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[Q] Lost Hope?

Rooted my phone 6 months ago using the ultimate s off method in the dev section and had clockwork recovery 2.x installed. Never flashed any custom roms or did anything else to the phone. Woke up this morning and the phone was on the white my touch 4g splash screen and stayed that way for at least an hour after I noticed it. Pulled the battery and now when I start the phone, goes directly to a white screen with 3 androids on skateboards in the middle of the screen and stays there indefinitely. I can not boot into recovery and my computer does not recognize it when I connect via USB. Am I fully bricked? Any ideas? The phone is unresponsive when the android guys are on screen. Have to pull the battery to turn it off. Any advice is appreciated.

Have you tried using PD15IMG?

I have no way of launching it. I can put that file on the root of my SD card using a memory card reader but once its on my card, I still can not access the file since I can not boot into Recovery console and my computer does not see my phone when I connect via USB. All I can do with my phone is turn it on. Once it turns on, it goes to the white screen with the android guys.

hboot automatically sees the file when you boot into it. The screen with the three awesome android's trying not to bust their ass on the skateboards while trying to impress the girls that you can't see is hboot. Also, recovery is an option in hboot, just press volume down to scroll through the menu and highlight Recovery. Hit power to select it, and bam, you're in recovery, and three little skateboarding androids just got their first girlfriend.
(yes, there is a lot of sucky humor in there)

Sorry, I don't think I was clear and maybe I used the wrong terms. When I boot the phone, regardless of what I press (just the power button, or power button and volume down), nothing happens except the phone automatically goes to a white screen with the three boarding androids in the middle of the screen. Nothing else is on the screen, no menus to select options from, nothing. No matter what button combo I press, I can not get to hboot with options.
Thanks
Bryan

boroarke said:
Sorry, I don't think I was clear and maybe I used the wrong terms. When I boot the phone, regardless of what I press (just the power button, or power button and volume down), nothing happens except the phone automatically goes to a white screen with the three boarding androids in the middle of the screen. Nothing else is on the screen, no menus to select options from, nothing. No matter what button combo I press, I can not get to hboot with options.
Thanks
Bryan
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Try loading the PD15IMG on the root of the SD Card. Pull the battery, put the battery back in hold the volume down rocker and the power button. That should boot you into hBoot.

Thank for your comments everyone. Even with PD15IMG on the root of my SD card, there is no way to get into hBoot. Volume down and power button does nothing, I've gotten into hBoot other times previous so I know how to do it. Not sure what would have caused this issue since it's been rooted since December and nothing else done to the phone. Looks like a call to tmo today.

neidlinger said:
Try loading the PD15IMG on the root of the SD Card. Pull the battery, put the battery back in hold the volume down rocker and the power button. That should boot you into hBoot.
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Does this method work with ultimate s-off? I thought only root.sh could be done this way.

eqjunkie829 said:
Does this method work with ultimate s-off? I thought only root.sh could be done this way.
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PD15IMG will load everything back to 100% stock. if you used the ./gfree method, it will still maintain s-off but everything else will revert back.

why not try the ruu of htc panache, it will flash everything, dont worry you can come back to stock my touch 4G ROM.
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atifsh said:
why not try the ruu of htc panache, it will flash everything, dont worry you can come back to stock my touch 4G ROM.
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Would you happen to have a link to info on this? Also, how could this be done when my computer does not recognize my phone and I can't get into hBoot?

boroarke said:
Would you happen to have a link to info on this? Also, how could this be done when my computer does not recognize my phone and I can't get into hBoot?
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http://u.115.com/file/clisw8e5
install this and restart..
http://member.america.htc.com/download/RomCode/T-Mobile_My_Touch_4G/HTCDriver.exe
now remove battery, plug in the usb [makesure its working]and than pressing volume down press power.
now run the ruu...
u may have to try multiple times, with differet ways like powering phone off and back on while on RUU if ur not able to get on bootloader. though 3 droids screen is bootloader.

Are you at all familiar with ADB? You could always push the IMAGE file to the root of the phone and then use ADB to push the reboot bootloader command.

I can't use ADB because my computer doesn't even recognize the phone when connected via USB. I never had problems with my PC seeing my phone before this issue happened, now it's like it's not even connected.

boroarke said:
I can't use ADB because my computer doesn't even recognize the phone when connected via USB. I never had problems with my PC seeing my phone before this issue happened, now it's like it's not even connected.
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You can manually install the drivers as it is on the SD card as well. Just install them again on the computer then use ADB.

CBConsultation said:
You can manually install the drivers as it is on the SD card as well. Just install them again on the computer then use ADB.
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He said that the PC did pick up the phone prior to the crash. post the crash the computer will not pick up it. It's nothing to do with the drivers on the phones sd card.
boroarke said:
I can't use ADB because my computer doesn't even recognize the phone when connected via USB. I never had problems with my PC seeing my phone before this issue happened, now it's like it's not even connected.
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neidlinger said:
He said that the PC did pick up the phone prior to the crash. post the crash the computer will not pick up it. It's nothing to do with the drivers on the phones sd card.
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That's with the phone connected. All he has to do is take the card out and put it in the computer and mount as normal sd card. Then he can install the HTC drivers that are on the SD card. This is a simple fix.

CBConsultation said:
That's with the phone connected. All he has to do is take the card out and put it in the computer and mount as normal sd card. Then he can install the HTC drivers that are on the SD card. This is a simple fix.
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Okay. Let me ask you this. I do not have the drivers on my SD card, nor on my work computer. But my work computer still picks it up. I do not have "windows" drivers on my home linux machine. Why does it pick up my phone?
and he had to have the driver previously installed for the computer to pick up the phone. the files that are stored on the SDCard are/were a .exe which installs to the HD of the computer.

Here are the hold your hand directions:
Disconnect phone from computer.
Turn off phone
Take microSD card out of phone
Put said microSD card into appropriate card reader/microSD card adapter
Put said adapter into card reader/USB port of computer
Wait until Windows/Linux system recognizes removable storage
Open folder into view
Dbl click on the file named HTC Drivers
Install like normal
Unmount the card
Put card back into phone
Turn phone on
Plug phone into computer
Run CMD
Then run ADB DEVICES
Proceed from there with your commands

neidlinger said:
Okay. Let me ask you this. I do not have the drivers on my SD card, nor on my work computer. But my work computer still picks it up. I do not have "windows" drivers on my home linux machine. Why does it pick up my phone?
and he had to have the driver previously installed for the computer to pick up the phone. the files that are stored on the SDCard are/were a .exe which installs to the HD of the computer.
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Depending on whether he installed a different ROM, the computer will try and recognize the device as a new/different device each time and will/might need to install the drivers each time. That's why you never delete them off your sd card.

[Q]

Alright everyone, I have an NC that I rooted quite awhile ago to great success. However, in my quest for updating to ics, I completely deleted everything. Buttons don't work, and for some reason I can't have it access my computer's hard drive because it won't turn on.
So, if anyone has any ideas for fixing it, it would be much appreciated. All I think I need is the original NC software (everything) and a way to put it on the hdd that I can't access. Thanks in advance.

I think you should be able to make (or re-use) a CWM card and use it to install a fresh rom. Unless it's totally borked, the NC should still boot first from the SD card.

I would, but the only problem is that I cannot even get the device to power on, the buttons don't work.
Edit: Here's the deal, I just need the damned thing to power up for me so I can mount the sdcard and restore it. But whatever utility makes the buttons work, is gone - they aren't just merely broken. So I can press the buttons and the kernel or whatever it is that interacts with the buttons will not understand what is going on because the utility is not there.
If anyone has a solution for either powering it on via usb (with the device off) or getting the buttons to work again, great.

Can anybody access their NC cwm for me and try to find whatever it is that I deleted? It has something to do with buttons or what not.

Are you holding the power button on for several seconds.. Until the screen flashes?

davidr415 said:
Are you holding the power button on for several seconds.. Until the screen flashes?
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^ What he said. Sometimes I have to hold the power down for quite a while, or try it several times. This is usually after an SOD (it may help to have it charging too).

Yes and yes. I hold it for quite awhile. Still does nothing.

Have you tried holding down the n button along with the power button?
Hold both for 10 seconds. Release. Hold power button alone for 10 seconds. Sometimes it takes 2 or three cycles of holding down both buttons, then the power.button to get the nook reset.
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Zoolu.Taylor said:
Alright everyone, I have an NC that I rooted quite awhile ago to great success. However, in my quest for updating to ics, I completely deleted everything. Buttons don't work, and for some reason I can't have it access my computer's hard drive because it won't turn on.
So, if anyone has any ideas for fixing it, it would be much appreciated. All I think I need is the original NC software (everything) and a way to put it on the hdd that I can't access. Thanks in advance.
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Just because the screen does not flicker, and you can’t access the file system from your computer using a USB cable, does not mean that the device has not powered on. I can format the whole file system, and the power button will turn it on every time. For turning on the device, the power button is independent of the file system.
It sounds like you have just screwed up the files in the boot partition. I screwed up my device to this point more than a couple times. I had the same none flickering screen, and no file system access from a USB cable. The NC is programmed to boot from a SD card before internal storage, there is really no way that you could have screwed it up to the point that it won’t continue to do that. Below are the steps that I have always taken to get back to a working device,
*fully charge the device, this is very important, because the device might have been on this whole time, and you just could not see it
*Download the stock 1.2 update.zip found HERE, get the “update-nc-stock-1.2-signed.zip” file
*Now download the file to make a bootable CWM card found HERE
*Follow the directions in that post to make your bootable CWM card, then place the “update-nc-stock-1.2-signed.zip” file onto that card
*Put the bootable CWM card into your NC
*Hold the power button, and count to 3, then let go
*If after a count to 10, nothing has appeared on the screen, repeat the last step, you most likely just turn the device off.
*This time CWM should load up, select “wipe cache partition,” followed by “wipe cache partition”
*Now scroll down to and select “mounts and storage”
*Now scroll down to and select “format /boot”
*When that has completed, you will then select “install zip from sdcard”
*Then select “choose zip from sdcard,” and select the “update-nc-stock-1.2-signed.zip” file
*If you receive an error at the very start of the install process, you need to select “toggle script asserts,” to disable script asserts
*When that has completed, remove the card, select reboot the device, and boot the device no SD card in it
Your device should now boot just like stock. At this point you should be back to a completely stock NC.
Report back with any results, good or bad.

Is it necessary to format /system and /data as well if changing between firmware?

Can't try it just yet, but after I'm done traveling it will be top-priority.

how to boot into CWR

hi, i have trouble booting into recovery. what i do is press "n" and power and it always goes to "Boot Menu" ... can someone tell me what that is and what it does ? ( i know i can boot into it by pressing power and selecting reboot and recovery just trying to find out how to from power-off) thanks.

I'm not the most knowledgeable one to answer this. I was waiting to see if someone else would post here.
But here goes. When I want boot into recovery when my nook is off, I power on holding down the n key. When the boot screen appears, I use the n key to toggle different options on the first line. I opt to boot from emmc. Then use the volume keys to move down to the next line and use the n key again to choose boot into recovery.
I don't remember the exact order of the lines, so I may be a little off, but I hope this helps get you booted into recovery from the boot screen
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Thanks for trying to help. i was experiencing boot-loop i think.. ( i wasn't even able to turn my NC off at all. it just kept booting up and being stuck on the Cyanogenmod loading screen every time when i turn it off by holding down power), thats why i needed to boot into recovery from power-off. how it happened was i upgraded to cm9. i wiped cache and dalvik and formatted boot, system and data before flashing. ( i know some instruction here tells to do a wipe data/factory reset. i didnt do that ) I fix it and went back to cm7 by putting in a bootable sd with CWR in the two seconds that it stays off... but the strange thing was that once again i did it my way (wipe cache/dalvik and format boot, system, data) and this time it worked~ no boot-loop. now i wonder what really caused boot-loop the first time even when i had the bootable sd card in it didn't even boot into recovery itself i had to push "n" like crazy ... to get in ...
k8108 said:
I'm not the most knowledgeable one to answer this. I was waiting to see if someone else would post here.
But here goes. When I want boot into recovery when my nook is off, I power on holding down the n key. When the boot screen appears, I use the n key to toggle different options on the first line. I opt to boot from emmc. Then use the volume keys to move down to the next line and use the n key again to choose boot into recovery.
I don't remember the exact order of the lines, so I may be a little off, but I hope this helps get you booted into recovery from the boot screen
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Glad you got it fixed.
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also if you have cwr on a bootable sd card you can use rom manager to flash cwr internally, so you wont need a bootable sd card, if you want to get into cwr just use rom manager and select reboot into recovery, i use to have cwr on my sd and didnt like it because you would have to take out the sd card everytime you boot, but this way is much easier, you can back up in rom manger instead of doing it the manual way...holding n and power button, hope this helps

[SOLVED] [Q] Huawei U8180 First time Modder Problem

[SOLVED]
I rooted this, installed clockworkmod, then went and got an cm7 dated april something 2012 u8160 rom from psyke83 website.
installed it through clockworkmod install from sd card option with success (also clicked option to backup everything).
yet when phone reboots it hangs on the blue arrow in a circle spinning around, sometimes reboots n repeats but it never goes past that.
I have tried going into recovery mode holding down volume buttons and power
and I get 1 of 2 errors:
with sd card in:
firmware update
step 1/2
unpacking
update failed
with sd card out:
purple screen.
I am a first time android modder, can someone please, please tell me how to fix this. I can access the sd card with a reader if need be to put whatever files on it that I should.
Thank you.

Start the phone by pressing volume up + power OR volume down + power. You should be able to boot to recovery with one of those combinations (other one boots to fastboot most probably). After that do the wipe data/cache and try to reboot once again.
What was wrong in the beginning was that you did not wipe data/cache. That made the CM use old OS's data files which obviously won't work.
The unpacking thing was caused by pressing volume up + volume down + power. That causes the phone to go to upgrade mode if there is an update package found.

Nope. still goes to the blue arrow circling then freezes then reboots....

mrw187 said:
Nope. still goes to the blue arrow circling then freezes then reboots....
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You are right about me not wiping the data/cache though...

But in your phone forum, are there tutorials on how to boot to recovery? Do you have any other hard keys on the phone?

there is one other button but that didn't work either.
I cannot find a forum for Huawei model u8180 (

mrw187 said:
there is one other button but that didn't work either.
I cannot find a forum for Huawei model u8180 (
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Hmm, would this work?

yay!!
it was volume up + power + cancel button (? maybe home button? not sure on what this button is but its the biggest).
wiped all data n cache n then it booted properly.

So the problem is solved? If you can, mark first post title with [SOLVED].
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huaweiU8180 freeze on boot to recovery
I have tried all the solution but failed the problem is my HuaweiU8180 keeps on hanging wen I try booting to recovery mode now I can't format my phone and I can't install a custom ROM even when the phone is rooted and I hav ROM manager premium installed and I flashed CWM but still someone help me please

Need help immediately

My phone is stuck at a blue screen on start up, and when i try accessing my phone from the computer and putting old firmware to flash it, it says there isnt enough space on the device...

Crystuhls said:
My phone is stuck at a blue screen on start up, and when i try accessing my phone from the computer and putting old firmware to flash it, it says there isnt enough space on the device...
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Was the problem random? Or had you tried to update the ROM before the error?
Well if you are stuck on the blue screen that you say then you can't access the phone 2GB internal mem or the external SD. what actually loading is the partition for storing the boot image and its like which is around 190 Mbs only.
If you have an external memcard use a card reader to connect it to the computer and copy the dload folder of the firmware onto the memcard, return it to the phone and reboot while holding the Vol+ and Vol- plus power key. this should work but if it doesnt the remove the battery and connect the phone to your charger while holding the Vol+ and Vol- plus power key again. This worked for me when i had a similar problem.
Good luck