I am coming from a Droid and to boot into recovery if it boot looped or anything it was power + x then it was in CWM. But I am unsure how to get into recovery if it boot loops on my tbolt. Sorry for the noob question!
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To get into cwm you hold volume down as the phone boots up, then select recovery. Make sure you don't have a pg05img on the root of your sd card tho because it will automatically try and install it, resulting in your inability to select recovery.
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Thank you for the help. Last dumb question. What's a pgn05img? So many new things to learn on this.
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jeremyx2 said:
Thank you for the help. Last dumb question. What's a pgn05img? So many new things to learn on this.
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Not dumb, but it shows you've not rooted...
It's basically a stock rom/rom-update image file. If the phone sees one on hboot, it will overwrite your current system with it.
If you've rooted your phone, you put two different versions of it on the sdcard at some point in the process. If you forget to remove it or rename it after finished rooting it could be problematic.
Guys i need urgent help. I am on litening rom 4.2. And i threw this on today http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1124371. But now my sgs2 isnt booting up after the boot animation. Its just a black screen. What do i do? :-s
And i've tried to remove the battery and putting it back again, same stuff.
ZuRa said:
And i've tried to remove the battery and putting it back again, same stuff.
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Have you done a nandroid backup before trying to flash new stuff ? If yes try to boot In recovery (volume up+home button+power button) and restore your backup
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Nvm, fixed it by re-flashing with litening rom.
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Have you done a nandroid backup before trying to flash new stuff ? If yes try to boot In recovery (volume up+home button+power button) and restore your backup
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No i didnt have any backup. Nandroid is halla confusing and i dont know if my mobile can be used with it? ;-s I've heard about titanium backup, but same goes for this as nandroid. But its probably easier to use
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I really dont know what that is ;-s I've heard about titanium backup, but it looks so confusing, and i'm kinda scared of ****ing more stuff up using that app
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...titanium backup is for backup apps...what I'm talking about is very very important thing you have to learn to know what to do in such cases...better you inform about this...I suggest you to search on xda threads to find explanations on what I'm talking about...however I'm happy you solved your problem
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Hi, I'm currently using the latest ClockworkMod as my recovery. I've never had any problem with it (had it on my og evo as well), but I'm hearing a lot of great things about twrp recovery, so I'd like to make the switch. I'm all clear on most of the process, but is it correct that I'll need to make new nandroid backups? If so, should I delete my cwm nands? How would I go about doing that? And am I correct that I'd need to revert to my stock (first) nandroid, flash the new recovery from there, make a new twrp nandroid, and then go back to cm7? Just want to be sure, as I know that nandroids are a lifeline and I don't want to screw anything up. Thanks in advance!
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Hi, I'm currently using the latest ClockworkMod as my recovery. I've never had any problem with it (had it on my og evo as well), but I'm hearing a lot of great things about twrp recovery, so I'd like to make the switch. I'm all clear on most of the process, but is it correct that I'll need to make new nandroid backups?
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yes
If so, should I delete my cwm nands? How would I go about doing that?
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yes, on your sdcard/clockworkmod/backups
And am I correct that I'd need to revert to my stock (first) nandroid, flash the new recovery from there, make a new twrp nandroid, and then go back to cm7?
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no, you can just make a nand with the new recovery of your current setup, no need to revert
Just want to be sure, as I know that nandroids are a lifeline and I don't want to screw anything up. Thanks in advance!
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Sounds good. What to do though if I need to ever go back to stock rom? (Unlikely anyhow). Will I be able to find a stock rooted rom in the dev forums?
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Update: flashed twrp, made a nandroid without a hitch. Thanks so much! Will hit thanks button when I get to a PC.
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Sounds good. What to do though if I need to ever go back to stock rom? (Unlikely anyhow). Will I be able to find a stock rooted rom in the dev forums?
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If u want to go back to cwm to restore an old nandroid just dl rom manager from market and reflash cwm it will flash over Twrp and then u can use your cwm nandroids.
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Every time I try it says "cant mount /system!". How do I get around this?
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Every time I try it says "cant mount /system!". How do I get around this?
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Try TWRP
What is TWRP?
You didn't happen to convert your file system to a ext 4 did you?
Honestly I am not sure. I dont think I did.
What recovery are you using? Jokers newest doesn't mount the system I believe
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What is TWRP?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1400583
Another recovery like CWM
I am using Jokers. So with his is there anyway to do a nandroid?
thegameksk said:
I am using Jokers. So with his is there anyway to do a nandroid?
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U can try twrp download goo manager from market and use it to flash twrp
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the other day i tried restoring a back up via TWRP but it didnt work until i fastboot flashed boot.img...Alright so i updated my TWRP via goomanager app to the latest version (whatever is on there via goomanager) as in the TWRP forum discussions it was stated that previous versions were not working properly wihen restoring. So today i flashed a new ROM (NOS ROM) but that didnt work so i decided what better time than now to try restoring again, no dice didnt work and i had to fastboot flash the boot img for the restore file to take and boot up just fine again...ok peeps what am doing wrong??? again im fairly new at this flashing ROMS scene but i thought witht he TWRP update i would be good to go. Am i missing some settings ticks/options/checks? i saw a check box that said "recovery" i think in the restore or back up process dont remember which process. i tried going onto the TWRP discussion but it is locked down and states that there will no longer be any support for it...should i just switch to CWM?? thanks in advance to whom ever replies
twrp recovery..
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the other day i tried restoring a back up via TWRP but it didnt work until i fastboot flashed boot.img...Alright so i updated my TWRP via goomanager app to the latest version (whatever is on there via goomanager) as in the TWRP forum discussions it was stated that previous versions were not working properly wihen restoring. So today i flashed a new ROM (NOS ROM) but that didnt work so i decided what better time than now to try restoring again, no dice didnt work and i had to fastboot flash the boot img for the restore file to take and boot up just fine again...ok peeps what am doing wrong??? again im fairly new at this flashing ROMS scene but i thought witht he TWRP update i would be good to go. Am i missing some settings ticks/options/checks? i saw a check box that said "recovery" i think in the restore or back up process dont remember which process. i tried going onto the TWRP discussion but it is locked down and states that there will no longer be any support for it...should i just switch to CWM?? thanks in advance to whom ever replies
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What did you have checked while making the backup? data? recovery? cache? system? and did you rename the back up?
System, data and boot are checked...I didn't mess with the options just hit restore and let it do it's thing...should I change something or check the other 2 boxes (one of them being "recovery" forgot what the other option was)?
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System, data and boot are checked...I didn't mess with the options just hit restore and let it do it's thing...should I change something or check the other 2 boxes (one of them being "recovery" forgot what the other option was)?
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I would check recovery as well and try again.....also make sure to wipe everything before flashing anything
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I would check recovery as well and try again.....also make sure to wipe everything before flashing anything
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also some roms are picky about which recovery is used to install/backup. I can say I have had no issues backing up stock or custom roms with twrp on my DNA
Alright sounds good maybe later on tonight when I'm at my computer just in case thank you for the tips I as well haven't had much trouble flashing ROMS with TWRP, albeit I've only tried flashing 2 or 3 been very happy with ViperDNA just wanted to check out different ones and easily restore back to viper
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Alright sounds good maybe later on tonight when I'm at my computer just in case thank you for the tips I as well haven't had much trouble flashing ROMS with TWRP, albeit I've only tried flashing 2 or 3 been very happy with ViperDNA just wanted to check out different ones and easily restore back to viper
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Check out NOS its a great rom
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Check out NOS its a great rom
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That's exactly what I was trying when all this happened...I flashed it via flash gui app like I've been doing but for some reason it didn't work...when I went to unlock screen it would pull up HTC splash screen and just stay stuck there... I'm not S-off yet so would that have something to do with NOS ROM not functioning?
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That's exactly what I was trying when all this happened...I flashed it via flash gui app like I've been doing but for some reason it didn't work...when I went to unlock screen it would pull up HTC splash screen and just stay stuck there... I'm not S-off yet so would that have something to do with NOS ROM not functioning?
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no thats how that rom boots....leave it alone for about 5-10 minutes youlll see the notificatiion light come on and your =e good to go
Let me rephrase that...it boots up, screen comes on silver background from butterfly then I go pull ring to unlock and it pulls up the HTC splash screen once I unlock and will not move from there...so that's when I reset and went back to viper...???
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Let me rephrase that...it boots up, screen comes on silver background from butterfly then I go pull ring to unlock and it pulls up the HTC splash screen once I unlock and will not move from there...so that's when I reset and went back to viper...???
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Flash the new Nos build, and flash cpalmers kernel after the Rom install and then reboot.
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Haven't tried it since I posted this, but ok I'll give it another spin/attempt this weekend thanks for the tip
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Haven't tried it since I posted this, but ok I'll give it another spin/attempt this weekend thanks for the tip
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I may have misread but did you wipe everything before loading nos? I saw what was checked for backup but not about wiping. You should wipe everything-system, then cache, then delvik cache-not exactly in that order (make SURE there IS a backup just in case). Load the rom AND flash the correct image file with adb. Also, many roms when FIRST loading up sit a long time before they start up, not sure if nos does this or not-I have been jumpy about the time sitting with a few roms when waiting was all I needed to do. I have had different Viper versions on a few times and moving to another rom was quirky each time I did so, not sure why.
NOS did that to me too. Just wait....it will load into the setup wizard. I think being s-on, which I still am...twrp isn't able to back up and restore your roms boot.img. just a guess but I to failed to restore a backup when an install went awry. Makes sense to be being that you can't install a kernel from recovery either.
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NOS did that to me too. Just wait....it will load into the setup wizard. I think being s-on, which I still am...twrp isn't able to back up and restore your roms boot.img. just a guess but I to failed to restore a backup when an install went awry. Makes sense to be being that you can't install a kernel from recovery either.
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I looked at the install instructions for nos, if you are s-on you need to do one extra step. You have to extract the rom into a folder somewhere to get the image file, copy the image file from it. Flash that image file using adb on your pc and THEN install the rom from your phone with goomanager. Without the image file loaded, I don't think it would work. If you are s-off this step is not needed.
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I looked at the install instructions for nos, if you are s-on you need to do one extra step. You have to extract the rom into a folder somewhere to get the image file, copy the image file from it. Flash that image file using adb on your pc and THEN install the rom from your phone with goomanager. Without the image file loaded, I don't think it would work. If you are s-off this step is not needed.
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I get that. I'm purely talking about after a full while that I'm not sure if twrp will restore the boot.img from a nandroid. S-On of course.
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I get that. I'm purely talking about after a full while that I'm not sure if twrp will restore the boot.img from a nandroid. S-On of course.
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I believe it will, if it had the image from the get go. I believe that the back up has everything it needs. At least my back ups have never needed an image file. I decided I should try NOS myself and must say it would not go for me (S-off) it kept rebooting into recovery. I was going to try and also flash the boot image but have not done so yet.
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I believe it will, if it had the image from the get go. I believe that the back up has everything it needs. At least my back ups have never needed an image file. I decided I should try NOS myself and must say it would not go for me (S-off) it kept rebooting into recovery. I was going to try and also flash the boot image but have not done so yet.
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Oh yeah, and I restored my back up and that works just fine
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I believe it will, if it had the image from the get go. I believe that the back up has everything it needs. At least my back ups have never needed an image file. I decided I should try NOS myself and must say it would not go for me (S-off) it kept rebooting into recovery. I was going to try and also flash the boot image but have not done so yet.
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Oh yeah, and I restored my back up and that works just fine
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Its the kernel in NOS. Flash NOS and then flash cpalmers kernel. Then reboot and do the setup and if you want to change to the zarboz kernel you need to delete system/bin/thermald or rename it to thermald_old.bak
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Hmmm well I did everything via my cell (been the way I've been flashing ROMS unless something goes wrong then I use ADB on computer) and everything when properly done works fine using Flash GUI APP love that app! I've flashed super charged hatka 320 (used that for a couple weeks) then switched over to viper...both using Flash GUI I tried using NOS but yes no dice loaded up but when I pull the unlock ring for whatever reason the splash screen comes up and it won't budge from there....and as for my original question haha TWRP did not work for me when restoring it tripped out like if it was missing the boot image (done that before so I'm familiar with that behavior haha)
Oh and I'm still S-on
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Flash the new Nos build, and flash cpalmers kernel after the Rom install and then reboot.
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That's what mine does too......just wait til the notification light turns orange and you will be all set......be patient.
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That's what mine does too......just wait til the notification light turns orange and you will be all set......be patient.
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Really? After it boots up? That's odd but ok I'll give it a shot again but probably tomorrow will post here again if it doesn't work....thanks everyone for responding. I'm out at the moment and need cell to be functioning hahaha just in case
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