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HELP PLEASE - EVO 3D Stuck in Bootloop!

Hello All,
I recently rooted my EVO3D using the HTCDEV method because the bootloader was version 1.5.
Here are the steps I followed to root (sorry for the copy and past but I want to be as detailed as possible)
Files Used
su 2.3.6.3
TWRP Recovery
Steps Taken:
1)Take both the su.zip and recovery.img files and put them in your sdk tools folder.
2)Now do the following in ur command prompt, hitting enter after each command.
3)Code:adb push recovery.img /sdcard/And,
4)Code:adb push su-2.3.6.3.zip /sdcard/Then,
5)Code:adb reboot bootloaderUr phone will go to fastboot and should look like the after picture above. Now you can flash the twrp recovery, so do,
6)Code:fastboot flash recovery recovery.imgIt will ouput something like this,
7)Code:sending 'recovery' <5068 KB>... OKAY////writing 'recovery'... OKAY///finished. total time: 11.355sNow you have twrp recovery, so you can navigate to it. On ur phone, use the power button to pick bootloader, then scroll down to recovery and pick that. You will then be booted into recovery.
8)Here you can pick "install zip" and then pick the "su-2.3.6.3.zip"
It will flash, the you can pick "back to main menu", then "reboot system now"
9)You will boot back up and have working Superuser. I have had no trouble with Titanium Backup, Root Explorer, Quick Boot or any other app that requires root. Before you do too much, it would be good to go back to recovery and do a Nandroid backup. Always best to get one ready before you start modding anything.
All of this worked fine, and the phone was "unlocked."
Then, I flashed the most recent version of CleanRom (2.7)
Again, the phone worked fine, battery life was a little crappy.
I decided to flash Ziggy's kernel.I flashed the kernel simply by putting on the SD card, and then rebooting into recovery. This worked fine as well, but I noticed some of the buttons for example the menu popups displayed volume where it should have said more, or bluetooth options where it should have said preferences. so this is where the trouble started, I downloaded kernel manager, and flashed silverneedle through that program. Now, I am stuck at the White HTC Splash screen bootloop. The phone turns on and after 15 seconds reboots, and reboots, and reboots.
What Ive attempted:
I have done countless wipes and clears of the dalvik cache and cache
ive formatted the system and the date sections (advanced menu in twrp)
ive reflashed the rom after wiping countless times
ive tried flashing different kernels in recovery to no avail
factory reset and wipe havent helped
im not concerned losing the contents of the SD card
I need help because I already had two phone claims in the past 11 months, and if I claim another lost phone I will lose insurance for life with Asurion (sprint)
anytips or help would be greatly appreciated
i can provide any additional info

Similar situation, Not sure if you've already solved the problem but I'm going to copy paste my solution from another thread...
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but this is a preety derp question. I've gone across the internet and tried a lot of reflashing to repair my sort of "bricked" evo. What happened, was that I had a evo 3d s-on htc bootloader unlocked, with custom recovery -clockwork..anyways I had flashed the leedroid 3d 4.0 rom and It worked the only problem was my wifi, so i attempted to flash another kernel onto it, but I had accidently flashed "Rcmix" kernel which I later found out was cdma =.=. so now my phone keeps rebooting at the htc screen, it would just load up with the green htc letters, then after 10 seconds or so it'd reboot, and then begin the process again. I can boot into bootloader and recovery but whatever I flash doesn't seem to work including restoring my backups...and then the battery died so i couldn't even charge it or go in. But i managed to work out I could load into bootloader from the CMD and the furthest i've gotten to is to have the bootloader show FASTBOOT USB. SO I must be getting somewhere...? I did read that i had to load from the cmd and not just from power+vol down..but I'd appreciate any help towards restoring my phone to the way it is or at least before i flashed the rcmix.
Just a note tho I've tried factory resetting but all i get is that it loads into recovery at the bootloader options i dont get "clear storage" as an option and "restore to factory settings" and what not just boots me into recovery agian.
EDIT:
I Managed to fix the phoneeee!!!..just for future preferences and anyone else who has this problem...
I followed bits and piece of IL DUCE's advice to izzy spun, the important part was booting the recovery from cmd. I wasn't able to "erase recovery" But I tried just booting it,
First I would remove the battery,
Put it back in,
Plug the usb cable in
1. Type command, from your Adb/fasboot folder, "adb reboot-bootloader"
2. After that I made sure my bootloader said "Fastboot USB", and then I issued the command, "fastboot boot cwm-4.0.1.4-shooteru.img" or with whatever recovery you had..
3. From there I restored from my backups my original rom. Rebooting, and fixed.
--- and It worked. At the time I was on clock work recovery, i only had the Revolutionary recovery img. Cwm-4.0.14.-shooteru.img to be exact,
after going in there I just cleared the cache and davlik and then, proceeded to restore my backups (I'm not sure if it would've worked if I had re-flashed the leedroid or a custom rom)
and then I simply rebooted the phone, and it got back into my phones original state before leedroid (as I had Only backedup before then)....
Apologies for the lengthly post, but I guess reading does help, but I've been going nuts before I managed to fix this. Just thought I'd leave this post incase someone were to need this.

Same problem
Hi there. I just recently joined so excuse my noobness but i have a similar problem. I recently just rooted my evo 3d sprint with the the boot 1.5 and everything went well. I decided i wanted to overclock my phone so i followed zeemaxs way. Before going into the overclock procedure i decided to do the the RCMIX Evo 3d kernel v. 2.2.3 first so i would have better results when done with the overclock procedure.I bootup the kernel through the recovery mode on the phone butit failed to load so i just reeboted. After that my wifi and 4g stopped working. So i downloaded an app on the market called "flash image GUI" which lets me flash the kernels through the app. I flashed the RCMIX kernel and rebooted and now im stuck ima boot loop. I COULD just go back and back up to my old rom and settings etc...........but the problem is i dintmake any kind of back up or recovery i think. I know i know im stupid and an idiot but i just sort of panicked n ended up with this. If anyone can help please tell me.I do not want to pay for a new phone at full price. PLEASE HELP THIS POOR NOOB!!!!! X(

awsomepanda20 said:
Hi there. I just recently joined so excuse my noobness but i have a similar problem. I recently just rooted my evo 3d sprint with the the boot 1.5 and everything went well. I decided i wanted to overclock my phone so i followed zeemaxs way. Before going into the overclock procedure i decided to do the the RCMIX Evo 3d kernel v. 2.2.3 first so i would have better results when done with the overclock procedure.I bootup the kernel through the recovery mode on the phone butit failed to load so i just reeboted. After that my wifi and 4g stopped working. So i downloaded an app on the market called "flash image GUI" which lets me flash the kernels through the app. I flashed the RCMIX kernel and rebooted and now im stuck ima boot loop. I COULD just go back and back up to my old rom and settings etc...........but the problem is i dintmake any kind of back up or recovery i think. I know i know im stupid and an idiot but i just sort of panicked n ended up with this. If anyone can help please tell me.I do not want to pay for a new phone at full price. PLEASE HELP THIS POOR NOOB!!!!! X(
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What your going to have to do is flash the original kernel you started with. thats why your in a bootloop

Similar problem
Hi everyone!
I have a kind of similar problem, so I won't post it in a new thread.
Yesterday I rooted my phone following this guide: androidforums.com/evo-3d-all-things-root/494212-complete-newbies-guide-rooting-flashing-evo-3d-roms-kernels-using-fastboot . html (i am not allowed to post links to prevent spam).
I unlocked it with htcdev and installed a custom ROM without getting any errors. After restarting the phone, it got into a boot loop; it showed the starting animations of htc and the ROM and then shut down again.
Here some more information:
-Evo 3d Europe gsm
-hboot 1.5
-s-on
-image version 3.28.401
-installed ROMs using clockworkrecoverymod (as proposed in guide)
I have tried these ROMs (all leading to boot loop):
ICS NonSense
Cyanogen Mod 10 – DisarmedToaster (v. 1.4 and 1.5)
Jelly Bean 3d (by Ubuntuz)
SAD 2.1 DEsenseX
I installed the ROMs by doing:
Connect device via usb > flash boot.img via fastboot (from pc) > clear Cashe/UserData/DalvikVM > install rom.zip from sdcard > reboot
I really don't know what to try
Any ideas how I could install a running Android OS are highly appreciated.
Thx for any help

Problem solved!
Ok, I solved the problem by simply relocking the phone and installing the stock ROM with the RUU.exe

RUU.exe
I'm glad someone else mentioned Relocking before running the RUU. I've read several posts be others that have actually stated that Relocking wasn't necessary but in order for the RUU to take you have to Relock. IF you get a chance check out CoolICS Rom and MeanRom both are pretty good.

Thanks all for the help, had to revisit this issue today.

Only Have Access to Bootloader (HBOOT & Fastboot)

Hi there,
The other day I decided to S-OFF, root, and flash a custom ROM on to my HTC Desire handset. It all seemed to go perfectly well. I could access HBOOT, Fastboot, Recovery (4EXT), and I could boot into the custom ROM. It worked absolutely fine for approximately 24 hours. Then, the phone restarted and I can't get past the splash screen.
I am able to access the Bootloader (HBOOT, Fastboot etc.) but I cannot boot into the ROM or into Recovery.
I followed the instructions (step 2) found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1275632&highlight=can+t+get+past+hboot
I've tried using Method 1 and Method 2. And, although the process appears to be successful (according to Android Flasher's and cmd's response) but I'm still unable to get past the splash screen or access the recovery.
I thought that perhaps it did work fine and that it was just the recovery image I was using so I downloaded the latest Clockwork Mod Recovery image from their website. Unfortunately, this hasn't made any difference.
I used Fastboot to wipe the userdata, system, recovery, and cache but this has still not made a difference.
Does anyone have any ideas or is it busted?
Would flashing a RUU potentially resolve the issue (although, ideally, I don't want to do that and it would be a last resort).
Many thanks in advance.

This problem didn't appeared on its own, did it?
Probably you did something wrong. I suggest you to use RUU and start all over again.
Remember to downgrade your hboot first
Sent from my HTC Desire using xda app-developers app

paolo-red1 said:
This problem didn't appeared on its own, did it?
Probably you did something wrong. I suggest you to use RUU and start all over again.
Remember to downgrade your hboot first
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Hi paolo,
Well, as I explained, it did all appear to be fine. I didn't do anything else to the phone when it started rebooting. But, clearly, something has gone wrong somewhere.
I've downgraded the HBOOT, and used the RUU. It looks to be sorted now.
Thanks for your help.

Glad that you solved your problem. Cheers

[Q][NOOB] Please help me unbrick my PRIMOC

First post here, please excuse my ignorance. This is a Virgin Mobile HTC One V. I never rooted a phone before, and was just trying to do a basic rooting, and somehow got into trouble. I would like to return the phone to stock and start over.
Right now the phone boots itself into bootloader, and shows me this:
Relocked
Security warning
PRIMOC PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.57.0000
RADIO-1.00.00.0928
eMMC-boot
Jun 18 2012, 10:22:43
I am able to do this: fastboot getvar cid. The response is this: cid: SPCS_002.
I am also able to do this: fastboot devices. The response is this: FA2AKX405758 fastboot.
I have attempted to use this RUU:
RUU_PRIMO_C_ICS_40A_Sprint_WWE_VM_1.08.652.6_Radio_1.00.00.0521_2_NV_VM_3.46_0503_PRL61008_release_262414_signed.exe
It gives me error 170, USB connection error (even though I have installed the HTC drivers). I relocked the phone in an attempt to get that RUU to work, but it didn't help. I also tried to extract the rom.zip from the RUU.exe (by finding it in a temp folder, as described on another XDA thread), but the rom.zip acts corrupt. Various zip programs refuse to open it.
Before relocking the phone (in an attempt to get the RUU to work) I tried this:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
I did that with various boot.img files I found via threads here. This just created various problems. One result was that I was in a bootloop. Another result was that I booted to the screen that said "this build is for development purposes only do not distribute outside of htc without written permission." And it would hang there.
Now my condition is that I boot directly to bootloader.
Starting from the beginning: I unlocked the phone using the unlock bootloader procedure at htcdev. No problem. Then I figured I should do a backup right away, so I installed CM Recovery. Right away I knew I had a problem because it did not run correctly. It would present a menu. Then I would select "backup and restore." It would present a splash screen (with the hat) and just hang there. When I pressed power, it would return to the menu. That's when I started trying various other things.
I never got as far as doing anything with superboot or superuser, which is what I thought I was going to do after doing the backup.
I have read a zillion threads here, and tried various things from those threads, but I'm afraid that without specific help I'm just going to make it worse. I'm pulling my hair out, so I hope someone here can help me while I still have a few left. Thanks!

OK, I have made some progress but I'm still pretty stuck.
I have been able to solve two problems I had before. Before when I ran the RUU, it gave me a USB error. And I could not extract recovery.img from the RUU. I solved both those problems by moving to a different PC.
So now I can run the RUU, and it gives me a bunch of progress messages I didn't see before, but at the end it tells me this:
"Error 155, unknown error. The ROM Update Utility cannot update your Android phone. Please get the correct ROM Update Utility and try again."
So then I tried the procedure described here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27301573
I unlocked the phone again, and I did this:
fastboot flash recovery recovery_signed.img
I did that using the img file I extracted from the RUU. Then I relocked the bootloader, and I ran the RUU again. But it gave me the exact same error (155).
What should I try next? I notice that the RUU also contains these img files:
system.img
radio.img
boot_signed.img
Should I try flashing those?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Edit: One more thing. When I ran the RUU, at the end the phone said this:
RUU
Hboot version is older!
Update Fail!

OK, the next thing I tried is the method described here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1674226
I extracted rom.zip from the RUU, and I renamed it PK76IMG.zip, and I put it on the sdcard, and then I rebooted the phone. The phone found that file and tried to install it, but in the end it gave me the same error message: "Hboot Version is older." On that same screen I see that my current Hboot is 1.57.0000. I guess the RUU contains an older Hboot?
Anyway, that's the same error I get when I run the RUU as an exe.
I notice a couple of people in that thread reported the same problem (Hboot is older), but it's not clear how or if they got around this.
Any ideas?

OK, so here's the next stage in this saga.
Looking around, it seems that there is no RUU for this phone, because I have Hboot 1.57.0000 and radio 1.00.00.0928. I have noticed that people with those specs cannot find a RUU that works, but they have been able to get the phone working with RhythmicRom. I see that discussed here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2147407
So what I'm trying to do now is install RhythmicRom, but I'm having trouble doing that, I guess because I don't have CM Recovery installed, so the standard recovery is running instead.
I have placed RhythmicRom_v1.4.zip on my sdcard. I am able to boot into bootloader, and I have done factory reset. In the bootloader, I can select Recovery and I see a screen that indicates the phone is looking for something (green circle containing green arrow pointing down, and with a progress bar at the bottom, and an icon of an sdcard). But I guess it doesn't find what it's looking for, and then I see the screen with the red triangle/exclamation mark.
I'm thinking that maybe it will work if on the sdcard I rename RhythmicRom_v1.4.zip to whatever the phone is looking for. Maybe I should rename it to PK76IMG.zip? Just a guess.
Many thanks in advance.

OK, that sort of almost worked. On the sdcard, I renamed RhythmicRom_v1.4.zip to PK76IMG.zip. I booted into bootloader, and it looked like the phone found that file, and loaded it. Then I did this:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
With the boot.img that was inside RhythmicRom_v1.4.zip. Then I rebooted. Now the phone gets to the red animated Virgin Mobile splash screen with the annoying audio. That seems like a good sign, since I haven't seen that in a while. But instead of continuing to boot, then I see the white HTC screen that says "this build is for development purposes only do not distribute outside of htc without written permission." And then it continues to loop between those two screens, so I am stuck in a bootloop. Although I found I was able to interrupt it and get back to the bootloader.
Not sure what to try next. Any suggestions?

Wow, I can't believe you haven't had a single reply.
Ok. First of all.... Use TeamWinRecoveryProject
( TWRP ) as your recovery img
So easy to use
Use fastboot the flash
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Then boot into your new touch screen recovery
Now click wipe
Cashe,Dalvick,Factory Reset, System
In that order. It makes sure every thing is wiped thoroughly.
Now navigate to where the Rom is you would like to use and flash it in recovery.
After It's flashed click the wipe cashe/dalvick
Then click home,reboot,bootloader.
Once in bootloader, flash the kernel/bootimg
fastboot flash boot boot.img
After the boot.img is finished,
fastboot reboot
Victory and enjoy the awesomeness of custom ROMs!

P.S. don't forget to unlock your bootloader again. First and foremost
fastboot flash unlocktoken Unlock_code.bin

Russell, thank you for your response. After 24 hours with over 100 views and zero replies, I figured that meant that I had already done the proper steps, and there wasn't some obvious solution I was missing. Although I can see now that I should have tried TWRP. It couldn't have made things worse, and maybe it would have worked better for me than CM Recovery (which seemed to fail as soon as I installed it).
Another key thing was when I figured out that there is no RUU for my specs (because there was an OTA that installed a newer hboot and radio). I like the idea of trying different custom ROMs, but I don't like the idea of never being able to go back to stock, since I would expect that all the custom ROMs have some quirks that I might find unacceptable. But I notice that you have the same hboot and radio, and I assume you have a backup of your stock ROM, so maybe you could have helped me with that.
Anyway, at literally the exact moment that you were posting your comment, I was standing at the UPS counter handing them the phone. If the phone had been working, we would have heard it buzzing inside the box as your email came in! The phone is heading to the HTC repair facility in Houston. They told me they would unbrick it for me for less than $35. I haven't seen anyone else report this, so maybe I was misled and it's too good to be true? We'll see. I don't like being without the phone for a week, but $35 seems like a cheap price to clean up the mess I made.
Anyway, thanks again for speaking up.

Check out the CDMA development thread
Whenever you get your phone back.....
Good luck

I see the thread you're talking about. I just did the download (might as well have it handy). Thank you.

Hope it helped or helps in some way
:beer:
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I gave you a thanks for first download

Similar problem
Hi,
I had a similar problem. Following this thread I have successfully "unbricked" my phone. My main concern though is activating my phone on VM, which I'm unable to do as I can't go back to stock. I bought the phone as is from craigslist. Any suggestions?
Edit: Internet seems to work though. No go on phone calls or texts, when trying to call this is what I get(Audio):"Account couldn't be verified"

Visit the HTC one v CDMA thread I have a stock rooted Rom there for the taking

Yes, here's the link to that thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2321904
It would be interesting to hear if your rom works for cellphoneman.

[ATT] Probably bricked my device

So the old ROM I was on (a super outdated Android Revolution) needed to be updated because my battery was draining a lot and I figured I would update everything. Apparently I flashed a bad or wrong version of TWRP, so I can't get into recovery. It just sits there trying to get into recovery but it keeps failing. Then I tried using MultiRom recovery and installing that through the app in the play store. Now my phone won't go into recovery and just boot loops. I can get into the HBOOT menu but I can't get into recovery or boot the device at all. Does anyone have any ideas to get a working recovery or working ROM? I already backed up my pictures and videos and stuff, but I forgot to transfer my titaniumbackup files I've been trying to look around and see how to fix it but I don't want to do something that will cause more damage than I've already done. I did all this to update my firmware so that I can use the newer ROMs. Anyway if anyone has any ideas I'm all ears.
Thanks in advance.

You didn't mention whether or not you are S-off and/or bootloader unlocked.
Since you already have a custom ROM, you must have unlocked your bootloader at some point, so if it is STILL unlocked, just reflash the correct recovery from fastboot. If it is not, unlock it with HTCdev first, then reflash the correct recovery.
Alternately, if you just want the phone fixed, you can always re-run the AT&T RUU - though that will trash any files you have on the phone.

Yeah that's what I did yesterday thanks for the response!

My One X died...

...I think
I would gladly give a better Topic Title but i can't. Maybe you guys can give further troubleshooting assistance.
Actual State:
Can boot to bootloader and Fastboot. Bootloader unlocked and TWRP Recovery installed. There _should_ be a Revolution HD on the device. When device powers up it goes smoothly to the White HTC quietly brilliiance screen (screen brightness begins to flicker) and goes off after (really off, not hanging, plain off). After i cleared boot cache via adb i'm able too see a split second of the htc bootlogo and then goes off right after.
State of device when i began to "fix" it:
BL Locked, No Custom Recovery, Stock recovery dead (Just red triangle), rom maybe was dead too but i don't know.
Last attempts i did were:
1. Flash boot.img through fastboot (Fastboot flash boot boot.img)
2. Flashed the Superwipe script (was desperate)
3. Flash Android Revolution through TWRP-Recovery
First:
I Don't know wich carrier. Boy that bugs me a lot. I'Ve tried Generic, Vodaphone and T-Mobile (since i'm in germany) but no Luck. Is there a possibility to check what RUU i need without a Running ROM? I haven't bought the device i got it from a friend of mine and it went straight to my wife. I've asked, he doesn't know. I'm not so into HTC, so i'm not quite firm concerning Stock restore.
Next:
I think i tried everything except for restoring stock (because.... meh....): I've unlocked the phone. I've flashed CWM aswell as TWRP. I've flashed different boot.img from different roms i've flashed.
I'Ve litteraly did EVERYTHING what seemed like a good idea to me. But now i'm at the end of my knowledge.
My last piece of Information:
After 2 1/2 hours i had a Custom Recovery Running (did the trial and error RUU Method before). I've mounted the SD-Card and it was Blank. There was NOTHING on it except for some Recovery Folders. SD Card is about 24GB. This looks like a lot to me. Is that really normal? Mounting system, data and sd via adb works like a charm.
So if one of you could help me that'd really be cool. If there is some crazy stuff i need to do via adb, please go into detail. I know the basics (how to mount partitions and to push files) nothing more.
But maybe it's just faulty...
Thanks in advance