so, im really confused right now. ive been having issues, and i thought i had it worked out, then i tried rebooting my phone, and it kept looping the white htc evo screen, so i plugged it into the computer to do some adb/fastboot stuff, and it booted. ive done this multiple times to confirm. any ideas why or how to fix it?
What happens if you boot it connected to the computer and then unplug it? Does it run properly? How about booting plugged into the wall, not a computer. Does that yield the same results?
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After I see the boot animation start, I can unplug it and use it normally. Except my phone fcs, and I can't get USB mass storage to work, but that could be totally unrelated. I can boot while plugged into the wall. I'm even more confused haha
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Might be an issue with your battery not providing enough juice. You aren't undervolted, are you? Sounds like the phone just doesn't have enough juice to run right. If you are undervolted, try adjusting back. If not, try a new battery, I have a feeling you may see some cgange.
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I agree with Aaron. You may also have a bad flash of a rom,, try reflashing the rom to see if it corrects the issue
Sounds like a good wiping and a nice clean flash will fix this issue.
Had the same problem awhile back after flashing CM 7 RC. After a reflash it went away and everything worked fine.
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I got it working, flashing didn't due anything to help, but the problem would appear to be when everything messed up it was with boot manager and my recovery, and I had revolutionary cwm and couldn't find a dl for it anywhere, so using among ra or normal cwm wouldn't really work. So I pulled the recovery.img from an old nand and that did the trick.
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Hi guys,
I know it's supposed to be virtually impossible to brick the epic but I don't know how to fix mine using the threads in this forum.
I originally rooted my phone, installed Clockworkmod and had the genocide Kernel installed.
This morning I tried to flash the Bonsai rom. Everything seemed fine and I got the message that the flash was successful. Upon reboot the phone just stays stuck at the Samsung screen.
I've tried to use Odin to reset my phone but Odin doesn't detect my phone and anything I try to do within the recovery screen gives me the message that says
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
Can anyone help me get my working again? And what do you think went wrong in my attempt to flash Bonsai? Could it have been that I already had Genocide kernel on there?
If Odin isn't detecting your phone, try rebooting PC and use a different USB port and cable, if possible.
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Are you in download mode when you are using Odin? If not... open keyboard while phone is off and hold down 1 and the power button. If that's not the problem try another cable.
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I am in download mode. I will try to reboot my laptop and change the USB port. Hopefully that works. If not it won't be until tomorrow when I have access to different cables. Will let you know how it goes.
Have you successfully used Odin with this particular laptop and cable?
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As long as you can get to Download mode, you Epic shouldn't be bricked
Instead of using Odin, try the SWUPdate version of the EB13 update with the phone in download mode
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Have you successfully used Odin with this particular laptop and cable?
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When I used odin to flash to Froyo I was using my desktop. This was my first time using the laptop. Looks like it was a bad idea!
I rebooted the laptop and changed USB ports and still no cigar. When I plug the phone in Windows goes into it's plug n play routine trying to install drivers for the devices which unsuccessfully install. I've previously installed the Samsung drivers on the laptop in order to mount the SD card so I'm not sure why doesn't recognize the phone. Any idea on why this happens? Is it normal when the phone bricks?
It won't be until late tonight Pacific time or tomorrow that I will be home and able to try things out on my desktop where I previously used Odin successfully.
U should use your desktop for this since its worked for u in the past
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I think a PC reads the phone differently depending on what mode its in, someone correct me if I'm wrong. Mine has come up as a disk drive, an adb interface, a modem, and just plain phone. Not sure of the exact reason.
But yes, use the PC that's worked for you before. I'm sure your Epic just needs a little love
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Thanks guys, I'll try it on my PC as soon as I can and hopefully it'll all work out.
I had a similar situation where my netbook would not recognize my phone, but everything works normally on my desktop.
I had the same problem. I think to fix it I had to run the one click root for ext4 and then flash the rom. Hope this helps.
I had a similar problem but was able (eventually) to get cwm to boot and restored from nandroid
Swyped from my Epic on Bonsai
Thanks for the suggestions guys! It was as simple and unintuitive as using my desktop and the cable that came with the phone to get Odin to detect the phone. I'm now flashing back to stock before rooting and putting on a custom ROM
Glad to hear it went well
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Ok so this is on my wife's phone that I have not touched, I have a vibrant that is rooted and I flash different things all the time, and recovered from several bootloops, so I'm not totally new to this. As soon as you turn the phone on it goes to the my touch 4g screen, vibrates, and then reboots. I can get into hboot screen but if I try to go to recovery or do a factory reset it just bootloops again. I did some searching but saw nothing about an unrooted phone bootlooping. Any help is greatly apreciated.
Try this... pull the battery. Let it sit for 20 minutes. Then try booting it. Sounds like a dell tech support answer... but it has actually worked for more than a few people.
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Ok so I found PD15img.zip and tried loading it and installed fine but same problem, so I'm not trying to install factory recovery through adb and fastboot and I've got all the files but fastboot will not recognize the device (yes drivers are installed). Any suggestions before I call HTC/tmobile in the morning?
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Ok so I found PD15img.zip and tried loading it and installed fine but same problem, so I'm not trying to install factory recovery through adb and fastboot and I've got all the files but fastboot will not recognize the device (yes drivers are installed). Any suggestions before I call HTC/tmobile in the morning?
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Well, you could try the suggestion from the poster above..and if you did leave feedback.
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If the pd15img.zip isn't working sounds like an internal storage issue. If that's the case there is nothing u can do. Call T-Mobile not HTC.
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Thanks for everyone's help. Left the battery out all night and same thing this morning. Called t-mobile and they're shipping a new one for free, which surprised me since we bought the phone off eBay. Thanks again.
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I flashed with CleanGB, and it is a phenominal ROM. But i cant access the COM port on my phone. I tried ##8778# and switched back and forth on PDA/USB/MODEM settings, but nothing... does anyone have any ideas? Please and thank you.
Sry. This is on a Sprint EPIC 4G
Same issue.....
Also my screen stays black when I open keyboard so my keyboard is useless.
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Have you heard any way to do this? I really dont want to flash back to the sprint ROM, but i will if i need to, i need to change some numbers......
Have you tried reinstalling the drivers on your computer? Different cable? Different USB ports?
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I have tried everything on my computer... My wife epic works fine..
I believe toad said something about it being possibly related to canceling a reboot from the power button. It's in the clean gb rom at the end....
I've just been living with it so far... Plugging it in after power down and removing the battery gets it to boot again...
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Then a quick Odin to EC05 stock should get it going again, then root and flash. Don't restore any system data.
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Can't odin... can't get pc to see phone in boot loader or usb mode....
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Can't odin... can't get pc to see phone in boot loader or usb mode....
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Not even in download mode huh? You can try restoring an old nandroid to see if that fixes it.
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I think you guys have broken phones.
EDIT: Or in the case of your PC not seeing ODIN, something is probably going on with the PC.
ive had the same exact problem you will have to take your sd card and try to install a stock rom from phones cwm recovery or which ever recovery you are running
I have the exact same problem on the exact same rom.
But only on my home PC.
I tried it at work and Odin recognized the com port. Not sure what is changed on my home PC. I dont have to Odin often, and this is the first time I've noticed this.
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Have been enjoying epinter's ROM, but recently been having some issues.
Last week, everything suddenly started misbehaving, and then it rebooted and went into a boot loop. I restored to an older NANDROID backup and it worked fine. But since that event, it has been rebooting quite regularly at random times. Sometimes, it goes into a bootloop. Have realised that if I take out the battery and leave it to cool down for a few mins, it starts working fine. I suppose this is to do with overheating.
I deleted FastDormancy.apk as suggested by epinter. Doesn't seem to have made a difference.
Since day before, it isn't detecting any Wi-Fi networks. I flashed the 20120922 version of epinter's ROM too, but still have the same problem. Tried the WiFi settings, but that didn't help.
Today I cleared data and cache, and reinstalled 20120922 version of the ROM, but still got the problem.
I also upgraded radios to 37p. Didn't help.
Any suggestions on how to diagnose it? Is it possible that Wi-Fi (hardware) is bust?
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No suggestions?
Maybe hardware!
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Might suggest a full -w in fastoot. Load a different recovery via fastboot then a stable rom just to test with like Joker CM9 or Fruitcake.
If that don't work start checking antenna connections and ribbon cables for damage.
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Might suggest a full -w in fastoot. Load a different recovery via fastboot then a stable rom just to test with like Joker CM9 or Fruitcake.
If that don't work start checking antenna connections and ribbon cables for damage.
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What do you mean by 'Load a different recovery via fastboot'? I have used fastboot to wipe fully, but could you point me to the 'recovery' to be used?
Thanks
My phone is repeatedly rebooting now. It's not in a boot loop. It actually boots into ICS and then reboots after some time.
Really would appreciate any insights on this.
You can use fast boot to flash recovery files to the phone. You need to while recovery then use "fastboot flash recovery filename.img" for example. Assuming your file is in the same directory on your PC.
I only suggest out of practice. I typically find if any part of the hardware fails to boot or load with the rest of the phone I start with a clean cwm ,rom, and so on. Start at 0 essentially. If the problem goes away then its most certainly soft wear and you can trouble shoot from thwre
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Does Bluetooth work ?
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I've been using the 20120825 version of epinter's rom, and everything has been incredibly stable for me except wifi and bluetooth. Neither will turn on, and under advanced wifi settings my wifi chip is giving the mac address as not available.
I flashed CM7 a few weeks ago to see if that would fix it and CM7 gives an error when I try and turn wifi on, also showing not available for the wifi mac address.
I've seen around here a little bit that this might be a hardware issue that happens irrespective of what rom you use or if still on stock.
Has anyone found a fix for it?
EDIT: also using the 37P radio.
I also found this thread... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26163360
Well this is weird.
I plug in my phone to my computer, and it doesn't show up. Neither does it say on the rom that it is connected, the light shows up though, but it only charges.
I try to mount it again in recovery but no luck
And I tried Albinoman's CM10, as well as Coderzs SlimBean. Still no noticifcation. I think im screwed
Any help?
EDIT: I've also tried different wires and on different ports if that matters
EDIT: Nevermind. I think its an Issue with my computer, since I tried it on another computer and it showed up fine in recovery
The first time I hit don't accept and checked remember or whatever it says and couldn't figure out how to redo. I did search on how to redo it but didn't work. Probably a full wipe is the only if u did the same as I did.
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