So it started when I wanted to do a factory reset. I was running 4.1.2 stock and the phone has never been rooted or modified. For some reason, no matter what i tried i could not get the phone into recovery mode. I tried every button combination and watched every youtube video, no luck. Download mode was working though.
So i gave up and just did the reset from within the OS settings. After this was done i was curious to see if the recovery mode would work, still no luck. I think it's important to have that working in case you have trouble with your phone so i felt the need to resolve this. I also thought it would be cool to root my phone so i planned to flash a new kernel which would also rewrite the recovery mode, root the phone, and leave the stock rom.
By this time i had added some of the apps back to my phone that were wiped during the factory reset, most of which i put on my sandisk sd card. I first tried flashing a no frills kernel called Jeboo using heimdall on my mac. It worked fine but still no luck getting to recovery mode. The phone looked like it was trying. After the appropriate button combo the screen would would keep flashing a faint grey but never load to recovery.
Also, after i flashed this kernel i noticed that all the apps i downloaded to my sd card were gone. Only a transparent image with a little "sd" icon remained and when i clicked on one it would say the app was not installed. Not sure why a kernel would affect this since i didn't change the rom.
Anyhow, i was still focused on getting recovery mode working so that i could finally root my phone. I tried another kernel called speedmod.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2140192
Good news it worked and i was finally able to get to recovery mode which was now run by CWM. Finished rooting,
As far as the apps go i was able to re-download all the apps that disappeared from my sd card. The weird thing is, there were a couple of apps i notice so far that were not on my sd card that disappeared completely. Season zen hd and betterbatterystats. The problem is when i re-download these ones it says "cannot install to usb or sd card" I tried wiping dalvik and cache partition with no change.
The question is:
Why would apps get wiped from a kernel update? As i will likely update kernels in the future is this going to be a constant issue?
Why can't a reinstall a few of the apps?
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I had the stock rom installed but I had recovery on it and I decided to just load the new rom on it and I didn't realize I was suppose to root the phone before flashing. So basically everything was a little weird. When it started and was at the unlock screen it said sim card is locked and I don't have a sim card. Then later when looking at the sd card it was saying -- for the available space and space used. I tried to format it and it said please wait while calculating and was showing some odd algebra equation. Then it just did a soft reset and basically showed the IHO boot screen then the loading screen. No LG icon thus being a soft reset. But that is all it would do. And upon trying to shut it off it was showing no option to shut off just a bunch of odd icons and one saying airplane mode or something with a power icon next to it. So I chose it and it was saying something like reset and it had menu for a title. So I chose it and it shut off. So I was just wanting to make sure that if I rooted it before re installing the IHO that this would clear up those issues.
You need a custom recovery to install custom ROMs. Here is a tutorial how to flash one without rooting.
You need custom recovery to install custom roms and to flash custom recovery without rooting Follow http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1318750
you just need to format your system with any method
and then flash new one
that's what recovery do
may be sometime adb also help
I have this installed on my phone: Xionia_CWMA_12518.6_VM_Recovery-signed and I use it to get the phone formated with a new rom. I know that I can get a custom rom on the phone perfectly fine when it is rooted. I guess since I did it without it being rooted it somehow made things look corrupt after installing the rom without the phone being rooted. I hope that it will work properly when I get the phone re rooted and install the latest version of the rom I use: BACKside-IHO-VM670-11022011 this is the first rom I ever used to get on my phone so I was thinking of sticking with it unless there is a more stable one that performs better and can run most anything thrown at it. As I have run into a few issues with this rom. I can end up having things run off the sd card and they end up crashing the phone and doing a hard reset as well as games or apps not wanting to work at all and give a force close error. I am really wanting to play annoying orange kitchen carnage I have even tried a stock rom at 2.2.1 and it still didn't work. Is there a specific kernel I should be installing or something?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1197991
This should answer all your questions.
Ok thanks. Just wanted to know as I know how to root and get a rom installed on the phone. So thanks for the help.
A friend of mine sent me his SGS2 which has some strange issue that happened after trying to root and/or simunlock. (not sure what caused this issue).
The phone has stock rom (Telcel Mexico) and is rooted, has CWM and boots properly, but two issues happen:
* Each time your reboot it kind of "factory resets", deleting wifi networks, apps, settings, etc.
* If you flash anything, it succeeds apparently but after rebooting it's still on the same ROM/kernel versions it was before flashing. NO ERRORS. This applies for Odin, with CWM, I have tried installing CM7 and CM9 roms (downloaded 2-3 times) and all say "Can't open /sdcard............./....zip (bad)"
I was hoping that following this thread would help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1457458
However, even flashing the bootloader makes no difference. The count on download mode is stuck on 2 no matter if I install ROMs, kernels, bootloader, etc.
Edit: what's even wirder, I put my microSD card in the phone and it formatted it and replaced my content with my friend's last snapshot. How can such a thing happen? It's as if the phone was locked into some strange "restore" mode...
What can I do with this? I feel kind of stuck with this situation... Have not found any information so far...
Regards
there was similar thread some time ago, it seemedvthat I think the whole system was read only, I'll try to search a bit for that
EDIT: I could't find it but try to mount system and data and stuff in cwm and then tey to flash aome rom, then unmount (I'm not pro but this is what I would try)
Sent from my sgs2 running cm9
Well,
I think the FS mounting issue would work with cwm installable roms, but if I have reinstalled everything from odin, even the bootloader, isn't it strange in that way? I also don't understand why rebooting the phone even rewrites an SD card.
Even the counter on the download mode is stuck on 2, no matter how many times I flash a kernel, rom, bootloader. Odin always reports a successfull upload...
Yep, thag sd card thingy is pretty weird and I have no ide what's causing that.
Sent from my sgs2 running cm9
Well,
I have researched a bit more and found this for the Nexus S:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=993403
This phone has exactly the same symptoms, but as the yellow triangle is on and it always boots into a rooted version, I would like to see if I can do anything so the phone can be sent back for warranty...
Any thoughts?
If you can .
Clean Slate for those that balls up the firmware .Or need to return to service or decide if its hardware/firmware problem .
Backup data first if phone is working .
Boot CWM recovery
Mounts and Storage
Format cache data system sd card .
Remove battery
Boot to download mode
Open Odin
Install correct stock firmware .
Still problems use usb jig to set rom counter to zero .
Return to service centre .
Well,
Have tried everything, but no success. This is really weird, it's as if the whole phone had a backup and restores to this point on every reboot including sd card. Every odin flash comes out as "succeed", but nothing changes.
Will try to build a usb jig and test if it at least gets rid of the yellow triangle. I also can't flash anything via CWM as somehow the memory is "locked"... An external SD card is overwritten if inserted...
Regards
Hey all,
I'm very new to Cyanogen, so sorry if this is a very n00b question.
The ROM Manager doesn't appear to work. It keeps telling me I'm not running ClockWorkMod recovery, and cannot connect to the web to download. I purchased the premium version thinking it would solve this (as well as to support the dev), but no luck. Is it just an issue with the nightlies not capable of handling ROM manager yet, or is it a setting of some sort that I'm neglecting? It's not a huge deal, but it looks like such a nice, simple way to stay up-to-date with the nightly builds as opposed to updating through CWM, wiping, etc.
I saw a post mentioning to go into developer tools and enable root access. The closest I found was in settings and I allowed apps and ADB root access, but this didn't help.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
I'm a bit confused, Why do you require ROM manager? The CWM that is built in with the ICS Kang releases should be doing everything that is required, then again, your reply would matter.
I think I am having the same issue. When I try to Flash ClockworkMod Touch in Rom Manager it keeps telling me I need to first install ClockworkMod Recovery even though I have Recovery 5.5.0.4 currently installed. It did the same thing when I had Recovery 4.0.0.4 installed.
I even tried to "Flash ClockworkMod Recovery" (First option in ROM Manager) and it does nothing.
Any ideas?
BEcause the same menu is in the CWM recovery lol
I'm following one of the threads that updates the kang build every 3 days, and as opposed to having to boot through CWM, wipe, install, then re-install apps and replace widgets, I thought I could update through ROM Manager instead.
It sounds like Sn0warmy and I are having similar issues.
From what I've heard the ROM Manager doesn't really work for the tab yet. If you want to update without replacing all your apps you can just flash the zip file in CWM without doing a wipe. If it causes problems then you could do a wipe & reflash afterwards.
Dolfan058 said:
I'm following one of the threads that updates the kang build every 3 days, and as opposed to having to boot through CWM, wipe, install, then re-install apps and replace widgets, I thought I could update through ROM Manager instead.
It sounds like Sn0warmy and I are having similar issues.
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ROM manager works but it's wonky on the ICS kangs. It doesn't do anything that you can't already do in recovery, so there's no real advantage anyways. Oh, and don't use ROM manager to install a new recovery, and CWR touch doesn't work for the GT10.
^You saved me the trouble of insisting Why thank you good sir.
Thanks for the replies. I'll keep updating through CWM.
Coffeebeans, obviously I'm following your thread (thanks for the good work!) and I tried flashing over once but I got a ton of process media FCs so I figured wiping was the best way to go and have done so ever since. Probably should invest in titanium backup at this point so I don't have to reinstall from market everytime I wipe.
Thanks again for the help y'all.
It worked once with 4/17 build of CM9. After that, it has never worked again. It boots into recovery and pretends its flashing, but stops half a second later and restarts.
Something odd happened today when I tried to update. It rebooted and phone locked up and screen went black. I took out the battery and put it back in then held up and power to go into CWM. All of a sudden Rom Manager took over and flashed the rom as well as the additional zips successfully and rebooted. Everything works.
CWM tries to flash from /emmc. Rom Manager tries to flash from /sdcard and fails. It may be due to the swapped mount points on CM9. in CWM they are still swapped, even if you check the use internal storage box and everything shows up properly in CM9.
I have a fascinate that I rooted and then put CWM 4.0.1.0 on and Cyanogenmod 10.2 nightly build on. I have updated the build a couple times and now I am looking at trying HellyBean.
My trouble is that the phone doesn't seem to erase anything. I boot into CWM and started with factory/data/cache/devilk/battery resets then trying formatting /system and trying the hellybean install multiple times. I reboot into CWM and flash 2-3 times in a row like I have read. I then boot into the phone, not only is hellybean not installed, ALL my data is still on the phone as if I had just done nothing. I have also tried 'fixing permissions' in CWM as well.
I'm a noob and need some assistance.
I also tried downloading TWRP and installing that as well and get a status 7...not too worried about getting that installed as from what I understand you have to reflash it everytime you want to use it.
Xceptiona1noob said:
I have a fascinate that I rooted and then put CWM 4.0.1.0 on and Cyanogenmod 10.2 nightly build on. I have updated the build a couple times and now I am looking at trying HellyBean.
My trouble is that the phone doesn't seem to erase anything. I boot into CWM and started with factory/data/cache/devilk/battery resets then trying formatting /system and trying the hellybean install multiple times. I reboot into CWM and flash 2-3 times in a row like I have read. I then boot into the phone, not only is hellybean not installed, ALL my data is still on the phone as if I had just done nothing. I have also tried 'fixing permissions' in CWM as well.
I'm a noob and need some assistance.
I also tried downloading TWRP and installing that as well and get a status 7...not too worried about getting that installed as from what I understand you have to reflash it everytime you want to use it.
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okay sir, which cwm version are you using?
and honestly I'd odin back to stock and build back up to cm10.1 nighties
thanks for the heads up, I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something silly. I went ahead and redid my phone Odin style and also repartitioned my SD card to fat32/ext2, not sure if that had any effects; I was running it fat32/ext3?
Either way I now have hellybean on it and just getting things setup again. Though being a computer guy I like to do a 'clean' install of a new OS and it seems to me even running Odin some settings are carried over or perhaps Im imagining things. Stuff like turning on rotation lock was on when I loaded the phone up...my old WiFi connection was still showing in wifi settings. Part of that could be some Google magic too, I'm just not familiar enough with how android works.
For my piece of mind, when I Odin the stock image on, its effectively erasing and placing an image on the memory, not leaving anything old on it correct? I am able to remove the SD card and make sure its clean, so thats not in question. Just trying to learn, thanks!
Xceptiona1noob said:
thanks for the heads up, I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something silly. I went ahead and redid my phone Odin style and also repartitioned my SD card to fat32/ext2, not sure if that had any effects; I was running it fat32/ext3?
Either way I now have hellybean on it and just getting things setup again. Though being a computer guy I like to do a 'clean' install of a new OS and it seems to me even running Odin some settings are carried over or perhaps Im imagining things. Stuff like turning on rotation lock was on when I loaded the phone up...my old WiFi connection was still showing in wifi settings. Part of that could be some Google magic too, I'm just not familiar enough with how android works.
For my piece of mind, when I Odin the stock image on, its effectively erasing and placing an image on the memory, not leaving anything old on it correct? I am able to remove the SD card and make sure its clean, so thats not in question. Just trying to learn, thanks!
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did you repartition with the .pit file while odining?
and yeah, odining erases everything, if you flash the .pit it'll reset the stock partitions and erase everything. i suggest going over to droidstyles guide and reading up
EDIT: here's the link to it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238070
Xceptiona1noob said:
thanks for the heads up, I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something silly. I went ahead and redid my phone Odin style and also repartitioned my SD card to fat32/ext2, not sure if that had any effects; I was running it fat32/ext3?
Either way I now have hellybean on it and just getting things setup again. Though being a computer guy I like to do a 'clean' install of a new OS and it seems to me even running Odin some settings are carried over or perhaps Im imagining things. Stuff like turning on rotation lock was on when I loaded the phone up...my old WiFi connection was still showing in wifi settings. Part of that could be some Google magic too, I'm just not familiar enough with how android works.
For my piece of mind, when I Odin the stock image on, its effectively erasing and placing an image on the memory, not leaving anything old on it correct? I am able to remove the SD card and make sure its clean, so thats not in question. Just trying to learn, thanks!
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That's because your Google account will automatically restore phone settings like WiFi and brightness its really cool how they do it will also redownload all your apps for you 2
Sent from my Slimming Hybrid Fassy
To make a long story as short as possible, Im on MDK bootloader and I was running stang5liter 5.0 with CWM recovery. I've been bored lately with my phone so I've been flashing a bunch of different roms trying to get the coolest touchwiz rom with most features while using up least amount of system memory as possible (obvioisly). Well I was messing around before attempting to flash Pheonix Rom (ported stang5liter) and I wiped factory reset, cleared cache, dalvik. Then I went into advanced, format system, and then I tried format (sd-ext) which I never have done before and really don't know what it does but figured what heck I'll try it since I've soft bricked this phone multiple times and am fluent at bringing it back to life again. So after I did format (sd-ext) I went to flash rom and clicked on Phoenix Rom zip which I had on my external sd card and pressed "yes flash rom" then CWM looked like it was about to flash but all of a sudden the screen went black and CWM came back to main menu with no flash. I had already wiped the phone so I couldn't reboot to previous system image and of course I didn't have a backup and now I couldn't get CWM to flash any of the rom zips I had on my sd card so I had to ODIN back the emergency sch-i545 mdk tar and everything in Odin seemed like it went just fine. Everything booted up and phone seemed like it was working fine, but. I have noticed big problems since then. 1st thing I noticed was phone getting really hot to the touch, then when I tried to turn it off it shuts down but back key lights and notification light stays on and it never does the final vibrate and turn all the way off, same thing when I try to reboot it just stays like that until I pull batery but it boots back up fine after that. Also I enabled developer options but when I go down and try to open the developer settings in the about phone menu my phone freezes and it will never open. Other little things happen to llike apps FC and sometimes when I open them its like I'm opening it for the first time again line there's no cache memory or something. Then I tried to root again and was successful with towel root and I installed SU and terminal emulator and attempted to flash CWM with loki patch and everything in terminal looks as if it's good and I actually got it to install but when I tried to flash Phoenix Rom again it did the same thing and had to run through the whole Odin process again and now I'm back to the same problems and I'm going crazy trying to find threads with similar problem but have not found anything really at all, can someone please help!