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problem while flashing first ROM

So I got around to rooting my Inspire 4G this morning using the one-click method, and I am about to flash my first ROM. I downloaded the MIUI ROM and added it to the root folder on the flash drive. At first I tried booting into recovery by pressing the vol down button and power, and it boots to h-boot but at first the buttons dont do anything (it wont scroll down when I press the volume up or down button) then it starts to search for PD98IMG.zip like it did when I was rooting. So I removed the battery and started up the phone, and removed PD98IMG.zip from the SD Card root. turned the phone back off and rebooted into H-Boot menu. And again it started looking for PM98IMG.zip but when it couldnt find the file, it went back to the H-Boot menu, so I scrolled down to "recovery" and hit the power button to select. Once I hit the power button I get a white screen that says "HTC" in green, the screen just fades away and turns black, there it stays, does nothing.
Where do I go from here??????

First post in the right place and second go read the general sticky
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Im not sure why you deleted the zip file and or pulled the bat in hboot. However your gonna wanna go back into hboot and factory default your phone.
From there you will want to read the one click method or perform the root with the hack kit
Drew
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edit: heres a good thread that walks you through both methods
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1033353

drewdatrip said:
Im not sure why you deleted the zip file and or pulled the bat in hboot. However your gonna wanna go back into hboot and factory default your phone.
From there you will want to read the one click method or perform the root with the hack kit
Drew
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edit: heres a good thread that walks you through both methods
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1033353
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I took the battery out because the phone was not doing anything. The screen also goes blank when I try to select factory default on the H-Boot screen.
I guess I will try to go back to stock using the guide in the thread

Ok so I am confused.
I just went back and repeated the whole process of the one-click root. When I go to flash a ROM on the phone, do I need to format my SD card before I go to flash a ROM? What specifically do I need to do in between rooting the phone and going to flash the ROM?
When I go into the ROM manager and try to reboot into recovery from the ROM Manager, the phone shuts off, reboots, shows a white screen that says "HTC" in green, then then screen fades away and turns blank and stays there.
when I go into the one-click rooting program, and try to go through the Eng S-OFF tool to see if it will fix the black screen it gives me an error that says "bootloader corrupt"

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acidburn2k2 said:
So I got around to rooting my Inspire 4G this morning using the one-click method, and I am about to flash my first ROM. I downloaded the MIUI ROM and added it to the root folder on the flash drive. At first I tried booting into recovery by pressing the vol down button and power, and it boots to h-boot but at first the buttons dont do anything (it wont scroll down when I press the volume up or down button) then it starts to search for PD98IMG.zip like it did when I was rooting. So I removed the battery and started up the phone, and removed PD98IMG.zip from the SD Card root. turned the phone back off and rebooted into H-Boot menu. And again it started looking for PM98IMG.zip but when it couldnt find the file, it went back to the H-Boot menu, so I scrolled down to "recovery" and hit the power button to select. Once I hit the power button I get a white screen that says "HTC" in green, the screen just fades away and turns black, there it stays, does nothing.
Where do I go from here??????
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acidburn2k2 said:
Ok so I am confused.
I just went back and repeated the whole process of the one-click root. When I go to flash a ROM on the phone, do I need to format my SD card before I go to flash a ROM? What specifically do I need to do in between rooting the phone and going to flash the ROM?
When I go into the ROM manager and try to reboot into recovery from the ROM Manager, the phone shuts off, reboots, shows a white screen that says "HTC" in green, then then screen fades away and turns blank and stays there.
when I go into the one-click rooting program, and try to go through the Eng S-OFF tool to see if it will fix the black screen it gives me an error that says "bootloader corrupt"
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have a look at this thread here --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1019868 maybe it can help with the issues you are having

[Q] G2x stuck in "S/W Upgrade" screen after NVflasher One Click

My phone is currently sitting with a "S/W upgrade" screen after a series of stupid events. I flashed recovery using ROM Manager before I had read that it fake flashed. I rebooted into recovery and installed CM7 nightly. Rebooted and it's stuck in a boot loop. So I finally see all the warnings against that so I figure I need to get a real recovery so I use the awesome guide from TGA_Gunnman. I follow all the instructions and it appears from the log on my PC that the CM recovery flashed successfully. I pull the cord, reinsert my battery and my phone just sits in the S/W upgrade screen. It's been like that for 30 minutes now.
What do I do?

I thought I'd done something wrong with my G2x because that happened to me too. Remove your battery and USB. Then insert your battery again. When you turn it on, make sure to hold both the power button and the volume down button until you see text that says android. If you, like me, thought you just had to hold the volume down and tap the power button (like my Nexus One), that might be your issue.
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just disconnect usb, and go to recovery Power+vol down...
.....and congrats !

yep, I thought I bricked it too.. When you were done at the green screen where it said press any button, thats where you press whatever you want and then unplug the cord. Then, put the battery back in and hold down vol then power, don't let go until "android" pops up.. You did it man, just missing your last step..

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I can get to the Recovery screen, but I cant select any of the options....volume lets me scroll, but cant find anything to select any of the options....kinda new at this

power button to 'action' your selection... at least it works for me.

usajlh said:
My phone is currently sitting with a "S/W upgrade" screen after a series of stupid events. I flashed recovery using ROM Manager before I had read that it fake flashed. I rebooted into recovery and installed CM7 nightly. Rebooted and it's stuck in a boot loop. So I finally see all the warnings against that so I figure I need to get a real recovery so I use the awesome guide from TGA_Gunnman. I follow all the instructions and it appears from the log on my PC that the CM recovery flashed successfully. I pull the cord, reinsert my battery and my phone just sits in the S/W upgrade screen. It's been like that for 30 minutes now.
What do I do?
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The "S/W upgrade" stays on, that's normal. See if your terminal window has completed whatever stuff it is doing. If you get a completed message, you are good to go and can safely pull out the USB chord even if your phone still says "S/W upgrade". Put back your battery and hold Power+Vol DOWN button and see if you get into cmw recovery.

so im trying to fix my friends phone and this is weird..
im able to go to cwm, wipe it all and flash a new rom.. it flashess successfully but when i reboot it goes back to the s/w update screen..it happens with any rom i flash.. its been sitting there for a while.. how long should i wait?

Once you flash the ROM you shouldn't be getting that screen...Does your friend has the G2x or 2x and which ROM did you flash?

Sounds like you screwed up the boot image. Go into APX mode again and reflash the recovery package making sure it completes, you hit a key to close the terminal window, and you hold the volume buttons the entire time. Then go into recovery and factory reset and clear the Dalvik cache. Then if you still get the S/W update screen you are going to need to go to the thread about fixing bricked phones and use the KDZ method to reflash the entire GB OTA package. There is also a new method to reinstall the entire OTA package using NVFlash but you have to hold the volume buttons down for about ten to fifteen minutes while everything flashes.

Phone wont boot

I seem to be having an issue with my phone. I'm still a noob, so bare with me. I used the HTC Dev tool to unlock my phone. Then I used the flashboot boot boot.img command to try to install a rom. The phone reset on its own and booted to the splash screen and then a black screen. I let it sit for 5 mins and then pulled the battery and put it back in and booted into bootloader and then into recovery. Tried to run cwm but it wouldn't find the rom to flash. Took the card out it put it into another phone and it said it was bad. Got a new card and tried from beginning but not getting any farther. In CMW I can select any of the options and it just goes to to the circle screen. Wont wipe the phone, wont reboot the phone, nothing. If I try to let it boot without going into the bootloader I get the splash screen and then the black screen. Thanks in advance for your help!

Not sure what version of CWM you are using. But normally if you see the circle with the hat, you are pushing the wrong button on the phone to select the items. If I remember it's either the power button or camera button.

Thanks!
txmtb said:
Not sure what version of CWM you are using. But normally if you see the circle with the hat, you are pushing the wrong button on the phone to select the items. If I remember it's either the power button or camera button.
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Wow, don't I feel dumb! Yeah, I was hitting the power button to select and it is the trackpad that I should have been pressing. Thanks for the help!

Stuck in black screen

I flashed roms constantly so im aware of the process. So i was going to flash blissdroid since i was bored of aospx ics. Did the routine of wiping everything of partition and dalvik cache and installed it. Reboot it and waited for more than 15 mins (phone was extremely hot) and still stuck on the htc screen so i decided to remove battery and try to get to 4ext. Press the power button and down(hoping it would go to 4extrecovery) and it booted the ace kit. Try to scroll down with the volume to go to recovery but it wouldt let me scroll. After some seconds its started automatically looking for the pd98img and realized some process until it finish. Tried to power it up again and the htc screen appears, then the screen goes black. I dont really know what went wrong when flashing. How can i go to 4xt? Any suggestions?
EDIT: Deleted the pd98img and it let me select recovery. Closed it.

[Q] boots with half screen boot image and cant get to CWM recovery mode WHY?

im using a tmobile samsung galaxy reverb and i installed cwm and a new rom. all was good till i installed rom toolbox and i was using the boot animation randomizer. it worked fine the first reboot then the next one the boot image never left the screen but i can rotate my screen and see half of my home screen also go into all my apps but i cannot see the upper/left half of my screen. i held down the power and vol down button and it goes to into the warning page about istalling a custom OS instead of CWM. can anybody please help me out with this???!!!

Is I'm not mistaken.. You want to power off your device. Then press power, home, and volume up to get to recovery.. (Not sure about home). I do know that volume down sends you to "download" which is not what you want.
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