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ok i have run into this weird issue with my G1. it was working perfectly fine yesterday. i turned it off and charged it until it was fully charged like i usually do, but when i turned it on the boot loader screen flashed and the phone turned off! this happens whenever i try to turn the phone on. i cant get into recovery becuase the bootloader screen just flashes. when i try to get to the bootloader screen, it starts up fine but then looks for an image and turns off again. this started happening a few days after flashing haykuros spl if that helps. am i bricked or is there a way to fix this? thanks in advanced
edit: i am also usin the latest experimental build from cyanogen although i dont think this is the problem.
edit2: i managed to get my phone to start up, but im afarid to switch it off just incase it starts happening again so im still looking for a solution to this problem.
edit3: ok back to square one, my phone froze after fully booting up, restarted itself and now the problem is back! wow this is annoying.
it sounds like your camera button could be stuck. if you want to test this type reboot recovery into the recovery console and see if it boots into recovery or bootloader.
check and see if your camera button is stuck or partially stuck since you were able to boot it up once at least
Do you have fastboot working? if so, you can grab your nandroid backups from your SD card and flash them.
or go to cyanogens thread, download the recovery and flash the recovery using the fastboot command to install. i believe its
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
but plz confirm before you do that
EDIT: david means use adb since you cant get into recovery
adb shell reboot recovery
B-man007 said:
Do you have fastboot working? if so, you can grab your nandroid backups from your SD card and flash them.
or go to cyanogens thread, download the recovery and flash the recovery using the fastboot command to install. i believe its
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
but plz confirm before you do that
EDIT: david means use adb since you cant get into recovery
adb shell reboot recovery
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he said he got the phone up and running i meant if he wanted to see if it was a software problem he could type reboot recovery into the terminal emulator and see if he got the bootloader screen or the recovery screen.
also i believe the fastboot commands you posted are correct.
ok thanks for the help guys. before reading your posts a left the phone for a few wins powered it on and now mt phone has booted up and it is working. i will try your solutions still though. i am not sure if i have fast boot working. when the bootloader screen flashed i do remeber it saying fastboot so does that mean i have it running?
edit: camera button seems to be fine although i havent tried the rebbot recovery yet though lol because i need my phone an im not sure if i can get it working again.
do you have adb set up
david1171 said:
do you have adb set up
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yeah, although im using the 1.5 sdk and not the latest 1.6 does that matter?
if you have adb you will need to have the fastboot.exe (which i think is in the tools folder of the sdk) so cd to the sdk tools folder then use
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
(also have the recovery.img in the tools folder for this)
ok thanks my phone froze so i had to turn it off and now i am back to square 1 again is there anything besides the camera button that could be casuing this?
djosiah said:
ok thanks my phone froze so i had to turn it off and now i am back to square 1 again is there anything besides the camera button that could be casuing this?
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have you tried the fastboot flash recovery recovery.img command?
david1171 said:
have you tried the fastboot flash recovery recovery.img command?
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i cant get into fast boot...the screen with 3 androids on skateboards flashes once really quickly and thats it :/
can anyone help me? the camera button seems to be fine and not stuck. is there another factor that could be causing this? i think i might try unrooting then going through all the steps to root it again. or flashing back to the hardspl and see what happens.
update: i managed to get the phone to boot up again so i went into terminal and typed reboot recovery and i got to the recovery screen ok, but when i pressed home + back to restart the phone the bootloader screen flashed again really quickly :/ it also seems like if i leave the phone off for a few hours it will power up fine but when it is turned off i have to wait another few hours til i can switch it back on.
djosiah said:
can anyone help me? the camera button seems to be fine and not stuck. is there another factor that could be causing this? i think i might try unrooting then going through all the steps to root it again. or flashing back to the hardspl and see what happens.
update: i managed to get the phone to boot up again so i went into terminal and typed reboot recovery and i got to the recovery screen ok, but when i pressed home + back to restart the phone the bootloader screen flashed again really quickly :/ it also seems like if i leave the phone off for a few hours it will power up fine but when it is turned off i have to wait another few hours til i can switch it back on.
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this sounds like a hardware problem instead of a software problem since there is still a recovery screen, if your phone is still under warranty call your provider and see if there is anything they can do about it, and if they send you another one, just unroot the one you have
my phone isnt under warranty so looks like i will either have to put up with or buy myself a new one. thanks for the help.
If your sure your camera button isn't stuck, check your back button. If not, maybe some sweat or water got into it. some type of hardware dmg possibly. If your the do it yourself type of person, theres always this handy dandy notebook, I mean service manual
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=468673
wilnotdie said:
If your sure your camera button isn't stuck, check your back button. If not, maybe some sweat or water got into it. some type of hardware dmg possibly. If your the do it yourself type of person, theres always this handy dandy notebook, I mean service manual
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=468673
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ahh yes that would make sense seeing as the bootloader screen says fastboot so it must be a problem with the back button. never thought of that. thanks for the help.
ok assuming that the back button is the problem, if i were to flash back to the hard spl would this problem go away seeing as fastobot mode only works with the 'special' spl?
I had Cyanogen's 1.4 recovery image and one day it suddenly just wasn't there. I hadn't even rebooted to recovery mode in weeks and have no idea how it happens. Now I have the red, white, green screen and can't flash anything.
This randomly happened, I hadn't flashed anything or even messed with the phone in a long time. Anyway, how can I get my recovery image back? Since I need a new one I might as well upgrade to RA's.
I'm pretty sure I have root, since it says I have CM 4.2.12 and all the root functions still work. I'm just missing the recovery image.
Any ideas?
Dunno what you did, but to flash RA's image..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530492
read instructions in the thread, take about 2 minutes. Do it through adb since there's c+p
Can't do it through adb since I don't have any recovery image
Lemeja said:
Can't do it through adb since I don't have any recovery image
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As long as you still have root you should be able to do it using adb while you're phone is running ie: not in recovery
This is strange...I can't even run fix_permissions, it says access denied.
New to G1 and have a problem. Bought a G1 and it came with elcaires rom I think it was.
So I downloaded UK RC7, renamed it to Update, and placed it on the root of my card.
Held the home and power button, and tried to install but I'm getting installation aborted each time. I've also tried to wipe, but that gets aborted too.
I rebooted and now its stuck on G1 screen
I hope somebody can help, had the phone an hour and I've mucked it up already.
Thanks in advance
Im also "bricked" at the loading screen, i turn it on and it gets frozen at the tmobile screen. Home+power, camera+power, Alt+L etc dont work.
Is this fixable?
sirlewis said:
Im also "bricked" at the loading screen, i turn it on and it gets frozen at the tmobile screen. Home+power, camera+power, Alt+L etc dont work.
Is this fixable?
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No. It's Not.
if its not than what should he and i do?
Are you trying to boot into recovery while its in the G1 screen?
yo my name is sammy as well and i swear i just did the same thing with my g1 on eclair. hit me up dude on [email protected]. we can try and help each other out. plus i love the uk man. i never been, but plan too very soon. i love the music and the accents of the women, oh god. hit me up bro!
If you cannot access recovery or bootloader, you have a rather expensive paperweight. If you can, then you have hope.
AroundTheWorld said:
If you cannot access recovery or bootloader, you have a rather expensive paperweight. If you can, then you have hope.
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It is not so expensive since it be can brought for less than 100>$$
You can fix it by replacing the board with one from a working phone which is not the easiest thing to do.
hey ill take one of those paper weights... I need a new screen...
in the same boat cant get into anything hung up on splash screen
maybe our only option is jtag, ive never bricked before i always put cm 4 then go and install cm5 above that and it worked but this time it told me to go kick rocks and and and it was a customers phone so i gave him mine which is running eclair.
you guys arn't bricked. If you can turn on the phone than your perfectly fine.
You just gotta learn how to use it
G1 hanged at white screen!
Hi all,
I really need a help here. I have a G1 rooted with CM rom ver5. it was working fine since 3 months but suddenly now the phone doesnt boots up, it goes to white screen with 3 droid skaters and highlight on Hboot. It is freezed then and nothing can be done. I removed battery and tried booting by home + power ; camera+power etc etc . nothing happens it goes to that screen only. i have amons recovery and also nand backups in sd card. but the system doesnt let me go any where!! Please help......
attached is the snapshot
Either your back-button hangs, or something messed up your phone completely.
But as long as you have the fastboot mode, it's not bricked. I would suggest you to clean everything, i.e.
Code:
fastboot erase system -w
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase recovery
and then flash recovery again, i.e.
Code:
fastboot flash recovery <recover.img>
After that you can boot into recovery and restore your latest backup.
Please note: fastboot is a command you execute on your PC and you have to connect your phone with USB to your PC.
If after that procedure your phone boots again into hboot, most likely your back-button is defect.
I myself I think got a bricked G1...
I first installed many custom roms and thought that they were slowing my g1 so I wanted to get my g1 back to normal... For that I googled and was gone to the htc official website and ported the radio and rom from there but unfortunately I read it somewhere and it said that the rom is for only developers phone.
Everything first went very good... no error on clockwork recovery but when I reboot my phone, it got stuck on T-mobile G1 logo screen? I now can not even go to recovery mode or in fastboot mode? I need help...
Someone told me to use odin multi loader? but how do I use it or do it?? I need some instructions?
What should I do now? All I want to do right now is to get rid of my g1 by fixing it and selling it at once!!!
before flashing radio, spl, rom...anything...u need to check out the warnings and compatibility-MUST!!!!
there are 32B and 32A devices...both have different stuffs for themselves....which can be bricked if u dont follow the guidelines and try to act in sort of a haste to accomplish something new!!!
for those who can get to the camera+power (hboot) screen, but cant do anything else...u need to format ur sdcard...FAT32...then download dreaimg.nbh file...keep it in the root of ur sdcard...
then boot into the hboot menu, and ur phone should read the dreaimg.nbh file and prompt u to take an action(flash it)....do that and it'll get ur phone to the stock rom thingy....
then later u gotta root ur device again(telnet, great)....then install amon ra's recovery...change radio and what not and play again....
u gotta be patient...that's the only thing!!!
check this too
http://code.google.com/p/android-roms/wiki/Get_Root
Hello,
my HTC hero will not boot past the first HTS screen. i am able to get into hboot fastbootusb but with no adp support. s-on and have flashed oem rom with no luck. before this happened i changed a few settings in qpst in an effort to flash it to another network.
PLZ help
also this might be nothing but i noticed when in hboot it looks for herCimg.im not herOimg.img same with the other thing it scans for.
mholzschuh said:
Hello,
my HTC hero will not boot past the first HTS screen. i am able to get into hboot fastbootusb but with no adp support. s-on and have flashed oem rom with no luck. before this happened i changed a few settings in qpst in an effort to flash it to another network.
PLZ help
also this might be nothing but i noticed when in hboot it looks for herCimg.im not herOimg.img same with the other thing it scans for.
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Try Booting Without your Sdcard!
mholzschuh said:
Hello,
my HTC hero will not boot past the first HTS screen. i am able to get into hboot fastbootusb but with no adp support. s-on and have flashed oem rom with no luck. before this happened i changed a few settings in qpst in an effort to flash it to another network.
PLZ help
also this might be nothing but i noticed when in hboot it looks for herCimg.im not herOimg.img same with the other thing it scans for.
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Reflash your recovery. It might help.
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mholzschuh said:
Hello,
my HTC hero will not boot past the first HTS screen. i am able to get into hboot fastbootusb but with no adp support. s-on and have flashed oem rom with no luck. before this happened i changed a few settings in qpst in an effort to flash it to another network.
PLZ help
also this might be nothing but i noticed when in hboot it looks for herCimg.im not herOimg.img same with the other thing it scans for.
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Go to the H-Boot screen and it should show that if you push the "home" button to get into recovery. Go into recovery and format system, data, cache, and boot. Then, reflash a new rom or restore a nandroid. I don't know what you were doing to get into the situation that you are/were in.
The H-Boot searches for a HERCIMG.zip (Herc is for Hero CDMA), if you are S-on, I am not sure if you can even RUU or not (there is a thread about fastboot though). You might be able to though, but you are ok as long as you can get into recovery. If you can, follow those steps above (those are for using clockwork recovery) and you should be ok if you were only messing around with folders in the system. In fact, you might not need to wipe anything but just flash a new rom. Why not start fresh though?
Good luck! I would suggest getting S-off, it has saved me time and headaches.
thank you but...
Drunkpilot said:
Go to the H-Boot screen and it should show that if you push the "home" button to get into recovery. Go into recovery and format system, data, cache, and boot. Then, reflash a new rom or restore a nandroid. I don't know what you were doing to get into the situation that you are/were in.
The H-Boot searches for a HERCIMG.zip (Herc is for Hero CDMA), if you are S-on, I am not sure if you can even RUU or not (there is a thread about fastboot though). You might be able to though, but you are ok as long as you can get into recovery. If you can, follow those steps above (those are for using clockwork recovery) and you should be ok if you were only messing around with folders in the system. In fact, you might not need to wipe anything but just flash a new rom. Why not start fresh though?
Good luck! I would suggest getting S-off, it has saved me time and headaches.
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Thank you but that is the problem i am having. i can and have flashed the ruu both threw the sd card and threw fastboot usb.
i can not get into recovery, when in hboot i hit the home button and the phone resets and stays on the first htc screen.
can you install "clockwork recovery" without the phone fully booting ?
or is there a way to get s-off without fully booting the phone
mholzschuh said:
Thank you but that is the problem i am having. i can and have flashed the ruu both threw the sd card and threw fastboot usb.
i can not get into recovery, when in hboot i hit the home button and the phone resets and stays on the first htc screen.
can you install "clockwork recovery" without the phone fully booting ?
or is there a way to get s-off without fully booting the phone
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If you can fastboot then adb will work. Just do
Code:
adb flash_image nameofrecovery.file
Shelnutt2 said:
If you can fastboot then adb will work. Just do
Code:
adb flash_image nameofrecovery.file
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ADB is not available in fastboot mode
adb devices dose not pick it up, but fastboot devices dose
mholzschuh said:
ADB is not available in fastboot mode
adb devices dose not pick it up, but fastboot devices dose
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Did the ruu load when you did it? It should show you all of the images loading on your phone. There should be a recovery image in it too. What recovery were you using when you this happened?
Sent from my HERO JBGB
Drunkpilot said:
Did the ruu load when you did it? It should show you all of the images loading on your phone. There should be a recovery image in it too. What recovery were you using when you this happened?
Sent from my HERO JBGB
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yes the ruu loaded , i wasn't using a recovery when this happened i simply reset my phone after i loaded a new service programming file on it. I have no idea what you mean by "It should show you all of the images loading on your phone." .
ok just to clarify to all people trying to help , flashing a new ruu dose not work, but i thank you all for the help and hope i can get this fixed.
So keep the advice coming
I am having the exact same issue (I think). Randomly in the middle of the night my phone rebooted. Now it only gets to the HTC boot screen and then reboots again.
I tried booting into recovery, but it just goes back to the HTC screen.
I did not recently flash any new ROMs and have been using the same version of CM7 for awhile now. I was using Clockwork recovery. Nothing I do can get past the HTC screen. I tried all the options suggested. I even placed a new recovery image on the sdcard hoping that would work.
Any more ideas?
vitti_ix said:
I am having the exact same issue (I think). Randomly in the middle of the night my phone rebooted. Now it only gets to the HTC boot screen and then reboots again.
I tried booting into recovery, but it just goes back to the HTC screen.
I did not recently flash any new ROMs and have been using the same version of CM7 for awhile now. I was using Clockwork recovery. Nothing I do can get past the HTC screen. I tried all the options suggested. I even placed a new recovery image on the sdcard hoping that would work.
Any more ideas?
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im sry to hear about your phone , but am glad im not the only one with this problem. i have tryed oem fastboot options and still cant push a recovery img over to my hero.
i beg of you xda community plz help. /cry
vitti_ix said:
I am having the exact same issue (I think). Randomly in the middle of the night my phone rebooted. Now it only gets to the HTC boot screen and then reboots again.
I tried booting into recovery, but it just goes back to the HTC screen.
I did not recently flash any new ROMs and have been using the same version of CM7 for awhile now. I was using Clockwork recovery. Nothing I do can get past the HTC screen. I tried all the options suggested. I even placed a new recovery image on the sdcard hoping that would work.
Any more ideas?
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Have you tried Booting Without your Sdcard? If that Didnt work, Try Copying Everything from your Sdcard to a Computer, then Delete Everything off your Sdcard! Then One by One Put'em back onto your Sdcard and see if you get Lucky?
Good Luck Bro!
Same happened to mine too.drained battery. Charged it but now only shows HTC screen not going to recovery. No SD doesn't work
guys please help ..
OK I know I made a very noob move here but its done now.
So my friend gave me a sprint zio I didn't look into much about it , I tried autoroot and rooted it then like an idiot I downloaded rom manager and flashed cwm recovery, IDK how it flashed but it did and when I rebooted the phone it was just stuck in a bootloop .
Has this happened to anyone and or does anyone know how to fix this?
I found a factory img here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1022573
I tried to fastboot wipe everything and as I flashed everything after wiping it when I get to fastboot recovery recovery.img I get an error faild.
Any help would be great.
linsalata28 said:
OK I know I made a very noob move here but its done now.
So my friend gave me a sprint zio I didn't look into much about it , I tried autoroot and rooted it then like an idiot I downloaded rom manager and flashed cwm recovery, IDK how it flashed but it did and when I rebooted the phone it was just stuck in a bootloop .
Has this happened to anyone and or does anyone know how to fix this?
I found a factory img here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1022573
I tried to fastboot wipe everything and as I flashed everything after wiping it when I get to fastboot recovery recovery.img I get an error faild.
Any help would be great.
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fastboot flash recovery recovery.img(whatever its called, easiest to just rename it recovery.img)
Those are the only stock imgs there are, so I'd re-erase everything and try reflashing each img again. I think you can leave out cache. I realize its not your first phone, or an important one, but it's a pretty noob thing to do, not reading and searching first. Hope you get it working. If you need drivers try Sprints website. Also make sure you erased recovery in fastboot. fastboot erase recovery.
Sent from my Sensation using xda premium
Have you tried booting up with just erasing the recovery? Flash system, userdata, boot etc, just leave out recovery and try. If I remember correctly we could erase recovery and not reflash it and still boot up, as the Cricket version had no recovery, just fastboot.
Sent from my CyanSensation
CM 4 Life!
sinisin said:
Have you tried booting up with just erasing the recovery? Flash system, userdata, boot etc, just leave out recovery and try. If I remember correctly we could erase recovery and not reflash it and still boot up, as the Cricket version had no recovery, just fastboot.
Sent from my CyanSensation
CM 4 Life!
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yeah I did try and boot without recovery but I got to the little android guy with the box and then it just started looping again.
I had to go out so I couldn't mess with it but I'll try the above later thanks for the reply.
And yeah I know that was stupid but I really didn't think it would even flash the recovery but it was still stupid none the less.
I got it fixed thanks for the replys.
What did you do to fix it?
linsalata28 said:
I got it fixed thanks for the replys.
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I just flashed this through fastboot again and it worked.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1022573
I did the same thing and it is still stuck in boot loop. Weird thing is it will load up until the slide to unlock screen and then reboots.
wthigon said:
I did the same thing and it is still stuck in boot loop. Weird thing is it will load up until the slide to unlock screen and then reboots.
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Maybe just try and wipe from fast boot then try to boot up.
Don't wipe system , boot or recovery though.
HELP! Now im stuck in bootloop on my CRICKET zio. I have NO idea what im doing, im trying everything i read, all the fastboot recovery img binary things or whatever their called but honestly, im probly just making things worse. Can somebody please help me out, point me in the right direction, maybe even walk me through it, PLEASE? Thanks in advance and upon any help.
hey i think i have the same problem
well my zio is stuck at the kyocera screen, all i did was try to reset it using this method, dial ##4557*, select view, scroll to bottom and select reset, enter 6 digit code (000000) and select ok, it should then shut off then reboot and when its on dial *228, but when i did this it never came back on only got stuck at kyocera screen, ive tried usb fastboot reset and still nothing. any ideas?
crnorman said:
well my zio is stuck at the kyocera screen, all i did was try to reset it using this method, dial ##4557*, select view, scroll to bottom and select reset, enter 6 digit code (000000) and select ok, it should then shut off then reboot and when its on dial *228, but when i did this it never came back on only got stuck at kyocera screen, ive tried usb fastboot reset and still nothing. any ideas?
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Im also still stuck at the kyocera screen and too noob to know what to try. Can we please get a lil hand up, please?
Follow the fast boot stock flash or openzio guide and you should be gold. If you can hit fastboot your only soft bricked.
Sent from my HTC EVO 3D using XDA App
Dang, I must be dumb and/or lazy cause I was hoping we'd get like a " R U USING, DO U GOT, 1ST U GOTA, THEN GO TO, NOW THIS N THAT" but just got another GO TO THIS PAGE/PART and under the bus I go. EVERY method I've tried only gets me to a certain point till something doesn't do anything or it says blah blah then stuck midway thru without a clue what to do. Dang I'm......I don't know. Thanks
Now I'm soo broke I cant even pay attention!
itrustno1 said:
Dang, I must be dumb and/or lazy cause I was hoping we'd get like a " R U USING, DO U GOT, 1ST U GOTA, THEN GO TO, NOW THIS N THAT" but just got another GO TO THIS PAGE/PART and under the bus I go. EVERY method I've tried only gets me to a certain point till something doesn't do anything or it says blah blah then stuck midway thru without a clue what to do. Dang I'm......I don't know. Thanks
Now I'm soo broke I cant even pay attention!
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I'll make you a quick hand holding guide.
Save the following rom on your SD card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1073889
Follow the guide at this link to boot into clockwork via fastboot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=968602
Once you are in clockwork.
1.Factory reset 3x
2.wipe cache 3x
3.wipe delvik cache 3x
4.select install from .zip and choose openzio.
5.after openzio install completes reboot.
If this fails follow this guide.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=973369
If it still fails throw your phone away smash your computer and go by an apple product.
Ok, ill give aaaaaaaall of the above a try and if that still don't work, yes I will smash it with a hammer, probly wont smash my computer, BUT I WILL NEVER BUY AN APPLE PRODUCT, NO WAY, EVER! But thanks, ill give it a shot, even tho I already went and bought the A2 id still go back to my Zio and toss this low-rez phone to someone else.
Now I'm soo broke I cant even pay attention!
Yup, this is how "newbie" i am, I CAN NOT FIGURE OUT HOW TO OPEN A BLANK COMAND PROMPT! Everywhere i read, comand prompt c:\ , but i always get c:\users\itrustno1> What am I doing wrong, how do i get a blank comand prompt? Please school me someone. Thanks in advance.
Type in: cd \
Then hit enter
Sent from my SCH-R915 using xda premium
THANK U! Now I finally might be able to get my zio back up n running and toss this Ascend 2 in the trash! Id root this thing but nah, I can't get the detailed feedback that I need to convince myself to do it. Anyways, thanks again!
Now I'm soo broke I cant even pay attention!
itrustno1 said:
THANK U! Now I finally might be able to get my zio back up n running and toss this Ascend 2 in the trash! Id root this thing but nah, I can't get the detailed feedback that I need to convince myself to do it. Anyways, thanks again!
Now I'm soo broke I cant even pay attention!
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So did it fix it?