Can't boot into recovery after new root method - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

After new 2.2 root method (thanks regaw_leinad), I can't boot into clockwork mod rom manager.
When I press Up+Power, it vibrates three times and nothing happens.
The screen stays off.
Pressing the power button does nothing.
I have to take the battery out to do anything.
I've booted into the manager before, because I had to install unrevoked-forever.zip from it.
What can I do?

Hold volume down while you press power.

Hey man how did you get your phone to come back on cause it just happend to me but now it wont turn back on.
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Thanks.
Take the battery out. When you put it back in, do what bluehaze said.

So you're saying he was holding it wrong?

Raghh.
I just posted this in the Root Guide forum, unfortunately glad its not just me.,
I thought maybe using RomManager screwed it up by flashing my recovery.. just a thought

Try going into RomManager, and flashing alternative "ra-evo-v1.7.0.1" at the bottem of the screen.
I was able to get into recovery with that method.
*****
By doing that method i was able to go back and reflash clockworkmod and everything is golden.
Good luck to you

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help (i hope)

Ok here is my situation....
I was able to fully root using toast's method. I than tried to flash my radio from the link the forums.
It installed everything properly, but then got stuck on the htc evo boot screen. i left it alone for 2 hours and it did nothing.
Is there something that can be done or did I brick it?
Thanks in advance.
Owl
owleyes said:
Ok here is my situation....
I was able to fully root using toast's method. I than tried to flash my radio from the link the forums.
It installed everything properly, but then got stuck on the htc evo boot screen. i left it alone for 2 hours and it did nothing.
Is there something that can be done or did I brick it?
Thanks in advance.
Owl
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Just turn it off, hold the volume button down and then hit the power button, this will put you in recovery so you can flash again
tried that, but it will not let me back into custom recovery. or do i have this wrong. I am still kinda new to all this.
what does it show? a red exclamation mark?
doing the volume down, then power. it brings me to that screen. errr the 3 androids on skateboards screen lol
damn 5 min wait between posts lol. ima be at this all night it looks like lol.
once you are there, you should be able to reboot into recovery. right when you enter that screen it should start looking for PCIMG36.zip and once it can't find that, a menu should pop up. scroll down the menu using the volume button until you hit recovery. press your power button and it should boot you into recovery. if it takes you to a screen with a red exclamation point, then you would need to plug in your phone to your pc and run the bat file that came in the first part of rooting instructions to get into recovery.
once i hit recovery from that menu, it takes me right back to the htc evo splash screen and locks up.
i really do not understand this. all these reports of this radio installing with no issue and I get this >.> ah well. i guess i knew the risks when i started this.
well if your phone can still boot up then it's definitely not bricked. did you try a battery pull and reboot?
yeah....well that is good to know anyway lol.
how do these terminal emulators work, and can i get one on my phone in this condition?
I am reading the sd and usb fix thread...but i don't understand how to run the emulator on the phone.
RUU?
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justinisyoung said:
RUU?
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Excellent idea, just go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=685835 and download the RUU.
Once you run this you are back to stock and will have to re-root your phone via toasts instructions. Hopefully this works
tried that as well. It says there is no phone connected.
I dont know man, you gotta try combinations. Like hold the volume down to get to that recovery and then try to run the RUU perhaps?
believe i am trying everything lol. i even put the pcimg file back on and try to go from that but the phone does not even recognize it now meh it's a process. at least i know there is some hope lol
i don't have an evo (yet), but when you get into the bootloader screen (with the androids on skateboards), is there an option to go to Fastboot mode? if you RUU, that's the mode you wanna be in.
ok i put the original pc36img back on the card and got it to boot back into android!!!!!!
so now i have the root pc36img file on there. I am scared to keep going and rerooting it lol
Will i have to redo it all? I am not sure where to go from here.
everything seems to be working again.
any advice for me now? should i RUU it and just go back to stock or can i keep going from this point with the root steps again? (this time leaving the radio flash alone lol)
If you were able to get root in the first place, you are fine.
Download Flipz Stock Rom with Superuser. No flashing radios necessarily. Just flashing an update.
And you are set. You will be rooted with stock rom. Supposedly.
I did manage to get it fixed last night. Now I am fully rooted and running the fresh rom.
I really appriciate all the advice from everyone who was on here at 4am with me lol. Kinda sucks my first posts on here had to be about breaking my phone, but you guys are awesome!
I got stuck in a boot loop once too when trying to flash a rom. It was because I didn't clear the Data/Stock Image. I had cleared Cache/Dalvik, but not data.

HTC EVO not booting

My Evo stays in the white htc evo 4g screen and wont go to boot. How can I go to the recovery? I have taken out the battery and turned it back on while holding the power button and up volume key and it vibrates three times and wont go to the recovery. How can I fix this?
Hold the volume DOWN button, then press the power and keep holding volume down
Your going to have to flash a/the Rom your using over.
Assuming your rooted, pull the battery. Next, put it back in, and hold vol down along with power until you boot into bootloader mode (screen with skateboarding androids.) From there, select recovery (navigate with vol keys.) After, select flash zip from SD card. If your using RA Recovery, make sure the Rom is on the root of your SD card, if your using clockwork, you may find it in any folder that you placed it. Once imaging is complete, select reboot now.
If your not sure which Rom to select, I recommend JoeyKrim's 5.1 Rom. Stock, without lousyness. And if your not familiar with downloading roms, one note, do not extract them from the ".zip" format. Flash them as is.
Sorry for overloading you with this if you already know it. I'm just assuming you don't since you didn't try it yet.
Best of luck,
Rydah
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Thanks!! I have done that and it worked.. I flashed the same ROM again .
Mine Wont Power ON
I Flashed to new Fresh rom 3.5 had issues so i rolled back to 3.4... i wiped everything like I normally do. I got the white evo screen. pulled battery now i dont get anything. I have fully charged battery by external battery charger. if i plug it into usb i get no lights what so ever. Did it brick on me?

Desire Z stuck in boot loop

Sorry to bother yet again but im flipping **** right now, I installed an overclock kernel from ROM Manager, rebooted and now it shows HTC, Vibrates, turns off and keeps looping.
I'm pretty worred right now, I've got clockworkmod installed (
Can somebody please tell me how to get into clockwork recovery before I have a panic attack.
Turn off phone, hold down power+volume down+up+camera button then scroll with your volume keys to recovery. Then restore a backup if possible.
Sent from my HTC Vision running CM7/GingerSense
Shows a black screen with the orange led flashing in the speaker.
Pull the battery, put it back in press volume down +power, it will boot into Hboot, then use volume to scroll down and select recovery, then restore a backup or flash another rom. The post two up from mine is telling you press all the buttons at once and is wrong.
What you are seeing is what happens when you press volume up+power.
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Man! You are a life saver!
i also have the exact same problem trying to do the same thing you did. Only my phone wont go into recovery. Tried power with volume up, down both and all buttons together. Nothing is working. Anyone? Please help!
Read what joemm said and then do it (volume down+power)
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sorry to open this back up but i have searched and done pretty much everything, I am bootlooping on the white HTC screen.
I can boot into Recovery but when I select Bootloader, it gives me a Red triangle with the phone. I have searched and tried flashing via fastboot to no avail. I can get ADB to recognize the phone... totally stuck.. Is there a way to flash clockwork from an SD or maybe flash the PC10IMG to return to stock? This is my freaking work phone and I really dont want to have a conversation with my boss as to why my phone is shot...
Any ideas?
sorry to open this back up but i have searched and done pretty much everything, I am bootlooping on the white HTC screen.
I can boot into Recovery but when I select Bootloader, it gives me a Red triangle with the phone. I have searched and tried flashing via fastboot to no avail. I can get ADB to recognize the phone... totally stuck.. Is there a way to flash clockwork from an SD or maybe flash the PC10IMG to return to stock? This is my freaking work phone and I really dont want to have a conversation with my boss as to why my phone is shot...
By the way, I am using a TMOUS G2.
Any ideas?
spyderman33 said:
sorry to open this back up but i have searched and done pretty much everything, I am bootlooping on the white HTC screen.
I can boot into Recovery but when I select Bootloader, it gives me a Red triangle with the phone. I have searched and tried flashing via fastboot to no avail. I can get ADB to recognize the phone... totally stuck.. Is there a way to flash clockwork from an SD or maybe flash the PC10IMG to return to stock? This is my freaking work phone and I really dont want to have a conversation with my boss as to why my phone is shot...
By the way, I am using a TMOUS G2.
Any ideas?
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well if you can boot into recovery put a .zip rom of any g2 rom into a folder in your sd card then select intall zip from sd card and find it and it should fix your problem
Wrong thread, delete me.
nonione said:
well if you can boot into recovery put a .zip rom of any g2 rom into a folder in your sd card then select intall zip from sd card and find it and it should fix your problem
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I loaded up PC10IMG.ZIP on my SD but its not being picked up by the stock recovery...
I cannot load Clockwork... is there a way to boot CWM from an SD card? I know I can do it on my Nook but havent been able to find it for the G2...
spyderman33 said:
I loaded up PC10IMG.ZIP on my SD but its not being picked up by the stock recovery...
I cannot load Clockwork... is there a way to boot CWM from an SD card? I know I can do it on my Nook but havent been able to find it for the G2...
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I`ve the same problem... I can´t go to the recovery, The phone don´t recognise the image of rom to flash again, and if I press volume up + power, the notification led blinking in red, if I press volume up + volume down + camera + power the notification leds get "green".
Im going to try to put another rom in sd...
PD: Sorry for my english.

[Q] bootloop - is phone dead?

tried flashing cm7 and now my phone is in bootloop. I have tried everything. When I go to hboot and try anything, it just goes to clockworkmod and will not do any commands. Tried connecting to pc, but will not read the device. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I love this phone and hope it is not bricked.
To me it doesn't sound "bricked." This may be redundant if you have tried them all already.
But all I can think of doing is battery pull, and waiting about 5-10 min.
Boot into hboot and then recovery and restoring a nandroid if you have one.
If you don't have a nandroid boot into hboot and do a full factory restore.
If those don't work I have an idea you can try, it can't hurt. Try getting into recovery and reflashing the rom or flash a new one altogether.
I have tried the battery pull about 25 different ways. It does not allow me to do anything when I get into clockworkmod. I can't flash, reboot, factory reset/wipe data or any of the other options, It just goes into "hat screen" and stays there forever. It will then go back to clockworkmod menu screen if I press the power button. I have tried everything with both the sd card in and out and while pullin it out or putting it in during the processes. I have tried connecting to the pc and flashing a rom, but it recognizes the drive, but does not allow anything to be out into it. I think she's dead.
could be another dumb suggestion but in recovery (clockworkmod) you don't press power to select an option you press the trackball.
you can flash a stock rom while in HBOOT. for example download the rom below rename the file to PB31IMG.zip put it in the root of your sd then boot into hboot. wait awhile and HBOOT should detect that you have a file to flash and ask you if you want like to update.
http://dougpiston.com/files/RUU/bui...and-2.15.00.07.28-hboot-0.92.0000_PB31IMG.zip
that worked, thanks.
I had this problem once flashing from cm7 to something else i forgot which. In the end i found out it was just me being an idiot. I was using the power button to try to select my options in CWM instead of using the optical at the bottom lol. If you use the power button in CWM it just gives you the hat until you press it again. I was freaking out big time and almost slapped myself when i found out what i was doing wrong lol. I see your problem was resolved but by chance do you know what button you were pressing?

stuck on green htc logo with while background

This morning I tried to flash Blackout ICS Incredible. I am currently stuck on stuck green logo with white backgroud forever. I am using CWM touch recovery. I can not get to cwm, bootloader or Hboot menu. Only way i can reboot is to take out the battery. Once I put the battery in and let it boot, it goes back to logo screen and gets stuck. Then I took out the battery again and put it back it and press power button while pressing down vol- button, and it goes back to same logo screen and stuck. Again if i take out the battery and put it back it, and if I press the power button while pressing down the vol+ button, the phone vibrates 3 times and goes blank(dark) with battery indicator light blinking(i am not sure if that is battery light).
Any help would be appreciate. I am trying to connect to adb or fastboot, but it does not connect to the phone yet.
Pull the battery, wait five minutes.
Press and hold the volume down button, then press the power button. Don't let go. Wait.... wait, should go into recovery.
Full wipe.
Format data/factory reset.
Wipe dalvik
Format all partitions except sd card.
Restore a back up.
Then read how to get that rom working. Been posted too many times as for me to repeat it. Check the thread somewhere below yours, the title of the thread I believe is the same as the rom, answer is there.
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lopax53186 said:
This morning I tried to flash Blackout ICS Incredible. I am currently stuck on stuck green logo with white backgroud forever. I am using CWM touch recovery. I can not get to cwm, bootloader or Hboot menu. Only way i can reboot is to take out the battery. Once I put the battery in and let it boot, it goes back to logo screen and gets stuck. Then I took out the battery again and put it back it and press power button while pressing down vol- button, and it goes back to same logo screen and stuck. Again if i take out the battery and put it back it, and if I press the power button while pressing down the vol+ button, the phone vibrates 3 times and goes blank(dark) with battery indicator light blinking(i am not sure if that is battery light).
Any help would be appreciate. I am trying to connect to adb or fastboot, but it does not connect to the phone yet.
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Just saw the HBoot screen but lost it. What I did was, took out the battery, sdcard, SIM. Replace the battery but not the cover of the battery. Then I hit power and volume(plus/minus) button, the HBoot menu came up, but because the batter cover was not placed, the menu was lost when I did not hold the phone tight, meaning batter got loose. Now I am trying to get back to HBoot menu again after replace battery and cover but to no avail. I still have sdcard, SIM out of the phone. I think there is some combination of keys you've to press coming out from cold boot vs. not. will keep on trying unless someone already knows.
lopax53186 said:
This morning I tried to flash Blackout ICS Incredible. I am currently stuck on stuck green logo with white backgroud forever. I am using CWM touch recovery. I can not get to cwm, bootloader or Hboot menu. Only way i can reboot is to take out the battery. Once I put the battery in and let it boot, it goes back to logo screen and gets stuck. Then I took out the battery again and put it back it and press power button while pressing down vol- button, and it goes back to same logo screen and stuck. Again if i take out the battery and put it back it, and if I press the power button while pressing down the vol+ button, the phone vibrates 3 times and goes blank(dark) with battery indicator light blinking(i am not sure if that is battery light).
Any help would be appreciate. I am trying to connect to adb or fastboot, but it does not connect to the phone yet.
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That is common flashing that rom. Choose full wipe in aroma installer even if you did it manually. When the flash is done, don't choose to reboot with aroma installer...DO IT MANUALLY from recovery!!...that should solve it...:good:
The same happened to me and found that solution in their thread.
lopax53186 said:
This morning I tried to flash Blackout ICS Incredible. I am currently stuck on stuck green logo with white backgroud forever. I am using CWM touch recovery. I can not get to cwm, bootloader or Hboot menu. Only way i can reboot is to take out the battery. Once I put the battery in and let it boot, it goes back to logo screen and gets stuck. Then I took out the battery again and put it back it and press power button while pressing down vol- button, and it goes back to same logo screen and stuck. Again if i take out the battery and put it back it, and if I press the power button while pressing down the vol+ button, the phone vibrates 3 times and goes blank(dark) with battery indicator light blinking(i am not sure if that is battery light).
Any help would be appreciate. I am trying to connect to adb or fastboot, but it does not connect to the phone yet.
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Teichopsia said:
Pull the battery, wait five minutes.
Press and hold the volume down button, then press the power button. Don't let go. Wait.... wait, should go into recovery.
Full wipe.
Format data/factory reset.
Wipe dalvik
Format all partitions except sd card.
Restore a back up.
Then read how to get that rom working. Been posted too many times as for me to repeat it. Check the thread somewhere below yours, the title of the thread I believe is the same as the rom, answer is there.
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yes thanks for the answers, will follow up on your suggestion. was not doing the 5 minutes battery thing. That was my problem and also i was trying power and vol+ button to get to HBoot menu rather vol- button. much kudos... to you
lopax53186 said:
yes thanks for the answers, will follow up on your suggestion. was not doing the 5 minutes battery thing. That was my problem and also i was trying power and vol+ button to get to HBoot menu rather vol- button. much kudos... to you
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I was able to get to HBoot, choose recovery, came up with CWM touch, did the wipe data/app, delvic, cache, did format /data, /* all the mentioned other than /sdcard. Then went to install from sdcard and choose that Blackout rom. went through the installer but at the end chose not to reboot from the installer as suggested. Then came back to CWM touch menu and did the reboot from there. It stuck on that logo screen again for 5 minutes. Now again took out the battery for few minutes, and want to go back to HBoot, but could not. Do I have to take out SDCARD as well, Do not think so but not sure. And why do we have to take out battery for so long, any idea, taking battery out for a minute isn't enough?
5 minutes just in case.
You missed one step. Wipe from aroma as well.
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Teichopsia said:
5 minutes just in case.
You missed one step. Wipe from aroma as well.
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Sorry to mention that, yep did that(wipe from aroma which is set to default, did not change it there). still same problem. will keep trying.
it is just weird that i can not get to HBoot in the consistent basis.
lopax53186 said:
Sorry to mention that, yep did that(wipe from aroma which is set to default, did not change it there). still same problem. will keep trying.
it is just weird that i can not get to HBoot in the consistent basis.
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Should work without battery pull as long as you power off. But when it doesn't, battery pull.
Just volume down, the power, both pressed till it turns on.
Oh, and fastboot unchecked
Edit: if it stll doesnt work, could be a bad download.
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Teichopsia said:
Should work without battery pull as long as you power off. But when it doesn't, battery pull.
Just volume down, the power, both pressed till it turns on.
Oh, and fastboot unchecked
Edit: if it stll doesnt work, could be a bad download.
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what u mean fastboot unchecked(from within the phone, if yes, remember i can not boot the phone)
yes it could be the bad download, once i can get to recovery i will restore my old cynongenmod 7 from CWM.
Thanks for ur help, i will definitely let you know if or when i succeed.
It was for future reference. Let us know.
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Was able to restore cm using recovery. Will try redownloding ROM again tonight and give a try
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So many responses from Teichopsia and not one "Thanks".
If that doesn't work this straight booted bricked phone when nothing else would. Took 2 months of searching but I got it working within 5 minutes. It's from a thunderbolt forum but I think the commands are the same except for the img name.http://androidforums.com/thunderbolt-all-things-root/480350-easier-way-flash-pg05img-files.htmli was stuck with hboot s-on, no recovery whatsoever, security warning, no sd card, NOTHING.
bogduke said:
So many responses from Teichopsia and not one "Thanks".
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After monkeying around with this ROM for a day, it was actually problem with CWM recovery. It looks like this ROM is not compatible with this recovery. I replaced cwm with 4ext recovery and voila I was able to flash this new ROM. Thank you guys so much for helping out. This community is really great to be part of.
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bogduke said:
So many responses from Teichopsia and not one "Thanks".
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Do I use the thank button or thanking on the thread is good enough. If latter I already did
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I had the same problem after unlocking the bootloader on HTCdev. After a lot of searching, it seems that the HTC process keeps the boot partition locked from recovery but not from fastboot.
I was able to get around this by unzipping the Rom and flashing boot.IMG using fastboot and then flashing the Rom again.
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