my g1 freezes when i try to reboot to recovery, but it doesnt freeze when i reboot normally. i dont know why....i think it has to do with a program i downladed, "droid explorer". so i tried to flash a new recovery through the terminal, thinking "i cant get to recovery because its broken" but that didnt work. when i put through the command, it returns a dozen lines of "error at xxxxxxxxxx (out of memory)"
can anybody help? or am i stuck with the rom i have?
Flash it via fastboot, that should work
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash recovery <path to recovery image>
http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Fastboot#Fastboot_Commands
here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741375
ANtiHazarD said:
here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741375
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it lives! thank you so much
you are welcome
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you are welcome
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See Anti what did I tell you, your guide would be very helpful. I think the recovery/boot hacks put out by firerat sometimes could cause corruption. but the nice thing is when it works you get a nice amount of memory. So your damned if you do and your damned if you dont.
Royalknight6190 said:
See Anti what did I tell you, your guide would be very helpful. I think the recovery/boot hacks put out by firerat sometimes could cause corruption. but the nice thing is when it works you get a nice amount of memory. So your damned if you do and your damned if you dont.
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yeah... it's true! Thanks to you one more time for the support!
always when there is a problem and there are those who somehow trying to help - the problem is not so terrible after all...
ANtiHazarD said:
yeah... it's true! Thanks to you one more time for the support!
always when there is a problem and there are those who somehow trying to help - the problem is not so terrible after all...
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it was quite helpful, but you dont change your cd, otherwise it doesnt recognize adb....you just need to remember the directory of the recovery and type it in before it
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ok, I hate to ask this since Im probably missing something simple.
I am trying to install recovery which I was holding out on, but it doesnt look like we are getting a new recovery any time soon so I am just going to do it.
Problem. When I try to flash recovery with fastboot it says.
error: cannot load 'recovery.img'
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Anyone know what I might be running into here? I have the recovery in the folder Im cd to. which is C:\AndroidSDK\platform-tools
did you extract the recovery image to that folder? is the file name you typed exactly the same as what it's actually named?
tatonka_hero said:
did you extract the recovery image to that folder? is the file name you typed exactly the same as what it's actually named?
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ugh, thats my problem, I didnt "Extract" I just placed the zip in there. =P Thanks
EricSS619 said:
ugh, thats my problem, I didnt "Extract" I just placed the zip in there. =P Thanks
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i haven't even flashed a recovery yet lol. I just remembered that those were the two common mistakes people made when doing it on the Hero.
I've got an issue where I get "error: device not found" when in fastboot trying to flash a recovery...so that's annoying....
can't install recovery.
tatonka_hero said:
i haven't even flashed a recovery yet lol. I just remembered that those were the two common mistakes people made when doing it on the Hero.
I've got an issue where I get "error: device not found" when in fastboot trying to flash a recovery...so that's annoying....
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Do you have HTC Sync installed for the usb drivers? That fixed that problem for me. Other things you can try is to plug the phone into a different usb port. Sometimes if the phone is plugged in and you reboot it the computer will ignore it. Normally I have not had a problem if I can use adb I can use fastboot.
Nitro3a said:
Do you have HTC Sync installed for the usb drivers? That fixed that problem for me. Other things you can try is to plug the phone into a different usb port. Sometimes if the phone is plugged in and you reboot it the computer will ignore it. Normally I have not had a problem if I can use adb I can use fastboot.
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yeah, I have sync and the drivers installed. I'll try a different port at work tomorrow if I have time. I'm in no real hurry, the phone runs great the way it is lol
k i see the posts and i read all of them. the people that figuared it out HELP
getting error in mounting the cache and what not some one help plzz
Kush.Kush™ said:
k i see the posts and i read all of them. the people that figuared it out HELP
getting error in mounting the cache and what not some one help plzz
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o am going to go out on a limb here and assume you are getting the fail pu errors? i understand your english isnt that well by reading your wording here, but what exactly did you do to lead up to this point so that we can help you if at all possible? and detailed info as to what your phones set up were before this error as well would help
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o am going to go out on a limb here and assume you are getting the fail pu errors? i understand your english isnt that well by reading your wording here, but what exactly did you do to lead up to this point so that we can help you if at all possible? and detailed info as to what your phones set up were before this error as well would help
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got my phone 4days ago rooted it using gfree put cwmr on there and then flashed cm.
CM worked was settign the phone up it turned off, booted and looped.
when i go into recovery im getting mounting errors ffor cache and system.
cant flash, wipe, restore or anything. i can get into hboot recovery and comp reads the phone
Kush.Kush™ said:
got my phone 4days ago rooted it using gfree put cwmr on there and then flashed cm.
CM worked was settign the phone up it turned off, booted and looped.
when i go into recovery im getting mounting errors ffor cache and system.
cant flash, wipe, restore or anything. i can get into hboot recovery and comp reads the phone
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what is the exact error you are getting? do you have the engineering boot loader?
you need to be very detailed in the information you provide if you want help... as of yet you are yelling help with not too much info and there is no helping you with that little information
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what is the exact error you are getting? do you have the engineering boot loader?
you need to be very detailed in the information you provide if you want help... as of yet you are yelling help with not too much info and there is no helping you with that little information
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when in recovery im getting
E:cant mount /catche/recovery/command
E:cant mount /cache/recovery/log
E:cant open /cache/recovery/log
E:cant mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E:cant open /cache/recovery/last_log
my sd got formatted so lost EVERYTHING on it.
cant get PD15IMG to work. idk what to do anymore.
how can i tell if i have the engineering boot loader?
ok, when in HBoot, at the top it says Bootloader and then some numbers after that...
if those numbers are 0.85.2007 then you have the engineering bootloader which means you can run fastboot commands via your computer to your phone, which is what you will need if you can recover from this! when you rooted via Gfree, the only way to get this was to do the optional steps
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ok, when in HBoot, at the top it says Bootloader and then some numbers after that...
if those numbers are 0.85.2007 then you have the engineering bootloader which means you can run fastboot commands via your computer to your phone, which is what you will need if you can recover from this! when you rooted via Gfree, the only way to get this was to do the optional steps
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k my numbers are 0.86.0000 and when it is plugged in it says hboot usb plug. i used this bootloader to push gfree. sry there were people here distracting me. they all left so we good to go now
These cache errors in recovery usually indicate eMMC failure. This doesn't look good.
TeeJay3800 said:
These cache errors in recovery usually indicate eMMC failure. This doesn't look good.
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i didnt even get to use cm i was setting up all my apps i just read this
"You can flash the PD15IMG via either recovery image. but it appears that if you use the 3.0.0.5, 3.0.0.6, or the 3.0.2.4 recovery image while trying to flash the PD15IMG (via the HBoot) it will brick your device. So that is not always a fail safe method."
but some people were able to pull outta it and i wanna do that!
TeeJay3800 said:
These cache errors in recovery usually indicate eMMC failure. This doesn't look good.
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yep, they do, but there have been a few including myself to recover from it... so far he hasnt gotten the "fail pu" so there is a chance
irrelephant said:
yep, they do, but there have been a few including myself to recover from it... so far he hasnt gotten the "fail pu" so there is a chance
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got that........
Kush.Kush™ said:
got that........
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sorry to tell you the bad news then... your phone is a paperweight now
he does get the fail pu. just said so in a pm. if you get that error, there is no fix.
you can head over to THIS thread and read the all you want about it, but its not looking good for the home team!!!
irrelephant said:
sorry to tell you the bad news then... your phone is a paperweight now
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lol mk gunan take it back n get a new one im still within my 14 days
irrelephant said:
you can head over to THIS thread and read the all you want about it, but its not looking good for the home team!!!
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yep i got the bad one so i can take it back its a hardware issue =]]
THANK YOU guys!! will report on how the getting new phone goes!
k goodluck
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k goodluck
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new phone guys!!!!! =] you guys should talk tell me what to do
Help...
Hi,
I know this is an old post but I have the exact same setup with the same problem. Is there a way out?
Thanks,
Alan.
Hi, I wanted to flash mikegapinski's ICS.
I flashed it through recovery update package, but the device stays on boot. So I tried fastboot, and got error 'data too large'.
I've got 150mb system partition (changed its size with Mur4ik's Swift Bootloader Tools some time ago). But right now when I want to increase its size, it doesn't.
I tried many sizes, none has worked.
When I'm using Mur4ik's program, when I hit 'Flash..' I get 'Done' message. Everything's ok, but when I'm trying to flash new rom, I get error "(remote: data too large)". Every time.
When wiping my phone, I get bad block errors. So i tried to fix them, but I haven't found any good solution for me.
Right now I'm stuck with smaller roms, and can't try anything new.
If any of you has any advice for me, I would be grateful.
I hope you can understand me, I'm not native english speaker.
Did you reboot after you flashed the new bootloader?
You need to reboot back to fastboot after you change the sizes
Sent from my GT540 ICS
Yes, I did.
Though, I tried doing it without reboot to see if it helps. But normally I always rebooted.
I just can't get it to work....
So, does anyone knows some alternative way to change system partition size?
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So, does anyone knows some alternative way to change system partition size?
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Try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1366855
I tried Mur4ik's program but it didn't exactly work. I needed to flash the 'mbn' file by typing 'fastboot flash APPSBL <mbn filename>' on fastboot. The thread linked above contains a directory of mbn files and instructions for flashing them.
Thanks a lot!
I will try it when I get back. I hope that will work.
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It works!
I owe you
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Thanks a lot!
I will try it when I get back. I hope that will work.
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It works!
I owe you
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No problem ^-^
jhonnyx1000 said:
Try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1366855
I tried Mur4ik's program but it didn't exactly work. I needed to flash the 'mbn' file by typing 'fastboot flash APPSBL <mbn filename>' on fastboot. The thread linked above contains a directory of mbn files and instructions for flashing them.
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had the same issue and used fastboot like you said and its fixed.so.. thanks because I Really got annoyed from "insufficient storage"
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Mur4ik's doesn't work with every gt540 i think it is problem with fastboot versions,and bad block messages don't worry about them it will skip that blocks because there are two reasons,either they are system locked or fabric marked as bad but fastboot tries to write it.....
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Mur4ik's doesn't work with every gt540 i think it is problem with fastboot versions,and bad block messages don't worry about them it will skip that blocks because there are two reasons,either they are system locked or fabric marked as bad but fastboot tries to write it.....
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Thanks, yeah I found a thread explaining how to change the sizes using fastboot
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1415597
I then managed to install the latest edition and HOPEFULLY my phone is fixed.
- I think everything is fine. Just a warning to others, the previous version, I used 160MB as a system partition, and it all worked fine and randomly I got this error saying my USB card was damaged. I checked using another phone and it wasn't and so proceeded to reset the ROM factory settings. This worked but on the SECOND reboot I couldn't open any application. I then tried rebooting a third time and it kept hanging at the boot animation and playing the sound over again lol. Anyhow, seems to work fine this time round (after reflashing).
I tried to flash a 0.54 modem.img , and incidently used the command "fastboot flash modem modem.img" instead of "fastboot flash radio modem.img"
the device is still in fastboot mode, is there a way to fix what i did ? please help I'm afraid to restart and not be able to start fastboot mode again!
Did that command actually work, or did it give you an error saying unrecognized command?
AFAIK there is no fastboot flash modem command. Just reflash the radio using the right command.
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Did that command actually work, or did it give you an error saying unrecognized command?
AFAIK there is no fastboot flash modem command. Just reflash the radio using the right command.
Sent from my HTC Desire using xda app-developers app
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It did do something !
here's a screenshot:
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It did do something !
here's a screenshot:
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Pretty sure there is no modem partition on the Nexus 4 so it's probably done nothing...next time, don't call the file modem.img!
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Pretty sure there is no modem partition on the Nexus 4 so it's probably done nothing...next time, don't call the file modem.img!
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just to be extra sure , if i do 'fastboot erase modem' and reflash using correct command, nothing bad will happen right?
If you want to be sure, get the 422 Google ROM and run the run.bat.. it should flash every partition with the correct image.. Wugs tool kit can do this too
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If you want to be sure, get the 422 Google ROM and run the run.bat.. it should flash every partition with the correct image.. Wugs tool kit can do this too
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Don't use toolkits, do more harm than good...
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Don't use toolkits, do more harm than good...
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He's right, I prefer to input the commands manually so I know what the hell I'm doing, and not rely on someone else's script, you can never know what they put in these
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He's right, I prefer to input the commands manually so I know what the hell I'm doing, and not rely on someone else's script, you can never know what they put in these
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One of the more sensible posts I've read on here of late. Top marks for this man!
Weird... In the screenshot it actually looks like it did something. Is it possible that you can flash to non existent partitions?
Cause I don't think there's a modem partition.
Someone should try fastboot flash hello recovery.img and see what happens
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He's right, I prefer to input the commands manually so I know what the hell I'm doing, and not rely on someone else's script, you can never know what they put in these
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Well if you think you can handle the very complicated command run.bat, knock your self out.
I mentioned wugs kit just as a method of convinience, because it downloads the files for you and checks the md5 sums before running the very complicated run.bat command for you.
For example, if you used it to flash the radio in the first place, you wouldn't be in the predicament you are in now.
HELP!
My S7 Edge keeps getting into recovery mode and gets blocked from the FAP lock.
I screwed my phone.
I can only get into download mode but i don't know what to do to reset it or solve this damn issue.
HELP PLEASE!!!
This is why fapping is bad guys.
Give this a try OP http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/1...msung-phones-due-to-a-flaw-in-their-software/
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This is why fapping is bad guys.
Give this a try OP http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/1...msung-phones-due-to-a-flaw-in-their-software/
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I thank you for the suggestion.
However i cannot get into recovery (otherwise it would be easy), only in download mode
On the splash screen it just says RECOVERY IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORICING and then the phone turns off.
I can get into download mode but i can't do anything else...
Rareba said:
I thank you for the suggestion.
However i cannot get into recovery (otherwise it would be easy), only in download mode
On the splash screen it just says RECOVERY IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORICING and then the phone turns off.
I can get into download mode but i can't do anything else...
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I found this post...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/help/fap-lock-booy-help-t3396334
Maybe i can just flash one of the stock firmwares with ODIN and at least boot the phone, and disable the OEM option in the developer settings?
That may work. Sorry I don't have much experience on the matter. Disabling frp was probably the first thing I did to give me peace of mind. Give it a try!
Dameon87 said:
That may work. Sorry I don't have much experience on the matter. Disabling frp was probably the first thing I did to give me peace of mind. Give it a try!
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Solved by Flashing a stock rom.
This video is a good example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qAX1xTRAGg
Rareba said:
Solved by Flashing a stock rom.
This video is a good example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qAX1xTRAGg
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Glad to hear you got it fixed.
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Glad to hear you got it fixed.
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Now the problem is that TWRP is installed but not working properly
Gotta fix that as well!
Happened to me a few weeks back. Download and flash stock with Odin, boot, put in your Google account details when asked (phone won't work without it), go into dev options and make sure OEM Unlock is selected. You're now good to go again to flash TWRP with Odin again.
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Happened to me a few weeks back. Download and flash stock with Odin, boot, put in your Google account details when asked (phone won't work without it), go into dev options and make sure OEM Unlock is selected. You're now good to go again to flash TWRP with Odin again.
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That's what i did!
However TWRP for some reason is installed but, aside of the fact that always asks about being read only or not every boot, i can't access any storage
Must be some weird permissions stuff!
Rareba said:
That's what i did!
However TWRP for some reason is installed but, aside of the fact that always asks about being read only or not every boot, i can't access any storage
Must be some weird permissions stuff!
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Try searching over the forum, follow (ALL) the instructions on this post to get TWRP working properly. (All data will be lost so you'd better make a backup).
Rareba said:
That's what i did!
However TWRP for some reason is installed but, aside of the fact that always asks about being read only or not every boot, i can't access any storage
Must be some weird permissions stuff!
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It's because, when you install stock back, the phone will be encrypted again. TWRP can't read Samsung encryption. In TWRP you will need to formate (not wipe) the data partition. As said above, you will lose everything.