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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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[Tip] Getting into CWM Recovery w/ Radio on SDCARD

Hello all,
Just found a neat little work around for getting into recovery when you have a radio on your SDcard. You don't need a card reader or anything for this one. Tonight I accidentally flashed a Sense kernel while trying to get CM7 up and running. I got stuck at the HTC screen and it refused to boot any farther. So I had the choice of going to walmart and buying an SDCARD reader, but I thought that I could find a way around it, and I did. Sorry if this has already been posted.
Steps:
1. Connect to a charger and remove the SDCARD from the phone, replace the battery and then boot into Hboot screen. Normally this would ask to update the radio if an SDCARD with a PG05img.zip file was inserted, and regardless of whether you accepted or declined, you were forced to reboot, with no way to get into recovery.
2. Remove the battery from the phone. Hboot will stay powered up while connected to your charger.
3. Reinsert the SDCARD and replace battery.
4. Select recovery and your phone will boot into recovery for you, and you can restore a backup, or reflash your rom, or whatever you were trying to accomplish before you got into a bootloop or bad rom install or whatever.
Again, I don't know if this has been posted before, but I thought it was a cool little workaround for those times you need to get to recovery but can't due to the PG05img.zip file still being on your SDcard.

Hey nice find!

Neat, I didn't realize HBoot would stay up without a battery.

This is a nice find. We should have a tips and tricks sticky for the bolt.
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or you can use ADB and type "adb reboot recovery", or if you have the 4 in 1 reboot mod on your rom selecting to reboot to recovery bypasses hboot also
And don't forget rom manager, that has a feature that will boot directly into recovery also

wow nice! I had this same problem and I had to grab my friend's fascinate to delete the radio in order to get into recovery. I was trying the method as you by taking out the battery but I didn't try it at the hboot screen so the phone kept powering off.

Deltaechoe said:
or you can use ADB and type "adb reboot recovery", or if you have the 4 in 1 reboot mod on your rom selecting to reboot to recovery bypasses hboot also
And don't forget rom manager, that has a feature that will boot directly into recovery also
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This method is there for the times you are stuck in a bootloop, but due to the fact that you have a radio (PG05img.zip) on your sdcard, you can't get into recovery to restore a backup. Like if you flash a sense kernel and are trying to run CM7 like I did. This avoids the need to have to use a card reader to remove the file from the root of the sdcard, or using a buddies phone.
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Awesome trick. Still a good idea to rename it or delete it, but this is great for people who inevitably ignore it lol.
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Yeah, I forgot to remove the file from my sdcard before flashing the new rom, and that's what got me in trouble. I usually do delete the file after flashing a radio, but I forgot, then when the kernel didn't agree with the rom, I was stuck.

Or if you have rom manager u can boot up then reboot to recovery ....
Nvm I see what u did lol
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Hmmm, that's pretty cool.

This saved my ass last night. Thanks for the tip!

Thank you, this is helpful.
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whb_3 said:
This saved my ass last night. Thanks for the tip!
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Glad it helped someone :]
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great find! coulda saved me some headaches before, but im sure it will save future ones!

This does not seem to work for me. When I am in HBoot and pull the battery while its plugged into the charger it just shuts off.

I might actually give this a try tonight despite not having this problem yet. Been running das BAMF GB and now with the bricking scare that's been going on, might as well make sure I can recover if need be.

espnaholik said:
This does not seem to work for me. When I am in HBoot and pull the battery while its plugged into the charger it just shuts off.
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Make sure you're using a wall charger and not using an extension cable or any sort of power splitter. I ran into the same issue when using a USB cable and when using a wall charger on an extension power splitter. I plugged straight into the wall and it worked like a champ.

Pretty cool ... hopefully I'll never need it
Seriously though, I had this happen while at work and was freaking out. Lucky for me the IT guy had a micro SD card reader on hand (I do have one at home). But it's good to see this little trick so that if this were to happen to me again while at work I can save myself the embarrassment of having to ask the IT guy for his card reader again lol

I was using a wall charger but I had it plugged into the lamp power outlet in the hotel I'm staying in, guess it wasn't enough power. Ended up getting a micro sd card reader at wally world, phone was stuck at HTC screen after flashing latest gingervitis.

[Q] Urgent help needed! (soft bricked mez)

OK, I am officially an idiot. I attempted to install CWM Recovery via the ROM Manager (using thethe Fascinate version) and I soft bricked my phone. I attempted to reboot into recovery, and the phone just stays at the Samsung screen. I have tried to plug it into my computer, and the computer recognizes it as bent plugged in, but does not allow any access.
What can I do to make this right? I need answers as soon as possible guys
Thanks!

Does Odin see the phone?
Have you tried going back to stock 2.2.1?
FYI, I haven't had this problem, so I'm just tossing out a suggestion. Anyone with deeper knowledge, please correct me if I'm wrong.

foxfire450 said:
Does Odin see the phone?
Have you tried going back to stock 2.2.1?
FYI, I haven't had this problem, so I'm just tossing out a suggestion. Anyone with deeper knowledge, please correct me if I'm wrong.
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I don't have Odin on my computer. I have tried several times find it online, but I never can.

There's a link to Odin in the post I linked to above.

If you odin this file and boot into recovery. Then choose reboot from within recovery it should fix the issue. If not then I would odin stock files. File is linked below. Put in pda slot and flash in odin.
http://db.tt/z8lE9Sq
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Thanks for the input. No, Odin is not recognizing the phone, and it will not boot into recovery.
Am I totally effed?

How are you putting the phone into download mode. You should have battery out. Plug usb in. Then hold volume down until the little yellow droid pops up
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so what your saying is that your phone wont go into download mode?? oops didnt see that ^^^^

scarmon25 said:
How are you putting the phone into download mode. You should have battery out. Plug usb in. Then hold volume down until the little yellow droid pops up
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OK, THAT worked. How do I add a file in Odin?
I really appreciate the help, folks.

Hit the pda button and navigate to where u saved the file
Tap-a-Talked from my Mesmerize

now you can follow the directions in the link on how to get your mesmerize back to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=881064
or here http://www.fascinateforums.com/forum/fascinate-rs-guides/2367-how-use-odin.html
very well written IMHO

thanks for the info...i seem to be a day late and a dollar short heh i just posted that link too wow

There is sticky under android dev. Step by step instructions. how to get it to stock
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Lol, looks like u got plenty of help.
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I have personally had this issue. If he odins the cwm2.5 file he should able to boot without wiping everything. His phone is trying to execute the boot to recovery command and since there isn't a valid recovery its just sticking at the boot logo. Flash a valid recovery. Let it execute that action and then reboot and all should be well. It worked for me and I just figure that is probably what's going on here as well. Worth a try
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It's alive!!!
Seriously, thank you guys SO FREAKING MUCH. I really thought I had lost my phone an hour and a half ago. You guys are the best.
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Anytime.
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had something similar happen as well, just got the mez and was trying very hard to mod it...im guessing the mosquitoes must have sucked to blood out of my eyes or something cuz i flashed just the PIT file, then somehow as i recall got into a recovery and formatted the internal memory, basically trashed to bootloader or something. phone wouldnt even go into download mode,sucked wicked bad. thanks to the premium plan i got a new phone the same day

glad to here its working again was hopeful you'd get it up and running.

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] Droid 3 stuck in bootloop

I realize there are multiple threads like this but throughout all of them I have not found any that relate to my issue or a combination of them. If I have missed one I apologize in advance and please direct me to that thread then. I was running steel droid what I thought was 5.5 ICS but it looks like it is 5.1 according to the forums. I was previously running steel droid 4.5 GB. I was switching back to 4.5 because I could not get wifi hotspotting to work. I forgot to wipe my cache and went to install 4.5 and I am stuck in bootloop. X+Power gives me the android error screen, M+Power allows me into the main menu but I cannot use AP fastboot, SBF motorola will not pick up my phone and the screen will show a connection to the USB cable. I've never had a problem before but also have never forgotten to wipe the cache so any thoughts would help.

m3schz8! said:
I realize there are multiple threads like this but throughout all of them I have not found any that relate to my issue or a combination of them. If I have missed one I apologize in advance and please direct me to that thread then. I was running steel droid what I thought was 5.5 ICS but it looks like it is 5.1 according to the forums. I was previously running steel droid 4.5 GB. I was switching back to 4.5 because I could not get wifi hotspotting to work. I forgot to wipe my cache and went to install 4.5 and I am stuck in bootloop. X+Power gives me the android error screen, M+Power allows me into the main menu but I cannot use AP fastboot, SBF motorola will not pick up my phone and the screen will show a connection to the USB cable. I've never had a problem before but also have never forgotten to wipe the cache so any thoughts would help.
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Not wiping cache won't give you boot loop lol just go back into recovery wipe everything and flash a working ROM solved :thumbup:
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bbrad said:
Not wiping cache won't give you boot loop lol just go back into recovery wipe everything and flash a working ROM solved :thumbup:
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I would but I get android error screen with exclamation mark each time regardless of how I access recovery X+Power or vol +,- and Power then going to recovery, I wouldn't have thought that not wiping the cache would have been the cause but it was the one step I didn't do that I normally always do so I was just adding it in for information but thanks for the know how that it wasn't the cause. Any other thoughts since I cant even get into my backup ROM or recovery, I have another SD card not sure if my SD card has become fried for some reason, I will be trying that to see if maybe that is all it is.

m3schz8! said:
I would but I get android error screen with exclamation mark each time regardless of how I access recovery X+Power or vol +,- and Power then going to recovery, I wouldn't have thought that not wiping the cache would have been the cause but it was the one step I didn't do that I normally always do so I was just adding it in for information but thanks for the know how that it wasn't the cause. Any other thoughts since I cant even get into my backup ROM or recovery, I have another SD card not sure if my SD card has become fried for some reason, I will be trying that to see if maybe that is all it is.
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Well I'm on a Samsung device but we have a program you load files in and you can flash your device back to stock do you have something like that?
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bbrad said:
Well I'm on a Samsung device but we have a program you load files in and you can flash your device back to stock do you have something like that?
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Yep but phone isn't picking up my data cable and how ever many issues that have come about here, I think I am SOL but gonna try an SD card hoping that it is just a bad SD card or something like that. May end up having to use part of that great tax return also, thanks for the help, I'm going samsung next, that whole fore sight wasn't there two years ago.

In it's current state, is it in any way possible to tell that it is rooted? Is the boy animation stock or a different one? Motorola might repair it for you if you can't tell that it's been rooted
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Droid 3 stuck in bootloop
dj2muchxx said:
In it's current state, is it in any way possible to tell that it is rooted? Is the boy animation stock or a different one? Motorola might repair it for you if you can't tell that it's been rooted
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Unfortunately you can easily tell that it is not stock ROM by bootloop

Well your computer should recognize your droid that's a common problem with Odin and Samsung one of these steps always work so try then and seen if we can't get your droid recognized NUMBER 4 WILL WORK 99% OF THE TIME BUT TRY THE OTHER METHODS FIRST 1. Use the stock cable or try a difrent port 2. If its possible on your program take out the battery and SD card as leaving them in course problems 3. Run the program as aminstrative 4. Plug the phone in and have it in download mode or whatever you call it WHILE THE COMPUTER IS BOOTING Up This will force the computer to recognize it not the best method but it always works
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bbrad said:
Well your computer should recognize your droid that's a common problem with Odin and Samsung one of these steps always work so try then and seen if we can't get your droid recognized NUMBER 4 WILL WORK 99% OF THE TIME BUT TRY THE OTHER METHODS FIRST 1. Use the stock cable or try a difrent port 2. If its possible on your program take out the battery and SD card as leaving them in course problems 3. Run the program as aminstrative 4. Plug the phone in and have it in download mode or whatever you call it WHILE THE COMPUTER IS BOOTING Up This will force the computer to recognize it not the best method but it always works
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Thanks step 4 ended up being the working method, happened again when loading gingerbread back on, so I walked through it again, removed ICS from memory card wiped phone completely and then loaded gingerbread back on and finally had success. Thanks for all the help

m3schz8! said:
Thanks step 4 ended up being the working method, happened again when loading gingerbread back on, so I walked through it again, removed ICS from memory card wiped phone completely and then loaded gingerbread back on and finally had success. Thanks for all the help
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NP if you ever need anything just ask
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