So i used my xtc clip to s off an inspire and tried installing clockwork and SU but clockwork gave me an SU error. So i loaded the acehack and tried that, then i ended up getting the soft brick, so i flashed the ruu and it seemed to flash fine but now the phone wont turn on it just charges.
Out of nowhere it just turned on and started vibrating while connected to charger. It wont turn on still when i try.
xboxhaxorz said:
Out of nowhere it just turned on and started vibrating while connected to charger. It wont turn on still when i try.
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Have you started with the easiest fix by pulling out the battery & waiting a minute & putting it back in, then try to power on the phone.
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yes left it out for 5 mins
Can you get into bootloader or fastboot
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left battery out overnight and tried turning on again no go
no fastboot or bootloader
removed all cards and still will not power on
phone was left unplugged with battery inserted, just this moment it is now showing the htc logo and continuously vibrating
thats very weird, i dont think its bricked i think its faulty
turning it off does not work, i have to remove the battery
Does it allow you to get into the bootloader by pressing power and - volume at all?
xboxhaxorz said:
phone was left unplugged with battery inserted, just this moment it is now showing the htc logo and continuously vibrating
thats very weird, i dont think its bricked i think its faulty
turning it off does not work, i have to remove the battery
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Sounds like you have a corrupt hboot (or ENG hboot on a late model Inspire). You need to get the stock hboot on it and it's not trivial. Try jumping into our irc channel and hopefully we can get you straightened out:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#liberatedAria
I had a similar situation happen to me. I was able to get into hboot after running hack kit but when it goes to reboot it takes about 10 minutes to finally come back on and does the same as described above. it comes on by itself finally while vibrating for about 2 minutes. after that it will come back up. i have even been able to flash custom roms to it with the only hitch that i can't reboot normally. i still just have to wait til it comes back up on its own. Very inconvenient, but still works. any ideas?
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I had a similar situation happen to me. I was able to get into hboot after running hack kit but when it goes to reboot it takes about 10 minutes to finally come back on and does the same as described above. it comes on by itself finally while vibrating for about 2 minutes. after that it will come back up. i have even been able to flash custom roms to it with the only hitch that i can't reboot normally. i still just have to wait til it comes back up on its own. Very inconvenient, but still works. any ideas?
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Make a nandroid of your current rom(if it's what you llike/want to use), run the RUU to restore factory config and dl the newest version of the hack kit and reroot it. Once done, restore your nandroid that you made earlier.
ATTN1 made a version of the HK w/ ENG-HBOOT that was discovered to cause very slow boots an pulled it down, the latest version should boot normally upon completion.
thank you for the info. i'll post back when i try to reroot and install ruu
i ended up warranty exchanging my phone, attn was helping me but i think mine was too fubared
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I bricked thu a bad flash. Normal unbrick wont work due to my volume buttons not working. I tried to just reflash the stock rom but it keeps telling me the battery is less than 30%. I let the phone charge for a hour or so so i doubt that is the issue. Ant help would be great thank you.
So you are not able to get into clockwork recovery at all? Or you cannot even get into hboot? where are you trying to re-flash the stock ROM then?
i was trying to update my coredroid rom, i cant get past the white HTC screen
SO you cant get into Hboot?(power+volume down hold)..thats before any Htc screen...
If you can then you can get to clockwordmod recovery...
If you cant get into hboot, then if you had debugging enabled perhaps you can get to hboot through adb commands?
If you can never get to hboot then I think youll have to download the RUU build thing and redo everything.
Maybe you should elborate more and check your spellings if you care so much about being bricked, lol just saying.
If I hold power and vol down after reinserting the battery all I get is the white HTC screen. I have tried the RUU build and it tells me my battery is less than 30%. I have also attempted ADB commands with no luck. I was however attempting the ADB thru Droid Explorer. Sorry for the spelling issues in my first post. I also don't get the initial spurt from the vibrator motor.
If you were just updating the rom you should in no way be bricked. Worst case your system partition or something is screwed, but this wont result in a brick. Take out battery, let sit for about 5 min. FIRST Hold volume down, then press power(hold both until you see hboot screen). If this doesn't get you into hboot, something is seriously wrong, not even a bad flash should corrupt that.
You need to get the rom.zip from the. Temp folder of your PC(when the Thu runs for a min, you can grab the rom.zip it uses), rename to PD98IMG.zip(or whatever it is, can't remener off top of my head), and get it on your sdcard. then hopefully you can get into bootloader and you should be good.
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I bricked thu a bad flash. Normal unbrick wont work due to my volume buttons not working. I tried to just reflash the stock rom but it keeps telling me the battery is less than 30%. I let the phone charge for a hour or so so i doubt that is the issue. Ant help would be great thank you.
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Your volume buttons are broken, or unresponsive in h-boot? Two very different things.
M volume down button is broke. That seems to be the issue of me getting going again.
if you are using a older version of cwm, you should be able to plug the phone in while it is off and it will boot into recovery.
do you have the android sdk installed on your computer? you can always adb reboot recovery.
saves my butt every time
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M volume down button is broke. That seems to be the issue of me getting going again.
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ARE you completely sure they dont work??they didnt work before too??or just now?
Make sure you press both at the same time, and HOLD IT and wait....
That happened to me when I rooted, I thought I bricked it, but I wasnt holding it down too long and kept pressing them at different times..
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do you have the android sdk installed on your computer? you can always adb reboot recovery.
saves my butt every time
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Only if it boots far enough for adb to see the phone, which a lot of time it wont if its soft brickd, so you have to be able to get into hboot manually.
The vol buttons were broke before this happened.
My buttons on the inspire 4g do not work anymore for some reason and I want to flash a ICS rom. I rooted the phone a long time ago when I first got it so I was just curious to how I would flash a rom without the buttons working. Also do I need to do the ENG-Off to use a ics rom?
Just an idea. You could flash clockwork recovery touch using Rom Manager premium. Then u wouldn't have to worry about the volume keys.
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My buttons on the inspire 4g do not work anymore for some reason and I want to flash a ICS rom. I rooted the phone a long time ago when I first got it so I was just curious to how I would flash a rom without the buttons working. Also do I need to do the ENG-Off to use a ics rom?
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Don't install ENG S-OFF, you don't need it and if your phone was shipped with gingerbread you will eventually mess your hboot up.
Just look for the 4EXT recovery in the Desire HD forum. That is fully touch and amazing. With a touch recovery you will be able to flash ICS.
I went to reformat the sd card in settings and then it said it will shut down after then it shut down and wont come back on but the orange light is blinking. I took the battery out and put it back in. When I push the power button it vibrates then just the orange light blinks nothing comes on.
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I went to reformat the sd card in settings and then it said it will shut down after then it shut down and wont come back on but the orange light is blinking. I took the battery out and put it back in. When I push the power button it vibrates then just the orange light blinks nothing comes on.
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CONGRATULATIONS....you have messed you hboot up....I told you not to flash eng S-off....
So I am guessing when I rooted months ago I did do s-off which you are saying is my problem. I tried to use advanced ace hack kit to set s-on and flash stock. It detects the phone then right when I selected to flash it restarts it then keeps waiting for device. Is there anything I could do to fix this problem? I been researching but can't seem to find anything.
You should try to use the adb package to boot into fast boot. See the effin manual and the hack kit thread for more info. Once u can get into fastboot see:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1396229
for stock RUU. It's happened to me a couple of times but my volume keys were working so u may need to do more research. Good luck.
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He won't be able to flash a ruu. His hboot is messed up. He has to fix it first. Your hboot is in super slow motion. To boot in hboot will take you about 15 to 20 minutes....just go to the hack kit support IRC channel and we will try to lend u a hand.
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I don't believe he messed up his hboot. He just can't get into it because the volume keys don't work. If he has the HTC drivers installed and is getting connectivity then he should be able to boot into fastboot from cmd then flash the RUU.
adb reboot fastboot
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I am able to use a pen and push down the button and try to get into hboot. The light turns green and screen lights up but still is black. I would appreciate the help on fixing the hboot I will join the irc soon. By letting the battery darin I was able to plug it in and get it to turn on so at least I have a temp first to be able to still have a usable phone. Also the fastboot does not work adb recognizes the phone then once I press Y to flash the ruu the phone restarts and gets stuck again on flashing orange light
I don't know what went wrong..
My phone stuck at dialer after i made a phone call..therefore I pulled out the battery,put it back & try to turn it on..but nothing happened.
I tried to go into recovery (volume down+power) but it still wont turn on..
Also i tried to use ADB but my phone not detected..
The phone wont turn on,nothing on the screen,LED light not blinking (even when i connect to PC or wall charger)
Please let me know if you guys got any suggestion or even better if there is a solution..
please dont tell me that my phone is bricked
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I don't know what went wrong..
My phone stuck at dialer after i made a phone call..therefore I pulled out the battery,put it back & try to turn it on..but nothing happened.
I tried to go into recovery (volume down+power) but it still wont turn on..
Also i tried to use ADB but my phone not detected..
The phone wont turn on,nothing on the screen,LED light not blinking (even when i connect to PC or wall charger)
Please let me know if you guys got any suggestion or even better if there is a solution..
please dont tell me that my phone is bricked
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any luck on this??? i jacked mine up trying to flash a new firmware and am stuck in the same boat with my sensation being completely unresponsive.
You could factory reset it:
From the manual:
If you can’t turn HTC Sensation 4G on or access settings, you can still perform a factory reset by using the hardware buttons on HTC Sensation 4G.
1. Remove the battery, wait for a few seconds, then reinsert the battery.
2. Press and hold the VOLUME DOWN button, and then briefly press the POWER button.
3. Wait for the screen with the three Android images to appear, and then release the VOLUME DOWN button.
4. Press VOLUME DOWN to select FACTORY RESET, and then press the POWER button."
Overlord-in-training said:
You could factory reset it:
From the manual:
If you can’t turn HTC Sensation 4G on or access settings, you can still perform a factory reset by using the hardware buttons on HTC Sensation 4G.
1. Remove the battery, wait for a few seconds, then reinsert the battery.
2. Press and hold the VOLUME DOWN button, and then briefly press the POWER button.
3. Wait for the screen with the three Android images to appear, and then release the VOLUME DOWN button.
4. Press VOLUME DOWN to select FACTORY RESET, and then press the POWER button."
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It was stated that he can't access the bootloader, which is what is required for the "FACTORY RESET"...
There are a number of people reporting this issue. I've even experienced the issue after the device powered down due to a drained battery. Luckily I have a stand alone charger. I put the battery on the charger for about 15 minutes, put it back in the device and it was able to boot, charge, connect usb etc...
I tried for 20 minutes to get any response from the device before trying the charger.
No charging LED isn't a good sign.
There seem to be more and more people reporting with this problem these last few weeks. IT happened with mine....it was not battery drained cuz it went dead when battery was 100% charged. I've been trying to get input as to whether this is related to ROM or firmware we're flashing....but no one seem to know.
Nothing will work...ADB...battery out...etc...I've sent my phone back to HTC...waiting to see what happens.
There are at least 3-4 different post with the same problem the past few weeks.
newr said:
There seem to be more and more people reporting with this problem these last few weeks. IT happened with mine....it was not battery drained cuz it went dead when battery was 100% charged. I've been trying to get input as to whether this is related to ROM or firmware we're flashing....but no one seem to know.
Nothing will work...ADB...battery out...etc...I've sent my phone back to HTC...waiting to see what happens.
There are at least 3-4 different post with the same problem the past few weeks.
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What rom were you running when this happened?
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It was stated that he can't access the bootloader, which is what is required for the "FACTORY RESET"...
There are a number of people reporting this issue. I've even experienced the issue after the device powered down due to a drained battery. Luckily I have a stand alone charger. I put the battery on the charger for about 15 minutes, put it back in the device and it was able to boot, charge, connect usb etc...
I tried for 20 minutes to get any response from the device before trying the charger.
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Well what i did was that i had a brand new sensation, i got it s-offed, rooted, cwm, superCID. all that done following the guide here on XDA. i wanted to have the new elegancia ICS rom which required the 3.32 firmware with the 4ext recovery. I got the 4ext flashed and then flashed the 3.32 firmware which caused a bootloop. then i panicked and tried to put it back to stock. not realizing that it was prolly bootlooping due the stock rom not being compatible with that firmware (not positive if that caused the bootloop. just a guess) it bricked after trying to put it back to stock. nothing responds. computer doesnt recognize it. new battery doesnt to anything. no charging led. looking back on what i did. I was still able to get into the 4ext recovery when it was bootlooping. If i flashed a compatible rom while it was doing that would it have fixed the issue. can anyone confirm if the bootloop was caused due the the stock TMOUSA rom not being compatible with 3.32? Tmobile is going to send me a brand new one. I'd like that rom but dont wanna repeat the same mistake lol
Thanks
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Well what i did was that i had a brand new sensation, i got it s-offed, rooted, cwm, superCID. all that done following the guide here on XDA. i wanted to have the new elegancia ICS rom which required the 3.32 firmware with the 4ext recovery. I got the 4ext flashed and then flashed the 3.32 firmware which caused a bootloop. then i panicked and tried to put it back to stock. not realizing that it was prolly bootlooping due the stock rom not being compatible with that firmware (not positive if that caused the bootloop. just a guess) it bricked after trying to put it back to stock. nothing responds. computer doesnt recognize it. new battery doesnt to anything. no charging led. looking back on what i did. I was still able to get into the 4ext recovery when it was bootlooping. If i flashed a compatible rom while it was doing that would it have fixed the issue. can anyone confirm if the bootloop was caused due the the stock TMOUSA rom not being compatible with 3.32? Tmobile is going to send me a brand new one. I'd like that rom but dont wanna repeat the same mistake lol
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Yep, it was because stock was incompatible with that fw, happened to me two weeks ago when I got my sensation and I started tinkering, I flashed opensensation and I was good to go
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yahhboy said:
Yep, it was because stock was incompatible with that fw, happened to me two weeks ago when I got my sensation and I started tinkering, I flashed opensensation and I was good to go
Sent from my sensational sensation 4g
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so if i do the same process and go flash the new rom right after flashing the fw. i shouldnt have a problem right?
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What rom were you running when this happened?
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I installed 6.6.2 Revolution. It booted fine after I installed the ROM...so unlike some others, the installation seems to worked fine. I was able to run Titanium and restalled all the programs....but then when I talked on the phone....it became unresponsive and shutdown and never turned on again
Having similar problem.........only thing my phone just vibrates......the led is red for couple seconds when charger is connected
dreaddie101 said:
Having similar problem.........only thing my phone just vibrates......the led is red for couple seconds when charger is connected
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WEll..if your phone lights up or have some response.maybe you can still do something by connecting to computer. Mine was completely unresponsive...and can't be detected on computer!
Maybe it's an overclock issue? I've read on different threads that there may be a motherboard issue. The sensation is known for overheating. Maybe it's frying the motherboard.
What frequency were you guys running and was your phones randomly shutting down before it became unresponsive?
i think we guyz got the same problem :S its just turned off with a constant beep
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1624293
shawn0223 said:
so if i do the same process and go flash the new rom right after flashing the fw. i shouldnt have a problem right?
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Yes you should be fine, just make a backup of stock in case something goes wrong when you flash your first rom
Sent from my sensational sensation 4g
yahhboy said:
Yes you should be fine, just make a backup of stock in case something goes wrong when you flash your first rom
Sent from my sensational sensation 4g
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Awesome, I just got my new sensation yesterday. Worked like a charm.
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shawn0223 said:
Awesome, I just got my new sensation yesterday. Worked like a charm.
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Oh and thanks lol
I know this title comes up a lot but I can't seem to find my problem.
I wanted to go back to the stock rom and I used the proper RUU but totally forgot to use the S-ON tool before hand. It installed successfully but now I get a solid amber light and so far I got my inspire to boot once only to get stuck on the splash screen with it vibrating non-stop.
And now it just vibrated once, went to a black screen and then shut off. I really don't know what to do since I can't even get to HBOOT nor will the computer recognize it.
I've done numerous batter/sim card pulls as well as clean them out.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Have you tried booting into the bootloader and doing a factory reset?
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA
I think he was referring to the bootloader as HBOOT. I had this problem while rooting my sisters Inspire. Might be a corrupted bootloader.
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lay012 said:
I think he was referring to the bootloader as HBOOT. I had this problem while rooting my sisters Inspire. Might be a corrupted bootloader.
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Last I remember my bootloader was TWRP which I guess I had accidentally installed somehow. If you think its a corrupted bootloader how would I go about solving this, if there is a solution?
moutansos said:
Have you tried booting into the bootloader and doing a factory reset?
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Never do a factory reset on a S-OFF device....it will jam u up.
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Last I remember my bootloader was TWRP which I guess I had accidentally installed somehow. If you think its a corrupted bootloader how would I go about solving this, if there is a solution?
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It seems that the RUU you flashed was a Froyo one and your phone was running GB so you messed the bootloader. Hit the Hack Kit IRC channel (is in the OP thread) and we will lend u a hand to fix that....
Alright so I went to the IRC and they told me they couldn't help because it did not deal with the hack kit, fair enough.
I have been able to get the phone to boot after waiting for about 10 minutes but I cannot get to the bootloader. I tried rooting the phone again this way I can turn s-on then flash the stock rom again but the phone ends up not being detected half way through the process.
I really don't know what else to do...
Forgot to mention, now my inspire boots but then fades to a greyed out screen. My computer recognizes the phone as something occupying the usb port but is not accessible. Wish the phone had a physical reset button somewhere that i can poke with a paperclip...
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greggyt79 said:
Alright so I went to the IRC and they told me they couldn't help because it did not deal with the hack kit, fair enough.
I have been able to get the phone to boot after waiting for about 10 minutes but I cannot get to the bootloader. I tried rooting the phone again this way I can turn s-on then flash the stock rom again but the phone ends up not being detected half way through the process.
I really don't know what else to do...
Forgot to mention, now my inspire boots but then fades to a greyed out screen. My computer recognizes the phone as something occupying the usb port but is not accessible. Wish the phone had a physical reset button somewhere that i can poke with a paperclip...
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Greggyt, Hit the IRC Channel again,.....it was a rough day and we were a bit pissed. I just connected after you were gone....=0) just hit the channel again....
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Greggyt, Hit the IRC Channel again,.....it was a rough day and we were a bit pissed. I just connected after you were gone....=0) just hit the channel again....
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I will get back on the IRC this evening when I get home from work thanks again!!!
Does it say anything about QHUSB_DLOAD USB device being connected?
I ran into a similar problem not too long ago, immediate vibrating followed by a solid amber light and no phone activity (nothing on the screen at all). I knew I had a backup in Recovery, but I couldn't even get into recovery.
In order to work around this, I did the following steps.
1. Deleted the PD98IMG file from my SD card (so I could get to recovery once I made it to the bootloader).
2. Take out the battery, then put it back in.
3. Plug in the phone, and let it sit for a few minutes.
4. Start into bootloader (hold power + Volume Down)
Now, in my case I was just trying to get back into recovery. if you don't have a working recovery, or no ROM to flash, you'll want to grab a few RUU 's to try from the bootloader. Try stock GB first, then try a stock Froyo just for the heck of it.
Hope this helps! Good luck to anyone else that's stumbled into this problem.
side note: I've also heard of this "power problem" occurring to other people without bootloops or screwed up bootloaders: which is solved by doing steps 2 and 3, then it'll boot up normally.
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im having same issue i have gb stock and i accidtly did froyo ruu phones power bottun does nothing i have to plug it into computer and it will get solid amber light then eventually it either brings up battery charge icon and then if i press power button or unplug it. it just shuts off the i plug it back in and wait sometimes white htc screen comes up and it vibrates for a while then boots ad works like nothing is wrong but i cant flash gb ruu when i try to do that or re root and go to recovery to reistall ics that is on my sd as soon as phone restarts during process it doesnt reboot then i have to go threw whole procss of trying to get it to boot back up
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Never do a factory reset on a S-OFF device....it will jam u up.
It seems that the RUU you flashed was a Froyo one and your phone was running GB so you messed the bootloader. Hit the Hack Kit IRC channel (is in the OP thread) and we will lend u a hand to fix that....
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im new to this site but i did exactly what you said in your post and now my inspire wont reboot unless i go threw a few hour process of plugin my phone in and i get solid amber light for like 5 min then a battery charge screen comes up then i have to unplug my phone and plug it back in the last time i did this it took about 8 hours of tryin until it finally got amber light for like 5 min then started vibrating for a min or 2 then it booted up and its bin workin fine for like a week now ive tried to reflash gingerbread ruu ive tried doin upgrade from my phone and tried reroot but as soon as it shuts down to start upgrade my phone is off and wont reboot
So I goofed, pretty big this time.
I was running CM9 Alpha 5 and decided to take another shot at CleanRom, I read through the beginning instructions and saw it was a straight forward flash in recovery.
I however didn't see that if I was using CWM there would be some major issues.. HEEEE wasn't lying.
The phone bootloops only getting to the initial HTC screen, the loading bar doesn't even load up then power off then repeats. What's even stranger is it won't turn off unless I plug the usb cord in and fiddle with it for a few mins. I figure if I can get back into recovery all should be bueno. Just how might I do that? I've tried getting to recovery from the phone itself and tried hooking it up to a PC that will see the device, no such luck. It makes the notification on the PC that a usb has connected then makes the disconnect notification sound and cycles through that till I unplug it.
So is there any saving this thing? Or did I goof so hard its a paper weight?
tl:dr I flashed CleanRom in CWM without knowing that I shouldn't have used CWM. It's boot looping and I can't get it to enter recovery mode on adb. Am I screwed or is there something I can do?
Thanks so much guys, I can't believe I let myself think everything would be peachy when I flashed w/o reading EVERYTHING. Lesson learned.
Happened to me too. You have to relock your boot loader, download a stock RUU for your carrier and return to stock, reunlock then reroot and try it again with TWRP.
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danielsaenz said:
Happened to me too. You have to relock your boot loader, download a stock RUU for your carrier and return to stock, reunlock then reroot and try it again with TWRP.
Sent from my HTC One X
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Worked like a charm man! Thanks so much!