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Tried to unroot my HTC EVO now its stuck at htc screen. Even if i go into recovery mode it will just get stuck at screen. Im getting frustrated and i dont have warranty on phone. is the phone pretty much done for??
Try running an official RUU to unroot or if you can get into bootloader, you can download a stock PC36IMG file and load it that way.
Links found in this post
i did the pc36 file. it updated my phone, but still stuck at the evo screen. i go to press recovery then goes straight back to htc screen
What PC36IMG file did you use? The one for build 3.70?
The links I posted are for RUUs which are exe files. Connect the phone to the comp and run the RUU.exe file and it should do its thing if the phone can be recognized.
thanks ill try when i get my windows computer running. do you think my phone is bricked??
I'll be honest and say...I'm not an expert and I don't really know if your phone really is bricked or not but I sure hope it isn't! I've seen many threads where people post situations similar to yours and other XDA users say...as long as you can get into bootloader, then no it is not bricked. Just have to find a way to get a stock ROM loaded back on your phone and generally that's through running an RUU.
ok so just install RUU and let it do itz job? just wanna get the s-on somehow so i can take to sprint store.
so im trying to flash it to get the s-on right, but when i click on fastboot it says bootloader then when i press it it goes back to fAstboot. any ideas??
i cant get into bootloader!!
Can you try to download this PC36IMG file HERE. Says you need NAND unlock which you have, hopefully it can installed the rooted ROM with ClockworkMOD recovery, and once that's working try to unroot again. Otherwise...sorry, I'm not sure what else to tell you.
EDIT: How did you install the previous PC36IMG? When you hold VOL DOWN and POWER, do you get to the screen with the Android on skateboards at the bottom?
ok im gonna try it again. I just dont understand when i press fastboot then bootloader why it doesnt go to the black screen. so i can get on my sd card, thats what im not getting... so frustrating!!!
Ok, do you have a microSD card reader of some kind? As long as you can get the file onto the SDcard and once you restart holding VOL DOWN and POWER, it should automatically try to look for the PC36IMG.zip file if you wait for a quick minute or so.
yeah i do. slow computer its still downloading. the first time i did this. it updated and everything. It says do you want to reebot now i said yes. Comes back on and loads to HTC evo 4g screen and just stays there. No sprint boot up or nothing. I might have to use that RUU file if i find someone with a windows computer. I tried that RUU thing at home and it just said USB connection error. oh yeah if i press recovery it just goes to htc screen and thats it!!!
so i updated it. rebooted to htc evo 4g screen and stays there
try this and see if its your same issue forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831915&highlight=bricked
and do a search in development with bricked as the header....
I think if you can get the zip on your sd card you should be ok. Not quite sure by what I have read if you have actually done that part as of yet
also this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=880152
Good Luck
i did the RUU thing. updated, but phone still goes to htc evo 4g white screen and nothgin more
Sounds like there weren't any ideas in Q&A for this one, and I haven't seen much in terms of not being able to access recovery, so here goes...
I was happily using CM7, and while reading through a Diablo III news page (hopefully it comes out soon ), my phone rebooted into a boot loop. Weird, but I figured at worst I would wipe data and reinstall a ROM. Unfortunately, I can't get into recovery any longer.
If I boot the phone normally, I see the white HTC splash screen for a few seconds, then it reboots. I can use HBOOT fine, but as soon as I try to reboot normally / boot into recovery / boot into Restore Factory Defaults, my phone will reset. Let me clarify...
Pull and replace battery
Boot into HBOOT (volume down + power)
Select Recovery
Phone reboots and reaches CWM Recovery 3 for about 1/2 second, not long enough for me to click anything
Phone reboots into boot loop
I've used HBOOT to flash to CWM Recovery 3.0.0.8, downgraded to the stock radio, run the 2.2 RUU. I'm still running up against the same boot loop problem.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was a hardware problem, but I'm anxious to hear if anyone has ideas to try first. Additionally, is there any way to restore to S-ON through HBOOT in case I need to bring this into a Verizon store? I have fastboot.exe that can recognize the device over USB while the device is in HBOOT, maybe this will help?
Thanks!
Current state: Ran 2.2 RUU, S-OFF, HBOOT-0.92.0000, AMOLED, 2.15.00.07.28 radio
Thanks again.
Had this exact issue while running cm7. First couple of from when it was crackflashers. I couldn't find anything to help or fix it. I got a new dinc because I can't afford to be without for long.
Good luck dude.
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Thanks for the note. Maybe my fate will be the same. Did you get any sympathy from Verizon?
Doesn't sound like there are even any suggestions using fastboot, lol. [crickets chirping]
Can you flash cwm 2.5.x and try? Not sure if it will help but worth a shot?
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Yeah take out battery, then pull out sd card put it into a adapter and insert it to ur pc. Then find the file that was shipped specifically for ur device it looks something like this PC130mg.zip or some crap like that anyways put that on the root of your sd card. load ur card back to your phone now into hboot(volume down plus power) mode. Your phone will auto detect that file and start to ask if u want to install update say yes boom it will flash back to stock.....however my only concern would be if u need to turn s-ON before u do this.
I did this for a evo 4g and it worked but I turned s-ON first as it was in the instructions I was following. I think maybe the update file checks to see if ur S-off or on. But don't quote me on that.
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Yeah take out battery, then pull out sd card put it into a adapter and insert it to ur pc. Then find the file that was shipped specifically for ur device it looks something like this PC130mg.zip or some crap like that anyways put that on the root of your sd card. load ur card back to your phone now into bootloader (volume down plus power) mode. Your phone will auto detect that file and start to ask if u want to install update say yes boom it will flash back to stock.....however my only concern would be if u need to turn s-ON before u do this.
I did this for a evo 4g and it worked but I turned s-ON first as it was in the instructions I was following. I think maybe the update file checks to see if ur S-off or on. But don't quote me on that.
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Yeah, I agree with popasmurf. Put the PB31IMG.zip on your sdcard. Then let hboot discover and update it. It'll be back to stock and youll have to reroot but better than a paperweight.
You can find the image here -----> http://dougpiston.com/?page_id=108
I'm assuming you have a dinc.
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hope that helps
@phazeone let's say he just does that. Now his phone reboots and is on stock and looses his root, now he can root it again and then turn the S-on by the single file flash from recovery mode, and then use the update file again to flash the phone back to normal stock without root ( if he was taking it back) so whenever u want to manipulate the S security u must be rooted correct?
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@phazeone let's say he just does that. Now his phone reboots and is on stock and looses his root, now he can root it again and then turn the S-on by the single file flash from recovery mode, and then use the update file again to flash the phone back to normal stock without root ( if he was taking it back) so whenever u want to manipulate the S security u must be rooted correct?
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You are correct.
popasmurfn23 said:
Yeah take out battery, then pull out sd card put it into a adapter and insert it to ur pc. Then find the file that was shipped specifically for ur device it looks something like this PC130mg.zip or some crap like that anyways put that on the root of your sd card. load ur card back to your phone now into hboot(volume down plus power) mode. Your phone will auto detect that file and start to ask if u want to install update say yes boom it will flash back to stock.....however my only concern would be if u need to turn s-ON before u do this.
I did this for a evo 4g and it worked but I turned s-ON first as it was in the instructions I was following. I think maybe the update file checks to see if ur S-off or on. But don't quote me on that.
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phaze one said:
Yeah, I agree with popasmurf. Put the PB31IMG.zip on your sdcard. Then let hboot discover and update it. It'll be back to stock and youll have to reroot but better than a paperweight.
You can find the image here -----> http://dougpiston.com/?page_id=108
I'm assuming you have a dinc.
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Thanks for the replies.
I tried this method to flash back to the stock 2.2 image before I started this thread. That's what I meant by "I've used HBOOT to ... run the 2.2 RUU." The stock image seemed to install properly in HBOOT. I have evidence that it successfully went back to stock, since I get the original ! triangle graphic instead of CWM when I try to enter recovery from HBOOT. However, I only see the graphic pop up for a brief second before it reboots again. Trying to boot into recovery or the ROM itself still result in a reboot.
I cannot achieve S-ON without having access to recovery, at least there's no way that I've found to do it through HBOOT.
Any other thoughts? I think it's a hardware problem. It appears the phone is back to stock (except it's still S-OFF), but everything outside of HBOOT causes a boot loop. I stopped in at Verizon this afternoon and they'll be sending a new phone to arrive by Tuesday. At this point, it'd be nice to try all avenues of repair for the future benefit of others that run into this problem.
Probably bad memory chips on the phone. Since it happened all of a sudden during normal use it usually indicates hardware failure.
That is pretty much what I determined. Bad hardware. Sorry for your trouble but is nice to know I'm not the only person to ever have this. Also nice to know I didn't miss something that could've brought it back to life.
I filed an insurance claim. Figured since I have had it for years and never used it I'd take advantage.
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You can boot your phone like regular right? Just let it launch up or do you get loops?
Nevermind i see what ur saying. when i was flashing incorrect kernals i would get the same behavior from my phone. So i suggest you take phazeones link and try that file.Because u might have the incorrect file. There might be more than meets the eye make sure u got the right file.
When i searched for my zip file for my evo there was like 4 of them. They had to match what was said in the upper left corner of my hboot screen. So let me knoe if it worked
I wonder if he could just wipe that SD card, place a new Rom etc on it and reinstall. Bricking displays no response you've got a better shot at recovering course your SD card/battery could be bad
Since you're trying to flash the 3.x.x.x version of CWM, that may be your issue. Here's a zip for 2.5.0.5, one of the most stable earlier Recoveries. Flash through hboot as per usual.
If that doesn't work, (I'm assuming that you can boot the phone normally at this point) try re-rooting with the Unrevoked tool.
Then use Rom Manager to flash a newer Recovery (be sure to check Erase Previous Recovery under Settings). If that still doesn't work, I'll see about packaging an RUU in a PB31IMG.zip with a valid version of CWM as the recovery.img within that zip. I'm not sure about the practicality of this final option, but if it comes down to it, I'll attempt to package that up for you.
This sounds incredibly frustrating. Thus my interest in the matter.
There's gotta be a way to fix this... even if it's just long enough to get S-On and keep your warranty valid.
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Crans said:
I wonder if he could just wipe that SD card, place a new Rom etc on it and reinstall. Bricking displays no response you've got a better shot at recovering course your SD card/battery could be bad
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This would work if he could access CWM Recovery, but he can't, thus the issue.
I wonder if he could mount something from within hboot and replace the binary code for the recovery image with a bunch of zeroes and then try flashing another through hboot again.
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I was JUST about to post the same topic when I came across this. I have done the stock image restore, restored BACK to hboot 0.92, back to the most current INC radio, and have tried flashing CW3.0 and Amon_RA. Everything flashes fine but the boot loop continues and if I try to enter recovery, it lasts maybe one full second before rebooting again. The only thing that I can think of that would create this situation for me was that earlier I was trying to update the PRL via *228 on MIUI but the dialpad never popped up so I hung up.
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So i suggest you take phazeones link and try that file.Because u might have the incorrect file. There might be more than meets the eye make sure u got the right file.
When i searched for my zip file for my evo there was like 4 of them. They had to match what was said in the upper left corner of my hboot screen. So let me knoe if it worked
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I'll take another crack at it, but I don't think I had gotten the wrong image. No worries though, it's easy enough to try again using the link on page 1 directly. Can't hurt, right ;-)
RegnierD said:
Since you're trying to flash the 3.x.x.x version of CWM, that may be your issue. Here's a zip for 2.5.0.5, one of the most stable earlier Recoveries. Flash through hboot as per usual.
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Sure. Once again, worth a shot.
RegnierD said:
This sounds incredibly frustrating. Thus my interest in the matter.
There's gotta be a way to fix this... even if it's just long enough to get S-On and keep your warranty valid.
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Thanks for the sympathy . Like I mentioned, I visited the Verizon store and a new one is on its way... doesn't that mean that it doesn't matter (other than for science sake) whether this gets S-On or even fixed?
[waiting for flash of build-3.26.605.1-release-152016-baseband-2.15.00.07.28-hboot-0.92.0000_PB31IMG.zip]
It just seems unlikely that this is a problem with flashing the wrong recovery, or the wrong stock image, since booting into recovery and booting normally both exhibit the same behavior. If I could boot normally into recovery but not boot into a stock image, I would suspect that I had flashed the wrong image. Since both have the same problem, I think it might be something else.
[finished flashing build-3.26.605.1-release-152016-baseband-2.15.00.07.28-hboot-0.92.0000_PB31IMG.zip]
Same behavior. White htc Incredible splash screen -> darkness for a second (presumably while the ROM tries to boot) -> reboot.
Alternatively, HBOOT -> Recovery -> White htc Incredible screen -> Triangle / ! error screen for a half second -> reboot.
[finished flashing CWM 2.5.0.5]
Same behavior:
HBOOT -> Recovery -> White htc Incredible screen -> CWM recovery 2.5.0.5 for a half second (this confirms that it flashed properly) -> reboot.
Hey guys,
I tried to root my my evo 4g with the instructions from the sticky and when I started the autoroot file as it said, it would get to found root then establishing something and the cmd would close out and my phone would stay in the bootloader mode. Instructions said to go to recovery if it didn't continue and I did go into recovery and all it gave me was a black screen with the red triangle and nothing was happening so I pulled out the battery to restart the phone. Now my phone boots up normally and it just freezes up after maybe 30 seconds of use everytime and just reboots and it repeats over and over again nonstop. It won't be recognized by my computers and it just says unidentified with the CDMA drivers not working and the phone does not recognize the SD card when its running and booted up. Please help if you guys know what I could do to make it stop restarting. Thanks in advance!
Try re-rooting via unrevoked. Click on unrevoked in my signature and follow the directions, but first, boot into the bootloader screen (after shutting off the device, simultaneously press the DOWN volume button and the power button until the device starts). Look at the top of the screen and see if it displays "S-OFF". If it does, great, you're rooted, bit if it displays "S-ON" then follow the rooting method of unrevoked or retry the method you used. If it does indeed display "S-OFF", I suggest you flash a custom recovery like amon_RA.
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Well I can't do that since it won't recognize the phone through USB or recognize the SD card
Update: I just flashed my evo with the stock 3.70.651.1 rom using a card reader putting the PC36IM something file on the SD card and used bootloader to flash and It's still not recognizing the SD card and it's still freezing up 1 minute after it has booted up and restarts and repeats the loop.
I sorta have a similar problem. I have a rooted evo running CM7 .
trying to use HDMI cable with a 1080p vizio LCD TV. Nothing happens. Does CM7 support the HDMI video out.
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Hey guys,
I tried to root my my evo 4g with the instructions from the sticky and when I started the autoroot file as it said, it would get to found root then establishing something and the cmd would close out and my phone would stay in the bootloader mode. Instructions said to go to recovery if it didn't continue and I did go into recovery and all it gave me was a black screen with the red triangle and nothing was happening so I pulled out the battery to restart the phone. Now my phone boots up normally and it just freezes up after maybe 30 seconds of use everytime and just reboots and it repeats over and over again nonstop. It won't be recognized by my computers and it just says unidentified with the CDMA drivers not working and the phone does not recognize the SD card when its running and booted up. Please help if you guys know what I could do to make it stop restarting. Thanks in advance!
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can you send me the autorootlog.txt file? that should show what happened to it. And def don't try rooting it with anything else while the phone is in an inconsistent state, that is just asking to corrupt it.
Use unrevoked 3 my guide has all you need links and so on
I like unrevoked 3 easy to root and unroot . All the other programs that work for rooting can make unrooting a pain in the butt. Do what you want you want .
You don't have a recovery installed that's why you get black screen and triangles . Use amon 2.3
reaper24 said:
Use unrevoked 3 my guide has all you need links and so on
I like unrevoked 3 easy to root and unroot . All the other programs that work for rooting can make unrooting a pain in the butt. Do what you want you want .
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how is unrooting different?
xHausx said:
how is unrooting different?
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I'm not going to war with you on that man just saying turn s off flash a stock Ruu the latest and your good to go. Trying to find a auto or one click unrooting program to unroot can be a pain to do if your h boot is to new or old .
I'm sure your way is good I just prefer unrevoked 3 is all. Not dogging your root way. Just familiar with unrevoked 3 use it to root everyone's phone I know.
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I'm not going to war with you on that man just saying turn s off flash a stock Ruu the latest and your good to go. Trying to find a auto or one click unrooting program to unroot can be a pain to do if your h boot is to new or old .
I'm sure your way is good I just prefer unrevoked 3 is all. Not dogging your root way. Just familiar with unrevoked 3 use it to root everyone's phone I know.
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Well you're saying there's a difference in how you have to unroot when it's not true. Or at least that I know of, if there is I'm curious as to how.
Autoroot will try to downgrade the hboot to the unlocked engineering leak, if successful it's finished and all you have to do to unroot is run the RUU. If it's unable to downgrade the hboot it will bring up the stock recovery and use unrevoked forever to unlock the nand; when this is used you have to flash the s-on tool (that is left on the sdcard as URFSOn.zip) and then flash the RUU to unroot.
Unrevoked 3 breaks in through the hboot and unlocks the nand through the radio, so you will also have to use the s-on tool and flash the RUU.
You're also telling him to keep trying to root when his phone is obviously in a weird state, that's bad advice unless you want him to end up bricked like a ton of people did when the latest firmware came out.
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Well you're saying there's a difference in how you have to unroot when it's not true. Or at least that I know of, if there is I'm curious as to how.
Autoroot will try to downgrade the hboot to the unlocked engineering leak, if successful it's finished and all you have to do to unroot is run the RUU. If it's unable to downgrade the hboot it will bring up the stock recovery and use unrevoked forever to unlock the nand; when this is used you have to flash the s-on tool (that is left on the sdcard as URFSOn.zip) and then flash the RUU to unroot.
Unrevoked 3 breaks in through the hboot and unlocks the nand through the radio, so you will also have to use the s-on tool and flash the RUU.
You're also telling him to keep trying to root when his phone is obviously in a weird state, that's bad advice unless you want him to end up bricked like a ton of people did when the latest firmware came out.
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no I'm not telling him to brick his phone. He doesn't have a recovery on his phone that is what he needs . Just saying if he does end up rerooting at some point he can try unrevoked 3 just a suggestion. My advice isn't bad not new to rooting or flashing. Pretty good at trouble shooting .
Well how do I get a recovery? I thought I have one since I have the option to go there? Gives me a red triangle with a phone under it. Once i mash the volume up and down and power button at the same time and hold it in for a bit a menu pops up to update from SD card or to clear storage and some other options. But anyway I reflashed the stock rom from bootloader and it's still doing the freeze after 30 seconds of use and restarts over and over again. So how do I actually get recovery and what do I do after that to make this stupid restarting of my phone to stop.
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Well how do I get a recovery? I thought I have one since I have the option to go there? Gives me a red triangle with a phone under it. Once i mash the volume up and down and power button at the same time and hold it in for a bit a menu pops up to update from SD card or to clear storage and some other options. But anyway I reflashed the stock rom from bootloader and it's still doing the freeze after 30 seconds of use and restarts over and over again. So how do I actually get recovery and what do I do after that to make this stupid restarting of my phone to stop.
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I'll need to take a look at your autorootlog.txt file in order to find out what's up with your phone. It should be in the autoroot folder and you can post it by using the 'manage attachments' button, if it doesn't want to let you for some reason you can also email it to me.
edit: odds are you're phone is still locked but it won't hurt to try flashing the recovery, all you have to do to flash it is run the FlashZip script that came with AutoRoot and select the one that says Amon RA - hausmod. That's if it's unlocked of course, if it says s-on or that the security is still on then your phone will reject it.
There you go, there is my autorootlog
I'm not too worried about this as I took the phone to sprint and they ordered me a new phone since they didn't know what was wrong with it and I'll get it today or tomorrow but I just want to figure out what went wrong so that I know what to do if I am to root my new phone..cause this autoroot I used on this website messed up and I followed every step perfectly.
yup im deff. bricked i went to install the new synergy and i went to boot phone and it just sticks at white htc evo screen i have tryed to install a new pc36img and it installed then i went to recovery and it still gets stuck at the white htc evo screen and just loops so yea im deff bricked lol i know they say if you can get into hboot then your not bricked but hmmm plz help
well not enough info to help but...can you get into recovery...if so try a full wipe and flash a simple and easy stable rom ...say like fresh 4
Ur not bricked if ur phone powers on. Boot to recovery, do a full wipe, and flash a stock rom n c how that goes
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You're not bricked, I've had this happen before. Back up all your meaningful files to your desktop, go into recovery and format your sd card, do it a couple times, then find a PC36IMG zip and put it on your sd card. Try to find a rooted rom if not, you'll have to re-root your phone. I used a 2.2 rom for an easy root with Unrevoked, then started back flashing. Good luck. Its normal for it to sit on the white screen for up to 5 minutes.
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i cant get into recovery when i try from bootloader it just brings the htc screen back up and then stays on that for a few then screen turns black and then the white htc evo screen lol sooo im lost i have tryed to install the pc36img and it asked me to update and i said yes and then hit recoveryand still nothing
Try running an ruu in exe form from your computer.
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how would i do that im not familiar with adb all that well sorry guys
You don't need adb. Download the newest ruu. Its a program run on your pc. It will wipe and replace everything. Its pretty much what htc would use to reflash a phone
We're comin from a pure power source.
to be honest I would surf through this section and General since everyone who phone gets stuck on the white HTC Evo screen first goes its bricked. I think we use that term too loosely in here. I know your not the first person to have this happen to them and I know many others have come out of it. Its just that there are so many different methods. This is where knowing a little adb will help you. If not I suggest learning it quickly.
If you are still S-Off I would try and reflash a recovery preferably Amon and then see if you can get into recovery and you Caulkins format all zip. Hopefully you will be able to do those two functions and if I were you I would load up a stock rooted rom first... Good luck and dont yell bricked till it wont turn on anymore...lol
Evo S3vn said:
yup im deff. bricked i went to install the new synergy and i went to boot phone and it just sticks at white htc evo screen i have tryed to install a new pc36img and it installed then i went to recovery and it still gets stuck at the white htc evo screen and just loops so yea im deff bricked lol i know they say if you can get into hboot then your not bricked but hmmm plz help
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you are not alone on this issue im currently stuck in the same bootloop and cant get into recovery also. i started the post in general yesterday. hopefully someone will come in and help us both soon.
odie145 said:
you are not alone on this issue im currently stuck in the same bootloop and cant get into recovery also. i started the post in general yesterday. hopefully someone will come in and help us both soon.
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Yea but I read your post and aren't you looking for Mac fastboot files? If so try this link it has a zip for a Android Metro file I was trying to repair. There are a couple for Mac files in there adb-mac and fastbot-mac.
I will post this in your thread as well
do what playya said and flash amon_Ra recovery through hboot. try and get that back before you run a ruu. look in the dev section for the ra thread and follow the directions to manually flash it and see if it works. It may just be that you lost your recovery.
well i got it to boot but now it stays booted after i ran ruu and now it stays on for about 2 mins then shuts off hahah well i got a new one coming for free in a few days so im good guys ty
what ruu should i use for the evo the one i installed seems to freeze my phone after boot up and then reboots
Evo S3vn said:
what ruu should i use for the evo the one i installed seems to freeze my phone after boot up and then reboots
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a little more info on the phone you have to use the right one for your radio and Hboot. I would just try and see if you still have s-off and flash a recovery and go from there... Or just say f-it and wait for new phone...
I think I may have bricked my Incredible...I pulled it out to put some games on it for my daughter to play. It had the latest OTA (2.3.4) and I wanted to root it. Played around with various methods to root and nothing worked. Downgraded to 2.2, and now it boot loops. If I have it plugged in, it will boot, but if unplugged it just loops. It won't install recovery from HBOOT, so I don't know what to do. Any suggestions? Thanks!
riot1031 said:
I think I may have bricked my Incredible...I pulled it out to put some games on it for my daughter to play. It had the latest OTA (2.3.4) and I wanted to root it. Played around with various methods to root and nothing worked. Downgraded to 2.2, and now it boot loops. If I have it plugged in, it will boot, but if unplugged it just loops. It won't install recovery from HBOOT, so I don't know what to do. Any suggestions? Thanks!
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Ok so your definitley on 2.2 now?
S-on or off?
Radio version?
Hboot version?
Does the phone vibrate 5 times when trying to power on?
Software version shows 2.2
S-ON
Radio Version not sure how to check
HBOOT .92
Does not vibrate 5 times.
Thank you very much for the help!!
I had the same issue with not booting unless plugged in. I also had 5 vibes though with it.
Just from hearing that, read through the 5 vibes sticky and see what you can do.
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Tried the 5 vibrates fix, can't flash the stock rom in HBOOT and the RUU says there is a USB connection error.
Radio (baseband) version is at the top of hboot. If you have the 2.15.00.07.28 radio i would plug the phone into the pc so it boots, and then try using unrevoked to get root and s-off.
The ruu exe probably gave that error because you dont have htc sync installed which gives you the right drivers for the ruu. Im not sure why you cant get a PB31IMG.zip ruu to flash thru hboot. Does it give any errors?
cmlusco said:
Radio (baseband) version is at the top of hboot. If you have the 2.15.00.07.28 radio i would plug the phone into the pc so it boots, and then try using unrevoked to get root and s-off.
The ruu exe probably gave that error because you dont have htc sync installed which gives you the right drivers for the ruu. Im not sure why you cant get a PB31IMG.zip ruu to flash thru hboot. Does it give any errors?
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I do have the 2.15.00.07.28 radio, but the USB doesn't seem to be working because unrevoked doesn't see the phone. I tried with HTC Sync installed and it still didn't work. I don't get any errors, it just won't install the PB31IMG file. I really do appreciate the help, I want to get this thing working again!!
riot1031 said:
I do have the 2.15.00.07.28 radio, but the USB doesn't seem to be working because unrevoked doesn't see the phone. I tried with HTC Sync installed and it still didn't work. I don't get any errors, it just won't install the PB31IMG file. I really do appreciate the help, I want to get this thing working again!!
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In the phones settings do you have usb debuging checked (on) and fastboot unchecked (off). If your on 2.2 there will not be a fastboot option.
Also the drivers for unrevoked are different than the drivers for the ruu. You can get the unrevoked drivers from the unrevoked site, and the ruu drivers from htc sync. Note that to install one set of drivers, you need to uninstall the other ones first.
Also when trying the ruu thru hboot, the file must be named exactly PB31IMG.zip, and be on the root of your sdcard (in no folders).
Does hboot find the file, parse it (progress bar on the right) and then abort, or does it not find it at all?
Yes and yes.
Installed the Unrevoked drivers, but still no luck.
It finds the file and ignores it.
riot1031 said:
Yes and yes.
Installed the Unrevoked drivers, but still no luck.
It finds the file and ignores it.
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I would copy all the files of your sd to your pc, and then format the sdcard fat32 with windows. Then copy your files back to the sdcard and download a fresh copy of the PB31IMG.zip you can get it here http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=22, you will want the froyo one not the gingerbread. Then try flashing it thru hboot again. You said you also couldnt flash cwm thru hboot. This makes me think there is an error on your sdcard, or your doing something wrong with the PB31IMG files. If your s-off you should be able to flash an ruu or recovery thru hboot.
Not trying to call you a noob or anything but you might want to check this out http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=79.
cmlusco said:
I would copy all the files of your sd to your pc, and then format the sdcard fat32 with windows. Then copy your files back to the sdcard and download a fresh copy of the PB31IMG.zip you can get it here http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=22, you will want the froyo one not the gingerbread. Then try flashing it thru hboot again. You said you also couldnt flash cwm thru hboot. This makes me think there is an error on your sdcard, or your doing something wrong with the PB31IMG files. If your s-off you should be able to flash an ruu or recovery thru hboot.
Not trying to call you a noob or anything but you might want to check this out http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=79.
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LOL, no offense taken! This is the only phone I've had trouble with. I've owned 2 Incredibles, a DROID 3, a BIONIC, and now two Rezounds. Never had an issue rooting/flashing/etc. til now. I've formatted the sdcard a few times now, and I've tried three different sdcards. I think this phone just hates me. I have two other Incredibles sitting here, I may bite the bullet and give her one of those. I'm not s-off, could that be the problem?
Edit: It let me flash the stock froyo image in HBOOT, but I'm still in the same place. Unrevoked doesn't see the phone.
riot1031 said:
LOL, no offense taken! This is the only phone I've had trouble with. I've owned 2 Incredibles, a DROID 3, a BIONIC, and now two Rezounds. Never had an issue rooting/flashing/etc. til now. I've formatted the sdcard a few times now, and I've tried three different sdcards. I think this phone just hates me. I have two other Incredibles sitting here, I may bite the bullet and give her one of those. I'm not s-off, could that be the problem?
Edit: It let me flash the stock froyo image in HBOOT, but I'm still in the same place. Unrevoked doesn't see the phone.
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On your pc with the phone plugged in go to device manager. At the top does it say android phone, and when you expand it android adb interface or composite interface?
Other than that im not sure what the issue could be. Now that the 2.2 ruu flashed, does it still bootloop? Mabey the cable or the usb port? Do other phones work with the cable, both charging and data?
I had the issue with not booting unless plugged in also. However, I was getting the 5 vibes.
Follow the 5 vibes of death tutorial up until it says your USB should be fixed and go from there. Which is a problem you're having if I'm understanding correctly.
That's my suggestion.
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I finally threw in the towel and grabbed another Incredible from my drawer of phones. This one rooted just fine and she's playing with it as I write this. Is there a way to take a nandroid backup from the working phone and get it onto the non-working phone somehow?