Hey all,
I started to update to the latest RUU following Scott's instructions. First half seemed to go ok. However, when the tried to reboot, the screen went black, and the orange LED at the top is stuck on. Phone's nonresponsive. It's been that way for about 45 minutes now. So right now, it looks like it's only done half an update.
I haven't done a battery pull yet, but I'm wondering if I should. Any thoughts, or am I SOL?
Thanks,
Super
Superguy said:
Hey all,
I started to update to the latest RUU following Scott's instructions. First half seemed to go ok. However, when the tried to reboot, the screen went black, and the orange LED at the top is stuck on. Phone's nonresponsive. It's been that way for about 45 minutes now. So right now, it looks like it's only done half an update.
I haven't done a battery pull yet, but I'm wondering if I should. Any thoughts, or am I SOL?
Thanks,
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Mine rebooted after the first round of updating and was stuck on boot screen. I took the battery off. Rebooted back I to bootloadet and reflashed the leak (you will notice it updates stuffs in order from the top to the bottom this time) and it was back on business.
Good luck
Yeah, after about an hour I figured I didn't have anything to lose. Pulled the battery and rebooted to the bootloader. It finished and seems to be working now.
Superguy said:
Hey all,
I started to update to the latest RUU following Scott's instructions. First half seemed to go ok. However, when the tried to reboot, the screen went black, and the orange LED at the top is stuck on. Phone's nonresponsive. It's been that way for about 45 minutes now. So right now, it looks like it's only done half an update.
I haven't done a battery pull yet, but I'm wondering if I should. Any thoughts, or am I SOL?
Thanks,
Super
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You basically have to flash the ruu twice. It basically just does the firmware the first round, and the rom the second.
qudwis said:
You basically have to flash the ruu twice. It basically just does the firmware the first round, and the rom the second.
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I knew that it had to be done twice. My concern was that it bombed the first time and bricked it due to how it was responding.
Hey, guys, I know there are a lot of these issues with a lot, if not all, of the HTC smartphones, but I've only seen a few of these for the HTC Radar, and they all seem to give the same answers. Hopefully my explanation of the problem will help!
So, I got the phone thanksgiving weekend 2011, so I've had it for about a year. One day around the beginning of April this year, my phone randomly began a restarting loop, where it would gradually restart itself from a blank white screen over and over, then it went to the HTC screen over and over, and then periodically switched between the HTC screen and the black "Windows Phone" load screen over and over again. I tried taking off the battery cover and leaving it for a couple of minutes and then hours, but I put it back and it just kept rebooting. I was left without a phone for about two days.
On the second day, I put it on the charger and left it in my dorm while I was in class all day, and when I came back, it was rebooting still, but I noticed that it always made it to the "Windows Phone" logo loading screen and then restarted. After about 4 reboots, it went back to normal and I was able to use the phone. After the next couple of months, it stopped doing it in such a long period of time, but the battery usage went up almost 30-40% than what it used to be. Once in a while, it would reboot once, but then it would be back to normal.
This time, in late October, it started the reboot thing again, but this time, only going up to the HTC screen and looping that. I tried taking the battery cover off again and leaving it for hours, but same problem now. So I decided to leave it off for a day. By this time, I had my HTC Desire HD as backup, but it was unlocked, and at the time when I bought it, I didn't know anything about HSDPA numbers, so I could use my T-Mobile SIM, but no mobile network, since it's a Telus/AT&T phone.
I tried charging it, but this time, it lasted for a whole week. After rebooting over and over, it would last 3 hours, then stop because the battery would die out. So I just left it, and left it, and weeks went by, and my warranty had long since expired, so I couldn't go to HTC about this. I even called them to see what I could do, and they told me to do a Factory Reset, well... here is a list of the things I tried:
- IMAGE CRC: At first I didn't know what this was, and so I looked it up. After finding out what it was, I tried it, and I got two numbers: BL CRC-0xD19F79E1 and OS CRC-0x4CC706B. I looked those up on the internet and got nothing. I restarted the phone, and nothing happened at all. (If there was something else I was supposed to do here, please tell me!)
- Factory Reset: This was the LAST thing I wanted to do, but I had no choice and I tried it, hoping the error would be fixed. So I scrolled down to it, everything seemed to be normal, it gave me a warning, and I clicked it ... I was very suspicious of this, because as soon as I clicked "Factory Reset", it said "Reset complete. Press Volume Down to restart". I mean IMMEDIATELY after. Now, I KNOW that Factory Resets take much longer than an instant to actually have happened. But I restarted anyway. ... Nothing, still. I tried it several times after that, only to get the same result.
Those are the two options I tried, besides looking on the internet... if I can avoid buying a new Radar, I would like to, at all costs, because the next time I have a decent amount of money, I would like to save it for something else. Is there anything else I could try to resolve this issue, or at least gain more information on the problem?
Thank you all very much for reading my post!
BladedYouth said:
Hey, guys, I know there are a lot of these issues with a lot, if not all, of the HTC smartphones, but I've only seen a few of these for the HTC Radar, and they all seem to give the same answers. Hopefully my explanation of the problem will help!
So, I got the phone thanksgiving weekend 2011, so I've had it for about a year. One day around the beginning of April this year, my phone randomly began a restarting loop, where it would gradually restart itself from a blank white screen over and over, then it went to the HTC screen over and over, and then periodically switched between the HTC screen and the black "Windows Phone" load screen over and over again. I tried taking off the battery cover and leaving it for a couple of minutes and then hours, but I put it back and it just kept rebooting. I was left without a phone for about two days.
On the second day, I put it on the charger and left it in my dorm while I was in class all day, and when I came back, it was rebooting still, but I noticed that it always made it to the "Windows Phone" logo loading screen and then restarted. After about 4 reboots, it went back to normal and I was able to use the phone. After the next couple of months, it stopped doing it in such a long period of time, but the battery usage went up almost 30-40% than what it used to be. Once in a while, it would reboot once, but then it would be back to normal.
This time, in late October, it started the reboot thing again, but this time, only going up to the HTC screen and looping that. I tried taking the battery cover off again and leaving it for hours, but same problem now. So I decided to leave it off for a day. By this time, I had my HTC Desire HD as backup, but it was unlocked, and at the time when I bought it, I didn't know anything about HSDPA numbers, so I could use my T-Mobile SIM, but no mobile network, since it's a Telus/AT&T phone.
I tried charging it, but this time, it lasted for a whole week. After rebooting over and over, it would last 3 hours, then stop because the battery would die out. So I just left it, and left it, and weeks went by, and my warranty had long since expired, so I couldn't go to HTC about this. I even called them to see what I could do, and they told me to do a Factory Reset, well... here is a list of the things I tried:
- IMAGE CRC: At first I didn't know what this was, and so I looked it up. After finding out what it was, I tried it, and I got two numbers: BL CRC-0xD19F79E1 and OS CRC-0x4CC706B. I looked those up on the internet and got nothing. I restarted the phone, and nothing happened at all. (If there was something else I was supposed to do here, please tell me!)
- Factory Reset: This was the LAST thing I wanted to do, but I had no choice and I tried it, hoping the error would be fixed. So I scrolled down to it, everything seemed to be normal, it gave me a warning, and I clicked it ... I was very suspicious of this, because as soon as I clicked "Factory Reset", it said "Reset complete. Press Volume Down to restart". I mean IMMEDIATELY after. Now, I KNOW that Factory Resets take much longer than an instant to actually have happened. But I restarted anyway. ... Nothing, still. I tried it several times after that, only to get the same result.
Those are the two options I tried, besides looking on the internet... if I can avoid buying a new Radar, I would like to, at all costs, because the next time I have a decent amount of money, I would like to save it for something else. Is there anything else I could try to resolve this issue, or at least gain more information on the problem?
Thank you all very much for reading my post!
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May be it is a Hardware problem. Why you don't try to put HSPL and to cook custom rom ? I do this on mine few days ago and now the phone is more useful than before. I cooked HD2O ROM and till now working fine for me. When you change bootloader with HSPL may be it will work out if it is a Software problem. Also you need to change Radio Firmware other wise the device can not boot. When I am doing HSPL a few times phone just loop restarts and not start but after I do everything like it was in treads here and flash new radio the phone is working fine now. But may be there is a Hardware problem.
Tonyco1 said:
May be it is a Hardware problem. Why you don't try to put HSPL and to cook custom rom ? I do this on mine few days ago and now the phone is more useful than before. I cooked HD2O ROM and till now working fine for me. When you change bootloader with HSPL may be it will work out if it is a Software problem. Also you need to change Radio Firmware other wise the device can not boot. When I am doing HSPL a few times phone just loop restarts and not start but after I do everything like it was in treads here and flash new radio the phone is working fine now. But may be there is a Hardware problem.
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Thank you very much for responding! So just to be clear, how exactly do I go about flashing a ROM on the Radar, and a new radio? On Android phones, its much easier to root the device or simply place the ROM folder in there and make it work. I have no experience with doing this to a Radar, as I was previously led to believe that this was impossible. Should I just browse this forum?
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Thank you very much for responding! So just to be clear, how exactly do I go about flashing a ROM on the Radar, and a new radio? On Android phones, its much easier to root the device or simply place the ROM folder in there and make it work. I have no experience with doing this to a Radar, as I was previously led to believe that this was impossible. Should I just browse this forum?
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Yes just browse this forum but only section about Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking. You will find DFT exclamation of how to install HSPL. In mine it was very easy because I not receive Country ID fail my phone was buy in Europe. If you receive Country ID error you need to proceed with goldcard it is explained there but first proceed without goldcard if it work it is very easy. Also when you proceed SPL2.05 it is not clear in the topic but you need to be in bootloader so you should start your phone with VolUp and VolDn keys pushed this is not explained in the topic and I waist a lot of time till figured out. After that just download one of the 7.8 ROMs here in Radar section and write it down. Also download new radio and use some RUU to put it on the phone before the ROM other wise the phone can not boot. Try and after that if you have problems write down here.
MY RADAR TURNED BACK ON! I don't know exactly what happened, but after a couple of reboots, the battery indicator flashed and then it rebooted twice until finally turning on the full amount.
Tonyco1 -- Thank you very much for staying with me and replying to my request! Although what you suggested is not needed for my booting issue, I'm going to try it anyway to see if I can actually boot 7.8! Thank you again.
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MY RADAR TURNED BACK ON! I don't know exactly what happened, but after a couple of reboots, the battery indicator flashed and then it rebooted twice until finally turning on the full amount.
Tonyco1 -- Thank you very much for staying with me and replying to my request! Although what you suggested is not needed for my booting issue, I'm going to try it anyway to see if I can actually boot 7.8! Thank you again.
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OK but you need to but some custom ROM my phone turn back on when I put custom ROM a lot of features and works really good.
Ok so i bought an htc amaze it was upgrading but it got stuck on 100% i waited a while but noting waited even longer nothing i waited about 6 hours nothing so i took out the battery but when it turned on it got stuck on the htc amaze sign with a white background. So i tried to factory reset it with the volume down and power it shows like arows moving in a circle and a phone and under it shows what i geuss is a loading sign and goes back htc sign. It wasnt rooted so i dont know what to do please help and remember im pretty much a noob
Were you flashing a ruu file? If so make sure its the right one for your phone or maybe the one you downloaded was just a bad download.
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I didnt root my phone yet
no my phone was not even rooted yet IT JUST STOPED WORKING AFTER I TOOK OUT THE ATTER THE BATTERY WHILE IT WAS UPGRADING
ANKLES said:
Ok so i bought an htc amaze it was upgrading but it got stuck on 100% i waited a while but noting waited even longer nothing i waited about 6 hours nothing so i took out the battery but when it turned on it got stuck on the htc amaze sign with a white background. So i tried to factory reset it with the volume down and power it shows like arows moving in a circle and a phone and under it shows what i geuss is a loading sign and goes back htc sign. It wasnt rooted so i dont know what to do please help and remember im pretty much a noob
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Did you buy it new and it tried to upgrade from the network? If so, send it back to T-Mobile or take it to a store.
So one day out of the blue, my phone starts acting weird. I think hey no big deal, and I just go on to restart the darn thing. When it boots up it acting normal again, but then I start to get a phone call. No big deal I answer it, but when I go to hang up it is still stuck at the point I answered it. With the answer or decline button. I think to myself to reinstall the rom again. Do that same problem still going on... I install another rom same problem two roms later same problem even after flashing a stock rooted rom.. Now here is my real question what do you think is my problem? I went from cm 10.1 working fine, to an older cm10.1 then fresh rom 3.5 then stock. With the stock rom it would boot all the way to the home screen then restart. But on my cm 10 it would boot up fine act normal then when screen timer turned the screen off it would be stuck off not like frozen the lights at the bottom would cut on but not the screen, and I'd also hear it click off.
Any ideas or is this just something for sprint tep to handle?
More information is needed to even begin to answer.
S-on or S-off, recovery version, clean or dirty flash? Take a look at the sticky for rooting and flashing roms to ensure you are doing the right processes etc.
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Hey guys,
I just flashed the skydragon 6.0.2 onto my VS985. I'm currently on step 7 (Reboot device after finishing installation) and it has been stuck on the 4 flying circles screen for an hour and 15 minutes now.
How long would you guys wait until you ruled it as "stuck"? I understand that the first boot can take an especially long time but this seems a bit excessive.
Thank you
edit: after two hours, i rebooted into TWRP and did a factory reset. Seems like it was stuck after all. So to answer the question, 2 hours is too long. Maybe 30 minutes max is need.
bangheadhere said:
Hey guys,
I just flashed the skydragon 6.0.2 onto my VS985. I'm currently on step 7 (Reboot device after finishing installation) and it has been stuck on the 4 flying circles screen for an hour and 15 minutes now.
How long would you guys wait until you ruled it as "stuck"? I understand that the first boot can take an especially long time but this seems a bit excessive.
Thank you
edit: after two hours, i rebooted into TWRP and did a factory reset. Seems like it was stuck after all. So to answer the question, 2 hours is too long. Maybe 30 minutes max is need.
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i have never had it take more than about 5 on most phones, by 20, its not going to boot.
I waited 30min once and did a battery pull and rebooted and it booted right up into the ROM and had no issues since. I did not do a factory reset that time. other times I have.
Bria
Outside of any instructional wait time from the developer, my default is 5 minutes.
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