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
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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..
So i rooted my phone, i have thecubed stock Rom installed but nothing else. But now I'm having charging issues, if i send my phone back to Verizon for the replacement will they check my phone and see it is rooted? If so, is there anyway for me to get rid of this rooting evidence?
Thanks!
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1 Flash stock nandroid backup provided by thecubed in cwr
2 Use Revo Toolkit to flash stock recovery.
3 Use super oneclick to unroot.
Should be back to stock!
well im going to send my phone back on monday or tuesday from warranty im going to give them it rooted and flashed with cwm and ill tell you if they charge me 400 bucks on my bill or anything in a month haha
I'm going to have to read up and get more instruction for those 3 steps.
I'll be looking forward to hearing if they say anything about your phone, but i am hoping i will already have my replaced in a month. We'll see! I look forward to the update
well i guess im gettin my phone on monday cuz yesterday they didnt even rang my door bell and freakin left me a slip stupid fed ex lol gotta wait till monday when my phone comes then probably tuesday to deliver back if i dont have time on monday
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1 Flash stock nandroid backup provided by thecubed in cwr
2 Use Revo Toolkit to flash stock recovery.
3 Use super oneclick to unroot.
Should be back to stock!
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Could you please expand on these directions a little?
Is the stock nandroid backup the original firmware post?
What is the revo toolkit and how do i flash to stock recovery? (haha sorry)
More root/unroot detail
Start here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1129117
and then here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1144951
The process is slightly different that I was used to. Instead of installing a zip from the sd card in Clockwork, you do a restore.
You unzip the stock system.img to a subfolder in clockwork/backup, than do a restore through Clockwork, selecting the stock you just put there.
Root and warranty
I am a little concerned about the report of a users phone root voiding a replacement. Think about it for a minute, Android is open source and freedom to write apps is encouraged by all manufact. When you root a phone, the software is not illegal, the Google market sells root apps for other phones. Do you think the manufacturers would allow the official marketplace to sell apps that could void warranties? BS, this sounds like Sony's attempt to deny PS3 owners replacements after their required sys updates would brick their consoles. I had a buddy whose console froze up and he had to get an attorney to file a complaint before they would warranty it. If that happened to me I would file with the BBB or protest loudly at VZN.
Ok, so i've spent a few hours at this already but let me give as much info as I can. I have read through many threads searching for info. I am no expert but I have had OG Droid, Incredible, and currently Thunderbolt all rooted so I am a novice.
This is my GFs phone and was previously bone stock, never rooted, no Roms nothing. So she gets the update recently and clicks yes and that is where the trouble began, phone constantly reboots and will not go past the language/activation screen. It never once went past that first screen, and she tried the hard reset and the battery pull.
So this is where I took over. I retried the hard reset (power + vol down) and also the battery pull. I also tried to activate in numerous other languages, all cause a reboot.
As per
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1208713.html
I was finally able to get past the activation screen and make some progress. However after about a minute the phone always reboots, no matter what it is doing. I hard reset in the settings menu and that did nothing.
I next followed
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1326347
and got the phone rooted.
Installed
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1144951
and than installed CWR 4.0.0.4 ? (not sure the version whatever it comes with) Tested recovery and it it seems to stick even after rebooting several times, which the phone automatically does (maybe its a feature and not a flaw?) So I was unsure of what version of Android was even running because the phone will not allow me to go into about phone it always force closes *com.android.settings* but I figure what the heck and try my luck with a new Rom. I decided on
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1326542&page=11
So I did the usual. Rebooted into recovery, made a nandroid backup, wiped data, cache, davlik and even did /system for good measure. Than did the install and upon first boot all the same problems are there. It will not activate from the screen, it just reboots the phone eventually. I used the same method above to avoid the screen and now it will boot up and the phone is in fact running an AOSP Rom but it still reboots after about a minute. Oddly enough it also continues to refuse to let me open About Phone, in the settings menu. I also for good measure went into recovery and wiped everything again and also tried fixing permissions in recovery, all to no avail.
At this point I am thinking it is perhaps just a hardware issue, although the phone does not reboot itself in recovery. I would be willing to try a different Rom, however I don't think it would work. I am wondering if anyone has any other suggestions? Should I try this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1120062
Other info:
What does work is wifi, so i can get on the internet briefly. I can connect to google and get apps from the market.
I am leaving this for a few hours or I may have to re-title the thread "How do you put the LG Revolution back together after throwing it against a wall?"
Currently I'm sad face that you rooted and installed cwm but I think the update bricked it personally. Hopefully S.Meezy will see this as he has stock recovery. I would say just get back to bone stock and get it replaced. If anyone else knows how to get it fixed, my best guesses would be mt or S.Meezy, though adb that might work. I hope it all gets figured out. Someone needs to post stock GB without data or anything for people to flash to if need be. That might fix your issue.
My suggestion is to get the recover the whole phone...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1211295
follow that but use the v6 TOT file. That will revert the phone to out of factory new, with updated radios. If you still have the issue then I would contact Verizon.
If everything works then you can re-run the update to Gingerbread.
Could be a long shot but I remember seeing something a little way back in another forum where a user w the same problem accidentially resolved his issue by restarting w the sd card out. For him it turned out to be a bad or incompatible sd card at the root of the problem.
If you have one in, pull it and restart. Hope thats it for you...
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Well i'm a glutton for punishment so i'm back.
I didn't want to bother with rooting it honestly but I did it out of desperation, figured a total wipe + brand new Rom would surely fix things.
Going to attempt the full recovery.
Tried pulling the SD card, than just the Sim card and finally without anything and none of the combinations worked.
Have you tried downloading a stock ROM to your PC/Mac and dropping that on your SD card and then flashing that ROM, after checking the md5? To me it sounds like your gf just had a bad download.
I think the issue is that you keep trying to flash the bad bits. Just my two cents...
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Honestly you really need to try reflashing the entire phone with one of the TOT files. At this point to me it is clearly not the ROM that is installed. Restoring the phone with one of the TOT files will cleanly overwrite everything on the phone. Takes about 20 minutes or so after you have the program installed and recognizing the phone. Do it and post back.
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Honestly you really need to try reflashing the entire phone with one of the TOT files. At this point to me it is clearly not the ROM that is installed. Restoring the phone with one of the TOT files will cleanly overwrite everything on the phone. Takes about 20 minutes or so after you have the program installed and recognizing the phone. Do it and post back.
H.
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What he said.
Remember: Absolutely do not, under any circumstance, unplug/turn off your phone once you start that process. It can take awhile, and might look like it froze, but just let it do it's thang.
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.
weedahoe said:
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.
Hello everyone. I don't know a whole lot about HTCs, but I want one badly after rooting one for a friend. I have another friend that tried to root a 626 verizon version on 6.0 with a tutorial on the HTC site for a different phone (he didn't ask me, I assure you and I gave him a scolding) and his recovery is broken. He's not sure if he fastbooted TWRP onto it or not but I think he may have without unlocking the bootloader. Is there possibly a stock recovery that he could fastboot back on there? His system is still booting and adb and fastboot are still connecting, I just don't know if there is a stock recovery for his and since it's not mine, I don't want to spend hours looking. Also, he doesn't have a lot of understanding yet as this was his first root attempt so I'm asking for him. Thanks so much for any help with this. Any Android down makes me sad. I told him if he wants to root get something non-verizon. He just ordered an unlocked S5 and I told him thats a very good place to start. But, if possible, I hope we can get his HTC right again. I also told him not to factory reset EVER if we can't get his recovery back. Thanks so much for any help.