Had a friend bring over an Evo 4g with the infamous bootloop of death.
Specs:
Revolutionary
S-Off
HW: 003
Radio: 2.15.0808
HBoot 6.16
*Aftermarket Extended Battery*
First attempt at booting the phone, it would hit the lockscreen and reset. Then it stopped on the boot animation, and then it hit the splash screen after that reboot and it gave up. Trying to get to recovery at that stage resulted in freezing on the splash screen as well. Flashed the Amon-Ra recovery successfully and it would SOMETIMES go to it and then sometimes it would just freeze on the splash screen. Hmm... Tried CWM recovery with similar results. When I was in recovery, I did factory data and cache wipes as well, just to be on the safe side. No luck. Alright, so I figured let's reset everything and start over, maybe there was a bad flash of a rom or kernel. Flashed the hex-edited HBoot 6.17 and then the stock P36IMG.zip for the 4.54 version. Everything went smooth, no error messages, all OK. Now the phone is listed as S-On with the appropriate HBoot and Radio versions. Good deal...and bootloop issue continues. Argh! Figured, I should try running the RUU from the PC just for heck of it. I tried both the 4.54 and 4.67 versions and both provided Error 120 saying the battery was not 30% or more. Odd, since the battery was charged fully according to the charging light, and from the brief times it did hit the lockscreen the battery looked fine. So I took a break from it. I came back to it the next day and thought I would try and, it booted to the lockscreen, and bootloop. Hmm. Seems it only likes to boot when cool or not having messed with it for awhile. Interesting. Let it set for a bit then put it on a fan and tried to boot to recovery...and it was the first time it had went to recovery in awhile. Hmmm. Took the phone and put it in a tupperware and put it in the freezer for like 10-15 minutes and tried to boot again. Booted all the way just like normal! Weird. Running like a champ. Played around with it for a few minutes, then just let it sit for awhile. No reboots at all. Rebooted the phone manually, but there comes the bootloop. So, threw it back in the freezer and tried it again after a bit and now the phone has been on for over 5 hours. Haven't played with it much, but before it just wouldn't even load, but now, obviously the temp has risen to normal levels and no restarts. I'm completely baffled. Would this be an issue with the battery since it is an aftermarket one (don't have a stock one to test unfortunately) since I know it can cause random issues and RUU didn't like it or...some strange hardware malfunction? Previously thought it might be an issue with the NV partition from the MetroPCS flash but since it is up and running OK now, I would think that would not be the case. Any thoughts?
Related
This is a list of events that I have gone through today. I received a new charger because the old one I had became defective & was charging my phone up & then it would go back down to 0% & then shut off & it would end up in a problem where the phone would not turn on unless I pulled out the battery while the AC was in & then it was able to charge but still it would turn on, on its own to drain the battery when off & this was very frustrating. The charger I have now works but the device acts strange over the last few months doing a task29 & flashing the first ROM after would make that ROM not work & then I had to flash a totally different ROM to make it work. I was using Android & it had died a few times & also I experienced the same thing I did when it would charge up & go back down to 0%. please read below:
I got my new charger today & at 62% of charge I decided to flash to a custom ROM via mem card again well the ROM was a success but when pulling battery out to restart it didnt want to work. So I went to flash again in bootloader by memory card it shut off on me in the middle & restarted into bootloader again & shut off again right away. I did a task29 it worked got it out of bootloader & now the orange led flashes off & on when its off & now ive gotten that to stop. What exactly is wrong with this device?
it was @ 73% and finally setup a ROM NRGY however it ended up shutting off on its self & going into a power boot loop constantly restarting until that ROM can no longer start & now its stuck on the boot screen w/ its info.
I flashed the stock SPL on USB now im going to try to flash the carriers ROM back.
Stock SPL = Successful!
2nd Touch Pro 2 ROM Version Flash = Successful!
Its working for now. Battery is @ 80%
AHH! After charging to 100% idk what it did but when I went into the other room to check out its all possessed.
I have a black screen w/ white text that says:
The device is unable to boot because either you have turned off the device incorrectly or tried to install an application from untrusted source.
Press Volume Up to reset your device or press any other button to cancel.
This operation will delete all your personal data and restore the device to its factory default settings.
IDK how this happened.
When I hit any key it didnt do anything it was stuck until I did a battery pull. Then I restarted the device it was stuck at the boot screen w/ its red info. It erased the entire ROM. Then I tried to do recover mode & it did nothing. I tried to flash the stock ROM again & no results & then again & still no results. I think its now not accepting the ROM at all since from: in the ROM update utility is blank.
Now it decides to get past the boot screen but then it malfunctions again & restarts itself & it tries to setup a 2nd time then after it does & its on sense home for a couple of mins it reboots twice & now its stuck on the boot screen again.
Things that I can think of.
- Isn't your batterie just broken? You will break your batteries when you deplete them completely. Maybe try a new batterie, because you said that you let it die for a few times. It could be that this is causing your problems.
- Did you flash true usb when you were in the bootloader? Give that a try, because I believe that the customruu performs some sort of checks. Maybe this is nonsens, but you can try it.
The battery was fully charged & it was working better than before.
I reflashed the Stock SPL to flash the carriers ROM back & that worked but at anytime it just rebooted for whatever reason to make it so the ROM was unusable at any time I would reboot it would decide to actually go past it seldom. I experienced that at one point oddly it went into setup n it did it again after a while its just acting strange.
If you're back to stock SPL and stock ROM, can't you just send it back for a warranty replacement ?
IDK how old it is. I bought it brand new from ebay.
Viper Matrix Wireless said:
IDK how old it is. I bought it brand new from ebay.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No warranty bro...
You can try but no warranty 9/10 times.
What ROM are you using? I used to have that issue with my betas.
It wld destroy itself after softreset and I would have to reflash.
Try to flash, turn off right after it boots, turn on and see how that works for ya.
Rep had told me I could get it replaced & they know I bought from ebay. But I havent called them on this yet.
It doesnt work. It usually doesnt go past the boot screen. Flashing does nothing to help it. Whenever it feels like it it may have to stay on for a few mins to go into setup but most of the time it will stay there & reboot, reboot, reboot, reboot each time its a different # of times & it will reset itself at anytime. Ive even had bootloader shut off on me & restart itself during flashing its a pain. I had another issue I didnt mention my device on any custom ROM when I had 0.85 olinex SPL the device would just freeze & not respond every time. Now this is a different situation. I am back of SPL 0.87 which is the default. I flashed the entire carrier ROM which 0.79 was rewritten w/ 0.87 & that was successful but its still rebooting & causing fatal problems including the black screen w/ white text.
UPDATE: I just walked into the kitchen. Somehow the device turned on by itself & now its sitting on the sense home screen. I know its not fixed but idk why it would turn itself on.
Moved as not ROM Development.
Try flashing task 29 1st... Might be because when you flash remnants of the older OS are still there causing trouble. Remember though, you need to have Hard SPLed it 1st....
I got so frustrated I just got done calling T-Mobile Tech Support & they are going to ship me a replacement.
ultramag69 said:
Try flashing task 29 1st... Might be because when you flash remnants of the older OS are still there causing trouble. Remember though, you need to have Hard SPLed it 1st....
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I thought I would reply to you.
This is what started my problems is when I did a task 29 my device was acting funny afterwards. I did it again about a month later cuz I flashed way too much & it kept getting worse. But Task29 didnt help this time its what caused me to have to flash 2 different ROMs cuz the first one I flash after doesnt work.
I received the battery & it didnt do anything.
I'm still waiting on the replacement to come.
Hey all, first time poster. I wrote a real nice explanation of my problem, but i lost it so anyways, i'll keep it short(ish).
The EVO is less than 3 weeks old, running the latest OTA, recently rooted using UnrEVOked 3, nothing fancy. I ran the battery down completely last night (first time since i got the phone) and once i got to a power source, it wouldn't boot correctly. It hangs at the white splash screen, and then finally boots up but won't respond to any touch input.
Also the phone seems to be running exceedingly slow, the boot process takes substantially long than normal once it gets past the splash screen and my live background is freezing and seems to be stuttering.
I launched into the bootloader and i get a "Touch Panel - Fail". LAME!
I'm not sure what to do at this point, whether i should wipe it or go back to stock or what. Any advice would be much appreciated.
UPDATE:
I managed to get the phone into the recovery console, make a back up (i was planning on going back to the stock image) and wipe the dalvik cache and fix permissions. I rebooted and voila! fixed. Hopes this helps any one else who has this problem.
Moral of this story: Travel with a charger.
Another update. It froze up again in the middle of sending a text. I rebooted by battery removal, and it did the same thing again. Super long splash screen and sluggish boot up, no touch response when it finally came up. I booted into recovery and cleared the dalvik cache again. Seems to be working again now. We'll see if it does it again.....
Well, the screen locked up again. I tried going through the whole process again. I wiped the caches and battery stats, nothing. I wiped all the storage and data, booted into a clean stock interface, nothing. Restored the backup image, and then at some point, through all the rebooting and whatnot, it just shut down completely. I can't even get it to the bootloader. I'm really feeling like it's a hardware problem, and i've made peace with sending it back for TEP, but i have no way to unroot it.
Any suggestions? Please......
Theres unroot processes out there. I cant remember where but ive seen them. Mine gets sluggish too, but after a reboot its ok. You cant even get into the bootloader tho. I'm not even close to an expert but.......uh I'd 'lose' it and call the insurance co....
Hi!
I flashed CM7 (Stable) last night and it was working great. I was using it today when phone froze on me...I don't remember what I was doing...I think I was listening to Pandora. Even though the system was frozen, I was able to hold down the Power button to select Reboot. Phone rebooted but it was stuck on the splash screen for at least 10 minutes. I pulled the battery but it won't get past the splash screen. I tried to get into hboot but the phone vibrated several times and then displayed a blank screen. Now all my phone is doing is flashing the green LED.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Marc
This could be bad, but don't panic yet.
It has happened to me before and a simple waiting 5-10 min and a battery pull has done the trick.
Do you have a nandroid backup? If so and the battery pull works reboot into hboot and then recovery and restore it. If not boot into hboot and do a full factory reset.
If after waiting a while and you a battery pull still doesn't do the trick try holding down the power button and volume UP. This could possibly reboot it.
If you finally give up I suggest trying this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-958411.html
Thanks! I stopped panicking enough to be able to get into HBoot I still couldnt get past the splash screen so I ended up reflashing CM7. Everything is fine and dandy now. I'm keeping an eye out on it today because it froze when it was running low on battery...I want to see if it does the same thing today. Thanks again for the help!
Good luck...
I've had great luck with the CM7 ROM. Last night I ran my battery down to 1% before charging and didn't experience any issues. Hopefully your issue is resolved for good!!!
Glad I could help! I really like CM7 the battery is great on it. If it freezes again try to reflash it. If it works, Great! haha
So here's the deal..
So I'm no newb when it comes to flashing roms. my Dinc is my 3rd phone with a custo.m ROM. Well what happened is. I flashed to cm9 kangs from cm7 v13. Well after about a week I was sick of the instability and having to install apps twice just got annoying.. soo... I decided to go back to cm7 but I didn't have it on my sd anymore so I pulled it from my comp and flashed through ROMmanager. Well upon booting it got stuck in a bootloop (which is the first time I've encountered this.) So I took out the battery, and I held down both volume and the power button and the phone vibrated 5 times and the LED went from flashing red to green and the screen stayed black. Now I can't boot into recovery.. nothing. Almost thinking its bricked... is there any way to save this phone?
Thanks for any help u can gived.
XCmaster said:
So here's the deal..
So I'm no newb when it comes to flashing roms. my Dinc is my 3rd phone with a custo.m ROM. Well what happened is. I flashed to cm9 kangs from cm7 v13. Well after about a week I was sick of the instability and having to install apps twice just got annoying.. soo... I decided to go back to cm7 but I didn't have it on my sd anymore so I pulled it from my comp and flashed through ROMmanager. Well upon booting it got stuck in a bootloop (which is the first time I've encountered this.) So I took out the battery, and I held down both volume and the power button and the phone vibrated 5 times and the LED went from flashing red to green and the screen stayed black. Now I can't boot into recovery.. nothing. Almost thinking its bricked... is there any way to save this phone?
Thanks for any help u can gived.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If you can access hboot its not bricked. You need to do the five vibes fix herehttp://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=33, if you can get to hboot to use fastboot. If you cant access hboot you are out of luck.
well an update. what i did was pulled the battery and held down the power button for 10 seconds, then put in the battery and plugged the charger in. and it forced it back into the bootloop. i was then able to access hboot and try and reinstall. well both cm7 and cm9 both started the bootloop. so i went through and factory reset the phone and formatted the sd. and also wiped the dalvik and cache. also formatted system/data/cache, and reinstalled cm7 and it started force closing EVERYTHING. so i completely wiped the phone and reinstalled cm9 and everythijg worked fine, so i went back to cm7 and now everything is working as before. didnt have to enter code in the terminal emulator blahblah.. just an easy fix for me dont think itll work for most but did here so its worth a try i guess.
Friends evo just started doing this today - he didn't make any changes or do anything to the phone to cause this. It just keeps cycling through the sprint splash screen/start up sound over and over.
its not rooted/unlocked - it's stock from sprint
If i try going into recovery, i get the black and white htc evo screen. And then I get an icon of a green arrow with green arrows circling around it and after a few seconds i get a red triangle with an exclamation mark in it, which i assume is a bad thing.
Is there anything I can do to try and fix this?
and again - stock, not rooted/not unlocked - running whatever rom is current with sprint.
thanks
Same here except sometimes times it loads up into android but after a few minutes it starts rebooting again. I rooted the phone to see if that would fix it but still stuck in boot loop with it occassionaly loading into android.
cellington77 said:
Same here except sometimes times it loads up into android but after a few minutes it starts rebooting again. I rooted the phone to see if that would fix it but still stuck in boot loop with it occassionaly loading into android.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I just fixed my friends phone by doing the following:
downloaded this RUU RUU_SuperSonic_GB_Sprint_WWE_4.67.651.3_Radio_2.15.00.12.19_NV_2.33_release_234563_signed.exe
download htc sync
installed htc sync
uninstalled htc sync (keep the drivers).
press the power btn and the volume down button until you get into hboot - wait a few seconds for it to fully boot. Select fastboot. Plug your phone into your pc. Run the RUU - wait a few minutes for it to do it's thing and phone is working now.
not sure how this will work for you if your phone is rooted, as this was done on an unrooted phone.
Infinite boot loop
Stock Evo Infinite Boot Loop
I have been trying to fix my daughter's evo 4g from Sprint. Its at least 2 years old. She no longer uses it because it went into infinite boot loop. Itws not hooked up and is in no warranty.
I have done the hard factory reset. There is no issue with saqving anything on the phone. I have tried everything I could find so far in the forums. I may have missed some things. idk.
Ive wiped cache.
This is what I got in the info on the phone.
supersonic EVT2 Ship s-on
H-2.16.0001
MICROP 841F
TOUCHPANEL-ATMEL224_16ab
RADIO-2.15.00.05.02
MAR 82011.17.02:15
I tried using the ruu..
RUU_SuperSonic_GB_Sprint_WWE_4.67.651.3_Radio_2.15 .00.12.19_NV_2.33_release_234563_signed.exe
MD5 Sum: 045e93a459183b144d29f18fc2a332fa
Still stuck in boot loop. But now it says in pink above supersonic...Locked..oow
Before when I was using recovery I got these messages..
CANT OPEN CACHE/RECOVER/COMMAND
WIPING DATE
CANT OPEN /DATA/CWPHG.ZIP
CANT OPEN /DATA/CWPROP
CANT OPEN CACHE//CWPKG
CANT OPEN cache/cw.prop
formatting cache
data wipe complete
This is completely stock. Never been rooted or changed in any way.
This is my daughter's exact message about problems she was having:
"it seems to me that it gets overheated sometimes. like it seems the battery is getting too hot. i dunno john had the problem with his evo one time but he took it and had sprint reset it which is pretty much the same thing you do yourself i think. his was fixed but mine wasnt.i didnt get sprint to reset it for me. i never dropped it or anything i dont know. i hope you can get it fixed though. i liked the phone when it was working good. it seems like it can go for awhile sometimes without rebooting and i could talk on it but as soon as i would hang up it would go into loop again.it was hot.i even tried making the screen darker so maybe it wouldnt get so hot."
Sorry not to be briefer. Please..anyone with suggestions?
Thanks
Possibly use odin to flash the stock image?
redheadstranger said:
Stock Evo Infinite Boot Loop
I have been trying to fix my daughter's evo 4g from Sprint. Its at least 2 years old. She no longer uses it because it went into infinite boot loop. Itws not hooked up and is in no warranty.
I have done the hard factory reset. There is no issue with saqving anything on the phone. I have tried everything I could find so far in the forums. I may have missed some things. idk.
Ive wiped cache.
This is what I got in the info on the phone.
supersonic EVT2 Ship s-on
H-2.16.0001
MICROP 841F
TOUCHPANEL-ATMEL224_16ab
RADIO-2.15.00.05.02
MAR 82011.17.02:15
I tried using the ruu..
RUU_SuperSonic_GB_Sprint_WWE_4.67.651.3_Radio_2.15 .00.12.19_NV_2.33_release_234563_signed.exe
MD5 Sum: 045e93a459183b144d29f18fc2a332fa
Still stuck in boot loop. But now it says in pink above supersonic...Locked..oow
Before when I was using recovery I got these messages..
CANT OPEN CACHE/RECOVER/COMMAND
WIPING DATE
CANT OPEN /DATA/CWPHG.ZIP
CANT OPEN /DATA/CWPROP
CANT OPEN CACHE//CWPKG
CANT OPEN cache/cw.prop
formatting cache
data wipe complete
This is completely stock. Never been rooted or changed in any way.
This is my daughter's exact message about problems she was having:
"it seems to me that it gets overheated sometimes. like it seems the battery is getting too hot. i dunno john had the problem with his evo one time but he took it and had sprint reset it which is pretty much the same thing you do yourself i think. his was fixed but mine wasnt.i didnt get sprint to reset it for me. i never dropped it or anything i dont know. i hope you can get it fixed though. i liked the phone when it was working good. it seems like it can go for awhile sometimes without rebooting and i could talk on it but as soon as i would hang up it would go into loop again.it was hot.i even tried making the screen darker so maybe it wouldnt get so hot."
Sorry not to be briefer. Please..anyone with suggestions?
Thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Been awhile since i did this. But search "revolutionary s-off". Do this to gain s-off. Download and flash "smelkus recovery" (find directions in post, search xda). Then try wiping everything and installing a room.
Might work, might not... but if not, that's a stylish paper weight
Riding the Uni on the GSIII