Lets see if I can go through this whole skimmy with you guys:
I was on MIUI, going to go into recovery to flash another modem because the one it has doesn't work well for me, I see that I have no recovery, for somereason it vanished even after doing the recover fix. I go through the process of fix thats on the MIUI thread, sgs kernal flasher etc, so once I flash that to get red CWM, the phone just stops booting up at all, then after a while I finally managed to get it to boot into red CWM, then I did the process to get it to blue recovery, I've tried flashing my backup rooms, a new install of MIUI, with full wipes, then when I go to reboot I go back into blue CWM.
Since I've not had this phone very long, I have no idea what the hell its doing, i would have assumed I'd flash the rom again and it would boot up like normal.
So am I soft bricked or what?
soulysephiroth said:
Lets see if I can go through this whole skimmy with you guys:
I was on MIUI, going to go into recovery to flash another modem because the one it has doesn't work well for me, I see that I have no recovery, for somereason it vanished even after doing the recover fix. I go through the process of fix thats on the MIUI thread, sgs kernal flasher etc, so once I flash that to get red CWM, the phone just stops booting up at all, then after a while I finally managed to get it to boot into red CWM, then I did the process to get it to blue recovery, I've tried flashing my backup rooms, a new install of MIUI, with full wipes, then when I go to reboot I go back into blue CWM.
Since I've not had this phone very long, I have no idea what the hell its doing, i would have assumed I'd flash the rom again and it would boot up like normal.
So am I soft bricked or what?
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Seems like you may be soft bricked so no biggie.
Even thou, try to reinstall the MIUI zip if you still have it on the Internal Sd card, you dont loose a thing for trying, and as it seems maybe you have to go back to stock by Odin/heimdall and thats it.
Anyways i would recommend to wipe data/cache and reinstall MIUI before using Odin/heimdall back to stock.
Yeah, I tried to flash the zip again and then it gave me an error about boot files, so I decide to do the odin unbrick. Its going through its processes right now.
soulysephiroth said:
Yeah, I tried to flash the zip again and then it gave me an error about boot files, so I decide to do the odin unbrick. Its going through its processes right now.
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Alright cool, that will fix it for sure haha
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I was trying to install EagleBlood ROM to run Gingerbread on G2x, and followed all instuctions, installing ROM manager, using that to flash to their recovery, then deleting caches, then flashing the ROM. After a reboot, EagleBlood is stuck on a bootloop, displaying an image of and android surrounded by a sparkly blue circle. If I take out the battery and then try to boot into recovery, the recovery image is displayed for a while, but then resets and goes back to rebooting without opening recovery. I am very scared that I may have bricked my brand new phone and do not want to pay for a repair. Any help is very much appreciated.
XDvinSL said:
I was trying to install EagleBlood ROM to run Gingerbread on G2x, and followed all instuctions, installing ROM manager, using that to flash to their recovery, then deleting caches, then flashing the ROM. After a reboot, EagleBlood is stuck on a bootloop, displaying an image of and android surrounded by a sparkly blue circle. If I take out the battery and then try to boot into recovery, the recovery image is displayed for a while, but then resets and goes back to rebooting without opening recovery. I am very scared that I may have bricked my brand new phone and do not want to pay for a repair. Any help is very much appreciated.
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I would suggest that you NVflash clockworkmod by reading the thread here. Once you do that, you can access your recovery via volume down and power. If you do not have CWM installed via NVflash, for now, you should be able to reset everything by pressing the volume down and power to restore your phone to a factory state.
Thank you very much for that tool! Booted up the recovery and am currently recovering from earlier today on the stock ROM. If this is my last post, it was a success!
XDvinSL said:
Thank you very much for that tool! Booted up the recovery and am currently recovering from earlier today on the stock ROM. If this is my last post, it was a success!
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Now, when you install a rom through CWM, i would suggest wiping data (if you are switching between roms) and cache. This will prevent you from going into bootloops. I would also suggest after flashing a new rom, going into CWM > Advanced > Fix Permissions. You should now be golden.
Hello, I'm new to the forums and I feel bad I'm already screwing things up :/
Anyway on to the problem... I've had CM9 running on my phone for about two weeks now but I wanted to get rid of the rainbows in CWM and at boot. Today I downloaded Rom Manager from the market place, and when I ran it, it prompted me to install CWM recovery to my SD card, although I already had it installed I thought I'd give it a try. Bad idea, now I can't leave recovery mode, my phone will continually reboot into recovery, I've tried wiping all data and clean installing CM9 again and still nothing. I've even tried the exitrecovery.zip script to no avail
Any suggestions or ideas on how to fix it and boot into my ROM again?
Thanks!!
I would venture to say you might have to reflash...or start over from stock...
i would reload stock....then reload ics or the rom of your choice...
Thanks a lot! Worked like a charm, I used Odin and flashed factory stock 2.2.1, now I'm off to getting ICS back.
Thanks again!
Does anyone know why this happens? I've noticed that anytime I open CWM and choose the boot to recovery option is when I get stuck with CWM Recovery looping. I then have to go back to stock and start over again.
I'm not entirely sure why it happens, my guess was that it puts up a bad flag not compatible with ICS that keeps it from booting that, that was why I tired the exitrecovery script, I looked through it and it appeared to me to change a flag for booting. I'm not sure why it happens but I'd say just use the reboot to recovery option that the ROM provides in the shutdown menu, I know that always works.
So I was cruising around the Nexus S forums and found a rom I liked after I unlocked and rooted my phone.
I flashed Paranoid Android and then flashed the Matr1x kernel. Thus putting me in a neverending bootloop.
No ability to go back to CWM so I can't restore. And I can't put it in download mode so no ODIN.
What the heck do I do?
Can anyone help?
BTW if this is actually called a soft brick I'm sorry my terminology might be off.
Also I did this because the last phone I did extensive flashing with was an HTC Inspire 4G and it was easy to flash stuff just clear everything and flash what you wanted no bootloops. Sadly this phone not so much.
Hmm... No recovery...I've been stuck in a bootloop but I had recovery!
Sorry for the useless post, I cant help you..
Are you able to get into bootloader?
Usually when a bootloop occurs you should still be able to go in recovery.
When you say "no ability to access CWM" do you mean ROM Manager? Or the recovery mode?
What happens when you try to access the recovery mode?
same issue like urs
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1775933
try clean install;
flash Rom-Wiper.zip
flash Dalvik-Wiper.zip
then;
factory reset,
Format the system, data, cache, boot & partitions of your device.
I mean no access to recovery. CWM is Clock Work Mod Recovery. I have no access to fastboot either. The only thing my phone can do is bootloop.
You have to be mistaken.
Press power and volume up to get into fastboot ( bootloader). Then pick recovery....
That rom or kernel will not erase recovery. If your phone is in a bootloop it is making it past the bootloader
So it appears it as if I was mistaken. I got into fastboot and booted into CWM I'm still confused as to what I did, but I think I corrupted the Kernel.
It was the weirdest thing though. I tried it at least a dozen times, then I tried to run down the battery and try it again afterwards, and it didn't work so I gave up. Then I tried it again about 5 minutes ago and it worked. I'm sorry I cause you guys so much confusion. I've been doing this for so long I guess I just didn't doubt I was doing it right.
So I flashed Paranoid-Android Jellybean and it just screwed up my phone. I had to use Odin to bring it back to stock. Now I've got it almost back to where I want it but I can't for the life of me get CWM recovery onto my phone. Its got super user on it and I can go into the CWM app and tell it to flash CWM and it says it was successful but upon booting into recovery I'm getting the Android 3e recovery with signature verification. I've tried to replace the recovery file with the modified one but if I reboot my phone it just hangs at the Samsung screen. I tried to install SGS kernel flasher as well but its failing to download/install it. Hopefully someone can point out what I'm doing wrong because I don't remember ever having this much trouble.
You can use this to get your recovery back -thanks and credit to qkster and Entropy512
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
Questions, let me know and I'll try to help.
Alright, downloaded and used that program. It went through and flashed perfectly fine and was easy to use; only issue is my recovery didn't work any better. I was able to boot into recovery but when I did it was just a scrambled mess of colors. I then used Odin to flash back and now I'm back at the Android 3e recovery again. I've tried to replace the recovery file and boot into recovery but it just hangs at the Samsung logo and if I replace the update.zip it won't flash because its not signed correctly. I've also tried to flash via Rom Manager and it says it went through and was successful and has my "latest version" set as the version I just flashed.
I'm lost as to what I'm doing wrong.
Ok- it may be a process but I am willing to help you figure this out. Once you learn, as long as you are going to be flashing roms, it will come in handy in the future. Couple of questions:
Have you used Heimdall before?
Did you also flash the kernel (Entropy's Daily Driver) in post 2?
Ok didn't even notice there was a way of installing the kernel that way. Did it and now I have a working recovery!!! Thank you so much. I've bricked my phone before but odin fixed it no problem. I'll keep this in mind next time. Saved me a lot of time.
Glad to hear this - nice work.
Hi all,
not sure why this predicament is happening to me, but currently I can't push any custom rom to my photon Q...
0. I installed a millions of ROMs and know how to do and using TWRP 2.6
1. Yesterday I experienced several File I/O errors during installing Pac-man ROM.
2. after TWRP full format, Installation was okay and it was also bootable, you can set up your phone just like everyday, but you cannot reboot... stuck in the moto logo everytime you reboot, and I had to RSD/FXZ restore :crying:
3. Nothing can bring this phone back with TWRP, Only RSD / FXZ restore can save the situation...
4. a stock ROM of FXZ seems okay and normally reboot, but I went back to #2, but in vain...
Any clue? My phone's flash simply borked?
palmwangja said:
Hi all,
not sure why this predicament is happening to me, but currently I can't push any custom rom to my photon Q...
0. I installed a millions of ROMs and know how to do and using TWRP 2.6
1. Yesterday I experienced several File I/O errors during installing Pac-man ROM.
2. after TWRP full format, Installation was okay and it was also bootable, you can set up your phone just like everyday, but you cannot reboot... stuck in the moto logo everytime you reboot, and I had to RSD/FXZ restore :crying:
3. Nothing can bring this phone back with TWRP, Only RSD / FXZ restore can save the situation...
4. a stock ROM of FXZ seems okay and normally reboot, but I went back to #2, but in vain...
Any clue? My phone's flash simply borked?
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yes,i have the same problem,i try a lot times.
use cwmrecovery,it will solve all
Try CWM or Open Recovery. Try also installing custom rom from internal storage.
Thanks for the input, but neither CWM nor open recovery helped a lot after each tests, unfortunately exactly the same problem.
Only the first boot was possible with the first custom ROM right after RSD recovery.
This is extremely weird and I don't understand what this situation means.
Stock ROM looks okay since I can restore from the TWRP backup, but no other roms were recoverable from my last backups none the less flesh installation... stuck in the red moto logo, not even in the boot screen...
palmwangja said:
Thanks for the input, but neither CWM nor open recovery helped a lot after each tests, unfortunately exactly the same problem.
Only the first boot was possible with the first custom ROM right after RSD recovery.
This is extremely weird and I don't understand what this situation means.
Stock ROM looks okay since I can restore from the TWRP backup, but no other roms were recoverable from my last backups none the less flesh installation... stuck in the red moto logo, not even in the boot screen...
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Try to remove sdcard and see if phone boots normaly without it.
What is "twrp full format"?
Thanks,
suddenly all got back to normal. I simply don't know what happened and what I have missed. maybe I have been too jittery to wait for a boot time ?
If anyone happened to have experienced any of my symptom, just wait for another min to diagnose something !
BTW, when I refer to 'twrp full format', I meant there was a format menu inside TWRP wipe section.