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I think i bricked my HTC Inspire ... its stuck in a boot loop i was trying to flash CyanogenMod 7 then when it turned off and tried turning on it just reboots everytime when its about to start up i tried to do a recovery but it just sits there with a black screen can i fix my phone? if so how can i? thanks any feedback will help

I think a title would be helpful here..
hmm accidently hit thanks.... any hooo have you tried hooking it up to your computer? Pull the battery for 10 seconds, then hold down power volume down and try to get back into recovery. If not then does your computer still recognize it in Hboot?

mudknot2005 said:
I think a title would be helpful here..
hmm accidently hit thanks.... any hooo have you tried hooking it up to your computer? Pull the battery for 10 seconds, then hold down power volume down and try to get back into recovery. If not then does your computer still recognize it in Hboot?
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sorry its my first time posting and i didnt know what to do

If you can't open recovery you can flash it again by renaming the ROM PD98IMG.zip. What method did you use to root?

I got it to work I waited a while for the recovery to start. Then waited for it to do the recovery. Good thing I did a backup right before and I used HTC_Inspire_4G_Simple_Root_S-OFF_RC1

[q] please help!!!!

I am a SUPER NOOB... I rooted my phone and S-Off it... Was trying to flash a ROM, did not work no my phone is stuck at all white screen with HTC across it.. Please help

if you pull the battery to turn off the phone, put the battery back in and hold the volume down button while you press the power button does it take you to the bootloader? And secondly, can you get to the recovery from there?

Yes... Now the son of a gun won't even power on...

I done did something bad... It wont even power up, or charge.... Before you ask me could I get to the boot loader screen I could, but I was jacking around with all kinda of stuff now the thing won't even power up..

How long are you holding the power button to turn it on, you just need to press the power button long enough to power the device on, but keep your finger on the vol down button until you get to the bootloader. Also, do you have the updated clockwork mod recovery installed that doesn't have the charging issue. Basically, is your battery dead?

ok now i have power...

Just please help me get my phone to come on so i can use it.. I am in boot loader now(held power button and volume down button)

go to recovery

Did it... What's next? I've tried everything on the list.. Nothing, that was before I actually posted the thread...

ok, if you are in the clockwork mod recovery, from there you need to do a full wipe, "data factory reset" cant remember the exact option. after you do a full wipe then you can try to install the rom again.

"data factory reset" did.... Phone still can't get pass that same screen....

did you re-install the rom after the factory reset? Also, the rom takes a while to boot the first time.

how can I re-install a Rom if my phone cant even get pass the screen and come on for me to get to the disk drive to drag and drop the ROM?

I am new to the andriod world, so please excuse the Noob-Ness

Ok..
When you downloaded the rom did you put it on your sd card?
What rom did you flash, and how did you flash it?
Lets start there.
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And did you even read the following thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300

I put it on my SD card.... I tried to flash it, didn't work... I flash well attempted to flash it from the Recovery Mode(Power and Volume down) click "install from Sd card" and click the ROM, then rebooted...

My suggestion would be to use your computer to download a new rom from the dev section. Find a usb adapter for the micro SD card and move the new rom to it. Try flashing the new rom from CWM. Sounds to me like you got a rom that isn't for the sensation. Do you remember which rom you downloaded?

InsertCoin..I think it was me.. I just might have **** something up.. I follow the direction from the guy on Thelockr dot com.. it wasnt that hard. I just F my phone up...

How long are you waiting when you turn on your phone after flashing the rom? As I said before it takes a while to boot the first time.

At least 3 mins per go.

Desire S Stuck on startup and can't Hard-reset

Hi, i've got a big problem...
After a system crash i pull-out the battery and then pull-in to reset the device.
after that now when i turn on the telephone it remain stucked on the white screen with htc logo. tryed to factory reset but remain stucked after i press on it.
my htc has original rom. no modification. what can i do? i don't really want to spend 3 weeksfor htc assistance.
Thanks

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Have i to flash a stock rom? how can i do without remove warranty? in the case it does'nt work i have to take it to htc center

You probobly fried your EMMC chip when you removed your battery.
it would be best to return it in for repair.

I think you may have same problem with me before. No choice but to bring it to repair.
Sent from my HTC Desire S using XDA App

It was s-off before? Can you boot 2 recovery?

It's unlikely your chip is fried. This happened to my phone. You need to get into recovery - restart holding volume down button - and reflash a ROM, any one should do. The phone should reboot from there.
Edit: thus assumes you have a ROM stored on your phone, and you have Clockwork recovery or similar. If not, you can use adb to push a ROM to your card and reflash that. Adb comes with Android Developer Kit. Search!
Peace.
Sent from my HTC Desire S

chris5s said:
It's unlikely your chip is fried. This happened to my phone. You need to get into recovery - restart holding volume down button - and reflash a ROM, any one should do. The phone should reboot from there.
Edit: thus assumes you have a ROM stored on your phone, and you have Clockwork recovery or similar. If not, you can use adb to push a ROM to your card and reflash that. Adb comes with Android Developer Kit. Search!
Peace.
Sent from my HTC Desire S
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Same problem as topic poster, i,ve been messing a lot with custom roms on win 6.5 phones, but I havn´t done anything fancy on my Desire S , as to rooting or custom roms. (work phone!) Now I´m just curious as how I get a recovery going, when the PC doesent recognice the device when USB connected.
The eng-off file (mine is ON) with the .bat file cant connect to phone, and maybe im better off sending it to repair, but my pride wants me to solve it myself.
-Damn phone just went AWOL last night after an marked Angry Birds update, rebooted it a couple of times, because of a lot of process errors, and then all dead. (white HTC screen on -until morning)
Have the latest FOTA (DK, Nordic)
ROM: SAGA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
Hboot: 0,98.0002
Radio: 3805.06.02.03_M
Are there any ninja tricks or is it just a "bite down", send in?
/Psudo

psudo said:
Same problem as topic poster ....
Are there any ninja tricks or is it just a "bite down", send in?
/Psudo
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Maybe best sending it in if that's a viable option.
You say it's not rooted? With stock ROM? If there is a ROM on the sdcard that you can boot then try that - power + volume up + volume down will reboot the phone, try pressing volume down as it reboots to get into recovery.
If you can't (by pressing volume down) then power off and restart (holding volume down). I had to do a battery pull to power off - if you do this while the phone is off as it reboots, and leave it out for 30 secs you should avoid any danger of bricking the phone (which has happened with some people when removing battery while phone is in this state).
Good luck!
Peace

chris5s said:
Maybe best sending it in if that's a viable option.
You say it's not rooted? With stock ROM? If there is a ROM on the sdcard that you can boot then try that - power + volume up + volume down will reboot the phone, try pressing volume down as it reboots to get into recovery.
If you can't (by pressing volume down) then power off and restart (holding volume down). I had to do a battery pull to power off - if you do this while the phone is off as it reboots, and leave it out for 30 secs you should avoid any danger of bricking the phone (which has happened with some people when removing battery while phone is in this state).
Good luck!
Peace
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"ROM on SDcard": what format would that be in? RUU.exe or?
I can get into recovery menu (HBOOT) but chosing recovery option results in "a green recycle icon with an arrow on black background" screen, a few seconds then it virbrates 6-8 times, and then fades to black, so to speak!
Factory reset option: Locks the HBOOT screen and nothing but a battery pull, will change that.
I MAY have pulled the battery and not left it out for the 30 sec bricking danger senario, that I wasn´t aware of, until resently.
So the diag. is that is probably bricked!
Thanks for the reply
/Psudo

Rom on sdcard would have to be *.zip to be flashable. If you're unrooted + stock then you won't have Clockwork recovery or similar.
Tough that factory reset doesn't give any joy. These devices.....
Looking like masonry then, unless someone else can help.
Peace
Sent from my HTC Desire S using xda premium

surprisingly i got the same issue yesterday after i installed proxuser's official htc rom. Everything started fine went through setup so i assume it's not because of the rom because i don't think the phone would've started up in the first place. Anyway i am about to try and install some different roms and have also copied a backup over from my other desire s.
Will let you guys know if it worked.

[Q] Can't go to bootloader, always goes to ClockworkMod recovery

Hey people my first post so you can call me whatever you want
Here is the thing:
I rooted the phone, installed a custom ROM and such, on the process I guess I installed this Clockwork Mod Recovery v5.8.3.1.
Well I wanted to change the ROM so I downloaded the new one (lastest trickdroid) and follow the steps, BUT!, when trying to acces the fastboot thing on that menu that can't remeber the name of, I jsut can't get into it.
When I tart the phone pressing volume down + power, instead of going to that menu it goes to clockwork mod. I was suposed to "Flash the stock boot.img from the ROM with fastboot", but well I dont know what I did or wahtever, I can't aces that menu.
What should I do?

bobyd said:
Hey people my first post so you can call me whatever you want
Here is the thing:
I rooted the phone, installed a custom ROM and such, on the process I guess I installed this Clockwork Mod Recovery v5.8.3.1.
Well I wanted to change the ROM so I downloaded the new one (lastest trickdroid) and follow the steps, BUT!, when trying to acces the fastboot thing on that menu that can't remeber the name of, I jsut can't get into it.
When I tart the phone pressing volume down + power, instead of going to that menu it goes to clockwork mod. I was suposed to "Flash the stock boot.img from the ROM with fastboot", but well I dont know what I did or wahtever, I can't aces that menu.
What should I do?
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I am having what seems like the same issue with my phone. Just posted a thread not too long ago asking for help. One person (a SR. Member) informed me to try to restore using a NANDROID backup (which I dont have). Going off of his advice, if you have the backup, try that. If not, we both seem to have the same problem. Good luck with your issue, I will be checking both our threads for solutions from now on!

fragkiller1 said:
I am having what seems like the same issue with my phone. Just posted a thread not too long ago asking for help. One person (a SR. Member) informed me to try to restore using a NANDROID backup (which I dont have). Going off of his advice, if you have the backup, try that. If not, we both seem to have the same problem. Good luck with your issue, I will be checking both our threads for solutions from now on!
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Well, it seems we have the same problem then, we could make a club or something.

Extra Help (Maybe)
Hey again, I found some useful information that allowed me to get into my bootloader! If you are still stuck in CWM, use the volume down button to go down to the "advanced" button at the bottom of the list. Since this is a button that leads to another list and not a direct action, you can hold down the power button when highlighted over it and turn the phone off. From there, just hold Volume Down and Power as you would normally do to boot into the bootloader. Hope this helps since it worked for me!
So:
-Navigate to "advanced" (Just highlight over it)
-Hold power button for 10-15 seconds
-Phone should power off
-Volume Down + Power to boot into Bootloader
-Profit?? (Just Kidding )
Again, hope I could be of some assistance!

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well I dont know what I did. I just turned the phone off normally. Then did the power + b down, held it for about 6 seconds, relesead the power then the volume and BOM, bootlader appeared, hmmm okay I guess

Have a look at fragkiller1 thread for fixing your issue.

well now I can't even get into CWM sigh
A brief flash of a screen appears now while booting it, but it just skips to the actual OS. I have the fast boot disabled ohh man what do now? DId I mess up something?

fragkiller1 said:
Hey again, I found some useful information that allowed me to get into my bootloader! If you are still stuck in CWM, use the volume down button to go down to the "advanced" button at the bottom of the list. Since this is a button that leads to another list and not a direct action, you can hold down the power button when highlighted over it and turn the phone off. From there, just hold Volume Down and Power as you would normally do to boot into the bootloader. Hope this helps since it worked for me!
So:
-Navigate to "advanced" (Just highlight over it)
-Hold power button for 10-15 seconds
-Phone should power off
-Volume Down + Power to boot into Bootloader
-Profit?? (Just Kidding )
Again, hope I could be of some assistance!
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I did what you told me but when highlighting advanced and pressing the power button it enters the menu advanced, then the phone just noramll reboots and the OS loads.
I would have edited the post but I can't.

bobyd said:
I did what you told me but when highlighting advanced and pressing the power button it enters the menu advanced, then the phone just noramll reboots and the OS loads.
I would have edited the post but I can't.
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Try holding Vol- when turning it off and keep hold of it but quickly let go of power when it turns off.

Darknites said:
Try holding Vol- when turning it off and keep hold of it but quickly let go of power when it turns off.
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thanks it worked perfectly. I thought it only worked powering off and turining it on and holding volume down.
edit: sigh now I have another problem, after using fastboot usb with the Boot_Flash_Script from trickdroid, the phone is stuck at the the screen that says"this build is for development pourpuses only..." and it won't go further
edit2: I think I falshed a ROM for VilleC2 when I have a Ville, is there a way to fix this? the phone now is stuck at loading the screen with red words

bobyd said:
thanks it worked perfectly. I thought it only worked powering off and turining it on and holding volume down.
edit: sigh now I have another problem, after using fastboot usb with the Boot_Flash_Script from trickdroid, the phone is stuck at the the screen that says"this build is for development pourpuses only..." and it won't go further
edit2: I think I falshed a ROM for VilleC2 when I have a Ville, is there a way to fix this? the phone now is stuck at loading the screen with red words
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Ya, make sure you got the right rom and get yourself back into the bootloader and you should see recovery there then do a full wipe and flash the rom and also if you feel you might of flashed the wrong boot.img reflash it to make sure.

So it's over, all solved.
I tried to install a new ROM but CWM got me an error mounting the SD, then I installed another recovery (TWR) and installed the new ROM (viper one s) flashed the boot.img and now everthing works wonders, for now.
Thanks a lot Darknites for trying to help me I really appreaciate that

bobyd said:
So it's over, all solved.
I tried to install a new ROM but CWM got me an error mounting the SD, then I installed another recovery (TWR) and installed the new ROM (viper one s) flashed the boot.img and now everthing works wonders, for now.
Thanks a lot Darknites for trying to help me I really appreaciate that
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Np dude glad you got it sorted but ya TWRP is way better for the sd mount and if you have 1.09 or lower Hboot it can also flash boot.img.

[Q] Cant access Bootloader.. Any help appericated

I was unsing hansoons all in one method to root, got through all the steps and did the perm root, phone did a reboot and now only goes into recovery. I have found no way to get back to the bootloader. My sd card is still accessible and i tried to install a rom but that didnt help any. I found a similar issue on Android forums but im really needing to get this fixed asap. Here is the link to that thread:
http://androidforums.com/one-s-all-things-root/634726-stuck-clockworkmod-recovery-3.html#post5312076
Any help would be appericated. I have done several things already if you read from the other thread

Jayster06 said:
I was unsing hansoons all in one method to root, got through all the steps and did the perm root, phone did a reboot and now only goes into recovery. I have found no way to get back to the bootloader. My sd card is still accessible and i tried to install a rom but that didnt help any. I found a similar issue on Android forums but im really needing to get this fixed asap. Here is the link to that thread:
http://androidforums.com/one-s-all-things-root/634726-stuck-clockworkmod-recovery-3.html#post5312076
Any help would be appericated. I have done several things already if you read from the other thread
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Hold Vol- when turning it off and keep hold of it when turning it back on.

Darknites said:
Hold Vol- when turning it off and keep hold of it when turning it back on.
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That doesn't do what it should do just turns it off then sends it back to recovery

Jayster06 said:
That doesn't do what it should do just turns it off then sends it back to recovery
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Then you some how doing it wrong then because every person I said that too has said that it helped them get into the bootloader. As soon as it turns off let quickly let go off the power button but still keeping hold of Vol- and then press and hold the power button. And as added bonus flash TWRP recovery when you get into the bootloader then you wont have it booting into recovery like it's doing now.

Darknites said:
Then you some how doing it wrong then because every person I said that too has said that it helped them get into the bootloader. As soon as it turns off let quickly let go off the power button but still keeping hold of Vol- and then press and hold the power button. And as added bonus flash TWRP recovery when you get into the bootloader then you wont have it booting into recovery like it's doing now.
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All your way does as i stated on the other forum is it goes off a green line flashes across the screen, the charge light goes on and off a few times, green light flashes again and then it goes into clockwork recovery. even telling adb to reboot into bootloader does not work

Jayster06 said:
All your way does as i stated on the other forum is it goes off a green line flashes across the screen, the charge light goes on and off a few times, green light flashes again and then it goes into clockwork recovery. even telling adb to reboot into bootloader does not work
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Don't have it connect by USB that's your issue with CWM.

Darknites said:
Don't have it connect by USB that's your issue with CWM.
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it wasnt plugged in most of the time but i did finally do something that got it working. Thanks btw. The thing im curious about now is downgrading the hboot so i can get my wifi working again. Is there any simpler way to explain or do this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1990043.

Jayster06 said:
it wasnt plugged in most of the time but i did finally do something that got it working. Thanks btw. The thing im curious about now is downgrading the hboot so i can get my wifi working again. Is there any simpler way to explain or do this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1990043.
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Em not really most of it is copy and paste anyway but before doing that I think it be best you flash TWRP recovery so it should be easy to get into the bootloader again.

Darknites said:
Em not really most of it is copy and paste anyway but before doing that I think it be best you flash TWRP recovery so it should be easy to get into the bootloader again.
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i know it was saying i need linux or ubantu installed and i dont nor have i used those before

Jayster06 said:
i know it was saying i need linux or ubantu installed and i dont nor have i used those before
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Ya I never use Linux before doing so don't worry about to much but if you know what you doing with command prompt then you should do fine.