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My phone isn't working again!
I was running ChromatcRom4.5 on my g1(its the first rom i used) and decide i wanted to try out another Rom in the process of doing that the new rom i wanted to try didn't work out and now I want to go back to my chromatcRom4.5.
I am so lost! My phone just reboots it self back in recovery mode everytime. It says Chromatc installed and when I hit "reboot system now", it reboots but it doesn't load the rom and just resets and goes back in recovery mode. What do I need to do so it will load the rom correctly? Am I missing files or am I not installing it right? Please I really need to my phone to be working.

sorry Im new to all this and still learning. Much help will be greatly appracaited.

probably you had a corrupted flash.
my best bet is that
1- you do a full system wipe "won't effect your sd card" using
"fastboot erase system -w"
2-reboot into recovery and do a full manual erase "system, cach, dalvik..." just to be sure
3-re download your desired rom and put it on SD
4-make sure that if you rom of choice needs DangerSPL that you meet the requirement.
5-flash away.
hope that helps.
p.s. please show or post your Phone specs so that anyone can help you more efficiently.

I am currenting useing The G1
I tired all the directions and still the same.
using clockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.1
-wipe date/factory reset
-wipe cache partition
-advanced wipe dalvik cache/battery
Install zip from sdcard
-choose zip from sdcard
-apply: G1-radio-2_22_23_02.zip
then go back to menu and addvaced and hit reboot in recovery
-apply: spl-signed.zip (is that he danger-spl?)
and reboot in recovery
apply: wipedatacachesystem.zip
and then apply:chromatic4.5.zip
and reboot system
My phone reboots and when its at the G1 logo and reboots again and now its in recovery mode again. Iam not sure what I am doing wrong. Any help please?
and If their another Rom you guys think is better and stable, can you guys give me to link to how to flash it?

also how do you "fastboot erase system -w"

nevermind i found out the problem after millions of times i failed.
clockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.1 never works for me i dont know why that is.
I had to downgrade to the older one in order to run Roms w/o any problems. Anyways the older one is way better!

clockwork tends to have problems with g1's. or rather, g1's tend to have problems with clockwork.
that's why i stick with the trusty Amon Ra. except a themed version of it

Tagged for a move to Q&A. Please post in Q&A/thread next time as this has nothing to do with development.

[Q] Boot loops after working/flashing normally

I keep getting the same problem with various ROM's I flash.
When a flash a ROM I first wipe everything by fastboot, superwipe or a combination of the 2, then I use the wipes in recovery, wipe my ext, and repair ext. Then I proceed to flash the ROM and applicable kernels.
First boot goes fine, and so does consecutive reboots/power offs. After about a week, at a seemingly random time, I reboot, then I get a boot loop.
The last time I got a boot loop, was after a week of using froyo by laszlo and I wiped cache, and dalvik-cache, then rebooted, and boot looped overnight.
Other times it would bootloop just after rebooting the phone (and not wiping anything).
Any tips to prevent this from happening?
Thanks (and sorry if I missed some info)

did you flash any custom mtd files? or have you tried a manual wipe of everything? i usually do the superwipe, than manual wipe in recovery.. wipe everything there is!! data, cache, dalvik cache, sd partition, battery stats and rotate... maybe even re format your sd card... not sure what it could be.. but i did have a slightly similar issue in the past but im always sooo paranoid about bricking so i just un-rooted than started again from scratch lol if you choose to do so this guide may be able to help you! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098899

I've wiped everything through fastboot, recovery, and superwipe before flashing, and I've fully formatted and repartitioned through recovery, and I still get boot loops.
Any other ideas to fix boot loops?

HiddenShadow said:
I've wiped everything through fastboot, recovery, and superwipe before flashing, and I've fully formatted and repartitioned through recovery, and I still get boot loops.
Any other ideas to fix boot loops?
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uhhhmmm maybe try re rooting...? maybe you just got a bad download file and it's acting screwy.. try link i recommended in first comment and feel free to ask me any questions.. im not sure what else would be ausing the problem..

Boot loops
I use to have similar problems. As for the froyo by laszlo, make sure that you have EXT4 partition.

If you still have problems, give me details about your radio and spl.

Well I tried rebooting this evening, no boot loop, but randomly I just lost all my contacts, but it did resync okay later
My radio is 2.22.28.25 and SPL is 1.33.0013d, and no I dont use a custom mtd
Heres a logcat:
http://pastebin.ca/2074938
Edit:
I used to have apps moving to sd-ext automatically, even when there was quite a bit of space on the internal, this isn't happening anymore, so maybe whatever the problem was, its now fixed. Heres what I did:
Formatted the sd card in ubuntu and made a fat32 and ext4 partition (both primary), and put the files I needed to flash while on ubuntu.
Then I flashed the orange-nbh on ezterry's 2708 radio post, rebooted.
After flashing, went into fastboot and did fastboot erase [system, userdata, cache, local, radio, recovery, boot]
Flashed radio, spl, recovery as per instructions
Flashed rom (and kernel if applicable)

cm7 to cm9 problem

followed the instructions to update from cm7 to the cm9
- Upgrading from CM7?
Do a Nandroid Backup!
WIPE (wipe data/factory reset + wipe cache partition)
Install the ROM from internal sdcard using ClockworkMod Recovery
Optionally install the Google Addon
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after the cwm flash phone reboots and shows the following:
1) AT&T white screen (from what i've read thats the pbl)
2) quick flash black screen
3) AT&T white screen again
4) a very quick list of text from what looks like cwm but too fast to read
5) repeats
Any ideas what went wrong?
I do have my phone back up and running but on Gingerbread via One Click K12 with Boogs kernel now. Had to use my home made jig to get into download mode...

Boot into recovery and flash the Glitch V14 Kernel first then CM9. It should fix that problem.
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thanks for the reply, i'll give that a try once i get back to cm7

No, you just need to flash the ROM twice as the first flash sets the new partition layout and boot.img(kernel for MTD ROMs). Wipe EVERYTHING but SD card and boot.img in mounts and storage. Then flash again and flash GAPPS without rebooting!

hmmmmmmm, my memory is for crap, but as i recall once the rom flashed the first time the phone tried to reboot and went into what i would think would be called a boot loop. i wasn't able to boot into recovery to flash the 2nd time even if i knew to do that...
as i said though, i may be wrong.

To get out of the bootloop I usually do a battery pull and then do the 3 button combo to get to recovery and flash the second time

ok, i'm up and running although i thought at first something had screwed up again. Since i was coming from stock/rooted gb i used these instructions this time:
- First time flashing ICS to your Captivate (or coming from another ROM)?
Root your device and install ClockworkMod Recovery.
Reboot into Recovery using 3-button-combo
Do a Nandroid backup!
WIPE (wipe data/factory reset + wipe cache partition)
Install the ROM from internal sdcard using ClockworkMod Recovery
Optionally install the Google Addon
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after first install i went right into the bootloop i described in my first post except this time it was the cm screen twice instead of the at&t. I used the 3 button hold to see if it would go into recovery, and it did
On b-eock's suggestion i then flashed the rom again...this time i got to the screen with all the tiles rotating across the screen, but after a few min i got an "encription" error and message that the process was intrupted and i had to do a factory reset... i click "ok" to see what happened and on the next boot i was up and running
Thank you gentlemen for the assistance

How to get gack to Gingerbread

Hi all
firstly I must give all the devs a thumbs up on their work in creating some great ICS roms, but infortunately i find the lag a little annoying so I want to go back to Gingerbread.
I still have S-on, I used HTC dev to unlock bootloader and installed clockworkmod, and currently running cooldroid rom.
Radio-3822.10.08.28_M and HBOOT - 2.00
I made a nandroid backup of my Optus GB bloatware rom but unsure of how to re-instalI...
I tried booting into clockwork recovery, and restoring backup, but phone didn't get past HTC splash screen after that, and then booted to recovery.
so i booted back into recovery and did a full format inc. delvic wipe and then restored backup, and still boots to splashcreen, switches off then boots to recovery...
i even tried extracting the boot image from optus backup and flashed that seperately using command prompt...
Am I missing a step here...
or should i just download a zip copy of the orig rom from the topic in the dev section eg:
RUU_Vivo_Gingerbread_S_Optus_AU_2.12.980.2_R_Radio_20.2803.30.085A ( but radio not the same ... )
reflashed back to cooldroid for time being.
any help would be apprieciated
Addy

That's am RUU you have to install those from a PC you cannot do them from your phone.
You could try a GB from the dev section. Nik trinity v5 is meant to be a good gb Rom ?
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using xda premium

You might want to try this sequence:
Restore nandroid from recovery
Format cache and wipe dalvik
Flash boot.img in fastboot

Nonverbose said:
You might want to try this sequence:
Restore nandroid from recovery
Format cache and wipe dalvik
Flash boot.img in fastboot
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Yes you will have to flash the boot.img from the backup directory in Fastboot mode.

tpbklake said:
Yes you will have to flash the boot.img from the backup directory in Fastboot mode.
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OP mentioned flashing the boot.img in command prompt already, I was just assuming that doing the full wipe before restoring the nandroid as he was doing may have flashed a cache that was causing issues with bootup so I suggested wiping it after initial restore. I haven't had a grease deal of experience with stock Rom backups so I would like to hear your thoughts about it.
@addyhash another user (n1cnak) has located the Optus sense 3 ruu which would be the same version as you had installed. I have asked in his thread if he could upload it and if all else fails it would be a better solution than the ruu you mentioned in your post ( unless you planned to go s-off)

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OP mentioned flashing the boot.img in command prompt already, I was just assuming that doing the full wipe before restoring the nandroid as he was doing may have flashed a cache that was causing issues with bootup so I suggested wiping it after initial restore. I haven't had a grease deal of experience with stock Rom backups so I would like to hear your thoughts about it.
@addyhash another user (n1cnak) has located the Optus sense 3 ruu which would be the same version as you had installed. I have asked in his thread if he could upload it and if all else fails it would be a better solution than the ruu you mentioned in your post ( unless you planned to go s-off)
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thanks for your prompt replay guys much appreciated, I ended up using this rom :
vivo_signed_RUU_VIVO_SENSE30_WWE_3.11.405.2_ROM.zip - ZIP , from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1136463 ,
carried out full format inc dalvik wipe, and installed zip from recovery, restarted in fastboot and flashed boot image seperate and hey presto, completely unbloated gingerbread [email protected]! i now have HTC dock mode back, and there's enough memory that it doesn't take seven seconds for the camera settings screen to pop up lol...
thanks again
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[Q] Razr i - no possibility to flash custom rom or stock - bricked?

Hallo together,
I seem to have done something wrong while trying to flash the rom "RazRi_JB_X-2014-Jul-16".
Here is what i did:
- Unlocked to bootloader using official Motorola homepage
- Flashed CWM (non-touch) recovery using "Recovery Flasher by LeBobo v1.7", USB-Debugging was on
- Rebooted into bootloader and flashed "RAZRiRoot2" to prevent Stock-ROM from overwriting the recovery
- Tried to install the Custom ROM using CWM, but it fails to wipe cache (stuck on line "Formatting /cache")
Because it didn't work, i tried to reset everything as it was before to be able to try again - flashed stock-recovery using the Recovery Flasher by LeBobo, booted into bootloader and selected "Factory". The cell is now just showing the "Warning bootloader unlocked" warning and nothing else happens.
When i try to select the recovery in the bootloader menu, an image of a Android laying on its back with an opened hatch and a red warning symbol showing a "!" appears and nothing else happens.
I seem to have bricked my device, because i cant't really do anything now - is there any solution?
I read through different topics but could not find a real solution to this particular problem...
Thank you so much in advance for your help!

It's not bricked
At the moment u enter stock recovery with that android and red warning sy,bol, u need to press bot volume up + downp. Than it will enter stock recovery mode.
Those are the following things u can do to get custom rom,
1. Flash another recovery, cwm touch, cwm non-touch, twrp. They all work a little different.
2. Flash the custom rom and wipe everything, The wip can take some time. sometimes it will be seconds, sometimes it will take a couple of minutes. Every recovery behaves different, and every flash/wipe too.
3. enjoy
If u really want to go back to stock, flash your stock JB firmware by RSD-Lite.

Thank you very much for your answer. I restored the stock rom using RSD Lite and did a clean install of TWRP.
Then I did a Factory Reset and started to install the custom ROM.
The TWRP is now stuck at "Flashing File 1 of 1 /external_sd/RazRi_JB_X-2014-Jul-16.zip".
Is it normal that it takes more than five minutes or is something going wrong here? Is there something i forgot?

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Thank you very much for your answer. I restored the stock rom using RSD Lite and did a clean install of TWRP.
Then I did a Factory Reset and started to install the custom ROM.
The TWRP is now stuck at "Flashing File 1 of 1 /external_sd/RazRi_JB_X-2014-Jul-16.zip".
Is it normal that it takes more than five minutes or is something going wrong here? Is there something i forgot?
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5 minutes is a bit too much. But that's the problem with this device. Every device behaves different and we haven't found out a solution too it.
At the moment i can't do much for you. I can only say try to wipe the partitions mannualy. Wipe system, data and cache. and mount system. And then try to install it. Maybe if that doesnt do the trick try again another recovery.
This from KTR-ROM
Code:
- Enter in TWRP or CWM
- Wipes required: data, system, cache y dalvik
*In CWM mount system must format before (Mount and storage -> Mount system)

Thanks again - that was it.
For some reason, TWRP did not automatically wipe the system-partition. It had to be mounted + wiped manually.
Not the custom ROM is up and running well. Installation took 35 minutes for some reason though...
Thank you so much for your help!

StarGeneral said:
Thanks again - that was it.
For some reason, TWRP did not automatically wipe the system-partition. It had to be mounted + wiped manually.
Not the custom ROM is up and running well. Installation took 35 minutes for some reason though...
Thank you so much for your help!
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nice, glad that it worked