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I'm stuck at the second Andriod boot screen, any ideas

My problem is that the phone wont boot pass the Android flash screen. It does get past the first Vodafone screen.
My hardware is the 32B running Hboot = 1.33.0004 (SAPP10000)
what I have done so far is to be able to boot to RAv1.2.1G I have been able to back my phone up using android (and restore).
I thought using this procedures I would be able to able to add customs ROM by just renaming them to update.zip, they seem to load into the phone just get stuck on the above screen.
I haven't done anything with the SPL (Hboot) as to me it appeared booting to Rav1.2.1G does this for me.
I also have not flashed the Rav1.2.1G image to the phone, instead using the fastboot option each time I was to perform the rom update.
Any ideas way the phone wont get past the second screen?

make sure you have 'wiped' data, if you have the 3 partitions on your sd card, make sure you have formatted over the ext3/4 one.
Update the zip again, and pray lol

I have tried wiping the data after the upgrade and not the before, I'll give the before a go.
I only have one partition on the sdcard which was formated in windows 7

Cheers wiping data just before the update of the ROM fixed the issue.

pls connect the usb to pc and post the output of
Code:
adb shell logcat
cheers
EDIT: nevermind, you solved in the meantime

[Q] HTC Evo 3D bricked

Hi everyone, so i bricked my phone after rooting it and trying new ROM. Unfortunately i'm a noob and didnt make a backup before.. So now the phone is on loop mode and basically i've tried almost every guide that is out there to unbrick it, still no luck
It gives me installation aborted error message and even if the installation of new rom succeeds, it still keeps on looping :S
Is there a way unbricking it or should i use it as a hammer from now on..
Any help is appreciated, tnx!
EDIT: Maybe it helps to answer, if i write what i've done so far and describe the problem.
It's on the loop mode, which means it doesnt go further than the screen with green htc text. I can bootload and hit recovery with pressing power and down button on same time. Before Fastboot, recovery, factory sheet, simlock and image crc it tells sd checking and "no image". PB31IMG.zip is also on the sdcard and have tried to install that, still abort message..
I've tried with update.zip file, it gives me following error and the end:
file_getprop: failed to stat ''/system/build.prop'' no such file or directory
E:Error in /sdcard/update.zip
Status 7
Installation aborted.
Wiped cache, data and etc
Disabled signature verification
Tried with RUU, turned off unnessecary programs, disabled firewall and antivirus.
It gives error [170]:usb connection error.
Yes usb is connected to the pc and phone.
Phone has Revolutionary cwm
HBOOT-1.49.1187
RADIO-10.13.9020.08_2M
eMMC-boot
Jul 12 2011, 15:29:51
What else should i try ? I certanly can't think of anything

Fixed it myself after a 2 day marathon..
1. Put PG86IMG.zip and Virtuous_shooter-v.1.0.1 file on the sdcard..
2. Rebooted to recovery, PG86IMG image started the update.
3. Deleted the zip file from card and rebooted again.
4. Installed Virtuous_Shooter zip file and it started to update system and booted itself
Thats it!
Worked for me

PG86IMG should work almost every time.

mimmus said:
PG86IMG should work almost every time.
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Well it did't many many many times.. maybe the file was corrupted or smth

awesome lol.

[SOLVED] Help HTC Desire S - have I bricked it

I have a desire S, Which is S-Off through revoltionary and rooted! But i don't have a nandroid backup and my phone will no longer boot up. what can i do? I've tried to do a factory reset in recovery mode but that doesnt work.
How can i flash a stock rom on it to get it back to normal, i think its bricked... can someone help me?

1st of all i suggest you download a custom rom from the development section here.
then flash that via recovery. then hopefully your phone will load up into the new rom.
after you confirm this to me i will help you further to get back to stock rom

Thanks for the reply.
I did what you said, i tried to install a custom rom in recovery but it ends up aborting after a while, i dont think i can get any rom to work now, its not looking good

Fingers crossed
See this thread
Attempt the commands that are shown within the first #1 of it and you should be able to determine whether or not you have a fried eMMC chip.
See links in my signature for adb & fastboot drivers and the thread you need to see.

What recovery are you using? and what rom are you trying to flash?
I suggest downloading this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048203
Once you have done this follow these steps below to the letter
1. Boot into recovery
2. Format System (not wipe option but format option !!!)
3. Format Data
4. Format Cache
5. Wipe Data/Factory reset (1st option in wipe/format menu)
6. Wipe Dalvik Cache
7. Now install zip from sd card and flash the rom
8. Reboot

It was the Saga LBC mod that i was trying to install but it didn't work, nothing works that i try. i've formatted my sd card nom. basicly ive screwed everything up i've got no back ups of any rom and i cant get anything working

pumpernickel77 said:
It was the Aage LBC mod that i was trying to install but it didn't work, nothing works that i try. i've formatted my sd card nom. basicly ive screwed everything up i've got no back ups of any rom and i cant get anything working
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can you give me a step by step explanation of what you are doing and what messages/error messages you are getting at each stage?
I will try to help you the best i can. But i need to try to understand what the main issue is 1st. Don't worry just yet!

pumpernickel77 said:
It was the Saga LBC mod that i was trying to install but it didn't work, nothing works that i try. i've formatted my sd card nom. basicly ive screwed everything up i've got no back ups of any rom and i cant get anything working
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You need to give specifics and preferably screen pictures....(if possible) did you try the commands from the thread that I posted above, or what happens when you attempted the commands layed out by Eclipse_Driod above?
The more you tell us, the more we have to work with!?

I'm sorry but I dont know how to do the command thing, i'm a newbie when it comed to that I've basicly got a desire s that wont boot up and a SD card with nothing on, i think i need to somehow put a recovery image on my phone before i can install a rom

Is there any way i can install a recovery image to the sd card from the pc, that will then allow me to install a rom?

pumpernickel77 said:
I'm sorry but I dont know how to do the command thing, i'm a neebie when it comed to that I've basicly got a desire s that wont boot up and a SD card with nothing on, i think i need to somehow put a recovery image on my phone before i can install a rom
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I believe that you already have a fully working recovery on your device, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to flash LBC ROM in the first place....so I suspect that the problem is else where....(possibly damaged eMMC chip) but unless you help us, by running the commands and testing this we are un-able to confirm this for you.
You can find the adb and fastboot commands as a link in my signature simply download and then put these on you PC and run the commands that were in the thread I posted earlier (thats also in my sig Fried eMMC?)
Although I also believe that if you're able to get to S-OFF then you're able to enter the commands from your PC that will enable you to flash a recovery onto your device.
See this post where I've previously instructed some one else how to do just this.
Any questions then just and try to take screen captures or cut 'n' pastes of all errors encountered.
Good luck

pumpernickel77 said:
I'm sorry but I dont know how to do the command thing, i'm a neebie when it comed to that I've basicly got a desire s that wont boot up and a SD card with nothing on, i think i need to somehow put a recovery image on my phone before i can install a rom
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does it not even boot into recovery?
you need to hold down the volume down button and keep it held down while you power on the device. This will make it boot into recovery mode.
But before you can do that i would advise you take the sd card out of the phone, connect it to your computer with a card reader and copy over the lbc mod rom.zip file straight onto the card, then put it back into the phone.
then turn the phone off and boot into recover as mentioned above and select install rom from sd card and select the zip file you transferred over.
after it has installed reboot phone by selecting the "reboot" option in the recovery mode.
all should now be well.
report back how this goes
and don't forget to hit that thanks button

Thanks for your patience.. I'm going to try and explain in full what i've done
I got S-off on my Desire S using "Revoluntionary" (after watching how to do it on YouTube) and after domwloading ClockWorkMod from market place I sucessfully installed Saga LBC ver 5.3. Everything was fine i was very pleased. I had a back up of the old stock ROM saved on my SD card which i did through Clockworkmod too.
Then this morning I got a update message from clockworkmod saying ver6.0 was available to download so i did. My phone never turned back on again I could get into recovery mode but nothing would work (wipe data, factory reset, Even tryin to install the old backed up rom didn;t work) it just kept freezing.
So i took my sd card out and plugged it into the pc to try to look for anothr rom to try out, thats when i ended up formattig the SD card (god knows why) So now ive got no backup, no clockworkmod, no nothing on my SD card...Am I screwed??

Thanks for your patience.. I'm going to try and explain in full what i've done
I got S-off on my Desire S using "Revoluntionary" (after watching how to do it on YouTube) and after domwloading ClockWorkMod from market place I sucessfully installed Saga LBC ver 5.3. Everything was fine i was very pleased. I had a back up of the old stock ROM saved on my SD card which i did through Clockworkmod too.
Then this morning I got a update message from clockworkmod saying ver6.0 was available to download so i did. My phone never turned back on again I could get into recovery mode but nothing would work (wipe data, factory reset, Even tryin to install the old backed up rom didn;t work) it just kept freezing.
So i took my sd card out and plugged it into the pc to try to look for anothr rom to try out, thats when i ended up formattig the SD card (god knows why) So now ive got no backup, no clockworkmod, no nothing on my SD card...Am I screwed??

from what you have told me u still have clockwordmod recovery as it is on the phone itself. not the sd card. So you are ok there. What i need you to do next it to see if you are able to boot into recovery?
if you can then try again to format data, system and cache.
then try installing a rom from your sd card.
if it is still freezing while trying to perform a format then look back at bens previous posts about using adb through your pc to find out if your emmc chip is damaged

I can boot into recovery no probs there, but when i format data, system and cache it goes so far and then aborts
Ive just tried to install the LBC rom again i renames it PG88IMG ind it asked me to install so i did. It says 'update in progress' and the bar on the right starts to fill up but it stops near the top and eventually aborts

right, the only thing i can think of to try next is following the same method you said you followed to s-off through revolutionary.
it will say you are already s-off or something but click proceed anyway. and make sure from there that you type "y" when it asks if you want it to install clockworkmod recovery. as this will reinstall a fresh recovery image for you.
this is the only thing i can think of.
let me know how it goes

did you look at my post#11 above...
The second half of it contains instructions on how you can flash a new recovery image......from your PC.

Ive just tried to do the s-off again the way i did before but i can only go as far as the part when i connect my phone and open the revolutionary programme and it doesn't detect my phone

Ok, it looks like the last option to try is flashing a new recovery image manually.
For this you will need to download and install adb. which can be found here
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/what-is-adb-and-how-to-install-it-android/
along with instructions of how to set it up and use it.
after you have done this you will need to download this
http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-saga.img
which is the latest clockworkmod recovery for your phone. and rename it to recovery.img
then copy the recovery image to a convenient location on your computer, preferably with a short path. We will be placing it on the C Drive directly (not in any folder) and using that in the next steps.
Power your device off and reboot it in fastboot mode. (holding volume down whilst pressing power on button) then select "fastboot" from the list of options you get.
Connect your device to your computer via USB and wait till you see ‘fastboot USB’ on the screen.
Launch Command Prompt and type the following command:
fastboot flash recovery c:\recovery.img
Wait for the process to finish and reboot your device once it’s done.

Messed up my phone... sort of. Help!!

Hey guys,
Finally decided to flash a new rom (NOS M7) and kernel (KillX) onto my phone, I loaded up the zips onto my sd card and just flashed it using recovery only. I didn't flash boot.img in bootloader/fastboot. I know its stupid, its my fault that I was tired and that I haven't really flash roms since mid 2011 on my sensation after settling on a virtuous rom.
Now my wifi doesn't work (haven't been playing with it much - could be many more things that don't work), but the main problem is that I found out adb doesn't work for my phone anymore when i tried to flash boot.img again. Sure, I can still use my phone as a external drive, but that's about it. Can't find my phone though 'adb devices' when the phone is switched on normally, in fastboot usb, and in recovery. However, I can still sideload a .zip file in recovery. that works.
In fastboot, I get 'This device cannot start. (Code 10) - A request for the USB BOS descriptor failed.' I've tried downloading the newest drivers from htc, updated my sdks, installed/uninstalled htc sync manager - which always came up with 'unable to sync with device that is locked, please unlock device' or something like that even though my device's screen was unlocked.
You probably figured out that I'm not that advanced with technology as some of you peeps out there. :angel:
What do you think I should be doing now?
I feel like I have half a phone working. :crying:
Cheers,
Reece

Which variant do u have ... X920d or e ??
Also it might be best to return to stock first and ten start over again ... Also provide the hboot version from the boot loader screen

I have the x920d,
here's the info.
Hboot - 1.39.0000
Radio 3A.21.306.10
s-on.
What do you mean by return to stock, as in relocking my phone etc... but how? I can't even use adb. I can't really flash roms properly either.

Anyone...??

Try the ADB on another computer, it should work.

I'm still getting no luck with adb on another computer.
What else can i do?

I can even use adb .

Hope that help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39653035&postcount=12
Note: That guy did with x920e ROM but I think the process should be same, good luck.

Sorry that i took a while to reply.
I just tried going into recovery and wiping everything as per the link,
i can't seem to wipe cache and system. weird. that's what i get for trying to format system or cache
'Formatting /system(or cache)...
E: format_volume: make_extf4fs failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p32
Error formatting /system(or cache)!'
I can now flash boot.img, but somehow that won't mean anything until I can wipe my phone.
Can I try wiping it in bootloader?

I screwed up and now I need help [Can't install any ROM]

Hi there
So about a year ago, some months after getting htc explorer, I rooted it for the sole purpose of installing apks. Yesterday I did a factory reset (I had tottaly forgotten that I should only do it through the recovery) and a ruined my phone
After some digging around I decided that I'd like to try a custom ROM, and I've been trying all day and I can't get it to work. The roms I've tried:
JaggyRom 3.2.1 (lite) : Can Install it just fine, first time boot ok, then after restarting phone it gets stuck at the htc logo (Tried it 3 times)
JaggyRom 4.1: Installed it with no problems too, first boot with sd card in and I get error that some core process has stopped working.
MIUI (latest version): On the first boot it stayed on the "Android" logo forever (at least 30 min) so I gave up.
In all roms I followed the proper instructions (make other ext4 partitions and what not). I think the problem may lie with my recovery. My recovery is "pico cwm-based recovery v5.0.2" and I don't know if it may be outdated. Jaggyjags mentions in his jaggyrom 3.2.1 topic that we should use recovery by yannou90 but I can't install it. When I run the recovery.bat from this topic It gives a "waiting for device" message. I think my pc doesnt recognize when I connect the htc via usb in the fastboot menu because it gives a weird message about some undefined usb device, and when I used to connect through the phone os it was fine.
Anyway, I was hoping that someone could shed some light on me and help me out here.
Best Regards
EDIT:I just noticed that I have the recovery by Yannou90 after all. What am I doing wrong then?

heyjack7 said:
Hi there
So about a year ago, some months after getting htc explorer, I rooted it for the sole purpose of installing apks. Yesterday I did a factory reset (I had tottaly forgotten that I should only do it through the recovery) and a ruined my phone
After some digging around I decided that I'd like to try a custom ROM, and I've been trying all day and I can't get it to work. The roms I've tried:
JaggyRom 3.2.1 (lite) : Can Install it just fine, first time boot ok, then after restarting phone it gets stuck at the htc logo (Tried it 3 times)
JaggyRom 4.1: Installed it with no problems too, first boot with sd card in and I get error that some core process has stopped working.
MIUI (latest version): On the first boot it stayed on the "Android" logo forever (at least 30 min) so I gave up.
In all roms I followed the proper instructions (make other ext4 partitions and what not). I think the problem may lie with my recovery. My recovery is "pico cwm-based recovery v5.0.2" and I don't know if it may be outdated. Jaggyjags mentions in his jaggyrom 3.2.1 topic that we should use recovery by yannou90 but I can't install it. When I run the recovery.bat from this topic It gives a "waiting for device" message. I think my pc doesnt recognize when I connect the htc via usb in the fastboot menu because it gives a weird message about some undefined usb device, and when I used to connect through the phone os it was fine.
Anyway, I was hoping that someone could shed some light on me and help me out here.
Best Regards
EDIT:I just noticed that I have the recovery by Yannou90 after all. What am I doing wrong then?
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have you wiped cache , data and dalvik before flashing the rom

vijnathin said:
have you wiped cache , data and dalvik before flashing the rom
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Yes, all 3.

heyjack7 said:
Yes, all 3.
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try to flash some other rom and , try to use twrp or philz recovery , i too faced the same problem in beginning and what i did is i have changed my recovery , as far as i know the reviews from forum tells that yannou recovery is the best

heyjack7 said:
Hi there
So about a year ago, some months after getting htc explorer, I rooted it for the sole purpose of installing apks. Yesterday I did a factory reset (I had tottaly forgotten that I should only do it through the recovery) and a ruined my phone
After some digging around I decided that I'd like to try a custom ROM, and I've been trying all day and I can't get it to work. The roms I've tried:
JaggyRom 3.2.1 (lite) : Can Install it just fine, first time boot ok, then after restarting phone it gets stuck at the htc logo (Tried it 3 times)
JaggyRom 4.1: Installed it with no problems too, first boot with sd card in and I get error that some core process has stopped working.
MIUI (latest version): On the first boot it stayed on the "Android" logo forever (at least 30 min) so I gave up.
In all roms I followed the proper instructions (make other ext4 partitions and what not). I think the problem may lie with my recovery. My recovery is "pico cwm-based recovery v5.0.2" and I don't know if it may be outdated. Jaggyjags mentions in his jaggyrom 3.2.1 topic that we should use recovery by yannou90 but I can't install it. When I run the recovery.bat from this topic It gives a "waiting for device" message. I think my pc doesnt recognize when I connect the htc via usb in the fastboot menu because it gives a weird message about some undefined usb device, and when I used to connect through the phone os it was fine.
Anyway, I was hoping that someone could shed some light on me and help me out here.
Best Regards
EDIT:I just noticed that I have the recovery by Yannou90 after all. What am I doing wrong then?
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Try twrp recovery...available in Original android section...
Make ext4 partition as primary...
Before flashing anythng wipe everything except sdcard...
May be you may missed something that you may havent noticed it yet...

Hi,
I think I solved it! At least I manage to install FlyRom and it seems to be running properly. The problem was that in the tutorial It said to creat an ext partition through the recovery, and it said to choose the 4K MB option. I though that it was the Allocation size unit but it was the actual size, but my sd only as 2 GB so you see the problem. I created one with 1GB and now it seems to be running fine.
Thanks all

LOL
heyjack7 said:
Hi there
So about a year ago, some months after getting htc explorer, I rooted it for the sole purpose of installing apks. Yesterday I did a factory reset (I had tottaly forgotten that I should only do it through the recovery) and a ruined my phone
After some digging around I decided that I'd like to try a custom ROM, and I've been trying all day and I can't get it to work. The roms I've tried:
JaggyRom 3.2.1 (lite) : Can Install it just fine, first time boot ok, then after restarting phone it gets stuck at the htc logo (Tried it 3 times)
JaggyRom 4.1: Installed it with no problems too, first boot with sd card in and I get error that some core process has stopped working.
MIUI (latest version): On the first boot it stayed on the "Android" logo forever (at least 30 min) so I gave up.
In all roms I followed the proper instructions (make other ext4 partitions and what not). I think the problem may lie with my recovery. My recovery is "pico cwm-based recovery v5.0.2" and I don't know if it may be outdated. Jaggyjags mentions in his jaggyrom 3.2.1 topic that we should use recovery by yannou90 but I can't install it. When I run the recovery.bat from this topic It gives a "waiting for device" message. I think my pc doesnt recognize when I connect the htc via usb in the fastboot menu because it gives a weird message about some undefined usb device, and when I used to connect through the phone os it was fine.
Anyway, I was hoping that someone could shed some light on me and help me out here.
Best Regards
EDIT:I just noticed that I have the recovery by Yannou90 after all. What am I doing wrong then?
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lol