i broke my screen on Saturday and the screen is 90% unresponsive. I can't even get the phone to get into a mode where I can can transfer via USB. is there any other way to make this work? Maybe using recovery or download mode? A few files I'd really like to get. And I'd like to do it before I wipe.
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I am soft-bricked (I hope). A boot jig does nothing for me, but I am able to get into twrp recovery. It won't let me flash my current rom though (Mijjz). What should I do? (I am able to access odin through the twrp recovery right now though, and the computer does recognize it.) I am not able to boot directly into it. When attempting to flash in twrp it can't verify the partition size. I believe this is emmc?
Edit: This helped, but... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27852689&postcount=435
So this got my phone to boot again (yay) and now it can go into download mode and such, but my phone appears to be in a boot loop of the sprint logo, turning on and off. =( now what?
Edit #2: I am posting how I got this running for future visitors with my issue to see that there is hope of getting there device back online . So after I was able to get into download mode, I was able to go and flash the El26CWM and then do a Wipe on everything. I then was able to flash my favorite ICS rom, and get on my way. Unfortunately somewhere along the way my Modem got wiped out so I had to go back into download mode to flash it, and I found a new issue. For some reason, my phone still refuses to enter download mode without a jig. So I put my jig in, and downloaded the modem. All is working now (except I still can´t figure out why I need a jig to enter download mode, and the recovery wont boot for me either. It just goes and boots up normally. Its like until the Rom is loaded, it doesn´t take any imput from the buttons. I´m now running an FF18 kernel, so I find this to be odd, but at least I have a working device. Now I´m off to buy myself a nice memory card to compensate for the lost 8 gigs. The only thing that I can think of that may be causing the no download mode issue (although I can´t see why or how) is that I had a custom splash screen (not boot animation, splash screen) before I corrupted my emmc. Throughout the whole process of restoring, it displayed my custom one, except when I put on EL26, it went back to the Normal Boot screen. (the only time since the emmc screwed up that my buttons responded) But when I flashed back up, the custom one came back, and my controls to get into recovery and download mode stopped working again.
Hey,
My sisters galaxy gio won't boot. whenever i try to turn it on, the only thing that happens is that the screens goes on for half a second and then off and back on again forever. I already tried to flash a stock froyo, eclair & gingerbread but nothing works.
I only can go in to download mode (sometimes whitout the pink screen). I can NOT go into RECOVERY mode in any way. I wasn't able to flash cwm through odin either. Changing USB ports and usb cables didn't help either.
I am using the odin (4.4.2).
Is there any way to force it into recovery mode?
Thanks in advance
fluxerik said:
Hey,
My sisters galaxy gio won't boot. whenever i try to turn it on, the only thing that happens is that the screens goes on for half a second and then off and back on again forever. I already tried to flash a stock froyo, eclair & gingerbread but nothing works.
I only can go in to download mode (sometimes whitout the pink screen). I can NOT go into RECOVERY mode in any way. I wasn't able to flash cwm through odin either. Changing USB ports and usb cables didn't help either.
I am using the odin (4.4.2).
Is there any way to force it into recovery mode?
Thanks in advance
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i had a similar problem about a month ago. i took it to my provider and they said that its power circuit was damaged due to liquids.
Do you get any errors with odin?
Locthe said:
i had a similar problem about a month ago. i took it to my provider and they said that its power circuit was damaged due to liquids.
Do you get any errors with odin?
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Odin goes all well. It gets to the poiunt where it says "waiting for reboot" and that's when the phones screen starts flashing again.
I'm 100% it hasn't has anything to do with liquids, I think it began when changing the sd-card. But it was doing strange things before that.
Try this one
try this
Put your phone into recovery then do a factory reset and reboot your phone, it should work
My Sprint Galaxy Nexus recently got submerged in saltwater (it was in a drybag that failed). After lots of rinsing and drying, I finally got it to turn on with the Google logo and go into a boot loop. I held vol up/down/power to get to recovery mode once and decided to do some Googling to make sure how to proceed. Ever since then, the vol up/down/power mode doesn't even work. Trying that, the phone will start up and just go to a black screen (if I'm in a dark room, I can see that the display is on, just black). As opposed to just hitting power which still shows the Google logo and boot loops.
I also can't seem to connect to adb, although I've done that many times in the past. I suspect it's because I can't get to bootloader mode. If I could get to that, I think I'd be golden. It seems, the only thing I can get to is odin mode, so I tried returning to stock using that. I was unfamiliar with that process, so I walked through the guide here and used the FH05 tar, however, it always seemed to error on the radio-cdma.img. If I remove that from the tar, it'll write fine, but nothing really changed in terms of what I could do. I was unable to find any other working tar links.
Any ideas on what to try with ODIN or help getting my adb connected or getting to recovery mode?
Hey guys....im new on xda i had a problem. recently my phones in a bootloop.i did not drop it or try to flash a custom rom. it was in a bag for 2 hours after which it just starts up to the white logo and not even the animated one and keeps repeating that. i have tried pulling out the battery for long times and letting the charge drain out thing but in vain. worst part is i caannot get into recovery or donwload mode. download mode flashes for a few seconds but just reboots. recovery mode doesnt work at all. i however managed to boot into download mode. once the download mode warning appeared i pulled out the battery with the usb cable in it. but thats as far as i got. i cannot flash a rom on to it either becasue it needs to restart i guess and wihtout a battery thats not possible..........i thought of trying out cwm becasue that had usb debugging turned on as default and then using abd command line to retrieve my data but for that i need to get into download mode. even checked out the power button problem but the button was fine.....im running out of options....my phone is not rooted.....any suggestions guys?....really need help saved up a lot to buy this :crying::crying:
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Hey guys....im new on xda i had a problem. recently my phones in a bootloop.i did not drop it or try to flash a custom rom. it was in a bag for 2 hours after which it just starts up to the white logo and not even the animated one and keeps repeating that. i have tried pulling out the battery for long times and letting the charge drain out thing but in vain. worst part is i caannot get into recovery or donwload mode. download mode flashes for a few seconds but just reboots. recovery mode doesnt work at all. i however managed to boot into download mode. once the download mode warning appeared i pulled out the battery with the usb cable in it. but thats as far as i got. i cannot flash a rom on to it either becasue it needs to restart i guess and wihtout a battery thats not possible..........i thought of trying out cwm becasue that had usb debugging turned on as default and then using abd command line to retrieve my data but for that i need to get into download mode. even checked out the power button problem but the button was fine.....im running out of options....my phone is not rooted.....any suggestions guys?....really need help saved up a lot to buy this :crying::crying:
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Your battery is faulty. All those things you mentioned are signs of a dyeing battery. Get it replaced or borrow a battery from your friend to check it out.
mannyvinny said:
Your battery is faulty. All those things you mentioned are signs of a dyeing battery. Get it replaced or borrow a battery from your friend to check it out.
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Are you sure? because the first thing i did was use a battery from a different phone....a grand, just aligned the terminals and held it in place with my hands....phone seemed to go into bootloop again????
Hi everyone, had the phone for few years, one day it died and never booted again. Nothing was flashed at the time, my son was using it and I read that some phones, if they got hot enough playing games, the nand will get erased and the phone is borked.
All I get is the white HTC screen.
If I hold the volume + and - I will get to the screen attached.
If I select download mode, the phone will reboot and a black HTC screen will appear, but then the phone will reboot after 1-2 seconds, back to the white HTC screen.
Same with bootloader mode.
I have downloaded 0PJAIMG_HIMA_UL_N70_SENSE80_ATT_MR_NA_Gen_Unlock_4.30.617.2.zip and copied it to a 32GB sd card, and tries to get it to flash via download mode using the process above, but nothing happens and the phone reboots within 1-2 seconds.
Is there any way I can revive this phone? or just throw it in the trash?
Thanks!
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Hi everyone, had the phone for few years, one day it died and never booted again. Nothing was flashed at the time, my son was using it and I read that some phones, if they got hot enough playing games, the nand will get erased and the phone is borked.
All I get is the white HTC screen.
If I hold the volume + and - I will get to the screen attached.
If I select download mode, the phone will reboot and a black HTC screen will appear, but then the phone will reboot after 1-2 seconds, back to the white HTC screen.
Same with bootloader mode.
I have downloaded 0PJAIMG_HIMA_UL_N70_SENSE80_ATT_MR_NA_Gen_Unlock_4.30.617.2.zip and copied it to a 32GB sd card, and tries to get it to flash via download mode using the process above, but nothing happens and the phone reboots within 1-2 seconds.
Is there any way I can revive this phone? or just throw it in the trash?
Thanks!
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Don't trash it yet!
Do you have a custom recovery?
If not you can "RAM" boot TWRP. While in the bootloader screen do this:
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./fastboot.exe boot twrp-3.0.2-0-hima.img
Then with MTP enabled you should at least be able to look at your files (assuming not HOT deleted like you mentioned).
There's something called "RUU" we can try next, it's a (HTC) way to bring your phone back to stock. But try to save your files first!
Thanks, I will give it a try.
I don't care about any data on the phone, just trying to make it function again.
I let the battery drain over-night, I'll see if I can do anything with it.
Thanks for your input!
Note it doesn't look like the RUU files are hosted on HTC anymore.
Here's the full filenames I have downloaded and used in the past.
- RUU_HIMA_UL_M60_SENSE70_TMUS_MR_TMOUS_3.39.531.7.exe
- RUU_HIMA_UL_N70_SENSE80_TMUS_MR_TMOUS_4.27.531.6
A quick google should let you find them but a little frustrating to not get it direct from HTC (security risk anyone?).
I was messing with it last night, after I let it completely drain it won't charge anymore. If i connect it to a charger, or to a pc, it will turn on for 1-2 seconds, then turn back off, and do the same again and again.
Thanks for your help but looks like I can't do anything to it at this point. Not sure if the battery can be charges externally.