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While booting a back up of MIUI 1.1.28.1 my phone rebooted went through the process fine, then right after I got past the lock screen it shut off, and I couldn't turn it back on. Just before this I updated to the newest Clockworkmod 3.0.0.7. I thought my phone was done for so i let it sit for the night on the charger in the morning i tried to turn it on using the power and volume down button and it booted into recovery so I went along and tried a normal reboot, same thing got to the lock screen, powered down on it's own again. I've been trying to turn it on again now just to get it into recovery and maybe work with it there but it's not going for it. Any suggestions?
Since you can get to recovery screen it is not bricked. In general you can not brick by flashing a rom, only brick by flashing non-working radio or hboot
Here is how to fix it.
1) Download another ROM to the SD Cards. Pick a stable one, I recommend CM6.1
2) Boot into recovery and enter Clockworkmod
3) Wipe everything (Cache/Data/Dalvik cache)
4) Flash new rom in recovery
I got into recovery once after the initial shut dow, now i'm having the same problem as prior it simply will not turn on i've tried most combinations of the buttons and nothing seems to work any suggestions for getting it into recovery again? I realize that I need to boot another rom now but I need to get the phone on first haha. Thanks again
There's only one combination that should boot into recovery.
Turn it on holding down the volume up arrow. If it doesn't do that then you may have seriously messed up or even bricked your phone.
POQbum said:
There's only one combination that should boot into recovery.
Turn it on holding down the volume up arrow. If it doesn't do that then you may have seriously messed up or even bricked your phone.
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Volume down* up is qualcomm diagnostics. And that's to get into HBOOT, not recovery lol. Also, holding down on the optical trackpad works just the same as if you're holding volume down.
Sent from my Droid Incredible running Myn's Warm TwoPointTwo RLS5.3.
slong427 said:
I got into recovery once after the initial shut dow, now i'm having the same problem as prior it simply will not turn on i've tried most combinations of the buttons and nothing seems to work any suggestions for getting it into recovery again? I realize that I need to boot another rom now but I need to get the phone on first haha. Thanks again
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1) Enter Recovery
a. Pull the battery.. wait 10-30 seconds
b. Re-insert battery
c. Power and Volume DOWN with get you to white Hboot screen.
d. Volume down key to highlight recovery, then use press the power button to enter recovery.
2) You should now be in CWM Recovery. Now it is time to wipe everything.
a. Select "wipe data/factory reset"
b. Select "wipe cache partition"
c. Select "advanced" -> "wipe Dalvik Cache"
3) Now it is time to load a new stable ROM, ensure rom is load onto SD card. Recommend CM6.1
a. Use back button to return to CWM Recovery home
b. Select "install zip from sdcard"
c. Select "choose zip from sdcard"
d. Select the zip file rom you load on the SD card.
That should do it! Let me know if you need anything else.
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While booting a back up of MIUI 1.1.28.1 my phone rebooted went through the process fine, then right after I got past the lock screen it shut off, and I couldn't turn it back on. Just before this I updated to the newest Clockworkmod 3.0.0.7. I thought my phone was done for so i let it sit for the night on the charger in the morning i tried to turn it on using the power and volume down button and it booted into recovery so I went along and tried a normal reboot, same thing got to the lock screen, powered down on it's own again. I've been trying to turn it on again now just to get it into recovery and maybe work with it there but it's not going for it. Any suggestions?
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This happened to me yesterday, and here is how I eventually fixed it.
Let the phone boot up as far as it would go.
Pluged in my USB to PC
Ran reflash_package.exe from unREVOlked
Booted up normally.
Hope this solves your issue.
John
Thanks everyone got it all figured out it ended up being something really simple I just jumped to thinking my phone was done for, thanks for all your help!
Slong427 could you let me know what your fix was? i have been plagued with this issue for two days now and any rom i try gets to the unlock screen and shuts down. thanks, ian
Hi,
I rooted my DHD today and tried to flash the CyanogenMod-7 for Desire HD & Inspire. It seemed to work but now keeps re-booting every couple of seconds. It won't actually stay on long enough to put another ROM on. Can anyone help? This is the first time I've done something like this and it seemed to be going so well!
Thanks!
Pull the battery for about 10 seconds. Then hold the vol- button down and power your device on. Now you should see a white screen with some text on it. Navigate to recovery and press the power button. Now it should boot into recovery.
In the recovery choose wipe data/factory reset ald let it finish. Once its finished choose wipe cache partition.
Then go to install .zip from sd and then choose zip from sd. Now search for your rom and reinstall it
Tapatalked with Tapatalk from my Desire HD using Tapatalk.
This is common. Simply wait for it to boot and power off or use the power button to select reboot. You only have to do it once.
The instructions for installing CM7 all say to install ROM then reboot after first complete start up. Shouldn't need to reinstall anything.
Having been left alone for a few hours it seems to have sorted itself out. Thanks! I just wasn't expecting it to spend quite so long re-booting.
I guess you have enabled wi-fi just after flash cm7. Seems like there is a bug or whatever, all you need is re-boot device after first boot.
And about the re-boot loop, just remove battery to turn off you device then turn it on, enter recovery and flash cm7 again WITHOUT do wipe operation. OK, In this time remember to re-boot after first boot.
I got a bit trigger happy and tried to flash Android Revolution HD 3.3. I did a full wipe from ClockworkMod Recovery and tried to install the zip, exactly like I did for the previous ROM. That kept aborting the installation so I mounted the phone and re-downloaded and copied it onto the SD card again. Same problem. I then tried to re-install cm7 and that also kept aborting.
I now have the message "Back menu button disabled" and if I use the power button to select anything it goes straight to a white triangle with an explanation and the Droid, which I think is stock recovery? I'm getting there from what I think is Clockwork though. Is this recoverable or have I managed to brick it?
I had a similar issue a few days ago - it turned out that the battery stats were screwed up so a fix for me was to boot into recovery and then wiping the battery stats.
Everything was fine after that.
How do I do that? I don't want to reboot out of Clockwork as I'm not 100% sure I actually have a ROM at the moment.
Can boot into menu. Highlight recovery. Press power button. Powers down, not completely though. Screen stays on slightly. When waiting 5 minutes and press power button boots into loop again.
mdaigt said:
Can boot into menu. Highlight recovery. Press power button. Powers down, not completely though. Screen stays on slightly. When waiting 5 minutes and press power button boots into loop again.
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open recovery, goto advanced and wipe battery stats
Going to leave battery out for the night as read in other posts. Fixes the problem of not totally shutting down for some. Thanks.
Well leaving battery out didn't help. Continuous boot loop. Put on charger after turning off orange light came on and didn't go to green after 10 hours. Restarted when I got home and boot loop again. Had CoreDroid ROM installed. Working fine than tried to load Kalagas Mixed Theme and that is where I am now. Looping.
Even a blind squirrel will find a nut now and then. During HTC Hboot menu, noticed it was looking for PD98IMG zip. So I shut phone down. Inserted card with it on it and it restored to original firmware. PHEW. Hope this might help someone else.
My Gmail emails weren't coming into my HTC EVO 4G so I tried to power cycled it (my non-Gmail emails were coming in just fine). When I powered it back it on nothing came on the screen, nothing happened. It is rooted (Unrevoked) so I tried holding the power button and volume up button, but it just vibrated three times, nothing came on the screen and nothing happen. I tried power button and volume down button and it boots in HBOOT. Seconds later it runs something and there's a message saying something about wrong image. I stopped here as I haven't used HBOOT before.
What's going on here? How do I get my phone to boot normally again?
P.S. - it's not the battery, because its been charging all night.
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My Gmail emails weren't coming into my HTC EVO 4G so I tried to power cycled it (my non-Gmail emails were coming in just fine). When I powered it back it on nothing came on the screen, nothing happened. It is rooted (Unrevoked) so I tried holding the power button and volume up button, but it just vibrated three times, nothing came on the screen and nothing happen. I tried power button and volume down button and it boots in HBOOT. Seconds later it runs something and there's a message saying something about wrong image. I stopped here as I haven't used HBOOT before.
What's going on here? How do I get my phone to boot normally again?
P.S. - it's not the battery, because its been charging all night.
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It is normal for it to scan and give you that 'wrong image' message. If you had a PC36IMG on your sd card, that's when the bootloader would find it, and ask you to update. Since you dont have a PC36IMG on your card, it scans and finds nothing, so it says 'no image or wrong image'. No worries. What were you trying to accomplish by holding power and volume up? Its power and volume down that puts you to the bootloader. What were your intentions once you got to the bootloader? Were you trying to get to recovery, to clear cache or reflash a rom or something? If you want to reboot your phone without really doing anything, from where you're at in the bootloader, you'll see an option that says 'fastboot'. Select that. Once at the fastboot screen, you'll now see an option to reboot phone, and to power phone off. Select reboot, and see if she powers up for you. Shouldn't be any issues
Weird. So in HBOOT I chose "reboot" from the FASTBOOT main menu and the phone restarted and got back to the desktop/launcher successfully. Everything looks normal.
My Gmail inbox just now began updating from yesterday (even though the phone was on up until a couple of hours ago). Also the apps I set up to install yesterday from market.android.com just started to download and install too.
What's going on here? Is the internal storage/memory/ROM dying or something (come to think of it I did have this Gmail issue last week too, but that power cycle was successful)?
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Weird. So in HBOOT I chose "reboot" from the FASTBOOT main menu and the phone restarted and got back to the desktop/launcher successfully. Everything looks normal.
My Gmail inbox just now began updating from yesterday (even though the phone was on up until a couple of hours ago). Also the apps I set up to install yesterday from market.android.com just started to download and install too.
What's going on here? Is the internal storage/memory/ROM dying or something (come to think of it I did have this Gmail issue last week too, but that power cycle was successful)?
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I'm not sure what would cause the problems you're describing. What ROM are you currently on? Have you tried wiping cache and dalvik cache? Perhaps it's an issue with the Gmail app itself. In any case, I'd first try wiping cache and dalvik. If that works, great. If it fails, I'd probably do a complete wipe and fresh install. That usually solves any issues for me.
Sorry, I saw your initial post after my second post.
I just realize what the confusion may have been. When I powered off the phone I figured I might as well take the opportunity and do a full backup with nandroid. So I proceeded to get into clockworkmod recovery with power + vol. up button (this is when it vibrates 3 times and does nothing). The confusion, I think, is that I've been installing/flashing various ROMs for my new Viewsonic G Tablet for the past 2 days straight (with very lil' sleep) and thought the recovery method (power + vol. up) for the G Tablet was also the method for the EVO.
Anyhoo, at this point I'm very confused. I could of sworn I installed clockworkmod recovery on my EVO and I used power + vol. up to get to it when rooting. I even see the clockworkmod folder on my EVO's microSD card. Weirdness.
My EVO is working now so I guess I shouldn't stress it. I'll just figure out how to do a full backup later.
Thanks!
DiGiTY said:
Sorry, I saw your initial post after my second post.
I just realize what the confusion may have been. When I powered off the phone I figured I might as well take the opportunity and do a full backup with nandroid. So I proceeded to get into clockworkmod recovery with power + vol. up button (this is when it vibrates 3 times and does nothing). The confusion, I think, is that I've been installing/flashing various ROMs for my new Viewsonic G Tablet for the past 2 days straight (with very lil' sleep) and thought the recovery method (power + vol. up) for the G Tablet was also the method for the EVO.
Anyhoo, at this point I'm very confused. I could of sworn I installed clockworkmod recovery on my EVO and I used power + vol. up to get to it when rooting. I even see the clockworkmod folder on my EVO's microSD card. Weirdness.
My EVO is working now so I guess I shouldn't stress it. I'll just figure out how to do a full backup later.
Thanks!
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Yea, its power down and volume that takes you to the bootloader. You wont get directly to recovery unless your rom has the 4 option quickboot, then u can select recovery. Anyways, so once youre at the bootloader, you just need to select recovery. Then youll boot to clockwork. From there, you can make a new backup, flash a new rom, wipe caches etc.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
Oh, okay. Thanks again!
DiGiTY said:
Oh, okay. Thanks again!
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You're welcome. I'm glad to help out
Ok I saw someone mention this is some thread but can't remember where and searching for terms like manually boot into recovery is running me in circles so I thought this was valid and should be useful. * I recently flashed CWM5 and a new stock OTA rom and now, once the phone is powered down, pressing volume down and power button results in quick boot and not hboot/ recovery. * I do most modding with Ninjamorph and occasionally I will boot loop and need to be able to manually get back to recovery after a battery pull. (not good with ADB yet) Ideas?
Have you gone into Settingsower: disable fastboot? If so, pull the battery and try vol down + power.
I know some users are having difficulty with CWM5, I'm still using CWM3.0.0.8 cuz it works fine for me.
Nice dog... I didn't find it under 'power' cause the OTA doesn't have that in settings however, under 'applications' at the bottom you can disable fast boot. I'm thrilled. Worked great and earned you a thanks. Fyi, CWM5 (given that this was a non-issue) has been working great for me. I was even so daring as to flash it from Rom Manager... Thanks again dude.
That's what XDA is all about man. I'll update my CWM3x to CWM5x when I get tired of seeing my Rom Manager deny me from using any options
Hello everyone!
I've been trying to find anything about this issue, but nothing seems to work.
I had OTA 2.3.4 android on my t-mobile g2. So i have decided to downgrade it, to install CyanogenMod.
So I followed this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1178912
Everything went fine.
Then rooted it following this guide http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/TMobile_G2:_Rooting
Then this http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Vision:_Radio_and_CyanogenMod to install CyanogenMod, but ClockworkMod doesn't seem to work. When I do Wipe data/factory reset, anything in Clockwork doesn't work. Even reboot or power off. This icon with yellow cirlce with hat on it comes on and does nothing. I waited like 20 mins, still nothing. If I push power button it goes back to clockwork recovery with all these options, but nothing isn't working.
I installed it using Rom manager, so its last version 5.0.2.0 (first i had 3.xx version but it acted the same way).
(oh by the way, i tried update it using OTA update from air, it freezes when HTC logo comes on and does nothing, factory reset is the same way)
I have root and S-OFF.
Please, guys help!!!
Disregard this first stuff, although it is probably a good idea to use a 3.x.x.x recovery anyways atm.
Are you sure that you were unable to use CWM recovery properly when you were on an earlier version like 3.0.2.4? The 5.x.x.x versions are a bit buggy I wouldn't bother with them at this point.
Go into ROM manager, hit menu > settings > 'Erase Recovery' set to ON.
then, go back to the main ROM manger screen, hit 'All ClockworkMod Recoveries' > select '3.0.2.4' > OK.
You will then see a progress bar at the top, and then a message saying you've successfully flashed recovery. Now power off, hold vol. dn + Power and enter the recovery again. Try doing some functions and see if it works.
Don't try and do a factory reset etc. through CWM if it does work though, the first thing you should be doing is going to 'backup and restore' > 'backup' to make a nandroid backup of this current setup. If successful, THEN you can wipe data and try to flash the CM7.zip.
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Not sure if you're aware either... You should be using the trackpad to select items in the CWM recovery. Not the power button (turns on/off screen) or menu button (shows/hides menus) or anything. Scroll with the trackpad and press down to select highlighted items with the trackpad. The only 2 buttons you need in CWM recovery for 99.9% of operation is the trackpad and the 'back' button.
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Also as an aside, don't try to accept any OTA's or anything. They won't work and may cause issues when you're rooted.
BTW disregard most of my previous post. I'm 99.9% sure you're just hitting the menu button thinking that its selecting things, but the MENU button just hides the menus, it doesn't select. Like I said, use the trackpad to select the menu items!!!
As I said in my previous post though, I want to reiterate: do a nandroid backup before wiping data. Its just a good idea to have your rooted 2.2 ROM as a nandroid backup to return to if something goes wrong with the flash. Just make it easy on yourself and do a backup, THEN wipe data and flash your .zip.
Duh, stupid me! Its working, actually it was working all this time. I was pushing a wrong button, power button. Use a track pad! Dumba**
Thank a lot!
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impulse7 said:
Duh, stupid me! Its working, actually it was working all this time. I was pushing a wrong button, power button. Use a track pad! Dumba**
Thank a lot!
martonikaj +1 thanks!
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Of course, glad you figured it out. Be sure to make a nandroid backup before and after flashing CM7 .