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[Q] Did I brick my Hero?

Hello,
Last night I tried to install another radio fw on my Hero because of bad reception since the last one I installed.
I placed the new radio on my SD, rebooted and forgot to push the right buttons to access the "Android system recovery" (RA?) part.
Because it takes ages to wait for the phone to boot I pulled the battery and tried it again witch failed again, pulled the battery again etc.
When I finally managed to acces the "Android system recovery" part I flashed the new GSM radio to my GSM Hero. All the steps in described in the manual I used worked and all looked well.
After rebooting the phone started till the point of the Villainrom logo. I kept the phone on for hours till the battery was fully drained but it stays the same.
I can still acces the "Android system recovery", fast boot etc,
Tried the following:
-Wipe
-Restore backup
I'm getting pretty desperate!!
I's there anyone who has recovered his Hero from such a situation?
Please help..

If you can get to the recovery screen then you're not bricked. just reflash your rom and gapps add on and you should be fine or do a nandroid restore.

Hi pwraggcan,
I already restored a Nadroid backup.. Did not do the trick....
Also I tried to reflash the radio fw... Nothing helps. It just hangs at the unfolding Villainrom Logo which every few minutes restarts unfolding (I don't know how to call it otherwise, I do not mean that the phone restarts).

You're not bricked, so you're OK.
Re-flash the ROM you had installed after wiping your /data
Failing that, remove the SD card as that sometimes helps get the phone to boot.

If all else fails set up adb and get us a logcat.

Download the ROM again, full wipe & try again... Just to make sure the download didn't go bad?
Sent from my HTC Hero using XDA App

pulser_g2 said:
You're not bricked, so you're OK.
Re-flash the ROM you had installed after wiping your /data
Failing that, remove the SD card as that sometimes helps get the phone to boot.
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Thanx pulser_g2!!
I started with the simple solution, removing my SD..
Without the SD is just starts!!!
HAPPY!!
Thank you for your quick replies!

RealR74 said:
Thanx pulser_g2!!
I started with the simple solution, removing my SD..
Without the SD is just starts!!!
HAPPY!!
Thank you for your quick replies!
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You're welcome
Clear out your SD on your computer (back it up first), format it, and you should be good to go
It's usually the SD when this happens

Help! My HTC HD does not startup anymore

I don't knwo where to post this exactly so here it goes.
I installed revolution 2.09 on my rooted HTC HD without any problems.
Run perfectly. Then today I installed a ROM of a theme from this forum as well called media 1.3 with rom manager.
After the reboot my phone only shows a the text android with a slight moving glow over it. It does not repsond to anything any more. I removed the battery but the same thing is happening.
Did I brick it? What can I do?

Willem Kloppenburg said:
I don't knwo where to post this exactly so here it goes.
I installed revolution 2.09 on my rooted HTC HD without any problems.
Run perfectly. Then today I installed a ROM of a theme from this forum as well called media 1.3 with rom manager.
After the reboot my phone only shows a the text android with a slight moving glow over it. It does not repsond to anything any more. I removed the battery but the same thing is happening.
Did I brick it? What can I do?
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thats just the default android boot screen, looks like the theme messed up your framework... hold on i'll make a .zip you can flash from recovery to fix it

Thanks, but how do I get the zip on the phone? It does not react to anything anymore. I attahced it to my PC but nothing....

Willem Kloppenburg said:
Thanks, but how do I get the zip on the phone? It does not react to anything anymore. I attahced it to my PC but nothing....
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im just downloading the rom for you now so i can extract the framework, if you pull your battery out, you can either plug in your charger while its off, this will bring up recovery, or while its off, hold vol down and press power, that will take you to bootloader, and just pick recovery from the list, now when in recovery, if you navigate to the mounts and storage menu, choose the option mount usb storage, you can now connect to a pc as a disk drive and copy stuff to your sd card

im having trouble uploading attachments to xda at the min dya want me to upload it to megaupload for you?

AndroHero,
Thank you for helping me out. I didn't know about the vol down press power option which allows you to acces the sd card and intall a new rom. I had the revolution rom 2.0.9 already. It's installing as we speak. Much thanks for the tips!

To early hooray. I choose the option with the revolution zip for a complete install. After the install I selected rebouut system now. Now it stays on the white HTC screen with the text HTC quitely brilliant. Flashing every 3 seconds or so....
What to do now?

Everything is resolved. revolution is up and running again. I had to un the fullwipe.zip and that did it!
THANKS a lot for all the tips....again

Willem Kloppenburg said:
To early hooray. I choose the option with the revolution zip for a complete install. After the install I selected rebouut system now. Now it stays on the white HTC screen with the text HTC quitely brilliant. Flashing every 3 seconds or so....
What to do now?
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Did you do a full wipe before re-flashing your ROM? even if you did just repeat the process , full wipe /cache, /dalvik-cache, /system and then re-flash the rom fingers crossed it should work

Hi,
I am having a similar problem. I tried flashing the cyanogen mod and after installing it the phone doesnt boot up. Its stuck on the t-mobile boot up logo. Ive tried restoring my back up but I get the same problem.
Any help would be great!
Thanks

mo123456789 said:
Hi,
I am having a similar problem. I tried flashing the cyanogen mod and after installing it the phone doesnt boot up. Its stuck on the t-mobile boot up logo. Ive tried restoring my back up but I get the same problem.
Any help would be great!
Thanks
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boot into recovery do a full wipe (system, data, cache and dalvik-cache) then re-flash your rom

mo123456789 said:
Hi,
I am having a similar problem. I tried flashing the cyanogen mod and after installing it the phone doesnt boot up. Its stuck on the t-mobile boot up logo. Ive tried restoring my back up but I get the same problem.
Any help would be great!
Thanks
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Could it be possible that you installed cwm 3005 and tried a restore with that. I had the same problem. Went back to cwm 2.5.x and then restore worked.
Sent from my Desire HD

I think there will be a lot of scare because of this CWM 3x...
Same happened to me the other day, stupidly accecpted the update prompt from Rom Manager, did my backup and went to install Cyanogen 6... Got stuck at HTC logo next boot.
Thankfuly, had Leedroid 2.0 on the SD, too, and that one flashed properly
Thing is that when I try to downgrade the Recovery to 2.5x I get an error and really can't be bothered with ADB pushing stuff around, so using Cyanogen 7 for the time beeing
Anyhow, CWM 3.x is likely your problem, easy to fix ^^

Wanting to change my theme on the Samsung spica I had theexact problem on cyanogen mod. Had to redo the whole rooting and installing the Rom again to get to work.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

yes, is some script...back to recovery 2.x

[Q] U8800-51 totally ruined! pls help

Hello guys! first of all sorry for my English!...well i messed up my u8800-51 and i cant get it to work, i´ve read most of related posts, but nothing work, so i'll try to explay what happened, i hope u understand my issue and help me...
Ok i had a 2.3.5 GB non-official installed, from androidmovida.. my phone was working just fine, but due to all the apps and media it was kind of slowing down, so i restored it to factory settings... when i did this, my phone started up normal, and it was almost perfect again, but i realized that even without any app installed i had 800mb of the ROM occupied, leaving me less than 200mb, this was just wrong, the ammount of memory used just after a factory reset should be around 350mb... so i installed cwm 5.0.2.7 and booted it to recovery mode, here i pressed;
wipe data/factory reset
wipe dalvik cache
and what i think that screwed my phone..i went to mount and storage and pressed format /system...
Since then my phone didnt start, but i was able to get into the recovery mode... so i downoaded the stock 2.2 froyo from huawei
(this page is in spanish cuz the phone is sold in Venezuela).
i formated my SD card, and put the dload folder in its root and the update process started, but failed...
now i cant even get to the recovery mode, ive tride the process to install the fw a million times and it keeps failling..
and i just can get to the updating process or to the pink screen..if i connect my phone and leave it connected it shows up the logo and turn off, and repeat over and over..
my guess is that somehow i cant install the rom because the memory is almost full, but i have no idea of how to clear it!
if any of u guys can help me i would appriciate it a lot!!!
again sorry for my English and for the long post, but i wanted to be specific so you dont waste time telling me to do things ive already done! thank you!!!!

maxsdaspot said:
Hello guys! first of all sorry for my English!...well i messed up my u8800-51 and i cant get it to work, i´ve read most of related posts, but nothing work, so i'll try to explay what happened, i hope u understand my issue and help me...
Ok i had a 2.3.5 GB non-official installed, from androidmovida.. my phone was working just fine, but due to all the apps and media it was kind of slowing down, so i restored it to factory settings... when i did this, my phone started up normal, and it was almost perfect again, but i realized that even without any app installed i had 800mb of the ROM occupied, leaving me less than 200mb, this was just wrong, the ammount of memory used just after a factory reset should be around 350mb... so i installed cwm 5.0.2.7 and booted it to recovery mode, here i pressed;
wipe data/factory reset
wipe dalvik cache
and what i think that screwed my phone..i went to mount and storage and pressed format /system...
Since then my phone didnt start, but i was able to get into the recovery mode... so i downoaded the stock 2.2 froyo from huawei
(this page is in spanish cuz the phone is sold in Venezuela).
i formated my SD card, and put the dload folder in its root and the update process started, but failed...
now i cant even get to the recovery mode, ive tride the process to install the fw a million times and it keeps failling..
and i just can get to the updating process or to the pink screen..if i connect my phone and leave it connected it shows up the logo and turn off, and repeat over and over..
my guess is that somehow i cant install the rom because the memory is almost full, but i have no idea of how to clear it!
if any of u guys can help me i would appriciate it a lot!!!
again sorry for my English and for the long post, but i wanted to be specific so you dont waste time telling me to do things ive already done! thank you!!!!
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You need a micro sd reader and hook it up to a computer than copy the stock gb over and delete the old froyo. You should've asked.
I've read this may work, but android movida was closed down.
Try this.
Sent from my u8800-51 on stallion.

Somcom3X said:
You need a micro sd reader and hook it up to a computer than copy the stock gb over and delete the old froyo. You should've asked.
I've read this may work, but android movida was closed down.
Try this.
Sent from my u8800-51 on stallion.
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sorry its embarrasing i have to ask, but i'm new with android so im a little lost! but according to what i got to learn last night trying to make my phone come back to life, there's no GB stock for the u8800-51, actually the only stock fw in huawei was the one i downloaded, and the one i installed from androidmovida required froyo to be succesfully updated..anyways ill download GB to see what happens, but if you could be a little more specific it would be nice, buecause as i said, i just learned a few things last night!!
Thank you very much for your help!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1698308
Sent from my u8800-51 on stallion.

Somcom3X said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1698308
Sent from my u8800-51 on stallion.
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once again update failed, i intended wuith 3 different sd cards but nothing...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1889305
what if i do what it says in Reverting to Stock Froyo? id rather ask first...thou i cant mess my phone any more xD
trank you again!!

maxsdaspot said:
once again update failed, i intended wuith 3 different sd cards but nothing...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1889305
what if i do what it says in Reverting to Stock Froyo? id rather ask first...thou i cant mess my phone any more xD
trank you again!!
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Can you access pink screen?
Sent from my u8800-51 on stallion.

Somcom3X said:
Can you access pink screen?
Sent from my u8800-51 on stallion.
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yes i can acces pink screen!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27121257
Ask zcux in priv message.
Sent from my u8800-51 on stallion.

Somcom3X said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27121257
Ask zcux in priv message.
Sent from my u8800-51 on stallion.
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jeje i spent the whole day yesterday trying to fix it, and now its working perfectly, i had a lot of problems, so i made an image of every state and a lil tutorial for myself of every step just in case...i dont know if it would be usefull if i publish all of it in here, since i just did what was said in many threads jeje, so what you think?
and bu the way thanks for all the help!!

maxsdaspot said:
jeje i spent the whole day yesterday trying to fix it, and now its working perfectly, i had a lot of problems, so i made an image of every state and a lil tutorial for myself of every step just in case...i dont know if it would be usefull if i publish all of it in here, since i just did what was said in many threads jeje, so what you think?
and bu the way thanks for all the help!!
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Publish it. It wont hurt anyone.
Sent from my u8800-51 on stallion.

Stock Recovery

Hey guys,
just got my Galaxy S4. I rooted it and wanted to install TWRP on it. Everything worked but if I boot my phone it freezes after a few seconds and reboots. Only way to bypass that is to lock the phone and wait about 30 seconds. And I also can't access TWRP. My phone just boots normally. So I wanted to flash normal recovery back. I only wanted a custom recovery to flash a theme. But for now I just need stock recovery. Are there any links to that? Those in the recovery threads don't work anymore :/

Now I boots and reboots all the time. I can't even use the OS normally. Any way to reset my phone to work again?

.TanTien said:
Now I boots and reboots all the time. I can't even use the OS normally. Any way to reset my phone to work again?
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Hi,
Look HERE

reflash the stock rom
reflash the stock rom

Still same issue :/
€: Wow it's just a joke. The phone freezes because of my microSD. When I take it out, let the phone boot and put it back in everything works. Only if I don't take it out and let the phone boot it freezes and restarts. I'll try to format the microSD because it's coming from my old phone.

.TanTien said:
Still same issue :/
€: Wow it's just a joke. The phone freezes because of my microSD. When I take it out, let the phone boot and put it back in everything works. Only if I don't take it out and let the phone boot it freezes and restarts. I'll try to format the microSD because it's coming from my old phone.
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Maybe SEAndroid is fking up with your root. Did you try SuperSU or SuperUser?

.TanTien said:
Still same issue :/
€: Wow it's just a joke. The phone freezes because of my microSD. When I take it out, let the phone boot and put it back in everything works. Only if I don't take it out and let the phone boot it freezes and restarts. I'll try to format the microSD because it's coming from my old phone.
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I remember having that issue with the S3, the only solution is buying a new one
Sent from my GT-I9505 using xda app-developers app

Yes it's rooted and the problem only appeared after flashing twrp. Before that everything worked fine. I did trianlge away and flashed stock recovery back but still the same problem.
If you say I only have to get a new one I'll stay with this one because taking out the sd isn't really hard to do and I don't reboot my phone very often.
Send from my hovering Note 2

Constantly rebooting...

Hello, this is my first post here and I have searched for a similar post or issue but have been unsuccessful finding anything.
Please forgive me if I have posted in the wrong area, missed a solution somewhere and/or have not explained anything correctly/clearly.
My Nexus 7 (2012) (I installed Cyanogen on it (and updated it once) through their installer and it has run perfectly for months) started rebooting randomly one morning. I turn it on and it seems to be normal, then it will suddenly reboot. The time between reboots varies ranging from 30 seconds to a few minutes. I can not install or update any apps and any settings changed are reset back to what they were previously upon reboot. I have tried a factory reset and while it appears to wipe everything (all caches and data) when I reboot it is the same as before the reset (I also receive this message (after all other processes are complete) during the data wipe "E: unknown volume "/sdcard/.android_secure" "). I am able to turn on developer options but then the random reboot occurs and it is turned off. I have plugged it to my computer and see it listed, but can not access anything on it.
My intention is to wipe it using my computer (fastboot?) but I am at a standstill due to the rebooting and being unable to turn on developer options.
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Have you tried flashing another ROM in recovery? Perhaps try to see if you can access the filesystem while in recovery or if the bootloader brings anything up on your computer.

kcipopnevets said:
Have you tried flashing another ROM in recovery? Perhaps try to see if you can access the filesystem while in recovery or if the bootloader brings anything up on your computer.
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Thanks for the reply. Sorry for my delay in replying. I've been rather frustrated with this.
I flashed the official image (downloaded from the google site) using fastboot and it seemed to work as all messages said complete but when I rebooted, it was back to it's current state. I am at a loss. I also tried adb sideloading but that just hangs when it gets to installing. It does not reboot randomly when it is in recovery.

pdn190 said:
Thanks for the reply. Sorry for my delay in replying. I've been rather frustrated with this.
I flashed the official image (downloaded from the google site) using fastboot and it seemed to work as all messages said complete but when I rebooted, it was back to it's current state. I am at a loss. I also tried adb sideloading but that just hangs when it gets to installing. It does not reboot randomly when it is in recovery.
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No worries!
So CyanogenMod is still installed? Oh my. Has anything at all changed? If you still have custom recovery installed, why not try a near stock ROM?

kcipopnevets said:
No worries!
So CyanogenMod is still installed? Oh my. Has anything at all changed? If you still have custom recovery installed, why not try a near stock ROM?
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Yes. No matter what I do, when I reboot it's still Cyanogen. Being a semi-novice at this, I didn't backup the stock ROM I had before installing Cyanogen. It feels like a virus, but I pretty much installed the exact same apps on both my phone and tablet and the phone has been fine.
I used this image(nakasi kot49h). Should I try a earlier version?
Thank you.

pdn190 said:
Yes. No matter what I do, when I reboot it's still Cyanogen. Being a semi-novice at this, I didn't backup the stock ROM I had before installing Cyanogen. It feels like a virus, but I pretty much installed the exact same apps on both my phone and tablet and the phone has been fine.
I used this image(nakasi kot49h). Should I try a earlier version?
Thank you.
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You can always try. Also make sure you check md5 before flashing, that may explain why stock didn't flash correctly.

And I still can't get anything to work. Most recently I tried using wugfresh and EVERYTHING works except when it writes bootloader.img at the start. I feel like I am close but then it reboots back to cyanogen. lol