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[Q] Rooting and Custom Rom Problem.

I just rooted my phone using Ace-Hack, everything was fine and dandy until I tried putting a custom rom on.
Everything was going smoothly, until I went to re-boot my phone. hearing from friends that it takes a little while before the phone fully re-boots. I let it sit awhile... after about 10 minutes I got a little worried. After 20 I got really worried.
Now it just sits there and plays the booting animation over and over and over.
Anyone have any advice?

Boot into recovery, wipe everything, try again.
recovery = Volume down and power button.

By try again, he means reflash the rom after wiping. Don't just wipe and try to boot the phone again.
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Also the famous pd98img file on the sd card that gives a lot of.issues
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Same thing happened to me when I tried installing my first ROM. Got stuck in a boot loop so I pulled the battery, booted into recovery, did a full wipe and re-flashed the .zip of the ROM. Worked perfect the second go around and haven't had an issue since.
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Also their is like 5 if not more post/ threads that are related to this issue
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1398598
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397729
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1305326
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1070323
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1390146
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If you are still having problems, look in the ace hack thread and click on the irc link and you will get all the help u need.
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fernandezhjr said:
By try again, he means reflash the rom after wiping. Don't just wipe and try to boot the phone again.
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^^What he said.^^

Hey there i have inspre4g......i'm running android revolution v.7 and loving it.Mike did a suppurb job...and the ace hack kit is great....
it's a one step kit.....but you gotta read the manual....turn off all anti virus or mal ware and also uninstall any motorola ..htc (ex....kies)....apple programs
search for the advanced ace hack kit ......it has links to everything needed on the post.......
plus if you do mess up you can take your inspire back to stock through it and start over.......it does a lot of stuff so be patient......
................not sure if i helped but any other questions.......email me ....ill get back to you faster..... [email protected]
best of luck......
link to advanced hack kit.....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=952352
and after you do the hack and it completes.......and reboots......reboot agian...
then do your regular routine with setup......then do the superuser......then if you dont have rom manager......go to market and get rom manager and install it.....it will crank up........it will give you some info......ok it.....flash the clock work mod recovery(i prfer touch.....its a further down).....before it stops downloading near the end it should ask for superuser........ok it.......if you download a mod through it......it will basically handle itself......just pay attention......if you download through xda....or someplace....
easiest way......reboot to recovery using rom manager........
goto advanced options
davlvik clear
when finished......click go back.....
goto factory wipe.......click
when finished .....goto install zip from sd card
then got to choose zip from sd card
then choose the zip of custom rom you put on sd card.....
then install zip from sd card......
Some people find it easyier to just connect to pc and put the zip in the main sd card folder........it must be a zip......dont un compress or anything...
hope this helps.........let me know....

Skyrocket ICS Flash Problem

I don't know where else to turn here. I don't have enough posts to reply to the actual thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1570498
I followed the instructions there, I previously had SkyICS 9.4 on my Skyrocket. Since installing those instructions, I can't boot or do anything else. When I turn my phone on, the Samsung logo pops up for a second, disappears, pops up again, goes to ANDROID logo for a few seconds, then repeats that process or turns off. I can't seem to get to any kind of recovery mode.
I just want to know it's not bricked...
Anyways, if anyone could give me any insight at all, it would be extremely appreciated. If I was too vague in a particular area just ask and I'll answer. I'm not very knowledgeable on this subject.
Thanks for any help.

Did you flash darkside superwipe ?
Oh. And your not bricked yet!
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hcyplr29 said:
Did you flash darkside superwipe ?
Oh. And your not bricked yet!
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No, I read somewhere that I might not need to do that (different site) and I didn't know what it was.
So what do I do now?

You fall into this category. If you don't agree thats ok..
TAKEN FROM THE OP........
[*]The only people who have a hard time flashing are Gingerbread users. Its hit or miss. I dont know what else to do. Most people who cant flash find that Darkside SuperWIPE fixes it and the ROM will flash! (DONT FORGET put on your sdcard before your WIPE)
Whenever I get into a pickle, this is what I do. That script is a game changer .
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hcyplr29 said:
You fall into this category. If you don't agree thats ok..
TAKEN FROM THE OP........
[*]The only people who have a hard time flashing are Gingerbread users. Its hit or miss. I dont know what else to do. Most people who cant flash find that Darkside SuperWIPE fixes it and the ROM will flash! (DONT FORGET put on your sdcard before your WIPE)
Whenever I get into a pickle, this is what I do. That script is a game changer .
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I'm not saying I don't agree with you, you undoubtedly know much more than I. My question is what is my best course of action now? Should I take my MicroSD card out, put the program on it, and put it back in my phone? Would that even help, as I can't get to any kind of boot screen anyways or way to use the software if it were on my phone?

Your phone is still fine.
All you need to do is pull your battery. Now, hold Vol up and down while you put it back in/turn the phone on until the first samsung logo appears. Then let go. This will get you into recovery.
From there, you should be able to wipe data. You can also mount the external SD while in recovery and add Darkside wipe, then unmount and run it from the root menu.
After that, things should be fine to re-flash the ROM

Ok I feel a lot better now, that worked. I'm back to ClockworkMod. Gonna start over with DarkSide. Thank you!
[Edit: Everything worked from there on out, ICS is installed now and has booted fine. Thanks again!]

Only starts in Recovery Mode - HELP!

Please Help!
I was installing a ROM on my Inspire 4G from ClockworkMode Recovery, but the problem is that after having installed, the phone does not start the ROM, just enter on the Recovery, and I go back to reboot and return to Recovery and I can start my phone.
Any ideas?

Could be a bad flash, try first wiping and flash again. Or a bad download, download with a PC and save it to your and card flash again. What ROM are you trying to flash?
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Johnn_ares said:
Could be a bad flash, try wiping on flash again. Or a bad download, download with a PC and save it to your ad card flash again. What ROM are you trying to flash?
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I was trying to flash Android Revolution 6.3.2, I tried 5 times and nothing.. Cant start my phone... I do not think it was a bad download because it was installed and I have the files on my pc, but I changed my ROM and wanted to install it again.

Do you have a Old back up you could try? are you wiping? Have you tried a different ROM? I'm just trying to get all the info, there is a issue with your boot setup not setting up
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Johnn_ares said:
Do you have a Old back up you could try? are you wiping? Have you tried a different ROM? I'm just trying to get all the info, there is a issue with your boot setup not setting up
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a few days ago I had a problem with my bootloader it took about 20min to start But I could solve it with this method:
"Managed to solve the delay after booting by Following These steps:
download http://tinyurl.com/6fkvepx
unzip-HBFX.zip PD98IMG
installer using busybox
turn on usb debugging
adb push hboot.nb0 / data/local/tmp/hboot.nb0
adb shell
md5sum / data/local/tmp/hboot.nb0
dd if = / data/local/tmp/hboot.nb0 of = / dev/block/mmcblk0p18
md5sum / dev/block/mmcblk0p18
exit
adb reboot "
That might damaged in any way?
And yes, i`m wiping.

I don't think so; everything you pushed should be formatted when you wipe and overwritten when you install. I don't want to say it but you could have a bootloader issue and reverting to stock and doing all that might help but that seems a little to drastic. If you jump on the IRC with the hack kit they might be able to tell you how to flash your bootloader over without a complete revert and the devs on the collective's Palringo chat room may have some better options.
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Thinking about it a little more and reading your post again. I would look at flashing your bootloader again. I want to say it's as easy as loading a pm_img and flashing through hboot but double check with someone it's late but you should find someone on IRC
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Ok I'm now becoming something of little help. But before I go to bed, I had a similar problem on my sister in-law's phone and it was a bad SD card. Remove it and try booting without it.
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Johnn_ares said:
Ok I'm now becoming something of little help. But before I go to bed, I had a similar problem on my sister in-law's phone and it was a bad SD card. Remove it and try booting without it.
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Hey man thanks, finally i had to take antoher phone and put my sd card, and downloaded the official rom and renamed to "PD98IMG.zip" and start my phone on hboot and updated...
That`s the only way i find it to fix the problem, and from the IRC channel i had some help too..
Thanks!

I'm glad I was of some assistance, just pass it on when given the opportunity.
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[Q] Stuck in Clockwork

hello to all, i was given this phone by a friend cuz its stuck in CWM. im not new to android but i am to this phone( i have a G2x wich was easier by far to figure out). anyways after much searching in these forums i couldnt find anything to do with this problem so here it is.
I am stuck in CWM. i try to flash a rom( i have tried multiple times with different roms) and i get an error 7. does anyone one know what that means, and if so how do i fix it?
ive been trying to re root or revert to stock but adb must have been disabled and or debugging. any help would be awesome. for now ill keep searching and trying to get adb up and going...
i wonder if having lg drivers for my g2x on my comp would mess with adb....
any comments and or suggestions would be greatly appreciated

lmao your lucky your friend never heard of google, but I guess you haven't either haha. Anyway, you need to download a new rom and flash because the one on your sdcard is corrupt

Yup more than likely a bad download or possibly a corrupt partition of sdcard, reformat card, redownload rom, check md5sums
Nope having lg drivers won't effect this phone, but not having the right drivers for this phone is probably why adb doesn't work
Also the g2x is kinda fake rooting funky business, as you found this phone is much different. I would suggest booting into hboot and checking what bootloader you have and if the security flags are still on or not, can make a difference when flashing a rom.
Probably worth your while to read through the stickies and search the forum a bit too
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Lol. Seriously dude. I'm not a noob at flashing Roms. I have tried to flash at least 6 different Roms all ending up with error 7. I'm brand new to this phone so treat me like I need a step by step, but don't be condescending plz.
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demkantor said:
Yup more than likely a bad download or possibly a corrupt partition of sdcard, reformat card, redownload rom, check md5sums
Nope having lg drivers won't effect this phone, but not having the right drivers for this phone is probably why adb doesn't work
Also the g2x is kinda fake rooting funky business, as you found this phone is much different. I would suggest booting into hboot and checking what bootloader you have and if the security flags are still on or not, can make a difference when flashing a rom.
Probably worth your while to read through the stickies and search the forum a bit too
Im gonna have to read the stickies. im gonna have to read the whole forum....dont let the g2xers hear you say its fake flashing lol. first order of buisness is figuring out how to get into this hboot you speak of. everytime i trun the phone on it hits lg splash and then goes straight to cwm
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In my signature you'll see a "Mirrors" link. Go there and at the bottom of Post #1 you'll see HTCdrivers.exe. Grab them & load 'em up. ADB should work for you then. Then issue "adb reboot recovery" from a cmd line and when there go to "mounts & storage" & activate. Copy the ROM you want to your SD card while retaining your boot.img in your ADB folder. Wipe Dalvik twice. format cache & then factory reset. Format system then under "mounts & storage". After ROM has flashed from .zip in CWM leave it there and issue "fastboot flash boot boot.img" fom ADB. Reboot & let it settle. Should work.
Don't turn your phone on.....go to HBoot by holding volume down & power at the same time & bypass boot sequence..

I should also mention the reason why this phone is messed up like it is. It was rooted running a custom Roman and then the previous owner did and total. Is that gonna matter much?
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grantusmantus said:
I should also mention the reason why this phone is messed up like it is. It was rooted running a custom Roman and then the previous owner did and total. Is that gonna matter much?
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I don't think I understand.
---------- Post added at 11:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:07 PM ----------
Sounds like maybe he was flashing while unlocked with the kernel going in seperately. Your HBoot will tell you that if it says "S-On".
All that aside, XMC is right though. Somehow your ROM is corrupt.

Sorry my typing sucks. The previous owner did an OTA update. i try to get to hboot but it goes straight to cwm. downloaded the drivers from the link provided even...still no adb devices listed in the device manager or when i type in "adb devices" command. if i can get adb working i can get this all fixed, but ill be a raped ape if i knew what the hell happened to this phone.
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grantusmantus said:
Sorry my typing sucks. The previous owner did an OTA
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Thats where your issues are coming from then. You probably have the ....1313 bootloader with S-On. Reread all your responses here & it should get you there.

Well I wouldn't be the first to say that about the g2x, a friend of mine has one and I needed to root it for him, kinda laughed as I read through the forum on how everything is done there, not saying devs aren't talented just saying the phone is well... I don't know how to say it politely so I just won't
Boot into your bootloader and write down everything on that screen here so we can help, if you get adb running just type
adb reboot bootloader
If not power on while holding volume down and you'll get there
My guess is the phone is s-on and the bootloader was at one point unlocked, glad you still have a recovery though, I warned people about this type of stuff before... not to say that I warned you or your friend, just feels as if people believe me some times
Read last post on page 4 some info about your situation, hell skim the whole thread to understand a bit more about htc phones
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35743946
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WeekendsR2Short said:
In my signature you'll see a "Mirrors" link. Go there and at the bottom of Post #1 you'll see HTCdrivers.exe. Grab them & load 'em up. ADB should work for you then. Then issue "adb reboot recovery" from a cmd line and when there go to "mounts & storage" & activate. Copy the ROM you want to your SD card while retaining your boot.img in your ADB folder. Wipe Dalvik twice. format cache & then factory reset. Format system then under "mounts & storage". After ROM has flashed from .zip in CWM leave it there and issue "fastboot flash boot boot.img" fom ADB. Reboot & let it settle. Should work.
Don't turn your phone on.....go to HBoot by holding volume down & power at the same time & bypass boot sequence..
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got adb working...well, adb recognizes a device.....it give me no name just a string of numbers and letters
i followed your instructions to the T. got as far as flashing the rom...error 7 again(big suprise lol)after said error, flashing boot.img doesnt work terminal hangs at waiting for device.
In case your wondering what comes before the error 7....here is:
assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device)=="doubleshot"
E:Error in /sdcard/mikTouch.zip
(Status 7)

String of numbers is your phone, that's normal
Flashing boot.img is done through fastboot not adb, did you ever make it into your bootloader? It may help if you do and write down everything here.
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Your gonna laugh at me. Idk what happened, but cwm is gone now. Device isn't recognized by the computer.
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Pull your battery for 15 seconds then pop it back in. Then hold volume down + power & make sure your usb cord isn't plugged in or it will just start booting. That will take you to your bootloader. Write all that down the use volume down to navigate to the "recovey" option. Use power button to select it. From recovey's initial screen use trackpad to to get to the "install from .zip". Next screen select ".zip location" (or something like that). Trackpad down to the ROM.zip file & select. Install. After done...."fastboot flash boot boot.img" then reboot. Let it settle for 5 minutes.

grantusmantus said:
everytime i trun the phone on it hits lg splash and then goes straight to cwm
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You get an LG splash??? The MyTouch 4G Slide is made by HTC, not LG. If you get an LG splash, either you have a different MyTouch phone, or something is seriously wrong.

Fuzi0719 said:
You get an LG splash??? The MyTouch 4G Slide is made by HTC, not LG. If you get an LG splash, either you have a different MyTouch phone, or something is seriously wrong.
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Nice catch Fuzi! That passed right on over my head. Unless the guy before changed the splash screen this is a big UH-OH!!

Fuzi0719 said:
You get an LG splash??? The MyTouch 4G Slide is made by HTC, not LG. If you get an LG splash, either you have a different MyTouch phone, or something is seriously wrong.
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Wow didn't even see that!
Yeah if the phone you have in your hands is made by lg then that's your issue, you have a my touch q or something, this forum is for the HTC made mytouch 4 g slide. If this is the case it makes a whole lot of sense your errors when flashing, not being able to get into bootloader, etc.
The old good news would be you probably didn't brake anything, just find the right forum, put it into download mode and restore with some kinda lg stock thing.
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Lmao. Sorry guys,i wish this was my phone, you guys have a really great community and I was happy to be part of it for the night.
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grantusmantus said:
Lmao. Sorry guys,i wish this was my phone, you guys have a really great community and I was happy to be part of it for the night.
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[Q] Not getting past HTC screen

I looked around and didn't see a solution to my problem. I might have missed it because I'm kind of panicked right now.
My HOXL was dying really fast. Within a few hours, it falls from 80% to 0%. I wanted to factory reset because I heard that it helps the battery life.
So I followed the process I always have (I'm unlocked, rooted, and had pacman's evita ROM installed) and did a factory reset, wiped cache and dalvik cache. Then I re-flashed pacman's ROM and the gapps. When I rebooted though, it went to the HTC screen and in a few seconds it just went black. I think it might have still been on or something, but nothing was happening for like 30 minutes. I tried it over and over again, flashing new ROMs and kernels, but now all that's happening is that it's stuck on that very first HTC screen.
I downloaded the latest JB RUU for evita to try it out. But if I can't get past that first screen, is there a way to connect it? I can still get into TWRP's recovery. My HBoot is 1.09. I'm really starting to feel nervous about having to buy a new phone, yet I feel like there should be a way to fix this. Could flashing the stock kernel be all I need? I tried to download from Viper's hub, but the download just stops at 99% and doesn't finish.
Please, I would really, really appreciate any help!

I would run the 3.18 RUU (which you can do in fastboot).

Try a complete wipe: Factory reset, system, cache and dalvik cache in twrp or if it is not wiping correctly due to twrp version " 2.3......" is best fro our phones, try downloading and installing twrp again or use adb commands to wipe and flash rom again.

I've tried a complete wipe, but I just noticed that my TWRP version is 2.2.0. I tried the wipe like five or more times and it didn't work. My PC isn't reading the HOXL in the adb command window. I rooted a Sero Pro 7 this way, so I think I should have the drivers installed for it... I'm going to try installing the HTC Sync drivers and seeing if I can send adb commands to my HOXL. If this doesn't work, I'm going to try the 3.18 RUU. I heard that some people have bricked their HOXL completely doing this, but I didn't change my SuperCID and s-on (?), so would I be fine? Or would it be safer to just use the latest ICS one (RUU_EVITA_UL_ICS_40_S_Cingular_US_2.20.502.7_Radio _0.19as.32.09.11_2_10.105.32.25L_release_271865_si gned.exe)?

So you have no way to flash boot image separately? I would definitely try to get device recognition so adb can be used before running ruu.
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Yeah, I went through the noob way of unlocking and rooting this phone, so there was no need to use adb commands. I would have liked to try that first before running RUU, but I just want to have a working phone again, even if I have to go through the whole process of unlocking and rooting.
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I would still try to get a good adb environment. Sometimes panic is not a good thing. Just be careful and make sure you get the proper ruu and do not let the battery die while running it. Let me know if it works.
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Venomtester said:
I would still try to get a good adb environment. Sometimes panic is not a good thing. Just be careful and make sure you get the proper ruu and do not let the battery die while running it. Let me know if it works.
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This is what I'm worried about:
SERooted wrote: Note to OP: You really should add to the 1st post that it is not wise to flash the 3.18 firmware over super cid and s-on.. its not a good thing for most people to have a qhsb_dload turn their phone into a paper weight before finding out that they shouldn't have used that file to begin with. i had to find out the hard way. i would have flashed the ics firmware on my phone but decided to go with the big JB only to find out that it turns it into a paperweight. I understand this is no fault but my own, however this would greatly help people when choosing which ruu to run.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2191477

I know what you mean lol. I would only do that as a last resort. I would try and get adb working since the phone is not bricked. It just seems to have no Rom or boot image. Have you tried one with an aroma installer?
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Venomtester said:
I know what you mean lol. I would only do that as a last resort. I would try and get adb working since the phone is not bricked. It just seems to have no Rom or boot image. Have you tried one with an aroma installer?
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Huh...I just tried flashing the UrDroid ROM because of its aroma installer, but it didn't happen in recovery, like I thought it would. It said it was successful, so I rebooted the system. It got past the initial screen with an AT&T boot img and htc one img. Now I'll have to see if it actually loads past this.
EDIT: It worked! I'm going to have to try to see if I can load boot img some other way than just an aroma installer.

You can use Flash GUI from the market to install boot images or get Goo Manager to install a 2.3..... Version of twrp. That may solve your problems.
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Venomtester said:
You can use Flash GUI from the market to install boot images or get Goo Manager to install a 2.3..... Version of twrp. That may solve your problems.
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Second Flash GUI....works like a charm