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wanna BREAK my F#$*ing EVO!!

after ROOTing with TOAST and unrevoked i keep having this constant random SD card failure.sometimes ASTRO file doesnt read anything and sometimes it just crashes.even rebooting doesnt help.i have a STOCK rom as of now.its getting really irritating and fraustating for me so PLEASE any suggestion and help would consider genorosity.

This was an issue when the EVOs were first released and it was addressed in the first OTA update.
If you're indeed running stock now go to settings > System Updates > HTC software update and see if there is anything waiting for you there.

gthing said:
This was an issue when the EVOs were first released and it was addressed in the first OTA update.
If you're indeed running stock now go to settings > System Updates > HTC software update and see if there is anything waiting for you there.
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if i update software wouldn't that break my root or brick my phone?

Would break root.
Just back up your sdcard to your pc and format it, that should work

I broke my screen today, so you could just send me your evo and you can take mine and we will call it good?

i haven't had a single problem with my card, but i'm not using the stock card, either. try a larger class 6 card, see if that helps. you can get them for about 45 bucks for a 16gb card

GHOST99K said:
after ROOTing with TOAST and unrevoked i keep having this constant random SD card failure.sometimes ASTRO file doesnt read anything and sometimes it just crashes.even rebooting doesnt help.i have a STOCK rom as of now.its getting really irritating and fraustating for me so PLEASE any suggestion and help would consider genorosity.
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Balls up do it i bet you wont
sent with my evo from a secret place

GHOST99K; said:
if i update software wouldn't that break my root or brick my phone?
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Flash the rooted version of the Ota update that is here in the forum.

GHOST99K said:
after ROOTing with TOAST and unrevoked i keep having this constant random SD card failure.sometimes ASTRO file doesnt read anything and sometimes it just crashes.even rebooting doesnt help.i have a STOCK rom as of now.its getting really irritating and fraustating for me so PLEASE any suggestion and help would consider genorosity.
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I had the same problem. I bought 2 evo's on launch day day, one for the wife and one for me. Hers worked fine, mine kept giving me problems even after the first update. It wound up that the sd card was somewhat damaged. I tried reformatting it several times with many different methods but it still didn't help. It just kept getting progressively worse, causing random reboots, constantly saying the card was damaged, eventually it caused my phone to freeze and restart in a loop. I replaced the card with one I had in my g1 from adata and now it works great. Just a bad card I guess.

flash with the OTA update and ull be set!

thanx guys I backed up all my files and switched to a new 16gb SD HC.so far so good,hopefully no more frustrations.thank u
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I fixed mine by doing a full reformat of the SD card, and making sure it was seated well in the phone. Pulled it out, and put it back in. Worked fine and probably still does (I'm using a Class 6, 16GB card now)

There are plenty of reasons i want to break my F***ing Evo but c'mon, an sdcard?

The root method you used... well, it contains an OLD rooted ROM.
Make sure you flash the OTA rom.
That's why. The old version had SD card problems.
I had this problem too. It was annoying.

topdnbass said:
There are plenty of reasons i want to break my F***ing Evo but c'mon, an sdcard?
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the reason is because i have lotta snes roms,videos,pics,wallpaper and third party apps in the SD card.i spent most of the time at work playing movies or snes or other stuff that r in the SD,so yea its pretty important to me for the device to read the Sd card.
hopefully no problems anymore on the new 16GB SD i jus put in.

just to clarify dont do the actually ova update that we have now, just get the rooted rom with the update added

toenail78 said:
just to clarify dont do the actually ova update that we have now, just get the rooted rom with the update added
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yea thanx for the heads up.

Even I replaced a new SD card and guess what same problem.try to update the phone but no update available from HTC.I'm stuck with a garbage ****en evo.
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Don't Try to Partition with Rom Manager.

If You try to partition with Rom manager it partitions the internal sd and you will brick your phone. Your screen will be black with only the capacative buttons glowing. This brick is possibly the more annoying ones where you have to flash your phone twice. If you have this problem don't panic like i did.
*REMOVING EXTERNAL SD CARD MIGHT IMPROVE ODIN CHANCES OF WORKING*(Thanks Hoey2011 for mentioning this)
Step 1: Download all files from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
PUt them in a safe spot you will need them for later.
Step 2: Download files from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=740558
Step 3: HAVE ODIN OPENED FIRST!!(This helped it detect my phone for some reason)Get phone into download mode. The easiest way to do this is pull out battery from phone. Then plug phone into usb connected to computer it will have the battery sign. Hold volume keys and power button when the screen goes black let go of power button. You will be in download mode if Odin doesn't detect it unplug usb and replug it.
Step 4: Once Odin has recognized your phone set the pit file and .tar file FROM EUGENE'S 2.2 THREAD. NOT THE FIRST LINK THE SECOND LINK. Then click start. And follow all the directions on his thread.
Step 5: Once you have flashed that rom you put your phone in download mode again and set up the pit and .tar file for Stock 2.1. After you finish flashing it your phone should be saved!
Thanks to Eugene373, justanothercrowd and anomalous3(for being patient and helping me out when I had this problem) And to anyone else that helped me solve this problem.

Thanx for being the guinea pig. Glad you got it back working.

Yea It was a ***** tho. Spent at least 4 hrs fixing it. But glad its working

Wow that sucks well thanks for the write up.

I was in the same boat as you and as I was downloading 2.2 to try I found your thread. Works like a charm! Thanks for the info on this. I guess I shouldn't read threads backwards from now on, huh?

ok so I've been following this method, and got eugene's 2.2 loaded up correctly, and rebooted back into download mode. The 2.2 files loaded just fine through odin, but now that I'm flashing 2.1, it seems hung on the cache.rfs.
I am gonna go smoke a blunt or two and come back and see how it's progressed, but this hang is the same issue I had before, on my windows 7 64bit machine. I figured it was a compatibility problem so I'm using my old busted vista machine. I've gotten further on the vista laptop than the W7 one, but I'm still hung.
How long should the 2nd loadup take??
I am almost at my wits end with this stupid mistake I made and hope is such a far stretch

ok, so i continued my use of the search tool here at xda and found my answer
I had my MicroSD card in my phone, hadn't even thought to remove it. I have moved past the cache.rfs file and am now waiting to see the results....
IT WORKED OMG OMG OMG
Xda forums almost ruined my phone, then brought it back from the dead
god i love equlibrium

Good info thanks for posting it, but one thing I would like to point out and I am not alone in feeling this way people are throwing the.word brick around and far to casually. You did not brick your phone by partitioning it the proof is that you fixed your phone. Bricking a phone is wheb youbrender the phone usless as a brick when it is totally broken and unfixable. I dont mean to nitpick i just hate seeing everyone that makes a mistake in anything crying wolf and claiming to have bricked. But my rant aside thanks for the very usefull info you mightvwanna pass it on to koush so he can fix it.
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I did exactly this and I was so frustrated that I sent my phone back to tmobile and just purchased a new one. I don't know about yall but if there are two storage points (internal and external) there should be an option for both in default recovery because when I tried to partition the external sd card *in which i was able to execute on my nexus one* it was very easy but because I use clockwork recovery and did a rom backup, i guess the backup zip wasn't safe because I received the same results as you. There should be 2 options to choose from that says *internal storage, External SD Card* why make things difficult? lol
The manufacturers need to be a little more intuitive.
*this is my opinion*

zDisturbed1 said:
Good info thanks for posting it, but one thing I would like to point out and I am not alone in feeling this way people are throwing the.word brick around and far to casually. You did not brick your phone by partitioning it the proof is that you fixed your phone. Bricking a phone is wheb youbrender the phone usless as a brick when it is totally broken and unfixable. I dont mean to nitpick i just hate seeing everyone that makes a mistake in anything crying wolf and claiming to have bricked. But my rant aside thanks for the very usefull info you mightvwanna pass it on to koush so he can fix it.
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Thanks for the clarification. I actually had no idea a brick was unfixable. I thought a brick was when your phone messed up and you'd reflash to get it working. Lol sorry again
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Ah crap, that's right, /sdcard is mapped to the *internal* sd card on the phone, and that's what is partitioned. I'll disable partitioning on the phone (external SD card is not accessible in recovery).

Koush said:
Ah crap, that's right, /sdcard is mapped to the *internal* sd card on the phone, and that's what is partitioned. I'll disable partitioning on the phone (external SD card is not accessible in recovery).
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I haven't tried partitioning, but the card's /dev/block/mmcblk1p* entries are there and I can mount them. That's how the dc2ext hack works. It mounts /sd-ext and /data to do the copies and it does it in recovery.

hoey2011 said:
ok so I've been following this method, and got eugene's 2.2 loaded up correctly, and rebooted back into download mode. The 2.2 files loaded just fine through odin, but now that I'm flashing 2.1, it seems hung on the cache.rfs.
I am gonna go smoke a blunt or two and come back and see how it's progressed, but this hang is the same issue I had before, on my windows 7 64bit machine. I figured it was a compatibility problem so I'm using my old busted vista machine. I've gotten further on the vista laptop than the W7 one, but I'm still hung.
How long should the 2nd loadup take??
I am almost at my wits end with this stupid mistake I made and hope is such a far stretch
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I have had serious issues with Odin hanging on my WIn 7 32bit system. However, I think I was actually doing it wrong. I was booting my phone to download mode then plugging it in to my computer. However, I have had continued success (tried a bunch last night) by doing this:
Open Odin, take out the battery, plug in USB cord to phone and computer, hold vol up+down, put in battery. Whenever I booted into Download Mode this way, Odin worked perfect every time. Turns out after cursing my computer it was user error, whoops .

brandnewsimmy said:
I have had serious issues with Odin hanging on my WIn 7 32bit system. However, I think I was actually doing it wrong. I was booting my phone to download mode then plugging it in to my computer. However, I have had continued success (tried a bunch last night) by doing this:
Open Odin, take out the battery, plug in USB cord to phone and computer, hold vol up+down, put in battery. Whenever I booted into Download Mode this way, Odin worked perfect every time. Turns out after cursing my computer it was user error, whoops .
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turns out, the system wasn't the finicky piece of equipment, it was the phone and the odin software. I inadvertently left the sd card in the phone, the external one, and that was causing my hangs. Two more tries after pulling the sd card, I had success and was back to my phone again

hoey2011 said:
turns out, the system wasn't the finicky piece of equipment, it was the phone and the odin software. I inadvertently left the sd card in the phone, the external one, and that was causing my hangs. Two more tries after pulling the sd card, I had success and was back to my phone again
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I forgot to mention to do that. I did that with mine as well. Taking out the sd card increases success. Thanks for mentioning it.
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farrisizdaman said:
Thanks for the clarification. I actually had no idea a brick was unfixable. I thought a brick was when your phone messed up and you'd reflash to get it working. Lol sorry again
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YEa I guessed as much thats why I was trying not to "flame" and to be informative you are a victim of exactly what I am talking about. Because so many people throw around the word brick anytime anything goes wrong not only is it losing its meaning but people are also getting confused.

This does work, it took me about 7 hours last night to fix it.
I will say if it does not work then keep trying.
My flash kept freezing on the froyo rom and would not finish, so I actually had to try and flash the full captivate stock rom (search the captivate forum) it froze but afterwords it let me go throught the whole flash process with Eugenes 2.2 rom, then flashed right back to 2.1 no prob.
I will also say that if you are on a x64 system then go find a x86 (32 bit) system. I dont know why but it just works better.
So if it doesnt work then do this:
1. Make sure you are on a 32 bit system.
2. Flash a Full Rom from the Captivate forum. (It has a more to it I believe, changes the system maybe?)
3. If it freezes that is ok. Flash the 2.2 rom. (might need to do it a couple times)
4. After successful flash then go to stock.

This needs a sticky!!!!!!!!!
I just did this. Wish I would have seen this thread first!

I'm having a really hard time getting to download mode. Read all the threads I could find on it.
Any ideas? Download mode isn't removed when partitioning with rom manager is it?
I'm trying not to freak out...

tsnow247 said:
I'm having a really hard time getting to download mode. Read all the threads I could find on it.
Any ideas? Download mode isn't removed when partitioning with rom manager is it?
I'm trying not to freak out...
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After fighting with it I found out this worked best for me:
Battery out
Plug in USB cord to the phone and PC
Hold Vol up and down
Put the battery in
Phone should boot right into download mode.
Also, I found you should have Odin open FIRST before you do this. If I didn't I would have constant issues with Odin hanging.

Help please!!!

hey guys. im trying to be a good guy and help out a friend who is currently working on his phone. ok now lemme get in every detail as much as possible as you guys can fully understand what we're doing and what we've been done.
his phone is rooted. with s-off. now we tried flashing cm7 last night. did everything right. full wipe and all of that. so.. cm7 did finish the installation. it went thru the white mytouch4g screen, then onto the cm7 blue circle splash screen. after that it asked him all of his info to login to google. it was working for a good 2 hours. later that night, he told me he took out the battery to restart his phone. when he restarted.. white screen finished loading. but on the blue cm7 circle, it stayed there forever.
now im not sure what he did wrong since he told me he just wanted to restart his phone. we cant even go back since it gets stuck on the blue cm7 splash screen. i really really really need your help guys. maybe you guys can private message me or hit me up directly on my email. i would greatly appreciate all the help. i tried searching and searching and all i got was to go thru rom manager, but how are we gonna do that if we cant even get the phone to boot up correctly. thanks in advanced guys.

Sent you a pm
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Well 1st that question belongs in Q&A : )
Power dwn the phone & hold the power button & volume dwn button at the same time until it goes into the fastboot screen then scroll dwn to recovery & select it by pressin the power button,u should now be in clockwrk recovery,try to rewipe everythin & flash again.. Now if u try that & all u get is cnt mount data/cache errors,then ur Emmc chip went bad... At that point google search emmc chip for mytouch 4g & read... : )
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What's the point in searching for it it means you bricked
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Well 1st that question belongs in Q&A : )
Power dwn the phone & hold the power button & volume dwn button at the same time until it goes into the fastboot screen then scroll dwn to recovery & select it by pressin the power button,u should now be in clockwrk recovery,try to rewipe everythin & flash again.. Now if u try that & all u get is cnt mount data/cache errors,then ur Emmc chip went bad... At that point google search emmc chip for mytouch 4g & read... : )
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tvotony said:
Sent you a pm
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ok i will try and see what he says. ill pm you back tony. thanks a lot.

cmdmilitia13 said:
Well 1st that question belongs in Q&A : )
Power dwn the phone & hold the power button & volume dwn button at the same time until it goes into the fastboot screen then scroll dwn to recovery & select it by pressin the power button,u should now be in clockwrk recovery,try to rewipe everythin & flash again.. Now if u try that & all u get is cnt mount data/cache errors,then ur Emmc chip went bad... At that point google search emmc chip for mytouch 4g & read... : )
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my bad i forgot to answer your question. ok we tried reflashing everything. nothing of that kind of error showed up. it just said complete. then when we tried booting up the phone.. it just got stuck on the blue circle thing.
tony, i sent you an email. anyone else willing to help?
i was thinking.. maybe the cm7 that we downloaded was corrupt? he said he has clockwork version 5.X.X.X
not sure if thats gonna make a difference but yeah. also since we cant go to the phone since it gets stuck on the blue circle, we tried flashing cm7. in the end, the last line says "installation aborted"
so right now, im completely clueless. i have searched everywhere and tried other methods to see what will work. my phone is rooted with royal ginger and everything is fine with it. i have already restarted maybe 10x the last couple of hours trying to help my friend.

Sounds like the sudden power lose from pulling the battery corrupted some system data. Boot into recovery and reflash the rom. Battery pulls can and have been known to corrupt system data making the rom unbootible.
I would start from stock and reflash the stock rom and start from a clean base

zelendel said:
Sounds like the sudden power lose from pulling the battery corrupted some system data. Boot into recovery and reflash the rom. Battery pulls can and have been known to corrupt system data making the rom unbootible.
I would start from stock and reflash the stock rom and start from a clean base
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no. im sure this is not the case. we finished rooting the phone around 10pm last night. from then on, everything went well. i even showed him some other ideas on what app to download and all that. he took out the battery probably 3 hours later and thats when it just got stuck at the blue circle cm7 splash screen.

beryenbeh said:
no. im sure this is not the case. we finished rooting the phone around 10pm last night. from then on, everything went well. i even showed him some other ideas on what app to download and all that. he took out the battery probably 3 hours later and thats when it just got stuck at the blue circle cm7 splash screen.
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Yes pulling the battery without allowing it to shut down properly will and has caused this, while not very common I have been in the same boot my self when I used to run a CM based rom.

zelendel said:
Yes pulling the battery without allowing it to shut down properly will and has caused this, while not very common I have been in the same boot my self when I used to run a CM based rom.
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ok nevermind that. he said, he restarted his phone. he didnt take out the battery. he just decided to restart it and thats when the blue circle got stuck.

beryenbeh said:
ok nevermind that. he said, he restarted his phone. he didnt take out the battery. he just decided to restart it and thats when the blue circle got stuck.
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Best bet would be to redownload the rom, boot into recovery and mount it so you can copy the new rom zip to the sd card. Do a full wipe and then reflash the rom. Other then that his only chance maybe going back to a stock rom and doing a clean rom flash just in case

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beryenbeh said:
ok nevermind that. he said, he restarted his phone. he didnt take out the battery. he just decided to restart it and thats when the blue circle got stuck.
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follow directions slowly and to the letter need not hurry when flashing or acheiving s=off..

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follow directions slowly and to the letter need not hurry when flashing or acheiving s=off..
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i followed everything correctly and accurately. i even had him double check what i was doing to make sure. we rooted perfectly and flashed cm7 without a problem. i am not sure what happened when he restarted his phone.
can any of you guys speak to me directly? maybe via aim or any kind of instant messenger? i really wanna help him fix this problem but im not sure what else to do.

how did you root the phone to begin with?

neidlinger said:
how did you root the phone to begin with?
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this way..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858996

tvotony said:
What's the point in searching for it it means you bricked
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Cause me & a couple other people were able to recover frm those errors with the pd15 zip file... Some people were lucky..
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beryenbeh said:
this way..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858996
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So honestly you may have a bad emmc, its a problem that has plagued the MT4G for quite some time now.
If you happen to read the bad emmc chip thread you will notice that some people that rooted with the gfree method, this one -->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858996 bricked devices.
Please stand by and I will attempt to find the thread with the info on the bad emmc. I hope that your friend doesn't have a bad emmc.
Edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081243&highlight=Bad+emmc+chip
I believe that is the one. I can't be 100% sure but if you do run into problems search in the main sections. i.e. where it says general, Q&A, acc, dev, etc. and just search bad emmc. Some stuff about the screens will come up, you can ignore those. I really hope this helped in your efforts to fix your friends phone.
Worse comes to worse, try and get tmo to replace it, dont mention root and if they said you voided your warranty, throw it against the wall and claim it for the 130 dollars. BNIBs are going for close to 300 and ULN are going for 200-250 from where I am from.

Please look at the Glacier Wiki, Troubleshooting section. Link in my signature.

thanks a lot. hopefully his emmc isnt the problem. i checked his hboot and it says 0.86.0000 not sure if that rings a bell to any of you guys. ill keep reading more information and a possible solution. i read one that says to update the PDIMG file or whatever.. and then re-flash RG3.0. will try this one, hope itll work. once again, thanks for all the help guys. really appreciate it.
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So honestly you may have a bad emmc, its a problem that has plagued the MT4G for quite some time now.
If you happen to read the bad emmc chip thread you will notice that some people that rooted with the gfree method, this one -->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858996 bricked devices.
Please stand by and I will attempt to find the thread with the info on the bad emmc. I hope that your friend doesn't have a bad emmc.
Edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081243&highlight=Bad+emmc+chip
I believe that is the one. I can't be 100% sure but if you do run into problems search in the main sections. i.e. where it says general, Q&A, acc, dev, etc. and just search bad emmc. Some stuff about the screens will come up, you can ignore those. I really hope this helped in your efforts to fix your friends phone.
Worse comes to worse, try and get tmo to replace it, dont mention root and if they said you voided your warranty, throw it against the wall and claim it for the 130 dollars. BNIBs are going for close to 300 and ULN are going for 200-250 from where I am from.
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Help PLEASE random disaster

I was running virtuous primodonna. i wasnt doing anything, but my phone randomly illuminated with a black screen. i pulled the batter and when i rebooted it stayed at splash screen, then the screen showed random screwed up lines and all this. then it rebooted by itself and went to recovery. I've wiped my data and cache and dalvik but nothing works. i've tried restoring backups but it says that its failing to recover the system. please someone help
If no one knows. can someone please provide me with a rom that will brick my phone so it WONT BOOT UP WHATSOEVER. that way i can go to the tmo store for replacement? so they cant go into recovery and figure out i've rooted it. PLEASE someone

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I was running virtuous primodonna. i wasnt doing anything, but my phone randomly illuminated with a black screen. i pulled the batter and when i rebooted it stayed at splash screen, then the screen showed random screwed up lines and all this. then it rebooted by itself and went to recovery. I've wiped my data and cache and dalvik but nothing works. i've tried restoring backups but it says that its failing to recover the system. please someone help
If no one knows. can someone please provide me with a rom that will brick my phone so it WONT BOOT UP WHATSOEVER. that way i can go to the tmo store for replacement? so they cant go into recovery and figure out i've rooted it. PLEASE someone
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Let's not brick your phone intentionally just yet! Try getting hold of a PD15IMG.zip (2.2.1 or 2.3.4, either works unless you want to root again, then go for 2.2.1). Boot into bootloader with the PD15IMG on the root of your SD, then let it update. If it doesn't and says Fail-PU, then you are bricked and could send it back to T-Mobile. Or you could try flashing another ROM. Hope this helps!

invasion2 said:
Let's not brick your phone intentionally just yet! Try getting hold of a PD15IMG.zip (2.2.1 or 2.3.4, either works unless you want to root again, then go for 2.2.1). Boot into bootloader with the PD15IMG on the root of your SD, then let it update. If it doesn't and says Fail-PU, then you are bricked and could send it back to T-Mobile. Or you could try flashing another ROM. Hope this helps!
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tried that too..... and i dont want to send it back to t-mobile since they can still look and see its rooted. so yes thats why i need to brick it lol. please.

tradejak66 said:
tried that too..... and i dont want to send it back to t-mobile since they can still look and see its rooted. so yes thats why i need to brick it lol. please.
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OK since that did not work, place the PD15IMG on your SD, and when it is updating, pull the battery. That will brick it for sure (I think..). Press thanks if I helped.

invasion2 said:
OK since that did not work, place the PD15IMG on your SD, and when it is updating, pull the battery. That will brick it for sure (I think..). Press thanks if I helped.
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k hold up let me try

tradejak66 said:
I was running virtuous primodonna. i wasnt doing anything, but my phone randomly illuminated with a black screen. i pulled the batter and when i rebooted it stayed at splash screen, then the screen showed random screwed up lines and all this. then it rebooted by itself and went to recovery. I've wiped my data and cache and dalvik but nothing works. i've tried restoring backups but it says that its failing to recover the system. please someone help
If no one knows. can someone please provide me with a rom that will brick my phone so it WONT BOOT UP WHATSOEVER. that way i can go to the tmo store for replacement? so they cant go into recovery and figure out i've rooted it. PLEASE someone
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do this: wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache
wipe dalvik
flash the original ROM (the one you have a backup of, but not the actual back up)
THEN restore the backup, it shouldnt get stuck at system anymore
i had a similar problem and this helped. hopefully it works for you

invasion2 said:
OK since that did not work, place the PD15IMG on your SD, and when it is updating, pull the battery. That will brick it for sure (I think..). Press thanks if I helped.
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I've tried twice and it still boots :0

tradejak66 said:
I've tried twice and it still boots :0
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Whoops. I think it's flashing a new radio then. Flash the radio just like you did with the PD15IMG and take the battery out during the process. If it still boots, I'll look into how to brick it lol!

invasion2 said:
Whoops. I think it's flashing a new radio then. Flash the radio just like you did with the PD15IMG and take the battery out during the process. If it still boots, I'll look into how to brick it lol!
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lol. start looking now just in case.

invasion2 said:
Whoops. I think it's flashing a new radio then. Flash the radio just like you did with the PD15IMG and take the battery out during the process. If it still boots, I'll look into how to brick it lol!
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I can't even access the recovery anymore. i have the PD15image thing pop up everytime so i cant get to the sd card whatsoever. i took out my sdcard then tried to access the recovery but it doesnt work

Actually, I think we've done a pretty successful job, because, they can't access the recovery, the PD15img keeps saying Fail-PU. the only thing left is S-Off, which i hope they dont notice >.>

tradejak66 said:
Actually, I think we've done a pretty successful job, because, they can't access the recovery, the PD15img keeps saying Fail-PU. the only thing left is S-Off, which i hope they dont notice >.>
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I think you're fine honestly. Good luck matey!

Get a 12v power supply, cut the end off and strip the wires. Take the battery out and touch the wires to the phones battery contacts a couple times. Replace battery try to power on. If it doesn't turn on your done, if it does try again. Tell them it was on the charger and shut off when you unplugged it and wouldn't turn on.
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tradejak66 said:
I can't even access the recovery anymore. i have the PD15image thing pop up everytime so i cant get to the sd card whatsoever. i took out my sdcard then tried to access the recovery but it doesnt work
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I had a similar problem when the splash screen got stuck last night flashing a new radio. I took the sdcard and plugged it in the netbook, accessed the root rolder and renamed the PD15IMG.zip so the HBOOT wouldn't read the file. It stopped the HBOOT from reading the file so I could access Recovery then reflashed my recovery file. I forgot to do the data wipe/dalvik before I flashed the radio lol.

This is an AWESOME how to brick your phone on purpose guide good job guys
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OH GOD tmobile is out of MT4g's and i had to order one from HTC. they specificly stated they will make sure its not rooted and all that >.> I asked the woman what rooting was if that helped but obviously i dont think it will. Im pissed my pants when i heard that sentence. HTC is obviously more prone to finding root then T-mobile who will just throw the phone away 0_0

tradejak66 said:
OH GOD tmobile is out of MT4g's and i had to order one from HTC. they specificly stated they will make sure its not rooted and all that >.> I asked the woman what rooting was if that helped but obviously i dont think it will. Im pissed my pants when i heard that sentence. HTC is obviously more prone to finding root then T-mobile who will just throw the phone away 0_0
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and then youre gonna be waiting another 2 months to recieve the replaced/repaired/refurbished phone..
you could have just made it work instead of completely bricking it
its an HTC android.. very, VERY hard to perma-brick

grimey01 said:
and then youre gonna be waiting another 2 months to recieve the replaced/repaired/refurbished phone..
you could have just made it work instead of completely bricking it
its an HTC android.. very, VERY hard to perma-brick
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Where there's a will (and a hammer) there's a way.

grimey01 said:
and then youre gonna be waiting another 2 months to recieve the replaced/repaired/refurbished phone..
you could have just made it work instead of completely bricking it
its an HTC android.. very, VERY hard to perma-brick
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Yea its hard to permabrick unless you don't want to brick it from what I hear...
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grimey01 said:
and then youre gonna be waiting another 2 months to recieve the replaced/repaired/refurbished phone..
you could have just made it work instead of completely bricking it
its an HTC android.. very, VERY hard to perma-brick
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your assuming that it was software that broke >.> it was most likely hardware since it broke in this manner and no flashing, resets, anything helped. and its 2 weeks btw lol.

[Q] U8800-51 totally ruined! pls help

Hello guys! first of all sorry for my English!...well i messed up my u8800-51 and i cant get it to work, i´ve read most of related posts, but nothing work, so i'll try to explay what happened, i hope u understand my issue and help me...
Ok i had a 2.3.5 GB non-official installed, from androidmovida.. my phone was working just fine, but due to all the apps and media it was kind of slowing down, so i restored it to factory settings... when i did this, my phone started up normal, and it was almost perfect again, but i realized that even without any app installed i had 800mb of the ROM occupied, leaving me less than 200mb, this was just wrong, the ammount of memory used just after a factory reset should be around 350mb... so i installed cwm 5.0.2.7 and booted it to recovery mode, here i pressed;
wipe data/factory reset
wipe dalvik cache
and what i think that screwed my phone..i went to mount and storage and pressed format /system...
Since then my phone didnt start, but i was able to get into the recovery mode... so i downoaded the stock 2.2 froyo from huawei
(this page is in spanish cuz the phone is sold in Venezuela).
i formated my SD card, and put the dload folder in its root and the update process started, but failed...
now i cant even get to the recovery mode, ive tride the process to install the fw a million times and it keeps failling..
and i just can get to the updating process or to the pink screen..if i connect my phone and leave it connected it shows up the logo and turn off, and repeat over and over..
my guess is that somehow i cant install the rom because the memory is almost full, but i have no idea of how to clear it!
if any of u guys can help me i would appriciate it a lot!!!
again sorry for my English and for the long post, but i wanted to be specific so you dont waste time telling me to do things ive already done! thank you!!!!

maxsdaspot said:
Hello guys! first of all sorry for my English!...well i messed up my u8800-51 and i cant get it to work, i´ve read most of related posts, but nothing work, so i'll try to explay what happened, i hope u understand my issue and help me...
Ok i had a 2.3.5 GB non-official installed, from androidmovida.. my phone was working just fine, but due to all the apps and media it was kind of slowing down, so i restored it to factory settings... when i did this, my phone started up normal, and it was almost perfect again, but i realized that even without any app installed i had 800mb of the ROM occupied, leaving me less than 200mb, this was just wrong, the ammount of memory used just after a factory reset should be around 350mb... so i installed cwm 5.0.2.7 and booted it to recovery mode, here i pressed;
wipe data/factory reset
wipe dalvik cache
and what i think that screwed my phone..i went to mount and storage and pressed format /system...
Since then my phone didnt start, but i was able to get into the recovery mode... so i downoaded the stock 2.2 froyo from huawei
(this page is in spanish cuz the phone is sold in Venezuela).
i formated my SD card, and put the dload folder in its root and the update process started, but failed...
now i cant even get to the recovery mode, ive tride the process to install the fw a million times and it keeps failling..
and i just can get to the updating process or to the pink screen..if i connect my phone and leave it connected it shows up the logo and turn off, and repeat over and over..
my guess is that somehow i cant install the rom because the memory is almost full, but i have no idea of how to clear it!
if any of u guys can help me i would appriciate it a lot!!!
again sorry for my English and for the long post, but i wanted to be specific so you dont waste time telling me to do things ive already done! thank you!!!!
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You need a micro sd reader and hook it up to a computer than copy the stock gb over and delete the old froyo. You should've asked.
I've read this may work, but android movida was closed down.
Try this.
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Somcom3X said:
You need a micro sd reader and hook it up to a computer than copy the stock gb over and delete the old froyo. You should've asked.
I've read this may work, but android movida was closed down.
Try this.
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sorry its embarrasing i have to ask, but i'm new with android so im a little lost! but according to what i got to learn last night trying to make my phone come back to life, there's no GB stock for the u8800-51, actually the only stock fw in huawei was the one i downloaded, and the one i installed from androidmovida required froyo to be succesfully updated..anyways ill download GB to see what happens, but if you could be a little more specific it would be nice, buecause as i said, i just learned a few things last night!!
Thank you very much for your help!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1698308
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Somcom3X said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1698308
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once again update failed, i intended wuith 3 different sd cards but nothing...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1889305
what if i do what it says in Reverting to Stock Froyo? id rather ask first...thou i cant mess my phone any more xD
trank you again!!

maxsdaspot said:
once again update failed, i intended wuith 3 different sd cards but nothing...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1889305
what if i do what it says in Reverting to Stock Froyo? id rather ask first...thou i cant mess my phone any more xD
trank you again!!
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Can you access pink screen?
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Somcom3X said:
Can you access pink screen?
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yes i can acces pink screen!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27121257
Ask zcux in priv message.
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Somcom3X said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27121257
Ask zcux in priv message.
Sent from my u8800-51 on stallion.
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jeje i spent the whole day yesterday trying to fix it, and now its working perfectly, i had a lot of problems, so i made an image of every state and a lil tutorial for myself of every step just in case...i dont know if it would be usefull if i publish all of it in here, since i just did what was said in many threads jeje, so what you think?
and bu the way thanks for all the help!!

maxsdaspot said:
jeje i spent the whole day yesterday trying to fix it, and now its working perfectly, i had a lot of problems, so i made an image of every state and a lil tutorial for myself of every step just in case...i dont know if it would be usefull if i publish all of it in here, since i just did what was said in many threads jeje, so what you think?
and bu the way thanks for all the help!!
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Publish it. It wont hurt anyone.
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