First off, I did read over the other forums with a related topic to this one, and they aren't quite answering my questions, so I'm making my own post.
I'm running clockworkmod v2.5.1.2 on a rooted htc incredible. After using UnRevoked to root, I loaded up clockworkmod by holding down Vol down and power, and made a nandroid backup. All went well, and I loaded up the phone just fine.
This morning, I made a second nandroid backup, because I must have deleted something I shouldn't have with Titanium Backup when i was trying to get rid of all that verizon crapware. Just a small issue with my sms messages app. So I figured i'd do a restore.
I went into clockworkmod, and just went down to backup and restore, and selected the original nandroid backup i made. After that, HTC white screen of death.
My problem is that i hear people saying to "flash a new recovery" but I don't know how to do that. I was able to navigate to mount my sd card to my Mac, but i dont' know what to do from there.
I also hear people saying "reflash from rom manager". Well i don't have rom manager.
If anyone could help me I'd appreciate it.
I've wiped the Dalvik, the cache, and i've done factory reset. Still stuck.
Thanks for reading my post.
I'm very much a novice, but will offer what I can. Your phone is probably not bricked, it's just ailing a bit. Are you familiar with ADB Shell? There is a sticky somewhere with instructions for using it. It may be the way to fix up your phone.
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ADB shell? Heard of it....that's about it.
I'm not familiar with the ADB shell. I was reading some more, and found that I needed FAT32 formatting for my SC card. I backed up everything from my SD card to my PC, the formatted it, and copied the PB31IMG.zip to root of SD and held Vol Down and power. It successfully updated, but now i'm still getting the white screen and when i go into recovery, i just get two white bars on the sides of the phone with a black screen. I can still boot into HBOOT.
edit: if I try to boot the phone normally, after the white screen, i get the black bars, then the phone shuts down.
I'm in the process of restoring the contents of the SD card right now, but i'm off to school until later tonight. I will check back and hopefully someone will have some info for me on what to do. I will supply any more information as well. Just ask!
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So I was able to get into recovery, and update to Cyanogenmod through Clockworkmod. So at least I have a working device now...but a new ROM wasn't what I was trying to accomplish in the first place. Is there any way to get my contacts and such back from my nandroid backup now? I do have 2 nandroid backups, but when I try to load them, i get the whitescreen.
Well I guess my nandroid backups are no good. If I try to restore to them, i get the white screen and I have to go back and flash a ROM to get my phone to boot. Got most of my contacts back through google's sync feature, and some of my apps and app setting from "mirror" copies of my sd card i had done in the past.
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I haven't done any flashing in about a week. Everything was working fine. And just today I ran the battery completely dry (which I usually do and it keeps my battery happy).
So I power it back up after a few mins of charging.....the LG screen comes on.....then the Ultimate 1.0 Rom loading logo comes up..after that every 10-15 seconds it turns on the screen, shuts it off, turns it on, off, etc. It keeps turning on and off...even after I left it there for 5 mins.
I'm going to flash back my Froyo stock rooted rom that I made a back up. The Ultimate 1.0 isn't the only rom I've flashed in the past. CM7 as well..many of the builds.
Argh.
I have my nandroid froyo backup on my SDcard and it says it can't find it.
This whole internal sd and external sd storage is a pain in the ass. The good old G1 days. Sigh. I went ahead with formatting the card as well and copying back the nandroid backup onto the card. Nothing.
That happened to me. I had to reset - battery pull alone wouldn't work. That phone is now on its way to T-Mobile, and its warranty replacement is going to be soon due to really bad screen bleed (affects my watching video and game play).
flexnix said:
Argh.
I have my nandroid froyo backup on my SDcard and it says it can't find it.
This whole internal sd and external sd storage is a pain in the ass. The good old G1 days. Sigh. I went ahead with formatting the card as well and copying back the nandroid backup onto the card. Nothing.
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What was "it says" - ROM Manager?
If so, it looks for a androids on the internal SD. If you had used the easy recovery install tool, you would have been able to select internal or external to use with Recovery - NOT ROM Manager.
Based on your choice, you should be able to access you nandroid in the place you chose in RECOVERY MODE.
Since you fully drained you battery, you might want to erase battery specs in recovery, turn it off, and fully charge with it turned off for 8 hours. It is not recommended that you fully drain the battery and that may be your problem.
Then you could try wiping cache, dalvek, and format /system - and reflash your ROM. Save flashing the nandroid for last.
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I haven't done any flashing in about a week. Everything was working fine. And just today I ran the battery completely dry (which I usually do and it keeps my battery happy).
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have you tried a different battery?
According to the experts at Popular Mechanics running your battery dry is very bad for it. It greatly reduces the life according to them. There was a post about it last week. There are physics involved that apply to all.
when this phone crashes and won't reboot, how do we even get into recovery without rom manager??
You need to NVflash your Recovery
EmceeGeek said:
when this phone crashes and won't reboot, how do we even get into recovery without rom manager??
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You boot the phone holding Volume Up & Power buttons until recovery screen appears.
Recovery, if you flashed it using the NVflash tool, will be accessible by booting your phone while holding Vol Up & Power. You will go into Recovery. If you have never done this or do not get recovery its because you did not flash the Recovery onto your phone.
Basically, if all you did was download ROM Manager and start flashing the G2x you are playing with fire. You need to flash the Recovery onto the phone using NVflash tool. ( Follow Step2 in the following link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1060715 )
I would recommend anyone with the same problem or the same question to go thru the link above and you will find answers to most of your problems.
EmceeGeek said:
when this phone crashes and won't reboot, how do we even get into recovery without rom manager??
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You need to properly install Clockworkmod recovery with NVflash. Its a process but well worth it. Rom manager is a no no with out phones.
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You need to properly install Clockworkmod recovery with NVflash. Its a process but well worth it. Rom manager is a no no with out phones.
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Did you rename your nandroid backup?
If you did that would be the problem. if you want to rename it, don't leave any spaces.
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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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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!
MMM-BACONSTRIPS said:
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
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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
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LOLOL, one of these days something will stick I'm sure of it!
Hi,
In an attempt to remove the emergency dial button from the lock screen, I got into boot loop. I had edited some xml file in the framework-res.apk, put it on the phone, but then every time I booted it up, I couldn't do anything, it would reboot and reboot... I have a backup of the original framework-res.apk, so I did factory reset in recovery mode, managed to get my phone working long enough to put the original framework-res.apk in the correct folder, but as soon as I tried to set the right permissions, it rebooted and now, logically, it reboots but it doesn't even get to the PIN lock screen...
I have had this phone 3 days now and I have no money for a new one, is there any way I can restore the original file with the correct permissions without being able to boot into the phone, the only thing I have is recovery mode with the options "apply update from sdcard", "wipe data / factory reset", "wipe cache partition" and "test redbend"
Please, I am really desperate here. Searching the internet for hours for a solution, but in most cases I just lack the knowledge to do it. Also, if it's possible, I'd like to maintain my warranty.
Please help me, I'd really appreciate it!
Thanks in advance,
rob
*EDIT: I have a Samsung Galaxy Gio
RobvanBobbert said:
Hi,
In an attempt to remove the emergency dial button from the lock screen, I got into boot loop. I had edited some xml file in the framework-res.apk, put it on the phone, but then every time I booted it up, I couldn't do anything, it would reboot and reboot... I have a backup of the original framework-res.apk, so I did factory reset in recovery mode, managed to get my phone working long enough to put the original framework-res.apk in the correct folder, but as soon as I tried to set the right permissions, it rebooted and now, logically, it reboots but it doesn't even get to the PIN lock screen...
I have had this phone 3 days now and I have no money for a new one, is there any way I can restore the original file with the correct permissions without being able to boot into the phone, the only thing I have is recovery mode with the options "apply update from sdcard", "wipe data / factory reset", "wipe cache partition" and "test redbend"
Please, I am really desperate here. Searching the internet for hours for a solution, but in most cases I just lack the knowledge to do it. Also, if it's possible, I'd like to maintain my warranty.
Please help me, I'd really appreciate it!
Thanks in advance,
rob
*EDIT: I have a Samsung Galaxy Gio
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Flash a stock rom or custom rom for your phone. ALWAYS backup before you do any Modding or flashing...hope this helps
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Yeah, I've done that now, but I can't find a stock rom of my region and I'm stuck with a qwerty layout, so now I think I'm going to restore a backup of my friend's phone (he has exactly the same phone). Hope I get everything back to normal then.
Greets,
Rob
RobvanBobbert said:
Yeah, I've done that now, but I can't find a stock rom of my region and I'm stuck with a qwerty layout, so now I think I'm going to restore a backup of my friend's phone (he has exactly the same phone). Hope I get everything back to normal then.
Greets,
Rob
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Ya it should work then, or ask somebody here for a nandroid backup for your phone, good luck
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Is there anything I should look out for before I restore my friend's backup to my phone? I'm kind of paranoid I'm going to screw it all up again...
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What I was planning on doing:
Root my friend's phone
Install ROM manager
Install Clockworkmod recovery
Create backup on SD card
Put SD card in my phone
Go into CWM recovery
Restore
Choose his backup
Restore
Boot up the phone, make sure everything is alright
Go into recovery mode
Factory reset / user data delete
Does this seem right or should I check some things first?
I thought I read that you have to have the same kernel version or something?
Since I'm running a stock ROM atm, I'm not sure if this is something I should be worried about.
Edit 2: I have already found out that we have different kernels, he has 2.6.35.7-perf-cl561624 and I have 2.6.35.7-perf-CL465576
ok first make a backup of your rom (i no your rom is messed up but do it anyways) flash your freinds backup, make sure you wipe data/system first. The reason I say backup yourrom first becasue you say your freind has a diffrent kernel, so if it dosent work you have a backup so you can restore where you started, understand?
Will do,
Thanks so much for taking the time to help me, I will post the results tomorrow.
ok let me how it came along
It worked
I created a backup on his phone, put the sd card in my phone, restored the backup, booted up the phone, everything worked great, rebooted in recovery mode and wiped user data en resetted factory settings, phone is up and running now with the original firmware. So glad it worked
Thanks again!
RobvanBobbert said:
It worked
I created a backup on his phone, put the sd card in my phone, restored the backup, booted up the phone, everything worked great, rebooted in recovery mode and wiped user data en resetted factory settings, phone is up and running now with the original firmware. So glad it worked
Thanks again!
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No problem
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This is my first thread that i ever needed to start on anything on phones so please understand that i'm REALLY DESPERATE i have looked in a ton of places for this fix and i tried to use clockworkmod and ended up doing that correctly but when i tried to restore it it say i dont have any backups nor recovery files and i tried putting cynagenmod on my sd card but it couldnt find the file and then i tried to use NFFLASH and make it stock android again but nothing happened and ended up stuck on the blue logo screen again. please i dont know what to do
Which version of Cyanogenmod is it? Put it on the root of your SD card. Is it already on the internal storage? I believe when you click "install from .zip" or something of the equivalent there's an option to select "choose from internal storage".
You can boot back into clockwork mod by turning the phone off, holding down the power and volume down buttons until the lg logo with the BLUE background appears, then release.
I was trying to install cynagen mod 7.01 from Rom manager but it froze in the logo screen and so i took out the battery and put it back on and it still continued to do that. After that i used CWM but i didnt have any ROMS to restore it and before it didnt correctly make my backup so i just want to restore it like the way it used to but i dont know where to put it in my sd card
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This is my first thread that i ever needed to start on anything on phones so please understand that i'm REALLY DESPERATE i have looked in a ton of places for this fix and i tried to use clockworkmod and ended up doing that correctly but when i tried to restore it it say i dont have any backups nor recovery files and i tried putting cynagenmod on my sd card but it couldnt find the file and then i tried to use NFFLASH and make it stock android again but nothing happened and ended up stuck on the blue logo screen again. please i dont know what to do
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Your sentence is incredibly long. Gave up after the desperate grab for attention. You may have wiped your backups by mistake. It happens. I did it not once, but twice. Give us more info so we can help. ROM, kernel, etc. A list of apps you run on a daily basis would be helpful.
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I was trying to install cynagen mod 7.01 from Rom manager but it froze in the logo screen and so i took out the battery and put it back on and it still continued to do that. After that i used CWM but i didnt have any ROMS to restore it and before it didnt correctly make my backup so i just want to restore it like the way it used to but i dont know where to put it in my sd card
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Never use rom manager to install on this phone, you'll continue to run into this problem.
Can you access your phone storage when it's plugged into your computer? If you can, drop CM onto it at the root directory, put it back into your phone, boot into CWM and install the zip.
i think my rom was stock rom 2.3.4 before i tried flashing cynagenmod the apps arent very important to me and i only had this phone for a week because i got too excited about the dual core.
Follow the instructions HERE to the letter. You'll go back to stock and you'll have to root your phone again (if that's what you want to do) but it should get you up and running again.
In future, search, search, and search some more. I assure you, most problems people have had have been discussed and probably solved on these forums.
Welcome to XDA!
What is the name for this process of trying to restore my device from blue logo screen? If i know the name of the issue im trying to fix maybe i can start searching for the guides. I can't really access my internal or sd card when i plug in my usb and i don't really understand what the problem i ran into if its even fixable or not. The link you've sent me for the guide i'm trying right now but i can't just sit here and wait for an hour. Feedback is really appreciated
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What is the name for this process of trying to restore my device from blue logo screen? If i know the name of the issue im trying to fix maybe i can start searching for the guides. I can't really access my internal or sd card when i plug in my usb and i don't really understand what the problem i ran into if its even fixable or not. The link you've sent me for the guide i'm trying right now but i can't just sit here and wait for an hour. Feedback is really appreciated
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The whole process (if done correctly) should take but about 15 minutes give or take. What you'll be doing is Flashing Stock Recovery. Download the file provided in the link I gave, and then follow each instruction exactly as it says. Shouldn't be a need to Google any guides as this spell it out for you. Just have read and execute.
If you used NvFlash/One Click Recovery to flash Clockwork Mod to your device then you should already have the APX driver installed on your computer. In that case, half of the battle is already done.
But, if you installed your recovery using Rom Manager, then I would download the APX driver and go through the whole process in the guide I've linked from start to finish.
I was running CM10 on a rooted TFT101. I was having some WiFI connectivity issues so I decided I would try out a new rom. I used Titamium Backup and backed up all my needed files to my Mico SD card. Once backed up, I rebooted into CWM v6.0.1.3. I went to do a factory reset prior to flashing the new rom. The tablet just froze. I rebooted the tablet back into CWM. I tried to again do a factory reset and again the tablet just froze. I tried to boot back into CM10 and I just sits and spins and never actually boots into the OS. I decided that I would just go ahead and just flash the new rom and do a factory reset after the fact. I placed the new rom on the micro sd card and booted back into CWM. I attempted to install zip from SD card and now I get e:can't mount /sdcard/. I have tried 3 different micro sd cards and nothing. I have formatted each to fat32 and not one of them is recognized. All 3 are recognized by windows.
Since I can't boot into the OS...and I can't load a new rom....I am dead in the water. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
If you can get it to that endless boot logo and connect it through USB, ADB (info - download) should be able to access whatever's left on your device assuming it gets far enough in the boot process. If it does, you can adb pull the backups to your computer to save them.
That being said, Easy Flasher will help you get back to 100% unrooted stock and "unbrick" your device with a few clicks. Then you can start over with a new recovery and rom. But it will wipe your entire device clean, hence why I suggest you first check if you still have backups and if you do, pull them on your computer using adb.
I can't help with the CWM problem, I haven't used it in a long time.
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If you can get it to that endless boot logo and connect it through USB, ADB (info - download) should be able to access whatever's left on your device assuming it gets far enough in the boot process. If it does, you can adb pull the backups to your computer to save them.
That being said, Easy Flasher will help you get back to 100% unrooted stock and "unbrick" your device with a few clicks. Then you can start over with a new recovery and rom. But it will wipe your entire device clean, hence why I suggest you first check if you still have backups and if you do, pull them on your computer using adb.
I can't help with the CWM problem, I haven't used it in a long time.
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Thank you Lethe6. I saw that option and wondered if that might help me. I will try it out today.
One quick question. If I flash back to stock I am guessing I will just need to reroot once I am able to boot it back up?
Thank you again for your assistance.
Yes exactly. Easy Flasher has a root option as well so it's fairly easy to get going with customizations after restoring to stock!
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Yes exactly. Easy Flasher has a root option as well so it's fairly easy to get going with customizations after restoring to stock!
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Go figure. I went to fix the issue last night per your instructions and I was sitting at the Google login screen for the the new rom I loaded. What ever issue I was having corrected itself. That never happens. I guess I shouldn't complain =)
Thank you again for your assistance Lethe6!