Alright so I was on CyanoTouchWiz rom and wanted to go back to stock. I flash the Stock rom file, bing bang boom, odin finished and phone restarted. Then, the phone got stuck on the ATT screen. Thats weird, stock flash is supposed to fix this! tried to stock flash again, and sure enough it did the same thing. I tried a few different kernels and nothing helped.
So what I did was stock stock kernel, Then flash CWM recovery. Reset data/factory reset, Wiped cache, and Dalvik cache. Reset phone and bang. alls good. A little scare there haha
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i was installing one one of the kernel and i freezes at the gx2 logo, so tried recovery and it just sits at the gx2 screen. how bad did i mess it up?
blitzs13 said:
i was installing one one of the kernel and i freezes at the gx2 logo, so tried recovery and it just sits at the gx2 screen. how bad did i mess it up?
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Did you NVFlash CWM recovery on it?
yes i did and it keeps freezing at the same gx2 logo, is there any way to bring it back to factory to start over
blitzs13 said:
yes i did and it keeps freezing at the same gx2 logo, is there any way to bring it back to factory to start over
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After you flash a kernel the first boot does take a couple minutes, but flashing another rom should do it
cool ill try that, thanks
reflashed a new rom it boots up but i have no service and it starts restarting itself, i went back to recovery and did a factory reset and nothing, do i now need to get a new phone.
blitzs13 said:
cool ill try that, thanks
reflashed a new rom it boots up but i have no service and it starts restarting itself, i went back to recovery and did a factory reset and nothing, do i now need to get a new phone.
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Just boot into recovery, factory reset it, clear the Dalvik cache, format the system and install the stock GB rom or another rom. If you don't clear the Dalvik cache and wipe the system before installing roms or kernels you get bootloop problems such as this. Your phone is okay. The G2X is virtually unbrickable. It just gets indigestion form operator error when flashing roms.
ok so i factory reseted, cleared the cache and the dalvic. my phone wont read the gb stock rom, i dl unto my external card
blitzs13 said:
ok so i factory reseted, cleared the cache and the dalvic. my phone wont read the gb stock rom, i dl unto my external card
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Did you do a Nand Backup with CWM before flashing the kernel? If so, restore the phone how it was before you mucked it up.
In CWM, did the typical things
A Data/factory Reset, Format: System, Data And Cache, And Clear The Partition And Dalvik Caches, Do That To All Of Them 3 Times Each.
ran new radio zip.
Booted into download mode, and did odin thing as instructed following info here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1652398
used the md5 for latest stock ATT ICS.
This went thru fine and rebooted.
here I am, at ATT boot animation, just runs once and sits.
I can get into android system recovery....
What do I do next?
please point me if I missed the obvious thread......
factory reset in the recovery
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factory reset in the recovery
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no dice!
any other ideas?
OK I tried flashing different things, went back to CWM, then did stock again.
works!
yuck I hate this bloat ware
one of my recommendations in that post you followed was try factory reset and/or flash the stock again if things are not right, especially coming from custom roms.
but i will edit the radio flashing to do it 2 times and add another warning to reflash stock again
I am having some serious issues with my phone today. What exactly is the point of formatting system, data, and cache after you wipe? What is the advantage and what happens if you just wipe and not format? I have never had issues making backups and restoring them until I started having to format before flashing these new JB roms. I have noticed that any backup I make (even ones that I have successfully restored without issue numerous times) completely stop working after I format my phone. Phone has bricked three times today.
This morning I had to bust out ODIN again and flash the Root66 (stock root) to fix the phone. Annoying, but no big deal. After I'm done I made a backup of the stock root. No issues. Then I go into recovery and factory wipe, wipe cache, and wipe dalvik. Did that twice. Then formatted system, data, and cache twice too. Flash the TasteOfBeans rom...installs no problem. Working great. Spent about two hours setting my phone up the way I used to have it. Boot into recovery and make a backup of this rom since I have set it up. About an hour goes by and I need to use my GPS so I boot into recovery and attempt to restore the stock root backup I made just this afternoon and it fails. Why the hell is it failing? Then I go to reboot system so I can at least get back into the JB rom and it just get stuck on the samsung boot logo (my boot loader is unlocked).
I had these exact same order of events occur with JellyWiz last night. I'm pretty over the whole format system, data, cache after wiping because this is the only new thing I have been doing and its cause me to bust out ODIN about three times in two days and all my backups are failing.
VERY frustrating...
To make it even worse after my most recent run in of failed restores and stuck on boot, I just ran odin again flashing the same Root 66 that I have been using to solve my issues all day and now its stuck in the Verizon 4G LTE boot.
So, even after using ODIN the phone is stuck in the Verizon 4G LTE bootloop. I flashed the Stock Root 66.
After I gave up on that, I decided to completely unroot the phone and start from scratch so I flashed the stock unrooted zip in ODIN. Same result...cant get past the Verizon boot screen. What is happening? Is my phone completely screwed or is it fixable?
Alright, perhaps you should try odin flashing the phone back to complete stock. No Root66, just factory firmware.
yosterwp said:
Alright, perhaps you should try odin flashing the phone back to complete stock. No Root66, just factory firmware.
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Odin the stock Verizon ROM.
During first reboot after Odin, sometimes the phone will hang. Pull out the battery. Count to 10. Put the battery back and hopefully the phone should boot.
....just double check all the proper boxes are checked and unchecked in Odin. PDA only.....
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Everytime i try to rrstore data after flashing a new rom or after a new nightly i always get hung up on the boot logo. I just went from baked to the new synergy 125 wiped data factory reset wiped cache and dalvik flashed rom rpm and modem and rebooted. All was fine as far as installing the rom. Went back to recovery wiped cache and dalvik again advance rrstore data and get hung. What am i doing wrong? Really annoying to have to redo everything everytime....and im a crack flasher
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Everytime i try to rrstore data after flashing a new rom or after a new nightly i always get hung up on the boot logo. I just went from baked to the new synergy 125 wiped data factory reset wiped cache and dalvik flashed rom rpm and modem and rebooted. All was fine as far as installing the rom. Went back to recovery wiped cache and dalvik again advance rrstore data and get hung. What am i doing wrong? Really annoying to have to redo everything everytime....and im a crack flasher
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You can't just restore the data that's the same thing as not factory resetting because all you're really doing is wrong the data and then putting it right back on.
You need to use something like titanium backup
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Ok I just got my brand new OnePlus One in the mail today. Opened the box, loved the design and build quality, etc... Powered it up for the first time all good, played around with it for a few minutes, liking everything. An update option popped up for 38r, I did the update, maybe I shouldn't have., but too late. I did the update, then phone rebooted, and everything good again
So then time to root this beast. I went through the typical steps, all good, got TWRP Recovery installed easily, then flashed SuperSU.zip in Recovery, it said successful, I pressed Reboot System, and here's the issue, the phone is just stuck on the boot animation screen. I see the Octagon CM animation spinning, but it just spins, and spins, and spins, not going any further.
So now what ?
What I'd do is to install a custom ROM but I'm pretty sure if you perform a factory reset it would boot back up. Also try wiping the cache. This is what I'd do but there might be alternative solutions out there.
Yuvin said:
What I'd do is to install a custom ROM but I'm pretty sure if you perform a factory reset it would boot back up. Also try wiping the cache. This is what I'd do but there might be alternative solutions out there.
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I went into TWRP Recovery did a Factory Reset, then reboot system, and IT WORKED
No idea I had to do a factory reset in Recovery to make it work.
Zorachus said:
I went into TWRP Recovery did a Factory Reset, then reboot system, and IT WORKED
No idea I had to do a factory reset in Recovery to make it work.
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That's great! Enjoy your rooted OPO!