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[Q] Noob needs help after rooting - Stuck in hboot & white screen

Well, I must admit I am in over my head....I have owned an inspire for a few years and finally decided that I wanted to try and learn about rooting etc. I followed instructions using the advanced ace hack kit and flashed cyanogen mod7 rom and I was so proud....then some problems and some bad decisions by me. First, there was some sort of issue with the phone as I could place calls and hear but the mic did not work. Unsure of how to fix that problem, I tried a new rom (leedroid) which was still ok but upon starting I had no service. Clearly, I do not know enough to troubleshoot and I should have read more prior to beginning and this is where I began to get into deeper trouble. After trying to revert back to the cyanogen mod7.2 using rom manager, I have really messed things up. Right now, I have lost clockworkmod recovery so when I hold down the volume and press the power, my only option is hboot and it prompts me "do you want to start update"that goes nowhere...If I begin with the power button only it hangs on the HTC white screen. Iknow, I know I should be searching and reading. Believe me, I am but I could sure use someone to give a lost guy some help! I have been trying to learn and download my original RUU to perhaps get back on track that way...Thanks in advance for taking the time to read!
hocky88

hocky88 said:
Well, I must admit I am in over my head....I have owned an inspire for a few years and finally decided that I wanted to try and learn about rooting etc. I followed instructions using the advanced ace hack kit and flashed cyanogen mod7 rom and I was so proud....then some problems and some bad decisions by me. First, there was some sort of issue with the phone as I could place calls and hear but the mic did not work. Unsure of how to fix that problem, I tried a new rom (leedroid) which was still ok but upon starting I had no service. Clearly, I do not know enough to troubleshoot and I should have read more prior to beginning and this is where I began to get into deeper trouble. After trying to revert back to the cyanogen mod7.2 using rom manager, I have really messed things up. Right now, I have lost clockworkmod recovery so when I hold down the volume and press the power, my only option is hboot and it prompts me "do you want to start update"that goes nowhere...If I begin with the power button only it hangs on the HTC white screen. Iknow, I know I should be searching and reading. Believe me, I am but I could sure use someone to give a lost guy some help! I have been trying to learn and download my original RUU to perhaps get back on track that way...Thanks in advance for taking the time to read!
hocky88
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First try taking out your SD card and using something to connect to the computer and take off the P981IMG or whatever that zip file is called. Then try booting back into recovery again. Also, next time try to not use rom manager and just flash it from recovery mode.
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http://db.tt/Usbm7yCw
Here is the rooted stock from and radio just place in root of SD (not in any folder) boot up into hboot since you known how to do that let it find it will ask to install volume up for yes let it do its thing then reboot when asked. Make sure all roms and pd98 s are off SD card before you put this one on it. It will give you gingerbread from then you can install whatever custom from you want.
Have and enjoy the learning
Sent from my Desire HD using xda premium

Wow! First, thanks for the quick repsonses. Yes, my first lesson learned is to flash from recovery as it seems more direct and therfore less likely to create problems for me until I get up to speed. This morning I am at work, so not alot of time available, but I did take out the SD card and rebooted and I found it interesting (for me anyway) that I can now choose the clockworkmod recovery v5.0.2.0 with out my SD card inserted. So, I can see that I messed up something on my SD card. I think when I get some time today, I will download the rooted stock that Reinaldo offered, clear all the stuff off my SD card and put this file into the root directory and let hboot update with this file. I knew I came to the right place for help! Think I will spend the day reading the basics trying to understand how all these pieces work together...

U just have a PD98IMG.zip on ur sd card that u need to get off of it cuz hboot is trying to flash it as soon as it boots up. So when u remove ur sd card, it's not trying to flash that zip so u can get to recovery. So u need to plug ur sd into a pc & move or delete that zip. Or u can just move/delete it with a file explorer once it boots up, of course. Just be careful to never put a PD98IMG.zip on the root of ur sd card unless ur ready to flash it. Then be sure to move or delete it once ur done flashing. Did u download a radio or something?

hocky88 said:
....I have owned an inspire for a few years
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??? release date 2/13/11. I guess time flies when you're having fun.
You're on the right track with your last sentence from your last post. Spend lots of time reading and educating yourself and you will be much better off.

This will be closed soon by a mod there is about 20 threads of the same issue..
My Inspire

[Q] HTC One S(ville) black screen, thats it... just a black screen, what can i do???

I was working fine, enjoying my new HTC One S with CM9 rom installed. Well the battery life wasnt the best on it, and i didnt install the custom kernel. So I looked for the custom kernel download(on my phone, not on my computer) and i found a .zip file. Well I thought that you could just download the kernel straight to my phone and open it up with "Rom Manager" which i did, it than said i needed to reboot the phone in recovery to continue the installation, so I did... it took me to recovery "to continue the installation" well than I looked away, looked backed down and it was black.... and i have tried powering up, booting into boot loader, booting into recover, and nothing... its just BLACK! nothing works, its literally useless ATM. I really messed up, is there anyway to fix this? Thanks in advanced!
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I think I accidentally flashed the kernel like i would normally flash a rom.... cause i downloaded the .zip file(directly to my phone, not using a computer), than i tapped the download and it asked me if i wanted to open it up with rom manager, so i did. and i think rom manager thought i was flashing a rom, when i wasnt, it was a kernel.... am i screwed? or is there anyway out of this?

Do you know the exact kernel you flashed--where did it come from
Some you need to extract and push
Assume you just tried to boot into bootloader thru phone buttons
Does your pc recognize your phone when plugged in, if so can you open a command window and try to access phone as in adb devices then adb reboot bootloader
assuming you are familiar with sdk adb/fastboot comands
otherwise i don't know what else to say--may be bad--sorry

Came from an XDA thread
Here is where it came from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1708676 from "sun90" (half way down the page "CM9 KERNEL remix edition.zip - [Click for QR Code] (5.53 MB, 9 views) ")
i downloaded that straight to my phone and opened it up with Rom Manager, which i think the app took it as a rom, and installed it like a rom even though it was not a rom. I just tried to access it through adb, it comes up with no devices my PC does recognize it when i plug it in though...
Ive tried to get into bootloader tons of times, it just stays black... :'(
Thanks for your answer!

You flashed a galaxy s2 kernel on your one s? why would you ever think that was a smart thing to do?
Looking at the updater script in that zip it seems it wipes some partitions, the partitions on a SGS2 and the ONE S are different, so if that script accidentally wiped say the hboot partition, or some other critical-for-boot partition, you have a fully bricked phone.
For any devs that may know what partitions are what on the One S, the script wiped
mmcblk0p7, and wrote a zimage to mmcblk0p5
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Normally this is a cwm flashable zip on the Samsung Galaxy S II, which is why rom manager flashed it, as it met all the requirements, the only issue is, it was not made for the ONE S and probably overwrote some important things.

I tried for hours and hours to fix the same issue on a friend's One S (same symptoms, not same cause) to no avail. I tried QPST and telnet and a ridiculous amount of things. Had to bring it to the store and get a new one.
Good luck, but I don't believe there's anything you can do to fix it.

Just answered your question in the help thread, Didnt see this thread too !
Im afraid its not looking good, I think your best bet would be to call your provider and blame it on an OTA update.
And hope for the best

Alright, thanks for the help!
Well it looks like i bricked my phone than.... I thought that CM9 was only on the One S, so I just looked for the CM9 kernel, which obviously was for the sg2, i feel like such a dumb ass now! haha well thanks for all the help guys! ill be heading to the t-mobile store today to blame it on a OTA:]

yeah, others wont agree with what your about to do but........
just act like a complete noob, dont mention anything about software / firmware / ROMs / bootloader etc ect
just say your phone made a noise, you selected update and it died lol

good luck--I know it is heartbreaking
not sure of your situation with carrier, but you could go thru Retention if needed

Hi peeps.
i'm very new to all this but sort of know the basics
i'm running on Axiom now but tried to flash cm10 but after install i got a black screen so had to do a restore.
Today i just flashed venom and after the instal process is done, i hear the start up music but nothing on the screen.
I have had 3 other roms on my phone and never had a problem!
these are the steps i do
download rom - place on sd
put phone in recovery
reset factory
reset cache
install from sd
when it finish's reboot
blank screen.
Am i missing something?
Any help would be great and i can't post on the thread because i'm a noob with less than 10 and dont want to spam my way to the 10 :silly:

you are missing a lot, like reading the OP page and following install instructions
you missed separate flash of boot image and wiping system plus data and caches
i wipe system 3x to be safe

rugmankc said:
you are missing a lot, like reading the OP page and following install instructions
you missed separate flash of boot image and wiping system plus data and caches
i wipe system 3x to be safe
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Thanks but i think that is now the least of my problems!
I used Goomanager and installed CM10, When I did it i installed teamwin recovery. It started to do a lot of strange things, when it finally rebooted i got a load of errors "phone is not working" nearly every 10 seconds?
it will not connect via usb, i discovered the the SD was not mounted.
I tried to mount the SD but it doesnt work, so i rebooted to recovery and tried to mount there but its coming up with - error unable to mount? ive tried everything but no joy
please please help
Thanks:crying:

see if this is your situation
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
can you connect phone to pc and use fastboot commands

rugmankc said:
see if this is your situation
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
can you connect phone to pc and use fastboot commands
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I've got a mac
not sure what fastboot is.
I'll check out the link, and thank you very much for trying to help:good:
sorry i do know what fastboot is, yes can get in to it. but ive gone from CWM to teamwin recovery if i go in to the recovery section but that wont let me do anything because the mount. cant even load the phone up

I don't know Mac commands
My idea is to install htc drivers and set up fastboot/adb on pc--the info can be found in dev section on rooting
then open a command window and and boot into fastboot and flash a new recovery, maybe stock per the link, clear storage and try to get mounted
how did you unlock bootloader--
you will need to do alot of reading on adb/fastboot and flashing roms--first step is to have backups of rom and sdcard
since i don't the Mac commands to do fastboot, someone else will chime in at some point
you can alos go to the noob section in Q&A and resubmit your issue
someone will work you thru this, but in meantime study up on android sdk/fastboot/adb. a necessity to get out of these problems
you are not bricked, just need the info and right steps to get back on track

rugmankc said:
I don't know Mac commands
My idea is to install htc drivers and set up fastboot/adb on pc--the info can be found in dev section on rooting
then open a command window and and boot into fastboot and flash a new recovery, maybe stock per the link, clear storage and try to get mounted
how did you unlock bootloader--
you will need to do alot of reading on adb/fastboot and flashing roms--first step is to have backups of rom and sdcard
since i don't the Mac commands to do fastboot, someone else will chime in at some point
you can alos go to the noob section in Q&A and resubmit your issue
someone will work you thru this, but in meantime study up on android sdk/fastboot/adb. a necessity to get out of these problems
you are not bricked, just need the info and right steps to get back on track
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im going to use someone elses alp top with windows. i'll ytry the all in one thing because thats how i rooted it in the first place. thanks for helping it means alot

good luck on it

need help. my sdcard is not mounted

so i installed the cm9 alpha, restored stuff via titanium backup (only green marked stuff, and some whites) and i got into a bootloop. so i went into recovery and instead of going into clockwork i used the factory reset thing at the start. (probably the main problem this happened)
so now when i boot up my phone, i cant access my sdcard. what do i do?
ive checked around ADB methods on pushing stuff over, but naturally that didnt work. so im basically stuck here. PLEASE HELP

Jahrern said:
so i installed the cm9 alpha, restored stuff via titanium backup (only green marked stuff, and some whites) and i got into a bootloop. so i went into recovery and instead of going into clockwork i used the factory reset thing at the start. (probably the main problem this happened)
so now when i boot up my phone, i cant access my sdcard. what do i do?
ive checked around ADB methods on pushing stuff over, but naturally that didnt work. so im basically stuck here. PLEASE HELP
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Try using the All in One tool in the dev section to reflash CWM Recovery, then keep trying to ADB push a stable ROM zip to your SD card. It might take a few tries but it does work. I saved my phone from a similar situation a few weeks back using the ADB push method.
Sent from my HTC One S.

thats what im currently trying to do. for some reason clockworkmod recovery just wont work. whenever i try to go into recovery, the phone just boots instead. and i tried multiple times to push over a rom, but it just wont get past 4mb.

http://i.imgur.com/o0WZm.jpg
this is what happens.
keep in mind i had to scratch the whole using clockwork and used the other recovery instead. that atleast lets me get to recovery. but as you can see, it wont even push over 4mb out of the 137mb of the newest cm9 build.
let me explain what im doing, im following this guide (i dont quite understand what he means with the first part "flash your recovery back to stock" i just assumed he meant to reinstall the recovery, so tell me if i did something wrong here) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25557817#post25850720
and im also looking in the how to push a rom with adb thread aswell. i feel like im doing the right thing here, and dont know what else to do. this is getting frustrating. a phone with no memory isnt all that enjoyable

Jahrern said:
http://i.imgur.com/o0WZm.jpg
this is what happens.
keep in mind i had to scratch the whole using clockwork and used the other recovery instead. that atleast lets me get to recovery. but as you can see, it wont even push over 4mb out of the 137mb of the newest cm9 build.
let me explain what im doing, im following this guide (i dont quite understand what he means with the first part "flash your recovery back to stock" i just assumed he meant to reinstall the recovery, so tell me if i did something wrong here) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25557817#post25850720
and im also looking in the how to push a rom with adb thread aswell. i feel like im doing the right thing here, and dont know what else to do. this is getting frustrating. a phone with no memory isnt all that enjoyable
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I used this thread to salvage my phone:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667929
I followed the instructions to the letter, and got the ROM pushed on the third try. I reflashed and was back in business.
Sent from my HTC One S.

i tried that one aswell, but since my sdcard is not mountable, "- Ensure in Recovery that your phone shows "Unmount /sdcard/" and "Unmount /system/" (If they do not show this automatically, just press each one once respectively as pressing just toggles Mount and Unmount) " wont work for me. and it says that the file has to be in tools instead of permanent-tools, and that also did not work for me. ive tried basically everything up until now. theres still one thing i dwell on, and that is to flash to stock recovery. i dont know where to find that for a Norwegian Telenor handset. i can find the t-mobile one, but thats pretty much it

I had the same problem what I did was, I went to fastboot locked my hboot, "fastboot oem lock" and flashed original RUU in fastboot. RUU you cam find in development section. But first you have to lock your hboot.
Sent from my HTC One S

kaiser347 said:
I had the same problem what I did was, I went to fastboot locked my hboot, "fastboot oem lock" and flashed original RUU in fastboot. RUU you cam find in development section. But first you have to lock your hboot.
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i have to admit i have no idea what you mean here. im not pro at this, so i honestly didnt understand much of that. RUU is also something i dont "quite" understand what it. i think it is the OS itself or something.

i have no idea what i did, but i think i just solved my problem without even knowing why:s i just did the same **** over and over again. and i didnt push over anything. i just decided to "screw this, turn that phone on" went to storage and there the sd card was for some unexplainable reason. now i dont have any of my stuff though, that kinda sux

Jahrern said:
i have no idea what i did, but i think i just solved my problem without even knowing why:s i just did the same **** over and over again. and i didnt push over anything. i just decided to "screw this, turn that phone on" went to storage and there the sd card was for some unexplainable reason. now i dont have any of my stuff though, that kinda sux
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Looks like you found out for yourself; I was going to say that you may have to reboot your recovery a few times before the SD card shows up. I think I had to reboot CMW four or five times before it showed. After that, I was golden. Well, after pushing the ROM zip twice, that is. Make sure you always have a back up or ROM zip on the SD card from now on. It sucks that you may have to resort to a blank slate, but it's better than being stuck with a $500 paperweight!
Sent from my HTC One S.

i actually had a backup, and 2 roms on my sdcard, but that obviously didnt help from now on i will keep a backup on my computer aswell as on the sdcard. if i could ever get my stock backup back that would help. looks like im not gonna have a stock backup anymore. anyone redirect me to some place i can find that just in case i ever need to revert back to stock? Norwegian Telenor based phone if that is info you needed to redirect me. thanks for all the replies guys

[Q] Nexus S 4G bootlooping

Hello XDA. First post here. I need the pros.
I may have seriously messed up my Nexus S 4G. The "Google" logo appears when I turn it on but there is no lock on the bottom (there was before) and after that, boot animation of the X keeps restarting. Pull the battery. Hold up and power on. Go into Recovery and I end up with the white triangle and yellow exclamation point inside it.
Did I just brick my phone? Any way to get out of this? I have an upgrade available, but I'd rather check out the Nexus4 before buying the Galaxy Nexus. (Nonreplaceable battery in the Nexus4 might be a killer for me.)
I searched around but no other situations were like mine. Sorry if I missed something. Help me XDA. You're my only hope.

mjnouri said:
Hello XDA. First post here. I need the pros.
I may have seriously messed up my Nexus S 4G. The "Google" logo appears when I turn it on but there is no lock on the bottom (there was before) and after that, boot animation of the X keeps restarting. Pull the battery. Hold up and power on. Go into Recovery and I end up with the white triangle and yellow exclamation point inside it.
Did I just brick my phone? Any way to get out of this? I have an upgrade available, but I'd rather check out the Nexus4 before buying the Galaxy Nexus. (Nonreplaceable battery in the Nexus4 might be a killer for me.)
I searched around but no other situations were like mine. Sorry if I missed something. Help me XDA. You're my only hope.
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What have you done before this happened?
You have relocked your bootloader?
Fix is easy, you'll lose your data doing so.
Unlock the bootloader using fastboot
Install a custom recovery such as Clockworkmod
From within recovery wipe data
Try to boot like this. If it doesn't boot, go back to recovery, wipe everything and re-install your ROM/stock ROM depending on which you have. You can transfer the flashable zip from within Clockworkmod recovery by mounting your USB storage when connected to your computer.

polobunny said:
What have you done before this happened?
You have relocked your bootloader?
Fix is easy, you'll lose your data doing so.
Unlock the bootloader using fastboot
Install a custom recovery such as Clockworkmod
From within recovery wipe data
Try to boot like this. If it doesn't boot, go back to recovery, wipe everything and re-install your ROM/stock ROM depending on which you have. You can transfer the flashable zip from within Clockworkmod recovery by mounting your USB storage when connected to your computer.
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First of all, thank you polo for helping me out!!!
At first, I was flashing nandroid backups between AOKP, CM10 M2, and CM7. Then it got stuck in a boot loop of a different sort (don't remember the details) and before I remembered to come over to XDA, I formatted some partitions under Mounts and Storage in CWM like an idiot. However I did wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache and still nothing.
I just googled some directions on unlocking from fastboot, flashing CWM, and from there let's see how it goes. Wish I brought a cable with me to work, but it'll have to wait a few hours. Thanks polo!

mjnouri said:
First of all, thank you polo for helping me out!!!
At first, I was flashing nandroid backups between AOKP, CM10 M2, and CM7. Then it got stuck in a boot loop of a different sort (don't remember the details) and before I remembered to come over to XDA, I formatted some partitions under Mounts and Storage in CWM like an idiot. However I did wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache and still nothing.
I just googled some directions on unlocking from fastboot, flashing CWM, and from there let's see how it goes. Wish I brought a cable with me to work, but it'll have to wait a few hours. Thanks polo!
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Well if you formatted system and the like, you pretty much wiped your ROM. If you installed a stock ROM, it's possible your recovery was replaced by the stock recovery, otherwise there should be no reason for your recovery to get wiped.
Rooting again with the whole unlocking process and re-installing a ROM will get you back online in no time.

Welp, it looks like I need a little more help if you don't mind polo. For someone who was rooted, I guess I didn't know much, but learned a lot from this so far.
I flashed CWM from my desktop via fastboot and can now get into CWM. I then mounted the phone as a USB drive and loaded CM7.2 and then installed it. "Install from sdcard complete." after that. Rebooted and now it's looping at the boot animation for CM7.2. Wiped data/factory reset and same thing happens.
What am I missing here?
After I'm in CM, I plan on going back to stock + root.

Make sure you also wipe cache and dalvik cache. If this doesn't seem to work, in mounts and storage format cache, data, sdcard and system then reinstall your rom. Be sure you have the correct rom for your phone and not the crespo4g version or vice versa.

I just followed those exact instructions and it still loops at the boot animation. Damn.
The world needs more people like you polo. Thanks for trying to help me through this!! I have a genuine gratitude for you my friend.

OK, run a log cat with Adb. First night I had mine had serious issues, nothing worked same problem.
If you don't know how to do log cat
Is
Adb logcat > log.txt
Same as if fastboot. Upload that and we can find your prob instantly.
Sent from my A100 using Tapatalk 2

das_webos_transformer, I just PMed you the dropbox link since I can't post links here, but I don't see it in my sent. Did you get it?

I would try the factory images from Google. Make sure the phone is working as per usual and then take it from there.
There are guides on how to do so on the forums. It is very easy.

albundy2010 said:
I would try the factory images from Google. Make sure the phone is working as per usual and then take it from there.
There are guides on how to do so on the forums. It is very easy.
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Hey Al. Thanks for replying. My problem is I'm seeing too many guides. I know it's a mortal sin to ask, but can you link me to one that you think is done correctly? Unfortunately I need a little more hand holding if that ok with you guys.
UPDATE - SOMEhow, I got CM10 installed and gapps. Just flashed it it worked. I did nothing differently than before. I installed a bunch of apps and that went well. I had a feeling I wasn't in the clear and now I can't restore a nandroid backup, a fancy widgets transparent background goes missing but the text remains, and Swype won't install. It's just weird. I'm more than willing to go back to stock now. If you can provide a link for how to flash the stock images, I'll definitely give it a shot. Thank you!!!

You're all over place so here are some general FYI.
Depending on which recovery was used to make the nandroid you may not be able to restore it with a different recovery.
When you say you can't restore a nandroid and a widget or swype won't restore I am lost. What are trying to restore it from and with what.
Anyways. Stock images are here https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Make sure you download the ones for your device. The sprint d720.
Once the download is finished extract the file. You should have a few .img files and a update zip in there. Take those files and move them to the directory you have fastboot in.
With the phone in the bootloader enter the commands.
Fastboot flash bootloader bootloader file name.IMG
Fastboot reboot bootloader
Fastboot flash radio radio image name.IMG
Fastboot reboot boot loader
Fastboot -w update image name.zip
You can most likely skip the reboot 2nd and third reboot bootlaoders . People seem to do it for some reason. If your device already has versions of the bootloader and radio installed you can skip those flashes as well.
Make sure you change the commands to the actual file names you're going to flash. Can manually type/ paste the names or just hit tab after you typed the first letter. Example. Fastboot flash radio r tab. It should auto fill it in. Check anyways.
If you're not comfortable with this dont do it. Read some more or find a video on YouTube if you're unsure. I am not responsible if you screw something up . End result will give you factory up to date bootloader radio and rom. It also wipes the phone but not the internal storage. The bootloader will still be unlocked so you can relfash a custom recovery later and do what you want.
Guides are all over. Just make sure you're flashing the correct files for your device. The commands and procedure is the same for all nexus devices.
And last if the factory images give you issues then there most likely is something actually wrong with the device. Or you managed to screw up flashing.

Thanks Al! I did all that and am pretty comfortable with this stuff, but when time came to flash the image...
C:\Users\Nouri\Desktop\Fastboot>fastboot -w update image image-sojus-jro03r.zip
error: failed to load 'image'
Same issue without the -w. I'm starting to think something is wrong with the phone. But how can it. It's functioning. is it possible that a hardware problem can cause these inconsistent issues?
Issues
- When I had CM10 installed, it ran choppy. It ran fine when I flashed it a few days ago. I didn't do much and flashed another ROM, but I know the S 4G is capable of running CM10 smoothly. Swipes between homescreens were choppy and so was bringing up the app drawer.
-I couldn't take a screenshot. "Screenshot not saved" or something to that effect
-Swype would get to 100% download and then halt for a few minutes. I'd hit Install and it would just stay there for a few minutes and nothing would happen.
-I couldn't restore from a CWM nandroid that I just made.
Internal sdcard faulty maybe?
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!!!!!

Nevermind! Back to stock! Thank you so much Al!!!! Holy crap you have made me a happy man before I sleep tonight dude!
The last step was actually fastboot -w update image.zip, but it's all good!!!!! Thank you ALL!!! XDA is a pretty special place where you guys help someone to the best of your knowledge. I'm going to pass this forward.
Polo, das, Al, I can't thank you guys enough. Know that you guys helped someone out big time here. Hopefully this makes your day better too!

Hey all. I just wanted to send a quick update your way. I successfully went back to 100% stock thanks to Al's awesome directions. Still couldn't install swype and there were some files on the internal storage that had all sorts of strange symbols and were .01 to 5 GB in size! Clearly there is something wrong here. I rebooted and that all went away actually. This morning I rebooted and I see a notification saying "Damaged USB storage - USB storage is damaged. Try reformating" I tapped it and successfully formatted the storage, but that's my issue all along. Wish I left the notification up there, but I'll get it back and take it to Sprint. Hopefully get a replacement.
You guys freakin rule. You helped me until we all, especially I, were blue in the face. Thanks again!!!

If you're going to take it sprint you should probably re lock the bootloader. They may not check or care but eh
Fastboot oem lock.
That doesn't wipe anything
Fastboot oem unlock does and that would be needed if you wanted to root and flash your device again .

Thanks and yup! I got pretty good at this whole thing now. I feel very good now learning fastboot. I flashed completely stock like you said. It worked. Problems arose. Locked the bootloader and tucked the phone away. If it wasn't for Google Voice, my life would suck right now! Hopefully my trip to Sprint turns out well. A few short hours.

Asus TF101 - Recovery - Stuck on Boot

Hi
I bought some electronics at an auction and there was a Asus TF101 included in the lot. After reading about the unit I thought it would be great for personal use. I ordered a charger online an I tried it but it gets stuck at the boot screen. If I try switching it off it just switches back on. I think this is a botched root job but I don't know what the previous owner did. I doubt it is hardware related though. It has Clockworkmod Recovery v6.0.1.3 installed and can boot into the recovery but honestly I am a bit lost at what to do next.
Attempts to wipe the data etc to reset the device has all failed. It seems it needs to be flashed so any help will be appreciated. While I am at it I was thinking of going for one of the newer roms here on XDA available for the device.
Update: I wiped the user data and got the unit reset but now it boots straight into the clockworkmod app
Thanks!

Johandj73 said:
Hi
I bought some electronics at an auction and there was a Asus TF101 included in the lot. After reading about the unit I thought it would be great for personal use. I ordered a charger online an I tried it but it gets stuck at the boot screen. If I try switching it off it just switches back on. I think this is a botched root job but I don't know what the previous owner did. I doubt it is hardware related though. It has Clockworkmod Recovery v6.0.1.3 installed and can boot into the recovery but honestly I am a bit lost at what to do next.
Attempts to wipe the data etc to reset the device has all failed. It seems it needs to be flashed so any help will be appreciated. While I am at it I was thinking of going for one of the newer roms here on XDA available for the device.
Update: I wiped the user data and got the unit reset but now it boots straight into the clockworkmod app
Thanks!
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Since you have Clockwork installed and recovery is booting, look here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/eee-pad-transformer/development/rom-t2942560
See the install instructions, upgrading to TWRP and flashing rom and other components.

mb_guy said:
Since you have Clockwork installed and recovery is booting, look here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/eee-pad-transformer/development/rom-t2942560
See the install instructions, upgrading to TWRP and flashing rom and other components.
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I did see that and I have done some more reading since I posted here. Will I be able to upgrade from Clockwork to TWRP 2.8. if the unit doesn't boot?
Also I got an error saying that the sdcard cannot be mounted. I know this is the internal storage and not the actual sd card.

Johandj73 said:
I did see that and I have done some more reading since I posted here. Will I be able to upgrade from Clockwork to TWRP 2.8. if the unit doesn't boot?
Also I got an error saying that the sdcard cannot be mounted. I know this is the internal storage and not the actual sd card.
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I believe I flashed mine that way. If you have just wiped storage that is the normal error. I would give it go

mb_guy said:
I believe I flashed mine that way. If you have just wiped storage that is the normal error. I would give it go
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That one worry less, was worried something hardware wise was faulty.
This may sound like a stupid question (definitely newbie question) but if I cant access the internal storage how am I going to copy TWRP onto the internal storage and run the install from clockwork?

Johandj73 said:
That one worry less, was worried something hardware wise was faulty.
This may sound like a stupid question (definitely newbie question) but if I cant access the internal storage how am I going to copy TWRP onto the internal storage and run the install from clockwork?
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Sorry it has been a long time since I used Clockwork, but does it not see the external removable sd card? Or try the adb push method if the CM version will support.
https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_tf101

No after some blood sweat and lots of foul language I got 4.4.4 loaded just to dicover the lcd has a nice shade of green ..... So LCD = another $30... lol I am so deep in...... Anyway started a new thread just to check if anybody else had the same problem and whether in fact it is the LCD that faulty
Oh just For info... I used EasyFlasher to get TWRP 2.6 onto the Unit with a very nice step by step guide for a newbie like me here
:http://www.transformerforums.com/fo...t/31927-frederuco-s-guide-root-rom-tf101.html
I then Used Kisskat 4.4.4 here at XDA forums to flash the Unit. Lollipop was not happy with the older version of TWRP