Hey guys, I have an Inc2 and was running a version of cm9 that was a few weeks old. When installing the latest version I did not wipe dalvik or cache(stupid, I know) and got stuck in a boot loop. Only now I can't get into recovery(volume down + power only keeps rebooting the phone) and my pc can't see it so I can't use RUU or adb to get into recovery. How could a simple screw up have destroyed my phone so thoroughly? What can I do to fix this?
If you're phone is turning on and bootlooping you did not brick. Brick means the phone wont respond to anything.
You can take the SD card out of the phone and connect it with another device to copy the RUU over.
You mean like the sd card to the computer? What exactly do I have to do?
you can take the sdcard out of you phone and put the ruu on it then put back in phone go to bootloader and it will install the stock rom if thats what you want to do.then you'll have to downgrade and reroot with revoltionary and so on
the file on your sdcard should read PG32IMG.zip, exactly nothing different, only one zip not two
I did that. I can't into any bootloader. It just goes right from the htc splash to the cm9 boot screen and stays there forever.
pull battery put back in hold volume down and power botton at same time and it won't go to bootloader???
i'm assuming you have backups and your rooted, if you get to bootloader select recovery, and restore a backup rom
When I got my phone I could not get into bootloadrr. But the battery pull first did it for me.
Aldo101t said:
pull battery put back in hold volume down and power botton at same time and it won't go to bootloader???
i'm assuming you have backups and your rooted, if you get to bootloader select recovery, and restore a backup rom
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Correct. I do have a nandroid backup I made right beforehand. I just can't get to it.
It is fully charged. I'm gonna take the battery out and let it sit for a few hours and see if that does the trick. Otherwise I might have to take a trip to the vzw store tomorrow
i don't think you have to let it sit for hours just pull it out and put it back in
I know. This is kind of a last ditch effort type thing. I have no idea why it won't let me into bootloader. Unless my volume rocker decided to stop working for some reason
You don't need to let the battery sit, just pull it to turn the phone off. Put it back in and try to get into recovery or bootloader.
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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.
Hello,
after i did a nandroid backup, my desire wont boot anymore. The display goes on, showing up some green htc letters but turns off after ~20 secs. After another ~10 secs the display turns on again; this procedure repeats.
I cant get into clockwork recovery (probably because the phone is only for 10 secs off).
Any suggestions what to do?
I am not that much experienced in android development etc :/
Regards, Nick
I had the same problem earlier after i did a ROM manager backup.
What i did:
1. Take off back cover and remove battery and replace
2. Get into HBOOT menu (Hold down volume button and power button)
3. Go to Recovery and recover there to a previous back up
It took me a while to figure this out, hope it works for you (seeing as you used nandroid, but hopefully it wont be too different. Im also new to this.)
Nandroid = backup
They're the same thing done different ways
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I had the same problem earlier after i did a ROM manager backup.
What i did:
1. Take off back cover and remove battery and replace
2. Get into HBOOT menu (Hold down volume button and power button)
3. Go to Recovery and recover there to a previous back up
It took me a while to figure this out, hope it works for you (seeing as you used nandroid, but hopefully it wont be too different. Im also new to this.)
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Thanks, worked.
Saw your thread but thought i wouldnt work for me because i didnt get into HBOOT.
Think there was a thread about people having issues with the first boot after a nandroid backup...
I need some help, I ran the ota 3.70 then tried to run unrevoked 3.3 it said something like unsuccessful is your firmware to new. When I rebooted phone it won’t go past the boot screen (with screen with the htc evo 4g logo) I can get it to turn on to the boot loader screen but that’s about it, if I hit recovery it goes to the white screen or if I try to reboot it, it does the same thing. Also I can’t get to the card through the phone I tried to put a pc36img on the card from a card reader then put the card back in phone and it read the card but when it rebooted it just did the same thing. The boot screen says s-off hboot-2.10.0001 if that helps
Now the battery wont even charge the phone is totally dead. I think its time to take my EVO fishing.
Mail it to me if you are gonna do that. I need a development phone.
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Now the battery wont even charge the phone is totally dead. I think its time to take my EVO fishing.
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Did you pull the usb cord while in Unrevoked? cause that's a big no no.
Can you boot into HBOOT? power on while holding volume down?
If you can get to HBOOT, then you should be able to run an RUU and start over.
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Now the battery wont even charge the phone is totally dead. I think its time to take my EVO fishing.
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Turn the phone off and it should charge. You know, I could use a dev phone too if you have to get rid of it.
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Pull the battery out and then put it back in and then put it on the charger. Let it charge until the light turns green. Download the original PC36IMG for the version that came on your phone. I would go down to at least 3.29 version. Now put it on the root of your sdcard. Boot the phone by pressing volume down and power which will put you into hboot(or bootloader). It will automatically detect your PC36IMG and load it. It will then ask you if you want to update and select yes by pressing volume up. It will install the ruu and then ask you to reboot and again select yes to reboot. Now start all over on your rooting process. Make sure that when you put the PC36IMG on the root of your sdcard that you name it PC36IMG. A lot of people make the mistake of naming it PC36IMG.img.img and this will not work. Just PC36IMG.img
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Pull the battery out and then put it back in and then put it on the charger. Let it charge until the light turns green. Download the original PC36IMG for the version that came on your phone. I would go down to at least 3.29 version. Now put it on the root of your sdcard. Boot the phone by pressing volume down and power which will put you into hboot(or bootloader). It will automatically detect your PC36IMG and load it. It will then ask you if you want to update and select yes by pressing volume up. It will install the ruu and then ask you to reboot and again select yes to reboot. Now start all over on your rooting process. Make sure that when you put the PC36IMG on the root of your sdcard that you name it PC36IMG. A lot of people make the mistake of naming it PC36IMG.img.img and this will not work. Just PC36IMG.img
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Through out this whole ordeal I have done exactly what you said ie putting the orginal pc36img the 3.29 ver the phone would read it and write and then reboot into the loop.
The phone was in charge only and usb debugging off when all this happened. I can access the hboot usb plug and the device manager sees it but the computer does not see it as a mass storage device so I was putting the files on the card through a reader then back into the phone.
I was going to put amon recovery on the card and try to get into recovery that way. I have 3 nands on the card 2 are from the old clockwork ver and one is from the new ver that came with unrevoked 3.3. The problem I have now is that the battery wont recognize any meany of charging either a usb from computer or the wall charger.
Ok I found a recovery.zip file at xda that I renamed pc36img put it on the card and managed to get enough juice in the battery, for it to read and it finally booted up. then I ran the official htc pc36img.exe ver3.29 which unrooted it and put it back to stock. Then I did the ota update and rerooted with unrevoted 3.31 did a nand restore and it seems to be ok. That was very scary!!!
I don't have any faith this is repairable, but I thought I'd ask before I went on Craigslist and looked for a replacement. Here's the senario
bought a EVO and had it flashed to Boost Mobile, it worked fine but I wanted to put a better rom on it. When I bought it, it had Twopointtwo, which I really liked. After I got it flashed it was back to the stock Sprint rom. So I followed the TPT guide on here to a tee yesterday, I couldn't get the radio update to work, I got an error, but I decided I'd try installing the ROM any ways because if I have a problem I could just do a restore.
The phone was getting stuck on the EVO boot screen, I let it sit there for about an hour. So I went into recovery and wiped everything and tried again, When I installed TPT and rebooted I got the phone icon with the arrow and circle around it. I tried power and vol up or down, nothing. so I did a battery pull. Now when I press the power, nothing.
I did a battery pull, took the SD card out, when I hook it to a USB my Windows 7 isn't detecting anything. My gut's telling me it's bricked and there's nothing I can do. But maybe I'm wrong? One thing is, I can't remember if the radio update took or didn't take when I tried to re-flash it this morning.
Copy the contents of your SD card to your computer. Afterwards, using a card reader or your computer, format the SD card, removing all partitions. Afterwards, downloaded a fresh copy of the PC36IMG.zip file for amon_RA from HERE. After that, download a fresh copy of TwoPoint Two or whatever rom you want to use. Place both files on the root of your freshly formatted SD card. Now turn off your device. Simultaneously press the DOWN volume button and the power button until your device starts. After a short pause, a few lines of text will flash across the screen. At the top of the screen, you should see "S-OFF". If you see "S-ON", you will have to re-root your device. Anyway, the bootloader will automatically detect the PC36IMG.zip file and prompt you to install. Follow the prompts to install. The installation will take about 10 seconds. Afterwards, reboot into your new recovery, and flash the radio. Afterwards, wipe cache & dalvik and then flash the PRI. After that, flash the NV, the WIMAX and HBOOT. Make sure you wipe cache & dalvik in between flashing. You can download the radio stuff from HERE. After that, wipe cache & dalvil ans then go to the flash zip menu and flash your rom. You *should* be good to go afterwards. Be patient during the initial bootup.
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Thanks I'll try that when I get home, the phone doesn't even turn on now, not sure I made that clear in my OP. I tried with and without the SD card in and either way it does nothing when power (and vol up or down) is pressed.
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Thanks I'll try that when I get home, the phone doesn't even turn on now, not sure I made that clear in my OP. I tried with and without the SD card in and either way it does nothing when power (and vol up or down) is pressed.
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No, I was unaware that it doesn't power up. Just in case, however, plug it in to the charger, wait about 15 minutes and then see if it turns on. Also, see if the charging LED lights up.
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No, I was unaware that it doesn't power up. Just in case, however, plug it in to the charger, wait about 15 minutes and then see if it turns on. Also, see if the charging LED lights up.
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I left it hooked to a wall charger for about an hour to a wall charger.
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I left it hooked to a wall charger for about an hour to a wall charger.
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Hopefully, it'll power on for you. If it does, follow my instructions. Of it doesn't, try everything again. Take out the battery and SD card and then reinsert them. Try to get to the bootloader screen by simultaneously pressing the power and DOWN volume button. Try connecting via USB to your computer and then try to power it up. Do everything you can before getting rid of it. Let is know what happens either way....Good luck
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Hope it works out for you but if not check out what you can sell it for on e-bay. A bricked Evo with zero damage and a clean ESN goes for some pretty decent $$$
Did you pull the battery right after flashing a radio? I don't know if I followed you correctly, but if that's what happened, the radio was still flashing (the screen with the phone and arrow in a circle is what you get when you flash a radio update, you're supposed to wait and it'll send you back to recovery). Your phone is most likely bricked forever if you did in fact pull the battery during the radio update.
If not, there still may be hope
(from... Evo/MIUI/Tapatalk)
That was my impression too, that he did the battery pull in the middle of the radio update.
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That was my impression too, that he did the battery pull in the middle of the radio update.
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+1 If I followed correctly, he pulled the battery when it was at the screen with the arrow, which would indicate that the phone was flashing something very important (radio). The battery pull during that phase bricked it, without a doubt. Time for a new Evo, for sure.
Uhm, long story short My Evo crapped out on me with the endless booting. Now before I get trolled. Yes, I have research this issue for several days now yielding little to no results. I went from only seeing a black screen to the constant reboot after the "drag to unlock screen". The phone has a mind of its own only working when ever it wants to. But after a reboot or a battery pull the cycle begins again until it decides that it wants to run again. So the cards are on the table, I'm up for any suggestions, tips and so what you want to throw at me.
What I've done:
flashing the RUU as a .exe as well as .zip file
OTA Update (gave me the black screen)
Thanks, Don
boot into recovery and wipe all the data then install the rom again?
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I was NOT rooted. But, I tried that through the stock recovery (holding volume down+ power through the recovery screen) ANd nothing. Same results.This phone will not defeat me!!
I don't know if this would help. I found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1302172
You could download the PC36IMG zip and use the bootloader to restore the phone.
If you are not on Sprint, you could do a search for a stock unrooted ROM for your carrier.
Ok if your not a rooted user, which as you say your not, hold your volume button down and power button (after you remove your battery and put it back in), then let go when your screen turns on. You should be at a recovery, find factory reset. All this will do is put your phone back to factory defaults. All your contacts are automatically on your gmail, and will sync to your phone as soon as you sign in with it after your factory reset
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I don't know if this would help. I found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1302172
You could download the PC36IMG zip and use the bootloader to restore the phone.
If you are not on Sprint, you could do a search for a stock unrooted ROM for your carrier.
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I attempted this as well, i'm still getting the constant loop with a RARE boot up.
ReapersDeath said:
Ok if your not a rooted user, which as you say your not, hold your volume button down and power button (after you remove your battery and put it back in), then let go when your screen turns on. You should be at a recovery, find factory reset. All this will do is put your phone back to factory defaults. All your contacts are automatically on your gmail, and will sync to your phone as soon as you sign in with it after your factory reset
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Tried this too. I ended up rooting it yesterday using the revolutionary method, hoping that flashing a custom rom could possibly fix the corrupted file or w.e could be causing this, but nothing. This is ridiculous, is it possible that it could be a hardware defect?? If I ever get it booted again, ill post the hardware specs.
Thanks once again,Don.
Update:
currently I managed to get Myn's twopointtwo ROM functioning properly for the time being at least.
Software:
android 2.2
baseband 2.15.00.05.02
kernel 2.6.32.17
hardware 003