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First off im sorry im adding another rooting post to these boards.
So i decided to root my 32B magic today copyed the recovery.img over and update file from the rooting wiki, loaded recovery mode then updated, but now my phone when turned on loads to the vodafone screen and freezes id left it for afew hrs but still no luck.
Here is what i know so far:
I am able to get to fastboot and fastboot usb
I cant however get to recovery mode by pressing menu+power
I can get to the recovery mode using the sdk\tools
my problem is that im sure the fix is relativly simple i.e. load some files onto sd and start again, but the problem is that i have no other way to load the files onto the sd card than through the phone and my knowledge of adb isnt that great although has improved greatly today lol.
Im not sure how correct i am on this, but would it be a possible fix to load say a rom update.zip onto the sd card and load that through recovery mode to bring it up? If that would fix it could i possible get help on the adb code needed to pass the file from computer to the phone through fastboot usb or recovery.
Thank you very much for your help
Ok i think i have figured how to push files to my sd card however whenever i try it come up saying Failed ( remote:signature verify fail)
ok well i managed to move Cyanogen's newest rom over and update to that but its still hanging up at the vodafone screen upon booting, im lost for ideas.
Please any help how ever small would be amazing right now.
please help is desperatly needed.
i am having the same issue.... and it seems NO ONE has a bloody answer to why it is failing
I successfully update to 32A and root. Then i tried to update to MT3G OTA rom and now i'm stuck at Vodafone screen. Need help or ideas and how to recover..
i had the same problem, what i did was that i found a sd card adapter and hooked it up to my computer, its pretty quick and less hassle
waacow said:
I successfully update to 32A and root. Then i tried to update to MT3G OTA rom and now i'm stuck at Vodafone screen. Need help or ideas and how to recover..
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take out your battery and after a few seconds put it back in, before it powers up go into fastboot(back+power) and that should do it
I still have a pretty red splash screen and stucked.
neoxtian said:
take out your battery and after a few seconds put it back in, before it powers up go into fastboot(back+power) and that should do it
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I have same problem, but your solution didn't work for me.
I did as follows.
#1. typed following command in terminal.(well, I'm using Mac)
Code:
fastboot-mac flash recovery recovery-RAv1.2.0G.img
#2. pulled battery off from phone.
#3. pluged USB cable to phone and also Mac.
#4. pressed (ENTER) in the terminal, then fastboot-mac said '< waiting for device >'.
#5. put the battery in while pressing (back)+(power)
#6. then, pretty red vodafone splash screen come up.
#7. In the terminal, it still said '< waiting for device >'. Nothing was changed.
#8. On the phone, pretty red splash screen was still there. Nothing was changed.
Those are all I have done many times for last 2 days.
But, it didn't work.
Please let me know if there is something I missed.
I tried and stuck in the exactly same problem as [robotician]. I have MT3G.
robotician said:
#5. put the battery in while pressing (back)+(power)
#6. then, pretty red vodafone splash screen come up.
#7. In the terminal, it still said '< waiting for device >'. Nothing was changed.
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THe red vodafone should not come up. You have to hold the back key longer perhaps, because it's supposed to go into the fastboot screen with all sorts of text and three androids on skateboards at the bottom.
@Niaski
was your rom made for the 32B or the 32A?
They are very diferent phones and mixing the roms causes the issue you are seeing.
I just broke my HTC hero while flashing and it does not load any bootloader any more, just a black screen... I can charge my battery though (lol) and the LED is working...
Now, when I boot it with pressing VOL_UP and the ON key it vibrates three times, I assume this is the flash mode for .nbh full images...
Does anyone have any suggestions or so? Also, I dont have an .nbh file for it
HALP
please check if you can get into fastboot mode by holding the back button and powering on
no, that _is_ the problem, it does not boot any mode...
only thing it does is vibrating three times and led works, when I boot it with volume-up + ON key
I would send it to HTC but that will take more than 3 weeks to come back :/
EDIT:
a friend told me that the G1 has a flash mode with full-images (like dreaimg.nbh) when booting it with pressing camera + ON
so I was looking for such a thing on my hero, and I found out that volume up + ON boots some kind of thing, hopefully the full-image flash mode
my problem with that is that I am not sure what it is an also I dont have an .nbh file for the hero ...
still I guess the thread might be interesting if we solve the problem because then anyone who bricks it can fix it (except they go showering with it)
i'm sorry but i can't help you with the problem then
i guess you'll have to hope for someone more knowledgeable to come around ...
good luck in any case and i'll keep an eye on this
I hope someone can help or provide an .nbh file or anything helpful for this problem
maybe this thread can help you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4120422
felikz: this looks good but I still haven't found an nbh file for my phone, and also I dont really know how to flash it ... so basically I just need help :/ and suggestions, the HTCFlasher looks really good but I dont have an nbh full-image for my phone, and since the hero is pretty young, there isnt that much stuff online already
Is there a way that HTC uses to install the firmware on the phones for the first time ?
Some hardcoded kind of stuff, a chip for flashing or something like that?
I think I screwed my bootloader and this is the reason why nothing works, so I would need to install some kind of bootloader..
EDIT: my computer does not recognize the phone via USB (I thought this information might be useful)
OK... So I managed to extract the official RUU from HTC in order to get the .nbh file for my phone
and voila, another method that just won't work, new HTC hero RUU uses the update.zip format for updating your hero..
So what to do if only the ARM9 mode is working? yes indeed, my phone can even vibrate 3 times and it also includes a working green LED.. YAY
your phone is probably stuck in OEMSBL mode, if its security unlocked there's still some chance you can bring it back to life. Search for 'frankenkaiser' method on kaiser's forum, you have a similar problem but with a different device.
thanks for your reply... I dunno if its security unlocked..
it is not a branded phone, so if you meant that ..
Ok... so I took a look at this, the frankenkaiser method seems to work with devices that show up when connecting them to USB.. my device does not show.. I would need some kind of bootup mode that isnt ****ed up by me as I said, only thing that seems to work is the ARM9 mode and I dont know wheter this is helpful..
if really nothing works on the phone and the pc does not recognize it via usb, then maybe the last method is to send it to htc.. i cannot imagine that you're able to connect with the normal usb cable
Ok thank you guys for helping, I will see what HTC will do, the phone is brandnew so maybe they will give me a new phone :/
again, thanks for your time and for your help
I currently have the same problem as you.
I get 3 vibrations when I press power and Hold vol down.
I was able to get it to boot by holding VOL DOWN + BACK button after powering it up.
Hope it helps
thread back from the dead.
Have there been any fixes for this problem? been searching all morning and all i found was this old thread. I have a telus hero on 1.5, not rooted or anything, about 8 months old. same problem, power on, 3 vibrations and led works. if i boot in fast boot by holding the back button while powering on i get SOMETHING but when i tell it to reset handset it vibrates three times then nothing.
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thread back from the dead.
Have there been any fixes for this problem? been searching all morning and all i found was this old thread. I have a telus hero on 1.5, not rooted or anything, about 8 months old. same problem, power on, 3 vibrations and led works. if i boot in fast boot by holding the back button while powering on i get SOMETHING but when i tell it to reset handset it vibrates three times then nothing.
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You'd usually be better to make a new thread, but can you flash or fastboot anything?
I have the same problem,
Up + Power vibrates 3 times and shows the green led,
with other combinations the phone shows nothing but if i connect with usb and use:
fastboot devices i get 123456789012 fastboot
does anyone knows how to help?
Try the heroimg.zip method (google it)
i have extracted the rom.zip from a oficial ruu and tried the following:
fastboot flash zip rom.zip
but it gave me the following error:
sending 'zip' (97459 KB)... OKAY
writing 'zip'... INFOadopting the signature contained in this image...
INFOsignature checking...
FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)
i've also tried renaming the rom.zip to heroimg.zip, put it in the sd card a start the phone with volume down + power, but the phone does nothing.
Please help
I have gone from 1.6 to 2.1 using the KDZ Updater and the europe open + fastboot.
It is installed because when i go into about phone it shows 2.1
However whenever i try to go into fastboot by holding the camera and power on I get a small vibrate as the phone pwrs up and then nothing , I know the screen should go black but ther is no lg logo before that. When i plug into PC and open a cmd the phone is not found and also the whole phone is not responsive and the only way to be able to do anything is to pull the battery and reboot.
Can anyone please help me It is starting to get me pi%%ed, i have followed al the instructions and just cant get it
Thamks
have you tried reflashing with another fastbot rom??
I have tried the carphone warehouse and the european one but that is all not sure what other ones there are.
I have just done a factory reset so as to start again but I dont fancy my chances.
It is my wifes phone so I ned to get it going again
try this
h**p://www.mediafire.com/?h56av4cb8l6nz16
change * to t
got the link from
h**p://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1041669
Dwnlding now will give it a try Thanks heaps
this is the worlds slowest dwnld
Bummer man no good , if i hold dwn the camera button for a long time it then just boots all the way up. i just cant get it to go to fastboot which means i have a half flashed phone,
really stuck now
woa woa woa this is bad sry for late reply had to eat dinner anyway il call the experts dont worry
no problem hope dinner was good Lol. looking fwd to what the experts I have to say
Hi mate are you able get the LG logos during a normal boot?
no there are no logos during the normal boot , I have tried to do the frech kdz file followed by the out file but that has not worked, also if i try to hold volume up or dwn or camera during boot it does nothing so i have to remove the battery and put it in again to get it to boot
hi people sry i cant help im only 13 ~.~
thats cool thnx
i am sure other will help out
try vol down and power and try the fastboot devices command
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Can you explain the fastboot devices command a bit further please. I get no response from phone when I try the button combinations
sent from My Delorian
ok first boot your phone into fastboot by pressing the power and camera if your phone is doing what i think it is doing it should look like it hasnt booted e.g. black screen then plug your phone into your usb and use command prompt or terminal if your on ubuntu and navigate to your folder that has the adb.exe and fastboot.exe
e.g. mine is
cd C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Downloads\adb+fastboot\adb+fastboot
them type
fastboot devices into command prompt that will tell you if your phone has connected into fastboot mode
http://androidforums.com/optimus-gt...2-cyanogenmod-6-1-android-2-2-here-gt540.html
I have been following this tutorial and have just typed in fastboot.exe -w and it is now saying erasing user data, in the flashing cynogen mod section, it has been going for a while i am not sure how long it should take
when i typed fastboot devices it came back with ? fastboot and nothing else
when you get the ? mark your phone is connected and you are good to go at flashing fastboot roms.
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really! thanks so much this has been doing my head in for some time (3 late nights to be exact)
Hopefully things will go good from here
Thanks again I will click the thanks button as well
Hope it goes well cus it's ur wife's phone my sis will never let me mod her gt540 and if u Are going to use cm7 by mur4ik I suggest u using m6 instead of the latest rc0 as the wifi got abit of a problem
Link to the cm7 thread just in case u don't know
h**p://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=927379
Hi guys, so yeah as the title says, my son got himself a blade last week and has locked himself out the device with "too many pattern attempts" ( he has no google account :S ) i was gonna do a reset in bootloader/recovery mode but i cannot get there.
I have spent all last night trawling the web looking for a work around for this to no avail. When i power up the device with volume - held i get a FMT logo in the middle of the screen, when i power up the device with home and volume + it just boots through to the google account details screen, which when i enter any google account details and hit enter it goes nowhere (heard that this is a bug?) i also have tried calling the device and tried to get in that way. Im getting seriously pissed off with it now lol, can anyone help or throw some info my way? thanks in advance.
You could try boot into Fastboot and then flash ClockworkMod Recovery via that. Then you could wipe data and flash a new ROM.
Also, do you know whether the phone is Gen 1 or Gen 2? Is it a San Francisco running on 2.1 i.e. with no modifications?
Dunno which gen it is bud, yeah it's a san fran and im pretty sure its running 2.1 and it is totally stock, no mods on it at all, i dont have the first idea on how to get into fastboot on the blade, i barely know my way round my own phone lol.
Switch off the phone . Then hold volume up and press power button . Then it enters into fastboot mode. U don't see a seperate title for fastboot mode, but it shows the same splash screen as long as it is in fastboot mode.
Once in fastboot mode, install zte USB drivers (if on windows pc). Then connect phone to of with USB cable. Now using the command prompt and adb tools, u should flash the recovery.img file which u should download seperately for ur corresponding Gen.
The fastboot command to flash recovery is
fastboot flash recovery /path/to/recovery.img
Alternatively u can flash a TPT which should give custom recovery AFAIK.
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Dunno which gen it is bud, yeah it's a san fran and im pretty sure its running 2.1 and it is totally stock, no mods on it at all, i dont have the first idea on how to get into fastboot on the blade, i barely know my way round my own phone lol.
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Then it should be 2.1 and Gen 1.
I think a TPT would be easier in this scenario.
See here: http://android.modaco.com/topic/337798-gen1-to-gen2-tpt-upgrade/
Thanks a lot for the help guys, but im too chicken to mess around with it lol, the wife is just gonna take it back to orange tomorrow and see what they say, if no luck with them i will look more into it, thanks again
I hope someone can help me. I've been scouring the blogs but couldn't find anything that could help me and I'm stuck. I have a mytouch 3g slide and all of a sudden it keeps rebooting and won't turn completely on...it just keeps rebooting non-stop. I tried taking out the battery overnight and putting it back in, held the volume down button + power button which brought me to the HBOOT screen and only showed FASTBOOT, RECOVERY, CLEAR STORAGE & SIMLOCK. When I tried clicking on RECOVERY it just reboots my phone and does it over and over again, same thing when I do CLEAR STORAGE. I've tried this both with the SD card in and out and it would still not take me to where there's the red triangle...just keeps rebooting. Everything else I've seen on forums tells me to unroot/reroot, reformat, flash etc but since whatever I do it just reboots I can't do it. Other details of my phone are the following:
EXPRESSO PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-1.02.0000
MICROP-0620
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0102
RADIO-7.07.35.02S
Nov 26 2010, 20:43:01
CM7
I'm sorry but I'm pretty new to this and I get lost with the terms so I'm trying to be as detailed as I can. I really do hope someone can help me
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I hope someone can help me. I've been scouring the blogs but couldn't find anything that could help me and I'm stuck. I have a mytouch 3g slide and all of a sudden it keeps rebooting and won't turn completely on...it just keeps rebooting non-stop. I tried taking out the battery overnight and putting it back in, held the volume down button + power button which brought me to the HBOOT screen and only showed FASTBOOT, RECOVERY, CLEAR STORAGE & SIMLOCK. When I tried clicking on RECOVERY it just reboots my phone and does it over and over again, same thing when I do CLEAR STORAGE. I've tried this both with the SD card in and out and it would still not take me to where there's the red triangle...just keeps rebooting. Everything else I've seen on forums tells me to unroot/reroot, reformat, flash etc but since whatever I do it just reboots I can't do it. Other details of my phone are the following:
EXPRESSO PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-1.02.0000
MICROP-0620
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0102
RADIO-7.07.35.02S
Nov 26 2010, 20:43:01
CM7
I'm sorry but I'm pretty new to this and I get lost with the terms so I'm trying to be as detailed as I can. I really do hope someone can help me
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It sounds as if your phone is toast... however, you could try going to the HTCdev.com site and doing the unlock procedure (which is going to require you to enter fastboot, so if that's not working, you're truly toast).
Once you've got that done, you can then flash a new recovery, like clockworkmod, and see if you can then use that to clear storage, or flash a new ROM.
Alternatively, you could try to just reinstall the froyo update from T-Mobile/HTC.
Thanks
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It sounds as if your phone is toast... however, you could try going to the HTCdev.com site and doing the unlock procedure (which is going to require you to enter fastboot, so if that's not working, you're truly toast).
Once you've got that done, you can then flash a new recovery, like clockworkmod, and see if you can then use that to clear storage, or flash a new ROM.
Alternatively, you could try to just reinstall the froyo update from T-Mobile/HTC.
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Thanks for the help, jonnycat26. I really appreciate it. It does seem my phone is pretty much toast I tried unlocking it as you said but you're right, it won't let me enter fastboot and my PC couldn't detect the phone since it won't turn on.
I was wondering though, would you happen to have any idea what caused this? It would be good to know so I don't make the same mistake next time around. Thanks again!
Wait! Your phone isn't toast! Download the RUU from the htc website, run it on windows, take the rom.zip from %TEMP%, rename it to ESPRIMG.zip and put it on your sdcard, then boot into Hboot, and it'll reflash the system.
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Wait! Your phone isn't toast! Download the RUU from the htc website, run it on windows, take the rom.zip from %TEMP%, rename it to ESPRIMG.zip and put it on your sdcard, then boot into Hboot, and it'll reflash the system.
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Thanks, Hitorijanae! I'll try that and let you know how it goes.
Hi Hitorijanae,
Okay I'm not sure if I did it right. I saved it to my sdcard as ESPRIMG.zip as you said and then did the volume down + power thing and it brought me to the screen with the 3 androids (sorry not quite sure if that's the HBOOT page that you were talking about). Anyway it did the SD checking. Does it make a difference if it says [ESPRDIAG.zip] no image or wrong image? Anyway it loaded up the ESPRIMG.zip and then asked me if I wanted to update it and I said yes. After that it asked if I wanted to reboot and when I said yes it just rebooted over and over again like my previous problem. I tried also choosing no and it brought me back to HBOOT and my only options were FASTBOOT, RECOVERY, CLEAR STORAGE & SIMLOCK. Choosing FASTBOOT just brings me to reload bootloader, etc.; choosing RECOVERY my phone just reboot loops again and same if I choose CLEAR STORAGE.
I'm not sure if I'm doing it wrong or just screwing it up even more. Sorry for all the questions but I keep getting stuck. I would appreciate all the help I can get.
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Hi Hitorijanae,
Okay I'm not sure if I did it right. I saved it to my sdcard as ESPRIMG.zip as you said and then did the volume down + power thing and it brought me to the screen with the 3 androids (sorry not quite sure if that's the HBOOT page that you were talking about). Anyway it did the SD checking. Does it make a difference if it says [ESPRDIAG.zip] no image or wrong image? Anyway it loaded up the ESPRIMG.zip and then asked me if I wanted to update it and I said yes. After that it asked if I wanted to reboot and when I said yes it just rebooted over and over again like my previous problem. I tried also choosing no and it brought me back to HBOOT and my only options were FASTBOOT, RECOVERY, CLEAR STORAGE & SIMLOCK. Choosing FASTBOOT just brings me to reload bootloader, etc.; choosing RECOVERY my phone just reboot loops again and same if I choose CLEAR STORAGE.
I'm not sure if I'm doing it wrong or just screwing it up even more. Sorry for all the questions but I keep getting stuck. I would appreciate all the help I can get.
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When it's booting up, go into the command prompt, cd to the directory with adb and then do adb logcat.
Hitorijanae said:
When it's booting up, go into the command prompt, cd to the directory with adb and then do adb logcat.
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When I do that it only says -waiting on device- and nothing else. I tried doing the unlock bootloader thing but when it comes to the part after I type in fastboot oem get_identifier_token it just says waiting on device as well. Any other suggestions? I'm not really a dev so I'm not very confident if what I'm doing is right and I get lost sometimes with what you ask me to do but I try to look it up online to get a better understanding of it and then try it before I ask too many questions. I appreciate your patience with me though and for all your help, Hitorijanae and jonnycat26. I'd like to go on if there's still hope for my phone :crying:
ka-dork said:
When I do that it only says -waiting on device- and nothing else. I tried doing the unlock bootloader thing but when it comes to the part after I type in fastboot oem get_identifier_token it just says waiting on device as well. Any other suggestions? I'm not really a dev so I'm not very confident if what I'm doing is right and I get lost sometimes with what you ask me to do but I try to look it up online to get a better understanding of it and then try it before I ask too many questions. I appreciate your patience with me though and for all your help, Hitorijanae and jonnycat26. I'd like to go on if there's still hope for my phone :crying:
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Alright, go into HBOOT, then hit power button to go into fastboot. Plug it up, and type fastboot devices in the command prompt.
Thanks!
Hitorijanae said:
Alright, go into HBOOT, then hit power button to go into fastboot. Plug it up, and type fastboot devices in the command prompt.
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Hi, Hitorijanae!
Sorry for the late reply and things got a bit crazy over here. I had my phone checked and it was a hardware problem so they had to open it up and stuff and now it's all good but I have to be extra careful not to drop or accidentally hit my phone or else it's screwed again. I just wanted to thank you for all your help though
Do you know what was the issue? (Loose cable, failed component, etc)
GoPadge said:
Do you know what was the issue? (Loose cable, failed component, etc)
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The guy said it was a hardware issue. Something broke off inside and damaged the memory (I accidentally dropped my phone a few days before my phone went bonkers on me). I wish I could explain it better but for the life of me I can't remember the things the guy said right now but he had to open it up and weld the broken bit back together.
ka-dork said:
The guy said it was a hardware issue. Something broke off inside and damaged the memory (I accidentally dropped my phone a few days before my phone went bonkers on me). I wish I could explain it better but for the life of me I can't remember the things the guy said right now but he had to open it up and weld the broken bit back together.
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Solder, not weld, but I understand completely. I had to replace the power button and digitizer on mine.
GoPadge said:
Solder, not weld, but I understand completely. I had to replace the power button and digitizer on mine.
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LOL! Yeah, goes to show you how much I know about this stuff I just have to be extra careful with my phone...I hope it holds up for a bit longer.