[Q] Stuck In Recovery - Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I did a full wipe (foolishly) including internal storage directly after rooting. No OS, No backups, no ROMs..So how do I get out of this one?

easytheezy said:
I did a full wipe (foolishly) including internal storage directly after rooting. No OS, No backups, no ROMs..So how do I get out of this one?
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Download and flash the stock factory images.
Look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...urce-guides-info-threads-linked-read-t2784527

You can either flash a factory image or can use USB OTG to flash a ROM from recovery or you can use the side load function of your recovery to side load a ROM using adb sideload romname.zip

or you could search because this has been asked about 1 mil times.

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[Q] Is my Phone Bricked

I have a updated g2x (gingerbread via Lg updater) installed NVflasher was able to boot into recovery performed a nandroid back up did a full wipe and was going to flash Xbroarders rom until i relized i put it on my internal instead of external so i then tried to flash my back up and got "no file found"did a reboot and all im getting is a black screen wit flashing keys. plz help
Try reflashing Clockwork Mod Recovery.
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Do that, and if you have the means, try to check out the external sd on some other device to see what's going on. I'd start with pulling the battery for a bit and try flashing the backup again.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong but if you didn't flash anything because of misfiling xboarder's rom, there was no reason to use the backup in the first place.
dachinaman said:
I have a updated g2x (gingerbread via Lg updater) installed NVflasher was able to boot into recovery performed a nandroid back up did a full wipe and was going to flash Xbroarders rom until i realized i put it on my internal instead of external so i then tried to flash my back up and got "no file found"did a reboot and all im getting is a black screen wit flashing keys. plz help
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Where did you put your nandroid - internal or external SD? They would have been determined by the recovery option you chose - Internal or External SD. Your stock ROM would download the Xboarder ROM to internal in any case, but your nandroid location depends on the choice above.
Since you did a total wipe, you do not have a ROM installed, so you will not be able to boot up, but you DO NOT have a brick.
You could flash the Recovery again with the Oneclick Recovery tool and choose internal, and then you could flash the Xboarder ROM. After that, see if you can find your backup (in the clockworkmod folder).
gaww said:
Since you did a total wipe, you do not have a ROM installed, so you will not be able to boot up, but you DO NOT have a brick.
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I didn't know that a wipe from cwm clears out the rom. I only ever wiped before flashing something else so I assumed it was more like a factory reset.
heysharon said:
I didn't know that a wipe from cwm clears out the rom. I only ever wiped before flashing something else so I assumed it was more like a factory reset.
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As far as I know, the wipe data/factory reset is exactly that.
There's also a wipe system function, which wipes the entire ROM also. It seems he did that also.
As for fixing the phone, what gaww said haha. If xboarder's mod isn't there, then in recovery while the phone is plugged in, mount the sd card, and put a rom on there using windows explorer or whatever, then disconnect and you should be able to flash it.
dachinaman said:
I have a updated g2x (gingerbread via Lg updater) installed NVflasher was able to boot into recovery performed a nandroid back up did a full wipe and was going to flash Xbroarders rom until i relized i put it on my internal instead of external so i then tried to flash my back up and got "no file found"did a reboot and all im getting is a black screen wit flashing keys. plz help
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Boot into recovery, go down to mount, and mount usb. Then find the file on your internal sd and move it over to the external sdcard. I have had to do that a few times when I forgot to move the file.

can CWM recovery not see the internal SD card for the skyrocket

WTF is going on, why has this (in the history of this phone) apparently never been asked? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills over here, just trying to flash a simple rom.
i can access mine through CWM.
yes yes, the only thing i noticed that is different on this phone is that when i make a nandroid it puts it on my external sd instead of my internal but it still sees my internal.
If cwm is not recognising the internal sd card....you have a corrupt partition. You need to odin
Stock. Tar boot into stock recovery wipe data/cache 3 times each reboot. Then root/ flash cwm recovery back onto the phone and then wipe and flash your rom
whitesox311 said:
WTF is going on, why has this (in the history of this phone) apparently never been asked? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills over here, just trying to flash a simple rom.
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Are you getting this message after you root the device? I had this same issue and realize I needed to first root the device, open ROM manager to give it root access then reboot. After that it was OK.
silver03wrx said:
If cwm is not recognising the internal sd card....you have a corrupt partition. You need to odin
Stock. Tar boot into stock recovery wipe data/cache 3 times each reboot. Then root/ flash cwm recovery back onto the phone and then wipe and flash your rom
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This............^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[Q] Recovering data after a wipe

I've unlocked the bootloader on a HTC Desire 510. This triggered a wipe. Afterwards, I wiped the system using the recovery. I had some photos on the internal SD card that I need to recover ASAP. Currently, the phone doesn't have any ROM, and I can only access it through fastboot and adb (adb in Phillz recovery). I've tried pulling the images from /sdcard/DCIM, but it doesn't pull anything, saying that no files are there.
I'm thinking of running photorec on the phone, but since it's the internal SD card, I can't mount it to the PC from the recovery. I thought of putting a ROM .zip on an sdcard and flash it, but I'm afraid that a flash would make recovery impossible. Is there a way I can dump the internal sdcard image just through fastboot and adb? Any ideas would also be most welcome.
Dafta said:
I've unlocked the bootloader on a HTC Desire 510. This triggered a wipe. Afterwards, I wiped the system using the recovery. I had some photos on the internal SD card that I need to recover ASAP. Currently, the phone doesn't have any ROM, and I can only access it through fastboot and adb (adb in Phillz recovery). I've tried pulling the images from /sdcard/DCIM, but it doesn't pull anything, saying that no files are there.
I'm thinking of running photorec on the phone, but since it's the internal SD card, I can't mount it to the PC from the recovery. I thought of putting a ROM .zip on an sdcard and flash it, but I'm afraid that a flash would make recovery impossible. Is there a way I can dump the internal sdcard image just through fastboot and adb? Any ideas would also be most welcome.
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flashing a new ROM.zip will only delete everything for sure.
I'm sory to say it, but by my knowledge there's only one way to recover them, and that's by recovering a backup on recovery mode.
I hope you did make a backup before unlocking your bootloader. If you didn't, I think there's not very much you can do :s
anyway, please remember to ALWAYS make a recovery backup before doing anything in recovery.
louis-JYG4t said:
flashing a new ROM.zip will only delete everything for sure.
I'm sory to say it, but by my knowledge there's only one way to recover them, and that's by recovering a backup on recovery mode.
I hope you did make a backup before unlocking your bootloader. If you didn't, I think there's not very much you can do :s
anyway, please remember to ALWAYS make a recovery backup before doing anything in recovery.
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What kind of backup??
For a nadroid backup you need a custom recovery, and to flash a custom recovery you need a unlocked bootloader...
Newyork! said:
What kind of backup??
For a nadroid backup you need a custom recovery, and to flash a custom recovery you need a unlocked bootloader...
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but he said he whiped the system using a recovery?
louis-JYG4t said:
but he said he whiped the system using a recovery?
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Yes, AFTER I unlocked the bootloader. There were all in all two wipes, although the second one was only /data and /cache.
I did a backup using adb, but to my knowledge, that's only a backup of the apps and their data.
When you unlock a bootloader phone, you lose everything, including photos, musics, etc.
Do you have a backup of your files?
Sorry bad english
If I were you, I would restore the backup with adb and see if you have your photo's back.
Otherwise I have no idea for how you can restore them sory...
louis-JYG4t said:
If I were you, I would restore the backup with adb and see if you have your photo's back.
Otherwise I have no idea for how you can restore them sory...
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Why does nobody read my OP? I said the phone doesn't currently have a ROM on it. I can't restore that backup.
I'm going to flash busybox, a 300kb zip file that probably won't overwrite too much data, and use dd to get what I need.
If you have an adb backup of your files in the pc, you can extract it and get your photos back

Deep clean?

What is the expert method to deep clean, wipe every thing my OPO and than flash a ROM?
Hoping to hear from you experts.
Thanks.
Mike2040 said:
What is the expert method to deep clean, wipe every thing my OPO and than flash a ROM?
Hoping to hear from you experts.
Thanks.
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You can flash the stock images via fastboot, that will erase everthing and get you back to stock. You can then install a custom recovery and flash roms again.
gsmyth said:
You can flash the stock images via fastboot, that will erase everthing and get you back to stock. You can then install a custom recovery and flash roms again.
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No need to prior Wipe data, Factory reset, Wipe all storage etc?
Thanks.
Mike2040 said:
No need to prior Wipe data, Factory reset, Wipe all storage etc?
Thanks.
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There is a command to wipe user data, see the below guide.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2839471
Reason!
Thanks for your expert replies.
The reason for asking was and is for you to know in depth what happened.
My OPOs BL is unlocked and rooted.......at times try other ROMs like Hydrogen, RR, etc.
I was surprised to see and empty Baidu folder size 80 bytes shown by ES File manger, after I flashed back COS 12.
The way I flash is firstly reboot to TWRP, Format > type yes, than Factory reset, than Advanced Wipe ALL except OTG, power off the OPO.
Power on in fastboot mode, connect to pc and flash COS ROM using those commands.
All is good, except the empty Baidu Folder, fail to understand how did it persist.
Other thing is when I later flash TWRP over stock, and than when I perform a factory reset before flashing another ROM, see red SD card errors? ........have to keep rebooting to TWRP.
The way I flash is TWRP > Format type yes > Factory reset > Wipe all except OTG > Mount OTG-USB containing the zip, install zip swipe flash > once done > Reboot. (before reboot don't clear dalvik and cache).
If I take screen capture of TWRP they wont be saved in Gallery.
TWRP 2.7.8.0 when flashed on start up showed this.........
"TWRP has detected an unmodified partition. TWRP can leave your partition unmodified to make it easier for you to take official updates. TWRP will be unable to prevent the stock ROM from replacing from replacing TWRP and will not offer to root your device. installing zips or performing adb operations may still modify the system partition.
Never show this screen during boot again."
To sum up my queries are:
1. How can I perform a deep clean of OPO, and than flash COS 12 using fastboot, so I don't see any Baidu etc empty folders.
2. Than flash TWRP and and if needed can take it's screen captures.
3. Later if required can flash new custom ROM with out issues.
Bottom line to clean my OPOs Storage that includes SD card.
Btw my OPO isn't giving any issues or bugs and working great, no EFS issues etc.........
After reading all care to edit/correct what am I doing incorrect?
Thanks again.
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Is this the command to format user data?
Code:
fastboot format cache
Mike2040 said:
Thanks for your expert replies.
The reason for asking was and is for you to know in depth what happened.
My OPOs BL is unlocked and rooted........
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I have seen people querying the Baidu folder before (i have it myself), it seems to be a folder left by ES file explorer, have you ever installed that? It doesnt seem to be anything malicious, although a lot people were spooked, thinking it was spyware of some sort.
https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/baidu-in-es-file-explorer-manager.303595/page-2
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Mike2040 said:
Is this the command to format user data?
Code:
fastboot format cache
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Below is the command for flashing the userdata file via fastboot. If you have downloaded the fastboot image files, I think it basically pushes a blank file to overwrite/format the user data space/parition.
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fastboot flash userdata userdata_64G.img

SGH-T769 (SGS Blaze 4G) Bricked? Can still access CWM Recovery!

So I believe I've bricked my SGH-T769, at least, whenever I attempt to turn it on, I am greeted with the standard Samsung splash-screen and can never proceed past it. I can still boot into recovery mode and i wanted to know if I could use the "restore from sdcard01" option to fix this. I have a removable SDCard and the ability to add files to it via- cardreader. Can I even get system restore files?
P.S. I cleared EVERYTHING... not JUST the harddrive, dalvik, and caches, i mean... i cleared EVERYTHING which was obviously a mistake because that's when the problems came. I believe I may have actually cleared the system files themselves...
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Oddly enough, CWM Recovery is still alive and well, but I cannot access DOWNLOAD MODE
(I KNOW HOW TO ACCESS DOWNLOAD MODE BUT IT IS JUST BROKEN WITH THIS PHONE)
Hello,
Yes, if you made a nandroid backup in recovery then restoring that nandroid should fix you.
To better assist you, your thread will be moved to your device forum linked below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/blaze-4g/general
The experts there may be able to help you with any other questions you have. Good luck.
digfive3 said:
So I believe I've bricked my SGH-T769, at least, whenever I attempt to turn it on, I am greeted with the standard Samsung splash-screen and can never proceed past it. I can still boot into recovery mode and i wanted to know if I could use the "restore from sdcard01" option to fix this. I have a removable SDCard and the ability to add files to it via- cardreader. Can I even get system restore files?
P.S. I cleared EVERYTHING... not JUST the harddrive, dalvik, and caches, i mean... i cleared EVERYTHING which was obviously a mistake because that's when the problems came. I believe I may have actually cleared the system files themselves...
:silly:
Oddly enough, CWM Recovery is still alive and well, but I cannot access DOWNLOAD MODE
(I KNOW HOW TO ACCESS DOWNLOAD MODE BUT IT IS JUST BROKEN WITH THIS PHONE)
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No, you are not bricked. If you are able to access recovery, think of it as a second chance . Since you have recovery available, have you tried transferring a ROM to it? If that is what you were aiming for, I recommend transferring TWRP onto it, flashing it, reboot to recovery, and proceed to flashing a ROM.
xWolf13 said:
No, you are not bricked. If you are able to access recovery, think of it as a second chance . Since you have recovery available, have you tried transferring a ROM to it? If that is what you were aiming for, I recommend transferring TWRP onto it, flashing it, reboot to recovery, and proceed to flashing a ROM.
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Can I just use an SD card to do that or will I need to find a way to get into download mode?
digfive3 said:
Can I just use an SD card to do that or will I need to find a way to get into download mode?
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That works also.
digfive3 said:
Can I just use an SD card to do that or will I need to find a way to get into download mode?
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Yes, download your ROM and Gapps package, place the zips on your external sdcard, boot to recovery, flash the ROM zip then flash the Gapps zip, do the wipes(factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache), reboot.
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Droidriven said:
Yes, download your ROM and Gapps package, place the zips on your external sdcard, boot to recovery, flash the ROM zip then flash the Gapps zip, do the wipes(factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache), reboot.
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Could you link me to a rom for my device? I'm having a hard time finding an actual ZIP file, just a bunch of .IMG files.
digfive3 said:
Could you link me to a rom for my device? I'm having a hard time finding an actual ZIP file, just a bunch of .IMG files.
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Do a Google search for "custom ROMs for SGH-T769" that should give some results if anything exists.
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digfive3 said:
So I believe I've bricked my SGH-T769, at least, whenever I attempt to turn it on, I am greeted with the standard Samsung splash-screen and can never proceed past it. I can still boot into recovery mode and i wanted to know if I could use the "restore from sdcard01" option to fix this. I have a removable SDCard and the ability to add files to it via- cardreader. Can I even get system restore files?
P.S. I cleared EVERYTHING... not JUST the harddrive, dalvik, and caches, i mean... i cleared EVERYTHING which was obviously a mistake because that's when the problems came. I believe I may have actually cleared the system files themselves...
:silly:
Oddly enough, CWM Recovery is still alive and well, but I cannot access DOWNLOAD MODE
(I KNOW HOW TO ACCESS DOWNLOAD MODE BUT IT IS JUST BROKEN WITH THIS PHONE)
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By the way, there is a device called a USB jig that is used to force a device into download mode, you can get one for $4-5 on eBay or you can make your own by cutting the end off of an old micro USB cord and using a 300k resistor(or any combination of resistors that equal but do not exceed 300k), there are videos on YouTube that show how to do that. That should boot you to download mode so you can restore the device to stock.
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