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First, let me say thanks to all who contribute. I started with a G1 when it first came out, using the JF mods and lurking these forums for hours. Without you guys, we'd all be stuck with boring stock devices!
Heres my question:
I've done a search and just want someone to verify my next planned step.
Tonight I think almost bricked my Mytouch 4g. I had root, and had CM6.1.2-RC2 installed. It was working great.
Then I wanted to get the CM7 nightlies working. I couldn't get the CM7 rom past the mytouch splash screen. So, I upgraded Rom Manager, and thought i had to upgrade ClockworkMod to 3.0 to get the CM7 nightly rom to boot. I accidentaly flashed the wrong ClockworkMod Recovery. I flashed the file that was for a G2 (vision). Rebooted without noticing my mistake, than noticed my error when I couldn't get into recovery mode.
Fortunately i installed Hboot during the rooting process. I'm planning on letting Hboot flash the file mentioned in this post to get back to stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10514066
What do you think?
Just don't want to get myself in deeper S...
Thanks again.
connect the usb and run adb. Boot into bootloader and flash the recovery 3.0??? that way. You'll be good to go after that
osugsxr said:
connect the usb and run adb. Boot into bootloader and flash the recovery 3.0??? that way. You'll be good to go after that
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You can connect adb with the bootloader? I ran:
Code:
adb devices
and adb came back with no devices found.
How do I flash the recovery if adb has nothing to communicate with?
BTW, I'm using Hboot Engineering, and Hboot does recognize the usb connection by displaying: HBOOT USB PLUG
fastboot devices
fastboot devices
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
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Thanks for trying to help osugsxr. I will have to read up on fastboot.
However, I did not follow your advice. I didn't get your reply in time to try fastboot. My impatient ADD personality went ahead and followed the advice in the thread that I referred to in my original post. In an effort to help others who may have gotten into a jam, heres what I did:
1. Took out my SD card and connected it to my PC via external SD card reader.
2. Because I had a ton of crap on the SD card, I formatted it FAT32 to have a clean card.
3. Downloaded the stock Glacier rom (A large 315mb file. Should have a filename like PD15IMG_Glacier_TMOUS_1.17.531.2_Radio_12.28b.60.140e_26.03.02.26_M_release_155771_signed.zip)
4. Copied the stock Glacier rom to the SD blank card.
5. Renamed the rom to PD15IMG.zip (maybe case sensitive, not sure)
6. Unmounted/Ejected the SD card from the PC reader an put it back in my phone.
7. Pulled the battery on my phone for about a minute then put it back in.
7. Hold volume down and the power button at the same time.
8. Hboot should start up, then after a few moments it will say loading PD15IMG.zip. After PD15IMG.zip loads, it will ask you "Do you want to start update?". Press VOL UP for Yes.
9. You will then see Hboot working its way down a list of about 9 items. Be patient, this takes a while. After this is done, it will say so, and tell you to press the power button to reboot.
Hopefully you have successfully flashed the stock rom, and your phone will be back to what it was like when you first bought it.
I attached pictures of the Hboot screen and flashing process for reference
After seeing this issue quite a few times this past week I thought I make a tutorial on how to possibly fix this. If any of you see any errors or any way to improve this guide please let me know and ill include it and or adjust accordingly
Note-Make sure you have plenty of battery. You don’t want your phone dying in the middle of flashing a PD98IMG
If you are stuck in Hboot and have S-On or don't have access to an adapter go straight to Alternate method at the end
Rename to PD98IMG
Recovery: http://1drv.ms/1ke30zE
Inspire 4g pre-rooted Rom: http://db.tt/DCU3oW39 (only use if you have S-off)-
Inspire 4g stock Rom: http://1drv.ms/1ke3ohy
Telus DHD Rom: http://min.us/mTqXM8fTY
Reinstalling Recovery
For whatever reason you have wiped your custom recovery (My guess is you did a factory reset, thus erasing it). Personally I would try this first as one can go straight to a custom rom. If you don't want a custom rom feel free to go to the next section.
1) Back up anything you don’t want deleted from your sd card
2) Plug in sd card into computer through an adapter of some kind or another phone
3) Reformat the Sd Card to Fat32 – Do a full reformat not a quick
4) Once reformat is complete place the file downloaded from the first link on the sd card
5) Eject the sd card from computer and insert into phone
6) Power off phone by pulling the battery
7) Reinsert the battery
8) Boot into bootloader by pressing volume down and power button
9) It will scan for the file press volume up to accept update
10) It will ask you to reboot- you will still be stuck which is normal-
11) If everything is going to plan you now have access to recovery. So now we need to flash a rom. (Remember to delete the pd98 as it will prevent you from going into recovery)Skip down to the flashing rom section if you don’t know how to. If flashing the recovery didn't work continue to the next section
Reinstalling Recovery With No Card Reader
1) Download recovery above and place it in your fastboot directory
2) Boot into Hboot
3) Connect your phone to your PC
4) Select fastboot
5) Open up command prompt and CD to your Fastboot directory
6) Run the command fastboot erase cache
7) After the OK run fastboot oem rebootRUU
8) You'll see a new screen with HTC logo and a progress bar. here you need to run fastboot flash zip PD98IMG.zip
9) Once it completes (should say ok,finished, or complete) run fastboot reboot bootloader
10) Go into Recovery and flash a rom
Flashing a Stock Rom
Note- If you have S-Off i recommend flashing the prerooted version
1) If coming from previous section plug in sd card and delete old file then Jump to step 5
2) Back up anything you don’t want deleted from your sd card
3) Plug in sd card into computer through an adapter of some kind or another phone
4) Reformat the Sd Card to Fat32 – Do a full reformat not a quick
5) Once reformat is complete place the stock rom on the sd card
6) Eject the sd card from computer and insert into phone
7) Power off phone by pulling the battery
8) Reinsert the battery
9) Boot into bootloader by pressing volume down and power button
10) It will scan for the file press volume up to accept update
11) If everything is going to plan you now should have a fully working phone
12) At this point you are un-rooted so if you want re-root I recommend using the ace hack kit. (unless you used a pre-rooted stock rom then no need to use hack kit)
NOTE- IF EITHER FLASHING THE STOCK ROM OR RECOVERY PD98 FILES HAVE NOT WORKED REPEAT PROCEDURE WITH A DIFFERENT SD CARD
Flashing a Rom
1) So we were able to re-flash a custom recovery. Connect sd card to computer and delete the PD98img file
2) Download the rom of your choice and any super wipe zips if your rom needs it
3) Place file on sd card eject and reinsert onto phone
4) Boot in bootloader.
5) This time it will scan and not find any files. After it scans scroll down and select recovery.
6) You should now be in CWR. Do a full wipe (wipe data, cache, and dalvik cache-found in advanced I think
a. If recommended by your rom uses a super wipe zip. Simply choose install from sd card in CWR and select the super wipe zip
7) Now flash the rom by selecting install from sd card and choosing rom
Alternate-Flashing of RUU
This is for those that don’t have access to an adapter to place files with. This should work whether your S-on or S-Off
RUU’s: http://goo.im/ruu/ace
1) Download your RUU from above
2) Boot into Hboot
3) Connect your phone to your PC
4) Select fastboot
5) Run the RUU program
Credits to Gene Pool for the Recovery PD98 and pre-rooted RUU for us inspire users.
Thanks to Gizmoe for his link- helps avoid the renaming issues that crop up and idea for alternate RUU flashing,
Thanks to JSL and driphter for the RUU.exe links
Thanks to Attn1 for the hack kit, all the devs for their awesome work, XDA members who are on here helping people out. I have learned so much just by reading
10/4/12- New method of flashing recovery included. no need for a card reader
8/29/12-New link added for RUU's
3/14/12-New links added to OP
2/12/12- Here are some mirrors for the PD98IMG files that were hosted on multiupload. Hopefully multiupload isnt down for good, so in the mean time i have them on depositfiles-Note i recommend the new links in the 1st post. the depositfiles mirrors are way too slow
Inspire 4g stock Rom: http://depositfiles.com/files/4ofstmcse
Telus DHD stock Rom: http://depositfiles.com/files/mec1ycc7k
CWR Recovery-make sure to rename
http://hoxnet.com/droid/PD98IMG_cwm5026_recovery.zip
Please Help...I got att inspire with gb on it...unlocked and root with advanced kit..all well good. flashed Wild Cat ROM...with 3.5 sense...at night when I plugged my phone into charger..it went to HTC logo screen...and was unable to do any thing...using your method of RUU flashing...I get error 152...and system does not flash at all...I tried re.downloading RUU and flashed several time..but no luck..I am s-off with advanced kit...Please help...Thanks.
oscar786 said:
Please Help...I got att inspire with gb on it...unlocked and root with advanced kit..all well good. flashed Wild Cat ROM...with 3.5 sense...at night when I plugged my phone into charger..it went to HTC logo screen...and was unable to do any thing...using your method of RUU flashing...I get error 152...and system does not flash at all...I tried re.downloading RUU and flashed several time..but no luck..I am s-off with advanced kit...Please help...Thanks.
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First, confirm that you can boot into Hboot. If you can, then try Gene Pole's method, but you need a SD Card reader in order to put the zip file in the card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16451214&postcount=1
Otherwise you can try to boot in recovery selecting it from Hboot menu and try to flash other rom.
Hope it helps....
glevitan said:
First, confirm that you can boot into Hboot. If you can, then try Gene Pole's method, but you need a SD Card reader in order to put the zip file in the card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16451214&postcount=1
Otherwise you can try to boot in recovery selecting it from Hboot menu and try to flash other rom.
Hope it helps....
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I can not boot into Hboot...because when I tries flashing with RUU flasher..it gave me error and now I am stuck on hTc logo screen. I have to pull battery out to get out of that screen and when I plug in to computer of just turn on same htc screen with "triangle mark" in all four corners...I am so frustrated..Please hlep
Don't plug in phone. Pull the battery, reinsert and quickly press and hold the volume down and power button? What happened then?
Same htc screen with 4 triangles in corners.
Well don't panic.its only a phone I haven't seen an error 152, so I got look up what that means. You also mentioned that the you flashed the ruu several times? Did it ever complete or always errored out?
Edit- when you first tried the ruu were you ever able to enter hboot to begin with?
marsdta said:
Well don't panic.its only a phone I haven't seen an error 152, so I got look up what that means. You also mentioned that the you flashed the ruu several times? Did it ever complete or always errored out?
Edit- when you first tried the ruu were you ever able to enter hboot to begin with?
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Yes I was able to go into Hboot and as you instructed selected fastboot usb..and go..
It errors out on system flash and than radio flash...when it give error 152...it says to recover by pulling the battery out...and plugging the phone back in...and the process starts again...ITS GIVING ERROR WHILE FLASHING SYSTEM IMG..It happened before and I tried your method of flashing with RUU flashing because other didnt work...at that time it was successful after 4 tries..but this time its no luck.
oscar786 said:
I can not boot into Hboot...because when I tries flashing with RUU flasher..it gave me error and now I am stuck on hTc logo screen. I have to pull battery out to get out of that screen and when I plug in to computer of just turn on same htc screen with "triangle mark" in all four corners...I am so frustrated..Please hlep
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Don´t use the Flasher...use the cell straight foward....if you cant go into Hboot then try to boot in fastboot,....
plug to AC and keep pressing power...the led will turn red and green and then boot in fastboot. From there you might be able to use the hack kit to revert to stock.
If that is not working try to contact Gene Pole or Attn1 in the irc channel....he might help you better that I.
glevitan said:
Don´t use the Flasher...use the cell straight foward....if you cant go into Hboot then try to boot in fastboot,....
plug to AC and keep pressing power...the led will turn red and green and then boot in fastboot. From there you might be able to use the hack kit to revert to stock.
If that is not working try to contact Gene Pole or Attn1 in the irc channel....he might help you better that I.
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I tried this and light stays orange..htc screen with all corners triangle...
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I tried this and light stays orange..htc screen with all corners triangle...
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Go to the Ace Hack Kit IRC Channel and try to ask the guys or in their thread about it....
If not try Gene Pole´s thread....let me know if you could sort it out...hope you can. See ya...
thanks by secnd time, you savem my inspire
orb3000 said:
thanks by secnd time, you savem my inspire
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...It seems that yours the only one that was saved!! Oscar might have not been that lucky!!...
Hello all, have an HTC Inspire s-off h-b00t 0.85.0007. When the phone powers up, the bootloader is the only screen that comes up and is frozen. Cant use volume control or power button.
When you power it up is it booting straight into hboot? If so sounds like your volume button is stuck
Booting straight in to Hboot. He apparently did a factory reset, and when it rebooted it locked up. Cant get past step 12 of parsing the zip file for PD98IMG.zip on the root of the SD card (tried 2 2gbs, 1 1gb, and 1 8gb). 3 of the SD cards would only get to step 4 and freeze.
hboot 0.85.0007
s-off
Attached a couple of pictures, the first was from the rooted.zip and the second was from the non rooted.zip. I also attempted the recovery.zip (all named PD98IMG.zip)
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Booting straight in to Hboot. He apparently did a factory reset, and when it rebooted it locked up. Cant get past step 12 of parsing the zip file for PD98IMG.zip on the root of the SD card (tried 2 2gbs, 1 1gb, and 1 8gb). 3 of the SD cards would only get to step 4 and freeze.
hboot 0.85.0007
s-off
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It seems what mardsta told u....the volumen rocker must be broken!!...
glevitan said:
It seems what mardsta told u....the volumen rocker must be broken!!...
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Hard to understand how a hardware issue happens from applying a factory reset, not to say impossible... in my mind improbable, but what do I know. Thanks for the info.
blakklanta said:
Hard to understand how a hardware issue happens from applying a factory reset, not to say impossible... in my mind improbable, but what do I know. Thanks for the info.
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the fact is that if you are rooted then a factory reset erases everything from your phone!! you get stuck if you don't flash other rom. If the volumen rocker is broken then you will boot always in hboot...don't actually know how the wipe happened but....did you have a PD98IMG.zip file in your sdcard??...that might explain it better...
I am having a new AT&T HTC ONE X......I rooted it, unlocked the bootloader and installed Clockwork MOD 5.8.3.1.......I wanted to flash LeeDrOiD_One_Xtreme_V6.4.0 onto my phone......I made a backup of the stock ROM and saved it onto my PC and formatted the storage and transfered LeeDrOiD_One_Xtreme_V6.4.0 on to the storage.....now I'm having no other files on the storage other than the leedroid zip file......I booted into the bootloader and flashed the boot.img file and then booted into recovery and wiped dalvik catch, wiped catch partition and wiped data/factory reset and then flashed the LeeDrOiD_One_Xtreme_V6.4.0.zip.......at the end I got a error message saying CHECK MODEL ID......I clicked on REBOOT and from then onwards I'm stuck at the HTC LOGO Screen......when I tried to mount as USB storage to transfer the stock backup ROM, I'm not able to mount the phone onto my PC.......
Guys please help me restore to the stock ROM.
Sounds like international rom? You on one XL or one x.
Place phone into fastboot and Try running a stock ruu. Should get you to stock.
Also. People are gonna flame the hell out of you for posting in the dev forum lol.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium
You are bricked..first of all leedroid is for.international one x..so you can't flash that to one xl
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIrhVo1WA78
Can you boot into recovery?
aimetti said:
Also. People are gonna flame the hell out of you for posting in the dev forum lol.
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Isn't this the Q&A forum? Sounds like an appropriate question for this forum to me.
This started in development. It was moved.
I dont think its international ROM.....its AT&T United Sates Phone.......to run stock RUU I need to put the stock RUU onto my phone memory but I'm not able to connect my phone to my desktop in USB Storage or Mass Storage mode......if I could connect so I can transfer my stock rom backup files onto my ph and make a restore and make my phone work as usual.........guys someone please help me make my ph work as normal.
or is there any other custom recovery that allows me to connect my phone in USB storage more or mass storage more so that I can transfer my stock backup ROM and restore it and make my phone working.
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I dont think its international ROM.....its AT&T United Sates Phone.......to run stock RUU I need to put the stock RUU onto my phone memory but I'm not able to connect my phone to my desktop in USB Storage or Mass Storage mode......if I could connect so I can transfer my stock rom backup files onto my ph and make a restore and make my phone work as usual.........guys someone please help me make my ph work as normal.
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You don't put the RUU on the phone's memory. You download it (must use windows) plug the phone in and run it...make sure you relock the bootloader first.
And you DID flash an international ROM....we don't have a leedroid ROM for our phone...everybody really ought to research hard before doing ANYTHING to their phones.
praveen5344 said:
I am having a new AT&T HTC ONE X......I rooted it, unlocked the bootloader and installed Clockwork MOD 5.8.3.1.......I wanted to flash LeeDrOiD_One_Xtreme_V6.4.0 onto my phone......I made a backup of the stock ROM and saved it onto my PC and formatted the storage and transfered LeeDrOiD_One_Xtreme_V6.4.0 on to the storage.....now I'm having no other files on the storage other than the leedroid zip file......I booted into the bootloader and flashed the boot.img file and then booted into recovery and wiped dalvik catch, wiped catch partition and wiped data/factory reset and then flashed the LeeDrOiD_One_Xtreme_V6.4.0.zip.......at the end I got a error message saying CHECK MODEL ID......I clicked on REBOOT and from then onwards I'm stuck at the HTC LOGO Screen......when I tried to mount as USB storage to transfer the stock backup ROM, I'm not able to mount the phone onto my PC.......
Guys please help me restore to the stock ROM.
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Like mikelebz mentioned above, you best run the RUU of your PC and get back to STOCK, then redo all the mods you want to add.
There no better solution, that is that simple!
Good luck man! :good:
I made a backup of the stock rom and saved them onto my pc and these are the files available on my pc........can someone please tell me how do I flash them onto my phone using adb......please mention the commands and help me out guys.
praveen5344 said:
I made a backup of the stock rom and saved them onto my pc and these are the files available on my pc........can someone please tell me how do I flash them onto my phone using adb......please mention the commands and help me out guys.
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We've been trying to help you....if you can't get into recovery, those are useless
If you have cwm installed, there is an option to mount sdcard.
Once it's mounted you should be able to transfer your files.
If you had the ability to load the rom you should have the ability to get back into cwm recovery.
I got stuck in a boot loop myself and did this to get myself out. But I also save at least 1 working backup on my sdcard.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda app-developers app
Like others have pointed out you tried to flash a International ROM for the Nvidia based chipset ONE X. That's why your stuck.
Now if you can get into the bootloader by holding down the vol down button and the power button from the phone being turned OFF here is what you do.
Step 1 Plug phone into your PC while turned off
Step 2 Boot into bootloader
Step 3 Select Fastboot
Step 4 Go to your ADB folder
Step 5 hold shift down and right click in the ADB folder and select open command window here (only works in windows 7)
Step 6 type fastboot oem lock in the command window.
Your phone is now relocked and will automatically reboot but will still lock up at the htc screen because your still using the wrong ROM. SO now force your phone off again and reload back into the bootloader select fastboot then run the RUU from your PC. This will restore your phone.
From this point you can re unlock your bootloader then fastboot flash a recovery I recommend TWRP as its guaranteed to have working sdcard mount. Then you can flash custom ROMs again but please this time pay attention to your phones model Stay away from the One X forum and only go to the AT&T ONE X forum and please please READ before blindly jumping in and flashing.
I got my problem solved guys.....I was having CWM-TOUCH-5.8.3.1 which was not able to mount my ph as USB storage ( its a bug in CWM )......I flashed the phone with TWRP recovery ROM and was able to mount my phone as USB storage and copied the ROM backup folder and restored my stock ROM.........
when I reject and incomming call I get two icons saying REMINDME and SEND TEXT.......How do I disable this option.....like reject the call and dont get this reminder and send text icons.
praveen5344 said:
I dont think its international ROM.....its AT&T United Sates Phone.......to run stock RUU I need to put the stock RUU onto my phone memory but I'm not able to connect my phone to my desktop in USB Storage or Mass Storage mode......if I could connect so I can transfer my stock rom backup files onto my ph and make a restore and make my phone work as usual.........guys someone please help me make my ph work as normal.
or is there any other custom recovery that allows me to connect my phone in USB storage more or mass storage more so that I can transfer my stock backup ROM and restore it and make my phone working.
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To answer your question. Yes there is a custom recovery that allows you to mount your storage as a USB Mass Storage device.
Its here http://techerrata.com/file/twrp2/openrecovery-twrp-2.1.8.1-evita.img.
If you don't already have ADB and all the Android software utilities download and install them here http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html Only install "Tools" which includes the SDK Tools and SDK Platform Tools. They're located in C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools, also by the way put the .img you downloaded into that folder as well.
Now go to Run... and type in CMD to get into command prompt. then type in
"cd C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools"
or "cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools" for 64 bit
then
Go into your phones bootloader (I assume you know how to do this since you can get into CWM and then go into the fastboot. Then connect it to your PC. If you've done this correctly it should have a red status of "FASTBOOT USB" if it didn't work make sure you have the right HTC Drivers installed for your phone.
Here: http://binary100100.googlecode.com/files/HTCDriver3.0.0.007.exe
After you have your phone in FASTBOOT USB mode then go back to command prompt and type in this command
fastboot flash recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.1.8.1-evita.img
It should then push the recovery img to the phone and over-write CWM.
If it said it couldn't read or find the img make sure you have it in the same folder as ADB and fastboot etc.
Let me know if it works.
when I reject and incomming call I get two icons saying REMINDME and SEND TEXT.......How do I disable this option.....like reject the call and dont get this reminder and send text icons.
praveen5344 said:
I was having CWM-TOUCH-5.8.3.1 which was not able to mount my ph as USB storage ( its a bug in CWM )......I flashed the phone with TWRP recovery ROM and was able to mount my phone as USB storage and copied the ROM backup folder and restored my stock ROM.........
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That's 2 big mistakes that could have been easily avoided with the proper research. CWM Touch is not meant for our device, and has some major issues with our phone, as you found out the hard way. Two things that were never meant to be flashed to our device (CWM TOuch and LeeDroid). You're lucky you don't have a hard brick.
You need to slow down on the flashing of things without proper research. Take a breath, and do some reading before you do some irreparable damage. Specifically, only flash things in the Development forum for the AT&T version of the phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1541
And my index thread is an organized list of mods for our phone:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671237
Apparently I just have tons of regular SD cards laying around and none of the micro variety. Ive rooted and put custom roms on 6 phones and kindle fires in the last two weeks so it seems a bit strange that this device would be the only one that would be different, but everything ive been able to read uses a micro card. Any info would be really appreciated. Thanks! (using US wifi board by the way)
Nada?
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You sure can.
Unlock the boot loader, ( note doing so will wipe all data from your device )
Reboot into android download a ROM and place on internal memory.
Fast boot flash a custom recovery ( see my SIG for twrp recovery for xoom)
Boot into the custom recovery ( see my SIG for my YouTube videos, there is a quick video on how to enter recovery)
Once in twrp recovery select install and the flash your ROM from internal memory.
runandhide05 said:
You sure can.
Unlock the boot loader, ( note doing so will wipe all data from your device )
Reboot into android download a ROM and place on internal memory.
Fast boot flash a custom recovery ( see my SIG for twrp recovery for xoom)
Boot into the custom recovery ( see my SIG for my YouTube videos, there is a quick video on how to enter recovery)
Once in twrp recovery select install and the flash your ROM from internal memory.
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I used The Lord all in One tool to unlock the boot loader. Im pretty sure that worked, device was seen and after it rebooted its like a completely wiped machine.
Now, then I reboot into recovery all i get is the green droid on its side with the warning triangle. I went to the TWRP post in your sig and there are 4 different install methods. I cant get any of them to work, but I havent tried option 2 because I dont have any idea how to use the adb commands. The windows script adb never sees my device although the LAIOT adb script does. I guess Im stuck on how to get TWRP onto this damn thing.
Roseysdaddy said:
I used The Lord all in One tool to unlock the boot loader. Im pretty sure that worked, device was seen and after it rebooted its like a completely wiped machine.
Now, then I reboot into recovery all i get is the green droid on its side with the warning triangle. I went to the TWRP post in your sig and there are 4 different install methods. I cant get any of them to work, but I havent tried option 2 because I dont have any idea how to use the adb commands. The windows script adb never sees my device although the LAIOT adb script does. I guess Im stuck on how to get TWRP onto this damn thing.
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download this zip Install_Scripts_v2.3.3.0.zip - 10.03 MB
and extract
open your cmd ( command prompt )
cd ( change directory to where you extracted the above zip)
now connect your tablet to pc,
from the cmd type
Code:
adb devices
ensure that your pc sees your device, should read out sn#
now click the runme.bat
and follow onscreen instructions.
once the recovery img has been flashed ( you can verify on the xoom's screen.)
from the runme.bat select option 3 to reboot, you MUST reboot straight into recovery ( again see video for video steps here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koxgbdQuzOQ ) and flash rom, if you dont catch the boot process in time it will boot into android, and the custom recovery you just flashed will be replaced by the stock android recovery, and you will need to repeat the whole process. after you flash the rom your custom recovery will stick and you will be good from here on out
Hey, thanks for all your help. I finally got it going, and im really glad I wont have to do all of that stuff again, but your help was greatly appreciated.
Roseysdaddy said:
Hey, thanks for all your help. I finally got it going, and im really glad I wont have to do all of that stuff again, but your help was greatly appreciated.
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I just wanted to install the clockmod recovery in order to flash a new rom. (My phone wont download anything I thought the version is too old)
Since my phone was rooted, I just went straight to download the 4 ext recovery and installed it as the video showed on Youtube.
everything was OK until the very last step, which is restarting the phone and get into to boot loader? I forgot to uncheck the fast boot, so repeated to run 4ext and restart the phone many times. after unckecked the the fastboot first time, I successfully got into the boot loader but it didn't allow me to make the recovery there is only one option, (hit the power to something I cant remember) so nothing changed this time. Then I repeated it once more, this time it turns out two option, to update or not, then I hit the update, finally it shows me to hit power to reboot.. everything in my phone is gone now except the rom manager and super user apps.
But everything in sd card is still there, just the phone couldnt recognized the card now....
What can I do now???
you could try taking loading your sd card to a computer, copy everything off and reformat and try. You try to load another ROM. What happens if you start the phone without a SD Card in the phone?
Duffmantp said:
you could try taking loading your sd card to a computer, copy everything off and reformat and try. You try to load another ROM. What happens if you start the phone without a SD Card in the phone?
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You meant to reformat my sdcard then flash the new rom? But I still need to install the 4ext recovery before flashing the new rom, right?
Yes you could do that, you guy try using Clock work mod. Works the same way, minus the touch feature. The only reason i say reformat your sd card is because you said it was not being recognized by the phone.
What happens if you power up your phone with no sd card installed?
Duffmantp said:
Yes you could do that, you guy try using Clock work mod. Works the same way, minus the touch feature. The only reason i say reformat your sd card is because you said it was not being recognized by the phone.
What happens if you power up your phone with no sd card installed?
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Nothing happened when I uninstalled the sdcard, but when I reinstalled it and powered up, it did show preparing the sd card on top...
But all the old apps and contacts are still missing, did I just wipe them all??? Is there anyway to recover them??
If I did wipe everything, how come it doesn't change anything when I open the "removable disk" in my computer
if you are using a Google account. then you just have to resync your account and you will get your contacts back. The apps are gone and will have to be redownloaded unless you made a backup. Like coping the sd card contents to your computer and then putting them back on your card. If you redownload the apps, your data should still be there to use.
dylan5188 said:
I just wanted to install the clockmod recovery in order to flash a new rom. (My phone wont download anything I thought the version is too old)
Since my phone was rooted, I just went straight to download the 4 ext recovery and installed it as the video showed on Youtube.
everything was OK until the very last step, which is restarting the phone and get into to boot loader? I forgot to uncheck the fast boot, so repeated to run 4ext and restart the phone many times. after unckecked the the fastboot first time, I successfully got into the boot loader but it didn't allow me to make the recovery there is only one option, (hit the power to something I cant remember) so nothing changed this time. Then I repeated it once more, this time it turns out two option, to update or not, then I hit the update, finally it shows me to hit power to reboot.. everything in my phone is gone now except the rom manager and super user apps.
But everything in sd card is still there, just the phone couldnt recognized the card now....
What can I do now???
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I'm confused. You wanted CWM so you installed 4ext? Step by step, exactly what did you do?
Duffmantp said:
if you are using a Google account. then you just have to resync your account and you will get your contacts back. The apps are gone and will have to be redownloaded unless you made a backup. Like coping the sd card contents to your computer and then putting them back on your card. If you redownload the apps, your data should still be there to use.
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I'll try that, thanks, but for now, I still want to flash a new rom. How can I do that if I cant install the clockworkmod recovery?
bananagranola said:
I'm confused. You wanted CWM so you installed 4ext? Step by step, exactly what did you do?
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Sry being a noob, isn't 4ext a CWM software? I just follow a guy who made a tutorial to install codefireX Builds rom on youtube, he said before flash the rom, I need to root my phone which I already did, and install clockwork recovery mod, which 4ext is good for it.
dylan5188 said:
Sry being a noob, isn't 4ext a CWM software? I just follow a guy who made a tutorial to install codefireX Builds rom on youtube, he said before flash the rom, I need to root my phone which I already did, and install clockwork recovery mod, which 4ext is good for it.
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1. CWM and 4ext are both recoveries. Though 4ext was based on CWM at some point, they are separate recoveries.
2. What, exactly, step by step, did this video have you do?
3. For future reference, I don't advise using videos. They can be outdated and/or just plain inaccurate, and fewer people view them, so problems aren't pointed out as quickly.
dylan5188 said:
I just wanted to install the clockmod recovery in order to flash a new rom. (My phone wont download anything I thought the version is too old)
Since my phone was rooted, I just went straight to download the 4 ext recovery and installed it as the video showed on Youtube.
everything was OK until the very last step, which is restarting the phone and get into to boot loader? I forgot to uncheck the fast boot, so repeated to run 4ext and restart the phone many times. after unckecked the the fastboot first time, I successfully got into the boot loader but it didn't allow me to make the recovery there is only one option, (hit the power to something I cant remember) so nothing changed this time. Then I repeated it once more, this time it turns out two option, to update or not, then I hit the update, finally it shows me to hit power to reboot.. everything in my phone is gone now except the rom manager and super user apps.
But everything in sd card is still there, just the phone couldnt recognized the card now....
What can I do now???
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Where is the file that you wanted to flashed?? how were you trying to flash CWM? What for? 4ext is a custom recovery as CWM, so you just needed to flash a custom rom from there...
bananagranola said:
1. CWM and 4ext are both recoveries. Though 4ext was based on CWM at some point, they are separate recoveries.
2. What, exactly, step by step, did this video have you do?
3. For future reference, I don't advise using videos. They can be outdated and/or just plain inaccurate, and fewer people view them, so problems aren't pointed out as quickly.
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I just downloaded the 4ext free version and installed it, after that, it told me to enter the hboot (press volume down and power button), which caused my problem. It supposed to have the option to hit the recovery button, but mine just require me to update and reboot... After reboot, everything was wiped...
I just thought video was more convenient.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih5orslc-4M
glevitan said:
Where is the file that you wanted to flashed?? how were you trying to flash CWM? What for? 4ext is a custom recovery as CWM, so you just needed to flash a custom rom from there...
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this is the video I was watching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuFTPMr0v_A
He said I need to root and install recovery before flash the rom, so I was just trying to install the recovery.
Sorry, man, but I'm not going to sit through a video...exactly what did you do and where did you get the files?
dylan5188 said:
I just wanted to install the clockmod recovery in order to flash a new rom. (My phone wont download anything I thought the version is too old)
Since my phone was rooted, I just went straight to download the 4 ext recovery and installed it as the video showed on Youtube.
everything was OK until the very last step, which is restarting the phone and get into to boot loader? I forgot to uncheck the fast boot, so repeated to run 4ext and restart the phone many times. after unckecked the the fastboot first time, I successfully got into the boot loader but it didn't allow me to make the recovery there is only one option, (hit the power to something I cant remember) so nothing changed this time. Then I repeated it once more, this time it turns out two option, to update or not, then I hit the update, finally it shows me to hit power to reboot.. everything in my phone is gone now except the rom manager and super user apps.
But everything in sd card is still there, just the phone couldnt recognized the card now....
What can I do now???
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Hmm.. best bet would be adb fastboot.
Download the 4ext recovery image (not sure where to get the .IMG file but google and you'll find it =})
Then rename it recovery.IMG and put it where your adb.exe is (C:\Windows\System32 if you used Advance Ace Hack Kit)
Then type adb adb flash recovery recovery.IMG and it should flash 4ext
Then put a Rom on the SD Card and flash it using 4EXT =)
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dylan5188 said:
this is the video I was watching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuFTPMr0v_A
He said I need to root and install recovery before flash the rom, so I was just trying to install the recovery.
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Are you S-OFF, do you have recovery installed? CWM or 4ext are just the same to flash a rom as long you have a recovery installed. To flash a partition you need to be whether S-OFF or have the bootloader unlocked....what situation is yours?
Let me tell you something that I share with MissB up there...that video sucks..there are lots of GOOD tutorials on how to flash a rom, but of course you need to read first...if not just ask the guy who did the video. Flashing and hacking is not for the lazy ones.