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Bricked...?

Hi all,
I have a Magic 32b and recently put the Modaco_custom_1_51 rom on, with the Amon Ra's recovery image (as recommended on unlockr)
It was working ok, not great, a bit slow and mms wouldnt work, so...
I decided to change the rom, unfortunately I was in a bit of a rush and I kind of forgot what I was doing...
I went straight to the Recovery mode and clicked 'part sd: fat32+ext2+swap'
Then I put the new rom on using usb storage mode, I clicked on applied update.zip and of course it wouldnt work (all without applying any recovery image when the phone was working and wiping first), I rebooted the phone and now after the vodafone image I just get a blank black screen...
I then woke up and realised what i'd done.
I have tried searching what to do when this happens but I couldnt find anything... I've never used abd or commands and dont really know how the commands work... I just flashed and applied the rom using the 'one click' method on unlockr.
I dont think its bricked... I can boot in Recovery and fastboot...
I would appreciate any help you can give, theres propably a simple way to do it (well simple for you guys) but I just cant work it out, if anyone can give me some instructions it would be really grateful.
Im new here so take it easy on me
I got no reply when I asked before so I'd really like someone to help
Regards
Gino

this happend to me
okay the process is to,
1. put something else on ur sdcard
2. Right click on ur computer Icon. once inside click on ur SdCard rout. which is or i can be j,k,l,m,p what ever yours is then
3. right click put saftly remove. once done that click on Storage off on ur Ra' Recovery
4. Then Click reboot, and press home button once ur screen goes black. u'll go back to ur recovery Images and u should have the things there, and if u dont then u know what that means ur SD card is fried.

Thanks for the reply...
This is what I done..
(Remember I cant get into the phone to do anything)
-Booted phone into recovery
-Wiped data
-Part sd card fat32+ext2+swap
-Took sd card out, put new rom on
-Put sd card back in
-Wiped again for safety
-Applied update.zip
-Rebooted phone and then...
Went past vodafone screen and stuck on Black screen again....
What am I doing wrong?
Someone must know
Thanks

What rom are you trying to flash? Have you tried any other roms? Are you sure it's actually flashing your new rom?

Thanks again for the reply... I think the problem was the rom. I tried the new Evil Hero rom -3s final... but it seems pretty slow for me.
Do I have to increase swappiness or anything... I dont know how to do that or even check it?
Thanks

Anyone have any idea why its so slow?

Gino_x said:
Anyone have any idea why its so slow?
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How big is your swap partition? Most hero roms seem to require a lot of swap (96Mb+) and that will need to be configured either in swapper (app from market) of by editing user.conf if the rom has one.

Very odd issue with my g2x.

I haven't done any flashing in about a week. Everything was working fine. And just today I ran the battery completely dry (which I usually do and it keeps my battery happy).
So I power it back up after a few mins of charging.....the LG screen comes on.....then the Ultimate 1.0 Rom loading logo comes up..after that every 10-15 seconds it turns on the screen, shuts it off, turns it on, off, etc. It keeps turning on and off...even after I left it there for 5 mins.
I'm going to flash back my Froyo stock rooted rom that I made a back up. The Ultimate 1.0 isn't the only rom I've flashed in the past. CM7 as well..many of the builds.

Argh.
I have my nandroid froyo backup on my SDcard and it says it can't find it.
This whole internal sd and external sd storage is a pain in the ass. The good old G1 days. Sigh. I went ahead with formatting the card as well and copying back the nandroid backup onto the card. Nothing.

That happened to me. I had to reset - battery pull alone wouldn't work. That phone is now on its way to T-Mobile, and its warranty replacement is going to be soon due to really bad screen bleed (affects my watching video and game play).

flexnix said:
Argh.
I have my nandroid froyo backup on my SDcard and it says it can't find it.
This whole internal sd and external sd storage is a pain in the ass. The good old G1 days. Sigh. I went ahead with formatting the card as well and copying back the nandroid backup onto the card. Nothing.
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What was "it says" - ROM Manager?
If so, it looks for a androids on the internal SD. If you had used the easy recovery install tool, you would have been able to select internal or external to use with Recovery - NOT ROM Manager.
Based on your choice, you should be able to access you nandroid in the place you chose in RECOVERY MODE.
Since you fully drained you battery, you might want to erase battery specs in recovery, turn it off, and fully charge with it turned off for 8 hours. It is not recommended that you fully drain the battery and that may be your problem.
Then you could try wiping cache, dalvek, and format /system - and reflash your ROM. Save flashing the nandroid for last.

flexnix said:
I haven't done any flashing in about a week. Everything was working fine. And just today I ran the battery completely dry (which I usually do and it keeps my battery happy).
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have you tried a different battery?
According to the experts at Popular Mechanics running your battery dry is very bad for it. It greatly reduces the life according to them. There was a post about it last week. There are physics involved that apply to all.

when this phone crashes and won't reboot, how do we even get into recovery without rom manager??

You need to NVflash your Recovery
EmceeGeek said:
when this phone crashes and won't reboot, how do we even get into recovery without rom manager??
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You boot the phone holding Volume Up & Power buttons until recovery screen appears.
Recovery, if you flashed it using the NVflash tool, will be accessible by booting your phone while holding Vol Up & Power. You will go into Recovery. If you have never done this or do not get recovery its because you did not flash the Recovery onto your phone.
Basically, if all you did was download ROM Manager and start flashing the G2x you are playing with fire. You need to flash the Recovery onto the phone using NVflash tool. ( Follow Step2 in the following link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1060715 )
I would recommend anyone with the same problem or the same question to go thru the link above and you will find answers to most of your problems.

EmceeGeek said:
when this phone crashes and won't reboot, how do we even get into recovery without rom manager??
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You need to properly install Clockworkmod recovery with NVflash. Its a process but well worth it. Rom manager is a no no with out phones.

flexnix said:
You need to properly install Clockworkmod recovery with NVflash. Its a process but well worth it. Rom manager is a no no with out phones.
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Did you rename your nandroid backup?
If you did that would be the problem. if you want to rename it, don't leave any spaces.
Sent from my G2x

[Q] If you can help me, please do

Ok be prepared, this post may be rather long winded however I will try my best to prevent that. I have a Tmobile G2x I purchased on launch date. Ive not attempted to Root, change roms, or anything of the sort. (as much as I always wanted to, I always felt that my skills were not good enough to attempt these ideas no matter how easy they may seem. I just did not want to be the cause of screwing up my phone that I paid dearly for)
So I have a friend who claims to be the master (of disaster so it turns out) of rooting androids and such. He stops by my house just to hang out and eventualy convinces me to let him root my phone and install CM7. Within a few minutes the phone was rooted (super1click) and was running CM7 release candidate. (I really dont know what all these things truly are but I drilled him for answers once he jacked up my phone and left me with a half-bricked phone) So he installed Rom manager and convinced me to upgrade to the premium version via marketplace so I did. He was then showing me how easy it was to flash new roms at the touch of a few buttons. He put on some other rom which looked like CM7 but claimed to have extra tweaks. It worked fine. A few minutes later he put on some Faux Rom which gave a boot up screen like my old Nexus One did. (Multicolored X) It seemed to work fine as well. Then he said lets check out the nightly CM7 Rom so he put it on. (however I dont think it ever actually put CM7 back on.-still on Faux?) Thats when things got crazy.
Now I get the com.google.process.gapps force close message all the time. He tried to fix it for 4 hours and finally gave up. Here is what I know he/we tried: After searching the internet for hours we tried everyone elses ideas. Clearing calenders cashes, un syncing, etc. We did about 40 factory resets. We have tried to install my backup (which was from BEFORE he even touched my phone) and upon holding both volume rockers and plugging in USB (no battery installed) and it still does nothing. Windows recognizes device but phone screen stays black. Tried Debug mode while doing this as well. If we hold the volume down button and power the little install bar comes on the screen and it does its thing (whatever that is) and goes right back to the way it was. I keep getting the gapps message all the time. After factory reset I cant even type in my gmail address to start the initial setup of the phone. The force close keeps cutting me off. If I type fast, I can sync the account but I cant use market whatsoever. Tried installing Rom manager to re-flash but just sticks at starting download and gapps pops up again.
My son is starting school tomorrow and he has a medical condition. I NEED this phone to communicate with the school nurse via emails and such. As of now I can only text, call, or surf web all while dodging force closes. If ANYONE out there can please help me get my phone back to normal Id greatly appreciate it. Im sure its something easy but as I said before, Im not good at this thing and thats why I never attempted it myself. Your welcome to submit answers here or PM me your phone # if you want to walk me through it on the phone. (I have a landline phone to talk to you on) Thanks in advance for everyones time and Im sorry this ended up being so long.

Download latest Gapps.zip from Cyanogen site to your phone's SD card, boot into recovery, wipe data and cache then flash the Gapps.zip file. Let me know if this helps.

I will try this now. Thank you

Im unable to get anywhere. It still has stock recovery and I cannot get to the screen where I can wipe. Im not great at this sort of thing but Im trying.

Omnichron said:
Download latest Gapps.zip from Cyanogen site to your phone's SD card, boot into recovery, wipe data and cache then flash the Gapps.zip file. Let me know if this helps.
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i think you would be better off starting from scratch
1. remove your sd card from your phone and plug it in your computer
2. download the latest rom here
3. download gapps from the download links at the bottom of this page
4. transfer both files onto the sd card and put it back into your phone.
5. with your phone off, boot your phone into recovery by holding vol down+power
6. wipe data, cache, and dalvik cache
7. flash only the cm7 file
8. reboot normally
9. reboot into recovery
10. flash gapps
11. reboot normally
after you flash one file, it is highly recommended that you reboot before you flash another file (if your friend didnt do this, this may have been the problem)

HurtsBad said:
Im unable to get anywhere. It still has stock recovery and I cannot get to the screen where I can wipe. Im not great at this sort of thing but Im trying.
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to flash custom recovery, use this (method two on the page)
EDIT: original post (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847)

Thank you guys for all your help. The instructions helped me out. Im very thankful. I can now rest better knowing that my sons school nurse can contact me if needed. Have a great night.

no more force closes? sounds good
feel free to post again if you have any more problems

sweetnsour said:
i think you would be better off starting from scratch
1. remove your sd card from your phone and plug it in your computer
2. download the latest rom here
3. download gapps from the download links at the bottom of this page
4. transfer both files onto the sd card and put it back into your phone.
5. with your phone off, boot your phone into recovery by holding vol down+power
6. wipe data, cache, and dalvik cache
7. flash only the cm7 file
8. reboot normally
9. reboot into recovery
10. flash gapps
11. reboot normally
after you flash one file, it is highly recommended that you reboot before you flash another file (if your friend didnt do this, this may have been the problem)
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....touché

[Q] Blue logo screen on g2x PLEASE HELP

This is my first thread that i ever needed to start on anything on phones so please understand that i'm REALLY DESPERATE i have looked in a ton of places for this fix and i tried to use clockworkmod and ended up doing that correctly but when i tried to restore it it say i dont have any backups nor recovery files and i tried putting cynagenmod on my sd card but it couldnt find the file and then i tried to use NFFLASH and make it stock android again but nothing happened and ended up stuck on the blue logo screen again. please i dont know what to do

Which version of Cyanogenmod is it? Put it on the root of your SD card. Is it already on the internal storage? I believe when you click "install from .zip" or something of the equivalent there's an option to select "choose from internal storage".
You can boot back into clockwork mod by turning the phone off, holding down the power and volume down buttons until the lg logo with the BLUE background appears, then release.

I was trying to install cynagen mod 7.01 from Rom manager but it froze in the logo screen and so i took out the battery and put it back on and it still continued to do that. After that i used CWM but i didnt have any ROMS to restore it and before it didnt correctly make my backup so i just want to restore it like the way it used to but i dont know where to put it in my sd card

crazian425 said:
This is my first thread that i ever needed to start on anything on phones so please understand that i'm REALLY DESPERATE i have looked in a ton of places for this fix and i tried to use clockworkmod and ended up doing that correctly but when i tried to restore it it say i dont have any backups nor recovery files and i tried putting cynagenmod on my sd card but it couldnt find the file and then i tried to use NFFLASH and make it stock android again but nothing happened and ended up stuck on the blue logo screen again. please i dont know what to do
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Your sentence is incredibly long. Gave up after the desperate grab for attention. You may have wiped your backups by mistake. It happens. I did it not once, but twice. Give us more info so we can help. ROM, kernel, etc. A list of apps you run on a daily basis would be helpful.

crazian425 said:
I was trying to install cynagen mod 7.01 from Rom manager but it froze in the logo screen and so i took out the battery and put it back on and it still continued to do that. After that i used CWM but i didnt have any ROMS to restore it and before it didnt correctly make my backup so i just want to restore it like the way it used to but i dont know where to put it in my sd card
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Never use rom manager to install on this phone, you'll continue to run into this problem.
Can you access your phone storage when it's plugged into your computer? If you can, drop CM onto it at the root directory, put it back into your phone, boot into CWM and install the zip.

i think my rom was stock rom 2.3.4 before i tried flashing cynagenmod the apps arent very important to me and i only had this phone for a week because i got too excited about the dual core.

Follow the instructions HERE to the letter. You'll go back to stock and you'll have to root your phone again (if that's what you want to do) but it should get you up and running again.
In future, search, search, and search some more. I assure you, most problems people have had have been discussed and probably solved on these forums.
Welcome to XDA!

What is the name for this process of trying to restore my device from blue logo screen? If i know the name of the issue im trying to fix maybe i can start searching for the guides. I can't really access my internal or sd card when i plug in my usb and i don't really understand what the problem i ran into if its even fixable or not. The link you've sent me for the guide i'm trying right now but i can't just sit here and wait for an hour. Feedback is really appreciated

crazian425 said:
What is the name for this process of trying to restore my device from blue logo screen? If i know the name of the issue im trying to fix maybe i can start searching for the guides. I can't really access my internal or sd card when i plug in my usb and i don't really understand what the problem i ran into if its even fixable or not. The link you've sent me for the guide i'm trying right now but i can't just sit here and wait for an hour. Feedback is really appreciated
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The whole process (if done correctly) should take but about 15 minutes give or take. What you'll be doing is Flashing Stock Recovery. Download the file provided in the link I gave, and then follow each instruction exactly as it says. Shouldn't be a need to Google any guides as this spell it out for you. Just have read and execute.
If you used NvFlash/One Click Recovery to flash Clockwork Mod to your device then you should already have the APX driver installed on your computer. In that case, half of the battle is already done.
But, if you installed your recovery using Rom Manager, then I would download the APX driver and go through the whole process in the guide I've linked from start to finish.

Can't Mount SD Card

I was running CM10 on a rooted TFT101. I was having some WiFI connectivity issues so I decided I would try out a new rom. I used Titamium Backup and backed up all my needed files to my Mico SD card. Once backed up, I rebooted into CWM v6.0.1.3. I went to do a factory reset prior to flashing the new rom. The tablet just froze. I rebooted the tablet back into CWM. I tried to again do a factory reset and again the tablet just froze. I tried to boot back into CM10 and I just sits and spins and never actually boots into the OS. I decided that I would just go ahead and just flash the new rom and do a factory reset after the fact. I placed the new rom on the micro sd card and booted back into CWM. I attempted to install zip from SD card and now I get e:can't mount /sdcard/. I have tried 3 different micro sd cards and nothing. I have formatted each to fat32 and not one of them is recognized. All 3 are recognized by windows.
Since I can't boot into the OS...and I can't load a new rom....I am dead in the water. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.

If you can get it to that endless boot logo and connect it through USB, ADB (info - download) should be able to access whatever's left on your device assuming it gets far enough in the boot process. If it does, you can adb pull the backups to your computer to save them.
That being said, Easy Flasher will help you get back to 100% unrooted stock and "unbrick" your device with a few clicks. Then you can start over with a new recovery and rom. But it will wipe your entire device clean, hence why I suggest you first check if you still have backups and if you do, pull them on your computer using adb.
I can't help with the CWM problem, I haven't used it in a long time.

Lethe6 said:
If you can get it to that endless boot logo and connect it through USB, ADB (info - download) should be able to access whatever's left on your device assuming it gets far enough in the boot process. If it does, you can adb pull the backups to your computer to save them.
That being said, Easy Flasher will help you get back to 100% unrooted stock and "unbrick" your device with a few clicks. Then you can start over with a new recovery and rom. But it will wipe your entire device clean, hence why I suggest you first check if you still have backups and if you do, pull them on your computer using adb.
I can't help with the CWM problem, I haven't used it in a long time.
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Thank you Lethe6. I saw that option and wondered if that might help me. I will try it out today.
One quick question. If I flash back to stock I am guessing I will just need to reroot once I am able to boot it back up?
Thank you again for your assistance.

Yes exactly. Easy Flasher has a root option as well so it's fairly easy to get going with customizations after restoring to stock!

Lethe6 said:
Yes exactly. Easy Flasher has a root option as well so it's fairly easy to get going with customizations after restoring to stock!
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Go figure. I went to fix the issue last night per your instructions and I was sitting at the Google login screen for the the new rom I loaded. What ever issue I was having corrected itself. That never happens. I guess I shouldn't complain =)
Thank you again for your assistance Lethe6!