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Can't load custom roms anymore

I hope that this isn't a repost, I've searched quite a bit but nothing is exactly like what i'm experiencing.
Here's what happened, i'll try and make this short and to the point.
Got my new evo, rooted it using unrevoked 3 and got root access.
Loaded a few custom roms, no problem, finally settled on Calkulin's EViO rom. Everything was working great, 4G was perfect, blah blah blah, buddy with an evo told me that Cyanogen was the poo and that I had to flash to that as it was the best ever.
I download Cyanogen 6.1.2 from cyanogen's forum and proceeded to flash it to my phone after doing a nand backup on my current rom. I forgot to back up my RSA keys (didn't even know i had to in the first place) and after cyanogen loaded, I read the thread that states that flashing cyanogen make screw up your wimp key and that you should backup your RSA keys (crap!) before loading cyanogen. Well after reading this and freaking out, I went back into recovery, wiped everything, and loaded the recovery img of the last rom I was running on my evo.
Now my 4G doesn't work in calkulin (posted a thread about that a couple days ago), and I'm not able to load any rooms except for backups, a fresh copy of calkulin, and a fresh copy of cyanogen 6.1.2.
When i try to load a new rom (warm 2.2 for example), it'll load, but when i go and reboot, it'll sit at the white HTC EVO screen forever .. nothing will change until I pull the battery out and start the phone back into recovery. I can reload one of my old backup images and everything works fine again.
I've cleared all the memory, delvik cache, everything. I even formatted my SD card after backing it up and loading just the roms on there. that didn't help either.
Any help would be fantastic .. I'm completely floored as to why I can't load anymore rooms.
Also, i want my wimax back!

wow.. sorry.. i hope someone can help you.
but I would think, you have to call sprint. they may have the wimax info for your phone.. and how to put it back.
for my knownledge... how do you get the information RSA keys and wimax info.. so I can backup mine?

Here's how to backup your RSA keys
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/248586-question-how-backup-wimax-rsa-keys.html
And issue is resolved.
amon recover > clockwork
4G is working now too. wewt.

thanks..
that is great you got it done.
I dont use clockwork.

dizzle247 said:
I hope that this isn't a repost, I've searched quite a bit but nothing is exactly like what i'm experiencing.
Here's what happened, i'll try and make this short and to the point.
Got my new evo, rooted it using unrevoked 3 and got root access.
Loaded a few custom roms, no problem, finally settled on Calkulin's EViO rom. Everything was working great, 4G was perfect, blah blah blah, buddy with an evo told me that Cyanogen was the poo and that I had to flash to that as it was the best ever.
I download Cyanogen 6.1.2 from cyanogen's forum and proceeded to flash it to my phone after doing a nand backup on my current rom. I forgot to back up my RSA keys (didn't even know i had to in the first place) and after cyanogen loaded, I read the thread that states that flashing cyanogen make screw up your wimp key and that you should backup your RSA keys (crap!) before loading cyanogen. Well after reading this and freaking out, I went back into recovery, wiped everything, and loaded the recovery img of the last rom I was running on my evo.
Now my 4G doesn't work in calkulin (posted a thread about that a couple days ago), and I'm not able to load any rooms except for backups, a fresh copy of calkulin, and a fresh copy of cyanogen 6.1.2.
When i try to load a new rom (warm 2.2 for example), it'll load, but when i go and reboot, it'll sit at the white HTC EVO screen forever .. nothing will change until I pull the battery out and start the phone back into recovery. I can reload one of my old backup images and everything works fine again.
I've cleared all the memory, delvik cache, everything. I even formatted my SD card after backing it up and loading just the roms on there. that didn't help either.
Any help would be fantastic .. I'm completely floored as to why I can't load anymore rooms.
Also, i want my wimax back!
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dizzle247 said:
Here's how to backup your RSA keys
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/248586-question-how-backup-wimax-rsa-keys.html
And issue is resolved.
amon recover > clockwork
4G is working now too. wewt.
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Glad you got it working bro. Just for everyone that is new who may read this thread Cyanogen DOES NOT break your 4G keys. Older versions of Clockworkmod Recovery will. Follow the how to backup your RSA keys before doing Anything with the EVO.
Just because 4G is not yet included in Cyanogen Rom's does not mean it breaks your 4g. In fact, thanks to some of our dedicated and smart devs there is an actual Alpha of CM 6.1.2 with 4g and from what I hear it works pretty damn good.
Anyway I just wanted to clear that up because I would not want anyone to think that CM Rom's break your 4G. I am sure the OP meant Clockworkmod Recovery, but said CM in a rush to try to figure out his problem.

housry23 said:
Glad you got it working bro. Just for everyone that is new who may read this thread Cyanogen DOES NOT break your 4G keys. Older versions of Clockworkmod Recovery will. Follow the how to backup your RSA keys before doing Anything with the EVO.
Just because 4G is not yet included in Cyanogen Rom's does not mean it breaks your 4g. In fact, thanks to some of our dedicated and smart devs there is an actual Alpha of CM 6.1.2 with 4g and from what I hear it works pretty damn good.
Anyway I just wanted to clear that up because I would not want anyone to think that CM Rom's break your 4G. I am sure the OP meant Clockworkmod Recovery, but said CM in a rush to try to figure out his problem.
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thanks for clearing that up .. I'm not sure exactly what I read as I glanced over it and freaked out because I didn't want to ruin my wimax keys .. so thanks for the clarification.
I've been trying to install the 6.1.2 with wimax but I keep getting hung up on the white evo screen, as well as others .. I'm tempted to install CM7 and forget about 4G for the time being as I know toast will get it up and running in the upcoming months.
Hopefully someone can figure out the reason as to why the wimax alpha is hanging at the htc evo screen after installing the kernal.

CWM 3.0 Now available from Rom Manager... :-)

Hi Guys, New CWM 3.0 is available now from the ROM manager.

Im on sense rom.. will it bckup n restore sense rom or it is for 2.3 roms only?
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override182 said:
Im on sense rom.. will it bckup n restore sense rom or it is for 2.3 roms only?
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You can find All Versions of Clockwork Mod Recoveries in ROM Manager. So if you having any problems with old Roms you can use CWM 2.5.
CWM 3 doesn't support update-script, it requires update-binary and updater-script. So there are many mods and themes available which will not work with CWM 3.0. If you know how to convert them into flashable Zips then you will be able to use it. But anyway you can always revert back to CWM 2.5.

Does nandroid backups made with CWM 2.5 work with this new version?

Restoring backups of 2.2 roms doesn't work for me. Only way I can get a 2.2 rom to boot is if I flash a fresh zip

jontelfer said:
Restoring backups of 2.2 roms doesn't work for me. Only way I can get a 2.2 rom to boot is if I flash a fresh zip
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Just use CWM 2.5 to restore backup of 2.2 Roms. It should be working fine, I tried on my DHD and I don't have any issues.

Awesome! Makes things easier when I want to flash CM7.

I was so glad to see this. I had the non-final version installed and it meant if I wanted to go back to Sense I had flash the 2.5.1.3 recovery first. Now with this being on the ROM manager I flashed the 2.5.1.3 then recovered Sense, flashed v3 recovery and backed up Sense. With that done I can go between it and CM7 or any other ROMs that allow far more easily.

Dyonas said:
I was so glad to see this. I had the non-final version installed and it meant if I wanted to go back to Sense I had flash the 2.5.1.3 recovery first. Now with this being on the ROM manager I flashed the 2.5.1.3 then recovered Sense, flashed v3 recovery and backed up Sense. With that done I can go between it and CM7 or any other ROMs that allow far more easily.
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True.. Makes my life more easier...

It would have beign nice if I knew this stuff about v3 yesterday...when I couldn't get back any recovery, and I was beginning to believe that is something wrong.with my SD card. But I don,t understand ,why, if is a NEW (and supposedly a better version) doesn't, support the back up made with v2.5 (I read about the .bin, and .zip file in a.upper post, but It's a little to technically for me and I dont understand how this will help me if I use CM7 and ruu 2.3).
And the question is, will v3 recover the backup made with v3 of my sense Rom,because I don,t wanna try again and if it.doesn't,t work ,I will wake up my self again in the orange menu of v3 and then I have to flash again a Rom, downgrade from Rom manager to v2.5 and restore an older backup

Neat!
CM7 official release is probably not to far away then!

Thanks...!

Argh, really, is it so hard to check for the fs during backup, and then restore it using the noted fs? Why the stupid split for ext3 on 2.5 and ext4 on 3 ? Especially since 3 has no problem reading ext3.

movikun said:
Argh, really, is it so hard to check for the fs during backup, and then restore it using the noted fs? Why the stupid split for ext3 on 2.5 and ext4 on 3 ? Especially since 3 has no problem reading ext3.
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Obviously Koush feels it is, don't forget CWM is open source, if you feel the check of file system and appropriate restore / backup is a minor issue submit a patch implementing it for review and I am sure Koush will accept it with pleasure.

re flashed today everything is nice. Except one backup from older CWM is not recognized.

Thanks for the heads-up

Anyone knows if it'll get the right google apps as well?
gapps-gb-20110120-signed.zip
thats the latest for DHD if i am not mistaken. Will checking
the google apps box get that?

TheLawyer said:
Anyone knows if it'll get the right google apps as well?
gapps-gb-20110120-signed.zip
thats the latest for DHD if i am not mistaken. Will checking
the google apps box get that?
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You can check available google apps on here http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Latest_Version/Google_Apps

I was using MIUI rom on my DHD and I wanted to restore a nandroid backup to return to Revolution HD, when I started Rom Manager, it told me there's an update to 3.0.x (Not 100% if it was 3.0.5 or something else), so I updated it.
Then when I tried to do a nandroid restore to my RevolutionHD backup, it went through the process properly, but it won't boot into the rom.
Can anyone help me out, please. I'm phoneless?

KDR1245 said:
I was using MIUI rom on my DHD and I wanted to restore a nandroid backup to return to Revolution HD, when I started Rom Manager, it told me there's an update to 3.0.x (Not 100% if it was 3.0.5 or something else), so I updated it.
Then when I tried to do a nandroid restore to my RevolutionHD backup, it went through the process properly, but it won't boot into the rom.
Can anyone help me out, please. I'm phoneless?
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flash cwm 2.5.x from fastboot and reflash revolution

[ATTN] ROM Manager 4 + ClockWorkMod 2.X causes Touchscreen Brick

Hello All,
I would like to report that the newest version of ROM Manager which I have installed on my device caused a touch-screen problem.
I transferred the ROM to my SD card and used the newest version of ROM Manager to flash it.
After it was done, I turned on my device and found out the touchscreen completely broke. I could see the visuals on my screen, but I could not click on any buttons and the touchscreen is rendered useless.
I tried to manually enter the bootloader (switching off the phone, click once on the power button and hold on the vol down key until you see a white screen than click to recovery) to flash another ROM, but no matter which ROMs I flashed, the touchscreen did not work at all.
So I decided to RUU my phone back to it's original condition and send back to HTC (RUU_Ace_HTC_WWE_1.32.405.6_Radio_12.28b.60.140e_26 .03.02.26_M_release_155891_signed)
and after it complete the flash, the touchscreen works again.
So I would just like to conclude that the newest version of ROM Manager caused problems with ClockworkMod 2.X
Thanks.

Many ROM's HAVE to be flashed using version 3+ of Clockwork recovery.
Based on the fact that there are still a LOT of people that are using the same combination I would say this is a rare occurrence.
Thank you for your post but I urge people not to take this as a definite. May I ask why you chose to use 2X not 3x of recovery?

Mr_JMM said:
Many ROM's HAVE to be flashed using version 3+ of Clockwork recovery.
Based on the fact that there are still a LOT of people that are using the same combination I would say this is a rare occurrence.
Thank you for your post but I urge people not to take this as a definite. May I ask why you chose to use 2X not 3x of recovery?
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For me ANY of newer recoveries higher than OLD ONE 2.5.1.3 doesnt work proeprly :/ Thay don`t restore my roms properly. I wish i could have newer one but all ot them causes bootlopps or tones of FCs after restore.
Thats why IM USING 2.5.1.3

Krzysiec said:
For me ANY of newer recoveries higher than OLD ONE 2.5.1.3 doesnt work proeprly :/ Thay don`t restore my roms properly. I wish i could have newer one but all ot them causes bootlopps or tones of FCs after restore.
Thats why IM USING 2.5.1.3
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I used to get that, there's a certain way of doing it that I found works.
Restore a backup using the older CWM recovery
Boot into the ROM and flash CWM 3.x using ROM Manager
Backup the ROM using ROM Manager
ROM should now restore properly.
I've got the 405.3 version of Sense rooted as a backup that didn't work on CWM 3.x but after doing it this way it works fine.
If you have more than one backup then flash the older CWM and repeat the above steps. The way the older versions backup seems to cause problems if you try to restore using a 3.x CWM.
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Cwm 3.x works fine with me, when the backup isn't from à 2.x one...
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Me too, cwm 3.x works fine for me
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clockwork recovery = bad nandroids

Hi there... I am running The orange cwr that I grabbed from this forum. I am getting very frustrated because none of my backups will work. I get md5 check sums errors. Thoughts? Suggestions? Thank. You!

Same issue here as well, running prime v 1.5 and clemsyn v 16 kernel
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk

I have not read any complaint of bad nandroid backups for people who have installed this cwm recovery in their tf101:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093818

i'm using the CW recovery from the above link, and i just restored a backup last night and it worked just fine.

I've never had a problem backing up in CWM.

I have to agree with OP, not once has restoring a nandroid worked for me. Im always getting the bad MD5 error.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA Premium App

Just restored one last night from 2 days ago, so it doesn't appear to be systemic.

branshaw09 said:
Hi there... I am running The orange cwr that I grabbed from this forum. I am getting very frustrated because none of my backups will work. I get md5 check sums errors. Thoughts? Suggestions? Thank. You!
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any details on what you are running as far as your rom, kernel, ect. I haven't had any problems while running stock, any rom, or the various kernels.. I'm not sure if this will help, but I personally would redownload (i think that's a word) Rom Manager, reflash the lastest version of CWM then reflash the version that is modified for the TF. I had issues before I flashed solarnz's version, that was due to nubness and not isolation the media though (kinda irrelevant).
Hope that helps some

Bad quality or fake MicroSD?
Sent from my Transformer TF101

Never had a problems with nandroid backup or restore

ondoy1943 said:
I have not read any complaint of bad nandroid backups for people who have installed this cwm recovery in their tf101:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093818
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PERFECT! That did the trick. I thought I updated my CWR when I rooted, but I guess I didnt have this one. Thanks so much!!!

I'm also not having problems with bad nandroid backup's.
Only thing is, i think it skips the kernel for whatever reason.
Could one of you guys check next time if nandroid also reverts the kernel, because i flashed ubuntu yesterday, before i had clemsyn rom + kernel combo. which i made a nandroid of. i flashed prime 1.5 with roach's kernel, then after that, i installed ubuntu. when i got back to android and restored my nandroid i found out that there was the roach's kernel while it should be clemsyn's OC kernel.
Can anyone confirm this?

Have some problem too, can't update from SD in Clockwork
After flash with nvflash, that's problem removed...

can flash to miui or restore to stock htc root but .....

This is my first post in XDA.I hope this is the right spot for this questions.
I have searched everywhere for the answers to this question before posting. I flashed to CM7 with the tiamat kernel awhile back. I love CM7 but was curious to see what other rom developers are doing.
I ALWAYS do a back up before doing any flashes. I backed up my CM7 and my base rooted HTC downgraded 2.2 through RM. I was able to flash to synergy with no problems and restore to CM7. I decided to check out MIUI over the weekend. I flashed it with no problem. Last night I wanted to try mikshifted-g and Supreme Sense . I could not install either of them . The both stalled once CWM started to install. It was stuck on updating. There were no errors. I took the battery out and tried to restore CM7 backup through CWM. The restore went as expect but when I went to reboot it was only the HTC logo. I took the battery out and went back to MIUI through CWM and the phone booted. I then did a restore of my original rooted 2.2 the phone booted. I tried to install the above again on a fresh HTC stock rooted phone through RM and still had the same thing happen.
My question, is why I am not able to flash any other roms successfully other than restoring to MIUI and stock rooted htc 2.2 ? Installing Synergy works !
I do a full flash of system,data, cache and dalvik cache. I am not sure what I am missing.
If I understand correctly MIUI is a GB kernel as well as the others so there should not be a problem of compatibility ? I am assuming I still have root ? My HBOOT does say S off and PG 06001. I will try downloading CM7 through MIUI again to see if it works through RM. Sorry for the long post. I wanted to give as much detail as possible. Thanks in advance for any help
Richard

My suggestion would be don't use ROM Manager to flash, wipe or make nands. Do everything manually through recovery. I've seen too many people have the same type problems when using ROM manager.

what I have noticed is the progress bar in cwm doesn't work with sense roms, at least it never did in the mikshifted roms i tried and they take a LOT longer to install than cm7. How long did you let them sit at the install screen with that blank progress bar? Try clearing all your data/caches then install a sense based rom but leave your phone alone for like 10 minutes while it sits at that screen with the blank progress bar that says mikroms or whatever it says (been awhile since i used one). It shouldn't take 10 minutes but if your phone sits at that screen for that long then you know for sure it isn't working. I pulled my battery a couple times before i realized that's what was happening. I read about it somewhere online.

I have tried both RM and CWM. Both have the same results. 99% of the time I prefer the manual CWM method. Sorry I did not make it more clear.
I did re-flash CM7 with no problem. I do let the rom flash sit for a while but I will try longer since you say it takes longer with the roms in question. I let it sit for a few minutes. That seems like it should be more than enough. CM7 is pretty quick to install as well MIUI like you said. I love the layout and features of MIUI but since I am in a 4G area seems to defeat the purpose of having 4G if you can't use it. To be realistic though 4G is spotty in Atlanta and I mostly end up for 3G or using my wireless at home. I will probably end up with CM7 again since I like it equally as much as MIUI. If I wait longer for it to install and it does not work is there anything I should be looking at as the culprit other than myself

you were right, it just took a LONG time to install. I thought I was losing it. It took over 5 minutes. I am used to the install times of the MIUI and CM7 . Thanks for telling me to wait a little long. It's always the simple overlooked things like patients

My advice is just make sure you do a FULL Wipe before flashing a Rom. Like on THIS GUIDE, saves headaches later. Aslo, as you've learned Sense Roms usually take quite a bit longer than MIUI ,ASOP, or most others. But yes patience is important .

I definitely do a full wipe . I used all the guides here to make sure I did everything correct. I did not realize that the sense roms took longer than the CM or MIUI. I love the layout of MIUI. I wished it at some point 4G was going to be a part of it but I understand why it will not be .
4G in Atlanta, GA is not reliable, at least on my shift with sprint. I hate to pay for a feature that I am not able to use on regular basis. It's so spotty here I have gotten used to it.
I was never a big sense fan but it seems like if you want to have the 4G feature you use either use CM or another Sense rom right ? I got the shift because of how solid it's built and many reviews favor the EVOs or Galaxy S on Sprint
Thanks for all the feedback
Richard

Well you might want to give [AOSP ROM] S.O.A.P. ROM (sense-ish on android phones) a try. Sounds more like what your looking for. It's by one of the Shift members here.