Hey guys, so I am a bit of a n00b with HTC devices, I just got my HTC Inspire, I rooted, installed CWM with glevitans tool (with S-ON) and I attempted to install the Viper ROM. I put the zip in my sd, I fastbooted the boot.img after wipeing cache etc. and then I installed the ROM. Device gets past the HTC logo but it ends up in a black screen (no boot logo no nothing). I thought that I failed, so to make the device usable for a while until a next attempt, I booted into recovery and restored my previous NANDroid backup with the stock ROM. Still goes pass the HTC Logo but black screen again, I am going crazy! IDK what to do please help! Phone's new but no warranty!
You have to flash the boot.img using fastboot after installing the rom and not before installing the rom.
Thanks doesn't hurt....
if you choose full wipe in Aroma then boot partition is formated, so you have to flash boot.img again
when you restore a backup the boot is not restored(the same way as you can not flash boot from recovery, you can not restore it. s-off needed)
Issue solved, IDK, it has to be something with my device, I tried a few Sense roms on my device (flashed rom, then flashed boot.img) and all failed with a black screen. Then I downloaded an AOSP ROM (Revolution) and the phone booted right away. I prefer AOSP from Sense (it's much lighter). Anyways thanks guys, you both earned your thanks!
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i think i f.... bricked my phone. i was tryin to install rd miui. did a fastboot flash boot boot.img, fastboot clear cache, than booted into recovery and installed the miui zip. when i restarted my phone, it wont open, it got stuck on htc logo. got back to recovery, insalled the last rom i had, but nothing. again stucked on htc logo. what can i do? help me guys
Install the boot.img for your last ROM.
Install the stock kernel(boot.img)
for any rom you install you should flash boot for that rom or you will stuck at htc logo.
Ok so I just Unlocked my One X, rooted it and flashed TWRP recovery (touch control was not working in newer versions so i had to install version 2.4.0.0) i backed up everything through that TWRP everything was working just fine so I thought I could try to flash a custom ROM, i picked up ProBAM ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2291291
I wiped Cache, Dalvik, Factory Reset and System then I flashed that ROM throught TWRP, after that i flashed boot.img through my comptuer and rebooted phone it showed up the boot animation and the ProBAM logo where it stuck i though that it takes some time to load after flashing new ROM even the author of that ROM said that it takes 2 minutes to load up at first boot so I let it alone for some time but after 10 minutes it still didn't load up, I tried to do the same thing again 2 times Wipe/Flash/Boot but it didn't work so I though something is wrong, I wiped same things again and restored that backup I did earlier but I forgot to flash boot.img from that backup through pc and booted up phone it did stuck with HTC logo I did it once again this time i flashed that boot.img but now when i boot up the phone it throw me in TWRP recovery now I don't know what should i do to make it work again I don't want to make it even worse that's why im asking for help / I used this tutorial to do what i did:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069904
Unlocked
S-ON
HBOOT- 1.72
RADIO- 5.1204.167.31
CID- HTC_032
It's alright now, i just downloaded and used different kernel and it booted up
I've HTC dev bootloader unlocked desire hd with custom recovery. I've tried flashing boot.img (from rom.zip) in fastboot before and after flashing rom in recovery mode. The phone gets past htc logo screen and then goes blank with back light on and stays there forever. I've tried 4 different roms. The only rom I was able to flash was CM7.
The phone is currently at h-boot 2.00.0029, is this why I can't flash new roms?
Any help is really appreciated
tt33333 said:
I've HTC dev bootloader unlocked desire hd with custom recovery. I've tried flashing boot.img (from rom.zip) in fastboot before and after flashing rom in recovery mode. The phone gets past htc logo screen and then goes blank with back light on and stays there forever. I've tried 4 different roms. The only rom I was able to flash was CM7.
The phone is currently at h-boot 2.00.0029, is this why I can't flash new roms?
Any help is really appreciated
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Update your recovery.img to either of following;either one is good. But make backup of any rom you're on so that you may revert it back in future.
-TWRP 2.7.1.0
-Philz touch CWM
-4EXT Recovery Touch 1.0.0.6 RC 3
By the way which four roms you've tried? if recovery is up-to-date then phone should boot normally.
I have already tried philz touch and twrp. One thing I noticed was when i did a backup in recovery and tried restoring it and always get a md5 error. The same issue with different recoveries and on multiple tries. So I just flashed system.img and boot.img to get my phone back to stock rom.
Thanks
tt33333 said:
I have already tried philz touch and twrp. One thing I noticed was when i did a backup in recovery and tried restoring it and always get a md5 error. The same issue with different recoveries and on multiple tries. So I just flashed system.img and boot.img to get my phone back to stock rom.
Thanks
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Strange....
Well unmark md5 check on restore. And clear cache/dalvic before rebooting it,Let's see how it goes.Also want to know which perticular rom you've tried so far where you were facing this issue. Also did you format devlog partition before installing CM11 nigthlies 20140618 onwards? If not then try doing so and let me know where you gets stuck?
I'm also S-ON where most other already made S-OFF so feel free to ask me. I'll help as much as i know :good:
Still no luck, it basically does the same thing for all roms. HTC logo shows up and then the screen goes blank with black light on. I've tried these roms:
cm-11-20140710-UNOFFICIAL-M8.1-ace.zip
ICESenseV1.1.zip
cm-7-20130301-NIGHTLY-ace.zip
MK44.4-ace-140719-RELEASE.zip
AoCP6_UW1_Port_for_Ace
I don't get any errors during the flashing process for all except the last one (AoCP6).
Also, the cm7 works sometimes and on other occasions it does the same thing as well. Could it be the sequence? I do a wipe, flash rom and then boot.img? Also, I've a broken volume button, so I flash the rom in recovery and then I do "adb reboot bootloader" and then flash boot.img, could this be causing this issue?
If it's not too much trouble could you upload system.img and boot.img backup from your phone of any custom rom? I would like to flash those from fastboot.
Thanks
tt33333 said:
Still no luck, it basically does the same thing for all roms. HTC logo shows up and then the screen goes blank with black light on. I've tried these roms:
cm-11-20140710-UNOFFICIAL-M8.1-ace.zip
ICESenseV1.1.zip
cm-7-20130301-NIGHTLY-ace.zip
MK44.4-ace-140719-RELEASE.zip
AoCP6_UW1_Port_for_Ace
I don't get any errors during the flashing process for all except the last one (AoCP6).
Also, the cm7 works sometimes and on other occasions it does the same thing as well. Could it be the sequence? I do a wipe, flash rom and then boot.img? Also, I've a broken volume button, so I flash the rom in recovery and then I do "adb reboot bootloader" and then flash boot.img, could this be causing this issue?
If it's not too much trouble could you upload system.img and boot.img backup from your phone of any custom rom? I would like to flash those from fastboot.
Thanks
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Except Mokee 4.4.4 Release and CM11 M8.1 i used Philz but before that i was on CWM 5.8.1.5 and i had no issues with it. Also i've tried TWRP 2.7.1.0 too. Works perfect but i'm used to reboot into recovery by default option,which only available in CWM. Other recoveries boots into blank screen,If you powered off the device and put on charge.
Nope there isn't any sequence.... either you flash boot.img first or last it only helps in device to boot and have proper connectivity. Even if you don't flash boot.img then only your device should hang on bootloop or boots but no wifi reception. So these is something different.
Sure i can provide system.img and boot.img of M8.1 which i'm currently on. But how sure you're that it will work? I mean do you have a backup of it? Or fresh install. Also wanted to know have you ever tried format devlog partition and FULL WIPE your device?
Try using following attachments. FULL WIPE it's just an alternative of manual wipes,works with every recovery out there. And devlog partition will be formatted if any means of corrupted or remnant leftover using format_devlog zip. Meanwhile provide me details whether you got backup of M8.1 CM11 or going to flash fresh install. So that i can provide boot and system.img of it.
It's working now. Installed 4ext recovery and ran you'r script.
Thanks for all the help
Hi Guys,
This is first time I'm going it and obviously I'm missing some step...
I have HTC Desire HD (the european version) I successfully unlock the bootloader. Successfully installed the clockwork recovery on my recovery partition and I'm able to start installing the ROM from the SD card in the zip file, some ROMS even have wizard to go thru like the "Xperia UI mod" and so, but after the installation and the first reboot the phone never boots up successfully, it always freeze with black screen after htc animation at beginning...
Any idea what I'm doing wrong please? Thank you.
mastershotgun said:
Hi Guys,
This is first time I'm going it and obviously I'm missing some step...
I have HTC Desire HD (the europan version) I sucessfully unlock the bootloader. Sucessfully installed the clockwork recovery on my recovery partition and I'm able to start installing the ROM on the SD card in the zip file, some ROMS even have wizard to go thru like hte "Xperia UI mod" and so, but after the instalation and first reboot the phone never boots up sucessfully, it always freez with black screen after htc animation at bedining...
Any idea what I'm doign wrong please? Thank you.
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If you are S-ON user and you are trying a rom with custom kernel you have to flash it manually from your bootloader.Just extract the kernel from the zip you was going to flash with recovery to the folder you have fastboot and give the command fastboot flash boot boot.img.
It should solve your problem.You can always S-OFF your device or you can use 4EXT Recovery Touch
great,
that totaly worked, the trick is to flash the boot before installing the ROM not after...
Thank you Sir!
Hi Guys,
I have a HTC One X - I have unlocked the bootloader, installed a custom recovery (PhilZ recovery) and went to update from 4.2.2 to 5.1.1 using the Resurrection ROM.
Anyway, I went into the recovery menu, ran a full wipe to install a new ROM, but the ROM didn't copy across to the internal memory overnight - so it essentially wiped everything out.
I'm not having any luck getting adb to sideload, so i'm unsure of how to proceed.
As part of this upgrade, I had to flash the boot.img using fastboot, and although I've reflashed a stock boot.img, the phone still doesn't get past the initial splash screen.
HALP!