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Hi all. I'm currently running CM7.2 Stable with radio .1111 (used to be the newer .0320) and I can't get any SD card to mount for an extended period of time in recovery, Android, or fastboot. I'm thinking the memory card reader is either loose on the motherboard of the phone or is starting to go. Unfortunately this means that I can no longer take pictures and use apps that require the SD card. Does anyone know if it's possible to use the internal memory (such as /data or /system) as a "Virtual" SD card? Any search I've done on google hasn't turned up much. I'm hoping to get a system dev's; or anyone else with experience; input on this. Thanks.
polarEskimo said:
Hi all. I'm currently running CM7.2 Stable with radio .1111 (used to be the newer .0320) and I can't get any SD card to mount for an extended period of time in recovery, Android, or fastboot. I'm thinking the memory card reader is either loose on the motherboard of the phone or is starting to go. Unfortunately this means that I can no longer take pictures and use apps that require the SD card. Does anyone know if it's possible to use the internal memory (such as /data or /system) as a "Virtual" SD card? Any search I've done on google hasn't turned up much. I'm hoping to get a system dev's; or anyone else with experience; input on this. Thanks.
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You might want to try a different recovery or rom to see if that still happens. (although it is probably a hardware issue, it's good to make sure) Do you still have warranty?
nitsua98 said:
You might want to try a different recovery or rom to see if that still happens. (although it is probably a hardware issue, it's good to make sure) Do you still have warranty?
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I'm almost 100% positive that it's hardware, but I also don't have a safe / reliable way of flashing a different rom/recovery anyway because of the chance of the SD disappearing during a flash. Also when searching for PG32IMG.zip, fastboot hangs for a little bit when trying to access the SD card so that helped me verify that it's hardware. Unfortunately I got the screen digitizer replaced on my phone by a 3rd party so my warranty is void, it's also been more than a year since I bought the phone (pretty sure the warranty is just for a year).
polarEskimo said:
I'm almost 100% positive that it's hardware, but I also don't have a safe / reliable way of flashing a different rom/recovery anyway because of the chance of the SD disappearing during a flash. Also when searching for PG32IMG.zip, fastboot hangs for a little bit when trying to access the SD card so that helped me verify that it's hardware. Unfortunately I got the screen digitizer replaced on my phone by a 3rd party so my warranty is void, it's also been more than a year since I bought the phone (pretty sure the warranty is just for a year).
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Maybe you could try a different sd card.
Or maybe you could take this as a hint to upgrade
And AFAIK there is no way to seperate the internal memory, as some roms need all of it/most of it. I know you could do it the other way around, partitioning an SD card to trick the phone into thinking part of the sd card was phone memory.
nitsua98 said:
Maybe you could try a different sd card.
Or maybe you could take this as a hint to upgrade
And AFAIK there is no way to seperate the internal memory, as some roms need all of it/most of it. I know you could do it the other way around, partitioning an SD card to trick the phone into thinking part of the sd card was phone memory.
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I mentioned in my first post that any SD card won't work. I would like to upgrade to a Nexus phone (good CM support) but I'm not due for one until February. The data partition is pretty open in terms of space, especially if you don't have a lot of apps for it. I tried creating a 300MB .img file in /data and mounting it to /sdcard but that didn't work. I'd like for a ROM developer or someone who has in-depth knowledge about the storage systems to hopefully answer. Dalingrin and other developers were able to use the HP Touchpad's internal storage as an SD card, I'd like to do the same.
Hi Guys,
I'm sort of new to all this Rooting/Flashing Process.
So any way I'll start. I tried to Root my HTC Desire HD the other day, but can't due to the fact the current stock rom that's installed doesn't seem to want to recognise the SD Card, as it think it's a Blank Card or Unsupported Filesystem. (Believe me I have no idea to get round this issue, as I've tried several Re-Formats of this SD Card, and I have tried other SD Cards, but if you put any in my phone then back into the PC, You have to reformat it so you loose your stuff) So basically any SD Card you put in My Desire HD, Screws it up. Meaning after you even try and format it on my Phone or even a PC, you loose all of your stuff straight away.
Anyway back to my question. Since I'm unable to Root my phone, Am I able to just download ROM Manager from play store, and Flash the recovery so I can Wipe my phone completely and install A new ROM? Or since my phone won't detect my SD Card, Will it brick my phone or screw it up if I do flash the recovery and wipe anything? (By the way, I've got the phone to recognise the SD Card once or twice, but after a few hours, even after using the phone perfectly to take videos, pictures Music ETC, it wants to reformat it again due to the fact the phone thinks it's an Unsupported Filesystem). I'm not sure if this SD Issue is Hardware or Software Related, But I would have my money on Both, but I'm just not Sure.
Your help would be really appreciated guys. Thanks.
You can only flash a recovery if you can write to a partition. You need to root with either HTCDEV or AAHK to write to a partition.
Okay, so. I have an HTC One M8, rooted, S-On, TWRP, whatever else. It was running just fine until yesterday or so, when I wanted to switch out an icon pack, but wanted to keep my stock launcher, so I found Unicon on the App Store, and downloaded it (along with the Minimal Hero/Hera Icon Pack, or whatever it was called). As soon as I installed it, I started having problems with my phone restarting randomly, and I disabled the Icon Pack in Unicon, and got rid of Unicon (disabling it in Xposed Installer and then uninstalling the app).
That didn't solve my problems, though. I managed to somehow keep the phone on after numerous restarts, but every time my phone was turned off, it went into the same constant restart cycle (where it restarts about a minute after it's booted up). I tried searching for ways to remedy the problem, ending up in the TWRP recovery, where I tried wiping the cache and the Dalvik cache, which didn't help. I also uninstalled Xposed Framework and before that, tried disabling all the Xposed modules, nothing helped.
As things stand now, I did a wipe on all the categories in TWRP (including cache, Dalvik cache, internal storage, system and data) and when I rebooted from recovery, my phone was stuck with the HTC boot logo. Now I'm just letting it sit on my bed, showing the boot logo, waiting for it to drain.
Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT: I did a factory reset (perhaps stupidly) and now, when I reboot it, it says "No OS is installed!". Since it's not showing up on my computer while in recovery, how should I proceed to flash the stock ROM?
when you wiped the system partition, you wiped the ROM.
You should put a stock ROM on your phone and flash it.
Follow one of the returning to stock guides.
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when you wiped the system partition, you wiped the ROM.
You should put a stock ROM on your phone and flash it.
Follow one of the returning to stock guides.
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Excuse my stupidity, but could you point me towards one of those? I was looking for that, but didn't really find anything helpful.
Also, I know how to flash a ROM in its simplest form, but my phone's not booting and I don't know how to get a ROM file onto the phone itself, because it doesn't show up in the computer when in recovery. How do I flash ROMs from the computer or whatever?
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Excuse my stupidity, but could you point me towards one of those? I was looking for that, but didn't really find anything helpful.
Also, I know how to flash a ROM in its simplest form, but my phone's not booting and I don't know how to get a ROM file onto the phone itself, because it doesn't show up in the computer when in recovery. How do I flash ROMs from the computer or whatever?
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I'm sure the search tools on this forum work just as well for you as they do me. Or you could probably start at a sticky thread.
You could also search for "adb sideload" and "adb push".
BenPope said:
I'm sure the search tools on this forum work just as well for you as they do me. Or you could probably start at a sticky thread.
You could also search for "adb sideload" and "adb push".
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I did, and they told me USB debugging must be turned On, which I can't do, since I can't boot the phone.
Fraught said:
I did, and they told me USB debugging must be turned On, which I can't do, since I can't boot the phone.
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I might have missed this but did you do a recovery? Within TWRP you have the option of storing it on internal storage, or the sd card. If you did the sd card way, there might be hope. Just hold down power and volume up and when the screen goes dark, hold power down to get into recovery, then restore the backup. If it was on internal storage, its probably gone, and if you didnt make one, well..wouldnt an RUU fix that?
Also you did more then a plain factory reset...that would still keep the os etc installed..you wiped that sucker completely clean
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I did, and they told me USB debugging must be turned On, which I can't do, since I can't boot the phone.
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I suggest you make use of the external SD card and a USB card reader.
Tower1972 said:
I might have missed this but did you do a recovery? Within TWRP you have the option of storing it on internal storage, or the sd card. If you did the sd card way, there might be hope. Just hold down power and volume up and when the screen goes dark, hold power down to get into recovery, then restore the backup. If it was on internal storage, its probably gone, and if you didnt make one, well..wouldnt an RUU fix that?
Also you did more then a plain factory reset...that would still keep the os etc installed..you wiped that sucker completely clean
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Yeah, I know. I was idiotic. I'm just kind of a newb to the whole scene, and I panicked when my phone started acting up. It was stupid to wipe system too.
And yeah, I have an SD card and my computer has a reader for it. I can access my SD card, but how do I install something on my SD card from recovery? As far as I can see, it only lets me install form internal storage.
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Yeah, I know. I was idiotic. I'm just kind of a newb to the whole scene, and I panicked when my phone started acting up. It was stupid to wipe system too.
And yeah, I have an SD card and my computer has a reader for it. I can access my SD card, but how do I install something on my SD card from recovery? As far as I can see, it only lets me install form internal storage.
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Take the SD card out and put it onto your computer, download a ROM and place it on SD Card. Insert card back into phone, boot into recovery and change location path to external SD card. There is an option for that.
Location where ROM is... of course.
BerndM14 said:
Take the SD card out and put it onto your computer, download a ROM and place it on SD Card. Insert card back into phone, boot into recovery and change location path to external SD card. There is an option for that.
Location where ROM is... of course.
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There is, actually, no option for that. I got the ROM adb pushed to my phone and got it flashed, though, so it's all good now (despite the fact that I idiotically made myself lose all my internal storage data).
Anyway, thanks for the help!
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There is, actually, no option for that. I got the ROM adb pushed to my phone and got it flashed, though, so it's all good now (despite the fact that I idiotically made myself lose all my internal storage data).
Anyway, thanks for the help!
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within twrp...where it says internal storage after you tap backup,.. tap those words Internal Storage, it will bring up 3 options..Internal Storage..MicroSD..or OTG I believe..I know mine does..I had 2.7.1.0 and which ever was below it allow that option. Well just for future reference.. And btw...dont cut yourself down..We all make mistakes...thats why we come here..to learn and maybe help someone else
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within twrp...where it says internal storage after you tap backup,.. tap those words Internal Storage, it will bring up 3 options..Internal Storage..MicroSD..or OTG I believe..I know mine does..I had 2.7.1.0 and which ever was below it allow that option. Well just for future reference.. And btw...dont cut yourself down..We all make mistakes...thats why we come here..to learn and maybe help someone else
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I know. I swear, I tried, didn't seem to work. Maybe something else's amiss elsewhere. In any case, I got it adb pushed to the internal storage, so it's all alright, phone's fine now. I'll look into the microSD thing, but I'm still glad I learned a bit more about Android in the process of recovering my device (because it's a path where most is yet untrodden for me).
And yeah, being on xda as such a newbie is sort of daunting, especially as I'm pretty impatient with people who don't understand as well something that I do, but I always hope for at least one paragon who helps, and helps with patience and friendliness (which I did get, so thank god).
So, yea, i bricked my S3... it happened when I was installing a custom ROM HOLD UPP!! It was a ROM that was for my device, and it wasn't caused by flashing the ROM. I formatted /system by accident (yea, I was using TWRP), but the strange thing was, it allowed me to boot once. before I actually went into the 'bricked' state. When I realized I formatted the /sdcard directory, where the custom ROM was stored (yea, call me an idiot), I rebooted so I can reboot to use the browser to download the ROM, but it stayed at this screen, except it didn't say "I9300"
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Then I realized that TWRP had an MTP feature so I can transfer the ROM from my computer. So I transferred the ROM, flashed it, and yes, I did a full NANDroid backup, and stored it on my PC. After I clicked reboot, it got into the bricked state. the only signs of life, is when the LED turned red when I plug it in, but that only happens when I take the battery out first, and the phone gets warm when I plug it in.
So I need to know how to unbrick, without a 16 GB SD card. i only have a 2 GB SD. Is there a method to debrick using SD cards less than 16 GB? Is there a way to transfer the boot files to the phone? The phone, when I plug it in to the computer, the computer actually recognizes it, but as qhsusb_dload. what does that mean?
Yea I tried to be as specific as possible, but if you need any more info, ask.
Do you have an i9300? I ask because this forum is for the i747/i747m.
audit13 said:
Do you have an i9300? I ask because this forum is for the i747/i747m.
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no its a I747M rogers.
It sounds like you found the debrick thread so I won't go into that. To answer your questions though, aside from that debrick method, the only other option is a jtag repair. There may be a shop near you that can do this, but if not you'll have to send it somewhere.
As for the size of the SD card for the debrick.img, I think I remember hearing once or twice that an 8gb card worked, but I still question if that was true. The idea behind it is the SD card is supposed to be the same size as the devices internal storage, so nothing less than 16gb will work. Can't hurt it to try of course, but don't get your hopes up is all.
QHSUSB_DLOAD = Qualcomm Hi Speed USB Download
It's a definite indicator that a device is hard bricked.
For future reference, I recommend NEVER wiping /system. When you flash a rom that's the first thing that happens anyway, so doing so manually has zero benefit, but all the risk of ending up with a device that has no O/S to boot into.
Sorry to hear that happened. Good luck with it though!
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MhikeiMPC12 said:
So I need to know how to unbrick, without a 16 GB SD card. i only have a 2 GB SD. Is there a method to debrick using SD cards less than 16 GB?
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Debricked mine just yesterday.
The procedure recommends to use a class 10 16GB micro-SD card only, but I managed with a class 4. I really think you ought to try with your 2GB card, as the debrick image is only 80MB. The worst that could happen is that it simply won't boot off the SD card.
In all my browsing on XDA I couldn't make sure to find a certified I747M debrick image, so I made one from my wife's rooted S3 (I747MVLUFNE6) following instructions from this post, and used it to boot mine (I747MVLUFNK2). I used Win32DiskImager (link to it is in the post) to get the image on my SD card. After I got it to boot, I downloaded the stock firmware for my device and used Odin to flash it. It worked just as they said.
I recommend you use Win32DiskImager to backup your SD before writing the debrick image : this will save you 1) copying the files manually and 2) looking for some tool (e.g. SD Formatter) to restore it to its former size (after writing the image, Windows will think the capacity of the SD card is 80MB!).
If you need a I747MVLUFNE6 or I747MVLUFNK2 debrick image, PM me.
Best of luck :good:
Hello,
First you will need to download correct ATT ROM, and when you install that ROM, you will need to select correct option in ODIN.
To me its look like, you get stuck in boot...
Are you ATT customer?
Let me know, I will post link for Original ATT ROM.
placroix74 said:
Debricked mine just yesterday.
The procedure recommends to use a class 10 16GB micro-SD card only, but I managed with a class 4. I really think you ought to try with your 2GB card, as the debrick image is only 80MB. The worst that could happen is that it simply won't boot off the SD card.
In all my browsing on XDA I couldn't make sure to find a certified I747M debrick image, so I made one from my wife's rooted S3 (I747MVLUFNE6) following instructions from this post, and used it to boot mine (I747MVLUFNK2). I used Win32DiskImager (link to it is in the post) to get the image on my SD card. After I got it to boot, I downloaded the stock firmware for my device and used Odin to flash it. It worked just as they said.
I recommend you use Win32DiskImager to backup your SD before writing the debrick image : this will save you 1) copying the files manually and 2) looking for some tool (e.g. SD Formatter) to restore it to its former size (after writing the image, Windows will think the capacity of the SD card is 80MB!).
If you need a I747MVLUFNE6 or I747MVLUFNK2 debrick image, PM me.
Best of luck :good:
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I flashed the image through my firends phone instead of a sd card reader
so my friend has a kyrocera rise, so i inserted my sd inside, and it showed up the sd card in my pc, and flashed the img, but it didnt work. yea i think the theory about the sd card having to be the same size as the internal storage is true. im going to try writing the img using the reader instead. yea i already backed up the few files i had so that wasnt an issue!
andoridone said:
Hello,
First you will need to download correct ATT ROM, and when you install that ROM, you will need to select correct option in ODIN.
To me its look like, you get stuck in boot...
Are you ATT customer?
Let me know, I will post link for Original ATT ROM.
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Not to be rude or anything, but i know what to do about soft bricks. I'm not in that situation. and i have a i747M. that means its Canadian. i also stated earlier it is from rogers. what does having to be a at&t customer have to do with anything, if this is a 2012 phone? The warranty is gone already.
DocHoliday77 said:
It sounds like you found the debrick thread so I won't go into that. To answer your questions though, aside from that debrick method, the only other option is a jtag repair. There may be a shop near you that can do this, but if not you'll have to send it somewhere.
As for the size of the SD card for the debrick.img, I think I remember hearing once or twice that an 8gb card worked, but I still question if that was true. The idea behind it is the SD card is supposed to be the same size as the devices internal storage, so nothing less than 16gb will work. Can't hurt it to try of course, but don't get your hopes up is all.
QHSUSB_DLOAD = Qualcomm Hi Speed USB Download
It's a definite indicator that a device is hard bricked.
For future reference, I recommend NEVER wiping /system. When you flash a rom that's the first thing that happens anyway, so doing so manually has zero benefit, but all the risk of ending up with a device that has no O/S to boot into.
Sorry to hear that happened. Good luck with it though!
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Yea i wiped /system by accident. but, it allowed me to reboot AFTER i wiped /system, which was weird, and i thought you were supposed to wipe /system. I wonder why the option to wipe /system is there anyway? Also, i flashed the rom already, so wouldnt the /system be written to the parition already? i thought there was a /boot partition..
I can get my hands on a 16 gb sd cad by sunday, but i was just looking for a unbrick method for a 2 gb sd card. Even if it means i have to keep the (2gb)sd in my pone in order for it to boot, i was looking for a temporary method to unbrick my phone.
MhikeiMPC12 said:
Yea i wiped /system by accident. but, it allowed me to reboot AFTER i wiped /system, which was weird, and i thought you were supposed to wipe /system. I wonder why the option to wipe /system is there anyway? Also, i flashed the rom already, so wouldnt the /system be written to the parition already? i thought there was a /boot partition..
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It's a very common mistake. I see it happen way too often. I don't know where or why it got started, but some folks always recommend wiping /system. (Maybe it was required on a specific older device and they carried over to others).
tbh, I can't think of any situation where it's beneficial, so I don't know why is still included in recovery options.
Not sure why it would've booted that one time. I've seen that happen before, but only when flashing the firmware, not just a rom.
If the flash was successful after transferring the new rom via twrp, then you are correct that that the /system partition wouldn't be empty anymore. Maybe the rom was corrupted during the download or transfer?
The boot partition is actually where the kernel is located.
MhikeiMPC12 said:
I can get my hands on a 16 gb sd cad by sunday, but i was just looking for a unbrick method for a 2 gb sd card. Even if it means i have to keep the (2gb)sd in my pone in order for it to boot, i was looking for a temporary method to unbrick my phone.
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Like I mentioned before, don't get your hopes up using the 2gb card. But by all means give it a shot! Can't hurt anything to try.
Someone mentioned the class of the SD is important. It is recommended to use a class 10, brand name card, but it's not required. I've seen class 4 cards work where class 10 cards failed. I believe it has to do with the transfer speed if the individual SD card. Some class 4/6 cards can actually read/write much faster. Just like some class 10 cards just don't perform as advertised.
Still, the most successful ones have been class 10's, which is why I think many consider it a requirement. Many lower class ones do often fail, but not all. Just something to keep in mind...
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ok thanks. Did anyone report success using a 2 gb card?
Not that I've ever heard. But I doubt many have even tried. I've only seen a couple of reports that it worked with an 8gb card, but as I think I mentioned before, I'm not quite convinced that it was even true.
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MhikeiMPC12 said:
Even if it means i have to keep the (2gb)sd in my pone in order for it to boot, i was looking for a temporary method to unbrick my phone.
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Flashing stock firmware to my phone after booting off the SD card into download mode restored the phone's bootloader, but I knew that it was the bootloader I'd messed up.
The posts I've read about debricking this way seemed to mention that the phone would use the bootloader from the SD card, but would finish the booting process from the phone's storage.
If it's really /system you wiped, I wonder what your phone could finish booting from.
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Flashing stock firmware to my phone after booting off the SD card into download mode restored the phone's bootloader, but I knew that it was the bootloader I'd messed up.
The posts I've read about debricking this way seemed to mention that the phone would use the bootloader from the SD card, but would finish the booting process from the phone's storage.
If it's really /system you wiped, I wonder what your phone could finish booting from.
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i think it was because it was given a direct command to be booted into recovery, instead of being booted into system. :silly:
Im worried when i use the 16gb sd card, THAT wont debrick my phone! All i did was formal /system by accident, and it booted again AFTER i deleted system.
Also. I'm a noob at Ubuntu and all the "of=/dev/block/mmblk1". I thought it was as simple as
1. insert 16gb SD card and open Win32DiskImager
2. select the debrick.img and flash it
3. insert the SD in the phone and attempt to start it in download mode
BTW i heard that the CPU varient (exynos, quallcom) matters when u debrick the device. i have a SGH-I747M rogers so what CPU variant do i have?
MhikeiMPC12 said:
Also. I'm a noob at Ubuntu and all the "of=/dev/block/mmblk1". I thought it was as simple as
1. insert 16gb SD card and open Win32DiskImager
2. select the debrick.img and flash it
3. insert the SD in the phone and attempt to start it in download mode
BTW i heard that the CPU varient (exynos, quallcom) matters when u debrick the device. i have a SGH-I747M rogers so what CPU variant do i have?
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You have a dual core Qualcomm processor. As long as you are using the correct debrick image, or correct bootloader, modem, or ROM when flashing the processor worries take care of themselves.
You could use either method to flash the img to the sdcard. Win32diskImager could be used on Windows PCs. dd is a command line tool used in Linux to do the same. Brasero would be a GUI tool used in Linux if using the command line concerns you. Using the GUI tools you need to be sure you are 'burning' the image to the media instead of copying the image file. The same would apply to making a bootable usb thumb drive to create a live Linux drive.
MhikeiMPC12 said:
Im worried when i use the 16gb sd card, THAT wont debrick my phone! All i did was formal /system by accident, and it booted again AFTER i deleted system.
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Unfortunately, it sometimes does not work. More unfortunate, there is no way to know if it will without trying it.
Earlier though, you described a classic hard brick. Red light, QHSUSB_DLOAD.... this method has fixed bricks just like yours plenty of times. More have succeeded than failed. But as I said, it doesn't always work. I think it's definitely worth trying though.
I am convinced that 90% of the failures were due to two things: the sdcard and/or user error. (Mostly the SD though.)
When you do try this method, keep in mind that many people don't get it to work the first few tries. So if it doesn't work, don't give up right away. Try at least 3 or 4 times. This actually happened to me twice! I did everything exactly the same way but it failed until my 3rd or 4th try! No idea why, but I have experienced this firsthand.
Let us know if you have any other questions!
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MhikeiMPC12 said:
Im worried when i use the 16gb sd card, THAT wont debrick my phone! All i did was formal /system by accident, and it booted again AFTER i deleted system.
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The SD card won't debrick your phone on its own : it will only allow you to boot into download mode. Successfully flashing stock firmware (which contains a bootloader) from download mode will.
DocHoliday77 said:
When you do try this method, keep in mind that many people don't get it to work the first few tries. So if it doesn't work, don't give up right away. Try at least 3 or 4 times. This actually happened to me twice! I did everything exactly the same way but it failed until my 3rd or 4th try! No idea why, but I have experienced this firsthand.
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Yeah, I saw those warnings, too. Maybe I was just lucky it worked on the 1st try...
BTW, where did you find a I747M debrick image to flash on your 2GB SD? The only ones I could find were for I747 (US)...
Hey guy's,
I've wanted to activate root access on my HTC 10 and followed the instructions until to "unlock bootloader".
After I've unlocked the bootloader and restarted my phone it said that android is booting the apps....
after that, i've got an reseted phone, with cleared internal memory + (and thats the main question) my SD Card, which i had formatted as internal storage before with tons of data on it, could not be read anymore.
My phone says, i have to format it again...? But then i'll lose all my data on the formatted sd card?
So before I do that, I've inserted the SD Card into my PC and there two partitions on this card.
So i think all my data is still on the formatted card but the phone won't accept it.
Why it's telling me to format it again (and lose all my data)?
And is there a way to restore my files from the formatted SD card?
Thank you very much!
Chris
Unlocking bootloader always gives you a factory reset for safety reasons. The encryption key used to encrypt the internally formatted SD card is also cleared by doing so.
The reason you get a factory reset is to prevent someone from unlocking your bootloader, rooting it and gaining access to your phone's data.
As far as I know there's no way to retrieve the data from the SD unless you have a complete system backup of your phone.
I'm also pretty sure the phone (and probably the tutorial) warned you that the phone will be factory reset.
Sorry Chris, nothing anyone can do for you.
This is also one of the reasons why I unlock my bootloader when I start using a new phone. That way I can always make a full backup if I want to do something else, say flash a custom rom at some point.
WPtE said:
Unlocking bootloader always gives you a factory reset for safety reasons. The encryption key used to encrypt the internally formatted SD card is also cleared by doing so.
The reason you get a factory reset is to prevent someone from unlocking your bootloader, rooting it and gaining access to your phone's data.
As far as I know there's no way to retrieve the data from the SD unless you have a complete system backup of your phone.
I'm also pretty sure the phone (and probably the tutorial) warned you that the phone will be factory reset.
Sorry Chris, nothing anyone can do for you.
This is also one of the reasons why I unlock my bootloader when I start using a new phone. That way I can always make a full backup if I want to do something else, say flash a custom rom at some point.
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Thanks four the good information!
Some Remarks to: "I'm also pretty sure the phone (and probably the tutorial) warned you that the phone will be factory reset."
No, the tutorial was ****ty (position now) and there where no warnings And the phone... could be, could not be...idk
ok, I've learned from my mistakes and will do a backup next time
thank you for the great help!
cheers
CryserCore said:
Thanks four the good information!
Some Remarks to: "I'm also pretty sure the phone (and probably the tutorial) warned you that the phone will be factory reset."
No, the tutorial was ****ty (position now) and there where no warnings And the phone... could be, could not be...idk
ok, I've learned from my mistakes and will do a backup next time
thank you for the great help!
cheers
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Maybe not the tutorial but i am pretty sure that when you submit for your unlock token on the HTC website there is a warning that the phone will be factory reset.
I just installed a new rom and allowed google to place back some data, settings and apps.
Google kept the encryption key it seems because I can place back my sd card and it works.
I didn't know Google did that, but hey, if you still haven't formatted and backed up at Google, you could try that