Hi guys. Another noob gone wrong ordeal. I am super newb to all things root, rom, mod and even posting in forums. So if this is posted in the wrong place, I apologize.
Quick: Rooted Incredible for about a month 1/2.
been running CM7 nightly since day one. No other mods.
Life WAS good.
Problem: I tried flashing a different rom (Uber Kingdom 3D Gingersense) I found
really detailed instructions for full wipe which included flashing VR
Superwipe/install. I followed instructions to the letter.
Booted rom let it run its course and my phone started to shut of
randomly. I tried multiple reboots, battery pulls with the same result,
only this time my phone shut off almost immediately after the reboots
and batt pulls . I even went as far as to repeat the steps. Second time
brings me here. I guess all the wiping wiped all my stuff eg: SD card
empty and i have no idea what else got wiped in the phones
storage.
FYI: I have my entire system backed up to computer and I also use dropbox and Titanium Backup. But that doesn't help when I cant get a Hboot screen or recovery. Power button + volume down button = I see a glimpse of the Hboot screen before the screen goes black again. It will not even boot normally.
Here's what I tried to do to correct this,... Placed a copy of CM7 and clockwork mod w/ gapps on my SD and tried to reboot with the same results mentioned above.
I searched and could not find anyone with the same problem. Can anyone help?
Please and thank you.
Super Newb un-
Make sure your SD card is formatted as FAT32. You'll probably need to hook that up via a card reader or USB adapter to verify. Copy the contents of the SD card (if anything is there) to your computer, then format the card as FAT32. Maybe the SD card is dead/dying/bad?
Putting the ROM's zip and things on the SD card root won't do anything. The time to put a zip file on the root of the SD card is when applying an update.zip file, or a radio/HBOOT/recovery zip that gets renamed so when booting to HBOOT, it sees the file and asks you to update the appropriate item.
Try a different SD card, formatted to FAT32, and see what happens.
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Make sure your SD card is formatted as FAT32. You'll probably need to hook that up via a card reader or USB adapter to verify. Copy the contents of the SD card (if anything is there) to your computer, then format the card as FAT32. Maybe the SD card is dead/dying/bad?
Putting the ROM's zip and things on the SD card root won't do anything. The time to put a zip file on the root of the SD card is when applying an update.zip file, or a radio/HBOOT/recovery zip that gets renamed so when booting to HBOOT, it sees the file and asks you to update the appropriate item.
Try a different SD card, formatted to FAT32, and see what happens.
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Thank you. I'm going to google FAT32 and what that means and give it a try. I'll post back with results. I do have another SD but how do I proceed with that option?
Again, thank you. I never expected anyone to reply as I seem to be the only one in this boat based on my all night into today searches.
No problem!
FAT32 is a type of computer file system architecture. There are many more. If you are able to hook up your phone's micro SD card to your computer (via a USB adapter, or it may have a built in SD card reader already), it will appear as a lettered disk drive. You can then right click on it to select Format, then make sure FAT32 is selected under the File System drop down.
Most new computers have card readers now, but since these phones take micro SD cards, you'll need an SD card adapter to put it into an SD card slot. The adapters normally come with the micro SD cards when you buy them, as I have five or so that I never use, just need one.
Here is the SD adapter I am speaking of: SD card adapter with micro sd card.
Here is a USB micro SD card reader: USB micro SD card reader.
Is the other SD card new, or would it have files on it? You could try putting that in your phone to see what happens.
RMarkwald said:
Make sure your SD card is formatted as FAT32. You'll probably need to hook that up via a card reader or USB adapter to verify. Copy the contents of the SD card (if anything is there) to your computer, then format the card as FAT32. Maybe the SD card is dead/dying/bad?
Putting the ROM's zip and things on the SD card root won't do anything. The time to put a zip file on the root of the SD card is when applying an update.zip file, or a radio/HBOOT/recovery zip that gets renamed so when booting to HBOOT, it sees the file and asks you to update the appropriate item.
Try a different SD card, formatted to FAT32, and see what happens.
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Fairly easy find to format my SD card to FAT32 but sadly didn't help matters as I can't get the phone to boot to any screen at all. It gets power, takes a charge but a screen... nope. I even considered re-rooting but again I have to be at some sort of starting point screen wise which is not working at the moment.
Any other thought?
Just a black screen, no HBOOT or anything?
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Just a black screen, no HBOOT or anything?
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No HBOOT. When pressing power+volume down HBOOT kinda just flickers but never loads. From a full off position, trying to power on, nothing happens either. I have no Idea what I've done. Can't even attach to computer via usb to view internal files.
U probably installed the incorrect rom for your device. I'm assuming your incredible is SLCD so basically is just a black screen because you installed a rom for amoled dincs. See if u can get into fastboot
(hold trackpad and power button)
And does the phone vibrate or anything when U turn it on? Does the computer recognize it as u are turning it on?
Get back to me with those answers so I can help u.
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Or maybe your battery just fried?
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eljean said:
U probably installed the incorrect rom for your device. I'm assuming your incredible is SLCD so basically is just a black screen because you installed a rom for amoled dincs. See if u can get into fastboot
(hold trackpad and power button)
And does the phone vibrate or anything when U turn it on? Does the computer recognize it as u are turning it on?
Get back to me with those answers so I can help u.
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There would be a white bar on both sides of the screen. And even so, thats only in the recovery.
Sent from my Droid Incredible running a random CM7 nightly.
eljean said:
U probably installed the incorrect rom for your device. I'm assuming your incredible is SLCD so basically is just a black screen because you installed a rom for amoled dincs. See if u can get into fastboot
(hold trackpad and power button)
And does the phone vibrate or anything when U turn it on? Does the computer recognize it as u are turning it on?
Get back to me with those answers so I can help u.
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Thank you for looking.
Supposedly I installed the version for my device as there were others posting in the forum with the same phone. Had I read further into the thread I would've saw that other's were having problems as well with random power offs and reboots. But no one had reported what I'm experiencing.
eljean said:
Or maybe your battery just fried?
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I'm starting to think this as well because my phone was heating up some. But it still takes a charge according to the green led indicator (full charge). I have no other way of confirming that though. I ordered an OEM replacement from the bidding site. $5. Meanwhile, I'm still hunting for a fix because the battery won't be here for a few days. I might just go buy one from a retailer to see if that helps.
Does anyone know if the phone works with the battery out, but plugged in to the charger? Might be a way to tell if its the battery or not.
Just to confirm, you try booting the phone up and it turns off? Is the screen just turning off or does everything power down?
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SD card won't be read when phone is on. When device is in recovery, I can USB toggle and see everything on my SD card. It's only when I try connecting through USB when on (CM6.1 or Myn TwoPointTwo) is when nothing happens (Myn) or the phone freezes and reboots (CM6.1).
I had my phone plugged in through USB while on CM6.1 RC2 and dropping in the new CM6.1 file into my phone when I forgot to eject and went straight into recovery. Now I can't install anything or mount my SD card. I can use ASTRO or a file manager app to view everything though.
As for nandroid, I deleted all my pre-USB **** up backups and only have the USB **** up RC2 backup. So that won't help. I'm guessing the device is still thinking it's plugged in because of my mistake. Any way to fix this?
I have noticed this as well lately under both Sense and AOSP roms. I can't mount my SDCARD from USB while the rom is running - only in recovery.
Odd. Wonder what is causing this?
I was talking to Shift and we came to the conclusion that my SD card is probably corrupt after shutting down while still mounted to my computer. I just extracted the folders that are important to me (pictures, Titanium Backup, etc) and will transfer them over to a new SD card once I buy one.
If anyone knows any way this might be fixed, I would appreciate it
Did you already try reformatting the card?
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i had the same issue with my 16gb card.
I couldnt get it to read in the computer either unless I put it in the full sized SD adapter and put the "lock" switch on.
Needless to say, i couldnt do anything with it and ended up sending it back for a replacement.
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Did you already try reformatting the card?
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I was hoping to exhaust all options before coming across this, but as I have nothing else to try I'm going to just format it. Hopefully I can format through recovery or something because it doesn't even let me unmount my SD card from Settings options.
dadoc04 said:
i had the same issue with my 16gb card.
I couldnt get it to read in the computer either unless I put it in the full sized SD adapter and put the "lock" switch on.
Needless to say, i couldnt do anything with it and ended up sending it back for a replacement.
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Yeah, I figure I'll try my last option of formatting and see if it works. Here's to hoping! Lol.
FIXED
Issue has been corrected by formatting SD card. Thanks for the replies :]
So my phone and computer will not detect my sd card after I dropped my phone.
Here is everything I have tried:
hard reset
sdhc micro adapter for my computer
pulling out sd card and reinserting
pulling battery and letting sit for awhile and plugging battery back in
I followed the sd card and usb fix issue found in the forums, but everytime I install the jdk the sdk installer says it is not found.
I know if I am able to format the card somehow it will fix it i think. but I cannot get anything to recognize it, or if I can figure out what single driver is missing on my phone I can figure the rest out from there.
The sdhc adapter works with the new micro it came with but not mine.
I am still able to use my phone but I obviously cant do **** without the sd card.
I have a recent backup of my sd card on my computer I just need a way to get it to my sd card and I am stumped.
Thanks for your help guys
Is there a way to force my comp to read the sd card?
Update
One thing I was just able to do was to take the micro sd that came with my adapter and my phone reads it just fine. However it is only a 2 gb. Like I said, I have a back up on my computer of everything that was on my sd card at one point. Being that my phone can read sd cards, does this help at all with somehow fixing my factory one?
Since I am now able to get into rom manager and my phone recognizes some sort of sd card. Would flashing some sort of sense ROM allow me to put my original sd card in and format it?
If all you want to do is repartition and/or reformat it, boot into recovery and do it there. While in recovery, especially is your recovery is amonRA v2.3, select the "MS-USB" option and serif your computer detects it while you're connected via USB.
Posting & Replying from my EVO 4G
dougjamal said:
If all you want to do is repartition and/or reformat it, boot into recovery and do it there. While in recovery, especially is your recovery is amonRA v2.3, select the "MS-USB" option and serif your computer detects it while you're connected via USB.
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I am currently using clockwork. I tried the mount unmount options in recovery mode. I have never really tried amon-ra for anything but now might be the time to give it shot.
Hey gang,
In messing with my mother-in-law's new Sprint HTC EVO 4G, I think I screwed up the SD card; when I try to wipe the Davlik cache, it errors that there is no sd-ext mounted, and windows (several machines) will not read the contents of the sd card. One laptop will bring it up as a removable drive, but when clicked it says "insert media" - on the file browser on the phone I can see all the contents just fine, but now can't copy anything to the card via the USB cable.... when i plug it in, the phone asks if i want to use the SD card or charge, I choose charge, it goes back to home screen and at the bottom you can see it "preparing SD card" again.
What did I do, and how do I fix?! Please and thank you!
Midnight1970 said:
Hey gang,
In messing with my mother-in-law's new Sprint HTC EVO 4G, I think I screwed up the SD card; when I try to wipe the Davlik cache, it errors that there is no sd-ext mounted, and windows (several machines) will not read the contents of the sd card. One laptop will bring it up as a removable drive, but when clicked it says "insert media" - on the file browser on the phone I can see all the contents just fine, but now can't copy anything to the card via the USB cable.... when i plug it in, the phone asks if i want to use the SD card or charge, I choose charge, it goes back to home screen and at the bottom you can see it "preparing SD card" again.
What did I do, and how do I fix?! Please and thank you!
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Are you using the same cable every time you've tried it? Perhaps the cable is bad? So you're able to access the contents of the card fine from using a file browser on the phone? If that's the case, most likely your card is fine, and the problem lies within the USB cable. I would try another USB cord if you have access to one. (the evo's stock USB cable sucks, and are known to fail from time to time)
Do you have a card reader? If so, does the computer read the card fine when it's inserted directly into the card reader?
Midnight1970 said:
Hey gang,
In messing with my mother-in-law's new Sprint HTC EVO 4G, I think I screwed up the SD card; when I try to wipe the Davlik cache, it errors that there is no sd-ext mounted, and windows (several machines) will not read the contents of the sd card. One laptop will bring it up as a removable drive, but when clicked it says "insert media" - on the file browser on the phone I can see all the contents just fine, but now can't copy anything to the card via the USB cable.... when i plug it in, the phone asks if i want to use the SD card or charge, I choose charge, it goes back to home screen and at the bottom you can see it "preparing SD card" again.
What did I do, and how do I fix?! Please and thank you!
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1. The Sd-EXT message is fine; it skips that partition because you don't have it set up, so no harm done there.
2. If you have a card reader, I'd mount it to the pc, copy the contents to the pc, format the sd card [make sure its fat 32], then copy the contents back.
I'll try another cable, however, I should say that I was able to use the same cable and my HTC Inspire to read just fine; having said that, there is a crack at the base of the cable that plugs in to the phone, so I'll certainly be willing to try another cable; I even unmounted the card in both devices, took the card out of her EVO and put it in my Inspire, and it was read just fine..... that further complicated my dilemma.
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I'll try another cable, however, I should say that I was able to use the same cable and my HTC Inspire to read just fine; having said that, there is a crack at the base of the cable that plugs in to the phone, so I'll certainly be willing to try another cable; I even unmounted the card in both devices, took the card out of her EVO and put it in my Inspire, and it was read just fine..... that further complicated my dilemma.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695243
You can always try that route.
You'll never believe this...........
I still had the .zip for mywarn's ROM that I tried first (that was draining the battery like CRAZY), it's booted up and windows sees it fine now..... ??!?!??! - I had the Kings Alliance ROM installed while it failed. Working now though - I tried replacing the kernel as suggested in another thread (that's currently on page 2 but only for a few Im sure lol) and the drain still seemed significant. Losing roughly one percent a minute.... thanks for the replies guys, I'll keep ya posted... think I'm gonna try gingerbread-evo-deck 1.2 now.... we'll see what happens.
If you have that bad of battery drain, you can try downgrading to PRI 1.77. The latest PRI has also been very good to me.
I just installed gingerbread-evo-deck 1.2 and it has no market! How do I obtain a market icon if it's not in the ROM?
Midnight1970 said:
I just installed gingerbread-evo-deck 1.2 and it has no market! How do I obtain a market icon if it's not in the ROM?
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You need to flash the Google apps (gapps) it's linked on decks OP. The 5/21 gapps work good.
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I went with MikFroYo v4.62 ... using netarchy-toastmod-4.3.4-cfs-havs-more-sbc kernel. Seems like its still draining pretty fast... ugggggggh.
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If you have that bad of battery drain, you can try downgrading to PRI 1.77. The latest PRI has also been very good to me.
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You know, I never believed in this, but last night I did flash back to 1.77 and my phone's only been off the charger now for 30 minutes, but for the first time since I started using Mik's GB/Sense ROM and can't use SBC, I'm still sitting at 100% instead of the typical 5% drop right off the charger.
Strange problem with this desire, I can access the SD card from recovery with stuff like USB-MS and flashing from SD but with stock it says the SD card isn't recognized (the options in Settings are all grayed out). With a rom that has Apps2SD like InsertCoin where some of the main apps are installed to the card it just leaves me with a blank screen on boot with the background/top bar still there.
Pretty strange desire really, when I first looked at it the problem I mentioned above was happening (it was originally on InsertCoin, worked for around 4 months before this started) so I reflashed it to stock and then had it returned to me with the owner saying that their SD was broken.
If anyone knows how to fix this it would be much appreciated as I'm as stuck as a brick wall right now :/
Explain your problem in no more than 2 sentences that actually make sense and I may be able to help you out.
Add on information such as
ROM you are/were using
Can you boot
Does PC recognise phone
Hboot (S-ON/ S-OFF)
Have you tried with another SD ? Maybe it is the SD thats broken ?
bortak said:
Explain your problem in no more than 2 sentences that actually make sense and I may be able to help you out.
Add on information such as
ROM you are/were using
Can you boot
Does PC recognise phone
Hboot (S-ON/ S-OFF)
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Sorry, let me dumb it down a bit:
In Amon Ra recovery it sees the SD card fine and lets me use it over USB fine too but when I boot up into a ROM it doesn't seem to find it.
Using InsertCoin/stock ROM and neither recognize it, it boots up fine and the PC can see the phone too, but since it can't mount the SD card I can't use disk drive mode :/ It's using S-OFF hboot too.
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Have you tried with another SD ? Maybe it is the SD thats broken ?
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The SD is fine, it works in recovery and in my own desire but I've tried another SD card to be sure and still nothing
hmm ok try to reformat the SD card using recovery and tell me if it works
I've had/got a similar problem. I believe it's a problem with the contacts between the sd card and the 'holder' for the sd card.
Try removing the back of your phone, removing the sd card, pushing down on the metal 'holder', replacing the sd card, and rebooting.
This works for me for anything between 1 minute and a couple of days before the problem starts again.
I have no idea why the card is still accessible in recovery. If the above had no effect then please ignore!
The only solution, and it's really not useful, is to remove the sd card. I've returned my phone for repair and nothing got replaced (my guess is because the sd card is still accessible on recovery)
EDIT: No longer convinced it's the contacts as whenever my phone 'freezes' if I reboot into recovery the sd card is always accessible.
Now think it's to do with the file system/structure on the sd card becoming corrupt.
If I format the sd card as one single fat32 and keep ALL apps on the phone then I have no problems.
My phone is allowing me to get to the recovery but will not allow me to go past the first screen. No matter what I click on it takes me to a black screen with the clockwork mod symbol. Then when i hit the power button it takes me back to the first screen in recovery.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you
Sounds like you keep hitting the wrong button. Try selecting with the trackpad button on the bottom of the DINC.
Thank you!
Now i also can't seem to see the ROM i downloaded onto my sd card when i try to install it from the sd card.
Any thoughts?
camcardshark said:
Thank you!
Now i also can't seem to see the ROM i downloaded onto my sd card when i try to install it from the sd card.
Any thoughts?
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Hmm download a few roms and see if any of them show up. They should if you are going to the right section. Maybe someone else can answer this if you still have issues.
It shows up when i mount the sd card to my computer but it doesn't show up on the phone in recovery...????
Any ideas?
Copy the contents of your sd card to your computer, reformat the sd card to fat32, then copy everything back onto your sd card. There shouldn't be an issue with finding a rom that's on your sd card.
usualy if youre ROM isnt showing up, it would appear through 'download' under SD card. and i would recomend downloading the ROM in your computer, then transfering it to your phone through USB if you aren't already.