I'e been using Cognition and all is well. Now, I plan to sell the phone so I (stupidly) used the Factory Reset on the phone to remove my data. Now, I'm stuck in a loop. AT&T logo, Cognition logo and Galaxy logos all appear but then nothing. I can boot to the OS but when I choose to re-run from the SD card (either update.zip or 'choose another zip file'), no files are there. I put the Cognition zip file on the external SD card but I guess it's not looking there and I can't see the phone when connected to my PC. Please help. My phone is up on E-Bay as we 'speak'!! I was up until 3AM trying to figure this out for myself and finally resorted to the forum. Thank you so much in advance.
usually wiping everything (data and dalvik) and installing a fresh ROM will do the trick...
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Hello everyone, this is my first post on your web site. I have spent the past 6 hours nosing around xda's web site trying to find a simple straight forward answer. Heres my situation, I unlocked the boot loader and installed tenfar cwm. I re-booted my phone and everything was fine. I then continued to download the gingerblur .zip file and copied it from my pc to my atrix on the internal sd card. I shut my phone down and went into android recovery and created a backup of my current oem rom right after I gained superuser access. I assumed it created the entire back up since it was date and time stamped as this website said it would. I then re-booted my phone and went back into recovery and installed the .zip gingerblur file from the recovery program. Once I did that it installed through the recovery program and gave me an option at the top of the recovery program to install from internal sd, install from external sd, or back. I selected back and kept clicking back until I got to reboot the device. Once I clicked reboot the device from android recovery mode my phone went to the dual core screen and stayed there for approximatly 45 minutes before I pulled the battery. After that I can not get past the dual core screen. I have "unlocked" still displayed at the top left corner of my screen and I used the automatic unlock script to re-install tenfor cwm. I cleared all of the cache, data and tried to restore my phone from the backup I performed earlier... it says it successfully loaded the boot load image but all of the other images it gives errors. Needless to say I have a phone with essentially no operating system. I read a thread on XDA's website stating it could be a problem with the version of cwm I am using and with that there is a link to another thread stating to download a recovery.img file and flash it through fastboot. I can not find out how to flash it through fastboot. Any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated. I am sorry this is so long, but I would rather someone trying to help me have the whole story then just a portion of it. Please help me!!!!!! Thank you for taking the time to read this. My question is simple, how do I get my atrix back to the state it was in before I decided to try to install a gingerblur rom.
I've fixed this problem by wiping everything and installing a fresh copy of gingerbread 4.5 beta. Up and running again!!!
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i just rooted my epic 4g touch and everything worked but the problem came when i tried to install a ROM into it. i backed up my files and downloaded the zip files and transferred them to my SD card. i wiped all the data/cache and when i tried to install it, it didnt work. it kept saying 'no files' so i decided to format the SD and again, no go. then i tired 3 other ROMS and nothing. i even tried applying an update to the card and nothing. i used a different SD card and tried everything again and STILL nothing.
After, i turned on my phone and its stuck on the 'android' screen and when i tried restoring, it said 'no files found'
what is there to do now? is there any way of getting the old data back? i just want to get this phone up and running again
Im having the same issue, were you ever able to fix it?
Hey guys, I'm a complete noob and I need help recovering my Inspire 4g. I rooted it with the Ace Hack Kit. The other day it was acting a little weird so I tried to reboot it. When it booted back up it gives me 3 vibrates and a orange flashing light. I've tried pressing down and power, that gives me 5 vibrates and a solid green light. The screen remains black during both.
Not sure if this is a biggy or not, but I reformatted my sd card. (after backing up my important stuff!) I then tried resetting it back to the factory rom via Ace Hack Kit. When the flash finishes, the phone tries to boot up and does the whole 3 vibrates and flashing orange light.
One thing I noticed was when I plug my Inspire into the computer via usb and don't press anything, the back light comes on and the 4 buttons on the bottom light up. If I press the menu button and the search button, I can toggle through these menus. I tried playing with some of the options while reading other forums, but nothing seems to be working.
I guess what I'm asking is, does anyone know EXACTLY what to do to recover it back to stock settings? Or can someone link me to a thread that may help me? Or did I completely screw myself by reformatting me sd card?
Thanks,
Andy
There have been numerous threads regarding this in the inspire forums. One solution some have found is to remove the sd card and reboot the phone.
Sd card trick didn't work. The phone is now completely wiped clean. SD card is formatted to fat32. I'm starting with a clean slate. I cannot run Ace Hack Kit to restore to factory ruu because it reboots the phone into hboot, and my phone will not boot in hboot. Simply vibrates 3 times and flashes the orange led. Then stops the flash. If I new what I was doing in the first place, I wouldn't have wiped it and I would have run recovery right off the bat. But too late now.
I've been trying to put the pd98img.zip file into the sd card and installing via clockwork recovery with no luck. I clear both cashes, wipe to factory settings, then try to install and it fails everytime.
Anyone got any other ideas? Or am I really bricked?
EDIT: Error that I get when I try to install zip from sd card is E:Signature Verification Failed.
Ok so I have been trying to install blackbean 8 for my tf300 running 4.2.1 using twrp 2.5. I could never get it past the first boot screen. I have read everywhere for days and tried everything. I wipe data, system, cache, and dalvik cache everytime to no avail. It does the same thing everytime even with cm 10.1. I finally read something about formatting data and i thought i would give it a try (which I am now so badly regretting) because i have a nandroid backup on my microsd. So I tried it and it did the same thing! So i tried to restore the backup from my external sd but nothing shows up!!! It recognizes it and tells me how much space I have left but there are no files on it.... The part that confuses me is I plug the microsd onto my computer and all the files are on it! Am I bricked? I have no idea what to do right now so any help would be greatly appretiated!
EDIT: Ok so i got it to recognize my micro sd by trying a different one but it says i have nothing in my recovery file. Why would that be?
EDIT2 So i got cm 10.1 sideloaded using adb but it still wont boot! Am i missing something? I would really like to understand.
So I've been using my P3110 (Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0) for about 8 months now, I've never done a thing wrong, was the first device I rooted on and installed ROM's on etc.
Today whilst I was a little bit drunk I decided to give PhilZ Touch Recovery a try.
Then I made an oops.
I formatted /system /sdcard.
If I go to turn off the recovery it says "Root access is missing. Root Device?" If I select "No" it just turns off. If I select "Yes - Root Device (/system/xbin/su)" it turns off then restarts Recovery Mode.
I cannot turn on my device as I formatted the system.
I cannot mount /sdcard or /ext-sd either.
If I plug in my device and try to root with Odin of course nothing comes up to say that anything is connected on Odin.
Is there anything I can do or am I screwed? This'll sure teach me to play with my device whilst intoxicated.
Never mind, sorted it. For some reason it wouldn't mount my SD Card, so I placed my other SD Card in and tried mounting and it worked.
Apologies for wasting your time and making myself look like a fool!
Alright post number 3.
Now after installing CM I reboot and get stuck on the "Samsung GALAXY Tab 2 7.0" screen.
Help is much appreciated.
Update number 4!
After staring at the initial boot animation as said above for about 20 minutes. I removed my SD Card and finally CM logo appeared.
This isn't coincidence, I tried it multiple times. The only way my Tab will start up is if I don't have my SD Card in...
Any ideas what might be causing this problem?
Update 5!
All fixed, I had no idea what was up. So I just treat my device as if I just got it out of the box. Rooted with Odin (after spending 30 minutes finding the right drivers to install so Odin would work), CWM recovery, install CM10.1.1 ROM and all is good in the world.
Sorry to anyone who reads this. I can ramble...