Pulse can't boot

[Guest kdck]

First post here, need help.

Upgraded to U8230 and Dec patch , stops at android screen forever, tried fastboot with recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.2.img and cm-recovery-1.4.img both said booting linux... then freeze. Can't find recovery.img for pulse . Don't know what to do.

thx guys

[Guest kdck]

First post here, need help.

Upgraded to U8230 and Dec patch , stops at android screen forever, tried fastboot with recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.2.img and cm-recovery-1.4.img both said booting linux... then freeze. Can't find recovery.img for pulse . Don't know what to do.

thx guys

and wrong link for download recovery zip file.

http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile...on-your-device/

[Guest rjm2k]

and wrong link for download recovery zip file.

http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile...on-your-device/

You could try re-applying the dec update from tmob by placing it on the sd card and powering on whilst holding vol + and red key.

[Guest kdck]

You could try re-applying the dec update from tmob by placing it on the sd card and powering on whilst holding vol + and red key.

you mean vol- and red key? I can access fastboot with that , can do fastboot command in cmd, but when I use fastboot boot recovery.img, pulse says write ok , booting linux... then freeze. take battery out And restart pulse still stops at android screen, can't go to main menu.

[Guest kdck]

and is this img recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.2.img right for pulse?

[Guest rjm2k]

you mean vol- and red key? I can access fastboot with that , can do fastboot command in cmd, but when I use fastboot boot recovery.img, pulse says write ok , booting linux... then freeze. take battery out And restart pulse still stops at android screen, can't go to main menu.

no i mean vol plus and red key

[Guest rjm2k]

and is this img recovery-RA-hero-v1.5.2.img right for pulse?

no you need the pulse one its in a pinned thread in this forum

[Guest kdck]

You could try re-applying the dec update from tmob by placing it on the sd card and powering on whilst holding vol + and red key.

thanks, did this one now phone is working, if I want u8230 rom do I do patch first or rom first?

[Guest rjm2k]

thanks, did this one now phone is working, if I want u8230 rom do I do patch first or rom first?

8230 wont work on dec phone yet

[Guest mapero]

thanks, did this one now phone is working, if I want u8230 rom do I do patch first or rom first?

First Rom, second the patch. Don't reboot between the steps. You need to have a ext2 ,ext3/ext4 is not working with dec Rom atm.

8230 wont work on dec phone yet

Thats wrong. Its working fine for me.

Edited December 19, 2009 by mapero

[Guest kdck]

First Rom, second the patch. Don't reboot between the steps. You need to have a ext2 ,ext3/ext4 is not working with dec Rom atm.

Thats wrong. Its working fine for me.

what is ext2? sorry I am a newbie. atm I got dec tmobile and try to install u8320 rom, I have installed quick boot from market, and superboot in fastboot from pc, but when i run quick boot it says no root access.

and tried amonrarecovery, it continues reboot after install it. what to do now?

[Guest aivdesign]

My pulse got corrupted the same way last night. Iv seen a couple of these around here. Pulse stuck at "android" on boot.

In the process of fixing this with guides on this forum but I have a couple of things to say while I'm doing that.

Firstly the breakdown, I remember exactly how it went wrong. Playing with it for a few days, installing apps etc, no rooting. Brokedown after a call I received(from someone), a very long one. I had received a call(from myself just before), but it only lasted 2 secs. This is significant because the first call was too short for the sleep/inactive mode to kick in (when you press nothing for a while), second call was, this is significant because when i ended the call by pressing the red key, the screen didnt turn back on, but i could hear it doing stuff when i pressed buttons. thought screen would be find after i took out battery and restarted, great screen was fine, loading... oh s*** gets stuck at "anrdroid."

I'm interested in the cause. Could it be an app? I installed so many different kinds, except not everyone who installed them would have a problem because I only chose popular apps and not many people have got corrupted by it, so perhaps a combination of an app and personal settings.... or perhaps multiple apps conflicting eachother...... I thought the "sandbox" structure was supposed to stop this kind of thing? So perhaps a hardware problem?

Anyway as I said I am on my way to fixing it with this forum's guides. I would take it to the store but the phone is synced to all my accounts and if anyone there fixs it they would have access to it all. Sure they work for tmobile but that dosnt make me trust them.... in fact they could probably do more harmful things with their knowledge than the average person, so I would rather fix it myself, or at least salvage what I can out of the device, or even destroy it if it is completley corrupted, but I doubt this.

So..... it seems I need to copy custom roms here to my sd card. I don't have an sd card writer. Which is the best one to buy? I don't want to buy one and find out it is the wrong type. Also do all reader's also write? It's a disk, not a cd, so I presume they all would but I wanted to check. Would this one do the job?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/GreyMobiles-Transf...2199&sr=8-1

type of microsd i have(it says):

pq1 microsd 2gb (and barcodes on the back, can type it all if necessary but i doubt it).

Other significant info:

when i go bootmode(with blue screen), it says machine id and build date(sep/10/2009) but serial number: "UNKNOWN" -that normal?

Also when I connect usb in this mode the first time it said on my pc (device driver ok) or something and then nothing on my computer, now again I connect nothing at all on pc. I hope this is normal. I also hope it is normal that I cannot shut down phone in this mode with any buttons, only by taking out battery.

I havn't installed any updates, at least not intentionally or to my knowledge. I have not rooted the phone, for fear of bricking it, but when I manage to fix the state it is in now I probably will. Hopefully whatever the cause of "this state" is, wont mess up anything when I get to rooting much later.

Thats pretty much every piece of significant info I can think of. I appreciate any constructive comments about anything. Mainly though want advice on the best microsd card reader/writer to buy for this process of helping unscrew my pulse up.

Also for now is there anything I can do in bootmode? No buttons seem to have any effect. I'm quite happy though that I have managed to get something other than the dreaded "android" screen, which I actually liked before it started freezing at it.

Edited January 2, 2010 by aivdesign

[Guest giryan]

You don't need a card reader, if you can get into fastboot mode(the blue screen) then you can do everything you need to.

If you connect it to your PC you can flash ROMs, enter recovery mode etc...

Details further up in this thread, or the other one about not booting.

[Guest aivdesign]

You don't need a card reader, if you can get into fastboot mode(the blue screen) then you can do everything you need to.

If you connect it to your PC you can flash ROMs, enter recovery mode etc...

Details further up in this thread, or the other one about not booting.

thanks i did that, like the other guy who got this far:

**

I followed the instructions (having first copied AdbWinApi.dll into the 1.1-pulse-superboot folder created by the zip file).

I had to disconnect the USB cable before I could start the machine in bootloader mode, because it seemd to boot by itself before I could press the requisite keys if the cable was connected.

It started into a screen which said USB FastBoot: V0.5, so I reconnected the USB cable and started the Windows batch file.

Very quickly it seemed to finish. The phone said "writing 'boot' (1990656 bytes) - OKAY

I then took the battery out and put it back in again (is this the only way to get it out of USB FastBoot?).

I then went into Quick Boot (which seemed to have been installed), and pressed the Recovery button.

**

What is the recovery button? Also when I took my battery out and put it back in it just froze at the android screen again, nothing happend, im sure I did it right though because I saw *The phone said "writing 'boot' (1990656 bytes) - OKAY* also. how do I get into "quick boot"

actually i just did it again.... mine says **writing 'recovery' (3858432 bytes) -OKAY***

not writing 'boot' like the other guy says.

i didnt copy AdbWinApi.dllto my zip folder... it was already there? in 1.5.2-pulse-amonrarecovery.zip? after extraction.

im confused

Edited January 2, 2010 by aivdesign

[Guest aivdesign]

thanks i did that, like the other guy who got this far:

**

I followed the instructions (having first copied AdbWinApi.dll into the 1.1-pulse-superboot folder created by the zip file).

I had to disconnect the USB cable before I could start the machine in bootloader mode, because it seemd to boot by itself before I could press the requisite keys if the cable was connected.

It started into a screen which said USB FastBoot: V0.5, so I reconnected the USB cable and started the Windows batch file.

Very quickly it seemed to finish. The phone said "writing 'boot' (1990656 bytes) - OKAY

I then took the battery out and put it back in again (is this the only way to get it out of USB FastBoot?).

I then went into Quick Boot (which seemed to have been installed), and pressed the Recovery button.

**

What is the recovery button? Also when I took my battery out and put it back in it just froze at the android screen again, nothing happend, im sure I did it right though because I saw *The phone said "writing 'boot' (1990656 bytes) - OKAY* also. how do I get into "quick boot"

actually i just did it again.... mine says **writing 'recovery' (3858432 bytes) -OKAY***

not writing 'boot' like the other guy says.

i didnt copy AdbWinApi.dllto my zip folder... it was already there? in 1.5.2-pulse-amonrarecovery.zip? after extraction.

im confused

wait do i need to do this: Superboot - rooting without a Custom ROM.?

im not sure i want to root it with the state it is in it could brick it or something. but i need some kind of boot img right?

*edit ok i ran superboot too, no errors, write ok.. but still get that android screen freezing or the same blue screen in boot mode(3 buttons)

am i missing something else?

Edited January 2, 2010 by aivdesign

[Guest giryan]

If you have the recovery image(Amon RA recovery) then you need to boot into it, and then repair the ext partition, or possibly flash a ROM wipe etc...

You can do that by, at the command line on your computer running

fastboot boot recovery-RA-pulse-v1.5.2.img

If you're on windows and just using the zip that the recovery image came in then the fastboot in there will work, and so you can run:

fastboot-windows boot recovery-RA-pulse-v1.5.2.img

instead.

[Guest giryan]

The previous thread with other details in is here:

http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile...id-boot-screen/

[Guest aivdesign]

I am still quite confused. I tried to repair ext on sd card in recovery mode but it said i had to use fs from adb or something. So I have wiped it and that seemed to work. Now I am not sure how to install the stock rom.

I don't have the december update so I used version 1.5(update-pulse-1.5-core-signed). There was a boot.img there so I tried running that via "fastoot-windows," after copying all files to the same folder and then moving to that folder in my windows vista command shell. I have no idea how to copy the ROM onto my sd card after wiping it. In the guides(stickied) it just says select flashzip from sd card and apply rom... the only similar option I can find in recovery mode(after doing "fastboot-windows boot recovery-RA-pulse-v1.5.2") is [flash zip from sdcard], well I just wiped my sd card so there is nothing on it? When I select it, it says no zip files found..... so now do I need an sd card writer to apply the rom?

I have read the wiki and all the guides I can find here but I still seem to be missing big pieces of information. Is there another major guide I have missed somewhere? I would appreciate the help.

As I said I have wiped my sd card in recovery mode, now I am trying to install the stock rom.

I appreciate the help guys.

[Guest giryan]

In recovery mode if you chose "USB-MS toggle" then you can copy files onto the SD card with the phone plugged into your PC.

[Guest aivdesign]

Fixed it Thanks for the help giryan... all seems working fine again now.....

So what about the original cause? I want to prevent this from happening again. It would be pretty annoying if it happend when I was out going to a meeting and couldnt meet someone because my phone decides to screw up again. Any ideas on how to prevent this again? Relative to to the long explanation I gave about how mine broke down.

Edited January 4, 2010 by aivdesign

[Guest giryan]

Fixed it Thanks for the help giryan... all seems working fine again now.....

So what about the original cause? I want to prevent this from happening again. It would be pretty annoying if it happend when I was out going to a meeting and couldnt meet someone because my phone decides to screw up again. Any ideas on how to prevent this again? Relative to to the long explanation I gave about how mine broke down.

No idea really.

The only issues I've had have been either issues with having to repair ext when you reboot, and also with it occasionally just freezing on start as yours did. I've tried various things, and the only things that have had any impact have been going back to a totally stock ROM(which I disliked as the phone's so much slower) and using an MCR ROM but removing the ext partition from my SD card(which I'm currently using). I've rebooted quite a few times since I deleted it, and once had the battery go completely flat, and it's never had any issues booting.

Edited January 4, 2010 by giryan

[Guest aivdesign]

Is it possible to have all the recovery tools on the SD card so that if it freezes on boot again, I can execute a wipe or new ROM install from the sd card, this would mean if it breaks down when I am out I could fix it there on the move, without the need for a pc..... I guess this would require being able to get into recovery mode using just the phone itself -perhaps by editing it to create an option in fastboot/bluescreen(vol- & red & power) mode to execute recovery img from the sd?, I assume this is possible, is it difficult to setup and has anyone done it yet?

Edited January 4, 2010 by aivdesign

[Guest giryan]

Is it possible to have all the recovery tools on the SD card so that if it freezes on boot again, I can execute a wipe or new ROM install from the sd card, this would mean if it breaks down when I am out I could fix it there on the move, without the need for a pc..... I guess this would require being able to get into recovery mode using just the phone itself -perhaps by editing it to create an option in fastboot/bluescreen(vol- & red & power) mode to execute recovery img from the sd?, I assume this is possible, is it difficult to setup and has anyone done it yet?

Yes, as long as you have the december update then you can boot to recovery mode by holding menu and the red button.(when you turn it on)

Then all you should need is to keep the ROM on the SD card all the time, and you can wipe and re-install it from recovery.

Edited January 4, 2010 by giryan

[Guest Phil Brennan]

Ok, quick and dirty guide for dealing with superboot/ra/december update from SCRATCH:

1. flash across 1.4 superboot

2. flash across ra-pulse-v1.5.2

3. stick dload folder on your sd card root

4. use quick boot to boot into recovery mode and do a Nand backup

5. reboot into phone

6. do update via settings menus

7. flash across 1.5 superboot

8. flash across ra-pulse-v1.5.2

9. reboot into recovery mode

10. restore Nand backup

11. phone is gonna continually reboot here, so switch off and go into flash mode (Vol Down + Red) - this is because the update put superboot 1.4 back on

12. flash across 1.5 superboot

13. reboot into phone

This is how I did it, anyhow.

Phil.

[Guest starkos]

Ok, quick and dirty guide for dealing with superboot/ra/december update from SCRATCH:

1. flash across 1.4 superboot

2. flash across ra-pulse-v1.5.2

3. stick dload folder on your sd card root

4. use quick boot to boot into recovery mode and do a Nand backup

5. reboot into phone

6. do update via settings menus

7. flash across 1.5 superboot

8. flash across ra-pulse-v1.5.2

9. reboot into recovery mode

10. restore Nand backup

11. phone is gonna continually reboot here, so switch off and go into flash mode (Vol Down + Red) - this is because the update put superboot 1.4 back on

12. flash across 1.5 superboot

13. reboot into phone

This is how I did it, anyhow.

Phil.

Hi Phil, was just curious as to what your guide was for? Unless i'm mistaken it takes you full circle back to where you started lol, would No.10 restoring the Nand backup not revert the phone back to No.4 (before the Dec update installed)?

Not trying to be funny or anything, was just honestly curious :)

EDIT: Actually come to think of it, the Dec update may have stopped pre-Dec nand backups from working? So what is the purpose of 10? ;)

Edited January 4, 2010 by starkos