I have CWM Touch recovery and Tachyon 1.1 installed. I decided to flash TWRP recovery by downloading the .zip from Flyhalf's thread (TWRP_2.6.3.0_Vigor_PH98IMG) and putting it on my internal SD as PH98IMG.zip (yeah, I know -- stupid idea).
Now when I reboot, the HTC screen comes up for a moment, the phone vibrates once and then powers down. At that point, I have to pull the battery if I want to try again. I can (after pulling battery) boot to bootloader from which I can still reboot to my CWM recovery, but I can't boot the phone normally. I assume this is because of the PH98IMG.zip on my internal storage?
What do I need to do to remove that file so that I can get back to "normal". I do not have a backup (because I was expecting to flash TWRP which doesn't use the CWM format for backups). I would rather not factory reset/re-format my internal SD unless that is my only option.
What are my options?
I've learned not to panic when I "think" I've done something terrible, but I am really starting to panic this time.
In CWM, when I go to Mounts & Storage, I am unable to mount anything except the /sdcard. I can NOT mount /cache, /data, /system, or /emmc. When I boot to HBOOT, I am unable to communicate with phone from PC.
Assuming I find a way to mount my SD card on my PC, could I copy a ROM to the external card, wipe/partition everything other than my card and re-flash the ROM to force re-formatting of all my partitions? Or should I begin trying to decide between the HTC One, Moto X and LG G2??
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I've learned not to panic when I "think" I've done something terrible, but I am really starting to panic this time.
In CWM, when I go to Mounts & Storage, I am unable to mount anything except the /sdcard. I can NOT mount /cache, /data, /system, or /emmc. When I boot to HBOOT, I am unable to communicate with phone from PC.
Assuming I find a way to mount my SD card on my PC, could I copy a ROM to the external card, wipe/partition everything other than my card and re-flash the ROM to force re-formatting of all my partitions? Or should I begin trying to decide between the HTC One, Moto X and LG G2??
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If you're now able to get into recovery, just copy a new rom over to the SD Card and install it. Worst case, if you're s-off, RUU your phone back to stock and start over with re-installing your recovery, restoring your rom.
The PH98IMG being on any internal or exteternal is not causing any problems for you on boot and would only be cumbersome when booting into hboot. It sounds to me that you should boot into recovery and clean flash a rom again. Even in recovery, you can mount either internal or external sd as usb storage and access it via your pc where you can remove or delete any file in them.
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I've learned not to panic when I "think" I've done something terrible, but I am really starting to panic this time.
In CWM, when I go to Mounts & Storage, I am unable to mount anything except the /sdcard. I can NOT mount /cache, /data, /system, or /emmc. When I boot to HBOOT, I am unable to communicate with phone from PC.
Assuming I find a way to mount my SD card on my PC, could I copy a ROM to the external card, wipe/partition everything other than my card and re-flash the ROM to force re-formatting of all my partitions? Or should I begin trying to decide between the HTC One, Moto X and LG G2??
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Get a rom on your sd card, whether external or internal and clean flash in recovery. fastboot flash the boot.img if you're s-on via rebooting to bootloader and doing it through fastboot
Thank you both for your responses. I tried to flash a new ROM from recovery but it didn't work; presumably because it could not write to /system, etc. Instead, I installed a RUU by following these instructions and flashed TWRP recovery as an img file with fastboot (extracted from here). As a result, I have a working phone, although it is ICS and Sense 3.6 -- blech!
My next question is: How do I upgrade to the latest HBOOT and radios? Although the CM 10.2 FAQ suggests following the above process to get the latest and greatest, the links provides HBOOT = 2.27.0000 and radios = 2.22.10.0801r; 2.22.10.0803r.
Second question: once I update HBOOT and radios, can I just reboot into recovery (via HBOOT) and flash Tachyon 1.1.5 or do I first need to partition/format mount points to prepare them for a 4.3 ROM?
I bungled my way through all these steps so long ago that I don't remember what hoops I had to jump through to get back to my "comfort zone" with Tachyon.
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Thank you both for your responses. I tried to flash a new ROM from recovery but it didn't work; presumably because it could not write to /system, etc. Instead, I installed a RUU by following these instructions and flashed TWRP recovery as an img file with fastboot (extracted from here). As a result, I have a working phone, although it is ICS and Sense 3.6 -- blech!
My next question is: How do I upgrade to the latest HBOOT and radios? Although the CM 10.2 FAQ suggests following the above process to get the latest and greatest, the links provides HBOOT = 2.27.0000 and radios = 2.22.10.0801r; 2.22.10.0803r.
Second question: once I update HBOOT and radios, can I just reboot into recovery (via HBOOT) and flash Tachyon 1.1.5 or do I first need to partition/format mount points to prepare them for a 4.3 ROM?
I bungled my way through all these steps so long ago that I don't remember what hoops I had to jump through to get back to my "comfort zone" with Tachyon.
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newest hboot and radios http://d-h.st/BIj ...place it in the main area of your external sd card and rename it and make sure it looks like PH98IMG.zip bot to bootloader by holding power and volume down after a battery pull to boot to it....this is the same method to get to a custom recovery to flash a rom bud...if s-on dont forget to flash boot.img outta the rom you are flashing
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also after you flash a 4.3 rom you have to format, partition and wipe internal sdcard and emmc
Thanks for the linkREV3NT3CH!! I scoured the web and found another link on XDA but it was broken.
I was able to flash the firmware update and install Tachyon 1.1.5 finally and now everything is back to "normal". Hope work doesn't mind that nothing got done today and I'll be stopping home to buy a microSD card reader for my computer after borrowing a co-worker's -- life saver!
I just booted up on the new ROM in time to hear the HORRIBLE low battery alarm. Not cool Neo; not cool at all.
esmith818 said:
Thanks for the linkREV3NT3CH!! I scoured the web and found another link on XDA but it was broken.
I was able to flash the firmware update and install Tachyon 1.1.5 finally and now everything is back to "normal". Hope work doesn't mind that nothing got done today and I'll be stopping home to buy a microSD card reader for my computer after borrowing a co-worker's -- life saver!
I just booted up on the new ROM in time to hear the HORRIBLE low battery alarm. Not cool Neo; not cool at all.
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lol glad you got it working bud....once its charged tachyon has great battery life fyi
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Hey, hoping some android gurus can help me out here.
I had the latest version of Obsydian on my phone and have not had any issues. Yesterday, my battery on the phone died, and when it started up again I was getting forcecloses all over the place. Tried reinstalling the rom and go errors, tried a different rom and got errors. So I ODINed the Voodoo RFS fix, followed by stock+Voodoo-Froyo-T959-UVJL5.tar , and didn't get anywhere.
I thought there might have been something wrong with the data on the phone so i tried clearing and formatting everything through Clockwork recovery. Then I tried the partition SD Card through clockwork recovery. I assumed it was the EXT-SD it was formatting so i chose 128mb ext, 32 swap, and left the rest for fat32. However, I'm starting to think it might have been the internal SD card.
I tried ODINing back to stock stock using this guide: http://androidspin.com/2010/08/09/h...droidSPIN+|+Your+No.1+source+for+Android+news.)
I get the phone in ODIN and it flashes, no errors in ODIN, but when the phone leaves download mode and goes to installation it gives a few errors:
Code:
MBR Checksum Error
Movinand Checksum Confirmation Fail
Then it continues installing, and I get another error:
Code:
Wiping data
Formatting Data
[B]Data Wipe Fail[/B]
Formatting Cache
It still acts like it completely finishes the installation, reboots, I get the Tmobile boot and then Galaxy S, and then I get a black screen with all 4 of the lights/buttons on the bottom of the screen on. It can sit like this for 30 minutes, it doesn't do anything.
I still have access to download mode, and I still have access to recovery, however it's no longer ClockworkMod recovery, it's the stock recovery, and it seems to only work for a few moments before going to a triangle with an exclamation point and the android logo.
Any ideas on what I can do to make this phone functional again, or acceptable for a warranty return?
I appreciate any help.
Welcome to the club
Check out my post http://http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=887837
Post #3 it might help if it does let me know so we know for sure if it works
Yes welcome to the club!!! glad you could join us!
Anyways here is what I have learned/done, my only working rom currently is the eugene froyo, can use the phone and data BUT cant download anything or install anything. You can adb push apks into the rom though. Heres the link for it
Use Odin, pit=512, pda=eugene..tar Run this to get semi working rom
http://eb-productions.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=samsungsgs&action=display&thread=3
Once here I have access to my Sd card, this is where I placed the clockwork recovery on as an "update.zip" Link to this is posted below
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734164
Boot into recovery, note this will take you to stock recovery. REINSTALL update, may have to do this twice but itll get you to the Clockwork recovery....
After this I tried to install two different roms and both times I get some sort of data error, and installation aborted....hopefully this will help a few people
Yeah a bit more google searching for "vibrant mbr checksum" brought me to the same conclusion, that I needed to ODIN the eugene's froyo - it's flashing right now. Will see where that gets me.
It's my belief that using the SD partition in CWM is what caused the MBR issues and the Data Wipe Fail, as others said they messed with a partition in either CWM or something else prior to this happening
And that's a no go. It just reboots back into the stock recovery every time after odining it, with some new errors.
update media. please wait.
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
(Invalid argument)
E:copu_dbdata_meda:Can't mount SDCARD:
your storage not prepared yet. please use UI menu for format and reboot actions.
copy default media content failed.
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I take it back - i did the wrong one apparently.
Had to use the files located on the link you sent, inside of the Eugene_2E_JK2_Froyo.zip file. Apparently there are a few different download files on the first post of that link. This one took longer than all the others I'd tried ODINing, about 5-6 minutes, compared to 2-3 for the others. I had also updated my Odin3 to v1.7, from the v1.3 I was using before.
When it booted up, it gave me an issue with my external SD card, said it was formatted incorrectly, so i formatted it from the phone - it says I have 13gb memory and 1.86 on the ext-SD.
Was able to download and install ROM manager from the market. Attempting to install Nero v3 now.
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I've succesfully installed a rom other than Eugene's froyo, and did not receive any installation errors! Got Nero V3 up and running, very happy.
Note that the MBR checksum error still appeared but did not affect installation at all. Thanks everyone for their help - hopefully this helps the others.
I tried flashing Ken's GB ROM today and for some reason it would just load the AT&T screen then restart. I flashed the zips through CWM, what might I have done wrong?
which recovery did you use? did you wipe? and try to re-download it. you may have gotten a damaged file. it happens. this is why we have MD5 sums
I used rom manager, I wiped after (maybe I should have done it before?), and what's an mds sum?
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I just used the new official CWM for Atrix (as opposed to tenfar's custom build) to flash navalynt's CherryBlur1.2 over my old 2.3.4HKTW ROM, which I had modified with navalynt's 1.8 rollup package.
I'm also bootlooping on the Atrix logo (instead of the Motorola logo; I think it was part of the theme included in the update package, and it'd be nice to be able to change it back to the stock somehow). I'd take your advice and try redownloading the .zip of the ROM, but, uh, I don't really know how to access my phone's internal storage without being able to boot it up.
Should I manually try flashing the .img files via fastboot interface, or what? I really picked a bad time to screw with my phone, because I'm expecting a call about a new job...
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I just used the new official CWM for Atrix (as opposed to tenfar's custom build) to flash navalynt's CherryBlur1.2 over my old 2.3.4HKTW ROM, which I had modified with navalynt's 1.8 rollup package.
I'm also bootlooping on the Atrix logo (instead of the Motorola logo; I think it was part of the theme included in the update package, and it'd be nice to be able to change it back to the stock somehow). I'd take your advice and try redownloading the .zip of the ROM, but, uh, I don't really know how to access my phone's internal storage without being able to boot it up.
Should I manually try flashing the .img files via fastboot interface, or what? I really picked a bad time to screw with my phone, because I'm expecting a call about a new job...
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Yea, if you didn't make a nandroid backup, you need to flash the image files of your previous rom
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Well, this is very strange. I restored the backup I had made, although I got an error from CWM about being unable to wipe /data... nonetheless it booted properly. I loaded a new download of the .zip, flashed it in CWM with no apparent errors, and now instead of bootlooping on the custom Atrix animation, it's bootlooping on the Motorola "dual core technology" screen (not the actual bootloader screen with "unlocked" in the corner, but after that). I'm really confounded by all of this.
Forum is full of similar threads.
Rom Manager doesn't successfully wipe. You need to run a fastboot -w or reinstall tenfar's CWM and wipe, then reinstall your ROM. This will resolve your bootloop.
EDIT: You're seeing the same problem...bootlooping. The ROM's just have different boot animations: Atrix logo vs. Default Moto.
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Forum is full of similar threads.
Rom Manager doesn't successfully wipe. You need to run a fastboot -w or reinstall tenfar's CWM and wipe, then reinstall your ROM. This will resolve your bootloop.
EDIT: You're seeing the same problem...bootlooping. The ROM's just have different boot animations: Atrix logo vs. Default Moto.
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Yes, I just used fastboot to reflash the stock HKTW images, and of course it's fine now. I'd just like to be able to get CherryBlur to work properly.
Edit: Got it. The .zip installed properly using tenfar's CWM. Ironically enough, tenfar's custom implementation of CWM works better than ROM Manager's, although obnoxiously it's unable to mount the phone's internal SD storage, so an external SD card must be used for installing .zips. ROM Manager's CWM can mount the internal storage, but has other issues. Lol, so convoluted.
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Yes, I just used fastboot to reflash the stock HKTW images, and of course it's fine now. I'd just like to be able to get CherryBlur to work properly.
Edit: Got it. The .zip installed properly using tenfar's CWM. Ironically enough, tenfar's custom implementation of CWM works better than ROM Manager's, although obnoxiously it's unable to mount the phone's internal SD storage, so an external SD card must be used for installing .zips. ROM Manager's CWM can mount the internal storage, but has other issues. Lol, so convoluted.
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It's just a matter of time before rom managers cwm works properly
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I need help. I was trying to restore a nand backup but my phone just powered down before it finished. I did a battery pull and it booted up, so I return to recovery to try and restore but I did a full wipe first as I didn't the first time... the phone powered off again during the restore. After another battery pull I can now only get into bootloader. What do I do?
Using TWRP
Yes my phone is charged.
Do you have a ROM to flash on SD card ? Make sure phone is not plugged in ,mine acts up if its plugged in what version of twrp?
No ROM on my SD card, and it wasn't on the charger or USB.
Not sure of the TWRP version but it was early, around when we got S-OFF.
do u have an sd adapter to put it in your pc. then throw a rom on there an put it back in your phone?
what about using a ruu?
I have had the same problem when trying to restore it is a known issue in the twrp thread I believe it is working in 1.3,also I would recommend always keeping at least 1 Rom zip for times like this .if you have a micro SD card adapter you can throw the card from the phone into the adapter and plug it into a computer to move the files,I believe there is also a way to do it through bootloader with the usb
Get into Hboot then you can mount your sd card to your computer. I think its the usb mount option. put a rom on the sd card, wipe and then flash, and your set .. Just look in the recovery or in the hboot for usb mount. You can still access the sd card when in recovery.No need to boot the phone, hope this helps let me know !
Do you have a micro sd card reader and copy the PCGimage.zip file back to your sd card to reflash trpw recovery in bootloader.
Another option is load trpw via fastboot usb.
If you can get recovery back then you should be able to rewipe or restore nand.
instuctions for both here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192661
You can also load CWM via fasboot usb
Aznmode has the easiest approach, it should take just a few minutes to be back using your phone again.
Currently in recovery and flashing a ROM. I put a few files on the SD through USB toggle in recovery, but I flashed the newest TWRP zip first and couldn't get out of bootloader until putting my SD card in a reader to delete it.
I'm NOT going to try and restore my nand backup, starting fresh is better than possibly starting all this over again.
Am I backing up and restoring wrong? It seems pretty straight forward but I've never had trouble with CWR or Amon.
Just flash a ROM, reboot, make sure everything is working, then a nandroid.
I had a similar situation with that recovery. I ended up returning to stock, rerooting and flashing clockwork instead of Twrp recovery.
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Ugh, now that I've reloaded everything I'm scared to do a backup/restore. I'll have to sleep on it, going to CWM for peace of mind is tempting as much as I'd prefer to give TWRP a try.
Hoping someone here can help me fix this problem without having to RUU and start all over...
I'm S-On with 2.09 HBOOT.
I had been running MeanBean for the last 6 months or so, but decided to finally give an AOKP ROM a try because I wanted to check out HALO. First, I did a Nandroid backup of MeanBean using TWRP. Then I downloaded the latest DirtyUnicorns build, placed it in on my SD card and flashed through TWRP (2.3.1), inlcuding the attached GApps and the CM10.2 data fix. It wouldn't boot at first, and I realized that my old kernel for MeanBean was Sense-based, so wasn't compatible with AOKP. I extracted the boot.img file from the ROM and flashed using fastboot. After that I was able to boot up and was up and running with Dirty Unicorns on Mazda's supplied kernel.
DU is pretty awesome and there is so much to do in the ROM, plus HALO is awesome. I wish that was incorporated into every ROM. But my battery life the first couple of days left much to be desired. Even using Kernel Tuner to underclock with screen off and Llama to turn stuff off when I didn't need it, I was approaching 30% by lunchtime. So in an effort to try and fix this, I tried to flash the latest Haunted HC kernel (DU thread says people have flashed this and it runs) through Flash Image GUI since I am S-On. Unfortunately, the phone went into a boot loop after this and wouldn't get past the HTC screen. When I got home I reflashed the DU kernel through Fastboot, but then my WiFi wasn't functional.
After trying to flash a few times and it not working (WiFi still broken), I decided to just go back to MeanBean using the Nandroid. Used TWRP to do this, but then the phone wouldn't boot past the HTC screen after this. Was stuck at my girlfriend's and didn't have fastboot available, so I reflashed DU off of my SD card and it booted up and runs, but now I can't access my internal storage. This means I can't use Swiftkey and the Gallery app isn't functional either. When I try to mount internal storage in TWRP to reformat it, it just says internal storage cannot be mounted. Does anybody know how to fix this??? Everything I could find on here says that I should be able to mount using TWRP at least, but I can't even get that to work.
TLDR - Been flashing ROM's/kernels and now can't mount internal storage.
FIXED - Was able to use Rumrunner to obtain S-Off (had attempted while on MeanBean and would not work), then updated recovery to the latest TWRP and used the Advanced Wipe feature to reformat the internal storage. After that, I just reflashed DU and was up and running. Only issue I had was phone lost connectivity to Sprint, so I had to go back to MeanBean just to update my profile.
II'm getting Emmc errors with twrp when I try to backup or flash new roms. Kinda weird since I used Twrp to flash a 4.3 rom in the first place but now I want to upgrade to 4.4.
Is it just a Twrp error and I should be using another recovery?
Manbot27 said:
II'm getting Emmc errors with twrp when I try to backup or flash new roms. Kinda weird since I used Twrp to flash a 4.3 rom in the first place but now I want to upgrade to 4.4.
Is it just a Twrp error and I should be using another recovery?
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What version of TWRP? Only version 2.6.3.0 is supported for KitKat based ROMs... That being said, it sounds like your internal storage is corrupted (emmc=internal storage), which usually requires running an RUU to correct, unfortunately this requires S-OFF, assuming you were on the current OTA update.
I'm pretty sure it's the latest version of Twrp. The phone functions fine and it was okay when flashing the 4.3 rom.. Is running an RUU and S-OFF difficult?
emmc
I had the same problem last nite with S-0n and EMMC errors and TWRP.
Cured it by flashing the AmonRa recovery, wiping the hell out of what could be wiped (many errors)
then reinstalled TWRP 2.6.3.0 (only) and miraculously, it did finally format the internal, cache, and data
that were giving EMMC errors.
Yes, you should HTC unlock, install a modded Rom, and carefully follow the new S-0ff (no wire trick) RumRunner
S-0ff for Rezound. S-0ff will prevent you from borking your phone and allow faster ROM installs.
Easy to do if you do "just and only what it wants" for advance preparation.
After S-0ff, you relock it, flash Scotty's Relocked to Locked zip, and run RUU of your choice, or if at this point
it's all good, load up your next daily user.
Running the RUU gets rid of the Tampered hboot status.
Before you do anything, try wiping your Internal SD (back it up if you can get to it via your rom) via TWRP, sometimes it's just simple as that. If that doesn't do the trick, follow the advice already given.
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Before you do anything, try wiping your Internal SD (back it up if you can get to it via your rom) via TWRP, sometimes it's just simple as that. If that doesn't do the trick, follow the advice already given.
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How do I backup through the rom? I tried to backup in Twrp and it doesn't let me.
Manbot27 said:
How do I backup through the rom? I tried to backup in Twrp and it doesn't let me.
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Attach your phone to your PC, copy the contents of Internal SD...