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Help HTC Pico A310e is dead ! Please help !

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Rocky141

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Hi all and a Happy Easter .
I have come here with absolutely no hope ... but still giving this android forum page a try...
i almost a week ago came to know about rooting , after a lot of hardwork i made it unlocked and rooted. now the thing is that i saw many sites for flashing roms, and they all said to make a nandroid backup ( backup made from the Android-BIOS thingy) , i did that also in case... At first i used CM 9 rom from your site, flashed it carefully while reading the instructions. I liked the idea so i flashed another one CM 10... everything worked fine until i needed to call my mother. when i called her the screen went black and the phone operator said" u have insufficient balance "
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This made me stressed. i tried to recover my previously made backup , and when i booted it showed me the HTC logo (without the "quietly brilliant" ) and then the HTC Logo (with "quietly brilliant" ) kept on coming again and again !

I googled this prob and they seemed to say that try flashing a custom rom like CM 9 or CM 10 , since than this is my 24.5th day and my phone is still stuck at the boot screen ... i tried Stock roms and custom roms ...

All this mess-up had made so frustrated that i accidently broke its screen and also bit off my SD CARD into 2 pieces...

P.S. > i need immediate help because my father doesnt know about this yet and still thinks that it is with my friend... PLZ help me !
 
Hi

There is not much we do about a broken screen and SD card! Do you know if your phone is insured? If so it may just be best to make a claim because its broken. That would also be the honest thing to say to your dad. The boot loop, that it sounds like it was in, may have been recoverable with a working phone, but probably not with a broken screen.

Roger
 
girolez said:
Hi

There is not much we do about a broken screen and SD card! Do you know if your phone is insured? If so it may just be best to make a claim because its broken. That would also be the honest thing to say to your dad. The boot loop, that it sounds like it was in, may have been recoverable with a working phone, but probably not with a broken screen.

Roger
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Keeping the broken SD card and screen aside is there any way to take my phone out of bootloop ? it has no warranty etc, therefore it is up to me for what ever needs to be done :)

PS thanks for the quick reply !
 
Unfortunately, your solution out of the problem was on your SD card. With your original backup we might have been able to get the original boot image out and flash it from your pc. Your phone was bootlooping because the rom and kernel didn't match - the kernel wasn't restored with the rom, so it was trying to boot a CM kernel into the Sense rom.

Here are some region-specific roms for your phone -

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1569430

If you can find the one you need, you have to buy an SD card and a card reader, copy the rom from your pc to the card, put the card in the phone, and try to install it.

If it fails, don't bite the card in half, come back and ask what to do next.

And if the touch screen isn't responsive, then you're not going to be able to attempt the installation anyway.

Dads are much nicer when you come out and explain what happened.

We often tend to pretend to believe stories - as a test.

You do what you think best though.
 
EarlyMon said:
Unfortunately, your solution out of the problem was on your SD card. With your original backup we might have been able to get the original boot image out and flash it from your pc. Your phone was bootlooping because the rom and kernel didn't match - the kernel wasn't restored with the rom, so it was trying to boot a CM kernel into the Sense rom.

Here are some region-specific roms for your phone -

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1569430

If you can find the one you need, you have to buy an SD card and a card reader, copy the rom from your pc to the card, put the card in the phone, and try to install it.

If it fails, don't bite the card in half, come back and ask what to do next.

And if the touch screen isn't responsive, then you're not going to be able to attempt the installation anyway.

Dads are much nicer when you come out and explain what happened.

We often tend to pretend to believe stories - as a test.

You do what you think best though.
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I also have an extra 1 gb card... i can use it to restore the original one... and by the way the backup made from the BIOS of android (i cant remember the exact word for it) ... however at the present moment i am going to try one of the roms that u have suggested !
 
Do you mean you have a backup of the contents of the card you destroyed? Because if not how can you restore the contents?
 
Hey EarlyMon
how can i make the rom and kernel match together ? or whatever needs to be done for that...

i have the backup (named as clockwork) iv got a stock rom and iv got a CM9 rom as well , now what to do ?
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OK, so you have a nandroid (and the thing you make that with is "recovery" - BIOS isn't an android term, and in any event is something completely different from recovery). So an obvious thing to do is put that on the replacement card and try to restore it. Heck, if you have 2 different nandroids, try them both and see whether either works.

Now the restore previously didn't work, but unless you made other changes apart from flashing a ROM there's no reason it shouldn't, so it's worth giving it another go (in case you damaged the one on your previous SD card somehow). Won't waste more than a few minutes. Otherwise, wipe the phone from recovery (factory reset: erase cache, dalvik and data) then try installing a new ROM (I'd try CM9, since you had problems with CM10).

Now I don't know this phone, so don't know whether it's one where you have to flash a kernel (boot) separately from the ROM? If it is, what was the last kernel you flashed? Or simply follow your instructions for flashing CM9 from the start again (skipping any stuff about rooting or installing recovery, because you've done that). A stock kernel will not work with CM or vice versa, nor will CM9's kernel work with CM10, so if the kernel flash is a separate step you need to take care there. Note also that a nandroid restore will restore the kernel, so you don't need to worry about flashing a kernel after a nandroid restore.

The thing with this stuff is to understand what you are doing and go step by step. Don't try short-cuts unless you really do know what you are doing, and don't just try things randomly (and hence skip steps).

I assume you do know that the easy way out of a bootloop is to pull the battery out ;). Then you can get back into recovery.
 
how do u think im surviving the bootloop - i pull out the bat. and then restart.

ive been trying the default roms and the CM 9 rom , but no use they stuck into bootloop ., however when i recover the nandroid backup it starts up with HTC LOGO and then comes the HTC LOGO "queitly brilliant" , this second logo keeps on repeating with that annoying start up sound! no use at all.
NOW i am trying to find kernel and rom of the same version but that seems impossible ,
It would be very helpful if you , Hadron , help me till i terminate this problem , (THANKS)
otherwise if this prob isnt solved than im gonna sell it in black market or something for 2000 PKR :) ...

wish me luck ,

regards....
 
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