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I was working fine, enjoying my new HTC One S with CM9 rom installed. Well the battery life wasnt the best on it, and i didnt install the custom kernel. So I looked for the custom kernel download(on my phone, not on my computer) and i found a .zip file. Well I thought that you could just download the kernel straight to my phone and open it up with "Rom Manager" which i did, it than said i needed to reboot the phone in recovery to continue the installation, so I did... it took me to recovery "to continue the installation" well than I looked away, looked backed down and it was black.... and i have tried powering up, booting into boot loader, booting into recover, and nothing... its just BLACK! nothing works, its literally useless ATM. I really messed up, is there anyway to fix this? Thanks in advanced!
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I think I accidentally flashed the kernel like i would normally flash a rom.... cause i downloaded the .zip file(directly to my phone, not using a computer), than i tapped the download and it asked me if i wanted to open it up with rom manager, so i did. and i think rom manager thought i was flashing a rom, when i wasnt, it was a kernel.... am i screwed? or is there anyway out of this?
Do you know the exact kernel you flashed--where did it come from
Some you need to extract and push
Assume you just tried to boot into bootloader thru phone buttons
Does your pc recognize your phone when plugged in, if so can you open a command window and try to access phone as in adb devices then adb reboot bootloader
assuming you are familiar with sdk adb/fastboot comands
otherwise i don't know what else to say--may be bad--sorry
Came from an XDA thread
Here is where it came from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1708676 from "sun90" (half way down the page "CM9 KERNEL remix edition.zip - [Click for QR Code] (5.53 MB, 9 views) ")
i downloaded that straight to my phone and opened it up with Rom Manager, which i think the app took it as a rom, and installed it like a rom even though it was not a rom. I just tried to access it through adb, it comes up with no devices my PC does recognize it when i plug it in though...
Ive tried to get into bootloader tons of times, it just stays black... :'(
Thanks for your answer!
You flashed a galaxy s2 kernel on your one s? why would you ever think that was a smart thing to do?
Looking at the updater script in that zip it seems it wipes some partitions, the partitions on a SGS2 and the ONE S are different, so if that script accidentally wiped say the hboot partition, or some other critical-for-boot partition, you have a fully bricked phone.
For any devs that may know what partitions are what on the One S, the script wiped
mmcblk0p7, and wrote a zimage to mmcblk0p5
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Normally this is a cwm flashable zip on the Samsung Galaxy S II, which is why rom manager flashed it, as it met all the requirements, the only issue is, it was not made for the ONE S and probably overwrote some important things.
I tried for hours and hours to fix the same issue on a friend's One S (same symptoms, not same cause) to no avail. I tried QPST and telnet and a ridiculous amount of things. Had to bring it to the store and get a new one.
Good luck, but I don't believe there's anything you can do to fix it.
Just answered your question in the help thread, Didnt see this thread too !
Im afraid its not looking good, I think your best bet would be to call your provider and blame it on an OTA update.
And hope for the best
Alright, thanks for the help!
Well it looks like i bricked my phone than.... I thought that CM9 was only on the One S, so I just looked for the CM9 kernel, which obviously was for the sg2, i feel like such a dumb ass now! haha well thanks for all the help guys! ill be heading to the t-mobile store today to blame it on a OTA:]
yeah, others wont agree with what your about to do but........
just act like a complete noob, dont mention anything about software / firmware / ROMs / bootloader etc ect
just say your phone made a noise, you selected update and it died lol
good luck--I know it is heartbreaking
not sure of your situation with carrier, but you could go thru Retention if needed
Hi peeps.
i'm very new to all this but sort of know the basics
i'm running on Axiom now but tried to flash cm10 but after install i got a black screen so had to do a restore.
Today i just flashed venom and after the instal process is done, i hear the start up music but nothing on the screen.
I have had 3 other roms on my phone and never had a problem!
these are the steps i do
download rom - place on sd
put phone in recovery
reset factory
reset cache
install from sd
when it finish's reboot
blank screen.
Am i missing something?
Any help would be great and i can't post on the thread because i'm a noob with less than 10 and dont want to spam my way to the 10 :silly:
you are missing a lot, like reading the OP page and following install instructions
you missed separate flash of boot image and wiping system plus data and caches
i wipe system 3x to be safe
rugmankc said:
you are missing a lot, like reading the OP page and following install instructions
you missed separate flash of boot image and wiping system plus data and caches
i wipe system 3x to be safe
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Thanks but i think that is now the least of my problems!
I used Goomanager and installed CM10, When I did it i installed teamwin recovery. It started to do a lot of strange things, when it finally rebooted i got a load of errors "phone is not working" nearly every 10 seconds?
it will not connect via usb, i discovered the the SD was not mounted.
I tried to mount the SD but it doesnt work, so i rebooted to recovery and tried to mount there but its coming up with - error unable to mount? ive tried everything but no joy
please please help
Thanks:crying:
see if this is your situation
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
can you connect phone to pc and use fastboot commands
rugmankc said:
see if this is your situation
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
can you connect phone to pc and use fastboot commands
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I've got a mac
not sure what fastboot is.
I'll check out the link, and thank you very much for trying to help:good:
sorry i do know what fastboot is, yes can get in to it. but ive gone from CWM to teamwin recovery if i go in to the recovery section but that wont let me do anything because the mount. cant even load the phone up
I don't know Mac commands
My idea is to install htc drivers and set up fastboot/adb on pc--the info can be found in dev section on rooting
then open a command window and and boot into fastboot and flash a new recovery, maybe stock per the link, clear storage and try to get mounted
how did you unlock bootloader--
you will need to do alot of reading on adb/fastboot and flashing roms--first step is to have backups of rom and sdcard
since i don't the Mac commands to do fastboot, someone else will chime in at some point
you can alos go to the noob section in Q&A and resubmit your issue
someone will work you thru this, but in meantime study up on android sdk/fastboot/adb. a necessity to get out of these problems
you are not bricked, just need the info and right steps to get back on track
rugmankc said:
I don't know Mac commands
My idea is to install htc drivers and set up fastboot/adb on pc--the info can be found in dev section on rooting
then open a command window and and boot into fastboot and flash a new recovery, maybe stock per the link, clear storage and try to get mounted
how did you unlock bootloader--
you will need to do alot of reading on adb/fastboot and flashing roms--first step is to have backups of rom and sdcard
since i don't the Mac commands to do fastboot, someone else will chime in at some point
you can alos go to the noob section in Q&A and resubmit your issue
someone will work you thru this, but in meantime study up on android sdk/fastboot/adb. a necessity to get out of these problems
you are not bricked, just need the info and right steps to get back on track
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im going to use someone elses alp top with windows. i'll ytry the all in one thing because thats how i rooted it in the first place. thanks for helping it means alot
good luck on it
so i installed the cm9 alpha, restored stuff via titanium backup (only green marked stuff, and some whites) and i got into a bootloop. so i went into recovery and instead of going into clockwork i used the factory reset thing at the start. (probably the main problem this happened)
so now when i boot up my phone, i cant access my sdcard. what do i do?
ive checked around ADB methods on pushing stuff over, but naturally that didnt work. so im basically stuck here. PLEASE HELP
Jahrern said:
so i installed the cm9 alpha, restored stuff via titanium backup (only green marked stuff, and some whites) and i got into a bootloop. so i went into recovery and instead of going into clockwork i used the factory reset thing at the start. (probably the main problem this happened)
so now when i boot up my phone, i cant access my sdcard. what do i do?
ive checked around ADB methods on pushing stuff over, but naturally that didnt work. so im basically stuck here. PLEASE HELP
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Try using the All in One tool in the dev section to reflash CWM Recovery, then keep trying to ADB push a stable ROM zip to your SD card. It might take a few tries but it does work. I saved my phone from a similar situation a few weeks back using the ADB push method.
Sent from my HTC One S.
thats what im currently trying to do. for some reason clockworkmod recovery just wont work. whenever i try to go into recovery, the phone just boots instead. and i tried multiple times to push over a rom, but it just wont get past 4mb.
http://i.imgur.com/o0WZm.jpg
this is what happens.
keep in mind i had to scratch the whole using clockwork and used the other recovery instead. that atleast lets me get to recovery. but as you can see, it wont even push over 4mb out of the 137mb of the newest cm9 build.
let me explain what im doing, im following this guide (i dont quite understand what he means with the first part "flash your recovery back to stock" i just assumed he meant to reinstall the recovery, so tell me if i did something wrong here) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25557817#post25850720
and im also looking in the how to push a rom with adb thread aswell. i feel like im doing the right thing here, and dont know what else to do. this is getting frustrating. a phone with no memory isnt all that enjoyable
Jahrern said:
http://i.imgur.com/o0WZm.jpg
this is what happens.
keep in mind i had to scratch the whole using clockwork and used the other recovery instead. that atleast lets me get to recovery. but as you can see, it wont even push over 4mb out of the 137mb of the newest cm9 build.
let me explain what im doing, im following this guide (i dont quite understand what he means with the first part "flash your recovery back to stock" i just assumed he meant to reinstall the recovery, so tell me if i did something wrong here) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25557817#post25850720
and im also looking in the how to push a rom with adb thread aswell. i feel like im doing the right thing here, and dont know what else to do. this is getting frustrating. a phone with no memory isnt all that enjoyable
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I used this thread to salvage my phone:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667929
I followed the instructions to the letter, and got the ROM pushed on the third try. I reflashed and was back in business.
Sent from my HTC One S.
i tried that one aswell, but since my sdcard is not mountable, "- Ensure in Recovery that your phone shows "Unmount /sdcard/" and "Unmount /system/" (If they do not show this automatically, just press each one once respectively as pressing just toggles Mount and Unmount) " wont work for me. and it says that the file has to be in tools instead of permanent-tools, and that also did not work for me. ive tried basically everything up until now. theres still one thing i dwell on, and that is to flash to stock recovery. i dont know where to find that for a Norwegian Telenor handset. i can find the t-mobile one, but thats pretty much it
I had the same problem what I did was, I went to fastboot locked my hboot, "fastboot oem lock" and flashed original RUU in fastboot. RUU you cam find in development section. But first you have to lock your hboot.
Sent from my HTC One S
kaiser347 said:
I had the same problem what I did was, I went to fastboot locked my hboot, "fastboot oem lock" and flashed original RUU in fastboot. RUU you cam find in development section. But first you have to lock your hboot.
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i have to admit i have no idea what you mean here. im not pro at this, so i honestly didnt understand much of that. RUU is also something i dont "quite" understand what it. i think it is the OS itself or something.
i have no idea what i did, but i think i just solved my problem without even knowing why:s i just did the same **** over and over again. and i didnt push over anything. i just decided to "screw this, turn that phone on" went to storage and there the sd card was for some unexplainable reason. now i dont have any of my stuff though, that kinda sux
Jahrern said:
i have no idea what i did, but i think i just solved my problem without even knowing why:s i just did the same **** over and over again. and i didnt push over anything. i just decided to "screw this, turn that phone on" went to storage and there the sd card was for some unexplainable reason. now i dont have any of my stuff though, that kinda sux
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Looks like you found out for yourself; I was going to say that you may have to reboot your recovery a few times before the SD card shows up. I think I had to reboot CMW four or five times before it showed. After that, I was golden. Well, after pushing the ROM zip twice, that is. Make sure you always have a back up or ROM zip on the SD card from now on. It sucks that you may have to resort to a blank slate, but it's better than being stuck with a $500 paperweight!
Sent from my HTC One S.
i actually had a backup, and 2 roms on my sdcard, but that obviously didnt help from now on i will keep a backup on my computer aswell as on the sdcard. if i could ever get my stock backup back that would help. looks like im not gonna have a stock backup anymore. anyone redirect me to some place i can find that just in case i ever need to revert back to stock? Norwegian Telenor based phone if that is info you needed to redirect me. thanks for all the replies guys
Hello all
I suspect that either my Nexus has a hardware fault (internal memory) or I bricked it somehow.
For the past few weeks the phone has been getting stuck on the google boot screen quite a lot - It takes several attempts
to start up each time so I've been trying to keep the battery from running down.
The other day while I was attempting to switch roms I put the stock img on my SD card but when I went to flash it CWM
couldnt mount my (internal) SD Card. Senior forum member Caliban2 suggested that it could be my recovery so I installed CWM 6.0.0.7 non-touch using fastboot and, like magic, the phone started up -though I suspect this may have been luck.
I rebooted the phone out of curiosity and it got stuck on the google boot screen - no amount of battery pulling and restarting could coax
it back to life, so I went into CWM again to discover that it could not mount the SD Card, I was getting the 'cannot mount' and 'E:Unable to open ums lunfile(no such file or directory)' error messages. My windows 7 PC could see the phone but said that their was non memory inserted. Out of curiosity I installed CWM 5.0.2.0 but that produced the same results.
So now my phone appears dead, is the internal memory or something related to it is broken? I have seen things on here about using an unbricking tool in Debian Linux or flashing stock using odin but I confess that I have not tried these solutions and don't fully understand them (yet).I wussed out and dropped the phone into a local repair workshop, I imagine they will be trying these same steps themselves and they say it will take them a few days to get back to me.
My problem is that I need a phone for work and I gave my backup phone (HTC Hero) to my dad recently. Should I just take the plunge
and go out today and buy a new phone? Or is there a reasonable chance that these guys can fix my nexus s, or that I might be able to?
I'm a relative 'noob' at this so I thank you all for your advice in advance, it's much appreciated.
Derek
Do a search for flashing fastboot images. Download the 4.0.4 fastboot image from google and flash it as directed through fastboot. This may sort out your problems.
Afterward, if necessary, format the /sdcard too. I would do this afterward so that maybe you can get a backup of all the stuff on it before it's gone forever.
Thanks, will do. It's in the shop at the moment, I suspect this is probably what they're doing now.
Perhaps subconsciously I'm just looking for someone to tell me it's irreparable so I can rush out
and pick up a Galaxy Nexus.
Harbb said:
Do a search for flashing fastboot images. Download the 4.0.4 fastboot image from google and flash it as directed through fastboot. This may sort out your problems.
Afterward, if necessary, format the /sdcard too. I would do this afterward so that maybe you can get a backup of all the stuff on it before it's gone forever.
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Hey Harbb
Just wanted to give you an update on this, got it back from the shop who said they would need to send it to Samsung for a hardware repair, didn't expect it to work but fastbooted the stock bootloader, radio and image to the device and it's now working!
I've already moved onto a Galaxy Nexus on contract but at least now I can make a bit of money back off my old phone.
Thanks again for the advice
Derek
Harbb said:
Do a search for flashing fastboot images. Download the 4.0.4 fastboot image from google and flash it as directed through fastboot. This may sort out your problems.
Afterward, if necessary, format the /sdcard too. I would do this afterward so that maybe you can get a backup of all the stuff on it before it's gone forever.
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Hello XDA. First post here. I need the pros.
I may have seriously messed up my Nexus S 4G. The "Google" logo appears when I turn it on but there is no lock on the bottom (there was before) and after that, boot animation of the X keeps restarting. Pull the battery. Hold up and power on. Go into Recovery and I end up with the white triangle and yellow exclamation point inside it.
Did I just brick my phone? Any way to get out of this? I have an upgrade available, but I'd rather check out the Nexus4 before buying the Galaxy Nexus. (Nonreplaceable battery in the Nexus4 might be a killer for me.)
I searched around but no other situations were like mine. Sorry if I missed something. Help me XDA. You're my only hope.
mjnouri said:
Hello XDA. First post here. I need the pros.
I may have seriously messed up my Nexus S 4G. The "Google" logo appears when I turn it on but there is no lock on the bottom (there was before) and after that, boot animation of the X keeps restarting. Pull the battery. Hold up and power on. Go into Recovery and I end up with the white triangle and yellow exclamation point inside it.
Did I just brick my phone? Any way to get out of this? I have an upgrade available, but I'd rather check out the Nexus4 before buying the Galaxy Nexus. (Nonreplaceable battery in the Nexus4 might be a killer for me.)
I searched around but no other situations were like mine. Sorry if I missed something. Help me XDA. You're my only hope.
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What have you done before this happened?
You have relocked your bootloader?
Fix is easy, you'll lose your data doing so.
Unlock the bootloader using fastboot
Install a custom recovery such as Clockworkmod
From within recovery wipe data
Try to boot like this. If it doesn't boot, go back to recovery, wipe everything and re-install your ROM/stock ROM depending on which you have. You can transfer the flashable zip from within Clockworkmod recovery by mounting your USB storage when connected to your computer.
polobunny said:
What have you done before this happened?
You have relocked your bootloader?
Fix is easy, you'll lose your data doing so.
Unlock the bootloader using fastboot
Install a custom recovery such as Clockworkmod
From within recovery wipe data
Try to boot like this. If it doesn't boot, go back to recovery, wipe everything and re-install your ROM/stock ROM depending on which you have. You can transfer the flashable zip from within Clockworkmod recovery by mounting your USB storage when connected to your computer.
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First of all, thank you polo for helping me out!!!
At first, I was flashing nandroid backups between AOKP, CM10 M2, and CM7. Then it got stuck in a boot loop of a different sort (don't remember the details) and before I remembered to come over to XDA, I formatted some partitions under Mounts and Storage in CWM like an idiot. However I did wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache and still nothing.
I just googled some directions on unlocking from fastboot, flashing CWM, and from there let's see how it goes. Wish I brought a cable with me to work, but it'll have to wait a few hours. Thanks polo!
mjnouri said:
First of all, thank you polo for helping me out!!!
At first, I was flashing nandroid backups between AOKP, CM10 M2, and CM7. Then it got stuck in a boot loop of a different sort (don't remember the details) and before I remembered to come over to XDA, I formatted some partitions under Mounts and Storage in CWM like an idiot. However I did wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache and still nothing.
I just googled some directions on unlocking from fastboot, flashing CWM, and from there let's see how it goes. Wish I brought a cable with me to work, but it'll have to wait a few hours. Thanks polo!
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Well if you formatted system and the like, you pretty much wiped your ROM. If you installed a stock ROM, it's possible your recovery was replaced by the stock recovery, otherwise there should be no reason for your recovery to get wiped.
Rooting again with the whole unlocking process and re-installing a ROM will get you back online in no time.
Welp, it looks like I need a little more help if you don't mind polo. For someone who was rooted, I guess I didn't know much, but learned a lot from this so far.
I flashed CWM from my desktop via fastboot and can now get into CWM. I then mounted the phone as a USB drive and loaded CM7.2 and then installed it. "Install from sdcard complete." after that. Rebooted and now it's looping at the boot animation for CM7.2. Wiped data/factory reset and same thing happens.
What am I missing here?
After I'm in CM, I plan on going back to stock + root.
Make sure you also wipe cache and dalvik cache. If this doesn't seem to work, in mounts and storage format cache, data, sdcard and system then reinstall your rom. Be sure you have the correct rom for your phone and not the crespo4g version or vice versa.
I just followed those exact instructions and it still loops at the boot animation. Damn.
The world needs more people like you polo. Thanks for trying to help me through this!! I have a genuine gratitude for you my friend.
OK, run a log cat with Adb. First night I had mine had serious issues, nothing worked same problem.
If you don't know how to do log cat
Is
Adb logcat > log.txt
Same as if fastboot. Upload that and we can find your prob instantly.
Sent from my A100 using Tapatalk 2
das_webos_transformer, I just PMed you the dropbox link since I can't post links here, but I don't see it in my sent. Did you get it?
I would try the factory images from Google. Make sure the phone is working as per usual and then take it from there.
There are guides on how to do so on the forums. It is very easy.
albundy2010 said:
I would try the factory images from Google. Make sure the phone is working as per usual and then take it from there.
There are guides on how to do so on the forums. It is very easy.
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Hey Al. Thanks for replying. My problem is I'm seeing too many guides. I know it's a mortal sin to ask, but can you link me to one that you think is done correctly? Unfortunately I need a little more hand holding if that ok with you guys.
UPDATE - SOMEhow, I got CM10 installed and gapps. Just flashed it it worked. I did nothing differently than before. I installed a bunch of apps and that went well. I had a feeling I wasn't in the clear and now I can't restore a nandroid backup, a fancy widgets transparent background goes missing but the text remains, and Swype won't install. It's just weird. I'm more than willing to go back to stock now. If you can provide a link for how to flash the stock images, I'll definitely give it a shot. Thank you!!!
You're all over place so here are some general FYI.
Depending on which recovery was used to make the nandroid you may not be able to restore it with a different recovery.
When you say you can't restore a nandroid and a widget or swype won't restore I am lost. What are trying to restore it from and with what.
Anyways. Stock images are here https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Make sure you download the ones for your device. The sprint d720.
Once the download is finished extract the file. You should have a few .img files and a update zip in there. Take those files and move them to the directory you have fastboot in.
With the phone in the bootloader enter the commands.
Fastboot flash bootloader bootloader file name.IMG
Fastboot reboot bootloader
Fastboot flash radio radio image name.IMG
Fastboot reboot boot loader
Fastboot -w update image name.zip
You can most likely skip the reboot 2nd and third reboot bootlaoders . People seem to do it for some reason. If your device already has versions of the bootloader and radio installed you can skip those flashes as well.
Make sure you change the commands to the actual file names you're going to flash. Can manually type/ paste the names or just hit tab after you typed the first letter. Example. Fastboot flash radio r tab. It should auto fill it in. Check anyways.
If you're not comfortable with this dont do it. Read some more or find a video on YouTube if you're unsure. I am not responsible if you screw something up . End result will give you factory up to date bootloader radio and rom. It also wipes the phone but not the internal storage. The bootloader will still be unlocked so you can relfash a custom recovery later and do what you want.
Guides are all over. Just make sure you're flashing the correct files for your device. The commands and procedure is the same for all nexus devices.
And last if the factory images give you issues then there most likely is something actually wrong with the device. Or you managed to screw up flashing.
Thanks Al! I did all that and am pretty comfortable with this stuff, but when time came to flash the image...
C:\Users\Nouri\Desktop\Fastboot>fastboot -w update image image-sojus-jro03r.zip
error: failed to load 'image'
Same issue without the -w. I'm starting to think something is wrong with the phone. But how can it. It's functioning. is it possible that a hardware problem can cause these inconsistent issues?
Issues
- When I had CM10 installed, it ran choppy. It ran fine when I flashed it a few days ago. I didn't do much and flashed another ROM, but I know the S 4G is capable of running CM10 smoothly. Swipes between homescreens were choppy and so was bringing up the app drawer.
-I couldn't take a screenshot. "Screenshot not saved" or something to that effect
-Swype would get to 100% download and then halt for a few minutes. I'd hit Install and it would just stay there for a few minutes and nothing would happen.
-I couldn't restore from a CWM nandroid that I just made.
Internal sdcard faulty maybe?
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!!!!!
Nevermind! Back to stock! Thank you so much Al!!!! Holy crap you have made me a happy man before I sleep tonight dude!
The last step was actually fastboot -w update image.zip, but it's all good!!!!! Thank you ALL!!! XDA is a pretty special place where you guys help someone to the best of your knowledge. I'm going to pass this forward.
Polo, das, Al, I can't thank you guys enough. Know that you guys helped someone out big time here. Hopefully this makes your day better too!
Hey all. I just wanted to send a quick update your way. I successfully went back to 100% stock thanks to Al's awesome directions. Still couldn't install swype and there were some files on the internal storage that had all sorts of strange symbols and were .01 to 5 GB in size! Clearly there is something wrong here. I rebooted and that all went away actually. This morning I rebooted and I see a notification saying "Damaged USB storage - USB storage is damaged. Try reformating" I tapped it and successfully formatted the storage, but that's my issue all along. Wish I left the notification up there, but I'll get it back and take it to Sprint. Hopefully get a replacement.
You guys freakin rule. You helped me until we all, especially I, were blue in the face. Thanks again!!!
If you're going to take it sprint you should probably re lock the bootloader. They may not check or care but eh
Fastboot oem lock.
That doesn't wipe anything
Fastboot oem unlock does and that would be needed if you wanted to root and flash your device again .
Thanks and yup! I got pretty good at this whole thing now. I feel very good now learning fastboot. I flashed completely stock like you said. It worked. Problems arose. Locked the bootloader and tucked the phone away. If it wasn't for Google Voice, my life would suck right now! Hopefully my trip to Sprint turns out well. A few short hours.
Hello,
Pretty new to rooting, tried to root my HTC Vivid to install some apps which are "incompatible" with my device. Unlocked bootloader and rooted successfully by installing TWRP recovery and installing the supersu zip. After copying the build.prop file to another folder I proceeded to make some minor changes to the build.prop file with ES File Explorer. Essentially changing the model ID of the phone to another device to try to prompt Google Play to show the incompoatible apps, didn't touch anything boot-related or anything else. Phone was working fine at that point, rebooting ok, but Google Play still showed the apps as incompatible, so I temporarily brought back the old build.prop file by copy/pasting it from the folder I made. The system indicated the copy was made successfully, and I tried to reboot once more. That is where the problem started.
When the power button is pressed for a second or so, the phone vibrates once and shows the starting splash screen (HTC) as it did when working, and then the screen goes blank, although the LED backlight is still on (so phone has power). Nothing comes after, no "HTC quietly brilliant" logo nor the chime that indicates it's booting up. At that point it stops responding to any stimulus except the removal of the battery, at which point the LED backlight finally goes off. Waiting for ~10min solved nothing, still blank black screen with backlight on. Upon reinserting the battery, the phone once again responds to the power button, with the same results.
I can boot to recovery by holding down Vol down and pressing power, and there I get the usual options including Fastboot, Recovery, etc. I tried doing a factory reset. It gives a bunch of error messages along the lines of "can't mount emmc", then says it's starting the reset, and gives a successful completion prompt after half a minute or so. However, that seems to do nothing at all to fix the problem (tried 4x times, with SD card in and out).
The only change that comes to mind is the last replacement of the build.prop file I did, which should have just restored the original. Assuming the factory reset doesn't actually reset that file (where would it get a copy to do so?) perhaps it being broken is preventing me from booting after the reset. Just my theory though, and could be something else.
From what I understand I could try putting a recovery image on the micro sd from a PC, then doing a recovery rather than a factory reset from the TWRP menu to replace all the files, including the potentially problematic build.prop. However, I didn't make a backup of the system before this happened (learning experience) and have no such image. Could anyone perhaps point me to a clean image for the Vivid that I could download and flash to my phone with recovery? Or otherwise shed some light on what could be causing the problem? I also realize there are various unbricking tutorials online, but after many hours of this I'm a bit too exhausted to follow all of those just to see if they work or not.
Edit: Upon further research I realize I can try to flash a new rom to the Vivid, but no matter how much I search I can't find a working link for a stock ICS .zip. There is a RUU .exe file from HTC but my phone can't get past fastboot, so I'd need to do this with a zip file. Anywhere I can get a working one? I could also try a custom rom, I just have 0 knowledge of those so don't know which would be a safe bet.
Would appreciate any help, and hope the post isn't overly long. Tried to give as much info as I could. I already spent a ton of time on both the root procedure and trying to fix this and would really like to hear professional opinions before breaking anything else. Thanks for reading.
Hi, thank you for using XDA Assist. The best place to get help is in your device's specific forum here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-vivid They are the experts on your device. You may have already seen this but it's a good place to start, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1486024 If it were me I'd return the device to stock and start over. If you're messing with your phone you will want to be comfortable on how to return it to stock as you'll probably have to do that more than once as you learn more about your device.
jd1639 said:
Hi, thank you for using XDA Assist. The best place to get help is in your device's specific forum here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-vivid They are the experts on your device. You may have already seen this but it's a good place to start, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1486024 If it were me I'd return the device to stock and start over. If you're messing with your phone you will want to be comfortable on how to return it to stock as you'll probably have to do that more than once as you learn more about your device.
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Thanks for the advice, I basically got into rooting from scratch a day ago, so many resources I don't know about. Trying to return to stock, but I need a rom of the stock in .zip form since the phone can't get past recovery, and having trouble finding that. Perhaps due to age of phone, but most links to those seem to no longer be functional.
rohanreddy277 said:
Actually u shouldnt have rooted with that zip file containing supersu u actually should have done it with kingo root. anyway, the best waty to revive it is to install cyanogenmod. download the version for ur device and google how to install cyanogenmod. this will give a new life to ur phone. hope it helps.
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Right, I basically learned as I went along for this root, haven't even heard of kingo before. I was very careful, but apparently something still went wrong. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try that mod and see if it works.
Edit: I'm only finding a nightly build for the Vivid on the CyanogenMod website, with no stable versions. Nightly build is dated two years ago, so clearly no stable versions coming. While I'm in no position to be picky, and I'll try it if needed, I'd rather not break what's still functioning in my phone. Any mods out there that are stable for the Vivid?
Edit2: the nightly cyanogen build seems to have brought the phone back online, but besides the different look and feel from what I'm used to, it doesn't seem to have Google Play... so I can't download anything. It also isn't seen by HTC Sync so I can't run the RUU from there, but I did successfully extract the rom.zip file using some instruction on this forum from the stock ICS RUU .exe. However, installing that from twrp recovery fails as it cannot open the zip, and an attempt to use the "fastboot flash zip rom.zip" command fails saying it's not allowed. Integrity of zip fail is tested to be ok with an archiver program. The zip file extracts properly, and I can flash things like boot.img and recovery_signed.img to the phone, yet system.img cannot be flashed (data length too large error). Not sure what to try next.
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