After successfully changing recovery, radio and kernel I flashed the ezterry-gingerrom. After the recovery reboot, as suggested, the phone doesnt get into the OS.
It gets stuck at the flash screen:
dropbox.com/home/Public/update.jpg
Please suggest a way forward, the screen fades into various dark green, blue or reds after some time, and no further action happens. I tired waiting for several hours, still nothing.
Any suggestions are welcome.
BTW the image is also found when doing a factory reset in HTC evo and some other models, if that helps.
milind
milindchitale said:
After successfully changing recovery, radio and kernel I flashed the ezterry-gingerrom. After the recovery reboot, as suggested, the phone doesnt get into the OS.
It gets stuck at the flash screen:
dropbox.com/home/Public/update.jpg
Please suggest a way forward, the screen fades into various dark green, blue or reds after some time, and no further action happens. I tired waiting for several hours, still nothing.
Any suggestions are welcome.
BTW the image is also found when doing a factory reset in HTC evo and some other models, if that helps.
milind
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a bit more info about ur phone might be helpful..like radio, hboot and kernel info..
phone info
xevildoerxx,
I updated my radio and spl using ra-Magic+1.7. in order to load the Diet Gingerbread on my 32A magic.
After the flashing thru recovery, it asked me to reboot, which I complied with. But on restarting, it came up with the image.
This image stays for few seconds, then fades into dark screen. If I press vol down, screen takes red or green shade, but nothing legible anywhere.
Please help, how to recover boot now? I am unable to fastboot or adb.
Since then, I am unable to use the phone, and feel very bad, as it was my son's magic!
radio: 6.35.18... and spl 1.76.2007 was used.
thanks in advance
milind
Do you really have 32A?
May be it was MT3G v1.2 with 3.5" audiojack?
What SPL info did you have before?
Try these modes (remove battery and place it back before loading into mode, cause you may think that phone is off, but it can be in bootloop)
Back + Power (fastboot-mode)
VolumeDown + Power (hboot-mode)
Home + Power (recovery-mode)
If any mode is not working - you have a brick and not able to restore by software methods. Search for JTAG in this case
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I just rooted my Mytouch a couple days ago and everything worked perfect and i did it without bricking my phone. I was trying to get the supercsdiv4 rom, but i needed to flash the lateset radio and heres where the problem started. the radio tried to flash was 2.22.23.02. I used the recovery image to flash it and then when i rebooted the phone it stayed stuck at the splash screen and i cant get into fastboot or recovery anymore. it just boot to the splash screen and stays there. I know i cant get my phone back but i want to know what i did wrong so that i dont ever do it again. maybe it was because the radio i had was a 32a radio and this radio i tried to flash might have been 32b but im not sure why that wouldn't work if my phone is 32b
here was my system
pvt 32b
Hboot 1.33.2005
radio 3.22.20.17
have you tried taking the battery out for a bit.. relax a while, then put it back in and try to get into recovery mode (home and power)
this actually happened yesterday and my phone was off the whole time so it has had plenty of time to rest. My phone is truly bricked
well im sorry to hear that, but i have no idea what you did wrong, unless you did flash a 32a over a 32b or the other way around, im sure that could really mess up the phone.
may be a useless idea but have you tried a hard reset
1. With the phone turned off, press and hold the HOME and BACK buttons.
2. Briefly press the END CALL/POWER button while continuing to press the HOME and BACK buttons.
3. When you see the screen with the 3 Android
images, release the HOME and BACK buttons, and then press the TRACKBALL.
i have no idea if it will do anything but might as well explore EVERYTHING.
Similar Problem (Partial Brick?)
Not to take anything away from clint1225 but
I have a similar problem and didn't want to start another thread.
I tried unrooting my devices using the method
described at theUnlockr.com. Everything was fine up until I tried using
their sappimg file (said it worked for all old magics).
At the hboot stage, it found the sappimg but the update failed.
However, the magic now says:
SPL-1.33.0006 (SAP50000)
Radio- 2.22.19.261
Ship S-On G.
It's a 32A version.
I had an engineering spl and 6.35xx radio before I attempted to unroot.
Oh I'm not able to access recovery but I can access
fastboot (computer can't find it though under "fastboot devices")
Other than that, it's stuck at the first splash screen.
Any advice/tips?
Sorry for the long post and thank you.
Good luck to you too, clint1225!
UPDATE *Similar Problem (Partial Brick?)*
In the adb, the serial number
of the htc magic is coming
up under "fastboot devices".
However, if I try to
flash a recovery for example, the adb
returns "remote access not allowed".
I've read about the gold card method
but my phone won't boot up properly
(stuck at splash screen) and I can't
access recovery. Only fastboot seems to be
working.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Take it for what it's worth coming from a newb. But from my understanding if you can reach your phone with Fastboot your a NOT bricked. But this is what I have heard here on XDA, I haven't proven this myself.
Check around and hopefully with fastboot you can get your phone back. Good luck.
I did the exact same thing a few weeks back. I flashed a 3.22 radio over my 2.22 radio, thinking it's an upgrade but after it reboots, it wont get past the logo screen. I spent the whole day trying to find ways to recover it but cannot find any. Thank god I have warrenty on it so I went to the Tmobile store, told them I updated it and when it restart, it got stuck on the logo screen. They gave me a new phone and told me dont f-up this one. Now I'm afraid of updating my phone to the 6.something radio.
Update *Similar Problem (Partial Brick?)*...again.
MasterColdSoul and koolpre,
Thanks for the tips and luck!
I figured it wasn't a total brick so I searched
the whole day on google and xda.
What I can tell you is that I now have a functional phone.
I used the rogers "mandatory" update (2 sappimgs) to
get my phone (rogers 32a) working again (boots fully).
However, I now have the SPL 1.76.0010 which means
I've lost root functionality and it's harder to get root.
But I could use the phone to make a gold card and get root again.
Boy I'm glad this worked! I should have learned my lesson
but I will probably try to root, hehe!
Thanks to google search and xda community!
koolpre said:
I did the exact same thing a few weeks back. I flashed a 3.22 radio over my 2.22 radio, thinking it's an upgrade but after it reboots, it wont get past the logo screen. I spent the whole day trying to find ways to recover it but cannot find any. Thank god I have warrenty on it so I went to the Tmobile store, told them I updated it and when it restart, it got stuck on the logo screen. They gave me a new phone and told me dont f-up this one. Now I'm afraid of updating my phone to the 6.something radio.
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just because the radio starts with bigger numbers doesn't make it an update. 3.22 was the old radio and 2.33.23.02 is the latest radio so you were actually downgrading your radio and thats why your phone brick. Just letting you know because you seem to be under the wrong impression. Dont make that mistake again. just do a little research to find the latest radio.
I did a radio and spl update in the wrong order (spl first and then radio). Now i'm stuck with a radio install screen that ends up in fadeout display and vertical white stripes every time i boot up my phone. Just like this video except the arrow points to a android instead of a phone:
I can't go to hboot (back + power)
I can't go to recovery (home + power)
I can get the blue led (trackball + power)
Is there anything i can do to fix this?
Phone info:
32A (htc branded)
radio:
old: RADIO-3.22.20.17
new: Radio_HTC_PVT_32A_6.35.10.18 (as a zip on sd)
spl (hboot):
old: HBOOT-1.33.2010 (SAPP10000)
new: hboot-1.76.2007 (SAPP10000)
recovery:
old: RA-magic-v1.2.3H
new: recovery-RA-sapphire-v1.7.0H
Please ask if you need more information. Though i'm still a bit of a newbie (otherwise i would not have "bricked" my phone)
That's a recovery screen. You should have flashed the Hero recovery, not the Sapphire/Magic one, since that's what the new radio requires.
Hold down Volume and press power. Does you phone go into fastboot? If so, flash the latest Hero recovery or the modded Sapphire/ new radio one from http://www.theandroidkitchen.com/fileshare/Sapphire-32A-Updates/
keinengel said:
Hold down Volume and press power. Does you phone go into fastboot?
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No, i have tried VolUp, VolDown and both. Still goes to the "install" screen and crashes.
If you can't get into fastboot (volume down+power), recovery (home+power), or get the phone to boot normally, I think you've pretty much bricked your phone. If it's under warranty, try to take it back. If not and you've got insurance, tell them the phone is in the bottom of a lake, if you don't have both, well that just sucks.
I have read about "Gold card" but i'm no sure how it works, it is not something that will do anything in my situation?
Not really, sorry. You need to be able to get into fastboot in order to use a goldcard.
Hm, thats so sad. My older brother was about to inherit the phone. Well - no android for him this time... Sorry my man.
Thanks for the clarification on this matter
What's wrong?
I mean I've tried to flash it 4 times. It failed all of these. When I flash it, it gets stuck on "writing radio...", the screen gets black and nothing happens. Then whatever radio I want to flash, it will do the same. The only solution is to use an RUU, which will fail the same way, but then you reboot the phone and continue.
What's up with this? Any idea?
Please provide SPL info (Turn the phone off, turn on by pressing Back + Power)
If you have 1.76.2007 ENG S-OFF - you can flash new radio
If you have other info - anybody will write you right instruction)
5[Strogino] said:
Please provide SPL info (Turn the phone off, turn on by pressing Back + Power)
If you have 1.76.2007 ENG S-OFF - you can flash new radio
If you have other info - anybody will write you right instruction)
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It *was* S-OFF, but 1.76.2010 I think. Now I reflashed the RUU, I'll try with this.
wrong section! moving to general.
Ok, I now believe I've bricked it. I downloaded an update for the radio from http://www.theandroidkitchen.com/fileshare/Sapphire-32A-Updates (a zip), flashed it from recovery and bam. Now the phone reboots and shows an HTC screen (with its logo). Then it becomes black and that's it. It can't boot from fastboot, hboot, recovery, nothing. Even the RUU can't do something.
Holy crap, HELP!
Hi, unfortunately I will have to ask for help as I can't find a solution myself.
Until today i ran CyanogenMod 6.1 on my Vodafone HTC Magic and wanted to flash GingerYoshi on it.
Therefore I followed this guide to install a new radio and hboot which seemed to be necessary for the GingerYoshi Rom. According to the guide I used the RA-Recovery 1.7 to flash the SuperWipe_v2.zip, rebooted into RA-Recovery again, flashed the radio.zip, rebooted ... into nothing but the vodafone Logo on red background. At the first boot it showed a little box with an arrow pointing to an Android-Robot and then it stuck at the vodafone screen.
I can't get into fastboot (Back + Power) or any other mode (Volume Down + Power) it only boots to the red vodafone screen. The only action I can provoke is a black screen and a blue led when pressing the trackball during power up.
Any ideas what to do now? Did I really screw my telephone?
Original Rominfo:
SAPPHIRE PVT 32B SHIP S-ON G
HBOOT-1.33.0004 (SAPP10000)
CPLD-10
RADIO-2.22.19.26I
Apr 9 2009,23:30:40
Yes you did... the reason is simple.
When you flash a radio using the custom recovery, you have to wait like 2 min for it finish. It's normal that it will reboot a couple of times while it's flashing, and it's also normal to see a different picture for a while....
You ( this what I believe) just did not wait long enough for it to finish and tried to push a button or take out the battery...
So, yes, you are bricked!
Thats a shame...but when flashing radio and spl, we have to double our attention.
it happens bro, try pull out the batery and wait till tomorrow, and try again, if it doesnt work, it seem you have briked
Thank you for your answers - even though they aren't very encouraging
But mumilover might be right, although I waited quite some time before I started to panic, I obviously acted to early an interrupted the flashing process.
Does anyone know a German shop which can unbrick the device? Otherwise I will have to buy a new phone. In the meantime I will stick to my good old Siemens S45
hello
i read this forum in the last 4 hours and i didnt find any solution to my problem.
last night i was trying to install android in my HD2 :
first i install HSPL3 and everything was ok
then i instlled DFT_LEO_MAGDLR 113 and when to restart, my phone just stays white screen with the green logo HTC on it. just!!!!!!
i tryed to go in bootloader holding down and up volume and the power, nothing it happenes, is going white with the green logo. i tryed to connect it to the pc and install, delete do something, i cant do anything . it just stays like this. i took the batery off and put it again and hold the volume buttons, nothing , NOTHING is happening.
what to do ??!! please help, any idea or something
SPL MUST be 2.08.hspl and radio MUST be 2.07.50 or higher, and must not have 51 instead of 50. So radio 2.07.50 will work, 2.07.51 wont.
Flash the correct radio and magldr will start.
how to flash again, because the computer dont recognise it more, is like is turned off.if i let it hours it just stays white screen with the green logo on it.
Hold vol down at start to enter bootloader,connect USB, when it says USB at bottom of screen you can flash.
No need to re flash magldr, its just waiting for the correct radio (go for 2.15.50) and it will start.
i wrote in the previous post that i cant go into boodloader, i do push the volume down but is not going into bootloader, is opening my white screen with the htc logo on it.
Lol, oh yea. I dip in and out of here dozens of times a day, and lose track of the details of various threads.
Sorry, can't help you.
it's ok, i think to the end i will send it to check the buttons. i give up . thanks anyway