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Not freaking out yet. But I can't get my phone out of the boot cylce.

I rooted last night after getting my phone back from HTC, did unrevoked forever too. Everything went smoothly. Installed Cyanogen 6.0.2 and things were going alright but a lot of stuff was just not working well.

So I tried formatting everything including the SD and realized that I couldn't download MIUI to my SD card from my phone after that. Phone wouldnt recognize the SD card after that.

Used my boss'sto put the zip on, and it was stuck in a boot cycle. Used it again to flash Cyanogen, still stuck in a boot cycle.

Any suggestions?? Really need some help here. I've been without a phone for 4 weeks and was so happy to have it back. Don't get me wrong, the boot animation is cool, but only for like the first 2 or 3 times. Now its just painful...
 
You are not bricked. Do a battery pull. Take your SD card out and plug it into your computer. Download ANY ROM you like and place it on your SD card. Plug your SD card back into your phone. Hold down the volume button and your power button. After it does it's thing, select recovery by pressing the volume down button once then pressing the power button. Now you are in the recovery menu (green and black). Press the volume button down to install zip from SD card. Find your ROM and select apply. Now your phone will load the ROM and reboot. BINGO, you have your phone back. ;)
 
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Nands from other phones don't swap well. Causes market/app confusion. What all have you reformatted besides the SD and how did you format the SD exactly?

factory reset the phone from the within the phone, the bootloader & clockworkmod recovery. formatted the SD card from within the phone and clockworkmod recovery.
 
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You are not bricked. Do a battery pull. Take your SD card out and plug it into your computer. Download ANY ROM you like and place it on your SD card. Plug your SD card back into your phone. Hold down the volume button and your power button. After it does it's thing, select recovery by pressing the volume down button once then pressing the power button. Now you are in the recovery menu (green and black). Press the volume button down to install zip from SD card. Find your ROM and select apply. Now your phone will load the ROM and reboot. BINGO, you have your phone back. ;)

BINGO was not his name-o, this process just leads to the boot cycle. If it were just the swirling thingy around the cyanogen logo I'd let it run for awhile. But it is stalling then resetting the animation.
 
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BINGO was not his name-o, this process just leads to the boot cycle. If it were just the swirling thingy around the cyanogen logo I'd let it run for awhile. But it is stalling then resetting the animation.


Try a different ROM. Cyanogen doesn't work half of the time I try to install it either. Try a basic ROM that you know works. From my understanding, all of the ROMS that you flash will come with everything it needs to work correctly. Everything SHOULD be zipped up. The best place to go may be to XDA forums for the ROM you are trying to apply and tell them what happened in a PM and ask them if you need anything else to get it going on your phone. Good luck.
 
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Try a different ROM. Cyanogen doesn't work half of the time I try to install it either. Try a basic ROM that you know works. From my understanding, all of the ROMS that you flash will come with everything it needs to work correctly. Everything SHOULD be zipped up. The best place to go may be to XDA forums for the ROM you are trying to apply and tell them what happened in a PM and ask them if you need anything else to get it going on your phone. Good luck.

I'll give it a shot, but I flashed 6.0.2 early this morning without a problem.

EDIT: Downloading SkyRaider. Will post w/ results
 
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Last question I swear, my phone (or my computer) aren't recognizing my SD card anymore. Suggestions??


First reboot your phone and see if that helps (you may want to do a battery pull with it). If that doesn't work-

Have you tried to mount your SD Card with your phone on?

Settings>SD & Phone Storage> Mount SD Card

If that doesn't work when you are in SD & Phone Storage, press format phone storage. If it's not recognized, you will need to take the MicroSD out and put it in your computer and format it there.

From there go into your "My Computer" screen and format the card. When you do you will lose your current ROM backup so be careful.

Hope that helps!
 
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First reboot your phone and see if that helps (you may want to do a battery pull with it). If that doesn't work-

Have you tried to mount your SD Card with your phone on?

Settings>SD & Phone Storage> Mount SD Card

If that doesn't work when you are in SD & Phone Storage, press format phone storage. If it's not recognized, you will need to take the MicroSD out and put it in your computer and format it there.

From there go into your "My Computer" screen and format the card. When you do you will lose your current ROM backup so be careful.

Hope that helps!

Mount SD Card get bringing up the "SD Card is now safe to remove" message for whatever reason.

Also, after switching over to Windows I realized I had the lock on my adapted on so thats why Ubuntu wasnt recognizing it. Formatted in windows and everything works!

Now, back to the MIUI rom...;)
 
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Last question I swear, my phone (or my computer) aren't recognizing my SD card anymore. Suggestions??

I had the same problem after the Froyo update. Nothing I did worked even trying to mount through adb. I had a wild hair thought and stuck in an old sd card that I got with the phone, and it turned out that it recognized that. Then I made the mistake of turning off the phone and trading, no go again. Then I tried turning off the phone putting in the old card again. Then when it showed up again I unmounted and then stuck in my 8 gig. Here's the weird part I could swear my phone made a click (not like the camera sound when you turn it on) and my 8 gig card popped up! Not sure what happened perhaps that will work for you? Oh, also make sure that your card is formated to fat32 since the phone defaults to fat16 I believe.
 
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I had the same problem after the Froyo update. Nothing I did worked even trying to mount through adb. I had a wild hair thought and stuck in an old sd card that I got with the phone, and it turned out that it recognized that. Then I made the mistake of turning off the phone and trading, no go again. Then I tried turning off the phone putting in the old card again. Then when it showed up again I unmounted and then stuck in my 8 gig. Here's the weird part I could swear my phone made a click (not like the camera sound when you turn it on) and my 8 gig card popped up! Not sure what happened perhaps that will work for you? Oh, also make sure that your card is formated to fat32 since the phone defaults to fat16 I believe.

Yeah thats what I did, I formatted in Windows. Did a full format then a quick format to be safe in fat32

Right now I'm doing a full backup, then tucking that away on my computer somwheres for safe keeping
 
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Mount SD Card get bringing up the "SD Card is now safe to remove" message for whatever reason.

Also, after switching over to Windows I realized I had the lock on my adapted on so thats why Ubuntu wasnt recognizing it. Formatted in windows and everything works!

Now, back to the MIUI rom...;)

Awesome! Glad everything worked out. :cool:
 
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