So I was about to flash a new ROM, wiped data and cache, formated /system, and then remembered that A05PTH3ORY says to get a gps lock before flashing. Not thinking about what I had done I rebooted and now I can't get back into recovery to restore any of my backups. Google tells me it should be power + vol down but it just sits at the HTC splash. Any advice?
You didn't do anything to recovery so it should still be there. Completely turn off the phone (batt pull if need be). Then from a completely off state, hold Power+VolDwn and you will be presented with hboot. Select Recovery and voila.
I guess pulling the battery was the magic trick. Once I did that I just realized I needed to delete the pg05img.zip and now we're back in business. Thanks very much!
mawdurnbukanier said:
So I was about to flash a new ROM, wiped data and cache, formated /system, and then remembered that A05PTH3ORY says to get a gps lock before flashing. Not thinking about what I had done I rebooted and now I can't get back into recovery to restore any of my backups. Google tells me it should be power + vol down but it just sits at the HTC splash. Any advice?
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Battery pull, make sure your radio file is not hidden on
SD card.
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Help, I installed a ROM on my brothers phone awhile ago and now it wont boot at all. He pulled the battery when it wasn't booting past the splash screen, now it won't even boot to the splash screen. It was fully charged now it's as if it were completely dead. Cobra Rom on a GSM EVO.
djowett said:
Help, I installed a ROM on my brothers phone awhile ago and now it wont boot at all. He pulled the battery when it wasn't booting past the splash screen, now it won't even boot to the splash screen. It was fully charged now it's as if it were completely dead. Cobra Rom on a GSM EVO.
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Did you do a full wipe? (system, data, cache, dalvik) Try booting into the bootloader. (Power+volume down) If you can do that, get into recovery and wipe everything, then re-flash the ROM.
I know this sounds crazy, but try pulling the sd card out and then try to boot. Mine sometimes won't power on until the sd card is out. Then I power it back down, pull the battery, reinsert the sd, and it boots fine.
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Did you do a full wipe? (system, data, cache, dalvik) Try booting into the bootloader. (Power+volume down) If you can do that, get into recovery and wipe everything, then re-flash the ROM.
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Thanks, got it working. Just pulled the battery and held the power button for a few seconds put the battery back in and it booted right up. Strange.
Are you on old version of twrp?
sent from my EVO 3D via XDA app
I was previously running TntLite v4.4 (on BL1.1), but recently it started force closing several applications. Also the battery indicator never ran down from 100%. So I wiped data in CWM and reloaded the ROM, but that didn't seem to help. So decided it was time to find a new ROM.
I tried to first install Vegan, but I think I used a 1.2 BL (doh). So then I uploaded BL1.2 and also latest CWM (latest version posted by DRH team). I successfully nvflashed through APX and rebooted OK into the stock ROM. I uploaded a new 1.2BL ROM (Beasty 2.2.1 +Clemsyn), it worked fine and was uploading all my apps. It powered down fine, but then would not get past the Birds on reboot. Nor could I boot back into CWM.
So went back into APX and nvflashed again, rebooted into stock ROM. *Now* before uploading any new ROMs, it is doing the same thing. Won't power back up past the Birds, can't get into CWM.
And to top it all off, I now can't boot up at all.
HELP! I am now in way over my head!!
Allot of stuff that cannot be explain can be caused by stuff from previous build being left on the internal storage. Typically what I do when changing the bootloader is making sure everything on the internal storage is backed up then wiped clean. After NVflash is complete force the tablet to boot into recovery by keeping the Volume + pressed down while it reboots or holding down the power button during the reboot after NVflash and powering down the device. Then while holding down the volume + pressing the power button to boot into recovery. Wipe date Factory reset, Wipe Cache and Wipe Dalvic Cache. Go into Mounts and Mount Data then Format also Mount System then Format. Then in Advance format Internal SD (Make sure that your external SD card has been ejected) 2048/0. This will ensure that there is nothing on the internal storage and you are starting a clean slate. Last thing is to go into mounts and Mount USB connect Tablet to computer and transfer over the ROM of choice. After tranfer is done safe removal of device through computer and unmount in CWM. Install new ROM.
I really hate to be "that" guy, but I've searched the forum, and cannot get the unit to power back on. I have taken off the cover and pressed the reset button. I've also held down the power button for more than 10 seconds, nothing. Tried the APX and CWM power up combos and nothing.
I'm not sure how this happened. It was running fine in two different ROMs, but once I powered it down properly, it wouldn't come back. At all.
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Then while holding down the volume + pressing the power button to boot into recovery. Wipe date Factory reset, Wipe Cache and Wipe Dalvic Cache. Go into Mounts and Mount Data then Format also Mount System then Format. Then in Advance format Internal SD (Make sure that your external SD card has been ejected) 2048/0.
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These are common mistakes that I've noticed on the board.
1. If you want to format a partition, just format it. There's no need to mount it first. In fact, you shouldn't.
2. There is no need to format the boot and system partitions separately prior to a ROM install because
a) the boot partition is overwritten and
b) the system partition is formatted by the install process.
3. To wipe all user data, simply:
- Wipe data/Factory reset
or, in extreme cases
- Re-partition the internal SD card, and then
- Format cache.
Otherwise, you're just uselessly repeating steps and wasting time troubleshooting the wrong things.
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PapsinManila said:
I have taken off the cover and pressed the reset button. I've also held down the power button for more than 10 seconds, nothing. Tried the APX and CWM power up combos and nothing.
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See if the K1-pad short procedure shown here helps you.
After a few more hours messing around and reading boards, it appears my GTab is operating in APX and couldn't tell. I can access APX through USB. I now wonder if I had a bad BL version (I used the combo DRH version which was posted to use before the ICS ROM - I thought latest was best(?).
I tried to back down to a lower BL (1105 bekit Nvflash?), but the directions are a little confusing. Do I need to install new version of CWM first? And in terms of changing the names in nvflash file, which one?? I am starting now to care whether I get 1.1 or 1.2 working -- just something.
I'm not too proud to admit I am over my head now - I would be thrilled to see the Birds again some day.
Thanks in advance!
Which ROM do you want to install?
If you want to install any ICS ROM, just follow the preparatory steps given in the TeamDRH's ICS ROM thread.
But I can't boot into Clockwork Mode yet, stuck in APX. The GTab will not boot up at all. I have tried reflashing, but that is not helping. It completes the nvflash process, but then on reboot, it hangs on the Birds.
1. Which specific nvflash package did you flash last?
2. See if running this command in APX mode helps:
Code:
C:\SOME\PATH> [B].\nvflash --bl bootloader.bin --format_partition 7 --format_partition 12 --go[/B]
Make sure that you run the command while sitting in the directory containing both the nvflash executable and the bootloader.bin file.
Hi,
yesterday I tried to upgrade to CM7.2 from a nightly. As I've been doing, I put the .zip in the sdcard and flashed it with ROM Manager (wiping everything). After flashing it, my phone stucked at HTC white screen and there is no way to switch it on, it stays at this screen all the time.
For my disgrace, it's S-ON, so I can't boot into recovery and restore anything. I've tried to restore a nandroid with fastboot and it doesnt't work (says "Failed (remote: signature verify fail)").
Any ideas? It's definetly bricked? Is there any hope of repairing it?
Thanks in advance (and please forgive my poor english xD)
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Hi,
yesterday I tried to upgrade to CM7.2 from a nightly. As I've been doing, I put the .zip in the sdcard and flashed it with ROM Manager (wiping everything). After flashing it, my phone stucked at HTC white screen and there is no way to switch it on, it stays at this screen all the time.
For my disgrace, it's S-ON, so I can't boot into recovery and restore anything. I've tried to restore a nandroid with fastboot and it doesnt't work (says "Failed (remote: signature verify fail)").
Any ideas? It's definetly bricked? Is there any hope of repairing it?
Thanks in advance (and please forgive my poor english xD)
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What do you mean you cant boot into recovery because you are S-ON?
All you need to do is put the recovery file other wise known as flakeflash "UPDATE.ZIP" into the root of the SDcard, turn off your phone (Pull Battery), then press the down button and power button together, wait for the phone to do its stuff, then select recovery in the menu, the phone will reboot into red exclamation mark, press volume up and power, it will then go into stock recovery menu and will then look for the "UPDATE.ZIP" if all is well you should then go into the fakeflash version of clockworkmod recovery.
Does it boot when USB cable is plugged in (soft usb brick)?
ranger4740 said:
What do you mean you cant boot into recovery because you are S-ON?
All you need to do is put the recovery file other wise known as flakeflash "UPDATE.ZIP" into the root of the SDcard, turn off your phone (Pull Battery), then press the down button and power button together, wait for the phone to do its stuff, then select recovery in the menu, the phone will reboot into red exclamation mark, press volume up and power, it will then go into stock recovery menu and will then look for the "UPDATE.ZIP" if all is well you should then go into the fakeflash version of clockworkmod recovery.
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Thank you very much, now I can boot into cwm, but I'm having some troubles when trying to flash CM7.2 (or even trying to restore any nandroid backup).
First, when I try to install CM7.2, it does it very fast, without showing any error, but when I restart the phone it gets stuck again on HTC screen.
Then I try to restore a nandroid backup but it doesn't find boot.img, system.img and data.img, skips all steps and restores nothing.
My last shot, try to install the last nightly I used, fails at the same point as when I try it with CM7.2.
I don't know what else can I do, any ideas? I hope there's still any chance for my Legend (and again forgive my bad english xD)
A few points, make sure the rom zip file you are going to flash is not corrupt or incomplete.
Boot into cwm recovery,
Make sure to format the boot, system, data, cache & ext, it wouldn't hurt to delete the dalvik cache too before flashing new Rom. Just remember NOT TO FORMAT SD card.
Using this method I have always been able to flash a new Rom.
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ranger4740 said:
A few points, make sure the rom zip file you are going to flash is not corrupt or incomplete.
Boot into cwm recovery,
Make sure to format the boot, system, data, cache & ext, it wouldn't hurt to delete the dalvik cache too before flashing new Rom. Just remember NOT TO FORMAT SD card.
Using this method I have always been able to flash a new Rom.
Sent from my HTC Legend using xda app-developers app
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I've tried this way but it didn't work
Ideas?
Thank you for your help.
vitiin92 said:
I've tried this way but it didn't work
Ideas?
Thank you for your help.
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Prepare a new SD card in your PC (FAT32), put UPDATE.ZIP on it and a stock ROM, reboot into recovery, wipe all you can (factory settings) and flash the stock ROM, see if that works. If so, you could try to flash a custom ROM.
That is what I would try...
I'm too.
I can't up CookROm by Rom Manager,
but when i use ClockworkMod recovery, its OK
wim69 said:
Prepare a new SD card in your PC (FAT32), put UPDATE.ZIP on it and a stock ROM, reboot into recovery, wipe all you can (factory settings) and flash the stock ROM, see if that works. If so, you could try to flash a custom ROM.
That is what I would try...
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I also tried your way but it's still broken
I don't know what else to do, seems dead xD
Thank you.
Some new ideas?
Hi,
I used Moonshine to successfully S-off my DNA. I planned to flash Viper DNA and as I couldn't find how to enter into custom recovery TWRP(installed through goo.im)I used option within goo.im to reboot into recovery.
Then I took a backup of stock ROM and went ahead to flash Viper 1.35 which I placed in the internal memory and booted into recovery.In the steps given, it was suggested to format Data before flashing. While I cleared System and cache partitions, I didnt clear data section as it had the VIper DNA zip and thought clearing data would delete entore internal memory.
No, my device is in a weird situation where Viper got installed over stock ROM and causing reboots immediately after booting up.Now, before I do anything the device is rebooting to Viper DNA boot animation screen. Not getting time to even shut down the device.
Can anyone please suggest me what to do. Once or twice I could get it to shutdown but dont know how to get into twrp. Please help me get into twrp and clear my confusion in erasing the data before flashing a ROM. Hope I'm clear. Soon, my DNA might be dead without battery. Desperately, waiting for help....
Update : I could finally switch off my mobile. Now, can anyone direct me to get into Twrp please?
You can always shut down by holding power for 10 seconds. This will cause another reboot UNLESS after it powers off you immediately let go of power then push power and volume down simultaneously. This will get you to bootloader and from there you can select recovery. Once you are in recovery I suggest a normal wipe which DOES include data. You can always select advanced wipe and choose which partitions you want to wipe.Your internal storage won't ever be erased but depending on the version of android, its contents may be available in a different root folder after flashing. This is only with 4.2.2 Roms apparently. Your stuff would be in root/data/media. If you are on an earlier version than it should keep everything intact.
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You can always shut down by holding power for 10 seconds. This will cause another reboot UNLESS after it powers off you immediately let go of power then push power and volume down simultaneously. This will get you to bootloader and from there you can select recovery. Once you are in recovery I suggest a normal wipe which DOES include data. You can always select advanced wipe and choose which partitions you want to wipe.Your internal storage won't ever be erased but depending on the version of android, its contents may be available in a different root folder after flashing. This is only with 4.2.2 Roms apparently. Your stuff would be in root/data/media. If you are on an earlier version than it should keep everything intact.
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Had failed in a few attempts in booting into bootloader in method you suggested. Will try again and get back.New to HTC, so taking time to adapt. Thanks a lot.
While your device is off, hold power and volume at the same time until you get onto hboot (white screen with multicoloured text). Use the volume buttons to scroll down to recovery, and power to select it. Your device will turn off, then come back the the splash screen (white screen with "HTC quietly brilliant" and "Beats Audio" ) with the purple text at the top, "entering recovery". From here TWRP will load. Do an advanced wipe and select "data", "cashe", and "davlik". This will clear /data, but not /data/media, which is where your internal SD storage is. It will leave your internal storage intact. After wiping, flash as normal and reboot. It's good to let the phone settle for about 10 minutes after flashing before proceeding with the setup wizard. Profit.
Sent from my Ecliptic DNA
Finally, I'm on viper DNA. Thanks a lot for detailed replies.
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After I've got my phone back from warranty service, I've noticed that they flashed a different ROM, probably the one for Asian region, as the default language was some sort of chinese-japanese-korean. So is there a way to re-flash a different stock ROM without voiding warranty?
P.S. after I get into bootloader and manage to get into recovery mode, I can't select "apply from sd card", because as soon as I do so, it says that something is invalid and the phone reboots.
Im guessing they reflashed the ROM that was originally used with the MID for that device...even with asian variant,english language is available...factory reset the device and rerun the setup,choose english as language and give more info cid/mid/carrier etc
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Im guessing they reflashed the ROM that was originally used with the MID for that device...even with asian variant,english language is available...factory reset the device and rerun the setup,choose english as language and give more info cid/mid/carrier etc
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Alright, I've managed to install a desired ROM, but after flashing DSP manager.zip it bootlooped, so I restored my ROM back. However, that didn't do the trick as the phone says "unable to mount /data". I can boot, I see the lockscreen, but when I unlock the device, it asks me to enter decryption data password. No, I didn't set any passwords.
Tried re-flashing, wiping, nothing helped.
flash back stock recovery and do a factory reset, this will clear the encryption
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flash back stock recovery and do a factory reset, this will clear the encryption
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Alright, I went back to recovery and restored my old stock ROM. However, decryption screen still persists, leaving me able to use lockscreen only. The problem is that this stock ROM has USB debugging off and Fast Boot on and I can't change that because of the password requirement, so I can't use ADB (debugging) or boot into recovery using keys (fast boot mode). What do I do to get into recovery? Computer recognizes the phone as a CD drive.
No restore the stock recovery and do a factory reset,not twrp or cwm...hold power and both volume up and down, itll reboot after lights flash a few times, as soon as it reboots hold power and volume down and it should go into bootloader, may take a few attempts but keep at it itll go
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No restore the stock recovery and do a factory reset,not twrp or cwm...hold power and both volume up and down, itll reboot after lights flash a few times, as soon as it reboots hold power and volume down and it should go into bootloader, may take a few attempts but keep at it itll go
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Wow, didn't know that Volume Up + Down + Power trick. You saved me some bucks and my nerve cells. Thank you a whole lot!
Glad you got it sorted....