Hey all,
I have just factory reset my phone and I can't get it to boot. It is stuck on the htc start up screen. No buttons work. How long should I wait before I know something is wrong? I tried downgrading with AAHK and it restarted my phone and it has been like that ever since.
Is it bricked? And I couldn't get around to installing ClockWorkMod onto it.
Thanks
When the phone is off, volume down + power to get into hboot. If its still S ON you can't flash anything on it. AAHK can root. Downgrading and restoring to stock with a Froyo RUU a device that has been shipped with Gingerbread WILL get you jammed like that for sure.
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Sorry I'm a bit of a noob at this. What do you mean S ON? And is my phone stuffed?
Power + Volume down for about 5 seconds. Write everything it says once you get into boot. Then we'll talk.
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djolebih said:
Power + Volume down for about 5 seconds. Write everything it says once you get into boot. Then we'll talk.
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Okay so, I managed to use that PG...IMG thingo and I managed to use that to get my phone up and running. It's running at 2.2 right now and I'm not getting any system updates. This was after factory resetting it. I'm meant to be updated at 2.3.5. Is there a problem now?
Did you root or not?
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Sorry for the long reply , was out of town for a few days with no internet . Phone is all fixed now rooted and installed with a ICS ROM
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Basically, i used Unrevoked to get a Custom Recovery about 2 months ago, and since HTC released the Update for the HTC Wildfire, i havent been able to get on the Clockwork recovery screen. Every time a press recovery on the HBOOT screen, it takes me to a picture of a phone and a Red explanation mark. What shall i do ?
That's the stock HTC recovery which the update went back to. You just need to run unrevoked again.
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That's the stock HTC recovery which the update went back to. You just need to run unrevoked again.
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Hey, I have tried this, do you know if it works on a windows 7 64bit operating system??
hello...could anybody help me please...i was updating my htc magic to [ROM][32b] Official AOSP 2.2 OTA...but after i copied the update to sd,and i rebooted at the recovery menu i couldn't scroll to select the update.zip..it takes very long n i decided to pull out the battery n restart it again..unfortunately it went wrong somewhere n the phne keep on restarting again and again...i've tried to hard reset and all...but it won't works...help pleasee...
no replies yet...that's very sad..
If you can get to the recovery screen try wiping and factory reset.and flash a different rom. If that doesn't work. You can always do the unroot method by using the smping.mbh file or something like that. Look up how to unroot in google and you should know what I mean. Hope this helps
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lucasleiva said:
If you can get to the recovery screen try wiping and factory reset.and flash a different rom. If that doesn't work. You can always do the unroot method by using the smping.mbh file or something like that. Look up how to unroot in google and you should know what I mean. Hope this helps
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thanks lucas..but,the problem is that i can't get the recovery...it's keep on restarting again and again..??any idea?
Well then you need to unroot your mytouch it basically puts it back in factory settings and you do it through fast boot. I'm guessing you have the original mytouch this how I did it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lReoBy848PI
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Well then you need to unroot your mytouch it basically puts it back in factory settings and you do it through fast boot. I'm guessing you have the original mytouch this how I did it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lReoBy848PI
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thanks lucas...i'll giv it a try now...let see...
giggsy_lel said:
thanks lucas...i'll giv it a try now...let see...
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ok..tried..same thing goes again....it can't load up the recovery menu...started until the splash screen "htc magic" n restarted again...hemm...seems like a big probl!damn it!!...
giggsy_lel said:
ok..tried..same thing goes again....it can't load up the recovery menu...started until the splash screen "htc magic" n restarted again...hemm...seems like a big probl!damn it!!...
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You don't need to get in recovery screen. Turn the phone off and hold the up volume button and the power button and fast boot the sapping.nbh file
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What I did is:
Through fastboot I flashed SAPPIMG.nbh. It put my phone to the cupcake (1.5). Then I installed rooted HTC 1.6 update. After that I flashed any Rom I wanted.
Tutorial: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=586363
PS: This is the only working way I know since I am a noob too and finally got it going. Tried almost every rom in this section
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You don't need to get in recovery screen. Turn the phone off and hold the up volume button and the power button and fast boot the sapping.nbh file
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okay done!thats very helpfull lucas...seems i tried to reboot wrongly...insted of pressing the volume up button,i pressed the down button...my bad! luckily the original stock rom is ok!so i dont need to restore to factory settings...now the only thing i had to do is,just update the cupcake to eclairs... now i have to read very2 carefully i think..coz there is alot of ways to root n update...hemm...which u suggest easier lucas??thanks alot dude...
You're very welcome. this method had saved my phone from being bricked like a hundred times.if the g2 had a fail safe like that I would of already rooted it. Glad I could help
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yo lucas...sorry for the late reply..now the phone had the same problem again...i just tried to do recovery using ROM manager..but after it saves everything and reboot and the splash screen looping continuosly again..damn it..it's my 2n tiime now..grrrr!!i tried ur method n it didn't work...n seems there is alot of people with this same problem when i tried to search around..seems there is no better solutions yet for this "semi-brickd" problems..
So you can't put it back to stock? If you manage to get it back to stock by doing the same thing you did beforev you should try using a different recovery. aman-ra's recovery is the best for me. But I can't see how you can't get into the fastboot screen by pressing power and volume up,that's never failed for me. If its really impossible you should have tmobile replace it. I don't think they can tell you hacked it if they can't even get into fastboot.sorry if I took long to answer
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So you can't put it back to stock? If you manage to get it back to stock by doing the same thing you did beforev you should try using a different recovery. aman-ra's recovery is the best for me. But I can't see how you can't get into the fastboot screen by pressing power and volume up,that's never failed for me. If its really impossible you should have tmobile replace it. I don't think they can tell you hacked it if they can't even get into fastboot.sorry if I took long to answer
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no probl lucas..i do apprcte ur replies to me.. i really don't know wats happening..n seems there is no ways other than sendng it to the manufacturer..if it's the motherboard problem...i'm doomed!!hopefully not...
Ok so this is on my wife's phone that I have not touched, I have a vibrant that is rooted and I flash different things all the time, and recovered from several bootloops, so I'm not totally new to this. As soon as you turn the phone on it goes to the my touch 4g screen, vibrates, and then reboots. I can get into hboot screen but if I try to go to recovery or do a factory reset it just bootloops again. I did some searching but saw nothing about an unrooted phone bootlooping. Any help is greatly apreciated.
Try this... pull the battery. Let it sit for 20 minutes. Then try booting it. Sounds like a dell tech support answer... but it has actually worked for more than a few people.
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Ok so I found PD15img.zip and tried loading it and installed fine but same problem, so I'm not trying to install factory recovery through adb and fastboot and I've got all the files but fastboot will not recognize the device (yes drivers are installed). Any suggestions before I call HTC/tmobile in the morning?
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Ok so I found PD15img.zip and tried loading it and installed fine but same problem, so I'm not trying to install factory recovery through adb and fastboot and I've got all the files but fastboot will not recognize the device (yes drivers are installed). Any suggestions before I call HTC/tmobile in the morning?
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Well, you could try the suggestion from the poster above..and if you did leave feedback.
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If the pd15img.zip isn't working sounds like an internal storage issue. If that's the case there is nothing u can do. Call T-Mobile not HTC.
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Thanks for everyone's help. Left the battery out all night and same thing this morning. Called t-mobile and they're shipping a new one for free, which surprised me since we bought the phone off eBay. Thanks again.
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Trying to return phone to stock and CANNOT enter the bootloader for it to recognize my stock image on the sd card because the darn power button is broken/stuck.
I try adb reboot bootloader and that sends me into FASTBOOT, NOT bootloader
any other way to get to bootloader (without use of the power button) or flash back the stock rom?
Thanks!
There is an app on market called quick boot that you could try. Hope it doesn't boot into fastboot too. Otherwise just try to flash an unrooted stock rom, that might work for what you need.
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I use an app called Widgetsoid, which includes the ability to make a widget that can reboot your phone, Can be set up so that you choose how to reboot (Recovery, Power off, etc).
Requires SU access to reboot with the widget, and please be aware that when I had a couple different roms, the widget simply failed to reboot at all -- for example it works fine when I'm running Darkside Sense 4.0, failed to work at all on meXdroidMod Ghost Chili's rom.
Hope this might help ya out
I found an app called button remapper thanks to I forgot who.
It will remap power,but...
It will not work to turn the phone on,and once you use it to get to recovery,you will need the power button to scroll through,so you'd still be in trouble if its completely broke.
Pm me and I could send you the file when I'm on the computer tonight.
If you want to try.
Or search for button remapper on xda.I don't think its in the market.
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Can't you use the trackpad in recovery to navigate?
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Can't you use the trackpad in recovery to navigate?
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yeah, it's what you're supposed to do lol
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yeah, it's what you're supposed to do lol
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That's what I thought. Its how I get around in recovery, I hate our power button
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Oh come on.
How about if you go to install zip from sdcard,or wipe/reset,did I miss something where you can use the trackpad to go back,when there is no go back option?or like I was saying,you would need to hit that trusty power button to ho back.
I don't know,I might have missed it after flashing about 500times.
But pretty sure I use the power button all the time to go back after wiping data,then cache,power to ho back,wipe dalvik,power to go back,install zip from sdcard,power to go back,then reboot system.
Have I been doing it wrong?
Btw,this android keypad on tdj's 7.2 just fast.whoohoo.
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Oh yeah.lol that.smartbutt.
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Oh ummm.forgot about the back button.my bad.lol.
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sunlaw2 said:
Oh ummm.forgot about the back button.my bad.lol.
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You do realize there's an edit button, right? And power button does not function as a back key (or at least never has for me..
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Hardly ever say this,nut you do realize you can **** off! Edit that *****.
Edit:just kidding,but **** off.
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Getting a bit sidetracked here, I am trying to revert to stock ROM and cannot because the Power button is broken on this piece of crap and I cannot get to bootloader.
• adb reboot bootloader and that sends me into FASTBOOT, NOT bootloader and does not load image
• no option in Settings > Power or Settings > Applications to disable fastboot (I have gingerbread)
• using CWM recovered > Install zip from file does not work
Can anyone advise a way to revert to stock image without HBOOT, that actually works and does not require the power button?
P.S. this whole thing has really made be disenchanted with the mess that is android right now. Since it seems that it really android is not open or owned by google. Instead owned by the carriers. I should not feel like a criminal for wanting a basic android phone. Makes me almost want to scrap and get an iPhone.
Firstly, its not the Android OS that's the problem. Its your broken ass phone so calm down. If your thinking Android is not open, go ahead and get an iPhone and you'll see what a not open OS is really like.
Secondly...
I read you have Clockwork recovery installed. Flashing this image through Clockwork will at least make it look stock. It is said you will lose root but probably keep S-ON.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=901477
You might also want to check out this program here before you try the link above. I havent used it but it seems like it might be something worth checking out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193915
@ajm
Why are you trying to revert to stock if you don't mind me asking? Are u sending it to HTC for them to fix it? They wont care if your rooted they will just wipe your phone and put in the mysense gingerbread rom. I highly advise u to contact HTC and check your warranty. I sent in NY CM7 mt4g and they fixed the power button for free.
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Why are you trying to revert to stock if you don't mind me asking? Are u sending it to HTC for them to fix it? They wont care if your rooted they will just wipe your phone and put in the mysense gingerbread rom. I highly advise u to contact HTC and check your warranty. I sent in NY CM7 mt4g and they fixed the power button for free.
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Sending it to t-mobile, not HTC for return (they already sent replacement); I thought they would mind??
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Firstly, its not the Android OS that's the problem. Its your broken ass phone so calm down. If your thinking Android is not open, go ahead and get an iPhone and you'll see what a not open OS is really like.
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I read you have Clockwork recovery installed. Flashing this image through Clockwork will at least make it look stock. It is said you will lose root but probably keep S-ON.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=901477
You might also want to check out this program here before you try the link above. I havent used it but it seems like it might be something worth checking out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193915
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Thanks, frustrated is all. Taking it out on Android OS, but really peeved at GOOG
- for having caved into the carriers by letting them bastardize the OS with their mods, forcing me to feel like criminal in modding and jumping through hoops to get a vastly better experience
- for not outbidding verizion on that wireless spectrum and becoming a carrier themselves
Was original N1 owner (first week) and will prob sqitch to galaxy nexus (as soon as they get on more carriers)
Thanks on the suggestions, tried to reflash through CWM several times and keeps giving me installation aborted.. will download again (in case is corrupted) and try again; Interesting other suggestion, will take a look at, but not much time, have to send back replacement tomor
Thx again
You can also try this. It is a nandroid restore somebody made. It seems a bit more involved because it looks like you need to use an older version of clockwork recovery. If I am correct you can find an older version of the recovery and flash it through rom manager, but dont quote me on that one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=845756
When I had a MT4G and the EMMC chip died I hooked the phone to a 12 volt battery and fried it. I then called and told them I plugged the phone in to charge one night and the next morning it would not power on. They replaced it no questions asked and I never heard anything about it again.
My mom's power button went out as well. Tmo and HTC flat out refused a replacement MT4G, Saying it was a "known issue". I called them about 10 times total about this problem. They just want to sell me another phone. Full price. Since i've called them so many times they wont even do a Insurance claim.
If this is a "known problem" why the f isn't it being taken care of properly?
Has anyone else had this problem with customer service?
This is a stock htc tmobile mytouch 4gphone and it stuck on the white mytouch 4G screen. It stay on for a bit and it looks like static tv picture and then it reboots, After it reboots it goes back into the white screen and then it turns black and it has a picture of the phone with a green recycle symbol then it flash's and it another picture of the phone with a red triangle with exclamation point. when I pull the battery out and put it back in and try and go into (guess it like CWM) phone and hold the power button and the volume rocker button it go into recovery and when I go to factory reset and press the power button it wont do anything. can some one please help me with this.
Use the stickied thread for bricked phones. If you can get into bootloader, you can probably fix it. All the info you need is there.
I think your mobile emmc(nand flash) chip dead
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I think your mobile emmc(nand flash) chip dead
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If he follows the steps in the thread that I told him to read, he MAY be OK. Let the guy hope.
Also, an eMMC is not the same as a NAND chip.
Will the, how to return to stock work for a non rooted phone. I need to know this before I try and download the zip files. I understand how to do it. I just want to make sure that it might work for a not rooted cell phone. Will the phone be able to read a zip file. Also when I go to factory reset and press the power button it wont do anything. It freeze and you have to pull the battery out. This is a guy that I know and I dont want mess up his phone anymore then it is. I have a rooted samsung galaxy sg2 i777 running [Rom] AOKP(Jellybean 4.1.2) | Task650 & Ktoonsez.
I have MT4G mainboad it is S-ON stuck mutouch 4g screen.i can go hboot.and download glacear radio file.but stuck installing. Can i fix it?
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I don't know if this will work but download the pd15img.zip for either 2.2 or 2.1 (sorry I forgot which the stock 2.x is) or if your on 2.3 download that one but the rom, not the radio. Before you do that format your SD card on the computer to fat32 and then try to install that but it will wipe every thing on your phone.
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Not moving. Stuck all time.
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Mytouch 4g booting track pad light.
This light not moving problem your rom or emmc chip. This is easy. Check your booting light.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kmStXGelLx0
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Will the, how to return to stock work for a non rooted phone. I need to know this before I try and download the zip files. I understand how to do it. I just want to make sure that it might work for a not rooted cell phone. Will the phone be able to read a zip file. Also when I go to factory reset and press the power button it wont do anything. It freeze and you have to pull the battery out. This is a guy that I know and I dont want mess up his phone anymore then it is. I have a rooted samsung galaxy sg2 i777 running [Rom] AOKP(Jellybean 4.1.2) | Task650 & Ktoonsez.
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If you read that thread you'll find the answer to all of your questions. Stop panicking and do your research. Seriously. This phone has built in way to restore software problems. If the eMMC has crapped out or the bootloader is corrupt, then you're hosed. Otherwise, it's fixable.