I flashed to pays rom, successfully yesterday.
today, i wanted to wipe my phone (entered wrong gmail account so didnt have access to paid apps)
after doing so, ive been stuck in an endless boot screen.
anyone shed some light on the situation?
Oops. I think this happened to some G1 roms too.
Reflash?
the rom was absolutely flawless before this.
ive tried.
with 2 different roms.
wiped everything i possibly can in recovers & fastboot
insult to injury; recovery-windows wont load, so i cant even get past recovery screen.
My mistake. recovery-windows is loading. now flashing. again.
so then, managed to flash some sense based roms alright, until i get past bootloader.
com.android.acore error messages all the time.
loaded nexdesire rom fine with no errors.
ideas anyone?
Out of interest, did you re-partition your SD Card for A2SD at all??
If so... Try re-partitioning it again in recovery mode, but use it all as storage (no ext partition), wipe and re-flash.
I did.
I'll try that now and pray it works
Get in!
Working absolutely fine now
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Hi. I hope someone can help.
I've been using my desire rooted and S-OFFed running Defrost for sometime, all has been fine. Was playing Angry birds yesterday and the phone froze.
Pulled the battery and rebooted, carried on playing. Froze again.
Pull the battery again but phone stuck on the first splash screen. Fiddled a bit, couldn't get into recovery. So I left the phone on charge until the light went green, then removed the battery and left it overnight.
This morning I put the battery in and switched it on. It booted fine, but froze when I tried to unlock it.
I've tried pulling the battery again and again. I can get into HBOOT, but the phone isn't recognised for ADB or fastboot commands via USB. It often freezes even in fastboot mode.
I tried to do a clear storage, but that froze as well. Although a subsequent attempt appeared to work but the phone still won't boot normally.
So I can't reflash or do anything else. HAs anyone actually sent a phone back for repair with custom firmware/splash screen installed, as I don't think I'm going to be able to revert it to stock.
I've tried numerous restarts with and without a sim and an sd card inserted. Not sure what else to try.
Any help greatly appreciated.
did you wipe the dalvik cache through recovery?
try this if you can.
No I haven't wiped the dalvik cache. I have managed to get in to recovery on a couple of occasions. But the phone has frozen again navigating the menu.
I will try that if I get into recovery again though.
Thanks
Quick update.
After leaving the battery out for a couple of hours. I tried again and the phone started to boot. It got to the splash animation and the wipe had obviously worked because it was the DeFrost default of the X. This then looped a few times then froze.
I pulled the battery and managed to get in to Clockwork Mod recovery and did a wipe from there, which appeared to work, but then it rebooted by itself and I still didn't manage to do a dalvik wipe.
Now I'm back to the same point again. I can't get into recovery.
I guess I'll try again after leaving the battery out for a while.
One thing I did notice when in recovery was that the trackpad didn't work. I had to use vol and power keys. If I get into recovery again, I'll try a keytest if I get into recovery again.
And another update.
I got into recovery again and did a wipe dalvik cache.
I got the following error.
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
(No such file or directory)
Dalvik cache wiped.
So I'm not sure if it actually did it or not.
I then tried to do a nandroid restore and got a similar error.
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)
(No such file or directory)
E:Can't mount /sdcard
Then the phone froze again.
So I'm guessing something is corrupted here.
Should I try formatting the SD card. (I have backed up all the data I could using my PC).
i think your dalvik will have been wiped. i always get the same message.
have you tried it again but without trying to restore a nand?
Yes, I tried it again. I only seem to be able to get in to recovery after leaving the battery out for a while.
This time I did a dalvik wipe then rebooted, but it's just stuck on the initial splash screen again.
I'm pulling my hair out here (what little I have)
have you considered going back to a stock rom using an RUU or PB99IMG?
then you'd have to root again and restore your nand if possible/needed.
I'd be happy to try reverting to stock, but don't you need to get the phone to boot before you can do that?
I have sent this phone back for repair previously and done just that (it suffered from the overheating problem and had a whole new motherboard less than months ago).
After leaving the battery out again for a while, a normal switch on got to the animation splash then rebooted twice before freezing again.
Is this likely to be a corruption in the flash memory, or a hardware problem?
Hello,
I've got exactly the same problem! The phone freezes on the first splash-screen (not the Rom's bootanimation) and I can't get into recovery.
I'm running Oxygen Rom (2.0-RC6) and using Apps2SD in combination with an 8GB Transcend microSD card. I've only "rooted" it once using Unrevoked (long time ago), so I assume it is still S-On. I'm using clockwork's recovery, too.
At the moment I really don't know what to do.
What could I try?
pc99mk:
At the moment I'm leaving the battery out the phone until afternoon, hoping to get into recovery
Thank you in advance for every bit of an answer
Read up on the PB99IMG process if you can get into recovery (power & vol down).
Otherwise, the RUU will work if you can boot into fastboot (power & back key).
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Hi spadoleo.
Sorry to hear you're having similar troubles.
I'm sure mine must have some sort of hardware problem now.
After leaving the battery out for a while again last night, I managed to get into fastboot and flash the latest alpharev hboot, and clockworkmod 3.0.0.5 in the hope that my freezing problems there were due to a slight corruption.
Clockworkmod has definitely updated as the colour of the menu has changed, but it still freezes soon after entering.
I just want to try and get the phone looking as much like a stock phone prior to sending it back now.
Does anyone have a fasstboot flashable image of the following:
UK TMobile 'Pink Circle' splash1 image
Standard HBOOT
Standard recovery
Otherwise I'm just going to have to send it back to HTC as is, and hope they still fix it under warranty.
Or is there any way of getting a RUU to start doing anything with the phone in fastboot?
Or indeed anything else I can try?
See my post above.
You can run an RUU in fastboot.
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Hi mikep99.
Ok thanks for the advice. I'll have a read of the pb99img stuff.
I tried the RUU this morning in fastboot mode, but every time it justs sits at the 'Verifying information on your Android phone' for a while, then times out with a USB connection error.
I seem to have best results after leaving the battery out for a while (no idea why that should make any difference but it does), so I'll try it again in an hour or so.
Cheers
Install htc sync if you haven't already.
And try turning off antivirus and firewall on your PC
HTH
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Ok. I read up on the PB99IMG process.
I found a PB99IMG.zip file posted by Teppic74 which is a stock Froyo.
I copied it to the root of my goldcard and booted the phone.
It loaded the file and came up with
Incorrect CID error
update fail
I then kicked myself. I created the gold card to revert the phone to stock before sending it to HTC previously.
They replaced the motherboard. Would this have changed my CID?
I then thought 'no problem I'll just go through the gold card creation process again'
But although I can do stuff on the phone in fastboot mode, adb doesn't work in that mode. So trying adb shell cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid
just gives an error.
So if my CID has changed, any idea how I can create a gold card with the phone in this state. Should adb only work when the phone is booted, or should it work in hboot or fastboot?
i'm not sure which PB99IMG you're trying to flash but i'd use this (if its not the same):
http://shipped-roms.com/download.ph...9.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_159811_signed.zip
with regards to the goldcard, have you mounted the sdcard when in recovery? and then running
cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid
again?
if that doesn't work, you can use another TMobile Desire to create it.
therefore, i don't think the mbo change should affect your goldcard????
EDIT - when you got your phone back from repair, was it completely wiped? Tmobile may have wiped/swapped etc.. the goldcard you previously made.
I think it was that image that I used. But I'll download it again just to be sure.
When the phone was repaired before, I sent to HTC directly and I didn't send any sd card or battery. So it should still be as it was.
So if the CID isn't motherboard specific it should still work.
Is there any way to check whether it is still a goldcard? I may have formatted it again (don't recall).
Although thinking about it, I still have the image file emailed to me when I created the gold card originally, so I could just reapply it and try again.
I'm out tonight, but will try a few things and post back with my results.
Thanks for your help so far.
Another update and things have moved forward.
It turned out I'd trashed my gold card, but I did still have the image file so I recreated it.
I then booted the phone again and it loaded the PB99IMP.zip file.
It then asked me if I wanted to perform the update. I said yes, and it updated the bootloader and rebooted. Then it froze on Checking PB99IMP.zip....
After leaving it 10-15 minutes I pulled the battery again and left it for a while.
I tried again just now.
I can see that it has updated the HBOOT, so I'm no longer S-OFF.
Just now I thought it was going to work it got about halfway through updating the system partition before freezing.
If only it had updated the splash1 image before the system, I might've had the phone in a suitable state to return. But it still shows my custom splash1 screen when powering on normally - then it changes to the piccy with the green arrows.
I'll try it again later after leaving the battery out for a while.
But the fact it freezes in the middle of such an update suggests it's definitely a hardware problem of some sort.
If anyone has any other ideas I could try, please let me know. But once again thanks for all the help so far.
Sounds like you're getting somewhere
Just keep on trying every now and again.
Hopefully it'll go through...
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Okay guys, here's the deal:
I decided to go for a new ROM, and now I can't get the phone to boot up after installing any ROM. Even the last ROM that I KNOW worked wont start up. They install fine, bit wont boot. I wanted to repartition my SD card, so I did, which I have now set to a 1GB etx4 partition and all the rest to FAT32.
All I get is that white HTC screen, and it'll stay there infinitely.
Any ideas?
Did you wipe before flashing the ROM? You need to do a full wipe (in. Dalvik cache) before flashing a new ROM otherwise it will hang on the boot screen. Another thing to bare in mind is if you're moving to a ROM using A2SD/D2SD that first boot can take a good few minutes so patience is also needed
I did, yes. Wiped absolutely everything, and it still wont boot. I've left it for at least 20 minutes and still had nothing
Was there a specific way my card should be formatted? I basically followed this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905089&highlight=partition
Except, I did all the work in Ubuntu, and with the memory card plugged into an Xperia X10 (I don't have a card reader.
Your first partition needs to be fat, the second ext. Also if you did it while the xperia was booted it probably messed up the process, best bet is to redo the partitioning while in recovery.
DAE_JA_VOO said:
Okay guys, here's the deal:
I decided to go for a new ROM, and now I can't get the phone to boot up after installing any ROM. Even the last ROM that I KNOW worked wont start up. They install fine, bit wont boot. I wanted to repartition my SD card, so I did, which I have now set to a 1GB etx4 partition and all the rest to FAT32.
All I get is that white HTC screen, and it'll stay there infinitely.
Any ideas?
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I am experiencing the same thing at the moment. Except I can flash the latest CM7 stable (7.0.2.1) and it works fine. Any other ROM however, just won't boot.
I have tried all Alpharev HBOOT images and several other Sense based ROMs.
My SD has first partition FAT32 and 1GB ext3
I have tried wiping everything with ClockworkMod Recovery 2.0.5.7 and 3.0.2.7 and still no success with loading other ROMs apart from CM7.
The wierd thing is that I have been happily flashing ROMs for months now. The last one I successfully loaded was ][Sense2.1 GingerBread]InsertCoin CM7 v07 and the first one that failed for me was AuraxTremeGinger v8.5-test Gingerbread 2.3.3ยท (GRI40 |720p|A2SD+|Fast)
It's almost as if the Boot.img is not being correctly written to the boot partition?
Any ideas?
Which recovery do you have ? I had the same issue until I've flashed Ra-Recovery or you have to upgrade your CWM.
paul.c said:
Which recovery do you have ? I had the same issue until I've flashed Ra-Recovery or you have to upgrade your CWM.
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I currently have ClockworkMod 3.0.2.7 but I tried with 2.0.5.7 as well.
Have not tried RA yet.
hey I too have the same problem of the white HTC screen after bootup.
Background: upgraded the Orange FR 2.1 Desire to the OTA upgrade recommended without thinking. It went through partially and finally wiped out the bootloader or corrupted the bootloader on the phone. There was no backup take nor an gold card made with the phone.
So. even I am struck with a non-booting Orange FR Desire at the moment.
Boot menu shows HBOOT 0.93.001. There is no recovery program either. Can only enter into the system menu for recovery.
Tried the following:
1. Tried update using some orange ROM (update.zip) through the sdcard, but the signature verification failed.
2. Tried a couple of RUUs, but it fails with error 131. I do not have a gold card with me nor do I know the CID.
3. Access through ADB : Does not list the device itself with the 'adb devices' command. Hence no access to the phone memory. So, goldcard ultility wasnt really helpful to get the CID
RUU is able to talk to the phone. This means that the USB port is still functional.
What can I do? suggest please.
It depends on which ROM you intend to install. Desire S ports didn't support ext4 until a today when baadnewz and snq (not necessarily in that order) issued a patch. This can cause bootloops.
I had CWM 2.0.5.7 and tried to install Robocik's RCMixS and it stuck at splash screen until I switched to RaRecovery. Subsequent versions of CWM are reported to work. That is my experience.
If you need further assistance please state which ROM do you intend to install. Good luck !
I've search up and down all night looking for a solution for my problem. The other I let my lil cousin play with my phone. Somehow he got into the recovery and started formatting everything. After I found out my sd card was cleared completely I was like "its ok just put the rom back on the sd card and flash it" lets just say it didn't work. Each time it gets stuck at the splash screen. I was thinking maybe the custom splash is locking it up but I'm not sure on what to do. Anyone got any advice on what to do so I can get my phone back up and running?
IfcYipes said:
I've search up and down all night looking for a solution for my problem. The other I let my lil cousin play with my phone. Somehow he got into the recovery and started formatting everything. After I found out my sd card was cleared completely I was like "its ok just put the rom back on the sd card and flash it" lets just say it didn't work. Each time it gets stuck at the splash screen. I was thinking maybe the custom splash is locking it up but I'm not sure on what to do. Anyone got any advice on what to do so I can get my phone back up and running?
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If it were me ... I would start over, reflash the recovery image, do a complete wipe, and flash a full rooted rom/radio image. Once everything is back working, update profile, prl, and then move on to your custom rom of choice.
i've re-flashed the recovery image and everything
I've tried flashing Synergy but just isn't happening. Could the custom splash be effecting it?
So after a while messing with i stuck my ad card in my friends hero to see if the data,android.secure file etc etc would have any effects but nope
IfcYipes said:
i've re-flashed the recovery image and everything
I've tried flashing Synergy but just isn't happening. Could the custom splash be effecting it?
So after a while messing with i stuck my ad card in my friends hero to see if the data,android.secure file etc etc would have any effects but nope
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When you wiped, did you use something like Calkulin's "format all" zip? If you already did that then I would try going back to a stock splash image. Perhaps something went wrong with the splash image install.
Grab one of these PC36IMG.zip here and put it on your SD card.
It contains the stock splash screen and will basically RUU you. You will still have S-Off. Just get the one that corresponds with your HBoot. Then try reflashing recovery and wiping everything 3 times and flashing the ROM of your choice.
Ok, so I flashed a MIUI port for the AT&T Note 2, and it was disgusting...it crashed everything, and needless to say I ended up stuck at the boot logo for a long time. FINALLY managed to get it to flash via Odin...so I flashed Stock Rom...and now it's stuck on Samsung logo...Ok..so I go flash CWM...do a wipe and everything, and install CM10.1 via that...stuck at CM logo. I've left each ROM plugged in, stuck on boot screen for over 20-30 minutes each. I'm at a loss of what to do. Could I need to flash a kernel? or am I missing something obvious? The good news, I guess, is with a few steps, I can get into DL mode and use Odin, and I can flash CWM and get into that..but I can't inject anything into my phone so CWM can use it, I only have what's there now, which is CM10.1. I'm so mad...I've never had too many issues with ROMs but this one jacked things up badly...guess that's what I get for using a port even though it noted that everything was working now. Anyway...does anyone have any advice?
Edit: I flashed CWM, and tried to clear cache/dalvik then factory reset...the first two worked...as soon as I hit factory reset, that's where the screen goes black and it resets...it's like it just refuses to do it. I'm seriously at a loss here. Is it toast?
Edit again: sorry but I'm trying more to give more info. I went into CWM and went to advanced and started formatting one by one...it's when you hit format /data that it immediately dies and restarts. So..something weird is going on there. Can I use a PIT file for this phone, if it exists, to reformat and just get it going? I'm desperate...
Us this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2052779 on a PC.
Follow directions and Odin back to stock.
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Hello,
I've been using my device normally, when all of a sudden it froze and shut itself down. I've tried booting it up multiple times, but it wouldn't do. I thought that it might be up to the battery, so I've gotten a new one, but it's not up to it.
However, I've been able to enter TWRP Recovery. I thought that wiping data, cache and dalvik would help me get rid of my problems, but it didn't. Obviously, I can't mount anything, because everything seems to be encrypted. I wanted to flash another ROM, but I can't do so without connecting the storage with my PC. Now I'm cluelessly stuck in the Recovery.
Can anyone help me? I'd be very grateful if so. I might have made a foolish mistake somewhere, so please don't get harsh on me. The custom rom I've been using is CandySix