Hi everyone, long time lurker first time poster. I seem to have gotten myself into a jam.
I was running the new Cyanogenmod build, however some of the system sounds weren't coming through properly and I decided to reflash it. It wasn't until I did a full wipe that I realized I forgot to put the ROM and Gapps onto the phone first, stupid I know, so now I'm stuck at boot as there's no operating system to run.
My computer won't recognize the device, nor will adb. I'm using CWM 5.8.4.5 and I can't find any option under mounts and storage to mount USB storage, only system, data, cache and emmc.
ODIN will recognize the phone however I only want to use it as a last resort to flash a new ROM.
So my question is, is there any way to get my computer to recognize the phone or to use ODIN to transfer the file?
Thanks for your time, and sorry if this has been answered already.
EDIT: Sorry, had a brainfart moment and realized I had an old nandroid saved. Thanks anyways
Well I have the same question as I too have deleted the operating system so i cant enable debuggging so my computer doesnt know the phone exist no mater how many drivers I try or adb files I install nothing. Ive don it before but I dont remember how I did it. I have the Skipsoft Program for my 1plus5T but it says no device found. Whats the next step in flashing or pushing a file to my invisasble phone..thanks again for your time:laugh::laugh::laugh::crying::crying::crying:
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I was trying to reinstall my rom, so I format everything excepting the sd-card
but I did a mistake in the last part, I clicked format sd-card wrongly.
Now, I have no os or rom, and i cant run my android to put my files back to it from my laptop.
What should I do now?? I tried to install the rom (zip file) in the fastboot mode,
but it said i hv no system.img, recovery.img..so on..
p.s. my clockwork is still here, but just have no backup for the restortion.
Thank you very much to read this..
I really suck now..
bonki said:
I was trying to reinstall my rom, so I format everything excepting the sd-card
but I did a mistake in the last part, I clicked format sd-card wrongly.
Now, I have no os or rom, and i cant run my android to put my files back to it from my laptop.
What should I do now?? I tried to install the rom (zip file) in the fastboot mode,
but it said i hv no system.img, recovery.img..so on..
p.s. my clockwork is still here, but just have no backup for the restortion.
Thank you very much to read this..
I really suck now..
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You're able to get into Clockwork by booting to recovery from fastboot if I understand your post correctly. (If you're not, you should be able to get there by flashing clockwork from fastboot.)
Once you have clockwork up and running, you might be able to plug the phone into your computer's USB port and access it via adb. If you have adb access you're cool. I think you can mount the sdcard from the clockwork mount options, then push the rom files you want to flash to the sdcard, then you can flash them from within clockwork.
If you need full images (I'm not sure all ROMs are full images, there's some fresh clean images in the Development section people are using for restores).
Please help me, I had my nexus rooted for the longest and been using it, when to put a rom on and I bricked it, I deleted the wrong things on the phone, I have clockwork mod on the phone and I can only get into boot loader/fast boot.
The phone does not boot into any os on the phone, what do I do?
on your pc type the commands to reinstall CWM and then
on CWM go to mount and storage/ format system/ factory reset/ delete cache and dalvik/ restore from a backup
when i plug the phone into my PC nothing happens, also I think thats where I mess up, I deleted all my restore points, So I think I'm screwed
first try to reflash cwm from windows http://nexusshacks.com/nexus-s-hacks/how-to-install-clockworkmod-touch-on-rooted-nexus-s-or-nexus-s-4g/ go to mount and storage to mount your usb to your pc and put the rom zip to flash it again !!
my issue is, I can't get the drivers to pick up the phone, I download Adnroid SDK and installed the usb drivers, and even the Samsung drivers, it keeps coming as 1.0 android in device manager, with an uninstalled driver.
Try to install PDANet http://www.junefabrics.com/android/download.php then reboot and try again to flash..
try another pc... maybe it will work
ok I got the phones drives and now it sees it as Android Phone, but now when I try do the recovery while in CMD I cant seem to get the dos to locate where I have the Nexussrecoverytouch folder with the files....This is driving me crazy, because I didn't this before.
try to use Odin, because I'm doing the same mistake that you and I thought my phone was dead. But after having to use nickel as if Odin phone had just come out of factory
You don't use "cmd" when in recovery. When you use cmd what you are actually using is fastboot. And the phone needs to be in fastboot not recovery
Fastboot would be used to flash custom recovery. But you said you already have it on the phone. So that is pointless.
Download a rom on your computer. Boot the phone into cwn. In cwm mount the USB storage while the phone is plugged into the computer. Wait for it show up in windows like a USB thumb drive ( may take up to 30 seconds or so). Drag and drop/copy and past the rom + gapps if needed on there. Unmount storage.
Do a full wipe in cwm. Format/wipe all put sdcard.
Flash rom and reboot.
Accidentally corrupted my phone by flashing an old rom over a new one, so decided to boot into CWM and format system and data folders.
Now I can't figure out how to copy/flash a zip of cyanogenmod onto the phone. Mount USB doesn't work.
I can't find a tutorial anywhere that explains what I should do from here as they all seem to rely on your copying the zip to your internal memory before you proceed.
Tried CWM's sideload option but ADB on my machine is saying no device found. ADB was working before so I have all the drivers etc. set up. I have the zip file of the build, I just don't know how to get it onto the phone.
Any ideas?
No worries, found this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2322220&page=2 and tried installing the drivers download.clockworkmod.[com]/test/UniversalAdbDriverSetup6.msi despite already having working drivers that allowed me to install the whole thing in the first place.
Soon as I installed them cwm let me sideload the rom and it's all groovy.
So, I have/had a N5 on stock 4.4.4 rom, rooted & Xposed installed with TWRP & a lollipop preview on MultiRom.
Was installing the new Lollipop .zip. In an act of hurried stupidity, I wiped my phone, including the internal storage.
Which for some reason also wiped my NANDROID backup. I thought that is not supposed to be wiped even when doing an internal storage wipe, BUT it did.
Now, all i have is TWRP on my phone with no rom installed.
I tried connecting my phone to the pc to see if i can just transfer the rom file onto the internal memory, but nothing shows up when i connect my phone to PC.
after some searching, I came to know via this threadhttp://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/how-to-wipe-internal-storage-install-t2575150 that i can use the ADB sideload to install the rom, using TWRP.
The problem is, when i connect my phone to the PC, the phone doesn't show up in the device manager.
So i cannot install the drivers & android SDK itself.
So, How do i Install a rom onto it?
I have a PC & a MAC, so i can use either of the machines. But i don't have much technical knowledge about stuff, I did all the above modifications with the help of tutorials & guids. so ELI5 please.
Please help!
Thank you.
Jugal.PM said:
So, I have/had a N5 on stock 4.4.4 rom, rooted & Xposed installed with TWRP & a lollipop preview on MultiRom.
Was installing the new Lollipop .zip. In an act of hurried stupidity, I wiped my phone, including the internal storage.
Which for some reason also wiped my NANDROID backup. I thought that is not supposed to be wiped even when doing an internal storage wipe, BUT it did.
Now, all i have is TWRP on my phone with no rom installed.
I tried connecting my phone to the pc to see if i can just transfer the rom file onto the internal memory, but nothing shows up when i connect my phone to PC.
after some searching, I came to know via this threadhttp://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/how-to-wipe-internal-storage-install-t2575150 that i can use the ADB sideload to install the rom, using TWRP.
The problem is, when i connect my phone to the PC, the phone doesn't show up in the device manager.
So i cannot install the drivers & android SDK itself.
So, How do i Install a rom onto it?
I have a PC & a MAC, so i can use either of the machines. But i don't have much technical knowledge about stuff, I did all the above modifications with the help of tutorials & guids. so ELI5 please.
Please help!
Thank you.
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Storage = including sdcard. You didn't need to do that.
If you have the latest TWRP, it has an MTP mode in the mount menu so you can simply copy a ROM.zip to the storage. Try enabling it and see if it shows up in devmgr.
rootSU said:
Storage = including sdcard. You didn't need to do that.
If you have the latest TWRP, it has an MTP mode in the mount menu so you can simply copy a ROM.zip to the storage. Try enabling it and see if it shows up in devmgr.
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Thank you for the reply.
Turns out, the TWRP i have does have the OTG option under the mount option.
I downloaded the zip from an Android Police article. I bought the phone in india & hence had the KTU84Q build of 4.4.4, So i downloaded the file mentiond in that & tried flashing it via OTG. But it is failing to flash the rom.
it shows errors like: failed to mount, Error executing updater binary & then error flashing zip.
So do i need to do anything else before flashing it?
I'm downloading a 4.4.4 rom. will see if that works. Until then, please help if I need to do something else.
Thank you.
EDIT: I flashed CM11 & it worked perfectly. then tried flashing the 5.0 zip again, but that failed. So i guess something's wrong with the zip file.
So i soft bricked my device while trying to install the latest 4.0.1 image. I tried hard wiping the device and wipe cache partion from Stock Recovery but didn't help, still wouldn't boot. I tried installing the image in Stock Recovery from Apply Update From External SD Card, but i got a few errors first "E:Failed to map file Operation aborted", i took a look at the file and it had about 1.67gb extra in "Userdata" i tried deleting that file and reinstalling from external sd card but then i got "E:footer is wrong" "E:signature verification failed" Operation Aborted.
Now i'm trying to install update from ADB (Surprisingly if i have the tab connected and im in Apply Update from ADB the tab is recognized in ADB
Code:
adb devices
serial # sideload and i have updated the drivers) But if i try to flash the recovery file 4.0.1 (provided from the developers site [cant post links]) "i just get waiting for device"
Anyone know how to get around this issue in ADB or properly install from external sd card without getting errors?
(Alternative read to my problem posted in the Nvidia Forums 98% sure i soft bricked my device [cant post links]
Did you ever find a fix? I'm having a similar problem.
Try to use fastboot restore everything.
I can't get it to connect to fastboot. When it loads the boot loader and I try to select fastboot protocol it fails.
Wow this thing sucks! I'm really appreciating my Samsung with Odin right now! So I finally got it to connect to fastboot (don't ask me how, I don't know) unlocked the bootloader and flashed twrp. Now it won't flash supersu in adb sideload so I put it on an SD card (which now magically mounts and works now) and flashed the zip in recovery but it says at the very end of the process while trying to update the partitions that it can't mount the data and system partitions so I'm not sure if I'm actually getting root or not and if so if it's permanent I have no way to tell. I think this is because they have been accidentally wiped. Do you think it is safe to try to flash a rom in recovery from external sd card? And if so which one? I have no idea which version bootloader, kernel, or os is or was on this device...
Update: I think I may start a new thread in the Q&A/Help section so that I can try to get a vast concensus. Thanks!
rom fiend said:
Wow this thing sucks! I'm really appreciating my Samsung with Odin right now! So I finally got it to connect to fastboot (don't ask me how, I don't know) unlocked the bootloader and flashed twrp. Now it won't flash supersu in adb sideload so I put it on an SD card (which now magically mounts and works now) and flashed the zip in recovery but it says at the very end of the process while trying to update the partitions that it can't mount the data and system partitions so I'm not sure if I'm actually getting root or not and if so if it's permanent I have no way to tell. I think this is because they have been accidentally wiped. Do you think it is safe to try to flash a rom in recovery from external sd card? And if so which one? I have no idea which version bootloader, kernel, or os is or was on this device...
Update: I think I may start a new thread in the Q&A/Help section so that I can try to get a vast concensus. Thanks!
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Yes flash a ROM in recovery.
Try Resurrection Remix. It'll resurrect your device
Just tried flashing bliss 6.2 and it won't get past the nvidia screen. It says it flashes successfully but I still get a bunch of "can't mount such and such partition" errors during the flash sequence. Not sure what to do, I can post pics if you guys want.
If you got/can get TWRP on there now, the advanced wipe menu will allow you to check /data for errors. As for /system, wipe it. If you get errors that e2fsck can't fix in your TWRP log, you'll have to put on your data recovery hat on. If it's that important to you, my advice is to adb pull the right file under /dev/block. You won't get a block device, you'll get an exact image of your data partition. Once it's fully pulled (it'll be 10 GB or more on a 16GB device), make a copy of it first thing, and use data recovery tools (testdisk, or if you really know what you're doing, debugfs). If you don't have anything valuable on /data (remember that any backups you took from recovery go in /data/media by default), just format that and be done with it.
Pray that there are no errors after you format everything, because that usually means your NAND is toast.
If your errors are hardware ones, you're royally screwed. Same thing happened to my Nexus 7 2013 model a year ago. Only way to use it is to flash a modified kernel that will use an attached USB drive exclusively as storage. If the NAND is toast inside the boot partiti,try replacing recovery, otherwise, you have to tether boot it (fastboot boot) every time you want to run it, unless you have the guts to try repartitioning the NAND (unlike on PCs, messing up there is an instabrick).
Since the Shield Tablet can use SD cards, you're better off. No USB drive needed.