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Root PANIC: Major Problem

You might be best off to try flashing a compatible kernel first the more I think about it. The fact that it boots to the splash screen (I assume that's what you meant in the OP) leads me to believe the boot.img is to blame. I mean it's worth a shot because if that works, you wouldn't lose any of your data and you'd be on the same rom as before.

If that didn't do the trick, I'd try a full wipe (data/cache/dalvik) and flash a custom rom from recovery as the second option. And if that failed, then you could consider the RUU. No real reason to go to that extreme yet IMO since you appear to have a functioning custom recovery still.

You ever flashed a rom or kernel directly from RA? I've generally used Clockwork on my devices but I think the menu choices are quite similar if not nearly identical. So if you place the kernel or rom (zip file, leave fully zipped) on the sd card, then go into recovery using the power + volume down routine, then you can flash it like this:

-install zip from sd card
-choose zip from sd card
(find your kernel or rom, select and flash it)
-reboot to system
 
I was about to start following the above suggestions, but had a few questions / recalls:
- I can call the phone number and it rings, BUT no way to answer since home pages are all blank. Still replace the radios?

- What ROM should I try to download and flash after wiping cache, dalvik, and data. The full MikG 3.11?

Any other thoughts?
 
smitty543 said:
I was about to start following the above suggestions, but had a few questions / recalls:
- I can call the phone number and it rings, BUT no way to answer since home pages are all blank. Still replace the radios?

- What ROM should I try to download and flash after wiping cache, dalvik, and data. The full MikG 3.11?

Any other thoughts?
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That, classic 0.1.0 or decks reloaded which is my personal favorite
 
I had this same problem a few months back. I transfered all my files from my SD card to my computer, including the "bad" nandroids. I then reformatted the card and transferred the files back. Everything worked fine after that. All my nandroids still worked too. Shortly after I upgraded my SD.
 
Hopefully this will work. Question: how to reformat the card after deleting the contents since the phone itself does not go beyond recovery? I copied the entire card into a desktop folder on my MAC.
 
To delete everything, you can just boot into recovery, go to Partition your SD card, and enter both values as zero and I think that will work. Or if it won't take 0 for your ext partition, just do the smallest amount possible.

Doing that will reformat your SD card.
 
MizzouBrent said:
To delete everything, you can just boot into recovery, go to Partition your SD card, and enter both values as zero and I think that will work. Or if it won't take 0 for your ext partition, just do the smallest amount possible.

Doing that will reformat your SD card.
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I'm not able to check right now, but doesn't amon RA give you the option to reformat via recovery? I could be remebering wrong.

Nevertheless, might as partition anyways so +1 on that.
 
Thanks to ALL who have helped me. Current status:

I repartitioned 16GB card and then copied all files from the card that had been in the phone (& now in HTC LTE). Wiped Cache and dalvik and then successfully flashed MikG 3.1 and then 3.11. I was able to get around OK on the phone. I then tried to restore the nandroid on the card, but got the same "oops" message.

The problem is that one of the apps in the nandroid has a few data elements the I do not have anywhere else. Any ideas how I might be able to restore the nandroid?

One again, thanx for everyone's patience and assistance!
 
smitty543 said:
Thanks to ALL who have helped me. Current status:

I repartitioned 16GB card and then copied all files from the card that had been in the phone (& now in HTC LTE). Wiped Cache and dalvik and then successfully flashed MikG 3.1 and then 3.11. I was able to get around OK on the phone. I then tried to restore the nandroid on the card, but got the same "oops" message.

The problem is that one of the apps in the nandroid has a few data elements the I do not have anywhere else. Any ideas how I might be able to restore the nandroid?

One again, thanx for everyone's patience and assistance!
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You can try to use the option in recovery to send the error log to SD and use es file explorer or astro to view it. Or you might be able to use titanium to restore the app data.
 
smitty543 said:
Thanks to ALL who have helped me. Current status:

I repartitioned 16GB card and then copied all files from the card that had been in the phone (& now in HTC LTE). Wiped Cache and dalvik and then successfully flashed MikG 3.1 and then 3.11. I was able to get around OK on the phone. I then tried to restore the nandroid on the card, but got the same "oops" message.

The problem is that one of the apps in the nandroid has a few data elements the I do not have anywhere else. Any ideas how I might be able to restore the nandroid?

One again, thanx for everyone's patience and assistance!
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There is something that will let you extract stuff from a nandroid. I can't remember what it's called but I know it's possible. Try Googling.

When you reformatted, just out of curiosity, did you set up a partition for a2sd?
 
Yes, I used Titanium to extract the apps with data for the two apps that had critical information.

IWhen I "repartitioned" the card, I used that default settings that were offered to me.

Once again, Tanks for all who helped me get through this ordeal. Unfortunately I still do not know what I did to bring the havoc.

Now, Do I root my HTC EVO LTE?!?:confused:
 
smitty543 said:
Thanks to ALL who have helped me. Current status:

I repartitioned 16GB card and then copied all files from the card that had been in the phone (& now in HTC LTE). Wiped Cache and dalvik and then successfully flashed MikG 3.1 and then 3.11. I was able to get around OK on the phone. I then tried to restore the nandroid on the card, but got the same "oops" message.

The problem is that one of the apps in the nandroid has a few data elements the I do not have anywhere else. Any ideas how I might be able to restore the nandroid?

One again, thanx for everyone's patience and assistance!
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did you buy chance rename your nandroid backup? you might have not named it correctly. you can name it anything you want to but do not use any weird symbols in the name.

here is the thread that akazabam (the god among the og evos) posted:http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/319602-read-copy-contents-nandroid-backups.html
 
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