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I tried to flash the boot image for my first custom rom using easy kernel flasher, and my Vivid is now stuck at the white HTC screen. I then realized that I had used rom manager to flash CWM, even though I had already flashed the custom CWM from the superguide. Is this what caused my phone to hang at the HTC screen?
Is it safe to pull my battery? What is the next step, repeat step 2 from the superguide and then reflash the new kernel and rom?
I apologize if this has already been answered, I just haven't seen this exact question elsewhere and I don't want to pull my battery without being sure that I won't brick my phone or make my problem worse.
Rom manager does not work for our phones. That is why your phone is stuck. I remember another post like this. The guy pulled the battery and flashed the new cwm image without rom manager and it worked. I believe you would start at step two to correct your issue. Let us know how it goes for you.
Ok I pulled the battery and put it back in and now it won't boot at all. The power light flashes orange and then nothing happens. I'm getting a bit more worried about this now.
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Ok I pulled the battery and put it back in and now it won't boot at all. The power light flashes orange and then nothing happens. I'm getting a bit more worried about this now.
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Alright, so I just did the same exact thing you did... updated CWM from ROM manager and tried to backup the ROM, hung at HTC screen. I haven't gone through the steps to reverting my CWM yet but I did get it to boot. Pull the battery, put it back, boot into HBOOT and let it do its thing, go to fastboot and then reboot. Give it a minute. Mine came back, set for a while at the boot image but it came back.
I just did the whole thing again but with out the HBOOT process and it worked too. Didn't take nearly as long as before at the boot image. Try both or see if you can't get to recovery from HBOOT. I'm pretty new to the Vivid since this is my wifes phone and its a lot different from my Inspire, the process of everything that is
Now reading your 1st post again, I didn't do the exact thing you did but close...
I tried again and it went in to h-boot, and i was able to reinstall the custom vivid CWM. But now I'm not sure if the kernel flash which started all this worked. Is there a way to find out while in recovery?
Should I reboot the phone now, or just flash the rom I was planning on flashing originally? Or should i try to return everything to stock and start all over?
cbronson41 said:
Alright, so I just did the same exact thing you did... updated CWM from ROM manager and tried to backup the ROM, hung at HTC screen. I haven't gone through the steps to reverting my CWM yet but I did get it to boot. Pull the battery, put it back, boot into HBOOT and let it do its thing, go to fastboot and then reboot. Give it a minute. Mine came back, set for a while at the boot image but it came back.
I just did the whole thing again but with out the HBOOT process and it worked too. Didn't take nearly as long as before at the boot image. Try both or see if you can't get to recovery from HBOOT. I'm pretty new to the Vivid since this is my wifes phone and its a lot different from my Inspire, the process of everything that is
Now reading your 1st post again, I didn't do the exact thing you did but close...
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Thanks man. I got into recovery and fixed the CWM problem, but now I'm not sure what kernel I have running so I don't know if its safe to reboot.
Though I know how to use CWM I couldn't tell you how to check your kernel and whatnot from there. Best thing I can think of, or what I'd do, would be to wipe everything out and restore a nandroid, granted if you have one I've never really messed with kernels untill now so I don't even know if that would work
I realized I could just reflash the kernel while I was in recovery. It hung at the htc screen on the reboot like before, but i just pulled the battery, went back into recovery, flashed the rom, and now everything is working perfectly with the new rom. What a relief.
I think the original kernel flash may have actually worked, and I just freaked out when it hung at the htc screen and assumed it was because of the rom manager/cwm thing. It may have been fine all along.
Here is something that will help with flashing kernels.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423151
Flash Image GUI
ok i did the same thing awhile ago, i flashed new CWM then insatlled rom ...the Kernal did load thats the reason you got the white screen ..so just go ahead and load your rom you should be fine
Ok, so, a few weeks ago I tried rooting my new Incredible S from Bell running 2.3.3
I was able to S-Off and then installed CM7. Problem was the phone app would make and receive calls, I just couldn't hear anything nor could the person on the other end. After trying to update my radio I gave up and I thought I went back to stock by installing RUU_Vivo_BellMobility_WWE_1.37.666.3_Radio_Radio_20.23.30.0802U_38.02.01.17_M_release_174461_signed.exe
Once I installed this everything seemed to work properly again although my signal seems crappy but being used to the iPhone I have no basis for comparison.
So last night I thought I'd try and root again and put CM7 back on. I turned off fastboot and rebooted. When the menu came up I was surprised to see I was still S-Off as I thought it would have reverted back to stock. Clearly I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to Android.
Anyway, after I noticed I was s-off I copied su-3.0-efgh-signed.zip to the root of my SD and attempted to enter recovery mode but all I get is a small pic of my phone with an exclamation point through it.
What I'd like is to root this puppy and run CM7 (or if you have a better suggestion for a rom) and have my phone app work properly. Is there anyone that can point me in the right direction.
Thanks guys!!
christanya99 said:
Ok, so, a few weeks ago I tried rooting my new Incredible S from Bell running 2.3.3
I was able to S-Off and then installed CM7. Problem was the phone app would make and receive calls, I just couldn't hear anything nor could the person on the other end. After trying to update my radio I gave up and I thought I went back to stock by installing RUU_Vivo_BellMobility_WWE_1.37.666.3_Radio_Radio_20.23.30.0802U_38.02.01.17_M_release_174461_signed.exe
Once I installed this everything seemed to work properly again although my signal seems crappy but being used to the iPhone I have no basis for comparison.
So last night I thought I'd try and root again and put CM7 back on. I turned off fastboot and rebooted. When the menu came up I was surprised to see I was still S-Off as I thought it would have reverted back to stock. Clearly I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to Android.
Anyway, after I noticed I was s-off I copied su-3.0-efgh-signed.zip to the root of my SD and attempted to enter recovery mode but all I get is a small pic of my phone with an exclamation point through it.
What I'd like is to root this puppy and run CM7 (or if you have a better suggestion for a rom) and have my phone app work properly. Is there anyone that can point me in the right direction.
Thanks guys!!
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You need to reinstall ClockworkMod recovery. When you went back to stock, it overwrote ClockworkMod recovery with the stock HTC recovery.
Ok, will give it a shot. Thanks!
Once I do that, should I be able to flash CM7? The radio is what's really gonna confuse me though.
Just tried reinstalling clockwork recovery and I get the same thing, pic of phone with red exclamation. I have to remove the battery to reboot.
Could the problem be that I need to go back to stock completely and then start from scratch??
christanya99 said:
Just tried reinstalling clockwork recovery and I get the same thing, pic of phone with red exclamation. I have to remove the battery to reboot.
Could the problem be that I need to go back to stock completely and then start from scratch??
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What method are you using to try and install CWM?
I stuck it on the root of my sd, I boot into the menu and select recovery. That's when I get the exclamation point.
christanya99 said:
I stuck it on the root of my sd, I boot into the menu and select recovery. That's when I get the exclamation point.
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You will need to either install CWM using a PG32IMG.zip file method or flash the image in FASTBOOT USB mode. You cannot flash CWM using the standard HTC recovery.
Try following STEPS 4 through 9 from the following post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1337105
Got the update through today.
Put the original recovery back in place as CM fails the install.
It's now been sat on a picture of a phone with green arrow circles above it, and a scroll bar stuck on ~30% for about an hour and a half. So I guess nothing is happening- thoughts?
*EDIT - tried turning it off. When I turned it back on, it said "Entering recovery" and is now back at the same point?
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Got the update through today.
Put the original recovery back in place as CM fails the install.
It's now been sat on a picture of a phone with green arrow circles above it, and a scroll bar stuck on ~30% for about an hour and a half. So I guess nothing is happening- thoughts?
*EDIT - tried turning it off. When I turned it back on, it said "Entering recovery" and is now back at the same point?
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Is your phone rooted and were you on a stock rom when you downloaded the update ?
maxal said:
Is your phone rooted and were you on a stock rom when you downloaded the update ?
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I /was/ rooted, although after it rebooted the first time and tried to update in CWM that seemed to deactivate itself. Stock ROM, yes.
I have since tried wiping cache and re-flashing stock recovery once more, but now the recovery just goes to the warning triangle rather than the green arrows, so I've probably made it worse
I can still get into fastboot ok. Can I get the OTA zip and flash it through fastboot anywhere?
jmbillings said:
I /was/ rooted, although after it rebooted the first time and tried to update in CWM that seemed to deactivate itself. Stock ROM, yes.
I have since tried wiping cache and re-flashing stock recovery once more, but now the recovery just goes to the warning triangle rather than the green arrows, so I've probably made it worse
I can still get into fastboot ok. Can I get the OTA zip and flash it through fastboot anywhere?
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I have the same problem. I tried fixing it trough flashing a firmware.zip but I think it might've been the 4.2.2 firmware zip and now my phone's proper messed up. Still boots and everything works except for camera and sd card.
markvdn said:
I have the same problem. I tried fixing it trough flashing a firmware.zip but I think it might've been the 4.2.2 firmware zip and now my phone's proper messed up. Still boots and everything works except for camera and sd card.
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I would advice trying a factory reset if you have a backup of your data to see if that helps with the issue's.
I know there are some issue's being reported when trying to update to 4.2.2 with root
gazlufc said:
I would advice trying a factory reset if you have a backup of your data to see if that helps with the issue's.
I know there are some issue's being reported when trying to update to 4.2.2 with root
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Hmm okay, did a factory reset through fastboot, will try the 4.2.2 OTA again.
Will report back in 5 mins.
markvdn said:
Hmm okay, did a factory reset through fastboot, will try the 4.2.2 OTA again.
Will report back in 5 mins.
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Kewl waiting to hear if all works again
I have the same problem with mine
I may just do a full wipe and start over with a new ROM. Seems as good a time as any seeing as it's buggered! Unless anyone knows where to get the OTA from and how to flash it through fastboot
I found the OTA zip on my phone this place : /data/data/com.android.providers.downloads/cache
Impossible to flash it, it returns errors
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Kewl waiting to hear if all works again
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Doesn't seem to be working, freezes in the exact same place as before
Took a bit longer cause I had to download it over 3G instead of wifi.
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Can anyone provide me with the firmware.zips for 4.1? I've accidentally flashed the 4.2 ones and need to revert to 4.1 for the OTA to work.
I'm stuck too, phone was rooted previously did I didn't reroot after the last upgrade, just flashed CWM. Flashed stock recover from ARHD, accepted OTA update, now stuck on upgrade screen. Pain in the arse, really hoping to avoid starting from scratch.
dahamsta said:
I'm stuck too, phone was rooted previously did I didn't reroot after the last upgrade, just flashed CWM. Flashed stock recover from ARHD, accepted OTA update, now stuck on upgrade screen. Pain in the arse, really hoping to avoid starting from scratch.
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I gave up. Put Revolution Stock ROM onto a 4Gb memory stick, flashed CWM, mounted external SD and installed the zip.
To be fair, HTC Backup has restored my email accounts already. Apps downloading now.
I hard-cycled and it restarted, completed, and went to black for an extended period of time. Hard-cycled again and it completed. Terrible process feedback.
I had the same problem, it was stuck around ~25% and just didn't move. I turned mine off and held the down volume button down, but that just took it back into recovery but this time it installed. Bar is just at ~90% now.
Do you have S-OFF or S-ON?
I still had root but I recovered my recovery from clockwork to original and also relocked bootloader and remove tampered message and then did S-ON before doing the OTA.
Since writing this, my install has just finished and on the reboot now.
nicelad_uk said:
I still had root but I recovered my recovery from clockwork to original and also relocked bootloader and remove tampered message and then did S-ON before doing the OTA.
Since writing this, my install has just finished and on the reboot now.
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Hi nicelad,
Could you explain how did you get your One relocked and S-on ? Thanks
I used revone to do the relocking and then a fastboot oem writesecurelock 3 via cmd on pc to write the S-ON
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 4 Beta
Thanks, i'm going to try this
Edit : Did what you said, but still can't update. The update stops at almost 20 %
Alright so for the past six hours I have been trying to make up for my mistake. I accidentally tried to flash the color os rom like most others and failed to read. I know stupid, right? Anyway, I cannot access recovery. It just goes to the HTC logo, says I can access bootloader, and I have s-on. However, I have tried to flash a new recovery image and it says okay everything worked and it still does the same thing. So does that mean I am no longer rooted? I just need to figure out a way to get a rom back to my phone, since obviously it erased everything on my sd card. Thanks in advance. Anything will help.
carbonfiber2gsx said:
Alright so for the past six hours I have been trying to make up for my mistake. I accidentally tried to flash the color os rom like most others and failed to read. I know stupid, right? Anyway, I cannot access recovery. It just goes to the HTC logo, says I can access bootloader, and I have s-on. However, I have tried to flash a new recovery image and it says okay everything worked and it still does the same thing. So does that mean I am no longer rooted? I just need to figure out a way to get a rom back to my phone, since obviously it erased everything on my sd card. Thanks in advance. Anything will help.
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Hey there! Do you have an unlocked bootloader? That could be an issue.
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yes i do and i also believe i have access to adb however i have tied to reflash twrp and erase cache and reboot but it just keeps getting stuck on white htc screen
carbonfiber2gsx said:
yes i do and i also believe i have access to adb however i have tied to reflash twrp and erase cache and reboot but it just keeps getting stuck on white htc screen
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Problem is fixed I ended up flashing stock recovery through adb and the using the ruu kit and got it to work after re locking my phone
Hey guys, Im fairly new to this stuff, but I got a question or two, it may take me a day to reply so i'll try to put as much info as posible.
Now recently I received the OTA 4.20 (Lolipop) on my phone, so I flashed my stock recovery to download the OTA, making me reroot my phone.
So my phone is re-rooted (after 2 tries) but now it seems like I cant write to my SD card, so I got fed up and went into TWRP recovery and selected wipe data and restore. (Restore point was before I got lolipop) I try to reboot but it takes me as far as HTC One screen. Next I go to recovery and try a factory reset, says its successful, but it lied to me! Still stuck at HTC One screen. So I flash back to stock recovery to try the factory reset with that, it went for a moment, then tried to boot, getting stuck at HTC one screen again, so once more, I flash TWRP to my phone in attempt to get the recovery back, but now I can't load recovery, or boot. So Im stuck there. Is there any advice to what to do from here? I tried command 'fastboot erase cache' thinking that would do something and reflashing the recovery.img but it's still not working. I hope someone can help me.
Sir,
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The reason you can't write to your SD card isn't because of lollipop, that was actually added but on kit Kat, but the devs went and added a line of code to a file to allow it again. I am currently running my stock rooted, built from decrypted ruu, originally I wasn't able to but I added that one line of code. I believe all you have to do is flash a stock rooted and SD card write should be enabled. As for not being able to get into recovery or boot at all, boot to bootloader and ruu then flash twrp.
Ok so correct me if im doing something wrong, but I flashed the stock recovery in attempt to factory reset it, it wont work, so I flash TWRP with command line (Fastboot flash recovery twrp.img) And it's 'successful' but it wont load, it will attempt to load but one second in and it goes back to fastboot, how to I move forward from here?
Edit: so idiot me did it again, I was trying to install M7 version into a m8. Resolved, Now I can enter recovery again.
Alright, so now my only problem is now that it wont boot normally, it freezes at HTC one screen. I have access to TWRP recovery, just not sure what to do next from here.
ArthAngel said:
Alright, so now my only problem is now that it wont boot normally, it freezes at HTC one screen. I have access to TWRP recovery, just not sure what to do next from here.
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I actually just unlocked my bootloader yesterday, installed TWRP today, and had what I thought was the same. The thing is, let it sit. Mine sat at the HTC ONE screen for what seemed to be between 5 and 10 minutes. I read that it happens in one of these threads.
But I let it sit and it eventually went to "Android is Upgrading" and was loading the apps.
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I actually just unlocked my bootloader yesterday, installed TWRP today, and had what I thought was the same. The thing is, let it sit. Mine sat at the HTC ONE screen for what seemed to be between 5 and 10 minutes. I read that it happens in one of these threads.
But I let it sit and it eventually went to "Android is Upgrading" and was loading the apps.
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Ok thanks, I'll post back in 20 minutes with an update.
So i've waited about 20 minutes on the HTC one screen, (Still on it as I post this) It is still stuck on it. I dont know if this helps but im able to view my internal and external card via computer cable, but I only see folders, no files of any kind in any of them..
Edit* I WAS able to read it, now I can't.
I GOT IT! I was able to revert to a backup I made. Even though I gotta flash stock again for OTA but F it! I got it working again. Thanks for all your help!