[Q] HTC Incredible possibly bricked - General Questions and Answers

Everything works except the bootloader. I use quick boot and go to bootloader. When I go to factory reset, ( your suppose to push power button as accept) it will bring me back to the main page of the bootloader. On all other options other than the reset I can move up and down on main page, but when I click factory reset, it brings me back to main page and is stuck on the fastboot option. If I click the power button to normally proceed, it freezes then i have to pull the battery. Idk if the rom that I currently have is out of date and had failed somewhere, seeing I have had it for about 3-4 months( Incredibly re-Engineered)
If someone could help me, I'd greatly appreciate it

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[Q] Hard Reset

Guys,
I've tried various searches but I can't come up with an answer that works for me.
When attempting a factory/hardware reset one has two choices:
1. Use the software option.
2. Hardware option using button presses.
I'm looking for a procedure to execute option 2. I can get into the bootloader (Vol Up + Power).
Once in the bootloader, I can navigate to the "Recovery" option but once selected my NS doesn't appear to do anything, it just sits there with an "!" inside a triangle and the little android-droid on the screen.
I doesn't move from there no matter how long I leave it and there are no prompts/confirmations.
Once in that state, if I remove the battery and the reboot the phone boots up as if nothing happened...everything is still there, all my accounts still work etc. Basically the actions had no effect.
Does anyone know how to factory reset the device properly? My device non-root btw.
TIA,
Syphon.
I think, for the stock recovery, once you get the ! in the triangle you need to press or hold volume-up and power button again, then it will take you to recovery.
Ah cool.
Thanks for the tip, I will remember that for the next time I need to do it!!
ikon8 said:
I think, for the stock recovery, once you get the ! in the triangle you need to press or hold volume-up and power button again, then it will take you to recovery.
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On my phone, after 2.3.1, it's power button first, then while holding it, volume up, and only while the box dumping an arrow onto the little android is showing (maybe a second or so). Once the "!" in a triangle is showing, no key combo will get my phone into recovery. Timing is critical. Took me a few tries and a few helpful posts here to get it right.
Oh, also, you can do the ULTIMATE factory reset on this device by doing a "fastboot oem unlock" on the device (then relock it with "fastboot oem lock"). This wipes the sd card as well as the personal data in the rom space.
Awesome, thanks for all the information guys. Much appreciated.

Boost LG Stylo Soft Brick? Please help.

I have a boost mobile LG Stylo that I rooted last November using 6th_Hokage's custom room method provided here http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g-stylo/development/boost-stylo-5-1-1-zv5-custom-rom-v1-t3216307 on this forum. I used the rooted-zv5-system.img file. All has been well for 7 moths until last night when I was using Google Chrome and the app hung (which happens occasionally, not frequently). Had to pull and reinstert battery and upon booting, I am getting in this weird loop of Setup/Activation Wizard - Wifi Connect - and TalkBack Activation that I cannot get out of. HOME and RECENT SCREENS buttons are disabled, BACK button is enabled. I am assuming some corruption took place.
Can anyone point me in the direction of steps to take on resolving this? I am good either going back to factory or root, I just need my phone working. I have reviewed this forum, and am confused on best option on how to proceed, or do I have a permanent brick.
Thanks so much in advance for the assistance!
I'd reset it from recovery mode. I reset my phone whenever it acts wonky. When you do reset it in recovery do it like 3 times like you are clearing it out to put in a rom. If all else fails you can at least flash the rooted rom or original rom again, Good Luck! At least you have root, I'm on 6.0 and no root sux big time!
jmacie said:
I'd reset it from recovery mode. I reset my phone whenever it acts wonky. When you do reset it in recovery do it like 3 times like you are clearing it out to put in a rom. If all else fails you can at least flash the rooted rom or original rom again, Good Luck! At least you have root, I'm on 6.0 and no root sux big time!
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Thanks so much. Cool, I hope it is an easy fix. Because I am pretty much a noob with this stuff, I have never "cleared it out" to put in a rom. I might have done it, but do not recall. I will have to review my process steps again to make sure. Any chance you can provide some step by step instruction that I can follow with regard to resetting and clearing out from recovery mode?.
Here are the steps I found online, does this look correct to you...a hard factory reset? Is this ok even with rooted phone?
Hard reset LG G Stylo
Turn off the device
Press and hold Volume Down key + Power Key about 6-7 seconds
Release Power key when LG logo appear
When still pressing Volume Down key, press Power key one more
Release Volume down key when Factory Data Reset menu appears
Use Volume key to select “Yes”
Pres Power key to confirm.
I do still have the rooted rom I originally used and instructions from 6th_Hockage...are you saying that if I just flash that again following the steps I used to originally root the phone that this will work even though the phone is already rooted?
Thanks!
Turn off the device
Press and hold Volume Down key + Power Key about 6-7 seconds
Release Power key when LG logo appear AND it says "Recovery Mode"
You'll get a recovery menu and you use the volume up and down keys to highlight the "factory reset" after highlighting "factory reset" press the power key to activate selection. Do that three times and you will have a clean slate of your rooted rom.
You don't have to re-flash the reset will be the rooted rom
Did it work???
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HTC One A9, Cannot enter Recovery mode.

Greetings all, As the title suggest I have an HTC One A9 unlocked and I am trying to factory reset it after re-locking bootloader. However, Whenever I boot into boot mode and select to reboot into Recovery mode I am greeted with "Failed to boot to recovery mode" With suggestions to press volume up or down to go back into bootmode. Upon resetting my phone I am sent to a data encryption screen where it ask to enter a password to decrypt my data, Now I can enter any number I want and it goes through saying "The password you entered is correct but your data is corrupt." And gives me a button to factory reset my phone, So I press it and it resets my phone and enters bootmode where my only options are; Reboot, Reboot to bootloader, Boot to download mode, reboot to recovery (Which I just covered does not work for me), Power down. I've looked into this problem before coming here and other people with similar problems have no problems entering recovery mode and even have an option to factory reset the phone from the boot loader menu, However I do not have that 'Factory reset' option in my boot loader menu.
I've spent the last two hours looking at various websites and various topics in this forum but cannot find a solution to aid me. I was hoping to be able to just fix this and return to my phones current settings without wiping anything, But at this point I'll be happy to be able to just get past this and will be satisfied with factory wiping the phone and having it be useable, As I'd like to avoid having to buy a new phone it at all possible.
When I go to recovery mode, I get a phone icon with a red symbol in it. Then I'm able to hold power button and tap the vol up button to proceed. If you're fine wiping the phone, have you tried using the .exe rom file from the HTC site? You need HTC sync installed on the PC, and have phone in download mode use it (at least that's what I've had to do). It should, I believe, reflash recovery mode.
rouyal said:
When I go to recovery mode, I get a phone icon with a red symbol in it. Then I'm able to hold power button and tap the vol up button to proceed. If you're fine wiping the phone, have you tried using the .exe rom file from the HTC site? You need HTC sync installed on the PC, and have phone in download mode use it (at least that's what I've had to do). It should, I believe, reflash recovery mode.
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I have not tried that. But I would love to, Are you able to provide me with a link to the said rom exe file? As I cannot locate it on htc's site, Unless I am that blind..........
KingCarrot said:
I have not tried that. But I would love to, Are you able to provide me with a link to the said rom exe file? As I cannot locate it on htc's site, Unless I am that blind..........
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Google search 'HTC One A9 rom', and look for result that's HTC site.
www.htc.com/us/support/rom-downloads.html
The easyest way should: take your matching RUU and flash your device. This solves your problem

Root attempt Galaxy S8+, touch screen unresponsive at TWRP

I'm going to try to keep this as simple as possible as I don't really know what I did wrong or how I ended up where I am now.
I have a Samsung Galaxy 8+ and I decided to root it. I decided to follow this guy's instructions on how to do it: youtube.com/watch?v=eh-I4uxAmUY.
I follow his steps and am bought to the "Unmodified System Partition" menu after having gone through the process of factory resetting, wiping my data and using Odin to flash twrp-3.1.0-r1_dreamlteks.
The problem is that now the touch screen is unresponsive. It does literally nothing.
I am stuck at the screen that says "Keep System Read only?" where I have to "Swipe to Unlock Modifications", but find myself unable to do so because my touch screen doesn't let me swipe!
So now I'm panicking:
Firstly, I can't get the phone to shut down. Holding the power button does nothing, even if I hold it for a full minute.
Secondly, I can't boot the phone into anything except this unresponsive TWRP thing.
Thirdly, my computer no longer recognizes my phone when I try to connect it via USB (might be unrelated?).
How ****ed am I?
Is my phone just bricked now?
Can I save this rooting attempt in any way, or at least revert to the stock?
Will bringing the phone to a retailer help me in any way, or have I already broken the warranty?
Please guys I am desperate for some assistance here.
ViRALiC said:
I'm going to try to keep this as simple as possible as I don't really know what I did wrong or how I ended up where I am now.
I have a Samsung Galaxy 8+ and I decided to root it. I decided to follow this guy's instructions on how to do it: youtube.com/watch?v=eh-I4uxAmUY.
I follow his steps and am bought to the "Unmodified System Partition" menu after having gone through the process of factory resetting, wiping my data and using Odin to flash twrp-3.1.0-r1_dreamlteks.
The problem is that now the touch screen is unresponsive. It does literally nothing.
I am stuck at the screen that says "Keep System Read only?" where I have to "Swipe to Unlock Modifications", but find myself unable to do so because my touch screen doesn't let me swipe!
So now I'm panicking:
Firstly, I can't get the phone to shut down. Holding the power button does nothing, even if I hold it for a full minute.
Secondly, I can't boot the phone into anything except this unresponsive TWRP thing.
Thirdly, my computer no longer recognizes my phone when I try to connect it via USB (might be unrelated?).
How ****ed am I?
Is my phone just bricked now?
Can I save this rooting attempt in any way, or at least revert to the stock?
Will bringing the phone to a retailer help me in any way, or have I already broken the warranty?
Please guys I am desperate for some assistance here.
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You have voided your warranty so you can't take it down to the shop and get it replaced.
It isn't fully bricked because you can still boot into an "os" that isn't fully functional. It ain't recognised because you have to swipe past this and hop into the ADB sideload interface. Btw, try holding your home button, power button and volume up (or down) and report results.
If I was you, I would wait till the battery drains and shuts off and then let it be off for the rest of the night or something and then try again.
RAZERZDAHACKER said:
You have voided your warranty so you can't take it down to the shop and get it replaced.
It isn't fully bricked because you can still boot into an "os" that isn't fully functional. It ain't recognised because you have to swipe past this and hop into the ADB sideload interface. Btw, try holding your home button, power button and volume up (or down) and report results.
If I was you, I would wait till the battery drains and shuts off and then let it be off for the rest of the night or something and then try again.
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Alright, I'll give it until it passes out from battery loss and then get back on when things change. Thanks for the reply!

Need help with my Google FRP locked [non-rooted] LGL455DL

I made the mistake of Factory Resetting my phone after a few failed attempts at remembering the Pattern to unlock the phone, in doing so I ended up being stuck in the set-up process because I forgot the Google account I was logged into on it before the Factory Reset, had been an account I just quickly made on the spot months ago just to set up an app on it. I'm posting here for help with this since I'm on day 4 of trying to find a way to bypass this and my head is ready to explode. I feel like someone with a fresh mind would be able to point me in the right direction.
If anyone can let me know if I'm doing something wrong or missing some steps that will help me try any one of these, or honestly any advice at all... I'd very much appreciate it and it'd help relieve a huge chunk of this ridiculous headache this has all been.
Thanks in advance!
What I've tried thus far --
- I know for most ways around this, USB debugging needs to be enabled. But since I cannot get past the initial set-up process, I can't access the settings to enable it.
- I also know that for a lot of Android devices USB debugging is enabled by default in Recovery Mode but everywhere I've searched for the hardware combination to boot into Recovery/Download mode, all say the same thing:
Turn phone off > Power up with Vol. Down + Power button until 'Download Mode' is displayed (for boot into Download mode, while holding Vol. Down + Power button plug OTG cable into device)
- My problem with this is that on my device, Vol. Down + Power button, restarts the phone. So instead of 'Download Mode', I'm just restarting the phone over and over again. I was able to get my phone to boot into was Safe mode using the Power button + Side button.
- I've also tried getting around this through a series of steps which involved the 'TalkBack' accessibility feature, but when I try toggling to enable it I just get a message saying "Complete setup first to continue"
From there --
I started looking up Stock ROMs that I'd be able to just flash the firmware. But for the life of me, I cannot seem to find anything for this device. And this is where I'm pretty much at now.
To remove FRP lock you boot into phone's Recovery mode and apply
1. Wipe data
2. Factory Reset
Every Android device gets shipped by default with Android Recovery.
xXx yYy said:
To remove FRP lock you boot into phone's Recovery mode and apply
1. Wipe data
2. Factory Reset
Every Android device gets shipped by default with Android Recovery.
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I can't get my device to boot into Recovery mode. Everywhere I look up, it tells me to Power off device, then Press Vol. Down + Power key until the menu appears. But on my device, all that combination does is force the phone to restart.

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