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[Q] Restore Inspire from computer?

Hi,
My Inspire is now stuck in a cm7 bootloop after I messed up flasing cm7 to it, and I can't boot into recovery now. I take out the battery and restart it with power + vol- down, but it just loads back into the bootloop and there is no way for me to access any recoveries or the main screen. Is there any way I can completely reset my phone from my computer? It seems like that is my last resort now, so if that is possible I would be completely willing to start over from the beginning with rooting and flashing. Any help is appreciated.
Also, my volume rocker has not been working for the past few hours, and I have no idea if it was broken originally (I doubt that) or if it was broken after a bad root or something. This is the main reason I need to reset it from my computer.
Also, my phone is not being recognized by my computer when I plug it in. The more I think about it the more I realize that I'm probably screwed, so any advice to the contrary would make me love you forever.

try with the power cord attached, holding the volume up,power on until the red led starts flashing, then remove the battery put the battery back in, press the power button. for me this got it into recovery. good luck

Thanks for the help, but it didn't work. At this point I'm just looking for a way to reset it from my computer and start completely over. I don't care about any data or apps I had on there, and I don't even care about the root I had. If anyone knows ANY way to reset my phone back to factory settings (or if AT&T does this) please tell me.

If you vant get your computer to recognize your phone then you cant restore.
Some att stores can do it, but remember you have voided your warranty.
What recovery version are you using? If its an older version then you can plug the phone in while it is off, and it will boot into recovery.
How long have pulled the battery for?
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use the hack kit
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guess this wouldn't work then?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=952224

Recovery is volume DOWN plus power for 5 seconds, bootloader its volume up plus power...
Try putting CM7 or any other ROM on your SD card via your computer, using a card reader. Then boot into recovery (volume down plus power), wipe data/cache/Davlik, then install from zip. That should get you up and running.
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Desire S Stuck on startup and can't Hard-reset

Hi, i've got a big problem...
After a system crash i pull-out the battery and then pull-in to reset the device.
after that now when i turn on the telephone it remain stucked on the white screen with htc logo. tryed to factory reset but remain stucked after i press on it.
my htc has original rom. no modification. what can i do? i don't really want to spend 3 weeksfor htc assistance.
Thanks

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Have i to flash a stock rom? how can i do without remove warranty? in the case it does'nt work i have to take it to htc center

You probobly fried your EMMC chip when you removed your battery.
it would be best to return it in for repair.

I think you may have same problem with me before. No choice but to bring it to repair.
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It was s-off before? Can you boot 2 recovery?

It's unlikely your chip is fried. This happened to my phone. You need to get into recovery - restart holding volume down button - and reflash a ROM, any one should do. The phone should reboot from there.
Edit: thus assumes you have a ROM stored on your phone, and you have Clockwork recovery or similar. If not, you can use adb to push a ROM to your card and reflash that. Adb comes with Android Developer Kit. Search!
Peace.
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chris5s said:
It's unlikely your chip is fried. This happened to my phone. You need to get into recovery - restart holding volume down button - and reflash a ROM, any one should do. The phone should reboot from there.
Edit: thus assumes you have a ROM stored on your phone, and you have Clockwork recovery or similar. If not, you can use adb to push a ROM to your card and reflash that. Adb comes with Android Developer Kit. Search!
Peace.
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Same problem as topic poster, i,ve been messing a lot with custom roms on win 6.5 phones, but I havn´t done anything fancy on my Desire S , as to rooting or custom roms. (work phone!) Now I´m just curious as how I get a recovery going, when the PC doesent recognice the device when USB connected.
The eng-off file (mine is ON) with the .bat file cant connect to phone, and maybe im better off sending it to repair, but my pride wants me to solve it myself.
-Damn phone just went AWOL last night after an marked Angry Birds update, rebooted it a couple of times, because of a lot of process errors, and then all dead. (white HTC screen on -until morning)
Have the latest FOTA (DK, Nordic)
ROM: SAGA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
Hboot: 0,98.0002
Radio: 3805.06.02.03_M
Are there any ninja tricks or is it just a "bite down", send in?
/Psudo

psudo said:
Same problem as topic poster ....
Are there any ninja tricks or is it just a "bite down", send in?
/Psudo
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Maybe best sending it in if that's a viable option.
You say it's not rooted? With stock ROM? If there is a ROM on the sdcard that you can boot then try that - power + volume up + volume down will reboot the phone, try pressing volume down as it reboots to get into recovery.
If you can't (by pressing volume down) then power off and restart (holding volume down). I had to do a battery pull to power off - if you do this while the phone is off as it reboots, and leave it out for 30 secs you should avoid any danger of bricking the phone (which has happened with some people when removing battery while phone is in this state).
Good luck!
Peace

chris5s said:
Maybe best sending it in if that's a viable option.
You say it's not rooted? With stock ROM? If there is a ROM on the sdcard that you can boot then try that - power + volume up + volume down will reboot the phone, try pressing volume down as it reboots to get into recovery.
If you can't (by pressing volume down) then power off and restart (holding volume down). I had to do a battery pull to power off - if you do this while the phone is off as it reboots, and leave it out for 30 secs you should avoid any danger of bricking the phone (which has happened with some people when removing battery while phone is in this state).
Good luck!
Peace
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"ROM on SDcard": what format would that be in? RUU.exe or?
I can get into recovery menu (HBOOT) but chosing recovery option results in "a green recycle icon with an arrow on black background" screen, a few seconds then it virbrates 6-8 times, and then fades to black, so to speak!
Factory reset option: Locks the HBOOT screen and nothing but a battery pull, will change that.
I MAY have pulled the battery and not left it out for the 30 sec bricking danger senario, that I wasn´t aware of, until resently.
So the diag. is that is probably bricked!
Thanks for the reply
/Psudo

Rom on sdcard would have to be *.zip to be flashable. If you're unrooted + stock then you won't have Clockwork recovery or similar.
Tough that factory reset doesn't give any joy. These devices.....
Looking like masonry then, unless someone else can help.
Peace
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surprisingly i got the same issue yesterday after i installed proxuser's official htc rom. Everything started fine went through setup so i assume it's not because of the rom because i don't think the phone would've started up in the first place. Anyway i am about to try and install some different roms and have also copied a backup over from my other desire s.
Will let you guys know if it worked.

[Q] bricked HTC Hero 200 please help

I got a used HTC Hero 200 yesterday, and it only took about 1 hour for me to brick it.
I ran "Universal Androot" to get superuser permissions, then I overwrite the files "boot.mp3" and "hero_animation.gif" (I think they were somewhere like /system/media/bootanimation) in a failed attempt to change the boot animation. After resetting, the screen just displays the HTC logo for about 30 seconds then goes blank... so Im guessing my boot animation screwed it up.
When I boot to recovery mode (with the triangle and "!") using PWR + HOME buttons, I can see the option "Wipe data/factory reset [Alt + W]" and I can highlight this option with the trackball, but I CAN NOT click on it. Also, the phone has no keyboard, so I can not press [Alt + W].
When I boot into fastboot (with the skateboarding androids) using PWR + VOLUME DOWN buttons, I plug in USB and the command "fastboot devices" finds my phone (but "adb devices" cant find it).
Is there a way to get this phone working again?
Im new to Android, and Im easily confused. So if anyone can help me through this, Id appreciate it. thanks.

You're more likley to get a better responce in the Hero section however, I'm like 90% sure you will be able to fix, And technically not bricked
But, perhaps an RUU from HTC could help to fix

THANK YOU MAX!!!! that was all I needed. I downloaded the RUU from the phone's old service provider (cellcom) and just executed it as an administrator whilst in fastboot usb mode. everything works great now, and Ive even got a newer version of Android... except it reinstalled that same lousy boot animation...

Anytime dude Glad you got it working again!

Chacha unresponsive

Hi,
I'm currently recovering Chacha for my friend. Strangely this is what happened:
1.) Very hard to power on, needs a lucky chance (press vol dn+pwr, insert batt, insert usb charger)
2.) Stuck at splashscreen
3.) No lights come up when charging
4.) Can't get into recovery, but can get into bootloader (hboot and fastboot)
5.) Can't use touchscreen, it's dead
He said he haven't do any trick (Rooting, flashing ROMS, RUUs) to his own phone, "it is working perfectly at school and when i went home touchscreen's dead, but still can boot but when charging no lights" and when Chacha came to me it is dead, can't boot.
So, how to recover (not unbrick) this thing? I tried CLEAR STORAGE from hboot, no luck. RUU app crashed too. :crying:

LOOK HERE IF YOU ARE GOOD WITH PHONES ! Can You fix MINE ?

FIRST OFF I AM TYPING THIS FROM A ANDROID DEVICE SO IT WONT BE AS PRETTY AS IT COULD BE
Inspire 4G
So let me give you guys the breakdown
In a trade for another phone I took in a Inspire 4G and in getting it I was told the phone wouldn't eVen go to the main screen
All that happens even when I do a hard reset by going into the menu by holding power and volume down
Can u help me ?
Basically it will go to htc then completely fade.
I believe what it is is I need to flash the phone and. . Do something
Ha I'm new to this
Please help

URBANDISCIPLE said:
FIRST OFF I AM TYPING THIS FROM A ANDROID DEVICE SO IT WONT BE AS PRETTY AS IT COULD BE
Inspire 4G
So let me give you guys the breakdown
In a trade for another phone I took in a Inspire 4G and in getting it I was told the phone wouldn't eVen go to the main screen
All that happens even when I do a hard reset by going into the menu by holding power and volume down
Can u help me ?
Basically it will go to htc then completely fade.
I believe what it is is I need to flash the phone and. . Do something
Ha I'm new to this
Please help
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It seems that the phone was not running the stock rom and doing a factory reset erases all the data. Can you boot in hboot (power + volume down)? Then if are able paste the first two line at the top left of that screen (white with 3 androids at the bottom)

glevitan said:
It seems that the phone was not running the stock rom and doing a factory reset erases all the data. Can you boot in hboot (power + volume down)? Then if are able paste the first two line at the top left of that screen (white with 3 androids at the bottom)
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Basically this is all I can see
And after I do anything for selections it just fades black

URBANDISCIPLE said:
FIRST OFF I AM TYPING THIS FROM A ANDROID DEVICE SO IT WONT BE AS PRETTY AS IT COULD BE
Inspire 4G
So let me give you guys the breakdown
In a trade for another phone I took in a Inspire 4G and in getting it I was told the phone wouldn't eVen go to the main screen
All that happens even when I do a hard reset by going into the menu by holding power and volume down
Can u help me ?
Basically it will go to htc then completely fade.
I believe what it is is I need to flash the phone and. . Do something
Ha I'm new to this
Please help
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Try adb from blacked out screen. Adb reboot recovery or adb reboot bootloader.
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URBANDISCIPLE said:
Basically this is all I can see
And after I do anything for selections it just fades black
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Are you s off or s on. Also are you able to select fastboot and enter fastboot screen or does it just fade to black from that option too. Have you tried selecting recovery option as well?
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