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Prolly in the wrong section but i just finished the simpleroot n it worked great, but now im lost on wat to do next. I cant figure out how to put a ROM on the phone. Im lost on wat to do next, any help would be appreciated.
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Download rom onto the sdcard
boot into recovery: power off, wait a couple sec's, hold volume down + tap power while continuing to hold volume down, white screen comes up (make sure any pc36img.zip file is removed from your sdcard before this step), then choose recovery
Choose wipe from recovery
Wipe factory data, cache, and dalvik cache
Choose flash from zip (or sdcard)
Choose the zip you put on your sdcard
confirm and flash
Thank u very much. Ive had the iphone since day one n the jailbreaking process is pretty straight forward. Im just so confused wit all these diff ROMs n such.
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I understand, these forums have grown tremendously over the past month and a half or so!!! The wiki being down doesnt help either... I am debating putting one up since it seems to be on extended vacation
Yea ive been watching the forums n they are out of hand now lol but in a good way. N wit the wiki down like u said its really difficult.
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in all the ROMs i keep seeing ppl talkin about NAND unlock, do i have that?? or do i still need to get it??
you should have, yes.
To check, connect phone to computer, open command prompt, issue command: adb remount rw
if that is successful then you most certainly have your nand unlocked
ok really stupid question. do i open command on my comp or the phone?? i opened it on my comp n typed wat u said, but im not sure it did it in the right location.
for brevity sake, if you dont have a terminal emulator, download it from the market on your phone.
Then type:
su
remount rw
im very sorry. it says remount not found
lol, I dont know why that never works for anyone else must be the kitchen I am using.
Anyway, if you didnt get any errors, then most likely your nand is unlocked so I wouldnt worry about it to much. Just make sure you have a solid nandroid backup and you should be good to go.
ok so i guess im gonna have to do some reading on nandroid backup bc i have no clue wat that is or how to do it or get it lol
lol, you should do that anyway but nandroid backup can be found from your recovery. All you have to do is select the menu (nandroid or something like that) and select backup. It is used in case you mess anything up, you have a backup to restore
oh ok gotcha, so when i put my phone into recovery i cant find where it says anything about nandroid backup, i clicked on recovery n i got an orange triangle
try volume up and power when you are on that screen
thats wat i did n it restarted the phone. so i dont have nandroid then??
I am more or less thinking one of the steps didnt work while rooting your phone. I thought that simpleroot flashes a custom recovery... I will have to check it out.
After rooting my phone using simpleroot I used the toast method for rooting and name unlock.
I thought simple root was just simple root.
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novanosis85 said:
After rooting my phone using simpleroot I used the toast method for rooting and name unlock.
I thought simple root was just simple root.
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U might be right, now i gotta find toasts method for nand unlock lol
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Rather than start another thread on this, why does the image that is included with SimpleRoot change various permissions on files vs completely stock?
Yesterday I flashed the ENG build and then Eugenes new 2.2. Then I update the radio to 7.8. Now if I boot into recovery it does not do anything. I press a button and the screen goes black, press the on/off button and clockwork recovery comes back on. I tried deleting update.zip from the SD card and re-downloading through ROM manager but going back into recovery had the same results.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
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It's so stupidly simple you will proceed to kick yourself (I know, because I did the same thing):
You use to trackpad to navigate and click now, not the volume/power buttons.
hahahahahaha
oh man...ok im gonna go write my name on the wall of shame..Thanks a lot man
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Hey how are you guys ....I could really use you guys help if it is possible...i rooted my HTC evo 4g and roms a few roms already ..I'm right using Vaelpak 3.0 remastered ..I tryed to flash another Rom but can't seem to get it back into recovery mode...also I'm trying to get my 4g working again please help ...thank you ..
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Hold the top power button and most roms will have a Reboot option, click and go down to recovery, if it doesnt have it, then turn off phone, hold volume down button and power at same time, when bootloader pops up scroll down to recovery and hit power and your in recovery.
make sure you wipe cache and dalvik cache.
land of the reee
Jaybucka said:
Hey how are you guys ....I could really use you guys help if it is possible...i rooted my HTC evo 4g and roms a few roms already ..I'm right using Vaelpak 3.0 remastered ..I tryed to flash another Rom but can't seem to get it back into recovery mode...also I'm trying to get my 4g working again please help ...thank you ..
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what did u touch to screw your 4g?
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Hold the top power button and most roms will have a Reboot option, click and go down to recovery, if it doesnt have it, then turn off phone, hold volume down button and power at same time, when bootloader pops up scroll down to recovery and hit power and your in recovery.
make sure you wipe cache and dalvik cache.
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I did both of these options and still a no go just keeps booting into bootloader ...
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I just flash a custom Rom...and I haven't been able to use my 4g since .....
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My Evo is doing something like that. I try to get into recovery mode and it tells me that the image is bad or missing. Phone boots and works fine but want to make some changes to it. Any ideas?
Thanks
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I did both of these options and still a no go just keeps booting into bootloader ...
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So, when you're in bootloader, and select recovery, what does it do ? What recovery were you using, amon or clockwork? You said 4g isn't working? What's it do ? Did you backup your rsakeys, or use amon ra to make nand backup? Let me know.
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My Evo is doing something like that. I try to get into recovery mode and it tells me that the image is bad or missing. Phone boots and works fine but want to make some changes to it. Any ideas?
Thanks
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go to Amon-Ra thread in development. Download his image file, put on the root of your SD card, boot into bootloader, when it asks if you want to flash, accept(vol up I think) then let it flash and try and boot into recovery again.
If you are using ROM manager, you can try to flash a different version of Clockwork. That worked for me.
lehalter said:
If you are using ROM manager, you can try to flash a different version of Clockwork. That worked for me.
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Or, IMO, use ROM manager to flash to Amon RA.
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Or, IMO, use ROM manager to flash to Amon RA.
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Amon-Ra is a much better recovery than Clockwork. Seems to be less borked and less issues than clockwork.
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So, when you're in bootloader, and select recovery, what does it do ? What recovery were you using, amon or clockwork? You said 4g isn't working? What's it do ? Did you backup your rsakeys, or use amon ra to make nand backup? Let me know.
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When I'm in the bootloader and select recovery it loads up the bootloader again....and as far as the 4g it doesn't come on at all....
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Jaybucka said:
When I'm in the bootloader and select recovery it loads up the bootloader again....and as far as the 4g it doesn't come on at all....
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Unless you backed up before flashing, you probably lost rsa keys. Have fun trying to get em back. Now find a way to get a recovery. Go to amon's thread and there's instructions on how to flash it using terminal emulator
A drop of Chuck Norris's semen was placed on Android OS. We now have CyanogenMod.
Mine did the same thing, not being able to boot to recovery... somehow I guess the recovery image got corrupted... I just used ROM manager to flash Amon Ra (by clicking "flash alternate recovery") and it booted right into recovery....
As for the no-4g.... not good
Ok I do some reading and I got ny 4g working and I know way more then I did before this ...thanks guys for the help ....
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Amon-Ra is a much better recovery than Clockwork. Seems to be less borked and less issues than clockwork.
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agreed
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IM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS... ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING IS ON YOU!!!!
***please do NOT use this on any other sIII then the sprint one!!! only flash on sprint!!!!*****
this is a quick little flashable zip that will format cache, data, and system (in that order) i made because it is faster then having to wipe everything on it's own. so enjoy!!!
it can be found at the bottom as an attachment...
NOTE to other developers: *** if you wish to include this in your thread that is fine just please thank me. also please do not modify any part of it****
EDIT:
there is a fix out now!!!! the fix will format your internal sdcard but that is better then a brick....
i dont take credit for the fix or any of the files....
thank mkasick. adam_v1
this was posted by mkasick i just put it on the OP so people dont have to find it....
Keep using CWM-Recovery-LTE-SGS3-v4-adb.tar.md5, so reflash it if you flashed any other recovery.
Now, download make_ext4fs. Place it in the directory from which you're running adb commands. Then reboot into CWM and do:
Code:
adb push make_ext4fs /tmp/
adb shell
chmod 755 /tmp/make_ext4fs
/tmp/make_ext4fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p15
sync
Which will reformat the partition. It might take a little bit, but not much more than a few minutes.
If that works, reflash stock recovery, boot stock recovery, and select "wipe data/factory reset".
Calkulin's Padawan?
Great job! This became a life saver on SGS2.
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Calulin's Padawan?
Great job! This became a life saver on SGS2.
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hahahahaha!!!! yes he had this on the E4GT and i used it sooooo much that i had to bring it over
Love it. Anyway we can get a no data version too?
Ascertion said:
Love it. Anyway we can get a no data version too?
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THIS!
master acehole said:
THIS!
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sure give me a minute
EDIT: it is up....
Ascertion said:
Love it. Anyway we can get a no data version too?
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Out of curiosity, why wouldn't you want to wipe the data also?
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klarthur said:
Out of curiosity, why wouldn't you want to wipe the data also?
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For themes or update zips
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DutchDogg54 said:
For themes or update zips
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It still wipes all of /system.
So I would check and make sure the theme has /system/framework, /system/lib etc
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so just used this zip and flashed Frankenstein Rom and it got stuck on the Samsung screen. Pulled battery out rebooted into recovery mod and when i try to look into internal memory it states that no files are found. re flashed another rom everything reported good rebooted and same thing stuck on Samsung screen. I then tried to redo from a backup everything goes well till the data and it says no data found...any ideas what might have happened?
I ended up with a brick using the exact same scripts the otherday. I woulnt recommend using these. Something gets jacked up on the data partition.
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so just used this zip and flashed Frankenstein Rom and it got stuck on the Samsung screen. Pulled battery out rebooted into recovery mod and when i try to look into internal memory it states that no files are found. re flashed another rom everything reported good rebooted and same thing stuck on Samsung screen. I then tried to redo from a backup everything goes well till the data and it says no data found...any ideas what might have happened?
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Looks like the same thing happened to Jamcar. Please update the OP so more people don't end up with bricks.
If this is a full brick I feel so bad that this happened to everyone...
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I have tried numerous things to recover and nothing has worked. I flashed roms, I flashed /data, I did an install script that restored the recovery logs, I flashed stock, I tried international .pit files (by the way, they wont even install on our phones. It checks for the proper device or something). Nothing has worked, so I deemed it a brick. It was fun to play with for a week though.
im sorry for everything that happened :`( i dont understand why this messes with /data, anyone else??? i was on the E4GT and this was the only thing that saved use from a brick! is there another eMMC bug????
Im not sure what it is. I havent looked into clockwork mod yet, hopefully I will get around to it this weekend. I want to compare what clockwork mod does when it wipes data, versus what the script does. My linux box is down right now though, so I wont be able to play much till I get that fixed.
I think we might have a chance if we could get our hands on the .pit file, or a .tar that includes the data.img, I was going to make one over the weekend, but when I booted my desktop, all that I had was memtest partitions bootable, so Im not sure what happened to my Ubuntu.
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Im not sure what it is. I havent looked into clockwork mod yet, hopefully I will get around to it this weekend. I want to compare what clockwork mod does when it wipes data, versus what the script does. My linux box is down right now though, so I wont be able to play much till I get that fixed.
I think we might have a chance if we could get our hands on the .pit file, or a .tar that includes the data.img, I was going to make one over the weekend, but when I booted my desktop, all that I had was memtest partitions bootable, so Im not sure what happened to my Ubuntu.
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damn that sucks with your ubuntu but do you need a recovery log to boot????????? how would one be made?
E: can't open /cache/recovery/log
E: can't open /cache/recovery/log
E: cant open /cache/recovery/last_log
E: cant open /cache/recovery/last_log
Damn it me too i am bricked so there is no way out now?
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damn that sucks with your ubuntu but do you need a recovery log to boot????????? how would one be made?
E: can't open /cache/recovery/log
E: can't open /cache/recovery/log
E: cant open /cache/recovery/last_log
E: cant open /cache/recovery/last_log
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Here is a tool I made to reinstall the log files, etc. You can try it if you want.
Mine was asking for logs in /data/log
shiftr182 said:
Here is a tool I made to reinstall the log files, etc. You can try it if you want.
Mine was asking for logs in /data/log
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mine was too, when i couldn't mount data. i have now been able to mount it
all errors gonna but still cant boot
EDIT:anyway to get into adb without booting that far? (as you cant boot far enough for it to work)
EDIT the reason it is failing ( i believe this is part but there might be more, i hope not) is because /data has now become a read only file system
i have an evo 4g with cm 7.2 rom and tiamat sbc kernel. i wanted the original kernel so i downloaded it from this site last night and unzipped it using clockworkmod. now my phone is stuck on the htc evo 4g screen. i am new and still am unfamiliar with most of this stuff but can someone please help?
also my phone is rooted:
supersonic evt3 ship s-on
hboot-2.18.0001
microp-041f
touch panel-atmel224_16ab
radio-2.15.00.12.19
not sure if that all matters. i tried restore in clockwork recovery and it didnt change anything....still stuck.
CWM blows. Wipe cache and dalvik and flash another kernel.
thanks for the reply.
i am new. how do i do that from recovery?
i did wipe the dalvik cache. is that enough? then i tried unzipping the tiamat sbc kernel and it was still stuck.
btw....is there a better rom that supports wimax???
If possible, upgrade to a Ra based recovery. That'll make the wiping and flashing easier on your part, as far as ROM choice, I'll give you sense.
I'll just leave this here....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18603378
death-by-soap said:
If possible, upgrade to a Ra based recovery. That'll make the wiping and flashing easier on your part, as far as ROM choice, I'll give you sense.
I'll just leave this here....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18603378
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i fixed it! after wiping the dalvik cache i re-did my backup and it works.
i'll check out Ra based recovery (dont reallly know what that is but i heard of it before) and sense. thanks for the info
Making your life easier yet again...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26278768
Smelkus FTW. Best recovery out there.
Thanks button
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RA refers to Amon Ra, another popular recovery for the EVO. CWM is known for being troublesome on the EVO, so RA-based recoveries are the way to go.
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Ok I got s-on and can't get this. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!
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stovo06 said:
Ok I got s-on and can't get this. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!
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Flashing recoveries for dummies:
STEP 1: Download recovery of choice (smelkusmod ra recovery)
STEP 2: Rename the zip to "PC36IMG.zip" and move to root of the SD card
STEP 3: Boot to bootloader and follow the prompts to update recovery
STEP 4: reboot to recovery
STEP 5: Prosper!!
(If this doesn't go to plan, unzip the pc36img and check the txt file and change the mainver to 1.00.000.0, zip the file again, and repeat from the beginning)
Hope this does the trick
Tried it. Read that whole thread. What is fastboot? When I select it in recovery it doesn't seem to be the same as what everyone talks about. My recovery in clockelwork alternate recovery looks like the original and doesn't do anything special.
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Tried it. Read that whole thread. What is fastboot? When I select it in recovery it doesn't seem to be the same as what everyone talks about. My recovery in clockelwork alternate recovery looks like the original and doesn't do anything special.
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PM me and I'll help you sort this out once and for all when I get some free time.
Try this. Download the Smelkus recovery and place it on the root of your SD card (not in any folders). Rename the file PC36IMG.zip (make sure you don't have an extra .zip extension on the end or it won't work). Once this is done, turn the phone OFF and unplug your phone from your computer. Once the phone is OFF, hold down the volume DOWN button, then press the power button and wait for the HBOOT screen to load. If everything works as it should, you'll get a prompt asking you if you want to update. Use the appropriate keys to select YES, then wait for the update to load. When you go into HBOOT, as part of its loading process, it looks for a file on the SD card named PC36IMG.zip and when it finds it, will ask if you want to update. Also, make sure you don't have more than one file on your SD card named PC36IMG.zip, or you'll have issues. Once you've got the recovery loaded, you can re-namethe file on your SD card something like PC36IMG1.zip, to avoid any issues should you have to use HBOOT to install another PC36IMG.zip file down the road.
That's what I did but I did it all from my phone. Does that matter?
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That's what I did but I did it all from my phone. Does that matter?
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That's what I'm telling you to do. You can actually download the PC36IMG to your phone, but you'll have to move it to the root of your SD card using something like Astro File Manager. That's why most instructions say to hook your phone up to a PC and download the PC36IMG to the root of the SD card.
When you press the volume down button and power button, what happens?
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I get what looks like the original recovery. I got cwm and flashed the alternate recovery. I tried shutting the phone down to bootloader and it will try to flash the img. Then it gets stuck on parsing. I changed the maniver and then it says no image when flashing and there's nothing about an update. I'm s-on.
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Flash Image GUI.
Looks like that's what I will have to do. I started out trying to avoid paying. 99¢ for it. Seems pretty dumb now lol.
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stovo06 said:
Looks like that's what I will have to do. I started out trying to avoid paying. 99¢ for it. Seems pretty dumb now lol.
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Um, you can get it free on this site.
But seriously, is 99 cents too much to pay for such a useful app?
Which do I flash? The img or the mirror???
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stuck on htc evo 4g screen
Same her i realy need help i flash a costum rom on my evo 4g and ever sens my evo only to bootloader and recovery i try to restore my backup didnt work! what can i pleas help i need my ph
one back