Hey all, how you doin?
I recently bought a used Desire S in very good (almost as new) condition, since a car drove over my last one and smashed it two years ago. I simply love this phone so I just had to get another one. It was factory locked, s-on, no sim-lock etc.
Bootloader stats at the moment (after unlock, s-off, downgrades and upgrades) are:
*REVOLUTIONARY*
SAGA PVT SHIP S-OFF RL
HBOOT-7.00.1002
RADIO-3831.19.00.110
eMMC-boot
Aug 22 2011, 15:22:13
My problem is following:
On my older device I had CM7 running, no problems whatsoever. On my newer Desire S, CM7 works just fine as well, but I simply can't flash CM10.1, 10.2 or 11 successfully. Flashing itself works just fine (I use 4EXT v1.0.0.6 RC1), but after the first reboot it always gets stuck at the white screen with the green HTC logo. I also flashed the boot.img files for each rom, also tried without flashing them. Tried factory resets after installations, before. I tried full wipe (all except SD), I tried normal wipe, nothing works. When I install stock 2.3.3 RUU with sense (2.10.401.5), it works just fine. When I update to 4.0.4 RUU, installation completes successfully, but then reboots and gets stuck at the white screen again. I don't even get boot loops or don't even see the CM logos. It seems like my device doesn't accept any android 4 version.
Does anyone know what could cause this? I'm searching for days and can't find anything.
Thanks.
Maybe you have HITACHI screen panel. Check this out
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1943524 and this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1970315
DragonFatura said:
Maybe you have HITACHI screen panel. Check this out
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1943524 and this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1970315
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And yes, this seems to have been the problem all along. I do have a Hitachi panel. I followed the instructions as stated in the first link, downloaded a compatible kernel to flash after the flashing of my rom and gapps. Then came the reboot, again stuck at the white screen but it seems as if the rom boots normally, just the white htc screen doesn't go away. The screen turns off after half a minute, but pushing the power button it turns on again (as if I unlock). When I put my finger on the screen, I hear the button sounds as if I was typing in the PIN, it also vibrates. So it's like the screen is just there and hides everything behind it. Any ideas why?
modernaire said:
And yes, this seems to have been the problem all along. I do have a Hitachi panel. I followed the instructions as stated in the first link, downloaded a compatible kernel to flash after the flashing of my rom and gapps. Then came the reboot, again stuck at the white screen but it seems as if the rom boots normally, just the white htc screen doesn't go away. The screen turns off after half a minute, but pushing the power button it turns on again (as if I unlock). When I put my finger on the screen, I hear the button sounds as if I was typing in the PIN, it also vibrates. So it's like the screen is just there and hides everything behind it. Any ideas why?
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Hmm I have had this similar type if thing on HTC desire just let it load it could take a long time if it still there take battery out and try again.
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lilsafbig said:
Hmm I have had this similar type if thing on HTC desire just let it load it could take a long time if it still there take battery out and try again.
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The thing is, there doesn't seem to be anything that's loading. It looks like the rom booted up normally, up to the "enter pin" screen, waiting for me to enter the pin. Which I can't do since the htc logo is still in front of it. Took the battery out a couple of times, flashed anew also, tried another release, too. Nothing works. I left it for over half an hour to see if anything chances, the screen just goes out after a minute as if the rom is there. Pushing the power button lights the screen up again (phone doesn't go out when the screen goes off). Maybe a different rom?
modernaire said:
The thing is, there doesn't seem to be anything that's loading. It looks like the rom booted up normally, up to the "enter pin" screen, waiting for me to enter the pin. Which I can't do since the htc logo is still in front of it. Took the battery out a couple of times, flashed anew also, tried another release, too. Nothing works. I left it for over half an hour to see if anything chances, the screen just goes out after a minute as if the rom is there. Pushing the power button lights the screen up again (phone doesn't go out when the screen goes off). Maybe a different rom?
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Try another rom.
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lilsafbig said:
Try another rom.
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Tried, didn't boot at all. I can't stand seeing that HTC logo screen over and over again.
I can't help but wondering why it doesn't go away after flashing CM10+kernel, since it
seems to boot normally. Except I don't see it behind the white screen
OK, just flashed Balele V2.1 ROM, with the kernel for 4.0 version and it works!
So if anyone should ever have the same problem, here's a solution!
modernaire said:
OK, just flashed Balele V2.1 ROM, with the kernel for 4.0 version and it works!
So if anyone should ever have the same problem, here's a solution!
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Maybe it was the Kernel? Idk
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Ok, I go into hboot and select recovery so I can flash the gingerbread rom I downloaded. It wont load into recovery. I tried to go through Rom Manager too, but it just goes to a black screen with no commands? Anyone have help for this? I have pulled battery and reloaded to hboot, tried rom manager and flashed clockwork from there.
Thanks for any help!
iphonedefector said:
Ok, I go into hboot and select recovery so I can flash the gingerbread rom I downloaded. It wont load into recovery. I tried to go through Rom Manager too, but it just goes to a black screen with no commands? Anyone have help for this? I have pulled battery and reloaded to hboot, tried rom manager and flashed clockwork from there.
Thanks for any help!
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Read post #2400 for to fix your problem with black screen.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=961406&page=240
Thank you!
I will have to do this later. As I am exchanging my Inspire, since I scratched it getting the battery case off. My rep said no worries just bring it and he will give me a new one. So I unrooted it for tonight. And will re root tomorrow.
Mine does the same thing. I just use rom manager to flash, and when it goes to a black screen, just lay the phone down and wait. (may take up to 5 minutes or so) It will eventually restart with the new rom/kernel or whatever. At first i thought it wasn't doing anything, but i later found out it IS flashing, I just cant see it. Restarting/pulling battery during the black screen could result in a brick due to it actually working but you not seeing it, so be careful. Good Luck.
Bamatide2007 said:
Mine does the same thing. I just use rom manager to flash, and when it goes to a black screen, just lay the phone down and wait. (may take up to 5 minutes or so) It will eventually restart with the new rom/kernel or whatever. At first i thought it wasn't doing anything, but i later found out it IS flashing, I just cant see it. Restarting/pulling battery during the black screen could result in a brick due to it actually working but you not seeing it, so be careful. Good Luck.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=961406
D/L the one click, He added a one Click for ENG S-Off which will fix the black screen problem in cwm
Thanks will try that when i get home.
Bamatide2007 said:
Thanks will try that when i get home.
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I would try much safer methods to fix your fade to black screen than running Eng S-Off. A bad install using Eng S-Off is the easiest way of bricking your phone, PLUS you just don't need Eng S-Off for anything.
Pulling the battery while in the black screen will niy brick your phone. CWM Recovery is actually running you just can see the screen. How do I know? Run a backup in Rom Manager. It will eventually reboot and you can check if the backup was successfully by doing selecting restore in Rom Manager which will show the backup you just performed.
You can pull the battery when you see the black screen but even easier is just press the power button.
If you want a safe method to correct the black screen just look at my post on the first page if this thread.
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I just tried to use this method on my Inspire today and there was an error when flashing back to the stock AT&T ROM after gaining S-OFF and root. When I try to start up the phone normally, it gets stuck on the HTC screen. When I try to boot into recovery, it just shows a black screen while the LED is green.
Anybody know what I can do to fix my phone?
xr2unitx said:
I just tried to use this method on my Inspire today and there was an error when flashing back to the stock AT&T ROM after gaining S-OFF and root. When I try to start up the phone normally, it gets stuck on the HTC screen. When I try to boot into recovery, it just shows a black screen while the LED is green.
Anybody know what I can do to fix my phone?
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which root method did you use?
I used the one click root method.
xr2unitx said:
I just tried to use this method on my Inspire today and there was an error when flashing back to the stock AT&T ROM after gaining S-OFF and root. When I try to start up the phone normally, it gets stuck on the HTC screen. When I try to boot into recovery, it just shows a black screen while the LED is green.
Anybody know what I can do to fix my phone?
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Here you go...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...8#post12393978
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Here you go...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...8#post12393978
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Sorry your link doesn't seem to work.
If you press the down volume and hold power can you get to hboot?
Try using bubby's tool to fix the CWM black screen. Its under the fixes link.
I can't seem to access any sort of recovery or hboot. Holding down both volume buttons and turning the phone on will result in the black screen with green LED. Holding the down volume button and turning the phone on does nothing.
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Sorry your link doesn't seem to work.
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Sorry go to Bubbys super one step and search for CWM black screen....
If it helps, the phone vibrates 5 times then shows a black screen.
Well I was able to get into HBOOT but when I tried to go into recovery, the screen would just turn black.
You need to get the stock rooted PD98IMG.zip into the root of your sd card. Then go to hboot and let the phone find it. Follow on screen instructions. Note the progress bar will be vertical on upper right. I bet that fixes you up on getting the phone working. Black screen on cwm is a whole nother issue. One that I share. I think I'm going to revert to stock unrooted and then our attn1 hack kit.
There is a solution you can eng s-off, but I would not advise this there is no need to eng s-off your phone.
The simplest way though it may take longer is to, revert to stock and reroot and s-off with the hack kit.
This is a very common problem with the one click. To be honest there is a thread made just like this twice a day.
Thanks for all the help everyone. I managed to fix everything on my phone. I just flashed the rooted AT&T stock ROM with HBOOT and then used the one-click ENG S-OFF method to fix the black screen on CWM. Now running CM7 perfectly. I'm glad I no longer have to send it back to AT&T.
kinder gentler XDA i guess. Last year posts like these would have been flamed right off the board. Thats not a bad thing, but new people are wasting everyones F'ing time with these posts.
RTFM! w/e it is you decide to do , how about looking for help in the dam thread you downloaded the stuff from? I duno maybe we have a bunch of people brand new to Forums or something.
Ok I don't mean to thread jack, I just didn't want to start a new thread for this. I've been running the Coredroid Rom since I first rooted my phone. I have never had any problems with my phone even when trying out other roms. Today I tried installing the new Coredroid 5.0. It all went well as usual except this time on the last step of the setup wizard, it said something like "setup has stopped working unexpectedly and will notify HTC" and only let me press ok to force close.
After that happened all I couldn't even go to my home screen. I then tried restarting my phone but got stuck on the Coredroid rotating logo. Only way out of that was to pull the battery cover. Tried going into recovery mode but the screen would just be black and I would have the orange light flashing. That didn't work so I tried restarting again. Again just got stuck on the spinning logo.....This is where **** gets weird. I began to receive a call while on the logo and that allowed me to answer thus leaving the spinning logo. I still could not go to my home screen. I could only use the drop down notifications menu. I restarted my phone again so I could call myself while on the logo and again it got me unstuck from the logo. Only way to fix every thing was to use the search option and run Rom Manager and recover from my previous back up.
So I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else? I always fallow instructions and hardly ever have any problems but this was just odd. I felt like I had to solve riddles in order to get my phone working again.
See if you can boot to bootloader by means of ADB (adb reboot bootloader). If so reflash the stock rooted rom then reload CWM. You might need to Eng-S off if you have a corrupt file / bootloader? When done reflash CorDroid 5.0 (What I am running by the way)....
black htc screen
I tried to root my phone like an idiot because I dont know anything about this stuff and I got a black htc screen and i cant do anything. HELP!!
I see a lot of motivation in this and other threads to leave well-enough alone. Going to leave mine unrooted-stock.
I just had an excellent session of Google Nav where it performed exemplary. My phone does all I need and remains within the rules as the OEM wants it.
kadukasan said:
I tried to root my phone like an idiot because I dont know anything about this stuff and I got a black htc screen and i cant do anything. HELP!!
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check out this thread --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1019868
So i woke up to a non-responding phone this morning. Power-On would not work. Rebooted by taking off battery. It is stuck on HTC boot screen. I can go into Hboot and i can go up/down the menu but whenever i wanna select an option with the power button it will go straight to the HTC boot screen and im stuck again.
Im using AlphaRev S-off Hboot 6.98.1002, Radio-38.03.02.11_M, eMMC-boot. I installed it last year and its working fine since then. I havent fiddled around with it since then.
I dont care about the data on the phone. I just want it working again. So any solution is okay with me.
Is there some kind of self-flashing/installing rom i can put on the sd-card so i dont have to use the hboot menu?
UPDATE:
I managed to install another rom. Everything worked fine during installation. Then the first startup took ages. When asked to enter sim-code the touchscreen was not responsive at all. Meaning it did not react to anything. Power-On button is functioning a bit weird - sometimes not working at all , sometimes with delay.
Is this some kind of known bug or is the phone broken?
chronixx said:
So i woke up to a non-responding phone this morning. Power-On would not work. Rebooted by taking off battery. It is stuck on HTC boot screen. I can go into Hboot and i can go up/down the menu but whenever i wanna select an option with the power button it will go straight to the HTC boot screen and im stuck again.
Im using AlphaRev S-off Hboot 6.98.1002, Radio-38.03.02.11_M, eMMC-boot. I installed it last year and its working fine since then. I havent fiddled around with it since then.
I dont care about the data on the phone. I just want it working again. So any solution is okay with me.
Is there some kind of self-flashing/installing rom i can put on the sd-card so i dont have to use the hboot menu?
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I managed to install another rom. Everything worked fine during installation. Then the first startup took ages. When asked to enter sim-code the touchscreen was not responsive at all. Meaning it did not react to anything. Power-On button is functioning a bit weird - sometimes not working at all , sometimes with delay.
Is this some kind of known bug or is the phone broken?
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Best solution is RUU. If problem persists, consult your phone to work properly. :silly:
Can i use this RUU: RUU_Saga_S_HTC_Europe_2.10.401.8_Radio_20.4801.30. 0822U_3822.10.08.04_M_release_225161_signed
My cid is HTC_102. Going with this list: http://dl.xda-developers.com/attach...ebac192b94b/4ff064d8/1/0/5/6/9/2/8/Cidnum.txt
I cant find a GER_ one.
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Can i use this RUU: RUU_Saga_S_HTC_Europe_2.10.401.8_Radio_20.4801.30. 0822U_3822.10.08.04_M_release_225161_signed
My cid is HTC_102. Going with this list: http://dl.xda-developers.com/attach...ebac192b94b/4ff064d8/1/0/5/6/9/2/8/Cidnum.txt
I cant find a GER_ one.
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If you have a GoldCard, you shouldn't worry about that. If you don't, then you should.
Im in the actual android system again now. It worked for like 5 minutes, flawlessly. Now im back to freezing and total lock up again.
When my phone turns on it goes to the white htc screen and then continues to vibrate like its crazy, after that it hangs at a black screen, i tried everything, even flashing the PD98IMG file, still nothing, any help would be amazing!
thegoob said:
When my phone turns on it goes to the white htc screen and then continues to vibrate like its crazy, after that it hangs at a black screen, i tried everything, even flashing the PD98IMG file, still nothing, any help would be amazing!
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If you can access recovery try full wipe then reflash a rom.
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thegoob said:
When my phone turns on it goes to the white htc screen and then continues to vibrate like its crazy, after that it hangs at a black screen, i tried everything, even flashing the PD98IMG file, still nothing, any help would be amazing!
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What have u flashed? It sounds like a messed bootloader.
glevitan said:
What have u flashed? It sounds like a messed bootloader.
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this isnt exactly my phone, my buds daughter had it and he had it rooted and cm7 on it, well it wasnt working so she called att and they sent her to htc because it was out of warranty, the guy at htc had her do a factory reset and it work now, i tried flashing everything from recoveries to the PD98IMG with no success....and S-off is there...
I hace the Sam problem but just pull out battery and start in recivery mode fullwipe and restore backup rom and magic its all ok again
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So I seem to be having the same problem the phone boots to white HTC screen then goes to the lock screen. After the lockscreen pops up the phone shuts off. The phone isn't mine I just told the guy I'd look at it he already took it to At&t and they did a factory reset without backing up the recovery. It is unrooted on stock rom hboot blah blah blah. I am not familiar with this device myself but I am familiar with other HTC's such as the Evo 3G and Droid Incredible. I assume what I can do is run the RUU for the Inspire and reflash the ROM that way without root.
bhatt86 said:
So I seem to be having the same problem the phone boots to white HTC screen then goes to the lock screen. After the lockscreen pops up the phone shuts off. The phone isn't mine I just told the guy I'd look at it he already took it to At&t and they did a factory reset without backing up the recovery. It is unrooted on stock rom hboot blah blah blah. I am not familiar with this device myself but I am familiar with other HTC's such as the Evo 3G and Droid Incredible. I assume what I can do is run the RUU for the Inspire and reflash the ROM that way without root.
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You will only able to flash a official signed RUU if you are not S-OFF...but a factory reset should have been enough. If the issue keeps ocurring then take it again to Service Centre.
Ok so about a month ago i bought an htc one mini m4 from att and since i think im pretty well trained on installing custom roms and such i thought i would do this to my htc. Well i did everything like normal flashed twrp and booted into it made a back up and so on and rebooted fine. so the next day i was gonna flash a rom for it i dont remember which one it was. But when i woke up my phone was off so i plugged it in and thats when this started im in a boot loop as far as the splash screen htc logo but when i try to go into fastboot mode about a second or 2 into hboot it boot loops and keeps doing it over and over and over again. I been looking for a way to fix it but i dont see nothing like this and this is a first time for me as far as the bootloader boot loop goes... Does anyone have any knowledge of how to fix this??? i would appreciate any help!!!!!
oh and my hboot is tampered relocked and s on
hboot is 2.22 and os is 3.10
i dont remember locking it back i might have but idk!!!
and i have no factory reset or recovery now to!!!! smh :crying::crying::crying::crying:
Just to confirm, it is rebooting even when you are at the hboot screen?
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Just to confirm, it is rebooting even when you are at the hboot screen?
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yes exactly what its doing then it goes from there to htc splash screen over and over again.
Do you know anything about this???
I had a boot loop while attempting to install IC 3.0.3 but the hboot screen let me choose the options and stayed there for as long a I wanted.
When you plug it into your PC or laptop can you hear the USB recognised chime for any time?
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DezBucks said:
I had a boot loop while attempting to install IC 3.0.3 but the hboot screen let me choose the options and stayed there for as long a I wanted.
When you plug it into your PC or laptop can you hear the USB recognised chime for any time?
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yes I can hear it like its connected but it doesn't stop bootlooping and keeps chiming everytime it does