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[q] i need a stock cspire rom

I did something wrong and now my phone is BOOT LOOPING (will not get passed the boot animation).
I can still enter FASTBOOT FLASH MODE, but i do not have rom to flash.
I can also enter into CLOCKWORKMOD RECOVERY but once again I'm missing a rom to flash.
Can someone direct me to a stock rom, prefer CSPIRE but will try any other rom to get me back up and running.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33942232
This post has the right xml (the original is busted I think), but the op has the RSD program that should get you in the right direction.
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Here is a stock CSpire backup before I even rooted I used TWRP but I had to zip it to upload so just unzip and restore it hope this helps
http://db.tt/kbDDrMgn
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[Q] Can't Enter Custom Recovery?

Background: I am still on ICS 4.0.4 rooted and unlocked (atleast ez unlock says im unlocked and i have superuser and voodoo says im still rooted) .
However, when I try to flash a custom recovery , ROM manager gets stuck at 100 % and closes. I have also tried installing a custom recovery via EZ recovery, and it says its flashed. However, when I boot into recovery mode, all i see is the stock recovery. So I am not sure what is going on. Do you guys have any idea?

If your still on ICS try selecting an older recovery? Some newer versions are not meant for ICS anymore I believe ...
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I recall a similar issue I had due to the bootchain...not sure if that would apply here or not though

I was reading somewhere that samsung devices auto -overwrite a flashed recovery and change it back to stock. I am not sure how to combat this issue , or whether this affects anyone else?

You could try flashing a recovery through odin, that might give a different result. I think when you boot straight into recovery mode from download mode after flashing it might ask you to disable the phone from auto restoring the stock recovery.
I could be wrong though, it seems that's a common thing that happens when rooting a 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 base. However, flashing only the recovery file should still work for an ics base too. Just make sure it's a tar file, not an img file for the custom recovery for use in odin.
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[Q] Brick or Hardware Issue?

Picked up an inspire 4g off of cl.Paid 20 for it because it had no battery. Put a batter in it and it boots to the htc screen, black screen, then reboots. Volume down was broken but I fixed it and am able to enter hboot. Phone had already been unlocked through htcdev. So I relocked it and ran the newest 3.20 RUU. It completed successfully and rebooted. However, it does the same thing. So I tried to factory reset it through bootloader. Again it just reboots and does the same thing. So I decided to try to htc dev unlock it and flash a custom recovery. Everything went smooth and recovery flashed. But when I select recovery in bootloader it does the same bootloop over again. Again I've tried using the latest RUU to no avail. Ive tried everything I know of to do. I'm out of ideas. It seems like a great phone and I really want to fix this so any help would be greatly appreciated.

If the bootloader is unlocked and you can flash a ROM, fastboot flash the boot.img from the ROM zip and see if it works. Detailed instructions in my signature.

bananagranola said:
If the bootloader is unlocked and you can flash a ROM, fastboot flash the boot.img from the ROM zip and see if it works. Detailed instructions in my signature.
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Unfortunately I can't enter recovery to flash a rom. It just reboots at the white screen. The only thing I was able to flash was the stock RUU. And it still didn't boot. I've also tried flashing recoveries but that doesn't work either. It flashes successfully but never boots into it.
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No one knows what to do? I really want to fix this.
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[Q] Q phone will not flash, unable to open partitions in recovery

im new to this phone and unlocked and rooted, cwm, problem is it wont flash to partitions inside recovery, nor will it flash is fastboot, says cannot load????
any thoughts would be very helpfull

I don't understand. What are you trying to do? Flash CWM, it fails? Or do you already have CWM and you can't flash a ROM...?
Please explain in detail what you are trying to do, what you have attempted to fix it, and what error messages / info you get back.

Already have cwm after motochopper root method after bootloader unlocked, downloaded slim bean for sprint photon q, booted into recovery wiped partitions and flashed thing is it sticks at the bootanimation, so I waited for a bit after a fresh flash to no avail so I downloaded rds lite and necessary files to flash deleted the 2 lines in yhe xml file, went to flash comes up unknown flashboot command, tried a few times before I tried to flashboot flash twrp, but when I type the command to fasboot flash, error cannot load.img. either recovery or boot
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What version of RSD Lite are you using? 6.0+ is required AFAIK.

6.1.5 I do believe, afaik.... more info???
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turkbot said:
6.1.5 I do believe, afaik.... more info???
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As far as I know.
Well that's odd - did you check the md5sum of the download? Make sure that you have a good download?
Can you give more details about your issue? Maybe a screenshot?

Yeah I can do that a little later
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Well i finally got my phone goin again, had to actually clean install my computer and adb, flashed twrp recovery and now running stock roooted for right now
PS i hate windows
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Help, every ROM I've tried just gets stuck in bootloop

Ok, Ive unlocked my bootloader, installed CWM, rooted my device and checked that it worked, and when I go to the boot loader and select recovery it takes me to CWM. Ive made backups from it and and they restore fine. I even installed a custom kernel and it worked because noFrills let me OC/choose a different governor. Yet from the three ROMs Ive tried so far, they install fine, no errors from CWM, but when I boot up it just gets stuck booting forever. Ive tried wiping everything, Ive tried wiping some things, heck I even tried wiping nothing but I still get the same issue. Id really like to try a new ROM now that I went through the trouble of voiding my warranty, so please try to help me. Thanks in advance, alexbenh

Same here

Gonna try out this guy's method real quick except with CWM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=49668571&postcount=5

I know this seems obvious, but are the ROMs you are flashing specific for your device?
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yes, I have the Moto G XT1034 and have flashed ROMs before on my old galaxy exhibit and never had any trouble with that

Join the club, same here, done everything right but no custom rom joy for me
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If you're flashing a kitkat ROM, make sure you're already running KitKat. If you're still on 4.3, then fastboot flash the stock 4.4.2 image first, then try custom roms
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WOOOHOOO, I reinstalled the stock 4.4 firmware and everything, I couldnt root it with superboot so I just skipped the rooting step. Then I flashed CWM through the bootloader although I decided to take a risk and instead of "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img", I did "mfastboot flash recovery recovery.img" just to see if it would change anything. Not sure if thats why it works for me now, but its worth a try. Good luck to the rest of you who have this problem.

lowrider262 said:
If you're flashing a kitkat ROM, make sure you're already running KitKat. If you're still on 4.3, then fastboot flash the stock 4.4.2 image first, then try custom roms
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Yes, I was already running the stock 4.4 ROM the only differences was that I had a custom kernel which could possibly be an issue, but I wouldnt think so

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2620060&page=2

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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2620060&page=2
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huh, I had not tried using TWRP, but I thought CWM had a fix permissions command as well.

alexbenh said:
huh, I had not tried using TWRP, but I thought CWM had a fix permissions command as well.
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My experience. I tried CWM then loaded a Rom, the first one I tried being CM11 = Bootloop, Then I tried several other Rom's and always the same result, spinning on Bootloop
I then put the phone back to stock firmware 4.4.2 and tried TWRP version TWRP2630, no joy even the bootloader wouldn't work right.
Finally put the phone back to stock AGAIN (now getting frustrated!) and tried installing TWRP2631 using fastboot. That did the trick, now all ROM's load and run fine. This version of TWRP appears to be working well. Backup/restore works, and no problems at all.
Other's report CWM works well, but not for me unfortunately.