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[Q] rooted with broken power button

So my power button all of a sudden broke. It won't turn off or on, the only way to power the phone off is to pull the battery and it turns back on by itself as soon as I put the battery back in. Doesn't anyone have any ideas? I've already done a factory reset, didn't change anything. Also, it doesn't work to select anything in recovery. So my 2nd question is if anyone can tell me how to flash the stock sprint rom so I can take it in and get it fixed?
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Use the ruu it will run in windows

Same thing happened to my phone. Damn cheap power button. Was waiting for cm6 to work with the new version hardware. Now that it does I will be doing the same.
What I have been doing as a work around is using widget locker to remap the power button to the volume key. And have a screen off widget. I don't mind it but can't do anything in recovery either anymore. So I am gonna take mine in this weekend. I believe they will give you a replacement phone.

FYI - I got thinking that maybe it wasnt a hardware issue but maybe software - and it would have to be something higher up than the recovery system. Anyway, the button started working again and while it was I flashed a new HBoot thinking that maybe it was a corrupted driver or something. It seems to have fixed it, but YMMV.

austontatious said:
So my power button all of a sudden broke. It won't turn off or on, the only way to power the phone off is to pull the battery and it turns back on by itself as soon as I put the battery back in. Doesn't anyone have any ideas? I've already done a factory reset, didn't change anything. Also, it doesn't work to select anything in recovery. So my 2nd question is if anyone can tell me how to flash the stock sprint rom so I can take it in and get it fixed?
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You can use the ruu to restore our but it will most likely still show s-off in the bootloader. You can fix that by using adb in recovery mode to flash unrevoked forever while in the recovery
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[Q] Bricked Desire HD

Hello,
I recently got a brand new DHD from T Mobile UK. Naturally, I wanted to get rid of the bloatware that came with it. To cut the long story short, I tried to install the cyanogenmod software and ended up bricking my phone. At first it would not get past the cyanogenmod start up screen (spinning smoke thing). Now it will not boot past the T Mobile logo.
I am desperate and any solution to give me back ANY funstionality of the phone would e great.
Kind Regards.
Sena.

Can you get into the bootloader? Try turning it off, then holding the power button and volume down - I think the easiest method is to hold volume down, press the power button for a few seconds (still holding volume), then let the power button go and after that the volume button. Seems to get me into the bootloader reliably.
If you can get into the bootloader, you should be able to flash back to the stock rom by placing a file on the SD card - not certain of the exact method there but someone will know
I wouldn't worry too much unless you were flashing the bootloader (hboot) to get s-off - as I understand it, the only real way to brick these devices is if you corrupt the bootloader.

What exactly did you do? I agree with the previous poster that you probably did not brick your phone you just need to get into the bootloader and flash a backup, if you made one. Also what ClockworkMod Recovery are you using. I know that if you flashed with 3.xxx you will need to flash an older version of CWM something like 2.xxx
If you give us more info we could prob help more

jords12 said:
Can you get into the bootloader? Try turning it off, then holding the power button and volume down - I think the easiest method is to hold volume down, press the power button for a few seconds (still holding volume), then let the power button go ...
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Also try taking the battery out first.

senakiro said:
Hello,
I recently got a brand new DHD from T Mobile UK. Naturally, I wanted to get rid of the bloatware that came with it. To cut the long story short, I tried to install the cyanogenmod software and ended up bricking my phone. At first it would not get past the cyanogenmod start up screen (spinning smoke thing). Now it will not boot past the T Mobile logo.
I am desperate and any solution to give me back ANY funstionality of the phone would e great.
Kind Regards.
Sena.
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If you have cwm / rom manager install to your phone just turn off your phone and charge it now you are in recovery state you can flash rom again or restore backups
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[Q] No Screen

Does anyone know a way to unroot an Evo with no screen functionality or is the screen just gone

schneider232003 said:
Does anyone know a way to unroot an Evo with no screen functionality or is the screen just gone
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If you had never used Unrevoked before, you should be able to run an RUU from your computer (providing the RUU software detects your phone). If you had run unrevoked before, then you'd need to flash the Unrevoked S on tool in recovery, prior to running the RUU, which I have no clue how'd you do that without being able to see the screen. Is your screen smashed, or just not working?

If you need to flash s-on, you might be able to do it with a bit of luck. If you're on RA, place s-on on your SD card (make sure it's the only flashable zip on the sd card. With the phone off, hit power on and hold volume down to get to hboot. One click down, then click power for recovery. Wait a bit and then 3 clicks down for flash zip. One click down, then power for choose zip. One click up, then power twice to flash s-on zip. Wait a sec for it to flash, then press power to return. One click down, the power to toggle usb and plug into your comp.
Now you will know if what you did worked, cuz the sd card should show up. Then put the pc36img.zip for stock 3.70 on your sd card, eject and click power to toggle usb. One click up and power to power off. Then power one + volume down to get back to hboot. Wait a bit, then hit volume up to update. Hopefully, that will unroot you.
You will have no way of knowing though, lol.

My screen is just gone blackness. Is there any way of doing it through adb
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[Q]Can some one help me blind flash the stock rom through fast boot.

Hi my screen went out and i am doing a warranty replacement so i want to flash the recovery blind can some one walk me through the steps if i have the file on the root of the SD?

I think all you would hav to do is get the pc10img on the root sd, hold down plus power then let go of power and keep holding down for another second. At this point it would bring up the bootloader and be scanning for the pc10img. I can't remember if it scans for the img IMMEDIATELY, or if you have to hit volume to have it select the BOOTLOADER option and then it scans, try it both ways. After let's say 30 seconds to be on the safe side, hit volume up to confirm u want to install the image. Don't touch your phone for awhile. They way you will know if it is working is, in the middle of the process you should feel a vibrate, cause when restoring a full pc10img, it has to reboot halfway through the process then continues. Fyi, pc10img won't get s back on. U would have to temp root stock rom and use gfree to turn it back on. Good luck!
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xsteven77x said:
I think all you would hav to do is get the pc10img on the root sd, hold down plus power then let go of power and keep holding down for another second. At this point it would bring up the bootloader and be scanning for the pc10img. I can't remember if it scans for the img IMMEDIATELY, or if you have to hit volume to have it select the BOOTLOADER option and then it scans, try it both ways. After let's say 30 seconds to be on the safe side, hit volume up to confirm u want to install the image. Don't touch your phone for awhile. They way you will know if it is working is, in the middle of the process you should feel a vibrate, cause when restoring a full pc10img, it has to reboot halfway through the process then continues. Fyi, pc10img won't get s back on. U would have to temp root stock rom and use gfree to turn it back on. Good luck!
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thanks man ima try it right now.

Please help!!! Evo is bricked...

I have an HTC Evo 4G. HBOOT 0.93.0000, radio 2.15.00.05.02, S-OFF (this is all I can find out from the bootloader screen).
Here is the most important thing for you to know: my power button does not work. I had to install a program that let me use the volume up button to serve as the power button while the phone was operating. Since it does not work, I cant select anything in clockwork mod recovery!
Now for the story: I tried to install CM 7.1 RC and it's not going past the white evo boot screen. Before I did that, I updated clockwork mod recovery. I am able to get into the recovery which asks if i want to install an update, after which it asks if I want to reboot. After that, I have the main options (HBOOT, clear storage, etc). The power button DOES work at this stage. However, when I go into clockwork mod recovery, the power button does NOT work and I cannot select any of those options. Since I'm stuck at the white evo boot screen, my phone is effectively BRICKED.
On the main recovery screen, I have tried clear storage 2-3 times with no luck. Repeated battery pulls just keep going to the white evo screen. If I hold volume down, it goes to recovery without issue and parses the SD zip update. I have tried not updating, AND updating, rebooting and NOT rebooting, neither makes a difference. Bootloader/Power down doesnt work either - it just reloads into the white evo screen.
Does anyone have ANY suggestions? This is really frustrating and I just want my phone back...

if phone is still under warranty take it to Sprint for a replacement because with out the use of the power button you will not be able to use recovery
Have you tried flashing a Stock P36IMG.Zip file from the bootloader ?
You can use ADB on a computer boot into bootloader mode then when the phone sees the file it will ask if you want to update use vol up for yes once flash is complete use vol down to reboot this would at least get your phone up and running then you coul restore a backup with rom manager

It's likely a VERY quick fix that you and I could easily do. like a bad point on the connection where the button connects to the motherboard of the phone. However, knowing sprint JACKASS employees. They'll claim that because you rooted your phone, rooting caused a hardware failure of the power button. lmao. AND THEY WILL DO THIS! if you walk into a store, make sure they don't do ANYTHING TO YOUR PHONE THAT EVEN CHECKS FOR ROOT. just flat out tell them it is a hardware issue and is covered by the warranty. If they ask if you have one of those stupid plans that you pay 7-8 bucks a month for, tell them to lick your salty balls. then force their head into your balls and make them smell your balls. :-D

Can you try an official RUU? If it still doesnt work at least it take off root so you can take it to sprint.
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you could try taking the phone apart and seeing if you can fix the power button yourself. You'll void warranty but it is an option. Obviously if you don't feel comfortable with doing that then don't do it.

try a different recovery system...
I seem to read a lot of weird problems with clockwork and newer ROMs.
i use amon-ra recovery. it is more stable and clean.

As a reminder to everyone that responded. lol. if the power button doesn't work, can't do much. Have you had the phone longer than a year?

runcool said:
As a reminder to everyone that responded. lol. if the power button doesn't work, can't do much. Have you had the phone longer than a year?
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How long did you let it sit on the white htc EVO screen. Sometimes the.first time booting CM7 it will hang here for a couple minutes.
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Do you pay for insurance tell them you lost it. It may cost you what $75-100 bucks.
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So are you saying the power button works at the HBoot screen but not in recovery? I wonder if it's just a bad recovery, why not try putting a PC136IMG with amon ra and update it through HBOOT since you are saying the button works when you at that screen.

agree with this post am is better

As a suggestion, I would switch recoveries to Amon RA 2.3 then go here to get unrooted using ADB. Then you can take it in for insurance repair/replacement.

Just flash the latest ruu, it will update your hboot, then go to the store, they only check for son or soff that's it
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Sounds definitely like clockwork prob, i had similar issue when first rooting, go w amon 4 sure.
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