phone doesn't boot??? - Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have an htc droid incredible in which I tried to flash another radio. I'm usually very careful to do a nandroid back up but failed to do it this one time. I can go into clockwork recovery but I need to be able to restore. I can transfer files onto the sd card but don't know what I need to put on it in order to restore my phone to be able to use it again. I had Miui 12.11.1 by nix instastalled on it. What can I do? It's not bricked afaik cause I can still go into recovery. Can someone please help?

I transfered another rom to flash from recovery and hoping this will go w/o a hitch(fingers crossed) will post back with results.

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wajj said:
maybe the battery should be change
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Uhhhh.... probably not.
Try reflashing the original radio if you can find it

will do that right now

K cool tell me how it goes
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no go. I even tried to do a factory reset. I must have somehow erased my internal phone storage. I'm at a loss right now. My phone is/was rooted with s-off so that voids the warranty. I can't send it back or ask for another. Don't know what to do. May have a $200 paper weight.

Well, they are free on contract now...
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what do i tell them?

Uhhh, it broke? I have no idea. Sorry
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as if things couldn't get worse, ironically I have no insurance on the phone. Looks like I'm going to be with out a phone for a while.

Ugh. Can you get into recovery?
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yeah I can get into recovery.

Ok well try to find the stock 2.1 ROM that originally shipped with the phone and flash that
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[Q] Can't upgrade clockwork mod from 2.5

Okay, so I was trying to upgrade to the latest nightly for my mother, since she loves gingerbread now. So here is my issue, I know that I need clockwork mod 3.0 or higher to get the nightlies to work, I have gotten #14 to install with the old recovery she has on there now. But when I try to update the recovery it will either not upgrade or revert back to 2.5 upon reboot. For example:
If I try using fastboot to install, I get an error. I don't remember exact error, but its a long the lines of it can't install.
If I try using the PB31IMG.zip method, but it just detects the zip and wont install or anything.
If I install the recovery via the recovery, it will work for the one time it loads, then upon reboot it reverts to old one.
I tried installing the newest nightly with the old recovery, but it will just load and then soft boot and repeat forever till I pull battery.
I rooted the phone with the unrevokr root and recovery method, so I don't know if that has anything to do with my problems.
Any help would be appreciated.
McFroger3 said:
Okay, so I was trying to upgrade to the latest nightly for my mother, since she loves gingerbread now. So here is my issue, I know that I need clockwork mod 3.0 or higher to get the nightlies to work, I have gotten #14 to install with the old recovery she has on there now. But when I try to update the recovery it will either not upgrade or revert back to 2.5 upon reboot. For example:
If I try using fastboot to install, I get an error. I don't remember exact error, but its a long the lines of it can't install.
If I try using the PB31IMG.zip method, but it just detects the zip and wont install or anything.
If I install the recovery via the recovery, it will work for the one time it loads, then upon reboot it reverts to old one.
I tried installing the newest nightly with the old recovery, but it will just load and then soft boot and repeat forever till I pull battery.
I rooted the phone with the unrevokr root and recovery method, so I don't know if that has anything to do with my problems.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Get Rom manager from the market open it up and at the top it will say flash clockwork mod recovery tap that and your golden......
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Get Rom manager from the market open it up and at the top it will say flash clockwork mod recovery tap that and your golden......
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Yea...I forgot to mention, that doesn't work either. It will download, then flash it, but upon boot to recovery, its the old recovery.
Hmmm thats starange...... when you flashed it in hboot did you have your SD formatted fat32? If not bootloader won't read it.
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newtoroot said:
Hmmm thats starange...... when you flashed it in hboot did you have your SD formatted fat32? If not bootloader won't read it.
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Yea, its def fat32, it reads the file, but does not do anything. I get the little bar on the side that moves like its installing it. I am thinking I am going to have to try and restore phone to stock. =/
McFroger3 said:
Yea, its def fat32, it reads the file, but does not do anything. I get the little bar on the side that moves like its installing it. I am thinking I am going to have to try and restore phone to stock. =/
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No don't do that try downloading a different zip...... did you name it exactly PB31IMG.zip
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newtoroot said:
No don't do that try downloading a different zip...... did you name it exactly PB31IMG.zip
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Indeed it did, I would then open winrar, and just drop the new .img file in and overwrite the old one. Maybe I should make a new zip file and add the other config file or whatever it is to the new zip. Otherwise, I am SOL lol.
That's where you are messing up..... give me a min and ill get you the right file
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Here try this don't change anything except the name
http://db.tt/98H9tji
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newtoroot said:
Here try this don't change anything except the name
http://db.tt/98H9tji
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Thanks, will try when my mother gets home, since she has her phone. Will let ya know if it works.
McFroger3 said:
Thanks, will try when my mother gets home, since she has her phone. Will let ya know if it works.
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It should just don't change anything but the name. And put it on the root of you SD card
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Get Rom manager from the market open it up and at the top it will say flash clockwork mod recovery tap that and your golden......
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Before you flash a new recovery with ROM Manager go into ROM manager settings and check the box to erase the old recovery before flashing the new one.
Then scroll to the bottom of the main ROM Manager menu and select all clockworkmod recoveries. Flash 3.0.0.8 since it has fixes for 3.0.0.5 issues.
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It should just don't change anything but the name. And put it on the root of you SD card
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No dice, goes to [checking PB31IMG.zip] then just goes back to main bootloader menu.
MedleHed said:
Before you flash a new recovery with ROM Manager go into ROM manager settings and check the box to erase the old recovery before flashing the new one.
Then scroll to the bottom of the main ROM Manager menu and select all clockworkmod recoveries. Flash 3.0.0.8 since it has fixes for 3.0.0.5 issues.
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Oh trust me, that was one of the first things I tried.
Looks like I might have to wipe the phone.
McFroger3 said:
No dice, goes to [checking PB31IMG.zip] then just goes back to main bootloader menu.
Oh trust me, that was one of the first things I tried.
Looks like I might have to wipe the phone.
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It sounds like its not formatted fat32 b.c. it should read it..... are you positive that it is? And that it is on the root of the SD and not the root folder....
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newtoroot said:
It sounds like its not formatted fat32 b.c. it should read it..... are you positive that it is? And that it is on the root of the SD and not the root folder....
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I was just thinking that, I am going to backup the SD and reformat.
Ok let me know....
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Ok let me know....
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Still not working, just does checking the zip and then goes back to hboot. I am going to try formating the internal memory, and put a copy on there and see if that does anything. Would having S-ON have anything to do with my problem?
Well I fixed it, was that I had S-On still enabled. I guess I'm so used to my nexus that I forgot that I needed that off to do that.
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Well I fixed it, was that I had S-On still enabled. I guess I'm so used to my nexus that I forgot that I needed that off to do that.
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Lol I thought you had s-off sorry....
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newtoroot said:
Lol I thought you had s-off sorry....
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Its alright, thank you for the help!

Can't install new roms!! WTF? Bootlooping!?!

I have been trying to hook a buddy of mine up with a new rom for his Evo, basically make it exactly like mine with the newest Fresh Rom. I rooted his phone with Revolutionary and it all went just fine, the phone is now rooted with Superuser successfully installed. I put the Fresh zip on his SD card, wiped everything as you are supposed to, and then flashed the zip. It flashes fine and boots up, loads to the lockscreen and setup, but then reboots and does the whole process again, basically a bootloop. I have tried various roms and kernels, wiped over and over again, redownloaded the file, etc., but nothing seems to work. Am I missing something?! I never had this issue installing this rom on my phone. Any help would be appreciated!
try using a different recovery
Something other than RA? What do you suggest? CWM is crap isn't it?
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Give newer versions on CWM its work just fine for me. I never had a problem.
Sloth
I am skeptical that a different recovery will fix the problem, but I will give it a try and report back. Is there anything else anyone can come up with?
I had a really weird issue where I couldn't flash any of the Gingerbread roms a while back, and had flashed goodness knows how many since I bought my evo on launch day and rooted it day one when it was available.
Trying different recovery versions might help, but if it doesn't, I'd suggest to unroot it and start all over. Find a post in the dev section on unrooting, go back to the stock sprint rom, and start over.
I did that, and was then able to flash all gingerbread roms and get them to not bootloop.
I'm not the only one that was having the problem, but NO devs could/would help figure it out. Not even flipz. Give it a shot.
Thanks for the info, I will try to Recovery thing first and then do a full wipe out and start over from a stock rom. The weird thing about it is that this is the first time this phone has been rooted and the first attempt at flashing roms.
Just curious, how many times does it reboot?? Over and over and over, or are you pulling the battery after the first or send time?
Over and over
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Try recovery and fast boot from there.
Sloth
I changed recoveries to clock work, and it did not make a difference. I continued to get the same boot loop as before with RA. I just wiped out the entire system, and went into the boot loader to unroot back to stock. I will report back my results once I am done
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Either change you clockworkmod or try something else. Dam man that sucks.
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SLB9884 said:
Either change you clockworkmod or try something else. Dam man that sucks.
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Changing up the recovery did nothing to fix my problem. I unrooted his phone, regained s-on, flashed a stock rom and am starting over. I will report back my results.
Well damnit anyway, starting all over from scratch did nothing as well. Still get the same damn bootloop. WTF!?!? Anyone else have any other ideas?
I've read every post and I can't think of anything that would help. You think it's a software issue, like inside the phone itself might be bad?
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Is this something that could be discovered on a logcat? I have never done one or know how they work, but would anyone be willing to diagnose the problem if I am able to get a logcat?
Damn that sucks. What your status. Did you fix the bootloop?
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Still no fix discovered, any help on this would be greatly appreciated
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What's interesting, is that this is the exact same boot loop problem I was having on my Evo when trying to flash any sense 3.0 rom.
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Have you tried using / flashing any of the zips that are prepackaged " wipes " ?
Have you tried using TWRP recovery ?
I never had any problems while using RA but had numerous failed flashes with Clockwork.
TWRP has been stellar so far ... no failed flashes yet.

HTC EVO Bootloop

Hey guys, quick question.
My friend has an HTC EVO on Spring. Not rooted, nothing. It's completely stock. It just started acting weird. I pulled the battery and it went into bootloop. When i press the volume rockers + on button it will boot into recovery mode? if thats what it's even called.
After a while of bootlooping the phone shows an image of a phone with a triangle with an exclamation point in it.
Any help?
I've got an infuse, so i'm ok with flashing and rooting and whatnot, i jsut dont know how to reset the HTC.
Sounds like an ota update that was interrupted or a bad ota update
Try this.
http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Sup...51.1_Radio_2.05.00.06.10_release_CL195459.exe
Its the original RUU. I think you need HTC Sync to use it. I could be wrong seeing I don't have an EVO.
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Mind posting the hboot and radio
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I started with the basics and wiped the phone data and it booted right up. Now lets see if it stays running...
Just for future reference, is there a way to completely wipe the phone (rom and all) and start fresh?
On the infuse platform we use ODIN. Not sure if there is something similar on the EVO
shooter5635 said:
I started with the basics and wiped the phone data and it booted right up. Now lets see if it stays running...
Just for future reference, is there a way to completely wipe the phone (rom and all) and start fresh?
On the infuse platform we use ODIN. Not sure if there is something similar on the EVO
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On the evo you use a RUU it returns you to complete stock no recovery no root but you will still be s-off. RUUs can be flashed through fastboot or renamed and flash in the bootloader
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evo4gnoob said:
On the evo you use a RUU it returns you to complete stock no recovery no root but you will still be s-off. RUUs can be flashed through fastboot or renamed and flash in the bootloader
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Got it. If it locks up again, and i have to flash the RUU, how do i get it onto the sd card/internal memory?
shooter5635 said:
Got it. If it locks up again, and i have to flash the RUU, how do i get it onto the sd card/internal memory?
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If you have a card reader you can transfer it to the sdcard or use your phone transfer it to the sdcard and put the sdcard back in the evo
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evo4gnoob said:
If you have a card reader you can transfer it to the sdcard or use your phone transfer it to the sdcard and put the sdcard back in the evo
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Awesome, Thanks!

Odd replacements from BestBuy will not root.

Here is the deal.
Got a replacements EVO 4G from BestBuy.
It has a new label under the battery with no serial number.
Pulled the label up and nothing under it.
Revolutionary shows me a serial number but fails every beta key attempt.
Hboot 2.15
Updated radio.
Any ideas?
Very odd not to have a serial number.
Maybe trying to keep us from root.
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You are copying and pasting the serial number and beta key correct?
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Also some refurbs come without the sticker now its been like that for a couple of months if I recall
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evo4gnoob said:
You are copying and pasting the serial number and beta key correct?
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Urmmm Nope. LOL
Had a concussion since June, I tend to forget things with non stop headaches.
Let me try it again.
Been a while since I had to root.
Did not have this problem with my wife's new EVO.
Be right back and thank for the replies.
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evo4gnoob said:
Also some refurbs come without the sticker now its been like that for a couple of months if I recall
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Never knew that.
Had me puzzled.
Asked a few other people including devs. Had them puzzled too.
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Root acquired!
Stuck on Waiting for Fastboot.
Problem fixed.
Revolutionary crashed but did give S-Off so I just flashed RA 3.11
Good to go.
Thanks
Woot woot!
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tommytomatoe said:
Woot woot!
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I'm back......
That wasn't easy.
It seriously did not want to root. LOL.
A side note.
Have never tried to restore a nandroid from one EVO to another but can it be done?
I am fully restored but just curious.
Know that RA saves backups by serial number and doesn't work that I am aware.
What about CWM recovery?
rootlinux said:
I'm back......
That wasn't easy.
It seriously did not want to root. LOL.
A side note.
Have never tried to restore a nandroid from one EVO to another but can it be done?
I am fully restored but just curious.
Know that RA saves backups by serial number and doesn't work that I am aware.
What about CWM recovery?
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To me it's not worth the risk, but if you don't restore wimax then you shouldn't have any problems other than possibly having to restore a nandroid from the phone you have.
I would personally just restore user apps with TB and set everything up the way you want it. I'm the kind of person that prefers to start fresh though - everything just runs smoothly.
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You cannot restore a nandroid from another phone.
It will brick it
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You cannot restore a nandroid from another phone.
It will brick it
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Total lie, this rumor of phones bricking has been put to rest in previous threads. I've many times restored replacement phones with backups (just don't use Wimax key part).
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To me it's not worth the risk, but if you don't restore wimax then you shouldn't have any problems other than possibly having to restore a nandroid from the phone you have.
I would personally just restore user apps with TB and set everything up the way you want it. I'm the kind of person that prefers to start fresh though - everything just runs smoothly.
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I use tb to restore to a fresh rom but restore nandroids when going back to the same rom.
CaliBoyPhillip said:
Total lie, this rumor of phones bricking has been put to rest in previous threads. I've many times restored replacement phones with backups (just don't use Wimax key part).
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It won't brick but RA 3.11 would not even restore data or ext.
It just fails at attempt.
Maybe 2.3 would work.
Tried after posting just to see.
rootlinux said:
It won't brick but RA 3.11 would not even restore data or ext.
It just fails at attempt.
Maybe 2.3 would work.
Tried after posting just to see.
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ahhh i would figure perhaps because they are different but I always install my same old recovery, restore back up. then, I update to a new recovery, boot into recovery and perform a new back up.

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So yesterday i went ahead rooted the phone dl TI backup. Everything was working fine until i was messing around with TI and removing apps. etc. After that. I couldnt restart my phone. I was stuck at the GOODBYE screen. So my dumnbass went and did a wipe and data delete. Thinking it will fix that error. Now im getting UI error and i cant access crap! I was using APEX launcher. Need helpe please. Looks like i coould still receive messages, but not TWlauncher. UI error!!! HELP!!!!!!!
Odin back to stock....then retry
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Calm down, you can always download a flashable ROM, place it on your sdcard and flash it through CWM. Everything will be normal.
I'm assuming you can boot into CWM.
You can either try restoring all the stuff you deleted with Titanium or wipe the phone and start over.
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@Danial723 How do you do that? Sorry im a noob on this stuff. Do you guys think doing a Reboot Recovery will help? Will the phone be still rooted?
beams02spec said:
@Danial723 How do you do that? Sorry im a noob on this stuff. Do you guys think doing a Reboot Recovery will help? Will the phone be still rooted?
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Check the stikys .....all the info you need is in there
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Here is the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1414341
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Does anyone know why the GOODBYE screen freezes when restarting and poweing off?(im rooted) My last resort is to go back to stock and start alll over. Im just trying to find out if theres another way around to it. I cant restart or powering off with out doing it manauly by holding the power button for a long time.

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