Have searched and couldn't find anything on this.
I have a rooted Optimus V with Backside IHO CM7. I use go launcher as my launcher of choice. ADW came with the ROM I flashed but deleted it after installing go launcher. Well, yesterday go launcher had an update and something didn't go right. I'm not even sure how it happened but go launcher was deleted. In my infinite wisdom I rebooted the phone. But now there is no launcher to launch the phone. So it is stuck at the boot screen (the picture of the little green fella with green light circling him). Not sure how to get into boot to recovery when the phone is stuck at boot animation.
So somebody says to restore the backup. But any computer I plug my phone into will not recognize my phone. It does show up as "Removable disc F:" and when I click on that it says "Please insert disc into removable drive F:"
So in essence I am lost and stuck as to how to get my phone back.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Do Battery pull, and boot directly into whatever recovery you have flashed, use your keys to scroll down to the backup and restore menu, and there you go. Or you could a fishable zip launcher (one in a .zip format ) and flash that in recovery. Hope that helped!
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So here's a possible solution:
1.In the zip file of your rom,add the launcher in system/app folder without extracting zip.
2.Now,enter in recovery,enable usb mass storage and send this zip to sd card.
3.Now flash this zip directly.
Hope this helps.
Yeah, I would try getting the launcher apk or zip and going the recovery route. I can't believe it let you delete all of your launchers. I messed up adw once but I was still able to get my default launcher to go. Of course I don't remember exactly how. I suffer from CRS.
Thanks to you all. My problem was a noob problem. I couldn't figure out how to boot into recovey. Once I figured that out, I was good. Thank you for the quick responses.
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I was just finished installing a webtop hack for the Bell Atrix and apparently I didn't "unthaw" everything Moto related I needed to before "freezing" LauncherPro to resort back to the stock launcher..and now I've got no homescreen or nothing..
The phone boots up fine and everything..and I can get to my unlock code screen (and do an emergency call etc), but as soon as I unlock my phone it starts glitching out.
What can I do? Reboots do nothing..I do have access to the phone via webtop mod now..but even the Mobile View there does nothing..
Any ideas anyone?
I'm no expert, but have lurked long enough to guess that you probably need to flash the sbf file or something, to get yourself back to stock.
Problem is there is no Bell sbf yet. One has popped up here the last day or so but it is actually the Aussy sbf, which does technically work but there may be underlying "issues".
The problem is that you have no laucher installed?
If so:
Try to push the blurhome apk through adb.
Don't know how to do so however...
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if i remember right, all you have to do is change the launcherpro apk back to apk because tiba freezes them by changing file extension, in webtop, can you access apk files in the system.
benny6812 said:
if i remember right, all you have to do is change the launcherpro apk back to apk because tiba freezes them by changing file extension, in webtop, can you access apk files in the system.
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I can't seem to get into the system folders though thru webtop or the Moto Phone Portal.. All's I can get to are the internal and external SD card..
Is there a way I could push a Launcherpro apk to the phone?
Rickroller said:
I can't seem to get into the system folders though thru webtop or the Moto Phone Portal.. All's I can get to are the internal and external SD card..
Is there a way I could push a Launcherpro apk to the phone?
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I assume you can rename a file through adb but you need to know the path and that it gets called when its frozen.
Otherwise you can do a factory reset through recovery.
Thanks..yea I just went ahead and did a factory reset. Was pleasantly surprised when I never lost root, webtop, or my Gingerbread theme (figured it would get wiped to scratch..lol)
nice! welcome back
Rickroller said:
Thanks..yea I just went ahead and did a factory reset. Was pleasantly surprised when I never lost root, webtop, or my Gingerbread theme (figured it would get wiped to scratch..lol)
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In the future you can just use a desktop and log onto you're market account and download any launcher. It will be pushed to your phone and you can proceed to unfreeze your launcher. Won't lose any data that way.
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good point I had thought of that but my thinking was limited to redownloading launcher pro which wouldn't have worked. meanwhile adw or another launcher probably would have worked out.
I have a vibrant that must have a defective usb port. It won't charge. The phone also has other weirdness. Sometimes doesn't turn on. Sometimes goes around in circles. In otherwords, pretty much FUBAR.
It is currently running Bionix V 1.3.1. I am unable to get my pc to see the vibrant with Odin. Odin can see my other vibrant phone.
I would like to put the phone back to stock so I can return it to T-Mobile.
Is there a way to return the phone to stock using clockwork recovery, nandroid backup, or something like that?
There are stock flashable zips. Not certain it will fix your issues. Check the Bible in the dev section.
oscar6263 said:
I have a vibrant that must have a defective usb port. It won't charge. The phone also has other weirdness. Sometimes doesn't turn on. Sometimes goes around in circles. In otherwords, pretty much FUBAR.
It is currently running Bionix V 1.3.1. I am unable to get my pc to see the vibrant with Odin. Odin can see my other vibrant phone.
I would like to put the phone back to stock so I can return it to T-Mobile.
Is there a way to return the phone to stock using clockwork recovery, nandroid backup, or something like that?
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Here's what to do....
boot your other vibrant that works into recovery.
choose advanced. then choose backup/restore
choose backup
choose yes. let it do the process of backing up.
when its done. plug it into your computer and mount USB
go to the folder choose the folder which is your phone (not the sdcard in your phone) called clockwordmod in there in there should be a folder named something like 2011-5-4 or something that...
copy and paste that folde to your desktop
now copy that same folder to your sdcard. anywhere is good just remember where it is
remove the sdcard from that phone. (advise settings/storage/UNMOUNT)
put the sdcard in your messed up phone
when it finished Scanning Media Card . use Root explorer and copy that folder to the Clockworkmod folder on your phone
reboot to recovery
choosed advanced then choose backup/restore
choose restore
that file should be there
choose it then select "yes"
this will do a nandroid back-up of the ROM on your other phone
It will now have the same ROM as your other phone but should work fine.
this process can be done using any ROM from your other phone
if you want it stock..just revert your GOOD phone to stock FIRST and start from the beginning of my instructions (assuming you know how to Install clockwork mod)
::thanks? did i help?"
rubbamade said:
Here's what to do....
boot your other vibrant that works into recovery.
choose advanced. then choose backup/restore
choose backup
choose yes. let it do the process of backing up.
when its done. plug it into your computer and mount USB
go to the folder choose the folder which is your phone (not the sdcard in your phone) called clockwordmod in there in there should be a folder named something like 2011-5-4 or something that...
copy and paste that folde to your desktop
now copy that same folder to your sdcard. anywhere is good just remember where it is
remove the sdcard from that phone. (advise settings/storage/UNMOUNT)
put the sdcard in your messed up phone
when it finished Scanning Media Card . use Root explorer and copy that folder to the Clockworkmod folder on your phone
reboot to recovery
choosed advanced then choose backup/restore
choose restore
that file should be there
choose it then select "yes"
this will do a nandroid back-up of the ROM on your other phone
It will now have the same ROM as your other phone but should work fine.
this process can be done using any ROM from your other phone
if you want it stock..just revert your GOOD phone to stock FIRST and start from the beginning of my instructions (assuming you know how to Install clockwork mod)
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Nice tip but how often do we have an extra phone that is exactly the same laying around? Just saying......
could be your charging port. i went through 3 of them and it is frustrating. check in settings, battery if it is actually charging. everytime mine went bad it would never show its charging. not on the status bar or lockscreen. only when i checked it in settings it showed. and of course it never connects to the pc.
that may be part of your problem. good luck
@itz keefy, he said he has another vibrant......
What are you looking at shortbus......
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could be your charging port. i went through 3 of them and it is frustrating. check in settings, battery if it is actually charging. everytime mine went bad it would never show its charging. not on the status bar or lockscreen. only when i checked it in settings it showed. and of course it never connects to the pc.
that may be part of your problem. good luck
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Where did you get port fixed? My cappy is going bad.
What are you looking at shortbus......
I couldnt fix it, i bout ports off of ebay but the solder is way too small for me to handle. And everyone I talked to wanted from 55 to 75 bucks. I just got the motherboards each time. I probably should have forked out the money to repair it because it seems like the used boards were waiting to go bad anyway. It already cost me over 100 bucks so far
I only paid $100 for the phone, guess I should get on Craigslist.
What are you looking at shortbus......
samsgun357 said:
@itz keefy, he said he has another vibrant......
What are you looking at shortbus......
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Lol i am aware of that but i was in the same boat and i dont have another vibrant laying around. I thought for weeks my usb port on the phone was bad but on a hunch a decided to go get a name brand usb cable from tmobile themselves and voila it worked flawlessly. I would check into a new cable from tmobile if you havent already, it solved my problem.
so i downloaded bamf 1.6.3 remix then tried to use the desense thing on the page and it worked but it loaded and said there was a problem with the ui or watever and i needed to clear my data, didn think much of it so i hit the feeling lucky button then tried to launch adw as my home launcher and now i cant get to my home screen at all its all black. messaging halfway works and phone calls work if i recieve them or go threw messaging to make the call. tried rebooting into recovery and it tried to load that image file so i pulled the battery and now im just kinda trying to get feedback from someone on how to fix this.
got it to connect to my pc finally should i delete the pg05img.zip file and reboot into recovery?
I would re flash the Rom. Install adw then use the de sense script.
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You should definitely either delete or rename the PG05IMG.zip so that you dont coincidently flash it in the future. You could try to long press on the screen as if you were going to add a widget and add the market to whatever screen your defaulted in and try to remove ADW and reinstall it and hope that works. Or maybe try another launcher. I use Launcher pro myself and it works fine.
yeah, I made the mistake of installing a new radio, leaving the pb05img on the card, then installing a new rom on top of it. When it didn't like the rom (couldn't get to the desktop portion or whatever its called), I couldn't go in recovery from hboot either.
What I did was...
remove the memory card, go into hboot, choose recovery, once in recovery I put the microsd card in from under the battery WHILE the phone was still up and running (needed a knife to do it)
Then mounted the sdcard within CWM and chose my backup.
Twlauncher problem, i get the loop of errors and force to close in my friends launcer unfortunatlly he is not rooted and we are trying to avoid hard reset because he ll loose all the data from the phone
this is a similar problem that i found in youtube and a way to solve it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmprlsmHFgw
so the guy installs a launcher from his pc to his phone through the markets site.
the thing is that although my friend has 3G open the new launchers wont download so i found a launcher here in XDA in zip file to install it from the recovery menu, i flashed CWM recovery through odin and placed the zip file in the sd card but i had no luck finding it from the recovery (install zip from sd card) it says tha there is no file there, also cant find the storage on the pc when i mount it from the recovery so i am guessing that the recovery is not reading the sd card.
So finally my question is there a way to install zip or apk files through odin? cause i am sure it works or if there is a total diffrent way to istall something to SGS2 without being able to get in the menu it has to be installed through the recovery or odin.
Every aswer will be appreciated
Thank you all very much and i love this forum
Come on guys even suggestions would be nice...:silly:
If you have USB debugging on, you can push one to it via adb.
Alternatively if on ICS and you have a microSD card, you could use http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1501719 to give you CWM recovery and create a simple CWM flashable update containing one.
Sometimes over efficiency kills you instantly and this is what happened to me. I moved to "apex launcher" and disabled touchwiz to get more free space in ram. Today, I wanted to update apex and it failed. I then thought to remove the previous version so I can install new one separately. I went into apps and removed apex. Bang, I was standing no where, i had noting to launch. I restarted phone but it stuck on boot logo. I went to recovery and reflashed the rom (wanamlite) without wipe. Phone rebotted, app upgrading appears, but it stuck at starting app.
Now how can I restore my phone without wipping. I don't have any nandroid backup.. Thanks for help.
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Sometimes over efficiency kills you instantly and this is what happened to me. I moved to "apex launcher" and disabled touchwiz to get more free space in ram. Today, I wanted to update apex and it failed. I then thought to remove the previous version so I can install new one separately. I went into apps and removed apex. Bang, I was standing no where, i had noting to launch. I restarted phone but it stuck on boot logo. I went to recovery and reflashed the rom (wanamlite) without wipe. Phone rebotted, app upgrading appears, but it stuck at starting app.
Now how can I restore my phone without wipping. I don't have any nandroid backup.. Thanks for help.
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try and create a CWM flashable zip with any launcher apk included (say Apex), and flash using CWM? I think you should be able to mount sd card from CWM
Or just push a launcher apk in system/app from computer.. A cwm with file manager was on front page of xda some week ago.. Would be perfect for you
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watsa said:
try and create a CWM flashable zip with any launcher apk included (say Apex), and flash using CWM? I think you should be able to mount sd card from CWM
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Can you send me a link of flashable launcher?
sohebq said:
Can you send me a link of flashable launcher?
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Follow this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24642154&postcount=3
Edit: haven't tested it myself but it should work
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Follow this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24642154&postcount=3
Edit: haven't tested it myself but it should work
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Thanks. I am in office right now and I have limited options. I can't connect my phone to PC. If i can find a flashable launcher, I can download that from another phone and use it through external sd card.
found it myself. Thanks for help