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[Q] Clockwork Recovery Help

Ok I am hoping I didn't brick my phone, but seeing as I can get into clockwork, I am thinking I just messed something up.
I get the following error in clockwork:
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
I've tried mounting cache and formatting cache with no such luck. I am going to try to push clockwork and reinstall it (thinking maybe a bad install). Anyone else having this problem, or know how to fix?
Running a mytouch 4g (Just coming off RoyalGinger 1.5)

Isubbie said:
Ok I am hoping I didn't brick my phone, but seeing as I can get into clockwork, I am thinking I just messed something up.
I get the following error in clockwork:
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
I've tried mounting cache and formatting cache with no such luck. I am going to try to push clockwork and reinstall it (thinking maybe a bad install). Anyone else having this problem, or know how to fix?
Running a mytouch 4g (Just coming off RoyalGinger 1.5)
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Can you get the ROM up and running? you just cannot access the recovery image is that correct?

No, unfortunately, I try to flash a rom and it won't boot past the boot screen.

Isubbie said:
No, unfortunately, I try to flash a rom and it won't boot past the boot screen.
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do you have the engineering bootloader?

Yeah, S=off all that good jazz.

Isubbie said:
Yeah, S=off all that good jazz.
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have you tried flashing a recovery image via the hboot? it sounds as if something is boogered with the recovery image.

yeah that's what I am going to try to do. Seems as though it's an issue with clockwork we'll see. I guess if I unroot it works again. Hopefully a fix will be discovered soon.

Isubbie said:
yeah that's what I am going to try to do. Seems as though it's an issue with clockwork we'll see. I guess if I unroot it works again. Hopefully a fix will be discovered soon.
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well koush just released a newer version of his recovery image, so that may of addressed the issue.

you don't by any chance have a link?

Isubbie said:
you don't by any chance have a link?
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You can flash it through ROM Manager or download it here: http://mirrorbrain.cyanogenmod.com/cm/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-3.0.2.4-glacier.img.

It seems to be a problem with ether Clockwork Mod or RoyalGinger 1.5. Been searching for the same problem. Seems like this happens when switching off of RoyalGinger 1.5
I'm still attempting to flash a fix, but so far no luck. Tried running pd15img and it failed, well the version I used failed.
I'm trying to figure out a way to push an image of clockwork over but I'm having difficulties with that as well.

Isubbie said:
It seems to be a problem with ether Clockwork Mod or RoyalGinger 1.5. Been searching for the same problem. Seems like this happens when switching off of RoyalGinger 1.5
I'm still attempting to flash a fix, but so far no luck. Tried running pd15img and it failed, well the version I used failed.
I'm trying to figure out a way to push an image of clockwork over but I'm having difficulties with that as well.
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What it looks like is our part7-xxxxx.bin file is being removed, so when you try to restore using pd15img it doesn't work....

Isubbie said:
It seems to be a problem with ether Clockwork Mod or RoyalGinger 1.5. Been searching for the same problem. Seems like this happens when switching off of RoyalGinger 1.5
I'm still attempting to flash a fix, but so far no luck. Tried running pd15img and it failed, well the version I used failed.
I'm trying to figure out a way to push an image of clockwork over but I'm having difficulties with that as well.
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I think you may be on to something there. the combination of RoyalGinger and the latest clockwork seem to have bricked my phone, I'm getting the "can't mount /cache" errors on clockwork.

Isubbie said:
What it looks like is our part7-xxxxx.bin file is being removed, so when you try to restore using pd15img it doesn't work....
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I don't think that's what it is, I'm using the part7xxxx.bin file on a freshly formatted sdcard along with pd15img and it's not working. Seems more like the internal partition got corrupted by either RoyalGinger or clockwork, or the combination of both.

erickdj said:
I think you may be on to something there. the combination of RoyalGinger and the latest clockwork seem to have bricked my phone, I'm getting the "can't mount /cache" errors on clockwork.
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Can it be that royalginger requires to format boot & the new clockwork doesnt have that option anymore,im on royalginger & im now afraid of flashin to any other rom.......

HELP. clockworkMod recovery can't mount /sdcard

Hi all, I'm traing to install a fix, and clockworkMod recovery can't mount /sdcard.
do anyone have a clue on how to fix this?
tks!

I am also having this issue,
i'm using an 8G and 2G sd cards, tried to format them through the computer and through the phone but with no luck
i'm using clockwork recovery 2.5.1

try making a folder on your sd card, clockworkmod.
tried that, and it started working for me, dunno if it was a coincidence though.

2nd init
are u using 2nd init boot menu ??i had this problem with my defy with clockwork and now i'm on cm7 (v4 or something -Clockwork) and it mounts sd card

RE: [Q] Defy automatically reboots when screen off
tutincho said:
Hi all, I'm traing to install a fix, and clockworkMod recovery can't mount /sdcard.
do anyone have a clue on how to fix this?
tks!
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I had the same problem. I think its due to the original JRDNEM_U3_2.59.0 sbf.
SO... Use this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853674
When choosing your firmware select the Nordic 2.2.2 (Froyo) version [JRDNEM_U3_3.4.2_177-005]. Then re-root using : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913709
Then you should be able to mount sd card in CWM.

dlcookie said:
are u using 2nd init boot menu ??i had this problem with my defy with clockwork and now i'm on cm7 (v4 or something -Clockwork) and it mounts sd card
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Please tell me how you installed CM7 on the Defy.
I've been trying to install a custom ROM (CyanogenMod) all day on my phone but now I'm pulling my hair out by the clumps. This seems to be one stubborn device to play with. My desire didn't give me any trouble at all.
Please help with the following queries I have:
I have installed 2nd init boot and then was accessing clockworkmod through that.
But when I try backing up my ROM I get the error "cannot mount /sdcard".
On the defy if I press up and power on I get the default bootloader with battery check. I can only get into clockworkmod from the recovery app.
On my desire, I can directly boot into ClockworkMod Recovery by pressing up and power button. I don't remember now how I got t to do that, but I would like that in my Defy too. I suppose this will solve the sdcard problem?
What must I do to install a custom ROM on defy??
EDIT: I followed the cyanogenmod wiki at first and in their method I got stuck at the cp -R command, where I got the error "cannot stat, no such file or directory found" or something like that. I'm at my wits' end here, please help me!

g4rvd4 said:
Please tell me how you installed CM7 on the Defy.
I've been trying to install a custom ROM (CyanogenMod) all day on my phone but now I'm pulling my hair out by the clumps. This seems to be one stubborn device to play with. My desire didn't give me any trouble at all.
Please help with the following queries I have:
I have installed 2nd init boot and then was accessing clockworkmod through that.
But when I try backing up my ROM I get the error "cannot mount /sdcard".
On the defy if I press up and power on I get the default bootloader with battery check. I can only get into clockworkmod from the recovery app.
On my desire, I can directly boot into ClockworkMod Recovery by pressing up and power button. I don't remember now how I got t to do that, but I would like that in my Defy too. I suppose this will solve the sdcard problem?
What must I do to install a custom ROM on defy??
EDIT: I followed the cyanogenmod wiki at first and in their method I got stuck at the cp -R command, where I got the error "cannot stat, no such file or directory found" or something like that. I'm at my wits' end here, please help me!
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This is hell annoying but simple solution worked on LGO2X. Reinsert SDCARD while in Recovery. It should work in all devices. Nothing stupid to try. Tell me...

It is because you formated your sd card with some other file system. Just go to settings / sdcard and storage . Unmount your sdcard and format it. It will get mounted in cwm from now on .
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cmahendra said:
This is hell annoying but simple solution worked on LGO2X. Reinsert SDCARD while in Recovery. It should work in all devices. Nothing stupid to try. Tell me...
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but how??? its UNDER the battery!!!

Still Can't mount sdcard, after formatting and creating folder on sdcard
phone and software details:
ClockWorkMod Recovery v2.5.1.8
Motorola Defy Eclair, OS 2.1, kernel 2.6.29
SndInitDefy_2.0.apk (Defy 2ndinit)
Android Bootmenu v0.6.1
USB Debugging is NOT on when I reboot.
I formatted the card, remounted it in normal operation, then tried going into the Android Bootmenu and mounting the sdcard, formatting it, backup but none of them worked b/c it couldn't mount the sdcard.
I also tried doing the same thing, but not remounting it in normal operation and shutting it off to no avail.
I also tried adding the folder: /sdcard/clockworkmod but with no luck.
Specifically, when do Custom Recovery, then in ClockworkMod Recovery, do backup and restore and do backup, I get the error:
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0{
(No such file or directory)
Can't mount /sdcard
This particular version of the OS makes rooting very difficult. z4root doesn't work as it exploited some security feature that was figured in the firmware update. Since I have a mac, even after using mono, I was not able to get SuperOneClick working (it hangs on "waiting for device"). So the only way I found to root was from this post:
[ROOT] G2x Easy Root for Mac and Linux
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048309
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'd love to be able to get a nandroid backup and then use CM 4.03 for Motorola Defy:
http://androidadvices.com/update-motorola-defy-cyanogen-mod-9-ics-403-firmware/2/
Thanks

Same issue on Galaxy S Plus
Have to same situation here with a Galaxy S Plus (9001). Everything works great mounted on the stock rom, but not in clockworkmod. Card is formated as FAT32 with clustersize at 1024 bytes. It's another phone but it might be the same issue ... Reinsert card while in recovery doesn't work, it reboots the recovery I think. Putting a folder 'clockworkmod' on the sdcard also doesn't work.

beefinit said:
phone and software details:
ClockWorkMod Recovery v2.5.1.8
Motorola Defy Eclair, OS 2.1, kernel 2.6.29
SndInitDefy_2.0.apk (Defy 2ndinit)
Android Bootmenu v0.6.1
USB Debugging is NOT on when I reboot.
I formatted the card, remounted it in normal operation, then tried going into the Android Bootmenu and mounting the sdcard, formatting it, backup but none of them worked b/c it couldn't mount the sdcard.
I also tried doing the same thing, but not remounting it in normal operation and shutting it off to no avail.
I also tried adding the folder: /sdcard/clockworkmod but with no luck.
Specifically, when do Custom Recovery, then in ClockworkMod Recovery, do backup and restore and do backup, I get the error:
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0{
(No such file or directory)
Can't mount /sdcard
This particular version of the OS makes rooting very difficult. z4root doesn't work as it exploited some security feature that was figured in the firmware update. Since I have a mac, even after using mono, I was not able to get SuperOneClick working (it hangs on "waiting for device"). So the only way I found to root was from this post:
[ROOT] G2x Easy Root for Mac and Linux
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048309
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'd love to be able to get a nandroid backup and then use CM 4.03 for Motorola Defy:
http://androidadvices.com/update-motorola-defy-cyanogen-mod-9-ics-403-firmware/2/
Thanks
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Is there any advice for this problem? I have the same problem. I realized the last time i rooted and flashed a moto defy (different one than now) i was on T-Mobile USA 2.2. The current phone is T-mobile 2.1. Also, the custom recovery menu is green now. I followed these directions exactly: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054447
any help is greatly appreciated.
I just want to have a test phone to put cm10 on. This way i can keep my cm7.2 for daily use, and play around w/ cm10 on my 2nd phone.

Moved to Q&A. Please ask all questions there, thanks.
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[Q] bricked

Hi !
today I decided i should upgrade from CM7.0.2 to nb 118. But I first installed latest radio. I did a backup at this point. The radio flash went ok, the phone booted and everything worked fine.
I installed nightly build 118 from ROM manager without google apps, and with a dalvik wipe (no data/cache wipe). The phone booted up ok, but some widgets had disapeared, some shortcuts didn't work and some apps had disapeared too, the autorotation of screen at 0° had been unticked too... I rebooted, and finally decided I should revert to my backup.
That's where the real problem happens : after the backup restoration, the phone is stuck in a boot loop.
I can start with fastboot mode, but I can't access recovery mode, the red exclamation mark is there...
I'm not sure this tutorial : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=751265 is adapted to my situation, should I follow it ?
Thank you for your help !
PS : I'm S-OFF

This should be @ the Q&A section but anyway, here we go:
I just had that bootloop situation myself and yes, you should follow that usb unbrick tutorial. That'll help you. Also, you should try if you can get to fakeflash by pressing VOLUP + POWER while @ the red exclamation window. If you can and you should be able to, search XDA for "fakeflash clockworkmod" or something similar, you should find a CWM image in a ZIP form. Then put that image into your SDCard, rename it to update.zip, go into the fakeflash menu and apply update.zip, it should fly you to the real recovery menu where you can do a full wipe and flash your ROM again.
Hopefully I'm not forgetting anything =D At least that's how I solved my situation and my phone is working fully again!

Hi.
Do you have the update.zip from recovery clock in the root of your sdcard, if so just press volume up and the power down at the same time, or the other way around ;-) when it change picture choose option, install update.zip and you should be in recovery mode
Im a noob, so dont laugh if i have written it the wrong way
Cheers, and good luck.
Jesus chist, it is written in the second post... Damn.

Hello trying to recover as well from a bricked HTC legend.
I cam unable to get to the update.zip to run.
it fails to verify the file.
and when i do get in to recovery I get E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command
i was trying to root it and it is not going so well I just want to get it back to 2.2
Please help

DroidFreak07 said:
Hello trying to recover as well from a bricked HTC legend.
I cam unable to get to the update.zip to run.
it fails to verify the file.
and when i do get in to recovery I get E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command
i was trying to root it and it is not going so well I just want to get it back to 2.2
Please help
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That "Can't open /cache etc." error message indicates that you are in the fake-flash menu. Do you have a working recovery image in the root of your SDcard renamed to "update.zip"? If not, try searching the forum for "clockworkmod fakeflash" or something similar and it should show some topics that will help you.
I recently got my Legend working again from bootloop and usb brick so I'm ready to help you with your further problems that may occur =)
EDIT: And please, make sure that your recovery zip is just "update.zip" and not a ZIP file named "update.zip" cause then it will be a file called "update.zip.zip" =D

taksu said:
That "Can't open /cache etc." error message indicates that you are in the fake-flash menu. Do you have a working recovery image in the root of your SDcard renamed to "update.zip"? If not, try searching the forum for "clockworkmod fakeflash" or something similar and it should show some topics that will help you.
I recently got my Legend working again from bootloop and usb brick so I'm ready to help you with your further problems that may occur =)
EDIT: And please, make sure that your recovery zip is just "update.zip" and not a ZIP file named "update.zip" cause then it will be a file called "update.zip.zip" =D
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Still nothing it try's to verify the file and fails.
any other Ideas? please.

DroidFreak07 said:
Still nothing it try's to verify the file and fails.
any other Ideas? please.
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I hope you read this and if it isn't fixed yet then take a rom YOU KNOW that works.
go into recovery Go to "mounts and storage" and format SYSTEM. NOTHING ELSE.
Do a wipe and THEN flash your zip.
Remember to NOT go out of recovery when you have formatted the system.
I hope it helps.

my touch 4g boot loop please help!!

Hello to everyone, well i was new to the whole rooting and flashing roms thing, but i did it anyways and it seemed to work just fine , i will explain everything that i did:
i rooted my my touch 4g using the gfree method , and it worked then i flashed the rom royal ginger 3 and it booted just fine , then i just decided to turn off my phone and when i rebooted it it got stuck on the boot loop that i mention, i tried going back to recovery erase all data and re-installing royal ginger but it wont let me erase a thing not data not cache data, nor install the rom, its says the following:
E: can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E:can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
and it goes on like that on the bottom of the recovery page
i would really appreciate the help as i am very frustrated
for all of your time and help thank you very much!!!

your phone might either be dead or you have on chance to save it. hapened to mine yesterday the same thing and now doesnt turn on and i already called tmobile for a replacement. Search on how to get the pd15img on there using hboot if you have it if not your phones dead and theres nothing you can do

Look at Glacier Wiki, section "Troubleshooting". Link in my signature.

You might have to use the driver and push the ROM threw command propt

Did you check your eMMC before rooting?
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sounds like eMMC failure

I agree, I have the bad one too but its worked fine for the past few months..
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Does it read your phone if you plug it in is your adb set up
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sounds like its dead or a bad root. once you get it back running i would unroot and use the visionary method to root and flash using the clockwork.

if u made a stock backup like all threads strongly recommend before u flash a new rom, then just boot into recovery and install your stock backup. You do not need to wipe anything when u restore a backup. If u were attentive enough to make a stock backup then restore it and Then start over by unrooting and rerooting

pinguo777 said:
if u made a stock backup like all threads strongly recommend before u flash a new rom, then just boot into recovery and install your stock backup. You do not need to wipe anything when u restore a backup. If u were attentive enough to make a stock backup then restore it and Then start over by unrooting and rerooting
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He said - "it (recovery) wont let me erase a thing not data not cache data, nor install the rom". It also won't let him restore any backups.
Please read the OP carefully before replying.

Your emmc chip fried,I had the same issue. Try to use adb to push the stock recovery, then go to Tmobile an get it replaced.
If I helped, give thanks, if you please.
........Death before dishonor........

Jack_R1 said:
He said - "it (recovery) wont let me erase a thing not data not cache data, nor install the rom". It also won't let him restore any backups.
Please read the OP carefully before replying.
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The op says nothing about not being able to restore a backup. When it says ” I tried to reinstall the rom” it sounded like he was trying to reinstall the zip file that booted once and then went kaput. I was only offering an option to get the fone working again. I've rooted over 100 mt4g's and ran into this issue myself and was trying to help out with what worked for me.

pinguo777 said:
The op says nothing about not being able to restore a backup. When it says ” I tried to reinstall the rom” it sounded like he was trying to reinstall the zip file that booted once and then went kaput. I was only offering an option to get the fone working again. I've rooted over 100 mt4g's and ran into this issue myself and was trying to help out with what worked for me.
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hey, i'm not sure if you just can't read or you're blind or something... but the OP clear states
i tried going back to recovery erase all data and re-installing royal ginger but it wont let me erase a thing not data not cache data, nor install the rom, its says the following:
E: can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E:can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
and it goes on like that on the bottom of the recovery page
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if he can't even erase anything, then he won't be able to install anything either.
Mr. Highway is right, your phone's eMMC chip probably died, like my old one did.

bord1er said:
Does it read your phone if you plug it in is your adb set up
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no it does not and my emmc-samsung says 2151 mb 4407295sectors

[Q] Soft Brick

So I downloaded new kernels and CM10 for my newly rooted N4. I did a backup before flashing the kernel and didn't pay attention to the error message saying cache was not found or whatever. But the kernel flashed fine and it booted up, nothing out of the whack. When I went back to flash CM10 it said the MD5 sum didn't match so the flashing processes didn't finish. Since my backup was ****ed up and the MD5 didn't match I couldn't restore the system either. Device will boot and will go into fastboot and recovery. Currently using CWM. If I turn on the device normally it will stay on the GOOGLE screen and it will not go into the boot screen. What do?

Usually when it hangs on the google screen it is kernel related.
You can try booting into recovery, clearing cache and flashing the kernel.
If that doesn't work, re-flash the ROM with signature verification turned off. (in the update from .zip menu)
OR You can push a new rom with ADB to your sd card. adb push /sdcard/

El Daddy said:
Usually when it hangs on the google screen it is kernel related.
You can try booting into recovery, clearing cache and flashing the kernel.
If that doesn't work, re-flash the ROM with signature verification turned off. (in the update from .zip menu)
OR You can push a new rom with ADB to your sd card. adb push /sdcard/
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The CM10 zip itself is bad. How can I get another one on the phone? Or can I flash the CM zip without the file being on the phone? Thanks

Also, the error message popped up when flashing the CM zip was set_perm: some changes failed
E: Error in /sdcard/0/cmblahblahc zip
(status 7)
installation aborted
Should I turn off the signature verification anyway?

I would just push a new cm ROM to your phone. Command is.
adb push nameofzip.zip /sdcard/
Then flash it.
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El Daddy said:
I would just push a new cm ROM to your phone. Command is.
adb push nameofzip.zip /sdcard/
Then flash it.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium
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3 years of rooting and flashing stuff on 3 of my previous phones, there wasn't a time when I had to do this, or had to ask for help. Damn it.
Could you be a little more detailed in how do I go about doing so? As you can see my post count I am a bit of a noob Despite those 3 years. I just don't wanna mess up again, you know?
Thanks for everything dude

What screen should my phone be on? Just type that into the command prompt and it should work?

_thunderchild_ said:
What screen should my phone be on? Just type that into the command prompt and it should work?
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Sorry I was out and about the past few hours.
You want to be in recovery. Custom recoveries allow you to use adb.
Rename the ROM something easy like CMrom.zip
Then put the CMrom.zip in the same location as adb on your computer.
Open the command window from that directory. (hold shift and right click; then choose open command window here)
Type the command: adb push CMrom.zip /sdcard/
It will push the file to the root of /sdcard/
Then you can flash it.

If that fails, use toolkit to download factory image and flash it through fastboot.

Oh man you guys saved my life. I cannot thank you guys enough. You won't believe how happy I was when I saw the bootscreen. Glad that was dealt with. Again thanks guys

Hey everyone I don't know if this is the right place to be posting this but I had the same problem as OP a few hours ago. I flashed LiquidROM and it got stuck on a boot loop. Needless to say, I panicked and used the adb push method since I decided to delete my AOKP ROM from my folder. Anyway, while panicking what I did was is before flashing, I backed up my entire SD card onto my laptop as ADB backup wasn't working and I pushed the entire folder using "adb push sdcard /sdcard/. Next thing I'm in recovery (CWM) and when I go through the flash from sdcard option, usually there were 3 options name 0/ and 2 others, however since I pushed the sdcard folder to /sdcard/ I get a 0/ at the top of the list which is where I would usually go but then underneath that I get all the folders I pushed! Is there any way to sort this out? I could attach pictures at some point for those of you who find it hard to picture what I'm describing Thanks in advance for any help!
Edit: just to add a couple of other things, my NANdroid had a checksum error so I cannot revert to stock without having to manually flash it which I cannot do at the moment due to a lack of WiFi, is there any way to sort this out? And the other thing was that for some reason sdcard cannot be unmounted at all in cwm, is it meant to be like that or am I missing something? Afaik its supposed to toggle.
Thanks again!
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