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Hey guys,
i have a big problem,
my htc magic 32b was jerking me,
it lost the signal to network,
so i decided to make a radio update,
i used this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=640535
now, i can't enter fastboot and it doesn't boot (only vodafone screen)
What can i do now??
plz help me
This is the HTC Dream aka G1 forum. You're looking for the HTC Magic forum.
Nonetheless, if you can't boot the phone into recovery or fastboot, then you're pretty much hosed. I'm actually trying to unbrick a G1 right now, I can't even get into fastboot/bootloader to try and reflash the phone. Really sucks for me because I had just flashed a G1 the night before and it was flawless. Same directions, different results
freakingwilly said:
This is the HTC Dream aka G1 forum. You're looking for the HTC Magic forum.
Nonetheless, if you can't boot the phone into recovery or fastboot, then you're pretty much hosed. I'm actually trying to unbrick a G1 right now, I can't even get into fastboot/bootloader to try and reflash the phone. Really sucks for me because I had just flashed a G1 the night before and it was flawless. Same directions, different results
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Many myTouch users actually live here. 99% of users in the Sapphire section are 32A so any 32B problems will be better answered here.
However, yes you are bricked as freakingwilly said. Just off of a radio is quite funny, though. My only thought is that you got hold of a bad one and flashed it.
r3s-rt said:
Many myTouch users actually live here. 99% of users in the Sapphire section are 32A so any 32B problems will be better answered here.
However, yes you are bricked as freakingwilly said. Just off of a radio is quite funny, though. My only thought is that you got hold of a bad one and flashed it.
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I didn't know that the Dream forum was home to the Sapphire users.
If I recall correctly, the boot order is RADIO > FASTBOOT > SPL. So if the radio is hosed, there won't be any real way to flash anything else (unless you use a JTAG, but that's a little more advanced than what the OP is looking for).
thx for the quick answers,
is there any possibility to debrick my phone?
i can't realise a brick in case of a radio update!!!
best regards,
depressed psycho
psycho_nr_1 said:
thx for the quick answers,
is there any possibility to debrick my phone?
i can't realise a brick in case of a radio update!!!
best regards,
depressed psycho
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Well, like I said, it was only if memory is serving me correctly that the boot order is indeed RADIO > FASTBOOT > SPL. The only way you'd be able to fix a SOFT brick is if you were able to boot into fastboot/bootloader (Camera + End Call) or recovery mode (Home + End Call). From recovery, you could just reflash the radio or roll back to a radio that works. If that didn't work, you'd boot into bootloader, reflash the OEM NBH file, and start fresh. You lose all your data, but you don't lose a phone.
Unfortunately, you
There might be one option left... turn on your phone and connect it to your computer. If your computer recognizes the device, then you can use ADB to push a working radio to the phone.
freakingwilly said:
Well, like I said, it was only if memory is serving me correctly that the boot order is indeed RADIO > FASTBOOT > SPL. The only way you'd be able to fix a SOFT brick is if you were able to boot into fastboot/bootloader (Camera + End Call) or recovery mode (Home + End Call). From recovery, you could just reflash the radio or roll back to a radio that works. If that didn't work, you'd boot into bootloader, reflash the OEM NBH file, and start fresh. You lose all your data, but you don't lose a phone.
Unfortunately, you
There might be one option left... turn on your phone and connect it to your computer. If your computer recognizes the device, then you can use ADB to push a working radio to the phone.
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As for your other comment, Sapphires come in 32b and 32a. Most 32b users dwell here.
As for bolded, some people have had luck issuing a fastboot command and leaving it sitting all night only to find it to be successful in the morning. You'll get a "Waiting for device...." for a loooong time and there's no assurance this will work at all and chances are slim to none.
Of course, you can send it in for warranty or buy another G1 with like a cracked screen or in real rough condition and replace what ever's broke from your old G1.
sounds like i'm realy ****ed up with my phone =(
hmm... i try something, if doesn't work the only way will be a new one i think...
i'm realy pissed off about this radio update, but it is how it is..
Thx for your answers and tips.
best regards
psycho
hey guys something new...
try to boot....
nothing... connect it to the computer...
klicked on "boot modified recovery" and *tada* its in recovery... and this w/o fastboot..
i try to wipe, old radio, wipe, new rom, we'll se if it's fixed afterwards
psycho_nr_1 said:
hey guys something new...
try to boot....
nothing... connect it to the computer...
klicked on "boot modified recovery" and *tada* its in recovery... and this w/o fastboot..
i try to wipe, old radio, wipe, new rom, we'll se if it's fixed afterwards
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Hi, glad to hear you had success!
Exactly what did you do to achieve this, step-by-step?
startup and boot modified recovery
first computer found not device,
but i saved the nand back up files on root of sd,
booted device, also only vodafone screen,
but now i came in recovery, w/o fastboot.
My only prob. is now,
my sim don't connect to network -.-
this phone is jerking me....
and idk what to do =(
someone know how to fix?!
best regards,
psycho
This actually great news for you. The reason your SIM won't connect to the network is because the radio you flashed to the phone is not designed for your phone, which resulted in the "soft brick" you were experiencing before.
All you have to do is flash the correct radio for your phone through the recovery mode and you should be back in running condition.
Would you mind sharing how you got to the "boot modified recovery?" I am sure this will help people unbrick their devices as well.
i can't find an old radio =( can someone give me a link?
i've posted the way in another thread about a bricked g1
but i tell you again
i've tried all, i found...
but aber a few nights spending to my phone,
i found this:
1. copy your nand backup to root of your SD
2. Start you phone (should only boot, till vodafone screen)
3. Connect phone to computer (message: device not known)
4. Boot modified recovery with Z3kos recovery helper.batch
5. Wipe
6. Flash old Radio (DO NOT WIPE AFTER THIS)
7. Flash Rom
STOP FLASHING RADIOS. You need to FASTBOOT them. Please, if you're going to root, indulge yourself in the knowledge.
http://fwd4.me/Ur5
There is the newest radio. Now fastboot it.
i'm not a rooting noob!
and this is first time, something like this happen to me^^
psycho_nr_1 said:
i'm not a rooting noob!
and this is first time, something like this happen to me^^
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obviously you are considering it even happened.
r3s-rt said:
STOP FLASHING RADIOS. You need to FASTBOOT them. Please, if you're going to root, indulge yourself in the knowledge.
http://fwd4.me/Ur5
There is the newest radio. Now fastboot it.
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And if you are going to help, indulge yourself in the OP's post.
psycho_nr_1 said:
*OP shortened*... now, i can't enter fastboot and it doesn't boot (only vodafone screen)...
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If you read the OP's post, you would have known that the OP cannot get into fastboot. So telling the OP to do something that they cannot do doesn't help.
r3s-rt said:
obviously you are considering it even happened.
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If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
freakingwilly said:
And if you are going to help, indulge yourself in the OP's post.
If you read the OP's post, you would have known that the OP cannot get into fastboot. So telling the OP to do something that they cannot do doesn't help.
If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
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and you should RTFT, OP now has a working phone but with no data connectivity. so he can now access fastboot. r3s-rt was telling OP to not flash the radio next time, fastboot it.
jamesd86 said:
and you should RTFT, OP now has a working phone but with no data connectivity. so he can now access fastboot. r3s-rt was telling OP to not flash the radio next time, fastboot it.
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Wow, I suck. And I REPLIED to OP having a working phone.
*hangs head in shame* Excuse me while I walk in the other direction.
jamesd86 said:
and you should RTFT, OP now has a working phone but with no data connectivity. so he can now access fastboot. r3s-rt was telling OP to not flash the radio next time, fastboot it.
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...10 char.
I have spent the last 4 hours searching this forum and countless others. I installed a custom gb rom over my froyo base, which resulted in rainbows. In a panic I went into rom manager and tried to recover my nand backup and now I am stuck in a boot loop with a rainbow'ed clockworkmod.
The version I have is ClockWorkMod Voodoo lagfix Recovery 2.5.1xx in red text.
I have tried every combination listed and I can not get odin to see my vibrant. All I can make out is that every now and then I can get into the recovery menu. From there I can get to the download mode, however I can't read the menus.
All I got is I have to go down 7 to get to the mount & storage option, but from there I don't know where "boot to download" is...
I have looked all over for screen shots to help me narrow it down. Can anyone please tell me how to get to the "boot to download" option in CwM?
I'm at a loss. Also I have not found anyone stupid enough to be in my position so I couldn't find anything useful to help me.
Please help!
modfrenzy said:
I have spent the last 4 hours searching this forum and countless others. I installed a custom gb rom over my froyo base, which resulted in rainbows. In a panic I went into rom manager and tried to recover my nand backup and now I am stuck in a boot loop with a rainbow'ed clockworkmod.
The version I have is ClockWorkMod Voodoo lagfix Recovery 2.5.1xx in red text.
I have tried every combination listed and I can not get odin to see my vibrant. All I can make out is that every now and then I can get into the recovery menu. From there I can get to the download mode, however I can't read the menus.
All I got is I have to go down 7 to get to the mount & storage option, but from there I don't know where "boot to download" is...
I have looked all over for screen shots to help me narrow it down. Can anyone please tell me how to get to the "boot to download" option in CwM?
I'm at a loss. Also I have not found anyone stupid enough to be in my position so I couldn't find anything useful to help me.
Please help!
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Sounds like you had the wrong bootloaders installed for the ROM you were trying to use.
I'm using Recovery v2.5.1.3. From the intial boot into recovery it's 7 down to the "advanced" menu then 8 down to reboot to Download mode (or up 2).
Hope this helps.
U need gb bootloader
Sent from my HTC Glacier using xda premium
elry567 said:
U need gb bootloader
Sent from my HTC Glacier using xda premium
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Yes, but he can't install it without getting into download mode.
I have had this issue. I wound up looking up CwM on google and seeing what the buttons were and using the pistures as a guide to were things were. I suggest doing this (IF you cant manualy boot into download mode.) And flashing to stock. Give yourself a fresh start. Rooting and installing CwM takes all of like 5 minutes, and if you have your contacts and such saved to your sim or google account you wont lose those (so you have nothing to fear).
I have personaly messed up my vibrant many times in wierd ways (such as this) and have found that it can be fixed allways, even without the unbrickable mod this phone is nearly unbreakable.
LMAO!! Unbelievable that in the past 48 hours 3 people posted either bricked or semi-bricked posts in the wrong section. You would think people would take their time in doing a little research in the proper sections.
In any case, here's your answer: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
And before you start criticizing my bashing response to your post. The link I just gave you is about 6-7 posts under yours. So again, if you actually took the time to do a little reading and research, you would've found this.
djquick said:
LMAO!! Unbelievable that in the past 48 hours 3 people posted either bricked or semi-bricked posts in the wrong section. You would think people would take their time in doing a little research in the proper sections.
In any case, here's your answer: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
And before you start criticizing my bashing response to your post. The link I just gave you is about 6-7 posts under yours. So again, if you actually took the time to do a little reading and research, you would've found this.
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And not to mention that once again people don't take the time to notice that they are in the dev section not the q&a thread please lets get or stuff together peeps and stop being lazy!!!
djquick said:
LMAO!! Unbelievable that in the past 48 hours 3 people posted either bricked or semi-bricked posts in the wrong section. You would think people would take their time in doing a little research in the proper sections.
In any case, here's your answer: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
And before you start criticizing my bashing response to your post. The link I just gave you is about 6-7 posts under yours. So again, if you actually took the time to do a little reading and research, you would've found this.
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Wow, talk about hate. I tried everything, including that link that you just sent me, I can't tell if it is in Download mode or not jerk. I've done this before and I rarely post problems unless I'm really really stuck.
All I see is rainbows on my screen for the clockwork recovery. It's not like everybody else's problem. Maybe you should take a minute and read my full post before making me feel lower than I already am about making a stupid mistake.
@jackdog
thanks for the numbers but I tried them and I got nothing except a reboot back into recovery. I tried 7 down, enter. then 8 down to what is suppose to be reset in download mode but it just resets.... I'm positive that I have that clockworkmod version, damn it!
modfrenzy said:
Wow, talk about hate. I tried everything, including that link that you just sent me, I can't tell if it is in Download mode or not jerk. I've done this before and I rarely post problems unless I'm really really stuck.
All I see is rainbows on my screen for the clockwork recovery. It's not like everybody else's problem. Maybe you should take a minute and read my full post before making me feel lower than I already am about making a stupid mistake.
@jackdog
thanks for the numbers but I tried them and I got nothing except a reboot back into recovery. I tried 7 down, enter. then 8 down to what is suppose to be reset in download mode but it just resets.... I'm positive that I have that clockworkmod version, damn it!
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use android screencast to see behind the rainbows, and get yourself into download mode from there
http://code.google.com/p/androidscreencast/
thachosenone said:
use android screencast to see behind the rainbows, and get yourself into download mode from there
http://code.google.com/p/androidscreencast/
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I've been trying for the last hour to get my computer to read my phone but the only time it sees something is when the vibrant is looping from the boot screen to another screen? ( it's rainbowed out) and then it repeats. I'm trying to download and install the drivers for the damn thing but I'm not having any luck.
Can any post post pictures of the clockworkmod recovery menus?
modfrenzy said:
I've been trying for the last hour to get my computer to read my phone but the only time it sees something is when the vibrant is looping from the boot screen to another screen? ( it's rainbowed out) and then it repeats. I'm trying to download and install the drivers for the damn thing but I'm not having any luck.
Can any post post pictures of the clockworkmod recovery menus?
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ODIN!!! Get into download mode and either flash the bootloaders mentioned above or flash a froyo rom. The easiest way into DL mode is to pull battery, hold volume up AND down, plug phone to PC, re-insert battery.
If you flash bootloaders you won't have this problem again and will be able to flash both GB and Froyo roms (eclair too if you want). Check out the custom bootloader thread fpr info.
explodingboy70 said:
ODIN!!! Get into download mode and either flash the bootloaders mentioned above or flash a froyo rom. The easiest way into DL mode is to pull battery, hold volume up AND down, plug phone to PC, re-insert battery.
If you flash bootloaders you won't have this problem again and will be able to flash both GB and Froyo roms (eclair too if you want). Check out the custom bootloader thread fpr info.
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I can't get into download mode because every screen I see is nothing but that rainbow garbage. I've tried every single button combo and odin isn't picking it up! Trust me I've tried all of that stuff. I need a frame of reference. I'm about to post a video so you guys understand what I see...
Unless you're HW locked (which I doubt if you're rooted) then manual-booting into DL mode should work. Do the following:
-Unplug phone. Remove battery, sd, sim.
-Set up ODIN on the PC, put the bootloader file in or the JFD, whichever you pick. If that's bootloader, please uncheck "Auto-reboot"
-Plug in phone with battery out
-Now while holding vol up and down firmly in and power, place the battery in the phone. Keep holding the three keys until ODIN recognizes your phone as a yellow COM port.
-ODIN. Let it finish. Reboot when it says success.
Goodluck, this should work- and I think DL mode is visible regardless of bootloaders. I may/may not be right on that.
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You could also try adb. Just plug it in and type the command... 'reboot download' I think. Should get you in download mode.
Also to even humor you on the Download mode screen being rainbows, the odin would still recognise the phone. if taking out the battery dont work then . hold volume upkey (only) and plug in usb cord. if that doesnt work buy or make a jig
Seriously we did the whole rainbow screen thing for about 2 full months this past spring. DL mode will never be rainbow, only recovery. It is a safe mode seperate from most everything "we" do to the phone and other than hard bricking your phone you should be able to get into it. I have never heard of DL mode being "rainbowed".
First try to hold both volume keys and power. If that doesn't work try what Troy said and hold volume up and power. If all else fails call a buddy to come and read these directions that everyone is posting. Not trying to be smart but we really did go about 2 months with "rainbows" and I don't remember any bricks or anyone not being able to get into DL.
I've done all of those steps. I have read countless threads about it. I know exactly how played out it is. I have already ordered the damn resistor to make a jig. Nothing is working and that is why I am panicking. I can't imagine how many people pester you guys about the same damn thing. I'm sorry. I just want Odin to read my damn phone so I can upgrade the bootloader and be done with it. adb doesn't read the phone either, no matter what I do. Thank you for your help, if the jig doesn't work then it doesn't work.
*sigh*
If you haven't yet realized, several of the "old pros" on this forum have placated your lack of reading by posting the steps to solve your problem. If none of their solutions have worked, your phone is dead. Given your inability to find such basic information on a problem that has been thoroughly solved 200x over (Hell, I tried to make a thread with "rainbow" in the title and XDA gave me 900 similar threads on the problem) I suggest you try a simpler phone.
Maybe an etch-a-sketch.
kaintfm said:
*sigh*
If you haven't yet realized, several of the "old pros" on this forum have placated your lack of reading by posting the steps to solve your problem. If none of their solutions have worked, your phone is dead. Given your inability to find such basic information on a problem that has been thoroughly solved 200x over (Hell, I tried to make a thread with "rainbow" in the title and XDA gave me 900 similar threads on the problem) I suggest you try a simpler phone.
Maybe an etch-a-sketch.
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You know what I don't seem to get is since when is this forum full of [email protected]? Seriously. I've put in all of my time to search and I did follow all the steps from what I have found and tried it over and over again. You seem to just want to bash people simply because you think they are a moron. You know what I get that, but I how posted repeatedly that I have looked over those forums and still have the same issue, and all I get is a stupid noob video on youtube. Real mature. The mod can close or delete this thread for all I care, I needed help and thanks to you and a few others on here for making things worse then they should have been. For those of you that posted helpful information and tried to help me thank you. I will leave all of you a thanks. I'm done.
You don't understand how exasperating it is for forum regulars to write long, painstakingly researched guides on how to solve common problems only to have a thousand yahoos ignore it, make their own thread, and then ***** when people get snippy that they completely ignored any and all forum guidelines in posting that thread titled "OMG How do I flash a ROM and how do I root and I can't get recovery to install!"
Your problem is not unique. If you're seeing a rainbow, you have not yet reached download mode. Take out the battery. Wait 5 minutes. Plug the ORIGINAL USB cable into your computer. Hold down BOTH volume keys and ONLY both volume keys while inserting the cable. KEEP HOLDING THE KEYS and insert the battery. Release the keys. You should be in download mode. If that doesn't work, you either did it wrong, or your phone is dead. Try it several times over until you're satisfied that it's one or the other.
WoW.. just read through the thread and no one has been out of line... There have been several very good and trusted peeps.. Devs even. . Who gave you an answer. Your problem is jot unique. Download mode does can be a ***** to get into sometimes. Keep trying.
Ok guys ... this is the problem ...:crying:
I have (had) a Droid Bionic running ics leak 232 in Brazil (GSM/UMTS ... thanks to xda developers - "bionic in t mobile" thread).
While messing around with the phone connected to linux (baaad idea) at some point I deleted the bootloader ("happy finger" + lack of knowledge os linux).
Now, my phone doesnt power up and RSD Lite doesnt recognize it when connected but, when I connect it to the PC, a green light lits at the top right corner of the phone and Windows recognize it, at the device manager, as a OMAP4430 USB under TI Board tab. This leads me to think that some kind of life still exists down there or, the hardware is alive and waiting for the right software.
After a long quest for a solution, I found this: "forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f634/unbrick-dead-samsung-gt-i9250-galaxy-nexus-gt-i9100g-via-usb-cable-freeeeeeeeeeee-1465412/index9.html".
Now I think this is the way out of this mess (is the same hardware, OMAP platform from Texas Instrument), if exists any, but this was made for Samsung, by Samsung technicians, and doesnt apply to Motorola. :crying: again.
So, is there anyone who can help me, or have any idea of what can be done (other than trow it away or use it as a paper weight)?
Any help would be most appreciated.
Regards
I saw you haven't had any replies yet. My roommate had a similar problem, he managed to mount his system partition automatically and thought his SD card was partitioned into 10 or more partitions.
So he reformated the mount and had a dead phone right after, said he only got a small white light on his notification light when plugged in.
I didn't get a chance to check it out before he took it to Verizon for a refurb, so sadly I'm not much help. Just thought I'd input anything I knew since you still had an empty thread. Hope it comes back alive!
Sent from my kitchen toaster.
Have you tried using the command line version of moto-fastboot? It might work, but might not work... I think you need to boot into fastboot mode, but I could be wrong... Either way it's worth a try.
Also, does anything happen when you try to hold down the vol+ and VOL- buttons when powering on the phone?
Sent from my XT894 running ICS
its dead
danifunker said:
Have you tried using the command line version of moto-fastboot? It might work, but might not work... I think you need to boot into fastboot mode, but I could be wrong... Either way it's worth a try.
Also, does anything happen when you try to hold down the vol+ and VOL- buttons when powering on the phone?
Sent from my XT894 running ICS
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Thank you for your answer danifunker;
The phone is dead. Pressing buttons does nothing. The only thing that happens is to lit the notification green light at the top right corner of the screen WHEN a plug it in my PC and windows keep telling me this is a unknown device. I unsuccessfully used OMAPFlash, but installing the usb drives that came with it, when I plug it to the PC, windows device manager shows me a new device "OMAP4430 USB" under a new tab "TI Board" , whitch is not recognized by RDS lite or adb or fastboot. Is only recognized by OMAPFlash. If you dont know about OMAPFlash, I found it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1701471 , but this procedure is for a Samsung, witch uses the same platform (OMAP4430), but I dont have the right configurations for the Droid Bionic.
Just the same
chrisp6825 said:
I saw you haven't had any replies yet. My roommate had a similar problem, he managed to mount his system partition automatically and thought his SD card was partitioned into 10 or more partitions.
So he reformated the mount and had a dead phone right after, said he only got a small white light on his notification light when plugged in.
I didn't get a chance to check it out before he took it to Verizon for a refurb, so sadly I'm not much help. Just thought I'd input anything I knew since you still had an empty thread. Hope it comes back alive!
Sent from my kitchen toaster.
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Thank you for your interest.
If you have any further notice about your roommate problem, please let me know.
And, if you manage to post a reply from your kitche toaster, I am sure you will be able to help in this problem. looking forward for that. :laugh:
pjcw said:
Thank you for your interest.
If you have any further notice about your roommate problem, please let me know.
And, if you manage to post a reply from your kitche toaster, I am sure you will be able to help in this problem. looking forward for that. :laugh:
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Can you explain exactly how you deleted the bootloader off of the Bionic? Knowing EXACTLY (what you ran, what you typed) what you did will help us help you.
As an aside, I had no idea there was a SGSII-OMAP variant, but I am not big on the Samsung phones, just assumed they've only been using their own SoCs for a while now...
Hi podspi.
Sorry for the delay.
As a matter of fact, wasnt me that bricked the phone. A friend o mine tryed to flash a gelly beam version, and did it via Fastboot,, under Linux (of witch I know almost notingh).
He told me that the problem was that he made:
fastboot erase mbm
and then
fastboot reboot bootloader
and so the bootloader was lost. He missed a step.
Any help will be greatly aprecieted.
Regards
IOW, since the mbm has been erased, and the mbmflashable hasn't been flashed, there is no way to get it into the bootmenu sceen anymore, right?
Hmmm. Let me ask some other folks too.
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Infinity Running Tapatalk.
I wonder if a factory cable would work to get it to flash mode? Why would you even mess with the bootloader trying to install ICS? You do that through recovery, not fastboot.
I was on ICS ... This was an attempt to get it to JellyBeen ... I, also, dont know why. I was perfectly happy with ICS working in GSM/WCDMA. This is why I am so sad ... It was a very stupid thing to do ... As a matter of fact, I will get a factory cable, but I dont think this is gonna help. Anyways, I am keeping it by side to remember me not to mess with things that are working fine. I'm kind of losing hope that it can fixed.
Regards
pjcw said:
I was on ICS ... This was an attempt to get it to JellyBeen ... I, also, dont know why. I was perfectly happy with ICS working in GSM/WCDMA. This is why I am so sad ... It was a very stupid thing to do ... As a matter of fact, I will get a factory cable, but I dont think this is gonna help. Anyways, I am keeping it by side to remember me not to mess with things that are working fine. I'm kind of losing hope that it can fixed.
Regards
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I think we need to figure out how you flash mbm back onto there. Actually, I think it's mbmloader that you need on there...
mbm = Motorola Boot Manager (?) maybe.
After reading this page: http://omappedia.org/wiki/Bootloader_Project
I believe, mbm = uboot, mbmloader = x-loader
Just found this page... http://www.droid-developers.org/wiki/How_to_load_mbmloader_from_SD_card
download the SBF and grab the mbmloader for ICS. See if you can get a little further...
SamuriHL sHouse of Bionic restored mine when all I could get was fastboot.
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It won't help this. It needs to be flashed at the omap level and since moto isn't about to release the configuration files for the Bionic you can consider this one permanently bricked.
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I tend to agree with SamuriHL. I was thinking that the configuration souldn't be so diferent than others (like Samsung) that uses the same platform (omap). I know that it's naive, but what else could I do. Also, I need the signed files for x-loader and u-boot, of witch I think danifunker is right, this means mbm and mbmloader, that I have, but they came in bin format and not image format (.img). I will try to convert them to .img, but I am at the end of my resources (not that they are so many), and will give up shortly. At this point (giving up), I will buy another cellphone AND IT WONT BE A MOTOROLA, Probably a HTC or a Samsung. But I will keep Bionic at my desktop, as a paperweight, to remind me how I liked it, how I mess things up.
Anyways, if I manage to solve this problem, I will post here, and I wish to thank everyone that spare their time to try to help people. If anyone have any suggestion, I'll be glad to follow.
If you modify them in any way they'll no longer be signed and won't work. Someone else already went through several weeks of trying to fix their phone that had similar issues. He's well connected and still couldn't get the necessary files. Don't necessarily give up on Moto, though...it's not their fault we're stuck with locked bootloaders. Blame VZW for that one. Even Samsung was forced to lock the S3 on VZW. Things may change some day. We'll have to wait and see.
You can always get RAZR i with the unlockable bootloader! that might make things a bit easier...
IT'S DONE!!!!!!!!!
IT'S DONE ....... IT IS ALIVE AGAIN :highfive:
Guys. My phone is alive again. Thanks to FRAGULINA and PICGRABBER for their unvaluable help. It is now running GSM with data enabled (3G) with ICS 232, rooted, thanks to FRAGULINA and HTCFlyerX ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31101192&highlight=build+prop#post31101192).
Well, I'm attaching 2 zip files. One is omapflash and the other is "THE FILES", and instructions on the "release_notes.txt". This works on LINUX.
And works like a charm. Took me (much) less than 5 minutes to get me from a dead phone to bootloader fastboot. And the rest is history. Well known procedures.
Thanks to all of you that helped or tryed to help.
Enjoy.
To those who have an interest in new challanges (as I know you are), i'm opening a new quest and would appreciate your thoughts.
I have at hand an atrix 2 and I want to find where in hell is the subsidy code writen at and how can I read it. This new quest will be at the proper location at the atrix 2 forum.
I think we won this challange. Lets go for another.
Any doubts I am available to help.
Regards.
Holy.....uh, well, WOW! I'm in awe here on this one. WELL DONE!!!!!!!
SamuriHL said:
Holy.....uh, well, WOW! I'm in awe here on this one. WELL DONE!!!!!!!
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Can we use this method to flash any firmware to the phone? Lets say you load the latest ICS, maybe we use this method which restores the most original bootloader to the phone and then flash to any version?
Which version did you fastboot to?
pjcw said:
IT'S DONE ....... IT IS ALIVE AGAIN :highfive:
Guys. My phone is alive again. Thanks to FRAGULINA and PICGRABBER for their unvaluable help. It is now running GSM with data enabled (3G) with ICS 232, rooted, thanks to FRAGULINA and HTCFlyerX ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31101192&highlight=build+prop#post31101192).
Well, I'm attaching 2 zip files. One is omapflash and the other is "THE FILES", and instructions on the "release_notes.txt". This works on LINUX.
And works like a charm. Took me (much) less than 5 minutes to get me from a dead phone to bootloader fastboot. And the rest is history. Well known procedures.
Thanks to all of you that helped or tryed to help.
Enjoy.
To those who have an interest in new challanges (as I know you are), i'm opening a new quest and would appreciate your thoughts.
I have at hand an atrix 2 and I want to find where in hell is the subsidy code writen at and how can I read it. This new quest will be at the proper location at the atrix 2 forum.
I think we won this challange. Lets go for another.
Any doubts I am available to help.
Regards.
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This is unbelievable. After talking with you on Gtalk, I thought this was a permanent brick. Thanks for the files...I have a guy on gtalk right now who can benefit from these.
Hi.
Bricked my phone, no download mode, no recovery mode
only worked some 3 keys mode (hardware keys control)
need jtag or riff box full NAND dump.
Pls help, thx
spasoman said:
Hi.
Bricked my phone, no download mode, no recovery mode
only worked some 3 keys mode (hardware keys control)
need jtag or riff box full NAND dump.
Pls help, thx
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How did you manage to do this.
Visa Declined said:
How did you manage to do this.
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I bought it with T-mobile rom, and no working donwload mode and recovery.
I was try to flash via adb stock boot.img and other, and after that it dos`nt boot to Android.
Result - no android, no recovery, and no download mode. Need NAND dump
spasoman said:
I bought it with T-mobile rom, and no working donwload mode and recovery.
I was try to flash via adb stock boot.img and other, and after that it dos`nt boot to Android.
Result - no android, no recovery, and no download mode. Need NAND dump
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Are you saying that you bought it already broke? Or are you not wanting to answer the question?
Its pretty sad the way people come into these threads, with one or 2 posts, never helping anyone, or even being friendly about anything, and just ask and expect others to do things for them, or provide software to them, just because they screwed up their phones due to not bothering to learn how to fix it BEFORE doing stupid stuff to it..
Its so sad to see what has happened to XDA...
I never post becouse my English is low level, and I am from Ukraine.
I bought phone with dead recovery mode, and download mode with T-mobile rom.
I was read more thread how to restore download/recovery mode, and back to stock.
And find that I need flash directly via adb boot.img, recovery.img and another.
wase4711 said:
Its pretty sad the way people come into these threads, with one or 2 posts, never helping anyone, or even being friendly about anything, and just ask and expect others to do things for them, or provide software to them, just because they screwed up their phones due to not bothering to learn how to fix it BEFORE doing stupid stuff to it..
Its so sad to see what has happened to XDA...
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While i was watching a video on facebook my phone randomly crashed, i waited for the phone to die as i didn't know about the soft reset i could do, and ever since then the phone has not booted past the red motorola logo, i've looked up a few ways to 'unbrick' my phone but they all required me to be able to go onto the device and enable USB debugging mode, which i obviously can't do. I have tried 1 other way which was to try and run "xFSTK-SoC-Driver-Setup-1.0.3.exe" and see if the bootloader would be reinstalled but i keep getting a message saying "libusb0.DLL is missing" and when i download the .DLL online it still says the message no matter where i put it.
I can get into the fastboot menu and i have formatted it to see if there was something on the phone that was stopping it from booting, but alas i am still here with a 'bricked' phone. Hopefully someone can help me get this sorted as i'd rather not have to be on my Nokia C1-01 for long
Thanks in advance
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Thanks for writing to us at XDA Assist. Please standby while we have your thread/question moved to the appropriate sub-forum for your device.
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While i was watching a video on facebook my phone randomly crashed, i waited for the phone to die as i didn't know about the soft reset i could do, and ever since then the phone has not booted past the red motorola logo, i've looked up a few ways to 'unbrick' my phone but they all required me to be able to go onto the device and enable USB debugging mode, which i obviously can't do. I have tried 1 other way which was to try and run "xFSTK-SoC-Driver-Setup-1.0.3.exe" and see if the bootloader would be reinstalled but i keep getting a message saying "libusb0.DLL is missing" and when i download the .DLL online it still says the message no matter where i put it.
I can get into the fastboot menu and i have formatted it to see if there was something on the phone that was stopping it from booting, but alas i am still here with a 'bricked' phone. Hopefully someone can help me get this sorted as i'd rather not have to be on my Nokia C1-01 for long
Thanks in advance
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Try to use RSDlite to install right version of your ROM.
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Hi
Thanks for writing to us at XDA Assist. Please standby while we have your thread/question moved to the appropriate sub-forum for your device.
For future reference you can find your device sub-forum here (bookmark/subscribe this):
Motorola RAZR i
Within that section you will find a dedicated q&a sub-forum (this is where your thread is going to be moved to):
RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Good luck!
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Thank you for that i am new to this forum so wasn't exactly sure where to post.
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Try to use RSDlite to install right version of your ROM.
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I have RSDLite installed on my computer, but every single video about how to use it is in Spanish, and i don't speak Spanish so i have no idea, i'm also new to this so i have no idea where to get the ROM from or what to do with it whence i have it.
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I have RSDLite installed on my computer, but every single video about how to use it is in Spanish, and i don't speak Spanish so i have no idea, i'm also new to this so i have no idea where to get the ROM from or what to do with it whence i have it.
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Search here for answers you need http://forum.xda-developers.com/razr-i/general/index-razr-t2832722
Some of the ROM you can download here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239706
I don't know where you can find others. I'm sorry.
Lucki_X said:
Try to use RSDlite to install right version of your ROM.
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Lucki_X said:
Search here for answers you need http://forum.xda-developers.com/razr-i/general/index-razr-t2832722
Some of the ROM you can download here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239706
I don't know where you can find others. I'm sorry.
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Thanks for the information but to me that is just words and links, i have no idea what to download, what i need to be looking into, how to use RSDLite, i'm more a visual learner so i learn via watching (im actually a 90% visual learner) and the fact i have no background with this it is relatively confusing
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Thank you for that i am new to this forum so wasn't exactly sure where to post.
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No problems at all, that's exactly what XDA Assist is here for
Good luck!
Hi MrWafWaf,
Here some extra help.
The things we are going to do is using RSD-Lite to restore your phone if it only has software problems. And we suspect it has that.
What u need for it are the following:
- RSD-Lite from here, unzip and install
- USB drivers: 32Bits or 64bits windows, and install it
- The firmware, this is the difficult part. U need the one from your country. If u got it wrong, it will maybe not be fully optimized for your country and language. Allways take the latest, in this case one with '9.8.2I' in it. (need help, say from where you from, carrier and if u buyed it from a carrier or retail. Maybe we can say which one u need)
So u now have RSD-Lite installed, the drivers installed and a zip file with the latest firmware.
Now see this thread: here
It's about using RSD-Lite. U already did step 1 and 2 from the 6 steps (not numbered, in quote) short guide.
Fastboot mode: Getting into it;
To get in AP Fastboot mode from power off: Hold Powerbutton + volume down. By holding those 2 the phone will boot and after a few seconds reboot. At the time the phone reboots and vibrates release the powerbutton. Now u will be in fastboot mode with all those text lines.
To get in AP Fastboot when the phone is on the (un)lock bootlogo: Hold powerbutton + volume down + volume up. Keep holding it. At the moment the phone reboots, release the powerbutton and volume up. KEEP holding the volume down button. It will now boot in fastboot mode.
Good luck. For the fastboot mode, u may need to try it a few times before it works. But i can assure you it always will work unless u have a hardware problem.