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[Q] Bricked HTC Mytouch 4G?

First off let me start by saying I now know what i did wrong. Next is there anyway i can fix it?
I didn't backup anything and then managed to erase everything... I have CM 6 but as of now all i can get is the boot screen. I tried recovery but that won't work becasue there is no backup. also Before I erased everything i managed to turn s on so now i have no way to turn that off correct? Im basicly looking for a way to restore my phone but if it cant be done then i understand. Right now I am using a samsung vibrant with Nero v3 voodo and understand how to install custom roms now

i have almost the same problem as you I don't know what to do I've looked everywhere.

zigg82 said:
First off let me start by saying I now know what i did wrong. Next is there anyway i can fix it?
I didn't backup anything and then managed to erase everything... I have CM 6 but as of now all i can get is the boot screen. I tried recovery but that won't work becasue there is no backup. also Before I erased everything i managed to turn s on so now i have no way to turn that off correct? Im basicly looking for a way to restore my phone but if it cant be done then i understand. Right now I am using a samsung vibrant with Nero v3 voodo and understand how to install custom roms now
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What do you mean... erase everything? How?
Possible steps:
1. factory reset from H-Boot, see if it boots up normally, then re-root.
2. Install PD15IMG from development section, look it up.
Good luck.

Man, do I feel like an idiot...
borodin1 said:
What do you mean... erase everything? How?
Possible steps:
1. factory reset from H-Boot, see if it boots up normally, then re-root.
2. Install PD15IMG from development section, look it up.
Good luck.
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I've tried this, but it still hangs on boot screen. Thanks tho.

That sucks.
S.I. 77

zigg82 said:
First off let me start by saying I now know what i did wrong. Next is there anyway i can fix it?
I didn't backup anything and then managed to erase everything... I have CM 6 but as of now all i can get is the boot screen. I tried recovery but that won't work becasue there is no backup. also Before I erased everything i managed to turn s on so now i have no way to turn that off correct? Im basicly looking for a way to restore my phone but if it cant be done then i understand. Right now I am using a samsung vibrant with Nero v3 voodo and understand how to install custom roms now
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Same issue here...I have nero v5 on my vibrant lol.
We should've just stayed with the vibrant...

Which recovery did you have installed and which h-boot

Did you try seeing if you could s-off through adb? Im not sure if this will work but Download the files you need to get s-off from ur computer and put it on ur SD card via a card reader or some sort, after you get the necessary files put the SD card back into ur phone. Hook it up to ur computer and maybe you can s-off through adb if you can get ur computer to recognize ur phone. Then IF it works, download a rom via computer to it SD card and boot into recovery and flash. Let me know what happens if it works or not
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Should have taken my advice from this thread.

I just went thru the same thing and couldn't restore any of the backups it just kept getting stuck on the flash screen. I downloaded the ice glacier rom on to a spare sd card and flashed it thru hboot recovery and it looks like that did the trick.

hi guys if you still cant get your phones working try mobiletechvideos.com, they fixed my phone , my phone wouldn`t do anything .good reliable service, yes its in texas.

Although you didnt create any backups, is it possible that someone can create a backup of a fresh ROM and send that to you?

youshoe said:
Just take the SD card and put a new ROM on it. Then go to recovery, wipe data, wipe cache, wipe dalkik cache.
Then install zip from sd card and find it.
I like using Royal Panache 1.3.
I think it's stock Mobilicity ROM but no stock software from carrier. Good stuff.
MIUI and Cyanogenmod 7.1 are also good candidates.
I'm currently testing out ICS and you can test it out as well (but in your case, probably try a working one first =P) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1383629&page=1
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I believe this is the oldest thread revive in the my touch 4g, Congrats good sir.
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Nicgraner said:
I believe this is the oldest thread revive in the my touch 4g, Congrats good sir.
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Wrong, he just randomly revived a thread that last post was made in July 2011.
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He revived quite a few of them, trying to market what I believe to be his product. Just look at his messages. Don't want to write the name of the product, since it appears he's scoring just for that.
I've reported his posts, but didn't see mod response yet.

Yet they always get me
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Jack_R1 said:
He revived quite a few of them, trying to market what I believe to be his product. Just look at his messages. Don't want to write the name of the product, since it appears he's scoring just for that.
I've reported his posts, but didn't see mod response yet.
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Oh, as marketing for the app he talks about? I thought you meant ICS and was thinking well that just goes to feby's ICS thread..
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FYI if it's older than a week..just let it go

Cant update after unrooting my phone

Wtf got bored and unrooted my phone and it says there is a htc software update ready to be installed and everytime i click it, it reboots my phone into the updater and then error. And i have to take out the battery to restart my phone.
Is this a problem with the phone itself or is there a way to fix this?

Did you unroot by running the RUU? Are you s-off? Do you have stock recovery?

I did all the above and i still get it to start updating then error

mikeymisery said:
I did all the above and i still get it to start updating then error
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Sounds like you are still rooted but with no recovery... may want to flash the ruu again to make sure it all took... hopes this is helpful.
Also if you are referring to a firmware update I have a extra evo that says that but is currently on 3.30 still so I don't even know if 3.70 ever came out to unrooted phones..(I need to check into that)
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It says it has a htc software update and i am running 3.29.651.5 so it should update.
And thanks for the help so far

Forgot to mention i did a nand restore to get back to the stock rom, could that be the problem and if so where can i get the correct stock rom. Ive looked around and still havent found one

mikeymisery said:
Forgot to mention i did a nand restore to get back to the stock rom, could that be the problem and if so where can i get the correct stock rom. Ive looked around and still havent found one
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Here is the ruu
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=86NCAM22
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I guess it didnot unroot completely but i started to redo the procedure and it kill all my drivers. Had to reinstall each one manually and the ruu is not finding my phone anymore after the first step of turning it off and using the usb cord. Help?

I think I found the problem, I needed to change the title for my phone on HTC sync to my HTC, and it found it ok. I also had to reset the splash screen to stock before any of this could happen.
Thank you for giving me the ruu and the pointers I needed to make this happen. Now to bring the phone back for other reasons on why its not receiving signal from Sprint but for some reason it gets Verizon... I can't stand Verizon so its time for a new EVO

[Q] Trouble unrooting and returning to stock

Ok so here is what is going on. my wife wanted her phone unrooted and returned to stock. Before I did anything she had MIUI ROM. So anywho, I downloaded the PG06img zip for the .98hboot. I have done hboot updates before so i figured this would be the least painful way. So i selected yes to update and set the phone down and let it do its thing. after a while the phone was done but it still was rooted, still had miui. so i rebooted into hboot again and now instead of s-off it is now s-on.
I have been working on this for about 5 hours now and have tried the RUU with PC but all i get are errors, I tried to flash a ROM and now it just flashes the boot screen and nothing else.
Please someone help. I hope this make sense. Oh and I have tried using adb but daemon keeps having an error.

I recently uprooted my shift what I did was 1st I backed up everything then I loaded a rooted regular shift Rom (preferably the original backup) then I loaded HTC sync to my computer once I made sure HTC shift was working properly then I turned off debug mode on my phone then connected it to my pc and ran the ruu and all was restored
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Well, the whole day of work, and now I am at a loss... cannot flash anything

I have the latest recovery.
I also have on my sd card 2 copies of CM7.1 (RC1), and also a CM 7.1 nightly 141.
When I try to install any of these I get "Rom Manager script errors" whatever that means....
I have tried to do this after wiping data twice... So a factory reset doesn't even work.
The only thing I can think of doing is putting an update image on the root of the SD card and boot into HBOOT.... which then checks for this file automatically.
But does anyone know where I can find an update/rom in img form (and that is rooted) which will work with the update function? Otherwise I think my phone is f*cked.
EDIT: One (possible) important piece of information. When I was at the TMO store 3 days ago with this phone complaining about my wifi issue. They said I had a 2G SIM card (it's a SIM card I have had for 3+ years)... After my quite apparent frustration, they just gave me a new one--- apparently the latest type of SIM card... and also activated it (and thus deactivating my old one). Could this have anything to do with why I cannot restore backups or why my phone is so messed up now?

"Rom Manager script errors" means it can't execute the script to reboot to recovery.
Just manually reboot into recovery, do a complete wipe, flash the rom you want.

febycv said:
"Rom Manager script errors" means it can't execute the script to reboot to recovery.
Just manually reboot into recovery, do a complete wipe, flash the rom you want.
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You were right.. I had root (perm, s= off). I wiped again and also redownloaded RC1 just to be sure. And it all took.
I have to make sure I unlocked the radio, and then the simcard, and then I Erik be done.
Thanks for your help. I will thank you again when I get to my laptop. The mobile ado doesn't have "thank you's" (although I thought they did).
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syntropic said:
You were right.. I had root (perm, s= off). I wiped again and also redownloaded RC1 just to be sure. And it all took.
I have to make sure I unlocked the radio, and then the simcard, and then I Erik be done.
Thanks for your help. I will thank you again when I get to my laptop. The mobile ado doesn't have "thank you's" (although I thought they did).
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they do in the newest premium version, as i see you have (not sure about version). press and hold on the post, a menu will pop out, and hit thanks

syntropic said:
You were right.. I had root (perm, s= off). I wiped again and also redownloaded RC1 just to be sure. And it all took.
I have to make sure I unlocked the radio, and then the simcard, and then I Erik be done.
Thanks for your help. I will thank you again when I get to my laptop. The mobile ado doesn't have "thank you's" (although I thought they did).
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So have you successfully flashed the CyanogenMod Rom....????

Yes... But I have to unlock radio (set it to 11111 or whatever), and also I would like to unlock the simcard...
But add far add I can tell I have a visionary free, perma root with s=off.
It was a ***** though. Doing it without a USB cable made the whole thing quite arduous.....Visionary to get temp root, then launch ADB wireless, until some ADB command (running psneuter) kicks me from shell and screws up the wireless connection. And from there I had to use the emulator which still had root to enter the gfree commands. But between the wireless issues and needing to remember to delete visionary after temp root, it was a process that took about 8 attempts. And at the end of it, I tried to flash a rom without a fresh wipe/reboot, and I was getting errors which I thought were signs I did not actually attain permanent root... But I only needed to wipe data and reboot, and all was well.
But thank you for all your suggestions along the way.
Will thank you still when I get online.
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syntropic said:
Yes... But I have to unlock radio (set it to 11111 or whatever), and also I would like to unlock the simcard...
But add far add I can tell I have a visionary free, perma root with s=off.
It was a ***** though. Doing it without a USB cable made the whole thing quite arduous.....Visionary to get temp root, then launch ADB wireless, until some ADB command (running psneuter) kicks me from shell and screws up the wireless connection. And from there I had to use the emulator which still had root to enter the gfree commands. But between the wireless issues and needing to remember to delete visionary after temp root, it was a process that took about 8 attempts. And at the end of it, I tried to flash a rom without a fresh wipe/reboot, and I was getting errors which I thought were signs I did not actually attain permanent root... But I only needed to wipe data and reboot, and all was well.
But thank you for all your suggestions along the way.
Will thank you still when I get online.
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Glad in the end, it still worked out for you
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Hold on, there are 2G sim cards? I got a 2 year old sim card, still in my phone, and I was surprised when I saw a new one in T-MO upgrade package..

[Q] Help! Power Button Broken, Cant reboot into bootloader (calling all gurus)

Trying to return phone to stock and CANNOT enter the bootloader for it to recognize my stock image on the sd card because the darn power button is broken/stuck.
I try adb reboot bootloader and that sends me into FASTBOOT, NOT bootloader
any other way to get to bootloader (without use of the power button) or flash back the stock rom?
Thanks!

There is an app on market called quick boot that you could try. Hope it doesn't boot into fastboot too. Otherwise just try to flash an unrooted stock rom, that might work for what you need.
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I use an app called Widgetsoid, which includes the ability to make a widget that can reboot your phone, Can be set up so that you choose how to reboot (Recovery, Power off, etc).
Requires SU access to reboot with the widget, and please be aware that when I had a couple different roms, the widget simply failed to reboot at all -- for example it works fine when I'm running Darkside Sense 4.0, failed to work at all on meXdroidMod Ghost Chili's rom.
Hope this might help ya out

I found an app called button remapper thanks to I forgot who.
It will remap power,but...
It will not work to turn the phone on,and once you use it to get to recovery,you will need the power button to scroll through,so you'd still be in trouble if its completely broke.
Pm me and I could send you the file when I'm on the computer tonight.
If you want to try.
Or search for button remapper on xda.I don't think its in the market.
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Can't you use the trackpad in recovery to navigate?
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Dwill107 said:
Can't you use the trackpad in recovery to navigate?
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yeah, it's what you're supposed to do lol

saranhai said:
yeah, it's what you're supposed to do lol
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That's what I thought. Its how I get around in recovery, I hate our power button
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Oh come on.
How about if you go to install zip from sdcard,or wipe/reset,did I miss something where you can use the trackpad to go back,when there is no go back option?or like I was saying,you would need to hit that trusty power button to ho back.
I don't know,I might have missed it after flashing about 500times.
But pretty sure I use the power button all the time to go back after wiping data,then cache,power to ho back,wipe dalvik,power to go back,install zip from sdcard,power to go back,then reboot system.
Have I been doing it wrong?
Btw,this android keypad on tdj's 7.2 just fast.whoohoo.
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Oh yeah.lol that.smartbutt.
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Oh ummm.forgot about the back button.my bad.lol.
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sunlaw2 said:
Oh ummm.forgot about the back button.my bad.lol.
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You do realize there's an edit button, right? And power button does not function as a back key (or at least never has for me..
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Hardly ever say this,nut you do realize you can **** off! Edit that *****.
Edit:just kidding,but **** off.
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Getting a bit sidetracked here, I am trying to revert to stock ROM and cannot because the Power button is broken on this piece of crap and I cannot get to bootloader.
• adb reboot bootloader and that sends me into FASTBOOT, NOT bootloader and does not load image
• no option in Settings > Power or Settings > Applications to disable fastboot (I have gingerbread)
• using CWM recovered > Install zip from file does not work
Can anyone advise a way to revert to stock image without HBOOT, that actually works and does not require the power button?
P.S. this whole thing has really made be disenchanted with the mess that is android right now. Since it seems that it really android is not open or owned by google. Instead owned by the carriers. I should not feel like a criminal for wanting a basic android phone. Makes me almost want to scrap and get an iPhone.

Firstly, its not the Android OS that's the problem. Its your broken ass phone so calm down. If your thinking Android is not open, go ahead and get an iPhone and you'll see what a not open OS is really like.
Secondly...
I read you have Clockwork recovery installed. Flashing this image through Clockwork will at least make it look stock. It is said you will lose root but probably keep S-ON.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=901477
You might also want to check out this program here before you try the link above. I havent used it but it seems like it might be something worth checking out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193915

@ajm
Why are you trying to revert to stock if you don't mind me asking? Are u sending it to HTC for them to fix it? They wont care if your rooted they will just wipe your phone and put in the mysense gingerbread rom. I highly advise u to contact HTC and check your warranty. I sent in NY CM7 mt4g and they fixed the power button for free.

Kevinthebox said:
@ajm
Why are you trying to revert to stock if you don't mind me asking? Are u sending it to HTC for them to fix it? They wont care if your rooted they will just wipe your phone and put in the mysense gingerbread rom. I highly advise u to contact HTC and check your warranty. I sent in NY CM7 mt4g and they fixed the power button for free.
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Sending it to t-mobile, not HTC for return (they already sent replacement); I thought they would mind??

silentsnow31802 said:
Firstly, its not the Android OS that's the problem. Its your broken ass phone so calm down. If your thinking Android is not open, go ahead and get an iPhone and you'll see what a not open OS is really like.
Secondly...
I read you have Clockwork recovery installed. Flashing this image through Clockwork will at least make it look stock. It is said you will lose root but probably keep S-ON.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=901477
You might also want to check out this program here before you try the link above. I havent used it but it seems like it might be something worth checking out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193915
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Thanks, frustrated is all. Taking it out on Android OS, but really peeved at GOOG
- for having caved into the carriers by letting them bastardize the OS with their mods, forcing me to feel like criminal in modding and jumping through hoops to get a vastly better experience
- for not outbidding verizion on that wireless spectrum and becoming a carrier themselves
Was original N1 owner (first week) and will prob sqitch to galaxy nexus (as soon as they get on more carriers)
Thanks on the suggestions, tried to reflash through CWM several times and keeps giving me installation aborted.. will download again (in case is corrupted) and try again; Interesting other suggestion, will take a look at, but not much time, have to send back replacement tomor
Thx again

You can also try this. It is a nandroid restore somebody made. It seems a bit more involved because it looks like you need to use an older version of clockwork recovery. If I am correct you can find an older version of the recovery and flash it through rom manager, but dont quote me on that one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=845756
When I had a MT4G and the EMMC chip died I hooked the phone to a 12 volt battery and fried it. I then called and told them I plugged the phone in to charge one night and the next morning it would not power on. They replaced it no questions asked and I never heard anything about it again.

My mom's power button went out as well. Tmo and HTC flat out refused a replacement MT4G, Saying it was a "known issue". I called them about 10 times total about this problem. They just want to sell me another phone. Full price. Since i've called them so many times they wont even do a Insurance claim.
If this is a "known problem" why the f isn't it being taken care of properly?
Has anyone else had this problem with customer service?