While I was installing ASKP kernel I had lost power while the phone was on the Google splash screen. Now my volume buttons haven't been functional for some time now but I've been getting by. But right now my pc doesn't have adb drivers installed and I can't get them installed without booting into my phone, atm windows can't see the phone even if it is connected by usb.
Does anybody know a way I can get out of this mess?:crying:
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A friend has asked me to look at his Wildfire, he said it was updating the Market and then blank screened. Since then it will not turn on, vibrates, then nothing.
I suspected screen (replaced a few wildfire ones now) but no sign of life from touch buttons, volume key, etc - so suspect it is bricked.
Tried to flash it with RUU but the phone will not go into the boot menu via volume down & power on. I've tried numerous times and it went into boot menu once, but you could not select anything, no keys working.
Hooked up to laptop and laptop could see it, but when you try to run the RUU you get Error 170, probably becaused it's not actualy in USB Boot mode.
Has anyone seen this? Any other tricks to get it into boot menu? Anything I can run from laptop or SD card to force it into a recovery or boot menu?
This is a stock ROM phone, not modified at all.
Any help much appreciated*
I have a way but I cant remember it lol
If I can remember when I get home, i'll re-post.
OK, cool
Made slight progress today, even though I had the boot menu come up once yesterday, but no response from keys, I did notice that even though I was trying to access boot menu, it was actually acting like it was in the menu, just blank screen, i.e. if I held power button afterwards I got no vibration, but if I did pull battery and hold power, I did, as if it was booting up.
I wonder if in actual fact the screen is dead, but also there is a software hang up, as if display was dead, you would still be able to swipe the screen, get touch keys to light up when pressed, etc.
Anyway, so I went into boot mode, blank screen, pressed power anyway which would be FASTBOOT - right?
Hooked up to PC, ran an RUU and it connected OK, went through process but failed on ID, because the phone has a T-Mobile ROM and I was trying to flash with non-branded one.
So I either need to find a T-MOB UK RUU, I found one but it wouldn't run, or I need to create a goldcard (can I do that with a semi bricked device?) and go down that route.
Either way, I'm pretty sure the LCD is dead, so for the sake of £7.50 I'll replace that first, even if it has got further issues, having a working LCD will help!!
yeah get the screen fixed first.
you will only have to fix the screen later and the hassle of trying to fix a phone with broken screen, to have to have it fixed later anyway isnt really the most logical way of doing things
My G2 won't boot normaly and is acting very straingly. I did a search of other similar problems people have had, but nothing matches what is happening to mine. It started when I noticed my power button and volume up button stoped working. I assumed it was a glitch and thought a reboot might help. Since the power button wasn't functioning, I pulled the battery to reboot it. That's when it stoped working. When I turn it on normaly with the power button, the screen stays off, it vibrates three times, and the led blinks orange untill I put the battery. If I attempt to boot into recovery with the button combination, it does the same. If I attempt to boot into HBoot, it vibrates five times and the led lights up solid green. Here's where things get realy strange. When I plug the phone into the charger while the phone is off, after about five seconds the phone comes on into the recovery bootloader even though when I boot while holding the buttons it dosn't work. I have the ClockworkMod touch recovery installed. From within the recovery I have full access to everything including ADB with root access. When I select the reboot option from recovery, it does the same thing with the vibrating and the blinking led. I tried the key test in the recovery and I discovered that my volume up button only works intermitently and my power button seems to be working fine. I haven't attempted to flash a new rom yet because I'm assuming it must be something else since I can't even access HBoot, and I'm scared if I touch anything I'll loose access to recovery and ADB as well.
Any advice? Could a damaged volume up button contact cause all this to happen? Should I try flashing it from recovery even though I can't access HBoot?
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demkantor said:
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Just tried it. Screen goes black, vibrates three times, and led blinks orange untill I pull the battey. It was a good Idea though, I didn't think to try that myself.
you know what, are these very quick vibrates? you mentioned there is a problem with your volume rocker (sticky keys?) your phone may be trying to get into the jtag/download mode.
not sure how to use this mode on the vision but tell me if this is the same response you get.
take out battery, hold both volume buttons, plug phone into computer.
it should vibrate three times rapidly and computer should look for driver :
Qualcomm CDMA Technolgies MSM driver
not sure where to get the proper driver for the vision but ive used this mode to root other android phones and i know there is a "unbricking project" for various phones that use this mode.
nothing for the vision that i know of though.
but being you have adb access maybe test a few things first like see if anything is accessible from your emmc
type:
Code:
adb shell
dmesg | grep mmc0
and see what happens
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i can replicate you situation by holding volume up while powering on
you have a stuck volume up key, almost 100% just open up phone and clean it out and you should be just fine!
ok i have a rooted kindle fire. havnt had any issue till this moring. the sreen is unresponsive. i cant unlock it. when i push and hold the power button i get the shut down sreen but still cant turn it off. screen is still unresponsive. tried to re root but computer will not reconize it. anybody got any ideas? thanks.
Hold it down for a long time try 3 mins then try to power it back on. Rerooting will do no good best to enter recovery do a full wipe and flash a new rom. You can try to use KFU to set the bootmode for recovery if it hangs < waiting for device > hold the power button down while connected till it is off then simply power it back on. When running custom roms such as ics and jelly bean the driver needs to be augmented to function with adb. Replace this file in kfu and rerun the driver install http://db.tt/vXXeuL10 then plug your kindle in if it then recognizes the kindle state here whether it comes up android adb interface or android composite adb interface.
yeah i tried holding the power botton that long didnt work. i did eventually get the computer to reconize it again. ran kfu and rerooted it. it did the trick. going to wipe the whole thing and start from scrach. thanks for the help.
Is there a way I can get to my phones internal drive to copy off my pictures and the download directory?
adb devices shows the device as offline, I know I'd need to accept the connection on the phone, but alas - dead screen
I bought a new phone (Xperia ZL) - I just want to copy off my data.. any way I can do that?
oh yeah, running cm nightlies
I take it you have a custom recovery, if so ADB will work there.
The easiest way to get into it blind would be to boot into the bootloader (hold volume up, volume down and power buttons as you are powering the device on, it will vibrate then you can let go). Then press either volume up twice or volume down twice then the power button again to select recovery mode. Once in there, you should be able to get adb to function and pull what you want to salvage.
Hi there,
I am using the Jellytime ROM with my desire HD. When turning my phone on the Jellytime splash screen appears and after that there is only a blank black screen and remains like that. Then I tried to boot the phone into recovery mode by holding down the volume down and power button but that did not work (my volume keys were working fine before) and nothing happened.
Then I looked around for solutions and I found the ADB method. With necessary drivers installed etc. I still was not able to boot into recovery mode since I cannot enable debugging mode and ADB showed the device as offline.
I have no idea what to do from now, anyone know of a solution?
Thank you.
ssj4sunny said:
Hi there,
I am using the Jellytime ROM with my desire HD. When turning my phone on the Jellytime splash screen appears and after that there is only a blank black screen and remains like that. Then I tried to boot the phone into recovery mode by holding down the volume down and power button but that did not work (my volume keys were working fine before) and nothing happened.
Then I looked around for solutions and I found the ADB method. With necessary drivers installed etc. I still was not able to boot into recovery mode since I cannot enable debugging mode and ADB showed the device as offline.
I have no idea what to do from now, anyone know of a solution?
Thank you.
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What did you do to get in that state?
This all happened after I charged my battery from it being drained. Ive tried 3 other batteries too thinking it would make a difference but it didnt
ssj4sunny said:
This all happened after I charged my battery from it being drained. Ive tried 3 other batteries too thinking it would make a difference but it didnt
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Does your computer recognize the phone? If so what about in Fastboot USB mode?
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Does your computer recognize the phone? If so what about in Fastboot USB mode?
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Yeah the phone is recognized as a 'MyHTC' or something similar which I think is because of the HTC drivers I installed. I have the android phone drivers installed but the phone doesn't seem to be recognized as one.
I have tried to use fastboot via CMD but the device was offline. I cannot access the menu since I think my volume down key is not working.
Deconnect the battery, wait 1 minute, connect it again, then hold volume down (till bootscreen come) while pressing power for 1 second
Had the same problem, so i solved it
If you have the attached image on your recovery-screen (after pressing "recovery") you have no recovery-image installed
Thanks for the help everyone. I realised it was the battery case that wasnt functioning correctly. Just ripped off a piece of foil and put it between the connectors which fixed the volume button problem (i think) so i was able to boot into recovery .
Thanks.