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Soft Bricked My HTC Sensation Please Help

Okay so basically it wont boot up it says HTC quietly Brilliant and just sits there.I would just install a new rom and what not but it acts as if the sd card wasnt there.I click install zip from sd card and the screen changes (to follow through with the command i assume) but then just goes black.I have tried factory wipes and stuff but I read that I need a stock rom.I dont care if I need to re-root I just need a stock rom to set it back to the day I bought it.
EDIT" ok so i realize now that I literally deleted my entire sdcard EVERYTHING gone completly not even directories
WHAT DO I DOOOOOO please help me

mrmug said:
Okay so basically it wont boot up it says HTC quietly Brilliant and just sits there.I would just install a new rom and what not but it acts as if the sd card wasnt there.I click install zip from sd card and the screen changes (to follow through with the command i assume) but then just goes black.I have tried factory wipes and stuff but I read that I need a stock rom.I dont care if I need to re-root I just need a stock rom to set it back to the day I bought it.
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Have you got CWRecovery? If you have, flash any custom ROM then flash any stock
RUU, but before you can do that, you need to SuperCID your device.
If you have CWRecovery and you have made a backup of a previous ROM, just restore it.

Hold volume down and power and factory reset, or as stated before if your rooted go to cwm factory reset or restore previous rom
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well unfortunately I dont have a CW restore because I was trying to wipe the phone completely (to get a fresh start).I noticed that I can fix it with ODIN somehow but it says I need a stock rom.So ur saying grab any of those Pyramid_RUU roms and it will work?

mrmug said:
well unfortunately I dont have a CW restore because I was trying to wipe the phone completely (to get a fresh start).I noticed that I can fix it with ODIN somehow but it says I need a stock rom.So ur saying grab any of those Pyramid_RUU roms and it will work?
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If u supercid with all ones you can flash a ruu.exe and it will bring ur phone back to life.
You don't have cwm or u just don't have a restore Rom?
Are u rooted or s-off?
If so put this file on the root of your sd card:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3XJEHM9A
Boot into recovery and flash and u will.have the newest cwm, than boot into recovery,than factory reset or download a rom of your choice and flash
You should be fine now.
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*Download a the ROM of your choice on your pc
*Go to CMW recovery
*Go to mounts and storage
*Mount USB storage
*Transfer ROM to your SD card
*Select install from SD card
*Enjoy your phone again

Ok well I tried what moshe said and it surprisingly worked cause I could have swore I tried that already.But anyway I just wanted do let you guys know that I have been on a TON of forums and I have never gotten help this quickly I'm extreamly happy and appreciative.People like you make forums like this awesome.Once again you guys are fantastic.
thanks sooo sooo sooo much!!!

I'm glad it worked

No prob....its what we do
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jigners said:
Have you got CWRecovery? If you have, flash any custom ROM then flash any stock
RUU, but before you can do that, you need to SuperCID your device.
If you have CWRecovery and you have made a backup of a previous ROM, just restore it.
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+1.
10 chara.
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moshe22 said:
I'm glad it worked
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Lol I almost bricked mind before and was about to go nutz. Glad u got it workin tho

It went bad. No idea what happened.

Went to flash an updated Rom on my ATT One X. Been using CWM recovery.
Reboot into recovery, wipe/factory reset.
Go to find the file, SDCard is almost completely gone/items deleted.
I load up TWRP, mount the SDCard, nothing, all gone. So I just format the SDCard, copy the new Rom over to the SDCard root.
Reboot into recovery. Try to install, when I select it in TWRP, swipe, it sits, then just reboots the app and goes back to the main screen.
At a loss right now, phone apparently soft bricked. Maybe bad Rom zip?
Rooted/Unlocked of course, been working fine the past week. Only had the phone 1 week.
Ideas? Help..haha...

Easy, except you gonna have to reunlock boot loader.you can't boot into fast boot OEM relock bootloader and run ruu. You could also try using fast boot to flash something.
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Or it might be a case of twrp going bad. Fast boot flash recovery img and boot back into recovery.
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ethantarheels123 said:
Or it might be a case of twrp going bad. Fast boot flash recovery img and boot back into recovery.
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It was clockwork I was using at the time.
Everytime I rebooted into recovery and selected the file to install, more stuff was missing.
I'm wondering if the SDCard got corrupt, recovery went crazy and wiped etc...or bad Rom.
Redownloaded Rom.
Reformatted SDCard for good measure since it was all pretty much gone.
Flashed TWRP back as the recovery.
Installing the Rom now. CleanRom 4.1SE.
But...all my Sh&t is gone off the SDCard. Backups, photos etc...buh-bye forever.
Side note, my camera lens area on the phone has been getting hot. Not sure where the processor is located on this phone, maybe it is just doing that while trying to install Rom and CPU is running a little hot and normal?

techlogik said:
It was clockwork I was using at the time.
Everytime I rebooted into recovery and selected the file to install, more stuff was missing.
I'm wondering if the SDCard got corrupt, recovery went crazy and wiped etc...or bad Rom.
Redownloaded Rom.
Reformatted SDCard.
Flashed TWRP back as the recovery.
Installing the Rom now.
But...all my Sh&t is gone off the SDCard. Backups, photos etc...buh-bye forever.
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Cwm has been known to have instability which is why almost everyone suggests using twrp, which is officially supported.
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ethantarheels123 said:
Cwm has been known to have instability which is why almost everyone suggests using twrp, which is officially supported.
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Ok. I noticed it was nowhere near as complete and slick at say 4EXT recovery on my Inspire and suspected some weirdness was going on.
Back on TWRP now and seems to be installing the new Rom I just downloaded again.
Rebooting now...guess I should start copying my SDCard to my computer

Go to cnet.com and download recuva. Do a deep scam and it will recover most of your stuff.. worked for me.. do it on your computer.
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rpomponio said:
Go to cnet.com and download recuva. Do a deep scam and it will recover most of your stuff.. worked for me.. do it on your computer.
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Ok, cool, will give it a look.
The CleanRom thread blew up, apparently me and bunch of others had this happen using CWM and the latest build....
All working again, now if I can recovery some stuff, like the photos I had, that would be nice.
Appreciate the replies and help.
Edit: recuva didn't find anything useful. SDCard was blasted for good somehow.

techlogik said:
The CleanRom thread blew up, apparently me and bunch of others had this happen using CWM and the latest build....
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scrosler warned very clearly (even before the latest 4.1 build) not to use CWM. Why so many people chose to ignore him, I have no idea. For some reason the SD card wipe issue was much worse on CleanROM 4.1 than previous versions (and other ROMs).
Take note that the SD wipe issue has also happened on TWRP. Safest approach is to backup SD data to your desktop computer before flashing anything. In particular, your Titanium folder and anything not easily replaceable (photos, etc.). Its a bit of an annoyance to have to do this whenever you want to flash something. But until the cause of the issue is found and fixed, this is the safest way.

Not sure why everyone is blaming the Recovery's for loosing pictures and stuff from there internal SD card. Same thing happened to me with my HTC Touch Diamond, We all came to the conclusion it was from so much flashing. I have used both recovery's and lost pictures and My Documents. Just my 2cents worth.

Is there a tutorial somewhere showing how to switch from CWM to TWRP?

bTrizzy said:
Is there a tutorial somewhere showing how to switch from CWM to TWRP?
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Doload goo manager and use it to install recovery. Or you can go to twrp dev thread directions are there.
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Wiped and Formated, Now Cant Flash?

Usually I just wipe data, cache, and dalvik. Today though I did this plus formated data, cache, and system. I never do this but the JellyWiz rom I was flashing said to do so. Since I did this the rom will not flash.
E: Can't open /external_sd_Root/Incubus26jc_JellyWiz_VZW_9_14_12_RLS3.zip (bad)
Installation aborted.
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When I tried restoring the old JB version I was updating from it gave me a MD5 mismatch error. When I tried to restore my original stock root which I have restored from several times without issue it just gave me "Error while restoring /system."
Need help! Stuck in recovery with no idea what to do

Try flashing a firmware through odin: 0
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i9100g user said:
Try flashing a firmware through odin: 0
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Not really sure what this means to be honest. I rooted using odin but what do you mean by flashing a firmware?

josbor11 said:
Not really sure what this means to be honest. I rooted using odin but what do you mean by flashing a firmware?
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Yes, do that again. Boot into Download mode(Batt pull to turn the phone off) then hold vol down+home+power till the prompt comes up.
Flash the root66 image using Odin from there.

Brian Gove said:
Yes, do that again. Boot into Download mode(Batt pull to turn the phone off) then hold vol down+home+power till the prompt comes up.
Flash the root66 image using Odin from there.
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I can just flash 66 as is? Don't have to flash a stock unrooted version first like you do when you brick?
Do you have any idea why this could have happened? I did everything it said on the page and even watched an installation video for the ROM following every step by step instruction. What the hell does formatting system, data, and cache do in recovery? Never had done it before and as soon as I did my phone just messed up. Also, if I flash 66 using odin will my old backups work again?

josbor11 said:
I can just flash 66 as is? Don't have to flash a stock unrooted version first like you do when you brick?
Do you have any idea why this could have happened? I did everything it said on the page and even watched an installation video for the ROM following every step by step instruction. What the hell does formatting system, data, and cache do in recovery? Never had done it before and as soon as I did my phone just messed up. Also, if I flash 66 using odin will my old backups work again?
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I'm guessing there was a bad download and sadly your nandroid might have been corrupted.
Yes if you flash root66 hopefully your backups will work if they aren't corrupted.
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voodoomanx said:
I'm guessing there was a bad download and sadly your nandroid might have been corrupted.
Yes if you flash root66 hopefully your backups will work if they aren't corrupted.
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Cool thanks. Flashing 66 now through odin. My backups have worked fine before (the exact same ones that just failed). Once this is finished and I test out my backups (assuming they work) how should I go about reflashing JellyWiz? Should I format the system, data, cache again or just do the normal wipes? I'm afraid formatting will mess it up again. Is CWM inferior to TWRP? Thinking about using a different recovery after all of this.

josbor11 said:
Cool thanks. Flashing 66 now through odin. My backups have worked fine before (the exact same ones that just failed). Once this is finished and I test out my backups (assuming they work) how should I go about reflashing JellyWiz? Should I format the system, data, cache again or just do the normal wipes? I'm afraid formatting will mess it up again. Is CWM inferior to TWRP? Thinking about using a different recovery after all of this.
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I personally use cwm and to me it's more a matter of preference. I too have had a error restoring backups once and it was after a system wipe. A word of advice, because this saved me, keep a ROM on your SD card at all times to be able to just flash in an emergency.
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kintwofan said:
I personally use cwm and to me it's more a matter of preference. I too have had a error restoring backups once and it was after a system wipe. A word of advice, because this saved me, keep a ROM on your SD card at all times to be able to just flash in an emergency.
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A rom of Root 66?

Is it cwm flashable? I keep synergy as an emergency backup.
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josbor11 said:
A rom of Root 66?
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dont listen to him...flash root66 thru odin as already mentioned and go from there...use my guide if need be.

droidstyle said:
dont listen to him...flash root66 thru odin as already mentioned and go from there...use my guide if need be.
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I think you missed my point, at this point he needs Odin. However, if you keep a zip on your SD card then if your backups gasp like his situation he can just fish that zip. It was simply some advice for future reference, were not all next to a computer ask the time. For people like me that just get an urge to flash it helps to have backups like this.
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No one is addressing the format question originally asked. Why is formatting being requested on yhe newer jb rom's, and what (in detail) does it do?
Many posts that people are soft bricking thier devices because of formatting instead of just wiping.
What's the deal, want some real answers here, and I think many others do too.
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annoyingduck said:
No one is addressing the format question originally asked. Why is formatting being requested on yhe newer jb rom's, and what (in detail) does it do?
Many posts that people are soft bricking thier devices because of formatting instead of just wiping.
What's the deal, want some real answers here, and I think many others do too.
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in order to flash jellywiz i had to do the following or else i bootlooped:
wipe data/factory reset
wipe dalvik cache
format system
flash rom
booted up flawless.
i also used this methid for paranoid android...i will probably update my guide with this. unfortunately i cant give any info on what formatting system is actually doing. never had to do this before??

annoyingduck said:
No one is addressing the format question originally asked. Why is formatting being requested on yhe newer jb rom's, and what (in detail) does it do?
Many posts that people are soft bricking thier devices because of formatting instead of just wiping.
What's the deal, want some real answers here, and I think many others do too.
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I don't know why they are suggesting it but it doesn't do anything beyond the normal factory reset and then the zip formatting system itself.
Its just the manual way of doing what a clean flash does.

Why are people having issues restoring nandroids after doing this? Apparently bootlooping occurs after format/jb install/restore previous nandroid.
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Brian Gove said:
I don't know why they are suggesting it but it doesn't do anything beyond the normal factory reset and then the zip formatting system itself.
Its just the manual way of doing what a clean flash does.
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if im not mistaken formatting the system deletes the rom/kernel itself...normal factory reset from cwm recovery only deletes rom data/cache.
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annoyingduck said:
Why are people having issues restoring nandroids after doing this? Apparently bootlooping occurs after format/jb install/restore previous nandroid.
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edit* good question!

droidstyle said:
if im not mistaken formatting the system deletes the rom/kernel itself...normal factory reset from cwm recovery only deletes rom data/cache.
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Yeah you're right but the zip of the ROM 99% of the time formats system also.

Brian Gove said:
Yeah you're right but the zip of the ROM 99% of the time formats system also.
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i wonder why i had to format system to get the latest jellywiz rom to not hang on galaxy s splash screen? it makes no sense.

Also, how does a format not erase your nandroids? It should also wipe titanium backups if they are not on your external. Am I wrong on that? Could formatting lose certain bits of info that the nandroid may not have partitioned, and that's why the restores are not working correctly?
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Add on: good info guys
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Can't reboot to recovery..please help!

Alright this might sound dumb but i am a new noob at this. Anyway, i flashed AOKP rom build 4 through CWM recovery and was rockin that for a lil. Then decided to run ViperXL which i flashed through TWR because it couldn't flash through CWM? It requried me to install TWR and Aroma. Now when i tried to go reflash AOKP, something went wrong. After i factory reseted, wiped caches and reflashed the ROM, my phone rebooted fine. BUT, the "upgrading" message kept coming on a few more times after that then it would reboot everytime. My phone kep crashing after this. I couldnt do anything with the phone after this. So i rebooted to bootloader and tried to go on recovery through there to try and re-flash AOKP but i couldnt reboot to recovery, it would just stay on the "HTC quietly brilliant" screen and do nothing. So i rebooted again to bootloader and factory reseted and it rebooted to homescreen and ViperXL was still flashed. Im pretty confused on what happened and i need help. My phone is working fine with ViperXL but i lost everything on my SD card, all my backups and roms. Can someone tell me what is going on? The story sounds confusing but if you can understand please help.

You'll need to flash a new recovery image through adb. I would recommend using twrp. I was a big fan of cwm until I got my hox. Twrp is much more stable.
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I don't trust one click methods myself. But here is a link to a twrp one click.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1777773
If you need help with manual adb flashing? Just let me know.
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subarudroid said:
You'll need to flash a new recovery image through adb. I would recommend using twrp. I was a big fan of cwm until I got my hox. Twrp is much more stable.
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I don't trust one click methods myself. But here is a link to a twrp one click.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1777773
If you need help with manual adb flashing? Just let me know.
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thank you, just did that and now twrp is running well. but yea cwm was good for me, until i started using twrp.

CWM was not properly ported to the OneXL. People kept having their sd cards wiped for no reason. Stick with twrp.. it's awesome. And I'm not sure what you did the factory reset in. If you facto reset in twrp you'll be fine as it doesn't touch the sd card. If you facto reset in bootloader it completely wipes your phone and sd card. Don't do that lol.
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Ya what titan said.
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Resloved.. mods plzz delete

Hello everyone, i have a huge problem. First off my htc is rooted and the recovery im using is CWM and i have been having problem restoing my backup roms that include CM10 and the stock ROM. my first problem arose while trying to restore my stock Rom. i booted into recovery then i performed a wipe, followed by restoring the rom. When the phone booted up, it would sit at the splash screen for 3 minutes then get stuck at a dark screen for about 10 minutes, then it would do it over and over stuck in a boot loop. I then decided to go back to CM10. That rom restored perfectly and everything was fine. However i really wanted a sense rom again, so i flashed TeamVenom's ViperOneS Rom 1.2.0, again a wipe was done prior to the flash. btw i had to manually flash the boot.img using fastboot. ViperOneS worked fine, but i realised that CM10 was just better overall. So i restored CM10, but this time it would get stuck at the CM10 boot animation. Then i went back to viperOneS. SO then i tried to see if i could restore cm10 again. When i went into recovery, it said cant mount /sd card. so i went to this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
and followed the instructions. i then decided to try to flash cm9 and now im ****ed cause i have no backups due to the loss of backups and cm9 is stuck on a whiute screen after the boot animation. someone plzz help!!!!!
Update: i still have no access to sd card. tried flashing stock recovery, didnt work. and somehow, i have no OS, according to TWR. Some one help with these issues.

ibeApathetic said:
Hello everyone, i have a huge problem. First off my htc is rooted and the recovery im using is CWM and i have been having problem restoing my backup roms that include CM10 and the stock ROM. my first problem arose while trying to restore my stock Rom. i booted into recovery then i performed a wipe, followed by restoring the rom. When the phone booted up, it would sit at the splash screen for 3 minutes then get stuck at a dark screen for about 10 minutes, then it would do it over and over stuck in a boot loop. I then decided to go back to CM10. That rom restored perfectly and everything was fine. However i really wanted a sense rom again, so i flashed TeamVenom's ViperOneS Rom 1.2.0, again a wipe was done prior to the flash. btw i had to manually flash the boot.img using fastboot. ViperOneS worked fine, but i realised that CM10 was just better overall. So i restored CM10, but this time it would get stuck at the CM10 boot animation. Then i went back to viperOneS. SO then i tried to see if i could restore cm10 again. When i went into recovery, it said cant mount /sd card. so i went to this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
and followed the instructions. i then decided to try to flash cm9 and now im ****ed cause i have no backups due to the loss of backups and cm9 is stuck on a whiute screen after the boot animation. someone plzz help!!!!!
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Ya each time it didn't work the boot.img needed flashing even for a backup so ya you need to fastboot the boot.img for it to work.

any boot.img? or should i extract the boot.img from the rom .zip file

ibeApathetic said:
any boot.img? or should i extract the boot.img from the rom .zip file
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From the rom zip.

okay,but im sure ive done that already. you use fastboot and use the command: fastboot boot boot.img right?

ibeApathetic said:
okay,but im sure ive done that already. you use fastboot and use the command: fastboot boot boot.img right?
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I think that right but not 100% sure so better check that or you could use the All-In-One Toolkit.

ok, i just flashed the boot.img, hopefully this works. and this will also solve my unable to mount sd card problem?

no its not working. its still stuck on the white screen when booting up. any other suggestions??

ibeApathetic said:
no its not working. its still stuck on the white screen when booting up. any other suggestions??
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Try CM10 again, 9 is really old.

Darknites said:
Try CM10 again, 9 is really old.
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how do i flash the ROM i cant boot up the phone and my sd card wont mount...

ibeApathetic said:
how do i flash the ROM i cant boot up the phone and my sd card wont mount...
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Flash TWRP recovery to mount the sd card.

ill see what happens

it wont mount.....

ibeApathetic said:
it wont mount.....
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You need too do the sd fix then.

in the sd fix thread it says to flash the stock recovery. how do i do tht?

ibeApathetic said:
in the sd fix thread it says to flash the stock recovery. how do i do tht?
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Same way as you did with the other recoverys but don't flash CWM but TWRP after.

i dont have a stock recovery file tho

ibeApathetic said:
i dont have a stock recovery file tho
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Try this one here or this one.

Dude the code is fastboot flash boot boot.img. You are missing the flash command!
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If you don't care of your backups Ny more then just format phone on the pc. Use mount to transfer the rom and remember to flash boot.
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fatpanda0 said:
Dude the code is fastboot flash boot boot.img. You are missing the flash command!
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If you don't care of your backups Ny more then just format phone on the pc. Use mount to transfer the rom and remember to flash boot.
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i didn'y use that command. i double checked and used fastboot flash boot boot.img instead.