I tried rooting my phone and I think I did it unsuccesfully even though I had super user privilages. I then tried unrooting it last night and when rebooting after the process was finished the phone wouldn't turn on. I tried a battery pull and I when I pressed the power button it would vibrate but nothing comes on the screen. And when its plugged into the computer it comes up as an uknown device. Please help!
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Root Phone won't turn on
- Thread starter ChopaH
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Yeah, see if you can turn phone on and boot into into Hboot (volume down + power button). If so, you should be able to fix it. Btw, if you had superuser privileges... that is called "having root." I hope you had S=Off. Either way, if you can get into Hboot, it should still be fixable.
sdrawkcab25
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seems like he downgraded wrong. So therefore the kernel he has now doesn't support the SLCD screen, that's why he can't see anything.
Follow this link, post #21 has the instructions you need (ignore the RUU thing)
http://androidforums.com/incredible-all-things-root/208403-just-rooted-having-problems-recovery.html
Follow this link, post #21 has the instructions you need (ignore the RUU thing)
http://androidforums.com/incredible-all-things-root/208403-just-rooted-having-problems-recovery.html
seems like he downgraded wrong. So therefore the kernel he has now doesn't support the SLCD screen, that's why he can't see anything.
Follow this link, post #21 has the instructions you need (ignore the RUU thing)
http://androidforums.com/incredible-all-things-root/208403-just-rooted-having-problems-recovery.html
Yeah that's exactly what happened. This fixed it all I had to do was go through the factory stuff when I first got the phone. Thanks a bunch, I will be more careful with my phone next time. I just found this forum today and am going to run any plans I have with it through here first to make sure I know what I'm doing.
Well I'm pretty positive I did it incorrectly. I did it cause I wanted better battery life. I had superuser on the phone but when following a tutorial to increase the battery life it told me to run cmd and something about sdk and I didn't do that. After doing it also a few of my apps started to not work correctly and I thought it may have something to do with it so I figured I should unroot it and start over. I'm planning on getting help from the people on this forum to make sure I do it correctly.
Well I'm pretty positive I did it incorrectly. I did it cause I wanted better battery life. I had superuser on the phone but when following a tutorial to increase the battery life it told me to run cmd and something about sdk and I didn't do that. After doing it also a few of my apps started to not work correctly and I thought it may have something to do with it so I figured I should unroot it and start over. I'm planning on getting help from the people on this forum to make sure I do it correctly.
always make a nandroid backup before you go messing around, that way you have a point to revert back to where you know everything works