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Custom rom question.

I recently unlocked my bootloader and rooted my phone leaving s-on cos of my hboot being 2.0002 or whatever. And need a step by step to installing a custom rom with s-on. I have installed cwm recovery but cannot access it. I spent 4 hours searching on Saturday, can some kind person explain how to do it?
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Put the ROM in SDcard. Turn off fastboot and switch your phone off. Then, hold Vol down button and without releasing it, press and hold power button. Hold till you see a white screen, You'll be in Bottloader mode. Press Vol down to highlight RECOVERY and press power to enter recovery. You'll be in CWM (if you flashed it correctly)
In CWM,
Backup your current (stock) ROM in Backup and restore > Backup. It's not necesary, but recommended, as you may want to come back later
Go to Wipe/Format
Wipe Cache
Wipe Dalvik Cache
Format System
Format Data
Wipe Data/Factory Reset
Then, go back and select Install ZIP from SD Card > Choose ZIP from SD Card and choose your ROM. The ROM is flashed.
Since you are hboot 2.00.002, you have to go through an additional step after that, you need to flash the kernel that came with the ROM, or you'll be stuck on the white HTC Screen. Extract the boot.img from the ROM and do this - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19071114&postcount=37
Reboot. You're done

shrome99 said:
Then, go back and select Install ZIP from SD Card > Choose ZIP from SD Card and choose your ROM. The ROM is flashed.
Since you are hboot 2.00.002, you have to go through an additional step after that, you need to flash the kernel that came with the ROM, or you'll be stuck on the white HTC Screen. Extract the boot.img from the ROM and do this - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19071114&postcount=37
Reboot. You're done
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Excellent. Couldn't have put it better myself.

Thank you so much!
However I installed cwm recovery from the rom manager but it doesn't show up when I go into recovery, I get a red exclamation point, I press volume up and power and it says something about e something recovery not found?
Also where do I put that command? That kinda stumped me too lol. Sorry for being a noob
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OK, first you need to setup adb and fastboot. Use this guide - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1272595
Next, get CWM recovery and instruction on how to flash it here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122694
You'll be flashing it via fastboot. Instructions are there in the second thread. The command will be in fastboot too, along the same lines.
Feel free to ask if you have any other doubt. Everyone is a noob at some point
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Thank you so much. I will be doing this as soon as I can access my laptop again. Lol.
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How'd it work out? Flashed succesfully?
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Currently working at the other side of the country. I'll have to wait until thursday to flash it.
Thank you for the follow up though. It's very appreciated.
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Sorted thanks guys.

Uppy said:
Hi again, i'm really sorry for being annoying but i dont get this bit.
I extracted android-win-tools to C and put the recovery image in the android-win-tools folder but what am i navigating to? c:\android-win-tools? Its specifically 4. that I'm stuck on.
This is slightly embarrassing!
this was so much easier on my Blade lol.
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No need to be embarrassed buddy.
What point no. 4 means is that you need to move the file you want to flash (recovery.img in this case) to the folder that contains your adb files (android-win-tools, or whichever folder that you have extracted the android-win-tools that you downloaded). The rationale behind this is that when you enter the command fastboot flash recovery recovery.img, the fastboot will look for recovery.img in its default folder (android-win-tools, or whichever folder you've extracted the adb files to).
So here's what you need to do. For example, if you downloaded the adb files and extracted them to a folder named, let's say, xxxx, which is located in your C: then you need to take the recovery.img file and copy-paste it to the folder xxxx.
Before starting any of the procedures outlined here, first make sure adb can detect your device. (adb devices... sound familiar?)
Now boot phone into fastboot.
Now enter the following commands at the cmd prompt:
C:\Users\UPPY(or whatever)>cd\
Now you'll get the following:
C:\>
Next, you need to enter:
C:\>cd xxxx
You'll now get:
C:\xxxx>
Finally, enter the following:
C:\xxxx> fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
You should be done. I know the above looks over simplified... but i'm just trying to be extra nice here
I hope that clears your doubts.

Done! Thank you for all your help, you made it so much easier for me. its all up and running now.

Uppy said:
One last question though, where do i extract the boot image, do i put it in the root of my sd card and finally if thats the case what is the exact thing i type?
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After you've flashed your custom recovery, boot into recovery and choose install from sd card, select zip from sd card, then navigate to your rom.zip file, and confirm to flash it using the recovery (on your phone)
But since you've unlocked using HTCDev, this will not flash the kernel as the boot is still locked. You have to bypass this by flashing the kernel manually using fastboot, otherwise you'll be stuck at the white HTC splash screen (Oh! how i hate that screen!!)
The kernel is contained in the boot.img.
The boot.img is contained within the zip file of the ROM you want to flash. So when you open up a ROM.zip (for example Reaper_v1.6.zip) with winrar, you'll see various files inside. Extract the one called boot.img. This is your kernel. Copy-paste this boot.img in your adb folder (like in the previous post)
To flash it, since you've already set up fastboot, just do what you did for flashing recovery.img, and follow the instructions i gave you exactly the same way, except the last part, where instead of recovery.img, you need to type:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
now type adb reboot, and boot into your shiny new custom ROM!!
You're done.

I'm getting an error when i try to connect to wi-fi, it just says error, what have I done wrong? grrr.
I think i didnt register the 3.4 boot image, will report back in a minute.
-edit- yeah i typed the command wrong thats all.

Uppy said:
Done! Thank you for all your help, you made it so much easier for me. its all up and running now.
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Happy to help

shrome99 said:
Since you are hboot 2.00.002, you have to go through an additional step after that, you need to flash the kernel that came with the ROM, or you'll be stuck on the white HTC Screen.
Reboot. You're done
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I have first read the install instructions from MIUI (saying: full wipe, flash rom) and now I have exactly what you have warned: Phone doesn't proceed, it ist stuck on the white HTC Screen.
UPDATE:
I was afraid of taking out the battery, as this may cause problems, and vol up + vol down + power just rebootet into white htc screen. The only way was indeed pulling the battery (after the vol up vol down power-reboot-gap). Then I could enter into the bootloader the regular way (vol down + power), and change to fastboot, and flash boot.img. Everything is fine now!!!

No-New-Phone said:
I have first read the install instructions from MIUI (saying: full wipe, flash rom) and now I have exactly what you have warned: Phone doesn't proceed, it ist stuck on the white HTC Screen.
UPDATE:
I was afraid of taking out the battery, as this may cause problems, and vol up + vol down + power just rebootet into white htc screen. The only way was indeed pulling the battery (after the vol up vol down power-reboot-gap). Then I could enter into the bootloader the regular way (vol down + power), and change to fastboot, and flash boot.img. Everything is fine now!!!
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Was already typing a solution for you, but if you can solve a problem by yourself it's even better ;-)
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I'm glad this thread is helping more people than just myself. I'm not exactly a Technophobe but this was far more complicated than rooting my blade, Europa or racer or indeed writing the CSS files I used back on windows mobile 6.5 on my old touch 2.
I certainly needed my hand held through the first time doing this.
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stuck on white HTC Screen after installing custom rom

I have a problem with my phone? When I try to reboot it just stays at the white HTC screen. If I wait till the battery is completely drained and plug the power in, it boots perfectly.
Did I do something wrong with my setup?
This is how I rooted and unlocked my bootloader yesterday: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=15251

bump, this is quite frustrating

I think I didn't do this:
But now my phone is stuck on white screen and I don't know how to boot into recovery. Do i have to wait till the battery is completely drained?
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Thanks guys, problem resolved by pulling battery out during the 3 sec window after rebooting with volume up/down button and booting into recovery afterwards.
Then used ''fastboot flash boot boot.img'' command.

Which custom ROM did you install? Have you tried wiping cache or a factory reset?
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Have you tried 'adb reboot recovery' command?
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dan-fish said:
Which custom ROM did you install? Have you tried wiping cache or a factory reset?
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.....Reaper 2.1. I can't wipe cache because I can't get into recovery because I'm stuck at the white htc screen.
wnp_79 said:
Have you tried 'adb reboot recovery' command?
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My phone is on white htc screen, when i connect my phone to the computer and type adb reboot recovery command it says ''device not found''.

@n0elite
Your avatar is a splitting image of you currently.
Don't bump a thread on the hour.....
So what you are trying to say is you never followed your OWN guide correctly?
Now I assume you did everything else and it is just the boot img problem.
So can you give some details on what it said when you tried to flash the boot?
-You extracted the img, placed it with your fastboot.exe and said fastboot flash boot boot.img
You can try the vol up and down and power to get your phone to reboot.

foX2delta said:
@n0elite
Your avatar is a splitting image of you currently.
Don't bump a thread on the hour.....
So what you are trying to say is you never followed your OWN guide correctly?
Now I assume you did everything else and it is just the boot img problem.
So can you give some details on what it said when you tried to flash the boot?
-You extracted the img, placed it with your fastboot.exe and said fastboot flash boot boot.img
You can try the vol up and down and power to get your phone to reboot.
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I flashed the boot.img in fastboot with the ''fastboot flash boot boot.img '' command while it should've been ''fastboot flash boot $pathToBootIMG\boot.img ''. My guide was wrong at that step.
That's the reason why I think the phone won't boot the rom, because it doesn't know where ''boot.img'' is.
That's why rebooting with vol up,down and power button won't do a thing. It just reboots,stays at the white htc screen..
I know how to resolve the problem, only I can't get into recovery so that I can fix it!

Reboot using the three buttons. When it is off, pull the battery out (it is a short window so be ready). Then wait a while, put it back in and hold volume down and press the power button.
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You need to boot your phone into fastboot to flash the boot.img, keep searching on how to flash the boot.img, it is here, same as flashing recovery though.

Put the boot.img of your custom ROM (extract it from zip file) in the same folder where your adb tools are.
Then repeat that flashing step
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dan-fish said:
Reboot using the three buttons. When it is off, pull the battery out (it is a short window so be ready). Then wait a while, put it back in and hold volume down and press the power button.
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Thank you i'm in recovery now. How should I flash boot.img?
Using the command ''fastboot flash boot $pathToBootIMG\boot.img '' i thought it would work gives me ''error: cannot load '$pathToBootIMG\boot.img'''
-edit- nvm just had to use ''fastboot flash boot boot.img

Look at my post above, it may help you
but nice tutorial btw
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Thanks guys, problem resolved by pulling battery out during the 3 sec window after rebooting with volume up/down button and booting into recovery afterwards.
Then used ''fastboot flash boot boot.img'' command.

Why take unnecessary risks?
dan-fish said:
Reboot using the three buttons. When it is off, pull the battery out (it is a short window so be ready). Then wait a while, put it back in and hold volume down and press the power button.
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Why pull the battery? That is a completely unnecessary risk. Just reboot using the three buttons, wait till the screen goes blank, then wait for the lights at the bottom to go out, then immediately press volume down and power - it will go straight into the bootloader.
If you pull the battery just a fraction of a second too late you could get a current surge just as it is turning back on and that is a particularly dangerous time to pull the battery in my opinion.

Medhavi said:
Why pull the battery? That is a completely unnecessary risk. Just reboot using the three buttons, wait till the screen goes blank, then wait for the lights at the bottom to go out, then immediately press volume down and power - it will go straight into the bootloader.
If you pull the battery just a fraction of a second too late you could get a current surge just as it is turning back on and that is a particularly dangerous time to pull the battery in my opinion.
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Why resurrect a dead post?

rain987 said:
Why resurrect a dead post?
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For a very simple reason: people will see the instruction to pull the battery and they will pull the battery. A proportion of them will fry their eMMC chips as a result.
The post may be dead to you, but it still comes up on searches and people still read it. I've already seen it quoted in other threads.

foX2delta said:
You need to boot your phone into fastboot to flash the boot.img, keep searching on how to flash the boot.img, it is here, same as flashing recovery though.
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Thanks for giving me great information this info increase my knowledge.

[Q] Stuck at boot screen

Hello everyone. This is my first post, although ive been using xda for a while now.
I recently flashed my phone with the cm10 alpha. Everything seems to be working fine and i am using it as a daily driver. The only problem is once my phone is turned off or dies, i get stuck at the boot screen. The only way to get through is to fastboot boot boot.img using the bootloader. I had this problem with the virtuous infinity rom also, but when i flashed a cm9 rom the problem went away.
I want to be able to turn on my phone and not have worry about having my computer next to me just to boot it. For example last week i was in cairo, went out, got out of a taxi and my phone fell out my lap as i was getting out. I use my phone as my camera, and i was deprived of not being able to take any pics the rest of the day.
Is there any way i could get my phone to boot without having to go through the bootloader and using fastboot? Someone help me!

sameers27 said:
Hello everyone. This is my first post, although ive been using xda for a while now.
I recently flashed my phone with the cm10 alpha. Everything seems to be working fine and i am using it as a daily driver. The only problem is once my phone is turned off or dies, i get stuck at the boot screen. The only way to get through is to fastboot boot boot.img using the bootloader. I had this problem with the virtuous infinity rom also, but when i flashed a cm9 rom the problem went away.
I want to be able to turn on my phone and not have worry about having my computer next to me just to boot it. For example last week i was in cairo, went out, got out of a taxi and my phone fell out my lap as i was getting out. I use my phone as my camera, and i was deprived of not being able to take any pics the rest of the day.
Is there any way i could get my phone to boot without having to go through the bootloader and using fastboot? Someone help me!
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We call that s-off.
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strapped365 said:
We call that s-off.
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I dont follow... My phone is s-on ...ive had difficulty in the past trying to get it to s-off. But regardless, ive used roms where i wasnt stuck on the boot screen.
How do i get out of the boot screen loop without having to resort to using fastboot in bootloader?

Doing a battery pull will get you out of the loop & allow you to reenter bootloader or recovery if that's what you mean. If you're just wanting to reboot without ADB you can always volume down + power + tackpad for 5 seconds and that will reboot you.

WeekendsR2Short said:
Doing a battery pull will get you out of the loop & allow you to reenter bootloader or recovery if that's what you mean. If you're just wanting to reboot without ADB you can always volume down + power + tackpad for 5 seconds and that will reboot you.
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Ok let me explain my problem a little bit in more detail.
If i turn off my phone and turn it on, i will get through the mytouch screen, then goto the cm10 boot screen and i will get stuck there in a boot loop. In order to get past this, i pull my battery and get into bootloader, then select fastboot then i type fastboot boot boot.img in command prompt. Once ive done that, then my phone will properly boot and i can use my phone regularly. But once it dies or turns off, i have to go into bootloader and then fastboot and go through that process all over again to be able to use my phone.
If i dont use fastboot in bootloader, then my phone gets stuck at the boot screen till it dies.
How do i avoid this?
I want to be able to reboot my phone without having to resort to using fastboot
I am a noob. But ive wiped eveything, reflashed and i still get the same problem. Ive had this problem with another rom also, but reading through the roms forum it didnt seem like anyone else was having this problem
Am i missing something?

Ok ive figured it out. Im an idiot. Id forgotten to flash the boot image to my phone. Did that and now its working. Sorry guys, thanks for the help

sameers27 said:
Ok ive figured it out. Im an idiot. Id forgotten to flash the boot image to my phone. Did that and now its working. Sorry guys, thanks for the help
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AH yes....the old "fastboot FLASH boot boot.img" command! Left it out before myself.....just like lots of us have. You're not an idiot! What you did was solve a problem you had with little help. We would have finally seen it but you beat us to it!
Welcome to Android.
....btw....Flashboot flash boot boot.img doesn't work either. I've already tried that one.

This will help you.
Sent from Spaceball One.

WeekendsR2Short said:
Flashboot flash boot boot.img doesn't work either. I've already tried that one.
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It should be (assuming boot.img is in /sdcard/):
flashboot flash boot /sdcard/boot.img
is this correct?

chorch1024 said:
It should be (assuming boot.img is in /sdcard/):
flashboot flash boot /sdcard/boot.img
is this correct?
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I've never flashed a boot.img from an SD but if it were to work it would work like this in fastboot mode from the platform-tools dir
fastboot flash boot boot.img
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chorch1024 said:
It should be (assuming boot.img is in /sdcard/):
flashboot flash boot /sdcard/boot.img
is this correct?
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No, I was just kiddin'. Sorry.
See Strapped's post.

I don't believe fastboot.exe can run anything off sdcard, you would need to mount the sdcard on the computer and change directories /open cmd there, problem being you can't mount sdcard in fastboot mode so all files would need to be on computer
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Right!
I was confused with:
flash_image boot /sdcard/boot.img

chorch1024 said:
Right!
I was confused with:
flash_image boot /sdcard/boot.img
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That would be the correct imput for terminal, but I'm not sure how well you can flash a kernel while using the phone! But maybe... adb would be a similar command as well
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[Q] Super Soft Brick, can anyone help me unbrick this device.

Today I unlocked my HOX using Hasoon2000's all in one kit. Unlocked the phone, super cid 1111111111, and rooted the phone with no problems. Once i got everything completed i attempted to install Viper XL rom onto the device through TWRP. The first time it froze during the process, so I rebooted and repeated the process. However, once i got it to work through TWRP, it started to boot up with the Viper XL boot screen and then suddenly turn off, and repeat itself. I can't get into boot loader and once plugged into my pc it simply makes the connect and disconnect sounds. Please any help at to unbrick this phone would be highly appreciated...

Have you tried flashing a different ROM?
If it's continually looping when trying to boot, hover your finger over the volume down button, then press and hold it as soon as the screen goes blank. Hopefully that'll get you into bootloader.
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dopedbadger said:
Today I unlocked my HOX using Hasoon2000's all in one kit. Unlocked the phone, super cid 1111111111, and rooted the phone with no problems. Once i got everything completed i attempted to install Viper XL rom onto the device through TWRP. The first time it froze during the process, so I rebooted and repeated the process. However, once i got it to work through TWRP, it started to boot up with the Viper XL boot screen and then suddenly turn off, and repeat itself. I can't get into boot loader and once plugged into my pc it simply makes the connect and disconnect sounds. Please any help at to unbrick this phone would be highly appreciated...
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XDA Rules = Search before posting. This issue has been answered a million times.
That being said, while I would prefer you would help yourself a bit since you were smart enough to get yourself into this mess, I will still help you.
You are currently S-ON?
What hboot?
What version of TWRP are you using?
The phone still turns on right? bootloops?
It's not just black screen?
BAH TIMMAAA BEAT ME TO IT!

timmaaa said:
Have you tried flashing a different ROM?
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I can't. I'm stuck in a boot loop, where the device continuously reboots on it's own. Can't get to fastboot or the bootloader. Device isn't being found through the adb since it powers off before it can be recognized.

dopedbadger said:
I can't. I'm stuck in a boot loop, where the device continuously reboots on it's own. Can't get to fastboot or the bootloader. Device isn't being found through the adb since it powers off before it can be recognized.
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If the phone turns on, you can get into bootloader.
As soon as the HTC screen comes back on press and hold power until the screen goes black. When the screen goes black, let go of power and press and hold volume down until the bootloader comes up.

exad said:
XDA Rules = Search before posting. This issue has been answered a million times.
That being said, while I would prefer you would help yourself a bit since you were smart enough to get yourself into this mess, I will still help you.
You are currently S-ON?
What hboot?
What version of TWRP are you using?
The phone still turns on right? bootloops?
It's not just black screen?
BAH TIMMAAA BEAT ME TO IT!
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I actually did attempt searching through the forums, but i could not find a thread that actually helped me in my current predicament.
I am currently still S- ON, my firmware was the latest 3.18, the version of TWRP used was 2.5.0. and yes the phone still turns on, however it's doing it automatically by itself into a constant bootloop from the HTC white screen to the Viper XL boot animation.

exad said:
If the phone turns on, you can get into bootloader.
As soon as the HTC screen comes back on press and hold power until the screen goes black. When the screen goes black, let go of power and press and hold volume down until the bootloader comes up.
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Alright, i was just having issues with my timing of trying to enter into bootloader. I'm currently sitting on the bootloader. fastboot however returns me to my eternal bootloop.

dopedbadger said:
Alright, i was just having issues with my timing of trying to enter into bootloader. I'm currently sitting on the bootloader. fastboot however returns me to my eternal bootloop.
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Enter bootloader with the phone hooked up to PC, it should automatically put u you fastboot USB
Download twrp 2.3.3.1
check md5
flash twrp 2.3.3.1
fastboot erase cache
reboot to bootloader again fastboot reboot bootloader
select recovery wipe everything flash a sense rom.
If you're s-off fastboot flash boot boot.img extracted from the rom your flashing. GL HF. this phone has many quirks. Please read stickies for more info.

exad said:
Enter bootloader with the phone hooked up to PC, it should automatically put u you fastboot USB
Download twrp 2.3.3.1
check md5
flash twrp 2.3.3.1
fastboot erase cache
reboot to bootloader again fastboot reboot bootloader
select recovery wipe everything flash a sense rom.
If you're s-off fastboot flash boot boot.img extracted from the rom your flashing. GL HF. this phone has many quirks. Please read stickies for more info.
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I can't seem to get my computer to recognize the phone when i plug it in. it makes the sound saying its connected, but it's just not displaying. Can't flash anything unless pc finds the device.

Sometimes it takes time and a couple unplug replugs for fastboot USB to come up. Took me almost a minute for it to connect properly for me earlier today.
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exad said:
Sometimes it takes time and a couple unplug replugs for fastboot USB to come up. Took me almost a minute for it to connect properly for me earlier today.
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I can't get it to recognize the phone. the fastboot usb option show whenever i plug into a pc. however, neither my desktop or laptop will recognize the phone..already reinstalled htc drivers and adb drivers

So it says fast boot USB?
What happens when you do fastboot devices?
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exad said:
So it says fast boot USB?
What happens when you do fastboot devices?
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It says fast boot on the phone in bootloader. if i reboot in fastboot, it just sends me to my bootloop. Man, i wish i would've just stopped i got this thing rooted.

While 2.3.5 of TWRP i reinstalled the Viper XL on my sd card, for the fourth time. Out of desperateness. But it actually booted up completely. Seems as if everything is working as well. Thanks man for everything.

[Q] Nexus 5 stuck on boot, and wont go into recovery help?

Well, I was using an app called screen dimmer, and did pressed the button to dim the screen when all of a sudden it froze. It was like this for a while so I restarted it, it is able to go in fastboot, but nothing else. When i start It it hangs on the boot loader screen and can stay like that all day. if I go into recovery the screen goes black and the display is only backlit. I was going to try to to use the adb to factory reset it, but I could not get it to recognize the nexus 5 as a device. I used a bunch of different drivers. I did root my phone, and have the exposed framework but this was done a long time ago and I had no problems since. no idea how to fix this any help?!?!? Sorry if this is the wrong place to put this I'm new to this site.

2point said:
Well, I was using an app called screen dimmer, and did pressed the button to dim the screen when all of a sudden it froze. It was like this for a while so I restarted it, it is able to go in fastboot, but nothing else. When i start It it hangs on the boot loader screen and can stay like that all day. if I go into recovery the screen goes black and the display is only backlit. I was going to try to to use the adb to factory reset it, but I could not get it to recognize the nexus 5 as a device. I used a bunch of different drivers. I did root my phone, and have the exposed framework but this was done a long time ago and I had no problems since. no idea how to fix this any help?!?!? Sorry if this is the wrong place to put this I'm new to this site.
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You need to find a driver that works so it'll recognize the device. Once you do this, you need to flash boot.img to restore the recovery since not working. Then, redo the ROM or restore from backup if you can. Flashing a new recovery boot.img should fix the issue.

2point said:
Well, I was using an app called screen dimmer, and did pressed the button to dim the screen when all of a sudden it froze. It was like this for a while so I restarted it, it is able to go in fastboot, but nothing else. When i start It it hangs on the boot loader screen and can stay like that all day. if I go into recovery the screen goes black and the display is only backlit. I was going to try to to use the adb to factory reset it, but I could not get it to recognize the nexus 5 as a device. I used a bunch of different drivers. I did root my phone, and have the exposed framework but this was done a long time ago and I had no problems since. no idea how to fix this any help?!?!? Sorry if this is the wrong place to put this I'm new to this site.
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Hi, In first place, You are in the right place to get help:good:
2. ADB won't work on fastboot nor in a damaged recovery.
3. fastboot works:victory: Try to flash recovery once again (fastboot flash recovery recoveryname.img)
4. if 3 works, wipe system, caches. Flash the Rom you want, don't use that app anymore.

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Hi, In first place, You are in the right place to get help:good:
2. ADB won't work on fastboot nor in a damaged recovery.
3. fastboot works:victory: Try to flash recovery once again (fastboot flash recovery recoveryname.img)
4. if 3 works, wipe system, caches. Flash the Rom you want, don't use that app anymore.
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Thanks! got to recognize any way to do this without loosing data?

2point said:
Thanks! got to recognize any way to do this without loosing data?
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There is a chance to keep your data + storage contents. If you manage to flash and boot into recovery, in 'wipe' menu manually check-mark "cache,system"
don't mark internal "storate and data", nothing will happen to your media and apps data.

2point said:
Thanks! got to recognize any way to do this without loosing data?
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May be able to dirty flash but most likely, since you had the screen dimmed too much, you'll have to wipe data in order to override/remove the problem. You can try this way but may just send you back through this whole process if problem reoccurs. I'd just wipe the data to be safe.

2point said:
Well, I was using an app called screen dimmer, and did pressed the button to dim the screen when all of a sudden it froze. It was like this for a while so I restarted it, it is able to go in fastboot, but nothing else. When i start It it hangs on the boot loader screen and can stay like that all day. if I go into recovery the screen goes black and the display is only backlit. I was going to try to to use the adb to factory reset it, but I could not get it to recognize the nexus 5 as a device. I used a bunch of different drivers. I did root my phone, and have the exposed framework but this was done a long time ago and I had no problems since. no idea how to fix this any help?!?!? Sorry if this is the wrong place to put this I'm new to this site.
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Oy vey! You shouldn't have been tinkering as you clearly don't know what you're doing.
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2point said:
Thanks! got to recognize any way to do this without loosing data?
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No, and if you had done your homework you would know that. If the data is so important, back it up before modding.

GUGUITOMTG4 said:
There is a chance to keep your data + storage contents. If you manage to flash and boot into recovery, in 'wipe' menu manually check-mark "cache,system"
don't mark internal "storate and data", nothing will happen to your media and apps data.
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When I do fastboot boot recovery.img I get the android bot with a red exclamation but nothing else I might just do flashall

2point said:
When I do fastboot boot recovery.img I get the android bot with a red exclamation but nothing else I might just do flashall
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Reflash the recovery.img

2point said:
When I do fastboot boot recovery.img I get the android bot with a red exclamation but nothing else I might just do flashall
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The general idea is that your recovery is broken.
So, you need to flash a new recovery by placing a recovery.img file into your fastboot folder in the computer(recommend twrp). Like you did the first time you fladhed a recovery.
Then, turn off the phone, press volume down+ power button and it will boot into bootloader. Make sure it is on fastboot mode. After that, on the computer open cmd on the fastboot folder and and type:
fastboot flash recovery nameofrecoveryfile.img,
press enter.
It should flash a new recovery image if done correctly. Then, poweroff the phone, boot again into bootloader, choose recovery and it will reboot into recovery. Then follow. The steps of my first post.

jd1639 said:
Reflash the recovery.img
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GUGUITOMTG4 said:
The general idea is that your recovery is broken.
So, you need to flash a new recovery by placing a recovery.img file into your fastboot folder in the computer(recommend twrp). Like you did the first time you fladhed a recovery.
Then, turn off the phone, press volume down+ power button and it will boot into bootloader. Make sure it is on fastboot mode. After that, on the computer open cmd on the fastboot folder and and type:
fastboot flash recovery nameofrecoveryfile.img,
press enter.
It should flash a new recovery image if done correctly. Then, poweroff the phone, boot again into bootloader, choose recovery and it will reboot into recovery. Then follow. The steps of my first post.
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Did that and get a
C:\Users\nkkou_000\programs\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20131030\sdk\platform-tool
s>fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.4-hammerhead.img
sending 'recovery' (13272 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.620s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: flash write failure)
finished. total time: 44.593s
C:\Users\nkkou_000\programs\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20131030\sdk\platform-tool
s>

But I can do fastboot boot openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.4-hammerhead.img and will will boot into the recovery just fine
And that twrp says that i have no os installed

2point said:
But I can do fastboot boot openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.4-hammerhead.img and will will boot into the recovery just fine
And that twrp says that i have no os installed
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You have a couple of options depending on how much data you can afford to lose on your phone. The least intrusive is to adb push a Rom on to your phone when you're in twrp Then flash that rom in twrp
The easier, but you'll lose all data on your phone is to flash the flash-all.bat file in fastboot
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2point said:
But I can do fastboot boot openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.4-hammerhead.img and will will boot into the recovery just fine
And that twrp says that i have no os installed
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Then, it seems recovery now is good. If you have rom zip in the storage. Just wipe system and cache, flash the rom and see what happens

When in the twrp I can't get fastboot to recognize it as a device, or adb either

2point said:
When in the twrp I can't get fastboot to recognize it as a device, or adb either
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Your adb drivers aren't setup correctly. They're different than the fastboot ones. Try Google tool adb fastboot drivers xda.

jd1639 said:
Your adb drivers aren't setup correctly. They're different than the fastboot ones. Try Google tool adb fastboot drivers xda.
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When you are on twrp. You dont need to use fastboot nor adb. Just flash a rom if have one to flash

GUGUITOMTG4 said:
When you are on twrp. You dont need to use fastboot nor adb. Just flash a rom if have one to flash
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How do i do that?

2point said:
How do i do that?
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Have you flashed roms before? And do you have one on your internal sdcard? If so flash it in twrp

jd1639 said:
Have you flashed roms before? And do you have one on your internal sdcard? If so flash it in twrp
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I have the factory image from google for my nexus 5