My phone doesn't boot

[dakmary]

I found a nice thread here that helps you to change the fonts in few steps (using Gscript). it worked fine.
viewtopic.php?f=211&t=1443&p=20751#p20751

i wanted to change the font again back to the old one. so I deleted the new font from the folder on the SD card and added the old font.

BINGO

my Milestone doesn't boot now.. It cant pass the Motorola logo.

I pressed the power and the camera buttons and did wipe data and wipe partition.. but still no luck.. :s

Now What..

PLEASE HELLLLPP

[Nimsim]

Hi,

Did you get help? I think I'm in the same position, and dunno what to do at the moment. I can still get in to recovery mode. Did you try wiping data from there?

SOLUTION FOR NO-BOOT MOTOROLA MILESTONES

Is your phone in constant reboot, or never gets past the Android boot animation?

A quick fix in the steps below.

1. First of all, take out your SDCard and put in the latest http://alldroid.org/viewtopic.php?f=259&t=1617. In the zipfile you see there are 2 files, put both of these in your root (just open up your card and paste the files).

2. Download the http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html, install and apply all the updates needed.

3. Download a nandroid backup (if you already don't have one) from http://www.alldroid.org/viewtopic.php?f=318&t=1808. Put this on your SD card aswell. I had to put it in nandroid/backup/console=ttyS2,115200n8/[BACKUPFOLDER HERE].

4. Open up command prompt (type cmd @ run or search, depending if you're using WinXP or Vista/Win7). Go to your location where you installed the android SDK, e.g. "cd c:\program files\AndroidSDK\". From here, type adb shell.

5. After typing ADB shell you will see a # in front of everything you write. This means you have root access to your phone, congrats!
write

The nandroid-mobile.sh --restore

Just tap enter once more to see the latest backup, and enter again to choose to recover with that backup-file. You can also be more specific and write which one you want to use.

Let the update process finish, and your phone will be usable again! I am happy like **** right now.

[KZIWarrior]

The only other times I've seen were people have not been able to get past the moto logo is from a completely drained battery. Put the phone on the charger and leave it be for several hours (when not able to boot the charging rate slows down to a trickle and it takes a LONGGGGGG time). 'fingers-crossed' but you should be okay.

[Nimsim]

Thanks for the reply KZIWarrior, but I had about 60% left, and I'm pretty sure I screwed it up while messing with system files. I'm reading about nandroid backup now, so hopefully I can revert to an old backup straight from recovery mode.

I don't have an old backup though, so I'm checking on line...

[Matth3w]

You can download virginoembackup from the first link in my signature and use that one if you have to. Not sure how well that will work though because you have a milestone and I have the Droid. but it might be worth trying AS A LAST RESORT. Assuming it's either that or buy a new phone.

[Nimsim]

Great!

Have you done this before by the way? I found some milestone backups, but I have no idea how to apply it without a fully functioning phone? Wonder if I even need any functionality for a recovery.

[Matth3w]

If you don't have root and SP recovery installed you can't really use the backups.

[Nimsim]

I have root, don't know if wiping takes that away though...

Sprecovery nope, so i guess I'm ****ed.

[natediddy1120]

I don't think people with Milestone's can use SPRecovery......

[Matth3w]

Well like I said, I wasn't even sure it would work. Don't have a milestone to try it on.