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Bricked-Unable to Re-install Packages

greetings...i've read far too many threads on not being able to boot into "recovery" and "download" and haven't found anything to fix me...
i can successfully get into "recovery" but when i try to reinstall the packages it starts to run a recovery with Clockworkmod etc...it stops and reboots into recovery...this will go on and on...
now when i try to boot into "download" i can't, i've tried many methods none work.
any help?
rooted/clockwork recovery/nandroid back up prior to trying the vibrant7

same problem here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7904808#post7904808

The K-Zoo Kid said:
same problem here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7904808#post7904808
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sweet...well, not sweet...PM me if you find a fix: i'll do the same, i have a replacement on the way via t-mobile.
for the record, i've successfully gotten in to download mode and used Odin to get back to factory...twice, once for fun and once for resurrection...i don't know what went wrong, except while nandroiding maybe i backed up a bogus recovery rom before i flashed. i can't get past Vibrant, and i don't even see the battery recharge display either when i usb, i'm letting the battery run down to try and get to the green battery icon to try a "download" mode??? i've read of a move while you see the charging screen but i haven't been able to get there... oh well, live and learn. i am also searching for a way to boot from the removable sd card that has a system or recovery rom on it..nothing yet.
also, i've read people discussing newer models being blocked from download...well like i said i've done this with this phone before but i got a new SIM last week and this is the first attempt with the new SIM???? maybe a coincidence...

take battery out, plug in usb to pc, hold vol up n down, replace battery, boom download mode.

dsuycott said:
sweet...well, not sweet...PM me if you find a fix: i'll do the same, i have a replacement on the way via t-mobile.
for the record, i've successfully gotten in to download mode and used Odin to get back to factory...twice, once for fun and once for resurrection...i don't know what went wrong, except while nandroiding maybe i backed up a bogus recovery rom before i flashed. i can't get past Vibrant, and i don't even see the battery recharge display either when i usb, i'm letting the battery run down to try and get to the green battery icon to try a "download" mode??? i've read of a move while you see the charging screen but i haven't been able to get there... oh well, live and learn. i am also searching for a way to boot from the removable sd card that has a system or recovery rom on it..nothing yet.
also, i've read people discussing newer models being blocked from download...well like i said i've done this with this phone before but i got a new SIM last week and this is the first attempt with the new SIM???? maybe a coincidence...
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Alright i will doo... and you restored from odin after the problem started...?

I flashed the stock kernel and everything is good... Its in the OP of Eugenes rom.

98classic said:
take battery out, plug in usb to pc, hold vol up n down, replace battery, boom download mode.
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thanks for the reply...i've done that a bazillion times...won't go, i even went to the tmobile store in my hood and no go on their end...

The K-Zoo Kid said:
Alright i will doo... and you restored from odin after the problem started...?
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not after, i had restored from odin about two weeks ago...

Did you read my post about The stock kernal in eugenes original post?
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The K-Zoo Kid said:
Did you read my post about The stock kernal in eugenes original post?
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yes(but i'm over saturated right now, i might have missed something) ...i'm dead in the water, i can't get to the point of anything seeing my device...my computer won't see it except as unknown usb device, no partitions show up, adb doesn't recognize it in any way...maybe i'm a [email protected], but i don't see anyway to flash it without at least getting in to download mode, or somehow pushing a .zip at the sd for a recovery??? technically figuring out that stuff is beyond my remaining brain cells...this seems like a dicey way for the phone to rely on when restoring to factory.... it would be nice to have the device look at All available partitions, internal/removable, for a recovery system or have an altogether different sd in the phone for a -R dedicated recovery volume....don't know, i'm a noob at this android stuff sooo....

[Q] MyTouch 4G Boot Loop

Now, This may have been answered or tied into the post by neidlinger, however I've found my problem to have some strange symptoms and was wondering if anyone could help me out.
I had my Glacier working just fine using the ice Glacier ROM, decided to try out some new ROMS including a couple Gingerbread roms. I updated Clockwork Recovery to 3.0.2.4 and flashed the roms, they seemed fine, but they weren't my cup-o'-tea. So I flashed back to IceGlacier 1.1.6. Ever since then My phone has had a boot loop issue that seems to be effected or triggered by power management. Not always, but sometimes If I plug my phone into the stock charger or otherwise, it'll reboot and sit there looping at the MyTouch splash screen until I pull the battery. Same happens on occasion when unplugging the phone. I can get it to boot into Android by letting it sit off for a while then come back to it a couple minutes later and power it on. Is there anything totally wrong with my device outside of what neidlinger posted?
Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated, Thanks!

Update!
Update: I found some time finally to look through some roms and flashed "Royal Panache" using CWM recovery 3.0.2.4. I still get the boot loops described above, still related to power, seemingly. If I plug the phone in while it's off, often it will start up on its own. Any help is still greatly appreciated . Please tell me if I'm just being stupid and/or blind.

try changing charger, or use pc charge and see if that happens

Thanks! I'll give it a whirl. Though I will say, it happens when using my car charger which is just a usb port.
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You keep mentioning the cwr version as part of the flash process. Have you been reflashing recoveries each time you flash a new rom or something?

eqjunkie829 said:
You keep mentioning the cwr version as part of the flash process. Have you been reflashing recoveries each time you flash a new rom or something?
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I have not, it's just added information. From what I've heard some recoveries only support froyo or only gingerbread.

atifsh said:
try changing charger, or use pc charge and see if that happens
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It still happens when plugging into my pc.

Try restoring your phone to stock using PD15IMG, and see if it takes care of the problem.
If you have engineering bootloader - remember to reflash it after PD15IMG (it'll restore 0.86 stock bootloader when flashed).
If the problem won't be cured - it means that somewhere in your flashes you've probably damaged/overheated something in the phone, and now it needs replacement.

Jack_R1 said:
Try restoring your phone to stock using PD15IMG, and see if it takes care of the problem.
If you have engineering bootloader - remember to reflash it after PD15IMG (it'll restore 0.86 stock bootloader when flashed).
If the problem won't be cured - it means that somewhere in your flashes you've probably damaged/overheated something in the phone, and now it needs replacement.
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Thank you very much for that bit of info. As soon as I get some time, I'll try that out.

[Q] MyTouch 4g: Multiple problems... PLEASE help.

Okay, I've searched and searched and no one seems to have the specific problem that I'm having with my phone, so I'm taking to the forums myself. I've been rooting since the G1, I know how to adb push things, I have used google and multiple forums to try to fix this problem. So here goes, anyone that can help I thank you in advance.
1-My phone, like some other MT4G users, reboots itself each time it's plugged in. Initially I thought this was because I was using a Kindle cord to plug it into the pc, so I bought an MT4G usb cable from tmobile, and still it boot loops (just the first white screen for maybe 4 seconds, then black then again and again). The only way to charge it is to let it start boot looping, take the battery out, turn it on, and if I'm lucky enough that it begins to boot up correctly I plug it in mid boot. If I wait til it's fulled loaded it just starts rebooting again.
2-It will not at all from any angle go into Recovery mode. If I try to go to recovery from Rom Manager, or from the screen you get when holding power and lower volume key or by flashing a rom through Rom Manager, it just boot loops just like mentioned above, until I pull the battery for a while (it is currently sitting next to me with the battery out) and then put it back in.
3-If by chance it's on, and plugged into the computer, it is not at all recognized. Ever. While it's booting up my computer finds something, but doesn't know what it is, and doesn't allow me to view any folders on the SD card. Yes I've installed the HTC drivers file. I've adb'ed things to this phone before, now it says device not found. I don't know when it stopped being recognized...
4-I've even tried to fastboot something over to it, but to no avail, still not found.
If I try to do a factory reset, it boot loops. If I sneeze it boot loops.... I don't know what to do, and if I trade it in under warranty, I have to reset it to stock rom, or they're going to charge me for a new phone. Any ideas!?
I have Cyanogen mod 7 on here.

have you tried a fastboot wipe? or have you tried to reboot to recovery from adb?

First, I don't trust using the actual ROM Manager app to do the flashing/installing.
Since you've been flashing since the G1 days why not use Clockwork Recovery? Just go into recovery and do the necessary wipes.
So I suggest to do a complete full wipe in Clockwork, meaning wipe data, cache, and dalvik cache. Install the newest CM nightly (Which is working wonderfully BTW) and see if your problems still persists.
Edit: I didn't realize you tried to enter recovery, oops. But yeah try what the buy above me said. Try re-installing the latest CWM recovery, if that still fails then try heading into there via ADB.

mackster248 said:
First, I don't trust using the actual ROM Manager app to do the flashing/installing.
Since you've been flashing since the G1 days why not use Clockwork Recovery? Just go into recovery and do the necessary wipes.
So I suggest to do a complete full wipe in Clockwork, meaning wipe data, cache, and dalvik cache. Install the newest CM nightly (Which is working wonderfully BTW) and see if your problems still persists.
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I second that, flashing ROMs from ROM Manager a terrible idea.

Well...if all else fails and if you are really thinking about returning it and still under warranty...few seconds in the microwave method should work just fine. They wont be able to see that its rooted if the phone wouldn't turn on, would they???

glimmer of hope...
So by the grace of god I did get it flashed back to unrooted, stock 2.2 by putting it as pd15img.zip on my sd card and going into bootloader. Once that was done I thought I would be out of the woods... I even plugged it in last night and no boot loop!! but this morning I unpllugged it (and I'm using a tmobile cable for the phone attached to my pc) and here it sits, next to me again with the battery out of it because everytime I try to turn it on (for over 40 minutes now) it boot loops to that stupid white screen (that is honestly driving me insane at this point). I know that it isn't rooted (because I dl'ed rom manager and it won't let me do anything without being rooted) so do we think that I'm safe to go to the store today to request a new one be sent? Thoughts? And thanks for the help thus far!

yeah I would send that back

Bad emmc chip? I'm sorry man, that's a terrible story.
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Please.

Guys please I know this is the wrong forum but no one is answering help. At all. Alright, I went to flash the ICS Sense alpha, and needed to restore a backup. I went into hboot, and restored the PD98IMG.zip. Afterwards it said "Press power to reboot" so i did. The phone turned off, and now nothing. After a LONG time the phone turned on to the White HTC Splash and vibrated CONSTANTLY, until the battery was pulled. I tried volume down + power but nothing. Except for the occasional white screen, nothing. Please, anyone/.

You're bricked
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I think your phone had a bootloop. Did you already installed custom recovery? Can you enter it through fastboot menu (vol down + power)?

I doubt he's bricked,why are you restoring that zip? You restore your back up....from clockwork?
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It won't enter into fastboot. Occasionally the white HTC screen comes on with a constant vibrate and the only way to stop that is to pull the battery. No fastboot, no recovery, nothing.
It wouldnt enter into recovery so I had to take the long way, by using the PD98IMG

HTC_Phone said:
It won't enter into fastboot. Occasionally the white HTC screen comes on with a constant vibrate and the only way to stop that is to pull the battery. No fastboot, no recovery, nothing.
It wouldnt enter into recovery so I had to take the long way, by using the PD98IMG
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I am confused. So what exactly happens when doing this:
remove or rename the PD98IMG on the sd card
pull the battery from the DHD
re-enter it and hold volume down and power until the hboot starts
navigate by volume down/up to Recovery and press POWER

If you had to restore back to factory, why bother flashing ICS?
You should get away by installing one of the RUU using PC. here is a guide on how to install RUU and you'll have to search this section to find a RUU or google it.
Though firstly i would ask you if you can go into the recovery mode anyhow since you're saying that your phone can get the HTC logo. For that, hold down POWER + volume DOWN key to get you into hboot (IF YOU CAN) and choose recovery from there, once in recovery, go to option where you wipe your data + cache, wipe both of em and try restarting again...If you can't even get into recovery then do the RUU way of getting the rom working.

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I'm not sure what in the world happened, but it booted into the ATT stock ROM. After 30 minutes of vibration and idk what else, it finally booted.

Lol least its on
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HTC_Phone said:
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I'm not sure what in the world happened, but it booted into the ATT stock ROM. After 30 minutes of vibration and idk what else, it finally booted.
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Gratz, suppose this thread's unnecessary now?
Anyway take care of what you do: always do a nandroid backup prior to flashing everything. Better spend 5min for backup than 5 days without a phone.

I think know what happens. If I remember correctly you had your phone replaced. And it came with gb. The pd98 you flashed was the froyo one. Hence the crazy vibration and long boot time. If Im right thisvwill happen each time you reboot Until you get the gb bootloader back on
Also spamming the threads is a pretty good way of getting banned. Maybe zel or Andy will be nice about it

marsdta said:
I think know what happens. If I remember correctly you had your phone replaced. And it came with gb. The pd98 you flashed was the froyo one. Hence the crazy vibration and long boot time. If Im right thisvwill happen each time you reboot Until you get the gb bootloader back on
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That sounds somewhat correct. I DID get it replaced, but had a GB PD98 on the SD card. Anyway, it vibrated for quite some time, and eventually the vibration stopped. So I let the phone sit as I figured out some way to salvage the phone. And the the next HTC splash booted, and the phone proceeded into the stock ROM. Idk what happened, but I'm not complaining.

Dear Lord, it just turned off and is doing it again. But, I'm praying for the best again. Thanks guys.

HTC_Phone said:
Dear Lord, it just turned off and is doing it again. But, I'm praying for the best again. Thanks guys.
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When you succesfuly back in your phone, just root it with AAHK and install some custom ROM and you should be fine.

motherninja said:
When you succesfuly back in your phone, just root it with AAHK and install some custom ROM and you should be fine.
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The phone itself is already rooted, but I tried booting into CWM, and it did the same thing as it did before. So I have to run the RUU, and then S on the phone, and run the hack kit again. I already ran the RUU once, and nothing.

Probably best just to start over and do everything again,even if you've already done it,maybe the root didnt work?
Your phones a nightmare mate
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So you intentionally created a thread in the wrong section?
I guess the rules don't apply to you then.

I thought mine just died on me, help in need of answers

Please someone help me or tell me who I can PM to help please.
Yesterday my razR M was just randomly rebooting, it stop doing this after about 5 reboots. I then proceeded to fully charge my phone twice to do the radiocomm edit and root, using DROID RAZR M Utility 1.20 since i'm on 4.1.2 *I did not factory reset*, the phone so that the battery wouldn't die while doing either and mess up the phone. I was trying to do the entitlement edit with all free file managers with root permissions which didn't work and I realized my phone was freezing while doing simple tasks (during boot animation, inputting password to unlock phone, switching between homescreens and opening app drawer) and rebooting.
It wasn't turning on or showing any indication of being plugged in, but while I was writing this it just magically went to the battery percentage indicator and I was able to turn it on and after about 20 seconds of being booted the led indicator is flashing green again.
I can't have this happen next week when I'm on my trip, I won't have the time and my access to computers and internet will be limited. If anyone knows what could be causing this and or how to fix it PLEASE TELL ME
Update (3:25 AM): IT HAPPENED AGAIN, ready to cry want to try to flash back to stock but don't know how
Update #2 (4:13AM): So after a lot of button pressing I got it stuck on the red m then eventually into the bootloader; saw that the random reboots is not unusual for razr hd/maxx hd users on 4.1.2 with the only way to fix being to flash to CM10. Also realized that i'm not the only one whose phone requires a soft reset to charge/boot, no longer contemplating flashing back to stock seeing as i'll probably still have the reboots

ccdsatt said:
Please someone help me or tell me who I can PM to help please.
Yesterday my razR M was just randomly rebooting, it stop doing this after about 5 reboots. I then proceeded to fully charge my phone twice to do the radiocomm edit and root, using DROID RAZR M Utility 1.20 since i'm on 4.1.2 *I did not factory reset*, the phone so that the battery wouldn't die while doing either and mess up the phone. I was trying to do the entitlement edit with all free file managers with root permissions which didn't work and I realized my phone was freezing while doing simple tasks (during boot animation, inputting password to unlock phone, switching between homescreens and opening app drawer) and rebooting.
It wasn't turning on or showing any indication of being plugged in, but while I was writing this it just magically went to the battery percentage indicator and I was able to turn it on and after about 20 seconds of being booted the led indicator is flashing green again.
I can't have this happen next week when I'm on my trip, I won't have the time and my access to computers and internet will be limited. If anyone knows what could be causing this and or how to fix it PLEASE TELL ME
Update (3:25 AM): IT HAPPENED AGAIN, ready to cry want to try to flash back to stock but don't know how
Update #2 (4:13AM): So after a lot of button pressing I got it stuck on the red m then eventually into the bootloader; saw that the random reboots is not unusual for razr hd/maxx hd users on 4.1.2 with the only way to fix being to flash to CM10. Also realized that i'm not the only one whose phone requires a soft reset to charge/boot, no longer contemplating flashing back to stock seeing as i'll probably still have the reboots
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not sure if your situation has been resolved, but it appears that the battery just drained all the down. from that point, you need to plug in your phone (into an outlet, not computer), and leave it alone for a good 30 minutes (don't even look at it).
from that point, you should be able to enter the Rom by powering up or recovery via volume up + volume down + power.
if you are still having troubles, you might be best to simply perform a hard reset (I think you can do that from the stock recovery menu).
after you are able to do that, I would suggest to root, unlock bootloader, install TWRP. then setup your phone settings to your liking, then go back into recovery and make a backup. i have soft-bricked my phone several times, and entering TWRP recovery and restoring my previous setup has helped every time.

Its OK now
jco23 said:
not sure if your situation has been resolved, but it appears that the battery just drained all the down. from that point, you need to plug in your phone (into an outlet, not computer), and leave it alone for a good 30 minutes (don't even look at it).
from that point, you should be able to enter the Rom by powering up or recovery via volume up + volume down + power.
if you are still having troubles, you might be best to simply perform a hard reset (I think you can do that from the stock recovery menu).
after you are able to do that, I would suggest to root, unlock bootloader, install TWRP. then setup your phone settings to your liking, then go back into recovery and make a backup. i have soft-bricked my phone several times, and entering TWRP recovery and restoring my previous setup has helped every time.
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My phone was always 100% percent charged as I wanted to do stuff with the utility. After getting it into safemode, where it still froze and rebooted twice each time I booted into the mode, I got to power off then turn off then back on the regular way and left it on and has been fine since then. I currently have safestrap and cm10 zip on the phone in the event it acts up again. I backed up using safestrap like suggested. I haven't unlocked the bootloader yet, I have the app installed though, as I saw something from one of the devs for my previous moto device that said that if your bootloader is unlocked and we get another OTA and install* it our phones could get messed up.
*I know I can just install a stock 4.2 ROM*

ccdsatt said:
My phone was always 100% percent charged as I wanted to do stuff with the utility. After getting it into safemode, where it still froze and rebooted twice each time I booted into the mode, I got to power off then turn off then back on the regular way and left it on and has been fine since then. I currently have safestrap and cm10 zip on the phone in the event it acts up again. I backed up using safestrap like suggested. I haven't unlocked the bootloader yet, I have the app installed though, as I saw something from one of the devs for my previous moto device that said that if your bootloader is unlocked and we get another OTA and install* it our phones could get messed up.
*I know I can just install a stock 4.2 ROM*
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well, most folks are going via the TWRP recovery route now (and I believe that all custom ROMs going forward will be flashable this way only, and not SS).
you will find that using TWRP is much easier than SS

jco23 said:
well, most folks are going via the TWRP recovery route now (and I believe that all custom ROMs going forward will be flashable this way only, and not SS).
you will find that using TWRP is much easier than SS
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I realized that while looking at roms this afternoon. Before I go down the custom route though do you know if it affects the usage of gsm there are no CDMA carriers in Jamaica so I can't flash to anything?
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ccdsatt said:
I realized that while looking at roms this afternoon. Before I go down the custom route though do you know if it affects the usage of gsm there are no CDMA carriers in Jamaica so I can't flash to anything?
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Most of the ROMs need a gsmfix zip flashed, but they'll work on GSM with that
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