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Bricked?

So I used the one click got s-off and rooted. Installed CWM and tried to flash CM7. Now it just hangs with the blue android just skating around and won't do anything else. Can someone please help?

pside15 said:
So I used the one click got s-off and rooted. Installed CWM and tried to flash CM7. Now it just hangs with the blue android just skating around and won't do anything else. Can someone please help?
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You are not bricked. Download another rom like the stock rooted. Go into the bootloader and click on recovery. Then wipe the card partition, data factory reset, and wipe dalvik. Then flash the new rom from your sd card. You should be ok.

to get to the bootloader turn off your phone by pulling the battery. Hold the vol button down and press the power button.

Many thanks. I was able to get into the bootloader and flash the stock rooted from the 1 click root.
I was only concerned because it wouldn't go to the bootloader at first. I'm sure it was operator error.

pside15 said:
Many thanks. I was able to get into the bootloader and flash the stock rooted from the 1 click root.
I was only concerned because it wouldn't go to the bootloader at first. I'm sure it was operator error.
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Good to hear. I thought I bricked my self many times. lol

Now I can't download from the market though. Any ideas on that? Hoping it is just a market issue.

pside15 said:
Now I can't download from the market though. Any ideas on that? Hoping it is just a market issue.
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turn off your wifi. Open with att network. Then you can turn your wifi back on and it will work.

has anyone actually bricked their inspire yet though?

Thrashavich said:
has anyone actually bricked their inspire yet though?
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Not that I know of. Give it time.

klquicksall said:
turn off your wifi. Open with att network. Then you can turn your wifi back on and it will work.
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My wifi isn't on. Couldn't connect to anything at the moment even if it was. My data works fine for everything else just not downloading from the market. I can search it just fine though.
I tried clearing cache and data. I even rebooted and nothing has worked.

pside15 said:
My wifi isn't on. Couldn't connect to anything at the moment even if it was. My data works fine for everything else just not downloading from the market. I can search it just fine though.
I tried clearing cache and data. I even rebooted and nothing has worked.
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Can you download with wifi?

klquicksall said:
Not that I know of. Give it time.
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That scares me

klquicksall said:
Can you download with wifi?
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Not sure. I can't connect to wifi where I am. I can access every other kind of data just fine though. Very odd indeed.
I just tried over my bosses mobile hotspot and still couldn't download.

pside15 said:
Not sure. I can't connect to wifi where I am. I can access every other kind of data just fine though. Very odd indeed.
I just tried over my bosses mobile hotspot and still couldn't download.
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well wait until you can use wifi and see if you can download. This way you will know if its the market or the att network.

Thrashavich said:
That scares me
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Thats why I only flash stable rom.

klquicksall said:
well wait until you can use wifi and see if you can download. This way you will know if its the market or the att network.
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Well, it just started working again. Not sure exactly what was going on. My boss has the same phone and his always worked. Either way it's all good now.
Thanks for you help.

pside15 said:
Well, it just started working again. Not sure exactly what was going on. My boss has the same phone and his always worked. Either way it's all good now.
Thanks for you help.
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glad to see you got everything working.

klquicksall said:
Not that I know of. Give it time.
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Actually I thought it was almost impossible to brick android?

Can brick Captivate. Just check their forum. Fortunate that I personally never needed my jig. Have one though, just in case
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So the same thing happened again. I flashed CM7 and it is just stuck showing the boot animation and won't go past it. I really have no idea what happened.
I tried the same thing I did yesterday but it isn't working at all. Can someone please help me out?
Thanks

Cause of GB reboot and possibly prevent brick

OK Guys and Gals, Here is what is going on with the radio issue. No Matter WHAT radio combos you may be using. As some of you may know by my earlier posts I live in a huge 4G network and never get anything, but 4G and (3G only for a min on boot) This is why I didn't have ANY issue's until I got curious and wanted to try something. On our tbolts, if you try to make a call while in 3G the 3G will drop out until the call is over. I went back to froyo, got pissed and went strait back to GB (doesn't matter what Rom as all the dev have clearly stated) when I did go back to GB things were tight as usual. worked like a charm. I used it as I normally would and everything was fine. upon a self induced restart, before my phone had a chance to obtain 4G (still in 3G) I decided to make a test call to see if the 3G would drop. It didn't. Quickly after I ended the call the phone booted in to bootloader. Thank God I had removed the GB RUU because I don't have a card reader to remove the RUU. I forgot to mention I do have the latest Rom Mgr and was able to get into recovery and simply reboot. After that reboot I would get to my home screen, but this time the 3G only would come up and then reboot. Time after time of rebooting I tried other things such as toggle radio to just grab 4G, then the phone rebooted again! upon the next full boot I quickly moved the original froyo radio strait to the sd card. And yet another reboot. This time I got a Rom Mgr error and noticed that Rom mgr was no longer flashed!!! I flashed it real quick because I knew another reboot was on its way. Rom mgr flashed and I told it to boot in to recovery. Thank **** I flashed Rom manager because if not I would be in continuous boots like the unfortunate others. Once in recovery I Realized that I had told my phone to go in to recovery via Rom mgr. and if I did a restore, the phone would have booted back up with my froyo rom but with the GB radio! so I told CWR to just reboot so I could tell the phone to go into recovery via the pwr restart option (thus not restarting after I flashed my froyo recovery) Once recovery of my froyo rom was complete I used ADB to reboot bootloader and SUCCESS! Bottom line you can not make a call while on 3G with any of the current GB radios, you gotta be quick, Make sure ROM mgr is actually flashed!!!! and hopefully can dump the froyo radio on to your SD card before an inevitable reboot happens! and have some ADB knowledge. I'm certain this is whats going on! People make a call while in 3G and its all down hill from there. So dont bother with telling radio settings to stick with one band. Once this happens, there is no turning back. Any questions PM me. I'm glad I tried this out before Vaca tomorrow with a FUBAR Tbolt
Hope this helps developers somehow. Good luck!
Also check a couple quotes from the development thread. Remember I'm going on vacation n won't be able to reply to many comments. Maybe just share your experience. Thank you
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The people with the reboots can't get to Rom manager or recovery or anything. It reboots even if you try to gget in Clockwork.

I live in a 3g only area and make calls all the time on 3g. I have myine set to cdma auto so its always on 3g and mine hasn't done it yet. I'm on the gb radio
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smalltownbird said:
I live in a 3g only area and make calls all the time on 3g. I have myine set to cdma auto so its always on 3g and mine hasn't done it yet. I'm on the gb radio
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Yes this is true because your phone doesn't try to toggle to the 4g lte radio
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corenojoe said:
The people with the reboots can't get to Rom manager or recovery or anything. It reboots even if you try to gget in Clockwork.
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They can't get into rom Mgr because they didn't notice rom manager needed reflashed right before first reboot.
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I live in a 4G area, was running GB Bamf rom. Made plenty of calls on 3G and on 4G lte. Never had this happen.

dopediculous said:
They can't get into rom Mgr because they didn't notice rom manager needed reflashed right before first reboot.
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OK, first off ROM Manager and Clockwork Recovery are two different things.
ROM Manager is an app and Clockwork is your recovery.
If your phone is bricked you can't get into ROM Manager because the phone will not boot up. They can get into Clockwork for...oh I don't know, maybe 2 - 5 seconds and they the phone reboots again. Ask me how I know
A bootloop is NOT your phone bricking, if it was I would have bricked many, many phones in my time. If when you press power and volume down your phones brings up the bootloader. If you select recovery and your phone brings up your recovery screen without bootlooping you are fine.

refresh my memory, my poor old brain is on overload from all the brick posts....
Aren't the "bricked" phones also unable to stay in hboot for more than a few seconds without rebooting? If so, then what the OP is stating is NOT the same thing others reported because he states he could reflash the radio, suggesting a stable hboot/bootloader.
Seems like if you've got a stable hboot, you're not truy bricked, as the first post here shows....

bp328i said:
Ask me how I know
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If you have a bricked device please go post in the stickied thread in app/dev.
Oh and OP - Paragraphs are a good thing. Just sayin...

bp328i said:
OK, first off ROM Manager and Clockwork Recovery are two different things.
ROM Manager is an app and Clockwork is your recovery.
If your phone is bricked you can't get into ROM Manager because the phone will not boot up. They can get into Clockwork for...oh I don't know, maybe 2 - 5 seconds and they the phone reboots again. Ask me how I know
A bootloop is NOT your phone bricking, if it was I would have bricked many, many phones in my time. If when you press power and volume down your phones brings up the bootloader. If you select recovery and your phone brings up your recovery screen without bootlooping you are fine.
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I ment while in rom Mgr to make sure cwr is actually flashed. Mine was then after reboot I noticed cwr was no longer there. In rom Mgr it just said what the current cwr would be if I choose to flash it. If people miss this after a stupid reboot, the next reboot may not be so kind...
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bp328i said:
OK, first off ROM Manager and Clockwork Recovery are two different things.
ROM Manager is an app and Clockwork is your recovery.
If your phone is bricked you can't get into ROM Manager because the phone will not boot up. They can get into Clockwork for...oh I don't know, maybe 2 - 5 seconds and they the phone reboots again. Ask me how I know
A bootloop is NOT your phone bricking, if it was I would have bricked many, many phones in my time. If when you press power and volume down your phones brings up the bootloader. If you select recovery and your phone brings up your recovery screen without bootlooping you are fine.
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In fewer words that's exactly what I was saying. Seems like he thinks Rom Manager is recovery.

distortedloop said:
refresh my memory, my poor old brain is on overload from all the brick posts....
Aren't the "bricked" phones also unable to stay in hboot for more than a few seconds without rebooting? If so, then what the OP is stating is NOT the same thing others reported because he states he could reflash the radio, suggesting a stable hboot/bootloader.
Seems like if you've got a stable hboot, you're not truy bricked, as the first post here shows....
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Mine was a TRUE bricked phone but my bootloader stilled would stay on. The bootloader screen was the only thing that would not bootloop. I was able to flash the stock RUU and stock bootloader and it still would not go past the splash screen.

funkybside said:
If you have a bricked device please go post in the stickied thread in app/dev.
Oh and OP - Paragraphs are a good thing. Just sayin...
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Mine was bricked last Saturday, I don't have the phone anymore. It's been sent off for repair. Lucky me gets to rock my DInc for the next 2 - 3 weeks, DAMN 3G is slow.

dopediculous said:
I ment while in rom Mgr to make sure cwr is actually flashed. Mine was then after reboot I noticed cwr was no longer there. In rom Mgr it just said what the current cwr would be if I choose to flash it. If people miss this after a stupid reboot, the next reboot may not be so kind...
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Your phone will still reboot without a recovery. There was an issue awhile back when I had my OG Droid with ROM Manager wiping out recovery. People would try to boot into recovery to fix something and oops no recovery.
You can flash a recovery image via adb.

bp328i said:
Your phone will still reboot without a recovery. There was an issue awhile back when I had my OG Droid with ROM Manager wiping out recovery. People would try to boot into recovery to fix something and oops no recovery.
You can flash a recovery image via adb.
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yeah, that was annoying. Believe that's when they told everyone to check the "erase recovery" option in the Rom Manager settings and that seemed to help.

PJnc284 said:
yeah, that was annoying. Believe that's when they told everyone to check the "erase recovery" option in the Rom Manager settings and that seemed to help.
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Really funny thing was that was going on right when the Froyo leak came out for the OG Droid and the first ROM I flashed I hated. So when I went to flash my nan-droid there was no recovery and I did not know about the issue so I ended up sbf'ing back to stock and rerooting again.

I have seen a bootloop on a phone that was not running GB or rooted. A guy I work with brought me his phone a few weeks ago and wanted me to let him use my battery to boot his phone. When I put my battery in and saw what it was doing i booted it into Hboot (of course S-on) so I couldn't do much for him. Of course the Verizon Tech's weren't much help to him either, but they did send him a CLN Device. You can pass this along to jcase as I don't have enough posts to be able to post in the DEV forum yet. I read and rarely post unless I believe I have something useful to add.

[ROM][ODIN][LEAK] T959VUVKF2 - Galaxy S 4G Bootloaders Removed

This is a re-post from Krylon360 @ his new site
Disable Voodoo before flashing this!
This is a new leak for the Galaxy S 4G. Krylon has removed the bootloaders for safety. Flash at your own risk and REMEMBER this is a LEAK so dont expect a PERFECT ROM!
Use ODIN or Heimdal to flash
Thanks Chainfire for decrypting for me.
ro.build.version.release=2.3.3
ro.build.date=Thu Jun 9 21:48:25 KST 2011
ro.build.fingerprint=samsung/SGH-T959V/SGH-T959V:2.3.3/GINGERBREAD/VUVKF2:user/release-keys
# Samsung Specific Properties
ro.build.PDA=T959VUVKF2
INFO:
"voodoo will not convert /data back to rfs when you try to disable lagfix. /data will stay as ext4, you need to ODIN back to rfs or use rfs_format.zip ... until we have that fixed." -Dr. Honk
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Download
CREDITS
Krylon360
Dr. Honk

you beat me to it! lol..

Here we go again! Proceed with caution--but this might be very good news.
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I learned my lesson last time. I'll wait until someone needs me for testing or a good rom comes up.

haha Chadster
I just tried this right now, there is an ISSUE. When it boots up right after splash screen looks live a video driver issue. gets to t-mo jingle then freezes then shutsdown. SO YES, FLASH WITH CAUTION

KF2 Modem
I extracted the KF2 Modem and made flashable.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15045570&postcount=196

fknfocused said:
haha Chadster
I just tried this right now, there is an ISSUE. When it boots up right after splash screen looks live a video driver issue. gets to t-mo jingle then freezes then shutsdown. SO YES, FLASH WITH CAUTION
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its because you where Voodoo'd.
Disable voodoo before ODINing this.

krylon360 said:
its because you where Voodoo'd.
Disable voodoo before ODINing this.
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Thanks for the tip, will restore then try again.
OP Updated

fknfocused said:
Thanks for the tip, will restore then try again.
OP Updated
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so did you get any luck with that rom?

how come when unzipping it the file name is kf1?

outgoing call log works thank god and wifi bars are strong a little diffrent than the first release

This is great news. Means that they are actively working on 2.3 and that the KF1 leak wasn't just an isolated thing.
Will flashing this (without the .pit) cause a data wipe? Anyway to load this up without losing data?
This isn't rooted and there's no super simple way to root it, right?

dsexton702 said:
so did you get any luck with that rom?
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i had some technical difficulties but am on my way back to flashing this again.

seems to be working fine. Still get weird pixels at opening boot but then boots into fine. No FC as of yet, everything is looking pretty good.
when i flashed there was no data wipe. Everything was still on there!

kkoshko1 said:
seems to be working fine. Still get weird pixels at opening boot but then boots into fine. No FC as of yet, everything is looking pretty good.
when i flashed there was no data wipe. Everything was still on there!
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The pixel issue with the original GB release?

SMASHERSONLY said:
outgoing call log works thank god and wifi bars are strong a little diffrent than the first release
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So you loaded it up fine? Im on my way back to trying this again.
lexluthor said:
This is great news. Means that they are actively working on 2.3 and that the KF1 leak wasn't just an isolated thing.
Will flashing this (without the .pit) cause a data wipe? Anyway to load this up without losing data?
This isn't rooted and there's no super simple way to root it, right?
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there is only one file within the zip. It will wipe the device, thats what backups are for.

Im glad to see that even though krylon360 switched sites its great to see he'll still let his workbe shared with us. Thanks fknfocused and krylon360.
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kkoshko1 said:
seems to be working fine. Still get weird pixels at opening boot but then boots into fine. No FC as of yet, everything is looking pretty good.
when i flashed there was no data wipe. Everything was still on there!
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So you loaded it up fine? Im on my way back to trying this again.
there is only one file within the zip. It will wipe the device, thats what backups are for.
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Ok. So which one of you is correct?
And what good is a backup without root ability to restore the backup?
Last time I asked about the wipe, a couple of people confidently said that using ODIN ALWAYS wipes data. I am pretty sure that I upgraded to the current stock ROM using ODIN without a wipe, plus have updated my Vibrant a few times via ODIN without a wipe.
So what's really correct here?

lexluthor said:
Ok. So which one of you is correct?
And what good is a backup without root ability to restore the backup?
Last time I asked about the wipe, a couple of people confidently said that using ODIN ALWAYS wipes data. I am pretty sure that I upgraded to the current stock ROM using ODIN without a wipe, plus have updated my Vibrant a few times via ODIN without a wipe.
So what's really correct here?
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I have not loaded this successfully yet. I had some issues and am doing it again right now. I hear yah on the backup, you can download appsaver from market and install apps from SD WITHOUT root.

fknfocused said:
I have not loaded this successfully yet. I had some issues and am doing it again right now. I hear yah on the backup, you can download appsaver from market and install apps from SD WITHOUT root.
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if we can root the kf1 then there is no stopping us from rooting the kf2
surprise surprise if you wanna kf2 root use the same method that was used when rooting kf1
there is a guide on it

[Q] htc inspire 4g stuck in clockwork recovery mod and cant acess hboot

hi all, i am a novice at all this stuff, and i am sorry for posting probably a similar thread to what others may have said but my problem is a little different. i am having a problem with my wifes att network htc inspire 4g. i rooted it last year with the ace hack kit. the problem is that it is stuck in ace hack kit clock work recovery. it will not start up at all unless it is attched to the computer, and thats when it will go to cw recovery. it will vibrate 3 times and blink a red led and the screen goes blank unless i press the volume down button but it doesnt stay lit up only when i hit the vol down button. then when i hit an option by hitting the power button the phone resets to cw recovery again. if i try to acess hboot, it vibrates 5 times and lights up yellow. i have tried wiping, formatting, and everything but reboot to cw recovery again. from the posts that i have read similar to this problem, everyone says to get another rom and flash from hboot. being that i cant get to hboot any other ideas.

lonewolf9387 said:
i have tried wiping, formatting, and everything
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If you wiped and formatted, then you've probably erased whatever ROM you did have. At this point I'd probably use the ACE Hack Kit again, using the option to return everything to stock.... then use it again to re-root the phone. Then I'd install 4ext Recovery instead of CW. Then use 4ext to flash another ROM. I'd recommend Ice Cold Sandwich, found in the DHD development forum.
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fatboyRICH said:
If you wiped and formatted, then you've probably erased whatever ROM you did have. At this point I'd probably use the ACE Hack Kit again, using the option to return everything to stock.... then use it again to re-root the phone. Then I'd install 4ext Recovery instead of CW. Then use 4ext to flash another ROM. I'd recommend Ice Cold Sandwich, found in the DHD development forum.
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ok but i cannot get the computer to recgonise the phone. and with clockwork messed up and h boot not working how would i go about doing that?

lonewolf9387 said:
ok but i cannot get the computer to recgonise the phone. and with clockwork messed up and h boot not working how would i go about doing that?
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What happened when you used AAHK? Were there any error messages? Was your phone shipped with Froyo or Gingerbread?

bananagranola said:
What happened when you used AAHK? Were there any error messages? Was your phone shipped with Froyo or Gingerbread?
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This is my wifes phone. She said that she didn't get any error messages that she knows of. She went to use her phone one day and it was stuck in clockwork recovery. I believe the phone had froyo installed when it came factory but I updated it to the att gingerbread before I rooted it. The phone worked fine till just recently. Was there another update from att recently? Any who that's where it is stuck. No error codes just the lights like I explained above. Thx

lonewolf9387 said:
This is my wifes phone. She said that she didn't get any error messages that she knows of. She went to use her phone one day and it was stuck in clockwork recovery. I believe the phone had froyo installed when it came factory but I updated it to the att gingerbread before I rooted it. The phone worked fine till just recently. Was there another update from att recently? Any who that's where it is stuck. No error codes just the lights like I explained above. Thx
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There was an update from AT&T recently. Did she apply that update? Is that when the problem started?

bananagranola said:
There was an update from AT&T recently. Did she apply that update? Is that when the problem started?
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That's probably what happened. If she didnt iniate it then it probably auto updated. She's not to technical about that stuff she probably ly was hitting button's like she does. Any ideas on what to do from here. I could probably get a older romantic for it but the way it is now I can't flash it.

Best guess is to flash a ruu.
Try uninstalling the htc drivers (if you have them) and install them again to see if the computer recognizes the cell.
Sent from a dream.

Ok ill try that when I get a chance tonight and get back to you. Hey thanks for all the help guys.
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[Q] Stuck on CWM Recovery Everytime

Hello everyone,
It's my first time witnessing this issue, I do have a Samsung Galaxy S 4G. So I decided to upgraded Eclairs to Gingerbread. Which I did.
Somehow I downloaded the CM7 ROM in the SGS 4G section, I have flashed it and now everytime I click "reboot system now", it's just putting me back to CWM Recovery over and over again. Now I got tired of it, so I tried flashing the SlimBean in hopes of making my device work the way they should, but it's the same result. When I cleared data, flashed the ROM and Gapps and when I click "reboot system now", It shows the boot screen but then it transferred me back to recovery. I don't really know what to do.
Urgent help needed. Thank you all.

can you acess into download mode?

PuNeTZzZ said:
can you acess into download mode?
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Yes I can, also tried it with CM9, same results it shows recovery everytime. I need some help. :crying:

You say you went from Eclair (Did this phone even come with that? I thought it started with Froyo. Huh. At least, mine did.) to Gingerbread. Is the Gingerbread you started with CM7, or did you start with one that actually has normal GB bootloaders first? Because if you haven't yet, as with any major bootlooping issue, you'll want to use a proper GB one-click. If you failed to double-flash one of those to get the GB bootloaders earlier, do that ASAP. And hope hard that they come.

You are missing the boot loader if you went straight to Gingerbread. Use Heimdall One Click to flash to Gingerbread. Also click on the bootloader option as well when you flash.
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Theraze said:
You say you went from Eclair (Did this phone even come with that? I thought it started with Froyo. Huh. At least, mine did.) to Gingerbread. Is the Gingerbread you started with CM7, or did you start with one that actually has normal GB bootloaders first? Because if you haven't yet, as with any major bootlooping issue, you'll want to use a proper GB one-click. If you failed to double-flash one of those to get the GB bootloaders earlier, do that ASAP. And hope hard that they come.
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Can you give me the names of the GB one-click?

Search for lumin30. He has an awesome guide and links to what you are looking for. It's in his signature.
I'll add, back up your .efs folder. Put copy on your computer.

champ1919 said:
Search for lumin30. He has an awesome guide and links to what you are looking for. It's in his signature.
I'll add, back up your .efs folder. Put copy on your computer.
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Can anyone tell me this guide works on starting from a CM7 Rom. I don't get it at all. Since it started from Stock Froyo.