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[Q] Help! I think I bricked my brand new Desire!

First of all I have an unlocked Telus Desire. This is running HBOOT.83 and was rooted using Unrevoked.
The first rom I tried to install was LeeDroid 1.8 and I got a boot loop and never was able to get it running.
After installing this rom I noticed the phone started freezing at the white screen where it said HTC. I was able to go into recovery and flash Pinky just fine. I then decided I wanted to try the cyanogen mod rom so I flashed that and it was really really buggy for me.
I was able to flash back to Pinky but then I started getting Force Quits everytime I opened the market. I went to reflash the rom and now my phone doesn't boot at all.
EDIT: Now when I boot into the Rom I get a few errors popping up and then it restarts. So I can get into Pinky but it crashes and boot loops.

maybe try installing fake flash, clear all your caches and batt stats, install a basic rom just to get it up and running before you install a custom rom of choice. I have found it isn't as easy to brick this phone as say my old omnia i900 which was windows based. It could be that installing roms without clearing all yr caches is causing the glitches. I'm not an expert and don't claim to be but I always have a clear out before installing a new rom and it works for me.
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Thanks for the advice, I will look into Fake Flash as I am not very familiar with that process.
As an update I managed to get into Recovery, and of course I flashed a rom which gave me nothing but a boot loop. Thankfully I was able to mount the SDCard in recovery mode and I am loading on one of the more vanilla sense roms to see if that works.

A lot of custom roms require you to have an ext3 partition on your SD card. This can cause bootloops if you don't have the card partitioned.
I'd also try booting without the SD and see what results you get.

You will all be happy to know the phone is no longer bricked. Recovery mode seems to be working again and I didn't really do anything to do that.

Problem with flashing and root

I rooted my HTC Droid Incredible with Android 2.2 using unrevoked, but did not flash a new rom. Everything worked fine. My SD card crapped out a couple of days ago, so that it becomes corrupt every time the phone reboots. I've since tried to flash skyraider 4.0 and others, but to no avail. I tried to factory reset all of the data on my phone, but it just reboots with all of my information in tact.
Does anyone have any idea what's wrong or what the hell I should do to fix it?

me144 said:
I rooted my HTC Droid Incredible with Android 2.2 using unrevoked, but did not flash a new rom. Everything worked fine. My SD card crapped out a couple of days ago, so that it becomes corrupt every time the phone reboots. I've since tried to flash skyraider 4.0 and others, but to no avail. I tried to factory reset all of the data on my phone, but it just reboots with all of my information in tact.
Does anyone have any idea what's wrong or what the hell I should do to fix it?
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Well, I have no idea what's wrong, but try mounting the SD card to PC from in recovery and see if that lets you flash

Make sure sd is formatted FAT32
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and if reformatting does not work, swap out sd cards and you should be good as new.

Strange issues!!
I’m in need of some help!! I have a droid inc that was rooted for many months with no issues. I wanted to change the boot animation. To do this I was instructed to get a root explorer which from the market. I need to move the “bootanimation” file from the sd to the “system/media” folder. After doing this the device lost connection to many of the apps. They no longer showed as being installed on the device. I could no longer “install or uninstall” anything. When trying to restore apps from titanium backup I needed to reinstall them because the had lines through them as thought they were not installed, but the apps get stuck on “installing” I tried formatting the card and recopying the data back to it but that didn’t help, so I tried to wipe the device. Doing this I was able to re download titanium backup but still the same problem with the apps getting stuck on install. Finally I unrooted the device back to a stock rom at jonsuh.com/2011/01/unroot-your-droid-incredible/[/url] I now have installed the drivers and ran the unrevoked3 rom but I get hung up on the “installing unrevoked3 service” Please help me to get my dinc back to a working order where I can restore my titanium backup files.

[Q] Please Help! Looping

Ok... here's the deal. I just decided to switch roms finally to see what is new out there. I had been running an old version of Uber Kingdom. Here is the problem I am having. It is boot looping. Relatively simple problem to fix usually. But wait, there's more! It is boot looping in every single rom I install. Sometimes it won't boot to clockwork properly either and I have to pull the battery. Is there someway I can fix this? Or is this a hardware problem (which I kind of doubt)? I just don't understand what the heck is going on. I have been flashing different roms left and right for the past few hours trying to get this thing to stabilize. Sometimes it will boot up into the rom, I will get mostly through the google accounts setup, and then it will restart, and then loop. Other times it won't even get past the white incredible screen, and then sometimes it will make it into the rom splash screen. I have attempted to install CM7 nightly, Uber kingdom, and Synergy so far. I can flash the new rom, I can mount the SD card in clockwork, but then it begins to loop again as soon as I leave clockwork.
Let me know if you need any other information.
Is there a way to just completely redo EVERYTHING, clockwork, rom, everything, just to make sure I have a nice clean slate?
Thanks a ton for reading through this novel. I am extremely frustrated.
~Will
PS, I may not get back to this thread until morning. I have to get to sleep for work. Sorry if I don't respond right away to information requests. Thanks again!

If you can mount the SD card, download the stock RUU from www.dougpiston.com, put it on the root of the SD card named exactly PB31IMG.zip, and boot into hboot to install it. Your phone should be restored to stock, a clean slate.

Tried a different SD?
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How are you downloading and flashing the ROM? I had this problem when trying to do everything through Rom Manager. Even trying to flash in recovery with a ROM downloaded through ROM Manager would loop.

Update
Well, I was just getting ready to flash the original RUU when I tried one last time to restore my old Uber rom setup and it worked (whereas the last 3 times of doing exactly the same process didn't). It stopped looping at least, even though I am still running the same rom I was before. I think tonight I am still going to attempt to flash the RUU anyway and start over anew.
To answer the questions before, No, I did not try a different SD. I didn't know it could make that much difference. Still on the original one that came with the phone.
As the downloading and flashing process goes, I was downloading direct from the XDA forums on my laptop, then transferring the files via USB. I have never really liked using the Rom Manager. It cuts me out of the XDA loop and I don't get to see all the bleeding edge discussions, etc...
So I will try to flash everything new tonight, and then post my results for anyone who is curious. Thanks for the help guys!

Please help? Force closes everywhere, including CWM Recovery

Hi, can anyone help?
I am running the most recent inc-deck ROM, with incredikernel. Yesterday I updated google maps from the market, and today, for the first time in months of using inc-deck, for the first time ever since having rooted my phone months ago, I am having force closes of most apps I try to open.
ROM manager force closes also, so I can't restore the nandroid I have on my SD card from there. I try to boot into Clockworkmod recovery, but all I can get into is the stock "white screen" recovery, not the black and orange clockwork recovery screen.
Is there a way I can flash a nandroid manually, without having to go through clockworkmod? Or does anyone have any other idea of how I can get my phone functional again?
Thank you in advance-

Try getting 4Ext recovery from the market if it is available for your phone. Flash it to recovery and restore your nandroid.
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ahadzi said:
Hi, can anyone help?
I am running the most recent inc-deck ROM, with incredikernel. Yesterday I updated google maps from the market, and today, for the first time in months of using inc-deck, for the first time ever since having rooted my phone months ago, I am having force closes of most apps I try to open.
ROM manager force closes also, so I can't restore the nandroid I have on my SD card from there. I try to boot into Clockworkmod recovery, but all I can get into is the stock "white screen" recovery, not the black and orange clockwork recovery screen.
Is there a way I can flash a nandroid manually, without having to go through clockworkmod? Or does anyone have any other idea of how I can get my phone functional again?
Thank you in advance-
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Reflash cw recovery thru hboot and then see if it works. My only other thought would be messed up or bad sdcard. Try reformating it fat32, or try a different sd.

so it's fixed now, and in case this helps anyone:
i was trying to install cwm recovery directly on the root of my sdcard by attaching the phone via usb to my computer, and while i was looking around my folders i noticed that "whatsapp" was suddenly working on my phone, whereas when it was malfunctioning i kept getting notifications that whatsapp could not access old messages. so this made me wonder whether rom manager was working. i opened it, and indeed it was working. from there i fixed permissions, and this seems to have fixed the problem.
i don't know why attaching the phone to the computer would have let things work enough for me to get into rom manager, but i'm just grateful to have my phone back.

[Q] Soft Brick

Well after searching, reading, and trying a few different guides on how to fix the issue. I have spent the last 5 hours pulling my hair out and really didn't get anywhere.
I have a HTC M8 from sprint. I used the All-In-One to root and flash the custom recovery ( Clockwork Mod Sprint)
I left s-on and just wanted to try the stock rom out for a few days. After about a week it started and never ending reboot. It would boot up and load the OS like normal and after about 2 to 5 min it would reboot again. Tried clearing the cache and that resolved the issue for about a day. It then started same thing again. At this point i decided to try ardh. After reading thru arhd post and downloading I made a bone headed mistake of NOT running a backup. I used the "Clean to install a new rom" option and then went to install the rom from the external sd card. it got to about 70% and failed out. I re download and tried again and got the same results. I then tried Viper one, Redbulled, and a few others. No matter what rom i tried it would fail.
Now at this point I realized what a dumb move it was to not run a backup. Started searching here and the great interwebz for how to fix this.
I tried to sideload the roms and they tanked.
Does anyone have a few pointers or ideas on how to fix this.

I would say, see if you can find a rooted stock ROM. Place it in your backups folder. Try to restore it. I've been there, did that and it worked for me on a previous HTC.
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Don't sideload. They usually fail. Just push. Load twrp. Don't do anything. adb push Rom.zip /sdcard/
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