I have the Nexus S 4G from Sprint and I was trying out the new recovery from TeamWin. Here is what I did:
flashed TeamWin recovery, boot into recovery, made nandroid backup (compressed), reboot into recovery, full wipe, restore nandroid, reboot.
With those steps everything went fine and my phone was running as normal, so I decided to add another step to my testing of the new recovery.
reboot into recovery, full wipe, flash cm7 nightly, boot into freshly installed rom, setup rom as normal. Then I booted back into recovery, full wipe, restore nandroid, reboot.
This time it boots into bootloader saying no boot image or recovery found and this is where the trouble begins. I booted into recovery, and its still teamwin recovery so I try to restore nandroid again and same results. So I go and fastboot flash clockworkmod recovery and boot into it. I try to restore nandroid that I have backed up for clockworkmod and it says can't write boot image. I tried newer version of clockworkmod with no result. I tried fastboot flash back to stock and still boot image won't flash. Tried odin and it hangs at the boot image also.
Anybody have any ideas that I can try, or am I just screwed?
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nvmd, just find a clockwork mod recovery i used 3.0.2.4 and use any rom i used cyanogen 7
Hi,
I have unlocked my bootloader(HBOOT 2.00.0002) using htcdev.com official method (still S-ON) and installed clockwork mod recovery v 5.0.2.0. Then I made a back up, I was running the stock rom (2.10.401.8). Everything went Ok.
Afer trying a couple of roms and getting some crashes, I decide to go back to my stock rom. Go to recovery, make the 3 wipes and restore. CWM says everything is ok. But after rebooting, every single time, the HTC white logo displays and them it goes to the clockworkmod screen.
Is there any extra step to restore a back up beeing s-on?
Flash the original kernel? I assume this still needs to be done even with a CWM backup?
SimonTS said:
Flash the original kernel? I assume this still needs to be done even with a CWM backup?
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After several tries it finally worked by flashing the original boot.img. Thanks!
I'm having the same problem again..
I flashed the ICS base rom (found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1859700) and its boot.img through clockworkmod. My desire s is unlocked via htcdev, so its S-On, which means the new radio was not flashed, right?
So I want to go back to my gingerbread stock rom back up ((2.10.401.8). Boot into recovery, wipe dalvik cache, wipe cache and wipe data, then restore the back up. Reboot into fastboot and flash boot.img extracted from the back up. Everything seems to be ok,but after rebooting its stuck at the htc white logo, and I've go through the whole proces 3 times now.
Am I doing something wrong or missing some step?
Thanks a lot!
I tried to flash a cm10 rom and i did thought i flashed the boot.img separately as i read you have to but it was stuck booting for at least 25 min so i gave up with that and tried to restore from a backup i made with twrp. I restored from the backup and tried to reboot but nothing happens, it shows the htc screen and then turns black and thats it. I can go into bootloader and recovery but im not sure what to do to get back. Should i try a ruu?
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I tried to flash a cm10 rom and i did thought i flashed the boot.img separately as i read you have to but it was stuck booting for at least 25 min so i gave up with that and tried to restore from a backup i made with twrp. I restored from the backup and tried to reboot but nothing happens, it shows the htc screen and then turns black and thats it. I can go into bootloader and recovery but im not sure what to do to get back. Should i try a ruu?
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Maybe it was a bad restore? or a bad backup? You could try restoring from your backup again.
Or blaze on and see if you can get CM10 up and running.
Did you wipe /cache/dalvik/system when coming from stock (before installing)? I've seen situations (on other devices), Where I've had to delete the /data partition as well, I'm not sure why it wouldn't boot, but it refused to get past the CM load screen until the /data partition was wiped. If it's a new phone and you don't have too much on the sdcard, this might be worth trying.
Once you have TWRP flashing ROM's shouldn't be too bad, it's just the "fastboot flash boot boot.img" that catches people out usually.
you still have to flash boot.img separate before/after a twrp restore.
Grab the boot.img from a stock rom
Wipe cache/dalvik
Factory reset
Bootloader, fastboot usb, then fastboot flash boot boot.img
Then restore the backup
Thanks everyone for the responses, I was able to get it working after trying a few more times and wiping everything. Not sure why it didnt work earlier but all of a sudden after trying it just worked.
I saw that TWRP was updated to 2.3.3, so I first made a backup of boot and recovery partitions in TWRP and named the backup "recovery" with compression enabled. I then rebooted system to use Flash Image GUI and the device hung at the boot animation. I reflashed the kernel in fastboot, wiped cache and dalvik, and it still hangs. I can still boot into recovery (never actually updated). Do I need to reflash the ROM? Was running King Kang and b6.
Edit: Well ended up doing a full wipe restoring rom and tibu. Still no idea what happened though. Making a backup shouldn't mess anything up like this...
5After installation of the image i when to the recovery to check if everything went well and after it i wipe cache and dalvik then restart system. Now is looping into recovery. Any help TIA.
EDIT: tried backing up in recovery and restore its still going back to recovery. Also tried flashing 3.0.1 still the problem persist.
EDIT: also if i dirty flash sultans rom will i be able to enter? I havent able to back up anything :/