I rooted my device and soft bricked it. I think layers manager was the culprit; had no problems until I tried to apply a theme and then reboot. After the boot animation I had a blank black screen. I tried using the restore to stock tool found here, but it had no effect. Next I booted into recovery and wiped everything and I tried the RTS tool again. It didn't help this time and now instead of making it to the boot animation when I reboot the system, I cannot make it past bootloader unlocked warning. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks
Edit: clarification
Moto X is back up and running (which is good news because I dropped my Oneplus One and cracked the screen earlier today ={ SMH). Special thanks to u/CrozB who supplied me with nandroid backup that I was able to restore my phone from.
Are you booting into twrp recovery?
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Yes I can boot into twrp
Might have to restore your backup and try again
Have you tried
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3199905
[WINDOWS TOOL][5.1.1]Moto X Style/Pure Edition "Restore-To-Stock-Tool"
?
Edit: Just noticed you already tried. Strange that wouldn't fix, try reaching out to @Shawn5162
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In TWRP go to mount system then go to file browser in TWRP and then vendor/overlays and delete everything there.
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If only I had a backup to restore to. Lesson learned!!
I couldn't find any folder named vendor/overlays.
m0cha5hake said:
If only I had a backup to restore to. Lesson learned!!
I couldn't find any folder named vendor/overlays.
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You tried to install a layers theme? They are stored in /system/vendor/overlay
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razor237 said:
Might have to restore your backup and try again
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PiousInquisitor said:
You tried to install a layers theme? They are stored in /system/vendor/overlay
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My System folder is empty, so Android OS is missing from my device.
m0cha5hake said:
My System folder is empty, so Android OS is missing from my device.
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Manually flash all of the files found in the restore tool you tried earlier. The two issue is probably Windows drivers though.
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Did you make a TWRP backup? That should be on your SD Card to restore from
razor237 said:
Did you make a TWRP backup? That should be on your SD Card to restore from
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Unfortunately I did not
Oh man that stinks ... First rule of Android mod club is always always make a fresh TWRP backup
if there was a rom already I think it would be easy to just flash but yea sucks you didn't make backup.
Could someone create a backup and send to him? Or is that essentially what the restore tool is?
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Tfast500 said:
Could someone create a backup and send to him? Or is that essentially what the restore tool is?
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I believe that would have all of a person's personal info.
Oaklands said:
I believe that would have all of a person's personal info.
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Factory restore before the backup
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Try flashing the sbf files (system binary flash) from that thread using rsdlite. You may have to google for it but 6.1.6 is the current version.
All you really need is the system, kernel (boot.img) partitions restored, although the program above will flash the entire image. You tell it what to flash using the xml file.
patt2k said:
if there was a rom already I think it would be easy to just flash but yea sucks you didn't make backup.
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gpz1100 said:
Try flashing the sbf files (system binary flash) from that thread using rsdlite. You may have to google for it but 6.1.6 is the current version.
All you really need is the system, kernel (boot.img) partitions restored, although the program above will flash the entire image. You tell it what to flash using the xml file.
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I don't think there are sbf files in file in that tool. Here are are all of files in the RSTool.
m0cha5hake said:
I don't think there are sbf files in file in that tool. Here are are all of files in the RSTool.
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Looks just like any other motorola sbf firmware to me. Should work in rsdlite.
Related
I did not take part in making this recovery at all, I am just posting it.
Before flashing the recovery flash this first to clear up some memory for it. (thanks to James Sullins for the file)
The instructions and download are in the link below:
http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/75
I will have more support for this recovery once I get the tp(getting it soon)
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I did not take part in making this recovery at all, I am just posting it.
The instructions and download are in the link below:
http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/75
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Let's see if it's worth it...
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ceo.mtcl said:
Let's see if it's worth it...
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It is definitely pretty nifty. Downloaded and installed last night just as it came out.
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Let's see if it's worth it...
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lol, worth it? it's the mac daddy of recoveries.
i need to remove some stuff from /boot to get this installed. anyone know what i can get rid of?
contents of /boot
uimage.clockworkmod
moboot.splash.webos.tga
proc
dev
moboot.default
bin
lost+found
config-2.6.35-palm-tenderloin
etc
usr
boot-genesis.tar.gz
uimage-2.6.35-palm-tenderloin
updatefs-info
sbin
genesis-update.xml
.
boot-image.tar.gz
lib
uimage.cyanogenmod
image-update.xml
uimage.webos
sys
moboot.splash.cyanogenmod.tga
..
boot.bin
uimage
uimage.moboot
system.map-2.6.35-palm-tenderloin
realroot
update-uimage
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update: i removed update-uimage. it was also the largest thing in there. checking out twrp now.
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i need to remove some stuff from /boot to get this installed. anyone know what i can get rid of?
contents of /boot
uimage.clockworkmod
moboot.splash.webos.tga
proc
dev
moboot.default
bin
lost+found
config-2.6.35-palm-tenderloin
etc
usr
boot-genesis.tar.gz
uimage-2.6.35-palm-tenderloin
updatefs-info
sbin
genesis-update.xml
.
boot-image.tar.gz
lib
uimage.cyanogenmod
image-update.xml
uimage.webos
sys
moboot.splash.cyanogenmod.tga
..
boot.bin
uimage
uimage.moboot
system.map-2.6.35-palm-tenderloin
realroot
update-uimage
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update: i removed update-uimage. it was also the largest thing in there. checking out twrp now.
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Can upost your updated zip
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I use the zip method through recovery and now I cannot boot twrp says invalid size and clockwork will not boot either
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Can upost your updated zip
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there is no updated zip. that was the contents of my /boot partition on my touchpad. i read in another forum that i could remove that file that was taking up all the partition space. i tried to flash the twrp zip file and it flashed but could not boot into twrp recovery, so i pulled the file from /boot and noticed it was too small so it didn't flash complete because of no more room. i removed "update-uimage" and pushed "uimage.twrp" and now all good. after messing around in twrp for a bit i decided to go back and remove clockworkmod too
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there is no updated zip. that was the contents of my /boot partition on my touchpad. i read in another forum that i could remove that file that was taking up all the partition space. i tried to flash the twrp zip file and it flashed but could not boot into twrp recovery, so i pulled the file from /boot and noticed it was too small so it didn't flash complete because of no more room. i removed "update-uimage" and pushed "uimage.twrp" and now all good. after messing around in twrp for a bit i decided to go back and remove clockworkmod too
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I was able to update to TWRP, however, after reboot and chosing recovery, it doesnt automatically get into TWRP like it used to do with CWM. Is there a way to get this to automatically get into TWRP without having to select it from moboot menu?
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I was able to update to TWRP, however, after reboot and chosing recovery, it doesnt automatically get into TWRP like it used to do with CWM. Is there a way to get this to automatically get into TWRP without having to select it from moboot menu?
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Mine never went to cwm automatically. I always had to choose it from the menu. If there is a way to do this I would like to know as well.
b.huss2 said:
Mine never went to cwm automatically. I always had to choose it from the menu. If there is a way to do this I would like to know as well.
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With CWM as the only recovery, whenever you press and hold the hardware power off button, you get an option to reboot and when selecting that, if you chose reboot into recovery, with CWM, it will take you straight into recovery. With TWRP, it doesn't. Anyone who still has CWM only can test this, but it would be nice if we can get same thing work with TWRP. For now, I have removed CWM completely from my touchpad and am using TWRP only.
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With CWM as the only recovery, whenever you press and hold the hardware power off button, you get an option to reboot and when selecting that, if you chose reboot into recovery, with CWM, it will take you straight into recovery. With TWRP, it doesn't. Anyone who still has CWM only can test this, but it would be nice if we can get same thing work with TWRP. For now, I have removed CWM completely from my touchpad and am using TWRP only.
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Yea, I am familiar with the reboot menu, and with cwm as my only recovery it never did that for me. I always had to choose it from the moboot menu. At least as long as I can remember anyway.
Incorrect uimage size.?? Tried acmeinstaller and cwm zip
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op updated with zip to remove the update-image prior to flashing the recovery
Ok so if you have already flashed the initial zip and it gives incorrect size any way to remove that? I did the acmeuninstaller and the option for twrp was still there after reflashing with just cwm
**Edit- Went into CWM flashed the clean boot zip and then reflashed twrp and we are in business this is a kick ass recovery.**
I think the Team Win site is down. Is anyone having problems with the link?
Sychodrama said:
I think the Team Win site is down. Is anyone having problems with the link?
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No problem here
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Sychodrama said:
I think the Team Win site is down. Is anyone having problems with the link?
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Yeah, the site went down yesterday (at least for me), but I used a cached page of it and the direct download links still worked.
As the site is down, what exactly is this version?
Thread Closed as an official one was opened.
Jug6ernaut
SORRY GUYS.
Connection is terrible its going to take about 6 hours to upload lol + the first attempt error ed out.
someone else with a fast upload connection will have to upload it for us all.
So is it a backup you have to restore, or did you create a CWM flashable .zip already?
victorator said:
So is it a backup you have to restore, or did you create a CWM flashable .zip already?
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from the title, it will be a nandroid you can restore.
victorator said:
So is it a backup you have to restore, or did you create a CWM flashable .zip already?
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Full Backup. that you just restore via cwm.
You will loose root but you just need to reflash CF-Root-SGS3-v6.4 via odin to get root access again.
Will the system status be modified if I restore this?
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bluerichy said:
Will the system status be modified if I restore this?
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depends on what it includes, if it includes a custom recovery then yes you will be modified (the modified check checks various things including custom kernels and recovery images, root related files and apps etc.)
bluerichy said:
Will the system status be modified if I restore this?
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To get Status Normal : After first boot just do a factory reset, then it will be as though your gs3 will be running completely stock status normal and factory restore.
Is it worth installing the developer preview with their bootstrap tool or will there be a flashable zip made soon for this so I can just do it in twrp
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npesa92 said:
Is it worth installing the developer preview with their bootstrap tool or will there be a flashable zip made soon for this so I can just do it in twrp
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There are two files you have to flash in CWM/TWRP to have it available at any time. You don't even need a computer to install and test it. Be warned, though, it's really not worth it at it's current state.
npesa92 said:
Is it worth installing the developer preview with their bootstrap tool or will there be a flashable zip made soon for this so I can just do it in twrp
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The flashable zips are in here. I haven't personally tried it yet -- internet in my country is pretty crappy.. download will take a while..
https://plus.google.com/u/0/107538503004482952974/posts/4wb3g76C8eW
omac_ranger said:
There are two files you have to flash in CWM/TWRP to have it available at any time. You don't even need a computer to install and test it. Be warned, though, it's really not worth it at it's current state.
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Just to get everything clear, I flash the manta.zip, then the all devices.zip, and it will boot fine? As well can I just get back into twrp after to wipe and restore from nandroid backups?
Thanks in advance for the help
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npesa92 said:
Just to get everything clear, I flash the manta.zip, then the all devices.zip, and it will boot fine? As well can I just get back into twrp after to wipe and restore from nandroid backups?
Thanks in advance for the help
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The dev preview installs CWM over TWRP it seems
npesa92 said:
Just to get everything clear, I flash the manta.zip, then the all devices.zip, and it will boot fine? As well can I just get back into twrp after to wipe and restore from nandroid backups?
Thanks in advance for the help
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Flash manta, then flash the armhf, then wipe and you're good to go. That worked for me and didn't mess with my sdcard at all. (obviously it does a 'factory reset' on the device though). Backup with TWRP and you're good to go.
espionage724 said:
The dev preview installs CWM over TWRP it seems
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Only if you do it using the Ubuntu install method, where it flashes the .imgs over top. If you install it via CWM/TWRP then it keeps whatever recovery you have on the device.
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Flash manta, then flash the armhf, then wipe and you're good to go. That worked for me and didn't mess with my sdcard at all. (obviously it does a 'factory reset' on the device though). Backup with TWRP and you're good to go.
Only if you do it using the Ubuntu install method, where it flashes the .imgs over top. If you install it via CWM/TWRP then it keeps whatever recovery you have on the device.
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I flashed them both like you said, but it would just reboot my recovery when about 2/3 the way done with the armhf zip, and i tried just rebooting system but it just boots past google and sits at a black screen. Thinking i might have a bad download but nonetheless it was not a success on my end and im just back on android.
thanks anyways for the help, if anyone else hears of this issue and knows how to solve i would love to know.
Does this OS allow me to run any Ubuntu program? Or is it a different system?
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Does this OS allow me to run any Ubuntu program? Or is it a different system?
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Currently, it does not.
n4 with 4.3 now, rooted ,installed a fullscreen app ,then reboot as the app told ,,,,,,,,,,then black (but max brightness)screen then google logo then again.....help ,i still have some unsaved photo or files in it ,i can get into recovery, and ive checked that all files are allright ,how can i get them out??
What full screen app exactly?, if you have TWRP then it is possible to fix it all.
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the app was made for galaxynexus ,and i could use it when my n4 was in 4.2.2 ,the name was in chinese...,i think i have the twrp ,infact i was in it,buta i can't find it againXD, now i'm in clockworkmod recovery.
andyabc said:
What full screen app exactly?, if you have TWRP then it is possible to fix it all.
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can you tell me how can i get in TWRP again? i can only get in CMW recovery now：P
andyabc said:
What full screen app exactly?, if you have TWRP then it is possible to fix it all.
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cffh said:
the app was made for galaxynexus ,and i could use it when my n4 was in 4.2.2 ,the name was in chinese...,i think i have the twrp ,infact i was in it,buta i can't find it againXD, now i'm in clockworkmod recovery.
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Because I don't know what app it is I have no idea what it did so what I would do is go to recovery and do the following command to every file you want:
adb pull /sdcard/Some_file.txt C://Users/Your_name/Desktop/Some_folder/Some_file.txt
If possible you can make a backup of the internal storage and restore when you reflash your rom or something if you have TWRP also moving the image file to your PC using ADB Pull.
After backing up you have to use this tool with your device on the bootloader menu: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#occamjwr66v
You can restore your files afterwards but if you originally used a custom rom then flash the custom rom.
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Ummm， i found there is an Mount function in CWM Recovery ,but my pc has no respond ,besides i did got into the TWRP you said once i just donno how to get there again ,the images are about hundreds imma little bit lazy..anyway thank you very much for your help
andyabc said:
Because I don't know what app it is I have no idea what it did so what I would do is go to recovery and do the following command to every file you want:
adb pull /sdcard/Some_file.txt C://Users/Your_name/Desktop/Some_folder/Some_file.txt
If possible you can make a backup of the internal storage and restore when you reflash your rom or something if you have TWRP also moving the image file to your PC using ADB Pull.
After backing up you have to use this tool with your device on the bootloader menu:
You can restore your files afterwards but if you originally used a custom rom then flash the custom rom.
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finally after a sleep , i did some search ,then i successfully saved my files by using ADB Pull !!(it really took me a looooong time) and i guess there is no way to boot again now so i decide to flash to 4.3 rom
andyabc said:
Because I don't know what app it is I have no idea what it did so what I would do is go to recovery and do the following command to every file you want:
adb pull /sdcard/Some_file.txt C://Users/Your_name/Desktop/Some_folder/Some_file.txt
If possible you can make a backup of the internal storage and restore when you reflash your rom or something if you have TWRP also moving the image file to your PC using ADB Pull.
After backing up you have to use this tool with your device on the bootloader menu:
You can restore your files afterwards but if you originally used a custom rom then flash the custom rom.
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I was having an issue with my phone so I tried to restore a backup i made in TWRP but after doing so my phone was in a boot loop. Afterwards I tried flashing the factory image for nougat (NRD90U), but my phone is still boot looping. I can still get into bootloader. Anyone know a way out of it?
same issue
followed directions and clean flashed pure nexus rom, flashed gapps, etc etc. rebooted system and now it's in bootloop, any way to fix this asap?? any help would be much appreciated. I made a backup but it says that mount is read only and fails.
Thanks,
Yea I relative of mine in same boat. His phone just rebooted and bootlooped. I just flashed the factory images and stuck on google logo. Went into recovery did a factory reset and same outcome. Weird.
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legohood said:
I was having an issue with my phone so I tried to restore a backup i made in TWRP but after doing so my phone was in a boot loop. Afterwards I tried flashing the factory image for nougat (NRD90U), but my phone is still boot looping. I can still get into bootloader. Anyone know a way out of it?
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Which version of TWRP are you isn't? Did you restore your EFS position?
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Which version of TWRP are you isn't? Did you restore your EFS position?
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I'm using the latest version of TWRP. Not sure if I restored EFS position i had all the things checked off when restoring though so probably.
legohood said:
I'm using the latest version of TWRP. Not sure if I restored EFS position i had all the things checked off when restoring though so probably.
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Follow the instructions in the first part of this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3453119
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Follow the instructions in the first part of this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3453119
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This fixed it thanks a ton