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Unbrick Using ADB

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I was wondering if your phone is looped at the first bootloader screen and you cannot access recovery or bootloader is there a way to unbrick your device using a code in the adb?
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Thank You

I had been running Cyanogen 3.5.2 and then switched to JACHero 2.2 to see the changes. Then when I tried to switch back to Cyanogen and I kept getting the bootloop. No matter what I did, wipe, flash, wipe again, flash again. Nothing. I assume it might have something to do with the Apps2SD setup but I have no idea. I just reflashed back to JACHero and it is working fine.

chuckhriczko said:
I had been running Cyanogen 3.5.2 and then switched to JACHero 2.2 to see the changes. Then when I tried to switch back to Cyanogen and I kept getting the bootloop. No matter what I did, wipe, flash, wipe again, flash again. Nothing. I assume it might have something to do with the Apps2SD setup but I have no idea. I just reflashed back to JACHero and it is working fine.
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Did you reflash using the ABD. If you did not then you would have to use the recovery or bootloader mode on the device. Therefore not using the abd commands at all. Im not bashing you or anything btw.

about cyan to jachero same happened to me... it has somthing to do with apps2sd your correct. somthing like the .odex files from hero saving on ur sd partion and ruining the whole setup on cyans. so what i did was use paragon partion manager to completely reformat my sd card and then remade my ext3 partion on it. and it works fine. im never switching off of cyans rom thoe. anymore to much of a headache and stuff.
(as you can tell im drunk and i really dont understand all this rom lingo lol bare with me i hope i helped you?)

nickryan0612 said:
If this is in the wrong area please mods answer and redirect it into the correct area.
I was wondering if your phone is looped at the first bootloader screen and you cannot access recovery or bootloader is there a way to unbrick your device using a code in the adb?
Please answer...... and move if nessasary.
Thank You
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There are other posts on this but if you can't get into recovery or bootloader you are toast adb may not connect(really it should connect to adb when on the boot screen but many have been through this and haven't been able to get their phones working. I bet you tried flashing the Haykuro SPL("Danger" SPL) right?
It is brick you will have to look into a replacement/exchange if possible.

savethechicken said:
There are other posts on this but if you can't get into recovery or bootloader you are toast adb may not connect(really it should connect to adb when on the boot screen but many have been through this and haven't been able to get their phones working. I bet you tried flashing the Haykuro SPL("Danger" SPL) right?
It is brick you will have to look into a replacement/exchange if possible.
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Oh no was just wondering cause i am thinking about rooting my phone but under the right direction. Not the posts they have here cause they are to hard to follow. If you or someone could help me i only wanna upgrade to a hero that has flash player and can put notifications out like this one : http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q-JSg53A3...AFD4/6TWLdeIi3VY/s400/rosie7-lock-screen2.jpg

I also had bootloop when switching back from jachero to Dude's 1.3. I had to pull the battery out to get it to shut down, but then I was able to use recovery to flash Dude's... how is it that you're unable to get into recovery mode? Have you tried pulling ythe battery?

ohnoezmahfone said:
I also had bootloop when switching back from jachero to Dude's 1.3. I had to pull the battery out to get it to shut down, but then I was able to use recovery to flash Dude's... how is it that you're unable to get into recovery mode? Have you tried pulling ythe battery?
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If you mess up the SPL you can't get into recovery. The only known method of messing up the SPL is with the "Hero" SPL (afaik, without manually trying to brick your phone).
If you get a bootloop, make sure you wiped AND completely cleared your ext2/ext3 partition with apps2sd. That always seems to cause a bootloop.

Stuck on mytouch sceen reboot loop help

So i tried to flash a rom like a normally do and i get stuck on the green screen.
I noticed now when flashing a rom is takes alot longer to flash then it usually did , i wiped pulled battery multiple times and still the same results. If i try to flash a froyo rom it will stay on the mytouch screen for a few secs and reboot to recovery mode on its own. every other rom just gets stuck and will not move. im limited to only recovery mode and Fastboot , are their any simple fixes that can be done and thanks in advance.

fabolous02000 said:
So i tried to flash a rom like a normally do and i get stuck on the green screen.
I noticed now when flashing a rom is takes alot longer to flash then it usually did , i wiped pulled battery multiple times and still the same results. If i try to flash a froyo rom it will stay on the mytouch screen for a few secs and reboot to recovery mode on its own. every other rom just gets stuck and will not move. im limited to only recovery mode and Fastboot , are their any simple fixes that can be done and thanks in advance.
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Have you tried fixing apk uids? I've also heard you can use the bootloader to do a more thorough wipe.
If I were in your situation I would apply sappimg to unroot and start over.

Phateless said:
Have you tried fixing apk uids? I've also heard you can use the bootloader to do a more thorough wipe.
If I were in your situation I would apply sappimg to unroot and start over.
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im fairly new so i only know how to flash roms . outside of that im pretty much clueless. I tried flashing a new radio & when it tells me to reboot to complete installation it says no more room or somthing like that. it does it really quick so i cant tell. Also how would i go about unrooting?
EDIT .. ok unrooted the phone and it seemed to have done the trick.

fabolous02000 said:
im fairly new so i only know how to flash roms . outside of that im pretty much clueless. I tried flashing a new radio & when it tells me to reboot to complete installation it says no more room or somthing like that. it does it really quick so i cant tell. Also how would i go about unrooting?
EDIT .. ok unrooted the phone and it seemed to have done the trick.
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Glad you're still operational. Now you can retrace your steps and figure out where you went wrong. I also had to unroot and go back to Cupcake before I successfully completed my first rooting.
If you're just flashing ROMs, I would stay away from updating the radio unless the developer specifically says you should.

[SOLVED] Boot animation missing.

Well, usually when I boot my TMN 2.1 ROM, I see a TMN splash screen and then the regular Android boot animation with the glowing text.
However, from day before yesterday, this is not happening. The TMN splash appears and the screen goes blank. Then after some time the regular Android text animation appears and immediately loads the launcher/home.
Everything appears to be working fine. Even the time taken for boot looks normal but the screen suffers a blackout for some time during the boot.
Any idea how to fix it or why this happens?

In my lg gt540 reference thread in developers part there is a post about possible solutions when you brick your phone, check it out, hope it helps!

hi lavero, i just wanted to ask which app you use for customizing your phones visuality like launchers,widgets,etc. i couldnt able to pm you cause im at the school now and gives problem with pm'ing.
sorry for my english.

@lavero: The phone is not bricked. :/ It works fine. Only boot animation is missing.

nibras_reeza said:
@lavero: The phone is not bricked. :/ It works fine. Only boot animation is missing.
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Check if you don't get to see recovery too. If so then is bricked but not big deal just check my thread and do what is in there
Now if you manage to get in recovery try flashing boot.img again but always erase then flash. What was the last ROM you flashed?
Sent from my GT540 using XDA App

Am in the stock ROM with fastboot. The ROM used to work fine. I installed a few apps and ubuntu(from nexus one hacks)... The recovery works fine too..
The boot animation(Android logo) is stored in boot.img? Not in system.img? Looks like I will need a bit of tinkering to extract boot.img from the kdz.
Anyway, thanks. I could just try a clean flash. Restoring apps is the only pain since I use link2sd. I should've made a NAND before that day. :/

[Q] Can't get into hboot or clockwork?

Search function is down but I did go through a few pages of threads looking for what was going on and no luck but I apologize if this has been solved somewhere else.
First off I would rate my rooting know-how as beginner to intermediate. I've jailbroken/unlocked multiple iPhones awhile back and have rooted/flashed roms on a cliq, mts, my3g, and this mt4g before.
I recently returned my current mt4g back to stock rom and unrooted. I do not think I turned s back on but I should have double checked before.
I currently have root and flashed clockwork and am trying to flash CM7 (I had ran it before on this phone as well). I have an issue right now where I cannot get into clockwork recovery as it will just sit at the mytouch logo forever and if I try and volume up and power into recovery all I get is 3 vibrations and a flashing amber light.
I can boot into the stock (but rooted) rom.
Any ideas? I feel like my recovery is broken or something but this goes beyond what I know. Any help would be great and any information you need I'll be happy to provide.
myTouch 4G, rooted, s (probably) off, stock rom, clockwork says i'm on 3.0.2.4

After reading that, I'm not fully convinced you actually have root and S-OFF. If you're sure you do, download ROM Manager from the Market and use that to install a fresh copy of CWM recovery. Also make sure the "fast boot" option is turned off somewhere under Settings. At that point, there should be nothing preventing you from getting into recovery if you have perm root.

I've got ROM Manager and it has SU permissions and I have the latest recovery flashed but I am still stuck on mytouch logo or the 3 vibrations/amber light when I try to get to recovery. If I reboot there is still no problem getting SU in terminal emulator or ROM manager or anything.
Fast boot is off as well. Thanks for the help so far.
Any ideas?

I don't often boot into recovery manually since most custom ROMs have an enhanced reboot menu with a recovery option, but if memory serves, I believe the key press combination is actually Power + Volume Down, not up like you mentioned in your OP. Give that a try.

Man I am really crazy. Here I am a tmo rep and also a novice modder and I'm hitting power + volume up.
Worked like a charm.. Now just to figure out why clockwork is sitting at the mytouch screen when trying to install CM7.
Thanks for the fresh set of eyes!

breakaway87 said:
Worked like a charm.. Now just to figure out why clockwork is sitting at the mytouch screen when trying to install CM7.
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After flashing CM7, the phone hangs at the myTouch screen when attempting the first boot?

From ROM Manager if I try to flash CM7 from there it goes to the mytouch screen and hangs before anything else happens.

breakaway87 said:
From ROM Manager if I try to flash CM7 from there it goes to the mytouch screen and hangs before anything else happens.
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What if you select the "boot into recovery" option in ROM Manager? Does the phone reboot into CWM recovery? (you should see the main CWM menu in orange text)

Boot into recovery takes me to MT4G logo and hangs.

breakaway87 said:
Boot into recovery takes me to MT4G logo and hangs.
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So you don't have a good installation of CWM. Open ROM Manager again and re-flash a fresh recovery. I think there's an option to wipe your existing recovery beforehand, so if you see that, select it. You need to get a working recovery image before you can do much else.

Deleted current recovery and I confirm my model again and it takes a total of 5 seconds. Trying to reboot into recovery again after and I still hang at MT4G.
I hate it when you know something you need to do but you've been working on it so long you can't come up with new ideas.
Thanks again for the help.

Sorry multipost since it didn't register on my computer the first time for some reason

Yeah sorry man, I've never heard of a situation where CWM stubbornly refuses to install. If you have the engineering bootloader, you could manually flash it that way, but that's my only other idea.

Alright well thanks for all the help man, I'll dig around and pick up tomorrow.

I ended up looking for the recovery myself on the SD card and deleted it and then it flashed no problem. Thanks again for the help

breakaway87 said:
I ended up looking for the recovery myself on the SD card and deleted it and then it flashed no problem. Thanks again for the help
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Sure, glad you figured it out.

Motorola bravo help

I have rooted my phone and flashed custom firmware b4... when i installed 2int to flash again.... it won't boot up the OS instead it keeps booting 2int... how do i boot into my os again... thx in advance
I am running android 4.1.1 jellybean

hotshot545 said:
I have rooted my phone and flashed custom firmware b4... when i installed 2int to flash again.... it won't boot up the OS instead it keeps booting 2int... how do i boot into my os again... thx in advance
I am running android 4.1.1 jellybean
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Unfortunately, you cannot flash 2ndinit if you've already installed cyanogenmod, since it already has a bootloader. Goes for all versions of CM. I made the same mistake and had to flash the sbf.
I'm assuming that when you reboot normally you get stuck at the "red M" screen and your capacitive touch buttons might flicker. If that's the case, you will have to flash the sbf, because your bravo is boot looping. Go to this post here and follow the tutorial to the letter.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1559109
If you are having further trouble, post it there.
And don't forget to say thank you to josuearisty

dr. Orange said:
unfortunately, you cannot flash 2ndinit if you've already installed cyanogenmod, since it already has a bootloader. Goes for all versions of cm. I made the same mistake and had to flash the sbf.
I'm assuming that when you reboot normally you get stuck at the "red m" screen and your capacitive touch buttons might flicker. If that's the case, you will have to flash the sbf, because your bravo is boot looping. Go to this post here and follow the tutorial to the letter.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1559109
if you are having further trouble, post it there.
And don't forget to say thank you to josuearisty
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thank u sooo much

hotshot545 said:
thank u sooo much
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ok i just wanted to know is there a way to charge phone b4 doing this

hotshot545 said:
ok so if i flash it using sbf lite... will it run stock android 2.2 or will it's still run 4.1.1 and also will it still be rooted or will i have to restore root. and btw b4 i do this can i charge my phone in this "boot loop mode"... srry i am not the best at this kind of stuff... so I would greatly appriciate if you assisted me step by step if you could... thx in advance again..
**don't wanna brick my bravo xD
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It will run stock 2.2.1 yes. If you follow the instructions from the tutorial, and you have at least a little battery left you should be fine, since you will have your phone plugged into your computer. You will have to re-root as well. When you sbf, you have to start all over, including rooting. Just make sure you follow the tutorial step by step. It does a much better job explaining how to fix everything.

Dr. Orange said:
It will run stock 2.2.1 yes. If you follow the instructions from the tutorial, and you have at least a little battery left you should be fine, since you will have your phone plugged into your computer. You will have to re-root as well. When you sbf, you have to start all over, including rooting. Just make sure you follow the tutorial step by step. It does a much better job explaining how to fix everything.
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ok thx sooooo much.. approximatly how long will this take

hotshot545 said:
ok thx sooooo much.. approximatly how long will this take
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Maybe an hour to get you back to jelly bean. It's worth it to take your time before each step so you don't mess anything up.

Dr. Orange said:
Maybe an hour to get you back to jelly bean. It's worth it to take your time before each step so you don't mess anything up.
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Dude thx a bunch... i'm up and running jelly bean again using 2nd init btw next time i flash how would i do it without 2nd init

hotshot545 said:
Dude thx a bunch... i'm up and running jelly bean again using 2nd init btw next time i flash how would i do it without 2nd init
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To reboot into recovery, hold the power/hold button down til that menu pops up, then select reboot, then select recovery. It was my pleasure helping. If you have any other questions just ask in the bravo general section and eventuality someone will help. Everyone with bravo is very supportive.
Edit: in recovery you will have options like reboot, wipe cache, wipe data, flash zip, backup/restore, that sort of thing. Usually I backup first just as a precaution, before wiping data and cache and then flashing a new rom. For other zips like gapps, cpu governors, or anything else you can just flash the zip without wiping.

Dr. Orange said:
To reboot into recovery, hold the power/hold button down til that menu pops up, then select reboot, then select recovery. It was my pleasure helping. If you have any other questions just ask in the bravo general section and eventuality someone will help. Everyone with bravo is very supportive.
Edit: in recovery you will have options like reboot, wipe cache, wipe data, flash zip, backup/restore, that sort of thing. Usually I backup first just as a precaution, before wiping data and cache and then flashing a new rom. For other zips like gapps, cpu governors, or anything else you can just flash the zip without wiping.
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I'm gonna add, since the recovery option in the power button menu doesn't always access 2nd-init recovery (depends on the rom), nor is that option available in all roms, you just need to push the volume up button when the led light turns green when booting up to access the bootmenu. I've had cases where reboot menu recovery went to stock recovery instead of 2nd-init.
Its also a good idea to wipe cache\dalvik cache when flashing things like lockring mods, framework themes, and most theme related mods in general.

skeevy420 said:
I'm gonna add, since the recovery option in the power button menu doesn't always access 2nd-init recovery (depends on the rom), nor is that option available in all roms, you just need to push the volume up button when the led light turns green when booting up to access the bootmenu. I've had cases where reboot menu recovery went to stock recovery instead of 2nd-init.
Its also a good idea to wipe cache\dalvik cache when flashing things like lockring mods, framework themes, and most theme related mods in general.
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When i start the phone up the led turns blue a few seconds before the boot animation appears... its that when i want to press the volume up key

hotshot545 said:
When i start the phone up the led turns blue a few seconds before the boot animation appears... its that when i want to press the volume up key
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My fault, its Volume Down, and yes, the green blink before the blue is when you push it.
I got it confused with Stock Recovery, which is Power Button+Volume Up while turning on the phone.