Hello all,
I need some help with this old phone. It's been sitting in a drawer for a while, and I haven't touched it for like a year at least. Apparently back then I had dual-booted stock and another ROM using BMM (Bootmenu Manager). Well now I need to use it and I thought the best thing to do would be fastboot flash the stock ROM, so I did that from the bootloader and it didn't change anything. So I went into BMM and deleted the second ROM (in slot 3), then did a factory reset on the stock ROM through fastboot.
Now I can't get any slots to work besides stock, and the stock ROM has zero bytes available for user data. meaning I can't install the BMM app to remove BMM.
When trying to use another slot, I can create the virtual partitions, but after a reboot it can't find them anymore...
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Hello,
I got my LG Optimus V on February 12,about a week or two later i decided to root it,i use the method explained here: forum(Dot)androidcentral(Dot)com/optimus-v-rooting-roms-hacks/57485-how-root-lg-optimus-v(Dot)html
everything went perfect,all the root required apps worked flawless,anyways, i installed a custom boot which replaced the default "ANDROID" logo right after the virgin mobile screen,for about 2 months everything worked perfect,last night i decided to edit some things with the build property editor on the absolute system tools app Here: appbrain(Dot)com/app/absolute-system-root-tools/com.canvs2321.absolute.system[/url]
the only things i edited were the things that said "VirginMobile/Virgin Mobile" and switched that to "JGar"and the version from "2.2.1" to X
I decided to save the customization and rebooted,it loaded the lg logo,the virgin mobile logo,and then the custom boot,instead of working like always,it just freezes a couple of seconds right before the lock screen is supposed to come up
i am still able to boot into the (Volume+,Home,Power)recovery menu so i factory reset it,that didnt work,it still freezes at the last boot before lockscreen
can anybody help me?
Im a noob at this and sorry if im not supposed to add links
If it helps,i have another LG Optimus V which is full stock,no root,fully functional if i need to copy some files from it.
Thank you
recovery factory reset = deleting everything from your phone.
You need to reinstall a rom and start over. If you made a back up, reload that. Otherwise you are sol.
Well,i have what is supposedly the stock rom,a recovery image file,and a flash image file,all i dont know is how to load them onto the phone,is there a program or guide that helps me?
last thing is that when i rooted it,i never installed a custom recovery menu,just the android system recovery<3e> menu with 4 options,reboot now,apply sdcard:Update.zip,Wipe data/factory reset,and wipe cache partition
The easiest thing you can do if you just want to get back to stock is download the stock rom from the development thread. Rename it to update.zip. Place it on the micro sd card, and use the recovery to flash it. But all of your settings, apps, and what not are all gone for good since you did a wipe.
Ok, i have the stock rom now,my phone says that it needs a signature or something,is there a way that i can bypass that? I dont really care about the apps,just as long as i fix my phone,im all good to go.
In the custom recovery, instead of the install update.zip option, use the install zip from sdcard option. Then before you select the zip file, hit the option to disable signature verification. Then go ahead and install.
I dont have a custom recovery menu,the only thing custom i have on it is the droid x boot,which worked perfectly fine,is there a way to install the custom recovery menu? because i turn it on,lg boot,virgin mobile boot,droid x boot then crash
The easiest thing you can do at this point is install a custom recovery so that you an install a working copy of the stock rom. Follow this guide: http://forum.androidcentral.com/opt...ks/73168-how-install-roms-your-new-phone.html
Use the first recovery listed on that page. It should work. Once you have the stock rom loaded, you won't even notice the recovery, but you'll be able to backup and restore your phone if you ever break it again.
Hi friends,
Here's my situation, would be very happy if any of you can give me some advice on how to solve this.
1. My stock romslot can no longer boot. I also cannot restore Nandroid to it. Looks like /int is gone.
2. My 2nd romslot also won't boot DWiz JBX rom so I'm stuck with BBM
3. What I am trying to do is clean up stock romslot and 2nd romslot, then install retail China version on stock romslot and then maybe install a 2nd custom rom on system2 (2nd romslot). Haven't decided because it's so much trouble.
4. I've been using BMM all along. Didn't touch Fastboot, adb or Safestrap (in fact, I only know how to use BMM...)
Finally, any guide to restoring the whole phone back to the beginning? (unroot, restore kernel, rom etc)
Thanks!
atytse said:
Hi friends,
Here's my situation, would be very happy if any of you can give me some advice on how to solve this.
1. My stock romslot can no longer boot. I also cannot restore Nandroid to it. Looks like /int is gone.
2. My 2nd romslot also won't boot DWiz JBX rom so I'm stuck with BBM
3. What I am trying to do is clean up stock romslot and 2nd romslot, then install retail China version on stock romslot and then maybe install a 2nd custom rom on system2 (2nd romslot). Haven't decided because it's so much trouble.
4. I've been using BMM all along. Didn't touch Fastboot, adb or Safestrap (in fact, I only know how to use BMM...)
Finally, any guide to restoring the whole phone back to the beginning? (unroot, restore kernel, rom etc)
Thanks!
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Use rsd lite to flash firmware and factory reset it in the stock recovery
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Hi, been modifying my XT910 for a while but this is the first time I don't know how to fix something, here is the situation...
My phone was working perfectly fine, using latest stable CM 10.1.3 on slot 1 using BMM, but this morning I uninstalled BMM to flash SS, the issue was, after uninstalling BMM wife called me and I forgot to install SS or any other boot manager, a few minutes later phone froze with sound bug and I had to restart the phone with 3 finger salute. Now the phone won't boot into any other roms (I had latest CM 10.2.x on second slot) and I can only boot to fastboot or the boot mode selection menu, can't even access stock recovery, get an error.
I know I can recover by using RSD Lite and flashing the stock rom, but doing so will delete my internal SD and the problem is, I haven't done a backup of it in a while (I think over a month) and I have very important work documents in there that I really need.
Is there a way to:
A) Flash stock with RSD without loosing the contents on my internal SD?
B) use adb to pull my files into my PC (tried this, keep getting access denied)?
C) Flash BMM from fastboot?
Many thanks and please respond promptly, currently at work with no phone and don't have a spare, so loosing client calls
Update:
After all day trying finally found a way to wipe all and restore stock rom without deleting internal sd contents, phew...
My internal got never wiped though rsd..... How did u solve ur problem? Would u tell us?
Tapped from my RazR
So, I need to get back to pure stock, un-everything, however, I have a problem standing in my way:
I have SafeStrap installed (3.62 if I recall correctly), but I had to recover a bad install and now I can't even boot into SafeStrap anymore but the still boots into the Cyanogenmod ROM I installed. I have ME7 installed on my stock partition. Is there anyway I can force the phone to boot into SafeStrap, or boot into my stock partition, or update through Loki?
Edit: So I installed SafeStrap 3.65 and discovered that I recovered my Cyanogenmod install onto my stock ROM partition. Not sure if this is bad or not... :/
Edit 2: Okay... I found my old SD card with my original ME7 backup on it, so I'm back to that. Now I need to uninstall a bad Clockworkmod install because it's preventing me from updating.
spendle said:
So, I need to get back to pure stock, un-everything, however, I have a problem standing in my way:
I have SafeStrap installed (3.62 if I recall correctly), but I had to recover a bad install and now I can't even boot into SafeStrap anymore but the still boots into the Cyanogenmod ROM I installed. I have ME7 installed on my stock partition. Is there anyway I can force the phone to boot into SafeStrap, or boot into my stock partition, or update through Loki?
Edit: So I installed SafeStrap 3.65 and discovered that I recovered my Cyanogenmod install onto my stock ROM partition. Not sure if this is bad or not... :/
Edit 2: Okay... I found my old SD card with my original ME7 backup on it, so I'm back to that. Now I need to uninstall a bad Clockworkmod install because it's preventing me from updating.
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odin you stock full wipe firmware
why did you install cyanogen mod with safestrap? you cannot do that lol.
but anyways. Yes use odin and use stock firmware tar to recover fully to stock.
I need help asap.So,I was on ICS rooted and installed safestrap 3.05 and then updated to 3.73 but after update I had bootloop.But then performed factory reset and still the same but then accidentally I full wiped so now I cannot boot info safestrap nor rom!
I cann access fastboot.What should I do now?Thanks in advance
Well,I managed to bring my phone back to stock via original files.So after that,I rooted and installed newest safestrap.Then I entered recovery,created new rom slot and installed slimkat to that slot but now I am wondering where the hell is my stock rom!?When I activate stock slot and when I try to reboot it says that there is no rom installed,are you shure you want to reboot?I never wiped anything on stock slot so my question is: is this normal?Should stock rom be there so I can boot in it or it is gone forever??