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Ran into a huge problem with the sprint htc hero and rooting. Alright now heres what happened.......
I was running the original 2.1 os from sprint, and rooted it with the guide on this site. Everything went ok but me being such a noob erased everything while trying to figure out how to put a new rom on it. There is nothing on my sdcard as of right now. My phone boots up and works fine but if i hold down [home] and [call end] it goes to the screen where the little pda is with the exclamation point and if i push those keys again it goes to the screen which is blue (think its the recovery screen) and has an error of E:Can't open/cache/recovery/command. And if i turn off my phone and hold down [vol. down] and [call end] it brings me to the fast boot screen where trying every option on that screen gets me nowhere. Like i said i'll give $20 via paypal, to whoever can get me root access back to my phone. I do have the insurance plan so if its considered "bricked" or "softbricked" ill just drop it in water or something but i just don't want it to come down to that.
kueep said:
Ran into a huge problem with the sprint htc hero and rooting. Alright now heres what happened.......
I was running the original 2.1 os from sprint, and rooted it with the guide on this site. Everything went ok but me being such a noob erased everything while trying to figure out how to put a new rom on it. There is nothing on my sdcard as of right now. My phone boots up and works fine but if i hold down [home] and [call end] it goes to the screen where the little pda is with the exclamation point and if i push those keys again it goes to the screen which is blue (think its the recovery screen) and has an error of E:Can't open/cache/recovery/command. And if i turn off my phone and hold down [vol. down] and [call end] it brings me to the fast boot screen where trying every option on that screen gets me nowhere. Like i said i'll give $20 via paypal, to whoever can get me root access back to my phone. I do have the insurance plan so if its considered "bricked" or "softbricked" ill just drop it in water or something but i just don't want it to come down to that.
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Sounds like you didn't flash a recovery image. If you can boot into the normal OS, do that now.
Once you've booted, either PM me, or post here, and I'll give you further instruction.
Also, no need for the $20, I mean, we're here to help because we care, not for money :\
If you can boot into your phone, plug it into the computer and mount it as a hard drive.
Drag and drop recovery image into the sdcard folder on your computer.
back on the phone, set it back to "charging only"
open command prompt, navigate to the android sdk.
then type:
Code:
adb shell
flash_image recovery /sdcard/RECOVERY IMAGE NAME.img
reboot recovery
See how that works
A_Guy71 said:
If you can boot into your phone, plug it into the computer and mount it as a hard drive.
Drag and drop recovery image into the sdcard folder on your computer.
back on the phone, set it back to "charging only"
open command prompt, navigate to the android sdk.
then type:
Code:
adb shell
flash_image recovery /sdcard/RECOVERY IMAGE NAME.img
reboot recovery
See how that works
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He'd also need to turn debug mode on :\
(And I reccomend GodSpeed recovery.)
thank you to but the flash image was denied????
Code:
adb kill-server
adb root
adb shell
flash_image recovery /sdcard/RECOVERY IMAGE NAME.img
reboot recovery
helping thoughts
can u go to the htc website and downlaod the official rom for it?
or if its tmobile or orange or any other network branded sprint cna u go to their website adn download official rom for it??
if so once u hv downlaoded it place the foen into fast boot mode and leav it connected to the pc. then run the ruu rom file u hv downloaded.
u should be able to fash the oficial rom on to it.
once successful u can think about rooting it and people cna help u. we r here to help more than the money.
hafizayyub
ill have to get back to this i have to go be to work at 1045 but it says now adbd cannot run as root in production builds??
kueep said:
ill have to get back to this i have to go be to work at 1045 but it says now adbd cannot run as root in production builds??
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Then you must not have rooted. :/
must be but i still have the blue recovery screen and fastboot menu, how am i supposed to get that off of there?? or is it impossible?
kueep said:
must be but i still have the blue recovery screen and fastboot menu, how am i supposed to get that off of there?? or is it impossible?
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I've never seen this blue screen. Could you get me an image?
hafizayyub said:
can u go to the htc website and downlaod the official rom for it?
or if its tmobile or orange or any other network branded sprint cna u go to their website adn download official rom for it??
if so once u hv downlaoded it place the foen into fast boot mode and leav it connected to the pc. then run the ruu rom file u hv downloaded.
u should be able to fash the oficial rom on to it.
once successful u can think about rooting it and people cna help u. we r here to help more than the money.
hafizayyub
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Never flash official ROMs if you want root.
(Regardless if there is an exploit. If you have 1.5, stick with it, and use the older methods of root.)
go to the second post in the 2.1 root guide download that ruu. Now run the ruu and wait for your phone to boot. Do not install the over the air update after it is booted follow the root guide closely and reroot. if it errors out please copy and past it to pastbin or a text doucment uploaded. you should get rooted and a recovery installed.
Once rooted you should really try darchdroid xP
killerxx2 said:
go to the second post in the 2.1 root guide download that ruu. Now run the ruu and wait for your phone to boot. Do not install the over the air update after it is booted follow the root guide closely and reroot. if it errors out please copy and past it to pastbin or a text doucment uploaded. Once rooted you should really try darchdroid xP
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I <3 DarchDroid :3
I hope you donated to regaw_leinad for he is the one that rooted it ..?
Lifetrip718 said:
I hope you donated to regaw_leinad for he is the one of the collaborators that rooted it ..?
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Fixed yo' post foo'
"wiiguy5" ill post an image later when i get home i'm currently at my girlfriends house on her windows xp(haha xp), and "killerxx2" i'm doing that right now wish me luck!
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"wiiguy5" ill post an image later when i get home i'm currently at my girlfriends house on her windows xp(haha xp), and "killerxx2" i'm doing that right now wish me luck!
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Good luck man
MY Phone Condition:
My phone was previously install with voodoo rom and use clockwork recovery to restore to my stock rom that i backup and it crash half way.
My phone was hardware lock this mean no matter how i press the volume and power button , i will never get into download mode. non of the method posted work !
My phone cannot use "adb reboot download" because there is no OS and it was stuck in the recovery loop.
It does not have clockwork recovery because i formatted my internal sdcard
If i do have clockwork recovery and i use restore image or install new from zip , i still stuck in the recovery mode after reboot several times.
My phone does not mount to internal sdcard because i don't even know what i did on this part.
I believe i screw up my partition of the phone.
DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK.
You need the Samsung USB driver and you can get it from Here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728929
First Part
1. Download update.zip from the link below. This was post by another member.
The post is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804305
2. Place the update.zip in tools folder so you can push it into your phone by using adb command
3. Plug usb into the phone and your phone should be on the Android system recovery <2e>
4. Use your volume button to select reinstall package, don't press power button yet.
5. constant "adb push update.zip /sdcard" from computer , you will get permission denied.
6. While you are constantly pushing the adb command from computer. press the power button on the phone so it install update.zip from sdcard.
7. This is the part where it force adb push into sdcard without permission
8. once the update.zip install completed. unplug the usb cable from the phone and take the battery out.
9. put the battery back to the phone then press on both volume button.
10. While holding both volume button , plug in your usb cable and it will boot to download screen.
If you need use Odin to flash your phone to original stock rom. Go to the Second Part
Second Part:
If you get black screen with only 4 light on the bottom after flashing from Odin.
Follow http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728698
There should be T959-PDA.tar,T959-CSC.tar and T959-Phone.tar within the package.
Check "Re-Partition" , "Auto Reboot" and "F.Reset Time" check box. Use the PIT 0512 version. Use "PDA", "PHONE" and "CSC" from the link above.
After flashing with Odin, you will loose the download mode. repeat the first part and you are good to go.
Here is the link on rooting the phone
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Full_Update_Guide_-_Samsung_Galaxy_S_(Vibrant)
If your phone is hardware locked, how are you able to get into recovery? Hardware locked phone means no recovery and download mode.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
mr2t32 said:
If your phone is hardware locked, how are you able to get into recovery? Hardware locked phone means no recovery and download mode.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
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my hardware lock mean cannot use the button method to get into download mode and using adb reboot download does not help too.
Im pretty sure hardware lock does not mean no recovery. Just no button download mode
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you saved my life man. thank you so much. this was the only thing that worked, after days of frustration
No, it means both.
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muncknr said:
you saved my life man. thank you so much. this was the only thing that worked, after days of frustration
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i was about to give up. i was trying to push update.zip and do adb reboot download left and right and no luck untill i found this method. It took me a week to figure it out
wildklymr said:
No, it means both.
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my recovery was working because i was stuck in the a loop. ya , this update.zip pretty much do both download mode and recovery mode.
What the point of this? Does the other thread not cover this??
Master™ said:
What the point of this? Does the other thread not cover this??
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Are you asking or you are insulting ?
jaex said:
Are you asking or you are insulting ?
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probably asking. Considering there is another thread on the same topic that has been on the front page for over a week now, with several pages of replies.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804305
EDIT: So you were bricked and hardware locked and got yourself out of it? If thats the case then yets its different than that thread and why didn't you just come out and say it?
nermie said:
probably asking. Considering there is another thread on the same topic that has been on the front page for over a week now, with several pages of replies.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804305
EDIT: So you were bricked and hardware locked and got yourself out of it? If thats the case then yets its different than that thread and why didn't you just come out and say it?
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You figure it out after all. I already stated the condition of my phone ! My phone was pretty bricked at that point. There is way for me to push any files into the phone because i don't have permission and my phone will not go to download mode by using the volume button. It just stuck at recovery mode.
There are guide out there teach you to use "adb push download". This method only work if you are in your phone and you turn on debug mode. My phone crash at the clockwork recovery bootloader. Then i formated my internal sdcard that hold the clockwork. next i push a stock update.zip that does not have su and busybox so i lost the capability to push anything into the phone.
no download mode , no permission, no sdcard --> You tell me how can i use the method that post few week ago ?
muncknr said:
you saved my life man. thank you so much. this was the only thing that worked, after days of frustration
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Thank You
Thank ! You save my phone !
unfortunately, i was one of those careless people to brick my phone via Voodoo.
Firstly, i tried to "FLASH" the disable_voodoo zip file via Clockwork, i put it in root, and never created any folders. i knew i had to disable voodoo before flashing but my steps were wrong.
sadly enough, my phone was also HW locked, so i got it exchanged. now im not using voodoo YET and i my new vibrant can handle OC and has the recovery/download mode via buttons.
atlaswingpasaway said:
unfortunately, i was one of those careless people to brick my phone via Voodoo.
Firstly, i tried to "FLASH" the disable_voodoo zip file via Clockwork, i put it in root, and never created any folders. i knew i had to disable voodoo before flashing but my steps were wrong.
sadly enough, my phone was also HW locked, so i got it exchanged. now im not using voodoo YET and i my new vibrant can handle OC and has the recovery/download mode via buttons.
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i use shell to create the file that disable voodoo. after disable voodoo , i was able to do restore and install new rom unfortunately after restore or install new rom , it still reboot into recovery.
I also forgot to disable voodoo, and this was before there were fix instructions posted. So i basically effed up my phone to the point of being stuck in the samsung recovery loop, no hardware download mode, no clockwork recovery, no update.zp, no adb download.
I really thought I had completely bricked my phone, I tried this just out of desperation and what do you know, push update.zip over and over and click and it goes through, which allowed me to get into download mode.
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I also forgot to disable voodoo, and this was before there were fix instructions posted. So i basically effed up my phone to the point of being stuck in the samsung recovery loop, no hardware download mode, no clockwork recovery, no update.zp, no adb download.
I really thought I had completely bricked my phone, I tried this just out of desperation and what do you know, push update.zip over and over and click and it goes through, which allowed me to get into download mode.
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nice , you just have to re-root and install the new rom again , if it brick again , just use this method and you are good again.many of us forgot to disable the voodoo before we restore or install new rom and this crashes the phone.
Need some help really bad
Ok so I have a similar situation as you did (OP), only mine is a bit worse... In my irrational "in the moment" fear of the situation, I used adb reboot recovery to get into recovery mode (HW locked phone) and I did the option that deletes all the **** on the phone and restores the phone to its original format (I think it reinstalled the OS or something, because it looks brand new). So now, whenever I boot up, it does the annoying black screen with the 4 glowing buttons thing for a while, and then eventually the OS actually shows up on the screen. Then it does "scanning media" thing over and over again, but thats not the main problem. I figured, hey this isnt so bad atleast I found your thread and would be able to use your method to help restore my phone... the problem is that somehow my "settings" button is totally gone from the app menu, and I cant get it into debug mode, so I cant use either adb or your method or ANYTHING!! My phone is practically bricked as I cant do anything because its constantly laggy and turns back to the black screen thing, and then when it is showing the homescreen I cant do **** because even swiping to another screen takes like 5 minutes to do cause its so laggy. So basically I ****ed up, and I really need some help.. Im kinda a noob at this whole thing and im really outa options as far as I can tell.. does anyone know what I can do to repair my phone? Thanks!
Tried to replace the lock screen using the MOD from the 'JI6 MODS' thread,
and now my phone is stuck at the Att world phone screen.
I can reboot into recovery, but that doesn't help me. When I try to reinstall packages it says:
'E: failed to open /mnt/internal_sd/update.zip (no such file or directory)
E: signature verification failed.
Installation aborted. '
I tried to push the update.zip file it needs to my internal sd, but it said permission denied.
Sometimes I can access my phone via ADB but it's only for a few moments while its loading the 'ATT world phone' screen but not for very long. I tried to push the original odex file to /system/framework/ but got permission denied.
I can get into download mode but when in Odin it always fails during file analysis.
I thought for sure that Odin would be able to fix this, but no luck.
My phone was running
Froyo JI6 rooted, no lag fix or anything. The only MOD I was running was Fightspits circle battery MOD.
Does anyone know anything I could try? I'm at the point where i'd try just about anything..
Please and Thank you!
Wrong section. topost your question
Put your phone into download mode (open the ODIN one click to stock, remove battery, remove SIM, replace battery,hold down both volume buttons, plug phone into usb while still holding volume keys, wait for the pic of an android with shovel to appear on the phones screen, click start) this should put you back to stock.
Its seems though that you might a kernel issue. You might just want to put phone into download mode and using the standard ODIN flash xcalibers reoriented kernel with 2e recovery.
The message you are getting in recovery is because you have the standard froyo kernel wich does not support self-signed .zip files.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks for the reply maginator!
I actually got home from work today and my roomate had it fixed.
He booted into recovery then cleared the cache and user data, and THEN
used odin to flash it back to stock 2.1
Very happy to have my cappy back!
Yeah i got the same problem but mine wont go into download mode i get the att world phone, then the att wold phone again and then it goes into recovery <2a>....any advice could really use it.
I was trying to install Serendipity 7. I followed the directions for the Kernel and flashed it from the SpeedMod menu, Install from SDCard. I chose the kernel zip that I downloaded for the 7.0 and it looked like it was working, I think. It was announcing in a "computer voice" that it would take 2 minutes. The screen was messed up like "snow" during this time.
It then rebooted, I saw the AT&T splash screen and then it cleared. I saw about 2 lines of "snow" in the middle of the screen, and it rebooted.
I managed to get it into recovery mode, but there is nothing on the screen. Using ADB devices, it tells me its in recovery but the screen is blank.
Now what do I do??? yikes!
You didn't flash gingerbread bootloaders.
follow the directions exactly...
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I was trying to install Serendipity 7. I followed the directions for the Kernel and flashed it from the SpeedMod menu, Install from SDCard. I chose the kernel zip that I downloaded for the 7.0 and it looked like it was working, I think. It was announcing in a "computer voice" that it would take 2 minutes. The screen was messed up like "snow" during this time.
It then rebooted, I saw the AT&T splash screen and then it cleared. I saw about 2 lines of "snow" in the middle of the screen, and it rebooted.
I managed to get it into recovery mode, but there is nothing on the screen. Using ADB devices, it tells me its in recovery but the screen is blank.
Now what do I do??? yikes!
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Not sure exactly, there are many in this forum that can answer you more correctly. But maybe to get you started, there are a couple of boot loaders, 'boot.bin' and 'sbl.bin' that need to match, whether they are gingerbread or froyo. Sounds like yours are mismatched. Only thing I know to do would be to ODIN-1-click back to stock eclair (2.1) and reflash the S7 rom per instructions in the OP. Don't know if this helps or not, maybe some of the others will help clarify.
edit: Yeah, studacris is one of those I was talking about
I must be blind. I went to the Serendipity 7 web site and followed the directions on the download page. That didn't seem to do anything so I then tried to install the kernel. This is where I went to the recovery menu and told it to install a zip. I guess that was wrong.
The good part is I can get to the recovery mode using ADB.
Can you please tell me how I flash the gingerbread bootloaders? there must be something that shows how to do this from adb?
I am able to change the modes using ADB. I put the phone into Download mode. The DOWNLOADING screen is on the phone. I start ODIN and click START.
It says
(0 succeeded / failed 0)
ADB does not see the phone in download mode, not sure if it should.
Can I do a flash_image using ADB or what do I need to do?
I have ODIN3 One Click Instraller
MarkWorsnop said:
I must be blind. I went to the Serendipity 7 web site and followed the directions on the download page. That didn't seem to do anything so I then tried to install the kernel. This is where I went to the recovery menu and told it to install a zip. I guess that was wrong.
The good part is I can get to the recovery mode using ADB.
Can you please tell me how I flash the gingerbread bootloaders? there must be something that shows how to do this from adb?
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Don't need to from adb. After you flash back to stock, check out forums on GB bootloaders. Those for S7 and there's a 1-click out there as well, I897 GB bootloaders, all will work with S7.
How do I flash back to stock? ODIN doesnt seem to work???
MarkWorsnop said:
How do I flash back to stock? ODIN doesnt seem to work???
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Here's 3 methods...
Method 1: Key Combination 1 (recommended)
1. Remove your battery, external SD card and SIM card
2. Reinsert battery and battery cover.
3. Hold down both volume buttons and while holding them down plug the phone in.
Method 2: Key Combination 2 (if method 1 doesn't work)
1. Remove your battery, external SD card and SIM card
2. Reinsert battery and battery cover.
3. Hold down both volume buttons and the power button.
Method 3: ADB (for advanced users.)
1. Download the android SDK from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html (NOT THE .EXE VERSION)
2. Drag it into the ROOT (top-most directory) of your hard drive.
3. Open the Command Prompt and navigate to the tools folder in the android SDK.
4. type adb shell then press enter
5. type adb reboot download then press enter
I've also had some success with using 'adb reboot recovery' if you've still got a good update.zip file in there somewhere.
edit: Then use ODIN to flash back to stock...
back to 6.4 again,
I managed to run flash_image from ADB and then I was able to get back to the recovery menu on the phone.
I reinstalled my original kernel using CWM and then reinstalled Serendipity 6.4 and now the phone appears to be ok again.
Now... what should I have done in the first place to get Serendipity 7 on this phone?
I have the kernel zip. I originally used CWM to install the zip from the SDCard and that is what trashed everything.
What is the proper procedure?
MarkWorsnop said:
I managed to run flash_image from ADB and then I was able to get back to the recovery menu on the phone.
I reinstalled my original kernel using CWM and then reinstalled Serendipity 6.4 and now the phone appears to be ok again.
Now... what should I have done in the first place to get Serendipity 7 on this phone?
I have the kernel zip. I originally used CWM to install the zip from the SDCard and that is what trashed everything.
What is the proper procedure?
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Go back to S7 site and follow steps 1-16 very closely! redownload the file in step 1 in case the one you have is corrupted some how, and start over. These are the steps that work, so if not for you maybe you got a file messed up or something. You're back to 6.4 so this should work, if not it's now beyond me. Hope you get up and running!
Do I need to do anything with the Kernel first? Or just do everything from the download instructions?
I have ODIN open and the phone in in download mode. I choose the 4 files and hit start. All the files say "0 succeded"
Should there be anything listed in the boxes at the top of ODIN? Seem like ODIN does not connect.
ADB doesnt see the phone in download mode, not sure if it should?
Moving to a new thread as the phone is back up again... in the old rom
View attachment build.prop.zipsomeone please help me. I edited my build.prop and changed dpi and now my phone is not booting. only lg logo comes and then black screen. I can access my CWM recovery through which i can update my build prop can someone please make an update.zip for me and all including commands so i can flash it and replace my build prop by this one attached. I am using Lg optimus F160k (LTE2). Please don`t ask me to ask on my phone`s forum because no one replies ther. Only you can save my life. Please do it
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View attachment 4111980someone please help me. I edited my build.prop and changed dpi and now my phone is not booting. only lg logo comes and then black screen. I can access my CWM recovery through which i can update my build prop can someone please make an update.zip for me and all including commands so i can flash it and replace my build prop by this one attached. I am using Lg optimus F160k (LTE2). Please don`t ask me to ask on my phone`s forum because no one replies ther. Only you can save my life. Please do it
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just dirty flash the rom if you have it on your phone...
Same issue only worse.
Hi, I have a similar problem. My phone is LG H502F (Magna). I rooted my phone thru LG one click root. After rooting the phone,when i tried to connect it to PC via usb, the PC couldn't read the phone.Keep in mind that i don't have any recovery installed. I found somewhere that by editing the 'build.prop' file and adding several additional lines to it i could fix the issue. So i tried to edit it using ES root explorer but for some reason it wouldn't edit the file. So i went and copied it to my PC and edited it using 'word pad' and then replaced it with the original one. I took a back up of the build.prop file on my sd card though. So i restarted the device and darn.. it wouldn't boot beyond the initial LG logo and a black screen after that.. So i went and did the sensible thing and factory restored the phone but turns out it didn't do anything to fix the issue.. Same black screen. I tried using the 'LG flash tool' to install the stock rom of my device in download mode. I can enter download mode by connecting my phone to the usb with the volume up button held down still which gives me hope that my phone isn't completely bricked. So yeah i couldn't install the stock rom.. it returns an error 0000006 after just about 5% into the process. I tried to enter fastboot thru "Minimal ADB and Fastboot" but it wouldn't read my device. error device offline. I tried using SP flash tool too but it wouldn't read my device at all. so i'm well and truly stuck with only the download mode as a doorway into my phone. If anyone have any inkling as to the solution or has come across the same problem before please share.