PLEASE help!!! optimus s wont go to recovery and wont boot

**traxxasBandit** · 03-11-2012, 10:28 PM

I have rooted my phone and installed reborn rom plus some extra themes. i recently bricked it

but i was able to unbrick it and re install my stuff. today i turned it off and now i cant go into recovery and also when i turn it on it freezes on the reborn rom screen. I NEED HELP with this it has been stressing me out like crazy. i love this phone and just want it back. any help please?

**lord akira** · 03-11-2012, 10:49 PM

If you have everything already on backup, try a hard reset, while its off hold volume down, home, and the power button for 5 seconds. It should reset everything to "factory" but I'm not positive that it will work on a "rooted" phone but its worth a shot right?

**traxxasBandit** · 03-11-2012, 11:11 PM

thanks tried it but it didnt work.

but now my phone goes to the home screen with the "slide to unlock" but it wont respond.

**Ez Duzit** · 03-12-2012, 07:33 AM

Originally Posted by traxxasBandit

thanks tried it but it didnt work.

but now my phone goes to the home screen with the "slide to unlock" but it wont respond.

From that screen you should be able to press and hold the power button, which will bring up the boot menu. You should be able to choose "Recovery". From there just reinstall the ROM making sure to wipe data, cache, and dalvik-cache. Or reinstall your latest nandroid backup.

Btw, what recovery do you have?

**traxxasBandit** · 03-12-2012, 09:36 PM

i have xionia CWMA recovery. And none of the buttons work everything is unresponsive once it gets past the rom screen.

**Ez Duzit** · 03-12-2012, 09:54 PM

Did you by chance use the Rom Manager app?

**traxxasBandit** · 03-12-2012, 10:17 PM

Originally Posted by Ez Duzit

Did you by chance use the Rom Manager app?

by gollie gee yes, yes i did

iv found out that the optimus s + rom manager = bricked phone. any other ideas? you are being a great help

**traxxasBandit** · 03-12-2012, 11:24 PM

I think i know what happened i think Rom manager's recovery is fighting with xionia so something was messed up in the process.

**traxxasBandit** · 03-15-2012, 12:42 AM

bump

**Paul627g** · 03-15-2012, 12:46 AM

Originally Posted by traxxasBandit

bump

Please be patient traxxas, jumping around the Optimus forums in various threads is not going to get things resolved faster. If anything veteran members will look away from this type of activity and you won't get the help you need.

Best of luck.

**sfhub** · 03-15-2012, 04:09 AM

Can you get adb to connect to the phone? Do you still have root?

If so you can probably flash xionia recovery again and also flash the stock kernel.

I am on mobile right now or I would give you the commands.

**Nagiom** · 03-15-2012, 11:48 PM

Interesting, my Optimus started showing the exact same symptoms with Your Mom ROM tonight. I got an email and the unlock screen was completely unresponsive. So I pulled the battery and restarted a few times, but no dice. Then, I tried to boot into recovery (Xionia), but no luck. Holding down the power, volume down and home buttons didn't do anything. The phone booted normally to a lock screen that is unresponsive. After trying this a few times, the phone stopped booting altogether and hangs at the Your Mom Rom splash screen. The only odd thing is that the phone starts powering on as soon as I put the battery in and I'm wondering if that has anything to do with my boot issues. Right now, I'm going to leave the battery out and start back at it in the morning.

**Nagiom** · 03-17-2012, 09:32 PM

Well, not sure if this helps, but I took mine to the Sprint Store since I have the insurance. They were able to unlock it in about 20 minutes but I still couldn't boot into Xionia. So I re-rooted and reflashed Xionia. Then, I wiped everything and flashed HydroRom. Now, everything is all honky dorry.

**traxxasBandit** · 03-20-2012, 06:46 PM

Anybody?????Please

**hlxanthus** · 03-20-2012, 07:14 PM

So you rooted your phone and installed xionia. Did you then install reborn or rom manager first? The issue is rom manager will over write xionia with its own recovery, and then when you flash a rom with it, snafu's the device. So it is not a conflict with xionia and rom managers clockwork mod, it is that xionia is now gone. What happens when you try to boot up in recovery? Black screen and hard keys lit? And when you try to boot into android? Boot loop? More information.

Edit: Have you tried this method?

http://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?p=602790

If you can get that to work, then once you are able to boot into android, you can flash stock recovery (use the automated root utility in the stickies in the opti s rom section as it will flash stock recovery) then you can run the zvd update.zip to get back to zvd baseband ( at this point if you get that far i would do a ##786# reset to properly reprovision your phone, you will need your msl# which you can get from sprint customer service). then re root with the same root utility ( which will also flash xionia) and never use rom manger again.

**traxxasBandit** · 03-20-2012, 07:59 PM

Anyone!???

**traxxasBandit** · 03-20-2012, 08:02 PM

Sorry didnt see the lasr thread(s) but adb wont work in emergency mode

**traxxasBandit** · 03-20-2012, 08:10 PM

Ok so i can boot into recovery but the screen is lit up but blank although i found out that everything in recovery still responds. I was able to reboot my phone and also boot back into recovery. But my problem is i cant see anything i just need to got to backup/restore. But i cant see anything in recovery. Does that help any??

**hlxanthus** · 03-20-2012, 09:35 PM

Well, then we need to figure out what the interface structure is of that recovery, so you can do it blind and wipe and flash a rom that may boot. If you can get to boot up, you would still be able to install a different recovery with terminal emulator instead of adb

**traxxasBandit** · 03-21-2012, 05:12 PM

Clockworkmod v3.0.0.5 is what i have guys. Im not making much progress finding anything i dont know what the controller mappings are. Any ideas?

**traxxasBandit** · 03-21-2012, 06:56 PM

Im not trying to **** anybody off but i really need my phone fixed fast!!

**hlxanthus** · 03-21-2012, 08:02 PM

Dude, I have zero experience with fixing a rom manager brick. I have been trying to offer assistance, I have been just hoping someone else might be able to offer assistance. Perhaps it might get more notice in the rom manager brick thread.

Edit: Okay I found some screenshots of that recovery here.

What I want you to try is to do a wipe data/factory reset from recovery, though I know you cannot see it. Try booting into recovery even though it will be a black screen. Do that and give it 30 seconds to get there, hit the vol down key twice then the settings key. Then vol down 7 times and settings key again. Give that 5 minutes to work then hit the settings key again. In theory that will perform the data wipe and try to boot into your rom. If that doesnt work, pull the battery and try substituting the settings key all times for the home key.

And if that doesnt work, I would throw it in a bucket of water for an hour and take to sprint and say it doesnt work LOL

**traxxasBandit** · 03-22-2012, 12:18 PM

Sorry dude im not trying to make you mad i just really need this and youv been a great help. So i did what you said and now i have an android screen instead of the rom screen. And it turns on and goes to my rom. But everything is force closing. Still thanks for the help I
m workin on it right now cause im gettin somewhere with it

**hlxanthus** · 03-22-2012, 01:34 PM

I would try installing xionia with terminal emulator if you cannot get adb to work. But hey you got into android atleast that is moving forward!

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**Buddlespit** · 03-22-2012, 06:46 PM

this should help you seen the screen. I used it when I reverted to zv9 with the newer screen (no drivers for the newer screens and older basebands).