Hi guys. I unlocked the bootloader but wasn't able to get SOFF. I tried flashing the elementalX kernel which allowed me to go through the setup. The phone then was stuck in a boot loop. I downloaded additional roms and extracted and flashed the boot.img and then the ROM however everytime I am just stuck at the boot screen. Any ideas?
I had all the latest firmware etc.
bicycle_kick said:
Hi guys. I unlocked the bootloader but wasn't able to get SOFF. I tried flashing the elementalX kernel which allowed me to go through the setup. The phone then was stuck in a boot loop. I downloaded additional roms and extracted and flashed the boot.img and then the ROM however everytime I am just stuck at the boot screen. Any ideas?
I had all the latest firmware etc.
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Boot into fastboot and connect through command prompt to your pc. Type fastboot erase cache
see if that gets you going.
I may give that a try. I ended up flashing ViperROM and it loaded up fine. I did nothing different than the other 3 ROMS i tried to flash so I am not sure where the problem is. I am going to keep trying since I didn't want to user Viper.
bicycle_kick said:
I may give that a try. I ended up flashing ViperROM and it loaded up fine. I did nothing different than the other 3 ROMS i tried to flash so I am not sure where the problem is. I am going to keep trying since I didn't want to user Viper.
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Try meanbean or sharkie rom
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jocarog said:
Try meanbean or sharkie rom
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meanbean did the same. i guess i will attempt to get Soff.
bicycle_kick said:
meanbean did the same. i guess i will attempt to get Soff.
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You have to flash MeanBean twice-once to flash the ROM, then again to flash the kernel.
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Do you have a Samsung device?
Be warned - there is no such thing as fastboot mode for most Samsung Galaxy devices - you'll be wasting your time doing this and typing "fastboot devices" for many hours!
If you have problems with your recovery, it works to just reflash the CF-autoroot kit, which happens to flash the cache partition too. My problem was a bootloop with TWRP's obviously buggy OpenRecoveryScript, which was installing a ZIP file over and over again.
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Hello,
I have an unlocked EVO 3D with HBOOT 1.5 S-on.
I flashed the phone and replaced InfectedRom with Warm Two Point Three. After installing new rom and reseting, phone is now stuck on HTC startup screen.
Please help!!! I appreciate and welcome all feedback. Thank you
kongfooey said:
Hello,
I have an unlocked EVO 3D with HBOOT 1.5 S-on.
I flashed the phone and replaced InfectedRom with Warm Two Point Three. After installing new rom and reseting, phone is now stuck on HTC startup screen.
Please help!!! I appreciate and welcome all feedback. Thank you
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Did you wipe all the way? Also what is your software 2.17 or 2.08 ? Did you fastboot boot recovery.img when you flashed?
kongfooey said:
Hello,
I have an unlocked EVO 3D with HBOOT 1.5 S-on.
I flashed the phone and replaced InfectedRom with Warm Two Point Three. After installing new rom and reseting, phone is now stuck on HTC startup screen.
Please help!!! I appreciate and welcome all feedback. Thank you
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You need to flash boot.img/kernel using fastboot or Flash image GUI or else you will face issues if the ROM uses kernel other than your current one.
This is the limitation of HTC unlock method (S-ON)
mnomaanw said:
You need to flash boot.img/kernel using fastboot or Flash image GUI or else you will face issues if the ROM uses kernel other than your current one.
This is the limitation of HTC unlock method (S-ON)
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Thank you!
I flashed the boot.img using fastboot as you suggested. Now the phone is stuck in an endless loop between powering off and the HTC startup logo.
It appears that I am getting closer to fixing the problem but I am still stuck. Can you help further please?
Thanks again!
mnomaanw said:
You need to flash boot.img/kernel using fastboot or Flash image GUI or else you will face issues if the ROM uses kernel other than your current one.
This is the limitation of HTC unlock method (S-ON)
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Thanks for your reply.
I did wipe all the way. How do I tell whether I have 2.08 or 2.17. if the phone not able to start up?
I flashed boot.img using fastboot. I just realized that the bootloader when doing and Hboot tries to load the image indicates no image or wrong image.
I am either missing a step or did something wrong.
Please help!
did you make a backup of Infected before you flashed?
When you say you installed Warm did you install and actually get it fully booted and set up your home screens and all that and it only stuck on the first reboot after? or was it right after you flashed warm?
Really if you made a backup of infected or what you were running before you should be able to restore that via recovery then boot up normal. Then use FlashImageGUI to flash the kernel needed for Warm, then reboot into recovery mode and flash the other portion of the Rom from the custom recovery.
Unfortunately, I did not back up Infected or other previous roms. I didn't know that I should, I only backed up my apps using Titanium. I now know better.
Still stuck in loop mode. I have been searching the forums for some possible solutions but so far nothing has worked.
I am up the creek without a paddle...
kongfooey said:
I used Titanium Backup to back up apps etc. is that the same as backing up the rom (Infected)?
If I had the backup how do I recover using recovery? I have been reading other posts in the forum and have tried some of the suggestions. I wiped the data and cache.
I am up the creek without a paddle...
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na TiBackup isn't the same as backing up the Rom itself.
Full backups are done from within the custom recovery...
the boot.img you pushed via fastboot earlier. where did you get it from?
Silly me... I realized that Titanium backup was not the correct backup after I posted.
I took the image from the Warm zip file. I initially thought the problem was fixed until I realized that the phone is in an endless loop...
Still looping
kongfooey said:
Silly me... I realized that Titanium backup was not the correct backup after I posted.
I took the image from the Warm zip file. I initially thought the problem was fixed until I realized that the phone is in an endless loop...
Still looping
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well to be honest I would just go back and start form scratch at this point since pushing the kernel via fastboot somehow didn't take for you nor did clearing cache's after the fact.
after pushing the kernel via fastboot, have you tried doing that again, and then going into recovery and flashing the rom again? If that doesn't work you might as well just go back to stock and push stock kernel flash stock rooted OTA, boot up, and use FlashImageGUI to push the Warm kernel then go back to flashing the Warm rom in recovery...
really before pushing the stock kernel if you wanna test to see if your initial push of Warm kernel even took fully just fully wipe data and try flashing infected again in recovery. If it boots fine then you know your fastboot push didn't take before to begin with...
Edit:
before i even really get more into this. does Warm even use another kernel beside the stock one? If they dont then all of this could of resulted from a bad download of the rom itself being flashed...
Sgt. Slaughter, I salute you...
I played around with your suggestions. Got it working... I flashed a different boot.img and it solved the problem. I may have gotten a bad Warm rom...
Thanks again!!!
Note: if you took/installed the latest update (2.17.651.5) you won't be able to use roms based off earlier firmware/kernels (ie 2.08.651.2 or 651.3) b/c of kernel differences (I think I've read that somewhere).
I believe Warmtwopointthree and Infected are not using the latest base/kernel.
Edit: saw you posted right before me. So what kernel/boot.img did you use?
kongfooey said:
Sgt. Slaughter, I salute you...
I played around with your suggestions. Got it working... I flashed a different boot.img and it solved the problem. I may have gotten a bad Warm rom...
Thanks again!!!
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Nice good to hear. Fact you had your phone even semi-booting makes solving anything wrong with it usually trial and error and ends up not being so bad to fix...
I used boot.img from OTXE Titan HD ODEXed New Beats!
I need to educate myself a bit more about the differences between kernel and .imgs etc...
Thanks for your response. I greatly appreciate!!
I'm having a very similar issue, I rooted my Evo using Revolutionary and installed CW Recovery and everything was fine so I tried installing ZR3D and part way through the install, my phone turned off and now it wont get past the HTC boot screen. I went into CW Recovery but nothing is working, no matter what option I choose [even Turn off phone or reboot] it gives me the CW logo but nothing happens.
I have HBOOT 1.49.1107 with S-Off
Try reflashing your recovery threw hboot.
#Root-Hack_Mod*Always\
StoneCold448 said:
I'm having a very similar issue, I rooted my Evo using Revolutionary and installed CW Recovery and everything was fine so I tried installing ZR3D and part way through the install, my phone turned off and now it wont get past the HTC boot screen. I went into CW Recovery but nothing is working, no matter what option I choose [even Turn off phone or reboot] it gives me the CW logo but nothing happens.
I have HBOOT 1.49.1107 with S-Off
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Can you boot into Fast boot? If so, try connecting your phone to a computer and flashing a recovery through there. Then try to install the ROM.
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coal686 said:
Can you boot into Fast boot? If so, try connecting your phone to a computer and flashing a recovery through there. Then try to install the ROM.
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Thanks for your help
I have been trying to flash a rom on my rezound. I keep getting stuck at the white htc screen it will flash once and then get stuck there. I have tried to flash rezrom using the old firmware patch and no luck. I have followed all the steps and it doesn't seen to start for me.
Cab some one help?
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bakerboy81 said:
I have been trying to flash a rom on my rezound. I keep getting stuck at the white htc screen it will flash once and then get stuck there. I have tried to flash rezrom using the old firmware patch and no luck. I have followed all the steps and it doesn't seen to start for me.
Cab some one help?
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you have to reboot to bootloader again and flash a kernal. thats why your phone isnt booting. reading the OP's usually helps
antp121 said:
you have to reboot to bootloader again and flash a kernal. thats why your phone isnt booting. reading the OP's usually helps
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Just flash the PH98IMG file that comes with your rom. Scott's roms have it set up to automatically redirect you to the bootloader for quicker installation.
So, I rooted my phone last night and ever since I've been stuck in bootloop. I loaded one rom and it was in bootloop all night until the phone died. I charged the phone up, wiped it and tried another, stuck in bootloop for hours with nothing working. Now, the bigger problem is, I - being an idiot - forgot to do a nandroid backup so there is nothing to restore too, yet when I set it to factory settings it's once again stuck in bootloop.
All my phone now displays is the green HTC logo on the white background, until the phone battery dies.
So... how screwed am I?
EDIT: CDMA, S-on, 1.50, I used HTC dev to root it.
Did you root with HTC dev. You need to flash the boot.IMG using fastboot.
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MSK01 said:
So, I rooted my phone last night and ever since I've been stuck in bootloop. I loaded one rom and it was in bootloop all night until the phone died. I charged the phone up, wiped it and tried another, stuck in bootloop for hours with nothing working. Now, the bigger problem is, I - being an idiot - forgot to do a nandroid backup so there is nothing to restore too, yet when I set it to factory settings it's once again stuck in bootloop.
All my phone now displays is the green HTC logo on the white background, until the phone battery dies.
So... how screwed am I?
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We need more info dude.
CMDA or GSM?
what rom did you try to install?
hboot 1.50 or 1.40?
S-On or S-OFF
The more info the more we can help you.
iTzLOLtrain said:
We need more info dude.
CMDA or GSM?
what rom did you try to install?
hboot 1.50 or 1.40?
S-On or S-OFF
The more info the more we can help you.
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CDMA, S-on, 1.50, I used HTC dev to root it. CM 9 Nightly.
Do what I said. Boot your phone into the boot loader. Select fastboot. Stick the boot.IMG from the Rom you used into the folder on the pc that you used with htcdev.
Connect your device.
Open up command prompt. Navigate to the folder in command prompt where you put the boot.IMG
Type fastboot flash boot boot.IMG
If it works it will say so restart your phone and enjoy.
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Spazz Monk3y said:
Do what I said. Boot your phone into the boot loader. Select fastboot. Stick the boot.IMG from the Rom you used into the folder on the pc that you used with htcdev.
Connect your device.
Open up command prompt. Navigate to the folder in command prompt where you put the boot.IMG
Type fastboot flash boot boot.IMG
If it works it will say so restart your phone and enjoy.
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If you hadn't said anything I probably would have been running around in circles for the rest of the day. I just did and I'm waiting for it to restart right now. Hopefully it works.
Hopefully it will work. If you flash anymore roms you have to do the same flash boot.img using fastboot since you unlocked with HTC dev.
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Spazz Monk3y said:
Hopefully it will work. If you flash anymore roms you have to do the same flash boot.img using fastboot since you unlocked with HTC dev.
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Meaning I can just nandroid backup this rom? Or do I have to reflash it then flash the new ones over it?
If you want to flash a new rom do a nandroid backup first and then wipe everything. But everytime you flash a new Rom you have to flash the boot.IMG seperatley that was supplied with the Rom if that makes sense. This also applied when doing a recovery.
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Spazz Monk3y said:
If you want to flash a new rom do a nandroid backup first and then wipe everything. But everytime you flash a new Rom you have to flash the boot.IMG seperatley that was supplied with the Rom if that makes sense. This also applied when doing a recovery.
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Unless the boot.IMG is automatically with each rom that does not make sense. However, if that means (which I pretty sure it does, I just need that extra clear clarification) that a new boot.IMG is supposed to be supplied with every single new ROM then that would explain why my phone is still in bootloop. No changes since last time I was on, about an hour ago I took the battery out and restarted it.
So it's still in bootloop whenever I try anything.
Help as well...
Stuck in the same problem. Hboot 1.50, S-on, and I'm trying to load Evergreen's CM7 port. I'm also using CWM 4.x (can't remember number, just the non touch version). Whenever I try to start my phone all I get is the white HTC screen with the little vibrate, then the black screen, and then the HTC screen once again and so on. I've tried flashing the boot from the file and then flashing the ROM with and without the boot.img in the .zip file. Help me. Please.
You need to flash the rom first then restart your phone load in to fastboot and flash the boot.img using fastboot. Search the forums there should be a more detailed way on how to do this. But its pretty much the same instructions I gave in previous post.
Try following this if your struggling.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8qonxj8jsawcesl/Android Fastboot boot.docx
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If that last reply was meant me, I've already tried that. Doesn't change anything at all.
Ah ok you mentioned you flashed the boot.img first that's all
Also try formatting your sd card or use a spare one and format that and then flashing the Rom and boot.IMG. I had to do that with my desire s.
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Spazz Monk3y said:
You need to flash the rom first then restart your phone load in to fastboot and flash the boot.img using fastboot. Search the forums there should be a more detailed way on how to do this. But its pretty much the same instructions I gave in previous post.
Try following this if your struggling.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8qonxj8jsawcesl/Android Fastboot boot.docx
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That worked. Holy ****, that worked! Thank you so much!!
Spazz Monk3y said:
You need to flash the rom first then restart your phone load in to fastboot and flash the boot.img using fastboot. Search the forums there should be a more detailed way on how to do this. But its pretty much the same instructions I gave in previous post.
Try following this if your struggling.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8qonxj8jsawcesl/Android Fastboot boot.docx
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doesnt work for me :<
Unlocked HBOOT 1.53.0007
rooted with superuser
S-ON
Revolionary CWM v4.0.1.4 (also tried to flash 4EXT but it doesnt work!!:/ )
ROM: cm-9-DevilToast-0.7.5-shooteru.zip
any tips?
sabbath88 said:
doesnt work for me :<
Unlocked HBOOT 1.53.0007
rooted with superuser
S-ON
Revolionary CWM v4.0.1.4 (also tried to flash 4EXT but it doesnt work!!:/ )
ROM: cm-9-DevilToast-0.7.5-shooteru.zip
any tips?
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Get s-off using the wire trick.
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I've been running Mazda's AOKP for a while now (version 3.4 at the time of "the incident") with no problems save a few reboots here and there. So I'm not sure this is a ROM related issue, and honesty, I'd be surprised if it were. Anyway, last night I was sitting on my sofa watching some football when I decided to take a photo of one of the dogs. So I pulled up the 3D, hit the hardware camera button and the phone rebooted. Again, occasional reboots are no big deal, but this time I'm stuck in a boot loop. A rather infuriating one. I get the white HTC screen, then quickly a black screen, then a reboot right back to the HTC screen. I can't get into recovery (goes to the HTC screen then reboots immediately). I'm on HBOOT 1.5. Stock Kernel. 4EXT recovery. And I've reflashed the boot.img and a couple of different recoveries (from adb). Still the same thing. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Sam
samdu said:
I've been running Mazda's AOKP for a while now (version 3.4 at the time of "the incident") with no problems save a few reboots here and there. So I'm not sure this is a ROM related issue, and honesty, I'd be surprised if it were. Anyway, last night I was sitting on my sofa watching some football when I decided to take a photo of one of the dogs. So I pulled up the 3D, hit the hardware camera button and the phone rebooted. Again, occasional reboots are no big deal, but this time I'm stuck in a boot loop. A rather infuriating one. I get the white HTC screen, then quickly a black screen, then a reboot right back to the HTC screen. I can't get into recovery (goes to the HTC screen then reboots immediately). I'm on HBOOT 1.5. Stock Kernel. 4EXT recovery. And I've reflashed the boot.img and a couple of different recoveries (from adb). Still the same thing. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Sam
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Check this out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2074181
BRK666 said:
Check this out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2074181
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Thanks, but unfortunately, that didn't help. I was able to do all the steps, but now it will only boot into the bootloader until I pull the battery, at which point I'm back at square one (boot loop). Ugh.
samdu said:
Thanks, but unfortunately, that didn't help. I was able to do all the steps, but now it will only boot into the bootloader until I pull the battery, at which point I'm back at square one (boot loop). Ugh.
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Well install the RUU if you can enter in the bootloader , worked for me when i had his problem and btw do a full wipe before installing the RUU
Can you get into recovery from the boot loader?
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BRK666 said:
Well install the RUU if you can enter in the bootloader , worked for me when i had his problem and btw do a full wipe before installing the RUU
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I installed the RUU, didn't help. I didn't wipe anything, because I'm not sure what the commands are to do that through fastboot/adb, and I still don't have recovery.
landonh12 said:
Can you get into recovery from the boot loader?
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No recovery from either the bootloader or fastboot. Trying just sends it back into a boot loop.
samdu said:
I installed the RUU, didn't help. I didn't wipe anything, because I'm not sure what the commands are to do that through fastboot/adb, and I still don't have recovery.
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If you successfully flashed the RUU the stock recovery should be installed. Were you able to boot into the stock ROM after flashing the RUU? You really need to accomplish that before trying anything else.
ramjet73
ramjet73 said:
If you successfully flashed the RUU the stock recovery should be installed. Were you able to boot into the stock ROM after flashing the RUU? You really need to accomplish that before trying anything else.
ramjet73
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The stock recovery should be there, but I can't get to it. I'm still boot-looping. When I choose recovery from the bootloader, I just get the HTC screen and an infinite boot loop.
samdu said:
The stock recovery should be there, but I can't get to it. I'm still boot-looping. When I choose recovery from the bootloader, I just get the HTC screen and an infinite boot loop.
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What about booting the stock ROM after flashing the RUU? If you successfully installed the RUU you should be able to boot that. How did you install the RUU?
ramjet73
ramjet73 said:
What about booting the stock ROM after flashing the RUU? If you successfully installed the RUU you should be able to boot that. How did you install the RUU?
ramjet73
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Copied it over to the phone's SD card, booted into the bootloader, and let 'er rip. Last night I did extract the system.img, boot.img, and recovery.img files out and flashed them to the phone with fastboot. System.img wouldn't go, however. Oh, and I did find the commands to wipe the partitions from fastboot (./fastboot erase system), but kept getting a "remote: not allowed" on everything except the cache partition. Honestly, I think the phone is a goner. I've been looking around for a replacement. Sucks.
samdu said:
Copied it over to the phone's SD card, booted into the bootloader, and let 'er rip.
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That still doesn't answer my question about whether you were able to boot into the stock ROM after flashing the RUU or not. If not, either the RUU flash was not successful or there is a hardware problem with your phone (or both).
ramjet73
Flash a new recovery with Fastboot USB (adb/sdk-tools). Then flash a compatible ROM to use with the recovery. If that fails then try to downgrade your bootloader to 1.49.0007 and flash your recovery and ROM...
MistedEvo said:
Flash a new recovery with Fastboot USB (adb/sdk-tools). Then flash a compatible ROM to use with the recovery. If that fails then try to downgrade your bootloader to 1.49.0007 and flash your recovery and ROM...
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He's a CDMA user so he wouldn't want to flash hboot 1.49.0007.
ramjet73
I cant seem to get Viper rom to work. I used superwipe and there was an error. Cleared system and data and cache. Flashed rom, then fastbooted boot.img. Rom is stuck in htc screen and recovery flashes on for a quick moment then goes dark and phone reboots. Ideas please. Thanks
Which recovery did you use? If you used TWRP you should use 2.3.3.0 for the ROMs with aroma installers. Did you try simply reflashing recovery?
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somerandomname1 said:
Which recovery did you use? If you used TWRP you should use 2.3.3.0 for the ROMs with aroma installers. Did you try simply reflashing recovery?
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I have tried to resinstall recovery, but it blinks into recovery for a quick second then reboots and again stuck on boot screen. can superwipe do something to my internal sd card to do this?
D.A.N. said:
I have tried to resinstall recovery, but it blinks into recovery for a quick second then reboots and again stuck on boot screen. can superwipe do something to my internal sd card to do this?
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i had to wipe, restore original, then reflash with new recovery and it worked. thanks.
More Detail Please.
D.A.N. said:
i had to wipe, restore original, then reflash with new recovery and it worked. thanks.
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Can you please give me more details? Such as steps, I'm having the same problem that you had. I'm kinda new to this stuff.
OldNut5 said:
Can you please give me more details? Such as steps, I'm having the same problem that you had. I'm kinda new to this stuff.
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I think he did ruu and everything went back to normal, since he says he restored to original and theres no way he could do that from recovery, I have a thread named the brick thread, try the solutions in there, on my case ruu wasn't working either and recovery was looping too , I had to use ruu mode, however I don't know what Dan did and I may be wrong, but this could work
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S-ON/S-OFF Needed?
Since I'm S-OFF Do I have to regain S-ON/S-OFF again, when reflashing this RUU? I don't want to screw up any further.
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OldNut5 said:
Since I'm S-OFF Do I have to regain S-ON/S-OFF again, when reflashing this RUU? I don't want to screw up any further
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Before running the ruu, try just re-flashing recovery from fastboot. Instructions can be found in either the TWRP or ClockworkMod thread.
Also, pay attention to somerandomname1's advice above.
Working again.
Looks like that Re-RUUing Stock, Re S-OFF DirtyRacun (I'm used to this method), then flashing TWRP 2.3.3.0 Got ViperLTE Installed Properly. Thanks.