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Flash CM6 RC2 and now I can't boot

Like the title says, I flashed RC2 (coming from RC1 so no wipe). Got a force close so I fixed permissions in ROM manager but the phone stopped responding after 5-10 minutes. Gave it another 5 minutes before I rebooted (using home + menu + hang up) and the phone freezes now on the first splash screen. Can't boot into recovery either. I can make it to the bootloader and tried restoring a nandroid back up but it always freezes midway (left it for a full hour and it was still frozen).
What else can I do in fastboot that may help? Any other options? Thanks.
EDIT
Cyanogen wrote on twitter that it might've been my SD card crapping out on me, so I replaced the SD card and reflashed recovery in fastboot and everything is working. However, I tried the same thing with the "bad" SD card (reflashed recovery) and it now works as well. I didn't realize it at the time but I think the actual culprit was when I updated Clockwork Recovery through ROM manager. Did it before fixing permissions and I'm guessing something went wrong when I updated and it was only after something also went wrong when fixing permissions that the problem surfaced.

[Q] Stock restore fails, but I won't give up! (Help please)

So I'm trying to get my VZN Galaxy Tab back on its feet. After trying to get Gingerbread in it so I can use Netflix - and failing - I'm going through a lot of motions.
Okay. First I rooted it with Super One Click. I should have been happy with that, but noooo. Then I tried flashing GB on it (I wish I can remember which ROM I started with...it's a mess. I think the pit file was gt-p1000_mr? Does that sound right?).
When that didn't work, I went to the much-cross-posted procedure for returning it to stock using Heimdall and SCH-i800_VZW_stock. Tried it five times. Each time, it booted into the Galaxy Tab/Samsung logos, then a fast glimpse of scrambled letters for a second followed by twinkly music, then black nothingness. It would then bootloop. I attempted to boot into recovery to wipe data/cache, but I couldn't get there. Vol-Up/Pwr just brought up the logo and scrambled video again.
Since I was still able to get into download mode, I tried flashing another ROM...this one the "P1000XXJQ1_P1000XXJQ1_P1000XXJPZ" method. With this, I was able to also flash CWM so I have SOME recovery mode. Sadly, booting brings up the GT/SAMSUNG logos and I get the spacey animation, but after that, again - blackness. This time, however, the Menu/Home/Back/Search buttons light up, so something's happening in there.
Also, booting into CWM, I cannot get my sdcard to be recognized. I tried different cards, so there's something goofy with the slot itself, I'm guessing.
So nothing is really working, but since I can get into CWM and also download modes, I'm holding out hope that this is not completely bricked.
I just need to find the right method of getting it back to a functioning tablet. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm all eyes. Thanks so much.
UPDATE: I tried reflashing stock using the tried and true method. But this time, I went in and flashed CWM replacing the stock recovery which never worked for me. I got the Galaxy Tab/Samsung logo, and at long last, the animated VZW logo. Then it would bootloop there. I booted into CWM recovery and wiped the data/system and the cache from the first page. It still booted and bootlooped the same. This time, I booted into recovery, went to the mounts and storage section and formatted the system, data and cache. Opening logo only. CWM again, and got a whole bunch of "cache missing" messages. But I think I'm getting closer. Back to work.
UPDATE II: So the farthest I can get is the animated VZW logo using the combo of the stock flash through Heimdall, then flashing CWM with Odin. Still no sdcard access. Anything I should try here? Thanks.

same question here
Did anyone figure out how to restore Verizon tab?

Nook CM7 Boot loop. Cannot get into recovery

i am stuck on a boot loop that flashes to a green cyanogen symbol that says loading underneath. it shows this for about 3 secs then cuts off. the screen flashes two or three times then right back to the same screen. Over and over. I cannot cut it off. Cannot get into Clockwork recovery...cant do anything. ive re-formatted my sd card and loaded a bootable image to take it back to stock and try and start over...but it just continues to loop the green cyanogen loading screen loop. Cannot power it on or off. It can run dead and when i plug it in, about ten minutes later it starts right back into this loop. Even if i take the SD card out it does this. I have taken the SD card out and let the battery run dead and plugged it back in to no avail.
seems I cant get it to even look for the SD card.
The nook was running fine with cm7 installed. I went for about 2 months without using it and plugged it up and it loaded to this.
I have searched for several days with no luck. Most everything I find involves getting into clockwork recovery and re-flashing or whiping cache and data...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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i just formatted my Sd card and loaded a fresh clockwork mod. put it in and low and behold it now booted to a screen with two little skulls and says loading. HOWEVER...it just repeated its stupid loop with no control and instead of showing the cyanogen loading screen it shows the skull loading screen...then just rinse and repeat. No ability to boot into anything...power on /off anything. I removed the sd card and it automatically reverted to the green cyanogen loading bootloop.
using logic here..im guessing it is looking for the sd card or else it wouldnt have went to the cmr loading screen from the sd card.
Im wondering now if it is a hardware issue...
anyone ever seen this?

You probably are in a recovery bootloop. Look at the links in my signature to see how to get out of it. Both the tips thread and maybe the partition repair thread.

leapinlar said:
You probably are in a recovery bootloop. Look at the links in my signature to see how to get out of it. Both the tips thread and maybe the partition repair thread.
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thanks, trying it now...

ok..i am getting somewhere. I was able to boot into the cyanboot universal bootloader. I went to the menu and selected "internal emmc normal' it says loading emmc..then just reboots back to the cyanboot bootloader screen. says loading then loops.
i have read your fixing the partition post but want to be sure where to begin or if I need to go there yet..
thanks so much for your help.

Did you use my new CWM SD I had in my tips thread? If you tried that and were not able to clear the flag by exiting with the reboot option, you need to repair partition 2. But be sure to try my CWM first. It is modified to help get out of the loop.
Edit: just reread your posts again. It sounds like you did try my CWM card if it booted to cyanoboot boot loader. But cwm is not coming up? You are not going to be able to flash my partition repair zips without cwm. Let me know, there may be a way to use adb to fix it.
Edit2: Another thing you can try is the eight failed boots reset. The nook has an automatic reset feature where if it cannot boot 8 times in a row, it will revert itself back to stock like it came out of the box. See this post below, it is the best description I've seen on how to make it happen.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25405429
Edit3: I just did a little experimenting and found that the 8 failed boots only works if you still have the stock recovery on emmc.
Edit4: I added a section to my tips thread that discusses the 8 failed boots and provides a stock recovery zip.

[Q] Help! bricked + corrupt system?

I've been looking all over this site but I can't find anything. I suppose that it's partly because I'm not sure about the problem myself.
A couple of months back (maybe more) I upgraded to the ICS infinitum rom (blue version) with midnight kernel. It was great - the phone worked fine. Well I'm exaggerating, it ****ed up every once in a while. Programs would automatically shut down and it would get really slow after a while. But all in all it wasn't bad, and it was stable enough for me most of the time....
Then, last Thursday everything seemed to go apart, every program on the phone was shutting down. So I thought I'll just restart and it will be fine. When I did, the phone did not come back on. the kernel would load and then it was stuck on the start-up animation in infinite loops.
Now, to be frank, this isn't the first time this has happened. So I didn't panic. Last time I just used the CMW recovery to re-install the kernel and the rom (I keep the files on the sd card). But this time, I wanted to try to avoid the factory wipe for as long as I could, and try finding a different option, knowing that if all else fails, I have something to revert back to.
Then I did the mistake of deleting the init.d file without re-installing anything. I wanted to, but accidentally clicked on the 'reboot now' option. And then all went to ****. The kernel didn't load. I went to recovery and it couldn't mount the sd card so I couldn't re-install it.
I tried flashing a new kernel using odin, and it did get me a bit better: my CWM recovery can read the sd. However, I still can't mount the system. Even worse, when I get to the infinitum zip roms and re-installing it brings up the status 7 error (which, after searching, seems to come up for different reasons for each person)
Despite installing a new kernel, when I reboot the phone now it doesn't load the kernel anymore, it just stays stuck on the welcome screen. I tried using the recovery to re-install a different kernel, it worked, but the phone still won't start - it now automatically skips to the recovery mode. I don't know if I should try flashing a rom through odin, and I'm too afraid to try anything at all now...
Can anyone help me? Is there any way to restore the init.d file or maybe that has nothing to do with my problem?

uvii said:
I've been looking all over this site but I can't find anything. I suppose that it's partly because I'm not sure about the problem myself.
A couple of months back (maybe more) I upgraded to the ICS infinitum rom (blue version) with midnight kernel. It was great - the phone worked fine. Well I'm exaggerating, it ****ed up every once in a while. Programs would automatically shut down and it would get really slow after a while. But all in all it wasn't bad, and it was stable enough for me most of the time....
Then, last Thursday everything seemed to go apart, every program on the phone was shutting down. So I thought I'll just restart and it will be fine. When I did, the phone did not come back on. the kernel would load and then it was stuck on the start-up animation in infinite loops.
Now, to be frank, this isn't the first time this has happened. So I didn't panic. Last time I just used the CMW recovery to re-install the kernel and the rom (I keep the files on the sd card). But this time, I wanted to try to avoid the factory wipe for as long as I could, and try finding a different option, knowing that if all else fails, I have something to revert back to.
Then I did the mistake of deleting the init.d file without re-installing anything. I wanted to, but accidentally clicked on the 'reboot now' option. And then all went to ****. The kernel didn't load. I went to recovery and it couldn't mount the sd card so I couldn't re-install it.
I tried flashing a new kernel using odin, and it did get me a bit better: my CWM recovery can read the sd. However, I still can't mount the system. Even worse, when I get to the infinitum zip roms and re-installing it brings up the status 7 error (which, after searching, seems to come up for different reasons for each person)
Despite installing a new kernel, when I reboot the phone now it doesn't load the kernel anymore, it just stays stuck on the welcome screen. I tried using the recovery to re-install a different kernel, it worked, but the phone still won't start - it now automatically skips to the recovery mode. I don't know if I should try flashing a rom through odin, and I'm too afraid to try anything at all now...
Can anyone help me? Is there any way to restore the init.d file or maybe that has nothing to do with my problem?
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I suggest flash 3-file GB rom via odin with ticked re-partirion and phone bootloaderupdate.

First of all init.d has nothing to do with the boot of kernel and ROM itself. It's just like autostart in Windows, so if it's missing it shouldn't cause problems.
My solution is to flash a complete stock Gingerbread ROM using Odin. You can get them at sammobile.com. Then afterwards flash a custom kernel and then whatever you like.
If you need help,feel free to ask me
Sent from my Gameboy Color

Yes! Thank you! That worked!!

It happened again! just 10 days later.
Is the Infinidtum rom ****ed up in any way?
it's stuck on the loading part of the rom

[Q] Problem with paranoidandroid

Hello,
first of all sorry for my bad english. I have a problem with my phone and really need your help.
So, what happened:
yesterday I installed baseband 521 V20s and Django Manouche custom rom. I didn't like the rom very much so I decided to move on an another rom. I chose ParanoidAndroid 11. I installed it from CWM, like it should be installed, but then I got a problem. The phone stucked on boot animation (image of paranoid android in the middle of the screen and little androids falling down like raindrops). And nothing happened for 5-6 minutes so I pulled out the battery and turn on again a phone. Then I got message that goes something like this: "optimizing applications" and when it finnished, I over again got boot animation and nothing happened. I waited for 10 minutes, and then finally the boot animation stopped and screen went in black. It respond to touch (soft keys got light when I touch phone), but black screen doesn't disapere.
So, what to do? I didnt do nandroid backup, I erased Django rom from internal sd card so I cannot flash back to it via CWM. The PC doesn't recognize the phone any more so I can't put new rom to internal sd card. I did, however, manage to put the rom to external SD card, but in CWM recovery, it says that "Can't mount sd card".
What should I do??
I hope that you understand my description of problem and that you can help me.

Easiest way is to boot into CWM. Under "Mounts and Storage" choose "Mount USB Storage". You should be able to copy a new ROM to the internal SDCard from your computer.
If that does not work, search this forum for guides on how to use "Smartflash" or "NVflash".

Brick Top said:
Hello,
first of all sorry for my bad english. I have a problem with my phone and really need your help.
So, what happened:
yesterday I installed baseband 521 V20s and Django Manouche custom rom. I didn't like the rom very much so I decided to move on an another rom. I chose ParanoidAndroid 11. I installed it from CWM, like it should be installed, but then I got a problem. The phone stucked on boot animation (image of paranoid android in the middle of the screen and little androids falling down like raindrops). And nothing happened for 5-6 minutes so I pulled out the battery and turn on again a phone. Then I got message that goes something like this: "optimizing applications" and when it finnished, I over again got boot animation and nothing happened. I waited for 10 minutes, and then finally the boot animation stopped and screen went in black. It respond to touch (soft keys got light when I touch phone), but black screen doesn't disapere.
So, what to do? I didnt do nandroid backup, I erased Django rom from internal sd card so I cannot flash back to it via CWM. The PC doesn't recognize the phone any more so I can't put new rom to internal sd card. I did, however, manage to put the rom to external SD card, but in CWM recovery, it says that "Can't mount sd card".
What should I do??
I hope that you understand my description of problem and that you can help me.
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Reflash ParanoidAndroid after a full wipe (cache, system, data, dalvikcache) without flash other kernel or gapps. Then reboot it should work
Inviato dal mio LG-P990 con Tapatalk 2

@TrymHansen
When I do that in CWM, Windows ask me to format card. What should I do?
@Gjot
Unfortunately, that didn't help me.

Brick Top said:
@TrymHansen
When I do that in CWM, Windows ask me to format card. What should I do?
@Gjot
Unfortunately, that didn't help me.
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Try a factory reset in CWM. (Or wipe /data and /cache).
This should hopefully fix your boot loop.
And when windows asks you to format the card then do it.
Could be that it got corrupted (which would be the reason why CWM can't mount it).
You will loose all data on it, but it looks lost, anyways.

tonyp said:
Try a factory reset in CWM. (Or wipe /data and /cache).
This should hopefully fix your boot loop.
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I tried it several times, with no luck
tonyp said:
And when windows asks you to format the card then do it.
Could be that it got corrupted (which would be the reason why CWM can't mount it).
You will loose all data on it, but it looks lost, anyways.
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What options should I choose? What "File system", "Allocation unit size"? If I use default options (Fat and default allocation size) Windows pops up this message: "Windows was unable to complete format."
Should I try with another sd card?
Anyway, I did some research and find out that I could use adb to push rom to the phone. But, I stuck there also. I finally found out how to open adb (and even what is it) but when I use command "adb devices" to test if it works, I got "List of devices attached" and nothing else
I know that problem is in drivers, but I dont know how to resolve it.

I finally solved it.
Thanks to PaulOBrien and NVflash.
Now I'm back to froyo and have unrooted device but it works!!!!