Hello,
I'm in need of some help. My little brother attempted to root and flash the tablet I gave him but he went wrong somewhere and we're unsure about how to fix it. He said he followed the guides here well but failed when he attempted to install the zip file (Something about a red X on the Android figure) it wouldn't allow him to. Currently the tablet only boots up in ClockworkMod Recovery and we can't seem to get Odin to install older Firmware since it won't recognize the tablet since it only reboots into the recovery screen or copy the file onto the external Sd since the computer won't recognize it as well.
Peterh2 said:
Hello,
I'm in need of some help. My little brother attempted to root and flash the tablet I gave him but he went wrong somewhere and we're unsure about how to fix it. He said he followed the guides here well but failed when he attempted to install the zip file (Something about a red X on the Android figure) it wouldn't allow him to. Currently the tablet only boots up in ClockworkMod Recovery and we can't seem to get Odin to install older Firmware since it won't recognize the tablet since it only reboots into the recovery screen or copy the file onto the external Sd since the computer won't recognize it as well.
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Did he make a backup in cwm first? Try booting into recovery and selecting reboot and then download mode (Odin mode.) If that works, you can flash to stock jelly bean through Odin.
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something to try !
Peterh2 said:
Hello,
I'm in need of some help. My little brother attempted to root and flash the tablet I gave him but he went wrong somewhere and we're unsure about how to fix it. He said he followed the guides here well but failed when he attempted to install the zip file (Something about a red X on the Android figure) it wouldn't allow him to. Currently the tablet only boots up in ClockworkMod Recovery and we can't seem to get Odin to install older Firmware since it won't recognize the tablet since it only reboots into the recovery screen or copy the file onto the external Sd since the computer won't recognize it as well.
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Try to take the SD card out and load software with pc directly to sd card (use an adapter if don't have a micro sd card slot , purchased with a micro sd card if necessary as any will work)
Peterh2 said:
Hello,
I'm in need of some help. My little brother attempted to root and flash the tablet I gave him but he went wrong somewhere and we're unsure about how to fix it. He said he followed the guides here well but failed when he attempted to install the zip file (Something about a red X on the Android figure) it wouldn't allow him to. Currently the tablet only boots up in ClockworkMod Recovery and we can't seem to get Odin to install older Firmware since it won't recognize the tablet since it only reboots into the recovery screen or copy the file onto the external Sd since the computer won't recognize it as well.
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To enter the bootloader use Power + Volume Up
Then Odin should detect your device
Have you tried "factory reset" in recovery yet? Also as @rap3rman said you have to boot into DL mode before Odin will work. Try looking in tthe development section at the sticky posts for the everything thread and find a guide to help you along. 2 min of searching and you can find all kinds of good stuff here.
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LG G2x totally bricked. I can not even access the USB drivers to put anything on the phone. All I can get to is Clock Work. I do not have any roms listed though to fix it. I do not have an external card as my roms were internal. What do I do? Is there any hope? Do I need just to get a new phone?
There should be a thread in the Dev section that'll hopefully resolve your problem just do a little bit of searching
i get as far as a lg logo with a blue background then nothing
Can you boot into download mode? If so, you can use multiple methods (heimdal, Odin, sbf) to flash a firmware, and recover your device. As long as I can boot into recovery or download mode, I consider it a soft brick, versus a hard brick (which won't allow your device to boot at all). There's still hope! Check the threads for a way to get your phone into download mode, and you'll be good to go in no time!
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i can bring up clockwork but there is no files on the phone, no roms, no backups, nothing at all
rac99934 said:
i can bring up clockwork but there is no files on the phone, no roms, no backups, nothing at all
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Your phone is not "totally bricked." In fact, it is not bricked at all. It is just borked a bit (think of it as a cell phone coma, not death). It sounds like you have an old version of CWM installed. Use the One Click flasher to flash CWM 5.0.2.0 and then you can flash from a physical micro SD card (put roms on sd card and then insert into your phone). After flashing CWM 5.0.2.0 format the system, flash the rom and then do a factory reset for good measure. After that your beloved G2X should be back to life.
Also, with older versions of CWM you can mount the internal sd card and then adb push the roms to it. When CWM is running, it is running a very trimmed down, rooted version of Android and ADB is available in CWM recovery. After mounting internal sd and pushing files, make sure you unmount it before attempting to flash a rom from it or reboot the device.
If what jboxer posted above me don't work first, check out "rom for recovery" thread in Dev section that will fix your phone.
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I've looked for 2hours and cant find an answer to my problem seen bricks where it wouldnt turn on at all or diff soft bricks but nothing quite like mine. If some one can help me out I'd be a nice guy and pay pal them a few beers
Today got a new Nexus S 4G. Rooted it with OneClickRoot from here
downloaded rom manager and updated recovery to version 5.0.2(I think)
did a back up
Then installed [NS4G] gingerbread-deck rom from here
it had no market app and a few others missing so I decided to go back to original until I found something else.
Stupid me thought you held down vol + power to get into bootloader as on other phones I've had in the past so when it wouldnt get me in I stupidly(again :/) ran the oneClick method my thinking being it would gain me temp root access to recovery well it downgraded recovery back to 3.0.2.4 and when I went to restore my back up it skipped a few things saying "system.img,data.img and cache.img not found" then restore complete.
So phone hung during boot with that so I then went to reinstall the deck rom thinking i could send a new rom to the phones storage via USB with that and get back to recovery now that i knew vol up + power would get me into bootloader.
trying that gave a variety of errors the last saying
E:Error in /sdcard/rom.zip
status 7
installation aborted
so i can get into boot loader and recovery but that is it
Any help is greatly appreciated
Definitely not as bad as you think it is.
Have a working fastboot setup on your computer.
Use fastboot to flash the latest CWM recovery (5.0.2.0) instead of ages old 3.0.2.4
From there flash any custom ROM.
Read this to learn how to use fastboot
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Fastboot
Get the latest CWM recovery from your phone here
http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager
Read this to learn about the mount function of CWM recovery and get a ROM on your memory even if you don't have a ROM installed
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...-and-how-to-use-it-on-android-complete-guide/
Tried going into Mount/Unmount and selecting Mount USB Storage but Under windows 7 I get no drive to transfer things to.
Thanks for the other tips I'll read up on those.
mysongranhills said:
Tried going into Mount/Unmount and selecting Mount USB Storage but Under windows 7 I get no drive to transfer things to.
Thanks for the other tips I'll read up on those.
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You just need to do mount USB storage. Then unplug and replug your phone to make it detect. That will mount your internal memory used as SD card.
Tried that. it still won't pull up under My computer. Maybe after I update clcok work???
I'll try. Thanks!
Hi!
I'm im trouble. I've bricked my TF101 in very dumb way: I've locked it between "blind" CWM and broken OS.
Short history:
I tried to install Android Revolution HD.
To do that I installer some CWM by using OneclickrecoveryV0.4. It installed OK with no problem.
So I took Revolution HD Super Wipe Full zip, copied it to card, put it to sd card, volume down, volume up... So I flashed it.
But pad didn't boot. It remains on Asus logo boot screen.
OK, I'm smart, I decided to flash "correct" CWM. ClockworkMod Recovery 3.2.0.1 by Roach2010. So I chose Touch Recovery v5.8.1.8. Why?Because when you click on that link, you find two options: Touch Recovery v5.8.1.8 and ClockworkMod Recovery v5.5.0.4 roach-tf101-r2. And somehow I decided that touch version is better for me. =)
After I installed that, I received ClockworkMod 5.8.1.8. But it doesn't see my card. It see *some* sdcard. I can even fomat it from menu. I can copy error log there. I see a folder named "clockworkmod" on that sdcard. But it is not the real external card.
So I'm stuck with not booting OS and CWM not reading /sdcard.
Any advise?
Use Nvflash to flash stock ICS again and start from there. Check in the stickies around the thread and you should know where to go. Of course you would need a PC to revive your TF101.
Once you get it back to life, instead of using CWM try installing goo manager from the play store, and install TWRP recovery. I've found from reading several different posts that TWRP plays a little better with the TF101 then it does with the CWM.
Once you get TWRP installed and it can see your external card, make a FULL back up to the sd card, or a Spare sd card like I do, so that when (no longer if) I goof something up, I can swap out and reinstall from last known good configuration. I also keep a copy of the sd card on both my home and work computers, just in case.
I'm not 100% nailed down on exactly what it is with CWM and the TF101 not wanting to play nicely in the sandbox together, but there are several at length posts about it. Of course I tried the same thing that you did, and got hosed for an hour or so while I read the posts. And above all, DO NOT use ROM Manager, if you think this is bad wait until you try that one.
Thanks farsight73, thanks MasterDecker!
But I did mistake describing a problem... Device is TF101G, so nvflash is not a solution AFAIK. Serial is B80.
It doesnt boot to ADB, but boots to NVIDIA USB Boot-recovery device and to ASUS Android MTP Device though.
I'll search more for solution on forum, but still any advice =) is gratefully accepted.
Thanks.
Hi,
I finally managed to update my Moto G to 4.4.2 by flashing stock rom. However, before I did that, my phone was rooted and I used Titanium Backup to back up some files. I then copied that folder to my PC. Now, I have tried to root the phone again using superboot, but my screen goes purple literally 2 seconds after I load superboot and then I have to switch it off and back on again. It hasn't installed SuperSU so I'm assuming my phone isn't rooted any more. I am a total noob in these matters and I really do appreciate all the help given on this site.
I would greatly appreciate if you can help me by getting my files from Titanium backup back up again, and how to re-root my phone. I have searched the forum but I didnt find anything too similar to my situation and I don't understand a lot of the terminology. It took me a really long time to even learn how to flash the stock rom!
So I would appreciate any help. Thank you
Root option 2 doesn't work either. It just says "waiting for device" at the first stage. When I click on recovery, it says no command. USB debugging has been enabled. Im confused!
Put latest superSU zip on /sdcard on phone. Copy across to phone using USB or use airdroid app. Search internet for superSU zip by chainfire developer.
Flash custom recovery CWM (search forum for it). Be sure to get the one for 4.4.2 bootloader.
Boot into CWM recovery (boot to bootloader and choose recovery option using UP volume button) and choose to flash a zip file and then pick the superSU zip.
You are now rooted and have a custom recovery.
For titanium backup, either copy to phone using USB or use airdroid app.
If you still have probs then let me know and I can give more detailed instructions tomorrow when I am at my laptop along with links to files needed.
scott_doyland said:
Put latest superSU zip on /sdcard on phone. Copy across to phone using USB or use airdroid app. Search internet for superSU zip by chainfire developer.
Flash custom recovery CWM (search forum for it). Be sure to get the one for 4.4.2 bootloader.
Boot into CWM recovery (boot to bootloader and choose recovery option using UP volume button) and choose to flash a zip file and then pick the superSU zip.
You are now rooted and have a custom recovery.
For titanium backup, either copy to phone using USB or use airdroid app.
If you still have probs then let me know and I can give more detailed instructions tomorrow when I am at my laptop along with links to files needed.
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Thank you very much for your help. Just a few questions if you dont mind. How do I put the SuperSU zip on the /sdcard part of the phone? When I access my phone via the pc, i cant find that folder.
Also, how do I go about flashing the custom recovery CWM. I don't know how to do this. The rest I should be OK with.
Thanks again pal
Go to android development section and follow the cwm 6.0.4.6 guide you can get the latest supersu from chainfire website just DL the zip plug your phone in and open your device and place the zip there. Then when you flash cwm don't reboot just move on to updating SD card and flash the super Su zip
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tiger123uk said:
Thank you very much for your help. Just a few questions if you dont mind. How do I put the SuperSU zip on the /sdcard part of the phone? When I access my phone via the pc, i cant find that folder.
Also, how do I go about flashing the custom recovery CWM. I don't know how to do this. The rest I should be OK with.
Thanks again pal
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When you access phone via PC do you see a list of directories, eg data, documents, pictures. If so that is the sdcard. Just put the superSU zip in any folder, or just copy it across so its not even in an actual folder. As long as its on there its fine.
If you don't see the folders then maybe you don't have the right drivers for the phone. In this case may be easiest to use airdroid app.
You may need drivers for fastboot below though anyway - not sure on windows as I use Linux. Bit of reading on forums should help with that.
CWM - have you used fastboot before? Basically fastboot is a program you put on your PC to allow you to flash images to your phone. You will enter a command like
fastboot flash recovery cwm.img
Where cwm.img is the CWM recovery file. You need to be in the bootloader to allow the phone to accept fastboot commands. The cwm.img is then flashed to the phones recovery partition.
Check the forums for a link to a fastboot program, that's the easiest way to get it.
Honestly, thank you so much for your help guys, a special thanks to you scott. I kinda understand now!
Now, I did all that, but I got a problem. When I try to flash CWM by using "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"
On my phone, it says mismatched partition size (recovery). Also, a bit off topic but when I try to restore factory settings, the phone doesn't do it properly. The android logo comes up....then it disappears, then appears again and disappears and so on.
Have I messed something up?
The partition mismatch is fine try factory reset on the phone setting not by recovery and see if that works
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Thank you so much guys. Got it sorted now. God bless
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Hi everyone,
Forgive me if this is a noob question but I've been searching all night and I cannot find a solution.
Background - A friends sister recently passed away and she asked me if I could somehow get the data off of her phone. The phone is a Boost Mobile LG855 (Marquee). It is not rooted, is not in debug mode and is keylocked. We don't have the unlock code so based on what I've read, my only hope is to get CWM somehow flashed on the phone and use it to back up the phone data to the SD card.
Because I cannot get the phone into debug mode and there doesn't seem to be a download mode on this phone, any of the USB-based flashing techniques will not work. I am able to connect the phone as a storage device and access the SD card from my computer but I can't get the computer to recognize it as an ADB device. So that rules out the fastboot, adb or odin-like methods. I believe my only hope is to use the stock recovery to flash CWM from the SD Card (update.zip method).
I downloaded the CWM image for this phone (recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.8-marquee.img) but I can only flash a file called "update.zip" from the stock recovery options. I read somewhere that I should be able to rename the image file to "recovery.img" and put it in an uncompressed "update.zip" file which I did. I copied it to the SD card and tried the flash it only to get the dreaded "E: signature verification failed" "installation aborted." message.
Here are my questions:
Is what I am trying to do even possible?
Can I flash a .img image by sticking it in an update.zip file?
Do I need to create a /dev/recovery/ structure inside the zip file?
If so, how do I fix the zip file so it doesn't fail the signature verification?
Is there a better way to do what I am trying to do?
There are all kinds of tutorials on how to use CWM to flash things from the SD card but surprisingly few that describe how to do what I am trying.
Any help or suggestions would be most appreciated. Thank you so much in advance.
JZ_Hack_Nub said:
Hi everyone,
Forgive me if this is a noob question but I've been searching all night and I cannot find a solution.
Background - A friends sister recently passed away and she asked me if I could somehow get the data off of her phone. The phone is a Boost Mobile LG855 (Marquee). It is not rooted, is not in debug mode and is keylocked. We don't have the unlock code so based on what I've read, my only hope is to get CWM somehow flashed on the phone and use it to back up the phone data to the SD card.
Because I cannot get the phone into debug mode and there doesn't seem to be a download mode on this phone, any of the USB-based flashing techniques will not work. I am able to connect the phone as a storage device and access the SD card from my computer but I can't get the computer to recognize it as an ADB device. So that rules out the fastboot, adb or odin-like methods. I believe my only hope is to use the stock recovery to flash CWM from the SD Card (update.zip method).
I downloaded the CWM image for this phone (recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.8-marquee.img) but I can only flash a file called "update.zip" from the stock recovery options. I read somewhere that I should be able to rename the image file to "recovery.img" and put it in an uncompressed "update.zip" file which I did. I copied it to the SD card and tried the flash it only to get the dreaded "E: signature verification failed" "installation aborted." message.
Here are my questions:
Is what I am trying to do even possible?
Can I flash a .img image by sticking it in an update.zip file?
Do I need to create a /dev/recovery/ structure inside the zip file?
If so, how do I fix the zip file so it doesn't fail the signature verification?
Is there a better way to do what I am trying to do?
There are all kinds of tutorials on how to use CWM to flash things from the SD card but surprisingly few that describe how to do what I am trying.
Any help or suggestions would be most appreciated. Thank you so much in advance.
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None of this is necessary..
You can not flash a zip made by us from stock Recovery.
Your final hope is fastboot mode.
Before that, Install Minimal ADB and Fastboot in PC (Google it)
Switch off the mobile.
Hold any button combination like Power + Volume Up (or whatever, it's specific to phone) which will take you to a boot menu.
Connect phone to PC.
Select fastboot option in that menu from phone.
Now open Minimal ADB and Fastboot desktop icon and type the following:
Code:
fastboot boot recovery location_of_recovery\recovery.img
This will boot the CWM recovery.
Do whatever you want there
Thanks for your suggestion. I did start to go down that road and installed fastboot/adb. I gave up when the only key combination I could find for this stupid phone was power+volume down to boot into recovery. I will search more on whether there is a boot menu available on Boost Mobiles crappy stock ROM. Will update on what I find.
Thx again for the suggestion.
JZ_Hack_Nub said:
Thanks for your suggestion. I did start to go down that road and installed fastboot/adb. I gave up when the only key combination I could find for this stupid phone was power+volume down to boot into recovery. I will search more on whether there is a boot menu available on Boost Mobiles crappy stock ROM. Will update on what I find.
Thx again for the suggestion.
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Inside the recovery, check if you have an option like 'bootloader' or 'fastboot' or 'debug'
If there's something like that, that's the fastboot mode.
Some phones don't have fastboot mode, so the phone might be one of those if there's nothing like that
Anyway, what data do you want to recover from the phone??
Believe it or not, I'm reading that these LG phones require a special cable from shady overseas websites to access the boot loader and flash capabilities.
Awesome...
GokulNC said:
Inside the recovery, check if you have an option like 'bootloader' or 'fastboot' or 'debug'
If there's something like that, that's the fastboot mode.
Some phones don't have fastboot mode, so the phone might be one of those if there's nothing like that
Anyway, what data do you want to recover from the phone??
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Ya there's nothing like that unfortunately.
Mainly contacts and text messages. There's suspicions that her bf may have had something to do with her death and the police won't bother to do forensics on the phone so she asked if I could help.
I've been doing more research on this and have established that there is no way to get the LG855 (Marquee) into bootloader mode and no way to unlock the bootloader without getting past the keylock, I'm back to square one.
So my question remains, is there a way to convert a CWM recovery image (.img) file into a properly signed update.zip file that I can use the stock recovery to flash onto the phone from the SD card?
Thanks.
JZ_Hack_Nub said:
I've been doing more research on this and have established that there is no way to get the LG855 (Marquee) into bootloader mode and no way to unlock the bootloader without getting past the keylock, I'm back to square one.
So my question remains, is there a way to convert a CWM recovery image (.img) file into a properly signed update.zip file that I can use the stock recovery to flash onto the phone from the SD card?
Thanks.
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I found this - which may help me sign the zip file.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1966007
Still not sure if the .img file will flash properly without making changes to it. Any thoughts?
JZ_Hack_Nub said:
I found this - which may help me sign the zip file.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1966007
Still not sure if the .img file will flash properly without making changes to it. Any thoughts?
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You can never flash a zip file created by us from stock recovery.
You can do it from custom recovery.
However hard you try, you can never do it from stock recovery. It's waste of time
GokulNC said:
You can never flash a zip file created by us from stock recovery.
You can do it from custom recovery.
However hard you try, you can never do it from stock recovery. It's waste of time
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Appreciated. I'm not one to give up though. I think I'll try this and let you know if it works. Thanks for all of your advice.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=732957