I loaded a backup of CM7 and when it rebooted it went into a bootloop and I cant get into recovery. I've tried everything even flashing CWM again and also the stock ROM image. Still bootloop!
Please help
You didnt brick it, if you bricked it, it wouldnt start. You should still be able to get into recovery, by holding the power button and volume at the same time, and getting into Hboot, then go to recovery. Im also guessing it happened because you didnt whipe cache or data before you did this. First time i ever installed a new rom i got a bootloop,
Thank you for responding. I cant get into recovery it starts bootlooping once I select recovery. I tried loading the PB image of CWM and I also tried flashing the stock RUU. Cant get past HBOOT or initial bootloop. I CAN get into fastboot ADB though. Tried flashing a backup system.img, boot.img, data.img but boot.img said error
Your welcome, im not perfect at all this so excuse me a bit lol. So your saying when you select recovery, it boots up normally to the splash screen, or am i wrong? If your able to flash things them im pretty sure your able to get into recovery. Maybe also try another version of CM7? Transferring it to your phone.
No I select recovery in HBOOT and it goes straight to the white HTC INCREDIBLE screen and begins the bootloop process. I've pushed the CWM 3.0.0.8 in a pb13img file and still wont go into recovery. I cant get the phone past HBOOT
Thats really really weird that it wont go into recovery and it starts the boot. Hopefully someone can come with some extra assistance. It isnt bricked tho, i know that. So did you try formating data and cache then before doing anything either?
No I was busy and messed up. applied a backup without wiping data/cache. Came back to a powered off phone. Tried turning it on and it was bootlooping. I cant do anything now. Even if I can get S-ON i'll just get a replacement
There's a data wipe option in hboot, have you tried that?
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Goto Doug piston's web site and follow the go back to stock. You should be able to put the stock RUU on the root of your sd card named pb31img (not sure the exact file name but it is on dougs site). When you load in HBOOT, it should recognize the file and install. If I am not mistaken, this will unroot your phone as well.
http://dougpiston.com/?page_id=108
Pb31img file is there.
I tried the stock rom PB31IMG.zip and it continues to bootloop. If I cant get it fixed I want to at least get S-On
Probably aren't gonna be able to get S-ON cause that needs to be done in recovery..
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There is also the unrevoked forever s-on tool which you flash through recovery
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Yeah cant get to recovery so I'm boned.
I got VZW to send me a replacement and also got Asurion to get my an Inc2. Not sure which to send back. Free replacement with a gamble getting caught S-On, or $99 free upgrade to Inc2
what radio were you running
try flashing alternate recovery?
i also seem to remember there being a way to root through adb isnt there a way to unroot like that too?
I tried amon ra and a another one no difference. I also tried everything I could adb wise to flash different systems and erase everything. Im running the new GB radio
I may be wrong but I don't think you can apply the RUU with that radio installed. Go back to the stock radio and I think you may be able to flash ythe RUU successfully.
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I may be wrong but I don't think you can apply the RUU with that radio installed. Go back to the stock radio and I think you may be able to flash ythe RUU successfully.
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I got excited thinking there was a way to unbrick because of a step I missed. So I went to make sure the radio was right. I HAD the GB Leak 2.15.10.05.06
Right now in HBoot it shows 2.15.00.07.28
I know its not considered a brick because it still turns on but there is NOTHING I can do to get it out of bootloop or past HBoot
hmm new GB radio this has been happening with thunderbolt users to.....but in greater numbers.....I'd advise against using the GB leaked radio...
Your backup. Rec2.x. and now. 3.x?
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ok i have a MAJOR problem. im kind of a noob at this stuff so im still learning. i was messing in my system files trying different phone.apk. i think i may have deleted something essential. when i turn my phone on it doesnt get past the boot animation. my phone was rooted with unrevoked 3. but everytime i try to install a new rom using clock work recovery, it gets to the part where it "opens update pakage" and just stops and goes back to the first menu screen of clockwork. i dont have a nandroid backup either so i cant even restore.
Did you wipe everything before flashing?
Which rom did you try flashing?
yes i wiped everything. i tried multiple roms like cm 6, and stock. none worked. also. everytime i try to load up the pc36img.zip nothing happens it says "no image or wrong image"
You should try using Amon_RA instead. Just flash it using ROM Manager. Good Luck.
is it possible for me to change to amon? im not able to get past my boot screen on my phone, so if it requires me to turn my phone completely to use it, then i cant. i dont really know much about amon.
Search for the Amon_RA thread. If you downgraded your HBOOT, you can flash from Fastboot. If not, you can try an RUU.
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Search for the Amon_RA thread. If you downgraded your HBOOT, you can flash from Fastboot. If not, you can try an RUU.
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. I'm using ROM Manager with ClockworkMod, and every attempt leads to the screen flashing code for a few moments, and going right into the ClockworkMod Recovery main menu. it wont let me flash ANYTHING period. I have HBOOT-0.97. i dont know what can be the problem. and Amon RA is too complicated for me to understand right now cuz im still a noob. :-(
I'm rooted, unrevoked; I'm currently stuck in a boot loop. I can not reach recovery. I can not get to my rom. I can only access bootloader.
So far I have taken these steps to cure my problem:
Ran RUU software in Windows (with and without sd card in evo)
Flashed RUU as PC36IMG in bootloader
Cleared Storage using fastboot in command prompt
Cleared Recovery and then Flashed Amon Ra's Recovery and Clockwork using fastboot in command prompt
Flashed Amon Ra's Recovery and Clockwork as PC36IMG in hboot
Flashed Sprint Lover's as PC36IMG in hboot
Flashed eng-PC36IMG from Toastctfh's Old Root Tutorial as PC36IMG in hboot
Each of these methods flashed successfully as far as I can tell... yet I still go into an infinite boot loop.
Before the bootloop this is what I was doing:
I had the initial CM7 nightly installed for about 2 weeks. It was buggy, and a few days ago restarted and deleted all my texts, and desynced from google. On rebooting, google apps acted as if I had never ran the phone before - it asked me to enter google account info, etc, upon reboot.
I decided CM7 was too unstable and so I wiped data and davlik, and flashed CM6. When CM6 booted google apps was already on, before I had even flashed it! Anyways I figured I wanted to give MIUI a run, so I wiped data and davlik, and flashed MIUI. It ran fine for about two hours, and then rebooted out of nowhere... and never came out of the boot loop.
I'm really starting to sweat this as I have gone three days now without a phone. Does anyone have any ideas that may help me? Thanks.
hmm, you could flash recovery through bootloader i think
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hmm, you could flash recovery through bootloader i think
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thanks for the suggestion!, but thats what i meant by
Flashed Amon Ra's Recovery and Clockwork as PC36IMG in hboot
all i need to know can u get into recovery? cause if u can flash calkulins format all and flash the rom and ur good
Nope, I can't reach recovery
idk what to say hopefully a expert drops by im sorry that i cant help
Maybe bootloops from having an older radio. Gb roms need the latest radios. You can get a flashable zip in caulkins thread
Swyped from a galaxy far far away......
Jimdog420 said:
Maybe bootloops from having an older radio. Gb roms need the latest radios. You can get a flashable zip in caulkins thread
Swyped from a galaxy far far away......
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I had same problem, the radios messed my phone and was stuck in a boot loop and mess with my usb drivers as well so I couldnt charge my phone...i had to buy spare battery charger and flash different radio and rom through hboot
I'm pretty sure Sprint Lover's and RUU have the latest radios in them
You shouldnt be bricked and if you flashed an RUU, you wont have root anymore, nor will you have a recovery img. I would suggest running the RUU again. As long as it finishes without errors, you should be fine. Now, just a quick question, what are you seeing that makes you think you are in a bootloop??
Are you sure RUU removes root? I've RUU'd through my computer, as well as flashing an RUU zip as PC36IMG, and I still have S-OFF. If it would turn it to S-ON, that would be amazing.
your ruu file could be bad as well .. it happened to me once and had to redownload...for some reason it wasnt as big as it should of been
I'm stuck with a phone that only boots up to the bootloader. Wont boot into Clockwork Recovery, and wont flash a PC10img.zip (lack of heap). I need help. I have a back from CWrecovery earlier tonight. My bootloader is s-off. Any suggestions? U also get a touch panel fail message when i do a system info. Which is probably a result of a me opening the phone to replace the spring for the flip action. I'm sure thats just a simple hardware fix, the ribbon is probably loose from the reassembly.
Out of heap error is normally trying to flash a dz pc10img to a g2. make sure you have the right pc10img for your device.
as for not booting into recovery, that might just be a bug with the newest recoveries (5.0.x.x)
-Nipqer
Thanks, but I fixed it myself. Flashed a stock rom (which cause s-on) then rerooted and re-s-off'ed then reflashed clockwork recovery and restored a backup that thankfully I made about two hours prior.
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I'm having some major trouble with my Evo. I tried flashing from Classic v005 finale to v006 and I wiped everything 3 times. Now, I'm stuck in hboot and my recovery won't start. i have a PC36IMG file (TWRP 2) in my sdcard and says it updates but it really isn't. When I try to restart the phone, I get pushed back into fastboot. What can I do to fix my phone?
Twrp2 may have perm bricked your phone its done it to quite a few ppl hope you have ins cuz you'll need to flash a stock ruu thru hboot and send it in for replacement
ok. how do i push an ruu if i can't boot?
You'll have to put it on root of SD as a pc36img and boot to hboot/bootloader and run the update it should put your hboot back to a stock version so u can return it twrp2 had issues for several ppl and bricked their phones
Edit: does your hboot mysteriously say s-on now?
No, it doesn't. I might be screwed though because the only thing my computer sees when I plug in is the bootloader interface. Won't pick up the sdcard
try flashing a RUU for your phone and then Amon Ra recovery
Sounds like twrp2 borked it some ppl had s-on after but the not reading the phone on USB is a pretty sure sign twrp2 bricked it it was causing problems with bad blocks or something during the flash not sure what exactly it did to the phones but they were unrecoverable afterwards it screwed something up that wouldn't allow it to rewrite to the internal memory or be recognized by fastboot commands or adb
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ok. how do i push an ruu if i can't boot?
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I've never used an RUU, but I believe it's an .exe file. I think you can run it from your PC while plugged into fastboot......from what I've seen posted over the years.
Until someone more knowledgeable gets back to you. Or if you have a SD card reader, do pc36img method, as was mentioned.
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Try downloading shipped rom zip file. Load it on your root. Use a card reader if phone won't connect to PC. If it works you should still be s off. Just flash you custom rom back over it after you reflash a new recovery. I use amon.3.11.
See if that will work.
Shipped zip will over write recovery and should fix your problem.
ok I ran an ruu.exe so it's bootable now but I'm still getting random reboots and I can't mount my sdcard. any ideas?
It's broke. Call sprint they'll replace it with or without insurance. If your s-on running stock they won't know that you're rooted. Also sometimes stores will replace it as well. Be prepared to possibly get a upgrade for the phone.
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ok I ran an ruu.exe so it's bootable now but I'm still getting random reboots and I can't mount my sdcard. any ideas?
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Did you flash a new recovery?
If so, wipe everything.
Try mounting via recovery.
Does it mount SD there?
You may try to partition your card again and see if that helps.
Did you already wipe and try custom rom again?
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It's broke. Call sprint they'll replace it with or without insurance. If your s-on running stock they won't know that you're rooted. Also sometimes stores will replace it as well. Be prepared to possibly get a upgrade for the phone.
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It will still be s off even after running ruu I think.
To get s on you will need to flash s on before you take it back.
I would try to partition SD or wipe and flash new rom after amon recovery.
When I run the Factory Resets in Amon RA, it skips over everything on the sd card, saying, "E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1". The phone seems fried to me. Luckily, I have the insurance. lol, "oops I dropped it in the sink"
That sux twrp2 was a pretty neat looking recovery I'm glad I read about it after I installed it and had several failed backup attempts cuz I don't have ins so luckily I didn't attempt to proceed with flashing anything or I'd be in the same boat as you up the same creek only I wouldn't have a paddle lol
When will people check the TWRP thread and realize its a bad product ? Great idea, bad product.
Edit: I mean even after installing twrp, when will they check back to see it's hosed, before they get hosed?. This isn't a comment about you, OP. Just meant, too bad there's not a way to let all users of it know to change recoveries IMMEDIATELY.
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After the backup failed twice I figured something was wrong since I had already backed up the same setup in amon ra just fine
If you ran the RUU, then either your SD Card is bad, or you're back to stock, so just take it to Sprint
Ok....search and cant figure it out....Been working on this for two days now......Wife has a g2 and I had to downgrade to root....I did that and everything seemed fine....I then Rooted phone and everything there seemed to be fine....I tgen wanted to download Virtuous Affinity rom but it said I had to DZ hboot...here is where i messed up.......I had made a backup of the stock rom yesterday so I put the PC10img on the root of sd card..rebooted into hboot and ran update by pressing volume up....after everything was done I went back into recovery and went to reload back-up of rom and all clockwork does is show reboot system ,apply update etc and down at bottom says E: cant mount/ cache/recovery/ command........etc
now I understand I dont have a rom after the flash but now I can put any on because when I hit any of the install from sd or back up and restore it goes to that page and just sits there.........I am so lost know and dont know what to do...can someone please help me
You probaby flashed the wrong pc10img file...check the md5 sum against that oof the file...another thing is you can try a higher recovery becuasue I remember when u flash a hboot it replaces the recovery...try flashing the latest version of clockwork via adb...if not that refer to the devs
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Did you use the power button to try reload the rom from recovery? Cause that might be your problem.
Use the trackpad or camera button in recovery.
-Nipqer
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yes...its not letting me do anything...so frustrating....should i just try to find a new pc image and flash it like a update
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yes...its not letting me do anything...so frustrating....should i just try to find a new pc image and flash it like a update
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Don't flash any image that don't belong to the g2
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Ok....search and cant figure it out....Been working on this for two days now......Wife has a g2 and I had to downgrade to root....I did that and everything seemed fine....I then Rooted phone and everything there seemed to be fine....I tgen wanted to download Virtuous Affinity rom but it said I had to DZ hboot...here is where i messed up.......I had made a backup of the stock rom yesterday so I put the PC10img on the root of sd card..rebooted into hboot and ran update by pressing volume up....after everything was done I went back into recovery and went to reload back-up of rom and all clockwork does is show reboot system ,apply update etc and down at bottom says E: cant mount/ cache/recovery/ command........etc
now I understand I dont have a rom after the flash but now I can put any on because when I hit any of the install from sd or back up and restore it goes to that page and just sits there.........I am so lost know and dont know what to do...can someone please help me
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I believe those errors are "normal" after switching hboots... were you following this guide here: http://www.virtuousrom.com/2011/06/t-mobile-g2-users-migrating-to-desirez.html?
If you haven't read it, it might help...
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I believe those errors are "normal" after switching hboots... were you following this guide here: http://www.virtuousrom.com/2011/06/t-mobile-g2-users-migrating-to-desirez.html?
If you haven't read it, it might help...
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I understand the errors down at bottom is normal....but the day before I backed up rom so I didnt do that when it came to that in the directions......so now when I try to do anything in clockwork everything is there but when I try say restore rom or install from sd....once you click on it it stops......and phone will not load because there isnt a rom installed anymore
Maybe you could try flashing a different recovery image to your phone via fastboot. Perhaps try flashing 4EXT Recovery by madmaxx82. Then reboot into recovery via fastboot and see if it'll let you restore or flash a ROM. Just a thought...
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