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Went into recovery and wiped data, cache, dalvik then went to install Fresh 3.4.0.1. It was done installing and I gave it a reboot. At first I thought it was just the first time installing a rom that was making it take forever to boot up, but I fell asleep and just woke up, and that definitely wasn't the problem. It's still on the boot screen with the white background and black htc EVO 4G. I haven't been able to get into bootloader so far.
Any ideas?
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Went into recovery and wiped data, cache, dalvik then went to install Fresh 3.4.0.1. It was done installing and I gave it a reboot. At first I thought it was just the first time installing a rom that was making it take forever to boot up, but I fell asleep and just woke up, and that definitely wasn't the problem. It's still on the boot screen with the white background and black htc EVO 4G. I haven't been able to get into bootloader so far.
Any ideas?
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I had a similar problem once. I would just get stuck at the splash screen no matter if i tried going into recovery or just normally booting up. What fixed it for me was to just take the battery out and leave it out for 5 minutes. Try putting it back in, booting into bootloader, then into recovery. From there try wiping everything and then installing Fresh again.
Also, make sure you are using Amon_RA recovery, as it correctly wipes everything.
yea try that what he said. take the battery n try it one more time n see if that works
Hey folk,
My buddy & I both have EVO 4G's, I rooted mine yesterday, downloaded rom manager did a backup and than downloaded a rom and everything went smooth no problems.
Now today I rooted by friends phone the same way I did mine, when It came to doing a backup or downloading a rom, every time it goes to reboot after the rom is downloaded or you do a backup, it will reboot and than all you see is the white screen and it showing the evo 4G logo.
I don't know what I did wrong? the root went successful and everything else is fine.
Any help folks thanks.
How long is it staying on the splash screen? Sometimes it can take a few minutes.
Is it stuck on the splash screen or can you get it up & running?
teh roxxorz said:
How long is it staying on the splash screen? Sometimes it can take a few minutes.
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It was stuck on the splash screen for about 15 min or so than the battery died.
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Is it stuck on the splash screen or can you get it up & running?
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It stays stuck on the flash screen it won't move, last it was running for 15 min on the splash screen and than the battery died, so I plugged it in to the charger and powered it up and it was still the stock rom but still was rooted.
2005blkgto said:
It stays stuck on the flash screen it won't move, last it was running for 15 min on the splash screen and than the battery died, so I plugged it in to the charger and powered it up and it was still the stock rom but still was rooted.
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First thing: don't try to flash anything with a battery lower than 35%. It might be okay at levels lower than 35%, but it's better to be safe. You don't want to be flashing something after a wipe & the phone shut off.
Second: for some reason after rooting my phone, it takes a lot longer to reboot than it used to. This isn't something that always happens but it does some times. The first couple times it would even get stuck on the splash screen & I'd eventually pull the battery. I found that after I switched to amon ra recovery it stopped happening. You could try switching recoveries, but if you do rom manager won't function anymore & you'll have to do everything manually. It's not difficult.
Try again, this time with a full battery, and see what happens. Make sure cwm says that the flash was successful. If it takes a really long time to reboot, pull the battery & power it on normally. Sometimes it takes a while after wiping/flashing because it has to rebuild cache and/or load the rom for the first time, but it shouldn't take 15 minutes.
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First thing: don't try to flash anything with a battery lower than 35%. It might be okay at levels lower than 35%, but it's better to be safe. You don't want to be flashing something after a wipe & the phone shut off.
Second: for some reason after rooting my phone, it takes a lot longer to reboot than it used to. This isn't something that always happens but it does some times. The first couple times it would even get stuck on the splash screen & I'd eventually pull the battery. I found that after I switched to amon ra recovery it stopped happening. You could try switching recoveries, but if you do rom manager won't function anymore & you'll have to do everything manually. It's not difficult.
Try again, this time with a full battery, and see what happens. Make sure cwm says that the flash was successful. If it takes a really long time to reboot, pull the battery & power it on normally. Sometimes it takes a while after wiping/flashing because it has to rebuild cache and/or load the rom for the first time, but it shouldn't take 15 minutes.
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Every said was correct. But I'd like to add, that its possible that it didn't wipe fully. The screen should never hang on the splash for 15 minutes...five is normal, and sometimes happens after flashing. But like plainjane said, try another wipe. Also, flashing under 35%, it'll flash, but if your phone dies midway, expect to have a fancy paper weight.
plainjane said:
First thing: don't try to flash anything with a battery lower than 35%. It might be okay at levels lower than 35%, but it's better to be safe. You don't want to be flashing something after a wipe & the phone shut off.
Second: for some reason after rooting my phone, it takes a lot longer to reboot than it used to. This isn't something that always happens but it does some times. The first couple times it would even get stuck on the splash screen & I'd eventually pull the battery. I found that after I switched to amon ra recovery it stopped happening. You could try switching recoveries, but if you do rom manager won't function anymore & you'll have to do everything manually. It's not difficult.
Try again, this time with a full battery, and see what happens. Make sure cwm says that the flash was successful. If it takes a really long time to reboot, pull the battery & power it on normally. Sometimes it takes a while after wiping/flashing because it has to rebuild cache and/or load the rom for the first time, but it shouldn't take 15 minutes.
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teh roxxorz said:
Every said was correct. But I'd like to add, that its possible that it didn't wipe fully. The screen should never hang on the splash for 15 minutes...five is normal, and sometimes happens after flashing. But like plainjane said, try another wipe. Also, flashing under 35%, it'll flash, but if your phone dies midway, expect to have a fancy paper weight.
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Thanks Guys I will give it another try, but I would also like to men-son nothing gets flashed, the phone reboots - black screen than white screen and thats all.
When I did the same thing to my EVO the white screen stayed for about 40 secs and than started flashing.
I will try to remove rom manager and reinstall it.
So I am still having trouble with my friends EVO, it stays on the splash screen and won't change it lasted for an hour and than I pulled the battery.
Nothing happen to phone.
When I try to unrevoke it, it asks me if my version is new and reboots.
Even when I try to go to clockwork it gets stuck on the splash screen.
What am I doing wrong?
does anyone not have an answer for this?
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does anyone not have an answer for this?
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I'm not sure this will help you, but if it were me, I would download unrevoked's s-on zip and flash that. Then get the PC36IMG.zip for the Stock unrooted 3.70 OTA and install that so you will be completely back to stock and unrooted.
Then try to root again. Also, try Amon Ra since clockwork was giving you trouble.
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I'm not sure this will help you, but if it were me, I would download unrevoked's s-on zip and flash that. Then get the PC36IMG.zip for the Stock unrooted 3.70 OTA and install that so you will be completely back to stock and unrooted.
Then try to root again. Also, try Amon Ra since clockwork was giving you trouble.
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I would recommend this as well, link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884060
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I'm not sure this will help you, but if it were me, I would download unrevoked's s-on zip and flash that. Then get the PC36IMG.zip for the Stock unrooted 3.70 OTA and install that so you will be completely back to stock and unrooted.
Then try to root again. Also, try Amon Ra since clockwork was giving you trouble.
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I would recommend this as well, link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884060
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Thanks I will give it a try.
One more question, the link you gave me, which one should I use being there is multiple links.
Thanks
Tried to do the recovery and same issue I can not get into clockworks so I am basically stuck, If I goto recovery it will just get stuck at the white splash screen.
I am really lost at what to do now
2005blkgto said:
Tried to do the recovery and same issue I can not get into clockworks so I am basically stuck, If I goto recovery it will just get stuck at the white splash screen.
I am really lost at what to do now
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Can you boot into your ROM at all?
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No not at all.
If I power down than press volume down and power it will take me to the screen where I can goto to recovery but when I select it and try to go to recovery it will reboot and show the white splash screen that says EVO 4G and thats it, it will just stay there.
If I try to download a ROM or do a Backup and when it reboots to the same white splash screen it will just stay stuck there.
It looks to me the phone is partially rooted cause wireless tether, superusers, rom manager works but when I tried to download titanium so I can do the unroot and wipe the data clean titanium won't work.
At this point I have read a-lot of other posts and tried many other things but they all require me to go into clockworks which I can't. I even tried another method I seen on Youtube but I can't find unrevoked on my EVO anywhere.
I mean can you boot your phone up normally, and from the looks of it you can. You just need to reflash your recovery. Boot your phone up, go into ROM Manager and hit flash clockwork. After doing that, choose the flash alternate recovery option to flash Amon Ra and then do all your ROM flashing through recovery and not through ROM manager from here on out.
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I mean can you boot your phone up normally, and from the looks of it you can. You just need to reflash your recovery. Boot your phone up, go into ROM Manager and hit flash clockwork. After doing that, choose the flash alternate recovery option to flash Amon Ra and then do all your ROM flashing through recovery and not through ROM manager from here on out.
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I will try this tonight.
Thanks
Over the last few months, I have noticed that my phone tends to get stuck on the splashscreen ALOT. I notice it when I reboot the phone. I can't remember it really ever being like this.
Someone did make a custom boot screen (The Michael Jordan symbol by Rydah in the Theme's and App forum.) I am in no way saying it's this or his fault or anything, I just have noticed it happening a lot sometime after I added that file.
I have flashed a lot of rom's here and there (always wiping ALL and using the format.all 2x before flashing a new ROM.)
I was wondering if anyone else has encountered anything like this and if they were able to correct it somehow? Or, if anyone has any suggestions on what I can do to try and correct this so anytime I reboot, it reboots normally instead of locking up?
BTW, when it locks up, I do the battery pull and let the battery sit for 30 seconds before I put the battery back in and reboot.
Thank you,
Whiteice
Well the phone will take slightly longer to boot up once you wipe the caches, because they have to rebuild. Do you wipe your cache and dalvik when flashing a boot animation?
WhiteiceDMSTech said:
Over the last few months, I have noticed that my phone tends to get stuck on the splashscreen ALOT. I notice it when I reboot the phone. I can't remember it really ever being like this.
Someone did make a custom boot screen (The Michael Jordan symbol by Rydah in the Theme's and App forum.) I am in no way saying it's this or his fault or anything, I just have noticed it happening a lot sometime after I added that file.
I have flashed a lot of rom's here and there (always wiping ALL and using the format.all 2x before flashing a new ROM.)
I was wondering if anyone else has encountered anything like this and if they were able to correct it somehow? Or, if anyone has any suggestions on what I can do to try and correct this so anytime I reboot, it reboots normally instead of locking up?
BTW, when it locks up, I do the battery pull and let the battery sit for 30 seconds before I put the battery back in and reboot.
Thank you,
Whiteice
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That's never really happened to me on a consistent basis. I've got stuck at the splash screen a couple of times, but it was my own doing one way or another. How long do you let it hang on the Splash screen before you pull the battery? Sometimes mine will sit on the splash for a good minute or so during a normal reboot. After wiping cache's it can sit there for a good 3 or 4 minutes sometimes. I've caught myself pulling hte back cover off the phone to yank the battery, then I notice that the boot animation was starting, and it booted up. I just wasn't patient enough. Have you tried changing away from that boot animation, temporarily, to see if the problem goes away? I doubt that's the cause, but you never know. And if it started happening right when you changed boot animations, I'd say the first thing to try would be changing out to a different one, and see if the problem persists. Has this been happening on any ROM/Kernel combo you've tried? Perhaps it's the kernel you're on, have you tried another? Do you use SetCPU?
Thank you for the responses.
Just to make sure, it is not the boot animation but the splash screen (Originally the white screen that had EVO on it) that I have changed.
The boot animation screens are usually the ones that comes with whatever ROM I am using. I have done the particle motion boot animation from time to time.
And, anytime I flash I flash in recovery, I always ALWAYS wipe cache and dalvik cache (Unless I am flashing a new ROM, then I wipe everything 2x prior to flashing it.)
I usually let the splashscreen sit for about a minute, maybe 2 if that. I was under the impression that if the splashscreen sits there for more then a minute, then I should battery pull to fix it?
I use different kernels to try them out depending on if I am using a sense based or AOSP rom, and it seems to happen no matter what kernel. I do not use SetCPU.
Whiteice
WhiteiceDMSTech said:
Thank you for the responses.
Just to make sure, it is not the boot animation but the splash screen (Originally the white screen that had EVO on it) that I have changed.
The boot animation screens are usually the ones that comes with whatever ROM I am using. I have done the particle motion boot animation from time to time.
And, anytime I flash I flash in recovery, I always ALWAYS wipe cache and dalvik cache (Unless I am flashing a new ROM, then I wipe everything 2x prior to flashing it.)
I usually let the splashscreen sit for about a minute, maybe 2 if that. I was under the impression that if the splashscreen sits there for more then a minute, then I should battery pull to fix it?
Whiteice
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Oh I gotchya, so it was the splash screen you changed to the jordan symbol. Yea, I mean, most of the time it will pass by the splash screen in less than 30 seconds, but for whatever reason, from time to time it will sit in the splash for a little longer than normal. If it goes past 5 minutes then yea, that's too long. It shouldn't take that long. Have you tried a different kernel?
Yes, I try different kernel's all the time and it happens on most of them.
It seems that anytime it freezes up on the splashscreen and I reboot, and it still freezes up on the splashscreen that I have to reboot into recovery (AMON 2.3) and wipe cache and delvik cache each and every time for it to clear whatever is going on. Then usually it reboots fine the next boot after doing that until I reboot again and it locks up. Then repeat above.
Thank you,
Whiteice
So my phone was sitting here on my desk at work, the display was on (very, very low brightness + super dimmed because of that setting in CM9) and it was downloading (via 3G) a ~300mb file for the Mass Effect game that's on sale in the play store today.
Suddenly I looked over at my phone and it was powered off... charging. The only thing I did notice was that it was VERY warm.
I tried to boot my phone up and it got all the way to the lock screen then it shut off. I let it charge for 20-30 minutes then tried again, would not get past the boot animation. I booted into recovery and wiped cache & dalvik in case something crashed... didn't help. Still won't get past the boot animation.
I'm letting it charge for an hour or so then I'll try to boot it up again. If not I'm going to go into recovery and try a complete wipe/flash.
I was running CM9 + franco (ondemand, no OC or UV)
Has anyone had anything like this happen?
Will report back in an hour or so.
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So my phone was sitting here on my desk at work, the display was on (very, very low brightness + super dimmed because of that setting in CM9) and it was downloading (via 3G) a ~300mb file for the Mass Effect game that's on sale in the play store today.
Suddenly I looked over at my phone and it was powered off... charging. The only thing I did notice was that it was VERY warm.
I tried to boot my phone up and it got all the way to the lock screen then it shut off. I let it charge for 20-30 minutes then tried again, would not get past the boot animation. I booted into recovery and wiped cache & dalvik in case something crashed... didn't help. Still won't get past the boot animation.
I'm letting it charge for an hour or so then I'll try to boot it up again. If not I'm going to go into recovery and try a complete wipe/flash.
I was running CM9 + franco (ondemand, no OC or UV)
Has anyone had anything like this happen?
Will report back in an hour or so.
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try reflashing the rom.
the CPU does have a set limit for how hot it can get. My guess is downloading that amount over 3G on the charger (my god what were you thinking) made it shut down. Although once cooled down it should have booted right back up.
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My guess is downloading that amount over 3G on the charger (my god what were you thinking) made it shut down. Although once cooled down it should have booted right back up.
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I download lots on 3G. Regularly. 10gb over the last two weeks, in fact. This has never happened to me.
Ryjabo said:
I download lots on 3G. Regularly. 10gb over the last two weeks, in fact. This has never happened to me.
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same here, i download lots all the time. my guess is that your phone crashed, and since fsync is off by default in franco kernel, your rom or a partition corrupted. if reflashing your rom doesnt help, youll have to flash the factory system image
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same here, i download lots all the time. my guess is that your phone crashed, and since fsync is off by default in franco kernel, your rom or a partition corrupted. if reflashing your rom doesnt help, youll have to flash the factory system image
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I just booted into recovery and flashed a completely different ROM (AOKP). Now it's not going past the "Google" logo (with the lock at the bottom).
I'll wipe and reflash CM9 to see if that helps.
I just noticed something I've never noticed before... after flashing the ROM it says this:
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update...
Fixing fs_size in crypto footer...
Install from sdcard complete.
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What in the world does that mean?
I reflashed CM9 again and now it is booted up.
The battery showed at 5% ...maybe I was a little impatient >.<
I figured 20-30 minutes+ on USB charging would be fine... maybe I was wrong.
Ryjabo said:
I reflashed CM9 again and now it is booted up.
The battery showed at 5% ...maybe I was a little impatient >.<
I figured 20-30 minutes+ on USB charging would be fine... maybe I was wrong.
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sweet
Happens to me once when my kid are playing where's my water. Phone get to bootloop and first i try to wipe caches but no luck, reflash rom without data wipe -> no luck, luckily i have 1 day old nandroid backup i restored it and it started to work.
I quess your phone warms so hot that it needs to reboot and there is some data write at same time so it got some data loss.
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I quess your phone warms so hot that it needs to reboot and there is some data write at same time so it got some data loss.
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That's a likely explanation, but this has never happened to me before so I was panicking.
Good times.
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That's a likely explanation, but this has never happened to me before so I was panicking.
Good times.
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My phone has booted itself many times also, but only once it got data loss.
I think that disabling fsync in kernel increases risk of data loss...
So CM9 is running just fine. This time I didn't flash Franco, probably won't, don't necessarily need to. And holy dogballs... Titanium Backup is truly, truly amazing. I wish I could give the creator a hug.
Anyway, I have noticed that the bars (signal/3G/wifi) have yet to turn "blue" like they normally are. What does this mean?
How long should it take to get past the rotating CM animation? ...I just installed a ROM first time..I guess its trying to install itself..
A newly flashed rom can take anywhere from 30 seconds to 10 minutes to boot up. It's always different. With that said; I've never had to wait longer than a minute or two unless something went wrong with the flash. But that's my personal experience.
Just be sure to leave the phone be for a few minutes after it's booted up to the Google account setup screen. Gives the phone time to settle in and rebuild dalvik cache. After that, reboot and enjoy.
korny249 said:
How long should it take to get past the rotating CM animation? ...I just installed a ROM first time..I guess its trying to install itself..
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Generally 2-5 mins...after that wait for ~10 mins after boot to let things happen in background..
If ur phone is not booting in 10 mins then something went wrong during flash...re do clean flash!
Thanks for the reply. Thats what I was afraid of. Looks like Im having it initialize the ROM on my 989..