I bricked my evo 4g while attempting to flash to metro (on my own, couldnt find a exact guide). I had written a metro prl, donor flashed, and I was changing the NAM settings. All this went fine and then I was attempting to write the NVRAM file from whiterabbit site exactly as it told me. It wrote successfully but when I turned on my phone it was bricked.
I can access boot loader but it wont load into recovery. I get the white htc screen over and over again when I normally turn it on or when I attempt to access recovery.
Any help would be appreciated Im super frustrated .
Here are my bootloader specs
Unlocked
supersonic evt2-3 ship S-ON
HBOOT-2.16.0001
MICROP-041F
TOUCH PANEL-ATMEL224_16ab
tenfour1 said:
I bricked my evo 4g while attempting to flash to metro (on my own, couldnt find a exact guide). I had written a metro prl, donor flashed, and I was changing the NAM settings. All this went fine and then I was attempting to write the NVRAM file from whiterabbit site exactly as it told me. It wrote successfully but when I turned on my phone it was bricked.
I can access boot loader but it wont load into recovery. I get the white htc screen over and over again when I normally turn it on or when I attempt to access recovery.
Any help would be appreciated Im super frustrated .
Here are my bootloader specs
Unlocked
supersonic evt2-3 ship S-ON
HBOOT-2.16.0001
MICROP-041F
TOUCH PANEL-ATMEL224_16ab
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Lol duude calm yooouur nips duude...
Now on to your thing......first your not hard brick which is good and look up how to unroot EVO 4G and reroot it where its HBOOT 2.16 S=OFF then try your method of going to metro or somthing lol
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You can try and take your SD card out of the phone stick it on your computer and download a recovery place it on your of the SD card rename it to PC36IMG.zip ,place the card back on the phone and go to your bootloader and see if it finds the update
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Will unrooting unbrick my phone? And i have a recovery I just cant reach it because when i press recovery it boots to the white screen again. I tryed reflashing my recovery and same thing keeps happening.
A little update at where Im stuck. I reflashed my recovery in hope that it will work but nothing and now it will not let me flash using Cmd prompt anymore. I cannot flash using cmd because it says waiting for device. Putting roms or recoverys in my sd card and renaming as PC36IMG comes out the same, it stops at Parsing zip and never moves forward. I cannot reach recovery because when I click it I just get the white splash screen again.
Apparently my messed up NV items are not as simple to fix as other bricks. There was a solution posted here by cutthroat but the file is no longer downloadable. Here is the link.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...6&postcount=54
Any further help on how to fix my NV files or stop this bootloop/brick would be appreciated. Thanks
Well I looked through all those old links and trying to get those files now looks *really* hard.
You could try what someone did in this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31931866&postcount=49
And hope that it works.
Maybe afterwards flash a stock rom like nitrous rom and ##3282# reset and ##786# reset
**edit**
This one looks interesting too:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1885208
If you could actually manage to find the nv.img file that would restore your evo, all you need to do is load the engineering hboot aka eng hboot,
then "fastboot flash nv nv.img" ( Without the quotes )
**edit #2**
Supposedly you can get a nv.img file from a PC36IMG.ZIP file, ruu maybe?
Anyways, this thread looks helpful too:
http://cdmagurus.com/archive/index.php/t-4567.html
Thanks for the advice. I'll look into these. I gave up for a few weeks cause Ive gotten too busy lately but hopefully it will be fixed soon
tenfour1 said:
Thanks for the advice. I'll look into these. I gave up for a few weeks cause Ive gotten too busy lately but hopefully it will be fixed soon
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No problem. I actually had to fix a friend's evo a week ago that had this same problem. It already had S-OFF so I found an eng hboot that was inside a PC36IMG.zip file
After it had flashed, I put it back in bootloader and executed the fastboot command in my post above with the nv.img file you can find by searching google for "mik mik evo radio"
You want the one that says: Baseband 2.15.00.12.19, PRI 2.33_003, WiMax 27243 & NV 2.15_003
After I flashed the nvitems, it worked fine afterwards. Reflashed back to the carrier and all was well.
So Ive tryed a few things and Im stumped. I tryed to fastboot flash my nv.img and it never works. I tryed to put an original signed ruu into my sd card and it never flashes. I looked at trying to s-off but i cant seem to find a guide where I can do it with a bricked phone. Dont really know what to try next.
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I've searched the forums and have not found a situation that really matches mine.
I've been running on a Cyanogen nightly build for probably two months with no problems. Out of nowhere this morning my phone reboots itself (while it was idle; I wasn't even touching it) and then gets stuck in a boot loop. I get the White HTC Evo 4G screen, then it powers off and comes back up to the white screen again. Over and over.
All I can get do is hboot. Even telling hboot to go into the recovery mode puts my back into the boot loop. Fastboot, clear storage, and hboot usb all seem to work though. I've tried downloading the PC36IMG.zip file (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780141) in that thread, but hboot loads it and tells me that it is older than my current version, and only gives me the option to reboot, or not to reboot. Doesn't load the image.
Here is the information on my hboot screen:
SUPERSONIC EVT2-3 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.97.0000
MICROP-041f
TOUCH PANEL-ATMEL224_16ab
RADIO-2.15.00.09.01
Aug 19 2010, 14:29:08
Anybody have any ideas? Thanks!
you lost root, s-on
you can still start the bootloader so it's not a brick
need to get s-off before you can load recovery again and reflash your rom
have you tried the RUU? if it installs and defaults you then you can unrevoked to root
NewZJ said:
you lost root, s-on
you can still start the bootloader so it's not a brick
need to get s-off before you can load recovery again and reflash your rom
have you tried the RUU? if it installs and defaults you then you can unrevoked to root
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Trying the RUU here now: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=874091
Wish me luck!
luck has been wished
Kuhmo said:
Trying the RUU here now: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=874091
Wish me luck!
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This didn't work. Everything is still the same, except that my hboot version is now 2.10.0001. Any other thoughts?
still won't not into any rom? did you get errors?
NewZJ said:
still won't not into any rom? did you get errors?
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No, the app on the PC said everything was successful. The progress bar on the phone progressed without errors too.
what happens when you reboot the phone not going into bootloader?
Just the HTC EVO 4G splash screen. Over and over and over...
does it show the boot animation or just stuck on splash?
Just the splash. No animation.
pull the battery, remove your sdcard, put the battery back in, see if it gets to the animation
Doh, you upgraded your hboot. It's alright though, just run the ruu one more time and your should be ok
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Wrong button..
xHausx said:
Doh, you upgraded your hboot. It's alright though, just run the ruu one more time and your should be ok
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
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I asked my wife to check this thread from the car on the way to dinner. Saw the response. So I took my laptop inside with us and used the RUU one more time. No luck. I decided that it must be a hardware issue. I took the SD out and removed the evidence that the phone had been rooted, then took it to the sprint service center up the road. They just replaced it for me. Thanks for your time! I DO want to root my phone again, the ROMs are just so much better than the stock installation. Should I not install the OTA updates if I'm going to root it? Which guide should I follow for rooting?
never do OTA when rooted, use unrevoked to root, unrevoked.com
NewZJ said:
never do OTA when rooted, use unrevoked to root, unrevoked.com
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Not when rooted. I meant should I update to the latest OTA UNTIL I decide to do the root again? Is the latest OTA unrootable?
Same deal.
Here is the post that I put in the wrong forum that I was about to post here until I saw this thread...
Wellp. I win.
I win a no expenses paid trip to my nearest Sprint dealer.
Ever since I used unrevoked to root my phone in November, I've been voraciously digging through these forums for tasty roms. I've been snorting lines of Cyanogen, MIUI, and a myriad of other, well-designed roms.
Using a on older version of hboot (pre 1 methinks) I was able to avoid the latest hassles with ClockworkMod (plus, I down(up?)graded to 2.6 via RomManager).
Tonight, as I was enjoying some tasty foodstuffs at my local foodstuff vendor, my phone rebooted. Then, it rebooted again. Then again. I once made the folly of flashing a new rom without running the appropriate wipes, and was no stranger to the bootloop. I patiently fired up hboot (my poor volume rocker is all but wore out) and ordered up the trusty recovery mode.
...then it rebooted again... and again... and again.
PusSidiasus: ONOES! I HAVE THE WTFBBRICKED MY PRECIOUS!
SmartAsSidiasus: Hang on for a second, let's check the internet. Try this link: tinyurl.com/4vgeyeg
PusSidiasus: ...
Unfortunately, my internal dialogues are not nearly as witty. Also, my best attempts to de-brick-ify were for naught. Fastboot gave some wacky error message when I tried to flash a new recovery, and installing via PC36IMG.zip did nothing to improve the situation. I even went so far as to install a stock image someone pulled from an RUU (with a 2.02hboot, so as to avoid wimax woes)...
Still, a whole lotta nothing. I can't do anything beyond hboot, and whatever recovery image I install (Clockworkmod, AmanRa) the machine still bootloops.
At this juncture, I've resigned to taking the phone into the sprint store and playing dumb. It is a stock rom, though I hope the attendant misses the S-OFF bit at boot. Which brings me to my proper question:
1) Has anyone run aground a similar issue and found a way out?
OR...
2) Anyone know how to turn S-(back)ON in my current situation?
Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Also, you can rest assured that I'll be rooting again whatever phone I walk away with, and the work that is exhibited in these forums is amazing. Keep churning out wonderful roms and guides.
Sidiasus
(Currently, Sadiasus... )
run the ruu to s-on then trade for another
NewZJ said:
run the ruu to s-on then trade for another
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Ack, sorry... didn't mention in previous post. I fired up windows to run the RUU (I don't trust wine to that stuff) but it couldn't detect the device.
Recently my phone was working fine until today. I was on mikfroyo 4.4 everything was fine until i decided to flash an unimportant file, when i reboot it my phone was doing boot loops, so i decided to wipe everything and flash a clean mikfroyo 4.4 again. it worked for a couple hours, later my phone started to freeze, i took the battery out and i got stuck on the white screen logo.. i tried to take battery out for a couple times and nothing.. i tired to go into recovery mode(amon-ra 2.2.1) and i could not get into recovery, it kept on freezing i was like WTF!! then i tried to go into bootloader and that worked fine, but when i choose to boot into recovery via bootloader it did boot into recovery but then it froze again in recovery.. So at the end nothing worked but bootloader.. then i decided to flash a ROM via bootloader (PC36IMG.zip) and that fixed all the problems temporarily (it did not freeze).. but then I notice that that was a stock unrooted PC36IMG file so i lost root and it put back the HTC stock recovery (NOT AMON-RA nor CLOCKWORK).. then the problems started again (the same from above).. but since i rooted my phone via unrevoked forever i had S-OFF.. so i flashed AMON_RA recovery via bootloader to see if I could flash unrevoked-forever-son (that way i could have S-ON and send it to sprint for a replacement) but again it kept on freezing on recovery mode.... so my question is is there anyway i can flash unrevoked-forever-son via bootloader.... that way i can send it to sprint and tell them that my phone keeps on freezing.
Nothing works but bootloader, everything else freezes (recovery mode and while trying to boot the phone)
I will apreciate your time and help.
Did you try running unrevoked son as PC36img.zip?, then the stock RUU. (doesn't sound like it could hurt, lol)
but what kind of files would i put inside pc36img?
You don't put anything inside the PC36IMG.zip file. It comes ready to go from the unrevoked team:
How can this be removed or undone if I need to take my phone in for service?
Download the latest ''S-ON'' tool to a temporary location and follow the installation instructions above to run it. Once your phone is S-ON, you may lose root permanently if you install an official update
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- So go here: http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/forever
- Find the section I quoted above
- Download the PC36IMG.zip file
- Put it on the root of your SD card
- Power off
- Hold vol down + power
- Once in HBOOT it will automatically find/ask to run the PC36IMG.zip file
- volia! s-on
I know, i understand that process but my problem is that i cant go into recovery AT ALL it frezzes each time neither to boot my phone normally... the only thing that works fine is bootloader.. so what i am trying to look for is a way to flash the s-on tool via botloader bc i can not go into recovery.
the pc36img contains the stock unrooted ROM - supposed to be flashed via bootloader (i have already done this process so i lost root)
and when you download the S-on tool it comes in a zip file that is suppose to be flash thru recovery not bootloader (and this will be my final step which is not done yet)
yoboii23 said:
I know, i understand that process but my problem is that i cant go into recovery AT ALL it frezzes each time neither to boot my phone normally... the only thing that works fine is bootloader.. so what i am trying to look for is a way to flash the s-on tool via botloader bc i can not go into recovery.
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Edit: one sec -- I am looking for a PC36IMG.zip that did s-on.
spiicytuna said:
I am looking for a PC36IMG.zip that did s-on; I've used it recently on a friends evo
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This is what i was looking for i hope you can find it!! !!!
I was looking for a way to have the s-on tool inside a PC36IMG.zip.. i didnt think it was possible
But isn't that process (PC36IMG.zip) only for things that suppose to be flash thru bootloader? like slpash screens, recoverys, boot.img? so in what category does the s-on tool fits?
I'm sorry for all this questions but i dont wanna make my phone worse then what already is.
I think your best bet is to hop on freenode and join channel #unrevokedtest
Easiest way to do this is here: http://webchat.freenode.net/
They'll be able to help you for sure. LazyDog and joshua_ are two good people to look for.
thank you man.. but nope is confirmed you can not put put the S-on tool into a PC36IMG.zip ima have to tell sprint that i lost it.
yoboii23 said:
thank you man.. but nope is confirmed you can not put put the S-on tool into a PC36IMG.zip ima have to tell sprint that i lost it.
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Did you talk to the guys on irc? Seriously, I've seen them preform some miracles.
PS. The chances of Sprint checking s-on/off is highly unlikely.
You can use the pc36img from amon ra's thread to flash the recovery and then use it to lock your nand. Afterward all you have to do is run the ruu one more time and you will be good to go
I agree with what was said before. The likelihood that they'll look at S-On is VERY small. I would just take it in, tell them its freezing all the time, and ask for a replacement. If by some crazy chance they do look at S-On, just play dumb and pretend you don't even know what it is. If you've got a cute lookin girl to help you that'd be willing to take it in, all the better
Otherwise, try running the RUU for your build number. We'll go from there if you still have problems.
I fixed it, it was all due to a ripped cable inside my evo I don't knw how that happened but it happened lol all I had to do was replace my screen.
And yea I did talk to guys from unrevoked.. they r pretty smart and understood my problem quick but were unable to help me.
Ok I bought a evo off of ebay that has this problem. Can anyone help me out please? the phone didnt come with an sd card and its not rooted I dont think.
Here is the info on Hboot white screen. . .
SUPERSONIC EVT2-3 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.97.0000
MICROP-041F
TOUCH-PANEL-ATMELC03_16ac
RADI0-2.15.00.09.01
Aug 19 2010,14:29:08
(also it wont go into recovery. it goes to the white screen and restarts that screen over and over)
Can someone please help me and advise me what to do? All the threads ive came across mentioned to do with rooting.
Thanks.
-AL
AL_CAPONE_X3 said:
Ok I bought a evo off of ebay that has this problem. Can anyone help me out please? the phone didnt come with an sd card and its not rooted I dont think.
Here is the info on Hboot white screen. . .
SUPERSONIC EVT2-3 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.97.0000
MICROP-041F
TOUCH-PANEL-ATMELC03_16ac
RADI0-2.15.00.09.01
Aug 19 2010,14:29:08
(also it wont go into recovery. it goes to the white screen and restarts that screen over and over)
Can someone please help me and advise me what to do? All the threads ive came across mentioned to do with rooting.
Thanks.
-AL
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The first thing,you are not rooted,in hboot you will see S-Off if you are rooted,the other thing is,you need a SD card.When you get the SD card,insert it and follow these directions....
1: Download and install HTC drivers HTC drivers
2: Download the rooting tool/program revolutionary Revolutionary, downloads are at the bottom of the page. You will need to enter in your Evo's serial number (under the battery) and be sure to save the beta key. You'll need it later..(best thing to do is copy and paste the beta key into command box).
3: Enable USB debugging (settings>applications>development>turn on USB debugging) and connect the evo to your PC as charge only
4: Un-zip the S-OFF tool and run the program, making sure to install the custom recovery when prompted. (unless you already know what you're doing and want to put Amon_Ra or TWRP recovery on there)You will need a recovery,here is Amon RA Style
5: Download SuperUser and boot into recovery. To enter recovery: power off completely, yes battery pull while off too be sure, then hold volume down+power and from there go to recovery and confirm.
6: install superuser from recovery (you must put the Superuser zip on the SD card first, before booting into recovery. Or mount your SD card while in recovery to take it too your Evo. OR, download it too your phone before booting into recovery )
YOU ARE NOW ROOTED.
7: (optional but highly recommended) Make a nandroid backup via recovery and then put it on the PC just to be sure nothing will happen too it.
This is not my tool,i'm just posting this for you.You will need a rom to install,you can get them here .
He's on Hboot 097. He can root with unrEVOked, I'm pretty sure
Which is better revolutionary or unrevoked? Which is easier?
Also will this fix my issue. I dont care if im rooted or not. Sure it would be nice. But my main worry is fixing this issue first. Than rooting. But if I can "kill two birds with one stone" than even better.
AL_CAPONE_X3 said:
Which is better revolutionary or unrevoked? Which is easier?
Also will this fix my issue. I dont care if im rooted or not. Sure it would be nice. But my main worry is fixing this issue first. Than rooting. But if I can "kill two birds with one stone" than even better.
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Unrevolked,is good.Yes it will fix your issue,not guarenteed,but 95% sure.Theres a possibility your phone could be toast,but lets try the unrevoked root first...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=787304
Ok thanks I gotta try it. But how am I suppose to get into usb debugging if my phone doesnt even get that far on. Just stays stuck at that screen. Revolutionary seemed easy so I hope unrevoked is also or it dont matter which one I do.
AL_CAPONE_X3 said:
Ok thanks I gotta try it. But how am I suppose to get into usb debugging if my phone doesnt even get that far on. Just stays stuck at that screen. Revolutionary seemed easy so I hope unrevoked is also or it dont matter which one I do.
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Sorry i never used unrevoked,revolutionary worked great for me.
AL_CAPONE_X3 said:
Ok I bought a evo off of ebay that has this problem. Can anyone help me out please? the phone didnt come with an sd card and its not rooted I dont think.
Here is the info on Hboot white screen. . .
SUPERSONIC EVT2-3 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.97.0000
MICROP-041F
TOUCH-PANEL-ATMELC03_16ac
RADI0-2.15.00.09.01
Aug 19 2010,14:29:08
(also it wont go into recovery. it goes to the white screen and restarts that screen over and over)
Can someone please help me and advise me what to do? All the threads ive came across mentioned to do with rooting.
Thanks.
-AL
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First off, you're going to need an SD card. Onto that SD Card, download this file: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9362091/PC3...15.00.11.19_NV_1.90_release_161482_signed.zip
Rename the file to just PC36IMG.zip, and put it on the root of the SD Card. Put the SD Card into the device, and boot into HBOOT. It should recognize the file, take a while to load it, and then ask if you want to update. Choose "yes" by pressing the Volume up button. This part will take a while - it'll reboot into bootloader once during the update process, so don't be alarmed by that, and by all means, don't touch it while it's updating. Once it's done, it'll ask you if you want to reboot. Choose yes, and then we'll see if it'll boot up. If it does, then you can proceed to root it using unrevoked3. If it doesn't, then you got a raw deal and you should get your money back (I hope you used PayPal!).
ok i did everything and everything said ok except "radio_v2 -fail-pu" and at the end it says partition update fail and ask if i wanna try again
AL_CAPONE_X3 said:
ok i did everything and everything said ok except "radio_v2 -fail-pu" and at the end it says partition update fail and ask if i wanna try again
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I wish i could help you out,i've never used unrevoked,so i could'nt tell ya.Hopefully throwback will help you with this.Good luck with the phone.
AL_CAPONE_X3 said:
ok i did everything and everything said ok except "radio_v2 -fail-pu" and at the end it says partition update fail and ask if i wanna try again
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Sounds like someone sold you a semi-bricked phone. Does it still get stuck when you try booting it up? If it can't update the radio partition, then that means it's corrupt, and the phone is unusable.
it wasnt unrevoked its the pc36img that gave that error. everything else was ok.
does it still get stuck at what.part? the white screen. i think so. but doesnt flash repeatedly now. is it the right pc36img for me that
was posted
AL_CAPONE_X3 said:
does it still get stuck at what.part? the white screen. i think so. but doesnt flash repeatedly now. is it the right pc36img for me that
was posted
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A PC36IMG.zip is just a ROM file set up to flash in the bootloader. If that won't completely flash (especially if the radio update is failing), you might be stuck. I can give you a newer one to try, but then you'll have to use a different rooting method, if you get it to successfully update.
I don't see why it would work, though.
ill try another img file. what other way to root? isnt the way where you gotta save serial number or what not the easiest way!?
AL_CAPONE_X3 said:
ill try another img file. what other way to root? isnt the way where you gotta save serial number or what not the easiest way!?
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Based on your info your ONLY way to root is unrevoked.
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which means if i do another img file ill never be able to root?
AL_CAPONE_X3 said:
which means if i do another img file ill never be able to root?
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You can keep trying to flash a PC36IMG.zip ruu but if you keep getting a radio pu error there is no point
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
so there no way to fix it or the radio or this problem of it not being able to boot past this whogr boot up screen. or if i got insurance will it get replaced for free.
Some1 sold you a phone that was bricked. The radio update is failing cuz that's how it got bricked in the first place...bad radio updates. That is the most common way bricks happen. Get your money back asap. End of story.
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Well i've been working for the past 9 hours trying ever possible thing i could find trying to fix my issue without any progress. How do i get back to stock so i can start over?!
Supersonic EVT1 ENG s-off
hboot-2.10.0001 (pc36*****)
microp-041f
touch panel-atmelc03_16ac
radio-2.15.00.05.02
mar 30 2010, 11:24:04
I was rooted with unrevoked after reverting back from the newest OTA using a guide from the XDA forums. everything was working wonderfully but my dumbass had to try and downgrade to an ancient ENG Hboot. using thefredelement's guide to get back to ENG .76. NOT NOTICING i shouldn't try it with HW version 003/004. unfortunately my phone is HW 003. idk what i need to do to get this fixed or if i bricked my phone. I've got a warranty still so i can always just report it lost pay the 50 and restore from my backup sd card.
anyways, my computer is able to see my phone with fastboot but not adb. i get errors when trying to flash new recoveries or anything but radios (such as fail PU, image update error, data length too large, etc) Trying to do anything with adb shell just says "device not found" (yes, i have the correct drivers installed) I CANNOT get into recovery (i had CWM 5.0.2.2) it just reboots back to hboot or the screen with the three droids skateboarding when i try. sorry ahead of time if this is posted in the wrong section/i just killed some brain cells with my stupidity and lack of experience. thanks in advance for any help and advice i can get! (sorry for the double post, idk how to delete postings)
Xexus said:
Well i've been working for the past 9 hours trying ever possible thing i could find trying to fix my issue without any progress. How do i get back to stock so i can start over?!
Supersonic EVT1 ENG s-off
hboot-2.10.0001 (pc36*****)
microp-041f
touch panel-atmelc03_16ac
radio-2.15.00.05.02
mar 30 2010, 11:24:04
I was rooted with unrevoked after reverting back from the newest OTA using a guide from the XDA forums. everything was working wonderfully but my dumbass had to try and downgrade to an ancient ENG Hboot. using thefredelement's guide to get back to ENG .76. NOT NOTICING i shouldn't try it with HW version 003/004. unfortunately my phone is HW 003. idk what i need to do to get this fixed or if i bricked my phone. I've got a warranty still so i can always just report it lost pay the 50 and restore from my backup sd card.
anyways, my computer is able to see my phone with fastboot but not adb. i get errors when trying to flash new recoveries or anything but radios (such as fail PU, image update error, data length too large, etc) Trying to do anything with adb shell just says "device not found" (yes, i have the correct drivers installed) I CANNOT get into recovery (i had CWM 5.0.2.2) it just reboots back to hboot or the screen with the three droids skateboarding when i try. sorry ahead of time if this is posted in the wrong section/i just killed some brain cells with my stupidity and lack of experience. thanks in advance for any help and advice i can get! (sorry for the double post, idk how to delete postings)
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Remain calm. Let's see if we can get you fully functional.
First, let's upgrade that HBOOT. That by itself might fix you up, if it'll flash through the bootloader. Try the PC36IMG.zip attached to this post. It's for HBOOT 2.15.
If it flashes successfully, it should reboot the bootloader for you. If it doesn't, choose the fastboot option that does, and when it comes back up, try getting into recovery. If you can get into recovery, the next thing you should do is retire CWM and flash RA-supersonic.
thx capt. I actually just filed a clain through asurion, and for my $100 deductible i've getting a brand new evo3d xD so jumping the gun for the replacement actually worked out for me this time!
Xexus said:
thx capt. I actually just filed a clain through asurion, and for my $100 deductible i've getting a brand new evo3d xD so jumping the gun for the replacement actually worked out for me this time!
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A shame to send back a perfectly fine OG . But I'm glad it worked out for you. Personally I like the challenge of trying to rescue a soft-bricked device. But I guess we'll never know if it was possible, now . . .
i would have loved to have found out myself. but being on probation and in the process of finding a job I just didnt have the time to mess with it i've still got it so once i get some time i'm going to attempt to unbrick it still. although its useless now that it's been deactivated lol
I have hw 003 hboot 2.10. I can enter hboot but not recovery. during normal boot phone just shows evo boot screen and boot loops. same thing when I try to enter recovery. I was s-off but after trying some methods in other brick threads I ended up with s-on.
I was using miui 2.2.3 when I turned it rebooted into recovery to make a nand and that is when the loops started. I have tried several ruu's with no luck on getting it to boot. was going to try the lastest ruu but not sure if I should.
I am flashed for cricket so there is not the option of bricking and returning to sprint for a replacement.
Edit: was not using twrp. Ar 2.3 was my recovery. As stated earlier I tried several ruu's in pc36img.zip.
If you can get to hboot you are not bricked. Have you tried using a pc36img of a stock rom in the hboot? This should boot you to a stock rom, thus allowing you to re-root and get your recovery back.
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If you can get to hboot you are not bricked. Have you tried using a pc36img of a stock rom in the hboot? This should boot you to a stock rom, thus allowing you to re-root and get your recovery back.
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You can be bricked and still get in hboot Twrp2.0 did it to a few phones, the partitions end up screwed up and you can boot to hboot but no recovery or system not sure which partition gets borked but I think its the misc partition
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Where is Captain_Throwback to save the day and another evo once again
Oh I am sure Captain will save the day soon as he always does.
That does not sound like fun man, sometimes the evos get crazy and there is nothing you can do about it. Did you do anything different before you had this issue? flash any files, adjust any system settings or mess with the hardware in anyway?
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Oh I am sure Captain will save the day soon as he always does.
That does not sound like fun man, sometimes the evos get crazy and there is nothing you can do about it. Did you do anything different before you had this issue? flash any files, adjust any system settings or mess with the hardware in anyway?
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No i had been running miui for a few days and was getting prepared for the next update by doing a nand. I rebooted to recovery with the reboot option in the rom. Then bang boot loop city here i am. Just tried the newest ruu pc36img.zip and still nothing. Going to get it unlocked later and see if I can reflash .img files through fastboot.
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You weren't using twrp2.0 were u? If you were more than likely SOL that's one of the main reasons twrp for the evo is no longer supported even tho it works great on other devices like the kindle fire and 3vo I use it on the KF which I have running cm9 which I just got running on the evo as well now I gotta get my kernel fixed for this thing, have you tried reflashing your recovery? Or using adb to push a boot.img
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Where is Captain_Throwback to save the day and another evo once again
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I know. Captain has become the shaman of the Evo. He needs a special title, like Honorary Genius, or something.
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You guys flatter me .
I don't have any experience with MIUI, though. It's the one ROM I've never tried, but if it's an AOSP ROM, then the bootloop of death is always a possibility.
We haven't had any success rescuing anyone in that scenario, unfortunately. Flashing the ENG HBOOT will allow you to run fastboot commands, though, so that's probably the first step if you want to flash stuff through fastboot.
If you can't get adb working, then there probably isn't much hope. Since you ended up S-ON, and now without a custom recovery, I don't think there's much you can do. Perhaps others with a similar issue can chime in, but as far as I know, there's no current solution. The only way I'd know for sure is having the phone in my hands personally, but I doubt that's a possibility. I haven't personally experienced this bootloop thing, but it sounds scary .
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No i had been running miui for a few days and was getting prepared for the next update by doing a nand. I rebooted to recovery with the reboot option in the rom. Then bang boot loop city here i am. Just tried the newest ruu pc36img.zip and still nothing. Going to get it unlocked later and see if I can reflash .img files through fastboot.
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Ok so I have unlocked the bootloader from the htcdevelopers site and i can now use fastboot commands and have tried flashing the recovery. I see it load and write to the phone only thing is that it makes no difference. I still just get the boot loop.
Hate to say it, my friend, but I think it's the end of the road for that phone
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Hate to say it, my friend, but I think it's the end of the road for that phone
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maybe but i will keep trying till the phone catches fire in my hands. I dont know the meaning of "quit". I read last night in a xda thread about a possible fix by this guy and some people said it would just brick the phone and others say it works. only thing is i have been unable to find that thread again. it had a link to some evo.docx file.
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maybe but i will keep trying till the phone catches fire in my hands. I dont know the meaning of "quit". I read last night in a xda thread about a possible fix by this guy and some people said it would just brick the phone and others say it works. only thing is i have been unable to find that thread again. it had a link to some evo.docx file.
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I assume you're referring to this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1480630
Have fun trying! Many have tried, and I think only 1 ever succeeded.
thanks captain.
capn, thanks for the link! I've had that README_EVO.docx file on my SD for god-knows-how-long and have always wondered where in the hell I got it lol (and 'why').
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Good luck, but condolences as well. My $ says, if Cap'n can't fix it, it likely can't be fixed (on Evo). Seems that guy has explored every RUU, Hboot, recovery, NV, Radio, kernel etc. He could probably BUILD an Evo, HW and SW lol.
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Captain throwback just the person i want to see lol i have a evo with 2.18 hboot
with s-on the phone keeps boot looping wrote the wrong nv to the phone now its boot looping also used the latest ruu top no avail still boot loops now is there a way i can repair the nv please help me with your guiding light and also this phone is not rooted or no roms its all stock also says in purple at the top ***LOCKED (00w) *** what ever that means ??
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Captain throwback just the person i want to see lol i have a evo with 2.18 hboot
with s-on the phone keeps boot looping wrote the wrong nv to the phone now its boot looping also used the latest ruu top no avail still boot loops now is there a way i can repair the nv please help me with your guiding light and also this phone is not rooted or no roms its all stock also says in purple at the top ***LOCKED (00w) *** what ever that means ??
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I think someone else was able to fix this problem . . . there's a thread around here somewhere. I'll try and find it.
EDIT: This is the thread - you'll probably want to read the whole thing, and if you have issues, maybe you can PM the guy that got it working.
The potential problem I see for you is that you're S-ON and bootloader is locked. You're probably going to have to unlock your device with HTCDev.com before you can make any headway. How were you able to write NV items to the phone? Don't you have to be S-OFF to do that?
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I think someone else was able to fix this problem . . . there's a thread around here somewhere. I'll try and find it.
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i remember you had them downgrade to the ENG hboot and they were able to use fastboot to change the NV ?
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i remember you had them downgrade to the ENG hboot and they were able to use fastboot to change the NV ?
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Yup. I updated my post above with the thread, but that guy was S-OFF, so it was actually possible. Not much you can do with S-ON and locked bootloader.
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Yup. I updated my post above with the thread, but that guy was S-OFF, so it was actually possible. Not much you can do with S-ON and locked bootloader.
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use HTC dev to unlock then use your guide to downgrade then root with revolutionary then downgrade hboot ?