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[Q] Help Flashing a Rom

I have been trying to flash a certain rom but every time that I try to flash it it goes through the process through clockwork and says it worked but then it starts to start the phone again and it gets stuck at the HTC white screen. I have been trying to flash RCMix3D KINGDOM v1.0. I have tried it about 4 times and every time I try it does this. Please Help.

Kent Melton said:
I have been trying to flash a certain rom but every time that I try to flash it it goes through the process through clockwork and says it worked but then it starts to start the phone again and it gets stuck at the HTC white screen. I have been trying to flash RCMix3D KINGDOM v1.0. I have tried it about 4 times and every time I try it does this. Please Help.
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check out the GENERAL FIXES section in this thread --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1033353 maybe it will help out with your issue

stop flashing it through rom manager and actually go into cwm, and wipe data,cache,dalvik manually then flash the rom.
the guide he linked you to has that process listed in detail.

i have read in different forums that rom manager is not auto wiping data correctly.. best way around this is to reboot into clockwork mod, go to mounts and storage, wipe cache, data, and system. go to advances and also wipe dalvik cache. then re flash rom and reboot.. also be patient not all roms boot on the first boot at a fast speed. hope this helps

Thank you so much! One problem, every time I get into hboot it won't let me do anything and it starts to apply something... Is it trying to reinstall the PD98IMG that I have on my SD card? I still have that from rooing. Do I still need it?
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Kent Melton said:
Thank you so much! One problem, every time I get into hboot it won't let me do anything and it starts to apply something... Is it trying to reinstall the PD98IMG that I have on my SD card? I still have that from rooing. Do I still need it?
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You have to wait about 20 seconds, until you can do anything.
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Kent Melton said:
One problem, every time I get into hboot it won't let me do anything and it starts to apply something... Is it trying to reinstall the PD98IMG that I have on my SD card? I still have that from rooing. Do I still need it?
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That is exactly what is happening. Move it out of the cards root directory. Then things will cooperate with you. Good luck.

Thanks! Where should I move it to? I just have it just sitting on my SD card not in any folders or anything.
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try removing it completely then re flash custom rom of your choice

steevod79 said:
try removing it completely then re flash custom rom of your choice
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And Wipe Cache/data/Dalvik
The above will prevent sooooooo many bootloops.

But will that do anything bad?
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Kent Melton said:
But will that do anything bad?
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If your referring to removing the PD98IMG zip, no that not bad at all...once its flashed...you dont need it on your SD card anymore.
And if your referring to wiping cache, data dalvik....thats standard practice before flashing any rom....so no, not bad.

Thank you so much! You guys are great!!!!
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[Q]Stuck on boot animation after CWM Restore.

So I flashed CoreDroid HD GB 2.3.3 V7.0 to my phone earlier coming from CM7.0.3. I cleared /data, /cache, dalvik cache, and my battery stats before flash. I of course made a backup in CWM before hand. So I decided I didn't like the ROM so I ran CWM recovery, there were no errors but when I rebooted it got stuck on the boot animation. I removed the battery several times and tried rebooting but it just keeps getting stuck on the boot animation. Sooooooo, any ideas?

Sounds like a bad nandroid I think. Try to flash a new fresh ROM and see if its boot and then try to flash the back up. If it still doesn't work then sorry your gonna have to start fresh
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XAviierG said:
Sounds like a bad nandroid I think. Try to flash a new fresh ROM and see if its boot and then try to flash the back up. If it still doesn't work then sorry your gonna have to start fresh
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How do I boot into CWM from Phone Off?

MrMickeyMoose said:
How do I boot into CWM from Phone Off?
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Boot into hboot with volume down and power and click recovery
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XAviierG said:
Boot into hboot with volume down and power and click recovery
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volume buttons dont change selection, it just sits there then searches for PD98IMG.zip

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volume buttons dont change selection, it just sits there then searches for PD98IMG.zip
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Does it find the PD98IMG?
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Does it find the PD98IMG?
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yes but the file that i have named PD98IMG.zip is just a boot splash.
EDIT oops my bad its a radio.

MrMickeyMoose said:
yes but the file that i have named PD98IMG.zip is just a boot splash.
EDIT oops my bad its a radio.
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take out your sd card and after it can't find the PD98IMG put it back in and press volume down and press power on recovery
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XAviierG said:
take out your sd card and after it can't find the PD98IMG put it back in and press volume down and press power on recovery
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SIR, YOU ARE A GENIUS OF HERCULEAN PROPORTIONS! I flashed an older backup and I'm up and running again! THANK YOU!

take out your sd card and after it can't find the PD98IMG put it back in and press volume down and press power on recovery
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SIR, YOU ARE A GENIUS OF HERCULEAN PROPORTIONS! I flashed an older backup and I'm up and running again! THANK YOU!
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Glad to help. Goodluck in the future!
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MrMickeyMoose said:
So I flashed CoreDroid HD GB 2.3.3 V7.0 to my phone earlier coming from CM7.0.3. I cleared /data, /cache, dalvik cache, and my battery stats before flash. I of course made a backup in CWM before hand. So I decided I didn't like the ROM so I ran CWM recovery, there were no errors but when I rebooted it got stuck on the boot animation. I removed the battery several times and tried rebooting but it just keeps getting stuck on the boot animation. Sooooooo, any ideas?
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This happened to me once. I suggest whenever the radio/whatever is successfully flashed through hboot, delete any PDIMG98.img from your SD card immediately. It makes restore back-up events much less of an event...I didn't know the removal / reinsert the SD card trick...I reasoned I needed to get that file off my card so ran to Radio Shack just before close to get a micro SD card reader, so I could delete PDIMG98 using my PC...just removing and re-inserting the card really works huh? Cool .

meiguoguizi said:
This happened to me once. I suggest whenever the radio/whatever is successfully flashed through hboot, delete any PDIMG98.img from your SD card immediately. It makes restore back-up events much less of an event...I didn't know the removal / reinsert the SD card trick...I reasoned I needed to get that file off my card so ran to Radio Shack just before close to get a micro SD card reader, so I could delete PDIMG98 using my PC...just removing and re-inserting the card really works huh? Cool .
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Yeah I was in my car and I was in a bootloop and had a PD98IMG file on my root and I couldn't get in touch with a computer so I thought and tried that and sure enough it worked!
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XAviierG said:
Yeah I was in my car and I was in a bootloop and had a PD98IMG file on my root and I couldn't get in touch with a computer so I thought and tried that and sure enough it worked!
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Nice! Well I get a micro SD card reader out of it anyway...I guess I should have one...

meiguoguizi said:
Nice! Well I get a micro SD card reader out of it anyway...I guess I should have one...
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Yeah same here I bought one before I did that haha
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meiguoguizi said:
This happened to me once. I suggest whenever the radio/whatever is successfully flashed through hboot, delete any PDIMG98.img from your SD card immediately. It makes restore back-up events much less of an event...I didn't know the removal / reinsert the SD card trick...I reasoned I needed to get that file off my card so ran to Radio Shack just before close to get a micro SD card reader, so I could delete PDIMG98 using my PC...just removing and re-inserting the card really works huh? Cool .
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I should have said get it off the root of your SD card post flash. There are reasons to keep a copy of your radio flash on your phone. Just not in the root directory of course...

stuck at boot animation of the cyanogen cat
Hi Guys,
I am a newbie and I had recently flashed cyanogenmod t0lteatt stable version on to my SGH-T889V which was working perfectly fine.
I took a nandroid backup after installing the above
My original baseband was t889vvlucmk4 and was working fine with cyanogenmod
Later on I thought of installing the fancy DN3 v5+ rom
I did not see that this one is for a different model of Note 2.. i.e. it was for aN7100 version and resulted in a BASEBAND UNKNOWN and thus no signal.
I tried wipe cache / wipe reset factory and wipe dalvik and restore the nandroid backup ...
Now I am stuck in Cyanogenmod boot animation.
I waited for at least 15-20 minutes. Nothing happened
Any Tips and tricks ?

Dude. U flashed a froyo Samsung ROM to an inspire. Not good!!!
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phone stuck in hboot

So my phone is in hboot... it's s-off for sure.. I have flashed many roms and whatnot with no issues. So I reboot my phone today, and it boots to hboot screen.
I've tried to get it to go past but nada. It checks for SD card then i can't select recovery or anything..
Also I thought I got an ATT stock img, was just going to try to redo it or whatnot, put that on roo, and it gets stuck parsing..
Any help would be appriciated.

Also... It's almost like the volume down is stuck on, because it seems to function and then won't let me move after it scans for SD IMG.

Did it just reboot into hboot on its own or did you put a pd98img on it and now it is stuck?
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If you have an image on card do the following. Take out sd. Boot into hboot. Scroll down to recovery but don't press. Put sd back in and then select recovery. If there is a pd98img it won't let you do anything except flash the image. If its corrupt than it won't do anything.
Always remove pd98img from card after using. Hboot menu is inaccessible with a pd98img on sd card.
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Took SD card out.. Still booting to that hboot ya know with the fastboot, recovery, simlock, ect.
Can't move on the menu once booted.
And it got stuck on htc sense. Basically pulled battery then my phone had a bad day.

Like gizmoe said pd98img file will cause like 90% of boot loop
Or if you have a card reader just use that to delete the pd98 file
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So my phone won't boot even with the SD card not in it... and it happened before I put that img on the root.

You've got to have an IMG on there. Find a way to delete it and you'll be good.
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xtremedelta said:
Took SD card out.. Still booting to that hboot ya know with the fastboot, recovery, simlock, ect.
Can't move on the menu once booted.
And it got stuck on htc sense. Basically pulled battery then my phone had a bad day.
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Did you try putting card back in before moving through hboot menu? Just leave it out while entering hboot and it will skip the file check and then put sd back in. Then try to make a selection.
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Gizmoe said:
Did you try putting card back in before moving through hboot menu? Just leave it out while entering hboot and it will skip the file check and then put sd back in. Then try to make a selection.
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I did this before, it does work, OP.
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yeah ... no dice... ...
Powered up with no SD, then put SD after file skip. Still can't select recovery or reboot or anything. ...

so I signed up for ATT warranty replacement..... hoping they don't notice the s-off lmao!

Why don't you just get a SD reader, delete the IMG and move on? AT&T will notice the S-Off and won't fix it. The Service Center will.
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xtremedelta said:
so I signed up for ATT warranty replacement..... hoping they don't notice the s-off lmao!
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They will definitely notice and will not honor your warranty. Sounds like hboot became corrupt somehow. If you have a card reader you could try using genepooles s-on tool. You might still be able to run a pd98img. That way you will be s-on and can send it in.
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thanks I'll try it... any of you know a good download for factory img? and If i get that I'll try the s-on.

Go here stock rom
Scroll down to third post for pd98img
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so I'm still playing with it... It looks like it gets stuck on parsing, then I can hit down to cancel, but thatssss about it.

so I fixed it... the method for this fix is quite complex but it worked for me.
1. Got an otterbox.
2. Enclosed phone in otterbox.
3. Got really ticked off and threw the phone at the wall.
4. Now it's working .
Really I think the issue was with the volume down key, and me chunking the phone must have rattled something right.. If only I could get duct tape involved somewhere this would truely be a legit fix.
Also thanks the people that replied really did reach out to help.. Cheers mates!

quick reply on this.. so the volume key is still a factor in this thing... Due to this I my phone is booting in a "Safe Mode" so I'm going to see what options I have to put it in an S-ON and install AT&T stock rom,,, doing this I would hope the engineers that diagnose the phones won't see the previous root.
So if anyone has any suggestions while I navigate the boards for a s-on / AT&T stock rom let me know...
Only hiccup I might meet is actually getting the img zip to load to actually flash the device,, I'm thinking the S-ON is the most important thing however.

Here is a link to a pd98img to put on sd card that will do the unroot process. It's your best bet. s on pd98img
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Only starts in Recovery Mode - HELP!

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

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

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

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

I'm glad I was of some assistance, just pass it on when given the opportunity.
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Problem booting up after using thunderbolt restore...

I had my TB running Zeus Skyraider. I was having some minor issues but nothing that really scared me. I decided to restore it/unroot it in case I had to bring it in. I used the app thunderbolt restore. Now it won't boot past the white "HTC" screen and it only says HTC, no "Quietly brilliant". I can get to the bootloader but it automatically tries to install a update and won't let me do anything other than reboot. I'm really scared I bricked my phone. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I should probably also mention that it did boot up once and everything looked fine, and then I tried to install a verizon OTA update. That is when it started really having problems.

You might yet clearing your cache.
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But I can't even get to recovery. The bootloader won't let me.

After the bootloader checks IMG150 or whatever it asks if I want to start update. Whatever I say it just leads to the plain HTC screen again. It also says "***LOCKED***" at the top of the screen. Is my phone completely locked?

The bootloader is locked. Perhaps flash an RUU to return to stock rather than an ota.
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Ok, I am pretty bad at this stuff. Can someone point me to an appropriate RUU. I don't know what I should use. Does the radio I had before restoring matter or anything like that? I just want to know exactly what I am doing before I do it.

Okay, Zeus is gingerbread, so if you were running that, then you are best served flashing one of the gingerbread RUU files. You most certainly do NOT want to flash a froyo version.
Development Stickies have them. Read up on how to flash it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1310014
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1225752
So is this one I can use? It's the Verizon stock gingerbread RUU.

Remove sd
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Actually bootloader says my radio is 1.xxxxxx

I don't know how to flash an RUU as an executable file, cannot say about the link you show.
Skyraider Zeus ran fine on the phone? The gingerbread version?
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Yeah, it ran very nicely. I used thunderbolt restore and it worked it booted up fine. Then I tried to install the newest Verizon update and it won't even boot up now.

Flash a gingerbread RUU
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In Hboot it says I have radio 1.48.00.0906w_1
That's not a GB radio is it?

jcbsides said:
In Hboot it says I have radio 1.48.00.0906w_1
That's not a GB radio is it?
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Yes.
Remove the SD and then try to factory reset from the bootloader.
If it doesn't work remove the PG05IMG.zip off of the SD and then rename this https://dl.dropbox.com/u/61129367/Stock-ROM.zip to PG05IMG.zip and put it on the SD and then boot to the bootloader and run it. Then remove the file from the card and try to boot.

So nothing ITT seemed like it helped because the phone was not booting up all the way, but this morning it was on and everything was working so, I think it is at least in a state where I can take it to a verizon store and see what they can do about it. Thanks for all of the advise everyone.

Delete

Oops wrong thread.
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jcbsides said:
Yeah, it ran very nicely. I used thunderbolt restore and it worked it booted up fine. Then I tried to install the newest Verizon update and it won't even boot up now.
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So Thunderbolt restore successfully got you to an old stock rom that ran fine?