Database Info

HELP!i'm bricked

Hello, i've dome something stupid, i flashed ext3 system.img into my(2818 rockchip) Ramos T11AD, and now i only see that system cant find mkswap, busybox, shell, etc.
everything i can do - is boot it up, and see ind adb on my pc NOTHING WORKS

You are far from a brick. Did you make a backup? Can you get into recovery? Do you have an engineering bootloader? Did you try to load a backup? What phone do you have?

lowandbehold said:
You are far from a brick. Did you make a backup? Can you get into recovery? Do you have an engineering bootloader? Did you try to load a backup? What phone do you have?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm soo deep in brick, i cant even tell.
I have Ramos T11AD. i have a backed up firmwarem and i cant load it, and i think i can get into recovery. =((
PLZ HELP

HELP PLZ! i must fix this

Doesn't sound good dude. You might want to get a new phone :\

Crazy991 said:
Doesn't sound good dude. You might want to get a new phone :\
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
meh, there must be a way

if you can get into recovery, have you tried a full data/cache wipe?

he said he can't get into recovery.
you should try to manually flash a recovery mod on your phone through ADB shell

Now i can get into recovery, but i got cant open chache/recovery/command error
ANDD!!!!!Now i can login into ADB shell how to reflash from .img file?

Im not exactly sure, but is there any at-boot options besides recovery (I.e. hold volume up or volume down at boot and see options (im coming from Atrix which has these))? If so, try to get into an option called fastboot. Its a protocall which allows you to use the fastboot program from the Android SDK on your computer to flash new images. There are precompiled versions from HTC (search google) that allow you to connect your device using the USB cable and flash new images. As I haven't even ever seen the device, I can't help u a whole lot, sorry.
Sent from my screaming Atrix *4G* using the XDA App

OMFGNuts said:
Now i can get into recovery, but i got cant open chache/recovery/command error
ANDD!!!!!Now i can login into ADB shell how to reflash from .img file?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
what recovery are you using?

Tylerjd said:
Im not exactly sure, but is there any at-boot options besides recovery (I.e. hold volume up or volume down at boot and see options (im coming from Atrix which has these))? If so, try to get into an option called fastboot. Its a protocall which allows you to use the fastboot program from the Android SDK on your computer to flash new images. There are precompiled versions from HTC (search google) that allow you to connect your device using the USB cable and flash new images. As I haven't even ever seen the device, I can't help u a whole lot, sorry.
Sent from my screaming Atrix *4G* using the XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I dont even HAVE any buttons :3 and why version for htc should work on my device?

htc hd2 not working
help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
last week i managed to put android onto my htchd2 ! all was going well untill
saturday when i put it to charge . after it finished charging i noticed it had frozen
me being me desided to take the battery out and put it back in thats when it happened i can turn it back on but all i get is a black screen with the android logo and htc on > can any body help

I was already telling, that I DONT HAVE ANY BUTTONS other than power button

Is my phone dead?

Hi All
Hoping someone can tell me if I've completely killed my phone. It was working absolutely fine with no problems whatsoever until earlier today when it froze. Without looking around at what to do I just held down Vol + & Vol - & power. This restarted the phone and it went through the T-Mobile logo and then just sat there. I then took out the battery, put it back in and held vol - and hit power, got into the clockworkmod menu and used the recovery option to wipe then restore an earlier backup, this all seemed to go fine and I used the power off option to restart the phone.
Nowwww though it just vibrates 7 times and stops, if I then pull the battery and replace it and hit power it vibrates 7 times again and then nothing unless I pull the battery again.
Am I screwed?
The phone is S-Off and had clockworkmod installed. Has the clockworkmod boot loader thingy some how been damaged? Anything I can do?
Appreciate any advice. Thanks

can you get into recovery? if so try wiping everything and then doing a fresh install of something
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

dont keep pulling the battery if you dont already have emmc failure you will soon if you continue to pull the battery!

Yea I didn't realise pulling the battery was that bad. I haven't done it since reading this forum. But no I can't get in to recovery any more since that time I wiped everything and restored a backup. Since then it just vibrates 7 times when I push the power button and that's all.

can it connext to adb? if so, id try flashing an ruu via fastboot. that will set everything back to stock. then you can reroot and flash a rom, and id get rid of that backup
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

Is there a guide for adb anywhere? I haven't used it before, but I've tried plugging the phone in by USB and Windows doesn't say new hardware found so I assume that's a bad sign?

rlzzzz said:
Is there a guide for adb anywhere? I haven't used it before, but I've tried plugging the phone in by USB and Windows doesn't say new hardware found so I assume that's a bad sign?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
theres tons of guides but if you give me a few minutes ill upload a auto installer for you, so then you just have to add the path in
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

I looked for adb guides and they all seem to show how to install the drivers etc but my phone doesn't even get detected as a new device in Windows so I assume it's not going to show up?
I mean it looks completely dead right now, won't turn on or even vibrate. Unless I was to pull the battery again I think it would probably then vibrate 7 times when I push the power button for the first time and that would be it again.
Do you think the clockworkmod boot loader got overwritten some how when I did the restore?

rlzzzz said:
I looked for adb guides and they all seem to show how to install the drivers etc but my phone doesn't even get detected as a new device in Windows so I assume it's not going to show up?
I mean it looks completely dead right now, won't turn on or even vibrate. Unless I was to pull the battery again I think it would probably then vibrate 7 times when I push the power button for the first time and that would be it again.
Do you think the clockworkmod boot loader got overwritten some how when I did the restore?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
it could of, and its worth a shot, it might be recognized. just get adb working, and install the drivers. plug the phone into your computer, and wait a minute or 2 and the screen should turn on but be black. then just boot into the bootloader and flash the ruu via fastboot
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

So I installed Java JDK, then Android SDK, then downloaded the HTC adb drivers but it says to install the drivers plug in your phone and wait for Windows to detect it... which is as far as I can go because Windows doesn't detect the phone.
I don't even seem to be able to reset the phone by holding Vol + & Vol - & power at the same time. It's not looking good.

In fact you say about the phone going to a black screen, it did do this after I initially restored the image. But it was just after that that I pulled the battery and now it doesn't do that anymore.
I assume basically what has happened then is first some thing froze and corrupted my normal install, so to fix this I tried the restore and the restore image somehow overwrote clockworkmod but at this point the phone was still recoverable via adb? but then I pulled the battery and now it's definately dead?
Seems like an unfortunate string of events but at least I know now to avoid pulling the battery next time! Thanks for all your help stumpyz9 and djisgod, I don't suppose you know why pulling the battery can so easily kill the phone?
Btw if anyone would like to jump in and make my day by saying nooo everything is fine here is a quick fix please feel free

my only guess of why pulling the battery killed it is when you where restoring it and then pulled the battery, it was restoring something very essential to even turning the phone on. i dont know why windows wouldnt detect your phone, it has derected my DHD even in the worst scenarios. and were you saying the drivers wanted you to hook the phone to the computer? if so dont and try to continue installation, because if you can get it hooked up to your computer and have adb recognize it, then tyere is a very good chance you can recover it. if not, then im sorry to say you have yourself a very pretty paper weight. if it is a paper weight, id say maybe check to see if a dev could use it or basically part it out on ebay and sell the lcd, digitizer, housing, camera and you can probably make some of your money back.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

The ADB HTC drivers I downloaded are not an installer file, you need to plug in the phone so Windows will recognise a new device and ask you to select the location of the drivers but I can't because it doesn't detect the phone being plugged in at all.
I've also been reading around a bit more and found a thread about a fried eMMC chip. I was actually getting the same errors they mention in that thread when I did the restore from clockworkmod.
"E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log" etc etc

dont use that, install htc sync, then plug the phone in and tell me if that works
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

Yea I just gave that a go after reading someones adb guide and even with HTC sync installed when I run "adb devices" it lists nothing.
It's strange I thought once I had clockworkmod installed nothing could go wrong because I would always be able to restore from an old backup. I always assumed that clockworkmod would be sat on the boot partition and never touched even when restoring a backup. I can't understand how it went so wrong lol.
Although right now the phone seems so far gone maybe I could get away with a warranty repair as they won't be able to tell it was S-OFF.

yah if all of the chip has been fried and it wont power on, i think that would be your best bet, seeing as they probably wouldnt be able to tell.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

Ok well thanks for your patience I appreciate your help.

rlzzzz said:
Ok well thanks for your patience I appreciate your help.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
no prob, alwsys like to help out when i can
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

Rooting Stock 4.1.2 with broken power button

Hi all!
I have a nexus s which suffered from a power button failure. Took it to Samsung London Angel Islington and they didn't do anything! Charged me to get my phone back, its a long story. I would like to install CWM - the phone is fastboot unlocked and has stock 4.1.2 - I flashed the latest factory image before sending it back to samsung. I have tried several different methods of root.
All the methods I have tried require USB connectivity via fastboot. I try to fastboot flash the CWM image but the phone won't connect through USB. I think the problem is due to the faulty power button. ADB will connect when the phone is powered on.
Any other alternative methods that I haven't tried?
Any help is much appreciated. Thank you

Well since it is fastboot unlocked (I hope you mean boot loader unlocked) you can probably install superuser and then ROM Manager and through ROM manager CWM.
Mind you because you have a broken power button you'll need to buy the CWM touch or else CWM isn't going to do you any good( the non touch version I mean)
Hope I helped
Sent from my Nexus S using xda app-developers app

kkricardokaka95 said:
Well since it is fastboot unlocked (I hope you mean boot loader unlocked) you can probably install superuser and then ROM Manager and through ROM manager CWM.
Mind you because you have a broken power button you'll need to buy the CWM touch or else CWM isn't going to do you any good( the non touch version I mean)
Hope I helped
Sent from my Nexus S using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Wrong and wrong.
He has fastboot unlocked, but he isn't rooted. He won't be able to install superuser then ROM Manager.
He doesn't need CWM touch either because his power button is broken, because you can scroll down with the menu softkey and up with the home key, and select with the search key on the non touch version (also works in the touch version). No need to spend on ROM manager, they also offer the touch version for free if you flash it manually.
Although it is fastboot unlocked, without a way to fastboot a custom recovery, you're SOL. Some people had luck unsticking their broken power button by blowing compressed air, others by taking the phone apart and cleaning it. If you get it to a semi reliable state, or at least working once so you can boot to fastboot you'll be able to flash a recovery.

Hmm... Without the USB he can't even fastboot.
The USB problem. Even I have it. Try to keep the USB connected for like 5-10 minutes. Usually detects after that. I don't know what's the problem. I don't care enough to find out.
Sent from my Nexus S using xda app-developers app

ATT One X accidental wipe memory with TWRP, stuck on HTC loading screen.

Moved accidently posted in HTC One X
Hello everyone. First of all I am new to the XDA forums. Second of all I am using or was a AT&T HTC One x. I tried to get CM10 on my phone at first and then Viper XL both fails. Go TWRP on successfully through Goo.Manager. Now I have accidently deleted and wiped the system delvik cache and everything. My phone won't even shut off ATM. I used as well Hasoon's All in one tool kit. I just want my phone back and working I don't even care what ROM or even if I have to go back to original software. I just need my phone back. Just please someone post instructions or a YouTube visual. Right now I have purchased a AT&T Z431 GoPhone for temporary use. Best part is I cant even seem to get the micro sim from the one x to fit in it.
Even better....
My parents would kill me if they found out but I am daring. And 18 and have a job and use my own money so I don't care. (Sarcasm.)
Just help
Sincerely: Friendly neighborhood superhero Techinstein.

Hold power and volume down until the phone turns off, when the screen goes back, release power. But continue holding volume down. This will take you into the bootloader. From there you can relock your bootloader and ruu, or you can go into recovery and flash a new rom

absolutelygrim said:
Hold power and volume down until the phone turns off, when the screen goes back, release power. But continue holding volume down. This will take you into the bootloader. From there you can relock your bootloader and ruu, or you can go into recovery and flash a new rom
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Once I get into bootloader mode if I ever do can you give me step by step instructions if I want to flash into Viper XL?
By the way I was trying to get my htc one x micro sim card into a regular sim card slot and touched the recievers on accident and probally bent the plastic part not the metal on accident am I still fine? Thanks for all your help so far.:good:

Techinstein said:
Once I get into bootloader mode if I ever do can you give me step by step instructions if I want to flash into Viper XL?
By the way I was trying to get my htc one x micro sim card into a regular sim card slot and touched the recievers on accident and probally bent the plastic part not the metal on accident am I still fine? Thanks for all your help so far.:good:
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok I got into bootloader mode I just need the instructions as mentioned before for Viper XL flashing with windows 8 please.

1. Boot into bootloader mode
2. Navigate to recovery option , then press power button to access recovery mode ( I assume you have twrp as you said above )
3. In twrp recovery , choose mount => mount USB => connect your phone to your computer
4. Copy viper xl Rom to your phone , when it done , disconnect you phone from your computer , then select unmount option in twrp
5. Wipe cache/ David cache , factory reset ..
6. Install viperxl
P/s :
- if you never unlock your bootloader or installed custom recovery. Then download att ruu 2.20 ( available in development section). Boot phone into bootloader mode, then connect you phone to your computer and run ruu.exe and follow instruction.
- if you know that
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA Premium HD app

tritran18518 said:
1. Boot into bootloader mode
2. Navigate to recovery option , then press power button to access recovery mode ( I assume you have twrp as you said above )
3. In twrp recovery , choose mount => mount USB => connect your phone to your computer
4. Copy viper xl Rom to your phone , when it done , disconnect you phone from your computer , then select unmount option in twrp
5. Wipe cache/ David cache , factory reset ..
6. Install viperxl
P/s :
- if you never unlock your bootloader or installed custom recovery. Then download att ruu 2.20 ( available in development section). Boot phone into bootloader mode, then connect you phone to your computer and run ruu.exe and follow instruction.
- if you know that
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA Premium HD app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I said I think that I don't have TWRP anymore somehow accidently gone and on windows 8 formatted hard drive so it works. Now only have bootloader and no os. But thanks.:good:

I've never ruu a phone to stock but wouldn't that work there's a couple guides for ruuing in dev section

I had to stock ROM RUU ITS 2.20 after reflashing well postlink I found for the RUU AT&T HTC One X later. Then I unlocked bootloader again. After that I downloaded Viper XL 2.4.0 and flashed it and TWRP through recovery.
Sent from my HTC One XL using xda app-developers app

It sounds like you should stop messing with the phone until you read up and gain a basic understanding of what you are doing.
1) You probably just forgot to flash boot.img or factory reset when originally flashing CM10 or ViperXL.
2) Of course wiping System means the phone won't boot. You wiped the operating system
3) Cramming the MicroSIM into a SIM slot, really?
Is it working now? I wouldn't try to insert a broken SIM, you may end up damaging the tray. SIMs are free from AT&T. Damaged SIM tray . . . much more expensive.
They have adapters to fit MicroSIMs into "regular" SIM slots.

redpoint73 said:
It sounds like you should stop messing with the phone until you read up and gain a basic understanding of what you are doing.
1) You probably just forgot to flash boot.img or factory reset when originally flashing CM10 or ViperXL.
2) Of course wiping System means the phone won't boot. You wiped the operating system
3) Cramming the MicroSIM into a SIM slot, really?
Is it working now? I wouldn't try to insert a broken SIM, you may end up damaging the tray. SIMs are free from AT&T. Damaged SIM tray . . . much more expensive.
They have adapters to fit MicroSIMs into "regular" SIM slots.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I had it romed with viper then RUUD it in which I well post link for AT&T One X OTA 2.20. The sim works perfectly fine lol. I don't even need the other back up phone. I am probably going to sell it. After RUUing my phone and relocking it I am going to delete all my android SDK adb files then download clockwork and cyanogenmod. But thanks for the suggestions.
Sent from my AT&T HTC One X using xda premium.
Remember to click thanks if I helped.

I think you forgot to flash the boot.img found in the roms zip file. Do it in windows from fastboot usb. There's a couple quick tools out there. I used the one from onexroot.com

Maybe Techinstein isn't the most accurate username?!

timmaaa said:
Maybe Techinstein isn't the most accurate username?!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
My Idea it is. Because I invented it, I am on every forum and game. I invented it because I thought Einstein - E + Tech = Techinstein. I also get straight As at least in 12th grade. But I haven't learned how to code yet or anything. I do know how to use MAYA and UDK (Unreal Engine.) For game design. I'm good at video games but not hacking things. At least yet but I would like to learn wouldn't you?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium

You guys should read my earlier post I said I fixed it already, anyhow.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium

Techinstein said:
You guys should read my earlier post I said I fixed it already, anyhow.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sorry to hijack this thread, I have the same issue, accidentaly wiped phone, only problem is, no matter how many times I try, I cannot get into recovery by holding down the volume down and power keys. Currently the phone is stuck on the green on white HTC screen.

shivan82 said:
Sorry to hijack this thread, I have the same issue, accidentaly wiped phone, only problem is, no matter how many times I try, I cannot get into recovery by holding down the volume down and power keys. Currently the phone is stuck on the green on white HTC screen.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hold power until the feedback buttons at the bottom blink 5-7 times and the screen goes black. When it goes black, let go of power and press and hold volume down until the bootloader comes up
Sent from my One X using xda app-developers app

exad said:
Hold power until the feedback buttons at the bottom blink 5-7 times and the screen goes black. When it goes black, let go of power and press and hold volume down until the bootloader comes up
Sent from my One X using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I tried that no luck. I have a backup, I just need to get to recovery to restore it.

If that's not working and you're positive you're doing it right you'll have to open up the phone and disconnect the battery.
Sent from my One X using xda app-developers app

ATT One X accidental wipe memory with TWRP, stuck on HTC loading screen. Response.
If anyone has had or is having the problem of being stuck at the Htc booting screen, I want to add in my information about what I did.
Here is what I did:
I pressed the volume down button at the same time while pressing the power button. Boots it into programmer mode.
Than I used volume buttons to highlight recovery. Press power button. Goes into Recovery.
From there I went down to mounts and storage. Press power.
From there I went to MOUNT USB STORAGE. Press power.
Than Unmount. Press power. Now you should connect in your usb cord to computer. Go into your phone drive.
Now go into http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24962323 and download the stock rom drive of your language. English is Arabic version.
Now put freshly downloaded, don't have to compress it, into your phones drive.
Now turn off phone, boot back into recovery mode.
Press install zip from sdcard. Power.Choose zip from sdcard. Pick whatever you installed onto your phone. Let it install.
And than reboot.
There you go. It should boot up HTC logo, "Quietly brilliant" and will put you onto the setup screen and pick your language you want.
I was to pleased when I got this working again.
(New user, Htcuserkassen)

Recovery only..

I have a Oneplus One here and tried to install a rom onto it after wiping everything.
When I plug it in the charger it goes to recovery, when I reboot to bootloader it does the same, after flashing too.
How can I recover it?

Did you install TWRP or CWM ? If so try another rom , if not read up on adb and install custom recovery first and find out if your bl is unlocked , if not start there , theres alot of reading you need to do
Sent from my A0001 using XDA-Developers mobile app

Vintage144 said:
Did you install TWRP or CWM ? If so try another rom , if not read up on adb and install custom recovery first and find out if your bl is unlocked , if not start there , theres alot of reading you need to do
Sent from my A0001 using XDA-Developers mobile app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have TWRP. I had a rom installed so the bootloader is unlocked. All the guides suggest fixing it via fastboot but I cannot access that.. I think the partitions are messed up...

mrgnex said:
I have TWRP. I had a rom installed so the bootloader is unlocked. All the guides suggest fixing it via fastboot but I cannot access that.. I think the partitions are messed up...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hey I think you have same problem as me. It's the volume button. It's stuck at Volume - (down). So every time you start your phone, it think you want to go to Recovery. What I did was, I tap the phone little hard on my hand sideways when I boot it up. That unstucks the volume button.
It works for me but not sure if it is the correct way. Just a suggestion. Don't hold me responsible if it breaks anything else.

viny2cool said:
Hey I think you have same problem as me. It's the volume button. It's stuck at Volume - (down). So every time you start your phone, it think you want to go to Recovery. What I did was, I tap the phone little hard on my hand sideways when I boot it up. That unstucks the volume button.
It works for me but not sure if it is the correct way. Just a suggestion. Don't hold me responsible if it breaks anything else.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I wish it was that easy. I didn't have the back cover on it when I tried this.

Did you have a backup of the previous rom (if one) that would save you the trouble, if not , adb
Sent from my A0001 using XDA-Developers mobile app

Hi, were you able to find a solution for this? I'm getting same issue now. PFA dmesg output http://pastebin.com/dKqm9e0c