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[Q] Captivate locking up on boot

Hello I recently got my refurbished Captivate from AT&T and it came running 2.1 Android. First thing I did with it was go and root it by downloading the update.zip to it, and that went all fine and well.
Next thing I did was get ROM Manager and installed Clockwork Recovery Mod, then went ahead and made a backup of my ROM. So from here I was getting ready to get myself ready for Cyanogen Mod 7, and grabbed the Clockwork Mod version with speedmod and installed that through the Clockwork Recovery.
After I did this the boot screen changed on my phone and would lock up at the Galaxy S SGH-1897 Samsung screen, which had replaced the 3g one by AT&T. The phone will just hang at this bootscreen for infinite amount of time, any suggestions on how to help?
I'd like to point out that I currently have no USB cable for this phone, I did not receive a micro USB with it as it is a refurbished product and do not happen to have any laying around. I do however have a micro SD card, in which Clockwork doesn't seem to support this.
I come to you asking for help to resolve said issue, I can no longer use my phone as a result. I've tried restoring my backup but the same replaced boot logo appears and refuses to actually start up the phone.
The 3 zips that I can access on the internal SD are
-the root.zip
-clockworkmod
-clockworkmod with SpeedMod
Any ideas?

First of all, you will definitely need a micro USB cable. You need to flash back to stock at the moment. Don't worry though, if it's still showing the boot screen your phone "should" be fine.
Second of all, for CM7 you need to follow the EXACT instructions to install CM7 (you can risk bricking your phone with CM7, unlike any other usual ROMs). Do you know, and understand all of the steps involved?

Sorry, but what were you doing? You need odin to install cm7 & without a cord you were never going to succeed.
As mentioned above you need a cord, and need to reread the instructions
CM7

Help! I need to get back to stock rom on droid bionic!

Dear Sir/Madam,
Before Spring Break, I rooted my droid bionic using motofail for windows. I do not know what the software version is, but I will include the software (motofail) in this email. On Thursday March 28, 2012 I decided to try installing ROMs to my Droid Bionic. I saw that Liberty Rom, Blurr3d Rom, and Eclipse Rom were cool roms. so first, I got Bootstrap (I will include it in this email) Bootstrap is a .apk file. I also got ROM manager, titanium backup, and one more, but i do not recall what it was. I made a backup of the stock ROM with ROM manager. and i installed bootstrap. little did i know that if something bad happens to the phone during a ROM install, you cannot restore a previous backup. So i cannot get my stock ROM back on. later on, before i had a problem with bootsrap i installed liberty ROM. then i got board with it then got blurr3d. then i got eclipse ROM. that's when i started to have problems. After i installed the eclipse ROM, noticed that i could not get any cell service or data service. I could get data from wifi though. So i freaked out and got liberty ROM. i read up on it and someone said i should get safestrap. Safestrap is like bootstrap but it is safer because you can access the recovery menu from boot and not have to access it through an application on the phone like with bootstrap. So after i got safestrap i installed it, rebooted it and made a back up. Before i made the backup i put plurr3d back on becasue i thought that the radio files from eclipse were not compatible with the radios on the bionic for some reason. This was all on Thursday. well, this time, it took 3-4 hours for blurr3d to get passed the welcome to andorid please touch the android to continue screen. on the screen it said, "please wait... this may take a few mins" after about 20 mins i got worried so I pulled the battery and rebooted the phone. and got back to the same screen. After i got back to the welcome to android screen, i had to go to football practice and dinner afterwards. when i got home, which was 3-4 hours later, I checked on the phone and it was past that screen and i was able to add my gmail account to it. For some reason or another, the cell and data services were not working. so i left it at that for a day or so and on Friday, I tried using what a lot of people are saying on the Internet which is, RSD lite. you can use RDS lite to flash a stock ROM onto the droid bionic. at that point, i thought that if i got the stock ROM back on, the radios would start working again. well, when I put the phone into fastboot mode it said,
AP Fastboot Flash Mode (S)
0A.61
Battery OK
OK to Program
Connect USB
DATA Cable
It also said the same thing when i connected the USB cable to the phone and the computer. RSD lite did not recognize the phone so i tried for a couple hours with the same result. Later on, I read that restarting the computer with the phone in AP Fastboot while the phone was plugged in would get the phone to say,
AP Fastboot Flash Mode (S)
0A.61
Battery OK
OK to Program
Transfer Mode:
USB Connected
This worked, but RSD lite still would not recognize the phone. So then i remembered that i had a stock ROM backup with bootstrap and i did. so i un-installed safestrap (one of the worst mistakes i made so far) and installed bootstrap. so i booted into recovery via bootstrap to restore to stock ROM. things did not go as planned... for some reason or another, it booted up normally. without going to recovery. then it wont to the dual core screen then the bionic eye screen with someone's ROM underneath it (it didn't say someones ROM but it said some one's name then the word ROM) then blurr3d ROM booted up and it kept crashing. so i ended up staying up to around 2-4 AM trying to fix that. i ended up saying forget this and going to sleep.
When i woke up in the morning, i looked at the phone and i had my data and my cell service back so i was confused so i started texting my friends and when i tried to go tot he home screen, nothing happens. but what i learned earlier is that when i reboot the phone, my data and cell service goes away for a couple of hours. So here i am now with my droid bionic, and cant do anything but text and call. i can only call when i get a text from someone, open up the text, and click on the phone number and click call when it brings me to the contact page for the number. I am also not able to access the home screen, the settings folder, or anything besides the notification bar. i really need my phone to use email, games, software (learning how to write java code), and for school in some instances. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time,
NH85

Seems to me...you lost data along the way.
A possible reason rsdlite is not recognizing your phone might be because you dont have the proper moto drivers installed.
Try this rsdlite and install the correct drivers for your pc...http://dl.dropbox.com/u/63864500/rsd_drivers.zip
Make sure your battery does not die!
Boot into AP fasboot (power and down volume)
Use the cable that came with your phone.
See if rsdlite recognizes the phone.
If it does, you can flash the full 902 xml file (make sure your pc has 4g of RAM tho)
Do you have the full 902 xml file...if not, let me know.

Drivers
Dear Sir/Madam,
I have the correct drivers installed. When i connect the phone regulry once it is all booted up, i am able to access the sd card and the internal storage via windows explorer.The problem is that the phone refuses to connect to the computer in fastboot mode. i do not want to risk rebooting unless it is guaranteed to work 100% because I can still text and call on it for some reason. Every time the phone is restarted, the radios stop working for a while and i need to be able to text my parents where and when to pick me up from school.
Thank you for your time,
NH85

i notice that you didn't once mention a wipe data or otherwise cleaning of previous ROM before flashing another (correct me if im wrong). also DO NOT have bootstrap and safestrap installed at the same time, this could be what caused all your problems. in order to switch between the two (which i've had to do for webtop issue), you have to return to STOCK +root, uninstall the currently used strapper, reboot, then install the other. things start getting even hairier if you forget that safestrap has both a safe/non-safe system. you need to be doing the switch on the non-safe system if necessary.
the purpose of safe-strap isn't that it can boot to recovery, it's that it *creates a an isolated ROM installation while preserving your "safe" system in case things like everything your experiencing occur. from what i can tell, you did not change to safe system before flashing new ROMs, again correct me if im wrong. at any rate, a bit of advice for the future is follow directions to the dot, but before even attempting the install read through AT LEAST 3 or 4 pages of user feedback to see what the common issues or install goofs are!
that being said...
having your computer recognize the phone as storage device does not necessarily mean you have the right drivers installed, however it does mean that you probably have the right cable (this is important, bionic is finicky without the proper moto cable). you will know if you have the right drivers if you see in device manager Motorola ADB. when you plug your USB cable in, there should be an option for "PC Mode" which will force the computer to search for the drivers you claim to have installed correctly. if not found, here is your chance to install them properly and test RSD to make sure device is detected.

nh85 said:
Dear Sir/Madam,
I have the correct drivers installed. When i connect the phone regulry once it is all booted up, i am able to access the sd card and the internal storage via windows explorer.The problem is that the phone refuses to connect to the computer in fastboot mode. i do not want to risk rebooting unless it is guaranteed to work 100% because I can still text and call on it for some reason. Every time the phone is restarted, the radios stop working for a while and i need to be able to text my parents where and when to pick me up from school.
Thank you for your time,
NH85
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Obviously you don't.
Mass storage and ADB are not the same drivers.
If you are in fastboot mode and your device doesn't connect, it's most likely your missing or don't have the fastboot drivers installed on your computer properly.
Once you get the ADB driver from motorola you can use fastboot start flashing.
The information you need is here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22758211 .

I had trouble using RSD to flash the .902 FXZ.
What I had to do is extract the .img files from the ZIP, and use fastboot through CMD to get everything up and running.
Just open up the XML file inside the zip, it will show you the commands you need to type to flash each section and when to reboot the bootloader

Finally on BROKEN OUT 1.1

First off Thanx to MT, the BROKENOUT 1.1 rom is awesome . So after almost a week of trying to get CWM recovery (with no results). I figured just factory data reset, run LGNPST and return to stock zv7. Before that I thought since I'm going back to stock, I would give it one more chance. I ran the code one more time using the terminal emulator and code from BRAD6360's post on installing cwm, as I did previously, ( more like 5 previous times). I tried booting into recovery by holding pwr & vol dwn and I got stock recovery. So after boot up I thought oh well, then something said try rebooting into recovery from CWM, I did and WAH-LAA clockworkmod recovery. Now I'm happy with my BROKEN OUT revo!!!!
I thought about it after I was on Broken out, Stock roms do not have custom recovery so no matter how many times I tried to boot into recovery it wasn't going to work.
I'm not sure if this will work for anyone else, but I hope it helps.
Still not sure why my computer was giving USB not recognized, maybe something with the zv8 rom

Glad you finally got it. I don't think the ZV8 s/w has anything to do with your USB connection problem. I have been having USB problems for months myself. I found a high speed USB cable in a box in my closet the other day while cleaning. I plugged it up to my phone and PC and voila it works again! I still have some problems with my visual voice mail app not detecting my SD now. So I've just ordered a new SD card.

I figured it was the rom since it was a all of the sudden thing for me. I did find that there were post from when the revo was first released,that it had usb problems also. So far no fixes yet unfortunately.

[Q] Lg Thrill System File Recovery

Hello,
I made the mistake of taking my Lg Thrill p925 and trying to install an ICS mod on android froyo. (QMEMO), So anyway's when I had tried to boot up the Thrill, and discovered it was stuck in a boot lock. After going back into CWM I had done a factory reset and realized it continued to remain in a boot lock. At first I had gone and cleared everything then reinstalled the stock rom after discovering that didn't work, without considering the consequences I had cleared the internal sd card. I quickly realized I made a mistake, thinking that the system file's would remain unchanged I went ahead and cleared it. I was wrong and there was nothing left and no backup's made to a nonpresent external SD card.
Originally I though ok no big deal I can just go in CWM which support's adb sideload and reinstall the stock rom/ system files. I discovered that the Thrill was not recognized by the pc as anything but an LGE COSMO usb Device and there is no driver to be installed for this. So I basically gave up hope after that thinking I had tried everthing (odin included). So I was wondering is there any other way to reinstall the system file's so I can stop using the Iphone 3g I had laying around . If you can help me please let me know.
-Garret_Broemser

i have a similar problem
hi Garret_Broemser
did you find the driver for LGE COSMO USB device?

May have bricked my phone! Need help!

Here's the story:
I bought an AT&T HTC One that had an unlocked bootloader and was rooted. I SIM-unlocked it so I could use T-Mobile. Everything worked perfectly fine.
Today I decided I wanted to try out AR HD. I use CWM to flash it, and have a few problems the first few times because of Aroma Installer. Eventually it installs fully, but when I rebooted, something went wrong. It wouldn't boot up. Eventually I had to wipe everything (including the internal storage, which had a backup of mine), and now I'm trying to flash a working rom on this phone.
So now I've tried pretty much everything. The main problem now is that in recovery, when I try to flash a ROM it says it can't mount the the sdcard. I've tried using Nocturnal's method of using the stock recovery to wipe the partitions and everything, but it still gives the the can't mount error.
If anyone could help me I would really appreciate it! Looks like I'm going to have to get a SIM adapter to use with my Galaxy Nexus until I can get this fixed.

aka757 said:
Here's the story:
I bought an AT&T HTC One that had an unlocked bootloader and was rooted. I SIM-unlocked it so I could use T-Mobile. Everything worked perfectly fine.
Today I decided I wanted to try out AR HD. I use CWM to flash it, and have a few problems the first few times because of Aroma Installer. Eventually it installs fully, but when I rebooted, something went wrong. It wouldn't boot up. Eventually I had to wipe everything (including the internal storage, which had a backup of mine), and now I'm trying to flash a working rom on this phone.
So now I've tried pretty much everything. The main problem now is that in recovery, when I try to flash a ROM it says it can't mount the the sdcard. I've tried using Nocturnal's method of using the stock recovery to wipe the partitions and everything, but it still gives the the can't mount error.
If anyone could help me I would really appreciate it! Looks like I'm going to have to get a SIM adapter to use with my Galaxy Nexus until I can get this fixed.
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Download the All-In-One toolkit from the development section and follow the directions to ADB SIDELOAD a ROM onto your phone.
EDIT: now with a link to the thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2183942&highlight=all-in-one

Well, I got it to flash a ROM, but now there's a new problem...
I got it to flash the ROM by using CWM to flash a ROM after using Nocturnal's method instead of TWRP.
So now I'm in setup, and am prompted to select a WiFi network. I selected my network, put in the password correctly (it shows connected), and now when I press Next, it transitions forward and then straight back to the WiFi page. Won't let me progress past it.
I think it might have something to do with HTC Sync Manager (I have it installed and running just fine), but I don't know what to do about it.

aka757 said:
Well, I got it to flash a ROM, but now there's a new problem...
I got it to flash the ROM by using CWM to flash a ROM after using Nocturnal's method instead of TWRP.
So now I'm in setup, and am prompted to select a WiFi network. I selected my network, put in the password correctly (it shows connected), and now when I press Next, it transitions forward and then straight back to the WiFi page. Won't let me progress past it.
I think it might have something to do with HTC Sync Manager (I have it installed and running just fine), but I don't know what to do about it.
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You can skip the wifi setup. Try changing the channel on the router sometimes phones and routers on certain channels don't get along.