Recently I got a Samsung Vibrant, I decided to root it and put a custom ROM Image on it. Bionix. I Didn't like Bionix and tried to restore from a Nandroidb backup.
Thats where everything went crazy.
After restoring back to my stock ROM all my apps kept crashing and asking to force close. So I ran nandroid again and tried to restore from a different back up, and it said Restore failed. This is where sweat began to drip off my face as the Vibrant Only boots up to the Samsung Vibrant splash screen and goes black.
So I used ODIN 1.3 With stock vibrant roms to restore it, and it's saying it's PASSED, It mounts and everything, but it still keeps going black after the Samsung boot screen.
I've tried this 6 times with the same results all with different stock Vibrant roms with the same results. I can still boot into clockwork mod recovery. How do I fix this problem?
Flash this through odin first then flash the original rom through odin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=740558
You have a Vibrant that has the larger NAND chip. You need to flash the "Froyo which doesn't brick" to repartition that internal card which has both shared space and /data. Follow directions in that thread and don't forget the "adb reboot". THEN, flash back to stock, and you will now have the right amount of space to accomodate the flashing of voodoo. Flashing Bionix packaged with a kernel repartitions your SD card back to stock sizes, whereas flashing the stock ROM leaves the partition tables intact.
EDIT: ^^ Beat me to it.
You guys are awesome, and this should fix the problem I'm having and it should boot fully into android? I don't care to downgrade as long as it boots all the way through into a fully usable phone and operating system.
EasyTiger6x13 said:
You guys are awesome, and this should fix the problem I'm having and it should boot fully into android? I don't care to downgrade as long as it boots all the way through into a fully usable phone and operating system.
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have you disable lagfix ?
you can read on theard
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=796437
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Ok what u have to do is take the battery out to turn off ur phone then put the battery back in then hold valume buttons both of them while holding power button once the vibrant screen fades out let go of the power button only still hold the volume buttons until u get into recovery mode once u are in recovery mode delet data and cache and the phone will be working after that
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I tried to downgrade for the sake of battery, and I believe I've softbricked.
I did disable lagfix prior to wiping and flashing. Even checked in terminal.
I managed to boot once. Downloaded Titanium and restored my apps/data, then removed the "remove-lagfix"s and rebooted. Got the linda voice, then "execute", boot logo, and... nothing. Black screen, touch buttons lit up. Sounds like the softbrick I've read of.
So yeah. What do I do to restore my phone to working condition? I have no nandroids, but I've no issue with unrooting/restoring to initial system conditions/etc.
I'm on Snow Leopard, Macbook Pro 2010. I'll dual boot a Windows if I need to.
Thanks a ton for help everyone!
Stevenr3792 said:
I tried to downgrade for the sake of battery, and I believe I've softbricked.
I did disable lagfix prior to wiping and flashing. Even checked in terminal.
I managed to boot once. Downloaded Titanium and restored my apps/data, then removed the "remove-lagfix"s and rebooted. Got the linda voice, then "execute", boot logo, and... nothing. Black screen, touch buttons lit up. Sounds like the softbrick I've read of.
So yeah. What do I do to restore my phone to working condition? I have no nandroids, but I've no issue with unrooting/restoring to initial system conditions/etc.
I'm on Snow Leopard, Macbook Pro 2010. I'll dual boot a Windows if I need to.
Thanks a ton for help everyone!
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Wipe > Reflash
Probably would be best to put the disable_voodoo file back in before flashing again.
Arg... But I can't seem to mount the phone on a Win XP netbook OR my MBP. :/ Will keep trying.
Make sure you installed the samsung drivers for your pc. You can find the link in the Vibrant Bible
Well, scratch all this. I managed to boot normally by just wiping everything (again) then rebooting without flashing anything. Dunno why it didn't happen earlier... either way, I'm okay now.
Very strange. Bad flash/wipes I suppose.
Stevenr3792 said:
I tried to downgrade for the sake of battery, and I believe I've softbricked.
I did disable lagfix prior to wiping and flashing. Even checked in terminal.
I managed to boot once. Downloaded Titanium and restored my apps/data, then removed the "remove-lagfix"s and rebooted. Got the linda voice, then "execute", boot logo, and... nothing. Black screen, touch buttons lit up. Sounds like the softbrick I've read of.
So yeah. What do I do to restore my phone to working condition? I have no nandroids, but I've no issue with unrooting/restoring to initial system conditions/etc.
I'm on Snow Leopard, Macbook Pro 2010. I'll dual boot a Windows if I need to.
Thanks a ton for help everyone!
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same thing with me... I flashed bonix 1.6 and tryed to flash back to stock rom via the recovery in rom manager. well it failed. when it booted back up it looked like stock but a bunch of force closes would come up. tryed to reflash via oden but it would just boot to galaxy s screen then go blank with the buttons at bottom lighting up then nothing.
now after a couple tryes with different roms it says cant mount dev/block/stl10 on the stock recovery...
so im guessing i am screwed because i dont have clockwork recovery.
sw20matt said:
same thing with me... I flashed bonix 1.6 and tryed to flash back to stock rom via the recovery in rom manager. well it failed. when it booted back up it looked like stock but a bunch of force closes would come up. tryed to reflash via oden but it would just boot to galaxy s screen then go blank with the buttons at bottom lighting up then nothing.
now after a couple tryes with different roms it says cant mount dev/block/stl10 on the stock recovery...
so im guessing i am screwed because i dont have clockwork recovery.
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Would one of these different roms be eugene373s froyo that doesnt brick? Cause thats been fixing similar problems to yours.
Use odin to flash to that with repartition checked in odin. Then flash back to stock with repartition unchecked.
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This is my first time flashing a new ROM. I decided to go with the stock Froyo ROM. And that went pretty smoothly.
I did the Titantium Backup to restore some of the apps I wanted back. However some settings didn't seem to come over, even though I selected to backup app and system settings. Examples included my phone contacts and my WinAmp playlists (songs are still there).
Anyway, that isn't so much the reason for this topic though. I did a Nandroid backup before and decided to do a restore of that backup. I initiated it from the Rom Manager and got into the Clockwork Recovery and saw it restoring. All appeared fine.
But when the phone rebooted, it is now stuck at the "Vibrant" screen. Has been stuck there for 15-20 minutes now.
I've been looking around. Is the problem because I went from 2.2 back to a 2.1 backup?
Hahaha I had that problem a few days ago, just flash back to stock with odin. Best to try a different rom....
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Starting to think the phone might be bricked. Can't get into recovery mode or download mode. Always immediately comes back to the Vibrant screen. Pulled the battery. Didn't help.
Did you try holding down the volume buttons while putting the battery back in? Had a bit of a brick yesterday and that put it straight into download mode without even showing the vibrant logo.
DPCerberusBlaze said:
Did you try holding down the volume buttons while putting the battery back in? Had a bit of a brick yesterday and that put it straight into download mode without even showing the vibrant logo.
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Thank you! That did the trick. I put the stock Froyo back on via Odin now and am back up again. Whew, Christmas is saved! Thanks.
Try Eugene Ginger Clone is pretty face...I'm currently running Team Whiskey Nero Beta 3...noticed a couple bugs nothing major
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This is my first time flashing a new ROM. I decided to go with the stock Froyo ROM. And that went pretty smoothly.
I did the Titantium Backup to restore some of the apps I wanted back. However some settings didn't seem to come over, even though I selected to backup app and system settings. Examples included my phone contacts and my WinAmp playlists (songs are still there).
Anyway, that isn't so much the reason for this topic though. I did a Nandroid backup before and decided to do a restore of that backup. I initiated it from the Rom Manager and got into the Clockwork Recovery and saw it restoring. All appeared fine.
But when the phone rebooted, it is now stuck at the "Vibrant" screen. Has been stuck there for 15-20 minutes now.
I've been looking around. Is the problem because I went from 2.2 back to a 2.1 backup?
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You were trying to load a 2.1 nandroid restore onto a 2.2 kernal. Nandroid does not restore the kernal so you would have to install one separate from the nandoid if you want to try it again.
in order to restore your nandroid backup you would have to first flash a 2.1 ROM, preferably the one you are restoring from, whenever I am changing versions, 2.2 to 2.1, I always Odin back to JFD and build up from there.
Kernel flashing questions
I have flashed numerous roms but have never flashed just the kernel. Do you flash it just like you would any zip file? Can I use CWM to flash using the flash rom from sd card method? If I decide to not use the kernel I just flashed can I just flash the rom over it(assuming it has its own kernel)? Sorry for all of the questions I have researched it and still do not have a clear enough understanding to try to flash a kernel at this point in time. Any and all help is absolutely appreciated.
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I have flashed numerous roms but have never flashed just the kernel. Do you flash it just like you would any zip file? Can I use CWM to flash using the flash rom from sd card method? If I decide to not use the kernel I just flashed can I just flash the rom over it(assuming it has its own kernel)? Sorry for all of the questions I have researched it and still do not have a clear enough understanding to try to flash a kernel at this point in time. Any and all help is absolutely appreciated.
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Thanks button right next to the quote >.<
I'm used to the quote being on the left.
Anyway, you can flash just the kernel. Check the Development section. There are some out there (Eugene has a bunch as do others). Depending on how they packaged the kernel, you would either flash with CWM or through Odin. The different ROMs typically come with the kernel, so you could just flash a 2.1 ROM and then nandroid back to what you had, or flash just the kernel, then nandroid.
hi,
I have a rooted eris with the tazz v28 rom installed and followed the 1 click guide [http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=742228] to root my phone a few months back [this uses adb, I belive].
Today, I was following the instructions on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913839 to install the minimal green theme on my eris.
I downloaded the minimal-green-updated.zip file theme [posted in the OP of the minimal green theme thread], put it in my sd card's root folder, rebooted my eris into recovery, then flashed that zip in recovery and rebooted.
[In retrospect, I didn't do a full wipe or davlik cache wipe, because I thought it wasn't necessary because this was a theme, not a rom].
Upon rebooting, my phone comes to a screen with the HTC logo and the little guy dancing around [no skateboard]. This dancing sequence continually repeats itself.
I'm really hoping I did not brick my eris. How can I revert back to my nand backup that I made yesterday or fix this situation ?
skorasaurus said:
hi,
I have a rooted eris with the tazz v28 rom installed and followed the 1 click guide [http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=742228] to root my phone a few months back [this uses adb, I belive].
Today, I was following the instructions on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913839 to install the minimal green theme on my eris.
I downloaded the minimal-green-updated.zip file theme [posted in the OP of the minimal green theme thread], put it in my sd card's root folder, rebooted my eris into recovery, then flashed that zip in recovery and rebooted.
[In retrospect, I didn't do a full wipe or davlik cache wipe, because I thought it wasn't necessary because this was a theme, not a rom].
Upon rebooting, my phone comes to a screen with the HTC logo and the little guy dancing around [no skateboard]. This dancing sequence continually repeats itself.
I'm really hoping I did not brick my eris. How can I revert back to my nand backup that I made yesterday or fix this situation ?
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how to go back to your nand.
1. pull battery
2. place battery back in
3. hold vol down
4. while holding vol down, press and hold power button
5. should see white screen
6. press vol up for recovery
7. should see recovery menu
8. go to the restore option on the menu
9. restore from your nand (i believe the exact menu selections from this point vary based on which recovery you have)
this should get you back to where you were prior to flash. good job with the nandroid prior to flash. other should be able to help with where the flash went wrong. if it doesnt work, post back here.
edit: was the theme designed for froyo? does the md5sum of your file match the original file posted? either could lead to a bad flash. although it may have to do with not wiping. not really my specialty though. oh yeah that's right, i don't have any specialty...lol. hope it helps.
mjb413 said:
how to go back to your nand.
1. pull battery
2. place battery back in
3. hold vol down
4. while holding vol down, press and hold power button
5. should see white screen
6. press vol up for recovery
7. should see recovery menu
8. go to the restore option on the menu
9. restore from your nand (i believe the exact menu selections from this point vary based on which recovery you have)
this should get you back to where you were prior to flash. good job with the nandroid prior to flash. other should be able to help with where the flash went wrong. if it doesnt work, post back here.
edit: was the theme designed for froyo? does the md5sum of your file match the original file posted? either could lead to a bad flash. although it may have to do with not wiping. not really my specialty though. oh yeah that's right, i don't have any specialty...lol. hope it helps.
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Thanks for the quick help !
I'm relatively sure the theme was designed for froyo. After reading the replies in that thread, [after I flashed the theme] I think I may have needed to first use another application to make the .zip flashable.
I followed your instructions and when I tried to restore the nand backup, I received the following:
Code:
error: run 'nandroid mobile.sh restore' via adb!
Also, my battery was relatively low [20%] when I flashed the theme... is it ok if I charge it right now ?
yes. you need to turn charge it now. note: it will not charge while in recovery, but should charge when powered off. this is why it is a good habit to only flash on a full charge. let me know right away if the charge light does not come on when it is powered off.
edit: do you still have the flashable tazz v28 on your sd card. if so, you can wipe data and cache and reflash it. if it is not on your card, you should be able to mount your card via usb in recovery and add the tazz v28 to the root of the sd and then flash from there.
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yes. you need to turn charge it now. note: it will not charge while in recovery, but should charge when powered off. this is why it is a good habit to only flash on a full charge.
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done and done =)
I'm hoping the recovery will work, as I just did a quick search and someone else reported that they were able to recover using nand once their battery was charged more.
skorasaurus said:
done and done =)
I'm hoping the recovery will work, as I just did a quick search and someone else reported that they were able to recover using nand once their battery was charged more.
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i believe the minimum for some things such as running an ruu is 30%. it might be the same for nandroid, but it is best to do on a full charge, that way if something more serious does happen, you have some time to try to fix it. there are some ways to "jumper" your battery if it dies during a flash, but they arent fun.
just making sure, the charge light is on now correct? also, are you using amon ra recovery or clockwork? if you don't know, don't turn on you phone to check, i am just checking because once your phone is back up and running, you may want to get amon if you have clockwork, it does a better job of checking the integrity before flashing.
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just making sure, the charge light is on now correct? also, are you using amon ra recovery or clockwork? if you don't know, don't turn on you phone to check, i am just checking because once your phone is back up and running, you may want to get amon if you have clockwork, it does a better job of checking the integrity before flashing.
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Charge light is on and I'm 99% sure it's amon_ra . I specifically recall that, before rooting my phone reading that one of those two recoveries was buggy with eris and I purposefully avoided using that one.
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Charge light is on and I'm 99% sure it's amon_ra . I specifically recall that, before rooting my phone reading that one of those two recoveries was buggy with eris and I purposefully avoided using that one.
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alright, good stuff. when your phone charges, go back into recovery, go to backup restore, nand restore and see if you can. if not, if you have the tazz rom on your phone, go to the main menu, wipe, wipe data and dalvik, back to main menu, flash zip from sd card, flash it. if it is not on your card, plug phone into your computer, from main menu of recovery select usb-ms toggle, this will allow you to access your sd from your computer, place the flashable zip on the sd, then follow the above instructions. just post back if you end up needing any more help.
I just tried to restore my nand backup and it worked. Looks like it's all smooth sailing here. =)
Thank you for the help, mjb413
skorasaurus said:
I just tried to restore my nand backup and it worked. Looks like it's all smooth sailing here. =)
Thank you for the help, mjb413
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not a problem. we all have our little speedbumps...lol
My vibrant running a rooted froyo started to act up today after it wouldnt play my mp3 files, saying how its the incorrect format or something. So after it said that for every song i restarted the phone. I get past the phone boot screen and i even get to see the bar up top that i could usually slide down but the rest is black, i hold the power button as if im going to shut it off and the power menu comes up and anything i do freezes the device. The bottom soft touch keys are turning on but seem to have no effect on anything the phone does. Im also getting these weird vibrations out of it every so often.
I got into recovery, tried deleting the caches, still nothing so i formatted the system partition since it gave me an error every time i tried to restore it. now its stuck at the vibrant screen.
Help please
ngbmameman said:
My vibrant running a rooted froyo started to act up today after it wouldnt play my mp3 files, saying how its the incorrect format or something. So after it said that for every song i restarted the phone. I get past the phone boot screen and i even get to see the bar up top that i could usually slide down but the rest is black, i hold the power button as if im going to shut it off and the power menu comes up and anything i do freezes the device. The bottom soft touch keys are turning on but seem to have no effect on anything the phone does. Im also getting these weird vibrations out of it every so often.
I got into recovery, tried deleting the caches, still nothing so i formatted the system partition since it gave me an error every time i tried to restore it. now its stuck at the vibrant screen.
Help please
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Flash Another Rom...Readd Instructions So You Make Sure You Doing It Correct...Or Just Try This Out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
Ive tried that, and now im able to get into recovery, i restored my latest back up and a previous back out from months ago, either way its stuck on the boot screen, the one where the S is glowing purple/blue or whatever and it doesnt go past that.
What now?
ngbmameman said:
Ive tried that, and now im able to get into recovery, i restored my latest back up and a previous back out from months ago, either way its stuck on the boot screen, the one where the S is glowing purple/blue or whatever and it doesnt go past that.
What now?
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well if you restored the rom and it dont pass the first screen you should install a kernel such as dead horse, dragon, overstock...and it should work because ive had that before
Easiest way is to Odin to stock...you are trying to run the wrong kernal on whatever rom you are using...they are incompatible
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now i lost my clockwork recovery screen, when i press install update.zip it says that there is no such file. Il try stock now.
Back to stock now, working fine. I think i lost all my data though, i cant seem to find clockwork on the internal SD. Any way its still there?
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Back to stock now, working fine. I think i lost all my data though, i cant seem to find clockwork on the internal SD. Any way its still there?
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ok brother so now reroot the phone and flash anything again... just read instructions and make sure its for vibrants
If bet you installed a non voodoo kernel over a voodoo one and it wiped your internal SD card....you news to toto the vibrant Bible and get the update.zip, move it to your internal SD...then reboot into recovery, then reinstall packages might have to hit reinstall packages twice...then you can flash whatever rom u want
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Its working now, just need to update to froyo now. I guess next time i should get titanium back up as well as clockwork recovery. Off to start over again.
Thanks guys
If You Want To Flash A Different Rom There Is No Need To UpGrade To 2.2... But You Can Do It Anywas...
would i just put the rom into internal sd and hit install update?
ngbmameman said:
would i just put the rom into internal sd and hit install update?
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if you want to install the stock 2.2 you just put it in the internal sd card and flash it...but also you can use a program from samsung called kies mini....
Im trying to flash stock froyo(KA6) with root deodexed from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=771111
ngbmameman said:
Im trying to flash stock froyo(KA6) with root deodexed from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=771111
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ook in that case just place it into the internal SD Card And flash it using Cwm Recovery
bosina said:
ook in that case just place it into the internal SD Card And flash it using Cwm Recovery
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Make sure you choose install zip from SD card...then pick your zip file
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Its installed, everything is good so far except for loss of data
ngbmameman said:
Its installed, everything is good so far except for loss of data
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ook Friend... Anythin ? Just Hmu Ill Help With all I can
ngbmameman said:
Its installed, everything is good so far except for loss of data
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Remember Don't forget to use titanium backup
Ive already downloaded it and backed up
hi i have my atrix next to me stuck in a semi brick. this happened after i updated gingerblur to 4.5 it was at 3.xx i have many backups of my os but im having trouble getting cwm up and running, it would normally startup on its own.
in updating the rom i backed up all apps/data, then backed up the os with cwm.
i then "factory reset" the phone using cwm so no stability issues could happen
last i installed the 4.5 gingerblur, everything went smoothly until i restarted the phone with cwm???
now the phone loops all the way to showing mounting internal sd card and then shuts of (cuts power even the screen shows a fading image from the fast cut of) and then restart again. fast boot doesnt go past the red M symbol and starting rsd protocol support stays at (starting rsd protocol support).
any help would be much appreciated
First.. wrong section. This should probably be in Q&A or General.
Second, sounds like you probably need to restore a SBF. There's a thread on how to do that in this section.
natboy said:
First.. wrong section. This should probably be in Q&A or General.
Second, sounds like you probably need to restore a SBF. There's a thread on how to do that in this section.
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RGR SBF are the stock roms right. thanks i will try this
Get into the fast boot menu using the vol down and power from here when the phone is off after a battery pull from there you can do option on factory reset from the menu selection android recovery (havnt done that one in a while so fuzzy after that) or you can use option two which would be a fresh sbf flash following instructions here (if you dont have a att phone there is a sbf thread use the search to find your correct version) with the 1.2.6 (or diff) then update to the latest build and follow instructions at the ginger blur site to install 4.5 or you can try this here all this was found in sticks and this question has been posted in search this is the development section your post should be in q/a section if you really think you coild find it with search.
Never factory reset/wipe in cwm. Too many ppl are getting into bootloop situations. Me included
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SolidHelix said:
Never factory reset/wipe in cwm. Too many ppl are getting into bootloop situations. Me included
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had the same problem.
btw. if you clean the full dalvic cache, as the factory reset does, it causes the bootloop as I found out.
thanks all it works ^_^