I was flashing a rom and I got stuck on the bootload screen. I tried to do a nand backup and its not working. I think its because I just updated the new clockwork but didn't do a nand since I updated. Does upgrading my clockwork make me not be able to use nand done with old clockwork. Or is it anything I can do the get my phone working again.
I know Clockwork and Amon Ra nands aren't compatible, so who knows if your nand backup being from an older version recovery is the issue..
Have you tried any other roms, our just the one? If not, do the while wipe out all deal & try a different rom, I prefer Ra myself, so i can't help you with clockwork too much, but in theory upgrading it shouldn't affect your ability took flash it nan, but like I said I'm not familiar with clockwork, but I have heard it can be a bit buggy at times. As well have you tried maybe flashing clockwork again, maybe something went wrong when you upgraded... There can't be much too it, just keep plugging away, it's pretty hard brick nowadays...
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ok I fixed it. Thank you i was stressed. I mounted my usb from recovery and put a fresh rom on there and it worked.
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I attempted to install Mikfroyo, and for whatever reason it failed and left me in a perpetual boot loop. I recovered a previous nand, and now I'm having issues with my unlock and everything is running considerably slower. I've tried to wipe several times and recover but to no avail. What should I do now? I'm using clockwork recovery should I switch to AmonRA? Thanks for the help
what unlock method did you use?
I would try wiping and reflashing and see if it fixes the issues. It seems weird that you are haivng them after you nand as it should revert everything back. you didnt change anything else or add any app theme kernel?
This is going from bad to worse it won't recover from a previous nandroid back up now it gets stuck at Checking Md5 Sums and then nothing. Is clockwork the only way to wipe this thing or can I wipe it another way and just load a new ROM?
if you can get Amon Ra recovery isntalled you can try that I have problems now again with clockwork ussually reflashign it or using amon works
Dont freak out if you dont see your nandback ups thorugh amon ra. It looks in a diffrent place. you have 2 options youc an either wipe data with amon and try to flash the update.zip to clockwork and nandroiding or you can move the back up from clockwork>backup to a new directoty on the root of your SD card called backup.
once in the correct folder amon will see and be able to restore them.
download rom manager from the market and use it to reinstall clockwork. If already says you have the latest version of clockwork installed, use it to install AR and just use AR going forward (just don't try restoring a clockwork nand with AR), or use it again to reinstall clockwork after you've successfully installed AR.
I was able to successfully flash my stock nandroid through amon ra. But now every time i boot my evo it keeps going back to boot loader. Am i in trouble?
I had this happen to me, and what I was able to do is this: I pulled the battery, then booted into recovery. I wiped data/cache/dalvik. I then flashed one of my nandroids, and it booted up just fine after that. Do you have more than one nandroid? You stated that you are using amon RA, did you use amon
RA to create your nandroid backup? If you used clockwork to create the backup, you need to use clockwork to flash the backup, they are not interchangeable. Hopefully this was helpful to you.
After going about... i think it has to do with the hboot being .76 insted of .79 which is what is suppose to be for 2.2. Or am i wrong? - and every time i try to do the hboot update it keeps telling me an error about a update file, cant figure it out.
Yes i have other nandroid's but, i'm really wanting to get some stuff back from my original stock 2.2. I try doing a titanium backup, but it just kept telling me i wasnt root, but i am.
FIXED!!! It was the bootloader. Spent a good time trying to look for a flashable hboot, and finally had to restore my phone back to stock 2.2, then root and restore. The solution was here, the files.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780141
I've been running Baked Snack for a while now. Recently my phone started shutting off for no apparent reason. Long story short, I have a nandroid backup stored. I made it with RA recovery. I decided to try some other ROM's and I had to flash Clockwork Recovery to add them through CM. When another one started shutting down on me, I decided to go back to my nandroid. Problem is it won't read it on Clockwork. It's there, but it won't restore. I can't get the phone to stay on for more than a second or two without rebooting right now so I can't get RA recovery back on the phone. I can get to recovery but I can't get Clockwork to read my nandroid backup that I made with RA recovery.
Is there anything I can do?
just flash a new rom and call it a day
use fast boot,]change back to RA recove, and flash NAND back.
But it its not a horrible loss to just flash another rom. May I suggest Frost rom, as someone who came from BS to Frost, I think you may enjoy it. I base that off of nothing but those two factors.
you do realize this is not where you ask questions right?
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you do realize this is not where you ask questions right?
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Just flash myn's 2.2 rls3, it will fix your bootloops, and if you don't have 4g in your area it will enable it.
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I've been running Baked Snack for a while now. Recently my phone started shutting off for no apparent reason. Long story short, I have a nandroid backup stored. I made it with RA recovery. I decided to try some other ROM's and I had to flash Clockwork Recovery to add them through CM. When another one started shutting down on me, I decided to go back to my nandroid. Problem is it won't read it on Clockwork. It's there, but it won't restore. I can't get the phone to stay on for more than a second or two without rebooting right now so I can't get RA recovery back on the phone. I can get to recovery but I can't get Clockwork to read my nandroid backup that I made with RA recovery.
Is there anything I can do?
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I imagine the easiest thing to do would be to use an RUU to reflash the whole thing. Then you can put RA Recovery back on and use your Nandroid to restore your system. I've already had to do that once, but I'm a total Android n00b.
mmmmm bootloops, yummy!
do a wipe/factory reset in clockwork, that will fix ur phone
its fixed my bootloops more than I feel comfortable admitting
JelloB said:
I've been running Baked Snack for a while now. Recently my phone started shutting off for no apparent reason. Long story short, I have a nandroid backup stored. I made it with RA recovery. I decided to try some other ROM's and I had to flash Clockwork Recovery to add them through CM. When another one started shutting down on me, I decided to go back to my nandroid. Problem is it won't read it on Clockwork. It's there, but it won't restore. I can't get the phone to stay on for more than a second or two without rebooting right now so I can't get RA recovery back on the phone. I can get to recovery but I can't get Clockwork to read my nandroid backup that I made with RA recovery.
Is there anything I can do?
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If you really want to go back to your old backup, then here's the easy way to get your RA back.... rename this to PC36IMG.zip and place it on the root of your SD Card and boot into bootloader mode.
AmonRa Recovery via PC36IMG.zip
jerdog said:
If you really want to go back to your old backup, then here's the easy way to get your RA back.... rename this to PC36IMG.zip and place it on the root of your SD Card and boot into bootloader mode.
AmonRa Recovery via PC36IMG.zip
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That'll work, too.
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Just flash myn's 2.2 rls3, it will fix your bootloops, and if you don't have 4g in your area it will enable it.
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i really hope that is sarcasm
Guys I'm sorry if this isn't the right place for this. I didn't know.
I can't flash a new ROM. I can't get the phone to stay on long enough to do anything with it. I've tried wiping everything. I actually flashed the only ROM on my sdcard - Baked 1.8. It boots and stays on for a second and then crashes again. How to I get another ROM on my SD card. The only place I can get the phone to stay on is in recovery.
Alright, after letting it sit off for about an hour I can get it to stay on long enough to do work.
Sorry for posting in wrong place. Mods please move or remove.
Oh boy... still shutting down. I think my phone is fkd.
I was able to - after flashing BS 1.8 and clean wipe - download and install CM. I'm going to let the phone sit another hour and then hope to get on long enough to flash a new ROM. I don't have much hope though. The one I originally was switching to was Cyan 6.0 and it was shutting down a second after booting. I think it's my phone.
My evo got pretty ****ed over the past day, originally I rooted it by installing the hboot drivers then using unrevoked,I assumed everything would be done from there, I never got to flash Amon ra or any custom roms so I wanted to try it out, every guide I found involved using adb shell and a Tom of other steps I never used while originally rooting.
I got so fed up with all the error messages that I decided to start from the absolute beginning and root again and then try unlocking nand, one method involved me putting all these files on the sdcard and using adb a lot, I followed all if these steps exactly and DEFINITELY DID A NAND BACKUP but then after rebooting in one step my phone went back to eclair 2.1 and all my info was deleted and now its as if I bought it today, its not even rooted anymore so all the apps I backed up with titanium I can't even access anymore since it requires root
One step told me to do the nand restore and when I went the folder was empty, I would kill to have my old evo back or at least all my apps, any and all help would be HIGHLY appreciated
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If youre back on 2.1, just root it, put whatever recovery you used to make your nandroid on there and then restore your nandroid.
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I assumed onceI was on 2.1 I would be rooted again, I tried unrevoked once it was on 2.1 but it just stayed saying "running root" and never changed, and my nandroid restore didn't show up before so why would it now
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The root method you used was older, and was the way to go before Froyo was officially rooted. It involved downgrading (which you did) and then rooting 2.1 and then flashing a froyo ROM. It sounds like you made it to the downgrade part and then you stopped for whatever reason. You aren't in bad shape, you just need to get that 2.1 rooted and you're good to go.
As far as the nandroid is concerned, if you made it, then it should be there. You said you never got to flash a custom recovery but you must've if you were able to do a nandroid. Now if you made your nandroid with clockwork you won't be able to restore it with Amon and vice versa, which is where I think the confusion lies. Do you remember what recovery you made the nandroid with?
Your only real option at this point is to root your 2.1 and restore your nandroid with the correct recovery. Check your SD card, if there is a folder called Nandroid then it was made with Amon, and I'm pretty sure clockwork puts it's nandroid into a folder called Clockwork.
As far as why the root wasn't finishing, I'm not really sure because it's been a while since I used that method. It could be a driver issue. Have you installed the proper drivers?
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The root method you used was older, and was the way to go before Froyo was officially rooted. It involved downgrading (which you did) and then rooting 2.1 and then flashing a froyo ROM. It sounds like you made it to the downgrade part and then you stopped for whatever reason. You aren't in bad shape, you just need to get that 2.1 rooted and you're good to go.
As far as the nandroid is concerned, if you made it, then it should be there. You said you never got to flash a custom recovery but you must've if you were able to do a nandroid. Now if you made your nandroid with clockwork you won't be able to restore it with Amon and vice versa, which is where I think the confusion lies. Do you remember what recovery you made the nandroid with?
Your only real option at this point is to root your 2.1 and restore your nandroid with the correct recovery. Check your SD card, if there is a folder called Nandroid then it was made with Amon, and I'm pretty sure clockwork puts it's nandroid into a folder called Clockwork.
As far as why the root wasn't finishing, I'm not really sure because it's been a while since I used that method. It could be a driver issue. Have you installed the proper drivers?
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yae the recovery is where the whole issue began, i assumed i was good so i tried flashing amon RA with the terminal emulator and whenever i typed 'su' it always said permission denied, i was rooted for sure so some people said i had to probably unlock NAND and more errors came from there so i tried that other rooting method so i definitely flashed with clockwork and i remember seeing the build name on the bottom as well which makes me pretty happy as well since i found it in the directory which you said under my sdcard with the date name and whatnot so major kudos for that
i installed the hboot drivers before so i assumed i didnt need to do it again but when unrevoked kept staying at "running root" i tried installing again, and on this video online from djr3z he said under 'My Devices' that Android 1.0 would show up where I could click to install it but it never showed up so I've been stuck since that point, are there any other alternative root methods you recommend/should i try updating the drivers? or perhaps i can delete the driver and reinstall?
Check your hboot, are you S-ON or S-OFF? Also, what hboot version are you?
im definitely S-OFF, saw it all the time in the bootloader screen, how do i check the hboot version exactly?
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im definitely S-OFF, saw it all the time in the bootloader screen, how do i check the hboot version exactly?
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you load it up with volume down and power button, same way you go as if your going to boot into recovery
ok and my hboot version is .76.2000
can anyone confirm if .76.2000 is the latest hboot driver? everytime i connect my phone and check device manager it shows android bootloader interface which, from what i heard, is what im supposed to see
everytime i run unrevoked it stays at "running root..." and doesnt change from there
The latest hboot is 2.02 I believe but you don't want that one, I hear it's a pain to root. Yours is the engineering hboot which must have gotten put on there from whatever rooting method you were using. It's fine to leave that one on there, it will allow you to flash CM6 if you ever decide to. What happens when you select recovery from the hboot menu?
Have you tried downloading ROM manager from the market and using it to flash clockwork? I would give that a whirl.
when i select recovery from bootloader it gives me the black screen with the phone and red triangle, i started button mashing and it seemed like a recovery image but it said 'Android system recovery <2e>' with a few commands like wipe/reboot etc.
i was trying the clockwork before, i installed rom manager, then tried "Flash ClockworkMod Recovery" but it kept giving me error messages about attempting to run privilleged commands, assuming that means im not rooted again
i dont even think i have the clockwork recovery image on my sd card, it does however show my amon RA one, but there's no point in flashing that if the clockwork has my nandroid backup right? and couldn't i just put the clockwork recovery image on my sdcard from online somewhere?
Try this- Download THIS FILE, put it on the root of your SD card, and boot into hboot. It will automatically find it, load it and ask you if you want to run it. Choose yes and let it go. It *should* install clockwork recovery on your phone. If it doesn't work, no harm no foul and we can try something else. If it does work, you should be able to restore that nandroid that you made. It will only work if you are S-OFF, which you say you are so it's worth a shot.
okay and if it works, before i do the restore should i wipe everything?
It won't hurt but when doing a nandroid restore wiping is not necessary.
so close...your method worked, but i couldnt restore it gave me an error messgae..
ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.1
Checking MD5 sums...
Erasing boot before restore...
Restoring boot image...
Error whille flashing boot image!
takes me back to the main menu of the recovery =\
do you think it has to do with me still being on 2.1 rather than 2.2?
So you now have clockwork on there? That's a step in the right direction! Try restoring your nandroid once more and if that doesn't work, you can flash a ROM and then restore your titanium backups.
It shouldn't matter what ROM you're on when restoring a nandroid. Do you remember what hboot version you were on when you made the nandroid? If I remember correctly that could cause an issue but I'm not entirely sure about that.
hmm i cant even get out of the bootloader screen now though..even when i reboot it takes me straight to bootloader
and also if i flash a rom will have to be designed for 2.1 since im still technically on that?
no idea about the hboot version =\ just assumed it was upgraded to the most advanced version when i updated the driver
but i cant even put any ROMs on my sdcard now because i cant even leave the bootloader screen?
No, flashing a 2.2 ROM will upgrade you from 2.1, it should work fine. You must have made your nandroid on a different hboot version then the one you have now.
What I would do in this situation is run the 3.29 RUU found HERE which will bring you back to full stock, and then you can run Unrevoked and reroot it. The whole process should only take you a half hour or so. I don't know if you will be able to restore your nandroid because of the hboot discrepancy, but at the very least you will be able to restore your titanium backups.
I've been having a hard time trying to get a rom to stick. I've tried Mikfroyo 4.3 and have gotten it to flash and everything seems to be working well until i have to restart my phone, then it just hangs at the white htc screen. i can pull the battery and recover a previous nandroid that is just rooted stock and everything works fine. i also tried to flash warm 2.2 and it didnt even get started. it hung at the white htc screen from the start.
from searches i've done, people seem to be able to fix this using amon instead of clockwork but im afraid to try it. i have a working nandroid and i dont want to mess that up. is there a way you guys would suggest doing this? is this even my problem? im pretty new to this, so any help is much appreciated. all of you guys are awesome.
please tell me if you need any more information.
unrevoked 3.32
radio: 2.15.00.19
kernal: stock #15
Build/software: 3.70.651.1
pri: 1.90_003
prl: 60674
h-boot - 2.10.0001
s-off
clockwork 2.6.0.1
hardware: 003
The white screen...do you mean the splash screen?
i think that is the splash screen.
its white and says HTC EVO 4G. its the screen right before the boot animation.
Just flash it through rom manager. You want be able to use any nandroid created with clockwork though. But there is no problem changing recoveries.
Ps: you could always change recoveries while in bootloader to get back to clockwork to use your nandroid. However you shouldn't have a problem with ar. I never have, just remember to wipe and wipe again.
Nothing bad will happen if you switch to amonRA, just don't restore clockwork backups with amonRA, or you will have the world's first 4G paperweight! (brick your phone)
alright, so just go ahead and do it through rom manager?
so do you guys think clockwork is the problem?
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Nothing bad will happen if you switch to amonRA, just don't restore clockwork backups with amonRA, or you will have the world's first 4G paperweight! (brick your phone)
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Right, *raises hand* so, why exactly does restoring CW backups with amonRA brick my phone?
Don't they both use nandroid to make the backup?
Mind you, I did exactly what you just advised against last week, just to see if it worked, and it did.
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alright, so just go ahead and do it through rom manager?
so do you guys think clockwork is the problem?
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Could be, or it might not be. No harm in using ar and flashing a new rom. Use titanium backup on your good nandroid to back up your apps. Makes flashing roms a lot less painful.