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Okay so I just got the phone today and though I knew how to root it and whatnot. So, I followed this guide: http://theunlockr.com/2009/08/22/how-to-root-the-mytouch-3g-or-g1-in-one-click/. Everything was working fine until I tried to install this theme (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=493434) as update.zip.
Now I am stuck at the green "MyTouch" boot logo and cannot start my phone. I would like to get this fixed asap but I don't know how. If someone could point me in the right direction that would be awesome. Thanks guys.
to me it sounds like bad flash/download
the only thing i'd suggest is wipe, then reflash the rom
then redownload the theme
then reflash it(no wipe)
and it should work
oh and sometimes themes first load up take time give it 15 minutes tops
if it doesn't work
then do as i said
I tried factory wipe like 10 times and I'm still stuck at the boot logo. I don't really care if I have root anymore, so what can I do to just get my phone back to normal? Meaning, how can I just get my phone to start up? What file would I need to flash to get it back to normal? (Can you try and be specific as I am still learning)
Also, I can't add anything to the SD card cause my phone won't fully start up, so I guess I'll have to buy a SD reader tomorrow?
Hmmm what if I flashed the nibh file using fastboot (the file meant for unrooting the phone). Anyone think that'd work?
Someone please help...I'm totally freaking out and it's so discouraging just having bought this phone and now I can't use it
jabbawalkee said:
Hmmm what if I flashed the nibh file using fastboot (the file meant for unrooting the phone). Anyone think that'd work?
Someone please help...I'm totally freaking out and it's so discouraging just having bought this phone and now I can't use it
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you need a fresh install of cyan 4.0.4 then try to flash the theme\
wipe,, flash cm-4.0.4 let is bootup then flash the theme ... Don't do what some idots do ,, flash then wipe ,, its wipe then flash,,you must let it boot after the fresh install ......
To answer your ? Bout unrooting, yes the dreaimg.nbh meant for downgrading so you can root is also the same file to unroot, just flash it in fastboot or the bootloader and it will take you back to stock.
If you are running cm recovery 1.4, you can mount your sd card in the recovery console
By typing ums_enable to mount and ums_disable to unmount than type reboot or recovery to exit the console
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To answer your ? Bout unrooting, yes the dreaimg.nbh meant for downgrading so you can root is also the same file to unroot, just flash it in fastboot or the bootloader and it will take you back to stock.
If you are running cm recovery 1.4, you can mount your sd card in the recovery console
By typing ums_enable to mount and ums_disable to unmount than type reboot or recovery to exit the console
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Hmm I'm gonna try this method in a minute, but, one question, how can I type ums_enable/disable on the mytouch while on recovery?
Okay so I fixed it. I simply bought an SD card reader, placed the sappimg.nbh file on my sd card. Booted with Volume Down + Power and then flashed the sappimg.nbh and now my phone has finally started up thanks!
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To answer your ? Bout unrooting, yes the dreaimg.nbh meant for downgrading so you can root is also the same file to unroot, just flash it in fastboot or the bootloader and it will take you back to stock.
If you are running cm recovery 1.4, you can mount your sd card in the recovery console
By typing ums_enable to mount and ums_disable to unmount than type reboot or recovery to exit the console
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are you wearing marijuana goggles? he is on a mytouch lol. maybe if he draws the letters onscreen it will work, or maybe he can plug a keyboard into the mini usb on the mytouch if he has a usb to mini usb adapter.
i was wearing hangover glasses, just made the assumption that it was a g1 since we are in the dream forum and not the mytouch one, oh by the way hershey was fun, i rode all the big kids ride and i did not cry once
aren't yous all so proud of me
At first I was thinking he flashed the sappimg.nbh to a Dream, lol @ Marijuana goggles.
Ginger yoshi
i was trying to install ginger yoshi, everything went fine but i get stuck on bootlogo every time. any sugesstions?
ps............... is WTF BOOM! a bad thing because it says that when it is finished
fraserdey said:
i was trying to install ginger yoshi, everything went fine but i get stuck on bootlogo every time. any sugesstions?
ps............... is WTF BOOM! a bad thing because it says that when it is finished
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What SPL and radio are you on?
okay, so, my mistake not keeping track and doing all of this slopily, but i have tried tons and tons of updates and not organized what i had done. i just recently followed a guide to get on cyanogens 4.2.1, using JF recover v1.4. its soft bricked, stuck at the g1 screen. i want to get my phone to a rooted 4.2.1 with my recover JF 1.4. can someone help me out? idk whats up with this... :-/
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okay, so, my mistake not keeping track and doing all of this slopily, but i have tried tons and tons of updates and not organized what i had done. i just recently followed a guide to get on cyanogens 4.2.1, using JF recover v1.4. its soft bricked, stuck at the g1 screen. i want to get my phone to a rooted 4.2.1 with my recover JF 1.4. can someone help me out? idk whats up with this... :-/
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Have you tried booting up into Recovery menu or Fastboot by holding Power+Home or Power+Camera while booting?
well i have a card reader, and a fresh 8gb sd card. can i install like the spl, radio, and everything on the 8gb? i dont wanna mess w/ fastboot i have the ADB and all that, but couldnt get my usb drivers to work to use fastboot. was hoping i can just load everything via card reader on my new 4gb class 4 card, which should be a bit faster.
Do me a favor, trying turning your phone on with Home+Power. Let me know if you get to the recovery.
yes, i can get into recovery, im trying a guide i found here on XDA, but i had problems before, let me get back to you in a minute.
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yes, i can get into recovery, im trying a guide i found here on XDA, but i had problems before, let me get back to you in a minute.
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Your not bricked, you just had a bad install, I would suggest finding a TMO ROM and placing it on your SD Card via Card Reader, placing it in your phone, booting into recovery, Wipe, and then install the TMO ROM, and then start over with what you were previously doing.
So i tried to flash a rom like a normally do and i get stuck on the green screen.
I noticed now when flashing a rom is takes alot longer to flash then it usually did , i wiped pulled battery multiple times and still the same results. If i try to flash a froyo rom it will stay on the mytouch screen for a few secs and reboot to recovery mode on its own. every other rom just gets stuck and will not move. im limited to only recovery mode and Fastboot , are their any simple fixes that can be done and thanks in advance.
fabolous02000 said:
So i tried to flash a rom like a normally do and i get stuck on the green screen.
I noticed now when flashing a rom is takes alot longer to flash then it usually did , i wiped pulled battery multiple times and still the same results. If i try to flash a froyo rom it will stay on the mytouch screen for a few secs and reboot to recovery mode on its own. every other rom just gets stuck and will not move. im limited to only recovery mode and Fastboot , are their any simple fixes that can be done and thanks in advance.
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Have you tried fixing apk uids? I've also heard you can use the bootloader to do a more thorough wipe.
If I were in your situation I would apply sappimg to unroot and start over.
Phateless said:
Have you tried fixing apk uids? I've also heard you can use the bootloader to do a more thorough wipe.
If I were in your situation I would apply sappimg to unroot and start over.
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im fairly new so i only know how to flash roms . outside of that im pretty much clueless. I tried flashing a new radio & when it tells me to reboot to complete installation it says no more room or somthing like that. it does it really quick so i cant tell. Also how would i go about unrooting?
EDIT .. ok unrooted the phone and it seemed to have done the trick.
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im fairly new so i only know how to flash roms . outside of that im pretty much clueless. I tried flashing a new radio & when it tells me to reboot to complete installation it says no more room or somthing like that. it does it really quick so i cant tell. Also how would i go about unrooting?
EDIT .. ok unrooted the phone and it seemed to have done the trick.
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Glad you're still operational. Now you can retrace your steps and figure out where you went wrong. I also had to unroot and go back to Cupcake before I successfully completed my first rooting.
If you're just flashing ROMs, I would stay away from updating the radio unless the developer specifically says you should.
Ok, I know I am a noob to android phones and to this forum, but I already spent many hours online researching the problem and didn't find anything that helped.
So, here's what happened:
I got my MyTouch 4G about 2 weeks ago unlocked. I wanted to get rid of a lot of the garbage that came with it, so I followed the steps and successfully rooted it and then removed several of the preinstalled apps with Titanium backup. So far, no noticeable problems.
Then I wasn't happy with how quickly my battery was draining, so I installed Advanced Task Killer, and set it to automatically kill certain apps periodically.
A few days later when I was trying to add a widget to the desktop, I got the familiar to some message "Sorry, com.htc.launcher has stopped working". Everything else was still working fine on the phone. I researched the problem and the first proposed solution to clear the data for the process from Settings/Applications, did not help. The second proposed solution was to do a factory reset. So, I rebooted with volume down + power pressed together and chose factory reset.
After 4-5 min, I got into the welcome screen where I did the initial setup. After this was complete, the phone checked off that everything was setup correctly (apps, widgets, etc). Then it started loading the desktop and the message "loading..." appeared. This is where it froze.
Basically, I can't get past the "loading..." message on the home screen, no desktop ever loads, and I have access to nothing other than the camera key.
I let it stay for hours to see if it will eventuall load, but nothing happened. I also rebooted and tried factory reset many times and it always get stuck at the same point. I tried all of the above with and without a SIM card, with and without a memory card - basically I exhausted all possible combinations but I always get the same frozen "loading..." screen.
Has anyone experienced this problem? I feel helpless rebooting or reseting the phone from the phone itself because it always get stuck. Is there a way to factory reset from a computer?
Thank you so much if you can help me with any advice and Happy New Year!
Vess
Sounds like u deleted something dealing with the launcher. Doing factory reset well not put it back. I would say, do a nandroid backup, flash iced glacier rom. U could just download another launcher, but being that u wiped the phone, u can't even get to market in that state.
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Sounds like u deleted something dealing with the launcher. Doing factory reset well not put it back. I would say, do a nandroid backup, flash iced glacier rom. U could just download another launcher, but being that u wiped the phone, u can't even get to market in that state.
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Hi, thank you for your message. I think you are correct about deleting the launcher and factory reset not fixing it.
But I don't know how to do "nandroid backup, flash iced glacier rom". Could you point me to instructions on that? Sorry, I'm really new to android phones.
I'm on my phone, go to the development section for this rom. You're see iced glacier. Instructions on the first post
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I'm on my phone, go to the development section for this rom. You're see iced glacier. Instructions on the first post
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I did what you suggested but from what I understand to flash a rom I need to be able to boot into Recovery mode, which I can't do either. Every time I choose Recovery I get the "!" screen and I'm stuck. Am I doing something wrong?
Thank you.
vess22 said:
so I followed the steps and successfully rooted it
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You didn't by any chance install Clockwork ROM Manager, flash ClockworkMod Recovery and then make a Nandroid backup before doing all of this, did you?
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You didn't by any chance install Clockwork ROM Manager, flash ClockworkMod Recovery and then make a Nandroid backup before doing all of this, did you?
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No sir, I didn't do any of the above unfortunately. From what I understand had I done that, I wouldn't have a problem booting into Recovery mode, correct?
I believe you might still be able to get to what you need via adb. That's not my specialty though, even though I can mash out a few commands and comprehend what I'm doing. It would be remiss of me to guide you any further, but I don't think all hope is lost for you. Search the forums for 'adb' and 'recovery' and let's also see who replies back with some better advice.
Find the raw .img of cw recovery then adb flash_recovery /location/of/recovery.img
If that doesn't work you'll need to use fastboot assuming you updated to eng spl.
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sounds like your boot.img is borked.... try flashing one of the many available kernels (make sure it will work with your rom first... if you haven't flashed a rom or flashed a sense based rom then use an HTC kernel if you're running CM or MIUI use a CM based kernel) and then when you get it running read this and understand why task killers are bad FAQ: You shouldn't be using a task killer with Android
Yes, I'm starting to realize that now my only option is to do flash recovery through adb. So, I've spent all night last night trying to understand what adb is. I installed and updated the sdk, but my adb shell doesn't see my phone as a listed device, so I'm stuck at this point. And yes, I read probably 5 tutorials on installing various usb drivers/ modifying sdk ini files/etc to make your computer recognize the phone as an adb device. I tried everything that was suggested but no luck so far.
I've spent nearly 30 hours so far since this whole disaster started and although I haven't made much progress, I've learned quite a few things.
And, no, I won't mess with Advanced Task Killer or Titanium Backup any more, just give me my phone back and working
Are you s=off with eng boot loader, I don't think you will be able to get a stable adb connection with the ROM acting all wonky.
Best bet is fastboot flash recovery
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ESKIMOn00b said:
Are you s=off with eng boot loader, I don't think you will be able to get a stable adb connection with the ROM acting all wonky.
Best bet is fastboot flash recovery
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Yes, s=off with eng boot loader. However, I never did a custom ROM flash, so I cannot go to recovery mode from the phone. I thought even for fastboot flash recovery I need an adb connection, no? How else can I do that?
Thanks.
vess22 said:
Yes, s=off with eng boot loader. However, I never did a custom ROM flash, so I cannot go to recovery mode from the phone. I thought even for fastboot flash recovery I need an adb connection, no? How else can I do that?
Thanks.
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Boot into fastboot and then you should have access to adb. You can then use fastboot to flash clockwork recovery.
There is a STOCK NANDROID RESTORE somewhere in the development section here. Use clockwork recovery to restore that nandroid, boot up and go on your merry way.
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download clockwork recovery and save it to c:\android-sdk-windows\tools (or maybe platform-tools, depending on where the fastboot.exe file is located)
CLOCKWORK RECOVERY LINK
power off phone
hold vol down + power
select FASTBOOT
connect phone to computer - let windows do it's hardware detecting/installing thing
open a command prompt and navigate to your sdk tools folder
type this, without quotes "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"
disconnect phone and power off/reboot/etc
You should now have access to clockwork recovery and be able to flash whatever you want
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Boot into fastboot and then you should have access to adb. You can then use fastboot to flash clockwork recovery.
There is a STOCK NANDROID RESTORE somewhere in the development section here. Use clockwork recovery to restore that nandroid, boot up and go on your merry way.
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download clockwork recovery and save it to c:\android-sdk-windows\tools (or maybe platform-tools, depending on where the fastboot.exe file is located)
CLOCKWORK RECOVERY LINK
power off phone
hold vol down + power
select FASTBOOT
connect phone to computer - let windows do it's hardware detecting/installing thing
open a command prompt and navigate to your sdk tools folder
type this, without quotes "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"
disconnect phone and power off/reboot/etc
You should now have access to clockwork recovery and be able to flash whatever you want
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Thank you, thank you! You saved my life. Finally a solution that worked for me. God bless you
BTW, I was never able to get adb detect my phone but fastboot did! So, I followed the steps you suggested and it worked. So relieved now
Vess
vess22 said:
Thank you, thank you! You saved my life. Finally a solution that worked for me. God bless you
BTW, I was never able to get adb detect my phone but fastboot did! So, I followed the steps you suggested and it worked. So relieved now
Vess
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lol, glad I could help! ADB should be working in Clockwork Recovery now, btw.
You should have seen how I freaked out the first time I tried to root my mt3g. I forgot to wipe and it kept freezing on boot, lol.
So what are you gonna do now? Load a custom rom or stay with stock?
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lol, glad I could help! ADB should be working in Clockwork Recovery now, btw.
You should have seen how I freaked out the first time I tried to root my mt3g. I forgot to wipe and it kept freezing on boot, lol.
So what are you gonna do now? Load a custom rom or stay with stock?
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I just loaded ice glacier 1.1.4 unthemed. To be honest I don't see much difference except that the bloatware is gone, so I'm happy with it. I don't know if it makes sense to go back to stock. My phone is not under warranty. Is there another reason one might want stock?
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I just loaded ice glacier 1.1.4 unthemed. To be honest I don't see much difference except that the bloatware is gone, so I'm happy with it. I don't know if it makes sense to go back to stock. My phone is not under warranty. Is there another reason one might want stock?
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You make an appealing case for Iced Glacier.
Stock tends to be the most stable and reliable, plus you get OTA updates. Other than that, not much reason. I can tell you from recent experience that my phone gets a gps lock much quicker with stock than with cm6, but I'll do further testing to see if that's really the case.
I'm having a similar problem and I'm following these steps, but not having any luck.
Info on my phone: It's a MT4G that I got just this past week from eBay, worked fine up until this morning. Does not have an SD card and the one I have from my previous phone (Vibrant) is a highly suspect piece of junk so it's not in the phone right now. I was running VISIONary+ on it and had just set it to temp root on boot, but never got it to reboot. I plugged it in to charge this morning, thought it was plugged all the way in (maybe it wasn't? Would that cause this kind of borking?) and the phone froze. Rebooting didn't help. Actually I had pulled the battery, rebooted it, stuffed it in my pocket and then 2 hours later realized it was still on the boot up screen. That's when I got scared. It's running ADW, Superpower, TIBackup and Tasker, but there's no other software I can think of on the phone that might have mattered. Never installed Clockwork or anything like that before, regretting that now.
On the hboot screen I have:
GLACIER PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT 0.86.0000
MICROP-0429
RADIO 26.03.02.26_M
eMMC-boot
Sep 27 2010, 11:12:59
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Going to Fastboot, I can get the phone to be recognized as an HTC Bootloader in my device manager, and I can try and get the recovery.img loaded as was instructed above using adb but it always fails. Output from that is:
sending 'recovery' (8701 KB)... OKAY [471.891s]
writing 'recover'... INFOsignature checking...
FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)
finished. total time: 473.125s
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When I try and do recovery, I get a quick flash of a phone with a red exclamation point over it, then black screen of nothing. Booting regular leads to a constant white MyTouch4g screen, no change. Trying Factor Reset leads to the skateboarding androids, no change even after a long time. In any of these cases, I have to pull the battery before I can try anything again.
Did I bork my phone? How the heck did I do that? Is there any way to further save it? Any help you guys could give me would be massively appreciated, thanks in advance.
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I'm having a similar problem and I'm following these steps, but not having any luck.
Info on my phone: It's a MT4G that I got just this past week from eBay, worked fine up until this morning. Does not have an SD card and the one I have from my previous phone (Vibrant) is a highly suspect piece of junk so it's not in the phone right now. I was running VISIONary+ on it and had just set it to temp root on boot, but never got it to reboot. I plugged it in to charge this morning, thought it was plugged all the way in (maybe it wasn't? Would that cause this kind of borking?) and the phone froze. Rebooting didn't help. Actually I had pulled the battery, rebooted it, stuffed it in my pocket and then 2 hours later realized it was still on the boot up screen. That's when I got scared. It's running ADW, Superpower, TIBackup and Tasker, but there's no other software I can think of on the phone that might have mattered. Never installed Clockwork or anything like that before, regretting that now.
On the hboot screen I have:
Going to Fastboot, I can get the phone to be recognized as an HTC Bootloader in my device manager, and I can try and get the recovery.img loaded as was instructed above using adb but it always fails. Output from that is:
When I try and do recovery, I get a quick flash of a phone with a red exclamation point over it, then black screen of nothing. Booting regular leads to a constant white MyTouch4g screen, no change. Trying Factor Reset leads to the skateboarding androids, no change even after a long time. In any of these cases, I have to pull the battery before I can try anything again.
Did I bork my phone? How the heck did I do that? Is there any way to further save it? Any help you guys could give me would be massively appreciated, thanks in advance.
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The instructions above only pertain to a rooted phone. Your phone is not rooted and you dont have eng bootloader. Without superuser access you cant even flash recovery like you were trying. A factory reset didnt fix your problem?
Side note, im an opponent of doing the whole temp rooting only thing cause if you screw something up you dont have access to tools to fix anything, your just screwed if something happens like this.
So i have a desire hd from Three, which is unlocked and unbranded, i rooted the phone via the visionary method, got s-off, used rom manager to install clockwork mod recovery which was 2.5.1 something rather, then i created a backup, upgraded to clockwork 3.0.0.1, tried to install the cyanogenmod 6.1.3 via rom manager but didnt work, so i downloaded the zip file manually and tried to update via clockwork mod recovery now in 3.0, restarted, and am now stuck at the main HTC screen. Pulled the battery, then went back into clockwork recovery, tried to recover the backup i made, rebooted, but still stuck on htc white screen... dont know what to do help!
You could try flashing a RUU to go back to stock 1.32 would be best or you would need to downgrade to root, or you could try getting another rom image on your SD card isnt clockwork 3 4 ginger bread nightlies?
Just throwing ideas out there. Personally I would go woth the RUU.
Thanks for the reply, i remember finding some links with ruu's but i'm not sure which one i need and how to use it ?
Sorry just thought the other thing is how long did you leave it. I have read about people leaving for 30 mins and then it boots..
Start downloading this. Its the RUU_Ace_HTC_WWE_1.32.405.6_Radio_12.28b.60.140e_26 .03.02.26_M_release_155891_signed
http://www.multiupload.com/N333WKVW6M
while downloading leave your phone to boot it might surprise you..
I left it for a while but maybe not long enough, perhaps 15 minutes at one point? i'll try again, should i wipe data in clockwork and then reflash the cyanogenmod again? is it ok to keep the phone plugged into the computer via usb?
Sorry, once downloaded just run the EXE, it will walk you through the steps.
The Dev section has a lot of useful stuff in it for this sort of thing the 1st post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=936214 is pretty usefull.
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I left it for a while but maybe not long enough, perhaps 15 minutes at one point? i'll try again, should i wipe data in clockwork and then reflash the cyanogenmod again? is it ok to keep the phone plugged into the computer via usb?
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Worth a go whilst downloading, I would wipe 1st. Its good you still have your recovey partition (clockwork) so you should be fine. Use the RUU as the last resort as it will wipe recovery part and loose SOFF etc.. But should fix the phone.
Right so i've wiped data/factory reset and cache partition and dalvik cache, then went to choose zip from sd, chose update-cm-6.1.3-DesireHD-signed.zip, says Welcome to CyanogenMod-6.1.2-desireHD (strange?) completed. Now went to Reboot system now and waiting, still on HTC screen.
is it possible to put another rom on the sd card? i dont have a computer that i can plug the mini sd into, possible in recovery mode?
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is it possible to put another rom on the sd card? i dont have a computer that i can plug the mini sd into, possible in recovery mode?
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yes, but i dont know how of the top of my head, i will have a look in the dev forums, i think you use fastboot and u can push files. Hopefully someone with a bit more knowledge will see this post soon. I will have a look though.
so its been 30 minutes, and it's still at the htc screen... what should i do? should i try the RUU ? i dont want to brick my phone...
from what i can find fastboot will not push files, adb but may not connect on splash screen. You could just try pulling the battery and leaving it again to boot for a bit, mine has hung before like that. The Ruu should go through and connect to phone and go through flashing. Do you have another phone that could take the SD card? im gonna boot my phone to recovery and try to push a rom to it or file.
ok i am reading this post,http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=558812
what i would do is goto recovery mode,
he command is:
adb shell mount /sdcard
adb push c:\******.*** /sdcard
exemple with g:\update.zip :
adb push g:\update.zip /sdcard
usefull when wrong rom flashed and no sdcard reader ^^
So i downloaded a cyanogenmod 7 nightly build, installed with with clockwork 3.0.0.5, and it worked, booted in, but had a continuous logo loop, going to try leedroid
Good luck, Leedroid rocks, thats what i use. I would say if it is still looping try the ruu and then start again. The RUU will esentially factory reset.
Installed the latest Cyanogen nightly build #23, and it works perfectly now should i keep it? or should i try leedroid? i kind of want to keep using htc sense, as i have all my contacts on it..
Up to you really. I went back to leedroid because it seems faster and more stable for me and I like some of the sense widgets.
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