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Hey!
First let me say that I know all about flashing SGS and SGS2. Im a proud owner of SGS1 from day 1.
Last week I decided to finally flash my brothers i9023 so I flashed stock 4.0.3 with stock recovery. Then we wanted to flash some XDA stuff and I don't understand these guides...
I found one guide where you get superuser access with one click and usb cable, I did that, then I flashed CWM through Rom manager and flashed 4.0.4 from evilisto (v1.1) and it worked. Now I'm trying to flash some others, like nuhetri reloaded or pixel rom and I'm always getting stuck at boot animation. It just keeps "working" and nothing happens for 5+ minutes.
What am I doing wrong? Please help!
Best Regards
Luka
(in general)in recovery wipe data factory reset, format cache, davlik cache, system, boot. then flash new rom.
with nuhetri i think there is a bug where your not supposed to wipe data coming from another rom only davlik cache and cache then flash nuhetri
sean1984 said:
(in general)in recovery wipe data factory reset, format cache, davlik cache, system, boot. then flash new rom.
with nuhetri i think there is a bug where your not supposed to wipe data coming from another rom only davlik cache and cache then flash nuhetri
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Hey and thanks for such quick reply!
I did all these now, rebooted to recovery (from CWM) and flashed this Fully Touched:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1411734
Its stuck at boot image for 5 minutes now.
What now?
your using updated version of cwm? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22044793&postcount=82
steps
put rom on sd card
reboot into cwm recovery
wipe data, cache, davlik cahe, and format system and boot
install zip from sd card
choose rom you put on sd card
should say install from sd complete or something like that
reboot system now
let it boot into new rom (should not take more than 3-5 min)
edit: just seen this post in the rom thread your trying to flash http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23255456&postcount=389 try redownloading again
sean1984 said:
your using updated version of cwm? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22044793&postcount=82
steps
put rom on sd card
reboot into cwm recovery
wipe data, cache, davlik cahe, and format system and boot
install zip from sd card
choose rom you put on sd card
should say install from sd complete or something like that
reboot system now
let it boot into new rom (should not take more than 3-5 min)
edit: just seen this post in the rom thread your trying to flash http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23255456&postcount=389 try redownloading again
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I did all that before... Im going to redownload, maybe its corrupted but I doubt it. Is it maybe because I have locked bootloader or something? Beacause I didnt use that long guide with "android SDK" in General, but some other very quick guide. Just plug USB, enable debugging and run some script and thats it.
devianceluka said:
I did all that before... Im going to redownload, maybe its corrupted but I doubt it. Is it maybe because I have locked bootloader or something? Beacause I didnt use that long guide with "android SDK" in General, but some other very quick guide. Just plug USB, enable debugging and run some script and thats it.
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do yourself a favor, do it the right way the first time and save yourself headaches in the future. its not hard. fastboot oem unlock(bootloader), flash a custom recovery, flash a custom rom(and gapps) via the recovery, then boot up. thats it.
If you are more of a visual type of guy I suggest going on YouTube and search "zedomax". He has some really simple videos on how to root your nexus s, he has a couple videos on how to root but make sure its for a GSM nexus.
Simms got all in a simply way.
Unlock boot loader
Install or flash cwm
install the new stuff from SD card
reboot
Can anyone tell me or please provide a link to what unlocking bootloader does please.
Best Regards
Excuse my ignorance, I'm pretty new to this and I might not be of any help at all... but is it even possible to flash a custom recovery without unlocking the bootloader on the Nexus S?
I followed the instructions found on the NexusShacks.com website (How to root Nexus S or Nexus S 4G on ICS or Gingerbread) without any issues at all (sorry, can't post links due to low postcount :/)
No problems for me, I had zero experience with this sort of stuff but I have flashed a new ROM a every few days now without any issues whatsoever.
devianceluka said:
Can anyone tell me or please provide a link to what unlocking bootloader does please.
Best Regards
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use this link: http://nexusshacks.com/
its complete with the files, pictures, video and some ics roms that you can try. let me know if you have any other question
Hi all,
I just discovered CleanROM yesterday, and I'm trying to throw it on my S3 now. Everything installs fine, I go through all of the choices, and at the end TWRP pops up and tells my that it ppears that mt root is "broken" and asks if I want to repair permissions. I tell it 'yes', it seems to do its job, and I reboot.
After that, I have waited 20 minutes with no boot. It starts the boot animation, which is a 4-color 'X' on the screen, and nothing more. I have looked around, and people say that on first boot, there are sometimes orphan files that need to be resolved, but they said maybe 6 or 7 minutes, not 20.
Some background:
I probably rooted about a month ago in order to install CyanogenMod
I am not sure what method I used to root the phone with, mostly because I had issues from the beginning(Apparently not unheard of with the S3), but I know that I am rooted.
My bootloader is also unlocked, AFAIK, since I wouldn't have been able to instal CM10 otherwise.
I am using TWRP 2.4 as my recovery and it seems to be working wonderfully.
Process:
I boot into recovery
Choose 'Install'
Point to my download of CleanROM and follow all prompts, choosing launcher, file manager, etc.
Tell it to wipe data and cache
After the install, there is the message from TWRP telling me that root is "broken"(I think that's the term it uses), and asks me if I want to repair permissions, and I of course repair them.
After rebooting is when nothing happens. I finally pull the battery and either try again, or restre my phone so I can use it. I'm probably 0/4 at this point, I downloaded the ROM from the Dev's site, and have no problems, since it gives no errors during install.
So I guess I have three questions:
1. Can I re-root my device? Will this help, or could it frak things up worse?
2. Is there a way to fix those file permissions for good? The fix doesn't seem to be holding when I choose "repair" in TWRP.
3. Is this a ROM issue instead, and should I downgrade a version? Also, is anyone else seeing this?
Thanks in advance for any help guys! :good:
Mikey1969 said:
Hi all,
Process:
I boot into recovery
Choose 'Install'
Point to my download of CleanROM and follow all prompts, choosing launcher, file manager, etc.
Tell it to wipe data and cache
After the install, there is the message from TWRP telling me that root is "broken"(I think that's the term it uses), and asks me if I want to repair permissions, and I of course repair them.
After rebooting is when nothing happens. I finally pull the battery and either try again, or restre my phone so I can use it. I'm probably 0/4 at this point, I downloaded the ROM from the Dev's site, and have no problems, since it gives no errors during install.
So I guess I have three questions:
1. Can I re-root my device? Will this help, or could it frak things up worse?
2. Is there a way to fix those file permissions for good? The fix doesn't seem to be holding when I choose "repair" in TWRP.
3. Is this a ROM issue instead, and should I downgrade a version? Also, is anyone else seeing this?
Thanks in advance for any help guys! :good:
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I think you are referring to the /root partition, not actually being rooted.
The problem is your order of operations. You are wiping the ROM after you install! You are supposed to wipe data/cache BEFORE you install the ROM.
This is not a ROM issue, I just installed CleanROM 6r2 and it is fast as heck and worked fine. I suggest you boot into twrp and perform the install correctly.
shutin said:
I think you are referring to the /root partition, not actually being rooted.
The problem is your order of operations. You are wiping the ROM after you install! You are supposed to wipe data/cache BEFORE you install the ROM.
This is not a ROM issue, I just installed CleanROM 6r2 and it is fast as heck and worked fine. I suggest you boot into twrp and perform the install correctly.
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I wondered about that, but using TWRP in the 'Install' mode, it doesn't prompt for wipe until after(Unless I'm doing something wrong there). Just to be clear, you're just suggesting that I manually wipe first, then let TWRP and CleanROM take me through the process after that, right?
Thanks
Boot into twrp.
Hit the wipe menu.
Wipe the top four boxes
(Wipe cache
Wipe dalvik cache
Factory reset.
Wipe system.)
Install ROM
Should boot within 2 minutes tops.
Sent from that young galaxy.
God bless the American People.
barrackOBAMA said:
Boot into twrp.
Hit the wipe menu.
Wipe the top four boxes
(Wipe cache
Wipe dalvik cache
Factory reset.
Wipe system.)
Install ROM
Should boot within 2 minutes tops.
Sent from that young galaxy.
God bless the American People.
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That did it. Thanks!!
You mind hitting the thanks Button.
I'd greatly appreciate it
Sent from that young galaxy.
God bless the American People.
There ya go... Sorry, didn't even know the thing existed until yesterday.
I was trying to do a fresh install of viper one s, I made a nandroid back up. Then, I picked factory reset on the bootloader. then everything was wiped off the bootloader. Even the nandroid backup. Please help!
itsKenneh said:
I was trying to do a fresh install of viper one s, I made a nandroid back up. Then, I picked factory reset on the bootloader. then everything was wiped off the bootloader. Even the nandroid backup. Please help!
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what do you want to hear?
your nandroid is gone..
the factory reset in the bootloader always delete eeeverything.
your data and your nandroid is helplessy lost now, sry for that.
the next time if you want to do a clean install do it this way!
nandroid of your old rom
wipe system 3x
wipe data 3x
wipe cache & dalvik 3x
and then flash the new rom and do not forget to flash the boot.img afterwards if you are on s-on.
this procedure will wipe everything which is needed for a clean install and it keep your "sd"storage untouched.
The EXACT same thing happened to me, and I was also trying to do a fresh install of Viper One S just after making a full nandroid. Only difference was that I didn't mean to click FACTORY RESET in the bootloader, I'd already wiped everything through recovery.
See here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2269288
Long story short, I'm sorry but I hope you have at least some stuff backed up on your PC.
Hello XDA community,
I've rooted my HTC One X+ like 2 months ago.
I still got the latest stock ROM but I want to put a custom ROM on it.
Which is this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1987885
I still got some questions about it since it will be the first time flashing a ROM, because the thread isn't really clear to me so I hope someone can help me out with a little bit more detailed guide than mentioned in the ROM thread.
1. Do I have to wipe all my data?
2. Is a dalvik wipe really needed?
I contacted the developer of the ROM he said I didn't have to but when I asked more things about it he didn't reply.
3. How to flash a boot.img?
I can't find a really good tutorial on that.
4. What's the really right order to perform this flash mentioned in above linked thread?
I hope anyone of you can help me out since most of the threads I've seen around people are *****ing about: you shouldn't do it if you don't know what you are doing blablabla.
Since I really want to learn something about it too.
Sent from my HOX+
NiZii. said:
Hello XDA community,
I've rooted my HTC One X+ like 2 months ago.
I still got the latest stock ROM but I want to put a custom ROM on it.
Which is this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1987885
I still got some questions about it since it will be the first time flashing a ROM, because the thread isn't really clear to me so I hope someone can help me out with a little bit more detailed guide than mentioned in the ROM thread.
1. Do I have to wipe all my data?
2. Is a dalvik wipe really needed?
I contacted the developer of the ROM he said I didn't have to but when I asked more things about it he didn't reply.
3. How to flash a boot.img?
I can't find a really good tutorial on that.
4. What's the really right order to perform this flash mentioned in above linked thread?
I hope anyone of you can help me out since most of the threads I've seen around people are *****ing about: you shouldn't do it if you don't know what you are doing blablabla.
Since I really want to learn something about it too.
Sent from my HOX+
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FULL WIPE is clearly recommended when you want to flash another rom. That means (/boot) /system /data /cache /dalvik. You can try it without a FULL WIPE but that will causes errors in most cases.
You need a working HTC USB cable
You need working adb/fastboot, download it from here
You need latest HTC drivers, download it from here
You need a GOOD custom recovery, download it from here
Additionally you need a flashable rom + boot.img
When you got all these we can proceed with flashing a rom
LS.xD said:
FULL WIPE is clearly recommended when you want to flash another rom. That means (/boot) /system /data /cache /dalvik. You can try it without a FULL WIPE but that will causes errors in most cases.
You need a working HTC USB cable
You need working adb/fastboot, download it from here
You need latest HTC drivers, download it from here
You need a GOOD custom recovery, download it from here
Additionally you need a flashable rom + boot.img
When you got all these we can proceed with flashing a rom
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Hello LS.xD,
Thanks for your reply.
I am not at home at the moment.
I will be in about 4.5 or 5 hours, so I will download everything then.
I got the recovery flashed already, so I can probably skip that.
My HTC drivers are probably outdated.
Since my HTC desktop programm had to update the last time I opened it.
And I downloaded the files of the ROM too.
Sent from my HOX+
By the way LS.xD,
I got 'CWM-based Recovery v6.0.3.2'. (That's what it says in the top when I am in recovery mode)
I got three wipe options:
- wipe data/factory reset
- wipe cache partition
- wipe dalvik cache
These are all the wipes I got to perform AFTER installing the zip right? Because if you do it before you will wipe the zip file, is that right?
Sent from my HOX+
NiZii. said:
By the way LS.xD,
I got 'CWM-based Recovery v6.0.3.2'. (That's what it says in the top when I am in recovery mode)
I got three wipe options:
- wipe data/factory reset
- wipe cache partition
- wipe dalvik cache
These are all the wipes I got to perform AFTER installing the zip right? Because if you do it before you will wipe the zip file, is that right?
Sent from my HOX+
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Its for a reason i recommended the recovery in my post. Pls install and THEN we can go on
and NO you first perform the wipe and then install a rom.
and pls uninstall HTC sync before using fastboot to flash boot.img as it will cause errors if you have htc sync installed.
LS.xD said:
Its for a reason i recommended the recovery in my post. Pls install and THEN we can go on
and NO you first perform the wipe and then install a rom.
and pls uninstall HTC sync before using fastboot to flash boot.img as it will cause errors if you have htc sync installed.
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Okay I will do that when I am home. Thanks for the patience with me and all the help, nobody was replying in other threads so I really appreciate all your help.
Sent from my HOX+
One more question, what is a safe spot to put the ROM zip file on? So it doesn't get wiped? (HOX+ doesn't have a SD slot, just 64GB internal)
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NiZii. said:
One more question, what is a safe spot to put the ROM zip file on? So it doesn't get wiped? (HOX+ doesn't have a SD slot, just 64GB internal)
Sent from my HOX+
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Thats totally safe as long as you dont WIPE or FORMAT /sdcard LOL
Probably a dumb question, but if you do a factory reset your music and pictures will be deleted, why doesn't the zip file be deleted? I will test it at home though. Factory reset, put the zip file on it, then factory reset again in recovery and look if the zip file still exists on my phone.
Sent from my HOX+
NiZii. said:
Probably a dumb question, but if you do a factory reset your music and pictures will be deleted, why doesn't the zip file be deleted? I will test it at home though. Factory reset, put the zip file on it, then factory reset again in recovery and look if the zip file still exists on my phone.
Sent from my HOX+
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MAN be patient pls. Install the recovery i suggested. Then everything will be clear and safe once you opened it. DONT perform factory reset / clear storage in bootloader mode!!!
LS.xD said:
MAN be patient pls. Install the recovery i suggested. Then everything will be clear and safe once you opened it. DONT perform factory reset / clear storage in bootloader mode!!!
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I am sorry, I will tell you when I did..
Sent from my HOX+
Hi everybody
I have a X1032 model. I'm having a problem flashing custom roms. I'm on stock 4.4.2. I unlocked my bootloader and installed cwm with fastboot " CWM-swipe-6.0.4.7-falcon.img". After that i rooted my phone with some supersu.zip file that i had to flash in cwm. So i have bootloader unlocked and a rooted device. Downloaded C-rom 4.4.3, wiped data/factory reset, wiped chache, and in mounts and storage i wiped /system. After that i flashed C-rom 4.4.3 succesfully but when i reboot the phone its stuck on a bootloop and i can't see why. I've tried it 3 times with no luck and even an older version of it, i tried cm11 4.4.3 but same no luck i tried waiting 20 minutes but it didnt help. Am i doing something wrong? or did i miss a step or something?
These are the roms i tried to flash:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2608377
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2713871
If you can help me please do thanks in regards.
Have you wiped cache? I'm not sure but wiping cache sometimes helps.
You may try Philz touch recovery, too. It can clean the phone to install a new rom, so it may solve your problem if you forgot to wipe a partition.
edit: Sorry, you said you wiped cache, missed it. You can still try another recovery I think. Don't know why but trying another recovery sometimes help. (I saved myself once, but may be just coincidence)
dont wipe the system!
hamid1158 said:
Hi everybody
I have a X1032 model. I'm having a problem flashing custom roms. I'm on stock 4.4.2. I unlocked my bootloader and installed cwm with fastboot " CWM-swipe-6.0.4.7-falcon.img". After that i rooted my phone with some supersu.zip file that i had to flash in cwm. So i have bootloader unlocked and a rooted device. Downloaded C-rom 4.4.3, wiped data/factory reset, wiped chache, and in mounts and storage i wiped /system. After that i flashed C-rom 4.4.3 succesfully but when i reboot the phone its stuck on a bootloop and i can't see why. I've tried it 3 times with no luck and even an older version of it, i tried cm11 4.4.3 but same no luck i tried waiting 20 minutes but it didnt help. Am i doing something wrong? or did i miss a step or something?
These are the roms i tried to flash:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2608377
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2713871
If you can help me please do thanks in regards.
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Just stop wiping the system and it will work fine.
i've used cyanogen wiki to install one.
tansly said:
Have you wiped cache? I'm not sure but wiping cache sometimes helps.
You may try Philz touch recovery, too. It can clean the phone to install a new rom, so it may solve your problem if you forgot to wipe a partition.
edit: Sorry, you said you wiped cache, missed it. You can still try another recovery I think. Don't know why but trying another recovery sometimes help. (I saved myself once, but may be just coincidence)
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Thanks for your fast reply i'll try to flash philz recovery now and i'll see if it works. Got my fingers crossed
Ravin89 said:
Just stop wiping the system and it will work fine.
i've used cyanogen wiki to install one.
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Thanks ill try this time without wiping system
tansly said:
Have you wiped cache? I'm not sure but wiping cache sometimes helps.
You may try Philz touch recovery, too. It can clean the phone to install a new rom, so it may solve your problem if you forgot to wipe a partition.
edit: Sorry, you said you wiped cache, missed it. You can still try another recovery I think. Don't know why but trying another recovery sometimes help. (I saved myself once, but may be just coincidence)
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A big thanks it worked i used Philz Touch recovey and it worked thanks
For my information, did you still wipe /system or not?
SbM_ said:
For my information, did you still wipe /system or not?
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No i didnt what i did is install Philz recovery here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2201860
Go to downlaod Home and search for falcon and look for this one
philz_touch_6.43.8-falcon.zip
download it and put it on your phone and just flash it
then go to wipe data/factory reset you'll get an option to wipe for installing a rom choose that
after its done just flash your rom
it worked at the first time i did it