Over the last few months, I have noticed that my phone tends to get stuck on the splashscreen ALOT. I notice it when I reboot the phone. I can't remember it really ever being like this.
Someone did make a custom boot screen (The Michael Jordan symbol by Rydah in the Theme's and App forum.) I am in no way saying it's this or his fault or anything, I just have noticed it happening a lot sometime after I added that file.
I have flashed a lot of rom's here and there (always wiping ALL and using the format.all 2x before flashing a new ROM.)
I was wondering if anyone else has encountered anything like this and if they were able to correct it somehow? Or, if anyone has any suggestions on what I can do to try and correct this so anytime I reboot, it reboots normally instead of locking up?
BTW, when it locks up, I do the battery pull and let the battery sit for 30 seconds before I put the battery back in and reboot.
Thank you,
Whiteice
Well the phone will take slightly longer to boot up once you wipe the caches, because they have to rebuild. Do you wipe your cache and dalvik when flashing a boot animation?
WhiteiceDMSTech said:
Over the last few months, I have noticed that my phone tends to get stuck on the splashscreen ALOT. I notice it when I reboot the phone. I can't remember it really ever being like this.
Someone did make a custom boot screen (The Michael Jordan symbol by Rydah in the Theme's and App forum.) I am in no way saying it's this or his fault or anything, I just have noticed it happening a lot sometime after I added that file.
I have flashed a lot of rom's here and there (always wiping ALL and using the format.all 2x before flashing a new ROM.)
I was wondering if anyone else has encountered anything like this and if they were able to correct it somehow? Or, if anyone has any suggestions on what I can do to try and correct this so anytime I reboot, it reboots normally instead of locking up?
BTW, when it locks up, I do the battery pull and let the battery sit for 30 seconds before I put the battery back in and reboot.
Thank you,
Whiteice
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That's never really happened to me on a consistent basis. I've got stuck at the splash screen a couple of times, but it was my own doing one way or another. How long do you let it hang on the Splash screen before you pull the battery? Sometimes mine will sit on the splash for a good minute or so during a normal reboot. After wiping cache's it can sit there for a good 3 or 4 minutes sometimes. I've caught myself pulling hte back cover off the phone to yank the battery, then I notice that the boot animation was starting, and it booted up. I just wasn't patient enough. Have you tried changing away from that boot animation, temporarily, to see if the problem goes away? I doubt that's the cause, but you never know. And if it started happening right when you changed boot animations, I'd say the first thing to try would be changing out to a different one, and see if the problem persists. Has this been happening on any ROM/Kernel combo you've tried? Perhaps it's the kernel you're on, have you tried another? Do you use SetCPU?
Thank you for the responses.
Just to make sure, it is not the boot animation but the splash screen (Originally the white screen that had EVO on it) that I have changed.
The boot animation screens are usually the ones that comes with whatever ROM I am using. I have done the particle motion boot animation from time to time.
And, anytime I flash I flash in recovery, I always ALWAYS wipe cache and dalvik cache (Unless I am flashing a new ROM, then I wipe everything 2x prior to flashing it.)
I usually let the splashscreen sit for about a minute, maybe 2 if that. I was under the impression that if the splashscreen sits there for more then a minute, then I should battery pull to fix it?
I use different kernels to try them out depending on if I am using a sense based or AOSP rom, and it seems to happen no matter what kernel. I do not use SetCPU.
Whiteice
WhiteiceDMSTech said:
Thank you for the responses.
Just to make sure, it is not the boot animation but the splash screen (Originally the white screen that had EVO on it) that I have changed.
The boot animation screens are usually the ones that comes with whatever ROM I am using. I have done the particle motion boot animation from time to time.
And, anytime I flash I flash in recovery, I always ALWAYS wipe cache and dalvik cache (Unless I am flashing a new ROM, then I wipe everything 2x prior to flashing it.)
I usually let the splashscreen sit for about a minute, maybe 2 if that. I was under the impression that if the splashscreen sits there for more then a minute, then I should battery pull to fix it?
Whiteice
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Oh I gotchya, so it was the splash screen you changed to the jordan symbol. Yea, I mean, most of the time it will pass by the splash screen in less than 30 seconds, but for whatever reason, from time to time it will sit in the splash for a little longer than normal. If it goes past 5 minutes then yea, that's too long. It shouldn't take that long. Have you tried a different kernel?
Yes, I try different kernel's all the time and it happens on most of them.
It seems that anytime it freezes up on the splashscreen and I reboot, and it still freezes up on the splashscreen that I have to reboot into recovery (AMON 2.3) and wipe cache and delvik cache each and every time for it to clear whatever is going on. Then usually it reboots fine the next boot after doing that until I reboot again and it locks up. Then repeat above.
Thank you,
Whiteice
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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.
2005blkgto said:
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
I just got my EVO last Friday and after i rooted i noticed that sometimes not all the time... it takes a long time for it to get from splash screen to boot screen. Is it normal for it to last over 1 min in splash at times? Ive tried several roms and all do the same.
Nothing to worry about, unless it never boots up. Your ok, mind does this too at times
robert00693 said:
I just got my EVO last Friday and after i rooted i noticed that sometimes not all the time... it takes a long time for it to get from splash screen to boot screen. Is it normal for it to last over 1 min in splash at times? Ive tried several roms and all do the same.
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Yea, boot times vary. Any time after you wipe cache/dalvik cache, the system takes a lot longer to boot up, due to the fact that it needs to rebuild the dalvik cache. Sometimes a specific kernel you're on can cause boot times to vary, in my experience. Also, I remember reading that deodexed roms take a little longer to boot (all the custom roms, for the most part, are deodexed. A stock rom is Odexed, and boots quicker) But, as the other guy said, as long as it boots up I wouldn't worry about how long it takes to boot up. You should be good.
After 20 minutes after updating to the latest MIUI, my Evo suddenly restarted. It got the white screen, but before loading any further, it restarted to the white screen and repeated the whole process infinitely. The only way to stop it is to do a battery pull.
I have tried wiping the data, but the issue is still there. After selecting the option to boot into recovery, the phone does the exact same thing (cycling the white boot screen). I even tried updating the recovery with the zip file, but that problem is still there.
Does anyone know what's wrong with my evo?
fightr said:
After 20 minutes after updating to the latest MIUI, my Evo suddenly restarted. It got the white screen, but before loading any further, it restarted to the white screen and repeated the whole process infinitely. The only way to stop it is to do a battery pull.
I have tried wiping the data, but the issue is still there. After selecting the option to boot into recovery, the phone does the exact same thing (cycling the white boot screen). I even tried updating the recovery with the zip file, but that problem is still there.
Does anyone know what's wrong with my evo?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1009672
Uh oh! Oh no! Read that thread. Everything you could possibly try is in that thread, it went 27 pages!!, and is still active. There was no solution found, but if something might work for you, it will be in that thread, I promise.
Hopefully an ruu will work for you.
I sincerely wish you luck.
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not another one... ok so I would first post your info ROM, kernal, Hboot all the info in advanced. This happened to me last week. All I see now is bootloop post... this is BS.
I have seen some threads from a month ago but does anyone else still have really long boot times on CM10?
I'm talking like almost 5 minutes probably to boot up the phone.
It happens whether I pull the battery or just do a soft reboot from the menu.
I've always had it but I have upgraded to the newest bootloader that I know about and it is still happening?
Half of the boot is spent at the google bootloader screen and half is on the CM10 boot screen.
Is everyone else getting the same thing or is it just me?
That's definitely abnormal. I've never experienced boot times nearing that long, even after a clean flash, or flashing from a different ROM.
I'd try a completely clean install, including formatting /system.
Edit: a logcat would likely point to the problem if it remains.
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That's definitely abnormal. I've never experienced boot times nearing that long, even after a clean flash, or flashing from a different ROM.
I'd try a completely clean install, including formatting /system.
Edit: a logcat would likely point to the problem if it remains.
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Definitely abnormal. I would say mine is booted in under 30 seconds. 40 if its a long boot. I agree run a logcat and see what it says
Try logcat or /proc/kmesg indeed. First time boot after wiping Dalvik cache takes more time since Android needs to rebuild it, but after that it should boot normal.
Hi, I have been running JellyTime 4.2 R11 for few weeks now on my S-OFF Desire HD.
Today, I noticed that the light was blinking and battery was low 6%, so I decided to put it into charger, and somehow when I connected it soon I accidently disconnected the charger, and when I put it back, the phone probably crashed or something, since it went black and the white screen with HTC logo appeared and it started to boot again. Now, JellyTime tries to boot, the bootanimation goes fine for sometime but then it gets stuck after "playing" the bootanimation for a while, nothing happens, even if I wait 5 minutes, it's stuck, bootanimation is frozen, no matter do I have the charger connected or not.
So, is there anything I could do, or is reflashing the only solution? I did full wipe when I flashed the ROM.
If you need more information, sure, just ask.
You could try dirty flashing, but if that doesn't work you'll have to reflash.
bananagranola said:
You could try dirty flashing, but if that doesn't work you'll have to reflash.
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Thanks for the tip, but it didn't help, gets stuck still on bootanimation.
Time to full wipe and flash it again then. Wipe&FlashTime
Happened to me a few times. I suggest a battery pull before anything else. Seems stupid. But it can work in some cases
- Sent from Guy's Super Duper S3
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Happened to me a few times. I suggest a battery pull before anything else. Seems stupid. But it can work in some cases
- Sent from Guy's Super Duper S3
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I did battery pull several times considering that the phone refused to shutdown even when holding the power button for 10 secs, so battery pull was needed every time.
Anyway, it's now running fine when I reflashed.
910263 said:
Hi, I have been running JellyTime 4.2 R11 for few weeks now on my S-OFF Desire HD.
Today, I noticed that the light was blinking and battery was low 6%, so I decided to put it into charger, and somehow when I connected it soon I accidently disconnected the charger, and when I put it back, the phone probably crashed or something, since it went black and the white screen with HTC logo appeared and it started to boot again. Now, JellyTime tries to boot, the bootanimation goes fine for sometime but then it gets stuck after "playing" the bootanimation for a while, nothing happens, even if I wait 5 minutes, it's stuck, bootanimation is frozen, no matter do I have the charger connected or not.
So, is there anything I could do, or is reflashing the only solution? I did full wipe when I flashed the ROM.
If you need more information, sure, just ask.
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I have the same problem since a crash on opening the outlook-email App (JellyTime 4.2 R9).
I found, that the "data" partition causes the trouble when booting. Formating the "data" partition with "4ext recovery" fixes boot-freezing. But this is not an option for me as my last (working) backup is a couple of months ago (yes, I know - should backup more frequently...).
I was able to backup the up-to-date "data" partition (with 4ext recovery) but when restoring it (even on an fully wiped and updated system) boot sequence freezes again.
Any ideas???
Many thanks!
Solved the problem with the data-backup. Instead of restoring complete partition the APP "AppExtractor" works fine for restoring data of the partition backuped.
For now, system runs perfectly.
Conclusion:
If system hangs in Boot-Animation use Recovery for backup of up-to-date system. Full wipe system and install ROM of your choise. After that restore SMS, contacts, etc. with "AppExtractor". Apps should be installed from PlayStore as far as possible. "AppExtractor" allows restoring of app, data+app, data.