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Phone reboots and gets stuck on "HTC Inc" bootscreen

I've owned my DInc for around 8 months now and a week after I got the phone I had rooted it... The only thing I truly did was install a few custom ROM's on it to try out what I liked, when Froyo was in it's prime I used CM6 nearly every day, and now Gingerbread is around I've been running steady on OMGB6/7 for the past few months...
My problem is that last week my phone randomly rebooted and decided to get stuck on the white "HTC" boot logo... It stayed there for around 10 minutes before I finally decided to pull the battery, restart it, and the same thing occured.
Of course I have CWR installed with Nandroid backups, but when I used the backup for the current ROM I was on, it happened again getting stuck at the white screen. So I fired up CWR again and restored to a previous version of OMGB6 and that ran steady until today (in the middle of calculus of course) it rebooted after sending a text and got stuck at the white screen once more...
Now I CWR restored to my Stock HTC Sense ROM and I'm running that as we speak (and god, is it god-awful).
WTF is wrong with my Incredible? I'm guessing something got corrupted maybe in the /boot partition or something of the likes? Could someone please help me? I've never had this problem before... and never did any "customization" other than wiping my cache/data/dalvik/battery stats and installing different ROMs.
Thank you!

al2x said:
I've owned my DInc for around 8 months now and a week after I got the phone I had rooted it... The only thing I truly did was install a few custom ROM's on it to try out what I liked, when Froyo was in it's prime I used CM6 nearly every day, and now Gingerbread is around I've been running steady on OMGB6/7 for the past few months...
My problem is that last week my phone randomly rebooted and decided to get stuck on the white "HTC" boot logo... It stayed there for around 10 minutes before I finally decided to pull the battery, restart it, and the same thing occured.
Of course I have CWR installed with Nandroid backups, but when I used the backup for the current ROM I was on, it happened again getting stuck at the white screen. So I fired up CWR again and restored to a previous version of OMGB6 and that ran steady until today (in the middle of calculus of course) it rebooted after sending a text and got stuck at the white screen once more...
Now I CWR restored to my Stock HTC Sense ROM and I'm running that as we speak (and god, is it god-awful).
WTF is wrong with my Incredible? I'm guessing something got corrupted maybe in the /boot partition or something of the likes? Could someone please help me? I've never had this problem before... and never did any "customization" other than wiping my cache/data/dalvik/battery stats and installing different ROMs.
Thank you!
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This used to happen with me on OMGB, its one of the reasons I switched to CM7. When I rebooted it used to get stuck on the splash screen. Mine, however, would work after a battery pull. I'm not sure, I'd try a fresh install, if that doesnt help, try out CM7, its a pretty stable.

Oh ok... so you're saying its probably just a ROM issue with OMGB? I'd switch to CM7 but the only thing I want is stock Gingerbread, I really hate the little customizations they put into CM7. Do they still have that CM7 Source project going on where it was pretty much stock gingerbread? Thanks again!

al2x said:
Oh ok... so you're saying its probably just a ROM issue with OMGB? I'd switch to CM7 but the only thing I want is stock Gingerbread, I really hate the little customizations they put into CM7. Do they still have that CM7 Source project going on where it was pretty much stock gingerbread? Thanks again!
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I'm not saying thats 100% the case. I'm just saying that used to happen to me when I ran OMGB. I couldn't find a fix, so I just switched ROMs. I don't think CM7 has a just stock gingerbread look. But how can you not like all the features they packed into it?

AOSP + SD
Perhaps try flashing a Sense ROM and see if the issue persists.
Why?
AOSP ROMs interact quite a bit w/ the SD card. So, if there are issues w/ the SD card, the Sense ROM may not present as many funky issues.
After that test, I'd try another SD card and see if the issue persists.
If a different SD yields no wonky stuff, the answer was faulty SD card.

continual spontaneous reboots
I have the same issue. I was using CM6.1 I think and it's been fine for awhile and then it just started spontaneously rebooting. I can no longer get into Clockwork, all I can do is hold volume down and power to start it and from there, nothing will start the phone. I get the HTC spash and after about 3 seconds, it reboots and gets stuck in that cycle. Nothing has really changed and it rebooted on it's own to start the problem.
So, it's not like I installed something and rebooted. I'm interested in hearing if others are having the issues and what exactly their thoughts are.

boot looping issue!!

out of the blue, my phone began to reboot , and turn off and reboot again.
in the forum ive found a lot of fixes but nothing that helps me!
when im trying to go to recovery it goes to the white screen and loops again,
and by the way it reads in green letters pc36100img no found.
help please!!!
thanks

have u tried dropping the 100 and naming it "pc36img" instead of "pc36100img"? i believe thats what it should be named. What rom were u running when this happened?

haha sorry about that
i was running cm7 nightly build 8

also ive tried putting the pc36img.zip on the sd card but nothing, it doesnt read it !!

It has to be all caps as in PC36IMG.zip, and then boot into the boot loader.

im sorry im an idiot, yeah i put the PC36IMG (all caps)on the sd card, it updates but same problem, i even pulled out the battery to brick it! but dammit the same problem!! urgh!!

chinoapple said:
im sorry im an idiot, yeah i put the PC36IMG (all caps)on the sd card, it updates but same problem, i even pulled out the battery to brick it! but dammit the same problem!! urgh!!
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You're not the first person I've seen that happen to recently on certain nightlies. Unfortunately, in all of the other cases I saw, they weren't able to recovery. RUU didn't work, PC36IMG didn't work, formatting the sd card didn't work, it just looped at the splash screen every time. PC36IMG flashes even appeared to be successful, but it would never get past the looping splash screen. I'm not sure if anyone ever came up with a fix, but when I was following the thread, one dude threw the phone out the window of his car and told sprint he lost it. The other guy went through insurance and shelled out the $100 to get a new replacement. I hope you have better luck. I would try flashing PC36IMG again, or setting hte phone in fastboot mode, and running an RUU. If that doesn't work, I don't think there is too much else to try, that I'm aware of at least. Here is a link to all of the RUU's and PC36IMG's. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884060&highlight=hboot-0.97+ruu

Yeah cm7 seems to do that to some peoples phones, including mine. I found no solution, as far as I could tell ur only option is a new phone.
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So my phone fudge up and I had to buy another one, I really want to root again and reflash roms. Anyone recommends a good gingerbread rom. That doesn't screw up after 3 weeks
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Well I would say CM7, cuz i have never had any issues.
Altternatives:
King's Ultra [gingerbread edition]
MIUI [gingerbread edition]
Evervolv
Salvage Mod

I just saw this in here for the first time today, but I am seeing it alot!!!
Just glad I went back to sense a few weeks ago....

[Q] need help with ext4 on g2

I recently gave my son my old htc g2. When i gave it to him it rooted with clock work mod. Im not sure what he downloaded but its called ext4. Now when you start the phone it just boot loops back to ext4. If anyone can help me get his phone back to running it would be greatly appreciated. is there anyway to get back to clock work mod without the phone actually booting. Ive tried every option in Ext4 and it always just bootloops to ext4. Im pulling my hair out over here cause i have no idea what to do. thanks in advance

1swttibby said:
I recently gave my son my old htc g2. When i gave it to him it rooted with clock work mod. Im not sure what he downloaded but its called ext4. Now when you start the phone it just boot loops back to ext4. If anyone can help me get his phone back to running it would be greatly appreciated. is there anyway to get back to clock work mod without the phone actually booting. Ive tried every option in Ext4 and it always just bootloops to ext4. Im pulling my hair out over here cause i have no idea what to do. thanks in advance
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He may have wiped out the ROM that was on the device. Download a new rom, load it on the SD card and install it. Should boot right up.
Ext4 is solid so I highly doubt that it is the issue, it is a replacement for clock work mod with more features.

ive tried that it says current rom is "what ever" but still just goes back to ext 4 ive tried multiple roms. after i apply from sd card and it says successful is there anything else i should have to do besides reboot no?

1swttibby said:
ive tried that it says current rom is "what ever" but still just goes back to ext 4 ive tried multiple roms. after i apply from sd card and it says successful is there anything else i should have to do besides reboot no?
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Do a full wipe before you try installing the new ROM (everything but the SDcard). If it still loops, may want to ask over on the specific 4EXT thread....there is a possibility that he flashed the wrong recovery for that device, what does it show on the screen when 4EXT is loading up? Is this the touch (uses the touch screen) or classic version (uses the trackpad)?

it uses the trackpad the ext thread is on this site?

1swttibby said:
it uses the trackpad the ext thread is on this site?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1271775

[Q] stuck on splash screen.. please help

OK, as the title says, my phone is stuck on the splash screen (nyan cat) and i am freaking out, i only have very basic knowledge of CWM and hardly anything else.
I was running GummyNex v1.0.1 and the stock kernel that came with that.
Now what i did to get myself into this mess!
I was playing around in jrummy16's ROM toolbox and installed a font onto my phone, then when i did the reboot it told me to do after installing the font it just hung on the nyan cat splash screen for over 30 minutes, after that i pulled the battery in fear.
Next step i did was reboot into fastboot then clockwork recovery and wipe the cache, tried rebooting, never ending nyan again.
Again into CWM and wiped data/factory reset and wipe dalvik, the same story.
Now i found someone who had the same problem online, but he luckily wasn't an idiot and didn't remove all ROMs from his internal memory a few nights before. flashing a new ROM fixed his problem, but unfortunately i cant because i dont have any in my memory and i have no idea howcome i don't have a nandroid backup anymore, i did one of my last ROM but its not there (more stupidity)
can anyone please advise on what to do next? I am in dire need of help.
is there anyway i can get a ROM + GApps onto my phone when all i can access is CWM?
Thankyou for any help

Cant you put your SD into another phone or an SD reader? Had the same problem myself in the past so I know how does it feel, but it's your only chance.
EDIT: damn just saw its a nexus so my post is nonsense, I hope your GNexus fellas can provide you a solution. I think you can to put back stock rom with your computer,after you put your phone in APX mode.
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Read post 3 in my sig.
Panic section...about pushing a .zip
I hope you have ADB set up...
If not, read post 1 and set yourself up.
The AIO installer will be more than enough (and will take you 3 minutes max) for this purpose.

Jubakuba said:
Read post 3 in my sig.
Panic section...about pushing a .zip
I hope you have ADB set up...
If not, read post 1 and set yourself up.
The AIO installer will be more than enough (and will take you 3 minutes max) for this purpose.
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Thankyou so much, I am downloading the ADB for dummies AIO app now, i will report how it goes

Thankyou so much its all working now! time todo a nandroid backup and not lose it LOL

[Q] Brick?

Hey guys. I just updated to Wicked Sensations 1.2 from 1.1. I used 1.1 for a few weeks and loved it, naturally I wanted 1.2 when it came out and I read the changelog. So I downloaded it, put it on the ext SD card. Booted to Clockwork Mod Recovery. I did a Nandroid backup. Then I wiped data 3 times, wiped Dalvik cache 3 times, and then installed from zip file. The install went great. I rebooted after it was done and the rom launched fine. I went through the initial setup and restored my Nova Home Screen settings. Then I went to try out the included Wifi Tether app. I launched it, it asked for root access, I granted it. Something didn't work as it was initializing, so I closed it and rebooted the phone, just to make sure all of it's processes were killed and my normal wifi would work normally. On reboot, the phone decided it needed to "Upgrade Apps". So I waited about an hour and it never left that screen. It didn't show me any sort of progress like it had before either when it optimized apps for Jellybean coming from ICS. So I popped the battery out. Now I'm doomed. Stuck on the boot screen with the "SAMSUNG" text with the animated glow effect. I also can't seem to get it into recovery mode to restore any of my backups.
Any thoughts? I'm fairly new to this so don't rule out dumb mistakes. Also, I noticed in the Wicked Sensations 1.2 instructions that I could have upgraded without doing a full data wipe, but it said to do a full wipe and clean install if you had any trouble with the upgrade, so I don't think that is the cause of my problems. Do I need to turn to Odin?

You have a soft brick since you can get up the boot logo screen....time to bust out Odin to save the day.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1941546
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Thanks a bunch. I wasn't sweating too bad since I could turn it off and on and see a spark of life in it. Thanks for the link too. I'll confirm success or failure later tonight after a good few hours drive back home.

That fixed it for me. Thanks again.