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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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
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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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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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1st of all i want to apologize for my bad english .
Few hours ago i had installed this rom, it was just fine, until i applied the app2sd option from SupSetupV16 application. After that my phone turned off with no reason and from then it restarts again and again. I've tried with an sdcard with ext3 & fat32 partition (cuz the app2sd option in this rom requires it, but i didn't saw it earlier, and my phone has no s-off) and the phone loaded the start animation of the rom, than turned off and all over again. The battery level was almost 50% just before the 1st restart, and now the phone is in the charger. The phone does not receive any command from the hardware buttons, just cant enter the recovery mode .. i feel rly fckd up. No volume up + power, volume down, back + power .. nothing. I'll charge it all night and try again in the morning. Somehow im smelling the service ...
i think you got loop because the phone is reading wrong data.
ok... do you have ClockworkMod backup your stuff already? you can unplug your phone from the usb, if it have been boot loop from just now. poor phone. you can disconnect it from the battery. now its totally off. hold Vol - and power on your device. then on the menu, go to recover... the red [!] screen... From what i've know, i can only go to recovery using these combination from the phone is in OFF state. not while its loop booting, and it is somewhat safe to remove your battery when the phone is not writing something to the internal memory.
if you have ClockworkMod, you can run the update.zip (the fake Flash) or if you have hack4Legend (cant remember if this the name on the pc download as i dont use this anymore) plug in your usb to the pc and run Recovery.bat if your windows.
then your on ClockworkMod. from here onward i guess you know what to do. go flash a new rom or do a wipe the data and stuff to see of the loop stops.
hope this worked for you as this is what i did... for a few times already.
If this dont work for you. then you should try the search button for boot loop.
Oh, man .. u're awesome. On turned off phone .. volume - and than power is working fine and the fastboot menu appears. You're awesome, again! Thanks alot!
I think it's very hard to actually brick a HTC Legend... I've had this problem too and some other black screen problems. All could be solved!
Lol, I think as android are hard to kill. Really... not just our legend. But rest too.... I personally poisoned my friends to get android phones so that I get to play with them. Showing them how much these phone can do... and if you root them youll get more cool stuff! lol..
But, anyway. I'm glad it workd for you.
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However with S-ON legend to have app2sd with superginger you have to apply before the overlay, reboot and then app2sd.
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I don't know if the phone is bricked, i sure hope not.
I had cm7 final running just fine. I was installing a kernel from clockwork recovery, and i followed the instructions. It installed, i told it to reboot the phone, it came to the cm7 blue booting screen. it kept repeating that for over 20 minutes. at that point i pulled the battery and replaced it. then i think it was stuck at the tmobile splash screen for a while. i was able to reboot and get to recovery mode again, i wiped cache and tried to install the kernel again, this time got an error. now it went to tmo splash screen and froze there for a while. after another battery pull, nothing will display on the screen and i cannot access recovery mode (i try by holding volume down, then holding power button). the ONLY thing that does happen is that the lcd backlight will stay on until i pull the battery. i plugged into pc without the battery, lcd lights up, but its not recognized by windows or adb.
I'd be grateful for any possible help or ideas, thanks in advance.
Could you give more info on Rom recovery kernel you were attempting etc?
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Jay10826 said:
I don't know if the phone is bricked, i sure hope not.
I had cm7 final running just fine. I was installing a kernel from clockwork recovery, and i followed the instructions. It installed, i told it to reboot the phone, it came to the cm7 blue booting screen. it kept repeating that for over 20 minutes. at that point i pulled the battery and replaced it. then i think it was stuck at the tmobile splash screen for a while. i was able to reboot and get to recovery mode again, i wiped cache and tried to install the kernel again, this time got an error. now it went to tmo splash screen and froze there for a while. after another battery pull, nothing will display on the screen and i cannot access recovery mode (i try by holding volume down, then holding power button). the ONLY thing that does happen is that the lcd backlight will stay on until i pull the battery. i plugged into pc without the battery, lcd lights up, but its not recognized by windows or adb.
I'd be grateful for any possible help or ideas, thanks in advance.
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Um sorry to say but your screwed. Sounds like a true brick to me
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Can you boot into the bootloader? Which one is installed? How can we help if we have no idea what's installed on your phone? There could be hope if you can boot into the bootloader and have the engineering SPL installed.
Also, what kernel were you trying to install?
TeeJay3800 said:
Can you boot into the bootloader? Which one is installed? How can we help if we have no idea what's installed on your phone? There could be hope if you can boot into the bootloader and have the engineering SPL installed.
Also, what kernel were you trying to install?
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He already stated that he could not boot into h boot
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mark manning said:
He already stated that he could not boot into h boot
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He did? I only saw that he could not boot into recovery. I was thinking if his recovery is screwed up, he could still use fastboot to flash a new recovery and then be able to wipe and start over. If he can't get into the bootloader or recovery, then yeah, it's the dreaded B word.
I'd really like to know what kernel he was trying to flash.
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I'd really like to know what kernel he was trying to flash.
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Me too......
TeeJay3800 said:
I'd really like to know what kernel he was trying to flash.
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First thing I asked.. still no reply kinda sucks when they can't help by responding so we can help them..
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I was flashing the #107 kernel from this thread:
[Kernel]Gingerbread[2.6.32.36]MaxOC~1.84GHz,Smartass/UV/BFS/BFQ/SLQB-Faux123[Apr-10]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=957267
I'm not sure if there's a different procedure to get into hboot as opposed to recovery. I've only had the mytouch 4g for about a week (always had Nexus one before). After pulling and replacing the battery, i hold volume down, then hold power button. Is that how to get into recovery and/or hboot, or is there another procedure I can try?
I used the visionary app to obtain root, install rom manager, then installed clockword mod recovery and cm7 through that. Working fine for a few days until i decided to flash the kernel to get better battery life....
Jay10826 said:
I was flashing the #107 kernel from this thread:
[Kernel]Gingerbread[2.6.32.36]MaxOC~1.84GHz,Smartass/UV/BFS/BFQ/SLQB-Faux123[Apr-10]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=957267
I'm not sure if there's a different procedure to get into hboot as opposed to recovery. I've only had the mytouch 4g for about a week (always had Nexus one before). After pulling and replacing the battery, i hold volume down, then hold power button. Is that how to get into recovery and/or hboot, or is there another procedure I can try?
I used the visionary app to obtain root, install rom manager, then installed clockword mod recovery and cm7 through that. Working fine for a few days until i decided to flash the kernel to get better battery life....
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Unfortunatly its the same procedure, hold volume down and power on. So if when u do that nothing happens and adb doesn't work your phone is done.
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A little more info, maybe good news...i've been trying to get it to do anything for the last few hours. i had the battery out for a while. When i would plug it into AC charger or my pc with no battery, nothing would happen. however now i put in the battery, plugged it into the pc, and NOW the orange charging light is on like its charging...i haven't tried to turn it on or anything yet though.
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A little more info, maybe good news...i've been trying to get it to do anything for the last few hours. i had the battery out for a while. When i would plug it into AC charger or my pc with no battery, nothing would happen. however now i put in the battery, plugged it into the pc, and NOW the orange charging light is on like its charging...i haven't tried to turn it on or anything yet though.
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I'm not sure what the exact status of your phone is, but usually flashing a kernel does not brick the phone. If anything the ROM won't run right or there will be other problems, but never do they prevent the phone from booting into recovery (the recovery partition uses a completely different kernel). When you try turning it on again, don't bother trying to let it boot normally. Hold down power and volume down and see if you can get into recovery. Then run all three wipe options and flash a new ROM.
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A little more info, maybe good news...i've been trying to get it to do anything for the last few hours. i had the battery out for a while. When i would plug it into AC charger or my pc with no battery, nothing would happen. however now i put in the battery, plugged it into the pc, and NOW the orange charging light is on like its charging...i haven't tried to turn it on or anything yet though.
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It's happened to me before where I thought I had completely bricked the phone. It crashed in CM7 RC2 when I tried to mess with the DSP settings. After that, I went through the same situation as you. I got tired of it, left it charging overnight while it was stuck on the splash screen. The next morning, it was on like nothing happened. I'm thinking it just needed to sort itself out. Not really a fix or suggestion, but at least an indication that there is hope.
Nah, its dead man. Not on its entirety but virtually. I know that JTAG could be an option albeit, im not sure.
I can assure you though that there must be something extra u must have missed that caused this, did you play with radio's or SPL's? Cause that is how i bricked a magic lol
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mine bricked on restoring. got to the point of not responding to anything - power button and even charge indicator no longer worked.
sorry to hear OP. it's bricked.
Jay10826 said:
I was flashing the #107 kernel from this thread:
[Kernel]Gingerbread[2.6.32.36]MaxOC~1.84GHz,Smartass/UV/BFS/BFQ/SLQB-Faux123[Apr-10]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=957267
I'm not sure if there's a different procedure to get into hboot as opposed to recovery. I've only had the mytouch 4g for about a week (always had Nexus one before). After pulling and replacing the battery, i hold volume down, then hold power button. Is that how to get into recovery and/or hboot, or is there another procedure I can try?
I used the visionary app to obtain root, install rom manager, then installed clockword mod recovery and cm7 through that. Working fine for a few days until i decided to flash the kernel to get better battery life....
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By saying that you used the visionary app to obtain root, is that all you did? Then installed rom manager and etc etc etc? Did you go through the full root method to get S=OFF as well?
Well previous to using visionary...i was trying another method to root using the terminal, but it wasn't working, so then i found visionary and used that. I never interacted with the phone using adb, if it matters. If i never really had s=off, could this be why this whole thing happened?
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If i never really had s=off, could this be why this whole thing happened?
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Yes it probably is
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Jay10826 said:
Well previous to using visionary...i was trying another method to root using the terminal, but it wasn't working, so then i found visionary and used that. I never interacted with the phone using adb, if it matters. If i never really had s=off, could this be why this whole thing happened?
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Not really, if you were able to run a custom ROM with no problems before then you were rooted properly. Somwhere after you must have gone wrong, not sure where
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I'm having a problem So, I let my friend borrow my mytouch 4g and the fool tried to root it, idk why! But i knew how to do it myself, but somehow when he gave me the phone back its stuck in safe mode!
It says safe mode in the bottom left corner and nothing seems to work, i did factory reset and when i go to bootloader it says "Glacier PVT SHIP S -ON"
and the "HBOOT-0.86.0000"
What can I do to fix it? Thanks in adance!!!
Download PD15IMG.ZIP to the root of your sdcard and boot into Hboot and let that do its thing then root using gfree
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This thread talks about Safe Mode on the MyTouch 4G. You get to it by holding the Menu button while booting the phone; you get out of it by rebooting again. If you're constantly stuck in Safe Mode, then perhaps your menu button is stuck and thus your phone thinks it's pressed during boot.
EDIT: I just tried this myself and thought this was worth sharing. I held menu all the way until I say my lockscreen. During the boot animation, the phone vibrated and the animation stopped, then continued again. When the lockscreen came up, I saw "Safe Mode" in the lower left. When I went to unlock the screen, it jumped back to the bootanimation confused. When the lockscreen came up again, "Safe Mode" was gone. Not knowing what to make of it, I rebooted normally again just to make sure I wasn't in some limbo state.
I'm running CM7 with faux123's lower voltage kernel, so maybe that's got something to do with it.
Nicgraner said:
Download PD15IMG.ZIP to the root of your sdcard and boot into Hboot and let that do its thing then root using gfree
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I did the PD15IMG.ZIP part that you told me to do! But, how to i root using gfree without terminal emulator on my mytouch 4g? My friend reset my phone after getting it stuck on safe mode, so I can't use apps once I download them from the market
your help would be much appreciated
I had freezing issues, my mytouch 4g would just end a call and id have to take out the battery and restart it or it would freeze on a screen, even the start screen ans wouldnt do anything and id have to take out the battery and restart it. I tried deleting apps to make it stop doing this but nothing was working. I talked on my phone the other night and as soon as i hung up it froze, i tried restarting it and now all it will do is go to the mytouch 4g boot screen, but it wont boot up. usually it would flash that screen and go to the sceen with the green dot the wrote my in the center then reboot, but it wont go past the mytouch 4g screen.
I have tried holding the volume down button and set back to factory settinfs, but all that did was sit on the skateboarding androids screen until the battey died, I have tried this many times both with and without my sim and SD cards in.
I have tried recovery and my phone acts like its going to restart then flashes and phone with a red triangle and exclamation point on it and wont do anything, wont even come back on until i take the battery out and put it back in and turn it on again.
things to note: i am able to get into the bootloader screen via power and volume down but anything after that such as factory reset and recovery fails, i rooted the phone and it is S-off. I wont mind sending it back to tmobile but i need to get s-off in order to do so. I would do adb but i am unable to get into recovery so i cant. i also would flash the pd15img.zip but the phone while in hboot i keep getting failed pu on everything then nothing happens.
any help on possible solutions would be greatly appreciated. I dont even really need it working i just need s-off so even if it wont work i can send it back to tmobile. thanks in advance
if you are getting the 'fail pu' message your phone may be bricked. unfortunately there are a lot of other people that have experienced this. I'd send it back to t-mo anyway, they are aware that this problem exists.
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Ok so I wont be charged anything by the insurance company although I rooted it last year. I don't want to send it in and then get a a crazy bill for
like $400 because they receive the phone and find out that it was rooted.
Hi, did you try and go to T-Mobile site and select your phone and download the OTA through their program in the support section. It will restore it. Then redo the downgrade if u don't have s-off
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