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Non activated Hero

Does the Hero have to be activated on your account to wipe and flash? Maybe a dumb question, but I haven't messed with my Hero in a couple of weeks since I got the EVO. Now, I can't wipe anything, just says wipe aborted.

cornelious1212 said:
Does the Hero have to be activated on your account to wipe and flash? Maybe a dumb question, but I haven't messed with my Hero in a couple of weeks since I got the EVO. Now, I can't wipe anything, just says wipe aborted.
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No. I had a spare hero for several months which I rooted, and flashed several roms without it ever being activated.

Damn, any other ideas why I can't wipe or flash anymore? Anyone?

Ok, switched from Darchstar recovery to AmonRA, still no dice. Looking at an RUU and re root here? Can't NAND backup, or wipe ANYTHING. It is an different SD card than the one that was in it, that one went to my EVO and was formated.

cornelious1212 said:
Ok, switched from Darchstar recovery to AmonRA, still no dice. Looking at an RUU and re root here? Can't NAND backup, or wipe ANYTHING. It is an different SD card than the one that was in it, that one went to my EVO and was formated.
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AFAIK, Darchstar's Recovery is the same as AmonRA, just modified a bit. Try Clockwork Mod.

mrinehart93 said:
AFAIK, Darchstar's Recovery is the same as AmonRA, just modified a bit. Try Clockwork Mod.
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Wow worked like a charm. Thanks.
Sent from my Cyanogen EVO using the tubes.

Nexus S 4G Root issues?

I've been playing around with a Nexus S 4G that I have lying around and never used, and I've ran into a few problems, but you've all been helpful. I rooted all my old EVO 4G's without any problem, but the other day I rooted my NS4G using a one click/simple root and downloaded ClockWorkMod etc. But now for some reason It seems like I've almost lost my root? Is that possible? I still have the little unlocked symbol when booting up.
I've searched this forum and Google and haven't found anything, which could possibly be because I don't know what to look for. I've never had this happen :/
Currently running the stock 2.3.7

Nobody? I just need a little help.

Did you flash a superuser.zip after you installed clockworkmod?

SeeNah said:
Did you flash a superuser.zip after you installed clockworkmod?
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I thought I had... But no lol
Thank you. Sorry for pretty much making a useless thread :/

Its the Q&A forum ask away! Lol
Did flashing it work for you though?

SeeNah said:
Its the Q&A forum ask away! Lol
Did flashing it work for you though?
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Yes, it did. Thank you!
Now I just need to re figure out how to backup my stock rom on rom manager. I need to do that if I'm going to flash a custom rom onto my NS4G correct? I've never actually gone that far with my phones lol.

Slap-Yourself :) said:
Yes, it did. Thank you!
Now I just need to re figure out how to backup my stock rom on rom manager. I need to do that if I'm going to flash a custom rom onto my NS4G correct? I've never actually gone that far with my phones lol.
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Okay lol hold on so just go make sure you
1. Unlocked the bootloader right?
2. Flashed a custom recovery (clockworkmod)?
3. Flashed superuser for root access?
4. Now you have a stock rooted ROM?
If you have/did all that then yeah you could backup your stock rooted ROM, you don't need to back it up but its helpful just incase you mess something you could always restore it to start all over
And you could backup any ROM you install incase you didn't know, just remember when you install different ROMS make sure to do a proper full wipe which includes data/factory reset/wiping DALVIK cache, and formatting system and boot in the "mount" option in CWM. And now I think your good lol

SeeNah said:
Okay lol hold on so just go make sure you
1. Unlocked the bootloader right?
2. Flashed a custom recovery (clockworkmod)?
3. Flashed superuser for root access?
4. Now you have a stock rooted ROM?
If you have/did all that then yeah you could backup your stock rooted ROM, you don't need to back it up but its helpful just incase you mess something you could always restore it to start all over
And you could backup any ROM you install incase you didn't know, just remember when you install different ROMS make sure to do a proper full wipe which includes data/factory reset/wiping DALVIK cache, and formatting system and boot in the "mount" option in CWM. And now I think your good lol
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Unlocked Bootloader? If I boot in fastboot it says Unlocked. Is this what you mean?
I have ClockWorkMod, but I haven't done anything with it.
I have superuser from the root
and I was working with a stock ROM the whole time....
I think I'm ok lol
So I'll back up my ROM, and flash a Nightly CM9? And back that up as well? Just perform a factory data reset before doing so, right?

Slap-Yourself :) said:
Unlocked Bootloader? If I boot in fastboot it says Unlocked. Is this what you mean?
I have ClockWorkMod, but I haven't done anything with it.
I have superuser from the root
and I was working with a stock ROM the whole time....
I think I'm ok lol
So I'll back up my ROM, and flash a Nightly CM9? And back that up as well? Just perform a factory data reset before doing so, right?
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Yeah if it says unlocked your good to go. The super user.zip you first flashed won't be needed once you flash different ROMS, it was only needed for stock because you didn't install a ROM you just unlocked the boot loader and super user just gave you root access that didn't come with stock.
Yeah backup your stock ROM JUST in case you encounter a boot loop so you can just restore and start over, you don't need to back up CM9 that's completely your choice if you want . Its convenient though if you like CM9 but still like to flash other ROMS that way you can just go back if you miss CM9 without doing the whole setup process.
And a full wipe is
Data/factory reset
Then wipe dalvik under "advanced"
Then wipe system and boot under the "mount" option in CWM

stellar said:
Yeah if it says unlocked your good to go. The super user.zip you first flashed won't be needed once you flash different ROMS, it was only needed for stock because you didn't install a ROM you just unlocked the boot loader and super user just gave you root access that didn't come with stock.
Yeah backup your stock ROM JUST in case you encounter a boot loop so you can just restore and start over, you don't need to back up CM9 that's completely your choice if you want . Its convenient though if you like CM9 but still like to flash other ROMS that way you can just go back if you miss CM9 without doing the whole setup process.
And a full wipe is
Data/factory reset
Then wipe dalvik under "advanced"
Then wipe system and boot under the "mount" option in CWM
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I'm not sure if I'm supposed to post links to videos or not. But I'm in love with some of the features this guy has on his NS4G
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKdyAm3CgHc
He said it was a nightly etc.
The hidden status bar and bottom menu hidden is amazing. I also like the inverted G-Mail and Facebook. Is this all separate from the Nightly ROM?

Help! Trying to revert to stock rooted from CM10

I upgraded to CM10 from the original OS and I am using the latest version to root my phone, I am using TWRP. Anyway, Everything worked fine, I rooted the phone, I upgraded to CM10. I want to go back to the original OS. I downloaded [ROM][8/3] - Stock Rooted AT&T 2.20.502.7 - Android 4.0.4 - Odex or De-Odex, I got the ODEX version, I flashed it to my phone but its just hangs at the HTC One X Splash screen with the red lettering. What am I missing here? I can get back into recovery and I backed up my old ROM just in case.

How long are you letting it hang for? Try 2 more power downs and power ons. The first few times it took about 5 min to load.

mgutierrez87 said:
How long are you letting it hang for? Try 2 more power downs and power ons. The first few times it took about 5 min to load.
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It just shuts off and turns back on again, it basically loops. Did I download the wrong file maybe? Is there a specific ROM I need other than the one I mentioned earlier?

Boot into recovery and wipe your cache and dalvik cache again

mgutierrez87 said:
Boot into recovery and wipe your cache and dalvik cache again
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Factory reset, wipe system, flash ROM, wipe cache and delvik.
Any time you go from non sense to sense or vise versa you have to wipe the system and factory reset.
Sent from my One X using xda app-developers app

This was the ROM that worked when i did it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1872842
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Myrder said:
Factory reset, wipe system, flash ROM, wipe cache and delvik.
Any time you go from non sense to sense or vise versa you have to wipe the system and factory reset.
Sent from my One X using xda app-developers app
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He mentioned in another thread that he did those steps. The only other thing I would try is to flash the boot.IMG from the ROM you want to use

I still want to keep my phone rooted. This wont kill the root right?

No the ROM posted above is stock rooted
But if you made a backup as you said in the first post why are you not just restoring the backup?
Sent from my Nocturnalized One XL using Forum Runner

Basically where I am right now. I downloaded the original OS, by following instructions, I have managed to delete my backed up rom of CM10 that i backed up earlier. I was able to FLASH the OS I wanted, I flashed the boot.img file using fastboot. I restarted the phone and now its just stuck on the HTC Quietly Brilliant screen with the red lettering at the bottom. It doesn't restart or anything, it just hangs there. What am I missing here guys? ):

I'm going to install cm10 right now them go back to stock rooted and see what's up with this

There's no issues going back and forth. You probably flashed a bad ROM

yea, your most likely just doing it wrong. you need to do a full wipe and flash boot.img
answer: oh yea cant flash the stock rom using twrp 2.3.1.0 you will need to flash twrp 2.2.2.0 then flash stock rom. that is actually most likely your problem.

What hboot are you on? If you separately flashed boot.img from CM10 via fastboot, you might need to again separately flash the boot.img from the stock ROM. Also remember that the procedure employed to root 2.20 is substantially different from the root procedure to root the previous build of stock. Not sure what software you rooted, or whether this would pose a problem, but it's a consideration.
Another option is to just restore to stock via RUU and re-unlock, re-root, if nothing else works. Getting stuck on HTC splash screen sounds like a boot.img issue. Good luck.

DvineLord said:
answer: oh yea cant flash the stock rom using twrp 2.3.1.0 you will need to flash twrp 2.2.2.0 then flash stock rom. that is actually most likely your problem.
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Really? Why is that?
Just curious, I haven't heard this before. Is this a known issue with flashing the 2.20 stock ROM? I haven't seen any cases of ROMs (stock rooted or otherwise) being sensitive to version of TWRP. At least not the case of having to use an older version (keeping TWRP updated is usually the recommendation).
Of course, just because I haven't heard of it, doesn't mean it didn't happen!

Did you fastboot flash boot boot.img?
Sent from my HOX running Cyanogenmod 10

redpoint73 said:
Really? Why is that?
Just curious, I haven't heard this before. Is this a known issue with flashing the 2.20 stock ROM? I haven't seen any cases of ROMs (stock rooted or otherwise) being sensitive to version of TWRP. At least not the case of having to use an older version (keeping TWRP updated is usually the recommendation).
Of course, just because I haven't heard of it, doesn't mean it didn't happen!
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im assuming the age of the stock rooted would have conflicts with the new twrp. i have had problems with roms not flashing with newest twrp. it is also a known problem since twrp 2.3.1.0 release.

Problem Flashing Roms, Stuck on Boot logo(not bootloop)

Hi, I have a bit of a problem with my Mytouch 4g slide. I wanted to flash roms on my device for a while so i finally got around to trying it a few days ago. I have an unlocked bootloader, S-off, and CWR 5.0.2.7. I tried to flash CM 10 alpha 3, and CM 9.1 stable, but everytime I try, I get stuck on the Mytouch 4g Slide bootlogo. I even made sure that I was waiting long enough for the rom to flash. I left it on 10 hours over night, but it is still stuck on the boot logo. It is not in a boot loop, it just staying on that boot up screen. I have a recovery stock rom, so i can always nandroid restore to it, but I really want to be able to flash roms. I have tried everything, clear cache, clear Dalvik cache, factory reset, format /system. I have tried them all together and in every combo that makes sense. Please help!

goballistic23 said:
Hi, I have a bit of a problem with my Mytouch 4g slide. I wanted to flash roms on my device for a while so i finally got around to trying it a few days ago. I have an unlocked bootloader, S-off, and CWR 5.0.2.7. I tried to flash CM 10 alpha 3, and CM 9.1 stable, but everytime I try, I get stuck on the Mytouch 4g Slide bootlogo. I even made sure that I was waiting long enough for the rom to flash. I left it on 10 hours over night, but it is still stuck on the boot logo. It is not in a boot loop, it just staying on that boot up screen. I have a recovery stock rom, so i can always nandroid restore to it, but I really want to be able to flash roms. I have tried everything, clear cache, clear Dalvik cache, factory reset, format /system. I have tried them all together and in every combo that makes sense. Please help!
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Did you do all them wipes before you flash the ROM like your supposed to? If you did a full wipe before flashing and it still don't boot you got a bad download.
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strapped365 said:
Did you do all them wipes before you flash the ROM like your supposed to? If you did a full wipe before flashing and it still don't boot you got a bad download.
Sent from my myTouch_4G_Slide using Tapatalk 2
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Turns out that I do have s-on at the moment... I will get s-off asap. Crossing my fingers that that was the problem. And yes, I did wipe everything and do all those steps. I even downloaded the from twice. But, again, stupid me has s-on. I'll keep you posted.

goballistic23 said:
Turns out that I do have son at the moment... I will get s-off asap. Crossing my fingers that that was the problem. And yes, I did wipe everything and do all those steps. I even downloaded the from twice. But, again, stupid me has s-on. I'll keep you posted.
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If you're still S-ON, that's the problem for sure. You can always fastboot flash the boot.img separate when flashing the ROMs if you don't feel like going to S-OFF.

HappyKhicken said:
If you're still S-ON, that's the problem for sure. You can always fastboot flash the boot.img separate when flashing the ROMs if you don't feel like going to S-OFF.
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That's the method I use, and I haven't had any issues. I went through four ROMs during the week of New Year's.

Yay!!! S off!
HappyKhicken said:
If you're still S-ON, that's the problem for sure. You can always fastboot flash the boot.img separate when flashing the ROMs if you don't feel like going to S-OFF.
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Got s-off, and running CM 10 for doubleshot like a boss! Thanks for all the help guys.

[Q] Custom firmware issues..

Howdy.
I've been using custom firmware since I got my phone over a year ago, but I'm now having big issues.
I tried to install a 4.2.2 ROM and couldn't boot, even after trying bunch of times, clearing cache, all that jazz..
So.. usually I would just put on another ROM or just restore from a backup, but I'm stuck in a weird situation.
I have a bunch of ROM backups (Clockwork Mod Recovery) going back to April last year, the 1st one is standard AT&T, then various custom ROMS (last one I used was Cynogen 10).
But I can only restore the first AT&T ROM, nothing else will restore. I also cannot even install any ROM the only way I can get a working phone is to go back to the horrible original AT&T ROM..
Clockwork mod recovery also crashes when I try to wipe cache, so think that maybe a clue....
Help!! I don't want to be stuck on AT&T ROM forever.... I miss Android 4.1 features
Thanks

eckythump said:
Help!! I don't want to be stuck on AT&T ROM forever.... I miss Android 4.1 features
Thanks
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What version of CWM are you on?
You can always restore to your AT&T backup, transfer all of your other backups to your external SD or computer, ODIN to stock, do a complete wipe of the phone, flash the most recent CWM from Sk8 and try again. I'd say that's your best case scenario.

mrfeuss said:
What version of CWM are you on?
I'm on 6.0.1.4 which I believe is latest. I can't even get the original ROM to restore now either. Ughhhh hope I'm not bricked.
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Try Odin back to stock before u do brick it that should fix any problems