yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timmymarsh:
Unless you are experienced in this kind of work i would SERIOUSLY recommend you send this away for repair. JTAG route means taking your device apart and soldering, not for the faint hearted!!

There is no software solution, if your device cannot enter bootloader, im afraid its properly bricked!

Use the web to locate nearest repair centre.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] himbora:
Dear PA49

i also in cambodia and faced the same problem as yours.. the damn **** expensive bricked hd2.. i dont know if u have solved your problem.. mine is still waiting for 3 days by a mobile care shop in my home town.,..he charge me 30$

this is my phone number 017 777373
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsmxpert:
and probably your boot is erased, not a must you have your jtag, you can take it

to a repair shop for dead boot repair/unbrick.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timmymarsh:
way to go to resurrect a two year old thread ;)
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Ph0z3:
Quick question...

I just installed the TelusLite V4 on my milestone & absolutely love it... with one exception.

i saw the theme was borrowed from: Here and i would really like my caller-ID pictures to be alot bigger like this one

Is there any way to mod the current/default one?

I like the whole theme of TelusLite, but would REALLY like to have the larger, if not FULL SCREEN callerID.

-Any help is appreciated!
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Eggos:
Try the Full Screen Caller ID app in the market. There is a free version. Works well on my Milestone.
[Motorola Milestone Android Development] Ph0z3:
wow... i feel like a tard for not looking on the market first. lol

i do like this app, but the lack of speakerphone button really sucks, because i frequently use it, due to needing my hands free @ work.

Hmm.. guess ill keep looking & see what i can come up with.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] FattySparks:
I can't be the only one who likes Halo and can't wait for Reach to come out.

Here's a couple of splash screens I created with that in mind.

They are similar, but the second has one of my favorite quotes from Halo 3 and any one who has read the books knows what it means.

Let me know what you think. (Be gentle though, these are my first ones)
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] blkswanpres:
They look great, the only change I would make would be the quote on the second one. I would use a quote about Noble 6, like "There's only one other spartan with that rating" -Dr. Halsey
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] FattySparks:
The reason I used that quote was because of the references in the halo: the fall of reach (the book). But if anyone wants a specific quote let me know and I'd be happy to include it.

Sent from my Fresh'd out Evo 4g

using XDA App
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] FattySparks:
Here ya go.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] eaglenest608:
Hi, was hoping you could help me with this. I followed instructions on how to flash this and the actual sending of it worked but when it tried to write it, it said FAILED (remote: not allowed). Any ideas on what that would mean? Thanks!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] FattySparks:
You need to have ADB enabled. Put the evosplash1.rgb into your sdk/tools folder. Plug your USB into phone, then boot your phone into the bootloader. Click on fastboot. Underneath the date it should say FASTBOOT USB. Then open a command prompt and CD to your sdk/tools (or whatever you named it) once there type this:

fastboot flash splash1 evosplash1.rgb565
fastboot reboot
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] eaglenest608:
First, thank you for replying to my post! You are the first one to state the "adb remount" part. I did that but it is saying device not found now. My phone does show the red fastboot usb so do you any further suggestions because it still failed on the writing part. The sending part went fine but I guess it is failing since it cannot find my phone. Might I have the sdk set up incorrectly?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] eaglenest608:
One more thing...when I type adb devices...nothing shows up but when I type fastboot devices....my phone does show up.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] FattySparks:
when you're in fastboot it shouldn't show up in adb devices. I also forgot to mention to put the rgb565 file into your sdk/tools folder. Other than that it sounds like your setup properly.

Edit: Also the adb remount code isn't needed. I was so used to using it from messing around with bootscreens, I forgot it isn't needed for fastboot.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] eaglenest608:
Yes, it seems I am setup correctly from what I have read. Maybe I should flash to a different rom and see if that helps me. My wireless tether app is giving me problems as well so not sure what has happened but it may be time to give something else a go. Unless you can think of anything new that is, lol. Thanks a bunch though for you help...really appreciate it.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] eaglenest608:
Well, for those that actually care I have now resolved this issue. It turns out that the HBOOT version that I had did not allow me to perform this flash. I had to actually downgrade it to a different one and it worked perfectly. I wish to thank those that actually took the time to reply to my post...it was greatly appreciated!!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] FattySparks:
Realize I posted the screen of the new quote, but didn't attach the file... duh
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] jessetbenton:
Halo Reach Boot animation :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=8419483#post8419483
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] justinewing80:
PLEASE

Can you do one that says

"Halo:Reach>MW2"

That would be epic
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] FattySparks:
Sorry for the delay, got married last weekend.

Here ya go.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] justinewing80:
Ohhh this is Perfect the delay is no problem but seriously thanks alot and congrats on the marriage
[Droid 2 General] joeld82:
I rooted my phone and started deleting bloatware but I accidentally deleted my live wallpapers. Can someone tell me how to get them back without flashing the bomb?...It doesn't work for me for some reason.
[Droid 2 General] theecho:
is it just the .apk that you deleted? If so just push the back or restore your nandroid backup...you do have a nandroid backup right?
[Droid 2 General] joeld82:
I do not have a nandroid backup. I did this before we had a recovery. I've tried to upload the .sbf but it doesn't work for me for some reason.
[Droid 2 General] joeld82:
Nevermind. I just flashed epic 1.1 and now I have exactly what I want.
[Captivate General] thekurrgan:
NOTE:

So far this has been the only sure fire method I've found to 100% get around any brick situation regardless of firmware, etc. This only works for the captivate, not any other galaxy s variant.

Situations: phone-!-Computer / no download mode

Black Screen / RST_STATUS 0x0

Procedure:

1. Remove the battery, external SD card and SIM card.

2. Wait 10 seconds.

3. Open odin3

4. Connect usb cable.

5. Hold volume up + volume down + Power.

6. Insert battery.

7. Release POWER BUTTON ONLY.

You should now be in immediate download mode.

Please forgive me if this is duplicate some where, but I tried every procedure I could find on google to no avail, then accidentally found this method just before I was going to box it back up and see if my buddy at AT&T would make me eat it or not.

My situation was: Launched Odin3 to flash H3 firmware, died twice in the middle, and on the third time locked up half ways just at the beginning of factoryfs.rfs -- Then the phone did nothing. Blackscreen is all. Interestingly enough, while in the state if you hold volume up + power, it will give a hw diagnostic screen. Beyond that I could get no where. Just a black screen, no acknowledgement when connected to PC, no charging indicator, nothing.

If this is a dupe Im sorry but this method I could not find and hope to make it readily available to people who may think their phones bricked.

Update 12/22/2010:

How to BRICK the phone / WARNING!!!

If for whatever reason you decide to use Odin to flash a stock GTI9000 ROM and manually add the kernels and modems using a "pure" 2.2.1 sammy rom. BEWARE.

Researching a lot, it seems the consensus is that the sbl in the 2.2.1 versions of the GTI9000 has *hard* download mode crippled.. Meaning if there is a software screw up YOU CANNOT USE A USB JIG OR ANY OTHER METHOD OF GETTING THE PHONE IN DOWNLOAD MODE!!! To fix it you'll need a new one or JTAG to replace the bootloader.

As far as I can tell, beyond getting completely rid of the AT&T logo, there is no need to flash boot/sbl to get the "purity" of the 2.2.1 sammy roms.

Extract all files from the tar EXCEPT boot/sbl and re-tar and flash just those to avoid overwriting the stock captivate boot loader.

Also, it does not appear the boot/sbl from the captivate 2.2 leak suffers this same problem.

For any one iffy on bricking their phones, stay away from roms that remove COMPLETELY the AT&T logo on boot. This generally means the boot loader has been messed with any you may be screwed if you soft brick the phone. Most CWM roms dont overwrite the boot/sbl, but some can and do. Watch yourself.. if it the AT&T logo goes away COMPLETELY, I recommend flashing JF6 with One click while the roms alive using adb reboot download and try another rom.
[Captivate General] quantizationbit:
thanks!

worked...took a few tries but some trick with this captivate to get it into download mode.. i was totally bricked too, diag screen with PC/Phone icons and exclamation mark. for me 1.) plug usb, 2.) hold power and vol up/down and connect battery (it fell out) and i was in download mode
[Captivate General] fraztto:
I guess a similar procedure was on the odin3 one click thread, but there is something different in your procedure, it's not my case but it would be nice if some people confirms this as this may be useful and if it really works it should be included in odin thread
[Captivate General] askpcguy:
What worked for me was: Pull the battery, sim and micro sd card. Open odin on the PC. Insert the battery. Hold vol up and down then with the buttons held connect the usb cable. Just remember to plug in the usb cable with the vol up and down held in and odin must be open on the computer.

I also ran into the vol up plus power red text screen. Interesting to note that one of the fields will change depending if the usb cable is connected or not.
[Captivate General] fergsm:
mine is dead

mi samsung captivate was working great but, suddenly it go black and only the touch bottom have light, when i plug it in the a/c it show is charging. i'm mac user and a read that i ned to use odin3 but it not work on mac. how i can unbrick the phone???

is rooted with one click lag

the dbdata was modif to

thats all

HEEEEELLLLLPPPPPP
[Captivate General] askpcguy:
Odin will not open on the mac?

Cant you use a virtual machine and use Odin on a Mac that way?

Or else take the odin 3 single click for JF6 and use on a friends Windows Computer.
[Captivate General] TechNut*:
Please help - unable to flash back with Odin3

I have pretty much tried it all at this point and am trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

I followed the directions just in case get to the big yellow triangle with the droid shoveling and the screen stays at "downloading, do not turn off target..."

Of course I had Odin3 open already but its not seeing my phone, USB drives are installed am using Odin3 ver. 1.30.

Any help would be appreciated, TIA!
[Captivate General] askpcguy:
Best way to get download mode is use adb and type adb reboot download.

Or follow the volume up/down held with odin open on the computer, then you plug in the usb cable to the computer.
[Captivate General] mattbeau:
Thank you thank you thank you. i had a totally dead no boot or anything and this worked, i was going through the whole returning the phone senerio in my head
[Captivate General] askpcguy:
Just sharing the info! Makes you think twice about trying something else don't it?
[Captivate General] The Bishop:
does not seem to work because as soon as my battery touches the contacts it goes to the diag screen. do I have to release the power button in super human speed times there?

looked at all threads here, looked elsewhere -- there are some that are not fixable. Wanted to add that in case others come here and think that they might be the only ones that can't get it to work.

Ended up sending mine off to Samsung to reset today. :/
[Captivate General] mrbloog:
I love you! I called AT&T to send me documentation to sign and it was going to cost me 125 dollars to get it replaced even with warranty. And you fixed it ! :D
[Captivate General] storm717:
i have tried just about every single method detailed in these forums, and nothing works.

Trying what OP suggested just sends me to the battery charging animation screen.

Anybody have any ideas ?
[Captivate General] jimmyyeung:
file analysis

I keep can get to the download screen and I hit start and it does the same thing everytime it just does File analysis i cant figure what i am doing wrong here somebody please help me
[Captivate General] jimmyyeung:
I think the issue was it had something to do with 64 bit windows 7 i just re did the stock rom one click solution and it worked fine
[Captivate General] CatalystWon:
Thank you for sharing your experience. :)

I don't have a Captivate yet but am doing research on it and hopeful of getting one. I am confused about one thing.

Every where that I have read about how to enter Recovery mode or Download mode on the Captivate using the 3 button method, it says holding down both Volume UP + Volume Down (plus Power button) will enter Recovery mode. But you say it enters Download mode which is confusing to me. As I recall, to enter Download mode you must press the Vol Down only (plus Power button). Could it be because the phone won't go into Recovery mode, it goes into Download mode instead? Am I missing something?

Thank you! :)
[Captivate General] askpcguy:
Download mode is for updating the phone's firmware.

Remove battery, plug in the usb cable to the phone, open ODIN on the computer (need usb drivers installed before hand) on the phone hold volume up and down then plug the phone into the computer. Your phone will say DOWNLOADING. This method works even if you run into problems and the phone refuses to boot properly.

Recovery mode is for installing Update.zip. The method is tricky but involves holding volume up/down and power, the phone will show ATT then go black. It will repeat that but after the second time it goes black let go of power.

If that doesnt work, android debug tools ADB reboot recovery will work even better.

Or root the phone and use Clockwork Rom manager to boot into recovery, just press the menu item.
[Captivate General] CatalystWon:
Thank you askpcguy! I understand the difference between Download and Recovery modes.

So the procedural difference here is having the battery in + Power button, versus battery not in (use USB cable instead) and no Power button. Can the phone get power from the PC via the USB cable? This seems to differ from what the original poster said about download mode. Perhaps OP could edit his original post for clarification? Or am I still missing something? Thanks to all :)
[Captivate General] askpcguy:
The phone does get power from the USB cable.

The difference is one procedure uses the USB cable (download mode) and the other does not (Recovery mode).

The volume up+down method does not use the power button, the phone is powered on into download mode once you plug in the USB cable.

We say pull the battery to get the phone powered off. If a firmware flash stalled or doesn't complete, pull the battery and try again!
[Captivate General] CatalystWon:
I now understand the precedural difference.

Thank you askpcguy! :)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herrwinkler:
I just went back to a stock rom from CM6. The two things I miss the most are the ability to take away that zoom icon on the browser and the user agent feature in the browser settings. How can I get that without going back to CM6?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rusty!:
You can get the user agent feature by typing about:debug and going into the settings.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ninjalandpirate:
wow i didnt even know i could do these regardless of being on CM ive been CM'd for a while. thanks!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ninjalandpirate:
about your sig, how did you get such awesome speeds off of vodafone uk :-)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rusty!:
Guess I'm just in a good area :D
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herrwinkler:
Sorry, type it where?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilkorn:
In the URL space.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herrwinkler:
Sorry. Nevermind. I figured it out. I wish you could delete posts here.
[Droid 2 General] Matt4542:
First off let me say this is 1000000% easier than RSD Lite in my opinion.

If you like this guide just give me a little thanks :)

You will need a few things downloaded.

The sbf: Download In this folder you are really only going to need the DROID2_X6_2.2.20_SHADOW_BP_C_01.09.05P_P2_USERBLD_SECURE.sbf file. You can delete the second one.

The sbf_flash file: Download

Once you download both put them in your home folder(user name folder) open terminal and type these things step by step

Plug your phone in via USB now and turn it off and press up on the keyboard to go into the bootloader.

1. "chmod +x sbf_flash"

2. "sudo ./sbf_flash DROID2_X6_2.2.20_SHADOW_BP_C_01.09.05P_P2_USERBLD_SECURE.sbf

Now your phone should start flashing. Let it do its stuff and it should reboot in about 20-30 minutes.

Hope it helped!

BTW this works if you are bricked :D
[Droid 2 General] facelessuser:
Thanks for the info. I've been wondering this; now I don't have to set up a windows VM when things go south. I usually find most things easier in Linux (once you get used to Linux).
[Droid 2 General] facelessuser:
A note to people who try and do the SBF. Wipe your data and cache in recovery if you have a boot loop after flashing. I have verified this method works, but I had to wipe my data and cache afterwards to get past an infinite boot loop.
[Droid 2 General] draya1986:
Maybe someone can help me out. I've installed Ubuntu (first time user), and I have followed the directions up to the terminal part.

Plug your phone in via USB now and turn it off and press up on the keyboard to go into the bootloader.

1. "chmod +x sbf_flash"

2. "sudo./sbf_flash DROID2_X6_2.2.20_SHADOW_BP_C_01.09.05P_P2_USERBLD_ SECURE.sbf

When I try these commands, here is what I get:

david@ubuntu:~$ chmod +x sbf_flash

david@ubuntu:~$ sudo./sbf_flash DROID2_X6_2.2.20_SHADOW_BP_C_01.09.05P_P2_USERBLD_ SECURE.sbf

bash: sudo./sbf_flash: No such file or directory

Also tried:

sudo ./sbf_flash DROID2_X6_2.2.20_SHADOW_BP_C_01.09.05P_P2_USERBLD_ SECURE.sbf

sudo: unable to execute ./sbf_flash: No such file or directory

It shows up in the username folder (David), but for some reason I get no such file.

If someone can point out what I'm doing wrong, that would be great. Thanks.
[Droid 2 General] facelessuser:
Put a space between sudo and ./sbf_flash. It is not one command.
[Droid 2 General] inxane805:
this forum is so awsome thank to all the people that post and help !
[Droid 2 General] patchm00:
How does this work if you are bricked? I am stuck at getting to the M logo on boot and can only get to Android Recovery Console. I can't turn off the phone after i plug in the USB and hitting up arrow i've never seen before. Also, the phone when at the recovery console isn't recognized as anything; even in windows :(

EDIT: Hmm, i was not using bootloader mode sorry, trying again!
[Droid 2 General] zibrah3ed:
Link is broken for sbf_flash.
[Droid 2 General] patchm00:
Ya, I noticed that too. Pretty easy to find it searching on google though and I think its not specific to model of phone. I found a link to it here:

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Full_Update_Guide_-_Motorola_Droid
[Droid 2 General] zibrah3ed:
Thanks I wasn't sure if it was specific to this phone or not. I had found another copy using the google.
[Droid 2 General] Terri M:
I WAS using the bootloader, and RSD lite says the "Failed flashing process. Phone [0000]: Phone is not compatible with multi-interface super-file. [0x703B]; phone connected." I have no idea on what to do now. :(
[Droid 2 General] duongtran:
I followed the steps and now I am stuck in bootloader.... The process seems to have been completed, but when I turn on phone it directly goes into bootloader.

It shows the following.....

Bootloader

D2,35

Err:A5,70,70,1F

MEM_MAP Blank

Service Req'd

Battery OK

OK to Program

Connect USB

Data Cable
[Droid 2 General] newk8600:
Which sbf did you use and did you get the OTA update (2.3.2)?

Might I interest you in this threadit has the same instructions with more explanation just ignore the stuff about the livecd because you already have linux.
[Droid 2 General] karnovaran:
Boot into recovery by holding x and power, then press the search key at the android. Wipe data and cache, then reboot.
[Droid 2 General] duongtran:
I figured it out! Thanks for info newk8600. I was using the sbf found in this thread, but I needed the newer sbf(2.3.20) because I somehow got the OTA update. I have no clue how I got it because I never updated my phone in over 3 weeks. The last time I updated my phone was Fission beta or alpha. But either way thanks developers for everything you guys saved my expensive paperweight.
[Droid 2 General] The_Philosophist:
Thanks! But can you tell me it this will also work on the motorola milestone ? (other SBF file ofcourse!) because I tried updating to 2.2 but RSD lite wasn't able to find my phone or something.

Maybe someone else has an idea what the cause would be for it not to function as it should ?
[Droid 2 General] newk8600:
I bet it would work for the milestone also with the correct .SBF file. Just make sure you use the same syntax with the correct filename: sudo ./sbf_flash [sbf_file_name] (make sure the file doesn't have spaces or it won't find the right file).
[Droid 2 General] darkonion:
I wrote a small script.

DOSBF (kind of like DORoot and DOOverclock). You just got to give it permissions and run it, and yeah.

www.kimete.com/download.html
[Droid 2 General] newk8600:
Awesome! Sounds easy.
[Droid 2 General] darkonion:
It is actually! Super easy!
[Droid 2 General] selcal:
turn on

I found that with the D2G goes into bootloader mode if you push UP when you turn it "on", not turn it off. I was following the directions and attempting to load the DROID2WE_X6_2.4.29_FULL.sbf. It seems to be working great so far using this little program and Fedora14.

So why did I go back to factory flash? I wanted to upgrade my phone and i had un-installed quite a bit of the bloat-ware. This made my phone unrecognizable, and unable to upgrade. Working on it now. Will call and do the activation again and blah, blah, blah, we have all been there

-----------------------EDIT-----------------------

Well, maybe i was wrong. I found that all my settings and programs were still installed. it just added all the annoying stuff i took out when i first used my phone after rooting.
[Droid 2 General] pbonello:
I keep getting ./sbf_flash: ./sbf_flash: cannot execute binary file

error, can anyone help?
[Droid 2 General] darkonion:
Are you running a 64 bit version of Linux? That could be one thing. The binary only works in 32bit linux. There is a way around this though. You can download the 32bit package add-on thingy, and get it to run.
[Droid 2 General] xxxqt:
I am trying to flash my friends original droid with this method. I do everything right. but it just says waiting on phone, while the phone is plugged in. and while its on the bootloader is says code corrupt. what is going wrong?
[Droid 2 General] Zach21:
Moved http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=35855035#post35855035
[Droid 2 General] mllk:
Had trouble unbricking my Droid Pro. Tried the RSDLite multiple times with no success. Finally tried this method after failing so many times and it was a success on the first try! THANKS!