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I can't seem to find the answer to this. I installed a rom a long time ago and it changed my initial boot screen to one that shows PPC Geeks. Is there any way to change this or get rid of it? I have installed dozens of roms since then, but it never changes. There's probably a simple solution, but I can't find it...
Have you flashed a stock rom?
Just did, first time going back and it worked, thanks
les987 said:
Just did, first time going back and it worked, thanks
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Glad your issue was fixed. Next time, please do not open a new thread for questions. Instead, post in the Q&A thread in this section. Thanks for understanding.
I had the Cm7 gx4 rom not too long ago, and it had a really cool wallpaper that I used, and I'd like to have again. Off topic for a second, it was a white honeycomb pattern.
Anyways, I've tried going through the zip file for the wallpapers, even went through RC1 and RC2 to find it. Then tried opening the ADW zip within those roms and trying to find it there. I have an old nandroid backup from when I had that rom, and I was wondering how would one go about opening up the nand and extracting files? all that comes up when I open it at IMG files. Is it possible to navigate through it like a zip file?
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I had the Cm7 gx4 rom not too long ago, and it had a really cool wallpaper that I used, and I'd like to have again. Off topic for a second, it was a white honeycomb pattern.
Anyways, I've tried going through the zip file for the wallpapers, even went through RC1 and RC2 to find it. Then tried opening the ADW zip within those roms and trying to find it there. I have an old nandroid backup from when I had that rom, and I was wondering how would one go about opening up the nand and extracting files? all that comes up when I open it at IMG files. Is it possible to navigate through it like a zip file?
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I've never tried to do that before, but this thread looks like it could probably help get you started trying to do that. Hope this helps out a bit.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=890508
k2buckley said:
I've never tried to do that before, but this thread looks like it could probably help get you started trying to do that. Hope this helps out a bit.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=890508
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thanks! I think this is what i need
jasongthang said:
thanks! I think this is what i need
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You're welcome! Glad to help.
k2buckley said:
I've never tried to do that before, but this thread looks like it could probably help get you started trying to do that. Hope this helps out a bit.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=890508
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Maybe my question wasn't specific enough or something, but this is the exact reply I needed when I started this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=982699, yet got nothing.
*sigh*
EndlessDissent said:
Maybe my question wasn't specific enough or something, but this is the exact reply I needed when I started this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=982699, yet got nothing.
*sigh*
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Damn dude, had I seen your post, i'd have linked ya to the same place. That thread is floating around in the general section though..
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k2buckley said:
Damn dude, had I seen your post, i'd have linked ya to the same place. That thread is floating around in the general section though..
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Yeah. I did a search and all (as I stated in my post), but I must not have searched the perfect keywords. XDA search seems finicky.
And I hope you didn't get the wrong idea from my post. I wasn't trying to say that you, specifically, should have helped me. It was more out of frustration with the fact that no one at all replied, and the fact that there actually was a perfect thread that I couldn't find.
Anyway, thank you for finally opening my eyes, and I will hit the thanks button for you when I get on a computer instead of the app.
I got those img files extracted by using dsixda's kitchen; rename those nand imgs as boot.img, and use kitchen function #22 to extract them.
Was this the answer you were looking for?
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Yeah. I did a search and all (as I stated in my post), but I must not have searched the perfect keywords. XDA search seems finicky.
And I hope you didn't get the wrong idea from my post. I wasn't trying to say that you, specifically, should have helped me. It was more out of frustration with the fact that no one at all replied, and the fact that there actually was a perfect thread that I couldn't find.
Anyway, thank you for finally opening my eyes, and I will hit the thanks button for you when I get on a computer instead of the app.
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believe it or not, when I searched i found your thread.
jasongthang said:
believe it or not, when I searched i found your thread.
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Figures. Well, I guess I just posted mine at the wrong time. The Q&A section moves fast.
hate to ask for help bc u can usually find the answer somwhere....if my phone IS really bricked would love someone to tell me that so i can move on. seemed to have read that if it comes on then its not bricked..idk. ive rooted, flashed new roms and flashed it back completely stock.
i bricked it by attemting to flash it to boost...wrote nv items and zero'd out the meid. was looking for the esn so i could do the same, got a few of em.....phone fell battery flew..now i cant get past the first white htc screen...now this is where things get funky. a step of the guide i was following required root so i did n i saw cwm.. wen i got the bootloop i wasnt really worried at first bc i kne i could try a few things. well that didnt last long. booted into hboot n it said s-on..? then it wouldnt let me in recovery, just rebooted to the bootloop. i tried runnig unrevoked agn even tho i couldnt boot...couldnt read the phone. put the pb13img on sd card and it went thru its updating process n asked to reboot. reboots in same bootloop. next i tried runnig RUU..it runs and reboots my phone to the same bootloop...is there anyway to restore the ORIGINAL nv items and meid/esn...since these are the only things other than running unrevoked that ive changed i think thats where my problem lies. any help would be greatly appreciated.
Which radio is currently flashed on your phone? I had this issue once, I had to flash back to the 7.28 radio to get my phone to boot.
damn when i saw this post, i thought it was my post! i did almost the exact same thing and its acting almost the same as your phone. i did the ruu and it worked on the one posted in my thread, ran through and all but nothing. how would i done grade the radio?
i never flashed a radio...hboot says 2.15.00.07.28..
lol waxworks i saw ur post also... started reading and we pretty much did the same thing on pretty much the same step of flashing to boost...mad as hell too stuck with this incognito for awhile smh..
is there anyway to flash a nandroid without being able to get into cwm? idk man jus not looking good.
Reading your post not sure if you used the stock image and tried to update using the hboot menu.There is a thread 5 vibe fix that may help you get a rom image back to your phone
Vernox701 said:
Reading your post not sure if you used the stock image and tried to update using the hboot menu.There is a thread 5 vibe fix that may help you get a rom image back to your phone
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Do you happen to have link? I'm on tapatalk and there no search
waxworkz said:
Do you happen to have link? I'm on tapatalk and there no search
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I believe this is what you're looking for:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1110865
no fix for this?...anyway to get s-off only being able to use fastboot?
strive53 said:
no fix for this?...anyway to get s-off only being able to use fastboot?
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I think we have bricks! I tried to do some other method that involved running a script and cmd prompts. Didn't do anything as I am also "S" on. I think all the fixes are for "S" off.
Hi, apparently some genius developing CWM decided it would be fun to allow the factory partition to be formatted with the newest versions of CWM (I'm on 6.0.4.6). Well guess what, I managed to format it on my GNex (it's quite easy to do actually).
Anyways, I've lost my IMEI data and unable to access mobile network (data connectivity is fine, however, surprisingly). Somebody please help me restore my IMEI because I don't have a nandroid backup either.
Thanks a lot!
Deleted, did a search on IMEI and found a bunch of threads. Reading them now...
pherder said:
Deleted, did a search on IMEI and found a bunch of threads. Reading them now...
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Paul how did you manage to mess up your phone? Was it the same way I did? The thing is, all is not lost, I'm absolutely certain of that. It's not a brick until it absolutely and completely refuses to power up...
@osm0sis, can you please help me out here? I know there was even an IMEI changing tool but most probably considered illegal or something by the "powers that be" and hence removed most likely. I just need my original phone IMEI back, that's all. Thanks a lot!
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Paul how did you manage to mess up your phone? Was it the same way I did? The thing is, all is not lost, I'm absolutely certain of that. It's not a brick until it absolutely and completely refuses to power up...
@osm0sis, can you please help me out here? I know there was even an IMEI changing tool but most probably considered illegal or something by the "powers that be" and hence removed most likely. I just need my original phone IMEI back, that's all. Thanks a lot!
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I think I screwed up and flashed my phone with the wrong image (LTE instead of CDMA) that wiped the factory info and all the attempts I have tried do not do anything to get the phone back. I have a nice tablet that just upgraded to 4.3 via WiFi since it isn't on the Verizon network.
Paul
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I think I screwed up and flashed my phone with the wrong image (LTE instead of CDMA) that wiped the factory info and all the attempts I have tried do not do anything to get the phone back. I have a nice tablet that just upgraded to 4.3 via WiFi since it isn't on the Verizon network.
Paul
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My maguro CWM thread has all the info you need explained several times. Check it out.
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My maguro CWM thread has all the info you need explained several times. Check it out.
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i have gone through your cwm thread. it's suggested taking it to a shop and getting it fixed with spt box or something. unfortunately, i can't do that because nobody in my location has anything even remotely similar to one of those. apart from that, i've done everything i could think of, flashed radios, flashed stock samsung rom, flashed google factory images. what else would you suggest?
i don't have a prior nandroid either
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Problem solved. Took it to repair shop and got it fixed. Everyone that helped or tried to help, thanks a lot! Mods please close thread, thanks!
I was thinking more along the lines of restoring a backup and grabbing what you need to fix Factory from Radio, which was detailed a couple of times.
Glad you got it fixed, nonetheless. :good:
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Problem solved. Took it to repair shop and got it fixed. Everyone that helped or tried to help, thanks a lot! Mods please close thread, thanks!
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Did you ask them how they fixed it?? we need to know so we can help others..:--))
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I was thinking more along the lines of restoring a backup and grabbing what you need to fix Factory from Radio, which was detailed a couple of times.
Glad you got it fixed, nonetheless. :good:
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i didn't have a nandroid, nothing in factory since i had wiped it accidentally via the new cwm's new ""feature". i didn't like twrp until now but i ain't budging from it now that cwm has screwed me up so bad!
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Did you ask them how they fixed it?? we need to know so we can help others..:--))
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the guy connected it to a couple of external devices which in turn were connected to his pc, i guess one of them was something along the lines of an spt box, the other thing looked like a miniature spaceship, so maybe ET was involved in fixing it as well...
Not CWM's fault, though I definitely understand your sentiment. But "with great power.."
I make damn sure I know what I'm pressing Yes on when I'm wiping.
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Not CWM's fault, though I definitely understand your sentiment. But "with great power.."
I make damn sure I know what I'm pressing Yes on when I'm wiping.
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with great power comes great tragedy
anyways, I was just browsing through my phone with root explorer and with twrp's file manager and surprisingly there's no efs folder there! is that normal?
i've taken a twrp nandroid backup to include efs as well but i'm thinking to take a raw backup as well as described here. i've also copied the /factory and /data/radio folders.
i was wondering whether flashing a stock samsung ROM might result in the creation of the efs folder? on yakju 4.2.2 stock google image right now...
Nah efs is the partition but it's mounted to /factory :good:
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Nah efs is the partition but it's mounted to /factory :good:
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That's great thanks!., I'll clean flash 4.3 yakju in a day or two and see if the IMEI sticks after the wipes. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to backup using EFS Commander or the terminal/shell commands (got error both ways) so I'm hoping the TWRP backup (without MD5) and manual file copy should be sufficient insurance...
Hello XDA, this is my first post, this comunity is awesome and helped me a lot for a couple of years now.
there always seems to be a solution to everything!
but now i realy ****ed up. i accidentaly checked the wrong thing on the so called "smart phone flash tool"
i klicked firmware upgrade instead of download only.
is there any way so rescue my phone? thank you very much in advance! :crying:
here is a screenshot: (i cant paste link because i am new):crying:
I'd better let someone more qualified answer your query but I'm pretty sure your situation can be recovered easily. What happens if you try to reflash the firmware again with the correct settings? These phones are pretty hard to brick!
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I'd better let someone more qualified answer your query but I'm pretty sure your situation can be recovered easily. What happens if you try to reflash the firmware again with the correct settings? These phones are pretty hard to brick!
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there probably is SOME way to fix it, i am sure, but the phone does not even boot into recovery.
Mediatek phones are hard to brick, haha
It is PROBABLY going to give a headache in order to find the needed files, flash the stuff again and etc using the proper way, but PROBABLY your phone will relive again. Try rooting and installing Eragon after a full wipe, if that option is available.
You may look here:
Bricked P8000
This may help.
I was in the same state when I accidentally flashed a the wrong logo.img file. I fixed it by doing a format on flashtool>stock rom>custom recovery>custom rom again!
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I was in the same state when I accidentally flashed a the wrong logo.img file. I fixed it by doing a format on flashtool>stock rom>custom recovery>custom rom again!
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hi, thank you; but my phone does not even boot. it gets recognized by the pc though
New problem
OKAY now i got everything working so far. but there is a new real big problem. it has some kind of imei error so it doesnt let me use data on the way
how can this be fixed? i mean, i have the correct imei s right here whith me.
thank you in advance.
Data is turned on under data usage in settings menu and the APN is correct? What does the error message say and can you make calls/SMS OK?
FIXED
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Data is turned on under data usage in settings menu and the APN is correct? What does the error message say and can you make calls/SMS OK?
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Hey! i fixed it. again fith XDAs help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/canvas-a1/general/fix-imei-perfect-fix-android-imei-t2943567
solution 2 worked for me.
Also i have a new problem. when connecting my bluetooth speaker it says...well maybe this belongs to another forum :good: