Hi all,
Long time reader, first time poster.
I have a rooted LG 2x. I installed Clockworkmod from the market and installed it.
Following some guides - to boot into recover(I wanted to backup my system) I pushed Vol Down + Power, and it didnt boot into recovery.. INSTEAD.. it seems to have booted as if its factory new..!? WTF.
I checked the internal/ext SD card and the memory usage is the same.
What do I do??? I just want my old stuff back
To add to it,
I can see the folders/data in the folders through a file explorer, but for some reason it doesnt have the apps and settings?! Anyone help please?? Not sure what to do.
EDIT - Im missing all my messages as well from the inbox.. All I see are the OLD ones from the simcard..
Hopefully you guru's can help.. cos im going nuts!!!
You say you installed Clockworkmod from market and just rooted the device... You seem to have missed to install recovery and what you installed is the ROM manager and not the ROM itself, hence pressing the recovery button combo, resets the device...
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Can u boot to recovery from rom manager ?
I have a g2x btw n to flash a permanent recovery u need to use nvflash ..
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Thanks guys for your replies.
my phone was already rooted.. super1click, ages ago.
I just downloaded clockwork through google market on my phone.
I read that pushing the vol down + power brings up a menu, where you can CHOOSE to have your handset wiped etc, but i didnt get it. I'm in New zealand.
Anyway, I have lost all my messages.. Im just going to flash it with CM7. Im using clockworkmod to download 7.1.0RC1 right now. I have backed up my data(or whats left of it through clockworkmod.
I will give it a go soon I guess.
So i installed cm7, and im getting the boot loop thing.
Trying to work that out. Tips?
Got CWM to recover. back to square one I guess.
I have read so many guides on how to install CM7 that im so confused now.
Can I use CWM to install CM7??
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ok So we rooted my phone today with SuperOneClick
downloaded and paid for the premium version of ROM Manager
everything was going fine
we loaded up CM7 onto it
then went into ROM manager to fix permissions and it said "An error occurred while attempting to run privileged commands"
also .. we tried using recovery in ROM Manager to go back to my stock rom that we made a backup for .... clock on "Reboot in Recovery" and then clock "OK" and it does nothing ... just stays in the ROM Manager menu ... if i manually hold down the power button click reboot -> recovery then it will power off the phone ( i have to manually turn it back on ) and it sits in the screen like it is recovering forever without doing anything .. no progress bar even ... needs battery pull to go back to normal )
can anyone help me with what is going on here? when rooting we allowed superuser and also told it to install busybox ... not sure what went wrong ... used the same exact process on my friends phone and it worked perfectly
oh and when i try to go to terminal emulator or titanium backup it basically tells me in not rooted ... but according to superoneclick im rooted .. and also i have CM7 on it.. so im definately rooted
thank you .. and im sorry if this has been covered .. ive searched Cyanogen forums, google and this forum and androidforums and did not find my answer
Sounds like you are having issues with the install, and can't do anything about it because you dont have the proper recovery. Rom manager is just the ui of cwm. You have to use nvflash to wipe your stock recovery and put cwm in its place. Then, when you turn the phone on with the button combo, it will go to cwm and you can restore, flash something new, etc. its your only option. There is a tutorial in this section that walks you through it. I used it myself. Very easy. Take care to follow the instructions, cuz once you wipe your recovery you need to replace it. G2x doesn't make a good brick, lol. Good luck
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Moved to proper forum.
You can fix permissions from cwm, and that shouldn't encounter permission issues. It's under the Advanced menu.
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Im kinda new to this guy so plz bare with me:/. Ive rooted my phone before by super one click, and also installed a app called "Absolute System Root Tools" and couple rooted apps, n from absolute app i would click "Reboot into recovery" and of course would take me to that orang android. But now that i try doing it by holding down volume and power. Nothing happens :/, all its been doing its factoring reset. Even if i do it from the absolute app, nothing happens just restarts normal. Can some one help me out here what i need to reboot to recovory, would appreciate it and plz bare with me bearly getting into this.
No worries. I was there last week
If you have CWM already installed, you should be able to just HOLD power + volume down at the same time until the boot screen changes from LG > ANDROID and some icons (then you can let go of both buttons. Try that.
Did you flash CWM properly through the NVFLASH tools? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847
Or did you just install CWM the soft way through an app in the OS while it was running like you would through Rom Manager? For Tegra devices this isn't a proper recovery flash and will not work correctly. Recovery flash needs to be done through NVFLASH.
Yeah I got ityalready guys, took me all night till 8am to figuered it out and finally installed my first rom thanks for the help by the way.
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Please someone help! I had my girlfriends phone rooted for not even 24 hours and after I tryed to flash cwm recovery via Rom Manager (now know that was a mistake) the phone rebooted and thats all she wrote, nothing but black. Now my girl is mad at me and I dont have the heart to tell her that her new phone is now a paper weight.
1. I'm not sure this is the right place to ask this question.
2.can u be more ellaborative??? like what exactly happened so the phone bricked...just rebooting after flashing dosent brick the phone..
3. what all u tried....
Sorry about that... I rooted my Prevail using Odin, once I got root I went and installed Rom manager. After I opened Rom Manager I went and downloaded ClockworkMod Recovery via Rom Manager, It gave me a choice of devices to choose from and one of the options included other so I chose that one. When it was done downloading it asked if I wanted to install and reboot and I said yes. It shut down and since then I cant get it to do anything.
chrisr407 said:
Sorry about that... I rooted my Prevail using Odin, once I got root I went and installed Rom manager. After I opened Rom Manager I went and downloaded ClockworkMod Recovery via Rom Manager, It gave me a choice of devices to choose from and one of the options included other so I chose that one. When it was done downloading it asked if I wanted to install and reboot and I said yes. It shut down and since then I cant get it to do anything.
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you will have to put the phone in download mode and re odin it, using boot,phone, and pda, that will fix the problem.
I can't get the phone to do anything, nothing but black.
You shall be able to do it, holding volume up + middle button + power button, than you can reflash it with odin again. The problem if you are not able to enter download mode can be, that you have destroyed bootloader, this can be fixed only in samsung service
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where can I find the firmware and the correct odin for the Prevail thanks
never mind founf it http://androidforums.com/2953252-post1.html
thanks bunches
this totally worked for me. my downfall was trying to flash a new rom. apparently it work so well with the rom i chose. i will for now on use nothing but xda to choose roms.
hello this is my first post so bare with me please, i have looked through many websites i tried a lot of things, im supprised i havent bricked my phone yet.
I have an HTC Evo 3D rooted with Hboot 1.5 today i wanted to change to a different ROM so i downloaded everything, when i was ready to flash it i went to recovery and instead the phone rebooted, it use to reboot everytime i tryied to go to recovery or factory reset, i messed with it so much that whenever i hit recovery it opens bootloader or something, im not very familiar with this since im just starting =[ also when the phone is off i hold the volume down and power untill hboot apears it tells me for a brief moment that it couldnt find PG86IMA. I have downloaded it but i dont know how to mount it or get it in there, pleasee any help at all i would really appreciate it! ive tryed ROM manager, flashimage ui, recovery manager. thanks in advance!
What do you have installed clockwork mod or amonra?
im not sure.. the only time i remember seeing that word is when i was using Rom Manager
Is fastboot checked?
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what u mean by checked?
Take battery out. Put battery back in. Vol down+power. Highlight recovery push power
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right i do that but it goes into bootloader and reboot bootloader is hightlited, i choose shut down and it doesnt it just goes back to the main menu where fastboot recovery factory reset etc is... even when i click on factory reset it wont do it
Ok... I bought my Transformer about a year ago, rooted it and everything... was doing great, but decided to go back to stock rom, but still wanted to be rooted... ok I had TWRP Recovery on it... I downloaded the newest stock off ASUS site... US_epad_user-9.2.1.27.zip... and put on my SD card... I wiped everything and flashed it like a normal rom... now here is the crap part... I can boot into the rom, and everything is great, but I cant seem to be able to root or anything, when I try Power/VOL Down/VOL UP... I get a standing android for a few seconds then the dead one with a red ! point... I can still use the device, but would really like to get rooted again... HELP... have tried EasyFlasher now, and Brks_rootkit_v8... But doesnt seem to find the device with the dead android.
Thanks for any help
lexknight said:
Ok... I bought my Transformer about a year ago, rooted it and everything... was doing great, but decided to go back to stock rom, but still wanted to be rooted... ok I had TWRP Recovery on it... I downloaded the newest stock off ASUS site... US_epad_user-9.2.1.27.zip... and put on my SD card... I wiped everything and flashed it like a normal rom... now here is the crap part... I can boot into the rom, and everything is great, but I cant seem to be able to root or anything, when I try Power/VOL Down/VOL UP... I get a standing android for a few seconds then the dead one with a red ! point... I can still use the device, but would really like to get rooted again... HELP... have tried EasyFlasher now, and Brks_rootkit_v8... But doesnt seem to find the device with the dead android.
Thanks for any help
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Go to development thread and look at easyflash, download easyflash and restore your tablet... read the instructions properly...
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easyflasher requires APX mode, doesn't matter if it's "a dead droid". Just put it in APX, install the drivers (instructions are in the post) and flash a new firmware, then follow instructions for root (just hit the button in easyflasher). As long as your device is detected in APX, then it'll work.
Stupid me !!!
I was holding Power/Down Vol.... needed to be holding Power/UP Vol... to inter into APX... what a Dummy I feel like... ok... I am back to happy...