Hey guys, I kinda at my wits ends.
I have a Note 2 and I was running Sophisticated rom 3.1 just fine. I wanted to try Beans new Alliance 23 Rom. So I booted into TWRP 2.6.3.1 and backed up Sophisticated 3.1 first, then wiped everything and flashed Beans 23. Phone would not get past the boot animation. I tried to use the restore I had just created and TWRP fails. Tried upgrading TWRP to 2.6.3.2, didn't work, now any rom I try to install or recover from I get errors in TWRP saying too many files open and a second one about data/data/com.contacts. I tried Philz CWM recovery, I even tried downgrading back to TWRP 2.6.3.0 and nothing. I can not get a rom to boot past the boot animation. Please help. I have unlimited data and I can't go use an upgrade.
Dugall12 said:
Hey guys, I kinda at my wits ends.
I have a Note 2 and I was running Sophisticated rom 3.1 just fine. I wanted to try Beans new Alliance 23 Rom. So I booted into TWRP 2.6.3.1 and backed up Sophisticated 3.1 first, then wiped everything and flashed Beans 23. Phone would not get past the boot animation. I tried to use the restore I had just created and TWRP fails. Tried upgrading TWRP to 2.6.3.2, didn't work, now any rom I try to install or recover from I get errors in TWRP saying too many files open and a second one about data/data/com.contacts. I tried Philz CWM recovery, I even tried downgrading back to TWRP 2.6.3.0 and nothing. I can not get a rom to boot past the boot animation. Please help. I have unlimited data and I can't go use an upgrade.
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I am using twrp 2.6.3.1. I would reflash the recovery. Then I would wipe everything except your external SD card. I have noticed that if I don't wipe my internal SD for awhile I will start having goofy stuff happen. That usually fixes any issues I have.
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Yeah, I tried all that as well. Rehashed that version the new version and the older version then tried Phil's, tried wiping internal, external and still had errors. I had to bite the bullet and Odin back to stock 4.1.2 then jailbreak again and after a day lost I finally got it back up. I'm leaving TWRP 2.5 on it
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I have S-off Hboot 1.4
Was running Cleanrom 1.1 reborn. & Twrp
Flashed over to CM9 Nightly, worked fine.
Decided I wanted to go back to a sense ics rom, so I flashed the latest ICS meanrom.
Phone went into bootloop
Went back into recovery, flashed superwipe, then did factory reset/wipe cache
Flashed ICS Meanrom again, still boot loop.
Restored TWRP backup I have of stock rom, booted fine.
Tried flashing Cleanrom 1.1 reborn, went into boot loop.
Restored my stock rom, booted fine again.
Changed recovery to Ext4... didn't make a backup in ext 4.
Tried flashing both Cleanrom GB, Meanrom, sends me to boot loop on both.
What happened? I was able to use cleanrom before where as now it just sends it to boot loop, I can't restore my twrp backup as I am on ext4 now.
What do I do?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26381636#post26381636
j4keg said:
I have S-off Hboot 1.4
Was running Cleanrom 1.1 reborn. & Twrp
Flashed over to CM9 Nightly, worked fine.
Decided I wanted to go back to a sense ics rom, so I flashed the latest ICS meanrom.
Phone went into bootloop
Went back into recovery, flashed superwipe, then did factory reset/wipe cache
Flashed ICS Meanrom again, still boot loop.
Restored TWRP backup I have of stock rom, booted fine.
Tried flashing Cleanrom 1.1 reborn, went into boot loop.
Restored my stock rom, booted fine again.
Changed recovery to Ext4... didn't make a backup in ext 4.
Tried flashing both Cleanrom GB, Meanrom, sends me to boot loop on both.
What happened? I was able to use cleanrom before where as now it just sends it to boot loop, I can't restore my twrp backup as I am on ext4 now.
What do I do?
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maybe Cleanrom 1.1 isnt good......
j4keg said:
What happened? I was able to use cleanrom before where as now it just sends it to boot loop, I can't restore my twrp backup as I am on ext4 now.
What do I do?
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Not that this solves your problem, but you could switch back to twrp to use your nandroid backup.
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coal686 said:
Not that this solves your problem, but you could switch back to twrp to use your nandroid backup.
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Sorry took so long to follow up.
Later on that day, I realized that my phone wasn't accepting the flash of zipped files. It go through the flashing process in like 5 seconds.
I did switch over to ext4, this was causing the same problem.
Couldn't boot into any rom, so I had to use fastboot and adb to send twrp to the phone. Finally restored my stock rom and was able to flash fine since.
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Sorry took so long to follow up.
Later on that day, I realized that my phone wasn't accepting the flash of zipped files. It go through the flashing process in like 5 seconds.
I did switch over to ext4, this was causing the same problem.
Couldn't boot into any rom, so I had to use fastboot and adb to send twrp to the phone. Finally restored my stock rom and was able to flash fine since.
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Glad to hear it. Thanks for the followup.
Just bought a used phone off Swappa. It has TWRP and had Cyanogenmod installed.
I wanted to try a TouchWiz ROM so I downloaded one. Booted into recovery, made a backup to external SD Card and then flashed the ROM. It said it flashed
successfully but when rebooted, it just stayed at the Samsung Galaxy S4 Boot
screen.
I tried restoring the backup, but it failed!
I thought I might have had a bad download so I downloaded Cyanogenmod nightly and LiquidSmooth on my laptop, transfered to the SD card, popped it into the S4, boot into recovery, and tried flashing each, and both just boot to the boot screen and freeze.
What are my best options now? I saw some guides for flashing back to stock via Odin, but requires that I know if I am on VRUAME7 or VRUAMDK and I don't know. Could I have been on ME7 and running Cyanogenmod? Doesn't seem possible, no?
Me7 ota doesnt have the ability to flash custom recovery or rom, so no you werent on that beforehand. Whenever you flash a rom you need to do a wipe/factory reset and wipe caches, unless op states you can dirty flash. Doing some reading will only help you out, generally every post outlines the installation process. Boot to recovery do your wipes then try booting again. If your still in a bootloop then you will need to flash mdk via odin then start the rooting and romming process over.
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Man, I thought I did everything right.
First, did a backup.
Then full wipe with TWRP full wipe, including cache.
Then flash ROM
I'll have to get familiar with Odin and find the MDK images.
Sometimes that happens. Could have been a bad download then it happens more often then you would think. If theres an md5 hash posted its a good idea to verify the download is good. In the dev section theres no wipe mdk images posted so you wont lose your already installed apps and data.
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So I downloaded the factory image and flashed via Odin, but accidentally flashed via bootloader rather than PDA. It wouldn't start - still hung at the boot screen, so I re-flashed via PDA and it is still hanging at the boot screen.
Now I don't know if it is just the same problem as before, or if I messed something up with flashing through bootloader. Can I reflash something via the bootloader section of Odin to restore it?
What version of twrp? And try to go back into recovery and wipe cache and dalvik.
That worked for me on the buggy version of twrp when it wouldn't booy
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twiz0r said:
What version of twrp? And try to go back into recovery and wipe cache and dalvik.
That worked for me on the buggy version of twrp when it wouldn't booy
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Not sure what version it was because it's now back to factory recovery. I did go back into it and did a factory wipe and it booted!
So, I was able to successfully unlock my bootloader, got TWRP 2.6 on it, and put a few different ROMs on my machine; however, I have yet been able to install a ROM and get it to move past the boot animation.
I have tried the latest nightly ROMs for CyanogenMod 10.1 and 10.2 for my TF201, both of which get stuck in CM's boot animation. I just tried the same with the newest Baked ROM, only to be stuck in its boot animation as well.
I'm trying to figure out if there was something I forgot to do. I have been able to revert to a backup of my stock Jellybean 4.1.1 that I stored using TWRP, but haven't been able to use anything else.
Are there any thoughts on this? Have I missed something? I was able to use the unlocker utility and each boot offers the confirmation in the top-left that my bootloader is unlocked. I am able to enter TWRP from the recovery mode. Shouldn't it be as simple as selecting a ROM's zip archive and installing it from TWRP?
Have you done a full wipe before installing, including cache and dalvik cache partitions?
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Try installing twrp 2.5. AS I just read in another thread there are problems with 2.6..
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Factory reset
After flashing CM 10.1 nightly last night i had the same issue. I booted into my recovery console (flatline cwm) and performed a factory reset. This seemed to clear whatever issue was bothering the tablet. Still sat there for about five minutes on the animation after the reset but then progressed into setup.
Doubt if it makes a difference but mine was connected to the dock too.
If you're still stuck the method that worked for me yesterday was:
Used Flatline CWM as the recovery, installed using fastboot
Used an external memory card to copy the relevant zip files to my sdcard, recovery couldnt find them otherwise using adb push
Installed from zip using Flatline CWM
Installed gapps using Flatline CWM
Booted, got the issue you had
Booted into recovery, performed a factory reset
Told recovery to restart the machine
Booted into setup screen after loading for a few minutes
Been using twrp since rooting note II. I wanted to try out 4.4 PA but they said to only use cwm. It was late so I decided to be lazy and since I used to use rom manager all the time I installed it to flash cwm recovery then booted into recovery to install touch version. It wasn't showing the touch version so selected to restart to check to see where I saved it to it would not boot past the first "note II" splash screen. Battery pull then back into recovery and went ahead and flashed PA 4.4 and now it will get past the splash screen then shows boot animation but then starts all over.
Is this a rom manager issue?
can I flash twrp from within cwm recovery?
will I have to basically reroot it?
Any suggestions on how to get back to twrp and to a usable phone?
thanks
If you download a .zip of twrp and flash it you will have twrp for your recovery.
As long as you flash a rooted rom, you will be rooted.
Not sure what happened with the boot loop, did you by chance wipe the system without flashing another before booting?
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cadavjo said:
If you download a .zip of twrp and flash it you will have twrp for your recovery.
As long as you flash a rooted rom, you will be rooted.
Not sure what happened with the boot loop, did you by chance wipe the system without flashing another before booting?
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Nope did my standard wipe cache, wipe dalvik, and factory reset then flashed rom then gapps. Going to go back to twrp and wait for 4.4 to be more stable before I try it out again and maybe then I can use twrp to flash it.
thanks for the help
cadavjo said:
If you download a .zip of twrp and flash it you will have twrp for your recovery.
As long as you flash a rooted rom, you will be rooted.
Not sure what happened with the boot loop, did you by chance wipe the system without flashing another before booting?
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that didn't work. flashed newest twrp then rebooted into it and tried to flash tweaked and sticks at the splash screen again
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that didn't work. flashed newest twrp then rebooted into it and tried to flash tweaked and sticks at the splash screen again
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Have you wiped data at all? You need to wipe data / factory reset when switching roms, and it sounds like you havent.
fallingup said:
Have you wiped data at all? You need to wipe data / factory reset when switching roms, and it sounds like you havent.
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As stated above, on both cwm and twrp I wiped caches and did factory reset and still having the issues. Once back on twrp I even formatted internal memory thinking maybe rom manager messed something up on it and still can't get passed the splash screen.
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As stated above, on both cwm and twrp I wiped caches and did factory reset and still having the issues. Once back on twrp I even formatted internal memory thinking maybe rom manager messed something up on it and still can't get passed the splash screen.
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Copy a ROM to your SD card (external not internal)
Install cwm and format data (actually full format, where /data/media gets wiped) and system
Install rom
Reboot
TWRP has some issues randomly with corrupting /data, that's why I no longer use it.
fallingup said:
Copy a ROM to your SD card (external not internal)
Install cwm and format data (actually full format, where /data/media gets wiped) and system
Install rom
Reboot
TWRP has some issues randomly with corrupting /data, that's why I no longer use it.
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Finally got it. Thought using odin to flash back to root 66 and start fresh would work but after that it was still going to the splash screen then black and a battery pull had to be done. TWRP back ups would fail when trying to restore, so I reverted back to an older version of twrp and it finally let a back up be installed and it booted up just fine!!
thanks for all the suggestions
Im having a similar problem to yours, I am using twrp and flashed PA 3.99 the phone works great, but if my battery dies or i restart the phone or shut it down it automatically wont get passed the samsung logo, or sometimes the PA logo, the only work arounds ive seen to it is to wipe the cache and dalvik to boot, but when that fails i have to install the whole rom over again. any ideas?
I've been trying to install the most recent PAC Rom nightlies on a stock, rooted phone. I'm using the newest TWRP to flash it. The flash goes through fine, so I wipe cache/dalvik. When I reboot my phone it gets stuck in the PAC rom loading screen.
What should I try?
Thank you.
Did you do a full wipe/factory reset before flashing the rom?
I did. Somehow it decided to work when I tried again. Newest TWRP was messing with the install. Had to try several times for it to work.
I believe there was issues with the latest TWRP recovery. The previous build worked better. Switched over to Phil Cwm and haven't really gone back since.
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