HTC EVO Bootloop - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys, quick question.
My friend has an HTC EVO on Spring. Not rooted, nothing. It's completely stock. It just started acting weird. I pulled the battery and it went into bootloop. When i press the volume rockers + on button it will boot into recovery mode? if thats what it's even called.
After a while of bootlooping the phone shows an image of a phone with a triangle with an exclamation point in it.
Any help?
I've got an infuse, so i'm ok with flashing and rooting and whatnot, i jsut dont know how to reset the HTC.

Sounds like an ota update that was interrupted or a bad ota update

Try this.
http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Sup...51.1_Radio_2.05.00.06.10_release_CL195459.exe
Its the original RUU. I think you need HTC Sync to use it. I could be wrong seeing I don't have an EVO.
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Mind posting the hboot and radio
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I started with the basics and wiped the phone data and it booted right up. Now lets see if it stays running...
Just for future reference, is there a way to completely wipe the phone (rom and all) and start fresh?
On the infuse platform we use ODIN. Not sure if there is something similar on the EVO

shooter5635 said:
I started with the basics and wiped the phone data and it booted right up. Now lets see if it stays running...
Just for future reference, is there a way to completely wipe the phone (rom and all) and start fresh?
On the infuse platform we use ODIN. Not sure if there is something similar on the EVO
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On the evo you use a RUU it returns you to complete stock no recovery no root but you will still be s-off. RUUs can be flashed through fastboot or renamed and flash in the bootloader
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On the evo you use a RUU it returns you to complete stock no recovery no root but you will still be s-off. RUUs can be flashed through fastboot or renamed and flash in the bootloader
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Got it. If it locks up again, and i have to flash the RUU, how do i get it onto the sd card/internal memory?

shooter5635 said:
Got it. If it locks up again, and i have to flash the RUU, how do i get it onto the sd card/internal memory?
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If you have a card reader you can transfer it to the sdcard or use your phone transfer it to the sdcard and put the sdcard back in the evo
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evo4gnoob said:
If you have a card reader you can transfer it to the sdcard or use your phone transfer it to the sdcard and put the sdcard back in the evo
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Awesome, Thanks!

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Noob can't get past boot screen

Hi everyone, I think I made a mistake somewhere along the way and maybe you can help me out.
I bought a Droid incredible from a friend of mine for $20 (cracked digitizer) I'm to scared to root my evo, so I am trying with the cheap broken incredible.
I rooted via unrevoked, installed rom manager, made a backup, downloaded cyagenmod from the rom manager. It did its thing, and now I can't get past boot screen. How do I fixed this? I have a slcd if that makes a difference.
Thanks for your help.
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did you wipe before you installed cyanogen?
Yes, after I posted in realized I forgot to mention that I did a wipe
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When I go into hboot it says "no image" for everything...but the backup image that was made is on the sd card. Do I have to move the file and or renamed it?
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Do you mean Hboot or recovery? If you are in hboot then toggle down to recovery and from there go to restore and your image should be there...
The "no image" is in HBOOT, and it is looking for any one of three specific files that would be on the root of the SD card. Those would be RUU files, radio files, or something that you put there to update something like that. If they are not there, which unless you are flashing them, then this message is normal.
Otherwise those files shouldn't just sit on your SD card, cause anytime you'd boot into HBOOT, it would want to load them each time.
Make sure you put this image file on the Root of the SD card, if its in a folder HBOOT wont find it.
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Do you mean Hboot or recovery? If you are in hboot then toggle down to recovery and from there go to restore and your image should be there...
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^^^^^
THAT
Ok, thank you everyone for being helpfull.
My Incredible is back up and running. I am typing this message with it.
Funny story, I was under the impression that when you want to select something in the hboot recovery screen you used the power button when in fact your supposed to use the optical button!
Anyway, this won't be the last you heat from me in sure
Thanks again.
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Glad to hear your up and running!

Desire Z hboot install only with your phone

I have been following closely the G2 rom development threads and up to now everything has gone well.
If you want to install Virtous new roms you must install the new PC101.img first.
As didnt want to setup a ADB enabled PC again, I just followed these steps.
1-Ensure you already have a 4 way reboot rom (Recovery, hot restart, restart, and bootloader).
2-Download the new PC101.img to the root dir of your minisd card. Be prepared with a PC and minisd card reader. Or prepare another sdcard with any rom.
3-Reboot phone into bootloader. Be sure the PC101,img is on the minisd installed on your phone.
4-You will be in the bootload-reset-etc menu (the white menu). Select bootload.
This will flash your phone with the new PC101.img. You will see a small vertical line filling up as it flashes.
5-When finished, it will prompt you to reboot your phone. Do so.
6-You will see the green HTC logo, just let it there for 3 minutes and dont panic, you still have to install a rom. Pull battery.
7-Now swap the minisdcard with the card that contains the rom (Unity works great). Install battery and push the on button while pressing volume down to go to Clockwork recovery mode.
8-Install rom. No need to wipe as the new PC101.img formatted the internal 4Gb ram.
Thats it, hope it works.Worked for me.
I thought the file had to be pc10img.zip?
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Yes, that one. Sorry, will edit. Thanks for the point out.
I tried but it keeps telling me no image or wrong image.
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Ty. Directions on how to return to g2 hboot without unrooting and installing a full pc10img would be great.
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DROID76 said:
I tried but it keeps telling me no image or wrong image.
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Did you download the pc10img.zip to the root dir of your sdcard?
xsteven77x said:
Ty. Directions on how to return to g2 hboot without unrooting and installing a full pc10img would be great.
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I believe theres a thread that contains all stock and modded hboots. Also has instructions. May I ask why would you return to stock?
codecxbox said:
Did you download the pc10img.zip to the root dir of your sdcard?
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I would chance to say that it has to be renamed to capital letters, as in runs in a 'nix environment.

[Q] UT OOOHHHHH!!! Need Help!

I am an Atrix user. Never had a problem flashing anything with it. My friend gave me his Evo to root and load a rom on. I was able to root and s-off OK, but just d/l'd a rom and tried to flash. Got stuck on the HTC EVO 4G boot screen. Pulled the battery, then booted into recovery. I did not backup ( I then wiped everything to begin flashing the ROM again. Well, now it seems that I have deleted everything. All b/c I was rushing and not thinking clearly. Anyway, is there ANYWAY to remedy this issue? It powers on to Hboot, but thats as far as it goes.
So you can't get into Recovery from Hboot? What happens when you try to get into recovery? If you can get into Recovery you could wipe everything then flash a ROM. Depends on what happens when you try to get into recovery.
If you couldn't get into recovery, I would download AmonRa as a PC36IMG.zip (link in my signature).
If that doesn't work, you could do something similar to a SBF. It is called a RUU. Search for the one corresponding to his Hboot version, plug up your phone and get to hboot and run it as an .exe. Resets to stock.
Try recovery thing first
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tropicalbrit said:
So you can't get into Recovery from Hboot? What happens when you try to get into recovery? If you can get into Recovery you could wipe everything then flash a ROM. Depends on what happens when you try to get into recovery.
If you couldn't get into recovery, I would download AmonRa as a PC36IMG.zip (link in my signature).
If that doesn't work, you could do something similar to a SBF. It is called a RUU. Search for the one corresponding to his Hboot version, plug up your phone and get to hboot and run it as an .exe. Resets to stock.
Try recovery thing first
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Thanks for the quick reply. I am able to get into recovery, but when I choose flash zip-choose, it brings up nothing. Its empty.
I will research the RUU method now!! Thanks again!
If you just erased everything, go to recovery, wipe everything, use USB Toggle (If you have Amon Ra Recovery) put a ROM on your SD Card and try to flash it.
BTW, how long were you on the 4G screen?? Because it's gonna take a while to load the ROM and boot up on the first try
You didn't accidentally wipe and/or partition your SD card, did you? Try flashing AmonRa recovery as PC36IMG.zip (I'm guessing you are using clockwork). After you do that, go into Recovery and partition SD card. Then plug up to computer and mount as MS and transfer your ROMs over to your phone. Wipe everything except for SD (thrice is my rule) and flash the ROM and reboot. First boot takes a while, sometimes 5-10 minutes
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HipKat said:
If you just erased everything, go to recovery, wipe everything, use USB Toggle (If you have Amon Ra Recovery) put a ROM on your SD Card and try to flash it.
BTW, how long were you on the 4G screen?? Because it's gonna take a while to load the ROM and boot up on the first try
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Thanks, I will try that! I was on the 4G screen for over 20 mins. I got worried once it went over 10 mins, but let it go. Then once 20 mins went by, I pulled the battery.
Guys, Just wanted to say thanks again! I was able to connect using USB Toggle, put a new ROM on, then flashed. Everything went OK this time around. I spent some time on it while doing my work (I was at work haha) but enjoyed tinkering and learning another device. The quick responses saved me, otherwise my co-worked would of went home phone-less rather then happy. Have a good one guys!
NP. That's what makes sites like XDA so good!
What a great community
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What a great community
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Couldn't agree more. He told me his brother wants me to do the same to his. I might be back Haha!
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Helpppp pleaseeee

I really need some help. I have no idea what has happened to my phone. Anything I d/l from the market or from the computer fc on my phone. I can't use anything. I tried flashing other roms but any ROM I flash just keeps looping the boot image over n over. Even when I try to restore one of my back ups from recovery it does the same it says error while formating data. Then Wen I reboot it just loops the boot image as well. I've tried everything I can think of. If this has happened to anyone please let me know.
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do you have a droid incredible? your profile says you have t-mobile.
Yes I used to have a my touch on tmobile. But I have a Droid incredible with Verizon
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criveroh said:
Yes I used to have a my touch on tmobile. But I have a Droid incredible with Verizon
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By boot image do you mean "splash screen" and "boot animation?" Can you get back to recovery? If so, which recovery and version? If clockworkmos, make sure it's at least 3.0.0.7 or later if your Inc has an amoled screen, 3.0.0.8 if it's SLCD.
If you can get to recovery, power off the phone. Pull the sd card and check that your computer can read it and it's formatted FAT32.
If so, put a clean copy of a ROM on the root of the SD card. Reinsert it in the phone. Boot to hboot (you are running hboot 0.92 right!?) and then to recovery.
In recovery, factory reset, wipe cache and wipe dalvik, then flash the ROM.
If you're running an older hboot and/or older recovery, see elsewhere on XDA how to update those first.
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Just to add onto the info already posted, hboots and recoveries can be downloaded at: dougpiston.com
Thanx but I've tried all that. Nothing works
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criveroh said:
Thanx but I've tried all that. Nothing works
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Have you tried flashing stock froyo and then doing a factory reset from hboot? And by stock froyo i mean the official ruu with stock recovery.
Next time you try to do a wipe, also go into mounts and storage and format boot, data, system, and cache. This happened to me once and this seemed to fix my problem. Now I do it every time.
Tried a different sd card?
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Bootloop HELP

Just this morning I was running CM7 on my Evo. I wanted to return to stock. I think i messed up the name of my backup and it was saying not md5 sum. I looked up how to generate a new md5 sum. So I tried restoring my backup and it it couldn't find my boot.img. I tried flashing CM7 again but it just took mr back to Clockworkmod when I rebooted. I don't know what to do now. Please help!
sevenoid said:
Just this morning I was running CM7 on my Evo. I wanted to return to stock. I think i messed up the name of my backup and it was saying not md5 sum. I looked up how to generate a new md5 sum. So I tried restoring my backup and it it couldn't find my boot.img. I tried flashing CM7 again but it just took mr back to Clockworkmod when I rebooted. I don't know what to do now. Please help!
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First, use smelkusmod recovery.
Clockwork is the worst recovery for the EVO. Why you ask? It's been known to not wipe properly on the EVO, in turn giving you problems on than newly flashed ROM. After you get done with that, try again, or flash a different rom
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bennyboy78 said:
First, use smelkusmod recovery.
Clockwork is the worst recovery for the EVO. Why you ask? It's been known to not wipe properly on the EVO, in turn giving you problems on than newly flashed ROM. After you get done with that, try again, or flash a different rom
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How do i flash another rom if i can only get into clockworkmod? I can't transfer data from my computer to my evo in recovery, or can I?
Ok I think I should change my question, is there anyway that i can access my SD card if whenever i try turning my phone on it goes into recovery
sevenoid said:
Ok I think I should change my question, is there anyway that i can access my SD card if whenever i try turning my phone on it goes into recovery
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Yes there is a way. Connect to your computer via usb. While in recovery, go to mount usb-ms or something of the sort, and that lets you look in the sdcard in window's so you can put a new Rom on there
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bennyboy78 said:
Yes there is a way. Connect to your computer via usb. While in recovery, go to mount usb-ms or something of the sort, and that lets you look in the sdcard in window's so you can put a new Rom on there
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Tried that on mac and my old pc, doesn't work.
sevenoid said:
Tried that on mac and my old pc, doesn't work.
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Hmmm. Interesting. That always worked for me. Search YouTube on how to make the comp recognize it with clockwork
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Or if you have a card reader, just put the card in the reader and plug the reader into your PC. Download the Smelkus recovery and whatever ROM you want, then put your card back in your phone. You can install the new recovery through the bootloader so long as the recovery file is named PC36IMG.zip. After installing the new recovery you can go into recovery, wipe everything and install the new ROM.
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FinZ28 said:
Or if you have a card reader, just put the card in the reader and plug the reader into your PC. Download the Smelkus recovery and whatever ROM you want, then put your card back in your phone. You can install the new recovery through the bootloader so long as the recovery file is named PC36IMG.zip. After installing the new recovery you can go into recovery, wipe everything and install the new ROM.
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If i cant figure anything else out I probably get a card reader..
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Hmmm. Interesting. That always worked for me. Search YouTube on how to make the comp recognize it with clockwork
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I am so happy right now! I feel stupid at the same time. Tried plugging it in to a different port. So seems like one of my USB ports aren't working. Who would've thought. Anyway so now im am going to flash that recovery. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Glad you got it working. Don't forget to make a Nandroid backup once you get your new ROM up and running
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No prob
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