[Q] hey guys i need a little help - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

i can't load the amon_ra recovery, doesn't actually work when i do it through rom manager, and i used unrevoked to root. just got my evo back from a 3 month long period of not having it (it broke and i was to lazy to take it in) i had RA before and was running cynogen 6, just rooted last night, and looked in the thread for RA Recovery and none of it is working.
all the directions didn't work for me, or i forgot how to adb and therefore can't do that. i tried terminal on the phone and everything, i really don't want to flash a rom until i do a nandroid with ra.
anyone care to help.

thorpe24 said:
i can't load the amon_ra recovery, doesn't actually work when i do it through rom manager, and i used unrevoked to root. just got my evo back from a 3 month long period of not having it (it broke and i was to lazy to take it in) i had RA before and was running cynogen 6, just rooted last night, and looked in the thread for RA Recovery and none of it is working.
all the directions didn't work for me, or i forgot how to adb and therefore can't do that. i tried terminal on the phone and everything, i really don't want to flash a rom until i do a nandroid with ra.
anyone care to help.
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If you rooted your phone you should have a custom recovery,which do you have ?
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clockwork, and as i have 4g now i wanna make sure i don't screw it up.
edit: hold up i may have just done it by doing an pc36img_recovery flash from a how to root, this file was provided to flash amon_ra, just don't know which version......

thorpe24 said:
clockwork, and as i have 4g now i wanna make sure i don't screw it up.
edit: hold up i may have just done it by doing an pc36img_recovery flash from a how to root, this file was provided to flash amon_ra, just don't know which version......
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It's gonna be 1.7 just update it via Rom manager. It's possible you were not fully rooted yet.. does it say s-off?
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sweet it's amon ra 1.8, awesome. thanks for the offer to help. any suggestions on rom and what not. i used to run CM6 with the kernel to get rid of 30fps cap. though that kernel for the (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=876590) awesome battery life in this thread, does that also get rid of the cap? any help or suggestions would be welcome, i've been out of the scene for a while.

yes, i ran unrevoked forever so it says s-off. btw whats the best gingerbread rom out there? sorry for all the noob questions btw.

thorpe24 said:
yes, i ran unrevoked forever so it says s-off. btw whats the best gingerbread rom out there? sorry for all the noob questions btw.
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None are complete all still in beta mode (imo) would be best to just get a good aosp Rom and add theme gingerbread. Also cm6.1.1 is the best I have used but that's all opinion. Heard cm7 will be gingerbread and should be out soon!
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thorpe24 said:
sweet it's amon ra 1.8, awesome. thanks for the offer to help. any suggestions on rom and what not. i used to run CM6 with the kernel to get rid of 30fps cap. though that kernel for the (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=876590) awesome battery life in this thread, does that also get rid of the cap? any help or suggestions would be welcome, i've been out of the scene for a while.
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All kernels have the mod to get rid of the cap since HTC released the source for it...
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ah i see, well maybe you can still help me. i got an error doing a nandroid through ra, it says error : run 'nandroid-mobile.sh' via adb!
btw it's been along time since i did adb.......so lost. lol

thorpe24 said:
ah i see, well maybe you can still help me. i got an error doing a nandroid through ra, it says error : run 'nandroid-mobile.sh' via adb!
btw it's been along time since i did adb.......so lost. lol
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Is it plugged in to the computer at the moment? It sounds like you are not fully mounted to your SD card
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it is let me unplug and try that

that worked thanks again man.

thorpe24 said:
that worked thanks again man.
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No problem... if you need anything else just let me know...

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Flashing a new radio after the 2.2 root method

I see a lot of rom threads that say you MUST update your radio to use the rom. Doing a search I also saw a lot of posts saying you can't flash radios if you used unrevoked to root your Evo. So what does this mean for those of us that used the 2.2 root guide which uses unrevoked? Do I really HAVE to update my radio to use these roms? Since I used the 2.2 guide would it be safe to unroot and then root with simple root so I can flash a new radio? Or should I just not worry about it and flash away?
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Wow nothing? I tried flashing the new radio and it doesn't work. Gets aborted by clockwork. Does anyone have an answer? I've searched here and ppcgeeks and found nothing.
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You can flash radios if you are s-off.
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i have rooted 3 different devices using the 2.2 method, and from what i can tell, you dont *need* to flash a radio. if you do part 2 of the method, it basically loads a 2.2 rom that has Super User enabled. Im no dev, but from what i can tell, flashing the radios have to be done in 2.2 because the way the 2.2 software communicates with the radios (cell and wimax) differently, so the radio has to be updated to handle this change. using part 2 puts your radio back to the 2.15.***whatever Official sprint radios.
flashing the radios are basically for anyone coming from a 2.1 rom who hasnt been updated already.
just idle speculation....can someone else confirm this for me?
SharkUW said:
You can flash radios if you are s-off.
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I thought using unrevoked forever put you at s-off. Do you know where I can check this? Didn't see it anywhere in clockwork recovery.
@newbie: I followed part 2 and still have 2. 05 radio. Think I should go back and flash a stock 2. 2 again to try and get the radio flashed?
Thanks for the help guys, far different from the winmo and webos hacking I'm used to.
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You can check A-off by turning your phone off... then hit and hold the volume down button and hit and hold the power button still holding the volume down button.. brings you to the recovery. On top shows s-off s-on.. unrevoked forever completesbthe full root and nand.
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I have notice coming doing the downgrade to 2.1 and putting any new Rom I have way better download and up speed.. I use to get max 40 kilobytes now same area I get 125.. where is usually get 125 I get double that and even hit 1.2 mbps. I'm happy and didn't do any radio updates like they said to do..
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Wow totally forgot about the hboot screen. Ok so I confirmed I am s-off. So why is it that clockwork won't flash a new radio or wimax?
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Any help with this? I can flash all the roms I want but I can't flash the updated radio or wimax. Can't find anything to help on here, ppcgeeks or android central. Can someone else who used the 2.2 root method and used unrevoked3 and unrevoked forever chip in on weather or not they can flash the radio?
ajk511 said:
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Any help with this? I can flash all the roms I want but I can't flash the updated radio or wimax. Can't find anything to help on here, ppcgeeks or android central. Can someone else who used the 2.2 root method and used unrevoked3 and unrevoked forever chip in on weather or not they can flash the radio?
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I read up above that you are using clockwork, right? You need to use amon-ra recovery I believe to flash the radios...have you tried amon ra?
i flashed both with clockwork, when i flashed a rom i did do both the radio and wimax, don't think i even bothered to check to see if i was already up to date, but did it anyways just to be safe, had no issue with clockwork.
churchwin88 said:
I read up above that you are using clockwork, right? You need to use amon-ra recovery I believe to flash the radios...have you tried amon ra?
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No I haven't tried amon-ra yet, I'm going to do that next. THANKS!
@Tohm, did you boot into recovery or use rom manager? I get the same result with both
churchwin88 said:
I read up above that you are using clockwork, right? You need to use amon-ra recovery I believe to flash the radios...have you tried amon ra?
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THANKS! Amon-ra recovery flashed the radio successfully
ajk511 said:
No I haven't tried amon-ra yet, I'm going to do that next. THANKS!
@Tohm, did you boot into recovery or use rom manager? I get the same result with both
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i normally just boot into recovery, i've only used rom manager once for flashing burnt droid rom, nothing else yet.

[Q] Clockworkmod V2.6.0.1 is gone!

Does anyone know if there was a change made to ROM Manager/Clockworkmod Recovery yesterday?? I had V2.6.0.1 installed and yesterday afternoon I got a notice that Clockworkmod Recovery had been upgrade and to download the new release. It was 3.0.0.5 (RomManager Version 3.0.0.7) so I updated my recovery.
This morning I tried to install a ROM that I have installed dozens of times before using v2.6.0.1 but this time it wouldn't run because of the scripting issues within V3. I tried to find & reload V2.6.0.1 but RomManager does not list it as an alternate install at the bottom of RomManager's setting page.
Anyone else receive the update notice?
I got the update message yesterday too! I chose not to update because I knew about the issues you talked about. You can flash RA recovery, flash ROM, then go back if you need to. Or I can get you the zip if clockwork that does both versions of scripting..... Wait can't do that from the xda app....okay ill post it up when I get to my work computer...unless someone else throws it up before I do.
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gzibell said:
I got the update message yesterday too! I chose not to update because I knew about the issues you talked about. You can flash RA recovery, flash ROM, then go back if you need to. Or I can get you the zip if clockwork that does both versions of scripting..... Wait can't do that from the xda app....okay ill post it up when I get to my work computer...unless someone else throws it up before I do.
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Thanks. I couldn't find a .zip version of 2.6.0.1 on XDA. only the _img version.
ChadH42 said:
Thanks. I couldn't find a .zip version of 2.6.0.1 on XDA. only the _img version.
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Just great!..I should have never upgraded!
http://mirror1.kanged.net/recoveries/
Guess I got beat to it but here is the zip file anyways.
CM still has an option to go to 2.5.0.7
I did not know this Sh%^t and could not restore any nands and was forced to unroot and start over. Seemed easier (for me) than pushing a recovery. I was not able to boot into anything to make the change... one would think that clockwork would play nice with older clockworks
apfrost said:
http://mirror1.kanged.net/recoveries/
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gzibell said:
Guess I got beat to it but here is the zip file anyways.
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thanks!! I'm keeping this so if It happens again...
How do I install the .zip file? Installing via recovery is only temporary. Next reboot it's back to 3.0.0.5
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I only use it as a temp. I think to actually install you have to use a .img file....???? Not sure on that one. Someone has the answer.
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gzibell said:
I only use it as a temp. I think to actually install you have to use a .img file....???? Not sure on that one. Someone has the answer.
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gzibell, I know this is an old thread, and I don't even have an Evo (I have a lowly Sprint Hero), I was just looking for an earlier version of clockwork than the 3.0.0.5 I'm currently using and I ran across this thread, and your post made me aware that I could flash 2.5.0.7 strictly as a temp, without losing the embedded 3.0.0.5 that I'm currently using...what an awesome idea!
So I tried it, and it works great!
Just want to say thanks for that post, friend!

[Q] How to install a ROM?

I think this will be my last real "noob" question. I've done some searching, but no real clear answer.
Just how exactly do I install a ROM? I'm thinking of trying both Virtuous and Cyanogen, just want to test them first. And do I still need to use / have the goldcard I initially made to downgrade the firmware, or can I turn that into a "regular" SD card again?
PS - With Virtuous, will using something like LauncherPro slow it down? Or will it not matter?
Thanks again in advance.
EDIT: I also kinda need to update the radio, I have no mobile data on the stock 1.34 radio...lol.
I bet you could of figured this out by googling "how to flash rom on g2/dz" faster than typing this question lol. Get rom manager, flash recovery with rom manager, download rom you want from rom manager, click okay...pretty easy stuff.
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However sometimes this does not work. A manual install of whatever comes down to downloading and dropping the .zip file of the ROM and whatever Google App pack into your root SD mount. Boot into recovery by Pwr+Vol Down, do a full wipe of both cache and the phone. Then Install Zip from SD card, flash the rom, then the gapps. Reboot.
Yes your back key will function in root.
Edit: When mounting your sd card onto the computer make sure USB debugging is on.
Thanks guys, I did end up figuring it out, now I'm just trying to flash my radio...there's 1 thread with goo dinstructions, but they're still not clear... eugh.
I feel more and more noob with this haha.
Well do a lot of reading before you go and install just any radio.... Make sure they are compatible. I don't want to see your next noob question be "I bricked my phone please help"
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you will learn by your mistake.
That's how i learn it.
No, I made sure to read everything I could. I just couldn't find any noob friendly radio instructions. I installed Virtuous, just trying to update to the recommended radio. lol
Rmk40 actually just released a program all about radios. Go check it out.
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SERIOUSLY, careful. No offense, but if you're not sure on the details of how to flash a ROM, chances are you don't have the knowledge to safely flash your radio.
I feel competent flashing roms, pushing files with adb, and radios still freak me out. If you mess up, there's not turning back =/
puravida82 said:
SERIOUSLY, careful. No offense, but if you're not sure on the details of how to flash a ROM, chances are you don't have the knowledge to safely flash your radio.
I feel competent flashing roms, pushing files with adb, and radios still freak me out. If you mess up, there's not turning back =/
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I have a ROM flashed now. Just haven't found any real concise instructions on how to flash a radio.
The problem I find with most of these guides is that they say "If you don't know this blah blah google it", rather than explaining the method and how to do it / why it is important.
Bloodlvst said:
I have a ROM flashed now. Just haven't found any real concise instructions on how to flash a radio.
The problem I find with most of these guides is that they say "If you don't know this blah blah google it", rather than explaining the method and how to do it / why it is important.
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I think you should get clockwork mod premium and check out the options on there, it will basically download the rom for you and complete all the necessary steps to have a working install. I've been flashing roms since the G1 in 2008 and I still have some small issues here and there when doing it manually but if you want a safe bet, go with the clockwork mod app :]
dietotherhythm said:
I think you should get clockwork mod premium and check out the options on there, it will basically download the rom for you and complete all the necessary steps to have a working install. I've been flashing roms since the G1 in 2008 and I still have some small issues here and there when doing it manually but if you want a safe bet, go with the clockwork mod app :]
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I used it already to isntall roms, but can you flash radios with it?
Radio flashed...still can't use browser though...bleh.
why flash your radio though? I'm using CM7 RC4 with Pershoot kernel en stock radio... reaching up to 30 hours of uptime (with average usage) and good connectivity.
Spastic909 said:
I bet you could of figured this out by googling "how to flash rom on g2/dz" faster than typing this question lol.
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Good advice. I usually search on youtube for walk throughs. Done that since my G1 days. I also go to theunlockr.com to view their tutorials.
SnowOokami said:
why flash your radio though? I'm using CM7 RC4 with Pershoot kernel en stock radio... reaching up to 30 hours of uptime (with average usage) and good connectivity.
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When I run Cyanogen internet is fine. But on Virtuous the Internet will not work. That is why lol.

[Q] I want to sell my phone

hey guys quick question. I have my Evo with a rooted ROM on there right now. I believe its Kingdom 3D or something along those lines. I just purchased an Evo 3D and want to sell this Evo as is rooted and all. I tried punching in the ##2382# or whatever the code is to get into the settings to see if it would work so when the person that buys it wont have problems with sprint on the phone and it didnt work. Is there anyway to activate a rooted phone if the ## doesnt work over the phone? I'd hate to go back to stock.
They would have to flash another ROM if ##3282# didn't work.
Leave the thing S-Off and flash a custom 2.2/3 ROM, something not based on the Shift. For example, Sprint Lovers or Azrael or SNS or Warm 2.2.
Oh, and flash AmonRa please. Don't let the person start out with ROM Manager / ClockworkMod
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Is there anyway to activate a rooted phone if the ## doesnt work over the phone?
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Some roms dont work with ## codes.
I'd hate to go back to stock.
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Why? You are selling the phone. The easiest way to do this is to just unroot and return to stock. Its way easier than trying to explain what a rooted phone is to the buyer, and explaining all the problems and bugs that come along with rooting. Plus, if that person would take the phone into sprint to activate it, THEY would get in trouble for bringing in a rooted phone.
How much are you asking for your phone?
I'm gonna sell it for $100. Front camera for some reason just stopped working. I have also an extended battery on it (Not Seido).
tropicalbrit said:
They would have to flash another ROM if ##3282# didn't work.
Leave the thing S-Off and flash a custom 2.2/3 ROM, something not based on the Shift. For example, Sprint Lovers or Azrael or SNS or Warm 2.2.
Oh, and flash AmonRa please. Don't let the person start out with ROM Manager / ClockworkMod
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So what's the big difference between the two, Rom manager and amonra? Just curious, Noob and using Rom manager.
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Boltons75 said:
So what's the big difference between the two, Rom manager and amonra? Just curious, Noob and using Rom manager.
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Rom Manager is an app. Clockwork Mod and AmonRa are both recoveries. People are pretty much split 50/50 on which is the best, I personally only use clockwork, I have never had a problem with it.
sitlet said:
Rom Manager is an app. Clockwork Mod and AmonRa are both recoveries. People are pretty much split 50/50 on which is the best, I personally only use clockwork, I have never had a problem with it.
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But clockwork is part of ROM man, correct? So what is the advantage of amonra over clockwork.....
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Boltons75 said:
But clockwork is part of ROM man, correct? So what is the advantage of amonra over clockwork.....
Sent from my unrooted OG Evo....
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No, clockwork and Amonra are both recoveries. Completely separate from a rom and apps. Recoveries are used to flash roms, but they are not part of roms.
Rom Manager is an app that lets you USE the recovery, without actually booting into the recovery yourself. So Rom Manager uses recoveries, but it's not part of the recovery.
rgvsdigitalpimp said:
I'm gonna sell it for $100. Front camera for some reason just stopped working. I have also an extended battery on it (Not Seido).
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Did the camera stop working after you rooted/flashed? Or is this a hardware issue?
I would think it would be best to flash back to stock on this phone, and sell it that way. Let the user root/flash after they activate it.
IM me if you haven't sold this yet.

[Q] PC36IMG ERROR AT HBOOT.I think i have soft bricked my phone. NEED HELP. PLEASE!!!

HI. I AM FAIRLY NEW TO THE ROM FLASHING SCENE. HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL FOR THE LAST FEW MONTHS AT FLASHING ROMS. THEN I THINK I STEPED OUT OF BOUND AND BEGAN TO TRY FLASHING NEW KERNELS. HAVE BEEN SEARCHING WEB ALL DAY ON WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED. FROM WHAT I HAVE READ I MAY HAVE FLASHED A KERNEL FROM ONE MOD TO ANOTHER. OR POSSSIBLY INTERRUPTED THE ZIP INSTALL OR FLASH. NOW WHEN I TRY TO FLASH BACK UP ROMS THEY BOOT LOOP OR JUST STAY ON BOOT SCREEN. SAYS NO PC36IMG at the hboot screen. please help.
Are you using the newest HBOOT from HTC? I heard that you can't flash kernels on it...
Maybe the .zip didn't download completely. What kernel did you try to flash, can you even access recovery?
HBOOT 6.16.1002. i was flashing a tiamat kernel. didnt like it and when i tried another one is when it happened. not sure if i did all the wipes. was late and was getting tired
by the way iwas running cynogen mod 7.1 rooted with revolutionary. when i flashed a few kernals some wouldnt work so i tried ra recoery and they installed. i then installed TWOP RECOVERY. TRIED TO INSTAL A MIK ROM AND THATS THE FIRST TIME I GOT THE BOOTLOOP AND IT WAS LIKE THAT EVERYSINCE
trevanti00 said:
by the way iwas running cynogen mod 7.1 rooted with revolutionary. when i flashed a few kernals some wouldnt work so i tried ra recoery and they installed. i then installed TWOP RECOVERY. TRIED TO INSTAL A MIK ROM AND THATS THE FIRST TIME I GOT THE BOOTLOOP AND IT WAS LIKE THAT EVERYSINCE
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well tiamat will not work on any mik rom that i know of because (all?) mik roms are sense roms. if its a sense rom then you need a sense kernel. aosp rom needs aosp kernel. go into recovery and flash a sense kernel. that should fix your bootloop
Well im guessing that was the problem then. Well at least i know the source of the problem. Now can it be fixed. Can you give me a sense kernal to try out
trevanti00 said:
by the way iwas running cynogen mod 7.1 rooted with revolutionary. when i flashed a few kernals some wouldnt work so i tried ra recoery and they installed. i then installed TWOP RECOVERY. TRIED TO INSTAL A MIK ROM AND THATS THE FIRST TIME I GOT THE BOOTLOOP AND IT WAS LIKE THAT EVERYSINCE
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Twrp recovery more than. Likely killed your phone, if you had read the thread you would have known it is no longer supported for the evo for this very reason,as it has been known to permanently brick evos with no fix by screwing up the partitions
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-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:
Twrp recovery more than. Likely killed your phone, if you had read the thread you would have known it is no longer supported for the evo for this very reason,as it has been known to permanently brick evos with no fix by screwing up the partitions
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1 survivor i know of and that is the great captain_throwback . Whats with all these bricks lately lol?
Damn it. So am i screwed or is their a solution
trevanti00 said:
Damn it. So am i screwed or is their a solution
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did your s turn back on after the bootloop ?
What did he do to fix it. Do you have a thread on that
I am s off
No it is still off
trevanti00 said:
No it is still off
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then TWRP most likely didnt cause it. His situation was different from what your experiencing so what he did will most likely will be different from what youll have to do. Also if TWRP caused it you would be back to s-on
Well could you give it a shot and trouble shoot with me. I been at it eveery since last night
trevanti00 said:
Well im guessing that was the problem then. Well at least i know the source of the problem. Now can it be fixed. Can you give me a sense kernal to try out
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here is one...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1496488
Flash amon ra in hboot and get off of twrp b4 u end up screwed first and foremost then try wiping everything in amon ra except sdcard and battery stats and flash a new rom and see if it will boot up if you can't get recovery to load you may need to try running an ruu and starting from scratch
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evo4gnoob said:
1 survivor i know of and that is the great captain_throwback . Whats with all these bricks lately lol?
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Ppl not reading enough or rushing thru things is my guess *shrugs*
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ok trying that now.
problem solved. thank you guys a million times. i knew i would run into a brick sooner or later. lesson learned. i have always read all the post before flashing but was tired and got lazy. will never happen again. again THANK YOU GUYS.

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