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{BRICKED EVO FIX} this really works it worked for me

I TRIED THE HBOOT 2.2 ROOT GOT BRICKED AND USED THE FIX FROM "Monarky"
THANKS DUDE AND IT WORKED SO IVE PUT TOGETHER
A SHORTER FIX I ACTUALLY DID THE WORK MYSELF SO ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS REPLACE THE ATTACHED FILE WITH THE ONE ON YOUR SD CARD
AND RELOAD BOOTLOADER AND IT SHOULD UNBRICK BUT ITS GOING TO SWITCH YOUR "PRI VERSION" BUT IT WORKS
ALL I ASK FOR IS A SIMPLE THANKS
FIX - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2KA69REH

How are you defining "bricked?" What was your phone doing? What did the screen look like?
Tapa tapa tapa

mlin said:
How are you defining "bricked?" What was your phone doing? What did the screen look like?
Tapa tapa tapa
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he was probably referring to being stuck at the RUU update screen

mlin said:
How are you defining "bricked?" What was your phone doing? What did the screen look like?
Tapa tapa tapa
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s0xpan said:
he was probably referring to being stuck at the RUU update screen
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well yea the red triangle

I haven't downloaded what you cooked up there, but if included radios or the wimax partition, you really need to warn people that they could lose 4G.
If you "brick" your phone, you should only use the RUU from Sprint to fix it. If the phone isn't recognized by the RUU, then extract the PC36IMG.zip from it and use the fastboot command line to flash.
-- Brian

That's not a brick. A brick is when your device will not do anything. Won't power on, won't even light up when you plug it in. There's nothing you can do with a true brick, that's why it's named that way.
If you can get into bootloader, you can recover your device.

clamknuckle said:
That's not a brick. A brick is when your device will not do anything. Won't power on, won't even light up when you plug it in. There's nothing you can do with a true brick, that's why it's named that way.
If you can get into bootloader, you can recover your device.
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Not true. Here is a scenario for you...actually happened to my evo:
Your entire os gets erased, except bootloader. Your screen won't even come on, but the charge light comes on, and the computer sees the device. Fun part is, it does not even see it as android...it pops up as qualcomm. Ruu doesn't work. Pc36Img doesn't work. Trying to flash through fastboot doesn't work. Why? Because there are so many bad blocks in the memory that nothing will write (htc doesn't allow their handsets to skip bad blocks). So, you were mostly right, but there are exceptions to everything.

tejasrichard said:
Not true. Here is a scenario for you...actually happened to my evo:
Your entire os gets erased, except bootloader. Your screen won't even come on, but the charge light comes on, and the computer sees the device. Fun part is, it does not even see it as android...it pops up as qualcomm. Ruu doesn't work. Pc36Img doesn't work. Trying to flash through fastboot doesn't work. Why? Because there are so many bad blocks in the memory that nothing will write (htc doesn't allow their handsets to skip bad blocks). So, you were mostly right, but there are exceptions to everything.
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So... as the man said, if you got it working then it wasn't really "bricked."
Tapa tapa tapa

tejasrichard said:
Not true. Here is a scenario for you...actually happened to my evo:
Your entire os gets erased, except bootloader. Your screen won't even come on, but the charge light comes on, and the computer sees the device. Fun part is, it does not even see it as android...it pops up as qualcomm. Ruu doesn't work. Pc36Img doesn't work. Trying to flash through fastboot doesn't work. Why? Because there are so many bad blocks in the memory that nothing will write (htc doesn't allow their handsets to skip bad blocks). So, you were mostly right, but there are exceptions to everything.
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Nope, your wrong. Back when I used to mod PSPs, if you flashed a firmware incorrectly, you'd either get a semi-brick or a brick. A semi-brick is when you can't get into the OS, but you can access some sort of recovery menu/method. A brick is when it won't turn on at all or it will turn on but won't do anything (or freeze at splash screen).

mlin said:
So... as the man said, if you got it working then it wasn't really "bricked."
Tapa tapa tapa
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Who said it was working?
I very clearly said that it wouldn't work, no matter what method was used. Please reread my original post. I don't think you understood what I said. Though you could get the phone into bootloader, the screen was not on. The only reason you would even know the phone was on was if you had it hooked up to your comp when you powered up. There was no method you could use that would allow anything to be written to the internal memory. There was a hardware problem with some of the evos, where in they have a TON off bad blocks. This prevented the os from being rewritten. I have meet a few other guys on xda who have the problem with bad blocks. So, how would you define this, if not as a brick? It wasn't hung up somewhere. It was totally unusable. After spending 2 hours on IRC, we decided it was totally unfixable. Took it to a sprint repair center the next day and, funny enough, they agreed. They couldn't even access it enough to tell that I had an unlocked bootloader. Yes, they replaced it.

tejasrichard said:
Who said it was working?
I very clearly said that it wouldn't work, no matter what method was used. Please reread my original post.
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Ok, fair enough and my bad for misreading your post and I realize that I misread Clamknuckle's original post which is why I misinterpreted yours. SOmetimes I just gotta slow down a bit I guess.

mlin said:
Ok, fair enough and my bad for misreading your post and I realize that I misread Clamknuckle's original post which is why I misinterpreted yours. SOmetimes I just gotta slow down a bit I guess.
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No big deal, man
The whole thing is pretty silly, anyway. My only point was you could be bricked and still have your charge light comer on. No hard feelings here.

Tejasrichard is right. I got one of the bad blocks phone, brand new too. I guess ill use it for a spare touchscreen

Bootup Problem
So I have an evo that when powered up only displays the startup white HTC EVO 4G screen for 5 sec....turns off for 3 or 4 sec then back on and same in a continuous loop. I can access regular android recovery with the white screen and androids on the bottom. When I choose recovery from the options on that page it does nothing but the white HTC EVO 4G screen boot looping over and over.
Things I have tried:
New SD Card
PC36IMG - tons of them from many methods
Flash a new recovery
The computer does recognize the phone but I can't find it anywhere?
Any help ?
PM me please.

clamknuckle said:
That's not a brick. A brick is when your device will not do anything. Won't power on, won't even light up when you plug it in. There's nothing you can do with a true brick, that's why it's named that way.
If you can get into bootloader, you can recover your device.
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X2!.................

After trying this method my phone stills only boots to the white screen

I know we're going to get at least one person who says their phone is bricked. Here's how to unbrick it (links to stock rom/kernel, etc) for Virgin and Sprint versions:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1691827-Intercept-free-stock-ROMs-and-apps!
You'll need to know how to install and patch SWUpdate for the Moment so it works for the Intercept. Not hard at all.

Did I miss something? How did we go from the EVO to the Moment/Intercept? Anyhow I'm having the same problem as whoisjlk in post #14. Please if anyone has a solution I would greatly appreciate it and even donate. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE...thanks in advance.

Wow I guess I posted in the wrong section LOL.

Ok, I have an Evo that I would like to recover from the dark side.
I rooted my HTC EVO 4g using Unrevoked, it worked fine, then I decided to flash a new rom, followed all the steps and I backed up my stock and wipe data/factory reset and Davik, now my phone doesn't read the sd card.
Took the sd card out and did a FAT32 format (4 times already), downloaded the new zip to it and still not reading.'
Bought a couple different SD cards.
Can't do a restore because the sd card and is not recognized.
As soon as I check install zip from card it reads
ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.1
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0p1)
(No such file or directory)
E:Can't mount /sdcard
Now I know Amon RA Recovery is way better.
I had S-OFF, after wipe all data have S-ON and don't know why.
This is what I tried:
All kinds of PC36IMG (Recoveries, ROMS, Unrevoked S on and S off)
ADB doesn't work.
Phone is not found, when try to update drivers using Windows 7 it says that Qualcomm-CDMA-Technologies-MSM driver is not found, but my other EVO and the ones that I rooted have no problems.
Phone boots into HBOOT and Recovery.
After opening HBOOT PC36IMG gets recognized but not updated.
In recovery when try to flash from SD has the message E: Can't blah blah
If I try to reboot the phone, it just goes to a black screen with a flashing LED or gets stock on white screen forever.
Any ideas?
I would like to fix it, already have a working phone, and I don't need this one, is just to put all the help together and maybe some one that has a similar problem can avoid all the troubles and follow a single post and not spend hours searching just to find the wrong answers.
Otherwise is going to be just for spare parts and that doesn't help many.
Thanks in advance.
If you have an idea, lets try it, PM or reply here.

I think I am in trouble

Hello Everyone,
I have a rogers captivate. I was trying to update to 2.3 android using Odin . I followed the whole process as stated. After rebooting, I got AT&T logo??? and the phone will not boot, go into recovery mode, or connect to my computer. Have I messed up my phone. Please advice.

how did you get an AT&T logo if it doesnt boot?
also what part of the process were you at? gingerbread shouldnt give the white ATT screen
it should give the "i9000" screen with gingerbread.
or were you flashing stock ATT first?
there is nothing wrong with having the wrong boot screen AND A FIX WAS RELEASED LAST NIGHT FOR GB
the fix for stock ATT has been out for a while. AND MY STOCK ROM FIXES IT TOO!
did you read the part about the button combos changing with gingerbread? or if you are on the ATT stock, use old button combos. Also you should have found my stock rom link before flashing, info there too!, its in my sig,
you have to give us more information to help you.

I beleive I was installing it to stock ATT first. That is when this happened. I was on Odin one click install. I remember the phone saying "do not disconnect the target". then all the installation was done from odin. This phone had 2.2 from samsung.Right now all that happens is that the phone starts and a flashing att logo on white background stays..
please let me know what other info is needed. i will post it all to the best possible

boot into download mode and flash ATT stock again. something messed up
are you using the "one click odin" or the other odin?
and what gingerbread are you trying after?

how do i do that. i have tried vol up+down+power combo. still the same flashing logo with no menus. i was using one click odin. and i was still on installing stock android. never got the chance to go to 2.3

If you can't get into download mode through the 3 button way you might need the jig. You got lucky since you're still able to boot up some have perma brick so try the jig and flash back to stock
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

HOLD VOL UP + DOWN
the plug in USB to PC.
keep buttons held until screen comes on!
i asked which gingerbread you were going to do AFTER

What is the build number on your phone, 4 numbers printed under the battery, mine is a 1010 for example, which mean oct. Of 2010 is when it was built. Some phones 1010 and after will not accept the one click odin rom and cause a bootloop like you are having, Try an odin package from TRusselo's sig instead.

my packages dont have the bootloaders. that might be whats screwed up with blinking att boot.
need download first before anything. i do have a GB bootloader package separately

something else:
try removing battery,
plug in USB to PC and Phone
Hold both Volume buttons
put battery back in.
should get you download mode

I really have noidea about what gingerbread i was after, i guess i wanted just the stock android without any custom software from samsung. I am total noob here as far as androids go.
the number on the battery say 2010.12.20 and the last forr nos under the battery at s/n are 11.02.
what is a jig. how do i use it. My phone cannot connect to the computer.
When I try to reset my device by any method, whether usb or power combos, it goes into either a. ATT logo flashing every few secs. or b. battery charging logo with nothing happeining.
Also my phone cannot be seen on my computer

gingerbread isnt for noobs
NOT THE DATE ON the battery
UNDER the battery ON THE PHONE
4 digit number
if you dont know what a jig or gingerbread or any of this stuff is,
you shouldnt have touched your friggin phone!

My apologies. the number is 1102. I understand I have screwed up. Any chance of having a working phone again.

GO GOOGLE A CAPTIVATE JIG AND BUY ONE
you wont be able to make one if you cant follow instructions.
that is your only hope. if not your phone is F'ed up perminantly.
your ONLY HOPE AFTER, is if your phone *somehow stops* turning on *forever*
and you send it back for warranty, and play dumb! ..... ..... ... .. .
PROGRAMMING a phone cant be learned it 5 minutes.
HELL you cant even read the friggin instructions (written for experienced users) in 5 minutes
this was an expensive lesson on researching and learning before doing

hitechchef said:
My apologies. the number is 1102. I understand I have screwed up. Any chance of having a working phone again.
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Sorry for stepping in..
Yes there is. Might be a little complicated tho. You have some reading to do my friend.
Tru, I'll let you handle it but HiTechChef, you might've to go in for waranty and exchange it saying it did that after you tried to update through Kies. They'll check it and give you another one.

Thanks I will try this method

BWolf56 said:
Sorry for stepping in..
Yes there is. Might be a little complicated tho. You have some reading to do my friend.
Tru, I'll let you handle it but HiTechChef, you might've to go in for waranty and exchange it saying it did that after you tried to update through Kies. They'll check it and give you another one.
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he's a rogers phone and it boots to ATT screen
it has to *stop* booting to get *warranty*

TRusselo said:
he's a rogers phone and it boots to ATT screen
it has to *stop* booting to get *warranty*
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Oh right.. Wow..
Yep, go read about a JIG (it's pretty simple to use). You can either build it or buy one from mobiletechvideo or ebay.

TRusselo said:
he's a rogers phone and it boots to ATT screen
it has to *stop* booting to get *warranty*
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Lol That kind of subtly is lost here... noone is picking up on your suggestion...

and thats how its going to stay,
ive said it before with almost the same words.
ive laid out all the tools....
correction of the original problem is necessary,
research is salvation,
resistance is futile.
there it is... i laughed... all is good again...

[Q] Bricked Inspire?!

SO yeah I decided to flash Miui lastnight and this happened clockworkmod wont load up for me to reflash or whipe, when I try to boot into clockwork htc logo comes up then slowly dies to black, though I can access hboot so what should i do?
I'm kinda new to this so step by step kinda thing would be great.
I have a video but I cant post it cause I'm too new.

TBRATCHER said:
SO yeah I decided to flash Miui lastnight and this happened clockworkmod wont load up for me to reflash or whipe, when I try to boot into clockwork htc logo comes up then slowly dies to black, though I can access hboot so what should i do?
I'm kinda new to this so step by step kinda thing would be great.
I have a video but I cant post it cause I'm too new.
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it's not bricked.... power off the phone then press and hold the power key and the vol down key at the same time til you see the HBOOT screen. vol down until RECOVERY is highlited then press power. That will bring you into Recovery mode. now wipe data/factory reset... then wipe cache partition.. then go to advanced and wipe Dalvik Cache... go back to mounts and storage and format system...
after all that then go back to install zipfrom sdcard and reinstall miui that should do it
Im not going anywhere so I'll be here, let me know how you do

Ouch. That sucks. Don't worry though, there is hope.
What you will have to do is remove your SD card and download a stock RUU and it will flash in Bootloader. Unfortunately I believe it will unroot you. I am not positive on that though. I will post a link so you can be reading a little more about it, we helped a guy thru this the.other day, but he wasn't rooted. Should be the same process though. You'll want to wait until we know exactly what to do because this is your one shot before you got a fancy paperweight. I have to run to atnt for a minute. Start reading so you'll know a little more of what is going to go on, and hang tight. Someone else may step in before I'm back, but you can start familiarizing yourself with the process shortly.
This fellow was pricked during an OTA update. About the same steps will be taken...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1222662
Tread lightly. I am gonna do my best to help, but I am not an expert. However I do feel confident that since Bootloader is all you can load that this is your fix. See ya soon.
Edit: I was under the impression your phone would not boot. Apologies...

Thanks for the feedback guys. Yes, hboot is all I have so I'm going to take it slow at this point, taking a look at the thread now.

TBRATCHER said:
Thanks for the feedback guys. Yes, hboot is all I have so I'm going to take it slow at this point, taking a look at the thread now.
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I've gotten the same thing in the past when updating sense via HTC on a rooted rom lol.... it's most likely a bad flash sometimes you just have to reflash a rom but Im 99.9% sure it's not bricked

Like, you just had hboot when you tryed to boot into recovery it was just black? lol

TBRATCHER said:
Like, you just had hboot when you tryed to boot into recovery it was just black? lol
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yeah the green HTC logo came up and faded black... i had to pull the battery out and put it back and hboot into recovery, once there I wiped everything and re flashed the rom and everything booted up just fine

Yeah, thats not the case here, i've done that multiple times and it remains the same.

search around on here for a stock rooted rom in PD98IMG.zip form There may be one inside the hack kit but cant remember. put it on your sdcard boot into bootloader by holding volume down and pressing power. let it search for the update. hit volume up to confirm update after it finds it. If you can access hboot your not bricked take a deep breath and relax

TBRATCHER said:
Yeah, thats not the case here, i've done that multiple times and it remains the same.
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what program did you use to root ?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=961406

I have, should I just match the radio and flash it. If the file is corrupt it could for sure brick me. My question is how do you flash a rom from hboot? Cause I have the stock RUU from HTC Dev but I don't know how to go about doing that.

oxlong27 said:
search around on here for a stock rooted rom in PD98IMG.zip form There may be one inside the hack kit but cant remember. put it on your sdcard boot into bootloader by holding volume down and pressing power. let it search for the update. hit volume up to confirm update after it finds it. If you can access hboot your not bricked take a deep breath and relax
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there ya go, that would have been my next step lol

TBRATCHER said:
I have, should I just match the radio and flash it. If the file is corrupt it could for sure brick me. My question is how do you flash a rom from hboot? Cause I have the stock RUU from HTC Dev but I don't know how to go about doing that.
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you have a micro sd card reader on your computer ?

Here's a link to gb stock rooted. Look at post 4. Credit goes to gene for the file.
To flash you will need a way to transfer files to your SD card.
Download the file and rename to PD98IMG.zip. boot into hboot it will scan and ask you to apply the update.
If you can't transfer files try the ruu exe. Version you downloaded.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1191949

Yeah I have a micro to regular SD, I'll give this a shot right now.

well looks like you guys got him heading in the right direction. but at any rate op feel free to pm me if further assistance is needed. good luck
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WIll do, thanks.

Got the dowload off gene, it's loading the zip in hboot now. I'll let you know how it goes.

Success! Thanks for your help everyone it is much appreciated.

So did I just brick my phone?

Phone was rooted using TWRP. I locked the bootloader and now I can't boot up into anything but the page with the TAMPERED RELOCKED screen, also has bootloader, reboot, reboot bootloader, power down. Am I screwed? I just wanted to revert my rooted phone back to the original OS and it's been a freaking NIGHTMARE ):

XHaGGeNx said:
Phone was rooted using TWRP. I locked the bootloader and now I can't boot up into anything but the page with the TAMPERED RELOCKED screen, also has bootloader, reboot, reboot bootloader, power down. Am I screwed? I just wanted to revert my rooted phone back to the original OS and it's been a freaking NIGHTMARE ):
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So you've relocked the bootloader, and then nothing else?
Run the RUU from the bootloader screen. Make sure the RUU is for YOUR phone

That's the thing, I can't get into it! I can't get into that screen where I could access stuff to INSTALL, MOUNT, etc.. it keeps taking me to the white screen with bootloader,reboot, etc.

XHaGGeNx said:
That's the thing, I can't get into it! I can't get into that screen where I could access stuff to INSTALL, MOUNT, etc.. it keeps taking me to the white screen with bootloader,reboot, etc.
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Seeing as though you have relocked the bootloader you can either a. unlock the phone again so you can install a custom rom or b. run a ruu to get it back to stock.

Yeah because the problem is i have no OS to boot into. It just goes into recovery mode. Can you point me in the direction on how I can unlock the bootloader again?

XHaGGeNx said:
Yeah because the problem is i have no OS to boot into. It just goes into recovery mode. Can you point me in the direction on how I can unlock the bootloader again?
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No no no. You said you wanted to go back to stock correct?
Download your stock RUU, and run from that white menu that says RE-LOCKED at the top. That's your bootloader

Ok, when you mean run from that white menu that says RELOCKED, how can I run it from that menu if I cant get into anything from this menu? Do you mean just run the RUU program from my computer and have my phone connected to the PC? I used to be able to go into that TWRP screen when i was in bootloader but now I can't.

XHaGGeNx said:
Ok, that's what I am doing already. I am downloading the RUU for my phone. Hope to gawd this will save my phone. I am just worried because it's literally stuck at this bootloader menu screen. I can't do anything else.
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Believe me, the fact your screen is on is a sign you are not bricked. Run the RUU (Make sure it's one that is easily rootable, like the 1.85 for ATT), and go through the process of bootloader and unlock and rooting. Hope this helped

I am glad to hear that. It's almost done downloading, about 4 minutes left. I really want to thank you for helping me out here. I am such a screw up with this stuff. Sigh. anyways, I'll let you know what happens here shortly. Thank you so much once again. Really..

Honestly man once you get back to stock, don't worry about unlocking and rooting it. You have no business rooting your phone and flashing roms if you can accidentally delete your os, backup file, and the recovery partition. Not trying to be rude, but think about it, you could of destroyed your phone with one more bad flash

It's working! It's updating and everything. Phew! No offense taken, I hear ya and agree. Just being a noob at all this can put me into a lot of trouble. I have learned a lot of stuff though lol. Anyways, thank you everyone for helping me! I should be good from here

Glad to hear its working

Cheers man, good to hear everything is fixed.
If you need anything else, contact me. There are a bunch of ways to.
As for rooting again? Just read up and you'll be set.

mgutierrez87 said:
Honestly man once you get back to stock, don't worry about unlocking and rooting it. You have no business rooting your phone and flashing roms if you can accidentally delete your os, backup file, and the recovery partition. Not trying to be rude, but think about it, you could of destroyed your phone with one more bad flash
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Hate to bump heads with ya dude but this isn't the way to be, I frown upon threads like this as well but I encourage others to root no matter who they are. Granted they do need to take the time to research what they are doing and how to get themselves out of a hole like this but someone has to help them learn
This is a community working towards a common goal, you never know maybe this dude will make his way towards development somewhere in the future. Or more likely since others helped him in his time in need he will turn around and try to do the same for someone else
Just my two cents
Sent from my HTC One XL using Tapatalk 2

mgutierrez87 said:
Honestly man once you get back to stock, don't worry about unlocking and rooting it. You have no business rooting your phone and flashing roms if you can accidentally delete your os, backup file, and the recovery partition. Not trying to be rude, but think about it, you could of destroyed your phone with one more bad flash
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A simple "Be more careful next time because of ..." would have been just fine.

superchilpil said:
Hate to bump heads with ya dude but this isn't the way to be, I frown upon threads like this as well but I encourage others to root no matter who they are. Granted they do need to take the time to research what they are doing and how to get themselves out of a hole like this but someone has to help them learn
This is a community working towards a common goal, you never know maybe this dude will make his way towards development somewhere in the future. Or more likely since others helped him in his time in need he will turn around and try to do the same for someone else
Just my two cents
Sent from my HTC One XL using Tapatalk 2
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My apologies. We had been PMing for over an hour before this thread trying to get his phone back. I came off a little rude on that last post but he knows how hard I was trying to help him and that he can always come here for answers. Most forum guys would tell him to "search it"

please
how did you fix your phone i almost have same problem

He didn't delete ROM, recovery or anything. He relocked his bootloader. It just won't let you reboot unless you relock with a stock recovery flashed.
Sent from my One X using Tapatalk 2

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1982968
Could u guys stop by my thread and help me out?
I kinda have the same problem, and RUU tells me phone is off, error 170.
Thanks

Friend thought he bricked his infuse, I can get it in red CWM and in download mode!!!

My friend could not get his phone to turn on, or blink, or do anything at all... After a while of messing with it I got it to turn on and I figured out how to boot the red CWM and from there I can also send it into download mode. I have tried reformatting and wiping data and rebooting ect, ect, but nothing is working, OHH and BOTH my micro SD cards are write-protected for some RETARDED reason so I cant put the ROM on that and CWM it.... So can somebody help me out please!
AND BEFORE YOU START POINTING FINGERS!
I have read threads for the last 10-12 hours (straight, no joke) and have tried using Odin, and the HEINSCHEMIA or whatever its called, and I just dont seem to be getting it xD i think its just the instructions are too vague since I havent used these programs at all, both of them go NOWHERE (and I do have the drivers installed)
I am not new to this stuff and I have put ROMs on probably upwards of 20 devices but this one is really pissing me off =[ im dead tired and sick of just reading hundreds of threads that are taking me nowhere! SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP I WILL BE FOREVER IN YOUR DEBT! =]

ThreeWishes4Me said:
My friend could not get his phone to turn on, or blink, or do anything at all... After a while of messing with it I got it to turn on and I figured out how to boot the red CWM and from there I can also send it into download mode. I have tried reformatting and wiping data and rebooting ect, ect, but nothing is working, OHH and BOTH my micro SD cards are write-protected for some RETARDED reason so I cant put the ROM on that and CWM it.... So can somebody help me out please!
AND BEFORE YOU START POINTING FINGERS!
I have read threads for the last 10-12 hours (straight, no joke) and have tried using Odin, and the HEINSCHEMIA or whatever its called, and I just dont seem to be getting it xD i think its just the instructions are too vague since I havent used these programs at all, both of them go NOWHERE (and I do have the drivers installed)
I am not new to this stuff and I have put ROMs on probably upwards of 20 devices but this one is really pissing me off =[ im dead tired and sick of just reading hundreds of threads that are taking me nowhere! SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP I WILL BE FOREVER IN YOUR DEBT! =]
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No ideas??? or am i not being patient enough? lol! anyways INTERESTING UPDATE: I went out for a little bit and came back to an "important update" (just 1) and it was the SAMSUNG blah blah (exactly what i wanted to see) but of course when i try to update it, it downloads and then gives me error 800f020b which means "im trying to install a device that is not connected" (summerized) so what am i supposed to do?!?
Any help would be great =]

ThreeWishes4Me said:
No ideas??? or am i not being patient enough? lol! anyways INTERESTING UPDATE: I went out for a little bit and came back to an "important update" (just 1) and it was the SAMSUNG blah blah (exactly what i wanted to see) but of course when i try to update it, it downloads and then gives me error 800f020b which means "im trying to install a device that is not connected" (summerized) so what am i supposed to do?!?
Any help would be great =]
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Did you root and download a ROM? Not rooted? You didn't give a lot of details.
Read the following link and follow the Heimdall link in there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1437548

psal217050 said:
Did you root and download a ROM? Not rooted? You didn't give a lot of details.
Read the following link and follow the Heimdall link in there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1437548
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???? I said IT CANT BOOT and I CAN GET INTO RED CWM AND DOWNLOAD MODE.... how would i root it if it wont boot....
And that program wont work because you have to have the drivers installed and from what i can see its impossible without at some point having my phone connect (regularly, not in CWM or download mode) which is obviously not gonna happen... so thats useless as can be....
ALSO I FIGURED OUT HOW TO TAKE THE WRITE-PROTECTION OFF (NOT MANY PEOPLE KNOW THIS, I FOUND THE SETTING IN DEVICE MANAGER!) BUT IM DUMB AND CANT FLASH THE ROM BECAUSE ITS IN THE EXT SD NOT THE INTERNAL SD! ANY WAY AROUND THIS?
and while trying to follow a tutorial (which i think was BS now) all my drivers are gone from "Computer" except for C, D, and my disc drive 0.0 stupid KEY REGISTRY CRAP! so i need to figure this out and when im done i need to restore to before i screwed it up
EDIT: FORGOT TO MENTION THO THAT MY BROTHERS GF HAS AN INFUSE I THINK SO IM GONNA HAVE HER COME OVER AND ILL FINISH INSTALLING THE DRIVERS WITH HERS, THAT WOULD WORK RIGHT???

if your phone won't boot and you don't have a cwm back up or if you don't have a rom on your internal sdcard or don't have zen tool kit then your sol and you have no other options but to flash ur phone back to stock in download mode using odius or hymenthingy.

"odious hymenthingy" .... you are wise, o great and powerful mufmaker
(either that or I am flashing back to the years I spent in janitorial service at the all-girls Catholic high school)

Zen Arcade said:
"odious hymenthingy" .... you are wise, o great and powerful mufmaker
(either that or I am flashing back to the years I spent in janitorial service at the all-girls Catholic high school)
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I take offense to the title "mufmaker," Sir. I've re-flavored a MUF or two and might have even dyed a few MUFs. But make one, I did not.
btw..we had this discussion a while back...the OS that runs the phone may be more accurately call a firmware. So we have Unofficial Firmwares. And Modified UFs can be called MUFs

qkster said:
if your phone won't boot and you don't have a cwm back up or if you don't have a rom on your internal sdcard or don't have zen tool kit then your sol and you have no other options but to flash ur phone back to stock in download mode using odius or hymenthingy.
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what do you mean a cwm backup? a backup on the int from before? remember this wasnt my phone so that type of info i wouldnt know, but i do know CWM works perfectly fine and it goes into download mode just as easy, also stock is fine with me but how do i do that, how can i make hymenthingy (rofl) work??? would using any infuse work? my brothers girlfriend has one and i asked her to bring it later....
Cant i just get the drivers working and try that program and if not cant i just use CWM thing that mounts it to USB storage and put the rom on the internal? does that work... im confused xD

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what do you mean a cwm backup? a backup on the int from before? remember this wasnt my phone so that type of info i wouldnt know, but i do know CWM works perfectly fine and it goes into download mode just as easy, also stock is fine with me but how do i do that, how can i make hymenthingy (rofl) work??? would using any infuse work? my brothers girlfriend has one and i asked her to bring it later....
Cant i just get the drivers working and try that program and if not cant i just use CWM thing that mounts it to USB storage and put the rom on the internal? does that work... im confused xD
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ur only option is to get your phone to be recognize by a pc in download mode and flash a stock package

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ur only option is to get your phone to be recognize by a pc in download mode and flash a stock package
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so whats Mount USB Storage mode or whatever its called, i thought that mounted the internal SD so you can explore it via PC

ThreeWishes4Me said:
so whats Mount USB Storage mode or whatever its called, i thought that mounted the internal SD so you can explore it via PC
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that was not part of the options i suggested

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