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UPDATE Verizon Soak Test Does Break Root in regard to PWNMYMOTO

According to Droid Life, the Verizon Soak Test that just came out today doesn't break root.
heres the link
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/10/2...o-x-rolling-out-to-testers-doesnt-break-root/
WARNING DO NOT UPDATE IF YOU ARE USING PWNMYMOTO, some people are confirming bootloops. I believe this "keeping of root" is in relation to motoroot, but as always, do so at your own risk.

looks like the editor of droid life was rooted via motoroot and it kept that. I believe we have seen that with other OTAs. maybe not as exciting.

Glad to hear this. Of course, I un-rooted when I got the invite a week ago because I figured I either wouldn't get the OTA or it wouldn't install if I stayed rooted. I wonder if I can root again.

Tried to update with PwnMyMoto installed
I saw that we could keep root through the update, so I went ahead and applied it. But, I forgot that PwnMyMoto also removed the recovery and replaced it with a boot image to allow writing to the system. Now I'm stuck in a bootloop-type thing. I can get it booted to the lockscreen, but then after 5-10 seconds, the standard android "Shutting Down" popup appears and the phone restarts itself. I know I could flash the stock recovery from the bootloader, but I want to keep system write. Is there a way for me to wipe my cache or something to get it to stop trying to apply the update? Thanks.

tyguy829 said:
I saw that we could keep root through the update, so I went ahead and applied it. But, I forgot that PwnMyMoto also removed the recovery and replaced it with a boot image to allow writing to the system. Now I'm stuck in a bootloop-type thing. I can get it booted to the lockscreen, but then after 5-10 seconds, the standard android "Shutting Down" popup appears and the phone restarts itself. I know I could flash the stock recovery from the bootloader, but I want to keep system write. Is there a way for me to wipe my cache or something to get it to stop trying to apply the update? Thanks.
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I would try to clear your cache, hopefully that works for you
Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk

Can't Clear Cache
The problem is I don't know how to clear my cache because I don't have a recovery. Is there another way to do this?

tyguy829 said:
The problem is I don't know how to clear my cache because I don't have a recovery. Is there another way to do this?
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would
fastboot erase cache
command not work in the bootloader?

tyguy829 said:
The problem is I don't know how to clear my cache because I don't have a recovery. Is there another way to do this?
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I believe you can also clear cache through TiBu

Be careful according to JCase the soak does break root. Check his twitter.

I'm in the same boat as above. Phone stuck in a bootloop. If anyone figures it out I'll be in your debt. Also rsdlite doesn't detect my phone so I can't even restore it that way. I'm hoping there's at least a way to restore to factory through adb but Google is coming up empty.
- Nathan

tyguy829 said:
I saw that we could keep root through the update, so I went ahead and applied it. But, I forgot that PwnMyMoto also removed the recovery and replaced it with a boot image to allow writing to the system. Now I'm stuck in a bootloop-type thing. I can get it booted to the lockscreen, but then after 5-10 seconds, the standard android "Shutting Down" popup appears and the phone restarts itself. I know I could flash the stock recovery from the bootloader, but I want to keep system write. Is there a way for me to wipe my cache or something to get it to stop trying to apply the update? Thanks.
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After your phone reboots hold down vol down + power to get into the bootloader. Now you can flash recovery through fastboot. Get the fastboot files from here if you don't already have it and the FXZ file for your carrier here. Now you can either just flash the recovery or flash the entire rom. If you just flash the recovery then the next time you boot it will reboot into recovery and run the update. If you choose to flash the entire rom then you will be wiping everything. To flash using fastboot you will first need to make sure the contents of the FXZ file are in the same folder as the fastboot files. Next open a command prompt and change the directory to the folder with your fastbboot files (eg. cd C:\). Now use the following commands to flash the FXZ files. If you choose to just flash the recovery then skip all the other commands except the command to flash recovery.
Code:
fastboot oem fb_mode_set
fastboot flash partition gpt.bin
fastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img
fastboot flash logo logo.bin (optional: this is the boot logo)
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
fastboot erase modemst1
fastboot erase modemst2
fastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase customize (optional: will erase any customizations if ordered through motomaker)
fastboot erase clogo (optional: will erase the custom boot logo if ordered through motomaker)
fastboot oem fb_mode_clear
fastboot reboot

Thank you so much!! Worked like a charm as far as restoring my phone to defaults. The update is no longer showing in the software update section but that's ok. :good::good:
Dark9781 said:
After your phone reboots hold down vol down + power to get into the bootloader. Now you can flash recovery through fastboot. Get the fastboot files from here if you don't already have it and the FXZ file for your carrier here. Now you can either just flash the recovery or flash the entire rom. If you just flash the recovery then the next time you boot it will reboot into recovery and run the update. If you choose to flash the entire rom then you will be wiping everything. To flash using fastboot you will first need to make sure the contents of the FXZ file are in the same folder as the fastboot files. Next open a command prompt and change the directory to the folder with your fastbboot files (eg. cd C:\). Now use the following commands to flash the FXZ files. If you choose to just flash the recovery then skip all the other commands except the command to flash recovery.
Code:
fastboot oem fb_mode_set
fastboot flash partition gpt.bin
fastboot flash motoboot motoboot.img
fastboot flash logo logo.bin (optional: this is the boot logo)
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
fastboot erase modemst1
fastboot erase modemst2
fastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase customize (optional: will erase any customizations if ordered through motomaker)
fastboot erase clogo (optional: will erase the custom boot logo if ordered through motomaker)
fastboot oem fb_mode_clear
fastboot reboot
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Anyone know how to cancel the reminder on the update? My phone downloaded the update, when I click install later it makes me set a time to be reminded. Don't really want to lose root for this update. Any ideas?
Sent from my GT-N8013 using Tapatalk 4

whitlecj said:
Anyone know how to cancel the reminder on the update? My phone downloaded the update, when I click install later it makes me set a time to be reminded. Don't really want to lose root for this update. Any ideas?
Sent from my GT-N8013 using Tapatalk 4
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delete the download through Tibu and then freeze the ota apk in Tibu

what i did to keep root with pwnmymoto was make sure my phone was 100% stock then root using pwnmymoto boot into recovery and back up root with ota rootkeeper. then i temp unroot and reboot to bootloader and flashed the original recovery back and installed the update which aborted near the end so i did it again and it did the same thing. after rebooting it was the new software update with no root so i flashed the boot.img into the recovery partition and booted back to recovery to restore root which you may have to grant a app su permisions for it to stick when you reboot. so far its running good. idk if the update applied properly but it booted up and runs great

FeaR_x_KhAoS said:
what i did to keep root with pwnmymoto was make sure my phone was 100% stock then root using pwnmymoto boot into recovery and back up root with ota rootkeeper. then i temp unroot and reboot to bootloader and flashed the original recovery back and installed the update which aborted near the end so i did it again and it did the same thing. after rebooting it was the new software update with no root so i flashed the boot.img into the recovery partition and booted back to recovery to restore root which you may have to grant a app su permisions for it to stick when you reboot. so far its running good. idk if the update applied properly but it booted up and runs great
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anyone know if safestrap will be available after the ota (assuming we apply the update as you mentioned)?

has anyone tried rooting via motoroot 1.1 after doing the OTA from an unrooted device?

jayboyyyy said:
delete the download through Tibu and then freeze the ota apk in Tibu
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Thanks for the response. Where do I find the download using tibu?
Sent from my GT-N8013 using Tapatalk 4

whitlecj said:
Thanks for the response. Where do I find the download using tibu?
Sent from my GT-N8013 using Tapatalk 4
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check out here. It is a big list but i think it has what things to freeze for the OTA. there is just one maybe two i think.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432729
just checked that he only disabled motorola OTA. i am on Vzw and don't have an OTA yet so im not sure thats all you need to freeze. I read some where to freeze updater.apk as well. maybe its either or. I don't have updater.apk frozen but if motoOTA doesn't fix it then do updater as well

jayboyyyy said:
check out here. It is a big list but i think it has what things to freeze for the OTA. there is just one maybe two i think.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432729
just checked that he only disabled motorola OTA. i am on Vzw and don't have an OTA yet so im not sure thats all you need to freeze. I read some where to freeze updater.apk as well. maybe its either or. I don't have updater.apk frozen but if motoOTA doesn't fix it then do updater as well
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You have to.freeze the update.apk and if you've downloaded the update its in your cache.

[Q] Kitkat big mess, bootloop only! Any help?

Hi there,
I think I screwed in such a fashioned manner that I did not spot any spot to better expose my issue.
I run a Nexus 4 root which used to run fine with 4.3.
I did ota to Nexus 4.4 failure.
Then I did Efrant guide (without step 10) to go 4.4, it worked.
fastboot devices
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-mako-makoz20i.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio-mako-m9615a-cefwmazm-2.0.1700.84.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system44.img
fastboot flash boot boot44.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery44.img
fastboot format cache
fastboot reboot
I had really bad experience with kitkat. No notification, sms history gone, home virtual button not working (only blipping), same for the top right notification menu.
Well I thought going to 4.3 would be best.
I did 4.3 through the same steps with different archives and boot loop at the X.
Then I tried a 4.2.2 but I did a huge mistake, I did it with Nexus 7 files. After sweating a bit I got it back in fastboot mode.
Then I tried 4.3 occam and 4.4 occam. Bootloop, old style and new one.
Now I can try 4.2.2 or 4.4 with fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
Any clue?
Edit: From Efrants:
Note that some users indicate that they can't get past the X on boot. If this happens to you, reboot into the bootloader and select recovery. Then, when you see the Android with the red exclamation mark, hold power and press volume up to take you to the menu. Wipe cache. If that still doesn't work, boot back into recovery and do a factory reset (this will obviously delete all your data & files in /sdcard...).
I can go to the red exclamation mark.
Than all the combinations I do just reboot me. What is the trick? Power on then volume up? Power on and volume up at the same time? How long should I press?

Try this
Get proper files for let's say 4.3 mako
fastboot erase system -w
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
The bootloader and radio being from stock ota from Google, recovery stable custom one
fastboot reboot-bootloader
Make sure all matches
Boot to recovery
Flash ROM of choice, use a 4.3, maybe slimbean
May need to sideload the ROM though
Sent from my Nexus 4 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

demkantor said:
Try this
Get proper files for let's say 4.3 mako
fastboot erase system -w
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
The bootloader and radio being from stock ota from Google, recovery stable custom one
fastboot reboot-bootloader
Make sure all matches
Boot to recovery
Flash ROM of choice, use a 4.3, maybe slimbean
May need to sideload the ROM though
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OK I get the idea. By flashing the ROM of your choice what do you mean, flashing an OTA zip? I know how tosideload, just trying to understand what to flash.
I am about to try to flash a recovery (twrp) to wipe cache.
I tried and added system and boot.
/!\ fastboot erase system -w Erase all userdata I wanted to do that as a last option... Well now it is done...
The phone is now properly booting a 4.2.2 I will see tonight if I can get it to 4.3 or 4.4

ROM of choice is ROM of your choice, hence the recommendation for slimbean but only a recommendation
The fastboot erase system -w will cover wiping cache, but yeh still download and install the twrp image
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

demkantor said:
ROM of choice is ROM of your choice, hence the recommendation for slimbean but only a recommendation
The fastboot erase system -w will cover wiping cache, but yeh still download and install the twrp image
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
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Well thanks for your help.
I think that my first install of 4.4 was messy. I really suspect that I installed bad radio and or bootloader. Thank you google for giving same name to different versions. Or may be I got some corrupted stuff on userdata?
When I went back to 4.3 I dont know what went wrong, maybe only that cache issue?
Then messing with the nakasi img (call me stupid) could not do any good.
I took too much confidence in messing the previous upgrades and recovering without loosing personnal data...
Now I have a fresh start to think about it...

I've got one question and one question only: how do I install 4.3 again on my nexus 4 again. I have NEVER rooted or flashed my phone. Would really really appreciate all the help I can get.

omairanwar said:
I've got one question and one question only: how do I install 4.3 again on my nexus 4 again. I have NEVER rooted or flashed my phone. Would really really appreciate all the help I can get.
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fastboot oem unlock
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
reboot to recovery
flash rom of choice
There are many guides on rooting and fastboot, i would suggest staying away from any toolkit
as if you would like to learn, you wont from a toolkit.
the above take minuets and is far from a difficult task, its a nexus, its meant to be easy.
peek your nose around the forum a bit, you have any issues or are unsure just ask and id be glad to help

[Q] Bootloop on any ROM

Hi guys,
In front of me, I have my friend's very stubborn LG Nexus 4. It's about 7 months old and a month ago, he dropped it and cracked the screen's glass (and the case's glass back as well). The phone still worked fine for a few weeks after that after that, but the touchscreen was not always responding correctly. He decided to give it to a service center for repair, but they returned it in a few days claiming there's a bootloop and they won't repair it (even if he paid) since the phone wasn't purchased in the same country. (Such BS, isn't it?)
An easy thing to fix, I thought, after fixing all sorts of bootloops on my SGT, SGS1 and my other friend's SGS2. Turns out, it's anything but.
Regardless of whether I flash stock following this guide or CM11 following the CM wiki, the phone is stuck on boot animation. 4 swirling colored balls for stock or an arrow rotating aroud Cid in case of CM11.
I have tried both stock recovery and CWM. I have tried wiping cache, data, Dalvik cache, any combination of only one or two or all three, tried waiting for an hour on first boot (someone suggested the first boot can take up to 15 minutes... find that hard to believe since even my sluggish SGS1 will manage in 3 minutes tops after a flash, but still tried) - all in vain. All I get is the screen's backlight level suddenly jumping up about 5 minutes into the boot process, as if the "Welcome to Android!" menu is about to appear - but it's still bootlooping until the battery runs out. (It gets quite warm too.)
TL;DR Nexus 4 flashes successfully with both stock 4.4.2 and CM11 but bootloops no matter what.
What can I do at this point to troubleshoot it? I'm out of ideas.

Its possible that this is a hardware issue but for now what I would try is download latest stock, Google search
android factory images
And choose the latest for your device, KOT49H
Now boot to fastboot
fastboot erase system -w
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase recovery
Now
fastboot flash bootloader nameofbootloader.img
fastboot flash radio nameofradio.img
Now either double click the flashall.bat or I prefer just extracting the rest an manual flash
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash data userdata.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Now
fastboot reboot
If this doesn't work than a good chance of hardware issue from all the falls, if it does work then my guess is you want to root it so go back to fastboot and flash the latest twrp or cwm recovery
Then either boot to recovery and flash su or wipe all and flash a custom ROM
Best of luck!
Sent from my Nexus 4 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

demkantor said:
Its possible that this is a hardware issue but for now what I would try is download latest stock, Google search
android factory images
And choose the latest for your device, KOT49H
Now boot to fastboot
fastboot erase system -w
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase recovery
Now
fastboot flash bootloader nameofbootloader.img
fastboot flash radio nameofradio.img
Now either double click the flashall.bat or I prefer just extracting the rest an manual flash
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash data userdata.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Now
fastboot reboot
If this doesn't work than a good chance of hardware issue from all the falls, if it does work then my guess is you want to root it so go back to fastboot and flash the latest twrp or cwm recovery
Then either boot to recovery and flash su or wipe all and flash a custom ROM
Best of luck!
Sent from my Nexus 4 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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As I said, I've already tried CWM, custom ROM (CM 11 - which required rooting, which I did) and followed the guide I linked for flashing the latest stock ROM I got from Google. The only thing I haven't tried is the fastboot erase commands - thanks for suggesting that, I will try them ASAP before trying to flash stock again though I don't have much hope left

Give it a shot, if you do everything in this order you will be good if its a software issue, if it doesn't work than possibly hardware
Sent from my Nexus 4 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

Fastboot flash says it works but doesnt

Ok, so this is an odd issue. I've had my N7 Grouper unlocked and have been running custom roms for a long time now, and about 6 months back I tossed on the All-F2FS version of Slimkat. Everything was running fine and has been since then, up until the last few days. Now the device just reboots randomly after it gets into the system. It runs fine in bootloader or recovery so I know it's not a loose battery connector as I've read about. I'm at a loss as to why and I gave up trying to find out.
I've since been trying to simply wipe my tablet and reset back to a clean install of the All-F2FS Slimkat as I've had or even tried a stock restore now. Nothing I do works at all. I've tried everthing from the modified All-F2FS TWRP 2.7.0.0 that I installed as a part of the move to F2F2 but although it reports that it's wiped everything fine, or flashed a new rom fine, it does nothing in truth. After a quick reboot its as if nothing happened at all. I've then tried to run things from adb/fastboot and I'm even after running all the commands in fastboot which all say they run fine (flashing, reformatting partitions, etc.) nothing at all actually happens to the N7.
Anyone else seen this or have any ideas?

Hello,
please try this command's:
Code:
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase boot
Then flash a FactoryImage! At least root and flash again.

Trafalgar Square said:
Hello,
please try this command's:
Code:
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase boot
Then flash a FactoryImage! At least root and flash again.
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I've tried all of those commands multiple times. I'm an old hat at rooting, unlocking, and running custom roms on Android so I've been doing literally everything I can think of. Every command shows that it completes successfully but nothing actually happens. I've tried fastboot erase commands, fastboot format commands, fastboot flash commands, and many many more. I've run six different versions of the factory image, everything from 4.0.0 to 5.1.1. The only errors I've ever seen while working with the tablet is while attempting to erase/format partitions within the recovery there are some errors about not being able to access the cache. I'll update this with the specific errors.

Anyone? I'm at a loss here. I've run everything I can think of and the commands always complete successfully, then don't actually work at all.

Tried restoring to Stock/Unrooted and now stuck in Bootloop - Please help

Ok I messed up pretty bad this time.
I used my Moto X Pure 2015 for a couple months. Unlocked bootloader, rooted it and used a couple diff ROMs. My father liked the phone, so wanted to give it to him after restoring it to stock, meaning unroot, lock bootloader, restore to factory ROM. But somewhere along the way I messed up and dont know how. I may have tried to flash 5.1.1 when my phone was already updated OTA to 6.0 but I am not sure.
Now I am stuck in a bootloop. The Moto Android logo comes up and it keeps looping there. I can enter bootloader but cannot enter recovery. It goes back to the loop when I attempt to go to recovery mode. I tried flashing (with the Flash-All.bat) packages lying out there, but my device isnt recognized. It says device not found. I cant even restart bootloader through the adb command. I type adb devices in cmd and it says ADB devices attached, but I dont see my device displayed. But Device Manager lists my phone as Motorola ADB Device.
I took a chance and sent it to Motorola......................... surprise surprise...../s , they refused to fix it coz of the unlocked bootloader(even with a fee).
So, now I cant flash anything, I cant go to recovery, nor can get the phone to boot up.
Have I lost the device completely? I dont have any nandroid backups either.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Ok. I made some progress. I Uninstalled my device drivers, reinstalled from the Motorola website. I am able to flash things from fastboot.
I did the following for MM6.0
adb reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash partition gpt.bin
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot flash logo logo.bin
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
fastboot erase modemst1
fastboot erase modemst2
fastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn
fastboot flash bluetooth BTFM.bin
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot reboot
Everything was successful.
Now I can boot into the OS.
But now my WIFI isnt working. I go to settings and try to turn it on, but it doesnt.
Can someone help me here>?

nikhilnagaraj24 said:
Ok. I made some progress. I Uninstalled my device drivers, reinstalled from the Motorola website. I am able to flash things from fastboot.
I did the following for MM6.0
adb reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash partition gpt.bin
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot flash logo logo.bin
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
fastboot erase modemst1
fastboot erase modemst2
fastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn
fastboot flash bluetooth BTFM.bin
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot reboot
Everything was successful.
Now I can boot into the OS.
But now my WIFI isnt working. I go to settings and try to turn it on, but it doesnt.
Can someone help me here>?
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are you sure you flashed everything correctly?

I don't know directions or anything, but I can tell you from other posts on the moto x pure forum that your not the first to lose wifi after restoring stock. To my knowledge you need to down grade to the original factory Android version, not just 5.1 or whatever, it HAS to be the original Android version, AND original baseband and system version, then upgrade from there. Hour that helps a bit, but do some searching and I'm sure you will find what I mean.

Thanks for your reply guys. I eventually fixed it. I now am running the TruPure ROM and everything seems to be working fine.
Except the the MicroSD card that I had 'adopted' is now write protected. I am not finding any luck trying to salvage that. I dont care about my data on it, just want it to be usable. I read somewhere that the card, once adopted, will only work on that ROM that it was originally adopted on. I even tried flashing the other ROM (OrionOS) but no go. My phone doesnt recognize the card except in Recovery. Computer recognizes it but I cant do anything since it is write protected. I tried DISKPART, the regedit fix and a bunch of other stuff. Didnt help. Its a brand new card, so I dont believe the card has gone faulty. Any idea on how to fix it?

nikhilnagaraj24 said:
Thanks for your reply guys. I eventually fixed it. I now am running the TruPure ROM and everything seems to be working fine.
Except the the MicroSD card that I had 'adopted' is now write protected. I am not finding any luck trying to salvage that. I dont care about my data on it, just want it to be usable. I read somewhere that the card, once adopted, will only work on that ROM that it was originally adopted on. I even tried flashing the other ROM (OrionOS) but no go. My phone doesnt recognize the card except in Recovery. Computer recognizes it but I cant do anything since it is write protected. I tried DISKPART, the regedit fix and a bunch of other stuff. Didnt help. Its a brand new card, so I dont believe the card has gone faulty. Any idea on how to fix it?
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if you had an sd card to pc adapter so you can format it from the pc?_?