Short story installed density changer and fubar'd streak. button presses after off and cant really do anything. need help recovering phone. booted with volume keys pressed down, and factory reset. when restarting still it seems like the density is incorrect and the dell loader crashes and cant get anywhere.
i found my clockword backups on sd card but unsure how i can restore with them. desperately in need of help! and dont use the density changer!
Bricked is only when the device can't boot into recovery mode or bootloader; when your device is completely dead, hence a brick.
In your case you can get into fastboot_mode and recovery mode.
To restore you clockworkmod backups flash the clockorkmod recovery, boot into that recovery,then select nandroid followed by restore
fone_fanatic said:
Bricked is only when the device can't boot into recovery mode or bootloader; when your device is completely dead, hence a brick.
In your case you can get into fastboot_mode and recovery mode.
To restore you clockworkmod backups flash the clockorkmod recovery, boot into that recovery,then select nandroid followed by restore
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thanks that worked. Didnt realize had to flash clockworkmod recovery again
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Ok, so the (non-existent) recovery menu on the G-Slate is absolutely unacceptable. I mean really, really? This is what I get when booting into recovery mode:
Entering LG MDP Mode
DO NOT POWER DOWN
downloading NOW......
No options to reboot, Factory Reset, or to do anything and it is assuming you have the file in the right location and know just what the hell it is downloading. This sucks.
So I wanted to get Clockwork on there and found a clockwork recovery I can boot into temporarily using fastboot. The problem is I can't flash it to the g-slate and overwrite the existing recovery.
I can flash it using fastboot but when I put the G-Slate into recovery mode it loads the original recovery as if it didn't actually flash.
So I tried to replace the recovery.img in the nandroid backup and then restore from that backup, but as I suspected I get an md5 sum error. So I figured out how to trick the nandroid into thinking it is still valid after replacing the recovery.img. I restored the modified nandroid but still the g-slate recovery 'menu' is the same.
That's about the extent of my skills. They must have the recovery image locked down tight on this thing. I know there are people out there working on getting the recovery partition hacked. Hopefully we'll have something soon.
So I guess my question now is, does anyone know of a CWM recovery that will flash to the G-Slate, or a method to flash an existing recovery that will work, or is it still a waiting game?
Thanks
Edit: This was solved by reflashing cf-root, which restored both recovery and cache to safe versions. Now I need to boot into recovery with Home+VolumeUp+Power and restore a backup.
I was flashing and testing new versions of clockwork recovery (using Heimdall, not Odin). Now the phone is stuck on the boot screen (it doesn't play the audio or get to the boot animation). I can still boot into download mode, but I can't boot to recovery. I've flashed other versions of recovery, including versions that I know are good. I've pulled the battery. What can I do to get my phone back? I don't think I've done anything besides back up the system and flash a new recovery image!
Anybody know what to do? Next thing I can think of is flashing CF-root again, but that seems dangerous if there might be a better way.
Thanks!
hi all, my phone is stuck in a bootloop. all i can do is enter the boot menu. I did a factory reset but the bootloop issue is still there.
Im not root. S-on. I can only think of sending the phone to the htc repair center, or is there anything else i can do?? the phone is still under warranty.
can i try going root or S-off in order to try to fix the bootloop? or is it useless?
By boot menu you mean recovery mode?(fairly new myself, so dont know all the stuff) Rooting and S-off wont help from bootloop, if by boot menu you mean recovery mode, then just flash stock rom and everything should be fine.
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By boot menu you mean recovery mode?(fairly new myself, so dont know all the stuff) Rooting and S-off wont help from bootloop, if by boot menu you mean recovery mode, then just flash stock rom and everything should be fine.
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im not sure if boot menu is the same as recovery mode. You get to boot menu pressing VOL Down and Power buttoms. where i have the Fastboot, Recovery and Factory reset options. When i select any of these, it will start bootloop over and over.
So you mean even if i managed to root the phone and go S-off, it wont fix the bootloop?
I can't see, what your Device is. But if it's possible to go in Downloadmode, I think you have to flash a new StockRom. Or use your warranty.
I had to restart my phone for some reason and on restarting, the phone got stuck in a boot-loop ( Samsung galaxy S3 i9300 ) text logo. I thought I'd reboot into CWM (Philz touch) and wipe to make things better. But the phone won't boot into CWM either, it showed the soft navigation keys and rebooted again, and kept running in a bootloop of trying to get into the recovery and restarting again.
So I tried to ODIN the recovery just to refresh if something is broken. It didnt work. Odin was success but the boot into recovery wasn't. I tried several times but no luck.
Then I flashed TWRP using ODIN, and voilah! i could boot into TWRP . I flashed CWM using TWRP and voilah again, i could reboot into CWM again . After thatI had to flash the ROM again though.
I do not know why it happened, but I thought I'd share the details just in case someone tries to google it.
salimbaba said:
I had to restart my phone for some reason and on restarting, the phone got stuck in a boot-loop ( Samsung galaxy S3 i9300 ) text logo. I thought I'd reboot into CWM (Philz touch) and wipe to make things better. But the phone won't boot into CWM either, it showed the soft navigation keys and rebooted again, and kept running in a bootloop of trying to get into the recovery and restarting again.
So I tried to ODIN the recovery just to refresh if something is broken. It didnt work. Odin was success but the boot into recovery wasn't. I tried several times but no luck.
Then I flashed TWRP using ODIN, and voilah! i could boot into TWRP . I flashed CWM using TWRP and voilah again, i could reboot into CWM again . After thatI had to flash the ROM again though.
I do not know why it happened, but I thought I'd share the details just in case someone tries to google it.
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You have to remember what exactly you have done before rebooting. Some times it happened with me mainly changing boot screen, battery screen etc.
I want to install cwm recovery on my MT6589 phone by the method at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2519432 because my phone is not in the supported list.
Suppose, the tool fails to manufacture cwm properly. Then,
1. Will I a be able to turn on the phone normally?
2. What will happen if I try to boot into recovery?
3. Suppose I have a backup of the stock recovery. Can I reflash it so that I get my original recovery back?
4. How can I take a backup of the stock recovery?
5. Suppose the phone gets bricked and I cannot turn it on by any way. Can I restore it by any way?
Thank you for answering my post.