Actually, that's a lie, it does boot, kind of.
HTC Evo 3D GSM.
So I've been S-ON since unlocking my phone. I'm not exactly new to this but this has stumped me. It begun as a problem that affected Android 4.0.4 ROMs only, but it's just happened to my usual ROM, Predator Unity 3D.
I always flash the kernel using fastboot.
HBOOT 1.49.0018, using Revolutionary CWR 4.0.1.4
Basically, it starts to boot. HTC logo on a white screen, then it goes onto a backlighted blank screen, then turns off. Then it turns on again and repeats the process, automatically.
I've tried a lot of stuff, and while putting on PredatorUnity3D again to install a new recovery via an apk, it started doing this on this ROM too. I always wipe data, cache, dalvik cache before installing a new ROM.
So I'd appreciate the help.
I know that it has worked in the past being S-on, but I highly recommend getting s-off. Almost everybody who has had issues with bootlooping like yours (showing the HTC Logo and then rebooting) had the issue go away when the flashed the ROM while s-off.
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Hi,
I'm new to this forum and fairly new to rooting also.
I recently rooted my gsm HTC evo 3d using the htc unlock method
I have S-OFF and HBOOT-1.49.1107 (was 1.49.0018 I think)
and have revolutionary 4.0.1.4 installed.
The first thing I tried to flash was beats from this site:
androidadvicesDOTcom/install-beats-audio-package-android-device/
after rebooting, it turns out the only thing this did was remove sound from my device (music, in-call, everything) and no sign of beats.
Afterwards I tried to flash shooter beats 2.3, first using cmd with the flashboot command. It just got stuck endlessly rebooting itself on the green htc logo screen.
So I tried putting the shooter beats zip on my sd card, then going into revolutionary and flashing that way, once rebooted I am still stuck with the same problem.
If I were to do a factory reset on my phone, would it boot up with the stock rom and would I still have root? Or is there an easier option?
Thanks
johnydixon said:
Hi,
I'm new to this forum and fairly new to rooting also.
I recently rooted my gsm HTC evo 3d using the htc unlock method
I have S-OFF and HBOOT-1.49.1107 (was 1.49.0018 I think)
and have revolutionary 4.0.1.4 installed.
The first thing I tried to flash was beats from this site:
androidadvicesDOTcom/install-beats-audio-package-android-device/
after rebooting, it turns out the only thing this did was remove sound from my device (music, in-call, everything) and no sign of beats.
Afterwards I tried to flash shooter beats 2.3, first using cmd with the flashboot command. It just got stuck endlessly rebooting itself on the green htc logo screen.
So I tried putting the shooter beats zip on my sd card, then going into revolutionary and flashing that way, once rebooted I am still stuck with the same problem.
If I were to do a factory reset on my phone, would it boot up with the stock rom and would I still have root? Or is there an easier option?
Thanks
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One thing you should know.
Always do a nadroid before flashing anything. You will now have to look for a stock ROM do a full wipe and flash it
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Ok, thanks, but not really what I was looking for.
The problem is that it wouldn't reboot after flashing roms (I tried several), so trying to install a stock rom would just do the same.
I didn't back-up as I didn't see any point to back-up when there's nothing on the device, and as you pointed out, there are stock roms available.
I reinstalled a newer version of CWM, wiped all date/caches/etc, before flashing a new rom and voila. So I guess the problem was in my install or version of cwm.
the first mistake you made was downloading from a site other then xda stick with xda when it come's to flashing that way you know what your getting lets start here the rom that you have flashed i hope you still have the zip file because you will need to wipe everything and use a super wipe tool and then reflash your rom that will get you going again
I got everything except the beats from xda, so I don't think that's an issue. Anyway, as I said, works.
johnydixon said:
Hi,
I'm new to this forum and fairly new to rooting also.
I recently rooted my gsm HTC evo 3d using the htc unlock method
I have S-OFF and HBOOT-1.49.1107 (was 1.49.0018 I think)
and have revolutionary 4.0.1.4 installed.
The first thing I tried to flash was beats from this site:
androidadvicesDOTcom/install-beats-audio-package-android-device/
after rebooting, it turns out the only thing this did was remove sound from my device (music, in-call, everything) and no sign of beats.
Afterwards I tried to flash shooter beats 2.3, first using cmd with the flashboot command. It just got stuck endlessly rebooting itself on the green htc logo screen.
So I tried putting the shooter beats zip on my sd card, then going into revolutionary and flashing that way, once rebooted I am still stuck with the same problem.
If I were to do a factory reset on my phone, would it boot up with the stock rom and would I still have root? Or is there an easier option?
Thanks
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How did you get S-OFF?
I have also an EVO 3D with HBOOT 1.49.0018 and i can't get S-OFF because Revolutionary only have 1.49.0008.....
Hey XDA,
I need some help with my HTC Amaze. I just installed the Android Revolution ROM for my phone, and I am now unable to get past the boot screen. I've been sitting here waiting for it to boot for 1/2 hour, before I took the battery out and tried booting again. Waited 1/2 hour again. Still no progress.
I had just made my phone S-OFF with SuperCID, and had flashed a new radio.img to my phone as recommended in the thread. After doing that, I went and used SuperWipe, and then I installed Android Revolution. Installation encountered no errors, so i was surprised when I was unable to boot.
I can still access 4ext recovery luckily.
Could some one help a noob out? Thanks.
Robert
EDIT: Wanted to point out that I was able to boot into my old rom after S-OFF, SuperCID and radio.img, but not after installing revolution rom.
Bro, why don't you try clearing data and cache from recovery, and then reboot.
Hope that helps, thanks
Thanks for the reply, but I figured out the problem.
I didn't flash the given ph85img which was the problem. So i flashed it, and now it works.
Only issue now is the mobile network wont connect and I am now unable to flash radio.img
Thanks
my 3d is stuck at the htc screen and just keeps restarting. like if the bootloader won't load. i tried flashing superwipe then going to a nandroid backup. and tried flashing superwipe and going to a sense rom. any help?
im hboot 1.58
and s-on
Not sure if your going to like the answer. This happened to me, boots to the HTC screen and reboots....over and over and over...Problem is, I didn't do anything for the loop to happen. Not rooted, nothing...phone just acting quirky couple days ago and I restarted the phone...BAM...HTC loop...
Thanks to these guys....YOU GENIUSES!!! I have my phone back, but...its rooted, bootloader unlocked, and S-ON. If you follow this thread to the tee....you'll be back in action http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1889438 unless you have insurance. Have you tried, with the phone off, pressing the power button and holding down the down button to boot to the bootloader, then fastboot, and tried the factory reset? I did, but it didn't work for me....maybe it will for you....if not, that thread will help.
Thanks Guys, you never cease to amaze me with your knowledge.
If you do end up rooting and stay S-ON MeanRom ICS 2.6 works ...works wonderfully!!!
Try not flashing a superwipe and making sure smartflash is on in 4-ext if thats what you're using. Then just wipe your data using the wipe option and flash a sense ROM.
If you're s-on you have to make sure to flash the boot.IMG (the boot.IMG is the kernel and s-on can't flash to the boot partition) through fastboot because 4ext smartflash can mess up sometimes.
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Running ICS rooted S on
flashed "Official jb ruu 3.15.651.16 Odex. zip" using TWRP it said it was successful. Went back to reboot system. The phone got to the htc quietly brilliant screen, then went black. I got a few white bars to pop up on the top of the black screen then nothing.
I then went in and flashed "boot img flasher v1.2 jb.zip" it failed until I cleared the D-cache, then it passed. Back to the reboot screen. reboot system and it did the same thing.
I then recovered ICS and rebooted and the phone is back to the old system
What am I missing?
Would it be easier to take the OTA version and then root to S off?
I've never bothered with RUU's but if I'm not mistaken you have to re-lock your bootloader and run the RUU through the bootloader, not recovery.
With some of the threads popping up about people having issues with the new JB RUU, you might be better off finding a rooted JB ROM, like MeanBean, and run that, instead. You'd be better off getting S-off, then upgrading.
Sent using my HTC EVO LTE and a magic wand
jchtcusre1 said:
Running ICS rooted S on
flashed "Official jb ruu 3.15.651.16 Odex. zip" using TWRP it said it was successful. Went back to reboot system. The phone got to the htc quietly brilliant screen, then went black. I got a few white bars to pop up on the top of the black screen then nothing.
I then went in and flashed "boot img flasher v1.2 jb.zip" it failed until I cleared the D-cache, then it passed. Back to the reboot screen. reboot system and it did the same thing.
I then recovered ICS and rebooted and the phone is back to the old system
What am I missing?
Would it be easier to take the OTA version and then root to S off?
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If you're s-on, retry flashing...(wipe everything and start over)..you're gonna have to flash jb Roms twice (as long as they are the zip format ones to my knowledge)...s-on is causing the kernel to take 2 flashes to install....first flash will install the kernel and then after that is successful, reflash without wiping anything and the Rom should boot....its a known procedure/hurdle for s-on users...hope that explains the bootloop. Let me know if it works...
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onefasttreopro said:
If you're s-on, retry flashing...(wipe everything and start over)..you're gonna have to flash jb Roms twice (as long as they are the zip format ones to my knowledge)...s-on is causing the kernel to take 2 flashes to install....first flash will install the kernel and then after that is successful, reflash without wiping anything and the Rom should boot....its a known procedure/hurdle for s-on users...hope that explains the bootloop. Let me know if it works...
Sent from my EVO using xda app-developers app
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This is true with MeanBean due to how the kernel installs. You have to basically flash the ROM twice when you're S-on. Some ROM's have a S-on kernel installer, while others don't.
I still say get S-off, upgrade your firmware and install a rooted JB ROM.
Sent using my HTC EVO LTE and a magic wand
Than
Thank you both, I'll give that a try and see what happens. I wished I could have found that info earlier Been reading and messing with this phone for Hours.
Umm boot img flasher is a windows program that you run on a windows pc. You have to extract all the files out of the zip. NOT flash it on your phone. What hboot do you currently have?
Nope still not there. I tired flashing the rom 5 times and although I got to the second HTC quietly Brilliant screen, it still just goes black. I think I'll look into the dirty racun or lazy panda since I'm still at 1.12 h boot.
jchtcusre1 said:
Nope still not there. I tired flashing the rom 5 times and although I got to the second HTC quietly Brilliant screen, it still just goes black. I think I'll look into the dirty racun or lazy panda since I'm still at 1.12 h boot.
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Did you do a clean install wiping cache/del cache/system/ factory reset then flash the rom?
What version of twrp are you using? v2.3.3.0 is the latest version
Btw RUU's are .exe files not .zip files AFAIK
Since you're on Hboot 1.12, flashing the kernel separately isn't an issue like it is with the newer Hboots. That being said, it sounds like your issue lies elsewhere. Make sure you've got a good download (verify MD5 checksum) and make sure you wipe properly. For me, I'd wipe cache and Dalvik, factory reset and wipe system (this will wipe your current ROM from your phone), then flash the new ROM. Once you've flashed the new ROM, don't wipe anything in recovery, just go ahead and reboot. I'd definitely look at going S-off, as already stated.
Hi all,
I am helping a friend with his EVO 3D phone. It's S-ON and had MeanRom 2.4 installed and he wanted to update to MeanROM 4.5. So, I did a nandroid before I did anything. I used Flash Image GUI on MeanROM 4.5 and then rebooted into recovery and flash MeanROM 4.5. Needless to say, it reboots and gets stuck on HTC splash screen.
So, I went back and restored the nandroid backup I made before I installed the new version of MeanROM and it gets stuck on the same screen. He has many nandroids backup files on his phone and each one I try to restore gets stuck on the same HTC splash screen.
I'm at a lost.. BTW, the phone has an old version of TWRP on it.
I would like to restore the last nandroid if possible but i guess any one of them will be better than the HTC splash screen.
Please help
Thank you...
Got it to install 4.5 and boots up now.. no idea why, just thankful
Can you remember the steps you were doing to get it passed the splash screen?
To save you anymore grief, I recommend flashing 4ext recovery. Download 4ext updater from googleplay or you can pay for the full version to support development.
Why you ask? Here's a couple good reasons.
1. Most ROMs are 4ext optimized so it makes flashing easier.
2. The most important reason of all is that this recovery allows you to flash kernels from within using smart flash. When you download the recovery through the app and installs it. It will ask if your phone is s-on. Hitting yes enables smart flash.
Even though twrp is more compatible than cwm, 4ext has been thoroughly tested on evo 3d with very minimal issues.