Related
So I think my G2 just randomly bricked... I apologize in advance for the long post, trying to be as detailed as possible.
A little background info first:
I rooted my phone a few months ago using the gfree, adb, and s-off method and downloaded ROM manager to flash CWM recovery. I always do a full wipe through recovery before flashing a new ROM (data/cache, dalvik cache, then fixing permissions afterwards).
Recently I flashed Mexdroidmod V3 with no problems and played around with it for a few days. The only thing out of the ordinary that I experienced was random reboots, and rebooting after every titanium backup but I didn't think too much of it.
So today I decided to connect my phone to my computer and download a few new ROMs, namely senseless sense, and Insertcoin 1.5. I proceeded to eject the g2 from my mac and grabbed my phone to unmount the sd card.
The Problem: However, I never got to unmounting it because the phone had rebooted itself... over and over again. Yes, it went directly from ejecting my device into a bootloop. The phone would vibrate once, the HTC logo would come up, then it would shut itself off... after a few seconds it would turn on again, vibrate, HTC logo, then turn itself off again. It continued doing this until I pulled the battery or booted into bootloader.
So I held down the Vol down button until I got into bootloader so I could boot into recovery and restore from a backup. But once I clicked on "reboot into recovery," it would start the bootloop again
I'm totally confused, first on why this occurred in the first place, and why I can't get into recovery!
Again I apologize for the long post, just wanted to be as detailed as possible... thanks in advance for the responses!
EDIT: A few hours before this happened I also uninstalled SetCPU to use the built-in Cyanogenmod performance settings, I had my max CPU freq at 1Ghz on conservative governor, set on boot...
Do you have the eng-Hboot?
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA Premium App
I don't think so, I thought that eng hboot wasn't recommended, according to the rooting wiki. I do see "HBoot" highlighted in blue in bootloader though.
So I've been searching around the guides, but still haven't found a solution yet. Anyone have any ideas? If I connect the phone to my computer in bootloader it shows Hboot usb or fastboot usb mode, but adb can't be used in fastboot can it?
Desperate right now haha
EDIT: I tried pressing vol up when turning on the device and something strange happens... the device vibrates three times, then the LED blinks red indefinitely. The phone itself is off and won't respond to any buttons, not even the power button. What exactly does this do?
No one has any idea how to fix this? This will be the last time I bump this up, thanks for reading.
Today I tried to update to the newest version of MIUI for my Inc. After the install was complete, the phone went into a bootloop. I did a battery pull & tried to boot into recovery from the hboot. The HTC Incredible screen would flash, then the phone would vibrate 5 times and the screen would stay blank. I noticed the notification light was flashing green about every 3 seconds. I did another battery pull and powered up into the hboot again. I am now noticing it reads "S-ON". So, I cant get past hboot. HBOOT= 0.92.0000, RADIO =2.15.00.07.28. Any info. as to cause of this and fix would be greatly appreciated.
Rocs Macho said:
Today I tried to update to the newest version of MIUI for my Inc. After the install was complete, the phone went into a bootloop. I did a battery pull & tried to boot into recovery from the hboot. The HTC Incredible screen would flash, then the phone would vibrate 5 times and the screen would stay blank. I noticed the notification light was flashing green about every 3 seconds. I did another battery pull and powered up into the hboot again. I am now noticing it reads "S-ON". So, I cant get past hboot. HBOOT= 0.92.0000, RADIO =2.15.00.07.28. Any info. as to cause of this and fix would be greatly appreciated.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It has been known to happen to others for no apparent reason at all. Here is the only fix i know of. Sometimes it works, sometimes it dosent. http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=33
Thanks for the link. Between that & some other info I came across, I was able to get my phone booted up again. Greatly appreciated.
I sold my old incredible to a kid. It sat for about 7months due to me upgrading to new phone. It had CM7 on it running fine when sold it. When he went to activate it, problems problems problems. I took it back him and told him I would fix it before paying me. I'm having troubles.
- No working recovery. can't get it to boot properly. I had the "5 vibrates of death" couple times.
- I'm trying a couple ruu's but when finished it will get to the lock screen, look normal, then reboot to lock screen then after a couple times will 5 vibrates then black screen.
1. I've tried [HOW-TO] Fix 5 vibrate and black screen (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1110865) I can seem to do the sdcard fix but not sure how to complete the usb fix or if that will even help me along. I can't "run terminal in anroid" because I can't get the Rom to boot up. All I can do is fastboot.... Compouter recognizes device.
2. I've tried multiple RUU's including PvilleComp's at http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=22
3. I'm using hboot .92 and radio is 2.15.10.07.07 s-off
I realize problems like these have been asked before, I've looked through them, uesd the search button, etc.... But I'm still really stuck and would like to fix this before reimbursing kid money.
Thanks
red3razor said:
I sold my old incredible to a kid. It sat for about 7months due to me upgrading to new phone. It had CM7 on it running fine when sold it. When he went to activate it, problems problems problems. I took it back him and told him I would fix it before paying me. I'm having troubles.
- No working recovery. can't get it to boot properly. I had the "5 vibrates of death" couple times.
- I'm trying a couple ruu's but when finished it will get to the lock screen, look normal, then reboot to lock screen then after a couple times will 5 vibrates then black screen.
1. I've tried [HOW-TO] Fix 5 vibrate and black screen (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1110865) I can seem to do the sdcard fix but not sure how to complete the usb fix or if that will even help me along. I can't "run terminal in anroid" because I can't get the Rom to boot up. All I can do is fastboot.... Compouter recognizes device.
2. I've tried multiple RUU's including PvilleComp's at http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=22
3. I'm using hboot .92 and radio is 2.15.10.07.07 s-off
I realize problems like these have been asked before, I've looked through them, uesd the search button, etc.... But I'm still really stuck and would like to fix this before reimbursing kid money.
Thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Have you tried reflashing cwm recovery thru hboot? Then wipe everything and flash a rom.
Yes I did try this. Got CMW re-installed, and when I tried to select any option in recovery just goes to picture of hat and hangs there. I press power button and goes back to CMW main menu.
I also tried a fix from your post:
cmlusco said:
Not sure where you got those instructions or files from, but there not for the incredible.
Heres what you do.
Download this file http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/4.06.605.3/PB31IMG.zip, and put it on the root of your sdcard in no folders.
Pull the battery, reinsert, and press vol down +power for 5 secs then wait for 5 mins not touching anything.
Press vol up and then wait for 20 minutes touching nothing. The phone will reboot once during the process, this is normal just let it be.
Press vol up, the phone should reboot and come up being able to see things and boot to the os normally.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This is where I've gotten the furthest. Got thru HTC quietly brilliant. Droid animation (red computerized looking stuff), "Droid" sound, then got to lock screen. Sit there for 5sec or so then would reboot, do the same thing over again and get to lock screen. Reboot again, then usually "5 vibes of death"
The kid does not have a phone other than this one I'm trying to fix, and they would really like it fixed and in their hands by Friday.
I just tried re-installing CMW again, and just hangs on white HTC screen, doesn't even make it to CMW menu. This is kicking my butt.
Fruitcake? Back to stock? That worked on my phone once..not sure if it was sim or not
Sent from my MB860 using Tapatalk 2
He would like back to stock. S-off or S-on. Root or no root. Just working properly.
red3razor said:
Yes I did try this. Got CMW re-installed, and when I tried to select any option in recovery just goes to picture of hat and hangs there. I press power button and goes back to CMW main menu.
I also tried a fix from your post:
This is where I've gotten the furthest. Got thru HTC quietly brilliant. Droid animation (red computerized looking stuff), "Droid" sound, then got to lock screen. Sit there for 5sec or so then would reboot, do the same thing over again and get to lock screen. Reboot again, then usually "5 vibes of death"
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
What button are you using to select things in recovery? Pressinh power on the main menu brings up the orange hat, press the trackball to select items power to go back.
I have to admit I was using the power button (used to my Rezound) but now I cannot even get CMW to work. Flashed it with the .zip in hboot/bootloader. Tried both restart and not restart after running recovery update. Both ways, phone will just hang at white HTC screen and not enter CMW anymore. Sometimes screen goes black then back to white screen or just stays on white screen indefinitely.
Could a bad battery be causing this? I'm trying 2 different ones. I'm not sure if either are bad, just trying to troubleshoot. Is there a way to check battery health on a non-bootable phone?
Any other suggestions to try? Thanks everyone for your help. I'm giving this phone just a few more hours of me fussing with before it gets retired.
UPDATE:
after battery sitting on charger all day while at work (10hrs or so), tried to boot up phone. went well. got to OS right away. I let it sit for 1/2hr to see if it would reboot or not. it stayed alive. i tested making a phone call: OK. I browsed the the XDA website for less than 1 minute, it then rebooted on me. white HTC screen then black. white HTC. then black. white HTC then rebooted fine. couple seconds later shuts off again. this time the same white HTC then black 3 times same as before. then instead of rebooting, got the 5 vibes of death.
the phone while working also asked me to update to lastest android 4.08.605.2
i'm not sure which RUU i ran to get this far, but must have been an earlier.
so i guess now i will attempt the 5 vibes fix, that's if i can get the phone booted for long enough to install terminal emulator from market and follow the steps.
any ideas guys? thanks in advance.
i did the sd card fix and attempted 5 vibes fix: http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=33
pulled the battery. put it back in. powered on the phone. once the first white "HTC Droid Incredible" screen came up, I plugged phone into PC. instead of one audible ding from computer saying device connected, i recieved 3 very quick dings from PC and phone shuts off. no charging light indicator. if i single press power button, unresponsive still.
now i unplug device from PC, remove battery, put battery back in, hoping for it to reboot normally. instead i get white HTC then black. white HTC then black screen with no boot up.
I believe so far I've tried the GB RUU from PvilleComp and the RUU provided by cmlusco in my post #3.
I guess now I'll try the Froyo RUU from PvilleComp's site: http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=22
It could be your battery, but usually the phone will just turn off not reboot. 4.08.605.2 does not have a PB31IMG.zip so you have to use an ruu exe, but that requires you to be able to boot. You could try the froyo PB31IMG and hope it works. My only other sugestion would be to try and upgrade your hboot to the new 1.02, and then use the htcdev site to unlock it. Then fastboot flash cwm recovery and hope you can access it.
i upgraded the hboot. unlocked via htc site. reinstalled CMW and was working fine. flashed ota stock GB. same problems still. i left him long enough without a phone, so the fixer project is ended.
thank you all for your help, greatly appreciated
red3razor said:
i upgraded the hboot. unlocked via htc site. reinstalled CMW and was working fine. flashed ota stock GB. same problems still. i left him long enough without a phone, so the fixer project is ended.
thank you all for your help, greatly appreciated
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No problem. Sounds like it may be a hardware issue.
Hello,
Ive had this device for now 3 months and never once had a problem. I did however stay on stock for quite awhile just rooted. Recently Ive been testing out different roms and ran through quite a few until I heard about the all mighty CM gem by Sultan. So I figured I would give it a shot. Went ahead and downloaded that along with gapps like any other rom. Booted into TWRP and wiped both the system and cache/dalvik. Then went ahead and attempted to install the rom. Unfortunately midway through it froze and my screen artifacted. I figured I would give it a few seconds and the screen turned black with the notification light turned on. I then tried to reset it with a volume+power combo and nothing happened. After about 5 mins of letting it rest it turned back on.
I went ahead and tried this process again thinking it was just a fluke but nope happened again. So I figured it was a corrupt zip file and I would just go back to the stock image I flashed before which was working perfectly fine. Again froze and gave me artifacts. Hoping to find an answer I downloaded the latest TWRP image and flashed the roms again. Same outcome. I even went out of my way to flash the stock recovery, fully reset all my data through there and then reflash TWRP and sideload Sultan's CM. Which I for once actually got into the ROM however now whenever I get into the ROM my phone overheats instantly and I get the nasty artifacts back along with a reset of the phone. Well kind of the screen goes black and I have to wait until it cools off to turn it back on or else it wont turn on.
Anyone have this issue? Anyone know how to solve this? This is my only phone and I go off to college next monday. Thanks in advanced.
UPDATE: I now cannot get the phone to turn on. No haptic feedback, no LED notification light, no recognition in windows. Literally a paperweight at this point.
The same here, flashed CM and Gapps...
Phone hangs on boot, rebooted the phone and now it won't go on..
hi, my galaxy s4 mini just went off suddenly and refused to come up.
after several hours of trying everything possible to get it started,......it still didnt.
well, eventually it started to come up only when i plugged in the charger,.....it brings up the about to charge battery icon and then proceeds to power on by itself instead of just charging,
well this ends up in a bootloop at the first start up screen..........cant even stay up enough to get into recovery.
odin flashes/installs(Tried installing everything on my system with a .tar format out of frustration) wont complete because it doesnt get to enter the recovery mode.
Im just out of ideas..... please i need assistance.
by the way i have tried applying every solution ive come across on similar threads all to no avail.
for the record......i can only enter download mode and nothing else but bootloop
please i am in dire need of some assistance .......please anyone
please guys......im incommunicado at the moment
im literately sitting and looking at my screen waiting for someone anyone......please
Donbuzizie said:
im literately sitting and looking at my screen waiting for someone anyone......please
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Are you saying download mode works properly?
power button could be stuck on, had you just pressed it when it happened?
download mode works very well,
I would have looked into the power button if it didnt.
power button is good
Donbuzizie said:
hi, my galaxy s4 mini just went off suddenly and refused to come up.
after several hours of trying everything possible to get it started,......it still didnt.
well, eventually it started to come up only when i plugged in the charger,.....it brings up the about to charge battery icon and then proceeds to power on by itself instead of just charging,
well this ends up in a bootloop at the first start up screen..........cant even stay up enough to get into recovery.
odin flashes/installs(Tried installing everything on my system with a .tar format out of frustration) wont complete because it doesnt get to enter the recovery mode.
Im just out of ideas..... please i need assistance.
by the way i have tried applying every solution ive come across on similar threads all to no avail.
for the record......i can only enter download mode and nothing else but bootloop
please i am in dire need of some assistance .......please anyone
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Not the only one with this issue. Also looking around for a solution :/. Tried Removing the power button thinking that could be stuck and causing the loop(other people tried it and it worked for them but no luck my side)
How many years your phone have? Because mine, after 4 years of great work, suddenly went off from nothing like yours, and since that i've seen only some tries starting up well but didn't succeed. The day after, the phone didn't light up anymore and after 3 days of BSOD, lookin' for the solution on i don't even know how many topics online, i've decided to let him rest in peace and buy a new one. To me, there are timers inside phones that make them die after some time... maybe is only a my opinion, but it's strange that phones just shut off from nothing and then there is nothin' more to do. I only didn't tried the debrick.img method because i don't have a 16GB microSD card.