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stuck in recovery mode

Hi!
I ve a problem with my HTC Magic.
This afternoon i want to flash a net ROM on my phone. But i wanted to crate a backup first, so i booted the amonra 1.2.3 recovery image with fastboot boot recovery-RA-magic-v1.2.3H and every thing worked fine , created a back up with nandroid. then i restarted the phone after then i restated it. But id doesent start normaly. It shows th HTC Magic logan then a shot black and the again the logo. After that a warning sign is showed(I figures out that this is the recovery mode). if i restart the phone i always come to the recovery mode. No Fastboot or other.
When i select apply updete.zip in recovery mode i only get the message: no sginature ,verification failed and Cant read MISC(no space left). and thats it.
I have a HTC Magic 32A the SPL was that one with the 09 in the end.
So i have no idea what gone worng and if i can revover my phone.
Can anyone help me??
dekilla

You should be most likely able to recover you phone.
If you take the battery out, then insert it again, then press the back-button and the call-end-button, it won't boot to fastboot? Maybe try volume down + power on, too? It sounds pretty weird...
Florian

Hi
I ve tried fastboot,hboot but nothing happend
Is there any update.zip which could work? I think this is my only chance.
bernd

HTC Tattoo bricked? Doesn't boot, goes to fastboot...

Hey!
This is the issue: when I try to turn the phone on by just pressing the red button it goes directly to the fastboor menu. If I try to go to the recovery from there shows "TATTOO" for hours. If i try to go to the recovery dirctly by pressing HOME+ red button, it firsto shows the fastmenu for a second and tries to boot unsuccessfully. During this boot tries, I try to get some info with adb logcat, but the device is not casting anything. And well, if a picture is worth a thousand words, I guess a video is way better:
youtube.com/watch?v=zAejyMIVNGk (newbie, no urls!)
sorry for my english
And well, I have no idea how I got to this, this used to be my phone, but I bought a Nexus One and gave this to my sister, who has no idea what happened (as usual). Oh, this morning somehow I managed to get to the recovery menu, and booted until the android bootscreen, then vibrated and died again. I got to the recovery again, made a nandroid backup and wiped all data, it booted successfully, but the rom had no home application and ran really bad.
I was about to try to make a goldcard and install the stock RUU rom, but if I have no adb I cannot make one...
Any idea?
PS: the rom was nFinity 1.18 (2.2 Froyo) and the recovery was the lastest Clockwork.
PS2: I just realized that in every place I say fastboot I mean HBOOT, sorry again

sounds like recovery is still there, if you hold home + menu when phone if off , and then click red power button you should get recovery menu.
Then hopefully you can try full wipe and install a rom , rember the first time u boot a rom might take a few minutes
let me know how it goes

Yup, not using that method but I can manage to get to recovery sometimes. I'm trying to flash another ROM, but for some reason it doesn't let me. I've tried KalimochoAz (gingerbread) and HDCR (donut) and says something about assertion failed when checking if the device was click on the first case and in the second, complains about unsupported stuff...
I was about to try another roms by random but the SD does not refresh or even mounts, there must be something really messed up with this phone...

You can try to flash your stock rom from fastboot.
You don't need a goldcard, just run the update utility on pc, go to your temp directory and take the rom.zip file, rename it to CLICIMG.zip, copy it to sd card, put card on device and on fastboot menu pres vol down to start flashing the rom. I is the same version with the rom that device has before rooting, you will not get any errors.

I think there's a little misunderstanding here, mainly because of my confusion, it's not the fastboot menu qhat I get, but the HBOOT menu, and pressing the back button in order to access fastboot doesn't work...

oh I managed to boot something, I renamed the RUU exe to CLICDIAG.zip, because I could not find anything in C:\temp (is there where I have to look for the file?)
anyway, the zip appears to load on the phone, but once the progress bar completes, nothing happens... In my computer, the zip contains a .txt file and boot.img, but appears to be corrupt, and cannot extract any file (obviously, it's an exe)
so what do I do?

manutenfruits said:
oh I managed to boot something, I renamed the RUU exe to CLICDIAG.zip, because I could not find anything in C:\temp (is there where I have to look for the file?)
anyway, the zip appears to load on the phone, but once the progress bar completes, nothing happens... In my computer, the zip contains a .txt file and boot.img, but appears to be corrupt, and cannot extract any file (obviously, it's an exe)
so what do I do?
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Of course will not work like this.
You must first run the RUU utility on pc and while is open to search your temp directory(maybe is inside another folder) for rom.zip file. This is the rom, the executable is an installation program which contain the rom and the app to flash the rom from pc packaged. You need only the rom.zip for flashing from sd card.

I've looked in the whole hard disk for that rom.zip after executing the RUU (I cannot get further than the step that tries to detect the tattoo, failing, so maybe it's not even created).
Apart from that, I managed to boot twice to what seems to be gingerbread, nFinity 1.18, but says in the lower left corner "Safe Mode" and I have no home application, no action on any button, just the notification bar and the lock screen. ADB doesn't work either.

manutenfruits said:
I've looked in the whole hard disk for that rom.zip after executing the RUU (I cannot get further than the step that tries to detect the tattoo, failing, so maybe it's not even created).
Apart from that, I managed to boot twice to what seems to be gingerbread, nFinity 1.18, but says in the lower left corner "Safe Mode" and I have no home application, no action on any button, just the notification bar and the lock screen. ADB doesn't work either.
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You don't need to go so far. Just run the ruu utility and when the first screen appears go to temp dir(c:\users\you user's name\local\appdata\temp on windows 7). The executable is an encrypted package and when you run it extracts all included files and then starts the installation program. These files will deleted after this program exits(when the installation complete or an error occurs)

Cool! I just renamed it to CLICLIMG.zip and I finally loaded. The problem now is that when it finishes, instead of asking me to flash it, says
"CID Incorrect!
Update Fail!
Do you want to reboot device?
<ACTION> Yes
<POWER> No"
While running the RUU I made sure that it was for HTC Tattoo since it showed me the device during the steps. And I got it from a post describing the steps to flash it using the goldcard.
Furthermore, this error is something similar to what happened when I tried to flash from the recovery. This is REALLY weird...

Probably this isn't the sama as your device's stock rom. I think goldcard needed for flashing any htc original rom, but without goldcard only the device's version will be flashed successfully. Try to download other original roms if you don't know which you had before.
Here is a site with shipped roms for tattoo:
http://www.shipped-roms.com/index.php?category=android&model=Click

The RUU wasn't a problem, I tried now with a goldcard and flashed successfully! I could not get ADB connection to make it, but I once made one and still had the .img in my mail inbox.
But still nothing has changed...
pressing on drives me to the HBOOT screen, whose only options that work are "simlock" to flash CLICIMG.zip, and recovery (freezes on "TATTOO")
EDIT: does not freeze, but goes back to HBOOT after a while... ¬¬

You say that now you have the stock HTC rom and again you cannot boot it and instead the device reboots again to HBOOT?
Then maybe you have a hardware problem which leads to this behaviour.

OK, now I guess it still has warranty, but the problem is that I rooted it.
But now that I flashed somehow the original rom, should be no problem right?

Yes, if you successfully flash the stock rom, you're not root any more.

had that problem to, but theres easy fix for it without doing all whats being sayd here
Even tho phone dont boot annymore and stays on logo plug in the usb cable
and work with adb shell and reflash recovery (to be good tattoo-hack.ko etc tricks need to be done before doing it or you get errors)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=716282 step 1.5 and tools from step 1.3
and ether get Amon RA recovery or clockworkmod and use
Code:
./flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
then reboot into recovery
HTML:
adb shell "reboot recovery"
mount usb put in a custom rom and flash it
if all done well should work (had same problem)
bascly adb still work even if you think you bricked phone just have to let it "startup"
Greetings

I'm afraid that won't work. I've been trying all the time with adb logcat and adb devices unsuccesfully. I thought that the TATTOO bootscreeb would give me some feedback in all cases, but now doesn't seem to work...

I've had similar problems when trying to flash nfinityGB.
My problem was that I missed something on the way from
- creating a gold card
- rooting device
- installing recovery
- flashing rom
All I did was to download and execute "RUU_Click_HTC_WWE_1.67.405.6_WWE_release_signed_NoDriver.exe" (or any other ruu).
Be shure to have SDK with all drivers installed properly.
After this your device is in unrooted (original) state as dancer_69 already told you.
Now you can decide whether to claim warranty or properly follow the guides on xda to get root and flash custom roms.

I think I know from long ago what is happening here, just couldn't believe it. Maybe the keys are sticked or something, that would explain the always going into fastboot mode without pressing the VOL DOWN key. Now it boots 1 out of each 5 tries, and when it gets to the home app, it's on "safe mode" (achieved by pressing MENU key while booting).
I think they will take care for it back in the HTC support (well, I hope)

manutenfruits said:
I think I know from long ago what is happening here, just couldn't believe it. Maybe the keys are sticked or something, that would explain the always going into fastboot mode without pressing the VOL DOWN key. Now it boots 1 out of each 5 tries, and when it gets to the home app, it's on "safe mode" (achieved by pressing MENU key while booting).
I think they will take care for it back in the HTC support (well, I hope)
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Something like this thought when I said that maybe is a hardware problem.

Phone gone?! please help!!!

Hi, I think this should go into Dev section, but i dont have enough Posts yet... This forum is my last hope. I already did Custom Recovery, Root and Custom Rom on a different phone, but I think this time ive briked my Phone
I rooted my brandnew Play yesterday and landed in a bootloop today, i think i had a wifi Problem, however, I then tried out FrAsErTaG's FTS Customrom and everything worked fine. Afterwards I wanted to flash the DooMLoRD Kernel. Now I cant access my phone anymore... Cant get into Bootloader mode nor into flashmode or anything, the led on the Powerbutton stays black. But when i press the Powerbutton, the phone vibrates for a second and a blue or green light flashes for a millisec. When i do the same while connected via usb, the phone does nothing, and the phone isnt recognized by the pc. any Help PLEASE??? Phone was brandnew

Somehow i can access Fastboot mode now, but though i flashed another rom, the phone wont bootup.. no animation, nothing, just the vibration for a sec again.

arihellmichimich said:
Somehow i can access Fastboot mode now, but though i flashed another rom, the phone wont bootup.. no animation, nothing, just the vibration for a sec again.
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You need to flash a new kernel/boot.img by the looks of it, maybe try flashing the stock kernel as you know it works, if boot partition is corrupt or badly flashed, flashing a rom wont solve the problem
Sent from my R800i using Tapatalk

I think i now realize what i ve done... While using fastboot, i renamed the img files by numbers - also the ClockWorkMod Recovery from this Post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1130639 where it is clearly stated that i should not flash it. I think I mixed up the numbers and flashed it and thats why i cant boot anymore... Stupid me!!! Any Idea??? I could kick my own butt right now!!! By the way, i can access CWM now via Fastboot, but booting up normaly still doesnt work of course...

arihellmichimich said:
I think i now realize what i ve done... While using fastboot, i renamed the img files by numbers - also the ClockWorkMod Recovery from this Post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1130639 where it is clearly stated that i should not flash it. I think I mixed up the numbers and flashed it and thats why i cant boot anymore... Stupid me!!! Any Idea??? I could kick my own butt right now!!! By the way, i can access CWM now via Fastboot, but booting up normaly still doesnt work of course...
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Just flash doomlords kernel from fastboot, that has CWM embedded into the kernel, so you get to keep your recovery and get to boot your phone
just to be safe, use the command "fastboot erase boot" before you flash a kernel, this will format the boot partition so you can make a clean install
doomlord thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1176502

Thanks a lot! Right now, when i connect it to the Powercable, the red led flashes every few seconds. I will try as soon, as my battery is charged again..

... I have a really bad feeling again. After the red led stopped blinking, i connected via Fastboot (blue light), erased the Boot partition and flashed DoomLords Boot Image. Sais 1 bad block encountered! (it told me already, that i had 10 bad sectors when i flashed the rom before but i didnt think this was the problem, because it bootet up at that time).
For now, i cant even get into this fastboot mode, only red light blinking.
Any other ideas please???

arihellmichimich said:
... For now, i cant even get into this fastboot mode, only red light blinking.
Any other ideas please???
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Good luck with this. I basically did the same thing on Sunday. I gave up trying to fix late Sunday night, but when I tried again yesterday evening I'm only getting the blinking orange light. I did leave the device on charge last night, but the light didn't come on to say it was charging. How do you know your battery is charged?
I'll take AH's advice and if I ever manage to get the blue light back I'll erase boot, installed DoomLords custom kernel and then hope recovery can fix the rest.
I'll post back here if I make any progress before you (and please let us know how, if you manage to fix it in the mean time).
Daeron.

I've spent the last couple of days searching the forum, search google, search the forum some more and I've made a bit of progress.
After finding similar threads in the X10 forum I believe the flashing red light is related to the battery. Also my inability to get a fastboot blue light was caused by uninstalling SE Companion while trying to use other drivers for a Flashtool stock image flash (I didn't get that to work either). I have reinstalled SE Companion and can now connect to my PC in fastboot mode (with the blue light).
This is where my progress ends. I have tried using using this and the commandline outputs this
Code:
F:\Xperia Play\Boot Unlock\fastboot>fastboot boot recoveryPLAY.img
downloading 'boot.img'...
(bootloader) USB download speed was 41547kB/s
OKAY [ 0.549s]
booting...
(bootloader) Download buffer format: boot IMG
OKAY [ 0.003s]
finished. total time: 0.552s
but the phone does nothing except the blue light goes out. Which leads me back to the battery.
After trying to fastboot the recovery image the only thing I can do is disconnect, take out the battery, put battery back and plug into mains charger. The red light starts flashing again for a short while then I can try again with fastboot.
Next step is to leave it on charge for a few hours (only did 30mins last time) and try again. I think the reason the recovery didn't work is the battery won't hold enough charge to boot on its own, so I need a new battery
The only other thing I haven't tried is to erase partitions before booting recovery. I'll give that a go before booting recovery image in a few hours.
D.

When i boot into CWM from the boot image via fastboot. It will shut off the phone. Just unplug the device, wait a sec, and try to enter fastboot again. Usually it hangs and then goes to CWM. And when you flash a new rom, You need to factory reset in CWM clearing data and cache or else it will bootloop. Thats just basic Android rommage right thurrrr. Mine was stuck, and i just flashed the stock system.sin and kernel.sin and erase the /data and /cache with Clockwork.
fastboot flash system system.sin
fastboot flash boot kernel.sin

Sooo sorry, i didnt post before, but i moved out of my flat and had a lot of other stuff to do last week...
In the End this helped for me.
1. FULLY CHARGE YOUR PHONE!!! I was told to remove battery for 30minutes, then put it back in but without sim card and withough SD Card. Then plug the charger back and charge for at least 5-10 hours!!!
2. Connect your Phone in Fastboot mode (blue light) by pressing the searchbutton before connecting.
3. Do the steps of relocking your play through Fastboot
4. Try SE Update again with the official Sony Software, it said software could be updated :-D
So in the end, the blinking red light was just a battery problem, i couldnt imagine it was such a big deal, because i always charged for at least an hour and i thought the usb port of my netbook was at least strong enough to provide power during the flashing progress BUT IT WAS NOT!!!
Thank you soo much for the help!!!

Everything worked out fine that way.

Is it bricked? Need help u8800

Hello Guys from XDA:
THis is my first post here. First of all: Thank you stockwell, dzo and franco for the great job here of developing!!
My english is not the best one (I'm from germany) but I hope you can understand my problem.
My mobile phone is an Huawei Ideos x5 u8800.
I've seen the [2011-10-31]U8800Pro Android v2.3.5[Official ROM][UPDATE Screenshot] and thought "Cool- Gingerbread...." and I've flashed it.
I've done backups (from Clockworkmod and Titanium Backup and the "image" folder from the partition with the boot.img and recovery.img files in it).
The flashing process finished...wonderfull... and then I've seen it: U8800Pro. Damned.
Now after round about 5 hours I can't reanimate the phone to work When I start it I see the white HUAWEI Logo...and thats it.
So I want to flash the old stock rom "STOCK ROM B138SP04CUSTESTC205D001EsthoniaElisa" - but this failed! I've put the dload folder with the two update files in in onto the sd card. When I start the bootloader (normally the pink screen) the normal firmware update start.
After Step 1/2 the phone says "Update failed". The whole time the LED is blinking red and after "update failed" very fast! I've never seen this before!.
Then I've used the first "OVER_SEAS_GENERAL_VERSION" - the same problem.
BUT I could flash the "U8800Pro Android v2.3.5" from the link a second time (without the red LED)!
A normal start ends up whith a freezing white huawei LOGO or some rebootings with a little vibration and a black screen at startup.
Short sentences:
Flashed the U8800Pro Android v2.3.5 - phone only goes to the white huawei screen at start after finished update process.
Flashing back to B138 or the general version (i think this was B135?) failed with fast blinking red LED light and "updated failed" after unpacking (1/2).
I see the partition where the "image" folder was when I connect the phone to my PC (with an empty dload folder on SDCard).
So now I have no idea what to do and I hope that someone here in this great forum could help me.
Thanks a lot!
suschmania

Do you have CWM?
If you can, try to format system, cache and data from CWM. (You can found in Mount... menu)
Then try to reinstall B138.

i think u could try the following:
(1) boot into bootloader mode (pink screen): "power" + "volume up" + "volumn down"
(2) connect phone to pc, copy the backed-up image folder back to the phone (with an "image" folder in root and backed up files under "image" folder.. should be 4 files: amss.mbn, boot.img, EMMCBOOT.mbn & recovery.img)
(3) remove battery to power off and reinsert battery
(4) flash B138 as usual
if this succeeds, then u have ur U8800 back..

I don't think your phone is bricked.
During the installation of the Stock Roms the recovery.img and boot.img files get replaced/modified and that's why your phone gets stuck at the Huawei logo.
Try the following:
Boot the phone in Bootloader (pink screen) by holding Vol+, Vol- and Power, format the partition with FAT32, create a folder called "image" and copy the following files on there.
EMMCBOOT - http://www.mediafire.com/?lb6ifvgk72iru4a
AMSS.MBN - http://www.mediafire.com/?d6r45q6p5gew59v
Recovery.img - http://www.mediafire.com/?57njygc8oianjac
Boot.img - http://www.mediafire.com/?6d5i0714a7o9z97
Once the files are copied, just disconnect the USB cable and remove the battery. Then boot into Recovery by pressing the Vol+ and Power. If you manage to get into CWM Recovery, then it's all good, you can install a custom Rom like Oxygen (
https://sourceforge.net/projects/u8800oxygen/files/ ) by selecting "install zip from SD Card" option.
You'll probably have to use the MOUNT functions within the Recovery to transfer the Oxygen.zip file to your root folder of the SD Card.

Me too did the same thing .... tried both iamelton and katu2006 method but no go.......

suschmania said:
So I want to flash the old stock rom "STOCK ROM B138SP04CUSTESTC205D001EsthoniaElisa" - but this failed! I've put the dload folder with the two update files in in onto the sd card. When I start the bootloader (normally the pink screen) the normal firmware update start.
After Step 1/2 the phone says "Update failed". The whole time the LED is blinking red and after "update failed" very fast! I've never seen this before!.
Then I've used the first "OVER_SEAS_GENERAL_VERSION" - the same problem.
BUT I could flash the "U8800Pro Android v2.3.5" from the link a second time (without the red LED)!
A normal start ends up whith a freezing white huawei LOGO or some rebootings with a little vibration and a black screen at startup.
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Hello, I am from Germany too and it's my first post here.
My Huawei Ideos X5 U8800 has the following factory settings!
Modellnummer: U8800
Android-Version: 2.2.1
Baseband-Version: 129005
Kernel-Version: 2.6.32.9-perf
[email protected] #1
Build Nr.: U8800 V100R001C00B135SP01
Custom Version: CUSTDEUC253D001
Hth,
Ponder Stibbons

Ponder Stibbons said:
Hello, I am from Germany too and it's my first post here.
My Huawei Ideos X5 U8800 has the following factory settings!
Modellnummer: U8800
Android-Version: 2.2.1
Baseband-Version: 129005
Kernel-Version: 2.6.32.9-perf
[email protected] #1
Build Nr.: U8800 V100R001C00B135SP01
Custom Version: CUSTDEUC253D001
Hth,
Ponder Stibbons
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Can u please upload your image folder..... we will try once. (Procedure to access image folder is mentioned above)

krish_nank said:
Can u please upload your image folder..... we will try once. (Procedure to access image folder is mentioned above)
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Yes, I will try it in the afternoon. Now I am in the office, working.

Ponder Stibbons said:
Yes, I will try it in the afternoon. Now I am in the office, working.
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Sorry to ask you may i know where are u from.....?

krish_nank said:
Sorry to ask you may i know where are u from.....?
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No problem, I live in a small town in Lower Saxony / Germany.

Download the U8800Pro F rom that was uploaded the same date as the Gingerbread ROM. THis is the downgrade to Froyo rom. Comes in 4 parts so do each part one after the other. http://www.huaweidevice.com/cn/downloadCenter.do?method=toDownloadFile&flay=software&softid=NDA3MzI=
then try to flash an original U8800 ROM. No promise this will work.

Ponder Stibbons said:
No problem, I live in a small town in Lower Saxony / Germany.
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Me, too But I'm from the capital auf Lower Saxony
iamelton said:
i think u could try the following:
(1) boot into bootloader mode (pink screen): "power" + "volume up" + "volumn down"
(2) connect phone to pc, copy the backed-up image folder back to the phone (with an "image" folder in root and backed up files under "image" folder.. should be 4 files: amss.mbn, boot.img, EMMCBOOT.mbn & recovery.img)
(3) remove battery to power off and reinsert battery
(4) flash B138 as usual
if this succeeds, then u have ur U8800 back..
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This doesn't work - I*ve tried it two times.
katu2006 said:
I don't think your phone is bricked.
During the installation of the Stock Roms the recovery.img and boot.img files get replaced/modified and that's why your phone gets stuck at the Huawei logo.
Try the following:
Boot the phone in Bootloader (pink screen) by holding Vol+, Vol- and Power, format the partition with FAT32, create a folder called "image" and copy the following files on there.
Once the files are copied, just disconnect the USB cable and remove the battery. Then boot into Recovery by pressing the Vol+ and Power. If you manage to get into CWM Recovery, then it's all good, you can install a custom Rom like Oxygen by selecting "install zip from SD Card" option.
You'll probably have to use the MOUNT functions within the Recovery to transfer the Oxygen.zip file to your root folder of the SD Card.
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I'll try theese files...
BUt I tried to go into the recovery mode and had no chance at all.
I'll test this...
Maybe the phone will update after the "real" 2.3.3 version is out for us?
Orat this procedure.
in the dload method is an integrated Battery check? Because I've never seen a red led flushing Maybe there is the problem that the updated failed because the akku is not insertet or too low ( I think the akku is not charging anymore- the mobile won't become warm.
Edit: After formatting and loading the 4 files into the image folder: I can't reach the recovery Menü. The phone starts with the white Huawei Logo and after ~5 seconds it vibrates, go black..and is restarting...

I flashed the U8800Pro update to my regular U8800 last night. I just wanted to see what would happen and yep the phone ended up a little broken. But after some time I did manage to fix it.. sort of.
As above, flash the U8800+ F ROM to the phone. This will downgrade things and you'll find that you can then use recovery. I did also have another problem that the /data partition was oddly missing from the device so I had to recreate it <DANGEROUS> using Minitool Partition Wizard (with phone on pink bootloader screen). Also I had to make the FAT32 partition for internal SD as well.
The result is that my phone is 95% fully working. The Huawei/IDEOS logo is now missing and replaced with a green background with a red and blue rectangles and load_oemlogo is unable to reprogram this. Custom ROMs work absolutely fine but all U8800 original ROMs fail to install. Also graphics are missing when installing original roms - only the pink progress bar is showing.
So yeah... DON'T FLASH THE U8800+ ROM TO YOUR REGULAR U8800.
I knew it wouldn't work. I'm crazy enough to try it so I could see if it can be reversed.

flibblesan said:
I did also have another problem that the /data partition was oddly missing from the device so I had to recreate it <DANGEROUS> using Minitool Partition Wizard (with phone on pink bootloader screen). Also I had to make the FAT32 partition for internal SD as well.
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I think this could be the main problem here. I'll try the mentioned u8800+ ROM

suschmania said:
I think this could be the main problem here. I'll try the mentionen u8800+ ROM
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Trying and praying in god not to disappointing me as this is my first android phone.....
3 Updates over hoping for best

Now I've flashed this u8800+ ROm ( with the 4 steps) and at first ntohing happened. changing the rom doesn't change anything. but then i could finally install the B138 EstoniaElisa stock rom... and the green froyo symbol arrives SO HAPPY!!
Now it's possible the rot and recover the phone....
THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH! I would never thought about the option to flash another rom that don't fit to this phone

flibblesan said:
I flashed the U8800Pro update to my regular U8800 last night. I just wanted to see what would happen and yep the phone ended up a little broken. But after some time I did manage to fix it.. sort of.
As above, flash the U8800+ F ROM to the phone. This will downgrade things and you'll find that you can then use recovery. I did also have another problem that the /data partition was oddly missing from the device so I had to recreate it <DANGEROUS> using Minitool Partition Wizard (with phone on pink bootloader screen). Also I had to make the FAT32 partition for internal SD as well.
The result is that my phone is 95% fully working. The Huawei/IDEOS logo is now missing and replaced with a green background with a red and blue rectangles and load_oemlogo is unable to reprogram this. Custom ROMs work absolutely fine but all U8800 original ROMs fail to install. Also graphics are missing when installing original roms - only the pink progress bar is showing.
So yeah... DON'T FLASH THE U8800+ ROM TO YOUR REGULAR U8800.
I knew it wouldn't work. I'm crazy enough to try it so I could see if it can be reversed.
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OMG i am so happy BRO thanks to you.....
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suschmania said:
Now I've flashed this u8800+ ROm ( with the 4 steps) and at first ntohing happened. changing the rom doesn't change anything. but then i could finally install the B138 EstoniaElisa stock rom... and the green froyo symbol arrives SO HAPPY!!
Now it's possible the rot and recover the phone....
THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH! I would never thought about the option to flash another rom that don't fit to this phone
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Thanks to you too bro for starting this thread........
But we lost our IMEI number i think.....

flibblesan said:
I did also have another problem that the /data partition was oddly missing from the device so I had to recreate it <DANGEROUS> using Minitool Partition Wizard (with phone on pink bootloader screen). Also I had to make the FAT32 partition for internal SD as well
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I think that I don't have this problems and I see the normal LOGO at startup
No problem krish_nank - I only didn't know how to repair this .
SO: Never change a running system

suschmania said:
Me, too But I'm from the capital auf Lower Saxony
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Ah, Hangover.

suschmania said:
I think that I don't have this problems and I see the normal LOGO at startup
No problem krish_nank - I only didn't know how to repair this .
SO: Never change a running system
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I am trying my stock ROM back....

Stuck in boot loop, no recovery or ROM access

My phone is stuck in a boot loop after it automatically installed an OTA update when on a custom ROM. at first recovery worked, tried installing a custom rom from fresh with the sideload in CWM, then after reboot recovery does not boot, just LG logo and restarts again. Any ideas?
Need it fixed badly no phone for 5 days now.

LightInDark said:
My phone is stuck in a boot loop after it automatically installed an OTA update when on a custom ROM. at first recovery worked, tried installing a custom rom from fresh with the sideload in CWM, then after reboot recovery does not boot, just LG logo and restarts again. Any ideas?
Need it fixed badly no phone for 5 days now.
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I just did this today, and also am out of a phone for now, apparently I lost the software, and in the process of trying to get out of the ota i blocked twrp. Anyway, does yours just go on the lg logo and have the pulsing led? Thats what mine does and I think I can get into download mode which may help. But it wont show up when I plug it in . Good luck to you, if I figure something out ill post it here.

Oxiit said:
I just did this today, and also am out of a phone for now, apparently I lost the software, and in the process of trying to get out of the ota i blocked twrp. Anyway, does yours just go on the lg logo and have the pulsing led? Thats what mine does and I think I can get into download mode which may help. But it wont show up when I plug it in . Good luck to you, if I figure something out ill post it here.
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No LED but it just loops on the LG logo over and over, no access to download at all, tried all combinations but if i hold in power+vol buttons it eventually just gives flashing red LED until i let go of the power then it starts boot looping again.

LightInDark said:
No LED but it just loops on the LG logo over and over, no access to download at all, tried all combinations but if i hold in power+vol buttons it eventually just gives flashing red LED until i let go of the power then it starts boot looping again.
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The red led is what i get when I try to go into download mode too. Just holding down the down and up takes me to that and it keeps going until i press another button. Thats odd you have no led though.

Is this just unfixable? I really need my phone back.

Its the same thing that happened to me the other day. Theres a way to fix hopefully, try this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582142&page=3
My posts are at the end and mine is totally unrecoverable at the moment so off to Verizon for me. There are others in my shoes too but I would try that thread first to see if you can recover. If you do go thru ubuntu and only get " /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda5 "
your pretty much hosed from what I gather. No one has all the files to recover from where I'm at. See my posts on page 13 and 14.
Hopefully someone can figure this out but I cant wait for it to happen. Good luck

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Its the same thing that happened to me the other day. Theres a way to fix hopefully, try this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582142&page=3
My posts are at the end and mine is totally unrecoverable at the moment so off to Verizon for me. There are others in my shoes too but I would try that thread first to see if you can recover. If you do go thru ubuntu and only get " /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda5 "
your pretty much hosed from what I gather. No one has all the files to recover from where I'm at. See my posts on page 13 and 14.
Hopefully someone can figure this out but I cant wait for it to happen. Good luck
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No doesn't work, that fix requires the phone to get PAST the LG initial turn on logo, but it only comes on for 10 seconds then reboots again, not enough time for USB to enable on the phone itself so PC can't even detect it.
Just LG for 10 seconds, off, then LG for 10 seconds and does it over and over.
Anyone else with an idea?
I'd rather not send it away because don't want to get in trouble for having recovery and custom ROM on the phone.

Did you figure out the solution?
I'm stuck in bootloop too, can't connect to the phone to use adb anymore after i tried to install trwp. Download mode isn't seen by my computer...