HELP! Stuck on HTC Incredible power up screen after restore - Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Installed Cyanogen Mod 6 on my Incredible, backed it up before hand, my SD card didn't work with the MOD, so I restored the back up. I went to reboot after the restore and now it's been stuck on the HTC Incredible power up screen, for about 20 minutes now.
I hear pulling out the battery during anything root related is bad, so I'm avoiding that, but I don't see another option. Any help?

jaredkent said:
Installed Cyanogen Mod 6 on my Incredible, backed it up before hand, my SD card didn't work with the MOD, so I restored the back up. I went to reboot after the restore and now it's been stuck on the HTC Incredible power up screen, for about 20 minutes now.
I hear pulling out the battery during anything root related is bad, so I'm avoiding that, but I don't see another option. Any help?
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This belongs in general.
You might be able to type "adb reboot recovery" with ur phone plugged in. That depends if ur phone is communicating with the computer. If not just pull ur battery and boot into recovery. Try to reflash cm6, make sure u wipe data, cache, and dalvik cache beforehand.
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if i were you, i go back to ruu and start all over again.

I ended up pulling the SD Card out, putting an old backup I had stored on my computer onto the card, and restoring from that backup. Works like a charm now.

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[Q] Bizarre reboot, boot loop issue

Hi all,
So the history is I had CyanogenMod6 on my Desire and was using OsmAnd in the car with the car charger plugged in. The phone reset so I started it again, reopened OsmAnd, then it crashed again. It stopped on the HTC white logo so I removed the charger and weirdly it then booted. When it crashed a third time then it stopped on the white HTC logo and wouldn't go further, regardless of whether the charger was in or out.
I've tried removing the battery etc, but that made no difference.
I've now flashed back to the 2.29 RUU using PB99IMG.zip on the goldcard. This loads fine and all is well, but then every now and again it resets and sticks on the HTC screen again. Also I turned it off once to put my normal SD card back in, and restarting it gave me the white HTC screen. Huh??
Can anyone help please? I need this phone for work and having it die on me and needing an RUU reset (so ALL my data is wiped) is a proper pita.
Thanks.
If its only doing it using osmand then don't use it. Use something else. If its doing it without using it do a full factory wipe, then format the system and boot mounts then reflash. You should be alright. If your still having issues, you might need to use an ruu but you would need to root again.
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Meaple said:
If its only doing it using osmand then don't use it. Use something else. If its doing it without using it do a full factory wipe, then format the system and boot mounts then reflash. You should be alright. If your still having issues, you might need to use an ruu but you would need to root again.
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It first reset using OsmAnd and Google Navigator but now I have reflashed back to the stock HTC 2.29.405 RUU using PB99IMG.zip and it's still doing it during normal use.
I'm also getting the HTC white screen when I just turn off and back on.
When I flash the stock RUU, does that reformat the system and boot mounts? I know the phone feels like everything is gone since I have to reenter my google acc details.
Yeh, an RUU will completely wipe the whole phone, the boot, system, data, recovery, hboot, cache and what ever else there is, all gets replaced. Yes it is a pain but it will return your phone back to stock and if your still getting errors, then most likely it will be a hardware issue, specifically, the motherboard. Tbh, it's a small price to pay instead of having to send it off.

[Q] Phone Will Not Boot Past Splash Screen

I tried to flash the latest (at that time) Synergy Rom on Sunday. I had been trying out Sense 3.0 Roms since being on Cyanogen for 3 months and low in behold after flashing and rebooting, the phone hung on the splash screen, wouldn't even get to the boot animation. I pulled the battery out to reboot and kept doing the same things. So then i just figured I go through bootloader to get to recovery. When I hit recovery, the phone hung on the splash screen and thus I was forced to report my phone lost because I use it for work and was able to get a new one the next day (had to pull out my old bb 8530). The phone charges, but it will not do anything when powering on, or hitting recovery but go to splash. Once again when i try to go into recovery, it won't get there.
Any Help Please.
dels28 said:
I tried to flash the latest (at that time) Synergy Rom on Sunday. I had been trying out Sense 3.0 Roms since being on Cyanogen for 3 months and low in behold after flashing and rebooting, the phone hung on the splash screen, wouldn't even get to the boot animation. I pulled the battery out to reboot and kept doing the same things. So then i just figured I go through bootloader to get to recovery. When I hit recovery, the phone hung on the splash screen and thus I was forced to report my phone lost because I use it for work and was able to get a new one the next day (had to pull out my old bb 8530). The phone charges, but it will not do anything when powering on, or hitting recovery but go to splash. Once again when i try to go into recovery, it won't get there.
Any Help Please.
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You need to reflash your recovery. Is it just hanging at the splash screen, or is it rebooting at the splash screen?
Download this PC36IMG I attatched (it's Amon RA recovery v2.3). Place the file on the main directory of your sd card (you'll probably need to take the SD card and use a card reader to get the file on the card....or put the card in another phone with an sd slot if you have access to one...just get the PC36IMG.zip file on your card). Once it's on the card and card's back in the phone, boot to your bootloader. It should scan and find the PC36IMG then ask you to update...select vol up to say yes. Should finish in 10-15 seconds. Then when it asks you to reboot, say no. Now from the bootloader menu, choose recovery. Do you successfully boot to recovery now, hopefully?
Ok, I got that, I put cyanogens latest release candidate from 5/5 on the card, I have Ra's recovery up, i guess i jumped ahead and the install aborted, tips please.
dels28 said:
Ok, I got that, I put cyanogens latest release candidate from 5/5 on the card, I have Ra's recovery up, i guess i jumped ahead and the install aborted, tips please.
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So what part aborted? When you were flashing the rom? Just to clarify, you did successfully get the recovery flashed, right? Now it's the rom you're having trouble flashing?
If so, I'd be sure that you don't have a corrupted download. Check the md5 checksum, or simply try redownloading it and trying again. Good luck.
It starts to install the ROM, then it all of a sudden aborts after getting 50-75 percent complete. I'm trying RC 7.3 now, wala, it worked, well i have an extra evo now i need to figure out what to do with it. BIG THANKS.
dels28 said:
It starts to install the ROM, then it all of a sudden aborts after getting 50-75 percent complete. I'm trying RC 7.3 now, wala, it worked, well i have an extra evo now i need to figure out what to do with it. BIG THANKS.
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You're welcome, glad you got it squared away.
As far as having two Evo's...just be careful. If I'm not mistaken, when you report a phone lost or stolen to Sprint, they will make the ESN bad. I'd check into that, to make sure that one them doesn't have a bad ESN. I didn't even catch that part of your OP that you had already gotten a new one, lol.
So I guess that will make the phone useless if I give it to my father in-law.
turn it back in n say u found it...in other words the right thing
after doing amon ra3.0.7 nandriod
sorry if question is silly. but last night i flash from cwm to amon ra 3.0.7 everything went good, rebooted phone fine. i rebooted into recovery did a nandriod back evrything fine. i did a reboit to recovery wipe everything except sd card and flash a custom rom and rebooted fine. i went back into revovery did a nandriod backup went fine. i went to reboot my phone and its stuck at splash screen. I followed Hip Kat instruction to the letter. di i miss something
any help would be greatly
I've been running a Sense ROM the last few days and wit the 3 different Sense Kernels I've flashed, I got stuck on the ROM's Splash Screen, had to do a battery pull and reboot and it was fine.
That could be your problem right there.
HipKat said:
I've been running a Sense ROM the last few days and wit the 3 different Sense Kernels I've flashed, I got stuck on the ROM's Splash Screen, had to do a battery pull and reboot and it was fine.
That could be your problem right there.
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it was me i jump the gun after i flashed custom rom. i di all kinds of mods then i tried to nandriod. md5 check sum mismatch, so i just wiped everthing except sd card, reflashed custom rom its all good now. By the way thanks for your input about cwm being junk you were right amon ra is awesome, no more cwm for

Random Restarts

Hello every one,
I am new to the forums and have been looking around for some time. I have a major issue that I need some assistance with if possible.
I am running, well was running, gingerbread 2.3.3 on my HTC Evo 4g phone until yesterday night. Here is some info about what happened. I rooted my phone with revolutionary and everything was going good til I tried to install a new ROM on the phone. The ROM I was downloading was CyanogenMod7, When it finished downloading, the phone booted itself into recovery to install the ROM. Well this is when the problem started, it just sat at the install screen and when it got down with the install it just continued to boot itself into a loop.
I turned the phone off and tried to boot it into recovery, which it did by the way. I did a complete restore of the stock ROM and rebooted the phone, when the phone turned back on is when the phone just continued to restart itself over and over again. So, I did a complete wipe: Recovery, Clear storage etc and nothing seemed to work but instead of it restarting itself, it just sits at the recovery screen and wont go any further. Just like it doesn't have any OS installed to boot from.
I would like some help and see what I can do to fix this problem.
When I go to recovery and boot from the fastboot-bootloader it says:
SD checking "No Image" Loading...
No Image,
loading.....
No image,
Loading....
No image or wrong image....
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on top of that the sd card well not mount to the phone. I am so lost right now.
Some one pelase help or point me in the right direction.
Which recovery are you using for this? Maybe you can actually get it together by doing a complete wipe and cleaning cache/dalvik and then do the recovery.
I am using the clockwork recovery v3.0.0.5.
Every time I try to wipe the Dalvik Cache it tells me
E:unknown volume for path [/sd-ext] Dalvik Cache wiped
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I still get the same thing. The one issue that I have encountered was that the sd card is not mounted to the phone. I have android sdk tools installed but the program can't seem to find my phone when I run the command prompt. The other things is now my phone just randomly shuts down and the the battery light just blinks, like its in stand by mode or something. The only thing I can do is take the battery out and what, then replace the battery and see if it works.
Try to charge the battery without using the phone that way you can work with it. My suggestion is to use Amon-RA recovery. Works a whole lot better that Clockwork. And try from there if you can install the ROM right.
It might be problems with your SD card. If is not reading it then that would be the message.
I tried that and nothing, I gave up on trying to save the phone that I went and got a replacement for it.

Seems like a boot loop condition

Hi Folks,
I was setting up my "old", rooted and S-Off Incredible for our son to play games when travelling, etc. - it's no longer registered on Verizon's network, but is fine for wireless and downloaded apps.
After charging the battery and installing about 47 app updates today (i.e., it hasn't been booted in awhile), I was tinkering around with adding some apps from Play and it suddenly rebooted. Then, it kept booting at the white HTC logo screen.
So, I pulled the battery and decided to go back to Verizon stock, using the image from here:
http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/4.08.605.15/
Essentially, I booted into HBOOT, went into CWM Recovery, wiped appropriate storage, then rebooted back into HBOOT after putting the above image onto the root of my SD card. Maybe I don't need to wipe storage for a RUU, but it's habit by now.
HBOOT installed the RUU image after it prompted for a Yes/No and the Incredible booted with that old, "DROID!!" startup (gosh, didn't miss that) and showed the initial lock screen.
I pulled down the lock and started only a few seconds into phone initialization when it rebooted.
Now, it reboots as early as the HTC logo screen or gets to the lockscreen and reboots on its own after a second or two.
Seems like a boot loop, but I just installed a new RUU - so . . . I'm wondering if this is a deeper issue.
Ideas on how to go about fixing this rebooting problem are welcome, please. Is it possible that my half-completed Play install - i.e., just before it began this symptom - crunched a file system that needs to be fixed up?
Thanks,
- ooofest
Do you get any kind of errors wiping data or cache from recovery? The play install wouldn't have botched up the filesystem but the reboot could have led to corruption in /data. The cause of reboot I wouldn't know without logs. Try pulling the logcat during the boot loop which may or may not work on stock. I seem to doubt it as stock doesn't have USB debugging on by default.
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tiny4579 said:
Do you get any kind of errors wiping data or cache from recovery? The play install wouldn't have botched up the filesystem but the reboot could have led to corruption in /data. The cause of reboot I wouldn't know without logs. Try pulling the logcat during the boot loop which may or may not work on stock. I seem to doubt it as stock doesn't have USB debugging on by default.
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Hi tiny4579, I had no errors wiping data or cache within CWM that were visible to me. I agree that USB debugging is not likely enabled by default.
If we assume there's a /data corruption as one angle to go with, should I try wiping and reinstalling the RUU again? I could attempt to put on a custom ROM instead, particularly one with USB debugging enabled (if that exists). HBOOT currently shows Locked and S-Off.
Thanks,
- ooofest
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Hi tiny4579, I had no errors wiping data or cache within CWM that were visible to me. I agree that USB debugging is not likely enabled by default.
If we assume there's a /data corruption as one angle to go with, should I try wiping and reinstalling the RUU again? I could attempt to put on a custom ROM instead, particularly one with USB debugging enabled (if that exists). HBOOT currently shows Locked and S-Off.
Thanks,
- ooofest
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If data wipe was fine I'm not sure. To test USB debugging flash something like cm7. I think it uses an insecure boot.img meaning USB debugging aka adb should be on by default.
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tiny4579 said:
If data wipe was fine I'm not sure. To test USB debugging flash something like cm7. I think it uses an insecure boot.img meaning USB debugging aka adb should be on by default.
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Using HBOOT 0.92
Installed CWM 5.0.2 via PB31IMG.zip route
Wiped all available storage areas/paths - no errors shown
Installed cyanogenmod 7.2 from the SD card
On bootup, I saw the CM 7.2 boot screen (i.e., a circling arrow) for about one minute, then it rebooted. And rebooted. And rebooted. So, I'm back to rebooting at the HTC logo screen.
Consider me baffled - this phone was working great yesterday until after updating 47 apps (got a "low space" message at one point, started deleting apps while others were still installing) trying to install another app from Play store. Ideas, perhaps?
- ooofest
ooofest said:
Using HBOOT 0.92
Installed CWM 5.0.2 via PB31IMG.zip route
Wiped all available storage areas/paths - no errors shown
Installed cyanogenmod 7.2 from the SD card
On bootup, I saw the CM 7.2 boot screen (i.e., a circling arrow) for about one minute, then it rebooted. And rebooted. And rebooted. So, I'm back to rebooting at the HTC logo screen.
Consider me baffled - this phone was working great yesterday until after updating 47 apps (got a "low space" message at one point, started deleting apps while others were still installing) trying to install another app from Play store. Ideas, perhaps?
- ooofest
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Phone might be dying. Does it even get past the HTC screen?
Try reinstalling the ROM.
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tiny4579 said:
Phone might be dying. Does it even get past the HTC screen?
Try reinstalling the ROM.
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Yeah, it tends to get beyond the HTC logo screen after a new ROM install, but usually reboots as soon as I see the notification for "preparing internal storage".
Afterwards, it tends to reboot at varying times - sometimes at the HTC logo, other times it gets past OS startup and reboots after a few seconds.
. . .
EDIT: I just rebooted and . . . now it suddenly booted into CM and is working normally. What the heck?!
I'm not a CM person and would like to install another ROM to see what happens after that - do you think the phone EMMC is starting to go, perhaps?
- ooofest
You might want to format the internal emmc and sdcard as the reboots could be related to filesystem. Grab /proc/last_kmsg if you want me to check.
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tiny4579 said:
You might want to format the internal emmc and sdcard as the reboots could be related to filesystem. Grab /proc/last_kmsg if you want me to check.
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Thanks, I couldn't find a last_kmsg to pull, but I wiped all storage available (including emmc and sdcard), then reinstalled the latest RUU for a test.
Bootup went OK until it rebooted again soon after getting to the Gingerbread lockscreen. Oh well.
I decided to try going back to CM7 since it actually booted after a time, so reapplied CWM 5.0.2 and then started to format storage again. When trying to format /system I got a 5 vibrate error.
I've gone through various combinations of reapplying the RUU, adding CWM, trying to wipe storage, etc. and I keep hitting the 5 vibrate shutdown at various points. I couldn't wipe /system without getting the 5 vibrate issue twice, then it worked the third time, etc.
Just now, I was in CWM and merely navigating the menu to go into "mounts . . ." and it 5 vibrated again. Ow.
My suspicion above keeps coming back to me: is my hardware potentially going?
- ooofest
ooofest said:
Thanks, I couldn't find a last_kmsg to pull, but I wiped all storage available (including emmc and sdcard), then reinstalled the latest RUU for a test.
Bootup went OK until it rebooted again soon after getting to the Gingerbread lockscreen. Oh well.
I decided to try going back to CM7 since it actually booted after a time, so reapplied CWM 5.0.2 and then started to format storage again. When trying to format /system I got a 5 vibrate error.
I've gone through various combinations of reapplying the RUU, adding CWM, trying to wipe storage, etc. and I keep hitting the 5 vibrate shutdown at various points. I couldn't wipe /system without getting the 5 vibrate issue twice, then it worked the third time, etc.
Just now, I was in CWM and merely navigating the menu to go into "mounts . . ." and it 5 vibrated again. Ow.
My suspicion above keeps coming back to me: is my hardware potentially going?
- ooofest
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Could be the battery going bad. Do you have another battery you could try? Mabey once things start loading it pulls to much power and reboots.
cmlusco said:
Could be the battery going bad. Do you have another battery you could try? Mabey once things start loading it pulls to much power and reboots.
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Yeah, I started charging again to see if that might help, and I've been booting up with it plugged in, too.
Could a battery still be the problem, even plugged in? That is, would a short of some kind be limiting how much could be drawn from the plug?
Wish I did, but don't have another battery on hand.
- ooofest
ooofest said:
Yeah, I started charging again to see if that might help, and I've been booting up with it plugged in, too.
Could a battery still be the problem, even plugged in? That is, would a short of some kind be limiting how much could be drawn from the plug?
Wish I did, but don't have another battery on hand.
- ooofest
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Even when plugged in the power is going thru the battery, so it could still be the problem. Just a sugestion, may have nothing to do with it at all.
cmlusco said:
Even when plugged in the power is going thru the battery, so it could still be the problem. Just a sugestion, may have nothing to do with it at all.
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Interestingly, I let it "cool down" for a bit and charge from the wall instead of USB, then was able to wipe all storage, install CM7 and it booted up fine.
So, I let it sit for a bit longer, wiped again and installed the latest stock RUU. This time, it took longer to boot and came up fine - I now have a relatively stock (except for S-Off) Incredible, again.
From your suggestion, I'll shop for another battery and see if a new one helps to keep the sudden reboots at bay.
Thanks.
- ooofest
Hi Folks,
After working this for some days, my Droid Incredible with AMOLED display still gets into a reboot or boot-loop condition after a random amount of time of continuous use. Almost as if it heats up or something in its memory mgmt is flaky.
It can take new ROMs, recoveries, HBOOTs, radios, etc. - but, regular use just brings up the boot condition too easily, so I can't give it to my kid as a simple gaming device. I tried a new battery in case that might be the issue, but the condition still persists. Pulling the battery and waiting 10+ minutes usually allows it to work again, until the next reboot cycle starts up.
This phone is running the latest RUU and is also S-Off.
So, I'd like to give it away to the first person who requests it.
I'm not offering a trade or purchase, but if someone wants this phone to use/test/etc. with, just PM me and we can plan on a quick dropoff in NY/NJ/CT area or I'll send it to your continental USA address with both batteries and no explicit or implied warranties, guaranties, liabilities or claims of operating performance, etc.
- ooofest

VM Soft-Bricked...I know...

Well, guys was doing pretty well there for a second, I had just installed CarbonROM, was tweaking to my heart's content. Flashed a bad file in an attempt to improve speaker clairity, and boom stuck on the HTC boot logo.
Popped open the back, unplugged the battery, rebooted into HBOOT, rebooted into recovery and attempted to restore one of my backups I took right before flashing the bad zip. Failed. Can't load the data partition.
Ok, got the RUU file from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/desire-816/general/ruu-htc-desire-816-a5chl-ruu-file-t2920254
Downloaded, put on root of SD card, renamed, rebooted to HBOOT, it picked it up, seemed to flash it, but it also seemed to go faster than it should. I'm suspecting it failed as well.
So now I've just got my phone sitting in recovery. Unable to mount the data partition.
Any clue on what I can do now? Hoping I haven't bricked this sucker...
Ok, my persistence paid off....Mods feel free to close this thread, I came up with a fix.
For anyone else in the same rut, this is how I fixed it...
Downloaded stock recovery from this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4NAwrQOaS7QVkxFYnhFZmhjOGc/view
Flashed stock recovery from Fastboot.
Loaded into stock recovery, key combo'd Volume UP + Power, got to the menu. Did a factory reset. Guess it reset partition mount points or something.
Rebooted to Fastboot, flashed TWRP, rebooted to recovery, restored a backup, and bam I'm back!
kenmoini said:
Ok, my persistence paid off....Mods feel free to close this thread, I came up with a fix.
For anyone else in the same rut, this is how I fixed it...
Downloaded stock recovery from this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4NAwrQOaS7QVkxFYnhFZmhjOGc/view
Flashed stock recovery from Fastboot.
Loaded into stock recovery, key combo'd Volume UP + Power, got to the menu. Did a factory reset. Guess it reset partition mount points or something.
Rebooted to Fastboot, flashed TWRP, rebooted to recovery, restored a backup, and bam I'm back!
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Haha I had this same problem before, was ready to send my phone back. I was so scared and it wasn't working for like 3 days.
FoxyDrew said:
Haha I had this same problem before, was ready to send my phone back. I was so scared and it wasn't working for like 3 days.
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Yeah, note to self, never get a phone without a removable battery. The sticky pads under the back cover while I was popping it off were annoying. Thankfully my phone was only down for a few hours.
kenmoini said:
Yeah, note to self, never get a phone without a removable battery. The sticky pads under the back cover while I was popping it off were annoying. Thankfully my phone was only down for a few hours.
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This phone has a non-removable battery. You don't need to take out anything, all you do is hold volume up + the power button for 10 seconds or more. It will ALWAYS hard power off no matter what state the phone is in.
Also, what file did you flash over to improve the speaker clarity which broke your phone? I spoke to you about this earlier in my CarbonROM thread. I actually was able to fix the boomsound issue and there is no more crackling in my speakers. I'm going to post how to do it when I get home.
Edit: SORRY! Volume UP, not DOWN. Got mixed up
LiquidPlacidity said:
This phone has a non-removable battery. You don't need to take out anything, all you do is hold volume up + the power button for 10 seconds or more. It will ALWAYS hard power off no matter what state the phone is in.
Also, what file did you flash over to improve the speaker clarity which broke your phone? I spoke to you about this earlier in my CarbonROM thread. I actually was able to fix the boomsound issue and there is no more crackling in my speakers. I'm going to post how to do it when I get home.
Edit: SORRY! Volume UP, not DOWN. Got mixed up
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I tried Vol Up/Down + Power for at least 30 seconds, was just stuck at HTC logo screen and I could feel the phone getting hotter so instead of having it run down the battery I decided to pop off the top. The back is meant to be non-removable but starting at the SD/SIM slot...slot, a guitar pick works great to undo the clips. Used a credit card to separate the sticky pads from the back. Pulled out the battery cable from the mainboard and reseated it, started it back up in HBOOT.
I flashed some sorta ZIP that's used with the HTC One M8 phones, figured if they have BoomSound it'd help too but noooope, haha. Can't remember what it was called. Did a lot of searching, tried Viper4Android, that sucked, tried tweaking the DSP, nothing came close to the original.
Sharing my own bricking experience
I'm a newbie, but I wanted to share my own experience from a few days ago. I bricked my VM/USA 816 when I was restoring a ROM backup of CM12 over a stock ROM. I was stuck on the CM12 blue "alien head" boot screen. I tried to get into the recovery screen by holding down power & volume, but it would only reboot and load CM12 again and not TWRP.
After a couple of hours of trying to get into recovery and deciding not to wait for the battery to drain because I thought the blue CM12 logo might burn into the screen. I decided to try to remove the cover and unplug the battery. I started at the SIM/SD Card slot trying to pop the cover off a little with a small screw driver to get a credit card(CC) between the cover and phone. Once I got it started I moved clockwise(cover side up) around with either a bent CC or a smaller cut up piece of CC to pop the tabs. I wasn't very gentle since I knew I wasn't going to return the phone and I bought the phone from VM with account balance so I didn't feel like I was really going to waste $300. Thank HTC the plastic cover is very forgiving. Once you get past the HTC logo you have to worry about the sticky tape around the bottom half of the phone where the battery is located. The bent CC was the best tool here and as I said earlier I wasn't very gentle while pulling off the cover once the tabs were loose.
Once I had the cover off I didn't know how to unplug the battery connector so I decided to pry the battery out. Once I did that I could see that the connecter pops up. I plugged the battery back in but the phone tried to load CM12 again. I don't remember if I had to press power button to turn on phone or it started when I connected the battery. I got back into the same state as before with a boot loop with no way getting back into recovery. So I unplugged battery again and connected the phone to my PC. I could see the screen the flashing between the charging screen and TWRP, but I couldn't get into recovery with buttons or screen touches. I then went into a command window on my PC to try the adb command. First I did a "adb devices" then I did a "adb reboot recovery" to get into TWRP. Once in TWRP I did an advanced wipe and installed CM12, gapps and supersu again from my ext SD Card. I'm not sure but I may have done a format of the internal storage just to be safe. Once I was up and running again I replaced the cover starting again clockwise from the SIM/SD Card corner and all the way around the phone till you get near the SIM/SD Card slot and have to replace the flap which is held in place by the cover/phone.
I hope this helps anyone who runs into the same problem.
kenmoini said:
Well, guys was doing pretty well there for a second, I had just installed CarbonROM, was tweaking to my heart's content. Flashed a bad file in an attempt to improve speaker clairity, and boom stuck on the HTC boot logo.
Popped open the back, unplugged the battery, rebooted into HBOOT, rebooted into recovery and attempted to restore one of my backups I took right before flashing the bad zip. Failed. Can't load the data partition.
Ok, got the RUU file from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/desire-816/general/ruu-htc-desire-816-a5chl-ruu-file-t2920254
Downloaded, put on root of SD card, renamed, rebooted to HBOOT, it picked it up, seemed to flash it, but it also seemed to go faster than it should. I'm suspecting it failed as well.
So now I've just got my phone sitting in recovery. Unable to mount the data partition.
Any clue on what I can do now? Hoping I haven't bricked this sucker...
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You have to flash and use CWM 6.0.5.1 and wipe the same partitions that were backed up in your STOCK nandroid backup.
Once you do this, reboot to hboot. Enter fastboot. Flash the stock recovery. Wipe the data/cache/dalvik. Reboot and go to hboot again. (Your device won't be able to boot yet.) Enter fastboot again.
Flash CWM (ONLY CWM) and make sure it flashes by flashing it twice back to back without leaving fastboot at any point.
Boot into recovery and once loaded reboot into hboot once more then go once again to fastboot and flash Philz Recovery with the same double flash process.
Now boot into it, mount as a USB and create a clockworkmod/backup folder on the device root directory since Philz Recovery doesn't use the buried part of the system like CWM.
Drag and drop your stock root nandroid backup. Use Philsz recovery to restore it. Boot up and your phone will boot after 3-5 minutes.
Flash back CM11/12 if you'd like.
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kenmoini said:
Ok, my persistence paid off....Mods feel free to close this thread, I came up with a fix.
For anyone else in the same rut, this is how I fixed it...
Downloaded stock recovery from this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4NAwrQOaS7QVkxFYnhFZmhjOGc/view
Flashed stock recovery from Fastboot.
Loaded into stock recovery, key combo'd Volume UP + Power, got to the menu. Did a factory reset. Guess it reset partition mount points or something.
Rebooted to Fastboot, flashed TWRP, rebooted to recovery, restored a backup, and bam I'm back!
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Hello
Thank you for sharing your solution.
I have a problem which is described in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/des...im-boots-fastboot-t3316255/page3#post65409302.
My questions to you:
1. My bootloader is locked. Is it possible to flash stock recovery on it?
2. I tried to flash official rom but I received the message "Partition update fail!". Can what you did, resolve this problem?

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