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[HELP] Accidentally formated SDCARD!

So I rooted, then put CM10.1 nightly and gapps on my sdcard, then went to flash, and I spaced out and accidentally formatted SDCARD when i know that I shouldnt have. crap.
i tried using the "sideload" feature but it wouldnt work on my adb-mac version, i also tried adb pushing ROM files to SDCARD, it says transfered but when i go to flash it says no files in SDCARD, I also tried pushing to SDCARD/0 but i get an error that it isnt a directory since it is formatted.
SOME ONE PLEASE give me instructions on what to do. Do I have to go back to stock or can I just get this to go straight to CM10.1? Id prefer straight to CM10.1 obviously.

crackmulah said:
So I rooted, then put CM10.1 nightly and gapps on my sdcard, then went to flash, and I spaced out and accidentally formatted SDCARD when i know that I shouldnt have. crap.
i tried using the "sideload" feature but it wouldnt work on my adb-mac version, i also tried adb pushing ROM files to SDCARD, it says transfered but when i go to flash it says no files in SDCARD, I also tried pushing to SDCARD/0 but i get an error that it isnt a directory since it is formatted.
SOME ONE PLEASE give me instructions on what to do. Do I have to go back to stock or can I just get this to go straight to CM10.1? Id prefer straight to CM10.1 obviously.
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Push cwm via fastboot then reflash the rom
Fastboot flash recovery (your recovery)
Sent from my Nexus 4

Hindsight 20/20, but it never hurts to do an adb backup, it will b/u your sdcard as well.
For the future: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1420351

mark manning said:
Push cwm via fastboot then reflash the rom
Fastboot flash recovery (your recovery)
Sent from my Nexus 4
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did this, but still same error, no files found in sd card. i did not think this would solve it but i tried anyway...

crackmulah said:
did this, but still same error, no files found in sd card. i did not think this would solve it but i tried anyway...
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So you've successfully flashed a recovery img via fasboot? Did you also push a copy of the ROM zip back to your phone?
Boot to recovery and then adb push the ROM to the sd card.
Code:
adb push yourROMsName.zip /sdcard/
The above code assumes you've placed the rom zip in the adb or platform-tools folder on your PC.

Can't you just boot into fastboot, flash a recovery, boot into said recovery and mount the internal storage and drag and drop the files from your computer?
How did you format the SD card when the phone doesn't have one?

jakejm79 said:
Can't you just boot into fastboot, flash a recovery, boot into said recovery and mount the internal storage and drag and drop the files from your computer?
How did you format the SD card when the phone doesn't have one?
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The internal storage is considered an SD card.
Sent from my Nexus 4

CMNein said:
So you've successfully flashed a recovery img via fasboot? Did you also push a copy of the ROM zip back to your phone?
Boot to recovery and then adb push the ROM to the sd card.
Code:
adb push yourROMsName.zip /sdcard/
The above code assumes you've placed the rom zip in the adb or platform-tools folder on your PC.
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yes i did repush the rom file. this isnt working because i dont believe that flashing a recovery adds folder/partition information to the sdcard. maybe im wrong, but it didnt work.

crackmulah said:
yes i did repush the rom file. this isnt working because i dont believe that flashing a recovery adds folder/partition information to the sdcard. maybe im wrong, but it didnt work.
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Are there any spaces in the ROM zips name?

CMNein said:
Are there any spaces in the ROM zips name?
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lol no
I am currently using Wug's Nexus Toolkit to try to flash stock from softbrick mode...will let you know how it goes
EDIT:: This is giving me some trouble as I cant turn on USB DEBUGGING (because i have no OS installed) to install the drivers and such.....
PLEASE KEEP IDEAS ROLLIN...

crackmulah said:
lol no
I am currently using Wug's Nexus Toolkit to try to flash stock from softbrick mode...will let you know how it goes
EDIT:: This is giving me some trouble as I cant turn on USB DEBUGGING (because i have no OS installed) to install the drivers and such.....
PLEASE KEEP IDEAS ROLLIN...
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Just go back to stock
Sent from my Nexus 4

mark manning said:
Just go back to stock
Sent from my Nexus 4
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this is what im trying to do lol...having trouble tho. what is your recommended method?

crackmulah said:
this is what im trying to do lol...having trouble tho. what is your recommended method?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
Sent from my Nexus 4

You could also try wugfresh's toolkit and selecting "Back to Stock" -> "Soft-bricked".

mark manning said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
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ya im gonna do that if this Wug's Toolkit wont do the trick...seems to be working now tho...in middle of flashing stock

crackmulah said:
ya im gonna do that if this Wug's Toolkit wont do the trick...seems to be working now tho...in middle of flashing stock
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You should learn how to do this without tool kits. Those things while helpful are nothing more than a crutch
Sent from my Nexus 4

mark manning said:
The internal storage is considered an SD card.
Sent from my Nexus 4
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Yeah but doesn't the Nexus 4 lump all the internal storage together, I know other devices like the OXL have like 6GB internal storage and then a 'simulated' mSD card of about 10GB, making 16GB total. But the Nexus 4 uses the whole 16GB (or 8GB) as internal storage.

mark manning said:
You should learn how to do this without tool kits. Those things while helpful are nothing more than a crutch
Sent from my Nexus 4
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yes definitely agreed.
although ive always wanted to try one, and it worked! if this were to happen again (if i dont shoot myself) then i will be doing it manually.
Thanks so much to everyone for all the help! I am now running Official CM10.1 Nightly (newest) and running beautifully so far. This is my second N4 tho, so I will be using my 1st stock one for today since its already setup, have to go to work now and will setup my new CM10.1 N4 later, hopefully wont find any crazy bugs...

I had the same problem and after reading this thread I tried the Fastboot method first:
after I finished it didnt boot so I continue with the inst', then it booted but only with 8GB, so I continue with the inst' and from that stage it just didnt boot.
At the end I tried the root toolkit V1.6.2 and the phone back to life with stock rom and 16GB.

I'm back to stock now. But I've used the sideload successfully. After you get your phone restored, you'll probably want to do a full factory reset because some of your pushes have probably gone through and are now eating up space. You can't delete them that I know of unless you FULLY format.
ANYWAY
When I got sideload to work, I had to push it to /sdcard/0/, /sdcard0/, or something like that. Wish I could be more specific, but I don't want to change from stock to install cwm (the ROMS have too many bugs so far, and we might be getting 4.2.2)
The key is finding the right directory to push it to. Experiment with slashes, and it SHOULD work.

Cant boot phone just stays at "Google boot screen

i stupidly changed from CWM recovery to TWRP and forgot to make a backup.
I went to install the Revolt rom so copied it to the memory and it installs fine but when i go to reboot it just sits on the "Google" boot screen with the unlocked padlock at the bottom and never gets anywhere.
Any ideas or advice on what i can do?

Does adb work?

Wipe cache?

If you would have read through the thread, you would have seen that the ROM doesn't boot past the Google logo. The ROM doesn't work.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium

But how can I get another ROM.zip onto the device since I can't get onto it (I can access TWRP) but how can I get the zip onto it?
nexus toolkit doesn't pick it up so no ADB. My other nexus gets picked up fine
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Roshi69 said:
But how can I get another ROM.zip onto the device since I can't get onto it (I can access TWRP) but how can I get the zip onto it?
nexus toolkit doesn't pick it up so no ADB. My other nexus gets picked up fine
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Try configuring the drivers from here. Can you mount USB Storage? Does your computer recognize fastboot?

It picks up my other nexus that is working fine but with being stuck in a boot loop i dunno what to do. with my s3 i would have just put a new rom on the external SD
just got it into download mode :s and 2 new random devices have appeared. check the links below.
all i want to be able to do it put a new .zip on the device so i can get it going.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jux2lvkn63fjq2q/IMG_20130118_181401.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nk7rozieurd7ofg/IMG_20130118_181407.jpg

Roshi69 said:
It picks up my other nexus that is working fine but with being stuck in a boot loop i dunno what to do. with my s3 i would have just put a new rom on the external SD
just got it into download mode :s and 2 new random devices have appeared. check the links below.
all i want to be able to do it put a new .zip on the device so i can get it going.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jux2lvkn63fjq2q/IMG_20130118_181401.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nk7rozieurd7ofg/IMG_20130118_181407.jpg
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Can you get into fastboot?

possibly. what commands do i have to try? i know fastboot did work for my last device so its configured and working ok

Roshi69 said:
i stupidly changed from CWM recovery to TWRP and forgot to make a backup.
I went to install the Revolt rom so copied it to the memory and it installs fine but when i go to reboot it just sits on the "Google" boot screen with the unlocked padlock at the bottom and never gets anywhere.
Any ideas or advice on what i can do?
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This happened to me 2 times yesterday. I was flashing new kernel and roms and then I keep getting the Google logo for every new rom I tried. I fixed this problem by doing these steps..
I'm using TWRP so ..
-Wipe
-Cache / Dalvik cache / factory reset / system / format data / and internal storage (Make sure u wipe internal storage and format data! This will stop the Google logo loop. NOTE: U will lost everything if you do this step)
-Then I reboot into TWRP after the wipe
-I download nexus 4 toolkit v1.3 Toolkit dl link
-mount /system/ in TWRP
-Put the below stock rooted rom into put_files_to_push_here (it's inside installed path of the nexus 4 toolkit)
-Push This stock rooted rom using #13 option in nexus 4 toolkit
-It will ask if u using a custom rom or insecure image type yes
-It will ask u where to push ur file to.. just type /system/
-wait 2-3 mins to push. If everything goes well it should say "Finished xxx secs"
-Install the Stock rooted rom using TWRP
-reboot

Roshi69 said:
possibly. what commands do i have to try? i know fastboot did work for my last device so its configured and working ok
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I think I was wrong. You can't push/flash a ROM through fastboot. Are you absolutely sure that you can't mount your SD card to your PC in TWRP recovery? I can't mount my SD using CWM but I can using TWRP.

enyceckk said:
This happened to me 2 times yesterday. I was flashing new kernel and roms and then I keep getting the Google logo for every new rom I tried. I fixed this problem by doing these steps..
I'm using TWRP so ..
-Wipe
-Cache / Dalvik cache / factory reset / system / format data / and internal storage (Make sure u wipe internal storage and format data! This will stop the Google logo loop. NOTE: U will lost everything if you do this step)
-Then I reboot into TWRP after the wipe
-I download nexus 4 toolkit v1.3 Toolkit dl link
-mount /system/ in TWRP
-Put the below stock rooted rom into put_files_to_push_here (it's inside installed path of the nexus 4 toolkit)
-Push This stock rooted rom using #13 option in nexus 4 toolkit
-It will ask if u using a custom rom or insecure image type yes
-wait 2-3 mins to push. If everything goes well it should say "Finished xxx secs"
-Install the Stock rooted rom using TWRP
-reboot
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got it all sorted and going. when trying to push to device i get "error: device not found" what way should i connect the phone? whilst in recovery and i've checked "mount system"?
Thanks so much for the help guys much appreciated!

Roshi69 said:
got it all sorted and going. when trying to push to device i get "error: device not found" what way should i connect the phone? whilst in recovery and i've checked "mount system"?
Thanks so much for the help guys much appreciated!
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Do u have adb driver installed on ur pc? If you do, it should show ur device near top left of toolkit. It should say " ADB mode List of devices attached" If you can see ur device with the serial number then everything should work fine.
You can install the driver using toolkit.. it's the #1 option
When pushing the file, u should be in TWRP (where u see install.. wipe etc..) and mount /system/ should have an X on it.

enyceckk said:
do u have adb driver installed on ur pc? If you do, it should show ur device near top left of toolkit. It should say " adb mode list of devices attached" if you can see ur device with the serial number then everything should work fine.
You can install the driver using toolkit.. It's the #1 option
when pushing the file, u should be in twrp (where u see install.. Wipe etc..) and mount /system/ should have an x on it.
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it worked!!! Thank you so much!!!

[Q] Nexus 4 No OS. Only fastboot [SOLVED]

I recently tried to flash PA on my nexus.
Installed cwm on my phone. Then downloaded the PA ROM and moved to the device storage.
Rebooted into CWM and performed all the wipes.
I accidentally wiped the system and the internel partitions too.
when i tried to install ROM from sdcard. it says "NO FILES FOUND"
Iam stuck here. Phone wont boot into Android... any suggestions? please help!

How did you wipe system within CWM?
But since you say you wiped internal partitions too, it seems to me that you wiped your internal emulated sdcard... so I think your only option now is to flash stock images again... Read this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312

If you don't want to flash the stock images you can also push a rom to your phone with adb while booted in a custom recovery
adb push nameofrom.zip /sdcard/

Thanks guys. Found a solution.
Flashed TWRP and sideloaded the ROM file. And flashed it.
Earlier the same process with CWM was not successful. Now the phone is loaded with PA ROM!
Thanks guys! and can u point me to the google stock images??

njarun said:
Thanks guys! and can u point me to the google stock images??
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Glad you solved it
Here are the stock OTA and images from google and mirrored http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1971169

My dad said he knew how to fix this, and wiped my system, thats all, and now I can't boot. Any help on this?

mrjoeltan said:
My dad said he knew how to fix this, and wiped my system, thats all, and now I can't boot. Any help on this?
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wiped /system? have you tried simple re-flashing your ROM from the .zip ?

no worry... download the nexus 4 twrp latest img from their site, and flash it to your N4
what you needed:
twrp img file
some n4 rom
adb and fastboot
instructions:
boot to fastboot, vol key down + powerbutton when n4 is off.
on your comp, , dos/terminal - fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
reboot in recovery
select the adb side load from advanced tab in the twrp.
on your comp - adb sideload rom.zip
everything done....reboot phone.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium

I have a same problem, but when i try to flash a Rom, it`s fail and said that no partition, how can i fix it? Thanks for read.

blackcatvn said:
I have a same problem, but when i try to flash a Rom, it`s fail and said that no partition, how can i fix it? Thanks for read.
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did you wipe using fastboot erase command? if so, you need to re-format to the android supported file system to access the partitions!
try installing the twrp recovery and perform 'FORMAT DATA' from wipe. then install ROM.

N4 no OS.
njarun said:
I recently tried to flash PA on my nexus.
Installed cwm on my phone. Then downloaded the PA ROM and moved to the device storage.
Rebooted into CWM and performed all the wipes.
I accidentally wiped the system and the internel partitions too.
when i tried to install ROM from sdcard. it says "NO FILES FOUND"
Iam stuck here. Phone wont boot into Android... any suggestions? please help!
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I need help, having the same problem you had with my N4. Cant seem to fix it. I had PA 3.69 for 3 weeks when I rebooted my N4 i had no OS on the phone. Just my Bootloader and Twrp 2500 was recently 2600 but cant do anything else. ADB works seems to fail when writing to N4. Im trying to get it back to stock. Any Ideas
Axel

Axelben said:
I need help, having the same problem you had with my N4. Cant seem to fix it. I had PA 3.69 for 3 weeks when I rebooted my N4 i had no OS on the phone. Just my Bootloader and Twrp 2500 was recently 2600 but cant do anything else. ADB works seems to fail when writing to N4. Im trying to get it back to stock. Any Ideas
Axel
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can u get into recovery? did u check changing your USB Cable? The original nexus usb cable sucks, try another one. If you can access the fastboot/adb then it will be pretty simple..

Same problem but...
Hi, I'm having the same problem with my Nexus 4 and I have TWRP V 2.6.3.0 but I'm not sure how to push any rom to my phone because it's not showing up under my computer in Windows. How do I push roms to my Nexus 4? I'm stuck at the Google boot screen when I try to boot (Flashed Dalvik Cache, System, Data, Internal Storage, and normal cache) and I of course don't have any roms on my phone after I wiped all of the partitons. Help me plz
El Daddy said:
If you don't want to flash the stock images you can also push a rom to your phone with adb while booted in a custom recovery
adb push nameofrom.zip /sdcard/
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Got it working
Hi, I got it to work. No worries guys
xXDustinoXx said:
Hi, I'm having the same problem with my Nexus 4 and I have TWRP V 2.6.3.0 but I'm not sure how to push any rom to my phone because it's not showing up under my computer in Windows. How do I push roms to my Nexus 4? I'm stuck at the Google boot screen when I try to boot (Flashed Dalvik Cache, System, Data, Internal Storage, and normal cache) and I of course don't have any roms on my phone after I wiped all of the partitons. Help me plz
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njarun said:
can u get into recovery? did u check changing your USB Cable? The original nexus usb cable sucks, try another one. If you can access the fastboot/adb then it will be pretty simple..
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i cannot get the thing to work this bloody adb command does not seems to work on my Windows 8.1
Can u please give a detailed intruction as i have my file in D Drive so where to keep this zip file

nickboy360 said:
i cannot get the thing to work this bloody adb command does not seems to work on my Windows 8.1
Can u please give a detailed intruction as i have my file in D Drive so where to keep this zip file
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you got it working? else pm me your mail id. ill send you the necessary files and detailed info, I once composed it for one of my friend!

njarun said:
you got it working? else pm me your mail id. ill send you the necessary files and detailed info, I once composed it for one of my friend!
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Thanks for asking mate i got it done... :good:

[Q] help stuck in recovery can't mount internal drive to flash

Rooted and installed twerp 2.6 wiped download files to copy over and flash, but will not mount internal storage tried 2 different systems. stays stuck at updating partion details.

raven.warsong said:
Rooted and installed twerp 2.6 wiped download files to copy over and flash, but will not mount internal storage tried 2 different systems. stays stuck at updating partion details.
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Do you have adb + the drivers installed? If not, do so now and then adb push the files to the phone. adb will work even if you're in recovery. Should be plenty of write ups on the forum about how to install and set up the required stuff.

is been a long time since I pushed files useing adb Im sure it will come back to me. Should I change to clockworks to avoid this in the future? Why is it not mounting

raven.warsong said:
is been a long time since I pushed files useing adb Im sure it will come back to me. Should I change to clockworks to avoid this in the future? Why is it not mounting
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It can't be on the Nexus 4. If you don't have the files on your phone it's your only option at this point.
Edit: CWM vs TWRP wouldn't make a difference in this case.

CMNein said:
It can't be on the Nexus 4. If you don't have the files on your phone it's your only option at this point.
Edit: CWM vs TWRP wouldn't make a difference in this case.
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I pushed the files over and im going to flash now. so i guess the nexus 4 dose not support usb mode so I will all ways need to push with adb? I gess thats the part I still dont understand. I like being able to mount it as a drive in recovery is this supported? if not great. If it is how to I trouble shoot it?

raven.warsong said:
I pushed the files over and im going to flash now. so i guess the nexus 4 dose not support usb mode so I will all ways need to push with adb? I gess thats the part I still dont understand. I like being able to mount it as a drive in recovery is this supported? if not great. If it is how to I trouble shoot it?
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You cant mount it as USB storage in recovery mode. I normally download the new ROM I want to flash before going into recovery so that I don't have to use adb to push it.

chromium96 said:
You cant mount it as USB storage in recovery mode. I normally download the new ROM I want to flash before going into recovery so that I don't have to use adb to push it.
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ok thanks I will reflash recovery or start there as long as I know it can be done thats all that matters.

[Q] Nexus 4 with No OS - Bricked?

Hey,
Last night I was thinking about reflashing my phone with a new ROM. I made a backup (it's on my computer now), transferred it to my computer. I installed the ROM files and put them into to clockwordmod folder thinking that they wouldn't be deleted if I deleted /data and /date/media (/sdcard) in the custom recovery under "mounts and storage menu."
I was wrong. It deleted the rom files and now I don't have anything to flash. If I try to reboot to system, it says "Android is upgrading - app 1 of 52" Once that is done, it gets stuck on "Android is upgrading - Loading Apps", or something like that.
What can I do? I heard I could ABD push but I have no idea what that is and how I can do it... Help!?

Any help? Please

Goto cmw and install your ROM via adb.
Under option install zip there will be a choice for flashing zip via adb. Just select that in cmw and connect your phone to laptop.
Now in laptop you should have adb files in a folder and paste your ROM in that adb folder.
Next do as it is written in cmw and it will be flashed
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suvasco said:
Hey,
Last night I was thinking about reflashing my phone with a new ROM. I made a backup (it's on my computer now), transferred it to my computer. I installed the ROM files and put them into to clockwordmod folder thinking that they wouldn't be deleted if I deleted /data and /date/media (/sdcard) in the custom recovery under "mounts and storage menu."
I was wrong. It deleted the rom files and now I don't have anything to flash. If I try to reboot to system, it says "Android is upgrading - app 1 of 52" Once that is done, it gets stuck on "Android is upgrading - Loading Apps", or something like that.
What can I do? I heard I could ABD push but I have no idea what that is and how I can do it... Help!?
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You cant brick your phone as long as fastboot and recovery works.
boot into fastboot.
if your recovery is not working : reflash your recovery
Then boot into recovery and install rom via sideload;
From your pcadb sideload):
http://teamw.in/ADBSideload

Try wugfresh tool kit from here: http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/

suvasco said:
Hey,
Last night I was thinking about reflashing my phone with a new ROM. I made a backup (it's on my computer now), transferred it to my computer. I installed the ROM files and put them into to clockwordmod folder thinking that they wouldn't be deleted if I deleted /data and /date/media (/sdcard) in the custom recovery under "mounts and storage menu."
I was wrong. It deleted the rom files and now I don't have anything to flash. If I try to reboot to system, it says "Android is upgrading - app 1 of 52" Once that is done, it gets stuck on "Android is upgrading - Loading Apps", or something like that.
What can I do? I heard I could ABD push but I have no idea what that is and how I can do it... Help!?
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What can I do? I heard I could ABD push but I have no idea what that is and how I can do it... Help!? - What you can do is some leg work and look up how to ADB push instead of saying you dont know what that is. Now if you rooted your phone yourself at some point an ADB push was probably done. This is why most hate toolkits(if thats what was used) since it does not help you learn anything.
Search my friend but its like starting from scratch but if you have a working recovery still thats one less step...
adb push -> rom to phone
boot into recovery
flash rom
go on with life......:good:

playya said:
What can I do? I heard I could ABD push but I have no idea what that is and how I can do it... Help!? - What you can do is some leg work and look up how to ADB push instead of saying you dont know what that is. Now if you rooted your phone yourself at some point an ADB push was probably done. This is why most hate toolkits(if thats what was used) since it does not help you learn anything.
Search my friend but its like starting from scratch but if you have a working recovery still thats one less step...
adb push -> rom to phone
boot into recovery
flash rom
go on with life......:good:
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That, or use adb push or sideload from recovery.
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korockinout13 said:
That, or use adb push or sideload from recovery.
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Yes... sorry I forgot to add sideload and if you not sure what that is please use Google
Edit; My bad I see instructions and website for sideloading were posted area in here