How to I fix a XT890 when it won't boot into Recovery memory, so I can flash using the file from the SD card?
If I try from RSDLite it fails with GPT errors.
Is their a manual command way to reflash the phone with a file like Blur?
Hi, is the phone booting in fastboot mode ?
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Hi guys, first of thanks for taking the time to consider helping me.
Basically, last night randomly my g1 just switched off. When i try to boot up, goes to g1 screen, then boot image, then blank screen.
Boot into recovery, and it doesnt register i have an sd card in it, i wanted to wipe and reflash cm, or nandroid restore. - but cant do either as it doesnt think i have an sd card inserted.
Any ideas how to fix?
Many thanks
Try mounting it on your computer, copying everything over and formatting. You can either put the card in an external reader or try to mount it via usb in recovery using 'ums_enable' and 'ums_disable'.
AdrianK said:
Try mounting it on your computer, copying everything over and formatting. You can either put the card in an external reader or try to mount it via usb in recovery using 'ums_enable' and 'ums_disable'.
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thanks Adrian. it wont let me mount it though, because it doesnt recognice that there is an sd card inserted. iv tried 3 different sd card, and it doesnt recognice that any of them have been inserted, so i figure its not my sd. :/
APEX.7 said:
thanks Adrian. it wont let me mount it though, because it doesnt recognice that there is an sd card inserted. iv tried 3 different sd card, and it doesnt recognice that any of them have been inserted, so i figure its not my sd. :/
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Hmmm... I guess the only thing left to try is formatting it externally and trying again.
AdrianK said:
Hmmm... I guess the only thing left to try is formatting it externally and trying again.
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righto. urm, noob question, is it possible to apply an update.zip via a different method? since its not recognising sd cards, can i flash a different way? thanks
APEX.7 said:
righto. urm, noob question, is it possible to apply an update.zip via a different method? since its not recognising sd cards, can i flash a different way? thanks
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i think an sdcard is necessary to apply an update.zip .. however if you have access to a nandroid backup you could fastboot flash the system, data, and boot .img's without an sdcard
xidominicanoix said:
i think an sdcard is necessary to apply an update.zip .. however if you have access to a nandroid backup you could fastboot flash the system, data, and boot .img's without an sdcard
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thanks, how would i go about doing this?
APEX.7 said:
thanks, how would i go about doing this?
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Do a search in android development. It should be under Nandroid backup.
Basically you boot into fastboot and do these commands via adb:
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash userdata data.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot reboot.
Look for the thread, though. It's been a while since I've used fastboot.
APEX.7 said:
thanks, how would i go about doing this?
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Using fastboot you can flash each part seperatly via usb, problem is ROMs are never distributed as seperate img's, just one update.zip. Buuuuuuut if your sd card will mount in your computer and you can find your nandroid folder, you will see that they are saved as multiple img's.
Once you have fastboot set up (instructions here) put the boot .img in the same directory as the fastboot executable. Boot the phone in to the SPL (home + camera) and enable fastboot. Then 'cd' to the fastboot directory in the command prompt or terminal (depending on OS) and type:
Code:
fastboot flash system system.img
If you're on a unix based OS, you maybe need to put a './' before that command.
Afterwards reboot your phone using 'fastboot reboot' (again you may need the './').
thanks guys i really apreciate this. il report back after iv had a go.
Almost forgot, make sure you clear the cache and data partitions first:
Code:
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase userdata
After backup, in my nandroid folder, the file 'ext.tar' is apparently corrupt, Nandroid restore is not working, (although it reports 'completed' but no boot). Bart restore gives this error: 'invalid tar magic'.
So my questions are, can the .tar be repaired and/or can I do a restore via fastboot without the ext.tar? (will the sd-ext contents be intact? I haven't done anything to it)
If I try the restore, my steps using the contents of the nandroid folder, would be:
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fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase boot
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot flash userdata data.img
fastboot flash system system.img
then reboot
correct?
Solved: - Not enough space on SD card
pardus said:
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fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase boot
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot flash userdata data.img
fastboot flash system system.img
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that will restore the nandroid.. (usually I don't restore cache unless you have offloaded some of the rom to cache to force it to fit into a smaller space)
however the /sd-ext is backed up to the tar file. (you might try extracting it on your computer... sounds like the header of the file is malformed.. I won't know about the rest.)
Of course if you just want to restore the system.. and the contents of /sd-ext have not changed this is not an issue.. fastboot can't modify the sdcard, least with the steps mentioned.
Thank you for the reply, the cache.img file is very small so I skipped that one. Tried the above but no-go.
On my PC the tar only extracts about half the contents and gives a 'corrupt archive error' (winrar).
This all started when I flashed the oc614 kernel, but found everything even slower and then tried to restore with Nandroid and/or Bart.
I have now reflashed the rom (using your post here: http://ip208-100-42-21.static.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8427522&postcount=1844) and am back to 'stock' but I would still like to restore what I had before the kernel flash.
Would I just need to flash 'system' and 'userdata' from the nandroid folder to get back there?
Weird things, when ever I do a:
Bart backup the 'ext-backup.tar' file is always corrupt or a
Nandroid + Ext Backup the 'ext.tar' file is always corrupt
??
What is the syntax for making a .tar backup from console or adb?
my problem is i put encryption on my htc one but could not get rid of it no matter what i did so i wipe every single thing from the recovery so now there notting on my phone what so ever, when i try to mount sd card now it just wont mount there no error message notting from recovery, is there any way in fixing this.... im using clockworkmod 6.0.3.0??
thanks
seanhtcone said:
my problem is i put encryption on my htc one but could not get rid of it no matter what i did so i wipe every single thing from the recovery so now there notting on my phone what so ever, when i try to mount sd card now it just wont mount there no error message notting from recovery, is there any way in fixing this.... im using clockworkmod 6.0.3.0??
thanks
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you can try fastboot erase userdata
or fastboot -w
after that use adb push to get a ROM onto your sd card
or use adb sideload to push a rom and install.
gunnyman said:
you can try fastboot erase userdata
or fastboot -w
after that use adb push to get a ROM onto your sd card
or use adb sideload to push a rom and install.
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it wont let me erase userdata, it says cant be done remotely and also when i try to side load it says failed to wirte data 'protocol fault<no status> ???
Thanks.. sideload worked it just failed like 6 times first for some reason, sideload is so handy
I flashed cm12.1 on my mi3w and after using it for 2 weeks it turned off suddenly. when i switch on it says enter password, any password could be used, then it says decryption error, your data is corrupted try to reformat and goes to recovery. but i cant reformat or install zip form sd card it always failes.cwm r8 or hiigher is installed. I tried several methods to flash miui again as cwm say error while formatting. i used miflash tool, adb - fastboot commands. they all say error while erasing userdata.img? I can access twrp or stock recovery by typing boot recovery.img on fastboot but when i flash them cwm appears again. i tried boot stock recovery and select system1 , the system2, i tried flashall, exept data storage, exept storage. flashall says error erasing partition or userdata, others flash successfully but it boots up with cyanogenmod BLINKING EYE! and asks for enter password. I wonder if someone could help. my phone is not working since september and we have'nt got service center or replacing parts. sorry for my english
So I have a moto g xt1068 (dual sim), apps started crashing all of a sudden. Including google play store and the rest of the apps. So I:
Tried to factory reset through settings, that didn't work (pushing the 'erase everything' does nothing)
So I unlocked the bootloader and tried to flash a custom recovery, it flashes successfully but gives something like a 'mismatch' error, then I boot to recovery, but its still stock recovery. So I copied a lollipop ota to external card to apply through stock recovery, that didn't work either as the stock recovery refused to show my external SD card.
Then I downloaded the stock lollipop rom to flash with mfastboot, every command line says okay, but when I reboot the device, its still on KitKat.
I then tried to upgrade the bootloader from 0x4807 to the latest bootloader, so I can flash a custom by live booting twrp, flash latest bootloader with fastboot commands, everything says okay,but still on radio, which means I can't flash custom ROM.
So I live booted twrp,then tried to copy ota.zip to internal SD, but it won't copy, I try to format all partitions through twrp, they all format ok, but reboot device back to crashing KitKat, live boot twrp again, copied ota.zip to external SD card first, then use twrp file manager to copy ota.zip to internal SD card, that also brings out another error. Tried to restore the device with twrp backup of stock 5.0.2, boot.IMG flashes fine, but when installing system, it cuts midway with a 'fork' error or something. So I can say that both system and data partition is corrupt. I am currently outta options. I know this device isn't in a hard brick situation. Help anybody