So I was backing up my data to my computer's hard drive and I left the SD card in the computer. No big deal, right? Wrong. My phone (rooted Razr with Batakang) refuses to start up. Tried mounting and unmounting, system off, power button and vol down, nothing will save it. I can get to Matt's utility just fine, but from there the phone will not start up properly on stock OR rooted rom.
Please help, it is like a boot loop when I leave it alone.
boland3 said:
So I was backing up my data to my computer's hard drive and I left the SD card in the computer. No big deal, right? Wrong. My phone (rooted Razr with Batakang) refuses to start up. Tried mounting and unmounting, system off, power button and vol down, nothing will save it. I can get to Matt's utility just fine, but from there the phone will not start up properly on stock OR rooted rom.
Please help, it is like a boot loop when I leave it alone.
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UPDATE: I flashed Batakang to the same ROM slot where I think I had it before (It won't let me switch slots) and it is working but I guess I lost everything I had into the oblivion. Id like to get some of my app information like saved texts, etc back but I guess thats all gone.
I had that ROM so perfect, it is such a shame to see it go. If anything good comes out of this, hopefully people reading this will be made aware that it is possible for a battery death while SD card is removed can SERIOUSLY screw up a rooted phone somehow. Never would have guessed.
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Here's my story.
Rooted my phone about a month ago (used the PBI one, you know what I mean?) and when I did I loaded it in the root folder, rebooted, held END+VOL DWN, hit action, and away it went. Since then I've tried a few times to update to Evil Eris 4.0 using the same methods (I'm 100% newb when it comes to all the terminology) and long story short I followed all the instructions and it just sat there like a brick with the "Green Droid and big triangle with a ! in it" screen (which I interpret as death) but found that if I just plugged it into a computer (Mac or PC) it'd load back up into whatever rom I was using fine. This morning I got jazzed about KaosFroyo V. 34 and tried to install that the same way (END+ VOL DWN) and again got the "!" screen making me run to school to plug it in ASAP.
With all that said, what am I doing wrong? I'm such a crazy newb about all this its ridiculous so please don't reply with a lot of jargon, step by steps would be greatly appreciated. I don't HATE my current rom (the maps crash a lot but they do work) but I just wanna be one of the cool kids
Would a bought Rom Manager app help? I've heard lots of negative stuff about the clockwork mode and that it can ruin your phone.
GreenLanternBatman said:
Here's my story.
Rooted my phone about a month ago (used the PBI one, you know what I mean?) and when I did I loaded it in the root folder, rebooted, held END+VOL DWN, hit action, and away it went. Since then I've tried a few times to update to Evil Eris 4.0 using the same methods (I'm 100% newb when it comes to all the terminology) and long story short I followed all the instructions and it just sat there like a brick with the "Green Droid and big triangle with a ! in it" screen (which I interpret as death) but found that if I just plugged it into a computer (Mac or PC) it'd load back up into whatever rom I was using fine. This morning I got jazzed about KaosFroyo V. 34 and tried to install that the same way (END+ VOL DWN) and again got the "!" screen making me run to school to plug it in ASAP.
With all that said, what am I doing wrong? I'm such a crazy newb about all this its ridiculous so please don't reply with a lot of jargon, step by steps would be greatly appreciated. I don't HATE my current rom (the maps crash a lot but they do work) but I just wanna be one of the cool kids
Would a bought Rom Manager app help? I've heard lots of negative stuff about the clockwork mode and that it can ruin your phone.
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It sounds like you don't have Amon's recovery flashed yet.
This is probably the easiest thing you can do.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_flash_Recovery_Image
or this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=742228
In either case, you need to read, and educate yourself.
Precursor - If you run a back up program like Titanium Back Up or MyBackUp Pro, now would be a good time to do that.
I think your main problem is that to get into Recovery mode, you need to hit Volume Up + Power (End). Once there, I'd suggest going to Back Up/Restore and doing a Nandroid Back Up. This will save the entire state of your phone just as it is before you went into Recovery. Exactly as is. Next, go to Wipe, and select options 1 - Factory/Data Reset and 2 - Dalvik Cache. If you don't already have the KaosFroyo-v34.zip file on the root (meaning NOT in a folder) of your card, you can go back to the main Recovery screen and select 2 - USB MS Toggle which will mount your SD card to the computer and you can drag and drop the file from there. Once you've followed these steps, now you are ready to choose option Flash Zip from SD card. Select the zip you need and let it do its thing. You didn't mention if you had apps2sd set up not. If you don't, ignore this next part, if you do, pay attention. IF and only IF you were using apps2sd then you will need to reformat your card to work with Froyo roms. Froyo already has the benefit baked into it but it utlilizes it in a different way. To reformat, you will want to copy everything from your SD card to your computer, then in Recovery, go to Partition card. For Ext and Swap sizes select "0" and then hit ok for partition the rest of the card in FAT32 format. Done. You can add back on contents from the SD card in Recovery through the USB Toggle mode or after you boot everything up, it does not matter (the only difference being that your computer will ask if you want to copy and merge folders if you do it after you boot because it will remake some of the folders for you on booting) . With that being said, now it's time to try out KaosFroyo! The first boot WILL take awhile and the phone will be very slow once it does boot as it has to Sync all of your info and applications back from the Market. Once that gets finished, then you can restore your data if you saved it through Titanium or MyBackUp. I usually like to give it a reboot after all this fun stuff, just to give it a chance to gather itself, if you will. After that, you should be good to go with learning the ins and outs of Froyo Hope this helps!
Did you make a amon backup before you first rooted you phone? I had that same problem when I flashed Kaosfroyo v34. I would boot up in recovery (Vol up+end) and I would have the android with the ! above him. I started freaking out. What I did was restore my nand backup back to 2.1. Then I re-rooted back to KaosFroyo v34. Then went into recovery and everything was good. My advice, unroot then root again. Maybe its not the best/easiest way, but it did the trick for me. And as always, search the forums, there is a post for almost anything. Hope that helps.
So I had the miui rom, but the phone calls sucked, so I decided to download the new senseless rom to my phone.
At this time, I had CWM 5,but every time I would try to install, the installation would abort and say (status 1), and stuff like that.
So I got the twrp pg86img to my phone, went into the white screen where you can be directed into recovery.
It flashed successfully, but trying to reboot, my phone is stuck at the HTC screen.
I cannot enter recovery because the pg86img blocks everything, my only option on the white screen with the skating androids is to install the img, or press power to reboot.
Ive tried adb with phone on white screen, and off, everytime the system/bin/sh is not found.
I really need some help.
Do you have a micro SD card adapter that you can put into your computer to just delete the PG86IMG ? That's what I do when stuff like that happens.
No i dont, I ended up taking out the micro sd from my old instinct, and loading a nandroid onto it.
No cord for the instinct though, still figuring out how I'm going to get that thing off of the card.
Thanks anyways
thecalitree said:
No i dont, I ended up taking out the micro sd from my old instinct, and loading a nandroid onto it.
No cord for the instinct though, still figuring out how I'm going to get that thing off of the card.
Thanks anyways
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Just put that card in another phone/tablet that is already running android. (AFTER it's booted into whatever rom, and it doesn't even have to be your phone). Its gonna act like a card reader. Then, just go into a file manager, and delete it., then unmount it, and remove it. (Something with an easily accessible sd card, like the Nook Colors they have laying out at Best Buy, lol)
Or there's about 20 other ways, as well.
<<It ain't over till the fat guy swings.>>
Hello, i currently own a HTC EVO 3D GSM, fully rooted and S-OFF'd.
I'm running stock rom, without any major modifications.
Earlier today i was doing a nandroid backup, just before wanting to try out LeeDroid ROM. The nandroid went through just fine, then i rebooted the phone on to do a titanium backup & sync to my dropbox.
Now i used my app "Hot Reboot" to simply do a reboot into bootloader.
The app didn't work (dont know why), so i closed it down and did a manual shut down and then battery pull.
When i put the battery in, and tried to boot the phone into bootloader, it didn't start.
I tried to do a normal boot, didn't start.
I tried to plug it into my charger. The light didn't turn on.
I removed the back cover, removed battery, SIM card, SD card and tried to get rid of any possible dust (i was kind of panicing here).
Put it all back in, same result.
I tried switching SD card to my old stock 8gb sdc4 sandisk. This time it finallly booted and everything worked like before.
I turned the phone off, and replaced the 8gb SD card with my 32gb SD card. Now this also worked fine.
I have no idea how or why this happened, but if anyone could shed some light on why/how it happened? Maybe i could avoid it happening again, because i was kinda freaking out when i thought i had a possible brick.
- Moon
Continuum Brick?
I have been reading since 2pm today. I'm lost in threads and advice about a bricked phone. I have a Continuum that shows a fuzzy screen. I can't see to get a download mode. The options are off or pixelated/fuzz screen. Is soldering still required? I was attempting to use CWM. I am not sure bad cable or what but it went down hill. My Win7 PC shows 0bytes free on the Continuum. I apolgize if this is the wrong area for my questions. I successfully rooted an Epic and a Kyocera Echo without too much trouble. I appreciate any thoughts, comments, and suggestions. Thanks in advance!!
This is my sister's phone so I may not be alive in the morning j/k
Today I have downloaded Ubuntu, Android SDK, One Click Unbrick, Resurrection, Java, and a host of other Android related files. I was SO sure all my clicking would bring me back to stock.
So I am unlocked and running MIUI
I was in CWM and my dog bumped my arm while I was trying to go to "wipe data"..
Instead I think I went to partition internal sd.
There was no backbutton only a few options
0MB
4MB
8MB
etc
or something like that.
Since there was no back button, I just chose "0Mb" hoping it would do nothing.
Then I rebooted recovery.. but this time instead of recovery it gave me a full white text boot screen, saying "choose and option 1 through 9. You have 5 secs to choose or it will go to "BP" by default". And it listed all the options you would see if you scrolled through them with vol down, all in one list.
I tried to vol down to recovery and choose it, but when I do, it just reloads this menu. I can choose fastboot and RSD and it will load those, but recovery seems to be gone.
I also see the internal storage doesn't show up when I boot the phone and connect to PC.. only my external SD does. So somehow I screwed the pooch. I guess my best bet would be to reflash the recovery through fastboot?
hmm now my PC isn't recognizing my phone in fastboot mode.
I tried rom manager and flashing recovery from within miui.. but it just does nothing.
OK on reboot I tried Rom manager again and it works. It still has that menu on boot, but recovery works now
Did this before. Only solution I came up with is flashing the SBF and starting from scratch. Hope this helps.
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i did this exact same thing the other day... I don't know what menu it is that i accidentally got into but it wiped something and my recovery was gone... flashed an sbf and got stuck in a boot loop and finally fixed it by wiping data
ugh
get into RSD mode and then flash the stock Rom..
After installing just wipe data in Stock Recovery mode..
Thats all.. You are good to go...
Make sure you have 5gb free in the drive you Run RSD Lite..
Yea I reflashed stock SBF and now it boots stock photon tho its stuck on "Contacting Network". reboot not helping.
The other day I was trying to back out of the advanced menu and ended up with multiple partitioning options with no back button. Selected one of the options. Lost all my photos
I could have tried to recover the data but decided it wasn't worth it.
I see a topic here with my problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1284956
Tho I AM on the stock sbf so not sure why it is happening.. gonna try sbf again
sub2k1 said:
The other day I was trying to back out of the advanced menu and ended up with multiple partitioning options with no back button. Selected one of the options. Lost all my photos
I could have tried to recover the data but decided it wasn't worth it.
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Why didn't you just pull the battery?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1555948
Akilldema said:
Why didn't you just pull the battery?
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I was being lazy. I figured that perhaps I accidentally hit a button combo that caused the back button to disappear. So I figured that a button combo might make it come back. Well I didn't find that button combo. I immediately pulled my battery when it said formatting SD Card but at that point it was too late.
sub2k1 said:
I was being lazy. I figured that perhaps I accidentally hit a button combo that caused the back button to disappear. So I figured that a button combo might make it come back. Well I didn't find that button combo. I immediately pulled my battery when it said formatting SD Card but at that point it was too late.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1496012
This happened to me because the back button too.........
Sadly, getting the menu to go away is not the main issue, you have actually erased your PDS partition which holds factory hardware information like MAC /bluetooth adr and stuff for the PRL/Data profile updates to recognize your phone.............Flashing the PDS partition from the Atrix Forums will create the partition but we need like a dev to help us figure out a solution for editing the files to work with Sprint software updates and getting all our hardware addresses on there correctly. No amount of flashing/SBF'ing stuff helped to get it working... some users suggest taking it to Sprint..
Oh so thats why I can't update my prl and profile. I had this happen a while ago and I just flashed a custom splash screen. Gonna go back tp stock and start it all over again. And if that menu happens to come up again i'll just pull the battery.
Plancy said:
This happened to me because the back button too.........
Sadly, getting the menu to go away is not the main issue, you have actually erased your PDS partition which holds factory hardware information like MAC /bluetooth adr and stuff for the PRL/Data profile updates to recognize your phone.............Flashing the PDS partition from the Atrix Forums will create the partition but we need like a dev to help us figure out a solution for editing the files to work with Sprint software updates and getting all our hardware addresses on there correctly. No amount of flashing/SBF'ing stuff helped to get it working... some users suggest taking it to Sprint..
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It seems like it would be possible to dd a PDS partition image from a working phone and flash it to the phone with the bad PDS parition via fastboot as long as you knew the partition it needed to be flashed to, although it would have the data of the other phone (as far as bluetooth, MAC addresses). Not sure how to go about editing in the info you need though. Just tossing out ideas
-devx
This might help...hope it does.
I had formatted my internal SD which toasted my PDS partition.
I fixed it doing this...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1575035:)
Good afternoon folks,
I had a "situation" where I found myself missing some apparently critical "bloatware" on my phone. Came up with lots of errors and a lot of functions no longer, well, functioned. Got too carried away I guess.
I had done a system backup with Titanium Backup. I initially tried just restoring some of the apps. Problem was, it just sat there saying restore. Just stuck. So I thought, hey, I have it backed up, I will do a factory reset. I did this, only then to find out that my backup was located on the INTERNAL sdcard not sdcard-ext, so all of a sudden I have no backups.
I do have access to another Electrify, if it would help. What I then decided to do was try downloading a factory rom for my phone. I downloaded "1FF-sunfire-user-2.3.5-4.5.1A_SUN_USC_19.0-19-release-keys-signed-USC-US.rar" off of the teamuscellular.com page. I booted the phone in RSD mode, restored it (three times now actually), and every step seemed to go fine (RSD even says it finished fine). But on the last step when RSD says it is rebooting the phone, at the very end, it comes up with an error :
"Failed to boot 4
starting in rsd mode"
I have read elsewhere where people say it is related to the battery. I had a 60% charge for the first two times I did this process, the last time I used the battery from the other phone which was at 95% plus. So far I have not been able to get past this.
Another post suggested that I should pop out the battery, pop it back in, hold the vol down and power buttons, and then do a factory wipe of the /data partition. This is fine, but I cannot get it to go past the Moto screen unless I let go of the buttons.
In case this might help figure out the issue, here are some details from the phone :
System version - 45.1.190.MB853.USC.en.US
Model number - Motorola Electrify
Android version - 2.3.5
Also worth noting, I did not see anything on the screen ever indicating I was "unlocked".
What I want when this is done and over with is to get the phone back and working stock, root, and make barnicle wifi work. Any advice would be most helpful, I am really kind of freaking out here.
H-E-L-P!
Thanks,
ledoktre said:
Good afternoon folks,
I had a "situation" where I found myself missing some apparently critical "bloatware" on my phone. Came up with lots of errors and a lot of functions no longer, well, functioned. Got too carried away I guess.
I had done a system backup with Titanium Backup. I initially tried just restoring some of the apps. Problem was, it just sat there saying restore. Just stuck. So I thought, hey, I have it backed up, I will do a factory reset. I did this, only then to find out that my backup was located on the INTERNAL sdcard not sdcard-ext, so all of a sudden I have no backups.
I do have access to another Electrify, if it would help. What I then decided to do was try downloading a factory rom for my phone. I downloaded "1FF-sunfire-user-2.3.5-4.5.1A_SUN_USC_19.0-19-release-keys-signed-USC-US.rar" off of the teamuscellular.com page. I booted the phone in RSD mode, restored it (three times now actually), and every step seemed to go fine (RSD even says it finished fine). But on the last step when RSD says it is rebooting the phone, at the very end, it comes up with an error :
"Failed to boot 4
starting in rsd mode"
I have read elsewhere where people say it is related to the battery. I had a 60% charge for the first two times I did this process, the last time I used the battery from the other phone which was at 95% plus. So far I have not been able to get past this.
Another post suggested that I should pop out the battery, pop it back in, hold the vol down and power buttons, and then do a factory wipe of the /data partition. This is fine, but I cannot get it to go past the Moto screen unless I let go of the buttons.
In case this might help figure out the issue, here are some details from the phone :
System version - 45.1.190.MB853.USC.en.US
Model number - Motorola Electrify
Android version - 2.3.5
Also worth noting, I did not see anything on the screen ever indicating I was "unlocked".
What I want when this is done and over with is to get the phone back and working stock, root, and make barnicle wifi work. Any advice would be most helpful, I am really kind of freaking out here.
H-E-L-P!
Thanks,
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did you install the moto drivers? if you're unlocked be sure to flash 2.3.4 not 2.3.5
Good afternoon,
I have installed the moto drivers. I am on Windows 7 64 bit (dual boot with Linux Mint Debian 64). I installed "MotoHelper_2.1.40_Driver_5.5.0.exe", and was using RSDLite5.6.
As far as I know, the phone was locked. Rooted, but locked. Some say it will actually say on the screen 'unlocked', mine does not say anything like that.
Thanks,
Just to make sure it's not a battery issue, there is free battery swap if you can run by a USCC store. But I think you're right, it's probably not that. Wish I could help you more, but it stumps me.
ledoktre said:
Another post suggested that I should pop out the battery, pop it back in, hold the vol down and power buttons, and then do a factory wipe of the /data partition. This is fine, but I cannot get it to go past the Moto screen unless I let go of the buttons.
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From the phone completely off, hold vol-down and power. When the screen lights up, release power ONLY. Keep holding vol-down until some text shows up then release. Click vol-down to scroll through options until Recovery shows up. Click vol-up to select. Once recovery starts, navigate using vol-up/vol-down and power to select. /data will be wiped if you do a factory reset.
Hope this helps.