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
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This is my first post and I was wondering if anyone can help.
I have an incredible, 2.2, rooted, with Rom Manager. I flashed the lastest recovery through Rom Manager but when I try to boot into recovery the screen stays black with a thin white line on both sides. I had some backups from another Dinc I had and took a chance at a restore from one of my older Roms. Although the screen stayed black it did load the backup so my recovery appears to be working fine only I can't see it.
Doing this before I am scared if I load a bad rom or something and get locked up I won't be able to see the recovery to restore my backups. I have tried older recoveries through Rom Manager with the same problem however when I flash RA_GNM Recovery v1.7.6 it works perfectly. Only problem is Rom Manager won't use that.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Search for slcd recovery.
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ok now I am really confused. I research the slcd and not quite sure what I have or looking at. How do I know? My old Dinc was literally only about a month older than my previous one. Can you give me a brief "Dumbed Down" version of what exactly this is?
Sorry to be such a newbie.
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ok now I am really confused. I research the slcd and not quite sure what I have or looking at. How do I know? My old Dinc was literally only about a month older than my previous one. Can you give me a brief "Dumbed Down" version of what exactly this is?
Sorry to be such a newbie.
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From what you're describing, your phone has a slcd screen, not amoled. As such, you're going to have a few issues here and there with recoveries as well as ROMS (due to your hardware not being supported by the included kernel). Search the forums for slcd and you'll see suitable workarounds for this.
To see what screen you have... Menu > Settings > About Phone > Hardware Version. If yours is 003, you have a SLCD screen.
Anyone who has the.new guy Rom ..is there a way to get the HTC pot penguin to as my boot image. That penguin is great lol
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Just incase anyone is having this problem I did find a site with a fix. Download the file, change the name and flash through hboot. It has worked for me and now I can get into recovery. Here is the link:
**Sorry the site wouldn't allow me to post the link***
Only problems I have now and I am hoping someone can help is that I can't seem to install any custom roms that don't have sense. When installing MIUI or CyanogenMod, etc I get locked up on the white HTC screen.
Anyone know a solution?
http://www.incredibleforum.com/foru...nly-see-black-screen-white-bars-recovery.html
That has the custom recovery you need for an slcd screen. I used that exact dl link to get the image. Then i used the unrevoked 3.21 tool to set it to flash a custom recovery then let the tool run. All went flawlessly
*Edit sorry i didn't see you fixed it. As far as cyanogen mod goes, I know it doesn't work with slcd screened incs because we have different display drivers. I believe that is true for all aosp roms. If you want a vanilla feel go with skyraider vanilla 3.0. It works perfectly for me
Thanks for posting that link and the help. I will keep checking to see if a solutions for slcd screens comes around so that I can install some other roms.
I just hate that I thought I upgraded my inc and as it turns out it was probably a downgrade.
To my understanding, I believe all roms work except aosp roms. I remember reading somewhere (but don't remember where) that they were working on a fix. So maybe it'll come before you know it
Koush's test #2 kernel works fine and will boot aosp on my Slcd.
Just wanted to let you know I found a way to make MIUI and cyanogen work on a slcd Dinc. I found the fix in one of the forums so I don't want to take any credit for it but it worked for me so I wanted to pass that info along to anyone else having the same issue.
I downloaded the Koush test kernel from Rom Manager, then I flashed the MIUI rom. Once flashed it gets stuck on the white HTC screen. I pull the battery, go to recovery, and then open zip from SD card. I find the Koush kernel, install, and reboot and it has worked for everything I have tried so far (MIUI and Cyanogen).
Hope that helps someone.
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Just wanted to let you know I found a way to make MIUI and cyanogen work on a slcd Dinc. I found the fix in one of the forums so I don't want to take any credit for it but it worked for me so I wanted to pass that info along to anyone else having the same issue.
I downloaded the Koush test kernel from Rom Manager, then I flashed the MIUI rom. Once flashed it gets stuck on the white HTC screen. I pull the battery, go to recovery, and then open zip from SD card. I find the Koush kernel, install, and reboot and it has worked for everything I have tried so far (MIUI and Cyanogen).
Hope that helps someone.
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Really? My post above says that.
Your kidding right?? i didn't see your post as it was on page two so my apologies. I didn't mean to steal any of your credit!!! lol. I am just trying to help others out.
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
I'm pretty new to this rooting for Android, I recently got my Incredible.. I used unrevoked to root my incredible. I did it normally like USB debugging and all that. Soon as it started to root it, the phone rebooted itself like it was supposed too, got to the HTC Incredible screen (the first screen on the boot up) and black screen and white bars on the sides. Now I got this phone like November 27th.. and I'm pretty postive my screen is an SLCD? And that seems to be what the problem is with the black screen white bars.. Thing is, of course the black screen white bars stayed there, so I pulled the battery out and put it pack in. It loaded up normally and it seemed to be rooted fine. It had the Superuser (ninja). And everything was normal. I downloaded ROM Manager and then downloaded the Flash ClockWorkMod Recovery, and then I clicked on Cynagen Mod and went down to Google apps. Downloaded it, installed it, then it asked to reboot. ALL OF WHAT I JUST DID, (followed from The Start to Finish Guide to Rooting Your Android Phone, I con't post links yet) .. So as it rebooted it got the HTC Incredible screen (the first screen on the boot up) and it did the black screen white bars. I removed the battery either twice or three times.. And still nothing, I THEN FOLLWED THIS Incredibleforum dot com (I rooted and now I only see a black screen with white bars in recovery.) and went to the Hboot menu and went down to recovery and selected it. It rebooted and still black screen white bars at the HTC Incredible screen. I then tried his other method and went to download that file and went to unrevoked and did the custom recovery and put recovery in the file and plugged my phone in. ( He actually said to like check USB debugging, which I couldnt actually do because I couldnt get to my menu..) So then after plugging it in and showing the orange light for charging. It did nothing other then charge. I turned it on ( I'm pretty sure, it might have turned on by itself) and it worked. It got the menu screen. And everything was the same. ROM Manager was still there, same with superuser. And the 3 game apps that I downloaded before I rebooted for Google Apps. I haven't found Google Apps, I'm not really sure where Google Apps would be anyways.. But what I'm getting at here is, What actually happened????? Why those white bars?? And will this happen everytime I have to reboot? If someone could just give me their best answer or an explanation It would really help. I'm new to this stuff.. But I'm getting nervous with this black screen thing white bars.. and I'm debating wether to just unroot..(how easy is unrooting?).. But my phone is fine now, I haven't tried like downloading anything but everything seems to be working fine.. Where could I find Google Apps? And which ROM? Cynagen Mod Or Bugless Beast.. Please Help
You have an slcd screen. Your recovery is for smiled. Use unrevocks recovery for slcd screens. As I have read you need that one for recovery to work properly. I don't have an slcd so I don't know to much about that end
Just cruise the forums there is tons of info out there.
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I had similar issues, and poster above is correct... I was able to flash a modified clockwork recovery to get it working with slcd...but I'm halfway afraid to try any ROM Manager abilities due to the different recovery :>
Just flash the modified Clockwork- very simple and works perfectly. I have the zip if you want it.
Ok cool can I have the zip file? And would I have to like uninstall anything in order to use revoked again?... and just a quick question.. 'recovery' is basically _______?
P.S. Whats like rebooting into recovery
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Ok cool can I have the zip file? And would I have to like uninstall anything in order to use revoked again?... and just a quick question.. 'recovery' is basically _______?
P.S. Whats like rebooting into recovery
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7O9ZPP2T
You don't need to uninstall anything from your phone obviously, but I'd uninstall any unrEVOKed stuff from your computer before you do the new version. Recovery is basically the tool that lets you modify the phone. You go there to do nandroid backups and restores, and to flash zips. Let me know if you need instructions on how to apply the fix.
Yeah I'm new to this rooting stuff so if you could just give me a few instructions it'd be really helpful. thanks
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Yeah I'm new to this rooting stuff so if you could just give me a few instructions it'd be really helpful. thanks
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1. Mount your phone as disk drive (I'm assuming you know how to do that, if not, lemme know)
2. Move the file to the root of your sd card (not in any folders) and make sure you don't re-name it at all.
3. Disconnect your phone, wait for the card to format, and then yank your battery.
4. Put the battery back in, hold Volume Down+Power.
5. You'll see your bootloader and it will find the file automatically, let it install it.
6. Once it's done, yank your battery again and repeat Step 4.
7. This time, choose not to install it, and instead choose Recovery- should load up Clockwork just fine. Easiest way to access Clockwork in the future is thru ROM Manager- there's an option to boot into recovery.
PS. might wanna check your clockwork version first thru ROM Manager- my version is 2.5.0.5 and I'm not sure if Koush has included the SLCD fix in any of the newer versions, so I'd make sure you have that version before doing this.
From what I gather, the black screen and white bars is the ClockworkMod recovery that you booted into. It works fine, but the SLCD is incompatible with the current ROM Manager ClockworkMod (I have it too, ADB works when it's running). So the display is the only thing messed up.
I'd love to get ClockworkMod to work correctly though. Anyone know how I can flash the recovery to Amon Ra, or get ClockworkMod working? I have a mod .zip file for Clockwork, but I'm unsure on how to use it.
Edit... responded too late. Thanks for the advice!
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From what I gather, the black screen and white bars is the ClockworkMod recovery that you booted into. It works fine, but the SLCD is incompatible with the current ROM Manager ClockworkMod (I have it too, ADB works when it's running). So the display is the only thing messed up.
I'd love to get ClockworkMod to work correctly though. Anyone know how I can flash the recovery to Amon Ra, or get ClockworkMod working? I have a mod .zip file for Clockwork, but I'm unsure on how to use it.
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I'm guessing you didn't read to the end of the thread before you posted
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I'm guessing you didn't read to the end of the thread before you posted
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Didn't see it at the time. I'm still ungodly slow at typing on this, haha.
Do you have any advice on flashing with CyanogenMod? I read the wiki and it talked about updating a radio, but there were several options. What should I be looking for?
I'm kinda terrified trying it with these new SLCD phones, and any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Didn't see it at the time. I'm still ungodly slow at typing on this, haha.
Do you have any advice on flashing with CyanogenMod? I read the wiki and it talked about updating a radio, but there were several options. What should I be looking for?
I'm kinda terrified trying it with these new SLCD phones, and any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Sorry, I haven't found a ROM I like as much as stock Sense, so I just use that, but with my own mods. shipped-roms.com is a nice website.. Otherwise, almost any Android forum site will have a CM section since it's so popular..
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Sorry, I haven't found a ROM I like as much as stock Sense, so I just use that, but with my own mods. shipped-roms.com is a nice website.. Otherwise, almost any Android forum site will have a CM section since it's so popular..
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Thank you!
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I have a rooted EVO (with UnrEVOked-forever).
1. the tool won't undo UnrEVOked
2. can't change from ClockworkMod to RA (ROM manager says that RA is Current)
3. when I turn the EVO on, prior to the white HTC screen, I get a screen that looks like a computer screen when you set the resolution wrong.
4. SuperUser is still one of my APPS, EVEN after I took the phone to Sprint to be reloaded.
5. Flashing image doesn't work
6. RUU reports error 171 ... never gets to bootloader
the issues started after a I installed UnrEVOked-forever, but not sure it had anything to do with issues.
is there a way to reset this phone at a level DEEPER that Nandroid?
I really need to get this phone back to Pure HTC EVO as I suffer several issues including LOCK-UPS.
I normally use Warm Two Point Two & Baked Snack both are unreliable now.
So I tried installing Both Lou's Kernel #6 and 7. As well as Ziggy's latest beta. I cleared the Dalvik Cache as well. I still cannot seem to figure out what the issue is.
I'm running Myn's Warm 2.2 the latest release.
I have the newer Incredible with the SLCD screen but I didn't think the touch sensor would have changed at all...
I hope somebody can help me clear this up.
Thanks in advance.
What version of CWM do you have? It requires a certain version. I think it's 2.5.0.5, and it has to be unmodded (no fast scrolling, etc.).
I recently upgraded to 3.0.0.5. I hadn't had any problems with 3.0.0.5. I'll try downgrading and trying again.
Chad has a modded clockwork out that supposedly fixes it. I've never tried it personally.
So I couldn't get chads version of Rom manager to download clockwork 2.5.0.5 and I can't seem to find a 2.5.0.5 version of clockwork anywhere. I tried flashing via amon ra 1.81 for incredible but that didn't seem to work either. What exactly is the issue here? I'm not understanding how the clockwork version would interfere with installing a kernel.
Thanks a ton guys.
So I finally found a 2.5.0.5 version of clockwork, however it doesn't support SLCD screens (Just get the black screen and white lines). On top of that I booted up the phone and the touch screen wouldn't respond at all. Couldn't even unlock the phone. I had to install the SD card in my old enV 2 and rename and move the Amon Ra Recovery back to the root of the SD card and reinstall.
I'm gonna try to figure out where I can find Chad's modded version of clockwork, but this is getting very frustrating.
This has turned into an ordeal. AmonRa didn't fix my touch screen. I tried restoring an AmonRa backup but it errored and told me to restore using adb commands. I am currently at my parents house in and don't have access to ADB here. This computer is terrible. I won't be back to my house until Monday.
I reflashed Clockwork 3.0.0.5 and now am currently restoring a backup. I hope this fixes the issue...
So I found a version of clockwork 2.5.0.5 that was modified to work with SLCD, (Doug Piston's Website) and still no dice. Only 2 touches registering. I have no idea what else to try...
Bump. Im really stumped here guys. Thanks for the help.
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I use clockwork 3.7 & get 5 on chads & 10 on tiamat. Amoled tho
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Try opening term emulator: and type su, then cat /sys/android_touch/vendor and put the output here:
If it's AMTEL_x004F_x0016, then 2 touch is likely the limit. During all the testing that went on by Chad, I don't think anyone with SLCD or AMOLED that had the x004f_x0016 panel got more than 2. I guess they figured 2 was enough for that panel. It made no difference what version of cwm or which kernel was used. They all got 2.
If it's not what was mentioned ^^ then you can probably keep messing around with cwm versions and kernels until you find some magic combo that works.
Thanks hamchacha. I do have that panel, that's unfortunate. Not the end of the world though...
Thanks again.
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Thanks hamchacha. I do have that panel, that's unfortunate. Not the end of the world though...
Thanks again.
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Sure thing. I've got it as well. I went to the Amtel website and tried to look it up, but they don't use those numbers on the site or if they do they're in some other format I can't figure out. They do , however, talk about 5-10 touch panels, and 2-touch and 1-touch panels all in the 'cellphone' (or so it appears) section, and those panel pictures all resemble the ones on our phones.
I know you can buy another one from some reseller if this is a big deal for some reason, but I'm not sure if that reseller (I could find them again) will tell you which you're getting. I think they were 30-40 bucks. I'll see if I can dig up the link. Getting it all apart might not be too simple as well.
It was for a MIDI controller. Which someone wrote an app that turns your phone into a wireless one. If you're unfamiliar, a MIDI controller allows you to program and change values in music production software with faders or different input methods on my phone.
However it is a fairly small workspace for sure a use. Because of this a plan on getting a tablet very soon. So i think it would be a waste to buy a new panel.
Thanks for all the hard work on this. Can never learn enough about my phone.