Ok. I'll try to make this short.
My phone was originally 2.1 used original unrevoked to gain root. Then did the original toast method I flashed some roms then unlocked nand. Jumped to 2.2 flashed more roms updated radios wimax etc.
Anyway the other day I decided to try the latest Fresh Rom, and update to the latest PRL, Wimax, Radio etc.
I went in wiped everything, and I had never tried to restore any of my nandroid backups I have made along the way. So I thought I would try one since I was in there messing around. I tried it, and got stuck in recovery. A good place to be I guess. So I flashed the new radios and the Fresh Rom and got it back up and running. I tried the ##775# hack to see how it worked. Had to downgrade the EPST file to the 2.1 in order to get the ##775# to work.
About this time I realized my music player couldn't find any music. I looked and it was all still there. Same as it had always been. It just says no music found, won't let me do anything besides back out of the program. I tried to go into my gallery/albums. Same thing. Can't find anything. At first I blamed the Fresh Rom, so flashed another Rom AVA 8, and same problem. The music files will play if I choose them from a file manager, same with the photos and videos. But I cannot access them through the players.
I tried different music players from the market place and same problem. They can't see the files. I cleared program caches, I checked folder names and locations. I tried renaming the music folder, making a new one in the same place, and copying music into it. No Luck. Then I tried uninstalling and removing the htc music apk. Then pulled one out of a rom file to install it, and it says Install could not complete. Or something like that.
My best guess is that when I did that Nandroid restore. It screwed something up in the file system. I may have tried to restore a 2.1 nandroid backup. In fact I am pretty sure I did now that I look at it.
Where should I go from here?
BTW I have flashed wiped and re flashed roms this does not fix the problem.
Do I need to un-root and start over with a PC136 whatever image?
Another note. Even though my pictures and music are still there. My videos seemed to have disappeared. This sucks!
Ok, so I got it working.
Backed up the data to my PC, then formatted the SD card and put the stuff back on and it works.
I don't know what happened to the video files they are just gone.
Thanks for posting your solution. Sorry to hear you lost your video.
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My phone is mullered :-(
Whenever I flash a new ROM, all I get is a constant boot loop on first boot.
Flashing a different ROM results in the same behaviour.
The only way out of it is to re-root, taking me back to version 1.15 or something, and then if i try to flash a new ROM - you guessed it, boot loop....
This first started when I had OpenDesire installed, which was fine to begin with, but then it randomly rebooted and started boot looping.
Since then I've tried about 4 or 5 different ROMs and nothing changes.
Any ideas as to what's wrong/a solution?
Just to add, I have one the lastest radios (.08) when I try and flash.
Perhaps flashing the radio after might help?
After much struggling, I've managed to sort it.
Ended up clearing storage in recovery, which helped so long as there was no SD card in it. Had to format and repartition the card, and fingers crossed, all seems well now.
Whenever you change between diferent ROMs it is a good practice to do a full wipe via recovery. 90 to 99% of the boot-loops can be fixed doing it...
The strange thing is that I did wipe between ROMs. I'm not sure why I had a problem this time round, as I haven't had with the previous 10 flashes...
Still, it's sorted now
Funny.. found this thread via google.
I'm having the exact same issue where no matter what rom I flash it gets stuck on bootloops during the startup animation and never makes it into the rom.
NANDroid backups are perfectly fine to restore, just unable to flash any new roms. Spent all last night trying everything from swapping recoveries, to re-rooting, flashing multiple roms, urgh.
Only thing I didn't try is re-formatting the SD card so gonna give that a go now (thanks to this thread) and report back later.
Annoying to say the least.
Well what do you know... a 'partition my SD card' through rom manager (after copying said contents to my computer) worked a charm.
Most interesting......... Praise this thread and any others that gain help from it.
Did you update your radio ?
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Man i'm lucky. Two hugely annoying problems in one go.
First up, yes I have replaced my radio, many times The SD card was obviously not too happy with its ext partition, so repartitioning that worked.
I also had another issue crop up straight away that was probably caused by unhappy sdcard, where when restoring apps via titanium backup, phone would reset.
After running a RRU, re-rooting, all the full works.. I find that some of the apk backups are 1kb... Which is not normal. There were about 15 apps like this. I had a backup of these apps from a week or so ago and copied those to the titanium backup directory, restored, no problemo.
Even more annoyingly TB has a verrify backups option which reported all was well. FML.
Well that was a fun morning. Time to finally get back on track *sighface*
My Kingston 16G class 10 sd card actually physically cracked and is therefore defunct but they will be replacing it within the week - but I do not have it backed up on my PC .
I had rooted my Incredible with Unrevoked 3 and had been experimenting with a couple of Froyo ROMs : Cyanogen6 and Skyrider 2.5. and I had just updated my Clockwork Mod Recovery and I had made full use of Apps2sd.
Now, when I put my old SanDisk 2G sd back in, it only had 1 nandroid backup on it and I am back to:
Firmware 2.1
Baseband 2.05.00.06.11
Kernel 2.6.29.....
PRI 1.28
Clockwork Recover 2.5.0.1
and while I still have some apps and my phone and wifi seem to be working fine:
I don't have Market, Rom Manager, Titanium (but I still have SuperUser). Also, when I USB my phone to PC - the PC doesn't see either. At this point, I don't even know if I'm rooted or have busybox.
I'm really puzzled as to what I should do next:
I don't know whether to do a phone restore from Settings or, perhaps from Recovery?
Or, do I want to try reinstalling Rom Manager and one of the Froyo Roms. But would that get me Market back? In all cases I'm gonna have to reinstall most of my apps since most resided (at least partially) on the dead sd. Fortunately appbrain has a record of all my apps. - but, from what I understand, there's no way to install the Market, except via HTC/Google/Verizon.
So, I probably won't have my new 16G card for almost a week and I'm very open to suggestions as to my best plan of attack
I guess I should also think about repartitioning the new sd - according to the recent lag fixes.
Please keep in mind that I'm pretty much command line challenged - so (perhaps foolishly) - I am doing all of this on the phone itself.
I recently downloaded SDK to my PC and I was just getting ready to try to get the hang of adb, the emulator etc - but I'm hoping I can get my phone back to where I had it before I get into that.
Thanx in advance for any help you can provide.
To be honest if you have to time to, just start all over.
Get the stock RUU and just wipe everything. Then unrevoked 3 again and start re-install / re-setup.
The appbrain app list will come in handy as soon as you get everything back to where it was.
That's just what I would do. It seems like the simplest solution from where you are at, but I'm no expert by any means.
Best of luck,
Flawless
Edit: Also about every week or so I copy my most recent Nandroid off my SD card and back it up to by harddrive. Just in case I ever need anything, like an old APK or old kernel or something. Just as a safety precaution although it may seem kind of redundant.
xFlawless11x said:
To be honest if you have to time to, just start all over.
Get the stock RUU and just wipe everything. Then unrevoked 3 again and start re-install / re-setup.
The appbrain app list will come in handy as soon as you get everything back to where it was.
That's just what I would do. It seems like the simplest solution from where you are at, but I'm no expert by any means.
Best of luck,
Flawless
Edit: Also about every week or so I copy my most recent Nandroid off my SD card and back it up to by harddrive. Just in case I ever need anything, like an old APK or old kernel or something. Just as a safety precaution although it may seem kind of redundant.
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Thanx!
That was kinda what I suspected.
Where's the best site to get the stock RUU? I see several.
Are you telling me that now that I have the Clockwork Recovery that if I go to Settings > Privacy > Factory Data Reset - that I will no longer be restored to the original Google/HTC/Verizon stock phone?
Is it the same as if I go into Recovery > wipe data/factory reset which looks like it will go iinto Clockwork Mod v2.5.0.1 - which I don't don't whether it includes Market.
I managed to get USB bootloader to see hboot, reran Unrevoked 3, Cyanogen 6RC3 and Gapps and all is well Thanx!
I'm coming from CM 6.1.2 and have done everything correctly to a freaking T. Has anyone had any problems getting stuck at the Splash screen and getting passed it? I can flash any other Sense ROM just fine but Myn's always gets hung at the Splash screen no matter what radios, kernels, PRIs, etc... Getting frustrated. I spent like six hours yesterday trying to get it to boot.
What recovery are you using? and do you have the newest update from Sprint (radio, prl)
Newest RA... I have every new radio, PRI, NV, Wimax...
Did you wipe everything more than once before flashing the Rom?
I wiped everything via Amon's built in options and Calk's format all .zip.
Did you have any problems updating with Calk's format all .zip?
As long as I'm flashing something other that RLS5 it works great.
Re- download Myn's Rom again. I know it sounds crazy but the download must be corrupted.
Done that, too... It flashed fine on my friends newly rooted EVO. I know that download wasn't bad because we used the same one. Thinking about running an RUU and starting over.
The best one will be the Sprint lover ROM as pcm36img.
I'd have to use that since I run Linux... don't know of an RUU that works on Ubuntu.
okay. report back if it work for you.
DO you know of a root method I won't need to hook my phone up to my computer with? I kinda don't have my cable with me at the office.
rom is already rooted.you can download it to you're phone, weather you are on wifi or 3g/4g.
And are you rooted?
No... if I run a RUU I won't be rooted anymore.
Nope! You will not loose root!.try it out, thank me later
I don't see what harm it could cause... I'm DLing the one you posted in that other thread.
Report back.
Make sure that the file is a pcm36 img.zip and that its in you're sd card.
evolishesh said:
Make sure that the file is a pcm36 img.zip and that its in you're sd card.
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My phone recognizes it and starts to load it then stops... is there another one?
Hey
I apologize if a thread like this has appeared before, but i have just about had it with playing about with my desire after i tryed to flash a new ROM, il try and explain is as best detail as i can, and hopefully, one of you will be able to help me get back to normal, as im tearing my hair out over this now...
So...Last night, i noticed that LeeDroid (The custom rom i use) had updated his firmware to 3.0, and in the interest of keeping my phone upto date, i went ahead, downloaded the rom, put it on my SD, did a nandroid backup, wiped and flashed as i would normally
the install seemed to go fine, but when i rebooted the phone, it hung on the HTC screen for about 15-20 mins, so i figured the flash hadnt worked, so i went back, wiped again and restored my backup
this is where the issues begin, the bacup restores fine, BUT, when the phone reboots and loads up, ALL of my apps etc have gone, no longer apparently anywhere on my SD card (which is where most of them were stored) I now had a bare bones android, with no apps (not even market, as that was updated manually too)
at this point, i start to panic, i have seemingly lost everything off the phone (apart from the SD backup i had performed before), and only have a bare bones version of the LeeDroid rom i was using before, with no apps what so ever
so, i thought, i might as well start afresh, so i boot back into recovery, wipe again and re-flash a fresh Leedroid rom, which seemingly again, goes fine, but again, hung on boot
getting more worried still, my SD-EXT then stops mounting, giving me an error, so i re-partition it, format it, and try again, and again, it still hangs on boot
at this point, i realize im screwed, and just restore the bare bones backup i had saved on my computer (nandroid), which at least allows the phone to boot and be semi-usable
i have no idea what im doing wrong here, nothing wants to flash anymore, it just hangs, and i cant even seem to un-root the phone, all the RUU's i use just give me a "CUSTOMER ID ERROR" which i have no idea how to fix
can anyone PLEASE point me in the right direction, im panicing here, i cant seem to get anything to work, and i have been going around in circles for almost 7 hours now...
thanks very much
Looks like you'll need to start from sguare 1 again. Seems like the SD issue, might have corrupted the SD card.
My suggestion, is that you format the sd card (backup all files to the pc)
Create a new gold card again.
Flash to stock again if need be, then root.
You can download googleapps and flash it also. There are some downloadable links in this site you can save to your sd card. Or you can download it at cyanogenmod.com (where I downloaded mine I believe).
i thought going back to square one would be the way forward too, except that i cant seem to find an RUU that will work, as i mentioned, all of the ones i have tryed give me the CUSTOMER ID error, which i have no idea what to do with...
so, im a little stumped..
Your Gold Card is good? Better re-do it again. Because if your partitions blew away on your SD card, it probably cooked all of it.
You shouldn't have any problems finding a stock froyo ROM.
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Your Gold Card is good? Better re-do it again. Because if your partitions blew away on your SD card, it probably cooked all of it.
You shouldn't have any problems finding a stock froyo ROM.
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i have a stock froyo RUU, should i apply the goldcard, then try the update again then?
im new to this, so im probably going to need taking through all this
edit: so i made my SD into a goldcard. and now it wont mount on the phone, and when i run the RUU, it still gives me the CID error..
im going insane here, someone help >.<
ok, i got it
after doing some reasearch, i found that alot of people were saying that the phone needed to be S-OFF to flash it correctly
so, after reading up, and S-OFFing, i wiped, partitioned and flashed...
and, finally, after 9 hours of tinkering, errors etc, it has flashed and booted
this can be locked now, thanks
partitioned th sd card,
works sometimes, but glad we could somewhat lead you in the right direction, by proxy........
Little puzzeled by the s-off, but hey, it's fixed!!!
Hi. I managed to root my S3 and remove Knox. At first, TWRP was working fine, but after a few unsuccessful attempts to flash CM, I think i screwed it up. My backup files are gone, and it won't make a new one as it "cannot access storage." It also takes up about 6 gigs of storage on the phone per applications manager, which seems like a lot.
Is there a way to delete it and do a fresh install? now that I am rooted, would another backup/recovery be better?
I have tried searches, nothing seems to be on oint. Perhaps I was casting my net too wide or too narrow.
THANKS
Probably has to do with the /0/0/0 folders. Every time you flashed something, itd create a new /0 directory. Your stuff is still there but the path is messed up so it doesn't know where to look. In twrp file manager look for /storage/0/0/0 or something/somewhere like that. (It's been a while so I may not be remembering exactly right) this is a well documented issue though, so if im wrong just Google it and you're sure to find the right info. I believe it may be covered in one of the sticky threads too.
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Idk if this is your issue or not but I had a problem where recovery couldn't find the files or access storage I had the wrong version of recovery flashed and it wouldn't read anything I originally had the right one but somehow I lost recovery and ended up flashing the wrong one and it did what you are describing I'm on cwm so I'm not sure which is the right twrp but I'd just make sure you have the right one for your model. Good luck figuring it out though I know you will if you do your homework you will get it.
I went in and looked at the files, I had several named backups. I deleted all but one.
Goo Manager wouldn't load the newest TWRP, so I went to the app store and downloaded the app.
Now it takes far less space and recognizes the one backup.
THANKS for bearing with me.
I put a copy of the backup on my computer, just in case. Going to try flashing CM again, hope I can get it to work.