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Ok so the SD card slot on my phone is toast. Is it possible to install a rom thru the USB cable without using the SD card? =/
Hmm... Ok I have two ideas that i'll quickly check out. One of which will require you to wipe your data/factory reset in recovery, the other if I did get it to work wouldn't require any wiping unless you wanted to.
I'll try 'em both out and tell you if I have any luck doing so
Alright, so here we go..
Results
First idea without having to wipe: no go
Second idea with wiping: WORKS
After doing some digging around the AmonRA github to look for the commands it actually performs while in recovery I figured out exactly how to do what I wanted.
(namely THIS PAGE for those of you who are interested in seeing the exact page I found them on)
How to Flash a ROM Without an SD Card
Prerequisites:
Flash an Amon_RA recovery if you're using Clockwork - I recommend Darch's unofficial (refer to my signature if you need it)
Access to a computer that had AndroidSDK tools on it - you'll be using ADB
Put whichever ROM.zip you want to flash in your android-sdk\tools folder - I would rename it to something simple. (My example which I'll be using for this tut is: C:\AndroidSDK\toosl\kyoukoROM.zip)
Directions:
Reboot into the Amon_RA recovery
Wipe data/factory reset, cache, and dalvik via the recovery menu
Open up cmd/terminal on your computer
Navigate to your android-sdk\tools directory
Enter the following in cmd/terminal:
Code:
adb shell
mount data
*wait a second or two* You may or may not get the "/ #" line returned.
Despite what happens press "Ctrl+C" to break the command and get back to the standard AndroidSDK\tools> directory
Enter the following in cmd/terminal:
(replace "kyoukoROM.zip" with the name you're using)
Code:
adb push ./kyoukoROM.zip /data/
*this will take anywhere from 30sec to a min depending on the rom.zip size*
Then we do this in cmd:
Code:
adb shell
recovery --update_package=DATA:mau5.zip
Wait for it to finish flashing/updating
Reboot
ENJOY
If someone thinks I should post this in the development section as a [GUIDE] let me know and I'll post it there too
Yup I think so marking as a fav this is good knowledge thanks for the post
Root-Hack-Mod-Always™
Post it! This would be a HUGE help to people
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Great work Kyouko! If not to the dev forum, atleast post it to the wiki.
BTW, you should post it to Android forums, as well... if I am not wrong, this will work with any phone.
andythegreenguy said:
Great work Kyouko! If not to the dev forum, atleast post it to the wiki.
BTW, you should post it to Android forums, as well... if I am not wrong, this will work with any phone.
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Good idea, hopefully it'll help a lot more people there. I'll post it there and change up a couple things (the darch recovery part)
And idk how to edit the wiki
Amazing response! I will have to give this a try thank you!!! I still have a month left before my upgrade and I wanted to be able to change my ROM. Thanks again!
FYI Rom Manager will not flash a clockwork recovery without an SD card, gives an error... looking into other ways to flash a recovery...
I was trying to fix my NC and install the 1.0.1 firmware. So I tried to format everything back to factory setting so I went into clockwork mod recovery and thought formatting the system partitions would restore me back to factory settings. Well I formatted "boot" and now it will not boot.
tl;dr I formatted boot, is it bricked?
help?
wolffboy212 said:
I was trying to fix my NC and install the 1.0.1 firmware. So I tried to format everything back to factory setting so I went into clockwork mod recovery and thought formatting the system partitions would restore me back to factory settings. Well I formatted "boot" and now it will not boot.
tl;dr I formatted boot, is it bricked?
help?
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http://nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM
Do "Method one: Eight interrupted Boots" and post what happens afterwards
As I understand it, it is not bricked. You need to go read both the Nookie Froyo thread and the Clockwork Thread in the Nook Color Development Subforum. There is a way to put Nookie Froyo on an sdcard. You then boot with that and there's a way to put stuff back on the NC.
Do you have a Clockwork backup?
If you can boot back into Clockwork, there are some copies of other folks nandroid backup available. You can then put that on your sdcard and restore it.
I don't have the exact answer for you, but I'm sure it can be fixed.
Geezer Squid said:
As I understand it, it is not bricked. You need to go read both the Nookie Froyo thread and the Clockwork Thread in the Nook Color Development Subforum. There is a way to put Nookie Froyo on an sdcard. You then boot with that and there's a way to put stuff back on the NC.
Do you have a Clockwork backup?
If you can boot back into Clockwork, there are some copies of other folks nandroid backup available. You can then put that on your sdcard and restore it.
I don't have the exact answer for you, but I'm sure it can be fixed.
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Paul22000 said:
Do "Method one: Eight interrupted Boots" and post what happens afterwards
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When I press the power button nothing happens. I.E. screen stays black. Would your guy's ideas work if you can boot at all?
wolffboy212 said:
When I press the power button nothing happens. I.E. screen stays black. Would your guy's ideas work if you can boot at all?
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I had the same thing happen. I tried plugging it into my Macbook, but nothing happened. I plugged into my Windows PC, and it came back to life.
A nookie froyo SD card would work fine. Restore from there manually. Next time make a nandroid and do not delete things that you do not know...
Syco54645 said:
A nookie froyo SD card would work fine. Restore from there manually. Next time make a nandroid and do not delete things that you do not know...
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i have a nandroid back up and i cant get into recovery mode.
Because you deleted boot. Use a nookie froyo SD card and put the contents of boot back manually.
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i have a nandroid back up and i cant get into recovery mode.
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Which button combo are you trying to use to boot into recovery mode? If you haven't already, make sure you're using the three-button method.
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I have gotten it to boot to froyo on my sd card.
Now I need help restoring the boot partition from there.
Thank you very much with the support so far
It is not three buttons. Only need home and power.
wolffboy212 said:
I have gotten it to boot to froyo on my sd card.
Now I need help restoring the boot partition from there.
Thank you very much with the support so far
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I am not certain what to do exactly as I have never used nookie froyo. Generally you are going to want to do
modified /system/boot
mount -t vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
then put the files back in there from in nookie froyo.
Someone else may have the exact way. Sorry I cannot be of more help but that will mount boot when in stock. Of course you will have to mount system as RW as well.
Syco54645 said:
I am not certain what to do exactly as I have never used nookie froyo. Generally you are going to want to do
modified /system/boot
mount -t vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
then put the files back in there from in nookie froyo.
Someone else may have the exact way. Sorry I cannot be of more help but that will mount boot when in stock. Of course you will have to mount system as RW as well.
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Bare with me I know very basic unix and linux commands but I do have the brain capacity to figure things out (not boot partitions).
I was on the command line and I couldn't get into the nook color stuff just the nookie froyo stuff on the sdcard.
suggestions?
Please read CW recovery thread. All answers are in there!
Really, please take time to browse through existing threads before posting questions which have already been answered several times.
Anyway, considering the number of people asking, here goes:
Note: You can do all this from the Nook, without the need of ADB, except for the fact that you will need gapps on nookie in order to install terminal and root explorer (although you could install those apps by directly installing APK's), see http://nookdevs.com/NookColor:_Nookie_Froyo_Tips, Third-party app support
Please read entire thread before attempting anything!
- Boot into nookie with market installed.
- Install terminal emulator.
- Install root explorer
- Create a new folder at root (/), for example "boottmp" => "/boottmp"
- Launch terminal emulator
- type: "su"
- type: "mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /boottmp"
- type: "echo -n -e "\x08\x00\x00\x00" > /rom/devconf/BootCnt" (this will force reset on next boot, as if you did 8 failed boots)
- open browser
- Download boot.zip from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10470539&postcount=268
- copy zip content to "/boottmp", by replacing existing files
- shutdown
- remove sdcard
- power up, you should see installation process after splash screen. Wait for it to finish, and it will reboot.
- power off
- Next you need to reset to factory settings:
- Boot while using power button and N button. Should boot to menu allowing reset. Proceed with reset.
Boot and be happy.
OR,
If you're able to access ADB (available when booting CW recovery and mounting /system and /SDcard, format from android required on SD to work here), CREDIT GOES TO Duloz, try this:
adb push uRecRam.bak /sdcard/
adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
mkdir /system/boot/
mount -t vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /system/boot
cat /sdcard/uRecRam.bak > /system/boot/uRecRam
umount /system/boot
rmdir /system/boot
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Note: Don't worry about errors concerning unmount.
If you're not back in business, post your questions, being very clear about what worked and what didn't.
Thank you.
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Back from Clockwork Recovery to Virgin (Factory) Recovery ... works like a charm!
samuelhalff said:
Please read CW recovery thread.
- Boot into nookie with market installed.
- Install terminal emulator.
- Install root explorer
- Create a new folder at root (/), for example "boottmp" => "/boottmp"
- Launch terminal emulator
- type: "su"
- type: "mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /boottmp"
- type: "echo -n -e "\x08\x00\x00\x00" > /rom/devconf/BootCnt" (this will force reset on next boot, as if you did 8 failed boots)
- open browser
- Download boot.zip from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10470539&postcount=268
- copy zip content to "/boottmp", by replacing existing files
- shutdown
- remove sdcard
- power up, you should see installation process after splash screen. Wait for it to finish, and it will reboot.
- power off
- Next you need to reset to factory settings:
- Boot while using power button and N button. Should boot to menu allowing reset. Proceed with reset.
Boot and be happy.
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Works perfectly, thanks! I actually used adb instead of root explorer to do the copy and mount (etc.) commands, and did a manual 8-times power start interruption, but essentially the same. This made my poor "sound-failing" Nook a virgin again so I can swap it out at the store today. Crossing fingers that they will provide quick and easy exchange service (and let me test the sound on the replacement before I leave the store!)... Then, back to Autonooking (and even back to Clockwork Recovery...) again; now that I know how to go back and forth.
Owe you (or y'all) a beer!
Ok, so I have read through all of the posts I can and still cannot revert to stock.
I was playing with some different APKs and accidentally rewrote the AccountandSyncSetting apk with one from another device. At that point my NC rebooted and went into a boot loop. I eventually was able to get to recovery to restore factory settings, but after that completed it continued to boot loop. I have installed Nookie Froyo on an SD card which boots, however I get an SD card error, you may have to reformat. (nookie froyo is still usable, just no SDCard to mount) I have the stock files that I need to fix the device, however I cannot figure out how to do it from Nookie Froyo. Will someone please walk me through this.
thank you
I did this and I am still in a boot loop... please help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10599116#post10599116
There are two different resets. Power+n (hold around 30 secs to boot) (data) and 8 failed boots (system). Do those two and your set.
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samuelhalff said:
There are two different resets. Power+n (hold around 30 secs to boot) (data) and 8 failed boots (system). Do those two and your set.
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How do I get it to 8 failed boots... just turn it off each time it starts looping?
Yes. Once the Nook tries to boot up unsuccessfully 8 times, It reinstalls the factory settings during the 9th time.
Solution:
All that you need to do is create a bootable clockwork mod sd card:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922870
Then download the system and boot images from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919353
Install ADB:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=910008
- ADB is a command line interface to your Nook.
Mount your Partitions (except sd) using ClockWork Mod (easy to find in the Nook ClockWork menu)
Get that system.img/boot.img file to your internal partitions:
Open your comand prompt. Browse to the folder with adb.exe using the cd command. (If you're on Vista or Higher you can shift+right click on the adb folder's background to get the option "open command window here".)
Type adb push "path to system.img file" / (eg.adb push "C:\Users\Name\Desktop\system.img" /). The last slash tells adb where to push your system img to. Also, this takes a few minutes 5-10.
Type adb shell, or adb.exe shell if the first doesn't work.
You'll just get a # symbol after that.
Type dd if=system.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5 (dd - writes image to a location, if=input file, of=output file.
You can do the same with the boot.img just make the of=/dev/mmcblk0p1 for your dd command.
Also go ahead and format all of the partitions (except for sd anything) using clockwork mod before you use dd to write your img files to your partitons.
I think that should work to restore your system partiton.
If you have trouble getting it to boot, what works for me is holding all of the buttons for 10 seconds...3 times. And that usually makes it boot off of the microSD. That's probably the same as n+power, but idk.
dfellars77 said:
How do I get it to 8 failed boots... just turn it off each time it starts looping?
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Actually, if you wait for the looping logo to start, you've waited too long. you want to hit the power button, then hold it down to start the restart as soon as you see the "n" logo to power it off. it will only trigger the auto reset after eight consecutive reboots that dont make it past that first "n" logo.
You could also do the reflash methods mentioned in this thread or in the dev threads, if you're up for something more intense. just be sure to take out the SD card when you're done flashing, or else you will boot back into whatever recovery you are using.
Thanks everyone. CWM is up and running and once I have a solid charge I will take another go at it. I have been having a heck of a time getting ADB to work properly on my machine (although it works fine on my Galaxy S). I think I just need to uninstall the Mass Storage Driver each time I connect and manually install the NOOK ADB driver. I will try some of the Dev tools recommended above and report back.
Thank you for the help (and at the very least nookie froyo works and has a better linpack score than my rooted stock!)
SUCCESS!!!! I can finally close all of the tabs I have open. In the end I had to run the dd commands through ADB while Nookie Froyo was running, but it all seems to have worked!
Thank you for all of the help.
I tried to flash my nc with clockwork to speed it up, somehow i failed and nook color rebooted to original but with market app and superuser still installed. Google sing in fails and when i try to reset it doing the 8 step reset it boots up into clockwork recovery, what can i do?! i want to unroot and reroot and have my nc working again. Any help is gladly appreciated i have been trying everything for the past 2 days with no success
Thanks in advance
Sounds like you selected 'Clear Cache AND DATA' when you installed your ROM.
Bad move, now all data was deleted. Hopefully you made a backup before you did that.
You can get into CWM directly by pressing Power and N simultaneously, wait for screen flash, hold 2 seconds, then release.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914690
Here is my experience with bringing Nook back to stock.
Here is the steps that I took:
1.Not really sure about this one,you but I flashed this file in CWM "just in case"- "repartition-boot-with-stock.zip (10.49 MB)"
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=929670&page=6
post at the bottom of the page.
2.Download and burn Nookie Froyo 0.5.9 Image.I used class 4 4GB card to burn
"Image that will fit any card larger than 1 GB" image from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922324
Follow the instructions.This part is important-after you burned and booted Nook:
"Wait a minute or two then unlock, relock, then unlock (gets rid of lag)
Goto to App Drawer>DevTools>Terminal Emulator
su
Allow Superuser Request
You might have to leave Terminal Emulator and go back in because keyboard disappears
Run these commands, note that your prompt has changed to #
/data/data/makepart/makepart.sh
Hit <enter> to reboot
After it reboots, go back into Terminal Emulator
su
/data/data/makepart/formatpart.sh
Hit <enter> to reboot again.
At this point, your last partition should take up any available space on your card."
This is the partition where you need to put "boot"and"system" .img files.
3.Go to this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919353
to get "boot" and "system" .img files.
Follow the instruction-read the whole thread(its small).
In my case I had to use Ubuntu to transfer "boot" and "system" .img files to sdcard patrition of my SD card(it says "filesystem 2.7GB" or something like this in Ubuntu,depending on your sd card size.)
Hope this helps.
followed forsaken82 thread and unrooted successfully,THAnK YOU, and thanks to everyone else for their input, i love you guys, now to upgrade and root once again
I have my wife's LG Revolution running Broken Out rom. I am getting to read to send int to big read for a replacement. They made me state that I had made not hardware or software modifications. So I need to return this to stock. I have successively used LGNPST in the past. But now the USB port does not work in data mode. A computer will charge the phone, but the phone does not prompt for USB Mode when plugin to a computer. I have tried 2 computers and 2 different cables. All of which work for my LG revolution with out a problem.
Is there any way to remove Clock Work mode and switch it to the factory recovery, and return the rom to Stock without a working USB port?
I have a way of copying files to the SD card if needed.
Thanks.
I like this this guys thoroughness, though, not totally relevant for you. The following steps would pertain best in your situation.
1) wipe data, cache, davlik cache from CWM
2) When the phone initial setup begins, bypass it with this method. Touch top left, top right, bottom right, then lastly bottom left.
3) OPTIONAL - Erase external SD card from settings menu (if you thnk it's necessary... you may not be sending that back in)
4) format internal memory from settings menu
5) LGNPST flash stock V9. Get the V9 TOT here and unzip it first.
Flashing the TOT just took me 20 minutes.
Really, though, just flashing the TOT will suffice.
That's very neet, thank you. But can I use LGNPST without a usb cable? My usb port will only charge, no data.
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Whoops. Missed that part. I was on a roll doing a TOT via USB myself. Maybe, if someone could wrangle you up a stock boot.img to flash in CWM after you unroot?
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If someone who is running a stock rooted rom, v9 or later, wants to put up a backup I can rip the rom out of it and make a flashable zip. Just when making the backup, go into the backup settings of cwm and change it to tar.gz. Not the blob crap.
Mine phone is now rooted, stock and running ZVb. This one could be backed up and installed on my. Wife's phone with the bad usb port?
I should install cwm on mine to take a backup?
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thesavo said:
Mine phone is now rooted, stock and running ZVb. This one could be backed up and installed on my. Wife's phone with the bad usb port?
I should install cwm on mine to take a backup?
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That would be awesome! To have at least the android part of the new update is better than nothing.
He still needs to find a way to remove cwm with out a pc?
I don't have clockwork on my stock + rooted Revolution. Can I use any rooted backup tool from the market/play store?
IF i have to use Clockwork mod recovery, can I just do a nandroid backup from the good phone the other phone? I have to take in to big red tomorrow.
Does anything need to be stripped out of the nandroid back?
I was just trying to think of another way to get you going. ADB Wireless sounded good up until the point that the SU part has to be removed. Then ADB Wireless would fail I'm sure.
My best guess for you is to use the Easy V8 - V9 All in One by Mark Once Again as a basis for commands to execute from terminal. I'm not sure if losing root during terminal will affect the operation however. Looking at the batch file adb shell commands, it looks fairly straightforward to manually do. I am just not 100% sure it will work. Someone else with more experience could chime in about that.
Below is what I copied out of the batch file, the UNROOTSTOCK portion.
The ALL CAPS portions are comments I have added in. The usual warnings apply. Use at your own risk.
Code:
rm /data/bootlogo/bootlogopid
ln -s /data /data/bootlogo/bootlogopid
REBOOT
echo 'ro.kernel.qemu=1' > /data/local.prop
REBOOT
UNROOTING TIME
rm /system/bin/su
rm /system/xbin/su
rm /system/app/Superuser.apk
rm /system/xbin/busybox
rm /system/bin/busybox
rm /data/local/tmp/* 2>/dev/null
USE A ROOT FILE EXPLORER APP TO COPY THIS Files\stockrecovery.img FROM THE EASY V8 - V9 ZIP. . .
TO HERE ON YOUR PHONE /data/local/tmp/stockrecovery.img
TIME TO PUSH THE STOCK RECOVERY
dd if=/data/local/tmp/stockrecovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p14 bs=4096
rm /data/local/tmp/* 2>/dev/null
CLEAN-UP TIME
rm /data/bootlogo/bootlogopid
rm /data/local.prop
REBOOT AND YOU'RE DONE!
Hope that helps, or that it spurs the help you need.
EDIT: To make it stock, all the superuser and busybox files need to be removed, and the stock boot image needs to replace the one that has CWM. Otherwise, CWM is still there. So, no. A nandroid from the other phone wouldn't help you.
But would a restored nandroird backup (from my phone) work enough to get me 1/2 way there? Would the nandroid restore leave me with
Rooted Verizon rom
Clockwork mod recovery.
If so. I could DD the stock recovery over clockwork mod recovery.
Then unroot it with a terminal app.
By the looks of your pseudo-code script, It does do all of that, in a different order.
It's possible to capture a stock, unmolested nandroid, but that would be from a bone stock phone with CWM I think. A dev did that for us on the Nabi 2, making a stock image before the rooting business. Then it's just getting the stock boot image back, if you catch my drift.
I could have done it a couple days ago having just reTOT'ed...
Edit: The Nabi is a tablet and I think some have shared their images, but I don't know if there are any implications sharing a phone nandroid.
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I have two of these VS910s. I just cleared out my internal SDCard on my VS910. It's rooted running the newest verizon rom. It doesn't have CWM right now, but is that required for nandroid backup? To restore to my wife's with the busted USB port? I'll run the backup to my sdcard then place it in her phone to run the restore.
Needing CWM. . . no. I was going to say yes, but there is a way to make a nandroid with your phone on. Using Online Nandroid, or an app developed based on it, Orange Backup, you can make an image with your phone on, no need for CWM. It will need a patch file installed, but I already got that going with the dev. It looks like it will work for the Revolution. One caveat. While I tested that it successfully backed up my phone, I didn't actually restore the nandroid created.
Looking into the Nabi's stock backup during rooting and recovery, the dev used TWRP instead of CWM. TWRP supports Open Recovery Scripts which he used to do a stock backup. No go for us with CWM, at least not how he did it. No matter because your phone is rooted.
OK, so I installed CWM recovery on my working phone. No big deal. I took two backups for good measure on the bad phone. I also restored one of the backups, it seamed to work.
I am taking a backup of my rooted stock phone. I will then attempt to restore it to the bad phone. Any thoughts to using DD in a terminal app on the phone? I should then dd the recovery.img file over CWM,
To unroot, i think i shuld be able to do as you suggested to delete SU.apk and busybox.
Good luck. Dinner is served now so I'll be missing for a while.
Bait-Fish said:
Good luck. Dinner is served now so I'll be missing for a while.
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We have stupid verizon 4G LTE boot video on the bad phone. That's a good sign.
Edit: Its running a VZW rom now!
home stretch
Ok, so after restoring a Nandroid backup of verizon's VZB to the bad phone. Now I need to un-root it. and I should be good. Also, Settings -> about says its version VZ9 not VZB. Odd.
Plan.
Add my google account to get to play store.
Add a terminal app.
Use terminal to delete any nandroid backups.
Run DD from terminal to overwrite CWM with recovery,img
delete rooted files.
Run factory wipe. from settings menu or PWR + Vol Down.
Then I should be done
Any thoughts.?
Seems about right. The version won't tick up from VZ9 unless you do the actual OTA I understand. Something about the baseband.
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