WHAT I DID:
From stock ROM, albeit rooted -
opened ROM Manager
chose to download CM7rc2, also ticked Google bundle
allowed it to do its thing
Could not log into Google account, same as with CM6 - why does it hate me?
decided to flash back to previous backup
it goes OK, BUT:
"Restoring boot image..."
"Restoring system..."
"Restoring data..."
dalvik-cache
^^^ wtf is that?
it's stuck on "dalvik-cache" forever.
Pulled battery, tried again, same result.
Pulled battery again, tried to reflash older backup. BOOT LOOP.
So now I have a phone that isn't exactly bricked, but is unusable. I suspect there's a way to recover this, but I have no idea how to go about it. Help?
I almost see why no one else is helping. I surely posted in the last thread you had about the same thing. Your list never once mentioned a full wipe before installing CM7 over stock.
Sent from my CM7 powered G2
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So I tried to restore my previous ROM after giving another a try and it all fails. I wiped data/delvik/swap and then restored to the latest stored image. Phone starts to boot and then just freezes. I let it sit for about 8-10 minutes (phone usually takes a minute at most to boot) and then just did a hard reset by taking the battery out. I thought maybe the last file was corrupt so I removed the latest image and restored an older one. STILL no go. Freeze right at the second splash screen. Did I do something wrong? I have done this before and it worked fine. Im lost.
Hmmm anyone have an answer to this?
what rom is it and is the phone rooted?
The phone is Rooted and at that time I was on Kings Eris 2.1 sense ROM. Do you need a special ROM?
Hello all!
I was trying to replace a .9 file when everything force-closed on me, so I could not go into Clockworkmod Recovery to restore the NAND.
I restored with Odin, but during the messages tell me that the "data wipe" has "failed" in red text. The phone boots up through the stock animations and pink text, but I'm greeted with a blank screen no matter how long I wait. The bottom buttons light up.
What should I do?
EDIT: Yes, I've done it multiple times, each with the same outcome. I'm sort of frantic right now. Recovery mode works fine, but I don't think there's anything I can do there to unbrick my phone. I wiped all user data and the cache and rebooted, but no avail.
EDIT2: Never mind. Mods please close this thread. I restored the kernel image, and it is working like a charm now.
EDIT3: Never mind yet again. I followed instructions from androidforums. com/vibrant-support-troubleshooting/186959-samsung-vibrant-bricked.html#post1662645
but I end up with a bad kernel that asks me to force close every process over and over. I'm desperate as of now.
Have you tried Jacs/Kings kernel? WCS use the Froyo method in Sombionix ROM thread. Good luck...
So like the title says, I SBF'd my phone yesterday to start from scratch, and now the damn thing is boot looping. I was running LB .5 on .595, and flashed the VRZ_MB810_2.3.34_1FF_01.sbf file using RDLite 4.8 (same thing I've done before, just not while on GB).
I've tried SBF'ing it a few more times, and I've let it sit, trying to boot, for 20+ minutes. The SBF seems to go through successfully. The result says PASS, so then I reboot the phone, and then boot loop.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Well, nevermind...instead of doing those multiple SBF's, I should have just looked around. Found this on droidxforums.com, and it's going through the activation now.
http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/droid-x-rescue-squad/14548-bootloop-after-flashing-sbf-file.html
You always need to wipe data and cache a few times before SBF'ing or installing any new ROM from scratch. Only with incremental upgrades to existing ROMs where the ROM chef says you don't have to wipe, can you avoid doing so.
Well, I didn't think I needed to specify, but yes, I wiped data/cache/dalvik when I flashed the ROM. So I don't really know why I then had to boot into stock recovery and do it again.
How many times did you wipe them? It doesn't work like deleting regular files on a computer, you need to clear them at least 3 times each. I don't know the details as to why, but never clear data/cache fewer than 3x. I do 5x.
weird.... mine usually works and on the pc just stops on 99% eventhough it's done and working. And once it bootlooped after installing a custom ropm and coudn't access both clockwork or original recovery so sometimes it may work, sometimes it may not work.
Okay I've never read such a weird explanation on any thread in this forum.
Btw, I recently flashed InDroid 4.3. Less than a week ago.
My phone was running perfectly, but my google account linked with my phone was not what I wanted it to be. So I added another account and my phone said that to delete my previous account I had to do a factory reset.
So I deleted my older backup that I had created using Titanium Backup (when I was using stock ROM) and I created a new backup.
So I held down the power button and tried to get into recovery. But my phone just got stuck at the "samsung i5801" screen. I let it be for 10-15 minutes but it won't go beyond that. So I re-inserted the battery, and tried to get into recovery again. Didn't work.
Then I tried to just start my phone in normal mode, but still it just got stuck at the i5801 screen. I removed the sim card, SD card and tried, still stuck at the same screen.
Then I tried to get into downloading mode, which (thank god) worked.
Now I know the logical thing to do is just to flash a new ROM but my questions are :
a- WTF happened?!??!?!?!
b- since I can't get into recovery or normal mode, how do I reset factory settings / clear cache? And if I don't do all that, will flashing be successful? and safe?
btw, I'd like to continue with InDroid until Kyrillos 6.0 is perfectly stable.
-That happens frequently with indroid.. main cause could be the filesystems..
-flash kyrillos v6 its pretty much stable..
-Once you flash a new rom you'll be able to boot into recovery..
-Remove sdcard while flashing once done insert sdcard and wipe data n cache from recovery..
Hi, thanks for looking at this.
I have a Galaxy S 4 Google Edition phone. I rooted it, and I have TWRP 2.5.0.2 running on it. I have backed up my system a few times.
I tried flashing a rom of cyanogenmod for the first time today, cm-10.1-20130801-NIGHTLY-jfltexx.zip (http://get.cm/get/jenkins/36550/cm-10.1-20130801-NIGHTLY-jfltexx.zip)
I wasn't having any luck with the boot, so I turned to this thread, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2370101, which utilized a modified updater-script. That still was giving me no dice, so I tried editing the updater-script myself. Cyanogenmod boot-up appears! . . . and then it just keeps spinning. I turn off phone, boot into custom recovery, factory reset phone, try again. Same deal, try it again. Factory reset again, then I try restoring my device so that I can try again with different parameters. TWRP says that the restore is successful. This turns out to be not true, however, as when I reboot, the Google logo shows up, vanishes, and then nothing happens.
This is where I'm stuck. I can boot into TWRP, but that's it. Everytime I try to wipe dalvik or data, it fails. Restores supposedly work, but they don't, no matter if I'm restoring just system, or system data and cache. I have tried mounting my sd card so that I might load another rom, but even though TWRP says "USB Storage Mounted", nothing happens.
I'm completely at a loss here. I simply can't afford to brick a $700 phone. This is crazy.
PLEASE HELP
Vivisec said:
Hi, thanks for looking at this.
I have a Galaxy S 4 Google Edition phone. I rooted it, and I have TWRP 2.5.0.2 running on it. I have backed up my system a few times.
I tried flashing a rom of cyanogenmod for the first time today, cm-10.1-20130801-NIGHTLY-jfltexx.zip (http://get.cm/get/jenkins/36550/cm-10.1-20130801-NIGHTLY-jfltexx.zip)
I wasn't having any luck with the boot, so I turned to this thread, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2370101, which utilized a modified updater-script. That still was giving me no dice, so I tried editing the updater-script myself. Cyanogenmod boot-up appears! . . . and then it just keeps spinning. I turn off phone, boot into custom recovery, factory reset phone, try again. Same deal, try it again. Factory reset again, then I try restoring my device so that I can try again with different parameters. TWRP says that the restore is successful. This turns out to be not true, however, as when I reboot, the Google logo shows up, vanishes, and then nothing happens.
This is where I'm stuck. I can boot into TWRP, but that's it. Everytime I try to wipe dalvik or data, it fails. Restores supposedly work, but they don't, no matter if I'm restoring just system, or system data and cache. I have tried mounting my sd card so that I might load another rom, but even though TWRP says "USB Storage Mounted", nothing happens.
I'm completely at a loss here. I simply can't afford to brick a $700 phone. This is crazy.
PLEASE HELP
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UPDATE: THANK YOU TO THIS THREAD: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2388504
PROBLEM FIXED!