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Tried to install CM7 - now I can't get anywhere.

Hi all,
I'm having a little problem. I have researched but everything I've found leads me back to square one...
So I followed this guide to installing CM7 on my M2. Please note that I have in the past successfully rooted my phone, installed the Argenstone ROM and one other basic Great Britain Rom. So I'm not a total nub. However at this stage I have a phone that's is useless to me...
My phone is rooted. I have Droid2Bootstapper installed and I managed to get the CWM 3.X installed. I downloaded the all-in-one.zip file from the CM7 ROM thread (the zip is actually called EndlessCM7-110901-nightly_build.zip - hope that's not an issue?)
I booted into CWM and applied the EndlessCM7-110901-nightly_build.zip and after (without a reboot) wiped everything (I had backed it up previously).
I rebooted the phone and...well I get the Google logo with the Motorola M and the Cyanogen bot as the 2 'O' characters. Then after a while a 3D rotating 'square' and the android writing and logo 'shimmering' in and out but that just goes on forever. I left it for an hour at one point and just gave up.
Now I can't even get past the Google logo. I've tried restoring my previous back up but that won't work either. I can't boot into the OS to actually use RSD lite to flash a known working ROM over the top.
When the LED turns blue and I hit the volume key it displays "Android BootMenu <v1.0.3>" which is different to the CWM 3.X that I was getting prior to applying the EndlessCM7-110901-nightly_build.zip file.
From here I can select to recover the last 'latest recovery' which when done loads into CWM-based Recovery v4.0.1.6-defy.
Basically I'm at this point where I seem to be able to load just about every boot menu under the sun and do everything but actually launch the damn OS.
How can I get out of this hole? Preferably I'd like to get everything back to the stock ROM the phone came with so that I can start from scratch again.
Any bodies help would be more than appreciated.
Cheers,
- Matt
EDIT: I have even used CWM 4.X+ to try and restore the Argenstone ROM. it goes through the whole process of checking the MD5 sums, restoring the system and boot images etc and seems to work without any issues. I then wipe all data and reboot. Nothing - still the same cyanogen Google logo and the only thing I can do is boot into all the CWM menus.
*sigh*

Argh feel like a true idiot now. It took me about an hour of searching earlier but I've only just found/remembered how to get RSD lite to see my phone (pwr+volume+camera) and I'm wiping the whole thing to the factory (vodafone) ROM. Might take the opportunity to take it to Vodafone and tell them it never gets a damn 3G connection lol...provided this flash works (touch wood).

Need help with CWM boot issue

Hey guys. I'm trying to figure out what's going wrong with my Transformer. I'm not experienced with Android development/ROM's so please bare with me.
Rooted my first Android device about a month ago. Made a stupid mistake placing the ROM I was planning to use on the external SD card & didn't backup the install I wiped. Recovered with an official Asus ROM & after about two hours fiddling around I managed to root & load my first ROM (Revolver, whoot!). Very pleased with myself!
Have been using the Revolver ROM for a month without any problems. No deep sleep etc, everything worked perfectly. Using the latest version of Clockworkmod, also no issues so far. Strange thing is that since last monday everytime I (re)boot the device it loads CWM instead of the Android OS. I can get back into Android bij holding volume down during boot & choose to cold boot. Not a big issue but very annoying & can't seem to find the fix.
Searched Google & XDA for a solution. Updated Revolver to 1.3.1 beta, also found the repack by Koush for CWM. Tried fixing permissions, clearing cache, clearing dalvik, wiping & starting over, etc. Everything I tried so far does not fix the CWM-loop I seem to be stuck in.
Would really appreciate some help, I'm probably looking in the wrong direction here. Thanks in advance.

Found something
Finally got out of the CWM loop, found a solution here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1622814&page=2
Strange thing is that after I flashed it with the fix CWM changed to the touch mod I recently installed but never seemed to work. If I understand correctly the fix only deleted the first few lines in the config where the boot in recovery flag should be.
Afterwards I factory wiped the unit & flashed it with a clean ROM. Currently re-installing my apps. I do not have a good feeling on this, tablet seems sluggish last couple of days & I can hear a soft click when the unit reboots. Same sort of click a laptop hdd would make.
Think it's dying on me...

[Q] Help! Quarks CM10 does not boot

I tried loading the latest build (CM10 11/28) onto my defy. I completely forgot to load gapps afterwards and went ahead and rebooted. Now, it gets stuck on the cyanogenmod logo and does not boot past that. The only thing I can do is remove the battery. When I reboot, the same thing happes. Unfortunately, I no longer get the boot menu so I can't even run recovery from my backup.
How can I fix this so I can use my phone again?

atlcr said:
I tried loading the latest build (CM10 11/28) onto my defy. I completely forgot to load gapps afterwards and went ahead and rebooted. Now, it gets stuck on the cyanogenmod logo and does not boot past that. The only thing I can do is remove the battery. When I reboot, the same thing happes. Unfortunately, I no longer get the boot menu so I can't even run recovery from my backup.
How can I fix this so I can use my phone again?
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Nevermind...apparently pressing vol. down when the LED flashes blue gets me to a boot menu. Pheww!

Got it loaded, but having several problems: cannot connect to Play store, cannot receive phone calls, and email is spotty.

Please ask all questions in Q&A. Thread moved there.

atlcr said:
Got it loaded, but having several problems: cannot connect to Play store, cannot receive phone calls, and email is spotty.
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Your Gapps not working correctly, probably you installed incorrect ones, I recommend you to repeat the whole process:
1 full wipe x2 (you loose data so if you have data ensure yourself a backup)
2 flash stock sbf with rsd lite
3 root your phone
4 install 2ndinit
6 install cm10 from custom recovery
7 full wipe again
8 boot phone at least once
9 install quarx minimal gapps (thats your actual problem, your gapps not working correctly)
10 wipe again
11 restore backup if any.

3ze said:
Your Gapps not working correctly, probably you installed incorrect ones, I recommend you to repeat the whole process:
1 full wipe x2 (you loose data so if you have data ensure yourself a backup)
2 flash stock sbf with rsd lite
3 root your phone
4 install 2ndinit
6 install cm10 from custom recovery
7 full wipe again
8 boot phone at least once
9 install quarx minimal gapps (thats your actual problem, your gapps not working correctly)
10 wipe again
11 restore backup if any.
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I don't think he has to flash the sbf, just flash gapps n wipe data n cache. also try dalvik cache
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You could simply install a new .zip from recovery. You could use the same CM10 11/28 or any other rom. This shoud work out for you.
I experienced the same with my Defy today and I installed a new CM 10 09/05 by Epsylon and it worked like a charm.

Thank you for the replies!
I had to flash it a hundred times to get it to work (I kept getting write access errors for cache folder). What ended up working was to wipe everything and install the 9/24 build. From there, I rebooted and installed (without wiping) the latest build along with the correct gapps. It works fantastically now! My phone is soo much more responsive and I'm loving CM10.
3ze had it right. I was using the latest gapps (12/2) instead of the "minimal" version in the quarx dir.
I haven't noticed a battery drain as has been widely reported here. In fact, it seems to be less of a drain now though that is likely due to the fact that I wiped everything and only installed apps I needed this time around. Tons of unnecessary apps could explain why my battery life was less before.
I have noticed a slight difference in reception now though. Places that used to be fine for connecting to the network (Tmobile) have now become less strong and frequently dropping out. I wonder if the signal strength could have been messed with?

[Q] Frustrated, can't get a good reboot CM10, same problems crop up

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!

[Q] From stock to CM - Old folders still there

Hi there. First of all let me say my experience with custom ROM is all about the Galaxy S i9000.
After switching the official ROMs on my Find 5, which can be done just with the zip and no rooting, I decided to install the latest CM Nightly.
Here's what I did, in order:
- installed Framaroot and used the Gandalf method -> success, got SU and rooting
- installed the "Recovery Tools - Flash" or something like that from the Play Store
- installed CWM from the app, which is the latest touch version
- connected the Find 5 to my pc and put the CM and Gapps zips in the root folder
- rebooted to recovery, wiped Dalvik and factory reset then installed CM then Gapps zip
- wiped dalvik + factory reset again
- turned on the phone
Now, the ROM works BUT here's my problem: every folder created by the applications while I had color ROM, and the apps themselves, are still there! I still have the pictures, the 2-3 apps I left on the phone and everything else.
So my question is:
HOW DO YOU CLEAN EVERYTHING ON THE PHONE TO START COMPLETELY FROM SCRATCH while installing a new ROM?
I'm a fan of fresh installations, I don't even use backup software since I keep few core apps on my phone.
Back on the Galaxy S I just connected it, phisically deleted every single folder on the phone from the pc and put the CM + Gapps zips on it cause the S i9000 recreated the basic folders on itself.
I didn't do a wipe sdcard from the CWM because I red somewhere that on the Find 5 it deletes core system components to so you'll have to unstuck your phone loading the base recovery and an Oppo firmware from your computer...the fact is this way I don't have a fresh installation.
So what, and when, should I do to clean EVERYTHING like I did with my Galaxy S to be sure when I first boot a new ROM I only have the very basic folders Android and the ROM needs to be loaded?
I'll have a work meeting tomorrow so I didn't try the sdcard wipe to avoid staying without a working phone but I installed the very core apps only here so if I need to re-flash everything or wipe something I'm ok with that, I already backed up manually the old contents of the ColorROM(pictures and stuff) so I have nothing but the basics and WhatsApp on the phone right now.

No one? I know it may take a while but I'm kinda stalling to get my phone back to work completely cause I'll probably have to wipe something again to delete everything :/