[Q] Not able to boot any AOSP rom - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
does anybody have an idea, why Sense-Roms are able to run an my SLCD Desire and all AOSP-Roms start with a black screen with some vertical colored lines and after them it stucks on the white HTC screen ?
I unrevoekd the device, did a full wipe (multiple) and tried it also with different sd-cards and aols without an sd-card to boot.
Each try gave me the same result
So, had anybody the same issue and solve it ?
Thanks
Dominic

You are not the only one. I was never able to get DeFrost (5.0-5.7) /Opendesire running. Bootfreeze with vertical lines (stuck boot animation), then white screen. Strangely the old CynagonMod 6.0.2 booted for me but i never tested much after seeing it works.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=809442 (towards the end)
Perhaps they changed something in newer devices so there are hardware problems as my desire is only 2 weeks old.
Now i just use LeeDroid... as long as not enough people have the same problems, no one will investigating in this anyway. And im finished with my rather limited wisdom.

OK, after a little while, I was able to run a nightly build from CM
http://buildbot.teamdouche.net/builders/cm_bravo_full/builds/152

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need a bit of help

I've tried a few different ROMs with sence 2.1/2.5. AT the same time (not saying it is because of ROMs), my camera start playing up where all I get is just a black screen. It seems to work when clean booted and few runs after. Anyway, I've used MTTy - did not help. The next thing to try it to put a stock ROM. On HTC site there is one release in September last year but I cannot download it.
Do I have to download Orange stock rom or can I use official HTC rom (the phone is unlocked with hard spl)?
How can I get officiat HTC ROM? It does not let me get it down when I put my serial number?
Also, the phone is Orange branded but I am using it on 3 UK.
Thanks
Have you tried to hard reset the thing?
If you have used mtty and you still suffer with problems, a stock rom flash will not help as the mtty process does the same thing as flashing a stock rom.
Maybe just try another rom....
On HTC site the ROM Release Date: 2009-02-27
fixes:
1. When you launch the Camera while the system is working on other programs, the preview screen may become black.
This sounds just like what I've got. hence I was wondering if I could try that ROm if someone has got it.
I have that too - sometimes it turns black, or I get a small square in the centre which is the viewfinder and the rest is black. When i touch the screen where the settings button is, or spam settings a few times, I can make the viewfinder come back, for a while...
Try that, try hitting the settings button on the right. Its not a fix but at least I can get to use the camera a bit.
I was hoping there'd be some hotfix for it, or something I can just install? New ROM is a bit of a copout.

[Q] Thanks and quick help on recovery pls.

Hi,
I have a HTC Desire and just after I got it I managed to muddle through unbranding it to get rid of the Vodafone addons. At the same time I managed to root it.
I recently decided to take the jump and try some of the non stock ROMs as that's one of the reasons I went for Android.
I have to say there are some great tools out there and my sincere thanks to the developers, namely:
o AlphaRev
o ClockworkMod
o ROM Manager
o unrevoked
Wow nandroid is a real bare metal restore that works ))
When I decided to take the plunge I went through the recommended approach detailed elsewhere in this forum.
I've so far tried LeeDroid, Oxygen & Defrost.
I now have a slight problem that seems (perception) to be getting worse.
In summary, if I reboot into recovery (either power/back or ROM Manager) it sometimes works and more often now doesn't work. When it fails it just hangs at the AlphaRev screen, just a boot screen I guess. When it hangs it never recovers, battery out and try again, again, again .... then it'll work.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this boot into recovery issue ?
Colin
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HTC Desire
AlphaRev S-OFF
Radio 32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27
ROM currently Defrost (still trying the various flavours)
This is the issue, people get a brand new shiny phone and the first thing they do - as opposed to actually USING the thing - is find as many ways to bodge it as possible...
People need to actually read everything, take some time to absorb it and then read it again. Then use the phone as chances are unless they're a real app whore they'll never need to worry about internal space...
I've no idea why you're having issues but I assume you don't have a copy of the RUU your Desire originally came with so should you need to return to stock you can?? this is the first thing anyone should do before undertaking any type of customising and would save a lot of headaches
Hmm,
Not quite valid. I've had the phone for a few months now. I originally wanted to get rid of the Vodafone crap as that's caused me issues in the past with other phones, albeit not Android based. At the same time I wanted to go to Froyo which was on the never/never from Vodafone at the time. Again upgrading phones in the past has caused more issues when it's been used for a while.
I work in the IT sector and have dual boot on my laptop (XP & Ubuntu) as they do different things in different environments, so I'm used different look/feel/behaviour. I wanted to try some of the non HTC Sense ROMs, a couple of things bugged me a bit and after all you can try in the Android environment. That after all is the beauty of an Open System as opposed to a closed environment, e.g. Nokia Symbian, M$ Windows.
My only issue I have at the moment seems to be the tempremental behaviour of getting into recovery.
BTW I have a copy of the stock ROM but have no intention of ever going back to a Vodafone branded pre-froyo Android environment.
When I rooted, installed S-OFF, ClockworkMd, ..... I fully accepted the risks and knew that if I bricked the phone, it'd be my fault.
Regards
Colin
how bout reflashing recovery?
gol_n_dal said:
Hmm,
Not quite valid. I've had the phone for a few months now. I originally wanted to get rid of the Vodafone crap as that's caused me issues in the past with other phones, albeit not Android based. At the same time I wanted to go to Froyo which was on the never/never from Vodafone at the time. Again upgrading phones in the past has caused more issues when it's been used for a while.
I work in the IT sector and have dual boot on my laptop (XP & Ubuntu) as they do different things in different environments, so I'm used different look/feel/behaviour. I wanted to try some of the non HTC Sense ROMs, a couple of things bugged me a bit and after all you can try in the Android environment. That after all is the beauty of an Open System as opposed to a closed environment, e.g. Nokia Symbian, M$ Windows.
My only issue I have at the moment seems to be the tempremental behaviour of getting into recovery.
BTW I have a copy of the stock ROM but have no intention of ever going back to a Vodafone branded pre-froyo Android environment.
When I rooted, installed S-OFF, ClockworkMd, ..... I fully accepted the risks and knew that if I bricked the phone, it'd be my fault.
Regards
Colin
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I didn't mean it as a flame btw, just that so many people come on here and blindly follow everyone else without actually realising what they're doing
>> I didn't mean it as a flame btw, just that so many people come on here and blindly follow everyone else without actually realising what they're doing
NP,
I get it all the time having to "help" people who tried things on their Home PCs or TVs, BluRay, HDMI inerconnect, ..... Shops offer bloody useless help to them. ;-)))
>> how bout reflashing recovery?
Yes, I've tried reflashing ClockworkMod through ROM Manager, it's currently 2.5.0.7 confirm by ROM manager and when it finally gets into recovery.
It just seems an intemittent issue that only arises when I want to do a Nandroid backup or "play" with the ROMs / Radio etc. The only solution I have is to remove the battery, count to 3 and re-insert it. Then try again.
It's not a show stopper just a real pain, especially when installing a new ROM/Radio when it's supposed to reboot. It's a case of how long do I leave it and hope it recovers to sod it, battery out and pray it's not bricked as a result.
Regards
Colin

[Q] Flashed Recovery SO many times today

Ok so I'm still running into the same issue I had with kernels before. It seems like anything I want to flash onto my phone now causes a constant lock up at the red eye screen and then an infinite boot loop. I can't even get a different theme on there without running into this issue. I must have flashed my recovery image like 5 times today. I even just did a basic factory reset from the inside the regular settings menu and it caused this boot loop. Should I be worried at this point?
Ok so 51 views and not a single suggestion??? Come on XDA I'm sure someone knows something
You know I ran into something similar and just for the sake of not being frustrated I knew of one that liked me, liked my phone, liked my ROM. I just stuck with it. Plain ol' gave up trying the latest and greatest kernel. It will make your head blow up if you keep fighting it trust me. BTDT
Vicky
I wasn't even doing kernels though, these were just themes.
I've had that happen too. It maybe that the themes were designed for a specific rom version and that is the problem. I has some that were the correct Rom name just a different version. I was on 3.2 and it was for 3.1. Don't know why but some phones are just finicky.
ps. I meant different phones not as type or model, but your's vs. mine. Something I found out when I started rooting my phone.
Maybe u have a bad nandroid

[Q] SLCD and Gingerbread ROM, Can't Change

I've seen that the SLCD is causing a few headaches around here for a bit, but so far it hasn't caused me any issues. I've been able to change ROMs, even when I couldn't see the clockwork mod screen as it was happening. Same black screen with the white stripes on the sides.
I put the Gingerbread ROM on the device, but I did so without putting ROM manager on my SD card, which I know is my mistake. And now, I'm not able to download ROM manager from the Internet, and plugging the Incredible into my laptop doesn't do anything.
I've seen plenty of fixes for those with a Windows-based PC, like downloading HTC Sync, but I have a MacBook Pro, and HTC Sync isn't compatible. So at the moment, I've got a device that's basically useless, and I'm unable to actually get into Clockwork Mod to fix anything.
Is there a fix for this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Fix for the SLCD screen issue in recovery can be found here: http://www.incredibleforum.com/foru...nly-see-black-screen-white-bars-recovery.html

Phone reboots and gets stuck on "HTC Inc" bootscreen

I've owned my DInc for around 8 months now and a week after I got the phone I had rooted it... The only thing I truly did was install a few custom ROM's on it to try out what I liked, when Froyo was in it's prime I used CM6 nearly every day, and now Gingerbread is around I've been running steady on OMGB6/7 for the past few months...
My problem is that last week my phone randomly rebooted and decided to get stuck on the white "HTC" boot logo... It stayed there for around 10 minutes before I finally decided to pull the battery, restart it, and the same thing occured.
Of course I have CWR installed with Nandroid backups, but when I used the backup for the current ROM I was on, it happened again getting stuck at the white screen. So I fired up CWR again and restored to a previous version of OMGB6 and that ran steady until today (in the middle of calculus of course) it rebooted after sending a text and got stuck at the white screen once more...
Now I CWR restored to my Stock HTC Sense ROM and I'm running that as we speak (and god, is it god-awful).
WTF is wrong with my Incredible? I'm guessing something got corrupted maybe in the /boot partition or something of the likes? Could someone please help me? I've never had this problem before... and never did any "customization" other than wiping my cache/data/dalvik/battery stats and installing different ROMs.
Thank you!
al2x said:
I've owned my DInc for around 8 months now and a week after I got the phone I had rooted it... The only thing I truly did was install a few custom ROM's on it to try out what I liked, when Froyo was in it's prime I used CM6 nearly every day, and now Gingerbread is around I've been running steady on OMGB6/7 for the past few months...
My problem is that last week my phone randomly rebooted and decided to get stuck on the white "HTC" boot logo... It stayed there for around 10 minutes before I finally decided to pull the battery, restart it, and the same thing occured.
Of course I have CWR installed with Nandroid backups, but when I used the backup for the current ROM I was on, it happened again getting stuck at the white screen. So I fired up CWR again and restored to a previous version of OMGB6 and that ran steady until today (in the middle of calculus of course) it rebooted after sending a text and got stuck at the white screen once more...
Now I CWR restored to my Stock HTC Sense ROM and I'm running that as we speak (and god, is it god-awful).
WTF is wrong with my Incredible? I'm guessing something got corrupted maybe in the /boot partition or something of the likes? Could someone please help me? I've never had this problem before... and never did any "customization" other than wiping my cache/data/dalvik/battery stats and installing different ROMs.
Thank you!
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This used to happen with me on OMGB, its one of the reasons I switched to CM7. When I rebooted it used to get stuck on the splash screen. Mine, however, would work after a battery pull. I'm not sure, I'd try a fresh install, if that doesnt help, try out CM7, its a pretty stable.
Oh ok... so you're saying its probably just a ROM issue with OMGB? I'd switch to CM7 but the only thing I want is stock Gingerbread, I really hate the little customizations they put into CM7. Do they still have that CM7 Source project going on where it was pretty much stock gingerbread? Thanks again!
al2x said:
Oh ok... so you're saying its probably just a ROM issue with OMGB? I'd switch to CM7 but the only thing I want is stock Gingerbread, I really hate the little customizations they put into CM7. Do they still have that CM7 Source project going on where it was pretty much stock gingerbread? Thanks again!
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I'm not saying thats 100% the case. I'm just saying that used to happen to me when I ran OMGB. I couldn't find a fix, so I just switched ROMs. I don't think CM7 has a just stock gingerbread look. But how can you not like all the features they packed into it?
AOSP + SD
Perhaps try flashing a Sense ROM and see if the issue persists.
Why?
AOSP ROMs interact quite a bit w/ the SD card. So, if there are issues w/ the SD card, the Sense ROM may not present as many funky issues.
After that test, I'd try another SD card and see if the issue persists.
If a different SD yields no wonky stuff, the answer was faulty SD card.
continual spontaneous reboots
I have the same issue. I was using CM6.1 I think and it's been fine for awhile and then it just started spontaneously rebooting. I can no longer get into Clockwork, all I can do is hold volume down and power to start it and from there, nothing will start the phone. I get the HTC spash and after about 3 seconds, it reboots and gets stuck in that cycle. Nothing has really changed and it rebooted on it's own to start the problem.
So, it's not like I installed something and rebooted. I'm interested in hearing if others are having the issues and what exactly their thoughts are.

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