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Root I think I bricked my phone...

reddeaddorito

Android Enthusiast
I used HTCDev to unlock, it was all good. I wanted to flash meanROM. Installed the 4EXT Recovery, went in it, did everything the instructions said, then I remembered I hadn't put the rom on my SD card. No problem, I'll just reboot the phone and put it on the SD card, right? Nope. It stays at the white screen that has HTC in green letters.

I had just did step 3 and I was moving on to step 4.

EDIT: Nvm, didn't think about pressing Vol down and power at the same time... :)
 
Yeah so you probably wiped the phone in recovery getting ready to flash a rom so pull the battery then replace. Hold volume down and then press and hold the power button to goto hboot. Then use volume keys to highlight recovery and power to select it. If you did successfully install the custom recovery, I'm guessing there's an option in that recovery to mount sd card? Perhaps storage/mounts type of option. Then you should be able to mount the sd card while connected to the pc via usb cable and adb push the file to the card:

adb push <filename> /sdcard/

Or if you don't use adb, you can also power off the phone, yank the sdcard. Place it into a card reader, laptop with a built in card reader etc, and move the rom onto the card, then put card back in phone. Then use the instructs above to get to hboot > recovery and install the rom as you would have originally.
 
Yeah so you probably wiped the phone in recovery getting ready to flash a rom so pull the battery then replace. Hold volume down and then press and hold the power button to goto hboot. Then use volume keys to highlight recovery and power to select it. If you did successfully install the custom recovery, I'm guessing there's an option in that recovery to mount sd card? Perhaps storage/mounts type of option. Then you should be able to mount the sd card while connected to the pc via usb cable and adb push the file to the card:

adb push <filename> /sdcard/

Or if you don't use adb, you can also power off the phone, yank the sdcard. Place it into a card reader, laptop with a built in card reader etc, and move the rom onto the card, then put card back in phone. Then use the instructs above to get to hboot > recovery and install the rom as you would have originally.
Thanks! Just restored a back up. Gonna try it again, this time I'll try not to forget the ROM this time ._.
 
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