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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.

Help! Help! Help! Please!

I rooted the inspire 4g with the one click. i tried to go into recovery, and i end up with a black screen. I took out the battery and restarted and it keeps going to bootloader. I can't do anything, reset, shutdown, it keeps going to bootloader. and I can't access my sd card on my computer from my phone. How can I fix this?!?!

this belongs in the GENERAL section... not development.
and google is ur friend... look through this forum u will find ur answer

rimtp07 said:
I rooted the inspire 4g with the one click. i tried to go into recovery, and i end up with a black screen. I took out the battery and restarted and it keeps going to bootloader. I can't do anything, reset, shutdown, it keeps going to bootloader. and I can't access my sd card on my computer from my phone. How can I fix this?!?!
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PLease post in the proper section (General) this is for rom development.
also please search!
Use an adapter to move files to the sd card. I recommend you take a look at the link in my signature.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=974789
try that.

ogxku5h said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=974789
try that.
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NO! there is no need to eng s-off period.
Go here:CWM black screen? Look here before you post!

MudKnot is right. I did the first option and it worked great

I had this problem too, and I found that if you take the battery out and wait maybe a minute to put it in while connected to your PC via USB, your Inspire will turn on by itself and be in Clockworkmod Recovery. The version I had at the time was 3.0.0.6, and I was able to install Android Revolution 4.0 beta v4 with no problems.
Hope this helps if you're still looking.
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA App

Run Bubby's program again. There is a "Fixes" option there now. Not sure if it wants you to do the ENG S-OFF thing or not. I didn't have this issue.
Matt

rimtp07 said:
I rooted the inspire 4g with the one click. i tried to go into recovery, and i end up with a black screen. I took out the battery and restarted and it keeps going to bootloader. I can't do anything, reset, shutdown, it keeps going to bootloader. and I can't access my sd card on my computer from my phone. How can I fix this?!?!
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Well, you could use Rom Manager to do whatever it is you need to do in recovery. In other words, want to install a rom? Chose that function through Rom Manager. RM will automatically ask if you want to backup your existing rom and wipe data and cache.
-Mike

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] 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

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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.

Half bricked phone, What now?

Phone is rooted and unlocked, No problems there. Went from CM7 to Coredriod no issues, Now I'm wanting to try BlackICE and I downloaded it, Copied it to my SD card and tried going into Recovery, Apply Update from SD card and all went well, But it did not do anything. Now Coredriod is stuck in a boot-loop no matter what I do. I want it off here and either CM7 or BlackICE on my phone. What do I do?

ZackFearheart said:
Phone is rooted and unlocked, No problems there. Went from CM7 to Coredriod no issues, Now I'm wanting to try BlackICE and I downloaded it, Copied it to my SD card and tried going into Recovery, Apply Update from SD card and all went well, But it did not do anything. Now Coredriod is stuck in a boot-loop no matter what I do. I want it off here and either CM7 or BlackICE on my phone. What do I do?
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There was no need to open new thread. Someone would have answered you in the old one.
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ZackFearheart said:
Phone is rooted and unlocked, No problems there. Went from CM7 to Coredriod no issues, Now I'm wanting to try BlackICE and I downloaded it, Copied it to my SD card and tried going into Recovery, Apply Update from SD card and all went well, But it did not do anything. Now Coredriod is stuck in a boot-loop no matter what I do. I want it off here and either CM7 or BlackICE on my phone. What do I do?
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What, no wiping between flashes? There's your problem.

ZackFearheart said:
Phone is rooted and unlocked, No problems there. Went from CM7 to Coredriod no issues, Now I'm wanting to try BlackICE and I downloaded it, Copied it to my SD card and tried going into Recovery, Apply Update from SD card and all went well, But it did not do anything. Now Coredriod is stuck in a boot-loop no matter what I do. I want it off here and either CM7 or BlackICE on my phone. What do I do?
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umm...maybe you should have known that a rom is not an update...it is a new rom. Also, if you read the instructions to flash in the rom thread you will find that all roms need a full wipe when coming from a different one....
PLEASE, A BRICK DEVICE IS JUST THAT.....A BRICK......yours is messed for not doing things properly..

If you look in search like you said you are aware of it. You would have came across same threads about this so called brick phone and it has to do with the pd98img file in the majority of this issue but nope guess not..
Or even like the other member said wipe cache delvik user data etc..
My Inspire

If you can still get into bootloader (by holding down the volume down and power button while the phone is off) then you can possibly save your phone. You'll need to find a Stock RUU image of the Inspire 4G's rom. It will be a PD98IMG.zip file. Place that on your sdcard. Don't extract it just copy and paste. Then open bootloader. Press the power button to select hboot. Then let it run its course.
I'm pretty sure this can fix your issue. If someone wants to intervene then by all means go ahead.

shugga101 said:
If you can still get into bootloader (by holding down the volume down and power button while the phone is off) then you can possibly save your phone. You'll need to find a Stock RUU image of the Inspire 4G's rom. It will be a PD98IMG.zip file. Place that on your sdcard. Don't extract it just copy and paste. Then open bootloader. Press the power button to select hboot. Then let it run its course.
I'm pretty sure this can fix your issue. If someone wants to intervene then by all means go ahead.
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Your right I had to restore my buddies phone and I used genes pool thread to return to stock but...when I copy and rename it it was PD98IMG.zip which was not reading when I boot but renamed it PD98IMG it worked
My Inspire

ZackFearheart said:
Phone is rooted and unlocked, No problems there. Went from CM7 to Coredriod no issues, Now I'm wanting to try BlackICE and I downloaded it, Copied it to my SD card and tried going into Recovery, Apply Update from SD card and all went well, But it did not do anything. Now Coredriod is stuck in a boot-loop no matter what I do. I want it off here and either CM7 or BlackICE on my phone. What do I do?
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Try again installing the ROM.
If core-droid is in boot loop and not letting you go to recovery.Just take the battery off.Re-insert the battery and open directly into the recovery panel through volume down and power button.
Full wipe and reinstall CM7 STABLE.
That boot-loop happened to me also. I did that and it solved the problem.

If you're going to flash a different rom into your phone, always make a Full Wipe. This practically will remove any single data that is store in the phone. There's a few full wipe scripts that you can use, search in the threat and you will find it!!
Also, something to help you: Go into recovery, make a full wipe (factory reset) and then install a new rom that is totally stable, hopefully you will be ready to go.