Root Phone won't start up past the HTC screen.

[reddeaddorito]

I flashed midnight ROM. put the AOSP theme over it. Flashed the newest MAC Kernel, and that's when it started happening.

I decided to factory reset and flash the ROM again, tried to restart. same thing.

restored a backup, no dice.

Wiped boot/data/system, factory resetted, wiped both caches and reflashed midnight ROM. Still nothing.

Tried to flash CM9 (after factory resetting and stuff) and it still won't go past the HTC screen no matter how long I wait.

What's wrong? Am I half bricked?

I'm S OFF on downgraded HBOOT.

 

[agentc13]

Well, it sounds like the original issue was with kernel related, but your nandroid or flashing a ROM with S-off should flash the kernel so I'm kinda stumped as far as fixing it.

I would try flashing the kernel separately via fastboot and seeing if that helps (it can't hurt).

fastboot flash boot boot.img

Spoiler

I assume that the ROM devs include the kernel in the ROM, so you shouldn't need to do this, but it won't harm anything.

 

[reddeaddorito]

Well, it sounds like the original issue was with kernel related, but your nandroid or flashing a ROM with S-off should flash the kernel so I'm kinda stumped as far as fixing it.

I would try flashing the kernel separately via fastboot and seeing if that helps (it can't hurt).

fastboot flash boot boot.img

Spoiler

I assume that the ROM devs include the kernel in the ROM, so you shouldn't need to do this, but it won't harm anything.

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Thanks! That worked. I was starting to get real pissed, but this did it.


What do you think could be the cause?

I do notice that the recovery tells me it makes a back up of a boot every time I flash something...

 

[agentc13]

It could be flashing it wrong (or not actually flashing the boot.img), what recovery are you using? I don't have the device to know the details, but that is a way to flash kernels for HTC phones that can't S-off.

 

[reddeaddorito]

It could be flashing it wrong (or not actually flashing the boot.ig), what recovery are you using? I don't have the device to know the details, but that is a way to flash kernels for HTC phones that can't S-off.

4EXT. I'm S-OFF. I always flash kernels, this is the first time this kind of thing has happened.

 

[agentc13]

Does it check md5 before flashing? Could be a corruption issue or something with the way it flashes it. But the Nandroid/flashing another ROM should have fixed it. Seems like a weird fluke to me.

 

[reddeaddorito]

Does it check md5 before flashing? Could be a corruption issue or something with the way it flashes it. But the Nandroid/flashing another ROM should have fixed it. Seems like a weird fluke to me.

It doesn't check Md5sum, it only checks it before restoring.

 

[Dr. Dank]

im having the same issue, different rom and stuff tho... just tried to flash the gpu and ext upgrades from tim or toms tweaks... only problem: im on a mac. please help me.

 

[agentc13]

It's the same, just use this command:

./fastboot-mac flash boot boot.img

Make sure you are in the correct directory (it has fastboot-mac and your boot.img files both in it).
You also need to have your phone in fastboot mode (in the bootloader) connected to the computer.