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phone just sits at HBOOT menu...

Im trying to install the OTA update located here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058042
Every time I try to boot into HBOOT my phone just sits at the HBOOT menu and does nothing...phone is rooted, s-off, and fasboot is disabled yet no matter how many times i have tried my phone doesn't search for PD98IMG.zip (which i renamed the file to, and put on the root of my SD card)
Any ideas?

Make sure its not in a folder and that theres no other zip file on the external SD card.

Try removing the pd98img zip from ur SD card then boot into hboot & see if it even goes through the process of looking for the file. If it does u might want to try & redownload the file, maybe it became corrupted the first time.
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No other zip files on the card... tried booting into hboot without the zip on there but still just sits there.

tefuzz said:
No other zip files on the card... tried booting into hboot without the zip on there but still just sits there.
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Sorry dont take offense....just trying to cover all the bases...you are turning off the phone.....and then turning it back on by holding down power and volume minus... and then just waiting....correct?

S.Reno9 said:
Sorry dont take offense....just trying to cover all the bases...you are turning off the phone.....and then turning it back on by holding down power and volume minus... and then just waiting....correct?
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no offense taken at all. yep, tried turning it off using the power button and choosing "turn off" then volume down & power to turn it on...stuck at hboot menu.
also tried pulling the battery for 5 minutes and using volume down & power, same result; stuck at hboot menu

I tried booting the phone without the SD card in there (it's the SD card from the box) and I was able to scroll through the options at least but when I hit the power button when HBOOT is selected; still nothing happens.

Try using a different SD card
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Did you try to download that file again? Maybe it got corrupted? Do you have s-off?

disobayish said:
Try using a different SD card
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should have thought of that before
worked first try...any ideas why the card that came in the box didnt work though?

tefuzz said:
should have thought of that before
worked first try...any ideas why the card that came in the box didnt work though?
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Hey at least you got it working.
Maybe something happened to your SD during the root process. Could always try formatting the old card and see if that fixes it...at least you would have a back up.

tefuzz said:
should have thought of that before
worked first try...any ideas why the card that came in the box didnt work though?
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I've read somewhere that mounting and dismounting your sdcard improperly slowly damages it and can cause your bootloader not to read it..
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[Q] Phone will Not go into recovery..

I Had it rooted.. Tried to flash RCMix3D Kingdom V1.9.
Followed the Video Exactly. The phone sat for 30 min at the HTC screen and would not boot. So then i tried to get into recovery by holding down the Power and Vol. It went into it 1 time and reloaded the Rooted img. Since then i cant get the phone into recovery either with Rom Manager or by Holding down the Power and Vol buttons. Fast boot is disabled.
Any Ideas?

Will the phone boot up fully?
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Mosius said:
I Had it rooted.. Tried to flash RCMix3D Kingdom V1.9.
Followed the Video Exactly. The phone sat for 30 min at the HTC screen and would not boot. So then i tried to get into recovery by holding down the Power and Vol. It went into it 1 time and reloaded the Rooted img. Since then i cant get the phone into recovery either with Rom Manager or by Holding down the Power and Vol buttons. Fast boot is disabled.
Any Ideas?
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Remove the SD card from the phone.
Reboot into hboot.
Once it is unable to find the SD card (and therefore no PD98IMG.zip), you'll be able to choose recovery.
Put SD card back in phone.

Doesn't rom manager have an option to flash alternate recovery? (I dont use rom manager, Is there an amonRA recovery for inspire?) If so, try that.
Or put the recovery you wanna use on root of sd card, and use terminal emulator from market to flash/push a new recovery. (I forget the exact commands to use, but I know they can be found in OP of amonRAs recovery thread in the evo 4g subforum)
Hope ya get it.
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wvmedic said:
Will the phone boot up fully?
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Yes it will boot up.. It shows Superuser and rom manager.. I tried to use rom manager to get into recovery and the screen just fades to a black screen.. And sits there till i restart. I have S -off on the menu still.. I got into it by replacing the SD card with the Original one.
But now i'm trying to figure out if i need to re-root the phone or go back to stock and start over.. These phones are alot harder to mess with than the Iphone..

Took the SD card out went into hboot and selected recovery.. The screen just fades to black and sits there..

Thanks to everyone that Helped... I finally got it up and running with the new Rom.....
And thanks to legend221 His post in the Rom Info area Helped me get it installed right.

ok, the problem your having is the same exact one my friend is having... can you please link the post where you found the solution???

[Q] Question while rooting and installing kernal

I know I saw this before somewhere here in the forums but I can't find it. I am following http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14692818&postcount=1 this guy on how to root. I'm at the part: Installing kernel through CWM.
So my problem is when I'm in the recovery mode it says something on the lines of apply update sd card or something like that instead of "install zip from sdcard". How do I get it to say that?
Thanks in advance!
Edit: Another question, do I leave odin3 open the whole time?

I'm thinking you are in stock recovery, not cwm. Did you boot straight into cwm after using odin?
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no **** i forgot that i had to put the kernal and ROM on the sd card. I'll try that now

I'm stuck at the blue banana? Any ideas on what to do?

Nevermind, got it, had to hit the power button

K, pull battery then boot back into cwm. From main menu use volume key to scroll down. Keep scrolling till a message says back button enabled. After that you should be good.
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hockeybpr25 said:
I'm stuck at the blue banana? Any ideas on what to do?
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Scroll through the menu 3 times till it says go back enabled. Then it should work fine.
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So I was about to install my ROM and I did wipe data and it does it and then it reset the phone and that female voice started to say whatever it says and then says 2 minutes remaining so it never allowed me to install the ROM. what should I do now?

Just let it do it's thing. After it boots just boot into recovery then flash the rom like you had planned.
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it just booted up normally and had me set up my phone, i just skipped through everything though because i know it's all messed up atm and i need to flash the ROM
another thing, i forgot to do the sd card fix and i'm trying to put it on the sd card but now it says:
"The disk is write-protected.
Remove the write-protection or use another disk."
How do I fix that?

Ok, from what I've read you can't with the phone. You would have to take the sd card out and put it into your computer if you have a card reader.
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Crap, I don't think I do. Do I need the SD card fix?

I believe thats the only way to fix it. Not completely sure though. There may be more info in the thread you got the fix from.
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I just put GummyCHARGED on it and after that it allowed me to add it, so I'm just glad I can still put stuff on it.

Awesome! Glad you got it figured out.
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Thanks bunches

Sure thing!
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Stuck At The HTC Logo From A Kernel Update

I have HTC Inspire 4G. Latest CoreDroid. I tried to flash UNITY V9 and then ive been stuck at the HTC logo screen. I havent bricked my phone. I was in a situation like this once b4 and i had to use a diff SD card to get things back right but i forgot how to do it. Can somebody guide through these steps again so i will not forget ? Or any other info is helpful. Im kinda in arush on the way to work.

try to wipe cache

Meercy said:
I have HTC Inspire 4G. Latest CoreDroid. I tried to flash UNITY V9 and then ive been stuck at the HTC logo screen. I havent bricked my phone. I was in a situation like this once b4 and i had to use a diff SD card to get things back right but i forgot how to do it. Can somebody guide through these steps again so i will not forget ? Or any other info is helpful. Im kinda in arush on the way to work.
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Have you re-downloaded the v9 kernel, there were issues with the earlier version (at least there was on this device).
You could try to download and re-flash whatever was the previous (old) kernel.

ben_pyett said:
Have you re-downloaded the v9 kernel, there were issues with the earlier version (at least there was on this device).
You could try to download and re-flash whatever was the previous (old) kernel.
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I understand but in order for me to do that I need to be able to get to the sd card. Hmmm ok i think i know how to get to the sd card. I could take it out my phone. which leaves me with one question.
how am i going to get to recovery to flash it once again. Ivbe tried to hold the volume down button and hit power. But once im at the screen that says recovery and few other things. I can never move down or up or hit power so it can function. I have no control on that screen.

You do know that this forum isn't for your device. There's probably one specifically for yours.
When you Get to that white screen called the bootloader, the volume keys should navigate through the menus and power acts as select
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yea i noticed it wasnt tonight once i got home. I have reposted in the right forum being a lil more detailed.
But once i get to my bootloader i can never select recovery. I never have been able too except a few times. Idk if i did something differently or not. But once im on the bootloader screen. The volume keys or the power button doesnt work.

Meercy said:
yea i noticed it wasnt tonight once i got home. I have reposted in the right forum being a lil more detailed.
But once i get to my bootloader i can never select recovery. I never have been able too except a few times. Idk if i did something differently or not. But once im on the bootloader screen. The volume keys or the power button doesnt work.
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For getting to recovery try installing android sdk and using adb reboot recovery
From there you can put another rom in the sd card. Wipe all and install a new one, which includes a new kernel inside. (like all of them)

I was stuck at the bootloader after trying to install a corrupt radio. I could get into recovery but it only offered yes or no for the corrupt file.
I removed SD card and pulled battery and restarted, i was then was able to get into recovery and do a wipe and it then booted fine.
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[Q] Device completely unusable :( PLZ HELP

I tried following cyanogen wiki on an Inspire 4G. It didn't work and gave "Incorrect Model ID" error.
So I switched to use Hack-Ace tool. Everything worked as expected and I guess I was going good. When Hack-Ace completed, the phone went into an infinite look showing HTC logo then blind to a black screen with background light ON.
I could ADB and reboot in bootloader where I clashed the CM7 ROM. Every step went through fine and it restarted. Now all I get is nothing.
The device shows the HTC Logo on white screen after leaving a while and the vibrator is ON constantly. It doesn't help really but keeps doing that. It will only stop if I remove battery.
Plugging the device into USB doesn't detect on PC.
When tried charging, it shows the error messages and nothing happens, no buttons interact.
I guess I have a full brickd phone now

Have you tried flashing stock ruu thru bootloader
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Download and flash this thru bootloader.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q6YYQFIM
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Yah, try the ruu. Seeing how it at least turns on means it might be fixable. Can you get into recovery?
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I'm trying the link given by creglem
stumpyz9, no man i've not been able to boot into recovery.. the device is doing nothing

kishu_27 said:
I'm trying the link given by creglem
stumpyz9, no man i've not been able to boot into recovery.. the device is doing nothing
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The ruu will probably be your best bet then
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only if i could get it to install... i dunno what'll happen cuz i cannot go to recovery mode. i'm just going to try once
worst part is that this is a friend's phone

not able to open recovery
any other idea guys?

kishu_27 said:
only if i could get it to install... i dunno what'll happen cuz i cannot go to recovery mode. i'm just going to try once
worst part is that this is a friend's phone
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http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#aahkSupport <--- go there to save said friends phone.

kishu_27 said:
not able to open recovery
any other idea guys?
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You font nerd recovery with that file. Just out it on the root if your sdcard. Meaning not in any folder and boot into bootloader...not recovery then it will recognize the file then just follow onscreen instructions
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kishu_27 said:
I tried following cyanogen wiki on an Inspire 4G. It didn't work and gave "Incorrect Model ID" error.
So I switched to use Hack-Ace tool. Everything worked as expected and I guess I was going good. When Hack-Ace completed, the phone went into an infinite look showing HTC logo then blind to a black screen with background light ON.
I could ADB and reboot in bootloader where I clashed the CM7 ROM. Every step went through fine and it restarted. Now all I get is nothing.
The device shows the HTC Logo on white screen after leaving a while and the vibrator is ON constantly. It doesn't help really but keeps doing that. It will only stop if I remove battery.
Plugging the device into USB doesn't detect on PC.
When tried charging, it shows the error messages and nothing happens, no buttons interact.
I guess I have a full brickd phone now
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Dude download the PD98 file above it is the rooted updated gingerbread ROM. Place it in the root of your SD card (you will have to remove SD card and use adapter to move zip file to root of SD card if PC does not recognize phone with USB cable) and power phone off then power back up holding down power button and volume down button at same time. Phone should go to bootloader then it will recognize the PD98 zip file and ask if you want to istall. Volume up for yes and it will do its thing. No need to try to get into recover phone will do it itself with the PD98 zip file. Zip is (ATT ROM 2.47.502.7 w/Radio - 26.10.04.03_M)
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