Ok guys I really need your help. I messed up flashing my ZTE Blade and because I did things in the wrong order. Here's what I did:-
1. I upgraded gen1 to gen 2
2. I then wiped data/factory reset without flashing clockworkmod recovery.
3. The phone then rebooted and stayed on the green man screen and thats it.
4. I managed to finally find a clockworkmod that would work v3.0.1.4 none of the others came on, it just stayed at the green man screen.
5. I try flashing and all it say's:-
Install from sd card
Finding update
opening update
E:Can't open/sdcard/update.zip
(no such file or directory)
Installation aborted.
I did another phone at christmas and that worked fine because I did it in the right order. But I do remember when I flashed the clockworkmod it was green and upsidedown, but I can't find one that does that now.
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I was happily running CM7 7.0.2 when I decided to load up .3.
it bootlooped. I tried all kinds of stuff within bootloader...factory reset, cache wipe, delv cache wipe...nothing...then I repartitioned my card and I was screwed.
So I tried nvflash FULL restore, using bekit's original image
This seemed to run...but when the puffins came up...it still bootlooped.
and I lost recovery....it's now just a triangle with an exclamation point for 2 seconds then the puffin bootloop again.
i tried Flashing UPDATE.ZIP the old fashioned way
exclamation point for 2 seconds then the puffin bootloop
I am really at a loss here...not sure what I can do.
Any ideas?
Update....I used NVFlash CWM to get recovery back
when I tried to do a data/factory reset I get this:
e: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk3p2
(Invalid Argument)
Error mounting /data/
looks bad
Update2 : OK I tried to load an image.zip file from CWM....after three boot loops I'm stuck on the g-tablet tab.
tried to get back into recovery....didn't go...got some sort of cardboard box....now I'm stuck in g-tablet screen again.
Update 3 : the cardboard box was from "update the old fashion way"....so I followed the instructions and got the image.zip to load up again.....but I'm still stuck on g-tablet.
1) nvflash bekit's 1105 with CWM in place of part9.
2) Repartition 2048 and 0
3) Wipe everything
Then you should be ready to flash a new ROM.
First of all....thanks for your efforts.. however.....
No joy....I did just what you suggested....nvflash...part9
was able to get into CWR
wiped.
installed 3588...seemed to go ok, but now I'm just looking at a g-tablet logo for 10 minutes now....no bootloop at all...
When I tried to clear Delvic cache I got :
e: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk3p2
Invalid argument
I get the same error when I try to mount data....
Is my SD Card screwed up somehow? I repartitioned per your instructions.
Try it again but before doing step three nvflash back to bekit's 1105 and leave the stock recovery in then upgrade to 3588 (I prefer manually upgrading but OTA should work also).
K J Rad said:
Try it again but before doing step three nvflash back to bekit's 1105 and leave the stock recovery in then upgrade to 3588 (I prefer manually upgrading but OTA should work also).
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I'll try it tonight. Thanks so much for your help...I'm getting a little worried.
sudermatt said:
I'll try it tonight. Thanks so much for your help...I'm getting a little worried.
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Also try (Can't find the exact post) the utility that does a quick deletion/format for your GTAB. THEN try popping in a NVFLASH. Should shake out all the bad demons.
Have you re-downloaded the nvflash image in case the one you have is corrupted? Also another good starting point there.
UPDATE: Post for erasing/formatting your Gtab.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=974422
Ok guys I really need your help. I messed up flashing and because I did things in the wrong order. Here's what I did:-
1. I upgraded gen1 to gen 2
2. I then wiped data/factory reset without flashing clockworkmod recovery.
3. The phone then rebooted and stayed on the green man screen and thats it.
4. I managed to finally find a clockworkmod that would work v3.0.1.4 none of the others came on, it just stayed at the green man screen.
5. I try flashing and all it say's:-
Install from sd card
Finding update
opening update
E:Can't open/sdcard/update.zip
(no such file or directory)
Installation aborted.
I did another phone at christmas and that worked fine because I did it in the right order. But I do remember when I flashed the clockworkmod it was green and upsidedown, but I can't find one that does that now.
Hello.
Sorry I'm new to modifying my Android phone but a friend of mine who has flashed his phone wasn't able to help so I hope you can give me some advices.
First of all, I have to mention that i have bought the HTC Desire at ebay, so I don't know what the former owner has done with the phone.
At the start i made a factory reset.
Then I rooted the phone with unrevoked.
After that I have copied the RCMixS_v1.8_A2SD+_BravoHboot ROM on my sdcard.
When I know start into Recovery Mode I first wipe data and cache partition.
There he tells that he completed the tasks but Can't mount CACHE:recovery/log and Can't find MISC: (I don't know if this is a real error or not)
Next I install the zip from sdcard. Everything seems fine but at the end following messages appear:
Running A2SD+ Setup
Running ROM configuration scripts ...
Preparing ROM sdcard directory ...
Writing boot.img ...
assert failed: write_raw_image/"/tmp/boot.img","boot")
E:Error in /sdcard/RCMixS_v1.8_A2SD+_BravoHboot.zip
(Status 7)
Installation aborted.
First I thought that I've bricked the phone but everythink works fine, as if I haven't done anything...
I tried this also with some other ROMs but nothing really worked.
Informations about the system:
ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.7
HBOOT-0.93.0001
Android 2.2
Build-Number 2.33.163.1 CL277878 release-keys
Software-Number 2.33.163.1
Thanx for your upcoming help.
-Best regards
Have you checked the sdcard? Seems to me from the error message you posted that your phone has problems reading and/or writing to it. Try another "known good" card if possible.
This issue has been common on the Mytouch 4g and G2. I'm pretty sure the Desire HD and Mt4G have very similar hardware so it wouldn't surprise me if it has similar issues. try using the ****IMG.zip file related to your device. I dont know what the DHD is, like the MT4g it's PD15IMG.zip that reverts all to stock through Hboot. if you get Fail-PU errors in hboot you might be screwed.
I will try that out. I hope that will work.
Hello, it's me again.
I tried it out with another SD card with the same effect -> error while boot.img
Now i tried it with a goldcard and tried it out with PB99IMG.zip
nearly everything worked fine, dispite of radio_V2 -> Fail-PU
everything els was ok.
at the end there stood
partition update fail!
update fail
now when i start my phone, after the htc logo i can only see a black screen with a phone and a red exclamation mark.
I see the same, if i try to boot into the recovery.
I still can boot into hboot and fastboot
so now i went into fastboot and startet RUU_Bravo_Froyo_HTC_WWE_2.29.405.5_Radio_32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27_release_159811_signed.exe on my PC.
seems that it worked. now i can flash a new ROM. Thanks for your help.
Sorry it's me again....
I just dont wanna work... Now I have another Android version on my phone but still the same error.
Also when I try to backup
There's the error:
Backing up boot...
Error while dumping boot image!
It really seems that I just can't write boot images on the sd card. I've tried it out with another one. Maybe next week I can test it on a SD card of a friend of mine, who already flashed his phone with his card.
Current Versions:
ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.7 (same as before)
Software Number: 2.29.405.5 (downgrade worked)
it's me once more
i didn't had much time latly but i tried it out once again with another sd card. A friend of mine flashed his phone with it, but in my case, it didnt work.
Its again the error, when the system tries to write the boot.img on the sd card.
Any other ideas?
-with best regards
Yes. Flash AmonRA 2.0.0 or 2.0.1 recovery and try flashing rom again.
I waited 2 nights to register so I could wade through fixes and tips and have seem to come up with little to nothing. I have CWM flashed on my phone through ROM Manager with the recovery file replaced in the system/bin and the update zip in the root of the SD card.
When I access CWM and click on Wipe Data/Factory reset it breezes through the first few steps pretty quickly and then gives me this error:
E: format_volume: rfs format failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
It continues past this and then goes on to "formatting sd_card" and then just freezes. I left it on for 30mins and there was absolutely no progress. I've tried battery pulls and re-attempting the wipe with the same result. Have re-flashed CWM, ODIN'ed back to stock, etc etc and still run into the same snag. I'm beyond frustrated because since it never gets past this part I can't install the custom ROM I'm eying and it wipes enough data to have to ODIN every single time and re-root all over again. Just to be clear this error is NOT popping up on bootup but only during Data Wipe/Factory Reset and the only way out of the freeze is to do a battery pull which results in a soft brick.
If it helps any here is what I did prior to ever having run into this problem.
Rooted with SuperOneClick V.2.3.3
Installed ROM Manager
Installed RootBrowser Lite
Downloaded recovery and update zip
Placed both into root of SD card
Used RootBrowser Lite to move recovery file into system/bin
Booted into recovery mode
Attempted to Wipe Data/Factory Reset
Ran into snag on first try and every try thereafter
Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong, how to fix it or a workaround?
If possible a very detailed walk through would be appreciated as this is my first ROM flashing. Your help is greatly appreciated!
MidniteKitten said:
I waited 2 nights to register so I could wade through fixes and tips and have seem to come up with little to nothing. I have CWM flashed on my phone through ROM Manager with the recovery file replaced in the system/bin and the update zip in the root of the SD card.
When I access CWM and click on Wipe Data/Factory reset it breezes through the first few steps pretty quickly and then gives me this error:
E: format_volume: rfs format failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
It continues past this and then goes on to "formatting sd_card" and then just freezes. I left it on for 30mins and there was absolutely no progress. I've tried battery pulls and re-attempting the wipe with the same result. Have re-flashed CWM, ODIN'ed back to stock, etc etc and still run into the same snag. I'm beyond frustrated because since it never gets past this part I can't install the custom ROM I'm eying and it wipes enough data to have to ODIN every single time and re-root all over again. Just to be clear this error is NOT popping up on bootup but only during Data Wipe/Factory Reset and the only way out of the freeze is to do a battery pull which results in a soft brick.
If it helps any here is what I did prior to ever having run into this problem.
Rooted with SuperOneClick V.2.3.3
Installed ROM Manager
Installed RootBrowser Lite
Downloaded recovery and update zip
Placed both into root of SD card
Used RootBrowser Lite to move recovery file into system/bin
Booted into recovery mode
Attempted to Wipe Data/Factory Reset
Ran into snag on first try and every try thereafter
Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong, how to fix it or a workaround?
If possible a very detailed walk through would be appreciated as this is my first ROM flashing. Your help is greatly appreciated!
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Did you hit apply update.zip after booting into recovery the first time I don't see that listed in your steps
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azcledel said:
Did you hit apply update.zip after booting into recovery the first time I don't see that listed in your steps
Sent from my Team Nightmare Amaze4G with Sense 4.0
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No, actually, I didn't. I haven't seen a guide point it out or a video that went through this step. Lemme' give this a shot and see if that helps with the problem I'm running into Thanks for the quick response, hoping this is what I was missing!
azcledel said:
Did you hit apply update.zip after booting into recovery the first time I don't see that listed in your steps
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Unfortunately this didn't seem to fix my problem. Still encountering:
E:format_volume: make_ext4fs failed on /dev/block/mmblk0p2
Formatting /sdcard/ .android_secure...
And frozen again -_- It's bad enough that the sidekick sucks as stock (took me this long to finally want to do something about it) and that it's being difficult and resisting change.
Hmmm was your phone stock before you did anything to it? Or did you get the phone used or something?
My advice would be Odin to stock and start over try redownloading the recovery.zip to make sure it wasn't a bad download. And try again go slow and tripple check to make sure your following the instructions word for word. I've messed them up a few times cuz I got cocky but I got everything down from doing it so much and checking my work. The first time I rooted my sk4g I did it with adb not superoneclick and it was my first android phone it took me 2 hours of reading and following steps perfectly.
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go back to stock with odin,
Then root http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1100513
Flash cwm http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1124453
And them flash this kernel http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1663622 (dont freak out with the first boot with this kernel let it convert the partitions to ext4 and a loud voice will tell you what is going on)
Ive had that problem from flashing recovery from rom manager, and when it comes up i just return to stock. try to save and remove the update.zip from the sd card and see if you can get into recovery again and just flash the kernel(if cwm come up)
ultraprimeomega said:
go back to stock with odin,
Then root http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1100513
Flash cwm http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1124453
And them flash this kernel http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1663622 (dont freak out with the first boot with this kernel let it convert the partitions to ext4 and a loud voice will tell you what is going on)
Ive had that problem from flashing recovery from rom manager, and when it comes up i just return to stock. try to save and remove the update.zip from the sd card and see if you can get into recovery again and just flash the kernel(if cwm come up)
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You are my saviour! I seriously love you! This worked PERFECTLY! I'm now running Glorious Overdos v3.3 and loving every single second of it. Because of you my phone is no longer a nightmare. You deserve a thanks
I have been struggling with getting my Motorola Atrix 2 rooted. I finally got it rooted and tried to install a custom ROM. I started with installing CWM and flashing this CM10 port: (wangs) http://www.androidlawn.com/motorola-atrix-2-android-4-2-2-jelly-bean-cyanogenmod-10-1/
I found this to be buggy so I kept looking and I found this: altCyanogenMod http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2275529
I installed it according to the instruction in that thread and now my phone just hangs on the CM boot screen.
I am able to get in to bootloader via adb.
When i use adb to reboot in to recovery I get the android with the Red triangle "!". If I hold both volume up and down I can get in to "Android System Recovery <3e> Android system recovery utility" from this menu I am able to
reboot the phone
flash a zip from the sd card
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache
apply update from cache
These are the only options. When I try to flash a NEW ROM in the flash zip option it fails, saying "E:signature verification failed" then it aborts. I have tried this with 2 different ROMs
I don't know what else to try.
I think this happened because I might be an idiot and installed the altCM on the wrong kernel.
Please help this fool fix his phone! Thank you!
bump-I don't mean to pester. I only bump this because I posted in the middle of the night and this post got quickly buried.
Please help.
Thank you