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Boot loop and lost recovery

Hey all. Running CM6.1 172 nightly. Launch day evo rooted with toasts 2 part.
Flashed zendroid last night. Booted and ran great, good scores on quadrant etc. Smooth as butta.
Rebooted to do a backup of the new setup. Boot loop, about 1 seconds on the splash screen each time. Not sure if its of relevance but its the fastest boot loop I've seen (day one g1 owner). Went to recovery to restore, and....boot loop after selecting recovery.
So I figure recovery image went bad somehow. Fastboot flash AmonRa1.8. Attempted to reboot into recovery. Aaaannddd....boot loops.
Does anyone have any ideas on where I should go next? I can get into bootloader. Had to do plenty of "repair" with the G1, but this is the first issue I've ran into with my Evo since launch day.
Cliffs: CM6.1. Flash zendroid. Runs fine. I reboot. Boot loops. Attempt to enter recovery. Boot loops. Fastboot flash recovery. Loop loop loop. No recovery, cant get into the operating system so no ADB.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Edit: Just tried flashing PC36IMG.zip from toasts part 2. Still cant get past splash screen. Grrrr. It did however change my splash screen so I would guess it flashed fine. But it still looped after rebooting.

That sucks. Hopefully someone else will chime in. I've never had anything like that happen, but from reading through xda, I've seen this happen to other people. Now I've never had to do it, so don't know the steps. But I think you can take your sd card out, and mount it in your pc. Load a stock RUU onto your sd card, then put the card back in the phone, and flash it from hboot. Then you'll be totally stock and have to start over, but I think that's what you should search about doing. I wish you luck, and hope someone who knows more than I can help more, or inform you of another way.
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k2buckley said:
That sucks. Hopefully someone else will chime in. I've never had anything like that happen, but from reading through xda, I've seen this happen to other people. Now I've never had to do it, so don't know the steps. But I think you can take your sd card out, and mount it in your pc. Load a stock RUU onto your sd card, then put the card back in the phone, and flash it from hboot. Then you'll be totally stock and have to start over, but I think that's what you should search about doing. I wish you luck, and hope someone who knows more than I can help more, or inform you of another way.
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Hey thanks for lookin man. Yeah my next move is gonna be flashing a stock unrooted img see if I can get into Android. I already tried reflashing toasts 2nd pc36img.zip (launch day evo rooted with toast 2 part). Thanks for your input tho.

i would say unroot is your best option

[Q] My phone no longer boots up?

Hi guys
I'm new to the rooting and flashing scene and earlier I rooted my HTC Desire.
At first it worked fine with no problems, as I did not know how to partition my SD card I left it out, and simply installed ROM's to benefit from LeeDroids 2.3 ROM.
then I found that using Rom Manager I could partition my sd card, excited I went along with it, and on re-boot it kept showing the htc boot up screen, switching off and showing it again.
I tried booting it in recovery mode, and what happens is when I press the power button to select Recovery it goes straight to the HTC screen, and sits there for a few seconds before going to the recovery screen.
also I can recal getting errors about missing images or something?
I managed to reflash the same ROM and now when it goes to load on the LeeDroid loading screen it goes to the bit where it says something along the lines of "gaining root access..." and fails and it keep retrying
Please help someone!
thanks

NajimH said:
Hi guys
I'm new to the rooting and flashing scene and earlier I rooted my HTC Desire.
At first it worked fine with no problems, as I did not know how to partition my SD card I left it out, and simply installed ROM's to benefit from LeeDroids 2.3 ROM.
then I found that using Rom Manager I could partition my sd card, excited I went along with it, and on re-boot it kept showing the htc boot up screen, switching off and showing it again.
I tried booting it in recovery mode, and what happens is when I press the power button to select Recovery it goes straight to the HTC screen, and sits there for a few seconds before going to the recovery screen.
also I can recal getting errors about missing images or something?
I managed to reflash the same ROM and now when it goes to load on the LeeDroid loading screen it goes to the bit where it says something along the lines of "gaining root access..." and fails and it keep retrying
Please help someone!
thanks
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I think the safest way is to flash sock RUU (but not the Gingerbread, flash Froyo) and then re-root, s-off (if you need it) and format your SD. The tutorial on the development forum is comprehensive and it should be enough.

Hi
Thanks for the prompt reply.
Sorry for being such a 'noob' which tutorial are you speaking of? I kind of get lost as there is so many on the Development tutorial.
It's really frustrating now, because I can't access my phone!

NajimH said:
Hi
Thanks for the prompt reply.
Sorry for being such a 'noob' which tutorial are you speaking of? I kind of get lost as there is so many on the Development tutorial.
It's really frustrating now, because I can't access my phone!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=696189

Hi thanks, after reading through this thread the only ones which apply to me, require me to be able to access my phone! I am unable to get into my phone... I am pretty sure that the actual mod is missing files. I mean the ClockWorkMod must be missing some files, such as an image or something? Is this stopping the ROM's from loading correctly? And has this made it so I have lost root access?

I'm stuck in a boot loop PLEASE HELP

I know there are other threads regarding this but I have a couple of different issues pertaining to it.
First of all I've been keeping up with nightlies for a while with cyanogenmod. I skipped them for about a month and updated to a new one two nights ago. It wasn't the best and i flashed back to an earlier version so that my gmail would work again. The bad news is that it is now in a boot loop. I have tried to boot it into recover to no avail. Now I have it stuck in ODIN MODE and I'm to scared to touch it any further.
I've used ODIN before but now I use a Macbook, so that makes things a little more difficult.
Any help would be awesome, I know there is a way to pull this back from the depths but after two and a half hours of searching has just left me scratching my head, and I know you guys are all pros at this.
I apologize if I put this in the wrong thread. I have been a frequent visitor of this site but have never had to post anything, hopefully I didn't mess anything up.
Thanks for the help in advance, I really appreciate it.

you have no choice but to use odin and flash back to stock FM. If you get boot look again, boot into stock recovery and clear cache and factory reset. You should be fine, i,m not sure how stable mac odin is but on windows it worked every time to kick me out of boot loop

[Q] HTC keeps getting stuck

Hey all,
First of all, I'm not that well known with this stuff like ROMs etc, so please don't complain if I don't understand a part/your whole solution / help, furthermore, English isn't my native language, so sorry if any grammatical mistakes.
My prob:
A long time ago I managed, as a total noob as I didn't knew what I was doing, to get my phone stuck at the HTC One screen, which shows when starting your phone up.
I somehow fixed it, and since then I had the ROM SuPrimo v23.0
Lately, I experienced a lot of battery problems with my phone, so I tried, with a bit more knowledge about all this, to solve this problem by flashing another ROM.
After I did that it got stuck at the ''This build is for development purposes... etc.'' screen. I tried a lot of ROMs and eventually I came through this screen, but now it gets stuck at the next screen.
Please, help!

R: [Q] HTC keeps getting stuck
Did you flash the kernel ??

Hm, my brother came over for the weekend but I didn't knew. He managed to fix it, luckily. Still thanks for trying to help.

R: [Q] HTC keeps getting stuck
Anyway when you flash a rom you will always have to flash kernel otherwise it won't boot.

maybe try...
mr_nooby said:
Anyway when you flash a rom you will always have to flash kernel otherwise it won't boot.
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I had an issue like this. I still use this method to this day because i have s-on. I extract the rom and put the boot.img from the rom i want to flash into my fastboot folder, flash the boot. then flash the rom through twrp recovery. I know tons of other methods but all return with remote failed w/e rubbish. fastboot is your friend at this point with the one v cdma. At least until the devs crack that sucker. hope that helps someone out there, I sure could have used that info for about 5 hours.

[Q] Question about RUU

Hi All,
I have a VZW Htc One M8, and I have been playing with it when have gotten the chance recently. I have installed/flashed an RUU before to correct an issue I ran into (trying to take an OTA) and everything went smoothly. As I said I took the OTA, but kept the RUU from the previous time I used it (first mistake). I am s off so I am hoping that is going to save me here.... This brings me to my problem.
I was trying to flash Viper Rom, but at the end of the setup I kept getting a popup saying setup has stopped, and I was unable to see a homescreen, but the phone was working. I decided to revert back to stock using the old RUU (be gentle) and it loaded and I hit yes to begin. About 10 second in it stopped and wanted me to reboot... I was in the middle of doing something else when it happened so I rebooted back to the bootloader and my OS line was in red. I then went back to recovery and restored my very recently created backup of my stock rom, which worked. I then went back to the boot loader to look at what was in red more closely and it is now blank. It says OS but then nothing after.
I have since gotten the new RUU that I should have used, but it seem to hang on the last part of the loading (put in on my external sd card) and my phone works... but the boot take forever and the VZW logo doesn't come up anymore. It almost seem like the phone boots fine but the HTC ONE logo stays until the phone screen turns off and when I hit the power button to turn the screen back on the phone is booted. My question is... should I 1) try the old RUU again and then take the ota since I am s off I have seen that technically it should work. 2) let the phone sit at the loading of the newer RUU and see what happens (I haven't tried seeing if the old RUU will load yet) or 3) count my blessings and deal with a non completely broken phone?
I realize I made a few errors while doing this, but I am hoping that s off will allow me to correct the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Issue should be resolved
Sorry to everyone that read this... I didn't make it all the way through the thread where I found the new RUU, and the thread tells how to resolve the problem with not loading all the way. I am going to try the fix after work.
Edit 1: problem resolved... I am an idiot