Hey folk,
My buddy & I both have EVO 4G's, I rooted mine yesterday, downloaded rom manager did a backup and than downloaded a rom and everything went smooth no problems.
Now today I rooted by friends phone the same way I did mine, when It came to doing a backup or downloading a rom, every time it goes to reboot after the rom is downloaded or you do a backup, it will reboot and than all you see is the white screen and it showing the evo 4G logo.
I don't know what I did wrong? the root went successful and everything else is fine.
Any help folks thanks.
How long is it staying on the splash screen? Sometimes it can take a few minutes.
Is it stuck on the splash screen or can you get it up & running?
teh roxxorz said:
How long is it staying on the splash screen? Sometimes it can take a few minutes.
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It was stuck on the splash screen for about 15 min or so than the battery died.
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Is it stuck on the splash screen or can you get it up & running?
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It stays stuck on the flash screen it won't move, last it was running for 15 min on the splash screen and than the battery died, so I plugged it in to the charger and powered it up and it was still the stock rom but still was rooted.
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It stays stuck on the flash screen it won't move, last it was running for 15 min on the splash screen and than the battery died, so I plugged it in to the charger and powered it up and it was still the stock rom but still was rooted.
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First thing: don't try to flash anything with a battery lower than 35%. It might be okay at levels lower than 35%, but it's better to be safe. You don't want to be flashing something after a wipe & the phone shut off.
Second: for some reason after rooting my phone, it takes a lot longer to reboot than it used to. This isn't something that always happens but it does some times. The first couple times it would even get stuck on the splash screen & I'd eventually pull the battery. I found that after I switched to amon ra recovery it stopped happening. You could try switching recoveries, but if you do rom manager won't function anymore & you'll have to do everything manually. It's not difficult.
Try again, this time with a full battery, and see what happens. Make sure cwm says that the flash was successful. If it takes a really long time to reboot, pull the battery & power it on normally. Sometimes it takes a while after wiping/flashing because it has to rebuild cache and/or load the rom for the first time, but it shouldn't take 15 minutes.
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First thing: don't try to flash anything with a battery lower than 35%. It might be okay at levels lower than 35%, but it's better to be safe. You don't want to be flashing something after a wipe & the phone shut off.
Second: for some reason after rooting my phone, it takes a lot longer to reboot than it used to. This isn't something that always happens but it does some times. The first couple times it would even get stuck on the splash screen & I'd eventually pull the battery. I found that after I switched to amon ra recovery it stopped happening. You could try switching recoveries, but if you do rom manager won't function anymore & you'll have to do everything manually. It's not difficult.
Try again, this time with a full battery, and see what happens. Make sure cwm says that the flash was successful. If it takes a really long time to reboot, pull the battery & power it on normally. Sometimes it takes a while after wiping/flashing because it has to rebuild cache and/or load the rom for the first time, but it shouldn't take 15 minutes.
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Every said was correct. But I'd like to add, that its possible that it didn't wipe fully. The screen should never hang on the splash for 15 minutes...five is normal, and sometimes happens after flashing. But like plainjane said, try another wipe. Also, flashing under 35%, it'll flash, but if your phone dies midway, expect to have a fancy paper weight.
plainjane said:
First thing: don't try to flash anything with a battery lower than 35%. It might be okay at levels lower than 35%, but it's better to be safe. You don't want to be flashing something after a wipe & the phone shut off.
Second: for some reason after rooting my phone, it takes a lot longer to reboot than it used to. This isn't something that always happens but it does some times. The first couple times it would even get stuck on the splash screen & I'd eventually pull the battery. I found that after I switched to amon ra recovery it stopped happening. You could try switching recoveries, but if you do rom manager won't function anymore & you'll have to do everything manually. It's not difficult.
Try again, this time with a full battery, and see what happens. Make sure cwm says that the flash was successful. If it takes a really long time to reboot, pull the battery & power it on normally. Sometimes it takes a while after wiping/flashing because it has to rebuild cache and/or load the rom for the first time, but it shouldn't take 15 minutes.
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teh roxxorz said:
Every said was correct. But I'd like to add, that its possible that it didn't wipe fully. The screen should never hang on the splash for 15 minutes...five is normal, and sometimes happens after flashing. But like plainjane said, try another wipe. Also, flashing under 35%, it'll flash, but if your phone dies midway, expect to have a fancy paper weight.
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Thanks Guys I will give it another try, but I would also like to men-son nothing gets flashed, the phone reboots - black screen than white screen and thats all.
When I did the same thing to my EVO the white screen stayed for about 40 secs and than started flashing.
I will try to remove rom manager and reinstall it.
So I am still having trouble with my friends EVO, it stays on the splash screen and won't change it lasted for an hour and than I pulled the battery.
Nothing happen to phone.
When I try to unrevoke it, it asks me if my version is new and reboots.
Even when I try to go to clockwork it gets stuck on the splash screen.
What am I doing wrong?
does anyone not have an answer for this?
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does anyone not have an answer for this?
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I'm not sure this will help you, but if it were me, I would download unrevoked's s-on zip and flash that. Then get the PC36IMG.zip for the Stock unrooted 3.70 OTA and install that so you will be completely back to stock and unrooted.
Then try to root again. Also, try Amon Ra since clockwork was giving you trouble.
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I'm not sure this will help you, but if it were me, I would download unrevoked's s-on zip and flash that. Then get the PC36IMG.zip for the Stock unrooted 3.70 OTA and install that so you will be completely back to stock and unrooted.
Then try to root again. Also, try Amon Ra since clockwork was giving you trouble.
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I would recommend this as well, link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884060
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I'm not sure this will help you, but if it were me, I would download unrevoked's s-on zip and flash that. Then get the PC36IMG.zip for the Stock unrooted 3.70 OTA and install that so you will be completely back to stock and unrooted.
Then try to root again. Also, try Amon Ra since clockwork was giving you trouble.
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I would recommend this as well, link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884060
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Thanks I will give it a try.
One more question, the link you gave me, which one should I use being there is multiple links.
Thanks
Tried to do the recovery and same issue I can not get into clockworks so I am basically stuck, If I goto recovery it will just get stuck at the white splash screen.
I am really lost at what to do now
2005blkgto said:
Tried to do the recovery and same issue I can not get into clockworks so I am basically stuck, If I goto recovery it will just get stuck at the white splash screen.
I am really lost at what to do now
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Can you boot into your ROM at all?
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No not at all.
If I power down than press volume down and power it will take me to the screen where I can goto to recovery but when I select it and try to go to recovery it will reboot and show the white splash screen that says EVO 4G and thats it, it will just stay there.
If I try to download a ROM or do a Backup and when it reboots to the same white splash screen it will just stay stuck there.
It looks to me the phone is partially rooted cause wireless tether, superusers, rom manager works but when I tried to download titanium so I can do the unroot and wipe the data clean titanium won't work.
At this point I have read a-lot of other posts and tried many other things but they all require me to go into clockworks which I can't. I even tried another method I seen on Youtube but I can't find unrevoked on my EVO anywhere.
I mean can you boot your phone up normally, and from the looks of it you can. You just need to reflash your recovery. Boot your phone up, go into ROM Manager and hit flash clockwork. After doing that, choose the flash alternate recovery option to flash Amon Ra and then do all your ROM flashing through recovery and not through ROM manager from here on out.
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I mean can you boot your phone up normally, and from the looks of it you can. You just need to reflash your recovery. Boot your phone up, go into ROM Manager and hit flash clockwork. After doing that, choose the flash alternate recovery option to flash Amon Ra and then do all your ROM flashing through recovery and not through ROM manager from here on out.
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I will try this tonight.
Thanks
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I installed a new rom that I ended up not liking as much as I thought I would so I restored to the nandroid backup I had previously made. Now when I turn the phone on it gets stuck at the white "htc Incredible" screen. I have pulled the battery and can get into recovery but when I try to turn it on normally it does not work. Anybody know how I can fix this?
Go into recovery, which you say you can do, and try your nandroid restore again. If that fails, it may be a corrupt nandroid. Worst case, wipe clean and flash the previous ROM that you know works and rebuild your apps and data.
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I installed a new rom that I ended up not liking as much as I thought I would so I restored to the nandroid backup I had previously made. Now when I turn the phone on it gets stuck at the white "htc Incredible" screen. I have pulled the battery and can get into recovery but when I try to turn it on normally it does not work. Anybody know how I can fix this?
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Thank you very much. I could not restore to the backup I had made and I never thought to just go back to the rom I had on the SD card. Thank you.
Not trying to threadjack here but I have mostly the same problem so I thought I would just add it here. I was flashed Ruby 2.02 ROM and was just setting things up when my phone rebooted it would not get past the htc incredible splash screen so I read to pull the battery and try to reboot into recovery. When I tried to reboot into recovery my phone just vibrated 3 times then went dead. Did my phone just get bricked or what? ANY help would be awesome!
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Not trying to threadjack here but I have mostly the same problem so I thought I would just add it here. I was flashed Ruby 2.02 ROM and was just setting things up when my phone rebooted it would not get past the htc incredible splash screen so I read to pull the battery and try to reboot into recovery. When I tried to reboot into recovery my phone just vibrated 3 times then went dead. Did my phone just get bricked or what? ANY help would be awesome!
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Can you still get to recovery now? If so, you are probably ok.
I am able to get into recovery but if I try to reboot from there it is still stuck at the splash screen. I think my sd card is not working right now, so I am not able to flash anything. Is my only solution a factory reset?
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I am able to get into recovery but if I try to reboot from there it is still stuck at the splash screen. I think my sd card is not working right now, so I am not able to flash anything. Is my only solution a factory reset?
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You need to boot recovery, wipe and flash a known working rom and start completely over. You really need to get a working card.
Well I flashed one and the problem didn't change so I am now flashing an older one of a different ROM that I hope will work.
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Well I flashed one and the problem didn't change so I am now flashing an older one of a different ROM that I hope will work.
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complete wipe???
Good news!! The second backup I flashed worked! I think I should be okay for now, thanks for the help userjf.
I got this screen today on my htc evo 4g and cant get past it. I dont know if I killed my phone or what so i am hoping someone can help me. the picture isnt the greatest but is an android with a white box and an arrow. it just keeps looping.
Were you flashing something before this happened?
A radio update maybe?
(from... Evo/MIUI/Tapatalk)
i flast mikfroyo 4.62 and it was fine, then under titanium backup i accidently, restored andriod keyboard(which kept force closing it was from a different rom) so i did something and it asked to uninstall i said yes and now it goes to that screeen
You should just reflash
We're comin from a pure power source.
when i try to do anything in recovery it goes to that screen
When the screen finishes installing whatever it is installing, turn off your device. Now simultaneously press the DOWN volume button and the power button until your device starts. After a short pause, a few lines of text should scroll across the screen. At the top, you should see either S-ON or S-OFF. Hopefully, it will display S-OFF. if it does not, you need to re-root. If it displays S-ON, go to the options on the left side of the screen and select recovery. Your phone will then boot into recovery. Once in recovery, restore a nandroid backup, if you've made any. If not, go to the wipe menu and wipe EVERYTHING except the SD card and then reflash whatever rom you want to flash. If you continue to return to the screen you posted, you may need to re-flash a recovery. I suggest amon_RA. You can flash its PC36IMG.zip from file from the bootloader screen (The screen I directed you to at the beginning of my reply).
Yes it does say S-off, the screen that i took a picture of the status bar at the bottom goes about half way across and then starts over again, it will go to the bootloader screen but will not engage to recovery, i do have backups i always run one before i change anything
Okay, then download the PC36IMG.zip file for amon_RA recovery by clicking on "amon_RA" in my previous post. When the download is finished, place the file on the root of your SD card (not in any folder) and then shutdown your device. Boot back into the bootloader screen. The bootloader should autodetect the file and prompt you to install. Follow the easy prompts to install. Installation should be less than 10 seconds. When you're finished, reboot into your new recovery. From there, you should be able to flash roms again. If you used amon_RA to make your backups, you *should* be able to restore them, but if you used clockworkMod, then do not attempt to restore using amon_RA.
all of my recoveries are clockworkmod, so after i change to amon ra flash a rom that i have saved and the other recoveries dont use?
Yes, the main thing is to get you up and running with a working rom. After that, I suggest you make a backup using amon_RA, however, if you want to use the backups you made with CWM, then after you've successfully flashed a rom, download the ROM Manager app and have it install ClockworkMod for you. Afterwards, you should be able to restore your previous backups.
I agree with the getting up and running part, i have heard amon ra is alot better than clockworkmod, but just hadnt tried it yet, keeping my fingers crossed that this will work, just guessing here that since i have gotten some great feedback, that i didnt brick my phone?
If your phone starts and you can get to the bootloader or recovery, you ARE NOT BRICKED!...lol
dougjamal thank you so much it got past the screen and it is acting like nothing ever happened, this is a prime reason why these forums are great, thank you everyone for reading and responding
You're very welcome, my friend. I'm glad I was able to help. Take care and enjoy the rest of your day...
I tried to flash the latest (at that time) Synergy Rom on Sunday. I had been trying out Sense 3.0 Roms since being on Cyanogen for 3 months and low in behold after flashing and rebooting, the phone hung on the splash screen, wouldn't even get to the boot animation. I pulled the battery out to reboot and kept doing the same things. So then i just figured I go through bootloader to get to recovery. When I hit recovery, the phone hung on the splash screen and thus I was forced to report my phone lost because I use it for work and was able to get a new one the next day (had to pull out my old bb 8530). The phone charges, but it will not do anything when powering on, or hitting recovery but go to splash. Once again when i try to go into recovery, it won't get there.
Any Help Please.
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I tried to flash the latest (at that time) Synergy Rom on Sunday. I had been trying out Sense 3.0 Roms since being on Cyanogen for 3 months and low in behold after flashing and rebooting, the phone hung on the splash screen, wouldn't even get to the boot animation. I pulled the battery out to reboot and kept doing the same things. So then i just figured I go through bootloader to get to recovery. When I hit recovery, the phone hung on the splash screen and thus I was forced to report my phone lost because I use it for work and was able to get a new one the next day (had to pull out my old bb 8530). The phone charges, but it will not do anything when powering on, or hitting recovery but go to splash. Once again when i try to go into recovery, it won't get there.
Any Help Please.
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You need to reflash your recovery. Is it just hanging at the splash screen, or is it rebooting at the splash screen?
Download this PC36IMG I attatched (it's Amon RA recovery v2.3). Place the file on the main directory of your sd card (you'll probably need to take the SD card and use a card reader to get the file on the card....or put the card in another phone with an sd slot if you have access to one...just get the PC36IMG.zip file on your card). Once it's on the card and card's back in the phone, boot to your bootloader. It should scan and find the PC36IMG then ask you to update...select vol up to say yes. Should finish in 10-15 seconds. Then when it asks you to reboot, say no. Now from the bootloader menu, choose recovery. Do you successfully boot to recovery now, hopefully?
Ok, I got that, I put cyanogens latest release candidate from 5/5 on the card, I have Ra's recovery up, i guess i jumped ahead and the install aborted, tips please.
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Ok, I got that, I put cyanogens latest release candidate from 5/5 on the card, I have Ra's recovery up, i guess i jumped ahead and the install aborted, tips please.
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So what part aborted? When you were flashing the rom? Just to clarify, you did successfully get the recovery flashed, right? Now it's the rom you're having trouble flashing?
If so, I'd be sure that you don't have a corrupted download. Check the md5 checksum, or simply try redownloading it and trying again. Good luck.
It starts to install the ROM, then it all of a sudden aborts after getting 50-75 percent complete. I'm trying RC 7.3 now, wala, it worked, well i have an extra evo now i need to figure out what to do with it. BIG THANKS.
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It starts to install the ROM, then it all of a sudden aborts after getting 50-75 percent complete. I'm trying RC 7.3 now, wala, it worked, well i have an extra evo now i need to figure out what to do with it. BIG THANKS.
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You're welcome, glad you got it squared away.
As far as having two Evo's...just be careful. If I'm not mistaken, when you report a phone lost or stolen to Sprint, they will make the ESN bad. I'd check into that, to make sure that one them doesn't have a bad ESN. I didn't even catch that part of your OP that you had already gotten a new one, lol.
So I guess that will make the phone useless if I give it to my father in-law.
turn it back in n say u found it...in other words the right thing
after doing amon ra3.0.7 nandriod
sorry if question is silly. but last night i flash from cwm to amon ra 3.0.7 everything went good, rebooted phone fine. i rebooted into recovery did a nandriod back evrything fine. i did a reboit to recovery wipe everything except sd card and flash a custom rom and rebooted fine. i went back into revovery did a nandriod backup went fine. i went to reboot my phone and its stuck at splash screen. I followed Hip Kat instruction to the letter. di i miss something
any help would be greatly
I've been running a Sense ROM the last few days and wit the 3 different Sense Kernels I've flashed, I got stuck on the ROM's Splash Screen, had to do a battery pull and reboot and it was fine.
That could be your problem right there.
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I've been running a Sense ROM the last few days and wit the 3 different Sense Kernels I've flashed, I got stuck on the ROM's Splash Screen, had to do a battery pull and reboot and it was fine.
That could be your problem right there.
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it was me i jump the gun after i flashed custom rom. i di all kinds of mods then i tried to nandriod. md5 check sum mismatch, so i just wiped everthing except sd card, reflashed custom rom its all good now. By the way thanks for your input about cwm being junk you were right amon ra is awesome, no more cwm for
ok here goes:
I have been wanting to flash my main phone with the http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1425040 (Express ROM), so after backing everything up, I started. I went into recovery but noticed that I had the ra-recovery-2.3 and wanted to update to the recovery-ra-supersonic-3.11-gnm.img, so I connected phone and opened Androir Flasher, and proceeded to flash, I used the same process on the first phone. After finished I exited and went into hboot, in there I selected recovery and it went straight to the HTC splash screen and stayed put, so I pulled the battery and tried again, but got stuck same place. I am able to get back into the phone, and is is working fine, but just cant get into the recovery, to be able to flash the rom.
I did try the PC36IMG.zip method with hboot, and after going thru install, I rebooted and still no luck same screen. If I pull battery and put it back and turn on it will load up phone ok.
Guess I have to wait, anyone have any clues?
Just flash the normal Amon Ra. There's a link to the pc36img in my guide (in my sig)
I had this issue once when running MIUI and it turned out to be an app that wouldn't let me reboot in to recovery I have no idea why, but I just started uninstalling apps then tried to reboot into recovery and it worked just fine.
But since you used the system image I really dont know. sorry :/
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Just flash the normal Amon Ra. There's a link to the pc36img in my guide (in my sig)
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ok cool thanks will check it out, and let you know what happened.
Amon RA 3.11 works just fine and no longer do I have to rape my hardware buttons since all the capacitives work for navigation home=up menu=down back=back and search=select
I was able to Install the anon ra 2.3 , and with that was able to flash the express 2.1 ROM, its doing fine now. Thanks
For the past several months my phone would restart randomly when I used 3G, GPS or sometime just from heavy usage. It would turn off, boot to the white HTC screen but then the screen went black and it would vibrate 3 times and a led would blink. At that point the only way to turn it back on was to pull the battery and power on (although that usually didn't work until after a few tries or letting it sit for a while).
It has done this with both CM7.1 and decks 1.3 and with the Tiamat 3.3.7 & 4.1 kernels. I flashed Mason .14 on Tuesday hoping it might fix the problem. It did at first but after 24 hours it was back to restarting randomly, only this time it was worse. I was also getting a lot of force closes and it would restart even it was sitting unused. It would take hours until I could get it to successfully boot again. I attempted to do a full wipe and install CM7.2 yesterday only to find out I can not boot into recovery, attempting to do so causes the phone to turn off (I tried both through holding the power button and selecting recovery and through the bootloader).
As of right now my phone will not turn back on at all (going on 4 hours), I've had it successfully boot twice only to immediately turn off, other times it gets stuck on the white HTC screen.
I am still able to access the bootloader so I'm thinking my best option may be to place a PC36IMG.zip on my sdcard and see if I can't flash back to stock and then load CM7.2. My concerns are a) not sure if that will even work b) if the phone were to turn off in the middle of that would it completely brick my phone?
Sorry for the long post but I just wanted to provide as much info as possible. Any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Can't boot into recovery? Have you tried reflashing your recovery? Get a PC36IMG file of your desired recovery (preferably amonRA, or drellisdee) and flash it thru bootloader. It only takes a second to flash, so I wouldn't be too worried about it shutting off while flashing it.
That's all I got.
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Can't boot into recovery? Have you tried reflashing your recovery? Get a PC36IMG file of your desired recovery (preferably amonRA, or drellisdee) and flash it thru bootloader. It only takes a second to flash, so I wouldn't be too worried about it shutting off while flashing it.
That's all I got.
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Unfortunately that doesn't work. Flashes the recovery just fine but I still can't access it. I did manage to get my phone to boot into android after trying, not sure if that's a coincidence or not.
So I'm left with my original option, flashing a stock PC36IMG.zip. Also this might be a dumb question but can I rename anything PC36IMG.zip and flash? If so I could just rename Calkulin's format all, flash that and then repeat the process with CM7.2. Anyone know if this will work?
Edit: Should probably also ask if anyone knows what is causing this, is it a kernel issue?
Just a thought, maybe a bad battery or a bad usb?
Did you try the battery in another phone? Or, another battery in your phone?
Sounds like it may also be going for the reboot of death... If your recovery is corrupted and getting random reboots, maybe your internal storage is going bad...
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Just a thought, maybe a bad battery or a bad usb?
Did you try the battery in another phone? Or, another battery in your phone?
Sounds like it may also be going for the reboot of death... If your recovery is corrupted and getting random reboots, maybe your internal storage is going bad...
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I was able to flash back to stock and it is still having similar problems. Turns off during any sort of data usage both 3g and Wifi. The fact that it has happened on multiple ROMs, multiple kernels, and multiple radios makes me think it is something hardware related. I guess I will talk to sprint and see what they can do.
BTW does anyone know of a method to flash an S-On zip file as a PC36IMG in the bootloader? I am still S-Off because I can't go into recovery to flash.
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BTW does anyone know of a method to flash an S-On zip file as a PC36IMG in the bootloader? I am still S-Off because I can't go into recovery to flash.
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Well after going back to stock but still being S-Off I decided to try reflashing Amon_RA and I eventually got it to boot into recovery. It was similar to booting into the OS, I just had to pull the battery and wait 30+ mins before trying and then boot into bootloader and select recovery. It was a PITA since I needed flash a couple things but it worked. Got it back to S-On and took it to Sprint. Of course they didn't bother checking for any of that haha but I was able to get a replacement EVO.