OK, I have spent a lot of time reading up on the subject but I am still unclear on a few things about flashing ROMS.
I have rooted my phone (no problem) and have installed ROM manger and Clockwork Mod. I was able to do back ups no problem but ran into some serious problems when I tried to put on CM7. What I ended up with was the black screen of death and it took me almost 7 hrs to get my phone back up and running. (CM7 = cost me 7 Hrs!) I know there are some issues with clockwork mod running on this phone but I see people flashing like crazy so I know it must not be that big of a deal. Needless to say I am a little nervous to jump in again, I am reluctant to create a $500 paperweight.
Here are my questions, if anybody has any input I would love to hear it.
1) What are the steps to installing a ROM with CWM?
2) Can you flash a new ROM by putting it on your SD card and Entering HBoot without Clockwork Mod (it seems like this is what happened in the root process.)
3) Do you have to wipe the phone every time before you install a new rom, and if so is a factory reset what you are after?
4) What does it mean when you enter "Recovery". I have seen it in HBoot and ROM manager but don't really know what it means.
5) Where on earth can I find a dictionary on all of the terms and abbreviations used in the Android Rooting community? I am quick study but this is a steep learning curve to come up to speed on.
Thanks Everyone.
turn off your phone and then hold volume down then press the power button and hold volume down after you let off the power until it boots into recovery. then you will see wipe,flash from sd card and all the other menus. its simple once you get that figured out
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Hey guys I really need your help, my phone has been down for the past 3 days now. I followed this guide:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=547133&page=2. I will state that I am new to the forum so I cannot post on the actual how to, due to rules, or I would have. Basically i have made it all the way thru the guide, to the point where it tells me to:
- press MENU to power off! (do not reboot)
- hold HOME and POWER to boot into recovery mode
- apply update
once I reach there I have no way of resetting the phone so I just pulled battery after it said the cyanogenmod was installed from sdcard. I flashed the splash.nb, but now all that happens is my phone loads up the MyTouch 3g screen freezes for a few min then restarts and goes back into Android System Recovery screen. I really need your help and would be forever great-full if someone could lend me a hand. I will check back regularly.
Thank you very much ahead of time for whoever lends me a hand.
Troubled Guy With Non Working Phone
OP here
Come on guys someone has to have had this problem before. Even if you are sending me to another link who has dealt with this before it will still be a help.
First of all, I'm not familiar with your phone. But I will try to give you a few ideas and see if any of it works for you.
If you have a recovery installed and you have flashed Cyanogenmod, then you are rooted. I'm not sure how your recovery works, but you should have to use the volume buttons & power button to navigate recovery - or something similar. If you can get into recovery, you should be fine.
Go to the wipe menu and wipe cache/dalvik cache. If these weren't wiped properly before flashing, this could be the culprit. There should be an option to reboot, you may have to choose go back a couple times to find it. If that doesn't work, try flashing a different rom. You'll need to wipe everything in recovery (except the SD card) first, then choose "flash zip from SD card".
If your battery is almost dead, don't try flashing anything, just wipe. You'll need to get an external charger or a full battery before flashing anything.
Again, I don't know how your phone works, I have an Evo & pretty much just treated your post as such. It's a start, though. If you can give me more info, I can try to help further.
I also just noticed this is an old method for an old version of the phone. You do have the phone this was made for, correct? Have you tried sending a pm to the OP?
There is most likely an easier, newer way to root, but what's done is done. It also seems like it may be using Amon Ra recovery? If that's the case, that's the recovery I use so I can help you out there. You may also want to look at how to unroot and get your phone back to stock, then start over. I'm going in to work, but if you post back I'll try to help you out as soon as I get the chance.
I have a rooted, stock rom captivate. I was installing a new piece of software and it got hung up, wouldn't finish installing. I pulled the battery and restarted it, now it won't go past the GalaxyS screen. I tried pulling the battery, sim and sd card. Didn't help. I can boot into Recovery Mode, but when I try Download mode, it just goes to the GalaxyS screen and stays there. Obviously my first choice is to return it to where it was an hour ago - I have a lot of apps on here. My second choice is to return it to stock - I'm guessing I would have to unroot it anyway when they finally send out the Gingerbread update. I am NOT interested in any custom roms. Can someone help me?
Try getting into download mode.
1) pull out battery
2) reinsert after 10 seconds
3) hold vol + and vol -
4) plug in usb.
flash stock.
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Try getting into download mode.
1) pull out battery
2) reinsert after 10 seconds
3) hold vol + and vol -
4) plug in usb.
flash stock.
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OK, that worked! Thanks!! The phone now says "Downloading... Do not turn off Target!!!" Soooooo... how the hell do I "flash stock"?
And when I do flash to stock, do I first remove the SIM? How about the SD card? Will I lose my apps? My contacts? Will I be "stock" and able to download the Gingerbread update when it comes out?
Thanks again for the help - I've never done any of this before, so a step-by-step help is appreciated. I read through a lot of the threads here for suggestions, but so many of them are in jargon that assumes you've done this a million times before.
Flash a ROM will wipe out everything on your phone. You will need to learn to use one of those 3rd party ROM flash tools and download ROMs for yourself.
Given that you can still boot into recovery mode, maybe you should try factory reset first (clear cache menu in recovery mode). It will also wipe out everything on your phone but you don't need to risk brick your phone when flashing ROMs.
What exactly is the app that caused your problem? And if you have applied any type of lag fix, you may have more troubles than you thought.
OK, I did the clear cache option in Recovery, my phone still just boots to the GalaxyS screen. I searched flashing to stock and found a million different posts, all with different instructions. Is there a quick, safe and simple (for someone who's never done it) way to get my phone up and running?
Another option -- my phone is less than a year old. Can I just return it to AT&T and get a replacement? Will the fact that it was rooted make them refuse?
foxbat121 said:
Flash a ROM will wipe out everything on your phone.
What exactly is the app that caused your problem? And if you have applied any type of lag fix, you may have more troubles than you thought.
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I was trying to install the Pure Grid Calendar widget that I downloaded from APKTOP. No lag fix.
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OK, I did the clear cache option in Recovery, my phone still just boots to the GalaxyS screen. I searched flashing to stock and found a million different posts, all with different instructions. Is there a quick, safe and simple (for someone who's never done it) way to get my phone up and running?
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Since yours is on stick ROM (either 2.1 or 2.2), search for OneClick stock ROM thread which will bring you back to 2.1 or 2.2 easily.
Another option -- my phone is less than a year old. Can I just return it to AT&T and get a replacement? Will the fact that it was rooted make them refuse?
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Given the state of your phone, they have no easy way to tell if you're rooted or not
But you will get a refurbished phone as replacement. If you can handle that, it's the easiest way out.
Thanks for the help. Took the phone to the AT&T repair center in town, they shut it off and turned it on, got the same screen, handed me a "new" phone.
So I rooted my HTC Inspire using Hack Ace Kit. Than I flashed a custom HTC Sense 3.0 ROM. I decided it was too slow for me so I went into CloworkMod Recovery and wiped all data/delvik from the phone & SD card. When I rebooted my phone, the plain HTC logo screen appears followed by the HTC logo screen w/ the "Quietly Brilliant". It keeps repeating the screen over and over. If I plug it into the PC the PC never detects it because the phone is turning off and on, and my volume buttons are broken off so its difficult to do a reset. How do I return back to custom ROM and make my phone work?
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So I rooted my HTC Inspire using Hack Ace Kit. Than I flashed a custom HTC Sense 3.0 ROM. I decided it was too slow for me so I went into CloworkMod Recovery and wiped all data/delvik from the phone & SD card. When I rebooted my phone, the plain HTC logo screen appears followed by the HTC logo screen w/ the "Quietly Brilliant". It keeps repeating the screen over and over. If I plug it into the PC the PC never detects it because the phone is turning off and on, and my volume buttons are broken off so its difficult to do a reset. How do I return back to custom ROM and make my phone work?
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search, search, search, search!!! this is a development site and it is expected that you at least try to find your answer first and since I know this subject has been covered maybe not your particular circumstance but the boot loop you're referencing has numerous threads about it.
First off, you clearly didn't read much because any time you wipe data/cache you're always suppose to flash a new ROM, since you didn't and just tried to reboot what exactly were you expecting to happen? there is no data on your phone!!!!Incredible. Second, you're gonna have to find a way to get your volume keys to work because that's about the only way you're going to get into HBOOT without making this a bit more complicated for you. I'm also going to assume that since you tried to reboot your phone after a full wipe, you ignored most warnings and advice to make a back-up of your rom. If you didn't, get into the habit fast or spend a stupid amount of time working around problems like this. If you made a back up and I pray that you did, hold the volume down button and power on the device. It will boot you into HBOOT and then you can boot into recovery from there. From recovery you can then restore your back-up. If you can get into recovery from HBOOT and you don't have a back-up or a ROM zip on your sd card currently, you can mount storage from recovery (has to be plugged into the PC obviously) and you should be able to place another ROM zip on your SDcard and flash the ROM through recovery once its on the SD card. Please please please, read and do your full research before you destroy your phone!
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search, search, search, search!!! this is a development site and it is expected that you at least try to find your answer first and since I know this subject has been covered maybe not your particular circumstance but the boot loop you're referencing has numerous threads about it.
First off, you clearly didn't read much because any time you wipe data/cache you're always suppose to flash a new ROM, since you didn't and just tried to reboot what exactly were you expecting to happen? there is no data on your phone!!!!Incredible. Second, you're gonna have to find a way to get your volume keys to work because that's about the only way you're going to get into HBOOT without making this a bit more complicated for you. I'm also going to assume that since you tried to reboot your phone after a full wipe, you ignored most warnings and advice to make a back-up of your rom. If you didn't, get into the habit fast or spend a stupid amount of time working around problems like this. If you made a back up and I pray that you did, hold the volume down button and power on the device. It will boot you into HBOOT and then you can boot into recovery from there. From recovery you can then restore your back-up. If you can get into recovery from HBOOT and you don't have a back-up or a ROM zip on your sd card currently, you can mount storage from recovery (has to be plugged into the PC obviously) and you should be able to place another ROM zip on your SDcard and flash the ROM through recovery once its on the SD card. Please please please, read and do your full research before you destroy your phone!
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Do you get tired bacon...I know I have lol. Of saying the words search, read, research, and irc over and over and over.
I got your 10 char right here
cwhitney24 said:
Do you get tired bacon...I know I have lol. Of saying the words search, read, research, and irc over and over and over.
I got your 10 char right here
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LOLOL, one of these days something will stick I'm sure of it!
Hello all, this is my first time posting on this forums, although I have been lurking them thoroughly the last couple of days, since I was able to finally buy myself my first Android Phone: HTC Chacha.
Being completely new to android, it was hard for me to adapt and learn all the new terms (like root, rom, etc.) and finally the day before yesterday I decided to dive in and try to mess around with my Chacha because I was tired of the internal memory running low and the lack of awesome stuff I could install, like a Custom ROM.
I have followed the guides in this forums, and I am glad to say that I have my chacha unlocked via the bootloader thingy from the official htc website (it says UNLOCKED when I open the menu when booting the device with the power and down volume keys) , I have it rooted and, somehow, I was able to install Clockwork Recovery Mod version 4 to try and backup the rom that came with the phone (from Telcel, since I'm from Mexico) and install a specific Rom (I want to install Stock Plus, here's the link to the thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1690088)
However, I have failed terribly and I am just about to tear my hair out due to frustration. :silly:
Every time I run the Clockwork Recovery Mod from the Recovery option in the menu that appears if you press the power and down volume keys, no matter what options I choose (backup, install from sd, power off, etc) NO ACTION takes place and it just stays stuck in the logo of the hat with the orange circle. I have tried waiting for hours, taking the battery on and off, rebooting (is that the same as restarting?) the cellphone and googling like crazy.
I hate threads were people post because they didn't take their time to do proper research or just typing a couple of words on google. But I SWEAR I have been trying this for 6 hours, I have tried different searches and I am just about to give up. Please help me!
Is there something I need to install? Something I need to check? I admit I AM a noob when it comes to terms like "flashing" and such, but if you are patient and guide me step by step I promise I will do my best to follow the steps without annoying you.
I have read a lot of guides, posts in this forum and others, and finally decided that the last desperate measure had to be used: Ask for help.
If someone has ANY idea of what I'm doing wrong, please guide me. And I'm sorry if this post is too long, but I just had too much to say due to my lack of reaching goals for today, lol.
Thank you for taking your time to read this
Makeiri said:
Hello all, this is my first time posting on this forums, although I have been lurking them thoroughly the last couple of days, since I was able to finally buy myself my first Android Phone: HTC Chacha.
Being completely new to android, it was hard for me to adapt and learn all the new terms (like root, rom, etc.) and finally the day before yesterday I decided to dive in and try to mess around with my Chacha because I was tired of the internal memory running low and the lack of awesome stuff I could install, like a Custom ROM.
I have followed the guides in this forums, and I am glad to say that I have my chacha unlocked via the bootloader thingy from the official htc website (it says UNLOCKED when I open the menu when booting the device with the power and down volume keys) , I have it rooted and, somehow, I was able to install Clockwork Recovery Mod version 4 to try and backup the rom that came with the phone (from Telcel, since I'm from Mexico) and install a specific Rom (I want to install Stock Plus, here's the link to the thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1690088)
However, I have failed terribly and I am just about to tear my hair out due to frustration. :silly:
Every time I run the Clockwork Recovery Mod from the Recovery option in the menu that appears if you press the power and down volume keys, no matter what options I choose (backup, install from sd, power off, etc) NO ACTION takes place and it just stays stuck in the logo of the hat with the orange circle. I have tried waiting for hours, taking the battery on and off, rebooting (is that the same as restarting?) the cellphone and googling like crazy.
I hate threads were people post because they didn't take their time to do proper research or just typing a couple of words on google. But I SWEAR I have been trying this for 6 hours, I have tried different searches and I am just about to give up. Please help me!
Is there something I need to install? Something I need to check? I admit I AM a noob when it comes to terms like "flashing" and such, but if you are patient and guide me step by step I promise I will do my best to follow the steps without annoying you.
I have read a lot of guides, posts in this forum and others, and finally decided that the last desperate measure had to be used: Ask for help.
If someone has ANY idea of what I'm doing wrong, please guide me. And I'm sorry if this post is too long, but I just had too much to say due to my lack of reaching goals for today, lol.
Thank you for taking your time to read this
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Go into recovery like you have just described, once in recovery, before choosing any items like install from SD card of backup press the volume key (either up or down) multiple times until you see something like "back menu enabled" displayed in white text. After that choose any option you want, you'll be good to go.
Use the "enter" key on your keyboard to activate CWM options.
waqaszahid said:
Go into recovery like you have just described, once in recovery, before choosing any items like install from SD card of backup press the volume key (either up or down) multiple times until you see something like "back menu enabled" displayed in white text. After that choose any option you want, you'll be good to go.
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THANK YOU! I did just like you said and the "back menu enabled" DID appear in white text. I was finally able to make a backup of the rom I had in the phone. I am a very happy person right now!
Alex C. said:
Use the "enter" key on your keyboard to activate CWM options.
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THANK YOU! I didn't realize I had to use the "enter" key to select.
I have given both of you "Thanks!"
I am very grateful
Hi everyone,
Stupid me, so I was following these [http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2238398] instructions on my Xperia LT30a, Locked bootloader (found workaround), rooted obviously.. The person who posted this thread didn't list the tasks properly. I downloaded the rom(4.2.2 CM10.1) to my SD, and went into clockworkmod to flash the zip rom from SD, what happened was he didn't mention gapps in the downloads list until I got to that step. This was after I had flashed the rom. So I didn't want to take out my SD and drop gapps on it and install it, fearing I might damage the SD. So I went to main menu in the recovery mode, and chose "shut off" or shut down. I dropped the gapps, trying to start the phone so I can go to recovery, Phone vibrates, Black screen, no LED light. What's next?
Are you sure that ROM was for your phone ? I don't know about Sony phones since I've never had one, but it says "Xperia T LT30p" and you say you have a "Xperia LT30a". That one little letter can make all the difference if the phones have different hardware (for instance, the Galaxy S3 has a "T999" and "T999L" - different hardware).
You can try pulling the battery, letting it sit, and trying to get into recovery. If the phone doesn't have a removeable battery there might be a series of buttons you can press to hard reset.
Not flashing the Google Apps wouldn't really do anything bad, so that's not your problem. The way your phone is reacting it sounds like you flashed a ROM not meant for your phone or something else happened while you were trying to install it.
It is important to read all the steps before starting them and best to have a basic understanding of the ROM flashing process before trying it (so that you're not just following steps rote but understanding what you're doing and what to look for), but I am not sure that is even what went wrong here.