So yesterday i was using my phone and it randomly froze, then crashed and restarted and went into a bootloop.
So with my bootloader unlocked i attempt to do a factory reset, it brings me back to the bootloader, so i try to check the mount section and it tells me it can't mount internal/sd_card. So i assume that was the problem.
So for the entire day i've been trying to fix it, i relocked the bootloader and put an OTA_ruby on my external sd and ran that in fastboot, and it goes through the whole process then brings me back to the bootloader screen as if nothing it different. Rebooted, and it's still looping.
At the very least i'd like to remove the ***relocked*** on the bootloader screen so i can send it back in and get it replaced since i suspect this to be a hardware defect, but that's just my guess at least. I also attempted flashing with Hasoons tool when my bootloader was unlocked.
Please help, anyone have any ideas?
eurphoricessence said:
So yesterday i was using my phone and it randomly froze, then crashed and restarted and went into a bootloop.
So with my bootloader unlocked i attempt to do a factory reset, it brings me back to the bootloader, so i try to check the mount section and it tells me it can't mount internal/sd_card. So i assume that was the problem.
So for the entire day i've been trying to fix it, i relocked the bootloader and put an OTA_ruby on my external sd and ran that in fastboot, and it goes through the whole process then brings me back to the bootloader screen as if nothing it different. Rebooted, and it's still looping.
At the very least i'd like to remove the ***relocked*** on the bootloader screen so i can send it back in and get it replaced since i suspect this to be a hardware defect, but that's just my guess at least. I also attempted flashing with Hasoons tool when my bootloader was unlocked.
Please help, anyone have any ideas?
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you need to relock your bootloader to flash the stock RUU you cannot do it while your bootloader is unlocked...if you can get to recovery you can just try to do a full wipe and then flash another rom
I did fastboot when my bootloader was locked, with the stock ruu and it just finishes and brings me back to the main menu of bootloader, where i reboot the device and it continues to bootloop.
I also turned my device into mass usb storage, formatted from my pc, and flashed 4ext to no prevail whatsoever. I feel like everything i do is so hopeless.
After formatting from the pc, i was able to mount the internal storage but i still cant get it to hard factory reset without it not reading the internal sd.
eurphoricessence said:
I did fastboot when my bootloader was locked, with the stock ruu and it just finishes and brings me back to the main menu of bootloader, where i reboot the device and it continues to bootloop.
I also turned my device into mass usb storage, formatted from my pc, and flashed 4ext to no prevail whatsoever. I feel like everything i do is so hopeless.
After formatting from the pc, i was able to mount the internal storage but i still cant get it to hard factory reset without it not reading the internal sd.
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flashing the RUU has nothing to do with "fastboot", if your recovery isn't reading your internal sd properly.. check your partition alignment or just use 4ext to "repartition" the whole phone... okay here's what to do..
boot into 4ext recovery...
wipe all partitions (except sd card)
then format the Internal SD card.. then the External SD card
check for the partition alignments (in the tools section)
delete all partitions and re-partition the phone.. when it ask you for the size just select "SKIP"
once that's done reboot the recovery from within recovery (DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR PHONE AND ATTEMPT TO BOOT INTO RECOVERY)
once the phone's back in recovery again mount the phone via USB toggle..
place the ruu that you renamed to PH85IMG on your SD card not in any folders it has to be on the ROOT of the SD Card
next you need to shut down the phone and then remove your battery and then boot your phone back into fastboot..
the phone should then recognize the PH85IMG.zip file on your sd card and prompt you to install the "update" which is the stock ROM
this is the ICS Stock RUU make sure to rename it to PH85IMG before you place it on the SD card...
no luck?
Okay, i booted into recovery, wiped the partitions ( except sd card ), then i formatted both the internal and external cards, and wrote the new partitions by skipping through to the end. Then rebooted the phone into recovery from the 4ext menu, i placed PH85IMG.zip on my external sd card via usb toggle, shut the phone down took the battery out and it read the image but after the blue bar filled up it brought me back into the bootloader menu again, it never mentioned a "update" also i thought you could only use the stock ruu if your bootloader was locked?
My phone did that, I was able to format the internal sd on my pc, then formatted again in 4ext. I had a Rom, nandroid backup, and superwipe script on my ext-sd. So I ran superwipe, flashed the Rom I had been using (Energy-stock look) and then restored data from the backup, and then everything was well.
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eurphoricessence said:
Okay, i booted into recovery, wiped the partitions ( except sd card ), then i formatted both the internal and external cards, and wrote the new partitions by skipping through to the end. Then rebooted the phone into recovery from the 4ext menu, i placed PH85IMG.zip on my external sd card via usb toggle, shut the phone down took the battery out and it read the image but after the blue bar filled up it brought me back into the bootloader menu again, it never mentioned a "update" also i thought you could only use the stock ruu if your bootloader was locked?
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yes, i was assuming that you already relocked your bootloader for flashing back to stock.. and while flashing back to stock the PH85IMG zip on the sd card is usually read as an "update" i think when installing if i remember correctly
Ninjistix said:
yes, i was assuming that you already relocked your bootloader for flashing back to stock.. and while flashing back to stock the PH85IMG zip on the sd card is usually read as an "update" i think when installing if i remember correctly
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well, i did all that exactly as you said, then relocked my bootloader and tried to install the update but it just brings me back to the bootloader menu... like before is there no hope?
is your bootloader still "relocked" and can you get back to recovery?
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is your bootloader still "relocked" and can you get back to recovery?
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my bootloader is still locked, i can still get into hard factory reset menu is that what you mean?
no i don't mean do a factory reset from the bootloader that doesn't really work well unless your phone is on stock.. and if you can get to recovery you might need to place your sd card in the phone and re-partition the whole file system from 4ext recovery.. because it sounds to me like your system files and file structure got corrupted somehow
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no i don't mean do a factory reset from the bootloader that doesn't really work well unless your phone is on stock.. and if you can get to recovery you might need to place your sd card in the phone and re-partition the whole file system from 4ext recovery.. because it sounds to me like your system files and file structure got corrupted somehow
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How would i do this? Because i thought that was what we tried before.
Thank you for all your help by the way, i really hope we can get my phone booted up again.
eurphoricessence said:
How would i do this? Because i thought that was what we tried before.
Thank you for all your help by the way, i really hope we can get my phone booted up again.
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just read back through have you tried a different sd card to make sure its not the sd card? and yes i just realized i repeated myself.. im kinda lost as to what could be wrong
Ninjistix said:
just read back through have you tried a different sd card to make sure its not the sd card? and yes i just realized i repeated myself.. im kinda lost as to what could be wrong
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Well i followed your steps from before, but my bootloader has to be unlocked to get into 4ext recovery to repartition and such. Should i follow all those steps, then relock and use the SD card to flash the stock ruu?
eurphoricessence said:
Well i followed your steps from before, but my bootloader has to be unlocked to get into 4ext recovery to repartition and such. Should i follow all those steps, then relock and use the SD card to flash the stock ruu?
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you might be able to use internal storage to flash back to stock also.. you can just and place the ph85img on the internal storage try it and see.. but the bootloader only has to be unlocked in order to flash a custom recovery.. nothing else really..
Ninjistix said:
you need to relock your bootloader to flash the stock RUU you cannot do it while your bootloader is unlocked...if you can get to recovery you can just try to do a full wipe and then flash another rom
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This might be a silly question or may be I'm not very familiar with "stock RUU" but I just renamed the Tmous rom as PH85IMG and flashed running Juopunutbear Hboot and it did flash, and it said "relocked" afterward.
Actually I wasn't able to lock the bootloader before flashing RUU with the AIO kit.
Am I doing it wrong?
Ninjistix said:
you might be able to use internal storage to flash back to stock also.. you can just and place the ph85img on the internal storage try it and see.. but the bootloader only has to be unlocked in order to flash a custom recovery.. nothing else really..
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No luck with using the internal storage as a method to flash.
I'd like to mention i am not S-off, i only unlocked my bootloader.
Just so we're on the same page for the repartitioning , this is what i did:
Unlocked bootloader - try to get into recovery, then i followed these steps
boot into 4ext recovery...
wipe all partitions (except sd card)
then format the Internal SD card.. then the External SD card
check for the partition alignments (in the tools section)
delete all partitions and re-partition the phone.. when it ask you for the size just select "SKIP"
once that's done reboot the recovery from within recovery (DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR PHONE AND ATTEMPT TO BOOT INTO RECOVERY)
once the phone's back in recovery again mount the phone via USB toggle..
place the ruu that you renamed to PH85IMG on your SD card not in any folders it has to be on the ROOT of the SD Card
next you need to shut down the phone and then remove your battery and then boot your phone back into fastboot..
"with sd card removed" relocked bootloader
pulled my battery and got back into fastboot with the sd card in my phone this time " renamed it PH85IMG.zip"
and no luck... did i do something wrong?
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I loaded the Gingerth3ory Rom and it freezes and reboots. I tried loading Rom Manager and cant get it to reboot in recovery. I tried hboot and cant do anything there. Can anyone point me in the right direction to recover my phone.
I cant get it to stay up long enough to do anything. Constant reboot or freeze.
Make sure there is no radio images on the root of your sd card, power off, boot while holding volume down. From the boot loader menu select recovery
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greenjeans said:
Make sure there is no radio images on the root of your sd card, power off, boot while holding volume down. From the boot loader menu select recovery
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Ok just formatted the sd card and put 3 .apk's on there and the Rom I want. Reboot to hboot, selected recovery and nothing. Boots into the Rom the Im having problems with. My phone stays on less then a minute before it freezes and reboots. Cant do much.
Ok I formatted the sd card and read it needed a signed image , so installed on sd boot to hboot hit recovery and nothing still goes into old rom that freezes and cant do anything.
Ok I formatted the sd card and read it needed a signed image , so installed on sd boot to hboot hit recovery and nothing still goes into old rom that freezes and cant do anything. Ok well up and running. lol live and learn.
formatting the sd card with anything but cwm seems to create problems, especially with hboot.
You have clockworkmod recovery installed?
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No actually loaded signed verizon full version I had saved. Renamed it , booted in hboot and it loaded that. Learned alot so far. Read read read. Coming from a DX so its a little different.
I just loaded the Pure AOSP, posted today and now when i try to restore back to other rom, the phone is stuck in boot loop, how can i get access back to sd-ext to load my restore image and boot up.
aggrogade said:
I just loaded the Pure AOSP, posted today and now when i try to restore back to other rom, the phone is stuck in boot loop, how can i get access back to sd-ext to load my restore image and boot up.
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Have you been reading the development thread?
yes, but they do not say which images they use to get back this functionality, they have just stated they used sbf then an image. My question is i have an unlocked phone, should i got back through the whole process of unlocking and rooting again to regain control of the phone, or what exact steps are needed, i have already tried to edit the files in /etc/ to point to the external card but to no avail.
Thanks
aggrogade said:
yes, but they do not say which images they use to get back this functionality, they have just stated they used sbf then an image. My question is i have an unlocked phone, should i got back through the whole process of unlocking and rooting again to regain control of the phone, or what exact steps are needed, i have already tried to edit the files in /etc/ to point to the external card but to no avail.
Thanks
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You won't be able to, as stated in the OP, there's a seperate option in Storage settings within the ROM because you can only read from either internal or external SD, one at a time. So that means you have to put any items you want to flash on the internal SD card to flash them with CWM. It won't read the external SD card in recovery mode.
I have, all my backups and rom images are located on the sdcard
==> backups
/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup
==> Roms
/sdcard/roms
When i try to restore the backups, i get the boot loop and the same for the roms, or some roms wont load at all. my main rom has been homebase, and it just hangs or it fails with error about sd-ext when in recovery. this is what i am trying to figure out, is how to get back to that point before the pure aosp install, do i start from scratch or is there another way.
Download the recovery image from romracer's thread and flashboot it via pc/cmd. You still can put the phone into fastboot mode.
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I have a flashable cwm version of romracers recovery on my int sd card.GForgot where I got it from but I copied it to my ext sd so if I ever get stuck I can cwm a good recovery.
thanks i am going to try that now, as now when i try to boot phone, i get the android screen, then it just dies nothing, so i will do the recovery image.
Thanks
Deggy said:
Download the recovery image from romracer's thread and flashboot it via pc/cmd. You still can put the phone into fastboot mode.
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Thanks that fixed it, that was what i was looking for the recovery image, was not sure if this one or the 234-xxx-update was it. Homebase back up and running now.
Phoneguy589 said:
I have a flashable cwm version of romracers recovery on my int sd card.GForgot where I got it from but I copied it to my ext sd so if I ever get stuck I can cwm a good recovery.
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Thanks for the idea, where did you get the flashable image from
Keep getting this error in 4ext recovery: 4 ext recovery you are currently in safe_mode that means that some of your internal partitions are not accessible. Please wipe all partitions and then reboot recovery
I am trying to flash an android revolution hd rom
my phone is rooted , s offed, super cid, ICS
i wiped everything
did the android revolution hd super wipe
do i flash kernel first? and which kernel should i use?
phone keeps going back to HTC screen and stays stuck on it.
i am familiar with adb and cmd
any advice???
have you tried to flash any other roms? and make sure smart flash is enabled when trying to flash your rom?, or you can re-partition your device with 4EXT then use the "toggle usb" to mount your sd card and place the rom on there then try and flash it
Had that issue with a friend. Your internal storage is corrupted. Toggle USB and go on your computer. Right click the internal SD and format it. Restart recovery and it will be good to go.
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Ninjistix said:
have you tried to flash any other roms? and make sure smart flash is enabled when trying to flash your rom?, or you can re-partition your device with 4EXT then use the "toggle usb" to mount your sd card and place the rom on there then try and flash it
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i was looking all over my house for a sd card adapter i never found when there was a "usb toggle" option on 4ext recovery all along!!!!
thanks for letting me know. and thanks for everyone else who helped.
i put the ruby faux kernel on the sd card. i will wipe everything and flash super wipe, flash kernel, flash rom, and see what happens...thanks again!
jlnive said:
i was looking all over my house for a sd card adapter i never found when there was a "usb toggle" option on 4ext recovery all along!!!!
thanks for letting me know. and thanks for everyone else who helped.
i put the ruby faux kernel on the sd card. i will wipe everything and flash super wipe, flash kernel, flash rom, and see what happens...thanks again!
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If you are still facing problems, you could always use this S-Off only tool: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762936
still stuck
Keylogger_0 said:
If you are still facing problems, you could always use this S-Off only tool: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762936
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still stuck at the white screen with green htc letters. ill try using the tool.
do this
Ninjistix said:
here's a way to return to stock RUU, you need the all-in-one toolkit from hasoon2000
download this file Here and rename it to PH85IMG.zip (this file is for ICS) the older one for GB didnt work for me
use the "Relock Bootloader" command on hasoon's toolkit to relock your bootloader (i received a security warning when doing so, but still worked)
place the PH85IMG.zip file on the root of your SD Card
turn off device and remove the battery. Reinsert the battery then simultaneously hold the volume down and power buttons (to boot fastboot)
Fastboot will detect the image file on your external storage. After it loads, accept the "update" - this will revert you to stock (including recovery and radio).
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yes the file listed in that quote is the one for wind mobile.. i updated it
I'm probably coming too late, but I ran into this issue before. It's because I flashed a new Rom, and rebooted my phone before finishing the initial setup. You have to get passed that first and get to the home screen, or the internal sd card doesn't get partitioned properly. Did you do something similar to this?
In any case, I wish you luck!
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I recently got a replacement device after I cracked the screen on my old one. I successfully switched to s-off using hansoon's all in one toolkit. However, now every time it starts up, the juoponaut screen comes up and it stays there. I booted into recovery(Amon Ra) and tried to wipe and flash a ROM and it still does the same thing even when it says it has finished installing in Recovery I noticed I am getting a message that says
E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcbk1p2
(file exists)
E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk1) (invalid argument)
Is there some way I can fix this. I have tried manualy mounting and it didn't seem to do anything.
I got confused reading through some of it because of the way it was typed out. But the errors in recovery are broken partitions, easy fix is do or have a nandroid backup if you need to...
1. flash your RUU
2. than make sure you flash your recovery right after the RUU before doing this next part.
3. than when your back on stock ROM go to settings
4. than storage
5. than unmount your SD card from there and click format SD card and reboot into recovery and install your ROM.
Was your s-off successful or do you need more help?
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bunchies said:
I got confused reading through some of it because of the way it was typed out. But the errors in recovery are broken partitions, easy fix is do or have a nandroid backup if you need to...
1. flash your RUU
2. than make sure you flash your recovery right after the RUU before doing this next part.
3. than when your back on stock ROM go to settings
4. than storage
5. than unmount your SD card from there and click format SD card and reboot into recovery and install your ROM.
Was your s-off successful or do you need more help?
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Thanks! I'll try this after class today and see if it works. And yes S-off was successful. I just get a boot image like the one when you do the wire trick when I start up my phone.
So here's the story, I'm on a new version of cm, I decided to install a thicklizard kernel, did a backup in twrp (newest version), I'm s-off, and it wouldnt boot. It just hangs on the boot animation. So no big deal right? I go to my bootloader to get back into recovery but I have a firmware img on the root folder of internal storage so it tries to install that, I say no, and it asks to reboot my phone, no option to go into recovery (used to be able to on the 3d or og). So now I let it boot up to the animation and I go try adb... well it says device is offline. I have debugging on and what I'm pretty sure is the newest platform tools (adb etc.). So I'm stuck, no adb, no accessible bootloader, no workable rom... any ideas? Is there a button combination to boot into fastboot, recovery, or wipe my phone? Any help woiuld be great
delete, I solved it. removed my sd card :silly:
gmelchert said:
delete, I solved it. removed my sd card :silly:
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Ran in to that problem a LIL while ago had to do the same with removing sd card, glad you figured it out bro:thumbup:
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