Basically the situation is a friend rooted his G2x and flashed Eaglesblood v5 (Just some extra info, not sure if relevant)
This is right after he rooted, but he forgot to make a nandroid backup AND he's stuck in a bootloop; apparently he can't access recovery either.
Any way to get out of this predicament? Or is he stuck with a brick..
Thanks!
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I'm pretty sure he should be able to access Recovery..
Well first things first, the only way to brick this phone is to hit it with a brick. Lol, anyways, lets see what we can do. He should re flash (nvflash) the recovery back again. It doesn't matter if he's in a boot loop, we've all had them. Next, he should boot into recovery, take note I'm doing this off of the top of my head, and if he wants Eaglesblood he should follow the EXACT installation instructions that the eb team has given. What happened was that he probably didn't wipe his data. I had many boot loops, and I never nandroid backup, don't need it, if you're careful.
I've never had to reflash a recovery, but try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847
that will get him into recovery for sure, and then he can install a rom as instructed by the developer(ie wipe data), without boot loop. Idk if he knows, rom manager recovery doesn't work, it seems he is new.
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Alright thanks, I've bootlooped a few times but recovery ALWAYS worked for me so I wasn't too sure what to do, figured NVflash would be the key; thanks again.
Yeah, sorry tried to fix the link from an archive to a thread, but I'm doing it from my phone, its a little hard to do lol. This should work though as it will get you into recovery.
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OK so we know the bionics bootstrap recovery doesn't work. I was messing around with Rom manager and flashed the bionics recovery and was successful. Recovery version 5.0.2.5. Then I booted into recovery from Rom manager and performed a successful backup! Gonna hold out on flashing the backup right now but I'm hoping someone that knows a lot more then me will look into this also and see what they think about it and can we possibly use everything without fearing a bricked device .
i successfully created a backup using the bionic bootstrap recovery, but im leery of trying to do a restore without having an sbf handy
Well I got brave and clicked the restore button using the bionic bootstrap recovery. I have 20+ days left to return the phone if anything went wrong. I backed up using the recovery, then clicked restore. Everything restored perfectly. I did not choose wipe data though, as I didn't think it would matter. Just thought I would add that bit of information. Hope this helps guys.
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I just used CWM 5.0.2.5 to restore the system backup I made before updating, and indeed it worked fine. I'm back down to 55.11.16 android 2.3.5 (from 55.13.16 - 2.3.6) with seemingly no ill effects. IIRC, I made this system image with the bionic bootstrap recovery app.
Im still on 55.11.16 android 2.3.5 also, I know using Rom manager to make a backup took a lot longer then what I was used to on my OG. Just went through a restore with no seemingly ill effects. Has anyone tried flashing a zip yet? Just glad we seemingly have a recovery that is working.
my vivid will be here in the next day or 2. once i have that, i will risk the Atrix2 and start working on a rom.
Oh no Pirate your switching over to the HTC Vivid? I have been looking at the reviews on that device and it looks as thick as my A2 with the defender otterbox. I'm going to kick my cat if people start abandoning ship on the A2, bummer!
Awesome work on getting CWM to backup and restore. I would love to see some custom roms being dumped onto this device.
Nice! Recovery loads up smoothly on rom manager. This could get interesting...
If your bootloader is not unlocked be very careful as to what you flash!
Try a theme or something that does not affect kernals,
Just my thoughts
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Pirateghost said:
my vivid will be here in the next day or 2. once i have that, i will risk the Atrix2 and start working on a rom.
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I still have 20 days to be a guinea pig LoL
If you really feel like being a ginuea pig you should try flashing the zip from this thread. It's a few posts down.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1331644
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marko! said:
If you really feel like being a ginuea pig you should try flashing the zip from this thread. It's a few posts down.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1331644
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i wouldnt. i havent even modified the updater-script to be right yet....
hell, i made it, and even i wouldnt flash it in that state
I dont see any zip in that thread? Are you referring to the system.img.zip pirateghost posted? That was in the recovery thread?
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i wouldnt. i havent even modified the updater-script to be right yet....
hell, i made it, and even i wouldnt flash it in that state
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Thanks for the heads up!!
I'm unable to reapply the patch up to 55.13.15
Code:
contents of partition "boot" didn't match MTD:boot:8388608:9651a551679347926bb7589bb4b57d8dea357cb4:8388608:b56beaeb976b10b86cdbd38e87024ab16fe1197f
I've supposedly restored the boot partition with cwm, oh well.
This is probably to be expected. I'm guessing I can only get the stock boot partition back with a proper fxz flash to stock...
edit: I don't think cwm is even saving a boot image. I don't see one in any of my backups.
Makes me wonder what it's doing when I restore boot
JRW 28 said:
I dont see any zip in that thread? Are you referring to the system.img.zip pirateghost posted? That was in the recovery thread?
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he was talking about this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19033826&postcount=7
Just because I'm willing to try things doesn't mean I'm willing to knowingly brick my phone.
Thanks PG!!
Oddly enough it was the Bionic recovery installed from Mod Manager is what I had installed when I bricked my phone.
Pirateghost said:
i wouldnt. i havent even modified the updater-script to be right yet....
hell, i made it, and even i wouldnt flash it in that state
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well thhats good to know !
does any flashing work with cwm? ie flash files to system? i can see nandroid not working, but simple flashing should.
svtfmook said:
does any flashing work with cwm? ie flash files to system? i can see nandroid not working, but simple flashing should.
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No. I built several zip files to flash and cwm nor the bionic bootstrap worked.
I think we may have to wait for the official cwm release, with our device in it.
Jim
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I was trying to flash a eaglebloods ginger bread on my g2x... however every time the phone boots up it immediately goes into Clockworkmod Recovery and doesn't boot the OS. I've tried formatting and reinstalling the rom but i still get the same problem of the phone going directly into recovery instead of booting. Please help!
have you ever dropped the phone? Maybe the hardware button (volume down is stuck)is failing? I've never heard it automatically rebooting to recovery unless selected from the recovery to do so.
no i haven't dropped it or anything... the last thing i remember doing to the phone before it started doing this was clearing the cache and davilk cache...then it goes immediately to recovery...i just got the phone too, i hope i didn't brick it or something
you didn't "brick" it look up what that means in Urban Dictionary, before using it. If anything reflash the recovery with NVflasher or try a different rom.
tried reflashing clockwork and still have the same problem
tried a new rom? maybe use the clean up tool from in the dev section.
Re nvflash cwm. This has happened to me several times. Do not try to flash anything else until you nvflash cwm again. If that don't work use the rom for recovery in nvflash that is in the dev section.
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kwes1020 said:
Re nvflash cwm. This has happened to me several times. Do not try to flash anything else until you nvflash cwm again. If that don't work use the rom for recovery in nvflash that is in the dev section.
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Two post above yours he said he re-nvlashed.
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Im going to try to reflash a different version of CWR and hope that works... crossing my fingers
MAN.... i flashed the latest touch cwm and still no luck... tried new rom (hellfires gb) no luck...!!! just got this phone man! any suggestions welcomed
Try using this NVFLASH technique. It should restore your ROM & recovery to stock.
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Two post above yours he said he re-nvlashed.
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But the question is did any part of the flash fail. Just like flashing a rom. You can get bad flashes. Happens to me lots of times.
Bottom line flash the rom for recovery through nvflash and it will solve it. I've softbricked myself wayyyy too many times and got it back the same way. If it turns on and shows any graphic its not hard bricked.
andrewNY said:
Try using this NVFLASH technique. It should restore your ROM & recovery to stock.
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This will resurrect it unless its not actually a g2x.
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Thank you! this helped a lot!
andrewNY said:
Try using this NVFLASH technique. It should restore your ROM & recovery to stock.
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you sir, are a gentleman and a scholar! THANK YOU!!!
djmeistro said:
no i haven't dropped it or anything... the last thing i remember doing to the phone before it started doing this was clearing the cache and davilk cache...then it goes immediately to recovery...i just got the phone too, i hope i didn't brick it or something
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Make sure when you flash you wipe everything too, not just cache and dalvik cache
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PLEASE HELP!! I have successfully rooted the device and was doing ok after flashing CWmod recovery 6.0.1 through E-Z recovery app and running Liquid Rom. I managed to be dumb enough to flash CWMod version 5.8.4.9 through Rom manager and when I rebooted my phone it got stuck in boot loop. I am able to get into CWMod 5.8.4.9 but I cannot restore my backup anymore. I can also data wipe and install a new rom, but it all just keeps going into bootloop and I cannot get past the samsung custom unlock screen. It first flashed that, then the android man pops up on the next screen like its loading something and then just keeps looping through the process. I did not use ODIN for any of this process and I dont know how to get myself back tothe point where I can reboot. Any help would be tremendously appreciated, because I'm dead stuck and in a panic. Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Happend to me last night...
I made the same mistake... DO NOT download any recoveries from ROM manager. I found out the hard way... So the problem now is your phone is stuck using the recovery you downloaded. I am not sure of a quick way using that recovery if you can revert back but... My solution got me where I needed to be in order to get going again.
I had to use Odin to root to stock ROM. Yes when you wipe it will destroy your data but not your pictures, downloaded files, and other files you put on there. When I re-rooted with stock all my stuff for CM10, gapps, and the kexec CWM was there.
So use this guide...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28530394&postcount=1
Section 1!!!!! And follow the steps EXACTLY the way it says to.
This is why i have never liked rom manager...
The best solution for us to flash recoveries is ez recovery free from the market. I would use this going forward once you Odin back to stock
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Same **** happened to me.
Odin. I lost my pics and internal memory though...
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Noob with a drive to learn and in need of some help.
I attempted to install stable release of CM7 thru CWM on my rooted G2x, still stock everything, OS 2.3.4. Pre-install I backed-up current ROM, wipe data & cache and wipe dalvik cache. Rebooted into recovery and it looked as tho all was well... However, my phone wont go any further than the second "LG" boot logo, (I'm thinking is packaged in CM7). Nothing I've tried yet has fixed my situation. Not even allowing me to enter manual recovery so I can restore my back-up.
I'm hoping someone could please tell me what I did wrong? And also, what I can do to fix it?
Did you flash CWM using ROM Manager or NVflash?
If the answer isn't NVflash, you need to search the forum for that and use it. Then try to install a ROM
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Since it's getting harder to find here is the link to the CWM thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24087341
Follow the instructions there and you'll be good to go. It says XP but I have never had a problem on Windows 7.
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I'm not new to rooting or anything, but I made sure to read up on the process of rooting and flashing Roms on this phone before I began. I got the bootloader unlocked, and CWM installed. The problem is the phone won't boot anything (yes i tried flashing in TWRP also) but nothing boots. It gets to the boot animation, but never goes past that. I know the first boot usually takes longer than the rest of the boots. I also tried using RSD lite to no avail. So could somebody please make CWM or TWRP backup of stock and send it my way?
There are several stock backups floating around the forums.
You didn't take a backup before the first flash I assume? That's the first thing everyone should do after putting a custom recovery on any device. Take a backup!
As for the issues with RSD Lite, did you put the phone in fastboot mode?
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arrrghhh said:
There are several stock backups floating around the forums.
You didn't take a backup before the first flash I assume? That's the first thing everyone should do after putting a custom recovery on any device. Take a backup!
As for the issues with RSD Lite, did you put the phone in fastboot mode?
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I normally do make backups, but of course the one time I forget to, I run into problems. And yes, I did put it in fastboot mode. I'll have to poke around some more to find one of those stock backups
Edit: Found a stock backup, and restored in TWRP. I was so tired last night it didn't occur to me to Google search for a stock backup
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