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I am unable to see anything on my sensation. It charges and is able to connect to ADB but im unable to perform any task. I can't see fastboot or bootloader. Any ideas? Its not water damaged either

I assume you've tried rebooting?

Yes I have tried rebooting the device
mattjorgs said:
I assume you've tried rebooting?
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If you pull the battery can you press vol - + power and get to the boot/hboot?
If so can you get to recovery?
If you can then you can flash a new rom

[Q] Sensation won't boot :( Please help..Anyone???

Hi all,
I recently bought a used sensation from ebay and now it won't boot. I allready read a couple posts in this forum. Did the adb reboot and adb reboot bootloader and didn't work. So I think it's not rooted. What exactley happens is, the will not boot. It stays blank and the led lights too, but when plug it into my laptop\pc, it gets reconized and able to install the adb drivers to it. The led lights are then lit and pressing the power button kills it for a second and then restarts. Getting the same connection to my pc but no boot. I then installed adb tools trying to reboot the bootloader, but when i type in adb devices, I get nothing listed. So when i tried adb reboot i get error: no device found
Just moments ago i installed a new jdk and currently installing android sdk to make a proper connection with the device.
Any advice?? Pff

I think it phone has been completely wiped so there is no any OA Rom installed. Try booting in to recovery then see if its rooted then install any custom Rom. The most safest way is install RUU from ur PC which restore it to original.
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still no luck
I've read the post noob guide (adb,sdk..), done every step, still it won't see my phone

Run RUU from PC because it phone is recognized by pc that's best way.
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Just check which recovery have u got if clockwork then flash any custom Rom again. U need 2 use card reader to transfer rom
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can I use one of these stock ruu's?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1228648

Ok so from what I understand is that even without being in bootloader or recovery. Just by being connected, I can install stock ruu to my phone and then everything else? I'm downloading one of the ruu now

Ok from what i read, I cannot get into the bootloader or recovery cause it's maybe hard bricked. Is there a fix for this?

jasminthoria said:
Run RUU from PC because it phone is recognized by pc that's best way.
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Ok sorry for the late reply. Due to my "lovely" bandwidth, I finally found the stock rom for my device, version tmous 1.45.531.1. I ran the setup and everything went fine, until i got an error error 1105 or something that it's not compatible with my device. How can that be if it'.s not from another vendor. It says t mobile on top lol. Does this mean that i'm screwed?

Still haven't got it to boot. Only led is lit when plugged in charger or pc. The screen stays blank and unplugged it does nothing. Only if there was a way to get it in fastboot or just to see life in my device

Hold volume down plus power button. You will be in fastbboot .

first press and hold the vol - button then just press the power button without holding it, but keep holding the vol -
wait 10 seconds
release the vol - button
press power button again
now you should be in fastboot
on your computer in command prompt type fastboot devices and see if your computer recognizes the phone

[Q] I accidentally used a fastboot "boot" command to flash a recovery img

I'm pretty sure I'm bricked now. Black ATT One X. Flashing updated twrp so I can flash 4.4 roms, but wasn't paying attention and typed boot instead of recovery out of habit. Now my phone only goes to htc splash screen and turns off again. I can't get into recovery or fast boot. I'm bricked aren't I?

Rcox100 said:
I'm pretty sure I'm bricked now. Black ATT One X. Flashing updated twrp so I can flash 4.4 roms, but wasn't paying attention and typed boot instead of recovery out of habit. Now my phone only goes to htc splash screen and turns off again. I can't get into recovery or fast boot. I'm bricked aren't I?
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I'm assuming you are holding down the power and volume down keys at the same time to get into the bootloader?
Sometimes you have to hold both buttons (power button and volume down button) for 10 to 15 seconds. I've had to do this multiple times in a row to get out of a bootloop in the past.
If the phone attempts to boot and you can see the splash screen then you are not bricked yet. Bricked means nothing happens when you push the power button.

Madcat8686 said:
I'm assuming you are holding down the power and volume down key at the same time to get into the bootloader?
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Yes. Doing that doesn't do anything until I take my fingers off, then it tries to do a normal boot and powers off again.

What command did you type exactly?
There is a fastboot command for just booting a recovery.IMG (fastboot boot recovery.img), but it wouldn't cause the problem you are having. It would just boot you into that recovery without actually flashing it.
Edit: what are your phone specs?... i.e. carrier, hboot version, etc...
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Black!Jack said:
What command did you type exactly?
There is a fastboot command for just booting a recovery.IMG (fastboot boot recovery.img), but it wouldn't cause the problem you are having. It would just boot you into that recovery without actually flashing it.
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yeah I typed "fastboot flash boot recovery.img" on accident, pretty sure I ****ed up

Rcox100 said:
yeah I typed "fastboot flash boot recovery.img" on accident, pretty sure I ****ed up
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Sounds like you flashed recovery to your boot partition.
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Black!Jack said:
Sounds like you flashed recovery to your boot partition.
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Yeah that's what I was assuming, and I'm also assuming this kills the phone.

Black!Jack said:
Sounds like you flashed recovery to your boot partition.
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Yes indeed. I was just about to type that most call it a "soft brick". I know how to fix this on other devices but not this one yet. I'm looking around for HTC specific info

Rcox100 said:
Yeah that's what I was assuming, and I'm also assuming this kills the phone.
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Can you connect to your phone via fastboot at all?
Edit: have you tried a hard reset... Holding the power button down until the lights flash like 12 times?
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Black!Jack said:
Can you connect to your phone via fastboot at all?
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No, cant get to bootloader or fast boot, and computer can't see it when its off

Madcat8686 said:
Yes indeed. I was just about to type that most call it a "soft brick". I know how to fix this on other devices but not this one yet. I'm looking around for HTC specific info
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Well its effectively a hard brick then if theres no info on solving it I guess

Rcox100 said:
No, cant get to bootloader or fast boot, and computer can't see it when its off
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When its at the splash screen does it recognize adb or fast boot?
Try adb devices and fastboot devices
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Try holding the volume down button while the phone is booting, keep holding it and when it begins the loop again hopefully it'll get you to bootloader.
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Black!Jack said:
When its at the splash screen does it recognize adb or fast boot?
Try adb devices and fastboot devices
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Its too fast for that
btw if a mod sees this can they approve me or something so I can reply more often

Rcox100 said:
Its too fast for that
btw if a mod sees this can they approve me or something so I can reply more often
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Did you try what timmaaa suggested?
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If what I suggested doesn't work and there's absolutely no way to get to the bootloader or get fastboot to work, you're kinda screwed. You'll probably have to try getting a jtag repair done, I think that'll be your only option.
I doubt a moderator is going to bump up a new user's status just because you need to reply more often, it doesn't really work like that.
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timmaaa said:
Try holding the volume down button while the phone is booting, keep holding it and when it begins the loop again hopefully it'll get you to bootloader.
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Ok i just pushed down the power and then quickly pushed down volume without pressing power and I'm in bootloader now! My device is recognized also.

Rcox100 said:
Ok i just pushed down the power and then quickly pushed down volume without pressing power and I'm in bootloader now! My device is recognized also.
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Good! You need to flash a valid boot.img to your boot partition. Absolutely do not reboot the phone until you've done that.
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Rcox100 said:
Ok i just pushed down the power and then quickly pushed down volume without pressing power and I'm in bootloader now! My device is recognized also.
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That is good news...looks like you are back on the road, congrats!

timmaaa said:
If what I suggested doesn't work and there's absolutely no way to get to the bootloader or get fastboot to work, you're kinda screwed. You'll probably have to try getting a jtag repair done, I think that'll be your only option.
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Agreed. Unless you can get fastboot access back to overwrite your boot partition, your in a pickle. In any event, hopefully this will serve as a lesson to you concerning the detail and care you need to show when it comes to altering your phones.
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Can't boot phone

Hey guys, I can't get my phone to boot up after flashing something that it didn't like and I can't get back into recovery because my volume buttons don't work. Anyone know of a way I could get it into recovery another way. When I turn the phone on it only boots to the warning about my bootloader being unlocked and that's it! Help, please!!
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jakereeves31 said:
Hey guys, I can't get my phone to boot up after flashing something that it didn't like and I can't get back into recovery because my volume buttons don't work. Anyone know of a way I could get it into recovery another way. When I turn the phone on it only boots to the warning about my bootloader being unlocked and that's it! Help, please!!
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Is it recognized by adb or fastboot?
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Well, whenever I tried adb I typed "adb devices" and nothing came up and then I tried the command to reboot recovery and it said there was no device, so I guess it is not recognized by adb :/
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jakereeves31 said:
Well, whenever I tried adb I typed "adb devices" and nothing came up and then I tried the command to reboot recovery and it said there was no device, so I guess it is not recognized by adb :/
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How bout
fastboot reboot recovery
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What'd you flash?
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the issue here is that the buttons are not working, try pressing power and volume with something like a toothpick to get through fastboot or recovery

Caseyk621 said:
How bout
fastboot reboot recovery
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It just says "waiting for device"
akellar said:
What'd you flash?
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It was some mod thing called Malivebooster.
Jaocagomez said:
the issue here is that the buttons are not working, try pressing power and volume with something like a toothpick to get through fastboot or recovery
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I don't think that's gonna work. I've already taken the whole phone apart and I got to where the buttons push and there were like no buttons there. I figured the little buttons should look like the power button, but they didn't.
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Guys, it just booted all the way up...it's been like this for the past week and I kept rebooting it and stuff and I rebooted it right now and it booted up for some reason!
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[q] [help]nexus 5 stuck. 5.0.1. Stuck while booting.

Hey there,
I am Nexus 5 user. Recently I updated my phone to Lolipop 5.0.1. At first the phone worked fine. A few days later the background apps started restarting. That was still manageable. A week back the phone started restarting. So I read about in a Google Forum, it advised to delete partition cache from the 'Recovery Mode' . I did so. It worked and phone stopped restarting. Now a week later the problem started again. So I wiped partition cache. But during the process the battery ran out and the phone switched off.
Now when I try to switch on the phone, the Google logo appears and then the phone freezes in the boot animation.
The phone boots into bootloader(power button + volume up + volume down), but when I try to get into Recovery Mode, an android is displayed with a red exclamation mark.
The bootloader is locked, so I can't flash the original image.
Need help to get the phone back.
Additional info about the device:
a. Nexus 5 32GB
b. Lolipop 5.0.1
c. Locked bootloader/ unrooted
d. Still in warranty.

The dead android is recovery mode. When you see that press and hold the power button then press and release vol up. Try a factory reset in there. Note, it will wipe your device so backup first if you can.
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jd1639 said:
The dead android is recovery mode. When you see that press and hold the power button then press and release vol up. Try a factory reset in there. Note, it will wipe your device so backup first if you can.
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This isnt't working. Holding the power button and volume button together does nothing. Holding only the power button puts the phone back in boot loop. Any other suggestions?

ShobhitJethani said:
This isnt't working. Holding the power button and volume button together does nothing. Holding only the power button puts the phone back in boot loop. Any other suggestions?
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I think you're going to have to unlock the bootloader and flash the factory image. If that doesn't work then you have a hardware issue.
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jd1639 said:
I think you're going to have to unlock the bootloader and flash the factory image. If that doesn't work then you have a hardware issue.
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The phone isn't turning on. Any way I can unlock the bootloader without turning it on? Also, USB debugging is also turned off.

ShobhitJethani said:
The phone isn't turning on. Any way I can unlock the bootloader without turning it on? Also, USB debugging is also turned off.
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If it doesn't turn on there is nothing you can do. You need to be able to boot into the bootloader. Usb debugging doesn't matter. You don't need it on to run fastboot commands.
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jd1639 said:
If it doesn't turn on there is nothing you can do. You need to be able to boot into the bootloader. Usb debugging doesn't matter. You don't need it on to run fastboot commands.
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The phone turns on. But goes into boot loop. I can boot into bootloader. But the bootloader is locked. How do I unlock it?

ShobhitJethani said:
The phone turns on. But goes into boot loop. I can boot into bootloader. But the bootloader is locked. How do I unlock it?
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Google 15 second adb install xda. That'll setup adb and fastboot on your pc. Then boot the device into the bootloader, open a command window on your pc and then with your device connected via usb cable type into the command window
fastboot oem unlock
See this, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47156064
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jd1639 said:
Google 15 second adb install xda. That'll setup adb and fastboot on your pc. Then boot the device into the bootloader, open a command window on your pc and then with your device connected via usb cable type into the command window
fastboot oem unlock
See this, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47156064
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Thanks for the link, but the link says to unlock the bootloader, for that I need the phone to get pass the boot animation. Which is the main problem.

ShobhitJethani said:
Thanks for the link, but the link says to unlock the bootloader, for that I need the phone to get pass the boot animation. Which is the main problem.
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Will the device boot into the bootloader, press and hold power and vol down? If it does you can unlock it and flash the factory image
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jd1639 said:
Will the device boot into the bootloader, press and hold power and vol down? If it does you can unlock it and flash the factory image
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The device does boot into bootloader. But when I get into recovery mode, an android with red triangle and exclamation is displayed. How do I remove it and get back into the normal recovery mode?

ShobhitJethani said:
The device does boot into bootloader. But when I get into recovery mode, an android with red triangle and exclamation is displayed. How do I remove it and get back into the normal recovery mode?
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You don't need to get into recovery. Boot into the bootloader, unlock it, then flash the factory image. All that is done in the bootloader, not recovery.
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There is little confusion here @ShobhitJethani. Let's make things clear.
Bootloader mode (or fastboot mode) is when you press and hold volume_down+power keys.
Recovery mode is when you select the recovery mode with the power key in the bootloader mode.
To enable the menu options in stock recovery you have to PRESS and HOLD the POWER key and while you do that you just PRESS the VOLUME_UP key and then you RELEASE the VOLUME_UP key and then you can RELEASE the POWER key too.
What you did is starting to press and hold volume _up and power keys at the same time which is wrong.
Also, to unlock bootloader you just have to put the phone to bootloader mode. You dont have to do anything special before that.
I hope you now understand.

I somehow managed to remove the tamper flag and then gave it to the service center. They flashed KitKat on the phone. And now I also have updated my phone to 5.1 OTA. Thanks to everyone for trying to help me.