Hi everyone,
I've stupidly managed to bootloop my phone and need a little help sorting it out if possible.
I have been following the guides to install the custom roms and have no idea where I messed up.
I have 2 roms on my internal sd card (OrDroid and Maximus7) I have tried manually flashing the boot.img for each individually before installing the rom through recovery, but both result in the phone getting stuck on the boot up screen.
Is there a way I can put another rom on the internal sd card to try and get that working? The phone doesn't show up on the PC.
Thanks for any help!!
-Mike
can u get into fastboot? if u can, flash the boot.img again for the rom u installed and see if that works
jngtt said:
can u get into fastboot? if u can, flash the boot.img again for the rom u installed and see if that works
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Thanks for the reply jngtt
I managed to sideload a ROM and get the phone out of bootloop. I now have no signal though. (When there definitely is some as my wife is with the same carrier)
At least from here I can load a new ROM/Kernel to the phone.
Is there a Stock ROM for the M7 somewhere?
I saw this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2158763
but couldn't work out how to restore my phone back to a factory ROM?
-Mike
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Okay .... I have sucessfully rooted the wife's original Verizon Moto Droid and I have installed CWM via ROM Manager. I have performed a backup of her current ROM.
From the looks of things here, I will just load the ROM I want to flash onto her sd card and then flash it via ROM Manager. Is this correct? If it fails half way through the flash, can I still enter CWM via the key sequence to re-flash/restore the phone to its original state using the backup on the card from ROM Manager?
I gave her this phone when I bought my Samsung Droid Charge when it came out back last March. I can flash ROMs & Kernels on that phone all day long but the Moto Droid is an entirely different animal. I want to be sure of my fail-safes before I flash anything here.
Thanx In Advance for Your Help
Okay ... cwm just didn't take the first time I flashed it. I am now able to enter CWM from a powered off state.
[Q] If I flash a rom and it doesn't take half way through the flash, will I still be able to enter cwm and install the backup of her current rom? That ROM is not in a zip format on the sd card. It is a tar file and the other components in a folder.
I want to be sure I can recover the phone if I experience a bad flash before I attempt anything. Remember, this is my WIFE'S phone !!! LOL
Any help appreciated.
Edit: Also, I installed RSD lite on my computer but when I open it and hook the phone up, it doesn't see the phone. At least, from what I can tell it doesn't. I click 'show' device and nothing happens. Is this a flashing tool or do I put the ROM on sd card and flash via rom manager? And the fail-safe !! Gotta have the fail-safe !!!
Hi, guys
Im done something wrong to my htc one, what I done so far:
unlocked bootloader
CWM
then install CM10.2
Im thinking to reverse back to stock, then i did thru 'Hasooon' locked bootloader, flash RUU (was incorrect one)...
and now I can only access to FASTBOOT & CWM, then i did boot into sys, it will show CM classica boot anime but it will stuck and keep rebooting
I tried to find any 1.29.980(my currect firmwarm version) RUU but canot find anything available so can anyone provide me a link so i can download the RUU file wt 1.29.980
or what I can do so can bring the phone back to normal again...
thanks heaps guys.
skimboynemo said:
Hi, guys
Im done something wrong to my htc one, what I done so far:
unlocked bootloader
CWM
then install CM10.2
Im thinking to reverse back to stock, then i did thru 'Hasooon' locked bootloader, flash RUU (was incorrect one)...
and now I can only access to FASTBOOT & CWM, then i did boot into sys, it will show CM classica boot anime but it will stuck and keep rebooting
I tried to find any 1.29.980(my currect firmwarm version) RUU but canot find anything available so can anyone provide me a link so i can download the RUU file wt 1.29.980
or what I can do so can bring the phone back to normal again...
thanks heaps guys.
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Go here, scroll down to nandroid backups, and find yours. There are two, one unbranded, one for Optus. Since you're running cwm, you can flash these backups and they should return you to stock.
kibmikey1 said:
Go here, scroll down to nandroid backups, and find yours. There are two, one unbranded, one for Optus. Since you're running cwm, you can flash these backups and they should return you to stock.
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I used CWM to sideload another rom, and now Im back on GE rom again.
and I download the Nandroid backup and copy into my internal memory, loaded into CWM then went into back n restore option, but just cannot find the find the zip file so cannot do the restore back to stock at the stage? so was wondering any particular folder I need to place the zip file so the CWM can regonise?
thanks.
Hi guys, i just rooted my device using TWRP. As i am new to all this, i tried flashing CM11 ROM but i was getting "failed" message again and again. Then mistakenly i used option of "Advance Wipe" and wiped everything. Now while booting up the device i am going to recovery but there is no backup available and i am unable to install any ROM as the custom ROM is also deleted along with backup. Please help me out on this. Thanks...
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Hi guys, i just rooted my device using TWRP. As i am new to all this, i tried flashing CM11 ROM but i was getting "failed" message again and again. Then mistakenly i used option of "Advance Wipe" and wiped everything. Now while booting up the device i am going to recovery but there is no backup available and i am unable to install any ROM as the custom ROM is also deleted along with backup. Please help me out on this. Thanks...
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I have done that a few times by mistake I would download the rom on a thumb drive and use my otg cable to plug it in flash it from the thumb drive in recovery.
You can also side load it as well, yet I have never done it that way so you would have to search that.
I have also read some say download the rom to your pc and and plug in phone and drag the rom to your sdcard.
If all else fails you can always return to stock via rsd or mfastboot as long as you can get into download mode.
Thanks a lot for your prompt response. I am having Moto x 2013 edition and tried to flash CM11 ROM using thumb drive in recovery mode but the "failed" message was coming , is it a compatibility issue of ROM with My device? As i told that i am new to all these things can you please guide me or share with me a link for any good ROM which i could flash on my Moto x and make it functional again.
Also if i want to get back to my stock ROM i.e. Kitkat 4.4 then how to do it? will i be able to update to lollipop in future?
Sorry for asking so many questions and thanks again for your support.
It sounds more like you should flash your phone back to stock and leave it there until you understand what you're doing. With the number of guides available anymore, the entire flashing process should be dead simple and difficult to mess up. Add to the fact that wiping/formatting partitions always prompts for confirmation before actually deleting things, and it shows that you don't really have any knowledge about what is going on. Keeping your phone stock until you do know what you're doing is only going to save you from having a paperweight in the long run.
Thanks a lot!!!! with your support i am able to flash my phone on cyanogen12
Thanks agian...
I have tried to boot in recovery to flash Xposed SDK only to find the phone is doing a proper reboot, even when using NDR and selecting reboot to recovery and when I hold the volume down and the Sony logo, nothing works,. I have tries using NUT's installer to add it again, although it finishes successfully the recovery isn't there, I am not bothered about flashing or wiping if I have to, but is there any other way first? Its all started when my phone won't recognise my SD Card, unless I remove it and put it back in and then on reboot its missing the card again.
Same problem
I have the same problem but do not have a computer. I was reading about it and found that after you flash a new ROM before booting it up, you have to flash recovery (especially NUTs Dual recovery) and then boot. It is weird since most ROMS have a preinstalled recovery and I do not get why we have to do this. I keep losing recovery after flashing a new ROM and will try to flash CWM. NUTs dual recovery keeps getting lost for me. I will borrow a friends laptop and get it done over the weekend.
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I have the same problem but do not have a computer. I was reading about it and found that after you flash a new ROM before booting it up, you have to flash recovery (especially NUTs Dual recovery) and then boot. It is weird since most ROMS have a preinstalled recovery and I do not get why we have to do this. I keep losing recovery after flashing a new ROM and will try to flash CWM. NUTs dual recovery keeps getting lost for me. I will borrow a friends laptop and get it done over the weekend.
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I've never had the problem before and I have flashed this handset a few times, recovery should have went on when I flashed the pre-rooted rom as I created my own, but doesn't matter as I have already tried to put the recovery back on. I will however try another recovery.
flash recovery without PC?
Do you know anything about flashing a recovery without a PC? I have an idea but do not wanna test it without a PC at hand. What if I extract the recovery.img file and put it on my internal SD and boot the phone? Will it install the recovery? If you know of any other way please let me know
FCArsenal said:
Do you know anything about flashing a recovery without a PC? I have an idea but do not wanna test it without a PC at hand. What if I extract the recovery.img file and put it on my internal SD and boot the phone? Will it install the recovery? If you know of any other way please let me know
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I'm sorry phone software is not my speciality, I am new to this whole flashing and recovery on phones. I really wish I could help you. However can I ask you if there is now way you can get into recovery, how can you flash it from within the phone, can the phone read img files?
Last night i flashed the boot logo and animation zip file from this http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x/themes-apps/logo-bootlogo-bootanimation-exclusive-t3026675
i know it says for stock rom and some video supported devices... Still was curious and flashed it... Now my device is not booting... it restart and it turns on and goes black...when i take it to bootloader and do factory it goes to RR Boot animation and it goes till the apps loading 72 of 72 and again goes back to RR boot animation... Some one help... please. scared
Can you boot into recovery?
Do you know how to sideload a ROM via adb?
Do you have a nandroid backup?
If you answered no to any of the above, you're going to need to take a crash course in how to customize an android device.
If you can get into recovery, mount USB and d/l an appropriate ROM on your computer, copy to internal storage, and flash it.
Obviously, restoring a nandroid is even better.
yes i can boot to recovery.... yes i know sideload a ROM,but i already have ROM in my internal storage... I tried flashing the ROM, still didnt work out... I dont have a nandroid backup...
LPMatt said:
Can you boot into recovery?
Do you know how to sideload a ROM via adb?
Do you have a nandroid backup?
If you answered no to any of the above, you're going to need to take a crash course in how to customize an android device.
If you can get into recovery, mount USB and d/l an appropriate ROM on your computer, copy to internal storage, and flash it.
Obviously, restoring a nandroid is even better.
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yes i can boot to recovery.... yes i know sideload a ROM,but i already have ROM in my internal storage... I tried flashing the ROM, still didnt work out... I dont have a nandroid backup...
Try flashing this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=62860151
(at your own risk, of course. I am not responsible for anything that might happen. That being said, I flashed this to my xt 1053 with no problems).
I would also suggest trying a custom ROM and doing a full wipe before flashing anything.
thanks alot LPMatt
LPMatt said:
Try flashing this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=62860151
(at your own risk, of course. I am not responsible for anything that might happen. That being said, I flashed this to my xt 1053 with no problems).
I would also suggest trying a custom ROM and doing a full wipe before flashing anything.
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Bro!!! Thanks alot... It worked....