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Hello All, I hope this is posted in the right place....
I believe I have bricked my Wife's CDMA Hero...
It was rooted with S=Off and working. I was flashing roms and all was well until... Danger-SPL... I know, I know, I shouldn't have done it, but I did!
So, this is what happened.
I flashed the Danger-SPL via clockwork recovery and when I did the screen went to an install screen for a split second and then blank. I waited for a while and tried to reboot, but nothing.
The phone will not come on at all, screen stays blank.
When plugged in I get the charging Orange LED. When I try to power up, regular, recovery, bootloader, etc. the LED goes away, but screen is still blank. The battery does warm up after awhile with the phone "on" so it seems to be drawing juice from the batt.
Volume Down + Power Yields nothing
Volume Up + Power Gives me 3 Vibrates
Menu + Power Gives me 5 Vibrates and Blinking Green LED
everything else doesn't seem to do anything, the screen is ALWAYS blank!
Cannot see the device via adb from my mac... (Not very well versed in adb, but have used it a little with success in the past on my EVO)
Is there any hope? I have googled till my ears bled (not really but heads my been pounding after awhile!)
Have I truly bricked the phone? Is there anything that can be done WITHOUT the use of JTAG (Still researching that to see if I can do something)
Any help is appreciated... any bashing if fine too, you can't bash me more than the Wife!!!
Thanks in advance!!
im not sure if the computer wont even recognize it or get to fastboot.
but your led does come on so there may be some hope on most hardbricks the led wont even come on.
Have you tried Volume down + Power + Action (trackball depressed)?
No, actually went to sprint today and had them check it out. They couldnt fix it, but I was able to get a replacement for $35 dollars.
I didnt have insurance or anything either and I told them what I did...they didnt hassle me at all amd just hooked me up with a refurb that was in way better condition!
I was shocked that it was so easy!
Thanks for your reply though!
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Pretty sure you could have done a hard reset. (Volume up+Volume down+Power)
I have the same issue and I need help, based in India so cannot go to Sprint. Can someone kindly send me the RIFF box file for the Hero so that I can get it repaired.
digitalnirvana said:
I have the same issue and I need help, based in India so cannot go to Sprint. Can someone kindly send me the RIFF box file for the Hero so that I can get it repaired.
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What is the "RIFF box file"?
nandroids are for
sissies
Well, who knows if it would have worked, but I dont think anything would have worked.
so now the question is how do I root 2.1 update...what is the best method now days?
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tnEVo said:
Well, who knows if it would have worked, but I dont think anything would have worked.
so now the question is how do I root 2.1 update...what is the best method now days?
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Try z4root... then Unrevoked.zip to get S-Off. Flash the zip through Rom Manager!
I've had a hunt around the forum and the net in general to look for solutions, but haven't come across the same issue.
The tab was running Overcome 4.10 just fine, but I decided I'd wipe everything in CWM and go for some ICS action instead. I used every wipe option.
In retrospect, I should have RTFM, but I used every wipe option in CWM.
After I did this I rebooted the tab and it went back to CWM. I decided I didn't want to do anything there and then, so I turned the tab off and came back to it later.
Hit the power button - no joy. Plugged in my charger cable and after a few seconds it came to life showing the battery charging screen, but it did not change from the first few seconds where there is a spinning/loading icon over the battery. I've left it plugged in for well over 4 hours in total now and still no joy - the battery screen comes on and goes off of it's own accord.
Now, I'm hoping I just have a dodgy charger cable and I'm going to resolder it just now while I wait for responses.
Any suggestions if that doesn't sort it out?
EDIT -
I've resoldered the cable and it's made no difference.
Also, a bit obvious, but I didn't mention that it will not go into download or recovery mode. The turning it on whilst touching the screen trick doesn't do anything either.
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I opened the tab up, disconnected the battery for a few minutes and reconnected. No difference.
adb, Kies and one-click unbrick don't see the tab. Win7 has seen the 2 sd card directories, but couldn't mount/access them. This isn't consistent, though.
Any ideas? I don't know what else I can do
Soft Bricked?My ***
I am very sorry to tell u that this thing looks like Hard Bricked
Anyway try these links
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1133590
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1127978
Thanks for your reply and the links. Unfortunately, I've tried everything in the first thread with no luck.
I think I'll practice my soldering and try AdamOutler's UnbrickableMod.
I'm curious what exactly bricked it :-/ Wiping the battery stats with no ROM in place?
Oh well
nelsonoski1972 said:
I am very sorry to tell u that this thing looks like Hard Bricked
Anyway try these links
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1133590
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1127978
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Hmmm... this looks more like you messed up CWM. Normally, if one chooses to shut down his phone while in CWM, after reboot it gets back into CWM on auto. Try getting into CWM or download-mode by holding the buttons untill you see something happening on the screen.
If that fails, I guess you have a new goodlooking paperweight...
Any idea how CWM might have been messed up? No battery stats maybe confusing things? I find it strange that it did reboot into CWM after I wiped that stuff and then after being powered off it did not turn back on.
A mystery, but you're right - it is a very pretty paperweight
dirlan2001 said:
Hmmm... this looks more like you messed up CWM. Normally, if one chooses to shut down his phone while in CWM, after reboot it gets back into CWM on auto. Try getting into CWM or download-mode by holding the buttons untill you see something happening on the screen.
If that fails, I guess you have a new goodlooking paperweight...
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Hi guys, I'm writing to you in hopes that you can some how save me in this situation.
Like many others, I was stupid and deleted everything on my phone using TWRP. I have tried many suggestions, mostly those found in this thread :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40907625
and in many others however I am unable to get out of the HTC Logo screen. While holding the power button the buttons on the bottom simply blink and nothing else. It doesn't reboot, no matter how long I hold it. The same thing happens when I try and boot into the boot loader.
My only option now is to just wait for the battery to die on its own I suppose but in the mean time I was wondering if anybody else had any suggestions for me. I really hope I didn't brick my phone v_v
Edit - Forgot to mention that when I did try the methods in that thread, the program won't recognize that the phone is connect however the HTC Sync application does pop up on my computer when I connect it via usb.
Did you try adb? You probably still have it from when you installed twrp. Connect your phone via USB, go to a command prompt in the directory with adb (e.g. in the fastboot directory) and type "adb reboot recovery". In windows you can get to a comand prompt (among other ways) by shift-richtclick of the relevant directory and choose "command prompt here"
Thanks for the response!
I tried that however the device isn't being recognized as being plugged in even though it clearly is. Just to repeat, I'm stuck at the HTC logo, not the bootloader or recovery. I know the recovery is still there however I'm unable to get into it from this screen. I'm completely at a loss at what to do next =/
Triplet11 said:
Thanks for the response!
I tried that however the device isn't being recognized as being plugged in even though it clearly is. Just to repeat, I'm stuck at the HTC logo, not the bootloader or recovery. I know the recovery is still there however I'm unable to get into it from this screen. I'm completely at a loss at what to do next =/
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Yeah I only mentioned it because I, too, got myself stuck at the HTC Logo and, even though the phone wasn't recognized as a device by windows, adb still worked for me.
scottegos2 said:
Yeah I only mentioned it because I, too, got myself stuck at the HTC Logo and, even though the phone wasn't recognized as a device by windows, adb still worked for me.
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I just posted a Tip on this in the General section on how to get around this without waiting on battery drain. In a nutshell hold your phone under a bright light and then hold the Power/volume button and it will take you to the bootloader. I know it sounds wierd, but the same thing happened to me flashing an international Rom and someone posted to do this, so I tried and damn if it didnt work. I realize its been a few days since you posted this, but if it happens to you again now you will know. :good:
smatherlee said:
I just posted a Tip on this in the General section on how to get around this without waiting on battery drain. In a nutshell hold your phone under a bright light and then hold the Power/volume button and it will take you to the bootloader. I know it sounds wierd, but the same thing happened to me flashing an international Rom and someone posted to do this, so I tried and damn if it didnt work. I realize its been a few days since you posted this, but if it happens to you again now you will know. :good:
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weird, but interesting! thanks for sharing. :good:
I was about to ask how to get around this hanging. Super thanks for the strange tip. Worked like a charm and I'm back in the bootloader!
smatherlee said:
I just posted a Tip on this in the General section on how to get around this without waiting on battery drain. In a nutshell hold your phone under a bright light and then hold the Power/volume button and it will take you to the bootloader. I know it sounds wierd, but the same thing happened to me flashing an international Rom and someone posted to do this, so I tried and damn if it didnt work. I realize its been a few days since you posted this, but if it happens to you again now you will know. :good:
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My international HOX recently got stuck at the boot screen after re-unlocking bootloader too. Volumn down + Power will only reboot it and get it stuck again. I first thought this was some kind of a joke, but I tried and saw IT DOES WORK!!!
smatherlee said:
I just posted a Tip on this in the General section on how to get around this without waiting on battery drain. In a nutshell hold your phone under a bright light and then hold the Power/volume button and it will take you to the bootloader. I know it sounds wierd, but the same thing happened to me flashing an international Rom and someone posted to do this, so I tried and damn if it didnt work. I realize its been a few days since you posted this, but if it happens to you again now you will know. :good:
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THANKS! Was trying every possible way to reboot my phone and nothing would work. For some reason this bright light stunt got it booted. Odd, but worked.
Sorry, I know this thread is a few months old, but this is the only place I can find reference to this particular problem.
Has anyone found any real fix for this?
My HTC One is, as in the OP, stuck in the HTC screen following a borked ROM flash. I have tried the power button alone, power+vol-down, bright light, dim light, etc. So far nothing I have tried has resulted in anything besides the softkeys flashing; no shutdown, no reboot, no bootloader...nothing.
Anyone?
Or am I stuck just waiting until the battery dies...
You are holding the power abd vol down buttons for a very long time, right? Longer, as in way longer than normal.
If your recovery does not charge the phone you better not let it run down. I use philz, it charges ablnd has OTG , but moreover charges. It also comes up clean in TechNet ajust by plugging in imported
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Oops, not TechNet, recovery. Bad typo.
tdhite said:
You are holding the power abd vol down buttons for a very long time, right? Longer, as in way longer than normal.
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Correct. No matter how long I held in the power buttons, it did nothing. I ended up letting it run down over the night and this morning ran a restore on the backup I had made before attempting the flash. After restore, phone is back to where it was before, so problem taken care of (sorta). Cyanogenmod 10.2 now installed and working.
tdhite said:
If your recovery does not charge the phone you better not let it run down. I use philz, it charges ablnd has OTG , but moreover charges. It also comes up clean in TechNet ajust by plugging in imported
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Oops, not TechNet, recovery. Bad typo.
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??? Not really sure what you're trying to say here...?
Yea, crummy typing.
Just saying to be careful of battery if his recovery doesn't charge the battery. I've heard problems on recent TWRP releases for Sprint HTC One along that line, though I use PhilZ so can't be certain. If power down was possible, then usually plugging in alone gets me to recovery.
Looks like it all worked out anyway.
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x88x said:
Sorry, I know this thread is a few months old, but this is the only place I can find reference to this particular problem.
Has anyone found any real fix for this?
My HTC One is, as in the OP, stuck in the HTC screen following a borked ROM flash. I have tried the power button alone, power+vol-down, bright light, dim light, etc. So far nothing I have tried has resulted in anything besides the softkeys flashing; no shutdown, no reboot, no bootloader...nothing.
Anyone?
Or am I stuck just waiting until the battery dies...
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Try holdin power and volume up, it will shut down, then power and volume down, will take you to recovery, that same thing happened to me and this fix it
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Worked O.O
x88x said:
Sorry, I know this thread is a few months old, but this is the only place I can find reference to this particular problem.
Has anyone found any real fix for this?
My HTC One is, as in the OP, stuck in the HTC screen following a borked ROM flash. I have tried the power button alone, power+vol-down, bright light, dim light, etc. So far nothing I have tried has resulted in anything besides the softkeys flashing; no shutdown, no reboot, no bootloader...nothing.
Anyone?
Or am I stuck just waiting until the battery dies...
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Oh ir's really weird and interesting but it worked like a charm!
I used my blackberry z10 as a torch to lit the proximity and pressed vol+/- and pwr....... and the One really shutted down....... lol
what's the problem, my god.......
Today while using my one that is rooted with trickdroid 8.0.0 turned off at around 40% randomly, The screen froze at the lockscreen and I when put it to charge the orange light did not appear. I cannot reboot into recovery from the phone nor from adb. When plugged in the computer it is read as QHUSB_DLOAD. Any advice on how to fix this?
dlnas said:
Today while using my one that is rooted with trickdroid 8.0.0 turned off at around 40% randomly, The screen froze at the lockscreen and I when put it to charge the orange light did not appear. I cannot reboot into recovery from the phone nor from adb. When plugged in the computer it is read as QHUSB_DLOAD. Any advice on how to fix this?
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QHUSB_DLOAD usually means a hard-brick. Does it power on at all? You might try leaving it plugged in overnight, but I suspect your phone just died.
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QHUSB_DLOAD usually means a hard-brick. Does it power on at all? You might try leaving it plugged in overnight, but I suspect your phone just died.
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It does not power on at all. My battery was at ~40%. Is it possible for the phone to just turn off like that at that percent?
dlnas said:
It does not power on at all. My battery was at ~40%. Is it possible for the phone to just turn off like that at that percent?
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I haven't seen it on the One, but it was a real problem with the One XL. Phones would just drop to 0% charge and die for no apparent reason. Not pleased to this happening on the One.
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I haven't seen it on the One, but it was a real problem with the One XL. Phones would just drop to 0% charge and die for no apparent reason. Not pleased to this happening on the One.
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Before it died. I unlocked the phone and the only thing I could do was pull the notification drawer down. It would not let me open any app or even the app drawer.
dude this sounds frightening
Read the HTC Unbricking Project thread, the problem is HTC phone wide so I see no reason why the fix wouldn't also be. At the very least give that thread a read, you've got nothing to lose.
postfatal said:
Read the HTC Unbricking Project thread, the problem is HTC phone wide so I see no reason why the fix wouldn't also be. At the very least give that thread a read, you've got nothing to lose.
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That fix is only for a couple of specific issues:
Note: This will fix only devices which were bricked by turning S ON. And bricks caused by a damaged hboot via interrupted OTA update/RUU flash on a S-ON device. Any devices bricked with other ways are currently *not* supported. We are working on it
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People tried it on the One XL/Evita when this happened, and it didn't work, unfortunately. Note that the method requires the battery to be removed.
tousary shall
iElvis said:
That fix is only for a couple of specific issues:
People tried it on the One XL/Evita when this happened, and it didn't work, unfortunately. Note that the method requires the battery to be removed.
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I've only had the phone for 2 months and it already bricked. It shouldn't be a problem explaining it to AT&T and getting a replacement right? I mean if I can't turn it on they can't turn it on.
Had the same problem after flashing the wrong recovery..
THis means it is hardbricked and unrecoverable..
You could ask here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43750389#post43750389
Else send it in for repairs
dlnas said:
I've only had the phone for 2 months and it already bricked. It shouldn't be a problem explaining it to AT&T and getting a replacement right? I mean if I can't turn it on they can't turn it on.
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It's a hardware fault, from everything I've seen, and HTC or AT&T should replace it. AT&T tends to be very easy about this. If the phone won't power on at all, they shouldn't give you a hard time.
Hi everyone, I'm sure this question has been answered before but being a complete noob, I honestly don't understand ANY of the technical terms such as "rooting", "flashing", "ROMS", etc etc. So most of the answers I have read make zero sense to me.
My phone started bootlooping when it was in my bag and I have no idea why it started doing so. The battery ended up draining enough to get it out of the bootloop and it was working fine for a day or so, until I put it back in my bag to go out and when I took it out, it was bootlooping again.
What I am trying to ask is what might be the cause of this and is there anyone who can explain how to fix this issue (in simple terms) so that I'd understand?
Cheers.
mine is doing same!
lostpigeon said:
Hi everyone, I'm sure this question has been answered before but being a complete noob, I honestly don't understand ANY of the technical terms such as "rooting", "flashing", "ROMS", etc etc. So most of the answers I have read make zero sense to me.
My phone started bootlooping when it was in my bag and I have no idea why it started doing so. The battery ended up draining enough to get it out of the bootloop and it was working fine for a day or so, until I put it back in my bag to go out and when I took it out, it was bootlooping again.
What I am trying to ask is what might be the cause of this and is there anyone who can explain how to fix this issue (in simple terms) so that I'd understand?
Cheers.
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mine is exactly the same reboots every few seconds , cant do anything about it
Have you done anything to your phone? attempt to root or install any new mods or apps or is this an out of the blue occurance?
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Ajxx16 said:
Have you done anything to your phone? attempt to root or install any new mods or apps or is this an out of the blue occurance?
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Well I don't know what rooting or mods are, so I doubt it is anything like that. The only things I've really done with my phone are install apps from the play store, torrent music using utorrent and save images/pictures. I thought that maybe it was due to my phone overheating in my bag as it has been rather hot the past few days. Could that be a possible reason?
Just do a factory reset
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Just do a factory reset
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Well the thing is, I can't do a factory reset because whenever I try to access that menu that has all the options, it starts looping before I can choose anything, and for some reason the buttons dont always work
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Well the thing is, I can't do a factory reset because whenever I try to access that menu that has all the options, it starts looping before I can choose anything, and for some reason the buttons dont always work
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since it seems you haven't done anything to your phone (ie unlocking, custom ROMs, etc), this could likely be a hardware problem.
how's the power button working? damaged?
you can also do a factory reset in bootloader, power off your phone, then hold VOLDOWN, press POWER, keep holding VOLDOWN until the bootloader appears (the white screen, with a few options), you use VOLUP and VOLDOWN to move the "cursor" and POWER to select the option you want.
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since it seems you haven't done anything to your phone (ie unlocking, custom ROMs, etc), this could likely be a hardware problem.
how's the power button working? damaged?
you can also do a factory reset in bootloader, power off your phone, then hold VOLDOWN, press POWER, keep holding VOLDOWN until the bootloader appears (the white screen, with a few options), you use VOLUP and VOLDOWN to move the "cursor" and POWER to select the option you want.
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cant do that because as lostpigeon said it loops again before we get a chance to select anything! mine has been doing it out of the blue since this morning , cant turn off or anything . . .loops and loops over and over every 13 seconds.
johntychwith said:
cant do that because as lostpigeon said it loops again before we get a chance to select anything! mine has been doing it out of the blue since this morning , cant turn off or anything . . .loops and loops over and over every 13 seconds.
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if it's rebooting in bootloader, then it's very likely the power button that's the problem, for example: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2563572
what can you do to fix the power button? tried drying the phone although it hasnt got wet.
johntychwith said:
what can you do to fix the power button? tried drying the phone although it hasnt got wet.
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off to warranty...
hardware problems are very hard to fix; and i'm not saying it's the power button for sure, it's just highly likely it is, if it's rebooting bootloader.
asi have no orange insurance what would you do next?
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asi have no orange insurance what would you do next?
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How long have you had the phone, defects like that should be automatically covered regardless.
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Ajxx16 said:
How long have you had the phone, defects like that should be automatically covered regardless.
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The problem with my phone is that I found it. Turned it in and no one claimed it for a substantial amount of time so I gained ownership of it. I don't have the warranty or anything that came with the phone except for the phone itself and the charger. If I took it to a phone repair shop would they possibly be able to fix it? Or am I screwed...
Okay so I let my phone run out of battery over night and just plugged it in to charge then and it's seemed to have gotten out of the bootloop and it working normally now, so would this still possibly be a hardware issue? And is there anything I can do to prevent it from bootlooping again?
i phoned up orange and they said to ring htc as ive only had the phone for 5 months . will ring them 2moro. pain in the ass.
lostpigeon said:
Okay so I let my phone run out of battery over night and just plugged it in to charge then and it's seemed to have gotten out of the bootloop and it working normally now, so would this still possibly be a hardware issue? And is there anything I can do to prevent it from bootlooping again?
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Im not sure this is hardware related, there are a few things you can try though to prevent this from happening again. first off, if you ever do encounter another bootloop... pressing and holding in the power button for around 20 seconds or so forces a reboot, the capacitive button on the bottom will start to blink. Second would be to boot into thee bootloader by powering down the phone, holding the volume down button and powering back on while holding voldown. this will bring you to a menu described above eariler, then do a factory reset.
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