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[Q] Reboot loop and no access to recovery

k i s-off and flashed a gingerbread custom rom and updated radio onto my incredible s. I started having trouble with sms latency and decided to downgrade the radio and rom back so i can have sane text messaging.
after restoring to stock htc backup and to my original radio my phone just boots to an htc screen for 3 seconds then reboots. i can get into hboot and run fastboot commands but _CANNOT_ get into recovery, it just goes back to the reboot loop.
Can anyone suggest a course of action i can take to fix it?

Did you restore to a backup that was a stock froyo rom?
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yes from when i s'off it

When you go from froyo to gingerbread you can't go back to a froyo rom because there is no way to downgrade from a gingerbread radio to a froyo radio. So right now your phone is stuck with a gingerbread radio but a froyo rom. That's the reason it is stuck in the loop.
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so i gotta flash a gb radio and gb rom from flashboot, possible?

Yeah you can flash a radio and ROM with fastboot commands. Not sure of the exact commands. Or you can put the custom gingerbread ROM on your SD card as a PG32IMG.zip file and boot into the hboot screen and it will do the update automatically.
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k cool thx got it outta the loop but no boot yet but i got recovery, think i can take it from here, any suggestions welcome though. ill post back when fixed with what i did.

kernels won't flash

--sorry for the noob issue ...
i've unlocked, rooted and s-off my Raider, but can't get kernels to flash. It's an otherwise stock phone running stock ICS and kernel. Thing just boots back into the stock kernel.
So i unzipped the KangBang kernel updater and rewrote the scripts to write all their intermediary files to the sdcard, put it back together, ran it in recovery, and discovered that the utils in the update zip that unpack and insert the zImage into boot.img don't seem to run, or at anyrate output nothing.
dd outputs a 16M boot.img, but that's it. unpackbootimg and mkbootimg produce nothing.
the mkbootimg.sh script does produce a createnewboot.sh file.
Could anyone tell me what i'm doing wrong and how to fix it? --Thanks.
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-- i did also rewrite mkbootimg.sh to produce a createnewboot.sh that'd operate on and output to files on the sdcard where i'd gotten the updater-script to put the boot.img.
neither mkbootimg nor unpackbootimg would run in a terminal shell on the phone when it's been normally booted; dunno if that's default behavior.
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You can use the flash image GUI tool from the market just extract the kernel on the sdcard use the the tool to flash the image.
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I just realized your s-off did you try a different rom
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Mjones307 said:
I just realized your s-off did you try a different rom
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Sounds like you don't have busybox properly installed.
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Thank you for your good suggestions guys.
Nothing works so far, including installing busybox 1.20.1 in both /system/bin and
/system/xbin.
so far i'm only trying to put in one of the kernels from these xda forums. Thot that'd be easiest. ...Little did i know...
Have tried all the major recovery mods.
Currently have TWRP 2.1.10 installed.
No joy so far.
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i dunno. It still looks like the utils zipped into the kernel updater zips, aren't doing their thing. They're statically compiled binaries looks like, shouldn't depend on libs or busybox.
What do i know.
... not nearly enuf, obv.
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lowfatmilk said:
i dunno. It still looks like the utils zipped into the kernel updater zips, aren't doing their thing. They're statically compiled binaries looks like, shouldn't depend on libs or busybox.
What do i know.
... not nearly enuf, obv.
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I have the same exact issue. This happened to me after using the De-Sensed rom. Then I had boot loop with one of the kernels so I fastbooted relocked my device, RUUed back to factory.
Still S-Off in HBOOT and security flag is 0.
So I unlocked my device again, flashed CWM, rooted, flash stock rooted ROM. Tried flashing fauxes 007 kernel but it wouldn't flash. The script executed in CMW without error, but still stock kernel it did kill my wifi and I had to manually copy over the stock system\lib\modules\bcmdhd.ko file to get wifi back.
So I manually tried flashing the zimage using fastboot flash zimage zimage. I get some failed error from fast boot basically permission denied jargon.
I am at a loss, only thing I can think to do is to relock, RUU back to stock, S-ON.
Start over from scratch unlock, root, S-OFF steps.

dynamiclynk said:
I have the same exact issue. This happened to me after using the De-Sensed rom. Then I had boot loop with one of the kernels so I fastbooted relocked my device, RUUed back to factory.
Still S-Off in HBOOT and security flag is 0.
So I unlocked my device again, flashed CWM, rooted, flash stock rooted ROM. Tried flashing fauxes 007 kernel but it wouldn't flash. The script executed in CMW without error, but still stock kernel it did kill my wifi and I had to manually copy over the stock system\lib\modules\bcmdhd.ko file to get wifi back.
So I manually tried flashing the zimage using fastboot flash zimage zimage. I get some failed error from fast boot basically permission denied jargon.
I am at a loss, only thing I can think to do is to relock, RUU back to stock, S-ON.
Start over from scratch unlock, root, S-OFF steps.
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If you are s-off, does your hboot say locked, unlocked, or japunabear? If it says locked then you still have to unlock it using through HTC dev and you'll be set.
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I had the same issue after an ruu with s-off i just fast boot flashed an older kozmick kernel that was in boot img form and then went about flashing the kernel of my choice with cwm which was the newest kozmick
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[Q] what am i doing wrong?

hey there everyone
i have s-off,bootloader unlocked, updated to hboot 1.85.2525, root enabled, usb debugging, wcx revocery
im coming from stock rogers rom. sick of waiting for ics.
but whenever i install a custom rom i get boot loops. did i miss a part? i've tried 3 or 4 of the main custom roms. all the same, stuck at boot loop or hangs there. i've done everything right from the bootloader unlocked to s-off(wire trick) then updating hboot, flashing a recovery (wcx), installing superuser
do i have to install an att or bell gingerbread ruu then update from ota? then install a custom rom? shouldn't just installing the custom rom work?
coming from a nexus one.. so much more stuff to do just for a custom rom....

I was having the same issue with my friend's Rogers HTC Raider. (When he was running the stock Gingerbread)
Last night, we put everything back to normal (Bootloader re-locked, etc.) and installed the stock Bell ICS. ( RUU_HOLIDAY_ICS_35_S_BM_3.38.666.2_Radio_3.04.4740.11_34.29.701040.22_release_255916_signed )
Then did the usual procedure of unlocking bootloader, installing clockworkmod recovery, and installing a rom. The rom we did was Desensed 1.1. It booted fine and is pretty feast. Wifi isn't working on it (I think mainly because his phone is S-ON and that causes kernel issues when flashing).
I hope this helps.

S-on or s-off does not effect WiFi working or not, they are 2 different things.
If you are s-on flash boot.IMG thru fastboot, flash Rom thru recovery. Sometimes u have to reflash boot.img
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ronnie498 said:
S-on or s-off does not effect WiFi working or not, they are 2 different things.
If you are s-on flash boot.IMG thru fastboot, flash Rom thru recovery. Sometimes u have to reflash boot.img
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No, he was right. With S-On, when you fastboot flash, modules are not usually included. Thus, when he just flashed the zip, the kernel wasn't flashed, and the ROM's modules most likely don't match.
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No ROM will work

Hi,
i have a Velocity with HTC Sense 3.5 and Android Gingerbread (Germany/Vodafone) and HBoot 1.85 and S-ON.
I have unlocked the bootloader and use Clockwork for installing Custom ROM, but every attempt to do that is failing.
I work exactly like the ROM instructions.
I start the recovery, wipe system, data, chace, dalvic and then (only if ROM instruction request first install the kernel via (Fastboot flash boot boot.IMG)) and then /or at first install the ROM via the recovery. The installation completed successfully. Then i copy the created boot.img on my sdcard via fastboot (Fastboot flash boot boot.IMG). It works so far.
When i restart the phone the logo of the custom rom appears, then i get into a bootloop. That happens with every rom, doenst matter if ICS or JB, nothing works.
What is the problem here.
I'll mention that the adb doesnt work on my PC it always says "no device" but fastboot work.

Fastboot flash boot boot.IMG
Your only using the kernel to boot... not writing it to boot sector
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sry, yeah i did it with "Fastboot flash boot boot.IMG"
anything else that could produce my error?

Well you need to either do the ota or use the ICS ruu to upgrade to ICS that's why nothing will boot
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What is ota?
I dont understand why i have to upgrade via ruu. For example this ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1585373) there is a instruction how to do with fastboot. But doesnt work. There must be an explanation for that.
But ok, even i want do it via an ICS ruu, can i use my created recovery of gingerbread via clockwork recovery or does it stuck then, too?

Once you do the ruu to ics... your recovery backup will be useless
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Use the old version of go backup. Not the pro. You can find it on 4shared. Then run ruu
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AW: No ROM will work
Hello i havr the same phone by Vodafone you must unlock bootloader and make the wire trock by Joponutbear and flash lastest HBOOT version from this page
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I give you a tip i have flashed 3 HTC Velocitys in last year but the stablelst, fastest and pefect rom is the new Cyanogenmog 10 nighty from hr8rift, another developer end his work in the middle of end and then you lives with many bugs and bricked the ram for a long time.....
Vodafone is a **** provider he hasnt rollout the 4.0.3 on their phones, many Peoples are angry.
And the Quality from flash is better in HTC as Samsung Galaxy devices
Cyanogenmod 10 is in nightly and works very good its .4.1.2.
I think the final comes in few monts or weeks
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[Need Help]Stock kitkat sprint kernel flashable .zip

hey guys Im currently on the stock enhanced kitkat kernel thats offered to us but Im having problems with it not waking the phone when i hit the wake button and then i have to hold power and volume up to hard reboot it.
so im looking for a stock sprint kitkat kernel flashable zip but I cant find one. Am I blind? or does this not exist

Grab one from the official firmware zip file and flash it using fastboot

There is not one on the forums but I will grab it from the OTA if you can't find it when I get back home
Also when you flashed the new kernel it made a boot image called boot_backup.img you can flash that via mfastboot to get back your stock kernel
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Edit: ok so i just flashed the boot_backup.img and i can state that everything works fine it flashed to stock Kernel and i am no longer having the wake issue's but i am still in the process of pulling the kernel for you. but you are going to have to flash it via fastboot
the command you will use is
Code:
fastboot flash boot image-name.img

Hello,
I got my self the stock rom. So which file do I need to flash to get the stock kernel back? and only the stock kernel

Boot.img
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Boot.img
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Do I have to root it again after that?
EDIT: No, I don't have to