[Thunderbolt Android Development] mexiken:
I survived the bootloops

I will preface this by saying that I hope I don't get anyone's hopes up, but I'm just sharing my experience:

So I read this thread while at my mom's as I was waiting for the mechanic to change my oil and she lives within walking distance to it. So I'm thinking, "crap" I can't get on a comp to do all this, and I don't have a charger so I don't want to start this whole process and be SOL should I not make it on battery life.

I get my car, I head to my stereo guy (seperate issue with subwoofers) and I go home. I forget to flash back, and the guy calls me, my amp is dead. I drive to downtown LA (I live closer to the beach), and as I'm getting there I get a call. I talk on the phone, go inside, get my amp, and walk outside. I look at my phone to come check on this very thread and I notice my data connection is completely gone. I instantly felt like ****ting bricks, as I figured this is how it starts. So I switch back into 3G only mode, toggle airplane mode a few times (these are normal steps I take to get data to start moving again), to no avail. So I go, "ok, time to nandroid this ***** and get my ass to Froyo"

Then, I reboot into recovery. Except. My phone hangs at the initial HTC screen. Fuq. Pull battery, reboot again. Same, except, this time, it goes into bootanimation. Cool, but not out of the woods yet. I get to homescreen, and desperately try to put it in airplane mode, surmising that something with the radio is causing the reboot, so if I just put it in airplane mode, maybe it will stop rebooting and I can be of some use to members in IRC. I manage to check the box, but it doesn't do it, it reboots. The phone repeated this process about 5 or 6 times. It boots, goes into the ROM, it acts VERY sluggish, then reboots. After the 5th or 6th time, it FINALLY grabs a data signal (on 3G) but continues to reboot for about 2 or 3 more times. Then, around the 6th reboot, the phone continues to act normally.

I've NEVER had issues with reboots. I've seen it happen a time or two going from 3G to 4G, but that was on stock ROM. My phone exhibited the EXACT same symptoms the endless booters are having, stuck on white screen, then boots, but reboots before you can do anything. I know people are going to say its not the same issue, but if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, acts like a duck.... but I'm just sharing, do what you want with it.

How I survived this, I have no clue. The only thing I'm sure of are 3 things:

This never happened to me before

I exhibited the EXACT same symptoms that I've seen on people's posts who have NOT been able to fix it, even with great devs help

I had lost ALL data connection, as in, my status bar had NOTHING but signal bars when this happened, and I was in 3G only mode before I tried rebooting

I don't know what to make of it. Honestly I'm scared to put it back in 4G mode. If anyone maybe wants to take a look at logs of my phone or some ****, I'd be glad to donate it for study.

I feel kinda like my phone is the black chick from Children of Men....again, not trying to get any hopes up, that was a scary 10 minutes of my life, but I just wanted to share. I'm confident I encountered the "Borg" (bootloops), and lived to tell of it