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[Q] Stuck at the first boot screen with red text. Please HELP!

I have a rooted and newly unlocked AT&T HTC One X. I tried to flash Cyanogenmod 9 on it and it now freezes on boot. What should I do? The fastboot commands work. I used the fastboot boot boot.img to make this problem, then I tried recovery and it doesnt work.
Any and all advice would help me. Thanks.

damn man. you didn't make a backup? try running the RUU back to stock. As long as you can boot into fastboot you are good. don't panic.

did you try and install the international one x cm9?

I have tried that and it doesnt work it crashes and goes into so on screen recovery instructions that suck.
All I did was a fastboot boot boot.img I didnt flash it in recovery.
I think I need a stock boot.img to load up or the one from CleanROM 1.0, because that is what was on there.

You seriously tried to flash CM9?
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_MetalHead_ said:
You seriously tried to flash CM9?
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Yes I did, I wasnt thinking at the time, stayed up for like 26 hours. Do you have anything helpful to say? and for the 3rd time just the boot.img, NOTHING else, this was my first time.

mlaws90 said:
Yes I did, I wasnt thinking at the time, stayed up for like 26 hours. Do you have anything helpful to say? and for the 3rd time just the boot.img, NOTHING else, this was my first time.
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I guess we all do stupid **** from time to time when we'be been up for too long. You have tried running a RUU?
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Can I install a boot.img within phone?

Hi everyone, I have S-on still, I am wondering if I can pull the boot.img from a kernel of a rom and move somewhere to my sdcard if I wanted to flash a rom that doesnt have this built in to it...the reason I am asking is because alot of downtime at work and sometimes I want to tinker with other roms, but since I have hboot 1.27 most of the roms need the boot.img pushed, and I cant install software to do this on my work computer....If it can be done on the phone by using ES file explorer or something similar, can someone guid me on where to put the boot.img...i believe on the root of sd?....just curious here....thanks much...Larry

dirtylarry10 said:
Hi everyone, I have S-on still, I am wondering if I can pull the boot.img from a kernel of a rom and move somewhere to my sdcard if I wanted to flash a rom that doesnt have this built in to it...the reason I am asking is because alot of downtime at work and sometimes I want to tinker with other roms, but since I have hboot 1.27 most of the roms need the boot.img pushed, and I cant install software to do this on my work computer....If it can be done on the phone by using ES file explorer or something similar, can someone guid me on where to put the boot.img...i believe on the root of sd?....just curious here....thanks much...Larry
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if you use 4ext recovery with s-on smart flash enabled it will flash the bootimg after it installs the rom i believe, so no need to manually flash the boot img. is this what you mean?

heavy_metal_man said:
if you use 4ext recovery with s-on smart flash enabled it will flash the bootimg after it installs the rom i believe, so no need to manually flash the boot img. is this what you mean?
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yes..thats exactly it, but hen I do this, i just get stuck on the white HTC screen..Im trying to install Pegasus Elegancia rom..im doing a super wipe also and still just sits there..maybe I need to let it sit longer than 10 minutes?

dirtylarry10 said:
yes..thats exactly it, but hen I do this, i just get stuck on the white HTC screen..Im trying to install Pegasus Elegancia rom..im doing a super wipe also and still just sits there..maybe I need to let it sit longer than 10 minutes?
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Yes.. Wait for 10 minutes max.. If it's not booting then.. You need to flash boot.img of the rom seperately from fastboot but that process requires pc access.. Or try this.. If not booted.. Go to recovery again.. Then enable smartflash again and immediately flash the rom.. Without doing any wipe.. This might work
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dirtylarry10 said:
yes..thats exactly it, but hen I do this, i just get stuck on the white HTC screen..Im trying to install Pegasus Elegancia rom..im doing a super wipe also and still just sits there..maybe I need to let it sit longer than 10 minutes?
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are you 100% sure smart flash is enabled? when you flash some roms like arhd it flashes a new 4ext as well i think.
if you do then im not 100% sure on how to proceed. have you thought about just going full s-off? once you have it you dont need to flash the bootimg afterwards

heavy_metal_man said:
are you 100% sure smart flash is enabled? when you flash some roms like arhd it flashes a new 4ext as well i think.
if you do then im not 100% sure on how to proceed. have you thought about just going full s-off? once you have it you dont need to flash the bootimg afterwards
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yeah, I enable it, and then immediately flash the rom zip...this time it didnt get stuck at htc white screen, but flickered, and then went back into 4ext recovery....hmmm....S-off I havent done yet mainly because the wire trick thing...seems very confusing to me...lol

dirtylarry10 said:
yeah, I enable it, and then immediately flash the rom zip...this time it didnt get stuck at htc white screen, but flickered, and then went back into 4ext recovery....hmmm....S-off I havent done yet mainly because the wire trick thing...seems very confusing to me...lol
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hmmm. what version of 4ext are you on? stable or beta?
I personally s-0ffed before the wire trick came about so i have not had to do it, but many people seem to get the hang of it easily enough, maybe worth a try. and if you cant get to grips with it we will try find another way to help?

Flash another Rom with wipe
Then flash elegancia again with default wipe option within recovery everything except sd card reboot and wait
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dirtylarry10 said:
yeah, I enable it, and then immediately flash the rom zip...this time it didnt get stuck at htc white screen, but flickered, and then went back into 4ext recovery....hmmm....S-off I havent done yet mainly because the wire trick thing...seems very confusing to me...lol
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can you post the details of the bootloader
also you might need to flash boot.img once atleast ..after that smartflash will properly work

dirtylarry10 said:
yeah, I enable it, and then immediately flash the rom zip...this time it didnt get stuck at htc white screen, but flickered, and then went back into 4ext recovery....hmmm....S-off I havent done yet mainly because the wire trick thing...seems very confusing to me...lol
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This is normal for Smart Flash, the device will boot to the splash screen then flash the boot.I mg then reboot again but all the way nto the ROM on the second reboot. Also I know you can flash splashscreens and recoveries via Terminal Emulator but I am not sure about the boot.img. From what I am do know about Android I am thinking you probably can not but it is worth a Google search.

Ok, so I downloaded the Elegancia Pegasus, I went into 4ext recovery, did a super wipe, turned on smart flash, installed the rom zip, did not reboot but enabled smart flash again, and then installed the rom again..(reason for this was I was thinking maybe it installed a new 4ext)..I really dont think it did though, but still stuck at the white htc screen...I may have to just do this from a computer...weird thing is that Elegancia sense 4.x 3.1.0 flashes just fine, but i imagine thats because that Boot.img is not getting written over by the pegasus one..any other ideas?...the ext recovery I am using is the stable most current release btw..thanks everyone...Dirtylarry

dirtylarry10 said:
Ok, so I downloaded the Elegancia Pegasus, I went into 4ext recovery, did a super wipe, turned on smart flash, installed the rom zip, did not reboot but enabled smart flash again, and then installed the rom again..(reason for this was I was thinking maybe it installed a new 4ext)..I really dont think it did though, but still stuck at the white htc screen...I may have to just do this from a computer...weird thing is that Elegancia sense 4.x 3.1.0 flashes just fine, but i imagine thats because that Boot.img is not getting written over by the pegasus one..any other ideas?...the ext recovery I am using is the stable most current release btw..thanks everyone...Dirtylarry
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as i said you need to flash boot.img atleast once via fastboot (pc )..then onwards the smartflash will work

ganeshp said:
as i said you need to flash boot.img atleast once via fastboot (pc )..then onwards the smartflash will work
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yeah, I was afraid of that..I was hoping this would have worked so I could flash stuff in my downtime at work, but I cant install software on the work computer....maybe I need to flash my work computers boot.img...lololol

dirtylarry10 said:
yeah, I was afraid of that..I was hoping this would have worked so I could flash stuff in my downtime at work, but I cant install software on the work computer....maybe I need to flash my work computers boot.img...lololol
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You need htc drivers to be installed on pc for fastboot to work that's all
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ganeshp said:
You need htc drivers to be installed on pc for fastboot to work that's all
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yeah...cant even install the drivers...they have these locked down pretty tight....Aerospace

dirtylarry10 said:
yeah...cant even install the drivers...they have these locked down pretty tight....Aerospace
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Looks like your best bet is to try s-0ff mate
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heavy_metal_man said:
Looks like your best bet is to try s-0ff mate
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Even that procedure requires pc and. Drivers too
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ganeshp said:
Even that procedure requires pc and. Drivers too
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indeed, but he can do that at home with His pc then he will be able to flash any rom he likes without the need of smartflash. thus solving his problem and allowing him to flash roms at work when he has some spare time allowing he already has the roms with him, or he can still download

I made a mistake......

I got excited about flashing a rom, and flashed..... and I don't the stock rom on my phone. LOL is there anything I can do? I've never messed with HTC and here I am. :| lost confused. Someone take my hand and help me, I'd really appreciate it

zachsx said:
I got excited about flashing a rom, and flashed..... and I don't the stock rom on my phone. LOL is there anything I can do? I've never messed with HTC and here I am. :| lost confused. Someone take my hand and help me, I'd really appreciate it
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Slow down and explain a bit more man...how did you root? Your firmware? What's the problem? Which rom?... I will help you step by step
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Well I used Hasoons Tool kit, I unlocked it and have TWRP installed. Well I got exticted, and Installed Phandriod Jellybean. Now I'm stuck on the title logo. lol

What hboot you are running?
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To be honest, I don't know I got in over my head. I've been doing this **** for My SIII and regular phones for ever and I didn't read it up, I was thinking how different could it be... :|
Childish, and Idiotic I know. I let my excitement get the best of me

zachsx said:
To be honest, I don't know I got in over my head. I've been doing this **** for My SIII and regular phones for ever and I didn't read it up, I was thinking how different could it be... :|
Childish, and Idiotic I know. I let my excitement get the best of me
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I think it was 1.14

zachsx said:
Now I'm stuck on the title logo. lol
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If your phone still boots up but stops, you should be okay. Just find a ROM for the HOXL and reflash (flashing the kernel through fastboot), and you should be okay.
And on Thursday, be thankful you didn't flash something else like IceColdJelly, or you would have hard-bricked.

iElvis said:
If your phone still boots up but stops, you should be okay. Just find a ROM for the HOXL and reflash (flashing the kernel through fastboot), and you should be okay.
And on Thursday, be thankful you didn't flash something else like IceColdJelly, or you would have hard-bricked.
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I'm missing the fastboot, whats this about?

And Plus, I cant download and add it to my phone since I cant get into it to turn it into a drive

Until you downgrade your hboot you have to manually flash the kernel for each Rom... This is done through fastboot... In bootloader mode you'll see something called fastboot ...go into that now on your comp make sure you fastboot .exe file and others are in same and open up command prompt and type " fastboot flash boot.IMG or whatever you named the boot IMG you have to extract it from the Rom....others can give you more detail on it

omario8484 said:
Until you downgrade your hboot you have to manually flash the kernel for each Rom... This is done through fastboot... In bootloader mode you'll see something called fastboot ...go into that now on your comp make sure you fastboot .exe file and others are in same and open up command prompt and type " fastboot flash boot.IMG or whatever you named the boot IMG you have to extract it from the Rom....others can give you more detail on it
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Well, I think she's offically screwed. It won't recognize the phone. All I get is the white HTC brilliant white screen! haha

omario8484 said:
Until you downgrade your hboot you have to manually flash the kernel for each Rom... This is done through fastboot... In bootloader mode you'll see something called fastboot ...go into that now on your comp make sure you fastboot .exe file and others are in same and open up command prompt and type " fastboot flash boot.IMG or whatever you named the boot IMG you have to extract it from the Rom....others can give you more detail on it
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Well, I think she's offically screwed. It won't recognize the phone. All I get is the white HTC brilliant white screen! haha

Okay, I can still get to the boot loader.... hboot 1.14.0002 radio is 0.19 92.09.11_2
if anyone can help me get this running, Id be forever greatful. Boot loader is all I can do.

zachsx said:
Well, I think she's offically screwed. It won't recognize the phone. All I get is the white HTC brilliant white screen! haha
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Do you have the HTC drivers on your computer? You can't do anything until you do because your computer won't recognize it.
If you can get into bootloader, you're not bricked. It's just a matter of getting the right rom back on there.

iElvis said:
Do you have the HTC drivers on your computer? You can't do anything until you do because your computer won't recognize it.
If you can get into bootloader, you're not bricked. It's just a matter of getting the right rom back on there.
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Okay, I do have the drivers, when I plug it in it makes the connection noise, so its reading it still.

You guys take this one... I'm tired of writing the steps to fast booting a kernel.. I've done it about 4 times this week
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InflatedTitan said:
You guys take this one... I'm tired of writing the steps to fast booting a kernel.. I've done it about 4 times this week
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We are passed that homeslice, and Its my fault. I was reading on a rom instructions and it said nothing about the fastboot. So I was clueless. I agree, I'm an idiot and should have done my research

zachsx said:
We are passed that homeslice, and Its my fault. I was reading on a rom instructions and it said nothing about the fastboot. So I was clueless. I agree, I'm an idiot and should have done my research
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So you got it working?
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Well, I've got TWRP back and I went back and installed Phandroid, Now I'm going to figure out this fast boot ****, So I can get past the boot loop so I atleast have a phone

hold power+volume down till the lights stop blinking, then releasing power button while still holding volume down. That should get you to boot loader no matter what state its in.. Once you hit the white screen with skating droids, make sure it says "fast boot USB".
If you have adb and fastboot installed on your computer, you need to take the boot.img out of this rom, and drop it into your adb folder.
Right click on your adb folder, choose "open command prompt here"
Type fastboot flash boot boot.img
Once successful, immediately choose recovery in boot loader. Proceed to install rom zip and respective gapps if necessary
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WAIIITTTT!!! what the hell is phandroid? I've never seen that rom in our forums.. Make sure you have right rom for the right phone!!!!!!!
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[Q] Bricked my HTC One S

Hi all,
Got mine today, tried to install a ROM and it got stuck in bootloop.
I did a number of stupid things not to mention wiping the SD and im in serious trouble.
I can get into bootloader and CWM but thats it.
Ive heard restoring a RUU can cure it but I have a MAC and cant find anything to help.
Can anyone help? Im gutted....and fell like an idiot.
Ive got an S4 on the three network.
Thanks

Hold down the power button for 10 seconds then after the touch buttons stop flashing, just hold the volume button and see if ot enters the bootloader.
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blackcell1 said:
Hold down the power button for 10 seconds then after the touch buttons stop flashing, just hold the volume button and see if ot enters the bootloader.
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Hi,
It enters into bootloader but then what?

Follow the guide here from how to flash custom rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24478083
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blackcell1 said:
Follow the guide here from how to flash custom rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24478083
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Its sent and wrote the recovery file but what now?

mikejasonsmith said:
Its sent and wrote the recovery file but what now?
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Specifically you'll have to flash the ROM zip file from the recovery and then use fastboot flash boot boot.img.
You can find boot.img inside the ROM zip file

Tried flashing ROM zip but no joy...when should i flash boot img? before or after recovery?

mikejasonsmith said:
Tried flashing ROM zip but no joy...when should i flash boot img? before or after recovery?
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ok managed to get the sd mounted...phew...but how do i get a rom on when it wont boot?

mikejasonsmith said:
ok managed to get the sd mounted...phew...but how do i get a rom on when it wont boot?
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Ive used TRW to get the sd mounted but it wont boot beyond that. i restored the stock recovery but what do i do next?
At the moment i have a phone which has CWM working but nothing else?
Thanks for your help

mikejasonsmith said:
Ive used TRW to get the sd mounted but it wont boot beyond that. i restored the stock recovery but what do i do next?
At the moment i have a phone which has CWM working but nothing else?
Thanks for your help
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ok so ive tried flashing ruu and keep getting error 155 which is a cid issue i believe - which RUU do i use for a device locked to '3'?
Thanks
oh and can you point me in the direction of it...thanks

mikejasonsmith said:
ok so ive tried flashing ruu and keep getting error 155 which is a cid issue i believe - which RUU do i use for a device locked to '3'?
Thanks
oh and can you point me in the direction of it...thanks
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so ive managed to get the h3g rom and flashed rom and boot.img.
locked bootloader and run RUU but i keep getting error 155???
Somebody please help me before this thing goes out of the window.....:crying:

Search adb push
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danevianta said:
Search adb push
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Finally seem to have done it and managed to RUU
The phone is locked to 3 but as a noob I spent 2 days flashing a generic euro ROM.
When i realised i need a ROM to match CID i downloaded 1.53. Tried this a number of times with no joy.
Just tried 1.78 and it seems to be working
Thanks to everyone for your help - us noobs must be sooooooo annoying.

Htc One S bricked
Hi im relatively new at rooting and am currently experiencing issues with a bricked device.
i have two htc one s devices
my personal one is running cm10 ville with clockwork touch recovery and is working perfectly
however the second one i was using the same exact files.
this one is bricked
its in a constant bootloop.
i can get back to my recovery just fine and get to the fastboot in the phone fine
i cleared my cache
wiped my data and wiped the dalvik cache all perfectly fine when i try to flash the cm10 official rom back on it cannot mount the sd card
i would try to install a different recovery and try again maybe using viper one s
but i cannot get the phone to power on
it doesnt showup on the computer when it is plugged in while in fastboot
when i try the cmd fastboot flash recovery it says waiting for device
any advice. this is not my own phone so i need it repaired pretty quickly.
any helpful information would be much appreciated.

FaLLeN_BtB said:
Hi im relatively new at rooting and am currently experiencing issues with a bricked device.
i have two htc one s devices
my personal one is running cm10 ville with clockwork touch recovery and is working perfectly
however the second one i was using the same exact files.
this one is bricked
its in a constant bootloop.
i can get back to my recovery just fine and get to the fastboot in the phone fine
i cleared my cache
wiped my data and wiped the dalvik cache all perfectly fine when i try to flash the cm10 official rom back on it cannot mount the sd card
i would try to install a different recovery and try again maybe using viper one s
but i cannot get the phone to power on
it doesnt showup on the computer when it is plugged in while in fastboot
when i try the cmd fastboot flash recovery it says waiting for device
any advice. this is not my own phone so i need it repaired pretty quickly.
any helpful information would be much appreciated.
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Bootloop does not mean your bricked...means you need to fastboot flash boot.img
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blackcell1 said:
Hold down the power button for 10 seconds then after the touch buttons stop flashing, just hold the volume button and see if ot enters the bootloader.
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This little post just pulled me out of missery. Love ya man!

all you guys getting sorted
make a nandroid and sdcard bu NOW and put them on pc,
obviously leave a copy of nandroid on phone also
makes it a lot easier if you get in trouble again
and you/we will

Mounts and Storage --> Format everything --> Now Mount USB Drive --> Put Gapps and ROM
Flash it, erase cache & and Dalvik...Blah blah blah. Flash boot.img in fastboot, and there you go.
Everybody, please remember this and there won't be noob q&a anymore...

TWRP v 2.2.2.1 I can't flash Jelly Bean 4.2.2 .zip on HTC one s (s3)
HI, my device is an HTC ONE S (s3)... I've already unlocked the bootloader and rooted it... it's ok... For recovery mode I installed TWRP v 2.2.2.1.... I've wiped the cache and made a factory reset... BUT when I try to flash the zip which contains the jelly bean 4.2.2 I get a message saying: FAILED when i was trying to install it... PLEASE I NEED YOUR HELP CUZ I THINK I CAN'T DO TOO MUCH WITHOUT AN OS ON MY DEVICE... I'M NOW JUST IN TWRP... HELP PLEASE........

mikebryant2807 said:
HI, my device is an HTC ONE S (s3)... I've already unlocked the bootloader and rooted it... it's ok... For recovery mode I installed TWRP v 2.2.2.1.... I've wiped the cache and made a factory reset... BUT when I try to flash the zip which contains the jelly bean 4.2.2 I get a message saying: FAILED when i was trying to install it... PLEASE I NEED YOUR HELP CUZ I THINK I CAN'T DO TOO MUCH WITHOUT AN OS ON MY DEVICE... I'M NOW JUST IN TWRP... HELP PLEASE........
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booting issue

I am on CM10 10-20130210 nightly and every time I reboot or turn power off then back on my phone gets stuck on the CM boot animation.
I then have to re flash boot.img and all works fine.
Anyone know why this might be?

No love?

jentzschman2000 said:
I am on CM10 10-20130210 nightly and every time I reboot or turn power off then back on my phone gets stuck on the CM boot animation.
I then have to re flash boot.img and all works fine.
Anyone know why this might be?
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Have u done complete wipe including system? If not try that and make sure to fast boot kernel after flashing ROM and gapps. What hboot r u on ? R u soff ? If not soff u should as u won't have to fastboot ne more
Also have patience. Saying no love and then posting in the wrong section cuz u didnt get or question answered fast enough will get u black listed.
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droidkevlar said:
Have u done complete wipe including system? If not try that and make sure to fast boot kernel after flashing ROM and gapps. What hboot r u on ? R u soff ? If not soff u should as u won't have to fastboot ne more
Also have patience. Saying no love and then posting in the wrong section cuz u didnt get or question answered fast enough will get u black listed.
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I did a complete wipe and system. I am on h boot 1.14.004 S-on, but I thought that was the case till we got true s-off, which I see we just did.
The kernel is the boot.img file right?

Yes it is.

Hum, wonder whats going on then...

Yes, its weird you have to reflash it everytime you restart. Maybe try another rom? Or a later nightly at least.