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--- If you have bricked your HTC Desire Z or G2. I have a method that is sure to work! In the past I bricked the same device and I have found a way around it. Follow these steps and post and thank if it has worked for you! ---
How To Unbrick A HTC Desire Z or G2!
Step 1: If your device is rooted and flashed with "ClockworkMod Recovery" and "S-Off"you want to start by holding down the Volume Down Button and holding the Power Button for about 7 seconds.
Step 2: You will suddenly be welcomed with the HBOOT Menu. Scroll down and select Recovery.
Step 3A: You will then be showed the "ClockworkMod Recovery" Menu. (Read the message below!)
Step 3B: First you will need to Factory Reset and Clear Cache Partition!
**If you have a backup or restore point continue to Step 4A if not you will need to install an alternate ROM and proceed to Step 5 or Factory Reset which will only reset for that ROM. For another possible solution a read end of post!**
Step 4A: Now from here you will of course scroll down to Backup and Restore, select restore and select your point of restore!
Step 5: Now if you have another ROM located on the SD Card of your phone you can scroll down to install zip from sdcard and find the zip file (gapps if required) and install all of the following and reboot!
Step 6: Enjoy your UnBricked device!
---Alternate Solutions----- Fix Permissions and reboot.
-- Factory Reset and Reboot
... lol I had to do this method long ago. Bad thing is I had to find out on my own but is good that you posted this. I think it will help out.
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Expect alot from me from now on first time XDA member full time experienced disaster avoider!
How do you unbrick a device when it say
E: cant mount /cache/recovery/command
E: cant mount /cache/recovery/log
E: cant open/cache/recovery/log
E: cant open/cache/recovery/last_log
E: cant mount /cache/recovery/last_log
cant restore to earlier restore has errors
during wipes it always gives me the
E: cant mount /cache/recovery/log
E: cant open/cache/recovery/log
E: cant open/cache/recovery/last_log
E: cant mount /cache/recovery/last_log
errors
dragokld said:
How do you unbrick a device when it say
E: cant mount /cache/recovery/command
E: cant mount /cache/recovery/log
E: cant open/cache/recovery/log
E: cant open/cache/recovery/last_log
E: cant mount /cache/recovery/last_log
cant restore to earlier restore has errors
during wipes it always gives me the
E: cant mount /cache/recovery/log
E: cant open/cache/recovery/log
E: cant open/cache/recovery/last_log
E: cant mount /cache/recovery/last_log
errors
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Am not really sure... I've never had this issue before. Well do you know how to use ADB? If you do can't you flash clockwork again maybe that could fix the problem. I really don't know how to use ADB since I used Unforgivens way of s-off.
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I AM VS4 said:
Expect alot from me from now on first time XDA member full time experienced disaster avoider!
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Lol yup. Anyways welcome to the group!
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lainvalenajr said:
Am not really sure... I've never had this issue before. Well do you know how to use ADB? If you do can't you flash clockwork again maybe that could fix the problem. I really don't know how to use ADB since I used Unforgivens way of s-off.
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yeah ive been getting help from someone from the cyanogenmod forums and we have tried many things flashing recoveries and all that but it keeps giving me errors.
I dont think that i can reflash clockworkmod because i dont have eng s-off just ship s-off
Thanks, very helpful!
If your phone is bricked then you won't be able to get into hboot at all. So it would be helpful if you would consider changing the title etc of your posting. This won't help a phone which really is bricked.
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steviewevie said:
If your phone is bricked then you won't be able to get into hboot at all. So it would be helpful if you would consider changing the title etc of your posting. This won't help a phone which really is bricked.
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... Well its a simi-brick. I guess the titile should be changed but not saying that the thread isn't helpful
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This method has worked for me in the past and there is a possibility this can work! So "Steviewevie" I wouldn't post a method I haven't tested in the past! I have Unbricked 2 devices with this same method. There is ways around everything. So "dragokld" keep trying and try the method "lainvalenajr" has given. I will check for more methods and experimenting. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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I have tried this method, but I cannot reach the CWM menu, all I can do is try the standard HBoot recovery from PC10IMG.zip, but it dies at RADIO_V2 step after many Fail-PU on all other steps: what can I do?
My DZ was rooted, flashed with CWM and Virtuous ROM. I have a nandroid backup on the SD. It died today with "can't mount" error messages after a freeze and reboot.
Also tried Factory Reset from HBoot, but it hanged at the "androids on skate" screen forever..
These instructions are just "how to flash a ROM" or at best, what to do after a failed flash.
I don't want to sound like a jerk, I think it's great whenever someone takes the time to help others, but these instructions will not work for a bricked phone.
Allright, I'll keep following the other thread then.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14121637#post14121637
~I think my device have a hard brick
SIGN-ON
normal HBOOT 0.82.0000
Rooted
Clockrecovery installed
radio: 26.02.01.15_m2
I can't pass the boot
I can't any radio
I can't downgrade radio version
I can't use misc.img
After I select recover the phone just froze at HTC white screen. Clockwork recovery was installed and flashed.
I think this is called "soft-bricked"
hard-bricked is when none of this stuff is possible and you have to send your phone and $40 to that famous dude here in the forum who un-bricks anything.
Hi, I have an unrooted Desire Z on Bell. I recently experienced a hard lock and upon battery pull, discovered that my phone would not boot up (frozen at the htc screen). I can hold volume - and the power button to get into the boot menu, but can't seem to perform a factory reset or enter recovery mode. Recovery brings me to the screen it should initially (with the green circle/arrow symbol) and then the screen goes blank and the phone vibrates a total of seven times before...nothing happens. Selecting factory reset just hangs up the Hboot menu.
All I can really do is go into Fastboot or IMAGE CRC, but don't see any options there. Any one have any ideas?
Before this, i also experience half brick. My DZ already s off. So i just flash the stock rom & gain the root again. Flash the custom rom & my DZ back to normal until now.
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I was using CM7 for about a month, without any reboots at all. Recently i got greedy and wanted to try out MIUI, so i downloaded the latest ROM and copied it onto the SD card and ofcourse flashed the system with it. After rebooting i only get to see the lockscreen and after that the phone just reboots. I have tried everything there is, but with no luck.
It seems i can not revert the phone back to stock reco, rom etc. either, because first i need a working system to do that.
Any ideas, people?
Thank You in advance,
a worried Android fan from Estonia.
Question I bought a mytouch 4g and it was stuck on the boot screen and so I checked to see if it had recovery and I went into boot loader and it has s off and when I try to load recovery I get this message
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
If some one could point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.
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sinfulgray said:
Question I bought a mytouch 4g and it was stuck on the boot screen and so I checked to see if it had recovery and I went into boot loader and it has s off and when I try to load recovery I get this message
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
If some one could point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.
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It might have failed PU or bad chip from gfree.
sinfulgray said:
Question I bought a mytouch 4g and it was stuck on the boot screen and so I checked to see if it had recovery and I went into boot loader and it has s off and when I try to load recovery I get this message
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
If some one could point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.
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Did you buy it that way?
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Yeah i bought it that way it was in mint ondition for $80 thought i might be able to fix it. Can i just restore factory rom through bootloader? Im still a newb at this.
The recovery i mentioned is Clockworkmod 3.0.2.4
sinfulgray said:
Yeah i bought it that way it was in mint ondition for $80 thought i might be able to fix it. Can i just restore factory rom through bootloader? Im still a newb at this.
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I'd get your money back if you could. It sounds like this jerk knowingly sold you a bricked phone. When you get those cache errors in recovery, it's essentially bricked. Try searching for restoring by flashing PD15IMG.zip through the boatloader. It's basically unrooting and flashing the stock image, but it does not always work.
TeeJay3800 said:
I'd get your money back if you could. It sounds like this jerk knowingly sold you a bricked phone. When you get those cache errors in recovery, it's essentially bricked. Try searching for restoring by flashing PD15IMG.zip through the boatloader. It's basically unrooting and flashing the stock image, but it does not always work.
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What tj said. One way you can try is flashing a clockworkmod 2.x.x recovery from fastboot and fixing the catches. However, if the recovery partition is too far gone you will truly brick the phone. If you can't get your money back try his way then try my way. If neither work you got jacked for $80 sorry bud.
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Well i tried to flash PD15IMG.zip and it came back with failed PU. Im going to try and flash a 2.x.x.x. recovery image see if that works.
sinfulgray said:
Well i tried to flash PD15IMG.zip and it came back with failed PU. Im going to try and flash a 2.x.x.x. recovery image see if that works.
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Update your findings, I'd be interested to know if it worked
Well I tried to set up SDK to use ADB to push the CWM 2.x.x.x. img and its not working properly. It will not detect my device. Ill have to check when i have more time tonight. So far not so good.
"It will not detect my device."
Did you install the HTC driver?
Did you do an "adb devices" first? ( when i do it it says daemon not found starting daemon etc etc or something to that effect, then it shows the device ID -- so in other words, it may have to start some services on your pc first with the devices command before you launch in to pushing files onto an unidentified device -- this last part is just my observation, not gospel)
You can't use ADB for pushing the recovery, unless you have a rooted phone and it boots far enough to use ADB. Otherwise you need to use fastboot, and if you don't have the engineering bootloader - you won't be able to.
I think I just bricked my continuum and I don't know what to do!!! I press the power button and my phone doesn't turn on. It just hangs at samsung. And it won't let me get into CWM. HELLPPPPP!!!
ntien said:
I think I just bricked my continuum and I don't know what to do!!! I press the power button and my phone doesn't turn on. It just hangs at samsung. And it won't let me get into CWM. HELLPPPPP!!!
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What were you attempting?
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I'm having similiar troubles, if you can help me it would be greatly appreciated
here's a video i made of whats going on with the phone.
youtube. /watch?v=Iw4iAxuCAl0
i don't know how i messed it up, i was just doing stuff in CWM and when i tried rebooting my phone, it was just stuck at the samsung screen. it didn't actually show the boot animation, just the part that says samsung in white letters. when i try to apply sdcard:update.zip i get the following:
# MANUAL MODE #
update.zip gone
E:Can't mount /dev/block/vold/179:9
(No such file or directory)
E:Can't mount SDCARD:bplib_delta_for_test.bin
--Install from sdcard...
Finding update package...
E:Can't mount /dev/block/vold/179:9
(No such file or directory)
E:Can't mount SDCARD:update.zip
Installation aborted.
update.zip gone
Download the hacked param.lfs for the fascinate, and flash it with heimdall... Had the same error, and that worked for me...
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im going to try it in a sec, but just two questions. one, isn't this just to change your boot logo? and do i need the continuum pit.pit file?
Yes, it does give the ability to change the boot logo... But when doing it, i noticed that after flashing, the stock recovery does this weird thing where it wipes everything, even when normally it won't... after that, it worked again...... Just know you will loose your data But whatev's
and no, not necessarily..
If that doesn't work, which is probably won't, then reflash the stock recovery, then try the cwm v4 adryn recovery, then try the stock kernel, and then the system image, all in Odin... In that order
oh, and cobitts15... Your dumb... always do a nandroid backup, even if its something simple...
and you are using the wrong Odin... try doing a wipe from within the stock recovery, and if that doesn't work, then download the RIGHT ODIN and flash that file... then go through the steps easily found within the development thread and get cwm working...
can i use heimdall instead of odin? i have a mac
ntien said:
i don't know how i messed it up, i was just doing stuff in CWM and when i tried rebooting my phone, it was just stuck at the samsung screen. it didn't actually show the boot animation, just the part that says samsung in white letters. when i try to apply sdcard:update.zip i get the following:
# MANUAL MODE #
update.zip gone
E:Can't mount /dev/block/vold/179:9
(No such file or directory)
E:Can't mount SDCARD:bplib_delta_for_test.bin
--Install from sdcard...
Finding update package...
E:Can't mount /dev/block/vold/179:9
(No such file or directory)
E:Can't mount SDCARD:update.zip
Installation aborted.
update.zip gone
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Mine did the same thing when I tried to use the new CWM to restore an old backup but I went back to the old CWM and it worked like it should
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ntien said:
can i use heimdall instead of odin? i have a mac
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You have a Mac. There's your first problem peoblem there
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circa881 said:
Mine did the same thing when I tried to use the new CWM to restore an old backup but I went back to the old CWM and it worked like it should
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Try whatever he said first, then try what i said...
And yeah, sure... Heimdall it up... Just remember to put things in the right places, and if the files are .tar'd up (which some are) then extract them with 7-zip.. You will get an error sometimes, just ignore it....
ntien said:
i don't know how i messed it up, i was just doing stuff in CWM and when i tried rebooting my phone
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Define "doing stuff". That could be anything, like constantly tapping the volume button scrolling through one screen, or playing with the mounts and formatting options. The more detail you can give about what you were doing, the easier it will be to solve the problem.
trailblazer101 said:
oh, and cobitts15... Your dumb... always do a nandroid backup, even if its something simple...
and you are using the wrong Odin... try doing a wipe from within the stock recovery, and if that doesn't work, then download the RIGHT ODIN and flash that file... then go through the steps easily found within the development thread and get cwm working...
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What ODIN should I be using? Is there any way to flash it back to stock factory rom? I really didn't want any mods/roms, just wanted my Google search
Thanks again.
Okay so I have an update, I got the phone working and calling again. I was finally able to flash it with stock kernal and system files using the proper version of Odin (thank you trailblazer101) in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=967165
Only problem now is that my 3g or wireless doesn't work, any ideas to fix this?
can you go to settings, about phone, and tell me what is says for baseband?
si400.0.6v.dl17
Hmm... I would've thought that was going to be blank....
Well, all I can say is to try flashing the clean rom in cwm, and do a user wipe...
And it wouldn't hurt to first try to reactivate... Go to dialer and type in *228 then when you hear the lady's options choose 1...
Try that first xD
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I tried to do the re-activate thing, still nothing.
I'm getting a replacement handset sent to me for free but I wanna try and see if I can fix this before I send it back just for experience sake so at this point if I brick it trying new things I don't care because I got a new phone.
So if anyone has any experimental ideas let me know
I had the same thing happen to me a month ago, but it hung on the verizon screen instead of the samsung screen. Seems our stock dumps don't contain the information to do DNS resolving. If you notice, the WiFi and 3G are both out, because you can't get DNS to work properly. I feel like if we bindiff the dumps with the actual phone we could get an idea of where we can't get, but i guess our problem is actually accessing the part we aren't getting.
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I had the same thing happen to me a month ago, but it hung on the verizon screen instead of the samsung screen. Seems our stock dumps don't contain the information to do DNS resolving. If you notice, the WiFi and 3G are both out, because you can't get DNS to work properly. I feel like if we bindiff the dumps with the actual phone we could get an idea of where we can't get, but i guess our problem is actually accessing the part we aren't getting.
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That's exactly what's going on with my phone, no 3g or wifi
Ok, here's the deal. I was turned on to heimdall by our beloved Trailblazer101, so I tried to flash a rom via that. Something got borked in it, and now i have no download mode(when i try to boot into dl mode, either via vol down or cwm, it takes me right back to stock recovery), and I'm getting error
E:can't mount dev/block/st111 (invalid arguement) in stock recovery, and
E: Can't mount dev/block/st111 (File still exists)
E: Can't mount recovery/log
E: Can't open recovery/log
in CWM.
I can still flash successfully, but flashing kernel and a known good rom has no effect.
I'm thinking, even though I never did anything with the bootloaders, and it never got tp factory.rfs before heimdall crashed, there might have been something that got screwed up in the boot.
If anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate it. Maybe one of the experts could find a way to get something in a flashable zip?
OK, i do have adb in cwm... so I can push via adb. As soon as I figure out what to push, where
and you really asked this in the wrong section...
I have the cure. Will post in 1 hour.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1311988
Read this.
asellite said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1311988
Read this.
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Thanks.... I've got the error issues resolved. Were you having issues with samsung logo no coming up, and it kicking you straight into stock recovery? DId this help that? That is my current issue.
No, I haven't had that issue yet but if you flash the Odin package from that link with the samsung PIT file (i4000) at the same time (make sure repartition is checked ONLY works w that Ron) it should resolve any/all issues.
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Asellite, thank you for the help. I appreciate it. And much love to Ciscogee, for the stock ec07. I AM Back!
I'm at war with the world, cause i ain't never gonna sell my soul. No matter what, I can't be bought or sold. - Skillet
Anytime!
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Well one day I was using my nexus like usual.
I was using an app and after i got done i set the n7 down on my bed.
I picked it up because I was gonna take a pic but the tablet was shut off.
I thought that the battery might of died but I remembered the battery was like around 80% full
so it couldn't be that. I turned it on and I was now stuck on the "Google" logo screen.
I went into recovery mode and i tried factory wipe and I get errors about mounting cache and other commands..
(E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log) <-- like so.
So I can't do anything form this point past that. I never tried rooting/unlocking so that's out the question.
Is there anything I can do?
I heard about ODIN but it looks like it's only for phones :/
MarkMorbidity said:
Well one day I was using my nexus like usual.
I was using an app and after i got done i set the n7 down on my bed.
I picked it up because I was gonna take a pic but the tablet was shut off.
I thought that the battery might of died but I remembered the battery was like around 80% full
so it couldn't be that. I turned it on and I was now stuck on the "Google" logo screen.
I went into recovery mode and i tried factory wipe and I get errors about mounting cache and other commands..
(E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log) <-- like so.
So I can't do anything form this point past that. I never tried rooting/unlocking so that's out the question.
Is there anything I can do?
I heard about ODIN but it looks like it's only for phones :/
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You need wugfresh nexus toolkit (Google it)
It can help you restore bricked devices, install custom recovery, install stock recovery, and so much more!
MarkMorbidity said:
Well one day I was using my nexus like usual.
I was using an app and after i got done i set the n7 down on my bed.
I picked it up because I was gonna take a pic but the tablet was shut off.
I thought that the battery might of died but I remembered the battery was like around 80% full
so it couldn't be that. I turned it on and I was now stuck on the "Google" logo screen.
I went into recovery mode and i tried factory wipe and I get errors about mounting cache and other commands..
(E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log) <-- like so.
So I can't do anything form this point past that. I never tried rooting/unlocking so that's out the question.
Is there anything I can do?
I heard about ODIN but it looks like it's only for phones :/
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Odin will only work on Samsung devices. That's a Samsung flash tool. Is your bootloader unlocked?
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MarkMorbidity said:
Well one day I was using my nexus like usual.
I was using an app and after i got done i set the n7 down on my bed.
I picked it up because I was gonna take a pic but the tablet was shut off.
I thought that the battery might of died but I remembered the battery was like around 80% full
so it couldn't be that. I turned it on and I was now stuck on the "Google" logo screen.
I went into recovery mode and i tried factory wipe and I get errors about mounting cache and other commands..
(E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log) <-- like so.
So I can't do anything form this point past that. I never tried rooting/unlocking so that's out the question.
Is there anything I can do?
I heard about ODIN but it looks like it's only for phones :/
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Cripe, what a pain! I had the same problem but it was entirely my own fault. As suggested the wugfresh kit saved the day. Very easy to use as well!
No it's not unlocked :/
I tried unlocking it thoug but it just stays stuck on "erasing userdata"
oldblue910 said:
Odin will only work on Samsung devices. That's a Samsung flash tool. Is your bootloader unlocked?
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I can't do anything with it tho :/ not even unlock thw bootloader.. it stays stuck on "erasing userdata"
tgyberg said:
Cripe, what a pain! I had the same problem but it was entirely my own fault. As suggested the wugfresh kit saved the day. Very easy to use as well!
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MarkMorbidity said:
I can't do anything with it tho :/ not even unlock thw bootloader.. it stays stuck on "erasing userdata"
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So you have the toolkit and it's not working?
Toolkit works fine
I don't know if i am taking the right steps.
I did try to unlock the bootloader manually and with the toolkit but it just stays stuck in
"erasing userdata" and that's where it sits.. even left it overnight and still in the same spot.
Also tried diff USB cables and nothing :/
tgyberg said:
So you have the toolkit and it's not working?
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MarkMorbidity said:
Toolkit works fine
I don't know if i am taking the right steps.
I did try to unlock the bootloader manually and with the toolkit but it just stays stuck in
"erasing userdata" and that's where it sits.. even left it overnight and still in the same spot.
Also tried diff USB cables and nothing :/
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How long did you let it go on erasing userdata? Sometimes that can take 5 minutes...
Ohh i let the "erase userdata" on for like overnight and still didnt move form that command.
so like 7 hrs maybe and nothing :/
oldblue910 said:
How long did you let it go on erasing userdata? Sometimes that can take 5 minutes...
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Did you read through the faq section in the toolkit thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2389107
No but i'll do that right now
tgyberg said:
Did you read through the faq section in the toolkit thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2389107
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