Hey guys, I'm a complete noob and I need help recovering my Inspire 4g. I rooted it with the Ace Hack Kit. The other day it was acting a little weird so I tried to reboot it. When it booted back up it gives me 3 vibrates and a orange flashing light. I've tried pressing down and power, that gives me 5 vibrates and a solid green light. The screen remains black during both.
Not sure if this is a biggy or not, but I reformatted my sd card. (after backing up my important stuff!) I then tried resetting it back to the factory rom via Ace Hack Kit. When the flash finishes, the phone tries to boot up and does the whole 3 vibrates and flashing orange light.
One thing I noticed was when I plug my Inspire into the computer via usb and don't press anything, the back light comes on and the 4 buttons on the bottom light up. If I press the menu button and the search button, I can toggle through these menus. I tried playing with some of the options while reading other forums, but nothing seems to be working.
I guess what I'm asking is, does anyone know EXACTLY what to do to recover it back to stock settings? Or can someone link me to a thread that may help me? Or did I completely screw myself by reformatting me sd card?
Thanks,
Andy
There have been numerous threads regarding this in the inspire forums. One solution some have found is to remove the sd card and reboot the phone.
Sd card trick didn't work. The phone is now completely wiped clean. SD card is formatted to fat32. I'm starting with a clean slate. I cannot run Ace Hack Kit to restore to factory ruu because it reboots the phone into hboot, and my phone will not boot in hboot. Simply vibrates 3 times and flashes the orange led. Then stops the flash. If I new what I was doing in the first place, I wouldn't have wiped it and I would have run recovery right off the bat. But too late now.
I've been trying to put the pd98img.zip file into the sd card and installing via clockwork recovery with no luck. I clear both cashes, wipe to factory settings, then try to install and it fails everytime.
Anyone got any other ideas? Or am I really bricked?
EDIT: Error that I get when I try to install zip from sd card is E:Signature Verification Failed.
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i've searched high and lo, been reading up on this forum for awhile now, reading the tutorials, etc. i must now hang my head in shame. managed to root my phone, put android revolution ROM on it, yay go me. decided i wanted to restore back to previous ROM. couldn't boot into bootloader via vol - and power, so i used ROM manager. went into backup/restore and picked a previous version. rebooted phone and now it hangs on the white HTC screen. i can take my battery out and put it back in and it will charge my phone. i think this might be my mistake, the battery was yellow when i tried all this. but it's been charging for awhile now, and still nothing. when i try to turn it on or the vol- and power it gets stuck on the white screen and is no longer charging. i've looked and looked and seen some suggestions of booting into recovery, etc. but i can't for some reason boot into anything. i'm not sure if i'm doing something wrong or what. any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
ok, when i take the sd card out, it boots just fine, so what would my next step be?
Haha....you didnt wipe your device clean before restoring from your backup!
Remove the battery and place it back in, hold the bottom volume button and lock button...you should boot into Hboot(white screen also)
give it like 20 seconds because it will search for a file and select the recovery option by scrolling using the volume keys.
factory reset phone and go into advanced-wipe dalvik-cache
now install any rom or any backup!
You must do this for every ROM and every restoring of a backup...
thank you for your response, but i corrected my mistake, and wiped everything, but the backups i was trying to go back too still didn't work. still got stuck on the screen. i was however able to flash the ROM i had, but it's very basic, and nothing like what i flashed from it originally.
Hi,
Today during a call my Inspire 4G froze with no apparent reason. I rebooted and I always had freezes, so I decided to do a factory reset.
I'm rooted and have Virtuous Unity 1.24 installed (never upgraded because it had been working fine).
When I try to format /data it hangs for a while and I get an error saying "error formatting data".
I'm just downloading latest version of the ROM hoping this way it'll get fixed.
Just before messing more with the phone, has anyone had this experience with the Inspire 4G?
Regards
Try doing a full wipe/factory reset in recovery, if same error, your sd card could be trashed. There's a recall on some newer sd cards that came with inspire. Google it.
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Well,
Now it won't even reboot into recovery. I only can boot into HTC white screen, but clockwork died, seven vibrations when I try to go into recovery.
Now I'm trapped, tried installing PD98IMG.zip that comes with the rooting files, seems to install well but doesn't work.
Any other suggestions before I assume my Inspire died?
Take out your SD card. Then trybooting Into recovery. Once in recovery you can insert SD card. Wipe and flash. I saw that this worked for a couple of people in another thread somewhere
no hay de queso no mas de papa
No luck, just 7 vibrations when I go into recovery, with and without SD card, even tried without SIM card which should not have anything to do...
I had the same error with motorola atrix. I have flashed the firmware again to resolve this issue
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Maybe try a different pd98 or maybe the ruu.
no hay de queso no mas de papa
Tried with the RUU but it cannot detect the phone, will see if I can do something else, just strange thing, never had this kind of issue with any Android Phone...
Is there a way to extract the PD86IMG.zip file from the RUU?
Well, after alot of trying out, I'm pretty sure the device is hard-bricked due to some HW problem, will still do some attempts to recover the phone, but it is strange:
1. It worked great a few days ago, I installed no updates, radios or anything other than Market apps.
2. In the last days, I've had some random hangs on the phone, just pulled battery and rebooted.
3. Today it hanged during a phone call, pulled battery and every time I rebooted it would just hang again.
4. Went into CWM Recovery, was able to ADB and everything, but any attempt to format /data or /cache would cause an error.
5. After playing around with CWM, suddenly I wasn't able to see the menus anymore, when I rebooted, any attempt to go into recovery from the HBOOT screen would result in seven short vibrations, a wile after that screen would go black.
6. Downloaded various PD86IMG.zip files, all of them install and give no errors, but the phone always keeps sending those 7 vibrations when trying to boot or go into recovery. HBOOT screen still works, any PD86IMG.zip file apparently installs fine (no errors), but when I reboot it is dead.
I am thinking that something bad happened to the internal storage, the symptoms show in that direction and I can't find any post that seems a bit related to this issue. This might be my 6th or 7th Android phone and I often root other phones for friends, in fact I have rooted 4 or 5 Inspires and have had no issues.
I just want to see if there's anything else I can do...
Thanks and regards...
Have seen the 7 vibrate occurrance mentioned a few times. It is hardware related and there is not much you can do about it. Sounds like the solder connections between the processor and the motherboard are separating. By chance has the phone been real hot in the recent past?
Real hot not, but I dropped it once a few weeks ago, I was really surprised that nothing broke, it was not a nice drop...
Well, will see how much I get for the phone listing it as "for parts"...
Ok first my Inspire has been rooted and running Inspired Ace since early June without a hitch. Well this morning the phone booted up normal, well about an hour later it just showed a black screen and would not respond. I pulled the battery and rebooted, it got to the first htc "white" screen and about 10 seconds later the phone vibrated 7 times then just hung on the first screen. I pulled the battery again, and it was the same thing. OK i then tried to get into recovery (through hboot) and it just hung on the first screen and vibrated. I tried reflashing the rom but again at the first screen it hangs and vibrates 7 times. the longest Ive waited for it to do something has been 2 hours. Im at my wits end. Can someone out there help? Thank You in advance.
EDIT: Well its now a warranty claim.. some sort of hardware failure
Thanks to Tx Redneck and a huge thanks to ATTN1 for trying to help get it fixed
Get back into HBOOT, select recovery, select backup/restore and make a nandroid, select wipe data factory reset, select advanced>wipe dalvik cache, select install zip from sd card and reflash the rom.
Post back up w/ the results.
I tried and after i select recovery the phone just goes to the first HTC screen vibrates about 7 times and hangs. it wont let me get to where the backup/restore option is.
Can you get to HBOOT and do you have a sd card reader on your puter?
yes i can and do
Try this. If it's successful, you'll hafta re-root but at least you'll have a working phone again.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1208507
oh i think im not having a good day. I've actually tried both the froyo and gb versions a few times. it always ends with the same result.. hanging on first screen and vibrating 7 times. is the vibrating like an error code of some sort?
Copy the contents of your sd to a folder on your pc then format, re xfer the tool and try again.
ok im trying it now
ok i tried what you said and used a new copy of the froyo version... well now its still hung at the first screen but it didnt have the 7 vibrates this time.
Bud, I'm sorry but that's all I know/could think of to do. My suggestion at this point would be to go here and ask the pro's.
Be sure to give the link to this thread or a FULL description of what's been tried/done.
Tx
OK
Well I thank you for the help.
Did yall get it worked out?
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So a couple of weeks ago, I flashed Helly Bean on to my phone. It was a pretty clean flash, and my phone worked fine. I was really enjoying the new OS and everything, but then a few days ago, after sending a text message, I set my phone aside and the phone randomly restarted. But for some reason, it went back to the very old Android boot animation (like 2.1), instead of the regular Helly Bean one. I let the phone sit for a few minutes and it just seemed stuck on that screen. So I did a battery pull and restarted, but the same thing happened again. I did a battery, sim, and sd card pull and left them out for about 5 minutes, and restarted again, and got stuck in a bootloop with the white AT&T screen. So, I did a little research and decided that I should go back to flash because that was the only way to get my phone working again. I re-flashed stock and finally got my phone running again. Since I didn't have a way of doing a backup, my phone deleted everything I had (I still have a back up on my PC from when I flashed Helly Bean, so I didn't make much of it). Then, I tried flashing a different CM10 rom on it, ParanoidAndroid. I followed the instructions, and again, clean flash. Then I set up my Google account and let Google Play restore all my apps, the apps installed without any problems. I mounted my phone onto my PC and realized that only my 4gb external SD was showing up, and that I mistook it for my internal SD when I flashed PA. However, all of my apps were installed on the internal SD card, because the external SD wouldn't have enough space on it to store them all. I figured that I flashed the rom wrong and tried to go back to Gingerbread stock and flash it again. I cleared both caches, did a factory reset, and used one of the Odin OneClicks from xda, just like I did before. About 3/4 of the way through the flash, the phone just restarted and got stuck in another bootloop. But this time, I couldn't get back into download mode using any of the button combos, and the phone got bricked. I decided that getting a USB Jig was my only option and prepared to get one. Then, yesterday, I randomly just decided to try turning on my phone again, and it actually started up. It went all the way back to Eclair. And now this time, it doesn't recognize either of my SD cards. And for some reason, I can't turn the phone on unless my external SD card is in it. Also sometimes I can't make/receive calls and I can't send texts either. I tried doing the OTA firmware update, but it just got stuck at 50% and wouldn't update. So I'm not sure what to do at this point because I don't have access to my internal or external SD cards. Anybody have any ideas as to what may have happened and/or how I can fix it? Should I even bother trying to flash GB/ICS/JB again?
TL;DR: Went from ICS to Helly Bean, was working fine until phone randomly reset itself. Went back to GB, tried flashing ParanoidAndroid, but this time, internal SD card not recognized, but all of my apps were installed on it anyway. Tried going back to GB and got bricked. Phone wouldn't go into download mode, so let it be for a day. The next day, the phone did start up again, but it went back to Eclair 2.1, and now my internal or external SD cards are not recognized by the phone.
Maybe your card is mounted to another mount point now? Have you checked fstab?
SlavaBass said:
Maybe your card is mounted to another mount point now? Have you checked fstab?
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I haven't, I'm not sure how to do that.
Have you tried both of the possible button combos for DL mode vol up+power and vol down + power?
I have a cappy and a vibe both running hellybean and one thing I noticed is the cappy recognizes external as internal and vice versa.
If your phone will boot up without ext SD, try and format the ext sd card.
Did you lose root?
its peanut butter jelly(bean) time
samsgun357 said:
Have you tried both of the possible button combos for DL mode vol up+power and vol down + power?
I have a cappy and a vibe both running hellybean and one thing I noticed is the cappy recognizes external as internal and vice versa.
If your phone will boot up without ext SD, try and format the ext sd card.
Did you lose root?
its peanut butter jelly(bean) time
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Well my phone is working now. I can use it just as I would normally. I'm just a bit cautious to go back into DL mode because I don't want to completely brick the phone, and I don't have a backup phone to use if it does. As far as the external/internal SD being jumbled up, I wasn't aware others might be experiencing the same problem or if that was a bug in Hellybean; I don't recall it being listed in the bugs. I don't think I've lost root, but I'm thinking I might un-root and re-root it and that might solve the problem. Do you think that would be a good idea? Or should I just let it be?
Hi, first post here.
So I bought a Nexus S that was rooted and updated to Jellybean. It's an unlocked phone originally locked to Wind Mobile.
So it's been having issues with getting stuck on the google logo after reboot, so I decided to sell it. Problem is when I go to factory reset the phone it shows the reset bar but then that turns into a big triangle with an exclamation mark on it with a little android guy next to it. The phone gets stuck there. All I can do from there is remove the battery.
From there I tried going on bootloader using power and volume up (says unlocked btw), and from there I load recovery. On recovery there is an option to factory reset and I click on there, however it doesn't do it. This is what I says:
"--wiping data...
formatting /data...
E:format_volume: make_extf4fs failed on /dev/blo/ck/platform/s3c-sdhci.0/by-name/userdata
Formatting /cache...
Formatting /sd-ext...
Formatting /sdcard/.android_secure...
Error mounting /sdcard/ .android_secure!
Skipping format...
Data wipe complete."
So I think the error might be accociated to the sd card because the Nexus S doesn't come with an sd card, it has built in memory? Also on recory when choose "mount sd card" it says"Error mounting /sdcard!".
So how do I go about fixing my problematic phone? I have a dude that wants to buy it but I can't even reset the damn thing, let alone fix the freezing at start up issue. I am also totally new to this.
Extra info: When the phone freezes at the google logo at start up I get passed that by using a blow dryer on the phone. That's the only way I start up the phone after the battery comes out. This is the gt-i9020t model.
Are you using a custom recovery? If not, that might be the reason your phone is behaving like that as I had the same issue like yours when I first started flashing things!
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Are you using a custom recovery? If not, that might be the reason your phone is behaving like that as I had the same issue like yours when I first started flashing things!
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I don't know if it's a custom recovery because the previous owner installed everything/rooted.
When I press power and vol. up, It looks identical to the uploaded picture's bootloader/recovery.
Its a custom recovery (Clockworkmod) ok. I'm not familiar with it but there should be a setting somewhere - maybe in "advanced" - where you have the option of restoring default settings for the recovery. Do that and then try doing factory reset again.
gunner49 said:
Its a custom recovery (Clockworkmod) ok. I'm not familiar with it but there should be a setting somewhere - maybe in "advanced" - where you have the option of restoring default settings for the recovery. Do that and then try doing factory reset again.
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In advanced there is no option that worked.
*Solution*
Ok so for those having this problem this is what I dug up:
Internal SD card error causes the boot freeze/factory reset error. When you try mounting SD card it fails, this is also what makes me think it's a fault with the phone's internal SD card.
I do not know how to "fix" this fault, however I'll tell you what I did to get passed this issue.
1) Heating up the phone helps bypass the frozen screen. On Boot it goes to the google logo and freezes, but you can get passed this by heating up the phone (using a blow dryer) before hand and it's relatively successful.
2) I believe that before factory resetting the phone (whether using recovery or the actual reset option on settings), if you heat up the phone, it might work the same way it works when booting up.
I did not try 2) because I managed to "reset" my phone manually by uninstalling all apps, deleting all files/cache/photo's/accounts, and by clearing all app data. This works just as fine if you ask me.
Overall this solution has not been "fixed", I encourage people to find a real fix, but for now using the blow dryer and manually resetting is one way around the problem.