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i was trying to test all the 2.3.4 roms nd now my phone wont go past the white htc screen even when i restore 2.3.3 help?
If it turns on it's not bricked
Re-download a rom zip, boot to recovery, wipe everything, then flash the rom
(assuming you can still get to recovery [HOME+POWER] since it wasn't mentioned)
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i can get to recovery but when it says that i sucessfully flashed the rom then i go to reboot system it just stays at the white HTC screen idk wat to do my nandroid wont even work now its doing the same thing i have no clue what i did wrong?
are you using firerat's?
wiping before restoring nandroids/flashing a new Rom?
what recovery are you using?
what rom is your nandroid?
have you tried to re-download the rom you are flashing? (the one that stays on the HTC screen)
How long is it staying on the HTC screen?
do you have adb installed?
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just FYI, next time you ask for help you should post some of the answers to kyouko's questions without anyone having to ask. we can't help you as well if we don't know these things.
I put 5$ on the ROM he was flashing uses an uncapped kernel...
3 letter word; RUU.
Start from scratch and be careful what you flash before you flash it
Happy flashing buddy. Be careful!
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Maybe you just need to let it sit on the HTC screen for a while longer to see if it finally starts booting up. Sometimes it can take a couple of minutes. Try not to watch it, if you can.
scataldo721 said:
i was trying to test all the 2.3.4 roms nd now my phone wont go past the white htc screen even when i restore 2.3.3 help?
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If your still having problems send me a pm I might be able to help. Good luck.
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Drunkpilot said:
Maybe you just need to let it sit on the HTC screen for a while longer to see if it finally starts booting up. Sometimes it can take a couple of minutes. Try not to watch it, if you can.
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I've had them go as long 5 mins. or so
Being the noob I am, I can't post this question in the dev forum. Does anyone know if Liberty is compatible with safestrap or not? I know the official instructions says CWM only, but I have read that many install using safetstrap without any problems.
That said, I for the life of me can't get it to boot after install. Are there any special tricks to get it to work with safestrap? Being a noob to Android (this D3 is my first foray into Android), I would like to stick with safestrap until I am very comfortable since it is rather idiot-proof. Thanks!
uconnjack said:
Being the noob I am, I can't post this question in the dev forum. Does anyone know if Liberty is compatible with safestrap or not? I know the official instructions says CWM only, but I have read that many install using safetstrap without any problems.
That said, I for the life of me can't get it to boot after install. Are there any special tricks to get it to work with safestrap? Being a noob to Android (this D3 is my first foray into Android), I would like to stick with safestrap until I am very comfortable since it is rather idiot-proof. Thanks!
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The thread at RootzWiki in the dev section for Droid3 is very helpful.
Some of the things to double check:
- Make sure you're swapping to "safe mode" before flashing the .zip
- Wipe data/cache
It works fine with safestrap
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I have been switching to safe mode, clearing data/cache, rebooting, installing the ROM zip (with no apparent errors), clearing data/cache again, and then trying to boot the ROM, but it just hangs on a blank screen for >20 minutes before I pull the battery. Tried this a few times, even redownloading the zip, but its always the same.
Steel Droid and Maverick have worked fine, but just can't seem to get Liberty to work. I have reviewed and seacrhed the forums, inluding rootwiki, hoping there was some special trick that needed to be done with this specific ROM, but have found nothing.
Maybe I will try installing an older Liberty ROM to see if that works' and also maybe reinstalling safestrap, maybe even rerooting.
Any ideas?
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uconnjack said:
I have been switching to safe mode, clearing data/cache, rebooting, installing the ROM zip (with no apparent errors), clearing data/cache again, and then trying to boot the ROM, but it just hangs on a blank screen for >20 minutes before I pull the battery. Tried this a few times, even redownloading the zip, but its always the same.
Steel Droid and Maverick have worked fine, but just can't seem to get Liberty to work. I have reviewed and seacrhed the forums, inluding rootwiki, hoping there was some special trick that needed to be done with this specific ROM, but have found nothing.
Maybe I will try installing an older Liberty ROM to see if that works' and also maybe reinstalling safestrap, maybe even rerooting.
Any ideas?
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Check the MD5, mine kept doing that until I downloaded over 3g. Downloading over 3g finally gave me an MD5 match
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I flashed Liberty 2.0 with Safestrap, two days ago. First reboot after flashing led to the phone hanging on the spinning eagle boot-up animation. I booted into recovery, wiped data, formatted, and re-flashed, and it worked fine during that boot-up. However, boot-up times are strange, and there's usually a blank black screen when booting up for about 10-15 seconds for me prior to the boot animation showing up.
On a side note, my battery life with Liberty 2.0 is horrendous. Phone Idle = 36%, Cell Standy = 39%, Android OS = 3%, Wifi = 2%. I don't get it. Haven't really downloaded any apps at all yet.
Lyxdeslic said:
I flashed Liberty 2.0 with Safestrap, two days ago. First reboot after flashing led to the phone hanging on the spinning eagle boot-up animation. I booted into recovery, wiped data, formatted, and re-flashed, and it worked fine during that boot-up. However, boot-up times are strange, and there's usually a blank black screen when booting up for about 10-15 seconds for me prior to the boot animation showing up.
On a side note, my battery life with Liberty 2.0 is horrendous. Phone Idle = 36%, Cell Standy = 39%, Android OS = 3%, Wifi = 2%. I don't get it. Haven't really downloaded any apps at all yet.
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It has a different way of reporting battery usage, it doesn't affect it though (based on 5.6.890) I've had my phone on for 9 hours now, medium usage, and I'm at 86%.
Lyxdeslic said:
I flashed Liberty 2.0 with Safestrap, two days ago. First reboot after flashing led to the phone hanging on the spinning eagle boot-up animation. I booted into recovery, wiped data, formatted, and re-flashed, and it worked fine during that boot-up. However, boot-up times are strange, and there's usually a blank black screen when booting up for about 10-15 seconds for me prior to the boot animation showing up.
On a side note, my battery life with Liberty 2.0 is horrendous. Phone Idle = 36%, Cell Standy = 39%, Android OS = 3%, Wifi = 2%. I don't get it. Haven't really downloaded any apps at all yet.
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If flashing from the last version of Liberty there shouldn't be a need to wipe, I didn't anyway. It took quite a while, more than 5min, to finally boot just after flashing. As far as the 10-15 second delay, that is how safestrap works. 10 seconds at the safestrap splash screen and about 10 seconds of black before the bootanimation. Though I'm not sure of why the later takes so long. For me the previous version of Liberty took just as long to boot.
Yup, that was it, the MD5s would not match up until I downloaded over 3g. Wireless or PC->phone would always have mismatched numbers. I didn't check the Steel Droid or Maverick ROMS I downloaded wirelessly, but those installed fine regardless. Wonder why the consistent download errors for the Liberty ROM?
Thanks for your help!
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Yup, that was it, the MD5s would not match up until I downloaded over 3g. Wireless or PC->phone would always have mismatched numbers. I didn't check the Steel Droid or Maverick ROMS I downloaded wirelessly, but those installed fine regardless. Wonder why the consistent download errors for the Liberty ROM?
Thanks for your help!
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I don't know why either I figured it was my router having a moment, but you're the second other person I've helped with that.
eww245 said:
If flashing from the last version of Liberty there shouldn't be a need to wipe, I didn't anyway. It took quite a while, more than 5min, to finally boot just after flashing. As far as the 10-15 second delay, that is how safestrap works. 10 seconds at the safestrap splash screen and about 10 seconds of black before the bootanimation. Though I'm not sure of why the later takes so long. For me the previous version of Liberty took just as long to boot.
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If you want to use the new lockscreens or themes you'll need to preform a data wipe, Kejar said so himself.
Androidsims said:
I don't know why either I figured it was my router having a moment, but you're the second other person I've helped with that.
If you want to use the new lockscreens or themes you'll need to preform a data wipe, Kejar said so himself.
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Using ring lockscreen, haven't tried any of the themes though. I'm suprised it did work actually.
I'm running it with safe strap right now not the best battery life but it'll do til hash gets ics running (which I know he will cm7 is my favorite but need tethering and camera)
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My md5 sum is correct and I've cleared the data/cache but I only get a black backlit screen for 20 min + til I remove the battery. Anyone got a tip of what to do?
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My md5 sum is correct and I've cleared the data/cache but I only get a black backlit screen for 20 min + til I remove the battery. Anyone got a tip of what to do?
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SBF back to stock 5.6.890, reroot, reinstall safestrap, re-do EVERYTHING pretty much. Thats my solution to everything.
Been A long time Lurker here at XDA, so much great info and support!!
Ok so here is my problem I have a 32GB touchpad. I have WebOS running, no problems at all. I have tried many many times installing CM7 and CM7 XRON-ified. Every version and i get into this boot loop....
I have done an ACME Uninstall....reinstalled webos with the Doctor.... fresh installs of everything... full formats of "SD Card"... I am at a loss
After i have done a fresh install i will reboot into CM and it will be working... then just reboot, and start the boot loop...ill stop it on the MBOOT menu and just let it sit then boot back into CM and it will load... then randomly just reboot and go back to the boot loop...
I am at a loss... could it be hardware related... WebOS runs find and diagnostics that i have run in webos come back clean... Any one have any thoughts?.....
If you need any other info please let me know...
Thanks
Cdrshm
Sounds to me like the caches need wiping and another fresh install. But I'm sure you've tried this so I am at a loss.
"A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men."
strikerage said:
Sounds to me like the caches need wiping and another fresh install. But I'm sure you've tried this so I am at a loss.
"A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men."
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I have done it more then a dozen times.. hardware issue maybe?
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Bump. Anyone have any thoughts?
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according to the thread, it does that a few times (exact numbers havent been given) because of initial settings.
the 4 TPs ive done all had at least 2 or 3 random reboots that settled out and disappeared .
endlesszeal said:
according to the thread, it does that a few times (exact numbers havent been given) because of initial settings.
the 4 TPs ive done all had at least 2 or 3 random reboots that settled out and disappeared .
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Yea, but this is actually a boot loop, not just a reboot....many times won't even boot back into cm...
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Hey,
I have a nexus, but my mate has the note. He is having all sorts of problems with it when it comes to flashing ROMs. I was hoping u smart people here might be able to help
What the problem is, is that only about one in 10 ROMs will install. He flashes the usual way... wipe everything, etc but either gets in a boot loop, or just Samsung comes up on the screen, it disappears and then comes back and this repeats. He has to then pull the battery. Another weird thing is that a ROM that may not have worked a few weeks ago, he tries it again and for some weird reason it works. So far he has never been able to flash an ICS ROM.
Any ideas? I've suggested to him to start completely afresh and use fast boot, etc again, but I'm no expert myself. I've never had any dramas myself with the nexus so this has me completely stumped....
Thanks
Dean
Swiped on my Gnex
Edit: sorry guys, he used Odin, not fast boot.
Maybe he dont follow the instructions correctly
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meminiau said:
Hey,
I have a nexus, but my mate has the note. He is having all sorts of problems with it when it comes to flashing ROMs. I was hoping u smart people here might be able to help
What the problem is, is that only about one in 10 ROMs will install. He flashes the usual way... wipe everything, etc but either gets in a boot loop, or just Samsung comes up on the screen, it disappears and then comes back and this repeats. He has to then pull the battery. Another weird thing is that a ROM that may not have worked a few weeks ago, he tries it again and for some weird reason it works. So far he has never been able to flash an ICS ROM.
Any ideas? I've suggested to him to start completely afresh and use fast boot, etc again, but I'm no expert myself. I've never had any dramas myself with the nexus so this has me completely stumped....
Thanks
Dean
Swiped on my Gnex
Edit: sorry guys, he used Odin, not fast boot.
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What method is he using to flash? If using pc Odin does the flash get stuck at factoryfs. Img?
Was he on ics stock and did he perform any factory resets on it?
If answers are yes, it's likely he's got traces of damage on his emmc chip, but we need to know where the flash is failing to understand further.
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No and no.
His phone came with GB. He downloads the ROMs using his computer then transfers the zip to then flash using CWM recovery.
He has tried lots of different ROMs. He tried to install a new ROM the other day but before doing so he deleted a few ROMs he still had on the SD card. He flashed the new ROM and it didn't work. He freaked coz he didn't do a backup first, but he tried installed the ROMs that were still on the SD card and found them all but one to work, and the one that worked was a ROM that he had tried before but didn't work then, but this time it did work...
What is happening? Is there something he can do?
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meminiau said:
No and no.
His phone came with GB. He downloads the ROMs using his computer then transfers the zip to then flash using CWM recovery.
He has tried lots of different ROMs. He tried to install a new ROM the other day but before doing so he deleted a few ROMs he still had on the SD card. He flashed the new ROM and it didn't work. He freaked coz he didn't do a backup first, but he tried installed the ROMs that were still on the SD card and found them all but one to work, and the one that worked was a ROM that he had tried before but didn't work then, but this time it did work...
What is happening? Is there something he can do?
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Try flashing rom with pc odin instead of cwm.
Check out Dr ketan sticky thread in rom development for directions on how to use pc odin. It's simple.
Let us know how you progress.
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meminiau said:
Hey,
I have a nexus, but my mate has the note. He is having all sorts of problems with it when it comes to flashing ROMs. I was hoping u smart people here might be able to help
What the problem is, is that only about one in 10 ROMs will install. He flashes the usual way... wipe everything, etc but either gets in a boot loop, or just Samsung comes up on the screen, it disappears and then comes back and this repeats. He has to then pull the battery. Another weird thing is that a ROM that may not have worked a few weeks ago, he tries it again and for some weird reason it works. So far he has never been able to flash an ICS ROM.
Any ideas? I've suggested to him to start completely afresh and use fast boot, etc again, but I'm no expert myself. I've never had any dramas myself with the nexus so this has me completely stumped....
Thanks
Dean
Swiped on my Gnex
Edit: sorry guys, he used Odin, not fast boot.
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No problem at all.
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What?????
Swiped on my Gnex
Sounds very odd - only though is he's not following instructions correctly..
I am rooted on a Sprint One and had stock HTC. Then downloaded the Viperrom 1.0.4 and had no trouble get it on, did not loose any of my settings or folders. Now when I download and try to run the viper 1.1.0 zip, it does the install and starts up shows my walpaper and icons appropriately, then crashes and constant reboots to the same point. Able to get on to recovery and reinstall the back up i had made with no rpoblems.
What do I need to do? If I wipe, what do i wipe? Have TWRP.
Will I loose all my settings and data?
Please help
Under advanced wipe select the first 4(dalvik,cache,system,data).
Then reflash the Rom.
You will lose settings.
Thanks, will try that in the morning.
Is there anyway we can save settings and restore them after upgrades?
aviatordoc said:
Thanks, will try that in the morning.
Is there anyway we can save settings and restore them after upgrades?
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Htcs built in backup through dropbox works very well. It restores apps, settings, homescreens. About the only two things it doesnt restore are accounts, autorotate and lockscreen password
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youkosnake said:
Htcs built in backup through dropbox works very well. It restores apps, settings, homescreens. About the only two things it doesnt restore are accounts, autorotate and lockscreen password
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yes but i also disables google backup
I fond HTCs better than googles. The only thing I manually use google sync for is contacts. And thats just force of habit.
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youkosnake said:
I fond HTCs better than googles. The only thing I manually use google sync for is contacts. And thats just force of habit.
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good to know, thanks
aviatordoc said:
I am rooted on a Sprint One and had stock HTC. Then downloaded the Viperrom 1.0.4 and had no trouble get it on, did not loose any of my settings or folders. Now when I download and try to run the viper 1.1.0 zip, it does the install and starts up shows my walpaper and icons appropriately, then crashes and constant reboots to the same point. Able to get on to recovery and reinstall the back up i had made with no rpoblems.
What do I need to do? If I wipe, what do i wipe? Have TWRP.
Will I loose all my settings and data?
Please help
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Need to wipe before installing. In TWRP, hit Wipe>Swipe to wipe
gmentals said:
Under advanced wipe select the first 4(dalvik,cache,system,data).
Then reflash the Rom.
You will lose settings.
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Do NOT do this. It will wipe everything including your internal SD card
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I did the same thing as you. Mine got caught in a bootloop, I couldn't get the damn thing to force restart either. The bottom home & back key just kept flashing no matter how long I held it. I had to wait forever for the battery to die. I think something might be wrong with the restart fail safe HTC built in. So I relocked it, flashed back to stock, go to sprint store of course it reboots perfect every time. The people at the store are morons I hate going there. The guy says to me you just hold it down and the restart menu will come up. I'm like if the phone is frozen that doesn't work. None the less I don't expect them to replace something that is working. So I re-unlocked, cleared everything and installed latest build fresh works great haven't had any issue. I didn't back up either so I had to re set everything up which takes forever. I'm not a fan of restoring backups anyway as it can cause issues. I will be doing a nandroid next time and be more careful with dirty flashing. I always dirty flashed on MeanBean on my LTE without issues and Mike made it very clear when dirty update was not advised. In my opinion they shouldn't release a major update that will bootloop a phone over goo manger. It's still my fault but I didn't think twice about it when I tried to update viper. It still pisses me off that I have to fight with it to get the phone to reboot, the entire point of a fail safe is incase something goes wrong. It's the first time I have ever bootlooped a phone.
Do NOT do this. It will wipe everything including your internal SD card
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I do this everytime I flash a new Rom and it doesn't wipe my internal SD...
Thanks all, I am just where I was. so many opinions and would like to have a concensus.
It won't wipe internal unless you specifically check it in advanced. Never wipe internal, but davlic, cache, data and system are fine and constitutes a full wipe..you should always wipe that way when trying different roms or going to a new base. Or use a superwipe script to make things easier.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2237021
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Mrlakadaddy is absolutely correct.
Consensus achieved
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OK here it goes. Went to advanced, wiped all except internal. will see how it goes.
scottspa74 said:
Mrlakadaddy is absolutely correct.
Consensus achieved
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What's up Scott did you get a One?
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All went well and am on the new base. Only, I lost all my settings and it is such a pain to recreate all the screens, shortcuts, sign ons and accounts...
Thanks to all.
same problem
ive had the same problem, i actually had to use the ruu to get back to stock, unlocked it again s-off rooted and no matter what i do everytime i install any custom rom it goes into bootloop. ive tried every rom on here i cant even get viperrom to fully boot up. looking thru all the forums nobody has a clear answer as to why this is happening.
im stuck in boot loop after the viper rom and i just got it yesterday .. i dont know what to do at this point . when it does boot it ask me for the wifi login and fails says poor connection when its right next to me
Boot Loop
I'm also stuck in boot loop. I've done research and tried all kinds of stuff with no luck. This is what I get...
Phone boots
I get the notification bar and a black screen
Can't do anything with that.
After about a minute, it reboots.
Can anyone help with this? I have the 1.31 version. Clearing cache/data/delvik does nothing for me.
Can someone help me get it back to stock, or at least usable?
Thanks in advance.
erickr5 said:
ive had the same problem, i actually had to use the ruu to get back to stock, unlocked it again s-off rooted and no matter what i do everytime i install any custom rom it goes into bootloop. ive tried every rom on here i cant even get viperrom to fully boot up. looking thru all the forums nobody has a clear answer as to why this is happening.
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Are you wiping before you flash a new rom?
matt406regal said:
im stuck in boot loop after the viper rom and i just got it yesterday .. i dont know what to do at this point . when it does boot it ask me for the wifi login and fails says poor connection when its right next to me
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Same question are you wiping before flashing a new rom?
huebenthal said:
I'm also stuck in boot loop. I've done research and tried all kinds of stuff with no luck. This is what I get...
Phone boots
I get the notification bar and a black screen
Can't do anything with that.
After about a minute, it reboots.
Can anyone help with this? I have the 1.31 version. Clearing cache/data/delvik does nothing for me.
Can someone help me get it back to stock, or at least usable?
Thanks in advance.
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RUU following this guide. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2390821
All of you should really start your own topic so people see it and help you.