Can an incorrectly created splash image actually brick a phone?
I see everyone saying to be very careful you do not brick your phone while replacing your splash image but I have also read that only flashing the wrong SPL or Radio can truly brick the phone.
Which is right?
From my own Personal experience no. I changed my splash image before and it was corrupted so it just showed lines but stiill booted up correctly. So of course i reflashed the orginal splash image
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what they mean is when you flash splash img make sure its type right to the mmcblk9(not sure if thats right) if you put in wrong it can brick yes... but doing everything right and if its a bad image then no it will either black screen or the lines
Splash img... lol confused
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Thanks ilostchild! Now I understand. So that means if you use the fastboot method to change your splash you're probably pretty safe?
lainvalenajr said:
Splash img... lol confused
splash img is splash image but i didnt put the . like splash.img
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santaclaws said:
Thanks ilostchild! Now I understand. So that means if you use the fastboot method to change your splash you're probably pretty safe?
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well in fastboot if you did flash it to the wrong mmcblk it is possible to wipe and everything and flash rom back..
but either way its always good to know what you doing and make sure type everything how it is...
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When hboot loads it shows the last couple of pb31img's i tried to install a long time ago and of course it says no image.
Is there a way to remove this so it quits trying to load them?
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normanx said:
When hboot loads it shows the last couple of pb31img's i tried to install a long time ago and of course it says no image.
Is there a way to remove this so it quits trying to load them?
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No it is ment to do that, sort of a saftey feature. Hboot automaticlly looks for and tries to load those files so that in the event of a phone not booting you can flash an ruu. If s-off it can also flash radios new hboots splash screens and recoveries.
I understand that. But it was a splash img that had no image in it. Was just looking to clean it up a bit from trying to load ones that wont work. Thanks though.
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normanx said:
I understand that. But it was a splash img that had no image in it. Was just looking to clean it up a bit from trying to load ones that wont work. Thanks though.
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It is not showing the last couple of files you tried to flash. It will always search for those files reguardless of wether you have tried to flash something before or not . It is a built in feature of the phones bootloader. If you mean its trying to actually load a file but fails because its a bad img, then you can get rid of it by deleting the file from the sdcard.
Hey guys
After flashing cm7 ,(during the process i got an error which said "no space left on device"), every time that I try to start my device It'ill just stuck at boot screen.what can I do ?
ps:can't get to recovery.
Before flash while you're at CWM do wipe data, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache and reflash cm.
I cannot Access recovery mode.!
ps:When ever I press sound down key + power It turns on(but not lcd)and charge led gets green(sth like falsh mode)
If you still can't get to Recovery after many tries, I'd advice you flash RUU... If you are S-OFF great, if not, no problem. When you are done, you can get your Root back with SimpleOneClick (My fav).
olu.danNY said:
If you still can't get to Recovery after many tries, I'd advice you flash RUU... If you are S-OFF great, if not, no problem. When you are done, you can get your Root back with SimpleOneClick (My fav).
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i have same ... I cant go to hboot (Press key sound down + power) ... how can flash the phone or flash te rom ?
wildfire ....S-off ... rooted ///
I hope i'm wrong but looks like you have bricked your mobile if you can't go to CWM. If you can't go to CWM by holding volume down+Power button then its like you have corrupted CWM.
revankar said:
I hope i'm wrong but looks like you have bricked your mobile if you can't go to CWM. If you can't go to CWM by holding volume down+Power button then its like you have corrupted CWM.
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Its not bricked if theres still life in the phone, a brick is a device that does absolutely nothing.
I dont quite understand your problems as theres not much info in your posts. S-on s-off? Are you using custom mtds?
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Scratch0805 said:
Its not bricked if theres still life in the phone, a brick is a device that does absolutely nothing.
I dont quite understand your problems as theres not much info in your posts. S-on s-off? Are you using custom mtds?
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I mean software bricked, the device can end up in loop which is unrecoverable.
Like when radio flashing is interrupted.
Scratch0805 said:
Its not bricked if theres still life in the phone, a brick is a device that does absolutely nothing.
I dont quite understand your problems as theres not much info in your posts. S-on s-off? Are you using custom mtds?
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Look I Cant Turn up My phone ... I Cant go To Hboot (Press volum down + power) but nothing ,,, its hanging on htc logo ...
HtC Wildfire ...its s-off ... also rooted ...
yea when i chang the factory rom to custom rom ... after instal the rom and in recovery say : no space left on device ... and after rebooting have this problem...
Your mobile is stuck in boot loop always without entering Recovery.
It is rooted but you cannot enter Recovery.
I hope somebody has a solution to your problem since you had rooted it and it has CWM Recovery earlier.
I am not sure if somebody got out of this problem, will reply if I get to know a method.
If the phone gets past the splash screen and gets to the bootanimation, you can use ADB to go into the Recovery.
Use the command
"adb reboot recovery"
Lesicnik1 said:
If the phone gets past the splash screen and gets to the bootanimation, you can use ADB to go into the Recovery.
Use the command
"adb reboot recovery"
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No Cant Pass the splash screen ... just with a white background and in the middle write HTC ...
Dont like your english or your attitude so all i can say is use an ruu and good luck
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C'mon scratch plz help us here
My device is s-off,rooted and it cant get pass the splash screen and no luck with cwm recovery,I know nearly nothing about this ruu thing ,so can you plz give me some noob-friendly walkthrough ?
I AM THE HSS said:
C'mon scratch plz help us here
My device is s-off,rooted and it cant get pass the splash screen and no luck with cwm recovery,I know nearly nothing about this ruu thing ,so can you plz give me some noob-friendly walkthrough ?
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I'm not going to write a step by step guide for something as simple as double clicking a .exe file, theres plenty of guides out there already on this topic, google is your friend...........
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Believe me I'm googling "ruu for htc wildfire download"all of the day & still Can't find anything like a download link.btw tnx for all of the hints,at least now I know What to do
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Believe me I'm googling "ruu for htc wildfire download"all of the day & still Can't find anything like a download link.btw tnx for all of the hints,at least now I know What to do
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1275680 Simples..........
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I'd like to start out by saying I'm not a noob. Ive flashed and rooted other phones before. Every time I try to flash a custom recovery on my HTC One V, I get the white htc page with a paragraph in red letters. I unlocked the bootloader first and followed all the proper directions in order to flash the custom recovery. I can get rooted no problem, but when I try to flash a custom recovery I get that white screen with red lettering no matter what I do. What the heck is the problem???? I just bought the one v 4 weeks ago and it came with android 4.0.3.
You're stuck on those screen or that message pisses you off? If it's the second variant, U can't do anything :/
Its normal...
as long as you can boot into the UI, its ok...
and btw, wrong thread..
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parkourz said:
You're stuck on those screen or that message pisses you off? If it's the second variant, U can't do anything :/
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Ok, I cant do anything about that screen popping up I understand that but what Im saying is when Im done flashing the recovery, and when I try to get into the custom recovery that I just flashed all i get is that white screen with red letters. It just sits there...nothing happens.
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
you need to rename whatever the boot image was called to recovery.img (check it's not recovery.img.img)
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Everything on the phone works fine except the recovery. I cant access the recovery is what im saying.
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Lloir said:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
you need to rename whatever the boot image was called to boot.img (check it's not boot.img.img)
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I tried that and I tried the all in one program for the htc one v as well.
sorry buddy. That didnt work
Lloir said:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
you need to rename whatever the boot image was called to recovery.img (check it's not recovery.img.img)
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Im starting to think that this phone cant have custom recovery on it. If some one wants to prove me wrong then show me.
Please ask all questions in Q&A. Thread moved there.
i meant to say recovery.img not boot.img
I had this issue. What custom recovery are you trying to flash. Certain versions of cwm and twrp arnt supported for the CDMA primoc version. Cwm 5.8 and twrp2 are the only ones I know of. I like twrp2 because its a touch ui.
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dankstahz said:
I had this issue. What custom recovery are you trying to flash. Certain versions of cwm and twrp arnt supported for the CDMA primoc version. Cwm 5.8 and twrp2 are the only ones I know of. I like twrp2 because its a touch ui.
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It work on mine
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Is it virgin mobile?
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Do you have a PrimoU (GSM) or PrimoC (CDMA)? You need to flash the right image. Flashing a recovery for PrimoC on a PrimoU won't work.
Hello Every one
I unlock boot loader via HTC devel and install touch recovery, but cant get into any rom after flashing
i am on s-on , each time i flash a rom i struck on htc stock boot animation, i changed touch recovery to cwm 5.2.0.8 and still no help
i cant understand why its happening...i know its a common question may have already been answered but i got very short time after work so please if any one can direct me towards right direction for flashing...
thanks
tnt4ever said:
Hello Every one
I unlock boot loader via HTC devel and install touch recovery, but cant get into any rom after flashing
i am on s-on , each time i flash a rom i struck on htc stock boot animation, i changed touch recovery to cwm 5.2.0.8 and still no help
i cant understand why its happening...i know its a common question may have already been answered but i got very short time after work so please if any one can direct me towards right direction for flashing...
thanks
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You need to flash the boot.img of the custom rom in fastboot.
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You mean simply flash the rom via fastboot usb through cmd...?
stupid question but really dont want to throw this phone into bin..:d
glevitan said:
You need to flash the boot.img of the custom rom in fastboot.
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Got that
thanks
glevitan said:
You need to flash the boot.img of the custom rom in fastboot.
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Well i will add just one thing, its lack of common sense and knowledge, but honestly you saved my whole day being wasted again.
appreciated....
HTC DHD - stuck at bootlogo (HTC logo)
glevitan said:
You need to flash the boot.img of the custom rom in fastboot.
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Hi Glevitan!
After when we closed our conversation, i tried to follow your instructions and update/install a rom (eg: MIUI, JELLYTIME...and others too). In the recovery menu it sais that the zip install was successfull, but when I trie to reboot the phone, it stuck at the hct logo (without the: quartly brilliant words).
Can you help meg how to get my phone back to work?
best regards,
Karraly
Flash the boot.img. read my sig.
Where in the file system are splash screens located? I cannot find the location.
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You cannot access the splash screens with a file explorer.
Use the thread Thomas linked.
That sucks, is there any way to flash a splash screen only using the phone.....no pc. Terminal emulator maybe? If so would it be the same commands as using adb?
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sacnotsack said:
That sucks, is there any way to flash a splash screen only using the phone.....no pc. Terminal emulator maybe? If so would it be the same commands as using adb?
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If you are s-off you can flash a PH98IMG.zip containing the splash screen.
GrayTheWolf said:
If you are s-off you can flash a PH98IMG.zip containing the splash screen.
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Not on a phone without SD card.
Or do you mean in recovery?
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Not on a phone without SD card.
Or do you mean in recovery?
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Uhh... I definitely flashed a PH98IMG.zip in hboot before. I just put it on the root of the internal SD.
Awesome thanks for the help. Yes I'm s-off and all the good stuff. Coming from a GNEX things are a bit different.
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Uhh... I definitely flashed a PH98IMG.zip in hboot before. I just put it on the root of the internal SD.
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You mean on the root of the SD-CARD....
you didn't flash it on this phone, if you did you discovered something new.
there is a reason why all the splash screens tutorials are flashed in fastboot RUU (I did a lot of testing when I first made the splash screens.). It would be great though to be able to put on root of internal using the .zip, much easier and ppl won't need a CPU.
PH98IMG is for the Rezound also..? That phone had an SD-Card Slot..
This one doesn't, I tested every # for our phone on the internal and nothing, if you can get it that'd be great, but from what I've read and seen, it's not possible on a phone without an SD-Card Slot.
GrayTheWolf said:
If you are s-off you can flash a PH98IMG.zip containing the splash screen.
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Yeah trying to flash in recovery was a no go for me.
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sacnotsack said:
Yeah trying to flash in recovery was a no go for me.
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Not in recovery, bootloader.
But I was like 99% sure I have flashed something in bootloader.
GrayTheWolf said:
Not in recovery, bootloader.
But I was like 99% sure I have flashed something in bootloader.
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How would I flash it in bootloader. I know how to get into the bootloader but I don't see any options for flashing anything. The closest option I see is factory reset.
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How would I flash it in bootloader. I know how to get into the bootloader but I don't see any options for flashing anything. The closest option I see is factory reset.
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Are you familiar with adb commands?
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Yes I am familiar with adb commands, but I don't have a pc.
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sacnotsack said:
Yes I am familiar with adb commands, but I don't have a pc.
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I'm pretty sure you can't do it without a pc.
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