Here's my situation:
Was running Qteknology Hero rom, decided to try the pure black hero rom.
copied new rom update.zip to sd card. unmounted sd card. Noticed an error saying 'sd card damaged' but ignored it (stupid I know). rebooted phone into fastboot, booted recovery image, apply update.zip.... failed.
rebooted phone, loops at HTC screen.
Now, I don't have an adaptor for my SD card. Is there any other way to push a new update.zip onto the phone and apply it?
adb only works if you can boot the phone :/
edit: hmm, never mind, nandroid restore worked despite the 'damaged' sd card
I know you've sorted your problem but for anyone else I've found that even if it's looping on the boot screen you can still do adb push to the phone, saved my bacon when I got stuck on a looping boot screen
i can never get adb to work says no device found but the drivers are isntalled as i can use fastboot etc from command prompt
use an sd card adapter... somtimes if you buy a new sdcard there is an adapter inclusive
Hi, i think my clockworkmod is somhow messed up.
i flashed it (clockworkmod) from my sd card, first couple of times i used it worked, i created a backup of my current rom.
Then i went to delete some folders from my internal memory and from my sd card, i think i deleted the folder called recovery where the command file was.
Then i saw that there was a new rom out, i downloaded it an put it on my internal memory, rebooted my gtablet and pressed the volume+ key, i got a prompt that the recovery key was pressed, but not the text i used to get saying booting recovery image.
The tablet works fine, but i cant get into clockworkmod.
So does anyone know what i messed up, i thought that removing folders wouldn't mess up the recovery.
Or maybe i'm missing something.
Think i messed it up some more, tried to recover it with nvflash, it doesn't matter what i flash, i can't get it working, i can't get past the first bootscreen, all i get is a graphic distorsion.
so, what should i do now?
Pls close this thread, i fixed the problem
sorry guys but i made an "uh oh" and need help please! i had Virtuous Unity 1.31.0 & was attempting to flash the beta version. i had blue magic theme on my rom as well. Here are the exact steps i took: downloaded rom, put phone in clockwork recovery, wiped dalvik, wiped cache, wiped data, mounted system, flashed the zip & rebooted. Now i'm looped in the "blue magic" boot animation. what'd i do wrong & can it be fixed. i backed everything up too. i can get it into HBOOT screen by pressing power & down on volume key but am not able to scroll to any of the options. after a cple seconds it automatically selects HBOOT & asks if i want to install update from sd? i assume it's the gingrbread update but i've selected "no" every time so i could talk to someone first. right noe i'm on a publis cpu & it won't allow me to access the phone internals. i need admin passcode. i haven't messed much with playing with my phone thru a cpu so i'm not quite sure i'm even doing it right. sorry for my cpu lack of knowledge but i've adapted to android pretty well. Help please & thank u in advance
problem is that you have a PD98IMG.zip file on your sdcard....
pull the sdcard, boot into HBOOT, select recovery, then pop in the sdcard when you get to recovery
Pirateghost said:
problem is that you have a PD98IMG.zip file on your sdcard....
pull the sdcard, boot into HBOOT, select recovery, then pop in the sdcard when you get to recovery
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Yup. If you happen to have a PD98IMG.zip on your SD, bootloader will try to flash it everytime and you won't be able to access Recovery. Either pull the SD card until after you've selected Recovery like pirateghost suggested, or find a card reader/other device to read your card to delete PD98IMG.zip
Ok sweet. That got me back to clockwork, slipped the card back in once in recovery, clicked reboot and it still looped. It did say I had that file so I'm guessing I have to find a card reader and delete the file maually now or did I do something wrong?
Thanks so much for ur reply and it looks like I'm going to have to find a card reader and do it manually cuz it still loops. Thank u so much!
Just go in recovery rewipe and flash the beta rom only no themes yet let it reboot it should load right up I think the theme messed you up the bata rom is based I'm 2.3.4 so 2.3.3 themes wont work
sent from my unity loaded inspire 4G
Ok, did all that but Noticed before I rebooted that at the bottom where it shows the processes it's going thru, it says installation aborted. Says E:Can't open/Sd card/ download etc...2.33.0 BETA.zip....(bad). Do I still reboot or attempt to flash again?
Try going into mounts option in recovery and mount the external sd card.
Not giving option to mount. Only unmount so I guess I unmount and try to remount?
Try that and see if it works.
Aborted again. I'm getting worried friend
Still aborted. I'm getting worried friend
Don't worry. It will work out fine. Let me check something and I will reply momentarily.
Thank u so much for helping. I'm wishing I could pay u at this point
Don't worry. Turn off phone. Check to make sure sd card is properly inserted. Power phone back up and boot into recovery. Select install zip and see if you are able to view your files.
Well I can go to install the zip but still aborts
Try going to backup and restore and select restore. Select the backup you said you made and try restoring to your backup. You may have a bad download of the beta rom. Let me know if you can restore. Wipe first.
What happens If I scroll down to that PD98IMG.zip u were talkin bout. I see it on the zip file list...
You don't want to use that. That type of file can only be used in Hboot. It seems like you can see what is on your sd card so it is mounted. The rom file you were trying to flash may be corrupted. Unless you can get another rom on your sd card I would say restore to your backup until you can get another rom on your card and also delete that PD98IMG file.
if it says corrupted that means that your ROM file is corrupted or didnt fully downloaded.
1.Turn Off Phone
2.Take out SD Card
3.Vol+Power to Hboot
4.You will be at recovery mode.
5.Insert Sd Card back in
6.go to Mount
7.Mount your SD CARD(make sure USB is plugged in the computer)
8.Wait a little, your computer will have pop-up, if not go to My computer and click on your Sd Card.
9.Drag in a new fully downloaded rom into it.
10.Unmount the Sd Card
11.Happy Flashing!
sorry if this does not work, tried my best to help. This worked on me, so It should work for you as well.
another method is, if you got a Card Reader(micro chip goes in side a big chip) then put your ROM in their and delete the PD19 blah file, and skip steps 6 to 10
I have the TF101 with the b90 serial. Ever since running the latest update my TF wont boot. It sits at the Asus eepc splash screen. It is not rooted running all the stock software. I have tried a number of things and all of them seem to fail.
Things ive tried;
-I have held the power button down for 20seconds a minute etc and it just goes back to the asus splash
-tried to hit the reset button on the side
-held down the power + volume down till white letters. tried the cold boot and the data wipe.
-tried to do hold down power + volume down and hit the volume up to do the RCK recovery and it loads for a quick second then gives me an Android logo with a yellow caution sign.
-going to asus site and taking the firm ware saving it to a microsd card and trying to boot the TF with the card in. no luck there either (unless i was doing it wrong)
Does anyone know a fix so i can get this thing working? Any help is appreciated. This is my aunts tablet so im new to the android OS.
Did you place the firmware in the root of the SD card and booted into recovery (power+vol-, vol+)?
yea i unzipped the file into the root of a sd card and did the power + vol - then volume+ when u see white writing and i just get the android olog with a loading bar for about 1 second then goes to a android with a yellow caution logo and sit there.
Ive never flashed a ROM on the TF using the stock recovery, so I cant really be sure if this is correct but...
On my Novo7Basic, you have to place the .zip file (not extracted) in the root of the SD card, and name it update.zip (I know the TF needs to be named something else, but I dont know what).
So you could try just placing the .zip file in the root of the SD card.
Just to make sure the sd card has to be formatted FAT32? I downloaded the us firmware off ASUS site and I unzip the original file u get off their site and inside there is another zip file i save that zip file onto the root of the SD card.
this is quite frustrating havent been able to use this thing for over a week. id be willing to root it or put cwm on it to reflash it but im not sure if i can do any of that without being able to get into the OS.
Did you rename the zip to EP101_SDUPDATE.zip ?
My phone is stuck on a splash screen boot and reboot. I have loaded pd15img package onto SD card. Problem is, when phone goes to bootloader, the progress on screen says PD59diag.zip no image, no matter what zip file I have loaded on sd card. I am having to use a micro video camera to read and load the sd card. It always makes a DCIM folder. Is this causing the problem? The phone is prolly salvageable since I can get into bootoader mode. I just need to know how to get the phone to see the correct zip files in order to load a ROM, any ROM. Just something to make it work. I tried Froyo and PD15IMG.zip, but I don't know what it means when it says I have to rename files to pd15img.zip. Have tried that with no luck. When you rename all files to same name, it adds (2) (3), so on and so on. Is that stopping me from having a legitimate image to work from. Phone just keeps seeing pd59diag.zip...no image, no matter what I do. Please, someone help me. I know it can work again. It's so close. Thanks