[RECOVERY][mojo] TWRP 2.8.2.0 recovery Mad Catz M.O.J.O.

[TwistyTravster]

I'm posting this in the TWRP thread since this happened to me while in TWRP.

Well, it appears I managed to brick the unbrickable.

Understand that this is a long shot, at best. I would never recommend this under any other circumstance.

If your MOJO truly will not boot to anything at all, then something must be screwed up in your fastboot. If you open up your MOJO, there may be some possible way to reset your CMOS with a button, or maybe by removing the battery and reinstalling it. If it even uses a removable battery at all, I don't have a clue. Short of that, I don't know of any other way of fixing something like this.

 

[kevinthefixer]

Understand that this is a long shot, at best. I would never recommend this under any other circumstance.

If your MOJO truly will not boot to anything at all, then something must be screwed up in your fastboot. If you open up your MOJO, there may be some possible way to reset your CMOS with a button, or maybe by removing the battery and reinstalling it. If it even uses a removable battery at all, I don't have a clue. Short of that, I don't know of any other way of fixing something like this.

Guess it won't hurt to try. I doubt the MOJO has a battery; it does not keep real time when powered off, and of course it's designed to be an always-on thing. So any buttons inside won't do anything unless the machine is powered on. It should be safe enough, though, it only runs on 5 volts. There is probably a PROM chip in there that could be re-programmed if it's a firmware problem, but it's likely to be soldered onto the board and so would require lots of time and equipment to do that. There is a procedure to reflash Nvidia processors, but AFAIK it has not been implemented for the MOJO, and in any case it must be set up beforehand for each individual device. In other words, more work than the MOJO is worth and too late anyway.

 

[rkitect]

I can certainly give it a shot. I have a note in to Madcatz support to see if there's any response. I'll be waiting on that response to decide if I should open it up. Thanks again for the suggestions.

 

[kevinthefixer]

I can certainly give it a shot. I have a note in to Madcatz support to see if there's any response. I'll be waiting on that response to decide if I should open it up. Thanks again for the suggestions.

I was just browsing the "general" section, there's a thread there about power and reset buttons. It gives a very good howto open the box.

 

[xxhtownutzxx]

So I flashed to CM12 and was loving it until today. I went to change my theme and noticed you can download themes from playstore so i did. Once I applied it everything went to ****e. For example I cannot open things like playstoreand other apps,ES file explorer doesn't recognize my internal memory, etc. I tried to reboot into recovery but I cannot do that either, all that happens when it reboots is a dead looking droid with its stomach open and a red exclamation triangle pops up on screen. After a few seconds it reboots again to home screen. So i dont think I'm completely bricked but cant do much now without getting into TWRP. Pics below are of my mojo screen during reboot into recovery and the theme i applied that caused all these issues. Please help!

 

[shpitz461]

Just dirty flash the rom again.

 

[kevinthefixer]

This is a double post

So I flashed to CM12 and was loving it until today. I went to change my theme and noticed you can download themes from playstore so i did. Once I applied it everything went to ****e. For example I cannot open things like playstoreand other apps,ES file explorer doesn't recognize my internal memory, etc. I tried to reboot into recovery but I cannot do that either, all that happens when it reboots is a dead looking droid with its stomach open and a red exclamation triangle pops up on screen. After a few seconds it reboots again to home screen. So i dont think I'm completely bricked but cant do much now without getting into TWRP. Pics below are of my mojo screen during reboot into recovery and the theme i applied that caused all these issues. Please help!

Please do not post the same question in different sections.

 

[aeshma]

Twisty I have sent you a private message.
I run prompt as admin and try to run flash recovery but I get the following message:

"C:\r3-mojo-superboot-mmm>fastboot-windows.exe -i 0x0738 flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.8.2.0-mojo.img
target reported max download size of 643825664 bytes
sending 'recovery' (7312 KB)..."

The Booting OS logo starts flashing...

How long should it take? Is it me that it is not waiting enought (awaited 10 minutes) or is it stuck?
Please help.


Edit** IT WAS THE USB CABLE!!! I MANAGED TO REVIVE THE MOJOOOO I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! When I was going to flash the stock rome I finally realized what was the error "BACKLIGHT LED ERROR".

TWISTY YOU ARE A HERO!!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!

 

[kal357]

Can someone please look at the post I created under can someone please help me under General

 

[gbrooke]

Twisty I have sent you a private message.
I run prompt as admin and try to run flash recovery but I get the following message:

"C:\r3-mojo-superboot-mmm>fastboot-windows.exe -i 0x0738 flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.8.2.0-mojo.img
target reported max download size of 643825664 bytes
sending 'recovery' (7312 KB)..."

The Booting OS logo starts flashing...

How long should it take? Is it me that it is not waiting enought (awaited 10 minutes) or is it stuck?
Please help.


Edit** IT WAS THE USB CABLE!!! I MANAGED TO REVIVE THE MOJOOOO I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! When I was going to flash the stock rome I finally realized what was the error "BACKLIGHT LED ERROR".

TWISTY YOU ARE A HERO!!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!

im getting same led/backlight error and booting to a black screen...im using the usb cable that came with my mojo, please help!!!!

 

[blonde410]

I'm in recovery mode won't respond to controller or any mouse. Does the mouse need to be a wired one?