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HTC Desire S hangs on carrier logo :-(

Dear forum,
I kind of hesitated to start a thread for my problem, but after a long time I still haven't found a solution. I have contacted HTC (no answer yet), but hope to resolve my problem in meanwhile instead of waiting 1 month+ for a replacement.
I got the -by now familiar- freeze, and after rebooting it would go beyond the HTC logo, then stay stuck in a backlit black screen mode. Tried removing the battery, sim card, sd card etc. Then decided to boot into recovery (vol down + power) which worked, but any option would freeze the phone, like factory reset which I tried first.
Right now, the phone already freezes at the carrier logo, and I can't even get into recovery again (vol down + power). The phone won't respond to the key presses, and eventially boot and freeze at the carrier logo. The weird thing is that before, after a lot of trying and re-inserting the battery, it would eventually boot and work just fine for about 1 in 10 tries.
Does anyone have any ideas what I could try? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
edit: Okay, after a while I finally managed to get into HBoot again! Now what should I do to get my phone resetted/fixed? I guess it's not possible for me to flash another ROM or something as i'm not rooted. Details shown are: S-OFF, HBOOT 98.0002

can you get into recovery from bootloader?

Seems like I now consistently can boot into HBOOT. When I choose recovery, it will reboot, show the carrier logo, show the green logo with circular arrows, and then switch to the phone logo with a red exclamation mark for two seconds. Then, it shuts off. Also, when I tried that just now, it buzzed for like 6 times very fast after turning off.
On the second try, exactly the same happened: red exclamation mark, screen off, +- 6 fast buzzes.
After doing that, it doesn't respond to vol down+power or power at all. After reinserting the battery, I can get back into HBOOT

edit: it didn't want to boot into HBOOT, but now it does again. Anyhow, chosing recovery is still green logo, red logo, screen off and some buzzes. The phone doesn't show up in "adb devices" neither.

Whatever you are going to do; do not root your device as it will void your warrenty.

Is there anything else i can try doing? The situation so far:
-normal boot just stays stuck into carrier logo
-hboot->recovery gives a reboot, green logo, switch to red logo, screen off and +- 6 fast buzzes, then nothing. Needs battery reinsertion to be able to respond to vol down + power again
-hboot->factory reset just freezes on the same screen, no response, needs battery removal
-noshow in adb devices (update: show in fastboot!)

Another update: after messing arround with the drivers which didn't seem properly installed, I know have my device showing up in "fastboot devices".
Please, I feel like I'm so close to fixing this. What could I do next? Fastboot in some different recovery with more options or something? Anyone?
Could I simply run the RUU for my 3UK branded phone now?? If I get the RUU from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002506, it seems that the RUU is "signed", which would result in S-ON? While right now my phone is S-OFF?
edit: So, I ran the proper RUU, it will find my device, propose me to downgrade from 1.47 something to 1.37 or so. Click next. Then it stays on the "rebooting the bootloader" phase indefinitely

maxxur said:
Another update: after messing arround with the drivers which didn't seem properly installed, I know have my device showing up in "fastboot devices".
Please, I feel like I'm so close to fixing this. What could I do next? Fastboot in some different recovery with more options or something? Anyone?
Could I simply run the RUU for my 3UK branded phone now?? If I get the RUU from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002506, it seems that the RUU is "signed", which would result in S-ON? While right now my phone is S-OFF?
edit: So, I ran the proper RUU, it will find my device, propose me to downgrade from 1.47 something to 1.37 or so. Click next. Then it stays on the "rebooting the bootloader" phase indefinitely
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Slow down maxxur, wait for this quesstion to be out there for long enough for someone to answer it.
Dont go on a battery pulling spree, coz that is the first and most tempting response on a frozen phone. But i hope you know what that can do to this phone...
Give the xda community some time to figure this out. Hold your ground till then. Need to go in to the theatre now. Will get back in the evening and try to figure this out.

Try running the RUU while in the fastboot menu (usb mode). Also my suggestion is not to make the process more complicated by downgrading - just reflash 1.47...

Thanks for the response guys
The RUU I found was 1.37. Could you point me to a 1.47 RUU for the 3UK network?
Also, running that RUU when in Fastboot USB mode is what I tried. The info on the RUU shows that it hangs indefinitely at "rebooting bootloader". That is expected, as when I try to manually reboot bootloader in my fastboot menu, my phone will also freeze.
I'm wondering if running a different recovery image could be of any help? Last night I tried running CWM recovery to see my options, by entering "fastboot boot recovery.img" but i'd get a "remote: not allow" error.

Have not noticed that you are not rooted!
Why don't you try the revolutionary tool? If you have luck it will restore your bootloader if it is broken (keep in mind that is not the best option because it will break you warranty). Then you will just need to flash an eng hboot and run the RUU, or better try some custom ROM
But in my opinion the best option for you is to go for a replacement rather to try yourself, since you dont have any custom software on it it has to be covered by your warranty (probably it is a faulty device to go like this from nothing).

Thanks for the suggestion. Are there any other safer options for me?
Could I try extracting the rom.zip from the RUU and manually put it on the SD card, then try to flash it in CWM recovery? Since "fastboot boot recovery" doesn't work though, could I try "fastboot flash recovery" to get CWM on there? Atm the "stock recovery" seems to be dead anyway, as when I choose it in HBOOT, the phone simply freezes.

maxxur said:
Thanks for the suggestion. Are there any other safer options for me?
Could I try extracting the rom.zip from the RUU and manually put it on the SD card, then try to flash it in CWM recovery? Since "fastboot boot recovery" doesn't work though, could I try "fastboot flash recovery" to get CWM on there? Atm the "stock recovery" seems to be dead anyway, as when I choose it in HBOOT, the phone simply freezes.
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Of course you can if you are eager to try this. When you run the RUU, even when there is no phone connected there is a folder in your C: drive created (I assume that you are using Windows). Open your Windows Explorer and search for the rom.zip. When you have it copy it somewhere and close the RUU screen. Then if you open the RUU all the *.img files are there. You can try flashing the stock recovery or hboot or whatewer using the fastboot command. But I have to say again the best option for you is to bring the phone for a repair before you end up with something irreversible and void your warranty.

Thanks for keeping me sane on what to do with my problem Mentally, I came to the point where I'd go flash CWM recovery on my phone and try to flash that RUU rom from there, but you helped me get around that thought and now I made arrangements for HTC to come and pick it up. I'll keep you guys posted!
PS: you've got to love our desire s community, it's the best.

Cheered too early
Now HTC suddenly responds that while entering my phone in their warranty service thingy and the phone seemed to be 3G UK branded, they told me they "can't" do repairs for those.

Seriously, HTC is trying to troll me saying the inner hardware could differ between a UK and a Belgian Desire S?? Could this be true in any way?? :/

Maybe some parts are cheaper but with the same parameters...but I thought that when you have a branded phone you should seek your warrancy support from the carrier's office?!?
Sent from my HTC Desire S

Options for solution!
Option 1: Copy rom.zip (from RUU_Saga_HTC_Europe_1.47.401.4_Radio_20.28I.30.085AU_3805.06.02.03_M_release_199410_signed) to your sd rename it to PG88IMG.zip and let m boot into hboot.
If option 1 is not ok try option 2.
Option 2: Boot in to fastboot connect it to your computer and on your computer open dos/terminal run fastboot oem rebootRUU then after that run ruu RUU_Saga_HTC_Europe_1.47.401.4_Radio_20.28I.30.085AU_3805.06.02.03_M_release_199410_signed.
If option 2 not OK then there is option 3.
Option 3: Boot in to fastboot connect it to your computer and on your computer open dos/terminal run fastboot oem rebootRUU after that run in dos/terminal fastboot flash zip rom.zip (extracted from RUU_Saga_HTC_Europe_1.47.401.4_Radio_20.28I.30.085AU_3805.06.02.03_M_release_199410_signed)
Let me know if one of these option worked for you if not I can help you with reflashing your hboot again.

NikMel,
Thank you so much for the tips. Currently I'm trying the first HBOOT + .ZIP method. It detected it, asked me to update and is now showing a pink "Updating" sign. How long should this normally take? I have a strong feeling it simply froze again, and it really turns out to be a hardware problem.

Is that updating next to radio?
If yes it will take realy long so wait!!

NEXUS S EUR Bricked OEM UNLOCK ERASE FAIL

Hey guys, i've a big problem.
Yesterday, suddently my nexus s didn't boot. It was stucked on Google logo.
It's rooted and it has the cm7 rom.
I tryed to reflash with cw recovery but i have an issue.
I cannot copy nothing on the sdcard partition.
I mount it with recovery and correctly copy the img from my pc. After i sync and dismount but if i remount the sdcard i cannot see the file that i've copied before.
It seems strange because if i try to format sdcard from recovery it says "done" but the data still remain.
After that i tried to lock and reunlock my phone but it fail.
I launch the command fastboot oem unlock, correctly the two-choices window appear, i select yes but on my pc i see (erase fail) and bootload remain unlocked.
Please give me some advice to resurrect my phone.
Thanks for the support, and sorry for my bad english.
Emiliano

fastboot oem unlock wont lock it, use fastboot oem lock.

i need to unlock it. i've locked now i need to unlock.
But the procedure
fastboot oem unlock
fail with erase fail errore.

I had almost the exact same problem yesterday. Tried literally everything and nothing worked. In fact it kept getting a little worse with every battery pull/reboot.
I purposely re locked the boot loader, right before I went to Sprint and paid $38 for a working replacement.
Probably be a good long while before I root another phone.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk

After 4.0.4 OTA update device is bricked.
I have experienced the same issue you are discussing here.
A couple of days ago I received an OTA update to android 4.0.4 for my Nexus S device, vodafone UK. My phone is NOT rooted or OEM unlocked. The update downloaded but fails to install on reboot. The phone just returns to the original state, with the update waiting to install.
Any app or software will not work on the device, force closes error. If I attempt to restore to any factory settings or wipe / format the phone by any method you can come up with in a google search!, once the device reboots this change is ignored. If I copy any file on the Mass storage via usb, after the phone reboots the file is gone.
I've attempted to unlock the oem to flash the device in an attempt to resolve this, however when using ./fastboot oem unlock I get the following error:
... FAILED (remote: Erase Fail)
It seems the device has been screwed some how after receiving this update. It can only be a hardware error now....
Who is now responsible to fix this? i have had this Nexus S over 1 year now, can I take to Samsung or Vodafone for these guys to get repaired?

Sounds like hardware issue. Have you tried formatting the sdcard in windows or running chkdsk /F.

I Have Same Problem how can i fix it?
LeeVidor said:
I have experienced the same issue you are discussing here.
A couple of days ago I received an OTA update to android 4.0.4 for my Nexus S device, vodafone UK. My phone is NOT rooted or OEM unlocked. The update downloaded but fails to install on reboot. The phone just returns to the original state, with the update waiting to install.
Any app or software will not work on the device, force closes error. If I attempt to restore to any factory settings or wipe / format the phone by any method you can come up with in a google search!, once the device reboots this change is ignored. If I copy any file on the Mass storage via usb, after the phone reboots the file is gone.
I've attempted to unlock the oem to flash the device in an attempt to resolve this, however when using ./fastboot oem unlock I get the following error:
... FAILED (remote: Erase Fail)
It seems the device has been screwed some how after receiving this update. It can only be a hardware error now....
Who is now responsible to fix this? i have had this Nexus S over 1 year now, can I take to Samsung or Vodafone for these guys to get repaired?
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please anyone can help me how can i fix my mobile ...

You can't. It's a hardware common issue without any solution. Better sent it to repair. My two cents
Sent from my
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sammme problem har you fix it?
benazhack said:
i need to unlock it. i've locked now i need to unlock.
But the procedure
fastboot oem unlock
fail with erase fail errore.
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please help me if u get the solution plz

zaherrrr said:
please help me if u get the solution plz
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Already been posted, you can't, warranty repair or you need to replace the main board(guessing £100-200?)
Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S

DarkhShadow said:
Already been posted, you can't, warranty repair or you need to replace the main board(guessing £100-200?)
Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S
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Just figured something out, i had the same issues as described above, could only boot the phone with a hair dryer
The new update Jelly Bean 4.1.1 is more forgiving when it comes to booting (probably voltages of the internal SD!! I'm still testing, but as far as i can see now, the phone boots normally again now (no more stuck on the google logo)
My problems:
- Not able to unlock bootloader (erase failed).
- Not possible to boot normally due to faulty internal SD card (only able to boot with the 'hairdryer' trick).
What did i do:
- Just tried the same as the trick on booting: use the hairdryer when fastbooting!!!
- Have everything ready; cmd, fastboot files, drivers etc, phone connected to computer with USB.
- Try to boot it first after heating the phone with the hairdryer (get past the google logo) and then immediately remove the battery.
- Then boot into fastboot mode (power and vol. up).
- Immediately execute the 'fastboot oem unlock' command.
Voila, that did the trick for me. Status OKAY and my bootloader was unlocked.
Then ROOT and update the phone to 4.1.1 with the following instructions:
(not able to unclude link, see webtrickz dot com/guide-to-manually-update-nexus-s-i9020ti9023-to-android-4-1-1-jelly-bean)
That did the trick for me!
NO MORE HAIRDRYER FOR ME!!

OEM unlock FAILED (remote: Erase Fail)
Hi
I'm replying to this message to share my experience about the same issu i had.
I bought a broken nexus s on google, auction described the phone as messed up during some software update. When cell got here:
- Bootloader was loading and locked
- Bootloader was reporting no boot image and no recovery
- Recovery was flashed with cwm 6.0.1.0
When trying to oem unlock, I was getting "FAILED (remote: Erase Fail)" no matter what I try. My config was good i've unlocked many nexus s with the same setup.
In recovery I was not able to mount sdcard, system, boot, nothing was working as it should.
After many frustrating hours, i saw this post.. What a stupid idea.. But I have nothing to loose at this point.
I don't have a hair dryer but I do have an oven. I figured the idea was to get the phone really hot..
Set the oven to 170, convection on and cooked the phone without the battery and cover for about 5 minutes until it was really hot but not melting.
Did the oem unlock and guess what.. It worked on first try.
After that I was able to update bootloader, radio, recovery and installed latest cm10. I've wipped the phone a couple of time, tried everything I could think of to test if something is not working, but everything does..
No hair dryer?
Just cook you phone at 170 for 5 minutes.
Worked for me.. go figure..
hetile
TimeClypse said:
Just figured something out, i had the same issues as described above, could only boot the phone with a hair dryer
The new update Jelly Bean 4.1.1 is more forgiving when it comes to booting (probably voltages of the internal SD!! I'm still testing, but as far as i can see now, the phone boots normally again now (no more stuck on the google logo)
My problems:
- Not able to unlock bootloader (erase failed).
- Not possible to boot normally due to faulty internal SD card (only able to boot with the 'hairdryer' trick).
What did i do:
- Just tried the same as the trick on booting: use the hairdryer when fastbooting!!!
- Have everything ready; cmd, fastboot files, drivers etc, phone connected to computer with USB.
- Try to boot it first after heating the phone with the hairdryer (get past the google logo) and then immediately remove the battery.
- Then boot into fastboot mode (power and vol. up).
- Immediately execute the 'fastboot oem unlock' command.
Voila, that did the trick for me. Status OKAY and my bootloader was unlocked.
Then ROOT and update the phone to 4.1.1 with the following instructions:
(not able to unclude link, see webtrickz dot com/guide-to-manually-update-nexus-s-i9020ti9023-to-android-4-1-1-jelly-bean)
That did the trick for me!
NO MORE HAIRDRYER FOR ME!!
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hetile said:
Hi
I'm replying to this message to share my experience about the same issu i had.
I bought a broken nexus s on google, auction described the phone as messed up during some software update. When cell got here:
- Bootloader was loading and locked
- Bootloader was reporting no boot image and no recovery
- Recovery was flashed with cwm 6.0.1.0
When trying to oem unlock, I was getting "FAILED (remote: Erase Fail)" no matter what I try. My config was good i've unlocked many nexus s with the same setup.
In recovery I was not able to mount sdcard, system, boot, nothing was working as it should.
After many frustrating hours, i saw this post.. What a stupid idea.. But I have nothing to loose at this point.
I don't have a hair dryer but I do have an oven. I figured the idea was to get the phone really hot..
Set the oven to 170, convection on and cooked the phone without the battery and cover for about 5 minutes until it was really hot but not melting.
Did the oem unlock and guess what.. It worked on first try.
After that I was able to update bootloader, radio, recovery and installed latest cm10. I've wipped the phone a couple of time, tried everything I could think of to test if something is not working, but everything does..
No hair dryer?
Just cook you phone at 170 for 5 minutes.
Worked for me.. go figure..
hetile
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I'm speechless..hair dryer works for me too!!! THANK YOU GUYS!

[Q] i9023 bricked. Secure: on (S-ON), radio XXXXX

The last week I have been struggling to unbrick my i9023 Nexus S. Without any luck... Let's start at the beginning, how I bricked my Nexus S. If you don't think this is relevant you can skip it.
Stay with me because it's going to be a long thread...
How I bricked my Nexus S
I was running a CM9 Nightly (from around 10 March) until a week ago, together with the matrix CFS 18.0 kernel. I had a problem with rebooting. Every time I rebooted, it would take 2 or 3 tries before it actually started. First it would just reboot again, or even freeze. So after almost a month I was kinda tired of that problem, so I decided to flash a new CM9 Nightly, the one from 7 April. I flashed the Nightly like I always do, wipe cache/dalvik, and I also flashed the new matrix CFS 18.5 kernel, + the latest gapps and the reloadedICS mod. It was working fine. I rebooted a couple of times more into recovery because I wasn't happy with the reloadedICS mod. Everything was still working fine.
The battery was draining very quickly though. I was watching TV for an hour and when I decided to go to bed the battery was already dead. So I put it in the charger because I wanted to check my facebook before I went to bed. It booted fine, but when I started loading facebook in the browser, my phone freezed. I wasn't really alarmed because, well, let's face it, that's the risk with nightlies. So I pulled out the battery, something I have done a lot of times since I started rooting/flashing. After that: dead. No reaction. No charging icon when it was plugged in the charger. No vibration when I pressed the power button, nothing. A brick...
What I've tried
Although it is uncommon, I wasn't the first to brick a Nexus S. Apparently it had something to do with updating to ICS 4.0.4, on which the april 7 nightly was based on I guess.
Luckily there was AdamOutler's Unbrickable Resurrector. After some setbacks I managed to get the Resurrector working. And against all odds I "unbricked" my Nexus S on the first try! Well, I got it into download mode (home and search button). The only problem was that I still didn't have a screen. The home and search button were lit up, but the screen was still black... And according to most people, it isn't supposed to be black...
Ignoring that fact, I downloaded fastboot and tried to flash bootloader.img, as instructed. It didn't work because my bootloader wasn't unlocked, something that struck me as very weird because it definitely was unlocked before the brick. So I tried to unlock the bootloader. But for that, you need a screen... With a lot of luck I managed to unlock the bootloader. Don't ask me how, but after a few tries I succeeded.
I was making progress. And I was happy about that . So I tried to flash the bootloader again. But it still didn't work. "Write failed". After some internet research I found out wat the problem was. It had something to do with the bootloader and radio being a different version. I used the command "fastboot getvar all" and it told me the following:
- Bootloader version: i9020XXKA3
- Radio version: i9020XXXXX
Apparently the radio version isn't supposed to be XXXXX, and that's why I couldn't flash bootloader.img or radio.img. Also, this is the reason that I couldn't boot my device in the first place.
Obviously I wasn't the only person with this problem. I found a guy that had the same problem as me. He used the command "fastboot boot recovery3101.img", using an older version of CWM recovery. If you used that command, your phone would always boot into recovery, so that you can flash a new OTA.
So I downloaded that older version of CWM, and I tried the same command. And it worked! The home and search button were off and the menu and back button were on! But, still no screen. And the guy that used the same command did have a screen...
I had no clue on what to do next, so I pressed the power button, in the hope that I could boot my device directly into recovery after that. I pressed the power button, the backlight of the soft keys went out... and that was my poor Nexus S' last breath of life...
I tried the resurrector tool after that... "failed to write"...
So, am I really f***ed?
I just can't comprehend that my Nexus S could be dead forever... The hardware is fine, it's just the software that keeps it from booting up! The idea of that is crazy... Certainly with a Nexus S for christ's sake!
So, what am I to do? I kinda gave up hope...
UPDATE: SITUATION ATM
1) With AdamOutler's Unbrickable Resurrector I can get into download mode. Sometimes it doesn't work but when I pull out the battery it works again.
Now I can flash every partition with fastboot, except for;
- the bootloader (which is XXKA3)
- the radio (which is XXXXX)
The probable cause for this is the fact that "secure: on", according to "fastboot getvar all". This is very weird because no one on the internet has a Nexus S with "secure: on". It is some security for i.a. HTC devices.
When flashing the bootloader or radio, I get the following error:
sending 'bootloader/radio' <file size>...
OKAY [time]
writing 'bootloader/radio'...
FAILED <remote: Write Fail>
finished. total time: time
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Using "fastboot -w update image-******.zip":
archive does not contain 'boot.sig'
archive does not contain 'recovery.sig'
archive does not contain 'system.sig'
After that the flash goes fine. When it reboots, my phone is dead again. This is because the radio didn't change with this zip. If there would be a radio in that zip, it would not have worked anyway.
The radio is booted first in android, and because of this I can't do anything (the XXXXX version is wrong). This is probably also why the recovery doesn't work properly (see below). And the "secure: on" prevents me from flashing another radio.
2) With "fastboot boot recovery.img" I can get in the recovery mode. ADB "shell" works, and so does "push" and "pull". The screen is black, though. Even with a very strong flashlight I still can't see anything. I can only see 2 or 3 lines (it is different with each recovery). When I press the volume buttons to scroll, I see no changes at all on my screen.
What I have tried in recovery:
- Installing an OTA zip. I can ADB "push" an OTA zip. I have checked that with ADB "shell". Since I can't see anything I have to guide myself using pictures from CWM menus. But nothing happens. There is no sign that the install worked. The only sign that I'm actually in recovery is that the menu and back softkey are lit up, and that when I press the power button without pressing the volume buttons first, my phone powers off (this is because "reboot system now" is on top of the list in recovery, I guess).
- ADB pushing anything on /sdcard. When I turn off my phone after that and resurrect it again, the file is gone. This could be because my memory is dead. But isn't this because the resurrector removes it? Anyway, when I push a file with ADB, it definitely is on my sdcard. Only after rebooting and resurrecting it isn't...
NOTE: Rebooting/booting in whatever mode doesn't work. The only two things I can do are listed above. The moment I plug out my device, I have to use the resurrector again. Because of this there it makes no sense to flash a recovery, since I can't boot anyway. The only way I can get into recovery is by using "fastboot boot recovery.img".
NOTE 2: Recovery.log shows some errors. I will post the whole log soon...
Possible solutions?
A) How can I flash a different radio, despite of "secure: on"?
B) Can we change "secure: on" to "secure: off"? For HTC users this is as normal as "fastboot oem unlock", but there is no one on the internet that has a Nexus S with "secure: on".

I've never really saw a Nexus S totally bricked by software. It's often a combo of small user errors and small software bugs.
There is a bug with the SLCD version of the Nexus S where the backlight doesn't come on and thus it looks like it doesn't work but the softkeys light up. However, if you take a flashlight to the screen and look at an angle, you will see what's being displayed.
Also, you do not need to use an old version of CWM specifically.
Are you able to hold vol + and power to get into bootloader? If not, pull the battery out for at least 10 minutes, then put it back in and try again.

polobunny said:
I've never really saw a Nexus S totally bricked by software. It's often a combo of small user errors and small software bugs.
There is a bug with the SLCD version of the Nexus S where the backlight doesn't come on and thus it looks like it doesn't work but the softkeys light up. However, if you take a flashlight to the screen and look at an angle, you will see what's being displayed.
Also, you do not need to use an old version of CWM specifically.
Are you able to hold vol + and power to get into bootloader? If not, pull the battery out for at least 10 minutes, then put it back in and try again.
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I know about that bug where the backlight doesn't work, and that's how I managed to unlock the bootloader eventually.
My phone is as dead as a brick. The resurrector doesn't work anymore, so I can't get into bootloader. I can't get into download mode, I can't get into anything.
I know you don't really need to use an old version of CWM, but it got me into recovery. Unfortunately, after I shut down my device, I can't do anything anymore... I guess the resurrector doesn't work because recovery is now on the boot partition?

Androyed said:
I know about that bug where the backlight doesn't work, and that's how I managed to unlock the bootloader eventually.
My phone is as dead as a brick. The resurrector doesn't work anymore, so I can't get into bootloader. I can't get into download mode, I can't get into anything.
I know you don't really need to use an old version of CWM, but it got me into recovery. Unfortunately, after I shut down my device, I can't do anything anymore... I guess the resurrector doesn't work because recovery is now on the boot partition?
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If the phone doesn't even power on AT ALL (not even a split second) when you press the power button i'd look into a hardware problem more than a software problem. You can get into the bootload using VOL+ and power usually, not only using the ressurector.

polobunny said:
If the phone doesn't even power on AT ALL (not even a split second) when you press the power button i'd look into a hardware problem more than a software problem. You can get into the bootload using VOL+ and power usually, not only using the ressurector.
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Well, than that hardware problem occured when I pulled out the battery after my screen freezed...
But if it really is a hardware problem, isn't it strange that I was able to get it into download mode, and that I got it to communicate with my computer using fastboot? I even got it into recovery mode for a brief moment!

Androyed said:
Well, than that hardware problem occured when I pulled out the battery after my screen freezed...
But if it really is a hardware problem, isn't it strange that I was able to get it into download mode, and that I got it to communicate with my computer using fastboot? I even got it into recovery mode for a brief moment!
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It is very weird indeed. If I had to pick something hardware related, I'd say your battery died. Just a guts feeling, and it goes with the quick discharge scenario...

polobunny said:
It is very weird indeed. If I had to pick something hardware related, I'd say your battery died. Just a guts feeling, and it goes with the quick discharge scenario...
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I have used other batteries (luckily I have friends with a Nexus S), but that doesn't change anything.
The big question is, how can I get into download mode again? The resurrector worked at first, but when I flashed CWM to the boot partition and rebooted after that, I can't get any signs of life out of my Nexus S. Resurrector doesn't work anymore, nothing...
The weird thing is, the moment I used the "fastboot boot recovery.img" command, windows stopped recognising the device. But according to the soft keys, it did go from download mode into recovery mode. I still didn't see anything, but I guess that's because the SLCD bug.
I guess I should not have had rebooted when I was finally in recovery...

Hmmm... someone might have an idea. I still find it extremely strange it doesn't power on at all. Were you aware of any power button problem with your Nexus? Had to double click the power button to wake it?

polobunny said:
Hmmm... someone might have an idea. I still find it extremely strange it doesn't power on at all. Were you aware of any power button problem with your Nexus? Had to double click the power button to wake it?
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Nope, no problem at all.
The only way I could get some life out of it, was by using the resurrector tool. But now even that isn't possible anymore...
Is it actually possible to really perma-brick a Nexus S? Or are people just saying that because they lack the knowledge to unbrick it. I'm pretty sure it can't be a hardware problem. It is the software that is preventing it to boot up. That's what a brick is, right?

WOW, GOOD NEWS!
After a few (totally random) tries, I managed to resurrect my phone again! I am now in the download mode. From here I can use fastboot boot recovery.img. I still don't have a screen though...
When I get into recovery (without screen), what should I do then? Because previous time, windows stopped recognizing my phone... Should I push an OTA to my Nexus S BEFORE I use fastboot boot recovery.img? And if so, how? And if I do so, how on earth am I going to manage to install that zip without a screen? There are a lot of files on my sd card... An option would be to wipe them all, if that's possible. Another option would be to give it something starting with a 1 or an A so that it comes up on top of the list.

The problem is that I can't flash anything because of that i9020XXXXX radio version.... Is there any way I can flash another radio? Just flashing with fastboot doesn't work because of that XXXXX version...

Got it into recovery again! Windows recognized USB mass storage for a second, but not anymore.
Using a flashlight I can see that there is SOMETHING on the screen, but when I press the volume buttons to scroll nothing changes...

Another breakthrough! I installed ADB drivers, and now I got ADB working!
Can you control CWM recovery from the computer, using ADB? Because now all I have to do is flash an OTA, but I can't see anything, not even with a flashlight...

I'm not real good at the technical stuff, but it seems like you should be able to put one of the ota's on your computer and when you connect the phone, it should take you through a flash sequence. Hopefully someone above my pay grade will jump in here and help.
Hang in there, we're all pulling for you.

wmdunn said:
I'm not real good at the technical stuff, but it seems like you should be able to put one of the ota's on your computer and when you connect the phone, it should take you through a flash sequence. Hopefully someone above my pay grade will jump in here and help.
Hang in there, we're all pulling for you.
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I'm not really good at the technical stuff either. I'm like this dog:
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But I can learn quickly. I know how to push a file to the SD Card using ADB. I also now how to wipe all user data using fastboot. Combining that, I have a SD Card with only 1 file: the OTA I want to flash. That should make thinks a lot easier since I can't see a damn on my screen.
My problem wouldn't even that bad, if it weren't three problems combined. Normally when people unbrick their phone with the resurrector, they can flash a bootloader.img. But I can't, because of that i9020XXXXX baseband version. I tried to flash another radio.img but that doesn't work either. To top this off, my screen doesn't work. Even with a flashlight I only see that there's SOMETHING on the screen, but I don't see any changes when I press the volume buttons for example.
The problem with not seeing anything is that I don't know if what I did, worked. I can't confirm anything. Maybe when I flash the OTA it says: update failed. But I can't see that so how would I know?
That's why I was hoping for a way to not only push files to the SD Card using ADB and wipe all user data using fastboot, but also for a way to install zip from SD Card using ADB/fastboot.

Could this be a corrupt radio? There was a thread about the 4g radio that delves a little into what the radio actually does. I'll find it when I'm back home. Try flashing a radio through cwm if you can manage.

Harbb said:
Could this be a corrupt radio? There was a thread about the 4g radio that delves a little into what the radio actually does. I'll find it when I'm back home. Try flashing a radio through cwm if you can manage.
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You think that would work? Because I can't flash via fastboot...
Anyway, it is worth a shot. I've tried flashing several OTAs through several recoveries without much luck, but at least now I have the knowledge to go back to where I was (download mode/recovery).
I don't know anything about radios, but the XXXXX baseband version isn't good, at least that's what people say. It prevents you from flashing a bootloader.img, and also from flashing another radio.img. And maybe it was the reason that my Nexus S bricked in the first place.
By the way, thank you all for your help!

[Q] i9023 very freaking bricked, lost all hope...
Pls help i am also facing same problem i have given NS to service center they said they will be changing its mother board is there any thing can b done.

Androyed said:
You think that would work? Because I can't flash via fastboot...
Anyway, it is worth a shot. I've tried flashing several OTAs through several recoveries without much luck, but at least now I have the knowledge to go back to where I was (download mode/recovery).
I don't know anything about radios, but the XXXXX baseband version isn't good, at least that's what people say. It prevents you from flashing a bootloader.img, and also from flashing another radio.img. And maybe it was the reason that my Nexus S bricked in the first place.
By the way, thank you all for your help!
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Try installing factory images from fastboot, You dont need the screen for that just get it to download mode.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1572307

in cmd it says waiting for device and nothing happened its blank

[Q] Possible intermitant brick?

After doing a ton of reading and searching, I still have no idea what my phone is doing. It seems bricked…but only sometimes/partially?
To begin with, I am using ViperXL 3.2.8, elementalX kernel, TWRP 2.5.000 and have been happily using it that way for the summer.
Today I was using facebook to accept a friend request and it suddenly force closed on me. “ oh well” I thought, it’s always been buggy and slow. Hit ok on the msg, then put my phone down. After about a minute, Google play services force closed. Then others began closing, cascading to the point of things like “android core” force closing. My phone then crashed and restarted (its done THAT part before, somewhat often too. Very annoying). I cannot remember exactly, but I think that it then restarted, took foreverrrr to come up, then unlocked the phone and everything started force closing again, faster than I could hit “OK”. Crashed again, restarted…this time got stuck on the Viper boot logo. Let it do that for a while, then restarted by holding power button. Came up, same thing happened. Next I went into TWRP to clear cache and dalvik. When I tried, it fails with the message “cannot mount /cache” about 3 times. Then I went to reboot it, come up and says something like “it doesn’t look like your phone is rooted, would you like to install SuperSU?” whether I click yes or no doesn’t matter, TWRP hangs for a little while and then the phone shuts off.
At this point, I'm mildly panicking, so do some searching. I noticed that “android.process.acore” closed a lot, and it came up that facebook could be an issue. After several tries, got booted up far enough to attempt uninstalling the app. It completed, but the phone then instantly crashed. Checking afterwards, it’s still there. Also, when I do get to into android (about 70% of the time it hangs at the boot animation) and try to access developer tools to enable USB debugging, settings instantly force closes. Same with venom tweaks when I try to change CPU voltage (I'm under-clocked and under-volted, trying to get better battery life..this thing is a total hog for some reason). Oh, and when I get booted up for long enough it’ll come up saying that “internal storage is corrupted and may have to be formatted”.
It gets weirder. Thinking that perhaps TWRP is somehow corrupted, I attempted to flash a different version (2.6 first, then 2.3.3.1). “fastboot flash recovery TWRP.img” completes just fine, no errors. But when I go to recovery, 2.5.0.0 is still there! How it that possible? Also, “fastboot erase cache” completes fine too, regardless of what TWRP says. But I'm not convinced it’s doing anything at this point. Another odd thing, the phone will not successfully reboot with either “fastboot reboot-recovery” or selecting it in the bootloader menu. It shuts off, then the charge light comes on (to indicate booting) but then goes off again before anything comes on screen.
One more thing: when I tried "fastboot oem lock" it fails with "status read failed (too many links)".
I apologize if this is disjointed, I’ve tried a lot of things in a short time and they kind blend together a little.
TL;DR:
Every process on the phone force closes on boot
TWRP cannot mount /cache
TWRP cannot be updated, even though fastboot succeeds
My phone is posessed!
HELP!
Thanks in advance, at this point I'm ready to try anything, if only to get it so I can give it to AT&T and get a different one!

If you put your phone into bootloader does it stay there happily? You could try an RUU, but it's risky at this point if the phone is so unstable.
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
If you put your phone into bootloader does it stay there happily? You could try an RUU, but it's risky at this point if the phone is so unstable.
Sent from my Evita
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Thanks for the quick reply! It does stay in bootloader quite nicely, that's about the only thing it does at this point. Is it safe to flash an RUU being S-off, unlocked and CID 11111111? I was actually planning on trying that next. Also would the proper one be named "RUU_Evita_UL_ATT_US_1.44.502.1_Radio_0.15.3201.09_release_249105"?
Thanks!

Yeah you're s-off so you'll be fine. Click the link in my signature, you'll find links to RUU threads in there.
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timmaaa said:
Yeah you're s-off so you'll be fine. Click the link in my signature, you'll find links to RUU threads in there.
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Great, thanks! I'll report back any results I get...hopefully those results wont be a steaming pile of slag

Flash the RUU and run it like that for a couple of days to see if the problems persist.
The initial problems could well have been because you were using TWRP 2.5, it's full of bugs. After running stock, and if it's fine, when you're gonna flash custom ROMs again make sure you use TWRP 2.6, it's in perfect working order.
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timmaaa said:
Flash the RUU and run it like that for a couple of days to see if the problems persist.
The initial problems could well have been because you were using TWRP 2.5, it's full of bugs. After running stock, and if it's fine, when you're gonna flash custom ROMs again make sure you use TWRP 2.6, it's in perfect working order.
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New problem: When I go to RUU, it gets to the part where it reboots my phone back into bootloader and fails. the phone shuts off and then the charge light comes on, so good so far, then it goes out (like it tries to boot) but then come back on and nothing happens. After a minute or 3 the RUU errors out since it can no longer see the phone. The same thing happens if I try to tell it to reboot bootloader from the bootloader...this is weird.
Also, I cannot relock my phone! All I get is:
Code:
fastboot oem lock ->
...
(bootloader) Lock successfully...
(bootloader) TZ_HTC_SVC_DISABLE ret = -2228225 (0xFFDDFFFF)
FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))
finished. total time: 0.955s
Side note, the output from "fastboot getvar version-main" is blank. My phone somehow seems to have every glitch known to man right now!
I can get USB debugging enabled! Well, only because it has always seemed to toggle every other time I hook my phone to the computer...but still, I can get to adb commands now. However, I'm not really sure that got me anywhere at this point

Put your phone into bootloader/fastboot manually and then run the RUU. Don't worry about relocking.
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
Put your phone into bootloader/fastboot manually and then run the RUU. Don't worry about relocking.
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That's what I've tried doing, the RUU decides to reboot it from being in bootloader back to bootloader for some reason, and that's where it gets hung up.
I'm beginning to think there is something seriously wrong with my cache, bc after I get my phone to boot the only really reoccurring stopped process is android.process.acore, which according to Google has something to do with programs and how they access cache?
Thanks for the help thus far!

Try the fastboot command:
fastboot erase cache
Try that a few times, then try RUU again.
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
Try the fastboot command:
fastboot erase cache
Try that a few times, then try RUU again.
Sent from my Evita
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Will do. So a few minutes ago I got to 10% with the RUU, this time run with the phone booted and in USB debug mode. Got to the HTC logo on a black background, it sent the RUU..then went into "waiting for bootloader" while my phone non-booted, as usual.
While I was doing some research, I left the phone at the bootup animation for like 10 min, and it finally booted with a message about a UUID (might have been UDID, not sure) mismatch. Don't know if any of this means anything, but it's certainly very odd.
Forgot this earlier, but sometimes it will boot for a while and go to a black screen, with the backlight still on.
Thanks again!

So, I've been trying things, and I have discovered that I am completely unable to make any file system changes whatsoever. Oh sure, I can mount the sd card in TWRP and delete/move things. But after a reboot, it acts like I never touched it, and it's right back to how it was before. Same with flashing a recovery. I've even tried getting it to boot and using adb to shell in and delete files that way, but still no change.
I'm running out of things to try....I almost want to take it in to AT&T and see if I can at least pay them to do something about it...heck, at this point I'd pay for a refurb phone!
Anyone has any ideas, let me know

to Flash an RUU if the ruu installer is giving you errors:
1)extract rom.zip from ruu.exe; google it, basically you open the ruu installer and search your temporary(Appdata in windows) files for rom.zip
2)fastboot oem rebootRUU
3)fastboot flash zip rom.zip (with atleast 70% battery as it takes a while)
charge the phone from any custom recovery if you cant boot it up to charge it(preferably twrp as it turns screen off to charge quicker)

That doesn't accomplish the same result as running an RUU at all, it's just like flashing a ROM.
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Vcek said:
to Flash an RUU if the ruu installer is giving you errors:
1)extract rom.zip from ruu.exe; google it, basically you open the ruu installer and search your temporary(Appdata in windows) files for rom.zip
2)fastboot oem rebootRUU
3)fastboot flash zip rom.zip (with atleast 70% battery as it takes a while)
charge the phone from any custom recovery if you cant boot it up to charge it(preferably twrp as it turns screen off to charge quicker)
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Thanks for the reply! I just tried that, and when I run "fastboot oem rebootRUU" it does the same thing as before: shuts off, the charge light comes on, then goes of for 2-3 seconds, then comes back on and the screen is off and it stays that way. However, I then ran "fastboot flash zip rom.zip" and while it said "waiting for device" got it back into fastboot mode. Then this:
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< waiting for device >
sending 'zip' (576544 KB)...
OKAY [ 26.127s]
writing 'zip'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 26.169s

no this must be run from RUU mode, try unlocking your bootloader first(then relocking it)
timmaaa said:
That doesn't accomplish the same result as running an RUU at all, it's just like flashing a ROM.
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i am talking about this kind of rom.zip

Yeah I know that, but that only updates the ROM partition to stock which isn't what we're aiming for. We're trying to do a complete return to stock, all partitions, which that method won't accomplish.
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the ruu installer does nothing more than flashing the rom.zip which contains all the partitions(21 partitions including hboot,sbl's,radio,touch,data,system,boot,recovery).

Ask around, I think you'll find that method doesn't do the whole job.
Sent from my Evita

It seems that the issue here is that my phone cannot get into RUU mode, since it cannot complete a reboot when sent a software command. As I said before, when I execute "fastboot oem rebootRUU", it shuts off but then won't come back on. Same with "fastboot reboot", "fastboot reboot-bootloader", and any adb reboot command. This issue also occurs when rebooting from the actual boot loader menu, as well as recovery. However, in TWRP, if I hit "reboot recovery", it won't come back up. But if I hit "reboot bootloader" (or system, I believe), it will in fact come back up.
Thanks for the replies! If I can only get to RUU mode I think we can fix this

[Q] RUU failed, stuck in HTC 4 ! screen

I was on Digitalhigh GPE with the Elite Kernel and the Verizon firmware offered on their thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2716306) and my power button wasn't working. Pressing it wouldn't turn the screen on/off and holding it wouldn't access the power menu. Holding it to restart/hboot would work so the power button was obviously not broken and I decided to just reset everything. After a failed ruu, my phone keeps switching between the ruu screen (pic attached) and the htc 4 ! screen. I tried the exe ruu (http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...zip-ruu-m8vzw-5-0-1-s-off-onlynewest-t3047103) but it didnt work because the phone just keeps rebooting itself into the htc 4 ! screen. I don't have extensive experience with adb/fastboot commands, but tried flashing both the L hboot and RUU offered in that thread and got the "error: cannot load" response. Everything was backed up before I ruu'ed but my google/xda searches havent gotten me anywhere.

KeltischDeutscher said:
I was on Digitalhigh GPE with the Elite Kernel and the Verizon firmware offered on their thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2716306) and my power button wasn't working. Pressing it wouldn't turn the screen on/off and holding it wouldn't access the power menu. Holding it to restart/hboot would work so the power button was obviously not broken and I decided to just reset everything. After a failed ruu, my phone keeps switching between the ruu screen (pic attached) and the htc 4 ! screen. I tried the exe ruu (http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...zip-ruu-m8vzw-5-0-1-s-off-onlynewest-t3047103) but it didnt work because the phone just keeps rebooting itself into the htc 4 ! screen. I don't have extensive experience with adb/fastboot commands, but tried flashing both the L hboot and RUU offered in that thread and got the "error: cannot load" response. Everything was backed up before I ruu'ed but my google/xda searches havent gotten me anywhere.
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Pay attention to the thread... He makes a statement about this issue there.
To flash, put it into the fastboot folder (which should be the platform-tools folder within the Android SDK) and open a command window there. Use the command 'fastboot flash zip nameoffile.zip. It should work. Until it can successfully flash, you are boned.
If this doesn't work, I have one more method you can try.

ironbesterer said:
Pay attention to the thread... He makes a statement about this issue there.
To flash, put it into the fastboot folder (which should be the platform-tools folder within the Android SDK) and open a command window there. Use the command 'fastboot flash zip nameoffile.zip. It should work. Until it can successfully flash, you are boned.
If this doesn't work, I have one more method you can try.
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Retried that and it failed again. After doing another oem reboot command (which I did idk how many times during the process), the phone randomly got passed the ruu screens, into the white htc boot screen with red text, started up and seems to be working fine. After work I'm going to retry the ruu via the exe this time
Edit: Now it seems that my motion launch, auto-rotate, and proximity sensors aren't working so the only way I can use it at work is to plug/unplug the usb to turn the screen on.

KeltischDeutscher said:
Retried that and it failed again. After doing another oem reboot command (which I did idk how many times during the process), the phone randomly got passed the ruu screens, into the white htc boot screen with red text, started up and seems to be working fine. After work I'm going to retry the ruu via the exe this time
Edit: Now it seems that my motion launch, auto-rotate, and proximity sensors aren't working so the only way I can use it at work is to plug/unplug the usb to turn the screen on.
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Now flash a custom recovery via flashify and try flashing a custom rom.

KeltischDeutscher said:
Retried that and it failed again. After doing another oem reboot command (which I did idk how many times during the process), the phone randomly got passed the ruu screens, into the white htc boot screen with red text, started up and seems to be working fine. After work I'm going to retry the ruu via the exe this time
Edit: Now it seems that my motion launch, auto-rotate, and proximity sensors aren't working so the only way I can use it at work is to plug/unplug the usb to turn the screen on.
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From the looks of your screen shot you ended up there because certain partitions failed to flash. That' the protect mode your phone will go into in the case of even a partial failure on flash. You need to reflash the entire RUU again and not "force" it past that screen. INVALID DSP info is NOT A good thing to see.
Personally I would flash the RUU in fastboot RUU mode using the htc_fastboot I have posted.....
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95784891001612150

dottat said:
From the looks of your screen shot you ended up there because certain partitions failed to flash. That' the protect mode your phone will go into in the case of even a partial failure on flash. You need to reflash the entire RUU again and not "force" it past that screen. INVALID DSP info is NOT A good thing to see.
Personally I would flash the RUU in fastboot RUU mode using the htc_fastboot I have posted.....
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Finally had some time to sit down and try this. Basically not sure what to do because the phone always reboots before the flashing process is done for the 0P6BIMG.zip sd and ruu mode methods. Same with just entering hboot, sits for 7 seconds max then reboots

KeltischDeutscher said:
Finally had some time to sit down and try this. Basically not sure what to do because the phone always reboots before the flashing process is done for the 0P6BIMG.zip sd and ruu mode methods. Same with just entering hboot, sits for 7 seconds max then reboots
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See if you are able to get the hboot.zip to flash (you will probably have to be quick on commands).

dottat said:
See if you are able to get the hboot.zip to flash (you will probably have to be quick on commands).
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Yeah, whenever I try to enter fastboot now (Fastboot oem rebootRUU ), the command window just hangs on < waiting for device > and the phone restarts. Fastboot devices does list my phone

KeltischDeutscher said:
Yeah, whenever I try to enter fastboot now (Fastboot oem rebootRUU ), the command window just hangs on < waiting for device > and the phone restarts. Fastboot devices does list my phone
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try renaming the zip to 0P6BIMG.zip and putting on your ext SD. See if bootloader is able to flash that.

dottat said:
try renaming the zip to 0P6BIMG.zip and putting on your ext SD. See if bootloader is able to flash that.
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Says it succeeded, gives me the power button to reboot option, and reboots itself before i hit power. Still at the same situation

KeltischDeutscher said:
Says it succeeded, gives me the power button to reboot option, and reboots itself before i hit power. Still at the same situation
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Hmm... try now this one in bootloader (renamed and placed on your ext-sd)
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934540511

dottat said:
Hmm... try now this one in bootloader (renamed and placed on your ext-sd)
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934540511
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Yeah, right after it begins the process after I hit the volume up button, it restarts while updating splash 1

KeltischDeutscher said:
Yeah, right after it begins the process after I hit the volume up button, it restarts while updating splash 1
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Did it immediately restart to bootloader or attempt to boot to os?

dottat said:
Did it immediately restart to bootloader or attempt to boot to os?
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os
Edit: Also - just for an extra description of the situation - when I got to work after trying to reflash this afternoon, I noticed my power button started working again. Data/wifi still work fine, but music (cant play anything), motion launch, auto screen rotation, audio or video (youtube, websites, gallery, etc) are still not functional and occasionally the entire ui will disappear and freeze for a few seconds.

Haven't been able to flash any fixes. After using my m8 more, I've also seen that the calls and anything voice related are also down and the phone freezes up quite a bit, plenty of FC's.

KeltischDeutscher said:
Haven't been able to flash any fixes. After using my m8 more, I've also seen that the calls and anything voice related are also down and the phone freezes up quite a bit, plenty of FC's.
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Install teamviewer and pm me the id and passcode. Make sure you have stuff backed up off your internal sd card first. We will get this straightened out.

dottat said:
Install teamviewer and pm me the id and passcode. Make sure you have stuff backed up off your internal sd card first. We will get this straightened out.
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So I finally had time and installed team viewer today and when I booted to start backing up everything, the phone didnt automatically restart itself in hboot this time (over the past couple days I've been having barely any FC's or hang ups) so I tried the ruu you posted again and it finished. First time, it hung on the Verizon logo after boot, I ruu'd again and it fully booted, when the android app optimizing was finished, it gave me the acore force close, did a factory reset and everything (autorotation, music, power button, etc) is back to Verizon stock and working with no force closes/problems so far. Thanks for your files/help, dottat :good: