Hello. This will seem like a dumb question but I'll ask it anyway.
So, at this time I am running Revolution HD 3.0.3 and have a ton of applications and stuff on the phone. What I noticed, is that my phone has gotten really, really laggy and slow [ don't know why ]. So I'd like to start fresh [ like installing windows on a new HDD ]. My idea was to do a factory reset and then clean the SD card so it's empty. [ I have no original back up, don't think I need it. ]
But, will the factory reset wipe recovery and Clockwork from the phone too? Or will I still be able to install the new ROM?
Oh, I don't really care if I loose all the apps and settings. But I'll do a backup of my files, because those I need.
So, will my plan succeed?
It always good to full wipe before flashing new ROMs to clean up crap. Clearing junk off your SD card can't hurt either since Android puts loads of files there as well.
Just do backup in recovery, full wipe, and restore. Should do the trick
So, factory reset and memory card wipe won't kill Clockwork and all the other things I need to install a new ROM?
No, no, don't do it from menu. Shut phone down, hold -vol key and power up. Then choose recovery and backup. Then wipe, then restore backup.
Tomekks said:
So, factory reset and memory card wipe won't kill Clockwork and all the other things I need to install a new ROM?
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As I am thinking of installing the new Revolutionary HD, I think I can skip this step, because it comes with super wipe script. So, I'll stick to that. BUT, should I delete the stuff from my SD card before or after installing the rom?
Tomekks said:
As I am thinking of installing the new Revolutionary HD, I think I can skip this step, because it comes with super wipe script. So, I'll stick to that. BUT, should I delete the stuff from my SD card before or after installing the rom?
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Nope, unless you want to starc completely clean. There are some files stored on sd, but they get deleted with wipe. Sit back and relax.
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Does anyone have the htc phone.apk??? i accidentally and very stupidly deleted mines from my system applications using root explorer. i cant make calls without it.
chrisw491 said:
Does anyone have the htc phone.apk??? i accidentally and very stupidly deleted mines from my system applications using root explorer. i cant make calls without it.
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if you have a custom rom, either flash the Nandroid back up or else Flash a new rom or else you can strip a rom of the Phone.apk file
ok i have a MAJOR problem. im kind of a noob at this stuff so im still learning. i was messing in my system files trying different phone.apk. i think i may have deleted something essential. when i turn my phone on it doesnt get past the boot animation. my phone was rooted with unrevoked 3. but everytime i try to install a new rom using clock work recovery, it gets to the part where it "opens update pakage" and just stops and goes back to the first menu screen of clockwork. i dont have a nandroid backup either so i cant even restore.
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ok i have a MAJOR problem. im kind of a noob at this stuff so im still learning. i was messing in my system files trying different phone.apk. i think i may have deleted something essential. when i turn my phone on it doesnt get past the boot animation. my phone was rooted with unrevoked 3. but everytime i try to install a new rom using clock work recovery, it gets to the part where it "opens update pakage" and just stops and goes back to the first menu screen of clockwork. i dont have a nandroid backup either so i cant even restore.
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try wiping the phone in the recovery, wipe everything then install a new rom, sometimes not wiping screws up the installation
Diamond_dawg said:
try wiping the phone in the recovery, wipe everything then install a new rom, sometimes not wiping screws up the installation
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yea i tried wiping the cache and wipe data/factory reset but I still get the same results. im willing to try anything.
chrisw491 said:
yea i tried wiping the cache and wipe data/factory reset but I still get the same results. im willing to try anything.
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try posting this in the Evo forum, they will help you better
I’m hoping that someone may read this and have an idea of something to try. Or something I’m missing.
I’ve worked on and rooted multiple android phones and never once had an issue until the thunderbolt.
A friend has a thunderbolt that we previously rooted and all was working well until one day after a reboot the phone got stuck at the white HTC boot screen and then after rebooting a second time, the phone essentially “restored” a stored image of some sort. Now EVERY time you reboot the phone, it first boots and gets stuck at the HTC white boot screen, then after rebooting it a second time, it goes back to this exact same “stored image” state. If you change the desktop settings, remove and install apps and then reboot (twice), the apps you removed come back, the apps you downloaded are gone and the desktop goes back to this “stored” state.
I’ve tried re-rooting, unrooting, auto root, auto unroot, fix permissions via clockwork recovery as well as through rom manager…no matter what I do to this phone after It reboots (twice), it constantly goes back to the same “stored image”
Also, after flashing a PG05IMG.zip file through HBOOT, when the phone reboots its exhibits the same behavior..gets stuck at white HTC screen, then second boot brings the phone RIGHT back to the “stored image” state.
Any ideas or help appreciated!
i think i saw someone else with this. let me see if i can find post.
take the sd card out
put sd card into a computer
delete/rename PG05IMG.zip
put sd card back in phone
reboot
sublimaze said:
take the sd card out
put sd card into a computer
delete/rename PG05IMG.zip
put sd card back in phone
reboot
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What I was going to say.
Are you leaving the PG05IMG.zip on the SD card?
sublimaze said:
take the sd card out
put sd card into a computer
delete/rename PG05IMG.zip
put sd card back in phone
reboot
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I wish it were that simple!! Unfortunately its not a bad /sdcard/PG05IMG.zip file that is being loaded back onto the phone. I verified this by booting the phone without the sdcard at all.
have you unrooted and rerooted?
Also do you have anything setup with Ti Backup?
boostenmkiv said:
I wish it were that simple!! Unfortunately its not a bad /sdcard/PG05IMG.zip file that is being loaded back onto the phone. I verified this by booting the phone without the sdcard at all.
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The problem your having is ROM related not radio related. The PG05IMG file should have nothing to do with it. You need to do a wipe/factory reset and flash a new ROM. With those problems I wouldn't trust possibly restoring a backup of a corrupted ROM
ScoobarSTI said:
have you unrooted and rerooted?
Also do you have anything setup with Ti Backup?
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I attempted to unroot and even re-root, but NOTHING will take...no matter what I flash, the phone will ALWAYS revert back to this same image.
Ti backup is installed but only has a couple apps backed up
I would wipe everything and format system
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00negative said:
I would wipe everything and format system
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Via which method?
RootandBoot, unfortunately even trying to flash new ROMs result in the exact same result...boot to white htc, gets stuck..reboot phone once more and it goes back to this crap image.
I also did the factory reset and also all 3 wipes (data, cache, dalvik) in clockwork...I even ADB shell'd into the phone and deleted stuff from system...after the double reboot...its back!
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RootandBoot, unfortunately even trying to flash new ROMs result in the exact same result...boot to white htc, gets stuck..reboot phone once more and it goes back to this crap image.
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Very strange. Do you think the "stored image" is a nandroid backup?
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Via which method?
RootandBoot, unfortunately even trying to flash new ROMs result in the exact same result...boot to white htc, gets stuck..reboot phone once more and it goes back to this crap image.
I also did the factory reset and also all 3 wipes (data, cache, dalvik) in clockwork...I even ADB shell'd into the phone and deleted stuff from system...after the double reboot...its back!
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Format /system via CWM. Mounts and storage.
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Very strange. Do you think the "stored image" is a nandroid backup?
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Thats a good question. I don't think the person who owns this phone actually has ever done a backup via clockwork or through rom manager...and when i went into clockwork restore, there weren't any backups visible.
Yes, this is the most odd android problem i've tried to help fix!
cam30era said:
Format /system via CWM. Mounts and storage.
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Format failed...tried remounting and unmounting..no go
If all else fails, go back to bone stock, reboot a few times & see if the "stored image" recurs
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If all else fails, go back to bone stock, reboot a few times & see if the "stored image" recurs
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Thats the problem...I've been trying to get the phone to stock...actually trying to get it to do anything at this point. As soon as I try to flash ANYTHING, it doesn't work.
That is the most bizarre behavior I've ever come across, and I've had 3 android phones. If you can't get it back to stock, then I have no idea what to try next. Have you tried the IRC channel?
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I was planning on backing up my phone before a mod.
I downloaded and installed ROM Manager, then the Clockwork mod.
Installing the Clockword mod, the program asked to reboot to complete the installation. I rebooted.
upon reboot it wiped my phone back to original including the sd card WTF!!!!!!!
is going on!
How do I get back my configuration?
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I was planning on backing up my phone before a mod.
I downloaded and installed ROM Manager, then the Clockwork mod.
Installing the Clockword mod, the program asked to reboot to complete the installation. I rebooted.
upon reboot it wiped my phone back to original including the sd card WTF!!!!!!!
is going on!
How do I get back my configuration?
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I am afraid that you actually install a Rom. When you flash the CWM Recovery the phone does not reboot. It just flashes on running the app. If your configuration and SDcard were erased then there is no much you can do about it. Is really strange, never happened to me when copying the current rom.
so what you're telling me is I'm screwed.
F#$$%^#^#$%K
how do i reinstall all my apps.
the market tells me the apps are already installed, and won't allow me to redownload them.
at this point i'm pulling my hair out!!!!!!!!!!
terraterm said:
how do i reinstall all my apps.
the market tells me the apps are already installed, and won't allow me to redownload them.
at this point i'm pulling my hair out!!!!!!!!!!
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That's kinda weird. The apps must be in your phone....so actually didn´t erase them....That means that you haven't gone to a full wipe. Have you tried opening them from the market??
I hadn't setup the market acct. on the phone.
once that was done, i was able to reinstall.
now back to the beginning
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I hadn't setup the market acct. on the phone.
once that was done, i was able to reinstall.
now back to the beginning
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Yeah I am afraid that you will have to set everything up again. Anyway, Before doing it again, try to make a nandroid backup first and see what happens. If that goes ok, the start from scratch...
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I'll be doing multi backups, which was my original plan
I'll keep my fingers crossed
Hi as its my first post i cannot post in the specific development thread to this particular ROM.
I haven't updated my ROM in sometime. Currently my phone says i have:
Android Version - 4.0.3
HTC Sense version - 3.6
Software Number - Android Revolution HD 6.6.2 by mike1986
The newest rom version is 6.8.* and i was wondering the process to update from that version to this newer one. Or how to move to a different custom rom.
If you need more information then please ask. Im new here and just learning the ropes. Thanks in advance.
Josh.
Hi if your s off here is how you do it. Place rom on SD card by first downloading from computer than connecting with USB cable to phone to computer than share the rom, usually to disk drive e. This places it on SD card root. Then go into recovery and wipe cash then wipe dalvik then wipe data factory reset. Then choose install zip from SD card, then choose zip from SD card. Then scroll down and find your rom. Install the rom than reboot your phone. That's it. But before you flash anything do a nandroid backup of your current rom incase you get into a pinch you can restore your old rom easily. Now if your s on it's different. You will have to flash boot image I'm so off and not exactly familiar with every step for that but there is a great guide flashing roms with s on you can read if need be. But if your so off those are all the steps you need. Hope I've helped and happy flashing.
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realsis said:
Hi if your s off here is how you do it. Place rom on SD card by first downloading from computer than connecting with USB cable to phone to computer than share the rom, usually to disk drive e. This places it on SD card root. Then go into recovery and wipe cash then wipe dalvik then wipe data factory reset. Then choose install zip from SD card, then choose zip from SD card. Then scroll down and find your rom. Install the rom than reboot your phone. That's it. But before you flash anything do a nandroid backup of your current rom incase you get into a pinch you can restore your old rom easily. Now if your s on it's different. You will have to flash boot image I'm so off and not exactly familiar with every step for that but there is a great guide flashing roms with s on you can read if need be. But if your so off those are all the steps you need. Hope I've helped and happy flashing.
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If he is going to update the ROM, you don't need to wipe anything often. You need to look to the forum and their they will say in the 1st or 2nd post how to install the ROM and if you are going to update the ROM it will often say you don't need to wipe anything. But if you want to be sure just read that post.
It's always a good idea to wipe as to prevent any Wi-Fi or other issues. I updated my rom and didn't do a full wipe and I had Wi-Fi issues, I went back reinstalled with full wipe now Wi-Fi works perfectly. In my opinion it's good to wipe.
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It's always a good idea to wipe as to prevent any Wi-Fi or other issues.
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It's really not ncessessary for small incrimental updates, which most nightly builds are.
However, this guy is going from ARHD 6.6 to 6.8. The ARHD page says you don't need to do a full wipe if coming from 6.7...which kind of implies that you do need a full wipe if coming from an earlier build.
So a full wipe would probably be recomended.
As for normal updating opperations...
Sure, things CAN get screwy when flashing over a previous build, but they usually do not. And if you are going to be updating regularly then it's really a gigantic waste of time to do a full wipe every 2-3 days since you'll spend an hour or 2 resetting everything up. Over a month that might be 18-24 hours just redoing settings, in hopes of avoiding a random error that might happen once every 2 months of flashing. It's kind of like driving 20 miles to save a penny on a gallon of gas. You spend more to get there than you save.
Always recomended to do a full nandroid backup first through. So if it doesn't work you can revert back to what you had quickly and save the full wipe and fresh install for a time when you've got more time to redo everything.
6.6 and 6.8 use different firmware bases...
Not wiping when he updets now only means he'll get trusted, and wipe later
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really grateful for all of the responses. I think to be safe and just for the sake of a few hours ill do a full back up and wipe before installing.
Hello, I am in a bit of a jam and am trying to find the best way out.
My device is encrypted using the native Android feature. I have Lean Kernel and CleanROM on the device. So it is rooted/unlocked. I was trying to clean the device further by uninstalling some useless apps with Titanium Backup. Turns out I messed up on something..
When the phone boots to the encrypted device screen, the keyboard doesn't show up! I am not able to get into the phone to do anything!
I have the latest CWM recovery installed. I tried a factory reset and such, but it says it fails to mount the internal SD card. /:
Anyone know how I can fix this and flash a new CleanROM? Data wiping is not a problem for me, but CWM refuses to mount the SD card to do it..
Any advice? I am relatively new to the Android scene, so try not to make things too complicated.
Odin?
EatonZ said:
Hello, I am in a bit of a jam and am trying to find the best way out.
My device is encrypted using the native Android feature. I have Lean Kernel and CleanROM on the device. So it is rooted/unlocked. I was trying to clean the device further by uninstalling some useless apps with Titanium Backup. Turns out I messed up on something..
When the phone boots to the encrypted device screen, the keyboard doesn't show up! I am not able to get into the phone to do anything!
I have the latest CWM recovery installed. I tried a factory reset and such, but it says it fails to mount the internal SD card. /:
Anyone know how I can fix this and flash a new CleanROM? Data wiping is not a problem for me, but CWM refuses to mount the SD card to do it..
Any advice? I am relatively new to the Android scene, so try not to make things too complicated.
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This probably wouldn't work, but have you tried reflashing with Odin?
budzylikessoup said:
This probably wouldn't work, but have you tried reflashing with Odin?
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I am looking at this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1984436
I am downloading the very first package. Since that seems to wipe everything, which is what I want at this point.
Will flashing that work?
I'm not sure if it will work, as I don't encrypt my device. What it will do is wipe your system, data, etc. partitions, but it won't touch your internal SD. This will probably be fine; it will install a keyboard and you should be able to enter your password, that is, if it can flash the ROM properly.
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budzylikessoup said:
I'm not sure if it will work, as I don't encrypt my device. What it will do is wipe your system, data, etc. partitions, but it won't touch your internal SD. This will probably be fine; it will install a keyboard and you should be able to enter your password, that is, if it can flash the ROM properly.
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I'm still trying to understand how Android storage works, so I may sound like a noob here haha..
All I have is an internal SD card. I don't have an external one or anything. Are system, data located on another internal flash chip or something? If they are on the internal SD, I would imagine everything would be formatted and reset once this is flashed.
Sorry, I read the linked post wrong...So this will wipe everything, system, data, and internal SD.
As for the difference, the system and data are different partitions than the internal SD.. so normally when you factory reset in CWM, it just wipes the data, not your internal SD or system. What this means is that it won't touch some files, like ones you download from the internet, but it will get rid of all of your apps and appdata, as you know, and these are stored in the data partition.
I got it sorted. Thanks for the help.
Glad I could help!
EatonZ said:
I am looking at this thread:
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I am downloading the very first package. Since that seems to wipe everything, which is what I want at this point.
Will flashing that work?
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Just wanna say this thread was a lifesaver, and I'll just leave my experience here for fellow noobs, like myself, stumbling into this issue.
I CMod'd my S3 with Clockwork (following very detailed instructions) and tried out encryption (knowing ahead of time that a factory reset would be in order if I didn't like it). As you all know Clockwork has trouble mounting the encrypted /sdcard/ directory, and won't do the factory reset. I was afraid that since Clockwork couldn't deal with the encrypted data, so too might Odin, leading to the risk of bricking. This thread gave me enough courage to give it a go. Following the above linked instructions solved the problem. Odin had no problem wiping and writing over the encrypted data. after I was back to stock I ran through installing Clockwork and CMod again. And just like that, the problem's fixed.
Thanks a bunch everyone!
EDIT:
I just got a response on twitter from a friend who ran into the same issue with clockwork. According to him, apparently TWRP doesn't have this flaw. My phone's working now and I don't want to monkey around with it anymore, but maybe a more experienced user out there could comment on/confirm this, and maybe add the info to the tutorials (if it's correct).
Thanks again!
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Just wanna say this post was a lifesaver, and I'll just leave my experience here for fellow noobs, like myself, stumbling into this issue.
I CMod'd my S3 with Clockwork (following very detailed instructions) and tried out encryption (knowing ahead of time that a factory reset would be in order if I didn't like it). As you all know Clockwork has trouble mounting the encrypted /sdcard/ directory, and won't do the factory reset. I was afraid that since Clockwork couldn't deal with the encrypted data, so too might Odin, leading to the risk of bricking. This thread gave me enough courage to give it a go. Following the above linked instructions solved the problem. Odin had no problem wiping and writing over the encrypted data. after I was back to stock I ran through installing Clockwork and CMod again. And just like that, the problem's fixed.
Thanks a bunch everyone!
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Yeah, I was worried I might have created a $200 paper-weight!
I'm glad that my question ended up helping you as well!:good: