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[EVO 4G Android Development] POWerSUrgeSW3:
Well I will say my phone went stupid again. Finally got a brand new EVO Hardware Version 0004. But I am shy of going back to TWRP now.

I did find something crazy. I tried flashing CWM, AmonRA, TWRP v1.1.1, and none of them would let me into recocery. But was able to flash the AmonRA v3.0.7 GNM (see my sign for link) to get into a recovery. Then was getting the 'E:can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk' when trying to flash a ZIP file. Could not partition the SD Card either.

Both times when my phone hosed itself, I would backup my current ROM and wipe everything. Then load preludedrew's Evervolv ICS nightly/preview ROM. BUT after I got each new phone I was able to load the ICS ROM no problem. Even using TWRP v2.0RC2 and RC3 each time. Though the last time I jumped to AmonRA v3.0.7 GNM just to be safe.

I stand corrected that this recovery COULD be hosing phones without a way back. At least if anyone gets screwed and gets the rebooting and unable to get into recovery, I have a way to S-ON and RUU to turn the phone in for warranty. PM me if anyone needs the files.

~Max

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[EVO 4G Android Development] picklerick:
How are you guys flashing recoveries? I always use fastboot to do so instead of flashing the zip file. Also always check md5's when available.

fastboot flash recovery path_to/recovery.img
[EVO 4G Android Development] welshwarriorsf:
Trying out the newest version. Made some backups, so far so good. Great job as usual from TeamWin.
[EVO 4G Android Development] greengiant1969:
Is the link for the new download from webaite down? I went to the sight clicked on phone type and it went to home page? Does anyone have download link for 003?
[EVO 4G Android Development] welshwarriorsf:
The DL link is fine. After you select your phone its a bit towards the bottom: http://www.teamw.in/project/twrp2/3
[EVO 4G Android Development] greengiant1969:
Thanks for the link.
[EVO 4G Android Development] originalmg:
I love the UI, hope the bugs get worked out. Still haven't had a successful backup. I really like the concept, exited to see the future. Keep it up team win!
[EVO 4G Android Development] Diablo67:
I downloaded the first version and i have'nt had any problems yet,except it hung up on me 1 time and i had to pull the battery,but since then i've had no problems with backups,but the touch UI on this is freakin awesome.Great work on this guys.I would install the new version,but will i still be able to restore my backups from the first version?
[EVO 4G Android Development] sstory792:
:(

http://teamw.in/blog/15
[EVO 4G Android Development] EvoCM7fTw420:
Bogus at least agrabren will be pushing out phoenix soon
[EVO 4G Android Development] POWerSUrgeSW3:
Touchscreen in recovery is pretty radical! Sucks that all of this came about, but we do have to thank them for giving us a taste. And hopefully it will be a leading curve to help others see the wants of the community and band together to bring that all together!

Thank you TeamWin for your efforts. I know I sill be excited to see what they bring to CWM.

~Max

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[EVO 4G Android Development] dased14:
never mind
[EVO 4G Android Development] ECrispy:
Sad news, was really looking forward to using this. What is phoenix? Is it the total rewrite of recovery that agraben talked about?
[EVO 4G Android Development] ncadden:
So...has there been any fix identified for those of us who's phone's have suddenly gone to the "5 vibrate, s-on, h-boot reverts to 2.1" problem?

I was running Decks with tiamat 3.7 sbc kernel, never had any problems with any other recovery & was really enjoying this recovery, tbh. Had just performed a nand backup &, once the phone rebooted, bam, I can no longer access my sd card & my pc is for some reason no longer able to recognize my driver as being the correct one, so I can't get any files to my phone either, as I can't get adb to work or connect as a mass storage device!
[EVO 4G Android Development] POWerSUrgeSW3:
S-On, RUU, and take it back to Sprint for warranty. Its free... I fried two in two weeks, finally got a hardware version 4. Maybe you'll get lucky and get a 3D due to the back orders on the EVO.

~Max

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[EVO 4G Android Development] mdubs:
Bummer...
[EVO 4G Android Development] PAINiNFLIKTA:
my evo is also stuck. been trying since last night to figure something out, until i came here and saw others with the same problem.

my sdcard won't mount

i can boot into recovery

i can boot phone, but have no lock screen, wallpaper shows, can only see status bar and icons.

i can boot into hboot screen

supersonic evt2-2 ship s-on

hboot-2.10.001

microp-041f

radio-2.15.00.11.19

i have adb installed on mac.

is this salvagable or do i need a new phone?
[EVO 4G Android Development] Notorious:
Honestly your not the only one that has had this happen I'm sorry to say but your SOL
[EVO 4G Android Development] POWerSUrgeSW3:
I haven't heard of this yet. Is it still related to a NAND memory issue or something? Not to get off course but asking to be educated.

~Max

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[EVO 4G Android Development] Notorious:
Still related to the nand memories and no one was able to recover from it so far his is like fusionX's problem but his would boot then reboot
[EVO 4G Android Development] Notorious:
He could try a ruu and see if it does anything
[EVO 4G Android Development] POWerSUrgeSW3:
Could and then if the phone starts bootlooping then it would be a great sign of a NAND memory issue. Plus then the phone is ready to be returned to Sprint for a swap.

~Max

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[EVO 4G Android Development] FusionX:
Progress with Soft Brick????

Well... Since I still have my "bricked" evo as I wait for my back-order replacement I have been messing with trying to fix the issue...

I HAVE MADE PROGRESS!!! Still not sure if it will result in a fix because I do have bootloops after being up and running for 2 minutes.

I am not able to access ADB Shell from my computer to my phone... Obviously not by USB b/c that function for me was broken when the phone freaked originally. However, I have discovered a way (with S-on and no root on phone) to get ADB to broadcast over wi-fi!

I can log-in to my phone but since the bootloop is imminent I only have a minute to do any work...

Anyways, since I have flashed the GB RUU and have s-on I pushed the zergRush to my phone, changed permissions and ran it, SUCCESS, it gave me root access (#) via ADB.

This is pretty much where I left off for now, but I am hopeful that now that I can get root access to ADB I may be able to somehow manually root from that point....

THE MAJOR ROADBLOCK I have now, which I am not certain if there is a work-around is that Revolutionary won't detect the device because it isn't USB ADB but rather wi-fi.

Anyone got any idea's???? I'll be happy to share my steps once I am able to reproduce my success this evening, time permitting.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Dees_Troy:
For those of you that are still reporting problems, can you please let us know if you were using RC0.3 at the time the problem occurred?
[EVO 4G Android Development] mildlydisturbed:
think I was using RC0

reverted to s-on, 5 shakes, black screen

it's out of warranty, tried pretty much everything to recover now.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Kchitown1977:
Using 0.3 since the 4th and I've flashed 4 or 5 roms since then no issues. I just use to flash no back ups or recoveries

Former Army sergeant 11C
[EVO 4G Android Development] Legendary20:
Have you tried a different recovery or have you tried to use calkuins thread on how fix your SD and USB
[EVO 4G Android Development] mildlydisturbed:
If I was S-OFF I would flash a different recovery, but I'm not any more due to it going mental.

If the phone would stay on for more than 4 minutes before bombing out, I would try anything.

Here's the order from last night

boot into twrp, make nandroid backup

clear dalvik

clear cache

factory reset

install Deck's ICS

install Gapps

install camera fix

reboot system

recovery loads again for no reason, select reboot system again

come back about 10 min later phone is blinking green light and nothing else, requires battery pull

ICS boots, looks fine, oddly all my old icons for apps are there - thought factory reset would have fixed that

phone gets weird, I reboot it

phone still behaving oddly (I've run decks before) so I decide to go back and flash again

phone will not reboot into recovery, goes black, 5 buzzes

after some poking around I find the S-ON issue, figure I'll just go back to stock and root

slap stock PC36IMG on, install, install takes

boot phone, phone works for 4 minutes, shuts down

grab RUU, attempt to install RUU, get that it can't install RUU and I need to get the right version... rrrr?

Anyway, in 4 minutes from start to shutdown I can't do much. Anything I try has to be accomplished extremely quickly. I'm NAND locked now so I can't flash a new recovery.

I even tried getting to check for firmware update. It can't complete a check for update before the phone shuts itself off.

I've been flashing ROMs, kernels, radios, etc since October 2010, I've never run into a brick before... this is the only time my phone's been down for more than 30 minutes ever.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Legendary20:
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/466595-i-unrooted-but-dont-know-how.html

Don't know if that would help but I had a similar issue.read through it too see if its anything different
[EVO 4G Android Development] Legendary20:
You don't have to have USB working or adb to use fastboot
[EVO 4G Android Development] mildlydisturbed:
fastboot flash recovery:

(bootloader) signature checking...

FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)

finished. total time: 1.338s

fastboot boot (anything)

FAILED (remote: not allowed)

Yeah, fastboot isn't doing any good. If I could find a fastboot-only S-OFF, that might help.

Can't write images/recovery/etc due to being S-ON

Can't get terminal emulator due to it taking too long do download/install (guess I could sideload it, but see later)

Can't get attempt S-OFF due to USB not recognizing

Can't apply the USB fix (Caulkin) as it requires root

can't do anything that requires root as I'm stuck at stock

So, what I need is a fastboot or PC36IMG that roots the phone / gives S-OFF
[EVO 4G Android Development] Legendary20:
Can you try to use the sdcard fix so you can put the z4 app on your phone which will temp-root it. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=833953
[EVO 4G Android Development] mildlydisturbed:
z4 lists that it is for froyo, latest is Gingerbread, which is what I'm stuck on.

*if* I manage to get temp root right after initial boot, I then have to manage to type this in whatever remains of the 4-5 minutes I have

su

cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image

cat /sdcard/mtd-eng.img > /data/mtd-eng.img

chmod 755 /data/flash_image

/data/flash_image misc /data/mtd-eng.img

reboot

Based on my typing speed with a keypad, I think I might be able to get to the end of the chmod line before the thing shuts off.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Legendary20:
Ah ****. I dont know why I thought u was on froyo. That temp-root probably wont work
[EVO 4G Android Development] mildlydisturbed:
Not a problem. Pretty sure I'm Bjorked at the moment, but as it was just a test device, I can live without it a few days... just means I am completely out of touch with the EVO 4G crowd now (and I write about it constantly)
[EVO 4G Android Development] POWerSUrgeSW3:
Yeah that's what my phone did when I returned them both. Which leads me to think it can't be bad NAND but then how or what is causing the repeated reboots. Suckage...

I think I had RC0.2 the first time. I know I was on RC0.3 the second time.

~Max

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[EVO 4G Android Development] mildlydisturbed:
I'm wondering if there is any commonality in what people are flashing that might cause this issue.

In order: I cleared data/cache/dalvik, factory reset, flashed Deck's ICS, immediately flashed GAPPS, and the MongooseHelix's camera patch.

Some notes on this:

It did not factory reset properly as I had alllll my old data/programs

it did appear to flash Decks ICS

I do not know if it flashed GAPPS or the cam patch properly as the system was wicked unstable (I've been on Decks before, no issues like this time)

I was running a theme

but, before I got out of TWRP, I selected reboot system and it rebooted recovery - mmm, potentially user error, but I don't think so. Second reboot it looks like it was taking, I wander off and come back to a DOA phone - blinking green light. Pull battery, least stable ICS ever, reboot and see I'm s-on.
[EVO 4G Android Development] FusionX:
I'll not be able to test if I was onto an actual fix as my replacement came yesterday and I couldn't resist picking it up. If anyone wants to attempt it if they still have their evo, I can provide the links and more detailed steps...
[EVO 4G Android Development] mildlydisturbed:
I still have my brickish evo.
[EVO 4G Android Development] PAULG1919:
i too had the same problem where i cant mount my sd card and i have no usb at all to the phone , i am not very happy ... of all the roms and stuff i did to this phone i was tricked by one that looked so cool to the point i had to have it and now wam nothing .. ill never use it again twip or what ever u call it , im stuck at junk right now for the name .... but hey its my fault for being drawn in cause it look so cool when there was nothing wrong with the old ways of running roms ... thats why they say if its not broke dont fix it casue now it cant be fixed ....GOOD-DAY
[EVO 4G Android Development] simongabriel:
Looks like I ended up having the same conversation with Paul on G&E this morning, not realizing it was up here on XDA already (I had this problem with my phone about two weeks ago). It's most definitely fixable as long as you don't unroot, but unfortunately if you are on GB and unroot, I don't know of a fix.

I will say, if you haven't unrooted, just follow all those instructions listed above, and be patient, works like a charm.
[EVO 4G Android Development] POWerSUrgeSW3:
I think the fix is hit or miss depending on the extent of the phones issues. I tried for days with both of my phones to fix it with everything I could find and nothing.

On both phones I was running CM7 and then did a cache/dalvik-cache wipe then factory reset. Flashed Evervolvs ICS and his recommended GAPPS zips. Then kept getting boot loop and got boot loop trying to go into recocery. I was able to load ZIPs from HBOOT, but nothing worked for flashing recoveries or other ROMs (except AmonRA v3.0.7 GNM - but that still had lots of issues with the SD Card and USB).

A fix would be nice but hey stuff happens and we always play with fate when flashing RC recoveries.

~Max

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[EVO 4G Android Development] troyboytn:
to add a bit of info here myself. I use my 3d now but still play with my trusty (backup) 4g. TWRP 1.1.1 always loaded and worked great ( back to 1.1.1 now btw). All 3 2.0 versions i ran "acted" weird at different points and times through several sessions and flashes. On several occasions, booting into recovery took as long as booting up a rom, seemingly to be frozen. Luckily, no brick here but i did in fact experience some of the issues stated here. Once after flashing a mod to mikg, clearing cache and dalvik, then clicking reboot to system it immediately rebooted back to recovery. I tried again twice to reboot to system. The next time it rebooted to recovery again and the 3rd time it booted me into bootloader. Was afraid to boot into recovery again so pulled the battery, then booted normally. After this i reflashed 1.1.1 and haven't had a problem since.
[EVO 4G Android Development] mildlydisturbed:
so, had a thought and wanted to share it here before I tried it

Was thinking perhaps if I could get the NAND back in an s-off state it might repair itself or at least I might eb able toload some tools so I could get the USB up and running and maybe do something.

However, as Revolutionary.io does not work without a USB in ADB mode I have not been able to root... however... I have access to another EVO

I'm thinking the only reason Revo needs ADB is to push some tools over before it boots into fastboot and finishes the job. I'm wondering what people think of this idea

Take the other evo, start the root process using revolutionary, it'll start to reboot into fastboot, yank the cable, have my brickish evo in Fastboot, and let revo do the remainder of what it's supposed to do, potentially unbricking by operating on the NAND

Any thoughts?
[EVO 4G Android Development] simongabriel:
Is it not possible to manually push those tools via fastboot adb, and then manually do the revo process? It's been so long since I rooted my phone I don't know the current method, but anything 'automated' should also be manually doable, I'd think.
[EVO 4G Android Development] PAINiNFLIKTA:
would like to know this as well.

been trying to use fastboot, but ima newbie to it since all i had to do is use recovery to flash n stuff.

i have fastboot good to go. it reads my device, but dont know if i can push through fastboot or know how.

tried this command just to see it it would do something.

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img - i get this error: cannot load 'recovery.img'

also tried
[EVO 4G Android Development] mildlydisturbed:
fastboot doesn't allow pushing as far as I know... I'm further thinking I would just switch SD cards when wife's EVO goes to reboot. Still on the fence about trying a half-root exploit
[EVO 4G Android Development] PAINiNFLIKTA:
if you try it let us know how it goes.
[EVO 4G Android Development] xfullmetal17:
Thanks for the heads-up on Evo 4G, I'll stick with RC2 for the time being. Only thing I have to watch out for is the fact that "factory reset" targets .android-secure too =/
[EVO 4G Android Development] ncadden:
Please do. And, oh, by the way, I just saw your response from my post the other day & I need to apologize in a big way, b/c I could not have been more wrong with what I thought at that time, though I figured it out a few minutes later, when I rebooted to set my density decrease & undervolt my kernel, only to find out my s was still on, my root was still nadda, & now my recovery was back to stock.

I think what happened was my recovery was still TWRP, at the time. Instead of deleting ROM Manager, b/c I read somewhere that it was part of the problem, I'd have given anything to just flash amonRA, from the start.

I'll continue on with your thought here though, as I've been unsuccessful at flashing either s-on or s-off, but I think I've found something that I can work with, if I can just get s-off.

http://themikmik.com/showthread.php?10584-Anthrax-Kernel-for-Evo-4G/page13

Those guys were all having issues as it related to the Anthrax Kernel, and Captain's got a way to flash HBoot backwards, which I think I can flash through the stock recovery (I hope, never knew power+up pulled up a "stock recovery" menu, but I can damn sure flash an update.zip through there, it's just that so far I haven't been able to flash it b/c it gets halfway, before telling me that it can't pass sig verification. My hope is that, with s-off, this would not be the case, but who knows.

The other thing I should say is that I've been able to get my android-usb driver through to bootloader, so now my device shows up as android bootloader device when I'm plugged into usb through it. No clue if that helps or not, b/c I've never had to worry about it before.
[EVO 4G Android Development] ncadden:
There's gotta be something we can flash, either through an update.zip file or a PC36IMG.zip, which the phone believes is an RUU & is willing to let through without s-off or root, but has really been hex edited or somehow altered, and actually gives us either a custom recovery or turns s-off, doesn't there?

If you can trick the hboot loader into downgrading, when it's not supposed to downgrade, can't you trick hboot in this case as well?

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Where do you have that recovery image at? Can you stick it in the android folder & then push it that way, similar to adb?

I've always had to type in the actual address, where the file is on my laptop, in front of where you have recovery.img, written above. Though, just as if you had it as a PC36IMG file, it won't see load it, it'll just give you a legit error instead, b/c you don't have permission to flash it.
[EVO 4G Android Development] hondoslack:
Wow, I can't believe no one else has figured this out yet. This S-ON situation is very easy to fix. Please see my post here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=20899829&postcount=2

So, if you're stuck in bootloop, S-ON, etc, give this a shot first, before you toss your phone.
[EVO 4G Android Development] PAINiNFLIKTA:
Yea I'm gona give that a try when I get back home.
[EVO 4G Android Development] mildlydisturbed:
Step 1: fastboot oem enableqxdm 0 - completed fine

Step 2: fastboot oem eraseconfig - returns the following

...

(bootloader) [ERR] Command error !!!

OKAY [ 0.006s]

finished. total time: 0.006s
[EVO 4G Android Development] ncadden:
Same here. I found this fix a few days ago, & it may very well have worked, but I'd already flashed the 3.70 RUU b/c I'd read where that was the fix.
[EVO 4G Android Development] MagicalSandwich:
Am I the only one who hasn't had any problems? This has been working great for me, no problems that I know of.
[EVO 4G Android Development] hondoslack:
Could be that there is nothing to erase? Not sure. What's your HBOOT version? You removed the sdcard first? The command, from what I've seen on other forums, fixes the MISC partition. This link may shed some light:

http://androidforums.com/desire-tips-tricks/365476-guide-usb-brick-fix.html

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The problem occurred for me each time that I restored a TWRP backup, including the RECOVERY and BOOT backup. Restoring just SYSTEM and DATA seem to work fine.
[EVO 4G Android Development] mildlydisturbed:
2.16 if I remember correctly. I have tried it with and without the SD card in, does not matter what, it returns that error. I am currently flashing another RUU (same version as before, different sig) to see if my original RUU might have not played well with others.
[EVO 4G Android Development] MagicalSandwich:
Ah, maybe that's why. I don't believe I've restored recovery or boot
[EVO 4G Android Development] mildlydisturbed:
Yup, 2.16

(bootloader) version: 0.5

(bootloader) version-bootloader: 2.16.0001

(bootloader) version-baseband: 2.15.00.0808

(bootloader) version-cpld: None

(bootloader) version-microp: 041f

(bootloader) version-main: 4.54.651.1

(bootloader) serialno: HT08SHL09149

(bootloader) imei: 355195000000017

(bootloader) product: supersonic

(bootloader) platform: HBOOT-8x50

(bootloader) modelid: PC3610000

(bootloader) cidnum: 11111111

(bootloader) battery-status: good

(bootloader) battery-voltage: 3959mV

(bootloader) partition-layout: Generic

(bootloader) security: on

(bootloader) build-mode: SHIP

(bootloader) boot-mode: FASTBOOT

(bootloader) commitno-bootloader: a80b8623

(bootloader) hbootpreupdate: 11

(bootloader) gencheckpt: 0
[EVO 4G Android Development] hondoslack:
Hmm, I'm still on the OG eng spl, 0.76.2000... I wonder if you'd be able to do revolutionary to unbrick? I'm really not up on the ins and outs of the latest HBOOT, so I won't be help with that.
[EVO 4G Android Development] fifasarajevo:
ok so does anyone have a full fix now

I did the commands and now i can get the SD Card to connect again and it is detected by the phone. Now what should i do, has anyone figured it out because im still on S-ON
[EVO 4G Android Development] PAINiNFLIKTA:
Yea the sdcard mount thing works but that's it.