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Bootloader Mode

Anybody know how to get into Bootloader mode on the Inspire 4G? I have tried holding the Volume Down button while restarting and all the phone does is vibrates and reboots normally. Am I missing something?

You're doing it right (Vol Dwn + Power)
Just make sure to hold volume first before you hold power.

Make sure you have fastboot turned off in sense.

I press volume down, then select "restart". Keep holding power down until you get into bootloader.

I take the battery door off to power off, then slap it on real quick then hold volume - down, then hold power button. It can be a little tricky to do. Then ull be in bootloader and have four options to choose from. Ive only done it manually this way because i was in boot loop. Was scared ****less the first time i got boot loop, cause i wasnt sure if there was a way to get to recovery manually lol.
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Are you guys booting into clockworkmod? When I hold down volume and power it goes into that.
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If you manually do the volume button and power button trick it should put you in bootloader mode then you can choose to boot into recovery, ive never had my inspire boot right into recovery unless i choose it in rom manager.
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i tried doing that but it just goes to fastboot the reason that i want it to go to bootloader im trying to re-flash it back to stock...

Power your phone off. Now that your phone is off hold the volume button down and tap the power button. Now you should be in bootloader mode. If your trying to get into recovery mode download rom manager from the marketplace.
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be sure you have Fastboot turned off in Applications.
Another thing you can do is download Quickboot from the market...then boot into bootloader from there. Quickboot>bootloader

Is it really that difficult??lol, for me when I hold the power button while phone is on, it gives me multiple options to reboot , including bootloader and recovery...
If your phones off , then just holy the vol down and off key .
Oh and I have fastboot on and I have no problems.

hyun18 said:
Is it really that difficult??lol, for me when I hold the power button while phone is on, it gives me multiple options to reboot , including bootloader and recovery...
If your phones off , then just holy the vol down and off key .
Oh and I have fastboot on and I have no problems.
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That's because your running a ROM with an extended power menu. Other people might not be.

A lot of the people that are having problems are probably running sense roms and have fastboot on. I got confused by this at first because with fastboot on it doesn't actually shut off so the down and power method doesn't work
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You can download quick boot from the market. Makes so much easier booting into recovery.

yeah Im trying to do that I am able to boot in where it shows Hboot and then you have other options to choice from but Im not all able to select anything it just scans and then go to the scan mode and ask if i want to update
I was thinking about installing the gingerbeast. Has any installed that?
I did a nanadoid back up went into Rom Manger and clicked flash C/W-R and I made that..and I did that backup current ROM also.

Staticpunk84 said:
yeah Im trying to do that I am able to boot in where it shows Hboot and then you have other options to choice from but Im not all able to select anything it just scans and then go to the scan mode and ask if i want to update
I was thinking about installing the gingerbeast. Has any installed that?
I did a nanadoid back up went into Rom Manger and clicked flash C/W-R and I made that..and I did that backup current ROM also.
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Make sure you delete the PD98IMG. That's why its asking you to update. I'm running gingerbeast and absolutley love it.
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Ya you have to move or delete the raidio zip or it will just keep installing it every time hboot
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marsdta said:
Make sure you delete the PD98IMG. That's why its asking you to update. I'm running gingerbeast and absolutley love it.
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I thought you had to have the PD98IMG in there. Ok so I have root manager I can just delete from their or is the same way of hooking it to my pc and delete that way
as of now I just dl the ginerbeast zip and I would like to get some help on how to install it and how to uninstall it just in case I want to go back to stock.
Well noob ? here but I have a gears of war wallpaper that I got from zedge that I want to keep if it takes off I can still install that wallpaper back again?

Staticpunk84 said:
I thought you had to have the PD98IMG in there. Ok so I have root manager I can just delete from their or is the same way of hooking it to my pc and delete that way
as of now I just dl the ginerbeast zip and I would like to get some help on how to install it and how to uninstall it just in case I want to go back to stock.
Well noob ? here but I have a gears of war wallpaper that I got from zedge that I want to keep if it takes off I can still install that wallpaper back again?
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You can delete it either using a file manger app like astro, root explorer etc or you can do it by connecting your phone to your PC.
As to flashing a rom. Place the file in the root of your SD card to make it easier to find. I prefer to do my flashing manually. Boot into recovery either through rom manager or through hboot. Scroll down to wipe data/factory reset. Select with power button ans confirm in the next screen. Next go into advanced and select delete dalvik cache. Confirm. Now select go back and choose install from SD card. Scroll to gingerbeast rom and select and confirm.
And yes you'll be able to reads your wallpaper
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marsdta said:
You can delete it either using a file manger app like astro, root explorer etc or you can do it by connecting your phone to your PC.
As to flashing a rom. Place the file in the root of your SD card to make it easier to find. I prefer to do my flashing manually. Boot into recovery either through rom manager or through hboot. Scroll down to wipe data/factory reset. Select with power button ans confirm in the next screen. Next go into advanced and select delete dalvik cache. Confirm. Now select go back and choose install from SD card. Scroll to gingerbeast rom and select and confirm.
And yes you'll be able to reads your wallpaper
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awesome man thanks Ill give this a shot and see what its about now i did see online about the android 2.3 gingerbread htc inspire did anyone try this?

help cant reboot into recovery after root

I'm new to Android and had my phone rooted everything seems good with the root but as soon as I go into rom manager and try to go into recovery mode I get the white HTC screen then starts to turn kinda brownish then black and will stay like that until phone is shut off. Please help I can't download any custom roms due to this I'm guessing. Thanks

Open Rom manager again. Press the option at the top to flash the recovery. After its done try to boot into recovery again.
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Ya I tried that already a few times and still does not work also changed the clockworkmod recoveries and nothing

Have you tried booting into recovery manually by holding volume down and pressing the power button? I find this way is more reliable that ROM manager.

Is there a trick to that I tried it my phone vibrates and get the power off option but no reboot to recovery thanks

Have you turned fastboot off? settings - applications - remove check from fastboot

Make sure fastboot is off, like the poster above me said. Turn your phone off. Hold the volume down and press the power button. You should then be able to scroll down and select recover.

All you guys are awesome the headache is gone it worked thanks very much

actually when i go into recovery i still get that htc screen that turns black and will frezze up

Did you use Bubby323's root method? That is what it sounds like. If you did, then read the FAQ. There is a fix for this graphical error.

[Q] G2x stuck in "S/W Upgrade" screen after NVflasher One Click

My phone is currently sitting with a "S/W upgrade" screen after a series of stupid events. I flashed recovery using ROM Manager before I had read that it fake flashed. I rebooted into recovery and installed CM7 nightly. Rebooted and it's stuck in a boot loop. So I finally see all the warnings against that so I figure I need to get a real recovery so I use the awesome guide from TGA_Gunnman. I follow all the instructions and it appears from the log on my PC that the CM recovery flashed successfully. I pull the cord, reinsert my battery and my phone just sits in the S/W upgrade screen. It's been like that for 30 minutes now.
What do I do?

I thought I'd done something wrong with my G2x because that happened to me too. Remove your battery and USB. Then insert your battery again. When you turn it on, make sure to hold both the power button and the volume down button until you see text that says android. If you, like me, thought you just had to hold the volume down and tap the power button (like my Nexus One), that might be your issue.
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just disconnect usb, and go to recovery Power+vol down...
.....and congrats !

yep, I thought I bricked it too.. When you were done at the green screen where it said press any button, thats where you press whatever you want and then unplug the cord. Then, put the battery back in and hold down vol then power, don't let go until "android" pops up.. You did it man, just missing your last step..

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I can get to the Recovery screen, but I cant select any of the options....volume lets me scroll, but cant find anything to select any of the options....kinda new at this

power button to 'action' your selection... at least it works for me.

usajlh said:
My phone is currently sitting with a "S/W upgrade" screen after a series of stupid events. I flashed recovery using ROM Manager before I had read that it fake flashed. I rebooted into recovery and installed CM7 nightly. Rebooted and it's stuck in a boot loop. So I finally see all the warnings against that so I figure I need to get a real recovery so I use the awesome guide from TGA_Gunnman. I follow all the instructions and it appears from the log on my PC that the CM recovery flashed successfully. I pull the cord, reinsert my battery and my phone just sits in the S/W upgrade screen. It's been like that for 30 minutes now.
What do I do?
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The "S/W upgrade" stays on, that's normal. See if your terminal window has completed whatever stuff it is doing. If you get a completed message, you are good to go and can safely pull out the USB chord even if your phone still says "S/W upgrade". Put back your battery and hold Power+Vol DOWN button and see if you get into cmw recovery.

so im trying to fix my friends phone and this is weird..
im able to go to cwm, wipe it all and flash a new rom.. it flashess successfully but when i reboot it goes back to the s/w update screen..it happens with any rom i flash.. its been sitting there for a while.. how long should i wait?

Once you flash the ROM you shouldn't be getting that screen...Does your friend has the G2x or 2x and which ROM did you flash?

Sounds like you screwed up the boot image. Go into APX mode again and reflash the recovery package making sure it completes, you hit a key to close the terminal window, and you hold the volume buttons the entire time. Then go into recovery and factory reset and clear the Dalvik cache. Then if you still get the S/W update screen you are going to need to go to the thread about fixing bricked phones and use the KDZ method to reflash the entire GB OTA package. There is also a new method to reinstall the entire OTA package using NVFlash but you have to hold the volume buttons down for about ten to fifteen minutes while everything flashes.

bootloader cant scroll up and down

I held down vol down and power button, im in the bootloader but my volume keys dont let me scroll up and down. is there anything that i can do so i can scroll down to recovery.

Give it abouta minute. After booting into hboot it has to have time to scan the root sd card for a PD98img file.

it updates the pd98img file and then reboots. it comes up to the white htc screen and then just fades to black. my computer will not recognize my phone anymore. at this point i dont know of any way to reload the stock rom or any rom for that matter. my phone isnt old, i need my phone

What were you doing when all this started?

I was rerooting my phone,
and it it hung up and my only option was to pull the battery. once i pulled the battery, white htc and then fade to black is as far as it will go

Hack kit? Go to irc.

I believe i may have fixed it. i followed one of the steps in the stuck in hboot sticky. its updating the rom right now. this is the first time the computer has recognized the phone. I appreciate all the help.

Stuck boot looping/blank Clockwork screen

Here's the deal. I recently used the ace hack kit to root my HTC Inspire 4g. I downloaded CyanogenMod 7 for HTC Inspire 4G, put the zip on my phone and installed the zip from the sdcard via "apply update from sdcard".
At this point, it boot loops. When I volume up + power, it vibrates three times and does nothing (screen goes blank and the orange LED in the upper left corner turns on). If I plug my phone in to the computer and take out the battery, it allows me to cycle through ClockworkMod Recovery. However, the screen goes blank if I stop scrolling with the volume up and down, and if I use the power button to select something, it resets and starts boot looping again.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30020025
Post#7
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30020025
Post#7
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The main thing throwing me off is the inability to use Clockwork. Every time I press the power button to select a menu option, it selects the option, goes to the sub menu for about half a second then reboots to the splash screen (thus starting the boot looping process all over again).

I was say reflash cwm using fastboot, if such ann option exists. But I serioulsy wouldn't follow my advice right now, I haven't had my coffee yet. The other is flasing a rooted ruu, same as above, if it exists.
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