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HTC incredible endless boot loop

i have a non-rooted HTC incredible, however it's stuck in an endless boot loop. I can enter recovery, but that's about it.
any suggestions as to what i can do?

hard reset may work
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i tried hard resetting it. this did not solve the problem.

ok. if you are not rooted, take ot back to big red and get a replacement. from what i hear, the incredible is not that well made. i know that on my inc-- sometimes haptic feedback gives out, sound gives out, amd it overheats
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jdkoreclipse said:
ok. if you are not rooted, take ot back to big red and get a replacement. from what i hear, the incredible is not that well made. i know that on my inc-- sometimes haptic feedback gives out, sound gives out, amd it overheats
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i am the second owner of the incredible, and apparently, the warranty only applies to the original owner.

Are you root?
When and how did this start happening?

jdkoreclipse said:
ok. if you are not rooted, take ot back to big red and get a replacement. from what i hear, the incredible is not that well made. i know that on my inc-- sometimes haptic feedback gives out, sound gives out, amd it overheats
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Sounds like you got a bad one. Mine is perfect. No issues.

JaydenR said:
Sounds like you got a bad one. Mine is perfect. No issues.
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im actually thinking of taking it back and getting a moto droid. i love the dinc, but it is poorly made.
Too bad i cant return, as i got it on release day. maybe if i can pick a good fight with the vzw guy, i could swap it out.
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JaydenR said:
Are you root?
When and how did this start happening?
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i'm not rooted. i was just using the phone normally and then it randomly rebooted. now it's stuck in a loop.
do you guys think if i apply a manual non-rooted update it would fix the problem?
if yes, where can i get a link to download this?

RUU
You should try running any of the stock RUU's; maybe even the most recent one (although I make no warranty; and this is at your risk). Perhaps your reboot loop is a heat related issue due to a faulty radio which is working too hard.
http://www.shipped-roms.com/shipped/Incredible/
has the RUU's although it is not clear as to how long.
I am on my 2nd incredible; first one overheated and would then would do a 4-13 white screen / black screen / white screen / ... until it would move on.

theanswer said:
i'm not rooted. i was just using the phone normally and then it randomly rebooted. now it's stuck in a loop.
do you guys think if i apply a manual non-rooted update it would fix the problem?
if yes, where can i get a link to download this?
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edit: post is useless.
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Try the RUU that was posted.

jdmba said:
You should try running any of the stock RUU's; maybe even the most recent one (although I make no warranty; and this is at your risk). Perhaps your reboot loop is a heat related issue due to a faulty radio which is working too hard.
http://www.shipped-roms.com/shipped/Incredible/
has the RUU's although it is not clear as to how long.
I am on my 2nd incredible; first one overheated and would then would do a 4-13 white screen / black screen / white screen / ... until it would move on.
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these RUUs require the phone to be turned on though. i cant get past the boot screen

theanswer said:
these RUUs require the phone to be turned on though. i cant get past the boot screen
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download the downgrade image. it will be found in the ota thread in the dev section.
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download the downgrade image. it will be found in the ota thread in the dev section.
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just want to confirm, you want me to follow this:
http://androidforums.com/all-things...16-how-revert-back-earlier-version-hboot.html

theanswer said:
just want to confirm, you want me to follow this:
http://androidforums.com/all-things...16-how-revert-back-earlier-version-hboot.html
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put this on the root of ypur sd card, boot into bootloader, and let the phone do the rest. YOU MAY LOSE ALL DATA
http://www.mediafire.com/?yum40znzwmmmtyl
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jdkoreclipse said:
put this on the root of ypur sd card, boot into bootloader, and let the phone do the rest. YOU MAY LOSE ALL DATA
http://www.mediafire.com/?yum40znzwmmmtyl
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just tried this, and it did not solve the problem. any other suggestions?
thanks for the help btw, i really appreciate it.

theanswer said:
just tried this, and it did not solve the problem. any other suggestions?
thanks for the help btw, i really appreciate it.
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ruu, hard reset, and stock img, that is it. Your dinc is hosed. I hope you have insurance??? (this is the part where you say yes)
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Welp
While it may not help you, it can't hurt to say. I was having huge reboot issues ... highest number was 13 initial white screen / black screen cycles. I could also NEVER get into Recovery (I could get into HBOOT but when I chose recovery, it would do TWO reboots, the second being full). A battery pull was usually needed.
However, the one thing that allowed me into recovery, etc., was to let the phone charge overnight to 100% and let it be. In the morning, the phone was charged and cool. At that point, I could easily get into recovery, start up, etc.
While I am sure you have tried this; just wanted to note to make sure your phone is cool and you did a battery pull for at least 10 minutes.

I too have this issue
I also have a stock incredible that I bought second hand, which when i bought it, I checked to make sure the device was ok. When I activated it like 2 minutes later it entered a reboot loop. I thought it might be a botched PRL so I went to the Verizon Rep (I met the seller at vz store) and he performed a forced activation. It continued the reboot loop so I took it home. I noticed that if I was outside or near a window, the phone would act normally. I used this discovery to root it and install a recovery. I flashed a few kernel/rom/radio combinations including stock rooted but there was no luck. I flashed back to RUU and it continued to reboot loop. The next day I reversed the activation back to my Eris. 20 minutes later the phone is perfect. I reactivated the device and it commenced rebooting immediately. I took it back to the store and they noted the same behavior. I'm pretty sure it's a faulty radio but since it wasn't activated on the original # they couldn't warranty it. They did tell me if the original owner activates it, they will warranty it so were gonna do that. I hope nobody else has this issue, but if you have this problem, try RUU, and if that doesnt fix it, it's likely hardware failure

Day one and im bricked..

Just jumped ships from sprint and got my facinate. Today rooted with one click and tried installing clock work. Thmanage rom manager. All seems well then suddenly my phone freezes for ten minutes I have to do a battery pull. Phone wont boot in anyway or form now. No lights or signs of life other than if I hold the power button as long as its pressed. A device labeled SEC S5PC110 Test B/D appears in device manager. And that'd all it will do. Thinking about exchanging it tomorrow afternoon. Just letting the community know what happened to me any thoughts as how or what happened might be able to help future mishaps

I'd try doing an odin flash. Just search the forums for the step by step. If u can get the phone into flash mode.

Yeah dude, definitely try Odin. Did you try flashing cwm from within ROM manager? I ask because that doesn't work for our phones yet, and it wouldn't surprise me if that could cause problems. I would use Odin to flash it back to stock, and then use the very thorough guide on here on how to get cwm going.
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hilarious post title.. good luck tho man. my only word of advice (tho it won't help u now) is to run back ups before you do anything major

illtema said:
hilarious post title.. good luck tho man. my only word of advice (tho it won't help u now) is to run back ups before you do anything major
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Hard for him to do a backup when he got bricked installing CWM LOL

Possibly bootlocked.
Newer Fascinates seem to be locked. Don't know if there is any way to tell which you've got without attempting a modification of the system....which would of course, result in the above nastiness....

I would think that if newer fascinates were boot locked, so would mesmerizes and I first flashed the stock files for Verizon on my phone then went to elements zinc (which is awesome BTW) installed voodoo 1200 kernel and everything is working great for me. Could just be that he got a bunk phone or something

PhoenixPath said:
Possibly bootlocked.
Newer Fascinates seem to be locked. Don't know if there is any way to tell which you've got without attempting a modification of the system....which would of course, result in the above nastiness....
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I'm thinking it's just Noob users who are bootlocked...

My phone is only a week old everything went fine root,cwm...

wisconsinated said:
I would think that if newer fascinates were boot locked, so would mesmerizes
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Why would you think that? Same hardware!=same software...or we'd all be running USC's kernel/ROM.
Could just be that he got a bunk phone or something
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Could be...which is why I said "possibly" instead of "definitely".

Couldn't get to the flash mode even to use odin, went back today and bestbuy swapped it out for me thinking I just got a bad phone, I could also shake the thing and hear raddling with the usb door shut to so im not really surprised. The new one seems to be working better already, eill try root tonight,

Jwahlg said:
I could also shake the thing and hear raddling with the usb door shut
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Volume toggle. I bet the new one does it.
good day.

chopper the dog said:
Volume toggle. I bet the new one does it.
good day.
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He's right, the volume rockers rattle like a sumbitch.
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My Fascinate is just twp weeks old and One Click and CWM worked just fine for me. BTW I am running JTs super clean rom. Lovin this phone!
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This is why manufacturing companies are locking down phones now. That phone wasn't bricked it could have easily been fixed. OP. Please read and try to learn what u r doing. As well try to have a semi understanding of how u can fix ur phone if u mess it up. I would bet that your phone could have been up and running in 15 minutes.
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ksizzle9 said:
This is why manufacturing companies are locking down phones now. That phone wasn't bricked it could have easily been fixed. OP. Please read and try to learn what u r doing. As well try to have a semi understanding of how u can fix ur phone if u mess it up. I would bet that your phone could have been up and running in 15 minutes.
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x10
This is counter development long term.
I further submit that in the future, all root processes require a ten question exam on the users knowledge to work.
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Mine crashes sometimes. Even with all original OS. I just pull the battery and all is good.
My volume rocker doesn't rattle, so there is that plus.
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Ok.. so bricked for good? Not entering download mode. (UPDATED)

Ok so my phone was bricked and Ive been trying these past few days to fix it with odin. Odin doesnt work on my computer though. Today I connected it and odin started to work and it started to flash, it got to the factoryfs part and then froze, so I disconnected it.
Now my phone won't enter download mode and it won't turn on anymore.. what can I do?
EDITL: So i got into the sprint store and tell them that some update made my screen turn off and it wouldnt turn back on/nor charge. They were working on it for like an hour then they came to me and said that i have to pay 35$ then i can pick up a new one on tuesday. Yay and I was able to ad insurance because I didnt have it before.

I'd try just taking it back to Sprint and tell them that you were performing an OTA update and it just died in the middle of it and you don't know what to do.

Is your battery charged? Because it should at least power on
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hayabusa1300cc said:
Is your battery charged? Because it should at least power on
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Im not sure but it doesnt charge even if I plug it into the wall =( And yeah ill try to go to the sprint store tomorrow, if they question me about rooting should I deny everything? Can they check if the phone is rooted?

Yeah, just play dumb and act like you don't know what happened with it, and it just went blank during an OTA update. They can't see if the phone is rooted or not as far as I'm concerned, but if you bring it to a Sprint repair shop, I'm pretty certain that they won't know.

Actually just try pulling the battery for 3 minutes,then download mode should work,then re-odin...This has happened to me 3 times,really thought it was bricked the first time.
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ecooce said:
Actually just try pulling the battery for 3 minutes,then download mode should work,then re-odin...This has happened to me 3 times,really thought it was bricked the first time.
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same thing happened to me when i first started flashing roms with this phone.. just give it alittle time, plug it in with the battery to make sure its getting a charge and it should boot back into download mode.

kalico17 said:
same thing happened to me when i first started flashing roms with this phone.. just give it alittle time, plug it in with the battery to make sure its getting a charge and it should boot back into download mode.
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I did that and nothing happens, it doesnt charge anymore i think. Im pretty sure its hard bricked now :/

The Sprint store is going to try another battery first before they throw the towel in on the phone. If that doesn't work then yes play dumb and do exactly as previously stated by @brianhuangbh.... "Was doing an OTA and it just froze". Good luck and let us know what they said

sasha101 said:
Ok so my phone was bricked and Ive been trying these past few days to fix it with odin. Odin doesnt work on my computer though. Today I connected it and odin started to work and it started to flash, it got to the factoryfs part and then froze, so I disconnected it.
Now my phone won't enter download mode and it won't turn on anymore.. what can I do?
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same thing happened to me, that i ended up getting another phone. anyway i was fooling around with my brick epic when i decided to put in a fully charged battery in. nothing happened but i noticed after a while that the phone was warm. i pulled the battery then waited a couple of minutes then put it back in and held the power and 1 button and what do you know, it went to download mode. i used Odin CORRECTLY this time and now it works. when using odin make sure reboot is the only box checked and that u start Odin first then plug the epic in.

So i went to the sprint store and everything turned out good

Awesome congrats hopefully the new phone doesn't act up on ya if you decide to root lol
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tphillips78 said:
Awesome congrats hopefully the new phone doesn't act up on ya if you decide to root lol
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Im gonna stay away from rooting haha, came too close this time. Plus my computer refuses to co-operate with odin so i cant unbrick it.

Good stuff if u do decide to root feel free to pm me if u have questions. The people of xda were very helpful to me so I'm returning the favor lol.
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Phone dead after EG22 Modem flash

I was hoping someone hand any advice on my problem. I was running EF02 rom with EF10 modem and flashed EG22 from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1123103
Now my phone doesn't turn on. Nothing works. Any help would be great.
Fixed:
I just let the battery and sdcard sit out of the phone for 45 minutes (doesn't have to be this long) then I put the battery back in and was able to get into download mode. I am flashing the phone back to stock as I think I might have messed something else up earlier. Make sure that after you put the pit file in odin you uncheck re-partition if you are just updating the modem.
This is how I brought my phone back from a hard brick. Thanks everyone for their help.
Some suggestions from others that might help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15958635&postcount=54
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15959310&postcount=61

Can you still get into cwm our download mode?

Did you try removing the battery, putting it back in and trying to boot into download mode?

did you uncheck f partition?

Did you use stock cable?
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I am not able to get into download mode or clockwork. f partion was unchecked. I tried removing the battery and still no luck.

let it sit without the battery in for about an hour, then plug in with battery out and try download mode

This is why leaks are bad.
- Ron

Ron_91 said:
This is why leaks are bad.
- Ron
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I know multiple people that have flashed this Modem and are having no issues at all.

And out of the few dozen people who flashed this, only 1 ended up with a brick...

Ron_91 said:
This is why leaks are bad.
- Ron
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Only bad when you don't know what you're doing
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piscesjoey said:
Only bad when you don't know what you're doing
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Using unreleased beta software and experiencing issues doesn't necessarily have anything to do with knowing what you are doing or not...

The Root said:
let it sit without the battery in for about an hour, then plug in with battery out and try download mode
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I will give this a try and get back to you all with the results.

the same thing happened to me. hard bricked my phone flashing eg22 and i know what i was doing. tried to put it into download mode using test jig and its a no go. getting a new phone Wednesday. $35 (sucks). any one Know how to bring it back????

machx0r said:
Using unreleased beta software and experiencing issues doesn't necessarily have anything to do with knowing what you are doing or not...
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Actually it does if some people are having no problems at all.
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ac16313 said:
Actually it does if some people are having no problems at all.
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You're right, this leak is perfect and has no issues what so ever. The only way anyone could possibly have a problem with it is through their own ignorance and stupidity. My bad...

People who are getting so called "bricks"...
no lights, no samsung logo, no led lights, phone looks completely dead.
Try this:
Remove SD card and battery, leave SD card out, put back battery and try booting into download mode (1 key + power button).
Let us know if this is a go or no go, thanks!

machx0r said:
You're right, this leak is perfect and has no issues what so ever. The only way anyone could possibly have a problem with it is through their own ignorance and stupidity. My bad...
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Lol your funny, bye.
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anand731 said:
I will give this a try and get back to you all with the results.
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Seems to have worked. Let it sit without the battery and sd card and was able to get back into download mode. Thanks for all the suggestions.

anand731 said:
Seems to have worked. Let it sit without the battery and sd card and was able to get back into download mode. Thanks for all the suggestions.
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really???? how long was it "bricked?" I bricked mine (pulled in dl mode ALL my fault ha) and too it to sprint store and there ordering me a replacement. can you explain exactly what you did please

Note 4 Caught in Odin3 Download Mode Loop and Odin Fails Every Attempted Flash

My note 4 is completely stock. Never been rooted. About a month ago it began having difficulties where it would turn off then back on again. These would progressively happen more and more each day until eventually, it booted into download mode by itself. I looked things up and noticed that if you flashed the stock firmware back on it should work. I did this. It worked for a day until now where it went back into download mode and I tried to boot it normally and it goes straight to download each time. I tried reflashing the firmware but Odin fails every time. Tried multiple versions of Odin as well. Same outcome. Please help

Update
Phone will no longer power on in any state. Yet computer still recognizes it as a usb but cannot access it.

Hibernat said:
Phone will no longer power on in any state. Yet computer still recognizes it as a usb but cannot access it.
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if your phone is not rooteed, then its not a subject to xda.
Xda is a forum about hacking its not a church.
it might be better to go a Samsung center. No?
Or post it in Facebook of Samsung!

I understand it is for rooted phones however it dealt with things people on this forum would have known about and I was hoping to get some help. However obviously it seems decently unwelcoming. Thanks for your lack of hospitality and help. Much appreciated

Rajada said:
if your phone is not rooteed, then its not a subject to xda.
Xda is a forum about hacking its not a church.
it might be better to go a Samsung center. No?
Or post it in Facebook of Samsung!
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I don't remember XDA requiring users to have a rooted device. There are plenty of XDA forums and threads that have nothing to do with root. You don't have to be rude to a user asking for help with their device. I'm not a Moderator or a Recognized Developer/Contributor but, damn man, do you have to **** on someone's post when they're asking for help? Can you help the OP? Do you have any experience with his concern? I know alot about Android to where I can try and help people but I don't know everything and I don't post **** like that and try to drive someone away.
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Hibernat said:
My note 4 is completely stock. Never been rooted. About a month ago it began having difficulties where it would turn off then back on again. These would progressively happen more and more each day until eventually, it booted into download mode by itself. I looked things up and noticed that if you flashed the stock firmware back on it should work. I did this. It worked for a day until now where it went back into download mode and I tried to boot it normally and it goes straight to download each time. I tried reflashing the firmware but Odin fails every time. Tried multiple versions of Odin as well. Same outcome. Please help
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Can you give me a little info about your device? What model number? What version of Android etc...
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Probably faultly hardware

Thanks
Thank you for all of the interest in helping me out. However, I recently opened up the phone to find out that a good chunk of the internals are burned from something frying. Amazing I didn't notice heat or electrical smoke when it happened. I'm guessing when Odin3 failed it was due to the frying cutting off a path. Unfortunately, I just need to get it replaced.

Hibernat said:
Thank you for all of the interest in helping me out. However, I recently opened up the phone to find out that a good chunk of the internals are burned from something frying. Amazing I didn't notice heat or electrical smoke when it happened. I'm guessing when Odin3 failed it was due to the frying cutting off a path. Unfortunately, I just need to get it replaced.
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Well, that stinks. Too bad it was unrecoverable. Good luck on getting a new device.
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