Stuck in HBOOT screen - Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys every time i try to boot my phone i see this screen:
HERC XC SHIPS S-ON
HBOOT-1.47.0000 (HERO20000)
MICROP-0110
TOUCH PANEL-SYN0104
RADIO-2.42.01.04.27
Mar 1 2010,16:02:39
CLEARSTORAGE
Delete all user data?
<ACTION> Yes
<SEND> No
when i press the action button, it just shows:
"clear..."
then it goes back to the same screen

when your on that screen hit the volume down and then hit the home key that should take you to the recovery screen. Tells us what happens.

Nothing happens, i tried volume down then home, and volume down + Home key.. neither of them did anything

jumpman6235 said:
Nothing happens, i tried volume down then home, and volume down + Home key.. neither of them did anything
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Heres some stuff to try.
Just noticed your not on the eng-spl so you don't have fast boot.
reboot your phone while hold down the home key until you hit the recovery screen.
hard reboot your system by taking out the battery and putting it back in (unplugged) and then boot the phone while holding the home key.
Maybe you can give some insight into what you did exactly to get to this... any new roms, kernels, spls, radios etc...

Held down home key and pressed power button, but it immediately goes to that same screen
Bought it off craigslist thinking i could fix it lol.. and if i couldnt i knew i could just ebay it and get my money back + little more

Sounds bricked. Can you bring it up on adb when its in hboot?
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App

To get to that menu u hold power search and menu I thinks its line a factory hard reset to get off that menu I had to just pull my battery and boot into recovery holding the home and power button sounds like ur hitting the search button as well wen ur holding home to boot into recovery make sure u don't hit the search wen holding home might work
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laie1472 said:
To get to that menu u hold power search and menu I thinks its line a factory hard reset to get off that menu I had to just pull my battery and boot into recovery holding the home and power button sounds like ur hitting the search button as well wen ur holding home to boot into recovery make sure u don't hit the search wen holding home might work
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you are a life saver happened too a friend of mine this worked

No prob man. Glad you got it working. Need anything else just let me know.
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Have you tried a signed hercimg.zip?
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA Premium App

theSlack said:
Have you tried a signed hercimg.zip?
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA Premium App
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How dense of a question is this since obviously he figured it out now
®patience is a virtue©

Wait for it, wait for it,
Bam!!! Lol
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jumpman6235 said:
Hey guys every time i try to boot my phone i see this screen:
HERC XC SHIPS S-ON
HBOOT-1.47.0000 (HERO20000)
MICROP-0110
TOUCH PANEL-SYN0104
RADIO-2.42.01.04.27
Mar 1 2010,16:02:39
CLEARSTORAGE
Delete all user data?
Yes
No
when i press the action button, it just shows:
"clear..."
then it goes back to the same screen
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I'm Almost Positive If you have
S-On you won't be able to get into Clockwork Recovery... if thats what your using?
But anyways you have to get S-Off somehow? I used the Unrevoked method along with Rom Manager which I used to Flash the Unrevoked.zip from my Sdcard!
Also a Easier way to get into Clockwork Recovery is to Hold the Home Button and then just Tap the Power On Button wait a Second then Let Go of Both Buttons! That Should Direct you Straight to Recovery without All the Volume Down, then Home Steps!
Good-Luck!
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PMGRANDS said:
I'm Almost Positive If you have
S-On you won't be able to get into Clockwork Recovery... if thats what your using?
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Incorrect because to get S-OFF you have to be able to enter recovery mode to flash the Unrevoked zip or whatever method you used. Also flashing through ROM Manager is just an automated method of flashing.
Sent from my Hero that never dies! ;D

dastin1015 said:
Incorrect because to get S-OFF you have to be able to enter recovery mode to flash the Unrevoked zip or whatever method you used. Also flashing through ROM Manager is just an automated method of flashing.
Sent from my Hero that never dies! ;D
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I don't know if he's talking about the manager or just Clockwork Recovery, but you can still have Clockwork recovery without being S-off. When you root your phone with Regaw's or some other one click rooting mods, they usual install a CW recovery (I think Regaw's is 3.0.0.5) which I used to root after my last RUU to get the latest PRI about a month ago (probably when the 1st question was asked anyway).
You know if you hit the action button, menu and the end/power button it will reboot the phone (if your looking for a way when the phone is frozen and you don't want to pull the battery).
Happy Father's Day to all of the fathers (and soon to be fathers). I need to change my signature too. I'm flipping between 3 rom's, so less will be best.

Hello - i am new here ! Kindly Help!!!!
I have a HTC One X, which is stuck in HBOOT screen. If press vol.up & power i get the android screen which is endless and my pc show this as unknown device. If i press vol.down & power i get HBOOT screen and PC shows ADB. But can not go any further. I have no idea of flashing etc. This happened while i was uninstalling some apps which i do not remember too.
Below some details:-
MARVEL PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-1.08.0000
MICROP-0451
RADIO-7.53.39.03M
Oct 31 2011.20:38:16
this is from the box:-
Model: S720e
CPU: 1.5 GHz, Quad Core
Platform: Android with HTC Sense
1 GB RAM, 32 GB Storage
Serial No.-0123456789ABCDEF
Device: G26
Brand: htc_asia_hk
Android Version: 4.1.9
KINDLY HELP OUT !!!!!! DO I NEED TO SEND IT BACK TO HTC ???

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Please Help! Start up screen frozen

First of all, I am a newbie so please be patient with me....
I have the Sprint HTC hero and I did the following to root my phone>>>
hxxp://theunlockr.com/2009/11/18/how-to-root-your-sprint-hero-in-one-click/
After I rooted my phone succesfully, I came on here and downloaded Damage control v2.0r2 found here >>> hxxp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=653222
And then followed these instruction to load the damagecontrol ROM>>>
hxxp://theunlockr.com/2009/08/27/how-to-load-a-custom-rom-on-your-htc-hero/
I then hit reboot and now my HTC hero has been stuck for the last 30 mins on the start up screen which is white and has the words "hTC" in green letters and under that it says "quietly brilliant" in black letters, I can't turn the phone off or it will not let me hit the power button and home button to bring up the reboot screen.....I then tried plugging in to my PC through USB again and my PC screen went black.....
can anyone help????
pull the battery reboot into recovery and make sure you wipe EVERYTHING
wtphoto said:
pull the battery reboot into recovery and make sure you wipe EVERYTHING
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Thanks for the input......
I tried doing this.... pulled battery and phone shut off.
I started phone back up by holding home and power buttons and it takes me to a white screen page (that has 3 androids on skateboards down at the bottom) that reads:
HeroXC
HBOOT-1.41.0000 (HERO20000)
MICROP-0110
TOUCH PANEL-SYN0140
RADIO-1.04.01.09.21
Sep 1 2009, 19:18:45
(Then it seems to give me only one option)
CLEARSTORAGE
Delete all user data?
<ACTION> Yes
<SEND> No
I was hoping to get the original reboot screen....what can I do from here????
predaphin said:
Thanks for the input......
I tried doing this.... pulled battery and phone shut off.
I started phone back up by holding home and power buttons and it takes me to a page that reads:
HeroXC
HBOOT-1.41.0000 (HERO20000)
MICROP-0110
TOUCH PANEL-SYN0140
RADIO-1.04.01.09.21
Sep 1 2009, 19:18:45
(Then it seems to give me only one option)
CLEARSTORAGE
Delete all user data?
<ACTION> Yes
<SEND> No
There is 3 androids down at the bottom on skateboards on screen....
I was hoping to get the original reboot screen....what can I do from here????
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Did you flash a custom recovery
sounds like your root didnt work right I tried the unlocker way first and never got it to work right I would RUU and then re-root useing the guide in the sticky in the main forum.
chococrazy said:
Did you flash a custom recovery
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Yes....I followed the steps under #2 on this website
hxxp://theunlockr.com/2009/11/18/how-to-root-your-sprint-hero-in-one-click/
(change x's to t's)
Try the tutorial on this page. Its the one I used and got it right the first time. If not, you can try Fresh's Kitchen. Its pretty much a one click root that actually works.
are you making sure you are not holding down the volume down button when you boot?
Hold down your home key and while holding it down press and let go of the power button. Just to be sure keep holding the home key. You should boot into a recovery console. Let me know if you get to it
If not you can still access it if you can get into fastboot....which is holding the down? volume button and turning it on.
Fresh's kitchen will Root your phone. I wish there was a way to get his on the top of google search's. His is alot easier than all the other methods.
Thank all of you that responded.
My phone was fixed in the weirdest way. I simply hooked it up to my PC with USB and rebooted both my phone and the PC and it worked.
So it seems that I may have simply unplugged the USB from the PC too soon and that is why it did not reboot all the way.
Anyway, that was just weird. A simple reboot to my PC while hooked to the phone through USB and it works fine and damage control Rom is working fine.
Once again thanks.
I noticed you got it to work. But I would like to add for anyone reading this, when you got the android guy on the skateboard its just the normally recovery screen that comes on the phone, its always there even when you flash a new recovery to your phone. Sometimes when im tryin to boot into recovery I will get the same screen, pull the battery and try again, Iv had times where it went to the white screen 5 or more times and then finally boot into my custom recovery.
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So this happen to me the next day after i rooted..i put on some theme and what not
i was stuck on the boot up screen..i put on a nexus boot up so it was the colors going into eachother making a X
and like i did the home and turn on button..after all this i restored and what not then turn off phone and turned back on and it got stuck again..so i was like okay? i took my battery out then trying to turn it back on..and it wont(((
HELP! plzzzz
Okayyy..well i got my phone to turn on..but it stuck on the boot up still after i do the recovery and what not..the nexus thing is still doin the X thing
AndroidFAN101 said:
So this happen to me the next day after i rooted..i put on some theme and what not
i was stuck on the boot up screen..i put on a nexus boot up so it was the colors going into eachother making a X
and like i did the home and turn on button..after all this i restored and what not then turn off phone and turned back on and it got stuck again..so i was like okay? i took my battery out then trying to turn it back on..and it wont(((
HELP! plzzzz
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nandroid back, and make sure the nexus boot is made for you rom build.
im sorry, but ive never heard of holding home+power button. am i doing it the long way? volume down+power, then home for recovery.
lately, quickboot all the way, but still...
AndroidFAN101 said:
So this happen to me the next day after i rooted..i put on some theme and what not
i was stuck on the boot up screen..i put on a nexus boot up so it was the colors going into eachother making a X
and like i did the home and turn on button..after all this i restored and what not then turn off phone and turned back on and it got stuck again..so i was like okay? i took my battery out then trying to turn it back on..and it wont(((
HELP! plzzzz
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You will probably have to wipe everything and flash a rom again.
Here is a nexus boot screen that will work. And it wont mess with the rom.
View attachment boot1.zip
sorry forgot to let you guys know..im running HTC HERO SPRINT..
:/ i just put a next theme on it

[Q] HELP! Booting to recovery?

Hi -
So I used the Super-One Click method to root my phone and the I wanted to make a Nandroid backup and went to boot to recovery and I got a screen with three android-dudes on skate-boards and a message that read:
"HERC XC SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-1.47.0000 (HERO20000)
MICROP-0110
TOUCH PANEL-SYN0104
RADIO-2.42.02.10.29
Mar 1 2010,16:02:39
CLEARSTORAGE
Delete all user data?
<ACTION> Yes
<SEND> No"
This happened once before when I was trying to boot to recovery before ever rooting. The problem is, I don't know which button is "action" and which button is "send." Last time, it didn't really matter because the phone was relatively new and I hadn't even put many contacts or apps on it.
Of course, I made a back-up and everything, but nothing I've read has warned me about this screen so I'm kind of worried I messed something up from the get-go and it causing this. Or maybe this is perfectly normal and the answer is so obvious that I can't see it trying to look at all the details??? Please??
Thanks!
Wow. Never seen that before.
I've gotten this several times when trying to boot into recovery as well. There is a name for it but not sure what it is exactly.
I do know however, you want to press send, which is the green call button on your phone, otherwise it wipes your stuff. When you press it, it'll reboot the phone, so immediately after pressing the send button, hold down the home button and end call button so you can boot into recovery.
Not sure why this screen pops up, as far as i can tell, it happens if you press the end key then the home key when holding them down. I've started holding down the home key first, then pressing and holding the end call key and haven't gotten that screen in a long while.
Hope that helps.
edit: and in case you were wondering, "action" is pressing the trackball.
That is the boot loader, which everyone has, and the action button is the track ball and the send button is the green call button.
When you want to go to recovery hold down the home button and press(not hold, otherwise it goes to the boot loader) the power button.
Also, I don't know if the one click rooting method installs a recovery image, if it does not you need to flash one first. Be sure to check and read the instructions completely.
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App
I have used the one-click root method and it does not include a recovery image. You have to go into the market and get rom manager.
Thanks!
Well, you all gave me great info, but I had already found out the hard way that the "action" button was the trackball. Oh well. I'm using ROM manager and ClockworkMod Recovery, so no worries there. Of course with ROM manager, I can just reboot into recovery from there. But its good to learn things the hard way.... twice... now I will remember what is "send" and what is "action."
Thanks again!
Another option is to hold the Volume Down button and the power button. This will take you to a screen similar in style to the boot loader. One of the options from that screen (I think Home) will be recovery.

Help Required!! For the T-Mobile G1

Hi,
I'm really tired from looking and searching and downloading files which are most coruptted or link is not found etc......
I have totally wiped out my HTC T-mobile G1 ...... the only thing i see now is either a big G1 in the middle or when pressing the Camera+Power button just showing a white screen and some writings on the top of the screen and in the middle a yellow line and a (Serial 10 or 01) wittin on it.
so what i did so far is i downloaded almost every file that i been reading about on the posts about the same problem on XDA forums but im still getting the same thing.
i downloaded
DREAIMG.nbh
flashrec-1.1.2-20090909.apk
radio-2.22.27.08.img
recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0.img
and many other files either old or new versions of the same files
i copy them onto the SDCard and press the cam+power buttons on the screen shows that it does actually loading the files and then it says press the power button to proceed or the green button to cancel but none of the buttons works!?? nothing nada
i would really appriciate your help guys im getting a hard timne fixing this phpne.
quist80 said:
Hi,
I'm really tired from looking and searching and downloading files which are most coruptted or link is not found etc......
I have totally wiped out my HTC T-mobile G1 ...... the only thing i see now is either a big G1 in the middle or when pressing the Camera+Power button just showing a white screen and some writings on the top of the screen and in the middle a yellow line and a (Serial 10 or 01) wittin on it.
so what i did so far is i downloaded almost every file that i been reading about on the posts about the same problem on XDA forums but im still getting the same thing.
i downloaded
DREAIMG.nbh
flashrec-1.1.2-20090909.apk
radio-2.22.27.08.img
recovery-RA-dream-v1.7.0.img
and many other files either old or new versions of the same files
i copy them onto the SDCard and press the cam+power buttons on the screen shows that it does actually loading the files and then it says press the power button to proceed or the green button to cancel but none of the buttons works!?? nothing nada
i would really appriciate your help guys im getting a hard timne fixing this phpne.
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k im not 100% on this but im pretty sure you cant flash that 2.22.27.08 radio right off the start when you havent had recovery flashed on yet.. i suggest following this method http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR0HpUVv-BY but read description first because you got to downgradeto 1.5 if your device was on 1.6.. did you try to boot in recovery mode? holding home and power.. what happens when you try that. if i had a lil more info i can help you out..
also were you already rooted before this happened? and if you were do you remember where your device left off before this happened..? radio, hboot, recovery etc...??
what exactly does it say when you power on with camera+power?
sorry for so many posts lol but another suggestion would be trying to un-root and starting from scratch http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=491350
Hi,
Thanks for the quick Reply when i press the home+power button i get the .T..Mobile G1 screen and it freezes there when i prees cam+power i get the 3 skating androind on the bottom of the screen and some writing on the top which it is:
DREA100 PVT 32B
HSPL 10.95.3000
CPLD-4
RADIO- 1.22.12.29
Oct 20 2008
and it freezes there also when im not using the SDcard
if i copy some files like the DREAIMG.nbh and few other files on the SDcard and try to reboot again using the cam+power it shows me that it does somthing like loading files which are :
DREAIMG.nbh -
BOOTLOADER -
RECOVERY -
BOOT-
SPLASH1 -
SYSTEM -
USERDATA -
RADIO_V2 -
and then ill have either to proceed by pressing the power button or cancel by pressing the action key(the green key) but nothing works if i press any button
I really dont know if the phone has been rooted before
quist80 said:
Hi,
Thanks for the quick Reply when i press the home+power button i get the .T..Mobile G1 screen and it freezes there when i prees cam+power i get the 3 skating androind on the bottom of the screen and some writing on the top which it is:
DREA100 PVT 32B
HSPL 10.95.3000
CPLD-4
RADIO- 1.22.12.29
Oct 20 2008
and it freezes there also when im not using the SDcard
if i copy some files like the DREAIMG.nbh and few other files on the SDcard and try to reboot again using the cam+power it shows me that it does somthing like loading files which are :
DREAIMG.nbh -
BOOTLOADER -
RECOVERY -
BOOT-
SPLASH1 -
SYSTEM -
USERDATA -
RADIO_V2 -
and then ill have either to proceed by pressing the power button or cancel by pressing the action key(the green key) but nothing works if i press any button
I really dont know if the phone has been rooted before
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k well first i would suggest the un-root method in that link i put in last reply.. and if that doesnt work than try loading a different hboot (dreaimg.nbh) try to get one that is 2005 or something.. i have one.. the only problem is mine is in a zip file (meant to flash in recovery after root method i posted in previous comment) so you would need to find a different one in .nbh form
P.S. the action key is the trackball (press it in) lol but that doesn't help because its to cancel..
i tried that too but since it says hit alt+s and since nothing si working even after loading the DREAIMG file i think ill take your suggestion downloading an old version of the .nbh file so can u providfe me with a link for it or can we chat on messnger or somthing ?
Also when you are rooting your device or just doing anything to it you always want a sdcard inside. specialy when your attempting to root
wait so did you get the exlamation point screen at all? its like a triangle with an exclamation point and i think a pic of a phone..
no nothing at all it stopps where it shows the loaded file and nothing after that
quist80 said:
no nothing at all it stopps where it shows the loaded file and nothing after that
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i mean when your trying to load the update.zip.... what kind of messenger do you have? would make this a lot easier.. lol
so when you hold home and power it always freezes? or do you get to a screen wit the triangle on it?
this is what im getting after booting using the cam+power button
try this file http://www.4shared.com/file/MnKYPHSr/DREAIMG.html
quist80 said:
this is what im getting after booting using the cam+power button
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yeah thats normal you should get that.. the only reason it wouldnt work is if your teying to load the same one thats on already.. try formatting your sd than put it back in your device leaving it empty, than boot up with cam+power and when you get the skateboard guys press and hold green button, red button and menu. that should reboot so you dont have to remove battery... try that than tell me exactly what happens
sorry but its doing the same thing and stopps right where its showing in the picture in my previous post
quist80 said:
sorry but its doing the same thing and stopps right where its showing in the picture in my previous post
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it stoppes when you try using the dreaimg i posted? are you letting it sit for a minute? it takes a lil bit to start the update..
dood do you have a messenger or something so i can talk to you faster? would make this a lot easier for both of us.. i wanna help you but i gotta leave in like 2 hours lol the way this is goin it could be quick or take long...
yea its (quist80) at yahoo . com
quist80 said:
yea its (quist80) at yahoo . com
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At that screen you need to press the red power button for it to update. It's waiting for your action.
quist80 said:
yea its (quist80) at yahoo . com
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k sorry for the delay lol i jus added you im zackcolc

Installed CM7 with Gapps for 6.1....HELP!!!

I initially intalled CM7 after cleaning cache and Dalvik and backing up my current ROM using Clockwork. it went good unitil after booting I accidentally installed Gapps from 6.1
Now it boots and loops from the blue CM7 screen to the green andriod asking ' Touch to Start '
I dont know how to get out of this loop or to go bak to recovery manual mode. Please Help. Any chance we can fix this
Thanks
Pull your battery to get out of the bootloop. Then press and hold home while pressing the power button. That should take you to your recovery, where you can wipe and reinstall CM7.
muttjr said:
I initially intalled CM7 after cleaning cache and Dalvik and backing up my current ROM using Clockwork. it went good unitil after booting I accidentally installed Gapps from 6.1
Now it boots and loops from the blue CM7 screen to the green andriod asking ' Touch to Start '
I dont know how to get out of this loop or to go bak to recovery manual mode. Please Help. Any chance we can fix this
Thanks
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EDIT: I am late to the party, nvm.
I did what you said. When i press power and home button the only menu option i get is 'Clear Storage' to which i pressed yes and 'Menu reset' which i pressed yes. it reboots and back to the loop. Back to loading CM7 and 'touch to begin'
The party is still on. As said installed CM7 with Gapps for CM6 accidentally and now stuck in endless bootloop. Trying to fix it. First suggestion hasnt worked so far
OK so you don't have a recovery (I'm guessing you tried to use rom manager = bad idea). Do you have ADB?
I think I do but have never used it ir dont know how
Is there any hope of recovering the phone or is it just better to get a replacement from Sprint
muttjr said:
I did what you said. When i press power and home button the only menu option i get is 'Clear Storage' to which i pressed yes and 'Menu reset' which i pressed yes. it reboots and back to the loop. Back to loading CM7 and 'touch to begin'
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You need to pull the battery, press volume down + end button (at same time) in order to get to the bootloader. You should then see the skateboarding androids. Press the home button to get into recovery and wipe/format boot, system, data, cache (just to be sure) and then reflash and flash the right gapps.
muttjr said:
Is there any hope of recovering the phone or is it just better to get a replacement from Sprint
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I doubt sprint would even look at it, let alone fix it or replace it, once they see that you rooted.
Also, I've flashed older gapps with cm7 and didn't get loops. My guess? You forgot to data wipe before installing cm7.
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Sent from my CDMA Hero. I got some hot Ginger-on-Hero action here!
Thank you so much. That finally got me into reboot. Now waiting for reboot with fingers crossed Thank you
Well something went wrong and for all you guys out there with Sprint. They did replace my phone. All i had to do was call and tell them that I was at their Service center to fix the phone and those guys couldnt fix it and it is stuck on the boot screen. But i think i will manage to salvage this before my replacement arrives
Lessons Learned
So the big lesson here is when you need to get into recovery press the volume down and the home button simultaneously and your home free. Thanks to all who helped
Update - Issue Solved
So i did mange to get into recovery and wipe everything off and reinstall cm7 again. Now i hope to flash the right gapps and ill be in gingerbread heaven
muttjr said:
So the big lesson here is when you need to get into recovery press the volume down and the home button simultaneously and your home free. Thanks to all who helped
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If you have a sprint hero, that is actually not correct.
hold home and press power = recovery
hold vol down and press power = bootloader
I don't know what's up with your phone, and I'm glad you fixed it, but if I were you I would reflash a good recovery image just to be safe. Also, make sure when you're getting ROMs you get them from a thread in hero cdma and use the gapps also linked in the OP of that same thread (don't use rom manager IMO). Always flash from recovery and follow the correct steps, that way you should not run into "issues" again. Also, my best encouragement for you, is to search and read. Happy flashing
If you have big fingers, pressing the power button can sometimes press the search button or back button, often causing you to boot into bootloader instead of recover.
aiwetir said:
If you have big fingers, pressing the power button can sometimes press the search button or back button, often causing you to boot into bootloader instead of recover.
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LOL, my fingers are so fat, that I have to be REALLY careful when doing these things, or in recovery using the trackabll
il Duce said:
LOL, my fingers are so fat, that I have to be REALLY careful when doing these things, or in recovery using the trackabll
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Yeah, I have to use my thumbnail which will eventually chip off the paint or whatever it is on the button.
Ha. I actually place the phone on a flat surface a press the buttons.
Root/Hack-Mod_Always*
Hold down the HOME button and then hold the POWER/END CALL button til the phone screen comes on and that should boot you right into recovery if you're having problems with the volume down method
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[Q] I think I bricked my phone :( :( - PLEASE help!

Hi,
I tried the regular fastboot method to load CWM recovery.
Whenever it got to the point of loading the recovering, it would just say "flashing recovery on the device...".
Then, when restarting bootloader and clicking on "recovery", it would just shut down the phone.
I decided to experiment to try fix the issue, and I came across this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1928551
I downloaded the ZIP file and I ran the root.bat
It flashed some boot images and now my phone wont start
It is stuck on the "warning bootloader unlocked screen" and will not go any further.
Please help . I'm so scared that I've bricked my phone. Is there ANYTHING I can do?
Thanks in advance for the help!
The methods u used can't brick your phone
Reboot in boot loader by pressing the power button and volume - button at the same time. Just at the moment the phone shuts-down/reboot release the power button. It will boot in boot loader. After this flash cwm or twrp again and with the volume down button go to recovery. Select recovery with the volume up key and u are done. Cwm/twrp is flashed and will boot in the recovery.
In recovery I would install the ROM from Omar. It will restore your system and boot.IMG so it will work. Don't forget to wipe data.
If this doesn't work flash the home made fast boot files somewhere in the development section
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Hazou said:
The methods u used can't brick your phone
Reboot in boot loader by pressing the power button and volume - button at the same time. Just at the moment the phone shuts-down/reboot release the power button. It will boot in boot loader.
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Thanks - I tried that. I do let go of the buttons as soon as it starts to reboot itself, but it doesn't start the bootloader - it still just shows the screen "warning bootloader unlocked". I can not get back into the bootloader
Do u reset the phone with the 4 buttons and just when it resets does your phone reboots immediately?
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Hazou said:
Do u reset the phone with the 4 buttons and just when it resets does your phone reboots immediately?
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If I hold all 4 buttons, the screen goes blank, and the green light stays on. My PC then finds hardware called "MEDFIELD" but wont find drivers for it.
Does this help at all?
alkit said:
If I hold all 4 buttons, the screen goes blank, and the green light stays on. My PC then finds hardware called "MEDFIELD" but wont find drivers for it.
Does this help at all?
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The above applies when connected with usb.
If I press all 4 buttons without USB connected, it just reboots and gets stuck on the "unlocked bootloader" message again
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Then, when restarting bootloader and clicking on "recovery", it would just shut down the phone.
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Just of curiosity - which button you used to select recovery - power button or vol.up button?
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I do let go of the buttons as soon as it starts to reboot itself, but it doesn't start the bootloader
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You should let go only of power button and hold vol.down button (at least for me)
If your PC finds hardware - can you do fastboot devices to check whether it is actually recognized properly?
And last thing - which method you used to load recovery (and were you on ICS\JB)? You were rooted and used automated methods or you unlocked bootloader and wanted to root afterwards (manually through fastboot)?
Divina Angelus said:
Just of curiosity - which button you used to select recovery - power button or vol.up button?
You should let go only of power button and hold vol.down button (at least for me)
If your PC finds hardware - can you do fastboot devices to check whether it is actually recognized properly?
And last thing - which method you used to load recovery (and were you on ICS\JB)? You were rooted and used automated methods or you unlocked bootloader and wanted to root afterwards (manually through fastboot)?
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You are a GENIUS!!! A LIFE SAVER!!! I can't begin to tell you how grateful I am. BOTH of your points fixed the phone.
I could never get into recovery becuase I was pressing the power button. I could never get into fastboot becuase I was holding both the power and volume down button.
So, for anyone using a RAZR I... please note the following SIMPLE things:
1) In the bootloader menu, the power button does NOT select the option. The VOL UP button selects the option
2) To boot into BOOTLOADER : Hold both power and vol down buttons until the phone restarts, and then RELEASE the power button, while still HOLDING the volume down button! It will then load the bootloader.
Again, THANKS so so much for reviving my phone for me. I was going crazy without a phone!
alkit said:
You are a GENIUS!!! A LIFE SAVER!!! I can't begin to tell you how grateful I am. BOTH of your points fixed the phone.
I could never get into recovery becuase I was pressing the power button. I could never get into fastboot becuase I was holding both the power and volume down button.
So, for anyone using a RAZR I... please note the following SIMPLE things:
1) In the fastboot menu, the power button does NOT select the option. The VOL UP button selects the option
2) To boot into BOOTLOADER : Hold both power and vol down buttons until the phone restarts, and then RELEASE the power button, while still holding the volume down button! It will then load the bootloader.
Again, THANKS so so much for reviving my phone for me. I was going crazy without a phone!
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I was going through everything you've faced yesterday. So yeah, glad I was of help to someone else as well)
This has never happened to me before but don't stress one bit because nothing ever permanently bad comes from this. You can forget about it being destroyed. These aren't iPhones, haha. You can get it going again pretty easy I hear. Just don't stress because there is no point and you WILL get help. Just listen to what these experienced dudes are saying and you should be back on track. Good luck!
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UPDATE: Nice! Glad to see you got the help you needed and everything's back on track!
Nice that it is solved. I gave u the solution on my first post, but nice that someone els did a better job in explaining it
There is almost no possibilities to brick your device if u only flash things like the boot, system, recovery or data partition. They can he solved very easy. If u flash the other partitions like the radio u can get a problem.
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Hazou said:
Nice that it is solved. I gave u the solution on my first post, but nice that someone els did a better job in explaining it
There is almost no possibilities to brick your device if u only flash things like the boot, system, recovery or data partition. They can he solved very easy. If u flash the other partitions like the radio u can get a problem.
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You are 100% right. I just re-read your post, and noticed that you did mention those 2 points. I must've just read over them really quickly and didn't pay attention to the details of which buttons to press. :angel:
Thanks a ton for your help! Really appreciate it! :highfive:

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