[Q] Trouble flashing thunderbolt

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To begin with, I am a complete noob with any and all phone mods. I'll run down what I've done and whats happening when I do it.

I used the adb method to root my tbolt. Once that was done, I installed Superuser, and Rom Manager and flashed with the latest CWR, after clearing the download manager and turning on the erase option in settings. I have done this (flash cwr) before each attempt to flash a rom.

I have tried 3 roms: Das Bamf 1.3.2 themed (tried twice), The Perfect Storm 1.2 and VirusROM RC1b3. I used identical steps to flash them:


1. Booted to CWR
2. made a nandroid backup
3. wiped data
4. wiped cache
5. wiped Davlik (sp?)
6. wiped battery
7. install zip from sd, choose zip from sd
8. after installation, reboot

When I reboot, the white boot screen with green htc logo appears, disappears, appears, disappears, and so on. I assume this is what people are referring to as a boot loop. It happened with both Roms, and luckily I am still able to get back to recovery and restore the stock rooted rom.

I've asked for help in the android forums, and a couple of people there have been trying to help, but the only real suggestion I've received is bad dl's. I haven't been able to find the md5's for the .zips to compare to what I generate, but I can't believe 3 straight dl's are corrupt.

Anyone have any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Originally Posted by hootinani

To begin with, I am a complete noob with any and all phone mods. I'll run down what I've done and whats happening when I do it.

I used the adb method to root my tbolt. Once that was done, I installed Superuser, and Rom Manager and flashed with the latest CWR, after clearing the download manager and turning on the erase option in settings. I have done this (flash cwr) before each attempt to flash a rom.

I have tried 3 roms: Das Bamf 1.3.2 themed (tried twice), The Perfect Storm 1.2 and VirusROM RC1b3. I used identical steps to flash them:


1. Booted to CWR
2. made a nandroid backup
3. wiped data
4. wiped cache
5. wiped Davlik (sp?)
6. wiped battery
7. install zip from sd, choose zip from sd
8. after installation, reboot

When I reboot, the white boot screen with green htc logo appears, disappears, appears, disappears, and so on. I assume this is what people are referring to as a boot loop. It happened with both Roms, and luckily I am still able to get back to recovery and restore the stock rooted rom.

I've asked for help in the android forums, and a couple of people there have been trying to help, but the only real suggestion I've received is bad dl's. I haven't been able to find the md5's for the .zips to compare to what I generate, but I can't believe 3 straight dl's are corrupt.

Anyone have any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Did you try hitting install ROM from SD card in ROM manager and just flashing it through the app? Not sure that will change your result but it flashes it for you and you can choose the options to make a backup and wipe. Can't hurt to try it.

I did try it with Das Bamf, but got the same result. Thats when I read that using rom manager to install the roms could cause problems and started doing it manually.

After uninstalling/reinstalling rom manager and flashing cwr again, I got TPS 1.1 to flash, and its working great. I then tried to flash 1.2 thru cwr, both with a data wipe and without, but both times it boot looped.

I've dl'd TPS 1.2 from a different source, and I'll try to install it when I get home. But any other suggestions are very appreciated. I'm just glad I finally got something to flash.

I'm stumped. I tried new dl's of TPS 1.2 and Das Bamf 1.3.2te, and both of them failed. I even tried turning off my antivirus while dl'ing and moving the file to my sdcard, but it didn't make a difference.