Awesome work and perseverance...and thats why Droid Does!I am happy to say that after spending a lot of time fooling around, trial and error, the phone is finally in working order.
After all of the troubleshooting and attempts at reflashing, the problem was what I had suspected near the end: a hardware issue with the front keypad. I went out and bought a Torx T5 screw driver (a good one) and stripped the phone down. I could see where the water had run through the phone. I cleaned all of that up, but no luck on restoring it to working order. I finally started disconnecting components and cables. I disconnected the thin ribbon cable that runs to the front buttons and found some debris burned onto some of the connectors. The connector itself had some dark spots. It looks as if some water may have made its way into there and the impurities caused the coating on two of the pins. I gently cleaned the pins with isopropyl and a small flat-head screw driver, hooked it back up, and powered on. After about 20 seconds, it went passed the M logo and started the Droid animation. A minute later and it was fully booted!
I have to say, I learned a lot about Android phones this weekI appreciate all of the help and suggestions that you guys gave me. I hope that all of this information will help someone else out there who has issues with their phone.
- zebr4 - :blackdroid:
Agreed!
This thread has been Thunder struck!!
I have read this entire thread and have tried everyone's (yes everyone's) advice, except for downgrading my rsd lite 4.9 to the 4.8 version.I have tried installing VRZ_MB810_2.3.34_1FF_01 from sd card in stock recovery, (I seem to have lost twrp's ??? recovery.) I had even tried a Linux program (the one that says Boot Baby Boot) to flash something to my phone but no luck.