I unlocked my bootloader and flashed a custom recovery for the first time yesterday (TWRP). I also flashed a ROM (Fresh by flipz) and that's when I noticed that some apps would simply refused to install. They would not install from my Titanium Backup of them and they wouldn't install from the market either (giving a vague "could not install to phone storage or sd card" error message).
I didn't know which to blame, the custom recovery or the custom ROM, so I started by flashing back to stock recovery (while keeping the custom ROM) but the apps still wouldn't install. So then I flashed back to the stock ROM as well, and the apps still wouldn't install! Finally, I relocked the phone and RUU'ed back to stock and now the apps install just fine.
Was HTC Dev's unlock really to blame for that or am I missing something?
I've had similar issues before if I did not perform a full data wipe and system wipe before flashing a new rom. If I simply went back into recovery and did a full wipe (cache/dalvik/data/system) and reflashed, it solved the problem.
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I did a factory wipe, then went to install energy's custom rom, it gave an error that system is already unmounted, and gave an error (status 1), now it will restart the phone each time i try to enter recovery, but by this time, all of the original rom is gone. I still got access to adb/fastboot. How to install everything back to stock again?
I had a somewhat similar problem, if you want to revert to stock, download the stock firmware here, then relock your bootloader with the command "fastboot oem lock", and then reinstall the stock firmware with hboot.
mcs117 said:
I did a factory wipe, then went to install energy's custom rom, it gave an error that system is already unmounted, and gave an error (status 1), now it will restart the phone each time i try to enter recovery, but by this time, all of the original rom is gone. I still got access to adb/fastboot. How to install everything back to stock again?
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Back to stock or back to rooted stock?
What recovery are you using?
Did you try an ruu file? (may format internal sdcard)
Did you try to wipe each partition from recovery?
Did you try a restore?
I messed up my phone a bit and tried to do a data wipe in recovery (TWRP) but I was still having issues so I figured I would wipe everything, including /system, and just flash the stock ROM to get back on track. I didn't realize that the stock ROM listed in the dev section is in RUU format and not a flashable zip. I tried the RUU but it won't work, I assume because I am unlocked/rooted (I tried relocking the bootloader but still no go). So, does anyone know where I might get a flashable zip of the stock ROM or even a backup I could restore in recovery (if that would even work)? Any advice would be appreciated.
Hi,
I have a big problem. I was trying to install the newest Renovate ROM, and I think I did everything correctly. I pasted the ROM into my phone's storage, booted into recovery, and installed it choosing the "update only" option (I had Renovate 2.1 before).
Everything seemed fine, except rebooting the phone takes me to recovery, and every reboot option I could find always reboot me to recovery. I can also get to the bootloader, but eventually I ended up back at recovery...
What should I do? I have a Nandroid backup of the phone before I flashed Renovate 5.0, should I full wipe the phone and restore that backup?
Any help would be appreciated.
You should read before you mess with your phone.
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xexxonx said:
Hi,
I have a big problem. I was trying to install the newest Renovate ROM, and I think I did everything correctly. I pasted the ROM into my phone's storage, booted into recovery, and installed it choosing the "update only" option (I had Renovate 2.1 before).
Everything seemed fine, except rebooting the phone takes me to recovery, and every reboot option I could find always reboot me to recovery. I can also get to the bootloader, but eventually I ended up back at recovery...
What should I do? I have a Nandroid backup of the phone before I flashed Renovate 5.0, should I full wipe the phone and restore that backup?
Any help would be appreciated.
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Restore your nandroid as long as all was working well before your issue.
I installed a bunch of root apps that ended up putting my phone into a bootloop. I had superuser on it with Titanium backup, and I was able to undo the loop. I am now just stuck on the screen with the triangle after attempting to put a stock ROM on the phone. Its an Epic 4G touch, Im able to get into Recovery and Odin mode. Ive wiped all partitions, dalvik cache, etc. Still stuck. How can I get back into my phone?
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I installed a bunch of root apps that ended up putting my phone into a bootloop. I had superuser on it with Titanium backup, and I was able to undo the loop. I am now just stuck on the screen with the triangle after attempting to put a stock ROM on the phone. Its an Epic 4G touch, Im able to get into Recovery and Odin mode. Ive wiped all partitions, dalvik cache, etc. Still stuck. How can I get back into my phone?
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Did you install twrp or cwm? Sounds like you wiped the system off and need to install a rom now thru recovery after you put it on your sd card. Dont wipe your sd card. Fallow the steps to install a rom.
i had also face same problem
the i had flashed costom rom and kernal
and also my old backup then also
there is no result
only the in bootloop and open only cwm recovery only
then i had flash custom recovery
it works and my files and app are safe.
hey guys just looking for some help. ive been modding and flashing phones from 2014, but its always gone really smoothly, so my diagnostic ability is lacking.
it started with flashing twrp. my bootloader is unlocked, usb debugging on, device is showing in adb and fastboot, and i can flash twrp without any issues. hoowever when i go to boot twrp, only the stock recovery boots. i tried to flash twrp using the XiaoMiTool v2, but the same thing happened. i eventually got around this by just booting twrp instead of trying to flash it. so i got in, took a full back-up and started installing a custom rom.
the first one i tried was ParanoidAndroid Quartz. i wiped cache, dalvik and storage then transferred it to my phone, tried to flash and got "zip verification failed". so i turn off zip verification and tried again. it flashed perfectly with zero errors. however, when i reboot the phone it would only boot to stock recovery and not twrp (expected) or the new rom. i tried that a few times, then tried LineageOS, and MSM Xtended 10. all of them had the same issue, the flashed without a hitch, then wouldnt boot.
i also tried flashing a new fw-vendor and it just straight up failed. Then i decided to cut my losses and restore my twrp backup, and that came back with the error, "extractTarFork() process ended with error: 255"
Software before i began these attempts was completely stock, so i dont know what is going wrong, but as of now, my phone is bricked, i cant install a new rom or restore my back-up.
any help is appreciated guys. thanks
You can figure out this problem with
1 Copy backup folder to computer
2- Format Data - Yes , Wipe Everything
3- Install ROM that you have installed before and boot
4- Go to TWRP, format data yes reboot recovery
5- Paste backup folder to internal storage and restore