Running stock rooted rom On VM a5chl with the custom kernel. I flashed a themed viper red htc dialer zip in recovery and then Got stuck at the white htc screen upon reboot. It turns its self off within about five seconds. Volume up + power work to get to the htc screen again but not volume down+ power for recovery. I dont have a computer and not sure i had android debugging on anyway if i did have one. Is there ANYTHING i can do? What happened to physical button hard resets lol. Not sure why i cant get into recovery or why a zip for a simple themed dialer apk would do all this.
EDIT: Taking off the back casing and pulling the battery plug out and putting back in allowed me to get back into bootloader and recovery. Only works once though. Delete this post if needed.
carnivalrejectq said:
Running stock rooted rom On VM a5chl with the custom kernel. I flashed a themed viper red htc dialer zip in recovery and then Got stuck at the white htc screen upon reboot. It turns its self off within about five seconds. Volume up + power work to get to the htc screen again but not volume down+ power for recovery. I dont have a computer and not sure i had android debugging on anyway if i did have one. Is there ANYTHING i can do? What happened to physical button hard resets lol. Not sure why i cant get into recovery or why a zip for a simple themed dialer apk would do all this.
EDIT: Taking off the back casing and pulling the battery plug out and putting back in allowed me to get back into bootloader and recovery. Only works once though. Delete this post if needed.
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how did u remove the back panel ????????????
the only non removable battery i managed to pull out the back cover is the nexus 7 1st gen.
how could it be possible to our desire 816?
ajeshmanu said:
how did u remove the back panel ????????????
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It may have already been a little loose I'm not sure but I just slipped my fingernails in there at the top and once you get it a little bit off it sort of just snaps off like a regular back of a phone with a removable battery believe it or not and snaps right back into place like such. You just have to be careful as to not completely pull the glue and stuff off. Also I didn't pull it completely off , just enough to access the battery cable (which was easy to pull and put back in as well). It has the same type of grooves and snaps as any phone that has a removable back. Just smaller and tighter.
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ajeshmanu said:
how did u remove the back panel ????????????
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Just use a guitar pick. But panel is glued to the battery. You'll need to do it very carefully.
carnivalrejectq said:
Running stock rooted rom On VM a5chl with the custom kernel. I flashed a themed viper red htc dialer zip in recovery and then Got stuck at the white htc screen upon reboot. It turns its self off within about five seconds. Volume up + power work to get to the htc screen again but not volume down+ power for recovery. I dont have a computer and not sure i had android debugging on anyway if i did have one. Is there ANYTHING i can do? What happened to physical button hard resets lol. Not sure why i cant get into recovery or why a zip for a simple themed dialer apk would do all this.
EDIT: Taking off the back casing and pulling the battery plug out and putting back in allowed me to get back into bootloader and recovery. Only works once though. Delete this post if needed.
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To restart you phone long press the power button + Volume Up bottom for 8 sec
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So my power button all of a sudden broke. It won't turn off or on, the only way to power the phone off is to pull the battery and it turns back on by itself as soon as I put the battery back in. Doesn't anyone have any ideas? I've already done a factory reset, didn't change anything. Also, it doesn't work to select anything in recovery. So my 2nd question is if anyone can tell me how to flash the stock sprint rom so I can take it in and get it fixed?
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Use the ruu it will run in windows
Same thing happened to my phone. Damn cheap power button. Was waiting for cm6 to work with the new version hardware. Now that it does I will be doing the same.
What I have been doing as a work around is using widget locker to remap the power button to the volume key. And have a screen off widget. I don't mind it but can't do anything in recovery either anymore. So I am gonna take mine in this weekend. I believe they will give you a replacement phone.
FYI - I got thinking that maybe it wasnt a hardware issue but maybe software - and it would have to be something higher up than the recovery system. Anyway, the button started working again and while it was I flashed a new HBoot thinking that maybe it was a corrupted driver or something. It seems to have fixed it, but YMMV.
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So my power button all of a sudden broke. It won't turn off or on, the only way to power the phone off is to pull the battery and it turns back on by itself as soon as I put the battery back in. Doesn't anyone have any ideas? I've already done a factory reset, didn't change anything. Also, it doesn't work to select anything in recovery. So my 2nd question is if anyone can tell me how to flash the stock sprint rom so I can take it in and get it fixed?
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You can use the ruu to restore our but it will most likely still show s-off in the bootloader. You can fix that by using adb in recovery mode to flash unrevoked forever while in the recovery
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My power button is no longer working and I need to unroot in order to get repaired through sprint. With no power button I can't flash through recovery. I'm not familiar with adb push but I have used button remapper to gain access to my reboot options and to wake the phone. Can anyone help me please???
Update*** seems the power button works to select in bootloader but still not in recovery??? Need to find a way to get S ON without recovery
ISSUE RESOLVED I USED ROM MANAGER'S INSTALL ROM FROM SD FUNCTION AND PICKED THE S-ON ZIP AFTER THIS INSTALLED I PULLED THE BATTERY AND HELD VOL DOWN AS I REPLACED IT THEN USED HBOOT TO INSTALL THE PC36IMG FILE WOOT!
The button is just a cosmetic cover for a micro switch. Can you stick a pen in there or do you need to take it apart to gain access
Wat I would do is report it as lost or stolen make a new story or tell them that some one dropped in the toilet its still going to be one hundred no matter what
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My power button is no longer working and I need to unroot in order to get repaired through sprint. With no power button I can't flash through recovery. I'm not familiar with adb push but I have used button remapper to gain access to my reboot options and to wake the phone. Can anyone help me please???
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I'll sell you a power button for 10 shipped
conductive said:
The button is just a cosmetic cover for a micro switch. Can you stick a pen in there or do you need to take it apart to gain access
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Would have to take apart but button feels fine still has click to it and whatnot I think micro switch is the problem. Button just no longer functions
jarocho151 said:
Wat I would do is report it as lost or stolen make a new story or tell them that some one dropped in the toilet its still going to be one hundred no matter what
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Only $35 for repair with insurance
iitreatedii said:
I'll sell you a power button for 10 shipped
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Are we talking button or micro switch?
Try the volume button. Works on my phone.
Mmmmm yea cuz Ur getting the same phone back but if u have the money doesn't wast you time trying to fix it just reported as lost n get a new one
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SA10A10 said:
My power button is no longer working and I need to unroot in order to get repaired through sprint. With no power button I can't flash through recovery. I'm not familiar with adb push but I have used button remapper to gain access to my reboot options and to wake the phone. Can anyone help me please???
Update*** seems the power button works to select in bootloader but still not in recovery??? Need to find a way to get S ON without recovery
ISSUE RESOLVED I USED ROM MANAGER'S INSTALL ROM FROM SD FUNCTION AND PICKED THE S-ON ZIP AFTER THIS INSTALLED I PULLED THE BATTERY AND HELD VOL DOWN AS I REPLACED IT THEN USED HBOOT TO INSTALL THE PC36IMG FILE WOOT!
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my power button just stopped working, i need to unroot to see if sprint will fix it, im rooted with the kingdom virus b1.3 rom, i have a custom splash screen which i was told i need to change back to the original before i unroot, i found an app that allows me to reboot into the bootloader screen but once it does it always freezes and it never ask me to update the pc36img file or whatever...is it because on the virus rom i had to partition the sd card or something? is there a manual way or something to change the splash screen? also if i can get the splash screen back to stock how would i go about unrooting with no power button?
thanks
I am having the HARDEST time getting my phone to S-ON. My power button is also not working, prohibiting me from using recovery to flash anything. I used unrevoked3 to root my phone and I am trying to get S-On with the S-ON zip to no avail. I do the same as you and flash it through ROM manager, it flashes the zip but doesnt go back to recovery, instead it restarts the phone on its own and back to my ROM. I then go to the bootloader and still says S-Off. I've done this about 3 times with still the same S-Off in the bootloader. I don't want to run the PC36IMG until I KNOW i've achieved the S-On. Where am I going wrong here? It has me frustrated to no end...
Hey guys
I'm running MrGarak's fantastic MIUI rom however I've found that the kernel is booting my phone into that white HTC diagnostic screen by default. Unfortunately my volume down button is dead and so I can't navigate the menu; the only way I can boot my phone at the moment is to boot it connected via USB as that makes it boot to Recovery and I can reboot from there.
Any ideas? I think this and another rom I tried both used LordMUE's kernel, could that be the reason the boot preferences don't default to just booting the OS?
Any help and/or pointers would be greatly appreciated
So you can access bootloader and recovery!
So just flash another kernel. What's your problem?
Put a zip on your SD (with a SD reader or ADB pull), then go in recovery, navigate with the 4 keys under the screen (or vol+ and power)... and flash.
What is strange for me is that it seems to happen sudenly... so how do ou know it's the kernel. Anyway...
I have clockwork recovery, and can navigate it using the soft keys (home menu etc). You should also he able to use the vol up key to get to the bottom of the list, (depending on the recovery you're using I suppose)
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I have clockwork recovery, and can navigate it using the soft keys (home menu etc). You should also he able to use the vol up key to get to the bottom of the list, (depending on the recovery you're using I suppose)
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Unfortunately it boots into the white HTC area (dunno what it's called). The one where you can see if your phone is S-OFF or not.
Also, I'm not sure what is to blame... but I've only just recently noticed that my phone cold boots this way so I assumed it was a recent rom that I applied. Will test this theory later.
Sounds to me like your volume down button is stuck in.
Definitely not a ROM issue, as it has nothing to do with the bootloader.
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Hey, i had this issue like a month ago. You can check my previous threads. It's hardware I'm 100% sure. Basically if you're in warranty you need to flash the stock rom with S-On so you can get a new phone. You can get it to boot but it's really a pain. You have to play with the volume up when first turning on your phone. It took me about an hour. Then when it boots you'll be in a "Safe Mode" (no clue whats limited all seemed fine to me). Then do your backup if you wish.
Also note: Flashing the S-On rom is a PAIN, took me about 2-3 hours of rebooting, holding vol up, tapping vol up, to get it to boot right, but with patients you'll get it to go.
Good luck to ya.
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Hey, i had this issue like a month ago. You can check my previous threads. It's hardware I'm 100% sure. Basically if you're in warranty you need to flash the stock rom with S-On so you can get a new phone. You can get it to boot but it's really a pain. You have to play with the volume up when first turning on your phone. It took me about an hour. Then when it boots you'll be in a "Safe Mode" (no clue whats limited all seemed fine to me). Then do your backup if you wish.
Also note: Flashing the S-On rom is a PAIN, took me about 2-3 hours of rebooting, holding vol up, tapping vol up, to get it to boot right, but with patients you'll get it to go.
Good luck to ya.
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Ah, I'm definitely beyond warranty. The thought of vol+down being stuck down makes a lot of sense!
I'll just take it to one of the dodgy Asian repair shops, if it's a hardware issue I'm sure they'll know what to do.
Cheers for your help everyone!
This morning I tried to flash Blackout ICS Incredible. I am currently stuck on stuck green logo with white backgroud forever. I am using CWM touch recovery. I can not get to cwm, bootloader or Hboot menu. Only way i can reboot is to take out the battery. Once I put the battery in and let it boot, it goes back to logo screen and gets stuck. Then I took out the battery again and put it back it and press power button while pressing down vol- button, and it goes back to same logo screen and stuck. Again if i take out the battery and put it back it, and if I press the power button while pressing down the vol+ button, the phone vibrates 3 times and goes blank(dark) with battery indicator light blinking(i am not sure if that is battery light).
Any help would be appreciate. I am trying to connect to adb or fastboot, but it does not connect to the phone yet.
Pull the battery, wait five minutes.
Press and hold the volume down button, then press the power button. Don't let go. Wait.... wait, should go into recovery.
Full wipe.
Format data/factory reset.
Wipe dalvik
Format all partitions except sd card.
Restore a back up.
Then read how to get that rom working. Been posted too many times as for me to repeat it. Check the thread somewhere below yours, the title of the thread I believe is the same as the rom, answer is there.
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This morning I tried to flash Blackout ICS Incredible. I am currently stuck on stuck green logo with white backgroud forever. I am using CWM touch recovery. I can not get to cwm, bootloader or Hboot menu. Only way i can reboot is to take out the battery. Once I put the battery in and let it boot, it goes back to logo screen and gets stuck. Then I took out the battery again and put it back it and press power button while pressing down vol- button, and it goes back to same logo screen and stuck. Again if i take out the battery and put it back it, and if I press the power button while pressing down the vol+ button, the phone vibrates 3 times and goes blank(dark) with battery indicator light blinking(i am not sure if that is battery light).
Any help would be appreciate. I am trying to connect to adb or fastboot, but it does not connect to the phone yet.
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Just saw the HBoot screen but lost it. What I did was, took out the battery, sdcard, SIM. Replace the battery but not the cover of the battery. Then I hit power and volume(plus/minus) button, the HBoot menu came up, but because the batter cover was not placed, the menu was lost when I did not hold the phone tight, meaning batter got loose. Now I am trying to get back to HBoot menu again after replace battery and cover but to no avail. I still have sdcard, SIM out of the phone. I think there is some combination of keys you've to press coming out from cold boot vs. not. will keep on trying unless someone already knows.
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This morning I tried to flash Blackout ICS Incredible. I am currently stuck on stuck green logo with white backgroud forever. I am using CWM touch recovery. I can not get to cwm, bootloader or Hboot menu. Only way i can reboot is to take out the battery. Once I put the battery in and let it boot, it goes back to logo screen and gets stuck. Then I took out the battery again and put it back it and press power button while pressing down vol- button, and it goes back to same logo screen and stuck. Again if i take out the battery and put it back it, and if I press the power button while pressing down the vol+ button, the phone vibrates 3 times and goes blank(dark) with battery indicator light blinking(i am not sure if that is battery light).
Any help would be appreciate. I am trying to connect to adb or fastboot, but it does not connect to the phone yet.
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That is common flashing that rom. Choose full wipe in aroma installer even if you did it manually. When the flash is done, don't choose to reboot with aroma installer...DO IT MANUALLY from recovery!!...that should solve it...:good:
The same happened to me and found that solution in their thread.
lopax53186 said:
This morning I tried to flash Blackout ICS Incredible. I am currently stuck on stuck green logo with white backgroud forever. I am using CWM touch recovery. I can not get to cwm, bootloader or Hboot menu. Only way i can reboot is to take out the battery. Once I put the battery in and let it boot, it goes back to logo screen and gets stuck. Then I took out the battery again and put it back it and press power button while pressing down vol- button, and it goes back to same logo screen and stuck. Again if i take out the battery and put it back it, and if I press the power button while pressing down the vol+ button, the phone vibrates 3 times and goes blank(dark) with battery indicator light blinking(i am not sure if that is battery light).
Any help would be appreciate. I am trying to connect to adb or fastboot, but it does not connect to the phone yet.
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Teichopsia said:
Pull the battery, wait five minutes.
Press and hold the volume down button, then press the power button. Don't let go. Wait.... wait, should go into recovery.
Full wipe.
Format data/factory reset.
Wipe dalvik
Format all partitions except sd card.
Restore a back up.
Then read how to get that rom working. Been posted too many times as for me to repeat it. Check the thread somewhere below yours, the title of the thread I believe is the same as the rom, answer is there.
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yes thanks for the answers, will follow up on your suggestion. was not doing the 5 minutes battery thing. That was my problem and also i was trying power and vol+ button to get to HBoot menu rather vol- button. much kudos... to you
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yes thanks for the answers, will follow up on your suggestion. was not doing the 5 minutes battery thing. That was my problem and also i was trying power and vol+ button to get to HBoot menu rather vol- button. much kudos... to you
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I was able to get to HBoot, choose recovery, came up with CWM touch, did the wipe data/app, delvic, cache, did format /data, /* all the mentioned other than /sdcard. Then went to install from sdcard and choose that Blackout rom. went through the installer but at the end chose not to reboot from the installer as suggested. Then came back to CWM touch menu and did the reboot from there. It stuck on that logo screen again for 5 minutes. Now again took out the battery for few minutes, and want to go back to HBoot, but could not. Do I have to take out SDCARD as well, Do not think so but not sure. And why do we have to take out battery for so long, any idea, taking battery out for a minute isn't enough?
5 minutes just in case.
You missed one step. Wipe from aroma as well.
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Teichopsia said:
5 minutes just in case.
You missed one step. Wipe from aroma as well.
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Sorry to mention that, yep did that(wipe from aroma which is set to default, did not change it there). still same problem. will keep trying.
it is just weird that i can not get to HBoot in the consistent basis.
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Sorry to mention that, yep did that(wipe from aroma which is set to default, did not change it there). still same problem. will keep trying.
it is just weird that i can not get to HBoot in the consistent basis.
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Should work without battery pull as long as you power off. But when it doesn't, battery pull.
Just volume down, the power, both pressed till it turns on.
Oh, and fastboot unchecked
Edit: if it stll doesnt work, could be a bad download.
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Teichopsia said:
Should work without battery pull as long as you power off. But when it doesn't, battery pull.
Just volume down, the power, both pressed till it turns on.
Oh, and fastboot unchecked
Edit: if it stll doesnt work, could be a bad download.
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what u mean fastboot unchecked(from within the phone, if yes, remember i can not boot the phone)
yes it could be the bad download, once i can get to recovery i will restore my old cynongenmod 7 from CWM.
Thanks for ur help, i will definitely let you know if or when i succeed.
It was for future reference. Let us know.
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Was able to restore cm using recovery. Will try redownloding ROM again tonight and give a try
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So many responses from Teichopsia and not one "Thanks".
If that doesn't work this straight booted bricked phone when nothing else would. Took 2 months of searching but I got it working within 5 minutes. It's from a thunderbolt forum but I think the commands are the same except for the img name.http://androidforums.com/thunderbolt-all-things-root/480350-easier-way-flash-pg05img-files.htmli was stuck with hboot s-on, no recovery whatsoever, security warning, no sd card, NOTHING.
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So many responses from Teichopsia and not one "Thanks".
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After monkeying around with this ROM for a day, it was actually problem with CWM recovery. It looks like this ROM is not compatible with this recovery. I replaced cwm with 4ext recovery and voila I was able to flash this new ROM. Thank you guys so much for helping out. This community is really great to be part of.
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So many responses from Teichopsia and not one "Thanks".
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Do I use the thank button or thanking on the thread is good enough. If latter I already did
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I had the same problem after unlocking the bootloader on HTCdev. After a lot of searching, it seems that the HTC process keeps the boot partition locked from recovery but not from fastboot.
I was able to get around this by unzipping the Rom and flashing boot.IMG using fastboot and then flashing the Rom again.
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I flashed @Fenny's deodexed m8 stock rom. During the flash the phone rebooted to the splash screen. Now the phone will not turn off when holding the power button. I confirmed the hash sum before flashing. Flashed through TWRP 2.7.0.2. Any help is GREATLY appreciated. I need to know how to turn my phone off (without adb since I'm at work). From there I can get back to recovery and restore the stock ROM.
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I flashed @Fenny's deodexed m8 stock rom. During the flash the phone rebooted to the splash screen. Now the phone will not turn off when holding the power button. I confirmed the hash sum before flashing. Flashed through TWRP 2.7.0.2. Any help is GREATLY appreciated. I need to know how to turn my phone off (without adb since I'm at work). From there I can get back to recovery and restore the stock ROM.
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Try holding the phone close to a light source then try to reboot it. Reboot it holding the Volume down key so it reboots into the bootloader.
SmiLey497 said:
Try holding the phone close to a light source then try to reboot it. Reboot it holding the Volume down key so it reboots into the bootloader.
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Do you know about how long I should hold down the buttons? I have held it under a florescent light that is directly over my desk for a couple of minutes while doing that and it doesn't do anything.
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Do you know about how long I should hold down the buttons? I have held it under a florescent light that is directly over my desk for a couple of minutes while doing that and it doesn't do anything.
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It should happen after about 10 seconds. The reason for light source is because HTC doesn't want the phone to reboot in your pocket, etc ...
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It should happen after about 10 seconds. The reason for light source is because HTC doesn't want the phone to reboot in your pocket, etc ...
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Whelp. Holding under the light source seems to do nothing. This is what I was afraid would happen if I bought a phone that didn't have a removable battery. :/ Are there any other methods that might work? I am downloading adb right now.
VolcanicSkunk said:
Whelp. Holding under the light source seems to do nothing. This is what I was afraid would happen if I bought a phone that didn't have a removable battery. :/ Are there any other methods that might work? I am downloading adb right now.
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IDK that's always worked for me. Try holding the power button down harder maybe, I know it sits a little flush and you may not be pressing it down fully.
Great Success!!!
Okay. Finally got it to work. I had to hold volume up + power to get the phone to reboot. When the screen turned black I changed to the volume down while still holding the power button. This booted me to HBOOT. Then I was able to select recovery and boot there just fine. I am now restoring to my stock backup.
@SmiLey497 Thanks so much for your help! Your fast replies and explanation helped a lot! :good:
I think that I now need to go home and change my pants. Lol!
EDIT: Stock backup booted perfectly. No more paperweight.
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Okay. Finally got it to work. I had to hold volume up + power to get the phone to reboot. When the screen turned black I changed to the volume down while still holding the power button. This booted me to HBOOT. Then I was able to select recovery and boot there just fine. I am now restoring to my stock backup.
@SmiLey497 Thanks so much for your help! Your fast replies and explanation helped a lot! :good:
I think that I now need to go home and change my pants. Lol!
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My pleasure.