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[Q] Telus Milestone boot errors / wont recover

Hello,
I have a Telus milestone that I am using on ATT in the USA. Earlier tonight I installed app2sd. Everything was great, then when I restarted my phone it booted up goes to the unlock screen, I slide it to unlock and it gives me all these force closures, I am unabel to get past them. When I go to the Android system recovery and attempt to reflash the firmware it says:
verifying package...
E: failed to open /sdcard/update.zip (no such file or directory).
E: signature verification failed
install aborted.
I am going nuts, last time I had an issue I was able to reflash the firmware through the above process and worked fine. Now I cannot get it to do anything. I cannot get it to flash, and when I let it boot all the way I am unable to get the main screen. any suggestions? I really love this phone and want to get it working again. Please help.......

I forgot to mention, I had launchpro or launcherpro home screen installed. I think that when I installed the app2sd it might have copied that to the card, and now its missing on the device internal memory. That is why its not giving me the main screen or anything beyond just a force close screen.

jgregoryj1 said:
Hello,
I have a Telus milestone that I am using on ATT in the USA. Earlier tonight I installed app2sd. Everything was great, then when I restarted my phone it booted up goes to the unlock screen, I slide it to unlock and it gives me all these force closures, I am unabel to get past them. When I go to the Android system recovery and attempt to reflash the firmware it says:
verifying package...
E: failed to open /sdcard/update.zip (no such file or directory).
E: signature verification failed
install aborted.
I am going nuts, last time I had an issue I was able to reflash the firmware through the above process and worked fine. Now I cannot get it to do anything. I cannot get it to flash, and when I let it boot all the way I am unable to get the main screen. any suggestions? I really love this phone and want to get it working again. Please help.......
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Sounds like you partitioned your card for apps2sd and wiped out everything that was on it in the process. So any files, media, backups etc you had on the card might be gone now - and also the update.zip from whatever custom recovery you use (skrilax OpenRecovery, G.O.T OpenRecovery, etc) would be gone. I do hope you saved your nandroid backups somewhere else other than on the card itself.
The most direct way back to a bootable phone (as long as you don't mind out wiping any other mods you've made) is to flash an SBF file using RSDLite from the bootloader mode. Try flashing the service version, and if it still won't boot, try flashing the non-service version.
http://and-developers.com/sbf:milestone
If you do have a backup you want to restore, or if you just want to undo the apps2sd mod using the function available in the recovery you were using (if it has one), then you will need to place the custom recovery folder and update.zip back on the SD card and then you'll be able to boot into it.

I tried the flash file from the Telus Service version and it failed. I will try the other non service. I did take a look at my sdcard and all my files are still on it. I will use another sdcard for the non service version. Thank you for your help. Will leave reply on what happens. thank you again.

Okay. I have tried both the service and the non service versions. nothing happens. it just says no such file or directory. I am totally stumped. I have tried to reflash with other recoverys GOT and its the same results. I am at a loss as to what to do. Any suggestions?

When I try to do a factory reset it does not do anything, its says wiping, but everything is still on the phone. hmmm... I am at a loss as to what to do.

Okay. I had to download RSD lite, and use the power button / dpad up. I was then able to reflash. Whoo.... thought I was gonna hae a serious panic attack. Thank you for your input. I really apreciate it

You're welcome. The mode which allows RSD Lite to flash is the bootloader. On the Milestone it acts as the "master reset switch" if anything borks too completely.
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I have my milestone back to stock rom. I tried to do the app2sd again and it just put the phone in a boot loop. So I just removed it and did another reflash back again.
I have a question though. As I was reading about how to fix my phone last night I came across a modified version of the Telus Milestone firmware called TelusLite. I downloaded it, but it does not have a sbf file. It is a nandroid md5 file and a couple other files. How do I installl it? I tried repeatedly. I even tried the G.O.T. open recovery, I mean I tried to install that by the camera button/power button menu. But it just stops it saying no file or folder found. I am learning a lot about the phone and how it works but I cannot figure out how to install G.O.T. or any other open recovery software. Any help would be appreciated.

Something went wrong when flashing

So I rooted my phone a few months ago but there weren't many mods out yet, so I waited until just today. I saw this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1157593
I followed everything until I got to the part where I had to go into recovery mode, but before I was supposed to reinstall packages to get into CWM I accidently clicked on delete all user data and delete cache date because I misunderstood. So I got into CWM after and followed it and rebooted but nothing happened and the SGS4G screen just goes on and off. I didnt know what to do so I gave this a try. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1001759
I thought it would bring my phone back to stock and rooted because I couldnt recover or restore anything. It just put me in a more confused situation. When I reboot in recovery or just turn the power button on, the SGS4G screen goes on and off still.
So all I can do is this. Go to recovery. reboot,reinstall,delete user data or cache data. It says "signature verification failed" then "installation aborted" when I reinstall packages. And like I said, when I reboot the system all it does is the SGS4G screen problem.
Is there a way to start me fresh to a stock and rooted point? I dont think I have any files or anything on my phone anymore(if that is possible). I wanted to try this over again, but correctly obviously
Thanks for any help. I really need my phone soon

Were you in download mode when you used Odin? It should have worked. Make sure that it shows a yellow symbol with the android alien holding a shovel.
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Thanks for the reply! And yeah i was in download mode. Odin said it went through and it lead my phone into recovery phone. After that I rebooted but I'm still experiencing the SGS4G screen going on and off still. Nothing else loads.

How did you set up Odin? You got the correct file loaded into the PDA box?
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mrchovee said:
So I rooted my phone a few months ago but there weren't many mods out yet, so I waited until just today. I saw this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1157593
I followed everything until I got to the part where I had to go into recovery mode, but before I was supposed to reinstall packages to get into CWM I accidently clicked on delete all user data and delete cache date because I misunderstood. So I got into CWM after and followed it and rebooted but nothing happened and the SGS4G screen just goes on and off. I didnt know what to do so I gave this a try. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1001759
I thought it would bring my phone back to stock and rooted because I couldnt recover or restore anything. It just put me in a more confused situation. When I reboot in recovery or just turn the power button on, the SGS4G screen goes on and off still.
So all I can do is this. Go to recovery. reboot,reinstall,delete user data or cache data. It says "signature verification failed" then "installation aborted" when I reinstall packages. And like I said, when I reboot the system all it does is the SGS4G screen problem.
Is there a way to start me fresh to a stock and rooted point? I dont think I have any files or anything on my phone anymore(if that is possible). I wanted to try this over again, but correctly obviously
Thanks for any help. I really need my phone soon
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signature verificaton failed means u dont have a modified recovery record
u can get that out of the cwm final thread and push it to system/bin folder overwrite the one dont replace it that will solve that issue for u

I did exactly what the thread for Odin said. I already had the 64bit drivers installed. I downloaded the link that was provided for the ROM and then Odin. The rom took a while to download but it finally did. After that I held both volume buttons and then plugged in the usb and then it went into download mode. After that I opened odin and then clicked on PDA. The only thing that I could click on was the non-extracted rom that I downloaded aforementioned above.Gave it time to download and it said successful. Then I rebooted once it sent me to recovery mode. It also states to try and do it without sim and sd card in the phone which i just tried. It went through as well, but still has the SGS4G going on and off

RaverX3X said:
signature verificaton failed means u dont have a modified recovery record
u can get that out of the cwm final thread and push it to system/bin folder overwrite the one dont replace it that will solve that issue for u
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I would try that but idk how i would be able to push it into the system/bin folder when all my phone is letting me do is go into recovery mode

Did u flash ext4 yet?

A suggestion for you.
If you can get into Down load mode which it sounds like you can, I would use ODIN to flash KC1 with its pit, PDA, Phone and CSC files and let it fully load up. Then ODIN Whitehawk's deoxed KD1 + root and try to flash your other ROM again.
It is very hard to hard brick these phones. Always take care to make sure the mount points in recovery are set to unmount, mount, mount and finally unmount when instructed to do so.
If your getting stuck with the ext4 section which causes this boot loop alot, what I have done is to disable voodoo lagfix, reboot into the newly flashed ROM then go back into recovery and enable voodoo. Has always worked for me.
This is my first post so I apologize if I don't make any sense lol. I develop android apps for a medical software company and I'm wanting to start creating ROMs to help out this great community.
I forgot to mention: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1117554 - [REF]{BIBLE} Galaxy S 4G (7/24/11) <5:00pm cst> is your best friend

icbinb is a great rom. you will definitely have to odin, as bytesfree says. you should use kc1 by raver. after you odin kc1, boot up normally and let the rom settle in for 10 minutes. then get a root manager, such as super manager or root explorer. download the 2 files from krylons final cwm thread. move both to the proper location using the root manager. make sure the recovery file is named properly. if it has the extra .bin extension in the filename, remove it. then shut down the phone, reboot into recovery, go to reinstall packages and the orange cwm will load. once that loads up, factory reset, wipe cache, go to mounts and check the mounts (u,m,m,u), go to install from sd card, flash the ext4 converter immediately followed by icbinb. all of these zip files should be on the root of your sd. let me know how it goes.
if you get it to flash, remember to leave the phone sitting for 10-15 minutes in order for it to settle in.
also, bytefree, welcome to xda. glad to have you contributing.

As Jager said, ICBINB and others such as Black Ice are great ROMS with lots of tweaks and features. The guys that create these ROMs are awesome in their intellect and programming abilities. Mrchovee, once you get the hang of the steps required to flash a ROM it becomes second nature, just keep at it and don't let a gimped flash bring ya down man. As I said before, these little phones are hard to brick.

[Q] Need Major Help I Screwed Up

Hey ppl! I messed up my phone and I need some help. I have a G2x and I recently rooted it using the root.zip I found on one of the forum threads here. It worked fine and I flashed over to Eagleblood 2.5 and I didn't notice when I downloaded it that it didn't come with the google apps. I couldn't figure out how to get the google apps back into the phone since market wasn't installed. I tried downloading it but the phone kept telling me I don't have an SD Card being that I don't have an external one yet. Yes, I could have just downloaded it on pc and then transfered market apk via usb but I couldn't find the option to activate usb which was weird. Usually when you plug in your usb cable the driod icon pops up. So instead of flashing back using the backup I made on CWM I used nvflash and then used that LG tool to install V21E_00.kdz to install Gingerbread again. That's where everything messed up. I no longer was getting a cell signal and the battery icon had a ? in it. I assumed that the installation went bad to i did the process again with the nvflash and the V21E_00.kdz file. I got the same results again. I managed to get the wifi working again cause it wouldn't connect and downloaded cm7 7.1.0.1 to see if it would fix the problem. I flashed over and got the same results on cm7. No cell signal and battery icon screwed up. I gave up and did a full wipe and tried to install Gingerbread again. This time my pc wasn't reading my phone anymore when I connected it to the usb to use the LG tool to install V21E_00.kdz. Now my phone is in a cm7 boot cycle. If my phone is broken just tell me so I can dump it. My friend warned me about the G2x and I didnt listen cause I was in a hurry to get a nice phone. Any input and help would be greatly appreciated. If you guys need more info on anything please ask. If I can salvage this hunk o' junk I'm getting rid of it.

This phone is unbrickable damn near, have you tried the rom for recovery in development section? It will low level nvflash your phone to GB OTA 2.3.3 good luck.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17258229
Sent from my LG-P999 using xda premium

Great! Thanks for the help. The phone is somewhat alive but I still have no cell signal and my battery icon has a question mark in it again. I was reading on that thread you linked me mentioning to do a firmware upgrade using the kdz file or LG Tool. Do I have to flash the firmware to get the cell signal working and the battery icon to work? If so, where do I get the firmware to flash?

To fix the boot loop cycle just boot back into clockworkmod recovery and do a factory reset, wipe cache, Dalvik cache, and then reboot and give it several minutes (first boot takes a little longer).
Or since you said you have a backup, just boot into clockworkmod, do a factory reset, format /system, and then restore your backup.
Again, the first boot always takes a little longer.

Thanks phburk I managed to get the phone working again with the flash.bat file from the link posted but I still dont have cell signal and battery icon has a question mark in it. I'm trying to download and use the LG Update Tool to see if that flashes the firmware to get the cell signal and battery icon working again.

The LG Update Tool fails at 30%. I can't get wifi on the phone to work and I have no cell signal and battery icon has a question mark still. This phone has to be broken. I see no fix in site for this problem. Anyone want to trade a GS2 for a G2x?

Kolcrok78 said:
The LG Update Tool fails at 30%. I can't get wifi on the phone to work and I have no cell signal and battery icon has a question mark still. This phone has to be broken. I see no fix in site for this problem. Anyone want to trade a GS2 for a G2x?
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If you have a backup from a working configuration, try restoring that. Before you restore it, boot into clockworkmod and do a factory reset, and then format /system. THEN restore your backup.
After you restore allow the phone to reboot. If you still don't have signal then go to Settings > About Phone and see what it says for Baseband version.

Right now its going to show "unknown" for baseband. Might sound stupid but remove the battery sim card and sdcard for 5 minutes or so and then put them all back in and reboot. Try that after the factory wipes and installing a new rom. I've done that when I saw the "?" And no cell or data...
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I'll give it a shot. That's all I can do at the moment.
I no longer have a backup. The backup got corrupted that's why I've been trying other methods of restoring my phone. After running backup from CWM, the phone would reboot and stay on a black screen and flash. Screen would go dim then black like the backlight showing a black screen and dim again. That's all it kept doing and would not reboot. I tried doing a kdz flash but the pc wouldn't even recognize my phone when I plugged in the usb. (Yes, the drivers were installed and it was working. Previous to this I have kdz flashed twice. Phone has to be in S/W Update Mode by first pressing power button and as soon as the LG Logo shows up on the screen, let go of the power button and hold volume down.)
This resolved my reboot issue since I couldn't do a kdz flash.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1248644
It got my phone working but still have unknown baseband and a question mark inside my battery icon.
**Update**
I read several threads regarding unknown baseband issue.
I've tried this method:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1332350.html
Since I already just did the first part by using the flash.bat file all I had to do was use the kdz flash. Unfortunately, my pc is still not recognizing my phone when I plug it in to the usb while in S/W Update Mode. I tried using this method above since the phone doesn't have to be in S/W Update Mode.
Outcome:
The LG Update Tool used in the method above kept stalling at 4%.
I read in another thread that this LG Update Tool doesn't work on Gingerbread. This LG Update Tool only works on Froyo.
So my next option was to use this method and try installing Froyo:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048274
This method just didn't work period. Since I don't have baseband or wifi working on the phone I can't get into market to download Rom Manager and I can't install File Expert which I have backed up on my pc. I already had the _ExternalSD directory so I made a sub directory /clockworkmod and another subdirectory /backup in the previous subdirectory. Made this on both the External and Internal sd cards and CWM tells me Couldn't open directory - No files found. So installing Froyo this way was out of the question.
I found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1037120.html
This is the stock Froyo version before the Gingerbread update as a zip file.
Unfortunately, when I tried to install the zip file from CWM it didn't work. I unzipped the zip file and found 2 .bin files which answers my question why CWM didn't install the zip.
I tried this method as well:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1332350.html
This method involves the flash.bat file to be done as a prerequisite before flashing to kdz. To my understanding, the flash.bat file fixes the partitions that most likely were screwed up on the phone and the kdz flash fixes the baseband (update/repair). I still haven't been able to get that kdz flash v1e to work simply because my pc won't recognize my phone into the usb when its in S/W Update Mode. I'm leaning towards the LG Update Tool to fix my baseband but I just need to downgrade to Froyo.
Don't know what else to do. I've been at it for 2 days and I'm seriously going to give up and just cancel T-Mobile.

If one of the methods involves installing apps, u can use adb to install them from ur computer without having to copy them to ur phone. But that's if u can get it into usb debugging mode.
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When you installed the rom, there should've been an extra package for Google apps that you should have flashed along with the rom as well, but you did so many different things, I don't know what to say.

You don't need your backup, it won't fix your baseband if it's corrupted or at all because no one has been able to get this phone to independently flash a baseband and the only way is through running the Gingerbread update either with KDZ or the LG updater.
I also went through hell more than once when I bricked my phone a few times. The first time I spent almost 2 weeks at it until I fixed it with the help of others here.
I also had the KDZ update stop at 4% over and over again which drove me crazy with anxiety. I was desperate so, after a few of those 4% hangups, I decided to reinstall a ROM and kernel just to see if the phone's baseband had installed anyway. Well, what a surprise, it did work.
You should try KDZ update again and, when it stalls at 4%, leave it for about 20 minutes then install a ROM based on Android 2.3.3, such as Weapon 3, fix permissions then reboot. That's what worked for me once. Another time, I did the same but I installed MTK drivers first then ran KDZ which stopped at 4% too but it worked too.
Read post #20 in this thread about how someone else did that successfully: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1180177
Here's where the MTK driver is: http://www.4shared.com/file/EqniU1Xt/MCCI_r_Firmware_Update_Driver_.html
Kolcrok78 said:
I'll give it a shot. That's all I can do at the moment.
I no longer have a backup. The backup got corrupted that's why I've been trying other methods of restoring my phone. After running backup from CWM, the phone would reboot and stay on a black screen and flash. Screen would go dim then black like the backlight showing a black screen and dim again. That's all it kept doing and would not reboot. I tried doing a kdz flash but the pc wouldn't even recognize my phone when I plugged in the usb. (Yes, the drivers were installed and it was working. Previous to this I have kdz flashed twice. Phone has to be in S/W Update Mode by first pressing power button and as soon as the LG Logo shows up on the screen, let go of the power button and hold volume down.)
This resolved my reboot issue since I couldn't do a kdz flash.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1248644
It got my phone working but still have unknown baseband and a question mark inside my battery icon.
**Update**
I read several threads regarding unknown baseband issue.
I've tried this method:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1332350.html
Since I already just did the first part by using the flash.bat file all I had to do was use the kdz flash. Unfortunately, my pc is still not recognizing my phone when I plug it in to the usb while in S/W Update Mode. I tried using this method above since the phone doesn't have to be in S/W Update Mode.
Outcome:
The LG Update Tool used in the method above kept stalling at 4%.
I read in another thread that this LG Update Tool doesn't work on Gingerbread. This LG Update Tool only works on Froyo.
So my next option was to use this method and try installing Froyo:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048274
This method just didn't work period. Since I don't have baseband or wifi working on the phone I can't get into market to download Rom Manager and I can't install File Expert which I have backed up on my pc. I already had the _ExternalSD directory so I made a sub directory /clockworkmod and another subdirectory /backup in the previous subdirectory. Made this on both the External and Internal sd cards and CWM tells me Couldn't open directory - No files found. So installing Froyo this way was out of the question.
I found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1037120.html
This is the stock Froyo version before the Gingerbread update as a zip file.
Unfortunately, when I tried to install the zip file from CWM it didn't work. I unzipped the zip file and found 2 .bin files which answers my question why CWM didn't install the zip.
I tried this method as well:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1332350.html
This method involves the flash.bat file to be done as a prerequisite before flashing to kdz. To my understanding, the flash.bat file fixes the partitions that most likely were screwed up on the phone and the kdz flash fixes the baseband (update/repair). I still haven't been able to get that kdz flash v1e to work simply because my pc won't recognize my phone into the usb when its in S/W Update Mode. I'm leaning towards the LG Update Tool to fix my baseband but I just need to downgrade to Froyo.
Don't know what else to do. I've been at it for 2 days and I'm seriously going to give up and just cancel T-Mobile.
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[Q] Blue logo screen on g2x PLEASE HELP

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

crazian425 said:
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.

crazian425 said:
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

crazian425 said:
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.

[Q] Flashing Cyanogenmod 10 first time, won't get past boot up

Noob looking for all the help he can get!!!!!
Hi, I recently rooted my Samsung Galaxy S 2 for T-mobile, because I was sick of waiting for jelly bean to officialy come out for it, and ever since it's been a nightmare. I was running the most recent version of ICS that t-mobile has for my phone.
I got instructions on how to root at the unlocker . com
After that, I went to the Cyanogenmod website, went through their wiki and found the zip for my phone, (I also put the gapps zip on too). I booted into Clockwork mod recovery, did a back up, did a data wipe, but not a cache wipe as the instructions i was using from theunlocker.com did not say I had too. Flashed both zips from my external sd, then restarted. It booted with the Cyanogenmod name inside two spining circles. I left it like this knowing it may take a bit, and I come back 20 mins later expecting it to be done and it is in the same place i left it 20 mins ago. I decide to take out the battery, boot into Clockworkmod and restore. It booted fine back into ICS and all my data was still there, except all of the apps I had stored on my sd card would not work/show up with the icon it was supposed to. when i tapped it, it said that it was not installed on the phone. I decided not to let this worry me, as i decided to use ROM Manager app to do the job instead.
When i opened ROM Manager it prompted me to flash Clockworkmod recovery, so I did. It flashed my phone to Clockworkmod Recovery v6.0.2.7. I then went to download Cyanogenmod 10 for my phone. It downloaded with gapps 4.1. When I tapped install, it restarted my phone into Clockworkmod recovery, but did not install anything, just sent me to the main menu. So I decided i'd try getting the zip from the Cyanogenmod website again. I booted into Clockworkmod, wiped data AND cache this time. installed the zips, and restarted. I get the same problem, stuck at the cyanogenmod boot up circles spining. so i turn off my phone, boot back into clockworkmod, restore, and now i'm stuck in boot cycle with the stock ICS.
Please can anyone help me!?!?!?!

airplane888 said:
Noob looking for all the help he can get!!!!!
Hi, I recently rooted my Samsung Galaxy S 2 for T-mobile, because I was sick of waiting for jelly bean to officialy come out for it, and ever since it's been a nightmare. I was running the most recent version of ICS that t-mobile has for my phone.
I got instructions on how to root at the unlocker . com
After that, I went to the Cyanogenmod website, went through their wiki and found the zip for my phone, (I also put the gapps zip on too). I booted into Clockwork mod recovery, did a back up, did a data wipe, but not a cache wipe as the instructions i was using from theunlocker.com did not say I had too. Flashed both zips from my external sd, then restarted. It booted with the Cyanogenmod name inside two spining circles. I left it like this knowing it may take a bit, and I come back 20 mins later expecting it to be done and it is in the same place i left it 20 mins ago. I decide to take out the battery, boot into Clockworkmod and restore. It booted fine back into ICS and all my data was still there, except all of the apps I had stored on my sd card would not work/show up with the icon it was supposed to. when i tapped it, it said that it was not installed on the phone. I decided not to let this worry me, as i decided to use ROM Manager app to do the job instead.
When i opened ROM Manager it prompted me to flash Clockworkmod recovery, so I did. It flashed my phone to Clockworkmod Recovery v6.0.2.7. I then went to download Cyanogenmod 10 for my phone. It downloaded with gapps 4.1. When I tapped install, it restarted my phone into Clockworkmod recovery, but did not install anything, just sent me to the main menu. So I decided i'd try getting the zip from the Cyanogenmod website again. I booted into Clockworkmod, wiped data AND cache this time. installed the zips, and restarted. I get the same problem, stuck at the cyanogenmod boot up circles spining. so i turn off my phone, boot back into clockworkmod, restore, and now i'm stuck in boot cycle with the stock ICS.
Please can anyone help me!?!?!?!
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First things first: the Jelly Bean update brings with it changes to the core file system organization in Android. Google "Android 4.2 Updates, Multi-User, and TWRP | TeamWin" for a brief explanation from TWRP (which, by the way, I recommend over ClockworkMod Recovery, although both can do the job). That, I believe, explains your missing data.
How are you obtaining your ROM/gapps zips? Are you downloading on your phone? If so, over wifi or mobile data? It is always a good idea to a) download on your computer and transfer the file to the phone and b) make a note of the MD5 checksum and verify the zip file before installing (any file browser worth its salt should be able to generate an MD5 sum). What it sounds like to me is your ROM download was borked in some way but it installed far enough to screw with your file system. I would recommend using your ICS backup to connect to a computer and load a ROM file downloaded from there before attempting to re-flash.

Maybe, just maybe you didn't clear cache and dalvik when installing cm. I had this problem and I realised I didn't wipe it. I wiped cache and dalvik cache from cwm and it booted fine.
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First things first: the Jelly Bean update brings with it changes to the core file system organization in Android. Google "Android 4.2 Updates, Multi-User, and TWRP | TeamWin" for a brief explanation from TWRP (which, by the way, I recommend over ClockworkMod Recovery, although both can do the job). That, I believe, explains your missing data.
How are you obtaining your ROM/gapps zips? Are you downloading on your phone? If so, over wifi or mobile data? It is always a good idea to a) download on your computer and transfer the file to the phone and b) make a note of the MD5 checksum and verify the zip file before installing (any file browser worth its salt should be able to generate an MD5 sum). What it sounds like to me is your ROM download was borked in some way but it installed far enough to screw with your file system. I would recommend using your ICS backup to connect to a computer and load a ROM file downloaded from there before attempting to re-flash.
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Thanks I will look into TWRP. I am getting my ROM/gapps zips straight from cyanogenmod's wiki for my phone, i get gapps from the link they provide. As for MD5, I do not know what that is other than it was generated when i backed up, and checked when i restored.

i have the same problem
i tried it with my galaxy fit s5670
i tried to flash cm-10.1-20130117-NIGHTLY-beni, some another version named of jelly bean pure rom and also TouchWiz_JB_V5
always the same thing it gets stuck at logo than nothing
i did everithing in order clear data, factory reset, clear cache, clear dalvik cache through cwm recovery
can someone help?
is it because of low int. space?
i found app named s2e to make sd card as int. memory but it didn't work
any suggestions?
thanks in advance

Here's my new problem, I'm stuck in boot loop with my restore of stock ICS, so when I go into download mode (+and- with power button while usb plugged in) I hear the "ching" that windows makes when you plug in a usb device, bu when I navigate to where removable disc should be in my computer, it is not there, so i don't know what to do, I just want my phone to work again, even if that means starting all over with stock ICS.
I appreciate your time and help.

airplane888 said:
Here's my new problem, I'm stuck in boot loop with my restore of stock ICS, so when I go into download mode (+and- with power button while usb plugged in) I hear the "ching" that windows makes when you plug in a usb device, bu when I navigate to where removable disc should be in my computer, it is not there, so i don't know what to do, I just want my phone to work again, even if that means starting all over with stock ICS.
I appreciate your time and help.
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what ROM are you coming from?

Sounds to me like the new multi-user stuff
I experienced something similar and determined that the phone wasn't hung at that bootscreen -- it was busy moving my 18 gigs of stuff (i9300) from /storage/sdcard to /storage/sdcard/0. Apparently this is the "home data" folder for the primary user of a 4.2 device and CM10.1 (I'm assuming you're using that because of the problem) appears to be that way. It would have been nice to know beforehand that I should have just waited the 1/2-hour I needed (took about that long to move back what had been moved; very little hadn't)
So look for that 0 folder and move the contents up one -- your old ROM will (hopefully) be the way it was before. If you decide to go CM10.1 again, just wait, *really* long, at first boot -- or clean out your internal sd card to make the transition quicker.
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airplane888 said:
Here's my new problem, I'm stuck in boot loop with my restore of stock ICS, so when I go into download mode (+and- with power button while usb plugged in) I hear the "ching" that windows makes when you plug in a usb device, bu when I navigate to where removable disc should be in my computer, it is not there, so i don't know what to do, I just want my phone to work again, even if that means starting all over with stock ICS.
I appreciate your time and help.
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You won't see it appear as removable storage because it's in download mode -- removable storage (and the later MTP mode) are done by the OS, and the downloader screen is much "dumber" than that.
HOWEVER, all is not lost!
Try get a ROM which you can flash with ODIN. Either something off of www . samfirmware . com (stock firmwares available there) or DarkyROM (darkyrom . com) (Sorry, can't post actual links because I'm apparently not allowed to until I've posted more stuff . I've found the S1 and S3 to be practically unbrickable in this regard -- I assume the S2 to be the same. ODIN can push a completely new ROM onto your device, rescuing it. If you download from samfirmware, there is a pdf with instructions available on their site, but it basically boils down to:
1) Download a ROM. If you are downloading a zip file, extract the .tar.md5 file inside somewhere -- this is the file you need to flash via ODIN
1) ensure you have the samsung drivers installed (they will be if you have Kies installed, otherwise google for them -- or ask, and I'll try to help)
2) put your phone into download mode (vol-down+home+power)
3) plug your phone into your PC
4) fire up ODIN, you should see a message about a connected device on-screen
5) click the "PDA" button, browse to the ROM image (the .tar.md5 file) and select it
6) the default options have always worked for me -- just click "Start". The process will take some time, but there is feedback in ODIN. Your phone should (after 1-5 minutes) reboot into a fresh, clean ROM.
If you installed a stock ROM from samfirmware.com, you'll have to go about rooting and installing Clockwork mod again. Hope this helps.