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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krayziebone99 said:
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
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I just tried to use this method on my Inspire today and there was an error when flashing back to the stock AT&T ROM after gaining S-OFF and root. When I try to start up the phone normally, it gets stuck on the HTC screen. When I try to boot into recovery, it just shows a black screen while the LED is green.
Anybody know what I can do to fix my phone?
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I just tried to use this method on my Inspire today and there was an error when flashing back to the stock AT&T ROM after gaining S-OFF and root. When I try to start up the phone normally, it gets stuck on the HTC screen. When I try to boot into recovery, it just shows a black screen while the LED is green.
Anybody know what I can do to fix my phone?
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which root method did you use?
I used the one click root method.
xr2unitx said:
I just tried to use this method on my Inspire today and there was an error when flashing back to the stock AT&T ROM after gaining S-OFF and root. When I try to start up the phone normally, it gets stuck on the HTC screen. When I try to boot into recovery, it just shows a black screen while the LED is green.
Anybody know what I can do to fix my phone?
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Here you go...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...8#post12393978
SNadler said:
Here you go...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...8#post12393978
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Sorry your link doesn't seem to work.
If you press the down volume and hold power can you get to hboot?
Try using bubby's tool to fix the CWM black screen. Its under the fixes link.
I can't seem to access any sort of recovery or hboot. Holding down both volume buttons and turning the phone on will result in the black screen with green LED. Holding the down volume button and turning the phone on does nothing.
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Sorry your link doesn't seem to work.
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Sorry go to Bubbys super one step and search for CWM black screen....
If it helps, the phone vibrates 5 times then shows a black screen.
Well I was able to get into HBOOT but when I tried to go into recovery, the screen would just turn black.
You need to get the stock rooted PD98IMG.zip into the root of your sd card. Then go to hboot and let the phone find it. Follow on screen instructions. Note the progress bar will be vertical on upper right. I bet that fixes you up on getting the phone working. Black screen on cwm is a whole nother issue. One that I share. I think I'm going to revert to stock unrooted and then our attn1 hack kit.
There is a solution you can eng s-off, but I would not advise this there is no need to eng s-off your phone.
The simplest way though it may take longer is to, revert to stock and reroot and s-off with the hack kit.
This is a very common problem with the one click. To be honest there is a thread made just like this twice a day.
Thanks for all the help everyone. I managed to fix everything on my phone. I just flashed the rooted AT&T stock ROM with HBOOT and then used the one-click ENG S-OFF method to fix the black screen on CWM. Now running CM7 perfectly. I'm glad I no longer have to send it back to AT&T.
kinder gentler XDA i guess. Last year posts like these would have been flamed right off the board. Thats not a bad thing, but new people are wasting everyones F'ing time with these posts.
RTFM! w/e it is you decide to do , how about looking for help in the dam thread you downloaded the stuff from? I duno maybe we have a bunch of people brand new to Forums or something.
Ok I don't mean to thread jack, I just didn't want to start a new thread for this. I've been running the Coredroid Rom since I first rooted my phone. I have never had any problems with my phone even when trying out other roms. Today I tried installing the new Coredroid 5.0. It all went well as usual except this time on the last step of the setup wizard, it said something like "setup has stopped working unexpectedly and will notify HTC" and only let me press ok to force close.
After that happened all I couldn't even go to my home screen. I then tried restarting my phone but got stuck on the Coredroid rotating logo. Only way out of that was to pull the battery cover. Tried going into recovery mode but the screen would just be black and I would have the orange light flashing. That didn't work so I tried restarting again. Again just got stuck on the spinning logo.....This is where **** gets weird. I began to receive a call while on the logo and that allowed me to answer thus leaving the spinning logo. I still could not go to my home screen. I could only use the drop down notifications menu. I restarted my phone again so I could call myself while on the logo and again it got me unstuck from the logo. Only way to fix every thing was to use the search option and run Rom Manager and recover from my previous back up.
So I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else? I always fallow instructions and hardly ever have any problems but this was just odd. I felt like I had to solve riddles in order to get my phone working again.
See if you can boot to bootloader by means of ADB (adb reboot bootloader). If so reflash the stock rooted rom then reload CWM. You might need to Eng-S off if you have a corrupt file / bootloader? When done reflash CorDroid 5.0 (What I am running by the way)....
black htc screen
I tried to root my phone like an idiot because I dont know anything about this stuff and I got a black htc screen and i cant do anything. HELP!!
I see a lot of motivation in this and other threads to leave well-enough alone. Going to leave mine unrooted-stock.
I just had an excellent session of Google Nav where it performed exemplary. My phone does all I need and remains within the rules as the OEM wants it.
kadukasan said:
I tried to root my phone like an idiot because I dont know anything about this stuff and I got a black htc screen and i cant do anything. HELP!!
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check out this thread --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1019868
hello.. i have looked for the answer to my question but i cant seem to find it, therefore i created this post.. sorry if i posted in the wrong section or if it is already out there.. i hope mr clown doesnt close my thread.
i rooted my phone doing it with the one click tool, and it worked perfectly fine.. the problem started when i tried to install a custom rom on it.. i installed rom manager and cwm fine.. but the problem is that i was following this instructions..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...php?p=11557769
which i read i had to get this rom...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=868720
the problem is that i didnt realize that i needed eng s off and i had s off wich therefore i wasnt able to see the cwm screen..
following the steps that told me to wipe the data with the wipedat.zip.. i did it through rom manager.. when the phone rebooted it went to a dark screen slowly so i took the battery out, and now is frozen in the htc logo... i have tried the up/down/power combo but the phone vibrates 3-4 times and then it goes to a black screen with the light on... but i dont get anything else.. so im really stock at either htc screen or black screen... i need help!!! i hope some one nows a good way for me to fix this.
have you tried...
adb restart fastboot
or adb restart recovery or whichever it is
someone more familiur with adb can explain alil more on this
Download the stock ruu exe and run that from your computer.
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Try running adb reboot bootloader but first off run adb kill-server then adb devices to see if it is picking up your phone. If that doesnt work download the stock ruu and run it, hopefully all goes well with either method.
Just FYI - this was taken care of over in the General Forum.
Haven't heard from him since, but he was able to get into hboot.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1021246
puneta26 said:
when the phone rebooted it went to a dark screen slowly so i took the battery out, and now is frozen in the htc logo... i have tried the up/down/power combo but the phone vibrates 3-4 times and then it goes to a black screen with the light on... but i dont get anything else.. so im really stock at either htc screen or black screen... i need help!!! i hope some one nows a good way for me to fix this.
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I had this problem. I just plugged it back into the PC turned off and cwr booted up for me. Hope that helps.
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Hey man i had a problem like that i used ace hack kit v9...Just do everything over again and it will work..
This is in the wrong section. Questions should be posted in the general section.
Its not volume up/down/power. Its just volume down + power. What is sounds like you did was restart your phone while it was trying to flash the rom. You should be able to get to the hboot menu just by holding power and volume down to power up the phone and wait till hboot shows up.
This will be probably the best answer I got.
1. Turn your phone off
2. Take out the battery and insert it back it
3. Don't turn your phone on
4. Plug in your USB cord,connected to your computer
5. Your phone will Automatically Boot up
6. You will be in the ClockWork Recovery
7. There will be many options
8. Select "BACK UP AND RESTORE"
9. Restore EVERYTHING.
10. youre phone will start normally, but it will be really LAGGY
11. Then ROOT your phone again to make it normal.
What has happened to yours has happened to mine. This is the way I fixed mine.
If you have any problems or issues, PM ME
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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
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?
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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.
greggyt79 said:
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....
glevitan said:
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
glevitan said:
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 just got my phone today, rooted and installed the Viper rom. Then I installed the blackout kernel. It installed fine but it wont start up anymore. The phone won't go to bootloader or anything. I tried the 10 second power +volume down, ill get the screen that says htc one s this is a development phone and thats it. it turns off after that. When i plug the phone into a charger the light doesnt come up, i tried to use fastboot from my computer but it can't find the device since its not in fastboot. what should i do?!
This is odd. Even when you try turning the phone on with the volume down button depressed you can't get into bootloader? I've always been able to get to bootloader so this one is a challenge. I would make sure you have enough battery life in your phone too. Even if you have kernel issues you should still be able to make it back to bootloader. It should pop up instantly without any other boot screens. I imagine you can't see your phone from your computer with either adb devices or fast boot devices?
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Are you sure you flashed the right kernel? I know quite a few Blackout kernels.
You did flash the boot.img, right? You can try flashing it again. If nothing works, try an RUU, or let the battery drain.
Are you sure you're trying to go into the bootloader the right way? The trick for me was to hold down only the power button, then once it goes off, hold down the volume down and the power button.
I remember the time another person had a similar issue, and managed to get in after about 30 tries.
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usaff22 said:
Are you sure you flashed the right kernel? I know quite a few Blackout kernels.
You did flash the boot.img, right? You can try flashing it again. If nothing works, try an RUU, or let the battery drain.
Are you sure you're trying to go into the bootloader the right way? The trick for me was to hold down only the power button, then once it goes off, hold down the volume down and the power button.
I remember the time another person had a similar issue, and managed to get in after about 30 tries.
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thank you! that worked, i didnt flash the boot.img.. i forgot that part lol im used to having s-off where its so much simpler, but luckily i had a backup i could use. i know this is a dumb question but how do i install the kernel with boot.img?
deepshah420 said:
thank you! that worked, i didnt flash the boot.img.. i forgot that part lol im used to having s-off where its so much simpler, but luckily i had a backup i could use. i know this is a dumb question but how do i install the kernel with boot.img?
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Go into fastboot in the bootloader. Then type fastboot flash boot boot.img in your Windows command prompt.
You should be able to extract the boot.img from the relevant zip file of your custom kernel. Then put that file (assuming its named boot.img) in the same folder as fastboot.exe