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so I know just enough to be dangerous.... apparently.
I decided to start fresh, completely... wiped user data, dalvik, cache and did the factory reset thing. then I reflashed warm 2.2 and can not get past the white htc evo 4g screen. I have done a nandroid backup that is still there and I have tried to restore that, but it still goes to white screen and stays... I keep it on the white screen and after 15 minutes I try again after removing the battery... any ideas would be great... I am not an expert but I have installed different ROMs in the past without any real issue.
So, to summerize.
I have a rom on the device,
I can boot into recovery, hboot, etc
I can flash rom's, or the backup but can not get past white screen...
Thanks!
Maybe your SD card is going or the files on there are messed up try flashing different Rom something basic like fresh and see what happens
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so what is the easy way to put a new rom on when you cant get the phone to boot up? Do I have to do it from a reader? Sorry, told ya I know enough to be dangerous.
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put a different kernel on it, and it booted, thanks for the help though!
Need the expertise of the XDA mindset here to help a guy out, please.
I was running Myn's RL5, and loving it. Well I wanted to delete it and install it fresh again, and with some different Kernel. So I did the standard full wipe, of data, dalvik, and cache, and ran that three different times, and then installed the Calkulin's format_all. So I did all that, and then go to install Myn's RLS-5, first before anything else, I then reboot, but it just hangs on the htc EVO 4g start screen, forever
I pull the battery, and go into recovery screen, wipe data again, clear everything, then go to Nan backup, and it reinstall's my previous saved backup from last week, but then again it just hangs at the load screen where it shows the htc EVO 4G logo forever until I pull the battery again.
ive learned to reflash the kernel specified to whatever rom that nandroid backup uses. when i cant boot... get it?
How long do you let it sit at the white screen?i have had mine hang for several minutes before it gets passed it.
Zorachus said:
Need the expertise of the XDA mindset here to help a guy out, please.
I was running Myn's RL5, and loving it. Well I wanted to delete it and install it fresh again, and with some different Kernel. So I did the standard full wipe, of data, dalvik, and cache, and ran that three different times, and then installed the Calkulin's format_all. So I did all that, and then go to install Myn's RLS-5, first before anything else, I then reboot, but it just hangs on the htc EVO 4g start screen, forever
I pull the battery, and go into recovery screen, wipe data again, clear everything, then go to Nan backup, and it reinstall's my previous saved backup from last week, but then again it just hangs at the load screen where it shows the htc EVO 4G logo forever until I pull the battery again.
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How long has it been sitting there? Mine has been up to 5 minutes on 1 occasion.
elegantai said:
How long do you let it sit at the white screen?i have had mine hang for several minutes before it gets passed it.
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I let it sit there for 10min, and nothing, it is still sitting on the startup screen now after 15min
Zorachus said:
I let it sit there for 10min, and nothing, it is still sitting on the startup screen now after 15min
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Have you tried installing an older save then the one you are restoring?
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Have you tried installing an older save then the one you are restoring?
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No I just have the one saved.
I am following some sound advice from another member; will see how this goes ?
Try to flash like I edited above:
-Clear Memory
-_Format_All.zip
-Flash Rom
-Flash Radio
-Flash Kernel
Zorachus said:
No I just have the one saved.
I am following some sound advice from another member; will see how this goes ?
Try to flash like I edited above:
-Clear Memory
-_Format_All.zip
-Flash Rom
-Flash Radio
-Flash Kernel
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That sounds logical. Just make sure you flash a sense kernel.
teh roxxorz said:
That sounds logical. Just make sure you flash a sense kernel.
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Yes good call;
Ok...crosses finger lets see how this goes ? At the system updating screen, the little folder with arrow pointing down to green Droid. Did not get that far the last time.
I will give it 15min...and report back.
also skip the radio update if u can, if it doesnt work
do cal format all, wiope dalvik cache, then flash ROM, then kernel, let phone boot up, after that put phone into recovery and flash radio
Zorachus said:
Yes good call;
Ok...crosses finger lets see how this goes ? At the system updating screen, the little folder with arrow pointing down to green Droid. Did not get that far the last time.
I will give it 15min...and report back.
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Well sounds like it booted up alright, just enter your info and good to go.
It worked Followed the instructions and back on
Followed the advice to the "t' and back on like a charm. Went pretty fast and smooth after doing all those steps one after the other, then rebooted, and bam, back in action.
Only thing I noticed is that my PRI version is 1.90_003 isn't that bad ? Should I flash the "EVO_PRI_1.77_003" ?
HTC Evo Hardware 003
Sprint Labeled Extended Battery
Rooted using Unrevoked
Used Myn RLS 4 & 5 flawlessly.
Switch to MIUI about a month ago.
No overclocking was used for MIUI or RLS 5. RLS 4 I purchased it for support only and removed it after a few days.
Had to flash Sav v1.6 to keep the reboots to a minimum of 1.5-3 days. Once it started the first reboot I would have to pull the battery wait a few minutes.
Saved a Nandroid (since has been removed from sdcard) after the reboots started and went back to the Myn RLS 5, bootloops persisted there also.
Back to MIUI after a few over there thought it was kernel issues (which seemed to alleviate some of the bootloop)
Today after my 4th battery pull from bootloop issues I flashed Myn Z. Bootloops persisted.
At one point I pulled the sdcard, formatted it and myn booted up just fine. Stayed up until I rebooted to put the sdcard back in with the ROM, recovery, and PC36IMG's back in the sdcard.
With sdcard out of not I get bootloops now.
Bootloops again.
Installing clarification:
Used Caulkins Format All
Have RA v2.3
Wiped factory reset twice, wiped cache and davlik twice
With MIUI the wifi was set to never.
I am seriously at a loss here. Has anyone else found a solution to this issue? If I unroot, will that bring me back to stock everything so I can try this process over from the beginning? Will it carry over whatever might be an issue with me and just have a stock ROM that bootloops? If you need more information I can attempt to recall it, or pull it from the phone. Keep in mind I cant keep a ROM running for more than 5-15 seconds before bootloops so if it is something from there we might be out of luck.
Thank you kindly in advance.
I would suggest backing the rom up, then go a clean install, wipe everything, that tends to clear bootlooping. Also [I don't use] but on MIUI, you have to set your wifi sleep policy to never, or you will get bootloops.
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I would suggest backing the rom up, then go a clean install, wipe everything, that tends to clear bootlooping. Also [I don't use] but on MIUI, you have to set your wifi sleep policy to never, or you will get bootloops.
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Installing clarification:
Used Caulkins Format All
Have RA v2.3
Wiped factory reset twice, wiped cache and davlik twice
With MIUI the wifi was set to never.
Alrighty, seems good. By any chance are you over/underclocking?
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Alrighty, seems good. By any chance are you over/underclocking?
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Used it on RLS 4 for a few days but didnt find it necessary.
Have you tried flashing a newer kernel? All kernels don't play nice for every evo.
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Have you tried flashing a newer kernel? All kernels don't play nice for every evo.
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Now that would be something I havent tried since coming back from MIUI. I will try Netarchy's real fast and see if that had a good result.
BTW I am refreshing this thread about every minute. I have no phone and trying just about anything someone suggests.
Let me know what happens, and sounds good. Gona do my best to get ya up and running, but I feel the kernel is causing your problems.
teh roxxorz said:
Let me know what happens, and sounds good. Gona do my best to get ya up and running, but I feel the kernel is causing your problems.
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To let you know installation order:
Caulkins Format All
Factory Reset wipe x2
cache x2
davlik x2
reboot into recovery
flash Warm Z
flash kernel
Will see how this goes after reboot
Sounds good again, but I thought warm Z was a stand alone?
Bootloops before it gets to Warm Z boot animation. 6 times.
used SBC-net-4.2.2-more-havs-v7
Out of curiousity, why are you flashing a previous rom before warm z? And you would have to flash the kernel after the rom because the rom will over write the kernel.
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Out of curiousity, why are you flashing a previous rom before warm z? And you would have to flash the kernel after the rom because the rom will over write the kernel.
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edited the post roxx.. it was a mistype.
Ah gotcha, try running one of these kernels. You're doing the process right. This time, try to boot into the before flashing the kernel.
teh roxxorz said:
Ah gotcha, try running one of these kernels. You're doing the process right. This time, try to boot into the before flashing the kernel.
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Caulkins Format All
Factory Reset wipe x2
cache x2
davlik x2
flash Warm Z
rebooted
Ummm... it just rebooted, vibrated 5 times very fast and now has a green blinking light like i have a message.
Not responding to power button at all.
Try a battery pull, let it sit for about 30 seconds, then try to start the phone normally.
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Try a battery pull, let it sit for about 30 seconds, then try to start the phone normally.
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Nope... no response. Same blinking light.
Wait... got it going.
How long have you been letting it sit? Myn's roms have tended to take a few minutes to boot up...8 minutes for me the one time I had to install to update my PRL, and I thought I was bootlooping.
Bootloop.
Rebooting into recovery and flashing kernel.
teh roxxorz said:
How long have you been letting it sit? Myn's roms have tended to take a few minutes to boot up...8 minutes for me the one time I had to install to update my PRL, and I thought I was bootlooping.
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Not the case but good question. It doesnt "sit". It actually goes back to the white HTC EVO 4G boot screen. Vibrates each time it does that...
Has anyone had a similar issue? Know a fix?
I got this phone, activated, ran the stock EC05 rom for a day or so, and decided to root and flash a custom rom. I used syndicate frozen 1.1 with the voodoo kernel and clockworkmod 2.xxx (don't recall now) for the flash. This was following the guide posted in on youtube for syndicate 1.1.0 found in said thread. This tutorial was basically one click root-> wipe the junk 3x-> flash rom-> flash kernel-> wipe junk again-> reboot. First thing I got loading up was a force lose on setup wizard. No options, just a black screen with a task bar. I fought with it, and found that if I removed setup wizard from the rom, it would boot, but no unlock screen, no search button, and no home button among other things. This was done twice to check the installation and re-downloaded in between for integrity.
Now I odin back to stock EC05 with the tutorial for restoring an almost bricked epic, and wipe everything by doing so. The phone boots normal and all is well stock and boring.
Next I decided to upgrade to new software. Flash Clockworkmod purple (newest version), Boot into recovery, wipe junk 3x (Data Cache Delvik) then Syndicate Frozen 1.2-> TwilightZone 1.1.1 (just so I had a different kernel for comparison)-> wipe junk 3x-> reboot. Still force closing on setup wizard.
Final straw: Blow it all away with odin back to stock EC05. All boots and works well. Install 1 click root, boot into recovery with stock rom and wipe data/cache/delvik and wipe the junk. Reboot and BAM, setup wizard force close. It seems as though something is getting trashed by clockworkmod on both versions I tried. I'm not new to debugging, but I've been using the Touch Pro 2 for the last year and a half. This thing is a different animal with the same 1 year learning curve. It's been 5 days. Still getting used to all this. I only followed the tutorials to be sure it was done correctly.
Can anyone report something similar or even a fix for this? I've searched my butt off, but the search terms used to find such a problem are going to throw you insane results no matter what. Coming out of the shadows is my only option.
I tried to keep it short. Sorry.
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Has anyone had a similar issue? Know a fix?
I got this phone, activated, ran the stock EC05 rom for a day or so, and decided to root and flash a custom rom. I used syndicate frozen 1.1 with the voodoo kernel and clockworkmod 2.xxx (don't recall now) for the flash. This was following the guide posted in on youtube for syndicate 1.1.0 found in said thread. This tutorial was basically one click root-> wipe the junk 3x-> flash rom-> flash kernel-> wipe junk again-> reboot. First thing I got loading up was a force lose on setup wizard. No options, just a black screen with a task bar. I fought with it, and found that if I removed setup wizard from the rom, it would boot, but no unlock screen, no search button, and no home button among other things. This was done twice to check the installation and re-downloaded in between for integrity.
Now I odin back to stock EC05 with the tutorial for restoring an almost bricked epic, and wipe everything by doing so. The phone boots normal and all is well stock and boring.
Next I decided to upgrade to new software. Flash Clockworkmod purple (newest version), Boot into recovery, wipe junk 3x (Data Cache Delvik) then Syndicate Frozen 1.2-> TwilightZone 1.1.1 (just so I had a different kernel for comparison)-> wipe junk 3x-> reboot. Still force closing on setup wizard.
Final straw: Blow it all away with odin back to stock EC05. All boots and works well. Install 1 click root, boot into recovery with stock rom and wipe data/cache/delvik and wipe the junk. Reboot and BAM, setup wizard force close. It seems as though something is getting trashed by clockworkmod on both versions I tried. I'm not new to debugging, but I've been using the Touch Pro 2 for the last year and a half. This thing is a different animal with the same 1 year learning curve. It's been 5 days. Still getting used to all this. I only followed the tutorials to be sure it was done correctly.
Can anyone report something similar or even a fix for this? I've searched my butt off, but the search terms used to find such a problem are going to throw you insane results no matter what. Coming out of the shadows is my only option.
I tried to keep it short. Sorry.
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Only wipe 3x before flashing, not after! Wiping after flashing just removes everything you did! Odin to stock ec05, one click root, wipe data/cache/dalvik 3x, flash srf 1.2, flash kernel immediately after, then turn on the phone.
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HAHAHA!!! And the dumbass award goes tooo......
I'm not going to edit though. Just incase someone else goes newb for a minute or 5 days. lol. Nice job on the quick answer though. Thanks
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HAHAHA!!! And the dumbass award goes tooo......
I'm not going to edit though. Just incase someone else goes newb for a minute or 5 days. lol. Nice job on the quick answer though. Thanks
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No problem. The exclamation points were only for emphasis. Don't worry about it, I was the same way just a couple of months ago, just ask around lol.
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I rooted my Evo for the first time today using the Revolutionary method. Everything went smoothly following the instructions. I downloaded and flashed the latest Evo Classic ROM and I was loving it. It seems to be an awesome ROM. I have 200 MB free space instead of 46MB with all of my apps installed. Everything was great until I went to go to bed. I put the phone on the stock HTC charger and climbed in bed. Less than a minute later it rebooted. The phone has always done that at random times so I didn't think anything of it. Shortly after it booted it rebooted again. It just keeps rebooting over and over as long as it's on the charger! Now it even reboots when it's not charging but the interval is as long as 10 minutes instead of 1.
Has anyone else had this issue? I spent HOURS getting everything just right and customizing settings after flashing this ROM and I really don't want to have to do it all over again. I followed the instructions for flashing the ROM. I cleared the cache and wiped all data. I backed up my apps with Titanium Backup and restored a select number of them. My phone is my alarm clock. Now I can't trust it to wake me up in the morning to go to work!
EDIT: I just restored from my stock NAND backup and it is working fine for tonight. I'm guessing I need to just start from scratch and reflash Evo Classic? I can't seem to find anyone else that had this problem so I assume it was something with my flash or an app I had installed?
I flashed a fresh Evo Classic ROM and started over. Everything was great. I got it all setup and restore my apps. No rebooting problems. Put it on the charger. Worked fine. As a troubleshooting step I opened Sleep, my alarm clock app, and within 30 seconds it rebooted. Obviously something with that app triggered it. I uninstalled it. About a minute later it started a reboot loop in one minute intervals.
Apparently no one has any ideas or I am invisible. I can't post in the Evo Classic thread because I don't have enough posts to earn me the privilege.
Did you wipe dalvik? And what recovery are you using?
I am using Revolutionary recovery (I think?). It is the one that was installed when I rooted following the directions.
I only see two options:
Wipe Data/Factory Reset
Clear Cache Partition
I have done both of these each time I flashed. I just flashed again and installed only the Sleep As An Droid app fresh from the market. I opened it and within one minute it rebooted. Obviously this app doesn't agree with this ROM or something isn't going right during the wipe and/or flash.
Any other suggestions for a stable ROM that has the new Sense notification bar with quick settings?
EDIT: I found the Dalvik Cache wipe option under advanced. Doing it now and will reflash and try again.
EDIT 2: Well that failed. I wiped data, cache partition, and dalvik and flashed the ROM. I logged into my Google account, downloaded the app from the market, put the phone on the charger, opened the app, and it rebooted.
Is it rebooting if you don't use that particular app at all?
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I am using Revolutionary recovery (I think?). It is the one that was installed when I rooted following the directions..
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That recovery is called clockwork. You might think about changing your recovery to amon ra since some people have issues with clockwork because it doesn't properly wipe cache and dalvik
Hey there! Sorry about your issues. I don't always check the q&a, so you are usually better off posting on my thread or pm. I just happened to peep on here today
First. Use this. It's the second step on my instructions to flash Classic. Not necessary, but recommended. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026
Second, don't use titanium backup. Instead, use mybackup root (free in market and included with my Rom). Not to bash tb, but mybackuproot has never given me issues while I've heard stories about tb.
Third, once you get amon ra installed, boot into recovery and wipe everything but your sdcard.
Fourth, download a fresh copy of classic from a reliable network, like home computer. Downloading from a phone is bad news (just a tip since you're newly rooted )
Fifth, flash and enjoy!
Please let me know how it goes for you.
Truly,
Tommy
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Thank you very much for the reply! I will try your suggestions some time this weekend. I need my phone to work 100% as I am traveling so maybe Sunday I will try again.
I followed all of your suggestions and redownloaded the ROM, installed RA Recovery, cleared all data, cache, and dalvik several times, and reflashed the ROM.
I restored my apps and data using MyBackup Root and it took over 2 hours! I opened my alarm app and... reboot. Back to the same old reboot over and over.
I think I'll just go back to the stock ROM and remove the bloatware and call it good.
Theirs one obvious thing nobody mentioned. Google how to check a md5 sum do that with every rom you download and if it does not say its right don't flash, redownload and check again. Also restore as little as possible through mybackup and if you are restoring things like your alarms or any system settings don't.
As for good roms with quick settings like r2r going green lightning fast, or unleashed r6.
Ps I would suggest useing r2r superwipe before whatever you may flash n wipe both caches a few times first it might help
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Also id recommend copying all contents of SD card to computer and wipe SD card then reload everything back onto SD card. I know sometimes the SD card can become corrupt and cause bootloops and random reboots
I checked the Md5 sums of everything I downloaded. I only restored my apps, text messages, and Bluetooth pairings. I even ended up buying a new, larger SD card yesterday and I formated and used it when I flashed.
This afternoon I flashed my latest backup of my stock ROM and used Titanium Backup to removed all of the Sprint bloatware. My phone is running very fast now with over 110 MB of internal memory available so I can't complain.
Maybe next weekend I will try another ROM but for now I need me phone to be working since I do not have a land line and I rely on my phone for work.
You said this happened before you ever rooted? Maybe its a factory defect if u got a.warrenty I would suggest unrooting and sending to them.
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I got my original Evo on launch day and it had the random reboot problem from the first month. It was very infrequent at first but after a few months it got worse and worse. Finally, one day it started rebooting in a loop while I was at work. I took it directly to a Sprint store where they ordered me a replacement. The replacement has been great. It reboots on it's own once in a great while (maybe once every two months).
This seems to be very common. The reboots I got when I flashed the Evo Classic ROM were as bad as my original phone was just before it got replaced. The difference is that is definitely software based because flashing the stock ROM fixes it. The reboots I had on my original phone happened when the phone heated up randomly and were not fixed by a factory reset.
Its not normal they keep giveing you defects... I have never heard of.this problem anyway... I would take it bac
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Evo450 said:
I got my original Evo on launch day and it had the random reboot problem from the first month. It was very infrequent at first but after a few months it got worse and worse. Finally, one day it started rebooting in a loop while I was at work. I took it directly to a Sprint store where they ordered me a replacement. The replacement has been great. It reboots on it's own once in a great while (maybe once every two months).
This seems to be very common. The reboots I got when I flashed the Evo Classic ROM were as bad as my original phone was just before it got replaced. The difference is that is definitely software based because flashing the stock ROM fixes it. The reboots I had on my original phone happened when the phone heated up randomly and were not fixed by a factory reset.
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My girlfriend had the same issue with her second evo. She had the Black Evo at first than a friend of hers swapped her to the white Evo. She had the issue only on the white evo. She ended up having to replace the phone with another one. That one did the same thing for awhile so we thought it was an issue with an app she was running. I have the black evo and made a exact copy of her phone. I never once had the issue.
Sprint ended up replacing it agian with a line that something was different in the white Evo from the black one that was causing the issue. Ever since that day she hasn't had a problem with her phone. I just rooted and did her rom last night.
My question would be does the phone get hot? Or feel hot? The reason I ask is that the phones processor may restart the phone (in effort to cool it down) randomly. That is something to consider.
Glad I got the black
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Evo450 said:
I got my original Evo on launch day and it had the random reboot problem from the first month. It was very infrequent at first but after a few months it got worse and worse. Finally, one day it started rebooting in a loop while I was at work. I took it directly to a Sprint store where they ordered me a replacement. The replacement has been great. It reboots on it's own once in a great while (maybe once every two months).
This seems to be very common. The reboots I got when I flashed the Evo Classic ROM were as bad as my original phone was just before it got replaced. The difference is that is definitely software based because flashing the stock ROM fixes it. The reboots I had on my original phone happened when the phone heated up randomly and were not fixed by a factory reset.
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I kept getting the same thing when i flashed classic. I went back to shooter port which runs butter smooth and is fantastic looking with sense 3.0.
DO THIS TO TRY TO GET EVERYTHING WORKING (no more soft reboot)
-connect your sd card to your computer
-copy contents to your computer for a backup
-copy PC36IMG.zip to your sd card make sure it is on root of sd card(attached to message)
-disconnect usb cable then pull battery
-enter bootloader (vol down + power)
-when it asks if you want to install the new update select yes
-after thats done pull the battery again
-enter bootloader then select recovery ( you should now have amonRa 2.3 )
-flash zip from sd card (vrsuperwipe.zip *thanks to virus*)
-go back and go into wipe menu, wipe dalvik-cache, wipe sdext, battery stats, and rotate settings.
-go to partition sd card and partition for a gingersense rom if you have not done so already. (0 swap, 1024 or 2048 ext2, remaining FAT)
ABOVE PROCESS COULD TAKE SOME TIME, MAKE SURE YOUR SD CARD IS MOSTLY EMPTY BEFORE YOU DO THIS (ONLY HAVE PC36IMG.ZIP ON IT)
-select usb mass toggle and connect to computer
-copy over your choice of rom, i suggest the shooter e3d port by team nocturnal.
-flash rom
-go to flash zip from sd card again this time select TeamNocturnal folder and pick a kernel to flash (try all of them if you would like, some phones run better with different kernels. mine runs well with HDMwIn kernel.
-wipe dalvik-cache one more time and you are ready to reboot with no more random restarts hopefully.
good luck - and please hit the thanks button if any of this works for you