So I've had a nexus one for a while now, and recently I decided to root it. I managed to unlock my bootloader and flash clock work recovery. I then made a stupid mistake of trying to flash a rom before rooting my phone or backing up my rom. When I power on my phone now it just freezes on the boot animation. The only thing I can do is access recovery. What is the easiest way to root my nexus one in this condition or is there anyway of flashing a rom, hence fixing it? Preferably from a Mac but I may be able to get access to windows or linux. Thanks in advance
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moose.splash1 said:
So I've had a nexus one for a while now, and recently I decided to root it. I managed to unlock my bootloader and flash clock work recovery. I then made a stupid mistake of trying to flash a rom before rooting my phone or backing up my rom. When I power on my phone now it just freezes on the boot animation. The only thing I can do is access recovery. What is the easiest way to root my nexus one in this condition or is there anyway of flashing a rom, hence fixing it? Preferably from a Mac but I may be able to get access to windows or linux. Thanks in advance
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Turn off your phone, pop your SD card in your comp and copy the su.zip into it. Pop it back into your phone, boot into recovery and flash it on. Voila, root access!
Then wipe cache, dalvik-cache and all those and reflash the ROM again. You should be good to go.
BTW. I hope you are flashing a ROM which needs a stock HBOOT. Coz for JB ROMs, custom HBOOT is needed. Cheers!
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Turn off your phone, pop your SD card in your comp and copy the su.zip into it. Pop it back into your phone, boot into recovery and flash it on. Voila, root access!
Then wipe cache, dalvik-cache and all those and reflash the ROM again. You should be good to go.
BTW. I hope you are flashing a ROM which needs a stock HBOOT. Coz for JB ROMs, custom HBOOT is needed. Cheers!
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Thanks a lot for the help! Do you know of any JB or ICS roms that do not require a special HBOOT? And where is the download for the su.zip you mentioned? Thanks a lot
All newer ROMs have a larger system partition requirement, why not flash an older gingerbread ROM that doesn't require black rose until you get the hang of flashing.
You don't need to flash superuser or busy box or anything first, just wipe all in recovery, flash ROM (plus anything else needed like gapps) reboot
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moose.splash1 said:
Thanks a lot for the help! Do you know of any JB or ICS roms that do not require a special HBOOT? And where is the download for the su.zip you mentioned? Thanks a lot
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demkantor said:
All newer ROMs have a larger system partition requirement, why not flash an older gingerbread ROM that doesn't require black rose until you get the hang of flashing.
You don't need to flash superuser or busy box or anything first, just wipe all in recovery, flash ROM (plus anything else needed like gapps) reboot
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@demkantor is right. Basically you don't need su.zip coz most ROMs will have that flashed in already. I think the problem you were facing was because you did not wipe your cache/dalvik-cache and data before flashing on the ROM.
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I recently attempted to root my N1 but after unlocking the bootloader and using superboot to gain root, everytime i boot up now i get an error that says "process system is not responding" I'm hoping this $600 paperweight can be turned back into a phone
You don't need to root if you unlocked the bootloader...
If there's a pulse, it probably ain't dead...
Download the ROM you wish to use, then use fastboot to flash a custom recovery, boot into recovery, wipe, then install the downloaded ROM.
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I tried that with CM7 and it errors out on installing update.zip
rockchalk2526 said:
I tried that with CM7 and it errors out on installing update.zip
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It's not an 'update.zip' if you are trying to flash a full ROM. Select 'Install ROM from SD' if you are rooted and using Rom Manager, otherwise reboot into your custom recovery and select 'flash .zip from SD'.
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You don't need to root if you unlocked the bootloader...
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Ok, i think i'm getting this now. You're saying that you don't need Root to flash a custom ROM if the Bootloader is unlocked, but for anything that requires Root (i.e Titanium Backup), you still need that additional step? So really, unlocking the Bootloader is pointless at the moment as using a combination of SOC and Rom Manager gives you the best of all worlds.
You don't need this step, since all the custom ROMs come pre-rooted. If you unlock the bootloader to install custom recovery.
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You don't need this step, since all the custom ROMs come pre-rooted. If you unlock the bootloader to install custom recovery.
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Thanks, it's all useful info.
It's worth noting that not everbody wants to use a custom ROM, but they may still want Root and the advantages it brings, on their stock ROM. (Me for one!!)
Still, if you only want root access, why unlock the bootloader, since unlocking the bootloader only gives the ability to flash images (unless you want to flash a rooted stock image, in which case why root the rom you have)?
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You probably still have the stock recovery my friend. Cuz you won't find installing zip from sd card if you don't have a custom recovery. So flash ar or clock work to install a custom rom. Good luck.
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Do I really need to flash to stock before I flash a ROM everytime? IT GETS SOO ANOYING.
I do, its not that big a deal. Place CWM update.zip in the root of your SD card, place desired ROM somewhere on the card. Odin to stock allow to fully boot, then restart into recovery. Flash CWM, then flash ROM from CWM. You don't need to root or use ROM manager.
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I do, its not that big a deal. Place CWM update.zip in the root of your SD card, place desired ROM somewhere on the card. Odin to stock allow to fully boot, then restart into recovery. Flash CWM, then flash ROM from CWM. You don't need to root or use ROM manager.
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I do the same thing it's not that big of a deal to go back to stock. It eliminates any problems you might run into
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I don't I have had my captivate since august and have only used odin three times. There are a lot of reasons why flashing stock is neccesary, but just switching from one rom to another is kind of a waste. One reason is 3e recovery. It is easier to flash stock 2.1 not 2.2 and then flash a new rom as the above post says just put the update.zip and newrom.zip on the root and install. Once you are on a custom rom with a custom kernal you can use the options in recovery to flash another rom. I just factory reset, wipe cache partition, wipe dalvik cache, and flash, if you really want to wipe everything you can go into mounts and storage and wipe everything, but the boot again. Then go to mount usb and copy over the rom from the computer, and then flash. The update script included in the new rom will wipe everything once again. If you have problems, like you got a bad flash, try flashing the same rom over again. Its kind of rare to get a bad flash. In short just flash over if you have problems then use odin.
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When switching kernels
I typically flash back to stock when I'm going from one kernel to another. If the ROM I'm on and the ROM I'm going to use the same kernel (or at least the same line, i.e. two different versions of SuckerPunch), I usually skip the back-to-stock step.
Some say that it is only worth doing if you run into problems with the Rom. I do it everyrime to avoid anything that might happen. Plus old habits die hard from my WM days where flashing stock was needed
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I do it everytime. It hardly takes 10 mins and I don't mind spending that 10 here than spend debugging later
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I don't if I am going from froyo rom to froyo rom. Only time I have to is leaving 2.3.3
This is my Captivate. There are many like it but this one is mine
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Do I really need to flash to stock before I flash a ROM everytime? IT GETS SOO ANOYING.
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About as annoying as seeing this question asked dozens of times when it can easily be answered by doing a search or just scanning the forum titles for a similar thread.
It is easy to do, but no real reason to do so unless on a 2.3.3 rom
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Hello dear friends!
I have following issue with the phone>
1. Phone had froyo installed on it.
2. i tried to copy a custom rom to sd, and then, i just tried to flash it directly via stock recovery. (completly noobish, i realize now...)
3. apparently by the status from the stock recovery it succeeded. BUUUT actually not...
so>
4. i got stuck into the samsung boot logo...
so>
5. i tried to flash cwm recovery through this steps provided by this tutorial.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342190
6. I now got a black screen instead of any recovery. tried it also with the froyo version of the recovery (designed apparently specially for froyo devices) and also with the gingerbread one. still no joy....
now, i am really lost and have no further ideas.... please help me at least get this back to stock again (it is the phone from work and i will have a hard time explaining them that i bricked it.... )...
please advise what should i try further??
THANKS!!!!!
PS> pls take into account that i am kind of a noob regarding this device... did a lot of things on my hox, but i do not know to much about this s5570....
download a four package firmware then flash it with Odin
Can u pls give me a link to a download / tutorial?? It's my first encounter with odin, so i am pretty noobish... Pls pls
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http://yagyagaire.blogspot.com/
you will get every required info
dheeraj (dhlalit11) said:
http://yagyagaire.blogspot.com/
you will get every required info
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ok, now device is in following state>
flashed GB rom on it - working
by downloading official gb rom from
here
flashed cwm recovery - works with the steps from my first post now
flashing a custom rom from a zip on the sd card does not work afterwards!!!!!!! - it soft bricks phone again and i have to redo the 2 steps above.... why???
what am i doing wrong???
you didn't wipe data and cache before and after flashing process, right
now u have cwm recovery just boot into recovery and flash another rom... but before u flash rom make sure u clear cache and data from recovery menu then flash rom.
Guilty as charged!!
Trying it now and updating afterwards!
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if your flashing gingerbread over froyo without wiping cache and data then that's why your getting soft brick.
I flashed jb from odin, so no cache deletion needed...
But yes, for custom rom install delete cache data all except sd before!!
So now cyanogenmod is up and running!!
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glad to hear you got it working
oh great its working now
suggesting you to use a hide tag in your sig
Why? to hide what?
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your sign is a bit big
thats nice from u
[PROBLEM SOLVED] I flashed the custom ROM directly and everything is up and running! Details are below Thanks everyone!
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Experts please help!
I have been surfing my whole day trying to root my Note I (N7000) and flash a custom ROM.
My kernal is XXLSF and I flashed PhilZ-cwm6-ZCLSF-CHN-5.08.5-signed.zip.
I rebooted it after flashing. The Samsung logo appears but then, it blackens and nothing appear on screen.
Now, I can get into the recovery mode by pressing the volume up, power and home button.
I am planning on flashing a stock ROM from SamMobile. Is it okay? WIll I brick my device? What should I do?
I am so frustrated right now:crying:
Your help is much appreciated. Thank you!
"http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746794"
From this post, "None since I switched to the CWM4 and CWM6 recoveries (no more superbrick risks under 4.0.4 ICS kernels, only CWM5.x was affected)"
Should I flash a stock ROM that is under 4.0.4, but not the lastest 4.1.2?
What is the XXLSF kernel? May be you flashed an incompatible kernel. Yes you can boot into download mode and flash stock rom.. It will boot up the device again.. Before rooting next time, read instruction more carefully.
If you were intending to flash a custom rom, you can do it without flashing a stock rom as you have access to recovery. In the recovery mode, select mount USB storage>connect to PC.. drives will appear. then place the custom rom zip file on to phone. In recovery mode, choose clean before New rom install and then flash the new rom.
nokiamodeln91 said:
What is the XXLSF kernel? May be you flashed an incompatible kernel. Yes you can boot into download mode and flash stock rom.. It will boot up the device again.. Before rooting next time, read instruction more carefully.
If you were intending to flash a custom rom, you can do it without flashing a stock rom as you have access to recovery. In the recovery mode, select mount USB storage>connect to PC.. drives will appear. then place the custom rom zip file on to phone. In recovery mode, choose clean before New rom install and then flash the new rom.
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Thank you so much for such prompt reply!!
Really? I can flash a custom ROM without root access?
THANK YOU!!!
You dont need root access to flash a custom rom.. Just CWM recovery which you should have after flashing Philz kernel,
nokiamodeln91 said:
You dont need root access to flash a custom rom.. Just CWM recovery which you should have after flashing Philz kernel,
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Yes! I do have CWM recovery
Should I flash stock ROM and then flash the custom rom([ROM][JB 4.3][AOSPA][AOKP-MR1][CM10.2]P.A.C True All in 1 ROM[Nightlies])?
because I have never updated my Note I, the kernal version is very old.
The kernel now is not OLD as its now updated to Philz. You can directly install the PAC rom.
nokiamodeln91 said:
The kernel now is not OLD as its now updated to Philz. You can directly install the PAC rom.
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Thank you for keeping an eye on this post!
I encounter a problem during flashing the custom rom :crying:
Besides, I can't find the option "Format system" while following the steps to flash the custom ROM
Ok.,.. then get any one of the CM kernels first from here,.,http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1789397
flash the CM kernel first.. then reboot recovery and flash the rom again..
format system data cache and preload are under mounts & storage menu
nokiamodeln91 said:
Ok.,.. then get any one of the CM kernels first from here,.,http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1789397
flash the CM kernel first.. then reboot recovery and flash the rom again..
format system data cache and preload are under mounts & storage menu
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AMAZING!!!!
I have finally and successfully boot into my device after nine hours battle with my note I :silly:
But the last eight hours was nothing when comparing with your BIG HELP!
What's weird is that all my photos and data are present
I am 100% sure that I wiped all the data and cache and format data cache
Anything on the internal SD card that you stored using camera or music or videos will not be erased doing a factory reset. For that you will need to choose..format /emmc in the recovery mode. /data is one that app stores on the phone.
nokiamodeln91 said:
Anything on the internal SD card that you stored using camera or music or videos will not be erased doing a factory reset. For that you will need to choose..format /emmc in the recovery mode. /data is one that app stores on the phone.
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"UI system is forced to stop" appear continuously after changing language from English to Chinese.
Is it true that changing system language will lead to breakdown of system?
THANKS A MILLION!!
I have not used any language other than English. So you may need to ask in the PAC ROM thread.
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I have not used any language other than English. So you may need to ask in the PAC ROM thread.
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Understood!
Thank you very much for helping me all along! :fingers-crossed:
Please accept my genuinely gratitude for helping a stranger like me!:highfive:
I LOVE YOU!
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I've tried in twrp and cwm/cwm touch - I get a boot loop no matter which rom I flash
I made a backup of my stock 404 on cwm and twerp so It's easily reversible in either.
Similar to this post - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45795997#post45795997
It involves flashing Pi-llama 1.4 via adb and then installing the custom rom over the top.
Ran into all sorts of issues, would hang on the third data write, so I cancel it and then it would continue etc... and install
Now I'm up and running I've got half PiLlama and this rom I put on, battery drain is bad and the clock process crashes when I try and set an alarm. Otherwise it's great.
Any ideas? Seems to be the data partition causing the problems.
I'm rooted and unlocked, thought I'd add.
Flacid Monkey said:
I've tried in twrp and cwm/cwm touch - I get a boot loop no matter which rom I flash
I made a backup of my stock 404 on cwm and twerp so It's easily reversible in either.
Similar to this post - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45795997#post45795997
It involves flashing Pi-llama 1.4 via adb and then installing the custom rom over the top.
Ran into all sorts of issues, would hang on the third data write, so I cancel it and then it would continue etc... and install
Now I'm up and running I've got half PiLlama and this rom I put on, battery drain is bad and the clock process crashes when I try and set an alarm. Otherwise it's great.
Any ideas? Seems to be the data partition causing the problems.
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Damn! Please can someone move this to http://forum.xda-developers.com/razr-i/help Posted it in here by accident
I you want to flash a custom rom just don't wipe data and don't do a format /wipe data
The problem with that is it has previous rom stuff still installed.
I like a clean fresh install of a rom, so no contacts, messages, apps etc...
There is no way to do this without a bootloop.
Flacid Monkey said:
The problem with that is it has previous rom stuff still installed.
I like a clean fresh install of a rom, so no contacts, messages, apps etc...
There is no way to do this without a bootloop.
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flash a stock rom via rsd-lite..this will wipe the data too..then flash a custom rom
antkalaitzakis96 said:
flash a stock rom via rsd-lite..this will wipe the data too..then flash a custom rom
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Boot loop.
Get to the rom boot animation and it does the updating apps then boot loops back to the moto screen and rom animation then repeats until i power off and restore a backup.
Thank you both for suggestions so far. Getting closer to solving
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Flacid Monkey said:
Boot loop.
Get to the rom boot animation and it does the updating apps then boot loops back to the moto screen and rom animation then repeats until i power off and restore a backup.
Thank you both for suggestions so far. Getting closer to solving
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u using cwm?
before flash a rom -> wipe data /system / cache! / dalvik chache -> then flash!
if this dont help do above + wipe battery stats then flash the rom.
have fun.
regards
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u using cwm?
before flash a rom -> wipe data /system / cache! / dalvik chache -> then flash!
if this dont help do above + wipe battery stats then flash the rom.
have fun.
regards
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Yes, I'm using cwm. Tried touch and twrp.
Tried the above, same bootloop.
Only works if i leave my stock 404, push pillama 1.4 via adb and then flash the custom ROM over that in cwm.
This leaves residue from 404 and pillama on my phone though.
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Flacid Monkey said:
Yes, I'm using cwm. Tried touch and twrp.
Tried the above, same bootloop.
Only works if i leave my stock 404, push pillama 1.4 via adb and then flash the custom ROM over that in cwm.
This leaves residue from 404 and pillama on my phone though.
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Does stock 404 mean, you are still on ICS?
If so why don't you flash JB with RSD-Lite and try again installing a custom rom?
Can u make a logcat about it?
ICuaI said:
Does stock 404 mean, you are still on ICS?
If so why don't you flash JB with RSD-Lite and try again installing a custom rom?
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Trying this now
Hazou said:
Can u make a logcat about it?
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Will try the above then if it doesn't work I'll log it :good:
So I tried RSD lite with Android 4.1.2 Blur_Version.91.2.26001.XT890.Retail.en.EU
No dice. Failed at 7/16 System_Signed
This royally put me in a bad place. 45 minutes of ADB later, I'm back on my CWM backup of 404.
Gonna clean the logs and start from scratch
Flacid Monkey said:
So I tried RSD lite with Android 4.1.2 Blur_Version.91.2.26001.XT890.Retail.en.EU
No dice. Failed at 7/16 System_Signed
This royally put me in a bad place. 45 minutes of ADB later, I'm back on my CWM backup of 404.
Gonna clean the logs and start from scratch
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I have the same problem and I am on Stock 4.1.2. I have given up and no longer have a rooted phone with a custom ROM. I would, however, be grateful if someone could find a solution
If you are on 404 and trying to get to 4.1.2 you can root your phone then use the following method to unroot and install 4.1.2. You can then root again if you wish.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2398347
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I have the same problem and I am on Stock 4.1.2. I have given up and no longer have a rooted phone with a custom ROM. I would, however, be grateful if someone could find a solution
If you are on 404 and trying to get to 4.1.2 you can root your phone then use the following method to unroot and install 4.1.2. You can then root again if you wish.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2398347
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Thank you will give that a go.
I've got a problem now after trying the official 4.1.2 upgrade which failed miserably, the boot image has changed to the warning unlocked phone bla bla bla
My SMS centre number keeps disappearing stopping texts sending. Receiving and calling work fine. Tried the fixes online but all work for two minutes then it disappears again.
Can't factory reset, just boots back up with everything as it was when it turned off. Can't get into the stock recovery so stuck with CWM or twrp
Any time I flash a rom it boot loops.
Ideas on how I can get a clean official 4.1.2 onto the phone? Re-lock bootloader, remove root and then try?
So locking bootloader and removing root does not work.
I'd advise anyone that doesn't know what they're doing to avoid it.
It pretty much soft bricked my phone.
I've started a new thread in q&a with another issue regarding multi flash in fastboot hanging on the third or fourth download.
Im certain parts of the 4.1 are still there even after formatting everything in cwm and restoring my original backup.
Having network issues, 3g and wifi etc are fine. Sms, calls and anything to do with changing network operator just stops a few minutes after boot. I can still receive fine which is odd.
What's the deal with putting a radio on over an official ROM? Yey or ney
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