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Is it possible to...

...Brick an *UNROOTED* G1...?!
I attempted a soft factory reset (which I have done on many occasions previously successfully) but on this occasion I've run into the bootloop. Hitting Camera+Power button results in bootloop also.
One thing to mention is I removed my SD card before running the factory reset?
I've tried leaving the battery out over night and trying again in the morning.
I've tried placing the SD card back in and booting up the phone.
I've tried holding Home+Power to get into recovery but results in bootloop
I've tried holding Camera+Power to get into Bootloader but results in bootloop.
Any suggestions please?
Thanks!

No, this should not happen. With Bootloop do you mean there is just the G1 logo and nothing else, or does it get past the logo and reboots then?
Another thought, has this phone ever been rooted and unrooted again?
If you are still under warranty and the phone is completely stock, I'd return it.

Nope. Phone has never been rooted then unrooted.
By bootloop, I mean, G1 T-Mobile logo shows followed by a picture of a open box with the phone just outside animation and then seconds later the phone reboots itself running into this loop again and again.
Warranty is only for a single year, right? So then that's not an option.
Thanks for suggestions.

Jignesh Sutar said:
Warranty is only for a single year, right? So then that's not an option.
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Depends on where you are: http://www.htc.com/www/support/warranty.html
It looks like you phone either fails to boot, thus tries to boot recovery (box picture is the background of the recovery) and then reboots (best case, i guess) or the boot to recovery flag is set, recovery fails, reboot (you might seriously be screwed).
You are sure that you can't enter the bootloader? Also try Back+PowerOn. That would make things alot more easy.
How long does it stay with the box picture? Long enough to get adb connected? If yes you could try "adb shell reboot bootloader".

Tried all combinations of buttons to try get into bootloader or recovery, nothing!
Definitely no chance of being able to ADB, the phone switches off very quickly...
Also, have ensured the battery is fully charged, in case that has an impact?

I really looks like you are the first all stock bricked guy I ever heard of.
The boot recovery flag seems to be set for some reason (is this set during a normal hardreset?) as all boottime commands are ignored.
The recovery fails improperly (sounds strange, but if it failed properly, you would end up in bootloader or your system).
-> That really looks like a brick...
Options:
- Warrenty
- JTAG
- perhaps someone else has another idea / sees something I missed...
Good luck with it.

Jignesh Sutar said:
By bootloop, I mean, G1 T-Mobile logo shows followed by a picture of a open box with the phone just outside animation and then seconds later the phone reboots itself running into this loop again and again.
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What where you flashing? It probably had a radio and something got copied incorrectly into the staging area of ram.. if the radio passes recovery's validation but not the current radios validation you can get stuck.. this shouldn't be possible but I've seen it before.. my bet is a bit error at the wrong point in time.

[Q] Not sure if hard bricked

Hey everyone - I've got an interesting one I think.
I had just gotten everything working with CM11 when I got ambitious and went to replace the logo.bin to remove the 'unlocked bootloader' warning that shows up every boot. I realized too late that the logo.bin I used was for a Moto G. Now you'd think that this would just affect the boot logo and I'd be able to try again with the right logo.bin... nope.
On boot all I see is colorful snow. I hear the startup sounds, and I can access the files on my computer when connected via USB. After the screen goes to sleep it shows a flashing white light. Same response with each different startup button combo.
Any ideas? I've tried using adb and fastboot manually, as well as Myth Tools. 'fastboot devices' shows up blank, and adb finds no devices either. I've installed RSDLite but can't find a file to use (lots of broken download links), and I'm not sure that would even solve my problem.
Thanks for any help!

The phone woke me up with it's alarm this morning. That was unexpected. It's also ringing when I call it - CM is running, just the screen is messed up.
How can I get into fastboot in this state? I've never had much success getting the key combos to work on this phone. Adb reboot commands were my most reliable way, but adb isn't detecting a device. If I installed CM11 and have not installed google apps yet, should adb be working?

dta5003 said:
The phone woke me up with it's alarm this morning. That was unexpected. It's also ringing when I call it - CM is running, just the screen is messed up.
How can I get into fastboot in this state? I've never had much success getting the key combos to work on this phone. Adb reboot commands were my most reliable way, but adb isn't detecting a device. If I installed CM11 and have not installed google apps yet, should adb be working?
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Nope. Not until adb is enabled by going into the developer options or tweaking the build.prop before install.
Just hold down all three buttons when you are booting up and you'll access the boot menu, from there you can select recovery or fastboot or whatever (for me it's easier than using the other key combos as I too have a hard time with them).

skeevydude said:
Just hold down all three buttons when you are booting up and you'll access the boot menu
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Maybe it's the way you described it, but I was actually able to get into the boot menu this time! I've fixed the logo, and the phone boots normally now.
For anyone else with similar issues, getting the boot menu requires doing a simulated battery pull (vol down + power) followed by booting with all 3 buttons pressed. I think my error was attempting to hold all 3 buttons when the phone was still on and expecting to get the boot menu.
Hooray, my wife has a phone again! And I won't have to worry about touching it ever again because I won't be allowed to. :victory:
Thanks!

Hi, I am having some problem with my Atrix HD. I was doing some rom update and after reboot all I can see is colored snow (not sure whats the technical name for this, as it will help to search better) and goes to nowhere from there. I tried rebooting few times, but nothing except the snow. Its summer now, so How can get rid of this snow and see my normal phone ?

manugoenka said:
Hi, I am having some problem with my Atrix HD. I was doing some rom update and after reboot all I can see is colored snow (not sure whats the technical name for this, as it will help to search better) and goes to nowhere from there. I tried rebooting few times, but nothing except the snow. Its summer now, so How can get rid of this snow and see my normal phone ?
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What exactly were you doing? Taking the new AT&T OTA or was it something on the custom side?
I know that flashing the wrong sized bootlogo can do this. I actually flashed a bad one I made the other day that turns my screen red and the actual image is all jacked up. The Moto G logo I flashed left it snowing just like you're experiencing. I've also had random bad flashes do this too.
All you can do is fastboot/myth/rsd back to stock and start over. Hopefully you have backups.

Thank you, I managed to fix my phone, it was something related to battery. I simple pressed all three buttons and connected to charger to get to fastboot menu, which also rebooted few times as phone did not had enough battery to run fastboot. Repeated the process few time to get it working. Thanks

Possible brick after build.prop edit. Verizon LG G2

Hello,
I've been rooted for a few months now and have never had any problems. I wanted to use that Milk Music app from Samsung so I followed the instructions and was able to get it working on my phone and have been for awhile. I recently decided it would be a good idea to change the build.prop file back to its original state, so I copied and pasted it in using Root Browser. (I had made a backup file stored elsewhere). Once I did that I rebooted my phone for the changes to take effect. After I did that I cannot get my phone to turn back on. It displays the LG animated logo screen and then goes completely black. The light on top of the phone radiates blue/green. I've read through several forums about this issue and have tried everything in order to get it to work and for some reason, using my computer and ADB always gives me an error: device not found. I have installed the drivers and everything. Anyone else run in to this problem before? I would really appreciate it.

If you are on stock rom, just rooted. I would think you should be able to factory reset through stock recovery.
Confirm the process but i think you power completely off. Then hold volume down and power at the same time when you see the lg logo release both buttons then press both buttons and hold them.
Should take you to factory reset.
Not 100% certain but this will probably be your next step if you can't get a computer to see it.
Good luck

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The factory data reset didn't really change anything. For some reason I cannot boot into recovery mode either. I can put it in download mode though, but my computer still has a problem recognizing it.

brody_low said:
The factory data reset didn't really change anything. For some reason I cannot boot into recovery mode either. I can put it in download mode though, but my computer still has a problem recognizing it.
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If you can get into dl mode then you should be able to return it to stock which should reset everything. Returning to stock has its own downside but at least you'll be up and running again.

[Q] LG Optimus L90[LG DG415] stuck on logo

So I was just screwing around with my fonts folder(under system) and I replaced my custom font file for Roboto-Normal.ttf with the original Roboto font and when I rebooted my phone it got stuck on the LG logo and wouldn't advance after that. I also noticed while it was stuck on the LG logo if I hit any buttons in any combinations the phone would vibrate randomly. My phone is rooted with debugging on.

MrKidQuisine said:
So I was just screwing around with my fonts folder(under system) and I replaced my custom font file for Roboto-Normal.ttf with the original Roboto font and when I rebooted my phone it got stuck on the LG logo and wouldn't advance after that. I also noticed while it was stuck on the LG logo if I hit any buttons in any combinations the phone would vibrate randomly. My phone is rooted with debugging on.
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Maybe the font was not compatible for your phone,If it was compatible for you it should apply and you should see it immeadiately,Rebooting is not required.
Try to connect the computer and Use the LG R&D Tool to flash the ROM.

androidvillage said:
Maybe the font was not compatible for your phone,If it was compatible for you it should apply and you should see it immeadiately,Rebooting is not required.
Try to connect the computer and Use the LG R&D Tool to flash the ROM.
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No I wasn't using a custom font installer I was just putting a different font into the system root fonts folder and that ended up slowing down the phone so I restarted it and now its bootlooping.

MrKidQuisine said:
No I wasn't using a custom font installer I was just putting a different font into the system root fonts folder and that ended up slowing down the phone so I restarted it and now its bootlooping.
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That's Because the font was written bad or the system cant render it because wrong format,that's why ended up slowing.
Turn off your phone,Hold Volume + And Plug it into USB.AndUse the LG Mobile Support Tool,Select CS_Emergency Mode and Flash...
Or if you could get into the phone into safemode,Fix it by replacing other font into the file.
That's only 2 way to fix your phone.

androidvillage said:
That's Because the font was written bad or the system cant render it because wrong format,that's why ended up slowing.
Turn off your phone,Hold Volume + And Plug it into USB.AndUse the LG Mobile Support Tool,Select CS_Emergency Mode and Flash...
Or if you could get into the phone into safemode,Fix it by replacing other font into the file.
That's only 2 way to fix your phone.
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When I hold down volume up and power it just goes into the logo and if I continue to hold it it vibrates then immediately shuts off. Ive tried before to enter recovery mode on this phone but I think LG blocked it.

MrKidQuisine said:
When I hold down volume up and power it just goes into the logo and if I continue to hold it it vibrates then immediately shuts off. Ive tried before to enter recovery mode on this phone but I think LG blocked it.
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Perform a factory reset. See this thread Q14.

I had a very similar problem that stemmed from trying to install a new font. When I tried a hard key factory reset, it did nothing to fix the bootloop. Rather, I think it made the phone impossible to reach with ADB by resetting the "debugging mode" setting along with everything else. My advice to you, though I haven't actually tried this because of the above problem, is to try to access your phone through ADB.
If that doesn't work, what I ended up doing was sending my phone to an LG service facility with a note attached detailing the problem and cause. They were able to restore it, despite it being rooted.

Update
Ok so I left my phone out unplugged for about and hour on the logo and it popped on so Im trying the same thing again but with the sim card in and if it works Im going to see if I can make the thing load faster by updating the permissions on the font file or using a font installer all together.

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Ok so I left my phone out unplugged for about and hour on the logo and it popped on so Im trying the same thing again but with the sim card in and if it works Im going to see if I can make the thing load faster by updating the permissions on the font file or using a font installer all together.
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Still stuck in bootloop no other activity since restarting and puting in sim, I also about two hours ago took out the sim and restarted

similar problem
i was messing with the app chainfire 3d was prompted to install a graphics driver which and gave me a warning that it might brick my phone if it was not compatible so i said what the hell and proceeded now im stuck at lg logo with no clue on how to get it back to normal i am currently trying lg mobile support tool which seems to only stay at 10% been at it for about 15 min now not sure if just copying files or what im clueless on what to do im running rooted d415 stock rom my phone is on download mode right now

Same problem, different cause
I was installing an update to CM. In the recovery it said something about symlinks failed. I restarted, and now phone will get past the LG logo, but black screen. I can't access recovery either. In adb, I see the device, but it is unauthorized, and I obviously have no way to authorize it. Any way to fix this without sending it back?
Thanks in advance

Fixed it
I found a way to recover, but you must have a custom recovery.
Use the button shortcut for force reset. It will take you to recovery. From there you can restore or reinstall a rom.

Screen Goes Black after Reboot

After my phones battery was fully drained, i kept it for charging and after some time when i tried to restart it
Boot Logo animation appeared, then whole screen gone blank. It just shows the active notification icons and when power button pressed it shows power off option.

I am having the exact same issue. Have you had a luck resolving it?
My phone battery died last night. I plugged my phone in, let it get about 15% charge, then tried to turn it back on. The phone boots like normal, but after the boot animation goes away, the screen is black. Active notifications still seem to work, and I can hold the power button to get the Power Down option. I can boot into the bootloader & access recovery just fine. However, my phone is fully stock (no root, no bootloader unlock, no anything). I can't seem to access ADB when the phone is powered normally (ie, when I'm at this mysterious black screen), but it's possible that USB debugging isn't even enabled.
So far, I've found a few people who've said a full factory reset will fix the problem, but I'm looking for another solution, or at least a way to grab my data before I reset. Since my bootloader's still locked, I can't seem to use fastboot boot to boot into TWRP, and I can't find any other way to access my data to copy it off the phone. I've tried wiping the cache using the stock recovery to no avail. Any suggestions?

I had to factory reset my phone.. There was no other way to solve that issue, no other forum moderator is providing solution. There are many threads regarding this issue. Lets hope next update comes soon fixing this issue.

Hmm, ok, thanks. That's probably what I'll resort to doing. I was hoping to find a way to not lose my data. Or at least get a copy of some of it before resetting...

Me too have tried many things for not losing data, my usb debugging was also enabled. But pc didnt recognized any device. There was one article regarding recovering data after factory reset but you need to root your device after u reset ur device. Then you can recover data with DrFone data recovery or Es android recovery. I avoided it because i dont want to lose my warranty.