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Help HELP! Phone not booting! Any suggestions?

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I was installing Revolution HD on my Droid Incredible 2. I knew that the first boot took longer than usual, so I waited it out. I even went for a 20 minute run, but the phone was still booting up when I came back! >:( The white HTC screen was frozen, so I got tired of waiting and pulled the battery. I was sure that I had done all the installation steps completely: run the super wipe file + install the rom. So i did a reboot and ended up waiting another 10 minutes for this thing to boot into the rom. I pulled the battery, and I was able to get into the bootloader and select recovery, but the white HTC screen prevented me from entering CWR. I waited again, then pulled the plug, and then selected the factory reset option, but the same thing happened...

Now, the battery has died and it refuses to either charge / boot up entirely. I am at a loss. Any suggestions...?
 
Can you boot into the bootloader while its plugged in to the charger? Or if you plug it into a computer does it recognize your phone?
 
The phone doesn't charge when connected to either source. My mom does happen to have the same phone as I do, so I'll try swapping the battery later today. If I can access the bootloader, what should I do?
 
I was just looking for any sign of life to show that its not completely bricked, which it most likely isn't.

If you can't get into recovery via the phone itself, you're gonna have to set up ADB on your computer and see if you can get it to boot you into recovery that way then wipe everything (system/cache/dalvik cache) manually and re-flash your ROM. If you can't get to recovery via ADB then you will probably have to re-flash clockworkmod using Fastboot.

If that's what it comes down to there is tons of information on setting up adb and fastboot on the android developers website. And if you have to re-flash clockworkmod there are step-by-step instructions in the Incredible 2 section of the Cyanogenmod website.
 
More problems... So I finally managed to install and use adb from the command line. But when I try and access my phone, it cannot find the device. What now?
 
Not positive, but you may need to install some HTC specific drivers for your phone. Did you install all drivers in the android SDK?
 
I have all the drivers, I don't have htc sync however. So I'm currently stuck at the bootloader. I cannot use recovery or factory reset. I guess I need to flash clockwork recovery, or a rom? How to I do that from a computer in my current situation?

I have both the droid incredible 2 clockwork image file downloaded, as well as a stable version of CM7.
 
Google "incredible 2 cyanogenmod wiki" it will take you to the cyanogenmod site. They will have step by step instructions on how to flash both via fastboot
 
Just follow what it says. You will need the drivers for your phone though, search for them on HTC website. I'm at work right now or I would post a link
 
I have HTC sync installed, is that what you mean as far as drivers? I have searched for just the legit driver files, but I can't seem to find them. I've heard that an install / uninstall of the htc software will leave you with just the drivers.
 
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