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I flashed to pays rom, successfully yesterday.
today, i wanted to wipe my phone (entered wrong gmail account so didnt have access to paid apps)
after doing so, ive been stuck in an endless boot screen.
anyone shed some light on the situation?
Oops. I think this happened to some G1 roms too.
Reflash?
the rom was absolutely flawless before this.
ive tried.
with 2 different roms.
wiped everything i possibly can in recovers & fastboot
insult to injury; recovery-windows wont load, so i cant even get past recovery screen.
My mistake. recovery-windows is loading. now flashing. again.
so then, managed to flash some sense based roms alright, until i get past bootloader.
com.android.acore error messages all the time.
loaded nexdesire rom fine with no errors.
ideas anyone?
Out of interest, did you re-partition your SD Card for A2SD at all??
If so... Try re-partitioning it again in recovery mode, but use it all as storage (no ext partition), wipe and re-flash.
I did.
I'll try that now and pray it works
Get in!
Working absolutely fine now
Hi. I hope someone can help.
I've been using my desire rooted and S-OFFed running Defrost for sometime, all has been fine. Was playing Angry birds yesterday and the phone froze.
Pulled the battery and rebooted, carried on playing. Froze again.
Pull the battery again but phone stuck on the first splash screen. Fiddled a bit, couldn't get into recovery. So I left the phone on charge until the light went green, then removed the battery and left it overnight.
This morning I put the battery in and switched it on. It booted fine, but froze when I tried to unlock it.
I've tried pulling the battery again and again. I can get into HBOOT, but the phone isn't recognised for ADB or fastboot commands via USB. It often freezes even in fastboot mode.
I tried to do a clear storage, but that froze as well. Although a subsequent attempt appeared to work but the phone still won't boot normally.
So I can't reflash or do anything else. HAs anyone actually sent a phone back for repair with custom firmware/splash screen installed, as I don't think I'm going to be able to revert it to stock.
I've tried numerous restarts with and without a sim and an sd card inserted. Not sure what else to try.
Any help greatly appreciated.
did you wipe the dalvik cache through recovery?
try this if you can.
No I haven't wiped the dalvik cache. I have managed to get in to recovery on a couple of occasions. But the phone has frozen again navigating the menu.
I will try that if I get into recovery again though.
Thanks
Quick update.
After leaving the battery out for a couple of hours. I tried again and the phone started to boot. It got to the splash animation and the wipe had obviously worked because it was the DeFrost default of the X. This then looped a few times then froze.
I pulled the battery and managed to get in to Clockwork Mod recovery and did a wipe from there, which appeared to work, but then it rebooted by itself and I still didn't manage to do a dalvik wipe.
Now I'm back to the same point again. I can't get into recovery.
I guess I'll try again after leaving the battery out for a while.
One thing I did notice when in recovery was that the trackpad didn't work. I had to use vol and power keys. If I get into recovery again, I'll try a keytest if I get into recovery again.
And another update.
I got into recovery again and did a wipe dalvik cache.
I got the following error.
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
(No such file or directory)
Dalvik cache wiped.
So I'm not sure if it actually did it or not.
I then tried to do a nandroid restore and got a similar error.
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)
(No such file or directory)
E:Can't mount /sdcard
Then the phone froze again.
So I'm guessing something is corrupted here.
Should I try formatting the SD card. (I have backed up all the data I could using my PC).
i think your dalvik will have been wiped. i always get the same message.
have you tried it again but without trying to restore a nand?
Yes, I tried it again. I only seem to be able to get in to recovery after leaving the battery out for a while.
This time I did a dalvik wipe then rebooted, but it's just stuck on the initial splash screen again.
I'm pulling my hair out here (what little I have)
have you considered going back to a stock rom using an RUU or PB99IMG?
then you'd have to root again and restore your nand if possible/needed.
I'd be happy to try reverting to stock, but don't you need to get the phone to boot before you can do that?
I have sent this phone back for repair previously and done just that (it suffered from the overheating problem and had a whole new motherboard less than months ago).
After leaving the battery out again for a while, a normal switch on got to the animation splash then rebooted twice before freezing again.
Is this likely to be a corruption in the flash memory, or a hardware problem?
Hello,
I've got exactly the same problem! The phone freezes on the first splash-screen (not the Rom's bootanimation) and I can't get into recovery.
I'm running Oxygen Rom (2.0-RC6) and using Apps2SD in combination with an 8GB Transcend microSD card. I've only "rooted" it once using Unrevoked (long time ago), so I assume it is still S-On. I'm using clockwork's recovery, too.
At the moment I really don't know what to do.
What could I try?
pc99mk:
At the moment I'm leaving the battery out the phone until afternoon, hoping to get into recovery
Thank you in advance for every bit of an answer
Read up on the PB99IMG process if you can get into recovery (power & vol down).
Otherwise, the RUU will work if you can boot into fastboot (power & back key).
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Hi spadoleo.
Sorry to hear you're having similar troubles.
I'm sure mine must have some sort of hardware problem now.
After leaving the battery out for a while again last night, I managed to get into fastboot and flash the latest alpharev hboot, and clockworkmod 3.0.0.5 in the hope that my freezing problems there were due to a slight corruption.
Clockworkmod has definitely updated as the colour of the menu has changed, but it still freezes soon after entering.
I just want to try and get the phone looking as much like a stock phone prior to sending it back now.
Does anyone have a fasstboot flashable image of the following:
UK TMobile 'Pink Circle' splash1 image
Standard HBOOT
Standard recovery
Otherwise I'm just going to have to send it back to HTC as is, and hope they still fix it under warranty.
Or is there any way of getting a RUU to start doing anything with the phone in fastboot?
Or indeed anything else I can try?
See my post above.
You can run an RUU in fastboot.
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Hi mikep99.
Ok thanks for the advice. I'll have a read of the pb99img stuff.
I tried the RUU this morning in fastboot mode, but every time it justs sits at the 'Verifying information on your Android phone' for a while, then times out with a USB connection error.
I seem to have best results after leaving the battery out for a while (no idea why that should make any difference but it does), so I'll try it again in an hour or so.
Cheers
Install htc sync if you haven't already.
And try turning off antivirus and firewall on your PC
HTH
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Ok. I read up on the PB99IMG process.
I found a PB99IMG.zip file posted by Teppic74 which is a stock Froyo.
I copied it to the root of my goldcard and booted the phone.
It loaded the file and came up with
Incorrect CID error
update fail
I then kicked myself. I created the gold card to revert the phone to stock before sending it to HTC previously.
They replaced the motherboard. Would this have changed my CID?
I then thought 'no problem I'll just go through the gold card creation process again'
But although I can do stuff on the phone in fastboot mode, adb doesn't work in that mode. So trying adb shell cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid
just gives an error.
So if my CID has changed, any idea how I can create a gold card with the phone in this state. Should adb only work when the phone is booted, or should it work in hboot or fastboot?
i'm not sure which PB99IMG you're trying to flash but i'd use this (if its not the same):
http://shipped-roms.com/download.ph...9.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_159811_signed.zip
with regards to the goldcard, have you mounted the sdcard when in recovery? and then running
cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:*/cid
again?
if that doesn't work, you can use another TMobile Desire to create it.
therefore, i don't think the mbo change should affect your goldcard????
EDIT - when you got your phone back from repair, was it completely wiped? Tmobile may have wiped/swapped etc.. the goldcard you previously made.
I think it was that image that I used. But I'll download it again just to be sure.
When the phone was repaired before, I sent to HTC directly and I didn't send any sd card or battery. So it should still be as it was.
So if the CID isn't motherboard specific it should still work.
Is there any way to check whether it is still a goldcard? I may have formatted it again (don't recall).
Although thinking about it, I still have the image file emailed to me when I created the gold card originally, so I could just reapply it and try again.
I'm out tonight, but will try a few things and post back with my results.
Thanks for your help so far.
Another update and things have moved forward.
It turned out I'd trashed my gold card, but I did still have the image file so I recreated it.
I then booted the phone again and it loaded the PB99IMP.zip file.
It then asked me if I wanted to perform the update. I said yes, and it updated the bootloader and rebooted. Then it froze on Checking PB99IMP.zip....
After leaving it 10-15 minutes I pulled the battery again and left it for a while.
I tried again just now.
I can see that it has updated the HBOOT, so I'm no longer S-OFF.
Just now I thought it was going to work it got about halfway through updating the system partition before freezing.
If only it had updated the splash1 image before the system, I might've had the phone in a suitable state to return. But it still shows my custom splash1 screen when powering on normally - then it changes to the piccy with the green arrows.
I'll try it again later after leaving the battery out for a while.
But the fact it freezes in the middle of such an update suggests it's definitely a hardware problem of some sort.
If anyone has any other ideas I could try, please let me know. But once again thanks for all the help so far.
Sounds like you're getting somewhere
Just keep on trying every now and again.
Hopefully it'll go through...
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I s-offed, rooted & put cm7 stable on a friends Incredible. He got to messing with ROM Manager. I'm not sure what he tried to flash, but it screwed this phone up big time. He said something about a kernel & also about an update to recovery. I told him not to mess with it, but i guess he doesn't pay attention.
Here's what it doing. Boot loops on white HTC splash screen. Boot loader won't recognize any PB31IMG.img's. It scans to where it finds the .img, but does nothing. It boots to clockwork recovery, but if you select any of the options, it goes to a blank screen with just the clockwork background image. I get the remote:not allowed error when trying to flash recovery through fastboot even though it still says s-off.
What I've tried. Loading several PB31IMG's with no results, including the one with the same radio. I've also tried every recovery pb31img except stock. Nothing happens. Tried doing an ruu, but since the phone won't boot to the os, it never sees the phone as attached even in hboot. I have the hboot drivers installed. I've tried running the unrevoked reflash_package again, but it won't recognize it in hboot either. I think you have to start from the ROM for the software to work.
I'm guessing i am going to have to fix it with some adb or fastboot commands, but i would need some guidance here. I have it set up, but i have no idea on what commands to use. I have searched & read these forums & can't find anyone with a similar problem.
If anyone has any ideas or knows what to do, let me know. If you need bootloader info, let me know. I told him I would try to fix it, but no promises. I have never seen anything like this and have semi bricked many devices. The post about it not recognizing the ruu images baffles me. I owned an evo 4g, which is very similar to the incredible, so I'm not completely unfamiliar with the way it works. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks guys.
EDIT: NVMD! I figured out you have to use the trackpad to select anything in recovery instead of Power button. Sorry to waste your time. Have a great day!
CM powered EVO 3D, enough said.
I did an OTA update for a rom and it flashed smoothly but when it booted it told me to type in a password. So i tried to wipe it and nothing happened. it wont boot and its stuck at the htc screen. I cannot flash anything in fastboot it gives me (remote: not allowed). Please help me fix this phone.
Euforeik said:
I did an OTA update for a rom and it flashed smoothly but when it booted it told me to type in a password. So i tried to wipe it and nothing happened. it wont boot and its stuck at the htc screen. I cannot flash anything in fastboot it gives me (remote: not allowed). Please help me fix this phone.
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AOSP ROM? Try this [FIX] Data Encryption Problem AOSP Roms
Wish you guys would try looking up a solution to these problems BEFORE you just go and reset, wipe, flash and lord knows what else that ends up entirely messing up the device where the solution to the original problem itself was relatively simple.
Which is better, paying $700 for a new device or taking just 30mins(If it's even that long) to search for a solution. You're not the only person that has a problem like this...
Try the above and let us know what's happening.
Hi all,
Maybe you've read my previous post, but I encountered the next problem
My phone was running HDMaximus 7.1.0, no problems. Just reinstalled it last week since I got some Google Play Services errors. Now, my phone rebooted suddenly, and after that it stated: Your phone has been encrypted. Well, I entered my PIN, which was correct, but my data is corrupt.
Tried some things, also with TWRP, and now I'm stuck with the M9, with TWRP, without OS and my internal storage is saying 0mb. Repairing that partition didn't help.
I've tried to sideload it, to push it, nothing helps, because of the internal storage. But the connection with the device is there, so that's not the problem.
Is there a way to recover from this? Maybe with a stock RUU from the SD card, or to rewrite the partitions?
Help is appreciated!
Regards,
Jacco
Fryslanboy said:
Hi all,
Maybe you've read my previous post, but I encountered the next problem
My phone was running HDMaximus 7.1.0, no problems. Just reinstalled it last week since I got some Google Play Services errors. Now, my phone rebooted suddenly, and after that it stated: Your phone has been encrypted. Well, I entered my PIN, which was correct, but my data is corrupt.
Tried some things, also with TWRP, and now I'm stuck with the M9, with TWRP, without OS and my internal storage is saying 0mb. Repairing that partition didn't help.
I've tried to sideload it, to push it, nothing helps, because of the internal storage. But the connection with the device is there, so that's not the problem.
Is there a way to recover from this? Maybe with a stock RUU from the SD card, or to rewrite the partitions?
Help is appreciated!
Regards,
Jacco
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-one-m9/help/bricked-issues-return-to-100-stock-t3547433
Read my thread hope this helps.
Thats helping me a lot. I tried it with a stock RUU, 3.35.401.12, but when I start the download mode to flash it, it reboots just as soon when I push the Vol Up button. Weird.
(Phone is doing the whole sequence in about a second, then reboots and nothing happens)
Fryslanboy said:
Thats helping me a lot. I tried it with a stock RUU, 3.35.401.12, but when I start the download mode to flash it, it reboots just as soon when I push the Vol Up button. Weird.
(Phone is doing the whole sequence in about a second, then reboots and nothing happens)
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That is weird. Did u format data in TWRP by typing Yes, not just factory reset?
Well, I can't get into TWRP anymore. When I select Recovery in the fastboot menu, it goes to the black HTC screen, after that quick flash of the TWRP screen (it worked before) and then it goes to it's white HTC screen.
I'll try to install TWRP via fastboot, maybe that'll help
Just tried to flash TWRP through fastboot, which was finished, but I still can't access Recovery. Weird..
You haven't stated if you are s-off. Have you made sure the stock rom matches your sku?.
Beamed in by telepathy.
Yes,
I am S-OFF. I tried several rom's, but I'll double check that. Good point!