need help stuck on htc evo 4g screen - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

i have an evo 4g with cm 7.2 rom and tiamat sbc kernel. i wanted the original kernel so i downloaded it from this site last night and unzipped it using clockworkmod. now my phone is stuck on the htc evo 4g screen. i am new and still am unfamiliar with most of this stuff but can someone please help?
also my phone is rooted:
supersonic evt3 ship s-on
hboot-2.18.0001
microp-041f
touch panel-atmel224_16ab
radio-2.15.00.12.19
not sure if that all matters. i tried restore in clockwork recovery and it didnt change anything....still stuck.

CWM blows. Wipe cache and dalvik and flash another kernel.

thanks for the reply.
i am new. how do i do that from recovery?
i did wipe the dalvik cache. is that enough? then i tried unzipping the tiamat sbc kernel and it was still stuck.
btw....is there a better rom that supports wimax???

If possible, upgrade to a Ra based recovery. That'll make the wiping and flashing easier on your part, as far as ROM choice, I'll give you sense.
I'll just leave this here....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18603378

death-by-soap said:
If possible, upgrade to a Ra based recovery. That'll make the wiping and flashing easier on your part, as far as ROM choice, I'll give you sense.
I'll just leave this here....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18603378
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i fixed it! after wiping the dalvik cache i re-did my backup and it works.
i'll check out Ra based recovery (dont reallly know what that is but i heard of it before) and sense. thanks for the info

Making your life easier yet again...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26278768
Smelkus FTW. Best recovery out there.
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RA refers to Amon Ra, another popular recovery for the EVO. CWM is known for being troublesome on the EVO, so RA-based recoveries are the way to go.
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Ok I got s-on and can't get this. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!
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stovo06 said:
Ok I got s-on and can't get this. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!
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Flashing recoveries for dummies:
STEP 1: Download recovery of choice (smelkusmod ra recovery)
STEP 2: Rename the zip to "PC36IMG.zip" and move to root of the SD card
STEP 3: Boot to bootloader and follow the prompts to update recovery
STEP 4: reboot to recovery
STEP 5: Prosper!!
(If this doesn't go to plan, unzip the pc36img and check the txt file and change the mainver to 1.00.000.0, zip the file again, and repeat from the beginning)
Hope this does the trick

Tried it. Read that whole thread. What is fastboot? When I select it in recovery it doesn't seem to be the same as what everyone talks about. My recovery in clockelwork alternate recovery looks like the original and doesn't do anything special.
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stovo06 said:
Tried it. Read that whole thread. What is fastboot? When I select it in recovery it doesn't seem to be the same as what everyone talks about. My recovery in clockelwork alternate recovery looks like the original and doesn't do anything special.
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PM me and I'll help you sort this out once and for all when I get some free time.

Try this. Download the Smelkus recovery and place it on the root of your SD card (not in any folders). Rename the file PC36IMG.zip (make sure you don't have an extra .zip extension on the end or it won't work). Once this is done, turn the phone OFF and unplug your phone from your computer. Once the phone is OFF, hold down the volume DOWN button, then press the power button and wait for the HBOOT screen to load. If everything works as it should, you'll get a prompt asking you if you want to update. Use the appropriate keys to select YES, then wait for the update to load. When you go into HBOOT, as part of its loading process, it looks for a file on the SD card named PC36IMG.zip and when it finds it, will ask if you want to update. Also, make sure you don't have more than one file on your SD card named PC36IMG.zip, or you'll have issues. Once you've got the recovery loaded, you can re-namethe file on your SD card something like PC36IMG1.zip, to avoid any issues should you have to use HBOOT to install another PC36IMG.zip file down the road.

That's what I did but I did it all from my phone. Does that matter?
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stovo06 said:
That's what I did but I did it all from my phone. Does that matter?
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That's what I'm telling you to do. You can actually download the PC36IMG to your phone, but you'll have to move it to the root of your SD card using something like Astro File Manager. That's why most instructions say to hook your phone up to a PC and download the PC36IMG to the root of the SD card.
When you press the volume down button and power button, what happens?
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I get what looks like the original recovery. I got cwm and flashed the alternate recovery. I tried shutting the phone down to bootloader and it will try to flash the img. Then it gets stuck on parsing. I changed the maniver and then it says no image when flashing and there's nothing about an update. I'm s-on.
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Flash Image GUI.

Looks like that's what I will have to do. I started out trying to avoid paying. 99¢ for it. Seems pretty dumb now lol.
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stovo06 said:
Looks like that's what I will have to do. I started out trying to avoid paying. 99¢ for it. Seems pretty dumb now lol.
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Um, you can get it free on this site.
But seriously, is 99 cents too much to pay for such a useful app?

Which do I flash? The img or the mirror???
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stuck on htc evo 4g screen
Same her i realy need help i flash a costum rom on my evo 4g and ever sens my evo only to bootloader and recovery i try to restore my backup didnt work! what can i pleas help i need my ph
one back

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Noob can't get past boot screen

Hi everyone, I think I made a mistake somewhere along the way and maybe you can help me out.
I bought a Droid incredible from a friend of mine for $20 (cracked digitizer) I'm to scared to root my evo, so I am trying with the cheap broken incredible.
I rooted via unrevoked, installed rom manager, made a backup, downloaded cyagenmod from the rom manager. It did its thing, and now I can't get past boot screen. How do I fixed this? I have a slcd if that makes a difference.
Thanks for your help.
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did you wipe before you installed cyanogen?
Yes, after I posted in realized I forgot to mention that I did a wipe
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When I go into hboot it says "no image" for everything...but the backup image that was made is on the sd card. Do I have to move the file and or renamed it?
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Do you mean Hboot or recovery? If you are in hboot then toggle down to recovery and from there go to restore and your image should be there...
The "no image" is in HBOOT, and it is looking for any one of three specific files that would be on the root of the SD card. Those would be RUU files, radio files, or something that you put there to update something like that. If they are not there, which unless you are flashing them, then this message is normal.
Otherwise those files shouldn't just sit on your SD card, cause anytime you'd boot into HBOOT, it would want to load them each time.
Make sure you put this image file on the Root of the SD card, if its in a folder HBOOT wont find it.
jackbtha1 said:
Do you mean Hboot or recovery? If you are in hboot then toggle down to recovery and from there go to restore and your image should be there...
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^^^^^
THAT
Ok, thank you everyone for being helpfull.
My Incredible is back up and running. I am typing this message with it.
Funny story, I was under the impression that when you want to select something in the hboot recovery screen you used the power button when in fact your supposed to use the optical button!
Anyway, this won't be the last you heat from me in sure
Thanks again.
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Glad to hear your up and running!

Q ......Please help out ...please thank you....

Hey how are you guys ....I could really use you guys help if it is possible...i rooted my HTC evo 4g and roms a few roms already ..I'm right using Vaelpak 3.0 remastered ..I tryed to flash another Rom but can't seem to get it back into recovery mode...also I'm trying to get my 4g working again please help ...thank you ..
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Hold the top power button and most roms will have a Reboot option, click and go down to recovery, if it doesnt have it, then turn off phone, hold volume down button and power at same time, when bootloader pops up scroll down to recovery and hit power and your in recovery.
make sure you wipe cache and dalvik cache.
land of the reee
Jaybucka said:
Hey how are you guys ....I could really use you guys help if it is possible...i rooted my HTC evo 4g and roms a few roms already ..I'm right using Vaelpak 3.0 remastered ..I tryed to flash another Rom but can't seem to get it back into recovery mode...also I'm trying to get my 4g working again please help ...thank you ..
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what did u touch to screw your 4g?
r916 said:
Hold the top power button and most roms will have a Reboot option, click and go down to recovery, if it doesnt have it, then turn off phone, hold volume down button and power at same time, when bootloader pops up scroll down to recovery and hit power and your in recovery.
make sure you wipe cache and dalvik cache.
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I did both of these options and still a no go just keeps booting into bootloader ...
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I just flash a custom Rom...and I haven't been able to use my 4g since .....
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My Evo is doing something like that. I try to get into recovery mode and it tells me that the image is bad or missing. Phone boots and works fine but want to make some changes to it. Any ideas?
Thanks
Jaybucka said:
I did both of these options and still a no go just keeps booting into bootloader ...
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So, when you're in bootloader, and select recovery, what does it do ? What recovery were you using, amon or clockwork? You said 4g isn't working? What's it do ? Did you backup your rsakeys, or use amon ra to make nand backup? Let me know.
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Ouch-splat said:
My Evo is doing something like that. I try to get into recovery mode and it tells me that the image is bad or missing. Phone boots and works fine but want to make some changes to it. Any ideas?
Thanks
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go to Amon-Ra thread in development. Download his image file, put on the root of your SD card, boot into bootloader, when it asks if you want to flash, accept(vol up I think) then let it flash and try and boot into recovery again.
If you are using ROM manager, you can try to flash a different version of Clockwork. That worked for me.
lehalter said:
If you are using ROM manager, you can try to flash a different version of Clockwork. That worked for me.
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Or, IMO, use ROM manager to flash to Amon RA.
k2buckley said:
Or, IMO, use ROM manager to flash to Amon RA.
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Amon-Ra is a much better recovery than Clockwork. Seems to be less borked and less issues than clockwork.
k2buckley said:
So, when you're in bootloader, and select recovery, what does it do ? What recovery were you using, amon or clockwork? You said 4g isn't working? What's it do ? Did you backup your rsakeys, or use amon ra to make nand backup? Let me know.
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When I'm in the bootloader and select recovery it loads up the bootloader again....and as far as the 4g it doesn't come on at all....
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Jaybucka said:
When I'm in the bootloader and select recovery it loads up the bootloader again....and as far as the 4g it doesn't come on at all....
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Unless you backed up before flashing, you probably lost rsa keys. Have fun trying to get em back. Now find a way to get a recovery. Go to amon's thread and there's instructions on how to flash it using terminal emulator
A drop of Chuck Norris's semen was placed on Android OS. We now have CyanogenMod.
Mine did the same thing, not being able to boot to recovery... somehow I guess the recovery image got corrupted... I just used ROM manager to flash Amon Ra (by clicking "flash alternate recovery") and it booted right into recovery....
As for the no-4g.... not good
Ok I do some reading and I got ny 4g working and I know way more then I did before this ...thanks guys for the help ....
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nosympathy said:
Amon-Ra is a much better recovery than Clockwork. Seems to be less borked and less issues than clockwork.
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agreed
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[Q] Can't upgrade clockwork mod from 2.5

Okay, so I was trying to upgrade to the latest nightly for my mother, since she loves gingerbread now. So here is my issue, I know that I need clockwork mod 3.0 or higher to get the nightlies to work, I have gotten #14 to install with the old recovery she has on there now. But when I try to update the recovery it will either not upgrade or revert back to 2.5 upon reboot. For example:
If I try using fastboot to install, I get an error. I don't remember exact error, but its a long the lines of it can't install.
If I try using the PB31IMG.zip method, but it just detects the zip and wont install or anything.
If I install the recovery via the recovery, it will work for the one time it loads, then upon reboot it reverts to old one.
I tried installing the newest nightly with the old recovery, but it will just load and then soft boot and repeat forever till I pull battery.
I rooted the phone with the unrevokr root and recovery method, so I don't know if that has anything to do with my problems.
Any help would be appreciated.
McFroger3 said:
Okay, so I was trying to upgrade to the latest nightly for my mother, since she loves gingerbread now. So here is my issue, I know that I need clockwork mod 3.0 or higher to get the nightlies to work, I have gotten #14 to install with the old recovery she has on there now. But when I try to update the recovery it will either not upgrade or revert back to 2.5 upon reboot. For example:
If I try using fastboot to install, I get an error. I don't remember exact error, but its a long the lines of it can't install.
If I try using the PB31IMG.zip method, but it just detects the zip and wont install or anything.
If I install the recovery via the recovery, it will work for the one time it loads, then upon reboot it reverts to old one.
I tried installing the newest nightly with the old recovery, but it will just load and then soft boot and repeat forever till I pull battery.
I rooted the phone with the unrevokr root and recovery method, so I don't know if that has anything to do with my problems.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Get Rom manager from the market open it up and at the top it will say flash clockwork mod recovery tap that and your golden......
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newtoroot said:
Get Rom manager from the market open it up and at the top it will say flash clockwork mod recovery tap that and your golden......
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Yea...I forgot to mention, that doesn't work either. It will download, then flash it, but upon boot to recovery, its the old recovery.
Hmmm thats starange...... when you flashed it in hboot did you have your SD formatted fat32? If not bootloader won't read it.
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newtoroot said:
Hmmm thats starange...... when you flashed it in hboot did you have your SD formatted fat32? If not bootloader won't read it.
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Yea, its def fat32, it reads the file, but does not do anything. I get the little bar on the side that moves like its installing it. I am thinking I am going to have to try and restore phone to stock. =/
McFroger3 said:
Yea, its def fat32, it reads the file, but does not do anything. I get the little bar on the side that moves like its installing it. I am thinking I am going to have to try and restore phone to stock. =/
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No don't do that try downloading a different zip...... did you name it exactly PB31IMG.zip
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newtoroot said:
No don't do that try downloading a different zip...... did you name it exactly PB31IMG.zip
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Indeed it did, I would then open winrar, and just drop the new .img file in and overwrite the old one. Maybe I should make a new zip file and add the other config file or whatever it is to the new zip. Otherwise, I am SOL lol.
That's where you are messing up..... give me a min and ill get you the right file
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Here try this don't change anything except the name
http://db.tt/98H9tji
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newtoroot said:
Here try this don't change anything except the name
http://db.tt/98H9tji
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Thanks, will try when my mother gets home, since she has her phone. Will let ya know if it works.
McFroger3 said:
Thanks, will try when my mother gets home, since she has her phone. Will let ya know if it works.
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It should just don't change anything but the name. And put it on the root of you SD card
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newtoroot said:
Get Rom manager from the market open it up and at the top it will say flash clockwork mod recovery tap that and your golden......
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Before you flash a new recovery with ROM Manager go into ROM manager settings and check the box to erase the old recovery before flashing the new one.
Then scroll to the bottom of the main ROM Manager menu and select all clockworkmod recoveries. Flash 3.0.0.8 since it has fixes for 3.0.0.5 issues.
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newtoroot said:
It should just don't change anything but the name. And put it on the root of you SD card
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No dice, goes to [checking PB31IMG.zip] then just goes back to main bootloader menu.
MedleHed said:
Before you flash a new recovery with ROM Manager go into ROM manager settings and check the box to erase the old recovery before flashing the new one.
Then scroll to the bottom of the main ROM Manager menu and select all clockworkmod recoveries. Flash 3.0.0.8 since it has fixes for 3.0.0.5 issues.
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Oh trust me, that was one of the first things I tried.
Looks like I might have to wipe the phone.
McFroger3 said:
No dice, goes to [checking PB31IMG.zip] then just goes back to main bootloader menu.
Oh trust me, that was one of the first things I tried.
Looks like I might have to wipe the phone.
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It sounds like its not formatted fat32 b.c. it should read it..... are you positive that it is? And that it is on the root of the SD and not the root folder....
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newtoroot said:
It sounds like its not formatted fat32 b.c. it should read it..... are you positive that it is? And that it is on the root of the SD and not the root folder....
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I was just thinking that, I am going to backup the SD and reformat.
Ok let me know....
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Ok let me know....
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Still not working, just does checking the zip and then goes back to hboot. I am going to try formating the internal memory, and put a copy on there and see if that does anything. Would having S-ON have anything to do with my problem?
Well I fixed it, was that I had S-On still enabled. I guess I'm so used to my nexus that I forgot that I needed that off to do that.
McFroger3 said:
Well I fixed it, was that I had S-On still enabled. I guess I'm so used to my nexus that I forgot that I needed that off to do that.
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Lol I thought you had s-off sorry....
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newtoroot said:
Lol I thought you had s-off sorry....
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Its alright, thank you for the help!

[Q] UT OOOHHHHH!!! Need Help!

I am an Atrix user. Never had a problem flashing anything with it. My friend gave me his Evo to root and load a rom on. I was able to root and s-off OK, but just d/l'd a rom and tried to flash. Got stuck on the HTC EVO 4G boot screen. Pulled the battery, then booted into recovery. I did not backup ( I then wiped everything to begin flashing the ROM again. Well, now it seems that I have deleted everything. All b/c I was rushing and not thinking clearly. Anyway, is there ANYWAY to remedy this issue? It powers on to Hboot, but thats as far as it goes.
So you can't get into Recovery from Hboot? What happens when you try to get into recovery? If you can get into Recovery you could wipe everything then flash a ROM. Depends on what happens when you try to get into recovery.
If you couldn't get into recovery, I would download AmonRa as a PC36IMG.zip (link in my signature).
If that doesn't work, you could do something similar to a SBF. It is called a RUU. Search for the one corresponding to his Hboot version, plug up your phone and get to hboot and run it as an .exe. Resets to stock.
Try recovery thing first
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tropicalbrit said:
So you can't get into Recovery from Hboot? What happens when you try to get into recovery? If you can get into Recovery you could wipe everything then flash a ROM. Depends on what happens when you try to get into recovery.
If you couldn't get into recovery, I would download AmonRa as a PC36IMG.zip (link in my signature).
If that doesn't work, you could do something similar to a SBF. It is called a RUU. Search for the one corresponding to his Hboot version, plug up your phone and get to hboot and run it as an .exe. Resets to stock.
Try recovery thing first
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Thanks for the quick reply. I am able to get into recovery, but when I choose flash zip-choose, it brings up nothing. Its empty.
I will research the RUU method now!! Thanks again!
If you just erased everything, go to recovery, wipe everything, use USB Toggle (If you have Amon Ra Recovery) put a ROM on your SD Card and try to flash it.
BTW, how long were you on the 4G screen?? Because it's gonna take a while to load the ROM and boot up on the first try
You didn't accidentally wipe and/or partition your SD card, did you? Try flashing AmonRa recovery as PC36IMG.zip (I'm guessing you are using clockwork). After you do that, go into Recovery and partition SD card. Then plug up to computer and mount as MS and transfer your ROMs over to your phone. Wipe everything except for SD (thrice is my rule) and flash the ROM and reboot. First boot takes a while, sometimes 5-10 minutes
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HipKat said:
If you just erased everything, go to recovery, wipe everything, use USB Toggle (If you have Amon Ra Recovery) put a ROM on your SD Card and try to flash it.
BTW, how long were you on the 4G screen?? Because it's gonna take a while to load the ROM and boot up on the first try
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Thanks, I will try that! I was on the 4G screen for over 20 mins. I got worried once it went over 10 mins, but let it go. Then once 20 mins went by, I pulled the battery.
Guys, Just wanted to say thanks again! I was able to connect using USB Toggle, put a new ROM on, then flashed. Everything went OK this time around. I spent some time on it while doing my work (I was at work haha) but enjoyed tinkering and learning another device. The quick responses saved me, otherwise my co-worked would of went home phone-less rather then happy. Have a good one guys!
NP. That's what makes sites like XDA so good!
What a great community
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What a great community
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Couldn't agree more. He told me his brother wants me to do the same to his. I might be back Haha!
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[Q] Seperate But Equal EVO 4G Problem

Hi, I'm new to the whole rooting scene, and I rooted my phone for the first time yesterday. Had Fresh Evo installed and everything was nice,but i saw a sense 3.5 update as well, so i tried to flash that, and now my phone won't go past the white Evo screen. I can boot into recovery, but i cant do anything else! Freaked out, please help!
I'm not too familiar with sense. Did you try and flash another updated rom? Or did you accept some ota update? If it was a .zip, wipe cache, wipe davlik, then reflash.
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Just restore your backup that you should have made
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Also make sure your using amon ra and not clockworkmod everyone uses amon ra
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See the link to my guide in my signature. I'm guessing you did not wipe properly but my guide should help
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+1 on the amon ra recovery
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Thanks!
Turns out, i didn't wipe properly, and now my phone is back to where it should be. I don't have a copy of my original backup, for some reason, i couldn't read it in recovery. I'm thinking about restoring it to out of box settings and starting the root again...but anyways, I do use clockwork mod...can someone inform me as to how to go about getting Amon Ra? That's an awesome name, btw. Amon Ra....
gavination said:
Turns out, i didn't wipe properly, and now my phone is back to where it should be. I don't have a copy of my original backup, for some reason, i couldn't read it in recovery. I'm thinking about restoring it to out of box settings and starting the root again...but anyways, I do use clockwork mod...can someone inform me as to how to go about getting Amon Ra? That's an awesome name, btw. Amon Ra....
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Here you are brutha
Just rename it to
PC36IMG.zip
Place on the root of your SD Card
Boot to Boot Loader
Follow on screen prompts
Volume up to update
Volume up to confirm
Finished!
TrevE Supporter!
Thanks! I'd press the thanks button, but I'm on the app...unless there's a way to do it here, but anyways thanks! I flashed the sense 3.0 with Beats audio from the HTC rhyme, and its pretty sweet.
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