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Early this morning, I rooted my Droid Incredible using the Unrevoked 3 method. After doing so, I completely forgot to create a nandroid backup and went ahead to install a custom ROM (Cyanogen Mod). Now here's the issue. I want to get back to the Stock 2.2 sense. I tried to unroot my droid, but nothing seems to be working. Can someone please help?
You need to flash a stock rom back before unrooting.
Where can I get a stock ROM. I think I just bricked it now because it won't even boot Cyanogen Mod. It's stuck at the HTC Incredible white screen.
Do you know what type of screen you're using? Slcd or amoled ? Each method has a different way of unrooting. Just in a Google search engine type in who to unroot Droid incredible, and then the what screen it is. You can potentially brick your phone if you use the amoled method on a slcd one.
With the amolcd screen it's as simple as finding the right file, hence doing the search engine. When you get the file, all you have to do is just place it in the root of your phone, and turn off your phone and press and hold the power button and the volume button at the same time.
With slcd you have to do it different way. Assuming you haven't messed with the radio, if you did, you have to flash a 07.28 radio. But assuming you didn't touch that, you have to flash something that puts s-on. Ans then after that you have to put a file into the root of your SD card and then flash appropriately.
Now I did this multiple times, rooting and unrooting, and for some reason there's always so
Something drawing me back into rooting and flashing a new rom. There's no greater satisfaction than knowing you can do anything with your phone. But it's entirely your choice.
Oh yeah, to figure out what screen you have go to settings then about phone then hardware information and 002 is amoled and 003 is slcd. Google is your best friend after you figure out what screen you have. Good luck!
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You haven't officially bricked it until you can't power it on at all. Try taking out the battery and then holding the power button and volume down. If you can access the white boot screen where it gives you a choice of accessing recovery there is still plenty of hope. Don't freak out you haven't bricked your phone
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I can't load anything. The farthest I can go is to ClockWord Recovery, and when I try to reboot the phone, it's stuck on HTC Incredible. That being said, I can't check what screen type I have. However, before it was bricked, I did flash a file to make S- on. And, when I tried degrading my firmware, nothing happened. :/
OK first off the name of the first that you flash should start with a "p" I don't exactly remember the exact file name. Make sure you have s-on, I'm sure you do. And then put that p something file into the root of your SD card. root as in, it isn't in any folder.
Now when you flash this, you don't do it in clockwork recovery, you do it through hboot I believe. Hboot is the white screen when you hold on the power button and volume down. It should automatically read the p something file. And it'll ask you if you want to update. Say yes and then just let it install
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PB31IMG, I attempted to Flash it in HBOOT, but it didn't work. Now, I can't even connect my Droid to my computer.
I'm screwed.
Sorry for the double post, but I just followed some whacked-out tutorial that told me to format everything via Clockworkmod Recovery...now when I boot my phone, it goes straight to HBOOT and won't do anything...
OK what can you do exactly, you can get to hboot and what else. Also when did you buy your Droid incredible ? We might be able to figure out which screen you have based on that. Oh yeah and where did you buy it from? Also, even if you can't mount it you can still easily take out your SD card to flash files that way. Don't lose hope, we can still get back to stock
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OK what can you do exactly, you can get to hboot and what else. Also when did you buy your Droid incredible ? We might be able to figure out which screen you have based on that. Oh yeah and where did you buy it from? Also, even if you can't mount it you can still easily take out your SD card to flash files that way. Don't lose hope, we can still get back to stock
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I bought it near the beginning of October, I believe it was the 9th? And, I bought it at Verizon.
Aside from being able to get to HBOOT, I can get to Clockworkmod Recovery...but that's about it.
Can't remember exactly how to tell but know you can tell by the model #under the battery on the phone.
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If you could get to clockwork u should be able to flash a rom if your sd wont mount use a card reader and plug directly into your comp
Meetii said:
I bought it near the beginning of October, I believe it was the 9th? And, I bought it at Verizon.
Aside from being able to get to HBOOT, I can get to Clockworkmod Recovery...but that's about it.
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Meetii said:
I bought it near the beginning of October, I believe it was the 9th? And, I bought it at Verizon.
Aside from being able to get to HBOOT, I can get to Clockworkmod Recovery...but that's about it.
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my brother bought his dinc before you and he got a SLCD screen, chances are that's what you have.
here's the page i used to unroot my brother's SLCD screen,
http://dougpiston.com/?p=7
follow it exactly, and just like jaysckap said, you can always take out your microsd card and put it into a usb reader
lazysleepyboi said:
my brother bought his dinc before you and he got a SLCD screen, chances are that's what you have.
here's the page i used to unroot my brother's SLCD screen,
http://dougpiston.com/?p=7
follow it exactly, and just like jaysckap said, you can always take out your microsd card and put it into a usb reader
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That's the exact tutorial that I followed, but it didn't work.
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That's the exact tutorial that I followed, but it didn't work.
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ok can you tell me how you flashed the included file? did you put it into the root of the SD card?
For now i would get a rom on your sd so your phone will boot up and do a nand backup so you at least have a working phone when i get home ill try and help you out
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That's the exact tutorial that I followed, but it didn't work.
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Ok if you have a card reader for you SD card load it in and open you card on your PC. You need to make sure that the sd card is in FAT32 format otherwise when you try to load the PB31IMG file it wont read it. To check this go to my computer, find the removable drive for the SD card right click and go to properties, you should see what format its in. If it's FAT format copy everything from your sdcard to a folder on your PC, go back and right click on the removable drive and format the card to FAT32. Then of course copy everything back to your card. Then try the PB31IMG file again in hboot.
I would personally just go in recovery and wipe to factory, then choose the option to install zip from card and install the rom or which ever rom you want so the phone loads again. Good luck!
For now, I'm going to flash a new rom and hopefully I can fully boot my Droid again. Afterwards, I'll try to flash that file again. BUT, the first time I did it, I put it in the root of my SD card and booted HBOOT and nothing happened.
EDIT: This ROM is going to take close to 30 minute to download , so I guess I'll be back in 30 minutes; don't leave me please.
do you have a sd card reader? if you do, pop out your sd card and make sure it's format is FAT32, nothing will happen if it isnt FAT32
i used unrevoked3 to root my phone and i never did anything to the phone. no custom roms or anything. Im on Android 2.2 and i used this technique to unroot youtube.com/watch?v=irOD_Kho-Ks and now my phone wont come on. Please help or am i screwed? im a noob to this stuff
You're not entirely screwed. I'm going to say you have an SLCD incredible, and the one in the video is an AMOLED device on 2.1. The RUU you flashed was for 2.1 and the older hboot and radio. Made for the AMOLED. The SLCD is different and so you can't see the screen now. You will need to flash a new RUU.
Here is an SLCD compatible RUU: http://dougpiston.com/files/RUU/bui...and-2.15.00.07.28-hboot-0.92.0000_PB31IMG.zip
Rename PB31IMG.zip on root of SD card.
You will have to flash it blind though. So make sure it's charged. Then boot into hboot (Vol + PWR DWN) and wait a few minutes for it to recognize the zip. Then you should be able to press VOL+UP. And this will take a while. Say 5-10 minutes.
Then you should be able to press VOL+UP again, and it will reboot into stock 2.2.
EDIT: And you will need to use a Micro SDHC card reader to put the file on the card. Because you can't see the phone to mount it through USB.
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ok so i question i rooted my phone and installed ultimate droid on it. ran ok but i decided i wanted to go back to stock. i installed a different radio and now my phone turns on but i can't see anything. the screen is black my pc (running windows 7) only reads as a mass storage device for my phone but will not open up as well.Is there any help for me? i can't even boot in hboot
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ok so i question i rooted my phone and installed ultimate droid on it. ran ok but i decided i wanted to go back to stock. i installed a different radio and now my phone turns on but i can't see anything. the screen is black my pc (running windows 7) only reads as a mass storage device for my phone but will not open up as well.Is there any help for me? i can't even boot in hboot
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Try what Brett suggested above....
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So..... Did anyone get it to work?
its really hard. no luck yet. i dot know how long to wait for everything. i formatted my sd card then put the .zip on there. hopefully it worls
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its really hard. no luck yet. i dot know how long to wait for everything. i formatted my sd card then put the .zip on there. hopefully it worls
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THANKS!!!! BRett you saved me about 200 hundred dollars.
brett thank you so much
I was having this issue led would light up phone would vibrate when powering on just no picture thus i did this blind and worked like a gem thank you so much as i am selling this phone and thought i had bricked it before i could ever see any money back from it so thank you much man i owe ya one
Signed up for XDA because I got problems, and you guys seems to know everything when I need to use my googl-fu to solve a problem.
Have lurked for hours trying to figure this out. Nothing solves it.
Phone specs: Phone is babied, never dropped etc. Evo 4g on sprint, rooted unrevoked3 method, was running CM7 nightly95.
Have been running this for several days no issue, (since nightly95 came out.)
Was running a CM7 stable build before this. No issues.
And then the problem: Was just using my phone like normal at work it decided it wanted to reboot on me, once, restarts fine, and about an hour later reboots into a boot loop. It was on a charge cable to wall outlet, not pc when this happened, if that matters.
From the boot loop, just starts, vibrates, shows the htc evo screen maybe 10 seconds and reboots.
I can get into Hboot, (power + vol down) but can not get into recovery. if it's selected the boot looping starts again.
I have tried clearing storage, and flashing a couple PC36IMG.ZIP Since it seems to fix other peoples. Since the most I can figure out is putting the SD card into the computer and try loading files from Hboot.
Last one being this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=791019
Still boot looping, no recovery.
Any help is appreciated. But I am noob when it comes to command line adb stuff. Just so you know.
what PC36IMG are you trying to flash exactly?
try this one, its amon ra 2.3, its the one i have as a backup in case mine foks up, just take amonra out of the name so its only
PC36IMG.zip, then put in the root of your sd card, turn on phone while pressing volume down, to go into bootloader let the phone recognize it and select yes when asked to update, if thats gets your recovery up try wiping and restoring a backup
If all else fails, try the attached doc.
First, boot into the bootloader, look at the top of the screen and see if it still displays "S-OFF". If it does not, you need to re-root your device. If it displays "S-ON" then If you have a card reader, connect it to your PC or Mac and copy the contents of the SD card to your computer. Afterwards, re-format the card. Now copy a freshly downloaded rom and a freshly downloaded copy of the PC36IMG.zip file for amon-RA recovery version 2.3 to the root of your SD card (not in any folder). Re-insert the card in your EVO and boot to the bootloader. The PC36IMG.zip file *should* be automatically detected and you *should* be prompted to install it. Follow the prompts to install. Installation will take approximately 10 seconds. Afterwards, boot into your new recovery. Go to the wipe menu and wipe EVERYTHING in it EXCEPT the SD card. After that, flash the rom. Be patient during the initial boot process. You *should* be good to go afterwards.
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If all else fails, try the attached doc.
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Tried this a bit ago.
Now it doesn't loop. But it's not any better.
It just boots, htc evo for a few seconds, and then vibrates approx 5 times and screen goes black and the top led flashes green.
Anybody else think this sounds like the bootloop of death? If so, there's no known fix. You can run the PC36IMG, but if that's what it is, you'll never get recovery or any rom to boot up.
I hope I'm wrong, though.
(from... Evo/MIUI/Tapatalk)
this sounds just like what happened to my phone. After spending hours on the forums and PM'ing back with a few people, I diagnosed it as the bootloop of death. Which sounds like exactly your going through....
no fix unfortunately...if your s on you can go back to sprint and get a brand new one. If not (like me) smash it pay the $100 deductible and get a refurb. Sucks I know.
For a more in depth thread search "boot loop + no recovery".
If I understand correctly, it's a problem with a partition size and was common with a certain Hardware version (0002?)
The good ole bootloop of death, that I fear so deeply. I hope this never happens to me. I'm sorry for your luck, but it sounds like plainjane is right. I agree, you got the bootloop of death, and most likely won't recover from it. Do you you have insurance ?
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k2buckley said:
The good ole bootloop of death, that I fear so deeply. I hope this never happens to me.
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My fear, too. Every time I boot up in the morning, I hold my breath a little til the Evo screen goes off and the boot.ani starts...
Well, After HipKat first suggestion I can get to s-on. I may try it again with a different RUU but I think it's dead too.
So, since it will be S-on, hopefully there is a new phone in my future, without any money out of pocket.
Thanks for the help guys. I'll let you know if anything fixes it, or what sprint says.
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My fear, too. Every time I boot up in the morning, I hold my breath a little til the Evo screen goes off and the boot.ani starts...
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From what I remember reading about a month ago, when this seemed to be happening a lot, was that it was random.
Didn't start when you were trying to boot up, just suddenly, randomly, terrifyingly, and like death in the night....power off, and never to fully boot again. Just typing about it now kinda scares me like a hex. I hope to finish typing this sentance.
@ OP, really sorry about your luck, man. We all feel you.
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Thats crazy, the same exact thing happened to my brother running CM7 lke a month a go.. is this limited to just AOSP ROMs? I know there's always the potential of bricking your phone flashing, but from what I've been reading it seems its happening to lots of people on AOSP ROMs
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Thats crazy, the same exact thing happened to my brother running CM7 lke a month a go.. is this limited to just AOSP ROMs? I know there's always the potential of bricking your phone flashing, but from what I've been reading it seems its happening to lots of people on AOSP ROMs
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No, it's not limited to AOSP ROMs, but it does seem that most of the cases were people running CM7 and/or Clockwork Mod. I know there was an argument that it's just that there are so many people running CM that it just seems like CM was the culprit, but it was odd to me, anyhow, how overwhelmingly I saw that it was happening to people running that mod
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No, it's not limited to AOSP ROMs, but it does seem that most of the cases were people running CM7 and/or Clockwork Mod. I know there was an argument that it's just that there are so many people running CM that it just seems like CM was the culprit, but it was odd to me, anyhow, how overwhelmingly I saw that it was happening to people running that mod
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Yea I was reading this happened a few days ago to a guy who was on Decks 2.3.4.. IDK I told my brother to just flash a radio and pull the battery while flashing to try and get a replacement.. But the whole thing freaked me out lol.. Feel bad cuz it could happen to anyone I suppose
Your lucky to get S-ON, I only read about one other person able to get S ON after bootlooping.....take it to the Sprint Store, they should give you a new one on the spot if they have stock, if not they order one overnight. Could have been way worse...
Right now it says s-off again. But acts likes it's on, can't erase anything through fastboot/adb.
Going to try to repeat the RUU install a few times to see if I can get it back to s-on then take it in.
I was one of the first 3 or so people to report about this on the forum - it happened to me over 4 months ago. Anyways, if you flash a PC36IMG-eng and pull the battery at exactly the right time, while the radio is updating your phone will completely brick - it won't even turn on. Then you can take your phone in and just tell sprint it wont turn on. Note, it took me over 20 battery pulls before it finally wouldn't turn on, but its your best option if you can't get S-ON.
Wow that's crazy. I've never heard of the bootloop of death.
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Do a search for Boot loop white screen and you'll find a ton of threads/posts about it
Well I have had my question answered by a friend but the answer was not the best of news.
Evidently my rom is corrupted which makes me feel like a jack a** for not rooting sooner since from my reading of the forums you can 'flash or re-flash' the different rom builds and recover your phone. So my conundrum exist in the fact that i never did root since i love sense so much and i was told that s-off negated it period, my phone being bricked or soft bricked since i can get into the boot loader is there a way to root and flash a custom rom so that i can get the phone to work.
And also im running the official upgrade for froyo
espresso pvt ship s-on\hboot- 1.02.0000
microp-0620
touch panel-synt0102
radio-7.15.35.16
nOV 26 2010,20:43:01
any help would be appreciated since i have some thing that i want to get off the phone that i deem relevant in my life as well as the desire not to buy a new phone quite yet since im not eligible for an upgrade
What exactly is wrong with your phone? How did your friend know it was "corrupted?"
Have you tried this, as copied from another non-rooted person:
1. pull battery
2. replace battery and turn on power WHILE HOLDING volume down. This will access "Hboot"
3. use the volume down button to hover over option 3 Clear storage
4. select using the power button
5. hit yes using volume up
I don't know anything about the official update, but can't you update your phone again with that same procedure?
Oh, read up on your problem. You dropped it in water. Is that obvious? Can you check and see if they'll send you a replacement. That doesn't actually sound like your rom is corrupted, it sounds like your hardware is fried.
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What exactly is wrong with your phone? How did your friend know it was "corrupted?"
Have you tried this, as copied from another non-rooted person:
1. pull battery
2. replace battery and turn on power WHILE HOLDING volume down. This will access "Hboot"
3. use the volume down button to hover over option 3 Clear storage
4. select using the power button
5. hit yes using volume up
I don't know anything about the official update, but can't you update your phone again with that same procedure?
Oh, read up on your problem. You dropped it in water. Is that obvious? Can you check and see if they'll send you a replacement. That doesn't actually sound like your rom is corrupted, it sounds like your hardware is fried.
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So this is my dilemma i have a slide that was dropped in water, it started to work for a moment then it stopped it's stuck on the splash screen and wont go beyond that. It will go into bootloader but wont boot in recovery mode. It does read the usb in recovery mode although i cant access the files (it just shows the hr glass and i mean for hrs.. I would try to root from this point point but i got the official froyo update so i cant go s-off and i dont have a gold card or the facilities to make one. Help please i dunno what to do from this point!!!........
that was my original question. I didn't get a reply so i got a hold of my friend who lives in alaska, who also works for an it company he says that it sounds like the rom is corrupted since u can access some of the primary functions ie. bootloader, it does read from the sd card, it does go into fastboot (sort of).
I bought the phone off of craigslist so no insurance there either, so rocjk in a hard place yes. Ive tried clear storage as well no luck there, as for re-updating i would have to be able to access the sd from the usb, and although it does read it every time i've tried to access it won't let me from the desktop.
So i come again to those with more knowledge than my self in hopes of garnering the requisite knowledge. How would/could you tell if the hardware's fried or not?
I don't know about your phone but on my Evo 4G I can load a fresh copy of the official 2.2 rom without going into recovery.
I just downloaded the RUU for my phone and renamed it to PC36IMG.zip and it automatically loads on the hboot menu from my SD card. It had to be on the root of your SD card to be seen.
I get the feeling that you may have a different issue if you dropped it in water.
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would i need to create a gold card for that to work? or could i just use a sd card reader download and hboot it from that point?
I've never heard of a gold card but just did a search and found info on it. Yay more stuff to research!
I'm not sure if you need one. Someone else will have to answer that. I didn't need one. But then I used unrevoked to get root, now I'm not even running that stock rom.
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Hello Dear users
I think I need Your help and advice today.
I was about to do s-off today (followed this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2221039 )
unfortunately i think I bricked me phone
I went through nearly whole process but just after second bootloader unlocking, phone got rebooted and i cant do anything more
I can turn on me phone but its stuck in white HTC screen.
when I go to fastboot its stuck on PD98DIAG.zip check
Any adb command gives me "device not found" (adb devices gives empty list)
any fastboot command gives me "waiting for device"
Phone was rooted and "unlocked" with s-on
Is there any way to resurrect it ? Or it's a perm-death
I'd appreciate any help
regards
You could probably save it as the screen at least turns on.
However, you will have better luck searching and then asking here
You Don't know how unbelievably happy I am.
I took me Dead phone this morning and replaced sd card in it.
I booted to fastboot and ... ftw its working went through check and connected via usb. So I just finished the procedure and finally i got S-off and a working mobile ^^.
It seems that somehow I fried my goldcard because even card reader can't read it.
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You Don't know how unbelievably happy I am.
I took me Dead phone this morning and replaced sd card in it.
I booted to fastboot and ... ftw its working went through check and connected via usb. So I just finished the procedure and finally i got S-off and a working mobile ^^.
It seems that somehow I fried my goldcard because even card reader can't read it.
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ext4 recovery sometime may hang when microsd have bad partitions/hboot, in this way you can try cwm5 which this problem will shun. :good:
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ext4 recovery sometime may hang when microsd have bad partitions/hboot, in this way you can try cwm5 which this problem will shun. :good:
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Me mobile works fine now, think it was all because corrupted sd card.
Now I can't find decent ROM for me GF she didn't like new jellybean (because what she said "too many thing not working" like YT etc.) but thats a different story now
thnx for advice
Yvald said:
Me mobile works fine now, think it was all because corrupted sd card.
Now I can't find decent ROM for me GF she didn't like new jellybean (because what she said "too many thing not working" like YT etc.) but thats a different story now
thnx for advice
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Supernova try