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Help wipe my g2--blank screen

Can someone help me wipe my phone from recovery b/c i cant see anything on the screen but i do know the phone works and responds to touch?
I just need someone who can tell me exactly where to scroll in recovery to get to the wipe data/cache option.
Any help is very much appreciated

Unfortunately it may not be possible to help you navigate blindly because Clockword Recovery has a feature that places the confirm option among 10 choices to prevent accidental clicks. But from repeated tries it seems to come up in the same spot for me, so hopefully it might work for you.
So I can suggest that once you boot into recovery (volume down + power) and do the following.
- Press volume down 3 times and press trackpad, very very gently. Sometimes it registers a single click as two if you hold it for too long.
- Press volume down 7 times and press trackpad to confirm.
If it you select one of the "No" options on the confirmation page it will spit you back out to the main menu. So you press volume down 3 times, trackpad, volume down 7 times, trackpad.
Are you sure wiping your cache will resolve the issue you are having? It sounds like a screen defect or perhaps a resolution issue? Have you messed with your build.prop? If it doesn't work you may need to do some additional work from adb shell.

Thanks for the reply. I will try this as soon as I get back from class. I think it's a screen defect because the phone was working perfectly fine and when I came back to my phone after 10 minutes all I saw was a blank screen with the backlight on. I haven't messe with the build.prop. I have messed with the LCD density a couple times but I don't think that's what cause this issue. I just wanna try to clear all data I have on the phone so I can try to exchange it at a tmobile store lol. I know it won't fix the screen issue.
Thanks for helping. I'll see if it works. I do remeber that confirming wipe data and cache would also be the 7th option repeatedly.

Can you get into Fastboot?

Carloswithac said:
Can you get into Fastboot?
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im not sure. i cant see anything on the screen

so, my rom did not back up and my phone on regular power on just stay on white sceen displaying htc, when i try recovery it says no images. i have a back up G2 and i am looking for a way to save the proper to the sd card so i can boot back up. any feedback would be awesome. thanks
O and I'm s on, so I guess I'm not rooted
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So I went into the T-Mobile store and got my g2 replaced
Jmsbishop, I'm new to this but ima try searching around and see what I can figure out to help you out.
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Getting a "virgin" ROM backup?

Curious here...
Have a totally new, unactivated Dinc sitting here. Trying if possible to get a full backup of the virgin ROM on it. When I say it's virgin, I mean brand new - never activated, never even powered on until a few ago.
Since the first thing it does is walk you through activation, something I don't want to do, any idea how to get past the setup screens so that I can get USB debugging turned on so that I can get a custom recovery on it? Or an update.zip or PB31img.zip that I can get onto the SD card to bypass the need for USB debugging?
Thanks!
R
PS: If you wonder why I want to bypass activation, it's a phone that's bought as a replacement for my daughter for Xmas, so I don't want to tip my hand by activating it and subsequently nuking the service on her current.. And trying to save myself the trouble of doing all on xmas day. And yeah, I have other Dinc's here so I'm not totally clueless with them. Thx.

I had managed to get the since rooted and running a custom Ron without activating it on just wifi. Should work for you too. Just be careful if it's an slcd inc.

khanam said:
I had managed to get the since rooted and running a custom Ron without activating it on just wifi. Should work for you too. Just be careful if it's an slcd inc.
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Thanks... Appreciate the response, but on power on first screen asks language, second wants to activate, so I can't get deep enough in to get the wifi info in nor turned on unless I can figure how to bypass the setup screens.
Like I said, this unit hasn't ever been on, so it's going through the setup that would normally be handled by Verizon before they hand you the phone...Not really a position that I'd expect that the majority of users here have ever seen.
And it is indeed an SLCD, but mine is also so I'm pretty aware of the hoops I'll have to jump through there.

Can't you just go ahead and skip all the steps and root your phone. Then go to recovery and wipe back to factory resets? That should work.

Stoney 666 said:
Can't you just go ahead and skip all the steps and root your phone. Then go to recovery and wipe back to factory resets? That should work.
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Ahh, I wish. No option to skip. You get nothing but activate or emergency call in the second screen. Back just takes you to the language screen.

pm me your esn ill activate it on pageplus, that way you can get past it then we'll deactivate it.

I did this for my wife's last phone though not a smart phone. I had to activate it at the store before leaving, as soon as i got home i asked to see her phone to "update the service" and started to tell her about the *228 ...new towers etc....
I didn't update the service just re-activated her phone so she wouldn't know.
Worked well for me and didn't ruin the surprise

Seems like you could just do unrevoked,power down boot into recovery and nandroid there.
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He can't root because he cannot get past activation screen, to set up debugging mode.

slawson said:
pm me your esn ill activate it on pageplus, that way you can get past it then we'll deactivate it.
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Thanks slawson. Appreciate the offer.. but seriously rather than inconvenience someone I'll just wait until Xmas and do it then if I can't get past the activation screen some other way or getting into it with a custom recovery image. I'll still be able to get a pretty much virgin shot of the ROM, albeit it'll be an activated phone.
I was hoping to catch it in an unactivated state if at all possible, since I've found references by people cooking ROM's that a backup of an activated phone still has the ESN tucked away in obscure corners and subsequently isn't of much value - or at least can lead to potential issues if used other than on the phone it came from.

it's not an inconvienence just let me know other wise.

Can't you bypass the activation screen by pressing in the top left corner, top right corner, bottom right corner, then bottom left corner of the screen?

caseym said:
Can't you bypass the activation screen by pressing in the top left corner, top right corner, bottom right corner, then bottom left corner of the screen?
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Naa, just tried it. Tough to do too with my fat fingers since the activate button takes the bottom right and the emergency button the bottom left

CCrew said:
Naa, just tried it. Tough to do too with my fat fingers since the activate button takes the bottom right and the emergency button the bottom left
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Are you sure you're doing it right?

Mr. Spontaneous said:
Are you sure you're doing it right?
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Wasn't, since I hadn't seen that trick and his post said start in the top left. Yours shows top right. My screen is different than the one in the link, but looks to be the same functionality
That said, Appreciate all for the input, but it's in the box and wrapped with paper, ribbon and bow now.. I'll attack it again on Xmas if anyone else wants to weigh in.

caseym said:
Can't you bypass the activation screen by pressing in the top left corner, top right corner, bottom right corner, then bottom left corner of the screen?
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Pretty sure this is only for AOSP Roms, not Sense.

Hit the search key (magnifying glass) and type settings. It bypasses the setup menu
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Bypass Activation Screen

Does anyone know how to bypass the activation screen on the HTC Droid Incredible 2???

if you try to activate, hit back make it fail. repeat for at least 3 times and it should let you skip activation.

if that doesn't work you could use cdma workshop
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That didnt work.
Tried everything to bypass. No other ideas?

Something I found in a Google search:
When you get the screen to tap on the Android to start the process, tap around the edges of the screen, starting top left, then top right, then bottom right, then bottom left. Puts you into a different screen that ultimately allows you to work your way out of it.
I don't know if this works with the DINC2, but it did work for my D2G, and the link I found it at was for a completely different phone.

That didnt work either. I am not to sure why it is different from Motorola and HTC. It is still an Android Os. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO

Does it dump you into a different screen at all?

I cant get past the dial *228 to activate screen

You want the screen just before that. The very first screen. I'm getting ready to test on mine..

the first screen is the lock screen then it goes to the select language screen. then it tries to call *228 and it cannot activate because i am out of the country.

I see now. VZW activated mine when I was in store, so I didn't see this portion. It's different from my D2G. Looking to see if I can figure a way around it real quick.

If you could I would appreciate it alot. I have been racking my brain for days.

Does the phone try to do the activation phone call at all? I tried it three times, and ended the call all three times, and it allowed me to bypass activation. I can try to do a video if you'd like.

It does try. But for some reason it will not bypass. If your phone has been activated before then it works fine. But since i havent had it activated I cant bypass it.

Learn something new every day. Odd that it works like that. Sorry for getting your hopes up. Those are the only things I can think of.

The only way for anyone to see what I am talking about is to do a master reset on the phone. If anyone does it and it works please post a video so I can see what I may be doing wrong. Thanks to all that are trying to assist.

Master reset, as in factory reset? If it's different, and you can point me to how, I'll go ahead and do it.

The easiest way to do it is to hold the power button and hit restart. Once the unit is off hold the volume down key and a white screen appears. Factory reset is the 3rd option I believe so just use the volume key down and hit the power button. It takes a few minutes to reset.

Just sent you a PM.

Have to watch it later. Bad reception at work

[Q] sinister rom wont come out of black lock screen

When phone goes into lock screen the power button wont bring it out of a black screen but menu buttons are lit up. Does anyone know how I can fix this?

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When phone goes into lock screen the power button wont bring it out of a black screen but menu buttons are lit up. Does anyone know how I can fix this?
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You can go to menu/settings/advanced(CM) settings/display/ then check screen on animations. Not sure which of his roms you are talking about but if it's one of his AOSP roms this will help.

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Hi thanks- ya there is no 'advanced settings' and the setting on animations is 'all animations' instead of no or some. I am just going to partition another card and get 'the express' rom which seems like the rom to have...

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Hi thanks- ya there is no 'advanced settings' and the setting on animations is 'all animations' instead of no or some. I am just going to partition another card and get 'the express' rom which seems like the rom to have...
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The Express is an awesome rom, you wont be disappointed.

Ya I tried to flash it last nite but my desktop is not recognizing any devices through usb which explains why I get an error that my printer is not connected when I try to use it... one thing after another
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Thanks man- I just reread your advice on animations and I think you meant 'no' animations instead of 'on'. I just set it to no animations and the home screen seems to come back now out of the time out screen. I have to hit the power button a few times, the lit menu buttons go out and when they come back on I've got a screen.
Do you know if I can install a blank sd card into the phone?- to partition to install 'the express' once I can flash it from my computer which is the only way I know how.
Thanks again,
Tj

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Thanks man- I just reread your advice on animations and I think you meant 'no' animations instead of 'on'. I just set it to no animations and the home screen seems to come back now out of the time out screen. I have to hit the power button a few times, the lit menu buttons go out and when they come back on I've got a screen.
Do you know if I can install a blank sd card into the phone?- to partition to install 'the express' once I can flash it from my computer which is the only way I know how.
Thanks again,
Tj
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No need for a new card unless your upgrading. Either way, if it is your current or a new sd, BACK IT UP TO THE PC first. And yes I saw that your pc is not recognizing the device, sounds like you will need to install the proper drivers (to your pc) for it to work. I would suggest going to this guide -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1386911 I believe HipKat has all the steps for what your wanting to do, laid out much better than I can chicken peck on this keyboard, lol.
Good luck!
Jamie

Hey Jamie- I found since someone shut the pc down improperly that's what caused Windows to now recognize things- I actually just unplugged it and going to give it a few before plugging it back in. I should be good to go. The only other problem I am having since selecting no animTions is the display brightness is at the lowest setting. Trying to adjust/ autoi does nothing. Any advice on that one?- heading out for a late breakfast and going to flash the express when I get back but this phone is hard to.see till then for incoming calls- thanks god I have a tablet. Figuring how to.root that thing will be interesting.

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Hey Jamie- I found since someone shut the pc down improperly that's what caused Windows to now recognize things- I actually just unplugged it and going to give it a few before plugging it back in. I should be good to go. The only other problem I am having since selecting no animTions is the display brightness is at the lowest setting. Trying to adjust/ autoi does nothing. Any advice on that one?- heading out for a late breakfast and going to flash the express when I get back but this phone is hard to.see till then for incoming calls- thanks god I have a tablet. Figuring how to.root that thing will be interesting.
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Under settings/display de-select auto brightness. Should be a toggle in your power menu as well.
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Hey thanks again Jamie- I had a new 8 gig micro sd card so I took my original out and put that in and partitioned as one tutorial had it laid out using Amon RA Recovery? The partitioning went well and I got the Express ROM on and installed nice except for a small issue the timeout or lock screen won't come out of lock screen unless I remove the the battery. I did what you told me to do on the Sinister ROM and switched the animations off and was able to come out of the idle or lock screen after about a dozen presses of the power button. Apparently it wasn't the Rom. Half the time I can't answer a call. I read a post on this site a last week on this same issue someone else had. The solution was some type of "pack" supposedly needed to be installed to the ext partition or something like that. I have tried to find that post ever since and cannot since. When I gohit 'search this forum' and the search field appears, the keyboard appears then disappears. Do youyou know anyone I maybe able to get into contact with that would be able to help me resolve this? So what type of devices do you have. I've also got the Samsung Galaxy 4G LTE 10.1 that I tether to which is nice.
I have been having a bit of a time finding solutions to certain things on here...
Tj
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Hey thanks again Jamie- I had a new 8 gig micro sd card so I took my original out and put that in and partitioned as one tutorial had it laid out using Amon RA Recovery? The partitioning went well and I got the Express ROM on and installed nice except for a small issue the timeout or lock screen won't come out of lock screen unless I remove the the battery. I did what you told me to do on the Sinister ROM and switched the animations off and was able to come out of the idle or lock screen after about a dozen presses of the power button. Apparently it wasn't the Rom. Half the time I can't answer a call. I read a post on this site a last week on this same issue someone else had. The solution was some type of "pack" supposedly needed to be installed to the ext partition or something like that. I have tried to find that post ever since and cannot since. When I gohit 'search this forum' and the search field appears, the keyboard appears then disappears. Do youyou know anyone I maybe able to get into contact with that would be able to help me resolve this? So what type of devices do you have. I've also got the Samsung Galaxy 4G LTE 10.1 that I tether to which is nice.
I have been having a bit of a time finding solutions to certain things on here...
Tj
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If you have your brightness set to the lowest, i've noticed that is what screws up unlocking for me. set your brightness higher as soon as you turn your phone on and see if that helps

Data recovery from broken screen note 8

As the title suggests, my screen is inoperable but I can hear notifications come through, so it's booting up. Any way to get unbacked data off of it?

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As the title suggests, my screen is inoperable but I can hear notifications come through, so it's booting up. Any way to get unbacked data off of it?
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I'd say plug it in to the computer and try getting into the phone.. You might have to tap on the screen even though it's broken it could probably still accept touch and you'll need to try to tap "ok" in order to get access or you'll have to try to use smart switch app to try.

The screen is unresponsive, I can't even try to guess where the buttons are to enter the pin

wbreslin951 said:
The screen is unresponsive, I can't even try to guess where the buttons are to enter the pin
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Your best bet is try to find a screen then.. I had that problem 1 time in my life and I found a screen on Ebay that was cracked pretty badly but it still worked and it allowed me to at least connect it and get my stuff transferred.. You should also check your gmail account because the Google account you have a lot of the phones backup themselves automatically and you might be able to get it back onto another phone.

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Your best bet is try to find a screen then.. I had that problem 1 time in my life and I found a screen on Ebay that was cracked pretty badly but it still worked and it allowed me to at least connect it and get my stuff transferred.. You should also check your gmail account because the Google account you have a lot of the phones backup themselves automatically and you might be able to get it back onto another phone.
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I would be able to help you get what you need off the phone if youre in the NJ area. Ive been able to help out people in similar situations before. Just let me know if you have exhausted other options and you dont mind handing over your phone temporarily to a complete stranger . Seriously though, I can see if I can help.

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I would be able to help you get what you need off the phone if youre in the NJ area. Ive been able to help out people in similar situations before. Just let me know if you have exhausted other options and you dont mind handing over your phone temporarily to a complete stranger . Seriously though, I can see if I can help.
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Wrong person my friend.. My phone is not broken and I'm no where near new Jersey anyway haha.. @wbreslin951 was the one asking for help so you should tag him instead of me by tapping reply on his message..

MrMike2182 said:
Wrong person my friend.. My phone is not broken and I'm no where near new Jersey anyway haha.. @wbreslin951 was the one asking for help so you should tag him instead of me by tapping reply on his message..
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such a no0b move. thanks for the help