I have a friend whose Desire is USB-Bricked. By that I mean he cannot do ANYTHING via USB. Nothing. Unrevoked, ADB... nothing works.
His Desire was sent to a techinitian who managed to recover his SD Card support, but gave up the USB saying it's impossible do recover.
The thing is he has a UNROOTED ROM which he can boot normally, but, in order to try the USB-Unbrick tutorial here in XDA he has to gain ROOT again.
So, is there a way to root a 2.2 Oficial ROM doing something EXCLUSIVELY in the ROM itself or thru some SD Card procedure?
I'm no expert, but can't you do something with update.zip files on SD cards?
I'll leave it for the clever people to respond properly though and await their opinions.
joebongo said:
I'm no expert, but can't you do something with update.zip files on SD cards?
I'll leave it for the clever people to respond properly though and await their opinions.
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I'm hoping something like that appears... An .zip file to root the ROM or something... Don't know if it's possible, thought...
Anybody?? Don't have anyway to root without usb ??? Someone have any ideia how restore usb without root??
Hey guys, apologies if this has been answered but I couldnt make sense of the results when I did a search.
I have bought a new SD card and I want to start using it in my phone. How do I backup the stuff on my old one and copy it over to the new one? I'm presuming a simple copy-paste wont work. I have several apps installed to the SD card using Apps2sd. Also im on the unbranded stock froyo. So not rooted.
Is there an app that does this automatically?
Im pretty much a newb when it comes to things like this so i would really really appreciate a step by step guide.
Thank youuu!!! Oh and Merry Xmas! x
1.Copy old card
2.Insert new card
3.Paste to new card
4.Merry Christmass!
3722 said:
1.Copy old card
2.Insert new card
3.Paste to new card
4.Merry Christmass!
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Yeah,it's as simple as that!just make sure you can see the folders that start with a dot(e.g .android) and make absolutely sure you copy the .android_secure folder!That's where your apps are!hope I helped!
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
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Hi All,
2 quick questions. thanks in advance for any help
1) let's say i wanted to upgrade to a bigger sd card for more storage, could i just copy over everything to the new sd card and reboot the phone and all is well and good, even with android 2.2's built in apps2sd? or would any of my apps that are installed to sd get messed up?
2) i haven't yet rooted my g2 but i'm going to soon. i rooted my g1 in the past. i've been reading some of the guides and whatnot to get ready, but one thing i was concerned about is being able to un-root completely to stock in case i ever need to do a warranty thing. do i actually have to back up anything, or can i just download the stock image like alot of tutorials seem to say? will it all be exactly the same after going thru the process of unrooting?
thanks!
Dave
I have the same question with the SD card.
As far as the second question goes I don't think you have to worry about it to much. Most t mobile staff are not anal about it. Just don't have it booting up to cm lol
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I've rooted once or twice back in the day and enjoyed it. I got an unlocked HTC one m8 and I love everything about it. I don't want to root really but now I have this KitKat problem where you can't move things to your sdcard. I like to download torrents and stuff and then move them to my 64gb SD card. Is there a way to do this without rooting? If yes, does it void the warranty or make it "not stock"?. If no, is there a way to root but keep the phone exactly the way it is but be able to move things to my SD card? Any help is appreciated.
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Noob here (as you can tell by my problem)
Okay so here's the full story, I rooted my phone. It was on 4.4.2 when I first rooted it. I found the LiquidSmooth ROM online and I wanted to flash it into my phone. After hours of research I finally flashed it successfully. I fell in love with UI and everything. But this is where the real stuff happens. I didn't find it very attractive anymore. So I tried wiping the whole phone hoping it'd revert back to it's original settings, I hoped wrong. It still had the ROM so I went online and I found this damn file that I thought would revert it back to normal. Turns out it not only took back to normal without it being rooted, but it downgraded to 4.0.4 and then my problems began from here. I had no signal so I couldn't update to the latest firmware so I rerooted the device and I tried flashing CM11 so I can get to 4.4.2 again. But the bootloader would not let me do it while in the recovery mode. So I researched how to unlock the bootloader. I found what is called EZUnlock, I downloaded the .apk file and installed it into the device, unlocked the bootloader and then used ROM Manager to boot into Recovery Mode. The screen went black and bam! Did not turn on after 5mins. I started to press the power button but to no avail, it would not turn on. I have searched ways to unbrick my Samsung Galaxy S3 but none of the threads seem to connect to what is going with my phone. So I have decided to make a thread to get specific help on my problem. Please, I beg you, if you are reading this now please help me out! I have no money to go out and buy a new phone. Even this phone wasn't affordable. I beg you to help me out here. I am in desperate need. I NEED my phone.
Not sure why you needed to unlock the bootloader since the s3 bootloader is not locked.
Did you try using the de-brick method using an SD card?
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Not sure why you needed to unlock the bootloader since the s3 bootloader is not locked.
Did you try using the de-brick method using an SD card?
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Yeah I read about that, but I had not known that until after I tried looking for Unbricking methods. And yes, I tried it with my 8GB SD card...But nothing is happening. I can't afford to buy a JTAG for this phone either. Do I really have to go out and buy myself a 16GB Class 10 SD Card to say for sure if my phone will work again or not?
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Yeah I read about that, but I had not known that until after I tried looking for Unbricking methods. And yes, I tried it with my 8GB SD card...But nothing is happening. I can't afford to buy a JTAG for this phone either. Do I really have to go out and buy myself a 16GB Class 10 SD Card to say for sure if my phone will work again or not?
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I have never tried the de-brick method but it seems you need to use a very specific brand and size of sd card. Maybe it needs to be 16 GB because that's what the i747 has internally.
Thr sdcard has to be at least 16gb. 32gb sdcards will work too. The higher the cards class rating the better, Class 6 and up seem to have the highest success rates, but I have seen it work on class 2 and 4 cards as well.
Unfortunately, there are bricks thst cannot be recovered using this method, depending on what partitions got screwed up. I'm not sure which got messed up on yours, but there is a chance it messed with something the debrick method cant fix...
In that thread there are debrick.img files posted throughout the last few pages. Try any that are for your device.
Good luck!
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Thr sdcard has to be at least 16gb. 32gb sdcards will work too. The higher the cards class rating the better, Class 6 and up seem to have the highest success rates, but I have seen it work on class 2 and 4 cards as well.
Unfortunately, there are bricks thst cannot be recovered using this method, depending on what partitions got screwed up. I'm not sure which got messed up on yours, but there is a chance it messed with something the debrick method cant fix...
In that thread there are debrick.img files posted throughout the last few pages. Try any that are for your device.
Good luck!
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I used my 64gb sdcard(class 10) and it worked too
just make sure if you want to reuse the sdcard like normal sdcard, you need to reformat it with your phone instead of your computer, cuz somehow if you format it with your pc it will only show 64mb instead of 64gb lol...
and to my knowledge, sdcard debricking will work with any hard bricked bootloader problem (been there, done that), so it should work for you too unless you did something wrong such as wrong version of debrick.img
Greenhope47 said:
Yeah I read about that, but I had not known that until after I tried looking for Unbricking methods. And yes, I tried it with my 8GB SD card...But nothing is happening. I can't afford to buy a JTAG for this phone either. Do I really have to go out and buy myself a 16GB Class 10 SD Card to say for sure if my phone will work again or not?
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That's correct. You need min 16Gb (high quality) SD card. What we are trying to do is simulate the internal SD card of the device itself so your debrick card needs to be, at least, or greater than the internal card. I'm somewhat surprised by the sequence of events especially how you ended up on ICS 4.0.4 - unless that was the last official stock ROM your device had before you went custom. Also, EZ-Unlock wouldn't normally cause a hard brick unless you were on the 4.3 MJB bootloader or higher in which case, the result is usually a guaranteed hard brick - similar to what happened. Probably you ended up with the 4.3 MJB bootloader one way or other.
The debrick method should work for you in this case from what you've described. If you haven't seen it already, the definitive thread on this subject is given below .... All the instructions and files/images you need are available on the first page.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2549068
Please note that once you have been able to get the phone to boot from the SD card, you need to work your way up the food chain to a full firmware restoration. In this case, only a full stock restore to 4.3 would get the phone booting normally and on its own. You can do a full stock restore via custom recovery.