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HELP!!! screwed up my MyTouch 3G

I have the MyTouch 3G with the Cyanogen Recover 1.4.
I had the latest CyanogenMod 4.2.7 with no problems. I tried applying the Enoch theme 1.4.7 and it put my phone in a boot loop. I tried factory wiping. I don't have access to any of the cyanogenmod zip files on my SD card because the Cyanogen Updater doesn't put it on the root directory of the SD.
So is there a way to fix this? Get back to any build of the phone to work? Can I access the SD card if I connect it via USB to my PC? PLEASE HELP!!!!

dannyfal!
i don t know if I undersoot you fully.BUT>>>> sometimes the SD card plays crazy,or get dammaged easy.In case you see the files on a computer but your phone is unable to read them is no big problem.If your phone is in bootloader mode and stucked there,it is a bit bigger problem.Have you ever applyed the hard reset ???It helps a lot.After that the SD card recognized by the phone as memory card2.So the phone is looking for the simple name SD MMEMORY.Or sd card.This is just matter of time.You give a name ending sd crad.bat and you can erase this bad sector data.In this case you might loose the program and your important data with it.BUT>>> you save sd card,and other files on it.
If you can t make it work coz your phone is in boot loader modus,than you need professional help.And a new rom update.
helos * hopr helped somehow*

dannyfal said:
I have the MyTouch 3G with the Cyanogen Recover 1.4.
I had the latest CyanogenMod 4.2.7 with no problems. I tried applying the Enoch theme 1.4.7 and it put my phone in a boot loop. I tried factory wiping. I don't have access to any of the cyanogenmod zip files on my SD card because the Cyanogen Updater doesn't put it on the root directory of the SD.
So is there a way to fix this? Get back to any build of the phone to work? Can I access the SD card if I connect it via USB to my PC? PLEASE HELP!!!!
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You can enable usb mode in Cyanogen's recovery image by connecting the usb cable, dropping in to the console and typing (without quotes) "ums_enable" move your ROM and when you're done "ums_disable"
then "reboot recovery" and reflash.
If you don't have a computer you can use the console to my the files.
mount /sdcard <- Mounts the fat32 partition
ls <- See what files/folders are in the current directory
cd nameoffolder < change directory
then once you're in the folder where the ROMs are stored (cm-update, I believe) you can either move or copy them to the root.
use 'ls' again to find the filenanme of the ROM you want to copy/move..
cp name-of-rom.zip /sdcard <- to copy the ROM to the root, or use 'mv' to move the file.
EDIT: I am an idiot. You're on a MyTouch so you can't use the console in recovery. In that case connect your phone to your computer (which has the sdk setup with drivers) and type the commands I stated about after 'adb shell'

[Q] Catch-22 eLocity A7

I have installed A7Comb rom which mostly does a good job. The biggest problem is that external sdcard and usb are inaccessible. If I choose to go back to 3.01 where I had this capability, access to external sdcard is required to flash the old rom. Am I screwed or are there any other alternatives?
ooorah

im not positive, but if i remember correctly you have access to the external sd (using Root Explorer or something like it) there is /Mnt/sdcard check in there im not sure the exact directory, but im pretty sure it was in there when i was using A7comb, then you can copy and paste the update.zip to the root of the sd
Let me know if you can't find it, i will flash A7comb real quick to give you a hand

Catch-22 eLocity A7
smallba, Thanks for the reply. Can root explorer be used to do the rom flashing? I can get the 1.41 rom on the sdcard using my desktop, but the A7 can't see it. I've tried to flash using the start button routine, but it never recognizes the sdcard and sends me back to boot. Then I cant boot until I remove the sdcard. Also, even though I'm rooted and have superuser, root explorer always fc's. What a mess.
ooorah

ooorah said:
I have installed A7Comb rom which mostly does a good job. The biggest problem is that external sdcard and usb are inaccessible. If I choose to go back to 3.01 where I had this capability, access to external sdcard is required to flash the old rom. Am I screwed or are there any other alternatives?
ooorah
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Try mnt/external_sd ..

ooorah said:
smallba, Thanks for the reply. Can root explorer be used to do the rom flashing? I can get the 1.41 rom on the sdcard using my desktop, but the A7 can't see it. I've tried to flash using the start button routine, but it never recognizes the sdcard and sends me back to boot. Then I cant boot until I remove the sdcard. Also, even though I'm rooted and have superuser, root explorer always fc's. What a mess.
ooorah
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Do you have Sdhc adaptor physically plug the micro sdhc in the computer and then move the update zip to the sd?
What kind of sdcard are u using?
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Thanks for your reply. At /mnt/external_sd the sd folder is shown as empty.
ooorah

smallba I connect via usb to my desktop using a Targus adapter. The sdscard is Kingston 2gb formatted fat32. I cut/paste update.zip to the sd card.
ooorah

Do you have a cell phone to try the sd card in? I just want to make sure it is not corrupted, you have flashed before using this same sdcard?
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Yes I've used this sd card to flash on my Acer A500. I'm sure it's ok.
ooorah

What does it do when you put in and pull out the sdcard?
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When sdcard is installed I look at externai_sd and it's empty. I cannot reboot until the sdcard is removed. BTW, various mount apps I've tried fail to recognize the presence of a sdcard.
ooorah

I know I been asking many questions, but it recognized in the accer?
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Yes, sdcard was recognized in Acer 500. Content was shown under external sd.

A7
What rom are you trying to flash back to?
I had some issues reverting back from A7Comb.
I think I had to flash back to stock first.

Re: your previous post, how can I flash back to stock if I can't find external sd?
ooorah

Cant read SD
I reloaded my copy of A7Comb and will play around with it to see if I run into the same issue. If the SD can't be used, it may be possible to connect via USB/ADB and push the stock images.
However, I have never used ADB with the A7, only with other devices. I will also try and figure that out to see if that's a viable option. Will need to find the drivers and get those loaded. Been meaning to test ADB with this device anyway.

Thanks DANO, I'd appreciate the help.
ooorah

I'll do what I can, I'm no expert, but I am very comfortable with ADB and have no concerns about messing with my A7. I've been meaning to do this for a while anyway. Will probably take me a few days to get get the A7 connected to ADB as its USB port doesn't play nice, and there are some tricks to getting windows/ADB to pick up the device. I'm also gonna try and lookup Dexter to see if he can give me some tips on doing this.

I used ADB last March and rooted my CRUZ 7" tablet. Whether it will work with a usb connection to eLocity A7 will have to be tried. I'll play around to see if I can get it working. If I get that far I'll have to wait for further instructions.
ps I can use a usb keyboard with no problem. ooorah

Yeah, keyboards, thumb drives, etc. should all work as the A7’s USB slot is set to host mode by default. The trick is flipping the switch to slave/device mode so we can use ADB to communicate with it.
Dexter’s A7Comb Rom had an App “OTG” for doing this (with a reboot), but when I tried it out, my Windows 7 box only saw the device but still didn’t fully communicate with it (ADB didn’t see it at all). Most likely due to the lack of a driver, or rather telling it where the driver was.
I’ve got some info on doing this, and I plan on trying to get this up and going tonight. Once I get ADB connected to the A7, I would think we should be able to push a new recovery image or something along those lines to fix whatever happened with the SD Card.
Just curious, have you tried a factory reset, data wipe, etc. (then reboot back into recovery), and tried to run the update.zip from the SD Card. I doubt this will work, but the A7 re-writes the recovery image with each update, therefore if something got corrupted, perhaps a wipe will fix whatever is broken in recovery by way of re-writing it. I’m not sure if recovery gets replaced with just a data wipe/reset, but if you don’t mind resetting your device it might be worth a shot.

Unable to push rom to device after having formatted internal SD card using CWM

After having formatted my internal sdcard, I'm unable to flash any rom. I've installed cwm revorery and would like to push a rom to the sdcard in order to be able to flash it, because right now theres nothing on my card (its totally formatted without any system on it).
When i try to push a file via toolkit to the internal sdcard there appears the following error message:
- exec ' /system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -
Can anybody help me out with this issue?

It looks like the error is saying it is missing a file in /system/bin/, which makes sense since internal storage is completely wiped.
Just start a command prompt in Windows and change directory to where adb.exe is in the android sdk. Then copy the ROM you want to install into the same directory as adb. Use the command "adb push blahblahblah.zip" to push the ROM from your PC to the internal storage. Obviously replacing blahblahblah.zip with whatever the ROM filename is.
Toolkit's can be handy, but before you use one you need to know how to unlock your phone and copy files to/from your device without a toolkit. So that way when problems arise you know what probably went wrong and how to fix it.

Probably not really helpful, but I was able to push files to /sdcard when I wiped all options and formatted Data with TWRP.

Same problem here
Please help us. I accidentally did the same. Now I can't copy file to the device. CWM is still functioning but there is nothing left to flash.

kimezra said:
Please help us. I accidentally did the same. Now I can't copy file to the device. CWM is still functioning but there is nothing left to flash.
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Just flash TWRP recovery via Fastboot then mount the SD card as USB storage. Once you have done this you can copy a new Rom over and flash it.

Thanks for your quick reply!
EniGmA1987 said:
It looks like the error is saying it is missing a file in /system/bin/, which makes sense since internal storage is completely wiped.
Just start a command prompt and change directory to where adb.exe is in the android sdk. Then copy the ROM you want to install into the same directory as adb. Use the command "adb push blahblachblah.zip" to push the ROM from your PC to the internal storage. Obviously replacing blahblahblah.zip with whatever the ROM filename is.
Toolkit's can be handy, but before you use one you need tokn ow how to unlock your phone and copy files to/from your device without a toolkit. So that way when problems arise you know what probably went wrong and how to fix it.
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You're right! I've learned that by wasting hours..
How do I change directory to where adb.exe is? what is android sdk? I'd be very happy if you could explain me some of the steps to achieve that or lead me to a tutorial where I can learn it.
Thanks again!

dr9722 said:
Just flash TWRP recovery via Fastboot then mount the SD card as USB storage. Once you have done this you can copy a new Rom over and flash it.
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Thanks a lot for your reply!!
Would you mind telling me how to flash twrp recovery via fastboot?
Thx in advance!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=37019359&postcount=10
Also:
Once you are in a ROM again, download GooManager and look on Google for the easy steps to flashing TeamWinRecoveryProject.

Thank you so much EniGmA1987!! This is awesome!
It finally worked out for me! BIG THANKS!

Your welcome
Was it easy enough even without the use of a toolkit?

Your tutorial is very clear and easy to understand. I followed all the steps, but still couldn't find the pushed ROM on my SD card (after having waited for about 5 minutes). So I mounted all you can with cwm and used the toolkit - and it worked! Probably it was the directory that was set right after having followed your tutorial. Thanks again!!

[problem] NST will not go past 'Read Forever' screen, despite formats/factor resets

As my title says, the problem with my nook simple touch is that it will not go past the 'Read Forever' Screen.
Yes I have reset the device 8 times and watched the device reformat itself, it still does not go past the 'read forever' screen
The screen is responsive, because the clockwork mod (run off my SD card) navigates just fine
factory formats and manual formats (via clockworks), still do not get it past the read forever screen, although it says installation was successful.
I think the storage for my NST is the issue, and I want to exhaust all my options before spending $40 to trade in for a new one.
I have two questions
Is there a fix for my scenario?
Is it possible to boot straight from the SD card, bypassing my corrupt internal drive? some OS/thing that can be run right off the SD?
I just want to read books on my nook from my SD card, if I can get that I will be happy.

Does anyone have a solution?
I have a feeling my device is bricked, because even when I put touchnooter on my SD card and into my nook, the screen doesn't flash black as it is supposed to.

I would say if CWM recovery works then the hardware is mostly ok.
You could have screwed up the partitioning, that will prevent many things from working.
Try mounting everything in CWM, see if that work.

Hey,
I was able to mount everything except /data and /sd-ext, I got an "Error mounting" message.

First, if you can access /rom, adb pull everything and put it in a safe place on your desktop.
Um, I think that CWM has an option to format a partition?
Format /data.
Don't worry about sd-whatever. The stock CWM recovery has a strange config.
Then do a factory format.

I'm getting an error when i try to format /data, would that mean its permanently corrupt?

Do you have ADB over USB to the CWM?
If not, get that going. See: http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/BN_Nook_Simple_Touch/Installing_ADB
Did you safely save away the files in /rom?
What error do you get when formatting?
Did you use a command like this?
Code:
busybox mkfs.ext2 -L data /dev/block/mmcblk1p8

After a few hours of trying--I just cant get the ADB working for my nook through CWM. Three different tutorials on how to set it up and still my computer doesn't detect the nook ADB.
I do not know how to access /rom, so no I have never saved it.
The error I get when formatting /data in CWM is "Error formatting /data!"
My device got stuck on this read forever bootloop out of nowhere. One day I was using it, then i don't use it for a week, and when I start it up again, its in a bootloop, and no reformatting seems to get it out of it.

With the Nook connected, check the device manager (devmgmt.msc).
There should be a line at the top for "Android Phone".
Treed off of that should be "Android Composite ADB Interface".
On your taskbar the little USB icon should have "Safely disconnect Android Composite ADB Interface".
Did you get this much working at least?

Total xfer: 1.00x - cm-13.0-20160326-NIGHTLY-klte

Hello, today I tried to install cm-13.0-20160326-NIGHTLY-klte but I got "Total xfer: 1.00x" message on my terminal.
I always used adb sideload in order to install new CM updates, everytime worked fine except today, not sure why but I can't install the update, it stucks on 47%
Code:
macbook:~ panoskosmidis$ adb devices
List of devices attached
0b459abc sideload
Code:
macbook:~ panoskosmidis$ adb sideload /Users/panoskosmidis/Downloads/cm-13.0-20160326-NIGHTLY-klte.zip
Total xfer: 1.00x
Any help would be great
Thanks in advance

Flash it normally via recovery like most other people?

I use adaptable storage so when I download an update in my device and reboot in order to install it the storage is not mounted so I cannot access the downloaded file.
Now I cannot access into OS when I boot the device I stuck on cyanogenmod logo and never boots into the OS, so the only way for me to solve the issue is to flash it via adb..
used to work just fine, I really cannot understand why this time it didn't, not sure where the fault can be, on the mobile phone or in my computer...?
Thanks

a strange thing happens, not sure why it happens but when I try to boot with my sd card the phone is stuck in cyanodenmod logo while booting and it never boots, when I remove the sd card it boots normal but as I set the phone to use sd card as internal memory I get a message that I should insert my sd card, so I insert my sd card and everything works fine.
I cannot restart my phone with my sd card on it because it won't boot, so I have to remove the sd card, let phone boot and then insert back the sd card... pain in the a$$...
Not sure why this happens, any suggestion?
Thanks