[Q] Bricked because of new CWR? - Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I was running Liquid Metal, and wanted to to flash to RC 2.1
Earlier that day i "upgraded" to the latest CWR.
however, the CWR did not work via rom manager,
so i attempted the VOL DWN plus POWER.
the HBOOT worked, but the RECOVERY did not.
it would go to a black screen, with white bars on both sides.
and it would stay like this.
i attempted to simply reboot, but it would be stuck on the HTC INCREDIBLE screen.
any ideas? i think i flashed CWR wrong, and thats the issue.
i want to simply be able to boot my phone, etc.

I had a similar problem yesterday and when it was stuck on the screen I pluged in my USB and ran reflash_package.exe from unREVOked.
That fixed the problem, and I was able to wipe and reload a new rom.
All good now.

how exactly did you do this?
I get the error "Failed to Push. Terminating"

The white bars on the side means the recovery is incompatible with your screen type (I'm betting $5 you've got an SLCD screen). As for it not booting past the splash screen... I'm not exactly sure what would fix that... :/
Sent from my Droid Incredible running Myn's Warm TwoPointTwo RLS5.3.

slcd screens are fixed in cwm 3.0.8

kaiokimoto said:
the HBOOT worked, but the RECOVERY did not.
any ideas? i think i flashed CWR wrong, and thats the issue.
i want to simply be able to boot my phone, etc.
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Two notes:
1) If you can get into HBoot, your phone is almost never bricked.
2) As someone said, CWR 3.0.0.8 has fixed the SLCD problems.
See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=970032
for CWR info and optimal install procedures.

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[Q] EVO will not load into recovery after root?

Hi all. First let me begin by saying I'm NOT new to rooting and I have a pretty good knowledge of what I'm doing.
Here is my problem. I WAS rooted before, and used Rom Manager/Clockwork to preform Nandroid backups etc.
I recently received a replacement EVO (cracked housing) and wanted to root again, which I have, with SU permissions and S-OFF using the latest version of unrEVOked. (this is after the December update to 3.70 with hboot 2.10) No problem with rooting, however when I want to do a nandriod back up, thru Rom Manager, (or alternative methods) I get stuck on the white EVO boot screen. I CAN NOT boot into recovery? Weird right?
EDIT: When I try to enter recovery in any fashion, it hangs on the white EVO screen...forever until I do a battery pull.
EDIT: Sorry, I CAN enter bootloader, however once there, I attempt to enter "recovery" and it bounces me back to the menu. This happens both via ROM Manager and the traditional way of "POWER" button and "Vol Down".
EDIT (again): Okay..I used Amon RA to preform a nandroid back up,(which worked) and now I'm stuck in a bootloop! Ugh! Trying to restore my Nanadroid backup using RA..hopefully that works and I can revert back to Clockwork.
Jesus...
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks!
skbgiants said:
Hi all. First let me begin by saying I'm NOT new to rooting and I have a pretty good knowledge of what I'm doing.
Here is my problem. I WAS rooted before, and used Rom Manager/Clockwork to preform Nandroid backups etc.
I recently received a replacement EVO (cracked housing) and wanted to root again, which I have, with SU permissions and S-OFF using the latest version of unrEVOked. (this is after the December update to 3.70 with hboot 2.10) No problem with rooting, however when I want to do a nandriod back up, thru Rom Manager, (or alternative methods) I get stuck on the white EVO boot screen. I CAN NOT boot into recovery? Weird right?
EDIT: When I try to enter recovery in any fashion, it hangs on the white EVO screen...forever until I do a battery pull.
EDIT: Sorry, I CAN enter bootloader, however once there, I attempt to enter "recovery" and it bounces me back to the menu. This happens both via ROM Manager and the traditional way of "POWER" button and "Vol Down".
EDIT (again): Okay..I used Amon RA to preform a nandroid back up,(which worked) and now I'm stuck in a bootloop! Ugh! Trying to restore my Nanadroid backup using RA..hopefully that works and I can revert back to Clockwork.
Jesus...
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks!
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I'm in the exact same boat as you...
UhQ said:
I'm in the exact same boat as you...
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Let me know what you do to fix it. I'm just going to put the 3.7 RUU on sd card and restore to default? Here is the link. Hopefully this works.
http://goo-inside.me/evo/stock/RUU/
I have the exact same problem!!!! I cannot boot into recovery! It throws me back to the main hboot screen. It freezes when I try to do a recovery and I need to return this stupid phone because it keeps freezing and re-starting on it's own and I've tried flashing the oem rom many times already. I have "s-off" and Sprint will know I've rooted the phone ... please help!!
I just get stuck with the evo screen but like all of you i can not get to recovery... any ideas
Do you guys have working ROMs on your phones and just can't get into recovery? Or can you not boot up at all?
Sent from my HTC EVO 4G with Tapatalk
Looks like your recovery didn't flash. Put this file on the root of your sdcard, boot into the bootloader and select yes to update, the reboot. This installs CWM 3.0+.
I'm in a similar situation after initially using Unrevoked, and I've tried flashing AmonRa and Clockwork from a PC36IMG.zip. Neither has gotten me a recovery screen.
Beyond that I can't seem to get a ROM to boot more than once. I can install ROMs with varying degrees of success, but invariably a reboot leads to the phone simply hanging at the white HTC EVO 4G screen. Flashing a new ROM generally works. Once. But then I'm constantly afraid of my phone rebooting for any reason, and I know it'll mean that I have to wipe the bastard and start all over again.
Any suggestions on the recovery issue? Perhaps fixing that will fix my reboot problems.
RandomViolence said:
I'm in a similar situation after initially using Unrevoked, and I've tried flashing AmonRa and Clockwork from a PC36IMG.zip. Neither has gotten me a recovery screen.
Beyond that I can't seem to get a ROM to boot more than once. I can install ROMs with varying degrees of success, but invariably a reboot leads to the phone simply hanging at the white HTC EVO 4G screen. Flashing a new ROM generally works. Once. But then I'm constantly afraid of my phone rebooting for any reason, and I know it'll mean that I have to wipe the bastard and start all over again.
Any suggestions on the recovery issue? Perhaps fixing that will fix my reboot problems.
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Try installing clean, wipe everything. With TB, backup the apps, ect. When you restore, restore only apps and data, not system settings.
Just to be sure I 'wipe everything' properly, which steps are you suggesting? Should I choose Clear Storage from the bootloader menu?
Just for clarification, I've tried to RUU several times and it has not fixed the issue.
I just used a modified HBOOT to allow me to erase my recovery, system, and userdata partitions via fastboot. After that, I flashed AmonRa 2.3 in Bootloader and it worked! I now have a working AmonRa recovery. I'm attempting to flash CM7 now, and I'll let you know if that works.
I can't take credit for thinking of this, I used someone else's guide, but I'll happily post the software and the steps if people are interested.
The fix was apparently temporary. The attempt to flash CM7 led to my Evo hanging at the white screen after rebooting.
The only way I've managed to boot into a ROM is pretty crazy... I flash the 3.70 RUU from a PC36IMG.zip version at bootloader, then I flash clockworkmod, then I flash SprintLover's ROM. If I flash in that sequence, I can get SprintLover's to work, but it will hang at the white evo 4g screen if I reboot. It's insane!
Anyone have any advice? This **** is bananas.
teh roxxorz said:
Looks like your recovery didn't flash. Put this file on the root of your sdcard, boot into the bootloader and select yes to update, the reboot. This installs CWM 3.0+.
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What I have done so far:
(the good):
#1 I used the "clear storage" from hboot and it works.
#2 I re-flashed "RUU_SuperSonic_S_Sprint_WWE_3.70.651.1_Radio_2.15.00.11.19_NV_1.90_release_161482_signed" from my PC via USB and this works too! It gets the phone back to factory settings wiping out everything and booting up normally.
(the bad):
#1 The phone still freezes and turns off sporadicly.
#2 I have lost root BUT the HBOOT screen still shows security is off (S-OFF) so still I cannot return the phone to Sprint!
(the ugly):
#1 From the "HBOOT" screen I choose "FASTBOOT" which takes me to the "FASTBOOT" menu, from there I choose "BOOTLOADER" and it throws me back to the "FASTBOOT" menu creating an endless loop.
#2 From the "HBOOT" menu I choose "RECOVERY" and it re-starts but it than freezes at the white HTC EVO 4G screen. I then have to take the battery out to re-boot the phone. Again another loop!
Any Ideas or any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
dns213 said:
What I have done so far:
(the good):
#1 I used the "clear storage" from hboot and it works.
#2 I re-flashed "RUU_SuperSonic_S_Sprint_WWE_3.70.651.1_Radio_2.15.00.11.19_NV_1.90_release_161482_signed" from my PC via USB and this works too! It gets the phone back to factory settings wiping out everything and booting up normally.
(the bad):
#1 The phone still freezes and turns off sporadicly.
#2 I have lost root BUT the HBOOT screen still shows security is off (S-OFF) so still I cannot return the phone to Sprint!
(the ugly):
#1 From the "HBOOT" screen I choose "FASTBOOT" which takes me to the "FASTBOOT" menu, from there I choose "BOOTLOADER" and it throws me back to the "FASTBOOT" menu creating an endless loop.
#2 From the "HBOOT" menu I choose "RECOVERY" and it re-starts but it than freezes at the white HTC EVO 4G screen. I then have to take the battery out to re-boot the phone. Again another loop!
Any Ideas or any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
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http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/forever Jump down to Q&A and download the S-ON tool. You need to load up a recovery image, CWM or amon_ra and flash that ^ then re-run the 3.70 RUU and you should be set.

Dinc wont boot

Recently flash a new rom (done many before) and after rebooting the phone just vibrates 5 times and the led flashes green. It does this going into recovery or normal boot. I can boot into hboot. I updated with latest RUU and it flashed successfully, still does same thing, cant get in recovery or normal, only hboot. Now heres weird thing, I was s-off and now I'm s-on. Soon as i went into hboot to apply ruu i noticed it.
So any thoughts on helping me? Thanks for any help you can give.
Have you pulled the battery and tried turning your phone on? I think this is some sort of diagnostic mode that you're in.
TheWhiteBandito said:
Have you pulled the battery and tried turning your phone on? I think this is some sort of diagnostic mode that you're in.
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Yep, pretty sure it's qualcomm diagnostics. Battery pull should work.
Sent from my Droid Incredible running Myn's Warm Two Point Two RLS5.
Pulled battery about 20 times.
If it were me, think I'd try to run unrevoked3 to make sure I had a good recovery in place, then run unrevoked forever again to get back to s-off. Then flash another ROM.
But that's just me. I'm not a dev. So proceed at your own risk. I'd check some of the precautions on the unrevoked website to be sure I had compatible hboot and radio versions.
http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/forever
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Unrevoked forever
SkyRaider Sense 3.5
Radio 2.15.00.09.01
Phone wont boot into recovery so I can't flash any roms. I had phone s-off with unrevoked forever but somehow it went back to s-on. I never ran the s-on update. I did reflash the stock RUU 2.2 and it still wont boot. Flashed fine but goes to black screen after the splash screen and just vibrates and greed led blinks.
Does the same thing trying to get into recovery. I can only get into hboot.
You can download a new recovery image at the link below. The link is in the third or fourth post.
Rename it to PB31IMG.zip so you can load thru hboot.
http://forum.androidcentral.com/htc...38-no-recovery-clockworkmod-black-screen.html
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Unrevoked forever
SkyRaider Sense 3.5
Radio 2.15.00.09.01
I've got an AMOLED screen so the regular recovery works fine. But since I'm not s-off anymore I don't think I can flash a recovery. I tried the 2.5.0.5 on crack one. I was using 2.5.1.2 before.
I think you only need root to flash a signed recovery image. S-off allows you to flash unsigned images.
The original unrevoked tool just gave us root and recovery, right? Wonder if you can run unrevoked while the phone is at the hboot screen? Maybe you can pm one of the unrevoked devs.
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Unrevoked forever
SkyRaider Sense 3.5
Radio 2.15.00.09.01
I've had this problem with two phones now... The only savior is to flash s-on while still rooted. Then run the pb31img.zip of the most recent ruu since it is signed you can use it with s-on and you'll be stock, and call for a replacement, you'll get amoled since you bought it with it. I've gone through 7 lol.
Well think I figured it out. Turned it on with the usb-data connected and it booted fine. Pulled usb cable and it rebooted. Testing further it went to a black screen with the 5 vibrates when pulling the usb once. Looks like the usb port is fried.
It boots fine if you dont hookup the usb cable now.
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Well think I figured it out. Turned it on with the usb-data connected and it booted fine. Pulled usb cable and it rebooted. Testing further it went to a black screen with the 5 vibrates when pulling the usb once. Looks like the usb port is fried.
It boots fine if you dont hookup the usb cable now.
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this same thing happened to me twice.. you can sometimes even get it to fully boot and pull power cord and sue the phone, if your lucky. mine was a three vibrate though not 5

[Q] Stuck!

My friend has a evo 4g and it is stuck on a black screen. computer detects it which is good but RUU fails halfway. not sure of too many other details but i can ask him.
thanks in advance
Is your friend's EVO rooted and what was he or she doing prior to getting stuck at the black screen? Turn the EVO off. Now simultaneously press the DOWN volume button and the power button until the device starts. After a short pause, a few lines of text will flash across the screen. At the top, you should see either S-ON or S-OFF. Hopefully it displays S-OFF if your friend's EVO is rooted. If it displays S-ON, it is not rooted or need to be re-rooted. Again, if the EVO is rooted, choose recovery from the available options on the left side of the screen. The EVO should then boot into recovery. If your friend has made a nandroid backup, he should be able to restore it. If not, he needs to go to the wipe menu and wipe EVERYTHING in it except the SD card and then re-flash whatever rom he or she was using. He or she may have to re-flash a recovery.
he is on boost and was downgrading his rom..
i dunno lol i'm a droid X user this is new to me
i need to get him on here lol
he is on boost and was downgrading his rom..
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Im guessing he didn't know what he was doing, and thus bricked the phone.

[Q] BRICKED DINC running cyanogen7! please help

So I was running Cyanogen 7.0 for a couple weeks now and have tried a few others. I downloaded it with clockworkmod and everything was fine until I updated it to the newest one and while it was updating my phone died. Now it is just stuck in blue boot screen with the arrow going around and around. I tried Hboot but every one I pick including recovery, clear storage, and factory reset just gets me stuck on Dinc white boot screen. Trackball isn't responsive here so I us power and when I try to boot with up volume or both up and down with power it just vibrates a couple times and doesn't do anything. (I have to pull battery after this to Hboot or boot with stuck C& screen.) Please help! I have been reading so many threads on here and Cyanogens forums and everyone else seems to fix it with recover from hboot or clockwork recover comes up for them. I am very stumped. I have had a rooted captivate, EVO, and tried moto atrix and back to captivate before deciding to try out Dinc (and verizon)
I had that problem a while ago. I recall using the the in revoked program all over again. Hope that helps
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App
the only solution that I would think can work on this case if going back to stock.. since you said you can get in the HBOOT.. you could be able to go back to stock and then reroot you phone again... I was on similar situation once I flash the alternative recover in RM... and I couldnt get to the Recovery and I had to go back to stock by putting the PB31IMG in the HBOOT to get it working..
You can get the link here..
Code:
http://dougpiston.com/?page_id=108
How do I go back to stock by putting the PB31IMG in the HBOOT?
wolfmanb said:
How do I go back to stock by putting the PB31IMG in the HBOOT?
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Download the file and place it on your sdcard once you get to the HBOOT its gonna ask you if you wanna update.. then just vol - for yes and you are good to go...
Similar Problem
I am facing a similar situation with my Incredible. I was running CM7.0.3 when my phone randomly restarted but only got to the white "HTC Incredible" screen before looping over again.. and again..
I have tried loading the stock image (used the files from dougpiston site) as well as others through the HBOOT but I still cannot get past the "HTC Incredible" boot screen.
Is there something that I am missing? Does anyone else have a suggestion? I know it isn't bricked since I can still get to the HBOOT but I just can't seem to get it to boot an image. I did notice it is still "S-Off" if that matters.
If you cannot get into recovery and flashing a recovery from hboot doesn't work, you may need a new phone. This was mentioned in another thread somewhere recently.
Make sure your sd card is formatted to fat32.

Evo doesn't boot

Hi, guys.
Have a problem with my Evo 4G.
It's S-OFF, rooted, and have custom recovery (made my unrevoked). There was also MIUI (different versions) as a firmware for more than a year.
Few days ago while laying on the table Evo just became rebooting in a cycle. After battery remove nothing changed. Just showing HTC Evo logo and then vibrate one time and reboot to the same logo and so on.
I've tried to wipe the phone from a recovery, phone just halted until battery remove. Evo just lied for about a week, than i tried to do wipe once more and that worked and after reboot everything was working, but in a few days reboots came over again.
But now i can't even enter the recovery mode. I choose "Recovery" in bootloader and getting Logo + vibrate again and again.
Is that a death for my Evo or i can try some methods to revive it?
PS: there were no programs installations prior to reboots happen. Phone just lied on the table for a few hours or at night.
Updated hboot to the latest 2.18. unlocked it.
Flashed clockworkmod with bootloader (PC36IMG method), also amon ra with "fastboot recovery". With no luck. Can't enter the recovery.
Tried installing RUU, everything fine... except it doesn't boot anyway...
Any other way to try?
I've tried:
1) Remove battery then insert and wait until it charges, then try to power on.
2) Update hboot and re-root it (it was S-OFF, but still made lock off)
3) Re-write recovery, tried clockworkmod and amon ra with hboot update and with fastboot
4) installed RUU (and it passed without any troubles)
5) "Clear storage" from hboot
what else can i try to revive my Evo ?
While I haven't seen this in awhile, you can do a search and see that this isn't a totally rare experience. It's possible you have the same issue other phones have had with bad partitions (Not on the SDCard). If so, it's basically a brick
HipKat said:
While I haven't seen this in awhile, you can do a search and see that this isn't a totally rare experience. It's possible you have the same issue other phones have had with bad partitions (Not on the SDCard). If so, it's basically a brick
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Yeah, it does sound a lot like the infamous bootloop of death.
You may not have any options. Unless you want to send it to me. I doubt I can do anything with it, but I'm always willing to try.
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