Ok so I am an idiot. I rooted my nook color. I just isntalled clockworkmod recovery. I wanted to restore to original settings to return it and so I went to the settings and chose erase and deregister device. That was fine. But root was still there so I went to wipe/factory restore in clockworkmod. I know, bad move. Well now I can't register the device and when I try to connect to the android marketplace it says data connection error. And if I try to erase and deregister it says that it's not registered. Also have tried holding down the power button, +vol and n button to get the reset menu but doesnt work. The nook still works.. connects to wifi, internet, everything works.. just want to get to original settings so I can return it. Please help, obviously I am noob at this. I don't know if I got a recovery somewhere else and restored if that would work. If so please throw me a bone here. Thanks.
I think what you need is in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=896682
Since your NC is booting and somewhat working, I think you can get the stock recovery (I think there is someone in the linked thread that can supply you with the stock recovery) and adb it. Clockwork has replaced your stock recovery.
Didn't see a link for the stock recovery. Is there a chance to get a backup somewhere put it on my sd card and restore my nc so I at least have functionality?
Do this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10599116&postcount=14
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Didn't see a link for the stock recovery. Is there a chance to get a backup somewhere put it on my sd card and restore my nc so I at least have functionality?
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Not exactly. It was stated that one of the devs was working on a restore in the form of an update.zip that would be run through clockwork.
What was available was a copy of the stock recovery file. There are a couple of folks that were providing it as a Private Message. Go through that thread and find who it was and pm them for the file. You can then install that file and reset your NC to stock and re-register it. They, if you wish, re-root it and start over.
Good luck.
Why return it?
If you really must return it, just run the battery down so that the cashier at the store can't tell its rooted and return it. The people at the NOOK counters are not trained tech people, and they do not check returns to see if any tinkering has been done under the hood. They just put them in a box and send them back to the distributor. As long as you are within the return timeframe (14 days with a receipt) there won't be any questions.
Thanks for all the help
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Why return it?
If you really must return it, just run the battery down so that the cashier at the store can't tell its rooted and return it. The people at the NOOK counters are not trained tech people, and they do not check returns to see if any tinkering has been done under the hood. They just put them in a box and send them back to the distributor. As long as you are within the return timeframe (14 days with a receipt) there won't be any questions.
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I can tell you that plenty of people had them check the functionality, and ask that the defect be demonstrated.
This is certainly true at Best Buy where they power it up run through the menus etc..
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After waiting for the official AT&T froyo release with the captivate, I decided to just go ahead and flash a froyo ROM. I've decided to flash the axura ROM first since i heard good things about it.
So while I'm finishing charging my phone before the flashing, is there anything I need to keep note of before flashing so that I can prevent bricking my phone? I've read up on the forums and watched the video from connexion2005 from the post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=867153.
Its pretty scary since I'm not much of a tech savy guy and this is my first android phone. Any help and suggestions will be appreciated.
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After waiting for the official AT&T froyo release with the captivate, I decided to just go ahead and flash a froyo ROM. I've decided to flash the axura ROM first since i heard good things about it.
So while I'm finishing charging my phone before the flashing, is there anything I need to keep note of before flashing so that I can prevent bricking my phone? I've read up on the forums and watched the video from connexion2005 from the post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=867153.
Its pretty scary since I'm not much of a tech savy guy and this is my first android phone. Any help and suggestions will be appreciated.
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Backup all your apps and data with Titanium Backup. Make sure your battery is fully charged, and removing your sim and SD cards are good practice.
Have fun! You won't go back.
- Backup all your files and make a nandroid backup!
- Get Odin3 One-Click and drivers to get your phone back to stock in case you brick it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
- There may be additional precautions you can take, so read through related threads on xda.
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After waiting for the official AT&T froyo release with the captivate, I decided to just go ahead and flash a froyo ROM. I've decided to flash the axura ROM first since i heard good things about it.
So while I'm finishing charging my phone before the flashing, is there anything I need to keep note of before flashing so that I can prevent bricking my phone? I've read up on the forums and watched the video from connexion2005 from the post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=867153.
Its pretty scary since I'm not much of a tech savy guy and this is my first android phone. Any help and suggestions will be appreciated.
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If you've read as much as you claim to have read, then you're probably in good shape. It's really not an unsafe process as long as you have some idea of what you're doing. I was very nervous about it myself the first time, but since then I've probably flashed 20 roms without a problem.
A couple of things that I would tell you, if you aren't already aware:
1. MAKE SURE that BEFORE you flash, you can get into download mode from the phone being off using one of the methods. I'm sure you've seen the one-click flash back to JF6 (stock) that was posted - download that if you haven't. For me, removing the battery, sim, and ext sd, replacing the battery, and holding down both volume buttons while plugging in the USB works really well - just make sure Odin is running before you do that. If you do manage to brick it, you will want to be able to get to download mode and flash back to stock.
2. After moving to a custom rom, it is best to always flash back to stock before flashing a different rom; you can avoid a lot of potential problems this way.
3. After rooting your phone, backup the update.zip in /sdcard/ on your computer. Any time you flash back to stock, you can reinstall CWM really easily by just putting that update.zip back in /sdcard/ and choosing "reinstall packages" from the recovery menu again. Sometimes you may have to do it twice before it enters CWM.
4. OCLF in the market is, to me, the easiest and quickest way to root your phone, but the one click root method isn't much worse. Just a matter of preference, I guess.
Good luck! Come back if you have any problems.
EDIT: apparently two people replied while I was typing my response lol! But what they said is very good as well.
Thank you for all your help. One quick question though, do I need the android ID changer?
the biggest mistake people make is not making sure they have the button combinations to enter recovery or download. (download = hold both volume buttons own and plugging usb cable in; recovery = hold volume buttons down, then holding power until AT&T screen pops up, letting go of power but still holding both volume buttons) if either of these don't work, you must, before doing ANYTHING else, flash the stock odin one click with the button fixes; it is posted somewhere in the development forum. and no you shouldn't need the android id changer unless you want to keep the android id that your phone came with. then open the changer and click save id and flash your rom of choice. most custom roms have a script to automatically load a saved id or randomly generate one if there wasn't a saved one. good luck in all your flashing endeavors!
edit: also as bodaciousdrake mentioned previously about cwm recovery, you should always keep the update.zip that contains cwm recovery on your sd card and you'll never need to change that to something else because using cwm recovery you can flash any .zip file that you want and it does not need to be named update.zip.
Take out the external SD card before you accidently delete 10 GB of music you had just perfected the selection of. (not that I accidently did that... lol)
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Take out the external SD card before you accidently delete 10 GB of music you had just perfected the selection of. (not that I accidently did that... lol)
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lol oops! Did that happen with a master clear, or when you flashed the rom? I have forgotten to take out the sim/ext sd once or twice but I have never had a problem...yet.
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Thank you for all your help. One quick question though, do I need the android ID changer?
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Yes, you need it. Download it from the market, while on 2.1, and save your id onto your sd card. After you are on 2.2, choose Load id and it will automatically reboot.
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Yes, you need it. Download it from the market, while on 2.1, and save your id onto your sd card. After you are on 2.2, choose Load id and it will automatically reboot.
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What exactly is the point in saving the phone id? Sorry I'm kinda a noobie at this and looking up things about phone id, it seems like it just is an identifier for the phone but doesn't really provide anything.
Also, how do I get out of download mode? I've put it in download mode to make sure it works and it seem I can't get out of it... I've done the 2 volume bottons with the usb cord.
there's another thread in this forum that answers that question perfectly. also to exit download mode you need to pull the battery out.
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there's another thread in this forum that answers that question perfectly. also to exit download mode you need to pull the battery out.
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Really? just take the battery out?
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What exactly is the point in saving the phone id? Sorry I'm kinda a noobie at this and looking up things about phone id, it seems like it just is an identifier for the phone but doesn't really provide anything.
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Basically, a lot of 2.2 Roms come with the same android id, 977blah... If you don't want market issues later I would suggest that you put in your original 2.1 android id. You can always search more if that answer isn't sufficient. And yes, do a battery pull to get out of download mode.
I've master cleared but can't seem to root. Every time I try with the one click root, and I go to recovery, it said it can't find the update.zip from the /sdcard/
yep, just pull the battery. also you don't need to root to flash roms. just grab the update.zip containing clockwordmod recovery from the thread in the development forum, put it on your sd card, boot to recovery and select reinstall pacakges. after that, reboot the phone (you might have to reinstall packages again) then you'll be ib clockwordmod recovery and you'll be able to flash any rom you want without having to change the filename.
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I've master cleared but can't seem to root. Every time I try with the one click root, and I go to recovery, it said it can't find the update.zip from the /sdcard/
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For some reason I got this too the first few times I tried to root. I then noticed that in the cmd prompt, for a split second it said failed to push update.zip or something due to privileges.
How I fixed it was ran the one-click root on windows in admin mode. It worked after that.
Thanks guys for all your help. I got it to flash the ROM and it seems I haven't bricked my phone
Thanks again
Ok, so I promise I've tried to search for a solution, but I really don't even know where to start. Please let me apologize if this has been discussed at exhaustion, but the guys I've asked so far have not seen this issue. Perhaps some of you have.
I'm going to list EVERYTHING I can think of that I've done. Please tell me what I've done wrong.
1. After picking up my NC last night, I tried running the Non-Root SDcard method of running Froyo to try it out. I tried running Rom Manager but wasn't able to do much. I tried Flashing CWM and feel that might have been a mistake. Hopefully, someone can reassure me that was not a problem.
2. I was unable to get GApps (Market most importantly) to show.
2a. After Flashing CWM and removing the SD card, I found that if I tried to force the 1.1.0 update, it would error out and put me into Recovery. That was something I assumed would not be possible, since I was of the understanding that the Non-root SDcard method was restricted solely to the SD card and didn't actually touch the Onboard memory.
3. Assuming the SDcard method might be limited to not having Market access and was more of a pre-root preview. I moved on to actually Root my NC. I did the whole, SD-image method and let my NC auto-reboot. The method I followed didn't mention anything about skipping the Google Account step. So, I tried that with some difficulty and had to back out. I never tried the whole Youtube account sync. I accessed the Market, but none of my downloads will actually go through. Tried multiple reboots, but no luck.
4. I tried to root again to see if something went awry. This time, I didn't have to go through the Android Setup steps??? But, I went ahead and logged into YouTube. Then, I went to Gmail Accounts>Account Setting, but each time it just causes my NC to reboot. Market still doesn't actually download anything.
I know it probably seems like I'm trying to many things, but I'm trying to discover the source of the problem, but behind each corner is another problem. I can't think of anything I'm doing wrong. I'm becoming very agitated. This was supposed to be a simple process, but it is not at all right now.
5. Now, as a last ditch effort, I tried to UnRoot my phone with the 8-Boot-Interruptions method. Problem is, instead of restoring the device to stock, it puts me back into CWM recovery.
Is it possible that Flashing CWM has irreversibly imprinted itself on my NC and I can not get past it to actually move forward with the Market and such? Is there any way to reverse the Flashing of CWM?
Thanks a ton in advance.
My guess is CWM writes to the system folder no matter if it has booted from SDCard or not...
Try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931720
I believe that is the correct set of instructions, if not, my apologies.
migrax
For reference, I'm running B&N 1.0.1 and used auto-nooter-2.12.25.
It sounds like you might want to navigate overt to the development forum and do a bit of reading. I'm unsure why you flashed CWM onto your nook, but everything is easily fixable. It really depends on what state you want your nook to be in when it's all said and done. There's a thread in the development forum about restoring back to stock, doing so will remove cwm and let you start over. This is probably the best way to go as the current state of yur nook is questionable. Once you have stock working your best bet for the most functionality is rooting, and the easiest way to do that is autonooter. Definitely read the threads more than once before attempting any of this so you will know what to expect before it happens.
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My guess is CWM writes to the system folder no matter if it has booted from SDCard or not...
Try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=931720
I believe that is the correct set of instructions, if not, my apologies.
migrax
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Just read through that link. Looks very promising. Dont think I'll have a chance to do it tonight, but I will report back ASAP. I'm hoping to get back to stock and then go straight through the root process as intended. I really feel that my unintentional CWM Flashing experience is the root of my frustration.
I'm hopeful that this will be the end of it.
Thanks again.
Thanks a BUNCH!!! It all worked out. Getting the .img out of the .tar.gz was the most difficult, but once I figured out how to use 7-zip, all was well.
I'm now rooted and have full Market/Gmail access. I'm a very happy boy
Before you tell me to 'Google it' (which I have, and leads me to 1000 posts of people telling other people with the same problem to 'Google it'), please read.
I will PayPal anyone $20 with working instructions of how to resolve this
Phone: HTC Hero w/ chin
Carrier: Alltel
Story:
Switched from WM6 Palm Treo Pro to HTC Hero. Came with 2.1 and needed apps2sd. Want CM7 stable.
-Rooted using AndRoot.
-Installed SuperUser and Root Checker. Root Checker said I was good to go. SuperUser would not show any apps in the list this whole time.
-Installed Titanium Backup which said I needed BusyBox, but it would fail to install. Tried to install busybox and it said I was not rooted. Alright...
-Installed ClockworkMod and flashed recovery. Tried to reboot into clockwork recovery, but when I clicked it, it did nothing. When I clicked rom from sd card, and clicked the CM7, it said 'going to reboot now' but again, nothing happened.
I booted into recovery manually, but it was still in Android system recovery. Apparently there was some sort of rooting problem, so I tried z4root. Permanent root was stuck on 'rebooting', and temporary root said successful, but something was still wrong as BusyBox installer would say I was not rooted, and SuperUser app didn't show any programs to allow permissions.
I turned the phone off, and back on. It goes to the white 'HTC' screen, reboots, and then comes to a black page with a picture of a Hero and a red triangle and exclamation mark. I hold home and hit power, and it takes me into the Android system recovery. I wiped data and cleared cache, rebooted, and it does the same thing.
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Now i've done many hours of research, and found nothing to help me. I guess i'm a bit confused on what the SDK does and how to use it, because it won't connect to my phone since I can't even boot my phone into the OS. I tried to download the RUU and rename it update.zip, but it says signature verification failed or not found in android recovery. I've done the clear data method by holding home, back, and power, but still nothing.
I need a clearcut answer for getting back to a stock Alltel 2.1 OS on my phone. I am more advanced than a basic user, and have flashed many roms on Windows Mobile, but remember I might not exactly understand everything.
I'm a silent browser on these forums but now I come to you guys for help. I hope to grow into a dev and hopefully help someone in the future in my position.
I read somewhere to wipe EXT2, but still confused on that process as it seems I don't know how to get into adb command line on my computer.
Try reflashing the cwm recovery. Sounds like you have no recovery image.
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Dumb question...did you flash a ROM? Maybe I missed it in your post, but I see you installed Clockwork, SuperUser and all that, but don't see that you flashed a ROM. *EDIT* I see you did...
So...worst case scenario, if you can't even boot your phone, just start over from scratch...
Download the original AllTel ROM from here.
If you don't have HTC Sync set up and can't restore from your computer, use this method to flash it...your phone should now boot...
Then try to reroot, using this (preferred) or this.
Download ROM Manager from the Market and install ClockworkMod Recovery
Boot to recovery (hold home and power at the same time).
Once in recovery, wipe cache, system, data and boot (make sure you don't wipe your sd card! Do it twice for good measure)
Select install .zip from SD card, select zip and you should be good to go with a rooted phone and a new ROM.
I think that should cover it...
Ok, on your first link to flash my phone, the step says:
"With phone powered on, do "adb reboot bootloader" to enter fastboot."
How do I get the command prompt on my computer to communicate with the phone? That was my biggest problem when reading other people's posts. I guess i'm a bit lost. I installed the r10 android sdk which I believe is the first step? And when my phone is connected to the computer to enter these commands, is it okay if it is sitting at that screen with the red triangle?
Thanks for your help btw your steps sound simple, and simple is nice. One step closer!
Do you have HTC Sync set up? If you do, you should be able to restore from that to get you back to official AllTel...That's going to be the easiest way to get you back to stock I think.
And...I am on a Mac So, helping someone on a PC is not my forte with ADB
I'd try setting up HTC Sync and get yourself back to stock that way.
EDIT - To get it to communicate, you need to set up ADB and all that. Then just use command prompts...Try this thread for help/instructions.
I actually got it to load that rom with vol down + power but eventually got to 'CID incorrect! Update fail!', so i'll try connecting to sync.
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I actually got it to load that rom with vol down + power but eventually got to 'CID incorrect! Update fail!', so i'll try connecting to sync.
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What ROM? The AllTel one?
I have to take off until about 8:30 or so...get yourself set up with HTC Sync and get the USB drivers and all that set up, first thing you need to do is get your computer to talk to your phone...download the official AllTel RUU and restore to stock. That's task 1
Then we'll get ya rooted
I think I found a rom that worked. Currently rebooting. I can follow the rest and if I need anymore help, I'll give you a hollar. I should have had it right the first time, but I was following about 5 sets of different directions and mixing them around to avoid certain programs. I like yours though.
Send me a PM with your paypal e-mail and I can send it over. Least I could do.
OP, glad you got it. What rom?
Ranger, nice!
sent from a series of tubes.
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OP, glad you got it. What rom?
Ranger, nice!
sent from a series of tubes.
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He flashed CM7. Gotta get him on aospCMod
damienisxcore said:
I think I found a rom that worked. Currently rebooting. I can follow the rest and if I need anymore help, I'll give you a hollar. I should have had it right the first time, but I was following about 5 sets of different directions and mixing them around to avoid certain programs. I like yours though.
Send me a PM with your paypal e-mail and I can send it over. Least I could do.
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It's tough sometimes to follow things...and as much as we always tell people to search, ya know, the search kinda sucks I searched for all the threads I linked for you, but I knew what I was looking for. If you don't know what to look for, searching is kinda tough. Glad you got it!
Now...if you want a real ROM, I'll just toss this one out there In all actuality, CM7 and aospCMod are quite similar, I am just partial to aosp's builds.
Let me know if you need any more help.
I tried un-rooting with S1C to sell the phone. It was not successful. I partitioned the SD card in recovery and it wiped out all my backups. Every time I tell recovery to "reboot system now..." it goes back to recovery. Same happens when plugged into USB or not. Am I screwed since there's no stock recovery image? This could be very bad.
You are going to have to do everything from ADB, but this would be what you're looking for if you want to go back to stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1129117
Now if you're looking to unroot and remove recovery, that would require you to replace recovery with the original you should have backed up.
Saying all that, I'm not sure anyone (third party) would be upset with a decrapified phone. The original version from LG was a POS. No Google Maps, crappy paid Verizon GPS, no voice commands, etc.
Before development happened, I was about to take the damned thing back myself for the unholy crapification Verizon pulled on this device.
If anything, being rooted with clockwork recovery should make it worth more.
thanks for that. since I wiped the SD card I suppose I can get a MicroSD>USB adapter and copy the files that way...that should work. thanks.
as for the rooting...it's an eBay sale, and the person specifically asked to have it returned to stock.
hey, i actually came to this part of xda lookin to buy an LG Revolution, how much do u want for it? I won't be able to buy until either last week of July or first week of August......im hoping to buy it at a new contract price...so if ur interested or if anyone else is, or knows someone who is, just pm me...thanks in advance
I had a TF701T tablet and dock I sold on ebay. It was neither rooted nor unlocked and worked fine. The buyer later complained saying it didnt work right, wouldn't read the SD nor an external drive. Now i know to read a external drive it needs to be rooted. But I advised it worked perfectly when it was sold. He filed a PP claim. It got here and guess what, it doesnt work right because he unloaded the bootloader flashed CWM on it. IDK what else was done but he lost the PP claim and rightfully so. But with that being said, the tablet would not turn off so eventually it will die. It will charge though. Where would I begin in flashing (I assume) the OEM software to make it usuable again?
Sounds like your buyer was a straight up dumbass.
The first thing I think you need to do is check the forum for the updated bootloader and recovery and go from there if you can install them. If you can't, idk.
You begin by determining which bootloader version you currently have: Boot holding Power and Volume Down until you see some small text. Let go, read the text and post it. Do not use the Wipe Data option from that page with CWM installed!!!!!!!!
Next you need to find the corresponding stock recovery (same firmware version) at Droidbasement and flash it in fastboot.
That done you download the Asus firmware for your SKU, unzip that file once resulting in another zip. If the tablet boots into Android, you can copy the second zip to the root of your internal storage. You should get a notification that an update is available. Confirm it and the stock recovery will flash it. That'll put you back onto stock. But there is no way to relock the bootloader - sorry.
If that does not work there's also a way to flash the stock firmware from a microSD. Let me know.
I wrote a pretty detailed guide on flashing a recovery and rom for the TF700. It's the first sticky in the TF700 General section.
Read that for the basics on getting fastboot to work.
The TF701 is very similar to the the TF700, but there are small but important differences and I wrote that guide for people trying to get AWAY from stock, so you're gonna have to extrapolate. But the basic steps are the same.
Ask here if not sure and flash only once you are clear on each step.
An easier option would be to flash one of sbdag's stock Asus roms. You still have to determine which bootloader you have now and if your CWM version is compatible. But if both are ok, you could just flash the rom and would be on pure Asus stock, but rooted with a custom recovery and could try to sell it as such.
There may be people who actually looking for a tablet all ready for flashing custom roms to it...
Lets face it: Nobody knows what that guy did to the tablet and you should disclose that to the next buyer. So I think you have a better chance to sell it to someone who wants to tinker with it. Swappa would be a good place for that.
Thanks guys. I finally got this back working.
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Thanks guys. I finally got this back working.
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Out of curiosity: How?
In the end, a data wipe though CWM that was installed by the buyer.
Thank God it was simple.