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[Q] Did factory reset brick my phone

Hello - I followed the instructions in this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=935312 thread and successfully rooted my Optimus V.
After a couple days I stopped receiving texts. I called Virgin Mobil and they suggested that I do a factory reset. I did, now my phone just boots to the Adroid System Recovery screen. I have tried retracing my steps and starting from scratch but I can't get Super1click to recognize my phone even if I turn on the USB-MS toggle on the system recovery screen. Is there anything I can do to rectify the problem? Thanks for your time!

Hello,
I was looking at the steps on the link you posted and just curious... did you do step 6
" Go to "Backup" (navigate with volume rocker and click with Home) , and click "backup nand" "
If you did this step you should have a back up that you can recover too in the recovery mode.

Yes - I have tried that with no luck. The backup is there but it returns an error that states the "signature cannot be verified"

I have found I can turn off signature verification. When I do, it tells me it can not find the update script. Any ideas?

dynasonic1 said:
I have found I can turn off signature verification. When I do, it tells me it can not find the update script. Any ideas?
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As long as you can get to the recovery mode you arent bricked.
Do you know if you are in the stock or the custom recovery mode?
Also what step are you on when you get this msg?

I am in the custom recovery mode. One thing I forgot to mention is the factory reset wiped the SD card and I moved the files back on to the SD card via the USB-MS mode although I am not sure I moved the correct files.
The step this is happening on is when I go to "Flash zip from sdcard" option.
Thanks SO much for your help!

dynasonic1 said:
I am in the custom recovery mode. One thing I forgot to mention is the factory reset wiped the SD card and I moved the files back on to the SD card via the USB-MS mode although I am not sure I moved the correct files.
The step this is happening on is when I go to "Flash zip from sdcard" option.
Thanks SO much for your help!
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Ok if your not sure you moved the correct file on there just use the "Stock Rom Rooted and De Odexed minus Bloat" download from that page, keep it as a zip file and load it on your sd card via USB Mass Storage and flash from that...keep in mind that will lose all of your previous backup data and start you over fresh.

Thanks again! I will try this tonight. Should I flash the SD card first just to make sure it's a clean install?

dynasonic1 said:
Thanks again! I will try this tonight. Should I flash the SD card first just to make sure it's a clean install?
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I would do a data wipe/clear cache then put the "Stock Rom Rooted and De Odexed minus Bloat" zip file on the sd card and then perform the flash a zip from sd card option.

That got me further than I have gotten. It appears that it installed ok. So I rebooted and went right back into system recovery. What can I try from here?

Im not sure which custom recovery you guys are using but look for an option that says clear dalvik cache and then repeat the same flash from stock rom rooted .zip file

dynasonic1 said:
That got me further than I have gotten. It appears that it installed ok. So I rebooted and went right back into system recovery. What can I try from here?
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Im not sure how the custom recovery you are using looks but look for wipe/clear delvic cache then try and flash from zip again
SORRY about the double post!

[Q] Deleted all ROMS! HELP!

A few weeks ago I delete my ROM on accident. Never replaced the file...went to flash a new ROM last night, didnt like it so I rebooted and recovered. Now when I turn on the device (Incredible) it only shows the white HTC Incredible screen. Is there ANY way I can fix this? My computer wont read the device when its plugged in so I think Im out of luck...any help?

Do you have any other backups? If so, restore from one of those, then download the Rom you want.
Also, try wiping data, cache & dalvik cache, then retry restoring your backup. If that doesn't work, take the sd card out & use an adapter to connect it to your computer. Download the rom from your computer & save it in the root of your sd card. Put the sd card back in your phone, boot into recovery, wipe & flash.

What he said! Don't panic, as long as you can get into recovery you should be good to go. Just need to get a ROM onto your SD card.

plainjane said:
Do you have any other backups? If so, restore from one of those, then download the Rom you want.
Also, try wiping data, cache & dalvik cache, then retry restoring your backup. If that doesn't work, take the sd card out & use an adapter to connect it to your computer. Download the rom from your computer & save it in the root of your sd card. Put the sd card back in your phone, boot into recovery, wipe & flash.
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Good thought except it wont load! My pc doesnt recognize the phone when I plug it in...I accidnetly deleted the previous ROM THEN backed it up like an idiot. So I have no recovery otherwise I would be sitting pretty.
Any other thoughts?

efeigl said:
Good thought except it wont load! My pc doesnt recognize the phone when I plug it in...I accidnetly deleted the previous ROM THEN backed it up like an idiot. So I have no recovery otherwise I would be sitting pretty.
Any other thoughts?
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Are you without a recovery or without a backup?

Can you get into your recovery screen where you flash a ROM?

plainjane said:
Are you without a recovery or without a backup?
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Nothing to back up to...no ROMS on the phone. When I plug it into the pc it doesnt do anything.
Thoughts?

Ok, you still have not answered the question. We understand there are no ROM's on your phone. Can you get into the recovery screen? That is the screen you go to to install the zip of the ROM that you flashed onto your phone. If you can get to that screen, you can take your SD Card out of your phone. Put it into a micro SD card reader, and put it into your computer. Then you can put a ROM onto your SD card, put it back into your phone, boot into your recovery and flash the new ROM.

lowandbehold said:
Ok, you still have not answered the question. We understand there are no ROM's on your phone. Can you get into the recovery screen? That is the screen you go to to install the zip of the ROM that you flashed onto your phone. If you can get to that screen, you can take your SD Card out of your phone. Put it into a micro SD card reader, and put it into your computer. Then you can put a ROM onto your SD card, put it back into your phone, boot into your recovery and flash the new ROM.
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OK, sorry...yes I can get into recovery just fine. So, as long as I can get a ROM onto my SD card from my PC I should be good to go?

efeigl said:
OK, sorry...yes I can get into recovery just fine. So, as long as I can get a ROM onto my SD card from my PC I should be good to go?
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Yes, that's what I said in the very first response to your post.

[Q] Is my Phone Bricked

I have a updated g2x (gingerbread via Lg updater) installed NVflasher was able to boot into recovery performed a nandroid back up did a full wipe and was going to flash Xbroarders rom until i relized i put it on my internal instead of external so i then tried to flash my back up and got "no file found"did a reboot and all im getting is a black screen wit flashing keys. plz help

Try reflashing Clockwork Mod Recovery.
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Do that, and if you have the means, try to check out the external sd on some other device to see what's going on. I'd start with pulling the battery for a bit and try flashing the backup again.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong but if you didn't flash anything because of misfiling xboarder's rom, there was no reason to use the backup in the first place.

dachinaman said:
I have a updated g2x (gingerbread via Lg updater) installed NVflasher was able to boot into recovery performed a nandroid back up did a full wipe and was going to flash Xbroarders rom until i realized i put it on my internal instead of external so i then tried to flash my back up and got "no file found"did a reboot and all im getting is a black screen wit flashing keys. plz help
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Where did you put your nandroid - internal or external SD? They would have been determined by the recovery option you chose - Internal or External SD. Your stock ROM would download the Xboarder ROM to internal in any case, but your nandroid location depends on the choice above.
Since you did a total wipe, you do not have a ROM installed, so you will not be able to boot up, but you DO NOT have a brick.
You could flash the Recovery again with the Oneclick Recovery tool and choose internal, and then you could flash the Xboarder ROM. After that, see if you can find your backup (in the clockworkmod folder).

gaww said:
Since you did a total wipe, you do not have a ROM installed, so you will not be able to boot up, but you DO NOT have a brick.
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I didn't know that a wipe from cwm clears out the rom. I only ever wiped before flashing something else so I assumed it was more like a factory reset.

heysharon said:
I didn't know that a wipe from cwm clears out the rom. I only ever wiped before flashing something else so I assumed it was more like a factory reset.
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As far as I know, the wipe data/factory reset is exactly that.
There's also a wipe system function, which wipes the entire ROM also. It seems he did that also.
As for fixing the phone, what gaww said haha. If xboarder's mod isn't there, then in recovery while the phone is plugged in, mount the sd card, and put a rom on there using windows explorer or whatever, then disconnect and you should be able to flash it.

dachinaman said:
I have a updated g2x (gingerbread via Lg updater) installed NVflasher was able to boot into recovery performed a nandroid back up did a full wipe and was going to flash Xbroarders rom until i relized i put it on my internal instead of external so i then tried to flash my back up and got "no file found"did a reboot and all im getting is a black screen wit flashing keys. plz help
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Boot into recovery, go down to mount, and mount usb. Then find the file on your internal sd and move it over to the external sdcard. I have had to do that a few times when I forgot to move the file.

[Q] HELP!! i wiped my cache and sd card partition...

So, to make the long story short...
basically, I have no cache partion.
I was rooting my nexus s and flashing a rom everything was fine until I retardedly pressed wipe cache partition in clockwork recovery so now i can still boot up normally but i can't do anything as you all no, the nexus s doesn't have an external card slot, so my phone says that I haven't got an sd card inserted.
Is there any way to bring back the cache partition and how could i make it recognise it as the sd card?
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The problem above seems to have fixed itself but now I have another problem. I have flashed MIUI rom and I don't know where the superuser app has gone since I rooted it. So now I can't flash a newer version of CWM and I'm stuck with this rom. I have downloaded the CWM 5.x.x.x.x from the other thread but I am not able to flash it even with update.zip. I seem to be unable to flash anything at the moment because in CWM it just aborts everything because the 'cache' partition is not there. Also when I go boot up normally into MIUI, I can't turn wifi on, everytime I change it to on, it just won't let me and it says error below the switch. Is there anyway to fix this at all?

I think you need to go back into clockwork mod recovery, go to mounts menu, make sure sdcard is mounted. If you can't mount it, you'll have to format it. If you can mount it, then do it, then go to mount usb, and hook up to a computer and back up everything you have in your sdcard folder just to be safe. You can now flash your ROM again.
If you have nothing in your sdcard folder when you connect to the computer, download an undelete program that works with flash drives, and see if it can restore your files.
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bedalus said:
I think you need to go back into clockwork mod recovery, go to mounts menu, make sure sdcard is mounted. If you can't mount it, you'll have to format it. If you can mount it, then do it, then go to mount usb, and hook up to a computer and back up everything you have in your sdcard folder just to be safe. You can now flash your ROM again.
If you have nothing in your sdcard folder when you connect to the computer, download an undelete program that works with flash drives, and see if it can restore your files.
Sent from my SNES
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thx for the suggestion, but I have tried that already and in clockworkmod it says that I can't mount or format the partition as because they don't exist so I don't have any idea what to do.
Also I am able to boot my phone into the rom I have flashed but when I try to turn on the wifi, it gives me and error and turns off, is there a way to solve this at all?

can you use SD partition in CWM to create it again?
Just throwin it out there, not sure if it would work or not?

blackhemi4x4 said:
can you use SD partition in CWM to create it again?
Just throwin it out there, not sure if it would work or not?
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I have CWM 3.0.0.0.0 so I am not sure about the other versions and this one only allows me to partition up to 4gb so not really useful on the nexus s.
thx anyway

Flash cwm 5.0.2.0 ?
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Flash recovery thru fastboot. Fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
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vabeachfc3s said:
Flash cwm 5.0.2.0 ?
sent from my Sensation
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vabeachfc3s said:
Flash recovery thru fastboot. Fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
sent from my Sensation
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do you mean flash recovery through fastboot with cmd? I tried that but in cwm or in MIUI it doesn't flash, it just says waiting for device, so I am guessing the usb connection is not working properly either. I can transfer files though if that is any help...

Then u need to install the proper drivers for your device
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SGH-T769 (SGS Blaze 4G) Bricked? Can still access CWM Recovery!

So I believe I've bricked my SGH-T769, at least, whenever I attempt to turn it on, I am greeted with the standard Samsung splash-screen and can never proceed past it. I can still boot into recovery mode and i wanted to know if I could use the "restore from sdcard01" option to fix this. I have a removable SDCard and the ability to add files to it via- cardreader. Can I even get system restore files?
P.S. I cleared EVERYTHING... not JUST the harddrive, dalvik, and caches, i mean... i cleared EVERYTHING which was obviously a mistake because that's when the problems came. I believe I may have actually cleared the system files themselves...
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Oddly enough, CWM Recovery is still alive and well, but I cannot access DOWNLOAD MODE
(I KNOW HOW TO ACCESS DOWNLOAD MODE BUT IT IS JUST BROKEN WITH THIS PHONE)

Hello,
Yes, if you made a nandroid backup in recovery then restoring that nandroid should fix you.
To better assist you, your thread will be moved to your device forum linked below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/blaze-4g/general
The experts there may be able to help you with any other questions you have. Good luck.

digfive3 said:
So I believe I've bricked my SGH-T769, at least, whenever I attempt to turn it on, I am greeted with the standard Samsung splash-screen and can never proceed past it. I can still boot into recovery mode and i wanted to know if I could use the "restore from sdcard01" option to fix this. I have a removable SDCard and the ability to add files to it via- cardreader. Can I even get system restore files?
P.S. I cleared EVERYTHING... not JUST the harddrive, dalvik, and caches, i mean... i cleared EVERYTHING which was obviously a mistake because that's when the problems came. I believe I may have actually cleared the system files themselves...
:silly:
Oddly enough, CWM Recovery is still alive and well, but I cannot access DOWNLOAD MODE
(I KNOW HOW TO ACCESS DOWNLOAD MODE BUT IT IS JUST BROKEN WITH THIS PHONE)
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No, you are not bricked. If you are able to access recovery, think of it as a second chance . Since you have recovery available, have you tried transferring a ROM to it? If that is what you were aiming for, I recommend transferring TWRP onto it, flashing it, reboot to recovery, and proceed to flashing a ROM.

xWolf13 said:
No, you are not bricked. If you are able to access recovery, think of it as a second chance . Since you have recovery available, have you tried transferring a ROM to it? If that is what you were aiming for, I recommend transferring TWRP onto it, flashing it, reboot to recovery, and proceed to flashing a ROM.
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Can I just use an SD card to do that or will I need to find a way to get into download mode?

digfive3 said:
Can I just use an SD card to do that or will I need to find a way to get into download mode?
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That works also.

digfive3 said:
Can I just use an SD card to do that or will I need to find a way to get into download mode?
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Yes, download your ROM and Gapps package, place the zips on your external sdcard, boot to recovery, flash the ROM zip then flash the Gapps zip, do the wipes(factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache), reboot.
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Droidriven said:
Yes, download your ROM and Gapps package, place the zips on your external sdcard, boot to recovery, flash the ROM zip then flash the Gapps zip, do the wipes(factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache), reboot.
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Could you link me to a rom for my device? I'm having a hard time finding an actual ZIP file, just a bunch of .IMG files.

digfive3 said:
Could you link me to a rom for my device? I'm having a hard time finding an actual ZIP file, just a bunch of .IMG files.
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Do a Google search for "custom ROMs for SGH-T769" that should give some results if anything exists.
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digfive3 said:
So I believe I've bricked my SGH-T769, at least, whenever I attempt to turn it on, I am greeted with the standard Samsung splash-screen and can never proceed past it. I can still boot into recovery mode and i wanted to know if I could use the "restore from sdcard01" option to fix this. I have a removable SDCard and the ability to add files to it via- cardreader. Can I even get system restore files?
P.S. I cleared EVERYTHING... not JUST the harddrive, dalvik, and caches, i mean... i cleared EVERYTHING which was obviously a mistake because that's when the problems came. I believe I may have actually cleared the system files themselves...
:silly:
Oddly enough, CWM Recovery is still alive and well, but I cannot access DOWNLOAD MODE
(I KNOW HOW TO ACCESS DOWNLOAD MODE BUT IT IS JUST BROKEN WITH THIS PHONE)
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By the way, there is a device called a USB jig that is used to force a device into download mode, you can get one for $4-5 on eBay or you can make your own by cutting the end off of an old micro USB cord and using a 300k resistor(or any combination of resistors that equal but do not exceed 300k), there are videos on YouTube that show how to do that. That should boot you to download mode so you can restore the device to stock.
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