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Help unrooting HTC Evo 4G

First I apologize if there is already a post for this question. This is my situation. A friend of mine has the HTC Evo 4g, it was purchase through Page plus. The phone appears to be rooted.
I'd like to unroot the phone, restore it to its original rom so I can add it to my sprint account. Is this possible? And if so, any help will be greatly appreciated. I have never rooted a phone, so I will need step by step instructions.
Thnx in advance, Charles
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Please post what it says on the bootloader screen. pull the battery, reinstall it, hold vol up, hold power. After a few seconds it will boot into a text screen. Is it unlocked? S-on or s-off? and what it the hboot version?

koker93 said:
Please post what it says on the bootloader screen. pull the battery, reinstall it, hold vol up, hold power. After a few seconds it will boot into a text screen. Is it unlocked? S-on or s-off? and what it the hboot version?
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Pull the battery out put it back in hold volume down and power at the same time wait until a white screen comes up post a pic of that
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koker93 said:
please post what it says on the bootloader screen. Pull the battery, reinstall it, hold vol up, hold power. After a few seconds it will boot into a text screen. Is it unlocked? S-on or s-off? And what it the hboot version?
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Cperrry1 said:
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Not sure why you think it's rooted, because it's not. That's stock as can be.
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Current Device: HTC EVO 4G LTE | ROM: Viper4G 1.0.0 | Kernel: 3.0.8-AwesomeSauce1.2

Captain_Throwback said:
Not sure why you think it's rootedw, because it's not. That's stock as can be.
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Current Device: HTC EVO 4G LTE | ROM: Viper4G 1.0.0 | [cB]Kernel:[/B] 3.0.8-AwesomeSauce1.2
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So i should be able to activate the phone on my sprint plan then. When i try to do an update i get the red triangle. When i try download apps i get an error. I did a factory reset, and its the same problem. Also the phone starts reseting like there isnt enough memory but it plenty availble. May be a bad phone.
Thnx for ur help an any ideas would be appreciated.
Charles

Cperrry1 said:
So i should be able to activate the phone on my sprint plan then. When i try to do an update i get the red triangle. When i try download apps i get an error. I did a factory reset, and its the same problem. Also the phone starts reseting like there isnt enough memory but it plenty availble. May be a bad phone.
Thnx for ur help an any ideas would be appreciated.
Charles
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The red triangle is the stock recovery. What update are you trying to do? The software update? That has nothing to do with activating the device.
You should probably download and run the RUU for your software version, to essentially start you from scratch. However if the device was activated on carrier, and you're trying to get it working on Sprint, that might pose a different problem. You'll probably need to call Sprint.
And I'm still curious to know what made you say that it appears to be rooted. The fact that it wouldn't activate? Rooting doesn't prevent that.

Captain_Throwback said:
The red triangle is the stock recovery. What update are you trying to do? The software update? That has nothing to do with activating the device.
You should probably download and run the RUU for your software version, to essentially start you from scratch. However if the device was activated on carrier, and you're trying to get it working on Sprint, that might pose a different problem. You'll probably need to call Sprint.
And I'm still curious to know what made you say that it appears to be rooted. The fact that it wouldn't activate? Rooting doesn't prevent that.
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I read on line to check if a phone is rooted to download a root app from the google play store and it downloaded fine, but I didnt check to see if the app worked. Most apps download but I get an error with most.

[Q] HOX Locked! and security warning (I was using viperX)

Well, I have a problem. I am using viperx, with my phone unlocked, obviously. I was listening to music when it suddenly reboot. It runs in bootloader. And... with a message LOCKED and security warning. I dont know what happened. It was in my car holder, I didn´t touch anything... If I reboot, it says for a second "this build is for development purposes only. Do not distribute outside of htc without htc's written permission. Failure to comply may lead to legal action". Then back to the bootloader.
The phone was perfectly cold when it reboots...
A couple of screenshots:
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Any help? I suposse I have to unlock it again?

Unlock it again. Use the Unlock_code.bin that you should have in your email.

death__machine said:
Unlock it again. Use the Unlock_code.bin that you should have in your email.
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Well, I was going to do it, but.. it doesnt boot now... :crying:

racatapum said:
Well, I was going to do it, but.. it doesnt boot now... :crying:
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after unlock don't forget to flash custom recovery and then fastboot erase cache.

is this the leaked JB hboot?

AgoeZ said:
after unlock don't forget to flash custom recovery and then fastboot erase cache.
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Yes, but the problem is that the phone doesnt start now...

hamdir said:
is this the leaked JB hboot?
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No, I didnt upgrade to jb yet...

Cant boot, cant charge it (no leds)...

If phone does not start and you cannot go into HBOOT and it does not get recognized as APX in your computer.
You are ****ed or battery is done.

xmoo said:
If phone does not start and you cannot go into HBOOT and it does not get recognized as APX in your computer.
You are ****ed or battery is done.
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then.. to the sat?

Timebomb? What build were you on?

There is no way to charge it if it is power off?

webpatrick said:
Timebomb? What build were you on?
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I was using the last viperx rom...

I would try to charge it using the charging script.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1738274

As your phone doesn't start up / boot at all there might be something completely different that's messed up, I'm guessing it's faulty hardware that has first caused your phones software to go haywire and now the phone simply won't start. You could try the charging-script above but I'd probably go for the warranty, HTC might be a bit tricky about that though.

well his phone says locked and not relocked, the only thing there is the security warning, but i guess he can claim never to have rooted the phone.
i´m not sure about it though

Unlock again.

Well, yesterday night, I left the phone plugged to the wall carger. During the night, It starts (don´t know why) and entered bootloader. Unfortunatelly, I was too slept to try anything...
HTC wont take it to the SAT till monday, so any ideas will be really appreciated!

racatapum said:
Well, yesterday night, I left the phone plugged to the wall carger. During the night, It starts (don´t know why) and entered bootloader. Unfortunatelly, I was too slept to try anything...
HTC wont take it to the SAT till monday, so any ideas will be really appreciated!
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It reboots again. In fastboot, of course. My pc read it. Tried the battery charger pluggin. It worked, but didt start again. It is off again. What can I do if it starts again? erase cache?

racatapum said:
It reboots again. In fastboot, of course. My pc read it. Tried the battery charger pluggin. It worked, but didt start again. It is off again. What can I do if it starts again? erase cache?
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Mayby try install ruu for your country
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Wildfire stuck in bootloop, successfully access fastboot what now?

Hi i have a HTC Wildfire that I thought i would repair for a friend, i've managed to get to fastboot through power+volume down, it says that the device is S-OFF, what do i do next?
If its a rom i have to install, i would prefer to install the stock sense rom.
thanks for your help in advance.

OK, I am getting these errors:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

OK, when i boot into recovery, i get a picture of a phone with a red exclamation mark and nothing else, however when i try and flash a recovery through fastboot the above error occurs, i have no idea if this device has an unlocked bootloader but it is S-OFF

On some devices its easier with fastboot commands in others not. On the wildfire you can just place a file on your sd-card Boot into bootloader and the recovery gets flashed automaticly
So wait i will look for the file or link
EDIT: Here it is download and place in the root of your SD card
http://www25.zippyshare.com/v/70647552/file.html
If the bootloader asks you anything selects yes (obviously)
Btw the red thing you See is the Android stock recovery
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miniAndroidian said:
On some devices its easier with fastboot commands in others not. On the wildfire you can just place a file on your sd-card Boot into bootloader and the recovery gets flashed automaticly
So wait i will look for the file or link
EDIT: Here it is download and place in the root of your SD card
http://www25.zippyshare.com/v/70647552/file.html
If the bootloader asks you anything selects yes (obviously)
Btw the red thing you See is the Android stock recovery
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Ive tried this and it says "no image or wrong image" it does detect the zip but it says that message after.
im on hboot 1.01.0002, is there a manual way of updating this because ive tried HTC dev unlock RUU but since i can't boot into the phone i get error 190.

miniAndroidian said:
Is it really S-off cause normally s-off devices should have a 6. ,0.8 Or 1.6 and something hboot? I cant look on my wf now cause im on vacation
But with this hboot ruu should normally work. Are you flashing the 2.2 ruu?
If everything doesnt work s-off it again with revolutionary and see what happens
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I don't think i clarified this properly, but i found this phone at my friends house in a cupboard and it was broken, so i don't know its history, but according to him the phone has been unlocked from 3 UK to any network by one of those mobile phone shops, and after a year or so of use, the phone randomly got stuck in a bootloop one day.
here is a screenshot of the bootloader:

androidmodd said:
Hi i have a HTC Wildfire that I thought i would repair for a friend, i've managed to get to fastboot through power+volume down, it says that the device is S-OFF, what do i do next?
If its a rom i have to install, i would prefer to install the stock sense rom.
thanks for your help in advance.
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hi I've had this problem once and i trired every thing to solve it But it didn't Work :crying: But at last I've found the key at Xda-developers Just Go To http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2094096
and try to find A suitable RUU Shipped rom (you'll find the instructions there)
1-download it
2- open it
3- Turn the phone onand plug it to the coputer via USB
4- let it reflash the phone
NB: If didnt work Try Totun the phnone on but get to fastboot
this will get revese evry thing to factory default S-off ....

AmMaR-95 said:
hi I've had this problem once and i trired every thing to solve it But it didn't Work :crying: But at last I've found the key at Xda-developers Just Go To http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2094096
and try to find A suitable RUU Shipped rom (you'll find the instructions there)
1-download it
2- open it
3- Turn the phone onand plug it to the coputer via USB
4- let it reflash the phone
NB: If didnt work Try Totun the phnone on but get to fastboot
this will get revese evry thing to factory default S-off ....
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Don't worry this is a duplicate thread in the wrong forum section. The other thread shows that the issue is resolved
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Rooted Elephone P8000 stucks at Boot Logo after OTA Update

Hi there,
The phone is rooted.
I've proceeded with the latest update today (~12mb size), don't remember the exact version.
It said it fixes some system bugs, etc.
After the update installed the phone won't load, stucks on the changing color logo.
Cannot access the recovery mode option in the boot menu (Vol+Power), says "no command", if press and hold Vol+ and Power again the phone restarts and enter the boot logo again.
Has anyone ideas how this can be fixed?

vagifn said:
Hi there,
The phone is rooted.
I've proceeded with the latest update today (~12mb size), don't remember the exact version.
It said it fixes some system bugs, etc.
After the update installed the phone won't load, stucks on the changing color logo.
Cannot access the recovery mode option in the boot menu (Vol+Power), says "no command", if press and hold Vol+ and Power again the phone restarts and enter the boot logo again.
Has anyone ideas how this can be fixed?
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See http://forum.xda-developers.com/elephone-p8000/help/boot-loop-ota-upgrade-t3246203.
Post #16 describes how get into recovery from the 'no command' screen, and my post #12 describes how I managed to get it flashed using the SP Flashtool.
(Note my point no,5 - all I needed to do is press 'Download' first, THEN attach the powered off phone.)
Good luck!

kevvyboy said:
See http://forum.xda-developers.com/elephone-p8000/help/boot-loop-ota-upgrade-t3246203.
Post #16 describes how get into recovery from the 'no command' screen, and my post #12 describes how I managed to get it flashed using the SP Flashtool.
(Note my point no,5 - all I needed to do is press 'Download' first, THEN attach the powered off phone.)
Good luck!
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Thanks a lot fot pointing this out.
Managed to get the recovery options menu.
However wiping the cache didn't help.
After doing the "root integrity check" got this:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
do you think this can be fixed w/o reflashing an entire rom?

Oooh. Brighter minds than mine might correct me, but I think the bootloop is only fixed with a ROM flash

kevvyboy said:
Oooh. Brighter minds than mine might correct me, but I think the bootloop is only fixed with a ROM flash
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Sad... anyway would you please direct me to where I can download the flash tool and stock ROM? Thanks.

kevvyboy said:
Oooh. Brighter minds than mine might correct me, but I think the bootloop is only fixed with a ROM flash
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Actually, what you need to do is format the data partition or write the empty data.img file over the data partition which in effect does the same thing. And the later one is also what happens when your download entire rom using sp flash.

pitrus- said:
Actually, what you need to do is format the data partition or write the empty data.img file over the data partition which in effect does the same thing. And the later one is also what happens when your download entire rom using sp flash.
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I've proceeded with "wipe data/factory reset" option - no effect...or are we talking about different things?

vagifn said:
I've proceeded with "wipe data/factory reset" option - no effect...or are we talking about different things?
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In that case you probably need to flash the system.img and maybe even the boot.img from the latest rom. Elephone really should stop sending out these broken OTAs...

pitrus- said:
In that case you probably need to flash the system.img and maybe even the boot.img from the latest rom. Elephone really should stop sending out these broken OTAs...
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I believe the case is that my phone is rooted and this is not the Elephone team's fault...anyways thanks for trying to help me.

vagifn said:
I believe the case is that my phone is rooted and this is not the Elephone team's fault...anyways thanks for trying to help me.
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You belive this b***** that feed you on official forum? OTA should work on any device software config.

ruonim said:
You belive this b***** that feed you on official forum? OTA should work on any device software config.
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I didn't read official forum. However you do loose your warranty if device is rooted, thus the device manufacturer owes you nothing. OTA worked fine before I rooted my device.
Btw, I got my phone back to life by re-flashing the entire ROM, just in case.

Hello my friend
vagifn said:
Hi there,
The phone is rooted.
I've proceeded with the latest update today (~12mb size), don't remember the exact version.
It said it fixes some system bugs, etc.
After the update installed the phone won't load, stucks on the changing color logo.
Cannot access the recovery mode option in the boot menu (Vol+Power), says "no command", if press and hold Vol+ and Power again the phone restarts and enter the boot logo again.
Has anyone ideas how this can be fixed?
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The only thing you need to do is reinstall the añl the system with spflashtool. Never and remember never you can update any android with a ota if you are a rooted user.
If you speak spanish you can search in the youtube channel AndroidMxL to ser how you can reinstall the original ROM on your android.

allianzcred said:
The only thing you need to do is reinstall the añl the system with spflashtool. Never and remember never you can update any android with a ota if you are a rooted user.
If you speak spanish you can search in the youtube channel AndroidMxL to ser how you can reinstall the original ROM on your android.
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Already did, thanks. Will never combine Root and OTA together again

No Recovery...Bricked???

Hi all, i have a massive problem. I was using FreedomOS 1.6 [OOS 3.2.7] Rom and went to boot into twrp 3.0.2-0 and now i have no recovery phone doesnt boot, i can boot into fastboot/bootloader mode, i have flashed twrp again and it still dosent boot into recovery.
Please guys this is so frustrating any help is MASSIVELY appreciated

http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3/how-to/guide-mega-unbrick-guide-hard-bricked-t3405700

Follow this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69141963&postcount=5

kgs1992 said:
Follow this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69141963&postcount=5
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still no luck. still boots to a screen saying boot:failed recovery:failed

phonetech101 said:
still no luck. still boots to a screen saying boot:failed recovery:failed
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I'd the same problem look there, solved by following @kgs1992 instructions !

keviiin38 said:
I'd the same problem look there, solved by following @kgs1992 instructions !
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still no luck, bootloader is locked and i cant boot phone to enable oem unlock ****kkkkkkkkk

phonetech101 said:
still no luck, bootloader is locked and i cant boot phone to enable oem unlock ****kkkkkkkkk
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Did you tried @kgs1992 answer ?
kgs1992 said:
Follow this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=69141963&postcount=5
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i have same problem and my phone now on bootloop how can i fix it
please help us

keviiin38 said:
Did you tried @kgs1992 answer ?
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nope once bootloader is locked and phone cant boot into system to turm oem unlocking on ur stuffed, so i have a useless phone but open to more suggestions.

phonetech101 said:
nope once bootloader is locked and phone cant boot into system to turm oem unlocking on ur stuffed, so i have a useless phone but open to more suggestions.
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Relocking was a bad idea, you just ran out of all options.
I'm not sure if there is any way around enabling OEM unlocking.
Try the previous suggestion.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3/how-to/guide-mega-unbrick-guide-hard-bricked-t3405700
Snapdragons are truly unbrickable. But I'm not sure I know enough to help.

kgs1992 said:
Relocking was a bad idea, you just ran out of all options.
I'm not sure if there is any way around enabling OEM unlocking.
Try the previous suggestion.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3/how-to/guide-mega-unbrick-guide-hard-bricked-t3405700
Snapdragons are truly unbrickable. But I'm not sure I know enough to help.
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did it again, cant boot into recovery. tried "fastboot boot recovery.img came back with
error (remote: unlock device to use this command"
this is what it boot loops to and from
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
[/IMG]

this is what i see when i boot up

I'm fairly sure fastboot boot <image> doesn't even work if the bootloader is unlocked on the op3.
Also, it looks like recovery did get flashed.
Try rebooting to recovery?
Power off by holding power button, then hold vol down + power.
Then if you are booted into stock recovery, just side load the stock ROM.

kgs1992 said:
I'm fairly sure fastboot boot <image> doesn't even work if the bootloader is unlocked on the op3.
Also, it looks like recovery did get flashed.
Try rebooting to recovery?
Power off by holding volume button, then hold vol down + power.
Then if you are booted into stock recovery, just side load the stock ROM.
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Na it won't boot into recovery, have flashed stock recovery tried modified recovery tried twrp recovery none off them boot into recovery :/

I wish I could get into recovery then I'm fine from there

Boooommm done it, thanks everyone for your help.

mix-75 said:
i have same problem and my phone now on bootloop how can i fix it
please help us
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Did you fix yours mate?? I have the fix. Download this https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24591000424942573
Its got the boot.IMG and system.IMG files unlike the others.

This tool can not read my device all tiame no device no device
All drivers is setup on my computer but this tool not read
I have same your screen shoot below
But mype more files is filled, just 3 or 4 file is ok
I hate this problem :crying:

mix-75 said:
This tool can not read my device all tiame no device no device
All drivers is setup on my computer but this tool not read
I have same your screen shoot below
But mype more files is filled, just 3 or 4 file is ok
I hate this problem :crying:
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My friend I had same problem.
1. Plug phone into computer
2. Turn phone off by holding down power for 40 seconds,
3. Now run unbrick tool with admin.
4. Hold volume up on phone till program reads phone then press start.