So earlier, i wanted to format my SD card again and clear off some junk, so I moved everything to my computer and tried formatting with Settings>Storage Erase. However, that just hung up for a long time, so I booted into recovery and formatted the SD card from there.
That went fine, so I mounted the SD card in recovery and copied back my files. But when I restarted, my phone just goes to the bootloader menu. I cant boot back into the ROM anymore; only recovery / bootloader.
Did I mess something up? I do have a nandroid backup, but its a little old.
Thanks
EDIT: Also, when I choose Power Down from the bootloader, it brings the bootloader back up. I think I have to take the battery out if I actually, want it to stay off.
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Hi,
Was running on LeeDroid 1.9, wiped and flashed for OpenDesire 3.4, came up fine then rebooted for the 3.4.2 patch and now my Desire just will not go past the HTC logo screen no matter what I do.
I can boot into recovery and have full access to everything, tried formatting the SD card and loading different ROMS but stuck @ the HTC green logo on white background.
Even Revoked3 again but the prob is not getting into the Recovery menu, its getting past that HTC screen.
Any info / idea's / help?
Thanks
Russ
If your phone turns on its not bricked, there will be a way to fix any issues your having, its just finding the correct one.
When flashing other roms did you wipe everything?
Data
Dalvik Cache
Ext parititon (if you have one)
Not wiping Dalvik is the number one reason roms get stuck bootlooping on bootscreen1.
Alternatively, it is booting but your not waiting long enough, you can always run adb logcat while booting to see if they phone is actually doing anything.
Hi,
Thank you for replying....
Figured it out that it is the SD card, here is the situation:
- Boot into recovery but cannot mount nor format the SD card
- Can see the SD card in MAC/ Windows and formated it Fat32
- Can boot without SD card
- Can boot with another SD card which is only 128Meg so cannot get LeeDroid back on it to reflash that ROM
I obviously need to format the SD card proper and it looks like I need to use Gparted but that looks like a HUGE Linux ISO download unless you know of a MAC version of it I can use?
Thanks
Found a 2Gig SD Card, got LeeDroid back on it, flashing and hoping I can boot with the original SD card so I can format with ROM manger but thinking it wont boot up with the SD card in regardless of the ROM, lets hope!
if you don't manage to boot it up. find this in the forum "PB99IMG.zip" w/o the quotes. format your sd card and put the archive in root of sd card. after that turn on your phone by pressing volume down and power on/off. wait till phone recognizes the archive and follow onscreen directions. phone should boot normally as unrooted. use unrevoked to root again and flash any rom you want.
post result.
Okay I am up but not on my original SD card, using a spare.
In recovery mode my phone refuses to mount nor format the card but can see it 100%
Seen some posts of a ADB cmd I need to use or is there something else I can try?
Thanks!
I ran "unrevoked" on my phone again and it booted when I had that problem.
But I took out the sd card when I did that. Not sure if it helps. But who knows.
Tried that, booting without the card is fine, with the card in is the issue, phone cannot see it.
Ok I screwed up majorly. I was in CWM which I had just updated to the newest version with orange text. I had finished a factory restore and cache wipe, wanting to flash the Cyanogen RC1. Well while playing around I ended up in the partitions menu and tried backing out with the power button, which apparently is the wrong procedure now that the back button is enabled in recovery. I believe I ended up selecting the 128MB partition with OM Swap (no idea what to do with these never used them before). I ended up not able to see my sd card and am stuck with phone with no ROM. I have only connected to a work computer without admin rights, the phone comes up as three removable drives that I am unable to open. Any Help Please.
I have another 2GB SD that came with phone, so when I return home I can flash CM7. My main worry is recovering the data on the card with old back ups, especially Titanium Back ups of Apps. Thanks to anyone who takes time to read and try to help.
In recovery, under Mounts and Storage there is a USB mount, so you may try that to see if you can get to your SD card. If not, then take it out and put it into you computer (if you don't have a card reader, there are USB readers you can buy). See if it comes up that way, and hopefully nothing got erased when it was partitioned.
i got a big problem, or so it seems at the moment. i downloaded the new MIUI from qr code, hit install (through rom manager) and then unplugged it from the usb cord. so i think the sd card didn't mount (i'm not sure) but it went to bootloader when the screen came back on. where as normally it would install the rom, and then reboot. i can get to clockwork recovery, so it's not bricked or anything. when i hit reboot phone, it sends me back to bootloader. pull the battery, it sends me back to bootloader. what can i do here? i'm at a loss..ANY help would be GREATLY appreciated!!!! thank you
If you're asking how to mount SD in recovery, its under "mounts and storage".
yeah i see that, but i'm not sure which one will work, without further getting myself in a bind. AND, i'm really not sure this is my problem. I'm just assuming... my main problem is figuring out why it won't reboot back to normal.
ah well, nevermind. i just restored a backup. i was hoping to not have to do that, as i lost some stuff.
Ok, I need some help. I had my phone rooted and had CWMR installed. I installed a custom rom and everything was working great. However, I needed my my sd card for flashing a nook color. So I removed the SD card, copied all the files to my pc, then used the sd to succsesfully flash the nook. I then deleted all the old files from the sd card and recopied the old. I put the sd card back in the phone and powered it on. Now, I'm stuck on the lock screen and the screen just keeps turning on and off. The all buttons and the touch screen are unresponsive. What have I done and how do I get this fixed? If I try to call my phone it goes stright to vm. HEEEELP!!!
Have you tried re-formatting the SD card ?
Tried formatting just now. didn't work. Then i tried flashing through odin, now i have a yellow triangle when i turn the phone on....getting worse by the minute...
Have you tried taking the damn card out?
If you flashed a bootable disk image to that card I'm pretty sure you need the HP format tool (I think it was HP) to format it normally again. I could be wrong, but, I do know that I had a special tool to reformat my SDcard when I flashed a bootable disk image to boot my nook.
That yellow triangle doesn't necessarily mean anything bad, so, chill out. Take the card out and lets take it from there.
Also, if something in your /data was what caused your phone to be hosed and you did an ODIN flash but didn't do a factory reset (or "Calkulins format all" zip is perfect for this) you would have the same problem no matter how many things you flashed to /system.
Ok so baisically my retard side came out last night and i accidently installed electricfire theme from rom manager, when my phone booted it was full of errors so i thought i would put my phone in recovery and reset/clear data etc. Didnt work ofcourse, so i booted into cw recovery to restore my nandroid backup, then notice i had version 5.0.2.8 and not .6 so whenever i try to restore my backup it will stop at certain points in the middle of the restore and reboot then enter boot loop, I can still get to hboot and recovery though. So then i was going to try and put the stock rom zip on my sd card to flash through recovery but my computer wont recognize my phone as a storage disk to put the zipped file on the sd card.. But my computer does recognize that my phone is plugged in when in hboot, but a prompt pops up asking to install driver software etc.... Posting a thread was the last thing i wanted to do but i couldn't seem to find the same problem on the fourms. Any help would be much appreciated thank you.
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Ok so baisically my retard side came out last night and i accidently installed electricfire theme from rom manager, when my phone booted it was full of errors so i thought i would put my phone in recovery and reset/clear data etc. Didnt work ofcourse, so i booted into cw recovery to restore my nandroid backup, then notice i had version 5.0.2.8 and not .6 so whenever i try to restore my backup it will stop at certain points in the middle of the restore and reboot then enter boot loop, I can still get to hboot and recovery though. So then i was going to try and put the stock rom zip on my sd card to flash through recovery but my computer wont recognize my phone as a storage disk to put the zipped file on the sd card.. But my computer does recognize that my phone is plugged in when in hboot, but a prompt pops up asking to install driver software etc.... Posting a thread was the last thing i wanted to do but i couldn't seem to find the same problem on the fourms. Any help would be much appreciated thank you.
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Take the sd card out of the phone. In a card reader, from your computer, copy the cwm 5.0.2.6 file ( www.redmondpie.com/how-to-install-f...overy-on-supported-android-devices-root-only/) the root of your sd card (it should be a PG76IMG.ZIP file). Put the card back in your phone. Take the battery out for about 5 seconds. Put the battery back. Hold the volume down button then press and release the power button. The phone will go on, let it do its thing, it's installing cwm. When it's done, take the battery out again, then take the sd card out. Put it in the pc's card reader and delete the PG76IMG.zip file. Make sure you do this, otherwise it won't work. Put the card back in the phone, also the battery. Now hold the volume down button and press and release the power button. It will look for the PG76IMG.zip file, but it won't find it. When it finishes doing its thing, press the volume down button to where it says recovery, then press the power button and you should now boot into recovery. From here, restore your backup, and you should be good to go. Let this be a lesson and make sure you research and understand what you are doing BEFORE doing it......
Thank you for the reply, ill have to get a card reader then.. haha thank you much appreciated.
I was finally able to get a card reader today.. Worked perfectly. thank you again, much appreciated.
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