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[Q] Thanks! (and HELP!)

Just joined to say thanks to Roebeet and everyone who is active in this forum. Because of the obvious potential of the gtablet being explored here, and discussed on phandroid.com I decided to take the plunge and purchased one tonight. I might have passed this tab by, and waited months for something else...
--and here's where I cry for help!
I carefully followed a series of step-by-step instructions I found thru google, to install the latest tnt lite found here on XDA. Everything seemed to work without a hitch, and was prouder than a pappa to have completed my first root and mod ,ever!
BUT right after I DL'ed and installed the flash 10.1 apk things went south. The browser constantly crashed to the home screen, and the market and email apps were crashing also. I rebooted and now I am greeted by the tnt setup screen that is covered in an endless wave of crash warning dialogs! I can't tap them away fast enough to see the desktop.
I've tried to do a recover, but I can't get thru the setup (that keeps crashing to the first screen also) to use the USB to mount the internal mem to my Mac.
I am insanely happy about the potential of this hardware, but I've painted myself into a corner. ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
And yes, I do look very handsome in my profile pic.

From bad to WORSE!
I discovered the dcom222 thread that describes my problem and details a solution. I followed it to the letter, changing the command and using my microSD as a secondary boot to reinstall the vanilla tnt ROM.
But then it just stuck on the tnt logo, faded in and out 3-4 times, and went dark! The device won't turn on or off (had a full charge when I pulled it from the wall socket a few moments ago)
Please tell me I haven't bricked this thing!

still no luck...
I was able to power the unit back up, but I've tried to recover and flash all three setup files I have (vanilla tnt, ota update tnt and tnt lite 2) but nothing works!
All of them create a loop of some sort, whether it's the viewsonic screen, gtablet screen loop, or the tnt logo screen blinking on and off, NOTHING boots to the desktop.
Going to bed before I drive my self insane. Hopefully someone in the know will reply by the time I check this at work.
thanks in advance

You have not bricked it, don't worry. This device is very hard to truly brick. If all else fails there is nvflash or the apx mode fallback. But I don't think you need that if you are still able to boot to clockwork recovery.
In clockwork go to advanced - mounts and try mounting and unmounting your partitions. I suspect your user partition may be screwed. This seems to happen fairly frequently especially the first time you flash a ROM. It happenend on my first flash and not again since. Clockwork lets you repartition though. Search the forum for partition fix, its not too big a deal.
If that fails try roebeet's thread on nvflash recovery for TNT lite. If that fails, search for APX mode.
As far as I know there are zero bricks from ROM flashing so far.
Sent from my SMB-A1002-3G using Tapatalk

Life in LA said:
Just joined to say thanks to Roebeet and everyone who is active in this forum. Because of the obvious potential of the gtablet being explored here, and discussed on phandroid.com I decided to take the plunge and purchased one tonight. I might have passed this tab by, and waited months for something else...
--and here's where I cry for help!
I carefully followed a series of step-by-step instructions I found thru google, to install the latest tnt lite found here on XDA. Everything seemed to work without a hitch, and was prouder than a pappa to have completed my first root and mod ,ever!
BUT right after I DL'ed and installed the flash 10.1 apk things went south. The browser constantly crashed to the home screen, and the market and email apps were crashing also. I rebooted and now I am greeted by the tnt setup screen that is covered in an endless wave of crash warning dialogs! I can't tap them away fast enough to see the desktop.
I've tried to do a recover, but I can't get thru the setup (that keeps crashing to the first screen also) to use the USB to mount the internal mem to my Mac.
I am insanely happy about the potential of this hardware, but I've painted myself into a corner. ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
And yes, I do look very handsome in my profile pic.
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Click to collapse
Scroll down to post number #869 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842004&page=87

feeling better
Thanks for the assurances that I didn't wreck the device, and pointing me to some solutions. I have a few questions:
what is clockwork mod? If I am able to recovery boot from my micro SD card, do I already have it? (I downloaded a bunch of recovery images to start, per instructions)
If it's something I still need to download, is it a PC application? How am I supposed to change settings in it (manage partitions, etc) if I can't get the tablet to boot?
-- stuck at work and dying to get home to fix this thing...

Ok, more detailed instructions:
If you press and hold down Volume + when you are pressing the Power button to boot up, and keep holding the Volume + key until you see a message that says "Detect a Recovery Key Pressed", that should get you to a text menu from which you can navigate using the volume +/- keys and the Home soft button to flash ZIP files and do other things. That menu is ClockworkMod Recovery. Since you remember installing a recovery.img, it sounds like you probably (hopefully) have ClockworkMod Recovery on there.
If you get to ClockwordMod Recovery, you can go down to the Mounts and Storage option, then you will find the "Mount USB storage" option at the end of that list. That lets you plug in and mount your internal memory area as a standard USB drive to your Windows or Mac computer to copy over new ZIP files and the like to your G Tablet.
You can also check that partitions are all mounting and unmounting successfully in that menu. If you go instead into the Advanced menu, you will see Partition SD Card, which I believe is what you might need to do at this point.
If booting with the Volume + button held down doesn't get you anywhere and you see nothing about Recovery Key Detected and don't see any text menu, then you don't seem to have a working recovery. At that point you'll have to do what phfaty suggested, read the post he referenced, and follow the link therein to the tegratab forum post to get the NVidia Tegra SDK installed on your Windows desktop and use the NVFlash tool and APK mode (where you hold the Volume - key down while booting instead of the Volume + key) to reflash your tablet.

still not working...
The good news:
I do have clockwork mod installed. Must have been in 1 of those zips or rars I ran in the very beginning.
The bad news:
it's still caught in a boot loop. I've mounted it as an external drive 3 times now from clockwork, and tried all 3 versions of the operating system (vanilla, vanilla with the ota and tntlite 2) and NOTHING makes a difference.

Life in LA said:
The good news:
I do have clockwork mod installed. Must have been in 1 of those zips or rars I ran in the very beginning.
The bad news:
it's still caught in a boot loop. I've mounted it as an external drive 3 times now from clockwork, and tried all 3 versions of the operating system (vanilla, vanilla with the ota and tntlite 2) and NOTHING makes a difference.
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1)Boot into clockwork.
2)Navigate to Advanced menu
3)Choose partition sdcard
4)Choose data partition desired size(1024=1GB)
5)Choose 0GB for the next selection(swap not used)
6)Do a factory reset from main menu
7)Reboot
8)If that doesn't work, then reinstall ROM, then reboot

UPDATE
partitioning the drive and wiping the user data did the trick. I'm up and running again. thanks to all who chimed in to help.

non responsive captivate

hi all. I am not a newb when it comes to computers, I have hacked a few devices here and there, usually with the help of instructions online. I recently noticed that my captivate was having some trouble with the wifi, clock, and overall being slow. I decided it was time to root it and install the cyanogen rom. I did so by following these steps which I found at their wiki:
From 2.1 Eclair
Go to the xda thread located here. Download the latest version of the ROM. Move it to your internal SD card on your phone.
If you are not already rooted, root with the tools here
Download ROM Manager (available in the market, more info here)
Choose "Flash Clockwork Mod" which will put an update.zip (holding clockwork recovery) on the root of your internal SD card.
Open Rom Manager, choose "Install ROM from SD Card", navigate to your Cognition2.x.zip, and watch the magic happen!
Notes:
If this is your first time installing clockwork, it may fail at stock recovery and reboot. Simply choose "reinstall packages" once more, and it should work properly.
You can then copy the update.zip to you comp and when you flash back to stock just copy that back over to the internal sd card and reboot to recovery and reinstall pkgs
(may need to do this 2x). No need to root.
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Everything was going smoothly, no hiccups. Phone rebooted into the proper rom and seemed ok. The wifi was still giving me trouble though, gave me error messages about not being able to scan for networks, and ultimately I figured I would turn it off for a sec. So I turned the phone off, took out the battery and sim, and left it for a min. I then put it all back together and tried to power up...nothing happens. The screen stays black, I get no feedback whatsoever. I have tried to get it into "download mode" by holding the volume down and pressing the power button, but no luck. I am trying to follow this guide here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=775911
to troubleshoot it but am really scared at this point. Any advice?

Try
Remove sim, bat, EXTERNAL sd. put bat back in. volume up and down while plugging in usb.
If not look into a jig
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

amazing
Well after searching and testing for an hour I did what I never do, left it alone and slept on it (perhaps hoping for a miracle). When I woke up this morning I rushed over to see if the situation had changes, which it hadn't. Then I decided to try holding the keys down while plugged into the wall, not the computer.
After taking out sim and battery (I wasnt using an sd card) plugging it into the wall, holding buttons and inserting the battery, it booted up into clockworks menu!
I chose the reboot option and everything seems to be working. Unfortunately I am still having the same wifi problems that I did before the rom flash. With the wifi off the phone runs great. With the wifi turned on though, it becomes laggy, and seems to just hang while trying to scan for networks. It never actually completes a scan and I often get the "force quit or wait dialog". I will open a new thread for this issue though.
Thanks all!

problems after root.

I have spent the last couple of weeks reading up on rooting using adb. I successfully rooted my thunderbolt last night using two youtube videos by nat3mil. Everything went fairly smooth and I am now rooted but then I screwed myself.
I wanted to download a faster sense based rom using rom manager. I first tried lightningsense 1.8 or something like that. I rebooted and the phone wouldn't go past thre phone activation step of the phone setup. I thoughtt something was wrong with the rom, or I had to delete the old rom, so I backed up to the original rooted rom and then downloaded a cynogenmod7 rom and went back and deleted the first rom off of my card completely.
Cm7 booted fine, but I soon realized that I have no service. Data or net. I used googlr and the search function and found out that I also need to upgrade the radio seperately? From what I gather, I need to flash the mr2 radio only and not an entire ruu. Can someone confirm this for me and possibly point me in the direction of a downloadable file containing only the radio that I need? I don't have access to an adb equiped computer for a few days and the only two roms on me sd card require a radio that I don't have on my card.
Thanks for the help. I'm new to adb & obviously over looked a step or command.

without installing adb
Our computer is still in storage from moving. But I do have access to a computer close by. Just don't need to install adb unless absolutely nessesary. Once I find a downloadable file, I hook phone to conputer as disk drive, then move file to the root of my sd card and just reboot the phone using volume up+power?
I'm assuming that it's not possible to download the file directly to my wife's phone then put her sd card in my phone and flash it without a computer due to the fact that a computer is required in order to move the file to the ROOT of the phone?

The file needs to be on the root of the sdcard not the phone. You could do what you said with your wifes phone and swap the sdcard or you could use WiFi on you Thunderbolt to d/l. Radio links will be in the thunderbolt dev section or loonatiks sticky in q&a has a link to a page with a good list. Sounds like you need a MR2 or newer radio.
Sent from my HTC Thunderbolt

So the file doesn't need to be renamed? So leave the mr2 in the file name & flash from bootloader/recovery, search for file on SD card, probably in dcim or download folders and select file that says mr2 by pressing power button?
Just tried:
Installing update.....
Installation aborted.
Any suggestions?

It needs to be renamed to PG05IMG.zip
Oh yeah and you do NOT flash that from recovery. Bootloader and recovery are not the same thing. Thats why you got installation aborted. Power down the phone completely. Pull battery and then put it back in. Hold volume down plus power untill the white bootloader screen appears. You may have to scroll to bootloader with the volume keys and select by tapping the power button. Once there it will automatically find the PG05IMG.zip and ask you to press volume up to update. When its done it will say press power to reboot. Then when the phone boots you should be good.
Sent from my HTC Thunderbolt

i had been powering on while holding volume- and it was taking me to the white screen. i tried pressing the power button there and it quickly flashed to another screen and tried to flash a pg file and didn't work. the proccess happens so quickly that i can barely catch that it is a pgo5 file that doesn't work before it takes me back to the first white screen.
since that didn't work, i guess i misinpreted some misinformation from another site that said to flash radios from the CWMRecovery menue, so form the white screen I scroll down to recovery and hit power and it brings me to CWMRecovery v5.0.1.0. tried flashing from there several files, and all say unseccessful or aborted. I must have F*ed something up really good now, because in my fiddling around in CWMRv5, now no matter which of the restored roms i tried to flash (shows flashed successfully), when i reboot, they all take me back to the HTC screen and stays there. doesn't even attempt to load phone's menue or get to language/activation steps.
i thought that wipe data/factory reset from the CWMRv5 menue would take me back to the original rooted ROM, or at worste case, take me all the way back to the unrooted factory phone. Tried that, same thing, HTC menue for over 15 min straight and still nothing.

When turning on by holding power & volume- :...
When turning here is what i see on a white screen with three skateboarding droids on the bottom:
....................................................
MECHa XD ENG S-OFF
HBOOT-1.04.2000 (PG0510000)
MICROP-/
RADIO-1.16.00.0402w_1
eMMC-boot
Feb 23 2001,20:36:02
HBOOT
<VOL UP> to previous item
<VOL DOWN> to next item
<POWER> to select item
FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
FACTORY RESET
SIMLOCK
SYSTEM INFO
IMAGE CRC
........................................................................
would selecting the factory reset do anything useful, or would it be the same as selecting factory reset from CWMRv5 (which appeared to flash fine, but no results)?

First of all to get restore to work go to this thread and download CWR version 4.x.x. Version 5 is borked right now and won't restore.
If you download the file to a windows pc that is set up to NOT show file extensions(.exe, .zip, .bat, etc) leave out the .zip but make sure it is PG05IMG.zip EXACTLY (0 = zero) Put that on the root of the sdcard *not in any folders* and boot to the bootloader per usual. When you get there *STOP* *WAIT* don't touch.anything. In the list that says recovery, fastboot, etc if bootloader is not on the list you are already there and it will find the file. Sometimes it loads into fastboot first so you have to select bootloader manually. If bootloader isn't on the list you are already there. In the bootloader it should find the file and ask you to press vol up to update. This will get you a working Clockwork Recovery so you can restore backups.
This same process applies for radios.
If it is not finding the file you have it named wrong somehow. Most common mistakes are PG05IMG.zip.zip (because of hidden file extensions in Windows) or PG05IMG .zip (note the space before the .zip.) It IS case sensitive.
Edit: I forgot to mention if it does that check so quick you barley see it **it is not finding the file** There is a problem somewhere in the name or it is not on the *root* of the sdcard.
Sent from my HTC Thunderbolt

Phone is stuck on White HTC Screen

I've been having this problem for the past 2 days and has came to the point where I'm running out of clues.
The phone has been previously rooted with Acekit and flashed with MIUI. But since the ROM gave me problems (the phone would randomly restart on me), I decided to flash another ROM instead.
I tried CoreDroid, flashed it, it wasn't functioning correctly, so I switched to the newest MIUI version availiable, everything worked fine but for some reason...there's no sound when I call someone.
I figured I should probably reroot the phone again. So I downloaded the Acekit, ran it through, when it got the point where the White HTC screen popped up, it just got stuck there for like an hour.
I popped the battery, tried booting by Vol Down + Power, I get teh white HTC screen stuck on me.
I tried installing the stock AT&T mod, it wouldn't go through.
I tried rerooting it again, it'd eventually stop, my guess is that I'm not able to go to USB debugging. So I'm stuck here.
I did my research over this forum and on google, but unforunately it hasn't helped me too much.
Is there anything I can do just to get a functioning mod running? I just want the stock ROM at this point. If someone can help me it'd be much appreciated.

If you did your research and read the effen manual for the hack kit you wouldn't have tried to root your phone again with the hack kit.
Unfortunately I have never done this nor would I because I know better. I know I have seen answers to your problem before on the forum. Maybe it was a sticky in the General forum. If that doesn't help then enter the IRC channel like you were told in the hack kit thread and get the help needed.

Use genes s on tool to return to stock and then root again with aahk.

^
I'm assuming this is what you're talking about. I'm downloading the PD98IMG.zip right now and will be working on it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1208507&highlight=gene

I followed the instructions:
Code:
Do a nandroid and/or Titanium backup! It never hurts!
While still in ClockWorkMod recovery, do a "Factory Reset/Wipe Data". This is necessary if you've got an ext4 cache or CM7 dalvik-cache on /cache. If not it will cause boot hang after installation. EXT4 cache will not work with this tool. If your recovery has ext4, be sure you format the cache to EXT3.
Download from the URL below, copy to the SD card and rename to "PD98IMG.zip"
Reboot to HBOOT: Shutdown completely (disconnect USB if connected and pull battery if necessary) then while holding down the VOL-DOWN key, press the POWER key for about half a second. The phone should boot into HBOOT, check the PD98IMG.zip for consistency, then prompt you to install. Select VOL-UP to install.
Once installed, HBOOT will prompt you to reboot by pressing the POWER button. Do this.
The operating system in this tool is a stripped down CM6 install with only the minimum features necessary to run an apk. The apk for the tool will run after the HTC splash screen, then prompt you through the process. Depending on the speed of your SD card, the last step, copying the RUU to the SD card, may take several minutes.
Once successfully completed, the phone will automatically reboot to HBOOT and begin the process of installing the RUU. The only thing you have to do at this point is acknowledge the prompt to install by pressing VOL-UP. (Note: the RUU install may skip a couple of images during the install but this is normal.)
Once the RUU is installed, press POWER to reboot and your phone should be in 100% factory out-of-box condition.
I went into HBoot,
It automatically went to
Code:
SD Checking...
Loading...[PD98DIAG.zip]
No image!
Loading...[PD98DIAG.nbh]
No image or wrong zipped image!
Loading...[PD98IMG.zip]
Wrong zipped image!
Loading...[PD98IMG.nbh]
No image or wrong image!
And then just went back without prompting me anything.
I basically am not able to reach to step 5

Make sure its on the root of your sd card, meaning not in a folder. Also make sure you didn't name it pd98img.zip.zip. if naming in windows the file extension could be hidden leaving you with the double zip. Basically its supposed to be a zipped file named pd98img.

turns out the downloaded file was corrupted. I downloaded again and it worked. Thanks guys!

[Q] LG MyTouch Bricked! Please help...

I went to clockworkmod's website and downloaded a cyanogen mod rom that they claimed was compatible with my device... Now the thing is bricked and I can't seem to recover the original rom... Anyone have any suggestions?

What do you see when you try to boot?Please explain little bit more. I have E739 too and CM7 works good for me.

go to the telephone service

When I turn the phone on the android on the skateboard shows up and that is all you see. It stays at that screen for about give minutes and then the system crashes.
I've tried every key combo I can think of to get it to go into recovery mode and or into clockwork mode, and nothing...

I've had that problem before. You didn't wipe data,cache and dalvik cache before installing CM7..you need to get into CWM recovery.. *From T-mobile website* To perform a master reset using hardware keys, follow these steps:
Turn off the phone.
Press and hold the Volume Down and Power keys.
Wait 3 seconds and press the Back and Menu keys.
Note: If you see the LG logo before pressing the Back and Menu keys, the reset hasnt been completed and you will need to restart.
Release the Power/Lock key after you see the LG logo.
Release the remaining keys after the LG logo flashes (blinks once).
The Android Unpacking screen appears.
The phone will restart and complete the factory reset.
Note: If you unintentionally press the Volume Down, Volume Up and Power keys simultaneously, the phone will display a circle icon with two arrows and 'S/W Upgrade, Please wait while upgrading...' message. You will need to pull the battery and restart
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Hopefully you backed up your ROM before installing CM7..in CWM recovery use volume keys and power button to go to Backup/restore and then restore to most recent backup.
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or when in CWM try following in this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1484673

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@DarkLP: Already tried that, and it doesn't work on this model phone. I did wipe all the caches before restarting too. Not quite sure what to do next...

Timing is precise in getting into recovery, keep trying eventually you will get there, I have the same phone.

I bricked my phone too yesterday, I am really sad now. I was panicking and trying to save my phone but all it does is go into the LG logo, blinks once, and shows a half cut-off LG logo.. I tried doing that master reset thing.. are you sure it works? I'd dedicate all my time just to unbrick my phone

I was able to unbrick my phone the other day using Android SDK and the command prompt. What you need to do is have a backup of your ROM saved on your sd card. Use the command prompt to put the phone into CWM recovery mode and then choose the backup/restore option on your phone.
If the backup is stirred in the correct file on your sd card then the recovery program will automatically detect it. From there choose the file you want to install and then activate the restore process.
You should be good to go after that.

That is what i was going to say.

Ahaha I couldn't be any more happy, I went into recovery using that button combo trick, flashed C7 and a Kernel and Google Apps (you have to flash google apps if you want them) go to cyanogen mod wiki and find g-apps there. To get your cyanogen rom just google "lg mytouch roms" and you should click the android central link and then scroll down and someone posted the files for it. Only thing that went wrong is the Camera doesn't work..

It should be same as Dream G1, download a .pnh and Fastboot
Low end cheap bro.....

Tmobile Customer Service
TMO's customer service is pretty good. Call them and tell them you were installing a non market piece of software (true enough) and that your phone won't power on. They will walk you through some steps that might get you going and if not they will offer to replace your phone if it is still under warranty. I sent my defy back several times whaen I was learning to flash ROM's. Then, remember to wipe everything before you flash anything.

OK that doesn't make sense. once you root your phone, warranty gets voided.

yes i'm sure, I've had the same problem as you did. you need to keep trying.

so did you fix it?

If you are talking to me, yes I did manage to fix it and flash C7. But I want stock ROM back, anyone have the files and directions?

Now the phone wont boot into S/W mode and wont power unless powered on after my pc froze during the update