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[q] please please please help** i can only go as far as the bootloader

PLEASE PLEASE HELP i tried unlocking and rooting my nexus s, but i epic failed... now i can only access the bootloader... so i accessed it... unlocked it.. then tried to flash the clockworkmod recovery.. it said OKAY but then just gets stuck at the google screen with an unlocked lock.. i can't even access my phone.. i can only access the bootloader and im freaking out please help !

I don't like 3.0.2.4 so download http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988686 corresponding to your Nexus S model
rename it to recovery.img [assure that you have extensions shown otherwise it'll be recovery.img.img]
put it in /sdk/tools/
set your phone in bootloader mode
cd <wherever your SDK is>
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
go into recovery

OH MY GOSH, KAY NOW I HAVE CLOCKWORK MOD but i can't access my internal SD card.. and it still won't fully boot.. again it just gets stuck at the google bootscreen.. but atleast i have clockwork mod.. so whats next ? :O

so i got clockwork recovery, and as soon as i get into it.. it gives me a bunch of errors about not being able to mount cache and find it and find the recovery.log (about 8 or 9 lines of code).. but the recovery still works.. and i found a stock zip from google search.. now i tried to flash it (by first mounting my storage.. then putting the zip on my storage).. then tryed to a restore from the recovery.. it checks MD5 sums.. then it gives me a lot more error codes... could you please help ?

Well, to begin with, you should specify your phone model and provider because each build needs different ROM. And you shouldn't flash any random ROM from google. Instead try to lookup for the correct stock ROM in the Nexus S Development forum.

well im with Rogers Wireless (From Canada) and my phone model is the GT-I9020 and the problem im pretty much getting now is that it can't find boot and cache partitions...
EDIT** i can access adb aswell now

Have you tried downloading and flashing a custom rom from the nexus s android development section? (CM7 for instance) You mentioned previously that you put a stock zip to your internal storage but ended up restoring instead? Try downloading a custom rom, mount USB drive, copy the rom to the sdcard, unmount USB drive, wipe factory, wipe cache, advanced>wipe dalvik, choose zip to install, install the custom rom. Ideally that should get you past the Google logo and into a working build.
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

the thing is.. it can't even restore the original zip.. like the partitions can't be found.. and it seems like its a brick now plus the phone isnt rooted... i was trying to root it.. then this whole thing came up...

When you say restoring from original zip, are you talking about a nandroid backup? Or a stock rom you downloaded? In any case, I would still recommend doing what I mentioned earlier. And no, your phone is not bricked at all.
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

it's a nandroid backup ( i took the img. bundle in the folder thats labeled with the date *ie. 2010-12-22.21.06.07*).. i tried installing this as a backup.. and it wouldn;t work.. i got *checking md5 sum.. then 6 or 7 lines of code all seeming to relate to not being able to mount the cache partition and not being able to find recovery.log in the /cache... so i think my cache-ext is screwed up.. I tried using the sdpart script in adb.. and it didnt help matters... so im not sure what to do now

[SOLVED] Help HTC Desire S - have I bricked it

I have a desire S, Which is S-Off through revoltionary and rooted! But i don't have a nandroid backup and my phone will no longer boot up. what can i do? I've tried to do a factory reset in recovery mode but that doesnt work.
How can i flash a stock rom on it to get it back to normal, i think its bricked... can someone help me?

1st of all i suggest you download a custom rom from the development section here.
then flash that via recovery. then hopefully your phone will load up into the new rom.
after you confirm this to me i will help you further to get back to stock rom

Thanks for the reply.
I did what you said, i tried to install a custom rom in recovery but it ends up aborting after a while, i dont think i can get any rom to work now, its not looking good

Fingers crossed
See this thread
Attempt the commands that are shown within the first #1 of it and you should be able to determine whether or not you have a fried eMMC chip.
See links in my signature for adb & fastboot drivers and the thread you need to see.

What recovery are you using? and what rom are you trying to flash?
I suggest downloading this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048203
Once you have done this follow these steps below to the letter
1. Boot into recovery
2. Format System (not wipe option but format option !!!)
3. Format Data
4. Format Cache
5. Wipe Data/Factory reset (1st option in wipe/format menu)
6. Wipe Dalvik Cache
7. Now install zip from sd card and flash the rom
8. Reboot

It was the Saga LBC mod that i was trying to install but it didn't work, nothing works that i try. i've formatted my sd card nom. basicly ive screwed everything up i've got no back ups of any rom and i cant get anything working

pumpernickel77 said:
It was the Aage LBC mod that i was trying to install but it didn't work, nothing works that i try. i've formatted my sd card nom. basicly ive screwed everything up i've got no back ups of any rom and i cant get anything working
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can you give me a step by step explanation of what you are doing and what messages/error messages you are getting at each stage?
I will try to help you the best i can. But i need to try to understand what the main issue is 1st. Don't worry just yet!

pumpernickel77 said:
It was the Saga LBC mod that i was trying to install but it didn't work, nothing works that i try. i've formatted my sd card nom. basicly ive screwed everything up i've got no back ups of any rom and i cant get anything working
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You need to give specifics and preferably screen pictures....(if possible) did you try the commands from the thread that I posted above, or what happens when you attempted the commands layed out by Eclipse_Driod above?
The more you tell us, the more we have to work with!?

I'm sorry but I dont know how to do the command thing, i'm a newbie when it comed to that I've basicly got a desire s that wont boot up and a SD card with nothing on, i think i need to somehow put a recovery image on my phone before i can install a rom

Is there any way i can install a recovery image to the sd card from the pc, that will then allow me to install a rom?

pumpernickel77 said:
I'm sorry but I dont know how to do the command thing, i'm a neebie when it comed to that I've basicly got a desire s that wont boot up and a SD card with nothing on, i think i need to somehow put a recovery image on my phone before i can install a rom
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I believe that you already have a fully working recovery on your device, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to flash LBC ROM in the first place....so I suspect that the problem is else where....(possibly damaged eMMC chip) but unless you help us, by running the commands and testing this we are un-able to confirm this for you.
You can find the adb and fastboot commands as a link in my signature simply download and then put these on you PC and run the commands that were in the thread I posted earlier (thats also in my sig Fried eMMC?)
Although I also believe that if you're able to get to S-OFF then you're able to enter the commands from your PC that will enable you to flash a recovery onto your device.
See this post where I've previously instructed some one else how to do just this.
Any questions then just and try to take screen captures or cut 'n' pastes of all errors encountered.
Good luck

pumpernickel77 said:
I'm sorry but I dont know how to do the command thing, i'm a neebie when it comed to that I've basicly got a desire s that wont boot up and a SD card with nothing on, i think i need to somehow put a recovery image on my phone before i can install a rom
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does it not even boot into recovery?
you need to hold down the volume down button and keep it held down while you power on the device. This will make it boot into recovery mode.
But before you can do that i would advise you take the sd card out of the phone, connect it to your computer with a card reader and copy over the lbc mod rom.zip file straight onto the card, then put it back into the phone.
then turn the phone off and boot into recover as mentioned above and select install rom from sd card and select the zip file you transferred over.
after it has installed reboot phone by selecting the "reboot" option in the recovery mode.
all should now be well.
report back how this goes
and don't forget to hit that thanks button

Thanks for your patience.. I'm going to try and explain in full what i've done
I got S-off on my Desire S using "Revoluntionary" (after watching how to do it on YouTube) and after domwloading ClockWorkMod from market place I sucessfully installed Saga LBC ver 5.3. Everything was fine i was very pleased. I had a back up of the old stock ROM saved on my SD card which i did through Clockworkmod too.
Then this morning I got a update message from clockworkmod saying ver6.0 was available to download so i did. My phone never turned back on again I could get into recovery mode but nothing would work (wipe data, factory reset, Even tryin to install the old backed up rom didn;t work) it just kept freezing.
So i took my sd card out and plugged it into the pc to try to look for anothr rom to try out, thats when i ended up formattig the SD card (god knows why) So now ive got no backup, no clockworkmod, no nothing on my SD card...Am I screwed??

Thanks for your patience.. I'm going to try and explain in full what i've done
I got S-off on my Desire S using "Revoluntionary" (after watching how to do it on YouTube) and after domwloading ClockWorkMod from market place I sucessfully installed Saga LBC ver 5.3. Everything was fine i was very pleased. I had a back up of the old stock ROM saved on my SD card which i did through Clockworkmod too.
Then this morning I got a update message from clockworkmod saying ver6.0 was available to download so i did. My phone never turned back on again I could get into recovery mode but nothing would work (wipe data, factory reset, Even tryin to install the old backed up rom didn;t work) it just kept freezing.
So i took my sd card out and plugged it into the pc to try to look for anothr rom to try out, thats when i ended up formattig the SD card (god knows why) So now ive got no backup, no clockworkmod, no nothing on my SD card...Am I screwed??

from what you have told me u still have clockwordmod recovery as it is on the phone itself. not the sd card. So you are ok there. What i need you to do next it to see if you are able to boot into recovery?
if you can then try again to format data, system and cache.
then try installing a rom from your sd card.
if it is still freezing while trying to perform a format then look back at bens previous posts about using adb through your pc to find out if your emmc chip is damaged

I can boot into recovery no probs there, but when i format data, system and cache it goes so far and then aborts
Ive just tried to install the LBC rom again i renames it PG88IMG ind it asked me to install so i did. It says 'update in progress' and the bar on the right starts to fill up but it stops near the top and eventually aborts

right, the only thing i can think of to try next is following the same method you said you followed to s-off through revolutionary.
it will say you are already s-off or something but click proceed anyway. and make sure from there that you type "y" when it asks if you want it to install clockworkmod recovery. as this will reinstall a fresh recovery image for you.
this is the only thing i can think of.
let me know how it goes

did you look at my post#11 above...
The second half of it contains instructions on how you can flash a new recovery image......from your PC.

Ive just tried to do the s-off again the way i did before but i can only go as far as the part when i connect my phone and open the revolutionary programme and it doesn't detect my phone

Ok, it looks like the last option to try is flashing a new recovery image manually.
For this you will need to download and install adb. which can be found here
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/what-is-adb-and-how-to-install-it-android/
along with instructions of how to set it up and use it.
after you have done this you will need to download this
http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-saga.img
which is the latest clockworkmod recovery for your phone. and rename it to recovery.img
then copy the recovery image to a convenient location on your computer, preferably with a short path. We will be placing it on the C Drive directly (not in any folder) and using that in the next steps.
Power your device off and reboot it in fastboot mode. (holding volume down whilst pressing power on button) then select "fastboot" from the list of options you get.
Connect your device to your computer via USB and wait till you see ‘fastboot USB’ on the screen.
Launch Command Prompt and type the following command:
fastboot flash recovery c:\recovery.img
Wait for the process to finish and reboot your device once it’s done.

[Q] CWM Data Wipe/Factory Reset gets stuck on formatting SD card

I waited 2 nights to register so I could wade through fixes and tips and have seem to come up with little to nothing. I have CWM flashed on my phone through ROM Manager with the recovery file replaced in the system/bin and the update zip in the root of the SD card.
When I access CWM and click on Wipe Data/Factory reset it breezes through the first few steps pretty quickly and then gives me this error:
E: format_volume: rfs format failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
It continues past this and then goes on to "formatting sd_card" and then just freezes. I left it on for 30mins and there was absolutely no progress. I've tried battery pulls and re-attempting the wipe with the same result. Have re-flashed CWM, ODIN'ed back to stock, etc etc and still run into the same snag. I'm beyond frustrated because since it never gets past this part I can't install the custom ROM I'm eying and it wipes enough data to have to ODIN every single time and re-root all over again. Just to be clear this error is NOT popping up on bootup but only during Data Wipe/Factory Reset and the only way out of the freeze is to do a battery pull which results in a soft brick.
If it helps any here is what I did prior to ever having run into this problem.
Rooted with SuperOneClick V.2.3.3
Installed ROM Manager
Installed RootBrowser Lite
Downloaded recovery and update zip
Placed both into root of SD card
Used RootBrowser Lite to move recovery file into system/bin
Booted into recovery mode
Attempted to Wipe Data/Factory Reset
Ran into snag on first try and every try thereafter
Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong, how to fix it or a workaround?
If possible a very detailed walk through would be appreciated as this is my first ROM flashing. Your help is greatly appreciated!

MidniteKitten said:
I waited 2 nights to register so I could wade through fixes and tips and have seem to come up with little to nothing. I have CWM flashed on my phone through ROM Manager with the recovery file replaced in the system/bin and the update zip in the root of the SD card.
When I access CWM and click on Wipe Data/Factory reset it breezes through the first few steps pretty quickly and then gives me this error:
E: format_volume: rfs format failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
It continues past this and then goes on to "formatting sd_card" and then just freezes. I left it on for 30mins and there was absolutely no progress. I've tried battery pulls and re-attempting the wipe with the same result. Have re-flashed CWM, ODIN'ed back to stock, etc etc and still run into the same snag. I'm beyond frustrated because since it never gets past this part I can't install the custom ROM I'm eying and it wipes enough data to have to ODIN every single time and re-root all over again. Just to be clear this error is NOT popping up on bootup but only during Data Wipe/Factory Reset and the only way out of the freeze is to do a battery pull which results in a soft brick.
If it helps any here is what I did prior to ever having run into this problem.
Rooted with SuperOneClick V.2.3.3
Installed ROM Manager
Installed RootBrowser Lite
Downloaded recovery and update zip
Placed both into root of SD card
Used RootBrowser Lite to move recovery file into system/bin
Booted into recovery mode
Attempted to Wipe Data/Factory Reset
Ran into snag on first try and every try thereafter
Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong, how to fix it or a workaround?
If possible a very detailed walk through would be appreciated as this is my first ROM flashing. Your help is greatly appreciated!
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Did you hit apply update.zip after booting into recovery the first time I don't see that listed in your steps
Sent from my Team Nightmare Amaze4G with Sense 4.0

azcledel said:
Did you hit apply update.zip after booting into recovery the first time I don't see that listed in your steps
Sent from my Team Nightmare Amaze4G with Sense 4.0
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No, actually, I didn't. I haven't seen a guide point it out or a video that went through this step. Lemme' give this a shot and see if that helps with the problem I'm running into Thanks for the quick response, hoping this is what I was missing!

azcledel said:
Did you hit apply update.zip after booting into recovery the first time I don't see that listed in your steps
Sent from my Team Nightmare Amaze4G with Sense 4.0
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Unfortunately this didn't seem to fix my problem. Still encountering:
E:format_volume: make_ext4fs failed on /dev/block/mmblk0p2
Formatting /sdcard/ .android_secure...
And frozen again -_- It's bad enough that the sidekick sucks as stock (took me this long to finally want to do something about it) and that it's being difficult and resisting change.

Hmmm was your phone stock before you did anything to it? Or did you get the phone used or something?
My advice would be Odin to stock and start over try redownloading the recovery.zip to make sure it wasn't a bad download. And try again go slow and tripple check to make sure your following the instructions word for word. I've messed them up a few times cuz I got cocky but I got everything down from doing it so much and checking my work. The first time I rooted my sk4g I did it with adb not superoneclick and it was my first android phone it took me 2 hours of reading and following steps perfectly.
Sent from my Team Nightmare Amaze4G with Sense 4.0

go back to stock with odin,
Then root http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1100513
Flash cwm http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1124453
And them flash this kernel http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1663622 (dont freak out with the first boot with this kernel let it convert the partitions to ext4 and a loud voice will tell you what is going on)
Ive had that problem from flashing recovery from rom manager, and when it comes up i just return to stock. try to save and remove the update.zip from the sd card and see if you can get into recovery again and just flash the kernel(if cwm come up)

ultraprimeomega said:
go back to stock with odin,
Then root http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1100513
Flash cwm http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1124453
And them flash this kernel http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1663622 (dont freak out with the first boot with this kernel let it convert the partitions to ext4 and a loud voice will tell you what is going on)
Ive had that problem from flashing recovery from rom manager, and when it comes up i just return to stock. try to save and remove the update.zip from the sd card and see if you can get into recovery again and just flash the kernel(if cwm come up)
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You are my saviour! I seriously love you! This worked PERFECTLY! I'm now running Glorious Overdos v3.3 and loving every single second of it. Because of you my phone is no longer a nightmare. You deserve a thanks

[Q] Stuck in recovery restart limbo

Hello all,
Last night I was trying to install the latest Gummy release on my Verizon Galaxy S3. This was the first time I have tried to flash a rom on this phone. It failed, and I rebooted my phone, and now it will only boot into the clockwork recovery.
I thought it may have been damaged as i was transferring the file to the device. I had an SD card in my droid X, So I put it in my Galaxy and formatted it with clockwork. Then I transferred the gummy release (that I also re-downloaded) from my computer to the SD card via a memory card reader. I put it in my Galaxy and tried to install the release, and it gave me a different error
Code:
E: Can't Open /external_sd/Gummy-2.1-01-09-14-NIGHTLY-d2vzw.zip
(bad)
Installation aborted.
Edit: Tried a few other roms and they had the same issue, but Cyanogen Mod 10.2 worked. Anybody have any guesses why?
Edit2: Further developments, Trying to do the latest nightly fir the CM yields the same issue that Gummy's release gave me initially. It reports as follows:
Code:
E: Error in /external_sd/cm-11-20140110NIGHTLY-d2vzw.zip
(Status 7)
Installation aborted
Is there possibly a firmware issue at play?

Did u unlocked ur recovery. And if ur trying to flash a KITKAT rom u need the latest clockwork recovery

I'm having this exact issue except I currently have TWRP 2.6.3. I wiped data, cache and internal and it actually booted the below ROM (the first boot) but once I got everything setup and rebooted the device it will not boot beyond recovery. It hangs on the Samsung boot logo. I've tried to restore to a 4.1.2 ROM as well as install 4.3 and 4.1.2 again multiple times but they will not boot. Any direction would be appreciated.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2601536

twistedillutions said:
Did u unlocked ur recovery. And if ur trying to flash a KITKAT rom u need the latest clockwork recovery
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Sorry, forgot to mention, I did unlock with EZunlock. Would the clockwork on the play store be the latest one, or is there another place with more up to date versions?
Cappurnikus said:
I'm having this exact issue except I currently have TWRP 2.6.3. I wiped data, cache and internal and it actually booted the below ROM (the first boot) but once I got everything setup and rebooted the device it will not boot beyond recovery. It hangs on the Samsung boot logo. I've tried to restore to a 4.1.2 ROM as well as install 4.3 and 4.1.2 again multiple times but they will not boot. Any direction would be appreciated.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2601536
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Do you get the same error on install that I'm getting, ro are the installs finishing, but not booting?

Try goo manager or ez-recovery to install the latest recovery
right now i can think of
factory reset format data. Make sure u backup ur internal
Wen changing from rom to rom is a good thing to do a clean install
get the right gapps.
The 1st boot always takes time at least on me.
Sorry i cant think of more helpful things.. Been drinking

Looks like my recovery just needed an update. Thanks everyone.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

Confirmed also an old recovery for me as well. Thank you very much!

I don't know what my buddy did...

Wow this thing sucks! I'm really appreciating my Samsung with Odin right now! So, I have years of experience rooting and flashing Samsung phones with minimal adb experience. My buddy from work asks me if I can try to fix his shield tab that he F'd up trying to flash a rom on. Come to find out he never unlocked the bootloader or flashed a recovery or rooted the dang thing, just tried to flash the rom over stock like a numbskull. We thought it was dead forever because the only thing that would mount or connect in adb was the side load through the stock recovery. 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 even though it says "success" at the top after flashing. 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, I'm not familiar with any of the roms for it, and I'm not sure what prerequisites there may be for some of them....
Thanks for the help!

rom fiend said:
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 even though it says "success" at the top after flashing. 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?
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I had the same Problem with the partitions you discribed, have tried wipe them, change the file format and change it back?
I flashed a lot of Roms from the external SD Card and it worked every time.
I think you should go with Bliss Rom. ( Just try Lollipop and Marshmallow)

OverBit said:
I had the same Problem with the partitions you discribed, have tried wipe them, change the file format and change it back?
I flashed a lot of Roms from the external SD Card and it worked every time.
I think you should go with Bliss Rom. ( Just try Lollipop and Marshmallow)
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I can't wipe them because they won't mount. It's as if the partitions were erased completely. Not like the partitions were wiped, but like they don't exist at all anymore...
What do you mean by changing the file format? Format of what?

rom fiend said:
What do you mean by changing the file format? Format of what?
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TWRP, wipe ,Advanced wipe
If that doesn't work just try installing a rom, boot it
If that doesn't work try this

Tried all recovery options and tried flashing bliss 6.2 with no luck. It says that it flashes successfully but also shows some errors about not being able to mount the system and data partitions. Then when I try to reboot it gets stuck at the nvidia logo (this is the closest that I've gotten to booting a rom). I can provide pictures if you want. I'm going to try the steps that you linked to as soon as the files download.