Hi Everyone,
First off I am a total novice and I put my hands up to say I should not have tried to root my phone. I merely wanted to root so that I could actually use the space on my SD card, which the HTC Desire doens't.
I did try to do this manually by reading a few guide and walkthroughs with no success. So then I used the sunshine app to unlock my bootloader and then WinDriod to load TWRP recovery and then hopefully root the phone. It does say ***unloacked*** on the fastboot menu. However, I sort of messed up my phone.
I cannot load into recovery mode - it goes to a HTC load screen then right back to fastboot usb menu.
I cannot factory restore the phone either.
Can anyone advise me how to return my phone to its normal state or advise on how to fix this problem?
Appreciate any help anyone can give me!
bbop107 said:
Hi Everyone,
First off I am a total novice and I put my hands up to say I should not have tried to root my phone. I merely wanted to root so that I could actually use the space on my SD card, which the HTC Desire doens't.
I did try to do this manually by reading a few guide and walkthroughs with no success. So then I used the sunshine app to unlock my bootloader and then WinDriod to load TWRP recovery and then hopefully root the phone. It does say ***unloacked*** on the fastboot menu. However, I sort of messed up my phone.
I cannot load into recovery mode - it goes to a HTC load screen then right back to fastboot usb menu.
I cannot factory restore the phone either.
Can anyone advise me how to return my phone to its normal state or advise on how to fix this problem?
Appreciate any help anyone can give me!
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Hello,
Since you asked for help with returning the phone to it's normal state I have some questions. Does the phone work normally? Can you make calls, text, and do other things when you simply power your phone on or is the OS deleted? Are you just referring to obtaining stock recovery or do you still want to get TWRP? It sounds like some error happened when you tried to flash TWRP and now you have no recovery. Here is a great guide that shows you how to flash TWRP. You can use that same guide to flash the stock recovery. That channel also has videos with an alternate method to unlock your bootloader and how to root the phone.
My phone works fine, makes calls, texts etc, I just can't boot into recovery. I tried several methods, following online videos etc to no avail, but ill give this one a go this evening. I mentioned returning it to its original state so I could start over with the flashing process as nothing seems to allow me to load into twrp, so i wondered if there was a corrupt file or something preventing me from doing so. The phone's bootloader is unlocked I believe as it says so on the hboot screen.
Thanks for the suggestion, ill let you know how it goes.
bbop107 said:
My phone works fine, makes calls, texts etc, I just can't boot into recovery. I tried several methods, following online videos etc to no avail, but ill give this one a go this evening. I mentioned returning it to its original state so I could start over with the flashing process as nothing seems to allow me to load into twrp, so i wondered if there was a corrupt file or something preventing me from doing so. The phone's bootloader is unlocked I believe as it says so on the hboot screen.
Thanks for the suggestion, ill let you know how it goes.
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The method in that video should work perfect. I doubt there was a corrupt file, but we'll find out soon enough. I have a love/dislike relationship with WinDroid. I love it, because of how easy it is to use and it requires little to no knowledge of what you are actually doing and it is just a beautiful looking program. I dislike the fact that you pretty much learn nothing when you use it, as it does all of the work. Also, if you use the adb drivers it provides and you already have adb drivers, you will receive an error that the adb server is out of date.
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Hi all. I haven't been able to boot my Nexus One for months now. It all started with the random reboot problems that many have reported, but now it won't boot at all. I never rooted it or flashed it with a non-stock Android. It's always run stock OS. If I remember well, the last build installed was FRF91.
I've read dozens of threads, tried hard resetting, Recovery, and the latest thing I tried was a restore with the PASSIMG.zip method explained here http://forum.xda-developers.com/wik...des_&_Tutorials#Unroot_.2F_Restore_your_Nexus
It does not seem to have gone well, because step [2]Radio_V2 showed error message "Fail-UZ" and [6] System "Fail-PU". Then it got stuck at the screen attached.
I'm starting to think I've got a faulty battery along with a software problem: when I've got a full charge, I can only perform one operation (power on, recovery, hard reset, whatever), and it usually freezes in the middle of it, usually with that three time vibration. Then, I've got to wait a long time before it can even charge and show the charging LED again.
Any help in getting my agonizing Nexus back will be highly appreciated. Thanks a lot.
Am I seeing what I'm seeing?
You have SHIP S-OFF Nexus, which means - no security. And you're still locked???
Unlock your bootloader, and execute "Unroot/restore" guide from Wiki, for unlocked bootloader. Which means - direct flash to partitions using "fastboot flash" command.
Thanks a lot, Jack. I'll give it a try this weekend. I've got my Nexus as a present at an Android event at Mobile World Congress 2010, that might explain unusual factory settings.
Unlock bootloader OK, but still no restore
I unlocked the bootloader, but still couldn't restore with PASSIMG.zip method. It still gives out radio fail, and restoring the system got frozen at "unzipping". After a long while, it vibrated 7 times, but is still frozen there.
Should I try older stock versions for the PASSIMG.zip restore? I'm using FRG33 right now. Hopefully I didn't brick it.
Thanks again in advance. Best.
Read my suggestion above again, please.
I didn't suggest you to use PASSIMG method. I suggested something else.
Got it
I see what I did wrong, thanks for the response again and putting up with a novice. I somehow missed the link to the Fastboot flash method, thought I was doing the right thing. I'll try fastboot when and if my N1 wakes up from one of it's long slumbers. Best
I was/am rooted/unlocked, I flashed an unlocker for the hotspot, then the message for com.android.phone began popping up continuously. Tried accessing the bootloader, but for whatever reason, it won't let me get to it. It also appears that my Airplane Mode icon in Settings keeps rapidly blinking on and off.
I managed to turn on Debugging, but it doesn't seem that ADB can see the phone. I've tried to ADB into the bootloader and it won't work.
Windows DOES see the phone in Computer, so I know it does at least see it to access the drives on it.
Please, please tell me that there is still some way to make my phone work again.
Found my way into Recovery. Did a Factory Reset, but the issue is still there. Is there something I can flash that would fix the issue?
I don't care if I go back to stock, locked, unrooted. I just want my phone back. ^^;
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Found my way into Recovery. Did a Factory Reset, but the issue is still there. Is there something I can flash that would fix the issue?
I don't care if I go back to stock, locked, unrooted. I just want my phone back. ^^;
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Wow im just going down the list in Q&A and you keep popping up, lol. You are having way too many problems with a brand new phone, i would READ this thread and RUU.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2729173
And if you do RUU and first thing you should do is a nandroid backup in recovery. Also depending on what firmware you have i would S-off(then again with your track record maybe not) If something stops working after you just did something(like flash a mod or app) you can always go into recovery and restore a nand backup.
Hi XDA community,
I'm scared out of my mind. Tried rooting for the first time ever, but don't actually know what I'm doing. Using various guides I found in these forums, I:
1. Used HTCdev to unlock the bootloader
2. Used ADB to install TWRP 3.0.2-0
3. Used TWRP to install UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.76.zip
Once that finished, my phone tried booting up (the white HTC logo) but now it has the red development build text at the bottom.... and then it gets into an infinite boot loop.
I don't know how to fix my phone. Please someone here with guidance, please help.
I've got the same identical issue.
I was able to get out of the boot loop by holding volume up and power, and I got back to download mode. From there, since the SU update I tried to install boot looped me (I was following this tutorial), I jumped ahead and just installed cm13 as I was planning to.
This install went fine, but then I ran into the issue of the rom not recognizing my sim card. I've been researching this problem and I guess I need to update my baseband? I tried for hours but I do not know how to accomplish this, and couldn't figure it out for the life of me. This thread on the cyanongenmod forum seemed to be the closest thing to help I could find, but still it didn't help very much.
So at this point now I'm trying to back out and unroot my phone and get everything back to factory settings; it doesn't feel worth it anymore to me since I've just had trouble every step of the way. I've been trying to follow this post to get back to at least a usable factory rom. But I can't even get this one to install because I cannot access my phone through adb while it's in download mode. Furthermore the instructions are just confusing me because I'm not so versed in the nomenclature of these procedures.
Is there anyone that can help me get back to complete stock t-mobile sense? Or if not, help me get my cm13 rom to recognize my sim card so I can at least have my phone working in some capacity? I'd be tremendously grateful of either. I'm really in over my head here and quite scared I won't be able to figure this out.
I rooted my phone not long ago. Some how I have corrupted or changed something in between now and then. I get stuck upon reboot on HTC screen with warning about instlaling custom roms. I've spent literally three days on this forum and every site I could find without success. I'm sure that my phone is not hard bricked because I still have access to TWRP. I cannot find my recovery on my sd and every bit of advice or instructions I have found do not work. I've tried sideloading, RUU via HTCsync, and so on. Please if anyone can help It would be greatly appreciated. I've always had success with jailbreaking on the Apple side and was a die hard Apple guy. A few years ago, I went full Android. Still learning.
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File /mnt/media_re/ext_sd/0PM9IMG.zip
You should at least be able to do it the long way:
Go back to stock ROM, flash this with SP Flash Tools. You then will need to reinstall TWRP, root and any other modification you did to your phone. In the end you should be able to reset your phone to the state it had before "something went wrong".
HTH
Don
I made a vid so I can show exactly what it's doing.. Its only like 15 seconds
https://youtu.be/And3oxigBnM
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I made a vid so I can show exactly what it's doing.. Its only like 15 seconds
https://youtu.be/And3oxigBnM
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Tfat has to be frustrating, I don't want to waste your time, but hate to see someone with a dead device, so you've already tried qfil and lgup, and fastboot commands? And you've also attempted to get into EDL again I'm assuming, and have you looked to see what your device is named in device manager in this state, meaning I'd it labeling it a modem or ADB device.? I'm just throwing some stuff out there because if it's fixable, and I'm sure it is, you have to get it into some other mode. I get that screen too but it boots and everything. If these guys can't get you hooked up than that vlad dude can do remote work and I think he knows LG very well. Just a thought.
Can you describe what you have done to get to this point? I was in a similar situation last week that took about 12 hours of troubleshooting but eventually got it fixed and set up the way I want.
I made a mistake somewhere and flashed something or failed to flash something that got me in a similar state.
I will just throw out what worked for me. I had lost every bootable mode except for 9008 (edl?). So I tried using QFIL to flash Pie laf_a and laf_b or the Oreo version. This gets you LG Download mode back. From here I recommend using a KDZ to get back to stock and boot in to make sure you can. My first attempt at this point was flashing a Pie KDZ US unlocked (I have AT&T ). Would not boot. So I tried flashing the Oreo KDZ US unlocked… lo and behold it booted all the way up. From here I was able to start over and follow the guide to get Lineage OS.
Anyway hopes this helps you.
Thank you guys for answering me I will basically I've got magisk installed bootloader unlocked rooted and I was just my phone will boot up and stuff but you know what happens whenever I want to go into download mode or go into sucking whatever you know.. I went through all this trouble got this phone unlocked and rooted and stuff 90% of the s*** that I can use what does rooted phone requires a custom recovery which is the one sucking thing I guess you can't do so I'm thinking about just flashing back stop because I don't have this kind of irritated cuz there's so many modules I want to use and stuff and I can't because there's no way to flash custom recovery whatever seed wrmn whatever