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Well i am not rooted at the moment cause i flashed a zip that took root off and still have a custom kernal going with unlocked bootloader is that even supposed to be possible?
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Thats impossible. As soon as you flashed that "zip" it over writes everything. You need to be unlock to have a custom kernel
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well thats what i thought but i couldent use root explorer or any root access apps but when i turn off the phone it still says unlock
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well thats what i thought but i couldent use root explorer or any root access apps but when i turn off the phone it still says unlock
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Interesting. Interesting indeed. Is there anyway you could upload a vid of this?
i wouldent suggest it seeing now after it turned off it wouldent do the sbf files to fix. idk if it was dealing with that cause the sbf always finishes but ends up in a boot loop which as of right now im trying to fix it. but if it happens again ill c what i can do to show you. cause i always thought you had to be rooted to have an unlocked but idk if it was just a one time thing
Is the super user app installed?
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Yes it was
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I have this same issue right now how it happened for me is that I orginally used the one click root method I found here. Later down the road I noticed that a stable build of cm7 had come out so I decided to try it out. I flashed pudding and it worked just fine and unlocked the device when I went to go get clockwork on the device however, I noticed the my root was no longer working reading in the comments section I saw that the one click root method was not compatible with the unlocked bootloader. I tried to root the phone with the system.img file that it mentioned using in the guide it worked at least as far as pushing it to the device but still no root. I then tried to flash the device back to stock I used the sbf file provided and it did wipe the phone but I still have the unlock icon when I boot the phone and can no longer root it no matter what method I try. If anyone can help me with re locking my device, I would greatly appreciate it.
Have you tryed the depudding. Go into the pudding unlock section theres one that relocks it just like how u unlocked it
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As far as I'm aware, being unlocked and being rooted are two separate processes on this phone. You don't have to have one to have the other. I've been rooted and locked, rooted and unlocked, and unlocked with no root. Hope that helps.
And I haven't had any problems with the one-click root and unlocking or sbf-ing back to stock.
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Thanks for the help guys I got it to work now had to do a factory reset and then flash the sbf file and the seemed to unroot the device it still didn't unlock it however I think if I used the depudding method curly mentioned it would work.
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I am currently running an "unlocked bootloader" on a non- rooted system on my photon 4g. I was rooted and then unrooted because I couldn't flash cwm for some reason....I am really really looking to installing miui with the ultimate iphone theme. I love how poloshed and clean it looks!
i know there are many tpics similar but i cant find a straight answer or working link..
basically i flashed a rom and this rom ws working fine until it started to reboot everytime i chargd the phone then it would boot loop for like 30min and finaly go in to the rom.. ive tried to access the recovery to switch roms but it just bootloops.. onlything i can go is to bootloader.. i was looking for a stock rooted
P0g5?? file to flash in bootloader but all i can find is mr2 and its in multiupload which is not working for me.. can anyone please give me a working link or answer... and the last option i would hate to do is completely restore to stock and root allover again.. i want to restore to stock rooted/s-off.. not stock rooted/s-on.. please help anyone....
Can u download a new recovery, rename, then flash in hboot possibly?
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I had an issue kinda similar like this and ended up having to flash the RUU through the bootloader. It is the stock firmware 605.19, and I had to reroot. It's a pain I know but it works
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dizzyman1180 said:
I had an issue kinda similar like this and ended up having to flash the RUU through the bootloader. It is the stock firmware 605.19, and I had to reroot. It's a pain I know but it works
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I to had to this at one point and it does work. I would first try to flash cwm in fastboot though. Sometimes that works.
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My friend's phone tried to pull an OTA while he had CWM recovery installed, and it started boot looping. Had to download the stock recovery, name is PG05IMG.zip in the root of the SDCard, and force the phone to boot to the bootloader and install it. Once it did, the phone started up, rebooted itself, and installed the OTA fine. Sounds like yours may be trying to do something similar?
If so rooted phones need caches cleared for the ota to work.
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From my understanding, Rooted can still take OTA, but you have to have stock recovery to do it (as I witnessed earlier). You will lose root, and will have to re-flash recovery to TWRP, CWMR, or whatever your normal choice is, and then re-apply the su.zip, but otherwise easy as pie.
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My friend's phone tried to pull an OTA while he had CWM recovery installed, and it started boot looping. Had to download the stock recovery, name is PG05IMG.zip in the root of the SDCard, and force the phone to boot to the bootloader and install it. Once it did, the phone started up, rebooted itself, and installed the OTA fine. Sounds like yours may be trying to do something similar?
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Do you by chance have a working link to the stock recovery? I have been trying to find one without success.
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I won't be home to later, I'll get it to you then, but I'm piety sure I found it through thunderboltforums.com
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Tiezane said:
I won't be home to later, I'll get it to you then, but I'm piety sure I found it through thunderboltforums.com
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I would appreciate that. Thank you
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I would appreciate that. Thank you
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Stock recovery PG05IMG.zip http://dl.dropbox.com/u/61129367/PG05IMG-Stock-Recovery.zip
Hello, first of all I would like to thank everyone who has posted in this thread to try and help out. I just started having a very similar problem- I'm rooted and running stock, but apparently my phone accepted an OTA and I'm stuck in a bootloop as well.
I got into CWM recovery and downloaded the stock recovery PG05IMG.zip, but it won't install. It just aborts every time I try to install it. I'm a noob at this stuff and not very good at dealing with these sorts of things and I've been having a panic attack for the past hour, so if anyone could help me as soon as possible I would really appreciate it.
I'm really scared of making things worse than they already are. I just want a working phone.
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Stock recovery PG05IMG.zip http://dl.dropbox.com/u/61129367/PG05IMG-Stock-Recovery.zip
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Much appreciated my friend.
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pull battery, wait a minute, turn on phone
when in bootloader screen,
volume down, select reboot
back to white screen, select recovery ( i had to do this twice)
hold volume up and power when black screen appears
choose the bottom option (wipe cache i believe)
choose reboot
phone should be good aftter this
( idont own a thunderbolt, but i had to fix this for a nother phone, called tech support and this worked)
hope this helps - hopefully saves someone from ruu'ing and wiping their phone
Thank you for posting the file, life got in the way yesterday. Hope that fixes your situation!
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Hello, first of all I would like to thank everyone who has posted in this thread to try and help out. I just started having a very similar problem- I'm rooted and running stock, but apparently my phone accepted an OTA and I'm stuck in a bootloop as well.
I got into CWM recovery and downloaded the stock recovery PG05IMG.zip, but it won't install. It just aborts every time I try to install it. I'm a noob at this stuff and not very good at dealing with these sorts of things and I've been having a panic attack for the past hour, so if anyone could help me as soon as possible I would really appreciate it.
I'm really scared of making things worse than they already are. I just want a working phone.
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The zip won't work in CWM because it's not designed for use with CWM. It's designed for use in Fastboot. Should be on the root of your sd card. From off, if I'm correct (like this with other HTC devices), hold volume down and power to boot into fastboot. This will allow it to flash the stock recovery.
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The zip won't work in CWM because it's not designed for use with CWM. It's designed for use in Fastboot. Should be on the root of your sd card. From off, if I'm correct (like this with other HTC devices), hold volume down and power to boot into fastboot. This will allow it to flash the stock recovery.
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Right. I also have a recovery zip that installs the stock recovery if anyone wants it?
It can be found here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/61129367/OTARestoreAndRecovery.zip
(warning: I have tested it and it works but it did cause me a bootloop, and im assuming this is becuase im on a different rom - - - so not responsible for any damages)
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My battery went tits up the other day so I had to purchase a new battery.....Ended up with HTC extended battery.(all verizon had in stock). When I put the battery in and powered on it just pops up with the HTC screen....couple secs go by the phone vibrates....HTC again......I can get the phone into bootloader.....but for the life of me can only get fastboot to work.....I have tried pushing cwm through that as well as the img above with no luck.....The Hboot only shows my device as android 1.0 and is unrecognized.I have reloaded drivers and everything I know how....Someone please help
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My battery went tits up the other day so I had to purchase a new battery.....Ended up with HTC extended battery.(all verizon had in stock). When I put the battery in and powered on it just pops up with the HTC screen....couple secs go by the phone vibrates....HTC again......I can get the phone into bootloader.....but for the life of me can only get fastboot to work.....I have tried pushing cwm through that as well as the img above with no luck.....The Hboot only shows my device as android 1.0 and is unrecognized.I have reloaded drivers and everything I know how....Someone please help
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Have you tried an ruu?
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Hello,
I just unlocked my prime after realising that stock .28 firmware is doing so much of playing on my nerves, but after trying to go to recovery mode (power on + vol down) and selecting vol up in 5 sec. it begins to boot to recovery the little green droid spins and then it dies showing little droid with red triangle and it wont boot to recovery, eventualy it just reboots to ROM.
I used viperMOD 4.6 to unlock and to install TWRP 2.1 and after that i tried 2.2 but the same red triangle. Did anyone encouter this problem erlier and maybe can provide solution to this nonsence?
FINAL EDIT: Ok, I fuguered it out. somehow every time I tried to proceed I failed to unlock. Finally I downgraded to .21 (think it is optional) and did a factory reset (wiped all data) and then tried to unlock again. Success!
I think this would be helpfull for those who get into same situation.
Try using goo manager to install TWRP.
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Try using goo manager to install TWRP.
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Thanx for a direction doing asap. And what does that mean red triangle with "!" in it? stock recovery or something like HTC phones have?
EDIT: In some way even after instaling TWRP with goo manager red triangle is there and I cant access recovery. strange
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Hello,
I just unlocked my prime after realising that stock .28 firmware is doing so much of playing on my nerves, but after trying to go to recovery mode (power on + vol down) and selecting vol up in 5 sec. it begins to boot to recovery the little green droid spins and then it dies showing little droid with red triangle and it wont boot to recovery, eventualy it just reboots to ROM.
I used viperMOD 4.6 to unlock and to install TWRP 2.1 and after that i tried 2.2 but the same red triangle. Did anyone encouter this problem erlier and maybe can provide solution to this nonsence?
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I'm afraid that you device is not UNLOCk. That happened to me. But that was .21 version.
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skarfreak said:
I'm afraid that you device is not UNLOCk. That happened to me. But that was .21 version.
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Well I used Asus tool apk "UnLock_Device_App_V6.apk" from support site to unlock and after finishing my tab rebooted creating log file in internal storage about unlocking my device. I believe that viperMod uses the same unlocking method as original app do. Can you provide workaround or other methods or anything to solve this unlocking problem? meenwhile I'll try searching forum and web for directions.
I have a TF201 and I have it rooted and unlocked. I tried installing CWM Recovery using some method I found online using fastboot. It seemed to work but whenever I tried to boot into recovery it would just say "Booting recovery kernel image" and stay there. So I restarted the device and went to the playstore and downloaded CWM and flashed it from there. Same thing happened. So I installed TWRP via fastboot and yet again I couldn't boot into recovery. Take in mind I'm a noob so I probably did something wrong. I then went to wipe the data to retry and of course it said the same message. I waited awhile then restarted the device. Now I'm stuck on the Asus splash screen and if I turn it off it just restarts again. Please help me! I clearly did something stupid, I didn't think it would be this much trouble to load a ROM. Thanks!
So can you access fastboot?
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Makrilli said:
So can you access fastboot?
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Nope. No matter what I do I go back to that screen. I let it die and turned it back on, same thing. Upon further research I've come to the conclusion that it's hard bricked so I guess I'll be sending it in. But for future reference, what steps should I take to root, unlock, and install CM10 on it? Because there's so many guides that approach these things in so many ways which is what caused me to mess up. I learned my lesson at least.
Hey guys, I recently got a replacement device from best buy because my old ones screen broke. I successfully rooted the new device using the towelroot method. I just tried to install the loki recovery via goomanager and when I rebooted it just boots into odin mode and says that it "could not do normal boot." I've tried everything I can think of but cant get it to boot. Any help?
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Hey guys, I recently got a replacement device from best buy because my old ones screen broke. I successfully rooted the new device using the towelroot method. I just tried to install the loki recovery via goomanager and when I rebooted it just boots into odin mode and says that it "could not do normal boot." I've tried everything I can think of but cant get it to boot. Any help?
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Have actually research what firmware you have and what recovery can be used. You do know that unless you have mdk...you can't use goomanger or twrp or Cwm right?
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decaturbob said:
Have actually research what firmware you have and what recovery can be used. You do know that unless you have mdk...you can't use goomanger or twrp or Cwm right?
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How many times do you think this same question has been asked and answered?
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riker147 said:
How many times do you think this same question has been asked and answered?
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Countless times....not even 15 mins of reading anything...
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christianstudebaker said:
Hey guys, I recently got a replacement device from best buy because my old ones screen broke. I successfully rooted the new device using the towelroot method. I just tried to install the loki recovery via goomanager and when I rebooted it just boots into odin mode and says that it "could not do normal boot." I've tried everything I can think of but cant get it to boot. Any help?
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I believe you are going to have to go with SafeStrap 3.72. You don't have an unlocked bootloader but Safestrap isn't bad. You can still install some really good roms
The problem is that I can't boot my phone now. It just boots into Odin mode. When I got my phone originally it wasn't mdk so I didn't have to deal with safestrap. So I didn't know there was other options.
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christianstudebaker said:
The problem is that I can't boot my phone now. It just boots into Odin mode. When I got my phone originally it wasn't mdk so I didn't have to deal with safestrap. So I didn't know there was other options.
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this is a stickie in general forum that all new S4 people should be required to read...I can not imagine how some one ignores a thread when its titled
What you need to know before, during and after modifying your verizon S4
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2606501
christianstudebaker said:
The problem is that I can't boot my phone now. It just boots into Odin mode. When I got my phone originally it wasn't mdk so I didn't have to deal with safestrap. So I didn't know there was other options.
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if you can get into download mode and have Odin, flash a full wipe or a no wipe tar and start over.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2735172