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Phone Bricked Unexpectedly

My G1 randomly froze during operation. So I held down the power button to bring up the power menu and hit restart. After hitting restart nothing happened, so I took out the battery and put it back in and booted the phone up but it's stuck in the first boot (T-Mobile G1). I can boot into fast boot but not recovery.
I was using CM 5.0.8 with Radio 2.22.23.02.
I had some ROMs on the SD card, but fastboot would either say "No image" or "No image or wrong image"
I've formatted my SD back to FAT32 and tried these images, but I get the same messages in fastboot:
gapps-mdpi-FRF91-3-signed.zip
spl-signed.zip
update-cm-6.0.0-DS-RC2-signed.zip (might as well try CM 6 if CM5 from before wasn't being detected)
Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance for any help

If you can get into fastboot, just flash a recovery back onto your device, then you can wipe and re-flash your rom. Your phone doesn't sound bricked.

tehseano said:
If you can get into fastboot, just flash a recovery back onto your device, then you can wipe and re-flash your rom. Your phone doesn't sound bricked.
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sorry for calling it bricked. I didn't really know what to call it.
I gave that a try. I put Amon_Ra 1.7.0 recovery image on my SD card and fastboot doesn't recognize it

Don't put it on your sd card. You do it from your computer. Assuming you have your adb/fastboot drivers installed, just type this in console:
Code:
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash recovery C:\Path-To\Your-Image\name_of_recovery.img
I would suggest using ClockworkMod for your recovery, you can find it [HERE].

tehseano said:
Don't put it on your sd card. You do it from your computer. Assuming you have your adb/fastboot drivers installed, just type this in console:
Code:
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash recovery C:\Path-To\Your-Image\name_of_recovery.img
I would suggest using ClockworkMod for your recovery
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Thanks for the quick replies. I've never installed/used fastboot on my linux box, but I quickly got that working and erased my recovery and flashed the new recovery you recommended.
I'm currently flashing my ROM!
Thanks for everything! You guys are the best!

Captain Falafel said:
Thanks for the quick replies. I've never installed/used fastboot on my linux box, but I quickly got that working and erased my recovery and flashed the new recovery you recommended.
I'm currently flashing my ROM!
Thanks for everything! You guys are the best!
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Glad I could help.

[Q] Stuck on X screen...no recovery on SD

So, was running a sense rom through the SD card. Let my wife use the N1 for a bit.
She erased the SD card, and now I'm stuck on the X boot screen with no recovery image, no way to drop a rom image onto SD to flash. I can easily access the fastboot/hboot screen, but I have nothing to flash.
Basically, I have a working phone with no OS.
What is the best way to get the OS back on the phone?

You can take the sd card out and put a ROM file on it?

cant you flash a new recovery image from fastboot?
fastboot flash recovery /path/to/<recovery>.img
fastboot reboot recovery
http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-passion.img

baseballfanz said:
You can take the sd card out and put a ROM file on it?
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Didn't even think of this...*facepalm*
THANK YOU!

adb push ROM.zip /sdcard/
then flash this ROM

ADB doesn't work in bootloader. It works only when the kernel is up and running - the initial stage of OS boot.
Previous answers were correct.

HELP, HELP Bricked HTC ONE.

Hi all i seem to have bricked my HTC ONE while upgrading from 4.1 to 4.2,
I can boot to recovery but upon flashing new rom it wiped my sd card with my nandroid on, and can do nothing else only boot to recovery.
Please help.

robboc180 said:
Hi all i seem to have bricked my HTC ONE while upgrading from 4.1 to 4.2,
I can boot to recovery but upon flashing new rom it wiped my sd card with my nandroid on, and can do nothing else only boot to recovery.
Please help.
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Download this toolkit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2183942
in recovery, choose install zip from sideload
in the toolkit, choose adb sideload a rom
choose rom
flash & reboot, good luck, took me 3 trys until fixed sdcard issues

You can push the ROM zip to your 'sdcard' using adb (adb push xxxx.zip /sdcard/xxxx.zip).
If you need more information, either look here, or just search the internets.
Don't panic. There's no such thing as a brick (if the screen turns on or computer recognises the phone).

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2325853

Hi again, tried to push sideload from recovery and on the phone it says, "failed to open driver control: no such file or directory" and in ADB in command windows it cannot finr device,
Really worried.

robboc180 said:
Hi again, tried to push sideload from recovery and on the phone it says, "failed to open driver control: no such file or directory" and in ADB in command windows it cannot finr device,
Really worried.
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Don't worry if it is booting to recovery it is not bricked, bricked is when it does nothing.
Can you boot to bootloader? If so you can fastboot flash an RUU (if you fail all other attempts to flash a rom with recovery)

You need the proper HTC drivers for ADB to recognize the device. Download and install HTC Sync Manager and also Android SDK Manager to get the platform-tools folder required to use ADB. Google both of them.

[Q] HTC One M7 reboots to recovery after flashing custom rom. Can anyone help?

Hello.
I tried to flash a custom rom on my phone with s-on. I followed the instructions that told me to extract boot.img from the zip and flash it first and then the rom as I had s-on.
But after flashing the phone reboots into recovery. It doesn't go in the system. I can't get the internal sd to mount in the TWRP recovery as well. I tried CWM too but was not able to mount the internal memory.
As I have s-on I can't even flash the stock ruu and because it doesn't go into the system there is no way for me to check USB debugging. I'm screwed.
Can anyone please help me ?

psbhadola said:
Hello.
I tried to flash a custom rom on my phone with s-on. I followed the instructions that told me to extract boot.img from the zip and flash it first and then the rom as I had s-on.
But after flashing the phone reboots into recovery. It doesn't go in the system. I can't get the internal sd to mount in the TWRP recovery as well. I tried CWM too but was not able to mount the internal memory.
As I have s-on I can't even flash the stock ruu and because it doesn't go into the system there is no way for me to check USB debugging. I'm screwed.
Can anyone please help me ?
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you haven't read the rules :/
first you don't have to flash the boot.IMG separately on HTC One, just flash the ROM via recovery
second it is impossible to mount your SD card in recovery
try sideload
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk

kamilmirza said:
you haven't read the rules :/
first you don't have to flash the boot.IMG separately on HTC One, just flash the ROM via recovery
second it is impossible to mount your SD card in recovery
try sideload
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk
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It said in the flashing instructions that if the phone is s-on you have to flash boot.img first.
My phone is s-on so I flashed boot.img first. Now it boots into recovery instead of system.
Also my phone is not detected by adb. So I can't use sideload. It is detected by fastboot but not adb
How can I make it detect adb?

psbhadola said:
It said in the flashing instructions that if the phone is s-on you have to flash boot.img first.
My phone is s-on so I flashed boot.img first. Now it boots into recovery instead of system.
Also my phone is not detected by adb. So I can't use sideload. It is detected by fastboot but not adb
How can I make it detect adb?
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no ROM for HTC One requires flashing boot.img first while on S-ON
uninstall your previous HTC drivers and HTC Sync Manager, restart your PC
download and install the following: http://download1801.mediafire.com/lbsjht9823lg/e21a0cc4268dg9d/HTCDriver_4.10.0.001.msi
sideload guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2318497
connect your device, go into recovery and start sideload
make sure you detect your device before starting sideload; "adb devices"

kamilmirza said:
no ROM for HTC One requires flashing boot.img first while on S-ON
uninstall your previous HTC drivers and HTC Sync Manager, restart your PC
download and install the following: http://download1801.mediafire.com/lbsjht9823lg/e21a0cc4268dg9d/HTCDriver_4.10.0.001.msi
sideload guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2318497
connect your device, go into recovery and start sideload
make sure you detect your device before starting sideload; "adb devices"
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Ok. Let me try that and see how it goes.
Will get back with the results
Thanks

psbhadola said:
Ok. Let me try that and see how it goes.
Will get back with the results
Thanks
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Okay I was able to flash the RUU and go back to stock but the phone keeps rebooting
It goes to lock screen and after I swipe to unlock, it is stuck on HTC logo until it reboots back.
Even when I flashed any custom ROMs the same thing happened.
It went to lock screen and after unlocking, it gets stuck on HTC logo.
What can I do?

Need Help!!!!!!

I wanted to wipe the phone clean to give it to my brother. Phone was unlocked and rooted, s-off. I went into TWRP wiped everything including internal storage(i know dumb). phone is not recognized by my computer so cant use ADB to sideload. Even tried putting a copy of a rom on a flash drive but OTG doesnt work either. I tried searching but i cant find help for my specific situation.

vnyborg said:
I wanted to wipe the phone clean to give it to my brother. Phone was unlocked and rooted, s-off. I went into TWRP wiped everything including internal storage(i know dumb). phone is not recognized by my computer so cant use ADB to sideload. Even tried putting a copy of a rom on a flash drive but OTG doesnt work either. I tried searching but i cant find help for my specific situation.
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Flash TWRP 2.5.8.x The latest twrp builds enable MTP in recovery mode :good:

How do I flash the latest twrp if my computer doesn't recognize my phone?

vnyborg said:
How do I flash the latest twrp if my computer doesn't recognize my phone?
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Fix your drivers so you can use fastboot to flash the recovery.
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img