okay so i have spent many hours with my new motorola photon 4g that i recently got from sprint. bout 4 days now. im more use to using samsung android devices and htc devices and this is my first motorola. i had been wanting to root it because its my favorite thing with an android when i get one. so i did research and unlocked my bootloader and did the unlock sbf file and installed clockwork mod revocovery as well. after all that my photon was working fine but was on stock rom. i had downloaded a rom and put it into the phone and of course installed it. im not used to motorola and it was my first time learning about their bootstrap and blah blah blah. after installing i had tried turning the phone on but it just stayed at the Motorola dual core screen. i tried booting three more times to no luck. so then i had tried another rom and again i had no luck. i should have done the smart thing which is after the unlocking and putting on recovery to make a back up immediately but for some reason didnt. so i go online to find another sbf file so that i could start all over and see my mistakes, but then my battery was way to low. my advice to you is to make sure your battery is filled up cuz trust me this was a ***** to figure all out. so this is what i did in case if any body has this kind of problem, cuz i know im not gonna be the first, well maybe, but definitely not the last. what i found out is the phone wont let you flash any files when battery is low. and as i can say, its for saftey reason cuz if it dies while flashing, well you might be **** out of luck. depending on what you are flashing. but what i found out is that if you connect the hone to the wall outlet, the phone will turn on into clockwork. dont try plugging into the computer cuz it will be useless. i tried several times till i finally got the message. the recovery is the only thing that can be booted up. you dont even need the battery in the photon. it will still turn on as long as it was in the outlet. i then transfered files to the sdcard from another phone, over and over till finding the right one, then flashed and flaseh. finally, finally found a rom that woul work with ,y phone. i kept the rom till i was able to charge the phone. rom kept bootlooping but it kept bootlooping long enough to charge the battery then flashed the sbf sprint file to my phone. i wanted to write this cuz i was hoping somebody would be able to explain to me what i may have done wrong with the flashing or if their was a step that i had skipped cuz it seems like no rom works as of now with my photon. hopefully someone can help me out here cuz i really do want a custom rom. or maybe someone can tell me what i should do in order to install a custom rom and have it work for me.
start here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1413349
jokersax11 has done an amazing job bringing ICS to the photon... I believe he will soon have his beta officially picked up by cyanogenmod... also, I am pretty sure he's close to fixing the 4G that you loose when you unlock the bootloader.
Hi there,
I'm new to this forum and i already noticed you guys preverlablie have no noobs in this threat, but i dont know where to put my question and i realy need some experts help ho knows where he's talking about, i thought i did. But apperentlie not. And my english sucks its not my native language. Im from Holland.
And this is the part where you guys can laugh your asses of. The situation : I have a LG P990 mobile and it was working slow as hell with the stock ROM installed, So i dowloaded the Domination ROM for the LG P990, rooted my phone and installed Clockwork rebooted my phone did a backup and flashed the ROM and flashed Gapps. The ROM looks nice but is a bit unstable when i go to internet the screen flashes and installing apps is a bit tricky, my camera works but asks to insert a SDcard. Same thing if i go to Gallery. So i decided to go back to my stock ROM and look for another one ho works better. And this is when the **** hits the fan :crying: When i want to restore my backup using Clockwork it says it cant find no backup so thats problem nummero uno, for seconds ( because my phone likes to F*** with me ) I thougt to be a smart guy and just download a stock ROM and put it on my phone and flash that ROM but here's the catch : My PC wont let me connect with the phone or the otherway around. Its all the same.... Can someone help me please to fix my phone because this sucks big ones.
Thnx a lot
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My PC wont let me connect with the phone
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I have the same problem with my P990
And it is really annoying...
hey everyone!
yesterday, I got really tired of froyo so I said ''f$%? it, lets try to root my phone and install jelly bean, that look really slick!''
. well looks like everyone as to start somwhere..
so my problem right now, I am stuck at the custom LG logo, I cant hard reset and even my recovery boot but the menu wont pop up and simply restart my phone..
basicaly, I feel screwed right now does anybody can help me on this?
it is probably something super stupid and simple but I can'T find any solution so I decided to join this forum for a bit of support..
EDIT: my mistake, it went in the wrong section
thx a bunch!
Usually run this when I cluster f my phone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1590523
thanks for the cue, I will also try this. and keep you posted if it worked or not..
better way to learn is to make mistakes!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1180331
ok, most of the link to download the needed files are dead... I might have to rely on your support guys.
the http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1180331 thread didnt helped enough..
Did you install the adampk rom?
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no I haven't...
so far , what I did is
root the pone with the one clicker (wich was a success)
did the recovery with the clockworkmod recovery thing,
restarted and exectued this website's tutorial to jellybean (start with WWW stuff.androidauthority.com/g2x-p999-t-mobile-cyanogenmod-10-cm10-unofficial-115536)
and then, look like it failed..
this morning, I managed to get back to the recovery boot screen and found that if I press the house icon it show up a menu.. but this menu giving me access to reboot, wipe cache, data or install update.zip (which was supposed to fix my problem) but this menu is blued out and unaccessible..
dunno if it helped..
right now, I am trying to get acces to my phone doing the no battery boot thing but my pc doesnt seem to recognize my phone + I am at work hehe so I am pretty much limited in acces due tu the it protection and firewall stuff
I am gonna try to redo that stuff tonight at home but meanwhile, if any of what I described may give you a clue on how to help me, I really appreciate the effort!
thanks again for the support guys, I know it can be a pain sometimes to help people screwing some beginner stuff like I probably do right now
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WWW stuff.androidauthority.com/g2x-p999-t-mobile-cyanogenmod-10-cm10-unofficial-115536)
and then, look like it failed
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I say you needed to use the g2x android development forums on this site to find a suitable jb rom, not this other site. The one click method isn't very stable, so nvflash is most definitely what you need to try to get working. There are very thorough tutorials on how to get that to work. Do you know which clockwork recovery version you have installed? Should be 5.0.2.0. Once you get home, I suggest you read read read. Do as much research you can to make sure you can follow nvflash instructions to the letter. I know I personally spent about a week researching to make sure I had a solid understanding of the procedure.
I recommend getting nvflash going to get clockwork properly installed, then download a rom from xda, nowhere else. I would even say use a gb rom before trying a jb ...the jb roms are hackfest versions, so they have (from my experience) much poorer battery life, and lack hardware acceleration. Netflix and many 3d games won't work. You can use adampk or mazout's roms but they don't have working radio, i.e. no phone/SMS functionality.
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dubmah said:
no I haven't...
so far , what I did is
root the pone with the one clicker (wich was a success)
did the recovery with the clockworkmod recovery thing,
restarted and exectued this website's tutorial to jellybean (start with WWW stuff.androidauthority.com/g2x-p999-t-mobile-cyanogenmod-10-cm10-unofficial-115536)
and then, look like it failed..
this morning, I managed to get back to the recovery boot screen and found that if I press the house icon it show up a menu.. but this menu giving me access to reboot, wipe cache, data or install update.zip (which was supposed to fix my problem) but this menu is blued out and unaccessible..
dunno if it helped..
right now, I am trying to get acces to my phone doing the no battery boot thing but my pc doesnt seem to recognize my phone + I am at work hehe so I am pretty much limited in acces due tu the it protection and firewall stuff
I am gonna try to redo that stuff tonight at home but meanwhile, if any of what I described may give you a clue on how to help me, I really appreciate the effort!
thanks again for the support guys, I know it can be a pain sometimes to help people screwing some beginner stuff like I probably do right now
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Boot into recovery, there should be an option to format or wipe system. Do that then flash the ROM. It won't boot if you flash it over stock.
Also, use the paranoid android rom found in the development section, same cyanogenmod base but works better.
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great ! thx for the advices ! yeah I Will read some more first, making sure I do thing properly, for now, I will try to revert at least to my backup and wait til I know what I'm doing!
thx again, I keep you up about the progress !
progress!! .. I tried to start my phone without the battery.. my pc recognized the phone for about 10sec and then the icon disapeared and until then, nothing I plug I start there is no way I can make my pc to recognize the phone...
does this happened to anyone before?
allright! I have bean reading about the NVFlash! that help A LOT! actually it almost fixed my thing! the phone is now unbriked YAY
I just keep replying to myself incase there is another guy who dont know crap about the obvious, if it can help the thread worth it
I used this tutorial to fix things,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1248644&highlight=nvflash+steps
My main issue was the APX driver wich wasnt installed.. now I know bit more, I still have issue but luckily things goes forward so it gave me the boost to keep working on
but I face a new problem so maybe some of you might be able to help on that new issue
I am from montreal and here in quebec we have videotron instead of t-mobile and since I used a t-mobile boot it looks like my sim card is not recognized anymore..
is there a way to fix that? am I supposed to find a videotron thing?
hope it helps
dubmah said:
I used a t-mobile boot it looks like my sim card is not recognized anymore..
is there a way to fix that? am I supposed to find a videotron thing?
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What do you mean by "T-Mobile boot" and "videotron thing?"
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Ok, wait I think I understand what you're saying now. If you can, pm the op of that thread you used to unbrick. Ask that person if you need some kind of different file in that .zip file to work on your carrier.
I remember having to use that guide to get back to stock. Glad to see you're making progress. I know it can be frustrating when devices get wacky. Good luck!
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hehehe sorry, I am not fully used to the right terms so I rather stay in the gray zone by using words like ''thing''
but I can now oficially say I was talking about ROMs
finally, I managed to bring back my phone to the stock mode everything seem to work!
now I can brick it again!
thx for the help!
I began to wonder if it was just a matter of changing APN settings?
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this, or... putting the simcard in the properly? !!
My s3 was mounted on my pc, for some reason I wanted to delete everything but instead of doing a normal factory reset like a normal human being I figured I'd just save myself the trouble and delete everything, I figured the system would be locked. Yeah if you're still reading this without laughing then I commend you. But now I have an s3 that wont do anything. NOTHING.. If it's even possible and If you would like to help me what can I do? I honestly think I screwed up BAD, no **** right? Like I did have a backup but that was for CWM but I doubt that would help... I've done some dumb stuff but this is literally the dumbest **** like it's the same as deleting system32.. If you would like to guide me and scold me for doing such an idiotic thing please do so. The phone was rooted before but I don't even know what to say..
My phone is a sprint sph lph-710... When I connect it to my pc I can hear the connected sound from windows. I just need to know how to get the bootloader back and then I can flash a stock s3 rom via odin... Thanks if you're willing to help me..
You deleted /system or all the stuff?
If you only wiped system you should be able to boot and enter download mode....
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My s3 was mounted on my pc, for some reason I wanted to delete everything but instead of doing a normal factory reset like a normal human being I figured I'd just save myself the trouble and delete everything, I figured the system would be locked. Yeah if you're still reading this without laughing then I commend you. But now I have an s3 that wont do anything. NOTHING.. If it's even possible and If you would like to help me what can I do? I honestly think I screwed up BAD, no **** right? Like I did have a backup but that was for CWM but I doubt that would help... I've done some dumb stuff but this is literally the dumbest **** like it's the same as deleting system32.. If you would like to guide me and scold me for doing such an idiotic thing please do so. The phone was rooted before but I don't even know what to say..
My phone is a sprint sph lph-710... When I connect it to my pc I can hear the connected sound from windows. I just need to know how to get the bootloader back and then I can flash a stock s3 rom via odin... Thanks if you're willing to help me..
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IF you can get to recovery mode you can do a nandroid full recovery if you had a nandroid back up to begin with..
I rooted mu Samsung galaxy avant it was my first root I thought I had the twrp installed and backed up so I was playing with some diff roms well one blew my picture up huge like the phone thought it was a galaxy note but still had avant actual screen sze so I couldn't do anything tried to restore with the trwp an it wouldn't change just stayed the same so I was able to navigate my way to factory data reset and its still doing it only now I cant even open it up all the way and get into my phone cant click agree on a permission agreement page right after wifi page so what if anything can I do? ive tried to reboot in recovery nothing worked tried everything even rooted my wifes exact same phone installed the recovery right this ime put it on the sd card an tried rebooting threw that and it reboots works and just goes straight to the same start up screen. im getting really frustrated can anyone please help!!! im willing to donate very nicely to the first person that can walk me threw doing this myself or send me a file what ever it take first person that gets my phone back up and running im going to donate to u it means allot to me and I need help asap
Follow the instructions in the rooting guide it's really easy to flash the stock ROM and start from scratch.
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