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[Q] Help! Red Triangle / Exclamation Mark!

You know that little voice that tells you to stop and think about what you are about to do....well I didn't 'listen. I have just enough experience to be dangerous....which is why I am writing this thread.
I have a rooted EVO. It was rooted with Unrevoked 3. I was using Clockwork and had flashed several ROMs. Most recently using CM7. I have Nandroid backups and all was well.
In a comedy of errors my original nandroid file was deleted so that I had no was of returning to the stock EVO ROM. I was trying to update CM7 so that i could use the GPS. To do thisI had to flash Sense based ROM so that I could use the MSD(??) and then reflash my CM7 and voila, your GPS works.
Well I couldn't get any new roms to work. I tried several and they all crashed. I then had the great idea to use RUU_Supersonic_1.32.651.1_Radio_1.39.00.04.26_release_171253.exe to restore my EVO back to stock. Bad idea.
I now have a phone that boots straight into Fastboot. I can choose bootloader and get to the HBOOT screen. When I choose the recovery it looks like all is well. The phone goes into the white HTC screen but then goes to a Red Triangle/Exclamation Mark screen. I can get out of this screen by pressing the power button and vol up button. It goes to and Android system recovery screen.
My choices are
reboot system now
apply sdcard: update.zip
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command
I have tried placing the PC36IMG.zip (downloaded from xda) file in the root directory. I get a signature verification failed if I try to install the update file from any other custom ROMs. Installation aborted.
All I want is to get my phone back.
I currently have HBOOT 0.79.0000 with S-OFF
Please help
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Download a pc36img.zip of a recovery, such as among RA 2.3, then put a rom.zip on your card as well....load the recovery through bootloader and once you get into recovery flash your rom
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You'll have to update all of your radios as well since you used an old RUU.

Vandelay007 said:
Download a pc36img.zip of a recovery, such as among RA 2.3, then put a rom.zip on your card as well....load the recovery through bootloader and once you get into recovery flash your rom
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xHausx said:
You'll have to update all of your radios as well since you used an old RUU.
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"So you're saying there is still a chance." Thanks guys. I'll get on this today.

Just a quick question. Do I need to rename these files to "update-'file name'.zip" ?

Boot into the bootloader, with the attached zip file exactly as it is. Don't changed the name or extract it. Once in the bootloader, select yes to update, this is amon_ra 2.3 recovery. If you want clockwork recovery, let me know.

When I boot into the Boot Loader I get this:
HBOOT
SD Checking
Loading...[PC36DIAG.zip]
No image!
Loading...[PC36DIAG.nbh]
No image!
Loading...[PC36IMG.zip]
No image!
Loading...[PC36IMG.nbh]
No image or wrong image!

Oh my GOSH! I finally got it! Thank you thank you thank you! I was using the wrong PC36img.zip file. Not really sure why there are several different versions of this...a newbie statement I'm sure.

The root script linked to in my sig can be used to update your phone if you wanted to use it for that, once it sees you have S-OFF it will skip all the rooting stuff and go straight to flashing the updated ROM radios and recovery. Afterward just use rom manager to flash clockwork and you'll be good to go.
edit: nm, just saw you got it

xHausx said:
The root script linked to in my sig can be used to update your phone if you wanted to use it for that, once it sees you have S-OFF it will skip all the rooting stuff and go straight to flashing the updated ROM radios and recovery. Afterward just use rom manager to flash clockwork and you'll be good to go.
edit: nm, just saw you got it
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Teamwork is always win.

Excellent, glad you got it working!
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[Q] Rooting gone wrong/ I've made a big mistake

Hi everyone, I'm hoping someone can help me out here because I've screwed up somehow and would like to un-do whatever it is I've done. I'm trying to think straight so I hope what I type out ends up making sense .
1. Right now, my phone works. I'm stuck on a rooted pre-OTA stock rom. I unrooted once, but was not able to flash the OTA update via the stock recovery. I still have a use-able phone so I'm doing better than some people in threads I've read about.
2. I tried to root it with gfree. I don't think it worked, and some errors came up during the process. I used the first method then skipped to 0.2 per the wiki. Using g-free verify tells me everything is alright. supercid, sim lock, etc.
3. I am s-off, but earlier I couldn't get gfree verify to work (my own error I'm certain) and assumed I screwed up. Rom manager and root explorer never gave me prompts for superuser permissions, but I was s-off. I didn't think I rooted correctly and used the rage against the cage method.
4. Right now, I'm apparently s-off and rooted. I can't flash any roms though. I use rom manager to flash the latest recovery, it says it works and then when I reboot to recovery it stays stuck on the HTC splash screen. Battery pull takes me back to the pre-OTA rom. Recovery only recently stopped working though.
Ultimately, I need to get recovery back somehow, and then I'd return my phone back to an unrooted state with the stock 2.2 rom since I can't seem to handle rooting to well. Since I have no clockwork mod recovery, not really sure what to do to get this process rolling. If someone can help me get recovery back, and then help me flash roms again I'd definitely appreciate it. I have noone to blame but myself here.
If it ends up mattering, I do have adb installed and can use that if need be, and like I said my phone still boots up. I don't have a brick but something crazy is going on.

tjmarchand said:
Hi everyone, I'm hoping someone can help me out here because I've screwed up somehow and would like to un-do whatever it is I've done. I'm trying to think straight so I hope what I type out ends up making sense .
1. Right now, my phone works. I'm stuck on a rooted pre-OTA stock rom. I unrooted once, but was not able to flash the OTA update via the stock recovery. I still have a use-able phone so I'm doing better than some people in threads I've read about.
2. I tried to root it with gfree. I don't think it worked, and some errors came up during the process. I used the first method then skipped to 0.2 per the wiki. Using g-free verify tells me everything is alright. supercid, sim lock, etc.
3. I am s-off, but earlier I couldn't get gfree verify to work (my own error I'm certain) and assumed I screwed up. Rom manager and root explorer never gave me prompts for superuser permissions, but I was s-off. I didn't think I rooted correctly and used the rage against the cage method.
4. Right now, I'm apparently s-off and rooted. I can't flash any roms though. I use rom manager to flash the latest recovery, it says it works and then when I reboot to recovery it stays stuck on the HTC splash screen. Battery pull takes me back to the pre-OTA rom. Recovery only recently stopped working though.
Ultimately, I need to get recovery back somehow, and then I'd return my phone back to an unrooted state with the stock 2.2 rom since I can't seem to handle rooting to well. Since I have no clockwork mod recovery, not really sure what to do to get this process rolling. If someone can help me get recovery back, and then help me flash roms again I'd definitely appreciate it. I have noone to blame but myself here.
If it ends up mattering, I do have adb installed and can use that if need be, and like I said my phone still boots up. I don't have a brick but something crazy is going on.
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Download ClockworkMod Recovery straight from Koushik's page and put it on the root of your SD card. Open up Terminal Emulator on your phone and type in the following:
su
flash_image recovery recovery-clockwork-3.0.2.4-vision.img
reboot recovery
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Post the results in here.

blackknightavalon said:
Download ClockworkMod Recovery straight from Koushik's page and put it on the root of your SD card. Open up Terminal Emulator on your phone and type in the following:
Post the results in here.
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Hey thank you so much for a response! I tried this with two sd cards because I didn't have any luck. I tried that exact command and flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-clockwork-3.0.2.4-vision.img and each time it returns flash_image: not found
It definately is on my sd card.

tjmarchand said:
Hey thank you so much for a response! I tried this with two sd cards because I didn't have any luck. I tried that exact command and flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-clockwork-3.0.2.4-vision.img and each time it returns flash_image: not found
It definately is on my sd card.
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Do you have the engineering bootloader? If not, you may have to try it with ADB.

blackknightavalon said:
Do you have the engineering bootloader? If not, you may have to try it with ADB.
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Im fairly certain I had to flash it to root with the rage method, vol + pwr screen says "vision pvt eng s-off hboot 0.76.2000 (pc1010000)"
With adb it gives me the same error, but I used rom manager to flash 2.5.1.3 so I have a recovery again. I have one good nandroid of the rom im stuck on.
My next issue is that I tried to flash the stock rom with root from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=836042 and something isn't right. I wipe data/cache and then go to install zip from sdcard (manual recovery) and select the rom. What happens after is it tells me the normal messages it gives when flashing and "welcome to vision" but when the flash is done instead of giving me the option of "reboot system now" it goes back to the install zip for sd card menu like the flash never happened (and it will not boot past the htc screen)

tjmarchand said:
Im fairly certain I had to flash it to root with the rage method, vol + pwr screen says "vision pvt eng s-off hboot 0.76.2000 (pc1010000)"
With adb it gives me the same error, but I used rom manager to flash 2.5.1.3 so I have a recovery again. I have one good nandroid of the rom im stuck on.
My next issue is that I tried to flash the stock rom with root from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=836042 and something isn't right. I wipe data/cache and then go to install zip from sdcard (manual recovery) and select the rom. What happens after is it tells me the normal messages it gives when flashing and "welcome to vision" but when the flash is done instead of giving me the option of "reboot system now" it goes back to the install zip for sd card menu like the flash never happened (and it will not boot past the htc screen)
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Maybe it's a bad recovery. You said you flashed 2.5.1.3, so ROM Manager should work. Try flashing 3.0.2.4 through there now. If not, I suggest downloading Fastboot.

tjmarchand said:
Hey thank you so much for a response! I tried this with two sd cards because I didn't have any luck. I tried that exact command and flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery-clockwork-3.0.2.4-vision.img and each time it returns flash_image: not found
It definately is on my sd card.
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flash_image isn't part of the stock ROM, I made a guide for using it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=902493

raitchison said:
flash_image isn't part of the stock ROM, I made a guide for using it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=902493
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Thanks for the guide! I followed it with no issue, I rebooted into recovery; it first hung on the HTC screen, rebooted, vibrated and then booted back into the OS. So anyway, instead of 2.5.1.3, I'm on 3.0.0.5 now.
I went down to 2.5.1.3 and downloaded cm6.1 via rom manager. It told me this : E: can't open '/sdcard/..location (bad) installation aborted. tmp/recovery.log was copied to sdcard
I tried enom's froyo themed rom next, heres what recovery tells me:
Installing update...
Formatting cache
Copying files
Formatting SYSTEM
Copying files...
E Can't symlink /system/bin/su
E Failure at line 19:
symlink /system/xbin/su SYSTEM: bin/su
Installation aborted.
I also tried to download an updated superuser from the market, it says installation unsuccessful package file was not signed correctly.

Use Titanium to update your Superuser.apk
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blackknightavalon said:
Use Titanium to update your Superuser.apk
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That worked, so thank you. I ended up unrooting and putting s back on so I can retry. Now, I can't flash the OTA update via stock recovery. Any ideas for that one? Thank you so much for all the other help as well.
"E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command" -when I first enter recovery
--Install from sdcard...
Finding update pacakge...
Opening update pacakge...
Verifying update package...
E:failed to verify whole file signature
E: signature verification failed
Installation aborted. -after trying the OTA (named update.zip of course)

tjmarchand said:
That worked, so thank you. I ended up unrooting and putting s back on so I can retry. Now, I can't flash the OTA update via stock recovery. Any ideas for that one? Thank you so much for all the other help as well.
"E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command" -when I first enter recovery
--Install from sdcard...
Finding update pacakge...
Opening update pacakge...
Verifying update package...
E:failed to verify whole file signature
E: signature verification failed
Installation aborted. -after trying the OTA (named update.zip of course)
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If this is the Gingerbread OTA, you'll need everything as stock. If it's the "OTA" with Superuser thrown in, you'll need CWM Recovery 3+ (2.5* formats the system in yaffs, 3+ formats it in EXT).

This is just the ota update with wifi calling still 2.2, Im unrooted and stock recovery again
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[Q] Am I bricked?

I'm not sure where to go from here, I rooted my Nexus, installed CWM, and everything was fine. Until my dumbass decided to reboot to recovery from ROM manager, didn't think it would hurt anything. Now, whenever I try to load recovery from my bootloader, the android pops up with the swirling ball for a second, then comes up an android laying down with a red triangle with an ! in it.
I tried factory reset, started from step 1, locked the bootloader and unlocked and rooted again. If I flash CWM, it will work the first time, but anytime after that my little hazardous android symbol pops up again unless I flash CWM again. I'm new to all this obviously, so any help would be very greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I would recommend just flashing a factory .img threw adb. That should do it.
Send, Finally From Lte Galaxy Nexus

I agree. This link helped me do it for mine just a few mins ago.
LTE Instructions:
https://plus.google.com/107538503004482952974/posts/K8wozE8zhzq
GSM Instructions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1373995

irb123 said:
I'm not sure where to go from here, I rooted my Nexus, installed CWM, and everything was fine. Until my dumbass decided to reboot to recovery from ROM manager, didn't think it would hurt anything. Now, whenever I try to load recovery from my bootloader, the android pops up with the swirling ball for a second, then comes up an android laying down with a red triangle with an ! in it.
I tried factory reset, started from step 1, locked the bootloader and unlocked and rooted again. If I flash CWM, it will work the first time, but anytime after that my little hazardous android symbol pops up again unless I flash CWM again. I'm new to all this obviously, so any help would be very greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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You're not bricked. Flash CWM and then use Root Explorer or another file browser and navigate to /system and delete reboot-from-recovery.p
You will now be able to boot into recovery.

Awesome thanks for the replies you guys are great. The ordeal ended up causing my phone to reject the sim card for some reason...just got back from Verizon. I'm trying the file manager route first but it's telling the file is read only?
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Nevermind...hit the r/w...like I said...noob. Checking recovery now thanks again...
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Andrew C said:
You're not bricked. Flash CWM and then use Root Explorer or another file browser and navigate to /system and delete reboot-from-recovery.p
You will now be able to boot into recovery.
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What if I don't have the reboot-from-recovery.p file in my /system folder?

ironcx said:
What if I don't have the reboot-from-recovery.p file in my /system folder?
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Follow the instructions for How to install CWM in this post. Once you've done that, you'll be able to find the reboot-from-recovery.p in /system. Just delete it and you'll be good.

Cant mount /devblock/mmcblklp2

Hello, I was in the middle of installing a new rom and my phone went into a boot loop. I took the battery out and then restarted the phone. When I did this Every time I go into recovery I get the message E: cant mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 (file exists).
I can get into recovery but every rom I try to load leaves the phone in a boot loop. I have searched the internet for a solution but I can find one and the one I did find I cant understand. I asks me to use the adb shell and I havent used this in over a year and cant really remember all the scripts to make it work.
I am running clockwork mod 2.5.1.2 i also did the unrevoked s-off. If anyone can walk me through a solution or point me in the direction of one that would be great. Also I wasnt sure where to post this so if Its in the wrong place just let me know and I can repost there.

I'm pretty sure anything before CWM 3.x uses update-script, while almost every rom now uses updater-script. Try updating CWM to 5.0.2.0 and then flashing a rom.
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This should be in the Q&A section, not developement.
That being said the above post by teerom is probably correct.

I tried loading the cwm 5.0.2.0 zip like I would any other zip and I got the same message. Am i doing something wrong?

bdolan said:
I tried loading the cwm 5.0.2.0 zip like I would any other zip and I got the same message. Am i doing something wrong?
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Yeah. First download this file:
http://www.mediafire.com/?s7gyn7raxbs2lab
Rename it to PB31IMG.zip and place it on the root of your SD card. Boot your device into HBOOT (Power + Volume Up) and follow the instructions to install the new recovery. Then try flashing a ROM.

MY MANN!!! how you guys know how to fix these phones when they get all messed up is crazzy. Thank you sooo much for getting me back on my droid...Ive been working with my old palm pre plus... THanks again.

bdolan said:
MY MANN!!! how you guys know how to fix these phones when they get all messed up is crazzy. Thank you sooo much for getting me back on my droid...Ive been working with my old palm pre plus... THanks again.
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Glad I could help
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[Q] NOT ROOTED Can't Factory Restore

Hey everyone,
Was hoping I could get some help on this.
So I never rooted my T-Mobile Galaxy S3, it's totally stock, but I'm about to sell it and I went to do the factory reset in the settings and when it finally rebooted it rebooted into recovery... So then I went to wipe data/factory reset and it started the process but after the cache and data wipe then I get:
E:failed to mount /cache (Invalid Argument)
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:failed to mount /cache (invalid argument
E: can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
(i just typed that quickly while staring at the screen so please excuse any typos)
Now if I reboot it just never seems to finish booting (well I let it go for a solid 5 minutes and nothing...
I'm gonna bring it to work today while I wait for some responses but any ideas whats wrong with this thing?
Thank you!

hmm. If you can get into download moade, you could try flashing the official firmware through Odin and see if you could factory wipe in the stock recovery.
If that doesn't work, you could also try flashing a pre-rooted firmware with clockworks mod recovery and try wiping from there, then flash back official firmware through Odin.
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ayeitschris said:
hmm. If you can get into download moade, you could try flashing the official firmware through Odin and see if you could factory wipe in the stock recovery.
If that doesn't work, you could also try flashing a pre-rooted firmware with clockworks mod recovery and try wiping from there, then flash back official firmware through Odin.
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thanks i will try that. i've never actually used odin before, but looks like i CAN get into download mode, so hopefully i'm not totally screwed... only problem is i downloaded the wrong file and it says i have to wait 30 minutes to download another file haha. bah.

polarbearmc said:
thanks i will try that. i've never actually used odin before, but looks like i CAN get into download mode, so hopefully i'm not totally screwed... only problem is i downloaded the wrong file and it says i have to wait 30 minutes to download another file haha. bah.
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Two Things
1. Make sure you grab the UVDMD5 file from Sammobile and then ODIN version 3.07. There's a nice tutorial on the Root 66 thread.
2. If you are selling, reset your flash counter with Triangle Away.
3. Do note the latest version of TWRP is unstable. If you are using TWRP then put at least 2.5 version. Given you are flashing via ODIN, its a moot anyway.

Perseus71 said:
Two Things
1. Make sure you grab the UVDMD5 file from Sammobile and then ODIN version 3.07. There's a nice tutorial on the Root 66 thread.
2. If you are selling, reset your flash counter with Triangle Away.
3. Do note the latest version of TWRP is unstable. If you are using TWRP then put at least 2.5 version. Given you are flashing via ODIN, its a moot anyway.
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thanks for the info! i've got 37 seconds to go then i can download UVDMD5 haha so i'll report back later if it works.
also since i'm not (and have never been) rooted, I can't use Triangle Away, can I? i thought it was a root only app.

Yes its Root Only app. But then when you use Root66 image for UVDMD5, your phone will be rooted.

Perseus71 said:
Yes its Root Only app. But then when you use Root66 image for UVDMD5, your phone will be rooted.
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SOOOO...
Here's the story... I wasn't totally honest about just downloading the wrong file, I felt dumb and left out that I also flashed with Odin the "wrong file" (The Kernel file only from the T999UVDMD5 firmware download page) and it was just stuck in a permanent booting at the Samsung screen... So Anyway while waiting on the full firmware file to download, I went through recovery and wiped one more time (post flashing the kernel) and voila! Booted right up to the setup screen! So anyway pointing me in the direction of using Odin definitely worked, so again, thank you.

couple of things real quick. please dont leave info out. people who are trying to help are using their own time to do so, and it just mskes it harder in them.
and in the future, just downliad firmware from my firmware thread. i made it so you dont have to wait on such slow downloads.
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DocHoliday77 said:
couple of things real quick. please dont leave info out. people who are trying to help are using their own time to do so, and it just mskes it harder in them.
and in the future, just downliad firmware from my firmware thread. i made it so you dont have to wait on such slow downloads.
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no problem. although i hadn't left anything out at first, just before my final message. also i'm terrible at searching XDA. i seriously searched for a solid 15 minutes (without finding your post) before deciding to post my message haha. sorry.