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[Q] Cannot boot after OTA 2.29.405.2

Hello,
After applying the latest OTA 2.29.405.2 I am unable to boot my phone.
The new firmware was successfully applied, because I could start the phone for the first time.
After I shut it down again it won't got past the HTC logo.
I can get start the hboot but I if i select fastboot or recovery I get stuck again with the HTC logo.
When i select the bootloader "I get no image or wrong image."
I did not root my phone.
Please help.

For a start, unless you have a PB99IMG.zip file on your sd card you will always get that message in the bootloader. It's just telling you it can't find any of the files it looks for on your card so nothing wrong there.
First thing I'd do is try manually reflashing the OTA update. you can get the OTA ZIP file here:
http://fotadl.htc.com/OTA_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.2-2.10.405.2_R_P_release8gn61bgo3rswcw24.zip
Rename it update.zip and put it on the root of your SD card. Then boot into recovery (if you manage to) and flash it.
If not, go into Fastboot and clear storage (wipe). This should sort you out. If not, download the 2.29.405.2 RUU from my signature and flash that in fastboot and it should see you right if you're still having issues

Did not work unfortunately. I will try to flash it. Any easy to follow tutorial I can use ? I never did this before.
Thank you kindly.

psycho.ro said:
Did not work unfortunately. I will try to flash it. Any easy to follow tutorial I can use ? I never did this before.
Thank you kindly.
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What didn't work? What I put on my previous post is exactly what you need to do

I downloaded the file and renamed it ot update.zip and copied it to the root of my sdcard. when i select recovery it gets stuck in htc logo.
Then I've cleared storage/user settings and tried again, same thing.

So now do the last thing I suggested

this happened to me also. i downloaded the RUU and just did it via the pc. lost everything i did not backup, but that's my fault. all contacts were on google and and i used appbrain to pull down all my installed apps.

ok, i finally did it and it's fine now. I figured out what i was doing wrong. flashed it and it started now.
thanks for the support, really appreaciate it !

For reference, what were you doing wrong?

i did not go in the fastboot menu when i tried the last thing you suggested and because of this, my phone was not recognized by windows and the flash utility could not do its job.
but now it seems that my phone is restarting from time to time, somewhere between 5-10 minutes.

Might wanna do a hard reset just to make sure things flashed correctly

Help With EVO

My EVO keeps on going into recovery mode with red triangle on it. I have tried to push the adb push PC36IMG.zip /sdcard but when the phone reads the zip it keeps on failing with these errors radio_vz fail bootloader fail-ic , image check fail and update fail!..
I have also tried to run RUU but it keeps on giving me usb connection errors. What do I need to do get my phone up and running

hello and welcome to the forums.
What method of rooting are you using?
At what stage are you getting to that you are at this point?
additionally it is helpful for posters to post in the section that best fits there post in this case Q&A. this si so it keeps things easy to read and find which you will quickly find can be a task all its own as you root and start playing around. it isn't a huge deal that you posted wrong though you may get a few nasty remarks for it just dont let them get to you and in the future try post questions there.
lastly if you hold the vol up button and power when at the red ! does it do anything for you?

I followed this article
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448 basically the root didnot go through sucessfully and phone keeps on going into the recovery mode.
Now I am trying to get my phone up and running , apparently something went wrong with the script posted in the forum.
This has turned out to be a quite an adventure for me . The process failed at step 7 and it never worked from that step.

smartguy10 said:
I followed this article
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448 basically the root didnot go through sucessfully and phone keeps on going into the recovery mode.
Now I am trying to get my phone up and running , apparently something went wrong with the script posted in the forum.
This has turned out to be a quite an adventure for me
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Don't worry. We've all had our bad rooting experiences. You're in good hands here. I'd recommend posting in the Q&A section because there will be a lot of people that can help you there (especially when it gets buisy later tonight). Breathe, you haven't bricked or destroyed your phone. You're no where close to in trouble

Are you S-off? If so sounds like your recovery didnt flash correctly.
You can try flashing a new recovery. Then if thats good just get superuser and busybox installed once your up and running.
zikronix said:
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FIX BROKEN RECOVERY
This is really only needed if you rooted with one of the previos guides version 6 or lower or if you installed a different recovery like I told you not to. It installs amon_ra 2.2.1
1) Download File PC36IMG_Recovery.zip and Rename to PC36IMG.zip.
copy to the root of your SDCard and power off phone
2) Power your phone back on into the boot loader by holding power and vol-down until your presented with a white screen. It will read the pc36img.zip and as you if you want to flash. Say yes. Then it will ask if you want to reboot, VOL+UP for yes.
3) If your rom gets tossed in the process. Reboot your phone into bootloader select recovery, and reflash your rom....DONE
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No , its SOFF. I already copied the file to the zip and it failed with these errors
radio_vz fail bootloader fail-ic , image check fail and update fail!

Thread moved to Q&A.

smartguy10 said:
No , its SOFF. I already copied the file to the zip and it failed with these errors
radio_vz fail bootloader fail-ic , image check fail and update fail!
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It sounds like it never flashed the rom & recovery. Could you attach the autorootlog file to a post so I can see where it went wrong?
Since you are already showing s-off it will be an easy fix. It would be better to run the RUU, for a clean flash, then running autoroot again where it will see you are s-off and finish, but you could also use the flash recovery tool in the post below to simply install a recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10563497&postcount=1386
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

I got the phone back with using RUU, now its time to step back and may be root again.

smartguy10 said:
I got the phone back with using RUU, now its time to step back and may be root again.
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smartguy10,
Could you please send me the autoroot log file that was made so I can find out what went wrong and possibly fix it?

I looked at the autoroot folder and didnot find autoroot file. Before I use your script again what precautions I should take again. If you look at the error messages it looked again the flash didn't finish completely.
Is there a way that I can back up my stock rom to sd card and restore it again if something goes wrong.

ClockworkMod Recovery not loading

Hi,
I hope this isn't a repeat, but I've searched here and Google to no avail. It may be I'm not searching the right things, because I'm not quite sure how to succinctly describe this problem.
I've rooted my DInc, with S-Off enabled. I'm running CyanogenMod 6.1 now, installed from ROM Manager, which is no version 3.0.0.7. I've got ClockworkMod 2.5.1.2 installed as well. When I first rooted my phone, etc. about a month ago, I made a nandroid backup, so I figure its time to make another one. Open ROM Manager, go to Make a New Backup, choose a file name, it reboots into Fastboot. If I then select "Reboot" by pressing the Power button, the phone boots back to Cyanogen and there is no (new) backup file in the clockworkmod/backup directory, where I expect it.
If I select "Bootloader" from the Fastboot menu, it takes me to the HBoot menu, with the options "Fastboot", "Recovery", etc. Then, an error message appears very quickly, about missing PB31IMG.zip files. I'm not sure about the exact text of the message since it disappears so quickly, but I've searched around and it seems to be because that file is missing from the root of my sd card (I checked on Windows, its not because the file is renamed to .zip.zip or something). Solutions such as formatting the sd card to FAT32 (it is, according to Windows) and reflashing ClockworkMod from ROM Manager do not help.
After the error message disappears, I am able to select "Recovery" from the HBoot menu, and the screen flashes the white with black text "HTC Incredible" startup screen before dropping me back into the Fastboot menu. At this point, I usually just give up and reboot and keep using the phone as normal.
Does anyone have any idea where the problem lies? Can someone link me to the proper PB31IMG.zip file for my phone/ROM/radio?
Radio: 2.15.00.07.28
HBOOT - 0.92.0000
Thanks!

Have you tried reflashing ClockworkMod from within ROM Manager?
Personally, I've never had this happen, sorry if reflashing doesn't help

dmbhaggis said:
Have you tried reflashing ClockworkMod from within ROM Manager?
Personally, I've never had this happen, sorry if reflashing doesn't help
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Yeah, that's how I was reflashing ClockworkMod. Thanks anyways.

Try going into ROM Manager go all the way to the bottom to All clockworkmod recoveries and try flashing a different version of CWM Recovery...

jackbtha1 said:
Try going into ROM Manager go all the way to the bottom to All clockworkmod recoveries and try flashing a different version of CWM Recovery...
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Flashing back to 2.5.1.1 appears to have worked...does anyone have any idea why 2.5.1.2 is apparently broken (probably just on my device)?
Thanks!

I've seen other people reporting problems with 2.5.1.1 & 2.5.1.2 on amoled devices. They've suggested going back to 2.5.0.5.
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Unrevoked forever
SkyRaider Sense 3.5
Radio 2.15.00.09.01

my bad didnt see last part

darthbith said:
Hi,
I hope this isn't a repeat, but I've searched here and Google to no avail. It may be I'm not searching the right things, because I'm not quite sure how to succinctly describe this problem.
I've rooted my DInc, with S-Off enabled. I'm running CyanogenMod 6.1 now, installed from ROM Manager, which is no version 3.0.0.7. I've got ClockworkMod 2.5.1.2 installed as well. When I first rooted my phone, etc. about a month ago, I made a nandroid backup, so I figure its time to make another one. Open ROM Manager, go to Make a New Backup, choose a file name, it reboots into Fastboot. If I then select "Reboot" by pressing the Power button, the phone boots back to Cyanogen and there is no (new) backup file in the clockworkmod/backup directory, where I expect it.
If I select "Bootloader" from the Fastboot menu, it takes me to the HBoot menu, with the options "Fastboot", "Recovery", etc. Then, an error message appears very quickly, about missing PB31IMG.zip files. I'm not sure about the exact text of the message since it disappears so quickly, but I've searched around and it seems to be because that file is missing from the root of my sd card (I checked on Windows, its not because the file is renamed to .zip.zip or something). Solutions such as formatting the sd card to FAT32 (it is, according to Windows) and reflashing ClockworkMod from ROM Manager do not help.
After the error message disappears, I am able to select "Recovery" from the HBoot menu, and the screen flashes the white with black text "HTC Incredible" startup screen before dropping me back into the Fastboot menu. At this point, I usually just give up and reboot and keep using the phone as normal.
Does anyone have any idea where the problem lies? Can someone link me to the proper PB31IMG.zip file for my phone/ROM/radio?
Radio: 2.15.00.07.28
HBOOT - 0.92.0000
Thanks!
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I have the exact same problem, except my hboot reports as 0.78 I believe. Either way, the hboot menu is as far as I can get. Any other selection causes continual reboots. This started happening after a spontaneous reboot while driving down the road. I wasn't even using the phone. I do have the latest Clockwork on it, but it really doesn't matter because I can't get to the Clockwork menu anyway. Just the fastboot menu.
It says that USB is enabled in the hboot menu, but with it plugged into my PC, it won't show up in Windows. It's obviously not far enough into the boot cycle to do that.
Any suggestions would be awesome. I see about a dozen other topics started complaining about similar issues. If I leave it sit on the hboot menu, it'll sit there forever and is stable, so I don't believe it's a phone issues. It's almost like, if it were a PC, the boot sector is messed up and it needs an fdisk /mbr. I understand, that doesn't work, I'm just pointing out that I believe the behavior to be the same.
Thanks to anyone that can help!

I guess that, with no way to get into Clockwork and no way to replace Clockwork, I'm kind of stuck. Replacing Clockwork was an idea, but I'm not sure how to do that since hboot is all that's available and I can't choose any options without it rebooting continually. Is there a way to just plug the phone in and reflash Clockwork from my laptop with a Windows app on the laptop?

hackules said:
I guess that, with no way to get into Clockwork and no way to replace Clockwork, I'm kind of stuck. Replacing Clockwork was an idea, but I'm not sure how to do that since hboot is all that's available and I can't choose any options without it rebooting continually. Is there a way to just plug the phone in and reflash Clockwork from my laptop with a Windows app on the laptop?
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Do you have Rom Manager installed on your phone? If you do you can always use the last option to install a different version of Clockwork. Give that a try...

I can't get past the "hold down and power" menu. That works fine, but anything I pick reboots the phone. I can't get into the OS at all because it just continually power cycles after I choose from the boot menu. I re-flashed Clockwork and no luck and I've re-flashed the entire phone to stock, same thing. It IS stable and the recovery menu you though. I can jump around in the menu, turn USB on and off, etc, just not boot into anything. It's literally like a computer that needs fdisk /mbr as all of the data seems to be where it should be.

I would try to flash any custom and see if that gets the phone to boot normally.

I took the stock build-3.26.605.1-release-152016-baseband-2.15.00.07.28-hboot-0.92.0000 and zipped it as PB31IMG.zip and when it boots, it'll take the images and flash them. It flashes all of the images in the zip and it takes a little bit to do that. Then it goes back to the menu and I restart it and it goes into the cycle again...

Hmmm. I would have used the unrooting guide to go back to stock just to get the phone back up and running and then unroot it again. If you do go that route DO NOT apply the 7.28 radio again because you will brick you phone being that you already have that radio flashed on your phone. What custom ROM or Kernel were you running before all this happened? I would try flashing that again but clear the data and cache first and see if that gets the phone up again.

I'm currently running the latest Senseless Revolution ROM and did upgrade to the latest ROM manager, but haven't flashed anything yet so no problems........yet!
Should I downgrade to CW 2.5.1.2 anyways since it was a bit sluggish when checking for MDsum?
I've read about some people having crazy problems and others actually not reporting anything bad......so what is the verdict? I'm trying to prepare myself first rather than finding out when my phone is stuck

I seem to be having some of the same problems. I upgraded ClockworkMod to 3.0.0.5 and was able to successfully boot into recovery. I installed CM 7 nightly, then ended up restoring to a backup of CM 6.1.
Now I can't access recovery, when I try I get stuck at the white droid incredible screen. My phone can still boot up so I tried downgrading ClockworkMod to 2.5.1.4, but it says an error occurred while flashing the recovery.
any ideas?

nate23 said:
I seem to be having some of the same problems. I upgraded ClockworkMod to 3.0.0.5 and was able to successfully boot into recovery. I installed CM 7 nightly, then ended up restoring to a backup of CM 6.1.
Now I can't access recovery, when I try I get stuck at the white droid incredible screen. My phone can still boot up so I tried downgrading ClockworkMod to 2.5.1.4, but it says an error occurred while flashing the recovery.
any ideas?
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Are you renaming recovery to PB31IMG.ZIP and updating through hboot?
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pete_kowalski83 said:
Are you renaming recovery to PB31IMG.ZIP and updating through hboot?
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thanks, that fixed it!

[Q] HELP frozen bootscreen / bootloader

Hey,
I was wondering if anyone could help me out with this issue I have. I have a rooted Evo, with my latest ROM being Fresh Evo 4.0.0.4 Beta by flipzmode. I was having some issues with the rom, so I was attempting to reflash the rom, however its beta 3 (one update older) version, first. I went through ROM Manager and did a complete backup, then chose install from SD Card and checked the boxes for Wipe Dalvik cache and the other check for wipe cache / data (i forget exactly what it says). ROM manager took over from there, rebooting into recovery and installing the rom, atleast as i thought it as doing. Once it was said and done, I now am at my problem area. It will not boot past the white htc EVO 4G screen. I've given it anywhere from 20-40 minutes to load. I've tried pulling the battery as well. I've even attempted to get into recovery by going into my hboot bootloader. However there, i have ANOTHER problem...I can't pick any of the available options. Its as if my volume buttons just don't work. When I have my SD card loaded and I go into hboot, it does some kinda search which yields five results of No Image Found! it then returns to the main menu where again, I can't scroll up or down the list. It says s-off so I assume that means I'm still rooted. I'm not an expert by any means, and overall I'd say I'm a noob to this stuff, but I am trying to figure it all out. If anyone can help me out with what to do to get my phone running again, I'd appreciate it greatly.
Thanks!

Hmmmm, that's odd. You can try putting a PC36IMG of the RUU on the root of your SD card. If you used unrevoked, you'll stay s-off, so all you'll need to do is reflash recovery to flash a rom or restore from a backup. However, you need to use your volume buttons to agree to the flash in the bootloader. In the odd case that it just won't navigate the menu, but the volume buttons are fine, it may still receive the confirmation from the button that you want to flash the PC36IMG.
If that's the case , download this file: http://goo-inside.me/supersonic/sto...15.00.11.19_NV_1.90_release_161482_signed.zip and rename it to PC36IMG, don't add a zip to the end because it's already there. Put it on the root of your SD card and boot into the bootloader, when it asks you to update, *try* to agree with the volume up button. If it works, hopefully that'll fix your problem.
It's not the greatest fix, and the chance of it working isn't all that high, but it's all I've got.
Oh, and obviously your volume buttons are fine if you can get into the bootloader, unless a button is stuck.
(from... Evo/MIUI/Tapatalk)

And don't use ROM Manager.....

Thanks plainjane,
Just a couple more quick details before I try to do what you said, I'm not sure which root method was used for me. My cousin did it for me and with my phone mia, I have no way to find out. Does that effect anything? Also, i'm pretty sure i've used ClockWorkMod recovery, as i remember flashing it through ROM manager a few days ago. I've realized that the volume buttons do work, but only when to accept the update for the pc36img..I read about that before so I tried putting one that I believe was for ClockWorkMod recovery on my sd card, but I wasnt sure if that was the right pc36img file i need. So I can replace that with the one you have linked me with. Will running that cause any problems with the addtional details? I just don't want to end up permanently bricking my phone, so I'd rather cover all my bases.
Thanks again!

I would do 2 things: 1 flash a new recovery, specifically amon_RA and then I would flash a rooted ODEXED stock rom.
Click on the word "amon_RA" above and download the PC36IMG.zip file and place it on the root of your SD card (not in any folder). Make sure there is NO OTHER FILE with that same name on the root of your card. Turn off your device and then boot it to the bootloader screen. After a pause, the file should be autodetected and you should be prompted to install. follow the easy instructions to install. Afterwards, you should be able to go into recovery and flash a rom. Download the rooted stock rom by clicking on "rooted ODEXED stock rom" above. Afterwards, put it on your SD card and flash it from recovery. Once you've successfully flashed a rom and if you're set on re-using ClockWorkMod recovery, you can always download the ROM Manager app and have it install ClockWorkMod recovery for you, but I recommend you stay with amon_RA.

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plainjane said:
If that's the case , download this file and rename it to PC36IMG, don't add a zip to the end because it's already there. Put it on the root of your SD card and boot into the bootloader, when it asks you to update, *try* to agree with the volume up button. If it works, hopefully that'll fix your problem.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you plainjane! I decided to just go for it and try your method, it took care of my phone not being able to boot-up. I'm now at what seems like a stock rom.
dougjamal said:
I would do 2 things: 1 flash a new recovery, specifically amon_RA and then I would flash a rooted ODEXED stock rom.
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Thanks for your suggestion dougjamal, I actually attempted your method first, but I still wasn't able to select the recovery option from the hboot bootloader main screen after running the PC36IMG, so I couldnt flash the rom.
So, I still have a couple of the same problems. I still can't choose the recovery option from the bootloader menu, I've tried multiple times to use a PC36IMG for ClockWorkMod recovery and Amon_ra. Also, while using the actual phone, my power button seems to not work. It doesnt turn of the screen, nor does longpressing it allow me to shut off the phone. If it helps to diagnose the problem, since i'm pretty sure up until today my power button still worked, whenever I pull my battery and put it back in, the phone boots automatically without me pressing the power button. Anyone have any suggestions?
Otherwise, is there anyway for me to just go back to complete stock again and attempt rooting the phone again, and starting completely from scratch?
Thanks again for everyone's help!

Boot into the bootloader screen and see if you're still rooted (S-OFF). If it displays S-ON then you will not be able to make changes to your device.
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dougjamal said:
Boot into the bootloader screen and see if you're still rooted (S-OFF). If it displays S-ON then you will not be able to make changes to your device.
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Yes, it still says S-OFF. I don't understand why I can't scroll through the menu nor turn off my screen though. Even when it times out, I can't turn the display back on. I have to plug in a charger.

[Q] I can only make contact through Fastboot, HELP

Hi!
I probably did something I shouldn't and now I need help after 4 hours of searching the all so big internet.
What I did: I used the AAHK mod to try and root my Desire HD, everything went fine and it found an exploit and I saw it flash something onto the phone. After it was done, it said that the radio was now done. Please wait. So I waited for 45 min, and nothing happend. Rebooted the phone and it wont get passed the white HTC startup picture. I can still hold the vol down and get into boot.
What I've tried: I have tried the recovery option on the bootmenu, and all that gives me is a black screen with a red triangle. After that I tried communicating with the device through fastboot, and thats the only program that seemes to find it. I cant use the aahk tool again, since it says the phone is disconnected, nor any other tool I've found to flash/recover. I have also tried to flash recovery (command) to try and install CWM, but that gives me a FAILED (remote: signature verify fail).
I have now found a stock rom, wich I will try and put onto the SD card. Name it PD98IMG.zip and see if a miracle happens. Cause I see it searching for that name with intervals while I'm in the bootloader menu.
I am now at my wits end, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Download recovery, then flash through fastboot commander search in xda

The stock ROM should work I think.

Hi, flashing the stock rom actually worked!
I downloaded a stock 1.32 rom, put it on the root of my SDCARD and flashed it once I got into the bootloader.
Saved my day
Thanks for the replies though