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Hi all,
I think I've managed to partially brick my phone, the bizarre thing is that it still mostly works, but I've lost PC connectivity, Wi-Fi and the SD card!
Had my Hero (on Orange UK, standard Orange ROMs) for a while, so thought it about time to play with rooting it and trying some new ROMs out.
Installed Amon-Ra's recovery image (v1.5.2), did a nandroid backup, copied everything obvious off the SD card to my PC (usual precautions).
1. Installed Amon-Ra recovery 1.6.2 - all ok
2. re-flashed with the rooted "stock" HTC image 2.73.405.66, and latest radio (JU6.35.09.26) - all looked ok for a few days
3. decided to try out one of the android 2.1 roms (BeHero) - that got stuck on the boot logo for about 50 mins, so figured that wasn't working.
So tried re-flashing the 2.74.305.66 as that was still on the SD card. That kept re-booting, so I gave up and restored my nandroid backup.
Then things really went wierd!
1. On boot-up I get a notification that the SD card has been removed, even though it is there. Will try to get a clean one, and re-format on the PC, but I'm guessing the partition table has been corrupted?
2. Wi-Fi doesn't work - it just says "Can't start Wi-Fi"
3. If I look in the ROM settings, I'm clearly using the rooted 2.73.405.66 and latest radio! My nandroid backup should have been the default Orange ROM and old radio, and I've definitely went back to that in terms of apps, setttings, etc... Not sure how I still have the new ROM!
4. No PC connectivity (this is a bummer), when I plugin I get "USB device not recognized" on the PC, and the phone claims it is "charging (AC)", I don't get the usual notifications about USB mounting or syncing. So ADB/fastoot don't see it. Not sure if this is related to the SD issue, or the ROM version (maybe I've got a mis-match somewhere)
Other than that, the phone works fine, I can sync with google, internet (though that is a bit flaky), and download apps. Battery life seems to be down to 1 day though, so maybe I still have some android 2.1 stuff lurking around.
Without an SD, I can't download any ROMs though, and without a PC connection, I can't use nandroid or try to debug it that way... Guess I'm stuck?
Anyway, just curious if anyone had any suggestions.
Cheers.
Dan
did you do a wipe before you restored the nandroid restore? if not then thats the problem, always do a data wipe before restoring nandroid backups
have you tried reflashing the radio? also try to wipe after restoring the nandroid, just in case.
edit: valid point about wiping BEFORE flashing. what i meant is that if that doesn't work, try to wipe after restoring as well and see if it boots then.
cheers, no I didn't do a wipe as I figured the nandroid restore was the whole of the ROM, so it would overwrite everything.
Done a wipe now but still no joy. Can't reflash anything without SD or PC access...
Still confused as to why the restore has clearly left a newer ROM in place...
can't you just enter recovery do a wipe and then re flash the rom. recovery should have access to the sd card regardless of what state the rom is in.
I thought you should have tried it, but on a second read, did you try mounting the SD card through recovery?
Hi,
I just tried that again, and even the recovery tool can't mount the SD card, I have re-formatted it and have a clean 2Gb one as well, neither can be seen from the recovery partition.
Looks like I've managed to get it in some really bizare state, my gf says I should have left it alone, don't think I'm ever going to live this down
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Hi,
I just tried that again, and even the recovery tool can't mount the SD card, I have re-formatted it and have a clean 2Gb one as well, neither can be seen from the recovery partition.
Looks like I've managed to get it in some really bizare state, my gf says I should have left it alone, don't think I'm ever going to live this down
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Have you tried powering up WITHOUT the sd in, then once it is fully loaded, insert ur SD and see if it picks anything up.
just tried that, no joy...
the loss of PC comms is confusing me too, even in recovery mode... might have to claim I dropped it and send it back to orange!
Eventually managed to sort this out, the phone had gone into some strange testing mode, that disabled the uart (USB) and the sdcard.
Found a really useful post on Modaco's forums, search for "No ADB & No SD", look for post #81.
Turned out I had to use fastboot oem enableqxdm 0 to turn on the SD card (at which point WiFi magically started working again!), then reflash the SPL (scary!) which allowed the mystical command "fastboot oem eraseconfig" that also re-enabled the UART and USB connectivity was restored!
As a bonus, I now have SPL 1.76.2007 which has the fastboot holes in, and allows me to remote boot a recovery image. Previously I had 1.76.007 which was locked against that (so had to reflash recovery).
Just goes to show there is almost always a way back!
Excellent,... I this may just help out others.
Do us a favour though pal,... press edit on your 1st post, to change your thread title. Maybe "Nandroid restore left other stuff around?... No ADB, No SD,...... [SOLVED]
I have installed android rom on my sd card and it worked fine, I switched the phone off and then on again and it just keeps booting in a loop is there anyway to break in to this.
any help is needed.
regards
Have a good look at you battery oins that make contact with the battery and see if they are all aligned properly if not very carefully adjust the one that is not in line with the others. I really think your issue has nothing to do eith the SD Android you used as SD Android is very safe as far as not effecting the regular Windows Mobile OS cause it is on SD and does not touch the NAND memory wich is where the Win MO OS or what every primary OS resides.
carpy47 said:
I have installed android rom on my sd card and it worked fine, I switched the phone off and then on again and it just keeps booting in a loop is there anyway to break in to this.
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thats exactly what happened to me whenever i tried to run android off an sd card.(which is why i didn't get a working android rom for months until nand came along)
On the few occasions I managed to get one to boot, i ended up having to hard reset winmo to escape from boot loop, which is probably what you will end up doing.
I have checked that and it appears ok but it still reboots if there is a problem would it help if I installed an official rom update from htc.
It wont even boot with the sd card out and soft reset doesnt help
thanks for the help
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I have checked that and it appears ok but it still reboots if there is a problem would it help if I installed an official rom update from htc.
It wont even boot with the sd card out and soft reset doesnt help
thanks for the help
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Yes install the updat as Android builds really have to have a 3.14 Windows Mobile ROM to work well. It will also improve your expeince with Win Mo as the 3.14 ROMs run considerably smoother.
do you have it done through clockwork? I had the same issue and I had to wipe data and cache, then it worked fine. You lose all your apps and have to reinstall them but it works. this worked for me if someone has a better method feel free to chime in.
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do you have it done through clockwork? I had the same issue and I had to wipe data and cache, then it worked fine. You lose all your apps and have to reinstall them but it works. this worked for me if someone has a better method feel free to chime in.
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I think the OP is using a SD card Android build and not a NAND Android ROM.
Hi friends,
this is my first post here so I think it's time to say thankyou to the devs and the mods of this forum. really great work.
After my CoreDroid install crashed (most apps wouldn''t start any more) a friend of mine pointed me to the typhoon cm mod. I'm very happy with this mod as it is very smooth und looking good.
My first version was 3.6.5.
Some days after install I noticed that I couldn't start BT. It says "activating.." but then stays off.
I updated today to 3.6.9. but this didn't change anything.
Is there anything I have to configure or am I doing something wrong?
Thanx in advance for your help!
Edit: Hm. No answer at all? Was this a stupid question? When searching this forum I just find bluetooth connection problems. Should I take any steps like task29 and reinstall this mod? Do you need some more information about the phone?
Sorry, just bumping.
Really no one?
Not even a tiny neat hint?
It seems to me as I also have the bluetooth power drain bug (~60mAh in Standby with only 2g/3g activated data off, wlan off and of course no bluetooth active - at least it seems so).
pleeeaasse... heeelp..
Seeing as it's not something that has come up before, you will need to do a cwm backup then do some testing, try a few roms, maybe go back to winmo, post back with what works what doesn't.
Without trying other roms there's no hint whether its hardware or software.
Thank you for this hints.
Would you suggest to do a hardreset after making a cwm-backup? What other steps of precaution should I take between switching between different mods for beeing on the clean side?
no, not a hard reset (assuming you meant a winmo hard reset, , that doesnt do anything), , , if you are flashing another android rom, , in CWM choose 'wipe data factory reset' which will wipe all the partitions, most importantly this will wipe the sd-ext partition and clear the protected android folders on the fat32 part of the sd card.
Do this even if you are going to change the partition size (i.e reflash CWM for a rom that requires a different size) because re flashing cwm will clear all the nand partitions, but wont touch anything on the sd card, and its often the stuff left over on the sd card that causes problems.
I'd try one android rom, and if that doesn't work id go back to winmo stock (if you have a tmous, usual warnings apply to ONLY use tmous stock roms), and if it still doesnt work, its almost certainly hardware fault. had any bumps or bangs?
hm. some problem here: cmw seems to be corrupted. when I press either up or down vol, it seems as if "abort" (red) is also pressed (the hat appears on screen). after pressing up/down vol again, the menue appears again and the marked line moved one step.
this way I can do a backup, but when navigating in the secodn level menues, I fall back to top level menue. :/
Any way I can repair cwm?
I can't remember how I installed it. Think it came with magldr.
What now?
Enter magldr, "USB flashing", flash cwm.
didn't do the trick.
still not able to navigate in cwm.
but: nand gone. no android to boot. :[
Edit: I'm trying to get into the bootloader by holding down vol-down then hold down power. But I get into magldr.
Doing it wrong?
sounds to me like you have a hardware problem with the keys. Also, there are a few threads that talk about not being able to get into bootloader, not read any of them, but thats probably where you should start.
Hey guys, I need some quick suggestions if anyone has it. Currently I have a non working phone.
I have been running an ICS NAND rom on my hd2 for a while now, havnt had any issues (a few niggles with the rom, nothing major) so I thought today I would update to the latest version.
I used the hd2toolkit to resize the partition to the biggest size it would allow, then used ad recovery to flash the new .zip to the nand. This is where my problems started, whenever i booted it just showed the boot animation, (I waited over an hour and pulled the battery out and re booted / reflashed a few times).
I found with a differnet rom i tried, pulling out the SD car would allow it to get to the welcome screen, but no screen input was accepted. I thought this was a bit weird but pushed on. I tried a different rom and it stated after flashing that it was optimising applications and looked like it was stuck in a boot loop. I did some reading up about it and found that task29 should help. I ran this but then all the phone would do is show the green HTC on the white background, it wouldnt let me to get into magdlr menu.
I then decided to to a full restore and go back to the wm rom from th HTC site (The australia telstra version), this seemed to flash on fine, but now I can not slide or click buttons in wm, no screen input is accepted. Which is strange as it was doing this in an android rom, as I mentioned previously.
Any ideas on how I can get touch working / get a NAND android rom to work again.
Thanks in advance guys
First verify that you have hspl installed by powering on while holding vol down button to get to bootloader screen
Go back to the hd2 nand toolkit
1.task29
2. Select either cLK repartition or Magldr repartition and select size for your rom (not the maximum size). 200 mb is fine for ics using sdext partition.
3.Select magldr update recovery or cLK install recovery depending on your selection above.
4. Reboot phone by pressing power and holding to get to magldr or power and home button to get to cwm recovery.
5. Install ICS from sd card as before
Thanks for the help, I had to flash a different radio version to get magdlr to boot.
I now have android running of my NAND, but the screen is non-responsive now, as it was yesterday.
I doubt it is hardware related, because I have never had an issue before yesterday when I wanted to change the android version, any ideas how I could get it working?
Make a backup and then repartition again using HD2 toolkit. Maybe you got a bad download or something. Seems simple but it does happen. To me if I didn't know you choose the biggest it would sound like the partition wasn't big enough. Maybe try a cyanogen ROM since it reguires very little partition size and report back if successful.
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Make a backup and then repartition again using HD2 toolkit. Maybe you got a bad download or something. Seems simple but it does happen. To me if I didn't know you choose the biggest it would sound like the partition wasn't big enough. Maybe try a cyanogen ROM since it reguires very little partition size and report back if successful.
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I have tried two different android roms and the stock wm image from htc's site, all of which the screen doesn't work on. I will have a try with a cyanogen ROM and see if that makes a difference. Thanks
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=769026
I just tried this rom and still no deal. This is very weird as I haven't had any issues with the screen at all, the phone is still in new physical condition.
Does anyone want to have a stab in the dark, as I really need to use it as a GPS tomorrow and any help would be appreciated.
Tell me what the steps you take to install a new ROM. Do you have MAGLDR or clk? Have you task29 yet? Are you sure your using the right partition? Are you using nand or sd Android?
If all else fails maybe check out this thread to reinstall
MAGLDR and then cwm. I've had problems in the past installing HyperDroid without
wiping my SD card first. Maybe check out this nand ROM instead or Coredroid found in my signature.
htccraze said:
Tell me what the steps you take to install a new ROM. Do you have MAGLDR or clk? Have you task29 yet? Are you sure your using the right partition? Are you using nand or sd Android?
If all else fails maybe check out this thread to reinstall
MAGLDR and then cwm. I've had problems in the past installing HyperDroid without
wiping my SD card first. Maybe check out this nand ROM instead or Coredroid found in my signature.
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When installing a new rom, I have resized the magdlr partition, then copied the .zip to the sd card, then in ad recovery installed the zip through there. This has worked fine in the past. I followed the videos you have linked and I'm pretty sure I'm doing everything right and yes ive used task29 several times. In AD Recovery every time it states that installation has been successful. I have also formatted my SD card many times.
The ROM you linked, I can find download links on the page, not sure if I'm just missing them.
I just tried an SD card rom, its doing the same thing, no touch input is accepted.
Does NAND roms and SD roms not working imply that it could well be hardware? I just dont understand as it stopped working when I was reflashing yesterday and it was not dropped or roughly handled in anyway during this process.
I am now going to investigate MTTY (for bad blocks) and try reflashing back to original WM again. Please post more suggestions if anyone has them.
Another update: I just restored to default using the method listed below.
http://www.jayceooi.com/2011/08/15/how-to-restore-stock-rom-on-htc-hd2-video/
It took around 40-ish minutes and still no input from the screen, this is seriously frustrating.
WM boots fine and everything, but still no input is accepted.
I'm sorry to say but if your having the same problem with all that then it sounds like the digitizer stopped working. Maybe someone else knows something I don't so I would wait to see if they could help out.
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA
Thanks mate, I am not sure why it would have just stopped last night. Appreciate all the help! I'll see if anyone else has any suggestions.
It's not a problem. I do have to admit that it does seem pretty odd the timing of it. Hopefully it's a not the digitizer and someone would be able to point out what might be the cause of everything.
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA
This may seem a little crazy, but after having a search online about my issue, it seems that a ribbon going to the screen / digitizer is behind the power button on the HD2s, which apparently can get loose and after a sharp press of the button it started accepting screen input again!
The issue for me now is that when the power button it will stop accepting input again, untill I press it firmly again. I think I may need to open up the phone and check all the connections now.
Need some advice, phone running NexusHD2-ICS-CM9-V2.7, backed up using CWM and tried to flash nexus jellyBean by changing partirion to 400mb, phone would not boot passed cyanogenMod screen, wiped system changed back to 250mb partition and restored system but now phone will not boot passed ICS screen, have tried reflashing ROM but still same problem, any thoughts please.
I believe I should have said that the phone is in ICS animation and that is it, cannot get passed this, have tried everything apart from dropping the phone in a bucket of water. Have cleaned out everything but the restore will not work.
Is there a solution?
IMO you should try a fresh installation of whatever ROM you want: wipe everything(including microSD, but before do a backup) and install it from scratch!
Good luck!
bib*oops said:
IMO you should try a fresh installation of whatever ROM you want: wipe everything(including microSD, but before do a backup) and install it from scratch!
Good luck!
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does not seem to recognise computer or show charge now, I have made a full backup but even after a full restore with everything loading okay still cannot get past ICS animation screen.
hardav said:
does not seem to recognise computer or show charge now, I have made a full backup but even after a full restore with everything loading okay still cannot get past ICS animation screen.
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This is getting very frustrating having checked dozens of posts cannot find a logical solution, tried every possible solution I can find. I can get into all features of system,2.08HSPL shows, CWM, MAGLDR, usb screens okay, in short everything okay bar cannot fully load any ROM past animation screen, have tried task 29 but will not load RUU just sits at HTC with bar and the has communication error. Can the the phone be bricked when all functions are available? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Can you run SD roms past boot anim?
Have you performed a NAND check from MAGLDR? Might be bad NAND blocks.
Well guys after hours of trying to sort this out I have come to the sad conclusion the phone is stuffed which has left me depressed, I have tried:
Restore from my original backup all loads good but does not bootup
task 29 (error 262) does not seem to recognise windows sync
Tried loading from cd using nbh but tri-colour boot loader will not search for file
It is a shame as I can get into all the bootloaders which people tell me should load but no luck
Thanks for your help HD2 goodby
hardav said:
Well guys after hours of trying to sort this out I have come to the sad conclusion the phone is stuffed which has left me depressed, I have tried:
Restore from my original backup all loads good but does not bootup
task 29 (error 262) does not seem to recognise windows sync
Tried loading from cd using nbh but tri-colour boot loader will not search for file
It is a shame as I can get into all the bootloaders which people tell me should load but no luck
Thanks for your help HD2 goodby
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you're probably using too big an SD card, is it bigger than 8gb?
If so, put the LEOIMG.NBH file on an 8gb or smaller card, and get into tricolor, it should load.
Yes I am using a 16gb card, in the meantime I have managed to restore the phone back to ics nexus v2.7, not sure how I did it but in case anybody has the same problem here goes'
I had to get back to WM 6.5 no matter which ROM I tried could not get the custom RUU to load, (probably due to the sd card size) but I noticed I had a custom RUU sitting on my desktop (not sure why there but probably from past messing about) as a last resort I loaded this and bingo within a short time windows loaded up and from there reflashed ICS and restored from backup, working perfectly what a relief. Goes to show ignorance sometimes wins. Details of the custom RUU used.
LEO CUSTOM RUU
[email protected]
File 1.1.0.0 921KB
This worked with the 16gb card, I would like to go to jelly bean but am I pushing my luck. Can you just reload CWM with a 400 partition?
Have a nice day
Cheers from kiwiland
hardav said:
Need some advice, phone running NexusHD2-ICS-CM9-V2.7, backed up using CWM and tried to flash nexus jellyBean by changing partirion to 400mb, phone would not boot passed cyanogenMod screen, wiped system changed back to 250mb partition and restored system but now phone will not boot passed ICS screen, have tried reflashing ROM but still same problem, any thoughts please.
I believe I should have said that the phone is in ICS animation and that is it, cannot get passed this, have tried everything apart from dropping the phone in a bucket of water. Have cleaned out everything but the restore will not work.
Is there a solution?
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I had a problem with that one, so i decided to use this one:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1584160, and i think that is working much better than Nexus.