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Hello all,
I was working with my gf's CDMA Hero and I think that I have turned it into a brick. Here's the rundown of what will and will not happen...
WILL:
- power up to HTC logo screen. Occasionally will reboot on its own to HTC logo screen.
WON'T
- boot into recovery ROM by holding down HOME button when powering up. Was using Clockwork 3.0.0.5.
- boot into fastboot mode by holding down VOL DOWN button when powering up.
- boot into hboot mode by holding down VOL UP button when powering up.
- boot into OS. Was using CyanogenMod 6.1.0.
- initiate factory reset by holding down HOME and BACK buttons when powering up.
- restore via HTC Sprint RUU installer.
- appear as visible to ADB.
All the threads I've looked through so far seem to indicate that if you get an HTC screen, you aren't bricked. On the other hand, none of those threads have described the situation I'm in. Please help!
UPDATE - Moments after posting this, I was able to get back into the recovery mode and RUU'd the lil' bastard.
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was using my nexus one as i was switched it off removed the sim card from this phone placed it in another phone... left my nexus one on charge and turned it on left the room when i got the vibrate didnt even saw wether it was completly on or not... came back home saw the phone off... tried to turn it on but it wouldnt.... then connected the charger to the phone then turned it on and it shows a X and a unlocked sign at the bottom stays for a while and then the screen gets black and the same thing happens over and over again
Its going in a reboot loop I think.
Try going into the bootloader by pressing the trackball and power button together.
and then enter bootloader and then recovery.
In the recovery select reboot.
Btw do you have a nandroid backup?
I do have a backup lying around somewhere but i'm not sure of that. And i tried that boot loader thing but when i go to that menu as soon as i press the volume - button the phone boots off again
did you try the 3 finger:
pwr/vol-/trkball at same time may take up to 20 seconds to boot into bootloader
or, may need to use fastboot from command terminal and flash new recovery/rom like passimg to go back to stock then upgrade from there
pass image method is in wiki
Try this:
- Press the power button and the trackball together
- Select Bootloader and then Recovery
- Flash a different ROM (Stock\CM\MIUI\or try flashing again your current rom)
- If it doesn't work, flash a new rom AND wipe data and cache
Hopefully you all don't sigh or roll your eyes at my questions, I came from iOS 2 weeks ago and the Android learning curve is pretty damn steep!
Many guides I read says to enter recovery mode by turning the phone off, then holding volume down and power buttons until the screen flashes and you should enter right into recovery, especially guides to flash a rom. I installed TWRP last week and the way I enter it is hit restart with phone powered on and as the phone begins to restart hold volume down only, then I enter it.
When I hold power and volume down when the phone is shut off, I get the HTC boot image as the phone is rebooting and then a message saying something along the lines of the phone will reboot and it counts down 3,2,1 then the phone reboots a second time and not into recovery. Plus my wallpaper gets removed. I rebooted but the wallpaper was still removed.
Two questions; Is this some sort of faulty installation of my recovery? Which way should I boot into recovery when about to wipe and flash a rom? Thanks a million!
twrp quicker reboot...
AcerRacer said:
Hopefully you all don't sigh or roll your eyes at my questions, I came from iOS 2 weeks ago and the Android learning curve is pretty damn steep!
Many guides I read says to enter recovery mode by turning the phone off, then holding volume down and power buttons until the screen flashes and you should enter right into recovery, especially guides to flash a rom. I installed TWRP last week and the way I enter it is hit restart with phone powered on and as the phone begins to restart hold volume down only, then I enter it.
When I hold power and volume down when the phone is shut off, I get the HTC boot image as the phone is rebooting and then a message saying something along the lines of the phone will reboot and it counts down 3,2,1 then the phone reboots a second time and not into recovery. Plus my wallpaper gets removed. I rebooted but the wallpaper was still removed.
Two questions; Is this some sort of faulty installation of my recovery? Which way should I boot into recovery when about to wipe and flash a rom? Thanks a million!
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way i do it is i unlock the screen hold power down to get the power options screen then i select reboot i wait for the screen to go blank then i hold the power and volume down it will load into bootloader then i just hit whatever boot loader has the recovery on it (twrp 2.5... had a problem wouldnt do system boot just take me back to recovery so i had to do to bootloader then restart from there) then you will hit recovery i would do a factory wipe but dont have it delete anything else just do a normal factory wipe and maybe delete cache and your problem should be fixed unless there is an issue with your rom you are using then if it bugs you that much find a different one.
another not when the system reboots i think you can just hit volume down dont have to hold power also but im so aggrivated with my current issue i just hold power also to make sure it goes thew.
AcerRacer said:
Hopefully you all don't sigh or roll your eyes at my questions, I came from iOS 2 weeks ago and the Android learning curve is pretty damn steep!
Many guides I read says to enter recovery mode by turning the phone off, then holding volume down and power buttons until the screen flashes and you should enter right into recovery, especially guides to flash a rom. I installed TWRP last week and the way I enter it is hit restart with phone powered on and as the phone begins to restart hold volume down only, then I enter it.
When I hold power and volume down when the phone is shut off, I get the HTC boot image as the phone is rebooting and then a message saying something along the lines of the phone will reboot and it counts down 3,2,1 then the phone reboots a second time and not into recovery. Plus my wallpaper gets removed. I rebooted but the wallpaper was still removed.
Two questions; Is this some sort of faulty installation of my recovery? Which way should I boot into recovery when about to wipe and flash a rom? Thanks a million!
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*Update*
Ok so after trying again to enter bootloader from power off holding volume down and power button, the same thing happened where I got the 3 second countdown but I continued to hold the buttons and I correctly entered into bootloader. So my question then stands, when flashing a new rom does it matter which method I use? (Reboot, volume down or Power on, volume down/power)
Thanks
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Just rooted and flashed CM11 and its stuck on the opening boot logo. How do I go about fixing this? I let it sit for about 15 mins and held the power down. Should I leave it on longer?
I tried entering into recovery by holding the volume down button after the power button and it didnt work.
Got into recovery mode and tried to do restore and the stock restore i saved isnt there.
Has anyone figured out the magic incantation for forcing a reboot into recovery? A very long press on the button seems to force a reboot, and holding it even longer will just keep cycling normal non-recovery boots.
Ive been doing exploratory stuff in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2795998
I have instructions on how to boot into recovery using ADB
If you can't do that, maybe its a combination of screen touch + button?
My dad's phone suddenly stopped working. It would start up, load the HTC logo and just stayed there until the battery died. As far as I know, he hasn't done anything to the phone that would cause this kind of error. I started looking into solution, I ran Recovery and Factory Reset from the Fastboot menu. Both didn't affect the device, it would still stay on the HTC logo. I recently tried upgrading the ROM using HTC's RUU exe to fix any Rom issue. I downloaded the ROM from their official site. The exe ran all the way through and even said finished at the end, but the phone now has a black screen. No lights at all and no LEDs are lit up. I tried restarting the phone by pressing and hoding the PWR button, PWR + Vol down, PWR + Vol up, and PWR + Vol up + Vol down and I get nothing. If anybody could help, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advanced.