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[Q] Boot loop, can't enter recovery

I'm in need of some expert help for my wifes Droid Incredible. It is rooted, s-off running Cyanogen 7.xxx
She woke me in a pannic this morning saying her phone wasn't working. When I took a look, it keeps booting to the white screen with the "htc Incredible" words. I can press volume down and power to get into hboot, but when I select recovery or factory reset, it just boots back to the white screen with "htc Incredible"
I can't seem to get anywhere from here and the search I did seems to bring up other issues with people at least able to get into the recovery.
Any help or advice on where to go from here would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

Droinc said:
I'm in need of some expert help for my wifes Droid Incredible. It is rooted, s-off running Cyanogen 7.xxx
She woke me in a pannic this morning saying her phone wasn't working. When I took a look, it keeps booting to the white screen with the "htc Incredible" words. I can press volume down and power to get into hboot, but when I select recovery or factory reset, it just boots back to the white screen with "htc Incredible"
I can't seem to get anywhere from here and the search I did seems to bring up other issues with people at least able to get into the recovery.
Any help or advice on where to go from here would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
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You need to try to reflash recovery thru hboot. Download CWM 5.0.2.0 http://dinc.does-it.net/Recoveries/CWM_5.0.2.0/PB31IMG.zip, and place the file on your sdcard in no folders. Boot into hboot (vol down and power) and it should find the file after a couple secs and prompt you to press vol up to update. Do so and then when prompted to reboot do so. Now remove or rename the PB31IMG.zip on your sdcard and then pull the battery and boot to hboot and see if you can access recovery.

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You need to try to reflash recovery thru hboot. Download CWM 5.0.2.0, and place the file on your sdcard in no folders. Boot into hboot (vol down and power) and it should find the file after a couple secs and prompt you to press vol up to update. Do so and then when prompted to reboot do so. Now remove or rename the PB31IMG.zip on your sdcard and then pull the battery and boot to hboot and see if you can access recovery.
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I got the message to hit volume up to update and then after that it asked if I wanted to reboot the device. I selected yes (volume up) and it still loops the white screen with the "htc Incredible" words. I never got to the point where it rebooted fully.
SHOOT!!! Was hoping this would have done it. Thank you for the help though. I appreciate it.
Anything else I might be able to do?
As a side not, the phone does not get recognized when I connect it to my computer. I had to use another phone to place the PB31IMG file on the SD card.

Droinc said:
I got the message to hit volume up to update and then after that it asked if I wanted to reboot the device. I selected yes (volume up) and it still loops the white screen with the "htc Incredible" words. I never got to the point where it rebooted fully.
SHOOT!!! Was hoping this would have done it. Thank you for the help though. I appreciate it.
Anything else I might be able to do?
As a side not, the phone does not get recognized when I connect it to my computer. I had to use another phone to place the PB31IMG file on the SD card.
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No you misunderstood, it will still boot loop at this point, that was just the first step. Boot to hboot and see if you can access recovery now.
If you can access recovery, either restore a backup or flash a new rom.

cmlusco said:
No you misunderstood, it will still boot loop at this point, that was just the first step. Boot to hboot and see if you can access recovery now.
If you can access recovery, either restore a backup or flash a new rom.
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Oh, gottcha. Sorry about that, my fault.
After hitting volume up to reboot, I took out the SD card and placed it in the other phone to remove the file. After that I put it back in the Incredible and booted it into hboot, but when I selected recovery, it did the same thing and just loops the "htc Incredible" screen.

Ok the next step to try would be to do an ruu. It will restore the phone to stock, but you will still have s-off.
Download this file http://dinc.does-it.net/Stock_Images/4.06.605.3/PB31IMG.zip and place it on the sdcard in no folders, boot to hboot, vol up to install. This time though when prompted to reboot select no, and then select factory reset. Hopefully when its done it will boot normaly.

cmlusco said:
Ok the next step to try would be to do an ruu. It will restore the phone to stock, but you will still have s-off.
Download this file and place it on the sdcard in no folders, boot to hboot, vol up to install. This time though when prompted to reboot select no, and then select factory reset. Hopefully when its done it will boot normaly.
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OK, going to give it a shot. Will be back soon with good news hopefully

Question...... After selecting "no" to the reboot option after it's been updated with the file, do I delete or rename the file and THEN try to get into recovery?

Droinc said:
Question...... After selecting "no" to the reboot option after it's been updated with the file, do I delete or rename the file and THEN try to get into recovery?
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After selecting no to reboot, select factory reset from the hboot menu. When the factory reset is done it should automaticly reboot and boot up like normal.
Then you can delete the file and reflash cwm recovery as the ruu left you with the stock recovery.

OK, I must be doing something wrong. Here are the steps I have done:
* I put the SD card into a phone recognized by my computer
* I then place the RUU file onto that SD card
* I then take the SD card out and place it in the DInc
* I then hold the volume down button and power button to get into hboot
* The phone recognizes the file and starts the update (takes a bit)
* Once the update is done it asks if I want to reboot and I select no
* It then goes to a screen with a few options (bootloader, reboot bootloader etc...) I don't select anything and then pull the battery
* I then take the SD card out of the DInc and place it in the other phone so I can remove the file
* Once the file is deleted I take the SD card out of that phone and place it back into the DInc
* I go into hboot and select recovery and it just boot loops again with the "htc Incredible" screen
Am I missing something?? I know it can be recovered. Even it's back to stock, it would be great. My wife just wants her phone back.

cmlusco said:
After selecting no to reboot, select factory reset from the hboot menu. When the factory reset is done it should automaticly reboot and boot up like normal.
Then you can delete the file and reflash cwm recovery as the ruu left you with the stock recovery.
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Damn, you're fast cmlusco.
When I select no to the reboot, it does not present me with the screen that has the recovery option. It's a different screen with, I think, 4 options: bootloader, reboot bootloader, and 2 others I can't recall
Just notice this thread is on page 2 now. Check the last post on page one for steps on what I did.

When you boot to hboot there should be an option to do a factory reset, do that, you may have to select bootloader first. Then see if it boots normaly.

cmlusco said:
When you boot to hboot there should be an option to do a factory reset, do that, you may have to select bootloader first. Then see if it boots normaly.
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no go.
I assume once I apply the RUU I don't need to do it every time?
I went back into hboot and selected factory reset and it just did the same boot loop. Should I try wiping the SD card 100% clean and then try the RUU file?

Droinc said:
no go.
I assume once I apply the RUU I don't need to do it every time?
I went back into hboot and selected factory reset and it just did the same boot loop. Should I try wiping the SD card 100% clean and then try the RUU file?
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You could try it, but it sounds like the recovery partition may be messed up. The stock recovery dosent work, cwm recovery dosent work, but ruus and recoverys flash fine without error. Sounds like a messed up partition table. Do you have ADB setup on your pc?

I don't have ADB on this PC. Been a while since I've even done anything with ADB. Could you point me in the right direction on what to do to get set up?
Once set up, what steps need to be taken?
Thanks for all your help with this. It's very much appreciated.

Droinc said:
I don't have ADB on this PC. Been a while since I've even done anything with ADB. Could you point me in the right direction on what to do to get set up?
Once set up, what steps need to be taken?
Thanks for all your help with this. It's very much appreciated.
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gotta download android sdk
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
this should help http://androidforums.com/faqs/443072-adb-guide-updated-12-05-2011-a.html

Droinc said:
I don't have ADB on this PC. Been a while since I've even done anything with ADB. Could you point me in the right direction on what to do to get set up?
Once set up, what steps need to be taken?
Thanks for all your help with this. It's very much appreciated.
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Download this http://dinc.does-it.net/ADB/ADB-Fastboot-USB-Drivers_v4_(x86)(x64).zip, and extract the contents to C:\ADB.
Connect the phone to the pc and on the pc go to device manager and look for an entry called unknown or android 1.0. Right click on it and select update driver. Select browse for driver and navigate to C:\ADB\drivers and select the adb folder. It should find the driver and update it.
Then open a cmd prompt on your pc and navigate to the C:\ADB folder. At tje prompt type adb devices , it should return a string of numbers and letters.
From there if it finds the phone you need to fastboo flash your misc partition.

Its gonna get a little complicated and require a bunch of steps. It sucks but it may fix it. I know there are already threads out there on how to fix this issue but i cant seem to find one.

When I plug the phone into the computer and power the phone on it just boot loops and the computer doesn't acknowledge it at all. In device manager there is not entry under any of the categories that says "Android..." or "unknown"

Droinc said:
When I plug the phone into the computer and power the phone on it just boot loops and the computer doesn't acknowledge it at all. In device manager there is not entry under any of the categories that says "Android..." or "unknown"
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Crap i forgot you need to be able to boot the phone to enable usb debuging for the pc to see it. Um now im not sure what to do. Mabey format the sdcard fat32 and try the ruu again. I need to think about it, it will come to me.

[Q] phone keeps restarting and wont turn on PLEASE HELP

i recently rooted my phone and after doing so i wanted to get a cyangenmod on it to utilize my root. so i went into command prompt and did fastboot flash boot boot.img so that when i go into recovery i could boot the cyangenmod 10. of course it failed and then when i tired rebooting it gets stuck in this endless reboot cycle. what do i do?

YYCsupreme said:
i recently rooted my phone and after doing so i wanted to get a cyangenmod on it to utilize my root. so i went into command prompt and did fastboot flash boot boot.img so that when i go into recovery i could boot the cyangenmod 10. of course it failed and then when i tired rebooting it gets stuck in this endless reboot cycle. what do i do?
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You should still be able to access the HBOOT but holding down power button and volume down key, go into recovery then redo the installation of CM and see if that helps

Jadc007 said:
You should still be able to access the HBOOT but holding down power button and volume down key, go into recovery then redo the installation of CM and see if that helps
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the thing is for some reason i cant find the CM while im in recovery, none of the folders have anything i can use in them.

YYCsupreme said:
the thing is for some reason i cant find the CM while im in recovery, none of the folders have anything i can use in them.
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Once you are in recovery select the option mount SD CARD and it should pop up on your computer to transfer files again and then copy over the CM and redo the installation

[Q] HTC One V Recovery doesn't work, Phone Stuck

Hi Y'all, sometime lurker, first time poster.
I got an HTC One V (CDMA, Virgin Mobile) today and given the relative ease of rooting my old Droid Inc I thought it would be a breeze to do this phone as well, but I did not do enough research and messed it up. Here is what I did as best as I can recall:
I unlocked the bootloader without a problem using Fastboot.
Then I flashed CWM recovery through hasoon2000's all in one tool, but it didn't work. I believe I did not flash the correct CWM (CDMA). I tried reflashing stock recovery, and then CDMA CWM recovery, but I couldn't get past the white HTC with the red warning message.
Because I couldn't get recovery to work, I thought maybe I should flash the kernel. I was using hasoon2000's all in one tool, but I did not realize that it would try to boot into recovery in the middle of flashing the kernel (yeah, I'm a noob and an idiot).
So now it won't load into the standard ROM anymore, it just gets stuck on the HTC White screen with the Red Warning. I can get it to load the bootloader, and I tried flashing the kernel from the all in one tool through fastboot, but it didn't work.
Is there any way I can save my phone or am I out of luck?
Thanks for any help you can provide.

Get the stock boot.img and put it in your fast boot folder and go to cmd prompt and type
C:\fastboot
Fast boot flash boot boot.IMG
Make sure your in fastboot
Sent from my One V using xda app-developers app

Thanks XxlemonxX. I did that a few times and it didn't seem to stick.
But! While I was fastloading I went ahead and did the Superboot step found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1598964
And the phone restarted! Huzzah! Now I just have to see if I can get a recovery actually working...

OK, so things got a little strange.
The phone booted up just fine, so I tried flashing CWM recovery again. It worked, and restarted into CWM recovery. The power button didn't seem to work for selecting various options for a while, it would just go to the screen with the cog and the top hat, until I held it down for a few seconds, after which the bottom buttons flashed, and at the bottom it said "back button enabled". Then the power button worked for selecting various options. (I'm not sure if this is how CWM recovery is supposed to work for the One V, as I can't find any definitive answers...). Anyways, ran a backup through recovery, but afterwards the phone wouldn't reboot again.
Since it worked before I ran the Superboot app through windows and bam, starts up again. Did a factory reset just to see if that would clear the rebooting problem, but it didn't. It did change, however. Now it goes to the white HTC screen with the red warning for a second, goes back to black, then goes to a really dark black with just the red warning barely visible for about 7~ seconds, then it powers down. The only way I can get a reboot into the ROM is to redo the Superboot app...
I'm a little nervous at this point. I tried flashing an MIUI rom through the CWM app but there was an error (I didn't write it down, sorry), and I can't find a reliable link to the stock RUU VM PrimoC Rom (jmz's links are down as far as I can tell). I just want a rom that will reboot without freezing, haha. Thanks again for any help.
tl;dr Phone only boots when Superboot app is flashed, try a different rom?

jimmymcsnakes said:
OK, so things got a little strange.
The phone booted up just fine, so I tried flashing CWM recovery again. It worked, and restarted into CWM recovery. The power button didn't seem to work for selecting various options for a while, it would just go to the screen with the cog and the top hat, until I held it down for a few seconds, after which the bottom buttons flashed, and at the bottom it said "back button enabled". Then the power button worked for selecting various options. (I'm not sure if this is how CWM recovery is supposed to work for the One V, as I can't find any definitive answers...). Anyways, ran a backup through recovery, but afterwards the phone wouldn't reboot again.
Since it worked before I ran the Superboot app through windows and bam, starts up again. Did a factory reset just to see if that would clear the rebooting problem, but it didn't. It did change, however. Now it goes to the white HTC screen with the red warning for a second, goes back to black, then goes to a really dark black with just the red warning barely visible for about 7~ seconds, then it powers down. The only way I can get a reboot into the ROM is to redo the Superboot app...
I'm a little nervous at this point. I tried flashing an MIUI rom through the CWM app but there was an error (I didn't write it down, sorry), and I can't find a reliable link to the stock RUU VM PrimoC Rom (jmz's links are down as far as I can tell). I just want a rom that will reboot without freezing, haha. Thanks again for any help.
tl;dr Phone only boots when Superboot app is flashed, try a different rom?
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That is an old cwm. thats how it operates. Once your booted into the system you can install rom manager from play store and then you can update cwm so you wont have to enable the power button for use. But anyway seems you cant boot into a stable system right now. So If you are willing to follow theses instructions you can get back to factory conditions.
1. get the fastboot package if you dont have it. http://www.mediafire.com/?4dx982z93w8z7wk and put those files in a folder in the C drive.
2. Get the ruu from here its the top one if you are virgin mobile US. http://www.filefactory.com/f/0eafb9c43276c308/ look for RUU_PRIMO_C_ICS_40A_Sprint_WWE_VM_1.08.652.6_Radio_1.00.00.0521_2_NV_VM_3.46_0503_PRL61008_release_262414_signed.exe
3. This is how your going to get the stock recovery and stock kernel. run the ruu but dont do anything with it just yet. After the ruu is opened and is at the welcome screen just click and drag the window down out of the way and open ANY folder and type %temp% in the address bar of that folder and press enter. You will see a bunch of folders with titles like this "{B2B09672-51AB-4EF6-BDDF-50CB9719052B}" This is just an example. While in that temp folder just do a search for rom.zip and when you find it you can copy that file to your desktop and then just click cancel in the ruu welcome screen for now.
4. Open the rom.zip file with 7zip. You must use 7zip. The built in windows zip program wont work. Once its opened with 7zip, extract these two files 'recovery_signed.img' and 'boot_signed.img'. This is your stock recovery and stock kernel. Extract those to the fastboot folder.
5. You must somehow get your device into the bootloader again. I had the same symptoms as you did with the dark screen and dim red text. I just kept playing with the volume down during boot and eventualy got there. DO NOT USE VOLUME UP!!
6. Once your in the bootloader choose fastboot and plug your device in and it should now say fastboot usb at the top of the bootloader screen. Now run theses commands.
7. Commands to run.
fastboot flash recovery recovery_signed.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash boot boot_signed.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot erase cache
fastboot oem lock
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot erase cache
8. Now while in bootloader fastboot usb still just run the ruu and follow all instructions. Make sure you have atleast 30% battery while performing this. And if all goes well you will be back to square one.

Flashed the Wrong ROM

Hey guys,
I accidentally flashed the wrong ROM [5.1.1] instead of [6.0.1] on my SM-G925T and now it got stuck on the logo screen with a red message on the top left corner saying Kernel is not SEandroid enforcing.
Any known remedies for fix this issue? My phone still communicates with ODIN and i can get it to download mode but not in recovery. (I had TWRP prior to this issue)
Thanks

Hold Volume Down + Power + Home, this will reboot you to download mode. Press volume down and right after that, hold volume up + power + home. This should bring you back into recovery which I am assuming is TWRP since you are installing a rom. From here you can use ADB to upload a correct custom rom to your device and install it.

Mortifix said:
Hold Volume Down + Power + Home, this will reboot you to download mode. Press volume down and right after that, hold volume up + power + home. This should bring you back into recovery which I am assuming is TWRP since you are installing a rom. From here you can use ADB to upload a correct custom rom to your device and install it.
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Thanks for your reply. I was able to briefly get it to recovery mode earlier but the phone turned off and never came back since. I am trying to charge it just in case, but it is only showing an empty battery on the screen... How screwed am I?

Minor update, the phone does work and it goes into recovery. Can I install any rom through adb or does it have to be something specific. I wanted to try the one by Mortifix

crematorio said:
Minor update, the phone does work and it goes into recovery. Can I install any rom through adb or does it have to be something specific. I wanted to try the one by Mortifix
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Yeah it can be any rom. If you install an incorrect rom, your phone will simply not boot. Once you get into TWRP, just go to the Install option and select the zip file. If you are only able to get into recovery, you may be able to transfer the zip from your PC to your phone just by dragging and dropping. This never works for me so I always just use adb push -p "path to the zip on your pc" /sdcard
If you don't have adb setup yet, you can download it from this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48915118#post48915118

Mortifix said:
Yeah it can be any rom. If you install an incorrect rom, your phone will simply not boot. Once you get into TWRP, just go to the Install option and select the zip file. If you are only able to get into recovery, you may be able to transfer the zip from your PC to your phone just by dragging and dropping. This never works for me so I always just use adb push -p "path to the zip on your pc" /sdcard
If you don't have adb setup yet, you can download it from this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48915118#post48915118
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I installed your ROM through ADB but now it got stuck in a loop through TWRP recovery trying to mount /data and then it restarts again. It looks like it goes directly to the ADB option in TWRP

crematorio said:
I installed your ROM through ADB but now it got stuck in a loop through TWRP recovery trying to mount /data and then it restarts again. It looks like it goes directly to the ADB option in TWRP
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Hmm, you may need to go to Wipe and do a factory reset. This will wipe cache, system, and data while leaving data/media (/sdcard) intact. After doing this, reboot back into recovery and try to install the rom again.

crematorio said:
I installed your ROM through ADB but now it got stuck in a loop through TWRP recovery trying to mount /data and then it restarts again. It looks like it goes directly to the ADB option in TWRP
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If you get stuck in a boot loop through TWRP and you can still use TWRP, go to "Advanced" then to "Terminal" and type "reboot"
Good luck!

TWRP Installation Problem

Weird problem in all my years of flashing to various phones....
okay I go into fastboot and I install TWRP. I'm able to boot into it ONCE and ONCE only. Once I reboot into system if I try and go back into the recovery it just loads up the stock recovery. WTF gives...???
As long as I don't boot the system itself and just constantly restart the phone with that "unlocked bootloader screen" I can keep picking recovery and it'll load TWRP. However, the second I boot the OS, TWRP is gone and the factory recovery is back in place.
I'll upload a video later if necessary to show what's going on....
EDIT: Here's my 3 minute install and please tell me where this goes wrong?

OxygenOS have some files to reinstall the recovery, i have removed them in my rom.
If you want to remove them by yourself:
Go to TWRP recovery,
Connect your phone to your pc and connect it through adb or open Advenced > Terminal.
Type this commands :
Code:
rm /system/bin/install-recovery.sh
rm /system/recovery-from-boot.p
One one more thing, don't use "vol -" + power, just use vol +/- to navigate in the menu and power to select

At any point did you have to swipe to disable stock recovery?

nope I eventually figured it out looking around elsewhere but thanks guys. After install power down with just power button. Let it sit for a few then start with PWR+VOL DN

like u said u have been flashing for years, but sometimes we overlook the simplest things did u do, fastboot boot recovery twrp.img or did u do fastboot flash recovery twrp.img, what is odd b/c when installing stock OxygenOS it won't install stock everytime, but thank u NevaX1 for the info, i am going to remove it from all my stock roms