I am a "NOOB" and I completely apologize if this has been discussed previously. My daughter has a Galaxy S3 that someone installed TWRP on it. She tried to update the phone because it gave her the status to do so. Somehow she has wiped everything except TWRP and I have no idea what to do in order to get a OS back on the device. Can someone please help and I really need the information explained to me in the simplest terms. Thanks
In twrp, if you click "restore" does it list anything on either internal or external memory? If so, just restore it and don't update.
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dpeeps74 said:
In twrp, if you click "restore" does it list anything on either internal or external memory? If so, just restore it and don't update.
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It doesn't show anything.
Did you try reboot system?
Odin flash VRBMB1. You'll need a access to Windows for this to work. This will return you to out of the box stock rom.
Do what Slimsnoop suggested. Its for the best
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It just means the SYSTEM was wiped. Just download a small ROM like CM10.1 and flash it. Reboot.
Have had this happen a lot. For a fast fix You will have to load ROM on the external SD card, then when you flash it check the directory where the ROM is stored on the external SD and flash it. Reboot. No need to flash gapps if you don't plan on keeping that ROM.
If you plan on keeping it just download the ROM you want and flash.
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Odin flash VRBMB1. You'll need a access to Windows for this to work. This will return you to out of the box stock rom.
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Ok so this just happened to me and I turned to this awesome site for help. I had switched from CWM to TWRP and installed the img file, when it rebooted into recovery it told me there was no OS installed. I flashed the above referenced file with Odin... when it rebooted though, I had everything I thought I had lost. No stock rom, it was still running cm10 with all my apps and themes, everything.
I'm confused. I'm not a total newbie to this kind of stuff, but I'm by far no expert. I'm just curious if TWRP didn't recogonize anything so it assumed there was no OS installed?
Easy way around this. Happens to me all the time
what you are gonna have to do it download a compatible rom from your computer to a micro sd card. Put the micro sd card in your phone. Go into twrp and select the rom and flash from external sd.
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Every time I try to flash something my tablet fails, and I have to revert back my backup. It doesn't matter if I download on PC or from the tablet itself. HELP!!!!
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Can you post what rom you are using right now, as well as what recovery version.
Also, what rom are you trying to flash ? You are rooted, right ?
If you can post some more details - am sure people will chime in
Good luck,
bill_in_mtl said:
Can you post what rom you are using right now, as well as what recovery version.
Also, what rom are you trying to flash ? You are rooted, right ?
If you can post some more details - am sure people will chime in
Good luck,
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I'm running stock 4.0.4, Rooted, Clockworkmod recovery. I have tried to flash several different roms. Romswell, AOKP, CM nightlies thru ROM manager. all of them fail in recovery. I flash stuff all the time on my SIII so I'm not really a Noob to flashing and what not, but I can't figure this one out. Thanks for any help.
What are you using for recovery? When you say failed what is the error message? Sounds like you should prolly reflash a current official recovery. If by failing you mean it hangs on first boot then your not wiping system before flashing. Factory reset and wipe system before you flash.
Are you by chance running any scripts for sd card swap, etc ?
I am running this script, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1961097 which swaps my 32GB external sd for the internal sd, which runs great - no issues, except with rom manager and flashing from recovery.
I have to go back and de-activate the script, reboot, and then dowload - or transfer file from PC, and it flashes without issue
Otherwise, I have had no flashing issues of any kind - using CWM 6.0.1.5 for the p3113
Good luck,
Bill
I'll preface this by saying the following:
I know there are a lot of brick guides out there, and most are relatively easy to get out of. I've worked myself into a bit of a pickle, though.
It started when I noticed that there was an update available through the CM updater. I figured, what the hell, I'm running a nightly and this is likely to be a stable release, so I went ahead and downloaded it. I got home and checked the get.cm page, and sure enough, a new, stable build had recently been released. Being the diligent soul that I am, I made sure to do a full backup before I installed the .zip. Everything worked out just fine, the backup went swell, the update finished without problems, and then I rebooted my device.
All I see is the Asus splash screen. It just stays there. So I think, no big deal, it just didn't work out like I wanted, I'll go format my data (which I didn't do the first time around, in hopes that everything would carry over) and install again. The same thing happens. I haven't started panicking yet, since I still have 3 backups (1 older Jellybean, and one much older ICS). None of them work. I wipe everything that I can think might help. Data, system, cache, dalvik, you name it. Nothing was working, and I was starting to freak out. Then I decided to try to get some action through fastboot, hoping that I could push a .zip that wasn't the CM10 update that had started everything. In my search for a push command, I thought it would be a good idea to try a wipe from fastboot. This wiped everything. Not only the system, boot, etc. partitions, but also my personal partition that had all of my data. This in itself isn't a big problem, but it also left the partitions unformatted. Now I have a device that is devoid of data and can't do anything but get into CWM and fastboot.
What the hell can I do? Am I doomed? Is there no way to get out of the hole I've dug myself into?
tl;dr failed update, things got really real, really fast.
Specs before the initial update
ROM: CM10 nightly, Jellybean 4.1.x
CWM: 5.5.0.4
Kernel Version (?): 9.4.3.30-20120604 (I'm not sure with this, it says something about "android carhu-user" before it)
same thing just happened to me. Im going to download another version of CM and try that. It might just be that.
DerangedLoofah said:
same thing just happened to me. Im going to download another version of CM and try that. It might just be that.
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That's the thing, though, I have no idea how I'm supposed to get it to my device now...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1989076
Have you tried this? I was just thinking about it because I can't reflash my recovery and thought this may be the way to start over.
OK I downloaded the us jb update and extracted to my external SD card and flashed it in recovery after wipes. Everything is good now.
Edit: flash recovery in fast boot.
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Glad you got it!
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Glad you got it!
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DerangedLoofah managed to get it, but I still haven't had any luck.
DerangedLoofah said:
OK I downloaded the us jb update and extracted to my external SD card and flashed it in recovery after wipes. Everything is good now.
Edit: flash recovery in fast boot.
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How did you flash it in fastboot? I can't figure out how to get to something that's on the external SD card. What were the exact commands you used?
1. Download any software from this topic http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1697227
2. Unpack it one so you have a zip without UpdateLauncher
3. Rename the zip to EP201_768_SDUPDATE.zip
4. Put on a sdcard into the root (the sdcard should be clean, no other files)
5. Boot you tablet to RCK (Volume down + power, then volume up)
6. Let the magic begin!!! Take some minutes.
Attention! JB user pleas choose a JB ROM, don't flash ICS ROM on JB bootloader.
You tried this method with no love? I was able to flash stock pretty easily doing this.
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1. Download any software from this topic http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1697227
2. Unpack it one so you have a zip without UpdateLauncher
3. Rename the zip to EP201_768_SDUPDATE.zip
4. Put on a sdcard into the root (the sdcard should be clean, no other files)
5. Boot you tablet to RCK (Volume down + power, then volume up)
6. Let the magic begin!!! Take some minutes.
Attention! JB user pleas choose a JB ROM, don't flash ICS ROM on JB bootloader.
You tried this method with no love? I was able to flash stock pretty easily doing this.
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Does that work with CWM? I don't have the stock bootloader on it.
This works only if you didn't flash custom recovery, it is the best method for locked devices. But you can still flash any stock ROM from CWM (but I suggest to use TWRP, you can install it from external sd). And you can push the ROM to internal memory via adb. I think you can install stock ROM via fastboot too, I am not sure, but the command fastboot update should help.
I managed to get it working again. If you can get to fastboot, push a bootloader that supports an external SD cards (like TWRP) and then from that install one of the official ASUS firmwares. From there, you have to root again, but it's better than having a device that won't boot at all.
I'm relatively new to flashing htc in general. Anyhow. I have a Rogers HTC One X, was running the lastest builds. I unlocked my bootloader, awesome, I installed TWRP(Made a backup of my rom, and it's in the form of a '.win/and md5' file, I also backed this up on my PC), awesome, I flashed ViperXL, it was okay except it was always missing the phone icon. So now we wanted to try CleanRom, so we flashed it, and it wiped my entire internalSD. It will not connect to PC as so to navigate or put anything into the SD, like my backup, so that TWRP can flash it. If I go into TWRP, and use the mount option, it doesn't give me the ability to check 'mount sd' in the options, I tried mounting it anyways, and Windows would then say that it 'need to format it for use, or has a corrupted file system'.
My question is, is that though I may have softbricked, or hardbricked my phone, can I make use of those backups that I made through TWRP. I also have the stock room in .zip format that I downloaded somewhere from here aswell. Anyone any ideas how to bring this phone back? To being a phone again?lol
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I'm relatively new to flashing htc in general. Anyhow. I have a Rogers HTC One X, was running the lastest builds. I unlocked my bootloader, awesome, I installed TWRP(Made a backup of my rom, and it's in the form of a '.win/and md5' file, I also backed this up on my PC), awesome, I flashed ViperXL, it was okay except it was always missing the phone icon. So now we wanted to try CleanRom, so we flashed it, and it wiped my entire internalSD. It will not connect to PC as so to navigate or put anything into the SD, like my backup, so that TWRP can flash it. If I go into TWRP, and use the mount option, it doesn't give me the ability to check 'mount sd' in the options, I tried mounting it anyways, and Windows would then say that it 'need to format it for use, or has a corrupted file system'.
My question is, is that though I may have softbricked, or hardbricked my phone, can I make use of those backups that I made through TWRP. I also have the stock room in .zip format that I downloaded somewhere from here aswell. Anyone any ideas how to bring this phone back? To being a phone again?lol
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Mount phone in twrp... Navigate to "my computer" right click removable storage, choose format.. Fat32
Download cleanrom on computer. Once its done formatting, drag rom onto SD...
Flash that shiz in twrp.. Should be golden
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Clean Rom is not a jb sense Rom you updated to jb ota so as we mentioned before you have sense jb roms to choose from
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Thanks Inflated/wrecker, you guys are awesome!! I was afraid to actually format that 'unmountable' drive in fear of it erasing any dependancies, or contingincies it might have with TWRP. I was able to flash my backed-up stock rom using TWRP. Thanks guys SOLVED!! Thanks!!
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I'm soooo confused lol.... Glad you got it working man! :thumbup:
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I was advised that i needed to update my recovery to twrp from cwm recovery to avoid an issue i got while flashing roms (the contents of my sd card would get pushed down into a subfolder of a newly created set of folders) however when i wiped my phone, as i always used to do with CWM twrp seems to have wiped a lot more, its wiped the existing rom, and all the files on my card, so i cant install a new rom. Basically i only have access to twrp recovery mode, how can i get the rom .zips onto my phone to install them? Id really appreciate any help at all, i had no issues flashing with CWM and i re
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I was advised that i needed to update my recovery to twrp from cwm recovery to avoid an issue i got while flashing roms (the contents of my sd card would get pushed down into a subfolder of a newly created set of folders) however when i wiped my phone, as i always used to do with CWM twrp seems to have wiped a lot more, its wiped the existing rom, and all the files on my card, so i cant install a new rom. Basically i only have access to twrp recovery mode, how can i get the rom .zips onto my phone to install them? Id really appreciate any help at all, i had no issues flashing with CWM and i re
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You can mount your storage as mass storage with twrp.
Your PC will find your phone like a normal mass storage device.
which model
tomacotuna said:
I was advised that i needed to update my recovery to twrp from cwm recovery to avoid an issue i got while flashing roms (the contents of my sd card would get pushed down into a subfolder of a newly created set of folders) however when i wiped my phone, as i always used to do with CWM twrp seems to have wiped a lot more, its wiped the existing rom, and all the files on my card, so i cant install a new rom. Basically i only have access to twrp recovery mode, how can i get the rom .zips onto my phone to install them? Id really appreciate any help at all, i had no issues flashing with CWM and i re
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i think its proper dead use jtag
NQNH said:
You can mount your storage as mass storage with twrp.
Your PC will find your phone like a normal mass storage device.
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i lock my bootload to try ruu and know i can reaunlock it ??
naveed_hind said:
i think its proper dead use jtag
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what is that?
can you plz tell me a stable rom
It wouldn't be a full brick he can get into bootloader and recovery... Just get any rom mount storage put the rom on sd Card and flash it... If needed flash boot. Img as well.
k1llacanon said:
It wouldn't be a full brick he can get into bootloader and recovery... Just get any rom mount storage put the rom on sd Card and flash it... If needed flash boot. Img as well.
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that is what i do and now i turn it on and it freez on the htc bot anymation with white backround and red text :-s some ideas??
Fast boot boot.img and make sure to wipe dalvik cache.
tomacotuna said:
that is what i do and now i turn it on and it freez on the htc bot anymation with white backround and red text :-s some ideas??
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As posted above you probably flashed a rom that requires a boot. Img flash the boot. Img in bootloader.
k1llacanon said:
As posted above you probably flashed a rom that requires a boot. Img flash the boot. Img in bootloader.
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Ya i flask the trickdroid or something like this and i flash allsou the boot and it boot up and freez on the htc logo acreen any ideas now i am on stock version but i want a custom rom plz help
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If you don't know how to use a phone when it's rooted your better off on stock dude
k1llacanon said:
If you don't know how to use a phone when it's rooted your better off on stock dude
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I now how to use it but on my galaxy nexus is more simple ok?? And if i dont know every thing i learn
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I am having issues flashing a custom ROM to my d2vzw. I originally followed the directions on the CM wiki for putting CM onto my phone. CWM would give me errors about not being able to mount my SD card, which meant that I couldn't download the ROM. However, in a previous thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2516163), I was told to start the rooting and flashing process over again. I ODINed back to a stock, pre-rooted ROM and then unlocked my bootloader with EZ-Unlock 1.2. I tried to download TWRP from GooManager, but it said it couldn't find any compatible recoveries when I went to Install OpenRecoveryScript from the menu. I instead flashed TWRP 2.6.3.0 via ODIN, but it gives me the same errors. It is also worth noting TWRP 2.6.3.0 asks me for a password when I boot into recovery, but the modded one did not. At one point, I downloaded a modded TWRP that turned out to be for Sprint GS3s (so it wouldn't let me download CM), but it did not give me the same errors (can't mount SD card, etc.). I have since put TWRP 2.6.3.0 back on the phone and get the can't mount errors again. Today, after a few weeks of inactivity, I went into GooManager and tried Install OpenRecoveryScript again. This time, it said that TWRP 2.6.3.1 was available, so I tried to download it and got an Invalid MD5 Sum error. It is also important to note that my SD card is formatted to FAT-32 (I could try to format it again in case there is an issue with the SD card). I am currently using a brand new SanDisk 8GB SD card (which I bought specifically to ensure that the issue was not with my SD card), which I formatted to FAT-32 after I got the Can't Mount errors. Even after formatting to FAT-32, I still get the errors. Any idea what is going on?
EDIT: I just read that the issue may be with data encryption. As far as I know, I never encrypted my data, but for some reason, the password screen on TWRP shows up.
Bump.
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Install rom manager, select recovery setup and choose cwm 6.0.4.3. Let rom manager install the recovery. I had the same problem, this fixed it...
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Macrodroid said:
Install rom manager, select recovery setup and choose cwm 6.0.4.3. Let rom manager install the recovery. I had the same problem, this fixed it...
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Thanks for the tip. I actually read your thread as soon as I posted this and did exactly that and it worked. I guess its something with the touch recoveries or something.
mikestrong19 said:
Thanks for the tip. I actually read your thread as soon as I posted this and did exactly that and it worked. I guess its something with the touch recoveries or something.
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Not really sure what the deal was really, but I haven't changed recoveries since and I've had no issues flashing any roms. The only thing I can think of is the phone is a new upgrade, so maybe something different in the hardware... Glad it worked for you!
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