So hey guys. Im new to all these things but read a lot about it before doing something.
So here's what i did and where it went wrong:
- I unlocked and rooted my phone with the All-in-one-tool from Hasoon2000 (nice tool Hasoon!)
- After that i made a recovery with CWM, which i copied to my PC as a backup.
- Then i wanted to flash the bindroid ROM from DutchDanny and in here it propably went wrong. What i did was the following:
To install the ROM i needed TWRP, so i flashed it and made a recovery in there.
Then i flashed a boot.img from the download section of the bindroid ROM, without wiping cache
So the ROM installed fine, but my IMEI was lost, so i used the recovery from TWRP and it gave me my IMEI back.
But in the thread of the ROM it says it sometimes need a retry to install so i decided to flash the boot.img again (without wiping cache ).
Still no IMEI in the ROM and recovered through the TWRP. But this time i did not get my IMEI back..
So now i have still the CWM recovery, a .img file. Do i have to flash this again with flash boot.img to gain my IMEI back?
Any help would be appreciated!
(sorry mods if its supposed to be in the thread of the custom ROM, but since thats in the develloppers section, I cant post in there)
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Hmm somehow i managed to recover it.. I just tried to flash some recovery files with the toolkit. Now its working again.
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Someone help me please!
I had a Flyer running HC 3.2.1, Hboot 1.11.0011. Then i unlock it via HTCdev, install recovery v6.0.1.1 HC and root with superuser 3.1.3 but i didn't s-off because i dont know how to s-off 1.11.00.11 Hboot.
Yesterday i installed Nexus flyer v1.2. My Flyer still ran very good but not have 3G. Then i downgrade it to DextersJB but when i finished it my tablet had boot loop. I had already wipe cache/factory, wipe data and flash boot.img (i used boot-htckeys.img). I tried to do that again but my tablet still have boot loop.
Can someone help me? Thank you very much!
(sorry because english is not my first language)
So are you booted into DextersJB now? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2164891
Since you've been bouncing around in different threads and also PMs, I'm completely confused about where you are at, whether you have bothered to try my suggestions, etc.
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super_star_0806 said:
. Then i downgrade it to DextersJB but when i finished it my tablet had boot loop. I had already wipe cache/factory, wipe data and flash boot.img (i used boot-htckeys.img).
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What do you mean "i used boot-htckeys.img" ? The only boot.img you should be using is the one you extract from the zip file for the ROM you downloaded. YOu can't use a boot.img from somewhere else. This may be your issue.
The process should be:
Download ROM to your PC
Extract boot.img from the ROM Zip file
Move the entire zip file to your SD card
Boot Clockworkmod (CWM)
Factory reset, wipe cache, and wipe Dalvik in CWM
Flash ROM using CWM
Reboot into hboot, connect to PC and select fastboot
Flash boot.img using fastboot
Reboot
same trouble, but broke recovery
Hi redpoint, I saw ur advice to a guy with a similar issue. I stuffed up installing dexters rom by not flashing the boot image, however I cannot get back in to cwm recovery, first of all I got a bootloop, then I tried to re-flash my cwm recovery.img, but now i just get htc logo, so no boot, no recovery. How do i get cwm recovery back?! i only have access to the hoot menus, so only able to flash via fastboot. I think i need the correct recovery img for cwm? any advice is much appreciated.
Hi all,
For backup purpose :angel:, I tried to upgrade to the latest Recovery_CWM_6.0.4.7_I9100.zip using Install Zip from an older CWM of my Samsung Galaxy S2.
And I'm in big trouble because after installing the clockworkmod recovery the phone won't boot anymore. It's stuck on "Galaxy SII - GT-I9100 - SAMSUNG" splash screen :crying:
The CWM works and gives this log:
I:Can't partition non mmcblk device: /devices/platform/dw_mmc//mmc_host/mmc0/mmc0
I can mount partition and accessed it from my pc.
I wiped cache and dalvic cache without more luck.
There is no vibration on boot either.
As my data aren't backup yet, I don't want to wip them out with some ROM. Did I miss something?
Any hint about what I should do to have the phone boot again would be greatly appreciated! :highfive:
Cheers
@GalaxyS2u did you flashed the right cwm/kernel for your rom since they are included in one boot.img? If you cannot flash an new rom anymore in the recovery or reflash the kernel /recovery then you need to flash an kernel/recovery in odin. Try an odin philz kernel if there is one else flash siyahkernel with odin.
And that partition thing is that even an valid partition ?
Backup your data first in recovery then try my things i suggested. I still think that the reason why it doesnt boot is because you flashed the wrong recovery/kernel.
Are you on stock btw? I suggest to try to flash philz kernel if you are on stock.
@wulsic
Thanks a lot for your hint :good:. That saves my precious! :victory:
I can manage to come back to my old CWM recovery with a flash of siyah with odin.
The new CWM works only with a new ROM and not with my old stock. With this experience, I am even able to upgrade to the KitKat version.
Viva this model and this community!
@GalaxyS2u glad to hear you figured it out I also had that problem when i flashed S2 first i soon found out that kernel/recovery were in one happy flashing?
Hello I was having problems in backing up data in nandroid using cwm recovery. Some nice guy suggested me to change my recovery so I did.
Now i have messed up real bad, i flashed a philz recovery which I had used in a stock based rom and the backup was successful but then the phone couldn't boot up. So i restored the boot patrition from a previously made backup. This way i successfully booted up my phone and got previous recovery. So far so good. Now i knew that the problem is in recovery. I also had a raw kernel file which I had used to flash the cm11 rom so i flashed that kernel. But then i restated device to find out that i have now lost root access. I tried flashing super su via raw kernels twrp recovery but I saw no effect despite it being flashed. I cannot flash the recovery because the curreny twrp recovery crashes when i try to flash that.
Current situation is that I am getting constant unlimited, system process is crashed, errors and I can see no signal from mobile operator. Wifi is working fine.
Please help me, my phone is almost unusable with this error but I have access to all the apps, functions etc. in case you can suggest me to use it.
UPDATE:
Tried to flash a latest version of cm11 and now booted up correctly. root checker says I am rooted.
got latest cwm as well
Now I need to take backup to see if the initial problem is there or not.
As the issue highlighted in this thread is solved, I will mark this as solved and will reply to future problems (related to not being able to backup /data) in the following thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help/cwms-nandroid-backup-fails-to-backup-t2899038
Been on the Samsung side of the street for the past four years so if it wasn't named after a accient Viking God then I'm lost However just a couple questions if I may: I am unlocked, rooted, recovery installed, & TA backed up however not real sure how the whole boot image flash works, does this need to be done everytime I go to flash a ROM? Also do I have to reflash recovery everytime I flash a ROM? just remember reading that somewhere, been trying to read all I can
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Been on the Samsung side of the street for the past four years so if it wasn't named after a accient Viking God then I'm lost However just a couple questions if I may: I am unlocked, rooted, recovery installed, & TA backed up however not real sure how the whole boot image flash works, does this need to be done everytime I go to flash a ROM? Also do I have to reflash recovery everytime I flash a ROM? just remember reading that somewhere, been trying to read all I can
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You only need to flash a boot image once to get the recovery going if you have a locked bootloader then this will have to be done, if it is unlocked as you have said then you do not need to do this again. The recovery should stay how it is. Some kernels that you can flash have twrp and usually cwm included, when you flash it you'll have access to both.
Cool, welcome!
The recovery is included in the kernel (boot.img), so it's automatically updated/flashed every time you install a ROM zip through recovery. The very first time you install a CM/AOSP/etc ROM, you may have to first flash the boot image through fastboot, like you said, to get a recovery compatible with the ROM. I think you only have to do this when going from stock based recovery to AOSP based recovery.
Oops, got beaten.
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You only need to flash a boot image once to get the recovery going if you have a locked bootloader then this will have to be done, if it is unlocked as you have said then you do not need to do this again. The recovery should stay how it is. Some kernels that you can flash have twrp and usually cwm included, when you flash it you'll have access to both.
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You have installed recovery (dual by [NUT]?). most ROMs are completable with both twrp and cwm. Just flash the zip for the rom (after making a backup. choose the recovery that is in the ROM*). if this fails then you can flash the boot.img from the zip with adb/fastboot (fastboot flash boot <boot_img_name>). most ROMs only contain one recovery
* CM based normally have cwm. Slim, omni, candy all use twrp from memory
Okay thanks guys very much appreciated, so if I'm understanding you correctly then I don't need to flash any "boot images" becuase I am already unlocked and on a non stock recovery(dual recovery by NUT) becuase the "boot image" is just the recovery? So since I already have nuts dual recovery then I should be good to
Enter TWRP
Nandroid, Wipe
Flash CM 11+Gapps
Reboot
???
If not correct please let me know, sorry just trying to make sure I'm understanding this correctly, and if not then my ass needs to go read some more ;+)
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Okay thanks guys very much appreciated, so if I'm understanding you correctly then I don't need to flash any "boot images" becuase I am already unlocked and on a non stock recovery(dual recovery by NUT) becuase the "boot image" is just the recovery? So since I already have nuts dual recovery then I should be good to
Enter TWRP
Nandroid, Wipe
Flash CM 11+Gapps
Reboot
???
If not correct please let me know, sorry just trying to make sure I'm understanding this correctly, and if not then my ass needs to go read some more ;+)
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boot.img is the kernel (and ramdisk etc) + recovery
If you are going to flash CM the do it from cwm as then the nandroid backup can be flashed from the recovery that cm uses. other than that you are about right (wipe both caches and /data, dont wipe /system. the ROM will take care of this)
Hey guys,
i tried to root my cellphone but since im not experienced with stuff like this i asked a friend of mine for help, but we kinda stuck so i need help. First i unlocked the bootloader then i flashed the 3.0.2.0 recovery and afterwards twrp didnt work out so i flashed an another version and then i made a backup. Then i swiped the factory reset & system, then i flashed the cyanogenmod 11 rom and google apps. And then i flashed the boot.img per fastboot and since then i can only enter the recovery but not the system nor i can fastboot. also i cant install a new rom. And once i missclicked on root tho the bootloader was rebooting. i would highly appreciate your help