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[icedancer]

Hi

How long is a long time to  first boot the Hero update r5?

After waiting 3 hours for it to format the cache I gave up and rebooted.

Now 2 hours and the phone is still booting with the screen reflashing the boot screen "htc quietly brilliant" every 45 secs

How long is long?

[Dr. dre]

icedancer, on Jul 7 2010, 19:10, said:

Hi

How long is a long time to  first boot the Hero update r5?

After waiting 3 hours for it to format the cache I gave up and rebooted.

Now 2 hours and the phone is still booting with the screen reflashing the boot screen "htc quietly brilliant" every 45 secs

How long is long?

Try removing the SD Card and then Boot.

Edited by Dr. dre, 07 July 2010 - 01:58 PM.

[uk786]

Once you can see the "reboot now" link, you can safely reboot don't worry about waiting to see whether it says "formatting cache complete" - it won't.

[icedancer]

Dr. dre, on Jul 7 2010, 14:58, said:

Try removing the SD Card and then Boot.

Removed the sd card and rebooted.

Same thing - htc screen rolling over and over.

Did a wipe and reflashed. Now back to formating the cache.

Need the phone - will have to abort soon.

[Dr. dre]

icedancer, on Jul 7 2010, 20:00, said:

Removed the sd card and rebooted.

Same thing - htc screen rolling over and over.

Did a wipe and reflashed. Now back to formating the cache.

Need the phone - will have to abort soon.

When it says 'Formatting Cache' it means that it has already formatted the cache after that click on reboot the phone

[icedancer]

Dr. dre, on Jul 7 2010, 15:35, said:

When it says 'Formatting Cache' it means that it has already formatted the cache after that click on reboot the phone

OK - when rebooting after the formatting screen it started up ok and went through the usual wifi setup etc.

Looks fine so far!

Thanks for your help.

[Martin Zwigl]

Me too. I also got stuck in the "HTC quietly brilliant" loop.
Also, extracting the memory card didn't work.

Any new ideas what the problem behind?

Cheers,
Martin

[toxic-hero]

Martin Zwigl, on Sep 27 2010, 23:06, said:

Me too. I also got stuck in the "HTC quietly brilliant" loop.
Also, extracting the memory card didn't work.

Any new ideas what the problem behind?

Cheers,
Martin

reflash & try again.

[Martin Zwigl]

@toxic-hero
so, what you are suggesting is to remove the memory-card before flashing. (strike this. how would you flash without memory card)
otherwise i don't see what success it should have re-flashing. I haven't gotten any errors, when flashing.
is there a different behavior, when flashing a second time?

greetings,
martin

Edited by Martin Zwigl, 28 September 2010 - 09:42 PM.

[toxic-hero]

Martin Zwigl, on Sep 28 2010, 20:30, said:

@toxic-hero
so, what you are suggesting is to remove the memory-card before flashing. (strike this. how would you flash without memory card)
otherwise i don't see what success it should have re-flashing. I haven't gotten any errors, when flashing.
is there a different behavior, when flashing a second time?

i flashed a rom once (without errors) and couldn't get through the boot process. i than reflashed (no removal of SD card) and everything went fine.

if that doesn't do maybe you should reformat your sd card and try flashing again (backup the stuff on it first).

[Martin Zwigl]

@toxic-hero
I did as you suggested, but to no effect. I got still the same behavior.

Also I don't see, what effect the formatting of the memory card should have. It's a 16GB card, and I got about 11 gigs free on the fat partition and there is also some space left on the ext4 partition.
Maybe there is not enough space on the device itself - i only got 60mb left here.

any other suggestions?

Cheers and greetings,
martin

[mifran]

Martin Zwigl, on Sep 30 2010, 20:24, said:

@toxic-hero
I did as you suggested, but to no effect. I got still the same behavior.

Also I don't see, what effect the formatting of the memory card should have. It's a 16GB card, and I got about 11 gigs free on the fat partition and there is also some space left on the ext4 partition.
Maybe there is not enough space on the device itself - i only got 60mb left here.

any other suggestions?

Cheers and greetings,
martin

remove the battery and then replace it and reboot it should then boot up i had this happen with r4 and r5 and doing this got both up and running

mifran

[Martin Zwigl]

mifran, on Oct 1 2010, 09:49, said:

remove the battery and then replace it and reboot it should then boot up i had this happen with r4 and r5 and doing this got both up and running

mifran

Thank you for trying to help, but that didn't help either

It seems that with the first startup (green bar goes to the right) the cache is being filled. (just a guess)
when the bar reaches the right side, "htc quietly brilliant" comes up every xy seconds.
now, when i remove the battery and replace it, NO green bar apears and  I got stuck in the "htc quietly brilliant" loop right from the start

cheers,
Martin

[Martin Zwigl]

Ah, oh.

It seems I shall do a wipe before installing the rom, when having troubles.
Question is: Do I lose my recovery image when doing a wipe. I have a hero version, that had none installed when i bought it.
If I'm gonna lose that too, I am not installing. Then I'll stay with 3.2

Thx for answering that :-)
Martin

[mifran]

Martin Zwigl, on Oct 1 2010, 11:03, said:

Thank you for trying to help, but that didn't help either

It seems that with the first startup (green bar goes to the right) the cache is being filled. (just a guess)
when the bar reaches the right side, "htc quietly brilliant" comes up every xy seconds.
now, when i remove the battery and replace it, NO green bar apears and  I got stuck in the "htc quietly brilliant" loop right from the start

cheers,
Martin

remove the battery while it is in the loop dont try to turn it of just pull the battery wait a few seconds and then re-insert the battery and turn it on
If by recovery image you mean the backup done by holding down home and power then selecting backup and restore this can be saved to you computer they are in the folder called android or if you mean the flash recovery this is not affected by flashing a new system image

mifran

[Martin Zwigl]

mifran, on Oct 4 2010, 08:37, said:

remove the battery while it is in the loop dont try to turn it of just pull the battery wait a few seconds and then re-insert the battery and turn it on
If by recovery image you mean the backup done by holding down home and power then selecting backup and restore this can be saved to you computer they are in the folder called android or if you mean the flash recovery this is not affected by flashing a new system image

mifran

@mifran
Thx, for helping.
Well, I tried the thingy, with removing the battery... It didn't work for me.
And I meant the "flash recovery". I know it's not affected when flashing a new image. But, what happens with a wipe. Does it reset to factory defaults, cause I haven't had this "recovery image" right from the start. I had to "insert" first.  (there are appropriate forum entries)

Cheers,
Martin

[mifran]

Martin Zwigl, on Oct 4 2010, 21:40, said:

@mifran
Thx, for helping.
Well, I tried the thingy, with removing the battery... It didn't work for me.
And I meant the "flash recovery". I know it's not affected when flashing a new image. But, what happens with a wipe. Does it reset to factory defaults, cause I haven't had this "recovery image" right from the start. I had to "insert" first.  (there are appropriate forum entries)

Cheers,
Martin

no a full wipe wont affect the recovery flash image it is safe to select all wipe data/factory reset :wipe dalvik cache: wipe Sd ext partition but make sure you have a saved backup of all your apps and phone numbers and music/films ect just in case
the pull battery is what i had to do to get my hero out of the reboot cycle

mifran

[Martin Zwigl]

thx, mifran

A wipe solved it for me. I guess, I needed the wipe, because there has been only left about 59Mb on the phone itself.
I loved it - the r5, but unfortunately there was an absolute show-stopper:

I couldn't edit some of my contacts. (there's another forum post somewhere about this topic)

So, I am waiting for the final release.

Greetings from Austria,
Martin

Edited by Martin Zwigl, 15 October 2010 - 12:02 PM.

[toxic-hero]

Martin Zwigl, on Oct 15 2010, 14:02, said:

I couldn't edit some of my contacts. (there's another forum post somewhere about this topic)

So, I am waiting for the final release.

if you wait here, you could wait forever. i'm not saying that there will never be r6, 7, 8..., but it certainly doesn't look so. better try some other rom.