Hi guys I've been looking around and I'm a total noob at all this, but I went ahead and tried to root my Nexus S anyway.
Here's the site I used,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=878446
I don't really know what happened, but I have the little unlocked logo under google, but that google screen is all I can get. I can start it in fastboot mode, and when I click recovery it brings me to clockwork recovery page. I kinda just tried a bunch of weird things but everytime I try anything it keeps getting stuck at the google screen over and over again.
I'm really clueless.. If anyone could help me please give me your advice!
If it helps, I have clockwork version 3.0.0.0
you have to perform a nandroid restore or flash a ROM.
might as well update your recovery too.. wouldn't hurt
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988686
rename img to recovery.img
boot into bootloader
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
go into recovery
when you finish downloading the rom/nandriod, go into mounts and storage and mount usb and put your sdcard
I'm sorry what is rom flashing or nandroid restore?
The clockwork update is confusing too.. I'd like to avoid that if possible..
Sorry looked up both of them and it looks like I actually need my phone to be working in order to do it?
I've read and it says it doesn't really help on stocked android phones?
The nadroid restore is the -backup and restore option in clockwork yes?
lanstrange said:
I'm sorry what is rom flashing or nandroid restore?
The clockwork update is confusing too.. I'd like to avoid that if possible..
Sorry looked up both of them and it looks like I actually need my phone to be working in order to do it?
I've read and it says it doesn't really help on stocked android phones?
The nadroid restore is the -backup and restore option in clockwork yes?
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It doesnt really help if you reboot the phone cause with stock rom, every reboot flashes back the stock recovery.
what you should do is follow the steps @Zephik described above ( but without rebooting the phone) and you'll be able to enter the clockwork recovery ( a modified recovery allowing you to do a backup or rom flashing...) '
rom flashing is installing a rom modified by users for a better and faster user experience.
lanstrange said:
Hi guys I've been looking around and I'm a total noob at all this, but I went ahead and tried to root my Nexus S anyway.
Here's the site I used,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=878446
I don't really know what happened, but I have the little unlocked logo under google, but that google screen is all I can get. I can start it in fastboot mode, and when I click recovery it brings me to clockwork recovery page. I kinda just tried a bunch of weird things but everytime I try anything it keeps getting stuck at the google screen over and over again.
I'm really clueless.. If anyone could help me please give me your advice!
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You should tell us your carrier and phone model, it might help the guys here to get you on the right recovery.
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error when trying to access the sdcard by recovery: is not possible to mount the sdcard
I try to do everything to access the sdcard has this error
Have you fixed this? I have the same issue!
So I unlocked this without much trouble, and then when I was attemoting to use adb to flash images to recovery partition, one would just not work, and I stupidly tried to force it, and now it boots and just sits there.
I've seen a different website saying the Q can run Jellybean, and it also has info on getting the stock rom back .. but NO files. I know how to use the damn recovery tools once theyre booted up - those articles were completely useless. I don;t know what else to do. I tried to get the files that argghhhh jad posted to dropbox but they are not available anymore.
Stuck and been trying to fix this for the last 12 hours
EDIT:
Found stock recovery stuff, but I dont think it's going to help any...
Nevermind I suppose
I see that I can try the stock rar file posted for someone else in here to put into recovery, hope it works, I just dont know if the nernel is ok, but I would think so. It stops at the "unlocked"notificaton screen. anyay, yeah. If I get jellybean on instead ill share the info,
I believe you need to fastboot your recovery, not adb. Then you may be able to flash something back on there.
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tetrabyt said:
I believe you need to fastboot your recovery, not adb. Then you may be able to flash something back on there.
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Thanks for the repl! S I actually have been using fastboot because adb for some reason just will not see the device (I checked the version and its correct supposedly). So what I did was take the WWRP rar, pull the contants out and make them into a .zip.and instaled with fastboot flash. The output looked ok:
sending 'userdata' (319120 KB)... OKAY [ 29.814s]
writing 'userdata'... OKAY [ 92.421s]
finished. total time: 122.235s
but what about all the other partitions? I jad done system earlier frok out of the stock zipfile. i think i may just try the entire Stock file insead, or maybe I am missing the fact that I beed to install the kernek into /boot, Any thoughts Thanks much!
EDIT: first im going to fastboot the recovery wit tue TWRP zip file, and try to install it from
I am a little confused, did you manage to get the recovery working? Looks like you were trying to flash the recovery img to your user data partition... Am I misreading your post.
-Saint
Whoaa just saw that. should have unzipped the recovery image and flashed it to the recovery partition with
Fastboot flash recovery recoveryfile.img
Then you can boot into recovery and flash one of the system dumps that these devs have generously posted for when we mess up like this...
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tetrabyt said:
Whoaa just saw that. should have unzipped the recovery image and flashed it to the recovery partition with
Fastboot flash recovery recoveryfile.img
Then you can boot into recovery and flash one of the system dumps that these devs have generously posted for when we mess up like this...
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is this the basic method at present for a stock restore? i was looking at the thread with the files for RSD lite, but i was confused as to whether that was working. thx!
ok so I messed up what to flash from recovery. I had grabbed copies of the system, data, boot, etc for all the partitions thinking i needed to do them all from outside using fastboot,
Herby6262 said:
ok so I messed up what to flash from recovery. I had grabbed copies of the system, data, boot, etc for all the partitions thinking i needed to do them all from outside using fastboot,
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Ok, the easiest way to get your phone up and running again is to push the newest TWRP from here, put it in your tools folder and push w fastboot:
fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.3.1.0-asanti_c.img
fastboot reboot recovery
Make a backup to your external sd card so that TWRP creates the directory needed to restore the stock system & boot. You should delete this first backup later since it will be broken.
Then download a system & boot image from here, unzip to the /TWRP/BACKUPS/"serial#"/ folder on your external sd. Do full wipes for system, dalvik, & factory reset; then restore Stock from within TWRP. Should be good to go.
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Just saw that tetrabyt already hit on this, consider this post a more detailed revision.
i must be retardedly doing this the wrong way, i quickly get twrp into recovery and can get in there, and I have the stock photon .zip in 1 big zip and in separate pieces, but how do you get them to the external card.. windows 7 fails to recognize the phone with some message MTP device unknown so I can't transfer it that way ... I dont know. Im about to chuck this thing out the window and be done with it. The whole purpose was to be able to install apps to the sdcard, originally. Only fastboot works from a command prompt, adb doesnt do a damn thing, trying multiple versions of it. I give up
Herby6262 said:
i must be retardedly doing this the wrong way, i quickly get twrp into recovery and can get in there, and I have the stock photon .zip in 1 big zip and in separate pieces, but how do you get them to the external card.. windows 7 fails to recognize the phone with some message MTP device unknown so I can't transfer it that way ... I dont know. Im about to chuck this thing out the window and be done with it. The whole purpose was to be able to install apps to the sdcard, originally. Only fastboot works from a command prompt, adb doesnt do a damn thing, trying multiple versions of it. I give up
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Do you have an sd adapter or another device you can plug the sd into to transfer from your pc? Does adb fail when booted into TWRP also? Tried uninstalling/re-installing drivers?
Might be able to make a data img you could flash through fastboot, so long as the folder structure was correct... then use recovery from internal storage. Not certain on this: /data/media/sdcard/TWRP/BACKUP/"serial#"/
Maybe someone else can jump in here, this would be my last resort. Use any way possible to get it on external sd first.
-Saint
fallnSaint said:
Do you have an sd adapter or another device you can plug the sd into to transfer from your pc? Does adb fail when booted into TWRP also? Tried uninstalling/re-installing drivers?
Might be able to make a data img you could flash through fastboot, so long as the folder structure was correct... then use recovery from internal storage. Not certain on this: /data/media/sdcard/TWRP/BACKUP/"serial#"/
Maybe someone else can jump in here, this would be my last resort. Use any way possible to get it on external sd first.
-Saint
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I believe there is a system.img floating around here somewhere.
Check out this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1894575
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tetrabyt said:
I believe there is a system.img floating around here somewhere.
Check out this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1894575
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Thanks a ton for the help Saint, and others. I finally got it back in working order .. yay! Now to install that powermenu update someone made, and see about making android 4 opeate like the older versions, where you could install apps onto the external SD card. Am I correct in assuming they just F'ed it up by changing the /mnt names, while the software was not updated to accomodate those changes? Why the hell is internal memory now "sdcard" ... so odd. I have a friend whose internal storage is named "USB storage" on his phone. It's USB accessible .. but its a freakin flash card. So odd, and stupid. I really felt like 4.0 was a downgrade, personally. What improved? I see nothing, only things taken away (Im sure the underlying scheduler and thread management/memory mgmt is better, but you know what I mean .. anything visible?)
Herby6262 said:
Thanks a ton for the help Saint, and others. I finally got it back in working order .. yay! Now to install that powermenu update someone made, and see about making android 4 opeate like the older versions, where you could install apps onto the external SD card. Am I correct in assuming they just F'ed it up by changing the /mnt names, while the software was not updated to accomodate those changes? Why the hell is internal memory now "sdcard" ... so odd. I have a friend whose internal storage is named "USB storage" on his phone. It's USB accessible .. but its a freakin flash card. So odd, and stupid. I really felt like 4.0 was a downgrade, personally. What improved? I see nothing, only things taken away (Im sure the underlying scheduler and thread management/memory mgmt is better, but you know what I mean .. anything visible?)
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Good to hear, glad you got her working again. As for how she runs, definitely snappier than older versions of android. Maybe just hardware, but I still see improvements w the wifes epic running ics, guessing that we will see better results once CM is dropped for this phone.
-Saint
Tried this, still stuck on Bootloader Unlocked Screen. TWRP restores don't seem to work right. I tried restoring an old backup I had of the boot/recovery/system with no luck. Everytime I wiped system/dalvik/cache/factory reset before restore. No errors show up.
So, I can go into fastboot, and I can flash files.
I tried RSD Lite 5.7 with this Zip
It flashes everything until RSD wants me to reboot. Then it reboots and gets stuck on the bootloader unlocked screen.
Any ideas?
[Edit] I flash CWM and found out that I can't mound /sdcard which doesn't seem right...
fallnSaint said:
Ok, the easiest way to get your phone up and running again is to push the newest TWRP from here, put it in your tools folder and push w fastboot:
fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.3.1.0-asanti_c.img
fastboot reboot recovery
Make a backup to your external sd card so that TWRP creates the directory needed to restore the stock system & boot. You should delete this first backup later since it will be broken.
Then download a system & boot image from here, unzip to the /TWRP/BACKUPS/"serial#"/ folder on your external sd. Do full wipes for system, dalvik, & factory reset; then restore Stock from within TWRP. Should be good to go.
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Just saw that tetrabyt already hit on this, consider this post a more detailed revision.
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After RSD Lite, it might not have booted up because the system image was removed from the file to make it work. Probably if you flash TWRP after doing the RSD file, and restore Rangerbry's system backup, you might be good..
No Luck.
Just tried this.
Got the following Errors during only system restore:
E:Unable to mount '/cache'
E:unable to mount '/data'
Still stuck on Unlocked bootloader screen.
My emmc might be corrupted I think
I do have sprint insurance. Think they can reflash stock?
yogi2010 said:
After RSD Lite, it might not have booted up because the system image was removed from the file to make it work. Probably if you flash TWRP after doing the RSD file, and restore Rangerbry's system backup, you might be good..
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coolroman123 said:
No Luck.
Just tried this.
Got the following Errors during only system restore:
E:Unable to mount '/cache'
E:unable to mount '/data'
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Was that in CWM or TWRP recovery? Just trying to make sure the process was correct, haha. I have only started using TWRP on this device, but i think the 2 recoveries use different backup formats?
coolroman123 said:
Tried this, still stuck on Bootloader Unlocked Screen. TWRP restores don't seem to work right. I tried restoring an old backup I had of the boot/recovery/system with no luck. Everytime I wiped system/dalvik/cache/factory reset before restore. No errors show up.
So, I can go into fastboot, and I can flash files.
I tried RSD Lite 5.7 with this Zip
It flashes everything until RSD wants me to reboot. Then it reboots and gets stuck on the bootloader unlocked screen.
Any ideas?
[Edit] I flash CWM and found out that I can't mound /sdcard which doesn't seem right...
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Can you boot to bootloader or just to fastboot? There are two control files in that RSD zip, one doesn't flash bootloader, try removing that one and forcing the reflashed bootloader. Then try restoring again. About all I can think of if it successfully flashes the other components... Maybe just restore system and not boot or data?
-Saint
Everything you need is here to return to stock WITH ota update.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2001226
The only thing simple is the belief in simplicity.
Hi, i'm a relative noob to rooting and rom flashing but i know the basics and have successfully installed cyanogen on other phones and devices in the past. So essentially I am trying to install jellybean on my infuse 4g (on rogers). I begun with this guide (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1776129) but and gotten stuck trying to install entropy's cm9 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1601844). i flashed the rom and then formatted the data, system and cache, but then realized forgot to put the ICS gapps bundle on the sd card before i started. So i flashed once, did the formatting of data, system, cache, then attempted to boot and now im stuck at the samsung screen. It just hangs at that screen every time i try to boot. I have the red CWM screen and can get to CWM, but whenever i try to mount the SD it does not show up on my PC (Mac too) so i can't put any thing on it to flash and fix it.. when i attempt to flash the cm9 rom again it says [bad] and aborts. If anyone could help me out in where to go from here. I have done some reading about setting up ADB to push a rom to it, but will that work if i cant even mount the sd in the first place. CWM allows me to mount and say it should be active but i get nothing on the pc. Also which rom should i use to fix it.. also i follwoed the instructions and have Qksters IMEI backup script run (I'm not exactly sure what this does).
Thanks
phillyjevs said:
Hi, i'm a relative noob to rooting and rom flashing but i know the basics and have successfully installed cyanogen on other phones and devices in the past. So essentially I am trying to install jellybean on my infuse 4g (on rogers). I begun with this guide (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1776129) but and gotten stuck trying to install entropy's cm9 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1601844). i flashed the rom and then formatted the data, system and cache, but then realized forgot to put the ICS gapps bundle on the sd card before i started. So i flashed once, did the formatting of data, system, cache, then attempted to boot and now im stuck at the samsung screen. It just hangs at that screen every time i try to boot. I have the red CWM screen and can get to CWM, but whenever i try to mount the SD it does not show up on my PC (Mac too) so i can't put any thing on it to flash and fix it.. when i attempt to flash the cm9 rom again it says [bad] and aborts. If anyone could help me out in where to go from here. I have done some reading about setting up ADB to push a rom to it, but will that work if i cant even mount the sd in the first place. CWM allows me to mount and say it should be active but i get nothing on the pc. Also which rom should i use to fix it.. also i follwoed the instructions and have Qksters IMEI backup script run (I'm not exactly sure what this does).
Thanks
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the samsung boot loop is to be expected when flashing cm9. If CM9 is not your target Rom, then having GApps on your SD card or not doesnt matter. Carefully refollow the step in CM9 then continue onto cm10. After you do the three finger salute, your cwm will be blue. if all else fails, odin back to stock and start over..just make sure you have GApps when you reach the time to flash cm10.
You need to go to mount then unmount the first set. Then re flashee infinitum.
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Hey guys!
So i had my HTC One S unlocked and rooted and all was fine until i gave my phone to my friends to flash a custom Rom into it... The problem is that it got stuck in the bootloop... After surfing the web for hours i think i only made it worse cuz now i cant get in the recovery anymore!
I got my HTC 4 days ago so Im not an expert at all...
Mainly when my friends saw that the rom failed and my phone got stuck in the bootloop the tried mounting the phone to the computer via recovery but the phone said that the mount failled! they did the wipe of cache and factory somthing...(i cant remember exactly cuz they did it and not me).
I have read that i need to install the RUU and i did but i got the error 132 signicher failed... so i did what was in here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
But failed at step 4 cuz i cant get the the recovery(when i press recovery it reboots and goes to "FASTBOOT USB"...
please help!
thesutgun said:
Hey guys!
So i had my HTC One S unlocked and rooted and all was fine until i gave my phone to my friends to flash a custom Rom into it... The problem is that it got stuck in the bootloop... After surfing the web for hours i think i only made it worse cuz now i cant get in the recovery anymore!
I got my HTC 4 days ago so Im not an expert at all...
Mainly when my friends saw that the rom failed and my phone got stuck in the bootloop the tried mounting the phone to the computer via recovery but the phone said that the mount failled! they did the wipe of cache and factory somthing...(i cant remember exactly cuz they did it and not me).
I have read that i need to install the RUU and i did but i got the error 132 signicher failed... so i did what was in here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
But failed at step 4 cuz i cant get the the recovery(when i press recovery it reboots and goes to "FASTBOOT USB"...
please help!
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Download twrp recovery IMG and flash it through fast boot to get recovery back.. Then go to boot loader select fast boot again and run cmd OEM relock and as long as you are using an ruu with the same or higher hboot you have currently have it will work.. If it doesn't then you need a different ruu...again the ruu needs to be same or higher than hboot version currently installed..
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well after countless hours i was able to get the recovery back!
the problem now is that in the recovery i press "mounts and storage" and "mount USB storage" it wrote:" E:unable to open ums lunfile (no suchfile or directory) "... im in the CWM recovery and the usb cable is connected to the conputer with the installed drivers...
also, i tried installing RUU's and they all failed in the same place :"signicher failled"
i noticed that there was a website where i could download all the original RUU's but is has shutted down for some reason...
BTW if there are any files i need to download could you please post the link cuz i have no idea where to look... if you cant post the link for some reason could you please post the full name of the file?
So I have advanced and now im in this situation:
I have a TWRP recovery... I enter mount. Check mount storage,data,cache but sd card wont mount...
X Unmount System
X Unmount DATA
X Unmount Cache
O Mount SD Card
My computer sees the phone as removble and askes me if i want to format it!
Should I format or should do something else?
thesutgun said:
So I have advanced and now im in this situation:
I have a TWRP recovery... I enter mount. Check mount storage,data,cache but sd card wont mount...
X Unmount System
X Unmount DATA
X Unmount Cache
O Mount SD Card
My computer sees the phone as removble and askes me if i want to format it!
Should I format or should do something else?
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Format it then again install recovery through fast boot.. On your PC pick and download a custom rom.. Open zip and extract boot.IMG file to PC in the location of your fast boot..boot phone into recovery mount SD ( it will mount fine after you format and re flash recovery ) move ROM zip to SD card... Boot back to fast boot this time open terminal type...fastboot flash boot boot.img... When done do... Fastboot wipe cache.... Then boot to recovery wipe every thing except SD card 3 times and install ROM zip.. After process is complete wipe only both caches one time... Reboot and you'll be good to go...
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Thanks!!!
That worked! Your a genius!
Not sure if anyone will check this thread anymore, but Im having almost the exact same issues as the guy above ^ and I tried the solutions given in this thread and Im still stuck on a bootloop. I have another thread on here and people are trying to help me but still nothing works. Ive tried installing dark jelly cuz they told me you dont have to worry about flashing a boot.img and it installed fine but went right into bootloop. So im kinda stuck. just branching out for answers at this point. Thanks for any help
Wow this thing sucks! I'm really appreciating my Samsung with Odin right now! So, I have years of experience rooting and flashing Samsung phones with minimal adb experience. My buddy from work asks me if I can try to fix his shield tab that he F'd up trying to flash a rom on. Come to find out he never unlocked the bootloader or flashed a recovery or rooted the dang thing, just tried to flash the rom over stock like a numbskull. We thought it was dead forever because the only thing that would mount or connect in adb was the side load through the stock recovery. So, I finally got it to connect to fastboot (don't ask me how, I don't know), unlocked the bootloader, and flashed twrp. Now it won't flash supersu in adb sideload, so I put it on an SD card (which now magically mounts and works now) and flashed the zip in recovery but it says at the very end of the process while trying to update the partitions that it can't mount the data and system partitions so I'm not sure if I'm actually getting root or not and if so if it's permanent even though it says "success" at the top after flashing. I have no way to tell. I think this is because they have been accidentally wiped. Do you think it is safe to try to flash a rom in recovery from external sd card? And if so, which one? I have no idea which version bootloader, kernel, or os is, or was, on this device, I'm not familiar with any of the roms for it, and I'm not sure what prerequisites there may be for some of them....
Thanks for the help!
rom fiend said:
it can't mount the data and system partitions so I'm not sure if I'm actually getting root or not and if so if it's permanent even though it says "success" at the top after flashing. I have no way to tell. I think this is because they have been accidentally wiped. Do you think it is safe to try to flash a rom in recovery from external sd card? And if so, which one?
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I had the same Problem with the partitions you discribed, have tried wipe them, change the file format and change it back?
I flashed a lot of Roms from the external SD Card and it worked every time.
I think you should go with Bliss Rom. ( Just try Lollipop and Marshmallow)
OverBit said:
I had the same Problem with the partitions you discribed, have tried wipe them, change the file format and change it back?
I flashed a lot of Roms from the external SD Card and it worked every time.
I think you should go with Bliss Rom. ( Just try Lollipop and Marshmallow)
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I can't wipe them because they won't mount. It's as if the partitions were erased completely. Not like the partitions were wiped, but like they don't exist at all anymore...
What do you mean by changing the file format? Format of what?
rom fiend said:
What do you mean by changing the file format? Format of what?
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TWRP, wipe ,Advanced wipe
If that doesn't work just try installing a rom, boot it
If that doesn't work try this
Tried all recovery options and tried flashing bliss 6.2 with no luck. It says that it flashes successfully but also shows some errors about not being able to mount the system and data partitions. Then when I try to reboot it gets stuck at the nvidia logo (this is the closest that I've gotten to booting a rom). I can provide pictures if you want. I'm going to try the steps that you linked to as soon as the files download.