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{BRICKED EVO FIX} this really works it worked for me

I TRIED THE HBOOT 2.2 ROOT GOT BRICKED AND USED THE FIX FROM "Monarky"
THANKS DUDE AND IT WORKED SO IVE PUT TOGETHER
A SHORTER FIX I ACTUALLY DID THE WORK MYSELF SO ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS REPLACE THE ATTACHED FILE WITH THE ONE ON YOUR SD CARD
AND RELOAD BOOTLOADER AND IT SHOULD UNBRICK BUT ITS GOING TO SWITCH YOUR "PRI VERSION" BUT IT WORKS
ALL I ASK FOR IS A SIMPLE THANKS
FIX - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2KA69REH

How are you defining "bricked?" What was your phone doing? What did the screen look like?
Tapa tapa tapa

mlin said:
How are you defining "bricked?" What was your phone doing? What did the screen look like?
Tapa tapa tapa
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he was probably referring to being stuck at the RUU update screen

mlin said:
How are you defining "bricked?" What was your phone doing? What did the screen look like?
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s0xpan said:
he was probably referring to being stuck at the RUU update screen
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well yea the red triangle

I haven't downloaded what you cooked up there, but if included radios or the wimax partition, you really need to warn people that they could lose 4G.
If you "brick" your phone, you should only use the RUU from Sprint to fix it. If the phone isn't recognized by the RUU, then extract the PC36IMG.zip from it and use the fastboot command line to flash.
-- Brian

That's not a brick. A brick is when your device will not do anything. Won't power on, won't even light up when you plug it in. There's nothing you can do with a true brick, that's why it's named that way.
If you can get into bootloader, you can recover your device.

clamknuckle said:
That's not a brick. A brick is when your device will not do anything. Won't power on, won't even light up when you plug it in. There's nothing you can do with a true brick, that's why it's named that way.
If you can get into bootloader, you can recover your device.
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Not true. Here is a scenario for you...actually happened to my evo:
Your entire os gets erased, except bootloader. Your screen won't even come on, but the charge light comes on, and the computer sees the device. Fun part is, it does not even see it as android...it pops up as qualcomm. Ruu doesn't work. Pc36Img doesn't work. Trying to flash through fastboot doesn't work. Why? Because there are so many bad blocks in the memory that nothing will write (htc doesn't allow their handsets to skip bad blocks). So, you were mostly right, but there are exceptions to everything.

tejasrichard said:
Not true. Here is a scenario for you...actually happened to my evo:
Your entire os gets erased, except bootloader. Your screen won't even come on, but the charge light comes on, and the computer sees the device. Fun part is, it does not even see it as android...it pops up as qualcomm. Ruu doesn't work. Pc36Img doesn't work. Trying to flash through fastboot doesn't work. Why? Because there are so many bad blocks in the memory that nothing will write (htc doesn't allow their handsets to skip bad blocks). So, you were mostly right, but there are exceptions to everything.
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So... as the man said, if you got it working then it wasn't really "bricked."
Tapa tapa tapa

tejasrichard said:
Not true. Here is a scenario for you...actually happened to my evo:
Your entire os gets erased, except bootloader. Your screen won't even come on, but the charge light comes on, and the computer sees the device. Fun part is, it does not even see it as android...it pops up as qualcomm. Ruu doesn't work. Pc36Img doesn't work. Trying to flash through fastboot doesn't work. Why? Because there are so many bad blocks in the memory that nothing will write (htc doesn't allow their handsets to skip bad blocks). So, you were mostly right, but there are exceptions to everything.
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Nope, your wrong. Back when I used to mod PSPs, if you flashed a firmware incorrectly, you'd either get a semi-brick or a brick. A semi-brick is when you can't get into the OS, but you can access some sort of recovery menu/method. A brick is when it won't turn on at all or it will turn on but won't do anything (or freeze at splash screen).

mlin said:
So... as the man said, if you got it working then it wasn't really "bricked."
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Who said it was working?
I very clearly said that it wouldn't work, no matter what method was used. Please reread my original post. I don't think you understood what I said. Though you could get the phone into bootloader, the screen was not on. The only reason you would even know the phone was on was if you had it hooked up to your comp when you powered up. There was no method you could use that would allow anything to be written to the internal memory. There was a hardware problem with some of the evos, where in they have a TON off bad blocks. This prevented the os from being rewritten. I have meet a few other guys on xda who have the problem with bad blocks. So, how would you define this, if not as a brick? It wasn't hung up somewhere. It was totally unusable. After spending 2 hours on IRC, we decided it was totally unfixable. Took it to a sprint repair center the next day and, funny enough, they agreed. They couldn't even access it enough to tell that I had an unlocked bootloader. Yes, they replaced it.

tejasrichard said:
Who said it was working?
I very clearly said that it wouldn't work, no matter what method was used. Please reread my original post.
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Ok, fair enough and my bad for misreading your post and I realize that I misread Clamknuckle's original post which is why I misinterpreted yours. SOmetimes I just gotta slow down a bit I guess.

mlin said:
Ok, fair enough and my bad for misreading your post and I realize that I misread Clamknuckle's original post which is why I misinterpreted yours. SOmetimes I just gotta slow down a bit I guess.
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No big deal, man
The whole thing is pretty silly, anyway. My only point was you could be bricked and still have your charge light comer on. No hard feelings here.

Tejasrichard is right. I got one of the bad blocks phone, brand new too. I guess ill use it for a spare touchscreen

Bootup Problem
So I have an evo that when powered up only displays the startup white HTC EVO 4G screen for 5 sec....turns off for 3 or 4 sec then back on and same in a continuous loop. I can access regular android recovery with the white screen and androids on the bottom. When I choose recovery from the options on that page it does nothing but the white HTC EVO 4G screen boot looping over and over.
Things I have tried:
New SD Card
PC36IMG - tons of them from many methods
Flash a new recovery
The computer does recognize the phone but I can't find it anywhere?
Any help ?
PM me please.

clamknuckle said:
That's not a brick. A brick is when your device will not do anything. Won't power on, won't even light up when you plug it in. There's nothing you can do with a true brick, that's why it's named that way.
If you can get into bootloader, you can recover your device.
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X2!.................

After trying this method my phone stills only boots to the white screen

I know we're going to get at least one person who says their phone is bricked. Here's how to unbrick it (links to stock rom/kernel, etc) for Virgin and Sprint versions:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1691827-Intercept-free-stock-ROMs-and-apps!
You'll need to know how to install and patch SWUpdate for the Moment so it works for the Intercept. Not hard at all.

Did I miss something? How did we go from the EVO to the Moment/Intercept? Anyhow I'm having the same problem as whoisjlk in post #14. Please if anyone has a solution I would greatly appreciate it and even donate. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE...thanks in advance.

Wow I guess I posted in the wrong section LOL.

Ok, I have an Evo that I would like to recover from the dark side.
I rooted my HTC EVO 4g using Unrevoked, it worked fine, then I decided to flash a new rom, followed all the steps and I backed up my stock and wipe data/factory reset and Davik, now my phone doesn't read the sd card.
Took the sd card out and did a FAT32 format (4 times already), downloaded the new zip to it and still not reading.'
Bought a couple different SD cards.
Can't do a restore because the sd card and is not recognized.
As soon as I check install zip from card it reads
ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.1
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0p1)
(No such file or directory)
E:Can't mount /sdcard
Now I know Amon RA Recovery is way better.
I had S-OFF, after wipe all data have S-ON and don't know why.
This is what I tried:
All kinds of PC36IMG (Recoveries, ROMS, Unrevoked S on and S off)
ADB doesn't work.
Phone is not found, when try to update drivers using Windows 7 it says that Qualcomm-CDMA-Technologies-MSM driver is not found, but my other EVO and the ones that I rooted have no problems.
Phone boots into HBOOT and Recovery.
After opening HBOOT PC36IMG gets recognized but not updated.
In recovery when try to flash from SD has the message E: Can't blah blah
If I try to reboot the phone, it just goes to a black screen with a flashing LED or gets stock on white screen forever.
Any ideas?
I would like to fix it, already have a working phone, and I don't need this one, is just to put all the help together and maybe some one that has a similar problem can avoid all the troubles and follow a single post and not spend hours searching just to find the wrong answers.
Otherwise is going to be just for spare parts and that doesn't help many.
Thanks in advance.
If you have an idea, lets try it, PM or reply here.

CWM blackscreen? Look here before posting!

So you are looking at this because you have recently rooted your phone. You are probably trying to flash your first rom and either, you booted into recovery and it was a black screen, or your tried flashing a rom from rom manager and it goes to a black screen.
Now most dev's have a faq posted to eliminate new posts popping up every day, but here I will attempt to tell you how to fix this.
FIRST MAKE A BACKUP the screen will go black when it is backing up, but wait 10-15 minutes and your phone will reboot.
Currently there are three options. There are other options, but these are more user friendly.
Option 1
1. Place This(thanks to nsnc) file on the root of your sd card, boot into hboot by turning off fast boot, restart, hold power+vol down.
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Option 2 (longer then option 3):
1. You can return your phone completely to stock removing root and s-off. You can find a very helpful link to do that here.
2. Once your phone has been completely returned to stock, download the Hack Kit(thanks to attn1). Make sure you follow the instructions completely, and to a tee.
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Option 3:
1. You are going to need to eng s-off the phone using the one click eng s-off Here(thanks to jkoljo).
2. Once you eng s-off and have a working cwm it is highly recommended you turn eng s-off, on. So that you only have radio s-off. You can do that by using this PD98IMG. Download and place on the root of your sd card. You will need to boot into hboot using power+volume down. When it asks you to update select yes with the volume buttons. (note this is just like flashing a new rom so it will do a full wipe)
Once you have radio s-off you may have to flash an older CWM recovery, but you can now restore your backup if you wish to.
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Currently these are the known ways to fix this problem. If more ways should arise they will be added to this post.
Please be sure to READ the dev's FAQ section as well.
*NOTE*
I am not responsible for anything that may happen to your phone this post is solely to help those in need in the easiest way possible.
Hope this helps.

What about this one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1003086&highlight=eng

I considered using that, but I wanted to make the process more user friendly.

did you see the update at the bottom of the first post? I put that PD98IMG.zip on the root of my sd and then went to hboot and let it find the file. Worked great.

mudknot2005 said:
So you are looking at this because you have recently rooted your phone. You are probably trying to flash your first rom and either, you booted into recovery and it was a black screen, or your tried flashing a rom from rom manager and it goes to a black screen.
Now most dev's have a faq posted to eliminate new posts popping up every day, but here I will attempt to tell you how to fix this.
FIRST MAKE A BACKUP the screen will go black when it is backing up, but wait 10-15 minutes and your phone will reboot.
Currently there are two easy options. There are other options, but these are more user friendly.
Currently these are the known ways to fix this problem. If more ways should arise they will be added to this post.
Please be sure to READ the dev's FAQ section as well.
*NOTE*
I am not responsible for anything that may happen to your phone this post is solely to help those in need in the easiest way possible.
Hope this helps.
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i ran option 2. still have a blank screen when i boot into recovery. did i miss a step somewhere?

No sir you didn't, I need to update the OP.

mudknot2005 said:
No sir you didn't, I need to update the OP.
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hey, in any case, i found a link to download a new 'hboot' and that corrected my issue. can now boot into cwm just fine.
i've attached it here, but it will have to be renamed before use (take off the -fixesclockworkmod)

thank you misterbbq

misterbbq said:
hey, in any case, i found a link to download a new 'hboot' and that corrected my issue. can now boot into cwm just fine.
i've attached it here, but it will have to be renamed before use (take off the -fixesclockworkmod)
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I think we have an easiest method .... Thanks misterbbq that worked great can now boot into clockwork....

misterbbq said:
hey, in any case, i found a link to download a new 'hboot' and that corrected my issue. can now boot into cwm just fine.
i've attached it here, but it will have to be renamed before use (take off the -fixesclockworkmod)
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The only thing I ask is that you post the post where you found it/ and or the person who made it.

Am I to understand all we have to do is put this PD98img.zip file on the SD Card (after renaming it) and it will clear up the CWM problem we are having without doing Eng-S-off? This seems pretty easy, but I am curious about what ROM it is when we reflash, is it the Stock AT&T?

bmolloy said:
Am I to understand all we have to do is put this PD98img.zip file on the SD Card (after renaming it) and it will clear up the CWM problem we are having without doing Eng-S-off? This seems pretty easy, but I am curious about what ROM it is when we reflash, is it the Stock AT&T?
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This is not a ROM file, just a repaired bootloader that installs using hboot. AFAIK, it leaves whatever ROM you are using intact. In fact, on my phone, it didn't change a thing, other than clockwork now works...

See my post above. NSNC posted this fix a while back. The PD98IMG is in the update of the OP
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1003086&highlight=eng
It works well so far. I used it myself.

OP updated

worked like a charm, thanks guys!

Worked great for me too. At last, let the ROM flashing begin! Thanks for finding this.

I believe I am suffering from this problem. It's been 15 minutes + though and I am still in that screen. Should I pull the battery and reinstall it?
Thanks in advance.

Randybobandy said:
I believe I am suffering from this problem. It's been 15 minutes + though and I am still in that screen. Should I pull the battery and reinstall it?
Thanks in advance.
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Not sure where you are at in the process, could you elaborate a little bit more as to what you have done and where you are at ?

mudknot2005 said:
Not sure where you are at in the process, could you elaborate a little bit more as to what you have done and where you are at ?
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Sure: My phone has been rooted, I entered CWM, downloaded Cyanogenmod and attempted to flash it. I followed the prompts, backed everything up, and when installation (I guess you call it that?) began it went to a black screen.
It is still in that screen, I just tried holding down the power but nothing occurred.

Randybobandy said:
Sure: My phone has been rooted, I entered CWM, downloaded Cyanogenmod and attempted to flash it. I followed the prompts, backed everything up, and when installation (I guess you call it that?) began it went to a black screen.
It is still in that screen, I just tried holding down the power but nothing occurred.
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It might of failed to flash, I would pull the battery, place the PD98IMG from the first post from option number one place it on your sd card (not in a file and do not unpack) boot into hboot using power and volume down, It will flash the file from hboot, once it has flashed remove the PD98IMG from your sd card, boot into hboot again go to recovery from hboot. See if that works.

[Q] Bricked Inspire?!

SO yeah I decided to flash Miui lastnight and this happened clockworkmod wont load up for me to reflash or whipe, when I try to boot into clockwork htc logo comes up then slowly dies to black, though I can access hboot so what should i do?
I'm kinda new to this so step by step kinda thing would be great.
I have a video but I cant post it cause I'm too new.

TBRATCHER said:
SO yeah I decided to flash Miui lastnight and this happened clockworkmod wont load up for me to reflash or whipe, when I try to boot into clockwork htc logo comes up then slowly dies to black, though I can access hboot so what should i do?
I'm kinda new to this so step by step kinda thing would be great.
I have a video but I cant post it cause I'm too new.
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it's not bricked.... power off the phone then press and hold the power key and the vol down key at the same time til you see the HBOOT screen. vol down until RECOVERY is highlited then press power. That will bring you into Recovery mode. now wipe data/factory reset... then wipe cache partition.. then go to advanced and wipe Dalvik Cache... go back to mounts and storage and format system...
after all that then go back to install zipfrom sdcard and reinstall miui that should do it
Im not going anywhere so I'll be here, let me know how you do

Ouch. That sucks. Don't worry though, there is hope.
What you will have to do is remove your SD card and download a stock RUU and it will flash in Bootloader. Unfortunately I believe it will unroot you. I am not positive on that though. I will post a link so you can be reading a little more about it, we helped a guy thru this the.other day, but he wasn't rooted. Should be the same process though. You'll want to wait until we know exactly what to do because this is your one shot before you got a fancy paperweight. I have to run to atnt for a minute. Start reading so you'll know a little more of what is going to go on, and hang tight. Someone else may step in before I'm back, but you can start familiarizing yourself with the process shortly.
This fellow was pricked during an OTA update. About the same steps will be taken...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1222662
Tread lightly. I am gonna do my best to help, but I am not an expert. However I do feel confident that since Bootloader is all you can load that this is your fix. See ya soon.
Edit: I was under the impression your phone would not boot. Apologies...

Thanks for the feedback guys. Yes, hboot is all I have so I'm going to take it slow at this point, taking a look at the thread now.

TBRATCHER said:
Thanks for the feedback guys. Yes, hboot is all I have so I'm going to take it slow at this point, taking a look at the thread now.
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I've gotten the same thing in the past when updating sense via HTC on a rooted rom lol.... it's most likely a bad flash sometimes you just have to reflash a rom but Im 99.9% sure it's not bricked

Like, you just had hboot when you tryed to boot into recovery it was just black? lol

TBRATCHER said:
Like, you just had hboot when you tryed to boot into recovery it was just black? lol
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yeah the green HTC logo came up and faded black... i had to pull the battery out and put it back and hboot into recovery, once there I wiped everything and re flashed the rom and everything booted up just fine

Yeah, thats not the case here, i've done that multiple times and it remains the same.

search around on here for a stock rooted rom in PD98IMG.zip form There may be one inside the hack kit but cant remember. put it on your sdcard boot into bootloader by holding volume down and pressing power. let it search for the update. hit volume up to confirm update after it finds it. If you can access hboot your not bricked take a deep breath and relax

TBRATCHER said:
Yeah, thats not the case here, i've done that multiple times and it remains the same.
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what program did you use to root ?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=961406

I have, should I just match the radio and flash it. If the file is corrupt it could for sure brick me. My question is how do you flash a rom from hboot? Cause I have the stock RUU from HTC Dev but I don't know how to go about doing that.

oxlong27 said:
search around on here for a stock rooted rom in PD98IMG.zip form There may be one inside the hack kit but cant remember. put it on your sdcard boot into bootloader by holding volume down and pressing power. let it search for the update. hit volume up to confirm update after it finds it. If you can access hboot your not bricked take a deep breath and relax
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there ya go, that would have been my next step lol

TBRATCHER said:
I have, should I just match the radio and flash it. If the file is corrupt it could for sure brick me. My question is how do you flash a rom from hboot? Cause I have the stock RUU from HTC Dev but I don't know how to go about doing that.
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you have a micro sd card reader on your computer ?

Here's a link to gb stock rooted. Look at post 4. Credit goes to gene for the file.
To flash you will need a way to transfer files to your SD card.
Download the file and rename to PD98IMG.zip. boot into hboot it will scan and ask you to apply the update.
If you can't transfer files try the ruu exe. Version you downloaded.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1191949

Yeah I have a micro to regular SD, I'll give this a shot right now.

well looks like you guys got him heading in the right direction. but at any rate op feel free to pm me if further assistance is needed. good luck
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WIll do, thanks.

Got the dowload off gene, it's loading the zip in hboot now. I'll let you know how it goes.

Success! Thanks for your help everyone it is much appreciated.

Black HTC splash screen

I wanted to change the way my phone starts with that white splash screen and change it to the black htc screen. has anyone done that and please post a link if you done it. thanks.

chopt51 said:
I wanted to change the way my phone starts with that white splash screen and change it to the black htc screen. has anyone done that and please post a link if you done it. thanks.
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Do a search in the themes forum. The splash screen you want is in there somewhere, plus a few hundred other ones.
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda app-developers app

chopt51 said:
I wanted to change the way my phone starts with that white splash screen and change it to the black htc screen. has anyone done that and please post a link if you done it. thanks.
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There are actually 3 things which has a default white back, and could (should?) be black..
The first is the splash (static) screen, which is actually on a different partition than the system/data etc.
The 2nd is boot-animation which appears after the splash when the phone is booted
The 3rd is down-animation, appearing when the phone goes to a reboot/shutdown.
Please find the 3 attached files for each - keep in mind that the splash is a flashable zip which needs to be flashed via 4Ext,
The bootanimation and downanimation zips should replace existing files on your rom - different roms have these in different locations, but AFAIK always somewhere in /system - root is needed.
Nandroid is your friend - always create a backup first!

Thanks for the splash. I'm happy the white one is gone. Do you know where there is any more? I like this one a lot though. I just wanted to see what else there is.
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda premium

chopt51 said:
Thanks for the splash. I'm happy the white one is gone. Do you know where there is any more? I like this one a lot though. I just wanted to see what else there is.
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda premium
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Sorry, dunno...
I stopped searching after these were found.. I'm sure there are many more
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using xda premium

Raven2k said:
There are actually 3 things which has a default white back, and could (should?) be black..
The first is the splash (static) screen, which is actually on a different partition than the system/data etc.
The 2nd is boot-animation which appears after the splash when the phone is booted
The 3rd is down-animation, appearing when the phone goes to a reboot/shutdown.
Please find the 3 attached files for each - keep in mind that the splash is a flashable zip which needs to be flashed via 4Ext,
The bootanimation and downanimation zips should replace existing files on your rom - different roms have these in different locations, but AFAIK always somewhere in /system - root is needed.
Nandroid is your friend - always create a backup first!
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Hey, this is really great. However I'm a bit of a noob and just flashed a new ROM and now looking to flash this splash screen. I flashed the zip file, but unaware what to do with the other 2 zip files. I found a 'bootanimation' file within \system\bin but no downanimation file. Also I know these zip files contain many images not just a single file type. I'd really appreciate if you could advise on this. Is this splashscreen also silent? As after the flash I have no noise, but still the annoying white display
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Ok so I got the splash screen working. It had to be stored in system/customize/resource. I still however have no sound on start up. Also, initially turning on the phone still gives me the white with green HTC without quietly briliant before then giving the black boot splash screen... Confusing :S

peterkilleen said:
Hey, this is really great. However I'm a bit of a noob and just flashed a new ROM and now looking to flash this splash screen. I flashed the zip file, but unaware what to do with the other 2 zip files. I found a 'bootanimation' file within \system\bin but no downanimation file. Also I know these zip files contain many images not just a single file type. I'd really appreciate if you could advise on this. Is this splashscreen also silent? As after the flash I have no noise, but still the annoying white display
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Ok so I got the splash screen working. It had to be stored in system/customize/resource. I still however have no sound on start up. Also, initially turning on the phone still gives me the white with green HTC without quietly briliant before then giving the black boot splash screen... Confusing :S
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in order to change the splash screen you have to be on S-OFF.are you on S-OFF?
also when you put the new bootanimation.zip in system/customize/resource did you change the permissions?

rzr86 said:
in order to change the splash screen you have to be on S-OFF.are you on S-OFF?
also when you put the new bootanimation.zip in system/customize/resource did you change the permissions?
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Hey thanks for the reply. I'm not S-OFF but I use 4EXT with SmartFlash enabled to overcome this. I was able now to get the black splash screen working, however prior to this bootanimation I still have a white background with green HTC. I think it's like a BIOS screen maybe? How can I get this changed also?

peterkilleen said:
Hey thanks for the reply. I'm not S-OFF but I use 4EXT with SmartFlash enabled to overcome this. I was able now to get the black splash screen working, however prior to this bootanimation I still have a white background with green HTC. I think it's like a BIOS screen maybe? How can I get this changed also?
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to change that you have to S-OFF first
then you change it

Cheers for the advice
rzr86 said:
to change that you have to S-OFF first
then you change it
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Cool, so S-OFF then reflash the flashable_Splashscreen zip file?

peterkilleen said:
Cool, so S-OFF then reflash the flashable_Splashscreen zip file?
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yeap

are we on the same page?
rzr86 said:
yeap
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ok, I've not tried this yet as I feel you misunderstand my issue... I have my new black HTC splash screen. But before that comes up I have another image, the original white one. I think this might be called the 'boot splash'. I have a found a page which does the change for the HTC One S, I think I need something similar for the HTC Sensation. AS the very first line of this page highlights that boot splash and boot animation are two seperate things:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1777223
Thanks in advance.
Edit: Ok, I'm being a complete donut! The flashable splash screen zip is what replaces that static screen right 'boot splash' as I referred? Even if I didn't flash this and just replaced the bootanimation and the downanimation, I'd get what I have now?! But why can I not do this with SmartFlash Enabled on 4EXT, as I thought this acted as a temporary S-OFF? It's just when I flashed the zip, it said it was successful and also I now have no boot sound when starting the device, do you know why that is?

peterkilleen said:
ok, I've not tried this yet as I feel you misunderstand my issue... I have my new black HTC splash screen. But before that comes up I have another image, the original white one. I think this might be called the 'boot splash'. I have a found a page which does the change for the HTC One S, I think I need something similar for the HTC Sensation. AS the very first line of this page highlights that boot splash and boot animation are two seperate things:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1777223
Thanks in advance.
Edit: Ok, I'm being a complete donut! The flashable splash screen zip is what replaces that static screen right 'boot splash' as I referred? Even if I didn't flash this and just replaced the bootanimation and the downanimation, I'd get what I have now?! But why can I not do this with SmartFlash Enabled on 4EXT, as I thought this acted as a temporary S-OFF? It's just when I flashed the zip, it said it was successful and also I now have no boot sound when starting the device, do you know why that is?
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the original white one you are saying is the splach screen
the second one(new black HTC)is the bootanimation
the bootanimation you can change it also even without flashing anything at all
about smartflash i think you misunderstood its ability.it is usefull only for flashing different kernels and roms on S-ON devices.for nothing else
take a look at this guide too for flashing a different splash screen
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1442872
or this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1171290

rzr86 said:
the original white one you are saying is the splach screen
the second one(new black HTC)is the bootanimation
the bootanimation you can change it also even without flashing anything at all
about smartflash i think you misunderstood its ability.it is usefull only for flashing different kernels and roms on S-ON devices.for nothing else
take a look at this guide too for flashing a different splash screen
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1442872
or this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1171290
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Cool man thanks. Ok so I just looked into doing S-OFF, and I see I'd have to install Ubuntu onto a virtual machine and it also mentioned that you should ONLY perform S-OFF with a stock ROM, is this true? As I have upgraded to Inspiration 1.0.1 ICS with Sense 5 MOD and this seems now then to be quite a bit of hassle.

peterkilleen said:
Cool man thanks. Ok so I just looked into doing S-OFF, and I see I'd have to install Ubuntu onto a virtual machine and it also mentioned that you should ONLY perform S-OFF with a stock ROM, is this true? As I have upgraded to Inspiration 1.0.1 ICS with Sense 5 MOD and this seems now then to be quite a bit of hassle.
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you can use this guide either for S-OFF
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1614617
just request for the windows version tool
or request it also from ganeshp's guide
and yes install the stock rom
just backup inspiration rom through recovery
and after S-OFF restore it
note:backup everything from your sdcard to pc because during the wire trick it will erase everything in the sdcard

could someone explain why my boot sound has gone? the flash didnt work because i am s-on, but i lost my boot animation start up sound!
EDIT: Sorted it, for some reason in the folder system/customize/CID the file default.xml had:
<BootAnimation animation="/system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip"/>
when it should have been:
<BootAnimation audio="/system/customize/resource/android_audio.mp3" animation="/system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip"/>

peterkilleen said:
could someone explain why my boot sound has gone? the flash didnt work because i am s-on, but i lost my boot animation start up sound!
EDIT: Sorted it, for some reason in the folder system/customize/CID the file default.xml had:
<BootAnimation animation="/system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip"/>
when it should have been:
<BootAnimation audio="/system/customize/resource/android_audio.mp3" animation="/system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip"/>
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how did you come to that solution anyway?
i mean how did you figure it out?
i am curious hehe

rzr86 said:
how did you come to that solution anyway?
i mean how did you figure it out?
i am curious hehe
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I stumbled across people wanting to do it for the HTC Desire HD, also there is much stuff on people wanting to remove the 'annoying sound' as they referred to it as. I had this sound file missing, so I added it to the /system/customize/resource location, but still didn't work. That's when I found the default.xml file to have that line missing within /system/customize/CID. Added it and whala, now have the start up sound again

[Bootanimaion]Mahdi ROM bootanimation to replace stock

Hey XDA
I just spent a good few minutes making my first ever boot animation and wanted to share it with you guys !
I've been using Mahdi ROM since day one on my G2, and have decided that as much as I like the stock google boot animation, I would much rather see an animation representing the custom ROM that I am using (apart from this very minor thing I think this ROM is perfect, I've pushed a score of 33000 on antutu and can get 40 hrs battery life with regular usage!)... It's probably just an OCD thing, but I think a custom ROM feels more unique with its own boot animation.
Like I said; This is my first ever boot animation made from scratch so it is very basic, but that was one of my prerequisites, and I like it, so I hope you do too!
To install, in case you're newer than me to this, you simply copy the file from your download folder to /system/media and rename he old boot animation to .bak or anything you like.
Download below, Thanks guys!
EDIT; THIS WILL NOT WORK WITH LG STOCK BASED ROMS

Mouzey said:
Hey XDA
I just spent a good few minutes making my first ever boot animation and wanted to share it with you guys !
I've been using Mahdi ROM since day one on my G2, and have decided that as much as I like the stock google boot animation, I would much rather see an animation representing the custom ROM that I am using (apart from this very minor thing I think this ROM is perfect, I've pushed a score of 33000 on antutu and can get 40 hrs battery life with regular usage!)... It's probably just an OCD thing, but I think a custom ROM feels more unique with its own boot animation.
Like I said; This is my first ever boot animation made from scratch so it is very basic, but that was one of my prerequisites, and I like it, so I hope you do too!
To install, in case you're newer than me to this, you simply copy the file from your download folder to /system/media and rename he old boot animation to .bak or anything you like.
Download below, Thanks guys!
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Kind of awesome man! I'm using it now

About to try it out now
Sent from my g2 using Tapatalk

Awesome thanks guys

Nicer than the google boot animation. See if he will implement this into his rom.

The only problem I have with this is that there are not enough frames, it looks very choppy. The sliding white bar is okay, could do with a few more frames to make it super smooth. Apart from that it looks so sexyy

Thnks fot the feedback! Its not a lack of frames, its kust very rushed so some frames move the bar slightly more than other frames.
If i find some spare time Ill see if i can fix it up a little!

Thank you sir.
sent from the god phone D-800

There is a video of the animation for me to see it?
Enviado de meu LG-D805 usando Tapatalk

Will post a video soon, im just re installing mahdi rom to do so

Wow Thanks!!!

Mouzey said:
Hey XDA
I just spent a good few minutes making my first ever boot animation and wanted to share it with you guys !
I've been using Mahdi ROM since day one on my G2, and have decided that as much as I like the stock google boot animation, I would much rather see an animation representing the custom ROM that I am using (apart from this very minor thing I think this ROM is perfect, I've pushed a score of 33000 on antutu and can get 40 hrs battery life with regular usage!)... It's probably just an OCD thing, but I think a custom ROM feels more unique with its own boot animation.
Like I said; This is my first ever boot animation made from scratch so it is very basic, but that was one of my prerequisites, and I like it, so I hope you do too!
To install, in case you're newer than me to this, you simply copy the file from your download folder to /system/media and rename he old boot animation to .bak or anything you like.
Download below, Thanks guys!
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Pretty Cool, I will add this into the OP for those that want it!
Thank you!

just put this on my phone now...some reason im getting a bootloop or else it just repeats several times...it looped twice and now its kinda stuck

pdolo5784 said:
just put this on my phone now...some reason im getting a bootloop or else it just repeats several times...it looped twice and now its kinda stuck
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You'll need to get into TWRP and use the file manager to replace your original boot animation or restore a system backup at this point. I suggest using Bootbox from the play store to install new boot animations in the future.

alone-together said:
You'll need to get into TWRP and use the file manager to replace your original boot animation or restore a system backup at this point. I suggest using Bootbox from the play store to install new boot animations in the future.
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im in twrp now can get into the file manager...but what sucks is i have a cracked screen so its hard to select some things haha

Nice
Looking good man, Keep it up.

pdolo5784 said:
just put this on my phone now...some reason im getting a bootloop or else it just repeats several times...it looped twice and now its kinda stuck
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I have this issue now. I have stock recovery not TWRP. What do I do?
I followed the instructions to download. Re-named by original bootanimation.zip and placed this one in the system/media folder.
VZW LG G2 Rooted and Xposed - Stock Reocvery

Poloki said:
I have this issue now. I have stock recovery not TWRP. What do I do?
I followed the instructions to download. Re-named by original bootanimation.zip and placed this one in the system/media folder.
VZW LG G2 Rooted and Xposed - Stock Reocvery
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Don't ever modify important system files without a custom recovery - this is a lesson to learn. The easiest thing for you to do now is run your stock recovery and factory reset your phone. If you decide to root again, install FreeGee and flash TWRP. Then run backups. (by the way, NEVER wipe your internal storage) If you decide to change your boot animation, use Bootbox from the playstore - it will do it for you and in most cases will not cause a bootloop. Good luck :good:

alone-together said:
Don't ever modify important system files without a custom recovery - this is a lesson to learn. The easiest thing for you to do now is run your stock recovery and factory reset your phone. If you decide to root again, install FreeGee and flash TWRP. Then run backups. (by the way, NEVER wipe your internal storage) If you decide to change your boot animation, use Bootbox from the playstore - it will do it for you and in most cases will not cause a bootloop. Good luck :good:
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Yep tried the hard reset on the phone and the bad bootanimnation is still there and hanging. Will have to revert completely to stock when I get home to connect to my laptop. That seems like that should work. I hope

Poloki
Can you access adb or fastboot? If you can access fastboot you could use:
fastboot flash recovery [recovery name here]
To flash twrp recovery and use the integrated file manager
Also, this will not work with stock (non AOSP) ROMs because LG uses a different boot animation system. Will update the OP to warn future people