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[Q] Bootloops/Screen Issues. Perhaps I bricked it?

So recently I applied the stock rooted 4.0.4 rom to my CDMA Nexus. After this, it would have this strange problem where occasionally the screen would just not respond to any touch. I would battery pull many times over before it would start working again. Tonight I finally got fed up and tried to apply the factory image (4.0.2) to it through Wug's root toolkit v1.3. When it completed the phone went into a serious bootloop, not getting past the google logo. What happened? Did I just make a very expensive paperweight?

Restore everything to an earlier time including the bootloader, recovery, radios, and rom through adb. You can also use a toolkit like the one found below to restore your phone to stock then redo everything:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392310

Yeah, I've tried that a few times and it's still stuck on the Google image and won't move forward. Just restarts and restarts.

Another evidence that 1 click methods leads to ppl doing stuff without any understanding

Thanks for your help, sir. I know I'm not the most knowledgeable but you don't have to rub it in. I'm already down a phone.
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thurstroubadours said:
Thanks for your help, sir. I know I'm not the most knowledgeable but you don't have to rub it in. I'm already down a phone.
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There really are tons of threads here telling you exactly what to do in a case like yours - you just have to use the search and take the time to read through them.
And no, it's not bricked as long as you can get into the recovery.

thurstroubadours said:
Thanks for your help, sir. I know I'm not the most knowledgeable but you don't have to rub it in. I'm already down a phone.
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While I understand your anger, he does also make a valid point. 2 reasons why. If you didn't use a one click method maybe your phone would be working fine. 2nd by doing it the hard way hopefully you learned something and when you have a problem you know how or at least understand what is involved with fixing it.
Hope you get it fixed.
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exactly, my intention was not to make you feel bad.
I was hoping this example would make ppl learn the proper way.
As if you did, you wouldnt be in this predicament.
You would also know that you haven't bricked your device, not freak out over it and just fix it.
Cold hard facts are generally blunt and I understand your frustration, I also appreciate that you didnt start a flame war.
Hope you've sorted it out and and learned something in the process.
Good luck.

Ok. I did manage to fix it by learning how to manually flash the stock image. Perhaps I did need the hard line!
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Sprint user question for developers

I know it's common knowledge that we can't flash current ROMS due to not being able to make calls after (I made that mistake myself, but luckily had a nandroid to restore).
Is there anything I can do with a stock rooted sprint galaxy nexus to help with development so that we can enjoy some of the great work you developers do? I'm not an expert but I am comfortable with adb, really I've only used it once (to root this phone), I'm just not shy about tinkering. Anything I can do to help please let me know.
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nikiya said:
I know it's common knowledge that we can't flash current ROMS due to not being able to make calls after (I made that mistake myself, but luckily had a nandroid to restore).
Is there anything I can do with a stock rooted sprint galaxy nexus to help with development so that we can enjoy some of the great work you developers do? I'm not an expert but I am comfortable with adb, really I've only used it once (to root this phone), I'm just not shy about tinkering. Anything I can do to help please let me know.
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Could you make a copy of your entire /system folder and upload it here?

TeeRom said:
Could you make a copy of your entire /system folder and upload it here?
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It has already been done a couple times.

adrynalyne said:
It has already been done a couple times.
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-_- wow, don't know how I missed it. Thanks.

TeeRom said:
-_- wow, don't know how I missed it. Thanks.
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I was begging for one the day folks got their Nexus. They are in the General Sprint Galaxy Nexus thread.

I'm not asking for an eta; but are we close to seeing ROM development for the Sprint gn?
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Should I root my phone

This question might be dumb but should I root my phone
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Its your choice. I'd say go ahead and root it. But read about what your doing. Nobody can tell if you should or not. there's not a definite reason not to... that I know of.
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Ok thanks bud Im considering whether should I root it
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Hi,
Maybe some ideas...:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1676821&highlight and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1600006&highlight or http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1633438&highlight

Depends on your reason. I have learned tons about my phone by rooting and then breaking it.....

DO IT. Flashing roms is an addiction though. Just a warning.
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smalss said:
DO IT. Flashing roms is an addiction though. Just a warning.
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Very, very addicting!!!
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I'd say go for it, if you're at least moderately technically inclined.
At the very least unlock the bootloader (this will wipe your phone so backup any photos etc!). Rooting can be done later if you do that first.

If you have to ask, no you probably shouldn't.

No question, definitely root without a doubt.

joshnichols189 said:
If you have to ask, no you probably shouldn't.
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This.

If you don't root your phone, it's not yours. You're not responsible for it if it gets messed up, but you are limited in what you can do with it. You're a licensee, not the owner.
I am of the opinion that I should own what's mine.
Swypesation

Logseman said:
If you don't root your phone, it's not yours. You're not responsible for it if it gets messed up, but you are limited in what you can do with it. You're a licensee, not the owner.
I am of the opinion that I should own what's mine.
Swypesation
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Can't tell if srs..
"Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light."

I just recently rooted my phone and am relatively new to flashing ROMs but I'm totally addicted. I would agree that you should do as much research and read thoroughly through the forums. Great experience for me so far.

[email protected] said:
Depends on your reason. I have learned tons about my phone by rooting and then breaking it.....
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Same. You really do learn about your device and the way Android works. I've had some good and bad experiences with flashing, but I've learned a lot. It's fun and you can apply so many mods to make your device unique to yourself.

joshnichols189 said:
If you have to ask, no you probably shouldn't.
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This.

Root your phone if you want to unlock thousands of new features and constant updates that'll fix bugs and a powerful dev teams that work on the best phone in the root world.

DLD511 said:
Root your phone if you want to unlock thousands of new features and constant updates that'll fix bugs and a powerful dev teams that work on the best phone in the root world.
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And open up thousands of questions.

Give it a shot. Be sure to follow every step. There is a lot of benefits to it.
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DLD511 said:
Root your phone if you want to unlock thousands of new features and constant updates that'll fix bugs and a powerful dev teams that work on the best phone in the root world.
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And create thousands more bugs at the same time

HELP ME PLEASE hardbricked ATT GS3

Okay, so I've hardbricked my AT&T Galaxy S3, or SGH-i747, or d2att. I was trying to flash a kernel and some devs think I rewrote my bootloader and therefore it is no longer there. However, my saving grace is only in something this dev calls "block 5"...
If anyone has a rooted AT&T GS3, I would SO SO SO appreciate it if they could run this code (I didn't write it but it's not malicious):
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5 of=/sdcard/blk5.img
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All it's doing is getting the image for block 5 from an att gs3. Someone PLEASE help me, I'm begging here. From there someone could either email it to me or put it in a public Dropbox folder so I can get it to my dev friend...

Lol, how do you even rewrite the bootloader?
|Trolling with a smile|

by flashing a bad kernel.

Bad or wrong?
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both? can you help me?

bump
please i'm in serious need here. i'm not some noob, i know at least on a basic level what i'm doing...i just made one mistake and now i need help.

I ran the code and have an img file for you. But you're gonna have to have someone credible chime in and say this block of data doesn't contain any sensative info...
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if you have an irc account, could you please join #cyanogenmod? the dev that's helping me, utkanos, also says if there is a file named "/proc/emmc" on the device then he might not need the block.

fmllc said:
I ran the code and have an img file for you. But you're gonna have to have someone credible chime in and say this block of data doesn't contain any sensative info...
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Hi, I am attempting to help hooloovoo666 determine if his device is permanently bricked or not. I don't know what is on mmcblk0p5, thats sort of what we're trying to figure out on the device. If there is a /proc/emmc file that has actual data in it that you can grab off the running device, there may be no need to send this block over. I am suspecting since the device wont even boot that he accidentally ovewrote the bootloader.
Based on the device layout, there is no user data stored there so there shouldn't be any personal info.
If you wouldn't mind joining #Cyanogenmod on freenode that would be helpful.

bump )':

extra double fudge sunday please bump )':

I'd help out, but I have the Sprint version
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well guys it looks like i'm SOL so thanks for those who tried.

hooloovoo666 said:
well guys it looks like i'm SOL so thanks for those who tried.
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Warranty? Good luck man, so sad to hear

[Q] Verizon HTC one root?

Saw this posted earlier:
https://twitter.com/TeamAndIRC/status/371047150056009728
Is there any news regarding this? I know with the recent HTCdev lockdown, unlock is not possible, but it sounds like root is easily achievable.
I really only need to root. I don't really use any of the features that unlock would give me. Heck, the only root function I use is Titanium backup. I get free tethering (share everything) and always stick with the stock ROM.
Is anybody actually working toward a root only solution? Or is all the effort directed to a s-off unlock solution?

Same. I want to know as well. This guy seems like if it's such a cakewalk he should do it but as long as someone can figure it out I will be happy
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You still want unlock. Changes made to /system while booted in the os do not stick.
Jcase will tweet something when he releases the exploit.
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we want bootloader unlock, but S-Off isnt necessary just for root is it?
I think thats what we both mean - we're fine for now with no s-off, we just want root

crazyg0od33 said:
we want bootloader unlock, but S-Off isnt necessary just for root is it?
I think thats what we both mean - we're fine for now with no s-off, we just want root
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Bootloader unlock is sufficient for flashing ROMs and rooting. S-Off is kinda superfluous.

That's what I had heard. Well I'm not installing too many applications yet so I won't have to start all over when bootloader unlock comes back around
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crazyg0od33 said:
That's what I had heard. Well I'm not installing too many applications yet so I won't have to start all over when bootloader unlock comes back around
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I spent 30 min setting up my phone only to have it wiped by the bootloader unlock. Then it hit me.

Jcase said it would be "easy" for someone to work around it but he has not offered to do it. If you look he ends up specifically saying he is not going to work on it... I'm sorry my friends with the one... Hopefully someone else will come up with a solution. We had to wait a few times with the DNA so I know how it feels
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GrayTheWolf said:
I spent 30 min setting up my phone only to have it wiped by the bootloader unlock. Then it hit me.
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haha yeah, I've learned that way as well. I have maybe 10 apps that arent vzw bloat right now...
danielhall2689 said:
Jcase said it would be "easy" for someone to work around it but he has not offered to do it. If you look he ends up specifically saying he is not going to work on it... I'm sorry my friends with the one... Hopefully someone else will come up with a solution. We had to wait a few times with the DNA so I know how it feels
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I honestly think if its THAT much of a cakewalk he should just be able to do it, or to basically hand it to a dev (which he kind of said he did) instead of hinting at all this and doing nothing.
But it's not my place, so hopefully someone DID get the info and will have it unlocked asap

Yeah but better he hint to tip someone off then say nothing at all you know... Plus he like all the rest of us has a life outside of xda and I'm sure he has good reasons... I mean he has already done so much for many devices
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True. I haven't been around for a while so I don't know much about him. But if he passed the info along to someone else it should work out
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OldManJames said:
You still want unlock. Changes made to /system while booted in the os do not stick.
Jcase will tweet something when he releases the exploit.
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I thought you couldn't write to /system while booted unless you were S-Off. Has that changed? When the DNA was unlocked we weren't able to do so until Beaups (I think) found a workaround with the kernel.
Also, JCase, in a previous tweet, said his PREVIOUS exploit still worked on the Verizon One. I haven't searched, but maybe it's already been released?
I'm at work so I can't look up the specific tweet for you guys.

He said he already passed the root exploit on

GrayTheWolf said:
Bootloader unlock is sufficient for flashing ROMs and rooting. S-Off is kinda superfluous.
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far from superfluous we don't have to flash a damn boot.IMG every time lol. Big time saver.
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cstrife999 said:
far from superfluous we don't have to flash a damn boot.IMG every time lol. Big time saver.
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Not really. S-On and that extra time flashing the boot.img can save you some major headache later. Maybe even a brick.

GrayTheWolf said:
Not really. S-On and that extra time flashing the boot.img can save you some major headache later. Maybe even a brick.
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Eh I've never had any problems...
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cstrife999 said:
Eh I've never had any problems...
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If you are careful you shouldn't have a problem. But if you flash iffy things then you can easily end up with a brick. That's why most developers stay S-On.

lets worry about bricking once we actually have an unlock method again haha

Looks like the "cakewalk" has turned into some kind of 48 hour "cake endurance race"

slacka-vt said:
Looks like the "cakewalk" has turned into some kind of 48 hour "cake endurance race"
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Haha yeah I know right? I want root!!!
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