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miui and CM7 keeps cycling the inital loading

hi all,
Ok, I'm new to this stuff.
1. used the simple root and it worked great.
2. I then flashed CM7 and it worked great except market was not on it.
3. I downloaded and flashed gapps-hdpi-20101114-signed.zip by mistake, not realizing I had to use another gapps.
4. After I flashed it, the cm7 and android setup screens kept cycling between each other.
5. I restored to clockworkmod (sp) and then deleted the gapps and tried to then flash cm7. It didn't cycle between cm7 and android setup, but the cm7 screens kept cycling and never got past that.
6. I thought perhaps it was just cm7 now, so I tried miui and it's doing the same thing. It's cycling between the gingerbread man and MIUI with the status bar and won't do anything else.
Very frustrated. what have I done and how do I fix it?
Thanks folks,
Brett

I believe that those ROMs both require ENG S-OFF. Open simple root on your computer, click Fixes, then apply the fix there. Also, did you make sure you cleared your Dalvik cache before flashing? Always do a factory reset AND clear dalvik cache when changing ROMs.

make sure you have wifi off in your first boot

ardynine said:
make sure you have wifi off in your first boot
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From reading the first post, he got in, rebooted to flash gapps and ended up in bootloop afterwards

EtherealRemnant said:
From reading the first post, he got in, rebooted to flash gapps and ended up in bootloop afterwards
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Thanks ER. I'll try your method this evening.
I'll report back.
thanks!
brett

EtherealRemnant said:
I believe that those ROMs both require ENG S-OFF.
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I can say with no doubt whatsoever, no.

id10terrordfw said:
I can say with no doubt whatsoever, no.
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any suggestions then???????

I tried doing the ENG-off and still the same hang up on the front screen.
Any help please?
thanks,
brett

what method do you use to flash cm7? what exactly do you do.
to clarify what is your exact process for flashing the rom?

mudknot2005 said:
what method do you use to flash cm7? what exactly do you do.
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Hi. Thanks.
I use rom manager to boot to recovery. Then I install zip from sd card. I go through the process until it says reboot. It's when I reboot that I get stuck in the bootloop. It just cycles from the CM7 circular arrow to blank and then to the arrow thing again. MIUI does the same between the gingerbread guy and the status bar and back.
I then take the battery out, take out the sdcard, down volume & power, reinsert sdcard and do a restore so I can use my phone again in clockworkmod 3.0.0.6.
thanks,
brett

sounds like your forgetting to do a full wipe/factory reset, wipe cache, and wipe dalvik..

mudknot2005 said:
sounds like your forgetting to do a full wipe/factory reset, wipe cache, and wipe dalvik..
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actually, I did that.
it's weird. I restored a few times, did the above you suggested, and still in a loop. The first time I installed CM7 it was great, then the gapps thing seems to have screwed it up.
I'm lost.
brett

bdws1975 said:
actually, I did that.
it's weird. I restored a few times, did the above you suggested, and still in a loop. The first time I installed CM7 it was great, then the gapps thing seems to have screwed it up.
I'm lost.
brett
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Probably a silly question but you're doing full reinstalls, right? Not using a nandroid backup? I can't think of any reason that you should be boot looping permanently from flashing the gapps if you're going into clockwork, doing a factory reset, wiping the cache, then wiping the Dalvik cache, then flashing the ROM.

EtherealRemnant said:
Probably a silly question but you're doing full reinstalls, right? Not using a nandroid backup? I can't think of any reason that you should be boot looping permanently from flashing the gapps if you're going into clockwork, doing a factory reset, wiping the cache, then wiping the Dalvik cache, then flashing the ROM.
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hmm. I'm a little new to this, but I'm using the backup/restore option in recovery mode and am then flashing one of the backups. Could that be the problem?
If it is, how do I do a full reinstall?
thanks again for your help,
brett

mudknot2005 said:
sounds like your forgetting to do a full wipe/factory reset, wipe cache, and wipe dalvik..
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Without a full wipe I thought it would just bootloop?
Do a full wipe then reinstall cm7 and gapps.
Sent from my HTC Inspire 4G running CyanogenMod 7 using Tapatalk.

bdws1975 said:
hmm. I'm a little new to this, but I'm using the backup/restore option in recovery mode and am then flashing one of the backups. Could that be the problem?
If it is, how do I do a full reinstall?
thanks again for your help,
brett
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That's your problem right there. If you make a backup of a busted ROM, its still going to be busted when you restore it.
Do the factory reset, then clear the cache again just to make sure, go to advanced and clear Dalvik, then go to the main menu and use the choose install zip from sdcard option, then choose "choose zip from sdcard", find the ROM zip file and select it, then say yes to the flash and reboot when its done. If you are flashing CM7, make sure that you flash the correct gapps package after you flash the ROM or the ROM won't be very useful.

EtherealRemnant said:
That's your problem right there. If you make a backup of a busted ROM, its still going to be busted when you restore it.
Do the factory reset, then clear the cache again just to make sure, go to advanced and clear Dalvik, then go to the main menu and use the choose install zip from sdcard option, then choose "choose zip from sdcard", find the ROM zip file and select it, then say yes to the flash and reboot when its done. If you are flashing CM7, make sure that you flash the correct gapps package after you flash the ROM or the ROM won't be very useful.
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I'll give it a shot and then get back to you.
I do believe, however, that the restore I'm doing is the backup I did right before I did the original cm7 flash. I'll try.
thanks!

If you toggle wifi on after the first boot it goes into a bootloop. This is a know bug not a hunch.

EtherealRemnant said:
That's your problem right there. If you make a backup of a busted ROM, its still going to be busted when you restore it.
Do the factory reset, then clear the cache again just to make sure, go to advanced and clear Dalvik, then go to the main menu and use the choose install zip from sdcard option, then choose "choose zip from sdcard", find the ROM zip file and select it, then say yes to the flash and reboot when its done. If you are flashing CM7, make sure that you flash the correct gapps package after you flash the ROM or the ROM won't be very useful.
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DUDE!!!! You freaking rock. I got it!
I installed MIUI and it's amazing. Thank you very much.
Brett

Mustang302LX said:
Without a full wipe I thought it would just bootloop?
Do a full wipe then reinstall cm7 and gapps.
Sent from my HTC Inspire 4G running CyanogenMod 7 using Tapatalk.
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thank you!!!!! I really appreciate your help!

EVO LTE problem on install of custom ROM

I unlocked my bootloader, installed twrp recovery, and rooted obviously. I then backed up and installed the 9-6-12 build of CM10 nightlies for Evo lte from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1851912
Before installing I did a factory reset/wiped caches,
Now it boots up and gets past the HTC logo but then it just goes to a backlit black screen indefinitely. I left it for 30 minutes in case it was just booting really slowly.
Does anyone know what could be going on? I really want to try CM10.
I will give so many thanks to anyone who helps!

hockey22man said:
I unlocked my bootloader, installed twrp recovery, and rooted obviously. I then backed up and installed the 9-6-12 build of CM10 nightlies for Evo lte from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1851912
Before installing I did a factory reset/wiped caches,
Now it boots up and gets past the HTC logo but then it just goes to a backlit black screen indefinitely. I left it for 30 minutes in case it was just booting really slowly.
Does anyone know what could be going on? I really want to try CM10.
I will give so many thanks to anyone who helps!
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Try another clean install. You could also try wiping the dalvik cache after flashing (before rebooting).

Theonew said:
Try another clean install. You could also try wiping the dalvik cache after flashing (before rebooting).
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I will do another clean install to try again, but I tried multiple times last night. Each time I wiped Dalvik and regular cache...

hockey22man said:
I will do another clean install to try again, but I tried multiple times last night. Each time I wiped Dalvik and regular cache...
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You could try flashing with a different recovery (if available for your device).

Theonew said:
You could try flashing with a different recovery (if available for your device).
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I don't know why it would be a recovery problem but I guess I could try it if all else fails. You both get some thanks for help =)

hockey22man said:
I don't know why it would be a recovery problem but I guess I could try it if all else fails. You both get some thanks for help =)
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We "both" are the same person .

Theonew said:
We "both" are the same person .
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Ah didn't look closely.
Still not working though. I tried both suggestions. Any other ideas people?

[Q] Stuck on bootscreen after flashing [JB]Unoffical MIUI 2.9.14 Skyrocket[PORT]

Hello Pros! First post, semi-noob here.
I tried flashing the newest [JB][CM10Based]Unoffical MIUI 2.9.14 Skyrocket 9/14/12[PORT] today. I followed all instructions; I wiped wiped wiped, factory and Dalvik, and flashed the kernel.
But I am always stuck on the MIUI bootscreen, and can never fully load up the ROM. I've tried wiping and re-flashing several times, to no avail. I have not had any problems flashing roms before this. Any help or ideas of what causes this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much!

shentheory said:
Hello Pros! First post, semi-noob here.
I tried flashing the newest [JB][CM10Based]Unoffical MIUI 2.9.14 Skyrocket 9/14/12[PORT] today. I followed all instructions; I wiped wiped wiped, factory and Dalvik, and flashed the kernel.
But I am always stuck on the MIUI bootscreen, and can never fully load up the ROM. I've tried wiping and re-flashing several times, to no avail. I have not had any problems flashing roms before this. Any help or ideas of what causes this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much!
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Couple things.... did u format data/system? Also what recovery are u using?

Deliberate said:
Couple things.... did u format data/system? Also what recovery are u using?
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Yes, I formatted both system and data. And I'm using the recovery that was recommended in the rom thread, Sk8er's Cwm v13.
Thanks for your reply!

shentheory said:
Yes, I formatted both system and data. And I'm using the recovery that was recommended in the rom thread, Sk8er's Cwm v13.
Thanks for your reply!
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Try reflashing. But when u get into recovery go to extras/darkside tool. And click on the super wipe(idr what's its called but there's only two options.) When that's done factory reset format data/system 3x if u want.( Couldn't hurt) then flash ROM! All should be good... if not keep this thread open. Lol and well try something else. But hopefully that works. Good luck!

Deliberate said:
Try reflashing. But when u get into recovery go to extras/darkside tool. And click on the super wipe(idr what's its called but there's only two options.) When that's done factory reset format data/system 3x if u want.( Couldn't hurt) then flash ROM! All should be good... if not keep this thread open. Lol and well try something else. But hopefully that works. Good luck!
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Thanks for the steps, but unfortunately I'm still staring at this dang MIUI bootscreen...:crying:
I ran the darkside superwipe, factory reset 3x, and formatted both data/system 3x, flashed the rom, and I'm still staring at this dang MIUI bootscreen... waaa waaaaaaa, what's the DEALIO?

shentheory said:
Thanks for the steps, but unfortunately I'm still staring at this dang MIUI bootscreen...:crying:
I ran the darkside superwipe, factory reset 3x, and formatted both data/system 3x, flashed the rom, and I'm still staring at this dang MIUI bootscreen... waaa waaaaaaa, what's the DEALIO?
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Really? Damn. Are u on the latest recovery? If not try flashing the newest. Then do the steps again in my last post. Can't believe your having all these troubles!
Oh also u could try fixing permissions. After doing all the wipes and after flashing. Go to dark side tools again and do the cashe wipe! Then go back to advanced and fix permissions again.

Can you boot into recovery or not? If you can, just flash the rom. If you can't, yank the battery, replace it. Then, hold down both volume buttons, the press the power button, release all the buttons, you should be able to get into recovery.

Deliberate said:
Really? Damn. Are u on the latest recovery? If not try flashing the newest. Then do the steps again in my last post. Can't believe your having all these troubles!
Oh also u could try fixing permissions. After doing all the wipes and after flashing. Go to dark side tools again and do the cashe wipe! Then go back to advanced and fix permissions again.
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Wow, still stuck on the boot screen even after the darkside cache wipe. I flashed CWMR Touch v6.0.1.3 by sk8erwitskil which is the newest CWM recovery as far as I believe, and the recommended recovery for this ROM. I EVEN flashed TWRP 2.2 just for the heck of it and flashed MIUI with that and still the same result; stuck on bootscreen. So I'm pretty sure it's not the recovery.
I did a darkside superwipe, and a darkside cache wipe, along with factory reset & format data/system 3x. The rom installs in recovery just fine. It's just once i reboot, i get the MIUI splash loading screen indefinitely. I'm not sure what could be causing this since I do all the important wipes (plus the darkside wipes now) each time. I think I have BAD LUCK!

You'll have to use odin, and reroot your phone.

Have you checked the MD5 of the ROM? If it's a bad DL it could flash just enough of it to loop you.

shentheory said:
Wow, still stuck on the boot screen even after the darkside cache wipe. I flashed CWMR Touch v6.0.1.3 by sk8erwitskil which is the newest CWM recovery as far as I believe, and the recommended recovery for this ROM. I EVEN flashed TWRP 2.2 just for the heck of it and flashed MIUI with that and still the same result; stuck on bootscreen. So I'm pretty sure it's not the recovery.
I did a darkside superwipe, and a darkside cache wipe, along with factory reset & format data/system 3x. The rom installs in recovery just fine. It's just once i reboot, i get the MIUI splash loading screen indefinitely. I'm not sure what could be causing this since I do all the important wipes (plus the darkside wipes now) each time. I think I have BAD LUCK!
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I had the same problem, but while my phone was stuck on the MIUI boot screen i pulled the batter, got into recovery again and simply did a factory data reset just once and then it booted up, but my issue is that i get no data at all no mater what version of MIUI I try to flash.

mimart7 said:
You'll have to use odin, and reroot your phone.
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Even if my stock rom is already rooted? I'm not against trying it, I'm just curious to how that could affect it. Thanks for your help!
hechoen said:
Have you checked the MD5 of the ROM? If it's a bad DL it could flash just enough of it to loop you.
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I will do this and update when I do, Thanks for your help!

hechoen said:
Have you checked the MD5 of the ROM? If it's a bad DL it could flash just enough of it to loop you.
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Ya I agree try downloading it again. Check the md5 and flash that ROM again. If it doesn't work your gonna have to Odin!

There were a lot of complaints of boot loops when flashing, so I pulled the DL link. I actually stopped using miui and moved back to CM or AOKP, depending on which one is most stable at the moment. Every once in a while I give miui a try, but I never stick with it. If you want miui, I suggest you follow Lithium's thread. His version is the officially supported miui rom.

I can confirm heres what i did to fix i had the boot loop.. all i did was run DARKSIDE Superwipe x2 Times. Then i installed MIUI Rom. Then i Factory Reset. Try booting wait a little bit. If still not going threw remove battery and boot to recovery and factory reset one more time then reboot. So once again.
1. DARKSIDE SUPERWIPE x2++ 2. Install MIUI Rom. 3. Factory Reset. 4. Boot. 5. (If still looping) Remove battery Then recovery. and Factory Reset and boot again. Your welcome

Can we move this to q and a?
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Bootloop in custom roms

Hi everybody
I have a X1032 model. I'm having a problem flashing custom roms. I'm on stock 4.4.2. I unlocked my bootloader and installed cwm with fastboot " CWM-swipe-6.0.4.7-falcon.img". After that i rooted my phone with some supersu.zip file that i had to flash in cwm. So i have bootloader unlocked and a rooted device. Downloaded C-rom 4.4.3, wiped data/factory reset, wiped chache, and in mounts and storage i wiped /system. After that i flashed C-rom 4.4.3 succesfully but when i reboot the phone its stuck on a bootloop and i can't see why. I've tried it 3 times with no luck and even an older version of it, i tried cm11 4.4.3 but same no luck i tried waiting 20 minutes but it didnt help. Am i doing something wrong? or did i miss a step or something?
These are the roms i tried to flash:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2608377
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2713871
If you can help me please do thanks in regards.

Have you wiped cache? I'm not sure but wiping cache sometimes helps.
You may try Philz touch recovery, too. It can clean the phone to install a new rom, so it may solve your problem if you forgot to wipe a partition.
edit: Sorry, you said you wiped cache, missed it. You can still try another recovery I think. Don't know why but trying another recovery sometimes help. (I saved myself once, but may be just coincidence)

dont wipe the system!
hamid1158 said:
Hi everybody
I have a X1032 model. I'm having a problem flashing custom roms. I'm on stock 4.4.2. I unlocked my bootloader and installed cwm with fastboot " CWM-swipe-6.0.4.7-falcon.img". After that i rooted my phone with some supersu.zip file that i had to flash in cwm. So i have bootloader unlocked and a rooted device. Downloaded C-rom 4.4.3, wiped data/factory reset, wiped chache, and in mounts and storage i wiped /system. After that i flashed C-rom 4.4.3 succesfully but when i reboot the phone its stuck on a bootloop and i can't see why. I've tried it 3 times with no luck and even an older version of it, i tried cm11 4.4.3 but same no luck i tried waiting 20 minutes but it didnt help. Am i doing something wrong? or did i miss a step or something?
These are the roms i tried to flash:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2608377
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2713871
If you can help me please do thanks in regards.
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Just stop wiping the system and it will work fine.
i've used cyanogen wiki to install one.

tansly said:
Have you wiped cache? I'm not sure but wiping cache sometimes helps.
You may try Philz touch recovery, too. It can clean the phone to install a new rom, so it may solve your problem if you forgot to wipe a partition.
edit: Sorry, you said you wiped cache, missed it. You can still try another recovery I think. Don't know why but trying another recovery sometimes help. (I saved myself once, but may be just coincidence)
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Thanks for your fast reply i'll try to flash philz recovery now and i'll see if it works. Got my fingers crossed

Ravin89 said:
Just stop wiping the system and it will work fine.
i've used cyanogen wiki to install one.
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Thanks ill try this time without wiping system

tansly said:
Have you wiped cache? I'm not sure but wiping cache sometimes helps.
You may try Philz touch recovery, too. It can clean the phone to install a new rom, so it may solve your problem if you forgot to wipe a partition.
edit: Sorry, you said you wiped cache, missed it. You can still try another recovery I think. Don't know why but trying another recovery sometimes help. (I saved myself once, but may be just coincidence)
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A big thanks it worked i used Philz Touch recovey and it worked thanks

For my information, did you still wipe /system or not?

SbM_ said:
For my information, did you still wipe /system or not?
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No i didnt what i did is install Philz recovery here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2201860
Go to downlaod Home and search for falcon and look for this one
philz_touch_6.43.8-falcon.zip
download it and put it on your phone and just flash it
then go to wipe data/factory reset you'll get an option to wipe for installing a rom choose that
after its done just flash your rom
it worked at the first time i did it

Installed Cloudy G3 through TWRP, receivint system ui not responding error

Hi guys!
I got a G3 yesterday and decided to root it. I installed TWRP and decided to install Cloudy G3.
Immediately on boot, all services stop responding. There's a loop of popups saying things like "System UI has stopped responding." The same with download manager and other things. So I figured the rom didn't install properly. I went to my backup to restore it and TWRP doesn't have it listed. I looked in all directories I could (saved it initially to /sdcard/) but it's not there. The weird part is that when you click the restore button going into the list of your backups, my backup pops up for like a quarter of a second and goes away.
I decided to use TWRP's wipe function to do a system restore. It completed and now my android version is "Cloudy g3 2.5." So... System restore installed the rom? I'm just really confused at all of this. Anybody have any insight to the stuff I've mentioned?

it0ken said:
Hi guys!
I got a G3 yesterday and decided to root it. I installed TWRP and decided to install Cloudy G3.
Immediately on boot, all services stop responding. There's a loop of popups saying things like "System UI has stopped responding." The same with download manager and other things. So I figured the rom didn't install properly. I went to my backup to restore it and TWRP doesn't have it listed. I looked in all directories I could (saved it initially to /sdcard/) but it's not there. The weird part is that when you click the restore button going into the list of your backups, my backup pops up for like a quarter of a second and goes away.
I decided to use TWRP's wipe function to do a system restore. It completed and now my android version is "Cloudy g3 2.5." So... System restore installed the rom? I'm just really confused at all of this. Anybody have any insight to the stuff I've mentioned?
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Did you use wipe before flashing the rom? If not that's Why you had the issue you didn't wipe. You MUST wipe when flashing a rom.

hyelton said:
Did you use wipe before flashing the rom? If not that's Why you had the issue you didn't wipe. You MUST wipe when flashing a rom.
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Did not know that, and no I didn't. But I appreciate you letting me know that, probably some volatile information I should've been aware of.
May I ask why the device fixed the CloudyG3 rom when I did wipe it? I thought wiping through TWRP sends the phone back to factory settings, but it just fixed the rom and booted fine.

it0ken said:
Did not know that, and no I didn't. But I appreciate you letting me know that, probably some volatile information I should've been aware of.
May I ask why the device fixed the CloudyG3 rom when I did wipe it? I thought wiping through TWRP sends the phone back to factory settings, but it just fixed the rom and booted fine.
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Your welcome
It wiped your current install, current rom being cloudy it reset it to factory settings. Doing a wipe won't put you back to stock.

hyelton said:
Your welcome
It wiped your current install, current rom being cloudy it reset it to factory settings. Doing a wipe won't put you back to stock.
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Ah, so flashing the stock lg firmware would be the only way to send a device back to factory settings? I'm enjoying this learning process for sure.

it0ken said:
Ah, so flashing the stock lg firmware would be the only way to send a device back to factory settings? I'm enjoying this learning process for sure.
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Correct