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I have a G1 running cyanogen 5.0.8. Everything was going well until I wanted to add widgets to my left-side of the screen. Anytime I wanted to add a widget to the left-side of the screen it would force close. So I went to Rom Manger and fixed permission, cause it would help with my force closing issue. So I flashed my recovery to clockwork from RA-1.70. It was successful. Stupid me, was like, "You didn't need to flash clockwork recovery to fix permissions," so I flashed back to RA-1.70." That too was successful. Then I went to fix permissions. Fix permissions was successful. It prompt me to reboot, so I reboot. Now it got really ugly. My phone now stays at the T-Mobile G1 screen, I can't get into recovery, and the only thing I can do is get into fastboot. So in fastboot, it shows "No img. No img. No img. Then returns back to the fastboot screen, until my only options it to shut it down.
So I am screwed or it the hope?
Please help me
Thanks Matt
So is there hope is what I meant to say....my bad
If you can get into fastboot -then there is hope. I made the same mistake - and flashed two recoveries - and that is a problem.
What I had to do was get into fastboot - plug my phone into the usb cord, so that I could communicate with the phone from my laptop. I'm a newbie at this as well, but if you did not know, fastboot allows you to run command prompt from your PC - and send commands to your phone
Once I had fastboot running on the PC - I had to
Wipe the system, and then
flash my recovery image
Once my recovery image was flashed - I was able to
restore my last back-up without issue
others have reflashed their rom of choice
As noted - I too am a newbie, and your best tool will be to read and learn. I am not up to speed at this point as to commands in fastboot, etc - so do not want to write commands - or copy commands from other posts - in case I lead you in the wrong direction. I'm learning as I go along as well.
As noted, if you can get into fastboot mode - there is hope
Did you have to download ADB and SDK? I read some info on fastboot. And it seems like I have to download those programs and download drivers. Also where did you go to get the right commands?
Thanks for replying
I've seen that you have been involved in some of the other posts with similar issues. Yes, you need to download and install adb, and the drivers - check the sticky posts, all links are there for where to download - and how to get started
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=532719 this is a good place to start
Good luck - take your time, I already bricked my first G1 and then transplanted a motherboard and started over again.
I now read twice, and make changes once - trying to learn from my mistakes, and not make them again
I think I have had the same problem. I fixed permissions via rom manager and then it prompted me to reboot. Now it is stuck at the G1 screen. I can load it up after holding "home+red power button" so that is good I guess. Is my only option to wipe and start over? I do have a backup but it is 1+months old and I dont want to lose everything in the last month unless absolutely necessary.. My mod info is in my signature.. Please help, my phone is out of commission right now and I need it back soon!
any solutions besides the 1 month old backup? or wiping and starting again??
ok the phone is not bricked an i know there is only one way to brick a hero blah blah blah. but i have psfmod recovery flashed to my phone and i was trying to do the firats mtd partition thing. so i did everything it said and when it came time to do adb shell,reboot recovery it wouldnt work. so after about 5 minutes i realized that the computer wasnt recognizing my phone. i guess cause of the psfmod recovery. and i had already wiped everything. so i wiped everything again and flash zenaraia rom back on. but after rebooting it just stays at the white HTC screen. waited for an hour. i tried wiping and reflashing like 20 times. and i cant mount the sdcard to put another rom on there since the computer wont recognize my phone. anybody following me? lol any suggestions?
It seems like you might need to RUU... have you tried doing that?
cp0020 said:
ok the phone is not bricked an i know there is only one way to brick a hero blah blah blah.
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Haha I came here just to possibly rip on the OP when I read the title but saw you already mentioned it :/ So you put it in your thread title anyway?
As the guy said before, try running the RUU - should be able to be done in the bootloader.
OR if you can boot up into a rom (wasn't too sure judging by what I read) just get a Dropbox, throw a rom.zip on it, get the app for the phone, sync and bam. New rom.zip on your phone to try.
If neither one can be done, you need to find another phone, camera, sdmount...something so you can add files to it. Even if its just a HERCIMG.zip to update via the bootloader (look up s-off if you don't know what that's about)
Good luck
thanks for your help guys. i'll try the RUU but i dont think it will work since my computer wont recognize my phone while in bootloader. im pretty sure it's just the psfmod recovery that f'd everything up. and yeah i cant boot into a rom. im hoping that somehow my rom.zip just got messed up somehow.
ok yeah RUU didnt work. my only other option is to find a laptop or something
Try getting a live Fedora or Ubuntu linux cd (or any flavor for that matter) and booting it up.
what would that do? i went back to the psfreedom thread and i saw that adb and usb mass storage does not work with that recovery. i should have read better lol
Same thing happenned to my evo..i kept tryna flash the wrong kernel wit nym rom..all i did wuss flashed the rom without da kernel and walla...it started workin again..thnx god..idk if dis would help but it worked for me..
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ok i got it to work. i was talking to nfinitfx45 on google talk and he said to boot up in fastboot and then plug the phone into the computer and then i can run the RUU and it worked like a charm now i just gotta re root :/
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ok i got it to work. i was talking to nfinitfx45 on google talk and he said to boot up in fastboot and then plug the phone into the computer and then i can run the RUU and it worked like a charm now i just gotta re root :/
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yay !!! im just quoting this because this bears repeating...
1 - if recovery is not working, go into fastboot to get pc to recognize phone...
2 - if roms (recovery or whatnot) are not working, reflash to RUU to start fresh...
(and adding)
3 - once youve started fresh, then flash a working-recovery and go back to your latest [nandroid] backup...
(you always have a good backup to use, right ?) h.
I think all you had to do was flash a different recovery from terminal if you were able to boot up the reason y I didn't use that mod was the fact you can't use adb wen u flash that recovery in that post I think the op posted the link to the old recovery that allowed you to use adb good luck
Root-Hack-Mod-Always™
that was the problem. i couldnt boot to a rom cause i had erased all data and my rom.zip had got corrupted somehow. and with that recovery you couldnt do adb or usb mass storage. so i started freaking out lol. thanks again nfinite
So I'm having a similar problem. I can use ADB to reboot my phone, so I know the computer is talking to the phone but it wont get past the HTC screen. I was trying the firerat mod and made it to the reboot as well but it never came back up. If I reboot to recovery its a white screen with the android on the skate board but the only option is to clear user data and then reboot again which goes back to the HTC screen. I tried the RUU but it wont install because it says my phone doesnt have enough battery (it's been charging on and off for the better part of 24 hours now.) Any assistance or advice would be greatly appreciated.
first, can you use usb mass storage? if so the you need to put a rom on your sdcard and flash it and see if that fixed it. and if you want to RUU. then pull the battery and put it back. then hold volume up and power at the same time. then hit the button it says to to go into fastboot. you should already be in fastboot though. and then while in fastboot plug the phone into the pc and you may have to install drivers. and then you can run the RUU.
I'm not exactly sure what happened but i got it working. I ran "adb reboot-bootloader" from the menu that brought up i was able to get back to the clockwork recovery, restore my nandroid and finish the mod. all appears to have worked beautifully except that last night my battery went completely dead over night (for the first time) although i'm doubting that that has anything to do with any of this
I bricked my CDMA Hero. I rooted it with the super one click, and installed a early version of froyo, and had some issues with it. I wanted to get it off, so I used CWM recovery, and formatted everything. Now when I turn it on it goes to the HTC opening screen, and stays there for hours until the battery dies. It will charge, but my computer doesn't recognize it, and it will not boot. What can I do?
Bricked means it is a brick and that is it, your phone still turns on so the good news is that it is not bricked.
Need some more info before anyone can help:
1. You reformatted everything using clockwork recovery
2. Did you re-install a new ROM?
3. Did you restore a nandroid backup?
I would recommend booting into recovery and wiping everything (factory reset and dalvik-cache) in recovery, then reinstall froyo - once you are booted and running you can figure out what you want to put on it. At least your phone would work then.
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I bricked my CDMA Hero. I rooted it with the super one click, and installed a early version of froyo, and had some issues with it. I wanted to get it off, so I used CWM recovery, and formatted everything. Now when I turn it on it goes to the HTC opening screen, and stays there for hours until the battery dies. It will charge, but my computer doesn't recognize it, and it will not boot. What can I do?
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Just what Heaterz16 said...
I'm also pretty sure your phone isn't bricked, as long as you can still get into Recovery, it Most Likely can be Fixed!
I also Recommend trying to Wipe Everything, then Reinstalling a New Rom, Also as a Suggestion... If it were me I'd Probably Choose a Different ROM to install! My Very First ROM I Flashed was a Cyanogen one, and I had Trouble with it Booting Also!!
Try LiquidSense... its Only 2.1, but its Stable, It Boots Fast, and just plain out Fast as Hell!
You can always Switch to Whatever you want... Once you get your phone back to a Working Condition!
Good Luck!
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I cannot get it into recovery now. It will turn on, but it stops at the initial HTC screen, and stays there until the battery dies. When I connect my phone with my computer, the computer recognizes it, but I can't seem to get the 2.1 exe from HTC.com download to the phone. My guess is I wiped the thing clean. Unfortuneately, I didn't back anything up.
I can't even get into recovery, it just sits on the HTC startup screen until the battery dies. It does recognize when I connect it to my computer, but running the 2.1 exe doesn't do anything.
Can you adb into the phone and flash a recovery?
I think that would be a helpful start.
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I can't even get into recovery, it just sits on the HTC startup screen until the battery dies. It does recognize when I connect it to my computer, but running the 2.1 exe doesn't do anything.
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Pull the battery, hold volume down and power and you should boot into bootloader. I believe it is *home* to get you back into recovery. Then reinstall a new rom and you should be good to go.
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Pull the battery, hold volume down and power and you should boot into bootloader. I believe it is *home* to get you back into recovery. Then reinstall a new rom and you should be good to go.
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kwhomba,
he can't get into the recovery.
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kwhomba,
he can't get into the recovery.
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t-y, got it. Yeah, then adb a new recovery image may be the only thing. But he may not even be able to get in then.
Just a matter of waiting right now.
He did say his computer was recognizing his device, so he might be ok.
If he can flash a new recovery, or even just adb.. then he can start rebuilding it.
stonemad:
You'll want to grab a recovery, and try to connect to your phone via ADB when it's on.
Then do adb shell
then : flash_image recover [name of recovery].img
let us know
Ok, I can get to the CWM recovery, there is no backup files, no recovery files, and no files on my sd card. I cannot seem to get an opperating system on. I mounted my phone to my computer and downloaded .zip files, but it still says no files available.
How do I flash a recovery, I can't find any files anywhere.
i have .zip files on my sd card to flash, but when I try to apply them it says no files found.
Ok, I have been working on this all day. Thank you to every body who answered. This is the situation as best as I see it. I can use the power and the down volume buttons to go to recovery mode. I have ClockworkMod 2.5 and can mount my computer to my sd card. It appears that I don't have an opperating system at all, or anything else on the phone. I have downloaded several .zip files and tried to install them, I can mount them, but when I try to apply them it states that there are no update.zip files on the sd card. I have deduced that I need an opperating system for an update to work, but I could be wrong. I am having a hard time finding the right files to use to get my phone to go. It seems salvageable, but I'm not sure how. People have sugested a couple of Mods to instal, but I don't know how to do that with what I have. CWM is asking for a update.zip, or a recovery.zip, but I don't know wich one at which time, or even how to get it to flash. That is what I think I know, but that is subject to change depening on what you all know.(showing just how foolish I really am) Thanks again people for you time and advice, I really do appreciate it.
Don't select "install update.zip", select "install zip from SD card" or whatever the option is called.
I've tried that too, it seems like all the software is gone. HTC, Sprint, Google, and Android. Does anybody have a download they think will work. I'm at the point to try anything.
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I've tried that too, it seems like all the software is gone. HTC, Sprint, Google, and Android. Does anybody have a download they think will work. I'm at the point to try anything.
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What software are you talking about? Sprint, Google, and Android what, specifically? A download for what?
Mount usb storage in recovery, put rom of your choice on there, and flash?
what about kernals, how do I know that I have everything I need?
ROMs generally have kernels in the zip builds already. From the sounds of it, you're kind of lost at what you're doing.
Do you have a SD card reader? if so, plug in the SD card to your computer and pull over a ROM zip, like Cyanogenmod or whatever is to your liking.
Then in recovery, go to "install zip from sdcard"
go to "Choose zip from sdcard"
then search for the ROM zip you put on the sd card.
State exactly STEP BY STEP, what you are doing. Your phone is perfectly fine, you just dont have a ROM on your phone, which is why you cant boot. You're not missing kernels, or anything, you simply dont have the baseline of a ROM on your phone yet.
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I don't know where or how to find a rom, I have heard good things about cyanogen, but can't seem to find where to download it. Is ClockworkMod a rom, and if so how do I use it. You're right, I got way in over my head, and now I just want my phone back the way I bought it. What is your favorite rom, and can you give me a link. Thanks again everyone.
First and foremost I am a newb when it comes to rooting. I tried installing the newest Viper Rom on my phone and everything was successful until the phone tried to reboot. It is now stuck in the fastboot/bootloader screen and I cannot go into recovery mode at all. I tried doing a factory reset and it just keeps taking me back to the same screen.
I was running Cynogen MOD 4.4 Rom and everything was working fine. I backed up my phone and wiped my phone before I ran the Viper Rom. I don't know what happened and I'm kind of freaking out. I tried connecting my phone to my computer via USB when I run "fastboot devices" through the command prompt it keeps giving me "waiting on device". I did some research and everywhere kept saying that I needed to install the htc drivers through both htc sync manager and the individual driver files I found on the internet. I did everything possible and it still doesn't seem to recognize it.
I'm currently stuck/lost on what to do hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction. Attached is a screen shot of both my device manager and command prompt. I will continue to look on the internet for any type of answer. Thanks everybody.
(Sorry for starting a new thread I just didn't know where to put it.)
Does your phone boot? Can you get to recovery or bootloader?
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It boots but it keeps going back to the same screen where it says bootloader, factory reset, fastboot, etc... I had cwm installed but every time I push recovery it takes me back.
kal3l15 said:
It boots but it keeps going back to the same screen where it says bootloader, factory reset, fastboot, etc... I had cwm installed but every time I push recovery it takes me back.
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Are you sure you selected sprint during setup? Maybe this is your solution http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2503646
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Well I'm very, very scared. I stupidly decided to start afresh on stock, as things had been buggy on the cyanogen nightlies (surpirse surprise)
So I went into TWRP and did advanced wipe, and deleted the system and internal memory. I had backup up a nandroid backup onto my pc a while ago but restored my PC and forgot to put it back again.
I'm stuck in recovery mode, and I thought I would be fine right? Just put the zip file onto the "Internal Storage" section on windows. First it won't let me copy it; ok I unplug and plug it in again. Now its not showing under windows. I do /adb devices and its showing up. My question is I need to do /adb push aosp.zip (phone). But what is the "path" of the top of internal storage? I'm super scared right now. Because doesn't "USB Debug" have to be enabled??? Please help me....
With all that is going on, it just seems you may want to do a total reset. Meaning, reset even your boot loader and recovery. Best option imo is to download the official nexus 6 factory image, and use fastboot commands to install it on your device. It sucks to start from scratch, but its better than damaging the device.
Right about now wug's nexus root tool kit would be your friend.
I Got It Fixed Thank GOD
Sorry guys, sorta panicked, just got my nexus yesterday I don't know why windows wasn't picking it up, but when I ran
Code:
/adb push aosp.zip /
and nothing happened I was so scared and quit cmd and tried again. But then I tried, came posted here, and realised it was just taking a few minutes to copy So a few minor problems from there, but I am now up and running! Thanks for the suggestions anyway. Gotta sleep now up wayyy to late and need to wake up early tomorrow Thanks a bunch anyways!
PS: I have no idea how to mark as solved.... So if a mod see this