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[Q] phone doesn't turn on

I was flashing jackos s3 radio after the phone finished installing the update it will not start at all any fix for this previously it was stuck at htc screen did the task 29 and flashed the jackos rom will stay stuck at htc screen thanks

Is your device GSM or CDMA?

is gsm tried everything I could think of, I hope you have a suggestion the only thing that I found is the last resource is that riff jtag box ($150 plus shipping) but I don't have it, and I don't think is worth it for one phone.

Try...
Try flashing stock rom....i think hold volume down and press power button..go to bootload screen/ three color screen..
.then insert cable and flash stock rom

that is the biggest problem I don't get a bootloader screen or any screen any longer it seems like the the cellphone is dead, it tried holding the reset button with battery and without and it makes no difference, it just died after flashing the radio and I don't get a screen anymore I tried a different battery I have a separate charger, and it doesn't work either...

Not enough information to work with really, could you say more about the steps you took in this flash. There is a lot of help here on XDA but only IF enough is known. What you describe is not a common failure. Somethings been left out.
Just have to wonder if you were stock rom prior to the flash, were you unlocked, did the device operate properly before ANY flash was attempted ect....Not knowing were you started and the steps taken make it difficult, xda folks love fixing these things TELL US MORE !!!
PS I'm only here once or twice a month but really have gotten nothing less than the best help here when asked for with better information.

Let me see this telephone is not mine is from a friend that gave to me to fix it, the phone it was unlocked and on the bootloader screen it said security disabled I think something like that,
what it was wrong is that it was stuck on the htc white background
everytime you turn the phone on, I read some threads on how to repair this and found out how to get to the bootloader screen,
then I flashed, Rhodium-HardSPL_V2_00R3_185HSPL it completed and then rebooted, I flashed then Jackos S3 JackFULL 1.4.0, it completed 100% but I got the same error, I read on some thread that you somebody fixed that error by using task 29 so I flashed task 29 and then I flashed the same rom, it was stuck on the same htc screen so I checked on the rom folder there was another file recommended radio Radio_Rhodium_4.49.25.91 I flashed that file to see if it fixed the problem, but after it finished the phone turn itself off and did not start again,
then I checked the battery it had charge,
I tried a different battery nothing,
if I remove the battery slowly I see the red low battery light on for an instant
so the phone is getting power,
I pressed the power button and down button nothing
just the power button nothing,
tried holding the reset button nothing,
it is in a brick state,
is there any hardware mod for this phone,
I fixed a samsung captivate with a tool you created using a micro usb head some resistor in order to put it in a state called download mode,
the only thing I found on how to revive this is this box http://www.gsmserver.com/shop/gsm/riff_box_jtag.php the problem I don't have the money for it...
is that enough information? and of course the rom I use it was a gsm rom

I wonder if a hard reset would snap it into doing something...remove the battery, wait a couple of minutes, put the battery back in.. hold the talk and end buttons down and press the power button...I'm really not sure as I have not experienced this, but...I don't think anything would be a waste of time at this point
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oops...oh yeah...if the device does power on and you get a screen press the volume up next and see what if anything happens

that is right I have to try everything, but it didn't work but thanks anyway any suggestions I am still open to try everything...

I know you say the phone is GSM but...could you please tell us which, if any, carrier information the phone was designed for, and which rhodium version it is by looking at the sticker under the battery?
Ive been looking for a while into a solution for your symptoms and what Ive found thus far indicates a wrong radio was installed...CDMA radio to GSM device, or vice versa....there are people on this site who know everything, I am not one of them, but...it might be the case where you use MTTY...a low level type of command you can send to the phone via usb from your PC...I'm still looking...perhaps try looking too and cut the time in half lol...the low level commands can get to the device without it being in bootload screen...I think...as I said, I'm still looking for solutions
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read up on this...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=371154
and there's an example here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fQE0P3diKg
I'm not saying this will work and certainly dont try anything without reading up on the process in the first link
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I've been reading the thread of the link I posted, it's not relative to the Rhodium specifically, but still good reading until some Rhodium specific links can be found

[Q] Did I really just true-brick my E4GT?

Ok, I switched up from the Epic, and that thing was almost impossible to brick. Every time I tried to install new ROMS, kernels, whatever, if it failed, I was always able to get it into download mode, Odin the stock ROM, and I was back and working.
I'm not a ROM newb, but this was the first time trying something with the E4GT. For this phone, I was trying to install one of the pre-rooted kernels, and the process failed. I let odin say it failed and unplugged the phone, pulled the battery and tried to get it into download mode again (Vol down + Power) but all I get is the Blue LED, nothing else. Screen and buttons don't light up, no USB recognition (with many various cables.) The most I get is the blue LED.
So, is it totally screwed?
If I can't get something going, I am just going to have the store replace it. (Good rapport with the SM, since it's not working at all, I will likely have her replace it with a new handset today.)
I'd rather not waste a perfectly good phone though if it isn't totally screwed.
Any suggestions?

You probably arent screwed try this and do it step by step
Turn phone off plug your usb into the comp FIRST hold vol down first then power "keep holdin them" galaxy s logo may appear twice before entering dload mode!!
Then you should be in dload mode hit volume up then connect your usb cord to phone
then open odin
also try plugging in your usb cord to epic first with the battery out hold vol down and power then put battery in real fast after that may help into download mode
Side note see if your battery shows charging on front screen when you, plug usb in , im curious to see if you did the same thing i did, oh yes you can hard brick it easily i did two days ago... but i flashed a aTAT GSM rom, over the cdma phone which is a pemabrick instantly, i lost all usb recognition for good!!
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I forgot to mention try the 3 button combo for dload mode that the gt i9100 uses hold VOL DOWN, @ HOME BUTTON @ POWER all at once its worth a shot after i flashed the gsm tar file i had to use the atat download mode ,method for their galaxy s device
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Theres no way you dont have dload mode,unless you flashed a kernel from a gsm rom, are you certain it was one of the kernels for the epic touch 4g, your probably just having a hard time gettin the button config right for dload mode

nope, doesn't work. I tried everything you said above, and it does nothing more than light the blue LED.
I was trying to flash the deodexed-rooted-busybox-EG30.tar, but it didn't get to that point in Odin.
I think this is one of the first non-gsm kernel true bricks...

In a flashing video, one of the ACS guys said if a flash didn't take and you are having issues, pull the battery and let the sit an hour or two with out power. Maybe push power button to try to drain the phone completely. Then try reflashing. Sounds a little wishful to me but maybe he knows something I don't.
Google Samsung epic 4g jig and try to find the documentation for making one. It's only a micro usb plug and a 301K resistor jumping pins. Maybe that will get you into download mode.

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take it to a service repair center, dont mention flashing tars, just say u did a kies update on windows 7 64 bit and it crashed they are wll aware that kies wasnt optimized for windows 7 at some point and theyve seen alot of these crashes, just act like you have no idea and no nothing about android, theyll take it right into the back try to flash the tar then, if they cant get it into odin, theyll simply throw a new motherboard in.. tel em its your only phone , they wont let u leave without it working..
thats what theyre paid to do they have parts, they wont charge you and if you dont have insurance theyll add it on the spot..
took me 25 min and i walked out with a working epic.
Then when u get it id leave it be.. or have someone else do the kernal flashing.
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Theyre have been more bricking with this perticular phone than i have ever seen with samsung before... Not sure why, but mine was by mistake, i had taken a bad tar file for a gt i9100 atat phone that was renamed eg30.tar so i got screwed by an asshole!!
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That makes sense, kinda like when you replace a part on a vehicle that was throwing a bad code it wont fix the issue until you pull the batt cable and turn on your lights to fully drain your computer brain!!
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When mine was bricked i still had download mode, but had to use home with the 3 button combo to get into it, but i had no usb recognition, I still think you have download mode regardless, just some reason you cant get into it!!
It can be tricky, i know on tmobiles vibrant you had to plug in usb cord with batt out and do the button combo then put battery back in and it forced it into download mode!

I left the battery out all night last night, and held the buttons down for about 30 seconds without battery in to see if that drained the capacitors in the phone and still nothing.
Just going to have the manager at the Advanced Exchange store replace my device. I know her personally, so she will likely just swap with a New in box handset since it's totally out.

[Q] Screen not working after entering recovery

Hello!
Ill just start from the beginning...
My girlfriend droped her HTC wildfire S and digitizer and LCD were broken.
Since local repair shop asked 100EUR to repair it, I decided to buy the parts
myself and give it a try (since there are alot of tutorials).
I managed to replace digitizer and lcd. I was able to start the phone, but the
touch screen didnt respond ...
I tried to find solution, but nothing really worked. I thought that maybe i could reset the phone to factory settings and that would fix the digitizer problem.
Unfortunately it didnt and I tried recovery option from that menu (that you bring up if you hold volume and that other smaller button at same time) and that just brought up some kind of picture with phone and exclamation mark. I waited for a while and nothing happened so i turned the phone off..
When I turned the phone back on, the screen was black (but there was vibration and sound, so I assume that it was able to start) and there was only light from the buttons at the bottom of the screen.
I searched everywhere for solutions, but it seems that most of them require me to have USB debugging on but I have no idea how to do this if i can't see anything and the digitizer is probably still not responding..
Long story short, I'm really confused and have no clue what to do next, if you need any further information, please ask!
Thanks in advance!

maanusav said:
Hello!
Ill just start from the beginning...
My girlfriend droped her HTC wildfire S and digitizer and LCD were broken.
Since local repair shop asked 100EUR to repair it, I decided to buy the parts
myself and give it a try (since there are alot of tutorials).
I managed to replace digitizer and lcd. I was able to start the phone, but the
touch screen didnt respond ...
I tried to find solution, but nothing really worked. I thought that maybe i could reset the phone to factory settings and that would fix the digitizer problem.
Unfortunately it didnt and I tried recovery option from that menu (that you bring up if you hold volume and that other smaller button at same time) and that just brought up some kind of picture with phone and exclamation mark. I waited for a while and nothing happened so i turned the phone off..
When I turned the phone back on, the screen was black (but there was vibration and sound, so I assume that it was able to start) and there was only light from the buttons at the bottom of the screen.
I searched everywhere for solutions, but it seems that most of them require me to have USB debugging on but I have no idea how to do this if i can't see anything and the digitizer is probably still not responding..
Long story short, I'm really confused and have no clue what to do next, if you need any further information, please ask!
Thanks in advance!
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Hardware problem return it back to the shop

ngoralph said:
Hardware problem return it back to the shop
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I dont think that is possible, since I already tried to fix it myself and theres no warranty.
If anyone got a clue how I could fix this problem then please let me know! : /

I'm not sure if it is so but I think you might try to clear S58 data with a gold card in order to get the screen to work.
So you need to make a gold card and boot into fastboot with the card inserted and do stuff.
But that's just a wild guess...

MrGuyFawkes said:
I'm not sure if it is so but I think you might try to clear S58 data with a gold card in order to get the screen to work.
So you need to make a gold card and boot into fastboot with the card inserted and do stuff.
But that's just a wild guess...
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I've seen the words "gold card" few times around forums and some people have got their digitizer to work again and so on. Right now im really confused, why the hell did my lcd just shut down after entering recovery? I've read that theres some king of "Black screen bug" or something like that, I wonder if thats the case?
Is it possible to mess around with that gold card, even if I cant see anything? Because a) LCD is not working at this point b) USB debugging is not on, and I don't think I can even turn it on if LCD and digitizer are not working correctly.

hmmmm does gold card work for gsm?????? i remembered reading that its for cdma only??? not sure though
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maanusav said:
I've seen the words "gold card" few times around forums and some people have got their digitizer to work again and so on. Right now im really confused, why the hell did my lcd just shut down after entering recovery? I've read that theres some king of "Black screen bug" or something like that, I wonder if thats the case?
Is it possible to mess around with that gold card, even if I cant see anything? Because a) LCD is not working at this point b) USB debugging is not on, and I don't think I can even turn it on if LCD and digitizer are not working correctly.
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yes,2012 wfs have this bug due to change in something in the screen but since you changed your digitizer, maybe the guy that changed your digitizer used one from a new wfs just a wild guess though look at my sig and flash the recovery given there if it works then you have the problem many users have
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium

ngoralph said:
hmmmm does gold card work for gsm?????? i remembered reading that its for cdma only??? not sure though
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
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yes,2012 wfs have this bug due to change in something in the screen but since you changed your digitizer, maybe the guy that changed your digitizer used one from a new wfs just a wild guess though look at my sig and flash the recovery given there if it works then you have the problem many users have
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
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But that means I have to unlock bootloader? But I probably need to have USB debugging enabled and I have no idea how to do this
if I can't use the phone.

maanusav said:
But that means I have to unlock bootloader? But I probably need to have USB debugging enabled and I have no idea how to do this
if I can't use the phone.
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I don't know if you have to unlock the bootloader, but using a goldcard may work for clearing up the S58 data (which I think is for the screen and such). Works for both GSM and CDMA (it just doesn't make the phone S-OFF on GSM version).
And no USB debugging needed either, just start the phone into bootloader with the goldcard inserted and follow the instruction (don't remember really what buttons to press tough...)
Oh and btw, clearing S58 may also factory reset you ROM

Big Problem

For some reason. My phone would not find my external memory card. So I decided to go into TWRP to (I believe its called format)
the card (lose everything on it)
Well. Both attempts failed, So I clicked on Reboot phone and now my phone will not turn on what so ever. Nothing will show up. If I plug it into a computer the computer will find it, but the phone screen will not show anything
Damn it all!!!!
Any ideas?

Can you flash stock firmware back?

did you change your DPI or mess with the build.prop?
just reread your post, if you can, reflash the stock rom since you can't turn it on.

xryousukex said:
did you change your DPI or mess with the build.prop?
just reread your post, if you can, reflash the stock rom since you can't turn it on.
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yes to both

wellsey1126 said:
yes to both
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how do i do that without being able to turn it on

wellsey1126 said:
how do i do that without being able to turn it on
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how do i do it on a mac?

I was able to get to a PC. My issue is I cannot tell if the phone is in download mode. Again the phone doesn't turn on. But if I plug it to a computer. The computer does see it.

Lol
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http://lgg3root.com/lg-g3-root/how-to-unrootunbrick-lg-g3/
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Watch video and then do it
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BACARDILIMON said:
Lol
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http://lgg3root.com/lg-g3-root/how-to-unrootunbrick-lg-g3/
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Watch video and then do it
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Not working. For some reasons anytime I donwload the drivers it say they are installed yet when I plug my phone in it says that I have to troubleshoot and its unable to find the drivers. (restarted pc etc)
Again when I hold the Vol up button and plug my phone in. You hear the computer find something, but the screen doesn't turn on what so ever. (Doesn't say download mode etc)

wellsey1126 said:
Not working. For some reasons anytime I donwload the drivers it say they are installed yet when I plug my phone in it says that I have to troubleshoot and its unable to find the drivers. (restarted pc etc)
Again when I hold the Vol up button and plug my phone in. You hear the computer find something, but the screen doesn't turn on what so ever. (Doesn't say download mode etc)
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So with a battery pull for 20 seconds you put battery in and hold power and down button you don't see anything
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BACARDILIMON said:
So with a battery pull for 20 seconds you put battery in and hold power and down button you don't see anything
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Nothing. Screen will not turn on

wellsey1126 said:
Nothing. Screen will not turn on
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Sorry bro time for a new one. Make the call and get exchange. Don't touch DPI..
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wellsey1126 said:
Nothing. Screen will not turn on
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OK cause I was bored I did what you did. My only thing is I removed my external SD card just in case. Added all the xposed junk most do and set my DPI at first to 530. Phone did not like. So went with 540 phone was OK so it seems. Went and installed no used SD card and went into recovery and did what u said u did. Phone went dark after tying reboot. DPI definitely was the issue. I am guess you had urs set to 530 or 540. Downloaded lg flashtool. Stock firmware. Pulled battery and what not when I hold power it would vib but no screen. Pulled battery held vol up as I plug in. Heard computer make noises and search for drivers. Opened lg tool and followed the rest of video . took a bit but phone is back to stock. Rerooted and flashed my backup all good. You sure you followed his video. Many people have used it and worked perfect.
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Did you change the dpi manually ?

Galaxysm said:
Did you change the dpi manually ?
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I changed it with app. He did say he changed build prop so I guessing yes.
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BACARDILIMON said:
I changed it with app. He did say he changed build prop so I guessing yes.
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That's the problem. When changing dpi u need to use a app. A friend got into a bootloop for doing that. But he was able to fix it.

Galaxysm said:
That's the problem. When changing dpi u need to use a app. A friend got into a bootloop for doing that. But he was able to fix it.
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I agree but it still comes back he having the issue that screen is dead. Black. I think a lot more to this story
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BACARDILIMON said:
I agree but it still comes back he having the issue that screen is dead. Black. I think a lot more to this story
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Could be he wiped the entire phone?

Galaxysm said:
Could be he wiped the entire phone?
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Could be but either way with lg tool it loads it all back
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What would changing the DPI have to do with the phone not booting? Not saying anyone is wrong but I've had my share of phones and I've never heard of anything like that? I'm using 570 as my DPI with no issues at all. I've used both an app to change it and manually doing it. I'm definitely interested if that is actually what caused the issue.

Totally Dead! Won't Power On, Won't Charge, No FTM/Bootloader/recovery Nothing

Hello All,
I have been using Lineage OS on my rooted HTC One M9 for more than 6 months. Everything was working fine, only battery backup was not good(old Battery). A week ago when i pulled my phone out of my pocket, it was off, tried turning it on, didn't work. When connected to charger nothing happens, tried to go to bootloader/recocvery mode did not work.
After googling all this, i found about field test mode, that also is not working, tried.
Tried charging with stock charger, different charger, USB to laptop... nothing.
However, when phone is connected to laptop, windows 10 notification sound comes up but phone is not detected.
Seems like the soul has left the phone.
Please Help!!

Change out the battery. If that doesn’t work, it also sounds like the Motherboard went out.

Battery dead
The soul must be in sleep,is not dead but the battery is gone
R.I.P battery (we will miss you)
Change you battery dude

;( can't upload pic of problem "network error"
I'll got 4x HTC m9 from an ex HTC employee and he told me one of them had a problem and he wasn't sure really what the problem was but he told me the phone keeps rebooting, so I thought wellllll I flashed like every single galaxy from 1 to 10 and ofcourse i faced some times i did got it semi bricked but after moments of rage and eating excessive amounts of instant noodles I was always luckily able to fix it. Now this m9 says on the screen
Blackbox: Software status modified
Pink: locked
Orange: s-on
Pink : security warning
Got 4 choises
Reboot
Reboot to bootloader
Boot to recovery
Power down
Now all of these options don't work... even power down will reboot back to this screen and recovery option gives message that it's a development version.
Some people claim it's fixable by sending RUU? With Odin or boot.img other story's saying EMMc bricked.. since xda is the only place where I can actually get an answer from people knowing what they are talking about.. is it dead? If it's not I just put some more time in it.. at least the phone gets detected by my PC when my s6 edge had a eMMC brick it would show up as (no USB id for devicediscriptor...

influenza026 said:
;( can't upload pic of problem "network error"
I'll got 4x HTC m9 from an ex HTC employee and he told me one of them had a problem and he wasn't sure really what the problem was but he told me the phone keeps rebooting, so I thought wellllll I flashed like every single galaxy from 1 to 10 and ofcourse i faced some times i did got it semi bricked but after moments of rage and eating excessive amounts of instant noodles I was always luckily able to fix it. Now this m9 says on the screen
Blackbox: Software status modified
Pink: locked
Orange: s-on
Pink : security warning
Got 4 choises
Reboot
Reboot to bootloader
Boot to recovery
Power down
Now all of these options don't work... even power down will reboot back to this screen and recovery option gives message that it's a development version.
Some people claim it's fixable by sending RUU? With Odin or boot.img other story's saying EMMc bricked.. since xda is the only place where I can actually get an answer from people knowing what they are talking about.. is it dead? If it's not I just put some more time in it.. at least the phone gets detected by my PC when my s6 edge had a eMMC brick it would show up as (no USB id for devicediscriptor...
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Well,i am not a development or something like that but my idea is(not a good idea but anyway) it seems that you have to download a little lot of Rom's and if non of them works it is a refurbished item from Htc.co (this is my opinion)
For better answer(of course that have intelligent people than me)you better ask them privately
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Can you give me that broken Htc?

ford1234 said:
Well,i am not a development or something like that but my idea is(not a good idea but anyway) it seems that you have to download a little lot of Rom's and if non of them works it is a refurbished item from Htc.co (this is my opinion)
For better answer(of course that have intelligent people than me)you better ask them privately
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Can you give me that broken Htc?
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Unable to flash rom trough RUU always get message the battery is below 30% and that cannot be true.

influenza026 said:
Unable to flash rom trough RUU always get message the battery is below 30% and that cannot be true.
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Of course not that is true