Hi,
I need some help. I have 2 EVO's with similar problems, but different symptoms.
It all started when I tried to flash them to Boost using CDMA workshop! I know I should of stopped when i messed up the first one, but I'm a slow learner, and, I was successful with an EVO Shift, but the EVO 4G is a lot harder. Anyway, I now have 2 semi bricked phones and need some help.
The first one is stuck in the white screen bootloop, it comes on and shows HTC EVO 4G, goes black for a few seconds and then starts again. It has,
HBOOT 2.10.0001
RADIO 2.15.00.11.19
I have tried flashing a PC36img.zip from the sd card and I ran RUU image version 3.70.651.1, via USB cable which went through the entire process. The RUU says, Congratulations. Your ROM update has been completed. Your phone is now ready for use. At which time it goes straight back into bootloop.
The second phone has a black screen with htc in the middle and a triangle in each corner, it just sits in this state. It has,
HBOOT 2.16.0001
RADIO 2.15.00.85.02
When i run the RUU, it says if the phone has the 4 triangles, it means the RUU failed and rerun the RUU, which I have done with the same result.
I'm figuring I messed up something deeper than the RUU fixes, I realize i got way out of my depth on these 2 phones, the shift went so easily, I thought these would be the same.
I have read many forums and tried everything that has been suggested, with no positive results, any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I have and HTC evo and I tried to root it following the guide i found at gizmodo that claimed to be idiot proof, but apparently its not. I followed all the steps exactly as it said but after step 22 i could not reboot my phone to normal.
when i boot it using the power button, it gets stuck on the white screen that says htc evo 4G, but doesnt go any further no matter how long I wait.
I can still get into the boot menu. I ran the PC36IMG.zip and i came back with three errors. it bypassed the bootloader, it came back with Fail-PU on the Radio_V2, it skipped the first TP and after sometime Bypassed the second. Also, at the bottom it displayed the message: Partition update fail! Update Fail!
After this, when i try to reboot, it brings me back to the same white screen displaying htc evo 4G.
please help as much as possible, i really need my phone for work and school as soon as possible.
-thanks in advance
Ok guys here's the deal:
I had MIUI 1.9.9 v2 up and running for a little while and noticed the new Ace hack kit out. I have no idea what posessed me to run the hack kit on my phone, which is already rooted with s-off, but I did anyway. All seemed well, in my dementia, until I was stuck in a boot loop on the white htc screen.
I accessed the bootloader with volume down + power. It was all good, save for the P98.img being read with an error or some jargon. The kicker is that when I try to access recovery, the phone goes black with an image of a small phone and a red waning triangle in the center.
I have no clue what to do. I've read of crazy recovery operations being done using the ".img" files on other HTC phones, like the EVO 4g, but see nothing of the like in the Inspire forums. What do I do?
I am lost, and I would appreciate some help.Much thanks.
First try pulling the battery out and booting the phone back up after it is back in. You can always go to Attn1's IRC channel to get help. The link is in his signature. Also try to get that PD98IMG file off of your sd card since it may cause you problems later on.
I had this happen to me....like Wolf said try pulling your battery and also I pulled my sd card and took PD98img of your card and rebooted it help me out.
hi,
Ive recently rooted my phone with no problems using the ace hack kit. i tried flashing the newest andriod revolution hd rom and was having problems with the superuser app force closing and the phone wasnt giving me root privledges. i decided to try and reroot the phone using the ace hack kit. (i realize this was my mistake). it stopped in the middle of the process. so i had to pull the battery. when i tried turning the phone back on the screen was black for about 6 or 7 mins. no vibrations or leds to indicate the phone was on. then the htc white screen comes on and the phone vibrates for 2 or 3 minutes straight and proceeds to come on. Ive tried to flash other roms using cwm recovery and itll load what ever rom i choose but i cant get into the hboot or anything and it does the the black screen everytime along with the vibration. is there anyway to fix this? ive tried over and over to boot into recovery through usb but it doesnt work.
so ive done a little research, could this be a eMMC problem? if so is it fixable... And if not would replacing the hboot help?
You've got a bad or corrupt hboot. The wrong hboot (ENG hboot included in a short-lived version of the hack kit on the newest run of Inspires) or a corrupt hboot from an interrupted hack kit run.
Thanks for the help. I tried replacing the eng hboot with the link provided on freenode and it work.
After a failed attempt at running the ace hack kit (could only get into hboot), and an ever worse failed attempt at restoring to a stock rom (my stupid mistake), I am seeing the same signature as jbryancs.
Would you share the link and instructions for replacing the hboot? Any assistance is much appreciated.
wleven said:
After a failed attempt at running the ace hack kit (could only get into hboot), and an ever worse failed attempt at restoring to a stock rom (my stupid mistake), I am seeing the same signature as jbryancs.
Would you share the link and instructions for replacing the hboot? Any assistance is much appreciated.
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really? so jumping into the IRC channel is not your best move as instructed to the OP?
I was hoping not to disturb the IRC, but I will jump in tomorrow. Just for background, here's a rough list of what I've done and what I'm seeing now.
Setup: Linux Mint 11 (Ubuntu Derivative) Clean Install for ACE Hack Kit, WinXP for the rest.
1. Ran ACE Hack Kit first time -> stalled early in process
2. Rebooted phone and everything appeared normal
3. Rac ACE Hack Kit second time -> completed process, but noticed some errors/warnings along the way
4. Rebooted phone and it would be stuck at the white HTC logo screen
5. Rebooted to hboot, but none of the options there would restore the phone.
6. Downloaded original ACE firmware and copied ZIP to SD card. It recognized this and performed install, in all appearances successfully until the reboot.
7. On reboot, the phone appeared completely dead. Later discovered that it would spring to life after ~7mins, vibrate 2-3 min, and then boot into Froyo
Phase II
1. Downloaded gingerbread RUU from HTC and ran it. Gets stuck on "Waiting for bootloader"
2. Thought perhaps hboot was corrupted, so ran instructions here "wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Ace:_Rooting_%26_CyanogenMod" to install hboot-eng and clockworkmod
3. This did not fix the booting (still wait 7mins, vibrate 2-3), but I do have root now, as verified through su root on the phone's terminal console.
4. Tried the RUU again, stuck on "Waiting for bootloader"
5. Noticed that if I had the phone USB connected to the PC when power cycling, it would come to a black HTC screen after about 7mins. In this mode, the phone seems to connect in Android bootloader interface.
6. Tried the RUU again, and this time it makes it past "Waiting for bootloader", but hangs (no error message) on "Sending". I've left it for nearly an hour with no change -- just keeps showing the black HTC screen.
I still can't get the phone into HBOOT (using the volume down + power method).
Hello,
Could someone tell me if there's an enclosure or a solution to this problem?
I've searched a few forums, and it appear to me that the conclusion is the old (ENG) HBOOT is incompatible with newer hardware.
Thanks.
hchao said:
Hello,
Could someone tell me if there's an enclosure or a solution to this problem?
I've searched a few forums, and it appear to me that the conclusion is the old (ENG) HBOOT is incompatible with newer hardware.
Thanks.
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You will have to flash the original RUU again and then try to root the cell with the Hack Kit. You can find the original RUU in the general section or go to the htc site and just run the .exe update from fastboot. Let your cell reboot (it will take about 30 minutes) and then flash it.
jbryancs said:
hi,
Ive recently rooted my phone with no problems using the ace hack kit. i tried flashing the newest andriod revolution hd rom and was having problems with the superuser app force closing and the phone wasnt giving me root privledges. i decided to try and reroot the phone using the ace hack kit. (i realize this was my mistake). it stopped in the middle of the process. so i had to pull the battery. when i tried turning the phone back on the screen was black for about 6 or 7 mins. no vibrations or leds to indicate the phone was on. then the htc white screen comes on and the phone vibrates for 2 or 3 minutes straight and proceeds to come on. Ive tried to flash other roms using cwm recovery and itll load what ever rom i choose but i cant get into the hboot or anything and it does the the black screen everytime along with the vibration. is there anyway to fix this? ive tried over and over to boot into recovery through usb but it doesnt work.
so ive done a little research, could this be a eMMC problem? if so is it fixable... And if not would replacing the hboot help?
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I am having this same problem I have searched and searched and this post was the only one that had the same issue could someone please help me out on this and post the fix. Thanks
Has bought from the USA of HTC Inspite 4g (AT&T). Wanted to receive Root, S-OFF, Rom manager with ClockworkMod. Has started to do to change an insertion. Has received goldcard. After an overload phone has started to change an insertion. This process proceeded 2 hours (in the end of process there was a black screen). I have decided to overload phone. Has stopped process. After that problems have begun. Root, S-OFF, Clockworkmod I have received. But after reboot of phone it does not work about 10 minutes. 5 minutes at it absolutely black screen, then the white screen with an inscription of HTC simultaneously work 3 minutes the motor, loading of 2 minutes then begins. Process of switching-on or reboot of phone proceeds 10 minutes. Tried to replace an insertion once again. After that changes nothing. Did before setting of an insertion full surep wipe. It has not helped. I still have a problem. I want to enter into engineering menu HBOOT. I push down+power. I wait for 5 minutes (phone so is overloaded). I enter in HBOOT, but thus buttons (volume up and down, power) any more do not work. As to me to receive normal phone. I can not HBOOT make in it recovery. Where to me to take for HTC INspire 4G (AT&T) PD98IMG.zip. Also help me with the instruction. How to apply this file in RECOVERY.
I'm having a hard time with your English (or is it just fed into google translate?).
It looks like you installed the ENG hboot on a later model device that is incompatible.
You need to get it to boot (it will eventually) and put the newer hboot back on it. You can do this through ADB from a console. Here are the instructions:
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/495273/
@ Gene Poole
I had a hard time with his English too, but I understand exactly what he is saying because I did the same thing. I will try to re-explain it and hopefully someone can help us out.
In a nutshell, it sounds like we both flashed an Engineering HBoot starting with a stock US ATT Inspire 4G that came with Gingerbread. Specifically, what I did was I followed a guide on Cyanogenmod's wiki for the Inspire 4G which gave direction to downgrade to Froyo, root, and setup to use eng hboot. This apparently was a huge mistake. After the downgrade, when rebooting or powering on the phone, nothing would happen for a long time (black screen for 5 - 10 minutes, i.e. phone was off), then, screen would turn on with white background and HTC logo and phone would vibrate non-stop for several minutes, and eventually, phone would turn on. After the downgrade and making it to the home screen, I copied CM7 zip on to the SD card and rebooted into recovery via adb. Same exact weird process happened with phone being off for several minutes, then vibrating, then eventually i made it to cwm recovery. After installing CM7 and rebooting, same crazy startup process and made it into CM7 home screen.
I was hoping once CM7 was installed that the crazy startup process would disappear but it didn't. I saw afterwards in a CM forum that this happened to someone else and they had asked if the wiki could be updated to point to the Ace hack kit guide to rooting the Inspire 4g (which mentions that eng hboot shouldn't be used with the phone I had as configured). I then rebooted into bootloader via adb and after crazy startup and fastboot did not work at all (fastboot devices returned nothing). Further still, no buttons work in hboot at all (Vol Up, Vol Down, Power).
At this point, I could still get into the phone, but I wanted to try to undo everything I did and start over using the Ace hack kit. I then tried to use the Ace hack kit to unroot the phone by using the ATT GB RUU. The process seemed to go pretty far, but after a reboot, the phone never came back, and that's where I am currently. If I start the phone, it does crazy startup but never fully boots...stays on white HTC screen forever...which means I can't use adb (to my knowledge). I was able to get to hboot by putting elastics around volume down button and waiting a very long time, but it looks like hboot is still the eng hboot because none of the buttons work and I can't use fastboot. I was hoping that as part of RUU flashing that hboot would be restored to original one. I put the RUU (PD98IMG.img) on SD card, but again I can't get to it because buttons don't work.
So, it sounds like spv4 above is in a very similar boat. I have no idea what else to try. Only thing I can think of is if it's possible to somehow modify an RUU to start automatically when getting to hboot without any user input.
If anyone has any suggestions, I am more than willing to try anything. Thanks very much.
EDIT: So, as I was typing this post earlier, I had been "sitting" in hboot the whole time. When I was done, I looked at phone and PD98IMG.zip was been applied to phone automatically! Don't know if this was common knowledge or not, but everything updated OK. When it was done, hitting the power button to reboot didn't work, but I just removed battery and when putting it back in, phone booted normally back to what looks like stock RUU. Hopefully this info helps someone else.
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@ Gene Poole
EDIT: So, as I was typing this post earlier, I had been "sitting" in hboot the whole time. When I was done, I looked at phone and PD98IMG.zip was been applied to phone automatically! Don't know if this was common knowledge or not, but everything updated OK. When it was done, hitting the power button to reboot didn't work, but I just removed battery and when putting it back in, phone booted normally back to what looks like stock RUU. Hopefully this info helps someone else.
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Great! Glad you got it back, but you could have saved a lot of time.
The main problem is that the ENG hboot (or pre-GB hboots) doesn't recognize something in the hardware of the new phones. The end result is that the hboot runs at about 50x slower. It eventually gets booted, and once booted to an OS (either the main OS or the recovery OS) it runs fine since hboot has exited and passed control to the OS. So anytime hboot is in control, things crawl at a snail's pace.
Because the OS runs fine and hboot has exited, it is possible to overwrite the hboot partition from the booted OS. That's what you are doing in the instructions that I posted a few posts back. Once the correct hboot is installed, all is fine.
I agree that someone needs to update the cyanogenmod wiki. It's way out of date.
I'm currently experiencing the same problem.
I followed the instructions on how to downgrade using a goldcard, successfully rooted and i also flashed TrickDroid on it, but every time i turn the device on i have to hold the power button for 20 seconds and wait 10 minutes till the HTC logo appears, then it takes 2 minutes vibrating and i seriously can't deal with this.
can you please tell me how to fix this?
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I'm currently experiencing the same problem.
I followed the instructions on how to downgrade using a goldcard, successfully rooted and i also flashed TrickDroid on it, but every time i turn the device on i have to hold the power button for 20 seconds and wait 10 minutes till the HTC logo appears, then it takes 2 minutes vibrating and i seriously can't deal with this.
can you please tell me how to fix this?
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Find the fix in the guide in my signature....you need to have basic knowledge of adb commands. If you need further help just let me know. :good:
Moved to Q & A section.
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not rooted, htc inspire 4g, s-on, partially used aakh hack kit...
dont think anything has been flashed yet and couldnt boot into clockworkmod...
2.3.5 please help me asap.
i used aakh to try to root my phone, didnt work...
i saw another methood that involve using the hack kit to install that version of clockworkmod. (that seemed to work.) then i used another hack tool (warp drive?) that was origanally used for a different phone.
(video is on youtube, {hacking the htc insire 4g 2.3.5} the guy has two vids of the same thing, one is a remake)
i got to the end and kept getting the red triangle and could not proceed.
now the day after, that night my phone was running slow, i noticed that the vol down wasnt responding and the phone was running very slow. i restarted the phone, (no shutdown option)
it instantly rebooted to the hboot menu (2 seconds if that after it was off) and says "*** LOCKED ***" at the top
i can not scroll with the vol up, down, and it only does anything when i have the sd card inserted before starting hboot.
pulled out the battery... and all that stuff, it still instantly boots to the hboot screen.
it tries to find several extensions of PD98IMG on the sd card.
says "no image!" for the first few. obviously because it insnt there to load.
then it gets to the .zip exention, says loading, then checking, then it says
model id incorrect!
update failed!
press <POWER> to reboot.
is it trying to flash someting now? my phone is s-on not rooted, 2.3.5 gingerbread i guess
is there another zip file i can download to replace the PD98IMG.zip?
(i already tried to download one but im having hell getting the file from my computer to my phone, [using a galaxy note II to try and transfer, not being user friendly])
do i need to have a gold card, ( idk if it is already a gold card or not, but it most likely didnt happen yet)
is there a way to get root from this point, if not im not too worried about it i just need to fix my phone.
please help, asap my dad is about to take it to at&t and if they do anything to it i dont want them to erase my other memory card or factory reset because someone is an idiot.
guys i know that's a lot of info im just trying to answer questions before they are asked to get the problem solved a little bit faster...
any ideas would be wonderful.