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[Q] Dropped my phone - Now stuck in bootscreen

Hello guys,
I woke up too early this morning, and i accidentally knocked my phone off the stairs. It fell about 2 meters, bounced and then fell another meter, bounced and fell another meter and stopped.
Thankfully it was in a silicon case (i think that's what made it bounce) and there are no visible damages.
I picked it up, and it seemed to be working. After a few secs it went into sleep mode and would not wake up.
I removed the battery and rebooted, and i got the HTC screen, then the nexus boot screen and it stays stuck on the nexus boot.
I then entered recovery mode and thought i would try and restore my backup. I get the following message:
E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)
(No such file or directory)
E: Can't mount /sdcard
I took off the SD card, put it my pc and it works just fine.
I got another SD card, copied a rom onto it and tried to reinstall through recovery.
I did a wipe/data factory reset and tried to install the rom.
I got the same message...
Is my Desire toast? It's only six months old...
I was running Defrost6.1 and using psfMod 0.9.7.2 as my recovery.
Any advice would be extremely appreciated.
Thanks
aalex
UPDATE
I did another wipe data / factory reset, and i rebooted.
The rom starts up, without any of my previous settings of course, but I still cannot mount my SD card.
From file manager, it seems that it is being mounted, but no files are listed...
When i try with gallery it reports "SD card unmounted or not present".
Any insights?

Drop it again, it helps

Daanlt said:
Drop it again, it helps
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That's a helpful suggestion, thanks

Can u mount the SD card as usb storage in clockwork recovery?
Also try to boot it up normal and
Wait till the battery dies. Then insert the SD card and try again to boot it (with usb cable connected to have some battery power) again.
Gd luck
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mclaren2 said:
Can u mount the SD card as usb storage in clockwork recovery?
Also try to boot it up normal and
Wait till the battery dies. Then insert the SD card and try again to boot it (with usb cable connected to have some battery power) again.
Gd luck
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Thanks for responding mclaren2,
I tried to mount as usb storage, it seems that it mounts, my pc picks up an additional drive but when i double click on this drive it just says that it cannot be read...

With your SD card in your phone go into settings then storage and unmount SD card. Then format your SD card from your phones menu and it should mount the SD card see if that worked.

ste1164 said:
With your SD card in your phone go into settings then storage and unmount SD card. Then format your SD card from your phones menu and it should mount the SD card see if that worked.
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Hi ste1164,
Thanks for responding. My problem is that my phone cannot pickup the existence of an SD card.

This is a typical USB-brick. I've had one a few weeks ago. You should look at this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=691639&highlight=usb+brick.
If you're new to this, it can be hard to get it working again. Just let me know if you have any problems. It took me a few hours to get it done

From fastboot via ADB, execute "fastboot oem enableqxdm 0" and then reboot it with "fastboot reboot" command.
See if it works.
If you don't remember how to do the above, just search.

koenvbeek said:
This is a typical USB-brick. I've had one a few weeks ago. You should look at this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=691639&highlight=usb+brick.
If you're new to this, it can be hard to get it working again. Just let me know if you have any problems. It took me a few hours to get it done
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aalexandrou said:
Hi ste1164,
Thanks for responding. My problem is that my phone cannot pickup the existence of an SD card.
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its not a usb brick, thats a software brick.... it sounds to me like you have a corrupt sd card, sd cards are very delecate and this can happen from a sudden impact, try formatting the card in windows explorer, obviously you cannot format your sd-ext using windows so try gparted or ubuntu to format your other partition.

AndroHero said:
its not a usb brick, thats a software brick.... it sounds to me like you have a corrupt sd card, sd cards are very delecate and this can happen from a sudden impact, try formatting the card in windows explorer, obviously you cannot format your sd-ext using windows so try gparted or ubuntu to format your other partition.
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he switched sd cards and it still doensn't fix the problem

AndroHero said:
its not a usb brick, thats a software brick.... it sounds to me like you have a corrupt sd card, sd cards are very delecate and this can happen from a sudden impact, try formatting the card in windows explorer, obviously you cannot format your sd-ext using windows so try gparted or ubuntu to format your other partition.
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Can't be sdcard, op said tried sdcard in PC and tried different sdcard...same result, must be sdcard reader or something.
You never know, might be a USB brick, just happened before the drop and was brought on by the reset...but I agree probably is hardware fault.
Is it possible to flash stock rom from fastboot without sdcard? Could try warranty repair then...

mercianary said:
Can't be sdcard, op said tried sdcard in PC and tried different sdcard...same result, must be sdcard reader or something.
You never know, might be a USB brick, just happened before the drop and was brought on by the reset...but I agree probably is hardware fault.
Is it possible to flash stock rom from fastboot without sdcard? Could try warranty repair then...
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sorry i didnt notice that, could be a usb brick but like i said thats S/W related and i doubt dropping your phone could cause such an error, +1 suppose the sudden reset could cause the usb brick especially if the device was reading or writing to the sd card when it happened, could also be the sd card reader in the device has been damaged or one of the internal components. can the device read the sim card? if it dosent, could be a usb brick

Just a thought...is the sdcard reader attached by a ribbon? (never seen the inside of my desire, hope I never have to)
I'm sure I've heard of a few desires that can't read sdcard anymore, I reckon it's either attached by ribbon or it's the most delicate part of the phone.
I'm hoping it's a loose ribbon because that's an easy fix, even I could do that.

Hey guys,
Thanks to all of you for responding.
My sim card works just fine. I can make and receive calls, texts, go online via 3g and Wifi, connect through bluetooth. As far as i can tell, my phone does everythind it did before except mount an SD card. Also, the android market keeps crashing, and if i try and download anything from the net i get a prompt saying that i need an sd card to download.
So far I took the SD card and put it in my pc. I formated it, tried again but it didnt work.
I then tried a brand new sd card and that didn't work either.
However, I did not format the old card's ext2 partition, and the new sd doesn't have an ext partition yet.
Would this point to a USB Brick as mentioned above?
Would it be possible for me to flash the stock rom on the device?
Thanks once again, to all of you.
aalex

3722 said:
From fastboot via ADB, execute "fastboot oem enableqxdm 0" and then reboot it with "fastboot reboot" command.
See if it works.
If you don't remember how to do the above, just search.
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Although i don't really understand what this means, could it be a possible solution?
If yes, how would i go about implementing it?

Yes, that should solve your problem. I had the same problem a few weeks ago, but that included a malfunctioning usb, even charging didn't work correctly.
To fix the sd-card, you should run the above command using the tool fastboot, available in the Android sdk. After downloading, cd to the tools folder in the sdk and then run the command while your phone is connected to your pc in fastboot mode. Then it should work again.

koenvbeek said:
Yes, that should solve your problem. I had the same problem a few weeks ago, but that included a malfunctioning usb, even charging didn't work correctly.
To fix the sd-card, you should run the above command using the tool fastboot, available in the Android sdk. After downloading, cd to the tools folder in the sdk and then run the command while your phone is connected to your pc in fastboot mode. Then it should work again.
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Hey koenvbeek,
Thanks for the help. I think i may need a bit more of it
Here is what i did so far:
I used Nephrons guide to download and install ADB.
I then rebooted to bootloader. The phone displays "fastboot" and then when i plug it in it dispalys fastboot-usb
I then went to the ADB tools directory and tried to run the command.
I got a message saying the command cannot be run because adbwinapi.dll is missing from my system, and asking me to reinstall everything...
Clearly i made a mistake somewhere but where?

I don't think you made a mistake
Either the requested file is missing, or it can't be used by your computer. First check if the file is present. If not, google for it.
If it is present, your computer can't use it for some reason. Are you on a 64-bit OS? If you're on Vista/7: did you open the cmd promt as admin?

Yeah, nothing wrong, it's just that the API library is missing.
Download it from the attachment here, and put it in the "tools" folder, then try again.
Edit: As you can see it's in an archive, since dll attachment is not enabled here, so extract the file from it.

[Q] Is it Bricked? SD card unavailable.

Ok so I was running T-Mod_LeeDrOiD_2.3d_A2SD rom. And yestarday while playing Robo Defense phone just froze, screen stayd on etc. I waited few minutes and after that took out the battery. After the restart everything is fine except for the SD card being unavailable. So all my aps don't start (as that's where they install by defult). I spend few hours googling about and it look like SD brick.
I've tried standard ROM using fastboot. No luck
Trying unrEVOked without any luck.
Is there anything else I can do?
Thanks
EDIT: Tested card in PC and other phone is fine. As well tried 2 other cards, none of them is working.

Its probably your sd card that went crazy.
Simply take it out and reformat it in windows, fat32 if you're wondering.
And do the usual, partition using either ROM manager/gparted for your ext.
Though you most probably wont be able to recover whatever you had on your sd card. If you're lucky, your computer might read it.
Not too sure what caused this to happen.

Yeah, do what friedkimchi said.
Try to mount it on your PC and if it reads it, then you're good.
However back up your stuff from there and reformat it again. It happened to me once with the samsung omnia, and I was told it was a sign of a dying SD card and they were right. But that's just my case, maybe in yours some internal program code caused the mess up.

friedkimchi said:
Its probably your sd card that went crazy.
Simply take it out and reformat it in windows, fat32 if you're wondering.
And do the usual, partition using either ROM manager/gparted for your ext.
Though you most probably wont be able to recover whatever you had on your sd card. If you're lucky, your computer might read it.
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Great advice. The good news is that if your device started and works OK (minus the apps stored on your sd card) then nothing too bad has occurred. If reformat doesn't work, buy a new card - in fact probably best to buy a new card anyway as once they get a bit wonky they tend to stay that way.

O sorry i forgot to mention it. Card is fine, as well I've tested 2 other cards they all work in PC or other phone but none of them works in desire.
Just thinking is it possible that the card slot just died?

Yanluk said:
O sorry i forgot to mention it. Card is fine, as well I've tested 2 other cards they all work in PC or other phone but none of them works in desire.
Just thinking is it possible that the card slot just died?
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Could be the problem is with the ext partition on the sd card that you can't see in windows.
That's where A2SD loads the apps - probably including the game you were playing when the thing went belly-up.
If you have access to a spare card then I'd suggest you format it with an ext partition (using rom manager or similar) then reflash the LeeDroid ROM you've been using.

Problem is I can't format any card in the phone. Even in recovery mode I can't use any card

It happened to me once. It's no big deal.
Just boot your phone to fastboot mode (turn it off, and turn it on while holding back button), connect it to PC, and run this command from Android SDK tools folder:
fastboot oem enableqxdm 0
Reboot, and you are fine.
Source, more details:
http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-desire-desire-modaco-com/309939/usb-brick-rickrolled-b0rked-fixed/

Yanluk said:
Problem is I can't format any card in the phone. Even in recovery mode I can't use any card
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Then try to partition it on the PC with gparted.

Code:
H:\Software\AndroidSDK\SDK\android-sdk-windows\tools>fastboot oem enableqxdm 0
... OKAY [ 0.090s]
finished. total time: 0.091s
And still same problem

hmmm - bugger.
you can format your card using other tools - maybe take a look at this and see if it helps: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534714

No go either
Getting permission denied error on first command

Also had some trouble when I just got my Desire, after a week using it suddenly it told me the SD was damaged, so I pulled it out like I did on my Wildfire, and put it back in, no joy.
Then found out the slot has a 'click-in-lock' so push it in till it clicks. Lock doesn't work, you can just pull it out after the click, but it fixed my troubles and I could keep using my SD.

Johny_G said:
It happened to me once. It's no big deal.
Just boot your phone to fastboot mode (turn it off, and turn it on while holding back button), connect it to PC, and run this command from Android SDK tools folder:
fastboot oem enableqxdm 0
Reboot, and you are fine.
Source, more details:
http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-desire-desire-modaco-com/309939/usb-brick-rickrolled-b0rked-fixed/
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Can you please upload a screenshot of this process as i am not understanding about your process and also i had tried it but it didnt work.
It shows fastboot is not recognized as internal or external command operable program or batch files.
Please reply asap.

I remember having 2.3.3.gb stock amd I bought 8gb kingston sd card and it kept saying unexpectedly removed so I did some research on youtube and found out it was fake... so this time I bought it on ebay but in UK and that one worked properly so yh he sure to check that out.
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Yanluk said:
Ok so I was running T-Mod_LeeDrOiD_2.3d_A2SD rom. And yestarday while playing Robo Defense phone just froze, screen stayd on etc. I waited few minutes and after that took out the battery. After the restart everything is fine except for the SD card being unavailable. So all my aps don't start (as that's where they install by defult). I spend few hours googling about and it look like SD brick.
I've tried standard ROM using fastboot. No luck
Trying unrEVOked without any luck.
Is there anything else I can do?
Thanks
EDIT: Tested card in PC and other phone is fine. As well tried 2 other cards, none of them is working.
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Can you try if your memory card is readable by your recovery, like clockworkmod? If yes probably take a nand backup (alternatively take backup of data in computer), reformat & try.

I had that problem in January 2011 but thanks!
bishwa_it said:
Can you try if your memory card is readable by your recovery, like clockworkmod? If yes probably take a nand backup (alternatively take backup of data in computer), reformat & try.
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[Q] Cant access SD card via ROM (can in recovery..)

I seem to have a wierd problem going on with my desire, where the ROM does not seem to be able to detect the SD card. Its is just completely greyed out as if it is not there, but if i go into recovery and mount USB, i can access it.
Ive ready about USB bricks but not sure if i have one because i can access it from recovery?
I have stock gingerbread, rooted, with clockwork recovery (used revolutionary) i have tried putting a number of different roms on and every rom has the same problem!
Ive looked on the internet for hours but cant seem to sort it out.
Bit of background may be usefull...
My phone was recently water damaged about a week ago, it was playing up, restarting as soon as it was turned on and all sorts, completely un usable. So, i took it apart and cleaned it with rubbing alchohol put it back together and it worked fine - except for the SIM and SD card. When i tried to access the SD card from recovery it would just throw back an error. Phone just reported there was no sim inserted. Took it apart again and see some of the adhesive was over the circuitry, so i removed it cleaned it up some more, then sim card worked and the SD card worked (from recovery). Problem is, as my post says, it the SD card doesnt work from within the ROM, or any ROM
Obvioulsy ive questioned this being a hardware problem, but then how would i be able to access it at all from recovery! It doesnt make sense, and software issue is wierd as i have flashed many roms, unless there is something else i could try.
Im pretty stuck, so any suggestions are appreciated.

The following command should re-enable the access for sd card:
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fastboot oem enable qxdm 0
You have to run this in fastboot mode.
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Thanks, i tried this before posting as i see it somewhere else but it didnt work, i get the following error:
(bootloader) [ERR] Command error !!!
OKAY [ 0.006s]
finished. total time: 0.007s
Any ideas?

My fault. It has to be
Code:
fastboot oem enableqxdm 0
There must not be space between "enable" and "qxdm".

That command seemed to go through fine, but doesn't seem to have made a difference unfortunately
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If the command worked then try another SD card or format that SD card via recovery.

Thanks for the help so far..but I tried both them options and neither makes a difference!.
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What rom do you currently run?

I'm currently using the stock 2.3. Which I rooted with revolutionary. Ive put other ROMs on though (restored my original mondaco custom r11, and tried cyanogen) and none of them can see the SD card either. Literally only way to get to it from my pc is to mount usb from within recovery.
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Ok my new sim/sd card component came through today, swapped them over and its fixed!! So it was a hardware issue.
Still strange how it was accessable via recovery and not via the ROM.
Thanks for your help anyway

Tried to flash kernel now cannot mount SD Card

The phone was rooted with unrevoked3 and It was S-off. I downloaded Kernel Manager and tried to flash 2.6.35.13-gingertiny-v2-111920112.zip. Well, something went wrong. It gave the 5 vibs on reboot. I tried to follow the instructions at pvillecomp's page, but I am stuck on fastboot part, it won't mount the sd card. It did turn on while I had it plugged to the computer, which is Linux Mint, and it looks as though it did a factory reset. I am at a loss on what to do, Oh yeah, in the boot menu, it is S-ON now. Any ideas on how I can get it to mount the sd card? Thanks in advance.

Okay, I have been reading a lot, and it looks like I can't do "fastboot oem enableqxdm 0" while the phone is S-ON to mount either external card or internal storage. The phone works, just no SD Card or Internal phone storage, it says Phone memory "total space: 748 MB, and Available space: 659 MB". The SD card and internal storage say "Unavailable". So, basically I have a "half-bricked" phone. This really sucks. And since I don't know how exactly it happened, I don't know how to avoid it next time.

Give this a try http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1110865

Thanks Jack, that is one of the threads I already looked at, I can get it booted but I can't use fastboot because of S-On.

Okay, I didn't read ALL of that thread, seems that you don't need S-Off to do this, all I need is z4 root, but when I tried to download it from the web with the android browser it said I need to mount the SD card to download. How can I download the apk without the SD card mounted?

Did you you fix the SD Card issue first by doing this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695243

I have tried this but this part...
"SD Card Fix
Press & hold vol down and power on the phone
Select fastboot by pressing the power button
ADB commands
fastboot oem enableqxdm 0
fastboot reboot
That should fix your SD card not being detected."
...doesn't work, when I do the "fastboot oem enableqxdm 0" it says "waiting for device" and stays there, maybe my linux isn't set-up with the adk correctly?

After messing with the phone some, I discovered that I still have root access and clockwork is still there, it did not do a factory reset, but I cannot get it to mount the internal or external sd. To get the phone to turn on I have to pull/replace battery, power+vol-, then go into fastboot, plug in the usb, then choose reboot, the phone will then boot up without the 5 vibes. The phone works as a phone, but that's about it. Anyone have any ideas?

There seems to be nothing I can do to get this phone working right again. I was able to mount the external sd and flash the PB31IMG for froyo, it appeared to work, but still the 5 vibes, and now I can't even boot up with the usb cable attached like before, I think it's dead. I found a used dinc on ebay and bought it. I'll keep messing with the old one but at my level I don't know if I can resurrect it.

tjrogers73 said:
There seems to be nothing I can do to get this phone working right again. I was able to mount the external sd and flash the PB31IMG for froyo, it appeared to work, but still the 5 vibes, and now I can't even boot up with the usb cable attached like before, I think it's dead. I found a used dinc on ebay and bought it. I'll keep messing with the old one but at my level I don't know if I can resurrect it.
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Have you tried this?
http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=33

Yes, was able to mount the SD card with those instructions, but now it will not get past the 5 vibes.

[Q] Phone not reading SD cards.

The other day my CM7 desire suddenly crashed, and so I had to take the battery out. Since then it has not been able to read SD Cards in any way. I have tried multiple SD cards, and formatted them with different file systems. Even in Clockwork recovery I could not mount the sd card. The cards work fine on my computer and in my girlfriends phone.
I gave up, and decided to restore my phone to stock to try and return it to Orange for a replacement. I phoned them and they told me it was out of warranty so they could do nothing. In hindsight I should've waited for them to tell me this before I restored to stock!
My phone is now running Android 2.3 from the HTC dev site, which I installed by just executing the update within the .zip.
I have tried to root with unrevoked, but it gets stuck at "waiting for bootloader" in both windows and ubuntu.
I gained S-off using revolutionary in order to perform the commands (as the last command only works with s-off:
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fastboot oem enableqxdm 0
fastboot oem eraseconfig
Since going back to stock, I have tried different cards again. With certain cards (I don't remember which ones), my phone says "preparing SD card" but then tells me I have a "blank sd card or has unsupported filesystem". It gives me the option to format the the card, but this does nothing, and sometimes "unmounts" it.
This has given me hope, so does anyone have any ideas before I do give up?

It seems to me you somehow damaged the sdcard connector inside the phone when ripping out the battery. Did you check to make sure all the pins are not bend or bricked and all can make good contact with the sdcard ? Maybe the card cannot be pushed in the proper way ? something is holding it back or so ?
Doesn't seem to me as a rom/software related issue.

Yeah definitely seems like a hardware issue. Can push the sd card in like normal - at least it doesn't feel any different. Can't see the pins of the sd card reader as they are behind a piece of immovable metal.

Bluetooth is working?

As far as I know, it turns on and off and can discover and pair with devices.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20873122&postcount=12
it worked on my desire

name.vic said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20873122&postcount=12
it worked on my desire
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Thanks for the suggestion but it didn't work. I think this is a hardware issue unforunately.