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did i brick my hero? never ending boot up loop

i have been running damagecontrol 2.0.8 and over the last few days had some weird forced closes and then last night my sense clock and stuff dissapeared. When trying to go into settings - > application management it would force close also. So i downloaded the damagecontrol rom again, put on my SD, went into recovery and wiped everything. For some dumb reason i also wiped the SD card.
so i put the rom back on SD, and flashed. nope, i didnt nandroid after deleted it. OOPS! and of course im an idiot and didnt ever copy my nandroid to PC
so anyways, i have flashed the rom a few times now and im stuck in a never ending HTC/Sprint boot up loop. I've tried everything I can think of and nothing will boot the phone.
Any ideas or am i screwed?

Nope youre bricked......
ok so do this:
Make sure you wipe everything, sd card included (0 for ext, 0 for swap, all for FAT)
The copy the rom back to the phone and flash again...
Worst case is to run the RUU1.56.
Oh yeah post this in general next time.
Mods will probably move it - if so thats where your thread went.

lol your NOT bricked. Bricked means no way to recover. If you can still get to your recovery screen your fine. Like the last post says boot to recovery go to the wipe screen and wipe every category Data / sd extension / other ones arent really necessary. Pick a ROM put it on your card flash and enjoy. oh then MAKE A BACKUP!

menzo44 said:
lol your NOT bricked. Bricked means no way to recover. If you can still get to your recovery screen your fine. Like the last post says boot to recovery go to the wipe screen and wipe every category Data / sd extension / other ones arent really necessary. Pick a ROM put it on your card flash and enjoy. oh then MAKE A BACKUP!
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Forgot my <Sarcasm> </Sarcasm> tags again

power off, remove your sd card, and power on.
You most likely have something screwy in your ext partition.

Had this same issue...
I wiped everything (factory reset, davlik cache, etc)...flashed the ROM again. Had no luck. My phone came back for about 2 minutes...and was running insanely slow and freezing up after every button press. Tried running a nanoid restore...with no avail. I ended up getting my phone replaced with a reconditioned model. And it actually feels better than the new one I was using, lol.

I don't know what peoples problems with a reconditioned piece of equipment is. If I have the option to buy refurb at a store I do - simply put: A company cannot afford to test EVERY thing that is spit of the production line, they grab every say 100th one.
IN THEORY:
Each and EVERY refurb is tested and inspected, so its really almost garunteed that you will get a better product. Unless of course the QA person is a moron/lazy - which actually maybe the case with refurb heros...have seen a few horror stories.

I had something like this happen too. It would get stuck on the boot screen in a loop. I was able to get into recovery, but it could not read the SD card at all. I had to format the SD card and flash a new rom. I'm wondrering if it's because I dropped the phone and that cause the SD card data to be corrupted.

I may have bricked my HERO2000 trying to flash a custom ROM.

I'm new to this whole flashing custom ROMS business. I have a CDMA HTC Hero 2000 and I downgraded to the original 2.1 before the update just fine, rooted my phone just fine. Then I tried to flash Aloysius to it using instructions I found here: [Complete Guide] How To Flash A Custom ROM To Your Android Phone With ROM Manager + Full Backup & Restore | Android News, Reviews, Applications, Games, Phones, Devices, Tips, Mods, Videos, Podcasts - Android Police
After all was said and done, my phone starts to boot with the "HTC quitely brilliant" logo, following by "SPRINT the Now network" logo and after it shows "Now" for many seconds (as it normally does before pulling up the home screen), it reverts back to the HTC logo and repeats this process until I remove the battery.
I removed the microSD and attempted to boot, same thing. Then I held down HOME+BACK+POWER to do a manual hard reset, this took a little longer but again had the same result.
I may just cry now. Please help!!

Run the official sprint ruu, and see what that does for u. Then read the rooting guide here on xda and try it. I personally recommend amon ra recovery to flash roms, rom manger never seemed to work right. Feel free to pm for more help, dont worry u prob arent bricked unless u flashed a gsm rom (which aloysius isn't)
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App

That's a bootloop not a brick You could try downloading a different rom and flashing it in recovery, nandroid restoring - if you made one, or flashing the same rom again. just wipe your phone before (data/cache/dalvik)

Didn't get a chance to get on here until now but I fixed it last night.
I did this by going back into reboot recovery mode (by pressing HOME and POWER), going to partition settings, COMPLETELY wiping everything on the sd card, mounting the USB and dragging a new ROM .zip file onto it. (I tired this twice without completely wiping and the phone continued to have problems booting.
The flash worked fine that time and all has been well. Turns out the first one I was trying to apply to it was just an upgrade.
Thanks everyone for your help, makes perfect sense now.

chrisdegraw said:
Didn't get a chance to get on here until now but I fixed it last night.
I did this by going back into reboot recovery mode (by pressing HOME and POWER), going to partition settings, COMPLETELY wiping everything on the sd card, mounting the USB and dragging a new ROM .zip file onto it. (I tired this twice without completely wiping and the phone continued to have problems booting.
The flash worked fine that time and all has been well. Turns out the first one I was trying to apply to it was just an upgrade.
Thanks everyone for your help, makes perfect sense now.
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Four key words to remember when trying out any new rom
Nandroid is your friend!
additionally, you should always remember to wipe before loading a new rom!
Enjoy!

Yeah, don't ever panic, that was, as everyone said, a bootloop by textbook definition. I've never seen a brick before, but I'm damn sure it won't get as far as the Sprint logo. The only way to brick a CDMA Hero is to flash a GSM Radio/Bootloader to it.

[Q] cynamod v5 & v6 lock up at the boot screen logo (not the G1 logo)

Hello.
I've followed the wiki to install a cyna firmware onto my G1, but except for one time, it just locks up at the boot logo (android thingy for v6, the color thingy on v5). You know, what gets displayed after the G1.
And I haven't found anything about that, just about if it locks up at the G1.
The first time it didn't lock up, but the apps were erroring up, and after a reboot, it started locking at the boot thingy (sorry, don't know what to call it).
This is the process I used:
flash the dream rom (rc29)
hit enter twice on default screen, type in telnetd, hit enter
download telnet, use it to flash Ramen's thingy, RA-dreamv1.7.0
reboot after it installs, and boot into it.
use it to install the radio for t-mobile
reboot
install danger spl
reboot
install cynamod & tiny google apps
reboot
lockup on the boot graphics
I've done this a few times, use the thing to clear caches and even usb fastboot to clear the system.
Mistakes I've made along the way:
Was given the EB1 rom instead of the CMv6 rom at first. That never made it past the G1 logo, figured it out quick, and was able to boot into recovery and recover.
I also once forgot to do the google apps till after I rebooted the cynamod v6. I haven't done a usb fastboot system wipe though since that.
I'm currently without internet, cept my cell phone, and since I haven't found the tmobile current rom to flash, i'm stuck waiting for an update on the rc29 before I can use easytether (can't install most apps on rc29) to get my laptop online. Of course, i can use my G1 browser then, but as most of you know, it sort of sucks for using the internet for forums and stuff. =)
Anyways, i'd appreciate any help, or links on how to fix my problem.
Oh ya, it says nothing about formatting my SD card or anything, so I haven't.
I don't care really if I have v5 or v6 on my phone, I currently want to do unrestricted tethering till my internet at home gets back on (3rd of Nov). I use my phone for phone calls, and calender, and reading ebooks, but thats about it.
thanks in advance for any help

nyder said:
Hello.
Oh ya, it says nothing about formatting my SD card or anything, so I haven't.
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Did you ever have ext partition on your SD card (apps2sd)? If so, this is your problem. As a rule, you always need to wipe everything (including sdcard) when going between Rom versions (i.e. 1.6 to 2.2, etc.)
Good luck.

borodin1 said:
Did you ever have ext partition on your SD card (apps2sd)? If so, this is your problem. As a rule, you always need to wipe everything (including sdcard) when going between Rom versions (i.e. 1.6 to 2.2, etc.)
Good luck.
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No, I didn't.
I thought something like that needed to be done, but I don't recall seeing it on the instructions.
Thank you very much, I'll get that fixed.
Yes, that fixed it. Thanks very much for the help.

Need help please

Hey, my buddy let me borrow his rooted NC running the Honeycomb Preview on it. He wanted to see what MIUI looked like on it, and let me put it on there for him. I guess I was dumb to assume this was running Android, so it must flash files like any android phone.
He has some program to boot the NC into clockwork mod recovery. While in CW recovery, I wiped data, but after this, it froze while in CW recovery! I've never encountered this, so I just decided to reboot the thing and go from there. It rebooted and directed me to the set-up screen with the green android dude with the persons hand telling me to press him
"Welcome to LogicPD Zoom 2"
No matter what I press, nothing responds. I read up on http://nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM#ixzz1AAsuy5td and tried to accomplish the 8 restart thing. I don't think I can complete that because whenever I boot up, it immediately puts on a splash screen that says "Loading.."
No part of the boot cycle does it say "Welcome to the future of reading"
Is it possible flashing this thing back to stock? I tried to tap into adb, so I could put it into bootloader from there, but my adb doesn't recognize it. Even with the "adbfix.bat" file.
Any help will help.
Thanks

First, load an image of CWR v3.2.0.1 on an SD card. Then, get a CM7 ROM and the market app .zip file and put them on the card and you should be good to go. Older versions of CWR tend to freeze up when wiping the cache....
In my opinion, no one should be running Honeycomb on the Nook unless off an SD card as a secondary "toy".

Well thanks for the suggestion. I couldn't boot into any kind of recovery mode, which made things kinda confusing.
I fixed my adb issue, so luckily, I could log into adb. I cleared data and cache through adb, and than downloaded the boot.img file and system.img file. Pushed those to the nook that way. Now I'm back to out of box status ready to put some MIUI goodness on here.

[Q] CM7 sort of working.

I am using a Motorola Droid on Verizon. Up until yesterday, it was bone stock. I rooted it, installed ROM Manager from the market, and followed the instructions to do a Nandroid backup.
I then I researched on the installation of a new ROM. I picked CM7, followed the instructions (or so I thought.) Using ROM manager, I installed it from the SD card. The file itself was in the download folder, not all the way at root. Also, it did not say anything in the program about formatting the SD card. I did, however, format the cache and dalvik cache.
Upon starting, it looped the boot screen for about 15 minutes. I tried again, same thing. I was getting frustrated, and unplugged and kept trying it. Eventually I tried to go back to my Nandroid backup, and at least have a working phone. My phone now said it couldn't find my SD card. I pressed factory reset, and when I rebooted, CM7 started, but didn't work correctly.
I am now stuck here: The Verizon part of my phone works. It makes and takes calls and texts. But I never got an 'enter your gmail address' screen. I also have no apps, other than the stock CM7 ones. No market access, nothing.
Can anyone help me?

CM7 doesn't come with Google apps. After installing cm7, use rom manager to install gapps pack. You will get your market, gmail and all others you want.
Gapps is also available as a seperate flashable update from the link below.
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Latest_Version#Google_Apps
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I'm getting two different scenarios while trying to install the Apps zip file, neither of which work.
If I 'install from the SD card' through ROM manager, it reboots, I get the Moto M, and then the phone goes to a new screen, where looks like it can't find the SD card, and then gives up after about 7 or 8 tries.
I do it manually, ClockWorkMod only will stay open for about 10 seconds, and then the phone reboots again. I don't even have time to get to the file. And even if I did, I don't think it'd take if I clicked it fast enough.
I feel like I'm so close to having my phone work, but I can't quite get it.

PatrickRamsdell said:
I'm getting two different scenarios while trying to install the Apps zip file, neither of which work.
If I 'install from the SD card' through ROM manager, it reboots, I get the Moto M, and then the phone goes to a new screen, where looks like it can't find the SD card, and then gives up after about 7 or 8 tries.
I do it manually, ClockWorkMod only will stay open for about 10 seconds, and then the phone reboots again. I don't even have time to get to the file. And even if I did, I don't think it'd take if I clicked it fast enough.
I feel like I'm so close to having my phone work, but I can't quite get it.
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Did you try a fresh install? I meant wiping data.

I cleared all the data and it works. It works PERFECTLY. Thank you so much for your help. Seeing as though this is my only phone, and only phone I'm going to have for a long time, you have no idea how much hassle you saved me. Again, thank you!

No problem. Enjoy CM7.