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[Motorola Droid RAZR] nailll:
UnBricking RAZR

Hooray! I've bricked my RAZR yesterday! Because of low battery - dumb mistake I've made. ALWAYS check your battery is charged 75%+

So I was in a situation, where I can't load OS, and stuck at fastboot mode with failed flash error. The most ugly here is I can't charge my phone, I can't pull out the battery so I could charge it somewhere else...

Thanks to [TSON] at xda to suggest try motorola factory cable that is used to program motorola phones without battery installed. Buying factory cable is not a good option since I would like to have a phone now! (you can buy it here: http://shop.teamblackhat.info/Factory-style-programming-cable-for-Motorola-FactCable.htm)

But there is an option to create one at home:

1) http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1077414

2) http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-labs/146492-how-why-make-your-own-motorola-factory-cable.html

1) I've bought Motorola MiniUSB <-> MicroUSB adapter (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0..._m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=090HEB54X9MZWHDS3PF4)

2) Cutted this adapter and found that there is no 5 cables here - dissapointed

3) cutted adapter's microUSB connector and found there is 5pin available to solding.

4) lame ugly soldering using schemas provided on forums

5) fingers crossed - connecting: great, phone is in a fastboot mode and it says that the Battery is OK!

6) Flashing fastboot leaked image using RSDLite - done

7) Happy dancing!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] FAUguy:
Mine appears bricked as its stuck in a boot loop when powered on:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1367040

Please help if you can. Thanks.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] vgupman:
Holding down the volume buttons and the power key at the same time for like 6 seconds resets the phone. On my EVO 3D this method worked in the place of a battery pull most of the time but not always...I'm a little nervous this might happen at some point with my razr and I'm not looking forward to it...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] [TSON]:
Holding vol DOWN and power for 10 seconds ALWAYS powers down your device, no matter what. RAZRs don't have zombie motherboards, they can't operate without power :p
[Motorola Droid RAZR] bikercr:
Not sure if this will help but there's a method for restarting in safe mode.

http://m-support.verizonwireless.com/clc/devices/knowledge_base.html?id=50079
[Motorola Droid RAZR] MrFrankfromCM:
For any reason...this is good info regardless. :D
[Motorola Droid RAZR] FAUguy:
Except that once you brick the phone, most of the time you can't get into Safe Mode.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] MrFrankfromCM:
If it's bricked....hopefully not. :eek:
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Ricardo209:
I seemed to have flashed a completely different dload folder onto my impulse 4g and i get stuck at the att splash image. if anyone would happen to have the STOCK dload or update if they can post it herre it would be great. i searched all around but couldnt find it
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Blefish:
It's here.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] r0y123:
i NEED help

ok heres what i did i wanted to upgrade my phone to the newest version GB 2.3.4.So what i did was download the update and i followed the installation steps i successfully updated to Gb 2.3.4. so like i was checking how it look and the new feature but when i wanted to go on the android market i went to setting and turn on the wifi and it said Error and then i tried the Bluetooth and it said Error also so then i put my SIMs card in and i was like imma use DATA then and when i restarted my phone it had service but no HSPA+ or Edge or GPRS so like i just hatted my phone from their so then i was trying to root it but iddnt know how to do that so like i read this website and i got the UPDATE.APP or 2.2.2 AT&T did the same steps of the installation of BG 2.3.4 and it went to the process and 1/2 stepp good it passed and then 2/2 also passed it installed it and when it said Successively Installed it said Restarting and the scrren turn of and it vibrated and thats all that happened and i left it like that for the whole days and nothing happened

Do u got any idea?

When i connect it to my laptop it says installing drivers .then its says sucesfully installed drivers ready to use. so then i got to Device Manger and i check what has been installed and their it said USB Human interface device and HID-compliant device WHAT DOES THAT MEAN??

i fist installed the GB 2.3.4 {U8800V100R001C00B518G001} but i did not like it and i installed this ROM {V100R001C00B138SP04CUSTC185D002} thats 2.2.2
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] rdawson09:
ok i found a download that claims to be the new gingerbread miui for impulse 4g users had one tester said its working great on his impulse so i want more testers to confirm it and make a guide for everyone send me your email and ill give ya the link for the download
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] gammaray1014:
Gonna test it as soon as my u8800-51 comes in the mail...... shipped from a place about 2 and a half hours from here 3 days ago......... usps is a joke
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] rdawson09:
Haha yea it is a joke
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] gammaray1014:
yup there "tracking" is non exhistant and they take forever
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] gammaray1014:
Got it in today :) gonna test it sometime in the next couple days when i get time
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] rdawson09:
Ok let me know how it goes
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] gammaray1014:
will do

Sent from my Huawei U8800-51
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] yogi-4:
I haven't had time to install and check out the ROM for my impulse yet. I'm just worried about 4g and wifi connectivity. With my job, having data service on my phone is a must. I know that was a problem with a different ROM for this phone... everything worked except for data and wifi. I guess I'm a little shy to try it as there have been reports of not being able to revert back to Froyo. :(
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] rdawson09:
Well so far its working on on the first testers phone the second Guy said he is gonna do it when he gets a chance to check it out so hopefully his turns out good
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] dwaynedman:
Useless Posts

Why do you guys even keep posting on here with useless information.... I keep

seeing the post over and over about the link to the GB download, and how it worked for 1 guy "who is HE ?" but you do not post the link up to the source.

Then somebody says "oh yeah, i am gonna try it later. will let you know how it goes"...... Then nobody ever posts back their progress. Some people come on here with a purpose of helping Dev's or other people to mod their phones.

If you are not going to follow through with your posts, or post useless information

with no links to what you are talking about..... DON'T POST anything at all.

Thanks,

D
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] KayxGee1:
When I try to downgrade to 2.2.2 I can't. It always fails at 2/2 Update. Any ideas?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] skipped:
The same is happening to me.. I cant downgrade.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] KayxGee1:
Isn't there suppose to be a second file in with the UPDATE file?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] skipped:
Edit: I did it! Download this file and first update step 1 and then step 2.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ncrnw95th9ekpae

(To start the upgrade I plugged in the phone without battery to the pc while pressing volume up and down)

Now, it is suppose to be downgraded, but it is not booting.. (just operator logo and reboots) but there is no bricking.. I am now trying to update another stock rom froyo posted in this forum.

Edit 2: Secondly, I installed http://www.mediafire.com/?kmh4qbd3v7dslc5 the same way, and its working! but it is u8800pro Froyo. But maybe we have more chances on getting 3g.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] KayxGee1:
That's great news that you actually downgraded. But EDGE is so painful.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] skipped:
I downloaded from a chinese web a stock rom for u8800pro with baseband 203026 (same as u8800-51). I flashed it, and then restored all using clockworkmod files from u8800-51 (also, I replaced all files in pink screen and put the original image files from u8800-51). It worked great! my phone is now u8800-51 froyo again. But I still got no 3g.. Can this be possible? I replaced every file! whats the problem then?

The u8800pro stock rom with u8800-51 baseband is here: http://dl.dbank.com/c0i0gctow9
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] yogi-4:
Sorry if this is another useless post. Now I know I won't upgrade knowing that downgrading won't give you your 4g back. I really wish I could afford to get an Atrix. Thanks for the useful posts about downgrading.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] copo:
The system font using in CM7.1 is lovely. Does someone know the name of this font and if there is an APK I could use it on another ROM? Thanks!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yonnor:
I'm not sure of the font exactly, but a great font changer app is JRummy's Font Installer, it has a TON of styles to choose from, so its bound to be on there.

morse coded via my DROID 3
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] copo:
Just tried Font Installer and it's fun to have a lot of font type to try on, thank you very much. However I'm still wondering which one is the one using in CM7.1 as default....
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dinuweera:
Anyone tried the beta 1.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nutsonfire:
nah we're waiting for you to do it :cool:
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Abaddon:
looks like a mix of his work + francos kernel + matrix kernel

my friend installed it on his device and is running great but cm9 kangs are better at the moment :D
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] offenberg:
Running it now. It is just another mix. Nothing fixed.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dinuweera:
I just did try Drew's beta 1, its not much different to brain masters mix11. But a bit more stable.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dinuweera:
Great work anyway, cheers drew
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pafaisal:
Drew's beta 2 is very nice..
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dwayne_Lopez:
Having tried almost every ICS ROM worth mentioning, the latest CM9 alpha 13 with Franco 12.12 test kernel is the best IMO. Close second is the MV Kang
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darrien13:
Drew's beta 2 is the best ICS rom to me but his ICY+S rom will be better, just give it a few days to release.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Braneless:
Two kernels?! Must run like an absolute raped ape. Probably predicts your inputs before you even think of making them.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theherkman:
So the phone is bootlooping. I don't have recovery installed and my phone is S-ON. I tried flashing the 605.5 RUU, it updated the bootloader, but the phone is still bootlooping. I have access to HBOOT, and can use fastboot usb, but I am unsure of how to proceed.

Stats:

*** LOCKED ***

MECHA XD SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-1.05.0000

MICROP-/

RADIO-1.48.00.0906w_1

eMMC-boot

Jul 19 2011, 14:51:08

FASTBOOT (Working)

RECOVERY (Bootloops)

FACTORY RESET (Bootloops)

SIMLOCK (Don't know what this is/does)

HBOOT USB (Don't know what this is/does)

IMAGE CRC (Gives values for osbl, amss, hboot, boot, recovery)

What can I do to fix this phone?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nowetdio:
This is bad. You may be bricked. Might want to talk to the people in #thunderbolt irc.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nxslt1:
The RUU you used, was it an exe or zip file. If it's a zip did you put it on the root of the SD card and rename it pg05img and then flash it in hboot? That's how i fixed mine.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theherkman:
This you? Haha...

Thank you for telling me that I have to rename it to PG05IMG before using Hboot to flash. I didn't know that. :rolleyes: I've rooted 4/5 phones manually using adb and fastboot. I have a complicated problem that may not have a solution. Suggestions like, "Is your battery charged? / Did you turn your phone on with down button and power button? / Did you rename the Stock RUU correctly?" are not helpful in this situation.

Suggestions like talking to the IRC guys like Adry, Jcase, Scotty and the like is solid advice. Unfortunately, they think it appears to be a lost cause. I am merely exploring other alternatives by asking an fairly open ended question.

Bottom line, thanks for your 'help', now please move along.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrkite38:
And was this you? Not really a complete answer to that question. Guess we all make a mistake now and then...

This is uncalled for. You asked for help, he tried to give it. While you did say that you had tried flashing stock, you didn't specify how. You didn't say you had done it before. Chill out.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theherkman:
Way to take a post out of context. Completely ignore this.

Trolling much? 'Cause it doesn't look like you added anything useful to this thread either.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrkite38:
Not trolling, just pointing out the obvious. And "useful" includes keeping threads respectful and on track in my opinion which, in this situation, is the one that matters. There is no room here for debate or attempts at witty replies. If you have a problem with my moderation then PM me and we can take it from there. Otherwise, please review my previous advice.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carycooke:
ok im just trying to help so dont bite my head off but im not sure but if you could use the revolutionary tool in hboot and get S-OFF then you could try reflashing a older hboot and i would even try reflashing the radio while your in bootloader since its the only thing you can get into

Also i would download from somewhere else the RUU and flash it again through HBOOT this video shows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE8BiIFUOpk

If that dont work try this

http://revolutionary.io/

plus i found this but dont know if it would help

http://xdaforums.com/archive/index.php/t-1293180.html
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] insink71:
resolved?

Old thread I happened to stumble across...

Bootloops are almost always are kernel related.

My advice:

1) see if football hasn't got an official RUU.. RUU reset may work on its own and would be the simplest solution.

2) if no, open up the last known good working Rom or RUU you had before this soft brick.

Steal the boot.img out of the zip file; reflash boot.img from this (stolen file) through fastboot.

Also, if needed, prep by unlocking the bootloader through fastboot (unlock.bin from htcdev).

If you happen to have been using a2sd, d2sd or some other method to allow data or cache to be written to your SD, this also could be caused by /sdext (not communicating with kernel).

Solution for that is fairly simple:

Pull SD card and reformat the /ext partition(s) via a SD reader/writer.

Doesn't seem like the worst case I've seen, but I know not having your phone work can frustrate anyone. Hope that helps.

Rob
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sys81:
Im not sure wad i did to my phone dat cause all these problems.

I was usin galaxyrom n it was slow so i installed thunderbolt tweaks with all addons. Its was very smooth but after that the phone turns off by itself for no reason. Than i installed F1 rom thinkin dat the rom might be the problem bt nw still havin the prob. Nw im havin a hard time on-ing my phone every now and then :(
[Epic 4G General] chuhsi:
My wife and I both have Epics. Her phone had a few bad drops and is about to die. Since my upgrade is coming on Dec 1, I'm planning to get a new phone and have her take my Epic.

But what phone should I get? There's unfortunately no better phone with a physical keyboard, so I'm out of luck there. I don't have a good sense for when the Galaxy Nexus is coming to Sprint so I don't want to end up waiting 6 months for it.

Should I just get the Epic Touch?

Thanks for the advice!
[Epic 4G General] NissanNick:
I don't think you can go wrong with the torch. But on Jan 10th they will be announcing some stuff... I am Sure a phone and there lte. I would wait until then.
[Epic 4G General] tony45x220:
Quad core phones are right around the corner for Q1 and Q2 of 2012...id save that upgrade my man

Sent from my rooted, suited, & booted Epic 4G #knowdat!
[Epic 4G General] The Root:
Hard call. My dad and friend have them and they're insanely good, but all the points given before are true as well. Depends on when the phone actually dies, I guess.
[Epic 4G General] eheaps:
Sprint takes forever to actually release the phones they announce. So you'll have at least 4 months from now before anything extraordinary hits the market, probably longer. If that phone has really run it's course, then yeah, just pick up the Touch.
[Epic 4G General] ac16313:
Ridiculous claim ^^^^

Wait out for the announcement at least so you know what to expect. You can always just turn around and get it still, for cheaper maybe. My friend just got the tmobile varient and WOW it felt great to hold I love me big phones. Lol :)

Sent from my Samsung Legen-wait for it-dary! 4g
[Epic 4G General] Gavisann:
Like others have said, you should wait. Sprint will be announcing something soon and we who knows, we might get a WiMAX Galaxy Nexus.
[Epic 4G General] austin420:
i hope they dont ruin a galaxy nexus with jank ass wimax.
[Epic 4G General] travmofosho:
I love the touch but the only issue I see is that it has a big problem with LOS (loss of service). I've rooted and flashed several roms on it and nothing seems to help. Besides that it is super smooth and has a screen like no other :D
[Epic 4G General] rocket321:
As a temporary fix, you can find Evo3D's and Nexus S's pretty cheap used these days. Then if you want to hold on to your upgrade until spring 2012 you will have something to play with in the mean time.
[Epic 4G General] chuhsi:
Thanks. I think I will get the touch on dec 1. Wish there were good deals for upgraders. I'm going to have best buy price match Amazon's 149 price.
[Epic 4G General] ac16313:
Its not the price you have to worry about its the contract.

Sent from my Samsung Legen-wait for it-dary! 4g
[Epic 4G General] jnadke:
I'd wait a month.

Sprint has a special announcement on January 10th. Most agree it'll probably be the Galaxy Nexus.

The Epic 4G Touch has radio dropout issues. Same crap Samsung support.
[HTC Inspire 4G] tricotec:
I didn't post this in the CM7 thread because I believe my problem was a glitch during rooting, not CM7 which seems to work fine.

I recently dropped my Insight 4G which had been rooted and was running the Revolution ROMs and cracked the screen. I purchased a replacement phone, which arrived with the Gingerbread ROM from AT&T.

I decided to try CM7 this time and followed the instruction on wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Ace to the letter on rooting, installing clockworkmod, and installing the CM7 roms. Everything worked perfectly with one exception.

Now the phone takes > 10 mins (closer to 20 actually) to boot every time it reboots. I have tried restoring a nandroid backup of the Revolution ROMS from my original phone and everything works fine, but reboot is still very, very long. Restored CM7 from nandroid backup and tried to install RUU file to restore the phone to AT&T, but the software times out due to the extremely long boot time. Everything seems fine on the phone except for the boot time and I don't know what to do next.

After reading a lot of posts it appears that the instructions I followed have a similar effect to using the outdated Ace Hack Kit here. (Wish I'd used the new one). I am well and truly "Jammed Up"

Anyone have a possible fix? I am happy to do whatever it takes... not worried about data.
[HTC Inspire 4G] zelendel:
What I would do is return to a full stock. Then run the hack kit. But that is just me as I have never donebit with the CM wiki instructions
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
This is a common issue with the latest batch of Inspires (post Aug, 2011 MFG). The hardware is different and not compatible with any hboot except the one that ships with the GB RUU. If you downgraded as per the CM wiki, then you necessarilly installed an older hboot and this is the root cause of your problem.

You can easily replace the hboot on an S-OFF Inspire once it finally does boot by simply writing the later hboot image to the hboot partition (partition 18). There's instructions here:

http://paste.pocoo.org/show/495273/

You can jump into the IRC channel if you need some one-on-one help:

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#liberatedAria
[HTC Inspire 4G] tricotec:
Ok, after many hours of fiddling I finally got it back.

I used the hack kit to re-install the stock RUU using the alternate (hboot) method. It took a LONG time, but was successful. I then used the hack kit to re-root the phone and installed CM7 nightlies. The ace hack kit is a wonderful tool, and I thank the author for making it.
[HTC Inspire 4G] jadeus0831:
Hey Gene so what your saying is all Inspire batches post Aug, 2011 must be rooted using the current acehack kit only right?

And older methods of rooting will cause intermittent booting?

Crazy Food For Thought....
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
That is correct. The new AHK uses an HTC signed interim firmware patch put out for the DHD which has only a boot.img, radio.img and recovery.img. Fortunately, the radio and boot images are ones that are compatible with gfree and the S-OFF routines can be run without disturbing the rest of the firmware (hboot, system and data mainly), but unfortunately, the kernel is not compatible with the Inspire's graphics hardware so the process literally runs in the dark, and because of the GB changes, it must run in two stages involving both adb and fastboot. USB issues rampant among PCs (so many PC programs assume they are the only program you're ever going to run and so hijack the USB bus thinking you're never going to plug in any other device but theirs) so it is very important that both adb and fastboot drivers can run unimpeded. Occasionally a situation arises where adb runs OK, but fastboot fails and this leave the device in an intermediate state which is not in itself bad, but because there is a blank screen, users freak out and do everything but the right thing (usually involving a "wipe" from hboot) which really screws things up.
[HTC Inspire 4G] nlennis:
Hi Tricotec.

Please, could you describe the steps for doing it. I have the same problem.

Thanks.
[HTC Inspire 4G] sandeep88822:
i also need those steps.

i tried with ruu but white rebooting bootloader it takes around 10 minutes due to which connection time out occurs b/w phone and wire thus ruu is not installing properly, is there any way we can edit ruu exe file to wait for accepting connect for 10 minutes or so

or please tell other steps
[HTC Inspire 4G] glevitan:
Nice!! you messed the bootloader for not reading all the warnings. The only fix for the issue is this one:

http://tau.shadowchild.nl/attn1/?p=188
[HTC Inspire 4G] sandeep88822:
:( i did not did this, i hv gingerbread 2.47 ruu, and i am aware not to downgrade it

its done by my ebay friend, lol he ha sonly that older ruu and he updated 100's of inspire with that, its the first time he got a newer inspire :D

anyways thanks a lot xda rocks
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] lukewong01:
Why is it on xperia ray development is so dead?...so less custom roms? and without own forum of QnA, general discussion , themes and app? ...

Or is it the phone still new?

Any developer working on new rom? or full functioning miui?...i hope so ..:(
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] xperia ray:
it is not new , but it is unlocked by free xperia team few weeks ago
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] lukewong01:
Is the third newest phone of Xperia Family..it isn't? :)

So the development just getting started? or this device wont get a good support from XDA? :(

Last time i use an X8 , a great phone supported by so many developer, i hope Xperia ray too :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] zhuhailiang:
I also hope to more developers to develope roms for ray:D