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I rooted my Vibrant yesterday, first timer, and everything went smoothly. I used the Classic way, had no problems. I got ROM Manager, to flash ROMs of course (I've gotten pretty impatient with Samsung and my Froyo) and I decided to partition the SD because I thought it would be a good idea. I did not know that it would partition the INTERNAL SD and brick my phone. After countless hours of Odin, rereading the instructions on this thread, trying to get it back to stock, I managed to get it running Eugene's Unofficial TMO Froyo Image. I am able to boot [Froyo] totally fine, but then when I try to revert back to build JFD or J16, I get the same black screen with only the capacative buttons on. My question is, is there any other possible way to fix this? I've tried almost every single method I've come across, read so many threads, and I've been unable to get back to stock. I've even created an elaborate scheme to walk into T-Mo to tell them I dropped my phone (playing the technologically disabled customer, of course) and asking for a replacement. I apologize for so much text, but I felt that explaining myself might work. Ideas would be much appreciated
With Odin -
Use this 512.pit
and this JI6.tar
These will take you to bone stock 2.1.
Thanks Drew, but I've tried that countless times and all I end up with is a black screen and lit up capacitive buttons. I want to go back to stock because for some reason, Eugene's version of Froyo doesn't allow me to install apps because the supposed, "internal memory" is full. Plus, going back to stock will allow me to redo everything from the beginning.
make sure you flash a 2.1 compatible kernel 1st before downgrading from 2.2 to 2.1..
Try flashing "Eugene's Froyo that doesn't brick" on odin then flash JFD/JI6 whichever you wanna go back to..
WARNING: Flashing Froyo that doesnt brick will wipe internal SD..
Good luck..
$0.02, why not just flash the rom you want over the stock 2.2?
just factory reset, wipe partitions, wipe dalvik cache, fix permissions ALL in CWM
Then flash ROM of choice.. Clean flash.
Can you link that file for me please?
Also, I just factory reset, and I'm still unable to getapps from the market ,so flashing from 2.2 would be impossible. For app space, it says I have 0.00 B
Had same issue, didn't want to go back to stock though . Look for a post with mbr check sum error, quick walk through
Really? I looked it up, but i don't remember getting that error.message.
Title basically says it all i am running the stock 347, 00 ROM and i have it all configured how i like so how can i backup an img or script so i can flash it back to how i had it if streakmod doesnt work right or i dont like it???
thanks
Ok so im having issues doing a backup, i would like to flash streakmod or clockwork but i have ubuntu so i dont know how to do that in fastboot? Also i tried ROM manager from clockwork and did the flash clockwork mod and it said it worked but when i do a backup the device reboots but not into the backup just normally and no backup is made? i tried 2 times
NO ONE???? Surely people have been able to back up there stock 347 ROM??? I dont know why ROM manager isnt working when backing up??
I had some trouble backing mine up prior to flashing 1.90.
What i did was install Streakmod through fastboot like others have said.
After i got into Nandroid from Streakmod i kept having the issue of it hanging at the end of the backup process on i believe it was final boot ..
I tried numerous times over and over and it would always hang at the end in the same spot but on the last time i tried i had my machine unplugged from the PC and no cable in the streak and this is when it finally went through the full process.
I have been able to flash back and forth numerous times now from 1.90 to the stock backup without any issues at all .
I did not clear the Delvik cache or the system cache either because i was afraid of bricking after reading a post from someone said they bricked there Streak from clearing the cache ?.
I am not 100% on the whole cache thing since one guy suggested clearing the cache and also installing 3.2 of Streakmod to get a full backup from Nandroid but the only part i followed of his advice was the 3.2 part and not the cache suggestion..
I think in the end having it unplugged from the PC was what got mine to finally create a full backup but your YMMV .
Good luck
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NO ONE???? Surely people have been able to back up there stock 347 ROM??? I dont know why ROM manager isnt working when backing up??
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I think maybe people aren't responding to you because half the first page is taken up by your threads about backing up/flashing 347/1.9. One thread is enough to get all your questions answered.
This is so hit and miss. I just backed up one set after clearing caches, to bad it was the spare unsetup set, that i want mirrored from the next set. I tried the main set thats all setup and it stopped, froze on firstboot. trying yet again with cable unplugged.
Im doing this on 318. I cleared the cache on the main set last time, so this time i didnt. ugh, backup sux on these things. should be simple !!
Does the time of backing up firstboot change depending on the set? or how many things are installed? I think its stuck again. The other set that completed successfully did it pretty fast
Ya I have tried both versions of cwm recovery and it sticks at data, and I tried regular and beta streak mod and it hangs on firstboot..... Clearing cache and what not each time.i wanna try streakmod 1.9 but not til I have a stock backup so I might just do a reset and say screw it just to get a backup? I left it over night last night and It seemed to work, when I woke it was on the streakmod recovery screen but showed error: cache recovery.log.....so I discarded that backup.
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Yeah i tried again after doing a factory reset and it hung again on firstboot as well even unplugged like i had suggested .
It is totally hit or miss sadly enough but at this point i am glad i have one solid backup i guess .
We should be able to just flash an update.pkg of whatever firmware that came on our unit negating the need for a backup of our actual firmware that came pre installed correct ?.
I have not tried to run one of these packages i have seen floating around of the official releases but i cant imagine its going to be any different then installing DJ Steve's 1.90 etc..
Mine didn't come with an update .pkg...
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Yeah mine did not either but there are other firmwares floating around i do believe like 3.51 ? ..
Mine came with 3.47 which i made a backup of with only a couple changes on it like my google contacts etc so its pretty much a clean version.
I was trying to make a factory reset version so i could possibly share it with others that wanted 3.47 but when i tried to do it again after the factory reset it just hung.
I am not even sure if you can share Nandroid backups or not but i dont see why you cant honestly..
I have 347 as well, I'm sure u can just upload a update.pkg if you wana share a backup?
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In the last post i mentioned i did not get the Update.pkg either thats why i was trying to create a fresh 3.47 backup but had no luck and the only backup i currently have is one that already had some personal data already on it so that one can not be uploaded.
Im not sure i am going to factory reset and try again anytime soon but if i do and have some success i will be sure and try to upload it to share just not sure its going to be anytime soon if at all since i did not have luck trying the last time.
There is no rhyme or reason why it worked one time for me and not the rest sadly .
The creator of Streakmod mentioned he could not reproduce the hanging on firstboot so im not sure he even knows how to address the issue or is even looking into it .
I know you put the files from your one backup in a folder and name it update.pkg to re flash it, or something close to that
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Nandroid actually creates a folder with a bunch of different files which is very different then just a straight up Update.pkg.
I know I just read something though and tours what it said you can do, take those files and rename the folder so recovery can flash them
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Ok I'm slightly new to android specific modding so bare with me here.. ive been unlocked and rooted with yays prom installed.Earlier today i installed the kernel and oced. Shortly thereafter i realized that i was getting the "not enough disk space" error from the market. So i booted into cwm wiped dalv and cache, it didnt fix it. So then i flashed Home Base 1.4 with kernel. Phone went through booting and I was still runnin yayrom with the kernel?! It fixed my market problem but I was slightly concerned. What's wrong? As it turns out I have had the bootstrap recovery installed the entire time, I have been under the impression it was actually cwm. Am I not supposed to be flashing stuff in bootstrap? Is that why I'm havin problems? Also, would it be best to start over? How can I make sure I do a proper wipe? When you do wipe, does it bring you back to factory or does it reflash the most recent update.zip? I need some clarification. Anyone care shed some light? Thanks.
Mopho unlocked yayrom oc1.1
Suppose you can begin with re-flashing CWM since you unable to boot into it. Then the wipes, and then the ROM.
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Yes I am new to rooting droids, but I am not illiterate in this subject. However, I am pregnant, and over emotional and possibly losing my mind because I can't get my phone to work. (Sounds like a noob issue right?!)
I have a droid 2, latest update, blahblah.
I rooted it, no problem, got good instructions from here, downloaded ROM manager, and Bootstrap. I downloaded Liquid Dream ROM. Flashed Clockwork, and rebooted. ROM seemed to download onto the device fine, finished rebooting and now it plays the Liquid Dream animation on start up over and over. Currently I am in reboot mode but I am stuck, I don't know where to go from here (because I am a noob, I know). So I'm hope full that someone with a lot more knowledge on this can help me out, so I don't totally lose my mind. Thanks for your time future person who helps me! (I hope)
did you wipe all the data/cache and davlik prior to installing a new rom. When ever changing roms, you need to clear out the old data.
go into fastboot, clear data/cache and under advance clear dalvik.
try that.
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Yes I am new to rooting droids, but I am not illiterate in this subject. However, I am pregnant, and over emotional and possibly losing my mind because I can't get my phone to work. (Sounds like a noob issue right?!)
I have a droid 2, latest update, blahblah.
I rooted it, no problem, got good instructions from here, downloaded ROM manager, and Bootstrap. I downloaded Liquid Dream ROM. Flashed Clockwork, and rebooted. ROM seemed to download onto the device fine, finished rebooting and now it plays the Liquid Dream animation on start up over and over. Currently I am in reboot mode but I am stuck, I don't know where to go from here (because I am a noob, I know). So I'm hope full that someone with a lot more knowledge on this can help me out, so I don't totally lose my mind. Thanks for your time future person who helps me! (I hope)
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Well, something probably didn´t upload ok. So, what you have to do know is: make sure the .zip file in the sdcard is not corrupted. In order to make sure of that, you can try to download it again (you will need an sdcard reader). Then, when you have already the .zip file in the sdcard, boot into recovery. From boot loop the best way is to boot the phone pressing power + volumen down, then choose recovery from the hboot menu. Once you are in the CWM recovery menu, do a wipe data / factory reset. wipe cache partion and format system.
When that is done, you are able to flash the zip file from install .zip from sdcard choice. That should work and get your cell back to life.
It might be Clockwork. There have been some issues with it. If none of the above suggestions work, try getting Amon Ra.
If ClockWorkMod does not work you can try flashing the 4EXT recovery...works smoothly at least in my Inspire 4G.
hey guys, first post here: i just bought the atrix 4g, got it in the mail today, used the 1-click rooter to unlock the bootloader, then to root. then i installed cyanogenmod 9- i followed instructions appropriately, but the phone hangs at the motorola logo screen at boot-up and does nothing more. i tried re-flashing, fixing permissions, clearing dalvik cache, nothing works.
edit- i installed cyanogenmod9 through clockworkmod, by installing zip from internal
i was going to re-flash stock rom, but i cant get internal storage to mount from clockworkmod (no sd card), so i cant get the stock file over to the phone to flash, so im bricked.
any thoughts/advices? thanks in advance, after not having a phone for near a week, id kinda like to make a call
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hey guys, first post here: i just bought the atrix 4g, got it in the mail today, used the 1-click rooter to unlock the bootloader, then to root. then i installed cyanogenmod 9- i followed instructions appropriately, but the phone hangs at the motorola logo screen at boot-up and does nothing more. i tried re-flashing, fixing permissions, clearing dalvik cache, nothing works.
edit- i installed cyanogenmod9 through clockworkmod, by installing zip from internal
i was going to re-flash stock rom, but i cant get internal storage to mount from clockworkmod (no sd card), so i cant get the stock file over to the phone to flash, so im bricked.
any thoughts/advices? thanks in advance, after not having a phone for near a week, id kinda like to make a call
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Did you try using fastboot to erase system, data, cache, and osh partitions?
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leopard_fist said:
hey guys, first post here: i just bought the atrix 4g, got it in the mail today, used the 1-click rooter to unlock the bootloader, then to root. then i installed cyanogenmod 9- i followed instructions appropriately, but the phone hangs at the motorola logo screen at boot-up and does nothing more. i tried re-flashing, fixing permissions, clearing dalvik cache, nothing works.
edit- i installed cyanogenmod9 through clockworkmod, by installing zip from internal
i was going to re-flash stock rom, but i cant get internal storage to mount from clockworkmod (no sd card), so i cant get the stock file over to the phone to flash, so im bricked.
any thoughts/advices? thanks in advance, after not having a phone for near a week, id kinda like to make a call
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You bricked your phone, not cyanogenmod ...
Restore a backup, your phone should work.
hm, can anyone tell me, why i cant get internal storage to mount from clockworkmod? is this a common problem?
i dont understand what went wrong for me, when i followed the same steps that many others did.
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You bricked your phone, not cyanogenmod ...
Restore a backup, your phone should work.
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Your phone is not a paperweight, just not boot the operating system
You did a backup with CWM? restore a backup as Emerson says
You can borrow a sd card copy there CM7 and install from the sdcard
You can also use RDS to install a stock rom
Never install a rom without having an one that you know works 100%
AND ALWAYS READ ALL FAULTS AND SOLUTIONS BEFORE INSTALLING A CUSTOM ROM
ok guys, i went and bought an sd card, clockworkmod mouted it fine, i found and copied over to the sd card android 2.34 for atrix, it flashed fine and my phone is back up.
can you gentleman tell me, whats a good solid rom to flash? cyanogen mod 9 obviously didnt work for me. id like to get started setting up the phone, so i need a good rom to begin with.
thanks to everyone in advance
Go with montouri's version of cm7.2 ,mrom-Olympus you can find it in the developer section. Its my daily driver. Its the most stable and has the best battery life out of all the roms that I've tried
motoxrcr1 thanks for the recommendation, running m-rom now and it runs smooth.
the first time i tried to install it, it hung at the boot logo, then i got to thinking maybe i better try updating clockworkmod, turned out that clockworkmod 4.0X that was installed by the 1-click rooter, is rather old, so i found and updated to 5.XX. tried re-flashing m-rom again, and it worked fine that time.
older clockworkmod, that's probably what caused my original problem with cyanogenmod 9..
does mrom support overclocking? not that i guess i need it, but just to know for future reference
thanks!
the trouble i caused myself, was all due to flashing the rom from an older version of clockworkmod.. after updating to a newer version 5.xx, it flashed fine
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