I have tried many options from the list, most times, ending with the splash screen. The exceptions have been some kind of green updating logo (which eventually dumps me into splash screen coma), and a screen with an ominous red triangle!
I have read in more than a few places that booting from a file placed on the root directory of the sd card is the ticket.
From what I have followed from reading about rooted TBs, I need to copy and rename some sort of device specific .zip file; then boot using that file. I just need some help to avoid messing up some mundane detail.
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welcome to the forums!!!!!!!
i moved your post from a different thread to the thunderbolt root forum.
can you explain exactly what you did? and were you ever rooted?
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ok what you are looking for is called a ruu's(rom upgrade utility). you will need to find one based on your baseband(radio) which i do not see at the moment. i will keep looking for you however. when i do find one for you i will post it here.
curious though, what happened? what did you do?
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The Thunderbolt has never been rooted. It is (was) my wife's phone. There was no traumatic event that caused it. Her phone was on the charger, and when she took it off to use for the day, it was not sending messages. She restarted the phone, and said it would not get past the thunderbolt splash screen. She took the battery out. When she turned the phone on, it stayed at the splash screen.
We wasted a good two hours of our Saturday at the Verizon store. They recommended we buy a new phone. The salesman had "Never seen anything like it!" We found her an old flip phone and reactivated it. I would like to get the phone working again, as it was barely a year old. (My Nokia N900 is still running like a champion after four years, though retired due to no support.)
I have tried various recommendations: removing the sim/sd, factory reset, Etc. Based on what I have read, it seems that I need to reflash. Sounds great, but I am completely new to the process.
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yep that looks right. do you know how to use it?
1.download the file
2.rename the file to PG05IMG by deleting everything in the name but that.
(does your pc hide extensions? when you download this file do you see a .zip at the end? by default windows hides extensions so you should not see a .zip at the end. if that is the case make sure that you do not add an extra .zip to the name)
3.move the file to the sd card
4.go into your bootloader and select yes to update.
hopefully that should work for you.
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Ok. I have changed the name so that it does not have the .zip, but when I run the bootloader it says that there is no image for any of the files it is looking for.
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Ok. I have changed the name so that it does not have the .zip, but when I run the bootloader it says that there is no image for any of the files it is looking for.
no that is not what you are supposed to do. it will depend on your computer.
on your computer. in windows 7 and 8 by default the extension is not listed. you can change that so that it shows the extensions.
so there are two ways a computer will show a file:
1. it will show it with extenions: when you downloaded the file, did you see a .zip in the name? if so then leave the .zip(this part is called the extension) in the name but delete everything else so that it is PG05IMG.zip.
2.it will not show extensions: if this is the case then do not add an extra .zip to the name otherwise the phone will see it as PG05IMG.zip.zip which will not work.
the other thing is as well is not to put the re-named file in any folder. it just needs to be on the sd card.
as long as you named it correctly and that it is on the sd card your phone should see it.
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