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So, why can't I view Clockwork Recovery?

So, whenever I reboot into Recovery, the white HTC logo pops up, and then fades to black.
From what I've read online, there is a glitch with SLCD screens and CWM.
I've noticed that I can luckily still flash roms. I just have to select "Install Rom from SD Card" from within Rom Manager, and then the phone reboots, goes black... and in a few minutes everything is done. Would be awesome to be able to see the progress.
Anyone know what's up?

So I take it no one else has had this problem?

I have asked you three times now... How did you root the phone, what rom are you running... and so forth.........

No I don't have that prob. But try hitting the menu button when in recovery. It shows the update and when u hit menu again it clears out. If not menu try the other buttons on your screen. See if u can get the thing to switch out... see an update bar etc.

mudknot2005 said:
I have asked you three times now... How did you root the phone, what rom are you running... and so forth.........
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Sorry, must have missed it.
I'm rooted with Bubby's one click, and I'm running CoreDroid 3.1

did they help you solve it in the CoreDroid thread?

mudknot2005 said:
did they help you solve it in the CoreDroid thread?
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Yeah, thanks Mud. This thread fixed it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=974789

If I came off mean I apologize, just sometimes it takes a little more info to solve the problem. If you have any questions feel free to email me, and I will help you to the best of my ability.

mudknot2005 said:
If I came off mean I apologize, just sometimes it takes a little more info to solve the problem. If you have any questions feel free to email me, and I will help you to the best of my ability.
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No, you were fine. I definitely should have posted more information. I was spamming my problem everywhere, so I couldn't remember which posts to go back and check, haha.

Is my Thunderbolt bricked?

Hey, everyone. How's it going? I have been running Gingervitis 1.1 (?) and last night I went to uninstall an app that I had installed from the market. My phone froze up and is worthless at the moment. I can boot up, but I cant do anything. I see my wallpaper and the taskbar (even it is a little off), but that is it. If I hold power and volume down while booting it goes to the menu, but it automatically chooses to update the radio. I can't choose to do anything else. Wtf? Can I fix this?
Also, the phone will ring, but I can't do anything about that either.
I appreciate any help.

Hmm not sure I can be much help but you could try and get into recovery from there, rename a file say maybe a Rom to PG05IMG so when in hboot it tries to load it? hey just trying to help here and not sure it gonna work but could try a couple more ideas until someone smarter pops in. Sure your not bricked though.

If you can get into hboot you're not bricked. It sounds like you have a PG5... file still on your sd card. Take it out of the phone and load into your computer to delete that file. Put the card back in and you should now be able to select recovery in the hboot menu.
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last i checked, a brick just sat there. so if your phone does more than set there, no it's not. it can probably be fixed. good luck.
power down your phone, take out your sd card and insert it into a computer. delete the pg#### file from the root of your sdcard. insert card in to phone, power back up.

try taking out your SD card and connecting it to computer, rename the PG05img to something else. then you should be able to hboot and get into recovery

Awesome. I'll go buy a card reader and see what I can do. I will post back in a bit.
Thanks to everyone so far.

muckymuck said:
Awesome. I'll go buy a card reader and see what I can do. I will post back in a bit.
Thanks to everyone so far.
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Oops nevermind.

blueis300 said:
Cant you just put your phone in disk drive mode instead of charge only to check your sd card and change from there.
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How would he choose disk drive? He cant unlock the phone.

RootandBoot said:
How would he choose disk drive? He cant unlock the phone.
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uhh oh **** guess ill edit my stupidity post lol

After your able to get back into recovery. Try to run logcat from adb and see where it errors out after you reboot. If you can determine the broken app, you can uninstall it from adb. If not just reinstall the Rom from recovery. If all fails wipe and install clean. Good luck

filkbomb said:
After your able to get back into recovery. Try to run logcat from adb and see where it errors out after you reboot. If you can determine the broken app, you can uninstall it from adb. If not just reinstall the Rom from recovery. If all fails wipe and install clean. Good luck
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Hopefully he made a recent backup and can just restore that.
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Thanks everyone. All is well now. I renamed PG05IMG and went from there as suggested. I went ahead and installed BAMF Sense 3 instead of going back to Gingervitis.
I had not backed up... oops. No worries though, but I will do it now.
Thanks again

muckymuck said:
Thanks everyone. All is well now. I renamed PG05IMG and went from there as suggested. I went ahead and installed BAMF Sense 3 instead of going back to Gingervitis.
I had not backed up... oops. No worries though, but I will do it now.
Thanks again
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Good deal.
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One more "Oh noooo... Wait really? WHEW!!!! It's not bricked afterall." save on XDA.
They saved me once too. Glad you're up and running. Patience is key and so many people around here seem to be so quick to send the phone back, blame the developer and post how the rom bricked their phone, then start a thread about "Rumor Verizon is tracing all phones that spontaneously combusted to rooting. Am I getting Busted?"
Again, nice job on the save
Rooted Thunderbolt on BAMF Sense 3.0 RC 4 with MR2 radio and latest dreamKernel.

[Q] htc inspire fix

i have a htc inspire 4g i rooted it yesterday and installed cyanogenmod7 when it rebooted it shows htc screen then changed to like a gold and fade to black the screen is lit up but no picture i can even get it to go into recovery or anything when i go to recovery and click on it it does the same as when i power it on does anyone know how to fix this PLEASE HELP not to go with computers or phones

Roehrig1 said:
i have a htc inspire 4g i rooted it yesterday and installed cyanogenmod7 when it rebooted it shows htc screen then changed to like a gold and fade to black the screen is lit up but no picture i can even get it to go into recovery or anything when i go to recovery and click on it it does the same as when i power it on does anyone know how to fix this PLEASE HELP not to go with computers or phones
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Please search....
There was no reason for you to root without first reading everything. Also there was no reason to root if your not good with phones or computers....just sayin. Please search.
I got your 10 char right here

Wow man best advice is the one given above. I searched for weeks for all issues before I tempted to root. Then days for the issues on custom ROMs. As well as radios. I dont bother with anything else but those. I would say get the rooted ATT ROM (PD98IMG) file, pull battery out of phone then put back, then boot into bootloader by holding volume down and power button at same time. If phone goes to bootloader it will recognize the PD98IMG zip and load it. it will ask if you want to install, just hit volume up for yes and it will do its thing. I couldn't find the page for the ROM so I loaded mine to megaupload it includes the radio -26.10.04.03_M. If you find it in Development Section dont forget to THANK the developer, I TAKE NO CREDIT FO IT. Just place zip file in root of phone micro sd card (not in a folder). (I always use the gold card I made to root the phone). You may have to take card out of phone and use adapter to place zip in itthen put back into phone. AS ALWAYS ON HERE FLASH AT YOUR OWN RISK.
AGAIN AS ADVICED ABOVE " RESEARCH" before anything.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q6YYQFIM
Hope it helps
Heres the page
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1191949
If rooted use this method if not rooted try Lordpipa's method below.

PD98IMG is not a ROM, it's a radio file. Incorrectly telling him to flash this may brick his phone. Be sure you know what you're talking about before you post help.

pazzo02 said:
PD98IMG is not a ROM, it's a radio file. Incorrectly telling him to flash this may brick his phone. Be sure you know what you're talking about before you post help.
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He is talking about the s-on stock method. And yes he could do this and then try the hack kit. Then boot into recovery and flash cm7. Maybe it was a bad flash. But yes he should search, for the above info, but remember this is q/a. We were all noobs, and still have lots to learn.
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Here's the link to the s-on method.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1208507 hope this works for you. Tnx to GenePoole for it it has done wonders for me.
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pazzo02 said:
PD98IMG is not a ROM, it's a radio file. Incorrectly telling him to flash this may brick his phone. Be sure you know what you're talking about before you post help.
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Just a fyi...a PD98ING file is not always a radio file. Naming a file that's tells hboot to flash that file.
Splash screen downloads are named that as well. But back to what I said before. Please search.
I got your 10 char right here

cwhitney24 said:
Just a fyi...a PD98ING file is not always a radio file. Naming a file that's tells hboot to flash that file.
Splash screen downloads are named that as well. But back to what I said before. Please search.
I got your 10 char right here
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What Whitney said, lol.
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pazzo02 said:
PD98IMG is not a ROM, it's a radio file. Incorrectly telling him to flash this may brick his phone. Be sure you know what you're talking about before you post help.
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Dude the PD98 zip file I put up is Pooles rooted ATT ROM with the .03 Radio. I know what I uploaded on here. So when I put something on here I know what Im putting up. I would not tell someone to flash something I dont know what it is. So please as adviced here SEARCH-SEARCH-SEARCH as I did.

Sorry, my bad. I didn't read your post thoroughly, plus I had radio files on the brain.

pazzo02 said:
Sorry, my bad. I didn't read your post thoroughly, plus I had radio files on the brain.
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No problem

G2x stuck in recovery...go figure

I successfully rooted my G2x and attempted to flash the hellfire sandwich rom. I believe I did everything correctly, but I have wound up in a situation identical to what is described here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1059155
I have attempted the suggested recovery steps, but my computer does not detect the g2x when holding the volume buttons and then connecting.
Any help would be greatly appreciated I am more than willing to donate to anyone able to help me out of this mess.

How did you install your recovery? Did you use nvflasher to root and install cwm? Or did you install rom manager and click the flash recovery button?
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This phone is almost impossible to mess up...
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lawdawg45238 said:
How did you install your recovery? Did you use nvflasher to root and install cwm? Or did you install rom manager and click the flash recovery button?
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The latter.

theking_13 said:
This phone is almost impossible to mess up...
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I hope that means this will be easy to fix

It's official, I'm a noob
I didnt see the computer detect it and try to install drivers like in the videos, but when I looked for it under device manager, it was there.
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Another crisis averted by following the directions! Glad to hear you fixed it.

Gilligan87 said:
It's official, I'm a noob
I didnt see the computer detect it and try to install drivers like in the videos, but when I looked for it under device manager, it was there.
Mods can delete this thread
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Told you it was impossible to brick it.

theking_13 said:
Told you it was impossible to brick it.
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You were right! Than ****ing god. I JUST bought it last night, too; I almost didn't sleep at all...my girlfriend kept saying "Go to sleep, you'll figure it out in the morning!" Should have just listened, and instead I was up another 2 hours just plugging my phone in and out, rebooting it, and scouring the forums desperately...
jcbofkc said:
Another crisis averted by following the directions! Glad to hear you fixed it.
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Heheh...actually I didn't follow the directions! The ones that I was watching showed an error message popping up, and to then look in the device manager; I got an error message once but thought it was wrong and then kept trying to replicate it, but no error message showed. I just hadn't thought to just look in the device manager, and when I did, there it was! ^_^

theking_13 said:
Told you it was impossible to brick it.
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Not impossible, just improbable, if you attach the phone with something which operates at a file-system level you can brick it. Granted with NV flash, we can NV flash CWM back on and we know we can flash a baseband, so there's not much else which we could access that we could permanately screw-up which can't be unscrewed in some fashion.

hope you have the july baseband before rooting, or else you made an extra step for yourself

Skyrocket ICS Flash Problem

I don't know where else to turn here. I don't have enough posts to reply to the actual thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1570498
I followed the instructions there, I previously had SkyICS 9.4 on my Skyrocket. Since installing those instructions, I can't boot or do anything else. When I turn my phone on, the Samsung logo pops up for a second, disappears, pops up again, goes to ANDROID logo for a few seconds, then repeats that process or turns off. I can't seem to get to any kind of recovery mode.
I just want to know it's not bricked...
Anyways, if anyone could give me any insight at all, it would be extremely appreciated. If I was too vague in a particular area just ask and I'll answer. I'm not very knowledgeable on this subject.
Thanks for any help.

Did you flash darkside superwipe ?
Oh. And your not bricked yet!
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hcyplr29 said:
Did you flash darkside superwipe ?
Oh. And your not bricked yet!
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No, I read somewhere that I might not need to do that (different site) and I didn't know what it was.
So what do I do now?

You fall into this category. If you don't agree thats ok..
TAKEN FROM THE OP........
[*]The only people who have a hard time flashing are Gingerbread users. Its hit or miss. I dont know what else to do. Most people who cant flash find that Darkside SuperWIPE fixes it and the ROM will flash! (DONT FORGET put on your sdcard before your WIPE)
Whenever I get into a pickle, this is what I do. That script is a game changer .
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hcyplr29 said:
You fall into this category. If you don't agree thats ok..
TAKEN FROM THE OP........
[*]The only people who have a hard time flashing are Gingerbread users. Its hit or miss. I dont know what else to do. Most people who cant flash find that Darkside SuperWIPE fixes it and the ROM will flash! (DONT FORGET put on your sdcard before your WIPE)
Whenever I get into a pickle, this is what I do. That script is a game changer .
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I'm not saying I don't agree with you, you undoubtedly know much more than I. My question is what is my best course of action now? Should I take my MicroSD card out, put the program on it, and put it back in my phone? Would that even help, as I can't get to any kind of boot screen anyways or way to use the software if it were on my phone?

Your phone is still fine.
All you need to do is pull your battery. Now, hold Vol up and down while you put it back in/turn the phone on until the first samsung logo appears. Then let go. This will get you into recovery.
From there, you should be able to wipe data. You can also mount the external SD while in recovery and add Darkside wipe, then unmount and run it from the root menu.
After that, things should be fine to re-flash the ROM

Ok I feel a lot better now, that worked. I'm back to ClockworkMod. Gonna start over with DarkSide. Thank you!
[Edit: Everything worked from there on out, ICS is installed now and has booted fine. Thanks again!]