yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saranhai:
oh...

sorry.. i thought the chip was just corrupted when it said "failed"...

well then nevermind, this wouldn't work.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3p4145:
Thanks for talking abt this guys..

I understand what you guys are saying.. but quite often the HW itself is not bad but the address locations are corrupt.. Like I mentioned in my initial post... I am not sure what causes the fault.. but Once caused, IF there is a way to just re-write the addresses for these locations so that the driver chip/Controller chip can try to use the addresses provided is what I am trying to see..

This statement is right on the amrk: "eMMC is just a rewritable memory chip, and if the controller of the chip fails, or big chunks of the memory in this chip fail - it's not usable anymore."

now considering this, IF the controller is physical fault (as in fabrication fault, overheated transistors etc).. the nothing more can be done.. BUT if the fault is just in the addressing fail.. this providing the addresses should work wouldn't you think?

If someone has a brick on their desk they can try this.. Nothing really to loose right?

I would never suggest replacing the emmc file of a working chip.. now thats just crazy talk.. well if you have $500 to spare.. sure.. but I was thinking of fixing a broken one...

One more last thing: The only problem with this approach on a dead phone is getting access to the FS AFTER the phone is dead.. any ideas?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saranhai:
using adb you are able to get into the filesystem...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tKoHaXoR:
A failed partition update would mean the emmc file was corrupted??

Or failed partition update means it wasn't able to update partitions because the chip failed to re-initialize??

If the theory is correct, the EMMC file not the chip is actually screwed up and it can be fixed, but if the emmc chip is what failed then it is irrecoverable.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saranhai:
i'm pretty sure it the eMMC's filesystem got corrupted, but of course, i could be very wrong.

that's why we need a bricked MT4G with dead eMMC.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irrelephant:
Has this been posted in the g2 forums? I know they have had some guys lookin into this as well...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saranhai:
should i also post this in the g2 forums?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irrelephant:
I believe there are a few ppl there with the failed emmc that still have their phones...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saranhai:
yes thank you
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TeeJay3800:
Do any other models have this issue, or is it just T-Mobile phones?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irrelephant:
I have heard about 4 or 5 phones have had the bad emmc... Just Google phones with bad emmc and I'm sure there will be a list
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Freek91:
question: would the stock rom/pd image have this so called "good" file imbedded in it?

i ask because my current phone has gotten the cache errors while on rooted non-stock roms such as ice glacier and CM7..i was able to recover from them...but never once saw any issues after flashing completely back to stock...ive also not seen this issue arise after flashing from stock into Virtuous Unity and ive been on VU for almost 2 weeks and ive flashed a few radios and restarted my phone at least 2 dozen times to see if i get the cache error and so far nothing

all of which kinda leads me to believe that this very well could be a software or file issue thats being written maybe too many times or written with incorrect information due to flashing multiple roms or radios or something...i know not everyone with the "bad" emmc has had issues but maybe they arent doing something to trigger the bad errors
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saranhai:
here's the emmc file located in proc:
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tKoHaXoR:
I would brick my bad emmc glacier for the sole purpose of testing this theory.

I can get a refurb for 20$ from t-mobile. If anybody wants to donate.. I am willing to brick this little bad boy! lol

I have the bad chip. M4G2DE. Haven't perma-rooted. Just temp rooted to recover my apps with Titanium.

Haven't encountered any issues, but if their is a guaranteed way to get a fail-pu I will go ahead and do it and try this method to see if it recovers.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irrelephant:
It's not known how to force the fail pu error, it is just bad luck of the draw so to speak... This isn't a theory for bringing a brick back, but for the failed emmc/fail pu
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
It would work, of course. But that's exactly where another difference comes in play:

In nearly every thread talking about failed eMMC, flashing PD15IMG is mentioned. PD15IMG is reformatting everything on the eMMC chip, including the partition locations which can (and do) become faulty sometimes due to bad flashes. If flashing PD15IMG works - the eMMC is restored. If it doesn't - showing "Fail-PU" - it means that the physical write didn't succeed.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3p4145:
Wow.. everyone has a theory.. MT4G has been in the market for a while now.. and this issue has been around for jus as long.. and I don't think there was any technical ideas ever suggested to get it fixed.. (maybe I am wrong and maybe the search here is messed up) but that being said.. I love how people jump on other peoples technical (in)capabilities on here...

If you have a theory.. suggest it.. that's what online general discussions are for.. If anyone has a better idea as to what to do with their dead HTC MyTouch 4G.. by all means.. but this is pretty valid.. If you go back and read the original post.. this is never a discussion about HW/Sw/FirmWare/Software... its a theory and it still hold water as I dont think there has been a non-rooted phone where the eMMC chip has failed...

All that being said.. if one wants to prove they are smarter than other.. its not hard.. I don't claim to know everything abt eMMC technology.. but I am sure I know a bit and it is accurate enough..

The only reason I did not want to put down technical discussions was to avoid exactly these type of comments...

I usually do ignore negative comments.. but its amazing to see how many people said it would work or it would not work.. but not one person with a dead phone tried it!!

Well good luck with this one folks...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saranhai:
Really? I thought there were a few non rooted bricked eMMCs...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3p4145:
I tried searching.. but i dint find anyone reporting one that was not rooted..

Now this could be just lack of reporting... as why would one bother researching if they can jus walk over to Tmobile store...

But like I hinted.. I humbly apologize for trying on this one.. I will go back to being a noob and not trying to contributing...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
There were numerous non-rooted bricked eMMCs reported in failed eMMC thread in General section, and also at least 2 threads in Q&A that I've participated in that dealt with non-rooted bricks.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phil0sophic:
I would love to try it but my phone wont do squat except boot to mytouch boot screen after trying to recover with oem rom
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SirChang:
I think everyone probably knows this by now... but this doesn't work.

When the eMMC goes bad, you can't write anything to /proc (or most of the other partitions for that matter). Tried it numerous times when I was trying to resurrect my old MT4g (bad eMMC chip), with every manner of chmod, cp, dd, various emmc images, backups, etc etc, and kept getting refused.

Also tried overwriting the /dev/block directly (yeah, pretty desperate)... same thing.

Just figured, since this thread is still out there, and no one seemed to be definitively saying the method doesn't work, it had to be said.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grhand82:
Thread still here huh. Well, i gots a bricked mt4g. Even though I don't think this will work, what do you want me to try. i can get adw fastboot but it wont formate/erase crap. Locked up. i get a failed p/u. I'm open. I have an unlocked device through a local carrier so getting a new device through tmo is not an option and i dont feel like paying HTC 189.00 to replace the board.

Suggestions are taken. Let me know.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saranhai:
won't work bud. as you see in the post before yours, once the chip is dead, there's no reviving it.

just ask tmobile for a replacement, they replaced mine.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmstlist:
A related question: Suppose my eMMC goes bad at a point when I have a custom ROM installed, such that Mobilicity might hesitate to take it in for warranty.

Is there anything I can do once eMMC has failed, to SUPER-brick the device, so that you can't even tell that I once S-OFFed it because it's so screwed? Which might be better than bringing it into the store with a clear custom ROM.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AggNA:
If you want to hard-brick the device so the RMA is not denied for warranty replacement. Then I suggest you do a search on our Q&A sub forum as I did put few methods few months back. Only way to fix it is to replace the motherboard.

Sent from my HTC Glacier
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saranhai:
you can't hard brick it anymore, since you cannot write to the eMMC chip. you could short circuit it.

but the only way to fix this as of now is to change the motherboard like AggNA mentioned.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
Ok guys. Rudeness will not be tolerated in any form. I see to much of this around the forums and this will change. If it is not constructive then dont post it.

For those that know me, then you know what is next.

For those that dont. I have just come out of retirement as a mod and while Fair, I am very FIRM. I give one warning and one warning only.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tom Barrister:
I spoke to HTC this morning, and it took a LONG time to reach somebody who was familiar with this.

ACCORDING TO THE TECH (and I have no idea whether he was telling it to me straight or making things up), the problem is hardware-related. According to the rep, about one out of five of the suspect chips are actually defective; the other 80% are fine. Put into simple terms, the defect may cause the chip to be written to incorrectly, which may or may not corrupt things up to and including "bricking" the phone. The rest is summed up as best I can:

1) Not all defective chips will go bad. It depends on how the phone is used. Repeatedly flashing ROMS and such will definitely speed up the process.

2) If the phone gets bricked, and the chip is still usable, re-flashing may fix it. Of course, if the chip isn't usable anymore, the phone is finished.

3) The rep recommends that if you get the bricked phone messages while flashing, you should attempt to flash "stock" back to it (i.e. Froyo 2.2.1, Gingerbread 2.3.4 etc.: what HTC put on the phone in the first place or sent OTA). If this works, do not attempt to root or modify it again. If it's in warranty, get it replaced. If it isn't, leaving it on stock will give the chip the best chance to not get any worse.

Again, this is what I was told. I'm not a phone geek, so I have no idea if what he said was true or even possible.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] disturbedl:
Available non rooted mt4g w/ failing emmc for testing!

i have a mt4g never been rooted....

hboot-0.86.0000

microp-0429

radio-26.03.02.26_m

i believe the emmc is failing but not quite dead yet....

if the battery is left out of the phone for 20 min....upon putting it back in i can boot to recovery, fastboot, hboot okay....and the phone will boot and have wifi, signal, etc......but after 5 min the phone will start slowing down quite consideradbly....and then reboot to the mt4g boot loop until the battery is removed for another 20 min...also when entering the recovery menu...command responses are few and far between....

in the past i have had emmc errors in the recovery menu upod wiping data/cache and even had the phone completly lock up during a wipe operation...the phone has nver been rooted to my knoweldge and is still s-on...

i am willing to devote this phone to testing so if anyone has any ideas and can work with me on trying to come up with a emmc fix plz pm me whenever you want to....

i will be trying this fix today to see if it has any effect...i will report back with results....hopefully it works!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Preluder:
Can i test this for u guys ?
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] c0de_junkie:
First of all I would like to thank madmaxx82 for such a GREAT Recovery for the Desire HD!!! Which can be found HERE

I would also like to thank Whiskey103 for letting me use his flash-able zip file with a little change to it!! His thread is HERE

And a BIG thanks to anyone else if I may have used any of your icons!!
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These are just the first ones that I have made, so look forward to updates!!

and if anyone has any requests then ask me here in this thread and I'll see what I can whip up for you!!

If you would like to remove this theme(or any 4ext theme) then please flash the uninstall theme file!! Found HERE

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ALL of my themes are COMPLETE and include all icons :p

icon_clockwork.png

icon_error.png

icon_toggle_usb.png

progress_empty.png

progress_fill.png

icon_installing.png

indeterminante1.png

indeterminante2.png

indeterminante3.png

indeterminante4.png

indeterminante5.png

indeterminante6.png
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**Please give credit where credit is do, if you use any of my icon's in any of your mods**

4ext_Theme_Orange_Crush_LeeDroid_apaquette420.zip

4ext_Theme_Blue_SwimSuit_apaquette420.zip

4ext_Theme_Pretty_Pink_apaquette420.zip

4ext_Theme_CloseUp_apaquette420.zip

JUST ADDED

**as requested by RiNo808

4ext_Theme_HTC_Girl_apaquette420.zip

4ext_Theme_Pretty_Girl_apaquette420.zip

4ext_Theme_GirlInBlue_apaquette420.zip

4ext_Theme_Asian_Blue_apaquette420.zip

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[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Morak75:
Is it you on the picture ?

Hehe good job ^^

Pinky one, omagad O.O
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] c0de_junkie:
Thanks a lot but im a dude...... rough.... you so don't want my tits up there lmao
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Adidas108:
ahahaha definitely not :D
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Friderich:
H-mmmmm.

I guess the tits with max "battery charge" that's what android prefers :D
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] madmaxx82:
thank you very much!! :)

Great girls you have there ;)
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] c0de_junkie:
no no, thank you for the killer recovery!!!
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] RiNo808:
Awesome themes, can you possible make some themes with some asian hotties with green font? thanks in advanced...
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Droidxda:
How to create the .zip file ?

i don't know what to search in the forum, do you where there is tuto ?
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] c0de_junkie:
I posted a couple new ones, let me know what you think!! if there are any specific girls or if you have any wall papers of any asian hotties that you would like then post them here and I will make them up for you!
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] RiNo808:
thanks a lot, awesome...btw is it easy to make these themes...and if so care to share on how to make them...ill post some hotties here for you to make into a theme...
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] RiNo808:
hotties

Here are some hotties i got on this computer, i got a ton more on my home laptop...if its easy to make these themes i wouldnt mind making some...
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] c0de_junkie:
ok great.... The wallpaper has to be 480x800 or it will look stretched ...I don't think its hard to make these themes... lol... just use anyone of my zips and place your wallpaper and icons, or both like my themes have, and place them into the "system/4ext/icons" folder and it should work... make sure they are png format

edit** i can't use those because they have to be 480x800....... if you find some that are that size then please post them...
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] RiNo808:
Okay i will try and resize them to specs. so i just have to unzip one of your themes, replace the walpaper and rezip it...does it matter what compressing program i use to rezip it?
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] c0de_junkie:
unzip one of my themes and look at the icons in the icons folder... just replace the ones you want and just drop them into the icons folder in one of my zips.. should work fine
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Morak75:
lol I ask that 'coz madmaxx82 wrote "she" for you when he told us a new theme was out!!;)

Anyway, so it's your girlfriend, confess!
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] c0de_junkie:
lol... ya you got me there!!! :D
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] c0de_junkie:
so no one wants to make any requests ??
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Morak75:
I wanna report that after wiping cache/dalvik and installing new rom, theme disappears (and put my previous one).
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Lewelynn:
Good work man

Is it possible for you to give me a link to the wallpaper of the girl with 'htc quietly brilliant' over her mouth?
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] c0de_junkie:
here you go man

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7495644/19.jpg
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Morak75:
Well done so ;)
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Lewelynn:
Thanks a lot
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] cwhitney24:
theme

Hey i started making some themes. I was inspired by you and the other 4ext people. Thanks for your hard work and guidance in your thread. I linked you on my thread..i hope you don't mind.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] c0de_junkie:
I don't mind at all!! Im glad the help I gave you worked!! post your thread here and I will add it to my OP.... :D
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] cwhitney24:
Cool! Thanks! Here is the link

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1185894
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] RiNo808:
Thanks for the shot out, got a question, how do you change the color of the font?
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] c0de_junkie:
well you could open the theme you flashed and inside the "system/4ext" folder there is a file called "4ext.prop" open that file in a text editor and you can change the fonts to any color you want, after that save the file and overwrite the file in the theme zip and just re-flash it...

you can also edit the file on the phone itself... just use a program like root explorer and go to "system/4ext" and just long press the 4ext.prop file and go to open in text editor and change the setting to what color you want, then just save the file when you exit and you should be good to go after that..... hope this helps...
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] RiNo808:
Thanks a lot for the advice and help...one question its the number next to the color the font size?

Sent via Honey3D Inspired v1
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] uomoto:
Wow, sexy CWM cool ... :P
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] ph0dacbeit:
LMAO!! Had to 'thanks' for that post.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] M_T_M:
Do not highjack threads......that is a form of trolling and me no likez it :rolleyes:

Cheers,

M_T_M
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] beanbean50:
nice themes matey...!

I'm currently using your 'close up' theme, my only problem is that when I see that gorgeous butt I forget what I went into the recovery for...hehe...!

keep up the good work :)
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] c0de_junkie:
LOL.... I often make that same mistake lol Thanks a lot man.... if you have any 480x800 wallpapers that you would want for your own 4ext theme then post them here and i would be more then happy to make one up for you!!

That goes for any of the great members we have here at XDA.....:D
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Nokiacrazi:
Gorgeous themes, any more to come? :)
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] liger05:
props for these
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] nhelzky:
do u have maria ozawa ahaha
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] MamaRisha:
nice work man thanks :o
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] King69stoner:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7495644/4ext_Theme_Asian_Blue_apaquette420.zip

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=661626&stc=1&d=1311273756

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=661627&stc=1&d=1311273756

these three give me erros when i clip on them
[Defy General] 300littleducks:
Hi.

Is there any way to do a full (sbf) bacup of CM7 Defy?

When I enter bootmenu, there is option to restore, but not to make backup.

CWM does not support defy, right?

Any other options? (I am a noob)
[Defy General] deskjeti:
Hi,

welcome in the XDA forum!

You can´t make a sbf backup, because these are service flash files, made by motorola or by a provider.

CWM doesn´t support our defy directly, but you can download "Defy 2nd init" from the market.

You can make backups and restore backups, they will be created on your SD Card ;)
[Defy General] 300littleducks:
Thanks. Actually I've had one attempt with "Defy 2nd init" and I failed (and ended up with logo-reboot cycle, had to reflash). I wasn't able to find a guide for this online, what to do step be step... Could you please help?

I'm pretty computer literate, but this is 95% new territory.

and (edit) by the way, that's in 2nd init info:

?
[Defy General] sg3707:
Even I ended up installing every thing from scratch after installing 2nd unit, better be careful.
[Defy General] 300littleducks:
That's the thing, sg3707.

So back to the question: how to make a full backup of CM7 defy?
[Defy General] twa_priv:
I have successfully (nandroid) backed up and restored my CM7 (110715 nightly) by: long press power button -> choose reboot -> choose recovery.

This will bring you to CWM recovery 4.0.1.0-defy when the system boots up.

Since I'm still very much a noob I can't tell you if this qualifies as a full backup or not.
[Defy General] Raito40:
I don't have cm7 but I have 2ndinit and with it you have the custom recovery clockworkmod.

You can use it to make a backup on your sd.

Usally I press volume - when the LED is blue at boot select recovery then custom and backup/restore to make my nand backup
[Defy General] 300littleducks:
twa_priv, thanks, that's the way to do it. I've been 100x in this menu and was affraid to click "Latest Recovery"... but there is another menu behind and it's possible to make a full backup!
[Defy General] salingpusa:
You can't. All you can do is a nandroid back up. For you to use 2nd init, you have to be rooted and don't forget the usb debugging should be turned off other wise boot loop. Read cm7 faq
[Optimus One, P500, V General] venz0ja:
on the sensor firmware blunt, the screen turns off it is not possible to disable the incoming call, is sent in direct sunlight, or bright light from the lamp sensor works.

on V20c 2.3.3 proximity sensor is not working officially release

on version 2.2.1 v10g sensor works correctly)

on version 2.3.4 CM7, Void forever works

you tube test my

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jAmMgh0uY8

how fix it? disable?

up 22.07.2011

in v20e Proximity sensor is working but randomly, random screen fades out, then turn on, turn off during a call.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] 22VIN:
And why did you have to post in this section?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Layio:
I have similar problem - with v20c proximity sensor during the call is switching screen on and off randomly (even when phone is on the desk). But in hidden menu test everything is ok. I don't have this problem in any froyo roms, or cm7.

Unfortunately, LG f*ck*d update to Gingerbread, many users have problems and are waiting for a good custom roms.

To end calls turn on ending with power button - settings > accessibility > power button ends call
[Optimus One, P500, V General] SnegovikRZN:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH17cYeaXX4
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Layio:
I have exactly the same. Perhaps phone application is poorly calibrated with sensor. Like everything in this official update.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Turducken:
I'm not having this issue on v20g. However, I have the following added to my build.prop (thanks to Noejn)

edit - I am having the same issue even with the edits though it's not quite as bad as the youtube vid.