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"reformat" "reinstall" HTC Desire + +

Is there a way to reinstall my android system if for example android crash and wont boot?

Are you using a custom rom?
Are you rooted?
You can always do a nandroid backup (backup of complete system) via clockwork.

I think you mean a factory reset. Hold the volume down key while powering up the phone and you can select that option from the boot loader.

Yes but i mean, if factory reset wont even work. and it only reboots every 30 sec.
Like the system is really ****ed. and the only way is to reinstall android.
this happened because i satt down installing apps and games for hours and then did a restart just to completely refresh the system. and there it hangs in the boot and just keeps restarting and restarting 4 ever.
And i haven't made any backup to restore from.
I do not use any custom rom
And yes i am rooted. i have clockwork mod installed.
i used the lastest unrevoked. but i dont think nand is unlocked.
is the solution maybe to find the right update.zip and use that method to reinstall android via recovery? since i can mount USB mass storage to the PC via recovery?

You can do a complete reset. Go into your recovery. Vol down and power then select recovery. Once booted, do a factory reset and wipe the Dalvik cache. Then you can flash the rom again and start from fresh.
If that doesn't work, you can get a WWE RUU and run it. It will wipe everything so you will need to root again but it will give you back control of your phone. Just to let you know, if you do use an RUU you might need to create a Goldcard.

Sweet!!! Thanks GoogleJelly!!
Did the complete reset with success Even though i recall doing something like this in recovery. Ohwell just did exactly what you said and my Desire works like a dream again
At least now i know what people mean with "playing around with random apps is dangerous"
This is something that i've been searching around the web for. But keep finding this: There is nothing that you can do. Take it back to the store and send it to repair.
Though i would send it to repair if it weren't for GoogleJelly =)

[Q] Hard Reset Droid Incredible Unsuccesful

I installed android Cyanogen then I use ROM Manager to download Virtuous 3.2 ROM. When installed, I did not choose to wipe data. Bumb. After the installation, it keeps rebooting and could not get into the phone. I tried hard reset, "clear storage" and factory reset, no help. When I get into RECOVERY, it shows a list of options but when I hit power button to select, it showed a black hat with a yellow partially circle arrows. What can I do other than with a hammer? Thanks.

Download this file
http://www.fourty.net/~berzerker/stockstuff/PB31IMG_3.26.605.1_RUU.zip
rename it to PB31IMG.zip, put it on the root of your SD card. Boot up the phone while holding vol - & pwr. When it boots into bootloader it will check the image to verify everything is ok, proceed with the update all the way through. When it is all done it will be back to a a stock 2.2 Inc like when you bought it from verizon.
Now, please read up on the information here before you go doing anything else. What happened to you is a simple fix, but the next time you may go about bricking your phone. Read up on the information here before you go flashing like crazy, it will help a ton in the end.

g00s3y,
Thank you very much for your advice. You fixed the problem. I have learned my lesson, playing with something that I am not sure how to deal with the outcomes.

Thanks, so after I install this, will I be able to completely wipe my phone?

"will I be able to completely wipe my phone?"
- Yes, it did wipe out my phone completely.

Stuck On Cyanogenmod Bootscreen

Long story short, I had recently installed the cyanogenmod to my phone, don't like it, tried to flash it back to the stock rom and the rom couldn't install. The installation wizard restarted the phone, now it's stuck on the cyanogenmod boot screen and the notification light lit as if im charging the phone, but it's not plugged up. The bad part about all of this is that the battery isn't removable so now I have to wait for phone to die I guess but is my phone now bricked? Once it dies can I recover from this by booting it up thru recovery mode?

atlJE said:
Long story short, I had recently installed the cyanogenmod to my phone, don't like it, tried to flash it back to the stock rom and the rom couldn't install. The installation wizard restarted the phone, now it's stuck on the cyanogenmod boot screen and the notification light lit as if im charging the phone, but it's not plugged up. The bad part about all of this is that the battery isn't removable so now I have to wait for phone to die I guess but is my phone now bricked? Once it dies can I recover from this by booting it up thru recovery mode?
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I have the same issue. I suspect the person I let use it tried to use the options menu to reset the phone back to factory specs, which I was warned on here that would brick it, so mine is stuck in the round and round boot screen for CM. I think you're supposed to use the factory reset in CWM to delete personal stuff. I'm trying to figure out how to fix it and if I come up with something I'll let you know.

flash back to stock rom
atlJE said:
Long story short, I had recently installed the cyanogenmod to my phone, don't like it, tried to flash it back to the stock rom and the rom couldn't install. The installation wizard restarted the phone, now it's stuck on the cyanogenmod boot screen and the notification light lit as if im charging the phone, but it's not plugged up. The bad part about all of this is that the battery isn't removable so now I have to wait for phone to die I guess but is my phone now bricked? Once it dies can I recover from this by booting it up thru recovery mode?
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Good thing is you are not "hard bricked" just "soft bricked." Press the power button and volume up and hold till your phone reboots then immediately press the volume button and power down button to enter recovery.Then do a complete wipe, factory reset, then and only then reflash your stock CWM backup of your stock Rom . Just guessing mind you ,because I do not know every single thing you did before trying to return to stock but you should always do a full Wipe or factory reset before flashing between different roms. If your trying to flash a stock image, not a CWM backup, of your firmware you'll need to first reflash your stock recovery and relock your boot loader.
Is your phone a single SIM or dual SIM? Dual SIM phones have allot more issues on Cyanogenmod . If yours is dual SIM I'd stick to stock Rom or sense based custom roms made for our device. By the way what didn't you like about CM if your on a single SIM phone? It had a few issues but with a few tweaks you can get it working great and it's alot less bloated than stock lollipop. I'm on unofficial 12.1 CM with the a5_chl single SIM and it's fine. Having said that I had to tweak several things and I exempt dual SIM versions from my reasons for me liking this Rom. I get that it's sadly alot buggier for those phones . Let me know how things go in fixing your issue and best of luck.
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Ddreth said:
I have the same issue. I suspect the person I let use it tried to use the options menu to reset the phone back to factory specs, which I was warned on here that would brick it, so mine is stuck in the round and round boot screen for CM. I think you're supposed to use the factory reset in CWM to delete personal stuff. I'm trying to figure out how to fix it and if I come up with something I'll let you know.
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First thing, some friendly advice and I truly do mean friendly, not accusing, but you should never let anyone else touch your device when it's in custom recovery. They can seriously mess it up not just"soft brick" it like yours is now.
2nd thing is the factory reset in your custom recovery doesn't have anything to do with your personal files. It's to clean your system and its data so that you can do a fresh install of a different Rom. It's called a "clean flash." A dirty flash is when your upgrading the same custom Rom and you just flash it over the previous version without wiping then clear your Dalvik cache and reboot. These wipes leave your personal files on your internal and external SD card intact unless you specifically wipe then in your custom recovery . They just call it factory reset to make it familiar to the stock Roms use of the term in my opinion. When you have this"soft brick" you can press your power button and volume up to reboot then quickly press power button and volume down to enter recovery. Then factory reset or wipe Dalvik cache if not wanting to reset and reboot one or the other should get you back into your rom.
Hope this helps and good luck plus let me know if this works to resolve your issue. Be happy to help in any way because I have been there myself in the past. Bootloops, soft bricks,etc etc................... If you can name it, I've messed it up.

Installed substratum theme, phone died on reboot. Can I backup data before reset?

Long story short installed substratum and it was working fine, had a navbar theme already running and installed another one. Few hours later rebooted phone and when it booted back up systemui crashed and it went into bootlooping into that over and over again. Now it bootloops a few times and goes into a recovery menu that only gives me the options to try rebooting again or a factory data reset.
The phone boots into bootloader/fastboot just fine and I can get into recovery but the only options I have are 'try again' and 'factory data reset' I know that FDR is basically my only option and so be it. BUT IF POSSIBLE I want to try and backup the internal data or at least as much of it as possible.
So, is it possible to backup any internal data with only having access to bootloader/fastboot.
I've spent over an hour searching to this answer but either I was searching wrong or simply was not able to find the answer. Pixel XL is 100% stock. Never modded, never rooted, stock recovery, stock latest official Oreo from OTA update.
So again. Absolutely no access to the OS. Only access bootloader/fastboot and a form of the recovery menu and I would like to somehow backup the internal data. I don't care about apps or any app data, specifically just the user data if at all possible. If not well then I'm screwed and that's that.

Hello,
Happened to me also something like this. The phone rebooted and the only option were those presented to you also. But, I pressed the "Try again". If this still doesn't work, when the device is rebooting, and the white screen appears, try and hold on to the power button until the moving dots appear.
Also, this didn't wipe anything on my device.
Hope this is useful to you.

moraritza1 said:
Hello,
Happened to me also something like this. The phone rebooted and the only option were those presented to you also. But, I pressed the "Try again". If this still doesn't work, when the device is rebooting, and the white screen appears, try and hold on to the power button until the moving dots appear.
Also, this didn't wipe anything on my device.
Hope this is useful to you.
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Does nothing. Just reboots back into recovery. I've tried Try Again probably 100 times and nothing ever changes. Even safe mode does not work. The SystemUI is completely dead.
I'm 90% sure there is no way to fix the phone other than factory data reset and I'm fine with that. I just want to know if I can backup anything from bootloader/fastboot before I do that.

Have you tried using ADB to boot ( not flash ) a custom recovery, and from there to backup the phone, and after if it's possible, to use the USB-OTG to copy that backup to an USB memory stick?

Looking at the Substratum FAQ in the app it says that if you experience a bootloop you should be able to flash /storage/emulated/0/substratum/SubstratumRescue.zip in recovery and it should fix the boot loop.

matt0720 said:
Looking at the Substratum FAQ in the app it says that if you experience a bootloop you should be able to flash /storage/emulated/0/substratum/SubstratumRescue.zip in recovery and it should fix the boot loop.
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As Matt already mentioned, there's a rescue zip file which comes by default with substratum. It's purpose is to remove all overlays which you've currently installed.
In case you don't have a custom recovery installed you can simply boot into twrp via adb (without having flash the recovery)

Android-xp said:
As Matt already mentioned, there's a rescue zip file which comes by default with substratum. It's purpose is to remove all overlays which you've currently installed.
In case you don't have a custom recovery installed you can simply boot into twrp via adb (without having flash the recovery)
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What if you're bootloader locked? Is there a way to recover from a bad overlay?

You could try to flash the factory image if you've unlocked the BL, just remove the -w from the flash all script

bobby janow said:
What if you're bootloader locked? Is there a way to recover from a bad overlay?
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If you have checked the option to potentially allow unlocking your bootloader in dev-settings you can use fastboot to unlock your bootloader and boot into the bootable recovery image

Black screen LG G4 H812?

screen went black, and now I cant do anything. Phone boots normally. LED indicator at the top shows that the phone is booting fine. (the top half also gets super hot for some reason?)
Any ideas on how to get it back? Or is it bricked?

DzXAnt22 said:
screen went black, and now I cant do anything. Phone boots normally. LED indicator at the top shows that the phone is booting fine. (the top half also gets super hot for some reason?)
Any ideas on how to get it back? Or is it bricked?
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If you are still on the stock recovery originally installed, see if you can boot it manually into Recovery mode. If the screen shows in Recovery mode, chances are you have developed a corruption from something you installed etc., not bricked it. You can try wiping Cache when in Recovery mode but I suspect you will have do a Factory Reset from there. If you have installed a custom recovery and have a known good backup, you could restore that or re-install the rom in a clean flash (wiping Cache, Dalvik cache, System and importantly, format Data > Yes.
Failing that, you may have to replace the screen or send it in for repair if it is a hardware issue.

sdembiske said:
If you are still on the stock recovery originally installed, see if you can boot it manually into Recovery mode. If the screen shows in Recovery mode, chances are you have developed a corruption from something you installed etc., not bricked it. You can try wiping Cache when in Recovery mode but I suspect you will have do a Factory Reset from there. If you have installed a custom recovery and have a known good backup, you could restore that or re-install the rom in a clean flash (wiping Cache, Dalvik cache, System and importantly, format Data > Yes.
Failing that, you may have to replace the screen or send it in for repair if it is a hardware issue.
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I just flashed a 100% stock rom with putting the phone in download mode and using LGUP, same problem... Guess it's bricked :/
It's not even worth it to repair, I just wanted to see if I could fix it myself
Thanks anyways

DzXAnt22 said:
I just flashed a 100% stock rom with putting the phone in download mode and using LGUP, same problem... Guess it's bricked :/
It's not even worth it to repair, I just wanted to see if I could fix it myself
Thanks anyways
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If you were able to see the download mode screen, it is more than likely not a hardware issue. You have to do a full wipe (preferably, Cache, Dalvik cache, System and Data (best would be a format of the data partition), to get rid of any data/rom corruption that may be causing the black screen issue. If you did not do this, try that first, making sure you re-install the same original rom that the phone came with, before junking the phone.
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