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[Q] I need help fixing my phone - Tried downgrading the rom, now won't boot

So I used to run the CM7 rom, then upgraded to a ISC WIP. Well, it was pretty unstable, and wanted a stable rom, so tried restoring my old CM7 backup, and now when I turn on my phone, it shows the HTC splash screen, the goes black (screen still on), and won't go past that. I realize now I downgraded the firmware, and you can't do that.
My buddy said I need to get some toolkit and reset EVERYTHING back to stock roms, re-root and all that. So can some generous person link to all that? I see a lot of it in the Inspire 4G forums, but want to make sure I have it all. And after I flash all the stock stuff, can I restore that CM7 backup (clockwork recovery mod)?
Thanks in advance for the help/reply, much appreciated.

If you can get into hboot, this may help you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1396229

pazzo02 said:
If you can get into hboot, this may help you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1396229
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That's what I was looking at, wasn't 100% sure if it's the right tut for me. Thanks for the reply!

Do I need to reinstall recovery, or flash the stock rom?

Oathdynasty said:
Do I need to reinstall recovery, or flash the stock rom?
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You should follow the steps to reinstall recovery, then go to flashing a rom. You only need to go through the "flashing a stock rom" section if you had problems reinstalling recovery. Just read through all the steps and you'll get it.

Oathdynasty said:
Do I need to reinstall recovery, or flash the stock rom?
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If you are S-OFF you just can flash a new recovery image and then flash any rom you want. You will have to do it from command prompt...
if you need help in doing that, just let me know...

glevitan said:
If you are S-OFF you just can flash a new recovery image and then flash any rom you want. You will have to do it from command prompt...
if you need help in doing that, just let me know...
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I could use some help haha. I tried downloading the stock rom (PD98IMG.zip) from multiupload, but it'd down, and the mirror says it'll take several hours.

Oathdynasty said:
I could use some help haha. I tried downloading the stock rom (PD98IMG.zip) from multiupload, but it'd down, and the mirror says it'll take several hours.
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Look in the second post in that thread. The OP noted last month that there were probs with multiupload and posted an alternate dl.

pazzo02 said:
Look in the second post in that thread. The OP noted last month that there were probs with multiupload and posted an alternate dl.
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I got it. I went on the cyanogenmod irc, and they helped me. I didn't have to flash anything stock, I rebooted into my bootloader, went into recovery, wiped system, data, dalvik, cache.... All that, flashed cm7 and restored
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Good. Glad you got it fixed

Oathdynasty said:
I got it. I went on the cyanogenmod irc, and they helped me. I didn't have to flash anything stock, I rebooted into my bootloader, went into recovery, wiped system, data, dalvik, cache.... All that, flashed cm7 and restored
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Glad you got it sorted out, To be honest that is the first thing you do when a rom wont boot. Whenever you restore a backup it is best to wipe first

[Q] Wifi problem ICS, any idea ?

Hello,
I had the official version of ICS on my TF101 (the one with the locked bootloader).
I root, installed rom manager and flash recovery(5.5.0.4) -> backup performed.
Everything was perfect, however I wanted to try CM9 nightly build, I could install it without problem.
The CM9 wifi working on but the rom is not the most stable I wanted to go over the official thanks to my backup.
I ended up with the stock rom official ICS, but not enable the wifi. So I went back on the CM9, and there the WiFi working. I install the Revolution HD and the wifi does not work.
Back on my backup ICS official and still no wifi.
Have you an idea of where this might come?
Thank you in advance.
PS: After the installation of my CM9, my tf101 boot automatically on the recovery, forced to make a cold-booting android to begin.

I think the reboot into recovery thing is a bug that I've read some people have. I personally went back to the Rogue recovery after noticing that 5.5.0.4 didn't have option to access external SD.
Wifi...well...not too sure about that problem. Try to reflash the stock ICS rom back over on top of your backup. CWM is not the most reliable recovery, IMO.
Why don't you try Revolver. I bet that you'd stay on that rom. Oh...and pick up the superwipe lite script from the revolution thread if you haven't already. Good to use when you are swapping roms.

If you are restoring a nandroid, it is normal because nandroid doesn't restore the kernel, so you have to install the rom you want then restore the nandroid.
If you want to use CM9, use the one in my signature. Everything is working.

ricardopvz said:
If you are restoring a nandroid, it is normal because nandroid doesn't restore the kernel, so you have to install the rom you want then restore the nandroid.
If you want to use CM9, use the one in my signature. Everything is working.
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is that this version of cm9 allows the AZERTY dock keyboard ?
when I install the Revolution HD and the official zip from asus there is still no wifi. there isn't kernel with this method ?

SiNJiN76 said:
I think the reboot into recovery thing is a bug that I've read some people have. I personally went back to the Rogue recovery after noticing that 5.5.0.4 didn't have option to access external SD.
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I tried to install another recovery by the cwm recovery (flash zip), the install works, but i still have the cwm recovery.

SiNJiN76 said:
I think the reboot into recovery thing is a bug that I've read some people have. I personally went back to the Rogue recovery after noticing that 5.5.0.4 didn't have option to access external SD.
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Reboot to recovery is a issue present in all aosp roms except mine
zulfurion said:
is that this version of cm9 allows the AZERTY dock keyboard ?
when I install the Revolution HD and the official zip from asus there is still no wifi. there isn't kernel with this method ?
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Well, it supports more keyboard languages than english, so it should work.
If you want to go back to asus based rom, you must wipe, install the rom you want, boot it and then restore nandroid if you have one

ricardopvz said:
If you want to go back to asus based rom, you must wipe, install the rom you want, boot it and then restore nandroid if you have one
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I think I already did. But I will still check tonight
thank you

ricardopvz said:
If you want to go back to asus based rom, you must wipe, install the rom you want, boot it and then restore nandroid if you have one
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Still no wifi

zulfurion said:
Still no wifi
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What is the problem? Wifi doesn't turn on? your network doesn't show up? you can't connect to your network?
You can always try other roms and see if wifi works. but if you have a dock i recommend to use my CM9 build which has working dock battery

wifi doesn't turn on. Block on "wifi activation..."

Same problem with the Revolver 4

It works with another recovery.
Sorry for my noobness, and thank you for your help.

[Q] [Help]All KitKat ROMS failing to install/abort

Hi guys! I just had got the Photon Q today and successfully got it rooted and successfully got a custom recovery installed on it. The problem is with EVERY ROM i've tried flash, it fails to install properly and aborts the installation. I've tried on both CWM and TWRP, but the result is the same and wont install. Does this have to do with the fact that the ROMs got unified for the multiple Motorola devices? I'm about to try older nightly builds i've found, just so I can have my phone on KitKat. Anyone have any ideas why every ROM is failing to install??

Well, CWM might fail if you are using an older version... However, the latest TWRP should work fine.
What's the error message? Are yo using the latest version?

arrrghhh said:
Well, CWM might fail if you are using an older version... However, the latest TWRP should work fine.
What's the error message? Are yo using the latest version?
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Yup, i'm using the latest version, 2.7. Anyway, I got it figured out and realized it was my SD card, so I just flashed the ROMs from internal storage instead and it worked fine.
But now i'm having a new problem. Now i'm not getting any service and wifi wont come on. I've flashed custom roms on other phones before and i've never had this problem. It's like this on Carbon, Mokee, and now Cyanogen. I'm gonna keep browsing the forum for some ideas, do you have any idea by any chance?

KoolBurnX8 said:
Now i'm not getting any service and wifi wont come on. I've flashed custom roms on other phones before and i've never had this problem. It's like this on Carbon, Mokee, and now Cyanogen. I'm gonna keep browsing the forum for some ideas, do you have any idea by any chance?
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This sounds like a result of deleted or formatted /persist partition.
Have you done it? Do you have a backup?

kabaldan said:
This sounds like a result of deleted or formatted /persist partition.
Have you done it? Do you have a backup?
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Yup, I had a back up, but it failed to restore. I had to go back to stock because I couldn't figure out how to get back my service and wifi for the life of me. I still want to use Carbon, but i'm afraid it'll just go back to no service and no wifi again. Good thing about the stock rom, it seems to update your network profile and PRL for you.

KoolBurnX8 said:
Yup, I had a back up, but it failed to restore. I had to go back to stock because I couldn't figure out how to get back my service and wifi for the life of me. I still want to use Carbon, but i'm afraid it'll just go back to no service and no wifi again. Good thing about the stock rom, it seems to update your network profile and PRL for you.
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You must be on the stock ROM to update the PRL. Make sure everything works & is updated before flashing a custom ROM.

arrrghhh said:
You must be on the stock ROM to update the PRL. Make sure everything works & is updated before flashing a custom ROM.
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So I got it back to stock, then just tried the nightly of Pac man rom. It flashed fine, and my data and service are working. It's just my wifi is blacked out now and wont let me turn it on. Any ideas?

KoolBurnX8 said:
So I got it back to stock, then just tried the nightly of Pac man rom. It flashed fine, and my data and service are working. It's just my wifi is blacked out now and wont let me turn it on. Any ideas?
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Which nightly are you running of PAC? Any logs?

arrrghhh said:
Which nightly are you running of PAC? Any logs?
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pac_moto_msm8960_4.4.Alpha-1_20140409-051845
The ROM is great I don't wanna go back to stock
Hopefully you mean my recovery log

KoolBurnX8 said:
pac_moto_msm8960_4.4.Alpha-1_20140409-051845
The ROM is great I don't wanna go back to stock
Hopefully you mean my recovery log
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Is that from flashing PAC...? I don't see anything there from being flashed.
I assume the ROM boots fine if you say data and service are working. I mean logs from Android, like logcat and dmesg.

arrrghhh said:
Is that from flashing PAC...? I don't see anything there from being flashed.
I assume the ROM boots fine if you say data and service are working. I mean logs from Android, like logcat and dmesg.
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Yeah that was after flashing PAC ROM. I was finally able to do a good wipe of everything and finally got PAC running smoothly. The newest TWRP 2.7.0.1 wont let me do a good wipe, so I had to use 2.3.3.1 to do the wipe. Those versions wouldnt flash the ROMs properly and would fail, so I installed the newest TWRP 2.7.0.1 (again) and now all the ROMs i've flashed work great.

KoolBurnX8 said:
Yeah that was after flashing PAC ROM. I was finally able to do a good wipe of everything and finally got PAC running smoothly. The newest TWRP 2.7.0.1 wont let me do a good wipe, so I had to use 2.3.3.1 to do the wipe. Those versions wouldnt flash the ROMs properly and would fail, so I installed the newest TWRP 2.7.0.1 (again) and now all the ROMs i've flashed work great.
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I read your other post, that is odd. Not sure why you would have to revert to an older version of TWRP... Actually I'm a bit behind, I'm still on 2.6.3.1 I think. Not sure upgrading my phone would be a good test, since you proved moving from an older to newer version works...
Hmmm. I might just RSD Lite back to stock to see if I can recreate this.

Clockworkmod not working anymore.

Well I have been a CWM(and sometimes also TWRP) user for years. But I am stumped. I recently started having issues staying connected to AIO/Cricket(voice not even staying connected). As I am running a custom ROM I decided to try Stock and see if the problem persists, thus it may be a hardware issue with the radio or something. So I did a current backup, and restored one from a few weeks back. It's the same ROM but I thought it was worth a shot. It restored fine but the problem persisted. Then I decided to restore my new backup from the hour before. It failed. Gave me an MD5 Mismatch error(I think I have that right). So I made another new backup, same thing. I am unable to restore any backups made right now. I can still restore the one from a few weeks ago. I am running the very latest CWM touch. I tried flashing TWRP to see if that might help(using Rom Manager to do so). This has always worked before. It said that it works, and even tells me it's rebooting into TWRP when I reboot to Recovery. But the broken version of CWM is still what is loading. I am at a loss here.

your issue here is that you are using rom manager. rom manager doesnt fully work, it is broken, stop using it. you can flash a new recovery the right way, via fastboot. you can also flash twrp using the flashify app(yes, it works).

simms22 said:
your issue here is that you are using rom manager. rom manager doesnt fully work, it is broken, stop using it. you can flash a new recovery the right way, via fastboot. you can also flash twrp using the flashify app(yes, it works).
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Thank you! Gonna try flashing TWRP that way now!

Landara said:
Thank you! Gonna try flashing TWRP that way now!
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btw, i highly doubt that twrp will be able to restore a cwm backup. but if you have space on your device, it should at least create a backup.

simms22 said:
btw, i highly doubt that twrp will be able to restore a cwm backup. but if you have space on your device, it should at least create a backup.
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First thing I did. I was able to backup with TWRP. Since I am currently running the restore from that NANDROID from a few weeks ago, it's all good! I am restoring the TWRP i just made, just to be sure. Seems to be restoring fine though. With my NANDRIOD problem solved, I can work on getting this radio issue fixed. I am really hoping it's just ROM related and I can salve it by flashing something else. I'm going to flash STOCK and see if it persists now.

simms22 said:
btw, i highly doubt that twrp will be able to restore a cwm backup. but if you have space on your device, it should at least create a backup.
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Actually one fast question, if I may. Would it be at all risky to flash the stock radio onto a custom ROM? That seems the easiest fix, if it is a fix at all. I downloaded the correct stock radio for my 820 from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...-android-4-4-2-kot49h-rooted-busybox-t2557523
If I just flash it over Nikxus would there be a problem?

Landara said:
Actually one fast question, if I may. Would it be at all risky to flash the stock radio onto a custom ROM? That seems the easiest fix, if it is a fix at all. I downloaded the correct stock radio for my 820 from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...-android-4-4-2-kot49h-rooted-busybox-t2557523
If I just flash it over Nikxus would there be a problem?
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no problem, in stock or custom roms the radios are the same

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no problem, in stock or custom roms the radios are the same
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Thanks!

[Q] Can't flash OTHER kernels.

I've been using Temasek's UNOFFICIAL Build, for his last 3 build updates with TYR kernel. I decided I wanted to try out AK, or Render Kernel with Tamasek. Flashed new UKM update from AK, flashed new kernel. Restarted the phone and it constantly reboots on One+ logo. Never loads boot animation. Decided to fully wipe the phone, including system and reflash Tamesek. Then tried flashing AK. Same problem. Tried full wiping again and flashing a different rom and AK kernel or Render kernel and same issue. Reflashed TYR kernel and it works perfectly fine.
I have no idea what's going on. But, I don't want to be stuck using only 1 kernel. Any ideas?

garz said:
I've been using Temasek's UNOFFICIAL Build, for his last 3 build updates with TYR kernel. I decided I wanted to try out AK, or Render Kernel with Tamasek. Flashed new UKM update from AK, flashed new kernel. Restarted the phone and it constantly reboots on One+ logo. Never loads boot animation. Decided to fully wipe the phone, including system and reflash Tamesek. Then tried flashing AK. Same problem. Tried full wiping again and flashing a different rom and AK kernel or Render kernel and same issue. Reflashed TYR kernel and it works perfectly fine.
I have no idea what's going on. But, I don't want to be stuck using only 1 kernel. Any ideas?
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Better ask your question in AK or Temasek thread

A friend of mine is having touch issues with his opo! It's unresponsive sometimes! He is on stock unrooted 05q. Will flashing a custom kernel help?
If yes please suggest a good one

garz said:
I've been using Temasek's UNOFFICIAL Build, for his last 3 build updates with TYR kernel. I decided I wanted to try out AK, or Render Kernel with Tamasek. Flashed new UKM update from AK, flashed new kernel. Restarted the phone and it constantly reboots on One+ logo. Never loads boot animation. Decided to fully wipe the phone, including system and reflash Tamesek. Then tried flashing AK. Same problem. Tried full wiping again and flashing a different rom and AK kernel or Render kernel and same issue. Reflashed TYR kernel and it works perfectly fine.
I have no idea what's going on. But, I don't want to be stuck using only 1 kernel. Any ideas?
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Dirty flash the ROM first to get the stock kernel back, then try flashing another kernel.

Flash latest twrp.
Sent from my bacon!!!!!

Use twrp recovery

loridoo said:
Use twrp recovery
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What a useful answer.
Sent from my bacon!!!!!

timmaaa said:
Dirty flash the ROM first to get the stock kernel back, then try flashing another kernel.
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I tried this, I now tried 3 different roms. SlimSaber unnofficial, Robbie's CM12, and Euphoria and all of them do now allow me to flash AK kernel or any other kernel. I think something borked on one of TYR's kernel flashes. May I should reset the phone completely. Is there an option to do this with ODIN that someone can point me into?
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Flash latest twrp.
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Duh...

garz said:
Is there an option to do this with ODIN that someone can point me into?
Duh...
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Odin is just for Samsung phone
We use fastboot instead

waterdaan said:
Odin is just for Samsung phone
We use fastboot instead
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Right, just wiped/restored my phone to stock/factory all the way back to CM11S30R. Unlocked bootloader, rerooted, upgraded firmware and reflashed Euphoria and still can't flash AK without bootloopingon the ONE+ logo. I then clean wiped, and flashed Euphoria and same issue. I am at a loss, I have no idea what else to do.

garz said:
Right, just wiped/restored my phone to stock/factory all the way back to CM11S30R. Unlocked bootloader, rerooted, upgraded firmware and reflashed Euphoria and still can't flash AK without bootloopingon the ONE+ logo. I then clean wiped, and flashed Euphoria and same issue. I am at a loss, I have no idea what else to do.
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No need to flash back to 30R
I'd flash the 05Q stock using fastboot
That comes with latest modem etc
Then if you'd like flash custom rom in recovery
Unlock bootloader?? Did you lock it after unlocking it?
What version of recovery are you using?

waterdaan said:
No need to flash back to 30R
I'd flash the 05Q stock using fastboot
That comes with latest modem etc
Then if you'd like flash custom rom in recovery
Unlock bootloader?? Did you lock it after unlocking it?
What version of recovery are you using?
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I am using TWRP 2.8.5.1.. I just figured I'd redo everything from scratch. Nothing is working. I can only flash TYR with all the roms I've tried, where it successfully boots. I'm also flashing UKM 3.8.1.

garz said:
I am using TWRP 2.8.5.1.. I just figured I'd redo everything from scratch. Nothing is working. I can only flash TYR with all the roms I've tried, where it successfully boots. I'm also flashing UKM 3.8.1.
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try to redownload AK kernel, Maybe a bad download
Anyway good luck

waterdaan said:
try to redownload AK kernel, Maybe a bad download
Anyway good luck
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Did that twice. Installs perfectly every time.