I installed TWRP on my phone, and went into Bootloader an hit RECOVERY so I can get to the program (the first time I did this it brought me to the TMRWP program). THIS time, it completely wiped my friggin' phone... after I sat there like 4 hours re-setting up everything PERFECTLY how I wanted it.
What's weird is it kept ALL my apps that I converted to SYSTEM APPS, but all my user stuff is gone.
Lesson learned... Don't click recovery from Bootloader.
That has yet to happen to me with any recovery and 3 devices currently with twrp. Might be a step missed with the install or maybe you left a bootloader update zip and ran it when you rebooted? Or it can be a bug as going to recovery from bootloader via a cold start is how to get there traditionally. I would email teamwin and try to sort it out or redo the recovery install, making sure to check the md5 of the file after you download it.
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Your supposed to click recovery at bootloader. Thats where you do backup, restore and flash new roms.
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Kernel. 3.0.30 Bricked
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That's what I thought too. If I'm not mistaking, I flashed the new firmware after I did the TWRP, so maybe that screwed it up somehow. I take it TWRP must be the LAST image you flash? Only flashes I remember doing were:
Customize bootloader screen
TWRP.
firmware update
Do I need to re-flash the new firmware before re-flashing TWRP, or is the firmware going to remain no matter what I do from this point on?
Just adb flash recovery. Put the recovery image in your platform tools folder. Adb reboot bootloader. when you are rebooted adb flash recovery recovery.img.
Or use one of the many tools made to do that on our forums
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Well I went ahead and used the GOO Manager to flash TWRP again, and this time it worked fine. I'm going to re-setup my phone again then before I customize it back like I had it, going to try to get to recovery and see if it works.
With it now being installed, does that mean I can't flash anything directly from SD Card or modify the bootloader anymore without it causing problems?
What I mean, moreso, is... if I ever put factory reset. will it reload the factory rom + keep the newest firmware I installed (etc.) or do I nee to back up the phone with TWRP and recover from that when I want to load it back?
Factory reset just puts things back to the way they were without the stuff in the data partition or any user apps or settings. This means that say you flash a custom rom, it will reset to as if that custom rom was freshly installed since the custom rom has replaced the factory rom in the /system/ parition and anything else related to it.
With that said it is usually a good practice after rooting a fresh device to do the nandroid and then transfer it to a computer before you do anything else. Note that while you probably won't be switching recoveries a lot, that nandroid backups generally work only with the recovery that generated them so don't get them mixed up.
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I flashed CM7 last night, loaded GAPPS, and the market was updating my apps, when I noticed none of the apps were updating. updates were all failing. I went into recovery and restored BAMF 1.5 remix. Now I have a problem. I can not download or update anything from the Market, all attempts fail. I cannot access CW recovery, the HTC white screen is as far as I get. I deleted rom manager, and tried to access CW recovery and still failed. I tried to do a factory reset, and still only get white HTC screen. Tbolt is functioning, I just can't fix my issue. Please help. Thanks.
You can't get in CW recovery or stock recovery?
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Did you try reflashing CW through ROM Manager?
Yep. very strange. I even tried to wipe the phone with factory reset, and just get stuck on white HTC screen. I had deleted rom manager because of something else I read, and can't get it back, But I can't even get to recovery from bootloader.
You can get to recovery through the bootloader by shutting off the phone and turning it back on holding down the volume button and pressing power toggle down to the recovery option and press the power button
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I flashed CM7 last night, loaded GAPPS, and the market was updating my apps, when I noticed none of the apps were updating. updates were all failing. I went into recovery and restored BAMF 1.5 remix. Now I have a problem. I can not download or update anything from the Market, all attempts fail. I cannot access CW recovery, the HTC white screen is as far as I get. I deleted rom manager, and tried to access CW recovery and still failed. I tried to do a factory reset, and still only get white HTC screen. Tbolt is functioning, I just can't fix my issue. Please help. Thanks.
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Actually I spent a good few hours yesterday trying to help Orio out and we attempted a quite a few things to try and fix the recovery issue, this post should offer a bit more insight to the methods used;
adb reboot recovery failed
Reinstall latest Rom Manager apk and Flash CWM
flash latest rom manager via fastboot (CWM only)
(fastboot flash recovery /sdcard/recovery-clockwork-3.0.2.5.img)
**did not do fastboot erase recovery first**
"return to stock safely and properly" XDAthread by jcase
return to stock image [RUU], reroot, try again
try to boot into recovery via hboot
manually installed fix_permissions.sh script and busybox on rooted stock, ran.. didnt fix
tried to see if flash_image method would work, didn't
All of the above have failed and we basically tried almost all combinations. Never once would this phone get back into recovery, even after flashing the appropriate RUUs which include either stock android or CWM recovery. The only thing we have not currently attempted which might be the last thing left is to do is manually install the nandroid.sh script and do an advanced restore of the recovery image only from a nandroid backup on SD. I would rather not go down this method as it could have an undesired result, I have done it to restore a G1 back in the day but not 100% if its gonna work on a tbolt. Thankfully his phone boots, and we can get into hboot, but yea.. pretend recovery just doesnt exist at all...
Curious if anyone has any knowledge above what we have already tried.
SUCCESS !!!
I fixed it !
Apparently, when I loaded up cm7, files showed up about the same time on my sdcard in clockworkmod download file. I deleted those files, and reflashed clockworkmod in rom manager, (which this time took like 3 - 4 minutes), and rebooted into recovery and it worked...did it again, just in case it was a fluke and it worked.
All is well now...the planets are realigned !!!
Thanks everyone for your ideas and especially thanks to mattgyver83 who helped me for something like 4 hours yesterday. Exceptional kindness !!
mods...you can close this thread.
I have the Evo LTE S-on (HTC bootloader unlocked) and TWRP installed. The only problem I'm having is that I cannot seem to get .zip files to open from the install menu in TWRP (recovery). I factory reset and try to open the zip from the install menu but it just says "Failed". Specifically I am trying Kushdeck's new CM10 ROM. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
PS. Not sure if this will help but on the install menu my files show up twice, the first time with the normal naming and the second with "/." in front of them.
Did u try and re download it again? Sounds like a bad DL if it keeps failing after a couple of attempts
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Ok I'm trying that now. I'm also wondering if there's a problems with my /ext-sd because everytime I factory reset it says it couldn't access that. Do you think that has anything to do with it? Is reinstalling TWRP an option?
Ok thanks so much the re-download did it. But now I'm at a black/blank screen after start up. I factory reset, installed the CM10 ROM then Gapps and wiped the dalvik/cache. Then when I reboot it just goes to the HTC screen and after that nothing. Ideas?
This is going to sound strange but try factory restet, wipe cache/dalvik and then just reboot without trying to flash anything.. I've been having some similar issues as mine isn't recoglizing any MD5 when i try to flash a new rom.. I wiped my phone and have tried to flash a few roms and it fails every time and in wiping my phone it somehow took out my backup so without any other options (that I knew of) I just rebooted and luckily it loaded a completely bare vipor rom like what I started out with when I originally rooted.. BTW, did you create a backup before trying to flash? Should always make a backup....
Ya I had backed up. Turns out I needed to manually flash the boot.img which fixed the issue
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Ya I had backed up. Turns out I needed to manually flash the boot.img which fixed the issue
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Thanks for this. I had the same problem, (S-ON, TWRP. black screen on boot). I was able to flash stock-based ROMs, but not CM10, so I suspected it had something to do with the things that HTCDev won't allow the recovery access to, but the logs from TWRP didn't throw any errors, so while I suspected boot, I didn't know what to do about it. And everyone knows that it's easy to be caviler with everything is working, but as soon as you start having problems, you get gun shy about trying things.
Your post was the solution for me. Extract the boot.img file found inside the zip or your chosen ROM, and flash it using fastboot:
"fastboot flash boot boot.img"
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Thanks for this. I had the same problem, (S-ON, TWRP. black screen on boot). I was able to flash stock-based ROMs, but not CM10, so I suspected it had something to do with the things that HTCDev won't allow the recovery access to, but the logs from TWRP didn't throw any errors, so while I suspected boot, I didn't know what to do about it. And everyone knows that it's easy to be caviler with everything is working, but as soon as you start having problems, you get gun shy about trying things.
Your post was the solution for me. Extract the boot.img file found inside the zip or your chosen ROM, and flash it using fastboot:
"fastboot flash boot boot.img"
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Hey out of curiosity did you like any of the stock based ROMs? If so which ones? I kinda wanna try one out but haven't settle on one
Background:
Rooting and flashing roms since the HTC Hero, continued with the HTC Evo 4G, and currently on the GNexus. I am not a programmer, but very comfortable with several rooting methods and I understand the ins’ and out’s of backups, nightlys and bugs and glitches.
I bought an Asus Transformer Prime (Tf201) as soon as I could. I resisted the urge to root because its lightly skinned ICS Rom was really good. Once JB came out, I started getting antsy and started researching root methods.
I was on build version .28, and after a couple of failed root attempts Debugfs Root v1.8 worked.
I tried several roms, CM 10, Team EOS, AdroWook- and things were good, until….
Current State:
I think it was CM 10, things were just OK.. not great, and I missed some of the stock Asus apps which I liked and used often. I was previously on AndroWook, which was awesome because it had stock apps, plus many more customizations. So I Nandroid via TWRP as my recovery. And flashed CM 10. Didn’t like it so I flashed the nandroid backup of the Androwook ROM.
Now here is where things went bad. I didn’t factory reset wipe before flashing the nandroid. I did wipe cache and davlik.
Everything was fine. Until I noticed a few bugs, and I chalked it up to not fully wiping before the restore. So I tried to go back into recovery and wipe and re-flash the restore file. But no recovery found.
Nothing is left of a recovery file. And while loading up Titanium Backup it says I am not rooted.
I spend a lot of time trying to fix it. Trying to re-root via debugs, getting busy box, Super user, nothing works, I can’t get to recovery, I am not rooted anymore and none of the root methods work. I have a custom rom on, AndroWook, working fine, but I am stuck, no recovery no updates, no titanium backup, nothing!
Recap:
• Was unlocked, rooted, and on custom roms. TWRP was recovery image.
• Was on CM 10, didn’t like it, flashed back to ArndoWook via Nandroid backup restore
• Did not factory reset before flashing back to nandroid, but wiped cache and davlik
• Now the rom is no longer rooted, can’t use any of the root methods, always says SU not found
• I think it has something to do with superuser, at least that what every app that needs root can’t find.
• NO recovery image available,
Any Ideas? Thanks for the help
You should be able to flash a recovery from fastboot mode.
to get into fastboot mode, press and hold volume down while turning the prime on, when it says press up to enter recovery... dont.
wait for that to time out, you shouls then get a few icons on the screen. navigate to the icon that has a USB image and press volume up.
your tablet should now be in fastboot mode.
you will need the fastboot driver, android SDK and twrp image for the tf201 to continue, you will find the answers to these bits on the forum if you are missing any.
you can then flash the recovery with the following command:
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash recovery recovery.img
(Replace the recovery.img name with the correct name of the img file)
Steve
lowertar said:
Background:
Rooting and flashing roms since the HTC Hero, continued with the HTC Evo 4G, and currently on the GNexus. I am not a programmer, but very comfortable with several rooting methods and I understand the ins’ and out’s of backups, nightlys and bugs and glitches.
I bought an Asus Transformer Prime (Tf201) as soon as I could. I resisted the urge to root because its lightly skinned ICS Rom was really good. Once JB came out, I started getting antsy and started researching root methods.
I was on build version .28, and after a couple of failed root attempts Debugfs Root v1.8 worked.
I tried several roms, CM 10, Team EOS, AdroWook- and things were good, until….
Current State:
I think it was CM 10, things were just OK.. not great, and I missed some of the stock Asus apps which I liked and used often. I was previously on AndroWook, which was awesome because it had stock apps, plus many more customizations. So I Nandroid via TWRP as my recovery. And flashed CM 10. Didn’t like it so I flashed the nandroid backup of the Androwook ROM.
Now here is where things went bad. I didn’t factory reset wipe before flashing the nandroid. I did wipe cache and davlik.
Everything was fine. Until I noticed a few bugs, and I chalked it up to not fully wiping before the restore. So I tried to go back into recovery and wipe and re-flash the restore file. But no recovery found.
Nothing is left of a recovery file. And while loading up Titanium Backup it says I am not rooted.
I spend a lot of time trying to fix it. Trying to re-root via debugs, getting busy box, Super user, nothing works, I can’t get to recovery, I am not rooted anymore and none of the root methods work. I have a custom rom on, AndroWook, working fine, but I am stuck, no recovery no updates, no titanium backup, nothing!
Recap:
• Was unlocked, rooted, and on custom roms. TWRP was recovery image.
• Was on CM 10, didn’t like it, flashed back to ArndoWook via Nandroid backup restore
• Did not factory reset before flashing back to nandroid, but wiped cache and davlik
• Now the rom is no longer rooted, can’t use any of the root methods, always says SU not found
• I think it has something to do with superuser, at least that what every app that needs root can’t find.
• NO recovery image available,
Any Ideas? Thanks for the help
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Me too!
So I'm in the same trouble you are in only got there a little differently. For me without thinking I had accepted the Firmware update for the keyboard dock. After that installed my keyboard is bricked. The Tablet sees it and sucks from its battery, but none of the keys or track pad work. So I decided to do a complete full wipe of everything (Also on Androwook 1.3) and cleared out everything. It all looked like it went good, until I noticed no root. I tried to get back into recovery and cannot. Can't even get into Fastboot. Here is the details of what I'm looking at.
When I try to get into Recovery/Fastboot - Holding PWR and Volume Up will make the tablet buzz like its going to turn on but then never does. I will only see something on screen if I don't hold volume down and let it boot normally. If I try to reboot into Recovery from power menu, it goes to the dead Android screen (Android laying on his back with red exclamation).
So I tried to recover root and kept noticing that all the methods were giving 'access denied' or 'could not copy file' messages. Finally drilled this down to missing SU. When I ADB Shell in and try to SU it give me a 'SU: not found'. Unfortunately I don't have a backup of this anywhere and the only once I've been able to find is in the System/Xbin/ folder. However when I go to Xbin and SU it gives me the same 'SU: not found' message even though I see it in there.
Is there a way to download the SU and put it somewhere else to be able to get full access so I can then try the other steps of recovery?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm going a little crazy here. Thanks in advance!
Hello! I'm new-ish here... As in I just opened an account to post after watching from the sidelines for a few months now.
Anyway,
I'm having problems with my phone. I was running ViperLTE 2.1.1 and recently switched to CyanogenMod. My sdcard wouldn't work correctly, so I tried to go back to stock, and my phone never made it past the "HTC" boot screen. I've tried reflashing and whatnot almost a dozen times, including restoring my nandroid backup, with no luck. Now I can't even access it via adb. What do I do?
Fastboot the stock boot image. The instructions are in the development section. Are you s off?
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MJL99 said:
Fastboot the stock boot image. The instructions are in the development section. Are you s off?
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I'm not s-off, and I have tried that multiple times, and at this point I can't get to adb or fastboot. I'm having trouble even accessing the bootloader.
EDIT: I got to the bootloader and adb/fastboot, but still flashing any boot image does nothing to fix the problem, and I'm still stuck at the htc screen.
19wolf said:
I'm not s-off, and I have tried that multiple times, and at this point I can't get to adb or fastboot. I'm having trouble even accessing the bootloader.
EDIT: I got to the bootloader and adb/fastboot, but still flashing any boot image does nothing to fix the problem, and I'm still stuck at the htc screen.
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You are flashing the stock boot image right? From here for example.
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Are you installing a stock(-based) ROM or restoring a nandroid?
mdmower said:
You are flashing the stock boot image right? From [[Link removed because of new-user limits]] for example.
Code:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
Are you installing a stock(-based) ROM or restoring a nandroid?
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Yeah. I'm repeatedly flashing the stock boot image and restarting, to no avail. According to the CyanogenMod forum, I need to install a stock-based ROM and then format my sdcard (to fix my initial problem)... and then restore my nandroid afterwards. At this point, it would be nice to just be able to restore the nandroid and have a phone that makes calls for a day-trip I'm going on tomorrow.
19wolf said:
Yeah. I'm repeatedly flashing the stock boot image and restarting, to no avail. According to the CyanogenMod forum, I need to install a stock-based ROM and then format my sdcard (to fix my initial problem)... and then restore my nandroid afterwards. At this point, it would be nice to just be able to restore the nandroid and have a phone that makes calls for a day-trip I'm going on tomorrow.
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Just to check, after flashing the stock boot.img, you have installed a stock ROM or restored a stock-based ROM from a nandroid right (i.e. you're sure the backup is not from CyanogenMod)? The boot image alone isn't going to do anything. Also, depending on whether you were running Viper 1.x or 2.x, you need a different boot.img. The boot.img for Viper 1.x can be found here.
If restoring your nandroid backup doesn't work, freshly install Stock (or Viper).
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Just to check, after flashing the stock boot.img, you have installed a stock ROM or restored a stock-based ROM from a nandroid right (i.e. you're sure the backup is not from CyanogenMod)? The boot image alone isn't going to do anything. Also, depending on whether you were running Viper 1.x or 2.x, you need a different boot.img. The boot.img for Viper 1.x can be found here.
If restoring your nandroid backup doesn't work, freshly install Stock (or Viper).
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I'll try that when I get to the computer, but do I need to use twrp or can I continue to use cwm? Also I can't access the sd card via my computer to put the rom onto it because it doesn't mount when I'm booted into recovery
19wolf said:
I'll try that when I get to the computer, but do I need to use twrp or can I continue to use cwm? Also I can't access the sd card via my computer to put the rom onto it because it doesn't mount when I'm booted into recovery
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Either TWRP or CWM will work. There is a test version of CWM that enables USB mass storage support... but I haven't yet tested the feature under Windows.
I got it to work, via side-loading the zip and then flashing the boot.img. I don't know why I was having so many problems before... But they're better now. Thanks for your help
im having major issues here with my device it all started with me trying to flash it to cynogenmod 10 which apparantly my device has the s-on so i was stuck in the cmod boot logo, luckily i backed up my device prior to that with the stock rom and everything so i restored successfully back to my stock rom. then i was reading along some forums to see what the problem was and i came accrosss this forum "http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-lte-all-things-root/606748-how-install-kernels-s-h-boot-1-15-a.html" which gave me a few options on how to flash kernels with the right one that will work with cynogen mod, i chose option 1 because it said it is recommended which the steps were to take the rom "boot.img" file and copy it over to the android sdk platform tools folder and open up a cmd and i flashed the rom "boot.img" which according to the forum that contains the kernel that belongs with that rom i did what it ask went to fastboot mode and typed in fastboot boot boot.img, which succeeded, when i rebooted the device it boots up acting like it is trying to open up recovery mode which is twrp recovery, after that it does nothing it blacks out and a little white bar flashes on top of the screen from time to time then it turns off and reboots and do same cyckle, i attempted to go back to twrp and restore my stock rom which said it succeeded but when i rebooted it did the same thing acted like it was tryning to boot up to recovery being inforemd with those red letter about developmental purposes only stuff, so i factory rested my device wiped dalvik cache and cache and even wiped the system rom and restored my back up with stock rom and nothing works still, please help i am stuck please!!
You probably need to pull the boot.img from a stock ROM and send it via fastboot since your trying to go back to your stock backup.
thanks, but now i got the cynogen mod 10 to boot up now for some reason the touch screen does not respond to the touch neither does the capacative touch buttons work either do you have any idea what it could be?
If you have the 3.16 OTA update then you're touchscreen firmware is incompatible. If this is the case your stuck with 3.16 based roms. Cm will not work for you.
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well the 3.16 ota update is that the latest one?
Yes. If you have the 3.16 update the only way your going to get cm to work is to s-off and downgrade you're tp firmware.
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do you know were i can find these recourses on how to do this? i know that it has something to do with dirtyracun or something like that but i didnt really didnt understand their website on how to s-off and how to i downgrade my tp firmware
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do you know were i can find these recourses on how to do this? i know that it has something to do with dirtyracun or something like that but i didnt really didnt understand their website on how to s-off and how to i downgrade my tp firmware
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I'll try..
First and foremost you need to go here http://themikmik.com/showthread.php?13192-RADIOS-RECOVERY-FLASHABLE-Jewel-Radio-Collection&p=220556&viewfull=1#post220556 and download the boot.img only for whatever version of the stock rom your backup is.
Put it in your sdk tools and open a command prompt and fastboot flash boot boot.img
Go to twrp recovery and WIPE cache, dalvik, factory reset, and system.
Restore your stock backup.
Reboot.
If you can get back to your stock rom, then you should read up on dirty racun or possibly facepalm to gain s-off if you want to run cm.