Hey guys hope someone can help me out here. I just updated my phone to the latest OTA Rooted ROM and everything was working fine. Then I used Rom Manager to download the latest Fresh 3.0.?? ROM. When it downloaded it asked if I wanted to backup ROM and wipe data. I checked both on. Then phone rebooted and it wont get past white HTC Evo4G screen. I did vol down and power and I go to Recovey and again it freezes on this screen. I cant access my sd card to put any recovery stuff on the phone. How do I get past this?? This sucks
rgvsdigitalpimp said:
Hey guys hope someone can help me out here. I just updated my phone to the latest OTA Rooted ROM and everything was working fine. Then I used Rom Manager to download the latest Fresh 3.0.?? ROM. When it downloaded it asked if I wanted to backup ROM and wipe data. I checked both on. Then phone rebooted and it wont get past white HTC Evo4G screen. I did vol down and power and I go to Recovey and again it freezes on this screen. I cant access my sd card to put any recovery stuff on the phone. How do I get past this?? This sucks
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I had the same issue this morning loading the new Fresh Rom. "Stuck at White HTC EVO" screen. Just do a battery pull to restart your phone and let it boot up normally. It should be able to load after that.
Thanks a lot fuzion. I could have sworn I tried that last night but I guess I didn't. So I guess no Fresh ROM ?? Anyway to get it on ?
You could try loading one of the PC36IMG zips on your sd using an adapter to go back to stock and start over
Well I got my phone back on and working with the 2.2 OTA rooted back the way it was. I go into ROM manager and I made sure to do the ClockworkMod Recovery install. When I turn on the phone with vol down + power I select Recovery it just freezes on the Evo 4g screen. Never takes me to the recovery menu like I used to have. Anyone have any idea why??
Let's do a checklist:
1. Full root including NAND unlock (i.e. NOT Unrevoked)?
2. Installed and re-installed latest ROM Manager, and then latest CWM?
3. Copied Fresh 3.1.0.1 to root of SD card?
4. Booted into recovery using either CWM option or power+volume up?
5. You don't have an old PC36IMG.zip on your SD card, do you?
6. If you can get into recovery, do all your flashing from there, and DON'T FORGET to do data, cache, and dalvik wipes.
7. If all else fails, maybe use CWM to flash Amon RA instead and try that way.
8. If all THAT fails, go back to toast's guides and re-root everything.
Other long shots: Install Titanium Backup and use that to install BusyBox. I have no idea if this would help, maybe it's totally unrelated. Also, you could use an app called Quick Boot to reboot into recovery, but if selecting the reboot option from CWM doesn't work, I don't know why QB would.
And one more thing: Don't be throwing the term "bricked" around when you're clearly not even close to bricked.
I am a noob to android but I was able to root my Evo via unrevoked 3 and install cm 6.1.2. Everything was perfect. Then I decided to flash a battery tweak and this is where things started going downhill.
Opened battery tweak with Rom Manager. It downloaded and installed ClockworkMod Recovery v.2.5.0.1, even though I already had v3.0.0.2 installed via unrevoked. It said I needed to flash in recovery so after booting into recovery I flashed it and rebooted.
After reboot, the screen was stuck at the white HTC Evo screen. I booted into recovery and tried a nandroid restore (that I had created with ClockworkMod v3.0.0.2) but it failed. Tried to flash cyanogenmod 6.1.2 and got the status 7 error. Tried to flash a stock rooted HTC Rom, but it also failed.
Basically I cannot boot into anything except hboot and recovery. Is there anyway to fix this or am I done for?
At this point I would run the latest RUU (ROM Update Utility) which will restore your device. It's pretty much a last resort that works in just about all situations. Are you familiar with the process?
Been at this for a couple of hours and I was able to solve it by finding the correct RUU file (based on radio version), renaming it to PC36IMG.zip and placing it into the root of the SD card. Rebooted into hboot and followed prompts and it worked out. Thanks MBeattie!
Glad you got it working. Welcome to XDA & Android.
I had this same problem and followed your advice, running RUU worked great, thank you. This happened to me after I installed one of the normal phone updates. I tried pushing an update using adb, but it just kept saying device offline. Anyways, thanks again, happy to have my phone back
Hi!
I bought a Desire HD a week ago and today I decided to try one of the custom roms. I rooted it with Visionary+, turned s-off with the one-click tool found in another thread, installed Rom Manager and Clockwork mod and then flashed it with a custom rom from the recovery/boot screen without wiping anything.
The problem is, when I later tried to install another rom, it wouldn't boot, it's stuck on the HTC boot screen. I've tried reflashing it, wiping everything there is to wipe and I even tried RUU but it won't recognize the phone. Can anyone help me how to restore to the normal stock rom?! I can bring up the Clockworkmod recovery menu if I take out the battery and put it back in.
I would be very grateful if someone could help me with this! Consider that I'm a noob though so try to write the instructions as simply as possible
Hi, I'm basically in the same boat (I take it you tried one of the stable CM6 builds?).
Digged through an awful lot of stuff, found something about downgrading clockwork.
Maybe this'll help you, I'm still having trouble.
I've found an older clockwork recovery image, gathered all the SDK bits and pieces, got my USB drivers set up after even more digging - now this:
D:\android-sdk-windows\tools>fastboot boot recovery.img
downloading 'boot.img'... OKAY
booting... FAILED (remote: not allowed)
It's rooted, S-OFF, all that good jazz. Halp. :<
enectrixx said:
Hi!
I bought a Desire HD a week ago and today I decided to try one of the custom roms. I rooted it with Visionary+, turned s-off with the one-click tool found in another thread, installed Rom Manager and Clockwork mod and then flashed it with a custom rom from the recovery/boot screen without wiping anything.
The problem is, when I later tried to install another rom, it wouldn't boot, it's stuck on the HTC boot screen. I've tried reflashing it, wiping everything there is to wipe and I even tried RUU but it won't recognize the phone. Can anyone help me how to restore to the normal stock rom?! I can bring up the Clockworkmod recovery menu if I take out the battery and put it back in.
I would be very grateful if someone could help me with this! Consider that I'm a noob though so try to write the instructions as simply as possible
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Which version clockwork mod are you using? And what is the ROM you tried to flash?
Sometimes custom ROMs can take 5 minutes to boot...so give it some more time and see if that helps.
Headwoünd said:
Hi, I'm basically in the same boat.
Digged through an awful lot of stuff, found something about downgrading clockwork.
Maybe this'll help you, I'm still having trouble.
I've found an older clockwork recovery image, gathered all the SDK bits and pieces, got my USB drivers set up after even more digging - now this:
D:\android-sdk-windows\tools>fastboot boot recovery.img
downloading 'boot.img'... OKAY
booting--- FAILED (remote: not allowed)
It's rooted, S-OFF, all that good jazz. Halp. :<
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seems like your pc is not recognizing your phone. And should not you flash the recovery first and then boot?
I did flash the recovery via Rom Manager, which gave me Clockwork Recovery version 3.0.0.5.
Then I had Rom Manager download CM6, it rebooted the phone, phone gets stuck in HTC splash screen.
According to the thread I linked above, I needed to downgrade Clockwork Recovery, hence flashing 2.5.x.x via command prompt.
The drivers are installed correctly, I'm at least sure of that.
Recovering my previously backed up stock ROM won't get me further than the splash screen either, same with wiping everything that can be wiped before that.
Headwoünd said:
I did flash the recovery via Rom Manager, which gave me Clockwork Recovery version 3.0.0.5.
Then I had Rom Manager download CM6, it rebooted the phone, phone gets stuck in HTC splash screen.
According to the thread I linked above, I needed to downgrade Clockwork Recovery, hence flashing 2.5.x.x via command prompt.
The drivers are installed correctly, I'm at least sure of that.
Recovering my previously backed up stock ROM won't get me further than the splash screen either, same with wiping everything that can be wiped before that.
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Then use ROM manager to downgrade the CWM to 2.x. You can do it under the option "All recoveries" in ROM manager. People are reporting problems with the latest version of CWM. Check if you get the same if you wipe everything and install another custom ROM.
Can't find a way to even get past the first splash screen - only thing I can properly access is the Bootloader.
Same here. When I boot I just see the initial "HTC" logo, nothing else.
I had Mike's Revolution HD ROM installed and working just fine, and then I tried to install another mod, which got me to this situation.
I have CWM 3.0.0.5 and I have a nandroid backup of the working system from before installing the last mod.
I tried recovering the nandroid, which goes smoothly (including the MD5 validation of the backup) but it still doesn't boot afterwards. I wiped the boot, system and data partitions and tried restoring again - same result.
I assume my next step is to flash a new ROM but unfortunately I don't have any ROMs on my SDCARD, so I need a way to push it there. I tried with fastboot but it doesn't recognize a partition called "sdcard". I believe adb should work while I'm in CWM but it just says "error: device not found".
Any suggestions?
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Which version clockwork mod are you using? And what is the ROM you tried to flash?
Sometimes custom ROMs can take 5 minutes to boot...so give it some more time and see if that helps.
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Sorry, no idea which version, but it's the default that comes with Rom Manager. I downloaded Rom Manager yesterday so I guess it's the most recent Clockwork mod.
Left it for 15 minutes, still nothing. I used Android Revolution HD 2.0.11 for the first flash which worked and then when I tried to install Pays-ROM HD Sparta 1.0 I got stuck on the boot screen. I've tried recovering from the previous backup I made on the recovery screen with no result.
Just got mine back alive
Flashed CWM 2.5.1.3 and restored the nandroid with it.
Spending the last few hours searching the forums my best advice is to avoid 3.0.0.5
Went a different approach - finally figured out that you could mount the sdcard via Clockwork Recovery, threw newest CM7 nightly on there and installed it with Clockwork as well.
CHRIST that was a pain in the ass... and I thought downgrading the stock ROM was annoying.
as a rule i have found out cwm3 is for flashing gingerbread and cwm2 is for froyo
Headwoünd said:
Went a different approach - finally figured out that you could mount the sdcard via Clockwork Recovery, threw newest CM7 nightly on there and installed it with Clockwork as well.
CHRIST that was a pain in the ass... and I thought downgrading the stock ROM was annoying.
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Thanks for the advice! It worked for my DHD too Except that I, after flashing ut with CM7, restored it to stock with RUU! Thanks to everyone here who tried to help
erank said:
Just got mine back alive
Flashed CWM 2.5.1.3 and restored the nandroid with it.
Spending the last few hours searching the forums my best advice is to avoid 3.0.0.5
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how do I get 2.5.1.3 onto the device when I can't even get the darn thing to load?
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how do I get 2.5.1.3 onto the device when I can't even get the darn thing to load?
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Read here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=855490&page=132 (jump to page 132 #1312)...
Take your battery off, then put it back in. Hold power button and volume down button at the same time. You come to recovery...or alternately you can use adb.
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Read here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=855490&page=132 (jump to page 132 #1312)...
Take your battery off, then put it back in. Hold power button and volume down button at the same time. You come to recovery...or alternately you can use adb.
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mate you're a STAR. I actually downloaded a recovery image (from post 1315) in the same thread but it kept saying "connecting to device". When I downloaded the recovery image from 1312 and ran "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" it say's
sending recovery ... OK
writing recover ... OKAY
What do I do next? Just reboot the device?
oh mother looks like I got somewhere. I did a format device and it went into the CWM 2.3.XX screen as below, reloaded Cyanogen 6.1.3 and boom I'm in. Man I though the device was a goner....I'm almost feeling brave enough to install Cyanogen 7.X
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oh mother looks like I got somewhere. I did a format device and it went into the CWM 2.3.XX screen as below, reloaded Cyanogen 6.1 and boom I'm in. Man I though the device was a goner....
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So you are happy with your device now?
Well not really, I went back to HTC Sense because Internet Pass Through wasn't available on Cyanogen and now I cannot get the phone to login and create my google account no matter what
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Can't find a way to even get past the first splash screen - only thing I can properly access is the Bootloader.
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the REMOTE NOT ALLOWED error means you only have radio s-off, so you cannot issue fastboot commands to your device.
Hi All
My Desire Z came back from HTC recently after being repaired as the speaker failed.
I had rooted the phone and it was running CWM+CM7.1, HTC returned it running HBOOT+Gingerbread 2.3.3 so I tried to root it again
First I gained temp root and downgraded to an exploitable firmware
wiki.cyanogenmod.org/wiki/HTC_Desire_Z:_Firmware_Downgrade_(Gingerbread)
This was successful.
I then attempted to gain s-off and install CWM recovery
wiki.cyanogenmod.org/wiki/HTC_Desire_Z:_Rooting
Again this seemed to work ok, all the steps worked, I gained root and S-off, flashed CWM recovery and all appeared well, except I had no mobile data. I put this down to the exploitable 2.2 being a ROM from Asia and didn't think anything more of it.
This is where it went wrong.
I had taken a backup of my 7.1 OS before sending it back, I attempted to install the backup and it failed. When I powered the phone up I got the "HTC Quietly Brilliant" screen on a loop.
So I thought I'd reboot into CWM recovery, and reinstall the exploitable 2.2, then try and install a fresh copy of Cyanogen 7.2.
When I held down the front button, volume down and started the phone, I was met with HBOOT recovery rather than CWM which I thought was strange. I reinstalled 2.2, installed CWM Rom Manager again and downloaded CM7.1, put the zip on the SD Card and instructed Rom Manager to reboot into CWM which it did.
I chose to install the zip, it very quickly finished which was odd, and then rebooted the phone and I got the CM7.1 boot animation on a loop.
Again I front button+vol down power up, got HBOOT and reinstalled the exploitable 2.2, again minus mobile data.
So now I'm stuck. I don't know where to go from here to make CWM the primary recovery and install a new ROM.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
Marff
Similar Issue with Desire HD Rooting !
As far as i know ,
I had a very similar issue while rooting my friends Desire HD.
After a successful downgrade , NO mobile Data > the desire HD did not reboot properly, i.e it did not *restart* , removing battery & starting was ok !! ( CWM ... similar Rom-flashing issues like yours ! )
Anyways ... after a LOT of work , lot of trial & error , i finally tried to re-download the HTC 2.2 img file Or the HTC RUU, whatevery you choose !
flash the official img file , which should send you back to android 2.2 , Unrooted + without CWM.
Then re-start.
Just make sure that the img file is the correct version / downloaded fully !!
Thanks, I'll start again from scratch and perhaps see if i can find a europe 2.2 ROM
OK - All sorted, now running CM7.1 with Gapps and I have mobile data
I have an HTC One (M8) in a boot loop. I have two ROMs (HTC RUU and SkyDragon Sense 7) on a Micro SD card inserted in the device. I initially entered this state of boot loop when i deleted everything and had no ROM to load. I tried using TWRP recovery to sideload the ROM before purchasing a Micro SD card and reader/writer. I then tried using TWRP recovery to flash the ROM from the Micro SD. I wiped everything including cache and Dalvik cache. Neither ROMs would flash. I tried the same thing with CWM recovery. Only change was that the SkyDragon ROM flashed and loaded it's setup. I went through all of the setup of SkyDragon and it installed. I selected yes to reboot, and it just booted to the "HTC powered by ANDROID" screen with red warning message covering "powered by ANDROID". Attached is a photo of my hboot screen. Please help me, as I've been without a phone since yesterday, and am pretty handicapped.
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I have an HTC One (M8) in a boot loop. I have two ROMs (HTC RUU and SkyDragon Sense 7) on a Micro SD card inserted in the device. I initially entered this state of boot loop when i deleted everything and had no ROM to load. I tried using TWRP recovery to sideload the ROM before purchasing a Micro SD card and reader/writer. I then tried using TWRP recovery to flash the ROM from the Micro SD. I wiped everything including cache and Dalvik cache. Neither ROMs would flash. I tried the same thing with CWM recovery. Only change was that the SkyDragon ROM flashed and loaded it's setup. I went through all of the setup of SkyDragon and it installed. I selected yes to reboot, and it just booted to the "HTC powered by ANDROID" screen with red warning message covering "powered by ANDROID". Attached is a photo of my hboot screen. Please help me, as I've been without a phone since yesterday, and am pretty handicapped.
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do u have the lastest twrp?
You are at least three versions behind in your firmware. Search Vomers guide for upgrading firmware..
toysoldierq said:
do u have the lastest twrp?
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YES
flyera343 said:
You are at least three versions behind in your firmware. Search Vomers guide for upgrading firmware..
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Okay, Thanks.
I don't think the latest TWRP plays well with your old hboot. Try 2.7x series. As well, since you are s-on, you may want to revert back to stock and take all the OTAs then try flashing the latest ROMs. There are good guides on here for returning to stock.
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I don't think the latest TWRP plays well with your old hboot. Try 2.7x series. As well, since you are s-on, you may want to revert back to stock and take all the OTAs then try flashing the latest ROMs. There are good guides on here for returning to stock.
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Returning to stock even in this boot loop situation?