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Flashing an image...HELP PLEASE

Here's my issue. My keyboard a week ago started to have issue, some of the letters wouldn't work (the physical one). T-mobile will be sending me a warranty replacement. So I need to get unrooted.
I was going to use this method --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=491350
Problem is the splash screen is the one for CM 4.0.4 ROM. So I can't type in the recovery console (CM 1.4). I need to get rid of that splash screen.
So some XDA'er's gave me an idea. My girlfriend has an unrooted G1. I loaded Flash Recovery (one-click root method). I did a backup of her perfectly stock 1.5 image. I took out the SD card, dropped it in mine. Loaded into CM 1.4 recovery, went to "restore latest backup" and I got a "Error performing restore! Try running nandroid-mobile.sh restore from console.". I'm stumped cause I can't use recovery console since some of my keyboard keys don't work. Can I flash thru Better Terminal flash_image to go back to unrooted stock 1.5, stock recovery and stock splash image? What's the exact command? What do you think I should do guys?
Thanks in advance.

flash the 1.22 radio
flash DangerSPL
BRICKED!!!!!!! No evidence
HAHAHAHAHA damn that's evil

if you have a second splash screen (splash2) then do this in fastboot
Code:
fastboot erase splash2
flashing the DREAIMG.nbh file will change everything else back to stock

caolinlin said:
Nice work--thank you for sharing-
Thanks so much for this. I appreciate the effort. It really helps a lot.
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if you are referencing me in any way, what effort? to type a few sentences

EDIT: I just got ADB to work. Woohoo. Only @ work it works, lol.
I need to get rid of this splash.
So last night after I posted this, I looked at the recovery-backup.img that flashrec made. I thought to myself "damn that's a small 5MB file for the 1.5 OS". I went into Better Terminal and flash_image the image. Rebooted the phone into recovery mode and only that changed. I figured it was too good to be true from just a 5MB img file.
I'm installing adb at work now to see if I can get this damn thing to work.

I was wondering if I flash some early 1.5 rom (Haykuro ADP 1.5Hr3) would it bring back the old splash screen and then I can just reverse to stock via the unrooting steps?

typed:
Code:
fastboot erase splash2
and it says: "erasing 'splash2'....FAILED (remote: partition is not existed!)"
Maybe I should format my SD card and remove all the partitions? I don't think he has to do with that, but I don't know what else it could be.

flexnix said:
typed:
Code:
fastboot erase splash2
and it says: "erasing 'splash2'....FAILED (remote: partition is not existed!)"
Maybe I should format my SD card and remove all the partitions? I don't think he has to do with that, but I don't know what else it could be.
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You have the new spl which removes the splash2. With the new spl you only have splash1.

supremeteam256 said:
You have the new spl which removes the splash2. With the new spl you only have splash1.
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So what do I do then? fastboot erase splash1?
Because I did that (splash1) and it says "erasing 'splash1' ... FAILED (remote: erasing error)"
I hope this has nothing to do with me switching back to the stock recovery using girlfriend image (flash_image) thru terminal. Should I go back to CM 1.4? Even though I'm in the bootloader?

flexnix said:
So what do I do then? fastboot erase splash1?
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Get the original T-mobile splash screen pic. It's on here a couple places and instead of deleting it just flash the original over your custom. And yes it will be splash1.

Now I'm confused. When I first boot up the phone, the T-Mobile screen comes up. Then a few seconds later it use to show the regular animated ANDROID logo when cupcake came out. But since I installed CM 4.0.4 it shows the other CM's ANDROID animated logo after the T-Mobile logo.

What part of "flashing the DREAIMG.nbh will overwrite everything" did you not understand. To unroot your phone ALL you do is flash that file. stop making this so much more difficult. after you flash rc-29, wait for your phone to update.

flexnix said:
Now I'm confused. When I first boot up the phone, the T-Mobile screen comes up. Then a few seconds later it use to show the regular animated ANDROID logo when cupcake came out. But since I installed CM 4.0.4 it shows the other CM's ANDROID animated logo after the T-Mobile logo.
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Well what you wrote is confusing everyone else you should have stated that in the begining. The animated screen is not a splash screen. Splash1 and splash2 is what would appear before the animated gif. And just like david said flash RC29 and your done.

Weird Brick?

Hello,
I seemed to have messed my phone up pretty bad, I was trying to unroot my phone and everything was going fine... but afterwards it just keeps booting into SPL, I can boot into recovery, and I can flash newer offically signed roms, but no matter what whenever i boot normally it just goes to the old rainbow spl screen. Any suggestions..?
Edit: Also I know it's not the camera button being stuck because it acts differently if I do so, i.e. if I press down the camera button it'll want to flash the .nbh but otherwise it just boots into the spl without mention of it.

worldestroyer said:
Hello,
I seemed to have messed my phone up pretty bad, I was trying to unroot my phone and everything was going fine... but afterwards it just keeps booting into SPL, I can boot into recovery, and I can flash newer offically signed roms, but no matter what whenever i boot normally it just goes to the old rainbow spl screen. Any suggestions..?
Edit: Also I know it's not the camera button being stuck because it acts differently if I do so, i.e. if I press down the camera button it'll want to flash the .nbh but otherwise it just boots into the spl without mention of it.
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Wrong Forum ask in Q&A

since it will read the .nbh file, have you tried applying it?

no, you are wrong. this is a weirder brick
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ummmm can i flash the old radio then the 1.33.2005 spl onto this and kill it? it scares me

david1171 said:
since it will read the .nbh file, have you tried applying it?
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I tried applying it, and it goes through fine, but it just keeps rebooting to the spl...

worldestroyer said:
I tried applying it, and it goes through fine, but it just keeps rebooting to the spl...
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is it the stock spl?
have you set up adb/fastboot before

hmmm, i remember someone else having this problem before but i forget what the solve was

I got this same problem. A temporary workaround is just to do
fastboot reboot to reboot into android as that command forces it to reboot directly, ignoring any other input commands (ie. Home+Power, Camera+Power).

h.nocturna said:
I got this same problem. A temporary workaround is just to do
fastboot reboot to reboot into android as that command forces it to reboot directly, ignoring any other input commands (ie. Home+Power, Camera+Power).
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yeah i remember you saying you had that problem a while back, did you ever get a work around for it? or did you have to get a new phone?

maybe this might be helpfull to know

gridlock32404 said:
hmmm, i remember someone else having this problem before but i forget what the solve was
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I had this problem too. It would boot just fine if I left the battery out for over 10 hours. But any reboots after that will go right to the SPL. Flashing RC29 doesn't solve it either. I ended up getting it replaced (waiting on it being shipped back).

david1171 said:
yeah i remember you saying you had that problem a while back, did you ever get a work around for it? or did you have to get a new phone?
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No. That's the only way I can get it back into android =/
Fortunately, I bought another phone and now I just use that one for testing ROMs that aren't stable enough for me to keep.
I'll probably end up selling it for parts and recover a fraction of what I spent on it.

What did you do to get that way?

weird brick
Ok first of all your phone is not bricked.the defintion of a bricked phone is one that you cannot access recovery or fastboot.
Secondly it sounds as if the rc29 file you are flashing is corrupted can happen many different way I will give yoy an idea how to proceed
1st download dreaimg.nbh google it (download from a different source then you did last time)
2nd enter recovery. (Home + power) wipe phone
3rd turn off your phone remove battery and sim and sd card wait 10 seconds install battery and sims leave sd out)
4th format sd to fat 32 after formatting copy dreaimg.nbh to sd for computer install sd card into phone
5th power on the phone holding the camera button down to second stage till you get spl showing (rainbow)screen
6th set up phone
If this fails replace your sdcard and repeat the process

someone is late to the party.

weird brick
This should be posted in q&a mods

are you getting this error on your android device

Hazen said:
This should be posted in q&a mods
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you have utterly failed. like for real.

david1171 said:
someone is late to the party.
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Better late then never

Nexus one stuck on boot screen after clearing storage

I was about to buy my friends N1, after he cleared the data, it is now stuck on boot screen, he has sent this to me to try to fix since he is not a technical person at all, but I am also dumbfounded by it.
here is what happened:
1.) He went to settings and clicked restore to factory defaults
2.) It rebooted and got stuck to this.
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He send unit to me just now.
1.) Removed bat to turn off since power button no longer works to shut phone off
2.) Pressed POWER+Vol Down to enter Menu
3.) Selected Clear Storage
4.) asked to confirm, so I did, it said it will reboot in 5 seconds, so it did and still stuck with this screen.
Alternatively,
I chose recovery, then wiped everything, reboot still the same.
Tried downloading multiple roms, renamed to update.zip, but it will give me an error in recover mode, not signed.
This N1 is unlocked.
Now, I want to follow the instructions here but I am wondering if it is worth it or I will just return the n1. Certainly a bad sign having seconds thoughts on moving to Android
How To: Load a Custom ROM on the Nexus One (Updated 1.11.10) | TheUnlockr

Had the same issue
Had *exactly* the same issue a few weeks ago and tried dozens of different options but eventually gave up. I sent it back to HTC for repair and it came back in two days *with a new screen* (which I didn't ask for). The screen replacement cured the screen alignment/keyboard offset issue that I was getting multiple times a day. So I was happy Excellent service from HTC!

I had a similar problem. Reflashing the recovery image, then reflashing the ROM fixed it for me.
Try pushing over Clockwork recovery, or at least reflashing Amon_RA's recovery image. If you stick with Amon's, upgrade to 1.7.0.1 while you're at it.
The reason to try Clockwork, though, is that it allows you to disable signature checks. Plus, ROM manager integration is awesome. It saves time if you flash a lot!

FIRST, try renaming the zip file just "update". NO .zip or quotes. Sometimes the PC OS adds an extra .zip.
Ken

Gave up on it too, sent it back to HK yesterday, hopefully, they will replace it too. Thanks everyone!

I would have flashed the stock factory image on to it. That's different from flashing a zip, in that the image copies the sector bit by bit, so if there is any kind of bug, it gets overwritten.

ATnTdude said:
I would have flashed the stock factory image on to it. That's different from flashing a zip, in that the image copies the sector bit by bit, so if there is any kind of bug, it gets overwritten.
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I assumed that would have worked for me too, but it didn't. Had to send it back....

I would have flashed boot, system and userdata, it was in the recovery so it wasnt bricked...
ah well

Update your recovery first.

[Q] my xperia x1 start in bootloader mode

hu every body my xperia x1 start in bootloader mode every times i start it i try to flash it and still the same probleme can any one help :crying::crying:

no :crying:

samisou said:
no :crying:
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try to charging your batery with desktop charger first,, i think it cannot start flashing coz your batery is not enough/sufficient
sorry for ma bad english

You should try a sdcard based flash... just put a rom image named kovsimg.nbh in the root of the card and wait. if after the flash you phone still booting on spl mode, try opening you phone and clean the volume keys and camera button.... maybe there is a stucked button

connect the phone to a USB, run the command line fastboot reboot

I think what he means LK Bootloader (blue text).

romanck said:
I think what he means LK Bootloader (blue text).
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Hello, I also have a problem on my X1, I wanted to run andorid on my phone, but everytime I run HaRET in WM or using LK and entering recovery, my phone keep on reboot automatically. One thing that I know is my camera button cannot respond when pressed. I assume that the button is stucked. How can I un-stuck the button? I already tried to clean it but still not working.

BrianXP7 said:
Most likely your camera button really is stuck but I think it might loop into recovery due to a certain "Reboot to Recovery" signal. Did you ever successfully ran Android or at least installed it properly?
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NO, I have not, because all the android I wanted to run will make the phone reboot, both with HaRET.exe or with LK recovery.
After installing the LK recovery, if I didn't half push the camera button, the phone is only stuck in fastboot mode (but there is still no ROM inside my phone), when I halfpush my camera button, the phone reboot itself.
Do you ever have any experience with stuck camera button? Or the problem is just the same for instance in your normal phone, holding the camera button while entering the recovery will send the reboot signal to the phone?
Anyway, where is the "Reboot to Recovery" signal come form?
===UPDATED===
I already cleaned my camera button, so that it can operates normally, but still have the reboot problem when trying to enter the recovery. The strange things is when I view my device information, it only shows that my ram is 128MB instead of 256MB. Strange, any idea?

BrianXP7 said:
This is very strange. Try reflashing ClockworkMod Recovery.
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I don't know then, I already tried to reflash the CWM, reflashing to stock WM, stock radio and stock SPL, but it still in 128MB memory status. The handset just cannot boot normally without pushing the reset button 1 times.
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solved
BrianXP7 said:
Sorry. I can think of anything that may have caused this. I'll get back to you when I found something.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app
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No problem my friend, after doing this things, my problem is solved:
1. reflash the stock rom
2. reflash stock spl
3. pull out the baterry, put the phone without battery the whole night.
After reinsert the battery, the phone can boot normally without needing to push the reset button, and the RAM shows 256MB. Everything boots normally, not stuck in any bootloader stuff anymore.

I believe I have bricked my HTC One Mini 2?

Was at work using both my company phone (iPhone 5) and my personal phone (HTC One Mini 2) just fine. Put my personal phone away to get on with actual work and came home at around 5:30'ish. Played a bit ("a bit") until about 9/10pm (I think?) whereby I looked for my phone to just check things like WhatsApp and Snapchat and the phone wasn't turning on when I was holding the power button. I just thought to myself "huh, the battery must be dead" and put it to charge and the charging LED (as well as the charging screen with the "do not distribute outside htc blabla" dev screen) displayed so I just assume it's charging as per usual. Fast forward to about 1am, I have finished using my computer and decide to hop into bed. I go to turn on my phone by first powering down with power, vol up and vol down (as usual) and then try to boot the phone up. It boots as normal up until the O/S loading screen with a pac-man boot animation (I have PAC ROM installed) whereby it will freeze on the "game over" image of the boot animation and then proceed to go to a black screen. I thought to myself "hm, must be a mistake or something" and try it again to no avail. So I then go into recovery to do a fresh install and I try to wipe the phone and I do a factory reset in twrp, but upon trying to format data, the progress bar doesn't move (and so I left it overnight as I couldn't be bothered to wait). Upon leaving it overnight (1am to 7am) to format the data, I wake up to see that the progress bar hadn't moved at all from 0%. I then just thought "maybe the phone has actually formatted it but hasn't updated the image on screen so me being the dumbo I am, decided to force shut down the phone (with power, volup and voldown) and upon trying to boot the phone up again, it displays the HTC logo with the red writing, tries to boot into the O/S, fails, and then tries to boot into recovery and gets stuck in a boot loop (it will show the twrp logo and then a black screen, twrp logo and then black screen etc.). I have tried to flash twrp again (without first removing the twrp currently on it) but I was wondering what I could do in this situation. I am able to access the bootmenu (for hboot and fastboot) but nothing else.
TL;DR: I think I bricked my HTC One Mini 2. Came home, charged phone and phone got stuck at boot animation. Wiped phone in recovery, it got stuck on formatting data and now It can't boot into the O/S since it's wiped and it can't boot into Recovery for whatever reason.

DistincTHD said:
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This is not Facebook, go straight to the point.
Did you install a different kernel?

kativiti said:
This is not Facebook, go straight to the point.
Did you install a different kernel?
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Sorry for the confusion, I wasn't doing that because I couldn't/didn't want to explain, it's just a common message people get after dev unlocking their HTC phones. And no, It was working up until when I tried to use it last night randomly. I flashed PAC-ROM ages ago (like maybe 2-3 weeks ago or maybe even a month) with the HTC One M9 Camera Kernel and that's it. I then tried to use it last night and what I explained in the original post occurred.

DistincTHD said:
[IMG="HTC Dev Message"]
Sorry for the confusion, I wasn't doing that because I couldn't/didn't want to explain, it's just a common message people get after dev unlocking their HTC phones. And no, It was working up until when I tried to use it last night randomly. I flashed PAC-ROM ages ago (like maybe 2-3 weeks ago or maybe even a month) with the HTC One M9 Camera Kernel and that's it. I then tried to use it last night and what I explained in the original post occurred.
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Oops, Just realised you meant the whole post, not just the blah blah bit within the post. But yeah what I did, I explained above and in the original post. I basically just told a story to give a better idea of what generally happened before the phone just pooped out on me.

DistincTHD said:
Sorry for the confusion, I wasn't doing that because I couldn't/didn't want to explain, it's just a common message people get after dev unlocking their HTC phones. And no, It was working up until when I tried to use it last night randomly. I flashed PAC-ROM ages ago (like maybe 2-3 weeks ago or maybe even a month) with the HTC One M9 Camera Kernel and that's it. I then tried to use it last night and what I explained in the original post occurred.
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Something its corrupted so try to reinstall everything using the files from this post plus your choosen ROM.
When rebooting phone unplug USB cable.

kativiti said:
Something its corrupted so try to reinstall everything using the files from this post plus your choosen ROM.
When rebooting phone unplug USB cable.
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I can't access twrp recovery but I do have fastboot enabled and working and I can access the boot menu so how would I go about wiping everything before re-flashing the recovery and then re-installing the o/s and everything else?

Just tried to first erase everything before installing and it's locking me out of the phone? It's telling me that an administrator console is unable to erase the system or its data so I'm quite stumped at the moment

DistincTHD said:
Just tried to first erase everything before installing and it's locking me out of the phone? It's telling me that an administrator console is unable to erase the system or its data so I'm quite stumped at the moment
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you don't need to do all that.
try to flash twrp. (if OK use it to wipe everything)
If NOT ok flash stock recovery and unlock bootloader( yes again, this will wipe your phone and fix permissions)
Then you can do all you want.
Good luck.
let me know...

kativiti said:
you don't need to do all that.
try to flash twrp. (if OK use it to wipe everything)
If NOT ok flash stock recovery and unlock bootloader( yes again, this will wipe your phone and fix permissions)
Then you can do all you want.
Good luck.
let me know...
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Right, so before I read that message, I flashed stock recovery and tried to reformat data and now It won't let be get into the boot menu and the HTC dev writing is gone (so I think it's locked again). On top of this, it just keeps booting into the reformatting data screen and just ends up hanging so I think I will let the battery drain or something (no idea how long it would take, probably days) and then try again from there. Pretty sure it is bricked now though lol welp. Is there any way to cancel a format?