Hi,
Got a major problem with my new Nexus 6. During initial set up, I rebooted. Upon reboot, I was informed that my data was corrupt and that I need to reset my phone. I have not been able to use my phone since.
Using recovery, I was apparently able to flash the stock ROM. However, I was completely unable to boot into it. The boot process would stick on the boot animation screen.
I am now unable to boot into anything - not even Recovery. I am stuck on the bootloader.
I can go through the process of flashing a new recovery using FASTBOOT without any errors being returned. However, I am unable to boot into it.
When I had a working recovery partition, it always seemed to go through a lengthy process of formatting the data partition before making the recovery options available. The following message would show in yellow text for approximately 45 minutes: "Formatting /data..."
When attempting to format the /data partition in order to try a clean install, I get the a message along the lines of: "Format not available for partitions with file system ' '."
After reading around on the internet, I have a suspicion that the file table is corrupt.
Any idea how I can repair this or what route I can take to get a working phone?
Thanks
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BadHead1970 said:
Hi,
Got a major problem with my new Nexus 6. During initial set up, I rebooted. Upon reboot, I was informed that my data was corrupt and that I need to reset my phone. I have not been able to use my phone since.
Using recovery, I was apparently able to flash the stock ROM. However, I was completely unable to boot into it. The boot process would stick on the boot animation screen.
I am now unable to boot into anything - not even Recovery. I am stuck on the bootloader.
I can go through the process of flashing a new recovery using FASTBOOT without any errors being returned. However, I am unable to boot into it.
When I had a working recovery partition, it always seemed to go through a lengthy process of formatting the data partition before making the recovery options available. The following message would show in yellow text for approximately 45 minutes: "Formatting /data..."
When attempting to format the /data partition in order to try a clean install, I get the a message along the lines of: "Format not available for partitions with file system ' '."
After reading around on the internet, I have a suspicion that the file table is corrupt.
Any idea how I can repair this or what route I can take to get a working phone?
Thanks
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Have you tried fastboot format cache?
Yeah. I've formatted the cache partition, boot, recovery, and userdata. I did also format the system partition as a way of ensuring a clean install.
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Have you tried using fastboot to flash all the stock image separately? It makes sense if you formatted everything that you did but i ask for completeness as you didn't explicitly say that you did.
Yip. Did that, too. Unzipped the stock ROM and fastbooted each individual .IMG file separately. No dice.
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BadHead1970 said:
Yip. Did that, too. Unzipped the stock ROM and fastbooted each individual .IMG file separately. No dice.
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At this point I would consider locking it up and sending it in to be looked at. 'm not saying there's no hope for you, but if fastboot flashing and formatting isn't working - I can't think of much else you can do.
BadHead1970 said:
Yip. Did that, too. Unzipped the stock ROM and fastbooted each individual .IMG file separately. No dice.
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Just to clarify, have you been trying to flash TWRP recovery or stock? I'm just going back over the thread and want to make sure we didn't miss something. Is your bootloader unlocked? Again, just to verify.
Yeah. Bootloader is unlocked. I have tried flashing TWRP and stock. No luck. I have now given up sent it back to Motorola for repair as I have done everything I can think of to solve this and it is beyond my skill or inventiveness.
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I know you don't have to wipe to upgrade to a CM nightly, but should I get Google Apps again when prompted to in ClockworkMod?
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If it's the same version that you already have, then there's no point...
If it's a newer version, then go for it...
Latest version can usually be found here:
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?/files/category/2-nexus-one/
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Thanks a lot. I need my flashing fix so I'm going to start doing nightlies. I just can't wait for final.
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Flashed it without the GAPPS and upon rebooting they weren't there. I just downloaded them from the link, flashed, and now I'm setting them up. I guess it deletes all of your login info. No biggie, easy stuff.
Sorry, if you're doing a full wipe, then you will need to reflash the gapps. I seldom wipe on the nightlies...
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Oh no I didn't wipe, that's why I thought it was strange. No biggie.
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its a RM shortcoming.. you have to select gapps at that prompt or reboot into recover and manually flash just the ROM.. otherwise your gapps dont survive
Got it!
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Memnoch30 said:
Oh no I didn't wipe, that's why I thought it was strange. No biggie.
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I was looking at the Cyanogen site, and few people have been commenting on some of the latest nightlies removing the gapps (presumably overwriting the whole system folder).
No biggie, and not a common occurrence...
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need help on cwm
hi, im some what new to this and im having some problems with wcm on mytouch 4g... well had the phone working great and i when to try out a new rom called synergy-rc1 i booted in to recovery then wipe data/ factory reset then wiped cache partition and also wipe Dalvik cache then installed from sc card like before everything was going great then restarted the phone after it completed the install and it booted into the synergy rom screen then it sat there for about 10min and it restarted again and it keaps looping over. restarted in to recovery (cwm ) and tried to do a a factery reset and clear cache and this is what i got and i cant even do a restore.
clockworkmod recovery v5.0.2.0
checking MD5 sums...
Erasing boot before restore...
restoring boot image...
restoring system...
Error while formatting /system!
any help would be appreciated [email protected]
probably a corrupt sd partition.
cwm is known top do that..
try formatting your sd card after saving the content to your pc first.
after format move stuffs back
I would go ask this question in the mytouch 4G section you will probably get better answers.
Hi, I had a bunch of problems with gingerbread crashing my phone so I decided to wipe the phone and reinstall. After selecting "clear storage", my phone won't boot pass the cross whether into recovery or normal.
I unlocked using fastboot and flashed the recovery-RA-passion-v2.2.1.img
I still can't get into recovery. Is there anything else I can try?
Thanks! I'm losing my mind.
You're fixed now though, right? xD
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I'm trying tto boot my phone into recovery so I can flash the latest nightly, currently I'm using cm7nb101, and every time I try to boot into recovery it just sits at the white HTC screen. Someone please help. I've flashed multiple times before and its never done this.
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Have you tried re-flashing a new recovery?
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just boot up into your rom and re-flash a new recovery image over the one you have
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Edit: like The Fer-Shiz-Nizzle said. (nice name btw )
Yeah still just sits there, its done this once before and randomly fixed itself I guess ill just wait lol
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If your s-off try a fastboot erase. If your not look into it. After a fast boot erase do a full wipe. Then reflash your recovery via adb. Then backup all your data to your pc. Then format your sd threw your pc and restore the factory defaults. Then reformat your sd threw recovery. No swap no partitions just fat/system. Then redownload the rom and gapps. Flash the rom then gapps right after. Then see if its boots up. If it does then boot into recovery make a nandroid, restore your data then and carry on. If not then run the ruu in zip format. Then update your radio, profile and prl. Then locate the hero root apk thread. Follow the instructions. After that you'll be rooted again so boot into recovery and make a nandroid of your sense rom for future updates then reboot. Then boot back into recovery do a full wipe and reflash your choice of recovery via adb then reflash the rom and the gapps. It should boot up. Hope this helps.
#Root/Hack-Mod_Always*
I got it working, the recovery I was flashing was corrupt, I found one that worked.
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I recently bought a bionic cheap cause of a broken screen, when I got it would only boot into fastboot. Installed the screen and have been at it for 2 days trying to revive this bionic. Only 246 will flash with hob or rsd, and both fail to install radio.. phone does boot up, but won't read SIM and reboots every 5 min or so.. any help would.be great... Thanks.. this is what I get in the factory recovery..
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https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7632904/Targa_246_update_radio.zip
Try putting this file on the sdcard and running it from the stock recovery by manually booting into recovery and selecting Install update from external storage.
This is the radio update from the full XML.zip that is contained in the radio.img. It is the same file that has failed already on your device, but the error seems to indicate a problem with the file in the /tmp directory where it is placed by default. Running it manually from the sdcard may solve that issue.
Right now you have a corrupt baseband and that's why it's rebooting. Hopefully, this will flash successfully and restore the phone.
Thanks bud, still didn't work thou. Got the moto flash fail again.. I'm completely lost now...lol.. anybody want a bionic cheap...lol
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I just got a nexus one for $35 that i plan on using mostly as an mp3 player. I rooted it using the one click method but it's still S-on. Part of my issue is that booting into recovery using CWM only works maybe 25% of the time. Not sure why that is. A couple times I've been able to flash a rom via recovery but after seeing the X screen, the phone bootloops on the next splash screen. This has happened on two GB roms - MIUI and CM 7.2.
Any guess on why this happens? One reason I want to flash a rom is that the camera doesn't work so I'm curious if it would work in a different rom.
nvillamob said:
I just got a nexus one for $35 that i plan on using mostly as an mp3 player. I rooted it using the one click method but it's still S-on. Part of my issue is that booting into recovery using CWM only works maybe 25% of the time. Not sure why that is. A couple times I've been able to flash a rom via recovery but after seeing the X screen, the phone bootloops on the next splash screen. This has happened on two GB roms - MIUI and CM 7.2.
Any guess on why this happens? One reason I want to flash a rom is that the camera doesn't work so I'm curious if it would work in a different rom.
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Before flashing a ROM, clear cache/ dalvik-cache from recovery. If you don't do these, then you will see bootloops.
I had been doing that through rom manager but just did it through recovery. still bootlooping.
I wiped cache but did not factory reset
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nvillamob said:
I had been doing that through rom manager but just did it through recovery. still bootlooping.
I wiped cache but did not factory reset
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If you are changing ROMs, its always advisable to do a factory reset in addition to clearing cache and dalvik. Try it
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Best advice is to skip ROM manager and always do everything manually in recovery, this has never been a problem for me
And just because, I would suggest using 4ext recovery as in my opinion it is by far the most superior recovery... Just saying
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Unfortunately, I've tried flashing manually via recovery too...still bootloops
Check md5sum of ROM (maybe bad download)
Make sure you wipe fully (manually in recovery or with fastboot)
Make sure you meet requirements of ROM in op (as in you flashed gapps if needed or you have a large enough system partition etc)
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yeah, i haven't checked the md5's but it's odd that it's happened with both official miui and cyanogenmod. i did wipe cache and dalvik. i think i'm just going to give up. i'd do a factory restore but don't want to do that because then i'd have to root my phone again. i rooted the phone using a Vista computer but now I'm back home and my computer runs windows 8. from what I can tell, installing the android SDK is kinda complicated on W8.
Factory reset is needed and will not mean you have to reroot your phone, this is something that would be done before each flash, in fact the cleaner the wipe the less chance of an issue.
Also there is no need for the SDK to root (but its easy to get for windows 8 anyway and tools such as fastboot and adb are very handy... Also there are other ways to get these tools without the SDK) but all that besides the point, these are your steps
Nandroid backup
Wipe everything as clean as possible
Flash ROM and anything else needed (gapps etc)
Reboot
This is the procedure you should follow for any ROM flash for any android and never a need to reroot in between
Best of luck
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I really appreciate the help. the reason I mention the SDK is that my computer doesn't recognize my phone unless I install the SDK and the associated drivers. So I'd hate the wipe my phone so that I can flash a rom, but then be unable to flash a rom because I'm not rooted!
But you feel confident that if I factory reset, I won't loose root?
I factory reset daily! You'll be just fine, when you factory reset and wipe all partitions you are following the proper procedure to change roms. When you flash the new one you are sure to still have root access
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well, did a factory reset last night but i'm still having the same problem. I'm at a loss.