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Need help! Stuck at booting screen with HTC logo

I need help. I am a beginner. I recently rooted my phone and installed Android Revolution 4G, S-off, and everything, then flashed the power notification widget for my phone thru the recovery menu from ROM manager by selecting the zip file. It installed successfully, but when I rebooted the phone, my phone is stuck at the white screen with the HTC logo. Please help. I am able to get into recovery menu after pressing vol down button and power button at the same time when the phone is off. What do I do now? Thanks.

stuck at boot logo
Hey i just had this problem today, and i found a solution.
first press vol down and power button to get into recovery. at first you may not be able to scroll down, wait a couple secs. then scroll down to recovery then push the power button to select. the screen will flash the boot screen then go into clock work mod. now scroll to apply zip from sd card and bush power. scroll to restore then push power. now select choose zip from sd card. then navigate to the rom from clockworkmod -> download/ ->coredroidroms.com/ ->roms/ ->desire_HD/ -> release under this, i had 2 choices, the only difference between them was that 1 said update patch. you want to select the one that ends in .zip NOT THE UPDATE! follow through the process and your phone will be bootable now.

sorry forgot to mention that your case may vary a little depending on what rom you have and the location of it on the sd card. but follow the same general guide lines and you should be in good shape

This happen to me when restore a nanbackup with revolution on it, stuck in blank htc screen, so restore other nanbackup with CM7 and it work's so i don't really know what happen here.
Later change it to RCMiXHD successfully.

I am going to say this because it seems people forget. Before adding anything you flash through the recovery menu, BACKUP!!! I put in a power notifications thing also and my phone just kept rebooting over and over again. But I had made a backup just before doing this, went to recovery and restored my backup. Was right back where I started. (By the way, when I was on my captivate, I didn't follow this rule myself and lived to regret it, had to spend a day and a half getting everything mostly back to where I had it, very sad)
That being said, if you have your ROM on the SD card in your phone you can just reinstall that and it should fix the messed up system image. Depending on the system you should be good with just that, some ROMs will wipe when they are installed though so you may have to reinitialize your applications. If your ROM image isn't on the SD you could download it to your computer and put it on the SD card then install from SD in the recovery options.
Good luck, there are folks online that may be able to help as well, there is an IRC channel mentioned in the root thread and people are there often.

[Q] Need help with rooting 3g (have read the how to)

Hey guys I really need your help, my phone has been down for the past 3 days now. I followed this guide:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=547133&page=2. I will state that I am new to the forum so I cannot post on the actual how to, due to rules, or I would have. Basically i have made it all the way thru the guide, to the point where it tells me to:
- press MENU to power off! (do not reboot)
- hold HOME and POWER to boot into recovery mode
- apply update
once I reach there I have no way of resetting the phone so I just pulled battery after it said the cyanogenmod was installed from sdcard. I flashed the splash.nb, but now all that happens is my phone loads up the MyTouch 3g screen freezes for a few min then restarts and goes back into Android System Recovery screen. I really need your help and would be forever great-full if someone could lend me a hand. I will check back regularly.
Thank you very much ahead of time for whoever lends me a hand.
Troubled Guy With Non Working Phone

OP here
Come on guys someone has to have had this problem before. Even if you are sending me to another link who has dealt with this before it will still be a help.

First of all, I'm not familiar with your phone. But I will try to give you a few ideas and see if any of it works for you.
If you have a recovery installed and you have flashed Cyanogenmod, then you are rooted. I'm not sure how your recovery works, but you should have to use the volume buttons & power button to navigate recovery - or something similar. If you can get into recovery, you should be fine.
Go to the wipe menu and wipe cache/dalvik cache. If these weren't wiped properly before flashing, this could be the culprit. There should be an option to reboot, you may have to choose go back a couple times to find it. If that doesn't work, try flashing a different rom. You'll need to wipe everything in recovery (except the SD card) first, then choose "flash zip from SD card".
If your battery is almost dead, don't try flashing anything, just wipe. You'll need to get an external charger or a full battery before flashing anything.
Again, I don't know how your phone works, I have an Evo & pretty much just treated your post as such. It's a start, though. If you can give me more info, I can try to help further.

I also just noticed this is an old method for an old version of the phone. You do have the phone this was made for, correct? Have you tried sending a pm to the OP?
There is most likely an easier, newer way to root, but what's done is done. It also seems like it may be using Amon Ra recovery? If that's the case, that's the recovery I use so I can help you out there. You may also want to look at how to unroot and get your phone back to stock, then start over. I'm going in to work, but if you post back I'll try to help you out as soon as I get the chance.

[Q] Accidental Update, Now Frozen - Please Help

This morning in my half-awake state I accidentally pressed "OK" to my phone asking me to go ahead with the (I'm guessing) 2.3.6 update. I KNEW I would end up doing something stupid like that. GRR!!
Anyway, the phone then launched itself into a white screen with blue text saying that it is doing the update, but nothing happens and it appears to be frozen.
I am rooted and was trying to avoid this update; like I said, I was half-awake.
I can't even get it to boot into download/recovery mode, it always goes straight to the white screen. Hopefully this isn't a double post; I checked here and google first but couldn't find anything for this phone. I'm really at a loss here. I have Titanium Backup and I got an external SD card, but I'm not sure if I actually backed up the apps to the external card (new to TB). I did a Kies contacts backup a few days ago so that at least is safe.
Is there any hope for my phone? If I can just get it back to a working state, I can live with my apps' data being erased. Any help appreciated.
Thank you!

Doh... sorry to hear that.. are you also running a custom rom, or customized ATT rom (I have the stock rom from the developers forums over the standard root after having tried a few custom roms).
I got the update message as well this morning, but I postponed it for 8 hours, however I am unable to get rid of the stupid notification, and am curious if after the 8 hours, it will force the update or let me postpone it agian (that will get annoying fast if I cannot disable the OTA update..)

I'd like to know how to cancel the update as well. I have it sitting in my notification bar. >_<

jvanbrecht said:
Doh... sorry to hear that.. are you also running a custom rom, or customized ATT rom (I have the stock rom from the developers forums over the standard root after having tried a few custom roms).
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I'm still running stock 2.3.5. All I've had time to do is root and TB apps, haven't had the chance to play around with ROMs yet for this phone.
Yeah I postponed it for 8 hours, too. The 8hrs must have expired right as my alarm went off because the "Install this update?" message popped up and I hit it, thinking it was the snooze button -_-
Let me know if there's any way to get off of this screen my phone is stuck on! And then disable the obnoxious message for good.
Thanks again =)

Maybe try to remove battery.

lyndone58 said:
Maybe try to remove battery.
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I have about 10-15 times since it first happened this morning. I also tried taking out the SIM and microSD cards. It's the only way I can get it to stay off to try to boot to recovery mode (which it still won't boot into); if I hold the power button to turn it off it just resets back into the white Software Update Screen (won't stay off).
Has anyone successfully applied this update yet?
Any other ideas? I appreciate the feedback so far!

Similar thing happened to me. I pulled the battery and booted in to CWM just fine. Restored from there.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using Tapatalk

I don't believe I have CWM installed? How would I have known if I did? When I volume up + volume down + power and wait until the Samsung logo comes up it boots back to the white screen. Maybe I'm doing that process wrong?

Same thing happened to me this morning!
almost identical story
I've tried literally every combination to get to the reboot screen. ugh :'(

mrl3086 said:
I have about 10-15 times since it first happened this morning. I also tried taking out the SIM and microSD cards. It's the only way I can get it to stay off to try to boot to recovery mode (which it still won't boot into); if I hold the power button to turn it off it just resets back into the white Software Update Screen (won't stay off).
Has anyone successfully applied this update yet?
Any other ideas? I appreciate the feedback so far!
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I haven't been rooting as much as some of the guys here, but I think if you take the battery out and it won't boot back even into recovery, you're hard-bricked and you're gonna have to start from scratch with a fresh stock rom. Go to download mode (turn off, hold vol up + down, insert powered usb cable) and put a stock rom back on using odin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342348
You will basically get back to what your phone was when you took it out of the box and you'll have to install everything, your data (other than the data that is on a microSD card) won't be there.
If you have a backup that you did with CWM, then you can restore the backup after you do all this.
I think you got unlucky with the worst case scenario of what shouldn't happen during an update.

Thanks for the advice. I'll give it a try when I get home from work and will let you guys know how it goes.
For the future, is it generally recommended to de-root before doing any straight carrier update? Or is this just a total fluke that some of us are experiencing?

Will adb recognize your phone? If it does just adb reboot recovery
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda premium

Lucidmike said:
I haven't been rooting as much as some of the guys here, but I think if you take the battery out and it won't boot back even into recovery, you're hard-bricked and you're gonna have to start from scratch with a fresh stock rom. Go to download mode (turn off, hold vol up + down, insert powered usb cable) and put a stock rom back on using odin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342348
You will basically get back to what your phone was when you took it out of the box and you'll have to install everything, your data (other than the data that is on a microSD card) won't be there.
If you have a backup that you did with CWM, then you can restore the backup after you do all this.
I think you got unlucky with the worst case scenario of what shouldn't happen during an update.
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AMAZING!! Thank you so much! Not only is my phone up and working but the update has installed!
I learned the following:
-you pretty much need a pc (not a mac) to do all the downloads correctly. I used a friends.
-to get your phone into download mode when it's frozen from the update, you have to hold down either vol + AND vol - (or just vol -) as well as the power button, simultaneously hold down power and also simultaneously plug in the usb. Then let go of the power button and remain holding down one or the two volume buttons.
THIS WAS JUST WITH MY SKYROCKET EXPERIENCE
I'm so happy. Thank you LucidMike

This just happened to my friend's phone. White screen no matter what. Stock everything, too. She's pretty bummed that there's no way to recover the videos and pictures on her phone before resetting it. Apparently she went to AT&T and they couldn't figure it out. They called tech support for her and THEY couldn't figure it out. She's currently on the phone with Samsung, but I doubt they'll be able to help either.

viralriot said:
This just happened to my friend's phone. White screen no matter what. Stock everything, too. She's pretty bummed that there's no way to recover the videos and pictures on her phone before resetting it. Apparently she went to AT&T and they couldn't figure it out. They called tech support for her and THEY couldn't figure it out. She's currently on the phone with Samsung, but I doubt they'll be able to help either.
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AHHH!! Tell her to hang up the phone right now!! Use this method to fix her phone!! All of her data will still be there after it's done! After the process is complete, back it up to a computer (enable USB storage and just copy + paste and I used Kies to copy my contacts) and THEN do a full factory reset (reset recommended by everyone to ensure smooth function of phone). The method in the link will return her to the original stock version; I believe it may trip a counter that AT&T can use to determine if you've hacked your phone, but if you want a working phone...and there's also a chance that it WON'T trip the counter (some people say it did and some say it hasn't).
EDIT: Pictures and videos that I took with the phone are saved in /sdcard/DCIM/Camera, so you know where to copy her stuff from.

jessielooloo said:
AMAZING!! Thank you so much! Not only is my phone up and working but the update has installed!
I learned the following:
-you pretty much need a pc (not a mac) to do all the downloads correctly. I used a friends.
-to get your phone into download mode when it's frozen from the update, you have to hold down either vol + AND vol - (or just vol -) as well as the power button, simultaneously hold down power and also simultaneously plug in the usb. Then let go of the power button and remain holding down one or the two volume buttons.
THIS WAS JUST WITH MY SKYROCKET EXPERIENCE
I'm so happy. Thank you LucidMike
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I'm trying to fix my boyfriend's phone (he actually didn't hack/root it or anything...but yesterday's update messed up his phone so it was stuck in the "SOFTWARE UPDATE" and "Loading..." frozen white screen). We tried taking out the battery, restarting it, everything. I tried your method of holding all three buttons while plugging in the USB and then letting go of the power button. What do you press when it asks you if you want to continue (up vol +) or cancel (vol -)? I chose vol -, and when it took me back to the white screen, I did it again and pressed vol +. Now I'm on a ODIN MODE page...will this affect his warranty or anything? What do I do next?

You need to have odin on your pc and the stock .tar and flash it. Here go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=1509978
Read carefully follow directions exactly

silver03wrx said:
You need to have odin on your pc and the stock .tar and flash it. Here go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=1509978
Read carefully follow directions exactly
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Thanks! I read on the first page of the thread that it needs to be rooted though? This phone is brand new and never been rooted or hacked...will doing this void the warranty or anything unpleasant? (I'm the one that likes hacking my devices like my Nook Color...my boyfriend is a little more paranoid and would rather have it stay covered under warranty )

No actually. Thats incorrect..the stock tar. Is just as it sounds. The stock firmware the phone comes with.....dont need to be rooted to use odin. Actually if u odn the stock tar. It removes root.

mrl3086 said:
AHHH!! Tell her to hang up the phone right now!! Use this method to fix her phone!! All of her data will still be there after it's done! After the process is complete, back it up to a computer (enable USB storage and just copy + paste and I used Kies to copy my contacts) and THEN do a full factory reset (reset recommended by everyone to ensure smooth function of phone). The method in the link will return her to the original stock version; I believe it may trip a counter that AT&T can use to determine if you've hacked your phone, but if you want a working phone...and there's also a chance that it WON'T trip the counter (some people say it did and some say it hasn't).
EDIT: Pictures and videos that I took with the phone are saved in /sdcard/DCIM/Camera, so you know where to copy her stuff from.
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Tried doing this, but this is all I get.
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 0)
<ID:0/006> Added!!
That's it. Nothing else happens. Help?
EDIT: Nevermind! Plugged it into a different USB port (COM:6) and it worked flawlessly. All data is still on phone and it works like new! Thank you!

This is how to Root Rogers Samsung Rugby!

Been trying to Root this phone for a couple of days. Finally manged to do it!
Its the Rogers Samsung Galaxy Rugby. The (GT-S5690R) model.
I had to add the (R) in the updater script. Thats how I got it too root.
1. Put the file on your sd-card Universal_GB_ROOT_v5_patched_for_S5690.zip
2. Turn phone off
3. Boot in to Recovery ( press Power, Vol-up, and center button on bottom of phone all at same time. The samsung logo will appear, keep holding all buttons, then the logo will dissapear then re-appear, when it comes back let go of the power button only. The phone should boot into the 3e recovery)
4. use vol keys to navigate through menu, and use center button on the bottom of the phone to select.
5. Select install update from sd card.
6. press on the Universal_GB_ROOT_v5_patched_for_S5690.zip
7. phone should install root, wait till the 'Success' appears, then reboot.
You should find Superuser app when your phone reboots. You are Rooted!!
Now im just trying to figure out how to get a custom recovery!!

Perfect!
This zip file worked perfectly on my Rogers Galaxy Rugby. Many thanks!

Happy to hear
Sent from my GT-S5690R using xda premium

Big problem now though....
So the root went swimmingly, but I got a little too excited removing pre-installed apps. I backed up and removed Samsung Home, and removed and NOT backed up SNS 1.0. The phone will now refuse to boot unless I wipe data/factory reset in recovery mode, but after that it just ends up crashing during the Android wizard start up....
This is a brand new phone, what can I do to restore those apps, and get it back to the way I received it earlier today?!

There is a way to boot into safe mode, head Google mod2extreme and I find the forum for our phones (currently the only one) find advise there
Sent from my GT-S5690R using xda premium

Thanks for the name of that forum! I've found the guide someone posted here: http://www.mod2xtreme.com/showthread.php?t=12386 and I've decided to try it.
I'm using the first firmware listed in this thread: http://www.mod2xtreme.com/showthread.php?t=11744 (S5690XXKL1 2.3.6 2011 December S5690OXFKL1) mostly because under Country/Carrier it has nothing, so I'm assuming it's more generic than the others. I'm also keeping in mind this is for the 5690, not the 5690R, so it may not work at all. But, worth a shot since my only other recourse is to break down and cry in front of a Rogers attendant to see if he can give me a new one. "Root? What's root? Like ginger?"
I'm using v.1.83 of Odin3, which is listed as supported the 5690.
Downloaded KIES 2.0 from http://www.samsung.com/my/support/usefulsoftware/KIES/JSP - It gave me two DLL registration (COM) errors during installation on Windows. Uncertain if this will end up screwing me over or not.
Be right back, rebooting now that KIES is installed... will edit this post when there's more to report.
EDIT: Yeah, so I ended up trying both Odin version 1.83 and 1.85, with the Marvell .pit file, and the firmware from that thread. I learned that I had to put the phone into Download Mode, NOT Recovery Mode while trying Odin. Even still, nothing worked. I've given the phone up to Rogers and they will try to replace the original ROM, hopefully they won't notice that I've rooted it and really mucked everything up. They said if it doesn't work they'll send it off to Samsung to get it repaired. Anyone know if they find out I rooted it, I'd have to pay for voiding a warranty or anything?

i have the same device hae you manage to get clockworkmod recovery on it?

Does this method erase all personal data/downloaded apps from phone?

Great it worked perfectly...
did you success in installing different firmware?
Thanks again

Thanks a lot, worked like a charm.
Is there a way I can install Clockwork Mod? Rom manager doesn't recognise the s5690r. It gives me the option of selecting the Epic4G or the GalaxyS i9000. will either of these work?
Also, once I get that figured out, is there any roms compatible with the s5690r? I've scoured the webs with no luck. Not a very popular phone, eh?
Thanks again.

markdexter said:
Been trying to Root this phone for a couple of days. Finally manged to do it!
Its the Rogers Samsung Galaxy Rugby. The (GT-S5690R) model.
I had to add the (R) in the updater script. Thats how I got it too root.
1. Put the file on your sd-card Universal_GB_ROOT_v5_patched_for_S5690.zip
2. Turn phone off
3. Boot in to Recovery ( press Power, Vol-up, and center button on bottom of phone all at same time. The samsung logo will appear, keep holding all buttons, then the logo will dissapear then re-appear, when it comes back let go of the power button only. The phone should boot into the 3e recovery)
4. use vol keys to navigate through menu, and use center button on the bottom of the phone to select.
5. Select install update from sd card.
6. press on the Universal_GB_ROOT_v5_patched_for_S5690.zip
7. phone should install root, wait till the 'Success' appears, then reboot.
You should find Superuser app when your phone reboots. You are Rooted!!
Now im just trying to figure out how to get a custom recovery!!
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Good Day, I am also working on the Bell Canada Version of the Rugby. It is the GT-s5690m model. I am now stuck in a bootloop and don't know how to fix it. I have played around with the root and unroot zip files that have been floating around but I am certain that the bootloop is due to not being able to clear the Delvik Cache. As you are aware Clockworkmod recovery is not supported on our devices. I am unsure how to get it to work. Until then I just keep trying different things to hopefully get this phone up and working. It is quite a rugged device and would be great with a custom rom and recovery. Could you explain to me in layman's terms how I might create a flashable clockwork image to flash via Odin or even through stock recovery. I would love to get this phone up and working. Thanks in advance

Sasktel Rugby
Hi there. I am working on the Sasktel version of this phone as well. I tried to change the model from R to M because this phone is the same as the bell model version but it would not install it. I found it on the external SD card but it will not run the zip file from the 3e recovery. Any ideas why this might be happening?
Thanks,

[Q] nexus s keeps booting up then shutting off by itself over and over

My nexus s keeps booting up like normal but then once it gets to my lock screen it shuts off by itself within 5 seconds. Sometimes I manage to put my password in and get onto my main screen but that's as far as I can get before it shuts off again. This continues repeatedly till the battery dies, turning on and shutting off by itself. This has been going on for 2 days now, since my phone died while at work and got home and charged it. When I took it off the charger when it showed a full charge it started happening, turning on and shutting off by itself and when the phone would turn on it would show low battery. As you may know this phone only has internal memory (no memory card slot). So what I'm trying to do is get my pictures and videos off of the internal memory before I do a hard reset which is what the sprint repair store told me was my only option to fix the phone but I would lose everything on there and there's absolutely no way to recover my pics and videos cuz the phone doesn't stay on long enough. Does anyone have any suggestions at all on how I could fix my phone WITHOUT doing a hard reset? I'm hoping to not lose these precious memories so I'd like to keep that as a very, very last resort. Any suggestions would be helpful and very much appreciated...

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My nexus s keeps booting up like normal but then once it gets to my lock screen it shuts off by itself within 5 seconds. Sometimes I manage to put my password in and get onto my main screen but that's as far as I can get before it shuts off again. This continues repeatedly till the battery dies, turning on and shutting off by itself. This has been going on for 2 days now, since my phone died while at work and got home and charged it. When I took it off the charger when it showed a full charge it started happening, turning on and shutting off by itself and when the phone would turn on it would show low battery. As you may know this phone only has internal memory (no memory card slot). So what I'm trying to do is get my pictures and videos off of the internal memory before I do a hard reset which is what the sprint repair store told me was my only option to fix the phone but I would lose everything on there and there's absolutely no way to recover my pics and videos cuz the phone doesn't stay on long enough. Does anyone have any suggestions at all on how I could fix my phone WITHOUT doing a hard reset? I'm hoping to not lose these precious memories so I'd like to keep that as a very, very last resort. Any suggestions would be helpful and very much appreciated...
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Bootloop... You flashed something wrong, modded/tweaked something wrong or overclocked and it wasn't stable... You need to go into recovery and do a CLEAN install of your rom and/or kernel.. if you used a mod/tweak this could have caused it... If overclocking DO NOT check to keep the settings after a reboot unless you are sure that these settings are stable..

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Bootloop... You flashed something wrong, modded/tweaked something wrong or overclocked and it wasn't stable... You need to go into recovery and do a CLEAN install of your rom and/or kernel.. if you used a mod/tweak this could have caused it... If overclocking DO NOT check to keep the settings after a reboot unless you are sure that these settings are stable..
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im not sure what exactly i did but i havent changed anything from what originally came with the phone. (im still running on gingerbread) i had my phone on airplane mode so my battery wouldnt die while i was at work and somehow my phone died anyway then i put it on the charger when i got home and let it charge fully then turned it on and from the time i turned it on till now its been shutting off and turning on by itself. i guess the repair store told me its recycling itself?

diamondrl1 said:
im not sure what exactly i did but i havent changed anything from what originally came with the phone. (im still running on gingerbread) i had my phone on airplane mode so my battery wouldnt die while i was at work and somehow my phone died anyway then i put it on the charger when i got home and let it charge fully then turned it on and from the time i turned it on till now its been shutting off and turning on by itself. i guess the repair store told me its recycling itself?
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Try booting into recovery.. Volume + and Power.. use the volume keys to scroll and power to enter.. the menu has an option for recovery (this does not do anything to your phone).. You may see a dead android,.. DON'T PANIC.. this is perfectly normal, you didn't break anything.. try pressing the volume up, then power, wait a sec and do it again.. (I always had an issue with the "stock recovery") the phone may power off or try to reboot.. (been a while, kinda fuzzy on this).. be persistent and keep retrying the fore mentioned steps and you should get a recovery menu.. Phew... Now the sad bit, you don't have any files you need on your phone.. I don't know if the stock recovery works with usb mounting, but it might.. try it.. if it does then download a custom recovery, I suggest the one in my signature, and copy from computer to phone using the usb.. in the recovery menu, after the transfer is complete, go to install / install from sd / choose the zip that you just put on your sd card / accept / and if you get this far then.. Reboot recovery, don't worry, nothing broken (yet).. lol.. In your new recovery, assuming it's the one I said, go to the advanced menu, (this is a touch version, so you don't need to use the volume keys) and select "fix permissions".. ... .. and reboot.. WORKED???
All is not lost (yet).. try wiping (ONLY) cache and dalvik(under advanced menu).. and reboot.. WORKED??
Okay, so if you are reading down here, either you are bored, or the above steps failed..
Use this program, read the forum as well..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766475
You can keep your phone 100% stock, but you'll need to unlock it to fix it, then you can lock it back up if you'd like.. Not necessary though.. You might think about just installing a custom rom or upgrading to jb.. OOooh the possibilities..
But here's the problem, remember the (yet).. if you have come this far down in steps to restore your phone..
ALL YOUR DATA WILL BE LOST!!!

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Setting.Out said:
Try booting into recovery.. Volume + and Power.. use the volume keys to scroll and power to enter.. the menu has an option for recovery (this does not do anything to your phone).. You may see a dead android,.. DON'T PANIC.. this is perfectly normal, you didn't break anything.. try pressing the volume up, then power, wait a sec and do it again.. (I always had an issue with the "stock recovery") the phone may power off or try to reboot.. (been a while, kinda fuzzy on this).. be persistent and keep retrying the fore mentioned steps and you should get a recovery menu.. Phew... Now the sad bit, you don't have any files you need on your phone.. I don't know if the stock recovery works with usb mounting, but it might.. try it.. if it does then download a custom recovery, I suggest the one in my signature, and copy from computer to phone using the usb.. in the recovery menu, after the transfer is complete, go to install / install from sd / choose the zip that you just put on your sd card / accept / and if you get this far then.. Reboot recovery, don't worry, nothing broken (yet).. lol.. In your new recovery, assuming it's the one I said, go to the advanced menu, (this is a touch version, so you don't need to use the volume keys) and select "fix permissions".. ... .. and reboot.. WORKED???
All is not lost (yet).. try wiping (ONLY) cache and dalvik(under advanced menu).. and reboot.. WORKED??
Okay, so if you are reading down here, either you are bored, or the above steps failed..
Use this program, read the forum as well..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766475
You can keep your phone 100% stock, but you'll need to unlock it to fix it, then you can lock it back up if you'd like.. Not necessary though.. You might think about just installing a custom rom or upgrading to jb.. OOooh the possibilities..
But here's the problem, remember the (yet).. if you have come this far down in steps to restore your phone..
ALL YOUR DATA WILL BE LOST!!!
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mentioning unlocking my phone... i did come across a menu that was a "unlock bootloader". but it said i would have to do a factory data reset...wouldnt that wipe my memory completely?

diamondrl1 said:
mentioning unlocking my phone... i did come across a menu that was a "unlock bootloader". but it said i would have to do a factory data reset...wouldnt that wipe my memory completely?
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The first steps won't.. if you get to the unlock stage then yes.. As long as you keep it locked, you'll be fine.. If it won't let you flash a custom recovery, you can try the above steps in the stock...

Setting.Out said:
The first steps won't.. if you get to the unlock stage then yes.. As long as you keep it locked, you'll be fine.. If it won't let you flash a custom recovery, you can try the above steps in the stock...
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sorry to keep bugging you... so i downloaded your recovery file... im not really sure what to do next since my phone doesnt stay on long enough to transfer the file from my comp to my phone.. apologizes again.. im not really tech savvy as you might have figured out :laugh:

diamondrl1 said:
sorry to keep bugging you... so i downloaded your recovery file... im not really sure what to do next since my phone doesnt stay on long enough to transfer the file from my comp to my phone.. apologizes again.. im not really tech savvy as you might have figured out :laugh:
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Won't stay on, or the screen turns off.. ?? does the computer give a pop-up message saying that you had an issue when copy/pasting the file to the phone..??
Remember that we are working from recovery, not with the phone fully booted into your android os..

Setting.Out said:
Won't stay on, or the screen turns off.. ?? does the computer give a pop-up message saying that you had an issue when copy/pasting the file to the phone..??
Remember that we are working from recovery, not with the phone fully booted into your android os..
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my comp isnt picking up my phone via usb...
update: now my phone isnt turning on at all, even when plugged in to charge or via usb... so does that mean im out of luck now..?

My nexus s has the same issue
brethren, I am sorry to drop in on the discussion like this but I don’t know where to get an answer from. My Nexus S (phone) has had a problem recently, it just keeps on turning on and off and mentions the “type password to decrypt storage”, if it remains on. I tried to factory reset the phone through the steps mentioned in the blog here:
1. Power off
2. Hold Volume + , volume - and power
You should get a green android image with the body opened with "Start" on the screen
3. Press Down till you get to recovery mode
4. Press power
Phone will reboot. You will then get same image of android (smaller) with red warning triangle
5. Wait a minute or two and then press volume + and power (not sure exactly what I did for this maybe it's just waiting)
6. Use volume down to select wipe data/factory reset and hit power
Select Yes - delete all user data and hit power
7. Once done select reboot system now and hit power
You are now back to zero and can start again
But it does not work. I will be obliged if someone helps me out
Thanks