I recently loaded my evo up with deck's 1.2 stable the other day. Since then, my phone takes forever to boot (if I change the battery). It will stay stuck on the white "HTC EVO 4G" screen for anywhere from 3-10 minutes.
I don't think anything else is wrong ... is this normal?
As always, if you have any problems after flashing a rom, re-wipe EVERYTHING, and re-flash the rom.
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Over the last few months, I have noticed that my phone tends to get stuck on the splashscreen ALOT. I notice it when I reboot the phone. I can't remember it really ever being like this.
Someone did make a custom boot screen (The Michael Jordan symbol by Rydah in the Theme's and App forum.) I am in no way saying it's this or his fault or anything, I just have noticed it happening a lot sometime after I added that file.
I have flashed a lot of rom's here and there (always wiping ALL and using the format.all 2x before flashing a new ROM.)
I was wondering if anyone else has encountered anything like this and if they were able to correct it somehow? Or, if anyone has any suggestions on what I can do to try and correct this so anytime I reboot, it reboots normally instead of locking up?
BTW, when it locks up, I do the battery pull and let the battery sit for 30 seconds before I put the battery back in and reboot.
Thank you,
Whiteice
Well the phone will take slightly longer to boot up once you wipe the caches, because they have to rebuild. Do you wipe your cache and dalvik when flashing a boot animation?
WhiteiceDMSTech said:
Over the last few months, I have noticed that my phone tends to get stuck on the splashscreen ALOT. I notice it when I reboot the phone. I can't remember it really ever being like this.
Someone did make a custom boot screen (The Michael Jordan symbol by Rydah in the Theme's and App forum.) I am in no way saying it's this or his fault or anything, I just have noticed it happening a lot sometime after I added that file.
I have flashed a lot of rom's here and there (always wiping ALL and using the format.all 2x before flashing a new ROM.)
I was wondering if anyone else has encountered anything like this and if they were able to correct it somehow? Or, if anyone has any suggestions on what I can do to try and correct this so anytime I reboot, it reboots normally instead of locking up?
BTW, when it locks up, I do the battery pull and let the battery sit for 30 seconds before I put the battery back in and reboot.
Thank you,
Whiteice
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That's never really happened to me on a consistent basis. I've got stuck at the splash screen a couple of times, but it was my own doing one way or another. How long do you let it hang on the Splash screen before you pull the battery? Sometimes mine will sit on the splash for a good minute or so during a normal reboot. After wiping cache's it can sit there for a good 3 or 4 minutes sometimes. I've caught myself pulling hte back cover off the phone to yank the battery, then I notice that the boot animation was starting, and it booted up. I just wasn't patient enough. Have you tried changing away from that boot animation, temporarily, to see if the problem goes away? I doubt that's the cause, but you never know. And if it started happening right when you changed boot animations, I'd say the first thing to try would be changing out to a different one, and see if the problem persists. Has this been happening on any ROM/Kernel combo you've tried? Perhaps it's the kernel you're on, have you tried another? Do you use SetCPU?
Thank you for the responses.
Just to make sure, it is not the boot animation but the splash screen (Originally the white screen that had EVO on it) that I have changed.
The boot animation screens are usually the ones that comes with whatever ROM I am using. I have done the particle motion boot animation from time to time.
And, anytime I flash I flash in recovery, I always ALWAYS wipe cache and dalvik cache (Unless I am flashing a new ROM, then I wipe everything 2x prior to flashing it.)
I usually let the splashscreen sit for about a minute, maybe 2 if that. I was under the impression that if the splashscreen sits there for more then a minute, then I should battery pull to fix it?
I use different kernels to try them out depending on if I am using a sense based or AOSP rom, and it seems to happen no matter what kernel. I do not use SetCPU.
Whiteice
WhiteiceDMSTech said:
Thank you for the responses.
Just to make sure, it is not the boot animation but the splash screen (Originally the white screen that had EVO on it) that I have changed.
The boot animation screens are usually the ones that comes with whatever ROM I am using. I have done the particle motion boot animation from time to time.
And, anytime I flash I flash in recovery, I always ALWAYS wipe cache and dalvik cache (Unless I am flashing a new ROM, then I wipe everything 2x prior to flashing it.)
I usually let the splashscreen sit for about a minute, maybe 2 if that. I was under the impression that if the splashscreen sits there for more then a minute, then I should battery pull to fix it?
Whiteice
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Oh I gotchya, so it was the splash screen you changed to the jordan symbol. Yea, I mean, most of the time it will pass by the splash screen in less than 30 seconds, but for whatever reason, from time to time it will sit in the splash for a little longer than normal. If it goes past 5 minutes then yea, that's too long. It shouldn't take that long. Have you tried a different kernel?
Yes, I try different kernel's all the time and it happens on most of them.
It seems that anytime it freezes up on the splashscreen and I reboot, and it still freezes up on the splashscreen that I have to reboot into recovery (AMON 2.3) and wipe cache and delvik cache each and every time for it to clear whatever is going on. Then usually it reboots fine the next boot after doing that until I reboot again and it locks up. Then repeat above.
Thank you,
Whiteice
I just got my EVO last Friday and after i rooted i noticed that sometimes not all the time... it takes a long time for it to get from splash screen to boot screen. Is it normal for it to last over 1 min in splash at times? Ive tried several roms and all do the same.
Nothing to worry about, unless it never boots up. Your ok, mind does this too at times
robert00693 said:
I just got my EVO last Friday and after i rooted i noticed that sometimes not all the time... it takes a long time for it to get from splash screen to boot screen. Is it normal for it to last over 1 min in splash at times? Ive tried several roms and all do the same.
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Yea, boot times vary. Any time after you wipe cache/dalvik cache, the system takes a lot longer to boot up, due to the fact that it needs to rebuild the dalvik cache. Sometimes a specific kernel you're on can cause boot times to vary, in my experience. Also, I remember reading that deodexed roms take a little longer to boot (all the custom roms, for the most part, are deodexed. A stock rom is Odexed, and boots quicker) But, as the other guy said, as long as it boots up I wouldn't worry about how long it takes to boot up. You should be good.
Hello,
Every time i use the "reboot" option my phone gets stuck on the splash screen. I have no idea why. It happened with virus kingdom and Koni Elite III. Any idea for a solution?
re-wipe and re-flash
When I first rooted, my phone did that because i wasn't fully rooted and after tampering with it I accidentally un-rooted my phone.
I rerooted it fully and has been fine since.
Had a friend bring over an Evo 4g with the infamous bootloop of death.
Specs:
Revolutionary
S-Off
HW: 003
Radio: 2.15.0808
HBoot 6.16
*Aftermarket Extended Battery*
First attempt at booting the phone, it would hit the lockscreen and reset. Then it stopped on the boot animation, and then it hit the splash screen after that reboot and it gave up. Trying to get to recovery at that stage resulted in freezing on the splash screen as well. Flashed the Amon-Ra recovery successfully and it would SOMETIMES go to it and then sometimes it would just freeze on the splash screen. Hmm... Tried CWM recovery with similar results. When I was in recovery, I did factory data and cache wipes as well, just to be on the safe side. No luck. Alright, so I figured let's reset everything and start over, maybe there was a bad flash of a rom or kernel. Flashed the hex-edited HBoot 6.17 and then the stock P36IMG.zip for the 4.54 version. Everything went smooth, no error messages, all OK. Now the phone is listed as S-On with the appropriate HBoot and Radio versions. Good deal...and bootloop issue continues. Argh! Figured, I should try running the RUU from the PC just for heck of it. I tried both the 4.54 and 4.67 versions and both provided Error 120 saying the battery was not 30% or more. Odd, since the battery was charged fully according to the charging light, and from the brief times it did hit the lockscreen the battery looked fine. So I took a break from it. I came back to it the next day and thought I would try and, it booted to the lockscreen, and bootloop. Hmm. Seems it only likes to boot when cool or not having messed with it for awhile. Interesting. Let it set for a bit then put it on a fan and tried to boot to recovery...and it was the first time it had went to recovery in awhile. Hmmm. Took the phone and put it in a tupperware and put it in the freezer for like 10-15 minutes and tried to boot again. Booted all the way just like normal! Weird. Running like a champ. Played around with it for a few minutes, then just let it sit for awhile. No reboots at all. Rebooted the phone manually, but there comes the bootloop. So, threw it back in the freezer and tried it again after a bit and now the phone has been on for over 5 hours. Haven't played with it much, but before it just wouldn't even load, but now, obviously the temp has risen to normal levels and no restarts. I'm completely baffled. Would this be an issue with the battery since it is an aftermarket one (don't have a stock one to test unfortunately) since I know it can cause random issues and RUU didn't like it or...some strange hardware malfunction? Previously thought it might be an issue with the NV partition from the MetroPCS flash but since it is up and running OK now, I would think that would not be the case. Any thoughts?
Hi, I have been running JellyTime 4.2 R11 for few weeks now on my S-OFF Desire HD.
Today, I noticed that the light was blinking and battery was low 6%, so I decided to put it into charger, and somehow when I connected it soon I accidently disconnected the charger, and when I put it back, the phone probably crashed or something, since it went black and the white screen with HTC logo appeared and it started to boot again. Now, JellyTime tries to boot, the bootanimation goes fine for sometime but then it gets stuck after "playing" the bootanimation for a while, nothing happens, even if I wait 5 minutes, it's stuck, bootanimation is frozen, no matter do I have the charger connected or not.
So, is there anything I could do, or is reflashing the only solution? I did full wipe when I flashed the ROM.
If you need more information, sure, just ask.
You could try dirty flashing, but if that doesn't work you'll have to reflash.
bananagranola said:
You could try dirty flashing, but if that doesn't work you'll have to reflash.
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Thanks for the tip, but it didn't help, gets stuck still on bootanimation.
Time to full wipe and flash it again then. Wipe&FlashTime
Happened to me a few times. I suggest a battery pull before anything else. Seems stupid. But it can work in some cases
- Sent from Guy's Super Duper S3
GuyInTheCorner said:
Happened to me a few times. I suggest a battery pull before anything else. Seems stupid. But it can work in some cases
- Sent from Guy's Super Duper S3
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I did battery pull several times considering that the phone refused to shutdown even when holding the power button for 10 secs, so battery pull was needed every time.
Anyway, it's now running fine when I reflashed.
910263 said:
Hi, I have been running JellyTime 4.2 R11 for few weeks now on my S-OFF Desire HD.
Today, I noticed that the light was blinking and battery was low 6%, so I decided to put it into charger, and somehow when I connected it soon I accidently disconnected the charger, and when I put it back, the phone probably crashed or something, since it went black and the white screen with HTC logo appeared and it started to boot again. Now, JellyTime tries to boot, the bootanimation goes fine for sometime but then it gets stuck after "playing" the bootanimation for a while, nothing happens, even if I wait 5 minutes, it's stuck, bootanimation is frozen, no matter do I have the charger connected or not.
So, is there anything I could do, or is reflashing the only solution? I did full wipe when I flashed the ROM.
If you need more information, sure, just ask.
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I have the same problem since a crash on opening the outlook-email App (JellyTime 4.2 R9).
I found, that the "data" partition causes the trouble when booting. Formating the "data" partition with "4ext recovery" fixes boot-freezing. But this is not an option for me as my last (working) backup is a couple of months ago (yes, I know - should backup more frequently...).
I was able to backup the up-to-date "data" partition (with 4ext recovery) but when restoring it (even on an fully wiped and updated system) boot sequence freezes again.
Any ideas???
Many thanks!
Solved the problem with the data-backup. Instead of restoring complete partition the APP "AppExtractor" works fine for restoring data of the partition backuped.
For now, system runs perfectly.
Conclusion:
If system hangs in Boot-Animation use Recovery for backup of up-to-date system. Full wipe system and install ROM of your choise. After that restore SMS, contacts, etc. with "AppExtractor". Apps should be installed from PlayStore as far as possible. "AppExtractor" allows restoring of app, data+app, data.