Root YIKES! CM7 BOOTLOOP Problem HELP!

[dkl1]

(Not much time here this morning, got to be at work at 9 - ish)

This is a recent flash of CM 7 and I am new to this game so please bear with me! Thanks.

I pulled phone off charger this morning then I started looking in my settings at the CyanogenMod Settings - mostly out of curiousity. I found something there about turning on my calendar updates and I made my preferences backed out of it and went to Home screen. I tried then to open my calendar and I got a FC error something about ~"...google.process.calendar..." and then a FC button. I retried to open calendar but same thing. Couple times it briefly acted as tho it was going to open but no.

Only thing I thought to do was go in and wipe cachce & dalvik-cache. Well, THAT's when the bootloop started. I (remember, noob here!) had not yet done a nandroid of this flash bc I wanted to get the phone like I wanted b4 doing a backup. I have my stock nandroid tho. What should I try at this point?

 

[LittleRedDot]

I'm too new to the game to give you solid advice, I myself would post here and hope for good advice from a senior member... But I would suggest wiping again and loading the stock nandroid. That's assuming that you can't get through the day without your calendar, like most of us. If you can get though the morning without it, I would wait on more seasoned advice.

 

[NaterTots]

When you say "Bootloop" do you mean it only loops the white HTC screen?

If you pull the battery I would try and get to recovery. That is the first thing to check. Power + volume down button. That will get you to H-boot. Then select Recovery and see if you can get to it.




Hope that helps.

Edit - If you can get to Recovery I would restore the Nandroid you have on the SD card.

 

[youdoofus]

Welcome to the forum man!!! This is a common issue when going from stock to CM7, and can be easily resolved.

i would go into recovery and in the wipe section, do a factory reset and reinstall CM7 and reinstall the gapps file as well, then reboot. Im betting thatll fix ya up in no time

 

[MizzouBrent]

(Not much time here this morning, got to be at work at 9 - ish)

This is a recent flash of CM 7 and I am new to this game so please bear with me! Thanks.

I pulled phone off charger this morning then I started looking in my settings at the CyanogenMod Settings - mostly out of curiousity. I found something there about turning on my calendar updates and I made my preferences backed out of it and went to Home screen. I tried then to open my calendar and I got a FC error something about ~"...google.process.calendar..." and then a FC button. I retried to open calendar but same thing. Couple times it briefly acted as tho it was going to open but no.

Only thing I thought to do was go in and wipe cachce & dalvik-cache. Well, THAT's when the bootloop started. I (remember, noob here!) had not yet done a nandroid of this flash bc I wanted to get the phone like I wanted b4 doing a backup. I have my stock nandroid tho. What should I try at this point?

Also what recovery are you using?

 

[dkl1]

When you say "Bootloop" do you mean it only loops the white HTC screen?

If you pull the battery I would try and get to recovery. That is the first thing to check. Power + volume down button. That will get you to H-boot. Then select Recovery and see if you can get to it.



Hope that helps.

Edit - If you can get to Recovery I would restore the Nandroid you have on the SD card.

Actually it's when the little android guy skates up and the circle starts/then the little android guy skates up and the circle starts/....you get the idea!

 

[dkl1]

Also what recovery are you using?

Oh my! I am using the CORRECT one! Amon RA.

 

[dkl1]

Welcome to the forum man!!! This is a common issue when going from stock to CM7, and can be easily resolved.

i would go into recovery and in the wipe section, do a factory reset and reinstall CM7 and reinstall the gapps file as well, then reboot. Im betting thatll fix ya up in no time

Does a factory reset mean that my stock rom will be reloaded? thanks

 

[MizzouBrent]

I would try downloading again.....then full wipe and reflash

 

[dkl1]

I would try downloading again.....then full wipe and reflash

Do u mean to "download" the CM7 file from the internet or "download" the .zip file I have on sdcard ? (Sorry, still very green at this )

 

[Braaainz]

If you don't want go try a factory reset yet...

Pull your battery.

Go to recovery (hold power button and volume down)

Wipe cache, then wipe dalvik cache, then repair permissions.

Reboot your phone. Give it at least ten minutes. If the screen goes dark after the skateboarding android scene... tap your power button. Wait for three seconds or more, tap your power button again.

If it works, then yay! If it doesn't, then maybe a fullreset is the answer.

 

[dkl1]

If you don't want go try a factory reset yet...

Pull your battery.

Go to recovery (hold power button and volume down)

Wipe cache, then wipe dalvik cache, then repair permissions.

Reboot your phone. Give it at least ten minutes. If the screen goes dark after the skateboarding android scene... tap your power button. Wait for three seconds or more, tap your power button again.

If it works, then yay! If it doesn't, then maybe a fullreset is the answer.

Ok. I have tried again...

I put battery back in and booted into recovery..

Wiped cache and dalvik cache...

BUT I didn't try to reflash anything but accidently touched the right button (search) and it went to trying to reboot system - to no avail!


So, I will do now what you are suggesting but have a question about "then repair permissions" part? What is this? Thanks


Reread my reply and need to clairify some. - I actually just did what you suggested except the "..repair permissions". I didn't notice anything about repairing permissions..

 

[dkl1]

UPDATE:

when I boot into H-boot it says "Parsing...[SD ZIP] then [1] RECOVERY then asks if I want to start update yes or no...

 

[MizzouBrent]

UPDATE:

when I boot into H-boot it says "Parsing...[SD ZIP] then [1] RECOVERY then asks if I want to start update yes or no...

It's doing that because you still likely have the PC36IMG.zip file for RA still in the root of your SD card. Just tell it no. You can take the file off your sd card now since you already flashed it as your recovery. Or just move it to a different folder so it doesn't ask you if you want to update your recovery every time you load up the bootloader.

Fixing permissions in RA is done by going into recovery and then selecting "Other"...in the newer Amon RA is is called "Fix Permissions" and in the older version it is called "fix apk uid mismatches" or something like that.

When I said to redownload, I mean redownload the file entirely from the site. It's possible that you had a bad download. Also, did you flash anything else along with the CM7 zip file? you need to make sure you flash the CM7 zip and the gapps along with it. Once we get you booted, then we can figure out what other stuff you want to flash along with it. Just keep it basic at first.

 

[dkl1]

It's doing that because you still likely have the PC36IMG.zip file for RA still in the root of your SD card. Just tell it no. You can take the file off your sd card now since you already flashed it as your recovery. Or just move it to a different folder so it doesn't ask you if you want to update your recovery every time you load up the bootloader.

Fixing permissions in RA is done by going into recovery and then selecting "Other"...in the newer Amon RA is is called "Fix Permissions" and in the older version it is called "fix apk uid mismatches" or something like that.

When I said to redownload, I mean redownload the file entirely from the site. It's possible that you had a bad download. Also, did you flash anything else along with the CM7 zip file? you need to make sure you flash the CM7 zip and the gapps along with it. Once we get you booted, then we can figure out what other stuff you want to flash along with it. Just keep it basic at first.

Thank you for your reply!

I am going ahead and restoring my stock nandroid THEN I want to start all over! I need my phone back as I am self employed contractor and it has my brains in it!

When I downloaded the original file to flash CM7 I did not load the GAPPS file at that time - bc I was/am still soooo green at doing this! After flashing the CM7 file I realized that I needed that GAPPS file so I flashed it separately. I want to do it the correct way next time. I will probably wait until later this evening or tomorrow to do it. I will DEFINITELY be back on at that time for some great moral support! You guys rock..


BTW - as I am typing my restore just completed and I am back and running with the stock ROM I so desperately want to change!..

 

[MizzouBrent]

Ha, good deal. And if you flash the gapps separately, that's fine too, it shouldn't cause any problems. I have forgotten to flash them before and then had to try it again.

 

[dkl1]

Ha, good deal. And if you flash the gapps separately, that's fine too, it shouldn't cause any problems. I have forgotten to flash them before and then had to try it again.

Well that's good to know...