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I know i will get trashed for this post. but i am just not sure and do not want to brick my phone
i recently had speaker problems with my evo and dirt under my screen. So i need to return my phone and get a new one.
how can i get rid of nandroid and flash the ota froyo rom and have it back to stock.
do i run this
PC36IMG.zip
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715915&highlight=froyo
you want to unroot? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=743192
If your going through HTC directly just return your phone as is. They don't really care about the software if the replacement is due to a hardware issue. I'm not sure if sprint will be as finicky but my guess is they will be about the same.
What I've done is go to a sprint repair center. They tend to be fairly intelligent and generally swap right there.
Why would you get trashed for asking a question like that? The only reason I could see would be that it should be under the Q&A section, but if you think you'd get trashed because you asked a question about unrooting, I would like to know who's been giving this community a bad name. Not that I could do anything about it, but I like to think that we're pretty friendly here.
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Why would you get trashed for asking a question like that? The only reason I could see would be that it should be under the Q&A section, but if you think you'd get trashed because you asked a question about unrooting, I would like to know who's been giving this community a bad name. Not that I could do anything about it, but I like to think that we're pretty friendly here.
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Ageed. Theres nothing wrong with unrooting especially if you are trying to get a replacement.
Run the RUU ?? I think that should put you back to unrooted stock.
NO NO NO
martijua said:
Run the RUU ?? I think that should put you back to unrooted stock.
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Dont run any RUU you wont get it up and running anymore.
Hi, I am unable to hookup to my laptop due to usb port loose/faulty connection. I will be taking phone back to BestBuy to either fix or replace. Well- would like to anyways. So how would I do this if I cannot run the ruu or HTC sync? Could I just put the step 2 pcimg. On my sdcard and flash that? I was unable to get my pri to update so I have flashed the zip file that just changes the numbers to be correct.
Thanks for any help.
J
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Run the official RUU.
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Okay, so while doing some unadvised actions, my Desire Z is in the state of not even being able to go into bootloader, recovery or signs of booting up. Not being able to get into bootloader I am unable to get into fasboot to reflash to needed files. It happened when I flashed the radio with Vision_TMOUS_RADIO_12.21.60.09b_26.02.01.15, the G2 one. The phone is s-off with 0005 hboot. I used the newer gfree method of doing this. If anyone can help me to get the phone to connect to the computer, then maybe I can flash whats needed. Or help me do what else to fix this brick, kinda shy of opening it up.
As far as I know, your phone is F.U.B.A.R. due to the fact that they have different radios, one specific to the tmobile G2 which has the different 3G bands as its "world" euro version aka the Desire Z. Sorry bro, vaya con dios. Someone correct me if Im wrong.
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kholk said:
Welcome to the HTC Vision (TMOUS G2 and Desire Z) Radio ROM & Official BLs Thread!
Well, my old HD2 Radio ROM Thread became a reference for all HD2 users, so.. I'm retrying this here now
Radio ROM Downloads:
Vision_RADIO_12.28e.60.140f_26.04.02.17: MegaUpload
Vision_RADIO_12.28b.60.140e_26.03.02.26: MegaUpload
Vision_RADIO_12.28b.60.140e_26.03.02.18: MegaUpload
Vision_RADIO_12.28a.60.140e_26.03.02.08: MegaUpload
Vision_RADIO_12.26.60.1301_26.02.00.24: MegaUpload
Vision_TMOUS_RADIO_12.21.60.09b_26.02.01.15 (G2): MegaUpload
Official hBoot Downloads:
Vision_HBOOT_0.85.0005: MegaUpload
Vision_HBOOT_0.85.0002: MegaUpload
Vision_TMOBILE_HBOOT_0.82.0000 (G2): MegaUpload
Installing:
1. Download the archive
2. Decompress it, you'll have a .img file (its name should be "radio.img")
3. Copy it into your fastboot folder
4. Boot your device into FastBoot mode and connect it to your PC via USB
5. Go into your Android SDK folder with CMD (Windows) or Linux terminal
6. Flash the Radio on your device: "fastboot flash radio radio.img"
7. Wait until the process finishes. You should read "COMPLETE" on your device's display.
8. Reboot
9. Enjoy!
Please note that you should flash a new radio only if you really know what you're doing!
NOTE: 26.04.02.17 is known to work on G2 and most probably all the radios are flashable on both G2 and D-Z.
Happy flashing!
-kholk
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Hmmm, is there any way to force fastboot in cmd or anything of the sort? or what would it be like dealing with HTC?
Do you have adb? If so, you can flash another radio.
Also you might try putting stock rom on SD. Make sure its named update. Try booting into hboot. You may just not have an image. Hboot will pick up that update and do its thing. Good luck.
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The phone wont let me in hboot. I cant get adb or fastboot to recognize it without hboot right?
EDIT: Only sign of life i get outta the phone is the amber led showing that its charging
mdayjr said:
Do you have adb? If so, you can flash another radio.
Also you might try putting stock rom on SD. Make sure its named update. Try booting into hboot. You may just not have an image. Hboot will pick up that update and do its thing. Good luck.
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There is so much fail in that quote lol.
Well sure. Anything is worth a try. Trying to save the man $600. You have a better idea besides bashing my quote?
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wallyhonda said:
The phone wont let me in hboot. I cant get adb or fastboot to recognize it without hboot right?
EDIT: Only sign of life i get outta the phone is the amber led showing that its charging
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Its bricked... send it back for a replacement. There is no way they can prove its been rooted, modded, or anything else.
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Well sure. Anything is worth a try. Trying to save the man $600. You have a better idea besides bashing my quote?
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The thing is he already said he can't get into bootloader. Its a fail because you can't even read, lol
sino8r said:
The thing is he already said he can't get into bootloader. Its a fail because you can't even read, lol
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Thing is I read fine. I ask him about adb and I mentioned putting stock rom on sd. Now. Do you have an idea?
And the biggest thing is this, we wouldn't be even trying to help this member if he could read. LOL
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Any advice on returning it to HTC for a replacement? cuz obviously i shouldnt of been doing what caused this to happen. Anyone have any experience getting phones replaced by HTC, specifically bricked phones?
wallyhonda said:
Any advice on returning it to HTC for a replacement? cuz obviously i shouldnt of been doing what caused this to happen. Anyone have any experience getting phones replaced by HTC, specifically bricked phones?
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Enough is enough. Go through this forum and grab the ruu radio from football for desire z. I believe this is the only way you are going to break brick. Once you have the file, be on the page with ruu , pull your batt, hook up your phone to pc, hit ruu and wait for it to recognize your phone. If it doesn't, it should give you instructions on what to do. This is the only chance you have I believe.
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sino8r said:
Its bricked... send it back for a replacement. There is no way they can prove its been rooted, modded, or anything else.
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He bricked it with the radio file. All the os info is still on the phone. Htc will know. These guys went to school for this stuff. Don't be so sure of yourself. There are techs that can pull info from a device that has been underwater so don't think they won't be able to tell. They will go through the phone to find out why it bricked or won't boot and then it will sit with the refurbs after they have put stock os back on that comes with radio file.
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Annnnd in the meantime before they figure all that out, will they send me a new one you think?
One of the first questions a tech will ask you is "did you root the phone?" And unless you purchased that phone directly from htc, you have to deal with your carrier and they wiill tell you that. Real thing is this, you have a nice $600 paper weight. Good luck.
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At that point do i just play dumb lol? As pathetic as it sounds, just until the point they send me a new unit or something. I mean they already told me to deal with the manufacturer. I just dont know what extent they"re going to take with it, ya know. Thanks alot for your time too.
mdayjr has no idea what he is talking about. I'm not meaning to sound insulting but you are simply wrong. He can not overcome this. You are bricked, very simple. The only way to overcome a TRUE brick is with JTAG which I'm sure is unknown how to do on a G2 as of now.
If you have insurance, call your carrier and tell them it just started acting up. If they ask about rooting at all just play dumb. They will not be able to ever know any different. Scouts honor. The only possible way to do this is very time-consuming, would be expensive if you had to pay for it, and is VERY risky. You think they can unbrick a phone? If they COULD unbrick a phone easily, they wouldn't replace it with a brand new one. They would make you send it in, fix it, and send it back. That's just better for business. Even if they could tell you rooted, you would already have your new phone before they knew and you would still be sitting there with a brand new phone.
Next time you flash a radio follow read to be sure other people with the same phone/SPL have flashed it and confirmed it working. Coming from a MT3G/G1 the most common reason for TRUE bricks is an improper radio or SPL flash.
If you are ever able to get into recovery or fastboot you are fine. Since you are unable to get into either recovery or fastboot your phone is bricked. If you would like to read about what's going on with your phone right now, you can read more here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=655097
mdayjr said:
He bricked it with the radio file. All the os info is still on the phone. Htc will know. These guys went to school for this stuff. Don't be so sure of yourself. There are techs that can pull info from a device that has been underwater so don't think they won't be able to tell. They will go through the phone to find out why it bricked or won't boot and then it will sit with the refurbs after they have put stock os back on that comes with radio file.
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Lol! Are you a cell tech? No...
Am I?
Yes... well... was, for many years
No, you moron... they don't check or try and pull any info if it doesn't power on or have liquid or physical damage. They don't use the same recovery software that you use to recover criminal/goverment files on a damaged drive, lol! What a waste of time! They replace the board if it isn't flashable and obviously they can't see the previous build without a functional bootloader. Plus, a damaged radio is enough to brick. Reflashing a radio won't fix it for sure but its worth trying EXCEPT he can't get into bootloader or fastboot!!! Shut up and quit making this guy more confused, please!
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At that point do i just play dumb lol? As pathetic as it sounds, just until the point they send me a new unit or something. I mean they already told me to deal with the manufacturer. I just dont know what extent they"re going to take with it, ya know. Thanks alot for your time too.
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If you can... get a replacement phone from your carrier. Tell them you charged it overnight and it won't power on. Simple as that! Don't listen to that other guy... he has no idea what he is talking about. He means well but is an idiot. He's what we call, in the IT profession, a user that has just enough experience to do some damage, lol! You will be fine... just play dumb. Same deal what I told you with HTC if you get referred there.
I'm asking on behalf of a friend of mine who doesnt actually have a computer so he cant post here himself to ask. I'm a vibrant/N1/G1 user myself, so i'm familiar with the aspects here: he has a slide, has the split-screen/ribbon problem on opening/closing the keyboard. He managed to get a warranty replacement from TMO, but he's super paranoid about having to pay the damages fee because he has CM loaded on it instead of the stock firmware.
Bottom line, he wants to brick it just to be sure before he sends it back (he already has the replacement phone). What is the simplest way (that I could explain to him over the phone) to hard brick the phone?
Quick and dirty is all I really need to help him get the job done, all help much appreciated!
If he can brick it, then he can flash the factory ROM that is available to bring it back to unrooted stated. Why not just do that?
-sigh- I guess he can just try to follow the S-OFF instructions to where it says not 2 power off, take out battery- disconnect phone... do the oppsite of what it says not to do? Just saying though... why not just do what Fermunky said?
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If he can brick it, then he can flash the factory ROM that is available to bring it back to unrooted stated. Why not just do that?
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CaliBoyPhillip said:
Just saying though... why not just do what Fermunky said?
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Problem is that he lives in virginia and I live in colorado. I rooted and customized his phone when I was out there visiting because he's completely inept at this kind of stuff, so I was just looking for a simpler solution than to try and walk him through a reflash over the phone. Plus, apparently what he told the TMO reps was that he got an OTA update and it bricked him, which is the only way (he said) that they'd do a warranty exchange.
Well, I guess your short answer is No, there is no "quick" way. Whether you try to brick it or not, either way will require some attempt at flashing "something", but to just do it in a completely wrong way. Maybe by connecting to a PC and using clever ADB/Shell commands could also do it, but not entirely sure.
Couldn't you flash the radio for say, a Droid X or any CDMA radio?
I know you can brick CDMA phones by flashing GSM radios.
And yay Colorado ;D
I'm going to have to close this as it's discussing warranty fraud.
Hi everyone! Here is the thing that is bothering me. I bought my phone month and a half ago. I recently unlocked bootloader, installed CWM, rooted it, changed kernel to Titanium KISS and overclocked it, while running stock rom. I have worries because many users reported that their phones suddenly died in 2 months period from purchase. What to do if that happens? I guess that my cell operator wont accept warranty if I give them unlocked and rooted phone back. What is your suggestion?
empyting ur pockets if system partition isnt burned up
I'm thinking to put it all back to stock and wait for another month to see how the phone will behave. :/
BGmaster said:
I'm thinking to put it all back to stock and wait for another month to see how the phone will behave. :/
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If the phone is rooted (BL unlocked) the warranty is void as is.
If you get the QHUSB (dead) mode, and cannot resurrect the phone via the tool, it is quite possible, that you can claim warranty, given that even the manufacturer cannot read back anything from the phone.
Ken-Shi_Kun said:
If you get the QHUSB (dead) mode, and cannot resurrect the phone via the tool, it is quite possible, that you can claim warranty, given that even the manufacturer cannot read back anything from the phone.
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You mean like if it's completely dead and I can't access to fastboot or anything they can't see what I did with the phone? So do you suggest that I go back to stock and wait for a little while or leave it like this?
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How do they charge you dude??
5000 :'( whole mobo needs to be replaced
If your phone ends up going completely dead (QHSUSB_DLOAD mode, unable to get out of it), chances are your operator might not be able to tell you've done anything to it.
For example, I either ended up bricking my first One V due to overclocking way too high, or it had a faulty memory chip, and got the QHSUSB_DLOAD mode. I sent it back to my operator, and they said they were "unable to fix it" and sent me a replacement, so I'm assuming they couldn't tell I had rooted/unlocked/installed a kernel.
Some QHSUSB_DLOADs are recoverable though, so be careful.
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You mean like if it's completely dead and I can't access to fastboot or anything they can't see what I did with the phone? So do you suggest that I go back to stock and wait for a little while or leave it like this?
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If you get that dead mode, then it isn't matters that you are on custom or stock.
Guess i'll then then stick with the customization. If anything goes down that badly I'm gonna act dumb all the way :silly:
Why Worry?
Don't worry. buddy.
First of all, my and my friend's One V didn't die.
Second, if it dies, as you see the previous posts, HTC won't be able to tell that it's rooted if it's hard bricked.
First you could try to repair it using some methods available on the internet or at last you could send it to HTC.
When you're going to win in either way, they why worry?
I saw a similar question on this but is my warranty really voided if I rooted my sprint galaxy s3 and I could get it back by going back to 100% stock? I rooted it shortly after getting this phone. This morning I went into download mode and saw the flash count 1 and 2 lines say custom and go into about device and it says modified.
There are ways to reset those. Search qbking77 on youtube.
As far as warranty, no they will charge you your deductible for a new/refurb phone. But a Sprint store can refuse to honor their TEP program and work on a rooted device.
And that's because after a tech fixes w/e is wrong, you walk out the door and it bricks because you flash something your not suppose to. They don't want the blame to fall back on them.
Sent from a planet far far away.
Kenny301 said:
I saw a similar question on this but is my warranty really voided if I rooted my sprint galaxy s3 and I could get it back by going back to 100% stock? I rooted it shortly after getting this phone. This morning I went into download mode and saw the flash count 1 and 2 lines say custom and go into about device and it says modified.
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You can always go back to stock and triangle-away the flash counter. I'd recommend using the Toolkit by mskip. It has the option of returning to stock unrooted and getting rid of the flash count.
As far as your primary question about warranty. Yes, your warranty is voided. That being said, I've never really heard of it being an issue. Most Sprint Tech's are pretty chill when it comes to this. You can, of course, get an uptight one who will complain and even refuse your return. But yeah, I haven't really heard of that happening too often.
Usually all carriers would check the flash tick and they'd tell you that you can not have a warranty for your phone.
But it's other times that you'd be really lucky to obtain one for your device if they won't look into it ( And they will )
and they'll look at the status of the device as well. If you want to fully go back to stock TW and get your warranty
it'd be advised to flash this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099
Thank billar412 for that.
Take note this is the MB1 update, if you how ever don't like MB1 there should be an LJ7 in the forums somewhere
or just look up qbking77 guide to unroot for stock TW and he should also have a flash counter reset under his threads as well.
Thanks for the quick replies. So that quick return to stock one would bring back the warranty then? That's the one I got my eye on plus I'm craving some custom rom goodness.
Kenny301 said:
Thanks for the quick replies. So that quick return to stock one would bring back the warranty then? That's the one I got my eye on plus I'm craving some custom rom goodness.
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I don't want to be the legalistic guy, but I wanted to point out something.
By flashing a custom recovery (i.e. gaining root access), you are voiding your claim on the warranty. There's no getting around that. But, by returning to stock and resetting your flash counter, you are making it so that no one can tell you voided the warranty.
I know it's a slight difference from what you said and many people may say I'm nit-picking, but I want people to take responsibility for flashing ROMs. It bugs me when people don't read everything, brick their phones, then try to get the carrier to pay for their mistakes (case in point).
Hey -
my question is in a similar vein.
I am "stock" but rooted and with CWM recovery.
I'm getting bugged to death with the OTA update notifications, and of course it won't run under CWM...
Best method to get it to install seems to be to restore factory recovery?
Or do you guys have other suggestions?
Bigjohn_S said:
Hey -
my question is in a similar vein.
I am "stock" but rooted and with CWM recovery.
I'm getting bugged to death with the OTA update notifications, and of course it won't run under CWM...
Best method to get it to install seems to be to restore factory recovery?
Or do you guys have other suggestions?
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You never mentioned where you got your phone. I buy mine at Best Buy, and purchase their insurance. It covers EVERYTHING except loss. No deductible. No limit on number of claims. I was flashing my GS3 back and forth between a few roms, and somehow messed it up. It was stuck in a boot loop. They couldn't get it to boot either. They sent it out, and I had a new one 4 days later. Only new because they had just come out, and didn't have refurbs yet
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