So, I already had CM9 Alpha 0 installed at some point.
Few days ago i decided I'd like to try the cornerstone mode. I flashed it with cm9 and that screw up my TP to the point where it constantly would restart after the loading screen. The only place I could get to was CWM recovery (not even team win recovery which I also had installed) and webOS
I figured I'll just reflash back to the CM9 alpha 0 but TP would restart mid flashing.
After that I decided it's time for serious action and wiped the whole thing with webOs Doctor 3.0.5.
That wipe went successfully but now when I run ACMEInstaller2 ( i put cm9 alpha 2 , moboot, gapps, and cwm zips in cminstall folder on TP) to get android back on my TP it takes a while to start installation and once it does TP restarts after literally 3-4 seconds into it.
WebOS still boots fine. I am sort of at a loss here and I'd appreciate any help. Thank you
It looks like the problem might be rooted in the fact that I am unable to flash anything in the CWM recovery.
I used novacom.exe boot mem:// <uImage.ClockwordMod command and that brings up CWM on the TP. When I got there, I decided to see what happens when I try to flash something and attempted flashing CM9 Alpha 2. The process got to the "Installing update" phase and TP restarted again.
What could be preventing it from flashing things?
What I would do, if I were you, is check out this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1426244
What it does is allows you to factory-reset your TP to 3.0.0 (what most of them had when they were shipped), and then you can go from there to 3.0.5, then install CM9 again with AcmeInstaller2. I've done this procedure a few times, it works like a hot damn, and (if you have the 3.0.0 and 3.0.5 already downloaded) takes only about 20 mins to run both, and install Android.
Hope it helps, mate.
Interesting...I thought webOS doctor is as hardcore of a reset as it gets.
Thank you I'll try that.
Two questions
1. Do I need to have 3.0.5 on TP to install CM9
2. Do I need to have TP "jailbroken" to install CM9. Last time I had a custom kernel running on TP before CM9 but it was because I played around with webOS for a while before jumping to android. So basically I am not sure if it's a requirement.
Thanks for your help.
No, you don't need to have 3.0.5, but it makes it a lot simpler without having to do the upgrade after the fact (even though the actual OTA upgrade for it is like 20-30 megs or something - takes about as long to do it OTA through Software Manager as it does through WebOS Doctor.
As for your second question, you don't HAVE to, but it makes it easier if you turn on developer mode - in the JustType, type: upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart - then turn on Dev Mode. As I said, not mandatory, but it does simplify a few things.
You're more than welcome, mate !
All hail, ve6ay, savior of all the touch pads!
Thanks man that method worked.
Its people like you and rr5678 who actually figured that crap out, who make this community great.
Thanks again
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So this time I'm going to be a little preemptive. I ordered a GTab like a week ago, spent the time waiting for it to get here doing a ton of reading so I could go ahead and get it flashed right away. It got here and I immediately ran into problems. I got CWM on there no problem and first flashed [ROM-AOSP]G-Harmony Gingerbread 2.3.3 with Honeycomb elements(UPDATED 4/17) with no problem. Didn't like it so tried to flash the CM7 nightly (which I have running on my evo and hero) and it kept getting stuck on the black screen with that just had "android" written on it really small. Since I hadn't anticipated running into something like that, I did even more reading. Decided to try some more roms and see if I had similar problems. Ran into similar problems with the vegan GB except it would hang on the powered by the "gtabdevs" screen or whatever it said. Vegan 5.1 or whatever the other Vegan one is I could get booted up fine though. So I read some mroe since I really wanted CM7. Discovered that I might need to re-partition, so went into CWM and repatitioned to what everyone was saying was the correct settings. Still a no go and got stuck on android screen. So after even more reading I kept seeing everyone saying NVFlash. So I found it, downloaded everything, read the sticky post on how to do it like 4 times before trying it, then gave it a shot. Put the tab into APX mode (vol- and power) and flashed everything and then when it was done, it was stuck in the APX mode. Very irritating considering I had only had it for about 6 hours. Anyways, sent it back and am getting a new one. It will be here tomorrow morning.
Sooooo, after that long winded explanation of everything, here is my question... How the **** can I get CM7 on my tab without wrecking it again? I did a ton of reading, and nothing I had seen helped at all. Everyone says wipe this and wipe that, or mount these then wipe those, or nvflash then do it and so basically I'm just not sure what to do. I WILL NOT use the nvflsh again and risk getting the APX loop, so any good advice would be most appreciated.
Thanks in advance
I just email walked my sister through installing CM7 on her new gtablet.
Have CM7harmony7.02.zip (or whatever.....7.02 is latest stable release....there is a newer nightly though if you prefer that), the gapps.zip on your computer.
install Clockworkmod recovery on your tablet like you did before.
Boot into CWM and partition sd card, 2048 for first partition and 0 for the second one.
attache via USB to your computer, mount usb option in CWM and copy the ROM.zip and the Gapps.zip to your tablet. Eject tablet from computer (USB eject) and unmount in CWM.
- wipe data/cache (factory reset)
- advanced, - wipe davlik cache
install .zip from sd card
(install the ROM, then choose to install .zip from sd card again and install gapps).
Reboot.
Make sure your tablet is NOT running OS 3991 (very unlikely) or 4349 (possible though unlikely) before doing any of this. (ie...boot tablet out of box and check it's OS version in settings).
Thanks for the walk through. Hopefully it will go smoothly this time around. I'll post back tomorrow after it gets here on if it worked out or not.
If it does have one of those 2 versions on it, I assume I just use the down grader from the thread taking about those 2 versions?
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Thanks for the walk through. Hopefully it will go smoothly this time around. I'll post back tomorrow after it gets here on if it worked out or not.
If it does have one of those 2 versions on it, I assume I just use the down grader from the thread taking about those 2 versions?
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Correct, downgrade and then proceed.
Even though I'm 100% sure that at some point of me trying last time that I did in fact do all of those steps, it was a no go.....But this time, I'm sitting here watching the CM7 boot screen
Thanks a ton
Just got my gtab for $270 as a toy and have been reading all the material I could find about flashing a new ROM waiting for it to arrive.
Of course, I got ahead of myself and may have screwed up right out of the box.
I forgot to see which boot loader I have (like I said...I was excited).
I downloaded CWM...installed it per the 'dummies' web page...all good.
Downloaded BL1.2 CM7.0.3 and transferred it per the dummies page...and hit install from zip file. It then dumped back to CWM where I installed GAPPS while still in CWM.
Then hit system reboot, and it got to the CM7 android screen with the looping arrow in a circle. Problem seems to be that it's been sitting on that screen with a looping arrow for about 20 minutes now. I read that it takes a while for the first boot to load everything, but am pretty sure 20 minutes is more than generous?!
Is there a way to see what BL I've got from CWM having already wiped out the method to find out (going into setting in android OS) by virtue of starting the CM7 ROM load?
Should I give up on this install of CM7, turn off the gtab, go back into CWM and try the install again AND reboot before installing GAPPS?
Having forgotten to look at the BL version, does it makes sense that I would have likely got BL1.2 being that this gtab is brand brand new?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Joe
San Antonio TX
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Just got my gtab for $270 as a toy and have been reading all the material I could find about flashing a new ROM waiting for it to arrive.
Of course, I got ahead of myself and may have screwed up right out of the box.
I forgot to see which boot loader I have (like I said...I was excited).
I downloaded CWM...installed it per the 'dummies' web page...all good.
Downloaded BL1.2 CM7.0.3 and transferred it per the dummies page...and hit install from zip file. It then dumped back to CWM where I installed GAPPS while still in CWM.
Then hit system reboot, and it got to the CM7 android screen with the looping arrow in a circle. Problem seems to be that it's been sitting on that screen with a looping arrow for about 20 minutes now. I read that it takes a while for the first boot to load everything, but am pretty sure 20 minutes is more than generous?!
Is there a way to see what BL I've got from CWM having already wiped out the method to find out (going into setting in android OS) by virtue of starting the CM7 ROM load?
Should I give up on this install of CM7, turn off the gtab, go back into CWM and try the install again AND reboot before installing GAPPS?
Having forgotten to look at the BL version, does it makes sense that I would have likely got BL1.2 being that this gtab is brand brand new?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Joe
San Antonio TX
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Yes, you can temrinate your install if it hasn't finishws. Congrats on your first brick. Sometimes it just happens even when you use the correct files.
If it's a new tab you most likely you were on 1.2. If you boot back to CWM (PWR & Vol+) it will give you the CWM version. If you loaded the 1.2 CWM version it will say V3.0.2.8. In CWM try a wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache & fix permissions and then reflash the rom & gapps. If it loops again, go to dummies and run code red (use the version of nvflash with cwm). Follow the instructions step by step & download everything via his links since his instruction are written with them in mind. If you have problems just post back.
Al
Thanks for the advice! I did load CWM-BL1.2, and I guess by virtue of the fact that CWM-1.2 didn't crash my system, that I had BL1.2 on the gtab.
Went back and tried to load CM7 7.0.3 again, but no luck; then revisited the catch-all GB ROM thread and downloaded CM7 7.1RC, and it loaded.....so I'm up and running!
Now just got to learn more about the market....numerous favorite programs don't show up in the market.
Thanks again!
Hello, somewhat of a quick question. AFter having some installation issues I nvflashed(without installing CWM bec. I didnt know til after about it) to 1.2bl 4349 Then of course went to install CWM8-followed same exact steps and link the 1st time which worked. After extract & placing the update.zip & recovery on root, try to boot into Revovery, sticks a 3 birds screen saying "REcovery key detected BOoting recovery kernel image" From there, Im able to power off and back on to OS everytime. Just not able to see any recovery.
Tried, different links, made sure it said sdcard/not sd2 in command folder, and for other small things with no luck. Been reading similar issues, and seems the answer is to NVflash w/ CWM install??? or is there a more simple fix? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Clockworkmod 0.8 only works on the 1.1 bootloader. If you are trying to upgrade to 1.2, I would suggest you download the NVFlash for 1.2 with CWM installed. You can find it at Good Intention's website:
http://viewsonic-gtablet-for-dummies.webs.com/nvflash.htm.
I did the upgrade this weekend and bricked my tablet until I found that download. It fixed it right up.
ok thanks for that...Just so you know bought the gtab few days ago, came with 1.2 4349 I did not Nvflash, just did the CWM(CWM3028.1.2internal (1).zip) install with no problems. Had some install and roms issues so I did the NVflash 1.2 without CWM with succes to just start fresh, but cant get to recovery.
Just to be clear Im not trying to upgrade 1.2, im currently already at 1.2 4349 and cant get to recovery.(can get into to OS by holding power button from the stuck 3 birds screen)
My question: Is the only way out of this to follow the the link you provided and nvflash w/ cwm??? If even this would work
Please help thank you
Back to CWM Couple more side questions please
Ok pretty sure I got it....
followed the nvflash for dummies and ran the 1.2 with CWM installed and now I can access CWM...no t sure what happened because I ran did this same thing but w/o CWM and worked fine, then tried to install the CWM 1.2 compatible by putting the 2 items on the root but it would just get stuck at 3 birds screen, although I was at least able to still get into OS from there, just not any recovery. Oh well, pretty sure I got.
See i had already had cwm(NON-Nvflash method) and Vegan tab GE 7.0.0 for 1.2bl installed. After fixing some Fc's, manually installing a browser and market since I could not find them anywhere the common market issues by removing the market updater(couldnt find a way to get new market working), and some other similar issues, I was not able to 2 solve 2 main things that had to be resolved:
~While the regular email app push notifications worked fine, the gmail app would not work. I even had to manually go into the app and hit refresh to even receive them Any knowledge with this would be a life saver
~Vegan-tab settings-i would select and it would immediate FC. Each time I would select, it would do it again Couldnt find a way to make it stop so I could access that menu.
-could get into launcher settings but not Vtab settings...shedding any light here would be great...
So this led me to do Nvflash & reflash a custom rom in hopes of things going much smoother. I hope this irons those issues out...
I hope to get some insight on the above post, thanks in advance...
BTW XDA Developers you are AWESOME and save my ass consistently, all of you are great and I thank you!!! I will be hitting that thank you button
Ok so I rooted and RoM'd my phone a long time ago with Cherryblur which apparently is no longer supported or updated. It has been so long that I forgot what I did and did not do to get cherry on it. Yesterday I spent most of the day researching how not to brick my phone. Today after doing everything I could find, I am stuck at the motorola screen. It is unlocked on the moto screen, has fastboot and adb installed, I can get into recovery and what seems to successfully recover the cherryblur install just results in a bootloop at the custom animation that is past the motorola screen.
I was trying to flash CM7 (tried neutrino as well) non nightly when this happened. After spending all day on here bouncing around while I was at work I found a fruitcake that seems to be the only thing that will allow my phone to boot which of course I cannot send the link to. Its titled [Fruit Cakes] XDA Re-Release [feb\18\2012] if you need to see it. What am I missing, I have clearly searched and searched these great forums (I do love to research, but find I'm at an impasse now) and am not sure what I need to do to proceed. That fruitcake updated my phone to 4.5.91 and I'm pretty sure I was 4.5.2 from the Cherryblur previously.
Thanks for any help!
Update: After getting fruitcake to work, I figured maybe this fixed my previous issues and tried to install CM7 again. Same story, not moving past the first Moto screen. So I tried recovery of the fruitcake and now the M screen comes up, waits a bit, then looks like it's going to load and starts to flash for about a second on, then off for 2-3, then on and so forth. I reflashed fruitcake after this and it is still working as a new install.
You are probably only softbricked. Do you know what "recovery" software you are using? If you are using romracers or one of the better respected recovery software packages, you should be able to use fastboot (if you have a windows machine) to wipe the relevant partitions on your phone and start again. Essentially, you will want to reinstall cherryblur (or install a new ROM - Neutrino, Nottachtrix, CM9s are all excellent) from your sd card. To do this, you will boot to fastboot and run "fastboot -w" from your pc. Then boot to recovery, and wipe cache, and dalvic for good measure, then install cherryblur or another package from the zip file. This will hopefully square you away and get rid of the boot loops.
My guess is that you did not wipe your partitions completely before attempting a new install, and may be having problems with ext3 vs. ext4 formatting between rom versions. Good luck to you.
Thank you for the reply!
Originally I'm pretty sure it was CWM, through the process of backing stuff up I installed Rom Toolbox from market and that seemed to have changed something? (Not sure here...) The text changed color from what I thought was white to blue and it looked a tiny bit different. The only thing I did not do was the fastboot -w, but I did download the link from [Batch] FFW - Fastboot Full Wipe and ran the fastboot from there, which was supposed to do a full wipe from what I read. Fastboot was previously installed on the phone.
I downloaded the 1.1 version which apparently may not be able to wipe the webtop, though when watching the text during the wipe it seemed to go through. Would you recommend me going to romracers, is it possible that my recovery software is borked somehow or just not compatible with the newer roms? If I got to RomRacer will the process of doing that just get rid of the current recovery software I have on the phone or will I run into issues? As far as the dalvik and cache I did run those, though the instructions for the CM7 said to do that after the install which felt backwards....
Oh yes, and I can't reinstall cherryblur, that rom is gone - you can't even download it anymore. I am doing this because I recently purchased a lapdock and the cherryblur was not doing so hot on it so looking to install a good clean rom (with a nice GUI) that works well on the lapdock as well. Yes, I will put an OC'd kernel on it as well, battery life has never been more than a day on my current rom and I am reading that the newer ones have over 1 day life on them so you could say I'd be used to the battery drain on the 1.3 kernels.
I see...that's frustrating. I think given your situation, I would probably not attempt to go from Blur to CM (at least while attempting to get the phone running again). If I were in your shoes, I would do the following...other more knowledgeable folks may steer you in varying directions, but I have been in your shoes before, and this should work. I am assuming you have use of a PC...if not, this won't be helpful.
1. Install ROMRacers recovery using these instructions: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1204500
2. Download Nottachtrix 1.3.1 to your SD card using your PC if necessary, and you will probably want to download the webtop 2.3.6 at the same time. These can be found here: http://www.nottachtrix.com/forum/
3. Boot into fastboot (hold volume down on power up, until fastboot appears, then hit volume up, and use a DOS prompt to do the fastboot commands through the USB on your PC), and do a fastboot -w, then fastboot -reboot.
4. This time boot into recovery by holding volume down on powerup, and hitting volume down seven times (I think) until you see the word recovery, then hit volume up.
5. Use recovery to wipe cache partition, then go to advanced and wipe dalvic cache, and then select factory reset/wipe data. Some of these steps may be duplicative, but I am a belt and suspenders kind of guy.
6. Now go to "install from sd card" and select the Nottachtrix build that you put on your external SD, and make selections using the cool Aroma installer. Once this installs, you can install the newer 2.3.6 webtop (if you need it).
7. Reboot when complete, and you should have the latest stock build in working order, and then you can repeat the process to install Neutrino, CM9 or whatever. Feel free to fire back any questions.
Good luck to you, and if this helps, please hit the "thanks" button!
Ill give this a shot when I get home, darn work blocking the download links for mediafire..... The fruitcake is driving me nuts, no notification bar (my biggest complaint) unless I use ADW launcher, which has for some reason no way for me to get into my texts..... Broken apps, and a real stock feel that is just making me grit my teeth lol.
Can't wait to have a nice ROM on my phone again. Glad the fruitcake got me back up and functional though!
So far so good! Had the notification bar problem like others with the 2.3.6 issue and found that fix (disable email notifications....). When / if I can 'thank' I will! And will keep you updated when I get the time to flash another rom.
Good news that you are back rolling again. Let the ROM flashing addiction continue
So, CM7 is pure sexy - and an OC'd kernel to 1.3 makes me so happy in both CM7 and Nottachrix. Wish I would have done it sooner, I wouldn't have been spending so much time searching for a new phone because my atrix was annoyingly laggy. Lag? What is that? Also, undervolting is AMAZING for battery life, for the first time since owning the phone I did not plug it in last night and even though my usage was in the light to medium area, im still at 66% after 22 hours off charger ! Can't wait to play with CM9.
Hi all
ok so i'm a bit nervous writing this expecting all manner of attack in that i may be posting something that's been posted before lol, i've been working on this phone from start to finish about 9 hours, over two days..... i've googled just about every combination of words to do with the title and everything in between but nothing seems to come close to what i actually need to do as nothing works
i have an LG Optimus 2x / p990, it had ICS on it but was far too slow to handle this, it needs something a bit less hardware intensive to run smoothly, so i went ahead an found cyanogenmod stable ...... 7.2 i installed sdk after an hour of finding out how it works i finally got adb and fastboot working, i then needed this, that, this, that, etc etc etc.....
to cut a 9 hour story short, i've managed to get myself to the point where i wiped the phone of everything but CWM partioned for ics via the AIO software but CWM will not let me install any ROM onto the phone. to be more precise it says i have installed CM 7.2 successfully! (i've tried this via the CWM via external SD card and sideload) i reboot the phone it's as if i've never done a thing, no trace or suggestion i've even attempted it on the internal card... nothing
i'm at the point now where i'm quite happy to just have my phone back now and install ICS 404 but can't use the LG kdz install software as the pc doesn't see the phone as an LG p990 because it's recovery and i can only get it to come up as internal and external memory cards
i'm not really a noob when it comes to tech stuff but this little phone has me stumped.... please, i'm begging you, help me any operating system that can get my phone working will do, preferably the CM 7.2 if not back to ICS 404?
and i know, i know i should have backed up but i had no idea it could be so complicated just to put an OS on a tiny computer
ETA i've tried that exitrecovery.zip thing and it did nothing :/
It's quite simple
Try to reset and unroot/re-lock the phone then unlock and root, then what you need to do is get ROM Manager and get the Clockwork Recovery and the version that supports your device, although you might need to hook up your phone to your computer for the process to work.
Also put back in ICS 4.0.4 when unrooted and re-locked again like stock and make sure it's the stock file for your phone.
And after you got ROM Manger and the Clockwork Recovery
Then just in Clockwork wipe out all data on the device and don't do a factory reset in Android just with clockwork and delete everything that was made on that phone then install CyanogenMod.
After that it will seem to take a long time or just a while to boot up and then it boots faster then the original ROM.
If you have Clockwork Recovery just wipe out all the data while it's still in there and you should be set.
When it was my first time putting in CyanogenMod it was 10.1 RC1 on my Nexus 7 and it didn't work and forever bootlooped, and that was because i forgot to wipe the device. Then after going into Recovery with Clockwork I deleted all the data of my tablet and it worked but took 5 mins. to boot up which is nomal.
And if Clockwork doesn't work, do the same with TWRP (Team Win Recovery Project) and download that which can be found here teamw.in/project/twrp
If you don't want to get ROM Manager or that one isn't working then try this website to get Clockwork because it has the whole list of devices and I recommend downloading from the website instead of their app. clockworkmod.com/rommanager
cheers for that, i've tried all of the above still to no avail, having a think about it the phone is partioned for ics, i'm trying to install CM 7.2 which as i understand isn't ICS so.... maybe the error is that it's a different partioning sequence/setup i'm gonna go for CM 10.1 and see if that makes a difference.
to add i'm not sure why everyone rants and raves about CWM, TWRP seems much more complete and advanced do you (or anyone else) know the main differences?
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cheers for that, i've tried all of the above still to no avail, having a think about it the phone is partioned for ics, i'm trying to install CM 7.2 which as i understand isn't ICS so.... maybe the error is that it's a different partioning sequence/setup i'm gonna go for CM 10.1 and see if that makes a difference.
to add i'm not sure why everyone rants and raves about CWM, TWRP seems much more complete and advanced do you (or anyone else) know the main differences?
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TWRP has a completely touch driven interface that is 100% themeable, while CWM has a touch version and non-touch version. Also TWRP has a built in file manger and terminal emulator where as CWM does not. A lot of people like TWRP because it provides a lot of good features with a simple and straightforward yet powerful user interface. I would recommend taking a look at this guide if you want more information on the differences between the two http://www.droidiser.com/2013/04/twrp-vs-clockworkmod-recovery.html?m=1.
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ok i managed to do it i can't remember exactly how but some good links and info for anyone who stumbles across this in need of help
i went for cyanogenmod 10.1 to make this work i used this AIO tool - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2020737
repartioned with OLD partion layout and BL
installed TWRP (included in the aio)
if you need to reinstall the google play store make sure you have right version if you flash it and get "unfortunately setup wizard has stopped" repeatedly you have the wrong version see this link for which one you need http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Gapps
obviously make sure you have adb and fastboot setup and drivers too.... it's a long process installing the entire sdk, personally for flashing this once and most definately not inclined to do it again i'd go with just the adb and fastboot rather than the whole sdk
also i found a keyboard error with 10.1 where i'd type 1,2 or 3 characters and the keyboard would minmise not sure if there's a proper fix (i found one thing where you disable the autocorrect but didn't want to do that) so i decided to download and install hackers keyboad which is based on the gingerbread keyboad and is much better and comes with full features and integrates nicely
coupled with the info above from YoyoscratchMC and you should be in the field
good luck to all i was ready to jump out my window with my phone first so i could land as hard as possible on it last night but i got there in the end lol