Ok, I've read through several other boot loop scenarios. I need to get this taken care of, one way or another, pretty quickly, as I've been without a phone for nearly a week screwing with it
The battery went completely dead while I was surfing the net. Upon plugging it in and trying to boot it up, it started looping... It comes up pretty quick with the white screen with HTC Incredible. Then after a few seconds, shuts off, and starts all over. I can get into hboot, and even though it's an SLCD model, I have been able to flash it with the .77 hboot image and access the phone via fastboot. However, I tried flashing with a few of my backups, and none of that seems to help.
I'm getting pretty desperate.
Maybe your backups don't work because you're not on the newest hboot, .92
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Do you have amon ra?..if you do then use the usb toggle and upload a new rom to the usb drive with that. If you dont then download the pc6img file for it so you can flash it in hboot.
Ok, I have tried flashing every recovery image I could find.. they all seem to flash, then when I select recovery, it comes up with the white screen a starts looping.
As to the backups not working, I flashed them, then flashed the .92 hboot.
Unroot and reload a stock ruu via exe from a computer. That should work 100%.
Jason Black said:
Unroot and reload a stock ruu via exe from a computer. That should work 100%.
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The issue with that, if I understand the procedure correctly, is that I have to be able to talk via adb or recovery, which I cannot. I am very limited in what I can do with the phone, because I can only use fastboot, or flash PB31IMG files through hboot.
bradinc said:
The issue with that, if I understand the procedure correctly, is that I have to be able to talk via adb or recovery, which I cannot. I am very limited in what I can do with the phone, because I can only use fastboot, or flash PB31IMG files through hboot.
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No. You dont have to use recovery at all. Find the stock rom. Look at what its called then type "name of stock rom.exe" into google. Download the exe file. Pretty much, you run it. Hold volume down and power on your phone. Go into hboot, plus usb to phone and computer when prompted. Click fastboot and wait till you see fastboot usb. Then start the exe process.
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The issue with that, if I understand the procedure correctly, is that I have to be able to talk via adb or recovery, which I cannot. I am very limited in what I can do with the phone, because I can only use fastboot, or flash PB31IMG files through hboot.
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If you have s-off all you have to do is down load the RUU to your sdcard and rename it PB31IMG.zip and it will automatically load when you boot into hboot. That is how I unrooted my phone.
If you have s-on that is another thing and I'm not sure how to do it.
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If you have s-off all you have to do is down load the RUU to your sdcard and rename it PB31IMG.zip and it will automatically load when you boot into hboot. That is how I unrooted my phone.
If you have s-on that is another thing and I'm not sure how to do it.
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If he has either s off or s on, the step i gave him up there should work either way. Considering that he cant go into recovery. Meaning he wont be able to load what you're saying into his sd card...
Jason Black said:
If he has either s off or s on, the step i gave him up there should work either way. Considering that he cant go into recovery. Meaning he wont be able to load what you're saying into his sd card...
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You don't go into recovery to run the PB31IMG.zip file as it loads from hboot automatically. If it needs a workiing recovery image to run thats something I never ran into.
Here's the stock ROMs:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=969973
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You don't go into recovery to run the PB31IMG.zip file as it loads from hboot automatically. If it needs a workiing recovery image to run thats something I never ran into.
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His phone doesn't work,as in,it doesnt boot properly or go into recovery, so that means he would have to take out the sd card. Its aloy easier to use the pb*****.exe file while in fastboot usb.
carngeX said:
Here's the stock ROMs:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=969973
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Can you link him to a stock exe file instead?
The RUU .exe that you run from HTC Sync is in there as well. Its listed as 'option 1'.
But if he can get into Hboot, it would be easier to just run the PB31IMG stock image. And since he said he can flash from Hboot still in one of his previous posts... I'd say he try this option first (it's listed as option 2 in the thread I posted).
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The RUU .exe that you run from HTC Sync is in there as well. Its listed as 'option 1'.
But if he can get into Hboot, it would be easier to just run the PB31IMG stock image. And since he said he can flash from Hboot still in one of his previous posts... I'd say he try this option first (it's listed as option 2 in the thread I posted).
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Sounds like a good idea!
For future reference, almost all radios/recoveries/stock images and such can be found over at this site: www.dougpiston.com
I also have saved copies of both the executable RUU and image file (PB31IMG_3.26.605.1_RUU) saved on my computer and could upload them if needed.
I just used the same image file a couple weeks ago to unroot my slcd phone.
kzoodroid said:
I also have saved copies of both the executable RUU and image file (PB31IMG_3.26.605.1_RUU) saved on my computer and could upload them if needed.
I just used the same image file a couple weeks ago to unroot my slcd phone.
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An upload might be handy, since the ones I've downloaded from DP's site appear to be corrupt - I cannot open the zip files.
What do you mean you can't open the zips?
Check the MD5 sums of the ones you downloaded compared to the ones on his site.
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An upload might be handy, since the ones I've downloaded from DP's site appear to be corrupt - I cannot open the zip files.
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=87LDBNTD
You don't open the zip file just rename it PB31IMG.zip and put it on the root of the sdcard, reboot into hboot and it will find the file, check it, then run it all on its own.
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i flash CM7 savage rom and gapps and all seems normaly running a great rom but when i turn it off for a bit and then i turn it on...my evo doesnt start fully and its stuck on boot doesnt even let go to the recovery it restarts all over again ...i tried to clear the data or restart the bootloader...and the battery is charge so its not it ...can some one help me with this or any advice what i should do .... ????
Pulling the battery, waiting a couple minutes, and then holding vol+down and power doesn't allow you to access your bootloader?
yes it does but then i try recovery and it doesent work tho.. :/ and i already put the battery out its benn 24 hours like this...
I'm not entirely sure, then. I'm rather new myself, so I'm not too knowledgeable yet. Hopefully someone else with more knowledge will chime in soon.
DirtyShroomz should be perusing these forums right about now... anytime, buddy.
What kernel are you using...had similar problem with sense ROM due to a flashed kernel that didn't play well with custom ROM. You can try to reflash your recovery if you can find a flashable zip of it or a PC36100.IMG of it. Put on root of sdcard and flash PC36100.IMG through bootloader or flash zip through recovery. What does your recovery do when you access it...it wont let you reflash the ROM or what
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What kernel are you using...had similar problem with sense ROM due to a flashed kernel that didn't play well with custom ROM. You can try to reflash your recovery if you can find a flashable zip of it or a PC36100.IMG of it. Put on root of sdcard and flash PC36100.IMG through bootloader or flash zip through recovery. What does your recovery do when you access it...it wont let you reflash the ROM or what
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PC36100.IMG? Don't you mean PC36IMG.zip?
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yes it does but then i try recovery and it doesent work tho.. :/ and i already put the battery out its benn 24 hours like this...
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Are you using Clockwork or Amon RA?
am using Clockwork tho
it only lets me go to the bootloader but doesent let me use the recovey it takes me back to the bootloader :/
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i flash CM7 savage rom and gapps and all seems normaly running a great rom but when i turn it off for a bit and then i turn it on...my evo doesnt start fully and its stuck on boot doesnt even let go to the recovery it restarts all over again ...i tried to clear the data or restart the bootloader...and the battery is charge so its not it ...can some one help me with this or any advice what i should do .... ????
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yes it does but then i try recovery and it doesent work tho.. :/ and i already put the battery out its benn 24 hours like this...
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Please be a little more specific. When you say 'but then i try recovery, and it doesnt work tho', what doe you mean? Does it hang at the white 'htc evo 4g' screen (splash screen) or does it give you a black screen with a red triangle? When you get to the bootloader, it still shows that you are indeed S-off, correct? What happens when you pull the battery, and try to boot normally? Do you have any success? If so, download ROM manager from the market, and use that to reflash whichever recovery you were using, either clockwork or amon ra ( i suggest amon ra) If you are unable to boot into the rom at all, and you're unable to access your recovery, then the first thing to try is reflashing your recovery, using the bootloader. To do that, download the PC36IMG that I'll attatch. That is Amon Ra recovery, version 2.3. Download the zip file, make 100% sure that it's named exactly PC36IMG (capitals matter), and put it on the main directory of your sd card ( you'll need to either use an sd card adapter, and put it right into your computer, or put the sd card in a different phone to transfer the file) You may be able to access the sd card using hboot usb, I don't recall at the moment. Either way, get the file on your sd card somehow. Make sure it's named right, and not in any folders. Then put the sd card back in your phone, and boot into the bootloader. The bootloader should then scan and find the PC36IMG file, and ask you if you want to update. Select volume up to say yes. Once it's done flashing, from the bootloader, select 'recovery'. You should now boot into Amon Ra recovery. From that point, I'd suggest doing a complete wipe (data/factory reset, cache, dalvik cache), and then flashing Calkulin's Format all.zip (i'll attatch it) Once you're done wiping, then reflash the ROM and Gapps. Reboot your device, and you should boot into the ROM. Good luck.
EDIT: I just saw that you were using clockwork before. I don't have a PC36IMG of clockwork, so just use Amon Ra for now. It's a better recovery, but if you must go back to clockwork, once you're phone's back up and running, you can easily use ROM manager to select 'flash clockworkmod recovery' , and that'll get you back on clockwork. just please be sure not to attempt to restore a clockwork backup using Amon Ra. That's a no no. You need to use clockwork to restore a backup that was made by clockwork. Just so ya know.
ok first i flash CM7 savege rom! then i flash the gapps for the cm7 then everything was alright but then i just turn it off and turn it in again and the bootanimation come in stays there doesent go on and restars it self so i pull the battery off and put the bootloader so i can tried recovery but it Doesent let me in to the recovery ...nothing appears it just send me back to the bootloader again ...and YEs it still shows that you are indeed S-off...and no red triangle it just restarts again .. :/ but thanks for the help i gonna try to see if teh PC36IMG file like ur said and try to put it on the Sd card
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ok first i flash CM7 savege rom! then i flash the gapps for the cm7 then everything was alright but then i just turn it off and turn it in again and the bootanimation come in stays there doesent go on and restars it self so i pull the battery off and put the bootloader so i can tried recovery but it Doesent let me in to the recovery ...nothing appears it just send me back to the bootloader again ...and YEs it still shows that you are indeed S-off...and no red triangle it just restarts again .. :/ but thanks for the help i gonna try to see if teh PC36IMG file like ur said and try to put it on the Sd card
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Okay, thanks for clearing that up, I got the situation now. Yes, flashing the PC36IMG, following my previous instructions will give you a recovery back. Once you get recovery back, you'll be able to wipe everything and flash the rom again, starting over. Recovery is all you need man!
dude tahnk youuu veryyy muchhh mann that works like a charm now can enter to the recovery so i can flash my restore my files thanks man!
jhonbra said:
dude tahnk youuu veryyy muchhh mann that works like a charm now can enter to the recovery so i can flash my restore my files thanks man!
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You're very welcome! I'm glad it worked. Now that you have recovery back, you'll be good to go. Just make sure to do full wipes before flashing roms, and I suggest sticking with Amon Ra instead of clockwork. Once you get the system running again, make a nandroid backup using Amon Ra, and make sure to check the 'wimax' box, to backup your RSA keys (you dont need to backup wimax every time, just be sure to keep a good backup around of it). Then you'll have a solid backup using Amon, because as I said before, as long as you stay with Amon Ra, your previous clockwork backups are useless.
I have a similar issue. EVO bootloops twice and then gets stuck at 4G and stays there. I am able to boot into bootloader. It has
HBOOT 2.02 S-ON.
RADIO-2.15.00.09.01
So far I have tried....
Fastboot USB
RUU 3.30
RUU 3.70
Took the sdcard out and put PC36IMG.ZIP for 3.30 and 3.70. HBOT scans it with the blue bar and does the "checking the zip" and then back to bootloader. Does not give me an option to update. Any suggestions? I need help.
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I have a similar issue. EVO bootloops twice and then gets stuck at 4G and stays there. I am able to boot into bootloader. It has
HBOOT 2.02 S-ON.
RADIO-2.15.00.09.01
So far I have tried....
Fastboot USB
RUU 3.30
RUU 3.70
Took the sdcard out and put PC36IMG.ZIP for 3.30 and 3.70. HBOT scans it with the blue bar and does the "checking the zip" and then back to bootloader. Does not give me an option to update. Any suggestions? I need help.
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Sorry, I didn't see your question before I went to bed last night. So you are trying to flash back to stock? That's your goal. I see you're already S on. So both of the RUU's that you tried failed on you? What happened when you tried to run the RUU, did it give you an error or what? Do you have HTC Sync installed? You only tried putting one PC36IMG on your sd card at a time right? From the way you described it, it kind of looks like you loaded both on the sd card at the same time, but I'm not sure if you can even do that. Anyways, I'd try downloading the PC36IMG from a different source, confirming that you have a good download, and trying again. THe bootloader should scan and ask you to update. The only time I've seen where it doesn't is if the PC36IMG is named incorrectly, if it's in a folder, if the file is corrupt, or if your sd card is corrupt. If you can't get the PC36IMG to work, I'd suggest formatting your sd card (back it up first) then loading just the PC36IMG on there, and try again. Good luck.
Thanks for seeing the question. Tried pretty much everything. I just want it to work thats all. Its never been rooted. Now I tried the RUU for 3.29, 3.30 and 3.70 and they all give me Error 132 Signarure Error. I ran the RUU by putting EVO in Fastboot. I tried formatting the SDCARD and individually putting the PC36IMG. It does loading with the blue bar on the side, then "checking the PC36IMG" and back to HBOOT. Never gives me an option to "volume up" to update. I have done the PC36IMG files on another EVO and they worked fine before. I have tried 2 different SDcards. I got the RUU from shippedroms and also from here on xda. I got all PC36IMG from here. Don't know what else to do.
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Sorry, I didn't see your question before I went to bed last night. So you are trying to flash back to stock? That's your goal. I see you're already S on. So both of the RUU's that you tried failed on you? What happened when you tried to run the RUU, did it give you an error or what? Do you have HTC Sync installed? You only tried putting one PC36IMG on your sd card at a time right? From the way you described it, it kind of looks like you loaded both on the sd card at the same time, but I'm not sure if you can even do that. Anyways, I'd try downloading the PC36IMG from a different source, confirming that you have a good download, and trying again. THe bootloader should scan and ask you to update. The only time I've seen where it doesn't is if the PC36IMG is named incorrectly, if it's in a folder, if the file is corrupt, or if your sd card is corrupt. If you can't get the PC36IMG to work, I'd suggest formatting your sd card (back it up first) then loading just the PC36IMG on there, and try again. Good luck.
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Thanks for seeing the question. Tried pretty much everything. I just want it to work thats all. Its never been rooted. Now I tried the RUU for 3.29, 3.30 and 3.70 and they all give me Error 132 Signarure Error. I ran the RUU by putting EVO in Fastboot. I tried formatting the SDCARD and individually putting the PC36IMG. It does loading with the blue bar on the side, then "checking the PC36IMG" and back to HBOOT. Never gives me an option to "volume up" to update. I have done the PC36IMG files on another EVO and they worked fine before. I have tried 2 different SDcards. I got the RUU from shippedroms and also from here on xda. I got all PC36IMG from here. Don't know what else to do.
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So, you've never been rooted before? Everything was just working fine, and then suddenly it won't boot up? Just hangs at the 4g screen? Is that accurate? Were any changes made to your phone before this happened? Any unusual apps you added, changes you made, anything noteable at all? Or just 100% random out of the blue?
So you ran the RUU with the Evo in fastboot, what happened? Did the RUU appear to run successfully, or does it error out? Any info on what happens when you attempt the RUU would be great. Did you try downloading a PC36IMG or RUU from this thread yet? I have never had a problem with one from here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884060&highlight=hboot-0.97+ruu. Do you know what software version, radio version, and hboot version you currently had on your phone before it started acting up? Was it the most recent OTA, 3.70 software?
There is annother way to try to flash the PC36IMG using fastboot commands, which I've never done, so don't know the instructions off the top of my head. I'll post back when I find how to do that.
Are you sure you're not getting a bad download of the RUU's and PC36IMG? It's odd that your bootloader scans it, but doesn't ask you to update. That could be due to a corrupted file (bad download) Do you have a good internet connection when you're downloading the files?
The phone was never rooted. I bought it from someone. Practically brand new. No damage at all. I downloaded every single RUU and PC36IMG file from the link you mentioned but same thing happens. RUU ERRORS 132 and PC36IMG files scan and check out but no choice to press volume up for update. Hboot is2.02, radio is 2.15, s-on and the software version when I run the RUU says 3.30. I am stuck at this point. I can only get the phone to recognize fastboot. Help.....
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So, you've never been rooted before? Everything was just working fine, and then suddenly it won't boot up? Just hangs at the 4g screen? Is that accurate? Were any changes made to your phone before this happened? Any unusual apps you added, changes you made, anything noteable at all? Or just 100% random out of the blue?
So you ran the RUU with the Evo in fastboot, what happened? Did the RUU appear to run successfully, or does it error out? Any info on what happens when you attempt the RUU would be great. Did you try downloading a PC36IMG or RUU from this thread yet? I have never had a problem with one from here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884060&highlight=hboot-0.97+ruu. Do you know what software version, radio version, and hboot version you currently had on your phone before it started acting up? Was it the most recent OTA, 3.70 software?
There is annother way to try to flash the PC36IMG using fastboot commands, which I've never done, so don't know the instructions off the top of my head. I'll post back when I find how to do that.
Are you sure you're not getting a bad download of the RUU's and PC36IMG? It's odd that your bootloader scans it, but doesn't ask you to update. That could be due to a corrupted file (bad download) Do you have a good internet connection when you're downloading the files?
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Ok, so I flashed a Shift ROM. It worked perfectly for about 2 hours. I looked over and found my Dinc in a loop.....
starting and making it to htc splash screen
rebooting itself
starting and making it to the splash
pulled the battery
i can get into the bootloader, but not recovery
if i select recovery the cycle of rebooting starts all over again
Um, help?
Anyone have a PB recovery image I can flash? Will this work?
You can try the stock RUU, its a PB31IMG.zip and flashed in bootloader. Get it at www.dougpiston.com under stock images I think.
tried that, phone is toast, cannot get to recovery
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tried that, phone is toast, cannot get to recovery
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If you out the stock RUU file on your sd card and it is named PB31IMG.zip, bootlader recognizes it and flashed the file. There is no need to get into recovery with that file.
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If you out the stock RUU file on your sd card and it is named PB31IMG.zip, bootlader recognizes it and flashed the file. There is no need to get into recovery with that file.
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I tried flashing the RUU and a Recovery Image
I can flash them both through the bootloader, but open reboot.... the phone starts looping again.
Pretty certain my Dinc is dead......
Thanks for your replies
Irieone said:
I tried flashing the RUU and a Recovery Image
I can flash them both through the bootloader, but open reboot.... the phone starts looping again.
Pretty certain my Dinc is dead......
Thanks for your replies
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I've seen in other threads that if you have insurance, they are replacing the D1 with the D2. Almost makes me wish I had your problem.
I don't have insurance so I decided to relieve my suffering with a new Thunderbolt
I was on one of the older Hboots, decided to update that and the radio. I flashed the new Hboot, now it says S-On and it DOES NOT reboot. Everytime I try rebooting, it shows the splash screen and goes right back to the Hboot menu! Can anyone help me?
Try running unrevoked forever from the recovery and it may let you unlock it. If not you may be stuck.
Ok, I got S-off back by unrevoked-forever, but it still doesn't reboot. Anyone have any suggestions?
boardindude said:
Ok, I got S-off back by unrevoked-forever, but it still doesn't reboot. Anyone have any suggestions?
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I've attached adb in case you don't already have it, extract it and cd to where you extracted it to. Then just connect your Evo and run..
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I've attached adb in case you don't already have it, extract it and cd to where you extracted it to. Then just connect your Evo and run..
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Ok I tried this and its just keeps saying error device not found.
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Ok I tried this and its just keeps saying error device not found.
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Go into your recovery and wipe everything then reflash your Rom. If you can't access your recovery flash a recovery image of your choice via bootloader by renaming it PC36IMG and placing it on the root of your SD card then wipe everything and reflash your Rom.
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Go into your recovery and wipe everything then reflash your Rom. If you can't access your recovery flash a recovery image of your choice via bootloader by renaming it PC36IMG and placing it on the root of your SD card then wipe everything and reflash your Rom.
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I was in the middle of trying this when I seen your post. It worked, I'm back in business! Thanks for the help guys!
boardindude said:
I was in the middle of trying this when I seen your post. It worked, I'm back in business! Thanks for the help guys!
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Glad it worked.
Sure would be nice to have me one of them old hboot versions lol
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Sure would be nice to have me one of them old hboot versions lol
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Yeah, I think I had .93 Hboot, maybe should have just stayed with that, I dunno.
if it's bouncing you back to hboot it could be for the same reason it bounces you back to recovery after using a format_all.zip file.
Go find Sprint Lover's 2.3. It comes in a PC36IMG file you can put in the root of your sd card and flash in the bootloader (aka parsing the update).
It's rooted so you'll keep s-off and your phone should boot. Also, once you're booted, download rom manager and put your recovery back
Hope this helps!
Guys, please help!! Yesterday I was so hungry for some ice cream sandwich, that I accidentally tried to flash a rom for HTC Incredible S onto my HTC Incredible! Only after the install failed (used Rom Manager, and when it rebooted, it was saying something about missing pb31img.nmh or some weird extension like that) did i realize what i have done. However my phone was pretty much functional at that point. I tried booting into hboot and doing recovery, but whenever i selected any of the hboot options (clear storage, recovery, factory reset), it would just reboot back into hboot. But at this point i was still able to boot into my phone. I tried backing up from saved images using Rom Manager, but when it rebooted, it always gave the pb31img message. Then it just froze. When i pulled the battery and plugged it back in, the phone just got stuck at the HTC Incredible white screen and would not boot. I've been searching the forums long and hard, but it seems all solutions assume i need to be able to boot into the phone, or to be able to simply use hboot to recover. None of these seem to be viable options for me at the moment. Please help with any suggestions as I wanted to wait for the Tegra 3 phones to come out before upgrading!!
fastboot and adb require phone to be able to boot. my phone does not boot into anything besides hboot. and even in hboot, none of the functions work. i was able to format my sd card and copy an img of the proper rom on there, and when i go to hboot->fastboot, it says "loading pb31img.zip" and shows the blue status bar, then says parsing "pb31img.zip" but that takes a second and then it just goes back to the hboot screen without installing anything!! does this mean i'm totally SOL now?
You can use fastboot to flash a stock image. You do not need to be able to boot to use fastboot,fastboot is thru hboot.
http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Fastboot#Fastboot_Commands
However if you can get into hboot (the screen with the PB31IMG.zip message), then you can just do an ruu thru hboot. It sounds like your missing or have a corrupt boot image. You need to download the PB31IMG.zip ruu file from here (http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=22), place it on your sdcard in no folders and then reboot thr phone. Hboot will find the file and prompt you to press vol up to update. Once thats done press vol up to reboot. Your phone should boot now. You will have to reroot if you want.
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You can use fastboot to flash a stock image. You do not need to be able to boot to use fastboot,fastboot is thru hboot.
However if you can get into hboot (the screen with the PB31IMG.zip message), then you can just do an ruu thru hboot. It sounds like your missing or have a corrupt boot image. You need to download the PB31IMG.zip ruu file from here , place it on your sdcard in no folders and then reboot thr phone. Hboot will find the file and prompt you to press vol up to update. Once thats done press vol up to reboot. Your phone should boot now. You will have to reroot if you want.
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OMG!!! Thank you soooo much! I can't give you enough thanks, you have no idea! I don't know why this one worked and lots of other cwm img files and rom img files didn't though! And i tried using the fastboot command through the terminal from the computer to flash this same RUU file, but it was giving me problems. But when i put it on the sd card, it worked right away. Now i have a phone to wait out for the Tegra 3!
Glad i could help.
Everything I have read so far says NOT to do any of that through a ROM manager. Could that be why his attempts to install a stock recovery failed?
This really helped me in my situation. I think I had an old version of clockworkmod on my Incredible and it wouldn't let me flash things correctly so it got me stuck in a bootloop but than I flashed the Froyo RUU PB31IMG.zip in hboot and it got my phone working again. Now time to re-root. (I chose Froyo because if you want to re-root with gingerbread you have to downgrade to Froyo which is a hassle)
Your device can not really be bricked. Impossible if you know what you are doing . Revert back to old rom after booting into recovery or choose a simpler from.
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emaninthenation said:
Now time to re-root. (I chose Froyo because if you want to re-root with gingerbread you have to downgrade to Froyo which is a hassle)
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If you are s-off it does not matter whether you use the froyo or gingerbread ruu. That is the whole point of getting s-off, so that if an ota or anything else for that matter replaces the custom recovery with the stock recovery, you will still be s-off allowing you to flash the custom recovery right back without having to do all that unrevoked stuff again.
Okay Im going to try to get the whole story in here, so stick with me.
I bought a used ATT m8, that was converted to GPE. It was unlocked and s-off.
I wanted to go back to stock Rom, but twrp recovery wouldnt flash ANYTHING. I tried a bunch of roms and mod files. I would frequently get Status 7 error. Tried different recoveries, same thing.
I tried using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2733523 this to get back to stock. Changed my CID to 11111111. Still didnt work. ROM would install, but it kept rebooting to recovery. I reflashed stock recovery and factory wiped. Then I installed TWRP again and nothing changed. Something really jacked up when I tried to flash an RUU zip using the ./fastboot oem rebootRUU command to flash a 1.5 gb RUU zip. Obviously I did something wrong, because now all I see is an HTC logo and four triangles at each corner. I can still enter adb commands, but the bootloader and recovery are both gone.
Any assistance would be SO appreciated. Im without a phone right now.
Yall are the best.
UPDATE: used fastboot to flash stock firmware. Now i have bootloader and twrp recovery but no rom to flash or nandroid to restore. I cant move any nandroid TO the device for some reaodn. Ive tried for about a half hour now. And the one rom that I tried to adb sideload failed to install
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Okay Im going to try to get the whole story in here, so stick with me.
I bought a used ATT m8, that was converted to GPE. It was unlocked and s-off.
I wanted to go back to stock Rom, but twrp recovery wouldnt flash ANYTHING. I tried a bunch of roms and mod files. I would frequently get Status 7 error. Tried different recoveries, same thing.
I tried using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2733523 this to get back to stock. Changed my CID to 11111111. Still didnt work. ROM would install, but it kept rebooting to recovery. I reflashed stock recovery and factory wiped. Then I installed TWRP again and nothing changed. Something really jacked up when I tried to flash an RUU zip using the ./fastboot oem rebootRUU command to flash a 1.5 gb RUU zip. Obviously I did something wrong, because now all I see is an HTC logo and four triangles at each corner. I can still enter adb commands, but the bootloader and recovery are both gone.
Any assistance would be SO appreciated. Im without a phone right now.
Yall are the best.
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Did you run a Sense RUU? You'll need to to resize your partitions.
When the previous owner converted to GPE, he ran a GPE RUU that makes the system partition too small for Sense.
You need to run an AT&T RUU to convert back properly.
Here is a link for the official HTC/AT&T RUU download.
The full instructions are there as well for manually updating.
Read them.
The download is at the bottom of the page.
I finally got the phone booted back into gpe FYI.
But yes, I tried two different HTC ruu zip files by using the OEM rebootruu command and then flashing them. They were around 1.5 GB in size and I do recall it failing because the file was too large to complete is there a way to manually change partition size?
Also worth noting I am using a Mac, and can't use the HTC ruu .exe files
bigbuckin said:
I finally got the phone booted back into gpe FYI.
But yes, I tried two different HTC ruu zip files by using the OEM rebootruu command and then flashing them. They were around 1.5 GB in size and I do recall it failing because the file was too large to complete is there a way to manually change partition size?
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bigbuckin said:
Also worth noting I am using a Mac, and can't use the HTC ruu .exe files
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This thread has everything you need.
You'll want option 1. When you boot into bootloader, you'll have to select hboot to start the flash. I don't know why he left that out of his instructions.
Just to clarify, there are no prerequisites to doing this? I don't need to bother with firmware or anything? I just put that file on my SD card, rename it, flash hboot, flash file, reboot into sense?
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Just to clarify, there are no prerequisites to doing this? I don't need to bother with firmware or anything? I just put that file on my SD card, rename it, flash hboot, flash file, reboot into sense?
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Petty much.
Boot into bootloader, select hboot, press vol up to flash, press power button to reboot after the flash. Done.
You'll get prompts for the volume up and press power button.
No need to do anything but rename it, put it on extSD, and go to hboot.
You're amazing. I've spent countless hours troubleshooting this and never came across this thread. I'll update when finished to confirm it worked for me
Oh, I forgot to add, when you done with the flash make sure you delete the renamed file from your extSD. If you don't, every time you boot to hboot it'll try to update again.
So, everything was looking good until (11) System - FAILED
...at the bottom it had an error message saying something like "Image size too large" or something like that. I took a picture if it would help.
Basically the same thing ive been seeing with every other thing ive tried to do
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So, everything was looking good until (11) System - FAILED
...at the bottom it had an error message saying something like "Image size too large" or something like that. I took a picture if it would help.
Basically the same thing ive been seeing with every other thing ive tried to do
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/att...u-m8att-4-4-4-s-off-onlynewest-t3015680/page2
Scroll to post #17, and read the next few.
You need to run it twice.