I was attempting to install a custom ROM on my T-959 Vibrant, and upon the suggestion of a friend, did a factory reset before I tried to install the rom. Now the ROM will not install (it shuts down when it cant mount the data), and my phone will not boot. I can get into the recovery menu, and into download mode (although ODIN will not connect to my phone in download mode for some reason). Also, for some reason, when my recovery menu is supposed to go to the sd card, it goes to the internal memory. Can anyone help?
Are you using the Vibrant tool kit?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954509
I found this very useful.. I flashed to stock, rooted then used that to flash a rom on.
If you aren't using it then I'd suggest trying it, if you are using it then I don't know.
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I tried loading some ROMs on my Samsung Captivate and after a couple of successful attemps ( i just didnt like the look of them ) i tired another one and it didn't work. My phone would no longer fully boot. And after me screwing around for a while, everything on the internal sd card got erased and i no longer have any ROMs there to install. And now the phone wont startup and i cant see it on the computer.
Is there anyway I can install a ROM from either my ex sd card, or my computer and is there a way to put the ROM onto the phone.
Well since you wiped your SD card, your. update. zip for clockwork recovery is gone. So you wont be able to just go into recovery now and mount your SD card to add a new rom from pc or re-install one saved. If only you wouldn't have wiped the SD. Easiest way i can think of would be just go in downloadmode and flash back to stock, depending on your revisiion ( mine is 1008) I'd use the A10 toolbox/ captivate toolbox. It has everything you'll need. So.. stock, re-root ( either superoneclickroot or A10 toolbox ) get rom manager, flash clockwork, go into stock recov. And re install packages twice, put a rom. On your phone , back to recovery, install zip from SD.
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Try putting it into download mode (I forgot how to do it so google it). And then once your in download mode, download the original firmware onto your computer, and then use Odin to flash back to stock . This process has worked with my old Vibrant time and time again.
I feel like such a noob...
I couldn't find a thread that addresses my specific problem...
My Captivate i896 wont start up any OS. When booting it displays:
i896 and samsung
i have access to Recovery and Download mode... however Odin and one-click unbrick cant recognize the device unless its in Recovery mode.. but after it recognizes.. it fails to contact my device.
wile in recovery mode i deleted user data, cleared cache data, and formated sd-card... im not sure if that was a good idea?
what can i do to get my phone back into stock?
now i dont have a captivate, so i dont know what odin is
about going back to stock, i wouldnt worry about that until AFTER you get a working os so id copy a custom rom onto your sd card and flash it in recovery
So, I made the noob mistake of placing a new ROM and radio on my phone, formatting my cache, dalvik, and system, then installing the radio first. This caused my phone to fail to boot for lack of an OS, and when I went into bootloader, it attempted to update the radio.
So here is what I learned. If you somehow cleared your OS, you need to re-install or install a new OS. If you have access to recovery, you should be able to do this. While I am not entirely familiar with ODIN, I imagine it allows you to mount the phone as a storage device? From there, simply place the ROM on your phone and flash.
If this doesnt work, then I can't imagine what you will need to do. I have a friend with ODIN, and will play with it a little to attempt to get a little more familiar with the program in an attempt to help you out.
I have the Nexus S from Telus.
It was rooted, unlocked, running CM7. However I've been having issues with it freezing and decided I want to go back to the stock rom.
I ended up downloading what I thought was stock ROM for my phone (Stock GRH78 Nandroid Backup in this Tutorial http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884093) however after it flashed my phone, I ended up with a phone which was essentially stuck in Airplane mode, would not connect to Telus. I'm guessing that it has the wrong radio for my phone/carrier?
So then I ended up finding a zip file someone posted Stock-GRJ22-i9020A-unsigned which should have worked, I ended up flashing the zip file from recovery.
It said it installed fine. Rebooted, and now the phone just cycles the Samsung Loading screen endlessly.
I tried to go back to recovery, and it gives me yellow triangle with !.
Is there any way to flash the recovery image back to the phone?
I plug the phone in and the PC won't recognize a device.
I installed the Android SDK
Ran the command adb devices, no devices attached to the PC.
I tried fastboot devices - blank
I don't know how I'll be able to get files back onto the phone SD Card for flashing etc...
I had the exact problem two days ago...flashed an image that jacked my phone up. Wouldn't boot past the google logo. Sat there indefinitely.
Read this thread and see if you can get it work. In a nutshell, you need the PDA net drivers installed. Since PDA net can't install the app on your phone (because it's not booted into an OS) leave the install program in limbo and voila, fast boot will work. From there, push the recovery.img (google Clockworkmod recovery image), boot into recovery and you are off to the races.
This is, of course, assuming you already have a ROM image on your internal SD card you can flash to get back up and running. I'm not sure how to install a .zip image ROM if you can't gain access to your SD card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1303522
Good luck, I know the feeling. It blows.
Ah, just found out how to install a file on a phone that won't boot.
You do need to flash CWM recovery first though.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18437305&postcount=2
Good news! I tried a factory reset/data wipe and rebooted the phone.
It doesn't hang anymore, all functions restored and the phone is working on Telus again!
I guess I had to format data, clear cache, before the flash of the rom.
So relieved.
Issue has been solved!
I was tryin to flash starbust but i did it wrong so when i went back to recover the rom that was previously on there i recovered back to a rom that was still on the sd card from my evo. Now i'm stuck on the "samsung galaxy s II" screen. I have access to CWM but my sd card is not visible for me to flash any other rom. What should i do?
Mount your sdcard in CWM, connect to your pc push, a new ROM to flash on there.
If thats not possible, go into download mode, open odin or heimdall, find a rom you want to flash and flash it.
Ok finally got it working. I had to put the stock kernel on it and flashed the pit as well..only thing, if I make a recovery file I can't find it in CWM. The "midnight rom" I flashed works well but there's a few fcs but that's probably just this rom.
My G2X is rooted and flashed with CWM recovery v6.0.2.5. I was attempting to install a new ROM, and it stalled forever at the LG screen with the blue background. The phone boots into recovery mode and will execute any of the recovery commands. I've tried installing ROM zips from the external SD, but when I reboot it always returns to recovery mode. I can mount USB storage and see the internal and external SD cards.
What am I doing wrong?
Isn't that version the experimental version of cwm? The one wwith touch screen capability? I would downgrade to v5.x.x.x and see if that helps. Its the version i use and have never had any issues with it
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The downgrade seems to have done the trick. Thanks.
No problem sir.