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[Q] URGENT: Flashed Wrong Kernel To My Nexus 7 (flo)!

Hi guys. I recently flashed the Glitched Kernel (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2449919) to my Nexus, but I accidently downloaded the wrong one. Not knowing this, I flashed it via TWRP and now my device crashes completely (my computer won't even recognize it) on the lock screen. I can still boot into the bootloader, TWRP, and MultiROM easily. I just can't boot up Cyanogenmod (Only rom I have on the device as of now). I really don't know what to do. I've tried connecting via USB in the bootloader, my computer won't even pick up the device. I've also tried adb sideload a new rom and a new kernel, but I get the error 'protocol fault (no status)' which is weird, because ADB recognizes my device (I typed the 'adb devices' command in CMD) How can I flash the stock kernel back onto it?
Thanks in advance,
~NascarBoy119

Just clean flash cyanogenmod again if you have the Rom as .zip on your device. If not use ADB to get a Rom for flashing on your device.

Restore your backup (nandroid).

detoxN said:
Just clean flash cyanogenmod again if you have the Rom as .zip on your device. If not use ADB to get a Rom for flashing on your device.
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I can't download anything to my device. ADB sideload won't work also (I get the error 'protocol fault [no status]), as I stated above.
Also @wantabe
Shortly before this I ran Clean Master on my device. Turned out it deleted my backups... After that, all this drama happened. Probably kinda my fault as I used the TWRP backup feature instead of NanDriod.

NascarBoy119 said:
I can't download anything to my device. ADB sideload won't work also (I get the error 'protocol fault [no status]), as I stated above.
Also @wantabe
Shortly before this I ran Clean Master on my device. Turned out it deleted my backups... After that, all this drama happened. Probably kinda my fault as I used the TWRP backup feature instead of NanDriod.
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adb is your friend. There is plenty of opportunities. You could download a ROM on your computer and sideload or push it in adb. You could also download stock images and fastboot it in the bootloader. Simple...
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NascarBoy119;49329133]I can't download anything to my device. ADB sideload won't work also (I get the error 'protocol fault [no status]).
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nikr123 said:
adb is your friend. There is plenty of opportunities. You could download a ROM on your computer and sideload or push it in adb. You could also download stock images and fastboot it in the bootloader. Simple...
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As you see the text that I put in bold, ADB sideload/pushing gives me an error. I might try the fastboot thing though but then I'll lose all my data, right?

NascarBoy119 said:
As you see the text what I put in bold, ADB sideload/pushing gives me an error. I might try the fastboot thing though but then I'll lose all my data, right?
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what android version are your running?
anyways grab the gltiched kernel for your device this time.
then put your device i to recovery: up/down volume plus power when device is off
once in recovery type thus from your computer.
fastboot flash boot boot.img
you will need to extract the image from the glitched-kernel.zip
no this will not wipe your data. it is the manual way of flashing a kernel.
hope that helps.

NascarBoy119 said:
As you see the text what I put in bold, ADB sideload/pushing gives me an error. I might try the fastboot thing though but then I'll lose all my data, right?
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Fastboot is your friend in this case, as long as you didn't relock your bootloader you can flash without losing your data.
userdelroot said:
no this will not wipe your data. it is the manual way of flashing a kernel.
hope that helps.
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^this
Not using cleanmaster to delete your backups was a lesson you learned the hard way, but it is not unrecoverable and you can chalk it up as a learning experience.
Let us know how it worked out, everything will be fine as long as you take your time and relax. This is something that happens to most people sooner or later and is a great confidence builder (once you work through it).

To avoid this I keep all my backups, zips and other flashaholic stuff on a USB drive mounted using an USB OTG cable. You can mount it and use it in recovery.

megabatteryman said:
To avoid this I keep all my backups, zips and other flashaholic stuff on a USB drive mounted using an USB OTG cable. You can mount it and use it in recovery.
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This may very well be the top reason to buy an OTG cable and/or OTG Micro SD reader / hub device
Sent from my Nexus 7 using XDA Premium HD app

userdelroot said:
what android version are your running?
anyways grab the gltiched kernel for your device this time.
then put your device i to recovery: up/down volume plus power when device is off
once in recovery type thus from your computer.
fastboot flash boot boot.img
you will need to extract the image from the glitched-kernel.zip
no this will not wipe your data. it is the manual way of flashing a kernel.
hope that helps.
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oldsoldier2003 said:
Fastboot is your friend in this case, as long as you didn't relock your bootloader you can flash without losing your data.
Not using cleanmaster to delete your backups was a lesson you learned the hard way, but it is not unrecoverable and you can chalk it up as a learning experience.
Let us know how it worked out, everything will be fine as long as you take your time and relax. This is something that happens to most people sooner or later and is a great confidence builder (once you work through it).
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I did what you guys said and it work flawlessly. Thank you so much! I was worried I permanently bricked my device. I though about buying an OTG cable, but now I think I'm buying it for sure. I'll try to store some backups on it too.

Awesome, glad we could help

HTC ONE m8 need help how to flash rom?

Hi I am very frustrated I bought the new m8, and did root it then I wanted to turn it to S-Off, I made a wipe and by this action I think I removed my original rom.
So what my problem is my PC cant recognize my m8, so cant put a rom in it. I cant find a original rom, and I dont know how to do it Could please someone help me with an explanation.
All what I can is get into the Team Win Recovery project v2.7.0.2

hassain21 said:
Hi I am very frustrated I bought the new m8, and did root it then I wanted to turn it to S-Off, I made a wipe and by this action I think I removed my original rom.
So what my problem is my PC cant recognize my m8, so cant put a rom in it. I cant find a original rom, and I dont know how to do it Could please someone help me with an explanation.
All what I can is get into the Team Win Recovery project v2.7.0.2
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If you are familiar with adb-commands the following should help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2318497

Santa-Claus said:
If you are familiar with adb-commands the following should help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2318497
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I know about it, I will try. Just a question, could I use this image?
(It is the first one named KitKat (Android 4.4.2 + HTC Sense 6.0)
http://android-revolution-hd.blogspot.com/p/android-revolution-hd-mirror-site-var.html
If not could you give me the link for the img.

hassain21 said:
I know about it, I will try. Just a question, could I use this image?
(It is the first one named KitKat (Android 4.4.2 + HTC Sense 6.0)
http://android-revolution-hd.blogspot.com/p/android-revolution-hd-mirror-site-var.html
If not could you give me the link for the img.
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Yes, you can flash that rom.
If your PC cannot see your M8 your out of luck with ADB. But just download the rom zip to a microSD, insert it, boot to TWRP and flash it. The microSD has to be fat32 for TWRP to read it.

berndblb said:
Yes, you can flash that rom.
If your PC cannot see your M8 your out of luck with ADB. But just download the rom zip to a microSD, insert it, boot to TWRP and flash it. The microSD has to be fat32 for TWRP to read it.
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Hi you really helped me a lot, I have the zip in /data/media/0/ path and whenever I want to install it it says failed.
Can I do something about this?

hassain21 said:
Hi you really helped me a lot, I have the zip in /data/media/0/ path and whenever I want to install it it says failed.
Can I do something about this?
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/data/media/0? Isn't that internal SD? How did you get it there?
You should be able to flash it from the microSD by navigating to it under the Install menu in TWRP.
Mhhh, can you mount/unmount system and data in TWRP?

berndblb said:
/data/media/0? Isn't that internal SD? How did you get it there?
You should be able to flash it from the microSD by navigating to it under the Install menu in TWRP.
Mhhh, can you mount/unmount system and data in TWRP?
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yes it is the internal, shouldn't it be there? I found the file there by following the tutorial about ADB that you sent me. Can I just install it from the microSD?
Yes there is an option to mount..

berndblb said:
/data/media/0? Isn't that internal SD? How did you get it there?
You should be able to flash it from the microSD by navigating to it under the Install menu in TWRP.
Mhhh, can you mount/unmount system and data in TWRP?
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My friend, thank you a lot, I flashed it I didnt uncheck the squarre thing so because of that I failed all the time. Thank you very much. God help you.

[Q] First Time Bricking My Phone (Urgent!)

Hi there, I have been an avid Android user for years and also a keen XDA-developer! I have sold my HTC One M8 on eBay and today while I was trying to delete everything off it, I have completely soft bricked it. My TWRP is still installed however I cannot do anything with it. I have tried mounting a ROM onto an SD card then putting into the phone to flash, it fails. I have tried sideloading a ROM, it fails. This is the first time I have been unable to fix this phone, I've been at it for hours! Can someone please give me some help, it would be VERY appreciated!

How does it fail.

BenPope said:
How does it fail.
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Thank you for getting back, when I am running the "adb usb" command, I receive "error: closed", I ran the adb sideload command after that to see where it would get me and it flashes to 100% and then warns me that no OS is installed. When I download a ROM to an SD card and attempt to install it I get the message "Error flashing zp '/external_sd/ROM2.zip"

Check the md5 of the ROM on the sdcard, ensure you have the correct TWRP installed, GSM, Sprint or Verizon.

BenPope said:
Check the md5 of the ROM on the sdcard, ensure you have the correct TWRP installed, GSM, Sprint or Verizon.
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I downloaded the ROM off the HTC website, a UK o2 4.4.2 version? That's what my phone was originally. I have the newest version of TWRP installed, version 2.7.1.0.

I didn't know the HTC website had ROM images, are you sure it's a ROM image?

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I didn't know the HTC website had ROM images, are you sure it's a ROM image?
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It was a .zip file at 138MB named m8-3.4.0-g278eae8?

Sounds like kernel source.

BenPope said:
Sounds like kernel source.
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Ah, well I also used the newest Android Revolution ROM which came out the same way?

I think you need to take a break or read a tutorial or something.

BenPope said:
I think you need to take a break or read a tutorial or something.
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Thanks! Yes I'm following quite a lot ATM it's just the error messages that are holding me back, specifically http://htc-one.wonderhowto.com/how-to/fix-soft-bricked-htc-one-by-flashing-new-rom-via-adb-0154361/ .. Do you have any idea why the "error: closed" is happening?

Incorrect drivers, probably.
Try using a usb2 port.
Try unplugging your phone usb to pc, removing HTC software. Rebooting computer. Installing HTC software. Plugging phone into usb2.

BenPope said:
Incorrect drivers, probably.
Try using a usb2 port.
Try unplugging your phone usb to pc, removing HTC software. Rebooting computer. Installing HTC software. Plugging phone into usb2.
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Ok thanks! Last question, I found a stock international ROM for HTC One M8 - If I was to copy this to a SD Card then mount it to the HTC One, would it work?

I don't know what that means.
You can copy a nandroid backup to the right folder on the phone or sdcard and restore it with the correct recovery (twrp, philz, cwm, whatever the backup was made with).

BenPope said:
I don't know what that means.
You can copy a nandroid backup to the right folder on the phone or sdcard and restore it with the correct recovery (twrp, philz, cwm, whatever the backup was made with).
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I mean, I have downloaded a stock ROM for the HTC One, I'm just asking what would be the problem if I were to try and put that onto a SD card and then install the zip from the external SD card after I insert it into the HTC One.

In what form is this stock ROM? How do you intend to install it?

BenPope said:
In what form is this stock ROM? How do you intend to install it?
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It's a 1.4GB zip file, I was hoping to use the "Install" feature of TWRP. I'm sorry if I'm coming across stupid I have been at this from 11AM this morning.

That should work, I guess.

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That should work, I guess.
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It has flashed from what I can see however when I reboot the system it is directly booting into Bootloader mode, no matter what I press.

Dodgy ROM? Dodgy recovery? Did you check the md5 of both before flashing?

Bricked my phone. Can only access fastboot

I recently tried to flash the android revolution rom on my M8 and now I can't get past the boot screen. I tried everything.
I can access recovery mode but I don't have any other roms that I can flash. I can't use adb to push files to my device. The only thing I can use is fastboot. Everytime I try to use adb it doesn't recognize my device but fastboot does. Please help. Thank you!

Go into recovery and adb push a ROM to your phone.
Adb will only work when you're booted or in recovery

Put a custom firmware and gapps to your sdcard and flash them through recovery, just to get you started.

GRAPHIKXS said:
Put a custom firmware and gapps to your sdcard and flash them through recovery, just to get you started.
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How do i do that? I can't remove my sd card.

garciaomar0203 said:
How do i do that? I can't remove my sd card.
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You can push them through adb commands, but why you can't remove the sdcard?

garciaomar0203 said:
How do i do that? I can't remove my sd card.
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Do you even know that you have slot for external sd card? It's on right side above volume buttons.

snebojsa said:
Do you even know that you have slot for external sd card? It's on right side above volume buttons.
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I did not know that So I just put a custom rom on a sd card and put it in my verizon m8 then flash the rom?

Yes, it's the same as flashing from internal sd.

garciaomar0203 said:
I did not know that So I just put a custom rom on a sd card and put it in my verizon m8 then flash the rom?
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Also make sure you flash a ROM compatible with the Verizon variant! That might be your problem

superchilpil said:
Also make sure you flash a ROM compatible with the Verizon variant! That might be your problem
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okay I flashed different roms and the same thing happened. It flashed succesfully but after the initial logo when i turn it on the screen goes black. The screen is on but all I see is black.

garciaomar0203 said:
okay I flashed different roms and the same thing happened. It flashed succesfully but after the initial logo when i turn it on the screen goes black. The screen is on but all I see is black.
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Are you flashing a compatible ROM? Sounds like you aren't.

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Are you flashing a compatible ROM? Sounds like you aren't.
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I am about to flash this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2716306 lets see what happens.

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Are you flashing a compatible ROM? Sounds like you aren't.
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It worked but now i have a screen that tells me to give it a password to decrypt data. I never put a password

garciaomar0203 said:
It worked but now i have a screen that tells me to give it a password to decrypt data. I never put a password
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Did you ever enable encryption? Maybe try a common password? If not then you're going to have to wipe you device

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Did you ever enable encryption? Maybe try a common password? If not then you're going to have to wipe you device
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I just formatted my data in the recovery mode and it worked. Thank you very much!

garciaomar0203 said:
I just formatted my data in the recovery mode and it worked. Thank you very much!
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Good luck.

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Good luck.
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indeed

SM-T310 Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 - Storage Wiped - Help Me Install CM

Hi guys, much thanks for your help.
I had the unofficial CM11 nightly installed on my GTab 3 8.0 but it got corrupted. I used PhilZ Touch to wipe the storage but I can't find a guide to help me re-install CM on this device.
I tried to use Odin to install CM11, but it won't take .zip files. I converted the file to .tar so I could try and flash it, but Odin immediately crashed.
Please help me fix this device.

To add - There is no ROM installed on this device. It has only the philz touch recovery installed.
I can't turn the tablet off - The device just constantly displays the battery icon. When I try to turn it on, it boots and endlessly displays the galaxy tab 3 boot splash screen.

Hoodahottie said:
To add - There is no ROM installed on this device. It has only the philz touch recovery installed.
I can't turn the tablet off - The device just constantly displays the battery icon. When I try to turn it on, it boots and endlessly displays the galaxy tab 3 boot splash screen.
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I'm not familiar with philz, I'm using TWRP, but I used TWRP to install CM11. I'm assuming philz is similar.

lloydsw said:
I'm not familiar with philz, I'm using TWRP, but I used TWRP to install CM11. I'm assuming philz is similar.
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Yes lloydsw, PhilZ is ClockWorkMod based. PhilZ has similar functionality to TWRP.
My problem is that I don't know how to get the ROM zip file onto the tablet. If I can get it on the tablet, I'll have no trouble installing with PhilZ.
I tried to adb a little bit, but I keep getting Access is denied errors. For some reason, I have been getting these errors recently whenever the Console is involved, even if I launch it with admin rights. I think Microsoft changed Console functionality with a recent update. So, I didn't try too hard.
So, how do I get this rom file into the tablet?

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Yes lloydsw, PhilZ is ClockWorkMod based. PhilZ has similar functionality to TWRP.
My problem is that I don't know how to get the ROM zip file onto the tablet. If I can get it on the tablet, I'll have no trouble installing with PhilZ.
I tried to adb a little bit, but I keep getting Access is denied errors. For some reason, I have been getting these errors recently whenever the Console is involved, even if I launch it with admin rights. I think Microsoft changed Console functionality with a recent update. So, I didn't try too hard.
So, how do I get this rom file into the tablet?
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Put the zip on an external sdcard and use that.
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gr8nole said:
Put the zip on an external sdcard and use that.
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Hi gr8nole,
I don't think I have an microSD. I have an old SD card but I don't think the Tab 3 will take that.

Is there some kind of GUI tool, like the nexus root toolkit that let me flash .zip files on this thing? I don't why odin doesn't take the most common kind of compressed file. I'm kind of stuck here.

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Hi gr8nole,
I don't think I have an microSD. I have an old SD card but I don't think the Tab 3 will take that.
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You have a couple options.
Download the full firmware from sammobile.com and flash it with odin. Then re-flash custom recovery.
Or, continue trying to get the rom zip onto your device. Either get a micro sdcard or get adb to work.
If you get adb working, remember you have to mount the data partition before you can send anything to the internal sdcard (internal sdcard is simply a link to /data/media).
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Hey everybody.
I searched my house for microSD cards, and I found one in an old dumb phone. And I recovered some pictures and info that I thought was lost. I found sd card adapters in another box. I put them together and installed the rom easily.
My tablet is working fine, thanks to everyone. Not only is my device working again, I found my lost data. yes!
gr8nole, special thanks to you. Have a great day!