Hello,
I downloaded and installed the CM7 update this morning from my RC4 ROM. All went as they normally do when i switch ROMs, clear all cache and data, then install. It installed without error, but it got stuck in a boot loop. I had let the skateboarding android do his thing for almost 20 minutes to no avail. So i powered it off, re ran my steps and this time i got to the "touch the android to begin", but within a few seconds its back to the boot animation.
I have tried several times to re-install that ROM as well as RC4 and i can't get out of the boot loop. Some times it will give me an error that there is something wrong with the update file, and sometimes it goes right along with the install, either way it ends in a boot loop.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
-Josh
EDIT: i said RC2, i meant to say RC4!
EDIT2: I went for RC1, and it reports (status 7), Installation aborted. Did i some how lock a part of the file system i need?
Ok I'm back up. Here is what i did after messing with it for a while;
1. backed up my SD card (mounted via recovery)
2. went into the partitions menu and formated everything but the boot section (including the SD)
3. re mounted the SD card and copied the CM7 final to it
4. Installed zip from SD
With in minutes i was back up and running
RC4 is broken. Happened to me aswell. Just download stable released yesterday
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Hey all, first off, sorry if this is the wrong forum. If it is could one of the mods please move it.
OK, here's my issue. I had CyanogenMods latest build, 3.4 I think and decided to try The Dudes cupcake 1.RC1. I forgot to do a wipe before installing TheDudesCupcake but when my phone came up it worked ALMOST fine. Had a crash here and there of something, not sure what, but the phone still worked fine. Today, I had an issue with a video (is the SD Card) not being viewable with "Video Player" so I decided to remove the card and pop it back (hoping this would somehow refresh the player). Didnt unmount it so I got the error about i may loose data without unmounting. (i'd done it before without a problem). Well this time around my card was corrupted so I ended up formatting with the phone. tried going into settings to view the size of the drive not since I didnt know if the whole card was wiped or only the FAT32 partition. Kept getting an error while trying to go into settings so I decided to reboot. After reboot I was able to get into settings and saw the whole card was wiped (back to full 8GB of empty space). Thought I would wipe right there from settings since I was getting an error or 2 after reboots and since I had gotten that error when trying to get into settings and then updating back into Dudes Cupcake. (thought the wipe would get rid of any issues of going between Cyanogen to Dudes Cupcake). Once I clicked on wipe and android reboots, it's trying to do something but just keeps rebooting. I've got Cyanogens restore image v1.2 on. So I see the G1 logo, then comes up
Build CyanogenMod v1.2 + JF
Formatting DATA ....
and at the Formatting DATA part it does the reboot and goes back to the G1 logo and comes back to formatting data and reboot.
I tried doing a HOME + POWER but it just goes back to formatting data. I tried doing a CAMERA + POWER but it goes back to formatting DATA.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks and sorry for the long post, I just wanted to give all my steps.
Huascar82 said:
Hey all, first off, sorry if this is the wrong forum. If it is could one of the mods please move it.
OK, here's my issue. I had CyanogenMods latest build, 3.4 I think and decided to try The Dudes cupcake 1.RC1. I forgot to do a wipe before installing TheDudesCupcake but when my phone came up it worked ALMOST fine. Had a crash here and there of something, not sure what, but the phone still worked fine. Today, I had an issue with a video (is the SD Card) not being viewable with "Video Player" so I decided to remove the card and pop it back (hoping this would somehow refresh the player). Didnt unmount it so I got the error about i may loose data without unmounting. (i'd done it before without a problem). Well this time around my card was corrupted so I ended up formatting with the phone. tried going into settings to view the size of the drive not since I didnt know if the whole card was wiped or only the FAT32 partition. Kept getting an error while trying to go into settings so I decided to reboot. After reboot I was able to get into settings and saw the whole card was wiped (back to full 8GB of empty space). Thought I would wipe right there from settings since I was getting an error or 2 after reboots and since I had gotten that error when trying to get into settings and then updating back into Dudes Cupcake. (thought the wipe would get rid of any issues of going between Cyanogen to Dudes Cupcake). Once I clicked on wipe and android reboots, it's trying to do something but just keeps rebooting. I've got Cyanogens restore image v1.2 on. So I see the G1 logo, then comes up
Build CyanogenMod v1.2 + JF
Formatting DATA ....
and at the Formatting DATA part it does the reboot and goes back to the G1 logo and comes back to formatting data and reboot.
I tried doing a HOME + POWER but it just goes back to formatting data. I tried doing a CAMERA + POWER but it goes back to formatting DATA.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks and sorry for the long post, I just wanted to give all my steps.
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when it says formatting data then done, are you pressing and holding home and back or just pressing and releasing. when the phone is powering on and you hold the home and back keys it will do a hard reset just like a wipe(same thing) or since there is no data to lose any more, try pulling the battery, this will not do any harm as you are not flashing anything
since you have the cyanogen recovery image you should have gone into the console at recovery and typed
fix_permissions.sh or sh fix_permissions.sh
Thanks for the response tubaking. My problem was that it didnt say done. right when the "Formatting Data...." line came up, it reboots, without saying done. And I couldnt get into the Home+Power or the Camera + power screens. Neither one would go there, just back into "Formatting Data:..." screen. After reading half way through the Brick thread I saw someone mention pulling the SIM card out, didnt think that would help but it finally dropped me back into the recovery console. Might I ask why something as simple as removing the SIM drops the loop and takes you to recovery?
thanks.
I had to restore a backup because my G1 was stuck on the G1 screen. I've done restore before and it all worked fine. This time, I got an error...
1. First, I am running CM5.0.8 with 1.0.7 recovery.
2. Went into recovery and tried nand restore and got the following error telling me to running recovery via console using 'nandroid-mobile.sh restore'
3. Went into console and ran it and got the following error:
error: unable to mount /data, aborting
I've tried to use a copy of my backup files that I had on my computer by moving it to the sd card and still get the same errors.
I'm a complete noob and seem to have messed things up trying to learn more!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
It sounds like you might be having a problem with the SD card, take it out and see if the phone boots up. SD cards die all the time and give you various symptoms. If that doesn't work, put 5.0.8 on the card and re-flash it. Sometimes my nandroid restore gives me a error if I have too many backups saved, I just have to mount SD card go to nandroid folder -> (device id) folder -> and there will be a folder for each back-up you have made, get rid of all but the last 2 and run it again. This always works for me.
Sounds more like something happened to the userdata partition.. otherwise the error would indicate /sdcard or a md5sum error. (Not sure what I've seen such things but they where entirely my fault.)
From fastboot screen try running 'fastboot erase system -w' from your computer, booting recovery and trying again.
Thank you for the replies.
I think I messed something up due to user error. I was playing with turning swap on and off via a script I had installed (a great script by a member steveo I think). I turned it on correctly by using swapon30 from the terminal but I didn't turn it off correctly (used swapoff instead of swap-off I think). When the blue led wouldnt turn off, I tried rebooting and got stuck on the G1 screen. (I really have no clue if that's where I messed up but that was what I was doing when it got stuck on reboot).
Anyway, I did a wipe/factory reset then it started up fine. I then went back into recovery and restored my last backup from last night which went fine as well. Only kind of weird thing I noticed was that I had to reinstall Google Maps from the market and now it's showing as installed in "system" whereas before it was showing as "internal".
When I did a factory reset and then ran a recovery, perhaps I needed to reflash the google apps that is part of the original CM5 install?
Appreciate the replies guys!
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
I have been running the kanged builds of CM9 for a while, but it began to get bogged down recently and would freeze up almost daily forcing a hard shutdown and reboot.
Sometime yesterday, it began to boot only into recovery no matter what option I tried in the Cyanoboot menu. From there I tried a factory reset and wipe dalvik to hopefully get back into CM9 and here's where the strangeness really kicked off.
Clockwork (which was running off emmc) would freeze in the middle of the factory reset just like it would when CM9 was running (the graphics would degrade slightly upon inspection of the screen).
So, I grabbed my old sdcard with clockwork recovery on it to boot from sd, and I run into the same problem again. Freezing before a wipe, factory reset, or install from sd can complete.
Now, after each failed attempt in clockwork (sd and emmc) it sticks at a backlit black screen and after a hard shutdown refuses to boot (sd or emmc) for about an hour, only to repeat the madness again.
Does anyone have any ideas what I can try from here or familiar with a similar situation?
My sd clockwork version is 3.2.something and I've also tried 3.0.1.something.
UPDATE: For reasons unknown, my Nook seems to be booting regularly as of this morning. However, I am still unable to get a successful flash out of any rom. The closest I've gotten to success is stuck in a boot loop. I think from here I'll likely be able to figure it out, but just as before...
Any help is welcome and appreciated!
I had the same problem with the black screen when trying to install different roms on mine. I just kept clicking the power button and after a few minutes it would kick back on every time.
There is an entire thread specifically on this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699
As far as CM9 I can't help you much there. I would just try to install a different rom, and hope that works.
Thanks!
I had seen that thread, but I thought my experience was a different; either way, I've managed past that problem using a method similar to yours.
If this helps any, I have been trying to to 7.2 RC1 for a while as well, but it will not get me any further than the stuck boot screen same as the CM9.
Have you tried to follow the tread on returning it to stock ?? I would reformat and repartition it and return it to stock ... then make sure it runs. After that I would try to reinstall the new roms ...
Just my 2 cents
Tinpau
Last week, following Leapinlar's updated directions, began putting latest nightly cm on the ol' nook. Thought it was okay, but then, on reboot, it just sticks on rotating "Cyanogen Mod" screen (which I take is a boot loop). I waited a long time, maybe 30 minutes, still spinning. That began my frustrating journey. Here's the deal:
Latest nightly cm, 121212 gapps. Same deal. Loads on initial boot, then it powers itself off. Next boot, android keyboard failure, sometimes trebuchet failure. But I have (bearing in mind I have gone through these steps maybe 20 times) seen some success in getting past the keyboard issues and managed to get logged into the play store. Then, on the subsequent boot, spinning splash screen forever. Try again.
Try different gapps files. Sometims I hit one that seems to be digested fairly well, sometimes pretty much all the apps begin failing on the initial cm boot (after the load boot). No matter what, still, on the second cm boot, spinning splash screen.
Try to load gapps again, maybe a different version. I do this through holding the n and going to recovery, which reinstalls the gapps (or some other file). In this case, it seems to inflate all the apps okay, then goes to a "starting apps" screen, and it sticks *there.*
I rolled back to the latest stable version, 7.2 I believe, and got it running just fine on that; ran it for a week with no glitch whatsoever. But it's not the same! I really want this thing to run the latest and greatest!
So this weekend I am back to attempting the latest nightly and I am just getting skunked. It either loops the cm splash on second cm boot (which is the first boot after I set up account, etc), or it, in the case of trying to "after install" a new gapps file, sticks at the "starting apps" screen. Oh yeah, if it does that and I do hard reboot, I stick at the cm splash spinner again. Help!
Maybe a new sd card? (but it did load 7.2 okay). Maybe factory reset to the internal? I have done the cwm alt recovery and cleaned out the caches. I have cleared the data from the android keyboard.
For SD card cm10 installation (use Sandisk class 4 or 6)
Here is LeapinLar's thread to get you started http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1941858
Get the latest CM10 nightly here http://get.cm/?device=encore
Make sure to use Gapps 20121011. Newer version will not work.
Here are the steps involved to make a bootable sd card:
Unzip the ...Rev5.zip
Use program Win32diskimager.exe to write the above unzipped image to SD card
Copy latest Cm10 nightly to sdcard (do not unzip)
Copy gapps 20121011 to SD card (do not unzip)
Safely eject SD card from computer
Turn off Nook Color
Insert SD card you created above
Turn on Nook color
Watch the Cm10 splash screen come to life.
wilco
Thank you for the response! Will run out and get a new card. will report later this P.M.
nailed it! It was the card!
Got the new class 4 micro sd card. Followed the instructions, again. Install different this time, with not a single error. On boot, it asked for google info, smoothly, all seemed right. Reboot success! Smooth as silk!. Play Store, the whole deal, perfect! YAY!
THANK YOU XDA-DEVS!
BTW, went to Office Depot for the card. Their website says 13.99 for a 4 gig card; on the shelf it was listed as 17.99. At the register I say, "Your web site has this for 13.99." So the dude does a price override on his terminal (he chose "match competitor's price" then "Office Depot website") and I got it for the lower price!