Well, please dont laugh...
As the title says I think I killed my GSM hero.... I need your help!
here is what happened
I'm new at this and I got a Hero with android 1.5 so I wanted to upgrade to a newer version
I followed instructions on this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=645253
I successfully rooted the phone then I tried to flash this ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=932377
After reboot the old rom was still there but wiped so I did everything from scratch a couple of times and didn't work.
I did notice the last time that there was an error that I'm sure I didn't see the first few times while wiping SD:ext so I looked for that on the forum and fund the following thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=679991
I followed pseudoremora's instruccions and then tried to flash again, but got stuck on the boot screen...
Now somehow I lost my nandroid backup... I'm not sure what happened but is not with the rest of the things I backed up...
so here is the current status:
Can't boot
Can't flash the ROM
Can't restore the backup.
Is there anything else I can do to fix this? I found another thread that talks about using someone else's nandroid backup (but removing the pieces that contain personal data such as usernames and passwords) if that is possible, would anyone be willing to help?
Thanks!
Here is the last thread I mention
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=545435
Can you boot into the recovery console by pressing power+home?
if recovery is not working for you , try going into fastboot i hope you knows how to use ADB over fastboot . Goood Luck
It's fixed!
Hi Guys,
IT's fixed!! I'm not exactly sure how I did it... I flashed the ROM several times until it worked...
Do you think it's a problem with the hardware itself? maybe the SDcard?
Anyway I'm reliefed! not i's working!
Cheers!
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SOLVED Hi guys, I've got a HTC one x running CM10 nightlies. Everything has been going great. Last night i tried to flash rohans kernel.. it didn't work, my fault I'm sure. I think i did something wrong and I'm not entirely sure is suites my phone. I had previously made a nandriod back up so i thought i could just restore that if it all went wrong. After i flashed the kernel it just gets stuck on the white htc screen, i can still get into bootloader so i went into cwr and tried to recover from my backup. Everything seemed to work and i said the recovery was all done, but when i reboot it still gets stuck on the white htc screen. Sorry if this question has been asked, i googled and searched the hell out of it and have tried everything i can find. I think i just need to get rid of that kernel.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
sorry if some of this doesn't make sense, I'm still a total noob
Solved
Got it fixed, ended up updating to the latest CWR mod which let me mount for usb storage, then i could reflash latest CM10 nightly.
On another note I'm still not sure why my nandriod back up didn't work?
Hello. i know that my problem has been alredy posted multiple times but i think i've already read them all and nothing helped me so far.
So i was trying to install http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=226533
After all of instructions (last step "Flash the extracted boot.img ") i've tried to boot my phone...and it stands still on black screen. Nothing has changed for about 30 minutes, so i rebooted once again and tried it one more time with same result.
So i found some others AOSP ROM's and tried them... every single time doing everything exactly like in description. i'm not dev, but i've rooted some phones so far( this one was rooted like 4 months ago) and never had such situation....
I was on TWRP recovery and now i flashed it to classic non touch CWM... but it didnt help.
I have a backup of my last working system done by TWRP recovery, but it didnt help me too. After restoring my screen is continously black.
Unlocked S-ON
hboot 1.25.0002
radio 1.15.40.04
Please help me asap... i'm running out of time since i've got no other phone right now and i've got to have my phone running tilll morning :/
Thanks for your time!
evnee said:
I have a backup of my last working system done by TWRP recovery, but it didnt help me too. After restoring my screen is continously black.
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After restoring your back up (assuming your back up is stock JB), boot to bootloader and install any JB boot.img.
Maybe try the one from here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239511
i'm sorry i didnt reply to you! i dont know why, but nothing have helped. when i've tried another day everythign went ok. thanks for help!
problem solved
Hello guys! I don't ever get the need to post in a thread or comments, but this time I'm entangled in some pretty confusing stuff, I'd like help with please.
I bought a used GS3 GT-I9300 and tried to install a custom rom on it. One thing lead to another, a problem after every problem and now I'm at a dead end :\
Last time I was able to boot into a ROM, was via restoring through nandroid backup. But the IMEI had become "unknown". I searched it around to find that this was a problem with the EFS folder. Luckily I had a backup of the efs part before hand! But I can't even utilize the backup! -_-
The Problem is, whatever I flash via odin (no matter which stock rom), I end up stuck at the "Samsung Galaxy SIII" screen. I have a backup of the efs, but if I go through philz recovery, it's not able to find my backup. I've tried every guide at there, and been searching about a whole day and now I give and ask for help from you guys with experience. What am I supposed to do, to get to a point where I can use my phone? Really sad after attempting so many things. NEED ASAP HELP PLEASE! :'( Thanks in advance.
hammadfozi said:
Hello guys! I don't ever get the need to post in a thread or comments, but this time I'm entangled in some pretty confusing stuff, I'd like help with please.
I bought a used GS3 GT-I9300 and tried to install a custom rom on it. One thing lead to another, a problem after every problem and now I'm at a dead end :\
Last time I was able to boot into a ROM, was via restoring through nandroid backup. But the IMEI had become "unknown". I searched it around to find that this was a problem with the EFS folder. Luckily I had a backup of the efs part before hand! But I can't even utilize the backup! -_-
The Problem is, whatever I flash via odin (no matter which stock rom), I end up stuck at the "Samsung Galaxy SIII" screen. I have a backup of the efs, but if I go through philz recovery, it's not able to find my backup. I've tried every guide at there, and been searching about a whole day and now I give and ask for help from you guys with experience. What am I supposed to do, to get to a point where I can use my phone? Really sad after attempting so many things. NEED ASAP HELP PLEASE! :'( Thanks in advance.
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Start with the simple things first... Do you boot into recovery after flashing with odin and factory reset this is the most common thing that people don't do and this solves most bootloop issues.
Sorry if you have tried that but you really need to give a small brief list of eactly what you have tried to do because saying (quote) "attempting so many things" does not help us to narrow down what is wrong otherwise people will be suggesting things you have already tried.
Question makes no sense, if you can't find the backup in philz then you aren't using it correctly or the backup is in another format. You'll need to understand the basics before you go any further.
Search for people who've extracted the efs backup on their pc then copied all the files across, follow their example.
tallman43 said:
Start with the simple things first... Do you boot into recovery after flashing with odin and factory reset this is the most common thing that people don't do and this solves most bootloop issues.
Sorry if you have tried that but you really need to give a small brief list of eactly what you have tried to do because saying (quote) "attempting so many things" does not help us to narrow down what is wrong otherwise people will be suggesting things you have already tried.
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Thanks mate. Well I've done that. Separately tried clearing cache alone and rebooting (didn't work). Then also tried factory reset (via TWRP) that didn't work either. Then I tried factory reset + clearing cache which didn't work too. No matter what stock rom I flash via odin, or a custom ROM via recovery, My phone does not proceed ahead from the "Galaxy S III 3G" Logo.
boomboomer said:
Question makes no sense, if you can't find the backup in philz then you aren't using it correctly or the backup is in another format. You'll need to understand the basics before you go any further.
Search for people who've extracted the efs backup on their pc then copied all the files across, follow their example.
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Can you maybe give me the link for that please? I didn't even intend to backup efs, this is something which luckily happened accidentally haha.
In hope for seeing if I made a efs backup, I searched the internal storage + SD card of my phone and narrowed it down to 3 rar files:
1. efs_01Jan2012-0001.tar.gz (52KB)
2. efsbackup.tar (5.05MB)
3. efsbackup.tar.gz (62KB)
Hi everyone,
I would like to preface with I made some very stupid mistakes late last night/early this morning. I decided at around 11pm I was going to root and install a custom recovery on my SGP311. I followed this guide exactly to obtain root and recovery and it worked PERFECTLY.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-tablet-z/development/root-sp321-ftf-10-5-1-0-283-t2873377
Then the mistakes started happening. First mistake I made.
1) Instead of backing up everything in recovery I just Wiped everything. I deleted cache, davlik cache, system, and data. I thought at the time no big deal ill just flash a rom.
2)I decided to flash a CM nightly and I got the "your device is a pollux and this rom is for pollux_windy" error and assumed I was wrong. I downloaded the pollux version, and flashed it. That was the dumbest thing I did. I booted and immediately started looping at the cyanogenmod screen.
3) I attempted to troubleshoot by flashing firmware and kernels through Flashboot. It made it worse and now I cant get into recovery at all.
Here is the positives
I can connect to the device through Flashmode and Fastboot.
What should I do next to remedy this situation?
TheShackSpecialist said:
Hi everyone,
I would like to preface with I made some very stupid mistakes late last night/early this morning. I decided at around 11pm I was going to root and install a custom recovery on my SGP311. I followed this guide exactly to obtain root and recovery and it worked PERFECTLY.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-tablet-z/development/root-sp321-ftf-10-5-1-0-283-t2873377
Then the mistakes started happening. First mistake I made.
1) Instead of backing up everything in recovery I just Wiped everything. I deleted cache, davlik cache, system, and data. I thought at the time no big deal ill just flash a rom.
2)I decided to flash a CM nightly and I got the "your device is a pollux and this rom is for pollux_windy" error and assumed I was wrong. I downloaded the pollux version, and flashed it. That was the dumbest thing I did. I booted and immediately started looping at the cyanogenmod screen.
3) I attempted to troubleshoot by flashing firmware and kernels through Flashboot. It made it worse and now I cant get into recovery at all.
Here is the positives
I can connect to the device through Flashmode and Fastboot.
What should I do next to remedy this situation?
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I just quickly read your post from work but since you wiped it and can no longer boot your tablet...just flash back a stock FTF with FlashTool and your tablet will back to full stock...you'll have to re-root obviously. Hope this helped... :good:
Crash338 said:
I just quickly read your post from work but since you wiped it and can no longer boot your tablet...just flash back a stock FTF with FlashTool and your tablet will back to full stock...you'll have to re-root obviously. Hope this helped... :good:
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I'm downloading the FTF right now, Ill let you know how I make out so that people can see the resolution!
*EDIT* IT WORKED!!!! I missed the simple solution because I am so tired right now. But my tablet is working which is the important part THANK YOU!!!!
So I screwed up pretty bad....
I have done so many flash's / reboots over the years that I just went through it too quick and wiped EVERYTHING off the device. I am trying to install the factory rom in TWRP now but it is not working...when it trys to install it is saying no MD5 found..it completes the install and then when it asks for a reboot it is saying no OS found!
I don't know what to do...any advice or a thread anyone knows of that can help me get my phone back to a working order???? I have never made such a stupid mistake before.
Or is there a recovery somewhere I can get that will restore the phone to a usable manner so I can at least flash a fresh rom?
Never mind all! I stumbled on someone else's thread and after their experience I ended up rebooting anyway and it actually booted totally normal...Lesson learned about taking my time and double checking I still have a recovery!