Hi guys, sorry to say I'm back with another problem.
I have a Desire Z, rooted and S-off. Rooted with the wiki method (downgrade version, adb, gfree).
Using clockworkmod recovery 3.0.2.4, and have made a backup of my first 1.32 boot.
However, I tried flashing a new rom, but recovery just won't take it. It will say Can't open /sdcard/rom.zip (Bad) installation aborted, with every rom I tried. And I've tried more than 10.
So I thought, no biggie, I have a nandroid backup. So I run the restore, which works fine. But upon booting the device, it gets stuck on the white HTC loading screen. I have tried this multiple times, deleting cache/data etc fully. Also I used the FULL-WIPE-VISION.zip for this purpose to no avail.
I have followed the semi-brick guide which said I had to go get a stock rom with root, so I did. But I can't load it through clockwork restore, because I get the same Bad rom error.
What's left to try?
Additional info I should give according to the semi-brick thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842495):
The last and only Rom I had was the stock 1.32.4xx to which I had to downgrade before I got perm root. This rom is my nandroid recovery.
The command adb devices recognizes my device.
adb remount is succesful
adb shell gives me root
I have /data and /system mounted when trying most roms (but I get the same error when I don't have it mounted)
After booting and waiting a minute when it's stuck in white screen, adb devices will not recognize my device anymore, adb remount and shell also say that the device is not found.
Thanks a lot for helping out!
TL;DR: Clockworkmod recovery does not load roms, nand restore gives WSOD. How come?
EDIT: Problem was due to my budget 32GB microSDHC. Operations were successfull using the original 8GB card. Apologies for the spamtopic.
Noboo said:
EDIT: Problem was due to my budget 32GB microSDHC. Operations were successfull using the original 8GB card. Apologies for the spamtopic.
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This isn't spam, and no need to apologize. Your post may be of benefit to others. If somebody has a similar issue, they may find your post, and from it find out how to fix it.
If nothing else, you should add [SOLVED] to the thread title.
Each time I boot up my phone it reverts to a previous state no matter what I do. It started 2 nights ago when I was messing with it. I wanted to install another rom and try rom manager. RM gave me an error saying it couldn't do something and fix permissions sometimes worked. I went into CWM touch and did a "fix permissions". I had also just installed CWM touch a few minutes earlier to try it out. I gave up on RM and just tried installing CM9 alpha nightly the usual way. I got the CM9 startup animation, but when the phone starts it's in the same earlier state. I was on AOKP build 28.
I've tried:
Restoring a previous nandroid backup
Reinstalling CMW regular via the Toolkit and fastboot
Fixing permissions (again) via CWM touch
Wiping everything CMW will let me... multiple times.
So far no matter what I do the phone is in the same state. I can install apps, take pictures, etc., but when the phone reboots (it's doing random reboots often) none of them are saved. I think the fix permissions somehow made most or all of my directories read only and the phone is rebooting when the ram is being fully used, but I'm not sure. I remember getting one "read only" error last night, but I was trying so many things the exact moment escapes me. I can boot into CMW regular via the Toolkit as long as I don't flash it.
I have Windows 7 and Ubuntu at my disposal.
edit 1: I may have mounted the /system path before I did a fix permissions if this matters. It tells me /system is read-only.
edit 2: I can't delete anything off of the SDCARD when it's mounted as usb storage in Windows.
Hi, I have a Desire HD and I just flashed this ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1460820
It installed without any errors, but after the installation during the reboot, nothing happens. The phone just keeps rebooting endlessly with the HTC logo and then the beatsaudio logo and back to the HTC logo again. I pulled out the battery and turned it on again but the same thing happens. Please help!
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Hi, I have a Desire HD and I just flashed this ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1460820
It installed without any errors, but after the installation during the reboot, nothing happens. The phone just keeps rebooting endlessly with the HTC logo and then the beatsaudio logo and back to the HTC logo again. I pulled out the battery and turned it on again but the same thing happens. Please help!
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did u do a full wipe? just do a full wipe, and then reflash the rom.
Also, make sure that the md5sum is the correct for the rom zip file. If the file is corrupted, then u will never be able to flash it.
How do I do a full wipe? I can access recovery, so how do I do it from there?
select the option wipe data/ factory reset
BUT as you can imagine all your data will be deleted!
and use the + / - buttons for selecting; wake up button should be the enter button
I did that, but the problem still persists.
then use an other rom that you can flash.. maybe the rom you downloaded is broken?
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I did that, but the problem still persists.
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Every rom in the site has a MD5SUM, that is a unique number to check is the file is corrupted or not.
When in the sdcard, the check using a cmd as admin the following
(whatever directory the sdcard is) ¿?:\FOLDER THE FILE IS ON\md5sum NAME OF FILE.ZIP
check that number...if that is ok, then change the rom.
Do you use alot of apps perhaps ?
Are these moved to SD ?
I too had problems with Rebooting after upgrading and it appears a HUGE BUG was introduced in the official Gingerbread OS ...
Check this link out and see how many hundred of others have this reboot bug:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=25563
There is however a fix for those with rooted phones, simply install LINK2SD, which runs a boot-up script and allows you to save/link all your apps on SD card in a 2nd seperate partition (ideally use format ext4 for this partition) and makes the phone believe these are all installed on the local data space ..
So, I recently acquired an Incredible, the second one I've owned. The first one I rooted, turned S-off and installed CM7 with zero difficulties, after that I rooted/flashed my Xperia Play CDMA with all the issues that accompany that device. (after the ease with which I modded my first DINC, the hoops through which I had to jump to unlock my bootloader blew my mind)
This DINC, though, refuses to clear user data. Even after multiple wipes via CWM, and multiple updates using the PB31IMG method, user data remains. Attmepts to preform a factory reset via HBOOT result in a balck screen with a red triangle and exclamation point.
I tried to install MIUI, thinking maybe a fresh rom would fix it, but it gets stuck at the room splash screen.
I've even tried recovering a clean CM7 install from my old incredible, but it gets stuck in a bootloop at the rom splash, same story trying to flash the .zip in recovery.
I've seen a few threads that deal with a few of these symptoms, but not the issue as a whole
Thanks in advance for any answers you guys have!
Cheers
I found a solution, finally. Admittedly, it was a bit drastic, but it worked, nonetheless.
I ended up disassembling both DIncs and putting the motherboard of the working device (with the smashed screen) into the device that was unable to format /data.
It was a bit touch and go for a bit, but my new DIY refubished phone is up and running.
Thanks for the help guys!
What error do you get? Can you upload the logs from /cache/ recovery after trying to wipe?
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I'm still a bit of a noob, if you could point me towards some basic instructions on how to do that, I'll post a log when i get back to the house.
Last time I tried to logcat something in recovery, I nearly bricked my phone somehow.
Edit: It either gives me the red error triangle/exclamation point if i use HBOOT, or it gives me an error when trying to format the data partition on a recovery attempt.
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I'm still a bit of a noob, if you could point me towards some basic instructions on how to do that, I'll post a log when i get back to the house.
Last time I tried to logcat something in recovery, I nearly bricked my phone somehow.
Edit: It either gives me the red error triangle/exclamation point if i use HBOOT, or it gives me an error when trying to format the data partition on a recovery attempt.
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Re-flash CWM recovery. The red triangle is a problem with recovery most likely. You can flash the latest CWM for the incredible from the app.
If that doesn't work then pull all the files from /cache/recovery location, use a file explorer app that can read it and copy it to the /sdcard location and upload it in a zip.
tiny4579 said:
Re-flash CWM recovery. The red triangle is a problem with recovery most likely. You can flash the latest CWM for the incredible from the app.
If that doesn't work then pull all the files from /cache/recovery location, use a file explorer app that can read it and copy it to the /sdcard location and upload it in a zip.
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The red triangle happens when you try to do a factory reset from hboot wile on cwm recovery. If you really need to do a factory reset, you will need to flash to the stock recovery first. http://dinc.does-it.net/Recoveries/Stock_4.08.605.15/PB31IMG.zip Then if it works or even if not flash back to cwm recovery http://dinc.does-it.net/Recoveries/CWM_5.0.2.0/PB31IMG.zip.
The weird thing is, that even after flashing PBG31IMG via HBOOT I'm retaining all the previous user data. I've tried formatting the internal drive, using a few different versions of the image, even manual formatting of /data via CWM, which only gives me an error. the same error as when I tried to restore a nandroid from my functioning DINC.
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If that doesn't work then pull all the files from /cache/recovery location, use a file explorer app that can read it and copy it to the /sdcard location and upload it in a zip.
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So do i just make a .zip file out of the contents of /cache/recovery or is there something more to it?
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So do i just make a .zip file out of the contents of /cache/recovery or is there something more to it?
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That should be fine. Try to wipe data in cwm again just so it logs it.
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I'm having the same issue, even after reflashing a rom or hard reset my system is as it was before, but most apps don't work. After turning on device instantly shows many errors such as error in com.android.phone etc... While trying factory reset in Recovery (5.0.2.0) the only error that logs is "no app2sd partition found. Skipping format of /sd-ext ". What can you advise? Please help, tomorrow I'm going to another country and in this moment working phone is very needed Device S-OFF Rooted HBoot 0.92
zslashy said:
I'm having the same issue, even after reflashing a rom or hard reset my system is as it was before, but most apps don't work. After turning on device instantly shows many errors such as error in com.android.phone etc... While trying factory reset in Recovery (5.0.2.0) the only error that logs is "no app2sd partition found. Skipping format of /sd-ext ". What can you advise? Please help, tomorrow I'm going to another country and in this moment working phone is very needed Device S-OFF Rooted HBoot 0.92
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Same error if you flash stock GB sense and factory reset from recovery? You have the errors when booting and the apps are still there?
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Thank you for reply, I solved reset issue by installing Amon Ra recovery. But the problem with apps still exists, it looks like system is restoring back up after reboot, I can do everything with system but after reboot it's like it was before with no changes made. Additionally, it seems that the problem is with emmc, just because when I delete EVERYTHING on it, after restart all files appear again!
I'm also getting an error when I try to manually format the data partition under >mounts and storage in CWM, I'm assuming that may be to blame for retained user data?
When I run show log after running only a manual /data format it displays:
6 black groups
32768 blocks per group. 32768 fragments per group
8112 inodes per group
superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768. 98304. 163840
The filesystem already has a journal,
tune2fs 1.41.6 (30-May-2009)
Setting current mount count to 1
Failure while running mke2fs
Error formatting /data!
mtd: succesfully wrote block at 0
I:Set boot command ""
I have no idea what that means really, or even if it's pertinent.
I had to remove the user info (owner data, phone number, etc) from my inc after canceling my contract with verizon. After about 25 different attempts to wipe it, I finally found something that worked (at least for me)
Tried running the RUU, could not reboot into HBOOT (version error)
Tried the RUU again, this time starting it after manually booting the phone to HBOOT. Got a little farther than before, but still errored out. Did not work. Disconnected phone, pulled battery, rebooted to HBOOT.
Factory reset in HBOOT got me stuck on the stock recovery screen. Battery pulled, could not boot.
Flashed CWM in HBOOT (by renaming to PB31IMG.zip), was able to get into CWM recovery.
Tried to flash the 2nd GB OTA in CWM, did not take. Every option I clicked in CWM gave me about 7 errors after sitting on the logo for a moment. Battery pull, reboot. Boots into CM9. >.<
Booted to my rom, saw about 300 force closes. Tried to reflash CWM from Rom Manager, got a bunch of force closes. Updated Rom Manager from market, reflashed CWM, and this time it worked.
Rebooted to CWM, wipe data/cache/dalvik, reboot.
This time I booted in CM9, but to the initial ICS set up (click next to begin, wireframe pic of Andy)
After skipping thru initial setup, I checked Settings>About Phone>Status. My phone number was removed, network is Unknown, and all my data was removed. Activation prompt appears on each boot.
Not sure if this will help, but worth a try. I think that the HBOOT factory reset is what cleared my data, and then I just needed to fix CWM so I could get back to a working ROM.
Yeah that's what I did in june except I just got service on mine but I would think that would help getting your data out forever. If that does not work I wouldn't know what to tell u besides grab a magnet. Lol
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So just as the title says i decided to root my n7. Everything seemed to go smooth until my nexus 7 was stuck on the boot animation screen for about 20 minutes. I tried doing a factory reset in TWRP and it said wipe failed. I decided to flash CWM instead and do a factory reset but i couldn't. It said error mounting /data. I'm not sure what to do googling around didn't seem to work.
TWRP gave me a message saying SU is not installed after i installed the recovery so i clicked instal SU. I'm not sure if that contributed to my problem or not. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ok so i figured this out.
So for anyone who ever gets into an endless bootloop with the inability to wipe data you need to do the following.
1. Download the latest Factory image from google.
2. Exctract the files into your platform-tools folder an run the "flash-all" command this video illustrates it perfectly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsss9e71bKo
3. And you're done! hopefully this helps someone out