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Ok here is my situation....
I was able to fully root using toast's method. I than tried to flash my radio from the link the forums.
It installed everything properly, but then got stuck on the htc evo boot screen. i left it alone for 2 hours and it did nothing.
Is there something that can be done or did I brick it?
Thanks in advance.
Owl

owleyes said:
Ok here is my situation....
I was able to fully root using toast's method. I than tried to flash my radio from the link the forums.
It installed everything properly, but then got stuck on the htc evo boot screen. i left it alone for 2 hours and it did nothing.
Is there something that can be done or did I brick it?
Thanks in advance.
Owl
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Just turn it off, hold the volume button down and then hit the power button, this will put you in recovery so you can flash again

tried that, but it will not let me back into custom recovery. or do i have this wrong. I am still kinda new to all this.

what does it show? a red exclamation mark?

doing the volume down, then power. it brings me to that screen. errr the 3 androids on skateboards screen lol
damn 5 min wait between posts lol. ima be at this all night it looks like lol.

once you are there, you should be able to reboot into recovery. right when you enter that screen it should start looking for PCIMG36.zip and once it can't find that, a menu should pop up. scroll down the menu using the volume button until you hit recovery. press your power button and it should boot you into recovery. if it takes you to a screen with a red exclamation point, then you would need to plug in your phone to your pc and run the bat file that came in the first part of rooting instructions to get into recovery.

once i hit recovery from that menu, it takes me right back to the htc evo splash screen and locks up.
i really do not understand this. all these reports of this radio installing with no issue and I get this >.> ah well. i guess i knew the risks when i started this.

well if your phone can still boot up then it's definitely not bricked. did you try a battery pull and reboot?

yeah....well that is good to know anyway lol.
how do these terminal emulators work, and can i get one on my phone in this condition?
I am reading the sd and usb fix thread...but i don't understand how to run the emulator on the phone.

RUU?
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RUU?
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Excellent idea, just go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=685835 and download the RUU.
Once you run this you are back to stock and will have to re-root your phone via toasts instructions. Hopefully this works

tried that as well. It says there is no phone connected.

I dont know man, you gotta try combinations. Like hold the volume down to get to that recovery and then try to run the RUU perhaps?

believe i am trying everything lol. i even put the pcimg file back on and try to go from that but the phone does not even recognize it now meh it's a process. at least i know there is some hope lol

i don't have an evo (yet), but when you get into the bootloader screen (with the androids on skateboards), is there an option to go to Fastboot mode? if you RUU, that's the mode you wanna be in.

ok i put the original pc36img back on the card and got it to boot back into android!!!!!!
so now i have the root pc36img file on there. I am scared to keep going and rerooting it lol
Will i have to redo it all? I am not sure where to go from here.

everything seems to be working again.
any advice for me now? should i RUU it and just go back to stock or can i keep going from this point with the root steps again? (this time leaving the radio flash alone lol)

If you were able to get root in the first place, you are fine.
Download Flipz Stock Rom with Superuser. No flashing radios necessarily. Just flashing an update.
And you are set. You will be rooted with stock rom. Supposedly.

I did manage to get it fixed last night. Now I am fully rooted and running the fresh rom.
I really appriciate all the advice from everyone who was on here at 4am with me lol. Kinda sucks my first posts on here had to be about breaking my phone, but you guys are awesome!

I got stuck in a boot loop once too when trying to flash a rom. It was because I didn't clear the Data/Stock Image. I had cleared Cache/Dalvik, but not data.

ATT TILT 2 owned since released stuck in Boot Screen

I have a Stock TILT 2 (TP 2) never flashed running basic programs Mobile Shell never had any issues with it, haven't installed new software in a few weeks , but I soft resetted it this morning and it keeps getting stuck in the boot screen. when first turned on it will run through boot screen then load screen for a millisecond then back to boot screen and never advances again , I've tried battery out sim card out Sd card out everything, even tried hard reset , but wont allow me to hard reset with front buttons and power, is there another way to hard reset , is it possible my phone just bricked for no reason ? thanks for any help ?

have you tried to do a hard reset via the pc? the original rom is on the htc website so you can try useing the exe file there. there is also an updated rom you can try to flash there. hope that helps

You might try sending it to the bootloader screen and reflashing. I don't know if it will work, but I thought it might be worth the effort.
I did notice that HTC removed the original shipped ROM for the Tilt2. I'm sure it is floating around here somewhere. If not, I have it and can send it to you when I get home.

Thanks I have original rom and just released wont work.

dod you see anythign on teh screen? if you do, then hard reset may fix it.
Power off your phone (or take teh battery out). Then press and hold teh call and hang up button while press teh power button. it will enter the hard reset mode. (remember hard reset will erase all the info on the phone and rever tot the stock setting).

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I did notice that HTC removed the original shipped ROM for the Tilt2.
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wow, thank god i dl'd it when i dl'd the updated rom... and they still have the image of the old rom right beside it... lol
as for op, you can try to enter the bootloader with the following steps
Remove the back cover from the phone.
Hold the Volume Down button.
Use the stylus to press the reset hole.
Or if the device was powered off, press the power button whilst holding down the Volume Down button.
and try to flash from there
hope that helps again

[Q] rooted with broken power button

So my power button all of a sudden broke. It won't turn off or on, the only way to power the phone off is to pull the battery and it turns back on by itself as soon as I put the battery back in. Doesn't anyone have any ideas? I've already done a factory reset, didn't change anything. Also, it doesn't work to select anything in recovery. So my 2nd question is if anyone can tell me how to flash the stock sprint rom so I can take it in and get it fixed?
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Use the ruu it will run in windows

Same thing happened to my phone. Damn cheap power button. Was waiting for cm6 to work with the new version hardware. Now that it does I will be doing the same.
What I have been doing as a work around is using widget locker to remap the power button to the volume key. And have a screen off widget. I don't mind it but can't do anything in recovery either anymore. So I am gonna take mine in this weekend. I believe they will give you a replacement phone.

FYI - I got thinking that maybe it wasnt a hardware issue but maybe software - and it would have to be something higher up than the recovery system. Anyway, the button started working again and while it was I flashed a new HBoot thinking that maybe it was a corrupted driver or something. It seems to have fixed it, but YMMV.

austontatious said:
So my power button all of a sudden broke. It won't turn off or on, the only way to power the phone off is to pull the battery and it turns back on by itself as soon as I put the battery back in. Doesn't anyone have any ideas? I've already done a factory reset, didn't change anything. Also, it doesn't work to select anything in recovery. So my 2nd question is if anyone can tell me how to flash the stock sprint rom so I can take it in and get it fixed?
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You can use the ruu to restore our but it will most likely still show s-off in the bootloader. You can fix that by using adb in recovery mode to flash unrevoked forever while in the recovery
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[Q] HTC EVO 4G Can't Boot Anymore

My Gmail emails weren't coming into my HTC EVO 4G so I tried to power cycled it (my non-Gmail emails were coming in just fine). When I powered it back it on nothing came on the screen, nothing happened. It is rooted (Unrevoked) so I tried holding the power button and volume up button, but it just vibrated three times, nothing came on the screen and nothing happen. I tried power button and volume down button and it boots in HBOOT. Seconds later it runs something and there's a message saying something about wrong image. I stopped here as I haven't used HBOOT before.
What's going on here? How do I get my phone to boot normally again?
P.S. - it's not the battery, because its been charging all night.

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My Gmail emails weren't coming into my HTC EVO 4G so I tried to power cycled it (my non-Gmail emails were coming in just fine). When I powered it back it on nothing came on the screen, nothing happened. It is rooted (Unrevoked) so I tried holding the power button and volume up button, but it just vibrated three times, nothing came on the screen and nothing happen. I tried power button and volume down button and it boots in HBOOT. Seconds later it runs something and there's a message saying something about wrong image. I stopped here as I haven't used HBOOT before.
What's going on here? How do I get my phone to boot normally again?
P.S. - it's not the battery, because its been charging all night.
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It is normal for it to scan and give you that 'wrong image' message. If you had a PC36IMG on your sd card, that's when the bootloader would find it, and ask you to update. Since you dont have a PC36IMG on your card, it scans and finds nothing, so it says 'no image or wrong image'. No worries. What were you trying to accomplish by holding power and volume up? Its power and volume down that puts you to the bootloader. What were your intentions once you got to the bootloader? Were you trying to get to recovery, to clear cache or reflash a rom or something? If you want to reboot your phone without really doing anything, from where you're at in the bootloader, you'll see an option that says 'fastboot'. Select that. Once at the fastboot screen, you'll now see an option to reboot phone, and to power phone off. Select reboot, and see if she powers up for you. Shouldn't be any issues

Weird. So in HBOOT I chose "reboot" from the FASTBOOT main menu and the phone restarted and got back to the desktop/launcher successfully. Everything looks normal.
My Gmail inbox just now began updating from yesterday (even though the phone was on up until a couple of hours ago). Also the apps I set up to install yesterday from market.android.com just started to download and install too.
What's going on here? Is the internal storage/memory/ROM dying or something (come to think of it I did have this Gmail issue last week too, but that power cycle was successful)?

DiGiTY said:
Weird. So in HBOOT I chose "reboot" from the FASTBOOT main menu and the phone restarted and got back to the desktop/launcher successfully. Everything looks normal.
My Gmail inbox just now began updating from yesterday (even though the phone was on up until a couple of hours ago). Also the apps I set up to install yesterday from market.android.com just started to download and install too.
What's going on here? Is the internal storage/memory/ROM dying or something (come to think of it I did have this Gmail issue last week too, but that power cycle was successful)?
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I'm not sure what would cause the problems you're describing. What ROM are you currently on? Have you tried wiping cache and dalvik cache? Perhaps it's an issue with the Gmail app itself. In any case, I'd first try wiping cache and dalvik. If that works, great. If it fails, I'd probably do a complete wipe and fresh install. That usually solves any issues for me.

Sorry, I saw your initial post after my second post.
I just realize what the confusion may have been. When I powered off the phone I figured I might as well take the opportunity and do a full backup with nandroid. So I proceeded to get into clockworkmod recovery with power + vol. up button (this is when it vibrates 3 times and does nothing). The confusion, I think, is that I've been installing/flashing various ROMs for my new Viewsonic G Tablet for the past 2 days straight (with very lil' sleep) and thought the recovery method (power + vol. up) for the G Tablet was also the method for the EVO.
Anyhoo, at this point I'm very confused. I could of sworn I installed clockworkmod recovery on my EVO and I used power + vol. up to get to it when rooting. I even see the clockworkmod folder on my EVO's microSD card. Weirdness.
My EVO is working now so I guess I shouldn't stress it. I'll just figure out how to do a full backup later.
Thanks!

DiGiTY said:
Sorry, I saw your initial post after my second post.
I just realize what the confusion may have been. When I powered off the phone I figured I might as well take the opportunity and do a full backup with nandroid. So I proceeded to get into clockworkmod recovery with power + vol. up button (this is when it vibrates 3 times and does nothing). The confusion, I think, is that I've been installing/flashing various ROMs for my new Viewsonic G Tablet for the past 2 days straight (with very lil' sleep) and thought the recovery method (power + vol. up) for the G Tablet was also the method for the EVO.
Anyhoo, at this point I'm very confused. I could of sworn I installed clockworkmod recovery on my EVO and I used power + vol. up to get to it when rooting. I even see the clockworkmod folder on my EVO's microSD card. Weirdness.
My EVO is working now so I guess I shouldn't stress it. I'll just figure out how to do a full backup later.
Thanks!
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Yea, its power down and volume that takes you to the bootloader. You wont get directly to recovery unless your rom has the 4 option quickboot, then u can select recovery. Anyways, so once youre at the bootloader, you just need to select recovery. Then youll boot to clockwork. From there, you can make a new backup, flash a new rom, wipe caches etc.
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Oh, okay. Thanks again!

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Oh, okay. Thanks again!
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You're welcome. I'm glad to help out

[Q] htc incredible loop at boot up

hey xda
my droid incredible won't start up.. it keeps looping on the boot up ... what can I do to solve this problem ?

try a factory reset.
hold down -volume and hit power button. a menu should pop up and factory reset should be one of the choices

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tekweezle said:
try a factory reset.
hold down -volume and hit power button. a menu should pop up and factory reset should be one of the choices
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My incredible started doing this yesterday, Ive tried this option it doesn't work for me. I can get the menu but it when I choose factory reset or any of the other options it flashes the htc incredible screen and starts the loop again, any more suggestions would be appreciated.

Is your phone unlocked and rooted/s-off?
It will say so on that menu screen.
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Htc loop
wanted167 said:
hey xda
my droid incredible won't start up.. it keeps looping on the boot up ... what can I do to solve this problem ?
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tekweezle said:
Is your phone unlocked and rooted/s-off?
It will say so on that menu screen.
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No I was getting ready to root it the day this started. Will rooting help this problem?

having CWM recovery on the device would help you clear the memory and load the OS easily. but that requires your device to be rooted.
whats strange about this case is that my understanding is that the OS is read only and the only thing that changes is data and user data held in a separate partition. so the 2 possibilities is that your user data is corrupted(probably due the space getting exhausted-were you getting a low space warning?) or less likely but possible-the OS corrupted in some way-perhaps from repeated reboots and phone use.
i guess if a factory reset isn't helping there is little i can suggest. that should do the trick if the OS isn;t corrupt because all it does is wipe away the user data so you can resetup the device as if you bought it brand new.
if you have an micro sd card in the device, try removing it. if that doesn;t work, try reformatting it and putting it back in.

Htc loop
tekweezle said:
having CWM recovery on the device would help you clear the memory and load the OS easily. but that requires your device to be rooted.
whats strange about this case is that my understanding is that the OS is read only and the only thing that changes is data and user data held in a separate partition. so the 2 possibilities is that your user data is corrupted(probably due the space getting exhausted-were you getting a low space warning?) or less likely but possible-the OS corrupted in some way-perhaps from repeated reboots and phone use.
i guess if a factory reset isn't helping there is little i can suggest. that should do the trick if the OS isn;t corrupt because all it does is wipe away the user data so you can resetup the device as if you bought it brand new.
if you have an micro sd card in the device, try removing it. if that doesn;t work, try reformatting it and putting it back in.
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I tried all that and nothing seems to work can I root it like this? Ive tried taking the sd out and putting it back in reformatting it still it just loops and I get the boot menu but it wont do anything in the boot menu only the power down option everything else when highlight it and hit the power button to select it just goes right back to the loop Im ready to throw it out the window lol

SuzyQangel said:
I tried all that and nothing seems to work can I root it like this? Ive tried taking the sd out and putting it back in reformatting it still it just loops and I get the boot menu but it wont do anything in the boot menu only the power down option everything else when highlight it and hit the power button to select it just goes right back to the loop Im ready to throw it out the window lol
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This sounds quite a bit like an Inc I have lying on my shelf. It was a friend's and he gave it to me to see if I could fix it. As far as I can tell, the phone's emmc storage simply failed. These phones are aging and that happens sometimes. Anyway, I tried all the usual stuff, including running RUU's (flashing signed PB31IMG.zip's since the thing had never been rooted and was still s-on), and yeah, just boot looped.
I did get the phone working, but it was complicated and messy. Here's more or less what I did: I was able to successfully run the RUU that updates HBOOT to 1.02 (or 1.07, either one works), which allowed me to unlock the bootloader via HTCdev. (see one of the root / s-off guides if this doesn't make sense.) This made it possible to flash ClockworkMod recovery using fastboot, and boot into recovery. From there, I was able to get to a root shell through adb (plugged into my computer) and proceeded to downgrade and get s-off, following the guide. It now works, though it's running Froyo and there is hardly any space for apps due to the messed up storage. I've been wanting to try this hack on it but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

stuck in boot loop, keys dead
I have an HTC incredible. One day the power button decided to quit working. Everything else worked fine, except when the phone went to sleep, the only way to wake it up was to plug in the charger. That was all fine and dandy til I was using it one night to listen to TuneIn and forgot to shut it off. When I plugged in the charger the next morning, it went into boot loop. I can get it out of boot loop by holding the power and/or volume down buttons, but when the hboot (?) screen comes up, I am helpless to do anything, as the power and volume buttons are unresponsive. It is not recognized when I plug it into my laptop, either. For whatever it's worth, it does say "S-on" on the hboot screen, if that helps. Is it junk or fixable?

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I have an HTC incredible. One day the power button decided to quit working. Everything else worked fine, except when the phone went to sleep, the only way to wake it up was to plug in the charger. That was all fine and dandy til I was using it one night to listen to TuneIn and forgot to shut it off. When I plugged in the charger the next morning, it went into boot loop. I can get it out of boot loop by holding the power and/or volume down buttons, but when the hboot (?) screen comes up, I am helpless to do anything, as the power and volume buttons are unresponsive. It is not recognized when I plug it into my laptop, either. For whatever it's worth, it does say "S-on" on the hboot screen, if that helps. Is it junk or fixable?
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Sounds hosed to me. You could try to flash an RUU zip but that'd require use of the keys in HBOOT. If there is an RUU option that does not involve touching the phone, it's possible. Otherwise, no. I guess you could open the phone and check the button connections are there but it may be locking up at the HBOOT screen. Give it a chance to charge up a bit. However, I believe this phone is a lost cause. I seem to be seeing more frequent bootloop phone reports lately.