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*UPDATE* Help - Phone won't boot after attempting Sim Unlock

Hi Guys,
I am aware of how to upgrade a ROM, how to Use HardSPL and how modifying in general works, although I think I may have really broken the phone now.
I had OliNex 1.40 installed since forever. I have used several Roms in the past including EnergyROM, Ahen's Roms and I have currently been using Makeveral's BSB6.5O Rom, and it was working great.
The last time I tried to use the unlock, i tried to flash it with the 'Subrata' unlock package (the one with Step 1,2 and 3' folders. It didnt work both times I tried so I gave up. It said it was unable to write to the phone. I reflashed with BSB Rom and all was well.
Today, I found a seperate unlocker. It was a simple .exe file that opened up what appeared to be the 'CustomRUU' application. The screen initially went black and then the program said that it lost connectivity. I did read that it used Cmonex HardSPL but I did it anyway (I take responsability for this error) and from then on, the phone will not boot. No matter what combination of Hard reset button combinations I use, nothing happens. No vibration, no light around the centre button that I can see, nothing.
So is there anything, anything at all that I can do? Or have i totally F**ked it?
I have also done alot of searching both on here, PPCgeaks, all the forums.
Let me know, cheers guys.

I had a similar problem: Screen was black, no reaction from the phone. But i was able to connect it to my computer, it was not really detected, even though
i was able to flash a new Rom with a Custom RUU. Perhaps you could try that?

Try to change the rom . Pull out the stylus , Press the reset button and hold the VOLUME DOWN and the right down button . After connect to pc

The phone is in an Off state - I recharged the battery in it overnight - no white glowing ring around the centre button. No combination of buttons work - nothing happens and the device is off still.

OK, regardless of what has happened, Ive sent the phone to Victoria (Australia) to be repaired or replaced under warranty.
I just hope that it is so scrambled that they cant figure out that the device has been toyed with - will keep everyone updated!
btw - does anyone understand what technicians with more advanced tools would be able to determine (if anything)? Do they use special hardware to view the contents of the ROM or how does it all work?
thanks friends

Well..not exactly, but they have probably tools to examine the flash/memory/parts of the phone. interesting question

Update!
I sent the phone away to the Three mobile repair centre - the phone is back, fully repaired and Running BsB again.... just awesome.
it seem they replaced all the components of the phone except for the shell itself, I dont really know why they didnt just replace the phone? lol
EDIT: I forgot to mention that I told them the phone wouldn't boot after an overnight charge - thanks 3!

Sorry for bumping.
I have the same problem! I used the same program; 'DiamonCustomRUU.exe'
The screen became black. I can't open the bootmenu, soft- and hardreset doesn't work
It's a Dutch branded Vodafone TD.
I have to send it to Vodafone for repairing?

[Q] please help me root my mytouch slide 2.1 update 1

hello, i have tried every tutorial i found and none seem to work. I can get root access but when i load into the boot menu it says it cant find the file or that it is wrong, also i tried with the rom manager and univeral androot but nothing seems to work.. i install the clockwork recovery but it doesnt load, it starts to then i get a red question mark, i been at this for a week now, so if neone has any idea what could be wrong or could help me out please feel free to hit me up on aim at jhnblckwood, or kno of a good room on efnet that could help me out.. i appreciate any help i get..
btw: when i push over the files, it doesnt say how many kbs it is jus says how fast it sent the file over, i dunno if my problem is there or where it is..thanks for the help..
johnny

jhnblckwood said:
hello, i have tried every tutorial i found and none seem to work. I can get root access but when i load into the boot menu it says it cant find the file or that it is wrong, also i tried with the rom manager and univeral androot but nothing seems to work.. i install the clockwork recovery but it doesnt load, it starts to then i get a red question mark, i been at this for a week now, so if neone has any idea what could be wrong or could help me out please feel free to hit me up on aim at jhnblckwood, or kno of a good room on efnet that could help me out.. i appreciate any help i get..
btw: when i push over the files, it doesnt say how many kbs it is jus says how fast it sent the file over, i dunno if my problem is there or where it is..thanks for the help..
johnny
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Follow nbetchers exploid method that is the only working root method.
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using XDA App

I did use his method but after i put in the password secretlol and get root access. I turn my phone off and then turn it back on pressing power volume down to access the bootloader menu and that is when i get the error esprimg image not found.

jhnblckwood said:
I did use his method but after i put in the password secretlol and get root access. I turn my phone off and then turn it back on pressing power volume down to access the bootloader menu and that is when i get the error esprimg image not found.
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Wow, you need to do some more reading lol. That is normal, what you need to do now is flash the ENG rom in order to get into clockwork much easier and flash things without the need for signing.
If you are trying to get into recovery to finish rooting though, after the '.img' stuff finishes, use the volume to highlight recovery then press power. Once it reboots press 'vol up+power' now you're in recovery.

[Q] Can someone please help?

I tried rooting my Epic 4g, someone told me it was useful and that I should. So I installed the one-click root, and eventually got the program to root it... I think... so to test it out, I tried Un-rooting it.. whereupon I find that the program says "Phone not connected" and so i try and close the program and reopen it after unplugging and plugging my phone back in. Well, my phone now is...not.
The phone is on, as the backlit keyboard still is backlit, and the touch buttons on the front touch screen are lighting up, however a red light is on the top and it has no "screen" nothing appears. I cannot turn my phone off and I cannot do ANYTHING
PLEASE HELP!!!
what is wrong with my phone and how do i fix it?!?!?!?!
a concerned poster.
****edit/update*****
after removing and reinserting the battery the phone is responsive. I would still like to root the phone? or know the status of it... please help (still)

Download connectbot from the market, open it. Where it reads ssh touch it and select local. Touch where it ask for a user name and you're keyboard will pop up. Just hit enter without typing a name.you will enter the terminal similar to a command prompt in windows. You will see a "$" type "su"and hit enter. If the $ turns into a # you got root if not, run the propper one click root again but this time under settings-applications-development select stay awake. Hope that gets you going!
Sent from my SPH-D700 using Tapatalk

tag1337ninja said:
I tried rooting my Epic 4g, someone told me it was useful and that I should. So I installed the one-click root, and eventually got the program to root it... I think... so to test it out, I tried Un-rooting it.. whereupon I find that the program says "Phone not connected" and so i try and close the program and reopen it after unplugging and plugging my phone back in. Well, my phone now is...not.
The phone is on, as the backlit keyboard still is backlit, and the touch buttons on the front touch screen are lighting up, however a red light is on the top and it has no "screen" nothing appears. I cannot turn my phone off and I cannot do ANYTHING
PLEASE HELP!!!
what is wrong with my phone and how do i fix it?!?!?!?!
a concerned poster.
****edit/update*****
after removing and reinserting the battery the phone is responsive. I would still like to root the phone? or know the status of it... please help (still)
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First of all, welcome to XDA. I would definitely suggest checking out the following links if you are indeed new to the forums:
1. |http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=904787| Beginners manual to XDA
2. |http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S/SPH-D700| - Samsung Epic 4G WIKI - All the info/links you need to get started.
Since it seems like you may have rooted, but aren't sure if it worked properly, I would:
1. Back up all your contacts via syncing it to your google account,
2. Download the necessary files to revert back to factory settings/rom (as if you first got your phone from sprint) |http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S/SPH-D700#Odin_Stock_Flashing|
3. Then try to root again FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THIS POST TO THE TEE! |http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=770388|
4. If you do decide to be up to date regarding the latest advances in the Epic, try flashing different ROMs based on your experience level. I would first recommend sticking to the STOCK ROM [after rooting] until you find your way around the Development section.
Cheers and good luck!

[Q] Unsuccessful Root of Desire HD. Please Help, Newbie Here.

Hello everyone, first of all I am a total newbie not just to rooting but also today was my first time ever using linux so please bear with me. Having said that, I have done my best to learn and understand the linux commands in the effin manual and followed all instructions as best as I could though I couldn't understand them well enough which is why I am here.
I am using Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit live cd but managed to install the i32-libs as stated in the effin manual. This is the only version of Ubuntu I could get from my friends as I have very slow internet connection and cannot download the new version or just the 32 bit one.
Anyway, on to the problem at hand.
I first ran the aahk, going through all the steps in the effin manual. My phone was originally on 2.3.5 and Sense 3 so I had to downgrade and the aahk downloaded the necessary rom(?) or RUU (?) to do this.
Once that was done, aahk carried on until the step where my phone rebooted.
This was where things started going wrong for me.
When the phone rebooted into 2.3.3 and started the wizard to set up my phone, I went through all that.
If I recall, at this point the aahk screen was up to “Once the downgrade is successful, press a key to return to the menu.... Otherwise, cut and paste the output to the screen into a text file for evaluation... then press a key. Press any key to continue...”
However, the step before that, “The phone will now reboot into HBOOT. If everything is okay, the phone will prompt you to continue by pressing VOLUME UP. It will reboot, flashing twice.”
PUSH POWER WHEN THIS STEP COMPLETES
I don't recall this happening for me or maybe it did but I did not notice. I did not press VOLUME UP nor see the flashing twice but surely it happened? Otherwise I would have been able to reboot into the phone environment correct? My head is spinning now...
Okay, this is where I may have gotten ahead of myself when reading the effin manual. You have to understand, I was just brimming with joy “thinking” I had successfully rooted my first ever and one and only smartphone.
I started looking for BusyBox or Superuser but couldn't find anything.
Not knowing what else to do, I rebooted the phone MANUALLY (hold power button and reset).
Then everything started going wrong.
Please don't get mad. I did not realise the aahk had to reboot several times. I thought once and that was it. I just found that out now.
However, between that time and when I found this out I believe I caused all sorts of damage.
When the phone rebooted, it got stuck on the white screen with HTC logo and aahk was no longer working.
The wrong things I did were to to go into HBOOT and RECOVERY and WIPE EVERYTHING (DATA, CACHE, DAVLIK, EVERYTHING) *SORRY!*
And so here I am, hoping someone can help me.
After searching around the forums some similarities I had with other users in the past was that the phone is still showing S-ON and because of what I had done, aahk did not get to work properly so my phone has no ROM and no RECOVERY.
And I also JUST realised I made things worse by deleting USB debugging when I WIPED everything!.
Please help.... (_ _”)

I can help you out. Can you still go in Hboot?
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA

dnplee said:
Hello everyone, first of all I am a total newbie not just to rooting but also today was my first time ever using linux so please bear with me. Having said that, I have done my best to learn and understand the linux commands in the effin manual and followed all instructions as best as I could though I couldn't understand them well enough which is why I am here.
I am using Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit live cd but managed to install the i32-libs as stated in the effin manual. This is the only version of Ubuntu I could get from my friends as I have very slow internet connection and cannot download the new version or just the 32 bit one.
Anyway, on to the problem at hand.
I first ran the aahk, going through all the steps in the effin manual. My phone was originally on 2.3.5 and Sense 3 so I had to downgrade and the aahk downloaded the necessary rom(?) or RUU (?) to do this.
Once that was done, aahk carried on until the step where my phone rebooted.
This was where things started going wrong for me.
When the phone rebooted into 2.3.3 and started the wizard to set up my phone, I went through all that.
If I recall, at this point the aahk screen was up to “Once the downgrade is successful, press a key to return to the menu.... Otherwise, cut and paste the output to the screen into a text file for evaluation... then press a key. Press any key to continue...”
However, the step before that, “The phone will now reboot into HBOOT. If everything is okay, the phone will prompt you to continue by pressing VOLUME UP. It will reboot, flashing twice.”
PUSH POWER WHEN THIS STEP COMPLETES
I don't recall this happening for me or maybe it did but I did not notice. I did not press VOLUME UP nor see the flashing twice but surely it happened? Otherwise I would have been able to reboot into the phone environment correct? My head is spinning now...
Okay, this is where I may have gotten ahead of myself when reading the effin manual. You have to understand, I was just brimming with joy “thinking” I had successfully rooted my first ever and one and only smartphone.
I started looking for BusyBox or Superuser but couldn't find anything.
Not knowing what else to do, I rebooted the phone MANUALLY (hold power button and reset).
Then everything started going wrong.
Please don't get mad. I did not realise the aahk had to reboot several times. I thought once and that was it. I just found that out now.
However, between that time and when I found this out I believe I caused all sorts of damage.
When the phone rebooted, it got stuck on the white screen with HTC logo and aahk was no longer working.
The wrong things I did were to to go into HBOOT and RECOVERY and WIPE EVERYTHING (DATA, CACHE, DAVLIK, EVERYTHING) *SORRY!*
And so here I am, hoping someone can help me.
After searching around the forums some similarities I had with other users in the past was that the phone is still showing S-ON and because of what I had done, aahk did not get to work properly so my phone has no ROM and no RECOVERY.
And I also JUST realised I made things worse by deleting USB debugging when I WIPED everything!.
Please help.... (_ _”)
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Do not panic...although you did a factory reset and disabled usb debugging, you can solve your situation. Just flash the RUU (PD98IMG-GBx.zip) file you used to downgrade the phone. It has to be in the PD98IMG folder of the Hack Kit. Make sure that it is that file and no other. Rename it PD98IMG.zip and then put it in the root of the sdcard. Then boot in hboot and update pressing volume up. Let it finish....then you will have a working phone. Then re run the hack kit to Gain S-OFF and Root....if you can´t do it just hit the IRC Channel that is stated in the OP of the Hack Kit thread.

benydc, glevitan, thank you both for the offers of help and advice.
I eventually found my way to the IRC aahk support channel and was blessed to get the help of attn1, one of the ops there.
He helped me through my problem and now everything is as is should be. Thankfully I have a working rooted phone.
Everyone there was very friendly and helpful, not just attn1. He must have spent the last two hours or so juggling with helping out three users (probably more). We even got to make some friendly banter amongst ourselves.
Though I was freaked out initially, I am glad everything works now and from the support I got there, I am somehow not going to shy away from trying to learn about rooting.
I managed to save all the text during our conversation so when I get the time, I will try and build a simple but detailed walkthrough of how attn1 got my phone working again. I will post it here so that it may help others who find themselves in a similar position one day.
Many thanks you guys. This is a great community.

same problem,s-on,no recovery
hey there...ive got similar problem with u and i try putting the PG98IMG on the root of the SD card which i get from the folder from AAHK...but when i go to HBOOT and try to install the PG98IMG, it failed and it says MAIN VERSION IS OLDER ! what should i do?

hi
i have same phone whith you
2.3.5 sens 3.0
i used AAHK but the file name downloaded is "PD98IMG-GB2"
you can rename "PD98IMG" on "PD98IMG-GB2"

Installing standard ROM or rooting does not work

A couple of years ago i asked this forum to help me install the unbranded version of the ROM from HTC for my Desire. I created the goldcard, installed the ROM as instructed and everything worked fine. I was happy for 2 years.
Fast forward, my phone fell a couple of weeks back and now when the screen turns off the power button fails to turn it back on. The buttons at the bottom of the phone do illuminate when I press the power button, but the screen does not turn on. Even receiving a call or an alarm ringing does not turn the screen on. The only solution so far has been to remove the battery and reboot the phone: this solution works, but not on every occasion.
I have tried to reset it back to factory settings, but that has not helped. I have tried to install the ROM from scratch (I want to confirm if this is a software problem), but every time I try to install it I get the following error:
ERROR [131]: CUSTOMER ID ERROR
The ROM Update Utility cannot update your Android phone.
Please get the correct ROM Update Utility and try again.
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The interesting thing is that the ROM is the one I used 2 years ago and, while I generated a new goldcard, I checked and can confirm that the old goldcard and the new goldcard are identical.
I have then tried rooting the phone using SuperOneClick, Unlock Root and Unrevoked - so as to try installing another ROM instead -, but all of them have failed. It seems that they all try to install some drivers and fail.
I have exhausted all my ideas on what to do.
Any ideas on how to save this phone? I really like my Desire and I do not want to buy a new one right now.
Thanks in advance for your help and support.

I think you are being a little optimistic about it being a software fault. The fact the issue developed after being dropped points to it being hardware (Proximity Sensor possibly).
I wouldn't be screwing around with roms/rooting at all.

Any ideas how to fix it?

Sorry no, the PS being at fault is just a guess as being a logical thing to start with. If you aren't comfortable in dismantling the phone and looking for obvious damage then you'd be best to consult a technician.

Ok, then let's edit the question slightly:
1. Can somebdy help root the device?
2. Can somebody help me understand why the old ROM is failing to install?