I just wanted to install the clockmod recovery in order to flash a new rom. (My phone wont download anything I thought the version is too old)
Since my phone was rooted, I just went straight to download the 4 ext recovery and installed it as the video showed on Youtube.
everything was OK until the very last step, which is restarting the phone and get into to boot loader? I forgot to uncheck the fast boot, so repeated to run 4ext and restart the phone many times. after unckecked the the fastboot first time, I successfully got into the boot loader but it didn't allow me to make the recovery there is only one option, (hit the power to something I cant remember) so nothing changed this time. Then I repeated it once more, this time it turns out two option, to update or not, then I hit the update, finally it shows me to hit power to reboot.. everything in my phone is gone now except the rom manager and super user apps.
But everything in sd card is still there, just the phone couldnt recognized the card now....
What can I do now???
you could try taking loading your sd card to a computer, copy everything off and reformat and try. You try to load another ROM. What happens if you start the phone without a SD Card in the phone?
Duffmantp said:
you could try taking loading your sd card to a computer, copy everything off and reformat and try. You try to load another ROM. What happens if you start the phone without a SD Card in the phone?
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You meant to reformat my sdcard then flash the new rom? But I still need to install the 4ext recovery before flashing the new rom, right?
Yes you could do that, you guy try using Clock work mod. Works the same way, minus the touch feature. The only reason i say reformat your sd card is because you said it was not being recognized by the phone.
What happens if you power up your phone with no sd card installed?
Duffmantp said:
Yes you could do that, you guy try using Clock work mod. Works the same way, minus the touch feature. The only reason i say reformat your sd card is because you said it was not being recognized by the phone.
What happens if you power up your phone with no sd card installed?
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Nothing happened when I uninstalled the sdcard, but when I reinstalled it and powered up, it did show preparing the sd card on top...
But all the old apps and contacts are still missing, did I just wipe them all??? Is there anyway to recover them??
If I did wipe everything, how come it doesn't change anything when I open the "removable disk" in my computer
if you are using a Google account. then you just have to resync your account and you will get your contacts back. The apps are gone and will have to be redownloaded unless you made a backup. Like coping the sd card contents to your computer and then putting them back on your card. If you redownload the apps, your data should still be there to use.
dylan5188 said:
I just wanted to install the clockmod recovery in order to flash a new rom. (My phone wont download anything I thought the version is too old)
Since my phone was rooted, I just went straight to download the 4 ext recovery and installed it as the video showed on Youtube.
everything was OK until the very last step, which is restarting the phone and get into to boot loader? I forgot to uncheck the fast boot, so repeated to run 4ext and restart the phone many times. after unckecked the the fastboot first time, I successfully got into the boot loader but it didn't allow me to make the recovery there is only one option, (hit the power to something I cant remember) so nothing changed this time. Then I repeated it once more, this time it turns out two option, to update or not, then I hit the update, finally it shows me to hit power to reboot.. everything in my phone is gone now except the rom manager and super user apps.
But everything in sd card is still there, just the phone couldnt recognized the card now....
What can I do now???
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I'm confused. You wanted CWM so you installed 4ext? Step by step, exactly what did you do?
Duffmantp said:
if you are using a Google account. then you just have to resync your account and you will get your contacts back. The apps are gone and will have to be redownloaded unless you made a backup. Like coping the sd card contents to your computer and then putting them back on your card. If you redownload the apps, your data should still be there to use.
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I'll try that, thanks, but for now, I still want to flash a new rom. How can I do that if I cant install the clockworkmod recovery?
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I'm confused. You wanted CWM so you installed 4ext? Step by step, exactly what did you do?
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Sry being a noob, isn't 4ext a CWM software? I just follow a guy who made a tutorial to install codefireX Builds rom on youtube, he said before flash the rom, I need to root my phone which I already did, and install clockwork recovery mod, which 4ext is good for it.
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Sry being a noob, isn't 4ext a CWM software? I just follow a guy who made a tutorial to install codefireX Builds rom on youtube, he said before flash the rom, I need to root my phone which I already did, and install clockwork recovery mod, which 4ext is good for it.
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1. CWM and 4ext are both recoveries. Though 4ext was based on CWM at some point, they are separate recoveries.
2. What, exactly, step by step, did this video have you do?
3. For future reference, I don't advise using videos. They can be outdated and/or just plain inaccurate, and fewer people view them, so problems aren't pointed out as quickly.
dylan5188 said:
I just wanted to install the clockmod recovery in order to flash a new rom. (My phone wont download anything I thought the version is too old)
Since my phone was rooted, I just went straight to download the 4 ext recovery and installed it as the video showed on Youtube.
everything was OK until the very last step, which is restarting the phone and get into to boot loader? I forgot to uncheck the fast boot, so repeated to run 4ext and restart the phone many times. after unckecked the the fastboot first time, I successfully got into the boot loader but it didn't allow me to make the recovery there is only one option, (hit the power to something I cant remember) so nothing changed this time. Then I repeated it once more, this time it turns out two option, to update or not, then I hit the update, finally it shows me to hit power to reboot.. everything in my phone is gone now except the rom manager and super user apps.
But everything in sd card is still there, just the phone couldnt recognized the card now....
What can I do now???
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Where is the file that you wanted to flashed?? how were you trying to flash CWM? What for? 4ext is a custom recovery as CWM, so you just needed to flash a custom rom from there...
bananagranola said:
1. CWM and 4ext are both recoveries. Though 4ext was based on CWM at some point, they are separate recoveries.
2. What, exactly, step by step, did this video have you do?
3. For future reference, I don't advise using videos. They can be outdated and/or just plain inaccurate, and fewer people view them, so problems aren't pointed out as quickly.
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I just downloaded the 4ext free version and installed it, after that, it told me to enter the hboot (press volume down and power button), which caused my problem. It supposed to have the option to hit the recovery button, but mine just require me to update and reboot... After reboot, everything was wiped...
I just thought video was more convenient.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih5orslc-4M
glevitan said:
Where is the file that you wanted to flashed?? how were you trying to flash CWM? What for? 4ext is a custom recovery as CWM, so you just needed to flash a custom rom from there...
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this is the video I was watching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuFTPMr0v_A
He said I need to root and install recovery before flash the rom, so I was just trying to install the recovery.
Sorry, man, but I'm not going to sit through a video...exactly what did you do and where did you get the files?
dylan5188 said:
I just wanted to install the clockmod recovery in order to flash a new rom. (My phone wont download anything I thought the version is too old)
Since my phone was rooted, I just went straight to download the 4 ext recovery and installed it as the video showed on Youtube.
everything was OK until the very last step, which is restarting the phone and get into to boot loader? I forgot to uncheck the fast boot, so repeated to run 4ext and restart the phone many times. after unckecked the the fastboot first time, I successfully got into the boot loader but it didn't allow me to make the recovery there is only one option, (hit the power to something I cant remember) so nothing changed this time. Then I repeated it once more, this time it turns out two option, to update or not, then I hit the update, finally it shows me to hit power to reboot.. everything in my phone is gone now except the rom manager and super user apps.
But everything in sd card is still there, just the phone couldnt recognized the card now....
What can I do now???
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Hmm.. best bet would be adb fastboot.
Download the 4ext recovery image (not sure where to get the .IMG file but google and you'll find it =})
Then rename it recovery.IMG and put it where your adb.exe is (C:\Windows\System32 if you used Advance Ace Hack Kit)
Then type adb adb flash recovery recovery.IMG and it should flash 4ext
Then put a Rom on the SD Card and flash it using 4EXT =)
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dylan5188 said:
this is the video I was watching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuFTPMr0v_A
He said I need to root and install recovery before flash the rom, so I was just trying to install the recovery.
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Are you S-OFF, do you have recovery installed? CWM or 4ext are just the same to flash a rom as long you have a recovery installed. To flash a partition you need to be whether S-OFF or have the bootloader unlocked....what situation is yours?
Let me tell you something that I share with MissB up there...that video sucks..there are lots of GOOD tutorials on how to flash a rom, but of course you need to read first...if not just ask the guy who did the video. Flashing and hacking is not for the lazy ones.
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i rooted my htc inspire and then i tried to install the custom rom. when i go to rom manager and click on the recovery mode (2nd option) it doesn't work. then i do it manually. i try it once and nothing happens and so i try it again and the screen comes up. I want the second option, the recovery but when i move down with the down volume key, it goes straight to the hboot option then asks if i want to update. Why won't it let me do the recovery option?
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i rooted my htc inspire and then i tried to install the custom rom. when i go to rom manager and click on the recovery mode (2nd option) it doesn't work. then i do it manually. i try it once and nothing happens and so i try it again and the screen comes up. I want the second option, the recovery but when i move down with the down volume key, it goes straight to the hboot option then asks if i want to update. Why won't it let me do the recovery option?
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Make sure you hit "Flash Clockworkmod Recovery" first. It'll take a sec to do it's thing. Put the ROM on your SD, go to Install From SD, find the rom zip and it will automatically take you into recovery mode (I would recommend wiping everything first [dalvik cache/data] - make sure to make a backup tho!) then choose install zip from sd card.
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Sounds like there's still a PD98IMG.zip on your SD card. Mount your SD as a disk drive and see if you find this file on your SD, if you do, get rid of it. Any time there's a PD98IMG.zip on your SD, HBoot will automatically try to install it. If there's not a PD98IMG.zip there, it should allow you to select recovery.
And as constantschange said, make sure you have already flashed clockworkmod recovery through ROM Manager
thanks guys you have really helped me out. I did delete the zip from the sd card and i flashed the clockwork recovery through rom manager. But i ran inrto another problem. Now i can go into recovery but when i select it the screen turns black (the screen also turns black when i tried to boot into recovery mode from rom manager - which is why i have to manually root it) and i cant turn the phone off so i take the battery out. So how do i fix that??
niksha said:
thanks guys you have really helped me out. I did delete the zip from the sd card and i flashed the clockwork recovery through rom manager. But i ran inrto another problem. Now i can go into recovery but when i select it the screen turns black (the screen also turns black when i tried to boot into recovery mode from rom manager - which is why i have to manually root it) and i cant turn the phone off so i take the battery out. So how do i fix that??
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Most likely you rooted your phone with Bubby's 1 click method. If thats the case, look in his thread for the faq. It tells you how to take care of that issue.
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dooyoo222 said:
Most likely you rooted your phone with Bubby's 1 click method. If thats the case, look in his thread for the faq. It tells you how to take care of that issue.
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i did that and i started the other guys method and installed coredroid but then my phone started up went to htc then a animation then back to htc screen, etc. i cant view anything. then i thought of doing a factory reset so i turned off phone, then volume down and power key. i went to factory reset and selected it and the phone is still in black screen and has stayed like that for 20 min... any suggestions??
First of all newbie here. I rooted my phone 4 months ago with the ninja rom and today i wanted to flash the absolution rom. So i donwloaded the room in my sd card and rebooted my phone into the bootloader. It instantly freezes and I need to take out the battery to restart the phone. I remember something about a gold card is that needed again or that was just for rooting purposes?
Rapol said:
First of all newbie here. I rooted my phone 4 months ago with the ninja rom and today i wanted to flash the absolution rom. So i donwloaded the room in my sd card and rebooted my phone into the bootloader. It instantly freezes and I need to take out the battery to restart the phone. I remember something about a gold card is that needed again or that was just for rooting purposes?
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What do you mean by freezing?
I cant go up or down neither press the power button to select something.
Rapol said:
First of all newbie here. I rooted my phone 4 months ago with the ninja rom and today i wanted to flash the absolution rom. So i donwloaded the room in my sd card and rebooted my phone into the bootloader. It instantly freezes and I need to take out the battery to restart the phone. I remember something about a gold card is that needed again or that was just for rooting purposes?
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First off, gold card has nothing to do with anything after the initial root process. It is simply used to downgrade and obtain the exploit to root. After rooting is done, you can delete the goldcard, reformat your sdcard, get a new sdcard, do whatever you like.
Secondly, do you have a PD98IMG image on your sdcard card? can you still boot reboot and get into your ROM? If you can reboot, just reboot and then reboot into recovery via Rom manager. From there just full wipe and install the ROM.
Rapol said:
I cant go up or down neither press the power button to select something.
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You don't flash the rom from bootloader. You only flash from recovery. When you reboot into bootloader it takes a few min as it scans for a pd98 file
I left it 15 mins waiting in the bootloader to see if i could go into recovery, but nothing. But yeah,I forgot I can do the reboot to recovery while pressing the power button. Absolution is running on my phone thx
Glad you got it working. It will be unresponsive for a min or so when you boot into bootloader before you can do anything. But since you have it figured out.
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I was running the Hypernonsense ROM and wanted to try a diff kernel. I flashed the newest faux kernel and now it's stuck at the first boot screen.
I do a battery pull and can voldown + power and get to the bootloader, but the problem there is that it sees the latest 3.32 P58IMG update on my SD card every time and won't let me select any other options. I can flash that over and over, but it's still sticking at the first boot screen, doesn't make it to the ROM's bootup screen.
Delete PG58IMG.zip.
Hang on, isn't Hyper-non-Sense ROM based on ICS? Faux's kernel's are only for Gingerbread based ROMs. Reflash the ROM to restore the 'stock' kernel.
help please
wmoore said:
Delete PG58IMG.zip.
Hang on, isn't Hyper-non-Sense ROM based on ICS? Faux's kernel's are only for Gingerbread based ROMs. Reflash the ROM to restore the 'stock' kernel.
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How do I get to a point where I can delete the IMG file or reflash...it's just "stuck".
take the sd card out,
boot the phone into the boot loader
go to recovery
it will start counting down or whatever looking for the sd card
put the card back in
it will see the sd card
it will continue on into recovery
connect to pc
mount usb in recovery
delete img file
reboot now if you like everything will be back to normal
* i believe this will also work if you put the sd card in after the bootloader is loaded before you go to recovery, the card just needs to be not present while the bootloader is loading. i believe it checks the card when it loads the bootloader, but after the bootloader comes up you can put the card back in then proceed to recovery
dwcasey said:
How do I get to a point where I can delete the IMG file or reflash...it's just "stuck".
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Ok, I was able to have it plugged into my laptop, voldown+power until I heard windows "bing" like a new device connected.
Then I went to a command prompt where I have adb installed and ran
adb devices
To make sure it was connected and it was. Then I ran
adb reboot recovery
And now I'm back to 4EXT recovery...phew, was getting worried. Gonna super wipe and install a new ROM.
I'm sweating bullets now cause I only have a Mac computer
PamelaGirl said:
I'm sweating bullets now cause I only have a Mac computer
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Hi,
What is the problem?
Hello malybru,
Yesterday my device got stuck and I couldn't boot up and I could not access recovery.
I than found these steps that would allow a Mac user access to adb and fastboot.
[GUIDE] Set up ADB and Fastboot on a Mac easily (With Screenshots!)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1917237
Now I am all good again, but I was nervous at first cause it seemed like most of the tools are PC related.
Thank you
Hi all, so I am helping my nephew trying to fix his sensation, but I dont know if I can...he just got it used, and it hadnt been rooted...he helped me root mine way back when....so He said he htc dev the phone all went well, unlocked, s-on and cwm touch, and flashed SU...BUT..he flashed elegancia Pegasus..but after helping him try to fix it i noticed in his phone he is hboot 1.27...so he has s-on still...he did not make a backup...(I asked, he said wasnt sure why)...lol...so now...his phone will go into cwm recovery, but nothing to recover...if he reboots it and does nothing, he is stuck at htc splash screen ....nothing happens...and can alsoget into hboot...bootloader etc etc...just no OS basically...I have tried all kinds of stuff to help him but I just dont know what to do next...can someone please help and see if we cant at least get his phone working again?..."Uncle cant afford to buy him a new phone"...and he isnt getting mine...lol....when i tried to get it in usb mode through recovery to try to get some files to the phone it says something like ums lumpfile??..something like that also...this thing is messed up....please dont give me links with more confusion...lol....I need one on one here folks....Thanks so much,,,,
Hmm, you should try to flahs it back to official firmware, or try to get to enable storage via cmw menu, if that doesnt work, just flash it back
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timmy-kidd said:
Hmm, you should try to flahs it back to official firmware, or try to get to enable storage via cmw menu, if that doesnt work, just flash it back
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You need to flash the boot.img of the ROM that is why the device will not boot into the OS. You can either use fastboot commands or flash 4 EXT Recovery and use the Smart Flash in it. Download this PG58IMG.zip and place it on the root of your SD card, you can put his SD card in your Sensation and download the file to the SD card. Jusgt make sure you move it to the root of the SD card. Then put the SD card in his Sensation and power the device on holding the volume down button down. When Hboot comes up it will detect the file and ask you if you want to flash it, press the volume up button and let it flash. Then take the SD card out of the device and press the power button to reboot the device. Next put the SD card with the ROM in the device and select recovery. When 4 EXT Recovery boots up select tools and then enable Smart Flash and then go back to the main menu and select install from sdcard thenn select choose zip fromsdcard and then select the ROM. Press yes and let the ROM flash and then reboot the device. It will flash the boot.img when it reboots and then reboot again and you should have a working device again.
I dont have a rom on the phone...that I know of...where can i get the stock one at?...really confused here, also i did the above file Pg58img and it said cid incorrect..update fail...where can i get the 4ext recovery?..ty so much!!!!!
I did some searching and found that the 4ext is an apk...cant use that as I have no useable phone....
I fixed it, had to push the correct firmware to phone, and installed ext4 recovery, and it worked fine...thanks for the help
Apparently I just have tons of regular SD cards laying around and none of the micro variety. Ive rooted and put custom roms on 6 phones and kindle fires in the last two weeks so it seems a bit strange that this device would be the only one that would be different, but everything ive been able to read uses a micro card. Any info would be really appreciated. Thanks! (using US wifi board by the way)
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You sure can.
Unlock the boot loader, ( note doing so will wipe all data from your device )
Reboot into android download a ROM and place on internal memory.
Fast boot flash a custom recovery ( see my SIG for twrp recovery for xoom)
Boot into the custom recovery ( see my SIG for my YouTube videos, there is a quick video on how to enter recovery)
Once in twrp recovery select install and the flash your ROM from internal memory.
runandhide05 said:
You sure can.
Unlock the boot loader, ( note doing so will wipe all data from your device )
Reboot into android download a ROM and place on internal memory.
Fast boot flash a custom recovery ( see my SIG for twrp recovery for xoom)
Boot into the custom recovery ( see my SIG for my YouTube videos, there is a quick video on how to enter recovery)
Once in twrp recovery select install and the flash your ROM from internal memory.
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I used The Lord all in One tool to unlock the boot loader. Im pretty sure that worked, device was seen and after it rebooted its like a completely wiped machine.
Now, then I reboot into recovery all i get is the green droid on its side with the warning triangle. I went to the TWRP post in your sig and there are 4 different install methods. I cant get any of them to work, but I havent tried option 2 because I dont have any idea how to use the adb commands. The windows script adb never sees my device although the LAIOT adb script does. I guess Im stuck on how to get TWRP onto this damn thing.
Roseysdaddy said:
I used The Lord all in One tool to unlock the boot loader. Im pretty sure that worked, device was seen and after it rebooted its like a completely wiped machine.
Now, then I reboot into recovery all i get is the green droid on its side with the warning triangle. I went to the TWRP post in your sig and there are 4 different install methods. I cant get any of them to work, but I havent tried option 2 because I dont have any idea how to use the adb commands. The windows script adb never sees my device although the LAIOT adb script does. I guess Im stuck on how to get TWRP onto this damn thing.
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download this zip Install_Scripts_v2.3.3.0.zip - 10.03 MB
and extract
open your cmd ( command prompt )
cd ( change directory to where you extracted the above zip)
now connect your tablet to pc,
from the cmd type
Code:
adb devices
ensure that your pc sees your device, should read out sn#
now click the runme.bat
and follow onscreen instructions.
once the recovery img has been flashed ( you can verify on the xoom's screen.)
from the runme.bat select option 3 to reboot, you MUST reboot straight into recovery ( again see video for video steps here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koxgbdQuzOQ ) and flash rom, if you dont catch the boot process in time it will boot into android, and the custom recovery you just flashed will be replaced by the stock android recovery, and you will need to repeat the whole process. after you flash the rom your custom recovery will stick and you will be good from here on out
Hey, thanks for all your help. I finally got it going, and im really glad I wont have to do all of that stuff again, but your help was greatly appreciated.
Roseysdaddy said:
Hey, thanks for all your help. I finally got it going, and im really glad I wont have to do all of that stuff again, but your help was greatly appreciated.
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Any time