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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoymis3:
I think I did cause when I go to device manager it says android phone, then when I press on it, it says android sooner single Adb interface. is that what is suppose to say?

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ok I install it, but now it says it can't open the boot.img?

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are you busy now?

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dude can you help me I've been trying to do the same process that you did to fix my phone, but when I try this command fastboot flash boot boot.img it tells me boot img can not be open.any ideas? thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
I will help you more this evening dont have time at the moment. What we are doing seems a bit over your pc skill level so I will try and make you more detailed instructions.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iodev:
Try unlockroot.com
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UPdownLoAD:
Since this thread has become more of a Torque discussion since we don't have a forum, any chance of you posting a tutorial somewhere over here please?: http://androidforums.com/kyocera-torque/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoymis3:
ok thanks a lot for all your help.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoymis3:
hey bro all I need is to know how to flash the boot.img because when I try to do it, it says it can be open, everything else worked fine that's the only error I get when I try to flash it. if you could help me with that I think I'll be able to fix it;)

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sorry It can't be open.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x000x:
this is how i did it. maybe you can skip the part about the system.img.

first install adb. i installed mine to C:\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20140321\sdk\platform-tools

then i copied the boot.img and system.img files to platform-tools folder.

next, navigate to the platform-tools folder, hold down shift and right click mouse button. choose 'open cmd window here'

startup the phone in fastboot mode. you'll just have a red led light to indicate if you booted into fastboot successfully, no gui or anything else.

plug in phone to usb into your computer

in cmd window type fastboot devices, something should pop up.

then run the fastboot commands suggested. jlmancuso suggested that i run these commands in my situation, but maybe not all these next steps are necessary for you:

Fastboot erase boot

Fastboot flash boot boot.img

Fastboot erase system

Fastboot flash system.img

Fastboot erase userdata

in my situation, on the part where you type in Fastboot flash system.img the cmd window returned a message about "cannot determine image file name for system.img"

so i did some looking and saw that some people suggest typing: fastboot flash system system.img instead
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoymis3:
hey it didn't work bro:(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x000x:
which part?

you need to be more specific :P
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoymis3:
I try both commands with no luck I also copied the boot.img and the system.img to the adb folder like you said but could'n do it. any other suggestions? let me know but thanks a lot for your help.

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I don't know maybe am still doing something wrong but I don't know what it is?:confused:

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now my phone's light doesn't even turn on, it shows is connected, but the ligth:silly: is on lol!!!!!!

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Okay thanks a lot bro I'll try that and se what happens am a bit frustrated already cause this is my regular phone and I haven't been able to fix it let's see what happens but I really appreciate it thanks:)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fendergrab:
Just in case anybody has the same issue as me, framaroot 1.9.2 would not root 2.602 firmware. Framaroot 1.8.1 does however.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoymis3:
Ok I finally did it!!!!!!!:D I istall both the boot.ing and the system recovery. Img I try to turn my phone after but nothing happened so I left charging we'll see what happens when I come back home thanks a lot guys for all your help.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
Sorry I didn't get back with you yesterday got busy with other things. Now yoiu say it worked but i am a bit confused on what you did. You say you installed both boot.img and system recovery.img. Does that mean you flashed system.img or recovery.img?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoymis3:
Sorry I meant to say system.img and boot.img and now my phone is working again:D:D:D:Dthanks so much for all your patience:)now my next question can I install twrp recovery on my phone?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
There is no recovery yet. I am actually going to start work on one shortly. x000x is sending me a tester unit so I can build a recovery.

Once a recovery is built then I can start on making a custom rom.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoymis3:
Cool man!!!!! I don't know a lot about this stuff but I think is very interesting so I would like to learn more about it. So for now just keep me posted when you have it ready so I can try it and thanks so much for all your help:D:D:D

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You saved my life and my kyocera;);)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoymis3:
Any way I can make internet faster on my Kyocera torque? :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x000x:
are you asking in regards to mobile data or wifi?

if mobile data, it depends on where you live. if you are in a 3g area, sprint's 3g speed is about as fast as 56k dialup in my experience.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoymis3:
Mobil data, is there any way I can make it go faster than that with a tweak or something like that do you know?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x000x:
nope, not really. sounds like you might be in a 3g area if it is really slow.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoymis3:
Ok I guess I am, I was just wondering if there was one to make 3g faster. Can you send a pm if you hear anything?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x000x:
there isn't really anything you can do on your side. there are some 3rd party browsers that claim to help speed up things, but i doubt you'll see a huge improvement. you are basically at the mercy of sprint. until they get 4g lte in your area you'll be stuck with however fast it is now.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoymis3:
Cool bro and thanks for the quick reply, I hope the do something as soon as possible cause my 3g is really slow and am hoping it will change soon.

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Have you heard anything about a recovery or a rom for the torque?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deviantus:
Sounds cool :cool: A lot of people are looking forward, for sure :victory:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rasta4rest:
Flash Radio.img

Does anyone here who has Error 8713 try to flash radio.img file ?

try to flash system.img & boot.img but still won't work... at least it worth a try since we dont exactly know where the problem comes from, does anyone has the radio.img file for Torque ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoymis3:
Try this,

Fastboot erase boot

Fastboot flash boot boot.img

Fastboot erase system

Fastboot flash system.img

Fastboot erase user data

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But you need to have adb installed on your pc ok .

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This is what worked for my torque.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rasta4rest:
Need Help

Do you encounter the same error 8713 and fixed it using just that flashing method ? coz it won't work on me. Fatal Error not fixed yet , that's why i try to flash radio.img file.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x000x:
yeah those steps won't work to fix the 8713 error, I know since I tried that before about 5 times :P

I never thought of the radio.img
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
Well if that is the same code you were getting it is not the radio. Some days it boots some days it wont. It seems to be an intermittent hardware issue. Been slow trying to work on the recovery for that reason.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x000x:
To me, I'm almost positive the 8713 error is related to the last firmware update though. how or why, I've no idea. All I know is it was working perfectly for months, but immediately after the last firmware update it gave the 8713 error. Unless it was just a very random coincidence. But then again, theres quite a few people posting on the official sprint forum that they also had their phones rendered inoperable after the 2.602sp update.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoymis3:
Then just go to sprint and tell them that problem started after the update and they'll fix it for you.

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I did that and it worked for me :D

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And they won't charge you anything cause a lot of people is having the same problem or at least that's what They told me :):)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SoHardcore:
Anybody have any advice for this issue .... ??

I forgot to put my phone on the charger last night and then woke up to a phone that won't get past the flashing "android" boot screen. I didn't even have that boot screen yesterday. I had the one that said: "Please wait.... Preparing for encryption. Process may take several minutes." !!!!

Anyway, I was in a rush and wanted to have the phone functional before driving to work. So I did a hard reset, thinking that this would surely solve the problem. It didn't. I had to wait until coming home before reflashing the system.img file I got a few months ago from x00x, I think it was. I got it on the phone, when it restarted it immediately started updating something like 129 apps, then it said "Starting apps....." with the 'waiting' image continuously turning for too long of a time. So I restarted, and it was still stuck at the "android" boot screen. My eyes go: :eek:

And as I was typing this I decide to try one more with flashing the system.img file. This time it doesn't even get to the point where it says updating the 100+ apps. It's just "android" boot screen ---- AD NAUSEAM

Are there any options here?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoymis3:
Try the commands that are a couple post's back I think they will work cause I my phone was doing the same thing:D:D. Let me know.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SoHardcore:
If you're referring to these commands....

Yes, I've already tried them. I've been using the "-w" switch, to take care of all cache, userdata, etc. in one swoop:

fasboot erase system -w

fastboot erase boot -w

fastboot flash system system.img

fastboot flash boot boot.img

STILL NO GO. Which is why I'm here. I've done about half a dozen times now, and only the first time did it give me the "updating apps" and "starting apps" screens.... but it hung on that last one for way too long. Is there anything left to do at this point??

*EDIT*:

The only other thing I can think of is actually being able to format these partitions, because it's not working with my setup. Keeps giving me this error when trying to erase the partitions --

"Formatting 'userdata' partition...

Erase successful, but not automatically formatting.

File system type not supported."

Are there Linux drivers available for this phone?? How else can I format with what I'm presuming is an ext filesystem???
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UPdownLoAD:
I have 2 really bad stories that will sum up the above mentioned problem, but I will save them for another day as I can summarize easily: Google Play services is the problem. I had one Play background update that made my phone red hot, I rebooted, and then

I was in a bootloop until I hard reset my phone.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SoHardcore:
I've done a hard reset.

Everything I've done half a dozen times should have given me a factory fresh device. Still not understanding the problem.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
Hey I just found a cool keyboard. The lg g2 keyboard here is the thread. You will need to modify your build.prop to get all the features working. I have tested this and all works but emojis are black and white. Going to see if I can change them to color. Will let yall know.

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt832:
Need help.. latest image.

Hey, just picked up this phone. Seems OK, but have and issue. Keep getting 8713 error. I flash the images I got here and then the phone auto updates. I'm hoping someone here will upload a copy of the latest ROM, can only load it with fastboot.

update: even after flashing image still get 8713 error. Guess it's dead.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x000x:
welcome to the club lol. i've no idea what kyocera did, but whatever was in the last firmware screwed their phones up for a lot of people. currently there is no fix for the dreaded 8713 error, unless someone is lucky enough to accidentally stumble upon a solution. if you happened to buy it through sprint they will replace it since this error has happened to a lot of people. You might still be able to boot into your phone from adb. But if you turn it off or reboot it etc it goes back to the 8713 error.

try typing this from adb:

fastboot boot boot.img

there might be another step or two involved. I forget exactly, but you'll know if it works.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fester9977:
I will be looking forward to a custom recovery and possible rom. I know I will and many other will be more then happy to buy you some beers. Let me know where to send the money.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
It is not looking good. I was told by another user that kyocera has locked them down somehow (kernel and recovery). I am looking for a fix but so far the recovery starts to boot then reboots to rom.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x000x:
yep. i was afraid of that after reading this post http://androidforums.com/threads/po...-the-kyocera-rise.660612/page-35#post-6369904 while that is not the same phone as ours, it does give some insight into how the company operates. seems my fears were correct, that the torque could be locked down just as bad. Well just another reason why the torque will be my first and last kyocera phone (if that 8713 error wasn't enough reason in itself lol). If jlmancuso does manage to get even a custom recovery up and working you guys should give him a big thank you.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stonebot:
Does anyone have the stock roms for this phone? I accidentally deleted the bloatware apps, some of which I think I actually needed and doing a hard reset doesn't restore them.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toberly:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zx58q780865d54h/z588EHBmC1

Here are all the apps. You can try to reinstall them. If that doesn't work you can flash the system img from fastboot. It's all stock except I changed the boot screen. All the instructions are in this forum for fastboot.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stonebot:
Hmmmm chrome won't let me download because it contains malware...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toberly:
That's weird. A couple other users downloaded them with no problem. Were you getting the apps or the imgs? They've been on my Dropbox for a while but wouldn't think that would matter. Also think the system img was 2.002. Don't know what you were on before. Have the most recent one pulled but won't have my computer til later tonight.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stonebot:
I was just pulling a zip of the entire folder. Not sure why. I'm on 2.300SP, so I should probably flash your stuff and upgrade back up if I'm going to, right? Or is the lower version better? Ive been having some bad SD card issues with the current firmware.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matt832:
donor phone

any suggestions for a donor phone to use with the torque? want to use it on ting....
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UPdownLoAD:
The method and phones that worked on the Epic & Epic touch will work for the Torque, but not for 4G LTE
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fester9977:
Any updates on the custom recovery front? From the sound of this post you may be dead in the water unfortunately.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] george911:
Insufficient Storage on the Torque

Hi, keep getting the storage problem cant install/update any apps.Should I use Link2SD for this?what partition size and format do I need? (2 gb sd )

Also still would like to activate this phone in Canada. Any new ideas/info on this? Even a data only plan would be fine. I do realize this is a CDMA phone with a sim card slot.

Thanks !

:highfive:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
All progress has slowed to a crawl till I can figure out how to get around Kyocera's locks.

If Canada has a cdma provider that will allow flashed pbones then it should not be a big problem. Now about your storage issue link2sd might work. You will need a partition formatted to ext4 (2-4 gig should be fine).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x000x:
you asked the same question months ago. you basically bought a fancy paperweight.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fouadrx:
kyocera torque

helln i need help plz, i have kyocera torque sprit and wen i instal rom manager from play store and dowload custome rom the phone reboot and rest blobked in download mode what can i do thx all
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
Well you there are no custom roms or recovery for this device. You might have a nice paper weight now.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fouadrx:
How can i do to reset it to the stock rom? thanx
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
Not sure if you can. I have read that you can connect it to a windows machine and use Odin to flash the stock recovery back. Only I have seen no odin files for this file and never tried doing it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fouadrx:
thank you for your help but i can't connet device with pc with odin
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
It wont boot into anything but download mode? If you could get into fastboot mode you could flash that way otherwise I think you will end up with a paperweight. Dont want to sound rude but you need to know what you are doing before you try things like this. Without proper research you can really damage your device. If you had read through this thread you would have known there was no recovery. I have been trying to make one but kyocera has locked down the software and changing the recovery or kernel will cause a semi brick state.

When you say you can't connect is that because the pc does not recognize the device? You might want search some of the other kyocera threads and see if you can find drivers for download mode.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UPdownLoAD:
I've been told recently that the Torque can be reflashed at a corporate Sprint Service & Repair location, however, they will most likely charge you $75 if you do not have TEP/ESRP.

FYI Sprint sells this phone OUTRIGHT for $79.99 (preowned/refurbished) on their website w/o contract, so you gotta figure how much is your time and this phone really worth?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x000x:
you can buy used ones cheaper off ebay, around $50. Although I would not recommend buying a kyocera, especially with how it is locked down and they pretty much abandon it after they hit store shelves. its too bad b/c i really liked the torque, but their business practices are just archaic.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fouadrx:
pc recognize the device but odin no
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
Well sounds like you need drivers. I have not had to go this far on the device yet. I did do a little searching and you might be able to use the samsung usb drivers (what I have read from the Kyocera echo threads) but dont know for sure.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fouadrx:
sorry i dont undertand what do you mean with cloned on cricKet
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
That is part of my signature. It means I have those devices modified to run on the cricket network instead of sprint. Also they all have the exact same esn and telephone number. That means I can use any of those devices at any time and they think tthey are the exact same device. So only one phone can be powered (unless in airplane mode) on at a time or it is a craps shoot on which device will recieve the call/message (sms/mms).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x000x:
here is the support page for drivers http://www.kyoceramobile.com/support/drivers/ many months ago I installed those and my computer recognized the device when plugged in via usb. not sure if that will help with your problem or if you've already tried these drivers yet or not.

thats pretty cool. its probably a grey area, but is there a guide on how to do that? you can pm the info if that is safer :P
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
Those drivers will not work for odin. Now on what I did to with my phones it is not very gray. There are guides on xda on flashing phones to different service providers. Instead of calling it cloning they refer to using a donor phone. No matter the term it is the same. As long as you own all the devices (including the donor) and dont sell any of them in the cloned state its legal. The guides vary by the device they are very similar. I used the guide on xda sprint note 2 n how to flash the s3/n2/n3 to boost, virgin, ting, etc.. ( http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=35753067 ) along with a guide on how to flash to cricket for cricket specific info since that guide does not cover cricket.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UPdownLoAD:
http://www.groovypost.com/howto/activate-kyocera-torque-virgin-mobile/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x000x:
well i just read about this http://www.droid-life.com/2014/08/07/moto-x-bootloader-unlock-qualcomm/#more-147298

and a link to the .pdf document http://blackhat.com/docs/us-14/materials/us-14-Rosenberg-Reflections-On-Trusting-TrustZone-WP.pdf

but it probably doesn't really help :P

on the other hand the torque does use a snapdragon processor, but not sure if it uses that trustzone stuff or not.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snow8:
rooting Torque

Good story is I am not the only one stuck with this Toeque rooting.

Bad side is no solution. just nothing work
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllanRSS:
sorry to do a thread bump here, but I just can't seem to find any good place on xda to ask this question about this phone which so few people seem to have. I have soft-bricked my phone by modifying the build.prop file (even though I didn't make any changes). Would anybody here be so kind as to give me a copy of their system folder, or, better yet, a system image file? I can't access adb to push the build.prop, and it seems my only option is to flash a new system image through fastboot. Thank you so much in advance. This is my primary phone, so I'm in a bit of a predicament...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoymis3:
Dude check the posts on Page 43 I think you'll find you're answer:D:):o
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllanRSS:
Thanks man that really helped. While I wasn't able to find a system.img hosted, I was able to get one from the member who hosted his boot.img
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoymis3:
Col bro no problem am glad I could help Goodluck. ;);)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linyincsz:
Is there any new developments? Thank you!