I rooted, unlocked, loaded a custom ROM. I ported over my #, and it went HAYWIRE. Now I cannot use my phone. I am able to get to the teamwin screen, but I have no roms or backups to load. What do I do?!
I do have a SD card.
When you're at teamwin you should be able to mount your internal sd card and then hook it up to your computer via usb and drop a rom on the internal card.
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donatom3 said:
When you're at teamwin you should be able to mount your internal sd card and then hook it up to your computer via usb and drop a rom on the internal card.
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This is exactly what I'm trying to do.
Unfortunately I just realized I gave my dad my SD card. He will be back in an hour.
Anything I can do now? I see a "mount" option but it's asking me to "reformat"....
Internal sd should be your built in memory. I haven't installed a recovery on my LTE yet but I've never had this problem on other phones.
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So my dad rushed over and it's installing...I put over freEvo and it said failed, even after wiping cache/etc. Now what do I do....
Also while I'm here, does anyone know how to install things to SD card instead of internal memory?
When looking at the internal memory, the external sd is mapped to the 'ext-sd' folder.
My suggestion, read some more, then read again, then read instructions a third time until you fully understand what you're doing. Look at some youtube videos of the process too. If at any point along the way you're scratching your head, stop and rewind.
Assuming you actually transferred the rom to the sd (internal or ext), you're simply not pointing to it when flashing through the recovery.
Saying something failed isn't saying a whole lot. If you want useful help, you need to be much more detailed. What completed successfully, what exactly failed, when, what were the steps to duplicate, etc.
Put your phone into the boot loader.... Run the ruu and let it go back to stock... The root your phone again.
DarkManX4lf said:
Put your phone into the boot loader.... Run the ruu and let it go back to stock... The root your phone again.
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This.
Have you tried doing a factory reset yet? a lot of times that's all it needs if you're on a stockish rom
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I have finally unlocked the bootloader, and went on to step 2 to install clockworkmod. I have read through the whole thread, followed the directions step by step, but can't get this done.
I don't know where I am going wrong, but I cannot get the phone to bring up the "do you want to update" screen as per the instructions in hboot.
When I go into hboot, it goes through the scanning and I can see the file, but then it goes to the hboot screen asking for nothing. I have been trying for 2 hours, with no luck. I hope someone can help me out. Thanks
I also had problems so I just installed it using rom manager and all was good.
make sure its on the root of your EXTERNAL sd card. the phone calls it sd2 or something. also, dont unzip the file.
Lastly, and this is important, dont use rom manager to install cwm, because its not a full install, its a temporary install. and if something goes really wrong with your phone, your going to need a legit cwm recovery to fix it. dont rely on rom manager... learned that the hard way..
alx294 said:
make sure its on the root of your EXTERNAL sd card. the phone calls it sd2 or something. also, dont unzip the file.
Lastly, and this is important, dont use rom manager to install cwm, because its not a full install, its a temporary install. and if something goes really wrong with your phone, your going to need a legit cwm recovery to fix it. dont rely on rom manager... learned that the hard way..
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I think this may be my problem, I don't know where to put the file. I downloaded the file, connected my phone to PC, clicked on disk drive on phone, opened up the removable disc on PC, then moved file from PC to removable disc of phone. So, it seems my issue is I am not placing the file correctly. I see a whole bunch of folders, my music and pics, but I don't see anything that says sd2.
I am really new to this, so I guess maybe my question should be, when you say "root of your external sd card", what does that mean? Thanks.
I had the same issue until I went to go to restart the phone from the fastboot menu and then the option finally came up.
The external sd card is the one that you would put into your phone. The main storage area is the root of your sd card. Kind of like if you just double clicked your C: drive. Nothing super special about it. Where you put it is exactly where it needs to be.
sdcard2?
Here's a screenshot using Astro...
SD Card
ms2knights said:
I think this may be my problem, I don't know where to put the file. I downloaded the file, connected my phone to PC, clicked on disk drive on phone, opened up the removable disc on PC, then moved file from PC to removable disc of phone. So, it seems my issue is I am not placing the file correctly. I see a whole bunch of folders, my music and pics, but I don't see anything that says sd2.
I am really new to this, so I guess maybe my question should be, when you say "root of your external sd card", what does that mean? Thanks.
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Do you have a memory card that you put in your phone?
A microSD card?
When you connect the phone with a microSD card, the root of your SD card would be simply "dragging and dropping" the file right ONTO the card.
Meaning do not put it in any folders within that card. Just on the card itself.
When you double click to open the card you should see the file in the list of things listed.
Hope that helps.
I indeed was using an sd card. I dragged the file and put on the sd card. I then went into hboot, and nothing. I also looked at the files I have on the card, and I dont have sd or sd2 using astro. I am going to try another sd card and see how that works. I just cant figure out what the problem is.
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I indeed was using an sd card. I dragged the file and put on the sd card. I then went into hboot, and nothing. I also looked at the files I have on the card, and I dont have sd or sd2 using astro. I am going to try another sd card and see how that works. I just cant figure out what the problem is.
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/sdcard/ext_sd/
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So, I have finally did it. I may be crazy, but I used a different sd card, and did it the exact same way I did it with the other sd card, and it updated. I don't know why, but it did. I put my old sd card back in, because it has everything I saved on it. Hopefully that will not mess anything up.
Now to install a custom ROM. I need to read on this, because I don't know hot to this part yet, lol.
Thanks for everyone's help.
ms2knights said:
So, I have finally did it. I may be crazy, but I used a different sd card, and did it the exact same way I did it with the other sd card, and it updated. I don't know why, but it did. I put my old sd card back in, because it has everything I saved on it. Hopefully that will not mess anything up.
Now to install a custom ROM. I need to read on this, because I don't know hot to this part yet, lol.
Thanks for everyone's help.
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glad it worked out for ya bro!!!! happy hacking
I cannot do anything to get my phone out of this bootloop that it is in. I am running senseless rom from scottsrom. I did a fix permissions in rom manager and now i cannot get it out of this loop. I pulled everything out and restarted it, no sd card, no sim card, back is off. Its still bootlooping. pleaseeee help.. any suggestions?
with the sd card out i can get past the bootloader screen and into amon ra recovery, but no sd card means its pointless. Still bootloops though. If i have it in its asking me to update, but i dont remember leaving anything on the root of the sd card. I dont know whats going on here.
If the only thing you need to do is remove a file from the SD card, then you can use an adapter and delete it using your computer, or just borrow a buddy's phone and insert the card and delete it there. Worst case, you buy yourself a new blank SD card and copy the folder (with full path) for your nandroid backups over to the new card and try restoring a backup.
If those recommendations at not helpful, you can do a lot from ADB. I recommend following some of the available processes in the development section to reinstall the appropriate kernel (boot.img).
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aye, thanks man. atm im at work and dont have access to another sd card or anyones phone that can get to the root of the sd card.
well, i hope someone here will be able to assist me... having troubles.
I was previously running SHIFT A0SP without any issues and figured I would give Gingeritis 3D a shot since I've been using the same rom for a while.
Well, I downloaded the ROM zip, confirmed the MD5 and then flashed (after wiping everything). After reboot, it just sits loading on the white HTC screen and then reboots itself after a while.
Any thoughts? I tried holding down the volume rocker and the power key to get to the HBOOT screen so I could install a backup etc. However, there must be a recent radio on my SD card which is auto asking to install. Any way to get the HBOOT screen so I can actually use it w/ the PG05IMG.zip on the SD card?
I don't have any external drive to read the SD card etc. to delete that zip.
Thanks
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well, i hope someone here will be able to assist me... having troubles.
I was previously running SHIFT A0SP without any issues and figured I would give Gingeritis 3D a shot since I've been using the same rom for a while.
Well, I downloaded the ROM zip, confirmed the MD5 and then flashed (after wiping everything). After reboot, it just sits loading on the white HTC screen and then reboots itself after a while.
Any thoughts? I tried holding down the volume rocker and the power key to get to the HBOOT screen so I could install a backup etc. However, there must be a recent radio on my SD card which is auto asking to install. Any way to get the HBOOT screen so I can actually use it w/ the PG05IMG.zip on the SD card?
I don't have any external drive to read the SD card etc. to delete that zip.
Thanks
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Do you have an old phone you can put the sd card into and delete it via your computer?
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i don't :/
I also tried removing the SD card and booting to the HBOOT menu. This allows the menu to come up and use it. However, I cannot pull the battery (even with the phone plugged in) to put the SD card back in... I saw this done on a youtube video, but it doesn't work... My phone powers off if I pull the battery.
Still stuck...
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i don't :/
I also tried removing the SD card and booting to the HBOOT menu. This allows the menu to come up and use it. However, I cannot pull the battery (even with the phone plugged in) to put the SD card back in... I saw this done on a youtube video, but it doesn't work... My phone powers off if I pull the battery.
Still stuck...
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Best thing I can recommend is to borrow a phone with an sd card and use it to access your card. You won't even need a computer. If its android, just download any file manager from the app store. Find the PG05IMG file and rename it or delete it.
Presto. You're fixed. Now just download another Rom or reload another Rom on your sd card.
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I'm back. I was able to trick with the SD card and battery to get into the HBOOT menu without it auto loading the radio.
To share, since it could help others in the future... What I basically did, and took a lot of trial and error, was seating the SD card about 85% into the slot, so not enough for it to be recognized. Then, hold the battery on a slightly angle, enough for the contacts to touch, but not enough to push the SD card all the way into the slot. That's the tricky part. Once you get to the HBOOT menu, very carefully navigate to restore, after the reboot, push the battery all the way in and it will also push the SD card fully into the slot.
Now, you can recover backup.
Took a lot of tries as I kept losing the battery connection and it powered off or the SD card made contact and loaded the radio. It worked though as I did not have access to another phone.
Hope this may help someone else in the future.
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I had this problem too, and i freaked out! Dont worry, its all good! What happened is that you flashed it incorrectly. I dont know what i did wrong, i dont know what you did wrong, it doesnt matter. Anyway, you wiped your phone and now its trying to reboot but there isnt an Operating system on the phone, so it wont get passed the splash screen. Simply boot back into recovery and flash the gingeritis rom again. Reboot, and you should be all set! Good luck!
Okay so I have this htc rezound, it was running ICS when I got it but the guy formatted it so it was stuck in the bootmanager or whatever you call it. I flashed recovery and then flashed a file that was on the sd card already. It says im running android 2.3.4 now. It wont read my sd card or take pictures at the moment, says theres an error when I go into gallery and the sd card won't mount. I can't see it on my computer either. i want to put on scotts clean rom because the guy i bought it from said that it fixed his sd card problems. I'm not really sure what to do because I can't get any files onto the sd card if it won't mount. Any suggestions? And if he was already runnig scotts cleanrom do I need to update to ICS firmware or whatever or should I install it like I was updating from gingerbread?
EDIT: I also forgot to add that when i try it mount it just says "preparing sd card" then it says "sd card safe to remove" and i have tried two different cards.
Can you boot into HBOOT (power off the phone, pull the battery, replace it, and then hold down the Power+Volume down buttons) and let us know the information on that screen? that will tell you what HBOOT the phone is running as well as radios to see what RUU you can run to return the phone to stock.
Edit: A card reader or spare phone would be great to mount the Sdcard and place the needed files on it btw
Did you try doing the SD card fix? It will format your SD card unfortunately.
Yeah im in hboot now. it says ***tampered*** and ***unlocked*** at the top ad it says the hboot is 2.21.0000 and the radio is 1.22.10.0310r/1.22.10.0308r
and yeah i heard theres a way i can get files onto the sd card through fastboot or something? I don't have an external sd card thing for my computer but i may be able to use my brothers droid x to put files on it.
If you can get to your recovery you can mount your USB through it.
If you're having trouble because you have a PH98IMG on your zip preventing you from getting past the bootloader...you can pull your MicroSD halfway out and angle your battery in such a manner that the bottom contacts are touching but not fully in the phone.
You get past the PH98IMG check and then slide the SD card all the way in and then push the battery in. Voila.
i dont know if im doing it wrong or i just don't know how but i can't get it to mount in recovery either!
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i dont know if im doing it wrong or i just don't know how but i can't get it to mount in recovery either!
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Do you have another SD card to check? It could be that your SD card needs to go through the SD card fix:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1615418
yeah the second sd card wouldn't work either. and i have s-on so idk if that tut will work for me. i appreciate the help though!
EDIT: yeah I can't get busybox to install because it says my sd card is mounted or there isn't enough free space but it's empty and not showing up. so freakin confused haha
Are you still on GB or ICS firmware?
Did you try running a stock RUU and see if it fixes everything? Get the RUU.exe file and put your phone in Fastboot mode and run it. Yes this will basically wipe everything and restore you to stock. You have to have your bootloader re-locked too.
im not sure which firmware im on. I assume ICS because that's what the guy flashed it too before i got it but when i got it it was just in the hboot and it wouldn't boot up so he didn't have a rom on there. i haven't tried the ruu but i guess i could give it a go
What hboot version are you on?
I actually got it figured out but now my camera still won't work. It's giving me an error when I try to take pics that says its unable to save to sd card due to insufficient file permissions. Removing the sd card won't fix it and neither will reformatting the card
Hi Guys,
Before I tear my hair out going through all efforts to recover my phone back to a working condition, I'd like to know the odds of this being a hardware malfunction. I was running ARHD 4.0 and it has all but bricked my phone (beware, stick with NRG's rom if you want a stable Sense daily driver). After going through tons of force-closes and permissions issues, the phone became incapable of reading the external SD. Now I don't know if this is due to corruption or an actual hardware issue (I "dropped" the phone once while it was acting up, though I was still able to access my ext-sd after that IIRC). Hopefully someone can give me some guidance here, I'm a little wary of the fact that my phone cannot see the external SD card even from 4ext at this point in time.
I've completely wiped the phone as much as I can via 4ext, I suppose the next step would be to insert a different SD card or see if I can't get another device to read this one so that I can format it to fat-32 and start fresh, but as it stands I cannot currently get 4ext to see my external sd (or internal for that matter). Also, when first entering the bootloader, I don't see the scrolling lines of "ph85img.xxx not found" which to me would be indicative that seeing seeing my external SD card either, and thus not seeking for a recovery image.
Assuming that I am unable to get the phone to mount a working Fat-32 formatted external SD, would this necessarily indicate a hardware failure, or are there other potential culprits? Thanks for any help on this guys.
I had this problem too I fixed it by taking out the battery for about 5minutes exactly. This let's all sensors clear out and somewhat gives your phone a fresh start...tell me...does hboot (white screen that says unlocked s-on ect)...does it scan for the ph9857xx.IMG or zip? If it does than your phone still recognizes external storage sd card...if you can load a Rom to you ext sd card then you may be able to flash a new Rom from your ext sd card...use nrg Rom or super sense...hop I helped you..
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does hboot (white screen that says unlocked s-on ect)...does it scan for the ph9857xx.IMG or zip?
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No, no it does not. As stated above, this is a great reason for concern to me.
rbross3030 said:
No, no it does not. As stated above, this is a great reason for concern to me.
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Of course it's a great reason of concern. Try this, and good luck:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44883942&postcount=38
If it does help, a reply back may help others, with the steps you took.