Root Help! Is my phone completely bricked?

Rush · Oct 5, 2013

I used superwipe to clear data, cache, etc. I noticed that it was taken longer than normal ... so boot back to recovery -- stupid enough i went ahead and clear data and cache. Now the phone will boot into recovery (TWRP) then reboot to the HTC screen.

Is there any way of fixing this?

Rush · Oct 5, 2013

Problem solved.

ocnbrze · Oct 5, 2013

Rush said:
Problem solved.

lol gad you figured it out. when you wipe all those things it will also wipe clean the rom so when you try to boot it will boot back to recovery because there is no rom to boot into.

it is why you should always have a nandroid backup handy or at least a rom file that you know that works to flash just in case.

is this what you did? just asking so that other folks may learn as well.

EarlyMon · Oct 5, 2013

I've been against superwipe and the myth of multiple superwipe passes for years.

A wipe is a wipe, no juju necessary.

And finally someone looked at it and proved it.

Start here, go through a few posts -

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=45912852&postcount=471

Just wipe in Aroma if using an Aroma installer and the dev says so, or just wipe via TWRP.

Rush · Oct 7, 2013

ocnbrze said:
lol gad you figured it out. when you wipe all those things it will also wipe clean the rom so when you try to boot it will boot back to recovery because there is no rom to boot into.

it is why you should always have a nandroid backup handy or at least a rom file that you know that works to flash just in case.

is this what you did? just asking so that other folks may learn as well.

Sure did.

EarlyMon said:
I've been against superwipe and the myth of multiple superwipe passes for years.

A wipe is a wipe, no juju necessary.

And finally someone looked at it and proved it.

Start here, go through a few posts -

xda-developers - View Single Post - [8-18-13][ROM] CM10.2 for the evoLTE (jewel)

Just wipe in Aroma if using an Aroma installer and the dev says so, or just wipe via TWRP.

I removed superwipe completely.

ocnbrze · Oct 7, 2013

I hear you em but it can never hurt to use super wipe. But I think too many people rely on it. I never had any issues using it in the past while doing my normal wipes.

Rush · Oct 7, 2013

Okay, here's what is happening... I am trying to flash a different Rom... and the process went well until its time for the rom to load.

The infamous white htc logo screen won't go away. Now all my anandroid backups are gone from the TWRP folder.

I'm stuck on a white screen with no anandroid backup...crap!??!!!?!

No matter what i do, the phone won't load pass the HTC logo screen. regardless of which Rom i flashed.

Any ideas?

ocnbrze · Oct 7, 2013

Are you s-off or s-on?

Rush · Oct 7, 2013

S-on....

ocnbrze · Oct 7, 2013

Depending on what rom you were on before you might need to fast boot command the boot.img(the kernel) separately.......it's the problem with having s-on.

You should give moonshine a try and get s-off.

EarlyMon · Oct 7, 2013

ocnbrze said:
I hear you em but it can never hurt to use super wipe. But I think too many people rely on it. I never had any issues using it in the past while doing my normal wipes.

My issue is that the advice of using multiple passes of superwipe persist.

Because "it needs to get REALLY wiped."

If the tool works for you, great.

But it was born due to an old recovery error and now contains the same error - it may on occasion say it's done when it's not necessarily.

Solution - use a good recovery.

Rush said:
Okay, here's what is happening... I am trying to flash a different Rom... and the process went well until its time for the rom to load.

The infamous white htc logo screen won't go away. Now all my anandroid backups are gone from the TWRP folder.

I'm stuck on a white screen with no anandroid backup...crap!??!!!?!

No matter what i do, the phone won't load pass the HTC logo screen. regardless of which Rom i flashed.

Any ideas?

Speaking of recovery...

Please boot into your bootloader via volume_down+power and then nav from there to recovery.

Plug your phone into your PC and using advanced options, take turns mounting each of your sd cards, internal and external.

See what the PC finds.

Why?

Hardware storage (ext sd) and hardware partitions (int sd) are gotten to via mount points - they look like folders but they point to hardware.

And because they're folders, if the mounting isn't done, you'll see the referring folder instead of the actual hardware.

Mounting via recovery ought to get you below that layer to see what's what.

You probably have a bad flash - heck, you could even have the rare case of a corrupted recovery.

If in doubt, fastboot flash TWRP 2.6.3 from your PC on that last bit.

Post back if you're still not able to get your backups, mounts or the bootloader.

Rush · Oct 7, 2013

ocnbrze said:
Depending on what rom you were on before you might need to fast boot command the boot.img(the kernel) separately.......it's the problem with having s-on.

You should give moonshine a try and get s-off.

Oh, shoot.... Sorry about the wrong info. I'm S-off.

ocnbrze · Oct 7, 2013

Rush said:
Oh, shoot.... Sorry about the wrong info. I'm S-off.

Thanx em this is very true.......lol

Now @rush what are you wiping before flashing the rom?

Rush · Oct 7, 2013

You probably have a bad flash - heck, you could even have the rare case of a corrupted recovery.

If in doubt, fastboot flash TWRP 2.6.3 from your PC on that last bit.

I think this is the problem. I must have inadvertently select data while i was wiping the ROM. I can't find an anandroid anywhere. I am getting an unmount error also when flashing.

Rush · Oct 7, 2013

ocnbrze said:
Thanx em this is very true.......lol

Now @rush what are you wiping before flashing the rom?

I had the stock ROM.

I made a folder called Roms...where i have four ROMs stored.

EarlyMon · Oct 7, 2013

Wiping /data ought not have wiped your storage (I hate that with all of the confusion, the terms are being overloaded.

Ok -

/system - where the system goes

/data - operational data, your apps and data for all apps

/mnt/sdcard aka /sdcard aka /storage0 (I don't recall all of the Jellybean aliases) - internal sd

/mnt/sdcard/ext_sd aka /sdcard2 aka /storage1 - actual sd card

TWRP backups, photos, music, etc etc go in the last two.

The last two are not affected if you wipe /data.

Is it all gone using TWRP to mount and show what's there?

You may have inadvertently wiped an sd area then...

But I'd still verify a good TWRP flash before giving up - that's just my opinion.

Can you copy / paste what happened when you tried flashing TWRP?

Rush · Oct 7, 2013

But I'd still verify a good TWRP flash before giving up - that's just my opinion.

Can you copy / paste what happened when you tried flashing TWRP?

How do you flaSH a different TWRP. I'm gettin unable to wipe data and so forth errors when flashing.

Rush · Oct 7, 2013

Okay... I flashed sense5 Rom... Even though the "unable to wipe" error present itself --- before rebooting system...i clear cache and dalvik. That seem to fix the loading issue for now.

I am not flashing any ROM until i figure out how to replace or flash a different TWRP...if that is even possible.

I wasn't the one for rooting, but after what happened ... I'm all in.

EarlyMon · Oct 7, 2013

Download to your PC and place in your same folder as fastboot.

If you followed my guide, that's c:\sdk-tools - if you followed others, it's c:\android or like that.

TWRP 2.6.3 for the LTEvo -> Techerrata Downloads - Downloading openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.0-jewel.img

Then in a dos window in that same folder -

fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.0-jewel.img

Not a windows guy, but think you can open a dos window there by right clicking on the sdk-tools|Android|whatever folder and get a command window there.

If unsure, I'm sure that ocn knows - sorry.

EarlyMon · Oct 7, 2013

:banghead:

I forgot to mention - you need to boot to bootloader/fastboot and then flash from the PC.

Sry.

ocnbrze · Oct 7, 2013

EarlyMon said:
Download to your PC and place in your same folder as fastboot.

If you followed my guide, that's c:\sdk-tools - if you followed others, it's c:\android or like that.

TWRP 2.6.3 for the LTEvo -> Techerrata Downloads - Downloading openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.0-jewel.img

Then in a dos window in that same folder -

fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.0-jewel.img

Not a windows guy, but think you can open a dos window there by right clicking on the sdk-tools|Android|whatever folder and get a command window there.

If unsure, I'm sure that ocn knows - sorry.

it is right click while holding shift and select "open command window here" option to enter the fastboot command for windows 7 and 8.

Rush · Oct 7, 2013

I sent the file to my phone. Is there anything else i need to do?

ocnbrze · Oct 7, 2013

Rush said:
I sent the file to my phone. Is there anything else i need to do?

the twrp file needs to be in your android folder where you have the fastboot.exe file. so it depends on where you have those files in.

Rush · Oct 7, 2013

ocnbrze said:
the twrp file needs to be in your android folder where you have the fastboot.exe file. so it depends on where you have those files in.

I have everything inside the c:\sdk-tools. Now i'm lost... what do i need to do from here? I wish i know more about rooting like you guys.

ocnbrze · Oct 7, 2013

Rush said:
I have everything inside the c:\sdk-tools. Now i'm lost... what do i need to do from here? I wish i know more about rooting like you guys.

patience, grasshoper, patience. it will come to you.......LOL

ok so now you just right click while holding the shift button and select "open command window here" enter the fastboot command em pointed to and it should flash the the .img file and BOOM you have updated your twrp recovery.

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