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OMFG I bricked my Touch Pro, need help ASAP please!!

Okay so i updated to Energy's build 21885 for the HTC Touch Pro and everything works fine like usual, and i began to start installing my apps etc.
It all went fine until i started installing some new apps (which might be the reason why it bricked my phone), i think one of the new app i installed was nueUSBKeyboard which is for the CDMA (i didn't read it properly at the start), and my Touch Pro is a GSM, so maybe that's the reason that bricked my fone.
I still don't know what bricked it, but right now when i turn on the fone, it shows the boot information at the very start of the startup, i.e it shows:
R 1. 14. 25. 35 (which is the radio i believe)
G 52. 64c. 25 35
D 5nergy ROM
and it just gets stuck there FOREVER.
I took out my battery and memory card and nothing changes, how do i solve this?? Please help.

Okay after doing some Google & XDA searches, i found a solution which i'm trying out right now. Since my phone could get to the screen with the boot information, and that i can get into the bootloader fine, it seems i can still connect my phone and update the rom.
To get to the bootloader, you press and hold the volume down button, and then you turn on the phone while pressing it. You should get a screen showing you some information and the screen looks red, blue & green.
Then, just plugin your USB and even though it doesn't say it's syncing with your PC (because you need to in order to update the ROM), but just go ahead and update the ROM anyway, it will connect and work.
Right now it's installing and I pray to god this will fix my problem, i will post back and update this, but hopefully anyone who had this problem can give me some other advice in case this doesn't work and hopefully anyone that might have this problem can try this out for themselves. This is the first time i've had a bricked phone.
Just wondering, what are the possible ways that you can brick your phone?? I didn't update the radio or anything, and updating roms is easy and plain as hell, i do that all the time so it can't be it since nothing went wrong, like EVER, and i restarted my fone several times after updating the rom, so it must be one of the new apps i installed for my fone but those are just .cab files that are safe because i got them from XDA itself, and those are very recent released apps too and are for WM 6.5 so i dunno what might have caused it other than nueUSBKeyboard......
EDIT:
Holy crap, it worked! Damn i almost pissed in my pants, god i can't live without a fone. But i would like anyone to give me some advice on what could've bricked my fone in case this happens again, coz i really dunno wot bricked it....

A hard reset would've done the trick.

Farmer Ted said:
A hard reset would've done the trick.
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Did you guys read properly? I said my fone got bricked because it gets stuck at the booting screen.
That's the screen that shows a black background and the word "Touch Pro" in the middle, and it shows your radio & rom information at the bottom right and they're in red colour.
I.E, I'm STUCK at that screen, i can't boot into the rom at all, so how can i even use hard reset? I can't even connect my fone to PC to access the memory card, nor can i use ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Centre to sync with my device so that i can upgrade the rom, which is why i found the solution is to boot into your bootloader screen and then connect the USB, that's the only way it seems.
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Here, i took a picture showing you guys what i mean, sorry for the quality but you guys get the point, it gets stuck at that screen:
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Is it fixed or not? Anyway, performing a hard reset and going into bootloader are pretty much the same thing (hold vol down + OK and soft reset). You can probably hard reset from the bootloader screen, although I've never done it myself.

do a hard reset may resolve this problem by pressing and hold volume down + center button then using stylus to press reset button, when hard reset screen is shown, press vol up button to accept hard reset, do again when done

ya guys, it's solved. I stated that in my 2nd post.....
anyway i didn't know u can hard reset from bootloader screen, now i can try that next time when this happens.

Hard Reset FTW
Hi all,
Just wanted to share that today, after a year of pleasant use on my Fuze, it 'bricked' after I disabled the performance upgrade options in TF3Dconfig and rebooted.
A quick search for "brick" in the Raphael forum led me to do a hard reset. All my texts and customizations are wiped out, but my phone is back up and running. Definitely glad I didn't just accept it as bricked, as I'm not due for an upgrade for 6ish months, and AT&T hasn't got anything for Android phones released yet, so I'd be back on my Wizard (with an english rom flashed onto a T-Mobile Germany-branded device, so funky keyboard action here).
+1 for the hard reset!

[Q] help with recovery

i have a g2x and ive been having random issues
first was the battery life thing ive see a lot about and also i had no calendar installed from the factory
tmo replaced it and i have still been having bad battery issues after reading the other thread about g2x battery issues i was encouraged to open a seprate thread
i tried a factory reset and created more problems than i had before i started
what i have now is a phone that has no android market and the buttons on the bottom are unresponsive , they have haptic feedback but make no changes unless im on the home screen
i tried the nvflash recovery
and i have tried the factory reset a few times pulled the battery numerous times
i dont know the terminology to well so please be easy....
what can i do i have a pretty dumb smartphone lol or is it that my smartphone has a pretty dumb user ?

rexxxlo said:
i have a g2x and ive been having random issues
first was the battery life thing ive see a lot about and also i had no calendar installed from the factory
tmo replaced it and i have still been having bad battery issues after reading the other thread about g2x battery issues i was encouraged to open a seprate thread
i tried a factory reset and created more problems than i had before i started
what i have now is a phone that has no android market and the buttons on the bottom are unresponsive , they have haptic feedback but make no changes unless im on the home screen
i tried the nvflash recovery
and i have tried the factory reset a few times pulled the battery numerous times
i dont know the terminology to well so please be easy....
what can i do i have a pretty dumb smartphone lol or is it that my smartphone has a pretty dumb user ?
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Follow the directions in the OneClick NvFlash CWM Recovery thread.. (the initial post). You should be good to go. It's in the development section.

i followed this thread :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054492
specifically the part that says
How to revert back to stock recovery:
and i used the img5 file
like i said im new to this ive had a blackberry before this is all new to me

so was i right in the other thread and you have a factory fresh unrooted phone? thats an important detail

well i un-roothed it at one point ....
i believe i tried the factory reset when it was rooted, did i brick my phone?
this is what i did so far its at the SW upgrade with the yellow arrows part
what should i do now?
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well ive made it a bit further
followed the above instructions
pulled the usb cord and popped the battery while holding up and power until i see android in orange
then im in the recovery i choose to reset all to factory and choose yes
reboot the phone and back to where i started grrrr
im sure im missing something simple

rexxxlo said:
well ive made it a bit further
followed the above instructions
pulled the usb cord and popped the battery while holding up and power until i see android in orange
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after you put the battery in, you should have just rebooted/powered up the phone. who told you to hold up and power? img5 was sent successfully. you have stock recovery. vol.down and power will now do a factory rest. what color is the text that say's reset all to factory? i think you're still in clockwork recovery even though it said img5 sent successfully. that would be odd though. unless your vol.up and power messed something up.

and....have you even flashed a custom recovery? why are you going back to stock recovery if not?

i guess ive been trying everything i find hoping that something works
ive got it to go back to stock and it seems as if the market is just not showing up
oh and you got a pm good sir....

fixed thanks to crazythunder !
way to go now whats next?

well ive beEn having fun with my phone
it doesn't die nearly as fast as before.... the gps works from time to time and it only restarts on its own 5-10 times a day unlike every 15 min when i first got it
now i get a really aggravating problem if i get a text message it re appears sometimes 20+ TIMES
what causes this ?

Its like it never stops with this dam phone!
for the last few days when I open the email program it takes a second to load then they are deleted a split second after they open. Gggggrrrrrrr

And it.comtinues today I get woken up with an alarm and a frozen phone. I had to pull the case apart and pull the battery out to stop the alarm
Trying to use taptalk to reply it wont work this will be the fourth time I've typed this reply

[Q] How to calibration the accelerometer..?

My TF101 the sensor not balance , how to fix the problem..?

I've got the same issue and there s no way to calibrate the sensor !!!
I tried to hard reset the device : no joy
I tried calibrating with gps status, it only works in gps status, in all other applications, sensor is faulty !!!!

Same here! Don't know if this is since the 3.1 update (updated after 1 hour ownership of the TF )

I am experiencing the same issue...It's super sensitive.
Issue was there before update as well...
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It also feels a little too sensitive indeed, but the biggest problem is the calibration:
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I had mine changed today, it's far better but still choppy and inaccurate.
I would say on 3 degrees discrepancy, instead of 10 degrees on the previous one
Look at the first one :
In every case our g sensors are responding well, it's just a matter of calibration, I hope ASUS will releanse soon a calibration tool. Or maybe someone else.....
Is there a place where we can post some suggestions to ASUS ?

The calibration is done the same way for every android device, wave it in a figure 8 on the x axis, this will calibrate both the compas and the accelerometer.

I have contacted Asus, and the issue, including a link to this topic, is being forwarded to the Asus HQ. Currently there is no calibration tool available. I hope Asus can fix the issue soon.
As stated, calibration using the app GPS status don't have any effect on the tf (maybe not honeycomb compatible for altering sensor values?).

MrTweety said:
I would say on 3 degrees discrepancy, instead of 10 degrees on the previous one
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I too think mine is off by about 3 degrees.
Interested parties can grab the MyBeer live wallpaper here.

thankfully that's one weird thing mine doesn't do...3.1 here also.

I had this same problem with my phone. The solution was to spin it rapidly several times on all three axes. Worked like a charm.
Unfortunately, this is a lot easier with a phone than a 10" tablet ...

I wrote ASUS about it and they answered there was a calibration option in the Display parameters menu.
Thts where it s supposed to be i agree, but it s not there.
They don t even know their product.
They don t even check before answering, we re not blind.....if we say it s not ther, that's because it's not there.
I found the solution : i returned mine back to the store and had one well calibrated now. not perfectly but that's far better.
I suggest you all do the same and maybe then, they will check and notice the option is not here !!!

Once rooted with Prime or another rom, is it possible to calibrate the accelerometer with the "sensorcalibutil_yamaha" command, as mine seems to have a slight problem as well ?

I tried on my root TF and it doesn't work.
the calibration file accessible is "sensors-config" but I failed to run it in order to calibrate the tablet

Mine is fine. But for some games and apps it's off.

@ThaiM : the animated wallpaper with the ice is also perfectly horizontal for you ?

bosert said:
@ThaiM : the animated wallpaper with the ice is also perfectly horizontal for you ?
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I'm using the Lochness Monster one. Yes, docked on my desktop, it's perfectly level. Only in some games and apps do I notice that it may be off. But I think that's because of the angle of the device I have it on while I start that program.
Maybe try that?
Make sure you're level, and reboot. Let me know! Maybe it calibrates on startup?

Good idea, but I rebooted in a perfect horizontal position and the problem is still there.

I sent my tf to Asus RMA, due to left speaker problem and accelerometer. The status was 'waiting' for some time and asked what it was waiting for. Asus told me that it was currently waiting for a new speaker AND accelerometer. Unlikely, but maybe this is also a HW issue
DHL is now under its way, hope to see a perfectly working tf with calibrated accelerometer tonight

...
I have the same problem, and there is about 10 degrees rotation in accelerator, I hope that the developer solve it as soon as it is possible, it takes too much time if we wait for Asus supports!

[Q] How to contact Samsung

I've wasted an hour at the Samsung website. When the chat turned out to be broken the send button didn't,t work, I tried email. After answering all the same questions, model etc, the drop down for model wouldn't work. It's a required field so again, i'm stuck. Does anyone know how to reach them?
i received a galaxy note 10.1 16 gig wi-fi only for Christmas. it was terrific until yesterday morning. I took it from my padded brief case, pressed the start button and nothing happpened. I assumed I'd left it on overnight and rrun the battery down. I just put it away until i went home to charge it. I left it on the charger for a couple of hours. When i again pressed the start buttton, still nothiing. What do i do next?

Try leaving it charging for 6+ hours. Make sure it's plugged in all the way on both ends of the usb cable.

mtcstle said:
I've wasted an hour at the Samsung website. When the chat turned out to be broken the send button didn't,t work, I tried email. After answering all the same questions, model etc, the drop down for model wouldn't work. It's a required field so again, i'm stuck. Does anyone know how to reach them?
i received a galaxy note 10.1 16 gig wi-fi only for Christmas. it was terrific until yesterday morning. I took it from my padded brief case, pressed the start button and nothing happpened. I assumed I'd left it on overnight and rrun the battery down. I just put it away until i went home to charge it. I left it on the charger for a couple of hours. When i again pressed the start buttton, still nothiing. What do i do next?
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can you enter recovery or download mode?.. if not then you should be worried.......
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mtcstle said:
I've wasted an hour at the Samsung website. When the chat turned out to be broken the send button didn't,t work, I tried email. After answering all the same questions, model etc, the drop down for model wouldn't work. It's a required field so again, i'm stuck. Does anyone know how to reach them?
i received a galaxy note 10.1 16 gig wi-fi only for Christmas. it was terrific until yesterday morning. I took it from my padded brief case, pressed the start button and nothing happpened. I assumed I'd left it on overnight and rrun the battery down. I just put it away until i went home to charge it. I left it on the charger for a couple of hours. When i again pressed the start buttton, still nothiing. What do i do next?
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Call them. Very easy to reach by phone.

toenail_flicker said:
Call them. Very easy to reach by phone.
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Does anyone know a phone number? That's one thing that's not on the website.
To answer the previous question, no it won't boot into download or Recovery.
I'll try the six hour charge, but I'm not hopeful.
Stay tuned for more on ...

mtcstle said:
Does anyone know a phone number? That's one thing that's not on the website.
To answer the previous question, no it won't boot into download or Recovery.
I'll try the six hour charge, but I'm not hopeful.
Stay tuned for more on ...
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I found 1-800-SAMSUNG somewhere. It's seven digits I thought so, what the heck. Well a very nice woman talked me through all the trouble shooting steps I'd already tried. But, then she gave me an RMA and emailed me a shipping label. So far so good then. More to follow.

Before you write it off as dead, may I make a suggestion. Keep a finger on the touch screen while pessing the power button. This solution works for me when I've experienced the "sleep of death" after upgrading my GN 8013 to JB. Holding down the power button on mine didn't do anything. I found the solution I mentioned when I began googling in a panic. After removing one offending app, this awful sleep mode that resembles a dead device hasn't occurred again. Maybe you have an app that's triggered this. Good luck.

mke1973 said:
Before you write it off as dead, may I make a suggestion. Keep a finger on the touch screen while pessing the power button. This solution works for me when I've experienced the "sleep of death" after upgrading my GN 8013 to JB. Holding down the power button on mine didn't do anything. I found the solution I mentioned when I began googling in a panic. After removing one offending app, this awful sleep mode that resembles a dead device hasn't occurred again. Maybe you have an app that's triggered this. Good luck.
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What was the offending app?

If all else fails, try the old fashioned way
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Riki1kenobi said:
What was the offending app?
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It was Sipdroid. (Knock on wood) deleting it has stopped my note from going into the sleep of death. Fortunately, the voip app csipsimple is very stable on JB 4.1.2 and has no audio or registreation issues so I've still got voip on my note.

[Q] Changed the main flex ribbon cable and its panel, touch screen error.

Hi,
My wifi and bt modules didn't work for the past two months, and after searching trough the Q&A forums, I came to the conclusion that I have to change the ribbon cable, perhaps thats the problem.
So, I've ordered the panel, and it arrived yesterday, it was this piece:
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I've swapped it with the old panel, phone fired up nicely, I even saw the BT connections logo appear on the status bar. Yay.
But.
The touch screen doesn't register my touches anywhere on the screen. I've checked the connections, everything connects good.
I've dismissed the idea of a faulty digitizer, since before the ribbon cable/panel switch, everything was working as it's supposed to be.
I'm fully out of ideas, so I'm doing these steps as a last resort: (I'm currently at the third step)
1. Discharge the phone all the way (until it shuts down).
2. Remove the battery and press the power button (as if you were trying to turn the phone on).
3. Leave the phone without the battery overnight (or for at least an hour).
4. Put the battery back and charge the phone without touching the screen.
Make sure you don't touch the screen whenever you're charging, until the issue disappears. This should happen within 2-3 days. If the problem persists, you ether did something wrong, or (as explained above) you have a different issue... Most common related problem is a faulty digitizer.
(source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1239238)
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If this fails, the last option I see could be this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1360638 (thank god I have a backup)
Please note, that I've tried the responsiveness of the screen with both with and without the battery cover installed, so I've dismissed the little silver pin as the issue. And as I said the touch screen was fully working before the cable/ribbon swap. Touch doesn't even work in recovery.
So (after a long intro), my question would be, does anyone have any ideas, what could be wrong? TBH, I don't want to buy a new digitizer (even if thats the issue), because I don't want to spend any more $ on this phone (bought a new battery, battery door, some misc stuff)
PS:
I haven't changed anything software/firmware wise during/before/after the swap.
Current setup is:
ROM: latest android1234567 CM11
Kernel: Sultans r53, slight undervolt, slight underclock
Recovery: TWRP
S-OFF
Thanks in advance!

borgwarrior said:
Hi,
My wifi and bt modules didn't work for the past two months, and after searching trough the Q&A forums, I came to the conclusion that I have to change the ribbon cable, perhaps thats the problem.
So, I've ordered the panel, and it arrived yesterday, it was this piece:
I've swapped it with the old panel, phone fired up nicely, I even saw the BT connections logo appear on the status bar. Yay.
But.
The touch screen doesn't register my touches anywhere on the screen. I've checked the connections, everything connects good.
I've dismissed the idea of a faulty digitizer, since before the ribbon cable/panel switch, everything was working as it's supposed to be.
I'm fully out of ideas, so I'm doing these steps as a last resort: (I'm currently at the third step)
If this fails, the last option I see could be this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1360638 (thank god I have a backup)
Please note, that I've tried the responsiveness of the screen with both with and without the battery cover installed, so I've dismissed the little silver pin as the issue. And as I said the touch screen was fully working before the cable/ribbon swap. Touch doesn't even work in recovery.
So (after a long intro), my question would be, does anyone have any ideas, what could be wrong? TBH, I don't want to buy a new digitizer (even if thats the issue), because I don't want to spend any more $ on this phone (bought a new battery, battery door, some misc stuff)
PS:
I haven't changed anything software/firmware wise during/before/after the swap.
Current setup is:
ROM: latest android1234567 CM11
Kernel: Sultans r53, slight undervolt, slight underclock
Recovery: TWRP
S-OFF
Thanks in advance!
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I've the same problem also replaced the cable/ribbon. I've tried everything software related.