Hope this is the appropriate forum but I am in desperate need of help. Please move if there is a better place for this to be posted.
I rooted my sons Thunderbolt using ADB method a while back and was using a GingerROM of some sort and wanted to turn him on to Cyanogen as I use it on my Inc. and his ROM was acting funny at times as of late.
Anyways, I DL Cyanogen and a new radio found in these threads. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1249328
I Nadroid'd back up, wiped data, installed ROM from boot, said was successful...White boot screen for 10 minutes. Decided to pull battery and tried to boot again and several times after but cant get past white HTC boot screen.
I can however boot in H-boot. I am unable to navigate through the options as it goes straight to wanting to update from a .zip file. I left the old files that I flashed originally ROM and radio perhaps, and I'm not sure what ones it's wanting me to update to or from, new or old. I have not started the update as I am not sure of the files.
There are 2 files: 1) MDM9K and 2)RADIO_V2
I cancel the update and I have to press power to reboot which starts the process I started with all over again. I wanted to connect to PC so see the contents of the SD card and possibly start the flashing process over, but it will not recognize the device so I can read the SD contents.
What do I do?
Boot up in clockwork recovery....wipe data....and after also wipe cache ...and then install zip from SD card...and install your desired rom....I do not know if that rom requires a different radio so that it can function properly...but give the rom another shot..and wait for it to boot...it may take a while..just let it go thru...make some coffee or something to wait
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Said you had an Inc? Throw the Thunderbolts sdcard in your Inc, use a file manager to rename the file and you should be set to get into recovery.
And by the way, you'll want to rename PG05IMG as that's the file that is trying to be flashed in hboot.
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Thanks for the quick replies. I can't boot into clockwork, that's the problem. I will try putting the SD card in my phone and see if I can get a new ROM to flash after I delete old stuff from it.
Also you just have to put your sons sdcard in your phone to rename the radio file. Once it's renamed, put it back in the Thunderbolt and boot into recovery and restore the nand. Then you'll be able to download a new rom and connect to a PC and what not.
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Once you rename or remove the file, if it still gets stuck at the htc screen for longer than 10 minutes, you can hold down both volume buttons and the power button at the same time. I had that problem with the ROM I am on now and it cleared it up
im having a very similar problem except i dont have an extra phone to be abe to rename those files! i was originally on TWRP as a recovery but when i tried to install thunder sense or something like that and i tried wiping system partition, it wiped everything possible and when i tried flashing the ROM, it said that the zip could not be opened. i tried adb to flash a new boot img and to get cwm back but now im stuck. any help? is there a way to flash a system img and boot img from somewhere and still keep root?
What about the revolutionary process again to install CWM?
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jsms0905 said:
im having a very similar problem except i dont have an extra phone to be abe to rename those files! i was originally on TWRP as a recovery but when i tried to install thunder sense or something like that and i tried wiping system partition, it wiped everything possible and when i tried flashing the ROM, it said that the zip could not be opened. i tried adb to flash a new boot img and to get cwm back but now im stuck. any help? is there a way to flash a system img and boot img from somewhere and still keep root?
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So you can't boot into recovery?
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Nate14 said:
So you can't boot into recovery?
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nope not able to because of the PG05IMG file on the card. i can take the card out but then theres no point in going into recovery if i cant do anything in it. and cant access the card through adb to pull it off because it appears offline when stuck in the boot loop and it doesnt appear at all when in hboot update mode.
Ok, took some troubleshooting but I think I got it.
Follow these steps:
1. Power off your phone & remove SD card and don't have your phone on the charger.
2. Hold Power and vol. down to get into hboot.
3. Now plug your phone into the charger to the wall (won't work w/ usb charging)
4. Pull battery. Should stay on in hboot
5. Insert sd card, replace battery and select Recovery from hboot
You should boot into recovery and should be able to connect to your pc to remove the radio file and throw a rom and flash. I tested this method and can confirm it worked. (though I suppose this only will work if you still have a recovery installed)
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nope not able to because of the PG05IMG file on the card. i can take the card out but then theres no point in going into recovery if i cant do anything in it. and cant access the card through adb to pull it off because it appears offline when stuck in the boot loop and it doesnt appear at all when in hboot update mode.
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I've run into that problem before, because of forgetting to rename the Radio. If you have an SD card reader lying around, you and pop your Micro SD into that and delete or rename the radio from there.
Ran into this problem last night. I barely removed my SD card, put the battery back in and start tilting it away from the phone. Leave yourself enough room between the battery and phone to slide something like a letter opener up to where the SD card is. Push slightly and your SD card will be ready forreading again. Put the battery down in its normal spot while the phone is still on, boot into Recovery and you are set.
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Haha, sounds difficult, but well played. using the charger method sounds easier
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I've been wondering and searching how to boot into recovery on the thunderbolt? Not from rom manager but when the phone is off. When i had my original moto droid all i had to do was turn it off then turn it on while holding x and i was in recovery how do i do that on the thunderbolt?
And if someone would be so kind as to explain what hboot is thanx!!
hboot is htc's bootloader, mainly used for flashing radio's and flashing stock ruu's. From what i know if u boot in to hboot, power + volume down button, then click recovery, it will boot into the recovery.
rickyotten said:
I've been wondering and searching how to boot into recovery on the thunderbolt? Not from rom manager but when the phone is off. When i had my original moto droid all i had to do was turn it off then turn it on while holding x and i was in recovery how do i do that on the thunderbolt?
And if someone would be so kind as to explain what hboot is thanx!!
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Let's see if I get this right:
hboot is the default bootloader. Press at the same time, and hold, power and volume down to get into the bootloader.
From within the bootloader you can choose to enter recovery.
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Let's see if I get this right:
hboot is the default bootloader. Press at the same time, and hold, power and volume down to get into the bootloader.
From within the bootloader you can choose to enter recovery.
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Yup . Assuming you installed a custom recovery like CWR already tho.
i had to hold both volume up and down buttons
Beastclaw said:
Yup . Assuming you installed a custom recovery like CWR already tho.
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Is there are way to boot into the default recovery (is there are default recovery?)
Every time I attempt this, it defaults to hboot, looks for a radio zip, tells me there isn't one(because there's not one on the sdcard), and only gives me the option to reboot by pressing power. I briefly see the initial menu, with the options for recovery and such under hboot, but I cannot select them with the volume up or down buttons?
Bateluer said:
Every time I attempt this, it defaults to hboot, looks for a radio zip, tells me there isn't one(because there's not one on the sdcard), and only gives me the option to reboot by pressing power. I briefly see the initial menu, with the options for recovery and such under hboot, but I cannot select them with the volume up or down buttons?
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are u sure there is no PB...img on ur sd? That's the only reason this would happen.
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are u sure there is no PB...img on ur sd? That's the only reason this would happen.
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My mistake, there is. If that radio zip file is there, you cannot move up and down through the menu then? I got a botched ROM here, hangs on the boot animation, no ADB, and no way to read that sdcard outside the phone.
Edit - If I remove the sdcard, I can do a wipe cache&data factory reset, I think? But my ROM files are on the sdcard.
Can you still use cwr without a battery if its plugged in? I know I could on the OG Droid, so if this still works, you can just take the SD card out, go to hboot and select recovery, then put the SD card back in
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akstyle450 said:
Can you still use cwr without a battery if its plugged in? I know I could on the OG Droid, so if this still works, you can just take the SD card out, go to hboot and select recovery, then put the SD card back in
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I just attempted this, without the battery, I cannot even get a pulse from the TB. With the battery in and no sdcard, I can get into CWR from hboot. Second I remove the battery from the phone, it powers off. Doing this with it plugged into the wall AC too.
Edit - This is where I'm at right now. If I remove the sdcard, wipe cash&data, I can boot into a mostly broken ROM. Specifically, the keyboard FCs immediately, I can skip past the HTC setup screens, the virtual keyboard will generate another FC. At the end of the setup screens, it'll go to a blank background with no icons and the status bar on top, showing 3G signal strength, time, etc. There's nothing on the screen but that. If I push and hold power, it brings up the Power menu, to shutdown, restart, etc. Any option thoroughly locks the phone and requires a battery pull. After that, it'll get stuck in a boot loop at the boot animation until I get into CWR again and wipe cache/data. And I've left it go for a good 20 minutes, more than enough time to rebuild the dalvik.
I should add that this was slightly, as in totally, self inflicted. :/ I was switching ROMs, rolled back from the GB leak radio to the froyo radio, and was wiping cash&data to move to a froyo ROM; got interrupted by another task, and forget where I was at. Basically, I wiped cache&data without flashing a ROM afterward.
Edit - Had to wait until I got home from work. Install the card in a sled, delete the zip, everything's good now.
Im just stuck at the Thunderbolt wallpaper. I tried removing the sd card, battery and all that crap but still stuck. Any way I can work around this?
Droid_Evo_8 said:
Im just stuck at the Thunderbolt wallpaper. I tried removing the sd card, battery and all that crap but still stuck. Any way I can work around this?
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Boot into hboot and then into recovery to flash a backup you hopefully made and if not just re-flash your ROM. Happened to me once when I rushed through a new ROM flash and didnt verify the MD5. If you dont have a ROM or a backup saved on your card then you can try to do what the guy above you did and put your card into a reader and put one on there that way.
Power and volume down
THUNDERBOLT
Ok I cannot find what I'm looking for so I"ll ask. Also though I have been rooted since it first became available and have flashed a billion ROMS and tweaks forgive me that my knowledge is still not the greatest.
I just noticed that when I hold down the power+vol button to boot into recovery mode (hboot?) that it now gives me an error, it reads like this
parsing...[SD ZIP]
[1] RECOVERY
Do you want to update?
yes
No
I used the Revolutionary method to root and have HBOOT 1.40.1000
I can start my phone normally and even use clockworkmod to boot into it recovery to flash,make backups,ect... but what worries me is if I experience a bootloop or something I won't have CWMR to save me. I tried to download TWRP 2 and reflash the PG86IMG.zip but nothing works. what am I doing wrong?
any suggestions?
Thanks
You probably have a zip that the fastboot is trying to parse and extract to update your phone. Check your files in your SD card.
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Aersaud said:
You probably have a zip that the fastboot is trying to parse and extract to update your phone. Check your files in your SD card.
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^ This is the correct answer. Specifically, check for and remove any PG86IMG.zip that might be laying around on your sd card. You should then be able to boot to boot loader and then to recovery normally.
You can keep the recovery.img. (PG86IMG) on your sdcard just not on the root of your sdcard. Move it to another file, delete it, or keep it on the root and rename it so hboot doesn't see it.
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Thanks, I forgot to mention that it totally worked. You guys nailed it.
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man you forgot to delet that zip file from the root folder of you sd card and that is what's causing the problem
I recently was trying to upgrade from ICS Dev edition 1.2 to 1.4 and i installed it just fine through recovery..... my device is S-ON still so rebooted to the bootloader to flash the kernel and it went smooth. Allow it to load up, skip the account install info..... get to the main screen and let everything settle in then reboot, upon the next reboot i get to the main screen and try and login to my google play account to start downloading apps and my phone reboots itself after the push from gmail comes through. It does this upon every attempt at restarting the phone. I did a battery pull and cannot get back into recovery because the kernel image is still on the root....I cannot figure out what to do as i have never had this much trouble with a rom before. I know there is away to relock my device and install the latest RUU and get back to working but i dont know how to get into my bootloader to do all this. If anyone could help me out it would be great appreciated as im banging my head here trying to get a functioning phone back.
If you have an external sd card reader, use it to erase the ph98img.zip file. Otherwise you can boot phone with sd card slid partly out, slide back in when booted into recovery, takes a little dexterity.
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paulhoop said:
If you have an external sd card reader, use it to erase the ph98img.zip file. Otherwise you can boot phone with sd card slid partly out, slide back in when booted into recovery, takes a little dexterity.
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You could use an old phone, if you have it, to rename/delete the file. As to the original problem, if you are still on GB firmware, make sure to flash the patch, too.
If you would of just flashed the old firmware patch you would not of faced this issue
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To make it easier, if you're using TWRP just mount USB storage in recovery.
Whisper ROM coming soon.
Your phone isn't bricked. You have to have the SD Card slide partially out and hold the battery down hard so it still powers on. Go to bootloader and go to recovery and then you can slide the SD back in and boom you're golden. No worries
cstrife999 said:
Your phone isn't bricked. You have to have the SD Card slide partially out and hold the battery down hard so it still powers on. Go to bootloader and go to recovery and then you can slide the SD back in and boom you're golden. No worries
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I can confirm this method works. A little tricky, but it works.
thanks for the help guys.... i couldnt ever get it to boot into amonra recovery so i just relocked and ruu'ed the latest (and most likely official) ics leak..... im back up and running. if it turns out this leak isn't the final i will just have to run that ruu when it comes out.
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I can confirm this method works. A little tricky, but it works.
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I can also confirm that it is likely to blank your SD card if you're not careful. Make sure you backup your SD card before trying this method.
And yes, I it happened to me.
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cstrife999 said:
Your phone isn't bricked. You have to have the SD Card slide partially out and hold the battery down hard so it still powers on. Go to bootloader and go to recovery and then you can slide the SD back in and boom you're golden. No worries
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this method DOES work. all this method does is Bypass the "PH98IMG" scanner so it wont find it because the SDcard is not inserted in Properly. so it will then continue into hboot which would allow you to access your Recovery which would then help you to fix your problems.
I tried flashing the Mean Bean rom. I'm not a noob when it comes to flashing, but I made a noob mistake. I just got my phone and forgot to image before I wiped and tried flashing. The rom was stuck at "format /system" for 20 minutes. I held down the power button, and now, since I didn't image the stock, I can't start the phone (it gets stuck at the white screen) and now when I try to install the rom again, the zip is missing.
I have no idea what to do next. I am downloading all of the ruu files and I'm going to run each one until one works, but I'm not sure if that's even going to fix the problem.
Any help would be more than appreciated.
jkoch25 said:
I tried flashing the Mean Bean rom. I'm not a noob when it comes to flashing, but I made a noob mistake. I just got my phone and forgot to image before I wiped and tried flashing. The rom was stuck at "format /system" for 20 minutes. I held down the power button, and now, since I didn't image the stock, I can't start the phone (it gets stuck at the white screen) and now when I try to install the rom again, the zip is missing.
I have no idea what to do next. I am downloading all of the ruu files and I'm going to run each one until one works, but I'm not sure if that's even going to fix the problem.
Any help would be more than appreciated.
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Try going into recovery then mount SD card in settings put the Rom back then repeat the flash process
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And all of the RUUs I've downloaded from Shipped-Roms (in the Jewel category) haven't done anything. I keeping "Unknown Error"
Please, I need help.
This happened to me....do what gmoe says.....if the Rom doesn't show up factory reset everything ABSOLUTELY everything and then reboot into recovery it'll tell you there's no os and then mount the usb again drop in the Rom and flash and you should be A okay
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jkoch25 said:
And all of the RUUs I've downloaded from Shipped-Roms (in the Jewel category) haven't done anything. I keeping "Unknown Error"
Please, I need help.
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Click the link in my sig you will the RUU you are looking for
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gmoe65 said:
Try going into recovery then mount SD card in settings put the Rom back then repeat the flash process
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Can you expand a little bit? I went into settings and there wasn't anything there to mount. I went into mount and marked "mount SDCard," and I went back to install and nothing popped up. I do have a ROM on my SD card, but its not the same rom. Its a rom I know that works.
EDIT: I noticed it was wanting to use an internal SD card, not an external. Switched it, and bam, works. I'll let you know if it flashes properly. Thank you for the help. This forum is the best, without a doubt. Never lets me down.
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Can you expand a little bit? I went into settings and there wasn't anything there to mount. I went into mount and marked "mount SDCard," and I went back to install and nothing popped up. I do have a ROM on my SD card, but its not the same rom. Its a rom I know that works.
EDIT: I noticed it was wanting to use an internal SD card, not an external. Switched it, and bam, works. I'll let you know if it flashes properly. Thank you for the help. This forum is the best, without a doubt. Never lets me down.
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Np dude :thumbup: just remember if your s-on you have to flash the Kernel first
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Got it to flash properly. Thank you again everyone, especially gmoe65!
Do you have any data you need or can you do full wipe? if that is possible this is a easy way to flash a ruu. 1 download the ruu from this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1744700&highlight=how+to+root the one that is titled PJ75IMG.zip 2. you will need to put it on your external sd card somehow ( easy way would be taking it out of phone and putting it in a different one then move it using that phone, or mabye using twrp recovery if possible make sure it is the external sd though), make sure you put it on the root of the external sd card. 3. boot into bootloader and the file should be recognized and it will ask you if you want to processed click volume up for yes this will bring you back to stock ics and it will also flash a image to the phone. hope this helps
So my sister accidentally did this today. She is on the rooted official debloated ICS rom I installed for her. Now it keeps rebooting into recovery to try to install it, it fails, then reboots the phone normally, but every time the phone turns back on, verizon powers it down trying to install the update again.... She said she's been through the cycle like 6 times.
How does she fix this? And she's away at college so I can't do it for her so layman's terms would be best so I can pass along the instructions. Thanks!
If you have a backup you can start by just refreshing that. If it keeps going into recovery you'll have to flash a new rom again and download the OTA_Killer santod has posted here http://d-h.st/Tay.
If you dont have any roms to flash to, then boot into recovery, mount USB storage, and then go download a new rom from somewhere to load on your sdcard so you can flash it from within recovery.
Just boot into recovery wipe cache and dalvik 3 times. Reboot.Profit.
OTA does not install with custom recovery so it will fail. Just wipe cache and dalvik to clear failed update, then run OTA killer.
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Thanks. She got it figured out and is back in action. Appreciate it!
I accidentally accepted the OTA also while rooted, however my boot looping seems to be a bit worse.
any ideas on what to do, if my tbolt reboots when I select recovery, and also factory reset?
thelucid1 said:
I accidentally accepted the OTA also while rooted, however my boot looping seems to be a bit worse.
any ideas on what to do, if my tbolt reboots when I select recovery, and also factory reset?
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I forget teh file name but I know if you have a file that's like PG05IMG.zip or the like on your sd card it may be trying to load that file and automatically reboot the phone?
You need to go into recovery and clear the caches. Radio files are named pg05img and they wouldn't cause a boot loop like that.
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azrael888 said:
I forget teh file name but I know if you have a file that's like PG05IMG.zip or the like on your sd card it may be trying to load that file and automatically reboot the phone?
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Thats what i initially thought was happening, but no radio/back files on my sd named like that. I think I may have to cut my losses as the usb port on my phone is also a bit messed up and I can't maintain a data connection to send commands to it
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Thats what i initially thought was happening, but no radio/back files on my sd named like that. I think I may have to cut my losses as the usb port on my phone is also a bit messed up and I can't maintain a data connection to send commands to it
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I'm having this same problem too. I checked my SD card and do not have renamed the radio file. But it wont go into recovery. It just keep rebooting. and everytime the phone starts it shuts down and try's to install the update.
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I'm having this same problem too. I checked my SD card and do not have renamed the radio file. But it wont go into recovery. It just keep rebooting. and everytime the phone starts it shuts down and try's to install the update.
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Eventually when the battery dropped below 35% it cancelled the update on it's own, now I just get the message asking to run the update and it wont let me put it off for more than 5 days. I still cannot seem to boot into recovery. Every time I chose it from the menu it just restarts. I have tried running the Thunderbolt tool, but it keeps giving me the following message:
c:\thunderbolt tool\support_files\Here
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process
repeated over and over.
any suggestions would be appreciated
You need to remove the downloaded update from the cache
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