So I decided to give Tranquility a test and see how it compares to my currently running ApeX. I followed the usual procedures, data wipe/factory reset.....twice.
then installed TranQ and the TranQ App update.
The phone then boots up and freezes on the animation screen. So i reset it, then it won't boot at all past the Logo screen. Randomly it decides to boot up fine, but then 30 seconds of android and it reboots and freezes up.
So for some reason it won't let me boot into clockwork recovery, so i decide to just do the system only SBF it and be done.
So I've SBF'd it twice now, the first time it did a random restart and froze, and also kept the tranq boot animation. I did the 2nd sbf and it's got rid of the animation screen and back to droid, however the tranq boot logo is there.
I haven't proceeded to reactivate the phone yet, and just leaving it alone it hasn't restarted itself. I'm planning on rerooting and reinstalling clockwork recovery and see if i can get one of my old backups going.
But, any theories to what would have jacked it up so bad? and why the stock moto logo wasn't put back when SBF'ing?
update:
rerooted just fine using Z4, installed clockwork recovery just fine too.
Right now I'm doing a data wipe and reinstalling ApeX 1.3.1 from scratch from clockwork recovery. Then I'm gonna restore one of my backups.
Hopefully all goes well
update:
recovered to my backup just fine. Still didn't get rid of the tranq boot logo, thankfully i had a zip stored away of the stock logo so I installed that.
All is now well in the world.
Lesson from this......if it's working fine, leave yo sht alone!
Logo is stored in different place then a system sbf will update. That's not tranQ 's fault. I still use gummyJar though. Too much blur in TranQ for me
I had the exact same problem when I went from fission to tran q. I literally had to do the. 320 sbf then the. 340 sbf to get tran q to install right. Didn't like it and put fission back on
yea i had to do the same thing comming from fission, and because of it i am just staying on tranquility until Obsidian is more stable, then GOODBYE BLUR :-D
The trick to installing TranQ is to install it over stock. If you try to install it over another custom ROM you will have nothing but problems.
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davidukfl said:
Lesson from this......if it's working fine, leave yo sht alone!
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I feel your pain, but you shouldn't be discouraged (as long as you Nandroid, Nandroid, Nandroid!).
I also spent a week fiddling with TranQ before giving up due to random reboots. But I went ahead and installed GummyJar. It was worth it!
When you're ready to climb back onto the horse, you should try GummyJar. If you prefer a no-bur ROM, it's probably the best in terms of speed and stability.
well i had tried Gummy before, but it was a little buggy for me. Phone would restart after calls, hardware buttons wouldn't always work and a few other little things.
I actually just switched to Fission and it's pretty brilliant thus far. No problems at all, and the fission manager helps a lot
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Logo is stored in different place then a system sbf will update. That's not tranQ 's fault. I still use gummyJar though. Too much blur in TranQ for me
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IT IS TranQ's fault. It is the only ROM that does this. Before you get rid of Tranq, you have to go in to the tools and set your boot logo back to stock. I have flashed many different ROMs and it is the ONLY ONE that makes sure to "leave its mark," LITERALLY.
had same problem when I went from fission. I had to sbf .32 then sbf .34 then did the tran q and it worked just fine after that. I didn't like it to much so I went back to fission. To get rid of the tran q I just did the same sbf method I did and went back to fission.
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IT IS TranQ's fault. It is the only ROM that does this. Before you get rid of Tranq, you have to go in to the tools and set your boot logo back to stock. I have flashed many different ROMs and it is the ONLY ONE that makes sure to "leave its mark," LITERALLY.
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You're right on w/this..Its too bad I found out the hard way..
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so i went through the instructions on instaklling the tranquility rom, well after installing all i got was the motorola boot, nothing else, so i restarted the phone after about 10 min, and still nothing, so i reboot into recovery, and wiped the phone, well its still only showing the motorola logo, any suggestions?
Same thing happend to me
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so i went through the instructions on instaklling the tranquility rom, well after installing all i got was the motorola boot, nothing else, so i restarted the phone after about 10 min, and still nothing, so i reboot into recovery, and wiped the phone, well its still only showing the motorola logo, any suggestions?
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Boot into recovery and load one of your backups. If you don't have backups, then you just learned why you need them. Of course, there are people who have uploaded nandroid backups to this site and others, find one of them, move it to your sdcard, boot into recovery, and install it.
If all this fails, then just .sbf. It doesn't take forever, and you can make a nice clean stock 2.2 backup after you root and then upgrade.
What OS are you running? Have you tried to SBF your phone back to factory?
Im guessing its 2.2 only
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Yeah i got it back by doing spf. And then reloaded a backup, but i could never get into clockwork, what do u do yo get into clockwork because the only recovery i was able to get into was the recovery that comes with the phone, just would like to know.
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The same thing happened to me trying to update using the update.zip. Installs everything normally but when it comes to booting it simply stops at the motorola logo, then if you reboot it several times taking the battery out it boots into the system.
Doesn't sound like your rooted? Have to be rooted to use Clockwork.
If you are rooted might try reinstalling the Bootstrap Recovery.
Would definitely suggest doing an SBF on the phone. The guides here are a little unorganized, so I wrote up a nice one below. Includes everything including the SBF file needed for flashing.
http://destdroid.com/showthread.php?18-How-to-Flash-2.1-(SBF)
Need help! My phone was rooted using the Easy Root process, all was peachy until I decided to try the latest leak of 2.2. Didn't work, got stuck at the M logo and could only get the bootloader screen up. I thought it was bricked but after searching high and low through the blogosphere got to this post. Now I've done the sbf as suggested, but when I try to do the Easy Root again, nothing happens. Any suggestions? I would like to root again so I can access the backup from my sd card and get my phone back to where I had it b/f. HELP!
Thought this might be of help to others, after trying the froyo viper rom for a week, I decided to go back to 2.1, kept getting force closes, so booted in to clockword wiped 3 times and used it to restore to my last backup which was right before I updated to viper. Rebooting the phone it would not get past the Samsung screen, tried booting it over and over still just stayed at the samsung screen was about to odin it when it occured to me that maybe clockwork doesnt replace the kernal or doesnt replace it correctly from the backup, so re downloaded y previouse kernal (mixup) and the restored my last backup again and rebooted, this time it booted up just fine.....but now after a little while i started getting lines running up the screen, kinda like static or a unsupported video mode...hmmmm back tinto clockword and reflashed the mixup kernal again, reboot ........seems alright now no freaky static lines booting just fine back to how I had it before the froyo rom
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Clockwork doesn't backup kernel's I don't think. So always keep your 2.1 kernel handy...
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Thxs for the heads up...
After trying the "froyo" roms..I've experienced TWLAUNCHER FC loops and not getting all my market apps especially the SlingPlayer that i purchased..which is most important to me..
I was wondering why I would not get back to my EE back-up ..
it was a pain to start from scratch and flash original, then modem, then another froyo rom to see which one worked..
So now you say to do a full backup restore and then flash the kernal after that?
is there a solution to get "ALL" my apps to show up in Froyo market?
thxs
mike
I have been using Rubix Focused 1.8.9 on my DX for a weeks or so and I was super happy with it. I have been getting a little ROM crazy though and had been reading up on Tranquility 3.5.1 and it seemed pretty cool so I decided to try it.
I think I messed something up in the install process because things were FCing left and right and it was just super laggy. So I decided to restore my nandroid backup that I had made right before installing Tranquility.
I was doing all this on a bus so I didn't realize that my batter was pretty low. Well halfway through my nandroid restore my batter died. Suffice it say that I was freaking out.
I got home and booted the phone and got the Tranqulity splash screen, followed by the Rubix splash screen. Then the phone booted up into Rubix exactly like it was in the backup.
I have no idea what is going on. I dont really mind the splash screens but I am afraid there may be some issues if there are files from both installs running at the same time.
Should I try restoring the backup again and let it go all the way through or do I have nothing to worry about?
Actually - and you can correct me if I am wrong - you got the tranquility boot logo and the rubix flash screen? If that is correct - you don't really need to worry about it. For whatever reason - the nandroid does not over write the boot logo.
I actually performed and sbf and when I rebooted my phone I still had my custom boot logo! It actually kind of bothered me. I thought the whole purpose of an sbf was to COMPLETELY restore your phone to its factory state.
So anyways - I wouldn't worry about it too much. I know it would drive me crazy to have the "wrong" boot logo. Here is a link to a thread with tons of boot logo's to choose from...
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-x-hacks/91707-droid-x-custom-boot-logo-ill-create.html
good luck.
Is there anyway to reboot recovery on the GingerAle ROM? Just installed it on a friends DX and she isnt a fan so I wanted to revert her back to liberty. Any thoughts on how I can do this would help Bootstrapper isnt letting me reboot to recovery and when i try to manually reboot recovery pushing the search button does nothing once im on the android with ! screen. any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
Are you trying DX or D2 Bootstrapper? Most Ginger builds require D2.
Using the DX bootstrap. I wanted to ask for any other thoughts before trying the D2 one. Will give it a shot today and report back
So d2 bootstrap allowed me to get back into recovery but after flashing liberty 1.5 it hangs on the liberty bootscreen. Anyone able to give me any help on this problem? Doing this for a friend and realizing why I will NEVER buy a locked down phone.
You can't go from a GB rom to a Froyo rom, you'll need to SBF back to 2.3.340, then go to LB 1.5. However, if you didn't, you can try wiping data/cache again, but I'm fairly certain a SBF is required to go back from GB.
I just did this. Cause I was trying to go back to Liberty to recover some of my data via Titanium. Was coming from gingerale too
SBF Back to absolute stock.
Itll probably bootloop. Pull battery and hold home and turn on. Then do a data reset and cache wipe.
After that reboot into stock droid x rom. Then download bootstrap
Then you can bootstrap back to liberty.
If you have questions hit me up. My phone literally just finished doing this. I thought i was screwed cause it was boot looping. But i'm good now.
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So d2 bootstrap allowed me to get back into recovery but after flashing liberty 1.5 it hangs on the liberty bootscreen. Anyone able to give me any help on this problem? Doing this for a friend and realizing why I will NEVER buy a locked down phone.
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The problem is that you flashed a froyo rom after coming from a gb rom and you probably didn't sbf. If you want to go gb to froyo, you MUST sbf back to stock froyo first. If you're not sure how to do this, there are tons of "how to" threads on here.
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Thanks a lot guys. I figures an sbf would be required. I flashed gingerale 2.0 and she seems happy with it. Gonna investigate this sbf more. Coming from HTC and Samsung phones Motorola is a whole new world lol.
The SBF process is easy dude. At first glance it seems really complicated but there's really nothing to it. There's even youtube videos if you feel a little uneasy.
Well, I got the thrive around late October.
Immediately rooted it, put some sort of cwm on it, did nandroid backups. Froze some apps. Everything has been working great.
Yesterday I was using dolphin HD on a website with flash. That's the last thing I did, when the whole thing just shut off immediately. The battery had at least 1/4 left.
Tried to reboot, it displayed the splash animation, spends a while, reboots, then again. It is stuck in a loop. I thought battery is low. Charged. Same thing.
No problem, I thought, ill restore a nandroid backup. Booted into cwm recovery, restored successfully one of my backups, but after rebooting, the same thing is happening.
What is going on?
I really want this thing back.
Thank you!
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If you have CWM still loaded (and I see you do), then go get my HTK55D.31.5.0002 OOM Rooted ROM. It will wipe your device and reflash it. That should correct the issue you are having. Once it is up and running, you should be able to restore your nandroid and be OK.
thank you, Dale. I was already downloading the rom from the other forum when I noticed you are the same guy.
do I need to wipe anything in CWM first?
No, the ROM will do the wipe for you. Just go into ClockWorkMod and install.
Did it. Besides apps that i had frozen or uninstalled, everything looks the same. I still have my apps and settings. ! Don't understand how, but its great
I remember now that I had overclocked. Can't remember how. But it had worked fine for month and a half. Used setcpu to 1.25g or 1.5. Can't remember.
After your update, setcpu sees the Max as 1000mhz. Which is fine. I am so excited about having the thrive back.
Thank u so much!
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Glad to hear it. Keep on Thriving.