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[Q] Another non-booting device :-( (already tried the other threads...)

Ok, I turned my Nook (rooted 1.01) on yesterday after maybe 2 weeks not using it (was turned off all the time).
I got stuck in the colored n screen and turned it off by presseing power button after it didn't boot after some minutes.
Now it is doing nothing anymore. Blank screen, not booting no answer to anything (longpress or plugging USB)
I read that this might be because due to some reasn system is broken and i tried recovery using a disk with the clockwork image. After inserting the uSD, unfortunately it is also not booting and not responding to any long keypress, with or without power...
BTW1: the Nook cable power indicator is always yellow - its not getting green even if it was plugged in for some time. does that say anything?
BTW2: I am from europe and bought the Nook in the US, but cannot return it from here :-(
Any ideas ?
Any tip on how to find out if it is essentially functional?
Anytool I can use?
Thanks for any idea !

The few things I would probably try from here is holding the power button for 10 seconds wait a bit and try to turn it on. Also turn it "on" where the lights and that come on and let it run till the battery dies, that could take a day or two, and see after some charging if it will start back up.

Good idea - it might be still running with a blank screen...
If I plug in the Nook cable in my PC, it tries to install a driver and a "OMAP360x" device can be seen in Win7 Device Manager. Does this prove that the device is still running ?
btw the Omap entry is just there for some seconds than drops out of the list automatically...

You are getting the same thing like mine.
I fixed though. It is simple.
First make sure you have Clockwork Recovery burned to an uSD then plug the SD card to the nook.
Afterwards have the nook connected to your computer and keep the power button pressed for at least 15 seconds, cause you ought to see the screen go white and black really fast since it will be booting into recovery.
Now that is if you have enough battery. If not it will tell you to go plug it it for at least 15 mintutes to charge. In that case you will need to plug it in the outlet.
Do that and let me know what happens.

Will try this again, today and report.
Thanks!

sammojohn said:
You are getting the same thing like mine.
I fixed though. It is simple.
First make sure you have Clockwork Recovery burned to an uSD then plug the SD card to the nook.
Afterwards have the nook connected to your computer and keep the power button pressed for at least 15 seconds, cause you ought to see the screen go white and black really fast since it will be booting into recovery.
Now that is if you have enough battery. If not it will tell you to go plug it it for at least 15 mintutes to charge. In that case you will need to plug it in the outlet.
Do that and let me know what happens.
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How do you get the Clockwork Recovery burned to a micro SD? Is there a way to get it directly from the web on a computer?

StillConfused said:
How do you get the Clockwork Recovery burned to a micro SD? Is there a way to get it directly from the web on a computer?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870

I am also having the same issue i was able to get recovery up. But when i try to flash it back to normal it says it completed . but once u pull the sd card it still wont boot.

Matmax said:
Ok, I turned my Nook (rooted 1.01) on yesterday after maybe 2 weeks not using it (was turned off all the time).
I got stuck in the colored n screen and turned it off by presseing power button after it didn't boot after some minutes.
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Okay, so be clear for everyone, how did you root, and are you using the stock recovery or had you installed Clockwork Recovery?
I suspect your battery is just dead, but surely you've plugged it into the B&N charger and cable and left it for a while, right?

Thanks! Looks like this is even able to load up all the apps and stuff?
I will give it a shot, and I suppose I can block the 1.1 too!!

I was using the stock 1.01, I have let the battery charge and i rooted it using auto nooter

Flash my boot repartition zip, found on my froyo on emmc thread. Flash means install through CWR.
Sam
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did you figure out how to change the charging color from orange to green? i am having the same problem and i havent been able to find a fix

Hi, sam,
I happen to deleted /boot, /system, /data. This boot repartition zip can still save my nook?
thanks
samuelhalff said:
Flash my boot repartition zip, found on my froyo on emmc thread. Flash means install through CWR.
Sam
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samuelhalff said:
Flash my boot repartition zip, found on my froyo on emmc thread. Flash means install through CWR.
Sam
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Never mind i found it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=929670
Thanks for the help

is there any way to get the Rom Manager with the drop bucket? I cant get market to work

[Q] I just need some quick help (I hope?)

Hello all, I admire all of your work. I just recently hit a problem and was wondering if you could help.
I had unofficial froyo from designgears, and was trying to install voodoo lagfix. I set it as an update.zip, it ran through the whole set-up with the talking lady and everything. It said it was complete, then it rebooted into my recovery (2e, but I just recently flashed 3e, so I don't know why that happened).
Then, it was doing it's thing, but got stuck on "Installing multi-csc". I let that sit for about 5 minutes, but nothing happened, so I hit reboot now. It rebooted back into 2e recover, and again got stuck on "Installing multi-csc".
I tried turning it off, then opening odin3 and trying to get into download mode, but everytime I plugged it in, it went to recovery.
Now, I took the battery out and SIM card and tried plugging it back in, and it gets stuck on the charging screen that shows when it is turned off. It won't even load how charged the battery is...I have no idea what to do...

You should still be able to get into download mode with this method- Remove battery and sim for 1 minute then only put the battery back in connect your charging cable only to your phone then while holding the volume up and down plug it into your computer while the phone is off and it should go right into DL mode
Edit: I forgot to add that you must have Odin already open for this to work properly

Thank God for you, my good sir! This will change the kernel back to stock as well, correct?

That is correct. It will change kernel and modem along with rom.

ZaCaptivate said:
This will change the kernel back to stock as well, correct?
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Yes.
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ZaCaptivate said:
Thank God for you, my good sir! This will change the kernel back to stock as well, correct?
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Haha no problem this method has worked for without fail many times and yes it will if you are using Odin one click but your phone must be build 1009(This is more of a guide line people above 1009 have successfully used it I believe) or below

ROM Manager CWM Flash Fix

Hey guys, I have a friend who has an HTC Vivid, and he accidentally flashed CWM via ROM Manager. This on it's own isn't a big deal, but then he let the battery run down, and now the phone refuses to charge. Apparently the phone will vibrate randomly while off, will not turn on, doesn't charge after 2 hours of being plugged in. His phone is S-ON and unlocked. There is a quick indication of a charging LED going on, but it flashes off. I don't think it's ever been dropped or anything else.
I'm assuming that an external battery charger to get the battery charged and then flashing recovery via fastboot should solve the issue. Am I right, or is this going to require a full flash via an ruu?
The phone cannot be booted up into either bootloader or the main OS.

I believe his best luck is to use a friends vivid to charge his battery or but a battery cradle to charge it. I think those are the only two options.
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Will it run off the charger cable without the battery?
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come at me bro said:
Will it run off the charger cable without the battery?
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I think his phone is still recognized by the PC, but I'm not sure if ADB will get it into a state that will let it charge and then fix the recovery.

Hunt3r.j2 said:
I think his phone is still recognized by the PC, but I'm not sure if ADB will get it into a state that will let it charge and then fix the recovery.
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If he can't get someone to charge his battery for him, but he _can_ get it to boot into clockwork (and have access to ADB shell), it can be fixed... but it's a pain in the butt.
It boils down to pushing the htcbatt service file (you can get from my github here: https://github.com/thecubed/android.../prebuilt/recovery/root/sbin/htcbatt?raw=true ) to /tmp/ and marking it as executable, then executing it.
Code:
adb push htcbatt /tmp/htcbatt
adb shell
chmod 777 /tmp/htcbatt
/tmp/htcbatt
After that, let it sit there for 30 or so minutes, and the battery should be charging.
Don't skimp on charging time, let it at least get back to 60%, then use the PH39IMG-chargemode.zip in my recovery thread. Rename it to PH39IMG.zip and put it on your sdcard, then boot to HBOOT and flash it. Boot to recovery, and let the battery finish charging.
That should get it all working!
Good luck!

The issue is that I know for sure that the phone's cwm is broken, he flashed it through rom manager and I know that it won't boot into recovery.
Would it be possible to try and push the proper recovery.img to the phone via fastboot?

Hunt3r.j2 said:
The issue is that I know for sure that the phone's cwm is broken, he flashed it through rom manager and I know that it won't boot into recovery.
Would it be possible to try and push the proper recovery.img to the phone via fastboot?
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So, when plugged into AC power over USB, what happens?
Fastboot flash wont work until the battery is charged, since hboot runs only on battery.

Hunt3r.j2 said:
The issue is that I know for sure that the phone's cwm is broken, he flashed it through rom manager and I know that it won't boot into recovery.
Would it be possible to try and push the proper recovery.img to the phone via fastboot?
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Yes. If he has enough battery to get in to the bootloader.
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I'm just wondering if it's possible to get adb to work even if the battery is off.

Hunt3r.j2 said:
I'm just wondering if it's possible to get adb to work even if the battery is off.
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No
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Status update as I now have the phone in my hands.
1. The phone doesn't boot at all. No signs of life, no ability to get into bootloader or Android OS.
2. If the battery is pulled and then put back in, then the USB cable is put into the phone, the charging LED can be seen for a little bit before it goes out.
3. For some reason, haptic feedback on the capacitive buttons still works, but intermittently.
4. I'm unsure of whether the battery is dead from voltage going too low.

Double post to say that the issue was solved with an external battery charger and flashing the proper recovery.img. Thanks to everyone for their help.

i was having a lot of trouble with my att vivid for about 2 weeks unlocked it and run super guide stuff on it all week wasnt getting anywhere but i came across a link to a web site that had it up and running in about 30 mins it was realiy cool now it is back to normal just signed into filefactory and got the proper ruu run the program and wow it was amazing i tried posting the link but i am newbee here so all i can do is q&a the real key was i had to lock it back and the program did all the work.

Screwed the pooch totally this time..

Not sure how I did it, but I am stuck at the Red LG logo with the white LG letters and my phone will go no further. It will not shut down without a battery pull. I have tried to do the hold down volume and factory reset the phone, same screen pops back up. Plugged in does nothing either. It is like it lost the ability to boot.
I ask here for maybe some guidance from a dev. If wrong place, please move it.
I can not get into the recovery, regular boot, computer to recognize it.. Nothing at all... Is there an actual boot image to put on the sd card to boot to?
Any suggestions??

eghill1125 said:
Not sure how I did it, but I am stuck at the Red LG logo with the white LG letters and my phone will go no further. It will not shut down without a battery pull. I have tried to do the hold down volume and factory reset the phone, same screen pops back up. Plugged in does nothing either. It is like it lost the ability to boot.
I ask here for maybe some guidance from a dev. If wrong place, please move it.
I can not get into the recovery, regular boot, computer to recognize it.. Nothing at all... Is there an actual boot image to put on the sd card to boot to?
Any suggestions??
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What did you do right before this point?

I think my mistake was going into Rom Manager to see if I had anything showing clockwork installed. Phone restarted and i was at this point since. Not sure if I told it to update a clockwork or not. Head is fried now from messing with it..

eghill1125 said:
I think my mistake was going into Rom Manager to see if I had anything showing clockwork installed. Phone restarted and i was at this point since. Not sure if I told it to update a clockwork or not. Head is fried now from messing with it..
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Ok, I can get you fixed but I can just about promise you that you will be in test mode,

I don't own this phone (almost did) but curious, how Wood you fix that? Does LG have a tool like rsd lite (moto) or odin4 (sammy) ?
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Try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1337386

I looked at that thread, but I can't see how I would go about that when I can not get anything on the phone beside the LG logo. I can't plug it in and select internet connection or install any software drivers from the phone on the first line. I have called Verizon and they are sending me out another phone, but I would like to get this one fixed if I can..

eghill1125 said:
I looked at that thread, but I can't see how I would go about that when I can not get anything on the phone beside the LG logo. I can't plug it in and select internet connection or install any software drivers from the phone on the first line. I have called Verizon and they are sending me out another phone, but I would like to get this one fixed if I can..
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You can get into emergency mode to flash the tot file in lgnspt.
1 Pull Battery
2 Press and hold volume up + power
3 Plug phone into computer (while still holding buttons)
4 Put battery back in (while still holding buttons)
5 You should now enter emergency mode

Can u enter CWM? By holding down pwer and vol down. Then confirm data wipe (it won't) then reboot into cwm? If u can try to install a rom
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[Q] HTC Vivid - I Think I Soft Bricked the Phone. Any Help?

I don't understand what happened. One night I was listening to music and the phone went dead so instead of putting it on the charger, I let it sit. The next morning I went to charge it and wouldn't turn on.
I know the phone isn't hard bricked because occasionally the backlight will turn on, but no bootanimation or full power on. I rooted the phone about two weeks before this happened. Now when I plug it in the computer, it tries to install drivers (QHSUSB_DLOAD).
If anyone can help, please do; I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks

I believe it may be soft bricked based on what you said. You have to have certain tools to fix it which means sending it in to HTC to have it repaired. So you are not able to get in to hboot at all?

Not at all
I can't do anything to the phone. The only thing it does is light up occasionally. If I were able to get into HBOOT I would know how to fix. I have gotten the phone stuck in a bootloop before and fixed it with no problem. I might be taking the phone to the store tomorrow to see about getting a new one but I wish I could just fix it myself.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1548678&page=3
Thought I remembered reading about this.

It's in emergency download mode..not a good sign but still likely fixable..but, not with anything available to us atm. I read another thread a while back where another vivid owner was stuck where u are..and so far as I know, no solutions found yet for him..but from what I was reading that mode is a failsafe from Qualcomm which - with the right software - should allow someone to flash the phone with working software.. I dunno..if you're not a programmer be very careful because one wrong move in qhusb_dload and you could perma-brick it for real. Good luck man.
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Thanks
Thank you guys, I'm gonna try to fix this, do some research to try to find a software to flash it. I really appreciate the help

FIXED!!!
I managed to fix my phone. After I got it into the bootloader, I just put PH37IMG (or something like that) onto the sd card and ran fastboot to flash that. Now I got my phone running smooth again.
Once again, thanks for your help.

And can you tell us what you did to get into zhe bootloader?

I'm curious too..how did u get back to bootloader?
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He pbly had what's called a blind bootloader. Sometimes when a flash goes wrong your bootloader is there and working but it won't show on the screen. So you just press the buttons to boot into hboot and even though you can't see it its there and working.
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xX-DARIUM-Xx said:
I managed to fix my phone. After I got it into the bootloader, I just put PH37IMG (or something like that) onto the sd card and ran fastboot to flash that. Now I got my phone running smooth again.
Once again, thanks for your help.
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What's the secret?

I got the same problem. Can you tell me how to fix it? Thank in advance.

similar issue
So I had a similar issue where my phone went dead (battery died) and when I went to plug it in, it wouldn't charge (the backlight would stay on for 4 seconds and go out). It would never try and install drivers, it actually wouldn't do anything. I have been unlocked and rooted for some time now and haven't tried putting any ROM's on it yet. So this wasn't a matter of a bad flash or anything.
Long story short, I was able to get it into hBoot but now I can't get into recovery and when I try and boot up, it gets stuck on the boot animation. I've tried loading PH39IMG.zip files, even pushing recovery files onto it using fastboot commands and nothing. I have the Rogers Raider and I can't find any RUU files for it. Even then, I wouldn't know how to install the original RUU without being able to get into recovery. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,

Hey sorry I haven't been on here in forever. But when everything went wrong I just kept trying to get into bootloader and after many attempts I finally got it to work. There was nothing special about it no secrets
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flip4life39 said:
So I had a similar issue where my phone went dead (battery died) and when I went to plug it in, it wouldn't charge (the backlight would stay on for 4 seconds and go out). It would never try and install drivers, it actually wouldn't do anything. I have been unlocked and rooted for some time now and haven't tried putting any ROM's on it yet. So this wasn't a matter of a bad flash or anything.
Long story short, I was able to get it into hBoot but now I can't get into recovery and when I try and boot up, it gets stuck on the boot animation. I've tried loading PH39IMG.zip files, even pushing recovery files onto it using fastboot commands and nothing. I have the Rogers Raider and I can't find any RUU files for it. Even then, I wouldn't know how to install the original RUU without being able to get into recovery. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,
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Run the RUU from fastboot, not recovery.

xX-DARIUM-Xx said:
I don't understand what happened. One night I was listening to music and the phone went dead so instead of putting it on the charger, I let it sit. The next morning I went to charge it and wouldn't turn on.
I know the phone isn't hard bricked because occasionally the backlight will turn on, but no bootanimation or full power on. I rooted the phone about two weeks before this happened. Now when I plug it in the computer, it tries to install drivers (QHSUSB_DLOAD).
If anyone can help, please do; I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks
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download the RUU from the HTC Support Site. It helped me when i soft-bricked my phone.

Hunt3r.j2 said:
Run the RUU from fastboot, not recovery.
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So instead of "fastboot flash..." I type "fastboot run <insert .exe file here>"?
Not quite sure how to run the RUU from fastboot (or what the commands are in fastboot for that matter).

flip4life39 said:
So instead of "fastboot flash..." I type "fastboot run <insert .exe file here>"?
Not quite sure how to run the RUU from fastboot (or what the commands are in fastboot for that matter).
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What he means is lock your bootloader before running the ruu put your phone in fastboot USB mode hook it up to your computer run the ruu.exe file on your computer and it will return your phone to out of the box stock
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jerrycoffman45 said:
What he means is lock your bootloader before running the ruu put your phone in fastboot USB mode hook it up to your computer run the ruu.exe file on your computer and it will return your phone to out of the box stock
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I've tried to re-lock the bootloader but it won't re-lock. whenever the phone needs to be rebooted, it'll just get stuck on the HTC logo screen. I've tried running the RUU but again, when it reboots the same thing happens, stuck on logo.

flip4life39 said:
I've tried to re-lock the bootloader but it won't re-lock. whenever the phone needs to be rebooted, it'll just get stuck on the HTC logo screen. I've tried running the RUU but again, when it reboots the same thing happens, stuck on logo.
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are you typing fastboot oem lock you might get a error but reboot your phone and it should say re-locked after that