After hard reset, only status bar displayed, no desktop

[jfrancis]

Hi Guys,

I decided I'd wipe my D2 and start from scratch. I did the whole, Power on with X, reformat and wipe option. The phone now powers on and shows a lock screen. When I dismiss the lock screen, however, all I see is the status bar at the top, nothing in the desktop area. The soft keys respond with haptic feedback, the screen will change orientation, but all I see is the status bar. Any ideas? I did have the phone rooted before I did the hard reset.

Thanks,
John Francis

 

[DF Smod]

Try a second reboot and see if it restores things completely

 

[jfrancis]

Nope, no difference. When I enter recovery mode, I do see this:

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command

Anything more medieval I can try? Note that the phone can receive calls.

Thanks!
John

 

[Redflea]

Nope, no difference. When I enter recovery mode, I do see this:

E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command

Anything more medieval I can try? Note that the phone can receive calls.

Thanks!
John

That error message is normal, you can ignore it.

If doing another wipe of /Data doesn't help (that's what I'd try at this point), then you may have to apply an SBF to get yourself back up and running.

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-2-rooted-help/76378-droid-2-sbf.html

If the phone wasn't rooted, then you may want to take it to a Verizon store and see if they can fix it, or if not and you're 30 days, give you a new one.

Just tell 'em you did a factory reset (Settings>Privacy>Factory Reset) and you ended up as is.

 

[jfrancis]

Thanks a lot for the info. I ended up doing an SBF restore and everything is good now.