So I've had two incredible's now fall in to a boot loop
(wiped, pulled battery, RUU'd, went back to s-on - nothing worked)
first one I had for about 8 months with no issues until now. they did
send me a replacement XD and it did the same thing!
Now my wifes phone is doing it :\
I'm just verifying - if I RUU/S-on/remove sd card - then it HAS to be a hardware issue right? nothing that I could have done?
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All had CWR 3.0.0.5 and were rooted via unrevoked
h0x90 said:
So I've had two incredible's now fall in to a boot loop
(wiped, pulled battery, RUU'd, went back to s-on - nothing worked)
first one I had for about 8 months with no issues until now. they did
send me a replacement XD and it did the same thing!
Now my wifes phone is doing it :\
I'm just verifying - if I RUU/S-on/remove sd card - then it HAS to be a hardware issue right? nothing that I could have done?
[Further info if needed]
All had CWR 3.0.0.5 and were rooted via unrevoked
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Were you using the same ROM or kernal each time?
It's the new cwm. It uses a different gscript setup. To a restore or flash incredible reengineered 2.3.1
If not that then I don't know. Did it happen after a Rom flash?
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well the first one was running Evervolv and had been for about 3 weeks.
it crashed during a phone call and never booted all the way again. (boot loop)
The second (This ones replacement) was running cm7 (Flashed it right as I got it) and worked fine the first day I had it (but I wasn't using it much that day) then it died while using the browser and fell victim to boot loopage.
The third one (my wifes phone) died about an hour later while using the browser but would still boot - but not stay on for very long. Especially if any sort of data was going on (like syncing with gmail). I figured since it was kind of working maybe it was the rom so I flashed s-on went back to stock 2.2 (ruu) where it now dies upon lock screen.
(or before sometimes)
[Ninja edit] Wifes phone had been running evervolv the amount same time as my first phone
all three were running latest CWM and had the default kernel for the rom they had. Also all 3 were flashed ruu and s-on including a clear storage for good measure (Verizon also had me do a factory reset come to think of it - before they would ship replacements)
Ianxcom said:
It's the new cwm. It uses a different gscript setup. To a restore or flash incredible reengineered 2.3.1
If not that then I don't know. Did it happen after a Rom flash?
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could cwm leave something behind that would continue the boot loop after ruu?
That would suck because I've already sent in one phone would hate for them
to find something like that ><
have you tryed downgrading? i know i was having alot of issues with the new cwm. im running chingys rom and after the downgrade everything is running smooth again. cwm 2.5.1.2 seems to be working better...
HandsomeRob2310 said:
have you tryed downgrading? i know i was having alot of issues with the new cwm. im running chingys rom and after the downgrade everything is running smooth again. cwm 2.5.1.2 seems to be working better...
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I've went complete stock everything (including recovery) and it didn't fix anything.
Have an update on the situation as well.
Verizon shipped me another 2 phones - both broken out of the box.
The first one just reboots over and over again and can't even enter recovery.
On the second device the speaker is blown -.-
Are you using the same or different SD card(s) amongst these failing devices?
The one you had running for 8 months, was that SD card at end of life?
Asking, as AOSP ROMs interact quite a bit more w/ the SD card than do Sense ROMs, so if your issues are all with AOSP ROMs, I suspect wonky SD card(s).
smtom said:
Are you using the same or different SD card(s) amongst these failing devices?
The one you had running for 8 months, was that SD card at end of life?
Asking, as AOSP ROMs interact quite a bit more w/ the SD card than do Sense ROMs, so if your issues are all with AOSP ROMs, I suspect wonky SD card(s).
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I got that SD back when I got the phone so I hope its not
at the end of its life span.
I've actually didn't bother putting the SD cards in this last batch
because they were showing issues immediately (without any modding)
Thanks for the info on AOSP roms that could help diagnose future problems
That would explain a lot, actually, as AOSP ROMs call the sd during boot.
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So my launch day Incredible bit the dust out of nowhere the other day, following some quirky behavior leading up to it (random reboots, inability to power up after battery pulls).
I get my warranty RMA yesterday, and figure that before I restore my Titanium backup, I'll play with some ROMs. I'm assuming I was lucky enough to get another AMOLED replacement, since by any method I can tell it appears to be AMOLED and not SLCD (part number is ADR6300VW, hardware version 0002).
At any rate - I figured I'd try one of the Desire-Z ROMs or a Gingerbread ROM. After I fully rooted and turned NAND S-Off. After confirming those worked fine, I rebooted and flashed a Gingerbread ROM from Clockwork. Rebooted, never got past the HTC Incredible splas screen.
Couldn't get it to work at all - after all sorts of wipes, I finally gave up and flashed Virtuous, figuring it's close to stock. Got back up and running, no problem.
Turned to a Desire-Z ROM - and the same happened again. Splash screen, nothing further. After the same tries, went back to recovery, flashed Virtuous and then SkyRaider, and again, up and running fine.
I'm on HBoot 0.92 with the 7.28 radio. Is there something I'm missing on these Z ROMs? I read through the threads, saw a few people report the same but no real conclusion as to why it was happening.
Thoughts?
Judging by what you posted, you only used ROM Manager to flash roms after booting into recovery correct?
What happens when you manually go into recovery, wipe cache/data/dalvik, and flash the rom from your SD Card? I was running Nil's Business Sense (Desire Z) rom quite fine after flashing it. Some people have issues with ROM Manager and others don't and I'm one of the people who do use ROM Manager to flash roms so I can't help you in that respect.
Sounds like you're using CWM3.
Try any older version.
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Sounds like you're using CWM3.
Try any older version.
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This is wat it sounds like
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If you are using ClockWorkMod v3 and tring to do a fresh install with a cwm3 capable ROM it could be a problem. Seems like cwm3 acts a little funny. Or you could be on cwm-v2 and trying to install a cwmv3 ROM and that does not work.
So the key is use cwm 2.5.1.2 and a cwm-v2 Z ROM
Hey Guys,
I've been some flashing lately and I'm not sure what caused the problem. I've been using SprintLovers Rom with no issues since Feb. But when it stopped being supported, so I switched over to [ ROM / 5-3 ] Calkulin's EViO 3 v1.0 Beta 2 [ 4.12 l Gingerbread l Tweaked ] (which IO loved by the way)but I kept getting constant reboots. I would be using Navigation or watching a video with Rock Player and within one min , my phone would go into a boot loop and stay rebooting until and I flashed the rom again. It drove me nuts and I couldnt take it anymore.
So I reformatted everything (even deleted my card by accident) and installed [MikRoms] - [6/7/2011] - MikG v1.03 - Re-Engineered GB Sense 2.1 + 3.0 (which I also love) and the reboots are not as frequent but they are still happening. The difference is that with this rom, its getting stuck in a boot loop at the HTC EVO 4G screen that you see when it boots up. If it does boot up, the phone gets to the Sense screen and reboots again. So the only way I can get it to boot back up is to flash the rom again from recovery.
I have a 32GB Duracell Microsd Card I got off Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004AM6SOG
It worked perfectly with Sprintlovers rom, But as soon as I reformatted and flashed Calkuns rom, the reboots started,. I even tried using Nandroind and going back to a Sprintlovers backup and the reboots were happening on that rom and I never had issues with that rom.
So basically I'm trying to narrow down what is causing the rebooting. I thought maybe the memory card was going bad, but how can I tell? So what I started thinking was maybe my bootloader needs to be refomattted or cleaned? But I dont know how. Then after talking to Nick1313, who helped me reformat and get my phone running again, we started thinking maybe the internal memory of the phone has gotten corrupted. I assume that Android looks to boot the OS from the internal memory and then looks to the SD card for apps and etc....
Is there a way to test my SD card to see if its ok? is there a way to see tell if my internal memory is corrupted and if so can it be reformatted and fixed?
I saw some people having a similar issue in the Galaxy S forums,but no one seemed to have a solution.
My last resort is unrooting and returning my phone to the store tomorrow. The only problem with that is , I know they are gonna have to order me one and it wont be in until Monday or whatever and the is annoying.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Snarky Answer: Well, I now know which memory card NOT to get.
Serious: I really doubt your SD card has much to do with this. Internal memory does have the potential of getting corrupted. That said, it's not likely.
It's obvious that you had good specific reasons for flashing the rom you've flashed. My advice is to flash one that you've not flashed and see if your phone's behaviour is any different.
jesuspgt said:
Snarky Answer: Well, I now know which memory card NOT to get.
Serious: I really doubt your SD card has much to do with this. Internal memory does have the potential of getting corrupted. That said, it's not likely.
It's obvious that you had good specific reasons for flashing the rom you've flashed. My advice is to flash one that you've not flashed and see if your phone's behaviour is any different.
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Thanks for the reply. I actually Flashed back to Sprint Lovers Rom last night to after deleting everything again and reboots were still happening. I flashed back to MikG rom this morning. No reboots as of yet. But it rebooted on me 5 times last night before I flashed Sprintlovers.
GPS has been the main app I've busing when the rebooting starts. So I'm testing my phone right now with having it map to a far location and keeping my screen on to see how long it takes to make my phone reboot. Right now I'm 3mins into the test.
Turns out the processor in my phone is bad and Sprint has to order me a new one
Hey all,
So I've had these problems for a while now (noticed it ever since I rooted a year ago) but they haven't really mattered before, as I am now trying to update my radio.
Issue one:
When I boot into HBOOT, the green text "SD Checking" takes FOREVER. Like a minute and a half going through each one. I've seen other G2 go through this dialog and its always instant for others.
Issue two:
When I actually have the PC10 whatever zip on the sd card root, it doesn't see it - this may be a function of the next issue though.
Issue three:
This happens probably 1/3rd of the time I boot into recovery. Whether using 4ExT or cwm (both the stable versions), occasionally recovery is unable to mount E:/sdcard. Reboot usually fixes this. Never have I ever had a problem accessing my sdcard from running my rom, no matter how many reboots I go through.
Can someone help me fix at least 2 or 3? Not sure what's happening. I have s-off, cid 11111111 and have flashed custom roms via recovery with no problems (aside from the cannot mount sdcard error pretty often) dozens of times.
Thanks much so!
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Herro? Anybody?
The pc10whatever(haha) is on root of sd card not a folder called root right?
I'm not talking smack lol just want to make sure.
Also why do you want to change radio?
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Spastic909 said:
The pc10whatever(haha) is on root of sd card not a folder called root right?
I'm not talking smack lol just want to make sure.
Also why do you want to change radio?
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Hahaha yeah it's on the root of the sd card, not a folder called root - probably should have been more specific there.
I get a lot of echoes on G-Lite 2.0.1 b/c I am not on the recommended radio for that rom, so I am changing radios to recommended one!
However I just used fastboot instead to take care of it and now no more echoes! But I'd still like to know what's up with my hboot and recovery!
seems strange to me, id say if your worried just reflash your hboot and recovery and hope it fixes this. personally i skip the recovery almost altogether, fastboot is safer and fastboot wipe is cleaner then any superwipe.zip out there. i come from the land of the g1s and we were screwed on fastboot flashing ever since the updated spl came out and we couldnt use fastboot to flash anything! im much happier now
captainreynolds said:
Hey all,
So I've had these problems for a while now (noticed it ever since I rooted a year ago) but they haven't really mattered before, as I am now trying to update my radio.
Issue one:
When I boot into HBOOT, the green text "SD Checking" takes FOREVER. Like a minute and a half going through each one. I've seen other G2 go through this dialog and its always instant for others.
Issue two:
When I actually have the PC10 whatever zip on the sd card root, it doesn't see it - this may be a function of the next issue though.
Issue three:
This happens probably 1/3rd of the time I boot into recovery. Whether using 4ExT or cwm (both the stable versions), occasionally recovery is unable to mount E:/sdcard. Reboot usually fixes this. Never have I ever had a problem accessing my sdcard from running my rom, no matter how many reboots I go through.
Can someone help me fix at least 2 or 3? Not sure what's happening. I have s-off, cid 11111111 and have flashed custom roms via recovery with no problems (aside from the cannot mount sdcard error pretty often) dozens of times.
Thanks much so!
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I had a similar problem with my sdcard taking forever to read and it turns out that my fat32 partition on the sdcard wasn't aligned properly so I had to reformat it. That could be the cause of a couple of your problems
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Hello,
my Desire just keeps rebooting, only 5-60 seconds after it's started. I have been using "VJ CM10.1 Jelly Bean 4.2.2 - v4.7" for some month, and just today the phone just reboots. Tried everything; full wipe, then updated to latest v5.3, no change. Since then I've gone thru all kinds om ROMs; good old Oxygen, CM7, MildWild, you name it..
What the freak has happend?! I mean; it's the same with every rom! And I had done nothing to my phone since yesterday, this just started this morning and it's driving me crazy!! Gotta have a phone, you know..
Please help!
If its a pvt1 model, it may be a mother board issue.
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Ok, how do I check what model I have?
deud said:
Ok, how do I check what model I have?
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Power off your phone, hold volume down and power then it will tell you what you have
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Got an EXT partition when using all those roms? Repartition your sdcard or replace it with a fast one.
stankyou said:
Got an EXT partition when using all those roms? Repartition your sdcard or replace it with a fast one.
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yh i agree, same happened to me before using a sandisk sdcard, all roms kept on freezing/rebooting so got a new sdcard and all was fine again.
Ok, got a Pvt3. So that should not be the problem. Also got a EXT partition, but wouldn't it be strange that this problem occurs now, when I have used the same sd card, ext partition table, ROM (+ different ones), etc..?
Well, I did a few more full wipe's and all that and what's not, then flashed the latest VJ CM 10 v5.3 again, and for some reason the phone's been stable now for 1,5 hours!! Just crossing my fingers here now, that it keeps this way...
Thanks for all the help! I'll write back if things turn bad again!
deud said:
Ok, got a Pvt3. So that should not be the problem. Also got a EXT partition, but wouldn't it be strange that this problem occurs now, when I have used the same sd card, ext partition table, ROM (+ different ones), etc..?
Well, I did a few more full wipe's and all that and what's not, then flashed the latest VJ CM 10 v5.3 again, and for some reason the phone's been stable now for 1,5 hours!! Just crossing my fingers here now, that it keeps this way...
Thanks for all the help! I'll write back if things turn bad again!
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iv seen recently some pvt3 models overheating aswell. it also could be ur sdcard coz when my phone started rebooting i re flashed the rom, tried different roms, partitioned my sdcard again but nothing, as soon as i put a new one in, the phone worked perfect. Sometimes sdcards just go bad and for no reason.
Hi xda folks.
in short:
Phone is s-off and rooted through revolutionary.
Lately I flashed a new rom [ROM][Android 2.3.7][Oxygen_r2 HBOOT]MIUI 2.3.7c modded by moss20.
I did run the a2sd+ installations scripts as documented on the rom thread.
One week after flashing, phone became slow and lagging.
Eventually one week later phone was down out of battery without me noticing.
Since then phone reboots after entering my pin code or later.
How can I figure out where the issue originates?
For those who wants more details here is the full history:
My phone is 3.5 years old. I never had problems. And succeeded for a long time to s-off, root and flash roms thanks to this forum.
I have a 8Gb class 4 sd card with 4Gb fat 32 partition followed by one 4Gb of ext4.
Latelly flashed that Miui based rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1725629. I used the oxygen r2 Hboot, the little rom version and activate the a2sd+. After a week the phone became really slow and lagging. Then eventually I found my phone off, abnormally out of battery without noticing how it happened.
Since then it is rebooting from the moment I have entered my pin code.
I thought that flashing a new rom (sense rom) would help but the problem persits. I then used a bigger hboot from alpharev and flashed the sense rom again. It didn't help.
I had a little improvement when completely repartitionned the sd card with 6Gb fat32 partition followed by a 1 Gb ext4. Since then it do not always reboot after entering pin code. It somes times stays up for 10 minutes before rebooting. Using some apps on the phone most likely quickly trigger a reboot.
The last thing I did with no success is to reset stock Hboot and RUU following suggestion of http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103520. Behavior is the same as the last one.
I have no backup.
Any help to spot or fix that reboot issue would be greatly appreciated I love this phone
75 view but no reply?
Is my post wrong? Too long?
I need at least some leads the find investigation paths.
I have the feeling it could be related to the access to the SD card. Because It is the 1st I executed manually the a2sd+ installation scripts. How can I check that?
Or is it possible that some tweaking in the MIUI based rom (see link in OP) brought instability (voltage, ...)?
AntoineWils said:
75 view but no reply?
Is my post wrong? Too long?
I need at least some leads the find investigation paths.
I have the feeling it could be related to the access to the SD card. Because It is the 1st I executed manually the a2sd+ installation scripts. How can I check that?
Or is it possible that some tweaking in the MIUI based rom (see link in OP) brought instability (voltage, ...)?
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1st, don't be impatient
What recovery do you have installed?
If you have trouble just after installing/activating an a2sd script it could have something to do with your partitions.
The best known method to partition/format your sdcard is using 4ext recovery.
Another problem could be the sdcard itself, maybe try another if handy.
What could help in general is power off phone, remove battery and eject/insert sdcard a few times,
just in case there's a little contact problem.
You should always be aware of what hboot you use for your rom, so what rom do you actually use and what hboot have you flashed?
tom0769 said:
1st, don't be impatient
What recovery do you have installed?
If you have trouble just after installing/activating an a2sd script it could have something to do with your partitions.
The best known method to partition/format your sdcard is using 4ext recovery.
Another problem could be the sdcard itself, maybe try another if handy.
What could help in general is power off phone, remove battery and eject/insert sdcard a few times,
just in case there's a little contact problem.
You should always be aware of what hboot you use for your rom, so what rom do you actually use and what hboot have you flashed?
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Recovery: the one installed via revolutionary.
The trouble did not come immediately after installing a2sd+ but 2 weeks after.
I am using GParted to partition my SD card (and repartionned several times since issue stared)
I did not try an other sd card but I will try.
I did eject/insert the sd card lots of time since the issue started.
When the problem occurred I had HBOOT oxygen r2 from alpharev.
currently I am back on stock (and issue persists):
HBOOT (0.75.0000, S-ON),
rom (RUU_Bravo_HTC_Europe_1.15.405.1_Radio_32.30.00.28U_4.05.00.11_release_121684),
radio 4.05.00.11
I can root and S-OFF + recovery whenever needed.
Today my phone stayed up for 12 hours.
It was charging almost all day long.
Could my issue be related to battery issue?
My problem started when I noticed the battery was completely uncharged. Until today I did not charge it more than necessary to be at 100%
I checked the contacts and they look ok (not bend and straight).
AntoineWils said:
Today my phone stayed up for 12 hours.
It was charging almost all day long.
Could my issue be related to battery issue?
My problem started when I noticed the battery was completely uncharged. Until today I did not charge it more than necessary to be at 100%
I checked the contacts and they look ok (not bend and straight).
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If problems still occur on stock unrooted firmware then it is likely a hardware rather than software problem.
Your setup looked correct before things went wrong. You partitioned your sdcard correctly with gparted, and your hboot wouldn't have anything to do with it.
You could try swapping battery, no harm in trying, see if that makes a difference.
eddiehk6 said:
... You could try swapping battery, no harm in trying, see if that makes a difference.
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Thank-you eddiehk6, I hope it is the battery. It is going better but the phone remains unstable by moments.
I was not aware a battery could be so cheap for 'old' devices.
eddiehk6 said:
If problems still occur on stock unrooted firmware then it is likely a hardware rather than software problem.
Your setup looked correct before things went wrong. You partitioned your sdcard correctly with gparted, and your hboot wouldn't have anything to do with it.
You could try swapping battery, no harm in trying, see if that makes a difference.
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A strange thing I noticed is that the phone can stays forever without rebooting on the "enter pin code" screen.
When I enter the pin code it reboots between instantly 30 seconds.
Isn't this proving that it is not an hardware issue?
I swapped the battery but it did not change anything.
The only thing I noticed is that without a sim card the phone is more stable. It still reboots but only every few hours. With the sim card inserted it reboots every few minutes if I am lucky.
How can the presence of the sim have an influence on this behavior?
Think you've got a hardware issue if it's still rebooting on stock ROM and after changing battery.
The SIM card will make a difference as it's connecting to a network, or trying to connect. Somehow it's causing instability -> reboot.
Only last thing I can think of is to s-off and flash latest radio version through fastboot. No guarantees this will work or make any difference.
I've got mildwild 5 and sometime when I'm using it or I want to take a pic the screen goes blank and I have to reboot it so annoying, what do you think the problem is?
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try Evervolv Turba 4.0.0p2 ROM btw here is solution if phone overheats http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277365
Mine is starting to reboot for no reason.
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