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[Q] Apparently I screwed up. SOLVED!

I have my nook rooted and all of that and for some reason I decided to wipe the thing clean in CWM recovery and now it won't boot to anything unless I boot from SD. I've tried booting into a rom from SD and installing CWM recovery again through rom manager and it says that is has flashed successfully but when I tell it to restart it goes back to the rom on the SD of course, so I tried taking the SD out and holding down the N and booting into recovery and I get nothing no loading screen no nothing, am I not getting CWM installed? Is there a zip I can flash from CWM on SD to flash it?
EDIT!!!!! If i had remembered to format the right things then I wouldn't have had an issue.
If you are having the problem described above remember to format BOOT, System, and Data. And then flash your rom.

See post#4 here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1205047

Thank you I don't know what I was thinking, if I had just formated the right things it would have worked just fine, I am a tard sometimes.

[Q] TWRP nor CWM will successfully wipe/format data

First, I searched and read all relevant threads concerning this issue. The five threads that showed up in the search did not help me solve my issue.
So on to my problem. I can no longer flash any rom onto my device. I attempted to flash the first official CM10 nightly (which I recently found out was not flashing properly for others) and had no success. I simply got a black screen and nothing more. I eventually got back into TWRP (v2.2.1.4) to try and Nandroid restore, but I noticed that /data was not formatting and the restore failed. Every time I would slide the bar across to confirm the restore TWRP would reboot itself. I then flashed CWM (v6.0.1.0) and the same problems were there. After that I flashed an earlier version of TWRP and successfully restored the backup. I'm not 100% sure how it was successful. So I decided to try flashing another ROM and no go. Same problems. Anyone have any ideas? When I was using CWM I got the error message below.
Code:
E: unable to locate volume information
E: unable to open ums lunfile '/sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file'
E: unable to format data
I'm running Bugless Beast with Motley #219

I'm having similar, if not identical problems. After flashing TWRP 2.2.1.4, I tried flashing a rom and gapps; the tablet would boot endlessly into recovery. Nothing I did would do anything, so I flashed the stock image to start over. This time, I used CWM 6.0.1.0 touch to make sure that it wasn't the recovery that was causing the problem. However, now after flashing the rom and gapps, instead of booting into recovery, I got stuck at a black screen and had to hold the power button in order to get back to the bootloader.
Now, like you, it seems I can't flash any roms anymore. It's frustrating to say the least.
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aznxk3vi17 said:
I'm having similar, if not identical problems. After flashing TWRP 2.2.1.4, I tried flashing a rom and gapps; the tablet would boot endlessly into recovery. Nothing I did would do anything, so I flashed the stock image to start over. This time, I used CWM 6.0.1.0 touch to make sure that it wasn't the recovery that was causing the problem. However, now after flashing the rom and gapps, instead of booting into recovery, I got stuck at a black screen and had to hold the power button in order to get back to the bootloader.
Now, like you, it seems I can't flash any roms anymore. It's frustrating to say the least.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda app-developers app
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What rom did you attempt to flash?

elementur said:
What rom did you attempt to flash?
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So do I.I attempted to flash the first official CM10 8.18 nightly and had no success. I just got a black screen.Even more I boot into bootloader and choose to boot into recover but just stay at google logo.I try to flash recover once more,but just can't boot into recover!!

I have the same problem, i flashed the cm10 nightly which I learned would not boot. No I have no backup to boot to, and cannot even push a new rom to the storage to try to install.

Shano56 said:
I have the same problem, i flashed the cm10 nightly which I learned would not boot. No I have no backup to boot to, and cannot even push a new rom to the storage to try to install.
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Can't boot into recover,does anyone know what is wrong?When it is in android I can use APM boot into recover or via ADB,but unusually when it is in the bootloader I choose to boot into recover,it just stay at google logo!!What it is going wrong?

phiracle said:
Can't boot into recover,does anyone know what is wrong?When it is in android I can use APM boot into recover or via ADB,but unusually when it is in the bootloader I choose to boot into recover,it just stay at google logo!!What it is going wrong?
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There is a bug with the Nexus 7 where you cannot access the recovery through the bootloader. To fix this, boot up into the bootloader on your nexus 7 and, without doing anything, plug it into the computer you used for rooting it and then select the option Restart bootloader and press the power button. Once it gets you back into the bootloader again select Recovery mode and press the power button. It will now get you into the recovery and once you're in recovery you can unplug your tablet from the computer. Note that this fix is not permanent and you will have to do this every time you wish to access your recovery via the bootloader (and this problem is not relevant to the OP's problem).

android1234567 said:
There is a bug with the Nexus 7 where you cannot access the recovery through the bootloader. To fix this, boot up into the bootloader on your nexus 7 and, without doing anything, plug it into the computer you used for rooting it and then select the option Restart bootloader and press the power button. Once it gets you back into the bootloader again select Recovery mode and press the power button. It will now get you into the recovery and once you're in recovery you can unplug your tablet from the computer. Note that this fix is not permanent and you will have to do this every time you wish to access your recovery via the bootloader (and this problem is not relevant to the OP's problem).
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Thank You Very Much!!!

I am having much the same problem as the OP. I finally rooted my Nexus 7 using WugFresh's Nexus Root Toolkit. It seemed all went well. I chose to use TWRP in a first attempt to install a ROM (I was on rooted stock), and following the instructions for installing my chosen ROM I went into it to wipe cache, Dalvic Cache and data. Both cache and dalvic cache wiped without issue, but when I attempted to wipe /data TWRP simply reported that it failed. With that failing, I did not attempt to install a rom. I was still able to boot out of recovery, but even with repeated attempts wiping data always failed. Is any one aware of any solution or have any suggestions. Thank you!

Nexus 4- No Bootloader and system wiped

Hi there, I have a Nexus 4 that is bricked (I think) and I don't know of any way of fixing it.
What happened was that when I was trying to flash PSX 4.4 I had stock recovery somehow (had it before, phone is unlocked and rooted) so I went to install that via Nexus root toolkit and it booted into temporary TWRP and it was on the latest version and didn't do anything so I figured it was installed. I proceeded by wiping system, data, cache, and dalvik cache as the PSX post had said to do.
I then proceeded to install PSX 4.4 Kitkat (Latest version) and when it went to boot into it after installing (didn't see it install on the phone via TWRP recovery) it didn't boot into android.
I then went on to find out that TWRP was never actually installed, only booted into temporarly to install itself (which it didn't.) So I tried installing TWRP again from the battery meter, boot up google screen, fastboot mode, and recovery mode. None of these work, and I can't acsess my Nexus 4's internal storage via my PC. My phone is brcked, correct? Is there a way out of this
Please help

I can't see how bootloader was wiped from what you describe
So what happens when you boot your phone, black screen? Absolutely nothing?
And when you hold various combos of volume rocker and power on, nothing?
Plug into PC, led? Nothing?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

Are you using a toolkit to do all this?
Hold Volume Down + Power to get into the bootloader.

xXDustinoXx said:
Hi there, I have a Nexus 4 that is bricked (I think) and I don't know of any way of fixing it.
What happened was that when I was trying to flash PSX 4.4 I had stock recovery somehow (had it before, phone is unlocked and rooted) so I went to install that via Nexus root toolkit and it booted into temporary TWRP and it was on the latest version and didn't do anything so I figured it was installed. I proceeded by wiping system, data, cache, and dalvik cache as the PSX post had said to do.
I then proceeded to install PSX 4.4 Kitkat (Latest version) and when it went to boot into it after installing (didn't see it install on the phone via TWRP recovery) it didn't boot into android.
I then went on to find out that TWRP was never actually installed, only booted into temporarly to install itself (which it didn't.) So I tried installing TWRP again from the battery meter, boot up google screen, fastboot mode, and recovery mode. None of these work, and I can't acsess my Nexus 4's internal storage via my PC. My phone is brcked, correct? Is there a way out of this
Please help
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lets clarify, can u still see google logo? can u still enter fastboot mode?

Sorry I never relpied, don't even remmber how this happend, or how I fiex
Thanks for all of the answers guys, sorry I never replied to them. don't even remember how this problem happened, or how I fixed it;. I'm experiencing a similar problem and nothing's working; I'll open a new thread now with more info so I hopefully can get it up and running

[Q] CWM disapeared, boot loop, only have access to android system recovery

Hi guys
(SM-N9005)
So yesterday I had liquid smooth rom installed for the past month or so (I have been trying a variety of roms for the last year or so) and I was getting some bugs occuring and decided to put a new rom on.
I booted into recovery, did the normal backup, factory restore, clear cache and dalvik, installed the rom and restarted my phone. It then went into a boot loop.
At this point I assumed it was no biggy, so I just went back to recovery and chose to restore with the backup... except it wouldnt. it couldnt recognise the file it had just made.
So I then coppied some previous backups to the external micro sd, stuck the micro sd card in, booted in recovery and tried to recover with them... couldnt recognise them.
I also noticed that when trying to reboot, it came up saying that I didn't have root access... even though I certainly have for the past year.
I tried flashing an updated version of superuser as that was the suggested method on some forum - didnt help the situation.
Now when my phone boot loops, it goes straight to android system recovery <3e> and nolonger have access to CWM
No idea what to do, and my uni work greatly depends on me having access to my phone :/
Any help would be greatly appreciated

my baseband version is LRX21V.N9005XXUGBOB6

i got some problem ... it freak me oute but i founnd how to back my stock firmware backk
you shoud find your firmware ... it can be downloaded from sammobile.
and flash tar.md5 file via ONDIN.
good luck!

Bootloop on Lollipop Stock

So, yesterday i tried to install Euphoria OS on my phone, but in all of a sudden, the /cache partition corrupted, i was dumb enough and deleted it via TWRP, making my phone fall into the QPST status.
After fixing it, i proceeded and reflashed KitKat, but the phone only shows 8GB instead of 16GB, so i tried to fix this by flashing TWRP, everything went well, until i upgraded to Lollipop again.
It always bootloops no matter what i do, i really need my phone with my 16GB of storage back, it isn't a Hardware failure since the QPST diagnosis didn't say anything about mobo failures.
I can mount all the partitions, i can wipe it all, i can boot into bootloader and recovery, i can do basically everything but booting the system.
Any light on this? it either happens after i flash TWRP or after i try to root it.
Im running Android 5.1.1 stock.
List of tutorials i have tried (In order): http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/general/wip-unbricking-nexus-4-using-qpst-t2208289
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nex...unbrick-n4-t2347060/post43164157#post43164157
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/nexus-5-stuck-boot-loop-lollipop-t3098632
Don't you dare tell me to reflash the ROM again, this is the first thing i have done, i did this 20 times already and it never worked. It isn't a ROM problem. It is a partition problem somewhere.

Fixed, had to use LGNPST to reflash JB 4.4.2, then upgraded to a ZIP version of the Lollipop ROM, then flashed the stock one.

I'm having the same problem with my Nexus 4. I read also about LGNPST, but I remember something about flashing the Optimus G cache partition I believe, then manipulating one of the prop files afterwards in order to get your 16gigs back. The problem is that all of the files needed to do this flash are attached to a stupid downloader site and so its full of pop up windows and adware from what I've seen. I can't get mine to boot into system, or bootloader, or recovery, etc. The device will not finish looping for debugging to be enabled, and even trying to boot into download mode is not happening. I've tried all I know to do, especially considering fastboot and adb both utilizeusb debugging. I really am baffled. Any root kits I've tried also don't work so far. Help please.