Hello!
So the problem started today, when my phone got shutted down ( because battery was 4%.. ) and when i was able to charge it, this sh#t started.
So, some things first:
- I'm not able to get to the place ( phone off -> volume down and turn phone on ) where i could flash wp6.5 or do task29
- I couldn't enter into rom because it froze to the part where HTC is green with black background
- Rom worked with safe mode
- USB flasher doesn't work in malgdr
- Buttons are messy ( but i have now figured how they work )
- I*M NOT ABLE TO HARD RESET, when it says " press volume up to reset ", it does nothing. I have to take off the battery to get off there.
+ I'm able to go to AD recovery, and do anything there
+ I'm able to use USB MassStg
So what can I do? Or what should i do? This is really sad to me. I've flashed roms since March with great succes, but now I face a problem like this in normal use. So i'm pretty confused.
I'm able to take some video if you need it.
Not sure did i make it to the right section, but i hope i made.
Hey u said that your buttons are messy and you figured out how they work. can you tell me i they started working. coz my hd2 is stuck on htc logo screen and not going to bootloader after pressing the power and volume down key . ithink their some malfuncaning in volume down key......... plz reply fast
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keetsy said:
Hello!
So the problem started today, when my phone got shutted down ( because battery was 4%.. ) and when i was able to charge it, this sh#t started.
So, some things first:
- I'm not able to get to the place ( phone off -> volume down and turn phone on ) where i could flash wp6.5 or do task29
- I couldn't enter into rom because it froze to the part where HTC is green with black background
- Rom worked with safe mode
- USB flasher doesn't work in malgdr
- Buttons are messy ( but i have now figured how they work )
- I*M NOT ABLE TO HARD RESET, when it says " press volume up to reset ", it does nothing. I have to take off the battery to get off there.
+ I'm able to go to AD recovery, and do anything there
+ I'm able to use USB MassStg
Hey u said that your buttons are messy and you figured out how they work. can you tell me i they started working. coz my hd2 is stuck on htc logo screen and not going to bootloader after pressing the power and volume down key . ithink their some malfuncaning in volume down key......... plz reply fast
So what can I do? Or what should i do? This is really sad to me. I've flashed roms since March with great succes, but now I face a problem like this in normal use. So i'm pretty confused.
I'm able to take some video if you need it.
Not sure did i make it to the right section, but i hope i made.
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Hey u said that your buttons are messy and you figured out how they work. can you tell me i they started working. coz my hd2 is stuck on htc logo screen and not going to bootloader after pressing the power and volume down key . ithink their some malfuncaning in volume down key......... plz reply fast
keetsy said:
Hello!
So the problem started today, when my phone got shutted down ( because battery was 4%.. ) and when i was able to charge it, this sh#t started.
So, some things first:
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I am going to try to explain this a little and maybe it will help you out.
keetsy said:
- I'm not able to get to the place ( phone off -> volume down and turn phone on ) where i could flash wp6.5 or do task29
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What you are talking about is called bootloader and this is probably caused by a faulty volume down button. Unless you check the hardware for the volume down button and fix it if it is faulty there is no other fix for this issue unless you are using Windows Mobile then you can use the enterbootloader.exe.
keetsy said:
- I couldn't enter into rom because it froze to the part where HTC is green with black background
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It froze on what is called the splash screen and this is not all in all just a major issue and can more than likely be fixed.
keetsy said:
- Rom worked with safe mode
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Safe mode on a device is the same as safe mode on a computer, it will allow you to boot the device and hopefully find the problem or fix the problem.
keetsy said:
- USB flasher doesn't work in malgdr
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This is probably a driver issue and is only needed to flash a Android recovery or to flash a Windows Phone ROM.
keetsy said:
- Buttons are messy ( but i have now figured how they work )
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I would like some more info on this actually as far as what buttons you are talking about. It also plays into what I said about a faulty volume down button.
keetsy said:
- I*M NOT ABLE TO HARD RESET, when it says " press volume up to reset ", it does nothing. I have to take off the battery to get off there.
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This is because you have MAGLDR installed, there is no software for the device to reset.
keetsy said:
+ I'm able to go to AD recovery, and do anything there
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This is good because I think recovery just may be what you need to use to fix your issue.
keetsy said:
+ I'm able to use USB MassStg
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This is also good because you can transfer any needed files to your SD card using this.
keetsy said:
So what can I do? Or what should i do? This is really sad to me. I've flashed roms since March with great succes, but now I face a problem like this in normal use. So i'm pretty confused.
I'm able to take some video if you need it.
Not sure did i make it to the right section, but i hope i made.
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I assume you are using a Android ROM because you said you can still use AD recovery. I suggest you read the first couple of post in the thread for the ROM you are using to find the suggested partition size you need as you may not have the right partition size if that is the case you will need to re partition your device but without being able to use USB flasher you will not be able to flash a new recovery with your new partition size. But you you should be able to edit a recovery and use it with AD sd, look in my guide linked in my sig for more infor on using recovery from SD card.
Also you can try to do a wipe of your cache and delvik cache and see if that helps. You can also try to make a backup of your ROM and re flash the Android ROM to see if that helps.
But to be honest with you your situation is odd because it did not happen right after you flashed a ROM. This sorta leads me to beleive you may have hardware issues.
LOL, when i started the phone today, the buttons worked normally. In Malgdr & AD recovery.
Of course, i tried to go to bootloader and I did. After that I flashed WM6.5 succesfully.
I'm going to upload a video about this all today or tomorrow. Rendering the video just now.
Edit: Installed this rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1912740
Still, back and "windows" button are bugging. Sometimes when i press them, they change the volume and the real volume buttons do the same.
Edit 2: You can watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDMZQRzcZmM
keetsy said:
LOL, when i started the phone today, the buttons worked normally. In Malgdr & AD recovery.
Of course, i tried to go to bootloader and I did. After that I flashed WM6.5 succesfully.
I'm going to upload a video about this all today or tomorrow. Rendering the video just now.
Edit: Installed this rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1912740
Still, back and "windows" button are bugging. Sometimes when i press them, they change the volume and the real volume buttons do the same.
Edit 2: You can watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDMZQRzcZmM
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I watched the video and I gotta say I think you have hardware issues. I would recommend you find someone to take a lookk at you volume buttons and the hardware buttons to see about fixing them. Both sets of buttons are replaceable.
I'll try to take care of that.
Thank you really much !
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Synopsis: Son gave me phone to see if I can fix it. It would only boot in to the coloured screen. I’ve read this forum till I couldn’t see any more to try and fix it.
What I’ve done so far is to back up whatever was on the card, then formatted it FAT32. Downloaded RC7 zip (UK), extracted DREAIMG.mbh to card. I also put the zip file on card but renamed it to update.zip. I've done all this with a card reader.
When starting phone, it goes through the update as below.
DREAIMG.mbh – OK
RADIO_V2 – OK
BOOTLOADER – OK
RECOVERY – OK
BOOT – OK
SPLASH1 – OK
SYSTEM – OK
USERDATA – OK
Update Complete
UPDATE SUCCESS, press action key
Pressing the middle/action key takes me back to the bootloader/tricolor screen:
DREA110 PVT 32B
HBOOT-0.95.0000
CPLD-4
RADIO-1.22.12.29
SEPT 2 2008
Serial0
When starting phone with home + power key, it goes to the triangle with the exclamation mark. Pressing alt + L, tells me E: Can’t open /cache/recovery/command. Pressing alt + S gives me:
E: No signature (1 files)
E: Verification failed
Twice it booted up to asking for simcard. Once before I formatted, and once after. There wasn’t a simcard with it and not sure if it’s needed to boot fully.
Is there other things to try, or is it too corrupted to fix?
Thanks in advance
without doing the update.zip part does the phone not boot up with RC7?
Try RC 8 or RC 9... or try flashing this (official cupcake) via recovery.
sergioiacobucci said:
without doing the update.zip part does the phone not boot up with RC7?
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I'm afraid not. it always boots to coloured screen as mentione in my post.
Thank you for your post.
AdrianK said:
Try RC 8 or RC 9... or try flashing (official cupcake) via recovery.
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Many thanks for the reply. I can't seem to find RC 8 and 9 for download and the link to cupcake is broken.
Thanks again.
g0tch said:
I'm afraid not. it always boots to coloured screen as mentione in my post.
Thank you for your post.
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even without holding any buttons?
themapleboy said:
even without holding any buttons?
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Whenever I get to the bootloader screen I can’t turn the phone of at all apart from taking the battery out. Pressing the power button will take it through the update (see my firs post) and when all done it goes back to bootloader screen. To turn phone off I have to remove battery again.
Kind regards,
remove the memory stick then from off boot your phone w/o pressing any buttons (just power) what happens?
themapleboy said:
remove the memory stick then from off boot your phone w/o pressing any buttons (just power) what happens?
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Pressing the power button without the memory card, nothing happens at all.
g0tch said:
Pressing the power button without the memory card, nothing happens at all.
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I'm sorry to say but to my knowledge you're screwed, as far as i know. I'm far from a professional but on my check list:
-unrooted
-stock spl/radio
-no recovery
-and dream.img doesn't work
your next option is a jtag, if that doesnt work im pretty sure it's some type of hardware issue. sorry i couldnt be of more help
Many thanks for trying to help. I've no idea what jtag is but will try and google it.
Kind regards,
After an exhaustive searches the last 24 hrs, it seems that unless one can get the phone recognized by your PC, or can boot it past the boot loader, there appears to be no chance for it to be resurrected.
Unless anyone knows better.
Kind Regards to all,
jtag - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=591048
vixsandlee said:
jtag - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=591048
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Many thanks for the link but it's way over my old head.
Kind regards,
this may sound a little simple and forgive me if its stupid, but are you sure your camera button isnt stuck down?
There is hope!
I had exactly the same problem and cured it by downloading the US image (RC29 I think) rather than the UK one. Put the dreamimg.nbh in the root of your SD card then boot up the G1 whilst pressing the camera button.
Even though my phone is from the UK (I am in Ireland) this worked a treat and gave me a working (abeit back to basics) phone. From there I rooted it again then went through to my chosen ROM.
Hope this works - let me know.
Mike
sergioiacobucci said:
this may sound a little simple and forgive me if its stupid, but are you sure your camera button isnt stuck down?
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Many thank for your replies. Sorry for late post but was away. The camera button seems to work, at least it gives a definite click. I now handed phone back to my son but will see him tonight and relay the messages. Will post if I can get it to work.
Kind regards,
Alright so this is what Im looking for,
i was on a phone call last night and my phone screen just went blank, the touch button are glowing but screen is just blank dark. So i went into recovery and it gave me bunch of error, so i thought to hard reset it.
Ive been searching every where its tell me to hold the vol down and press the power and when the logo comes up release it, and a few other ways but nothing is working.. phone boots fine, goes thru that samsung animation and then then the black screen. Please help.
Almost...
Hold:
Volume UP
Middle button
Power button
that takes me to recovery man,,,,it only has wipe option and that aint working..
junooni.1980 said:
that takes me to recovery man,,,,it only has wipe option and that aint working..
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Vol down power and home key for download
junooni.1980 said:
that takes me to recovery man,,,,it only has wipe option and that aint working..
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Well, that is the menu that your looking for if you want to do a hard reset (WIPE). If it not working, then your phone is toast. Unless you want to try flashing it with another ROM using Odin. Which may work. (but very doubtful) There are tons and tons of threads here for you to researh your problem, but it sounds to me like the SD card has gone tits up. Wen u try to do a hard reset (wipe) what comes up on the screen after you select wipe??
But Vol up, middle button, and pwr is in fact the menu your looking for to do a Hard reset. (wipe)
If in fact your SD card is having issues, there is a thread floating around here somewhere, where some people have had sucess reviving their phone (and SD) using a series of flashes or something that may work.
Grashoper said:
Well, that is the menu that your looking for if you want to do a hard reset (WIPE). If it not working, then your phone is toast. Unless you want to try flashing it with another ROM using Odin. Which may work. (but very doubtful) There are tons and tons of threads here for you to researh your problem, but it sounds to me like the SD card has gone tits up. Wen u try to do a hard reset (wipe) what comes up on the screen after you select wipe??
But Vol up, middle button, and pwr is in fact the menu your looking for to do a Hard reset. (wipe)
If in fact your SD card is having issues, there is a thread floating around here somewhere, where some people have had sucess reviving their phone (and SD) using a series of flashes or something that may work.
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Ok so i tired flashing with Odin, and it was success but after rebooting it still the same thing...button are lighting up but black screen. Can any one guide me to the right direction please??
Your phone is dead.
You will have to bring it to a store for an exchange for a new one.
urfase said:
Your phone is dead.
You will have to bring it to a store for an exchange for a new one.
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I agree, go exchange. you should see the common unable to mount error in the recovery to confirm it's toast
junooni.1980 said:
Ok so i tired flashing with Odin, and it was success but after rebooting it still the same thing...button are lighting up but black screen. Can any one guide me to the right direction please??
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Just flash your phone with odin to a 2.1 firmware (stock firmware, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=846913 ) it should do the trick, if it's entering recovery and then let's you install a new firmware you're ok, but before installing a new firmware just take the battery out for 15-20 sec so the phone has no power to keep residual info from your previouse firmware.
HI,
Is there a way to flash the new roms without the Volume rocker working. My phone was all good till i dropped it and the volume rocker has stopped working.
I ask tot he super minds...Is there a way to flash a rom if ones volume rocker is not working?
I looked at the ROM thread for WP7 and at one point you have to chose USB flasher via the volume key. If thats true and there is no other way then i cant instal WP7 ever..
************sigh**********
PLS help
EDIT:--- Now i am dead... installed radio....installed magldr and now cant select usb flasher mode. Damn.
Pls help
i dont think there is a way without volume down key...
How can i boot directly into boot loader without volume key??
has to be a workaround with all the smart ppl here.
XDA rulezzzzz....someone help me
if you don't have volume keys, you won't be able to change the volume in win phone :L
LOL
will do it via system sounds.....
BUT PLSSSS someone help me instal WP& without the volume rocker working
stuck badly now
Installed magldr and now ant choose the USB flasher mood.
Pls someone help me to get back or get forward...
or am i bricked?
Really worried
You need Enter boot software.
My friend Spike advised it to me long time ago so all credits go to him for finding it.
http://www.google.nl/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=htc+enter+boot+cab
Edit, but if you try WP7 you need to realise Enter boot won't work there so you can't go back.
Better to fix the volume keys.
yahya.hamid said:
How can i boot directly into boot loader without volume key??
has to be a workaround with all the smart ppl here.
XDA rulezzzzz....someone help me
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Laurentius26 said:
You need Enter boot software.
My friend Spike advised it to me long time ago so all credits go to him for finding it.
http://www.google.nl/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=htc+enter+boot+cab
Edit, but if you try WP7 you need to realise Enter boot won't work there so you can't go back.
Better to fix the volume keys.
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Thanks for that.
The only problem is that he's already installed magldr and AFAIK there's no way to get back to WM to run the cab, unless you know of a way back that doesn't involve using the vol keys?
You need an electronics dude (like me) or some experience on how-to de-assemble at least phones anyway if you succeed on de-assembling the phone all you have to do is using a tiny pin plug it inside the volume controls you should be able to press the pcb push button and not the outside plugin
If you cant do all of this ask a friend of yours (electronics) or take to phone shop hell do it for you in exactly 30 secs
no way ...
There no way to flash WP7 without volume key ... Many rom or tool offer you
the possibility to enter directly in bootloader but after flashed MagLdr you will be stuck because you will be unable to enter in MagLdr and unable to scroll down to choice 5 (usb flash). i know it because i have the same problem ....
yahya.hamid said:
HI,
Is there a way to flash the new roms without the Volume rocker working. My phone was all good till i dropped it and the volume rocker has stopped working.
I ask tot he super minds...Is there a way to flash a rom if ones volume rocker is not working?
I looked at the ROM thread for WP7 and at one point you have to chose USB flasher via the volume key. If thats true and there is no other way then i cant instal WP7 ever..
************sigh**********
PLS help
EDIT:--- Now i am dead... installed radio....installed magldr and now cant select usb flasher mode. Damn.
Pls help
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Since 6 months my friend installed android on my HTC HD2 (previous windows mobile) mAGDLR 1.13 from NAND. Working great, till yesterday. It crashed, I tried to reboot with both soft-reset and hard-reset (volume up-down and start button), but the programm is stuck at the android logo. It is not possible to connect to the computer, only when I put the SD in an other phone.
Is there a way to solve this problem? While keeping android? Replace a file on SD?
Or otherwise to remove android completely?
I am a noob, so please explain it simple, step-by-step.
I tried to enter the boot-screen (with 3 colors, holding volume down and press start) following by connecting USB to the computer, but this isn't working either.
I don't know what to do, I am about to throw that stupid phone out of the window!
I looked on the website for similar problems, but couldn't find a solution that worked for me...
I hope someone could help me solve this!
Thanx
dijkemani said:
Since 6 months my friend installed android on my HTC HD2 (previous windows mobile) mAGDLR 1.13 from NAND. Working great, till yesterday. It crashed, I tried to reboot with both soft-reset and hard-reset (volume up-down and start button), but the programm is stuck at the android logo. It is not possible to connect to the computer, only when I put the SD in an other phone.
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explain the red bit?
Is there a way to solve this problem? While keeping android? Replace a file on SD?
Or otherwise to remove android completely?
I am a noob, so please explain it simple, step-by-step.
I tried to enter the boot-screen (with 3 colors, holding volume down and press start) following by connecting USB to the computer, but this isn't working either.
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explain teh red bit?
I don't know what to do, I am about to throw that stupid phone out of the window!
I looked on the website for similar problems, but couldn't find a solution that worked for me...
I hope someone could help me solve this!
Thanx
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just saying 'it doesnt work,' and 'its not possible' is a waste of your time, we need actual symptoms.
''doctor, i'm very ill' wont get you much treatment,
''doctor im very ill, it hurts when i pee and my kidneys hurt' is a muchmore usefull statement.
I tried to reboot with both soft-reset and hard-reset (volume up-down and start button)
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these have no effect when android is installed.
When I link the phone to my computer by USB, there isn't appearing a file in "my computer". My computer doesn't recognise the USB.
I can only brows my SD when I put it in an other phone.
I hope it is a bit more clear for you now.
Can you get into recovery ? Shut your phone off completely . Press the power button . Once you see the t mobile splash screen press and gold the power button . Once at magldr . Use the volume buttons to scroll down to ad recovery and press the green phone button . If you can do that successfully get back to me
Sent from my HTC HD2 using Tapatalk
Yes, I am in the recovery menu now.
dijkemani said:
When I link the phone to my computer by USB, there isn't appearing a file in "my computer". My computer doesn't recognise the USB.
I can only brows my SD when I put it in an other phone.
I hope it is a bit more clear for you now.
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No, it wont show on the PC unless an OS is running, but so long as the word serial changes to USB that's fine.
dijkemani said:
Yes, I am in the recovery menu now.
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In that case do a full backup, then 'wipe data / factory reset' then reflash your rom. If it works you can go back into cwm, select backups and restore, advanced, and restore the data (and perhaps sd-ext too) and fingers x'd you should be back to normal. If it crashes again after the restore, just reflash again and this time don't restore.
It worked! Only after the second try, without the restore.
Thanks a lot for your help!
dijkemani said:
Yes, I am in the recovery menu now.
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Ok thats a good thing . Using once again the volume buttons , select storage and mounts . Then after that , select "Format Boot" and then "Format System" and reinstall the ROM you had on prior to the boot hang . It should fix everything and all your data will still be there "Apps contacts such things as that should still be on the device"
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dijkemani said:
It worked! Only after the second try, without the restore.
Thanks a lot for your help!
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Lol just saw this after i posted my previous post ! Glad you got it working again !
dijkemani said:
It crashed, I tried to reboot with both soft-reset and hard-reset (volume up-down and start button)
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samsamuel said:
these have no effect when android is installed
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hello people. just a question to ask.
what if android is installed and the phone is dead?
i installed android, working fine for some hours, sometime it tilt, i removed the battery but know it does not respond
OK... SO, i've searched a bit and it seems im a bit lost. These windows phones are A LOT different from our Droid phones (my primary is a happily rooted Sensation running InsertCoin... and has been for, well.. since I got it )
Anyway, I've inherited a windows phone (an HD2) that apparently someone installed ICS on the NAND...
Heres my question... Is there an easy to follow noob guide out there anywhere that someone can point me to to revert this to a standard Windows Phone? I dont care which version, from there I can probably babystep up to whatever you guys call a bleeding edge rom
Or can someone point me to a few links that I might be able to use to peice everything together?
Or hell, walk me through it even?
RBThompsonV said:
OK... SO, i've searched a bit and it seems im a bit lost. These windows phones are A LOT different from our Droid phones (my primary is a happily rooted Sensation running InsertCoin... and has been for, well.. since I got it )
Anyway, I've inherited a windows phone (an HD2) that apparently someone installed ICS on the NAND...
Heres my question... Is there an easy to follow noob guide out there anywhere that someone can point me to to revert this to a standard Windows Phone? I dont care which version, from there I can probably babystep up to whatever you guys call a bleeding edge rom
Or can someone point me to a few links that I might be able to use to peice everything together?
Or hell, walk me through it even?
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OK... Nevermind... After much digging, i found the "Uninstall" guide.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=893948
Question now is... How do I know which version (512 or 1024) version I have?
try this link, it might Help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25781675#post25781675
mengfei said:
try this link, it might Help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25781675#post25781675
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Ok... im stuck, I cant boot the phone into "recovery mode"
I pull the battery, hold Vol Up, hit power (while still holding Volume Up... Boots to OS
Same with Vol. Down and with Vol up and vol down both being held...
Volume keys work in the OS just fine...
Any suggestions?
RBThompsonV said:
Ok... im stuck, I cant boot the phone into "recovery mode"
I pull the battery, hold Vol Up, hit power (while still holding Volume Up... Boots to OS
Same with Vol. Down and with Vol up and vol down both being held...
Volume keys work in the OS just fine...
Any suggestions?
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OK... Made a little progress, stuck again...
Pulled the battery, held power until aMAGLDR v1.13 pops up...
Now it flashes between 2 screens:
Screen 1:
ANDROID LOAD at 1800000
from MicroSD
Load zImage
K: /zImage
SD Kernel open failed
Screen 2 (Some menu screen, pops on for half a second then flips back to the first):
Boot Menu:
1: Boot WPH
2: Bood AD SD
3: Boot AD NAND
4: USB MassStg
and a bunch of other options...
I have a blank SD card in it... well, it has some android folders created by the OS... Is there something special I need to do with the SD?
read tutorial for installing WP7 from my signature
dxdy said:
read tutorial for installing WP7 from my signature
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ACTUALLY... It was a hardware issue.
Theres a lose wire or flex cable in it somewhere... you have to apply a little torque to the body to keep it from selecting options...
SO... short story long, I now have a functioning W7.5 phone... all I have to do now is figure out the bad connection and fix it.
on to youtube for a disassembly video