Here's the scenario...Stock Droid X, outside of manufacturers warranty, running GO Launcher EX. The phone was running sluggish so I went to change the live wallpaper to a picture in my gallery. As soon as I selected the, the phone instantly rebooted and would not go past the droid eye boot icon. I called customer service and they told me to pull the battery, replace it, then power up holding home, volume down and power. This gets me to the android guy with the exclamation mark in a triangle. But there are no boot options.
Since bluetooth was enabled on the phone, when I get in my car I can still make and receive calls. So it's like it's fully booting up, but I never get the unlock screen. When I place a call using my car's phone controls, the call screen comes up on the phone, then I get a message about GO Launcher has stopped responding, do you want to close, wait, send error report. I've tried close and wait and neither seem to get me to any other screens.
The phone is completely stock. I haven't rooted, or changed the bootloader or anything like that. I tried searching for suggestions but all I could find were instructions for people who already installed clockwork recovery. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. I would be happy even to be able to perform a factory reset, just as long as I can use the phone again. Thanks!
Additional Info: I am able to boot it up and connect to my PC and see the folders on the phone if that helps anything. I tried going to market.android.com and installed adw launcher to the phone hoping that would help anything but I'm still stuck. When I rebooted with the phone connect to my PC I can see the lock screen now, but the screen doesn't respond to my touch when I try to unlock the slider. Again none of the buttons seem to function.
Grab RSD LITE & the proper sbf file and reflash your firmware.
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Get back to that screen with the Android guy and the exclamation mark, then press both volume buttons. From there you can navigatecand factory reset the phone via a data wipe. Navigate with the volume buttons and select with the power button.
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infazzdar said:
Get back to that screen with the Android guy and the exclamation mark, then press both volume buttons. From there you can navigatecand factory reset the phone via a data wipe. Navigate with the volume buttons and select with the power button.
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Thanks so much infazzdar, I was able to factory reset the phone using your tip! It's unfortunate the Vz tech got me to the triangle and exclamation mark but didn't know to press both volume buttons to pull up the recovery options.
vabeachfc3s thanks for your response too, appreciate the help.
Dont forget to push that thanks button good sir
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Also GO (whatever u use) the dev is kind of sketchy. I dont recommend his work.
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vabeachfc3s said:
Also GO (whatever u use) the dev is kind of sketchy. I dont recommend his work.
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I have been using go launcher for a while now with no issues. Are there specific problems that you know of?
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Apparently the dev logs what you do on your phone. Not saying this is true just some info ive read.
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Hi everyone,
My Aria was already rooted when I purchased it, I missed out on the learning curve of rooting, flashing and all the other parts related. But I'm catching up on it little by little here at XDA.
Thanks to everyone here who made it possible.
I'm running Liberated Aria R012 on the Aria now. I lost contact with the seller and I don't know who else to turn to.
Anyways, I'm wondering if I have clockwork installed in my phone. I can't find the application anywhere in my phone, but it does have a folder named 'clockworkmod' in my sdcard with the following files:
clockworkmod > backup > 2010-10-20.09.17.53 > 'boot', 'cache', 'data', 'nandroid', 'recovery' and 'system'.
The reason here is that I am learning to make backups, about recoveries and flashing. I may also flash a FroYo after learning more.
Does all this process require any special software in my computer? I am running Mac OS 10.5.8 by the way. I read in the forums that I need clockwork and unrevoked Reflash.dmg (which is downloading as I'm typing this).
I am not learning to develop anything (not in the foreseeable future), I just want to be able to really own this phone and customize with great ROMs. And to understand what you all are talking about!
Thanks for being patient with a noob.
Clockwork is the recovery, not an app. To see if you have it, hold "home" and "power" at the same time when you turn on your phone. Keep holding for about 10 seconds. You are now in recovery mode. If it says "clockwork" at the top, you agave it.
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Thanks a lot man! I'll do that when i restart later
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emigre said:
Thanks a lot man! I'll do that when i restart later
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No problem. If you have the folder on your SD card, you probably have it, unless it was changed.
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Hi Ranger,
I tried doing what you suggested and nothing seem to be happing besides rebooting as usually.
Held both Power and Home for 10seconds (more for a couple times). Thinking I may have read wrong, I also tried just holding only the Home button for longer periods while the phone restarts.
Does this mean I do not have Clockwork? The SD card is inside, with a clockwordmod folder.
What am I doing wrong? Your help is much appreciated.
Thank you.
Try pressing home and while still holding home, press the power button. Hold both down. Phone should go to the white HTC screen then after maybe 10 seconds it should be a black screen with green words (you can now atop pressing the buttons). That is the clockwork recovery screen. If you don't get that screen, clockwork isn't on there, and you need to reroot.
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Heh, think people aren't catching that they're saying the wrong name of the button.
Turn your phone off. Hold the "Volume Down" button, then hit "Power" at the same time. Everything else said was accurate.
Different phone To get to recovery on an HTC Hero it is "home" and power.
My bad. Yeah, volume down and power will do it. My apologies to the OP.
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lol, you guys showed him the wrong way. ok, you hold the "volume down" for 2 seconds then press "power" on. you will see a white screen with 4 options, 1 of them is "recovery", you select this option by pressing volume down to it and press power to select, if you see a big triangle with a "exclaimation mark" in it then your phone is not rooted, if you see white "clockworkmode..." on top then it's rooted, it's that simple...
Ocswing, you saved me!
Thanks a lot buddy I guess it's cos ranger is running on the Hero instead of the Aria (looking at the sig) —*thus the different combinations.
Anyway I was taken to a white screen with several options:
reboot, recovery, etc.
So I do have clockwork, thanks again guys!
I so hope someone can help.
Downloaded an app which i then couldnt close no matter what so i pulled out the battery put it back in and now all i have is a black screen and cant use my phone at all.
Tried hooking up to Kies but it wont let me do anything as saying app is still open.
Really hoping i dont loose everything can anybody help???!!!!
what app was it ?
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I so hope someone can help.
Downloaded an app which i then couldnt close no matter what so i pulled out the battery put it back in and now all i have is a black screen and cant use my phone at all.
Tried hooking up to Kies but it wont let me do anything as saying app is still open.
Really hoping i dont loose everything can anybody help???!!!!
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What was the app, and where did you download it from?
And if you hooked your phone up to kies and it saw it....then the phone must be powered up. Remove the battery again, wait 10 minutes, then replace it.
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From the silence I assume he realised he hadn't actually turned his phone off at all and sorted it out...or the app killed HIM as well.
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Nope im not dead and im a she not a he.
Yes the phone has power but only shows a black screen.
Yes the battery has actually been out all night.
No Kies did not tell me anything i got a box up on my phone when it conected saying could not connect as application open.
The application was called Kids mode by zoodles.
They have sent me 2 ways to reset my phone one of which to hold down the volume button then press the power button which shows a menu choose clear storage using the volume button and the phone should be restored....it doesnt do any of that just turns on.
The other way is this
a) Install the Android SDK from a website they mentioned
b) Connect the phone to the computer with a USB cable
c) Type "adb uninstall com.zoodles.kidmode"
of which i am currently attempting to understand.
If you know any different then your help would be appreciated.
oh and the app itself i found on the android market on my phone
try getting into recovery by pressing vol up+home button+power and release when the S logo pops up
Thank you for that. It didnt work.
Have been defeated all this messing about so have taken in to have system rebooted.
I had the same almost and am still locked in the "Logo of Limbo" ( the big S) after 10 days and dealers trying this and that. Can't say it was an app that caused it, but it seems resetting SGS is a task and a half sometimes
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Thank you for that. It didnt work.
Have been defeated all this messing about so have taken in to have system rebooted.
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Well, it's not pressing but holding:
Shut down the phone
Hold Vol-Up+Home and power
Release power when you see "Galaxy S, GT-i9000, Samsung" blinks
if this doesnt work, try Vol+Down instead of Up, and update the status here with what you see.
whats up all,first off i never rooted or anything to my atrix but install the ota updates. today i unlocked my phone and there were pop ups on my screen saying, multiple processes had stopped working unexpectantly,so i pressed ok and then my phone just keeps rebooting to the moto logo or sometimes goes back to the home screen and the pop ups come up again,then it reboots. i cant use it or do anything. sometimes the LED blinks white,i dont know what that means,somebody plz help me,thx in advance
Are you on gb or froyo
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im on the official GB,from the ota
wow,no one want to help me out? i thought for sure i would get plenty of responses
Can you boot it into fastboot/recovery at all? (Turn on while holding Vol down)
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wow,no one want to help me out? i thought for sure i would get plenty of responses
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Sounds like a weird bootloop problem but then you said sometimes it goes to the home screen and then it shuts itself down. Try switching your phone off and switch it back on WHILE pressing(and holding) the volume down button on your phone and let us know if you see "fastboot" written on the screen? You should do.
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thx for the responses,yes it says fastboot and just sits there
So it just says "fastboot" and not "unlocked....fastboot"?
Either way, when you get to where it says "fastboot", press Vol down until it says "Android Recovery" and then press Vol up.
If you haven't flashed CWM you should get the little android with the triangle. At this point, press both volume buttons at the same time.
You should get a menu, use the volume keys to navigate to "Wipe" and then there should be an option at the bottom/left of the screen for "okay" and select that.
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thx for the responses,yes it says fastboot and just sits there
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thx all,i got everything back working. the thing is,i called at&t yesterday and they have sent out a new phone.they didnt even suggest fastboot. thx again
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thx all,i got everything back working. the thing is,i called at&t yesterday and they have sent out a new phone.they didnt even suggest fastboot. thx again
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If your phone says "unlocked" they'll charge your bill 175 because that's user damage
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I would have replied if I saw this earlier, but yes, other posters were right.
The solution to bootloops in 99.9% of cases is wipe data / factory reset. That should have fixed things up for you. But if you get a shiny new phone, that ain't bad either i reckon.
Thx for all the help!!!!
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Hello,
Straight to the point, Rooted UK Atrix, running 2.3.4. no other MOD OR rom or anything, i like motoblur.
Stupidly Used Bloatfreezer to freeze 'home' without having another launcher to return to. Can't use the phone now. Trying to reset (hard or soft i do not know the difference) and the phone reads ''fastboot'' then i toggle down using volume - to android recovery and the phone is coming up with starting rsd protocol x2 and nothing else (using the power + & - methods).
If i leave my phone to just boot it resides on a white screen teasing me with noises of logging in but i cannot see anything.
I'm really lost to be honest, i have no idea what to do and i am not good with terminology either (adw, flashboots, cm7 i have no idea what they are).
I know there are sooo many threads with different answer's so that is why i am starting a new thread.
To factory reset using recovery...
1.Power off the phone, press and hold volume down button, press power button.
2.Screen will come up with "Fastboot", press Vol down key to cycle through choices until you get "Android Recovery", press Vol up key
3.Wait for the "triangle ! / Android" screen then release the volume down button
*4.Tap on bottom right corner of the screen (may take a few times). a menu will come up
5.Tap on "wipe data/factory reset", and press OK. Another Confirmation screen will come. Press Yes and OK
6.After userdata is cleared, the "reboot system now" option will be highlighted by Default. Press OK.
7.Phone will reboot to initial setup MOTOBLUR screen.
NOTE/If on Android 2.3.4 then replace step #4 with pressing both Volume buttons at the same time. Also, use the Power button to activate the highlighted option instead of looking for the OK.
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As suggested, starting a new thread.
Hello,
Straight to the point, Rooted UK Atrix, running 2.3.4. no other MOD OR rom or anything, i like motoblur.
Stupidly Used Bloatfreezer to freeze 'home' without having another launcher to return to. Can't use the phone now. Trying to reset (hard or soft i do not know the difference) and the phone reads ''fastboot'' then i toggle down using volume - to android recovery and the phone is coming up with starting rsd protocol x2 and nothing else (using the power + & - methods).
If i leave my phone to just boot it resides on a white screen teasing me with noises of logging in but i cannot see anything.
I'm really lost to be honest, i have no idea what to do and i am not good with terminology either (adw, flashboots, cm7 i have no idea what they are).
I know there are sooo many threads with different answer's so that is why i am starting a new thread.
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Can you get to android market via your computer? If so go to it, log in, find a launcher and install to your phone. Once rebooted to the phone, it *should* give you a choice or just automatically choose the new launcher. What does double tapping your home button bring you too? I was able to find my alternative launcher by moving around via that.
sounds like ya have frozen system files
prolly be easyest to unlock bootloader and push a custom rom to it (they work better than stock anyway
Yes i did freeze the home app.
I really mean thanks to those replied. Unfortunately i have tried the first suggestion but it doesn't let me get to step 3 with the triangle, fast boot - android recovery - can't fast boot 2 etc can't get passed that.
i have just plugged it in the Laptop, taking sim out, and it has started! i thought it was broken!! but unfortunately not 'home' yet...
SO it is at the motoblur login screen, should i log in? press factory reset? Any suggestions?
I'm not sure how to push an app straight to phone so i can install a launcher...
we're nearly there guys!
In addition to what Robkort said a few posts up ^^^ to get into the recovery on 2.3.4 you may have to scroll down once you see fastboot, until you see "Android Recovery" and press vol up - when the android dude comes up, if tapping the bottom right corner doesnt get you into recovery, press BOTH volume buttons at the same time.
It is now up and working with me just simply plugging it in, running moto sync, logging in to market from laptop and sending the launcher app..
Wifi was enabled luckily before i froze home, so when i pressed log in it went 'error' then launcher pro just popped up so now i think i just unfreeze home, turn it off, put my sim in and fingers crossed..
wish me luck!
Yahooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
It's worrying how much happier i am now that i am back on top with my phone working. Pretty dependant we become!
All my widgets, and motoblur have gone, and some writing is in a different language :/ universal inbox is not there either.
Still Thanks for all the suggestions!
I suggest this thread should be 'FROZEN' or just stay open if anyone ever freezes 'home' without having another launcher installed.
I'm glad i didn't need to flash anything, put other ROMS on, hard reset losing everything, solved pretty simple luckily.
First of all I'm sorry if this is in the wrong section. I can't for the life of me find a section specifically for the myTouch Q so i usually just go ahead to the glacier thread.
But My phone is bricked. It loads the LG and myTouch Screen, then goes to the lock screen (draw pattern) But i cant touch the screen at all. The background is black, and its a matter of minutes before shutting off again and repeating the cycle.
I know that going into bootloader will solve my problem but the phone has no physical buttons. So I cant hit any buttons for a factory reset. I checked all over the internet but cant find any good info on the Q and its touch bottons.
Sorry buddy, but your right , this is the wrong forum. Are you sure there is no hard way to get into the bootloader ?
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I have no idea. I can't use the phone at all since I cant do anything at lock screen. I was thinking that there would be another way for bootloader maybe by usb or a software but nothing.
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I know that going into bootloader will solve my problem but the phone has no physical buttons. So I cant hit any buttons for a factory reset.
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What do you mean? does the Q not ship with physical buttons? I doubt that, but I havnt looked at the phone much. Or do you mean ur physical buttons are broken?
IF they are broken u are most likely out of luck, unless u can hold down the power button for that menu to pop up. then u can press reboot and press bootloader or recovery. That is, IF the rom supports it.
also u never stated if the phone was rooted and had a custom rom. that would make a huge help
The phone has pressure sensitive buttons unlike the MY4G. So the Menu, Power, Volume factory reset is i think not usable
It's rooted but doesnt have a custom rom. I am using another launcher though if that helps
never mind I found out. It's a little different for this phone
cant provide url to page but thanks
Just when I got interested, he bailed! The suspense is gonna make me Google it myself!
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