Hi
Quick question I was changing recovery I was on TWRP and decided to change to philz cwm I flashed it booted phone and there was no IMEI in status. I then decided to reflash TWRP which fixed my IMEI I am confused why it would do this, any info on this would be appreciated.
faultytowersdude said:
Hi
Quick question I was changing recovery I was on TWRP and decided to change to philz cwm I flashed it booted phone and there was no IMEI in status. I then decided to reflash TWRP which fixed my IMEI I am confused why it would do this, any info on this would be appreciated.
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Bad cache partition probably. Flashign a recovery wont "break" your IMEI and teh fact that ti came back means it ws never broken but sometimes when the /cache partition goes bad, IMEI appears to be lost. Usually formatting or fastboot flashign cache.img fixes that
rootSU said:
Bad cache partition probably. Flashign a recovery wont "break" your IMEI and teh fact that ti came back means it ws never broken but sometimes when the /cache partition goes bad, IMEI appears to be lost. Usually formatting or fastboot flashign cache.img fixes that
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I too have the same issue. I've reverted everything back to stock, flashed cache.img, flashed latest stock image directly from Google, and still 0 for IMEI. Nothing seems to fix this.
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I tried to flash a cm10 rom and i did thought i flashed the boot.img separately as i read you have to but it was stuck booting for at least 25 min so i gave up with that and tried to restore from a backup i made with twrp. I restored from the backup and tried to reboot but nothing happens, it shows the htc screen and then turns black and thats it. I can go into bootloader and recovery but im not sure what to do to get back. Should i try a ruu?
ez4nick said:
I tried to flash a cm10 rom and i did thought i flashed the boot.img separately as i read you have to but it was stuck booting for at least 25 min so i gave up with that and tried to restore from a backup i made with twrp. I restored from the backup and tried to reboot but nothing happens, it shows the htc screen and then turns black and thats it. I can go into bootloader and recovery but im not sure what to do to get back. Should i try a ruu?
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Maybe it was a bad restore? or a bad backup? You could try restoring from your backup again.
Or blaze on and see if you can get CM10 up and running.
Did you wipe /cache/dalvik/system when coming from stock (before installing)? I've seen situations (on other devices), Where I've had to delete the /data partition as well, I'm not sure why it wouldn't boot, but it refused to get past the CM load screen until the /data partition was wiped. If it's a new phone and you don't have too much on the sdcard, this might be worth trying.
Once you have TWRP flashing ROM's shouldn't be too bad, it's just the "fastboot flash boot boot.img" that catches people out usually.
you still have to flash boot.img separate before/after a twrp restore.
Grab the boot.img from a stock rom
Wipe cache/dalvik
Factory reset
Bootloader, fastboot usb, then fastboot flash boot boot.img
Then restore the backup
Thanks everyone for the responses, I was able to get it working after trying a few more times and wiping everything. Not sure why it didnt work earlier but all of a sudden after trying it just worked.
I just got my Nexus 5 a while ago and I just unlocked the bootloader and flashed TWRP and as soon as I opened TWRP it basically crashed and rebooted the phone is a boot loop but now when I go to TWRP the log says Unable to mount /data and I can't do anything. Does anyone have the solution? I knew I shouldn't have rooted -_-
Have you flashed a stock cache.img yet? Thats usually the first thing to try.
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Uhh
Not yet right now I'm currently using Wug's Toolkit and seeing if that helps then i'll try that. Do you have the link by any chance?
OH thank GAWD its working again thanks for your help though
what did you do in the toolkit?
Generally the consensus here is to not use toolkits. There are 2-3 "Johnny Opposite" members, but the masses of senior members see them as a bad thing.
I explain what happend.
You opened bootloader, but you flashed twrp instead of start the phone to let stock recovery finish the formating. You flashed twrp and rebooted to twrp. Twrp found the commands in the memory or on the misc partition to do a factory reset then reboot, but that format command is not compatible with twrp, so that commamd was skipped and then twrp rebooted your, because that was the next command in the line. Now your started booting with an unformated cache and data partition. The easiest way to solve the issue is to do a format data in twrp to format data partition then a factory reset to format cache.
So In the toolkit I basically flashed the stock rom and it basically factory reset EVERYTHING so now its working again thanks for the help! Now to try this over again
killerkyman said:
So In the toolkit I basically flashed the stock rom and it basically factory reset EVERYTHING so now its working again thanks for the help! Now to try this over again
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Ok thanks. It is best to do those steps manually
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
Yeah so I forgot to reboot before flashing recovery and entering that so now that I crossed that bridge I don't have to worry Wooh thank goodness I thought I totally messed up
Hey guys. Is there any way I can tell if my phone's efs is corrupt?
Thanks!
Not really. What are your symptoms / why are you asking?
Well my Sim gets recognized but I can't call anyone and it says that the phone is in airplane mode. Also I can't change the preferred network type and it stays on LTE/GSM (PRL)
Rooted or not?
Yup, rooted
When you do anything in recovery do you get any errors about persist?
No, I don't think so
Have you tried to wipe / flash stock cache image?
How do I do that?
Recovery / fastboot
Well I've tried to flash to stock, when I flashed stock KitKat the imei would show incorrect but I could turn on the radio, but now with lollipop the imei is correct but the radio can't be turned on
Wipe cache from recovery
Just did it and nothing changed
Dunno then. Can only really suggest flashing back to stock kk again and if the same as before, contact lg support.
OK thanks anyways!
I got a nexus 5 off of eBay, the seller said he had tried to root it and failed so I thought I would have a crack at it.
I thought it would be an easy restore but I ran into a few problems:
Phone originally came with 6.0.1 installed.
On android 5+ I could not access the standard recovery screen, and when I pressed power+volUp it just said formatting /data and would not move from that.
Rolled back to 4.4 and I got into the ususal recovery screen.
Tried to do a factory reset, but it again stuck at formatting /data.
I left it the entire night while I slept and it was still saying formatting /data. in the morning, nothing had changed.
Trying to boot the phone normally just left it on the 4 startup screen.
I've tried doing a full flash of stock android with each seperate part manually.
Also /data is unable to be mounted in any custom recovery, like it is corrupted or locked somehow.
With the stock recovery, it cannot be detected by adb, but in cwm it can.
EDIT: checking the /data folder in adb shell shows it's completely empty, and the same with system even after flashing and flashing again.
Can anyone advise me as to what might be the problem here?
Reflash all partitions manually, including userdata.img file. After flashing the last partition, boot directly into stock recovery and perform a factory wipe, then reboot.
Done that multiple times, I get the same result on stock android.
I don't want to root or anything like that right now, just get it back to a working state.
So you flashed the userdata.img file?
audit13 said:
So you flashed the userdata.img file?
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yes multiple times
If you flashed userdata.img multiple times and the phone still can't perform a factory reset, the emmc chip may be damaged.
Moto G XT1031
Unlocked bootloader
So I have a few dozen Moto Gs. I'm always running into problems with them, but this problem is new. I had originally used CWM on this device for backups and rooting. Phone died and a put it in the drawer for months. I took it back out to mess around with it and see if I could get it going again. However, I can't get TWRP onto it. I've tried erasing recovery via fastboot, it says it worked, but when i boot into recovery it's still CWM. Inside CWM itself, I get lots of "can't mount cache" errors. So when I try to wipe anything inside CWM, it just freezes.
I was able to boot directly to TWRP via "fastboot boot twrp.img". However, none of the wipe tools seem to do anything. Factory reset, format data, advanced wipe... they all go through with no errors, but the file manager still shows that all my original files are still on the phone.
i have same issue with xt1033 but instead of cwm mine is stock recovery no matter what i do with my device everything stays same seems like it went into write protection have u got any fix?
Oh dear - it looks you two have suffered from the read-only eMMC brick. You can try repairing the phone with this tutorial: https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g/help/how-to-unbrick-moto-g-falcon-t3394788
If this fails though, your phone needs to have its logic board/motherboard replaced. That said, it does make me want to ask one question: for those who have suffered from the read-only eMMC brick, what eMMC chip do those who have suffered from this bug have? Is it a Samsung or a SanDisk eMMC chip? I think it is about time to do a survey here.