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Hi everybody!
I'm trying to buy a used Nexus One, good price, but the owner claims that the phone "continuously reboots to "X" screen." but that IT can be fixed flashing the rom.
Is it true?
I'm reading on the internet that having the nexus one loop rebooting is a somehow common problem, and people got it fixed flashing the rom, or by moving some shifted pins on the battery. Do you guys think it's something reparable? Everybody that had this issue solved it? Or I risk that the phone is actually broken, and I might be buying a phone that I will not be able to use?
Thanks!
fastboot
just check for fastboot. the rest is easy cheeze.
how much is a good deal ?
unlocked $300 (cad)
What should I check? Instruct me plz, I never had a nexus one or even a Droid phone before ... (coming from 2 years old HTC cruise, with WM 6.5 with an XDA rom ....)
If I meet the guy, how to I check that hes not selling me a bricked nexus lol ?
Installing a new rom will fix it
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Amritttt said:
Installing a new rom will fix it
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are you 100% ?
I dont mind working on it, I just want to make sure that it is reparable via software/roms.
ppl plz tell yours, im just about calling this guy, really dont wanna waste $300
what is its restarts so much, that I cant flash the rom or something? there's no way that that could be the case, right?
sold ... goddamit lol But I'll get one one way or another
I was having this happen to me a lot. I moved in to a new place with no cable or internet yet, so my N1 was under extremely heavy use. And when it was warm, it would get both the touch screen problem and the random reboots.
I was using pershoots 2.35 Kernal. I went back to the stock kernal and the phone has since been running a lot cooler. Zero reboots, touch screen responds correctly. I take the stock kernal stability over an OC kernal any day.
It's a kernel issue that can most likely be fixed by flashing a new
ROM/Kernel, however there is always a small chance that it is triggered by faulty hardware.
My Nexus had this Problem Was unfixable by software. Hardware defect. I wouldn't buy.
Still waiting for my swap unit
i had a friend with a similar problem. He rooted the phone with the 1-click root app from the market, he then installed ROM manager from the market and try to flash Cyanogen mod ROM, afterward the phone went black. The only thing happen to the phone now is the X screen and its keep boot loop. I tried went to fastboot, works fine, then I tried to go to Recovery but it restart right afterward!!!
Now how am I suppose to wipe, or flash new rom without getting into the recovery? I got to fastboot and plugged in the USB cable and tried to ran terminal but it was unsucessful. I tried to copy some new files to the phone via adb command but keep getting the error "BootMagic failed".
Any help?
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i had a friend with a similar problem. He rooted the phone with the 1-click root app from the market, he then installed ROM manager from the market and try to flash Cyanogen mod ROM, afterward the phone went black. The only thing happen to the phone now is the X screen and its keep boot loop. I tried went to fastboot, works fine, then I tried to go to Recovery but it restart right afterward!!!
Now how am I suppose to wipe, or flash new rom without getting into the recovery? I got to fastboot and plugged in the USB cable and tried to ran terminal but it was unsucessful. I tried to copy some new files to the phone via adb command but keep getting the error "BootMagic failed".
Any help?
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all is not lost if you can still get into hboot:
Have you tried to restore these original files via adb?
boot boot.img
recovery.img
system.img
I have this problem now...
It keeps on rebooting and rebooting ... and just comes not forther than the flashing X..
I tried system wipe but this didnt help ( I installed a battery widget which wasn't for my rom)
how can i restore my nexus now?
Pleas help!
Edit: Found a way...
Unlock you phone, fastboot, clockworkmod(?) recovery and the select the nandroid backup...
about passimg (see lower) i have no clue
passimg FRG33...
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Even though solved, something to keep in mind: Its probably a ROM (or kernel issue as they said), but I had a revolving X due to a bad battery too.
it can be solved
ViSK said:
Hi everybody!
I'm trying to buy a used Nexus One, good price, but the owner claims that the phone "continuously reboots to "X" screen." but that IT can be fixed flashing the rom.
Is it true?
I'm reading on the internet that having the nexus one loop rebooting is a somehow common problem, and people got it fixed flashing the rom, or by moving some shifted pins on the battery. Do you guys think it's something reparable? Everybody that had this issue solved it? Or I risk that the phone is actually broken, and I might be buying a phone that I will not be able to use?
Thanks!
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4 color problem can be solved ..
OK im kinda a noob to this ive done some basic flashing before. heres my problem ive never tried to use a coustom rom and today decided to try so. My phone has ben rooted and i have rom manager installed. What im trying to do is back up my curent rom which is the original rom. Every time i do it using rom manager my phone reboot and put a pic of a big ! and a picture of a phone i have to take battery out to reboot the phone. Ive ben searching since around 10 am est on how to back up and i keep coming up with nanddroid back up what exactly or how exactly is that done is it a app i need do i need to format my sd card i just cant get this thing to back up for nothing any help would be greatly aprreciated.
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OK im kinda a noob to this ive done some basic flashing before. heres my problem ive never tried to use a coustom rom and today decided to try so. My phone has ben rooted and i have rom manager installed. What im trying to do is back up my curent rom which is the original rom. Every time i do it using rom manager my phone reboot and put a pic of a big ! and a picture of a phone i have to take battery out to reboot the phone. Ive ben searching since around 10 am est on how to back up and i keep coming up with nanddroid back up what exactly or how exactly is that done is it a app i need do i need to format my sd card i just cant get this thing to back up for nothing any help would be greatly aprreciated.
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U can just go into recovery and go nandroid/backup. And it should backup
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Phateless said:
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.
hello all. so i have a rooted mytouch 4g that im loving but having issues with. i permarooted it with Visionary and everything works great but when i try to boot my phone in recovery, it goes to a black screen with an exclamation point and i have to pull the battery. I also tried it through Rom Manager to do a backup and it gets the same screen. any ideas would be of great help. thanks in advance!
Seems to be stock recovery, with rom manager flash clock work recovery
Some times rom manager doesn't like to flash recovery on our phone. Theres an option after you enable advanced features to delete recovery before flaashing. Use that. May help. If not, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=852905
^^ That should help.
thanks im gonna try that and see where it gets me! i did do my research before doing this and re read everything but i guess im still not quite too learned yet ha.
tried after enabling advanced mode and it didnt help so when i get home and have a computer available ill try the adb way and see if that helps. seems pointless to have a rooted phone if i cant flash a rom onto it haha. hopefully i can fix this!
cbach1987 said:
hello all. so i have a rooted mytouch 4g that im loving but having issues with. i permarooted it with Visionary and everything works great but when i try to boot my phone in recovery, it goes to a black screen with an exclamation point and i have to pull the battery. I also tried it through Rom Manager to do a backup and it gets the same screen. any ideas would be of great help. thanks in advance!
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Sounds like CW didn't install right. Many users have found that flashing CW twice or even 3 times seems to clear the issue up.
Try that.
so i got s-off and then tried installing CW 2 or 3 times like you said and hey it worked great! did and nandroid backup and all so im back in business! thanks so so so much for the help
cbach1987 said:
so i got s-off and then tried installing CW 2 or 3 times like you said and hey it worked great! did and nandroid backup and all so im back in business! thanks so so so much for the help
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Glad I was able to help. Seems CW needs to be flashed more than once in order to 'take' and install correctly on some devices. Anyway, glad you're up and runnin.
I don't knwo where to post this exactly so here it goes.
I installed revolution 2.09 on my rooted HTC HD without any problems.
Run perfectly. Then today I installed a ROM of a theme from this forum as well called media 1.3 with rom manager.
After the reboot my phone only shows a the text android with a slight moving glow over it. It does not repsond to anything any more. I removed the battery but the same thing is happening.
Did I brick it? What can I do?
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I don't knwo where to post this exactly so here it goes.
I installed revolution 2.09 on my rooted HTC HD without any problems.
Run perfectly. Then today I installed a ROM of a theme from this forum as well called media 1.3 with rom manager.
After the reboot my phone only shows a the text android with a slight moving glow over it. It does not repsond to anything any more. I removed the battery but the same thing is happening.
Did I brick it? What can I do?
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thats just the default android boot screen, looks like the theme messed up your framework... hold on i'll make a .zip you can flash from recovery to fix it
Thanks, but how do I get the zip on the phone? It does not react to anything anymore. I attahced it to my PC but nothing....
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Thanks, but how do I get the zip on the phone? It does not react to anything anymore. I attahced it to my PC but nothing....
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im just downloading the rom for you now so i can extract the framework, if you pull your battery out, you can either plug in your charger while its off, this will bring up recovery, or while its off, hold vol down and press power, that will take you to bootloader, and just pick recovery from the list, now when in recovery, if you navigate to the mounts and storage menu, choose the option mount usb storage, you can now connect to a pc as a disk drive and copy stuff to your sd card
im having trouble uploading attachments to xda at the min dya want me to upload it to megaupload for you?
AndroHero,
Thank you for helping me out. I didn't know about the vol down press power option which allows you to acces the sd card and intall a new rom. I had the revolution rom 2.0.9 already. It's installing as we speak. Much thanks for the tips!
To early hooray. I choose the option with the revolution zip for a complete install. After the install I selected rebouut system now. Now it stays on the white HTC screen with the text HTC quitely brilliant. Flashing every 3 seconds or so....
What to do now?
Everything is resolved. revolution is up and running again. I had to un the fullwipe.zip and that did it!
THANKS a lot for all the tips....again
Willem Kloppenburg said:
To early hooray. I choose the option with the revolution zip for a complete install. After the install I selected rebouut system now. Now it stays on the white HTC screen with the text HTC quitely brilliant. Flashing every 3 seconds or so....
What to do now?
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Did you do a full wipe before re-flashing your ROM? even if you did just repeat the process , full wipe /cache, /dalvik-cache, /system and then re-flash the rom fingers crossed it should work
Hi,
I am having a similar problem. I tried flashing the cyanogen mod and after installing it the phone doesnt boot up. Its stuck on the t-mobile boot up logo. Ive tried restoring my back up but I get the same problem.
Any help would be great!
Thanks
mo123456789 said:
Hi,
I am having a similar problem. I tried flashing the cyanogen mod and after installing it the phone doesnt boot up. Its stuck on the t-mobile boot up logo. Ive tried restoring my back up but I get the same problem.
Any help would be great!
Thanks
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boot into recovery do a full wipe (system, data, cache and dalvik-cache) then re-flash your rom
mo123456789 said:
Hi,
I am having a similar problem. I tried flashing the cyanogen mod and after installing it the phone doesnt boot up. Its stuck on the t-mobile boot up logo. Ive tried restoring my back up but I get the same problem.
Any help would be great!
Thanks
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Could it be possible that you installed cwm 3005 and tried a restore with that. I had the same problem. Went back to cwm 2.5.x and then restore worked.
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I think there will be a lot of scare because of this CWM 3x...
Same happened to me the other day, stupidly accecpted the update prompt from Rom Manager, did my backup and went to install Cyanogen 6... Got stuck at HTC logo next boot.
Thankfuly, had Leedroid 2.0 on the SD, too, and that one flashed properly
Thing is that when I try to downgrade the Recovery to 2.5x I get an error and really can't be bothered with ADB pushing stuff around, so using Cyanogen 7 for the time beeing
Anyhow, CWM 3.x is likely your problem, easy to fix ^^
Wanting to change my theme on the Samsung spica I had theexact problem on cyanogen mod. Had to redo the whole rooting and installing the Rom again to get to work.
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yes, is some script...back to recovery 2.x