be glad to try it out.
In addition i will use this stage to also update on the OnePlus support (refund wise, and TT dealing wise) as i think it's also important to report on the support when actual problems occur and how they handle it.
In any case guys, thanks for reading this, i really hope you will receive your products WORKING as they should, there's not much worse things when it comes to getting a NEW device starting it for the first time and not being able to use it, after waiting for so long for it.
--Video is also attached below.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33088939/20151005_132402.mp4
I will keep you updated.
Thanks & Regards,
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So the phone should be responsive even if you cant see the screen. SOOO forget letting it drain, but instead, connect it to pc and install latest twrp. Or crm. Unlocking the bootloader may be difficult as you have to use the power and volume buttons to choose yes or no but i think it starts on yes so just press the power button. Now copy over any rom and gapps (i used exodus and lollipop gapps). Flash them and the phone will boot up surprisingly quickly. This will hopefully stop you from wasting time with support teams that are already overloaded with queries. I hope this helped
I have the same problem I dont know what to do! please someone help !
This is really old news, I'll just add that I've sent the device back and got my money back,rocking a new lg v10 and happy a hell.
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