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Is there a way to format the PDA and reinstall a ROM. My PH20B1 is started to freeze after a ROM is installed and at Complete on the Setup for minutes. I end up just soft-resting cause after mins past its not doing anything....Is there a way to fix that???
Isn't it supposed to be like that? You're supposed to reset after the ROM upgrade shows 100% complete.
I think I understand the problem you have from the limited information supplied.
You have rebooted to a white screen after a failed rom upgrade, correct?
If so, just disconnect your device from the PC, hold power+record buttons, then prod the reset hole with your stylus. You will see "Serial v2.xx" where "xx" can vary. Now attach the phone to your PC (device now shows "USB" instead of "serial").
Next, kill off all activesync processes on the PC (ctrl-alt-del to enter task manager, then end task on "rapimgr.exe", "wcescomm.exe", "wcesmgr.exe").
Now that the device is attached and activesync is killed, start the ROM upgrader application to update the phone ROM.
After successful upgrade, it often helps to reboot the PC as well as the phone, as activesync does not always recover well from having its processes killed.
Im saying that My PDA is starting to freeze. Even after running, its starting to freeze up and I have to soft reset it. I am able to install a ROM on it however at the end of installing the ROM where the screens says COMPLETE...Tap to continue ro begin using your device...and its starts the ROM....As soon as I tap the screen in the middle of starting WM5 it freezes... Ive even downgrade to Wm2oo3SE and it still freezes. But after soft resest there was a message about "system data is corrupted, System will erase all data to fix this error! Yes or No to fix"....Can that be fix or am I able to re-format the PDA hdd and reinstall WM2oo3SE or WM5?
Hi again,
This is a guess, so treat it as such, but I suspect that something in your extended ROM could be causing the problem. On first boot after reflash, a file "autorun.exe" is executed from the extended ROM, and this will normally install a bunch of CAB files.
If something in your extended ROM was corrupt or otherwise not correct, it could cause a lockup on first boot - immediately after calibrating the screen, setting the timezone etc, just as you describe.
The safest thing to do is to revert to the device's complete set of original ROMs, as found in this table :-
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=BA_Upgrades
The original ROM-set will restore the main ROM, extended ROM and radio ROM to the defaults.
If the problem is fixed afterwards, and you still feel brave enough to upgrade to WM5, then first repartition your device so that the extended ROM is empty. Instructions on how to do this from within WM2003 are found here :-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=50628
Figured Out A Solution
I figured out the problem and Im not sure if others have experienced this problem or not. Even if you dont created an extended rom on your Blue Angel when changing from rom to rom, if your screen tends to freezes after saying "tap on your screen to begin using your device" you will have to run the DOC repartitioning tool in the Prepartion Folder of some ROMS. Once running the program as the directions tells you and preform a reset even a hard reset on your device, everything will run fine without freezing.
Kind of a nob so I like using ROM Manager.
I try a theme from ROM manager, clockwork recovery is up to date.
I select do not want to wipe data.
It looks like it installs ok but when the N1 reboots it always stops at the Android Exclamation mark screen.
Pull my battery, the radio boots but only back to the original ROM.
What can I try? I like ROM Manager I do not want to manual manage the ROMs for one thing when I go to recovery mode there is no way i can read the tiny writing.
Just installed Paragon RC5.0 on my capitivate. Install went smooth, everything is pretty and the backups restored. Im only running into one issue. I cannot get the screen to turn to the side when holding it horizontally.
I was having this problem last night when i was having issues with my backups. I did something to where i could get it it to turn and thought all was well. I reinstalled the ROM because titanium backup over wrote a few programs that were on the ROM and was more careful about the next restore. No matter what i do i cannot get the screen to move to any other position now.
Tried reading through the 200 page super thread on the ROM, but was unsuccessful at finding any information.
Running same rom not having that issue.
Maybe try reinstalling rom then are if it works before youdo anything with titanium
try to do a master clear first.
Did the Master clear with odin following instructions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
Rerooted, re installed paragon. Tilting works now, havent touched titanium backup yet. Lets see how restoring things affects it
Tilt was working. Used titanium backup to manually select a few things to restore, like contacts and a few other things. Then used batch to restore all missing programs, I made sure to go down the list and only select specific programs i wanted back. Rebooted my phone and now tilting doesnt work anymore.....
Was frustrated with Paragon so I master cleared again and installed Serendipity 5.3. Everything working fine and well, tilting worked. I click 2 apps on the phone(market and maps :/) and tilt hast worked after that. Is this a comon problem with ROMs?
So you are saying that your auto rotate after you opened maps and or the market?
No that is not normal
After installing the Rom i let it sit for 5 minutes, opened messaging and rotated it and it worked, opened a new message and went to the keyboard and it worked. I open up the camera, and then tried to put in my market info and the screen wouldnt rotate, along with everything else now. No backups or anything this time. 2nd ROM in a row to do this for no reason. I'm thinking about going back to stock lol
I do not use my auto rotate but I have not heard a problem like yours before. Sorry, I got nothing
Apparently Serendipity 5.3 and paragon has an icon on the pull down menu i mistook for the sync icon thats on the stock ROM( i think thats what it is, i always had it off and it never affected anything). An infuriating little feature when not understood.
Facepalm
So you are cursing at your phone and you had turned the feature off? Live and learn
Yea, when i finally figured it out i felt really dumb. Although, in the frustration caused by this stupid mistake I can now master clear, root, and flash my phone in my sleep haha
Problems with Paragon RC5 ROM
After i flashed the rom, my captivate went to the first boot image and got stuck. My phone has been like that for a couple of hours. is there a way i can flash back to the stock rom or fix this problem? I have tried to reboot into recovery but my phone wont get past the first boot image. PLZ HELP!!!! P.S. I forgot to master clear before flashing rom and I used rom manager to flash the rom. I was running darky's rom b4 trying to flash this one.
bindratn said:
After i flashed the rom, my captivate went to the first boot image and got stuck. My phone has been like that for a couple of hours. is there a way i can flash back to the stock rom or fix this problem? I have tried to reboot into recovery but my phone wont get past the first boot image. PLZ HELP!!!! P.S. I forgot to master clear before flashing rom and I used rom manager to flash the rom. I was running darky's rom b4 trying to flash this one.
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Can you get into download mode?
how would I do that?
Turn phone off
Take out sim, ext sd, battery
Have usb hooked to pc but not phone
Put battery back in
Hold volume up and down while plugging in usb
Phone should go to a screen with an android with a shovel
If you can do this and have a windows pc I can get you back up and running pretty easy
ok i did that and it went into download mode
Do you have a windows pc?
Have you installed the usb drivers for this phone?
What is your build number of your phone, located under battery something like 1008?
yes i have a windows pc and the drivers and my build number is 0168 i guess
No that its not your build
You do have a captivate right?
Under battery anything from 1006-1012
mkay o i'm kind of new to android and tonight i wet my pants cause i thoughy i bricked the optimus. I wanted to install CM7 but something went horribly wrong.
After I rooted and installed ROM manager I copied CM7 to my SD and installed. After it was done the CM7 boot screen kept looping. No way the phone was doing anything more than that.
The only other thing it would do was to sho a 'waiting for update' screen. After a lot of searching I mangaged to get stock ROM back by using smartflash, praise be...
Now that I know I can rescue the phone I'd like to know what whent wrong..any clues? Did I use the wrong build of CM7? I just used the latest of the 4th of july.
I want to try again but maybe some insight would be helpful, thanks...
Did you remember to tick the wipe data box in ROM Manager?
Well it would not install from rom
Manager (installation canceled by itself and ennded up with fresh install of LG rom...) so after that i did it from recovery. cant remember if i got the option to wjpe in there...
So when i installed from ROM manager i did xheck the wipe boxes. Then started installing from SD. The installation stopped, i have seen some sort of warning exclamation but i could not read what was wrong the message disappeared too fast. I think the 'wipe' was sucssesful though because all my apps and settings for stock LG firmaware were back to factory.
Ah ha.
ROM Manager and the stock ROM don't get on too well. Boot to recovery, wipe and install from there.
Assume you are using CWM recovery? It has the option to wipe on there if you look carefully so you can wipe it manually before flashing.
I tried again and it seems GB is now running cause I can see the battery icon on a different angle but it keeps givin me LG installation error messages after boot which i may ' forrxe close' but basicly nothing happens. Did i forget to wipe somerhing or forget to do smth else?
What recovery are you using? If it's 4.0.0.5, you might want to update to the newest 4.0.0.5, as the original one I built had some problems formatting.
The error messagel all seem to refer to LG apps or services. Device wont go beyond these messages.
I know, if it's what I'm thinking, they will have been left behind during the CM install, which shouldn't happen.
Ok so what do you think i should do? thanks for the snappy replies rusty.
Fyi, behind the error messages i can see a black background. The top bar with battery indicator is present, it charging. Signal indicator is there but has no signal.
Change recovery and flash again, either to 3.2.0.0 or the newest 4.0.0.5
this is what it looks like now. When i switch off and do volume down+ power its says waiting for S/W upgrade.
First i need to re-install syock again i guess? Wont do much else..
If you're getting software upgrade, you're letting go of power to early, keep em both held.
Edit: Or use 'adb reboot recovery'
hmkay im in recovery now thanks for that. It says 3.0.2.8
Signarure check enabled
Signature check disabled
Script asserts eneabled
Im not quite sure what you want me to do now. Thanks for your patience
Oh, 3.0.2.8 shouldn't have had any problems then, annoying.
Still, pik the wipe data/cache option, then install CM7
Im there thanks so much Rusty.
so i finally decided to root my lg optimus 2x, after a few tries, i finnaly did it. so after that i went to the google play store to download the app Rom Manager, after it finished installing, i went deeper into the app (Rom Manager), and found out that i could just download and install a custom rom directly from my phone, without any pc connectivity. so i choose one that was written stable on, after the custom rom was downloaded, i clicked on the icon in the notification tap to install. there were some preferences i could choose, so i decided not to backup the files from my build-in rom. after that, the phone rebooted and my phone was showing alot of text informations, and in the background of that the Rom Manager icon was showing. after the installation was done my phone got turned off. after that i decided to turn it on (obviously), and it just got stuck at the LG logo in the beginning.
so the question is, what do, i do now? i have tried everything.
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so i finally decided to root my lg optimus 2x, after a few tries, i finnaly did it. so after that i went to the google play store to download the app Rom Manager, after it finished installing, i went deeper into the app (Rom Manager), and found out that i could just download and install a custom rom directly from my phone, without any pc connectivity. so i choose one that was written stable on, after the custom rom was downloaded, i clicked on the icon in the notification tap to install. there were some preferences i could choose, so i decided not to backup the files from my build-in rom. after that, the phone rebooted and my phone was showing alot of text informations, and in the background of that the Rom Manager icon was showing. after the installation was done my phone got turned off. after that i decided to turn it on (obviously), and it just got stuck at the LG logo in the beginning.
so the question is, what do, i do now? i have tried everything.
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you should look into more what you need to know, need to do before flashing a custom rom
well, you either try flashing a Stock rom via Smartflash and if that doesn't work, you'll have to use Nvflash, but don't worry, your phone is fine, there's nothing to be afraid about.
Next time you try a rom, you migh want to root the device, install cwm, then make a backup with the app Titanium Backup, after that, you go into the cwm, wipe as needend and install the rom. Do read the guides there are about flashing, because things like this could happen if you don't know what your doing.
If you have done a Backup of your Rom you just simply click restore in cwm and everything would get back to normal, but since you didn't, you have to use Smartflash.
But anyways, if I were you, instead of using Smartflash as my first choice, this is what i would do:
1.- Download a CM7 rom (or any other rom i like) for the O2X in its page with the gapps (google apps), if you like Stable versions, then go for it.
2.- I'd put that rom in a microsd card directly from my pc and then put that microSD card on the device.
3.- I'd go into cwm by doing this: While the phone is off, you click: Volume down + Power button at the same time and wait until the secong LG logo appears before releasing them.
4.- I'd do the firsts 2 wipes it shows there: Data wipe/factory reset (as I already have a Titanium backup) and Cache partition wipe
5.- Go into "Advanced" and wipe: Dalvik cache and Battery stats.
6.- Go back and choose: "Install zip from SD card" then "Choose zip from sd card"
7.- Locate the file and apply it
After that you'll see that "lots of text information" you saw the first time, that's fine, just wait a little, after it's done simply click "Reboot system now" and wait a little bit for the Rom to charge for its first time, if everything goes fine, you'll have CM7 installed and your phone will be functional again.
If you like the Rom, then look for tutorials so you can configure it the way you want and flash the gapps.
Hope this helps you
I think that the reason you got stuck in LG logo, was because you were installing a rom that doesn't automatically convert the EXT3 partition into EXT4 or something, or maybe what you installed wasn't a rom, i don't know, just be sure to check a little more in the future Good luck!
Note: not all roms require to flash gapps, only Cyanogenmods and some others.
frikou said:
well, you either try flashing a Stock rom via Smartflash and if that doesn't work, you'll have to use Nvflash, but don't worry, your phone is fine, there's nothing to be afraid about.
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Thanks for the tips, but i have problem, and this might seem like a stupid question, but how does smartflash work exactly.....?
AssShavin said:
Thanks for the tips, but i have problem, and this might seem like a stupid question, but how does smartflash work exactly.....?
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Search a guide... it isn't difficult
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