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Offline JimIO

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Android help
« on: July 29, 2018, 1737 UTC »
Any Android phone experts out there? I have a Kyocera Event C6133 that has the "boot loop" problem. I tried everything I found and nothing worked. I need to flash a new OS with a PC and USB cable. Just wondering if anyone has already been there. It's like trying to figure out how to get free cable WIFI, once you already know how it's so simple.

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Re: Android help
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2018, 2318 UTC »
here is a good forum i am a member of.
dont know if it can help your situation but its worth a try.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/
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Re: Android help
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2018, 1703 UTC »
Hi Relay...

I took a look and if I can't find the answer there I won't find it. Thanks!

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Re: Android help
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2018, 1804 UTC »
Hi Relay...

I took a look and if I can't find the answer there I won't find it. Thanks!
there has to be a method to put the phone into the mode needed to flash it with a new OS/firmware.
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Re: Android help
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2018, 1937 UTC »
It's a Virgin Mobile phone. If you turn it on normally it gets to t the Virgin Mobile screen and freezes up. To turn it off you need to remove the battery. If you hold volume down while powering up you get the image of the Android lying on its back with it's front door open (made me LOL!). Then you can choose Reboot, Clear cache or Factory reset. Non of those change anything. So far I haven't found anything more than that. I got a refurbished Kyocera Hydo to replace it. The Event only cost me $20 so it's not worth spending any money to fix it, but it's still in brand new condition so I don't want to throw it out.

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Re: Android help
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2018, 2346 UTC »
It's a Virgin Mobile phone. If you turn it on normally it gets to t the Virgin Mobile screen and freezes up. To turn it off you need to remove the battery. If you hold volume down while powering up you get the image of the Android lying on its back with it's front door open (made me LOL!). Then you can choose Reboot, Clear cache or Factory reset. Non of those change anything. So far I haven't found anything more than that. I got a refurbished Kyocera Hydo to replace it. The Event only cost me $20 so it's not worth spending any money to fix it, but it's still in brand new condition so I don't want to throw it out.
it would be a good phone to experiment with installing customer ROM's and such.
im surprised there is nothing on the XDA forum about this particular phone.
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Re: Android help
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2018, 0203 UTC »
Type in Youtube searchfield  "Kyocera Event C6133 "boot loop" problem"

and check the clips to solve your problem!


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Re: Android help
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2018, 1635 UTC »
Well, I've found out that because it's a Virgin Mobile phone it has a locked bootloader, so installing a custom ROM is impossible. I may be able to recover or reinstall the original OS if I can find it. But the programs I've found for doing that are all Windows .exe files so I would need to cobble together a Windows computer. I'm gonna put this project on hold for now.  >:(