Hi all, I recently got up the courage to attempt to install 3.1 on my UK Wifi xoom. I started by unlocking the bootloader. All went ok. Next I followed instructions on how to install the ClockworkMod Recovery. Installed it fine but couldn't boot into it.
Then rebooted to find my wifi had an error so i decided to perform a factory reset. The device rebooted into ClockworkMod Recovery and for some reason i played around with the 'Partition SD card' and made a partition... "I think".
It then turned off.. and nothing. I have tried the volume up + power button etc etc...
Any solutions or advice? PLEASE!?!
is it still recognized by PC in ANY way?
lexarjump said:
Hi all, I recently got up the courage to attempt to install 3.1 on my UK Wifi xoom. I started by unlocking the bootloader. All went ok. Next I followed instructions on how to install the ClockworkMod Recovery. Installed it fine but couldn't boot into it.
Then rebooted to find my wifi had an error so i decided to perform a factory reset. The device rebooted into ClockworkMod Recovery and for some reason i played around with the 'Partition SD card' and made a partition... "I think".
It then turned off.. and nothing. I have tried the volume up + power button etc etc...
Any solutions or advice? PLEASE!?!
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Sorry, but this sounds bad. Really bad.
Do a search through these forums. It appears that trying to partition using CWM ends up bricking the Xoom to the point that sending it to a service center and feigning ignorance is your only recourse.
Search through the forum, I hope I am wrong...but I don't think I am.
Not recognized at all - The only life i get out of it is the charging light.
i try to understand what you actually tried? u inserted a not-working sd in the SD-Slot and tried to partition it with CWM ?
Darn. I have had a quick look. I have a local technician looking at it at this present. But you have a good point. I could just say i hadn't a clue what i was doing.
lexarjump said:
Darn. I have had a quick look. I have a local technician looking at it at this present. But you have a good point. I could just say i hadn't a clue what i was doing.
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that enlarges the possibility for the brick....
as far is this is know, i cant be of help, hopefully someone else can!
i wish good luck!
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i try to understand what you actually tried? u inserted a not-working sd in the SD-Slot and tried to partition it with CWM ?
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No i did a factory reset and was presented with clockwork mod recovery and messed around with the partition SD card (There was no SD card in slot) created a partition, pressed reboot and didn't turn back on.
lexarjump said:
No i did a factory reset and was presented with clockwork mod recovery and messed around with the partition SD card (There was no SD card in slot) created a partition, pressed reboot and didn't turn back on.
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erm....if there was no SD Card in....how could CWM partition a SD card??
I have no idea. It gave me the option to do it. So i tried it basically. Biggest mistake of my life.
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I have no idea. It gave me the option to do it. So i tried it basically. Biggest mistake of my life.
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Okay, keep your head up. its no use in argueing, why u did what. i just wanted to understand what u did exactly.
I hope someone can assist u.... sorry for u man
Well there was no fix. I took it back into Curry's/PCWorld and they replaced it. I blamed it on the fact that the battery overheated. No questions asked.
But cheers for all of your advice guys! Much appreciated
lucky u....now NEVER do something you dont know a single FU** about
lexarjump said:
Well there was no fix. I took it back into Curry's/PCWorld and they replaced it. I blamed it on the fact that the battery overheated. No questions asked.
But cheers for all of your advice guys! Much appreciated
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Good for you, in the future please do those of us that make a living on technology a favor and dont ruin your device and then ask the store you bought it from to take responsibility for your mistake.
Hope you enjoy your replacement Xoom and please do me more careful with it.
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I was going to quickly change my rom as the one I was on went all messed up and so I went to clockworkmod, and me being an idiot, I formatted everything. And I mean everything, I had wiped my whole phone and sd card, and as a result if I tried to boot my Phone it just stayed on the White screen with htc in the green letters. I then tried downloading a rom on my computer, transferring it to a sd card, and putting that in my phone. I choose the zip and it says finding package.... Opening package..... Installing package..... Then it says installation aborted... So I am stuck with a phone that has no nandroid backups and no data, what do I do? Please help
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I was going to quickly change my rom as the one I was on went all messed up and so I went to clockworkmod, and me being an idiot, I formatted everything. And I mean everything, I had wiped my whole phone and sd card, and as a result if I tried to boot my Phone it just stayed on the White screen with htc in the green letters. I then tried downloading a rom on my computer, transferring it to a sd card, and putting that in my phone. I choose the zip and it says finding package.... Opening package..... Installing package..... Then it says installation aborted... So I am stuck with a phone that has no nandroid backups and no data, what do I do? Please help
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if you have a custom recovery installed you should be able to install a ROM without any problem. Maybe you should try a different ROM?
Okay I will try that
Thanks, so much it worked you are a lifesaver. Thought I was going to tell my dad that I had hacked my phone, and now its broken.
Gaff3rs said:
Thanks, so much it worked you are a lifesaver. Thought I was going to tell my dad that I had hacked my phone, and now its broken.
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great, no problem! glad i could halp u
Gaff3rs said:
Thanks, so much it worked you are a lifesaver. Thought I was going to tell my dad that I had hacked my phone, and now its broken.
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Lol !! That would have been something, right!.
Glad you made it out unscathed, brother.
great to read another XDA forum rescue complete successfully!
Please update post#1 (using Go advanced edit) and prefix the post title with [SOLVED] to indicate that the problem is resolved.
Update your thread title to [SOLVED], Wiil be Saving your all saviours time
After installing the newest Virtuous Infinity (although I'm not sure if it is related to the rom), things were great.
After 3 or 4 days though, I woke up to my phone not responding. It almost seems as if the phone processor is running at 1/8th the speed. The touch screen doesn't seem to respond very fast, in fact, I can never get past the lock screen because it does not take my input in properly.
When I try to boot into Clockwork, the phone is stuck with only the clockwork icon there, and any key stroke will cause the phone to reboot again.
When I try to boot into the bootloader, the phone will either freeze and require a battery pull, or this image will come up ->
http://imgur.com/2zHLH
Therefore, when I hook up via USB, I cannot use fastboot to reflash the phone, since it seems to be stuck at that point on bootloader.
Any clue what's broken??
Thanks in advance!
Did you happen to have any zip files inside your sd card?
All the symptoms above seems to point at the sdcard as the problem.
try removing your sdcard and boot it up
thanks!
however, even after removing the sdcard, the phone is still messed up.
any other suggestions? what would be the best method of wiping and restoring the phone if i cannot get into the bootloader or recovery?
n3rdftw said:
thanks!
however, even after removing the sdcard, the phone is still messed up.
any other suggestions? what would be the best method of wiping and restoring the phone if i cannot get into the bootloader or recovery?
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MAN! How weird! If it just started that out of the blue and was working fine before and you can't get into recovery either it sounds like you've had some kind of failure on the motherboard. You shouldn't have any problem swapping one with a hardware failure like that if that's actually what it is. I can't imagine ANYthing about a ROM that would do all that to one.
It COULD maybe be that your PG59IMG.zip file is corrupt & just stopping it. Can you delete & replace that file on the card and put it back in & reboot it?
n3rdftw said:
thanks!
however, even after removing the sdcard, the phone is still messed up.
any other suggestions? what would be the best method of wiping and restoring the phone if i cannot get into the bootloader or recovery?
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what do you mean by still messed up? same exact issues as before?
mattlowry said:
what do you mean by still messed up? same exact issues as before?
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yea, identical response from the phone
does this issue have anything to do with this ->?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17384086&postcount=4
looks like something about how the phone looks for a list of PG54 files before boot is completed, any clues if that may be why my phone is dying?
n3rdftw said:
does this issue have anything to do with this ->?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17384086&postcount=4
looks like something about how the phone looks for a list of PG54 files before boot is completed, any clues if that may be why my phone is dying?
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This is what WeekendsR2Short is talking about.
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MAN! How weird! If it just started that out of the blue and was working fine before and you can't get into recovery either it sounds like you've had some kind of failure on the motherboard. You shouldn't have any problem swapping one with a hardware failure like that if that's actually what it is. I can't imagine ANYthing about a ROM that would do all that to one.
It COULD maybe be that your PG59IMG.zip file is corrupt & just stopping it. Can you delete & replace that file on the card and put it back in & reboot it?
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Riyal said:
This is what WeekendsR2Short is talking about.
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Thanks Riyal. I get wordy sometimes.
**If replacing the PG59IMG file & rebooting DOES work, don't forget to go back & delete it or your system will find it and install it every time you reboot.**
I knew this day would come, I've traded PC trouble shooting for tablet troubleshooting. My son's tf300 gets to the screen where circles/dots go round and round and never gets any further. I am trying to learn everything I can and try everything I can before doing the wipe and starting over...as he has pictures and videos he'd like to save, and of course the all important saved game/app data...LOL. Anyway I'm new to tablets relatively speaking, but I've tried the volume down, and power button for doing a cold boot, same result. I've tried going to the recovery option just to see what that was about, and all I get is a flash of a screen saying something like updating android version or something like that and then the dead android with the usual red triangle and eventually the device will restart itself. I should that to him and told him he killed the android which gave me a puzzled look and then a smile...Anyway, you can't turn off the device nohow noway, except letting the battery drain completely.
I've been reading a little and learning about roots, backups, recoveries, etc... trying to come up with a plan of attack but feel like I'm spinning my wheels. Any advice here? and Can I access via PC to USB to device and just pull off his pics and videos to copy back over to the device after a wipe?
Problem started...I think when he ran the power dead completely and then had to restart...nor sure though... memories of a child are sketchy at best.
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I knew this day would come, I've traded PC trouble shooting for tablet troubleshooting. My son's tf300 gets to the screen where circles/dots go round and round and never gets any further. I am trying to learn everything I can and try everything I can before doing the wipe and starting over...as he has pictures and videos he'd like to save, and of course the all important saved game/app data...LOL. Anyway I'm new to tablets relatively speaking, but I've tried the volume down, and power button for doing a cold boot, same result. I've tried going to the recovery option just to see what that was about, and all I get is a flash of a screen saying something like updating android version or something like that and then the dead android with the usual red triangle and eventually the device will restart itself. I should that to him and told him he killed the android which gave me a puzzled look and then a smile...Anyway, you can't turn off the device nohow noway, except letting the battery drain completely.
I've been reading a little and learning about roots, backups, recoveries, etc... trying to come up with a plan of attack but feel like I'm spinning my wheels. Any advice here? and Can I access via PC to USB to device and just pull off his pics and videos to copy back over to the device after a wipe?
Problem started...I think when he ran the power dead completely and then had to restart...nor sure though... memories of a child are sketchy at best.
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I have a solution, but your not going to like it, all data will be lost....:crying:
1. Download the latest version of Android for your tablet. Make sure you download the correct SKU version.
A. To find the SKU, go into settings, About tablet, and look for your Build Number, There are two letters (such as US,WW, TW, etc.) that is your SKU. When downloading the zip from ASUS', you must download the correct SKU zip.
2. Decompress downloaded .zip file (it will be another .zip)
3. Rename it to:
A. For the TF700 and TF300: EP201_768_SDUPDATE.zip
B. For the TF101: E101_SDUPDATE.zip
4. Make sure your MicroSD card is formatted Fat32. It must be Fat32 Format or it will not work.
5. Copy the file to (the root directory of) your MicroSD
6. Insert the MicroSD into the tablet
7. Shutdown (power off) the tablet
8. Power it on by pressing and holding VOLUME DOWN and POWER buttons simultaneously
9. When you see white text in the top left corner of the screen, release the buttons ^^ and press VOLUME UP button (on RCK, this is your recovery which should already be selected) until you see Android logo and process bar
10. Give the update process 5-10 minutes. It should not take longer than that. If it happens to run for more than 45 minutes to an hour, force shut down the tablet and see if it boots. If it does not, try rerunning steps 7-9.
Let me know if you need any help along the way.... Thx as always lj
lj50036 said:
I have a solution, but your not going to like it, all data will be lost....:crying:
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Let me know if you need any help along the way.... Thx as always lj
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So the RCK thing doesn't do anything unless you have SD card in to do something that's on the card?
And there's no way to access what's on the device without getting it booted all the way?
Sounds like your saving me and my son from updating from his original Android version after a wipe...Thanks
SKU
chromegsx said:
So the RCK thing doesn't do anything unless you have SD card in to do something that's on the card?
And there's no way to access what's on the device without getting it booted all the way?
Sounds like your saving me and my son from updating from his original Android version after a wipe...Thanks
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Yes the tablet having a locked bootloader... You can only flash signed zip files...From the SDcard
When your on that screen with the RCK.. NEVER select the WIPE DATA.. Bad things will happen...
Also when your in the RCK screen.. That is called the bootloader screen....So you know if some one refers to it by its name.....
Also that is were you can find your SKU on the bootloader screen upper left in white letters... WW, US, TW ............... Make sure you get the right SKU from asus for your 300....
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Yes the tablet having a locked bootloader... You can only flash signed zip files...From the SDcard
When your on that screen with the RCK.. NEVER select the WIPE DATA.. Bad things will happen...
Also when your in the RCK screen.. That is called the bootloader screen....So you know if some one refers to it by its name.....
Also that is were you can find your SKU on the bootloader screen upper left in white letters... WW, US, TW ............... Make sure you get the right SKU from asus for your 300....
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Hey congrats on Recognized Contributor!
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Hey congrats on Recognized Contributor!
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I am happy about it.. Still so much to learn... Im not trying to let it go to my head...LOL:silly:
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... NEVER select the WIPE DATA.. Bad things will happen...
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As far as I know it's related only to custom recovery and if You have stock one it should work. Or I'm wrong?
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Graiden05 said:
As far as I know it's related only to custom recovery and if You have stock one it should work. Or I'm wrong?
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Yes that is correct. I just like to move people away from even thinking its an option, as I have had people with stock everything and the Wipe Data
icon has even given them trouble, its just not worth touching....LOL...Thx as always lj
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Yes that is correct. I just like to move people away from even thinking its an option, as I have had people with stock everything and the Wipe Data
icon has even given them trouble, its just not worth touching....LOL...Thx as always lj
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Yep when I first got my tablet i was so scared about going into that menu because I learned that it was only 3-4 clicks away from a brick.
lj50036 said:
Yes the tablet having a locked bootloader... You can only flash signed zip files...From the SDcard
When your on that screen with the RCK.. NEVER select the WIPE DATA.. Bad things will happen...
Also when your in the RCK screen.. That is called the bootloader screen....So you know if some one refers to it by its name.....
Also that is were you can find your SKU on the bootloader screen upper left in white letters... WW, US, TW ............... Make sure you get the right SKU from asus for your 300....
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Out of curiousity...Isn't doing these steps more or less just upgrading the firmware? Like getting an update from ASUS? If so, why will it lose all the data?
I haven't mustered up the courage yet to do this yet... actually it's more like getting the time to do it.
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Out of curiousity...Isn't doing these steps more or less just upgrading the firmware? Like getting an update from ASUS? If so, why will it lose all the data?
I haven't mustered up the courage yet to do this yet... actually it's more like getting the time to do it.
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Yes, that is correct..but its not a ota.... So the process will wipe all data....Thx always lj
You could try using ADB to try and pull your files. I faced a similar problem and was able to pull some of my files:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2253834
Sent from my R800i using xda-developers app.
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
UndisputedGuy said:
You could try using ADB to try and pull your files. I faced a similar problem and was able to pull some of my files:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2253834
Sent from my R800i using xda-developers app.
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
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Read your link. I have adb downloaded and cannot get it to list my device. I cannot see my device in device manager like you though.
chromegsx said:
Read your link. I have adb downloaded and cannot get it to list my device. I cannot see my device in device manager like you though.
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Try installing the universal naked drivers.
cmendonc2 said:
Try installing the universal naked drivers.
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Same result. Still nothing in Device manager.
chromegsx said:
Read your link. I have adb downloaded and cannot get it to list my device. I cannot see my device in device manager like you though.
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Apologies, I'm very rusty with this stuff now. If flashing a .blob file doesn't wipe data (I can't remember whether it does or not), perhaps you could try doing that if you're able to get into recovery?
Call me, Beep me, If you wanna reach me.
UndisputedGuy said:
Apologies, I'm very rusty with this stuff now. If flashing a .blob file doesn't wipe data (I can't remember whether it does or not), perhaps you could try doing that if you're able to get into recovery?
Call me, Beep me, If you wanna reach me.
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I just gave in and did the flash procedure. Looked like it went well, now I'm watching the circles for round again for the last 10 minutes.
chromegsx said:
I just gave in and did the flash procedure. Looked like it went well, now I'm watching the circles for round again for the last 10 minutes.
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Just wanted to follow up on this...lj50036 is top noctch helper here. going above and beyond does not even come close to explaining what he has tried to do for me. Ultimately it was after we hit a brick wall, that I suggested flashing back to an earlier version that finally worked. I'm not convinced flashing to the latest version (like I first tried) would not work, as I didn't personally create/rename the SD card to do the flash. but re-flashing the original firmware got the tablet to boot finally. Of course all was lost other than what had been automatically backed up via google servers. Pictures/videos back to exactly one year from when the pad stopped booting were recovered. Everything before a year was gone. No game data or installs were saved. I thought maybe it had to do with a space issue, but after re-installing every app my son had before and about 1GB worth of pics/videos restored, there is still 16GB left, I doubt game/user data would have consumed that much...so I still have no idea what might have cause the pad to stop booting. Other than it was trying to do something important when he ran the battery dead. So at this point I'm having my son clean out unwanted apps, and we are going to unlock and root after a proper backup is done. Thank you to all that have had input on my dilemma. I've learned a ton.
Hello, So it all started when I looked up online that I can increase my internal storage on my rooted Galaxy Grand Prime by making a second partition on my SD card. So I did some research on it and discovered I needed a SD card adapter so I can put my SD card into my computer and use some software to make the second partition on the SD card. I didn't have a SD card adapter at the moment and did some more digging on how to do this without a SD card adapter. Then I discovered a app called "Aparted" and downloaded it and tried to make the second partition when it failed. They said I had to disable it, and confused on what that meant I went to my settings and just unmounted it and shutdown my phone to see if that worked. I was an idiot. When I tried to turn on my phone again nothing happened, put it on the charger nothing, plugged it into my computer nothing, boot into safe mode, absolutely nothing happened. So I did some research on what the heck I done and came under the conclusion that my phone is hard-bricked and don't have the slightest idea on how to fix this... If anyone can help me it would be GREATLY appreciated. Because I have no idea on how to fix this.. Just in case here is my phone type again:
Galaxy Grand Prime SM-G530 and my carrier is Cricket
Seriously? Can someone help me?
why did u do it in the first place lmao.
Why don't you try flashing your original firmware using Odin?
He cant
dedq said:
Why don't you try flashing your original firmware using Odin?
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cause its hard-bricked. He cant go to odin nor recovery
Hard-bricked = cant do anything about it anymore
SoIomon said:
Hard-bricked = cant do anything about it anymore
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I don't know what the solution could be basically because I've never encountered that kind of case in my life. It could be hardware and maybe trying changing your motherboard could be the solution.
dedq said:
I don't know what the solution could be basically because I've never encountered that kind of case in my life. It could be hardware and maybe trying changing your motherboard could be the solution
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To be honest, thats the only way. Software-wise you cant do nothin
SoIomon said:
To be honest, thats the only way. Software-wise you cant do nothin
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I would really like to help he cannot even access the screen so hardly something is possible.
Is someone able to help me? I messed up in a big way. Long story short, I cannot seem to get the DATA partition back on my phone. I did read the part about encryption but was so excited I (Yes, confirmed dummy) was thinking that it meant android encryption and not simply lockscreen/password.
My passcode is correct, but the data is corrupted. I cannot repair the Data partition, nor can select it in TWRP. My computer no longer recognizes the phone. My backup somewhat works but not really, since the data part of the backup can't be installed.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I read the entire thread and thought I was prepared but nope. Or do I need to go phone shopping?
Peeptastic said:
Is someone able to help me? I messed up in a big way. Long story short, I cannot seem to get the DATA partition back on my phone. I did read the part about encryption but was so excited I (Yes, confirmed dummy) was thinking that it meant android encryption and not simply lockscreen/password.
My passcode is correct, but the data is corrupted. I cannot repair the Data partition, nor can select it in TWRP. My computer no longer recognizes the phone. My backup somewhat works but not really, since the data part of the backup can't be installed.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I read the entire thread and thought I was prepared but nope. Or do I need to go phone shopping?
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So why not just download the correct ruu for your phone ,,, flash that in download mode and start over ? Or has that been tried already?
It has not been tried. I didn't know what to do. I will try that, thank you. Any other tips or steps? Again, thank you!
Peeptastic said:
It has not been tried. I didn't know what to do. I will try that, thank you. Any other tips or steps? Again, thank you!
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Its pretty straight foward, load the correct ruu on the root of your sd card , rename it to 2pzcimg.zip , boot phone to download mode , press the up volume key when prompted and thats it. hth,, good luck,
Thanks! That worked and it was super super easy.
Peeptastic said:
Thanks! That worked and it was super super easy.
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Glad I could help