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Freezes at MyTouch 3G Slide logo, recovery not running

I have a MyTouch 3G that got some water on it.
I let it dry out and I've been trying for two days to get it to work.
It will turn on but only goes to the startup image and stops there.
I tried going to the bootloader then using recovery there but it does the same thing--stops after showing the "MyTouch 3G Slide" logo.
It still connects to the PC, I see Android Phone: Android ADB Interface in Device Manager.
I tried using the command terminal and commands like adb shell but it keeps telling me "error: device offline."
Any ideas?

Just get a swap
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Are you saying "swap" as in swap the phone?
I can't do that. If I have to get another phone I will but I can't return this one.

k0droid said:
Are you saying "swap" as in swap the phone?
I can't do that. If I have to get another phone I will but I can't return this one.
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Why? If you have the extended warranty they'll exchange it for you.

migueltherocker said:
Why? If you have the extended warranty they'll exchange it for you.
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I assume he doesn't have the damage warranty.

Have you tried rooting it. After you hit the recovery with the red triangle, hold vol up and press the sleep/wake button it will take you into android recovery. I am assuming you haven't did this yet. I would root flash the eng build and see if it boots then.

I just had the same thing.
You need to do a long battery pull before launching recovery.
I left my battery out while at work, roughly 6 hrs (it may be shorter than that)
then you can boot into recovery. This should hopefully get you to the red triangle. If so, pull the battery (short pull) then launch the bootloader again and then go to fastboot and then reboot. that all worked for me.

Same happened to me,... Took bout 4 days but It is ok,
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k0droid said:
I have a MyTouch 3G that got some water on it.
I let it dry out and I've been trying for two days to get it to work.
It will turn on but only goes to the startup image and stops there.
I tried going to the bootloader then using recovery there but it does the same thing--stops after showing the "MyTouch 3G Slide" logo.
It still connects to the PC, I see Android Phone: Android ADB Interface in Device Manager.
I tried using the command terminal and commands like adb shell but it keeps telling me "error: device offline."
Any ideas?
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My advice..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731542
follow this to take your phone completely apart..
now get a tooth brush.. perfered moving.. sonicare or cheapo crest and some Rubbing Alcohol take phone apart find the circuts with corodoing..
take your tooth brush dip it in alcohol shake off excess and get the corosion off.. make sure you get all of it.. including battery if there is a white or silver/yellow corrosion..
re-assemble and launch
a corroded circut can stop data flow from internal flash hd

This may be a little late to say but I've always heard that if you do not use PURE alcohol not 70 or 80 percent but the green **** at cvs that's 100 percent alcohol. If you do not use that then it will bring more water or liquid chemicals other than alcohol onto the board.
Then again another solution I have personally used and worked was to take a big bowl of dry rice and take the cover and battery off the phone place it inside underneath the rice in a bowl and let it sit for a day rotating and moving the rice around every once in a while. Rice will pull the moisture out of the air anywhere and soak it up.
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That might have been the issue, some circuit being corroded or something.
I just couldn't get anything to work so I sent it in for a repair.
HTC reps claimed they couldn't fix the phone until now, I had called like 3 weeks ago for a repair and every week since and they couldn't help me until yesterday.
I did try the battery pull btw. I tried it for a few hours and I literally tried it several times leaving the phone without a battery for a days at a time but nothing worked.

Otherkid said:
This may be a little late to say but I've always heard that if you do not use PURE alcohol not 70 or 80 percent but the green **** at cvs that's 100 percent alcohol. If you do not use that then it will bring more water or liquid chemicals other than alcohol onto the board.
Then again another solution I have personally used and worked was to take a big bowl of dry rice and take the cover and battery off the phone place it inside underneath the rice in a bowl and let it sit for a day rotating and moving the rice around every once in a while. Rice will pull the moisture out of the air anywhere and soak it up.
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Three things
#1. 70-90 percent alchohol drys the same as 100 you don't need 100 infact you risk damaging the board
#2. The rice idea works for recently dropped phones e.g. I drop it in the pool run inside throw it in rice however I have taken apart many phones from people have used this method and you will find rice dust everywhere!!!! My suggestion don't bother
#3. We have all the resources here on our lovely forum if you'd like me to make a guide I can merge the disassembly and my how to repair guide together to make a perfect guide for it but no reason to pay 100 to fix your phone until you've tried yourself unless you have a warranty then use, it
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Wife's Focus - Dropped in water...

My wife dropped her phone.....in the toilet.
I tried turning it on today, and it sits at a screen that has a picture of the phone pointing at a laptop. I tried running the Windows Phone Support Tool, and I get this:
Update device 055ec22b - 332fe4fd - a812e651 - 640069c7 Complete with error code: 801812C0, error message: The update failed because your phone started improperly (in the main OS instead of the SLDR, or system loader).
Is there any way to get the phone reloaded with the default OS, or is her phone toast?

The best way to fix it....... Drop it again in the toilet and buy new phone
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maybe try a factory reset by using volume up+camera+ power button to boot..if not you can always try flashing one of the stock firmware available in these forums..assuming your hardware isn't toast these things will work
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wilcoholic5 said:
maybe try a factory reset by using volume up+camera+ power button to boot..if not you can always try flashing one of the stock firmware available in these forums..assuming your hardware isn't toast these things will work
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Tried a factory reset, as well as trying to flash the stock firmware on the phone. However, I end up at the same spot with the picture of the phone tethered to the laptop. I have a feeling it's a lost cause at this point. Thanks for the advice.

/ignore background noise
Quick questions:
1. Was the phone on when it was dropped?
2. Was the battery removed immediately?
3. How was it dried and for how long?

It could be worse - mine just took a magical trip through the washing machine in my pants pocket. :/ Anyone know of a good parts supplier that stocks the mainboard? That's the one component I can't find for sale, but I want to make sure I CAN get it before I take apart my other Samsung Focus to troubleshoot the broken part(s).

from my experince with a samsung jet,
I dropped it also in water too, i tried t oturn it after few days, strange things happned too me!!! so decided to get a new phone.
I didn't through my jet, and after few months, I charged the phone, and test it found it working without problems
I believe was just a matter of when al lthe electronics inside the phone gets really dry
try it out

I heard pulling out the battery, and putting everything buried underneath dry rice helps. Probably for a couple of days, then see what happens.

Dieabolical said:
I heard pulling out the battery, and putting everything buried underneath dry rice helps. Probably for a couple of days, then see what happens.
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This is a proven method.
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My Focus is VERY sensitive to any dampness at all. If it gets damp in my pocket (sweating, lawn sprinkler, etc.), it will ding constantly with the sound when you connect the USB cable to it. I have to take a hair dryer to the micro-USB port.
A method I heard, but have never tried, is to wrap the phone in a full sized thick bath towel and bind it closed (duct tape, bungee, whatever) and then put it in the clothes dryer on low heat for an hour.

Thanks for all the info. I will be trying it again tomorrow once I get my USB cable back. I know the cable for my Inspire will work on it as well but I forgot that at work today. Thanks again all.

lekhwani said:
This is a proven method.
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no its not... Its a myth. The liquid evaporates unless you took it all apart and the rice actually touched the liquid and absorbed it. Taking the battery out and leaving the door off and placing the unit in front of a fan will do 1000 times more for the process than rice... Moving air is the perfect evaporator. Plus rice dust gunks up ports... Sorry to burst the experts bubble around here but facts are facts...

Battery life

So i had this issue about a month ago. My phone got submerged in water. I shut it off, took batttery out, blow dried it, and let it sit over night. Next day fired right up with no issues. About 2 weeks later, battery life goes in the toilet. Goes dead in 4 hours with no use. So i bought a new battery thinking that would fix it, but no, it did not. I can understand the phone having issues after getting totally soaked while turned on, but in the past, display used most of the battery, now im getting android os as the culprit. Its strange, what would change from display to android os just by getting wet?. Ive tried multiple roms, its always the same. Any suggestions? Fyi, it dropped in the toilet, nothing worse than seeing your phone screen on while shining up thru the water!
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You should just be happy it still works at all
...but sorry I can't be of any assistance in this matter. I would probably just try and start from scratch by flashing a stock 2.2 RUU and then rerooting and installing a custom ROM.
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donnyp1 said:
So i had this issue about a month ago. My phone got submerged in water. I shut it off, took batttery out, blow dried it, and let it sit over night. Next day fired right up with no issues. About 2 weeks later, battery life goes in the toilet. Goes dead in 4 hours with no use. So i bought a new battery thinking that would fix it, but no, it did not. I can understand the phone having issues after getting totally soaked while turned on, but in the past, display used most of the battery, now im getting android os as the culprit. Its strange, what would change from display to android os just by getting wet?. Ive tried multiple roms, its always the same. Any suggestions? Fyi, it dropped in the toilet, nothing worse than seeing your phone screen on while shining up thru the water!
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Is everything working such as the sensors, compas, wifi, bluetooth, gps? If one of their chips got fried the os may be constantly trying to load or access something that is not working, therfore killing the battery. FYI the perfered method for drying a soaked phone is to put it in a bag of rice for a couple days. Blow drying just pushes the watter in deeper, and if you do it to much the heat can mess up the circuit board.

Everything works just fine. Im stumped.
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RamAir02 said:
You should just be happy it still works at all
...but sorry I can't be of any assistance in this matter. I would probably just try and start from scratch by flashing a stock 2.2 RUU and then rerooting and installing a custom ROM.
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I guess if I was in your situation, I would try this first to see how that works. If it fixes it then awesome! If not, you know something else is wrong:-(
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donnyp1 said:
So i had this issue about a month ago. My phone got submerged in water. I shut it off, took batttery out, blow dried it, and let it sit over night. Next day fired right up with no issues. About 2 weeks later, battery life goes in the toilet. Goes dead in 4 hours with no use. So i bought a new battery thinking that would fix it, but no, it did not. I can understand the phone having issues after getting totally soaked while turned on, but in the past, display used most of the battery, now im getting android os as the culprit. Its strange, what would change from display to android os just by getting wet?. Ive tried multiple roms, its always the same. Any suggestions? Fyi, it dropped in the toilet, nothing worse than seeing your phone screen on while shining up thru the water!
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are you sure all the water is gone? also the minerals in water will stick around long after the water is gone i bet there is something in there that is shorting it out but on a small scale.
i would suggest to take the phone apart and make sure you dont see any white or milky deposits on the MB or any where else. if you see some you can use 91% or higher isopropyl, (rubbing alcohol) i would use 98% but its harder to get, you can find it at a medical supply store though. Clean up the board and let it air dry before putting it all back together.
taking the phone apart is fairly simple you just need to be patient. i used this video when i needed to swap screens.

synisterwolf said:
are you sure all the water is gone? also the minerals in water will stick around long after the water is gone i bet there is something in there that is shorting it out but on a small scale.
i would suggest to take the phone apart and make sure you dont see any white or milky deposits on the MB or any where else. if you see some you can use 91% or higher isopropyl, (rubbing alcohol) i would use 98% but its harder to get, you can find it at a medical supply store though. Clean up the board and let it air dry before putting it all back together.
taking the phone apart is fairly simple you just need to be patient. i used this video when i needed to swap screens.
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Ill give that a try when i get home, thanks!
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Took it apart a few days ago, no residue at all, then bam, today phone dead in 3 hours. Put it on xharger, got it fully charged, removed from xharger 5 hours ago, and im at 70% battery! I have no clue, i changed nothing , it just started holding a charge again.
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Water Water Everywhere!!!

guys last night my device galaxy y s5360 slipped into bucket....
unfortunately, water trapped into screen..... my phone is still off......
when my phone fell,the battery deattached quickly.....i havnt power on it(yet)...
from night it is under the bulb...
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attached a pic
need your attention......

o no bro.a good tip,dont use bulb or something its make corrosive your mainboard.the best is to put it in a jar full of rice.

thanks,,,,,,,buddy i suppose it work!!!!doin it

Bro also place rice jar in sunlight so that water will eveporate and rice would absorb it...
Also remove battery and other accessories.and if possible open the body of phone by removing the screws...

Placing it in a bag of rice wont help much as far as I know just let it dry and after that open the phone and see if there is any corrosion on the board if yes remove that first by a soft brush to remove the corrosion you can also try to dip the main board in alcoholic solution just google it
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A few days ago i had the same problem what i did was removed battery and everything and kept it on the top of fridge.....try it
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Let it dry by any method but do not start it till you are confirmed that there is no single drop of water left!
Sent from my galaxy Y- A phone with small screen and big buttons

phone switched On...
nothing bad...
the steam of water is trapped into screen
while exploring the screen looks foggy
BTW thanks guys

explodeaamir said:
phone switched On...
nothing bad...
the steam of water is trapped into screen
while exploring the screen looks foggy
BTW thanks guys
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glad to hear the hardware is safe from harm,
btw make sure to run tests because most of the time water damages does not appear at first

The classic rice trick has always worked best for me.

Guys, once i also experienced the same problem. My phone feel into a bucket full of water . What i did was, immediately removed the battery and wiped it well, then some shaking.. After 15, 20 minutes, i restarted it but it wasn't. I tried to unscrew it but failed due to lack of proper screw driver.. anyway i left it on my bed and went for duty. Evening icame back. Tried to restart, again failed. then i put it on charging. Nothing was shown on the display as charging. But after a 10 minutes when i tried to switch it on, really, it switched on... There was no problem after that.
Same my brother also experienced this problem. He accidently dropped it in a pond.. He took it to a Samsung care, after checking they told him that its motherboard needs to be changed. And it costs half the price of y. So he took it back to
Home. One of his friend told him to put it under sunlight.! He did so, and after some time when he switched it on, it successfully booted. But there is a big round Mark in his display.
Now he has to change the display.
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maxxinn said:
Guys, once i also experienced the same problem. My phone feel into a bucket full of water . What i did was, immediately removed the battery and wiped it well, then some shaking.. After 15, 20 minutes, i restarted it but it wasn't. I tried to unscrew it but failed due to lack of proper screw driver.. anyway i left it on my bed and went for duty. Evening icame back. Tried to restart, again failed. then i put it on charging. Nothing was shown on the display as charging. But after a 10 minutes when i tried to switch it on, really, it switched on... There was no problem after that.
Same my brother also experienced this problem. He accidently dropped it in a pond.. He took it to a Samsung care, after checking they told him that its motherboard needs to be changed. And it costs half the price of y. So he took it back to
Home. One of his friend told him to put it under sunlight.! He did so, and after some time when he switched it on, it successfully booted. But there is a big round Mark in his display.
Now he has to change the display.
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when situations like that happen:
1. REMOVE BATTERY IMMEDIATELY
2. NEVER PUT THE BATTERY BACK ON
3. DONT PANIC
4. Never put the device to dry under the sun
5. To make sure take 1-2 days before turning the device on again

I heard that you take battery out, shake water out of it then just leave it to dry under a medium powered light bulb
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tom heron said:
I heard that you take battery out, shake water out of it then just leave it to dry under a medium powered light bulb
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just don't sun dry it,
it might fry the LCD

ya my brother's display is not so good now. But u see, what the Samsung people said?
(change the mother board)..
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[Q] Water damaged Nexus 4, salvageable?

Hey all,
About a month ago my nexus 4 met up with my washing machine, and as a result was submerged in water for about an hour. Shortly after the incident I opened it up to see what the damage was and the only damage I saw was some indications of corrosion on the motherboard (image 1) and (image 2). On the reverse side (image 3) you can see there is no such corrosion. Unfortunately in the confusion after taking the phone out of the water, I tried to boot it up.
Tonight, 1 month later I was fooling around and I plugged the phone in. What I got at first was the "red LED of death", but when I held the power button, the white battery symbol (image 4) popped up and the phone vibrated, followed by bitter nothingness.
My question is to ask whether or not I could salvage my dear Nexus, and how I could do this. My theory is that I would replace the fried board with a fresh one and maybe the battery too, but
1) do you think this would work? and 2) where could I find a replacement motherboard? I'm sorry to bother you but I think this information might save me a couple hundred bucks and may enlighten others with my same misfortune. Thanks,
Jack

Jackk127 said:
Hey all,
About a month ago my nexus 4 met up with my washing machine, and as a result was submerged in water for about an hour. Shortly after the incident I opened it up to see what the damage was and the only damage I saw was some indications of corrosion on the motherboard (image 1) and (image 2). On the reverse side (image 3) you can see there is no such corrosion. Unfortunately in the confusion after taking the phone out of the water, I tried to boot it up.
Tonight, 1 month later I was fooling around and I plugged the phone in. What I got at first was the "red LED of death", but when I held the power button, the white battery symbol (image 4) popped up and the phone vibrated, followed by bitter nothingness.
My question is to ask whether or not I could salvage my dear Nexus, and how I could do this. My theory is that I would replace the fried board with a fresh one and maybe the battery too, but
1) do you think this would work? and 2) where could I find a replacement motherboard? I'm sorry to bother you but I think this information might save me a couple hundred bucks and may enlighten others with my same misfortune. Thanks,
Jack
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I'm not too sure about this but I think you'd be better off getting a new one entirely than purchase a motherboard, replace it yourself and run the risk of your original problem not even being the motherboard.

Clean with 99% alcohol. And try again. Happened to my g2 back in the day and the clean solved it
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Warbuff said:
Clean with 99% alcohol. And try again. Happened to my g2 back in the day and the clean solved it
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Would this work even if I had powered it up after the incident. I'm pretty sure all the water is out of it but there might be some soap residue.

Update* Bootloader
Surprisingly, I was able to access the boot loader screen with the arrows and the android guy getting a sun tan, but upon trying to boot i get a Google screen and then back to black. What I think now is that the problem is that the battery shorted, so when I can I am going to transplant my brother's battery into my phone and see if it works. If this is successful it will surely be a triumph of Nexus 4 over human error! Below is a picture of where I got to (apologies for the blurriness).

When it happened on my g2. I could only get into the bootloader. Anything else would go and last a second and short out. I took a toothbrush plus the alcohol and that's what worked for me.
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Warbuff said:
When it happened on my g2. I could only get into the bootloader. Anything else would go and last a second and short out. I took a toothbrush plus the alcohol and that's what worked for me.
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That is exactly what is happening to me, where exactly did you scrub with the alcohol? This sounds awesome, did you just dip the brush and scrub all the components? Thanks

Pretty much. I dipped the brush into the alcohol and carefully went brushing slowly the motherboard. Make sure it's 99% so that there is minimal water content in the alcohol. Let it air dry and put everything back in and see if it worked.
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I was limited to 91% but heard that that worked. I had to submerge some of the encased parts and am currently letting the whole thing air-dry for 2 days in a bag with some rice. Will report results. Thank you for all the help.

Jackk127 said:
I was limited to 91% but heard that that worked. I had to submerge some of the encased parts and am currently letting the whole thing air-dry for 2 days in a bag with some rice. Will report results. Thank you for all the help.
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Let us know the result mate
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So I popped the motherboard back in and got back to bootloader, but the same thing happened where it shut off after trying to boot it back up. Does anyone have any more suggestions, or do you think its a problem with the motherboard? Thanks again.

Jackk127 said:
So I popped the motherboard back in and got back to bootloader, but the same thing happened where it shut off after trying to boot it back up. Does anyone have any more suggestions, or do you think its a problem with the motherboard? Thanks again.
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Sounds stupid but did you tried to flash a recovery, boot on it, and side load a zip from there. Maybe your ROM as been broken or smth. Just my 2 cents. Good luck !
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Unfortunately I am a but a yeoman in the subject of such things, and even after searching the internet for hours I could not figure out how to side load and flash files onto it. I can only get to the boot loader screen and download mode, and when I try to get into CWM on it it fails. When I tried to connect it to my computer and fix it with the Nexus root toolkit it didn't recognize the ADB or whatever. I am confident that this is a software issue now and feel that the solution lies just outside my grasp at the moment. Again, thank you guys for all your help.

Jackk127 said:
Unfortunately I am a but a yeoman in the subject of such things, and even after searching the internet for hours I could not figure out how to side load and flash files onto it. I can only get to the boot loader screen and download mode, and when I try to get into CWM on it it fails. When I tried to connect it to my computer and fix it with the Nexus root toolkit it didn't recognize the ADB or whatever. I am confident that this is a software issue now and feel that the solution lies just outside my grasp at the moment. Again, thank you guys for all your help.
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Since you can get into the bootloader, try using fastboot to flash a recovery.img. make sure you place it in your fastboot folder.
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
See if you're able to boot into recovery then. If you do not have fastboot setup, check the stickies for the rooting guide. The beginning helps you with that.

estallings15 said:
Since you can get into the bootloader, try using fastboot to flash a recovery.img. make sure you place it in your fastboot folder.
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
See if you're able to boot into recovery then. If you do not have fastboot setup, check the stickies for the rooting guide. The beginning helps you with that.
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The problem is that I cant even get into fastboot or adb on my computer, it wont recognize the phone and I cant install the drivers for some reason. Also, I cant get to recovery on my phone.

did you use the official google drivers?

masterchung89 said:
did you use the official google drivers?
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Yeah I tried to do that and I can connect via fastboot but not ADB. When I tried to flash a custom boot image via fastboot in a toolkit though, it got to a teamwin screen for a millisecond then crashed to a black screen and red led of death. Do you guys think its possible that the problem is the battery is shorted so I cant get enough power to boot the phone, even if it is plugged into a computer?

*Update- Dead
I just finished a round of trying to boot and flash and all of the sudden the phone is just dead. No bootloader, no Led, no vibration, just dead. Does anyone know why this happened? Could this be a result of the battery damage or do you think the motherboard is fried? Thanks again.

Jackk127 said:
I just finished a round of trying to boot and flash and all of the sudden the phone is just dead. No bootloader, no Led, no vibration, just dead. Does anyone know why this happened? Could this be a result of the battery damage or do you think the motherboard is fried? Thanks again.
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Never mind that, I re-bathed the motherboard and it brought it back to the origional state of RED LED.

Umm for red led can you leave plugged in for a bit see if it charges the battery?
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