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[Q] She is bricked (pls not) HELP!

Hi,
Was running on LeeDroid 1.9, wiped and flashed for OpenDesire 3.4, came up fine then rebooted for the 3.4.2 patch and now my Desire just will not go past the HTC logo screen no matter what I do.
I can boot into recovery and have full access to everything, tried formatting the SD card and loading different ROMS but stuck @ the HTC green logo on white background.
Even Revoked3 again but the prob is not getting into the Recovery menu, its getting past that HTC screen.
Any info / idea's / help?
Thanks
Russ

If your phone turns on its not bricked, there will be a way to fix any issues your having, its just finding the correct one.
When flashing other roms did you wipe everything?
Data
Dalvik Cache
Ext parititon (if you have one)
Not wiping Dalvik is the number one reason roms get stuck bootlooping on bootscreen1.
Alternatively, it is booting but your not waiting long enough, you can always run adb logcat while booting to see if they phone is actually doing anything.

Hi,
Thank you for replying....
Figured it out that it is the SD card, here is the situation:
- Boot into recovery but cannot mount nor format the SD card
- Can see the SD card in MAC/ Windows and formated it Fat32
- Can boot without SD card
- Can boot with another SD card which is only 128Meg so cannot get LeeDroid back on it to reflash that ROM
I obviously need to format the SD card proper and it looks like I need to use Gparted but that looks like a HUGE Linux ISO download unless you know of a MAC version of it I can use?
Thanks

Found a 2Gig SD Card, got LeeDroid back on it, flashing and hoping I can boot with the original SD card so I can format with ROM manger but thinking it wont boot up with the SD card in regardless of the ROM, lets hope!

if you don't manage to boot it up. find this in the forum "PB99IMG.zip" w/o the quotes. format your sd card and put the archive in root of sd card. after that turn on your phone by pressing volume down and power on/off. wait till phone recognizes the archive and follow onscreen directions. phone should boot normally as unrooted. use unrevoked to root again and flash any rom you want.
post result.

Okay I am up but not on my original SD card, using a spare.
In recovery mode my phone refuses to mount nor format the card but can see it 100%
Seen some posts of a ADB cmd I need to use or is there something else I can try?
Thanks!

I ran "unrevoked" on my phone again and it booted when I had that problem.
But I took out the sd card when I did that. Not sure if it helps. But who knows.

Tried that, booting without the card is fine, with the card in is the issue, phone cannot see it.

[Q] HTC Desire Z Won't Boot After Rom Update

So I went to android.madaco and used their online kitchen to download a custom rom for my desire z. I have also done this for my nexus s and it worked great. However when I installed the rom on my desire z it froze for 2 days. I finally pulled the battery and now it won't boot. When I first turn it on I get the white HTC screen forever. So I pull the battery and turn it on again while holding the volume down button. I have tried both factory reset and recovery. When I hit either of these it takes me to a clockworkmod recovery v3.0.2.4 screen. I get several choices here. Apply update from sd card, wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache partition, install zip from sd card, backup and restore, mounts and storage, advanced and power off. So I tried to install zip from sd card and it does nothing at all it just shows me the clockworkmod symbol and freezes forever. I also pulled the sd card and formatted it and put only the rom on it and it does nothing any different.

rabloom said:
So I went to android.madaco and used their online kitchen to download a custom rom for my desire z. I have also done this for my nexus s and it worked great. However when I installed the rom on my desire z it froze for 2 days. I finally pulled the battery and now it won't boot. When I first turn it on I get the white HTC screen forever. So I pull the battery and turn it on again while holding the volume down button. I have tried both factory reset and recovery. When I hit either of these it takes me to a clockworkmod recovery v3.0.2.4 screen. I get several choices here. Apply update from sd card, wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache partition, install zip from sd card, backup and restore, mounts and storage, advanced and power off. So I tried to install zip from sd card and it does nothing at all it just shows me the clockworkmod symbol and freezes forever. I also pulled the sd card and formatted it and put only the rom on it and it does nothing any different.
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Sounds to me like you have a bad download. Delete the rom zip you have now and redownload it, also be sure and check the md5 sums (google 'md5 checker' and you can get a utility to check).
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

If you can get to your engineering bootloader, try to Fastboot the latest CWM recovery then go into that image to flash a different ROM.

I deleted the file on the sd card and redownloaded it. Samething so I downloaded a rom from cyanogenmod and same thing. it is almost as if it can not detect the sd card. I have formatted the sd card now but no change. The sd card is empty now. Any other ideas very much appreciated.

rabloom said:
I deleted the file on the sd card and redownloaded it. Samething so I downloaded a rom from cyanogenmod and same thing. it is almost as if it can not detect the sd card. I have formatted the sd card now but no change. The sd card is empty now. Any other ideas very much appreciated.
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Did you try a different card?

Are you using the power button or track pad to make your choices? Either way you have to make choices with the track pad.

I bought a new sd card and still the same thing. It is as if i need to delete what is in the actual phone. Because it does the same thing even if I have no sd card. It defaults to clockworkmod for some reason. Any ideas much much appreciated.

[Q] Droid Incredible no boot screen and cannot boot into recovery.

Hi guys. Another noob gone wrong ordeal. I am super newb to all things root, rom, mod and even posting in forums. So if this is posted in the wrong place, I apologize.
Quick: Rooted Incredible for about a month 1/2.
been running CM7 nightly since day one. No other mods.
Life WAS good.
Problem: I tried flashing a different rom (Uber Kingdom 3D Gingersense) I found
really detailed instructions for full wipe which included flashing VR
Superwipe/install. I followed instructions to the letter.
Booted rom let it run its course and my phone started to shut of
randomly. I tried multiple reboots, battery pulls with the same result,
only this time my phone shut off almost immediately after the reboots
and batt pulls . I even went as far as to repeat the steps. Second time
brings me here. I guess all the wiping wiped all my stuff eg: SD card
empty and i have no idea what else got wiped in the phones
storage.
FYI: I have my entire system backed up to computer and I also use dropbox and Titanium Backup. But that doesn't help when I cant get a Hboot screen or recovery. Power button + volume down button = I see a glimpse of the Hboot screen before the screen goes black again. It will not even boot normally.
Here's what I tried to do to correct this,... Placed a copy of CM7 and clockwork mod w/ gapps on my SD and tried to reboot with the same results mentioned above.
I searched and could not find anyone with the same problem. Can anyone help?
Please and thank you.
Super Newb un-

Make sure your SD card is formatted as FAT32. You'll probably need to hook that up via a card reader or USB adapter to verify. Copy the contents of the SD card (if anything is there) to your computer, then format the card as FAT32. Maybe the SD card is dead/dying/bad?
Putting the ROM's zip and things on the SD card root won't do anything. The time to put a zip file on the root of the SD card is when applying an update.zip file, or a radio/HBOOT/recovery zip that gets renamed so when booting to HBOOT, it sees the file and asks you to update the appropriate item.
Try a different SD card, formatted to FAT32, and see what happens.

RMarkwald said:
Make sure your SD card is formatted as FAT32. You'll probably need to hook that up via a card reader or USB adapter to verify. Copy the contents of the SD card (if anything is there) to your computer, then format the card as FAT32. Maybe the SD card is dead/dying/bad?
Putting the ROM's zip and things on the SD card root won't do anything. The time to put a zip file on the root of the SD card is when applying an update.zip file, or a radio/HBOOT/recovery zip that gets renamed so when booting to HBOOT, it sees the file and asks you to update the appropriate item.
Try a different SD card, formatted to FAT32, and see what happens.
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Thank you. I'm going to google FAT32 and what that means and give it a try. I'll post back with results. I do have another SD but how do I proceed with that option?
Again, thank you. I never expected anyone to reply as I seem to be the only one in this boat based on my all night into today searches.

No problem!
FAT32 is a type of computer file system architecture. There are many more. If you are able to hook up your phone's micro SD card to your computer (via a USB adapter, or it may have a built in SD card reader already), it will appear as a lettered disk drive. You can then right click on it to select Format, then make sure FAT32 is selected under the File System drop down.
Most new computers have card readers now, but since these phones take micro SD cards, you'll need an SD card adapter to put it into an SD card slot. The adapters normally come with the micro SD cards when you buy them, as I have five or so that I never use, just need one.
Here is the SD adapter I am speaking of: SD card adapter with micro sd card.
Here is a USB micro SD card reader: USB micro SD card reader.
Is the other SD card new, or would it have files on it? You could try putting that in your phone to see what happens.

RMarkwald said:
Make sure your SD card is formatted as FAT32. You'll probably need to hook that up via a card reader or USB adapter to verify. Copy the contents of the SD card (if anything is there) to your computer, then format the card as FAT32. Maybe the SD card is dead/dying/bad?
Putting the ROM's zip and things on the SD card root won't do anything. The time to put a zip file on the root of the SD card is when applying an update.zip file, or a radio/HBOOT/recovery zip that gets renamed so when booting to HBOOT, it sees the file and asks you to update the appropriate item.
Try a different SD card, formatted to FAT32, and see what happens.
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Fairly easy find to format my SD card to FAT32 but sadly didn't help matters as I can't get the phone to boot to any screen at all. It gets power, takes a charge but a screen... nope. I even considered re-rooting but again I have to be at some sort of starting point screen wise which is not working at the moment.
Any other thought?

Just a black screen, no HBOOT or anything?

RMarkwald said:
Just a black screen, no HBOOT or anything?
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No HBOOT. When pressing power+volume down HBOOT kinda just flickers but never loads. From a full off position, trying to power on, nothing happens either. I have no Idea what I've done. Can't even attach to computer via usb to view internal files.

U probably installed the incorrect rom for your device. I'm assuming your incredible is SLCD so basically is just a black screen because you installed a rom for amoled dincs. See if u can get into fastboot
(hold trackpad and power button)
And does the phone vibrate or anything when U turn it on? Does the computer recognize it as u are turning it on?
Get back to me with those answers so I can help u.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App

Or maybe your battery just fried?
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App

eljean said:
U probably installed the incorrect rom for your device. I'm assuming your incredible is SLCD so basically is just a black screen because you installed a rom for amoled dincs. See if u can get into fastboot
(hold trackpad and power button)
And does the phone vibrate or anything when U turn it on? Does the computer recognize it as u are turning it on?
Get back to me with those answers so I can help u.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App
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There would be a white bar on both sides of the screen. And even so, thats only in the recovery.
Sent from my Droid Incredible running a random CM7 nightly.

eljean said:
U probably installed the incorrect rom for your device. I'm assuming your incredible is SLCD so basically is just a black screen because you installed a rom for amoled dincs. See if u can get into fastboot
(hold trackpad and power button)
And does the phone vibrate or anything when U turn it on? Does the computer recognize it as u are turning it on?
Get back to me with those answers so I can help u.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App
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Thank you for looking.
Supposedly I installed the version for my device as there were others posting in the forum with the same phone. Had I read further into the thread I would've saw that other's were having problems as well with random power offs and reboots. But no one had reported what I'm experiencing.

eljean said:
Or maybe your battery just fried?
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App
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I'm starting to think this as well because my phone was heating up some. But it still takes a charge according to the green led indicator (full charge). I have no other way of confirming that though. I ordered an OEM replacement from the bidding site. $5. Meanwhile, I'm still hunting for a fix because the battery won't be here for a few days. I might just go buy one from a retailer to see if that helps.

Does anyone know if the phone works with the battery out, but plugged in to the charger? Might be a way to tell if its the battery or not.
Just to confirm, you try booting the phone up and it turns off? Is the screen just turning off or does everything power down?

[Q] Every SD card is seen as damaged

Hey guys!
So I have a little problem with my C2005.
I've been using CM11 recently, but I decided to switch to stock and to swap external/internal. Everything worked fine for me until one day I woke up noticing my phone is shut down, and after restart the SD card was unable to load, awaring me as of "damaged". I put my SD to to PC and another phones and any other device is able to mount it.
I tried to format the card and reinstall the stock system to phone, but still nothing. :/
Any ideas?
Thanks!

Philnexes said:
Hey guys!
So I have a little problem with my C2005.
I've been using CM11 recently, but I decided to switch to stock and to swap external/internal. Everything worked fine for me until one day I woke up noticing my phone is shut down, and after restart the SD card was unable to load, awaring me as of "damaged". I put my SD to to PC and another phones and any other device is able to mount it.
I tried to format the card and reinstall the stock system to phone, but still nothing. :/
Any ideas?
Thanks!
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are you ever check your memory card with software partition tool for your pc? just check is that your sd card still have active partition? if still have you still have a hope to recover that bro?

Try boot into custom recovery if visible there. You can partition, format sdcard because all tools available there.

Question about viper10

I am brand new to the whole unlocking boot loaders and flashing custom roms. After a lot of reading and youtube videos I was able to successfully flash viper10 2.7.0 and its is pretty freaking awesome. The only thing I have a question on is that if I restart the phone its boots the the grey htc logo with android at the bottom and then the reboots to that screen several times over and eventually it boots up all the way. I have installed a custom boot logo as well. Is this a normal process in the booting procedure. I am running an unlocked HTC 10 and its is currently s-on if that makes a difference.

Are you using an external SD card? There is a thread or two in the HTC 10 forums about boot loops, and error notices about irregular boots, that had something to do with corrupted SD cards. If so, try properly ejecting your card and then restart to see if it still does this.

Parakaleo said:
Are you using an external SD card? There is a thread or two in the HTC 10 forums about boot loops, and error notices about irregular boots, that had something to do with corrupted SD cards. If so, try properly ejecting your card and then restart to see if it still does this.
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I pulled my sd card out after properly un mounting it and restarted the phone. No boot loop happened. Here is the next issue. I'm guessing to fix this I would need to format that sd card. This sd card has all the files I used to flash this phone.
Would the process be to copy my stock back up and my venom back up to my PC. Format the sd card and then move the back ups back to the sd card. Along with the viper 2.7.0 zip.
When it comes to using TRWP after you flash it. When you create the back ups is there a specific path that it recognizes as to where the back ups are. If on a PC a program has a specific location for file A but you move location for file A it can no long work because the location that was set no longer holds that file. Is that the same for TRWP, or can I just load the back ups back to the sd card?
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You may end up just needing a whole new SD card, but yes, reformatting should be your first step. And yes, just copy everything you want to save before reformatting.
TWRP backups are kept in a folder called TWRP, which has a folder called Backups, which has a folder with your specific backups. If you just move the whole TWRP Folder off, then back on, it should find it no problem. But if you ever go into TWRP recovery and choose "restore," and it doesn't see any backups, it let's you go right then and locate the backups with TWRP's own file manager.
swagglepuff said:
I pulled my sd card out after properly un mounting it and restarted the phone. No boot loop happened. Here is the next issue. I'm guessing to fix this I would need to format that sd card. This sd card has all the files I used to flash this phone.
Would the process be to copy my stock back up and my venom back up to my PC. Format the sd card and then move the back ups back to the sd card. Along with the viper 2.7.0 zip.
When it comes to using TRWP after you flash it. When you create the back ups is there a specific path that it recognizes as to where the back ups are. If on a PC a program has a specific location for file A but you move location for file A it can no long work because the location that was set no longer holds that file. Is that the same for TRWP, or can I just load the back ups back to the sd card?
Sent from my HTC 10 using XDA-Developers mobile app
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custom boot up and S-ON is your problem last I read.
I just use root for speed, ad blocking, titanium backup, etc. All the other "tinkering" to me is a waste of time and will just cause more potential problems down the road.

Parakaleo said:
You may end up just needing a whole new SD card, but yes, reformatting should be your first step. And yes, just copy everything you want to save before reformatting.
TWRP backups are kept in a folder called TWRP, which has a folder called Backups, which has a folder with your specific backups. If you just move the whole TWRP Folder off, then back on, it should find it no problem. But if you ever go into TWRP recovery and choose "restore," and it doesn't see any backups, it let's you go right then and locate the backups with TWRP's own file manager.
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After put the SD card back in. I haven't had on issue with a boot loop. I also installed the venom dark theme. Maybe during the flashing of that it fixed the issue I was having.