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Hey every one I'm new to xda and I got my samsung vibrant rooted with the stock system recovery and was working fine but than I decided to do some apps and file transfer from another android phone to it and after that my phone kinda froze on me. So I rebooted the phone and boom nothing happen after the galaxy s animation, its just stuck there then the screen went black out. I rebooted again and this time I went to the sustem recovery mode and try to do the data reset but it couldn't fix it either. I tried to connected to my computer but since the phone wasn't fully booted into the home screen my computer are unable to detect the phone driver. I reconnect the phone and computer together, and this time I got to where it say's "downloading" "do noy turn off target", what is that mean? is it download something or is that I'm suppost to do something to it. Please can someone help me out. I've already download the stock firmwire but couldn't be able to transfer to the mass storage cos the phone couldn't boot beyound the galaxy s animation and eventhough its in the system recovering I still couldn't get it to connect to the phone mass storage. What can I do to fix it?.
You can take the battery out at that screen, but I don't know if it's going to fix your overall issue.
Take sd out. Hook to computer with adapter. Move stock nandroid to sd. Replace sd in phone. Boot into clockwork recovery. Restore nandroid. Reboot.you are now stock with root.
one thing
I know what I did is stupid but at lease I learn my lesson. I would really appreciate if someone could help me out.
help
I tried but its not working cost the phone doesn't read what's on the sd card it read only the mass storage which is the 14g not the 2g memorycard.
The SD card won't be in the phone so of course it won't read from it. It will read from the interbal memory, so do it from there.
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Hey every one I'm new to xda and I got my samsung vibrant rooted with the stock system recovery and was working fine but than I decided to do some apps and file transfer from another android phone to it and after that my phone kinda froze on me. So I rebooted the phone and boom nothing happen after the galaxy s animation, its just stuck there then the screen went black out. I rebooted again and this time I went to the sustem recovery mode and try to do the data reset but it couldn't fix it either. I tried to connected to my computer but since the phone wasn't fully booted into the home screen my computer are unable to detect the phone driver. I reconnect the phone and computer together, and this time I got to where it say's "downloading" "do noy turn off target", what is that mean? is it download something or is that I'm suppost to do something to it. Please can someone help me out. I've already download the stock firmwire but couldn't be able to transfer to the mass storage cos the phone couldn't boot beyound the galaxy s animation and eventhough its in the system recovering I still couldn't get it to connect to the phone mass storage. What can I do to fix it?.
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Turn off the phone, take out the battery and take out the SD card, try to get your hands on a sd card reader for your card so you can fix what you did without using your phone to mount it. Copy the rom or stock firmware over to the card and use the recovery, wipe data/factory reset and then try to load up the stock firmware. if all else fails do a hard reset:
To hard reset Samsung Vibrant, follow the steps below:
Step 1. Turn your Samsung Vibrant off. If your Samsung Vibrant is frozen, pull the battery out and reinsert it.
Step 2. Hold the Volume Down button.
Step 3. Press and release the Power button.
Step 4. You are now presented with a menu that allows for Fastboot, Recovery, Clear Storage, and Simlock
Select Clear Storage by pressing the Volume Down button, then press and release the Power button.
Step 5. Choose one of these: Volume Up for YES and Volume Down for NO. If you selected YES, all data including third-party applications will be deleted from the Samsung Vibrant.
That is for the default recovery so depending on the recovery you are using try to wipe everything and flash the ROM from the sd card, if you need help PM me or contact me on chat.andirc.net #droideris, or irc.andirc.net #droideris
Best of luck!
When i woke up after i got my iconia 2 days back, i saw it was displaying low storage but i did not store anything, just some 10-15 songs.
i hardly use 100 mb of the total 12.5GB, so i opened up my file manager and it showed 0kb free, even the settings tab showed 0 kb free
all the space was taken up by applications, but none of the application were above 20mb.
So i did a restart and now its stuck in bootloop on the flashing android screen
any help appreciated
btw i did try updating it with an update.zip from here http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/acer-icon...conia-tablet-restore-1-141-07-ota-update.html but it doesnt go ahead of the android animated screen
if and when clockwork comes for a500, how can i format intermal memory, that is the whole 12GB
somebody atleast answer this.
in which folder did u place update.zip? u need to put it in the root of the sd card. do it from a pc, make sure there is an update.zip file on the micro sd card.
boot up holding.vol/down and power key and wait.5 mins, the update is slow.
yes i placed it on the root of the sd card...and yes it did update completely and den rebooted after finishing...stil i get the bootloop
just someone tell me how to wipe internal memory using clockwork
Attach an USB keyboard then start the tab with vol down, then press home on the keyboard and then you will have the full boot menu with wipe cache/factory reset. This got me out of my bootloop.
Gl.
omfg...i cant thank u enough, u just made my day.
i googled everywhere to find how to hard reset...seriously until clockwork is ready this little piece of information is very important.
I mean who would have thought of connecting a keyboard and pressing home
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Attach an USB keyboard then start the tab with vol down, then press home on the keyboard and then you will have the full boot menu with wipe cache/factory reset. This got me out of my bootloop.
Gl.
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This is awesome information.
I was stuck in a bootloop last week, and someone on this forum pointed this information out to me, im happy to share it further.
This info should be stickyd or something, so everyone new to the forum can see this without goin trough al those old posts.
I guess I bricked my iconia...
I installed Recovery, etc. But when I rebooted my device it starts up, and shows my initial display screen. But it locks on the display (it is past the Android, and Acer screen).
So I tried to recover the device using the unbrick procedures described in this forum, and others. But it seems whenever it tries to process any update.zip file including the unbrick the little android man either stops turning or displays a sign indicating things did not work out as they should have.
I have clockwordmod backup from my system. How do I use that backup? When I use my phone the device automatically boots into xrecovery and allows me to restore. How do I get that with the Iconia?
first of all your device is not bricked as long as you can boot into any type of recovery.
second you obviously have cwm installed, but anyhow even if you don't have it i hope you have an external sd-card.
dl any of the stock rom's from the dev section, basically best is to choose the rom made for your country.
extract the update.zip and put it on your external sd-card.
then install it with cwm if you still have it, or with acer recovery (volume - and power simultaneously until the recovery text shows up).
and then take it from there.
also good idea is to clean dalvik cache and data cache before restarting if you use cwm.
then you can reinstall root and cwm.
zoubidou said:
first of all your device is not bricked as long as you can boot into any type of recovery.
second you obviously have cwm installed, but anyhow even if you don't have it i hope you have an external sd-card.
dl any of the stock rom's from the dev section, basically best is to choose the rom made for your country.
extract the update.zip and put it on your external sd-card.
then install it with cwm if you still have it, or with acer recovery (volume - and power simultaneously until the recovery text shows up).
and then take it from there.
also good idea is to clean dalvik cache and data cache before restarting if you use cwm.
then you can reinstall root and cwm.
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Thanks... The problem is I can't boot into anything.
How do I boot into cwm? I can't boot into the operating system as once it hits the display screen with my picture the system freezes and tries to power down?
I have been playing around with acer recovery, but all of the updates I downloaded will not load onto the system. It tries to install, gets about 1/3 through and then gives me an error.
Hence why I was thinking that maybe my backup has something?
push volume - (left volume button) first and power and keep your fingers on it until it displays the recovery text message on top left of the screen
If you are getting into recovery. And flashing. A rom give you errors or does not complete. This issue is a bad d/load.or a bad currupt SD card.I would say format your SD card again.redownload the correct rom again.don't use a download manager.then decrypt. Unzip then put the update.zip on your SD card turn off your tab install SD card.
Reboot
Holding down volume up and power until you see the 4th line of txt. It should take you to cwr. Or flash your device
good luck
Yep.. use vol-down and power to boot into cwm. Keep holding vol-down until you see tiny white text in upper left corner.
Then do full restore. When it's done, if you don't see "Backup Succesfull!" message, you'll need to restore flexrom from the advanced restore menu. This is because it failed trying to restore .android_secure.img and caused cwm to restart before flextrom was restored.
Alternatively, you can delete the .android_secure.img file from your backup set before doing the full restore.
Good luck.
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Thanks guys for all of your feedback.
However, when I hold down the buttons you mentioned I do get those text items you mention. The problem is that unlike my android phone it does not pop up the recovery menu. It goes straight into the Acer Recovery procedure (The android with turning gears).
Could it have been that upgrading to a specific ROM the recovery procedure is shortcircuited????
What I am trying to figure out is how to get the recovery menu.
Same deal!
I have the exact same issue. The Update.zip will not take and the Android Gears screen gets to 1/3 before the yellow triangle. Any further help would yield loud THANKS!
your update.zip should preferably be those 3.1 full. cos I believe it does not check anything for it to fail.
Thanks Kenny that does help and explain a few things.
If anyone can help I would appreciate it.
I followed this post about installing cyanogenmod 7 onto an SD card to boot my nook color off of the SD card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
Everything worked great and it has been up and running for several days, very happy with the results.
Now I was trying to put gapps on the SD card and I followed the instructions shown below:
How to install market and gapps:
After you have booted into the CM7 on SD card for the first time and set up wifi access (important!)
Go to http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.ph...Latest_Version and at the end there is a table with various google apps versions. Get the one suitable for your cyanogen version (CM7 is the latest for now). The file is named gapps-....zip
shutdown your nook and take the SD card out, insert it into your computer.
Copy the gapps-... file to the SD card on the first partition (titled boot) without changing the file name.
Insert the uSD card back into the NOOK and boot into "Recovery mode." To boot into recovery mode: Boot normally into Android, then from desktop hold power key until a poweroff menu appears, In the poweroff menu choose "reboot", in the next menu choose "recovery" and press "OK". The nook would reboot straight into recovery.
So i have tried this several times and DL the file twice just to be sure but every time I reboot the system just comes up normally. I wonder if the gapps install package is named wrong? I don't know how to make this work.
Any suggestions?
Thank A LOT for your help!
Steveolio said:
So i have tried this several times and DL the file twice just to be sure but every time I reboot the system just comes up normally. I wonder if the gapps install package is named wrong? I don't know how to make this work.
Any suggestions?
Thank A LOT for your help!
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That's the problem.
You want it boot into Recovery, not Normally.
Steveolio said:
If anyone can help I would appreciate it.
I followed this post about installing cyanogenmod 7 onto an SD card to boot my nook color off of the SD card.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
Everything worked great and it has been up and running for several days, very happy with the results.
Now I was trying to put gapps on the SD card and I followed the instructions shown below:
How to install market and gapps:
After you have booted into the CM7 on SD card for the first time and set up wifi access (important!)
Go to http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.ph...Latest_Version and at the end there is a table with various google apps versions. Get the one suitable for your cyanogen version (CM7 is the latest for now). The file is named gapps-....zip
shutdown your nook and take the SD card out, insert it into your computer.
Copy the gapps-... file to the SD card on the first partition (titled boot) without changing the file name.
Insert the uSD card back into the NOOK and boot into "Recovery mode." To boot into recovery mode: Boot normally into Android, then from desktop hold power key until a poweroff menu appears, In the poweroff menu choose "reboot", in the next menu choose "recovery" and press "OK". The nook would reboot straight into recovery.
So i have tried this several times and DL the file twice just to be sure but every time I reboot the system just comes up normally. I wonder if the gapps install package is named wrong? I don't know how to make this work.
Any suggestions?
Thank A LOT for your help!
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turn on the NC, like normal, then power down, then you'll get option to reboot, reboot to recovery.
I'm sorry if my original post didn't make this clear, but I was trying to boot into recovery. I held down the power button until I got the shut down options and pressed restart then pressed recover mode. Every time I try this the nook just restarts in normal mode. I'm not sure if I've done something wrong or if this method doesn't work.
Just to give more information the file I used was:
gapps-gb-20110613-signed.zip
I didn't unzip the file I just copied it to the SD card BOOT partition.
Seems like you've done what eggnoodle suggested and if it didn't work, the only choice is using combination of N & power button. It needs some skills.
Try that, won't hurt.
I tried that several times, and it didn't work.
Is there a way to verify if I am in recovery mode? I'm not sure I am actually making it into recovery mode.
Further down in the instructions it says that to install other stuff anything with the name "update-***.zip" will install on recovery mode. So I will try renaming the gapps file to this and give it a try.
If you see the "Penguin" with scrolling text running horizontally on the NC screen, then it is in the Recovery mode.
If you see the Android guy or CM7 logo, you are in the normal booting mode.
Ok, so my problem is that I can never get the nook color in recovery mode. Perhaps the instructions on the forum are kinda flawed.
This is what I am doing:
Hold down Nook button.
Hold down power button
Loading screen appears then goes blank
Release power button for less than a second
Hold down power button again.
Wait for loading screen to appear
Release power button
Wait for screen to go blank
Release the Nook button
Then the NC just boots up like normal. Is this the correct process?
The NC boots up normal if I choose restart in recover mode from the shutdown menu also.
Any suggestions?
As I said, you need some skills.
Don't panic!
After a few tries and when you get it in, you will mumble "hmm, it's nothing like the instructions, it's much simply than that, wheewwww"
Steveolio said:
Ok, so my problem is that I can never get the nook color in recovery mode. Perhaps the instructions on the forum are kinda flawed.
This is what I am doing:
Hold down Nook button.
Hold down power button
Loading screen appears then goes blank
Release power button for less than a second
Hold down power button again.
Wait for loading screen to appear
Release power button
Wait for screen to go blank
Release the Nook button
Then the NC just boots up like normal. Is this the correct process?
The NC boots up normal if I choose restart in recover mode from the shutdown menu also.
Any suggestions?
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Did you try going into recovery while in CM7 by powering it off and selecting reboot>reboot to recovery?
I did try that, just boots up in normal mode.
I cannot get this thing to work, I have also tried several different ways to boot up using the home button and power button I can find a combination that works.
so frustrating!
Maybe start over fresh with Cm7 and gapps install?
I intall CM7 and gapps at the same time...
Just to be clear I didn't try this because the instructions said do not do it.
Ok, so I reinstalled with gapps and cyanogenmod zip files both on the boot SD before it was installed and it took, but there were a few hang ups like it kept bringing in stuff from my phone when I linked to my google account. So I think I should be good.
Thanks for the suggestions.
That happen to me too. It installed a wallpaper that was on my phone that I no longer use. Strange? But as long as it worked, that what I cared about!
Yup same thing to me, it installed the wallpaper and some other apps.
Why won't it install angry birds, the market says it's not compatible? What the heck's up with that?
If you are having issues booting into recovery when booting onto the SD card. This post should help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=962708
The new market has issues with nook color. Market is looking for a 160 density level when the nook color is set to 161 to avoid panics.
Ive been using LCDDensity from the market and choosing Density 160 and changing the drop down to killall and click apply (reboot)
after it reboots go into manage applications and do a force stop on the market and clear the data/cache
it will reload and you will see all the options until the market resets itself. very annoying i know but its a temp fix until someone figures out how to fix this
Forget that stupid method with the buttons, it's a waste of time.
I tried it both ways and it doesn't work.
Use this instead, works like a charm.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=947698&highlight=boot
Sineira said:
Forget that stupid method with the buttons, it's a waste of time.
I tried it both ways and it doesn't work.
Use this instead, works like a charm.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=947698&highlight=boot
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You mean you couldn't get it to work... works just fine.
Same problem as Steveolio - error message during recovery
Steveolio said:
Just to be clear I didn't try this because the instructions said do not do it.
Ok, so I reinstalled with gapps and cyanogenmod zip files both on the boot SD before it was installed and it took, but there were a few hang ups like it kept bringing in stuff from my phone when I linked to my google account. So I think I should be good.
Thanks for the suggestions.
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I have the same problem as Steveolio and followed exactly the same procedures. Maybe these error messages from recovery boot help some experts with a good idea:
Penguin
""rcS!
Populating /dev using udev: done
Initializing random number generator....done
modprobe: chdir(2.6.32.9): No such file or directory
Starting network...
Detected standard B&N nook layout, emmc first
It appears the SD card is already properly formatted
Skiping format
Mounting /dev/mmcblklp1 as /boot
Looking for the install images....
Lets see if you have gapps installer too.
Gapps installer not found, skipping installation.
Flashing caches
Clearing recovery flag
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
All steps complete, flashing again
Preparing to shutdown
""
Does that possibly mean gapps file is not in the right location?
thank you
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If you are having issues booting into recovery when booting onto the SD card. This post should help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=962708
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There is no "Thanks" option so I just wanted to say Thank you! The button combo for booting into recovery has been kicking my butt and this was simple and worked flawlessly!
My lcd screen cracked last year, so i gave phone to local service and they repaired last week. I am trying to install a new rom for days but i cant manage.
I tried cm version13 and aurora, but my torch doesnot work. EVen in camera, in flash mode. Should i again open phone and look if there is a problem or it is about software?
And other question, i cant mount my internal sd card. WHen i open es file, it only shows /sdcard, and nothing more.
Now i opening storage, total space 1.40 gb, apps 32 mb, intrnal stroage 1.02 gb and i took of external to see. In file exploerer, again i can only see sd card0. I cant see my system or anything. 1-2 years ago i could see my system.And i connect to pc, there is only one parttion. 1-2 years ago there were 2, one of internal sd other one is phone memory.
Please help me to solve this. And i mneed a rom that is only fast and using battery nicely.
Why noone helps now i cant open phone. Swm 5.0.8 cant mount sdcar sdext and i formatted data so it cant opened. How can i fix that? I want to go back to stock rom to see if there is sd card is working and myt torch isworking.
You can mount phone on pink screen and add the latest recovery from there.
rqmok said:
You can mount phone on pink screen and add the latest recovery from there.
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Thanks rqmok. You are a great helpful person. You are trying to help me for days.
I went into pink screen. It automatically went update (i had put dload to stockr room update ,). Then i tried to open but still rebooting without oğenning.
So i went into rewcovery but i saw that it is android recovery, not cwm i installed. So i tried a lot of tgihngs.Then i installed aurora v20, but ittis interesting, i opened phone after that insstallation. It shows 2.3.5 rom, stock rom original rom.
I did not understand that.
And my flash again doesnot work. Should i give this back to the repairman to solve?
PLease looık my pictures.
pic 1 shows my first original screen. It was cracked under door and there were a lot of scratchs on phone screen. When i opened phone ,i could see scracths. So i bought from eb ay and gave a repairer. He made it. I dont know if it was well.
Then i put my foot on it slowly, but it again cracked. But i could not see scratchs. When i opened the phone, i could only see light not scratchs. So igave to same repairer without buying a screen. Pic 2 shows my 2. screen that came from ebay, there are no sctracts.
Now , my flash is not working and torch. I tried in a lot of roms. IT is not about software i think. And i have to press a lot of times to enable phone.
What do you say about that?
OK. Please tell me the state of your phone right now. What ROM do you have? What recovery do you have?
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OK. Please tell me the state of your phone right now. What ROM do you have? What recovery do you have?
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I am in loop. I cant open phone so it goes into pink screen, but updating from sd card. Then it again cant be opened . So i go into android recovery and flash aurora or cyangemod it doesnot matter. Sometimes it doesnot see , doesno mount. Then it restarts and 2.3.5 stock rom. But after 1-2 restarts, i cant again open, huawei logo only appears and restarts alot of times. So i again go nito pink screen because if i go into recovery, it cant mount. Fİrstly should update.
Without sd card, i went into pink screen but my computer could not see the files.
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I am in loop. I cant open phone so it goes into pink screen, but updating from sd card. Then it again cant be opened . So i go into android recovery and flash aurora or cyangemod it doesnot matter. Sometimes it doesnot see , doesno mount. Then it restarts and 2.3.5 stock rom. But after 1-2 restarts, i cant again open, huawei logo only appears and restarts alot of times. So i again go nito pink screen because if i go into recovery, it cant mount. Fİrstly should update.
Without sd card, i went into pink screen but my computer could not see the files.
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You can't view your sdcard files from pink screen.
If you are able to install a ROM and make it work then that will be good. But, you have said that this happened after replacing the screen. So, if you can open the phone and check for any disconnected cables that need to be reconnected then you should fix them. There should be a video on YouTube on how to do this. If you cannot do it then you will have to get it repaired.
I dont have screwdriver, i have 3mm, it doesnot work.
But after screen replacement, i used aurora for 7-8 days. Then i thought partition was wrong and deleted wiped. Now but i cant install a rom. İ nstall aurora but it opens 2.3.5 with pink screen.
What size screwdriver do i need?
Now in android recovery i wiped daya, wip cache and then restarted, then trierd to update on pink scrteen, it gave error. So again wiped datya. Now i could open it. it shows 2.3.5. İf i restart, it will be deleted again i guess. What should i do? Wİthout power off, update? I will try to install cwm
I tried to replace recoveryimg but i failed. Because ihad to install superuser, so it rebooted and phone again cant boot up, restarting a lot of times. I dont understand what the reason is
Again, i did revocery android, wipe data and cache , then rstarted. After a few boots, 2.3.5 opened. Then i again restarted and now it is trying to start again 10. times. I n my ext sd, there are dload and other zips, that can be reason? I dont want to delete those because if i delete, it will be hard for me to insatall those files
Now it is restarted, huaewi logo appears, then pink and colurful fireworkds, than black svcreen and contunes....
After wipping, i restart and it is fine, i could go into 2.3.5. But when i again restart, smetimes it again opens but as soon as desktop opening, it starts to begin,
android stops working
calendar stops working
a lot of windows. I click end activity but it repeats alot of times.
So, my original stcok is damaged or what?
I'm sorry I didn't reply for some time.
So, apps are force closing. Do you have system partition installed? Did you try going back to stock-partition?
Please try going back to stock partition, and if you can get logcat then please upload it here.
Thanks.
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I'm sorry I didn't reply for some time.
So, apps are force closing. Do you have system partition installed? Did you try going back to stock-partition?
Please try going back to stock partition, and if you can get logcat then please upload it here.
Thanks.
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Not only apss, android system also huawei etc. I cant even click restart button to restart phone because of popups windows.
So when i click restart, sometimes it open 3. times but still apps closing, then restarting and cant show huawei logo. and botoing up in inifinite loop.
Stock partition, i will try but i wont be able to do it. I donthave cwm and in android recovery i t doesnot accept, cant mount sd card. I can only go into android recover, can only do wipe data cache, cant mount anything. Theen only can restart and sometimes i try to update in pink screen but failed in half of 1/2. So, how can i go to stock partition without restarting phone while open?
I think the 2.3.5 rom i downloaded (Portugal or Korean i dont remember) is can be damaged or wrong. But i think i cant change that too. I am locked.
What i should do, i dont know.
Still cant do. I go into android recovery, wipe data and then after 2-3 restart, it boots. Then if i restart, there are a lot of windows appear showingstop activities. So, i put first 2.3.5 then ginger bread custom app to dload in ext and int sd. Then after wiping in android recovery , i made power off and with + - and power, i made update. This time updates were successfull. It could make updates. But after updates, again could not start. After loading huawei logo, it restarts.
I cant change recovery because i cant install superuser because it should be restarted but if it is restarted, cant start.
I can only use sd card, after wiping data, until one restart .
Please help.