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I'm COMPLETELY stuck with my BA

My phone has decided to stop connecting with activesync. So I wanted to do a hard reset, but PDA Viet in his infinite wisdom decided to remove the Clear Storage function from his ROM. I've tried the power+reset button which doesn't work, and read another way to do it that involves a camera button, but my phone is the camera-less version, so I don't have that button. What can I do?
Edit: Was able to get into bootloader mode to reinstall a ROM, but when it completed and booted back up, the old ROM and all my settings were still there! WTF?!

HTC Touch Diamond (Sprint) will not make it past "Touch Diamond" screen.

I am no stranger to forums, or 'modifying' electronics. However, this was my first hack at my Touch Diamond. I went through all the proper procedures to update to WM6.5 (or so it seemed) but now, after installing a ROM
(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=506533)
the phone only shows the splash screen, then resets and continues to go through this continuous loop. I cannot access the phone, or get booted to the point where I can connect to the PC. Any ideas, as I am sans phone right now. TIA!

Do you flash a hard-SPL ?
Are you sure the ROM's archive isn't broken ?
The connection on the bootloader mode was good, synced with windows?
I think you didn't flash a rom before ? If yes, no problem, if you flash an other rom before, maybe use the MTTY method.

see how this guy could have saved him self time if the thread in my description was stickyed...
MTTY thread... look there. after that ur green to go again.

I do believe people are successfully using the ROM.
The connections were all fine. I had to first install a new bootloader, then updated the radio device (all worked fine). I then went to update the OS, and the process went through just fine, but when the phone booted, it just keeps cycling through the opening splash screen.
My problem is that I cannot get the phone past that screen to do anything.

reb0rn, thank you! The 'boot to flash' was what I was looking for. The 'Volume Down" with "Power On" was what did the trick (I was doing all sorts of other combinations with the 'reset' key).
I'm loading a new version onto the phone as we speak - wish me luck, and thanks again!

[Q] HELP!!!! Phone wont boot

I just tried to load a new rom on to my phone. I used twrp to do a factory reset and now it wont turn on, at all. I wont even get to the splash screen. I've tried removing the battery and then turning on, no luck. I've also tried holding the keys to get into recovery mode, nothing works!!
Please tell me its not a brick!

which rom where you running
which rom are you trying to load

kingskater said:
I just tried to load a new rom on to my phone. I used twrp to do a factory reset and now it wont turn on, at all. I wont even get to the splash screen. I've tried removing the battery and then turning on, no luck. I've also tried holding the keys to get into recovery mode, nothing works!!
Please tell me its not a brick!
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It really helps to know what ROM you were flashing, what method you used to flash, i/e ODIN flash then TWRP wipe, or TWRP zip install and wipe.
I would highly bet that you flashed an incompatible ROM, that was meant for another version of the S III, which would cause you to be in this current state. Which best case scenario you take it back to AT&T and tell them you were in the middle of using KIES to upgrade to the new OFFICIAL Jellybean, and your computer froze during the install, after which your phone never turned back on.
Second case scenario, you call up Samsung and get an RMA from them, wait 2-4 weeks and get your phone back, often times not having to pay the "fee" for repairing it.
Worst case scenario, you have a nice shiny new beer coaster. In which case you could mail to me and I could use it as such, as I am currently out of coasters.

Try using Odin to fix
1. Download Odin and stock ROM rooted
2. Put phone in Download mode (not recovery) by pressing and holding Vol Down + Home + Power
3. Open Odin on computer and load the ROM
4. Hit Start
Refer to the following thread for a more in-depth guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426

I got it fixed. I had to pay some kid to JTAG repair it.

[Q] Device Booting Problem, with Three Different Scenarios

Hello, everybody.
I would like to ask you my first question on this forum, regarding my LG Optimus G Pro E988. My wife been using it within a year or so, and she didn't find any trouble with it. Until a week ago, she said to me that the phone keep restarting itself, three times. Then I tried to solve it with cable power attached, problem solved. I don't know why. I think it's not the battery, because it's charging normally while attached. But when the cable power is not connected, the phone keep boot-looping.
I tried to factory reset (hard reset) with combination keys, the problem remain unsolved.
I tried to flash the phone to stock ROM with flash tool provided in this site (the OP seems reliable). Note that the device isn't rooted. The result are:
When cable power connected, phone will boot up perfectly, but a few clicks later it turn off (without shutdown animation)
When USB cable connected, sometimes phone will behave exactly same with first condition, but sometime it's enter boot loop
When no cable connected, phone doesn't even finish boot animation, it shutdown in the way of it.
I just wanna know, what problem that i'm facing? Hardware or software?
If the hardware, what is it? Is it worth to replace?
If the software, what should I try to fix?
I'm here waiting answer. Thanks a lot for your help.
Note. I'm already try these:
Hard Reset
Flash with stock KDZ
Wipe partition with a script provided in this forum (in recovery mode)

Flashed Firmware S-ON

After an entirely random error saying my phone is somehow Encrypted, I went ahead and did a factory reset which didn't help. The phone was still booting into the same screen asking me for a code to Decrypt the data. So after some "quick" reading on these forums I've decided to RUU to stock. But the file I've chosen, even though it matched my version it was a Firmware, while the phone was S-ON. The device had never been Rooted or tampered with previously.
So now the phone does not boot at all. I've tried every button combination, but nothing seems to work. If I plug in the phone to charge the orange light flashes, endlessly. Even after I've left the device to charge for 6hours, the orange light still flashes.
When I plug in the phone to my PC, all I get it seems is this new device: QHSUSB_BULK, which shows with an exclamation mark next to it. I've read similar threads for different phones where they've unbricked devices while they were in this mode, is that even possible? I can hear Windows recognizing a device was plugged in, and if I press Power+VolumeUP, it will disconnect the phone and reconnect it, at least based on the sounds Windows is playing. The screen is Black at all times.
How badly have I bricked this device and is there any hope to revive it? Thanks to everyone who chimes in on this.

arrayy said:
After an entirely random error saying my phone is somehow Encrypted, I went ahead and did a factory reset which didn't help. The phone was still booting into the same screen asking me for a code to Decrypt the data. So after some "quick" reading on these forums I've decided to RUU to stock. But the file I've chosen, even though it matched my version it was a Firmware, while the phone was S-ON.
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Most likely it's a soft break. So you can fix it. First of all get yourself a working usb cable. Your's maybe broken.
Your phone's data partition had been encrypted. It never boots up completely without lux password. You could've format the data partition with a custom recovery such as TWRP. Instead you tried the reflash firmware but obviously it didn't finish and failed. All you need is reflash again but doing it correct way so it can finish. Your old data is gone atm. You will have factory reset phone at the end. Before giving you any instructions, you need to answer a few questions so anyone can help.
Have you ever updated your phone to marshmallow which is android 6? If no: You can recover it with voidzero's wonderful answer titled back to stock. Follow that exactly. If yes you can't flash old versions since they are using different bootloaders. Also you will have to reflash it manually. It's long and difficult for anyone who is new. If you don't know if it was updated. Just boot into bootloader then Fastboot mode, connect usb. Then use htc's Fastboot. Run htc_fastboot getvar all command. Paste output here.

Thanks for replying, risyasin.
Yes, I did update to Android 6. The problem is I'm not able to boot into the bootloader using the Power+VolumeUP keys, or any other combination.
Instead of flashing the RUU, or maybe turning to S-OFF(I still don't know if this would've made a difference), I flashed a firmware, one that matched my version. This is the exact filename: 0PKVIM[email protected]60201_20.05_018_F_release_479349_combined_signed
I've renamed it to 0PKVIMG.zip and booted using the Power+VolumeUP keys. For whatever reason, everything went OK, no errors whatsoever. In the end it told me to press Power to reboot the phone. I've pressed Power and nothing happened since.
If anyone can help me figure this out, I'd be forever grateful.

arrayy said:
Thanks for replying, risyasin.
Yes, I did update to Android 6. The problem is I'm not able to boot into the bootloader
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That is a big problem. I assume you never tried to go S-OFF (which is dangereous). While phone was S-ON. You could always boot into bootloader. That's one of the purpose of staying S-ON.
Combination is Power + Volume down. But if your phone is up & somehow can not continue to boot. eg: stuck at reading system or kernel etc. You can do a hard reset which is pressing Volume up + volume down + power for at least 15 seconds. phone will shut down. then you can try bootlader combination. Make sure it's has power on with light at screen edges you must look at carefully. After trying this if you still can not see bootloader. That's a problem beyond my experiences, so I don't have any idea to fix it.
I have never tried the firmware you have used. Maybe that firmware is not usable, broken or even dangerous.
We need to confirm that here. if anyone else tried and brick their phone with that.