So I accidenty installed clockworkmod even though its not supported thinking that its just an app that i can uninstall like any other. Im not sure if it replaced the original recovety app or not, but i want to get rid of it anyway.
Should i just wait for a supported version to come out or is there an easy way to flash the orig. recovery partition? I dont need the recovery thing yet but considering the fact that i have rich history of doing bad decision with my device i propably will need it pretty soon.
So how can i recover my recovery and get rid or that damn clockwork thing?
Ok, I booted to recovery mode and it's not replaced. It seemed to start up just fine. So I don't think the ClockworkMod does anything on my device, so I might as well leave it there for now. I would still like to get rid of it but I havent been able to find a way to remove it.
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Hello all I recently installed Bionix 1.6. I didnt like the AllBlack theme so I flashed the black-to-stock theme, and now I keep getting force close loops, and I cant seem to access recovery. I KNOW for a fact that my phone wasnt hardware locked before.
When booting, Vibrant DOES flash a second time, but it just goes right to the Galaxy S boot animation after that.
I did a nandroid, so all I need is to get into recovery and Im good.
Any help?
I had a similar issue, I dont know if there is a quicker way to do this, but I odin'd back to stock, then rooted, downloaded recovery and nandroid from there.
Hope that helps
Is it even possible that my device somehow became hardware locked later on down the line? I ask because I cant seem to get into download mode either... Ive never heard of this, but any confirmation of that would ease my mind. I've seen people on here who can get into recovery but still have trouble getting into download mode.
Also when people with hardware locked phones attempt recovery, do they still get the Vibrant screen to flash a second time?
EDIT: I got into recovery through "adb reboot recovery"...sigh...Im going to see if I can get this back to normal from here.
I'm one of the unlucky individuals for whom the hardware volume keys to get into recovery don't work. This hasn't been a problem for me so far since it's so easy to root in other ways, and I'd really like to try out CM7.
The CM7 thread specifically says
Make SURE you can get into Download mode using only buttons (no other method, Download mode from just buttons is essential).
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which base on the red/bold makes me think this is a serious issue... but looking through the installation instructions I can't figure out why. It looks to me like installing CM7 is exactly the same process as the one I've already used successfully to flash Onyx, then Bionix, and now Axura.
What is the reason for this loud disclaimer, does anyone know? Doesn't CM7 now come with Clockworkmod Recovery included so I should be able to use it to get into recovery mode again in the future?
Blindsight51 said:
I'm one of the unlucky individuals for whom the hardware volume keys to get into recovery don't work. This hasn't been a problem for me so far since it's so easy to root in other ways, and I'd really like to try out CM7.
The CM7 thread specifically says
which base on the red/bold makes me think this is a serious issue... but looking through the installation instructions I can't figure out why. It looks to me like installing CM7 is exactly the same process as the one I've already used successfully to flash Onyx, then Bionix, and now Axura.
What is the reason for this loud disclaimer, does anyone know? Doesn't CM7 now come with Clockworkmod Recovery included so I should be able to use it to get into recovery mode again in the future?
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if your phone breaks (because CM7 is unstable right now) how do you expect to go to another ROM? "adb reboot recovery" won't help you because restoring a nandroid of another ROM won't do *anything*. "adb reboot download" doesn't work so you'll never make it to download mode.
so if your phone suddenly stops working, you're screwed and we're trying to protect people who lack the foresight to think about potential problems. basically, you'll be setting yourself up to be stuck in a very bad position and there's just no reason for it.
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if your phone breaks (because CM7 is unstable right now) how do you expect to go to another ROM? "adb reboot recovery" won't help you because restoring a nandroid of another ROM won't do *anything*. "adb reboot download" doesn't work so you'll never make it to download mode.
so if your phone suddenly stops working, you're screwed and we're trying to protect people who lack the foresight to think about potential problems. basically, you'll be setting yourself up to be stuck in a very bad position and there's just no reason for it.
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Okay, so the reason is due to stability concerns with the ROM, then? That makes sense... but that risk would apply any time I flash my phone with anything, not just CM.
I guess I'll just go back to waiting until a "stable" CM ROM comes out. Thanks for the quick reply, I appreciate it.
Don't really need some special help here, just want the device to function again no matter what way. (Don't care if it's factory reset completely it has nothing on it I was just using it for a bit of experimenting).
So anyway, I have an HTC One x that I tried to install Cyanogenmod mod on but when trying to flash it (I was a bit impatient and just did what I thought would work), it didn't work and I'm stuck on the HTC Boot screen. I can still restart the phone and get to the recovery menus or whatever they're called. But even when doing a factory reset it still just won't get past the boot screen.
I'm just someone who has a good love for android and got given this phone for free so I thought I might experiment with rooting and all that, (I don't want to do this to my main driver, the Z1, for the life of me).
Any help here would be great.
Thanks
MHarris333 said:
Don't really need some special help here, just want the device to function again no matter what way. (Don't care if it's factory reset completely it has nothing on it I was just using it for a bit of experimenting).
So anyway, I have an HTC One x that I tried to install Cyanogenmod mod on but when trying to flash it (I was a bit impatient and just did what I thought would work), it didn't work and I'm stuck on the HTC Boot screen. I can still restart the phone and get to the recovery menus or whatever they're called. But even when doing a factory reset it still just won't get past the boot screen.
I'm just someone who has a good love for android and got given this phone for free so I thought I might experiment with rooting and all that, (I don't want to do this to my main driver, the Z1, for the life of me).
Any help here would be great.
Thanks
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If you had just used htcdev.com to unlock the bootloader and are still S-On, you need to pull/extract the boot.img from the CyanogenMod zip and install via fastboot.
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If you had just used htcdev.com to unlock the bootloader and are still S-On, you need to pull/extract the boot.img from the CyanogenMod zip and install via fastboot.
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She's running all good now, thanks for that
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She's running all good now, thanks for that
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You're welcome. Pretty common issue when people are getting used to how it works for HTCs.
Pro Tip: If you want to simplify the process, you can use this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cgollner.flashify and install the boot.img with the phone while booted, then boot to recovery and finish the rom install. Recommend doing a nandroid recovery first, just in case the boot,img/rom combo does not work properly, otherwise if you flash it first THEN do a backup, the new boot.img will be matched with the old rom and might cause issues upon restoring if they are not compatible.
Alternative: S-Off. Depending on which hboot you are on, you should be able to do S-Off. It can be a bit of a pain to set up, but once you do, then you can install roms just like normal as the boot.img will be able to be flashed from recovery along with the rom like in most phones.
Hello Everyone,
Ok so not sure where to start, umm yesterday i decided to root my phone i have the HTC Desire C from Cricket wireless. I was successful at unlocking my bootloader and rooting the device. Now for some reason im unable to flash a custom rom or whatever to my device, not sure if im doing something wrong, but i must have screwed something up because i cant even perform a factory reset or a hard reset to the device at all, and the google play store no longer works and the sync icon never goes away. Now when i attempt to flash the custom rom the clockwork recovery tool wont allow me to do a full wipe which i believe must be completed before you can even install the roms.
any help or suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You.
Just unlocking and rooting the device should not affect how the Play Store works at all. That seems odd. What's the error? By the Clockwork recovery tool, are you referring to the Rom Manager or the actual ClockWorkMod recovery?
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Just unlocking and rooting the device should not affect how the Play Store works at all. That seems odd. What's the error? By the Clockwork recovery tool, are you referring to the Rom Manager or the actual ClockWorkMod recovery?
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Actually you know what, I think i know what happened. when i was trying to flash the rom i also flashed the gapps for jelly bean into my phone which is running ice cream sandwich currently because the rom flashing failed. So basically i think the gapps apps are conflicting with the stock apps on the phone ? It seems like all the google apps are the only ones messing up and the google account sync is messing up also the google playstore and google plus crashes a lot so its only the google apps. so what do you think and how do i restore the phone ? I didnt make a back up recovery either. If someone could also just walk me through how to flash a custom rom like CyanogenMod i believe everything will probably fix its self (hopefully). oh and as for the Clockworkmod i think its the actual clockworkmod recovery the one with a black hat, i accessed it through bootloader recovery options, anyway it doesnt allow me to flash any custom roms ive tried like 3 so far and everytime it ask me for some update file or something about a update not sure.
Yep, the other Google apps is what did it. You don't need to flash Gapps on a stock rom, only for ones like CM that don't come pre-installed. Well, first off, it's good to take note of what system version and baseband version you have, in case you need to find the files for later to reflash. As far as CM, well, you might want to check on how stable a version is for your phone. Often times less popular HTC CDMA phones don't have as good of support from CM. If you just find another stock rom and install it through CWM, you'll probably be fine. Just make sure to wipe everything suggested in the install guide for the rom you pick. Some devs and roms require a full wipe including /system and some do not. ProTip : Do a backup in CWM before ever wiping /system, even your system now which doesn't work right, because if you wipe the system and the rom you downloaded doesn't work, then you will be stuck with nothing to do and at that point would need to find the RUU from HTC to restore the phone back to stock.
FYI: If you unlocked via htcdev.com, this is not a full unlock and whenever you install a custom rom that has a different kernel than what is already on the phone, then you need to extract the boot.img from the rom.zip and install it via fastboot. You should get familiar with fastboot as it is very handy for reviving the phone in a worst case scenario.
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Yep, the other Google apps is what did it. You don't need to flash Gapps on a stock rom, only for ones like CM that don't come pre-installed. Well, first off, it's good to take note of what system version and baseband version you have, in case you need to find the files for later to reflash. As far as CM, well, you might want to check on how stable a version is for your phone. Often times less popular HTC CDMA phones don't have as good of support from CM. If you just find another stock rom and install it through CWM, you'll probably be fine. Just make sure to wipe everything suggested in the install guide for the rom you pick. Some devs and roms require a full wipe including /system and some do not. ProTip : Do a backup in CWM before ever wiping /system, even your system now which doesn't work right, because if you wipe the system and the rom you downloaded doesn't work, then you will be stuck with nothing to do and at that point would need to find the RUU from HTC to restore the phone back to stock.
FYI: If you unlocked via htcdev.com, this is not a full unlock and whenever you install a custom rom that has a different kernel than what is already on the phone, then you need to extract the boot.img from the rom.zip and install it via fastboot. You should get familiar with fastboot as it is very handy for reviving the phone in a worst case scenario.
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Ok Thanks for the reply, now as for the full wipe my CWM wont allow me to do this im only allowed to do a cache wipe and I believe this is why im unable to get a Rom working on my phone and this is getting very frustrating, the CWM is the latest version and TWRT wont even flash to my phone so that one doesnt work at all if you know of any others please let me know. Yesterday morning i soft bricked my phone and none of the roms are working because i believe i must perform a full wipe which i am unable to do at this time. oh and about unlocking my bootloader via htcdev.com and it not being a full unlock, do you suggest that may have something to do with the fact roms wont work on my phone and how do you do a full unlock ? oh and i tried to restore back to stock also thats not working either, I get a status 7 error when installing the roms and sometimes a status 6.
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Ok Thanks for the reply, now as for the full wipe my CWM wont allow me to do this im only allowed to do a cache wipe and I believe this is why im unable to get a Rom working on my phone and this is getting very frustrating, the CWM is the latest version and TWRT wont even flash to my phone so that one doesnt work at all if you know of any others please let me know. Yesterday morning i soft bricked my phone and none of the roms are working because i believe i must perform a full wipe which i am unable to do at this time. oh and about unlocking my bootloader via htcdev.com and it not being a full unlock, do you suggest that may have something to do with the fact roms wont work on my phone and how do you do a full unlock ? oh and i tried to restore back to stock also thats not working either, I get a status 7 error when installing the roms and sometimes a status 6.
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Are you sure you don't have the recovery from another version of the Desire C - GSM maybe? I still don't understand what you mean when you say you can factory reset. Why not? What is the error? And sounds like at this point you should just use the RUU to return to full stock and start over.
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Are you sure you don't have the recovery from another version of the Desire C - GSM maybe? I still don't understand what you mean when you say you can factory reset. Why not? What is the error? And sounds like at this point you should just use the RUU to return to full stock and start over.
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Ok not sure what the RUU is and how im suppose to use it to return to full stock, and correct i cant perform a factory reset in bootloader period, when i select factory reset it does nothing but reboot and say HTC "this build is for development purposes only do not distribute outside of htc without written permission. Failure to comply may lead to legal action." then it stays like that and nothing else happens period, not sure what im doing wrong but no worries im going to buy a new phone tomorrow and never use custom roms again, if i want a upgrade ill just go out and buy a new phone which i should have done in the first place, only thing ill be doing is rooting my devices for now on and nothing more thank you for your help.
Well, once you have a custom recovery, you don't factory reset from the bootloader screen, but via the recovery itself. That's one of the main reasons for the recovery - better options to wipe the phone as well as backing up, restoring, and flashing the custom stuff. Not saying you shouldn't buy another phone, but no reason to give up on this one. I just think it would require a bit more reading since you don't see very familiar with what to do with CWM after you installed it. Have you even booted INTO CWM?
So somehow today my port burnt up, phone wont work with ANY USB. I'm on an AOSP Rom, been running fine for 6 months, so who knows. But anyway.
What options do I have here? It's under warranty, but having rooted it obviously if I try to send it back like this, it wont go well. Any options for me at this point? I can get a charged battery, sister has the same phone so if there is a way to at least get this remotely close to where it needs to be, I can spend the time doing it.
Any insight would be great.
Mario
desantim said:
So somehow today my port burnt up, phone wont work with ANY USB. I'm on an AOSP Rom, been running fine for 6 months, so who knows. But anyway.
What options do I have here? It's under warranty, but having rooted it obviously if I try to send it back like this, it wont go well. Any options for me at this point? I can get a charged battery, sister has the same phone so if there is a way to at least get this remotely close to where it needs to be, I can spend the time doing it.
Any insight would be great.
Mario
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Do you have a stockish nandroid? If not what if you bump your sisters phone, make a nandroid of stock, move the nandroid to your phone by ext sd card or other file transfer methods. Restore the nandroid on your phone, unroot in supersu, flash stock recovery with flashify app.
Or a good cell phone repair shop should be able to replace it for around 60 bucks. Unfortunately it's soldered to the board unlike samsung phones or you could just do it yourself. Phone comes apart super easy.
You are going to have to try to get a stock image to flash in recovery. Otherwise just wipe your system and data partitions so that there is no longer root. Granted, then you will still have custom recovery. You could probably dd if=/dev/zero over the recovery partition to wipe your recovery, too.
I've found that Verizon doesn't check too carefully, so at a bare minimum I would download and flash the stock ROM found here on XDA, then unroot using SuperSU. You'll still have a custom recovery, but typically I find Verizon only powers it up to make sure it works and that there isn't anything physically wrong with it before replacing it.