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QUiKAZN

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Okay I know this is a noob question so PLEASE excuse my noob-ism. Not sure if this should be in Q&A or Dev so please move to the correct section if I posted in the wrong one.

Okay, so my phone was originally 4.0.4 with a 1.19 HBOOT and 4.1 Sense. I rooted my phone, read up on a couple of threads and youtube videos regarding how to flash CM10 and from what I got if you have 1.19 HBOOT you can't just flash it using TWRP because you can't go S-OFF. Here is where I was a bit confused and think I went wrong. I read in the description of this video How To Install OFFICIAL CyanogenMod 10 (CM10) on the HTC Evo 4G LTE! - YouTube that if you aren't S-OFF that there is a workaround, which linked me to this page http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...postcount=1397 . So the 1st option said that it's possible to flash using Flash Image GUI to flash CM10 THEN to flash it in recovery, which I did. However now that I look closely at the pics it says only for EVO4G and the 3D. Here's where I'm at, Flashed using Flash Image GUI, then rebooted to HBOOT, then recovery, then flashed using TWRP. It looked like a success after rebooting because I seen the CyanogenMod boot screen but it's been about 25 minutes and it's just stuck there. Read up on it some more and it said that it should only take about 5-7 minutes for the first boot. I don't know what to do from here. Is there any way to still boot CM10 on my device since it seems essentially stuck at the "CM" boot screen? If not, what ROM would take me back to where I initially started off previous to trying to flash CM10 (like sense essentially)?

Once again, sorry for the noob-ism but kinda stuck here. Thanks!
 
Did you make a Nandroid backup of your stock rooted rom?

Did you do a full wipe after using flash image gui?(prior to flashing cm10) Also when you used flash gui you made sure you had selected the cm10 zip and then allowed it to extract and flash the kernel? After that completes it will prompt you to go into recovery. I am s-on also and I have used flash gui, its fully supported for the evo lte.

Also to add, just so you understand. The reason you can't flash cm10 when your s-on is because cm10 contains a custom kernel( most non-sense roms have different kernels. But not all sense roms use the stock kernel either, for example meanrom4.4). HTC won't allow you to flash the kernel along with the rom in recovery when your s-on. So by using flash gui or fast boot,you are flashing the kernel. Not the rom. The kernel is basically the brain of the phone (from what I understand) like the ECM/PCM of a car.
 
ocnbrze said:
please read this for kernels: http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-lte-all-things-root/606748-how-install-kernels-h-boot-1-15-a.html
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XDA is not generally the place to go for support, so I'm glad you decided to come here :D


My guide above that OCN linked will not only get you out of the bootloop but get you up and running CM10 as well. All you need to do is fastboot flash the kernel and all is well my friend :)

It also sounds like you may not have wiped properly. Make sure you do a factory reset and wipe caches before flashing the ROM, then boot into H-boot and fastboot flash the kernel (boot.img)
 
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