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I was running a hero ROM on my device, and wanted to try an Eclair ROM. I wanted to flash it but in the process I saw something like: E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command on the screen. I went ahead and performed a wipe because I read it was harmless. But then the installation was aborted because the file update.zip couldn't be found (even though it was on my phone). So I went ahead and rebooted my device. Now it always gets stuck at the little green android, then he disappears and I get a black screen. The device remains on however and I need to pull out the battery for it to turn off... COULD ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME
After doing all you did your device should boot normally. Obviously it didn't. I don't know what went wrong, but if you boot into recovery you should be able to flash a ROM.
Just make sure you have the right recovery and right ROM files.
I only have that Eclair rom on my device (which can't be flashed).
My PC won't read the SD card anymore so I can't put any rom on it...
ernestnwanu said:
I was running a hero ROM on my device, and wanted to try an Eclair ROM. I wanted to flash it but in the process I saw something like: E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command on the screen. I went ahead and performed a wipe because I read it was harmless. But then the installation was aborted because the file update.zip couldn't be found (even though it was on my phone). So I went ahead and rebooted my device. Now it always gets stuck at the little green android, then he disappears and I get a black screen. The device remains on however and I need to pull out the battery for it to turn off... COULD ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME
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Your not bricked... you basically just failed the update process then wiped your current installed rom with the Wipe. Now you rebooted the phone but there's no rom to load. You now see only the boot starting up and hitting the wall with no rom to load.
That makes sense.. How can I fix this issue?
thank you
Would help if you could give us some info on your phone.
Can you enter recovery or fastboot again ?
phone model, spl & radio version ?
this is why Iphones were invented.... For people who cant understand simple directions or even read for that matter.
What recovery do you have? Get another rom, go into recovery, hit the USB toggle switch and put anothe rrom on. It doesnt have to be named update.zip...
Nevermind.. Doesnt matter what I type here you'll go an do what you want anyway.
I have the htc Magic
How do I get to see my radio and spl?
Yes, I can enter recovery mode.
thank you
I can enter fastboot!
RADIO: 3.22.20.17
SPL 1.33.2005
btw it's a 32A
Where is this USB toggle switch??
Android system recovery utility
Use trackball to highlight:
click to select.
reboot system now [Home+Back]
apply sdcard:update.zip [Alt+S]
wipe data/factory reset [Alt+W]
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/command
That's all I see.
Only the latest recovery has the Usb option in it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=530492
How can I do it as I can't put the recovery on my SD card?
crypysmoker said:
this is why Iphones were invented.... For people who cant understand simple directions or even read for that matter.
What recovery do you have? Get another rom, go into recovery, hit the USB toggle switch and put anothe rrom on. It doesnt have to be named update.zip...
Nevermind.. Doesnt matter what I type here you'll go an do what you want anyway.
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+1 to that.
You wipe your phone, couldn't boot it and you did not know the reason for this. You wiped your ROM, there's nothing to load up when you boot it. It's so simple.
ernestnwanu said:
I have the htc Magic
How do I get to see my radio and spl?
Yes, I can enter recovery mode.
thank you
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ernestnwanu said:
How can I do it as I can't put the recovery on my SD card?
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Wow, just wow. If you need spoonfeed after spoonfeed, How in the world did you root your phone in the first place? You run into problems at EVERY step. Honestly, get the iphone (It's not that badddddd of a phone! Just agreeing with what crypt said!) or don't root your phone. You fail to even look for instructions. I don't understand how your PC can't read your SD card? That probably means it's dead (Which means you need a new one) OR the thought of taking it out and plugging it into an sd adapter never occured to you. I bet you even wiped your SD card somehow.
How come you can't put the recovery on your SD card? Or the rom or anything else
ernestnwanu said:
But then the installation was aborted because the file update.zip couldn't be found (even though it was on my phone).
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And why was the ROM (update.zip) on your phone and not your sd card? I believe that you fail fail fail to look at any instructions the awesome people have posted here. If you fail to follow instructions given on these forums, how will you follow instructions given from members trying to help you? I find it useless to bother helping any further.
I don't have an sd card adapter and since my phone won't start up, my pc won't recognize my device anymore. Take it easy btw, I'm only looking for help
If help is what you're looking for, then go look around under these forums. I suggest you go and buy an adapter as well, it'd help a lot. May even be your only choice. (I believe there's another way but I'm not going to bother with that as it may be too complicated for you. I dont' think it'd work either with your recovery)
I don't mean to be an ass but when questions like this are posted, I hope you understand. It's as bad as asking how to turn your phone on vibrate. The manual is with your phone and everything, take a look or get some common sense and try the volume buttons.
The forum is your manual. You wiped your ROM, well if you think about it, of course it wont boot up all the way. It has nothing to load. Can't put stuff on your sd card? Get an adapter. It's simple.
ernestnwanu said:
How can I do it as I can't put the recovery on my SD card?
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I thought people would think right away that they would need an sd adapter to somehow get it onto their computer once they have no other choice lol.
okay that's clear, thank u for your time
For now I don't have an sd adapter, so I stuck the sd card in my brother's phone and tried to put the necessary files but now it seems I have to format the sd card.. Is this harmful or should I just go ahead?
I have the latest recovery but I get a popup message on my PC saying I should format the SD card. Will I still have the 'data' file where I need to put the recovery file under?
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I have the latest recovery but I get a popup message on my PC saying I should format the SD card. Will I still have the 'data' file where I need to put the recovery file under?
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what ever you have on it will be erased.
You can also use fastboot to flash the recovery without having to import it into the sdcard. I would not recommend it to you do since lack the basic android knowledge. (all the command are listed in the thread i posted earlier)
If I format the SD card, where should I put the recovery.img if there is no /data anymore? (using the reboot method)
Can anyone tell me what happened? I was in the process of rooting the phone and got through toasts root instructions. Then once the phone booted again, I tried rebooting into Recovery mode and was left only with the "!" sign over the phone with no recovery options.
I had to take the battery out to get the phone to reboot. Once the phone started up I tried rebooting again into recovery mode with the same results. Once I rebooted again I got a message in the notifications saying "blank SD card SD card blank or has unsupported file system" And now it wants me to reformat.
Is there anyway to recover my SD card? I really don't want to loose my backup. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks ahead!
you didnt run the .bat file included in the evorecovery folder you downloaded. You did download that file right?
tkrechel said:
you didnt run the .bat file included in the evorecovery folder you downloaded. You did download that file right?
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I did, and it booted into recovery mode that time. Is that how you have to boot into recovery mode every time? With the phone plugged into the computer? and loading it through CMD?
My1es said:
I did, and it booted into recovery mode that time. Is that how you have to boot into recovery mode every time? With the phone plugged into the computer? and loading it through CMD?
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Yup for right now..there is a topic to use Rom manager now though.
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MrDSL said:
Yup for right now..there is a topic to use Rom manager now though.
Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk!
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Ugh, I wish I would have paid more attention to detail. Any suggestions to getting my SD card recovered? Or am I SOL and I should just format it?
more info. What point in Toast Root did you get this !
Also, like above, did you download the EvoRecovery zip and extract it to your desktop? and follow all instructions?
Also, if possible, always make a backup of your sdcard to your computer before doing any of these things.
However, If you did everything correctly, and it is still doing this....
I think you still could get to your SDCard, if there is anything on your SDCard, (unless it is the EVO SDCard issue)... If you can get to your sdcard thru usb or by taking it out AFTER turning off phone. You could either make your Backup of the card, or put your Backup back on your Card and start over.
ferfy67 said:
more info. What point in Toast Root did you get this !
Also, like above, did you download the EvoRecovery zip and extract it to your desktop? and follow all instructions?
Also, if possible, always make a backup of your sdcard to your computer before doing any of these things.
However, If you did everything correctly, and it is still doing this....
I think you still could get to your SDCard, if there is anything on your SDCard, (unless it is the EVO SDCard issue)... If you can get to your sdcard thru usb or by taking it out AFTER turning off phone. You could either make your Backup of the card, or put your Backup back on your Card and start over.
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I got through all of Toasts Root before this happened. It happened when I was trying to boot back into recovery mode to flash the new ROM and Radio.
Fortunately I just found my Micro SD card reader and everything is still there. I'm now copying it to my HD. So all is well.
I guess now I'll just reformat the card so the evo can read it, load everything back on to the sd card and go into recovery mode with the phone plugged into the computer using the CMD. Hopefully everything will work out.
EDIT: WTF, now the SD card reads fine after putting it back in the phone. So weird. I guess now I'll just try recovery mode, Flash, then restore my back up.
My1es said:
I got through all of Toasts Root before this happened. It happened when I was trying to boot back into recovery mode to flash the new ROM and Radio.
Fortunately I just found my Micro SD card reader and everything is still there. I'm now copying it to my HD. So all is well.
I guess now I'll just reformat the card so the evo can read it, load everything back on to the sd card and go into recovery mode with the phone plugged into the computer using the CMD. Hopefully everything will work out.
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yeah you should be fine. and yeah for now i'd just use the adb reboot recovery command then run the .bak file to get into custom recovery. once you get everything up and running you can work on getting the update.zip custom recovery method going which the link is posted below. Will save you from having to hook up to the computer to get into recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=699043
Okay all is well. I'm now rooted with flipz .6 and the point .05 radio. That was kind of scary there for a second.
My1es said:
Okay all is well. I'm now rooted with flipz .6 and the point .05 radio. That was kind of scary there for a second.
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Don't let it scare you too much. It's very hard to brick your phone unless you're flashing radios that you should not be. As long as your loading evo roms you'll be fine
My brain hurts...I'm so frustrated I feel like slamming the phone against the wall.
I've gone through 5 threads about bricked Inspire phones but it seems my case is a little different than those.
This was clearly a failed rooting. The phone is stuck on the white screen/boot logo.
It will let me go into HBOOT but none of the functions will work,i.e. recovery,bootlader,etc. It vibrates and keeps going back to the boot logo screen or the triangle icon appears. I've tried everything, the S-ON Tool did nothing because the phone is not recognized when connected to the PC. When I try "factory reset" on HBOOT,it acts like it's going to do it but after a few seconds it goes back to the logo screen. Attempted several rooting processes with Hack Kit but get "phone is offline" error or not connected. I've taken out the battery so many times it's ridiculous. At this point I feel helpless and hopeless.Surely I'm doing something wrong and I'm hoping one of the gurus here can point me in the right direction.
Thank you very much in advance to all those who answer this post.
Search the recent questions regarding problems while trying to root. I have said it over and over that the best thing is to go back to the hack kit thread and re read the op. Towards the bottom it says to hit up the irc for help. All the people that have gone to the irc have received the help they needed.
Edit...irc it seriously. Good luck! :-D
I got your 10 char right here
I think we should have a sticky in every forum explaining to people what a BRICKED phone is. Your phone is not bricked....and what cwhitney said also...........................yeah
KPOTT said:
My brain hurts...I'm so frustrated I feel like slamming the phone against the wall.
I've gone through 5 threads about bricked Inspire phones but it seems my case is a little different than those.
This was clearly a failed rooting. The phone is stuck on the white screen/boot logo.
It will let me go into HBOOT but none of the functions will work,i.e. recovery,bootlader,etc. It vibrates and keeps going back to the boot logo screen or the triangle icon appears. I've tried everything, the S-ON Tool did nothing because the phone is not recognized when connected to the PC. When I try "factory reset" on HBOOT,it acts like it's going to do it but after a few seconds it goes back to the logo screen. Attempted several rooting processes with Hack Kit but get "phone is offline" error or not connected. I've taken out the battery so many times it's ridiculous. At this point I feel helpless and hopeless.Surely I'm doing something wrong and I'm hoping one of the gurus here can point me in the right direction.
Thank you very much in advance to all those who answer this post.
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It is so NOT bricked. Catch us in the IRC channel in my sig and we can get you sorted out, or, you can do it yourself.
If you "factory reset" all you did was wipe your dta settings - including USB debugging on.
Before you can do anything, you will need to install the factory RUU. You can do this from the FASTBOOT USB (note NOT HBOOT USB PLUG) and running the HTC/ATT RUU.
If you're still stuck i had the same issue. Had to reflash the pd98 image zip in hboot again to fix thru issue
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Problem solved. Attn1 and the guys on IRC took care of me.
Thank you very much for your help and patience.
Could you post your fix?I'm having the same problem
deandra said:
Could you post your fix?I'm having the same problem
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Here is the fix: get on irc or read the forums to find your answer.
Mine was like that to, but because I was rooted I updated ota and it got the loop,I just took out the battery and the memory card out turn it on and was back to normal
Sent from my Inspire 4G using xda premium
glitterbug said:
Here is the fix: get on irc or read the forums to find your answer.
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What a great idea!!I have done that but thanks for your help anyway
I had the same issue. I just took out my micro SD card, put it in my PC to load the ROM as a P98IMG.zip file on there, re-install the SD into my phone, the boot up in HBoot. It proceeded to find the zip file and continued to install the ROM to my phone. Afterwards it booted up as normal, but of course all of my information had been erased.
it's mya phone a brick!!!!
Ridn2Lo said:
I had the same issue. I just took out my micro SD card, put it in my PC to load the ROM as a P98IMG.zip file on there, re-install the SD into my phone, the boot up in HBoot. It proceeded to find the zip file and continued to install the ROM to my phone. Afterwards it booted up as normal, but of course all of my information had been erased.
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At me the same problem. Prompt where to take please P98IMG.zip (for AT T). Give please the address for downloading. Also write the instruction as it to correct. At an input in мею HBOOT buttons (I select nothing I can) do not work for me. Help me please. Thanks.
i thought i bricked mine.....
all i did was drag p98 img on to sd card and loaded it and it fixed it...
spv4 said:
At me the same problem. Prompt where to take please P98IMG.zip (for AT T). Give please the address for downloading. Also write the instruction as it to correct. At an input in мею HBOOT buttons (I select nothing I can) do not work for me. Help me please. Thanks.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1191959&highlight=Stock+Rom
Download from last link
(Here it is in a PD98IMG.zip : http://www.multiupload.com/P13PZJ2JBN)
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If it's not already called PD98IMG.zip (which it should be), rename it to this. Put it on your SD card at the root directory (don't put it in any subfolders)
Boot to bootloader (Power off, hold Vol- and PWR until bootloader starts)
It should automatically find the PD98IMG.zip and tell you to press Vol+ to start the update.
When it's done, it will tell you to press PWR to reboot
This happened to me and I am hoping this will fix my phone, downloading now, getting a micro sd card reader tomorrow from best buy to put the new file on there to replace the old one. PLEASE WORK>....stay tuned
glitterbug said:
Here is the fix: get on irc or read the forums to find your answer.
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That is great. A little bit of reading and a great amount of common sense never hurts a situation.
attn1 said:
It is so NOT bricked. Catch us in the IRC channel in my sig and we can get you sorted out, or, you can do it yourself.
If you "factory reset" all you did was wipe your dta settings - including USB debugging on.
Before you can do anything, you will need to install the factory RUU. You can do this from the FASTBOOT USB (note NOT HBOOT USB PLUG) and running the HTC/ATT RUU.
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thank you so much this solved my problem!!
so i recently rooted my phone using advance ace hack kit and achieved a root. my phone rebooted and turned off. when i went to turn it back on a white screen appears with "htc" in green then slowly fades to a brown screen then black. i can see the phone is still on but i cant get it to anything except go into bootloader mode. after getting to bootloader mode, everything i select sends it back to the white screen with green " htc" and fades again. whats going on? any help? fix advice please. do i need to install the factory ruu or what?
you should use the search feature
funtime707 said:
so i recently rooted my phone using advance ace hack kit and achieved a root. my phone rebooted and turned off. when i went to turn it back on a white screen appears with "htc" in green then slowly fades to a brown screen then black. i can see the phone is still on but i cant get it to anything except go into bootloader mode. after getting to bootloader mode, everything i select sends it back to the white screen with green " htc" and fades again. whats going on? any help? fix advice please. do i need to install the factory ruu or what?
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Please read entire OP of the hack kit. I'll give you a hint.. IRC chatroom..they will be able to give you the best advice possible.
If the rooting process worked correctly.
Here is the rooted updated ATT Gingerbread ROM. Just place PD98 in root of SD card then go into bootloader and let it do its thing. When it ask to install volume up for yes. AS ADVICED " RESEARCH"
Place it in the root of your SD card (you will have to remove SD card and use adapter to move zip file to root of SD card if PC does not recognize phone with USB cable) and power phone off then power back up holding down power button and volume down button at same time. Phone should go to bootloader then it will recognize the PD98 zip file and ask if you want to istall. Volume up for yes and it will do its thing. No need to try to get into recover phone will do it itself with the PD98 zip file. Zip is (ATT ROM 2.47.502.7 w/Radio - 26.10.04.03_M)
This is for Rooted Stck ROM
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q6YYQFIM
NO NEED TO RENAME JUST DOWNLOAD AND PLACE IN ROOT OF SD
Hope it helps
PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT ANYTHING ON YOUR PHONE IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING.
Credit to Football at Desire Forum
Then you can flash a custom ROM if you like.
iv have put my sd card in my computer an put what was supposed to be a pd98img file on the sd card. i then ejected the sd card and place it in the phone, pullled the battery. put it back in and put the phone in hboot. it searches for the file but then comes up and says, either no image or wrong image. or both. what now?
funtime707 said:
iv have put my sd card in my computer an put what was supposed to be a pd98img file on the sd card. i then ejected the sd card and place it in the phone, pullled the battery. put it back in and put the phone in hboot. it searches for the file but then comes up and says, either no image or wrong image. or both. what now?
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you didnt extract the zip file did you? place the zip in sd root without extracting, also do not place in any folders. If it didnt work then something went wrong in the rooting process. You may have to go to the IRC chat talked about above.
same thing happened to me. found this int he stuck in hboot sticky
Alternate-Flashing of RUU
This is for those that don’t have access to an adapter to place files with. This should work whether your S-on or S-Off
RUU’s: http://driphter.com/index.php?topic=3872.0
1) Download your RUU from above
2) Boot into Hboot
3) Connect your phone to your PC
4) Select fastboot
5) Run the RUU program
this has worked for me multiple times.
I was wondering if anyone might be able to help me. I have been running ARHD ICS roms since they came out. I was running 6.3 and decided to flash 6.5.1 with the new firmware. I'm super CID and when I flashed the firmware it came up with an error. It said that I could reboot the phone. I rebooted and it never restarted. Because I didn't have too much time, I put the old firmware on the SD card with a card reader and tried to boot into the bootloader, but the phone is completely dead. It won't even charge and makes a weird noise when I plug it into the computer via usb. My hunch is that this is a real brick, but wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions. Please help if you think there is anything I can do.
So no bootloader even after battery pull and volume down + power on?
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Nope can't get into bootloader. Tried pulling battery and volume down + power. Won't even mount via usb and is not recognized through adb. Bricked?
Crumbs. Change SD card? Try a spare battery?
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stringer7 said:
Crumbs. Change SD card? Try a spare battery?
Sent from my Pyramid-T
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I did try another SD card. But haven't tried a spare battery yet. I'll give that a shot too. For some reason I think it's bricked. When I plug into the computer it makes a weird noise, but it makes the normal ejecting noise when I take it out.
I tried using another battery, but that didn't work. Does anyone know anything else that could be tried?
Sorry to hear your story. Which firmware did you flash, exactly? Did you check from ADB to make sure you are supercid and your mid are correct before flashing? Did you check md5 of file after putting on sd card?
You may not be bricked, you may just not be able to access bootloader with hardkeys. I've been there before Try getting in by plugging phone in and doing adb reboot bootloader. may get you there.
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Sorry to hear your story. Which firmware did you flash, exactly? Did you check from ADB to make sure you are supercid and your mid are correct before flashing? Did you check md5 of file after putting on sd card?
You may not be bricked, you may just not be able to access bootloader with hardkeys. I've been there before Try getting in by plugging phone in and doing adb reboot bootloader. may get you there.
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I was installing the 3.32 firmware and got an error. I dont remember what it said. supercid and mid were correct and I checked the m5. Im at loss as to what happened.
I did try to do a adb reboot but it didnt work and my device isnt even recognized. It seems as though this is a real brick.
i would load up a .ruu, one of the latest ones... load it up to where it says trying to connect to device or whatever, and then power on. or power on first and then load up ruu. good luck dude. if no results in this thread, head on over to the unbricking thread and hope they make some progress.
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i would load up a .ruu, one of the latest ones... load it up to where it says trying to connect to device or whatever, and then power on. or power on first and then load up ruu. good luck dude. if no results in this thread, head on over to the unbricking thread and hope they make some progress.
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Nope its bricked. I'm getting the QHSUSB_DLOAD error when I try to connect the device to the computer. I'm keeping my eye on the unbricking dev thread for a fix. Thanks though.