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Coming from Captivate, flashing questions

Sorry if this should be in a different thread. Not trying to get flamed. So I am coming from a captivate and am just wondering how is flashing stuff on the inspire different from the captivate? Typically most of my flashing was just done thru CWM on the captivate itself or thru ODIN. I know ODIN doesnt exist for the inspire, but what differences can I expect coming into? how do I get to recovery or download? Any answers on how the flashing experience is different would be much appreciated

Once you've rooted it's pretty much the same as captivate install rom manager and install Rom with cwm recovery. There isn't a need to flash back to stock. Just clear data and cache.
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yup, clockwork mod makes life a hell of a lot easier.

And this restore a heck of a lot better than the captivate did. I don't even use titanium backup anymore. All my txt messages and apps automatically restores including wallpaper
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Thanks guys, my only question is how to get CWM on this phone after root. Im assuming its thru a kernel?

same way you do it on the captivate get rom manager from the market. Install CWM Recovery.
There's no need for special recoveries like on the captivate as there's no lagfix craziness to deal with. HTC uses Android/Linux standard file systems

gunnyman said:
same way you do it on the captivate get rom manager from the market. Install CWM Recovery.
There's no need for special recoveries like on the captivate as there's no lagfix craziness to deal with. HTC uses Android/Linux standard file systems
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Lol, kinda forgot thats all that needed to be done to get CWM. Too much stress with the captivate.

Yeah I had to retrain my brain as well.

p4ranoid4ndroid said:
Lol, kinda forgot thats all that needed to be done to get CWM. Too much stress with the captivate.
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Totally agree, ill never get samsung again. I would probably flash a different rom on my captivate every other day to find out which one had what bugs and what didnt work correctly, lol. The Inspire is a lot harder to root then the captivate, but is well worth it when you do, for one roms are higher quality and all 100% working, even cm7 rc1. There is no download mode for inspire, you can manually boot into bootloader mode and from there you can enter CWM Recovery.

So i looked at the HTC hack kit, are there any better instructions for rooting? just didnt see anything laid out in that thread.
Another question for yall: On the captivate when wifi was active the 3g symbol would disappear. This doesnt happen on my inspire. Does that mean hspa is still running while im connected to wifi? Battery drain is my issue with this

there's a readme in the hack kit. Very easy to follow

There is youtube two part video walkthrough, thats what i used. I learn easier if i can see it happening.
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On the vibrant (captivate) a bad kernel or Rom could mean boot loop and no hope of getting into clockwork and we would have to use odin. This doesn't happen on the inspire?
Sent from my Inspire '4g'.

ive had boot loop happen twice so far and both times i manually went into boot loader and went to CWM recovery and wiped data and reflashed then everything was fine. The one time i reflashed and still got boot loop i just restored back up and then flashed and was good to go. I made a backup right after i rooted so i wouldnt have to do it again, i suggest you do the same just to be safe.

bkeaver said:
And this restore a heck of a lot better than the captivate did. I don't even use titanium backup anymore. All my txt messages and apps automatically restores including wallpaper
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Not to hijack, but what do you mean? How do you restore all your apps etc without titanium?

Corriewf said:
Not to hijack, but what do you mean? How do you restore all your apps etc without titanium?
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lol dont mind the hijacking. the more questions asked the better.

the market auto restores your apps when you sign in with your google account, i cant really explain how it does this, but it sure is nice.

when you check back up my settings when you sign into google for teh first time, it starts keeping a list of market apps you've installed and restores them if you do a factory reset. doesn't seem to catch all of mine all the time though.

still have some questions regarding Flash
I read the rooting thread as well as saw the video, what I could understand is that in captivate we were rooting and then upgrading the ROM.
But here we are rooting and the downgrading.. Are we loosing any functionality? Its little difficult to understand..
can someone pls help?

You are actually downgrading the ROM then rooting THAT. After you have root, and have clockwork mod recovery installed you can install any rooted rom you like. There are a few to choose from in the Dev section.
The current Android release on the Inspire hasn't been "cracked" yet so you need to downgrade to get root.

captivate cwm works on infuse.[sort of]

just to give you guys some more confidence i ran trusselo's super easy batch scritp on my dad's windows 7 box to hack 3e recovery.
you can look at my 3e thread in captivate general but do not attempt the kernel swap methods!
use trusselo's script on windows
if it fails or you are on a mac/linux machine then use the manual 3e fix after you root the device.
after i got 3e modded for self signed update.zip zip flashing like the old 2e recovery on 2.1 sgs phones i installed rom manager and chose the captivate cwm recovery. rebooted into recovery, reinstaled packages. phone rebooted, reistaled packages again and i was sucessfully in cwm. from there i was able to backup the stock rom and installed a .zip file that just changed my build.prop (taking baby steps) i could have spoofed the build.prop in many ways but it was for the sake of testing. the flash was successful. i booted up checked for the change and confirmed it was written to /system properly.
then i rebooted and restored the backup. there were some graphical errors including a broken progress bar and a splash screen that covers the menu when the restore is done so it is difficult to navigate, but it is something. success! the restored rom booted and the old build.prop was in place proving it was a successful restore.
tomorrow i will try a replaced vending.apk (market) and the build.prop as a market fix and post it in a thread if it works. if gtg465x doesnt mind i will try to build a rom off his deodexed rom if someone doesnt beat me to it.
i think we need a bounty to buy a dev phone for someone more knowledgable than me. i dont want to go all cowboy and brick this thing, the captivate had much more as far as backup plans so im being more cautious with this one. and even if i had a dev phone i wouldnt be of as much help as others around xda.

Chika Da China Da Chinese Chicken?
Dani897 said:
just to give you guys some more confidence i ran trusselo's super easy batch scritp on my dad's windows 7 box to hack 3e recovery.
you can look at my 3e thread in captivate general but do not attempt the kernel swap methods!
use trusselo's script on windows
if it fails or you are on a mac/linux machine then use the manual 3e fix after you root the device.
after i got 3e modded for self signed update.zip zip flashing like the old 2e recovery on 2.1 sgs phones i installed rom manager and chose the captivate cwm recovery. rebooted into recovery, reinstaled packages. phone rebooted, reistaled packages again and i was sucessfully in cwm. from there i was able to backup the stock rom and installed a .zip file that just changed my build.prop (taking baby steps) i could have spoofed the build.prop in many ways but it was for the sake of testing. the flash was successful. i booted up checked for the change and confirmed it was written to /system properly.
then i rebooted and restored the backup. there were some graphical errors including a broken progress bar and a splash screen that covers the menu when the restore is done so it is difficult to navigate, but it is something. success! the restored rom booted and the old build.prop was in place proving it was a successful restore.
tomorrow i will try a replaced vending.apk (market) and the build.prop as a market fix and post it in a thread if it works. if gtg465x doesnt mind i will try to build a rom off his deodexed rom if someone doesnt beat me to it.
i think we need a bounty to buy a dev phone for someone more knowledgable than me. i dont want to go all cowboy and brick this thing, the captivate had much more as far as backup plans so im being more cautious with this one. and even if i had a dev phone i wouldnt be of as much help as others around xda.
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Very nice. I am gonna try as well. As long as CM is working I am comfortable pushing my luck a little.

Awesome! Can you post the files or the link to the thread with the files?

slider2828 said:
Awesome! Can you post the files or the link to the thread with the files?
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just look in the captivate general stickies. i would post a link but there is stuff in there that doesnt apply because we dont have any kernels to flash, i dont want to confuse anybody and cause bricks because someone flashes a sgs kernel. i might make new write up.

Chika Da China Da Chinese Chicken?
I was going to run the PC batch script but the download link actually downloaded a CWM zip.
That's no PC script....no batch file to be found.
EDIT: I am an idiot. Disregard.

slappyjoker said:
I was going to run the PC batch script but the download link actually downloaded a CWM zip.
That's no PC script....no batch file to be found.
EDIT: I am an idiot. Disregard.
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you think you're an idiot now wait till you read the directions!

Chika Da China Da Chinese Chicken?
Dani897 said:
you think you're an idiot now wait till you read the directions!
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That was pretty classic. But hey, it sure did work.
1st. Test with CM. Adhoc WiFi Supplicant Zip. (Success)
2nd. Dunno yet.

yep working great
i am backing up in cwm as we speak

samsungcaptivates said:
i am backing up in cwm as we speak
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So CWM doesn't work in the traditional sense yet?

bella92108 said:
So CWM doesn't work in the traditional sense yet?
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it does but there seems to be a problem. not sure why, i had no issues flashing small mods for testing but people are having trouble flashing roms. besides that the restore process seems to give me some graphical bugs but works. as far as i can tell it works like it should but i wont discredit others claiming issues mounting the sd card.

Dani897 said:
it does but there seems to be a problem. not sure why, i had no issues flashing small mods for testing but people are having trouble flashing roms. besides that the restore process seems to give me some graphical bugs but works. as far as i can tell it works like it should but i wont discredit others claiming issues mounting the sd card.
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Hmm, how long is the timeframe between when CWM is updated? I'd love to get rid of all this AT&T [email protected]# they litter my phone with, but I don't want to brick it... and lots of people seem to brick phones without CWM, haha

bella92108 said:
Hmm, how long is the timeframe between when CWM is updated? I'd love to get rid of all this AT&T [email protected]# they litter my phone with, but I don't want to brick it... and lots of people seem to brick phones without CWM, haha
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you can use titanium backup to remove stuff. also there is odin/heimdall to flash "refuse" from h8rift. they work and are also the safety net unique to samsung phones.

Dani897 said:
you can use titanium backup to remove stuff. also there is odin/heimdall to flash "refuse" from h8rift. they work and are also the safety net unique to samsung phones.
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Yeah I suppose, I am just hoping that CWM for Infuse will release quick along with new ROMs (Gingerbread? hehe)

bella92108 said:
Yeah I suppose, I am just hoping that CWM for Infuse will release quick along with new ROMs (Gingerbread? hehe)
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"Release quick?" We've been waiting for weeks already

beatblaster said:
"Release quick?" We've been waiting for weeks already
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Weeks? Didn't this phone hit stores 5/21? That was 8 days ago.

bella92108 said:
Weeks? Didn't this phone hit stores 5/21? That was 8 days ago.
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Nah, 5/15. It's been 2 weeks today. Anyway.....

Hey anyone find a way to install cwm install packages using this update.zip?
It says it can't mount the sdcard when I try to install the .zip.
Anyone?

Check this out...

http://androidcentral.com/team-hydro-bootmanager-coming-soon-puts-end-bootloops-forever-hacking
Very interesting... so if we get stuck in a bootloop we could just recover from a Nandroid backup without having to revert to stock, etc.
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Too bad that wont work for us... it is in the boot.img, and we can't touch that until we get the bootloader unlocked.
Good find though.
Jim
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I am pretty sure my phone was bootloop and how would you get it into recovery right now? i had to use the fastboot files to do it. it is a good idea though

jimbridgman said:
Too bad that wont work for us... it is in the boot.img, and we can't touch that until we get the bootloader unlocked.
Good find though.
Jim
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Ah, nevermind
But just wondering... if it's based off of CWM, and we can reboot into CWM, and we can get CWM to appear on every boot... then shouldn't we be able to get something like this to work without modifying the boot.img?

cogeary said:
Ah, nevermind
But just wondering... if it's based off of CWM, and we can reboot into CWM, and we can get CWM to appear on every boot... then shouldn't we be able to get something like this to work without modifying the boot.img?
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Nope, if you use the razr boot hijack, it is exactly that, a hijack. It uses several "android/Linux" binaries that it "hijacks", to allow you get into CWM, just before the android UI comes up, but after the kernel is started. To get the particular hack you mentioned, working, you will have to modify the boot image, to include the recovery on boot, that will start just before the kernel is actually started/starting.
Like others have said, that since we have the fxz it does not really matter. Since I have really been doing some serious hacking and development on this phone, I have soft bricked or boot-looped my phone I can't count how many times, and even the razr CWM on boot does not always help. A good backup from CWM, and the fxz is where it is at, and really the best solution for things like this.
Most people on this site who have this phone really should not worry too much about these things, because the likelihood of doing this is very small unless you really are doing some serious hacking or development work like lfaber06 and I are. We will usually not release something to the rest of the world without testing it first, and giving explicit directions on how to do the job without bricking the phone. For those brave souls that are trying to do some dev work, and are new to it, until we get the bootloader unlocked, again the best bet is the fxz and a good backup from CWM.

[HELP] CM9 Issues..

So I've upgraded to CM9(cm9-droid3-20120216-2345) which went fine.. However I have no service, no market, and for some reason the USB/Portal doesn't work the same with CM9.. So I can't flash my phone, and when I try to use backup/recovery to Clockwork Recovery through safestrap I am getting "Couldn't open directory. No files found."
I know the files are there, I can see them when I go to 'Install zip from sdcard'.. At this point I just want to get back to SuperCharged_V_5 and I have been beating my head all morning over this.. I have no idea what else to try from here as RSD Lite does not pick up my phone anymore.. What do I do guys

sunbeamxd said:
So I've upgraded to CM9(cm9-droid3-20120216-2345) which went fine.. However I have no service, no market, and for some reason the USB/Portal doesn't work the same with CM9.. So I can't flash my phone, and when I try to use backup/recovery to Clockwork Recovery through safestrap I am getting "Couldn't open directory. No files found."
I know the files are there, I can see them when I go to 'Install zip from sdcard'.. At this point I just want to get back to SuperCharged_V_5 and I have been beating my head all morning over this.. I have no idea what else to try from here as RSD Lite does not pick up my phone anymore.. What do I do guys
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Did you read the post? CM9 is currently in a VERY early Beta for our phone. The phone market, and camera doesn't work....

are you in the AP fastboot mode?

What where did u get cm9 that works for our phone please give me the link

I guess I didn't read the fine print, but yea at this point I just want to get back to SuperCharged_V_5.. Any time I try to restore it doesn't find my SDCARD but I can see everything if I go to Install Zip from SDCARD
I'd really appreciate some help on this..

Disregard, I don't know how I managed to do it but I am back on 2.3.5 now..
hash-of-codes.blogspot.com/p/android-downloads_24.html
These guys have a great blog about CM9 development, just not quite there yet...

ymcmbforever said:
What where did u get cm9 that works for our phone please give me the link
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It does not work for our phone yet. lfaber06 and I have been working on it and CM7 for SEVERAL months now. The issue with CM9 is finding a radio for our phone that works with ICS (which is what CM9 is based off of). Go take a look at the post in the development section on it.
For those that would like to take a look at flashing it, you MUST use safestrap, which is having issues right now, and is very low priority since we have CWM through bootstrap and the CWM on boot hack.
Here is where the CM9 post is located, but I advise that you read the WHOLE thread, and if you would like to help you can start looking for a working radio that is similar to ours that is already on ICS.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1427026

Okay, so how do you put safestrap on the atrix 2 because i tried to flash the barely alpha cm9 to my atrix 2 and i bricked my phone, but now i realise that i had to have safestrap. i really want to try this rom so can anyone point me out to how to get safestrap?

justinsims241 said:
Okay, so how do you put safestrap on the atrix 2 because i tried to flash the barely alpha cm9 to my atrix 2 and i bricked my phone, but now i realise that i had to have safestrap. i really want to try this rom so can anyone point me out to how to get safestrap?
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The port does not work period. It was only posted for our dev team to help get it working. It is not going be working anytime soon.
I am working on a new CM9 compile specifically for our phone. I already have most of CM7 working as well, will be getting that out soon. CM9 will be a couple months away.
Jim
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jimbridgman said:
The port does not work period. It was only posted for our dev team to help get it working. It is not going be working anytime soon.
I am working on a new CM9 compile specifically for our phone. I already have most of CM7 working as well, will be getting that out soon. CM9 will be a couple months away.
Jim
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Thats some good news...
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sunbeamxd said:
So I've upgraded to CM9(cm9-droid3-20120216-2345) which went fine.. However I have no service, no market, and for some reason the USB/Portal doesn't work the same with CM9.. So I can't flash my phone, and when I try to use backup/recovery to Clockwork Recovery through safestrap I am getting "Couldn't open directory. No files found."
I know the files are there, I can see them when I go to 'Install zip from sdcard'.. At this point I just want to get back to SuperCharged_V_5 and I have been beating my head all morning over this.. I have no idea what else to try from here as RSD Lite does not pick up my phone anymore.. What do I do guys
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If you can go fastboot mode, then you should use the restore 2.3.5 fastboot script look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1539167
this has save me a thousands of times

In the meantime if you absolutely must mess around with ICS on your phone, all the Droid 3 4.0.4 AOKP nightlies will flash via bootstrap, but again, radio doesn't work.
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Atrix 2 ics leak #2 stuck on cm10 boot!

Okay, so here's a long story short. I flashed AT&T ICS leak #2 when I first got my replacement due to a brick. I ran SCV7 for a week or so and decided to try out CM10. I restored my backup of stock/rooted backup. Uninstalled highjacks, packages and app (bootmenu) itself. I then installed our OG A2 bootstrap, installed fine, installed CM10, played around with it for awhile. Realized I didnt reinstall the OG A2 Bootstrap so went ahead and did that. (without booting into recovery yet) I then later in the day decided to REBOOT my phone to only find me stuck on the CM10 boot animation. I battery pulled, plugged in to see if any recovery would show, none, just the battery charge percentage. I then battery pulled again, got into stock recovery, tried a data and cache wipe to no effect. My problem is, there is NO FXZ for the AT&T leak #2, I have no recovery besides stock and the only thing I can do is take my 32GB SD card out and add/delete files/everything. I saddly did not make a copy of the system.img but was wondering if anyone else possibly did? This would be greatly appreciated as I am stuck with a soft brick until then or a new FXZ to work with AT&T leak #2. Any suggestions or help is very much appreciated. Thanks all for reading and I'm praying for a miracle in my phone right about now lol!

DX2Trip said:
Okay, so here's a long story short. I flashed AT&T ICS leak #2 when I first got my replacement due to a brick. I ran SCV7 for a week or so and decided to try out CM10. I restored my backup of stock/rooted backup. Uninstalled highjacks, packages and app (bootmenu) itself. I then installed our OG A2 bootstrap, installed fine, installed CM10, played around with it for awhile. Realized I didnt reinstall the OG A2 Bootstrap so went ahead and did that. (without booting into recovery yet) I then later in the day decided to REBOOT my phone to only find me stuck on the CM10 boot animation. I battery pulled, plugged in to see if any recovery would show, none, just the battery charge percentage. I then battery pulled again, got into stock recovery, tried a data and cache wipe to no effect. My problem is, there is NO FXZ for the AT&T leak #2, I have no recovery besides stock and the only thing I can do is take my 32GB SD card out and add/delete files/everything. I saddly did not make a copy of the system.img but was wondering if anyone else possibly did? This would be greatly appreciated as I am stuck with a soft brick until then or a new FXZ to work with AT&T leak #2. Any suggestions or help is very much appreciated. Thanks all for reading and I'm praying for a miracle in my phone right about now lol!
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Hey, and sort of welcome back...
But I hate to be the bearer of bad, bad news... you have a softbrick, and there is NOTHING you can do.
Next time, read everything in an OP... LOL, look who I am telling this to....
The CM10 installs come with their own CWM built in, and flashing bootstrap is what bootlooped you, so after you get another warranty replacement (yes, you HAVE to do this), I would install leak #1 ONLY, then flash cm10 with bootstrap, then do not reinstall any boot hijacks or CWM "like" recovery (bootmenu), because all you have to do it hit the vol down button right as you see the blue led flash during the M dual core logo.

Or enter the CM10 recovery menu and so on and so forth.
This is how I got out of a cm10 boot-loop.
I just restored from bootmenu backup via adb.

tcf38012 said:
Or enter the CM10 recovery menu and so on and so forth.
This is how I got out of a cm10 boot-loop.
I just restored from bootmenu backup via adb.
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he can't, he installed bootstrap while on cm10m, so he can't get to cwm anymore.

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Well, thanks everyone. Specially you jim. Anyone wanna throw me an fxz they think MIGHT work for the second ICS leak? I'm willing to take the risk since I have nothing else to lose. Ill be most likely calling AT&T tomorrow and give some excuse. Soft brick or hard brick...Ill get a replacement...
Sent From My Eclipsed DROID X2!

DX2Trip said:
Well, thanks everyone. Specially you jim. Anyone wanna throw me an fxz they think MIGHT work for the second ICS leak? I'm willing to take the risk since I have nothing else to lose. Ill be most likely calling AT&T tomorrow and give some excuse. Soft brick or hard brick...Ill get a replacement...
Sent From My Eclipsed DROID X2!
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I will get with alteredlikeness and see if we can possibly think of something together on this one. The first thought would be to try an mearet/searet fxz for 2.3.6 since they can fxz back with out any mods to thier 2.3.6 or 2.3.5 fxz from thier ICS leaks, but I am thinking that will still brick you, but interested to see anyhow.
So I will see if alteredlikeness and I can think of some other way to try. He or I will PM you either way.

jimbridgman said:
I will get with alteredlikeness and see if we can possibly think of something together on this one. The first thought would be to try an mearet/searet fxz for 2.3.6 since they can fxz back with out any mods to thier 2.3.6 or 2.3.5 fxz from thier ICS leaks, but I am thinking that will still brick you, but interested to see anyhow.
So I will see if alteredlikeness and I can think of some other way to try. He or I will PM you either way.
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he can flash just a system. img from ics though, And that should recover it
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lkrasner said:
he can flash just a system. img from ics though, And that should recover it
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You know, I was seeing in recovery how youbcan flash an update through sd AND system which has a lost and found folder and recovery folder. Dont know if this is of any info but either way because I wouldnt know how to put anything in system since I cant seem to get adb to recognize or moto-fastboot...I'm in a very confused state of mind and almost came to the point of hard brick but I refuse. I'll leave it up to ya devs. Thanks againg everyone.
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i have same issue , any way to flash system img, and where whould i get system img from? i have preiviously backed up thru cwm

justdrew said:
i have same issue , any way to flash system img, and where whould i get system img from? i have preiviously backed up thru cwm
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Try following this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1926873

First Softbrick it seems In Trouble
jimbridgman said:
Try following this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1926873
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Guys need your urgent help i am into a trouble what is it called technically may be a Soft brick but this is what has happened.
I was trying the Magic mod the installation went superb booted the phone it worked properly and then i used the bootstrap :silly: and tried starting the phone in recovery after which my phone is now stuck at magic mod boot animation. PLEASE HELP.
I am upto a point where have installed drivers latest rsd lite 6.0 ready with the extracted fxz 6.7.2_EDEM-18-SEARET_cfc.xml but phone is not showing up in rsd lite so that i can flash my phone. Phone says USB connected in AP Fastboot mode have a look at the attachment of my desktop. Please HELP guys....
Thanks & Regards,
Beginner Android (Ravi D)

havent you just posted this in the any question answered here thread and getting help there ??

Wow, almost forgot I made this thread lol. But sounds like your drivers need a good updating. Reboot PC after updating and try again is all I can say. Hope this helps.
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