[Q] stuck in HBOOT, S-On, unrooted, no buttons work

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cehf

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• Apr 20, 2012

• #1

My little sister's G2 has been stuck at the hboot screen every time the phone boots. Her phone is completely stock, with the most recent (that I know of) update, the one in PC10IMG.zip. She didn't do anything to damage it at all, it just started booting like this out of the blue.

When at the hboot screen, no buttons work at all, the only way to get out of it is to do a battery pull. I even tried using ADB but it wouldn't detect the phone.

Any suggestions?

 

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hoffmas

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• Apr 20, 2012

• #2

first thing i would try is to somehow wipe the phone... push power & volume down to enter bootloader; choose recovery (a red triangle or something like that should appear) then push power & volume up (the recovery menu should appear); then wipe everything...

if this doesn´t work post here again

EDIT: sry, just recognized that i didn´t read your post carefull enough... if your buttons do not work, you probably have to flash a RUU

 

Last edited: Apr 20, 2012

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cehf

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• Apr 20, 2012

• #3

hoffmas said:

first thing i would try is to somehow wipe the phone... push power & volume down to enter bootloader; choose recovery (a red triangle or something like that should appear) then push power & volume up (the recovery menu should appear); then wipe everything...

if this doesn´t work post here again

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i booted it with vol down+power, then i pushed vol up+power and it started searching for zips. I had pc10img on it and it found and tried to update with it, but it gave "main version is older! update fail! press power to reboot." and rebooting again brought me to the bootloader.

edit: i don't have any experience with ruu files, so if that's what i need to do, can you tell me how?

 

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hoffmas

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• Apr 20, 2012

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Search for a RUU which is similiar or higher than your actual version, download it and put it on your pc... on your phone push power & trakepad to enter fastboot mode, connect your phone with pc and start the .exe on your pc...

Before you do this remove the pc10img.zip from your sdcard and try what i posted before again...

Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA

 

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cehf

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• Apr 20, 2012

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hoffmas said:

Search for a RUU which is similiar or higher than your actual version, download it and put it on your pc... on your phone push power & trakepad to enter fastboot mode, connect your phone with pc and start the .exe on your pc...

Before you do this remove the pc10img.zip from your sdcard and try what i posted before again...

Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA

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i tried doing this, but it failed, saying that my phone model wasn't right or something like that. but it did make the phone boot into the rom! and it appears to have all of its data still, hopefully everything works now.

 

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cehf

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• Apr 21, 2012

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rebooting will make the phone enter fastboot still. none of the ruu files i've tried work. is there a link to one that will work? i haven't found any.

 

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hoffmas

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• Apr 21, 2012

• #7

ok, before you do the ruu thing, try to do a factory reset (either in the booted rom or through recovery)

here some links:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1074391 (this is a pc10img.zip - you have to put it on your sdcard)

or

http://www.filefactory.com/f/b8dc837b1ed80be8/ (...all official ruu)

pls use the thanks button

 

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cehf

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• Apr 21, 2012

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htsger 3

i used the pc10img you linked me to. gives me: "main version is older! update fail!"

i tried the ruu files you linked me to and those failed as well. they kept telling me my phone image was wrong or something like that.

 

Nipqer

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• Apr 21, 2012

• #9

Try some from shipped-roms
You'll want to try the 2.15 rom

-Nipqer

 

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cehf

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• Apr 22, 2012

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Nipqer said:

Try some from shipped-roms
You'll want to try the 2.15 rom

-Nipqer

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same error as above

 

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cehf

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• Apr 23, 2012

• #11

I did some thinking and thought that getting it to boot by trying and failing to use an RUU, downgrading it, rooting it there, and then flashing another rom would solve my problems.

I managed to get to downgrading and rooting the phone, but after apparently flashing cwm through rom manager, I turned off the phone and tried to boot into recovery by vol down + power. Those are the buttons I use to boot my g2x into recovery, and through searching I didn't find any other combos for the g2.

That didn't work. I got sent to fastboot again, and no buttons work. I then tried RUU again, and this time it worked, booted. I turned it off and back on to see if it would actually load the rom this time. Alas, fastboot screen again. Still no working buttons.

I tried the PC10IMG.zip again. It flashed, but when it says <Press power to reboot> and I press power, I get sent to fastboot.

I pretty much consider this phone a lost cause, but if anyone has a suggestion that might help, please tell!

 

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x.para

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• Apr 23, 2012

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I can only tell you that I have same problem, just happened to me y/d and I am stuck on white HTC logo not having adb access and can not flash any stock rom for signature errors. not sure how to continue. thread is: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1614042, good luck for both to solve it