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I have been trying since yesterday to get my Nexus back in to working function. I had CM 6.0 with ClockWork recovery. Through recovery I wiped data/cache/etc then attempted to flash a stock frf91.zip from the sd card. As it was in the process of doing so recovery gave me an error and said it would reboot into Rom Manager. Now my phone hangs on Nexus X logo before the boot animation. I can power the device into fastboot to choose bootloader-reboot-reboot bootload-power off.
I believe that recovery process had the error/issue right after it deleted the system image.
YET I do not have the function of my Power/Multi-Use Button on the top of the phone. So I tried to use adb (which I have used with my phone previously without any issues) to attempt to install the stock rom image.
With adb running I sent the command to display the devices connected. It shows the list but with nothing connected (NOT an error or no devices connected), just blank. I then tried fastboot and sent the command to list connected devices, fastboot showed my devices serial as a connected device.
I was able to flash a system.img file using fastboot yet nothing happened, an all other restore attempts, like userdata.img or boot.img, etc. will not work and come back with a error of no remote permission.
Sorry for the entire book, but I am sort of lost.
My reason for this whole mess is because I wanted to restore my phone to a stock rom and recovery to send it in to have the power button fixed while retaining my warranty (my bootloaded IS locked).
When I get home from college today I am going try loading a stock factory passimg.zip of ERD79 on my sd and let fastboot try to pick up on it. I really have no other option haha.
Anyone have a suggestion? Honestly I am willing to just send it in AS-IS or brick it an tell them I had no idea what happened that I couldn't use the power button and it died after an update.
I see that no one has any idea really haha.
Couldn't tell from reading your write up - can you boot into recovery?
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no I cannot. I do not have use of my power button. I am going to read through the new thread concerning accessing recovery without use of the power button.
To use adb, you need to be in recovery, or fully booted with debugging enabled.
To use fastboot, you need to unlock your boot loader.
Try reverting to stock via passimg method (one of the newer ones, if you have the Froyo radio).
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I recently realized that was the issue with adb. So fastboot is out of the question then. Doesn't the passimg method require use of the power button though?
Unroot/Restore (use passimg method):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wik...des_&_Tutorials#Unroot_.2F_Restore_your_Nexus
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hboot scrolls quickly when I try this and I catch that it says that is not a valid passimg.img
any ideas?
Should be passimg.zip (not img).
Makes sure it's not a zip inside a zip.
FRG83 seems problematic, so try FRG33 instead.
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Just discovered this gem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=825909
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I got the passimg method working correctly. I mean passimg.zip in the previous post. I tried frf91 and it went through then said checking and went straight back to hboot without asking for permission. I'm going to try frg33 and if that doesn't work I will try the app you found.
frg33 seems to be working
hboot with FRG33 worked and the phone booted up with rom. thank you very much for all of your awesome help danger-rat.
No worries...
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Got it fixed. Use the clockwork bootable image and get the stock image to revert to stock or reflash froyo to EMMC again
I don't have the technical ability to help in the non-boot issue but why don't you download WinImage, make VHD's of one or both of 8gb cards, then use those cards to install whatever recovery media the fine folks here suggest. THEN once you're up and running again.. and I have no doubt that you will be, this thing seems to be un-brickable, then you can just restore your microSD card from the VHD backup.
Im on a Mac and dont have access to a windows pc. is ther any other way i could go about doing this?
I had the same problem. I Burnt a CWM version that is bootable from an SD card, then I burnt the same card with the 1.00 stock zip image. These files are somewhere on this forum. But the only wait out is that CWM running from as SD card. I had to burn the card with my cellphone.
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how did u burn it on your phone?
On your Mac you can use the TERMINAL app to create an image with no problem .. since you can get into recovery, just put an sd card in a reader on the mac .. format it and burn the image ... for specifics google is your friend .. the osx commands are here .. hope this helps ... BTW using a phone to create an image does not work for many people ...
i know how to burn a image with the Terminal. and i flashed the Nookie froyo wrong and cant even get to recovery at all. and for me I cant seem to do anything with the SDcard since i already flashed nookie foryo on it and cant reformat it. . ive tried everything i can think of and am lost
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i know how to burn a image with the Terminal. and i flashed the Nookie froyo wrong and cant even get to recovery at all. and for me I cant seem to do anything with the SDcard since i already flashed nookie foryo on it and cant reformat it. . ive tried everything i can think of and am lost
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Sorry .. misread and thought you had Recovery ... since you do not, follow the instructions HERE
and use the card created to boot the NC .. once you have it booted install Clockwork Recovery so you have a recovery system ... hope this helps
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The 2 skulls was the way out. If you had the 1.0.1 image on the root of the card assuming you could get past the 2 skulls you would be good to go. Possible the SD card you are using has a problem. Try making a new one with the 1.0.1 in the root of the SD and sintall update from ZIP.
I just did a recovery to stock from froyo eMMC but didn't mess up the /data /system format part.
If all fails, I'd be happy to help if you want to ship it to me and cover shipping in both directions.
I do have the skull image but it did nothing. Left my nook alone and went to school. 8hours later same skull screen. And my mac won't let me reformat any of my sd cards and only worked when inside my nc
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I'm having a similar problem. I recently tried the Flashable Froyo ROM for the Nook Color from modembug on XDA. Now I don't have Clockwork Recovery and need help getting it back. Instead of any boot animation, I just get a "loading..." and then an "ANDROID_" and it doesn't come up at all. The only way to turn it off at this point is to press both and hold both power and n buttons. I really don't think the 8 boot method is working at all.
I've tried ADB but I am unable to connect to my computer, ADB commands say error: device not found.
Try the power+n reset.. hold both for 30 seconds to boot the NC.. the reset data...
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rodalcaraz827 said:
I'm having a similar problem. I recently tried the Flashable Froyo ROM for the Nook Color from modembug on XDA. Now I don't have Clockwork Recovery and need help getting it back. Instead of any boot animation, I just get a "loading..." and then an "ANDROID_" and it doesn't come up at all. The only way to turn it off at this point is to press both and hold both power and n buttons. I really don't think the 8 boot method is working at all.
I've tried ADB but I am unable to connect to my computer, ADB commands say error: device not found.
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I am having the same problem. Anyone made any progress on getting back to stock in this situation? I can boot from sd card with froyo also.
so was at work when my pocket vibrated...pulled phone out it turned itself off..so i try to turn back on... no luck wont boot past white HTC screen.... so i pull battery and boot to recovery... phones boots to recovery but will not let me factory reset or erase or format anything...before i go erasing things on the card wondering if anyone has dealt with this before and has any ideas or opinions.. was runnin aospcmod3/1 data2ext ext2 on a 16gb class2 sd card. thanks for anyone who replies in advance.
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so was at work when my pocket vibrated...pulled phone out it turned itself off..so i try to turn back on... no luck wont boot past white HTC screen.... so i pull battery and boot to recovery... phones boots to recovery but will not let me factory reset or erase or format anything...before i go erasing things on the card wondering if anyone has dealt with this before and has any ideas or opinions.. was runnin aospcmod3/1 data2ext ext2 on a 16gb class2 sd card. thanks for anyone who replies in advance.
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I never did the data2ext but can you reboot without it? That's really weird if your recovery doesn't function properly (i.e. no wipes). Can you use nand restore to a non-data2ext backup?
All my nands freeze at restoring system
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Try reflashing your recovery
Yea its Me again with the
Modified Hero
Tried to flash new recovery using advanced same effect used 2.1,2.7,&3 all same issue can't wipe or flash any roms or nands .......so. I put 2gb from my camera and am back up and running. My computer won't even recognize the card anymore
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spleef said:
Tried to flash new recovery using advanced same effect used 2.1,2.7,&3 all same issue can't wipe or flash any roms or nands .......so. I put 2gb from my camera and am back up and running. My computer won't even recognize the card anymore
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sorry to hear that, but at least your phone works again.
sent from my hero, which no longer sucks ass.
Yea me to but a like duce said at least your up and running again. Check out Amazon for a new sd I paid a whopping 25 bucks for mine plus they have some good deals.
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OK guys, Im not new to the android deal, or flashing, but im stuck here. I have a Sprint Hero, and I need to go back to stock. Problem is, the USB port is broken, and will only charge. So i cant enter ADB, and the phone wont boot past the HTC screen. Its rooted, and i still have root, and clockwork recovery. I cant seem to get any rom to flash though, it just hangs at the HTC screen, and I cant get the HBoot (version 1.47) to read anything. I tried renaming the extracted RUU from the sprint update to HERCIMG and it wont read it. So, anyone have any ideas???
Without usb or an s-off bootloader I think its impossible to go back to stock. Why do you need to?
can u get one of those USB SD card readers? (this way u can put ur SD card into ur computer USB port and transfer files onto it)
search around there is a HERCIMG from the ruu for HBOOT somewhere on here.
i looked real quick and found this, it may help.
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This isn't really the place for this, but these questions have already been covered, many many times..
Rooting instructions. I know this works on the latest official sprint, because I've done it successfully.
As far as not being able to RUU, some people have an issue running the RUU if they haven't ran HTC Sync. Try that and see if it works, and if not, follow this method.
HERCIMG-2.31.651.7.ZIP download it. it's the Sprint 2.31.651.7 executable but in signed zip format, for people who aren't running windows. Not sure who actually converted the executable to a signed zip, but props to you for helping those that can't run the regular RUU.
Rename the file to HERCIMG.zip and place it on the root of your SD card.
Power the phone off.
Press and hold your Volume Down button, and while still holding it press the power button to power your phone back up into HBoot mode.
HBoot should then automatically verify the zip file, and ask you if you would like
to flash it. Press your trackball to confirm the update (downgrade in this case),
or press your send button to cancel.
Once on 651.7 you would root as normal, but you should not have to RUU back to 651.7 just to root.
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rodcpierce said:
OK guys, Im not new to the android deal, or flashing, but im stuck here. I have a Sprint Hero, and I need to go back to stock. Problem is, the USB port is broken, and will only charge. So i cant enter ADB, and the phone wont boot past the HTC screen. Its rooted, and i still have root, and clockwork recovery. I cant seem to get any rom to flash though, it just hangs at the HTC screen, and I cant get the HBoot (version 1.47) to read anything. I tried renaming the extracted RUU from the sprint update to HERCIMG and it wont read it. So, anyone have any ideas???
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Just a thought, can you download the RUU onto the phone via dropbox or something similar?
Ok. I have an s off bootloader. I can't boot to any rom as it gets stuck at the htc screen. I have tried the above mentioned hercimg file (even though you cant open it, because it says the file is invalid, and I have downloaded it a number of times, so its not a download error) and hboot wont find it even after renaming. I can move files to the sd card via my computer. I have the adapter. I need to get back to something close to stock, so that i can activate the phone. I dont want to get the thread off topic though, just need help getting back there.
Check your computer's USB drivers. If you can charge it you should be able to use USB. Or use someone else's computer. Then running the ruu from HTC website will work just fine. This sounds more like the computers end then the phone. Ymmv.
®patience is a virtue©
If you are s off just flash a recovery from h boot. What bootloader version do you have?
Edit: also theres a link to an s off RUU in the links thread I started. Also, you never said why you wanted to unroot?
il, I dont even necessarilly need to unroot. But if people would please read the first post. It would help answer some of the questions.... I CAN FLASH ANY ROM, BUT NOTHING WILL BOOT PAST THE HTC SCREEN. It also says what bootloader version i have, its version 1.47. I have clockwork customer recovery version 2.5 I believe it is. HBOOT wont find any file, period. Including a recovery. And its not a computer issue, its with the USB. Trust me.
I used this when I RUU'd recently and it worked great. jasonmaloney put this up a while ago and this gem was in the middle of the thread. It broke root and I rerooted using Regaw's method this time.
H-boot should have no problem recognizing this.
Drunk, it wont read that either. It doesnt even recognize that there is a HERCIMG on the SD card. This phone is bunk. not even a week ago, it was booting AOSP rom fine, no issues. Then I went to turn it on the other day, and wont boot past the HTC screen. Not sure what the deal is with this POS. About ready to bounce it off the concrete here.
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il, I dont even necessarilly need to unroot. But if people would please read the first post. It would help answer some of the questions.... I CAN FLASH ANY ROM, BUT NOTHING WILL BOOT PAST THE HTC SCREEN. It also says what bootloader version i have, its version 1.47. I have clockwork customer recovery version 2.5 I believe it is. HBOOT wont find any file, period. Including a recovery. And its not a computer issue, its with the USB. Trust me.
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Whoa, calm the F down. My phone isn't the broken one, it's yours. Anyway, I did read the OP, but it was real early, and I missed the 1.47. AFAIK hboot cannot fail IF you build the zip correctly. Pull out the SDcard and put this recovery zip on it, then flash from hboot. Do the device erase thing in fastboot before that. I just flashed it and it went fine. It's CWM 2.5.0.1. You will to rename it to "HERCIMG.zip". Also, were you using any other mods like FR or something? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5669105/HERCIMG2501.zip
il, I have clockwork recovery 2.5. Ill try this though here in a minute and see what happens. This phone is just ticking me off something fierce.
Il, it wont find that either. I put the zip on the root of the SD, and renamed it to HERCIMG and HBOOT still doesnt recognize that there is a HERCIMG file on the SD
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Il, it wont find that either. I put the zip on the root of the SD, and renamed it to HERCIMG and HBOOT still doesnt recognize that there is a HERCIMG file on the SD
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just to clarify, you named it HERCIMG.zip all caps and with .zip at the end? If so, maybe your card is bad or your reader in the phone is bad? Do you have another card you can try it on?
yes sir. HERCIMG.zip And its on the card, as when i boot into recovery, I can see the file there.
Man, if you can get into recovery you can fix it. Do a full wipe and flash a stable ROM, reboot, and then walk away from the phone for about 15 minutes.
Try the instructions at http://romrepo.info/wiki/index.php?title=Install_from_another_ROM
See, thats what I think too, but it wont do anything but boot to the HTC screen. I have tried quiet a few roms, and get the same thing. I just left for roughly 2 hours, came back and still stuck at the HTC boot screen. Im lost brother.
OK, just a quick update. Got it fixed with the help of laei1472. The recovery was botched, that was what was not letting me flash anything. Finally got it to boot one of AOSP's earlier roms (which was the last rom it had booted, before going haywire). Then we were trying to flash RA 1.7 through terminal, but it wouldnt find flash_image. Ended up finding a file to flash it as that version of AOSP was missing the flash_image file in /system/bin. Once we got that, then I was able to flash RA 1.7, and now can flash any rom I want too. What a pain in the butt experience. But happy the phone is back up and going. Thanks again laie1472.
good to hear. glad you got it fixed
No matter what I do, my G1 stays stuck in Recovery (ClockwordMod v2.5.0.7). I reset everything and nothing. My SD Card is good and formatted correctly. I cant even flash anything. When I take battery out or try to reboot it goes back into Recovery. HELP!!!!
Hopefully you just have a sticky home button, forcing you to always boot to recovery
Try finding the proper flashable zips for radio and bootloader, normally I would say never flash firmware in recovery, but if its not hardware fault this will be your only other options
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