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Hi guys I've been looking around and I'm a total noob at all this, but I went ahead and tried to root my Nexus S anyway.
Here's the site I used,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=878446
I don't really know what happened, but I have the little unlocked logo under google, but that google screen is all I can get. I can start it in fastboot mode, and when I click recovery it brings me to clockwork recovery page. I kinda just tried a bunch of weird things but everytime I try anything it keeps getting stuck at the google screen over and over again.
I'm really clueless.. If anyone could help me please give me your advice!
If it helps, I have clockwork version 3.0.0.0
you have to perform a nandroid restore or flash a ROM.
might as well update your recovery too.. wouldn't hurt
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988686
rename img to recovery.img
boot into bootloader
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
go into recovery
when you finish downloading the rom/nandriod, go into mounts and storage and mount usb and put your sdcard
I'm sorry what is rom flashing or nandroid restore?
The clockwork update is confusing too.. I'd like to avoid that if possible..
Sorry looked up both of them and it looks like I actually need my phone to be working in order to do it?
I've read and it says it doesn't really help on stocked android phones?
The nadroid restore is the -backup and restore option in clockwork yes?
lanstrange said:
I'm sorry what is rom flashing or nandroid restore?
The clockwork update is confusing too.. I'd like to avoid that if possible..
Sorry looked up both of them and it looks like I actually need my phone to be working in order to do it?
I've read and it says it doesn't really help on stocked android phones?
The nadroid restore is the -backup and restore option in clockwork yes?
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It doesnt really help if you reboot the phone cause with stock rom, every reboot flashes back the stock recovery.
what you should do is follow the steps @Zephik described above ( but without rebooting the phone) and you'll be able to enter the clockwork recovery ( a modified recovery allowing you to do a backup or rom flashing...) '
rom flashing is installing a rom modified by users for a better and faster user experience.
lanstrange said:
Hi guys I've been looking around and I'm a total noob at all this, but I went ahead and tried to root my Nexus S anyway.
Here's the site I used,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=878446
I don't really know what happened, but I have the little unlocked logo under google, but that google screen is all I can get. I can start it in fastboot mode, and when I click recovery it brings me to clockwork recovery page. I kinda just tried a bunch of weird things but everytime I try anything it keeps getting stuck at the google screen over and over again.
I'm really clueless.. If anyone could help me please give me your advice!
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You should tell us your carrier and phone model, it might help the guys here to get you on the right recovery.
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error when trying to access the sdcard by recovery: is not possible to mount the sdcard
I try to do everything to access the sdcard has this error
Have you fixed this? I have the same issue!
Hi,
I've posted a thread or two on here but I cant get any proper help or instructions to help me out
Basically, my phone has its boot loader unlocked (lock symbol shows up) and I have tried all methods to lock it but nothing works.
I cant boot the phone into recovery, and drivers arent very coperative either
I need help! ... I'm planning on selling my phone ,so need to restore it asap.
The problem started when I first bought the phone, it wouldnt update or reboot, so I tried a one click root, it unlocked the bootloader and everything looked fine. UNTIL, an OTA update came along, I applied it, but when my phone came to restart it was stuck on the google logo. I cant even update anymore
Pleease could someone help this n00b out? Really appreciated
Thanks!
Read. No seriously, these forums are chockful of help threads and guides on how to root your phone, install a custom recovery, fix your phone when it's stuck.
Since you want to go back to stock, I'll give you a hint...
1) Unlock bootloader using fastboot (DONE!)
2) Flash custom recovery using fastboot
3) Wipe data/factory reset in custom recovery
4) Install Gingerbread 2.3.6 in custom recovery
5) Lock bootloader using fastboot
Edit: If you're having trouble getting your phone to be recognized in fastboot mode, use the PDANet drivers for Windows. Usually that does it.
Thanks for the reply.
Trust me, I've read around this forum a lot! I've tried the drivers with PDA net but still nothing works. The drivers (adb I think) aren't recognised so can't get anywhere.
I get easily lost with the guides. I don't think they're newbie friendly. I .e. where am I supposed to type 'fastboot oem lock'?
Btw I have no custom rom installed ( I don't think) and when I downloaded the root checker from the market, my phone is recognised as not being rooted (even though I can't apply updates :/ )
I think main thing is that my phone isn't recognised in fastboot mode....
soulja786 said:
Thanks for the reply.
Trust me, I've read around this forum a lot! I've tried the drivers with PDA net but still nothing works. The drivers (adb I think) aren't recognised so can't get anywhere.
I get easily lost with the guides. I don't think they're newbie friendly. I .e. where am I supposed to type 'fastboot oem lock'?
Btw I have no custom rom installed ( I don't think) and when I downloaded the root checker from the market, my phone is recognised as not being rooted (even though I can't apply updates :/ )
I think main thing is that my phone isn't recognised in fastboot mode....
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Learn about fastboot here
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Fastboot
For the drivers, you can watch the video here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4AHucGBZHMQ
The guides are as noob friendly as they can be.
Thanks a lot for your help! I owe u polobunny , I can now lock the bootloader BUT, Ive rooted my device with 'twrp' and want to flash a ICS ROM. Which ROM would you reccomend and to install it do I add the rom to SD card and install from twrp interface? Or is it more complicated than that ?
Thankss
soulja786 said:
Thanks a lot for your help! I owe u polobunny , I can now lock the bootloader BUT, Ive rooted my device with 'twrp' and want to flash a ICS ROM. Which ROM would you reccomend and to install it do I add the rom to SD card and install from twrp interface? Or is it more complicated than that ?
Thankss
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Installing the Rom should be the same regardless of recovery. Yes put the rom on the SD card and flash away.
Thanks but do I need to wipe data/restore or can I just flash?
soulja786 said:
Thanks but do I need to wipe data/restore or can I just flash?
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Oh boy, you do need to read my friend.
In recovery (twerp, twink, Clockwork, whatever) back up your current set up. Then... I suggest you wipe data/factory reset, then wipe dalvik and cache yes. I do it 3 times on Clockwork just to be sure. The cleaner you get it the less problems you will incur. I always wipe fresh unless instructed specifically to do otherwise.
Flash your Rom, gapps, kernel and enjoy.
Hi,
Im trying to root my HTC ONE S. I followed all the steps that suggested in the forums, but when I reboot the phone in the final step, it got stuck in the 'HTC quietly brilliant' screen. I left it there for 20 min or so, it didn't change. I am able to go to the recovery mode but I don't know what to do. I did a factory reset attempting to go back to the original software but it didn't work either. Any ideas what can I do? Im in real trouble if Im not able to use my phone anymore.
Thanks in advance,
Angel
100315595 said:
Hi,
Im trying to root my HTC ONE S. I followed all the steps that suggested in the forums, but when I reboot the phone in the final step, it got stuck in the 'HTC quietly brilliant' screen. I left it there for 20 min or so, it didn't change. I am able to go to the recovery mode but I don't know what to do. I did a factory reset attempting to go back to the original software but it didn't work either. Any ideas what can I do? Im in real trouble if Im not able to use my phone anymore.
Thanks in advance,
Angel
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Well if you are installing a custom ROM then there is no need to root before hand, you just need a custom recovery installed. The custom ROM will have root access enabled.
If you are asking how to just be rooted on a stock rom, then I would just google how to do it like you would. But I assume you install custom recovery, download a supersu.zip and install via recovery.
tivofool said:
Well if you are installing a custom ROM then there is no need to root before hand, you just need a custom recovery installed. The custom ROM will have root access enabled.
If you are asking how to just be rooted on a stock rom, then I would just google how to do it like you would. But I assume you install custom recovery, download a supersu.zip and install via recovery.
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Hi, thank you for the reply
Well, I have no access to the sd card, it says it's not mounted. I can't copy any files to the phone, therefore I can't reinstall it from the phone. Sorry for my ignorance, but I don't know what to do next.
Thanks,
Angel
100315595 said:
Hi, thank you for the reply
Well, I have no access to the sd card, it says it's not mounted. I can't copy any files to the phone, therefore I can't reinstall it from the phone. Sorry for my ignorance, but I don't know what to do next.
Thanks,
Angel
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seems to be a common that the sdcard can become corrupted.
If that is the case, having the stock recovery on and then booting the phone into bootloader and selecting "clear storage" fixes the issue.
Then you need to flash custom recovery again, and mount usb storage.
For the S4 Ville version of this phone and not the S3 VilleC2
stock recovery
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/84212943/ville_recovery_signed.img
tivofool said:
seems to be a common that the sdcard can become corrupted.
If that is the case, having the stock recovery on and then booting the phone into bootloader and selecting "clear storage" fixes the issue.
Then you need to flash custom recovery again, and mount usb storage.
For the S4 Ville version of this phone and not the S3 VilleC2
stock recovery
Hi,
I tried to do what you told me, but now I can´t even go into the recovery mode. I can only access the bootloader; anytime I select recovery mode it shows this (image below), after a few minutes it reboots and stays with the white screen ´HTE quietly brilliant´. I can´t copy any files either because the computer doesn´t read the sd card. Any ideas?
Thank you for your time.
Angel
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100315595 said:
tivofool said:
seems to be a common that the sdcard can become corrupted.
If that is the case, having the stock recovery on and then booting the phone into bootloader and selecting "clear storage" fixes the issue.
Then you need to flash custom recovery again, and mount usb storage.
For the S4 Ville version of this phone and not the S3 VilleC2
stock recovery
Hi,
I tried to do what you told me, but now I can´t even go into the recovery mode. I can only access the bootloader; anytime I select recovery mode it shows this (image below), after a few minutes it reboots and stays with the white screen ´HTE quietly brilliant´. I can´t copy any files either because the computer doesn´t read the sd card. Any ideas?
Thank you for your time.
Angel
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That is good, that is the stock recovery, basically saying you don't have access to it.
But you don't need to go into recovery, it is there just to fix the issue when you enter the bootloader and pick "clear storage"
So get back to the bootloader and clear storage. Then you will need to flash the recovery of your choice, CWM or TWRP. You should now be able to access usb storage. (unless you are using the special TWRP in the Maximus thread meant for hboot 2.16, then it just doesn't work)
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Yes, it worked. Thank you.
But, which ROM should I install now? I tried with the SU, but the screen was stuck again. Do I need the phone in S-off mode? how do I do that? I saw that many ROM's need this.
Thank you again for your help, very appreciated
Angel
100315595 said:
Yes, it worked. Thank you.
But, which ROM should I install now? I tried with the SU, but the screen was stuck again. Do I need the phone in S-off mode? how do I do that? I saw that many ROM's need this.
Thank you again for your help, very appreciated
Angel
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You are welcome.
You only need S-Off if the rom says 2.16 HBoot required.
So there are a lot of different ones to try. As long as your Hboot is 2.15, if not then you need to upgrade your firmware to that. You see your HBoot in the bootloader screen.
So ya, most of the roms are ok with S-on, you just have to remember to:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
So on your pc download the rom, unzip it you will see the boot.img move that to fastboot folder and fastboot flash it.
Then you can move the ROM.zip to your phone and install via recovery.
Don't forget to wipe caches before rebooting. (when installing, if that particular rom opens up Aroma installer and one of the options is to wipe, do that but don't wipe again when back to recovery)
The sense based roms are generally more stable and like stock.
The CyanogenMod may have a few little bugs.
Just browse around and see which one you like.
It all worked out pretty well.
I'm trying with the MagioRom, seems to be very stable!
Thank you for your help, you literally saved my HTC!
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Oh no! The curse of the NEWB. So after some amazing help, I managed to root my phone and install TWRP. YAY! Then what did I do, I wiped my OS by mistake. NOW I just have TWRP. I am not sure if can fix this. Can I?
Did you take a backup using TWRP first? If not you'll need to find a ROM to load via TWRP.
Are you sure that deleted OS or is your phone just booting always in TWRP?
michaeldanielbourke said:
Oh no! The curse of the NEWB. So after some amazing help, I managed to root my phone and install TWRP. YAY! Then what did I do, I wiped my OS by mistake. NOW I just have TWRP. I am not sure if can fix this. Can I?
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just flash the stock recovery and boot to os if not boot
install the software with the sd card way
very easy
but the update.app in dload folder and but it in sd card and shut down the phone
and hold volume up+down+power and soft will install
Hello and sadly yes!!
Hirs_E_Fruit said:
Are you sure that deleted OS or is your phone just booting always in TWRP?
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Goneski!!! Just TWRP, all the time everytime.
I am hoping as my computer reads internal memory I can flash a recovery rom onto it. If anyone knows how that would be great
Michael
No Backup
htchd2mtk said:
Did you take a backup using TWRP first? If not you'll need to find a ROM to load via TWRP.
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I know! I am an idot for not thinking of doing that...
Michael
By SD card you mean
rowihel2012 said:
just flash the stock recovery and boot to os if not boot
install the software with the sd card way
very easy
but the update.app in dload folder and but it in sd card and shut down the phone
and hold volume up+down+power and soft will install
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external or internal?
Thanks (again)
Michael
Just flash the Original Recovery and it will start! Btw I told you you will get Bootloop!
I know!
Hirs_E_Fruit said:
Just flash the Original Recovery and it will start! Btw I told you you will get Bootloop!
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I don't think you wiped your OS. It's just a bootloop that goes back to recovery everytime.
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Leechoonhwee said:
I don't think you wiped your OS. It's just a bootloop that goes back to recovery everytime.
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Oh no, i's gone, managed to get TWRP back on the phone but no software this is so annoying. Hopefully I can find a system.img to flash via twrp
htchd2mtk said:
Did you take a backup using TWRP first? If not you'll need to find a ROM to load via TWRP.
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Hello can you advise how I can do this, I have TWRP rea, but the software (rom) is apparently corrupt
michaeldanielbourke said:
Hello can you advise how I can do this, I have TWRP rea, but the software (rom) is apparently corrupt
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You need to flash a andorid on it,
first you need to understand how it works....u have a recovery as a base, so you can reach the components you want....
then you have the OS f.e. Android, this is missing on your phone.
All we need is a zip flashable ROM.
So on TWRP we can't use the dload method, so we need a OS in .zip format to flash it with TWRP.
Link above go in TWRP flash zip choose zip from ext. SD card
btw i have the same problem...
thought a wipe would be good...
Gadlion
Hirs_E_Fruit said:
Just flash the Original Recovery and it will start! Btw I told you you will get Bootloop!
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Do NOT do this. If you do this it will remove any chance of recovering, BUT if you know how to replace TWRP with the Stock Revovery, then skip this, because you obviously know what you are doing. All you need to do it download any ROM.zip made for your phone, onto a computer. Then move that ROM.zip to a micro SD (TF) card and insert that into your phone. boot into recovery and flash that ROM.ZIP. If you are having trouble still, charge your phone completely while off,then do a complete wipe and flash the ROM.zip again. Iif that doesn't work, wipe (factory reset, not system wipe) then your phone should boot properly.
Hey be thanks full !
you can install a custom Rom (cyanogenmod or etc) and boot your phone and then go to setting and enable USB debugging and reboot your phone to boot loader by ADB and install stock recovery and then try to install OTA updates.
if you found any Method for deleted OS and how to reinstall OS with stock recovery about P8 lite e-mail me !!
sorry for bad english.!
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Cant access recovery or fastboot
rowihel2012 said:
just flash the stock recovery and boot to os if not boot
install the software with the sd card way
very easy
but the update.app in dload folder and but it in sd card and shut down the phone
and hold volume up+down+power and soft will install
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When i try to go to the recovery or fastboot, my phone just shuts down. And even if it will work, when i try to install it, it says Installation Aborted.
i was trying to root my phone and install twrp in it. Then twrp came on screen then i wiped the data and copied one rom in internal storage and tried to flash it but it got into error. I tried again but result is same. so i tried to reboot phone into recovery so that twrp must reload again but it went to default oneplus recovery which it must not go(correct me if i am wrong). now as i know that no os is installed in my phone and i am in recovery so then i tried to soft unbrick my phone when i connect my phone to computer but device is not showing in device manager which it should(correct me if i am wrong). Now i don't knw what to do. Please help
Thanks in advance.
anshu4590 said:
i was trying to root my phone and install twrp in it. Then twrp came on screen then i wiped the data and copied one rom in internal storage and tried to flash it but it got into error. I tried again but result is same. so i tried to reboot phone into recovery so that twrp must reload again but it went to default oneplus recovery which it must not go(correct me if i am wrong). now as i know that no os is installed in my phone and i am in recovery so then i tried to soft unbrick my phone when i connect my phone to computer but device is not showing in device manager which it should(correct me if i am wrong). Now i don't knw what to do. Please help
Thanks in advance.
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Have you enable mtp ?
Twrp recovery is best recovery use it
Download twrp.img from official site
Flash it through your present recovery.
After it format everything data, internal storage,dalvik, cache.
Reboot twrp
Install any custom ROM.
Enjoy
nischait said:
Have you enable mtp ?
Twrp recovery is best recovery use it
Download twrp.img from official site
Flash it through your present recovery.
After it format everything data, internal storage,dalvik, cache.
Reboot twrp
Install any custom ROM.
Enjoy
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Bro my question is how to enable mtp? My computer is not recognizing if i attach my phone.
anshu4590 said:
Bro my question is how to enable mtp? My computer is not recognizing if i attach my phone.
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You got a option in recovery to enable mtp
If you select keep read only partition them you can only read you can't format or write anything.
When TWRP starts it shows this option Keep read only partition. Many of guys check this and swipe.so they have problems to flash and wipe anything.
Connect a mmc using card reader with PC.
Copy custom ROM
Select install
Select mmc
Select file
Wait for process done
Wipe dalvik,cache
Reboot phone.
Done
?
nischait said:
You got a option in recovery to enable mtp
If you select keep read only partition them you can only read you can't format or write anything.
When TWRP starts it shows this option Keep read only partition. Many of guys check this and swipe.so they have problems to flash and wipe anything.
Connect a mmc using card reader with PC.
Copy custom ROM
Select install
Select mmc
Select file
Wait for process done
Wipe dalvik,cache
Reboot phone.
Done
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Thanks for reply
I need to unlock bootloader first to install twrp.
anshu4590 said:
Thanks for reply
I need to unlock bootloader first to install twrp.
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Of course!