I rooted my rezound and flashed a rom with no problems. Today I tried flashing a different rom and I have been unable to start my phone since. I can get into recovery, wipe, flash etc.. but nothing I've tried has gotten my phone to boot. I've tried Awesome Recovery Tool-> Touchscreen based PH98IMG Creator for MainVer which isn't helping and I don't know what else to do. The last message I saw in hboot was something about the main version is older. Can someone please help me get my phone to boot please
This worked well for me:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1467099
k9tim said:
This worked well for me:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1467099
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Thanks but that wouldn't work via recovery but I did manage to get my problem fixed!! I managed to "fastboot flash boot boot.img" then boot into recovery and flash the rom and thank god it worked!!
sungal said:
I rooted my rezound and flashed a rom with no problems. Today I tried flashing a different rom and I have been unable to start my phone since. I can get into recovery, wipe, flash etc.. but nothing I've tried has gotten my phone to boot. I've tried Awesome Recovery Tool-> Touchscreen based PH98IMG Creator for MainVer which isn't helping and I don't know what else to do. The last message I saw in hboot was something about the main version is older. Can someone please help me get my phone to boot please
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the problem u were having has to do with kernels.
when u first tried flashing a different rom, were u going to ics from gb or gb from ics?
gb roms and ics roms have different kernel.
"fastboot flash boot boot.img" then boot into recovery
and flash the rom was the right call.
just wanted to let u know this.
I have had my prime rooted and recently decided to unlock the bootloader for some JB goodness but when ever I try to flash a recovery in Goo Manager or Rom Manager it says successful then never works. When I try to boot into to recovery the stock recovery comes up with what I think is an error screen.
Is their that has experienced this or has a possible solution to my problem?
I am on 9.4.2.28 US if you need any more info let me know.
Nevermind kept trying for another 20 minutes and t worked oddly enough.
hey guys, I don't know what happened to my Prime, but this is what I did:
I was on a Nexus 7 ported ROM and it was running fine. Tried to flash PARANOID ANDROID and failed. So I tried to flash Androwook, and now it's stuck on the splash screen. The only thing I can do is boot to the recovery (CWM). Is there anyway I can fix it? Is it bricked?
I am going to assume you have ADB working on your computer. Just download a new rom, your choice, and using the command
adb push C:\NAMEOFFILE \sdcard\Downloads
you don't have to put the file in the downloads folder, just an example. May need Gapps as well. Wipe and flash as normal.
JC0406 said:
hey guys, I don't know what happened to my Prime, but this is what I did:
I was on a Nexus 7 ported ROM and it was running fine. Tried to flash PARANOID ANDROID and failed. So I tried to flash Androwook, and now it's stuck on the splash screen. The only thing I can do is boot to the recovery (CWM). Is there anyway I can fix it? Is it bricked?
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Read post 2 of the androwook thread and get twrp installed.
Make sure you do the ICS to JB upgrade before flashing a Jellybean TWRP. The correct bootloader is the most important part about twrp
And while you still have a chance and are still on the ICS bootloader do this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1774352
It wont work once you have Jellybean
My phone is rooted, i dont think the bootloader is unlocked, after i installed CWM using "L9RecoveryInstaller_1.5.0.apk" everytime i try and boot into recovery i just get the dead android. i also rooted using "LGPwn.apk"
Need help! my final goal is to install Cyanogenmod, if someone can help me find a way to do that it would be amazing.
Thank you
manniefabian said:
My phone is rooted, i dont think the bootloader is unlocked, after i installed CWM using "L9RecoveryInstaller_1.5.0.apk" everytime i try and boot into recovery i just get the dead android. i also rooted using "LGPwn.apk"
Need help! my final goal is to install Cyanogenmod, if someone can help me find a way to do that it would be amazing.
Thank you
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You cannot install CM or custom rom on locked bootloader. Please unlock your phone boot loader first. And for recovery problem, did you install busy box? That recovery need busybox installed to work.
After I attempted to install the CM 11 preview that just came out it seems as though I get stuck in a boot loop. I am able to get into the bootloader but not the recovery. The reason I think I am stuck in the boot loop is because I did not know you had to flash the boot.img that was inside the .zip file, and went ahead and flashed the .zip in my current recovery. I am just wondering if I could still fastboot flash the boot.img file without causing even more problems.
Yes, in the forum the ROM was posted (http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z2-tablet/orig-development/z2-tabletdevelopment-cm11-android-4-4-t2809793) but I guess I didn't see that he said it was in the zip :silly:.
Nonetheless, I just don't want to hard brick the device so that is why I am asking. Thanks in advance for anyone that can help!
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After I attempted to install the CM 11 preview that just came out it seems as though I get stuck in a boot loop. I am able to get into the bootloader but not the recovery. The reason I think I am stuck in the boot loop is because I did not know you had to flash the boot.img that was inside the .zip file, and went ahead and flashed the .zip in my current recovery. I am just wondering if I could still fastboot flash the boot.img file without causing even more problems.
Yes, in the forum the ROM was posted (http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z2-tablet/orig-development/z2-tabletdevelopment-cm11-android-4-4-t2809793) but I guess I didn't see that he said it was in the zip :silly:.
Nonetheless, I just don't want to hard brick the device so that is why I am asking. Thanks in advance for anyone that can help!
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Just to clarify first, do you have a 4G tablet or wifi version? And which one did you flash (castor or castor_windy)
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Just to clarify first, do you have a 4G tablet or wifi version? And which one did you flash (castor or castor_windy)
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Opps, meant to mention that. I have the castor_windy version (Wi-Fi) model and flashed the castor_windy zip. I also meant to mention that I have an unlocked bootloader with the CWM based recovery (found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2708194). I don't think this is as important but I do have the 16GB storage. I earlier said I could not get into that recovery that I have installed, but the violet light still goes on when I boot, but nothing else.
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Opps, meant to mention that. I have the castor_windy version (Wi-Fi) model and flashed the castor_windy zip. I also meant to mention that I have an unlocked bootloader with the CWM based recovery (found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2708194). I don't think this is as important but I do have the 16GB storage. I earlier said I could not get into that recovery that I have installed, but the violet light still goes on when I boot, but nothing else.
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Ok no problem, Have you tried flashing CWM through fastboot, then reinstalling ROM through CWM?
If that can't be done, Can you flash this castor_windy version https://mega.co.nz/#!mJ5VTATR!Rb9pX0a4drAkVX53Mjf6_vZr8FqX0UzXcf1nSTzj_Fk
through fastboot, then immediately flash CWM to secure a recovery.
The link is the castor_windy ROM without having to flash a boot.img separately. Thats your safest solution instead of flashing boot.img
Thank you, just re-flashing the recovery from the thread I linked seemed to do the trick. Maybe I will try and flash Cyanogenmod later now that I got the stock ROM working again. At least I was smart enough to make a nandroid backup in CWM before hand though!
Again, thanks alot!
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Thank you, just re-flashing the recovery from the thread I linked seemed to do the trick. Maybe I will try and flash Cyanogenmod later now that I got the stock ROM working again. At least I was smart enough to make a nandroid backup in CWM before hand though!
Again, thanks alot!
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Good to hear!
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Hi all,
bad day for me... It seems that I bricked my Z2 Tablet tonight.
At the beginning, I just wanted to install CM11.
My Z2 is a SGP512 Wifi only. So, regarding the page http://www.xperiablog.net/2014/07/12/cyanogenmod-11-nightly-builds-start-for-xperia-z2-tablet/ , it says : "There are currently nightly builds for the Wi-Fi variants (SGP511, SGP512) of the Xperia Z2 Tablet under codename “Castor Windy”" .
So I downloaded Castor Windy and put it in the tablet.
After that, I did had to install a recovery. I succeeded to install XZDualRecovery (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2794175). Once installled, I went into TWRP Recovery , started to wipe all. And next step, I began to install zip Castor Windy. At this time, TWRP tells me that Castor Windy is not for my tablet model. And I have to use Castor. Problem. I wiped all. So, I have to mount the Tablet systems and drives to put the new Castor zip downloaded. But I'm unable to mount. Nothing is mounted. I tried to use adb to connect while I was in TWRP but nothing worked. I wanted to use adb to send on one of partitions the new downloaded rom. I was unable to do that.
Finally, I shut down my tablet. I took the SD Card to put it into my PC and to put on it the downloaded Rom. And when I wanted to restart the Tablet, only the Sony Logo appears and I'm not anymore able to enter in recovery mode. ADB and Fastboot fail to detect my tablet.
I'm totally lost, and I fear that all is lost.
Please, help me, I just would like to enter recovery and flash Castor Rom.... :crying:
Thanks a lot by advance.
Tom.
See this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/xpe...ed-tablet-tried-to-install-cm-failed-t2838765
Good luck :good: