HTC sensation blackscreen, trying to flash a nand backup.
ADB, fastboot and Shell working.
I got into shell, can #ls that directory ok ..#cd sdcard... try to #ls sdcard or any other folder and will not show content.
Im not up with linux commands.
I belive Im missing a mount command somewhere.
What Im after is the location of backup folder so I can see the filename of the nand backup to restore in fastboot.
and the commands necessary to restore a nand backup via adb, shell or fastboot.
Why not just place the SD card in the card reader of your pc and record that folder's location?
dont have a sd card reader handy.
so this is as much help as Im going get. its not like I havent spent 3days searching for the answers.
Im basically up to the point where Ive mounted the sdcard found the file loc and name. But when I use shell flash, it errors out, might be I havent mounted system in shell who knows?
anyone plz
DuratecPaul said:
HTC sensation blackscreen, trying to flash a nand backup.
ADB, fastboot and Shell working.
I got into shell, can #ls that directory ok ..#cd sdcard... try to #ls sdcard or any other folder and will not show content.
Im not up with linux commands.
I belive Im missing a mount command somewhere.
What Im after is the location of backup folder so I can see the filename of the nand backup to restore in fastboot.
and the commands necessary to restore a nand backup via adb, shell or fastboot.
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Well not sure if these will help, but they at the very least should point you in the right direction . The last two have actually helped me quite a bit .
How To Backup and Restore using tar on adb shell - Fastest recovery
Performing a Nandroid Restore Manually using ADB
ADB, Fastboot, and Nandroid for Noobs
ADB Workshop and Guide for everyone
DuratecPaul said:
HTC sensation blackscreen, trying to flash a nand backup.
ADB, fastboot and Shell working.
I got into shell, can #ls that directory ok ..#cd sdcard... try to #ls sdcard or any other folder and will not show content.
Im not up with linux commands.
I belive Im missing a mount command somewhere.
What Im after is the location of backup folder so I can see the filename of the nand backup to restore in fastboot.
and the commands necessary to restore a nand backup via adb, shell or fastboot.
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Can't you use a recovery.img from your PC (whether it's from your nandroid or CWM or whichever Recovery you're currently using) and then simply flash using fastboot...
fastboot flash recovery <path to recovery.img>recovery.img
From there you can boot into the bootloader and then Recovery and then restore your complete nandroid backup or flash a ROM.
Here's the link to pull the CWM Recovery image for your Sensation:
http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App
Thanx will check tem out on the weekend, last two I havent seen before
Ditamae said:
Can't you use a recovery.img from your PC (whether it's from your nandroid or CWM or whichever Recovery you're currently using) and then simply flash using fastboot...
fastboot flash recovery <path to recovery.img>recovery.img
From there you can boot into the bootloader and then Recovery and then restore your complete nandroid backup or flash a ROM.
Here's the link to pull the CWM Recovery image for your Sensation:
http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App
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excelent I shall try this on the weekend
Some help for you
DuratecPaul said:
anyone plz
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What I have noticed is my sd card after so many flashes has been moved to the system unrecognized location of \storage\sdcard1 and the only way I can get to it is with a reader or sending the files through my computer using the phone as the reader (mass storage mode).
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Hi everyone,
I tried using a script which automated the install for the the custom recovery, but I started to get messages that it ran out of disk space (I can't link to the file due to my noob status). I probably should have come here first before using that script, but such as life..
I have no important data on the phone, if I lose it all that's ok.
It rebooted and my p500 waits with the following
"Fastboot mode started"
"udc_start()"
It also gives some info when USB is connected ie.
"- suspend -"
"- reset -"
Do I have a paperweight?
thanks and sorry for the newb post ..
edit: so I found this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1003790 and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=875881
and have gotten it to the yellow emergency mode, not sure how to flash it from here though.
edit2: dling the stock firmware from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1073827
edit3: there's this as well.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1088046 If I try this method, will it screw up again from too little free disk space?
I'm to drunk to guide our give you the link to fix it but I will tell you, you can fix it just hold on we will help you ; ) and we don't by the time I wake up I will help you its ok ))
Sent from my LG-P500 using XDA Premium App
dislplin01 said:
I'm to drunk to guide our give you the link to fix it but I will tell you, you can fix it just hold on we will help you ; ) and we don't by the time I wake up I will help you its ok ))
Sent from my LG-P500 using XDA Premium App
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thank you very much, I appreciate it haha
Your phone has booted in fastboot mode. Go to development section and read a tutorial how to recover from fastboot.
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setTopbox said:
thank you very much, I appreciate it haha
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Then did u unbricked now
Mahesh
go here....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1088046
or here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13813493
How to install Android SDK /ADB
http://lgoptimusonep500.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-install-android-sdk-adb.html
dislplin01 said:
I'm to drunk to guide our give you the link to fix it but I will tell you, you can fix it just hold on we will help you ; ) and we don't by the time I wake up I will help you its ok ))
Sent from my LG-P500 using XDA Premium App
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Most honest post I've seen on the entire forum.
Sent from my Kyocera Echo.
mvgadagi said:
Then did u unbricked now
Mahesh
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I got the phone working again - thanks! I guess it's not a great idea to install the custom recovery
with low disk space?
setTopbox said:
I got the phone working again - thanks! I guess it's not a great idea to install the custom recovery
with low disk space?
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Hmmm. Well, should not matter? /recovery uses a separate partition. Perhaps you flashed a corrupt (incomplete) image?
well if u ever wish to install recovery just download rom manger from market (latest) and install recovery from rom manger option make sure u hav eusb debugging enabled. it works easy
shhbz said:
well if u ever wish to install recovery just download rom manger from market (latest) and install recovery from rom manger option make sure u hav eusb debugging enabled. it works easy
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Erm... reading all the posts about fastboot after using ROM Manager for this, I guess I would rather stick with the custom script using flash_image.
doktornotor said:
Hmmm. Well, should not matter? /recovery uses a separate partition. Perhaps you flashed a corrupt (incomplete) image?
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hmm, I'm not sure (when I dl'd the file I did compare the hash as per instructions). I used the following instructions:
manast.com/2011/05/07/how-to-install-custom-recovery-on-lg-optimus-one-p500
I then went into a terminal emulator, and ran "sh /sdcard/rf.sh". At that point the output of the script started to say "disk full" (and then it reboot into the fastboot prompt).
setTopbox said:
I then went into a terminal emulator, and ran "sh /sdcard/rf.sh". At that point the output of the script started to say "disk full" (and then it reboot into the fastboot prompt).
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No idea about that script. Using flash_image and never had any issue with "disk full", frankly the message does not make sense. All you need is to copy the recovery image to SD and run as root:
Code:
# flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
Done.
doktornotor said:
No idea about that script. Using flash_image and never had any issue with "disk full", frankly the message does not make sense. All you need is to copy the recovery image to SD and run as root:
Code:
# flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
Done.
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I'm getting permission denied when trying to use flash_image. Gingerbreak says the device is rooted, and the terminal does ask for superuser permission when i open it (su works in the terminal). I also tried chmod 755 flash_image but that didn't work either.
the permissions for flash_image are r-xr-x any thoughts ?
edit: apparently the sdcard is mounted with -noexecute ? So I tried copying flash_image to / but it's read only. Is there somewhere where I can execute this?
This rf.sh script seems most notorious, I too went into fastboot after that. Doktornotor's method worked (in fact I think he/she was the one who bailed me out back then as well).
If you got into fastboot, most probably you have a rooted phone.
To use flash_image you need to get the flash_image.sh on the root of your sd card. Search the forum for Amon-Ra custom recovery, and you shall find this file in that thread (it is required for Amon ra setup). Log in to your adb console, and use fastboot to push the new image in the recovery partition.
Unless your recovery.img or flash_image.sh is corrupted, it will work for sure.
Keep in mind, fastboot is a very powerfull tool, if you can access it, you're safe.
Cheers,
Alex
did you get out??
just flash stock firmware with kdz worked for me bro
Buddy,
You do not need to flash anything with KDZ. The ROM is fine nothing happened to it. All your issue is with the recovery being flashed wrongly for some reason.
I had the same issue just yesterday and I managed to flash the recovery through fastboot.
What you need to do is:
1. Install android SDK from Google.
2. Connect the phone while it is on fastboot.
3. If your windows does not find the fastboot drivers online, use the drivers in this link:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=39ZR16W1
4. extract the .zip file that you copied to your SD. The one that contains the recovery.
5. Copy the recover.img (or whatever the name of the .img file in the .zip file) to the folder inside the android sdk where fastboot.exe is located (I think its the tools folder)
6. Copy the adbwinapi.dll file from the android SDK\platform-tools\ to the folder containing fastboot.
7. issue the command (and replace recovery.img with the .img file name you have):
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot reboot
Dr.Alani said:
Buddy,
You do not need to flash anything with KDZ. The ROM is fine nothing happened to it. All your issue is with the recovery being flashed wrongly for some reason.
I had the same issue just yesterday and I managed to flash the recovery through fastboot.
What you need to do is:
1. Install android SDK from Google.
2. Connect the phone while it is on fastboot.
3. If your windows does not find the fastboot drivers online, use the drivers in this link:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=39ZR16W1
4. extract the .zip file that you copied to your SD. The one that contains the recovery.
5. Copy the recover.img (or whatever the name of the .img file in the .zip file) to the folder inside the android sdk where fastboot.exe is located (I think its the tools folder)
6. Copy the adbwinapi.dll file from the android SDK\platform-tools\ to the folder containing fastboot.
7. issue the command (and replace recovery.img with the .img file name you have):
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot reboot
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I appreciate the information. When I'm in adb, su won't allow me to gain root access on the phone. The phone itself is rooted using gingerbreak though.
setTopbox said:
I appreciate the information. When I'm in adb, su won't allow me to gain root access on the phone. The phone itself is rooted using gingerbreak though.
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I do not see how you need to use adb.
Sent from my LG-P500 using XDA App
Braway posted the following in his reset the flash counter thread :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1569206
"ok, simple guide:
requires that cwm is installed!
1. flash stock system, kernel, modem and so on (not recovery yet) through odin (or cwm, if you have that stuff as update.zip)
2. flash this reset through cwm to reset the counter (now you should have everything stock, except for recovery)
3. in cwm, now you can either flash a stock recovery using an update.zip (if you have it), OR follow this:
a) extract recovery.img from the odin stock recovery tar file
b) put it on your sdcard
c) boot to cwm
d) use adb to connect to cwm (adb shell)
e) in the cwm shell, use one of the following commands:
recovery.img on external sdcard:
Code:
dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22
recovery.img on your internal sdcard:
Code:
dd if=/emmc/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22
WARNING: a typo in that line could hard brick your phone!"
I posted a question on that thread but then thought maybe this was a more reasonable/appropriate place for it.
How do I get the recovery update.zip?
I have followed the first two steps and they worked like a champ, flash counter is reset and all is good on that front. As I said in his thread ADB is not my friend, it kinda intimidates me a little (I have used it a time or two on my HTC EVO 3D, but still I dont really like it). And Braway's caveat about a typo possibly hard bricking the phone makes that even worse. If there is a way to just flash a .zip, well that really is more my speed.
So my question is, does anyone already have the recovery update.zip he spoke of? If so would you please share it? If it is easy to make could you please give me (extremely detailed) instructions. I did extract the recovery.img from the stock .tar http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1506330, but I have no idea whatsoever on how to turn that into a update.zip.
Any help is much appreciated!
Do you not have CWM installed? I made a little guide here if interested...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1584250
With CWM installed, here is the flashable zip where the file name doesn't matter..
AT&T ONLY!! http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=972406&d=1333071299
Slap it on root of sdcard and navigate to it and flash in CWM.
lmike6453 said:
Do you not have CWM installed? I made a little guide here if interested...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1584250
With CWM installed, here is the flashable zip where the file name doesn't matter..
AT&T ONLY!! http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=972406&d=1333071299
Slap it on root of sdcard and navigate to it and flash in CWM.
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Yeah I have CWM, thats the problem. I guess I should have put that in the OP. I am wanting to get rid of CWM so I can return the phone. Thanks for the help!
Edit:Sorry I wasn't clear in the OP. That .zip you linked was the reset the flash counter zip, I have already done that (works great!) but now I need to remove CWM. According to the instructions posted by Braway (see OP) I need to flash the recovery via an update.zip to do that (well thats the way I am reading it...could be wrong on that point too I guess
Put the stock recovery in /sdcard (root directory of internal SD), boot into Android and connect via adb. Enter the following command:
Code:
adb shell dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22
This will flash stock recovery, overwriting CWM. If you copy and paste the command, there's no danger in a typo bricking your phone.
tenderchkn said:
Put the stock recovery in /sdcard (root directory of internal SD), boot into Android and connect via adb
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Nightforge said:
OR follow this:
c) boot to cwm
d) use adb to connect to cwm (adb shell)
e) in the cwm shell, use one of the following commands:
recovery.img on external sdcard:
Code:
dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22
recovery.img on your internal sdcard:
Code:
dd if=/emmc/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22
WARNING: a typo in that line could hard brick your phone!"
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And the noob says>>>> So I took your advice and decided to suck it up and use adb and of course, because adb hates me, it failed. So step by step this is what I did if anyone would be so kind as to tell me where i went wrong. Screen shot included.
1.put recovery.img on internal (and external just for grins) sdcard
2.made sure usb debugging was on.
3.plugged phone into comp w/usb
4.started adb on comp using the following
C:\users\myname> cd C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools
C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools> adb.exe
5.After adb started I pasted the following from Tenderchckn
adb shell dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22
Thanks again...
Try booting into CWM instead, then launch adb, and run the same command. If that doesn't work for some reason, enter "adb shell" first, and you should have a "$" prompt. Then enter "adb shell dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22".
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23499670&postcount=133 Followed step by step and it worked, doh!
Avoided this because I didn't want to use adb, then forgot about it. Then found it again and it worked like a champ. Thanks for the help now please delete thread. Lol
Basically i went to flash a Rom in my phone, one of the requirements for the Rom was to format system. Not looking I, formatted SD card instead. Erasing my backup i had just made, and whipping the Rom that I was about to flash. So, what I need help with is seeing if anyone know a way to flash a Rom to my phone while in recovery, or is there a way to mount my SD Card memory while in Fastboot or recovery? I'm just looking to be able to flash any Rom in my phone to at least get it able to be used again.
CWR had an option to mount the sd card under mounts and storage. I say had because that was on my dinc2. I'm not rooted on my DNA so I don't have a custom recovery to check for you but this is how I did it in the past.
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charlrober6 said:
Basically i went to flash a Rom in my phone, one of the requirements for the Rom was to format system. Not looking I, formatted SD card instead. Erasing my backup i had just made, and whipping the Rom that I was about to flash. So, what I need help with is seeing if anyone know a way to flash a Rom to my phone while in recovery, or is there a way to mount my SD Card memory while in Fastboot or recovery? I'm just looking to be able to flash any Rom in my phone to at least get it able to be used again.
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Not to fret, ran into this problem last night. Both of our recoveries allow for adb sideload but ithasn't worked for me (maybe it will for you)
If it doesn't work, you can drop whatever ROM you want into your ADB folder. To make things simple, just change the name of the ROM to DNA. Go into your recovery and then cd to your adb tools from a command window. type in adb push dna.zip /sdcard/ and it'll move it to your internal storage. It takes awhile so be patient :good:
Chyrux said:
Not to fret, ran into this problem last night. Both of our recoveries allow for adb sideload but ithasn't worked for me (maybe it will for you)
If it doesn't work, you can drop whatever ROM you want into your ADB folder. To make things simple, just change the name of the ROM to DNA. Go into your recovery and then cd to your adb tools from a command window. type in adb push dna.zip /sdcard/ and it'll move it to your internal storage. It takes awhile so be patient :good:
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Okay quick question, well questions. When typing in my adb commands, do my phone need to be in fastboot, if not when you say it needs to be in recovery do it need to be in recovery with it mounted some how or just in recovery in general. Sorry if i'm being a complete noob, but being phone less is killing me
charlrober6 said:
Okay quick question, well questions. When typing in my adb commands, do my phone need to be in fastboot, if not when you say it needs to be in recovery do it need to be in recovery with it mounted some how or just in recovery in general. Sorry if i'm being a complete noob, but being phone less is killing me
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No problem, we all have to start somewhere. I'll give a bit of clarification.
Fastboot is a way of accessing the Android system from the bootloader, such as flashing system and boot.img's or recovery files, meaning you can't be booted into the system when you want to use Fastboot.
ADB is the android debugging bridge and can be used at just about any time your phone is booted. For the average user, it's mainly a tool to push and pull files. So, in this case since you need to push the ROM to your phone.
I'm not sure if this can be done from the bootloader since it's going to your internal storage, so you need to boot into your recovery. Once there, you don't need to do anything. just make sure that the .zip is in your ADB directory. Open up a command prompt, cd to your adb tools, then use adb push insertfilename.zip (Like I said, rename it to dna to make it easy) so the command looks like adb push dna.zip /sdcard/ This takes awhile depending on the file size (UKB took about 5 minutes, I think. Maybe longer.) so just be patient. If it gives you any type of error, just try again. Hope this helps
So it seems that my HTC ONE has no OS installed, I am able to get to the HTC logo and thats it. I reboot into bootloader and are able to install CWM and TWRP but no luck installing ARHD rom via adb sideload method, it just fails. Any hints on how to install a rom either stock or otherwise? i have a cwm backup of my stock rom rooted odex on my computer but it is not a flashable zip. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
(i have a mac if that matters)
if you aren't back on cwm flash that recovery.
boot to it
push your backup to the phone with ./adb push /foldername/* /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup might be backups, I can't remember, but you can check with adb shell
./adb shell
cd /sdcard/clockworkmod
ls (that is a lowercase L)
that should give you a directory listing.
after you've successfully pushed the backup reboot to recovery again and restore it.
This should do the trick
gunnyman said:
if you aren't back on cwm flash that recovery.
boot to it
push your backup to the phone with ./adb push /foldername/* /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup might be backups, I can't remember, but you can check with adb shell
./adb shell
cd /sdcard/clockworkmod
ls (that is a lowercase L)
that should give you a directory listing.
after you've successfully pushed the backup reboot to recovery again and restore it.
This should do the trick
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I am in the same situation. Can not get my phone to roboot. I have a rom to push but I dont know how to use ADB commands. I can get to command prompt but them I am totally lost. Can you give me a quick step by step?
adb push filename /sdcard
gunnyman said:
if you aren't back on cwm flash that recovery.
boot to it
push your backup to the phone with ./adb push /foldername/* /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup might be backups, I can't remember, but you can check with adb shell
./adb shell
cd /sdcard/clockworkmod
ls (that is a lowercase L)
that should give you a directory listing.
after you've successfully pushed the backup reboot to recovery again and restore it.
This should do the trick
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Hy gunnyman, when I push the folder to the sd card it always decompresses and send the individual files to the system not the full backup folder so i can select it from the backups menu. this is the command I used ./adb push may6.zip /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup
I also pushed the decompressed files to the sd card since it looks like it instals all files needed for os to work with the following command ./adb push may6.zip /sdcard
I reboot system but still stuck on HTC logo.
May6 is the name of my backup and when i use the ls command it has a .zip to the end.
So can you let me know how to sent the complete folder to the phone to be placed on the backup folder and thus be able to be selected under the cwm menu? Thank you so much
Unzip it. Send entire folder uncompressed
You don't restore a backup the same way you flash a rom. It's a separate menu option in recovery
gunnyman said:
Unzip it. Send entire folder uncompressed
You don't restore a backup the same way you flash a rom. It's a separate menu option in recovery
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yes its unzipped. took off the .zip name and sent it to the backup folder and it still sends the uncompressed files. Once I go to restore from backup folder I get a -System/ and -Meta-INF/ files and no file with -May6/ or something like that. So i try to restore from -system/ but it says md5 sum dont match.
Any ideas?
No, I don't sorry
Dear Friends,
Need help please. I have installed another custom rom that was not meant for I9300 and now the EFS is corrupted. I tried installing orignal rom using ODIN but geting boot loop and the phone is not booting. On going into recovery i can see an error efs/ corupted or something like that. I have the backup of my EFS folder in tar.gz format however dont know how to install the same and recover my phone as not able to boot to android.
Please help me if someone can work it out. My phone has just 3 days of warranty left and it does not shows rooted anywhere except the count of installation is about 32 and rom says official and kernel says custom.
Please if someone can help me restore my phone back in working condition i shall always remain thankfull.
Regards,
Mush
mush2004 said:
Dear Friends,
Need help please. I have installed another custom rom that was not meant for I9300 and now the EFS is corrupted. I tried installing orignal rom using ODIN but geting boot loop and the phone is not booting. On going into recovery i can see an error efs/ corupted or something like that. I have the backup of my EFS folder in tar.gz format however dont know how to install the same and recover my phone as not able to boot to android.
Please help me if someone can work it out. My phone has just 3 days of warranty left and it does not shows rooted anywhere except the count of installation is about 32 and rom says official and kernel says custom.
Please if someone can help me restore my phone back in working condition i shall always remain thankfull.
Regards,
Mush
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It is essential that you have a backup of the EFS partition and a way to place it back - the first two ways that I would think about are:
a) use a good recovery - like Philz recovery, that has commands to restore EFS
b) if the format of the backup is not exactly right you might be able to boot in recovery and use ADB commands.
xclub_101 said:
It is essential that you have a backup of the EFS partition and a way to place it back - the first two ways that I would think about are:
a) use a good recovery - like Philz recovery, that has commands to restore EFS
b) if the format of the backup is not exactly right you might be able to boot in recovery and use ADB commands.
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Code:
su
umount /efs
dd if=/sdcard/efs.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 bs=4096
reboot
Ver3go said:
Code:
su
umount /efs
dd if=/sdcard/efs.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 bs=4096
reboot
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I am new to adb commands. Will phylz recovery help me enter the commands? if yes then i shall be replying with the sd card efs tar file name. Will then you be able to guide me with the commands based on the tar file?
Thanks all of you in advance.
Mush
mush2004 said:
I am new to adb commands. Will phylz recovery help me enter the commands? if yes then i shall be replying with the sd card efs tar file name. Will then you be able to guide me with the commands based on the tar file?
Thanks all of you in advance.
Mush
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No for ADB you boot into recovery, connect your computer via USB and run the ADB commands from either Linux Terminal or Windows Command Prompt.
The tool here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1703488
May help if you're new to adb.
Otherwise it's a case of downloading and installing the drivers for your phone and the Android SDK http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Thanks for all your replies.
Just wanted to confirm if i have the efs backup in sd card as under folder backup_efs and there are two files in tar.gz format will i be able to use the phylz recovery to use this replace my efs folder? if yes then can you guide me the steps please.
Regards,
Mush
mush2004 said:
Thanks for all your replies.
Just wanted to confirm if i have the efs backup in sd card as under folder backup_efs and there are two files in tar.gz format will i be able to use the phylz recovery to use this replace my efs folder? if yes then can you guide me the steps please.
Regards,
Mush
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I do not remember right now what creates an backup_efs folder but it really does not matter that much - the tar.gz is a "file archive" and .img is usually a partition image. Each could have minor advantages - the .img also contains the entire filesystem of the partition (and will work easier if the filesystem is bonked) but a tar.gz backup is more versatile when you have bad sectors or a changed partition.
Under an advanced recovery like Philz you would just navigate some menus and try to restore the EFS - see the info in those specific threads.
Under ADB you need to have stuff (drivers and some programs) installed in your PC, you connect the phone on USB and you run ADB commands from the command line.