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ROM is gone

So I installed the Cyanogen mod from RomManager to try it out. The thing is, now my phone is telling me my SD card is damaged and I can't read from it. My backups were on there and I foolishly did not save copies onto my computer.
So, is there anyway to get a stock ROM for the incredible so I can flash that back onto there?

sloan31 said:
So I installed the Cyanogen mod from RomManager to try it out. The thing is, now my phone is telling me my SD card is damaged and I can't read from it. My backups were on there and I foolishly did not save copies onto my computer.
So, is there anyway to get a stock ROM for the incredible so I can flash that back onto there?
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Have you tried booting your phone into recovery.
Then going to nandroid in recovery and choosing your backup to restore?
That damaged message sounds like something you see in rom manager, but you can probably still see your SD card fine in recovery if you haven't tried that yet.

Ditto, except have you tried checking your SD card with a reader straight into the PC? If you can't read it with a reader it may very well be damaged.
If it is actually broken IncredibleRoms (dot) com is usually a good place to look for ROM's.
Looked around and found a stock nandroid backup
incredibleroms.com/roms/stock/
Only other option might be trying to go the RUU route.

This is a rooted stock rom binny made that you can use. Its from a previous thread a few weeks ago
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This is just a stock rom with a few tweeks.
It includes SuperUser, busybox, Wireless -N, Facebook has been moved to /data/local so it can be uninstalled, Zipaling and ROM Manager. CityID has been removed, also the internal task killer has been tweeked so no need to have third party task killers.
I dont plan on working too much on this one, but may update in the future.
http://www.mediafire.com/?uymjmjmmyja
I would recomend wipeing before installing.
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Can't access the card in recovery either. I even took the card out and put it in my computer and can't read it there either.
I found the droid incredible downgrade file for returning to stock without root, I guess I'll have to go this route. I know I can re-root the phone, its just loosing all my apps and data that's painful.
EDIT: or use the rooted rom, thanks kentoe, that definitely saves me some time.

Titanium Backup can take care of the apps and you could pull data to your pc.
Unless the apps and data were on your SD card in which case you'll need some CSI/NCIS tricks to reconstruct your messed up SD.

Hyru said:
Titanium Backup can take care of the apps and you could pull data to your pc.
Unless the apps and data were on your SD card in which case you'll need some CSI/NCIS tricks to reconstruct your messed up SD.
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Yes, I used Titanium Backup for my apps, but unfortunately they were on the card. I'll just have to call it a loss and reinstall my apps one at a time.

Utils for SD recovery
I have a few utils that have been able to recover data from SD cards, flash sticks, CF stuff like that. Look on the net.

Yeah, I somehow actually damaged my friends SD card from his Moto Droid while attempting to root my Incredible. Needless to say he wasn't very happy. So off to google I went and in the morning he had all his files back like it never happened.

How to go from tnt 2.0 to 2.4 (Update)

I have tnt 2.00 and it works fine but wanted to update to 2.04 have read multiple post and tried to update it using the clockwork mod but have had no luck.
I put the update.zip in the main folder and replaced the update of tnt 2.00. I go the the rom manager and boot in recovery mode and eventually get a triangle with an exclamation point and get a quick boot back to my tnt 2.00.
Where am I going wrong?

darkvette07 said:
I have tnt 2.00 and it works fine but wanted to update to 2.04 have read multiple post and tried to update it using the clockwork mod but have had no luck.
I put the update.zip in the main folder and replaced the update of tnt 2.00. I go the the rom manager and boot in recovery mode and eventually get a triangle with an exclamation point and get a quick boot back to my tnt 2.00.
Where am I going wrong?
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As roebeet pointed out in the first post, if you're flashing with clockwork mod recovery, you need to extract update.zip from his ZIP file and put THAT on your SD card.

So basically your saying that with the clockwork mod you do need an sd card and have to put the update on the card.
I know that you have to unzip it and only put the update.zip file in if you are using the clockwork mod but didn't know you had to put it on an sd card.
When I originally changed the rom to tnt 2.0 I just put it on the internal storage.

darkvette07 said:
So basically your saying that with the clockwork mod you do need an sd card and have to put the update on the card.
I know that you have to unzip it and only put the update.zip file in if you are using the clockwork mod but didn't know you had to put it on an sd card.
When I originally changed the rom to tnt 2.0 I just put it on the internal storage.
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No, /sdcard is the internal storage. Just put the update.zip in the root of the internal storage.

jacindc said:
No, /sdcard is the internal storage. Just put the update.zip in the root of the internal storage.
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Yeah, what he said.
One of the problems for new guys is how things are named. And the fact that they're named different things between TnT (and the Lite variant), CM6 and clockwork. TnT (and Lite) as well as clockwork, all call the internal storage "sdcard". CM6b4 calls internal storage "emmc" cuz apparently that's what it's called on phones that have both internal storage and an SD/MicroSD slot.

short/y said:
...CM6b4 calls internal storage "emmc" cuz apparently that's what it's called on phones that have both internal storage and an SD/MicroSD slot.
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That's actually the industry standard. Why VS decided to setup the device that way is anyone's guess. Same for a lot of the things they did.
Without this great community support, this thing would be a a pile of crap. A pile of crap with potential, but still a pile of crap.

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No, /sdcard is the internal storage. Just put the update.zip in the root of the internal storage.
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I put it in the folder and still get the white triangle with the black exclamation when it tries to reboot and reverts back to the tnt 2.00.
So what is causing this white triangle to appear and not letting me update??
I get the same symbol when I try to backup my current rom using the rom manager.
I get the same white triangle when I use the "Install ROM from SD Card" in rom managment....

I would like to know the exact steps to update from one version to another as well...

TaterTot24 said:
I would like to know the exact steps to update from one version to another as well...
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Just follow the steps in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865245
just replace 2.2 with 2.4
should help ya fine, just skip the clockworkmod steps if you already have it running.

KushyMansbridge said:
Just follow the steps in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865245
just replace 2.2 with 2.4
should help ya fine, just skip the clockworkmod steps if you already have it running.
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Do you have to wipe all your data everytime to update to a new ROM version... it would seem like it would get tiresome installing all my apps/data everytime

TaterTot24 said:
Do you have to wipe all your data everytime to update to a new ROM version... it would seem like it would get tiresome installing all my apps/data everytime
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I think that, at this point, it's not critical if you're staying on the same mod. Only wipe if you have problems, but of course backup your device before upgrading (just in case).
Flipping between mods, on the other hand, is more risky. I would highly recommend wiping data in that case.

(SOLVED) NO FILES on Iconia, Can't Restore - PLEASE HELP!

My friend deleted everything off my Iconia via Clockwork Recovery v5.0.0.0(thor......etc) and now I can't restore (i do have original backups) or install any other custom mods. PLEASE HELP!
(I've searched and there's NOTHING on this, that I can find)
What can I do? I'm in the Recovery (Power+Vol- Mode) now....

deathofkai said:
My friend deleted everything off my Iconia via Clockwork Recovery v5.0.0.0(thor......etc) and now I can't restore (i do have original backups) or install any other custom mods. PLEASE HELP!
(I've searched and there's NOTHING on this, that I can find)
What can I do? I'm in the Recovery (Power+Vol- Mode) now....
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Find a stock 3.1 ROM ( so you can root) here, and flash it using power/volume.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1113878

When I say there are no files I literally mean that there in nothing on the internal drive. lol
When I click "install zip from sdcard" it tells me there are no files found. nothing in the "/" (root dir) :'(
I'm assuming there needs to be at least a folder like "/mnt/external_sd" for the Recovery Mod to access the external sd card?!
The above link requires me to access the official acer recov, don't know how to do that seeing as CWM is there.
I don't understand why they would put options in the Clockwork Recovery that could format the internal drive completely...there's no "/mnt" or "/system" or anything...
Kinda sh**ting myself as my tab is now less than a doorstop
PS. it also says "can't mount /sdcard"

HAHA.....ok, jokes on me....I just noticed that the reason for the device not picking any files up from the "sdcard" was because the damn thing formatted my EXTERNAL CARD.
So, kids...what have we learned today, beside that I'm (in the great words of Red Foreman) a dumb-ass, it's that CWM read from your EXTERNAL sdcard and NOT, i repeat, NOT your internal.
Sorry, and thanks anyway

Ummm yeah, I assumed you had no files, even before you apparently knew it. That's why I provided the link for you to d/l the stock ROM of your choice via PC, copy the files to SD card and flash using stock recovery

deathofkai said:
So, kids...what have we learned today, beside that I'm (in the great words of Red Foreman) a dumb-ass, it's that CWM read from your EXTERNAL sdcard and NOT, i repeat, NOT your internal.
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This is pretty common knowledge...

Never had the problem before, so I forgot, you ever forget, well, I forgot.
Thanks anywho

We all do stuff like that from time to time as we are only human. I seen people not unmount the sd card and it make the card unreadable and you can't get the files off of it then. You have that grayed out sd card, when you try to use it.

RUU cannot find my shift?

Hi, I followed all the steps here but when I run RUU it says it cannot connect to my device. I have HTC sync installed. I'm not sure why it's not working.

Are you using the HTC cord that came with the phone? Some after market cords will keep your device from connecting. You could also try uninstalling HTC sync but not the drivers.
I've never had much luck running the RUU exe either.. If you can't get it to work I would use the PG06IMG.zip. Just put it on the root of your sd and boot into Hboot, it will run the RUU from there. Just a heads ups though, your SDcard may need to be formatted to fat32 in order for Hboot to see the zip.

Yeah, I'm using the cord that came with the phone, about doing the Hboot method... How do I go about doing that? I put the zip file on the root of my SD card, what's the next step? Also if I do need to format the card to fat32, how would I go about doing that? Sorry for all the questions I'm new to Android.. Rooting my palm pre way back when was much easier lol.

kasvaca said:
Yeah, I'm using the cord that came with the phone, about doing the Hboot method... How do I go about doing that? I put the zip file on the root of my SD card, what's the next step? Also if I do need to format the card to fat32, how would I go about doing that? Sorry for all the questions I'm new to Android.. Rooting my palm pre way back when was much easier lol.
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Just put the zip on the root of your sd, power off your phone then boot into bootloader (Hold power and volume down at the same time). The bootloader will basically instruct you from there.
Couple of tips.. SdCard MAY need to formatted to fat32, google how to format it's pretty easy. This will erase everything on your sd, so make a backup.
Make sure you have fastboot disabled. Menu > Settings > Power > uncheck fastboot

looks like I have to format it, it found no image. Yay.. lol
edit: okay formatted currently moving all files back onto the card and will try Hboot again.
edit2: Worked like a charm thanks so much!

U8800 pro serious problem

Ok lets start from the beginning:
I was trying to upade from 2.2.2 official to 2.3 official and now i'm messed up because after the step : "upgrade sd card" my phone restarted and my usb cabel was still on and phone started charging,after that i tried to turn on my phone.It worked but after 20secs my screens freezes and cant do anything even turn off i need to take battery out,also phone not detects my sim card...
Any idea? My phone is rooted,have installed CWM5.0.2.3,but have no backup only public one...But i can't mount usb storage because i get error like "E:Unable to open ums lunfile(no such file or directory)
ANY IDEAS????
I can get to pinkscreen aswell

If you have an external sd card put the public backup there and try to restore via cwm (if you get boot till there). You can also try the update procedure(the dload folder and stuff) but put them in the external sd card! The phone should boot from there.
Anyway,better wait for more answers since I'm not the best in here.I just know how to flash some custom roms.

Moihack said:
If you have an external sd card put the public backup there and try to restore via cwm (if you get boot till there). You can also try the update procedure(the dload folder and stuff) but put them in the external sd card! The phone should boot from there.
Anyway,better wait for more answers since I'm not the best in here.I just know how to flash some custom roms.
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sorry for dumb question but microsd = external sd? if yes - then i placed the backup in the card but in cwm only phone memory shows no sdcard...
Edit: external i got that

well it actually is an external microsd card
did you manage to restore via cwm?
P.S. if cwm doesn't see your se card go to advaced->reboot into recovery
should be able to see it now

Moihack said:
well it actually is an external microsd card
did you manage to restore via cwm?
P.S. if cwm doesn't see your se card go to advaced->reboot into recovery
should be able to see it now
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When i do "reboot into recovery" my phone double restarts and 2nd time it turns on normally not into recovery...

Don't know why this is done,but I think we should be happy that your phone isn't bricked
Maybe someone else here can help you and provide better solutions than mine

Have a read through http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1639761.
Has a link in it to how I solved my issue of constant reboots.
Also , since you can load pink screen, you can connect through usb and change your recovery to 5.0.2.7. That's the one i used. Make sure that you have a cust.img file in the "image" folder. That is where the recovery should be too but am guessing you already know that.
If for some reason you dont have cust.img you can find and download a generic version in these forums. Did not need it so I did not bookmark the post I found it in but I think it was the Kalo's Honor Port thread in the pro development section.