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No device found ONLY during fastboot - help needed please

I've been reading up about what to do after I tried to "factory reset" my phone and then was stuck at the htc start up soon, which kept looping.
I've been trying to load recovery.img during fastboot (back+power) and then to apply update.zip during recovery (home+power).
However, the problem is that during fastboot, the device isn't recognized (when I go to adb devices on command prompt, no device is listed). I know that my drivers are good bc the device is found when I start up in the recovery mode. I tried to skip the part where I load recovery.img (since when I try to do that, it tells me that it can't be loaded), and to go straight to apply update.zip, but then the phone tells me that update.zip is either bad or can't be mounted.
I have a Rogers Magic (32A). I am a complete newbie, so any help would be greatly appreciated. I should also say that before I tried to do the factor reset, the phone was on the hero rom loaded by a previous user.

try this:
boot in recovery:
fastboot boot recovery.img
then, push update.zip on your sd card ( need a good rom in the tools folder on your computer)
adb shell mount /sdcard
adb push update.zip /sdcard
and apply update.zip with the recovery menu.

thanks for your reply, but it didn't work:
first, it said "cannot load recovery.img"
and then when I tried to mount, it said "mount: mounting dev/block/mmcblk0p1 on /sdcard failed: Device or resource busy"

replace recovery to correct path to your recovery image. (your phone mut be in fastboot mode power with back button pressed)
ex:
fastboot boot c:\sdk\tools\recovery-RAv1.2.1G.img
then your phone must boot on recovery and you could push update.zip

thanks so much. I figued it out - just a simple problem of the update.zip file being corrupt.

pato17 said:
thanks so much. I figued it out - just a simple problem of the update.zip file being corrupt.
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i am having the same issues.
any help?

beastmods said:
i am having the same issues.
any help?
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What exactly have you tried to do?
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Hi. My magic is having the same issues. Although I believe it is my own doing. I was going to create a gold card and I flashed the sappimg.zip, I can boot the phone into fastboot but it us not seen, when I run the fast boot command it just says waiting on device..
I can boot the phone up normally but it does not want to connect to the market our link my gmail account to it..
All to jailbreak... Any ideas?
Edit....
I must have had a poor internet connection last night. I have got the market working.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk

I am having the same problem.
I have a 32b on vodafone uk.
all the device adb drivers have installed fine. I have tried this on both my laptop and desktop (win 7) and when the phone is turned on - it shows fine under adb devices.
When i boot to fastboot, the phone doesnt show, and therefore i cannot load a custom rom.
Trying to root the phone I have so far used the goldcard method to downgrade to get back to 1.5, if i try to flash the recovery img from the phone (using flash rec) then when i boot to recovery (home+power) it hangs on the vodafone screen - this is why i wont to flash from fastboot.
any ideas?
Thanks

phone rooted?
FlashRec is out of date, I'm pretty sure. Is your phone rooted already, or are you at stock?

[solved] Force install of hercimg.zip

This is my first time messing with the hero, I created a gold card and tried to install the hercimg.zip through hboot. But I am not sure everything installed sucessfully.
I got hboot1.47 and my radio got updated to 2.42.00.03.10
but when I go to flash an recovery image by using
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
it fails.
I also can't run adb remount
So I am guessing I didn't get root access when installing the RUU.
So is there anyway to force hercimg.zip to get extract and run again?
Everytime I load up hboot now I get the following menu
[vol up] fastboot
[back] simlock
[home recovery
the hercimg will unzip and it will check but it just returns to the menu.
a message flashes right before it goes back to the menu but I am unable to read what it says.
is there anything I can do? I tried searching but I haven't been able to find anything that might work.
As side note my phone still works and it is still on 1.5.

d-shade said:
This is my first time messing with the hero, I created a gold card and tried to install the hercimg.zip through hboot. But I am not sure everything installed sucessfully.
I got hboot1.47 and my radio got updated to 2.42.00.03.10
but when I go to flash an recovery image by using
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
it fails.
I also can't run adb remount
So I am guessing I didn't get root access when installing the RUU.
So is there anyway to force hercimg.zip to get extract and run again?
Everytime I load up hboot now I get the following menu
[vol up] fastboot
[back] simlock
[home recovery
the hercimg will unzip and it will check but it just returns to the menu.
a message flashes right before it goes back to the menu but I am unable to read what it says.
is there anything I can do? I tried searching but I haven't been able to find anything that might work.
As side note my phone still works and it is still on 1.5.
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What are you trying to do?

I am trying to root my phone using the leaked sprint ruu the one that came out back in march/april
I have an Alaska DigiTel phone so I couldn't root it using the normal methods
so I was trying to follow the Rooting ALL Non-Sprint CDMA Heros Stuck On 1.5 From Sprint's 2.1 RUU tutorial.
But now I seem to be stuck, my radio and hboot seems to have gotten updated but it looks like everything else didn't as I am still running 1.5 and don't have root access.

I got it to work, after my battery fell out when the white/green htc logo was on my screen and when I went back into hboot it installed fine.
I didn't do anything else other then retrying the things I have been doing.
Format sdcard, recreate gold card. loading hboot
it just worked magically after the batter came out when the phone was booting up.

[Q] bootloop help

i have a mytouch 4g that i had perma rooted with s off 0.85.2007 clockwork recovery and evil desire hd rom. I have had this setup since the evil rom was available with no problems at all. All of a sudden the phone is in a bootloop. I can get into the hboot but adb and fastboot will not recognize the phone. I had a spare mytouch so I switched to that perma rooted s off and 0.85.2007with clockwork and the newest version of the same rom with no problems at all. I let the older 4g sit for a day with no battery, sim or sd card then i put the sd card in and it booted up. I went thru rom manager and selected reboot to recovery and I am back to a bootloop. I have tried to to go thru the hboot and select recovery manually and as soon as i press power to select back to a bootloop. I did some reading and tried to go back to the pd15img file by placing the file on a formatted sd card using a card reader and then put it in the phone. It went thru the process bypasing #7 and #8 (they show TP next to them) the phone now shows S-on with 0.86.0000 with radio 26.03.02.26_m. I am still stuck in bootloop with no way to get to recovery and still not being reconized in adb.
I guess at this point I could just do an exchange on the phone since I do have the other 4g running with no issues. But was wondering if anyone had any ideas on getting the phone out of bootloop.
Sorry if its a little wordy just wanted to make sure that I listed the steps i took to help narrow it down.
Thanks in advance for the help.

Load the PD15IMG on your MyTouch4G (not 5G) and boot into Bootloader, the phone will ask if you want to update the system, press the up volume button to do so.

neidlinger said:
Load the PD15IMG on your MyTouch4G (not 5G) and boot into Bootloader, the phone will ask if you want to update the system, press the up volume button to do so.
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sorry edited. I have done that already and since i did i went from s-off and 0.85.2007 to S-on with 0.86.0000 but still in bootloop.

boosted22 said:
sorry edited. I have done that already and since i did i went from s-off and 0.85.2007 to S-on with 0.86.0000 but still in bootloop.
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Try reformatting the SD Card to entirely FAT32 and try again.
or since you can get into fastboot try flashing a Recovery image, then boot into HBoot then select recovery and flash a ROM. Try using Cyanogen CM6.1.2RC2.

neidlinger said:
Try reformatting the SD Card to entirely FAT32 and try again.
or since you can get into fastboot try flashing a Recovery image, then boot into HBoot then select recovery and flash a ROM. Try using Cyanogen CM6.1.2RC2.
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ok tried formatting the sdcard and placing the file on the card. It went thru the process and bypassed the same two files and still in a bootloop.
I am able to get to the fastboot on the phone however adb and fastboot will not recognize the device.

boosted22 said:
ok tried formatting the sdcard and placing the file on the card. It went thru the process and bypassed the same two files and still in a bootloop.
I am able to get to the fastboot on the phone however adb and fastboot will not recognize the device.
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Do you have the phone drivers installed on your PC?

Genocaust said:
Do you have the phone drivers installed on your PC?
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yes the drivers are there. adb recognizes my spare 4g and just to test it out i adb pushed a file and was successful.

anybody have any ideas or suggestions?

What about flashing with fastboot? You don't need a working Android OS, only a working bootloader, a USB cable, and the sdk tools.

jggimi said:
What about flashing with fastboot? You don't need a working Android OS, only a working bootloader, a USB cable, and the ADB Drivers.
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fixed for ya. See my signature for TrueBlue's ADB guide.

jggimi said:
What about flashing with fastboot? You don't need a working Android OS, only a working bootloader, a USB cable, and the sdk tools.
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fixed for ya. See my signature for TrueBlue's ADB guide.
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Thanks for the help.
I have the sdk installed and it is working properly on my other 4g however when i boot into fastboot it does not detect the 4g that loops but i can unplug the bad one and plug the good one in and it recognizes immediately and allows me to use both adb and fastboot.

[Guide] Unlocking HTC Desire HD using HTCDEV method and installing CyanogenMod

I'm pretty new here but as I documented the process of modding my own phone I thought I'd share it with you. I didn't invent any of these processes and this information is available from many different sources. I've tried to credit any source material that I've used verbatim. I am by no means an expert.
Please reply back with any corrections and I'll be happy to edit the post.
This guide describes how to take a HTC Desire HD (mine was fully patched with OTA updates including Sense 3.0), unlock it and install CyanogenMod onto it. It worked for me but it might not for you. I don't take any responsibility for you turning your phone into a brick!
Pro Tips
Remember, in any steps requiring the phone to be powered off, just give it a minute to make sure that it is properly turned off.
Understand what's happening! If you get what's going on, you've more chance of fixing it if it goes wrong. This process describes how to use HTCs official method to unlock the bootloader. This allows you to change the operating system on the phone. The phone contains a recovery system which we an engineer can boot into to replace the main operating system if it becomes unbootable. We are going to replace this stock recovery system with a modified one which allows us do fiddle about with the phone's internal partitions. Once we have the modified recovery system in place we use it backup the existing phone operating system and replace it with a modified one. We can also use it to restore the original one again if things go wrong.
Read all of the instructions properly first! Don't go off half-****ed!
As far as I'm aware you can't reverse the official HTC bootloader unlock (i.e put your phone back *exactly* as it was) and it may effect your warranty. You have been warned!
Unlock the Bootloader
INFO: You can use the HTCDEV unlock bootloader method from HTC as an 'official' means of unlocking the bootloader. Confused? Check out the official site: http://htcdev.com/bootloader/ I'm not going to describe it step by step here because HTC do that quite well enough themselves.
Quick tip. If when going from one step to another on the HTC website you come to a white screen, that may be because you've been logged out. Just go back to the first page, log in again, then go back to the last step you completed.
Another quick tip. Make sure you properly install everything HTC tells you to. We'll need it all later...
Installing recovery mode
INFO: The stock recovery mode itself is pretty basic and can't do much, so we need to replace it with a custom recovery image.
We're going to use the clockworkmod recovery image which you grab from here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4518713/archive/recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.7.111102-j_r0dd_mod-ace.zip (originally seen here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1118865)
Make sure that the fast boot mode on your phone is disabled. You can find this in your power settings menu.
If the phone is connected via a USB cable then unplug it.
Power off the phone using the power button and leave it alone for a minute.
INFO: To flash the new recovery image to the phone, you need to reboot the phone into the bootloader so that you can select a new image to boot. The bootloader is known as HBOOT.
Boot into HBOOT by holding down the 'volume down' button and pressing the power button.
By default FASTBOOT is selected so just press the power button to access it.
Attach the USB cable and note that FASTBOOT changes to FASTBOOT USB
On your PC open cmd prompt and cd to the platform-tools directory of the android sdk. Mine is at C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>
Copy the .img file from the clockworkmod zip file we downloaded earlier to the platform-tools directory. Rename it recovery.img
Go to your command prompt and issue this command:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
INFO: The recovery image will then be written to your phone, and as long as everything went well you'll get a message saying OK.
Ensure that BOOTLOADER is selected in the HBOOT menu and press POWER button to select it. Now you're back at the HBOOT menu.
Use the volume buttons to highlight RECOVERY and press the power button to select it. After showing you the HTC logo, the phone should boot into recovery mode!
Backing up your phone
Using the volume buttons to select move to the 'backup and restore' option in the menu. Use power to select and use the backup option. This backs up your current phone setup to the SD card.
Select power off to turn off you phone. Leave it a few secs - select reboot system now.
When your phone is backup and running, mount it in mass storage mode and navigate to the root of your SD card. See the folder called 'clockworkmod'? copy that along with everything in it to your computer and put it somewhere safe. That's your backup. If needs be, you can use this backup your phone back to the original state!
Installing CyanogenMod (other mods may vary)
Mostly taken from http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Nexus_One:_Full_Update_Guide with some extra stuff that messed with me when I tried to do it.
Download the latest version of CyanogenMod from http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?type=stable&device=ace
Download the Google Apps for the device. http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Latest_Version/Google_Apps
Place the CyanogenMod update.zip file on the root of the SD card.
Place the Google Apps .zip on the root of the SD card also.
Boot into the ClockworkMod Recovery.
Once the device boots into the ClockworkMod Recovery, use the side volume buttons to move around, and the power button to select.
Select the option to Wipe data/factory reset.
Then select the option to Wipe cache partition.
And the option to wipe the Dalvik cache
Select Install zip from sdcard.
Select Choose zip from sdcard.
Select the CyanogenMod update.zip.
Select Install zip from sdcard
Select Choose zip from sdcard
Select the Google apps zip
These extra steps seem to have been required by people in this thread. All credit due to marsdta and theluckster for their suggestions. I've edited this guide to include the instructions here where they are more visible.
On your computer extract the ROM zip (e.g. update-cm-7.1.0-DesireHD-signed.zip) and there should be a file inside it called boot.img. This should be flashed automatically, however for some reason via the HTCDEV method it is not.
To do it manually, you need to enter fastboot mode, as per the instructions above:
Boot into HBOOT by holding down the 'volume down' button and pressing the power button.
By default FASTBOOT is selected so just press the power button to access it.
Attach the USB cable and note that FASTBOOT changes to FASTBOOT USB
Then on your PC, in the directory you extracted the zip file run:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
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Once the installation has finished, select Go Back to get back to the main menu, and select the Reboot system now option. The phone should now boot into CyanogenMod.
Now wait for what seems like an incredibly long time with the phone showing the 'htc' screen.
INFO: The phone should now boot into CyanogenMod!
Restoring your phone - When things go wrong
OK, so you flashed a bad mod. Time to restore.
First up, put the backup you made in the previous step onto the root of your SDcard (if it isn't already there). Then, I came across this video which seems to explain things pretty well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUYGe8mmNWU
The basic gist of it is, boot into recovery mode, format the cache, data and system partitions, wipe the Dalvik cache, then restore the backup from your SD card.

Wow thanks a lot!
I personally have 1 problem:
Step 12 of the "installing recovery mode" when i type in the command in command prompt is says:
'error: cannot load recovery.img'
I placed it in the same folder as fastboot en renamed it "recovery.img".
I unlocked the bootloader succesfully btw..
Any thoughts?

I think you should contemplate using attn1's ace hack kit to gain bootloader unlock instead of voiding your warranty.

Hunt3r.j2 said:
I think you should contemplate using attn1's ace hack kit to gain bootloader unlock instead of voiding your warranty.
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Well I've already unlocked the bootloader through htcdev.
But tried the Attn1's as well...ended up saying:
/data/local/tmp/goldcard.img: cannot open for read: No such file or directory
starting downgrade...
** The phone will now reboot into HBOOT.
** It will then check the file just sent.
** If everything is okay, the phone will
** prompt you to continue by pressing
** VOLUME UP. It will reboot, flashing twice.
The phone did not prompt me to continue by pressing volume up.
When i start clockwork recovery it states i should root my phone...
So a lot going wrong and i can't figure out what..

how long the htc screen? I'm waiting for a looooong time

Thanks for the tutorial. I've followed the instructions and managed to unlock the bootloader and install ClockworkMod, however after flashing CM7 and rebooting it is stuck on the H3G boot screen (isn't flashing CM7 supposed to overwrite the boot logo?). I'm trying to flash:
update-cm-7.1.0-DesireHD-signed.zip
gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip
I've double checked /data, /system, /cache and Dalvik-Cache have been wiped before flashing but still no avail
Here are the versions from the bootloader:
***UNLOCKED***
ACE PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-2.00.0029
MICROP-0438
RADIO-26.14.04.28_M
eMMC-boot
Dec 22 2011, 14:28:19
I am able to restore the backup, but flashing any other ROM just doesn't boot.

The guide is missing one key step . Flashing the boot image.
So after flashing your from boot back into boot loader and flash your roms boot.img.(just copy it over to your fast boot file)
Then run the command
Fastboot flash boot boot.img
Reboot . Done.
You'll have to do this every time you flash different roms. 4ext has a nice feature of doing this for those that have HTC unlocked you should try it out
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA

Awesome, thanks marsdta! It is working now, good work!

thelucster said:
Awesome, thanks marsdta! It is working now, good work!
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can you repeat it more clear for me because i have the same problem.
Thank you Thelucster. You have saved me from a big mistake.

crom1 said:
can you repeat it more clear for me because i have the same problem
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First flash the Cyanogen ROM and Google Apps, as per the instructions above. Then on your computer extract the ROM zip (e.g. update-cm-7.1.0-DesireHD-signed.zip) and there should be a file inside it called boot.img. This should be flashed automatically, however for some reason via the HTCDEV method it is not.
To do it manually, you need to enter fastboot mode, as per the instructions above:
Boot into HBOOT by holding down the 'volume down' button and pressing the power button.
By default FASTBOOT is selected so just press the power button to access it.
Attach the USB cable and note that FASTBOOT changes to FASTBOOT USB
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Then on your PC, in the directory you extracted the zip file run:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
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I didn't set notifications on this post and forgot it existed till today. I've updated the guide with the information posted by marsdta and theluckster to make things clearer. Sorry about any confusion caused by missing that step out.

the boot screen shows cyanogen(mod)7 instead of the regular HTC sign!! Following each and every step I landed up here. And now I am stuck, cuz this boot screen has been there for like half-an hour....does it mean something is wrong or does it take this much time to load first???

Hello,
for HTC dev unlocked bootloader (about what is added after step 15 in "installing cyanogen" phase) : it seems that the boot.img must be flashed before installing the .zip from sdcard.
I got stuck for that. Could be worth to make it clear.
Great tutorial anyway, thank you !

zarkenciel said:
Hello,
for HTC dev unlocked bootloader (about what is added after step 15 in "installing cyanogen" phase) : it seems that the boot.img must be flashed before installing the .zip from sdcard.
I got stuck for that. Could be worth to make it clear.
Great tutorial anyway, thank you !
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It shouldn't matter. I've seen people do it both ways and it worked fine for them.
@ash win. Your in a boot loop. Did you do a full wipe before flashing? Could be just a bad flash. Go back and reflash the rom and boot.img. you should also verify the md5hash to make sure yous didn't get a corrupt download file.

Just finished the tutorial, works perfectly. Thanks for writing it.

Does this unlock you from the network, i.e. is this the alternative to paying £15 for an unlock code?
I do understand this is for modding and flashing to a new ROM, but I am wondering if it also unlocks the phone from your network (or maybe that is IMEI based).
This is not for any illegal purposes, just I fancy a new ROM and I am now out of contract, so happy to experiment with flashing.

ohforfs said:
Does this unlock you from the network, i.e. is this the alternative to paying £15 for an unlock code?
I do understand this is for modding and flashing to a new ROM, but I am wondering if it also unlocks the phone from your network (or maybe that is IMEI based).
This is not for any illegal purposes, just I fancy a new ROM and I am now out of contract, so happy to experiment with flashing.
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No, you need the aahk for that. That gives you sim unlock as well. Just Google attn1 aahk and you'll find it

marsdta said:
No, you need the aahk for that. That gives you sim unlock as well. Just Google attn1 aahk and you'll find it
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Thanks - very kind of you to point me in the right direction, I've found it

Hi,
and how do i root my phone after HTCDev Unlock??
I want install the Custom Rom "Sabsa Prime". Do i need root to flash it?
Sorry for my bad english.

You may also want to include wiping battery stats in the advanced option of cwm in your guide

Did I brick it?

So I successfully downgraded back to Froyo. I followed the Rooting process exactly, mdr #'s 2 and 3 matched. I entered the reboot command, and now my phone only vibrates 3-4 times when you turn it on. the led keeps flashing. and nothing is happening with the screen. I cant get it to the bootloader screen either

is it being recognized through adb?
Sent from my HTC Glacier using xda premium

No, adb is not recognizing it.

Nvmd. I just got adb to recognize it. when i enter adb devices it returns...
SH0B5T600504 Recovery.
what can i do from here?

TurboBrickMike said:
Nvmd. I just got adb to recognize it. when i enter adb devices it returns...
SH0B5T600504 Recovery.
what can i do from here?
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adb reboot recovery

THEindian said:
adb reboot recovery
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Ok , so I open up adb. enter in adb reboot recovery, then it should be ok to work with after that? Sorry for being so inexperienced at this. I'm just a car guy who has been geeking on his android lol.

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adb reboot recovery
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Ok, so i tried adb reboot recovery... Same thing, just 4-5 vibrations and flashing amber LED. What is my next option?

I can now get into the bootloader and Clockwork. but now it just gets stuck on the Clockwork mod loading screen when i update .zip file from sd. I tried the factory reset, nothing. It shows S-Off though lol. Is there any info that I can give you guys from the menus I have available in order to help decode what I did wrong/what went wrong?

Try this...Take the original 2.3.4 update and put it in your sd card.(assuming your pc detects the sd card). Take the battery out if the phone for about 10 min. try to boot into hboot and reflash the phone back to stock. Then redowngrade and root again.
Sorry if I'm not too much help. I'm learning from what I read here and there.
Sent from my Dark Unicorn Resurrected v.1 using xda premium

Brick
TurboBrickMike said:
I can now get into the bootloader and Clockwork. but now it just gets stuck on the Clockwork mod loading screen when i update .zip file from sd. I tried the factory reset, nothing. It shows S-Off though lol. Is there any info that I can give you guys from the menus I have available in order to help decode what I did wrong/what went wrong?
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Hey Mike, I am having the same issue with my phone I tried the adb reboot recovery command in adb but the phone just reboots. I wanna know how did you boot into clockworkmod recovery or the bootloader. Please help me out I am trying to fix my phone. thanks

clockwork is "adb reboot recovery"
bootloader is "adb reboot bootloader"
you can only do this stuff if the device is recognized. If it just reboots when you do reboot recovery, you probably don't have it flashed correctly or don't have the right bootloader

danishanif said:
Hey Mike, I am having the same issue with my phone I tried the adb reboot recovery command in adb but the phone just reboots. I wanna know how did you boot into clockworkmod recovery or the bootloader. Please help me out I am trying to fix my phone. thanks
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Download PD15IMG.ZIP here, copy and paste on the root of your SD card. Don't forget to rename the files to PD15IMG.zip before you copy them to the SD Card, otherwise it won't work
Turn off your phone.(you should have enough battery charge)
Press POWER and VOL DOWN simultaneously (this will bring your boot loader)
It will automatically install the PD15IMG.ZIP, need to confirm some actions.
Wait till the process is done....
If you did not encountered any error such as FAIL- PU, you can open your phone normally and start setting it up...
regards