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So you are looking at this because you have recently rooted your phone. You are probably trying to flash your first rom and either, you booted into recovery and it was a black screen, or your tried flashing a rom from rom manager and it goes to a black screen.
Now most dev's have a faq posted to eliminate new posts popping up every day, but here I will attempt to tell you how to fix this.
FIRST MAKE A BACKUP the screen will go black when it is backing up, but wait 10-15 minutes and your phone will reboot.
Currently there are three options. There are other options, but these are more user friendly.
Option 1
1. Place This(thanks to nsnc) file on the root of your sd card, boot into hboot by turning off fast boot, restart, hold power+vol down.
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Option 2 (longer then option 3):
1. You can return your phone completely to stock removing root and s-off. You can find a very helpful link to do that here.
2. Once your phone has been completely returned to stock, download the Hack Kit(thanks to attn1). Make sure you follow the instructions completely, and to a tee.
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Option 3:
1. You are going to need to eng s-off the phone using the one click eng s-off Here(thanks to jkoljo).
2. Once you eng s-off and have a working cwm it is highly recommended you turn eng s-off, on. So that you only have radio s-off. You can do that by using this PD98IMG. Download and place on the root of your sd card. You will need to boot into hboot using power+volume down. When it asks you to update select yes with the volume buttons. (note this is just like flashing a new rom so it will do a full wipe)
Once you have radio s-off you may have to flash an older CWM recovery, but you can now restore your backup if you wish to.
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Currently these are the known ways to fix this problem. If more ways should arise they will be added to this post.
Please be sure to READ the dev's FAQ section as well.
*NOTE*
I am not responsible for anything that may happen to your phone this post is solely to help those in need in the easiest way possible.
Hope this helps.
What about this one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1003086&highlight=eng
I considered using that, but I wanted to make the process more user friendly.
did you see the update at the bottom of the first post? I put that PD98IMG.zip on the root of my sd and then went to hboot and let it find the file. Worked great.
mudknot2005 said:
So you are looking at this because you have recently rooted your phone. You are probably trying to flash your first rom and either, you booted into recovery and it was a black screen, or your tried flashing a rom from rom manager and it goes to a black screen.
Now most dev's have a faq posted to eliminate new posts popping up every day, but here I will attempt to tell you how to fix this.
FIRST MAKE A BACKUP the screen will go black when it is backing up, but wait 10-15 minutes and your phone will reboot.
Currently there are two easy options. There are other options, but these are more user friendly.
Currently these are the known ways to fix this problem. If more ways should arise they will be added to this post.
Please be sure to READ the dev's FAQ section as well.
*NOTE*
I am not responsible for anything that may happen to your phone this post is solely to help those in need in the easiest way possible.
Hope this helps.
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i ran option 2. still have a blank screen when i boot into recovery. did i miss a step somewhere?
No sir you didn't, I need to update the OP.
mudknot2005 said:
No sir you didn't, I need to update the OP.
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hey, in any case, i found a link to download a new 'hboot' and that corrected my issue. can now boot into cwm just fine.
i've attached it here, but it will have to be renamed before use (take off the -fixesclockworkmod)
thank you misterbbq
misterbbq said:
hey, in any case, i found a link to download a new 'hboot' and that corrected my issue. can now boot into cwm just fine.
i've attached it here, but it will have to be renamed before use (take off the -fixesclockworkmod)
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I think we have an easiest method .... Thanks misterbbq that worked great can now boot into clockwork....
misterbbq said:
hey, in any case, i found a link to download a new 'hboot' and that corrected my issue. can now boot into cwm just fine.
i've attached it here, but it will have to be renamed before use (take off the -fixesclockworkmod)
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The only thing I ask is that you post the post where you found it/ and or the person who made it.
Am I to understand all we have to do is put this PD98img.zip file on the SD Card (after renaming it) and it will clear up the CWM problem we are having without doing Eng-S-off? This seems pretty easy, but I am curious about what ROM it is when we reflash, is it the Stock AT&T?
bmolloy said:
Am I to understand all we have to do is put this PD98img.zip file on the SD Card (after renaming it) and it will clear up the CWM problem we are having without doing Eng-S-off? This seems pretty easy, but I am curious about what ROM it is when we reflash, is it the Stock AT&T?
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This is not a ROM file, just a repaired bootloader that installs using hboot. AFAIK, it leaves whatever ROM you are using intact. In fact, on my phone, it didn't change a thing, other than clockwork now works...
See my post above. NSNC posted this fix a while back. The PD98IMG is in the update of the OP
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1003086&highlight=eng
It works well so far. I used it myself.
OP updated
worked like a charm, thanks guys!
Worked great for me too. At last, let the ROM flashing begin! Thanks for finding this.
I believe I am suffering from this problem. It's been 15 minutes + though and I am still in that screen. Should I pull the battery and reinstall it?
Thanks in advance.
Randybobandy said:
I believe I am suffering from this problem. It's been 15 minutes + though and I am still in that screen. Should I pull the battery and reinstall it?
Thanks in advance.
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Not sure where you are at in the process, could you elaborate a little bit more as to what you have done and where you are at ?
mudknot2005 said:
Not sure where you are at in the process, could you elaborate a little bit more as to what you have done and where you are at ?
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Sure: My phone has been rooted, I entered CWM, downloaded Cyanogenmod and attempted to flash it. I followed the prompts, backed everything up, and when installation (I guess you call it that?) began it went to a black screen.
It is still in that screen, I just tried holding down the power but nothing occurred.
Randybobandy said:
Sure: My phone has been rooted, I entered CWM, downloaded Cyanogenmod and attempted to flash it. I followed the prompts, backed everything up, and when installation (I guess you call it that?) began it went to a black screen.
It is still in that screen, I just tried holding down the power but nothing occurred.
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It might of failed to flash, I would pull the battery, place the PD98IMG from the first post from option number one place it on your sd card (not in a file and do not unpack) boot into hboot using power and volume down, It will flash the file from hboot, once it has flashed remove the PD98IMG from your sd card, boot into hboot again go to recovery from hboot. See if that works.
Hello guys, I've got a weird problem. I messed around with my Transformer a bit, rooted etc on 8.4.4.11. CWM isn't working, and I can't even boot into recovery. It just sits at the "Loading recovery kernel...". Anyway, its freezing at the eeePad screen on bootup and doesn't do anything (this has stopped me from reflashing a blob, or Asus OTA updating). I've tried reflashing stock and rooted images quite a few times, but it always does the same thing. Now, I can get around the freeze by going to the hard reset screen and declining, and it boots into Android.
Whats wrong? Bootloader? Has to be something in startup, but I cant figure it out.
Re-flash using NVFlash method, in dev section (and don't forget to put the NVFlash ROM version in the folder)
bud77 said:
Re-flash using NVFlash method, in dev section (and don't forget to put the NVFlash ROM version in the folder)
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Nope, that actually made it worse. Anyway, each root that I tried to go through did the exact same thing. Now it doesnt show anything on boot.
Is there some way to completely return it to stock? Just flash an official firmware pack with nvflash and have everything back to the day it was shipped?
EDIT: Fixed it, I had the wrong type of ROM unpacked. Thanks Bud.
padd3r said:
Nope, that actually made it worse. Anyway, each root that I tried to go through did the exact same thing. Now it doesnt show anything on boot.
Is there some way to completely return it to stock? Just flash an official firmware pack with nvflash and have everything back to the day it was shipped?
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How could it make it worse .... ?
What's the error you're getting while NVFlashing ?
For the stock, if you can't NVFlash a rom, you won't be able to flash stock too, as the process is identical
I had my phone rooted and unlocked and was also using CleanROM 4.1 before I decided today to change to CleanROM 4.5.
So, I downloaded the file and went to Recovery and flashed it (it did take very little time with flashing which I found rather strange.) When I rebooted, the phone was stuck at the HTC screen. I figured that I MIGHT have had CWM installed and I didn't know it (I can't be quite 100% sure of this as I thought I DID have TWRP since it was a touch recovery that I had.) Since I was able to boot back up to Fastboot, I said "Let me flash the TWRP recovery file and try again".....Well, I did that and according to the Command Prompt it was successful (showed sending, writing, finished etc....) Once finished, I rebooted back and all I see now is the TeamWin logo in Recovery and THAT'S IT. It won't give me any menu options. If I let it sit, it will reboot back to the HTC screen.
What are my options right now? Is there a specific file I can flash through Fastboot that will allow me to proceed?
I would appreciate the help and I'll be sure to come back and let you know how successful I was. :fingers-crossed:
****BTW, I want to point out that my phone has had this strange message everytime it reboots (over the past few months since unlocked) stating: "This build is for development purposes only. Do not distribute outside of HTC without HTC's written permission....etc..." What does that mean? I don't like that message to appear everytime I reboot my phone. Thanks again!
reflash
Try flashing the boot.IMG from the the zipped ROM you were trying to flash to boot partition through the bootloader (cmd in windows: fastboot flash boot boot.img[enter] after you put The boot.img in the same folder as the adb & cd to that folder) and flash cwm for recovery, then you can reflash twrp
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Try flashing the boot.IMG from the the zipped ROM you were trying to flash to boot partition through the bootloader (cmd in windows: fastboot flash boot boot.img[enter] after you put The boot.img in the same folder as the adb & cd to that folder) and flash cwm for recovery, then you can reflash twrp
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I will definitely be trying that. Will be back in a couple of hours and let you know how it went. Thank you!
bbonline said:
I had my phone rooted and unlocked and was also using CleanROM 4.1 before I decided today to change to CleanROM 4.5.
So, I downloaded the file and went to Recovery and flashed it (it did take very little time with flashing which I found rather strange.) When I rebooted, the phone was stuck at the HTC screen. I figured that I MIGHT have had CWM installed and I didn't know it (I can't be quite 100% sure of this as I thought I DID have TWRP since it was a touch recovery that I had.) Since I was able to boot back up to Fastboot, I said "Let me flash the TWRP recovery file and try again".....Well, I did that and according to the Command Prompt it was successful (showed sending, writing, finished etc....) Once finished, I rebooted back and all I see now is the TeamWin logo in Recovery and THAT'S IT. It won't give me any menu options. If I let it sit, it will reboot back to the HTC screen.
What are my options right now? Is there a specific file I can flash through Fastboot that will allow me to proceed?
I would appreciate the help and I'll be sure to come back and let you know how successful I was. :fingers-crossed:
****BTW, I want to point out that my phone has had this strange message everytime it reboots (over the past few months since unlocked) stating: "This build is for development purposes only. Do not distribute outside of HTC without HTC's written permission....etc..." What does that mean? I don't like that message to appear everytime I reboot my phone. Thanks again!
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In the future I suggest factory wipe even if going from CR to CR. Also, make sure to check the MD5 once you move the file on to your storage.
Butters619 said:
In the future I suggest factory wipe even if going from CR to CR. Also, make sure to check the MD5 once you move the file on to your storage.
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I did do the factory wipe.
By the way, I tried what I was told to do and nothing happened. It successfully flashes the boot image and recovery, but when it tries to boot into the recovery, it just freezes in the recovery with the word TEAMWIN and a blue background....No menu or options.... I did try several different ways by downloading and installing several versions of the CWM and TWRP, but no success. Any other suggestions? Will I be stuck with this piece of brick now? Please help.
bbonline said:
****BTW, I want to point out that my phone has had this strange message everytime it reboots (over the past few months since unlocked) stating: "This build is for development purposes only. Do not distribute outside of HTC without HTC's written permission....etc..." What does that mean? I don't like that message to appear everytime I reboot my phone. Thanks again!
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^That right there is normal by the way and will always be there.
Looks like it's time for you to relock your bootloader (don't worry you can unlock it again), download an RUU, and try again.
Butters619 said:
^That right there is normal by the way and will always be there.
Looks like it's time for you to relock your bootloader (don't worry you can unlock it again), download an RUU, and try again.
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Ughh! Do you know if I will lose any documents/pictures that are in my USB storage? Which RUU do you think is the best in my case? Thanks!
bbonline said:
Ughh! Do you know if I will lose any documents/pictures that are in my USB storage? Which RUU do you think is the best in my case? Thanks!
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You will lose the contents of your SD card, which is why you should back that up before flashing. Since you were on CR 4.1, I would go with the 1.85 RUU. If you use 2.20, you will add an extra step or two in when it comes to flashing ROMs. But hey, your phone should work again!
Butters619 said:
You will lose the contents of your SD card, which is why you should back that up before flashing. Since you were on CR 4.1, I would go with the 1.85 RUU. If you use 2.20, you will add an extra step or two in when it comes to flashing ROMs. But hey, your phone should work again!
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I know, silly me. Usually I backup the data and everything goes well and when I don't, there goes my luck! I really appreciate the suggestion.
One quick question, if in the future I need to have the phone sent in for warranty, is this the same procedure I need to follow? Relock and flash an RUU? Will they not know it had been unlocked before?
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I know, silly me. Usually I backup the data and everything goes well and when I don't, there goes my luck! I really appreciate the suggestion.
One quick question, if in the future I need to have the phone sent in for warranty, is this the same procedure I need to follow? Relock and flash an RUU? Will they not know it had been unlocked before?
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Exact same procedure, but yes they will know. The giant RELOCKED gives it away lol.
Butters619 said:
Exact same procedure, but yes they will know. The giant RELOCKED gives it away lol.
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Darn.... I just hope I don't have to deal with sending it for any repair. Gave you thanks!
Butters619 said:
Exact same procedure, but yes they will know. The giant RELOCKED gives it away lol.
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But only if they reboot and look, which from what I've seen here, they never seem to do.
iElvis said:
But only if they reboot and look, which from what I've seen here, they never seem to do.
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I took my One X back to Best Buy to swap it out just before the return policy expired because my gf dropped it and put a small dent in the casing and I didn't even bother to relock or even RUU my device. I said I had a software issue and couldn't get the OTA. They turned it on and played with it and it had a custom boot animation and a ROM on it lol. They also couldn't get the OTA so they approved the return.
Butters619 said:
Exact same procedure, but yes they will know. The giant RELOCKED gives it away lol.
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it doesn't say RELOCKED when you run an RUU. It gets rid of everything like Tampered and Unlocked and returns the phone to LOCKED. like it came
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Butters619 said:
I took my One X back to Best Buy to swap it out just before the return policy expired because my gf dropped it and put a small dent in the casing and I didn't even bother to relock or even RUU my device. I said I had a software issue and couldn't get the OTA. They turned it on and played with it and it had a custom boot animation and a ROM on it lol. They also couldn't get the OTA so they approved the return.
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hahaha, thank god for company cutbacks sometimes... it makes the employees not give a ****. and rightfully so too!!
the fact that companies cut back to make a few more billion dollars makes me sick anyways. but this is not the place for this conversation. carry-on
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it doesn't say RELOCKED when you run an RUU. It gets rid of everything like Tampered and Unlocked and returns the phone to LOCKED. like it came
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hahaha, thank god for company cutbacks sometimes... it makes the employees not give a ****. and rightfully so too!!
the fact that companies cut back to make a few more billion dollars makes me sick anyways. but this is not the place for this conversation. carry-on
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Nope once you unlocked it won't ever say locked again. Just re-locked
gunnyman said:
Nope once you unlocked it won't ever say locked again. Just re-locked
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not true, mine said LOCKED after running the att 1.85 RUU.. I had SUPERcid though if that makes any difference.
trichrome1 said:
not true, mine said LOCKED after running the att 1.85 RUU.. I had SUPERcid though if that makes any difference.
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You should probably double check that. Anybody with an AT&T One X had to have SuperCID to unlock their bootloader so that wouldn't matter. I have unlocked two AT&T One Xs and run the 1.85 RUU on both (one of them a couple times) and I have run the 2.20 RUU on one. every time it says RELOCKED.
Mine did this to when going to 4.5.
I did the following to get back into Recovery.
Use fastboot to flash the boot.img from the cleanrom 4.5 zip.
"fastboot flash boot boot.img"
I then flashed the recovery (TWRP 2.2.1.4 at the moment) again to the phone.
next I erased Cache.
"fastboot erase cache"
I then used the phone itself to reboot the bootloader and went into recovery. It took about 10 minutes but recovery finally booted.
At this point I had no access to anything on the SD card. so I selected mount and mounted the sd card as disk drive to access it through my PC. I was forced to format the drive at this point and loaded a fresh copy of the ROM onto the drive for flashing.
You probably just got a wrong recovery. The recovery on twrp website didn't work for me. The one I downloaded from the development section works fine.
Sent from my One X using xda app-developers app
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not true, mine said LOCKED after running the att 1.85 RUU.. I had SUPERcid though if that makes any difference.
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Hi, I've searched and can't find an answer. I've managed to root my Infuse and got Infinitum rom installed. It was working great until just this evening when Clockworkmod updated (sorry, I can't find the version number). It went into a boot loop. It took me a bit, but I managed to get it out of the boot loop and back to stock, now it's rooted again with Infinitum running again.
I'm trying to get back to a recovery point that I do have on the phone, but I can't get the phone to boot to recovery no matter what I do. When I try using the vol and power buttons combination or from ROM manager I get the same thing. It goes past the stock Samsung logo into the Galaxy S/Cyanogen(mod) logo, but freezes there.
I can, of course, take the loss of my setup and redo everything manually. I would really prefer to be able to get that backup back. I'm also concerned should I ever need to get into recovery mode for any other reason. My guess is that I need to downgrade the CWM version, but I haven't been able to find how to do it.
Can anyone give me any help? Please let me know if there's info that I can give that would be useful...I'm noobie, I know!
VyCariously said:
Hi, I've searched and can't find an answer. I've managed to root my Infuse and got Infinitum rom installed. It was working great until just this evening when Clockworkmod updated (sorry, I can't find the version number). It went into a boot loop. It took me a bit, but I managed to get it out of the boot loop and back to stock, now it's rooted again with Infinitum running again.
I'm trying to get back to a recovery point that I do have on the phone, but I can't get the phone to boot to recovery no matter what I do. When I try using the vol and power buttons combination or from ROM manager I get the same thing. It goes past the stock Samsung logo into the Galaxy S/Cyanogen(mod) logo, but freezes there.
I can, of course, take the loss of my setup and redo everything manually. I would really prefer to be able to get that backup back. I'm also concerned should I ever need to get into recovery mode for any other reason. My guess is that I need to downgrade the CWM version, but I haven't been able to find how to do it.
Can anyone give me any help? Please let me know if there's info that I can give that would be useful...I'm noobie, I know!
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There are many layers to your questions.
You may need to read a bit more to get a better understanding.
Here is two points I can offer that may be helpful.
1. Don't use ROM Manager for the Infuse.
2. To downgrade a cwm version, you will need to flash a GB or FROYO kernel in download mode via heimdall or odin. You can also use any one of the return to stock that is flashed in download mode also.
If you think you lost recovery, try flashing the kernel for the rom you were running in cwm, if you can get back into cwm again.
qkster said:
There are many layers to your questions.
You may need to read a bit more to get a better understanding.
Here is two points I can offer that may be helpful.
1. Don't use ROM Manager for the Infuse.
2. To downgrade a cwm version, you will need to flash a GB or FROYO kernel in download mode via heimdall or odin. You can also use any one of the return to stock that is flashed in download mode also.
If you think you lost recovery, try flashing the kernel for the rom you were running in cwm, if you can get back into cwm again.
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I believe you about the ROM Manager. Too late, unfortunately. I'll take it off.
I had the phone back to stock with Odin. I went through all of the steps that I went through to first root it and install Infinitum. I had red cwm at the time. I just can't seem to get into it now. I don't think I lost it, I'm just unsure of how to get to it, since it freezes at the cm startup. I can just power off from there after I give up waiting, and it will boot to ICS normally when I power it on normally. I have Titanium Backup Pro, and it can access the nandroid backup that I have to get the apps and data. I was just hoping to recover the whole setup. I had an issue last weekend (oops to me) when I tried to install a JB rom where it went into a boot loop. I recovered everything after backtracking like I did tonight, and was hoping to be able to do the same. Is there any hope, do you think, if I go back and return to stock and start over from the beginning again? If not, I'll just suffer and redo the whole thing.
By the way, I really appreciate you answering. I've been lurking for a few weeks, and realize that you know a LOT about these phones.
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I believe you about the ROM Manager. Too late, unfortunately. I'll take it off.
I had the phone back to stock with Odin. I went through all of the steps that I went through to first root it and install Infinitum. I had red cwm at the time. I just can't seem to get into it now. I don't think I lost it, I'm just unsure of how to get to it, since it freezes at the cm startup. I can just power off from there after I give up waiting, and it will boot to ICS normally when I power it on normally. I have Titanium Backup Pro, and it can access the nandroid backup that I have to get the apps and data. I was just hoping to recover the whole setup. I had an issue last weekend (oops to me) when I tried to install a JB rom where it went into a boot loop. I recovered everything after backtracking like I did tonight, and was hoping to be able to do the same. Is there any hope, do you think, if I go back and return to stock and start over from the beginning again? If not, I'll just suffer and redo the whole thing.
By the way, I really appreciate you answering. I've been lurking for a few weeks, and realize that you know a LOT about these phones.
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Okay, so next question. I've been reading and searching and reading some more. I can get the phone back to stock and work up again, but I still reach a point where it will freeze on the Samsung/CM startup screen. In reading the Infinitum Project thread, I found this (yes, it's pretty easy to find):
"Recovery/CWM messed up?
Here is how to fix it...
1) Download uclb3 heimdal by qkster
2) open the program
3) put phone in download mode
4) click flash (leave program open when finished DO NOT CLOSE)
5) after it finishes and your phone reboots, put the phone back in download mode and reconnect to PC
6) click flash bootloader on the heimdal program you left running
7) flash, let reboot and your recovery problems should be gone"
I used that to get back to stock before...doesn't that remove the root? Do I have to go through all that, then the bootloaders, and then go back and root all over again to get back to a working CWM? I'm sorry to ask so many questions, but it seems that I've done most of this already, though I admit to not doing the flash for the bootloader. I'm just unclear since it says "your recovery problems should be gone" at the end of that, like I have to do nothing more.
That does remove root access. However, root isn't really necessary, at least for the stock ROM, if you have no intentions of staying stock. The ROM .zips you'll subsequently flash are pre-rooted. After you Heimdall back to stock, and flash it again with "flash bootloaders" selected, then use Heimdall to flash this kernel:
http://d-h.st/6KA
That'll flash both a new kernel and CWM Red recovery. It'll take a few minutes to boot up the first time, as it's installing the lagfix. Once it boots up, just shut it down and boot back up in recovery. From there, you can do whatever you need to do.
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Okay, so next question. I've been reading and searching and reading some more. I can get the phone back to stock and work up again, but I still reach a point where it will freeze on the Samsung/CM startup screen. In reading the Infinitum Project thread, I found this (yes, it's pretty easy to find):
"Recovery/CWM messed up?
Here is how to fix it...
1) Download uclb3 heimdal by qkster
2) open the program
3) put phone in download mode
4) click flash (leave program open when finished DO NOT CLOSE)
5) after it finishes and your phone reboots, put the phone back in download mode and reconnect to PC
6) click flash bootloader on the heimdal program you left running
7) flash, let reboot and your recovery problems should be gone"
I used that to get back to stock before...doesn't that remove the root? Do I have to go through all that, then the bootloaders, and then go back and root all over again to get back to a working CWM? I'm sorry to ask so many questions, but it seems that I've done most of this already, though I admit to not doing the flash for the bootloader. I'm just unclear since it says "your recovery problems should be gone" at the end of that, like I have to do nothing more.
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As Apex pointed out, each time we bring the phone back to stock, we lose root access and all the previous setup. It's a fact of flashing.
No big deal though, rooting is easy and is not really needed. What is needed is the insecure kernel with cwm. The link Apex gave you is the same as the posted kernel in post #2 of the thread. That kernel will give you the cwm. Review that thread if you haven't yet.
Flash the heimdall uclb3 repartition package. Immediately after it successfully boot your phone, don't close the program. check the bootloader box and put the phone back into dl mode and flash it again to get your gb bootloaders...
then flash the kernel.
review my how to thread if you need to.
Andros11 also made a how to for JB if you want to live vicariously.
gl
qkster said:
Andros11 also made a how to for JB if you want to live vicariously.
gl
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Thanks guys
It's been a crazy busy week and I just didn't have time to deal with the phone. I've been dealing with stock gingerbread. It's getting kind of annoying, though, it seems less stable than the custom ICS that I had on it before. Not sure when I'm going to have time to play with it again and try to get it to where I want it. I think I'm going to try to totally wipe all of the old stuff out of the memory before I do it again, though. There's something that wasn't allowing me to do what you guys are telling me to do successfully. I'm also thinking of finding a GS2 and just selling the Infuse, not because of my confusion, but because the GS2 was what I was originally looking for anyway.
I'll try to get this one set up first, though, as it's just a matter of me being obsessive about it.
qkster, I'll look into the JB, too, lol.
qkster said:
As Apex pointed out, each time we bring the phone back to stock, we lose root access and all the previous setup. It's a fact of flashing.
No big deal though, rooting is easy and is not really needed. What is needed is the insecure kernel with cwm. The link Apex gave you is the same as the posted kernel in post #2 of the thread. That kernel will give you the cwm. Review that thread if you haven't yet.
Flash the heimdall uclb3 repartition package. Immediately after it successfully boot your phone, don't close the program. check the bootloader box and put the phone back into dl mode and flash it again to get your gb bootloaders...
then flash the kernel.
review my how to thread if you need to.
Andros11 also made a how to for JB if you want to live vicariously.
gl
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Hey I am not the Infuse user... But I faced similar problem in my xperia some days back after updating the recovery.
I was also not able to enter recovery at boot time using my usual volume down way...
What the change was the new recovery checks for tap on the screen (repeatetive) instead of volume down button...
Not sure if it will work or not for you... But you can give a try...
Hit thanks if it works
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XperiaNeoVNoob said:
Hey I am not the Infuse user... But I faced similar problem in my xperia some days back after updating the recovery.
I was also not able to enter recovery at boot time using my usual volume down way...
What the change was the new recovery checks for tap on the screen (repeatetive) instead of volume down button...
Not sure if it will work or not for you... But you can give a try...
Hit thanks if it works
Sent from my MT11i using xda app-developers app
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I didn't get a chance to try it, sorry! I ended up wiping my phone totally back to stock Gingerbread with nothing on the sd card, either, and starting all over again. It seems to be working really well this time (fingers crossed). RemICS-UX is pretty much awesome
VyCariously said:
I didn't get a chance to try it, sorry! I ended up wiping my phone totally back to stock Gingerbread with nothing on the sd card, either, and starting all over again. It seems to be working really well this time (fingers crossed). RemICS-UX is pretty much awesome
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No probs...
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I know this isn't technically the right section for this but I put it here in hopes more people would see it. This is very important for anyone rooting using the dirtysanta method and perhaps other methods as well. It would be nice if this could get a sticky because people need to see this or this problem is going to keep occurring. I'm seeing it all over the threads.
DO NOT FACTORY RESET FROM INSIDE THE ROM. DO NOT USE LG's BUILT IN FACTORY RESET IN THE PHONE OR YOU WILL GET STUCK IN RECOVERY. Use the factory reset option inside of TWRP if you want to do a factory reset.
There have been many people (myself included even though I knew better and told myself not to do it before I did) who have got stuck in recovery because of this and it's not common sense to get out of it. I've been rooting and messing with this stuff for over 5 years and for 2 hours tried every trick I knew and nothing worked. What did finally end up working for me personally is this:
*restore your full stock backup (if you have one)
*after the backup is restored, in TWRP, go to mount, and mount the system. Check the box and press the mount USB storage button
*power off device
*use the button combo to boot into TWRP. It's volume down + power (hold them down), as soon as you see the LG logo let go of power for a brief moment and continue to press and hold both buttons until a white screen comes up. Choose yes for the next two options. This will bring you back into TWRP.
*now go back to mount and check system, and press the mount storage button, and reboot system.
lol this is only because it give you your stock boot.img. So if you factory reset, you have to flash SuperSU, no need to freak out.
If you format /system, you will need to flash a ROM, if the ROM does not flash SuperSU, you will h ave to flash it.
That's all folks!
That said, who wants a VZW Custom ROM and Kernel? Making the thread now. Identical to my H918 5.1 MOD ROM
Tilde88 said:
lol this is only because it give you your stock boot.img. So if you factory reset, you have to flash SuperSU, no need to freak out.
If you format /system, you will need to flash a ROM, if the ROM does not flash SuperSU, you will h ave to flash it.
That's all folks!
That said, who wants a VZW Custom ROM and Kernel? Making the thread now. Identical to my H918 5.1 MOD ROM
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I tried flashing supersu.zip but that wouldn't work either. I challenge you to factory reset in the rom and then once stuck in recovery flash a new rom and the supersu zip and see if that works. I did this several times and it wouldn't work. I tried it with flashing a rom, and after restoring a backup. What appears to be happening is the system isn't mounting and it doesn't recognise that you have a ROM installed.
Not freaking out either, just trying to let people know not to factory reset inside the rom but use TWRP. There have been many people with this issue.
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I tried flashing supersu.zip but that wouldn't work either. I challenge you to factory reset in the rom and then once stuck in recovery flash a new rom and the supersu zip and see if that works. I did this several times and it wouldn't work. I tried it with flashing a rom, and after restoring a backup. What appears to be happening is the system isn't mounting and it doesn't recognise that you have a ROM installed.
Not freaking out either, just trying to let people know not to factory reset inside the rom but use TWRP. There have been many people with this issue.
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Oh, sorry. I overlooked something. That you had in huge bold caps the words IN THE ROM lol, my bad. I've never factory reset from within the ROM.
But my post stands when factory resetting from TWRP.
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Oh, sorry. I overlooked something. That you had in huge bold caps the words IN THE ROM lol, my bad. I've never factory reset from within the ROM.
But my post stands when factory resetting from TWRP.
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Yea I knew better too, that's the bad part. In 5+ years I've never factory reset while in a rom when I have root and TWRP installed. Before I did it I even told myself it was probably a bad idea and I should just use TWRP. But my lazy conscience said "ahhh what the heck! just do it, it's too much trouble to boot into TWRP and besides, it might work ok" I hate my lazy consicence :'(
Exactly what I did and exactly what happened.
Gonna try this in the AM. One question...
If I'm able to flash back to "stock" using a deoxed stock rom, how can I then get rid of the boot warning so I can return this device to T-Mobile?
mrbigdrawsz said:
Exactly what I did and exactly what happened.
Gonna try this in the AM. One question...
If I'm able to flash back to "stock" using a deoxed stock rom, how can I then get rid of the boot warning so I can return this device to T-Mobile?
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You'll need to return to full stock. I can't verify it works but this thread here claims to have a method for returning to stock.
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You'll need to return to full stock. I can't verify it works but this thread here claims to have a method for returning to stock.
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Well pray for me. Downloading now and will try first thing tomorrow.
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Well pray for me. Downloading now and will try first thing tomorrow.
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Did it work for you? Also since there is no t mobile rom there what did you use?
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Did it work for you? Also since there is no t mobile rom there what did you use?
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I used this guide https://goo.gl/ZHZPfO and it worked perfectly. Had a little stress when attempting to flash the stock recovery, but after installing two again, I was able to revert back to stock. Locked bootloader and it's as if I never did anything but boot up the stock OS.
Returning to T-Mobile today and just waiting on my Oneplus 3T to ship (granted I'm pissed off because the 128gb version is out of stock).
mrbigdrawsz said:
I used this guide https://goo.gl/ZHZPfO and it worked perfectly. Had a little stress when attempting to flash the stock recovery, but after installing two again, I was able to revert back to stock. Locked bootloader and it's as if I never did anything but boot up the stock OS.
Returning to T-Mobile today and just waiting on my Oneplus 3T to ship (granted I'm pissed off because the 128gb version is out of stock).
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Glad you got it fixed.
Just for the record, this thread isn't for helping people get back to stock, its main focus is to warn people not to factory reset inside the rom. Then I just shared the method that worked for me to get out of being stuck in TWRP. Not saying you implied any different, I'm just clarifying for anyone that may read in the future. It's awesome return to stock methods are now popping up which are usually good for fixing all sorts of issues.
Enjoy your OnePlus 3T