(Q) System formatted need help - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I system formatted my phone and without remembering that I deleted all the roms off my phone I noticed that I have no rom to use on the phone now. Obviously at this point my phone wont boot up and its stuck at the HTC Evo screen. At this point how can I transfer a ROM from my computer to the phone? Note this is without the ability to boot up my phone. Thanks

Phased said:
I system formatted my phone and without remembering that I deleted all the roms off my phone I noticed that I have no rom to use on the phone now. Obviously at this point my phone wont boot up and its stuck at the HTC Evo screen. At this point how can I transfer a ROM from my computer to the phone? Note this is without the ability to boot up my phone. Thanks
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go to recovery if your on Amon RA its a option called MS-USB toggle enable it it will mount your phone as disk drive and then plug your phone into your pc and youll be able to transfer a rom over. If your on Clockworkmod its under mounts and storage and should be MOUNT USB i believe

Thank you so much! I searched on the internet for a while but no dice. Hopefully some one else will see this to solve this problem.

evo4gnoob said:
go to recovery if your on Amon RA its a option called MS-USB toggle enable it it will mount your phone as disk drive and then plug your phone into your pc and youll be able to transfer a rom over. If your on Clockworkmod its under mounts and storage and should be MOUNT USB i believe
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No reboot and Recovery fails because SDCard is empty

Ok so... I am officially dumb :/ I just had my brother ask me to restore his phone back to stock (It was rooted) and when I went to the normal restore menu in the phone's settings accidentally ticked "Clear SDCard" or something similar. I am now stuck in a bootloop and the phone cannot mount whatsoever to use recovery, i can access CM but cannot use any type of restores. When I use the built in menu option to use the phone as a storage device I can see that the SDCard is TOTALLY empty. Honestly I have no idea what to do from here besides chuck it at a wall and hand him $200... If any of you can help it would really help me and I would greatly appreciate it! Hell I'll even toss $10 over paypal if you can help!!
I think I need to get a full backup of the incredible's SDCard contents then manually place it back onto the SDCard... Anyone wanna zip it all up and upload it lol?
And yes. I am serious about that $10 paypal...
AnthonyGiola said:
Ok so... I am officially dumb :/ I just had my brother ask me to restore his phone back to stock (It was rooted) and when I went to the normal restore menu in the phone's settings accidentally ticked "Clear SDCard" or something similar. I am now stuck in a bootloop and the phone cannot mount whatsoever to use recovery, i can access CM but cannot use any type of restores. When I use the built in menu option to use the phone as a storage device I can see that the SDCard is TOTALLY empty. Honestly I have no idea what to do from here besides chuck it at a wall and hand him $200... If any of you can help it would really help me and I would greatly appreciate it! Hell I'll even toss $10 over paypal if you can help!!
I think I need to get a full backup of the incredible's SDCard contents then manually place it back onto the SDCard... Anyone wanna zip it all up and upload it lol?
And yes. I am serious about that $10 paypal...
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If you can get into CM, just go into Rom Manager and flash a recovery. Then you just put the zip of the rom you want on the SD card, reboot into recovery, and flash.
Are you saying that the SD isn't mounting properly?
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MTCW. After you get your phone back up and running, it is a really good idea to do this:
1. Back up your stock rom after rooting.
2. Rename that backup to something like this:
STOCK ROM_NO-DELETE
3. Connect your phone to your computer via usb cable.
4. Copy your backup to your computer, just in case you wipe out your sd card
and need to do an emergency restore.
5. In the unfortunate case that #4 happens, you now have a copy of your stock
rom to move back to your sd card to flash.
I know this doesn't solve your current issue, but in the future, this can make your life in the flashing world a lot less stressful.
godsmacked4653 said:
If you can get into CM, just go into Rom Manager and flash a recovery. Then you just put the zip of the rom you want on the SD card, reboot into recovery, and flash.
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That would be great... but I cant get the phone to boot up.. nor can I make the SD mount to be able to use any CM recovery or restore features. I can use it as a mass storage device and thats it.
If you can plug in / access the sd card from your computer, make sure it is formatted FAT32, then use BrettApple's suggestion here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13742769&postcount=3
theres an option under advanced in CWM that will allow you to sync with your computer. i think its called mount SD and that will allow you to put a rom then just flash that and you are good

[Q] Need Help to Unbrick Phone

Hey all,
Recently I tried to format my sd card from my phone to create extra space, as it was getting clogged up. I pressed unmount, expecting to mount it again as the format option was greyed out. However, I was unable to get it mounted again (ie my phone no longer recognises a sd card is inserted).
I tried to perform a factory rest to get my phone back to the settings it should have once had. However it didn't manage to do this properly and now its stuck at the htc logo screen. Formating or partitioning the sd card didnt do a thing.
I can get into the bootloader, and it was rooted beforehand. I was running the official Miui ROM. Now I am unable to start my phone normally, nor get into access my sd card.
Unfortunetly, I have had my phone for quiet a long time now so I doubt the warranty is still valid. I need help urgently.
Thanks in advance.
Try clearing cache and data and then install a new rom for example Jellytime r26.2.
if it dont work the first time try one more time. I had the same issue ones and had to install the rom twice before it worked.
lachy92 said:
Hey all,
Recently I tried to format my sd card from my phone to create extra space, as it was getting clogged up. I pressed unmount, expecting to mount it again as the format option was greyed out. However, I was unable to get it mounted again (ie my phone no longer recognises a sd card is inserted).
I tried to perform a factory rest to get my phone back to the settings it should have once had. However it didn't manage to do this properly and now its stuck at the htc logo screen. Formating or partitioning the sd card didnt do a thing.
I can get into the bootloader, and it was rooted beforehand. I was running the official Miui ROM. Now I am unable to start my phone normally, nor get into access my sd card.
Unfortunetly, I have had my phone for quiet a long time now so I doubt the warranty is still valid. I need help urgently.
Thanks in advance.
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Are you S-OFF? Can you get into recovery? through the bootloader? If so, just flash a new ROM through recovery.
How did you try to do a factory reset? If you can get into the bootloader, go to recovery if you have it. Then see if the sdcard is being recognized or not. If it is getting recognized, put the zip of any ROM on it and flash it after wiping like the guy above me said.
Post what your bootloader screen says here. Your phone is far from being bricked as far as I know.
RESOLVED
I've managed to resolve this issue. For the benefit of others I will explain what I did.
1)I went into fastboot mode and connected my phone to my pc (running windows 7). Using cmd I reflashed the recovery image.
2)Went into recovery and installed a custom ROM.
I hope this helps you as it really saved my life.
P.S Cheers for all the help guys, you've been amazing!
lachy92 said:
I've managed to resolve this issue. For the benefit of others I will explain what I did.
1)I went into fastboot mode and connected my phone to my pc (running windows 7). Using cmd I reflashed the recovery image.
2)Went into recovery and installed a custom ROM.
I hope this helps you as it really saved my life.
P.S Cheers for all the help guys, you've been amazing!
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I formated and wiped all the data i could from the phone itself and the from recovery. Lucky you were right about me being far away from bricking it completely.
Since I firstly unmounted my sd card from my phone settings, it didnt get recognised at all. I couldnt mount it again. So i formatted it with windows, then in recovery made a backup image despite the phone being stuck in bootloop. That allowed me to finally access my sd card for some reason.
Then as you all suggested, i just needed to reflash everything, including recovery using fastboot.
Bit of a strange scenario really
Lesson learned ? :
1.) If youre going to start from scratch then start in Recovery;
2.) wipe all partitions (twice)
3.) enable USB drive and transfer new ROM to SD Root
4.) flash new ROM
lachy92 said:
I formated and wiped all the data i could from the phone itself and the from recovery. Lucky you were right about me being far away from bricking it completely.
Since I firstly unmounted my sd card from my phone settings, it didnt get recognised at all. I couldnt mount it again. So i formatted it with windows, then in recovery made a backup image despite the phone being stuck in bootloop. That allowed me to finally access my sd card for some reason.
Then as you all suggested, i just needed to reflash everything, including recovery using fastboot.
Bit of a strange scenario really
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hi lachy92, by formatted all the data, you mean wipe data/factory reset in the recovery? coz i have same problem with you, i tried to install new rom from the recovery, but the recovery always shows cant open sd card, installation aborted, can you help me pliz

[Q] deleted ROM and can't connect to PC to flash new one

I was running MIUI on my phone (HTC One X, its the evita version), and it wasn't working properly, i was getting fed up with it, and long story short i by accident wiped my ROM.
I plugged it into my computer to load another ROM onto the phone to flash, and it wont mount. Windows wants to format it because it says it cant open it because its potentially corrupt?
All my phone will do is boot into bootloader and recovery (TWRP).
I know how to flash ROMs (i'm a complete noob, the most i can do is flash a rom and root a device) but i dont know how to get myself out of this one..
What do i do to get it to connect to my computer so i can flash a new ROM?
In TWRP attach to the computer and goto mount usb storage and copy a rom over.
If you got CMW: mount and format(something like this) ->usb mount
nms247 said:
In TWRP attach to the computer and goto mount usb storage and copy a rom over.
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i did that. windows recognises that it's there but it wants me to format the phone. i can mount system, data and cache but not the SD card..

HTC Incredible stuck on white screen.

Since I didn't have a sdcard, I changed vold.fstab so it would think emmc is an sdcard. When I tried to reverting the changes, I screwed up, and both my storage options said unavailable. So I tried to fix it by re flashing and what not, and that messed up my phone because I couldn't access emmc still and I didn't have an sdcard. So now I can only access hboot and fastboot. If I don't hold volume it gets stuck at the white htc incredible screen. If i try to use clockworkMod recovery 5.0.2 it says
E: Invalid command argument<br/>
E:Cna't mount /cache/recovery/log<br/>
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log<br/>
E:can't mount /cache/recover/last_log<br/>
etc etc..
I've tried RUU but it said it can't update it.
I don't have a sd card, but I've updated it by putting an update on emmc, I can't get to it though! Is there a way I can flash a stock rom with fastboot from my computer? I DLed plenty of stock roms. I really need my phone back because I have to sell this laptop and I won't have any Internet access without it. I tried messing with fastboot flashall but I don't want to mess it up anyfurther.
Any suggestions anyone? I'm in desperate need of help.
After doing more research, I need to use sdparted to get all my partitions back in order.
In cwm I can mount /emmc and I'm thinking I can use adb push to place a zip there and run an update from cwm.
The thing is, using adb devices, the phone serial doesn't show up.
I don't think I can get to it without enabling usb debugging (I've used eclipse so the drivers are installed already).
I'm running out of options here. I think getting an sdk card is the only option I have left now. which will take 3 days to get
here
i have installed roms from EMMC. as long as CWM can see the contents it should be no different than installing from SD Card. of course your issue seems to be how to get files onto the EMMC without a booting OS.
so in that case, you should invest a dollar and just buy an SD Card.
tekweezle said:
i have installed roms from EMMC. as long as CWM can see the contents it should be no different than installing from SD Card. of course your issue seems to be how to get files onto the EMMC without a booting OS.
so in that case, you should invest a dollar and just buy an SD Card.
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I was afraid so, I guess it's easier if I just did that.
Thanks for replyin

[Q] Corrupt Internal Partitions? Won't Mount or ADB.

In TWRP, it reads "E: Unknown File System: 'datamedia'" - It's referring to data/media but it's missing the /. I can't load ADB or download mode because it wont mount. At first, i thought it was the micro USB port, so I changed it. Nope. I did get Cyanogenmod installed (It was blank) because USB worked ONCE. I can't get it to work again......
All I need to do is restore my EFS partition because I cant get Wifi right now but without USB, I can't... I have the backup EFS on my computer. Anyone know what I can do?
(It's not activated on sprint btw - that's why Im not concerned about the network)
jcoinster said:
In TWRP, it reads "E: Unknown File System: 'datamedia'" - It's referring to data/media but it's missing the /. I can't load ADB or download mode because it wont mount. At first, i thought it was the micro USB port, so I changed it. Nope. I did get Cyanogenmod installed (It was blank) because USB worked ONCE. I can't get it to work again......
All I need to do is restore my EFS partition because I cant get Wifi right now but without USB, I can't... I have the backup EFS on my computer. Anyone know what I can do?
(It's not activated on sprint btw - that's why Im not concerned about the network)
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Did you try wiping everything including internal storage? I am not sure where that option is in twrp, maybe under advanced?
Also, when you replaced the usb port, did anything get crossed? Does the phone charge?
dopy25 said:
Did you try wiping everything including internal storage? I am not sure where that option is in twrp, maybe under advanced?
Also, when you replaced the usb port, did anything get crossed? Does the phone charge?
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The phone charges. I tried wiping internal storage in the first place, but now i'm afraid to wipe it again because ADB doesnt work to get everything back.
jcoinster said:
The phone charges. I tried wiping internal storage in the first place, but now i'm afraid to wipe it again because ADB doesnt work to get everything back.
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I see, what about a reset via bootloader?
Then again I think that would cause the same result. A bootloader factory reset would wipe everything.
Have you tried using a different computer? Sometimes if you're on windows it has different drivers for each mode and can't always install them correct if there is a conflict. Try a computer that you never hooked the phone up to to see if anything registers.
Are you able to get into download mode on the phone? or just recovery?
Just found this, thought since it was the same problem you have that it might help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2642910

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