Alright, so here's the issue. I searched and could not find anything close to this...
I have stock JH7 installed. Installed Clockwork (via Rom Manager,) backed up my ROM, Metamorphed a theme, didn't like the theme, tried to use Clockwork to restore from my backup. Clockwork would go through all of the files, but when it gets to "ReceivedFiles," it just hangs. I let it run through the night, approximately 5 hours, and in the morning it was still in the restore process at this same step. I knew something was wrong, so I unplugged, removed battery, and booted it up. My phone just sat at the Galaxy 'S' screen and would not start up.
After several more attempts with 2 different backups (always hanging at the same place) I finally wiped data, cache, & dalvik cach, then booted it up. All was well and working stock. Then I shut down, booted into recovery, opened Clockwork, and attempted to restore again. My phone is currently sitting at the same step as before.
Any clues? I've attached a picture of its screen.
Did you pull the battery out? Mine is stuck as well....was updating to Serendipity 5.1.
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
installing update....
And it's been there for over half hour
I pulled it and can get back in the phone just fine. It seems to still get stuck there though.
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Hey folks,
I could desperately use some help here...
I rooted my Droid Incredible using UnRevoked, which was painless and easy. After that, I downloaded Rom Manager, then backed up my current Rom.
Then I downloaded Titanium, and backed up all apps and system data.
Using Rom Manager, I downloaded Cyanogen mod 7.0.2, checked google apps, DID NOT check wipe data or cache, and then clicked OK to let it work it's magic.
The system turned on and off a bit, and then the CyanogenMod boot screen came on, ran the arrow around the droidbot a few times, then the droidbot dissapeared, came back across the screen, and the arrow resumed circling. This happened about 20 times, before I gave up and powered off by removing the battery.
Then I loaded Hboot, and attempted to access items in Clockworkmod, but even though I could click on an item, it would show the top hat with no change in status for many minutes. I eventually tried almost all options.
My Hboot screen shows:
HBOOT - 0.92.0000
Radio- 2.15.00.07.28
I am unable to click on Fastboot, Recovery leads me to busted Clockwork menu, Clear Storage causes restart into looped Cyanogen Mod screen, haven't tried Simlock, and Factory Reset also goes to broken Clockwork Menu.
I downloaded the RUU file from Doug, changed the title as directed, and put it on the SD Card. It gave me the option to Update, which when restarted afterwards continued to loop in Cyanogen Mod screen. Or, if I went to Clockwork Mod screen, the font was now Green instead of Orange. Also, when I click an item in the Clockwork Mod menu, it simply goes to a black screen until I hit the power button to bring me back to the menu,
I'd love to just get the phone to a factory state, so I can possibly use it for it's purpose of calling and sexting (just kidding.)
Please help, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Oftentimes, ClockworkMod Recovery has an error at the bottom stating:
E:Invalid command argument
I have to go to bed for a bit, but will be back on around 10:30am EST. Thanks for any and all help!
In ClockworkMod, I can now access and start an operation by selecting it with the volume buttons, and then hitting the joystick button. This wasn't working previously. So, I've tried some of the obvious options such as Factory Reset but it's not doing anything. I've tried multiple solutions, which means I've probably messed it up on many levels. Is there any way I can just start from scratch or get a system restore done?
After utilizing that update from Doug, and then going into Clockwork Mod, clearing all caches and system data, and then trying to restore to a previous flash for the 7th time... I think it might be working!
Thanks to anyone who looked at this.
I've been running CM nightlies but I decided to try a different ROM. Went through the backup with back up pro, did a nandroid backup, and wiped everything as I usually do with a new ROM. Weapons interested me, as I have not run it before. Flashed it, logged in, tried downloading backup pro so I could restore everything. As it was downloading the phone went to turn off, but got stuck at the T-mo "Goodbye" screen. Waited for awhile and decided to pull the battery. Put it back in and now it won't boot up. I can however get my computer to recognize it as an APX device. I've tried everything. Any ideas?
Looks like you're gonna have to nvflash if recovery won't boot..
Have you tried going into recovery. Was it shutting down due to low battery? If yes, that can cause problems if hangs during low battery shutdown. If you can get into recovery flash a new rom and wipe, wipe, wipe first. If not go into APX mode and reflash Clockword and rinse and repeat.
Hi
I installed Thiaz ROM and the ICS theme which there is a link to on his V2.4 page. All was running fine and dandy for a day. I installed all of my programs, apps, etc, and used App2SD to move some of them to the SD. Each time I did this, it said 'failed' the first time and then allowed them to be moved on the next. I rebooted the phone a couple of times and never had any problems. After I had got things set up as I wanted them, I rebooted into CWM and did a new backup. I then rebooted and went into bootloop.
Cleared data, dalvik and even battery stats. Tried fixing permissions. Nothing worked at all, still boot loop. Did a factory reset and restored the backup and still bootloops.
If I restore to the original backup from when I first put on the ROM (no ICS theme), it works OK. Then after a few hours and after I have turned on and off successfully a few times, I get the old bootloop again. I have not messed around with any system files, etc. One time it was after I moved a file with File Expert but I uninstalled that programme and haven't used since.
Any help or suggestions would be very gratefully received as I don't really want to go back to the stock V21a but I can't be doing with setting up everything on my phone from scratch every day either!
I hope someone can help me.
Somehow my phone is bricked, although I still am not sure if it's because I actually did something wrong or it just decided to brick itself out of spite. Here's the rundown of events:
This past August I rooted my phone and installed cm-10.2. I made a backup of the stock rom beforehand (which for some reason is dated from 1970). Since then there have been a bunch of bugs, but nothing super major.
Today I decided to upgrade to cm-11, so I backed up everything important to my PC and used the auto-updater. I got a Status 7 error and the installation didn't complete, and I got stuck in a reboot loop that kept returning me only to the bootloader. I read on another forum that the problem was probably my CWM version (6.0.1.2 instead of 6.0.1.3). Anyway, I tried restoring one of my backups, but the bootloader said the folder was empty and no backups were found. I ended up reinstalling cm-10.2 and gapps from the same zip files I used months ago. This let me properly boot up my phone, but for some reason the google play store still wasn't working. I did a simple reboot and it started working again, so I downloaded rom manager and updated cwm. Rebooted into bootloader, made another rom backup, and tried again to install cm-11. Same error, install aborted. This time, however, my backups magically reappeared (along with an extra mystery backup that had today's timestamp but was ~10 hours in the future), so I restored the original (1970, stock rom). Things boot up fine.
I decide to try installing cm-11 one more time because at this point I assume that if it fails again I can safely restore a backup or at the very least reinstall cm-10.2. It fails again, but this time, when I try restoring any of my cm-10.2 backups I get a DM5 mismatch error and it immediately stops. Restoring 1970 is different, it starts recovering but then halfway through says "error restoring /system" or something like that. So now I'm left with no choice but to reinstall cm-10.2 from the same zip file again. Only this time, booting up only shows the cyanogenmod logo forever. I go back into bootloader and my backups are once again suddenly not recognized. I make a new backup of my broken phone to see if it will make the folder show up. I reboot, and now that new backup is the only one that does show up. Trying to restore gives me a DM5 error. I've now tried reinstalling cm-10.2 several times, but my phone will never get past the cyanogenmod logo. I'm out of ideas for how to get my phone to work.
My questions:
1. Any idea how to unbrick my phone? I have not done any factory resetting because I was worried it would erase my backups and also I don't really see how it would help.
2. Does anyone have a backup image I could use? I don't have mine stored anywhere but on my phone's internal SD, but I could maybe try loading one from my external SD if I had one.
3. What did I do wrong here? From my viewpoint it seems I basically tried the same thing twice and got different results. Is there something I'm missing?
4. If I get a new photon q, how the hell should I go about installing cm-11? I know people have gotten it to work before. Which version are you using?
Thanks for any and all help
I'm guessing you don't have a backup of stock?
Have you tried restoring stock everything using RSD Lite?
Also, how long have you let the phone sit? If the phone requires a 'fsck' (file system check) on you /data partition, you could be waiting for an hour or more at the boot animation.
I do not have any backups stored externally. I'm not familiar with RSD lite, could you explain and/or link? I have only left my phone for about half an hour at the most before hard rebooting it. I'll let it sit for a couple hours and see if it does anything different.
DRH48 said:
I do not have any backups stored externally. I'm not familiar with RSD lite, could you explain and/or link? I have only left my phone for about half an hour at the most before hard rebooting it. I'll let it sit for a couple hours and see if it does anything different.
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See this thread for information on how to restore stock... always a good idea to know how to reset the phone back to a complete stock configuration
I recently got the Note 5 and I rooted and installed Moar Rom. The phone started to freeze and crash repeatedly. After trouble shooting and deleting apps/resetting it would still freeze, crash, reboot. I decided to restore the backup I made after root. I went into twrp, wiped the phone and started the restore, it froze mid restore and crashed and rebooted. Now there is no os on the phone and recovery will not work for more than 30 seconds without freezing and crashing. I have tried odin to flash a stock tar and start over but it always fails. 9/10 it hangs when trying to get pit, otherwise it just fails. I have trued to adb sideload as well but again the phone will not stay on long enough to finish any transfers. Any ideas??
jdestef90 said:
I recently got the Note 5 and I rooted and installed Moar Rom. The phone started to freeze and crash repeatedly. After trouble shooting and deleting apps/resetting it would still freeze, crash, reboot. I decided to restore the backup I made after root. I went into twrp, wiped the phone and started the restore, it froze mid restore and crashed and rebooted. Now there is no os on the phone and recovery will not work for more than 30 seconds without freezing and crashing. I have tried odin to flash a stock tar and start over but it always fails. 9/10 it hangs when trying to get pit, otherwise it just fails. I have trued to adb sideload as well but again the phone will not stay on long enough to finish any transfers. Any ideas??
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Take it in and have it looked at.