Hi all,
So my phone won't boot past the white HTC screen. I'm able to boot into recovery, but that's it. I'll go into recovery and try to flash an assortment of ROMs, but it never gets past the HTC screen. It gets to the HTC screen, stays there for 15 seconds or so, then reboots back into the screen.
I'm 1.4 S-OFF. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Twist: When I boot it with the SD card in, it doesn't work.
When I boot it with the SD card out, it doesn't work.
BUT When I boot it with the SD card out, then slide in the SD card while the white HTC screen is on, then it boots. Wtf. Anyone have any ideas?
first thought, did you wipe cache/dalvik/data?
second, GSM or CDMA?
if all else fails just run a RUU to get things back to a functional state
dessolator666 said:
first thought, did you wipe cache/dalvik/data?
second, GSM or CDMA?
if all else fails just run a RUU to get things back to a functional state
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I've tried wiping everything, flashing AOSP ROMs, Sense, all of them. I'm CDMA.
Something else: When I install 4EXT recovery, I can't boot into recovery. It gives me white screen reboots like in the OP. But when I'm on Clockworkmod, I can boot into recovery.
Gonna try a RUU when I get home :\
Did you do anything just before this started happening? For instance, did this problem start immediately after you tried to flash a new rom?
I'd be really interested as to why you were able to get it to boot by putting the SD card in mid-boot. I honestly have no idea if an SD card is required for an android phone to boot (never had a need to try). Are the connections on your SD card, or that port, somehow degraded or dirty?
the card is not needed, all boot relevant info is in the phone itself.
it's unlikely that the problem is in the card slot, I would have to assume that the problem is software related, maybe it's trying to read some data it doesn't have access to? mind you it still wouldn't hurt to try and check the card for errors (an external card reader would come in handy)
ok, just out of curiosity, when you go into CWM and clear: cache then dalvik then cache and data, do u get an error after it's done?
how'd the RUU go?
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I tried to install Dcd Titan 2.1.0, It went through the ruu process succesfully, but when phone restarts it gets stuck in black HTC sceen past the Red model numbers. I tryied to use Exit boot loader, but restarted back to the same screen. I tried to connect active sync (all on Xp). tryied to install through RUU again, got an Error264 and recovery process went through there instructions, no luck. Been searching all over XDA sight,
I Have OLIPO 2.4 INSTALLED
Found that I should try Formating SD card to fat32, put 2.17 official in it, renamed to TITIMAG.nhb (OR SOMTHING CLOSE, done right on card).
I HARD RESET, AND IT WENT TO THE LOADING SCREEN AND HAS BEEN THERE FOR AT LEAST A HALF AN HOUR.
WHAT SHOULD I DO??????????
Keep waiting(WHICH I STILL AM)
Or does any one else have some suggestions
I hope this ain't bricked, Please tell its not
DCD's ROM do not include a radio. For the ROM to completely boot, you need to install the new radio ROM, which is mentioned in DCD's ROM threads. There is a thread on here with the 3.27 radio here.
looking at right
looking, but can i flash it to SD card
JonnyBoy313 said:
looking, but can i flash it to SD card
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yea you can if ur card is FAT32
works for everyone else but me
Well I was running the leaked sense ics build and it was causing my phone to overheat so I decided I would switch back to cm7 for a while, when I when I tried to reboot to recovery it just booted showed a black screen then rebooted back to the rom. So I tried to reinstall the recovery from both rom manger and the bootloader nothing worked. I then noticed that it was hard to get my sd card out and that it was slow to load upon boot, odd but it was still readable by the system and I could get to my files on it. I treid a few other sd cards with the same results. It was then I decided it would be a smart idea to try and flash a ruu to try to just return to stock (but leave the bootloader unlocked). I ended up flashing PG05IMG_no_hboot_2.11.605.19.zip from [HOW TO]return to stock (gingerbread) from revolutionary or normal hboot(11/2/11) - xda-developers Which then lead to my phone not booting to rom or recovery all I can get to is the (still unlocked at least) bootloader.
Any ideas on where to proceed? I attempted to run a ruu exe so I can restore it from a computer in case the problem with sd is why it is failing to flash properly but the one I tried 2.11.605.0_Radio_0.01.78.0802w_3_NV_8K_1.41_9K_1.6 4_release_210841.exe required the phone to be booted to the rom to confirm the current build before flashing a new one. Anyone know of a way around that maybe? Or anything?
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Well I was running the leaked sense ics build and it was causing my phone to overheat so I decided I would switch back to cm7 for a while, when I when I tried to reboot to recovery it just booted showed a black screen then rebooted back to the rom. So I tried to reinstall the recovery from both rom manger and the bootloader nothing worked. I then noticed that it was hard to get my sd card out and that it was slow to load upon boot, odd but it was still readable by the system and I could get to my files on it. I treid a few other sd cards with the same results. It was then I decided it would be a smart idea to try and flash a ruu to try to just return to stock (but leave the bootloader unlocked). I ended up flashing PG05IMG_no_hboot_2.11.605.19.zip from [HOW TO]return to stock (gingerbread) from revolutionary or normal hboot(11/2/11) - xda-developers Which then lead to my phone not booting to rom or recovery all I can get to is the (still unlocked at least) bootloader.
Any ideas on where to proceed? I attempted to run a ruu exe so I can restore it from a computer in case the problem with sd is why it is failing to flash properly but the one I tried 2.11.605.0_Radio_0.01.78.0802w_3_NV_8K_1.41_9K_1.6 4_release_210841.exe required the phone to be booted to the rom to confirm the current build before flashing a new one. Anyone know of a way around that maybe? Or anything?
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It may not work but I've had some luck with http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1703455 in rooting and unrooting, it may be able to see it and do its thing. I know you said you tried different cards but it might be worth looking into reformatting your card in Windows (FAT32) and trying it with a good radio by itself to get it to boot. Then pull or rename the radio zip off the card and then reinstall the ROM or RUU.
i have looked everywhere and cant find a solution for some reason my phone was fine yesterday, until i rebooted then it went to htc screen and went black, so i tried to flash the same rom which was before, crynogan rom 4.2.2 jb and it said it was unable to mount anything, cache sd card, i am currently not able to wipe the cache or memory as it wont let me, ive been working on this for hours, i cant flash a rom or anything because it wont mount, please help i cant get a new phone at this moment, and need it for work. Thankyou guys.
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my internal memory is 0, as well as my sd card. cannot partition either says its also unable to mount. ive tried team win recovery and clockwork, same issure
Can you try formatting the SD card in PC? If it still can't see it, might be bad phone...
Sent from my Infected Rezound
If you're s-off, trying running the RUU on it, if that doesn't work, I think it's safe to say your phone is dead.
Thankyou very much for your reply, i have 3 sd cards all at different gigabytes, same thing with them. Not accepting a single one but its not just that, if it cannot mount the system, cache, sd card, or internal memory, then this phone is bricked or useless like youve said, ive done fastboot and its a pain, im not that experienced but i get the idea. Even when i go into recovery, and go to mount, i cannot mount anything or partition, it wont let me select anything. here are some pics of my phone and and process..... well it wont let me upload them until 10 post but i can send them to you if you want to see if you can tell by them. im fully able to get to hboot and recovery no problem.
my phone is S-on btw
chris910 said:
my phone is S-on btw
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What version hboot do you have?
I could use some advice on any options I have for trying to salvage this Rezound. Here is what I know:
The Symptoms:
-Was completely stock and actively used phone
-Charging port began misbehaving. I believe it may be loose/damaged. It will only charge reliably on one particular USB cable (an Amazon Basics, but only one of my dozen or so of those)
-Started randomly rebooting
-Did a factory reset, seemed to help for a while, then it started rebooting again
-It started getting stuck in a bootloop. HTC screen up ~2s -> black ~0.2s -> HTC screen up ~28s -> black ~5s -> repeat. Does this for a variable amount of time, sometimes minutes, sometimes hours before it will actually boot all the way into the OS
-If it does boot, it usually does not last long before it reboots and will typically get stuck again
The Facts:
-I can into bootloader with no issues
-Because I can get into bootloader, I went ahead and unlocked and flashed TWRP 2.6.3.0
-I can get into TWRP and use all of it's functions reliably
-I decided to try wiping data and cache then system several times, flashing a custom ROM (Global_OTA_RED_DESENSED-v1.0) in TWRP and then flashed boot.img with fastboot, but the new ROM has the same issue. In fact I've yet to boot all the way into the ROM
-Does the same thing with the SD card and SIM card removed
My Guesses:
Based on the fact that it is rock solid in the bootloader and in recovery, I thought that it was possibly corruption on system or boot, which is why I tried to install a custom ROM. Now I'm leaning towards bad memory, either where system or boot reside, possibly data or even RAM, perhaps caused by electrical damage from the charge port issues. I just don't understand why I've not seen any sort of read/write errors while doing anything with fastboot or recovery.
At this point I don't know what to do beyond throwing it out. If anyone has any fresh ideas for salvaging this thing, I'd appreciate it.
If not, any ideas for replacing are also appreciated. A new phone isn't really in the budget at the moment, particularly because I desperately want to get away from Verizon (most likely will lose unlimited data if we I start swapping and don't really have $600-$700 to throw around at the moment. I have 4 lines to move and the Rezound line is on contract, so I'm sort of feeling the rock one side and a hard place on the other.
Thanks in advance, folks!
Because you are staying in ICS at the moment and not playing with JB/KK, try booting up Amon Ra recovery, it has an option to wipe/format the /boot partition (TWRP does not) so wipe that and everything else (except external SD) at lease twice... then, assuming you are on HBoot 2.28 and 0123/0124 radios, flash this and the boot image: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2260154 it is a completely stock build with full bloat, only root is added, and see if it comes up. This ROM is my go to ROM for issues when an RUU is not possible.
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Because you are staying in ICS at the moment and not playing with JB/KK, try booting up Amon Ra recovery, it has an option to wipe/format the /boot partition (TWRP does not) so wipe that and everything else (except external SD) at lease twice... then, assuming you are on HBoot 2.28 and 0123/0124 radios, flash this and the boot image: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2260154 it is a completely stock build with full bloat, only root is added, and see if it comes up. This ROM is my go to ROM for issues when an RUU is not possible.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I had let the phone sit turned off all afternoon to charge and tried this after work. I grabbed Amon Ra from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37362226, made sure to wipe boot in excess and installed the ROM you linked. It booted up on the first try unlike the last ROM, and I've been able to load some things on it and delete some bloat for a bit with no reboots. I've even powered off and went back into recovery to do a backup, and had a successful reboot afterwards. I don't know if it was wiping boot that did it, but I hope it holds. I'll keep you posted, and either way, thanks again.
Still going. Getting a random reboot here and there, but I've yet to have it get stuck while booting. Now I'm trying to decide if I want to take my chances and try to get S-off.
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Still going. Getting a random reboot here and there, but I've yet to have it get stuck while booting. Now I'm trying to decide if I want to take my chances and try to get S-off.
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Are you still on the stock ROM from above? You will need to unlock with Linux if you are, otherwise you will need a custom ROM (actually, an unsecure kernel) to use rumrunner for Windows.
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Are you still on the stock ROM from above? You will need to unlock with Linux if you are, otherwise you will need a custom ROM (actually, an unsecure kernel) to use rumrunner for Windows.
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I'm still on the stock ROM. Unfortunately it quit booting again.
"Haus" said:
I'm still on the stock ROM. Unfortunately it quit booting again.
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Hmm... Honestly looking like a hardware issue... Sorry bro
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My device is a HTC inspire 4G and I have been having issues with installing a new rom. Here are the multiple steps I have taken and retried over 3 times. 1.) Wiped SD card and made it a goldcard thingie. (not very knowing about how gold cards work) 2.) formatted system, data, cache, and anything else that everybody says needs to be formatted to be able to install a custom rom. I um am a dumbass and decided not to backup anything so I am kinda ****ed on that. I have rooted my phone and unlocked my bootloader. But I didnt get s-off and im not sure if thats whats causing it. Whenever I go to my recovery area it pops up a "clockworkmod" and stuff where I can install and format etc. my custom rom, gapps, and inspiremod. I have rebooted right after installing those and waited for about 20 minutes and it just stays as the "HTC" white logo screen. Any ideas on why its doing this? Do I need s-off? If so is there a way I can take my OTHER HTC inspire 4G and transfer the stock rom and stuff from that one and copy it over to the one I am having issues with.