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HTC EVO 4G won't boot, can't go into recovery mode, still able to access fastboot

I was running calkulin's rom on my evo but I decided to give cyanogen a run for its money. I was successful in installing cyanogen 6.1, and when i went to go install the addons, they didn't install properly for whatever reason. I went back into recovery mode and did a wipe of the device and went to install a fresh install of culkulin .. but instead of selecting the item "install zip from sd card" i selected "install update.zip" even though I didn't have an update.zip on my device.
After it tried to do that, it asked me if i wanted to reboot, i selected yes, and now i can't get into recovery mode. I can get into fastboot, but when i try and select recovery, it goes to the white HTC EVO 4G screen, then it goes to the screen with the phone, a red triangle with the exclamation point. If i press vol up + power, it brings up the menu to install from update.zip, wipe cache, wipe data, and reboot. I've selected all the options, i'm LOST.
i'm on a 2010 macbook pro .. I have windows 7 installed via VMware but it doesn't want to recognize my phone.
I was able to install adb on my mac, but it still can't recognize the phone. Any help is much appreciated, i don't want a $300 paper weight. Thanks!

Somehow your recovery might have been overwritten. Download a recovery image, go into fastboot and run the following command:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Where recovery.img equals the filename of the recovery image.

Amon_RA has a PC36IMG.zip of his recovery so you don't have to use command prompt at all, just go to bootloader and flash.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026

i don't have a way to access the commands via terminal or dos to my phone. my computer can't recognize my device .. i'd prefer to do this via OSX because W7 via vmware isn't stable on my machine.
where can i download a custom image .. i may be able to run it via unrevoked, but when i run unrevoked, it gives me the error Device "- exec'/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -" is not supported at this time.

Sounds like recovery is corrupted, download pc36000.img fkr amon_ra 2.2.1, put it into your root folder of sd card and give it go from fastboot.
I am typing name of recovery from my memory, so it can be wrong.
I read other posts about typing fastboot recovery installation commands, but you have said your adb is not working, so give this a try.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

I'm not sure how to get adb running on the mac but it should be fairly easy. I'd read up on getting your phone connected with adb/fastboot then get the custom recovery img file.
Then you'll do:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
(I'm not sure if amon has a readily available image file but you can get the img file for clockworkmod for the evo here: http://www.koushikdutta.com/2010/02/clockwork-recovery-image.html
Just click the evo link, copy it to your fastboot folder and rename it to recovery.img just to make it easier.
Edit, if you have an sdcard apater (or maybe put the card in a digital camera or something so you can access it) you can put this PC36IMG.zip file on it: http://www.mediafire.com/file/s3vsgfwcz5po8hs/PC36IMG.zip
then boot your phone with boot loader, it'll scan the file and hit volume up to apply the update.

Had issue yesterday, my phone would boot directly to fastboot. My issue was a corrupted SD card. I bought a new one and it did the same thing but was able to reformat and it works! Never had this issue until i start pushing dalvich cache to SD. Anyhow check your SD card, try another on see if you can boot a zip from fast boot.

i tried that and it works perfectly! I was able to get a custom rom loaded onto my device and boot up, then i re-ran unrevoked so i could get that custom recovery so i could reload one of my past back ups.
Worked like a charm!

dizzle247 said:
i tried that and it works perfectly! I was able to get a custom rom loaded onto my device and boot up, then i re-ran unrevoked so i could get that custom recovery so i could reload one of my past back ups.
Worked like a charm!
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Glad to hear. Disaster averted

dizzle247 said:
i tried that and it works perfectly! I was able to get a custom rom loaded onto my device and boot up, then i re-ran unrevoked so i could get that custom recovery so i could reload one of my past back ups.
Worked like a charm!
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He never said what worked. I am having the same issue and would like to know what worked.
Im actually stuck on the htc evo screen. I can access fastboot as well. Where do i go from there.

I'm having almost the exact same problem as dizzle247. I've tried to flash PC36.img and tried using a new recovery.img but it keeps on sending back to the beginning. I don't know if the fact that my phone is set to S-on has anything to do with it but if I try to switch it off it fails.

Please help
The same thing happened with my phone. How did you end up solving the problem?

If you're in that situation, gona have to run an RUU.

Any solution yet?
How would you run RUU when the phone doesn't boot?
I am having same issue.
I can access fastboot.
I can load a pc36img.zip from my root SD.
I can not access recovery.
Re-flashed amon multiple times, no change.
If I try to go into recovery, it just shows white evo 4g screen.
If I try to regular boot, just shows whit evo 4g screen.
Any thoughts?

GrooGrux said:
Any solution yet?
How would you run RUU when the phone doesn't boot?
I am having same issue.
I can access fastboot.
I can load a pc36img.zip from my root SD.
I can not access recovery.
Re-flashed amon multiple times, no change.
If I try to go into recovery, it just shows white evo 4g screen.
If I try to regular boot, just shows whit evo 4g screen.
Any thoughts?
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Unfortunately, most people that had this problem were never able to get out of it. It happened mainly on AOSP based roms. I'm typing in past tense because it was a fairly common problem a few months ago, haven't heard much about it since.
You can try running an RUU. If it doesn't work and you have insurance, you may need to take it in and eat the $100 deductible.
Some people were flashing radios through hboot and pulling the battery until the device wouldn't even turn on, then taking it in.
However you want to handle it is up to you. I wish that someone had found a solution, but I'd try everything you can find before taking it in. Every phone is different, something may work for yours.
Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk

hmmm, can any1 shed some light as to WHAT worked? other ppl have same problem, it would help if they stated the actual solution lol.

tooill said:
hmmm, can any1 shed some light as to WHAT worked? other ppl have same problem, it would help if they stated the actual solution lol.
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There is no solution most of the people that have had this happen got a replacement
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

ugh >.<, i wanna fix mines and sell it, i cant replace it.. i bought it and had it flashed for boost, but now it has that problem so idk what to do with it..

Same problem need help evo4g
GrooGrux said:
Any solution yet?
How would you run RUU when the phone doesn't boot?
I am having same issue.
I can access fastboot.
I can load a pc36img.zip from my root SD.
I can not access recovery.
Re-flashed amon multiple times, no change.
If I try to go into recovery, it just shows white evo 4g screen.
If I try to regular boot, just shows whit evo 4g screen.
Any thoughts?
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I'm having the same issue need some help

HELP PLEASE - EVO 3D Stuck in Bootloop!

Hello All,
I recently rooted my EVO3D using the HTCDEV method because the bootloader was version 1.5.
Here are the steps I followed to root (sorry for the copy and past but I want to be as detailed as possible)
Files Used
su 2.3.6.3
TWRP Recovery
Steps Taken:
1)Take both the su.zip and recovery.img files and put them in your sdk tools folder.
2)Now do the following in ur command prompt, hitting enter after each command.
3)Code:adb push recovery.img /sdcard/And,
4)Code:adb push su-2.3.6.3.zip /sdcard/Then,
5)Code:adb reboot bootloaderUr phone will go to fastboot and should look like the after picture above. Now you can flash the twrp recovery, so do,
6)Code:fastboot flash recovery recovery.imgIt will ouput something like this,
7)Code:sending 'recovery' <5068 KB>... OKAY////writing 'recovery'... OKAY///finished. total time: 11.355sNow you have twrp recovery, so you can navigate to it. On ur phone, use the power button to pick bootloader, then scroll down to recovery and pick that. You will then be booted into recovery.
8)Here you can pick "install zip" and then pick the "su-2.3.6.3.zip"
It will flash, the you can pick "back to main menu", then "reboot system now"
9)You will boot back up and have working Superuser. I have had no trouble with Titanium Backup, Root Explorer, Quick Boot or any other app that requires root. Before you do too much, it would be good to go back to recovery and do a Nandroid backup. Always best to get one ready before you start modding anything.
All of this worked fine, and the phone was "unlocked."
Then, I flashed the most recent version of CleanRom (2.7)
Again, the phone worked fine, battery life was a little crappy.
I decided to flash Ziggy's kernel.I flashed the kernel simply by putting on the SD card, and then rebooting into recovery. This worked fine as well, but I noticed some of the buttons for example the menu popups displayed volume where it should have said more, or bluetooth options where it should have said preferences. so this is where the trouble started, I downloaded kernel manager, and flashed silverneedle through that program. Now, I am stuck at the White HTC Splash screen bootloop. The phone turns on and after 15 seconds reboots, and reboots, and reboots.
What Ive attempted:
I have done countless wipes and clears of the dalvik cache and cache
ive formatted the system and the date sections (advanced menu in twrp)
ive reflashed the rom after wiping countless times
ive tried flashing different kernels in recovery to no avail
factory reset and wipe havent helped
im not concerned losing the contents of the SD card
I need help because I already had two phone claims in the past 11 months, and if I claim another lost phone I will lose insurance for life with Asurion (sprint)
anytips or help would be greatly appreciated
i can provide any additional info

Similar situation, Not sure if you've already solved the problem but I'm going to copy paste my solution from another thread...
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but this is a preety derp question. I've gone across the internet and tried a lot of reflashing to repair my sort of "bricked" evo. What happened, was that I had a evo 3d s-on htc bootloader unlocked, with custom recovery -clockwork..anyways I had flashed the leedroid 3d 4.0 rom and It worked the only problem was my wifi, so i attempted to flash another kernel onto it, but I had accidently flashed "Rcmix" kernel which I later found out was cdma =.=. so now my phone keeps rebooting at the htc screen, it would just load up with the green htc letters, then after 10 seconds or so it'd reboot, and then begin the process again. I can boot into bootloader and recovery but whatever I flash doesn't seem to work including restoring my backups...and then the battery died so i couldn't even charge it or go in. But i managed to work out I could load into bootloader from the CMD and the furthest i've gotten to is to have the bootloader show FASTBOOT USB. SO I must be getting somewhere...? I did read that i had to load from the cmd and not just from power+vol down..but I'd appreciate any help towards restoring my phone to the way it is or at least before i flashed the rcmix.
Just a note tho I've tried factory resetting but all i get is that it loads into recovery at the bootloader options i dont get "clear storage" as an option and "restore to factory settings" and what not just boots me into recovery agian.
EDIT:
I Managed to fix the phoneeee!!!..just for future preferences and anyone else who has this problem...
I followed bits and piece of IL DUCE's advice to izzy spun, the important part was booting the recovery from cmd. I wasn't able to "erase recovery" But I tried just booting it,
First I would remove the battery,
Put it back in,
Plug the usb cable in
1. Type command, from your Adb/fasboot folder, "adb reboot-bootloader"
2. After that I made sure my bootloader said "Fastboot USB", and then I issued the command, "fastboot boot cwm-4.0.1.4-shooteru.img" or with whatever recovery you had..
3. From there I restored from my backups my original rom. Rebooting, and fixed.
--- and It worked. At the time I was on clock work recovery, i only had the Revolutionary recovery img. Cwm-4.0.14.-shooteru.img to be exact,
after going in there I just cleared the cache and davlik and then, proceeded to restore my backups (I'm not sure if it would've worked if I had re-flashed the leedroid or a custom rom)
and then I simply rebooted the phone, and it got back into my phones original state before leedroid (as I had Only backedup before then)....
Apologies for the lengthly post, but I guess reading does help, but I've been going nuts before I managed to fix this. Just thought I'd leave this post incase someone were to need this.

Same problem
Hi there. I just recently joined so excuse my noobness but i have a similar problem. I recently just rooted my evo 3d sprint with the the boot 1.5 and everything went well. I decided i wanted to overclock my phone so i followed zeemaxs way. Before going into the overclock procedure i decided to do the the RCMIX Evo 3d kernel v. 2.2.3 first so i would have better results when done with the overclock procedure.I bootup the kernel through the recovery mode on the phone butit failed to load so i just reeboted. After that my wifi and 4g stopped working. So i downloaded an app on the market called "flash image GUI" which lets me flash the kernels through the app. I flashed the RCMIX kernel and rebooted and now im stuck ima boot loop. I COULD just go back and back up to my old rom and settings etc...........but the problem is i dintmake any kind of back up or recovery i think. I know i know im stupid and an idiot but i just sort of panicked n ended up with this. If anyone can help please tell me.I do not want to pay for a new phone at full price. PLEASE HELP THIS POOR NOOB!!!!! X(

awsomepanda20 said:
Hi there. I just recently joined so excuse my noobness but i have a similar problem. I recently just rooted my evo 3d sprint with the the boot 1.5 and everything went well. I decided i wanted to overclock my phone so i followed zeemaxs way. Before going into the overclock procedure i decided to do the the RCMIX Evo 3d kernel v. 2.2.3 first so i would have better results when done with the overclock procedure.I bootup the kernel through the recovery mode on the phone butit failed to load so i just reeboted. After that my wifi and 4g stopped working. So i downloaded an app on the market called "flash image GUI" which lets me flash the kernels through the app. I flashed the RCMIX kernel and rebooted and now im stuck ima boot loop. I COULD just go back and back up to my old rom and settings etc...........but the problem is i dintmake any kind of back up or recovery i think. I know i know im stupid and an idiot but i just sort of panicked n ended up with this. If anyone can help please tell me.I do not want to pay for a new phone at full price. PLEASE HELP THIS POOR NOOB!!!!! X(
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What your going to have to do is flash the original kernel you started with. thats why your in a bootloop

Similar problem
Hi everyone!
I have a kind of similar problem, so I won't post it in a new thread.
Yesterday I rooted my phone following this guide: androidforums.com/evo-3d-all-things-root/494212-complete-newbies-guide-rooting-flashing-evo-3d-roms-kernels-using-fastboot . html (i am not allowed to post links to prevent spam).
I unlocked it with htcdev and installed a custom ROM without getting any errors. After restarting the phone, it got into a boot loop; it showed the starting animations of htc and the ROM and then shut down again.
Here some more information:
-Evo 3d Europe gsm
-hboot 1.5
-s-on
-image version 3.28.401
-installed ROMs using clockworkrecoverymod (as proposed in guide)
I have tried these ROMs (all leading to boot loop):
ICS NonSense
Cyanogen Mod 10 – DisarmedToaster (v. 1.4 and 1.5)
Jelly Bean 3d (by Ubuntuz)
SAD 2.1 DEsenseX
I installed the ROMs by doing:
Connect device via usb > flash boot.img via fastboot (from pc) > clear Cashe/UserData/DalvikVM > install rom.zip from sdcard > reboot
I really don't know what to try
Any ideas how I could install a running Android OS are highly appreciated.
Thx for any help

Problem solved!
Ok, I solved the problem by simply relocking the phone and installing the stock ROM with the RUU.exe

RUU.exe
I'm glad someone else mentioned Relocking before running the RUU. I've read several posts be others that have actually stated that Relocking wasn't necessary but in order for the RUU to take you have to Relock. IF you get a chance check out CoolICS Rom and MeanRom both are pretty good.

Thanks all for the help, had to revisit this issue today.

[Q] Unable to recover KF...TWRP errors

I did a pretty extensive search for a solution to this and was unable to find one.
I flashed JB to my KF using KFU and TWRP and everything went fine. However after flashing and rebooting, the regular Kindle Fire logo comes up and JB starts. I can't get back into TWRP to go back to a stock KF.
I have no experience using adb or even how to set it up and all the previous posts that sorta resembled this problem were confusing and frustrating for me.
Please help a noob...

If the system actually loads select reboot then recovery. Flashing stock wrong will just make the situation worse please provide greater detail. The stock boot ani. Indicates to me that you don't have a bootloader the bootloader allows you to access recovery when the system fails to load. Without it your at a turning point that requires the use of a factory cable to put the bootloader in place so that you can thus enter recovery to restore, wipe or flash a new system. Post 9 you can purchase one from one of our dedicated members http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392693. When you have it pm me I would be happy to assist you in recovering your device. If your shell is not missing or corrupt then the cable will not be needed but my guess is that it is.

I can get into and use Jellybean on my Kindle. I have tried to use GooManager to reboot in recovery but it just restarts the kindle and goes right back to the kindle animation and the JB rom animation. When I try to get into flash roms it asks for superuser permission. If I allow it simply returns to the main screen.

There is another option but we will have to get together to get it done. It requires the use of an older version of Smirkit. Just simply install busybox and jrummies root browser, move a folder to your sdcard and run a script walla new bootloader and rewrite your recovery problem solved.

Alright...I already have busybox and root browser installed. What do I to do?

PM sent unread your private messages.

Problem solved thanks to much help from ThePooch! Much Thanks .

You`re welcome.:highfive:

[Q] Oddities of rebooting CWM

Sooo, I got my OTA update for Tiny's CM rom today from GooIM. And low and behold... now I can't seem to access my Clockwork Recovery Mod. I enter Rom Manager, order it to reboot to Recovery, and comes to Fastboot. Or, the two finger salute, Pwr/DnVol yields the same result.
Now the phone insists that it's still Soff, Hboot 0.92, and the like... Rom Manager insists that ~it~ can detect CWM 5.0.2's presence, but any attempt to actually boot into it just results in me ending up on the Fastboot screen.
After various attempts at battery pulls and and at reinstalling RomManager and CWM, I tried instead to flash in an image for TWRP both from the GooIM app, and from ADB. That went nowhere as the phone just keeps returning remote access denied type errors in ADB, and merely booted to fastboot and stayed there till I rebooted it normally when done via the app.
Also, the refresh feature seems to have gone kerplooey. From within the rom it just restarts and sends me to the fastboot screens when I ask it to go nuclear, and if I try it from the fastboot screen, it just restarts.
So, I could use some help at this point on how to retake control of my Dinc. Right now I can't change rom's, wipe the caches, etc...

eoraptor said:
Sooo, I got my OTA update for Tiny's CM rom today from GooIM. And low and behold... now I can't seem to access my Clockwork Recovery Mod. I enter Rom Manager, order it to reboot to Recovery, and comes to Fastboot. Or, the two finger salute, Pwr/DnVol yields the same result.
Now the phone insists that it's still Soff, Hboot 0.92, and the like... Rom Manager insists that ~it~ can detect CWM 5.0.2's presence, but any attempt to actually boot into it just results in me ending up on the Fastboot screen.
After various attempts at battery pulls and and at reinstalling RomManager and CWM, I tried instead to flash in an image for TWRP both from the GooIM app, and from ADB. That went nowhere as the phone just keeps returning remote access denied type errors in ADB, and merely booted to fastboot and stayed there till I rebooted it normally when done via the app.
Also, the refresh feature seems to have gone kerplooey. From within the rom it just restarts and sends me to the fastboot screens when I ask it to go nuclear, and if I try it from the fastboot screen, it just restarts.
So, I could use some help at this point on how to retake control of my Dinc. Right now I can't change rom's, wipe the caches, etc...
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Reflash cwm http://dinc.does-it.net/Recoveries/CWM_5.0.2.0/PB31IMG.zip thru hboot.
How to flash - http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=79.
Then see if you can access it. If you can do a full wipe, and then either restore a backup or flash a rom of your choosing.

I would aslo recommend using Team Wins recovery now its more user friendly has some tools you might find handy and well touch based lol
Sent from my rooted GameBoy Color!!! ^¬^

Took me a month, but I finally got past both my frustration and some meat-space interruptions. Yes, the instructions provided by cmlusco did the trick, thank you SOOOO much.
And ironically, I WAS going to install TWRP onto the device, elzimmer, but when I booted it up, it said it had the OTA update to install, so I let it do that first *rolls my eyes* On reboot I found out that that had tanked the recovery mod before I could even begin doing the factory resets and so forth.
Either way, thanks again both of you.

OUYA bricked, got into recovery.

Ok long story short, the other day I was doing the steps to get adb wireless working and I accidentally skipped the step after I chmod build.prop where you pull the build.prop and everything went downhill from there, leaving me with a blackscreen when I turn on my OUYA. I just did the alt + sysrq + i combo a bunch of times and got into CWM. I was going to do a backup the other day after getting adb wireless but didn't make it that far so I can't restore a backup, so I'm thinking I have two options. Factory reset, OR I can use the Install zip from sideload to flash the latest OTA. I'm thinking the later of the two would be the step to go, can anyone provide any advice on this? Thanks so much.

good times...
I had the same issue last friday. Black screen, and Ouya was seen as an MTP USB device on laptop. had to reinstall all drivers and such... had an issue when in recovery that changed the driver code this helped...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2352658
I went the route of sideloading the OTA got file from here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2266629
also this helped..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2344097

This issue has been resolved. I simply selected Install zip from sideload and cd'd to the directory where my current OUYA version's OTA was downloaded and did adb sideload OUYA-1.0.298-r1_ota.zip, rebooted and it worked. The first time I did a factory reset after the sideload due to a recommendation and it didn't work, so I had to do it again. It worked the second time around when I didn't perform the Factory reset.

Hello, I seemed to broke my ouya... I (stupidelly) formated my SD card in recovery... now I can't even get the ouya to be recognized in Windows... I tried sideloading OTA and it says that there aren't any devices connected... I should have just be happy with root access and SU and BusyBox, but no... I wanted to try some custom roms, now I bricked it... FML

Il_Padrino said:
Hello, I seemed to broke my ouya... I (stupidelly) formated my SD card in recovery... now I can't even get the ouya to be recognized in Windows... I tried sideloading OTA and it says that there aren't any devices connected... I should have just be happy with root access and SU and BusyBox, but no... I wanted to try some custom roms, now I bricked it... FML
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Have you tried the all-in-one tools box that is posted in this forum? It may help in getting your ouya back up assuming you can get into recovery. Although if there is no OS on the ouya, you would not be able to get the init.d process to crash either. What guide did you follow that says to format the SDcard?

mikeones42 said:
Have you tried the all-in-one tools box that is posted in this forum? It may help in getting your ouya back up assuming you can get into recovery. Although if there is no OS on the ouya, you would not be able to get the init.d process to crash either. What guide did you follow that says to format the SDcard?
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I tought it was like the phones... (stupid, stupid, stupid)
I have recovery, I was wondering if there is a way to install OTA or Custom Roms over OTG...