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[Q] Gingerbread, recovery mode = FAIL

Hey guys!
I've tried to update my android 2.2 to gingerbread, both with the official update and the oxygen update, with the same result: my phone reboots, starts doing something - I get a green statusbar - and after about 1/4th of the bar it all ends up with a phone with a read exclamation mark and a red triangle.
The first time I got there, I though this was something that should happen, and left my phone around for two hours without anything happening.
I googled around and ended up doing a hard reset, which didn't change a thing.
I then tried to go into recovery mode from the boot meny, and end up with the exact same result.
So... what the hell is happening? Anyone got a clue? I would really appreciate some kind of sollution!

Its probably because you have a corrupted update file.
Try downloading it again.
If your branded to a certain carrier, then download the update for that carrier.

I've downloaded the update each time I've tried to make the update. I've tried with the oxygen ROM too, and tried loading recoverymode both from boot menu and clockworkmod. Nothing works. Amen...

So let me get this straight, you are trying to do OTA updates with a custom ROM + clockworkmod!?
It does not work like that. OTA updates are ONLY for 100% stock phones (ok, you can have Radio S-OFF, but no root). As you are using a custom ROM, why don't you just flash a Gingerbread based ROM instead of trying to mess around with OTAs, which obviously is impossible?

Uh, well, I have the standard ROM, but I did not know that it's impossible to install OTA updates when my phone's rooted. But it obviously doesn't work out
I've tried with the oxygen gingerbread release too, but same **** as I described in my original post happens. So what I've done:
- Install OTA update - failed
- Install oxygen-rom - failed
then, Hard reset +
- OTA update, without root - failed
- go into recovery mode from boot-menu - failed
hard reset + root +
- oxygen gingerbread - failed
- recovery mode from boot meny - failed
- recovery mode from ROM manager - failed
I really hoped that a hard reset would do the trick, but there you go...

Again, you cannot get any OTA because you have ClockworkMod.
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So... How do I get any update if I can't install Oxygen either? (assuming Oxygen's ROM also qualify as OTA...)

Flash this ROM from CWM Recovery like any other ROM. Its Gingerbread with root, nothing else added.

Thanks!
But I'm still having serious problems getting into recoverymode, or even backing up my existing ROM. It seems whenever I do ANYTHING that requires my DHD to reboot, it ends up with the phone-with-red-eclamationmark-sign. No matter if I've done a hard reset either...

Holene said:
Thanks!
But I'm still having serious problems getting into recoverymode, or even backing up my existing ROM. It seems whenever I do ANYTHING that requires my DHD to reboot, it ends up with the phone-with-red-eclamationmark-sign. No matter if I've done a hard reset either...
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The red exclamation mark is the stock recovery, so you dont have clockwork recovery. I would recommend starting from scratch installing clockwork then all should be good

Oh, nice to know But I used ROM manager to flash clockwork recovery (at least it said so).
When you say start form scratch, would that imply hard reset, root it, flash CWR and hopefully it will work?

Holene said:
Oh, nice to know But I used ROM manager to flash clockwork recovery (at least it said so).
When you say start form scratch, would that imply hard reset, root it, flash CWR and hopefully it will work?
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Yes, you did S-off? As that would explain why clockwork didn't flash

Oh, well, uhm.
No.
Damn Thanks!

[Q] How can I restore my original 2.2 FroYo?

I've tried to root my phone, it didn't work, so I want to go back to my 2.2 stock, can anyone describe a quite detailed guide for me? I'd love you forever. =D

F-Fect said:
I've tried to root my phone, it didn't work, so I want to go back to my 2.2 stock, can anyone describe a quite detailed guide for me? I'd love you forever. =D
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explain a bit more what is with your phone,what you did in what state is,rooted or not s-off or not and so on

If you tried rooting your phone through alpharevX but were unable to (that is your phone is not rooted) and now when you try to turn it on it goes into a sort of blocked state showing a phone with a triangle next to it or you want for whatever reason to get your phone back to 'brand new' state (factory settings)..... (beware this will only work if you haven't flashed your phone with some other ROM) all you need to do is turn it back off, then push the volume-down button and the power button (volume button first, then keeping the first still pushed the other)... now go to clear storage (use volume buttons up and down to navigate and the power button to confirm) so push the power button then the volume up button that's it....
Mind you if you have an PC49IMG.zip file on your sd card you are gonna have to delete it before doing this.

Thanks for the replies, but I've managed to instal Cyanogenmod so I don't longer need to go back to FroYo. =)

F-Fect said:
Thanks for the replies, but I've managed to instal Cyanogenmod so I don't longer need to go back to FroYo. =)
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Lol, own.

Any idea if floating around there is a base ROM for the HTC Wildfire so as to restore to its out-of-box system ROM.
Ideally something I can use from ROM Manager.
I'm asking because twice I've used the stock RUU restore prog and it has un-rooted my HTC Wildfire

darklightuk said:
Any idea if floating around there is a base ROM for the HTC Wildfire so as to restore to its out-of-box system ROM.
Ideally something I can use from ROM Manager.
I'm asking because twice I've used the stock RUU restore prog and it has un-rooted my HTC Wildfire
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Check Safe Flash RUU's in Point 5 of 1st post of this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1029318
They are untouched stock ROM's, offered as a flashable ZIP.

Problem
I have nearly the exact same situation, except my phone(when turned on) gets stuck at the boot screen(telstra next g) i think i will use the stock 2.2 RUU to get back to the stock un-rooted ROM
I gained S-OFF with alpharevX beta and used gingerbreak to get root. I tried to get into clockwork mod, after using root toolbox to install it, to install cyanogen mod 7 but it would not load. HTC Wildfire, 2.2.1 Froyo,

Did you perform a full wipe before flashing the Cyanogenmod ROM file? Not doing so leads to bootloops, as you have described.

I did not even get to flash cyanogen mod. I cannot get into recovery. I chOose recovery but it goes to fast boot please help

I tried to use the stock RUU for 2.2 but it would not find my device, i tried twice. Once while it was stuck at the boot logo and the second time at the fastboot menu. Please help! I tried a clear data (htc wildfires take on hard reset) and it is still just stuck on the logo

i found a fix! i went into fasboot and ran the RUU on another computer with HTC Sync installed and it worked perfectly! i have now got clockworkmod installed and working excellent!

HELP PLEASE - EVO 3D Stuck in Bootloop!

Hello All,
I recently rooted my EVO3D using the HTCDEV method because the bootloader was version 1.5.
Here are the steps I followed to root (sorry for the copy and past but I want to be as detailed as possible)
Files Used
su 2.3.6.3
TWRP Recovery
Steps Taken:
1)Take both the su.zip and recovery.img files and put them in your sdk tools folder.
2)Now do the following in ur command prompt, hitting enter after each command.
3)Code:adb push recovery.img /sdcard/And,
4)Code:adb push su-2.3.6.3.zip /sdcard/Then,
5)Code:adb reboot bootloaderUr phone will go to fastboot and should look like the after picture above. Now you can flash the twrp recovery, so do,
6)Code:fastboot flash recovery recovery.imgIt will ouput something like this,
7)Code:sending 'recovery' <5068 KB>... OKAY////writing 'recovery'... OKAY///finished. total time: 11.355sNow you have twrp recovery, so you can navigate to it. On ur phone, use the power button to pick bootloader, then scroll down to recovery and pick that. You will then be booted into recovery.
8)Here you can pick "install zip" and then pick the "su-2.3.6.3.zip"
It will flash, the you can pick "back to main menu", then "reboot system now"
9)You will boot back up and have working Superuser. I have had no trouble with Titanium Backup, Root Explorer, Quick Boot or any other app that requires root. Before you do too much, it would be good to go back to recovery and do a Nandroid backup. Always best to get one ready before you start modding anything.
All of this worked fine, and the phone was "unlocked."
Then, I flashed the most recent version of CleanRom (2.7)
Again, the phone worked fine, battery life was a little crappy.
I decided to flash Ziggy's kernel.I flashed the kernel simply by putting on the SD card, and then rebooting into recovery. This worked fine as well, but I noticed some of the buttons for example the menu popups displayed volume where it should have said more, or bluetooth options where it should have said preferences. so this is where the trouble started, I downloaded kernel manager, and flashed silverneedle through that program. Now, I am stuck at the White HTC Splash screen bootloop. The phone turns on and after 15 seconds reboots, and reboots, and reboots.
What Ive attempted:
I have done countless wipes and clears of the dalvik cache and cache
ive formatted the system and the date sections (advanced menu in twrp)
ive reflashed the rom after wiping countless times
ive tried flashing different kernels in recovery to no avail
factory reset and wipe havent helped
im not concerned losing the contents of the SD card
I need help because I already had two phone claims in the past 11 months, and if I claim another lost phone I will lose insurance for life with Asurion (sprint)
anytips or help would be greatly appreciated
i can provide any additional info

Similar situation, Not sure if you've already solved the problem but I'm going to copy paste my solution from another thread...
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but this is a preety derp question. I've gone across the internet and tried a lot of reflashing to repair my sort of "bricked" evo. What happened, was that I had a evo 3d s-on htc bootloader unlocked, with custom recovery -clockwork..anyways I had flashed the leedroid 3d 4.0 rom and It worked the only problem was my wifi, so i attempted to flash another kernel onto it, but I had accidently flashed "Rcmix" kernel which I later found out was cdma =.=. so now my phone keeps rebooting at the htc screen, it would just load up with the green htc letters, then after 10 seconds or so it'd reboot, and then begin the process again. I can boot into bootloader and recovery but whatever I flash doesn't seem to work including restoring my backups...and then the battery died so i couldn't even charge it or go in. But i managed to work out I could load into bootloader from the CMD and the furthest i've gotten to is to have the bootloader show FASTBOOT USB. SO I must be getting somewhere...? I did read that i had to load from the cmd and not just from power+vol down..but I'd appreciate any help towards restoring my phone to the way it is or at least before i flashed the rcmix.
Just a note tho I've tried factory resetting but all i get is that it loads into recovery at the bootloader options i dont get "clear storage" as an option and "restore to factory settings" and what not just boots me into recovery agian.
EDIT:
I Managed to fix the phoneeee!!!..just for future preferences and anyone else who has this problem...
I followed bits and piece of IL DUCE's advice to izzy spun, the important part was booting the recovery from cmd. I wasn't able to "erase recovery" But I tried just booting it,
First I would remove the battery,
Put it back in,
Plug the usb cable in
1. Type command, from your Adb/fasboot folder, "adb reboot-bootloader"
2. After that I made sure my bootloader said "Fastboot USB", and then I issued the command, "fastboot boot cwm-4.0.1.4-shooteru.img" or with whatever recovery you had..
3. From there I restored from my backups my original rom. Rebooting, and fixed.
--- and It worked. At the time I was on clock work recovery, i only had the Revolutionary recovery img. Cwm-4.0.14.-shooteru.img to be exact,
after going in there I just cleared the cache and davlik and then, proceeded to restore my backups (I'm not sure if it would've worked if I had re-flashed the leedroid or a custom rom)
and then I simply rebooted the phone, and it got back into my phones original state before leedroid (as I had Only backedup before then)....
Apologies for the lengthly post, but I guess reading does help, but I've been going nuts before I managed to fix this. Just thought I'd leave this post incase someone were to need this.

Same problem
Hi there. I just recently joined so excuse my noobness but i have a similar problem. I recently just rooted my evo 3d sprint with the the boot 1.5 and everything went well. I decided i wanted to overclock my phone so i followed zeemaxs way. Before going into the overclock procedure i decided to do the the RCMIX Evo 3d kernel v. 2.2.3 first so i would have better results when done with the overclock procedure.I bootup the kernel through the recovery mode on the phone butit failed to load so i just reeboted. After that my wifi and 4g stopped working. So i downloaded an app on the market called "flash image GUI" which lets me flash the kernels through the app. I flashed the RCMIX kernel and rebooted and now im stuck ima boot loop. I COULD just go back and back up to my old rom and settings etc...........but the problem is i dintmake any kind of back up or recovery i think. I know i know im stupid and an idiot but i just sort of panicked n ended up with this. If anyone can help please tell me.I do not want to pay for a new phone at full price. PLEASE HELP THIS POOR NOOB!!!!! X(

awsomepanda20 said:
Hi there. I just recently joined so excuse my noobness but i have a similar problem. I recently just rooted my evo 3d sprint with the the boot 1.5 and everything went well. I decided i wanted to overclock my phone so i followed zeemaxs way. Before going into the overclock procedure i decided to do the the RCMIX Evo 3d kernel v. 2.2.3 first so i would have better results when done with the overclock procedure.I bootup the kernel through the recovery mode on the phone butit failed to load so i just reeboted. After that my wifi and 4g stopped working. So i downloaded an app on the market called "flash image GUI" which lets me flash the kernels through the app. I flashed the RCMIX kernel and rebooted and now im stuck ima boot loop. I COULD just go back and back up to my old rom and settings etc...........but the problem is i dintmake any kind of back up or recovery i think. I know i know im stupid and an idiot but i just sort of panicked n ended up with this. If anyone can help please tell me.I do not want to pay for a new phone at full price. PLEASE HELP THIS POOR NOOB!!!!! X(
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What your going to have to do is flash the original kernel you started with. thats why your in a bootloop

Similar problem
Hi everyone!
I have a kind of similar problem, so I won't post it in a new thread.
Yesterday I rooted my phone following this guide: androidforums.com/evo-3d-all-things-root/494212-complete-newbies-guide-rooting-flashing-evo-3d-roms-kernels-using-fastboot . html (i am not allowed to post links to prevent spam).
I unlocked it with htcdev and installed a custom ROM without getting any errors. After restarting the phone, it got into a boot loop; it showed the starting animations of htc and the ROM and then shut down again.
Here some more information:
-Evo 3d Europe gsm
-hboot 1.5
-s-on
-image version 3.28.401
-installed ROMs using clockworkrecoverymod (as proposed in guide)
I have tried these ROMs (all leading to boot loop):
ICS NonSense
Cyanogen Mod 10 – DisarmedToaster (v. 1.4 and 1.5)
Jelly Bean 3d (by Ubuntuz)
SAD 2.1 DEsenseX
I installed the ROMs by doing:
Connect device via usb > flash boot.img via fastboot (from pc) > clear Cashe/UserData/DalvikVM > install rom.zip from sdcard > reboot
I really don't know what to try
Any ideas how I could install a running Android OS are highly appreciated.
Thx for any help

Problem solved!
Ok, I solved the problem by simply relocking the phone and installing the stock ROM with the RUU.exe

RUU.exe
I'm glad someone else mentioned Relocking before running the RUU. I've read several posts be others that have actually stated that Relocking wasn't necessary but in order for the RUU to take you have to Relock. IF you get a chance check out CoolICS Rom and MeanRom both are pretty good.

Thanks all for the help, had to revisit this issue today.

How do i fix recovery mode?

Ok, i have an htc evo 4g, and its updated to android 2.3.3
Then i rooted it and i was messing around with the awesome power of root.
I installed the MIUI rom.
Then i started to delete things from this list of stuff on file explorer. It was all in misc.
I think i may have deleted something important.
So now im trying to get a different rom, and when i go to recovery mode, it basically goes to fastboot and i get another list of things, BUT im not getting the usual root screen with things that allow me to install zip folders and stuff like that.
So now im stuck and i dont know how to go back to my orignal settings or even how to install another rom.
Does anyone know how to fix this??? PLEASE?!!
oh and it says -revolutionary- at the top of the screen when i turn my phone on and hold the vol. button down. if that helps.
Please?!?!?!

Sounds like your recovery for screwed up, you probably need to have the pc36img on your sd card to reflash it through the bootloader
We're comin from a pure power source.

paganlemus said:
Ok, i have an htc evo 4g, and its updated to android 2.3.3
Then i rooted it and i was messing around with the awesome power of root.
I installed the MIUI rom.
Then i started to delete things from this list of stuff on file explorer. It was all in misc.
I think i may have deleted something important.
So now im trying to get a different rom, and when i go to recovery mode, it basically goes to fastboot and i get another list of things, BUT im not getting the usual root screen with things that allow me to install zip folders and stuff like that.
So now im stuck and i dont know how to go back to my orignal settings or even how to install another rom.
Does anyone know how to fix this??? PLEASE?!!
oh and it says -revolutionary- at the top of the screen when i turn my phone on and hold the vol. button down. if that helps.
Please?!?!?!
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Ok,download a recovery image.. TWRP or some other recovery image,then name it to PC36IMG and drop it on the root of your SD card and boot into bootloader again and it will ask you if you want to install,hit the volume up to install and volume down,so you dont reboot,then go into recovery and wipe and reinstall a rom,thats it you should be good to go now.

Im having a similar problem. I messed up my backup and was trying to unroot and go back to stock to start over.
I flashed RUU_Supersonic_1.32.651.1_Radio_1.39.00.04.26_release_171253
and did a wipe but i missed a step. the un-root step. and I cant flash a zip threw recover because i just get an error message when i try to boot to recover.
I can get into revolutionary but that is it. can i unroot from there by downloading
unrevoked-forever-son.zip Rename it PC36IMG and try to just update???? or will that make it a brick?
Btw i have name NO official updates since re flashing stock ROM.

Nvm i fixed it. Got ahead of my self and posted

No download or recovery screens, just loop samsung screen

So I looked in the bricked section and the bootup sections and couldn't find my answer. I am sure it is somewhere but my search didn't turn it up. I have been using the sprint SII for about 8 months now, no real problems. I rooted it and flashed over using Odin an older version of Calkin's EG4T rom, it worked fine, I updated it about 3 months ago to the newest version (honestly I forget which but it was right before ICS started coming out). Today I come home from work and find my phone black screen off when I hadn't turned it off. I try and turn it on and nothing. So I pop out the battery and restart it, it loads up but everytime I try something it comes up with provider error and crashes the program, even when calling. So I boot into recovery and delete the cache and try again, same problem. Try to reinstall using recovery from the old update.zip file, it goes through but now it only boots into recovery, no booting into a new ROM at all. I check to see if I can still enter the download option and I can but I haven't gotten the newest tar file to push from odin so I quit. I try one last time to use android commander to copy over a new ROM, it appears to copy and I try the install and it claims it completed and now my phone only boots to the Samsung Galaxy SII screen. It won't go any further, I can't enter recovery OR download screen. I have tried leaving the battery out for 5 minutes and still stuck at the same screen. I can reboot from the screen but nothing else. Odin is unable to push the newest rom onto the system. Anyone who has any ideas I welcome it as I really do need this phone tomorrow.
thanks and I do hope I didn't miss an obvious thread covering this exact problem, but I do not believe i did.

you say you can't get into recovery or download, but also say that odin won't push newest rom onto system. Are you sure you're holding right buttons to get into download mode? (power+vol dwn, then volume up once the screen comes up to bootloader)

Well update, still fun. I pulled the battery for 10 minutes and now am able to get to the download screen (I was clicking for it correctly before I swear), and I pushed the newest Calkin's rom and it went through. But I am still stuck on load at the samsung screen. And what is even more fun is it won't actually turn off. I hold the power button for power off and it just restarts the sucker. I am going to try and push the stock rom next. Any other ideas?
thanks

If you can't get into download you're bricked. What update.zip did you flash? Usually that only works if you flash an authentic sprint/Samsung update or created a signed update.zip on your own. Also, did you flash it from stock recovery or clockwork mod?
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA

dante32278 said:
If you can't get into download you're bricked. What update.zip did you flash? Usually that only works if you flash an authentic sprint/Samsung update or created a signed update.zip on your own. Also, did you flash it from stock recovery or clockwork mod?
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA
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I did the update through cwm just as I had done previously so I figured it would work, but it seems I figured wrong

I am now able to get back into CWM but still unable to actually load past the samsung screen (yes I have left it going for a while), any ideas? Also trying to determine which specific kernal is the newest stock kernol for the sprint s II, any links? I am seeing lots of modified but nothing stock (in tar format).
thanks
edit- When I access the phone through android commander (it finds it) the folders it shows as being on the phone are all incorrect. Some of the titles are correct but the actual files within are missing or it is claiming the folders were made in 2000. I know I have not wiped the SD card as I can see it via cwm but can't seem to edit it on commander.
Also I am unable to actually view the phone when in cwm through android, only finding it in commander when it is stuck in the loading samsung screen
Final edit:
Finally got a stock one click to fully complete through Odin! back to stock, now to reroot and get my old stock on there