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Volume button fault - Any other ways to go to bootloader?

Hello all,
my sensation's volume rocker is faulty. By pressing volume down and power on, it will not boot into boot loader thus cannot enter recovery.
I know i can use software to boot into it boot loader but what if I am getting bootloops and unable to boot into rom?
Any ADB commands to make the phone boot into bootloader straight?
I am planning to flash the factory RUU and go claim my warranty after i get my Galaxy nexus..

mgear356 said:
Hello all,
my sensation's volume rocker is faulty. By pressing volume down and power on, it will not boot into boot loader thus cannot enter recovery.
I know i can use software to boot into it boot loader but what if I am getting bootloops and unable to boot into rom?
Any ADB commands to make the phone boot into bootloader straight?
I am planning to flash the factory RUU and go claim my warranty after i get my Galaxy nexus..
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adb reboot recovery
or
adb reboot bootloader
or plain old
adb reboot

wmoore said:
adb reboot recovery
or
adb reboot bootloader
or plain old
adb reboot
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thansk for your reply bro. but can this work if i am stuck in a bootloop ( before entering any rom)?

mgear356 said:
thansk for your reply bro. but can this work if i am stuck in a bootloop ( before entering any rom)?
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Possibly not unless your timing is amazing!
Are you stuck in bootloops now or is this hypothetical?

Please, tell if your volumne rocker is so broken that it cant even turn up/turn down volumne during normal use of phone?
If it's ok, thet I suggest method of booting into recovery which I use (and i had problems to boot before - thought it's vol. rocker):
1. press volume down button and hold it!
2. press power button for 2-3 seconds and then release, still holding the volumne down
3. phone boots into recovery after few seconds.
Hope it might help you.

Decado_PL said:
Please, tell if your volumne rocker is so broken that it cant even turn up/turn down volumne during normal use of phone?
If it's ok, thet I suggest method of booting into recovery which I use (and i had problems to boot before - thought it's vol. rocker):
1. press volume down button and hold it!
2. press power button for 2-3 seconds and then release, still holding the volumne down
3. phone boots into recovery after few seconds.
Hope it might help you.
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Implying he can't control volume in a bootloop, I seriously hope this guy uses 4EXT touch, or else he needs to replace the rocker.
Can you flash zips from USB fastboot?
Sent from my HTC Sensation using Forum Runner

I understood that he can't enter recovery due to some volume button fault. When you stuck in bootloop only thing you can do is pull out the battery, no keys/buttons are usable - tested myself :/

wmoore said:
Possibly not unless your timing is amazing!
Are you stuck in bootloops now or is this hypothetical?
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not really hypothetical.. in fact i experienced it earlier..
my volume up/down seems to have a mind of his own and at times i will enter "safe mode"
thereafter it will auto reboot unless i am quick enough to do a factory wipe under settings... it will still boot into safe mode but wont auto reboot.
so after knocking a few times on the volume rocker, i am able to boot into normal mode but the volume rocker isnt working. Pressing it once, will cause to decrease the volume and switch to silent mode.

Decado_PL said:
I understood that he can't enter recovery due to some volume button fault. When you stuck in bootloop only thing you can do is pull out the battery, no keys/buttons are usable - tested myself :/
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lol this sux man..
I dunno if HTC singapore will honor the warranty cause this is a hardware defect and nothing to do with any rom or unlock..
Even in bootloader mode, press up will cause it to go down or at times up. pressing down may or may not respond.

If you in a boot loop adb should see it for split couple seconds so with the phone connected I would keep trying to do adb reboot recovery
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda premium

Smokuevo said:
If you in a boot loop adb should see it for split couple seconds so with the phone connected I would keep trying to do adb reboot recovery
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda premium
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That's what I thought but it didn't happen when I tried it on mine.

From Fastboot, adb commands also work, provided vol - works while powering on. This sucks dude, sorry.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G XE with Beats Audio using xda premium

If you have CWM recovery installed (im not sure about other recoverys), you can connect your phone to your computer when it's off and you will have access to a limited adb provided by CWM. You can then use the command "adb reboot recovery" or "adb reboot bootloader" or whatever to do what you need to do.

Wipe all then cant boot into bootloader
Hi, i'm really sorry to bring back this post,
your fear had become my nightmare in reality.
The volume button was somehow (either physically spoil or is not capture click)
during booting process.
I have completely forgotten about it, and do complete wipe
(select wipe all except sdcard in touch recovery).
So, now the phone is completely clean (without rom)
and i'm unable to trigger bootloader/recovery via pwr/vol down button.
I have try take out battery,leave it for 10min and try press
all those button without casing/rocker;
press & hold vol down, den plug in battery;
and press both vol up & down then only pwr button.
The phone now (i assume) boot normally,
stop at HTC logo because there is no rom inside
(just like normal pc boot pass bios but cant find OS).
ironically, i live at singapore too... haha...
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I read somewhere that the person use pin to press the button really hard
and it manage to go into bootloader
(but I cant find back that post now)
Searching in forum recommend me to peel off the
volume button cover n use pin to press on it directly
(which I do not dare )
So now I sent it to repair shop,
hopefully that person using either g-box or gmbox
(flash box start with G) and can push RUU inside.
God bless me.
p/s : Sorry I should post in Q&A...

Get the phone off. Pull the battery and re-insert. Open fastboot
Fastboot reboot-bootloader
And if you want to flash a ruu directly:
Fastboot erase cache
Fastboot oem rebootRUU
And then flash the ruu
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio Z715e using Tapatalk

dexter93 said:
Get the phone off. Pull the battery and re-insert. Open fastboot
Fastboot reboot-bootloader
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Hi, can you tell me exactly step by step how to open fastboot?
pull out the battery, press vol down (??), reinsert?
fastboot devices go no response after booted and halt at htc logo.
Thank you very much.

Have you tried finding where the rocker lines up with the buttons on the phone, and just used the buttons without the back attached?
Sent from my Sensation using XDA

apow12348 said:
Hi, can you tell me exactly step by step how to open fastboot?
pull out the battery, press vol down (??), reinsert?
fastboot devices go no response after booted and halt at htc logo.
Thank you very much.
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Did I tell you to power it on?
Just shut it down completely(hence battery pull ) and plug it in USB. Use google to get to know how to use fastboot and try with the commands I wrote above. simple as that
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio Z715e using Tapatalk

Sensation-al! said:
Have you tried finding where the rocket lines up with the buttons on the phone, and just used the buttons without the back attached?
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Yup, that is what I did all this while, and no success.
dexter93 said:
Did I tell you to power it on?
Just shut it down completely(hence battery pull ) and plug it in USB. Use google to get to know how to use fastboot and try with the commands I wrote above. simple as that
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Sorry, I always thought that in order to use fastboot usb you must in bootloader already. Will try to search more. Thank in advance.

RECOVERY AND BOOTLOADER (ubislate 7 by datawind }
hi ,i have an old datawind tablet which runs on andorid froyo with kernel version 2.6.32.6 developer @developer#206
android version 2.2.2
model number NASHOBA NORDICA
can anybody please tell me how to enter bootloader in this particular version and also the rooting methods available
please note that this device lacks any physical volume up or down buttons as well as does not provide any adb support
this is a resistive touchscreen model
processor arm 11 366mhz
with conexant hd co processors
screen resolution 640*800
this device very easily overheats ]
battery lithium ion 2100 mah
i am also unable to play any vidoes on this device
ram 256
this device supports SD CARDS and full sized usb 2.0 ports
no hdmi output also
i any body can help me
please do as so
thanks in advance

bricked or how to fix?

hi all. thisis my first thread on this forum
i have sensation 4g (t-mobile). today I wiped cache and devlik. then shut down mobile. after pressed power button screen was black and lighting. after this when i plug it usb or press power button screen is black and lighting. i can't enter in recovery too only screen is black and lighting when press power button.
any help? :crying:

tabo89 said:
hi all. thisis my first thread on this forum
i have sensation 4g (t-mobile). today I swiped cache and dylmok. then shut down mobile. after pressed power button screen was black and lighting. after this when i plug it usb or press power button screen is black and lighting. i can't enter in recovery too only screen is black and lighting when press power button.
any help? :crying:
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do you have access in bootloader?
also are you S-ON?
if you are S-ON see here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631861

rzr86 said:
do you have access in bootloader?
also are you S-ON?
if you are S-ON see here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631861
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1) no. i cant get into bootloader. when i press volume down+power button only screen lights.
2) don't know. i have reinstal roms several time earlier. last time i used ARHD 6.8.0.
this heppaned after wipe cache and devlik and restarting mobile.

tabo89 said:
1) no. i cant get into bootloader. when i press volume down+power button only screen lights.
2) don't know. i have reinstal roms several time earlier. last time i used ARHD 6.8.0.
this heppaned after wipe cache and devlik and restarting mobile.
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remove battery,reinsert it and and hold the buttons again
edit:if it fails again then connect your device to pc via usb(while in screen lights)
open a command window and do
adb reboot bootloader

rzr86 said:
remove battery,reinsert it and and hold the buttons again
edit:if it fails again then connect your device to pc via usb(while in screen lights)
open a command window and do
adb reboot bootloader
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1) fails
2) error: device not found

tabo89 said:
1) fails
2) error: device not found
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i forgot to mention you something
go where your adb and fastboot files are located
and open there the command window.do the command again
if it fails then i am out of ideas
if i think something else i will tell you
until then wait for someone else to tell you what to do

i think problem in device. my pc can not find device. it is connected via usb and screen is lighting but windows can not find device.

get into recovery without volume buttons

Hey everyone I have a HTC inspire which I flashed jelly time onto, before that my volume buttons worked but now they don't work and the button is complety gone HTC did a very bad job with that it easily came out... So recently when I boot the phone on it boots the normal jelly time startup and the black screen. I have seen the only way to fix this is either factory reset or reflash ROM. But I am unable to do that since ,y volume button is broken. I have read that you can get to recovery via adb and or flash via adb can someone help me out please?

Trozzul said:
Hey everyone I have a HTC inspire which I flashed jelly time onto, before that my volume buttons worked but now they don't work and the button is complety gone HTC did a very bad job with that it easily came out... So recently when I boot the phone on it boots the normal jelly time startup and the black screen. I have seen the only way to fix this is either factory reset or reflash ROM. But I am unable to do that since ,y volume button is broken. I have read that you can get to recovery via adb and or flash via adb can someone help me out please?
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you can connect your HTC phone to your computer via USB cable, and use the command below, before that you need to install adb shell on Windows.
adb reboot bootloader

Also, you could enter Recovery mode through ROM Toolbox and if you're using TWRP, its touch, so you dont need hardware keys.

Mister_Simon said:
Also, you could enter Recovery mode through ROM Toolbox and if you're using TWRP, its touch, so you dont need hardware keys.
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I am unable to get into recovery or the normal android screen when it boots up its a black screen I need to get into recovery to reflash the rom

Trozzul said:
I am unable to get into recovery or the normal android screen when it boots up its a black screen I need to get into recovery to reflash the rom
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So you're stuck on booting and your hardware buttons dont work?
There is a way to get into the recovery in such a situation but that usually relies on the hardware buttons. What device do you have? What recovery?

Try this
Remove battery n reinsert it
Now connect the phone to charger.
Don't do anything keep the phone as it is for 5 -10 min.
It will automatically go to recovery
Sent from my HTC Explorer A310e using xda premium

rockingmanish said:
Try this
Remove battery n reinsert it
Now connect the phone to charger.
Don't do anything keep the phone as it is for 5 -10 min.
It will automatically go to recovery
Sent from my HTC Explorer A310e using xda premium
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I don't know how that would work.....

Mister_Simon said:
So you're stuck on booting and your hardware buttons dont work?
There is a way to get into the recovery in such a situation but that usually relies on the hardware buttons. What device do you have? What recovery?
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I don't know the Recovery most likely 5+ and it was touch recovery. as for the device like I said its a htc inspire 4g

Trozzul said:
I don't know the Recovery most likely 5+ and it was touch recovery. as for the device like I said its a htc inspire 4g
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Hey cool. I used to own an Inspire for couple of years.
Im not sure if understood the condition of your phone and whats working or not but:
take out your battery and reinsert. hold the power button and volume down button for a couple of seconds and it will boot into recovery

Mister_Simon said:
Hey cool. I used to own an Inspire for couple of years.
Im not sure if understood the condition of your phone and whats working or not but:
take out your battery and reinsert. hold the power button and volume down button for a couple of seconds and it will boot into recovery
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the volume buttons are both broken im asking how to get back into recovery from adb so I can flash a knew rom since mine is bad

Trozzul said:
the volume buttons are both broken im asking how to get back into recovery from adb so I can flash a knew rom since mine is bad
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Im assuming you have android sdk installed
Connect your phone, locate adb using cmd prompt (change directory) (RUN AS ADMIN), type 'adb reboot recovery' (no quotes)

I will try this in the morning. What screen do I use the command at? Anytime?
Sent from my LG-LG730 using xda app-developers app

Trozzul said:
I will try this in the morning. What screen do I use the command at? Anytime?
Sent from my LG-LG730 using xda app-developers app
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Follow these fool-proof steps:
Locate your android sdk folders-> navigate to the folder where adb is located ->hold shift + right click on the folder containing adb and select ''open command window here'' ( this will automatically take care of pointing the directory to that location) -> 'adb reboot recovery' ENTER
This will automatically enter recovery. I suggest you restore your old backup .
As for your volume buttons, you should be able to fix it easily if you know a little bit of soldering and know-how.

Mister_Simon said:
Follow these fool-proof steps:
Locate your android sdk folders-> navigate to the folder where adb is located ->hold shift + right click on the folder containing adb and select ''open command window here'' ( this will automatically take care of pointing the directory to that location) -> 'adb reboot recovery' ENTER
This will automatically enter recovery. I suggest you restore your old backup .
As for your volume buttons, you should be able to fix it easily if you know a little bit of soldering and know-how.
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im sorry i know how to do sdk commands but i meant on the phone screen like as soon as it boots up?

Trozzul said:
im sorry i know how to do sdk commands but i meant on the phone screen like as soon as it boots up?
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ADB *may* work on the boot logo, but it certainly won't work as the phone is booting.

Trozzul said:
im sorry i know how to do sdk commands but i meant on the phone screen like as soon as it boots up?
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MacHackz said:
ADB *may* work on the boot logo, but it certainly won't work as the phone is booting.
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Like MacHackz said. As far as i know also this may be the only way you maybe able to boot into recovery so might as well give it a shot.
MacHackz, your banner made me think i have a bug behind my screen and I spent a while trying figure it out. LOL

HTC Desire HD hard reset without volume buttons
I have htc desire hd and my volume buttons is broken ,my phone is much dispute and have lots of bugs i want to HARD RESET no factory reset only hard reset with rebote. Please help me how to reset my HTC DHD without volume buttons!!
!!sorry for my english!!

SOLVED! (At least for me)
To whom may still be interested, I found a way to get into recovery and subsequently wipe data/factory reset the HTC Inspire 4G/Desire HD without using the volume buttons.
Phone background: the phone that I used had the internal volume buttons broken. It was rooted and unlocked using the effen hack kit, then I flashed a custom ROM on it and I forgot to do a factory reset before I firstly boot up the phone with the new ROM. So it was stuck on the boot animation forever.
Steps for getting into recovery mode without volume buttons:
1. Take the battery off
2. Plug the phone to a wall charger for at least one or two minutes.
3. Put the battery back on along with the battery door and don't touch any buttons.
- The orange led on the front will light up and stay on for a few seconds before the phone automattically gets into recovery
Note: use the touch capacitive buttons to manipulate recovery:
- Home/Menu buttons to navigate up/down
- Back button to go back
- Search button to select
That's pretty much it. At this point you can do anything!
I hope this can help someone out there... If it helped you please hit the thanks button!

my phone is s3 gt-i9300 but but volume up key and home doesnt work.I need to go to recovery to flash a rom so how to go to recovery mode now.please help me.

Swarn_Sen said:
my phone is s3 gt-i9300 but but volume up key and home doesnt work.I need to go to recovery to flash a rom so how to go to recovery mode now.please help me.
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You can use adb commands to enter in recovery mode. Connect your android to PC. Enable adb debugging and open command prompt in PC.
Type "adb devices" without qoutes and enter then type "adb reboot recovery" and enter. These commands boot your android in recovery mode.

Lost root and have bootloop...bricked?

Hi,
really need help...I was about to sold my old HTC Sensation XE, rooted and had viper 5.2.1 on it - deleted everything from SD card, but wanted to be sure nothing remained on my phone so I made factory reset (i think I shouldn't to this)..
Now when I turn phone On it loads HTC logo, then Viper logo and restarts and then again HTC, Viper restart...
When I hold power button + vol.down nothing happens (HTC->Viper and restart) + all the buttons are flashing...
Did I bricked my phone for good or is there a way how to reflash everything?
Thanks

hawkeeyee said:
Hi,
really need help...I was about to sold my old HTC Sensation XE, rooted and had viper 5.2.1 on it - deleted everything from SD card, but wanted to be sure nothing remained on my phone so I made factory reset (i think I shouldn't to this)..
Now when I turn phone On it loads HTC logo, then Viper logo and restarts and then again HTC, Viper restart...
When I hold power button + vol.down nothing happens (HTC->Viper and restart) + all the buttons are flashing...
Did I bricked my phone for good or is there a way how to reflash everything?
Thanks
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v u puled out the battery.....
if not helped then flash recovery through fastboot and then flash viper rom again

is this possible when Im not able to access HBOOT menu or do anything with power + vol down?

hawkeeyee said:
is this possible when Im not able to access HBOOT menu or do anything with power + vol down?
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Like said above, pull out the battery for 10 seconds n put back in then ul be able to boot into bootloader with vol down + power

didn't helped

hawkeeyee said:
didn't helped
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U must be doing it wrong or ur volume button is dodgy. Ur phone being in a bootloop should not affect getting into bootloader once uv pulled the battery.

I'm sure it was working before (my girlfriend used it a never told me she is not available to lower the sound)
why are bottom buttons flashing while holding power + vol down?

hawkeeyee said:
I'm sure it was working before (my girlfriend used it a never told me she is not available to lower the sound)
why are bottom buttons flashing while holding power + vol down?
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I dunno, mine does that if im in a bootloop n i try a hard reset. Dont worry. The vol button mite work but she mite just need to give it an extra push, no harm in cleaning it coz the sensations r bad for dust getting in there. K pull the battery out for a min n put back in then press and hold vol down (hard) and press n hold power button. U should get to bootloader, keep trying till u do. As long as u pull the battery out u should get there at some point.

Sometimes I also have to pull the battery out twice to make it go into bootloader. Just make sure you have enough charge in the battery too.

no luck... tried it around 20 times and nothing... communication via fastboot is not working..
so I guess there is no other way how to enter recovery as vol down and power
?

hawkeeyee said:
no luck... tried it around 20 times and nothing... communication via fastboot is not working..
so I guess there is no other way how to enter recovery as vol down and power
?
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Dunno bud should work. U can try adb commands but dunno if that will work tho. So boot ur phone normaly and when its at boot animation, plug in ur phone to pc and open command window n type
adb reboot recovery

hawkeeyee said:
no luck... tried it around 20 times and nothing... communication via fastboot is not working..
so I guess there is no other way how to enter recovery as vol down and power
?
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try this
switch the phone normally
when you see the htc logo or the viper logo type the command adb reboot bootloader
have your device already connected

error: device not found
drivers for win installed, when phone is powered off I can see him in win as removable disk...
asking if I'm doing this as I should:
downloaded Android SDK and made initial set-up as wrote here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277112

hawkeeyee said:
error: device not found
drivers for win installed, when phone is powered off I can see him in win as removable disk...
asking if I'm doing this as I should:
downloaded Android SDK and made initial set-up as wrote here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277112
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Use this tool for fastboot setup
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588979

still same

hawkeeyee said:
still same
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K, pull the battery out n back in, then leave the battery cover off ur phone and press the vol down button then press n hold the power button (both same time) see if that boots into bootloader.

nope, tried that 30x already

hawkeeyee said:
nope, tried that 30x already
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what windows OS do you have?

win 7, 64bit

hawkeeyee said:
win 7, 64bit
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try the latest htc drivers from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2217396

HTC sensation XE

i have some problems with my htc, i sent the device for hardware fix and the device was working. After the fix ive lost my software and i cant go to recovery or do anything, i can see the red led and i can launch the device but the screen is black and the device keeps reseting please help me and thanks
(sorry for bad english)

phantomcj223 said:
i have some problems with my htc, i sent the device for hardware fix and the device was working. After the fix ive lost my software and i cant go to recovery or do anything, i can see the red led and i can launch the device but the screen is black and the device keeps reseting please help me and thanks
(sorry for bad english)
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try to boot to the bootloader
then select recovery
if that doesn't work then use a ruu.exe

rzr86 said:
try to boot to the bootloader
then select recovery
if that doesn't work then use a ruu.exe
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my computer (win8.1) cant see my device and i have htc sync and the drivers and i cant boot to bootloader should i use BOX or what ?

phantomcj223 said:
my computer (win8.1) cant see my device and i have htc sync and the drivers and i cant boot to bootloader should i use BOX or what ?
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search here on xda how setup adb/fastboot on win8
also try this
remove battery and put it back
press and hold together power button+volume until it gets you to the bootloader
if it gets you select recovery to see if you have access

rzr86 said:
search here on xda how setup adb/fastboot on win8
also try this
remove battery and put it back
press and hold together power button+volume until it gets you to the bootloader
if it gets you select recovery to see if you have access
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well my phone is with a guy that uses riff box and this is the only way ive tried everything but there is some files are missing so he cant recover the bootloader and it is lost so my htc is empty phone there is no boot loader or software