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[q] screen of death on froyo :(

So this morning I was checking out the new choices in my Froyo leak - rooted Captivate, I clicked on every one of them to see what it is and then I clicked on one that said something like user accounts, well ever since then my phone has been a black screen only displaying the top clock and a no signal bar. What should I do next? Unfortunately Im stuck at work with no programs. So Im wondering what would you do, which Odin should I use? Ill be checkin in cause at least I can do this and plan fixing my phone for later

Im guessing you tried pulling the battery?
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sure did tried the reboot screen.

and the other thing, now the phone wont go into sleep mode so my battery is slowly dying too

try to boot into recovery and clear out the cache...

I did that too and it clears and then i reboot then it goes right back to black screen

The same thing happened to me, but I wasn't digging around in the settings. Like previously mentioned, I booted into recovery, and cleared cache/factory wipe, and it booted back fresh. Luckily, I had a Titanium Backup from a few hours before it happened, so I didn't really lose anything.

I had something like this too. Can you get into Download mode and use Odin to return to stock rom? It took me several tries before Odin worked.

Well I still haven't heard anyone who has completely bricked there samsung captivate yet so I think you'll be alright. Just to be the 1 click Odin when you get home.
I'm pretty new myself at this But I think the only way were really screwed Is if we kill the bootloader.
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i will try when i get home, im stuck at work unfortunately, at least i know im not the only one, i was also fooling with settings

thank you

Theres been a few people that have fully bricked their captivates... Including me.
If you got your captivate within the last couple weeks be careful using odin with a froyo kernel. Check the Q&A thread for a post titled "phone-pc something" (Using my phone otherwise I'd provide a link)

loserskater said:
Theres been a few people that have fully bricked their captivates... Including me.
If you got your captivate within the last couple weeks be careful using odin with a froyo kernel. Check the Q&A thread for a post titled "phone-pc something" (Using my phone otherwise I'd provide a link)
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Well that sucks.
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theMaginator said:
Well I still haven't heard anyone who has completely bricked there samsung captivate yet so I think you'll be alright. Just to be the 1 click Odin when you get home.
I'm pretty new myself at this But I think the only way were really screwed Is if we kill the bootloader.
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I had one. OTA update. And I wasn't the only one. I couldn't even get into download mode.

yeah, bricked here too trying to go to Froyo. Sent to Samsung, they fixed it.

theMaginator said:
Well I still haven't heard anyone who has completely bricked there samsung captivate yet so I think you'll be alright. Just to be the 1 click Odin when you get home.
I'm pretty new myself at this But I think the only way were really screwed Is if we kill the bootloader.
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lol its happened to many people, myself included.

Stock Inspire 4G won't boot past bootloader and will not enter recovery.

My dad came home from work today and his stock Inspire 4G has stopped working. Nothing has been done to it. It simply hard locked and turned itself off. Since then I can't get it to boot past the boot loader. Once it's in the bootloader it checks for the PG98IMG.zip and then doesn't respond to anything else. I have tried numerous battery pulls, connecting to the phone with ADB and so forth but no response from the phone. Any ideas? AT&T has shipped him a refurb, but I figured I would take a crack at it until then since his phone would probably be better than some random refurb.

Sad, seems like it's boot looping: on stock rom, no less. My options will void the warranty, though, as it entails installing custom roms:
1. Push a cooked rom by rooting it. The cooked rom should be clean, but it will be rooted, thus, warranty void.
2. Try looking for stock rom for the HTC Inspire, push that using ADB and have the bootloader use it. Hopefully, it should restore stock settings to your inspire and still be replaced through warranty (i wouldn't know, I haven't sent a rooted phone in to warranty yet)
If that fails, might as well call AT&T and say it's a dud.

Truculent said:
My dad came home from work today and his stock Inspire 4G has stopped working. Nothing has been done to it. It simply hard locked and turned itself off. Since then I can't get it to boot past the boot loader. Once it's in the bootloader it checks for the PG98IMG.zip and then doesn't respond to anything else. I have tried numerous battery pulls, connecting to the phone with ADB and so forth but no response from the phone. Any ideas? AT&T has shipped him a refurb, but I figured I would take a crack at it until then since his phone would probably be better than some random refurb.
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You could take the pd98img.zip from the ruu and it would do a clean install and more then likely boot the phone up, unless it is a hardware issue. I don't see the need to root it if all he wants is the stock rom.
Btw you can find the pd98img.zip in the guide stickied in the general section.
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Wait, how did you get into the bootloader if you dad's phone is stock?

same way you do on a rooted phone power plus volume down..I think you are confusing the bootloader with recovery.

mudknot2005 said:
same way you do on a rooted phone power plus volume down..I think you are confusing the bootloader with recovery.
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No, I just didn't know you could do that on stock.

mudknot2005 said:
You could take the pd98img.zip from the ruu and it would do a clean install and more then likely boot the phone up, unless it is a hardware issue. I don't see the need to root it if all he wants is the stock rom.
Btw you can find the pd98img.zip in the guide stickied in the general section.
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I think I'll try this. I'm wondering if it's a hardware problem though. My dad just told me that yesterday it was losing signal and then he would reboot it and it would regain signal for a little while and drop it again. May be a radio problem.

LEAVE IT BE. There is no reason to monkey with it if you already got the refurb, just send it away. Just because you want to poke around like bill nye or something might end up costing your dad $450.

I Agree Leave it be
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Truculent said:
I think I'll try this. I'm wondering if it's a hardware problem though. My dad just told me that yesterday it was losing signal and then he would reboot it and it would regain signal for a little while and drop it again. May be a radio problem.
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hi, friends my problem is ike that too. I swithed on to Hboot and pushed to recovery. after that my phone can not read PD98IMG.zip, I wanna install stock rom by sd card but it can not read it. when I stand in it sd card with PD98Img, its "checking" then again staying on Hboot system. please help me how to do it?

Why not just take the stock ruu which installs from the pc?
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Bricked my Thrill already

Resolved the problem

bricked mine as well, but i did it with DynamicRam's tweaks that was posted on another forum and confirmed working on the Thrill. Mine is stuck at the LG boot screen and will NOT go passed it.
Ive tried recovering it. doesnt work. Tried the LG Recovery software and sadly it doesnt support the Thrill yet.

Well it makes me feel better knowing I'm not alone, but it still sucks for us huh? I was gonna try the unbricking method for the Optimus 3d but I'm afraid it wont work because it's a European ROM instead of the stock one for the Thrill. I am willing to try anything at this point but I don't have much confidence in this unfortunately.

Hey guys im really sorry to hear about your problem... i also replaced the app_process and system_server files as well as the 99 tweaks no boot animation file... all permisions checked then rebooted... worked great on my rooted thrill already see better battery life !!!
All i can tuink of is u prolly noticed with root explorer you need to click the mount/unmount button to paste the modded files... right after you check permissions u need to click the mount/unmount button again... that could screw it up if you didnt...
I have not heard of anyone getting a recovery working on this yet... i would take it back where ever you got it and tell them its broke... and get a replacement...
Good luck
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Trekfan422991 said:
Hey guys im really sorry to hear about your problem... i also replaced the app_process and system_server files as well as the 99 tweaks no boot animation file... all permisions checked then rebooted... worked great on my rooted thrill already see better battery life !!!
All i can tuink of is u prolly noticed with root explorer you need to click the mount/unmount button to paste the modded files... right after you check permissions u need to click the mount/unmount button again... that could screw it up if you didnt...
I have not heard of anyone getting a recovery working on this yet... i would take it back where ever you got it and tell them its broke... and get a replacement...
Good luck
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Thanks for the advice, but won't they see that it's been rooted after they finally figure it out and charge full price on a new one or something? I'd rather be 100$ down and wait out a fix than $600 down total.

i have returned many bricked devices if it wont get past that att screen tjere is no way to know
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i bricked my phone first phone yesterday just went back amd said it wont boot they dont know why it wont boot
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Not exactly sure what could have went wrong. Can you guys pm me exactly what you did that bricked your devices.
I have applied the tweaks with no issues
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N!ghtgold said:
i bricked my phone first phone yesterday just went back amd said it wont boot they dont know why it wont boot
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We do now...noted

manske90 said:
Well it makes me feel better knowing I'm not alone, but it still sucks for us huh? I was gonna try the unbricking method for the Optimus 3d but I'm afraid it wont work because it's a European ROM instead of the stock one for the Thrill. I am willing to try anything at this point but I don't have much confidence in this unfortunately.
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That will not work.
I am trying to find a way to get into the phone to fix it AND see what could have went wrong. It doesn't make sense
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Trek.. It sounds like he was doing a different tweak. He was editing the build.prop not doing the 99 tweak
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00mred00 said:
Trek.. It sounds like he was doing a different tweak. He was editing the build.prop not doing the 99 tweak
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That's correct. Sorry that I wasn't quite specific enough.

Cant you atleast enter recovery mode? Because from there the problem would be solvable.
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Yes I am able to boot into stock recovery mode. I tried factory reset, clear cache, all those options available but none fixed it.

manske90 said:
Yes I am able to boot into stock recovery mode. I tried factory reset, clear cache, all those options available but none fixed it.
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factory reset i believe does not rewrite the system partition.. only clears the data partition meaning the build.prop you edited, which is in the system partition, and is not going to be replaced by a working one...

manske90 said:
Resolved the problem
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How?
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i bricked mine the first day i had it. Luckily most phone shop employees dont know the first thing about mobiles. Mine was stuck booting into CWM recovery after an update from LG, i should have read the forums before updating. I just took it back and said it keeps going into recovery and they gave me a new one. I havent installed CWM on this one just to be safe

Bricked after all this time

I had a lunch TB4g and it just bricked today, I was running ShiftAOSP 1.2 (I believe unrelated) and the .802 radio (possible) but it will just go to the HTC screen and reset and keep trying to boot. I can get into HBOOT and FASTBOOT, I have tried to reflash a root friendly RUU but it didnt fix anything and still cant boot. Just giving you a heads up. I had it overclocked to 1.22, I had it in my car on the way home, sent one text, 23% battery and I plugged it into my CPU USB to charge for a little waiting for some friends to show up and that is when it went into bootloop. Heat was not an issue as I had used it minimally the whole day sending small texts. It did sustain a major G shock 2 days prior but no excessive G or roughness today. Since it can get into HBOOT it might be recoverable but thats to the devs to decide, I have the unlocked 1.04 hboot installed.

i doubt the radio caused it, but that sucks man. see if you can talk verizon into a bionic for a replacement.

Does it bootloop in recovery?
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JBO1018 said:
Does it bootloop in recovery?
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he wont be able to get to recovery, hes bricked. i had this sorta happen to me weeks ago but my phone recovered on its own. to say the least i put full insurance on it.

fixxxer2008 said:
he wont be able to get to recovery, hes bricked. i had this sorta happen to me weeks ago but my phone recovered on its own. to say the least i put full insurance on it.
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He said it boots to the splash screen and he can get into hboot. So I'm confused why you would think he couldn't select recovery in hboot and see what happens. If he already flashed a full stock RUU custom recovery will be gone tho.
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JBO1018 said:
He said it boots to the splash screen and he can get into hboot. So I'm confused why you would think he couldn't select recovery in hboot and see what happens. If he already flashed a full stock RUU custom recovery will be gone tho.
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if i were him id just replace it. i just hope my tbolt lasts until the vigor ships.

it will boot to hboot and not reboot, but it will not boot to recovery

Have you tried flashing one of the recoveries that were modified to install through hboot? you can take your sd card out, and using a computer, place the PG05IMG.zip (search here @ XDA) and place it on the root of the card, flash through hboot. then using the computer again, remove the PG05IMG.zip from the sd card and go back into hboot and select recovery. i had to do this not too long ago and it worked for me, maybe it will help you.

I pulled the battery and wont plug it in all night to see if it resets some error it maybe had, my new phone is delivered tomorrow so its not a big deal.

fixxxer2008 said:
if i were him id just replace it. i just hope my tbolt lasts until the vigor ships.
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I would agree. The whole reason I asked about recovery boot looping is because if it is thats pretty much identical symptoms everyone who had the boot loop of death "brick" thing had. If that is what the situation is I would get it s-on and get VZW to replace because I doubt he caused it.
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fillyo said:
All you cheap ****ers trying to get something for free, if he bricked, his loss. Period.
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Ditto. He probably told insurance he lost the phone and paid his $100 bucks.
People are so greedy these days. All for nothing and nothing for all.

Doesn't sound design like there was much effort to fix it either.
Questioned posted and shortly after a new one is on the the way?
Keep an extra phone around for instances like this.
Not everything is an insurance claim.
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You wonder why all the major companies are starting to hate people who root phones. Some people will flash a Rom everyday just to do it and if they miss up their phone they don't seem to care. Now do I think a thunderbolt is worth 700 bucks retail hell no it only cost about 125 to build. But people need to hit up these forums to try to fix their phones before they call Verizon. I read a few post of guys who buy bricks phone fix them and sell them so any bricked phone can be fixed as far as he said. Read up and don't be so quick to clear data as first sign of a problem. Always try what got me out of the bootloop of death.
1. Battery pull
2. Power and hold down volume button
3. Never and I mean never keep a radio stored on root of SD card after install this will cause Hboot to install radio and that is not what we want to do here.
4. Go to recovery
5. Under download folders in your SD card always keep a updated ROM of what ever ROM you are currently using or at least a stable build inside that folder if you are using AOSP keep a stable ROM that last worked for you so no data clear is needed if you are using Sense do the same.
6. I never flash a recovery at this point follow this it saved my phone. Clear cache, clear delvik, format system under mounts and storage.
7. Format is most important since it will not delete recovery if you need to try again. Go to install zip file, select zip file, and install your fresh ROM or a stable build I never have flashed a normal ROM or have I flashed back to a down graded GB ROM.
8. Reboot after ROM has flashed and your phone will boot correctly.
I hope this has helped it saved me a few times in boot loop of death. Stop clearing data you lose your recovery and stop flashing old GB ROMs thinking they will save you, it might but message me so I can say I told you so.
****NOTE also make sure you are updated to newest CWM there was a problem with bootlooping after flashing a kernel and maybe Rom. I had the problem with flashing a kernel sent me into a bootloop. Update or roll back.******
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The OP probably gets into recovery for a few seconds then bootloops randomly. If you are not bootlooping in hboot, you are not bricked. Find the stock ruu file and flash that through hboot. Although you will lose root, the phone should work again.

If it's bricked, throw it to the ground and stomp on it til it breaks and claim insurance..... That should piss some people off here
Seriously tho some guy mentioned something about a HBoot friendly RUU. You should look into it
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As far as I have seen the random and sudden boot loop of death thing has happend to rooted and stock phones. Leading people much smarter than me to come to the conclusion it is most likely caused by some kind of hardware defect existent in a lot if not all Thunderbolts. If he bricked it trying to flash an hboot from an Incredible or a bad flash because of not taking 30 seconds to check MD5 sums then I would put the blame on him. I'm not trying to condone fraud but if the situation is what I was thinking it might be he shouldn't have to pay because HTC got cheap on some build lots or had some bad quality control. Bootlooping from a bad flash and being able to get into recovery and restore is NOT the same thing I'm talking about. In the situation I'm refering to the ROM and recovery both bootloop. You can still flash an RUU in hboot but even after that the phone still bootloops.
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JBO1018 said:
As far as I have seen the random and sudden boot loop of death thing has happend to rooted and stock phones. Leading people much smarter than me to come to the conclusion it is most likely caused by some kind of hardware defect existent in a lot if not all Thunderbolts. If he bricked it trying to flash an hboot from an Incredible or a bad flash because of not taking 30 seconds to check MD5 sums then I would put the blame on him. I'm not trying to condone fraud but if the situation is what I was thinking it might be he shouldn't have to pay because HTC got cheap on some build lots or had some bad quality control. Bootlooping from a bad flash and being able to get into recovery and restore is NOT the same thing I'm talking about. In the situation I'm refering to the ROM and recovery both bootloop. You can still flash an RUU in hboot but even after that the phone still bootloops.
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He could not get into recovery cause he cleared data, can't get there is there is not one. And it didn't seem to me like he tried to flashed CWM from HBoot either.
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Grnlantern79 said:
He could not get into recovery cause he cleared data, can't get there is there is not one. And it didn't seem to me like he tried to flashed CWM from HBoot either.
If he can't think of a way to fix it send it to me will have it running in a couple of google searches.
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I tried to get into recovery a few times before doing anything, it would just go black and reboot to the HTC logo. As a last attempt I tried to load a rooted a ruu, it installed but didnt not boot. I have the 1.04 modded hboot so I dont think I can overwrite recovery. Either way, contrary to your beliefs I will not claim insurance on it, although this is a warranty issue, these phones are dropping left and right. I just moved to tmobile this week and my sensation 4g and G2x are supposed to be delivered today.

Thanks for your ideas but I tried to reflash recovery and it installed through hboot but it will just reset before it loads. I still have s-off and my emmc was the sem08g. I am going to plug it in and just let it boot loop all day while I am at work, maybe it will get out, maybe it wont, either way is it wont hurt anything.

Stock Recovery?

well i recently put my phone back to stock because ive been having a problem with my phone so im getting a refurbished one from tmobile .
Anyways ive noticed whenever i go into recovery mode it shows the red triangle exclamation point. would this affect me negatively with tmobile? I dont want to be charged extra if it would expose me for rooting my phone.
if so Ive been looking for a stock recovery all over and could not find one. if anyone has it or happens to know a link i can go to get it i would greatly appreciate it since every link ive found is dead unless im just blind.

AwesomeFabe said:
well i recently put my phone back to stock because ive been having a problem with my phone so im getting a refurbished one from tmobile .
Anyways ive noticed whenever i go into recovery mode it shows the red triangle exclamation point. would this affect me negatively with tmobile? I dont want to be charged extra if it would expose me for rooting my phone.
if so Ive been looking for a stock recovery all over and could not find one. if anyone has it or happens to know a link i can go to get it i would greatly appreciate it since every link ive found is dead unless im just blind.
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That red triangle thing is whats supposed to happen
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That means it can't find a recovery. But as far as Tmo goes.....very, very few of them even know how to get to the bootloader. With a stock ROM you should be just fine.

Oh! Alright thanks guys. I'm still kinda noob to this so I just wanted to make sure things were ok. preciate it

Yeah, thats 100% OK. Just make sure you locked again. Just flash back to stock via hboot.
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Ohh alright thanks guys. U can let this die down now. Appreciate the help
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