My phone wont turn on:(

ZekeB · February 20th, 2012, 03:54 PM

So I tried to root my phone with revolutionary i got to recovery formated to factory and my chache and my system i put on ginger villian 3.3 and now when i try to turn on my phone it just stays at the htc screen. Somebody please help mee

SUroot · February 20th, 2012, 04:16 PM

Did you wipe data?

Jon_LTD · February 20th, 2012, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by ZekeB

So I tried to root my phone with revolutionary i got to recovery formated to factory and my chache and my system i put on ginger villian 3.3 and now when i try to turn on my phone it just stays at the htc screen. Somebody please help mee

How long did you leave it on the white HTC Screen? After flashing a new ROM it can take several minutes to initially boot back up. Also - I assume rooting all went to plan? No error messages when flashing from recovery? A step-by-step guide on what you did would be ideal.

ZekeB · February 20th, 2012, 04:25 PM

suroot: what do you mean? jon: i left it on til my phone died

Hadron · February 20th, 2012, 04:39 PM

SUroot was asking about the important bit of wiping the phone. Though if "formatting to factory" means you did a factory reset that should have been done. But if in doubt, boot into recovery and try that again, then reboot and see if it works.

Another important question is whether you did a nandroid (recovery) backup before trying to install the ROM? If you did, just restore that. You can try again afterwards.

If another factory reset doesn't fix it, it may be a bad download. You can test that by downloading the ROM again, copying to your card and flashing the new copy. You can USB mount the SD card from recovery if you don't have a card reader.

ZekeB · February 20th, 2012, 04:44 PM

No I didnt do a nandroid back up, i tried a whole bunch of differnt roms and they wouldnt install this is the only one i could get to install. but ill try doing another factory reset.

SUroot · February 20th, 2012, 04:46 PM

What errors did you get with the other roms? They should all install. Is there any.information you may have missed out?

ZekeB · February 20th, 2012, 04:50 PM

Um i cant remember at the moment, and i dont think so i installed the drivers got revolutionary on my phone and superuser.

Hadron · February 20th, 2012, 05:10 PM

Superuser is irrelevant to flashing a ROM, since that is part of the ROM you are going to replace. The key thing is the custom recovery.

Can you describe exactly what you are doing to flash the ROMs?