I tried to flash a cm10 rom and i did thought i flashed the boot.img separately as i read you have to but it was stuck booting for at least 25 min so i gave up with that and tried to restore from a backup i made with twrp. I restored from the backup and tried to reboot but nothing happens, it shows the htc screen and then turns black and thats it. I can go into bootloader and recovery but im not sure what to do to get back. Should i try a ruu?
ez4nick said:
I tried to flash a cm10 rom and i did thought i flashed the boot.img separately as i read you have to but it was stuck booting for at least 25 min so i gave up with that and tried to restore from a backup i made with twrp. I restored from the backup and tried to reboot but nothing happens, it shows the htc screen and then turns black and thats it. I can go into bootloader and recovery but im not sure what to do to get back. Should i try a ruu?
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Maybe it was a bad restore? or a bad backup? You could try restoring from your backup again.
Or blaze on and see if you can get CM10 up and running.
Did you wipe /cache/dalvik/system when coming from stock (before installing)? I've seen situations (on other devices), Where I've had to delete the /data partition as well, I'm not sure why it wouldn't boot, but it refused to get past the CM load screen until the /data partition was wiped. If it's a new phone and you don't have too much on the sdcard, this might be worth trying.
Once you have TWRP flashing ROM's shouldn't be too bad, it's just the "fastboot flash boot boot.img" that catches people out usually.
you still have to flash boot.img separate before/after a twrp restore.
Grab the boot.img from a stock rom
Wipe cache/dalvik
Factory reset
Bootloader, fastboot usb, then fastboot flash boot boot.img
Then restore the backup
Thanks everyone for the responses, I was able to get it working after trying a few more times and wiping everything. Not sure why it didnt work earlier but all of a sudden after trying it just worked.
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I have the Nexus S 4G from Sprint and I was trying out the new recovery from TeamWin. Here is what I did:
flashed TeamWin recovery, boot into recovery, made nandroid backup (compressed), reboot into recovery, full wipe, restore nandroid, reboot.
With those steps everything went fine and my phone was running as normal, so I decided to add another step to my testing of the new recovery.
reboot into recovery, full wipe, flash cm7 nightly, boot into freshly installed rom, setup rom as normal. Then I booted back into recovery, full wipe, restore nandroid, reboot.
This time it boots into bootloader saying no boot image or recovery found and this is where the trouble begins. I booted into recovery, and its still teamwin recovery so I try to restore nandroid again and same results. So I go and fastboot flash clockworkmod recovery and boot into it. I try to restore nandroid that I have backed up for clockworkmod and it says can't write boot image. I tried newer version of clockworkmod with no result. I tried fastboot flash back to stock and still boot image won't flash. Tried odin and it hangs at the boot image also.
Anybody have any ideas that I can try, or am I just screwed?
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Hi,
I have unlocked my bootloader(HBOOT 2.00.0002) using htcdev.com official method (still S-ON) and installed clockwork mod recovery v 5.0.2.0. Then I made a back up, I was running the stock rom (2.10.401.8). Everything went Ok.
Afer trying a couple of roms and getting some crashes, I decide to go back to my stock rom. Go to recovery, make the 3 wipes and restore. CWM says everything is ok. But after rebooting, every single time, the HTC white logo displays and them it goes to the clockworkmod screen.
Is there any extra step to restore a back up beeing s-on?
Flash the original kernel? I assume this still needs to be done even with a CWM backup?
SimonTS said:
Flash the original kernel? I assume this still needs to be done even with a CWM backup?
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After several tries it finally worked by flashing the original boot.img. Thanks!
I'm having the same problem again..
I flashed the ICS base rom (found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1859700) and its boot.img through clockworkmod. My desire s is unlocked via htcdev, so its S-On, which means the new radio was not flashed, right?
So I want to go back to my gingerbread stock rom back up ((2.10.401.8). Boot into recovery, wipe dalvik cache, wipe cache and wipe data, then restore the back up. Reboot into fastboot and flash boot.img extracted from the back up. Everything seems to be ok,but after rebooting its stuck at the htc white logo, and I've go through the whole proces 3 times now.
Am I doing something wrong or missing some step?
Thanks a lot!
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I tried updating from Cyanogenmod 10.1 to 10.2 nightly( I understand it was development), and my phone froze on starting apps (cleared cache), and never booted. Next boot it stayed in a boot loop, so I decided to restore from a backup. I wiped my system and proceeded to restore both system and boot (didn't want to override my apps so I unchecked the rest), and then cleared caches again to be safe. Now it is in a bootanimation loop and has been so for 5+ minutes. What could possibly be the cause of this? Is there any way to fix this without having to wipe my apps and data (I have a backup of system, boot, android_secure).
Thanks,
ccrama
Did you flash the boot with fastboot?
leit4444 said:
Did you flash the boot with fastboot?
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No, I updated with the CM updater. It did all the installing/wiping, but got me stuck in the original boot loop. Now, I used a backup to restore my old system files (from 10.1), but it is still in a boot loop D:
EDIT: I'm on TWRP and the backup was a nandroid backup
Give it a try to flash boot with fastboot. Your can extract it from your backup.
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Give it a try to flash boot with fastboot. Your can extract it from your backup.
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I'll try that, lets hope it works :fingers-crossed:
Well I rooted my phone and flahsed some ROMs, I mean I installed rom after rom to check the best for me and they kinda ****ed my phone... I mean I get incoming phone calls and I can answer them only if Im in lock screen so its kinda ****ed up.. I want to go back into being rooted but not with costum roms, I wiped everything completly (only internal memory left unwiped) and now I'm stuck in boot loop.. Can you help me?
If you had taken a nandroid backup of the stock rooted rom, now's the time to restore it. If not, then you will need to download the factory images from Here and flash them via fastboot and then flash a custom recovery and root it again.
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I wiped everything completly (only internal memory left unwiped) and now I'm stuck in boot loop.. Can you help me?
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If you actually wiped everything, it won't boot unless you flashed the stock image/another ROM.
Yes, just flash stock onto it with fastboot. Done. Clean slate.
My phone randomly decided to bootloop today and the only thing I can get to is fastboot.
I flashed the stock 5.0.1 system, boot, recovery, bootloader, cache, and radio (everything except userdata) to it but it still won't boot.
I can't even get into recovery. It doesn't appear to be the powerbutton because I could stay in fastboot mode long enough to flash everything.
You can "fastboot flash", but can you fastboot restore or backup?
LG is going to try and fix the phone free, but I'd like to try and backup my data beforehand.
I'm considering flash userdata, but I'd like to back it up first.
Edit: Started putting my phone back together and somehow seems to be fixed for this boot. I'm scared to reboot, so I'm backing up everything with Titanium Backup right now and transferring it to my PC, then I'm going to do a nandroid backup if possible.