not quite sure what i've done, but i can boot into recovery mode OK and i can flash the fakeflash ok to get to that point, but when i reboot the phone, it just comes up with the green "HTC" symbol and a white screen and nothing else ..
i assume that if i can somehow gain access to the SD card, i can put another rom on it to flash it, but i don't have a card reader ..
ARGH !!
is there any way of booting the phone into USB mode ??
Go into recovery and fake flash, mount sd card. Your computer should recognize it
you sir, are a god among men. problem solved
(well i say solved, i've only just copied the rom onto the SD Card, knowing me, i could still nork it .. )
Thanks though ..
All sorted. flashed the rom and it's all fine and back and working. phew !
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I was upgrading my SD card copied the fakeflash/clockworkmod update.zip onto my new sd card along with my new rom then put it in the phone and tried to boot into recovery.
I get the standard menu chose bootloader then chose recovery as I have done many times before. But instead of getting the black screen with the triangle with the ! symbol in it it just stayed on the white screen with the HTC logo.
Odd fair enough I did a battery pull and then tried to boot normally but got exactly the same thing.
Ok that's strange put my old SD card back in, but no joy cant boot normally and cant get into recovery.
Is there anything I can do or have I just lost my phone for good?
You just need to put a sd card in the phone (a sd card which u are going to use permanently)you dont need to copy anything to sd card apart from rom and radio before u flash it, reinstall your rom + radio and things should be ok, happened with me when i got a new sd card.
Seems VERY similar to a problem i had. Instead of HTC logo though - mine was on o2 splash screen as it is branded.
Have a look at my thread -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=776120
.....it was solved at the end.
If you are going down this route, be aware though you will want an unbranded RUU file and you will lose everything on the phone!
But a wiped working phone is better than a full non-working one!
Good luck
hi,
i had a whole bunch of issues with my defy (self inflicted) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12349345#post12349345
anyhow, i have now managed to flash, update.zip (which happened to be for t-mobile usa) and now i cant get my, or any other formatted sdcard to work???
when i put one in it begins to mount the sd card, then instantly says "sd card is safe to remove"
i want to flash my defy with blueginger but i cant work out how to seeing as i cant access my sd card?
luckily the phone is still rooted but i cant put clockwork or anything else on as it wants to install it on my sd card, is there a way around this?
please help!!!!
Hey i had the same issues search the android development section for the solution or search for the post posted be me,,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988592
hahahaha problem solved (after 6 days of hell)
turns out that rds lite doesnt work too well on windows 7, so i gave it a crack on the old comp (xp), and bang, rom is flashed, phone is fixed
thanks to all that gave me help along the way!!!!
Help..
I'm in the same situation as earlier described..
I've been trying to get Adlxmod F4D on to my defy, but in the process I screwed up a few things..
I'm back on track though and I've currently flashed my defy with the 3.4.3-11 .. BUT now my problem is first of all, that after I've rooted the phone using superoneclick (and also before doing this) my phone says that I've got NO SD card.. When I do the recovery reboot to wipe and restore then my touch screen doesn't work (it boots, though).. It's the same if i tryk to boot using power + vol down - here I get no response when I push in the down right corner..
This problem is not only with my 16gb sd card (which was in the phone during wipe + flash + root), but also when I try the 2gb that came with the phone.
Does anyone have a solution to my problem??
my friend was completly mindless. he used kernal manger to flash the cyanogenmod kernal to his phone. the phone is s-on and nothing works except the phone itself, it does not power properly it needs battery pull and plug ins to get it to start or it just vibrates 5x then freezes. it also does not recognize the sd OR pc, i cant get to it on the pc with correct drivers...its like its not there.
so i went to fix it for him and could not ruu due to the not seeing the device, and couldnt flash anything off the sd due to the sd being not recognized. he told me he had a failed unrevoked session and it put superuser on and cwm on. i CAN get to the hboot screen and when i go into recovery i get into cwm but nothing at all works...
i never saw a brick like this. i would like to call it a live brick dead lol
is it dead?
ty
chef2 said:
my friend was completly mindless. he used kernal manger to flash the cyanogenmod kernal to his phone. the phone is s-on and nothing works except the phone itself, it does not power properly it needs battery pull and plug ins to get it to start or it just vibrates 5x then freezes. it also does not recognize the sd OR pc, i cant get to it on the pc with correct drivers...its like its not there.
so i went to fix it for him and could not ruu due to the not seeing the device, and couldnt flash anything off the sd due to the sd being not recognized. he told me he had a failed unrevoked session and it put superuser on and cwm on. i CAN get to the hboot screen and when i go into recovery i get into cwm but nothing at all works...
i never saw a brick like this. i would like to call it a live brick dead lol
is it dead?
ty
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alright, i didnt read the whole thing. gonna go smoke and think. lol. happened too much today with devs leaving and $h!t
SD card not working? Do you have a card reader or another phone to put it in and format with? See if it is even recognized by anything else other than the phone.
I'm not sure but isn't an SD card necessary for CWM recovery to work?
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SD card not working? Do you have a card reader or another phone to put it in and format with? See if it is even recognized by anything else other than the phone.
I'm not sure but isn't an SD card necessary for CWM recovery to work?
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if they want the phone to work, yeah.
sd works anywhere else. sd is not recognized by phone. nothing happens when its pushed in and using astro shows nothing there. cwm just opens but is completly non-functional
chef2 said:
sd works anywhere else. sd is not recognized by phone. nothing happens when its pushed in and using astro shows nothing there. cwm just opens but is completly non-functional
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insane, but try to root it if its stable? anyone else here? i cant really think of another way....
has to be the craziest thing i seen
Can you not use a card reader to put the RUU on and flash it in hboot? I guess not if its S-ON, what error is it giving in unrevoked? If it flashed an alternate recovery then it has to be rooted..
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Can you not use a card reader to put the RUU on and flash it in hboot? I guess not if its S-ON, what error is it giving in unrevoked? If it flashed an alternate recovery then it has to be rooted..
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Would running unrevoked again work?
Change roms like I change underwear.
I have the same problem.... HELP
santttoos said:
I have the same problem.... HELP
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Try some of the solutions above and let us know. Re-rooting or putting the RUU found here http://dougpiston.com/?page_id=108 on the SD card
My thoughts are the only fix i can see working would be to flash the RUU in hboot not cwm and then root it properly. That should work provided you can get it to read the sd card in hboot
SD card must be fat 32
the ruu you download must be named "PB31IMG.zip" the case is important it must be in all uppercase
and what you will do is put it on the sdcard using a card reader and your pc then put it in the phone then go into hboot it should read the card find the image and ask you if you wish to flash this. You should if it goes well have a stock phone... You can then run unrevoked again to root it this time...
can not access the sd card at all... sd card works fine in my computer... not mountable... can't figure it out...
Hey pls help me I'm rooted with revolutionary "rooting for dummies" .... Everything went well the phone was amazing ... I then installed miui rom and loved it also but then the phone stop reading the sd card it wont pick up on it at all I said forget I disnt need it but then it wouldn't connect to wifi I pulled the battery phone wouldn't boot pass htc Evo 4g screen I tried to boot in recovery no luck I rebooted And did a clear storage to forever for the phone to come on but it did the wifi worked still wouldn't read sd card but now It will no longer boot!!!!! Pls pls pls pls help me I'm freaking out!!
What recovery? You try to install a new recovery thru hboot?
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Hey pls help me I'm rooted with revolutionary "rooting for dummies" .... Everything went well the phone was amazing ... I then installed miui rom and loved it also but then the phone stop reading the sd card it wont pick up on it at all I said forget I disnt need it but then it wouldn't connect to wifi I pulled the battery phone wouldn't boot pass htc Evo 4g screen I tried to boot in recovery no luck I rebooted And did a clear storage to forever for the phone to come on but it did the wifi worked still wouldn't read sd card but now It will no longer boot!!!!! Pls pls pls pls help me I'm freaking out!!
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So are you or are you not able to boot in to recovery? Kinda confused. You said that you tried but no luck but then you rebooted and did a clear storage. So were you able to boot in to recovery the second time? If you can, do a full wipe and try flashing a different rom. You can download one to your PC, boot in to recovery, enable the usb drive, push the file to your phone and flash.
Ummm sorry for the confusion .... I'm talking about I held the volume down and power button to get to the screen I believe it's "bootloader" and tried to select recovery so maybe I can do a backup to wen it previously worked but no luck cause the phone wasnt reading the sd card with the backup on it! So I went back to the "bootloader" and did a "clear storage" it worked but the phone took forever to come on.... I did that about 2 times when the phone wouldnt boot pass the htc screen but now it no lingers works doing that! And to answer you guys question no I'm not able to boot in recovery just to bootloader with the options
Fast boot
Recovery
Clear storage
Reboot
USB hboot
If you guys are still confused let me know I will explain further more the phone will not access recovery at All!
As asked... what recovery did you load? Amon_RA or CWM? Also, what HW version do you have?
O I'm very sorry.... CMW
Hw info:
Android version 2.3.4
Baseband version 2.15.00.0808
Kernel version: [email protected] #1 Sat apr 30 04:36:42 edt 2011
Build number: MIUIAndroid 7.29
And to answer your previous question I don't know how to install a new recovery thru hboot .... I hope this helps you
If you can get to your sd card via a card reader to load a new recovery, then follow the steps here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026. Otherwise, try this first to see if you can at least get sd access again: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695243
Ok will try how do I get a card reader?
If you are on a laptop, most recent ones will have a slot for it and may even have the dock/reader to place it in. You can also get an external one that connects via USB at Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Radio Shack. Basically anywhere that sells SD cards. Usually around the camera section. You can also check tigerdirect.com or newegg.com if you can wait to receive it via mail. They usually have bargains that you can take advantage of. If this is your primary phone, then go to a store to get one so you can get your phone working.
Or if you can't get your hands on a card reader, you could stick your card in a different phone (old phone, friends phone, neighbors phone, phone at sprint store, whatever). Then download amonRa recovery from xda (download the PC36IMG version of it). Move it to the root of SD card (i.e. NOT in any folder) using some sort of file explorer on the borrowed phone.
Then put card back into your Evo, boot into bootloader (using power and volume down method you used earlier).
Bootloader should scan your card, find the PC36IMG, and ask if you want to do the update.
Hope this helps.
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Ok thank you I'm going to do it in the morning will this still work for me even thou my phone won't read my sd card??
Your hboot/bootloader should still read your SD card fine. Unique problem, but should read fine. You remember which hboot version you have?
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No but I'll find out of you tell me how to
Well, not really necessary to know, unless you're trying to use some fastboot commands. But, you said you CAN still get into bootloader by holding volume and pressing power, right? Once in bootloader, it will say your hboot info in upper left corner.
In any case, follow the above info about getting recovery as a PC36IMG onto your SD somehow, and boot into bootloader. Good luck. Report back.
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ok doing it as i type on emore thing was is exactly the root of my sd card?
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ok doing it as i type on emore thing was is exactly the root of my sd card?
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not in any folders
ok thnx you
hey i put the files on the sd card and did the bootloader and it still didnt recognize the sd card at all i wont do anything..... am i doing something wrong or is there another option
Nvm........
Hun?? I'm confused you put nrvm
I had ICS BETA 0.17.1.1 running on my desire for quite some time, and have been very happy about it, very stable!
This morning I shut it down to get my SIM card out and when I tried to boot it up again, it was stuck on the boot screen.
4ext recovery told me my phone was USB-bricked and after unbriking it, recovery could access the sd card again.
But now it keeps on USB-bricking. I even tried to completely reformat the sd-card and reinstall the ROM but it is always stuck on the boot screen.
Everytime when I go back to recovery I get the message that it's USB bricked....
What causes this USB-bricking? Is my sd card faulty?
How can I get my phone working again?
Thanks for your ideas/help...
For the record: the sd card was indeed faulty.
I replaced it with an old one, and now I can flash ROM's like before