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.
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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.
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i wiped a bunch of stuff in recovery thinking it wouldnt be bad as long as i flashed a rom right after (which i did) but it wouldn't boot
tried plugging it into a computer but it isnt recognized by adb or fastboot... please help
it boots into fastboot and says somthing about webtop
edit: yes i am dumb sorry wrong section didnt mean to mods please move
bbm21 said:
i wiped a bunch of stuff in recovery thinking it wouldnt be bad as long as i flashed a rom right after (which i did) but it wouldn't boot
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Be more specific please. You wiped stuff in CWM recovery or Stock recovery?
(You don't have to flash a ROM after wiping, stock will just reload itself upon boot)
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Be more specific please. You wiped stuff in CWM recovery or Stock recovery?
(You don't have to flash a ROM after wiping, stock will just reload itself upon boot)
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ya wiped everything in CWM (except sd card) i got it recognized by fastboot but it says low battery and wont flash and i cant get it to charge
bbm21 said:
ya wiped everything in CWM (except sd card) i got it recognized by fastboot but it says low battery and wont flash and i cant get it to charge
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Similar things have happened to me. Have you pulled and replaced the battery, then let it charge a while before trying to power on? That usually does it for me.
bbm21 said:
ya wiped everything in CWM (except sd card) i got it recognized by fastboot but it says low battery and wont flash and i cant get it to charge
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Power off, then plug into a wall charger. That should still charge it.
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Power off, then plug into a wall charger. That should still charge it.
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ok i did this and fastboot screen came up (still with battery low) ill just leave it chargeing for a while i guess
I've tried charging it many different wats and no luck... I guess its bricked
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Uh....don't ya think you can just get a new battery? Duh lol
If this happened to the new Nexus or the Razr, yep its a brick (they don't have external batteries)
But yeah, just get another battery. Or A batter charger that doesnt require the battery to be in the phone.
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Uh....don't ya think you can just get a new battery? Duh lol
If this happened to the new Nexus or the Razr, yep its a brick (they don't have external batteries)
But yeah, just get another battery. Or A batter charger that doesnt require the battery to be in the phone.
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Nexus has a removable battery.
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The teamblackhat app has an option to make a copy of your img files (the files that SBF flashes onto your device). This makes it so you can SBF without a computer at all, its all straight from the phone.
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Nexus has a removable battery.
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Only if you break into the casing. The back isnt meant to snap on and off.
I have searched everywhere and cannot find any answers. I tried to load a custom rom lastnight and my phone got stuck on the white HTC screeen. I was able to go into HBOOT but everytime i tried to rebot nothing would hapen. I loaded the PH39IMG.zip but it said the file could not be read. Now my phone wont turn on normally or into HBOOT. When I plug it in the orange light flashes and goes out. The only response I get is the haptic on the 4 lower keys.
Did you flash the boot image before you flashed the ROM?
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not sure. I made the mistake of using ROM Manager from the market. i downloaded the rom i wanted to the external sd and went into the app, selected "install from sd card", selected the rom and it instantly came up with the white HTC scren. i gave it about 30 min before pulling the battery and loading HBOOT. from there i couldnt do anything so i went to bed. when i woke up i was able to enter HBOOT and got the message "battery low". i plugged it in and the light flashed orange. now nothing. just feedback when i touch the 4 bottom keys. i put a CWM and the zip back on sd card but cant get into HBOOT to flash it...
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not sure. I made the mistake of using ROM Manager from the market. i downloaded the rom i wanted to the external sd and went into the app, selected "install from sd card", selected the rom and it instantly came up with the white HTC scren. i gave it about 30 min before pulling the battery and loading HBOOT. from there i couldnt do anything so i went to bed. when i woke up i was able to enter HBOOT and got the message "battery low". i plugged it in and the light flashed orange. now nothing. just feedback when i touch the 4 bottom keys. i put a CWM and the zip back on sd card but cant get into HBOOT to flash it...
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I be love you have flash an incorrect cwm and or kernel. Chexkbout the super guide and revert to stock and start again .
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thats what i thought also but i cant get it to do anything. i hant get into HBOOT or FASTBOOT. all i get is a black screen
Did you pull your battery before trying to boot into hboot?
Did you relock your phone before trying to flash the PH39IMG?
yes. it just doesnt want to enter. i just left the battery out for 20 min and it finally went to hboot. it asked if i would like to go into recovery, i said yes. it said updating then update sucessful and asked to reboot. did that, white htc screen for 5 min then it turned off like it died again. How would i "re-lock" if i can manage to get back to hboot? and is there a reason my battery wont charge? also can i enter it without the battery and being connected to charger? Thanks for all the help guys
yay. i got into CWM!!! now can i install a custom ROM?
PluggedLlama said:
yay. i got into CWM!!! now can i install a custom ROM?
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Fastboot fast proper kernel and then yes.
the only thing i can get loaded at this time is CWM. where do i go from here? im sorry, i thought i had this all figured out but to be honest it turns out i have no idea what im doing.
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the only thing i can get loaded at this time is CWM. where do i go from here? im sorry, i thought i had this all figured out but to be honest it turns out i have no idea what im doing.
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You can start by reading the link below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416836
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PluggedLlama said:
yes. it just doesnt want to enter. i just left the battery out for 20 min and it finally went to hboot. it asked if i would like to go into recovery, i said yes. it said updating then update sucessful and asked to reboot. did that, white htc screen for 5 min then it turned off like it died again. How would i "re-lock" if i can manage to get back to hboot? and is there a reason my battery wont charge? also can i enter it without the battery and being connected to charger? Thanks for all the help guys
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Heres exactly what your gonna do. Follow this step by step.
Pull your battery.
Put battery back in.
Turn on phone by holding vol down + power.
Plug in USB cable.
Enter fastboot.
In your adb folder (where you have the fastboot.exe, ect.) in cmd type: fastboot oem lock
(Not using your phone) Put the PH39IMG on your SD card
Pull your battery.
Put battery back in.
Turn on phone by holding vol down + power.
(Plug into the wall charger if your battery is low)
It should automatically detect and flash the PH39IMG.
Now your back to stock.
Now READ EVERY SINGLE WORD in this and then this.
After this if you still have no idea what to do - Don't pass go. Don't collect $100 You're done.
i try to enter fastboot but it goes to CWM based revovery v5.5.0.4. how can i get to HBOOT from here? and when i was there earlier it wouldnt install from sd because the battery was too low
It shouldn't go to recovery if your trying to boot into hboot. Either your doing something wrong, the phone is plugged in before you boot into hboot (if you plug your phone in while its off it'll automatically boot to CWM Recovery), or you seriously messed something up (beyond where I can help you).
well i WAS able t get into HBOOT fine until i got the message "change a battery" now i have to be plugged in to even get CWM. will the battery charge in cwm? my led flashes orange for about 2-3sec and then goes out..
It should. Chargemon file isn't correct hence why we don't have the standard charging screen IIRC.
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well i WAS able t get into HBOOT fine until i got the message "change a battery" now i have to be plugged in to even get CWM. will the battery charge in cwm? my led flashes orange for about 2-3sec and then goes out..
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Yes, it charges in CWM.
Once it's charged enough, try to adb reboot bootloader when plugged into the computer and see if it kicks you to HBoot. I forget whether you can launch ADB commands from CWM or not.
EDIT: Or just do the standard HBoot button combo.
ok, ill let it charge for a bit and try the PH36IMG. i really hope this works. i just got this phone thursday!
well the screen timed out so i assumed i would try to get to Hboot. i cant get to hboot. it will only go to CWM. can i install the .zip from here or does it need to be installed from hboot?
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well the screen timed out so i assumed i would try to get to Hboot. i cant get to hboot. it will only go to CWM. can i install the .zip from here or does it need to be installed from hboot?
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Are you plugged in while trying to get to hboot? If it's plugged in it will always go to CWM for some reason. There is no reason why your phone will boot to recovery and not hboot.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
tried to flash custom recovery aboout a week ago in terminal emulator instead of using a computer. found this thread about it but nothing else: http://forums.androidcentral.com/op...ulator-flash-recovery-i-think-im-bricked.html
i remeber something about a dd command but yeah.. help xD
else imma have to get it replaced in the ATT store
XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX said:
tried to flash custom recovery aboout a week ago in terminal emulator instead of using a computer. found this thread about it but nothing else: http://forums.androidcentral.com/op...ulator-flash-recovery-i-think-im-bricked.html
i remeber something about a dd command but yeah.. help xD
else imma have to get it replaced in the ATT store
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Just reflash your recovery over fastboot yo. Just grab any recovery (though I recommend TWRP) and "fastboot flash recovery whateverMyImageFileNameis.img". Goes without saying I hope that you have to have your phone powered into Fastboot mode (pull battery, hold power + vol down, choose Fastboot).
I don't recommend trying to manually install images unless you have a damn good understanding of linux filesystems.
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Just reflash your recovery over fastboot yo. Just grab any recovery (though I recommend TWRP) and "fastboot flash recovery whateverMyImageFileNameis.img". Goes without saying I hope that you have to have your phone powered into Fastboot mode (pull battery, hold power + vol down, choose Fastboot).
I don't recommend trying to manually install images unless you have a damn good understanding of linux filesystems.
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lmao thanks for the help but i cat turn the phone on AT ALL.. it wont boot into fastboot or nothin. windows 7 or mac os x snow leopard dont recognize it. so idk what to do lol. but thanks
XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX said:
lmao thanks for the help but i cat turn the phone on AT ALL.. it wont boot into fastboot or nothin. windows 7 or mac os x snow leopard dont recognize it. so idk what to do lol. but thanks
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I didn't see anything about your phone not turning on in the above post! That would be been helpful info
Will the phone still charge on a wall charger? Do you get the orange LED when it's plugged in? Seems like a lot of people are suddenly having battery or charge port deaths...
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I didn't see anything about your phone not turning on in the above post! That would be been helpful info
Will the phone still charge on a wall charger? Do you get the orange LED when it's plugged in? Seems like a lot of people are suddenly having battery or charge port deaths...
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haha sorry.! and sadly, no light at all. but, i know that i had at least 80% of battery left before i rebooted. I have also tried multiple batteries. I think i might have killed it xD so right now im waiting for the void stickers i bought from amazon to come in so i can return it to AT&T lol
In the future I'd recommend actually knowing what you're doing before you go doing things to your phone. There's a wealth of information on here...use it.
Monkeymannnn said:
In the future I'd recommend actually knowing what you're doing before you go doing things to your phone. There's a wealth of information on here...use it.
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yeahh.. i tend to make stupid decisions without thinking.. anyway, thanks for all the help guys, i just got my phone replaced today so i have to re-Soff and re-root. Again, thanks.
Welcome! I wanted to upload cm-11-20140405-NIGHTLY-p880 nightly to my phone. I used all in one i rooted it, applyed update from ADB, reboot system, downloaded ROM Manager and installed CWM Recovery. I threw CM and Gapps and wanted to do factory reset but unfortunatly i can't turn on recovery. Now when i turn on phone it stops on LG's logo. When i want to recovery it shows "boot image signature". Can anyone help me?
Die you unlocked the bootloader too it sounds you didn't you could try to fix this by flashing stock back with kdz flasher
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I tried to upload V20B.kdz using software update, but the phone was not founded though that i plugged him. Also when i plug the phone to computer or to wall it shows this error and the phone is just restarting all the time. Is there a chance to let my phone live?
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I tried to upload V20B.kdz using software update, but the phone was not founded though that i plugged him. Also when i plug the phone to computer or to wall it shows this error and the phone is just restarting all the time. Is there a chance to let my phone live?
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Yes, install proper drivers
fatcat066 said:
I tried to upload V20B.kdz using software update, but the phone was not founded though that i plugged him. Also when i plug the phone to computer or to wall it shows this error and the phone is just restarting all the time. Is there a chance to let my phone live?
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In addition to installing the latest drivers, you should hold VOLUME DOWN while plugging in the USB. This will let you enter S/W upgrade mode from where you can go back to stock.
One more thing, I suggest you use this method to get back to stock: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2682146 Fast and easy. Next time make sure to have the bootloader unlocked before trying to flash a custom recovery. Good luck!
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