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?
flamesbladeflcl said:
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.
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OK, so I got a little "cocky" and flashed to another ROM. Apparently it wasn't capability with Rezound as it didn't boot. When I tried to boot into recovery, only could select Hboot. That lead to a loop. Took out the memory card, the SIM chip, battery, cover all to no avail. I finally got Scott's rom that was working back on the phone. But still having issues, the phone constantly reboots. I get to the home screen and/or lock screen it works but then freezes and resets. I no longer have the ability to boot into recovery. When I connect to the MAC (or PC) it says charging only.
When able tried a factory reset but that didn't do anything, I can no longer get to that screen. Did a nandroid backup before playing around with the new ROM but can't figure out how to get to it.
HELP... need your help pretty please
Did you just do a factory reset before you flashed Scott's rom or did you wipe /system as well? Also make sure debugging is enabled as well. Have you tried to boot to recovery with adb?
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DOOD YOUR PHONE IS TOTALLY BORKED. PANIC!
Kidding
in all seriousness. What firmware are you on. ICS or GB firmware?
I.E. have you run an RUU, are you s-off or s-on
if you are unsure, just type out like the first 5 lines in HBOOT.
Did you just do a factory reset before you flashed Scott's rom or did you wipe /system as well? Also make sure debugging is enabled as well. Have you tried to boot to recovery with adb?
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When I was able to select something other than HBOOT I did a factory restore but didn't notice anything different. Also manually deleted. However now when I try to go into recovery mode, only HBOOT is selected and the up/down button doesn't work.
Not sure how to boot to recovery with adp.
Appreciate your wisdom
What firmware are you on. ICS or GB firmware?
I.E. have you run an RUU, are you s-off or s-on
if you are unsure, just type out like the first 5 lines in HBOOT.
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The last time the phone worked, was running Scott's Clean Rom 4.5, Android 4.0.3
Kernel ver: 3.0.16-g8fa42b5
I believe it's s-off but it's fighting me to get back to the recovery screen
Sadly I'm not sure about RUU
What ROM was it if you don't mind me asking? I mean was it at least for the Rezound if so then it shouldn't be that bad..
I didn't do anything different this morning than last nite, but the phone came back to life. I restored the nadroid backup and it appears to be working. Though getting an error about the SIM card after a reboot.
Don't know what I did wrong when trying to flash or if the ROM just wasn't compatible.
I am a relative noob at flashing roms and rooting phones, but last night I ran into an issue. My phone was having all sorts of problems so I was going to put it back to factory, then start from scratch. I then decided to just flash a different rom. here is what happened.
I deleted SuperSU - this was done as part of the process to unroot and put back to factory, after this step I decided to flash a different rom
Put new ROM on phones internal memory as well as SD card
Wipe data
wipe cache and delvic cache
install new rom
Black screen
In an attempt to unbrick I relocked my bootloader.
Now, my phone can power on (Give white screen and HTC logo), then go black, and I can access Recovery mode. That is all.
I have plugged the phone to my computer and tried running the RUU, but the RUU will not recognize the phone.
I am not sure what to do to unbrick my phone and get it working again. Any and all help would be most appreciated!
Sorry I can't be more eloquent with my words, but I'm at work. I will be responding throughout the day, though.
thanks again so much to anyone that can help!
Try running it straight from bootloader
I loaded into Bootloader, selected Fastboot(USB), ran the .exe and it still won't recognize the phone. However, I did get recovery unlocked again. So I can get into recovery mode, flash all the ROMs I want, mount and unmount, yet still everytime I flash a new ROM it still boots to a black screen. Am I doing this right?
Try a Rom with kernel installer
Thanks! Since I am still a little new could you tell me how I would spot a ROM with kernel installer or could you point me to any one that could work? From then, it's the same process as flashing any other ROM? Do I need to do something with the kernel?
Meanbean and stock with goodies are the 2 that I'm certain of. Meanbean needs to be flashed twice the first time
Thanks so much for your help, I will post my results soon!
Failed
Here's what it says. Sorry for the blurry picture. I followed directions closely.
What version of recovery are you using? You may need to update it. Assuming you have a pc, try mounting the internal memory to pc through twrp. Windows will automatically tell you to format if its damaged
2.1 Updating now
omg it finally worked! Updated TWRP using fastboot and flashed MeanBean. Thank you so much!!!
Trying to install MeanBean...I updated the Firmware to the latest, have the phone unlocked and rooted (it says TAMPERED and UNLOCKED in the recovery screen) and did a factory reset. I have TWRP installed and can still get to the TEAMWIN RECOVERY project interface...
I was installing MeanBean and it just stuck on about 75% and stayed there. I waited for about ten minutes and figured something must have gone wrong so I didn't really have a choice but to shut it down. After starting back up when I tried to install again it said "FAILED" in red letters. I decided to re-download the ROM but now when I mount the SD CARD from within the recovery menu (to transfer the new file) my computer says that I must format the drive before I can use it and won't let me see the contents of the sd-card. I didn't want to do that for fear of bricking...so I don't really know what to do from here. I should add that I don't have a backup made in TWRP (I got the phone yesterday and hadn't installed or done anything to the OS)
Anyone know what should be done at this point?
thx
I'm updating this for anyone else who runs into issues like this: I went ahead and formatted the SD card from within windows, then relocked the phone, reinstalled the RUU and I'm back in a workable mode
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Trying to install MeanBean...I updated the Firmware to the latest, have the phone unlocked and rooted (it says TAMPERED and UNLOCKED in the recovery screen) and did a factory reset. I have TWRP installed and can still get to the TEAMWIN RECOVERY project interface...
I was installing MeanBean and it just stuck on about 75% and stayed there. I waited for about ten minutes and figured something must have gone wrong so I didn't really have a choice but to shut it down. After starting back up when I tried to install again it said "FAILED" in red letters. I decided to re-download the ROM but now when I mount the SD CARD from within the recovery menu (to transfer the new file) my computer says that I must format the drive before I can use it and won't let me see the contents of the sd-card. I didn't want to do that for fear of bricking...so I don't really know what to do from here. I should add that I don't have a backup made in TWRP (I got the phone yesterday and hadn't installed or done anything to the OS)
Anyone know what should be done at this point?
thx
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I had the exact same problem. I just reformatted the internal storage and that fixed a lot of my issues. I can't however get the RUU to work. Can't seem to find my phone, neither can HTC Sync. Is this just a problem caused by MeanBean? I use to run MeanBean but then switched to CM10 for a few months and was going to switch back. Never had an issue like this before.
Ok so here's the deal...
I was running ViperRez ROM and decided it was time for a change and found a few ROMs I wanted to check out. Tried EclipticRez, kept force closing and rebooting before or just after I could finish the phone set up. Tried Nils Business, no luck. So finally tried to load MIUI for ICS and ran into trouble.
Each time before loading these ROMs I used Clean Wipe to wipe before loading the ROM. I am S-on. Unlocked. HBOOT- 2.11
So here's where my trouble is... Normally when a ROM fails to work, I'd simply reboot into recovery, wipe, and load a different rom via zip from SD card. The problem I'm having, besides the ROM not loading and getting stuck on the HTC flash screen is, I cant get into recovery. I can reboot into the bootloader screen, get to fastboot. When I try to select recovery the phone goes black, flashes something quickly on the lower part of the screen with CWM recovery looking logo, then reboots and sticks on the HTC white screen. Another issue, my battery will no longer charge via phone charger, so I had to go out and buy a battery charger today to even get my phone running again since all this drained the battery.
I've flashed the PH98IMG, removed it since it was causing me to constantly reflash it and reboot. Removed the boot img from the MIUI ROM and placed it in the root of my SD card, seemed to do nothing. I've also tried to use abd, although I'm not really sure how to use it, basically tried to follow a few different threads, but when I typed adb devices, the list was always blank.
Can anyone help me to either get this MIUI ROM working or at least get me back into recovery so I can re-load ViperRez that I know was working? I am no expert, so please give detailed instructions if you can. Thanks in advance.
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Ok so here's the deal...
I was running ViperRez ROM and decided it was time for a change and found a few ROMs I wanted to check out. Tried EclipticRez, kept force closing and rebooting before or just after I could finish the phone set up. Tried Nils Business, no luck. So finally tried to load MIUI for ICS and ran into trouble.
Each time before loading these ROMs I used Clean Wipe to wipe before loading the ROM. I am S-on. Unlocked. HBOOT- 2.11
So here's where my trouble is... Normally when a ROM fails to work, I'd simply reboot into recovery, wipe, and load a different rom via zip from SD card. The problem I'm having, besides the ROM not loading and getting stuck on the HTC flash screen is, I cant get into recovery. I can reboot into the bootloader screen, get to fastboot. When I try to select recovery the phone goes black, flashes something quickly on the lower part of the screen with CWM recovery looking logo, then reboots and sticks on the HTC white screen. Another issue, my battery will no longer charge via phone charger, so I had to go out and buy a battery charger today to even get my phone running again since all this drained the battery.
I've flashed the PH98IMG, removed it since it was causing me to constantly reflash it and reboot. Removed the boot img from the MIUI ROM and placed it in the root of my SD card, seemed to do nothing. I've also tried to use abd, although I'm not really sure how to use it, basically tried to follow a few different threads, but when I typed adb devices, the list was always blank.
Can anyone help me to either get this MIUI ROM working or at least get me back into recovery so I can re-load ViperRez that I know was working? I am no expert, so please give detailed instructions if you can. Thanks in advance.
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Have you tried fastboot flashing the boot.img?
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Have you tried fastboot flashing the boot.img?
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I have tried. Although Im not sure it worked right, or if I even did it right. Just an update. I tried flashing another PH98IMG and it said it was older. Still stuck
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I have tried. Although Im not sure it worked right, or if I even did it right. Just an update. I tried flashing another PH98IMG and it said it was older. Still stuck
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your are s-on you need to extract the boot.img from the zip. go to fastboot and make sure it says fastboot usb
fastboot flash boot boot.img
that will flash the kernel that you need. the ph98img you only need if you are trying to make firmware changes. everything else can be run from the computer.
Also, make sure you are flashing 3.04 roms. Viperrez i think never updated to the global . If you are flashing global roms, you HAVE to do the firmware update.
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your are s-on you need to extract the boot.img from the zip. go to fastboot and make sure it says fastboot usb
fastboot flash boot boot.img
that will flash the kernel that you need. the ph98img you only need if you are trying to make firmware changes. everything else can be run from the computer.
Also, make sure you are flashing 3.04 roms. Viperrez i think never updated to the global . If you are flashing global roms, you HAVE to do the firmware update.
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I kinda understand what you are saying, but the other problem I have is.... When running adb my phone is not listed in the adb devices, although it is listed in the usb devices. Not sure what to do about that.
Are you in charge only mode on the phone?
Is usb debugging enabled?
USB debugging was selected prior to this incident and it was on charge only as well. It was not connected as a usb drive. I cannot get into the settings of the phone to find out what it is now or if its changed.
I would suggest going S-Off, it will make flashing a whole lot easier. As for getting back to a usable state, you should be able to flash a PH98IMG in bootloader. If anything, flash an RUU and go from there.
Hey guys, Im in urgent need of help here.
I'll give you an exact account of what i did.
saved apps via Ti. Back.; uploaded the new ICS radios and debloated, deodexed rom from my computer to my tbolt, renamed the radio from my computer; booted into 4ext, nandroid, wiped EVERYTHING, booted into bootloader; bootloader detected the new radio and I confirmed its update
Next thing that happened was that the HTC splash screen appeared as normal but disappeared, leaving a blank screen with dim backlight. Pulled battery and tried to reboot 10+ times to no avail. Same thing happens everytime. ADB doesn't recognize the phone but i CAN boot into bootloader. The problem is that everytime I boot into bootloader, the radio begins to update, leaving with the only option to reboot. Thus, I cant get into recovery.
I've spent the past couple hours trying to do my homework on this but its not looking too hot. I need this bad boy, so help is much appreciated.
Doug
You need to take the radio off the sd card, so you can boot to recovery and actually flash the rom.
Sounds like you haven't flashed a rom yet, so it has nothing to boot into.
With the radio image (PG05IMG.zip) on the root it will not go to Recovery.
So you will need to find a card reader to rename the radio file, since you wiped prior to flashing the radios.
The preferred process would have been to flash the radios, boot to your current rom, rename the radio file from within the current rom.
Then boot to recovery and flash the new rom.
I somewhat outlined this in the OP of the rooted rom thread where you should have gotten the download from.
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You need to take the radio off the sd card, so you can boot to recovery and actually flash the rom.
Sounds like you haven't flashed a rom yet, so it has nothing to boot into.
With the radio image (PG05IMG.zip) on the root it will not go to Recovery.
So you will need to find a card reader to rename the radio file, since you wiped prior to flashing the radios.
The preferred process would have been to flash the radios, boot to your current rom, rename the radio file from within the current rom.
Then boot to recovery and flash the new rom.
I somewhat outlined this in the OP of the rooted rom thread where you should have gotten the download from.
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Makes sense.I dont know why I read "wipe everything" before the rest of your thread and thought that meant to do so before reflashing radios.
Got a $10 reader and was able to change the radio file and boot into recovery. Flashed the rom as usual and it looks lke everythings working.
Thanks for the help man.