Hello everyone,
I had to factory reset my cinko slim android phone given that it didn't boot anymore (it was stuck at the opening logo). The recovery mode was the only thing available (I use a stock rom).
I had all my phone contacts stored in the internal memory so before doing that I made a backup to my sd card using the stock recovery (it made a 1gb .backup file in my sd card).
After wiping all the datas, I was able to use my phone without any problem but the recovery mode wasn't available anymore (the device gets stuck on the android logo when trying to access it).
So I tried to load the .backup file into another android device from its respective recovery mode but a message appeared reading ''checksum compare fails''.
Is there a way I can access all my datas from this .backup file and get back my phone contacts?
Thank you very much for your help
Solution?
Hi momomr,
exactly the same happened to me yesterday. Did you solve this problem somehow?
Thanks for answer
momomr said:
Hello everyone,
I had to factory reset my cinko slim android phone given that it didn't boot anymore (it was stuck at the opening logo). The recovery mode was the only thing available (I use a stock rom).
I had all my phone contacts stored in the internal memory so before doing that I made a backup to my sd card using the stock recovery (it made a 1gb .backup file in my sd card).
After wiping all the datas, I was able to use my phone without any problem but the recovery mode wasn't available anymore (the device gets stuck on the android logo when trying to access it).
So I tried to load the .backup file into another android device from its respective recovery mode but a message appeared reading ''checksum compare fails''.
Is there a way I can access all my datas from this .backup file and get back my phone contacts?
Thank you very much for your help
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Hi all,
I bought a Proscan PTL7035-PL (preloaded with Android ICS 4.04) last Christmas. I rooted with a great success and have it running a full-fledged Google Play store. The only drawback is that all apps go to the internal sd which has only 2gb of storage space. I tried a couple of ways swapping the internal and external sds. None of them has worked. Then I followed one from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1991583. Basically by modifying the mount point of the internal flash and external sd as described in the file vold.fstab , the hope was to make the system use the big sd storage for apps and data storage etc.
Here is where my nightmare began. After reboot, my tablet stuck at the android logo and the booting never finished. I kind of know that my mounting points messed things up. The fix can be as easy as just restore the backup copy of vold.fstab which I have on the tablet. The problems are that:
1) There is no way to access the system folder of the android device now as the device itself cannot finish booting; and it can't communicate with a PC via USB.
2) Even if I can force it boot into the Android System Recovery 3e, it is not much a help as it needs a certified ROM or backup copy to recover. The official ROM is not out yet and I don't have a backup copy.
It looks like my device has been soft bricked. So how to pull it out?
Anyone ever solve this?
Android2013_ said:
Hi all,
I bought a Proscan PTL7035-PL (preloaded with Android ICS 4.04) last Christmas. I rooted with a great success and have it running a full-fledged Google Play store. The only drawback is that all apps go to the internal sd which has only 2gb of storage space. I tried a couple of ways swapping the internal and external sds. None of them has worked. Then I followed one from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1991583. Basically by modifying the mount point of the internal flash and external sd as described in the file vold.fstab , the hope was to make the system use the big sd storage for apps and data storage etc.
Here is where my nightmare began. After reboot, my tablet stuck at the android logo and the booting never finished. I kind of know that my mounting points messed things up. The fix can be as easy as just restore the backup copy of vold.fstab which I have on the tablet. The problems are that:
1) There is no way to access the system folder of the android device now as the device itself cannot finish booting; and it can't communicate with a PC via USB.
2) Even if I can force it boot into the Android System Recovery 3e, it is not much a help as it needs a certified ROM or backup copy to recover. The official ROM is not out yet and I don't have a backup copy.
It looks like my device has been soft bricked. So how to pull it out?
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Long story short, similar issue. Has Rooted my 9 year olds Tablet, (Same as Op), and actually had it running great. Well, I was installing Gapps, via root explorer, and my Son was talking, and I forgot to Mount the System Folder that I was Replacing with the gapps one, R/W - it stayed R/O and never got replaced.
Thus the other 2 folders I changed to R/W are stuck that way. I think it was the entire Root Folder, and One more. I can elaborate.
Is there a way to fix this, as the tablet will not boot properly. (Hangs on Splash Screen), then if I attempt recovery, it gets stuck at the Android with the Red Triangle coming out of his belly, but no Menu Choices.
Anyone?
Okay, this is quite a long story, so I apologise in advance.
I decided to update my Galaxy S2 today to a newer ROM (SuperNexus 2) with the latest version of Android. I was coming from a CM9 build. I went through the usual process of backing up data and performing a full NANDROID backup via CWM Recovery, booted the phone again and transferred the backups to my PC via USB. These files transferred fine.
I then downloaded the zip files for the new ROM and proceeded to copy them to the internal storage of my phone. The copy dialog in Windows said that it was "discovering items" and stayed like this until I turned off USB transfer mode on the phone and removed it (ie. the files failed to copy) This happened a number of times and I didn't get anywhere. I have plenty of space free on the SD card, but just to make sure I started the phone in CWM again and formatted the SD card, and since I was going to do it anyway, the data and cache partitions too. When I booted the phone again, the files still wouldn't copy. I managed to copy a text file to the phone which was about 32kb but anything larger just seemed to fail.
I then went back into CWM and decided to partition the SD card, as I thought that it may have been corrupted somehow and needed to rebuild the filesystem. This however, caused even more problems as trying to format the SD card (In CWM) now just reported "Error, can not mount E:/sdcard".
Feeling fairly frustrated, I decided to download the Stock ICS ROM for the Galaxy S2 and install it via Odin, thinking that the problem was probably with CWM. The install went fine, but upon reboot the phone just stayed on the boot animation, no matter how long I left it. To make sure the install went smoothly I decided to try and reinstall the Stock ROM via Odin again, but now Odin didnt seem to get past the "Initializing.." stage.
So all in all, I now have a phone which wont boot into Android, cant copy anything to internal storage, and Odin wont seem to connect to.
I am convinced this is a software issue and therefore fixable. But maybe the internal storage was not working correctly in the first place. I have installed many ROMs before and never had such issues.
Anyone know anything about this or how I could potentially fix it? Thanks so much in advance!
Benji1992 said:
Okay, this is quite a long story, so I apologise in advance.
I decided to update my Galaxy S2 today to a newer ROM (SuperNexus 2) with the latest version of Android. I was coming from a CM9 build. I went through the usual process of backing up data and performing a full NANDROID backup via CWM Recovery, booted the phone again and transferred the backups to my PC via USB. These files transferred fine.
I then downloaded the zip files for the new ROM and proceeded to copy them to the internal storage of my phone. The copy dialog in Windows said that it was "discovering items" and stayed like this until I turned off USB transfer mode on the phone and removed it (ie. the files failed to copy) This happened a number of times and I didn't get anywhere. I have plenty of space free on the SD card, but just to make sure I started the phone in CWM again and formatted the SD card, and since I was going to do it anyway, the data and cache partitions too. When I booted the phone again, the files still wouldn't copy. I managed to copy a text file to the phone which was about 32kb but anything larger just seemed to fail.
I then went back into CWM and decided to partition the SD card, as I thought that it may have been corrupted somehow and needed to rebuild the filesystem. This however, caused even more problems as trying to format the SD card (In CWM) now just reported "Error, can not mount E:/sdcard".
Feeling fairly frustrated, I decided to download the Stock ICS ROM for the Galaxy S2 and install it via Odin, thinking that the problem was probably with CWM. The install went fine, but upon reboot the phone just stayed on the boot animation, no matter how long I left it. To make sure the install went smoothly I decided to try and reinstall the Stock ROM via Odin again, but now Odin didnt seem to get past the "Initializing.." stage.
So all in all, I now have a phone which wont boot into Android, cant copy anything to internal storage, and Odin wont seem to connect to.
I am convinced this is a software issue and therefore fixable. But maybe the internal storage was not working correctly in the first place. I have installed many ROMs before and never had such issues.
Anyone know anything about this or how I could potentially fix it? Thanks so much in advance!
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I9100?
Can get to DL mode?
Can get to recovery?
Get an older Odin version and flash siyah just to see if it can be flashed again.
If you can get to recovery, Nuke Script is the way to go.
It sounds to me that maybe your memory is corrupt...
Not just yet, smells like soft brick.
Sent from the little guy
Hi
I have tried to install Liquid Smooth onto my HTC One X (UK) but now all i get is the HTC Logo screen. I followed all the instructions to the letter and realised I made a mistake. When I suppose to copy the Liquid Rom Zip to my phone storage I copied to my external HD instead. so when I when to install the zip file I found it wasn't there. When I rebooted my phone all I get now is the HTC logo screen.
I have tried fastbood erase cache - but that didn't work
I have tried doing a restore of my back up but did nothing.
I can still access the fastboot menu etc from the phone but i cannot access the internal storage to copy the zip file across for me to install it so it appears I have no operating system on my phone I might be wrong though.
Any help would be much appreciated.
First off, I am no expert so please be gentle! I previously rooted my old Samsung Galaxy S i9000 and installed ICS, which went OK, but the phone became quite slow and unstable. I was advised to install RemICS and downloaded all the zip files from this forum, and put them on the external SD card. I followed the developer's instructions to the letter, as well as reading everything I could find on the subject. The reset and data wiping went fine, but the installation of the ROM didn't. It halted with an error message -`ROM incompatible, trying to use an invalid partition'. I repeat that this is supposed to be the specific ROM for the i9000. The phone now won't boot into recovery. It stops with an orange Android logo and the text `Powered by Mackay Kernel'. It won't boot into download mode either. The Mackay screen stays there however long I leave it. I really need help from the ROM developer but I can't post to that forum. How can I either boot into recovery or into download mode? Is this ROM reliable? What could I have done wrong?
More info:
Presumably everyone is on holiday! But just in case anyone is reading, there is further news. The reason I could not start recovery mode was that the button sequence was different from what I had been told. It now boots reliably into Mackay (which of course is TWRP). I have found that the phone is unable to mount the partitions DATA and SYSTEM - they seem to be corrupted. Hence it has not wiped DATA, although TWRP wrongly reports success. I have tried updating the partitions to ext3 or ext4 but this fails every time. I could format the thing from Windows but that will wipe everything including recovery of course. I need a tool to repair these partitions, but have not found anything so far. This may well have been the reason the phone was getting creaky in the first place.
I have copied a new ROM to the external SD card, using a card reader, and inserted this into the phone. Strangely the TWRP file manager reports that EXTERNAL SD is a sub-folder of SD CARD, and that is empty. The file manager does not show the real external SD card. But the real external SD shows up on the Windows USB connection. What is going on?
When I try to mount the partitions, DATA and SYSTEM can't be checked - the other partitions (Cache, sdcard, and emmc are all checked).
kingGrn Copeland
Well for the benefit of anyone else with the same problem, I have managed to re-flash the ROM back to stock. It just took 3 days of intensive web browsing until I understood how to do it, and found software that worked - a lot of stuff out there has errors.
To summarise, the problem was:
1. Data and System partitions became damaged, so phone became unstable.
2. Attempt to upgrade ROM failed because of damaged partitions.
3. Could not boot phone into recovery or download because button combination was different from what I was told.
The solution was:
4. Boot into download mode using correct button combination.
5. Re-flash back to stock ROM and re-partition using Odin.
Yes, someone did tell me that, and I would have done that straight away if I could have gotten into download mode. We live and learn
The solution was:
4. Boot into download mode using correct button combination.
5. Re-flash back to stock ROM and re-partition using Odin.
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Thanks this wa useful for me too.
First of all, Merry Chrismas to everyone...
I am another total noob trying to get through installing a ROM in an old Motorola atrix 4G. I managed to unlock and root the phone successfully. But upon instllation of the ROM, the phone will not load. The phone will only show the logo... I can go back to recovery mode (CWM 4.0) but I find out I have no recovery images... just the two CM zip files I wanted to try...
I assume that my first option would be to try a new ROM, but I cannot access my external SD card and I have no idea how to access the internal one to lead new .zip files on it..
I keep reading in the forums how people instruct others to load new ROMs... but how do I go around that? I can take the external sd card and use my pc to play around with it, but then I cannot see it on CWM. I do not know how to access the phone from my pc and the battery is almost gone so I am stuck to the power outlet via usb..
Is there any wayI can go around this? Many thanks in advance.. .
tldr stuck in probably a boot loop with no recovery options on CWM and no battery... external SD card should be my last resort... wat do?
cespinal said:
First of all, Merry Chrismas to everyone...
I am another total noob trying to get through installing a ROM in an old Motorola atrix 4G. I managed to unlock and root the phone successfully. But upon instllation of the ROM, the phone will not load. The phone will only show the logo... I can go back to recovery mode (CWM 4.0) but I find out I have no recovery images... just the two CM zip files I wanted to try...
I assume that my first option would be to try a new ROM, but I cannot access my external SD card and I have no idea how to access the internal one to lead new .zip files on it..
I keep reading in the forums how people instruct others to load new ROMs... but how do I go around that? I can take the external sd card and use my pc to play around with it, but then I cannot see it on CWM. I do not know how to access the phone from my pc and the battery is almost gone so I am stuck to the power outlet via usb..
Is there any wayI can go around this? Many thanks in advance.. .
tldr stuck in probably a boot loop with no recovery options on CWM and no battery... external SD card should be my last resort... wat do?
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You can access stoarage in cwm:victory: Just go to cwm > mounts and storage > mount usb storage to pc (or something similar at the bottom of the list) and connect to your pc using a usb. Drag the rom that you want to flash, do a full wipe (if not you will be in a bootloop) and then reboot, all fixed!
Maurice5813 said:
You can access stoarage in cwm:victory: Just go to cwm > mounts and storage > mount usb storage to pc (or something similar at the bottom of the list) and connect to your pc using a usb. Drag the rom that you want to flash, do a full wipe (if not you will be in a bootloop) and then reboot, all fixed!
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Hi there,
Thanks, but even though the option is there, the phone doesnt seem to mount...am I missing something?