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[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HiJacK69:
I need help repairing my dinc. First, let me apologize for the long post, but I wanted to provide as much detail as possible.

My cousin dropped his phone in water and tried to dry it off. I don't know if he tried to turn it on after drying it off. Also, I don't know what attempts he has made to bring the phone back to life, but he has given up and handed the phone over to me. He figured since I am an IT guy and also do hardware repairs I would figure it out.

This is new to me because I've never owned a Smartphone before. He turned off his service on the dinc and used another Verizon phone he had lying around.

I've research different forums for a fix for the past few days, but nothing has worked. I’ve seen posts with similar symptoms, but in all cases they were able to get more functionality from their phone than mine. Also, my issue is related to water and not from a bad ROM upgrade. Here's a summary of things I've already tried:

Dried the phone out with the rice in Ziploc bag trick for 3 days (phone is completely dried)

Reformatted the micro sd card to fat32

Did a system update

Placed PB31IMG.zip into the root of the sd card

md5 checksum: 31bb1611a0fa8197d447c0438426717e​

When I remove or rename the PB31IMG.zip file and hold the down button+power, here is the outcome for the following:

Fastboot: Gives me the following options Bootloader, Reboot, Reboot Bootloader, & Power Dwn

Bootloader takes me back to the main HBoot screen.

Reboot would get me stuck on a continuous loop (stuck on the "HTC Incredible" white screen) and freeze

Reboot Bootloader just takes me back to the Fastboot menu

Power Dwn would do the same thing as the Reboot​

Recovery: does the same thing as Reboot; it would freeze at the white "HTC Incredible" screen

Clear Storage: does the same thing as above

Factory Reset: does the same thing as above

Each time it gets stuck at the white HTC Incredible boot up screen, I would have to pull the battery. Hitting/holding the power button doesn't seem to do anything.

From what I've been reading, I don't think the phone is bricked, since it still turns on, has limited functions, & I can get to the HBoot screen. The only thing I haven’t tried is reinstalling the OS (not sure if the OS is included in the PB31IMG.zip file)? Also, I was going to try to reformat the hard drive (just in case the partition is damaged).

The phone has never been rooted and I am not trying to root/unroot the phone... just trying to repair the phone. The phone has the S-ON.

I have uploaded a 10 min. YouTube video so you can see what I'm dealing with. Any help would be much appreciated. If there is anything you want me to try or anything you want to know that I may have left out, please don't hesitate to ask. At this point, I'm willing to try anything.

www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=gHXDJl6G2X4

Sorry, I can't post a link to my video so just replace the (dot) with a "."
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
You need to do an ruu with a PB31IMG.zip.

You can get the ruu here http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=22

If you ever want to be able to root you need to use the froyo one as gingerbread cant be rooted if your s-on. Just download, rename exactly PB31IMG.zip, place on your sdcard in no folders, make sure its not connected to a computer, then pull battery and replace then boot into hboot (vol down + power) it should automaticly find the file after a couple secs and then prompt you to press vol up to install. Once its done you will be promptet to reboot , do so and if all is as expected you should boot up normally. Note that the first boot will take a long time so be patient, it may seem like it freezes at the boot animation but give it time.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HiJacK69:
I ran the RUU program, which took about 10 min to complete. When it finished the update process, it rebooted the dinc, but I'm now stuck on the white htc incredible screen as demonstrated in my video. How long I'm I suppose to wait as this white screen? It seems as if it's frozen, but I'm not sure. Am I missing something?

Should I rerun it or try to run the PB31IMG.zip file? BTW, I grabbed the PB31IMG.zip file from the same site from your link.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dmeadows013:
Have you done a logcat?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
So your saying you did the ruu exe with your pc and it compleeded sucessfully?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HiJacK69:
No, I haven't. Can you please explain what this is and how it's done? I'm assuming this will pull up the syslog on the phone?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HiJacK69:
Yes, but let me explain. When I first turned on my phone it would freeze at the white htc incredible screen. The pc would not recognize the device. The HTC Sync program would also not recognize the device.

I pulled the battery and did pushed the down button+power to get the HBoot. Then I would plug in the usb cable and the device is still not recognized. I would have to select the fastboot option, then bootloader a few times before the ruu program can detect my phone. HTC Sync would still not detect my phone.

After the phone is recognized by ruu I ran the program. I can see a black screen on my phone with big white HTC letters. Then I would see a green scan bar running. The ruu program completed and the phone rebooted. I hit the "finished" button on the ruu program and exit.

The phone rebooted and got stuck on the white htc incredible screen. I waited for 15 mins and it's still stuck on the same screen. If you watch my video, you can see exactly what I'm talking about. I've tried re-running the PB31IMG.zip file, but it's not working.

Any other ideas? You think the partition is damaged or the phone is bricked?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
Ok I watched the video. My only other sugestion would be to try and root it with unrevoked so you can get the custom recovery, wipe everything from in recovery, and then try flashing a custom rom such as jermains rooted gingerbread+ rom. If that dosent work i would say there is some type of hardware failure.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HiJacK69:
When I root it with Unrevoked, can I use the online method where I log on to their site or does matter?

Can I still root the phone even though HTC Sync does not recognize my phone? Yeah, someone from another forum suggested it might be a hardware issue from the water. If my cousin turned the phone on while it was still wet, he could have shorted out some circuits on the motherboard. I told him what he should do if it ever happened to him next time.

Thanks for helping me out!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
I wasnt aware there was an online method. I'm not sure if unrevoked will work or not but i know you have to uninstall htc sync before you use the downloadable method. Its a pretty simple process and worth a shot. Hardware failure is verry possible though, especially if it was turned on wile still wet. Even if it wasnt turned on wet it probably got droped in the water wile on possibly causing a short right away.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HiJacK69:
That's my bad; it's like 2am now and I was thinking about something else. I had to download the unrevoked3 program and run it. You're right, I had to uninstall htc sync. I was unable to use the program because it wanted me to enable usb debugging mode, which I am not able to do with my phone in its current state. It could not detect my device.

Someone from another forum stated that after watching my video, he noticed that the image I flashed contained a VZ radio. He said he's heard of cases where users were waiting up to 2 hours in the htc incredible screen before the update is complete. This seems like a very long time, but I'm willing to try.

He wanted me to make sure my phone is fully charged. Then he wants me to run the update in the bootloader and just let it sit. He says it may take up to 2 hours. He said if it doesn't work then it's a hardware related issue caused by the board getting shorted out.

Thanks for all your help!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dmeadows013:
You need to have adb installed. If you don't, google how and there are many in depth tutorials. Then, once adb is installed, cd to your adb directory in terminal/command prompt and type ./adb logcat.
[Intercept Android Development] EducateAndInnovate:
:D

Many of you probably already know this. I am posting the following link to BROM for the benefit of the new people.

http://forum.sdx-developers.com/index.php?topic=14546.0

This one is pretty good. Smooth and fast!

:D
[Intercept Android Development] LinuxAssailant:
I have never gotten this to work reliably... it was less stable than stock 2.2.*...

Did I miss something?
[Intercept Android Development] brotherswing:
I've had the same experience. A lot of people seem to like it, but all it did was cause my phone to reboot randomly.
[Intercept Android Development] NextGenROM:
Honestly this the best ROM for the Intercept. But that is not saying much. This device cannot improve much from stock. The processor speed and amount of RAM is really small (this is an old android device).
[Intercept Android Development] B00T_Sp0rk:
Hello from the future.

I know this is ridiculous, but does anyone happen to have the .zip for this sucker?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kehlan:
I've attempted the traditional SPH-D700 fix already, but I get the following error:

$ su
# echo 5 > /sys/devices/platform/s3c-keypad/timer_delay
cannot create /sys/devices/platform/s3c-keypad/timer_delay: directory nonexistent

Does anybody have an alternative keyboard lag fix for this ROM? :confused:

Appreciated.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xopher.hunter:
None as of yet, we can't adjust the keyboard timer without kernel source. A workaround is to download touchpal keyboard and go into its settings and have it spell check the hard keyboard
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ~Spyne~:
Hi guys, stupid question (hopefully)...

I accidentally went into Download mode instead of Recovery (forgot what USB jig actually did:( ) and now don't know how to exit out of Download mode....

Anyone help?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ~Spyne~:
Yes, "stupid" is the right word...

Had to hold power button longer than usual - almost twice as long.

Sorry all, will crawl back into corner now.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kanishkaggarwal:
Hi

Sometimes it happens with me too , but remove the battery to get away with the download mode . This has happened alot with me and I usually do this.

my s2 is still working and there are no issues .
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueseeker:
There's no need to take off your battery. Long pressing more than 10 sec the power button, does the job everytime.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] worf_1977:
Actually the power off tick leads my SGS2 out of download mode. But it hangs on charge screen... Weird, no? :confused:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cabloomi:
Take a look at "it"

we were all once the same
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nickxxxx:
"Had to hold power button longer than usual - almost twice as long."

Worked for me ty, went into to download mode after using s2root though i didnt had cwm to put in odin.;-)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daviduhoh:
doing this just bricked my phone...
[Motorola Droid X2] TheMrNashville:
Is there an app for a rooted phone that can increase the speaker volume past the factory settings? I want this because i am in a noisy environment all the time, and when i watch media on my phone it is no where near loud enough. My phone is rooted and would like to not have to put a ROM on my phone if I don't have to. I have downloaded Equalizer and Volume+ neither of which did anything.
[Motorola Droid X2] IDMA.DROID.X2:
I'd like to know too. Even if it would distort the sound. Sometimes its needed.
[Motorola Droid X2] garywojdan81:
Check out volume+ at androidaudiohacks.com. It's free and in beta. You just have to register on the site.

Edit: Probably would help if I read your post all the way through. Have you tried PowerAmp? It does have an option for "phone speaker loud" in the eq settings.
[Motorola Droid X2] ilovesoad:
Dsp manager.
[Motorola Droid X2] Ihatepullups:
Which is built into eclipse. You might be able push it to your phone if you find the apk somewhere though
[Motorola Droid X2] MikeJ92YJ:
Equalizer In The Market.
[Motorola Droid X2] garywojdan81:
Just pull it from the eclipse rom.
[G2 and Desire Z General] HobbesG2:
Am I able to downgrade, root, and then upgrade back to exactly what I'm using right now? Aka, same Rom, same Version/Build, still receive automatic android/system updates, etc, and etc, (but with root)?

M: T-Mobile G2

V: 2.3.4

BV: 12.52.60.25U_26.08.04.30_M3

KV: 2.6.35.10-g96de068

B#: 2.15.531.3 CL82286 release-keys

It's been agonizing waiting for an easy and effective root since the 2.3.4 update and I'm now considering following one of the numerous methods that can be found around the forums, specifically, the downgrade/root/upgrade method.

My concern is that the majority of the methods described all end with using a custom rom such as Virtuous, Cyanogenmod, etc--- but I don't want a custom rom. I want exactly what Rom the T-Mobile G2 is supposed to have, but with Root. I also want my system to update as it normally would.

Am I able to downgrade, root, and then upgrade back to exactly what I'm using right now? Aka, still receive android updates, etc, etc?

Side Note:

I did try the "G2 2.3.4 OTA 1-Click temp-root" method however I couldn't seem to get it to work. The thread can be found at:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1220595

Any thoughts on upgrading back to the stock rom (plus root) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

-- HobbesG2
[G2 and Desire Z General] Ditamae:
I would argue your G2 is "supposed to have" Cyanogen, but to each their own. ;)

You will need to follow this guide to downgrade if you want to root. And yes, you can flash a pre-rooted pure stock 2.3 ROM. Just search the Development forum and you'll find it. Your phone, however, should not notify you about updates after this - and you don't want it to. If you were to flash an OTA update you would lose root.

The wiki is also very helpful if you still have questions.

If you really want to see what your phone can do try out some custom ROMs after you root. Thousands of HTC Vision users can't be wrong. ;)
[G2 and Desire Z General] killj0y:
Glite is a good alternative too, with the stock theme and launcher, it looks and acts exactly like stock, plus it's lighter and faster :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] martonikaj:
Follow the wiki for root. You'll abandon what you have now, but you can flash a pre-rooted stock ROM after you're rooted. Chances are you'll wanna dabble in non stock ROMs eventually lol. I remember when I first rooted I though I'd never flash a custom ROM lol... ROMs like cm7 are similar to stock but perform better, have more features, and better battery life.

sent from my HTC G2 running MIUI.
[G2 and Desire Z General] HobbesG2:
Yeah, I've known about roms for a long while now but I just never wanted to give up the stock rom because I never wanted to be put in a situation where my markets and/or apps would give me problems, although I do realize how silly the concern is.

I guess I should just bite the bullet and try CM7 out. Worst case scenario I can always go back to boring old stock. And who knows, I might be converted after all.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Ditamae:
Yes, exactly, you can always flash right back if it doesn't suit you. And I, too, was hesitant to flash a custom ROM the first week or so after rooting. But once I did my only regret was that I waited at all. ;)
[G2 and Desire Z General] HobbesG2:
Alright so I downgraded to v2.2 and established root, etc etc.

I toyed with a couple roms, namely CM7 and I'm incredibly bummed because after researching a bit more on it, I realize that it has issues running google apps such as swype, navigate, market, etc. I use google apps daily for both pleasure and work. It's sort of essential that I have a solid google-app working rom.

I'm debating on upgrading to a rooted gingerbread 2.3.4 however I wanted some advice from the vets who have more experience than I so I can save myself some hard-ache.

I'm looking at G-Lite presently, and think I might give it a try, I hope it has solid use of google apps.
[G2 and Desire Z General] gee one:
I've been running cyanogen since the G1. I recently tried out the stock gingerbread, and it was OK, but I missed a lot of features that are built into the CM rom, such as the status bar power widget.

One thing I noticed about the stock gingerbread is that is was velvety smooth, which isn't surprising since it is built with the actual hardware drivers. If you are used to the froyo stock rom, then you probably won't miss the extra features.

There are a few rooted stock gingerbread roms in the dev section- Paul O'brien, spookievision, and rr5678 all released stock(-ish) versions.

If you want it more stock than that, you'll have to root it yourself. ;) I'm not sure if rooted stock roms will be able to apply the update successfully. You will probably receive it, but it might break root. Maybe it will work if you keep the stock recovery.
[G2 and Desire Z General] HobbesG2:
People tell me that the versatility and diversity of whistles in CM is inviting but the stability issues make me concerned. For me, reliability will always trump bells&whistles.

I'm using G-Lite 1.0.3 right now and I must say I'm enjoying the simplicity of it and the fact that it is a bare-bone system. I like how it was obviously built with Froyo/Gingerbread in mind. It produced Swype problems but I easily fixed it by using the Swype-Installer.apk found on the Swype Website

[ beta(dot)swype(dot)com ]
[G2 and Desire Z General] gee one:
That's really the beauty of a rooted android device - you can have exactly what you want on *your* device.
[G2 and Desire Z General] coverall:
downgrade with stock s-off

Hi all,

I just bought this G2 unlocked with OTA GB (somehow i regret to click upgrade system after reading G2 forum =D).

My G2 :

VISION PVT SHIP S-OFFHBOOT 0.82.0008

MICROP-0425

RADIO 26.08.04.30_M3

eMMC-boot

I really want to root and use HTC sense UI 3.0 my G2. Every thread about downgrading to froyo was for S-ON GB not S-OFF like I have (i assume). It's S-OFF since the first time i bought it.

Could you all help me to choose what method should i use to downgrading my g2, root it, and use custom rom with HTC sense UI.

Thanks a lot guys,,

You're the best
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Wayno-san:
Probably a newbie questions but is there something equivalent to a nandroid backup on the Epic 4G Touch? I noticed that there a few ROMs out there and would like to give them a whirl but not being able to back up the entire phone in case I want to quickly revert to something working is giving me second thoughts.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cds0699:
If you have clockwork mod, you can make a nandroid backup on the Epic 4G Touch.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] R1ptide:
what about the whole wimax keys issue?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Keith02:
How can you make a nandroid backup with clockwork? I have cwm5 and it wont let me do a backup at all.

also, from the app itself, it doesnt even give the epic touch 4g in the list of phones, only the international and ATT galaxy SII.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Vegasden:
What "app" are you referring to? ROM Manager?

To do a backup in CWM, you boot into recovery. Once you have, you'll see about 4 down from the top Backup/Restore. Scroll to that, press the power button and then you'll see your choices.

In regards to WiMax keys, that's an HTC thing. Samsung does it differently, so no worries.

.....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] R1ptide:
good to know thanks
[HTC EVO 3D] Zambooki:
is it possible for a stock rom to be made without the 3D transitions or is there a way to turn it off myself. A app or a tweak/mod maybe?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d3athb4dishonor:
I am working my master plan to getting a new phone lol...

Does anyone know where I can find a picture of a G2/VISION's ABOUT PHONE stats before its been rooted or a roms been put on it? I dont wanna call TMOBILE and they ask me certain things like the software version and android version I'm running and I give them the information based off what rom I have.

Unless someone knows what those would be off the top of their heads.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xudsa II USERT:
Most phones have different factory shipped software, so what in particular are you looking for?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spastic909:
The reason its tough to answer is because you didn't state any info of value. Are you trying to exchange/return? Are you wanting to buy a new one?? I mean that kind of important don't you think?

If its a warranty exchange they won't ask you for any software numbers only ask about damages.

If buying a new one who cares anyways.

If those are wrong please fix your question.

Thanks
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martonikaj:
So... you're trying to scam the T-mobile CS support by giving them false information about a non-rooted phone rather than your rooted phone.

If you're going to get a warranty return and replacement the least you can do is unroot your phone (you'll have to when you return it...(or ffs at least put a stock pre-rooted ROM back on it)) when you call in so if you're not confident in your ability to BS them you can have the real numbers ready....
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killj0y:
just downgrade and unroot.....
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d3athb4dishonor:
Just whatever info in the ABOUT PHONE STATS for a phone that hasn't been rooted and modded. Software version and stuff like that...

I have a G2 but I have had an issue and had several replaced because it'll just randomly shut off sometimes. And since I've replaced it quite a few times already I was ready to just ask them to replace my phone with something else.

Only thing is I just want to have that information so as they ask me I can be like this is what I have.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martonikaj:
just load a stock pre-rooted ROM on your phone. Could've had it done by now...
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xudsa II USERT:
I think his phone has problems, cause he mentioned about it rebooting, so I guess he cant downgrade?

I have some info I logged down before rooting, but its from a stock Desire Z, not a T-Mobile version, will that do?

BTW: Another guy had similar reboot problems too here
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sailador:
I cant seem to find the link to download the latest cm7 rom to flash. Please help thank you. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1286192
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Pirateghost:
I take it you didn't bother reading the second post.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I777
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sailador:
lol i did, nevermind i figured it out. I did it flashed the right rom but it didnt do anything. Then i re read the instructions and it stated sometime you have to flash it more than once.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] TheMuffStuff:
Overview

Theme based off of the Epic 4g Touch / Sgs2 System Dump

Themed Dialer - THANKS KEJAR AND THE LIBERTY TEAM

Themed Settings

Themed BlurHome

Themed Icons

Themed Framework-res

Themed SystemUI

Themed Moto-Res

Themed Blur-Res

Themed Widgets

Themed BootAnimation - Thanks p3droid

Credits

NitroGlycerin33

Bignadad

GunnerMike53

Nitsuj17

Kejar31

Jrummy

Jcase

p3Droid

Extras

Alternate Launcher, HeLauncher (Many Docks)

TouchWiz 4 Launcher

My Favorite Wallpaper for TW4

Downloads

Touchwiz 4 Theme for Unleashed 1.5

Notes

Works for unleashed 1.5, only for now.

Upcoming

Accurate Battery

Working with more roms

Changelog

v0.1
Initial Release
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Versatile1:
Looks good
[Motorola Droid Bionic] WRrobby:
Looks great! Clean and simple just how I like it. ;)
[Motorola Droid Bionic] TheMuffStuff:
Thanks, im a fan of simple too.