I was flashing some new ROM's and, as you should do, created a clockwork back-up. The only problem is once the new ROM's weren't working, i tried to recover my back- up but it keeps saying "sd-ext.img not found. Skipping restore of /sd-ext." at the end of the recovery. And since i always keep a few extra back-ups, i tried those but a message saying that there is an error while formatting /system.
Everytime i try to boot the phone, it stays on the boot screen with the X and won't load any further.
I'm begging for anyones help
You using clockwork 3.x by any chance?
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yeh the latest version
I would suggest switching to an earlier clockwork or Amon Ra...
Not sure what to suggest about your backup though. You could try flashing the img files individually?
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I tried flashing them individually and it still stays on the X boot screen..
I fixed the problem. I just flashed a different ROM and it finally started working again. Thanks for helping out
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I installed this ROM and rebooted and my screen doesnt advance pass the blue android splash screen
now i tried gingerbread and it made it through the splash but i got a message saying something about setup not working and forcing closed. then i went back to recovery and installed the gapps and it gets stuck on the splash screen
Are you using firerat mod? Also make sure to do a full data/ system, cache, and dalvik cache wipe. I usually do all three at least twice as I've had roms hang from leftover data. Also check to make sure files are downloading completely.
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What recovery are you using??
Yea it's me again. With the
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im using clockwork recovery 3.0.0.5
i finally got gingerbread to work. i think my problem was with doing a complete wipe of the cache.
i want to try the froyo mod but dont want to end up back where i was of hanging on the splash screen.
do i need to delete the one click root file? heroroot010.apk?
Yes you should and just do a nand back up of your working rom and you should be good to try any different rom. Then if you want to go back just nand restore back to your old rom. And if you were able to get gb to work froyo shouldn't be a problem for you.
Yea it's me again. With the
Modified Hero
You also wanna ditch that customized recovery image. Use the recovery that comes with rom manager. That new one is missing some capabilities.
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You also wanna ditch that customized recovery image. Use the recovery that comes with rom manager. That new one is missing some capabilities.
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I second that! Hated that recovery both days I had it. lol
That's not the new one. The heroroot apk. installs the old darchstar recovery img. The newest one is RA1.7 and it has all the features. Good luck
Yea it's me again. With the
Modified Hero
thanks guys
where can i find R.A. 1.7
Clockwork recovery 2.5.0.7 works great. And that's what rom manager will flash for you. Since you likely have rom manager already, you should go with that. Most people post instructions with clockwork in mind, so it will be easier in the long term.
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You also wanna ditch that customized recovery image. Use the recovery that comes with rom manager. That new one is missing some capabilities.
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Like what? Besides doing away with amend scripts (which is due to CWM 3.x being based on the official GB recovery), it's the same.
That's basically it. But it causes extra work. And the original clockwork recovery works fine.
So if the OP wants stuff to work every time...
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My Tab is rooted and it says I have the correct recovery, yet I can't flash roms/backup current roms/get into Clockwork recovery. Everytime I try to flash something it gets aborted but before that it says Installing MICS failed or something similar. I'm familiar with flashing roms yet I don't know what's going on.
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First, download ROM Manager and reflash clockwork mod.
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I've done that a few times, still fails.
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adrieono said:
My Tab is rooted and it says I have the correct recovery, yet I can't flash roms/backup current roms/get into Clockwork recovery. Everytime I try to flash something it gets aborted but before that it says Installing MICS failed or something similar. I'm familiar with flashing roms yet I don't know what's going on.
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is you TAB GSM or CDMA? if you TAB is GSM you should use this tutorial . The Kernel it has already the CWM recovery, also will convert your system to Ext4 ..... Did you applied the patch from here . I believe you have a protected bootloader....
Thanks for the info. I'm not by a pc but it seems I don't need the secondary link, it seems I don't need the patch because it already is patched. And I have a gsm tab.
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I just wanted to chime in to say that I'm having this problem too. I've rooted using the the proper steps and installed tom manager and downloaded the lastest cwm. I tell it to reboot and I get the aborted, signature cannot be verified blah blah.
I tried everything step over and over again and I always get that error so I cannot get into cwm.
Like the OP I have a t849 tmobile galaxy tab.
Any ideas?
EDIT: I figured it out
OK so this may sound stupid but when I first flashed the recovery rom using the adb push method for the recovery image and tmobile_zImage I did not have a micro-sd card because the SGT-849 has 16GB of built in memory. I just tried it again but this time I popped in a microsd and used adb to push the recovery flash files, ran recovery, rebooted, ran ROM Manager and told it to boot into recovery and ClockWorkRecovery Mod worked
So if you havent used the method if implementing an ADB bridge to push the tmobile flash files you need to do that WITH a microSD apparently.
My boot screen changed from the boring Samsung Logo to a Galaxy Tab + Samsung Logo. Which boot logo do you have?
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I dont have knowledge in adb because I'm never on a pc, but I ordered a 32gb sd card so i'll see what happens.
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I'm trying tto boot my phone into recovery so I can flash the latest nightly, currently I'm using cm7nb101, and every time I try to boot into recovery it just sits at the white HTC screen. Someone please help. I've flashed multiple times before and its never done this.
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Have you tried re-flashing a new recovery?
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just boot up into your rom and re-flash a new recovery image over the one you have
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Edit: like The Fer-Shiz-Nizzle said. (nice name btw )
Yeah still just sits there, its done this once before and randomly fixed itself I guess ill just wait lol
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If your s-off try a fastboot erase. If your not look into it. After a fast boot erase do a full wipe. Then reflash your recovery via adb. Then backup all your data to your pc. Then format your sd threw your pc and restore the factory defaults. Then reformat your sd threw recovery. No swap no partitions just fat/system. Then redownload the rom and gapps. Flash the rom then gapps right after. Then see if its boots up. If it does then boot into recovery make a nandroid, restore your data then and carry on. If not then run the ruu in zip format. Then update your radio, profile and prl. Then locate the hero root apk thread. Follow the instructions. After that you'll be rooted again so boot into recovery and make a nandroid of your sense rom for future updates then reboot. Then boot back into recovery do a full wipe and reflash your choice of recovery via adb then reflash the rom and the gapps. It should boot up. Hope this helps.
#Root/Hack-Mod_Always*
I got it working, the recovery I was flashing was corrupt, I found one that worked.
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I recently bought a bionic cheap cause of a broken screen, when I got it would only boot into fastboot. Installed the screen and have been at it for 2 days trying to revive this bionic. Only 246 will flash with hob or rsd, and both fail to install radio.. phone does boot up, but won't read SIM and reboots every 5 min or so.. any help would.be great... Thanks.. this is what I get in the factory recovery..
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https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7632904/Targa_246_update_radio.zip
Try putting this file on the sdcard and running it from the stock recovery by manually booting into recovery and selecting Install update from external storage.
This is the radio update from the full XML.zip that is contained in the radio.img. It is the same file that has failed already on your device, but the error seems to indicate a problem with the file in the /tmp directory where it is placed by default. Running it manually from the sdcard may solve that issue.
Right now you have a corrupt baseband and that's why it's rebooting. Hopefully, this will flash successfully and restore the phone.
Thanks bud, still didn't work thou. Got the moto flash fail again.. I'm completely lost now...lol.. anybody want a bionic cheap...lol
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With the new boot loader unlock it comes time to use a recovery other than safe strap. The easiest way to flash a custom recovery, in this case, clockwordmod recovery, is to simply download ROM Manager and use it to flash the Motorola Photon Q version of CWM Recovery. I flashed it and booted into it and haven't experienced any problems as of yet so for those looking for a custom recovery straight out of the gate, this is for you.
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Nice i don't know if i should try it or wait for an official one for our device. In the mean time back to my nexus 4
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If you really want to give it a spin you can always flash the Photon Q version otherwise I'm sure there will be an official version ported soon
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Dumb question...... if I uninstall ss and install cwm will I lose the current ROM im using?
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You'll have to reinstall yes.
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Dumb question part 2..... uninstall ss first and then install cwm? Also erase all ROM slots before uninstalling? Thanks!
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Yea make sure to erase the rom slots. I forgot to and uninstalled then was missing quite a bit of space lol.
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I was thinking it might be a good idea lol. Thanks!
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it actually works. lol
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With the new boot loader unlock it comes time to use a recovery other than safe strap. The easiest way to flash a custom recovery, in this case, clockwordmod recovery, is to simply download ROM Manager and use it to flash the Motorola Photon Q version of CWM Recovery. I flashed it and booted into it and haven't experienced any problems as of yet so for those looking for a custom recovery straight out of the gate, this is for you.
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Have you flashed anything with it?
I haven't actually tried yet flashing a ROM but since I'm on stock and don't want to flash white yet I haven't had the opportunity, as long as its flashing to the device it should work with no problems
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freshlycutlawn said:
I haven't actually tried yet flashing a ROM but since I'm on stock and don't want to flash white yet I haven't had the opportunity, as long as its flashing to the device it should work with no problems
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So far, i have installed the cwm for the photon q like you, and made a back up through it. Im going to see if it will restore from it as well. ill keep everyone updated.:good:
:edit: I sucessfully backed up my stock JB rom, wiped everything, and restored everything back and everythings perfect... I dont know what else to try before attempting to flash using the photon CWM. any ideas?
I uses the photon q recovery to backup & restore, and haven't had any issues yet. No ROM flashing for the time being, just haven't tried it yet.
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I Flashes AOSPizza and was getting a bootloop, had to start the phone in DB Mode from the Fastboot menu to get it to start up, charging my battery and will be restoring original at&t firmware as soon as possible....Dont need a brick just bought this!
I'm on aosp pizza but I reverted to the stock jelly bean system. Mounted system installed the aosp ROM the Mexico firmware was giving me hell except with cm 10
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I Flashes AOSPizza and was getting a bootloop, had to start the phone in DB Mode from the Fastboot menu to get it to start up, charging my battery and will be restoring original at&t firmware as soon as possible....Dont need a brick just bought this!
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Did you try to go back into CWM and wipe everything again after the boot loops? That sometimes helps when it is boot looping after an install.
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Did you try to go back into CWM and wipe everything again after the boot loops? That sometimes helps when it is boot looping after an install.
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I tried the same thing with cm10, i tried 3 times and got bootloops on each, in the end, at least we know the back up and restore function works well.:good:
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I tried the same thing with cm10, i tried 3 times and got bootloops on each, in the end, at least we know the back up and restore function works well.:good:
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I'm Stock Again, Restart always sent me to fastboot with a failed flash error, I could back out of it to the pizza ROM each time however I don't want to depend on my phone booting incorrectly so I used RSD and I'm stock again, I'm going to give it another try tonight.
UPDATE...Reflashed everything started over and everything works PERFECT Yippie!!! I'm very pleased!!!!
Running AOSPizza and Loving it!
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I'm Stock Again, Restart always sent me to fastboot with a failed flash error, I could back out of it to the pizza ROM each time however I don't want to depend on my phone booting incorrectly so I used RSD and I'm stock again, I'm going to give it another try tonight.
UPDATE...Reflashed everything started over and everything works PERFECT Yippie!!! I'm very pleased!!!!
Running AOSPizza and Loving it!
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So what was your full procedure? I want to try this and try to install CM10 later.
From what I read, you installed the Photon Q CWM, installed Pizza through that, got boot loops, flashed back to stock, then installed Pizza again?
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So what was your full procedure? I want to try this and try to install CM10 later.
From what I read, you installed the Photon Q CWM, installed Pizza through that, got boot loops, flashed back to stock, then installed Pizza again?
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Fastboot was kicking errors and was boot looping into fastboot with firmware flash fail, I found however I could start into AOSPizza in DB mode (Safe Mode) , so I did that, charged up the phone 100% then used RSDLite and Reflashed Stock current firmware, it however does not re-lock the bootloader as some have mentioned might be the case in other post's, from there I started up the phone,turned on usb debug, used "motochopper" to root it, then installed Rom Manager from the market, flashed clockwork to device with the Photo Q CWM , copied AOSPixxaV1.zip ( The ROM ) and GappizzaV1.zip to the Phones internal storage not on the external SD memory card, from there went to clockwork mod on my atrix opened up the program and selected to reboot into recovery, went to the mounts and storage then select Mount System then go back then install zip from sd card then choose zip from sd card, then scroll to your rom and select it and it will flash when its complete you will go back and go to reboot system now, it will ask you if you want to bypass stock recovery on boot select it and your phone will reboot into AOSPizza......Have Fun!