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Two days after the sdcard swap, suddenly im getting stuck at the dell bootup screen and wont boot up (not boot loop, just showing "dell" forever). first i suspect the sdcard is faulty, but it worked fine on the hd7 after hard reset, so i insert it back to the venue pro and try to bootup and hard reset it... guess what, i cant boot up the phone. Now i thought i can go into the reset screen like i did on the hd7 and hard reset it via bootloader, but after much searching, i cant access the format screen, only the "connect to pc" screen. Swapping to the original 8gb sdcard, i get infinite bootloop.
Supposedly the hardware key combo for hardreset is VolDown + Camera, but that brought me to the "connect to pc" screen; i also tried VolDown + VolUp, VolUp + Camera, VolUp + VolDown + Camera, nothing works
anyone got any idea?
have you tried power off and then hold vol up and down and while holding them down hit the power button, or power off and the vol up or down plus camera
nope... all of them brought me to the connect to pc screen
can anyone with the newly arrived batch of DVP try to get into the reset screen on boot?
Does anyone know the soft reset key combination?
Settings -> About -> At the bottom of screen <RESET YOUR PHONE>
cdgoin said:
Settings -> About -> At the bottom of screen <RESET YOUR PHONE>
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Sorry, I meant the actual physical key combo. My phone has locked up a couple of times, and I've had to result to removing and replacing the battery.
the reason im asking this is because my 32gb card went corrupted (tried on hd7, also cant get it to work after hard reset), when i put the original 8gb card in, it went into bootloop. the only way i can think of to get it to work is do a hard reset during bootload, which requires a special hardware button combination, but it seems the venue pro is hardware key locked...
This is supposedly the combo:
Hard reset Dell Venue Pro
1. Turn the phone off. If it won’t respond to holding down the Power button, pull the battery from the phone.
2. Press and hold the Camera and Volume Down buttons simultaneously.
3. Press and release the Power button while continuing to hold down Camera and Volume Down.
4. Release the buttons once the format screen appears.
5. Press the Windows button.
6. Press the Windows button again to confirm the hard reset.
The Dell Venue Pro will then go through the process of restoring the phone to its factory default settings.
Make sure you are not releasing the button combo vol down/camera until the format screen appears.
sureloch said:
This is supposedly the combo:
Hard reset Dell Venue Pro
1. Turn the phone off. If it won’t respond to holding down the Power button, pull the battery from the phone.
2. Press and hold the Camera and Volume Down buttons simultaneously.
3. Press and release the Power button while continuing to hold down Camera and Volume Down.
4. Release the buttons once the format screen appears.
5. Press the Windows button.
6. Press the Windows button again to confirm the hard reset.
The Dell Venue Pro will then go through the process of restoring the phone to its factory default settings.
Make sure you are not releasing the button combo vol down/camera until the format screen appears.
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it does not work; just goes to the "connect to pc" screen
i'll second this. i cannot find information on a physical key combo that will let me hard reset the device. mine is stuck in bootloop with or without the microsd installed.
is there any other way to hard reset it? can i connect it via some program? zune won't restore it, i'm willing to try others.
wolfdtx said:
i'll second this. i cannot find information on a physical key combo that will let me hard reset the device. mine is stuck in bootloop with or without the microsd installed.
is there any other way to hard reset it? can i connect it via some program? zune won't restore it, i'm willing to try others.
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There is NO magic key combination for the DELL. The combination here only will take you to download mode. IF you had a backup on your PC, the DELL would read that backup and restore to previous mode.
Pulling the card has a greater danger than anything else. If you turn your device off and pull the card, without a hard reset, you have the chance to Brick your device. Pulling a card should ONLY be accompanied by a hard reset. Be skeptical of anyone that says pull your card and swap it without a hard reset. They wither got real lucky, which i doubt, or they are using WP7 on an HD2 device. NOT THE SAME THING.
If you have swapped a card NOT using the recommended instructions, you may not be able to restore your device. ALL card swaps, both removal and insertion, should be as part of a hard reset. the TYPE of card does NOT matter. The PROCESS matters. The card type only impacts the storage amount, hangs, freezes, etc. To put your phone in position to change cards, there is only 1 way...
To Remove a SD card from the DELL
>>>>>>>>
1. Hard reset device
2. Before the phone reboots...pre logo's, pull battery and pull card.
3. Put battery back in and start
4. On the Get started screen, run through phone setup.
>>>>>>>>
To insert a new card in a DELL
5. From a Working Dell, repeat steps 1&2.
6. Insert new card
7. repeat 3&4.
8. Your Device should be functional.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Occassionally with a new card, you might get a storage card not working message. I've seen this message several times using 16g cards above class 4. To resolve this:
1. Pray
2. Pull the battery and reset the SD card. DO NOT REPLACE CARD.
3. Insert Battery and restart
4. Pray.
5. Repeat as necessary. I have on a few occassions had to do this 4 times.
If you get this message, and your card is properly seated, STRONGLY consider a new card. The message indicates your device is NOT seeing your card. Change it. MAKE sure you change it using the steps above.
NO SHORTCUTS. If you don't understand these instructions, don't change the card. Be clear. If your device gets bricked, there are very few options available to you.....none that do not involve DELL....that I know of.
theclueless said:
Two days after the sdcard swap, suddenly im getting stuck at the dell bootup screen and wont boot up (not boot loop, just showing "dell" forever). first i suspect the sdcard is faulty, but it worked fine on the hd7 after hard reset, so i insert it back to the venue pro and try to bootup and hard reset it... guess what, i cant boot up the phone. Now i thought i can go into the reset screen like i did on the hd7 and hard reset it via bootloader, but after much searching, i cant access the format screen, only the "connect to pc" screen. Swapping to the original 8gb sdcard, i get infinite bootloop.
Supposedly the hardware key combo for hardreset is VolDown + Camera, but that brought me to the "connect to pc" screen; i also tried VolDown + VolUp, VolUp + Camera, VolUp + VolDown + Camera, nothing works
anyone got any idea?
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I'm having the same problem with my new dell venue pro. If you resolved this, please post how.
THanks a lot!!!
Really about to solve the problem ?
Hi there,
You say there is few options available to get the phone working again and none of that involves Dell Venue pro .... ... can you share this ?
alodar1 said:
There is NO magic key combination for the DELL. The combination here only will take you to download mode. IF you had a backup on your PC, the DELL would read that backup and restore to previous mode.
Pulling the card has a greater danger than anything else. If you turn your device off and pull the card, without a hard reset, you have the chance to Brick your device. Pulling a card should ONLY be accompanied by a hard reset. Be skeptical of anyone that says pull your card and swap it without a hard reset. They wither got real lucky, which i doubt, or they are using WP7 on an HD2 device. NOT THE SAME THING.
If you have swapped a card NOT using the recommended instructions, you may not be able to restore your device. ALL card swaps, both removal and insertion, should be as part of a hard reset. the TYPE of card does NOT matter. The PROCESS matters. The card type only impacts the storage amount, hangs, freezes, etc. To put your phone in position to change cards, there is only 1 way...
To Remove a SD card from the DELL
>>>>>>>>
1. Hard reset device
2. Before the phone reboots...pre logo's, pull battery and pull card.
3. Put battery back in and start
4. On the Get started screen, run through phone setup.
>>>>>>>>
To insert a new card in a DELL
5. From a Working Dell, repeat steps 1&2.
6. Insert new card
7. repeat 3&4.
8. Your Device should be functional.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Occassionally with a new card, you might get a storage card not working message. I've seen this message several times using 16g cards above class 4. To resolve this:
1. Pray
2. Pull the battery and reset the SD card. DO NOT REPLACE CARD.
3. Insert Battery and restart
4. Pray.
5. Repeat as necessary. I have on a few occassions had to do this 4 times.
If you get this message, and your card is properly seated, STRONGLY consider a new card. The message indicates your device is NOT seeing your card. Change it. MAKE sure you change it using the steps above.
NO SHORTCUTS. If you don't understand these instructions, don't change the card. Be clear. If your device gets bricked, there are very few options available to you.....none that do not involve DELL....that I know of.
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Alright everyone, I have an NC that I rooted quite awhile ago to great success. However, in my quest for updating to ics, I completely deleted everything. Buttons don't work, and for some reason I can't have it access my computer's hard drive because it won't turn on.
So, if anyone has any ideas for fixing it, it would be much appreciated. All I think I need is the original NC software (everything) and a way to put it on the hdd that I can't access. Thanks in advance.
I think you should be able to make (or re-use) a CWM card and use it to install a fresh rom. Unless it's totally borked, the NC should still boot first from the SD card.
I would, but the only problem is that I cannot even get the device to power on, the buttons don't work.
Edit: Here's the deal, I just need the damned thing to power up for me so I can mount the sdcard and restore it. But whatever utility makes the buttons work, is gone - they aren't just merely broken. So I can press the buttons and the kernel or whatever it is that interacts with the buttons will not understand what is going on because the utility is not there.
If anyone has a solution for either powering it on via usb (with the device off) or getting the buttons to work again, great.
Can anybody access their NC cwm for me and try to find whatever it is that I deleted? It has something to do with buttons or what not.
Are you holding the power button on for several seconds.. Until the screen flashes?
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Are you holding the power button on for several seconds.. Until the screen flashes?
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^ What he said. Sometimes I have to hold the power down for quite a while, or try it several times. This is usually after an SOD (it may help to have it charging too).
Yes and yes. I hold it for quite awhile. Still does nothing.
Have you tried holding down the n button along with the power button?
Hold both for 10 seconds. Release. Hold power button alone for 10 seconds. Sometimes it takes 2 or three cycles of holding down both buttons, then the power.button to get the nook reset.
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Zoolu.Taylor said:
Alright everyone, I have an NC that I rooted quite awhile ago to great success. However, in my quest for updating to ics, I completely deleted everything. Buttons don't work, and for some reason I can't have it access my computer's hard drive because it won't turn on.
So, if anyone has any ideas for fixing it, it would be much appreciated. All I think I need is the original NC software (everything) and a way to put it on the hdd that I can't access. Thanks in advance.
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Just because the screen does not flicker, and you can’t access the file system from your computer using a USB cable, does not mean that the device has not powered on. I can format the whole file system, and the power button will turn it on every time. For turning on the device, the power button is independent of the file system.
It sounds like you have just screwed up the files in the boot partition. I screwed up my device to this point more than a couple times. I had the same none flickering screen, and no file system access from a USB cable. The NC is programmed to boot from a SD card before internal storage, there is really no way that you could have screwed it up to the point that it won’t continue to do that. Below are the steps that I have always taken to get back to a working device,
*fully charge the device, this is very important, because the device might have been on this whole time, and you just could not see it
*Download the stock 1.2 update.zip found HERE, get the “update-nc-stock-1.2-signed.zip” file
*Now download the file to make a bootable CWM card found HERE
*Follow the directions in that post to make your bootable CWM card, then place the “update-nc-stock-1.2-signed.zip” file onto that card
*Put the bootable CWM card into your NC
*Hold the power button, and count to 3, then let go
*If after a count to 10, nothing has appeared on the screen, repeat the last step, you most likely just turn the device off.
*This time CWM should load up, select “wipe cache partition,” followed by “wipe cache partition”
*Now scroll down to and select “mounts and storage”
*Now scroll down to and select “format /boot”
*When that has completed, you will then select “install zip from sdcard”
*Then select “choose zip from sdcard,” and select the “update-nc-stock-1.2-signed.zip” file
*If you receive an error at the very start of the install process, you need to select “toggle script asserts,” to disable script asserts
*When that has completed, remove the card, select reboot the device, and boot the device no SD card in it
Your device should now boot just like stock. At this point you should be back to a completely stock NC.
Report back with any results, good or bad.
Is it necessary to format /system and /data as well if changing between firmware?
Can't try it just yet, but after I'm done traveling it will be top-priority.
I have a old honeycomb version and was good until I found the microsd card slot was bent so I can't boot any sd... then I wiped data/cache and it will only show the setup wizard and I can't click the android guy. I then followed the directions in various posts trying to use the 8 failed boot attempts and format system but to no avail. NOw it won't boot at all... Can I use adb to flash a stock system boot and data img?
I read somewhere something like this,you can try it
1. turn the Nook completely off
2. turn it on and immediately on seeing the first message "the future of reading" press and hold the power button until it turns off again
3. repeat this 7 more times for a total of 8
4. on the 9th time, let the Nook completely reboot without holding the power button - you will see a message saying "installing a software update..." and after this everything will be back to factory new (the system will be totally restored)
If you're missing the timing, I believe there is a way to use a script with adb to cause 8 fail boots and force the restore. I can't find it off hand, but I'm sure if you do some searching it'll come up.
Nikola_r said:
I read somewhere something like this,you can try it
1. turn the Nook completely off
2. turn it on and immediately on seeing the first message "the future of reading" press and hold the power button until it turns off again
3. repeat this 7 more times for a total of 8
4. on the 9th time, let the Nook completely reboot without holding the power button - you will see a message saying "installing a software update..." and after this everything will be back to factory new (the system will be totally restored)
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You don't even have to count....Just keep doing the interrupted boots until the nook tells you that it is resetting.
Try this I did and it worked to get mine booting after a bad
update.
I messed around with it using several methods of getting it to
boot into download mode until I finally got it to do it. I think
I left it plugged into the USB, powered it down until I saw the
charging screen, then I proceeded to play with the different ways
to hold the buttons to get it to download mode. If you are
persistent enough and read a little on booting methods to get
bricked phone into download mode you will succed if not then your
not for the world of trial and error... the main thing is do the
first steps I said before until it works
1. Get into Download Mode (WITH THE PHONE PLUGGED IN) by
following the steps below
*Turn off the phone until you get to the charging battery screen
(keep in mind, your phone is currently PLUGGED IN)
*Press volume up and down, and power all at once.
*As soon as the screen turns black, release your power button.
2. Unplug phone from USB
or try
2. Remove everything from your phone (SD card, sim, battery).
3. Plug your phone into your computer WITHOUT the battery, as you
have already taken it out in the last step.
4. Press and HOLD vol. up and vol. down.
5. As you are HOLDING these buttons, reattach your battery.
6. You should be in Download Mode.
7. Unplug phone from USB
any how try try try until it works
Once in download mode
Get your files together for your phone, and use Odin 1.85.
Plug into Odin and make sure it shows yellow and its added!
1. Now if your files have like 3 files and the exact .pit file
for your phone
I found mine here
http://www.droidevelopers.com/showthread.php?
11722-Download-OPS-amp-PIT-files
2. Click the PIT button and browse to your exact .pit file for
your phone *It should now have added a check in the re-partition
box under the options area of the Odin window. If not CHECK IT!
***If you don't have your .pit don't worry about this unless you
suspect, or have a bad partition
3. If you have just 1 file just click the PDA button and load the
file. If you have 3 then you will load the PDA file in PDA, the
Modem file into PHONE, and the CSC file into CSC, there are way
too many phones to link all the files so get you stuff together!
4. Now hit start.
5. When done and the phone shows the first sign of starting up IE
Logo or whatever... immediately unplug the battery from the phone
to shut it down.
6. Now put it back in and start it in Upload mode by pressing Vol
Up, Home at the same time then the Power button.
7. As soon as the phone shows the first sign of starting up IE
Logo or whatever let go of all buttons and using the Vol Up down
Choose the Clear Cache option and go through and make sure you
factory reset it if you can just for good measure.
8. Reboot
9. Now when the phone shows the first sign of starting up IE Logo
or whatever take out battery again to power off
10. Now put it back in and start it in Download mode by pressing
Vol Down, Home at the same time then the Power button.
11. Once in download mode Hook up to Odin again and flash it with
a root kernel for your phone. Do not ask me just find it. I did
it took time but I got all the files together over several days
of reading and collecting the correct ones.
12. When done and the phone shows the first sign of starting up
IE Logo or whatever... immediately unplug the battery from the
phone to shut it down.
13. Now put it back in and start it in Upload mode by pressing
Vol Up, Home at the same time then the Power button.
14. In most roots you will now have a advanced or mounting
options and more options to use.
15. I cleared the Cache again, Cleared the Davilik Cache, Went
into a option and actually mounted the cache formatted the Cache.
16. Use the option now to restart the phone...
And mine started up installed the apps and I am up and running,
nice and smooth and no issues so far
I hope this helps out someone whos just about to go off the deep
end, as I was there and patience and trial and error came up with
this step by step way to recover mine. Thank me by hitting the
little thumbs up THANKS button below this post.
And if your so happy your phone is up show your appreciation by
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scottsdesk
Lots of good advices. I Got to Save them some where and hope that i don't Need them.
... slaycio
Button issue or startup bugs in ICS 4.0.4 ROOTED CWM
Try this
I am running ICS 4.0.4 and Rooted w/CWM just so you know...
Make sure and add this to the end of my guide above as I was having a small issue and this cleared it up
1. Go into recovery mode, wipe cache partition
2. Under mounts and storage, unmount all and format cache
3. Under the advanced, wipe dalvik cache, and battery and fix permissions
4. Reboot
hope this works it fixed mine...
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scottsdesk
Hello dear xda community
I have a px6 device from the company "Wondefoo" installed in my Mazda (without any hard buttons). It worked so far so good, but ZLink (Apple Carplay) didn't work, so I tried to fix this. To do that, I rooted the device, uninstalled the "ZLink" app and reinstalled a newer version. Then I tried to reboot. And then my problems started:
The device doesn't boot anymore. It tries to start up, I can see the Android 10 boot logo ("multi-media on-vehicle Navigation System" screen), but after about one minute, this logo disappears and the screen remains black.
OK, easy fix --> Just go into recovery mode and reset the device. But here's the big problem: I can't get into recovery mode.
Here's what I tried:
1. Ignition off and on --> Screen still black
2. Press "Reset" button (my device only has this one physical button) --> Boot process started again, but same outcome
3. Unmount the device, plug the power out, wait an hour, plug it in again and try again --> Boot process started again, but same outcome
4. Tried to connect with adb over Wi-Fi to the device (used the last known IP address) --> Connection timeout, Wi-Fi probably not started yet
5. Press&Hold "Reset" button until lights beign to flash to get into recovery mode --> Lights never flash because the "Reset" button somehow breaks the power circuit and when I release it, the device gets power again and boot process starts again with same outcome
6. Press&Hold "Reset" button for a minute, then release it, then press it again quickly within 1sec --> Boot process started again, same outcome
7. Tab with 5 fingers on the boot logo --> Nothing happened
8. Attached keyboard and pressed "Alt" + "PrintScreen" + "I" all the time --> Nothing happens. Keyboard is with RGB LEDs, so I saw it was active when the boot logo was displayed... Then, the LEDs on my keyboard turned off which was telling me that there is no keyboard input possible anymore
9. I even tried this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/new-method-enter-recovery-no-physical-buttons.4013453/ --> I just have one similar cable, not two as described in this post... So I put everything together again and just tried again --> Boot process started again, same outcome
Well... Is there any option left? I'm thinking about buying a USB male-to-male cable and try again with adb, but everyone tells me that I need to get into recovery mode first which I really can't
* Is there any other way to get into recovery mode? Maybe with my keyboard?
* Does anyone have another idea what I could try? Maybe without recovery mode?
Thanks in advance and cheers
T
As you said:
1. Ignition off and on
2.Have ready the needle for reset and do that instantly as you see the boot logo.
Once device restarted, wait until will see the boot logo again and pull out the ignition key.
3. Put in an USB socket a pen drive with the right firmware
4. Put back the ignition key and let it in ON position, without starting the engine. The update process will start, have a bit of patience until will finish. The device will restart at the end of the update, and straight after the boot logo, shortly press the reset button.
With a bit of luck, will have a fresh firmware on your device.
Thanks for your quick answer.
I tried what you said several times, but unfortunately I always end up on the black screen, no matter what I try.
My usb stick flashes quickly during the boot process, but nothing happens with it.
I also tried with an USB male-to-male cable and connect via adb, but it won‘t connect...
t-to-the-a said:
5. Press&Hold "Reset" button until lights beign to flash to get into recovery mode --> Lights never flash because the "Reset" button somehow breaks the power circuit and when I release it, the device gets power again and boot process starts again with same outcome
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Are you sure you are holding the reset button for long enough?
On my machine (Dasaita) you hold the reset and the machine turns off... but you have to keep holding it even after it has turned off. Could be upwards of 1.5 minutes. Once the lights flash (and finished flashing), release and press one more time within 3 seconds.
Thank you for this idea. I have tried 30 seconds, but no more until today...
Now I tried with 1min, 2mins, even 3mins, but nothing happens.. I think the power is immediately cut as soon as I press the reset button. So there is probably no way to fix this easily
I also contacted the seller, but they have a talent to not understand my question. I just get answers like "press the reset button 2 sec and then everything is fixed" or "plug in the USB drive with the new ROM and press update" - of course that doesn't help.
Well I guess I'm left with one last thing: Throw this device away and buy a new one. Not from Wondefoo anymore of course, and hopefully with a working reset button.
I have the same issue. What did you end up doing?
Where did you buy your unit from?