Hello all.
I'm coming from a droid charge. I had it rooted mostly for the adfree and titanium backup. I have rooted various friends phones and I am familiar with the process of sorts. My issue is similar to what has been posted previously but with a twist.
I used CASUAL to root/unlock. That went without a hitch but I think I went too far. Once I was at the TWRP screen and was looking at the buttons for wiping I went ahead and wiped everything, one at a time. Now I am stuck at the note II screen. I can get into download mode. The Note II screen just sits there staring at me. I'm not in a loop at all.
Did I completely wipe everything off my phone? LOL. I'm downloading multiple restore/roms as I type this.
I don't think I would call this a bricked phone other than saying I squishy bricked it, kinda like a nerf brick. that I put in the freezer. it still hurts but it'll be ok I'm sure.
Anyway. Before I go further I would like some advice as how to proceed.
I'm not looping at the Note II screen, it just stays there. Thus why I think I wiped everything off of it.
Thanks in advance, and yes you can call me a blockhead if you feel the desire.
Gonk
When you wiped, it wiped system and this is why it doesn't boot. Always make a backup first.
You have 2 options:
1. Download and factory restore with ODIN. Look at the stickies. There are restores that do not relock the bootloader and do not wipe data.
2. Download a custom ROM and use ADB to push it to the SD card in TWRP. This requires a little more know how but can get you up and running a little quicker.
Good luck!
Thanks
aerichards1977 said:
When you wiped, it wiped system and this is why it doesn't boot. Always make a backup first.
You have 2 options:
1. Download and factory restore with ODIN. Look at the stickies. There are restores that do not relock the bootloader and do not wipe data.
2. Download a custom ROM and use ADB to push it to the SD card in TWRP. This requires a little more know how but can get you up and running a little quicker.
Good luck!
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Thanks. That helps.
Much appreciated.
Gonkulor said:
Thanks. That helps.
Much appreciated.
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You can also put a ROM on the external SD card and boot into TWRP and flash it.
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You can also put a ROM on the external SD card and boot into TWRP and flash it.
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Only problem here is my inability to boot into TWRP. I can get into ODIN download mode and that is it. I keep reading the warnings of using ODIN after using CASUAL. Now I'm a little worried.
These are the only 2 screens I can get to, besides the note II hang.
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These are the only 2 screens I can get to, besides the note II hang.
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just making sure, are you using the VOL UP, power, and home button combo?
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just making sure, are you using the VOL UP, power, and home button combo?
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Nope I'm using the VOL DOWN, power and home.
I just did your suggestion and get the System software not authorized blah blah, go to the nearest VW store.
Rut row. Now what. Guess I should do more reading.
Used imnuts Alt restore file. It got me back into my phone, bless you imnuts.
My phone is back to 4.1.1. Now to get back to 4.1.2
How does one get back to stock 4.1.2? I tried imnuts stock image but it seems to just keep me at 4.1.1
If I have to flash the modem and GPS to be the same than so be it.
OK, I took the OTA. I'm back to 4.1.2. Sorry to be all panicking about my phone. I was worried I was going to brick this in a bad way.
Because of all this I am so very thankful to all involved. This took me some searching and a lot of reading.
Now I will retry CASUAL and not mess it up lick I did the first time.
glad you got it back, remember VOL UP = Recovery VOL DOWN = Download mode.
Yup yup.
Thanks Eris.
BTW, turn off your antivirus program when running CASUAL.
I'm good and very happy I finally got the dang thing rooted with SU installed. Now I can finally back up the whole thing and start freezing the bloat.
It's a good day
I tip my hat to all of you devs. Good job guys. :good:
Gonkulor said:
How does one get back to stock 4.1.2? I tried imnuts stock image but it seems to just keep me at 4.1.1
If I have to flash the modem and GPS to be the same than so be it.
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You can't get back to 4.1.2 using Odin, you have to unlock and flash back to a 4.1.2 ROM or take the OTA.
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Damn I was late, I didn't even notice the second page. Woops.
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Hello all. I am new to these forums, and to rooting. Right now I am at a loss for what to do about my phone. I was running 2.1 when I did the one click root for the Droid Eris. When asked to load the rom from a zip file, I loaded Kaosfroyo v32. After rebooting, the phone was on a bootloop at the ANDROID loading screen. Not knowing what to do, a guy I work with Hard Reset the phone. After that I was able to get into Froyo, but now every single time I reboot the phone it asks me to activate my phone. No matter how many times you activate it, the phone has no service through Verizon. At this point I just need to get my phone at a point where it is usable again. Can anybody point me in the right direction?
Thank you for your time.
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Hello all. I am new to these forums, and to rooting. Right now I am at a loss for what to do about my phone. I was running 2.1 when I did the one click root for the Droid Eris. When asked to load the rom from a zip file, I loaded Kaosfroyo v32. After rebooting, the phone was on a bootloop at the ANDROID loading screen. Not knowing what to do, a guy I work with Hard Reset the phone. After that I was able to get into Froyo, but now every single time I reboot the phone it asks me to activate my phone. No matter how many times you activate it, the phone has no service through Verizon. At this point I just need to get my phone at a point where it is usable again. Can anybody point me in the right direction?
Thank you for your time.
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dial *22899
see if that works
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dial *22899
see if that works
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That just did the exact same thing as before. It says it is activated and wait ~15 minutes for wireless signal, however there is no connection.
Goto wireless settings and change to automatic or whatever is the third/last choice. That should work.
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Goto wireless settings and change to automatic or whatever is the third/last choice. That should work.
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I already tried that before I made this thread. How can I get rid of this Kaosfroyo ROM and get the phone back to 2.1??
aaronbraly said:
I already tried that before I made this thread. How can I get rid of this Kaosfroyo ROM and get the phone back to 2.1??
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RUT RO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TDianna said:
RUT RO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I appreciate the humor, but in all seriousness I need some help with this...
to get phone back to original.
radio here: http://ip208-100-42-21.static.xda-de....php?p=7232088
then flash PB00IMG-21-official.zip from here: http://android.grdlock.net/index.php...PB00IMG Roms
should reset and unroot your phone
EDIT: you should just need to flash the PB00IMG unless you have flashed a new radio
Try booting into recovery and doing a full wipe and then re-flashing the rom.
I did the same thing my first time in recovery wipe your phone in amon not the first green recovery screen then flash any 2.1 rom I used evil eris 4.0 evil eris will allow you to activate your phone then reboot wipe again in amon and flash Kaos froyo as long as u wipe with amon and not the first screen u wont have to re activate your phone hope this helps
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I did the same thing my first time in recovery wipe your phone in amon not the first green recovery screen then flash any 2.1 rom I used evil eris 4.0 evil eris will allow you to activate your phone then reboot wipe again in amon and flash Kaos froyo as long as u wipe with amon and not the first screen u wont have to re activate your phone hope this helps
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Can you explain what amon is?
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Can you explain what amon is?
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Amon is Amon Ra Recovery. The black screen with the green colored text. You boot to Amon Ra Recovery by turning your phone off then pressing and holding down Volume down + Power. Hold it until you see the black screen with green texts.
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Amon is Amon Ra Recovery. The black screen with the green colored text. You boot to Amon Ra Recovery by turning your phone off then pressing and holding down Volume down + Power. Hold it until you see the black screen with green texts.
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This one? Because mine is Volume Up + Power.
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Yea that's the one. Wiping there wont require your phone to be re activated. Once you get it working you can do a backup from that screen as well so next time you'll be able to restore if you have any problems.
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Steve125 said:
Yea that's the one. Wiping there wont require your phone to be re activated. Once you get it working you can do a backup from that screen as well so next time you'll be able to restore if you have any problems.
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Just to make sure I'm doing this correctly: This page says:
Select Wipe-->Wipe Dalvik , then do Wipe Data/Factory Reset.
Correct?
Yup then flash over the 2.1 rom and when it loads up and you go to program the phone it will allow to bring up they keypad so you can press the one key when it makes the call from *228 then once your phone is programed, reboot to amon do a nand backup, and wipe data and davlick. After that flash kaosfroyo.
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Steve125 said:
Yup then flash over the 2.1 rom and when it loads up and you go to program the phone it will allow to bring up they keypad so you can press the one key when it makes the call from *228 then once your phone is programed, reboot to amon do a nand backup, and wipe data and davlick. After that flash kaosfroyo.
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Fantastic. Evil Eris is loading now. If I have any issues i'll be sure to post back. Thanks!
Cool ill keep checking the post let me know when it works!
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I just activated the phone in Evil Eris 4.0 and I am still not getting access to the mobile network. The bars keep alternating from 4 to X. Do you have any ideas?
That I don't know. Once I activated the phone I didn't have any issues with data access. Can you make phone calls?
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Exactly what the title says. I've tried restoring a back-up, but I can't get the ROM to boot up. It just keeps bringing me back to the CWM screen.
Is there any way I can turn the device off from here just to save the battery while I receive some assistance?
edit: My Prime is now fixed thanks to the excellent support of XDA.
At first, when my prime booted into CWM I was like,
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Then after it kept bootlooping into CWM things felt worse.
After I got everything fixed up. This is what I felt like. (Only due to the excellent help though!)
Thanks guys!
Yes press and hold power and volume down until it vibrates. Release and it will shut down. Then just restart in recovery and wipe all and reflash rom.
It's still boot-looping back into CWM. It's version v5.8.2.0 if that helps. I'm hitting reboot system now with the power button, holding that and the volume down until I feel the vibration. I release, and a few seconds later it boots up again.
BrianMigs said:
Exactly what the title says. I've tried restoring a back-up, but I can't get the ROM to boot up. It just keeps bringing me back to the CWM screen.
Is there any way I can turn the device off from here just to save the battery while I receive some assistance?
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Read the following thread it should help but you need some adb knowledge
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1514088
When you did a factory reset you erased the rom. You will have to reflash the virtious prime.
You wont need to unbrick. You are still able to get to recovery.
What will happen if my Prime dies though? Will I be able to charge it back up again? I'm not sure I'll have enough time to set up ADB before the battery passes.
fredgar75 said:
When you did a factory reset you erased the rom. You will have to reflash the virtious prime.
You wont need to unbrick. You are still able to get to recovery.
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I wiped data, cache, in dalvik in CWM. Then I formatted system, and tried re-installing Virtuous. It's still rebooting to CWM.
Well it sounds like you may have to follow the guide then. But it should charge in recovery and while it is off.
But it sounds like you got a corrupted file and I would suggest a new dl.
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What will happen if my Prime dies though? Will I be able to charge it back up again? I'm not sure I'll have enough time to set up ADB before the battery passes.
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See if it will shut down by pressing power button only...I don't recall seeing a shut down option in CWM
recovery...if its there it should work
eg1122 said:
See if it will shut down by pressing power button only...I don't recall seeing a shut down option in CWM
recovery...if its there it should work
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Unfortunately no "Shut Down" option. It was the first thing I looked for as I think it's included in other recoveries.
Can anybody else confirm that the device will charge while in CWM?
BrianMigs said:
Unfortunately no "Shut Down" option. It was the first thing I looked for as I think it's included in other recoveries.
Can anybody else confirm that the device will charge while in CWM?
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Sorry It should charge as long as its plugged into the charger and not the pc.
Just booted into recovery and the charging led stays on, but not sure if it is charging.
Nice man I like it.
Hey OP, are you /b/ from forechan?
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How did you end up getting it to work? ive recently tried updating my virtuous to the latest but after the install it rebooted and loaded cwm and now thats all it will do.
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How did you end up getting it to work? ive recently tried updating my virtuous to the latest but after the install it rebooted and loaded cwm and now thats all it will do.
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It sounds like you got a common bug with the CWM recovery; that bootloop into recovery. This can be fixed if you have ADP setup. See the how-to thread "Unbricking your Prime"; the first solution should get you back up. Then after that, I'd strongly urge you to consider TWRP. Though CWM is decent, and has got us by for a long time in the Android rooting community, you won't have problems like this with TWRP.
Hey guys, been awhile since I've been on XDA.
Rode the iOS bus for awhile.
Long story short I went and bought a i-777 earlier today and I did a factory reset via the settings menu then proceeded to do a hard reset to clean the phone out.
I pressed and held the volume down button and pressed and released the power button. A warning about a custom OS popped up and I proceeded and it took me into a screen that said "Odin" at the very top.
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Now, I bought this phone through a second hand electronics store and I'm wondering if this phone has been improperly rooted and I just picked up someone else's headache.
If that's the case I plain on returning it.
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You about phone screen looks like the phone has stock Gingerbread installed. UCKK6 was the update version. The phone originally shipped with UCKH7. Yours may have been updated over the air, or later models were shipped with UCKK6.
I've never heard of the button configuration that you describe for this phone. I tried doing the same thing, holding down vol- and short press the power button, but the phone just booted normally. But then I am running a custom ICS rom.
Boot the phone into download mode: with the phone off, hold both volume buttons, but not power, and plug in the usb cable. When you get the warning screen, use the volume up button to go to the download screen. Look at the flash counter information at the top of the screen. That will tell you if the phone has been modified. (Unless they followed my guide on flashing custom firmware without incrementing the flash counter, lol.)
Even if the phone has been modified, that doesn't necessarily mean it has been damaged.
"Odin Mode
Product name: sgh-1777
Custom binary download: no
Current binary: Samsung official"
Is what I'm looking at, then it has Andy and "downloading....do not turn off target!!"
I just wana make sure that is what I'm supposed to see..
bdpyo said:
"Odin Mode
Product name: sgh-1777
Custom binary download: no
Current binary: Samsung official"
Is what I'm looking at, then it has Andy and "downloading....do not turn off target!!"
I just wana make sure that is what I'm supposed to see..
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Your phone appears to be stock and to have never been modified. What you are seeing is exactly what would be expected of a phone right out of the box.
Good Odin threw me off.
My other problem is now I'm rooted with broken wifi, running around I'm circles trying to figure this one out. :/
Tried flashing cm7 stable with no success to rid of this stock rom and modified kernal that provides root access.
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bdpyo said:
Good Odin threw me off.
My other problem is now I'm rooted with broken wifi, running around I'm circles trying to figure this one out. :/
Tried flashing cm7 stable with no success to rid of this stock rom and modified kernal that provides root access.
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Broken WiFi? Sounds like u went to galaxys2root.com and downloaded some garbage from zedomax but I'm hoping I'm wrong
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LOL. I wish you were wrong as well, lack of patients got to me and it was a quick way to.get root access.
Just read about a kernal cleaning script that I hope works.
And I read that rom manager sucks too. Yikes the times have changed.
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bdpyo said:
LOL. I wish you were wrong as well, lack of patients got to me and it was a quick way to.get root access.
Just read about a kernal cleaning script that I hope works.
And I read that rom manager sucks too. Yikes the times have changed.
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Just flash a ROM and u should be fine
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Thanks.for replying Brandon but I'm not able to flash anything via. Cwr
Starts to flash then fails signature check..
Any other insight?
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Thanks.for replying Brandon but I'm not able to flash anything via. Cwr
Starts to flash then fails signature check..
Any other insight?
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Ur using rom manager aren't u? Don't use rom manager. Use cwm recovery
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Ur using rom manager aren't u? Don't use rom manager. Use cwm recovery
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No I've been trying in recovery only. I used my PC earlier to download cm7 then moved it to my phone.
Wipe/factory reset
Wipe cache
Wipe Dalvik
Then proceed to flash ROM and get some kind of a signature failure..
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No I've been trying in recovery only. I used my PC earlier to download cm7 then moved it to my phone.
Wipe/factory reset
Wipe cache
Wipe Dalvik
Then proceed to flash ROM and get some kind of a signature failure..
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Downloading their "unroot" tar now to flash in Odin, which should put me back on 2.3.4 which I beleive the original root method was designed for.
Once back on 2.3.4 im going to try and re-root and see how it goes from there, hopefully I can resolve this with out going through extreme mesaures. See kids, this is perfect example of "I didnt take my time to read and reseach before I started pushing buttons." LOL
I just wanna run CM7 dammit!
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Downloading their "unroot" tar now to flash in Odin, which should put me back on 2.3.4 which I beleive the original root method was designed for.
Once back on 2.3.4 im going to try and re-root and see how it goes from there, hopefully I can resolve this with out going through extreme mesaures. See kids, this is perfect example of "I didnt take my time to read and reseach before I started pushing buttons." LOL
I just wanna run CM7 dammit!
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Why CM7 and not cm9/aokp?
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I like CM7 a hair better then CM9.
In other news, flashed another kernal via Odin and got my wifi and and flashing capabilities back, flashed cm-7.2.0 now waiting at the splash screen
EDIT: I got it up and running, seems that the original kernal just screws up everything.
Thanks guys
bdpyo said:
EDIT: I got it up and running, seems that the original kernal just screws up everything.
Thanks guys
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Yes, zedomax kernel screws over a lot of people. Wish there were some way to warn unsuspecting folks. Actually, the zedomax unroot causes more problems than the rooting kernel.
Glad you've got everything going. Now, just read a few minutes every day, and before long, you'll be up to speed.
Well glad I didn't unroot then. Lol
Got cm7 running like the old days, used to have a aria, captivate, inspire and nexus s. Feels good to be back.
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Hi Xda,
I decided to revert back to stock, got a MD5 checksum error on my nandroid backup (which was in the phone storage). Decided to use one of the custom ROMs which were available on my external SD or even a nandroid backup of my current system but to my surprise CWM won't recognize my external SD anymore and I already wiped cache, system data, and all that stuff clean so I have no OS anymore. Note that until very recently CWM could see my external SD and if I plug it in another phone it works fine so that eliminates the possibility of it being corrupted. I also tried to plugin my usb cable and tried to mount it but got an error. I had another nandroid backup on the phone which worked 5 minutes prior but I deleted it which was obviously a stupid move.
tl;dr: Wiped my phone clean, only have CWM left. Through CWM I Couldn't mount usb, external SD doesn't work anymore, and nandroid backup on the phone storage failed the checksum. What should I do?
if your phone is working download rom manager and flash recovery thru the app...first find the new rom you want and gapps...then flash thru rom manger recovery....then when your done..make sure you make a backup this time....the roms now thru recovery only show sd card because when making backups its more secure..they don't get erased ...
Thanks for your reply but my phone is no longer working CWM is the only thing I have left
reflash cwm with Odin
Get the Odin version HERE
Load it in the pda slot of Odin, out phone in download mode, connect to pc, and let her rip
That version will see the external sd, the new one from Rom manager will not..
Or, get into cwm, mount your USB storage, copy ROM to phone, flash, sigh in relief, feed the zombie...
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^^ op says he tried that and "got an error"
But yes, feed the zombie, I'm starving!
Just because you wiped everything doesn't mean you only have cwm left. You just have a fresh install of whatever Rom you were running when you did all the wipes. You can reboot into the Rom and move backups around or flash the latest cwm of you're on an old one.
Have you tried just rebooting and moving whatever junk to internal or whatever you need?
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if you format /system, which he says he did, you do not have an os whatsoever.
Boot up your pc and delete the Windows folder then reboot... You think you're gonna have a fresh install of Windows?
My first post is what he needs to do...
Anyone else got anything they wanna add for me to correct? Hahaha
studacris said:
if you format /system, which he says he did, you do not have an os whatsoever.
Boot up your pc and delete the Windows folder then reboot... You think you're gonna have a fresh install of Windows?
Anyone else got anything they wanna add for me to correct? Hahaha
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I'm guessing he hit the wipe data/factory reset option in cwm. Which wipes data and factory resets and leaves you with a fully functional Rom. He never said he formatted /system but maybe reading comprehension isn't your thing. Thanks for being an ass though.
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studacris said:
if you format /system, which he says he did, you do not have an os whatsoever.
Boot up your pc and delete the Windows folder then reboot... You think you're gonna have a fresh install of Windows?
My first post is what he needs to do...
Anyone else got anything they wanna add for me to correct? Hahaha
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Phatsnake said:
I already wiped cache, system data, and all that stuff clean so I have no OS anymore.
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studacris said:
Yup, you're welcome
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wiping system data/factory reset != formatting system
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"And all that stuff, so i have no os anymore"
We can only go by what the op tells us...You assume he means factory reset and doesn't know that doing that doesn't wipe the os... but he says he had no os so that is what we have to go by
Don't assume...it only makes an ass out of u and me
studacris said:
"And all that stuff, so i have no os anymore"
We can only go by what the op tells us...You assume he means factory reset and doesn't know that doing that doesn't wipe the os... but he says he had no os so that is what we have to go by
Don't assume...it only makes an ass out of u and me
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I'm thinking he only thinks he has no os, he has not mentioned ever trying to reboot. Seeing as he's being noobish (no offense), I'm guessing he's following the standard procedures of pretty much every tutorial and ROM OP, and simply wiping data/factory reset and clearing caches. Thus he should have a nice clean os. I could be completely wrong and he formatted everything, but I doubt that is the case.
I realize assuming can be bad, but I'm just trying to help him in the absolute simplest way possible which seems quite reasonable. :thumbup:
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yollasho said:
I'm thinking he only thinks he has no os, he has not mentioned ever trying to reboot. Seeing as he's being noobish (no offense), I'm guessing he's following the standard procedures of pretty much every tutorial and ROM OP, and simply wiping data/factory reset and clearing caches. Thus he should have a nice clean os. I could be completely wrong and he formatted everything, but I doubt that is the case.
I realize assuming can be bad, but I'm just trying to help him in the absolute simplest way possible which seems quite reasonable. :thumbup:
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Or you could go by post 3, where he said
Phatsnake said:
Thanks for your reply but my phone is no longer working CWM is the only thing I have left
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jde984 said:
Or you could go by post 3, where he said
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he still never said he tried to reboot, but whatever. I'm done. Noobs shouldn't be messing in advanced formatting partitions and **** when they have no idea how to recover. I'm sure you guys can sort it out for him. :thumbup:
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Thanks a lot for the help everyone specially yollasho and studacris and I'm sorry if I caused an argument. I never formatted the phone. I just did data/factory reset, deleted cache and dalvik. I tried to boot to the phone and I did get the custom ROM's splash screen but it never booted so I made the assumption that I lost my OS. I will carefully read the advice everyone gave me again and I will report back once I hopefully get it fixed.
son of a ....
Hahaha well, it's not often i have to say this...but I'm sorry dude, you were right.
Still stand by everything i said....but, my foot tastes funny
Saw this looking for roms for wife's new Note and thought I'd chime in. Since you have cwm, try booting your phone into recovery, and push a new rom to your sd card with adb and flash that.
What you'll do is boot your phone into recovery, connect to your computer and then from a cmd prompt :
1) adb devices
(you should see your device I'd here)
2) adb push somerom.zip /sdcard/somerom.zip
(see transfer here....)
Obviously you'll need to be in the directory on your computer that contains your rom and have your path variable set so you can run adb from anywhere. Then reboot your phone back into recovery, flash, be happy. Hope that helps!
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studacris said:
reflash cwm with Odin
Get the Odin version HERE
Load it in the pda slot of Odin, out phone in download mode, connect to pc, and let her rip
That version will see the external sd, the new one from Rom manager will not..
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I used these steps and it did the trick! Thanks a lot! Unfortunately my stock Rom backup is corrupt so I used Team Perfection's UCLF6. Any idea where I can find a pure ATT stock Rom not rooted or deodexed or anything?
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Hi,
I plan to order a Verizon S4 phone today.
When it arrives, I will try to root it right away.
Will probably turn it on in a bad signal area (my basement) and turn on airplane mode.
I have never owned a Samsung phone before.
How can I check if the phone came from Verizon with the OTA already installed?
Thanks,
Howard
You want it to say baseband..... Mdk, build...... Mdk. Not me7.
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If you installed the update then you have the update. Real simple folks.
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You have it!
You have the new update!
I made the mistake of installing it!
Ryno77 said:
You want it to say baseband..... Mdk, build...... Mdk. Not me7.
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My new phone will arrive tomorrow.
I plan to just immediately boot it into Odin mode, and start the rooting process.
Is there a simple way to see if it has MDK while in Odin mode.
I just booted into Odin mode and it does not say what baseband your on. I would follow the rooting process and if flashing the prerelease kernel fails then you know it's a updated phone.
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Ryno77 said:
I just booted into Odin mode and it does not say what baseband your on. I would follow the rooting process and if flashing the prerelease kernel fails then you know it's a updated phone.
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Thanks
Howard
Worked out great.
I did NOT put in the SIM card.
Did everything using WiFi.
The rooting process worked.
I am on baseband I545VRUAMDK with root and TWRP recovery installed.
Used Titanium Backup to freeze SDM
I still have not inserted the SIM card.
HowardZ said:
Worked out great.
I did NOT put in the SIM card.
Did everything using WiFi.
The rooting process worked.
I am on baseband I545VRUAMDK with root and TWRP recovery installed.
Used Titanium Backup to freeze SDM
I still have not inserted the SIM card.
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Nice! Glad it worked out for you!
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Another related question regarding rooting:
I installed CleanRom, and when booting up it asks me about "update samsung device" which starts a download.
I assume I should always say NO - as this might be the dreaded ME7 update which eliminates root and locks the bootloader ????
I would say no. It's weird that your getting that with a custom rom installed. Can you get a screen shot of the pop up?
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Ryno77 said:
I would say no. It's weird that your getting that with a custom rom installed. Can you get a screen shot of the pop up?
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I only get the Samsung direct download via Wifi (no SIM card installed yet) when I use TWRP to factory reset and then boot the phone.
On subsequent reboots, I do not get prompted for the Samsung download.
I have been suffering from the google playstore error 920. This seems to occur at about 100 apps of my 200 apps. I've been TWRP factory reset to start it over again. But, now I've figured out how to get the playstore to resume my 200 apps auto-installation: First, wait 10 minutes, then in settings I remove the google account, reboot to TWRP recovery and wipe cache and dalvic-cache, boot phone, run playstore which prompts me to re enter the google account.
I am trying to set the phone up completely with all my apps, accounts, etc.. before activating the SIM card and installing the SIM card.
Let me know if you really wan tthe samsung update screen shot. If yes, then after I'm done setting the phone up I will make a nandroid backup and do a TWRP factory reset to get you a picture.
Regards,
Nope, was just curious. No need going through extra work.
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