after trying CM on my desire C and being unhappy with the battery performance, i wanted to return to a sense rom. i did a full wipe (factory reset/cache/dalvik) , flashed the rom for revolution sense 5, and pushed the boot.img files to the phone with fastboot. i know the phone might take awhile on first boot, but i thought after 10 minutes something was wrong.
now every rom fails to boot, even if i use the stock rom and kernel, it stick at the white htc logo screen. i've tried several roms, and moved to cwm 6.0.3. the only thing i haven't tried is going back to stock recovery. i'd like to avoid that.
any suggestions?
joe
edit: i did manage to successfully reinstall CM10. not sure why none of the sense based roms will work. i assume the stock rom is also sense based.??
It's because if you install CM mod, you also installed file named boot.img which is kernel file. Unfortunately Stock rom doesn't work with modified Kernel (and I tell it from my experience), so if you want to go back to stock ROM you need to download stock Kernel file too.
So here are some tips to revert back to stock:
1) Boot in Fastboot
2) Install stock boot.img via Desire_C_All-In-One_Kit_v2.0
3) Boot into Recovery
4) Wipe all data
5) Wipe cache
6) Install stock rom
Your phone should be back with stock ROM and Kernel
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Everytime I flash I go back to stock unless its a same rom.
Ex. I was on darky 7.2 I just downloaded the rom on my phone via dolphin. Just used rom manager to get 8.0.
But can I do this for all roms? I'm kinda confused cause some say you can and some say you can't..
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You do not have to. You should disable lag fix, clear cache and davlik cache, prior. Flashing back to stock is cleaner, especially if you are going from a rom with one base to one with another. You can always try without going to stock and flash stock if something goes wrong.
I never do. I just boot to recovery and flash. If I'm using a different kernel I'll reboot to recovery then check my lagfix options and then reboot.
No need to flash back to stock. If the ROM is a 'no-wipe ROM', install like you normally would through CWM/Recovery. If you have problems, or if the ROM is a 'wipe' ROM, clear cache and data in CWM and install. If you still have problems and nothing else seems to be helping, try reverting to stock and starting fresh.
Reverting to stock between ROM's is an unnecessary extra step that generally adds the risk of Odin failure/incompatibility (which can result in a soft-bricked or hard-bricked phone).
Trying to install the Cynogen ICS ROM, and when installing the .zip, it loads the Samsung flash screen with Cynogen, then get the green guy and loads of text for about half a second, then it just reboots. Over and over for about 10 mins. WHat went wrong? What should I do?
It happend the same to me.
I just removed the battery and put it back, entered in CWM and reinstalled the ROM.
Good luck!
I somehow got into a recovery mode, but with the assumption it would all go wrong again, tried to install the .zip Darky rom instead, went through the process and said it worked but then it just went back to the Cynogen loop problem!? I just tried a Restore instead, but I haven't rebooted yet, should I wipe everything again, and try the ICM .zip again?
Yep, just go with the whipe. I hope you did a backup.
OK turns out the Restore failed, so now trying to reinstall ICS .zip again. fingers crossed!
yep backed it up, not that its seems to have helped.
Well now it's stuck in the Galaxy S bootscreen...
that really sucks....did you deactivated the lagfix before running the rom?
If the problem persists you have to run a basic ROM using ODIN.
Yes deactivated the lagfixI can't get into recovery or anything now, except download mode.
Download mode is all you need to run a ROM with Odin.
I recommend Amestris, it is a good ROM, good battery life but the thread in not complete, there are some files missing...for now.
I've put some older ROM on I had, then tried to install ICS again but now when I use Clockwork, and select the file it goes to recovery but I can't select any zip files, just reboot back to this awful old ROM!
I had same issue when I installed ics, what I did that worked was pull battery and go back into cwm, reflashed ics zip and it fully installed that time. Had same experience when flashing cm7 before.
Not getting anywhere with this. I get an option to install zip from sdcard which is where the update is (an where the darky update also is which worked), but there is an option to update from internal SD, which is not where the file is. Is it in the wrong place?
I think you would be best to use Odin 1.3 to flash DarkyROM Ficeto JVT base rom.
are you sure those files are still on your sd card?
The reason you need to pull the battery and reflash the ICS rom a few times is because Samsung ROM (most) have a different partition layout to CM7 based roms (which the ICS port is one).
GL.
I recently tried to flash my GN from ICS Stock ROM to CM9 ROM. I did the following:
- boot to CWM
- wipe the system
- flashed the new ROM
- installed GApps
- reboot
I tried it both with h0tw1r3-UCLE3-CM9-RC0 and Thor 0.12f ROMs and always got stuck on boot screen. The Samsung start screen appears and then only black. I flashed back the Stock ROM with CWM restore and now the phone works again as before, but I still would like to try a custom ROM.
The question is, is there a common way to debug this kind of problems? I guess I could spend some to look into it, but the system does not come up, so I don't even know where to start.
If you have adb setup you could use adb logcat to get in depth details of what happening when booting ( attempting to boot )
But i see your problem is because you flashed a CM9 over ICS, you MUST revert to GB before flashing any CM based ROMs.
Grab yourself a ODIN flashable GB ROM and flash it !
Then continue the above steps
EDIT: Prerooted GB ROM - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1535025
once installed, Flash a custom kernel like abyss and then wipe and then install ROM + Gapps.
DO NOT WIPE ON THE STOCK ICS KERNEL !
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But i see your problem is because you flashed a CM9 over ICS, you MUST revert to GB before flashing any CM based ROMs.
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Ah, okay. Thanks, I guess I overlooked that in the instructions.
azzledazzle said:
once installed, Flash a custom kernel like abyss and then wipe and then install ROM + Gapps.
DO NOT WIPE ON THE STOCK ICS KERNEL !
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Because of the brick bug? Yes, I know.
One step further - but still not working
Okay, I tried what you suggested:
- flash pre-rooted GB ROM
- messy procedure with adb to get cwm recovery onto GB system
- flashed thor kernel
- wipe (factory reset)
- flashed new ROM with cwm (tried both thor or hotwore CM9)
- flashed gapps with cwm
- reboot
- running adb logcat while booting
The system still doesn't come up, but I got bootlogs from adb.
There are several errors, including missing files and a segfault. But to me nothing very enlightening, nothing that tells me why it happens. I attached the logs, maybe someone with more experience can make sense out of those and tell me what's wrong?
So I got a Galaxy Note running the Ultimate Jelly Bean ROM. In other words, that was the ROM on the phone when I got it.
I wanted to install CM9 on the phone, so I went and grabbed the HydraCore kernel. The phone was already running Philz kernel, as the Recovery indicated.
Now, when I tried to install the new kernel, the update would begin, then nothing would happen. A short while later, the phone would reboot back to the ROM.
I tried this several times.
Next, I tried to wipe the ROM to flash CM9. Again, the phone would stop on the update, then reboot to the Ultimate Jelly Bean ROM.
I even tried the built-in ROM-wipe feature in the Recovery; the same thing happened yet again.
Then I tried to flash the HydraCore kernel through Odin. The flash was successful, and the phone boots up (with this triangle I just learned about), but won't boot the Ultimate ROM.
I can still reach the Recovery, though this time, the phone kinda hangs in the middle of attempted updates.
I am lost on what to do next! Please help!
The phone won't boot because hydracore is not compatible with ultimate rom. Doesn't matter. As you can now get into recovery, and assuming you have the CM9 rom in the phone, go to mounts and storage
Format /system, data, cache, preload
Go back and install zip. Choose the rom and let it install. Try and let know.
hey, I installed a custom ROM with twp. after the installation I figured out that the rom don't work properly(I tried any rom possible but each one had some issues ) so I tried to get back to stock and couldn't do it.
I tried putting an update file into a "dload" folder on my SD and then going to stock recovery (I flashed it manually through adb) and tried to flash it but it failed every time.
does anybody knows what should I do to get back to stock?
You can't flash custom ROMs one over another, usually each one must be flashed only from the appropriate stock ROM(s) - because their ZIP files overwrite various system partitions and in different combinations.
Also, you can't install every stck ROM by DLOAD, and neither from any unknwn state/mess (good luck, after all the phone wasn't bricked).
You should know from which stock ROM you originally started and you want now to go back (no info above?!).
If iit was one of the stock ROMs listed in the following post, you may flash the corresponding HWOTA.zip and do a Factory reset as described:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=74913874&postcount=3