HELP! Stuck At White Screen - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

alright look i know this is the wrong section to post this but im panicing right now and in the other sections there stupid! so i been on myns rls4. i havnt updated because i never have a good connection to download it on my phone and i was computerless. well i download the combo from calkulin radios. i installed it thru clockword and i was left with a white screen for 30 min. i took out the battery and was just gonna reload myns rls4 or restore an old nandroid i had. but now it says my sd card wont read and some /dev/block/mmcblk0 shows up and it will not let me access my sd card. so now im stuck with a htc evo 4g white screen. ! sumbody please help me!

can you get into the bootloader? or try to repair your sd thru the computer.

yes i can access the bootloader but i cant access my sd card thru thu the computer . my phone wont pass the white screen. is there anything i can do thru the bootloader?

adb cuh
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You can mount SD card from RA and clockwork recovery.
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the one thing i never really could understand was adb man. ive tried and tried but it just always loses me. n ive tried mounting it thru clockwork its not letting me .

jdez561 said:
yes i can access the bootloader but i cant access my sd card thru thu the computer . my phone wont pass the white screen. is there anything i can do thru the bootloader?
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Adb to the phone and try to nan restore, if you can take the sdcard out of the evo and connect it might help. Or try to connect usb in recovery.

try adb remount /sd card

Try restoring through nand?

supchaka said:
Try restoring through nand?
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he cant get access to the sd card. have you tried removing the card then booting up, battery pull then put it back in.

Maybe you should read a little more. The best way to get the information you are looking and to keep it retained in your head is to discover it your self.
A quick search for ADB How To might do the job.

yea im tryin to do adb i guess. i got my sd card to finally show up but wen i try to load the nandroid which yes i should kill myself for being so lazy which dates way bak to 10-01 . it jus stays frozen on the that bootscreen i had

i swear all i tryed to flash was the combo update of the radios from calkulin and all this had to happen! ughhhhhh fml!

zerosquared said:
Maybe you should read a little more. The best way to get the information you are looking and to keep it retained in your head is to discover it your self.
A quick search for ADB How To might do the job.
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7 posts...forum guru.

zerosquared said:
Maybe you should read a little more. The best way to get the information you are looking and to keep it retained in your head is to discover it your self.
A quick search for ADB How To might do the job.
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Dude, shut up. Clearly he's in frantic state because he screwed something up. People like you give XDA a bad name. If you're not going to help or support get out of this thread

jdez561 said:
i swear all i tryed to flash was the combo update of the radios from calkulin and all this had to happen! ughhhhhh fml!
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this happend to me also with combo update i know u say u cant access sd but if you can just flash an older radio and it should fix it. i had to put my sd in a adapter put it in pc dl old radio put sd back in phone then flash. fixed it
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jokester902 said:
he cant get access to the sd card. have you tried removing the card then booting up, battery pull then put it back in.
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You really need adb. I know is kinda scary I was in your shoes once .but read about it download it play with it it will help you in the long run I have done what u have done at least 3 or 4 times the answer is here in the forums. It kills SD card and usb that's why your computer wont see the sd card . Only other option is if your have a SD card reader plug it into your computer sorry I can't be more help.

I had this happen to me on a plane, almost exact same circumstances. The HTC kernel in RLS4 is not compatible with the latest radios.
You need to use adb to push one of two things to the phone:
1. One of the alternate kernels - They work with the latest radios
2. The older (octoberish) radios - Something before the december release
Steps-ish:
adb shell
-> mount /dev/sdcard
-> exit
adb push one_of_the_two_above_zips.zip /dev/sdcard/zipname.zip
Then use clockworkmod to flash that zip from the SDcard.

i finally got an old nandroid to load up so ima just go from there. im losing alotta important things but ill learn from that but i do dearly thank you all . !

jhoffy22 said:
7 posts...forum guru.
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+10000 hahahahaha

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Stuck At HTC White Screen :/ Bricked?

So I think i have officially bricked my Evo. Apologies if this is the wrong sections. Didnt know where to put it.
Well I had rooted with Simpleroot and everything was just fine. But when i tried to install a copy of the Fresh root suddenly i was stuck at the white screen. So i went into recovery and and wiped everything. I also partitioned the sd card... Dont know if i should have done that but i figured it would wipe everything.. It did and now my zip files are gone. I Dont know what to do.. Yikes
Help much appreciated .
Lol because lol
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Probably shoulda gone into Q&A....but u erased all.the data on ur card when u formatted it. You should probably follow the root instructions again from the start including copying the files to your sd card and u should be fine.
You could have done a simple search and fixed ur issue.
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Sorry I thought this my be the wrong forum section. I cant access my Sd card though?
Your Evo isn't bricked.
Select the USB-MASS toggle feature in recovery mode, that'll mount your SD card to your computer, then drop a ROM or two onto the root of your SD card, wipe, then flash one.
Or pull the SD card out and put it in an adapter and plug into computer, then drop a couple roms on it
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This is your second posting of this type. Please read these before doing anything else http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695878 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=709267.
alisha898 said:
So I think i have officially bricked my Evo. Apologies if this is the wrong sections. Didnt know where to put it.
Well I had rooted with Simpleroot and everything was just fine. But when i tried to install a copy of the Fresh root suddenly i was stuck at the white screen. So i went into recovery and and wiped everything. I also partitioned the sd card... Dont know if i should have done that but i figured it would wipe everything.. It did and now my zip files are gone. I Dont know what to do.. Yikes
Help much appreciated .
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Youre definitely not bricked. Pull the battery out, boot into fast boot, wait a sec while it does its thing, then select wipe/restore factory defaults. Then it should be fine. This happened to me 2 days ago. When bricked, the phone won't even turn on. It does nothing, thus the term.
nunyabiziz said:
This is your second posting of this type. Please read these before doing anything else http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695878 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=709267.
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That's a pretty douchie comment. Just because notify likes you, and everyone treats you like **** in the real world, doesn't give you an excuse to be a " richard" in a forum.
adelaney said:
That's a pretty douchie comment. Just because notify likes you, and everyone treats you like **** in the real world, doesn't give you an excuse to be a " richard" in a forum.
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Im sorry you feel that way maybe you need to hug from someone but not me. There was nothing rude or wrong with my posting. There are basic knowledge required to do what the OP wants to do and so I directed toward that direction. If you would like to continue to express your PERSONAL feelings please PM me.
Yeah Anyways. The problem now is that everytime i try and boot from a zip file i just get a white screen. Is there anyway to bypass this?
alisha898 said:
Yeah Anyways. The problem now is that everytime i try and boot from a zip file i just get a white screen. Is there anyway to bypass this?
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Which ROM's are giving you theses problems?
Ive tried the fresh 1.0.1 thats when it all started then i tried the EVO-NonSense.
I had been flashing roms before the Fresh one now im just stuck at the white screen.
Are you using Koush's Clockwork recovery? Try flashing Yay 4 Juggs ROM.
Im using the RA recovery that came with SimpleRoot
Yeah, just try flashing a different ROM.
Hmm i'll try. Is there anyway to earse my root and start over? Because for now im just get the htc Evo 4g white logo everytime i try and flash a new ROM
Did you update the radios and all that too? Did you make sure and use the right version of simple root for your software?
Yeah Yesterday I was flashing ROMS normally. Something may have happened when i tried to flash a radio and wimax
alisha898 said:
Hmm i'll try. Is there anyway to earse my root and start over? Because for now im just get the htc Evo 4g white logo everytime i try and flash a new ROM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBu6GsRZMdI Some random video I looked up on YouTube that shows you how to unroot. It's a hassle, to unroot, then root again, I'd give flashing a different another shot before I did that.
Stupid question: Are you wiping data and dalvik cache before flashing a ROM?

Clockwork recovery after UnrEVOked. Help!

I rooted my Evo last night with no problem and then decided to risk taking chances modding. I ended up replacing the HTC lockscreen with the vanilla one! However, I ended up trying to do a clockwork mod (the one that has the battery number on the top) and now my phone is in bootloop. I can't get my computer to recognize the phone now to download something on it. Anyone know of a way around this?
You should be able to pull the battery and be able to boot right back to recovery. Did you try that? Loops are POST recovery override so I would guess you haven't tried this yet?
edufur said:
You should be able to pull the battery and be able to boot right back to recovery. Did you try that? Loops are POST recovery override so I would guess you haven't tried this yet?
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Yes i'm in recovery but everytime I try to recover it goes into clockwork recovery and bootloops again. My laptop doesn't recognize the phone either.
Have you tried "fastboot?"
edufur said:
Have you tried "fastboot?"
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Yeah I did and I keep getting the error message "Connection failed" on my laptop. I'm on Windows 7
Thanks for taking the time to help me btw
Have you tried a different USB port? Strangely, sometimes Windows gets picky with a particular port / phone combo... and then choosing a different port often fixes connection failures.
Also, did you try factory resetting the phone as well? Like... clear storage... followed by full wipe?
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Have you tried a different USB port? Strangely, sometimes Windows gets picky with a particular port / phone combo... and then choosing a different port often fixes connection failures.
Also, did you try factory resetting the phone as well? Like... clear storage... followed by full wipe?
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Yeah I tried to reset factory but it resets it right into "Clockwork recovery." Trying to change ports now.
Yeah my main problem is I downloaded that mod and I need to get the phone back to how it was when I first used the Unrevoked 3.2
try booting to fastboot... then reboot your PC... then use a previously unused USB port... switch things around if you have to.
Actually... I have another idea...
IF you have unrevoked forever on there, I am guessing this should work...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=764062&highlight=amon_RA
that thread shows how to easily get switched to amon_RA from clockwork essentially in one easy step... but it requires that you push the img file.. which you are mentioning you cannot do... BUT... if you have a card reader/writer, you can pop your micro SD card out of the phone and into a reader/writer and put the img file in its root... along with a ROM of choice. then boot to the phone and it will automatically ask you if you want to restore the image file. say yes and you will be loaded up with amon!! amon is better. once you have that on there, pull the pcimg36 file off and flash the ROM that you picked from your amon recovery.
does this make sense? if not i can try to give better detail.
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martyzidek said:
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Did you forget something?
What if I can only flash "update.zip?"
edufur said:
Actually... I have another idea...
IF you have unrevoked forever on there, I am guessing this should work...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=764062&highlight=amon_RA
that thread shows how to easily get switched to amon_RA from clockwork essentially in one easy step... but it requires that you push the img file.. which you are mentioning you cannot do... BUT... if you have a card reader/writer, you can pop your micro SD card out of the phone and into a reader/writer and put the img file in its root... along with a ROM of choice. then boot to the phone and it will automatically ask you if you want to restore the image file. say yes and you will be loaded up with amon!! amon is better. once you have that on there, pull the pcimg36 file off and flash the ROM that you picked from your amon recovery.
does this make sense? if not i can try to give better detail.
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Okay this worked! What rom should I download? I would like one that has the Vanilla lock screen and then i'll look into Nan unlocking after that. Thank you so much again. I haven't gotten anywhere until that post
Roms, oh the many choices
imwillzillla said:
Okay this worked! What rom should I download? I would like one that has the Vanilla lock screen and then i'll look into Nan unlocking after that. Thank you so much again. I haven't gotten anywhere until that post
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Cyanogenmod6 is simply the best, but it is VERY buggy at best and needs and unlock, which you don't have. I like Ava v7 because of it's simplicity and stability. A lot of people like evio and baked snack though. I don't know why. I don't personally.
Member now woo!

BIG Problem...NEED HELP

I have been using incredibly re-engineered z and downgraded to clockwork 3.0.0.7 as the instructions say to do to load nils business sense z . I downloaded the rom and used Rom Manager to install the new rom, as I always do, except for restoring sometimes in recovery. For some reason when the phone booted back there was a horizontal black line across the screen below the "HTC Incredible boot screen...then there are two vertical white lines at each end of the screen and the center is black.. The home,menu,back and search button still have haptic feedback, so i assumed the phone didnt quite make it into recovery...pulled the battery...tried regular reboot...same thing happens at the boot screen. Got phone into bootloader and when i hit fastboot, it shoots out a bunch of errors it seems real quickly. All is can read is SD checking...no image or wrong image...PB310IAG.zip (i think)...lack of heap. I tried to get the phone into recovery from the bootloader screen and the same thing keeps happening. I'm stuck and have no clue what kind of fix there is for this...am i bricked? I dont get this...have flashed roms 20 times or so and nothing like this has ever happened...please help!
Sense you can't get into recovery you are going to have to flash back to stock with an RUU..... if you want I will help you through the process..... first check and make sure your SD card is formatted fat32... and let me know and we will go from there
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i was able to format fat 32...also tried a factory reset and clear memory...appreciate any help...thanks!
actually just tried to make sure once again and it says SD FAT32 init OK
(red letter) 255: Not key-card!!!
Process done, reboot device?
(vol up) yes...i am at that screen now
jdaniels31 said:
i was able to format fat 32...also tried a factory reset and clear memory...appreciate any help...thanks!
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Ok follow these steps exactly for step was formatting the SD so hboot can read the zip..... now download the zip I'm giving you and place it on the root of your SD card once you have it there rename the zip PB31IMG.zip exactly, then boot into hboot wait for for it to search for it if you did my steps correctly it will once it finds it it will ask you if you want to update press the button up to update let it do its thing till it says it done and asks you to reboot... don't panic and pull the battery because the process can take awhile just be patient... make sure you have a good charge
Here's the file let me know what happens....
http://db.tt/8YWjgVF
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hit volume up and rebooted...didnt reboot into hboot though and same thing happened at incredible screen...assume the sd card is still formatted correctly
i do not have a sd adaptor for my mac and not sure how to flash anything on the hboot screen. Also I have never used my computer for anything on the phone so know very little about how I would put something on the root of my sd card through a computer
thinking about going to verizon tomorrow and just telling them that I might have picked up some new malware that I hear is going around on the market...that it has caused this to my phone...???
jdaniels31 said:
thinking about going to verizon tomorrow and just telling them that I might have picked up some new malware that I hear is going around on the market...that it has caused this to my phone...???
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Well I thought I could help but if you can't access your SD card then that wont work.... the root of the SD is the section where all the folders are located....
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just wierd...flashed many a rom and this has never happened before. No clue what I did wrong as I do the same thing every time I flash a new rom through rom manager...make a backup if I wish and wipe...then reboot and off we go...for some reason things went a bit different this time. no clue...?
Yea it sounds strange if you go to Verizon be carefull
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if i am able to get an adaptor, how easy would it be to do this. As mentioned, I ve never really done anything with the phone on my computer. I have seen the mass storage files and pulled pics from the sd card through a usb cord and thats about it. I can get an adaptor pretty easily. Just dont know if I can actually do this. I'm decent with computers, but far from an expert
what did i do to the phone so i can try not to do this again. Its like rom rom manager messed me up...sux
Its hard to tell what happened without skittles more info but I can help you I will we will Yakut step by step if you want to try I'm willing to help
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most definitely...pretty beat from a long week. Are you gonna be around tomorrow? Also, do you know about mac's? I also have a windows machine so i guess it doesnt matter, but know the mac a little better myself.
I use windows myself but all you need it for is to download the file and then copy it to your SD the rest is done on the phone its actually pretty easy ill just have to explain it in more detail for you.... so if you want to wait go ahead and download the file its about 180mb so you will have it and we will get you fixed
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dl'ing file now...let me know when you might be up and about so we can get this done. Really appreciate it!
I'm usually up by 9 I have a 5 month old no sleeping in here
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haha...a 4 year old here...she's still up though so I might make 9...gonna have to run to the store to get that adaptor and have other chores as well, but first things first...thanks again
No problem I know what its like
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[Q] FLASHING ANDROID SCREEN ..Guys, in need of help ..really

i dont know what to do ... im not blaming anyone just trying to get back on my phone...i was trying to run VIRUSROM and everything was running kind of slow but it worked, well the phone rebooted and stay on the evo4g screen i dont know how long, well i try to wipe everythind, data, cache and start all over but now im just getting the phone to boot into a FLASHING ANDROID SCREEN AND THAT ABOUT IT ... HELP ... help really help
Run format all and reflash. Are you restoring settings as well?
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i guess bori, but not luck yet, and i dont know what to do anymore
asvgothen said:
i guess bori, but not luck yet, and i dont know what to do anymore
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Boot into the bootloader, then select clear storage. This is a COMPLETE wipe of data...
Or, try and flash a new rom first before doing the prior.
i cant flash anything cause my sd card is wipe, there is nothing on it... i did the clear storage and nothing... how can i get my sd card to be read on my pc or mac
asvgothen said:
i cant flash anything cause my sd card is wipe, there is nothing on it... i did the clear storage and nothing... how can i get my sd card to be read on my pc or mac
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Get a card reader and/or SD adapter.
ffolkes said:
Get a card reader and/or SD adapter.
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i have my SD adapter and reader but cant seen to read it
get into recovery and click mount to usb.
hey guys thanks for all the help.. my phone is back on.. great guys.. ill try not to mess it up again .... well i did the recovery usb thing. so thanks again

sd/usb all around mess

hi all, kinda at my wits end here (yes it is 2AM, Have spent some time trying to find answers in other posts, have tried many fixes, but to no avail)
late last night i was flashing the final release build of my rom onto my evo. no problem, went to make a nandroid of it (using clockwork), no problem. I have an 8gb sd card (samsung). so i reboot back into the rom, and that when things went to ***
The sd card was not detected by my evo after that. ok, no problem, i will see if i can see it in my linux box, plug in the cable to the usb, nothing. ok i run windows too, reboot into windows, same thing, card not being read.
no problem i have a 2gb sd card in my old blackberry. i format that, put it in the evo, doesn't read it. put the 8gb card i had in the evo in the old blackberry, it reads it.
so i format both cards in the blackberry, put amon ra pc36img.zip on both cards, go to my evo, and go to the bootloader, gonna do the install of the recovery this way, nope, cant read card. ok no problem, i was gonna try flashing a stock rom, copied the files over to the card(s) with the blackberry, put them back into the evo, nothing..time to search xda for fixes.
tried the sd card/usb fix from caulkin, but can't use it because adb and fastboot will not recognize my device at all. as well as the last reboot i did before coming here it seems my rom is also gone from the evo.
any advice for me on how i can proceed, before i call sprint tomorrow?
if anyone needs any more steps to what i have done/ not done to my evo let me know.
thanks in advance guys
edit - back in windows trying a ruu now...
Mounting I'm fastboot from the bootlaoder didn't work either? Make sure you have the correct unrevoked or revolutionary drivers depending when you rooted.
This epic reply brought to you by none other than my roxx'd out Evo.
teh roxxorz said:
Mounting I'm fastboot from the bootlaoder didn't work either? Make sure you have the correct unrevoked or revolutionary drivers depending when you rooted.
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no it didn't, and i have the correct drivers. i am waiting for my evo to charge to try an ruu, so at least i can get a rom on my phone and go from there. thanks for your reply, might get some rest and continue this trek in the am lol
brad560 said:
no it didn't, and i have the correct drivers. i am waiting for my evo to charge to try an ruu, so at least i can get a rom on my phone and go from there. thanks for your reply, might get some rest and continue this trek in the am lol
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Yea...flying back to school so I was up early. Let me know what happens.
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seems the ruu is not going to work either. it gets to the part where it says waiting for bootloader, then shoots the error can't find phone, check your usb connection.
back to the drawing board
brad560 said:
seems the ruu is not going to work either. it gets to the part where it says waiting for bootloader, then shoots the error can't find phone, check your usb connection.
back to the drawing board
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Oh noes. Have you tried a different usb cable?
teh roxxorz said:
Oh noes. Have you tried a different usb cable?
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yes i have 2 cables. also if this may give a hint, fully formatted both cards in windows, when i re inserted back into the evo and went to recovery, and tried to mount, clockwork says this:
unable to write to ums lunfile (no such file or directory)
half smile? took the fully formatted 2gb card i had spare, put it in, got amon ra flashed, but it will not boot into amon ra, so there's something there
second try - boots into amon ra, trying to see storage in windows now..
brad560 said:
yes i have 2 cables. also if this may give a hint, fully formatted both cards in windows, when i re inserted back into the evo and went to recovery, and tried to mount, clockwork says this:
unable to write to ums lunfile (no such file or directory)
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It 'almost' seems like you could have bad nv partitions.
I would try to re-flash amon ra via PC36IMG, if possible.
teh roxxorz said:
It 'almost' seems like you could have bad nv partitions.
I would try to re-flash amon ra via PC36IMG, if possible.
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edited my post above, have successfully flashed amon ra, i am going to fully format the 8gb again, and see if i can get a full pc36img on it and flash that
brad560 said:
edited my post above, have successfully flashed amon ra, i am going to fully format the 8gb again, and see if i can get a full pc36img on it and flash that
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Hmm, I would recommend trying the adb usb fix before you go through the trouble of re-formatting again.
teh roxxorz said:
Hmm, I would recommend trying the adb usb fix before you go through the trouble of re-formatting again.
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while i was formatting my 8gb card again fully, decided to try the ruu one more time, and it worked, just booting into the rom now, getting random reboots though, so yes i will try that fix again.
thanks for checking in with me!!
brad560 said:
while i was formatting my 8gb card again fully, decided to try the ruu one more time, and it worked, just booting into the rom now, getting random reboots though, so yes i will try that fix again.
thanks for checking in with me!!
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No prob man. Glad its working for ya. Clockwork doesn't always flash correctly for some users, which is why most use amon ra or twrp, but everyone can choose as they all have there own key features.
teh roxxorz said:
No prob man. Glad its working for ya. Clockwork doesn't always flash correctly for some users, which is why most use amon ra or twrp, but everyone can choose as they all have there own key features.
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yea i usually use amon, but with testing my rom, rom manager is so convenient, i know i am not out of the woods yet, but i am closer!
brad560 said:
yea i usually use amon, but with testing my rom, rom manager is so convenient, i know i am not out of the woods yet, but i am closer!
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True that, and wish you luck.
about to try the fix, i did notice on the 2gb card i just took out of my evo, there are alot of qxdm_number_.dm files??
all pooped out over this, just gonna bring it back to sprint!

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