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Root HELP! My EVO Might Be Bricked

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Ross Savoie

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Last night I just rooted my phone with Revolutionary. Everything was fine until I changed the boot animation, then I turned it off to see the new animation and the phone kept restarting after it finished the boot animation. I wiped out my caches then I restarted it, but then it only got to the white screen that says HTC EVO 4G then it would freeze. Then I wiped out everything in the recovery and now whenever I turn it on regularly it goes into the boot loader. I want to know if there's any hope for it or if it is just a paperweight now.
 
Ross Savoie said:
Last night I just rooted my phone with Revolutionary. Everything was fine until I changed the boot animation, then I turned it off to see the new animation and the phone kept restarting after it finished the boot animation. I wiped out my caches then I restarted it, but then it only got to the white screen that says HTC EVO 4G then it would freeze. Then I wiped out everything in the recovery and now whenever I turn it on regularly it goes into the boot loader. I want to know if there's any hope for it or if it is just a paperweight now.
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I cannot help you, but be patient. The guys on here are some of the best , kindest people on the internet and they know their shit. My advice, dont do anything else until you get somebody helping you. I've always heard if you can get into hboot and recovery that you arent bricked. Just relax, and someone will help. Good luck.
 
Ross Savoie said:
Last night I just rooted my phone with Revolutionary. Everything was fine until I changed the boot animation, then I turned it off to see the new animation and the phone kept restarting after it finished the boot animation. I wiped out my caches then I restarted it, but then it only got to the white screen that says HTC EVO 4G then it would freeze. Then I wiped out everything in the recovery and now whenever I turn it on regularly it goes into the boot loader. I want to know if there's any hope for it or if it is just a paperweight now.
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Ok go back into recovery and wipe everything except SD CARD wipe atleast three times manually then wipe with superwipe then flash your ROM again.
 
if that doesnt work, do a factory reset in the wipe section of recovery, then reinstall the rom (perhaps with a fresh download to the sd card) then reboot. That should cure all your ills
 
Yup, good call guys.

When you cleared all of your data and wiped everything, you removed the phones means to boot, that's why it went straight to the bootloader.
You wiped the phone clean, which is actually a good thing, you want a clean environment when you flash a new Rom.
Choose a Rom you want to flash, pit it on your sd, then boot to recovery, choose install from sd find your Rom, then select. Once It's done flashing reboot, you'll have to sign into your Google account, etc.

Biggest question I have is: Did you make a nandroid backup before you changed the boot animation?

If you did, you can just restore your backup. If you didn't, now you understand why we stress the need to make a backup before you do anything! :)
It takes the panic out of these situations. ;)

Welcome to Flash-a-holicis Anonymous! :D
 
Honestly, the only surefire way to brick your phone is to pull your battery during a radio update. It's always good to have 50% or more battery when flashing anything, but it would probably be fixable for anything other than a radio update gone bad. I have flashed radios many times without issues, but for goodness sake make sure you have plenty of battery when flashing those updates.

I have seen others say that you can brick your phone flashing non-evo stuff to your Evo, so there's that too. But other than that, almost anything is fixable outside of a pure hardware failure.
 
MizzouBrent said:
Honestly, the only surefire way to brick your phone is to pull your battery during a radio update. It's always good to have 50% or more battery when flashing anything, but it would probably be fixable for anything other than a radio update gone bad. I have flashed radios many times without issues, but for goodness sake make sure you have plenty of battery when flashing those updates.

I have seen others say that you can brick your phone flashing non-evo stuff to your Evo, so there's that too. But other than that, almost anything is fixable outside of a pure hardware failure.
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And it would seem the "boot loop of death" don't think Andy has come up with a fix or anyone else for that matter
 
Ross Savoie said:
But it says S-ON so i can't flash a new rom right?
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If you have s-on you need to follow the Gingerbread Root Guide (Link in my sig) If Securities are on then you can't flash a custom ROM. Not Sure you are able to put on a recovery with out S-OFF maybe you can but I never heard of it. Usually if Security is on then Android wont let you write to the boot menu or system menu as they are "Secure" area's of the phone.
 
Well i still can go inside of the recovery mode and delete everything. Well is it possible for me to reroot it again using revolutionary again.
 
Mind summing up for us what you have going on?
Do you have S-on or off?
Can you get into recovery?

And honestly, one thread is plenty. If people arent responding its because they've run out of options that they know of, You just have to wait for someone with another trick up their sleeve to come around
 
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