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Stuck in bootloader

so ive been flashing roms and have never had a problem till today.
i went to flash the new ava-froyo rom and it went fine and booted right up, and then i tried flashing the new radio and that when everything froze.. it was stuck at the white evo 4g screen...
so i rebooted and it did the same freezein at the white screen..
i rebooted again into hboot, and tried going into recovery and it goes to the white screen again and freezes.
so i only have control in hboot and fastboot. yet i cant get a shell connection. the device is recognized, so im just lost at what to do. been reading for hours and cant figure it out.
thanks for any help.

rdkustom said:
so ive been flashing roms and have never had a problem till today.
i went to flash the new ava-froyo rom and it went fine and booted right up, and then i tried flashing the new radio and that when everything froze.. it was stuck at the white evo 4g screen...
so i rebooted and it did the same freezein at the white screen..
i rebooted again into hboot, and tried going into recovery and it goes to the white screen again and freezes.
so i only have control in hboot and fastboot. yet i cant get a shell connection. the device is recognized, so im just lost at what to do. been reading for hours and cant figure it out.
thanks for any help.
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Wipe three times wipe wipe wipe if that don't work do whitslack startover method
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i cant get into recovery to wipe. do u mean clear storage?
and also, ive been trying to load pc16img off my sdcard, but its not reading. i didnt the sdcard fix and still nothing.. thanks for your help

I kinda had the same issue, try the unrevoked recovery reflash
that's what I did and it worked for me

mine was stuck on the red exclamation point... I tried 5 times by pressing power and +vol buttons, but it was just sitting there for ever...

baiatul said:
mine was stuck on the red exclamation point... I tried 5 times by pressing power and +vol buttons, but it was just sitting there for ever...
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Are you rooted if not then take battery out put back in hold power and vol down once it goes into hboot pull battery back out then put back in boot up regular way. Happen to me was trying something on non rooted phone went into recovery and got that red! Was like oh man so I did that it v came up hope it works for u
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rdkustom said:
so ive been flashing roms and have never had a problem till today.
i went to flash the new ava-froyo rom and it went fine and booted right up, and then i tried flashing the new radio and that when everything froze.. it was stuck at the white evo 4g screen...
so i rebooted and it did the same freezein at the white screen..
i rebooted again into hboot, and tried going into recovery and it goes to the white screen again and freezes.
so i only have control in hboot and fastboot. yet i cant get a shell connection. the device is recognized, so im just lost at what to do. been reading for hours and cant figure it out.
thanks for any help.
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If all fells do power and vol up hook to CPU HTC sync and try load stock ruu on there
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so i can only communicate with the phone thru fastboot..
adb isnt seeing the phone, ive also put a pc36img on my memcard and reboot to get it to load, but it wont load it.. so then i did the sdcard fix and still nothing.. thanks again

ewilson said:
Are you rooted if not then take battery out put back in hold power and vol down once it goes into hboot pull battery back out then put back in boot up regular way. Happen to me was trying something on non rooted phone went into recovery and got that red! Was like oh man so I did that it v came up hope it works for u
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Thanks, that's correct. Not rooted. Thanks.

baiatul said:
Thanks, that's correct. Not rooted. Thanks.
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Ok yes that's what happen to my friend phone I was just seeing what happen. Man I was like oh my lord got scared thought I brick phone what I did was pulled battery put battery back in holding vol down and power once in hboot pull battery wait a min or so put battery back and boot up normal way it came on I was like whew. If that doesn't work pull battery put back in vol. Up and power while phone hooked to CPU do HTC sync and reload stock ruu let me know if it works
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Is my HTC Magic totally bricked?

I bought a Rogers HTC Magic for a pretty cheap price. It had The Rogers 1.5 Sense UI update on it. I decided I wanted to root it and load other ROMs, etc. So I read that the easiest method was to use Universal Androot to root it, and ROM Manager (from the Market) to flash the appropriate recovery image.
So, I installed both apps. I first ran Universal Androot and rooted. I confirmed root through ADB and also Super User permissions. I then restarted the phone just for peace of mind. After the restart, I ran ROM Manager. It automatically popped up and asked me if I was running an Ion/My Touch or an HTC Magic. I selected HTC Magic, because that's what this is. So then it flashed the recovery image and restarted the phone. When it restarted it went to the Rogers boot screen for a few seconds, and then started a loop of restarts. That's all it does now. It shows the Rogers screen for a few seconds, goes black and reboots over and over. I have tried booting into HBOOT, Fastboot, and into recovery. I cannot boot into any of them. One thing I did notice is that when I'm pressing any of the combinations (volume down + power, home + power, menu + power) for a very brief half a second right before the phone restarts, the bottom of the screen says "ClockwordMod ..." where ... is the version of the image (I'm at work without the phone, so I don't recall the exact number there).
So, is this thing officially a paperweight now, or is there some sort of hope?
Thanks.
Paul

Well, I don't know if you are full-bricked but here is what went wrong. The HTC Magic recovery is incorrect for the mytouch3g (at least the 32b). There was a top option for "saphire/mytouch 3g" which is what you should have chosen. So, you can't load the incompatible recovery. Can't you boot back into the rom you were using? The recovery flash shouldn't have messed with it. If you can, boot back in and flash the correct mytouch3g recovery in rom manager.

adrift02 said:
Well, I don't know if you are full-bricked but here is what went wrong. The HTC Magic recovery is incorrect for the mytouch3g (at least the 32b). There was a top option for "saphire/mytouch 3g" which is what you should have chosen. So, you can't load the incompatible recovery. Can't you boot back into the rom you were using? The recovery flash shouldn't have messed with it. If you can, boot back in and flash the correct mytouch3g recovery in rom manager.
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Okay. That's weird. I mean, my phone is a Magic so choosing the option for the Magic instead of the Ion/MyTouch seemed to make sense.
Anyway, I cannot get anywhere. Holding vol+ and power does nothing, neither does home and power or back and power. Are there any other tricks to getting anywhere beyond this endless restart loop?
Thanks.

Starting to think I'm screwed.

PaulieORF said:
Starting to think I'm screwed.
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You may be, I'm not sure exactly what state you are in but the recovery you installed was for a magic 32a (that you have) with a 3.x radio (that you don't have)
The rogers sense rom uses the 6.x hero radio and needs a hero recovery.
The mt3g uses a 2.x radio thus yet another recovery.
Try booting with volume down to see if you can get into the hboot/fastboot screen, but I think you tried this already.. you may also try letting it loop unplugged until the battery drains it may error out giving you access again..
Besides that there is the option of jtag and fixing the software stack that way.

ezterry said:
You may be, I'm not sure exactly what state you are in but the recovery you installed was for a magic 32a (that you have) with a 3.x radio (that you don't have)
The rogers sense rom uses the 6.x hero radio and needs a hero recovery.
The mt3g uses a 2.x radio thus yet another recovery.
Try booting with volume down to see if you can get into the hboot/fastboot screen, but I think you tried this already.. you may also try letting it loop unplugged until the battery drains it may error out giving you access again..
Besides that there is the option of jtag and fixing the software stack that way.
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Thanks for the reply!
Right, I cannot get into fastboot or hboot. I'll try running the battery down when I get home today. Interesting idea.

Unfortunately running the battery dead with restarts didn't do the trick.
Any idea if there's any place I can send it to who has the smarts to jtag recover this thing?
Thanks.

me too
I did the same thing on a 32B. Rooted. loaded ROM Manager. Ran the recovery, I choose the Ion/MT3G option. tried to load CM6-FroyoRedux-v1.7-32b-blk.zip. Now it's stuck in the boot screen.

tmokeith said:
I did the same thing on a 32B. Rooted. loaded ROM Manager. Ran the recovery, I choose the Ion/MT3G option. tried to load CM6-FroyoRedux-v1.7-32b-blk.zip. Now it's stuck in the boot screen.
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I don't think it's the same thing.
I rooted, loaded ROM Manager and installed the recovery. I was never even able to get into recovery in order to try to load any ROMs.

I have a Rogers magic, and its a 32a. One way to fix it is to go to the HTC website and punch in your serial number and download the rogers update. Only problem is that will make it a pain to root again. But should fix that reboot loop. But do that as a last resort to get the phone running again.
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nate_benji said:
I have a Rogers magic, and its a 32a. One way to fix it is to go to the HTC website and punch in your serial number and download the rogers update. Only problem is that will make it a pain to root again. But should fix that reboot loop. But do that as a last resort to get the phone running again.
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The phone does not identify itself to the computer, so this doesn't work.

The program should try to put the phone into fastboot mode, and install the upgrade. Have you tried pulling the battery and pressing the power button + back, once the battery is installed again?
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nate_benji said:
The program should try to put the phone into fastboot mode, and install the upgrade. Have you tried pulling the battery and pressing the power button + back, once the battery is installed again?
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Oh yes. I've gone crazy trying every key combination with every combination of taking battery out, plugging it in, USB cable attached, detached, etc.
The phone never identifies itself as a piece of hardware to the computer in the 5 seconds between reboots.

I had the same problem yesterday, and i was doing the same rooting with Universal Androot and flashing recovery witch Rom Manager (choose the same options). I tried to go into recovery and then it started to bootlooping the whole time.
I was pretty scared when that happens, can't open fastboot menu and the only thing that my phone was showing was HTC logo and a quick blink of clockwork sign over and over.
I don't know exactly how i managed to fix it, but it started to work when i quickly plug off baterry and i immiediatly plug it in (I was doing it at the exactly time when the phone reboots) while holding the power button.
Now my magic turns on, but recovery won't work (just flash for a moment, and reboots) and it always say at the beginning of booting system that SD card was removed which means i can't use any SD card.
I hope it somehow helped you.

naparstekk said:
I had the same problem yesterday, and i was doing the same rooting with Universal Androot and flashing recovery witch Rom Manager (choose the same options). I tried to go into recovery and then it started to bootlooping the whole time.
I was pretty scared when that happens, can't open fastboot menu and the only thing that my phone was showing was HTC logo and a quick blink of clockwork sign over and over.
I don't know exactly how i managed to fix it, but it started to work when i quickly plug off baterry and i immiediatly plug it in (I was doing it at the exactly time when the phone reboots) while holding the power button.
Now my magic turns on, but recovery won't work (just flash for a moment, and reboots) and it always say at the beginning of booting system that SD card was removed which means i can't use any SD card.
I hope it somehow helped you.
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I tried doing this quickly for about 5 minutes this morning but didn't get it to go anyway. I can try some more after work today.
When you say it booted after this battery pull thing, do you mean the phone booted right into Android, or you were able to get to hboot or fastboot?
Thanks.

PaulieORF said:
I tried doing this quickly for about 5 minutes this morning but didn't get it to go anyway. I can try some more after work today.
When you say it booted after this battery pull thing, do you mean the phone booted right into Android, or you were able to get to hboot or fastboot?
Thanks.
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I wasn't able to get hboot or fastboot. I pluged off and on the battery in the exact moment when the Logo came out after restarting. The logo was on the screen for the whole time, even while battery plugged off. I guess, i've done it so quickly that phone didn't switched off.
I think i was holding the power+home or power+back buttons all the time.
Can't really rember the exact way, sorry.

PaulieORF said:
I tried doing this quickly for about 5 minutes this morning but didn't get it to go anyway. I can try some more after work today.
When you say it booted after this battery pull thing, do you mean the phone booted right into Android, or you were able to get to hboot or fastboot?
Thanks.
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Try removing the SD card and booting if its not restarting due to the wrong radio too soon that may help.. if you get into android restore the SD card and run the exploid process I posted a bit back for rogers magics, or the older goldcard method.

I've played around with taking the battery out and putting it right back in at all different times during the booting and can't get the phone to behave any differently. Iv'e tried it with SD card in and SD card out, USB cable in and USB cable out. I can't get anywhere.
I did notice that the phone does show up as an Android device for a second when it's booting. Tried to catch it in adb but no luck.
Starting to think this thing is shot. Any other ideas?

Just so everyone can see what's happening, I recorded a video and uploaded it. Linked below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPoxMzm0MVU&hd=1

try to hold and KEEP holding the back + power... Not volume down!
Don't push and release like you did in the video.

[Q] help with my mt4g

ok here is my problem i rooted my mt4g then i tried to re rom it using cwr the phone was in bootloop so i tried reflashing and reflashing thinking i was doing something wrong then I downloaded PD15IMG pulled the battery to shut the phone off before i got to reflash and it hasnt turn on since when i plug it into the pc i detects it as qhsusb_dload I dont have warranty and i dont have another phone to use really dont want to dish out anymore money i just got the phone like 2 days ago someone please help

synej6 said:
ok here is my problem i rooted my mt4g then i tried to re rom it using cwr the phone was in bootloop so i tried reflashing and reflashing thinking i was doing something wrong then I downloaded PD15IMG pulled the battery to shut the phone off before i got to reflash and it hasnt turn on since when i plug it into the pc i detects it as qhsusb_dload I dont have warranty and i dont have another phone to use really dont want to dish out anymore money i just got the phone like 2 days ago someone please help
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Oh man, when you were constantly reflashing did you wipe before you reflashed? And it wont get back into clockwork or fastboot?

mackster248 said:
Oh man, when you were constantly reflashing did you wipe before you reflashed? And it wont get back into clockwork or fastboot?
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yea i wiped then reflash it was going back to fastboot for a while until figured out to just flash the stock rom and just do the process all over again but by that time the phone was on while i downloaded it and when i went to turn it off to get into bootloader it never turned back on I tried taking everything out let it sit then put the battery back nothing then I thought the battery was dead so i plugged it to the ac charger and i get no red amber or green light, then i thought the battery was damaged but when i plugged to the pc this morning it was detected but as qhsusb_dload ever since then i been searching for the driver for it but no luck

28 views and only 1 reply guys please help

synej6 said:
28 views and only 1 reply guys please help
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It sounds like you bricked yourself. Providing more info may help. How did you root? Did you use ROM manager? What version of clockwork were you using. Do you have engineering bootloader. What Rom did you try and flash? What version were you on? Be as specific as you can and the great team of guys/girls here can walk you through it , if it's recoverable at this point.

Coppo said:
It sounds like you bricked yourself. Providing more info may help. How did you root? Did you use ROM manager? What version of clockwork were you using. Do you have engineering bootloader. What Rom did you try and flash? What version were you on? Be as specific as you can and the great team of guys/girls here can walk you through it , if it's recoverable at this point.
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rooted with gfree
yes i used rom manager not sure what version of clockwork
what is engineering bootloader?
Rom:Royal_Panache_v1_2.zip
andriod 2.2.1
thanks

anyone?????????

synej6 said:
anyone?????????
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Do you have ADB installed with the usb drivers? If not I would do that and then run adb devices and see if your phone shows up. If that doesn't work I would either get a new battery to see if you can at least get to the bootloader and then revert to stock or call HTC at 866-449-8358 and play the victim card. Good luck!

if you pull the battery and put it back in. Hold down the power button and the volume down rocker on the volume controls. Can you get into hBoot?

Mcoddt said:
Do you have ADB installed with the usb drivers? If not I would do that and then run adb devices and see if your phone shows up. If that doesn't work I would either get a new battery to see if you can at least get to the bootloader and then revert to stock or call HTC at 866-449-8358 and play the victim card. Good luck!
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ADB doesn't detect it i tried then i made the pc think it was a android phone and still nada, I'm just gonna end up calling htc and cry to them lol

neidlinger said:
if you pull the battery and put it back in. Hold down the power button and the volume down rocker on the volume controls. Can you get into hBoot?
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i wish i could if it would power up and go into hboot i would just use the pmd15.zip

[Q] G2 bricked? Please help. Stuck in bootloader.

Ok so my phone booted up into the bootloader the other day and the the volume keys and power keys arent working. I cant get adb to connect to it either. When the battery is real low and i boot into hboot it gives me a low battery voltage warning and says press power to continue and it actually works.. but when im at the hboot or fastboot screens nothing works. Anyone know of a solution? Thanks

Daryl Keith said:
Ok so my phone booted up into the bootloader the other day and the the volume keys and power keys arent working. I cant get adb to connect to it either. When the battery is real low and i boot into hboot it gives me a low battery voltage warning and says press power to continue and it actually works.. but when im at the hboot or fastboot screens nothing works. Anyone know of a solution? Thanks
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Is your bootloader s-off or s-on? If it's s-off try putting an ruu as a pc10img.zip on your sdcard and flashing it through bootloader. You'll have to reroot and possibly get s-off again so use a 2.2 ruu
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could it be that somehow your trackpad is stuck?

I am s-off sorry i didnt mention that. I flashed a pc10img and everything worked but when i rebooted it it still loads to the bootloader and the keys dont work. Im thinking it maybe the trackpad is stuck but how would i be able to check that?

If you are rooted you most likely have clockworkmod recovery? Have you tried to boot into there and flash a clean rom?
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i cant boot into anything else but the bootloader and when in there the buttons arent working. Is there another way to boot into recovery?

You need adb. I'm not saying it will work but its worth a shot. If you don't know adb the is a guide in the dev section.
If you can get adb connected to your device after you adb shell into phone you can run "adb reboot recovery". Hopefully that works, but if not I'm at a loss
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Daryl Keith said:
i cant boot into anything else but the bootloader and when in there the buttons arent working. Is there another way to boot into recovery?
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Try removing your SD card, then see if you can get to recovery through the BL.

I cant get adb to connect.. after i enter "adb devices" it lists nothing. I can get my hd2 to connect not problem. I tryed PDAnet to see if it was a prob with the driver but at the end it says failed to handshake with device. i also have htc sync installed. I tried to boot it with the sd card removed but to no avail, same thing happens. I think its wierd that i was able to flash an RUU and the power button worked to select stuff but once its back in the regular bootloader screen nothing responds.

Update!! Ok so i flashed the RUU found at this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=912399&page=4. I figured it would be safer because i was already rooted and had s-off. This rom flashed fine and then when i plugged my phone in while it was off it turned on and booted to clockwork recovery. once i booted it up though it turns out my track pad wont select anything. It will move around the screen but when you click it does nothing.

Daryl Keith said:
Update!! Ok so i flashed the RUU found at this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=912399&page=4. I figured it would be safer because i was already rooted and had s-off. This rom flashed fine and then when i plugged my phone in while it was off it turned on and booted to clockwork recovery. once i booted it up though it turns out my track pad wont select anything. It will move around the screen but when you click it does nothing.
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Sounds like your trackpad is indeed stuck. I would get the phone replaced if possible
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Deas nexus 4

Hello everyone,
I was doing an antutu test, and the phone just shut off yesterday. The battery was about 60% and then impossible to restart it. I then let it cool down 10mn then tried again with no luck. I plugged to the wall with original cable and plug and then a red flashing light was lit. I went to read online about this behaviour to find out it was (to some people say) due to battery being dead and had to wait to recharge a bit. I let charge for about 2h but there was no icon of battery charging on the screen. No need to mention that i have tried everything (holding power button for 60sec, holding volume down + power button etc etc) nothing was working. Then i read somewhere on this forum i had to press volume down + power THEN plug it into wall. I gave a try then it worked it went to recovery mode.... BUT BUT BUT once i tried to go to each option (start, restart bootloader, recovery mode), the phone was shutting down right away after the google image and again red flashing light... Bummer... So since it was getting into recovery mode i plugged it to pc and then followed the thread on how to reinstall stock rom etc etc. I followed steps but since i was already with a custom rom and kernel (PA+TRINITY) i used the toolboxkit because the command fastboot was not working in the command window. I did flashed the stock bootloader following what was supposed to be flashed first.Result.. Now no red flashing light, but nothing else either, no light, no power, no charging, no recovery mode, nothing... ANY ideas would be highly apreciated before i call google for an exchange.
Thanks to all for help.

What exactly do you plan on telling Google?
How did you flash only the bootloader??
Did you try the toolkit to reflash stock???
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ptesmoke said:
What exactly do you plan on telling Google?
How did you flash only the bootloader??
Did you try the toolkit to reflash stock???
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Well since it does nothing else anymore i was going to tell them the truth besides the part it had another custom rom and kernel and i started the toolkit and i placed the 6 stock .img int he right folder then i started by flashing the bootloader and was waiting for reboot to flash the rest of the images like it is mentionned on the thread on this forum.
I used the toolkit to flash the bootloader but now the phone is dead completly. No light flashing, no battery icon, it is plugged on the wall and i get no power in it.. This is why im stuck before trying to flash stock rom and wipe all datas...
If you have any idea... i take it gladly!! but im not very used with toolkit so i dont seem to know how to wipe all datas besides flashing stok data image?? but the question is hos to get power back in phone now???
thank you for your precious help

anyone else???

i have exactly the same
check my thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2050811
i flashed custom rom and kernel
bat was at 98%, putted it into my pocket, one hour later i put it out, used to unlock the screen, bamm nothing anymore since then
i am not even managed to get it into recovery
no solution worked for me
i have no idea what happend to my device, ic alled google cause i really think its an hardware issue..

What's a "deas Nexus 4"? geez. learn to spell check.
Send me the device.

asawoszc said:
What's a "deas Nexus 4"? geez. learn to spell check.
Send me the device.
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Learn that a new sentence always starts with a capital letter, smart ar*e.
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Vangelis13 said:
Learn that a new sentence always starts with a capital letter, smart ar*e.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
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^ LOL. At least my phone works. WOOOOOOO!

asawoszc said:
What's a "deas Nexus 4"? geez. learn to spell check.
Send me the device.
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Geez do you speak french like i do speak english, even with a small typo mistake....l? And no i will not send you my phone wahahahahaha. Just tell me what to please...
Regards.

Same issue for me durinng atwrp backup,
I was able only to enter in recover pressing pwr+vol down and connecting a usb cable. I've restored the stock rom but nothing has worked. the red light still blinking.
L.

lupick said:
Same issue for me durinng atwrp backup,
I was able only to enter in recover pressing pwr+vol down and connecting a usb cable. I've restored the stock rom but nothing has worked. the red light still blinking.
L.
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Hello
Phone totally dead, not even charging anymore. Google sending replacement