First off, I did read over the other forums with a related topic to this one, and they aren't quite answering my questions, so I'm making my own post.
I'm running clockworkmod v2.5.1.2 on a rooted htc incredible. After using UnRevoked to root, I loaded up clockworkmod by holding down Vol down and power, and made a nandroid backup. All went well, and I loaded up the phone just fine.
This morning, I made a second nandroid backup, because I must have deleted something I shouldn't have with Titanium Backup when i was trying to get rid of all that verizon crapware. Just a small issue with my sms messages app. So I figured i'd do a restore.
I went into clockworkmod, and just went down to backup and restore, and selected the original nandroid backup i made. After that, HTC white screen of death.
My problem is that i hear people saying to "flash a new recovery" but I don't know how to do that. I was able to navigate to mount my sd card to my Mac, but i dont' know what to do from there.
I also hear people saying "reflash from rom manager". Well i don't have rom manager.
If anyone could help me I'd appreciate it.
I've wiped the Dalvik, the cache, and i've done factory reset. Still stuck.
Thanks for reading my post.
I'm very much a novice, but will offer what I can. Your phone is probably not bricked, it's just ailing a bit. Are you familiar with ADB Shell? There is a sticky somewhere with instructions for using it. It may be the way to fix up your phone.
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ADB shell? Heard of it....that's about it.
I'm not familiar with the ADB shell. I was reading some more, and found that I needed FAT32 formatting for my SC card. I backed up everything from my SD card to my PC, the formatted it, and copied the PB31IMG.zip to root of SD and held Vol Down and power. It successfully updated, but now i'm still getting the white screen and when i go into recovery, i just get two white bars on the sides of the phone with a black screen. I can still boot into HBOOT.
edit: if I try to boot the phone normally, after the white screen, i get the black bars, then the phone shuts down.
I'm in the process of restoring the contents of the SD card right now, but i'm off to school until later tonight. I will check back and hopefully someone will have some info for me on what to do. I will supply any more information as well. Just ask!
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So I was able to get into recovery, and update to Cyanogenmod through Clockworkmod. So at least I have a working device now...but a new ROM wasn't what I was trying to accomplish in the first place. Is there any way to get my contacts and such back from my nandroid backup now? I do have 2 nandroid backups, but when I try to load them, i get the whitescreen.
Well I guess my nandroid backups are no good. If I try to restore to them, i get the white screen and I have to go back and flash a ROM to get my phone to boot. Got most of my contacts back through google's sync feature, and some of my apps and app setting from "mirror" copies of my sd card i had done in the past.
Ok so here is the deal. I have had my Droid X rooting and I was running Liberty 1.5 for about a month or two now. I decided i wanted to try out fission. so i backed up the phone using clockwork, and proceeded the install process in clockwork, i wanted to reset the fone prior to doing so as well so i wiped data/restore to factory. that completed. i installed fission. that complete. i tried to boot the fone and i still had the liberty boot screen that replaced the motorola boot screen. then the words android came up on the screen and flashed for about an hour. i figured the install didnt work and i didnt feel like figuring out why exactly at that time. i pulled the battery rebooted into clockwork and restored the back up i had made prior to trying to install fission. now i get the Liberty boot screen that replaced the motorola boot logo and nothing else. I can no longer get into clockwork. I can enter the screen like clockwork by holding the power and home button, home button then hitting the search button. in there i have 4 options. i have tried to install update zip from sd and i had the liberty 1.5 rom zip file on the sd card but it fail. i assume i am doing something wrong there. If i could just get into clockwork i know i could fix it. I just dont know how to. so as a last resort before i order a new fone i am asking on here if anyone could help me i would GREATLY appreciated it. Im sorry for this message being so ling
never mind. I finally let the fone sit with the battery out long enough and when i put the battery in i managed to get the fone to bootloader and i sbf it. incase anyone else has this problem here are the files i used. thank you so much for reading this forum.
droidmodderx.wordpress.com/how-to-sbf-your-droid-x-full-2-3-340/
(i am a new user so i cant post links. just copy and paste the link in your url)
its a shame that companies like motorola go so far to prevent damage from happening to their phone via security hacking... and it only leads to destruction :/
Well early today I was running ics 4.0.4 on my g2x and I got tired of it, so I decided to restore my backup of my original rom/settings.I forgot I had switched my micro SD card to the one I had in my droid incredible 2, and I ended up restoring my dic2 back up. From there the phone would just stay at the LG screen, so I started to look around. I tried using nvflash, but it stayed the same, then I tried the flash.bat, when I turned the phone on it still stays on the LG screen but with the blue loading bar underneath, and when I try to put it into recovery mode it says S/W Updates. I don't know what to do, I'm a newbie to this stuff although I was able to root it myself. I don't care if I have to unroot my phone or go back to my original rom, I've been looking for something like this for hours and can't find anything. Please help, Thanks!!
When you used nvflash, exactly what steps did you take?
follow this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1248644
when you plug your phone in to use NV flash, find the device in the device manager, uninstall the driver and check the delete box, unplug the phone then start the guide.
you cannot hard brick a tegra device with flashing so you should be able to recover.
I am on a Verizon Razr Maxx HD (xt926). This all started when I decided to cleanly flash the newest version of CM10.2. I had been running it before. I wanted to start from a blank slate, so I went into TWRP and did the format wipe. Installed the newest CM10.2 nightly and gapps. This went fine and I booted into the ROM and started recovering all of my stuff. I installed F-droid and AdAway, and rebooted for that. The phone never got past the Bootloader Unlocked warning screen. I turned it off and went into TWRP to try some things. I tried to fix permissions, but it failed, referencing something to do with fdroid. I wiped again and reinstalled CM, but I still couldn't get past the Bootloader Unlocked warning.
I booted into TWRP again and wiped what I could, and accidentally wiped my external SD, and I had no card readers lying around to get the ROM zips back onto it. I downloaded the Razr HD utility, used the batch file, and tried to flash the stock rom through fastboot, but it got stuck in some kind of loop and would not flash correctly. I then tried to do it manually, but got some sort of buffer error. I tried again, and it started ok but I never saw it actually finish flashing.
By this time I finagled the ROM zips onto the SD card and stopped the fastboot and booted into TWRP. I did another set of wipes, and rebooted into TWRP again. I flashed the CM and Gapps. The ROM booted fine from TWRP and I was able to start setting up my account again. I tried rebooting after the initial setup just to see if it was working correctly, and was met with the fastboot screen with fastboot reason: Flash failed. I rebooted into TWRP from there, and tried to boot normally, but it still brought me to the fastboot. I went to the boot menu and tried the normal boot selection, and now my phone is stuck on the Bootloader Warning screen and now it won't even turn off when I hold the power button.
I have no idea what is going on, or why I could get to the working ROM once but not again. Does anyone know anything that could help me?
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I am on a Verizon Razr Maxx HD (xt926). This all started when I decided to cleanly flash the newest version of CM10.2. I had been running it before. I wanted to start from a blank slate, so I went into TWRP and did the format wipe. Installed the newest CM10.2 nightly and gapps. This went fine and I booted into the ROM and started recovering all of my stuff. I installed F-droid and AdAway, and rebooted for that. The phone never got past the Bootloader Unlocked warning screen. I turned it off and went into TWRP to try some things. I tried to fix permissions, but it failed, referencing something to do with fdroid. I wiped again and reinstalled CM, but I still couldn't get past the Bootloader Unlocked warning.
I booted into TWRP again and wiped what I could, and accidentally wiped my external SD, and I had no card readers lying around to get the ROM zips back onto it. I downloaded the Razr HD utility, used the batch file, and tried to flash the stock rom through fastboot, but it got stuck in some kind of loop and would not flash correctly. I then tried to do it manually, but got some sort of buffer error. I tried again, and it started ok but I never saw it actually finish flashing.
By this time I finagled the ROM zips onto the SD card and stopped the fastboot and booted into TWRP. I did another set of wipes, and rebooted into TWRP again. I flashed the CM and Gapps. The ROM booted fine from TWRP and I was able to start setting up my account again. I tried rebooting after the initial setup just to see if it was working correctly, and was met with the fastboot screen with fastboot reason: Flash failed. I rebooted into TWRP from there, and tried to boot normally, but it still brought me to the fastboot. I went to the boot menu and tried the normal boot selection, and now my phone is stuck on the Bootloader Warning screen and now it won't even turn off when I hold the power button.
I have no idea what is going on, or why I could get to the working ROM once but not again. Does anyone know anything that could help me?
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Try the solution in the last few posts on this thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2465695
I hope you get more knowledgeable advice than mine but, were I in your situation, my primary goal would be to get back to STOCK. Forget CM and modding for now. Either through TWRP or through the recovery settings on the phone itself I'd get to where I could do a factory reset. If you're continuously able to boot into TWRP I don't see how your phone could be bricked. My experience is, if I can get a phone to do ANYTHING I've got a shot at figuring out how to get out of whatever mess I've created. I don't know if this could be a factor but I'd put in a different micro SD card too, in case there's something on the card you've got in there.
Just an update. So, I got it to go back to fastboot this morning and I tried using the Razr Utility to flash back stock and stock recovery, but I got a "Failed" line with the reason "Remote Failure". Not sure what that's about. When it reset it got back to the Cyanogenmod boot graphic, but it never started. I left it there for a good 12 minutes.
Right now it's sitting in TWRP. I'm going to let it charge to 100% (it was a little less when I tried all of this) and attempt it again at 100% battery. Thanks for the help so far!
So, I tried using the Razr Utility to flash the system, kernel, radio and for system it was unsuccessful (something about too many threads or strings, something to that effect), but the rest said OK. Now my phone doesn't seem to turn on. My computer still makes the device plugged in sound when it's plugged/unplugged, but I cannot get the screen to show anything or seem to turn on the phone.
Is this it? Is it... bricked!? ;-;
Edit: I ordered the Factory Adapter as a last resort sort of thing. This is lame.
Edit Edit: I've seen the boot logo since my last edit! But... it's not coming back and I still can't even bring up the bootloader. I don't know why it will sometimes turn on or sometimes not. In any case, I'm now hopeful that not ALL is lost.
Bottom line, the adapter will allow you to fix your phone and flash the stock FXZ in RSD Lite or fastboot and get back to a clean slate and start over.
That's why we went to the trouble of making them!
cellzealot said:
Bottom line, the adapter will allow you to fix your phone and flash the stock FXZ in RSD Lite or fastboot and get back to a clean slate and start over.
That's why we went to the trouble of making them!
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That's the plan! One odd thing happening now... My phone's screen isn't showing anything, so I assumed it was off. I left it unplugged and went to see a movie..... and the phone is still warm. This leads me to believe the phone is still drawing power, for some reason... God this is weird. I'll wait for the adapter and try again. Thanks for the help!
cellzealot said:
Bottom line, the adapter will allow you to fix your phone and flash the stock FXZ in RSD Lite or fastboot and get back to a clean slate and start over.
That's why we went to the trouble of making them!
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according to the packaging on mine from tbh a chinaman made it, just sayin
Yes, we designed them and contracted through our US supplier who produced all of our cables who, in turn, had them produced in China according to our specifications. There is no longer any injection molded plastic production done in the US that can work at this small scale for affordable rates.
Sorry...that's the way the world works these days.
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Yes, we designed them and contracted through our US supplier who produced all of our cables who, in turn, had them produced in China according to our specifications. There is no longer any injection molded plastic production done in the US that can work at this small scale for affordable rates.
Sorry...that's the way the world works these days.
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thanks for making it either way, better to have and not need.
havent had to use it so far
bweN diorD said:
thanks for making it either way, better to have and not need.
havent had to use it so far
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You're welcome! They are definitely the best $10 investment you can make in any Motorola phone.
Next time you want to invest many thousands of dollars of your own money in a wild, hairbrained scheme to help a bunch of anonymous people on the internet fix their phones that they recently finished destroying themselves, let us know...we have just the plan!
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You're welcome! They are definitely the best $10 investment you can make in any Motorola phone.
Next time you want to invest many thousands of dollars of your own money in a wild, hairbrained scheme to help a bunch of anonymous people on the internet fix their phones that they recently finished destroying themselves, let us know...we have just the plan!
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how many thousands, and whats the plan?
I got the Factory Adapter and used RSD Lite to flash stock. And it works! Yay! It's starting up reliably and everything.
Except... it won't start up without the cable attached, and the battery icon has a big question mark on it. It also won't connect to the cell network (but does connect to WiFi). What do I do now?
Edit: So I noticed that while the battery status said "Unknown", it did go from 2% to 3% charge level when I plugged it in normally for a little. My plan at the moment is to try leaving it plugged in for a while and then try taking the OTA update to see if that fixes everything. Good plan?
Edit Edit: Never mind! I just had to let it charge for a bit. It seems to be back in working order, now! Thank you so much for all the help everyone!
That is exactly what is supposed to happen. Congrats on fixing your phone!
The factory cable/adapter does not charge the device but powers it directly, allowing it to boot no matter what state the battery is in or even without a battery at all.
You cannot charge in bootloader, which is why the cable/adapter is so valuable. Once the device can boot/charge normally then you are all set.
This is a very noob thing to do.
I have a Verizon S3 with a broken screen. So I was fooling around with it without reading the forum.
I have a fresh MF1 installed, then rooted and also installed ROM Manager. The foolish thing is that I used ROM manager to boot into recovery.
The boot failed. Now the stock recovery is gone. The worst thing is that, now I can't even get into Odin. The phone kept vibrating and give the yellow triangle, saying, System software not authorized by Verison wireless has been found on your phone.....
I do not know what to do now. I think the first thing I have to do is to get rid of the CWM recovery, which never worked in this case. Then I can get the Odin back.
I tried the download button combo. I got to Odin just once. And the Odin session did not complete stating that it could not find a COM port. So Odin is no go now.
Do I have to get on adb or bootloader level? How?
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Well, I think I made a fool of myself.
After repeated failures to boot into Odin, I put the phone to some rest. Then I just tried it one more time and my lovely Odin has returned. So I flash the phone with the stock ROM and the phone is back to normal.
I was thinking I have another hard bricked phone. I think by pulling the battery and put the phone to rest, it changed something.
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Well, I think I made a fool of myself.
After repeated failures to boot into Odin, I put the phone to some rest. Then I just tried it one more time and my lovely Odin has returned. So I flash the phone with the stock ROM and the phone is back to normal.
I was thinking I have another hard bricked phone. I think by pulling the battery and put the phone to rest, it changed something.
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You got that warning message at boot because you didn't unlock your bootloader.
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