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[Q] cant flash another rom after first non stock rom

[solved] (forgot to flash new kernel)
after working 6 straight hours on my girlfriends captivate trying to un brick it (succeed) i think its time for me to figure out whats up with my incredible
i have flashed redemptive rom on my phone, and i tried to flash many other roms over it a day after and they keep going into boot loop (i think because it just stays at the "htc incredible" screen). is their some trick to getting a new rom flashed over the stock rom? did i miss something on all the tutorials and XDA wikis? im stumped! any advice?
i have searched for the past day for the answer (kinda why i almost bricked my girlfriends captivate because it was doing the exact same thing) thats why i came here. this is my last resort

Did you do a full wipe between flashes? You really shouldn't have to do anything special. Ill help you get through it. Oh is your inc an amoled or slcd screen. If its slcd you need an slcd enabled kernel. Do you have adb installed? If so are thaere any errors.
It can take up to 15min for a first boot. Adb will show you if every thng is going smoothly
If it doesn't boot after flashing a rom through recovery it is most likely the rom not flashing right for some reason, most likely an improperly finished download. Try downloading it again. Happened to me before on ruby rom.
Sent from Conical. 07

linuxmotion said:
Did you do a full wipe between flashes? You really shouldn't have to do anything special. Ill help you get through it. Oh is your inc an amoled or slcd screen. If its slcd you need an slcd enabled kernel. Do you have adb installed? If so are thaere any errors.
It can take up to 15min for a first boot. Adb will show you if every thng is going smoothly
If it doesn't boot after flashing a rom through recovery it is most likely the rom not flashing right for some reason, most likely an improperly finished download. Try downloading it again. Happened to me before on ruby rom.
Sent from Conical. 07
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i have an slcd screen and im running kings kernel #5 on my stock install. maby i need to flash the kernel again before first boot just in case the new rom changes the kernel
i have adb on my computer but i dont know how to do anything but the classic "adb shell" to remove bloat-ware and "adb Push" from working on my girls captivate
whats weird is it has done it on both my incredible and her captivate, but then again, ive done the flashing on both.
do i need to restore to stock before i install another after market rom?

You most definatly will need to flash the kernel again. Every full rom flash will flash the kernel that comes with the rom.
No you will not need to return to stock. Just flash away just remember your kernel. Most roms for the inc have amoled as the default screen type in the rom kernel.
Sent from Conical. 07

linuxmotion said:
You most definatly will need to flash the kernel again. Every full rom flash will flash the kernel that comes with the rom.
No you will not need to return to stock. Just flash away just remember your kernel. Most roms for the inc have amoled as the default screen type in the rom kernel.
Sent from Conical. 07
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im trying it now. Fingers crossed
It Worked!!!!!!!!!! You made my day!! i missed something that simple!! unfortunately it is boot looping but i think its probably the rom ha, but it made it far as i need to use other roms, thank you!

Well glad to help. Which rom is it.
For a sense rom i personally like virtous. Very smooth. Close to stock. Has great mods.
Sent from Conical. 07

it was Cyanogen but I'm going to give that one a try now that u mention it. And now that I understand this a little better

[Q] S-Off/Rooting/ROM Questions for Virgin Mobile HTC Wildfire S

Hi,
I recently purchased the HTC Wildfire S from Virgin Mobile and would like to root it. After reading some great tutorials put out by you guys, I'm fairly confident I can successfully root my device. How ever I have a few concerns:
1. Is my device the HTC marvel, marvelc, or marvelct?
2. Are there custom ROMs for my device?
3. Can I remove the bloatware/re-partition the internal memory without a new ROM?
Thanks ahead of time to those that help, and sorry for taking up your time with n00bie questions
EDIT: Also do I need to do anything to my bootloader just to root? My understanding is that its only necessary for changing ROMs.

Marvelc or a510c, there are custom roms and modified roms and roms that are being built like cm7 for the marvelc, check out the development forum and see whats crackin
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Thanks I will take a look over there. When I started looking I saw a lot of people saying there are only ROMs for the marvel

No theres ssrom, simonstock rom that rom is sweet! Check it out
HTC Wildfire S (VM) "s-off" "rooted" Stock Rom

Can I get links to these? I think I found the SSROM already but glanced over it. I will revisit that one. As of now SS may be the only ROM I have found for the marvelc.
Thanks again guys

Just wait a little bit, some are being built
HTC Wildfire S (VM) "s-off" "rooted" Stock Rom

I have the HTC Wildfire S from VM, rooted, CWM 5.0.2.6, S-off, and when i try to install any custom rom, it will install fine then ill boot it up and it will be at different points during the bootup process animation screen where it will freeze and restart over and over. Sometimes it will get to the lockscreen and freeze there. The only rom that hasnt done that so far is the CM7 alpha. I have tried to install: .sense, jmz, and team marvelUS rom for the marvelc, and still not able to do anything. Has anyone encountered this problem and fixed it, anyone can give me anything extra to try? i have wiped data/factory reset, wiped cache/dalvik, and battery stats, also tried not wiping any of those. The custom stock rom still works fine if i install it.

XIONTAZ said:
I have the HTC Wildfire S from VM, rooted, CWM 5.0.2.6, S-off, and when i try to install any custom rom, it will install fine then ill boot it up and it will be at different points during the bootup process animation screen where it will freeze and restart over and over. Sometimes it will get to the lockscreen and freeze there. The only rom that hasnt done that so far is the CM7 alpha. I have tried to install: .sense, jmz, and team marvelUS rom for the marvelc, and still not able to do anything. Has anyone encountered this problem and fixed it, anyone can give me anything extra to try? i have wiped data/factory reset, wiped cache/dalvik, and battery stats, also tried not wiping any of those. The custom stock rom still works fine if i install it.
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Did u make a partition before trying jmz and teammarvelusc? I haven't tried .sense yet but I know that at least on jmz u need at least a 512mb partition or u may encounter some problems. Also, what hboot do u have? U could also try formatting /boot to see if that helps. Could also be too high of a CPU oc. Cm7 alpha is set at 600mhz, jmz and teamusc have their kernels oc'd to 806 by default if I'm not mistaken.
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Thanks for your quick reply! I did try the partition of 512mb and just in case a swap of something too haha. My hboot version is 1.06. And on the processor speed that makes sense. Is there a way to change that in the rom before I load it or do I have to luckily catch my phone before it freezes?

There may be a flashable stock kernel out there for marvelc, if anyone would know it would be Simon or insink. There should be one around this forum somewhere I would think.
You could also try m1ndh4xr8's kernel, its oc by default but I've had good luck with it.
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Well I did install that kernel and it actually worked with stock rom, but my wifi now says error haha any ideas. Btw thanks for the clues on the kernel I may just use that one with other roms and see if that works. But any clues on the wifi?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1504329
Try this its made especially for marvelc
Sent from my HTC_A510c

Or check out ROM Manager for flawless ROMs

Well problem with jmz is that it keeps my phone on a reboot loop. And rom manager I tried but it never worked for me on any of my phones for installing roms haha but I did download the rom and installed on cwm.

help
does anyone know where too get the offical img files for virgin mobile usa. like kernel,recovery,system and so on.

No I couldn't find them from VM I found the stock rom on the forum I believe but don't remember where. I still got it do u need it? The rom has the stock kernel in it obviously lol

XIONTAZ said:
Well I did install that kernel and it actually worked with stock rom, but my wifi now says error haha any ideas. Btw thanks for the clues on the kernel I may just use that one with other roms and see if that works. But any clues on the wifi?
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Ya i remember encountering that problem back when there wasn't really any support for marvelc. I attached the 2 kernels i have on my sdcard that i know for sure work completely with no errors. Copy them to your sdcard, then the first thing i would try is boot into cwm, wipe cache and dalvik cache. then flash the attached m2ndh4x8r kernel, as thats the one i currently use. See if that fixes your wifi problem. If it doesn't, then do the same for the attached jmz kernel. If neither of those are fixing the wifi issue, then u will need to install a different rom. When i first bought my phone and was on stock, the wifi didn't even work at all, till i rooted and went custom.

tommyjesanders said:
does anyone know where too get the offical img files for virgin mobile usa. like kernel,recovery,system and so on.
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go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1432425
Use the virgin mobile ruu if you want to go back to stock. This will basically do everything except make u s-on.

[Q] Flashing Rom Cleaner

Hey,
As the title states, I was just curious on how to do this exactly. I couldn't find any threads based on Rom Cleaner other than the main one which I can't post in.
If I flash ARHD 9.7.2 using the method by C4Eva. Do I completely boot the phone up and set it up, then go back into recovery and install RC from the zip? Or do I just install ARHD then RC without booting and setting up ARHD?
Might sound normal to most people but I guess the basic order of it isn't too clear to me. Also, I can't link the video since I'm a newbie, it's in the ARHD initial post though.

it can be done both ways as i have done it both ways and never had any problems but its recommended to make a full boot before doing any thing like that

Thanks for the reply man! I appreciate it. I'll give it a run later on.

Full boot after installing a mod but rom cleaner removes loads of stuff so before boot i would of thought
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Yeah, before a boot is best.

Installing a different ROM

Hello every one. I have a rooted Desire HD with S-OFF running cyanogenmod 7.1 and the phone is constantly restarting when i power it on.
after the "3" logo sometimes it just gets stuck at the Cyanogen loading screen. Any suggestion?
I wanted to upgrade to a different ROM that runs a stable ICS, open to suggestions.
p.s im new to this flashing thing, i but the phone it was already rooted and stuff.

sarvech said:
Hello every one. I have a rooted Desire HD with S-OFF running cyanogenmod 7.1 and the phone is constantly restarting when i power it on.
after the "3" logo sometimes it just gets stuck at the Cyanogen loading screen. Any suggestion?
I wanted to upgrade to a different ROM that runs a stable ICS, open to suggestions.
p.s im new to this flashing thing, i but the phone it was already rooted and stuff.
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Did the phone come with that ROM or did you flash it yourself? If you flashed it yourself, where did you get it?
I would say just full wipe (make sure you wipe system, data, and cache) and flash a new ROM, since you were planning to anyway. (Remember to back up your apps and settings with Titanium Backup or something similar if you want to save anything.) aospX in the Inspire 4G dev forums (which are compatible with Desire HDs) is a good stable ICS ROM. IceColdSandwich is a more customizable one from the DHD dev forums. If the new ROM still has problems then post again.

I had to get the mobo on my device changed for some reason and this new one had all of this already pre installed.
so i did a complete wipe using a script and after that installed blackout ics 4.0.4 with sense 3.6. it installed successfully and now The phone restarts after the boot is complete again and again, the same used to happen on the previous rom. I removed the simcard and it works just fine.

sarvech said:
I had to get the mobo on my device changed for some reason and this new one had all of this already pre installed.
so i did a complete wipe using a script and after that installed blackout ics 4.0.4 with sense 3.6. it installed successfully and now The phone restarts after the boot is complete again and again, the same used to happen on the previous rom. I removed the simcard and it works just fine.
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Which wipe script? This does matter; some scripts can reformat your partitions incorrectly.
EDIT: and just to clarify. This phone came to you with S-OFF and CM7.1. It had bootloops. You then flashed Blackout. Still bootloops. You then removed the SIM card. It now boots properly. Is that accurate?

bananagranola said:
Which wipe script? This does matter; some scripts can reformat your partitions incorrectly.
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Android Revolution HD Super Wipe Desire HD.zip. But the simcard issue existed since the previous rom. The phone would restart after booting up instantly, i remove the simcard and voila its working normally.

sarvech said:
Android Revolution HD Super Wipe Desire HD.zip. But the simcard issue existed since the previous rom. The phone would restart after booting up instantly, i remove the simcard and voila its working normally.
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What I would do is, try full wiping and flashing a stock ROM. Or you could try ARHD, which is close. If the issue is still present on stock, it could very well be a hardware issue.

Okay i can try that.. Quick question. after i do a full wipe how do i install a stock rom?

sarvech said:
Okay i can try that.. Quick question. after i do a full wipe how do i install a stock rom?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192372

You can use SuperWipe (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=840040) or EXT4 wipe (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=868720) scripts.
I use ext4 wipe scripts to wipe my Ace.

sarvech said:
Android Revolution HD Super Wipe Desire HD.zip. But the simcard issue existed since the previous rom. The phone would restart after booting up instantly, i remove the simcard and voila its working normally.
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Also try replacing the SIM. Sim can be a problem.
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[Q] Incredible 2 Bootloop and ROM Problems

Hey Guys Thank You For Taking A Look At My Thread.Lets Cut To The Chase.I Have A HUGE PROBLEM with my Replacement Incredible 2.I Rooted my phone with Tacoroot,and everything was fine.Flashed Condemed CM7.2 and started realizing i didn't like it as much,so i made a BACKUP just in case i wanted to return to the CM goodness.Went to TSMTrinity's Sense 2.1 Version 4.5 S,and here's where the problem started happening. After I set up everything on my Sense 2.1 ROM,i backed it up,the screen would get to the boot animation,get past the boot animation,id see my lock screen for 1 SECOND,and then it would start the bootup again.seeing as this was a problem,i WIPED All Cache and Factory Reset/Wipe Data on My Revolutionary Recovery.Then,I Restored the 2.1 Backup that i created and everything was fine again.Then again,i decided to Flash Mikrunny's Sense 3.5 ROM,which after i set up,worked fine,UNTIL YESTERDAY.I was driving in my car yesterday,listening to music on The STOCK HTC Music app on Sense 3.5,and the phone rebooted on its own.And it would not stop until i took the battery out.I got home,charged the battery for a bit,(shut down that is),then headed to recovery.I took out the SD card and rebooted the phone,but no luck.tried this rebooting process for an hour,until i decided to wipe cache and factory reset to my 2.1 ROM BACKUP.it works,but i just wanna know,am i doing something noobingly wrong when backing up and restoring roms? Also,i use Revolutionary's Backup,or I think its called Nandroid,to do backups and restores,and ROM MANAGER to edit their names and delete them.Also,an added side to his problem,when i boot to the Hboot screen,when it loads,for a few of the items it says,missing or wrong image.could that be the problem?? THANK YOU SO MUCH WHO REPLIES AND HELPS.:crying:

DroidUser_Wind said:
Hey Guys Thank You For Taking A Look At My Thread.Lets Cut To The Chase.I Have A HUGE PROBLEM with my Replacement Incredible 2.I Rooted my phone with Tacoroot,and everything was fine.Flashed Condemed CM7.2 and started realizing i didn't like it as much,so i made a BACKUP just in case i wanted to return to the CM goodness.Went to TSMTrinity's Sense 2.1 Version 4.5 S,and here's where the problem started happening. After I set up everything on my Sense 2.1 ROM,i backed it up,the screen would get to the boot animation,get past the boot animation,id see my lock screen for 1 SECOND,and then it would start the bootup again.seeing as this was a problem,i WIPED All Cache and Factory Reset/Wipe Data on My Revolutionary Recovery.Then,I Restored the 2.1 Backup that i created and everything was fine again.Then again,i decided to Flash Mikrunny's Sense 3.5 ROM,which after i set up,worked fine,UNTIL YESTERDAY.I was driving in my car yesterday,listening to music on The STOCK HTC Music app on Sense 3.5,and the phone rebooted on its own.And it would not stop until i took the battery out.I got home,charged the battery for a bit,(shut down that is),then headed to recovery.I took out the SD card and rebooted the phone,but no luck.tried this rebooting process for an hour,until i decided to wipe cache and factory reset to my 2.1 ROM BACKUP.it works,but i just wanna know,am i doing something noobingly wrong when backing up and restoring roms? Also,i use Revolutionary's Backup,or I think its called Nandroid,to do backups and restores,and ROM MANAGER to edit their names and delete them.Also,an added side to his problem,when i boot to the Hboot screen,when it loads,for a few of the items it says,missing or wrong image.could that be the problem?? THANK YOU SO MUCH WHO REPLIES AND HELPS.:crying:
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1..update your recovery which is probly clockwork mod....i suggest you get your phone usable for a few minutes and go to 4ext.net and download and install that..its touch based recovery or also check out twrp if you want an alt if you dont like it
2....update your radio ...newest one can be found in the venom rom thread i think there are directions there http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1953899
3.....wipe everything ....check out my wipe script in the dev section if you want max cleanification http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2013242
4...flash what ever rom...if you like sense use viper i hear good things or check out my incredibly paranoid rom or all the other roms ..pick your poison

chillybean said:
1..update your recovery which is probly clockwork mod....i suggest you get your phone usable for a few minutes and go to 4ext.net and download and install that..its touch based recovery or also check out twrp if you want an alt if you dont like it
2....update your radio ...newest one can be found in the venom rom thread i think there are directions there http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1953899
3.....wipe everything ....check out my wipe script in the dev section if you want max cleanification http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2013242
4...flash what ever rom...if you like sense use viper i hear good things or check out my incredibly paranoid rom or all the other roms ..pick your poison
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DUDE.THANK YOU so MUCH FOR REPLYING.Ill try what you told me tonight,and ill let you know how it goes down.thanks again chills.:good:

chillybean said:
1..update your recovery which is probly clockwork mod....i suggest you get your phone usable for a few minutes and go to 4ext.net and download and install that..its touch based recovery or also check out twrp if you want an alt if you dont like it
2....update your radio ...newest one can be found in the venom rom thread i think there are directions there http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1953899
3.....wipe everything ....check out my wipe script in the dev section if you want max cleanification http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2013242
4...flash what ever rom...if you like sense use viper i hear good things or check out my incredibly paranoid rom or all the other roms ..pick your poison
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What OP wrote applies to me as well. I am looking for something better than aerovan's CM9 (which has been my DD), and thought I would give Viper a try. Without fail, bootlooping (which I could have guessed since I did tacoroot and this seems to be an issue with sense based roms).
That said, I tried steps 1 through 4 and the bootlooping stopped in Viper - it goes through startup and just shuts down before leaving the boot screen. One strange thing that I noticed is that the ICS Firmware/radio with Viper (which I loaded in CWM), wouldn't load in 4ext. Maybe I'll give paranoid a go if I can't resolve this bootlooping issue in Viper! I hope OP has better luck.

U don't flash radio in cwm..look for a how to.. can't explain I'm working sry
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I'm not as knowledgeable as Chilly, but a thought did occur to me. if the cm9 rom included a kernel on the flash and then you went to a sense based rom that didn't include a kernel that could cause a problem. I believe that I read that cm using a kernel that is asop based while sense roms use a different based kernel. You may check to see what kernel you have and then check for the recomended kernel for that rom and flash that kernel. don't forget to wipe.

Jasonp0 said:
I'm not as knowledgeable as Chilly, but a thought did occur to me. if the cm9 rom included a kernel on the flash and then you went to a sense based rom that didn't include a kernel that could cause a problem. I believe that I read that cm using a kernel that is asop based while sense roms use a different based kernel. You may check to see what kernel you have and then check for the recomended kernel for that rom and flash that kernel. don't forget to wipe.
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All of the roms come with a kernel for our phone, but certainly, don't flash a sense kernel with aosp or vice versa after rom flash. Chilly is right. Flashing a newer radio should fix the problem and the radio is flashed with a PG32IMG.zip in the bootloader, not in the recovery.

gtdtm said:
All of the roms come with a kernel for our phone, but certainly, don't flash a sense kernel with aosp or vice versa after rom flash. Chilly is right. Flashing a newer radio should fix the problem and the radio is flashed with a PG32IMG.zip in the bootloader, not in the recovery.
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Good call. When chilly said you don't flash kernels in recovery I hit my head. I flashed the radio, but now my challenge is getting back into recovery since I renamed the file and bootloader always finds it and wants to reboot or I load CM9 which stays on flash screen. I'll figure something out, maybe with adb. Thanks.

Power down, pop the sd out, boot to recovery, rename file, profit.

gtdtm said:
Power down, pop the sd out, boot to recovery, rename file, profit.
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Didn't think of that. adb did the trick though. In business with VenomInc!
Thank you all.

digitalshepard said:
Didn't think of that. adb did the trick though. In business with VenomInc!
Thank you all.
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good lucking going back to aosp lol

almost thesame problem
chillybean said:
U don't flash radio in cwm..look for a how to.. can't explain I'm working sry
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i made a stupid mistake of flashing radio in recovery, in fact the radio is for Samsung at&t and now my phone vibrates it doesnt show htc quietly brilliant, only vibrates and orange light with black screen untill i pull out the battery... i was able to return to stuck and it can only boot if its connected to power, it doesn't read sd card while android is booted and in recovery to, only in bootloader it reads sd... error in mounting if i try to... i flashed RUU.exe 2.3.3 and 2 other RUUs for my droid inc 2 but it keeps vibrating... please help me!!! thanks

I made the same mistake when i first gained s-off for my dinc2. the thing with the venom rom tho is if you ever want to go back to aosp ull need to gets chill's anti-venom zip and flash it through recovery because doing a normal wipe wont do the trick. also a helpful trick that worked for me with roms if i ever start getting boot loops i go into recovery from the bootloader menu and i wipe the dalvik cache under advanced and then wipe the chache under mounts and storage and it always works like a charm for me. but ive also learned that you have to be careful which kernel you flash with the rom of your choice because not only will it cause lags if you happen to get past the boot animation to the main screen but in some cases it can cause breaks in your framework like your wifi data etc. im not an expert tho those are just suggestions that im familiar with because theyve already happened to me before. hope this helps in any way.