I had just downloaded the latest firmware to upgrade to lolipop, I did a titanium backup, then a nandroid with TWRP.
Upon reboot I can only get to the default recover screen (The one with the android on the skateboard). I can boot into TWRP and have tried clearing cache and delvik cache, and now doing a factory reset but I'm still having the problem. sometimes when rebooting from TWRP the phone boots to the lock screen (or to setup screen after factory reset), then a few seconds later reboots back to the screen with the android on the skateboard.
I haven't even started installing the new firmware, all I did was backup with TWRP and it seems to have semi bricked the phone.
I also tried restoring the backup and I get an error "E:\ No Partition selected for restore."
Justintoxicated said:
I had just downloaded the latest firmware to upgrade to lolipop, I did a titanium backup, then a nandroid with TWRP.
Upon reboot I can only get to the default recover screen (The one with the android on the skateboard). I can boot into TWRP and have tried clearing cache and delvik cache, and now doing a factory reset but I'm still having the problem. sometimes when rebooting from TWRP the phone boots to the lock screen (or to setup screen after factory reset), then a few seconds later reboots back to the screen with the android on the skateboard.
I haven't even started installing the new firmware, all I did was backup with TWRP and it seems to have semi bricked the phone.
I also tried restoring the backup and I get an error "E:\ No Partition selected for restore."
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You flashed twrp either by twrp manager or allowed flashify to download the image for you. Try flashing the firmware zip I posted in tigerstowns thread that has twrp in it. If that doesn't work you will need to ruu and then install twrp and restore. Do not use twrp manager.
dottat said:
You flashed twrp either by twrp manager or allowed flashify to download the image for you. Try flashing the firmware zip I posted in tigerstowns thread that has twrp in it. If that doesn't work you will need to ruu and then install twrp and restore. Do not use twrp manager.
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I beleive I flashed twrp origionally from fastboot, that was months ago though when we got the 4.4.4 update.
Do you mean I need to flash that zip from fastboot?
I'm worried about trying to flash firmware with the phone in a strange state. I'm almost thinking that something went bad inside the phone, but not convinced yet. It has been doing strange things lately, constant searching for location, pausing itself durring playback of music, and some random restarts. I haven't been messing it it so it seems strange to all of a sudden have these issues after many months.
Justintoxicated said:
I beleive I flashed twrp origionally from fastboot, that was months ago though when we got the 4.4.4 update.
Do you mean I need to flash that zip from fastboot?
I'm worried about trying to flash firmware with the phone in a strange state. I'm almost thinking that something went bad inside the phone, but not convinced yet. It has been doing strange things lately, constant searching for location, pausing itself durring playback of music, and some random restarts. I haven't been messing it it so it seems strange to all of a sudden have these issues after many months.
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Nah man. Just reflash the firmware zip that contains twrp and report back. The older twrp are not safe to use on the newer firmware. I have a pda thread stickied in the general section that explains. Phone is likely fine.
dottat said:
Nah man. Just reflash the firmware zip that contains twrp and report back. The older twrp are not safe to use on the newer firmware. I have a pda thread stickied in the general section that explains. Phone is likely fine.
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Ok, yea, I flashed the new firmware (with twrp) using fastboot , I'm still stuck on the same screen though. I did not install lolipop because I need to get the phone to USB mode to copy it over, which I cannot do because it will not start up.
Justintoxicated said:
Ok, yea, I flashed the new firmware (with twrp) using fastboot , I'm still stuck on the same screen though.
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Ok...so follow me...if you flashed what you thought was cache on the new firmware but using an older twrp you wiped system instead.
Do you have your stuff backed up?
dottat said:
Ok...so follow me...if you flashed what you thought was cache on the new firmware but using an older twrp you wiped system instead.
Do you have your stuff backed up?
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I don't know, I made a nandroid to my external memory card and immediately after that I was no longer able to start up... I tried to restore the nandroid and I cannot. So I would say no I am probably not backed up. I do still have RDKN rom on the memory card for 4.4.3, should I try to re-install that?
TWRP is now version 2.8.5.0, so apparently it updated correctly (I think before it was 2.8.1)
Justintoxicated said:
I don't know, I made a nandroid to my external memory card and immediately after that I was no longer able to start up... I tried to restore the nandroid and I cannot. So I would say no I am probably not backed up. I do still have RDKN rom on the memory card for 4.4.3, should I try to re-install that?
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No. Your best bet to get your stuff back would be to downgrade firmware back to 4.4.4 and reflash the latest twrp img only and then restore your nand.
dottat said:
No. Your best bet to get your stuff back would be to downgrade firmware back to 4.4.4 and reflash the latest twrp img only and then restore your nand.
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Ok my internet is not working on my laptop at work (only of the PC I'm on and no way to transfer files without my phone), so I guess I will try to do this when I get home. At this point I don't even care about my data, I wanted to save my text conversations but other than that everything I need should be saved in my titanium backup.
Justintoxicated said:
Ok my internet is not working on my laptop at work, so I guess I will try to do this when I get home. At this point I don't even care about my data, I wanted to save my text conversations but other than that everything I need should be saved in my titanium backup.
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And that's what I figured. So flash 4.4.4. Flash latest twrp. Restore nand from ext sd. Boot up. Install this app.
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934537937
Run it and link to your Google account and make it perform a backup.
It will do your apps/email accounts/texts/even home screen layout. And it will do it once a day for you automatically or on demand whenever.
Once you get a good backup on this app you can simply flash the new ruu and use this app to restore.
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And that's what I figured. So flash 4.4.4. Flash latest twrp. Restore nand from ext sd. Boot up. Install this app.
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934537937
Run it and link to your Google account and make it perform a backup.
It will do your apps/email accounts/texts/even home screen layout. And it will do it once a day for you automatically or on demand whenever.
Once you get a good backup on this app you can simply flash the new ruu and use this app to restore.
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Update, restarted the computer and I was able to restore the old firmware. I re-installed the old rom afterwards (not my nandroid) and I am unable to get into the OS. Well technically I get prompted to select a language, after which the phone reboots back to the S-off androids with skateboards bootloader. Does this mean my phone is toast?
Hey guys, should I S-on the phone load the stock bootloader and try to return it? It is over a year old so I think I will need to use my insurance ($100). What is the best way to go about doing this?
Also when I get my replacement phone will there still be a way to S-off?
Thanks,
- Jusitn
The problem appears to be something wrong with my micro SD card! I removed the micro SD card and I can boot up fine. I guess I need to find another way to copy the rom to the micro SD install the rom then remove the micro SD card.
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Oh this is worse than paying $100 for a new phone. It appears that creating a backup instead of creating a backup, actually corrupted my memory card. Now all the photos are backed up to the cloud but it will take me hours and hours to get all my apps back to the way they were. Some Security camera settings, Rifle target hand load development all gone. Audio book place holders, all notes taken etc. Nothing life or death but those security cameras will take me forever to figure out. I know I know, why not create a backup right? Well that's what I was trying to do!
So I was able to get back some data using some recovery software, unfortunately I was not able to retrieve the nandroid or the titanium backup files. Pictures were backed up to the could and music licenses and other hting I can add back on from the PC. Very time consuming though.
Anyways, what should I do now? Should I just reformat the SD card and continue to use it or should I assume that this happened because the card is bad and replace it with something else?
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So I was able to get back some data using some recovery software, unfortunately I was not able to retrieve the nandroid or the titanium backup files. Pictures were backed up to the could and music licenses and other hting I can add back on from the PC. Very time consuming though.
Anyways, what should I do now? Should I just reformat the SD card and continue to use it or should I assume that this happened because the card is bad and replace it with something else?
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I don't know what file system you're using but assuming it's one that windows can read, connect it to a PC and run chkdsk on it. If you don't know how to do that from a command prompt, right click on the drive in windows explorer and choose properties. Then tools and then click on the check now button under Error-checking. A small window will open. A line that says automatically fix file system errors will be checked by default. In your case, I'd suggest also checking the line that says "scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors". It'll take a while for it to complete with that line checked so be patient. If you're lucky, it might just fix your problem. No promises but it's worth a try.
When it's done you can look in your event viewer to see what it found, if anything. If it finds bad sectors, I wouldn't trust the card. It can be used but there's no guarantee that more problems won't pop up. Maybe, maybe not.
To get to your event viewer, in Win 7 (not sure about Windows 8) click start and in the search box type event.vwr. I'm not sure what category you have to look under in there but perhaps under Winlogon. That's where you'll find it if it requires a reboot to check the card but that's not likely so I'm not sure.
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I don't know what file system you're using but assuming it's one that windows can read, connect it to a PC and run chkdsk on it. If you don't know how to do that from a command prompt, right click on the drive in windows explorer and choose properties. Then tools and then click on the check now button under Error-checking. A small window will open. A line that says automatically fix file system errors will be checked by default. In your case, I'd suggest also checking the line that says "scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors". It'll take a while for it to complete with that line checked so be patient. If you're lucky, it might just fix your problem. No promises but it's worth a try.
When it's done you can look in your event viewer to see what it found, if anything. If it finds bad sectors, I wouldn't trust the card. It can be used but there's no guarantee that more problems won't pop up. Maybe, maybe not.
To get to your event viewer, in Win 7 (not sure about Windows 8) click start and in the search box type event.vwr. I'm not sure what category you have to look under in there but perhaps under Winlogon. That's where you'll find it if it requires a reboot to check the card but that's not likely so I'm not sure.
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exFat for the card, and yes I am on windows 7. I tried to run a check as it was detected as having problems when I plugged the card into my laptop. Then it said I needed to dismount the drive and I said ok. Then it would just hang up. I reformatted the card and then ran the checkdisk again and it tells me that there are no problems now. I guess the card is ok and the issue was caused by TWRP? Not very cool when creating a back delete all your titanium backups and your nandroid that you were trying to create. Unfortunately I have to start from scratch on everything now. I even tried restoring to an older nandroid from May that was saved on my computer but that failed as well. for different reasons.
Justintoxicated said:
exFat for the card, and yes I am on windows 7. I tried to run a check as it was detected as having problems when I plugged the card into my laptop. Then it said I needed to dismount the drive and I said ok. Then it would just hang up. I reformatted the card and then ran the checkdisk again and it tells me that there are no problems now. I guess the card is ok and the issue was caused by TWRP? Not very cool when creating a back delete all your titanium backups and your nandroid that you were trying to create. Unfortunately I have to start from scratch on everything now. I even tried restoring to an older nandroid from May that was saved on my computer but that failed as well. for different reasons.
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What reason did the restore fail for? And don't ever s-on unless you have let me have a crack at a phone. Not one thing you have said so far makes me think its phone. Unfortunately I have ended up with corrupt exfat discs before too. Sucks.
dottat said:
What reason did the restore fail for? And don't ever s-on unless you have let me have a crack at a phone. Not one thing you have said so far makes me think its phone. Unfortunately I have ended up with corrupt exfat discs before too. Sucks.
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I don't remember, probably missing a file or something.
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I’m hoping that someone may read this and have an idea of something to try. Or something I’m missing.
I’ve worked on and rooted multiple android phones and never once had an issue until the thunderbolt.
A friend has a thunderbolt that we previously rooted and all was working well until one day after a reboot the phone got stuck at the white HTC boot screen and then after rebooting a second time, the phone essentially “restored” a stored image of some sort. Now EVERY time you reboot the phone, it first boots and gets stuck at the HTC white boot screen, then after rebooting it a second time, it goes back to this exact same “stored image” state. If you change the desktop settings, remove and install apps and then reboot (twice), the apps you removed come back, the apps you downloaded are gone and the desktop goes back to this “stored” state.
I’ve tried re-rooting, unrooting, auto root, auto unroot, fix permissions via clockwork recovery as well as through rom manager…no matter what I do to this phone after It reboots (twice), it constantly goes back to the same “stored image”
Also, after flashing a PG05IMG.zip file through HBOOT, when the phone reboots its exhibits the same behavior..gets stuck at white HTC screen, then second boot brings the phone RIGHT back to the “stored image” state.
Any ideas or help appreciated!
i think i saw someone else with this. let me see if i can find post.
take the sd card out
put sd card into a computer
delete/rename PG05IMG.zip
put sd card back in phone
reboot
sublimaze said:
take the sd card out
put sd card into a computer
delete/rename PG05IMG.zip
put sd card back in phone
reboot
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What I was going to say.
Are you leaving the PG05IMG.zip on the SD card?
sublimaze said:
take the sd card out
put sd card into a computer
delete/rename PG05IMG.zip
put sd card back in phone
reboot
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I wish it were that simple!! Unfortunately its not a bad /sdcard/PG05IMG.zip file that is being loaded back onto the phone. I verified this by booting the phone without the sdcard at all.
have you unrooted and rerooted?
Also do you have anything setup with Ti Backup?
boostenmkiv said:
I wish it were that simple!! Unfortunately its not a bad /sdcard/PG05IMG.zip file that is being loaded back onto the phone. I verified this by booting the phone without the sdcard at all.
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The problem your having is ROM related not radio related. The PG05IMG file should have nothing to do with it. You need to do a wipe/factory reset and flash a new ROM. With those problems I wouldn't trust possibly restoring a backup of a corrupted ROM
ScoobarSTI said:
have you unrooted and rerooted?
Also do you have anything setup with Ti Backup?
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I attempted to unroot and even re-root, but NOTHING will take...no matter what I flash, the phone will ALWAYS revert back to this same image.
Ti backup is installed but only has a couple apps backed up
I would wipe everything and format system
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00negative said:
I would wipe everything and format system
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Via which method?
RootandBoot, unfortunately even trying to flash new ROMs result in the exact same result...boot to white htc, gets stuck..reboot phone once more and it goes back to this crap image.
I also did the factory reset and also all 3 wipes (data, cache, dalvik) in clockwork...I even ADB shell'd into the phone and deleted stuff from system...after the double reboot...its back!
boostenmkiv said:
RootandBoot, unfortunately even trying to flash new ROMs result in the exact same result...boot to white htc, gets stuck..reboot phone once more and it goes back to this crap image.
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Very strange. Do you think the "stored image" is a nandroid backup?
boostenmkiv said:
Via which method?
RootandBoot, unfortunately even trying to flash new ROMs result in the exact same result...boot to white htc, gets stuck..reboot phone once more and it goes back to this crap image.
I also did the factory reset and also all 3 wipes (data, cache, dalvik) in clockwork...I even ADB shell'd into the phone and deleted stuff from system...after the double reboot...its back!
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Format /system via CWM. Mounts and storage.
sublimaze said:
Very strange. Do you think the "stored image" is a nandroid backup?
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Thats a good question. I don't think the person who owns this phone actually has ever done a backup via clockwork or through rom manager...and when i went into clockwork restore, there weren't any backups visible.
Yes, this is the most odd android problem i've tried to help fix!
cam30era said:
Format /system via CWM. Mounts and storage.
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Format failed...tried remounting and unmounting..no go
If all else fails, go back to bone stock, reboot a few times & see if the "stored image" recurs
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sublimaze said:
If all else fails, go back to bone stock, reboot a few times & see if the "stored image" recurs
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Thats the problem...I've been trying to get the phone to stock...actually trying to get it to do anything at this point. As soon as I try to flash ANYTHING, it doesn't work.
That is the most bizarre behavior I've ever come across, and I've had 3 android phones. If you can't get it back to stock, then I have no idea what to try next. Have you tried the IRC channel?
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So I am going to type out my story so that nothing is missed. I really wanna fix my phone.
*I started out a regular user. Saw TWEAKED 3.0BETA and give it a try. When the final release came out I put it on no problem.
*YESTERDAY My phone tried to update facebook, got an error like "wrong file size" or something stupid, it crashed and I could care less.
*THIS MORNING I wake up and I had a text message from my GF with a picture attached, I couldn't see the picture like normal and downloading it downloaded a blank file!
*SO, I decided to BOOT into CWM and erase everything. Wipe Data. Wipe Cache. Wipe Delvik. Then proceeded to put in Tweaked 3.1 which came out not to long ago.
*After doing so, the phone would boot into where it normally would, but then the "first start wizard" would crash and force close, along with every other process on the phone looping their crashes over and over etc.
*SO, this time I tried using ODIN to flash back to 4D. Set it up just like IMNUTS post said to, including the PIT file, did it, and booted up. SAME THING. Every process would crash including the new user wizard.
After letting it crash loop for while it finally got silent enough for me to skip the wizard and see whats on the phone. ALL MY OLD APPS ARE STILL THERE. Pandora, and all my other apps, still installed, and apparently, CRASHING upon its boot use or whatever.
What do I need to do. Ive tried to ODIN flash every stock version of the charge rom and my apps are still there. Still kicking.
Worst part is months ago my mother (who I share the family plan with) had to cancel the warranty because we are all low on cash, and even worse I lost my job 2 weeks ago so I can't get a new phone.
HELP!!!! Thanks in advance!
namcost said:
So I am going to type out my story so that nothing is missed. I really wanna fix my phone.
*I started out a regular user. Saw TWEAKED 3.0BETA and give it a try. When the final release came out I put it on no problem.
*YESTERDAY My phone tried to update facebook, got an error like "wrong file size" or something stupid, it crashed and I could care less.
*THIS MORNING I wake up and I had a text message from my GF with a picture attached, I couldn't see the picture like normal and downloading it downloaded a blank file!
*SO, I decided to BOOT into CWM and erase everything. Wipe Data. Wipe Cache. Wipe Delvik. Then proceeded to put in Tweaked 3.1 which came out not to long ago.
*After doing so, the phone would boot into where it normally would, but then the "first start wizard" would crash and force close, along with every other process on the phone looping their crashes over and over etc.
*SO, this time I tried using ODIN to flash back to 4D. Set it up just like IMNUTS post said to, including the PIT file, did it, and booted up. SAME THING. Every process would crash including the new user wizard.
After letting it crash loop for while it finally got silent enough for me to skip the wizard and see whats on the phone. ALL MY OLD APPS ARE STILL THERE. Pandora, and all my other apps, still installed, and apparently, CRASHING upon its boot use or whatever.
What do I need to do. Ive tried to ODIN flash every stock version of the charge rom and my apps are still there. Still kicking.
Worst part is months ago my mother (who I share the family plan with) had to cancel the warranty because we are all low on cash, and even worse I lost my job 2 weeks ago so I can't get a new phone.
HELP!!!! Thanks in advance!
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have you tried mounting /data & /system before you did a full format?
also you should try to re-partition when you ODIN back... that FORCES
a partition format and then re-installs the OS
je2854 said:
have you tried mounting /data & /system before you did a full format?
also you should try to re-partition when you ODIN back... that FORCES
a partition format and then re-installs the OS
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mounting /data & /system would change it to say "unmount?"
but as far as odin goes, I checked the box that said re-partition. I followed IMNUTS post down to the letter, all my apps are still there.
namcost said:
mounting /data & /system would change it to say "unmount?"
but as far as odin goes, I checked the box that said re-partition. I followed IMNUTS post down to the letter, all my apps are still there.
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yes, make sure it says "unmount" after you choose those options...
CWM for the charge sometimes has troubles and need a little help
get going. did you have a *.pit when you selected re-partition? it
wont do anything unless you have a *.pit file...
I know it's not good to hotlink so I will give you the page link as well
as the link itself (as there are TONS of choices)
Charge ODIN + PIT
Cell Phone ODIN Page
je2854 said:
yes, make sure it says "unmount" after you choose those options...
CWM for the charge sometimes has troubles and need a little help
get going. did you have a *.pit when you selected re-partition? it
wont do anything unless you have a *.pit file...
I know it's not good to hotlink so I will give you the page link as well
as the link itself (as there are TONS of choices)
Charge ODIN + PIT
Cell Phone ODIN Page
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yeah i got the pit file, its actually link in the xda forums "http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111486"
so when in CWM, make both data and system say "unmount" then go back in the menu and erase data? im just making sure better safe then sorry.
namcost said:
yeah i got the pit file, its actually link in the xda forums "http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111486"
so when in CWM, make both data and system say "unmount" then go back in the menu and erase data? im just making sure better safe then sorry.
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yes. I know on the EVO you needed to format a couple of times to make sure that CWM actually formatted correctly.
So you might wanna try that. also did you try going to
Privacy -> Factory data restore option?
mind you I think you do need the stock recovery option to do that but I know that works well.
Just ODIN a stock recovery.. it shouldn't touch any custom items you might have.
je2854 said:
yes. I know on the EVO you needed to format a couple of times to make sure that CWM actually formatted correctly.
So you might wanna try that. also did you try going to
Privacy -> Factory data restore option?
mind you I think you do need the stock recovery option to do that but I know that works well.
Just ODIN a stock recovery.. it shouldn't touch any custom items you might have.
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I can't get into the phone, it wont get past the setup wizard. all the applications force close over and over and over again. i did however use the factory recovery mode to wipe and that did nothing either....
I just set it to "unmount" on both the data and system and now im wiping. I remember when I first started with this after wiping once with CWM the next few times wouldn't take long at all because there was nothing to wipe....
so i did as you said with the data and system, wiped it, and nothing, damn crap still there.
it literally wont erase it
namcost said:
so i did as you said with the data and system, wiped it, and nothing, damn crap still there.
it literally wont erase it
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can you find a "clean" stock ROM and flash it and then wipe data through CWM and then go into the OS and wipe?
let me see if i cannot come up with something to wipe for you
je2854 said:
can you find a "clean" stock ROM and flash it and then wipe data through CWM and then go into the OS and wipe?
let me see if i cannot come up with something to wipe for you
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ive pretty much done that, using IMNUTS quide, i flashed via odin EP4D or whatever the name is with the charge.pit file and reset data and all data still there.....
namcost said:
ive pretty much done that, using IMNUTS quide, i flashed via odin EP4D or whatever the name is with the charge.pit file and reset data and all data still there.....
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you MUST install an OS after you use this or you will boot loop into recovery.
this purges everything in the phone. (Non-recursively deletes)
I haven't tried this on mine as I am beta testing... but what can it hurt for yours?
je2854 said:
you MUST install an OS after you use this or you will boot loop into recovery.
this purges everything in the phone. (Non-recursively deletes)
I haven't tried this on mine as I am beta testing... but what can it hurt for yours?
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can you guide me with steps?
i use odin with that file? then right after odin a rom?
namcost said:
can you guide me with steps?
i use odin with that file? then right after odin a rom?
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Flash that in CWM (I assume it's a CWM zip? Didn't bother to check) and flash Tweaked 3.1 full CWM afterwards. Have both on the card ready to go.
Edit: oops I meant 3.2 not 1
Edit 2: nope, definitely meant 1. What am I doing this morning?
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have that CWM zip and another installation ready to go on the root of the SDCard.
flash the wiper and then install the OS
doesn't matter what ROM you have...
Did that zip work?
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Did that zip work?
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haven't tried yet. i was given samsung pst so im trying that atm. afterwards as a last resort ill use what you mentioned.
okay, so i did it. put on cwm, both tweaked 3.1 rom and that wipe all file on the sd card. booted it up. ran the wipe file. then ran tweaked. booted up, and it stuck at the samsung logo. then i figured it was wiped, so i went and hooked it up for odin and put EP4D on it again so i can get fresh, and as soon as i got in all my apps were there, and everything was crashing one process after another.
i think the phone is borked and non recoverable.
Did you happen to mount the /system and /data first as previously mentioned?
That should have forcefully removed everything. Also on a normal basis (if not using a PIT) it won't erase /data ... it never has for me anyways.
How much time does it give you when you get the FC's until it happens again (the FC) can you try
To manually uninstall? ( Applications -> Manage Applications and then deleting then one by one? Or take titanium backup and run a batch to delete the applications in one go....
I'm sorry, I'm just trying to figure this out and help you the best way possible.
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Also have you tried a non rooted ODIN? With a PIT?
Hey guys,
I've broken my Nexus 4, it felt out of my table and the front glass is cracked and the touchscreen unresponsive. However, I can see everything on it and can power the phone normally and such.
The phone is unlocked and rooted, running the stock Android 4.2.1.
I'll send the phone back to the repair center so they can give it a new screen and, obviously, wipe out the phone.
I've already used adb to copy my /sdcard into my computer, but I would like to backup everything that could make the process of using the phone after the repair less painful. I'm unable to run the adb backup utility since I can't unlock the phone as it requests.
I'm right now trying to copy /data into my computer. Is it of any use?
Is there anything else that I can backup before sending the phone out?
Ideally I would like to be able to, after getting the phone back, unlock it, maybe install the Paranoid Android ROM, root it, and then put back applications, settings, pictures, etc etc
Thanks in advance!
igorsantos07 said:
Hey guys,
I've broken my Nexus 4, it felt out of my table and the front glass is cracked and the touchscreen unresponsive. However, I can see everything on it and can power the phone normally and such.
The phone is unlocked and rooted, running the stock Android 4.2.1.
I'll send the phone back to the repair center so they can give it a new screen and, obviously, wipe out the phone.
I've already used adb to copy my /sdcard into my computer, but I would like to backup everything that could make the process of using the phone after the repair less painful. I'm unable to run the adb backup utility since I can't unlock the phone as it requests.
I'm right now trying to copy /data into my computer. Is it of any use?
Is there anything else that I can backup before sending the phone out?
Ideally I would like to be able to, after getting the phone back, unlock it, maybe install the Paranoid Android ROM, root it, and then put back applications, settings, pictures, etc etc
Thanks in advance!
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since the phone itself still works, and the unresponsive screen is the only issue, you might be able to make a nandroid backup (complete backup of everything on phone-apps, settings, etc.)
I assume you probably have a touch based recovery on your phone like twrp or cwm touch. This is obviously an issue.
To counter this you could try using fastboot to flash clockworkmod non touch recovery. This allows you to use the volume rockers and power button to navigate.
To flash the recovery install all the correct drivers, and download the non touch cwm and place it your fastboot directory. Then boot the phone into the bootloader, and use this command:
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fastboot flash recovery "name of recovery file.img"
Then from there you can boot into recovery, go to backup and restore, and finally make a nandroid backup. From there you could copy the backup using adb onto your computer. (the backups are stored in sdcard/clockworkmod/backups)
Thanks! I'll try that.
I think I tried before but it didn't work because I had little free space, and for some reason I gave up (thinking I was doing something wrong or going to try something else, I tried a lot of things during those days).
And then to restore that backup into the fixed phone I'll flash CWM again and use it's restore function, right?
Would there be any issue to install a custom mod (such as Paranoid Android) and then restoring this backup?
On a sidenote: on my Nexus 4 (without real sdcard) the clockworkmod folder is located at /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod.
igorsantos07 said:
Thanks! I'll try that.
I think I tried before but it didn't work because I had little free space, and for some reason I gave up (thinking I was doing something wrong or going to try something else, I tried a lot of things during those days).
And then to restore that backup into the fixed phone I'll flash CWM again and use it's restore function, right?
Would there be any issue to install a custom mod (such as Paranoid Android) and then restoring this backup?
On a sidenote: on my Nexus 4 (without real sdcard) the clockworkmod folder is located at /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod.
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Yep once you get the phone fixed/replaced, you may need to reflash cwm and copy the backup back onto the phone (if they wiped it)
Then just use the restore option in cwm.
If you install paranoid android, then restore the backup, it will restore to whatever rom you had when you took the backup.
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If you install paranoid android, then restore the backup, it will restore to whatever rom you had when you took the backup.
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Boo =(
Ok, let me try another idea: I could get the phone back, restore it normally as we said with CWM, and then use TitaniumBackup to backup apps and settings, then save that to my computer, install Paranoid and then use TB to restore the useful stuff back into the new ROM?
I should just take care on not backing up system stuff, right?
igorsantos07 said:
Boo =(
Ok, let me try another idea: I could get the phone back, restore it normally as we said with CWM, and then use TitaniumBackup to backup apps and settings, then save that to my computer, install Paranoid and then use TB to restore the useful stuff back into the new ROM?
I should just take care on not backing up system stuff, right?
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Yep thats probably your best bet. Although I would avoid backing up/restoring system stuff with TB as it causes lots of bugs.
Just use TB to backup apps+app data, and you can restore them after installing PA. There shouldnt be any problems
SOLVED! see solution in the first comment.
I really need some help...
I installed manually 4.4.1 version using this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2523217
(I am having a rooted device with TWRP without any modifications or deletions - used section B)
after the install successfully worked, i chosed to wipe. it was stuck and i used the powerbutton to reload device.
when the device turned on it used emulated storage which means no imei and no efs.
using the twrp (in recovery mode) i can see my full data and efs files.
when i am trying to rewipeqinstall update i get this error: "E:/Unable to mount /cache"
please help me.
hbhc123 said:
I really need some help...
I installed manually 4.4.1 version using this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2523217
(I am having a rooted device with TWRP without any modifications or deletions - used section B)
after the install successfully worked, i chosed to wipe. it was stuck and i used the powerbutton to reload device.
when the device turned on it used emulated storage which means no imei and no efs.
using the twrp (in recovery mode) i can see my full data and efs files.
when i am trying to rewipeqinstall update i get this error: "E:/Unable to mount /cache"
please help me.
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Do not turn the device off while clearing the cache.
Reboot to recovery, go to TWRP settings and enable rm -rf option, go back and wipe the cache/dalvik. If THAT doesn't work, you will need to flash the cache.img from the factory image found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701
After you do that, make sure you have the latest version of TWRP installed (2.6.3.4) If you don't you can also choose to install that via ADB before clearing the cache.
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Do not turn the device off while clearing the cache.
Reboot to recovery, go to TWRP settings and enable rm -rf option, go back and wipe the cache/dalvik. If THAT doesn't work, you will need to flash the cache.img from the factory image found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701
After you do that, make sure you have the latest version of TWRP installed (2.6.3.4) If you don't you can also choose to install that via ADB before clearing the cache.
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First of all - thanks for help.
already tried the rm -rf option unsuccessful.
2 question before I'm starting the flash process:
1. Is there a way dumping the efs folder to my computer before?
2. is this the command i should use: "fastboot flash cache C:/image-hammerhead-krt16m/cache.img"?
thanks a lot.
hbhc123 said:
First of all - thanks for help.
already tried the rm -rf option unsuccessful.
2 question before I'm starting the flash process:
1. Is there a way dumping the efs folder to my computer before?
2. is this the command i should use: "fastboot flash cache C:/image-hammerhead-krt16m/cache.img"?
thanks a lot.
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1. Use TWRP to back up your EFS data if you would like. You won't lose any data by just flashing the cache though. All your apps and everything should still be there.
2. If you installed the drivers correctly and that is the correct directory for the file on your computer, that is right! I put mine on the desktop for simplicity.
clearing cache/dalvik is very slow on N5, I found, and so is resetting the phone in recovery. though the progress bar may not move the process isn't stuck, it's still going on in background.
chi_heng said:
clearing cache/dalvik is very slow on N5, I found, and so is resetting the phone in recovery. though the progress bar may not move the process isn't stuck, it's still going on in background.
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Flash the newest version of TWRP. The issue is fixed.
Synyster06Gates said:
1. Use TWRP to back up your EFS data if you would like. You won't lose any data by just flashing the cache though. All your apps and everything should still be there.
2. If you installed the drivers correctly and that is the correct directory for the file on your computer, that is right! I put mine on the desktop for simplicity.
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I have done what you said and it worked perfectly
many thanks!
hbhc123 said:
I have done what you said and it worked perfectly
many thanks!
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No problem! Glad you got it taken care of.
What should one do if fastboot flash cache doesnt fix it? im having same issue and i have tried restoring stock, flashing cache, etc. still no imei showing in settings and sim doesnt get reconized. Hangouts fc, google search fc and i cant access sd card in windows or the phone.
any one else
benbailey84 said:
What should one do if fastboot flash cache doesnt fix it? im having same issue and i have tried restoring stock, flashing cache, etc. still no imei showing in settings and sim doesnt get reconized. Hangouts fc, google search fc and i cant access sd card in windows or the phone.
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I guess me and you are screwed I tried every suggestion on the forums but nothing works I'm just gonna RMA mine and pray that Google doesn't say its my fault I wish someone could help us I gotta send mine off as fast as possible im already looking at two weeks minimum for the RMA so every day I wait is just more time I won't have a phone thanks
ddloco said:
I guess me and you are screwed I tried every suggestion on the forums but nothing works I'm just gonna RMA mine and pray that Google doesn't say its my fault I wish someone could help us I gotta send mine off as fast as possible im already looking at two weeks minimum for the RMA so every day I wait is just more time I won't have a phone thanks
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yeah i have a rma out for mine. Luckly i have a spare phone (its a damn $15 go phone) but mine is already shipped. biggest issue is the $440 is tied up in my account until they get the bad phone back. basically i would suggest to anyone that if they are going to flash a rom first thing they should do is back up their efs to their pc and also some sort of could (dropbox, drive, mega, box, etc).
benbailey84 said:
yeah i have a rma out for mine. Luckly i have a spare phone (its a damn $15 go phone) but mine is already shipped. biggest issue is the $440 is tied up in my account until they get the bad phone back. basically i would suggest to anyone that if they are going to flash a rom first thing they should do is back up their efs to their pc and also some sort of could (dropbox, drive, mega, box, etc).
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Well in our case I have my efs on my PC from weeks ago restoring it doesn't fix whatever the ROM changed lol
Hi there. Recently (just yesterday) I tried flashing TWRP 3.1.0-0-herolte via Odin V3.12.3.0. However I ran into a little issue. Bootloop. TWRP seemed to work fine, but the phone wouldn't boot into android (stock touchwiz), exhibiting the 'samsung galaxy S7' logo periodically, but not going past that. Firstly I'll give some details on the phone and how I 'tried' to to flash TWRP. The phone I have is an Exynos variant SM-G930F running Android 7.0 and the recent update from late March. It is an Australian model (otherwise known as the 'international' version I think). Anyway as for what I was using as a guide, it was this. Before attempting this I enabled 'OEM unlocking' within the developer options but not 'USB debugging' (not sure if this contributed to the issue, but thought I'd mention it anyway). Later on I downloaded the Samsung Mobile Drivers and the tar file for TWRP. Installed the drivers, opened up Odin, entered download mode on the S7. I placed the tar file in AP and connected via micro usb. Almost everything, including auto-reboot, was turned off except F. Reset Time. Though chances are I probably left it on because I'm a doofus. After all that I pressed 'start' without doing any button combinations. Then after the screen went blank I pressed volume up + home hey + power button, roughly all at the same time. And then I entered TWRP. I then swiped to 'allow system modifications'. However as I didn't want to root the phone at the time, I decided to power it off through the menu. The next time I pushed the power button however, it was stuck in a bootloop. I then went back into TWRP and noticed that when I went into the install menu and was looking at the internal storage it appeared as 0mb (I thought that twrp had deleted all my files at the time), and I couldn't access the files I normally do like the downloads folder or app folders. However it seemed like most of the system folders were there like 'root' and 'data' etc. I then formatted the data and then did a factory reset as I thought it might fix the problem but it didn't. I swiped to install the twrp app but unchecked the two boxes. I then did some research and found out that if I ever were to run into an issue like this that I should flash the stock firmware, which is what I did. And viola! It worked again! I was slightly stressed at the time, lol. Luckily the apps and data I had previously were stored in the cloud.
After all this I have a question, what do you guys think I did wrong? Have you ran into this issue before? And what do you think may have caused the bootloop. I eventually want to start rooting my S7 and perhaps flash a rom, but I don't want to run into the issue again. Cheers!
P.S. I'm probably the biggest tech noob I know so go into a little bit of detail if you know what I did wrong so I don't make the same mistake again
Sounds like you hit the problem listed in step 9 & 10.
At this point, you will reach the screen asking you if you want to allow system modifications.
By swiping right, you will trigger dm-verity, and if you don't follow the next step you will be unable to boot
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You swiped to allow system modifications, but you chose not to root and turned it off.
I don't see any mention of you flashing the dm-verity and force encryption disabler zip in TWRP which is required even if you're not rooting.
Beanvee7 said:
Sounds like you hit the problem listed in step 9 & 10.
You swiped to allow system modifications, but you chose not to root and turned it off.
I don't see any mention of you flashing the dm-verity and force encryption disabler zip in TWRP which is required even if you're not rooting.
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Hm, that might actually be it. As a question how would be able to do that? Do I need to download that separately or something ( the dm-verity and encryption disabler zip I mean)?
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Actually never mind, it seems to say it right within the guide lol. So the problem should go away if I do that first yeah?
Yep just download it and put it on an SD card or transfer to the phones internal storage (I think TWRP lets you USB transfer) and go install zip in TWRP and select it.
That should stop your boot issues after installing TWRP, should even work even if you do it after a failed boot.
Beanvee7 said:
Yep just download it and put it on an SD card or transfer to the phones internal storage (I think TWRP lets you USB transfer) and go install zip in TWRP and select it.
That should stop your boot issues after installing TWRP, should even work even if you do it after a failed boot.
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Hey bro, just wanted to say thanks. Got it rooted soon after as well. I found out I had to format data first before because it wouldn't let me install any zips. But after doing that it worked without any hiccups.
Cheers.
You should reset/wipe ur device after you have installed twrp through odin. That's a simple that some people wouldn't see in the tutorial. Then if you want root access you can flash SuperSu. Hope your problem will be solved. Good luck.
amalantony said:
You should reset/wipe ur device after you have installed twrp through odin. That's a simple that some people wouldn't see in the tutorial. Then if you want root access you can flash SuperSu. Hope your problem will be solved. Good luck.
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Already did that before bro. Works as swell as a bell.
TheNickleS said:
Hey bro, just wanted to say thanks. Got it rooted soon after as well. I found out I had to format data first before because it wouldn't let me install any zips. But after doing that it worked without any hiccups.
Cheers.
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Glad it's all working.
First time I installed TWRP I installed a ROM straight after which said to to format data, so never knew TWRP install alone needed the format data too.
Beanvee7 said:
Glad it's all working.
First time I installed TWRP I installed a ROM straight after which said to to format data, so never knew TWRP install alone needed the format data too.
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From what I understand that's because the ldm-verity triggers. And so formating the data removes any encryption allowing for things to be flashed. But because I didn't do all of that first my S7 wouldn't boot up past flashing twrp.