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Desire stuck in boot loop

Hello, tonight i tried some thing (i just wanted to change rom), but i made some mistakes... now i cannot boot my phone, it keeps rebooting. I have Leedroid ROM and it keeps rebooting after PC-boot like animation. The only thing i can access is the back button + power recovery. What can i do?
Thanks!

I have tried to wipe the cache and system, and solo deleted storage (hard reset)... but same point. I think that if i can put a update.zip on the sdcard i can flash it... but at the moment i don't have a sd card reader. Is the phone dead?

No your phone isnt dead
1. If you have a nandroid on your sd card just enter hboot and recover your system.
2. Otherwise you can perform an md5 check of the rom you downloaded and wish to flash. (just to make sure its not corrupted, i suppose your trying to flash leedroid) Enter hboot wipe everything >system wipe>cache>dalvic and then relash the rom. Oh and make sure your sd card is partitioned correctly ... a2sd, D2EXt ...
3. If problem persists go into hboot mount your phone as storage copy another rom you would like to try and then flash this, you can just follow the steps in no2 abouve again.
This should solve your problem!

The thing that i have done BAD is the format of the card... or better, i have done right things but i'm almost sure something was wrong. I formatted it from gparted, then created a 3GB FAT32 partition, and with the remaining space i created a ext4 partition. Then, i moved the files needed for the rom that i wanted to flash (MIUI) in the fat32 partition, as i seen that the ext4 part was mounted read only (dunno why).
IMPORTANT: I have done all this mounting the SD card via Clockwork recovery.
When i selected the voice "flash a zip selecting from memory card" (or something )... it said "cannot find a valid zip".
Then the only choice for me was to reboot and... that is
Now i cannot mount SD, as i don't have (at home) a SD card reader and i don't have access to CWM recovery.

Lost!!!

OK, been screwing with iPhones for YEARS.. (Franlkly, that ****s a cakewalk compared to screwing with android phones)... Anyway, I've inherited an HTC desire that's been rooted with Clockwork 2.something, and a froyo 2.2 rom. I've since updated the hboot to 0.93.0001 FROM .83 or .84 or something... or im TRYING to get the gingervillian rom to function correctly but im having problems with the whole clockwork 3.0 thing. (I cant figure out how to install clockwork to the phone NOT the SD card.. as Im assuming i need clockwork installed to the phone to handle the whole EXT on the SD thing...
(Basically, when i run in a terminal:
su
a2sd cachesd
it returns a "cant mount sd-ext" error...
(this is my biggest problem so far... after that is... HOW THE HELL do i install clockwork to the phone (or upgrade clockwork to the phone) rather than the SD card (yes, i can run the clockwork 3.0 from the sd by entering recovery and "installing" it (which really only runs it) from the sd card (wether it's named update.zip or recovery.img or blahblahblah.zip)...
As im fairly new to the android thing (and for the record.. the android kicks the **** out of every iphone ive ever touched)... can someone PLEASE... point me in the general direction of right?

really? nothing? no one has had a single issue with going to gingervillain? and cant point me in ANY direction? THIS i find difficult to believe...

from what i understand you want to put the latest clockwork recovery onto your phone ????
if so in rom manager click (i not used it for a long time ) the top one syas something like flash clockwork / current clockwork , boot into recovery search for the zip it created and install
or you can get the img file and push it via fastboot
fastboot erase recovery (enter)
fastboot flash recovery clockwork-recovery.img (enter)
^^ thats the commands to push it once you have directed to where it is .. for eg
cd c:\ enter (then direct it to where recovery.img is preferably in tools folder of sdk )
if thats not what you want then thats just some useless info you have gathered .....lol

It's not that difficult your are just mixing up a few words.
Clockwork is a recovery, this way you can flash new roms etc. I think you are using an old tutorial about rooting etc.
1. Download unrevoked to root your device. You can select to install a different recovery in Unrevoked.
2. I would suggest using a different recovery, look for amon-ra in the rom development thread.
3. This error "cant mount sd-ext" means that you don't have an ext3 partition on your SD card. There are a lot of tutorials how to do this, but I think the easiest way is true the amon-ra recovery. (I believe that clockwork also has this option) You have an option to partion your SD card. Make that ext3 partition 512mb or 1gb in size. Set swap for 0. The rest fat32.
4. After you have done this you can type the commands again in the terminal and it will work.
You can skip part 1 and 2 if you want but I suggest that you follow them.
ps the Hboot does not matter anymore which version you have.

OK, so I've gotten a little further. Ive successfully installed Clockwork Mod 3.0.0.5 onto the phone itself (installed via terminal as:
su
flash_ image recovery /sdcard/Clockwork.img
Then did a factory reset of the phone, booted into recovery, formated the sd card with a 1G ext partition, and 128MB swap... the rest as FAT. Then mounted as USB, transfered the Gingervillian 1.5 image to the sd card and installed Gingervillian. Booted into Gingervillian, installed terminal and tried to move the Dalvik cache. TO NO AVAIL...
I still get an error saying that the davlik cache cant be moved.
Additionally, from Clockwork, after formating the SD card, i try to mount sd-ext and it says it cant...
any advice?

OK, apparently it's the SD card I was using (i was attempting to use a 32GB SD card... I swapped back to my 8GB sd card and it seems to work flawlessly.
Any ideas on what would stop the 32gb sd card from taking an ext partition?
(interestingly, google maps crashes when i attempt to a2sd cachesd on the 8gb sd card...)

I didn't need to have an ext 3 partition on my card to use Oxygen and also I didn't update my HBoot from the default.
Using clockwork recovery 2.5.0.7
Just use Rom Manager to install and reboot into clockwork recovery and then from there you should be able to clear the cache and install oxygen with no problems with only a fat32 partition.

[Q] Install zip from sdcard in recovery => "no files found"

Hi,
I had a stock HTC Desire. These are the steps I took:
- First I rooted using unrevoked. That worked perfectly.
- Then I did S-off using alpharev. No problem at all.
- Next I wanted to have a2sd (or mount2sd or app2sd+ or data2ext, WTF is the difference???) to finally be released of the "no memory" messaged (HTC, what were you thinking??). I didn't want to add init.d support to my stock rom, so I picked this rom, which had it built in.
- Before I installed that ROM, I used Gparted to make two partitions on the 4 gb sd card: 3 gb FAT32 and 1 gb EXT4.
- Then I installed the Cronmod ROM. During installation it asked if I had an EXT partition, I said yes.
The phone booted fine so I started to install my apps. I soon noticed my internal memory became to small again! Why wasn't that data2ext thing working?? I remembered from the rooting faq that some ROMs don't work with EXT4 partitions, so let's see if I can change it to EXT3.
I booted into Gparted again and here things started to go bad: there was nothing there! There was 2.74 gb of unallocated space!!!
Not only was there just 2.74 gb on a 4 gb card, all partitions were gone!
- I made two partitions again: 1.76 FAT32 and 999 mb EXT3. I would try to find a solution to get the invisible 1.3 gb on the sd card back later. First I wanted to have this data2ext thing working.
- When I tried to reboot I got stuck on the Alpharev "Why so serious" screen.
- wipe data/factory reset didn't work either, because I got the "Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)
(No such file or directory)" error. Why is that much going wrong??
- Googling learned I probably had an SD card brick, so I followed this guide. That didn't work at all. I did these two command: fastboot oem enableqxdm 0(unblock your sd-card)
fastboot oem eraseconfig(fix misc partition).
- Finally I did a "partition SD card" in recovery and that got it to recognize my sd card again.
- It still hangs on the "why so serious" screen though. So maybe I need to reinstall the rom? I put the rom on the fat32 partition, but "install zip from SD card" in recovery gives the error "no files found". Also, in HBoot, for a split second it shows some errors: something about missing zip/img files and then "no image or wrong image"
According to the Troubleshooting FAQ I need to do this:
To fix a bootloop/ stuck on HTC Screen:
[STEP1]- do a battery pull to power off the device (as this is the only way to do so when stuck in a bootloop)
[STEP2]- hold the VOLUME DOWN button and the POWER button to boot into the bootloader
[STEP3]- use the VOLUME UP/DOWN buttons to navigate, and POWER to select. Navigate to RECOVERY.
[STEP4]- select "mounts & storage" and then select the following options
[STEP5]- format boot
[STEP6]- format system
[STEP7]- format data
[STEP8]- format cache
[STEP9]- format sd-ext (IF YOU HAVE IT)
[IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A BACKUP]
[STEP10b]- go back to the main menu, select "install zip from sdcard", then "choose zip from sdcard", and flash a ROM which you KNOW works. If you have none, try my failsafe: CyanogenMod
- reboot system now
I did all that, but as explained, it doesn't find any files on the sdcard!
This is the info I have in HBoot:
---AlphaRev---
BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-031d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.11.05.27
So these are my problems:
- Stuck at "Why so serious" alpharev screen.
- My SD card reports only 2.74 gb size, while it's 4 gb.
- I can't install zip files from the SD card: "no files found", while I can see they are there in windows explorer...
Please help :-(

FINALLY got it to boot again by doing this:
- recovery > advanced > partition SD card
- select 512 mb recovery, 0 mb swap
- next put the rom on the SD card from windows explorer
- install the cronmod (it could finally find the zip!!!)
- during installation select that I have an EXT partition
I can now boot my phone, but just to be sure, I checked in Gparted and I now have only one big chunck of unallocated space with size 3.22 gb :-s
How could I put the zip file on there? Where is the EXT? WTF is going on?

Do you have a microSD to SD converter so that you can view your microSD on your pc? If so you might want to check if you can acces the unlocated space on your PC and format all of it back to FAT32 before trying again.

Elightos said:
Do you have a microSD to SD converter so that you can view your microSD on your pc? If so you might want to check if you can acces the unlocated space on your PC and format all of it back to FAT32 before trying again.
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No, unfortunately not. There's one underway, ordered online.

It looks like damaged card for me, try it with other micro sd if you have one

kotag82 said:
It looks like damaged card for me, try it with other micro sd if you have one
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But how did I manage to damage an SD card?
Is there any way to fix it?

You can test your card by using H2testw (google search should turn it up).
Odd you're getting problems with Gparted - never failed me yet. I wouldn't recommend using recovery to partition, although 4EXT Touch does seem to work. You mounting sd card in recovery in order to partition using Gparted?

beachcomber said:
You can test your card by using H2testw (google search should turn it up).
Odd you're getting problems with Gparted - never failed me yet. I wouldn't recommend using recovery to partition, although 4EXT Touch does seem to work. You mounting sd card in recovery in order to partition using Gparted?
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Thanks, I'll try that H2testw when I get home.
I already tried SD Formatter (https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/), to no avail.
Yes, I mount the SD card from within CWM recovery and then format with Gparted.

I have had the same problem with one of my sd-cards.
I guess it was just the card, which wasn't completely compatible, because with other cards, I didn't had the problem.
I had no problem using it with just one fat32 partition, but as soon as I made the second partition, it failed. It had something to do with alignment. Try to experiment with that...

4EXT recovery was able to kind of revive the SD Card. It formatted it to a total of 3.7 gb, so still quite a lot short of the 4 gb the card should be.
At least it is working now.
Strange... first time I've had bad experience with Gparted.

3.7 gig is quite normal.
4EXT can also check alignment of your partitions....

led notification not work on desire in miui 4.1

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led notification not work on desire in miui 4.1
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And this has to do with the subject of this thread in what way?

[Q] help please

okay so i have an evo 4g rooted 2.3 with amon ra custom recovery.. i attempted to flash a new rom synergy i did a full wipe on everything data/system/cache/delvik cache and began to flash the rom the rom got half way through and gave me an error message "opps something went wrong check recovery log" so i decided to just forget flashing that rom so i did another whip completely and decided to just do a nanodroid restore on my old rom. that got half way through and came up with an error message saying " internal memory full" so i did another wipe and tried again but this time i came up with the error E: cannot mount sd card.. I can't even us Mass storage to reformat my card so i pulled it out and reformatted it on my computers sd slot and put the custom recovery back on and the recovery files and yet still i cannot mount sd card... i also get an error when trying to flash a rom E: dev/Block/ a series of numbers and letters. my phone is currently bricked if you ask me but what doesnt make sense is how i can put clockworkmod recovery image PC36IMG.zip and in my bootloader screen it asks me if i want to update so technically my phone is reconizing the sd card but the recovery is not mounting it or accepting it does anyone have any idea and any info they can provide to me? sorry for this long thread lol just wantted to get all the details out.

Sd card damaged

About 2 weeks ago I suddenly received the SD card damaged message in the status window.
I ended up buying a Kingston 16GB to replace the original SanDisk but I'm still getting the same problem. I'm not seeing a problem with the Sandisk or Kingston on a PC.
Presently;
*If I boot into Clockwork Mod Recovery and mount the sd, I can create partitions, FAT32 and EXT3 and the phone will refuse to boot.
* If I delete the partitions and create a single FAT32 volume, the phone boots but complains that the card requires formatting. If I format the card in android it appears to work.
* I can then mount it inside of android and windows can see the contents ok.
* If I reboot into clockworkmod recovery, and mount the sdcard which was formatted inside of Android, Windows can't see the volume and gparted reports that the volume is corrupt.
I've read that this may be a hardware problem, but it seems more like software to me since clockwork is reading the card differently to android?
Many have said after replacing the phone the problems went away. Can anyone comment on this problem? I had been using Gingerburst and Data2SD for over a year prior to this issue suddenly developing. It just occurred while trying to play a song in an mp3 player and being told the file wouldn't play. I rebooted the phone and then the memory card problem developed.

Change cwm recovery to 4ext. Go here:
www.4ext.net
Download recovery updater and use to flash recovery.
When you finish flashing the recovery reboot to it and repartition your sd, first make it whole in fat32, then make partitiins as you wish.
Sent from my HTC Desire using Flashes and Thunders

Hi thanks for the suggestion. It seems I had a very old version of clockwork mod recovery installed, 2.0.5.7. I used Clockworkmod Recovery Manager to try and update it but it never mentioned the version of CMW Recovery which it was obtaining and attempting to flash, or that the flash was failing.
I tried to install your 4EXT recovery but it kept failing, I noticed Superuser was outdated, so I tried to upgrade that but it couldn't flash the upgrade binary. I was suspecting there was some sort of latent rooting issue present, so I then used 'revolutionary' (available from http://revolutionary.io/) to S-Off and root the phone again. This updated clockwork mod to 4.x.x.x. I used Clockwork Mod Recovery manager to flash the CWM Recovery and it reported success this time. I then used the partition manager and it seems to have successfully entered CMW Recovery and created the partition. Looks like the phone is stuck booting at the moment however, seems to hang on the HTC splash screen every time you add that second partition.
I will delete the EXT partition and go back and try to flash 4EXT again now I have rerooted and confirmed S-Off. This has been a right pain, I hope it isn't a hardware issue.

Fixed!
Partitioned directly from CMW Recovery 5.0.2, installed the rom. Booted into android, rebooted into CWM Recovery. Installed the data2sd script. Booted, waited about 20 minutes for the boot to finally complete.
Checked from both CWM recovery and Android and the card is visible on the pc and in android on both. No idea what went wrong, maybe the original volumes did become corrupt but in addition looks like something was wrong with the old version of CWM which was causing the inconsistency in the volumes being visible from android and not CMW Recovery (and vice versa).
Steps performed to fix:
* Installed Revolutionary which offers the CWM Recovery upgrade to 4.x.x.x.
* If necessary use the CWM Rom Manager from the Market to upgrade CWM Recovery to 5.x.x.x as the upgrade does not seem to flash correctly from the 2.x.x.x version I had installed (I could boot by deleting then creating a single partition with fat32).
* Use CWM Recovery to partition SD card directly with EXT partition.
* Factory reset/wipe cache/delvik cache
* Install android rom.
* Boot into android, wait for the boot to fully complete.
* Reboot into CWM Recovery and Install Data2SD.
* Boot and wait bloody ages (approx 20 minutes).