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[Q] someone please help my phone

Yesterday i found out that my phone doesn't turn on even when the battery is full. I called HTC this morning and they asked me to ship it in. However , right after i hang up the phone, i put in the battery, my phone MAGICALLY BOOTED UP.
I found out it was the power button that was not working. I wanted to use this opportunity to wipe the system. ( My phone is rooted w/o unlocking the bootloader) I downloaded Passmig and placed it in SD. AND THEN, i did something very stupid. I clicked the " return phone to factory" button. (i know i should've done that in the recovery instead) but now my phone can't boot into the OS anymore. and also i can't get into the recovery to wipe or apply passmig because my volume button also DOESN"T WORK!!!!
Does any of you genius have any advices? Truly desperate for one.
p.s. i was on the cyanogen 6 ( Rod's mod) if that is at all important. I have the clock work recovery installed.

Tried flashing rom in fastboot using the sdk?
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[Q] Hard Reset

Hi,
I have some trouble with my SE Xperia X10 mini pro and someone told
me to do a hard reset.
Can you please tell me how to do that?
Tnx
Thijs

Thijs94 said:
Hi,
I have some trouble with my SE Xperia X10 mini pro and someone told
me to do a hard reset.
Can you please tell me how to do that?
Tnx
Thijs
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Warning: Make sure you have backed up app important data you have on the phone before you reset the phone, because everything will be deleted.
From the Home screen, drag upwards
Select Settings > SD card, USB Mass Storage & phone storage > Factory data reset > Reset phone
Enter your screen unlock pattern
Tap Erase everything

Hard Rest
How strange,
I've read that before
but...
when I drag my screen up and go to
Settings --> SD card, USB Mass Storage & phone storage
I do not see any Factory data reset at all...
My problem is, when i use the 'real' keyboard, my screen freezes.. I can't use it.
But when I put my keyboard back again, my screen just unfreezes..
I've done a new software-update (same version ,.. 2.1 update-1 ) but
that wouldn't help too..
Tnx

okay!
then go to
settings-> privacy -> factory data reset
leme know if u have found out the option or not.. i will try to help u as much i can..

Hard Reset
Hi,
Tnx, i've found the option
but without any result
Tnx for the help, however..
Thijs

if u really want to thank then please click the thank button.. it what keeps us going in this forum.. sorry if i am being rude to ask u to do dis..
good day

anyways what exactly are ur problems.. list them.. i will see if i can solve it..

Hard Reset
Done
Wel,..
- My screen freezes when I use my 'real' keyboard. It doesn't respond any more
- On the right top of the phone, there's a little LED, which won't work any more.
- My screen slides around (so hard to explane). Sometimes my screen 'splits' into two peaces and the right part goes to the left and the left to the right.. If you understand what I mean.. (shouldn't be surprised if you doesn't but I can't explain any better)

okay
now this is completely a kernel related problem!!! except for the LED part..
if u are in stock rom (i.e u have not rooted your phone and using it the way it came) then u rush it immediately to the vendor coz it has got lot of "bugs"!!!
if u have a rooted phone and using a custom rom then wipe all data, cache, dalvik cache, sd ext and then flash your rom from recovery OR better still use another rom..
(if u dont understand this part then u have a unrooted phone for sure!)
ANYWZ before taking it to the vendor check out the list of things that causes this problems
1. software related:- some software u install causes this problem
2. updating:- if u updated your software from sony erricson's website then in certain cases this problem occurs..
3. if your phone is suddenly showing these strange behavoiurs then best thing is not to do anything yourself and take it to your vendor!!
WELL IF U R WILLING TO TAKE THE RISK THEN ROOT YOUR PHONE THEN INSTALL A CUSTOM ROM.. MIND YOU THAT IT WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY AND WILL NOT B ACCEPTED BY YOUR MANUFACTURER! (HOW TO DO THIS IS JUST A SEARCH IN THIS FORUM, BUT I STILL ADVISE U NOT TO DO THIS!!)
GOOD DAY

Hard Reset
Hi,
No I don't understand that at all (A)
but I know one thing, the problems are getting worser and worser..
Now my screen ain't respond for an hour... I've tried everything but
it won't respond

rush it to ur vendor!

Hard Reset
I'll do,..
Tnx for your help

Here's How [Flash Mode + Reset]
Here's How:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15255021&postcount=4
achyut said:
take a good look, the green LED should flash atleast ONCE....i had the problem when i was new to rooting and installing ROMS.....do this...
1. make your deskie/lappy fully prepared to flash your phone by SEUS, only requiring you to connect the phone in flash mode (even keep your USB to phone cord inserted to the computer)
2. power off the phone by holding the home+power key (& keep holding them, now press the back button).
3.release the power key but KEEP HOLDING THE HOME KEY and the back key...(if you release the home key, the cell will restart).
4. now connect the phone to the computer and hopefully it will connect in flash mode
hope this helps in solving your problem
if i helped you, kindly press the "THANKS" button
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[Q] Captivate won't boot past GalaxyS

I have a rooted, stock rom captivate. I was installing a new piece of software and it got hung up, wouldn't finish installing. I pulled the battery and restarted it, now it won't go past the GalaxyS screen. I tried pulling the battery, sim and sd card. Didn't help. I can boot into Recovery Mode, but when I try Download mode, it just goes to the GalaxyS screen and stays there. Obviously my first choice is to return it to where it was an hour ago - I have a lot of apps on here. My second choice is to return it to stock - I'm guessing I would have to unroot it anyway when they finally send out the Gingerbread update. I am NOT interested in any custom roms. Can someone help me?

Try getting into download mode.
1) pull out battery
2) reinsert after 10 seconds
3) hold vol + and vol -
4) plug in usb.
flash stock.

low99 said:
Try getting into download mode.
1) pull out battery
2) reinsert after 10 seconds
3) hold vol + and vol -
4) plug in usb.
flash stock.
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OK, that worked! Thanks!! The phone now says "Downloading... Do not turn off Target!!!" Soooooo... how the hell do I "flash stock"?

And when I do flash to stock, do I first remove the SIM? How about the SD card? Will I lose my apps? My contacts? Will I be "stock" and able to download the Gingerbread update when it comes out?
Thanks again for the help - I've never done any of this before, so a step-by-step help is appreciated. I read through a lot of the threads here for suggestions, but so many of them are in jargon that assumes you've done this a million times before.

Flash a ROM will wipe out everything on your phone. You will need to learn to use one of those 3rd party ROM flash tools and download ROMs for yourself.
Given that you can still boot into recovery mode, maybe you should try factory reset first (clear cache menu in recovery mode). It will also wipe out everything on your phone but you don't need to risk brick your phone when flashing ROMs.
What exactly is the app that caused your problem? And if you have applied any type of lag fix, you may have more troubles than you thought.

OK, I did the clear cache option in Recovery, my phone still just boots to the GalaxyS screen. I searched flashing to stock and found a million different posts, all with different instructions. Is there a quick, safe and simple (for someone who's never done it) way to get my phone up and running?
Another option -- my phone is less than a year old. Can I just return it to AT&T and get a replacement? Will the fact that it was rooted make them refuse?

foxbat121 said:
Flash a ROM will wipe out everything on your phone.
What exactly is the app that caused your problem? And if you have applied any type of lag fix, you may have more troubles than you thought.
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I was trying to install the Pure Grid Calendar widget that I downloaded from APKTOP. No lag fix.

miscrap said:
OK, I did the clear cache option in Recovery, my phone still just boots to the GalaxyS screen. I searched flashing to stock and found a million different posts, all with different instructions. Is there a quick, safe and simple (for someone who's never done it) way to get my phone up and running?
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Since yours is on stick ROM (either 2.1 or 2.2), search for OneClick stock ROM thread which will bring you back to 2.1 or 2.2 easily.
Another option -- my phone is less than a year old. Can I just return it to AT&T and get a replacement? Will the fact that it was rooted make them refuse?
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Given the state of your phone, they have no easy way to tell if you're rooted or not
But you will get a refurbished phone as replacement. If you can handle that, it's the easiest way out.

Thanks for the help. Took the phone to the AT&T repair center in town, they shut it off and turned it on, got the same screen, handed me a "new" phone.

[Q] [URGENT] Accidentally Factory Reset/HBOOT Phone... Files still there o_O

I saw somewhere for some tutorial to get into HBOOT to see if you have an S-ON or S-OFF phone. Then I thought I read you can get that by holding the power and volume-down. I did that, and it brings me to the screen that I saw when I first bought my phone a few months ago. I turned it off and back on, and I still get that. I went through it, and now it just looks like a brand new phone (even after multiple restarts)
I was really upset, but then I plug it into my computer and enabled USB Mass Storage, and browsed the files on my computer. It looks as though all my files are still there :O My SD card is perfectly in-tact too...
Is there any way to get it back to the way it was without having to sync with Google then try to put in all my information and stuff again? Is this like temporary or is there a recovery feature or something? I'm kinda freaking out right now, please help me!!

Try holding power and volume down a bit longer after the boot screen appears. See if that brings you to recovery.
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA App

Do you have stock recovery or Clockworkmod installed? It sounds like you have stock recovery and if you bootup with volume down + power the stock recovery does a factory reset of the phone. There is no way to get it back to how it was unless you did a backup of your NAND in Clockworkmod recovery. You just have to start over from scratch as the phone is now back to square one. BTW, the hboot thing is not for our phone. Where did you see that thread? My Nexus One can do that but my G2X cannot. As far as I know, we cannot get into hboot on this device. Only recovery and software download modes (like fastboot but not same as fastboot on other devices). Also, LG never locks their bootloaders as a matter of company policy. So S-OFF is set at the factory.

As others have said, you just did a factory reset on your phone which resets all settings and user data and apps to its factory condition. A factory reset doesn't touch your sdcard so that's why those files are still there. With stock recovery there is no way to go back to the way your phone as set up. If any apps or settings were backed up to Google's servers then those should sync back to your phone. If not then you just need to start from scratch.
jboxer mentioned clockworkmod recovery. I think everyone here would recommend you install that to replace stock recovery. One of its features is the ability to create a FULL backup of your phone including all system apps, user-installed apps, settings, messages, etc. Think of it as a snapshot of your system that you can revert back to at any point. If you're interested check out tga gunmann's one-click recovery flasher thread in the development section. Read thoroughly any instructions and don't hesitate to ask for help if you get stuck.

jboxer said:
Do you have stock recovery or Clockworkmod installed? It sounds like you have stock recovery and if you bootup with volume down + power the stock recovery does a factory reset of the phone. There is no way to get it back to how it was unless you did a backup of your NAND in Clockworkmod recovery. You just have to start over from scratch as the phone is now back to square one. BTW, the hboot thing is not for our phone. Where did you see that thread? My Nexus One can do that but my G2X cannot. As far as I know, we cannot get into hboot on this device. Only recovery and software download modes (like fastboot but not same as fastboot on other devices). Also, LG never locks their bootloaders as a matter of company policy. So S-OFF is set at the factory.
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is it 100% that G2x comes unlocked from factory???

akaSurfer said:
is it 100% that G2x comes unlocked from factory???
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The bootloader is unlocked. I'm assuming you're thinking of being SIM unlocked.
Sent from my amazing G2X running Bionic Reloaded v1.2.1

Bootloader unlocked always on any LG phone. LG company policy is to never lock a bootloader.
Sim locked from the factory. You need an unlock code to use a sim from another carrier. I sell them cheap and they are even cheaper on eBay. Once sim unlocked it is permanent and you never do it again.

[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...

diamondrl1 said:
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..

Setting.Out said:
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