I was in the process of following the steps outlined in the [GUIDE] How to root Android 2.2 on the EVO 4G - xda-developers thread, and once I got the phone loaded to stock 2.1 (which is about 1/2 way through the process), my phone won't boot bast the bootloader. I've searched the threads for an hour now trying to find some info on how to fix this. To add to that problem, Unrevoked won't recognize the phone (even though I've thoroughly followed all instructions) so I can't get a recovery image on it to fix it easily. It only allows me into the fastboot screen and no matter how I reboot it, power it off, remove battery, etc, it immediately boots right back to the fastboot screen. Does anyone know of a fix or thread for this issue? I would greatly appreciate any help, whether it involves me restoring it back to default, or continuing with the root.
Put a PC36IMG file on the root of your SD card. It should start loading and bootloader and you will be able to boot the phone again.
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* loading in bootloader
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Nevermind this particular post, stupid question.
By the way tsipa, that fixed the issue... You are officially awesome, I was terrified for a minute thinking I messed something up.
Hello,
I have an Evo Shift stuck in the boot loop. As soon as I put the battery in all it does is reset itself to the screen with the white background and green "HTC" logo, and will keep restarting until the battery dies.
If I hold volume down and turn it on, it does go into the bootloader, but picking ANYTHING, such as recovery or factory reset, does nothing but sending it back to the HTC screen.
I have tried flashing the RUU.exe (2.27.651.2) through Fastboot USB and it completed successfully, but it just restarts right back to the HTC screen. I have also put PG06img that I found on here on the root of my card, and it will never load it up.
Are there any other solutions anyone can think of? They would be much appreciated. I see a lot of these threads for regular Evos, but not for Shifts.
The only other thing I really know about the phone is that it is:
S-On
Hboot- 0.98.0001
Radio- 1.08.00.0506
Thank you so much for all of your help!
Seems to me you aren't rooted and that's more than likely your problem, boot into fastboot and use the ruu application for gingerbread.
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Rooster85 said:
Seems to me you aren't rooted and that's more than likely your problem, boot into fastboot and use the ruu application for gingerbread.
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While I am pretty sure I am not rooted, if you are talking about the early RUU release; 1.17.651.1, the application starts and then ends up failing in the beginning of the process. Is this what you are talking about? The drivers should be all good, the application starts to flash and then dies though. Thanks!
samcrac said:
While I am pretty sure I am not rooted, if you are talking about the early RUU release; 1.17.651.1, the application starts and then ends up failing in the beginning of the process. Is this what you are talking about? The drivers should be all good, the application starts to flash and then dies though. Thanks!
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Use the new RUU. But make sure your SD card is formatted to a FAT32 partition. (Stock 2gig sd card and some other store boughts are not)
You can format on your computer and then place the RUU on the root of sd card again
(Bootloader won't recognize the ruu zip if not partitioned)
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notsointeresting said:
Use the new RUU. But make sure your SD card is formatted to a FAT32 partition. (Stock 2gig sd card and some other store boughts are not)
You can format on your computer and then place the RUU on the root of sd card again
(Bootloader won't recognize the ruu zip if not partitioned)
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Ok, I just did this, everything updated fine and all completeted on the bootloader. It then said "press power to reboot." I did so, and went right back into the same boot loop. Any other ideas. I figured running this, and the RUU.exe on the computer were the sure fire ways to get this thing working again???
samcrac said:
Ok, I just did this, everything updated fine and all completeted on the bootloader. It then said "press power to reboot." I did so, and went right back into the same boot loop. Any other ideas. I figured running this, and the RUU.exe on the computer were the sure fire ways to get this thing working again???
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So just a little information.
you said your not rooted?
So that means you have no ability to flash anything because you have no custom recovery and the bootloader isnt unlocked (S-on)
So what DID you do before it bootlooped? there had to have been something you were trying to do.
Not trying to blame anything on you at all just want to make sure we are helping the most accurate way possible
notsointeresting said:
So just a little information.
you said your not rooted?
So that means you have no ability to flash anything because you have no custom recovery and the bootloader isnt unlocked (S-on)
So what DID you do before it bootlooped? there had to have been something you were trying to do.
Not trying to blame anything on you at all just want to make sure we are helping the most accurate way possible
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No I hear ya. I was sold the phone fairly cheap and was told "all you need to do is to reinstall the RUU, that is all that is wrong." Obviously I was skeptical, but when I checked everything out, everything looked good, and again, for the price, I knew it was a gamble. That being said, I'm sure something was tried in order to modify the phone and this is how it got like this.
I have soft bricked my old Evo 4g a handful of times and an RUU or Rom flash would always solve the problem.
Anyway, there is no custom recovery, and I'm pretty sure theres no root because it is still "S-ON," I am just trying to see if anyone here has any more info before it goes in for repair.
The only last thing I would guess you MIGHT be able to do is to install a custom recovery, but is there ANY way to do this by just being in the bootloader and using FASTBOOT USB? Any more help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
samcrac said:
No I hear ya. I was sold the phone fairly cheap and was told "all you need to do is to reinstall the RUU, that is all that is wrong." Obviously I was skeptical, but when I checked everything out, everything looked good, and again, for the price, I knew it was a gamble. That being said, I'm sure something was tried in order to modify the phone and this is how it got like this.
I have soft bricked my old Evo 4g a handful of times and an RUU or Rom flash would always solve the problem.
Anyway, there is no custom recovery, and I'm pretty sure theres no root because it is still "S-ON," I am just trying to see if anyone here has any more info before it goes in for repair.
The only last thing I would guess you MIGHT be able to do is to install a custom recovery, but is there ANY way to do this by just being in the bootloader and using FASTBOOT USB? Any more help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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It shouldn't have a custom recovery if it shows s-on.
I don't see why the RUU wouldn't work.
Honestly it doesn't sound like a softbrick- sounds like its just bricked (Which ive only heard of 1 Shift getting bricked completley)
notsointeresting said:
It shouldn't have a custom recovery if it shows s-on.
I don't see why the RUU wouldn't work.
Honestly it doesn't sound like a softbrick- sounds like its just bricked (Which ive only heard of 1 Shift getting bricked completley)
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Make it 2! Thanks for your help though!!!
Also Stuck In A Bootloop
samcrac said:
Hello,
I have an Evo Shift stuck in the boot loop. As soon as I put the battery in all it does is reset itself to the screen with the white background and green "HTC" logo, and will keep restarting until the battery dies.
If I hold volume down and turn it on, it does go into the bootloader, but picking ANYTHING, such as recovery or factory reset, does nothing but sending it back to the HTC screen.
I have tried flashing the RUU.exe (2.27.651.2) through Fastboot USB and it completed successfully, but it just restarts right back to the HTC screen. I have also put PG06IMG that I found on here on the root of my card, and it will load it up (I'll see the blue loading bar and then the brown loading bar in the top right hand corner of the screen), but it then checks it again, and then goes back to the original screen for the bootloader.
Are there any other solutions anyone can think of? They would be much appreciated. I see a lot of these threads for regular Evos, but not for Shifts.
The only other thing I really know about the phone is that it is:
S-On
Hboot- 0.98.0001
Radio- 1.08.00.0506
Thank you so much for all of your help!
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I'm trying to resolve a very similar problem as him, but I know of the history of my phone (since I'm the only owner), so hopefully an answer for me can assist him also.
The Story: One day, I'm playing Uno HD (downloaded from Android Market). I toss out a Draw 4, and then I see: "Google Infrastructure Failure" and a Triangle with an exclamation mark. I reset the phone, and it starts up fine. Then a few hours later, my phone randomly restarts itself into the bootloader screen after trying to reload the home screen (because the memory manager is overly aggressive).
I see no HTC Screen. It goes straight to the bootloader without any input. If I plug it to the charger from an off state, the amber light comes on, and 10 seconds later, bootloader screen. With a battery, it appears automatically after 45 seconds.
Fastboot can read my memory card just fine. It's already been re-formatted as FAT32 in my pitiful attempt to try to repair it. It's checked and read a PG06IMG file I placed on the SD Card's root, went through the entire process of reading it, but it doesn't ask me if I want to upgrade. It takes me back to the original screen. (Maybe I'm loading the wrong file).
Recovery and Factory Reset immediately restarts the bootloader after showing me the skateboarding android splash screen.
I've also tried to flash the newest stock RUU for it. (2.76.651.4), but after the RUU sends the command to start up in bootloader mode, the phone shuts off. Thus giving me the connection error.
(Maybe if someone could rewrite the .exe file to not send out the command to begin loading as if it was in the bootloader screen, it could work. I'd pay for that.)
Other Stuff:
ROM: Stock Sprint Gingerbread OTA ROM. I've been living the vanilla life. No root access. No funny stuff. Just a stock phone with apps (Third Blade, Uno HD, ASTRO File Manager, ect...)
Directly from bootloader screen:
SPEEDY XA SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.98.0001
RADIO-1.08.00.0506
eMMC-boot
April 11 2011, 22:32:34
Is there a way we can flash a file from the SD Card which will turn off the security and/or temp/perm root it? (forgive my noobness for such a question)
EDIT: I'm referring to a way that's outside of the adb push method. My device can't be found, and the device won't get past the bootloader screen, so that method doesn't help me too much. However, I do have the ADK Installed and the ADB Command Line works fine.
Ok .. HERE'S THE SOLUTION:
First off all if your S- ON it means you are NOT rooted
If you get stuck in a bootloop .. don't worry it can be fixed.
What you need to do is download PG06IMG.ZIP and place it on your sd card, you can access your sd card by going into recovery then mount section, then usb. This will allow you to move the file from your computer to the root of your sd card.
Once you do this be sure you back up any info you don't want to lose. Once you have the file in place, go back to fastboot ( hold vol down and power) it will read file and when it asks you to update press vol up. It will take a few minutes to update this will revert your phone back to stock but if you have an old recovery it will not do a full restore, it will only update the rom.
Once you get your phone back to working, I recommend updating your recovery by downloading Rom Manager and flashing the latest clockwork recovery. This problem happens usually due to an old recovery.
One other thing you can try if you do NOT want to reset your phone, you can try flashing a new kernal.
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RUU won't work if your stuck in bootloop ..
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If you want to root your phone use visionary to temp root then use shift rr .. you can then flash a custom recovery which is essential to avoid this from happening again
flylike2kites said:
I'm trying to resolve a very similar problem as him, but I know of the history of my phone (since I'm the only owner), so hopefully an answer for me can assist him also.
The Story: One day, I'm playing Uno HD (downloaded from Android Market). I toss out a Draw 4, and then I see: "Google Infrastructure Failure" and a Triangle with an exclamation mark. I reset the phone, and it starts up fine. Then a few hours later, my phone randomly restarts itself into the bootloader screen after trying to reload the home screen (because the memory manager is overly aggressive).
I see no HTC Screen. It goes straight to the bootloader without any input. If I plug it to the charger from an off state, the amber light comes on, and 10 seconds later, bootloader screen. With a battery, it appears automatically after 45 seconds.
Fastboot can read my memory card just fine. It's already been re-formatted as FAT32 in my pitiful attempt to try to repair it. It's checked and read a PG06IMG file I placed on the SD Card's root, went through the entire process of reading it, but it doesn't ask me if I want to upgrade. It takes me back to the original screen. (Maybe I'm loading the wrong file).
Recovery and Factory Reset immediately restarts the bootloader after showing me the skateboarding android splash screen.
I've also tried to flash the newest stock RUU for it. (2.76.651.4), but after the RUU sends the command to start up in bootloader mode, the phone shuts off. Thus giving me the connection error.
(Maybe if someone could rewrite the .exe file to not send out the command to begin loading as if it was in the bootloader screen, it could work. I'd pay for that.)
Other Stuff:
ROM: Stock Sprint Gingerbread OTA ROM. I've been living the vanilla life. No root access. No funny stuff. Just a stock phone with apps (Third Blade, Uno HD, ASTRO File Manager, ect...)
Directly from bootloader screen:
SPEEDY XA SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.98.0001
RADIO-1.08.00.0506
eMMC-boot
April 11 2011, 22:32:34
Is there a way we can flash a file from the SD Card which will turn off the security and/or temp/perm root it? (forgive my noobness for such a question)
EDIT: I'm referring to a way that's outside of the adb push method. My device can't be found, and the device won't get past the bootloader screen, so that method doesn't help me too much. However, I do have the ADK Installed and the ADB Command Line works fine.
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Also if your phone can't be found its b/c you need to put it into diag mode .. ##DATA .. if you need more help google
tech-9 said:
If you want to root your phone use visionary to temp root then use shift rr .. you can then flash a custom recovery which is essential to avoid this from happening again
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For the thread starter, the person that sold you the phone probably tried writing to the system partition with s-on. Since you can get to the bootloader, see if you can get into recovery. If you can, recovery can be seen in adb, even the stock recovery. From there, gingerbread root, plenty of guides out there, make sure you flash the misc.img, download the froyo downgrade zip (that pgimg09.zip or something like that, just search for it, but not with the numbers I just gave, those are made up.)
From there either flash the gingerbread zip or ruu, and goon with a unrooted life. Or follow one of the many guides to froyo root, and live the life of the rooted. Your choice.
For the second person with a similar issue, the same method will work for you (assuming you can get to recovery), gingerroot, froyo downgrade, and since you like being unrooted, just ruu or zip back to gingerbread.
Solution found enjoy, and just think, if root hadn't been discovered for gingerbread, you would be screwed right now, make sure to thank otaking.
I have the same boot loop problem. I tried using the PG06IMG.zip file and fastboot/bootloader screen says I have the wrong image. It's most likely because it's for 2.2 and I have 2.3. I also don't have any recovery. Is there a PG06IMG.zip for 2.3 or the like?
similar problem here
i'm fairly certain i tried recovery with the wrong or corrupt or incomplete PG06IMG.zip on my first attempt. i got the right one from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1255474
i ran it, says update installed, but when i reboot i still get the loop
from bootloader
SPEEDY XE SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
RADIO-1.07.00.1129
eMMC-boot
Nov 15 2010, 13:19:54
zdavidzz said:
i'm fairly certain i tried recovery with the wrong or corrupt or incomplete PG06IMG.zip on my first attempt. i got the right one from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1255474
i ran it, says update installed, but when i reboot i still get the loop
from bootloader
SPEEDY XE SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
RADIO-1.07.00.1129
eMMC-boot
Nov 15 2010, 13:19:54
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Try downloading the zip again and re run it. Possibly a bad download?
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also adb is telling me device not found. i think i might have to factory reset. is that crazy?
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and... that didn't help
i'm downloading the zip again right now.
since i have s-on, will i be able to install it though?
i can get the file on the root of the sdcard with an adapter since i can't push from adb. and i can't temp root the phone because if i try a normal reboot i get this stupid boot loop. is there a way to get s-off through hboot on the phone?
i don't know why i didn't notice that first file was messed up, it was only 6MB.
so i recently rooted my phone using advance ace hack kit and achieved a root. my phone rebooted and turned off. when i went to turn it back on a white screen appears with "htc" in green then slowly fades to a brown screen then black. i can see the phone is still on but i cant get it to anything except go into bootloader mode. after getting to bootloader mode, everything i select sends it back to the white screen with green " htc" and fades again. whats going on? any help? fix advice please. do i need to install the factory ruu or what?
you should use the search feature
funtime707 said:
so i recently rooted my phone using advance ace hack kit and achieved a root. my phone rebooted and turned off. when i went to turn it back on a white screen appears with "htc" in green then slowly fades to a brown screen then black. i can see the phone is still on but i cant get it to anything except go into bootloader mode. after getting to bootloader mode, everything i select sends it back to the white screen with green " htc" and fades again. whats going on? any help? fix advice please. do i need to install the factory ruu or what?
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Please read entire OP of the hack kit. I'll give you a hint.. IRC chatroom..they will be able to give you the best advice possible.
If the rooting process worked correctly.
Here is the rooted updated ATT Gingerbread ROM. Just place PD98 in root of SD card then go into bootloader and let it do its thing. When it ask to install volume up for yes. AS ADVICED " RESEARCH"
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)
This is for Rooted Stck ROM
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q6YYQFIM
NO NEED TO RENAME JUST DOWNLOAD AND PLACE IN ROOT OF SD
Hope it helps
PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT ANYTHING ON YOUR PHONE IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING.
Credit to Football at Desire Forum
Then you can flash a custom ROM if you like.
iv have put my sd card in my computer an put what was supposed to be a pd98img file on the sd card. i then ejected the sd card and place it in the phone, pullled the battery. put it back in and put the phone in hboot. it searches for the file but then comes up and says, either no image or wrong image. or both. what now?
funtime707 said:
iv have put my sd card in my computer an put what was supposed to be a pd98img file on the sd card. i then ejected the sd card and place it in the phone, pullled the battery. put it back in and put the phone in hboot. it searches for the file but then comes up and says, either no image or wrong image. or both. what now?
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you didnt extract the zip file did you? place the zip in sd root without extracting, also do not place in any folders. If it didnt work then something went wrong in the rooting process. You may have to go to the IRC chat talked about above.
same thing happened to me. found this int he stuck in hboot sticky
Alternate-Flashing of RUU
This is for those that don’t have access to an adapter to place files with. This should work whether your S-on or S-Off
RUU’s: http://driphter.com/index.php?topic=3872.0
1) Download your RUU from above
2) Boot into Hboot
3) Connect your phone to your PC
4) Select fastboot
5) Run the RUU program
this has worked for me multiple times.
I can still boot into HBOOT with S-ON. I can also boot into recovery via HBOOT but it even starts with errors.
I placed this file onto the SD card (freshly formatted):
PD98IMG_Inspire_S-ON_FactoryRestore_FR_1.07.zip
hoxnet(DOT)com/droid/s-on/PD98IMG_Inspire_S-ON_FactoryRestore_FR_1.079(DOT)zip
[I RENAMED IT TO PD98IMG.zip first]
And neither HBOOT or Recovery will react to it. I've tried renaming it to update.zip and it seems to fail as well.
When I try to boot up normally, I'm taken to the (I suppose) Download screen with the picture of a progress bar and an SD card with up&down arrows on it off to the right. I was bootlooping not too long ago; selecting recovery has sent me straight to QHSUSB_DLOAD mode a few time.
*Correction: now I'm stuck at the regular hTc boot screen (not the one with the "quietly brilliant" underneath)
Any help/ suggestions? I'd really like to stay away from having to JTAG this phone.
Use a method in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20382502
Pull battery for a few seconds to get access to hboot again.
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I got it up to 2.3.5 using:
htc_inspire4g_att_RUU_3.20.502.52_US(DOT)exe
My problem now is that I can't downgrade. I've tried with 3 sdcards and with each, PD98IMG.zip is NEVER DETECTED! I've been trying for HOURS.
bigtimer5 said:
I got it up to 2.3.5 using:
htc_inspire4g_att_RUU_3.20.502.52_US(DOT)exe
My problem now is that I can't downgrade. I've tried with 3 sdcards and with each, PD98IMG.zip is NEVER DETECTED! I've been trying for HOURS.
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Check the name of the zip and make sure it's not PD98IMG.zip.zip
Can't remember if you check to see if it shows up like that directly on the cell or on the pc. It isn't uncommon for it to happen.
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Teichopsia said:
Check the name of the zip and make sure it's not PD98IMG.zip.zip
Can't remember if you check to see if it shows up like that directly on the cell or on the pc. It isn't uncommon for it to happen.
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I'm sure it's not double-extension'ed. I have my system set to show files' full names. It's just PD98IMG.zip. I've even tried renaming them to PD98DIAG.zip and still nothing happens.
People have been able to use the aahk on the new Rom base (3.20.502.52). Not sure if attn1 has put out a new version or if they just did the downgrade and it worked. I can verify that it worked for a user I was in pm contact with. It leaves a dhd Rom on phone and then you just flash whatever. See if aahk will recognize it while it's on HTC screen. As long as it gets a connection it will turn you to s off at the least and then you can manually flash recovery through the options menu.
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