[Q] HELP - Can't flash ROM or backups through CWM Recovery... - Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm a relative newbie at this but I have AMOLED DInc that I rooted about 3 months old. I was trying to flash the CMOD 7 through ROM Manager but after installing and rebooting, it would hang at the splash screen (the HTC white screen). I pulled the battery and then tried to reboot again, same thing. I pulled the battery again and held the vol- with power to get into recovery. I tried to restore the one backup file I had and it just looped back saying no files. I then remembered I had kept a couple of backups on my hard drive. I hooked the phone to the computer but the sd wouldn't mount. I then went into CWM Recovery to mount the USB that way. I was able to pull the SD card up but nothing was on it. I tried copying over my old backups but the message I got was SD card was read only. I then went to format the SD card via the computer and then was able to pull over the files. However, when I go back into CWM Recovery (via the vol- and power), and then to backup/restore, it says there are no files. Anyway to manually flash or install a ROM without having ROM manager and just being able to get into CWM Recovery?

the only way to flash a rom is through CWR don't use rom manager especially for CM7. boot into recovery if you are able and try to restore one of your old backups. if not. mount your sd card to your computer and put whatever rom you wish on the root of your SDcard once done boot into recovery and DO NOT USE rom manager.scroll to factory reset. and reset. then i usually use caulkins format tool i keep a copy on my sdcards root at all times. i do it because apparently it formats the system folder to. then when everything is nice and clean then scroll to apply zip file again then flash the rom( if you want to flash any kernels do that after the rom). then reboot. and crosss your fingers.

No luck...
tried that, downloaded virtuous and incredible roms on my mac. Its weird - they say .zip when they're downloading but then show up as folder on my mac. When I moved them to the sd card and attempted to install zip file from sd card, no zip files would show up - just the folders and subfolders and indvidual files... I then "compressed" the folders to create zip files and tried again but it would attempt to install and then abort installation...
I'm guessing I permanently bricked this guy...

What version of RomManager and CWM are you on/were you running?
ROM Manager offers you a CWM update when you open it to flash an update to the underlying CWM recovery.
When updated, sadly, this is giving people across the community all kinds of trouble when a ROM that doesn't have the 'latest' (according to the developer) scripting techniques in it - as such, much pain is being felt by folk that upgraded to latest CWM and are using ROM Manager to flash.
Once you get your device back working, perhaps flash your CWM version back to something earlier than 3.x - how? Scroll to bottom of menu when in ROM Manager, look for All CWM Recoveries, flash something other than 3.x, like 2.5.1.4.
These ideas are a stretch, but worth a mention/thought:
(prefaced w/ idk much about mac)
Have you tried another SD card?
Did/can you format the SD in the device? I've read mac formatting of SD to FAT32 takes some extra steps if not an additional app on the mac. Can you get to a PC and format the SD on a PC?
fwiw, frequently on PC's, the .zip file extension is not shown ~ is it possible the files on the SD have blah.zip.zip, and are therefore unseen? This is more common that you might think.
All that said, if you can boot device at all, successfully d/l a Virtuous ROM .zip to computer, transfer it to a viable FAT32 formatted SD card, boot into recovery, choose option that says 'select zip file to apply' navigate to the Virtuous zip file, flash it, you may be back in business.
For context, AOSP ROMs (CM7) interact quite a bit w/ the SD card, even during boot - as such, SD issues or wipes or other such things are painful when booting an AOSP ROM when SD is wonky.
hth

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big problems...i think i'm sinking fast

Did everything the way I normally do when flashing a new rom.
Now when I attempt to load any ROM from my sd card, I get this message:
Installing system files ...
E:Error in /sdcard/Incredible Files/SkyRaider_33_Sense_Final.zip
(Status 0)
Installation aborted.
I also try to do a restore from my nandroid backups and it ALWAYS "freezes". Now the only thing I can do is boot into recovery but nothing after that. I've read through a lot of material and know how to do most things, however I'm by no means an expert and now I feel like I've caused irreversible damage.
HELP?
sounds to me like your rom got corrupt during the download, i would try to download it again after deleting the file off your SD card.
did you download it from a PC or from your inc? i have seen people get corrupt files when downloading straight from the inc, its best to use a PC to download the roms
you can use the mount menu in recovery to mount your usb storage if you dont have an adapter to read the microsd, this will let you replace the possibly corrupt rom with a fresh zip
My original sd card has become unreadable by both my incredible and by my sd card reader. I have another one and loaded all of the backed up files I had on the old one. I've tried downloading the ROM through ROM Manager as well as placing the file on the new sd card and both do the same thing.
I honestly have no idea what to do now and am worried that not everything I need was transferred to the new sd card.
I just want to be able to load ANY ROM and I'm willing to reset/wipe anything and everything but I don't think there's anything I can do at this point....
well there is nothing that needs to be on the SD card at all aside from the backup or [rom].zip file you are trying to flash
have you tried installing a different rom with recovery? maybe virtous rom?
also what version of clockwork recovery are you running?
powellshake2 said:
My original sd card has become unreadable by both my incredible and by my sd card reader. I have another one and loaded all of the backed up files I had on the old one. I've tried downloading the ROM through ROM Manager as well as placing the file on the new sd card and both do the same thing.
I honestly have no idea what to do now and am worried that not everything I need was transferred to the new sd card.
I just want to be able to load ANY ROM and I'm willing to reset/wipe anything and everything but I don't think there's anything I can do at this point....
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And you're sure it's FAT32?
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Positive it's FAT32 and I just flashed the most current Clockwork Recovery from ROM Manager.
powellshake2 said:
Positive it's FAT32 and I just flashed the most current Clockwork Recovery from ROM Manager.
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Try to format/partition the sd via recovery. The new clockwork has this method (haven't tried it and don't know if it works) and the alternate RA does, too. I've used that one and know it works. Try that (leave the defaults, which is 512mb sd-ext, 32mb or similiar swap, I think, and the rest as FAT32).
boot into hboot (vol down and power when device is off)
what hboot version and baseband are you running?
I dont think the sd card is the problem
I wiped the dalvik and batt stats and for whatever reason tried again to reinstall the ROM and it went through this time.
Everything seems to be working as normal. Man was that one weird ass experience.

HTC Desire Problem

So I rooted my phone using unrevoked and all was fine, flashed a few roms and kernals, and i wanted to create an ext partition so i formatted the 8gb micro sd card and used easus to try and seperate it, this did not work so i reformatted it using android, i coppied all files back over and went into recovery to try a diffrent rom ( Currently on oxygen v2.0 RC7) but when i went to choose a zip file clockworkmod showed up saying no files found even though all the files are visible in android and astro, so i reformatted again using android and windows same problem both times, so i thought it might be clockworkmod problem, so i tried to reflash it and didnt work again, so i tried flashing the amon ra recovery but that just didnt flash at all (using unrevoked) when i came back onto oxygen v2.0 , superuser permissions does not work and fc's all the time so i cannot use rom manager or any terminal console
Try flashing a rom in recovery use the button combination for yur phone to Axcess your recovery
I can access recovery, i just cant see the rom files on my sd card, when i click choose zip file, it says no data, were it used to show a long list off all files available on sd card
Had some progress, tried a diffrent sd card seems to have worked, flashed cyanogenmod on now

[Q] Clockworkmod Restore Problems

Hi all.
I have a clockworkmod problem -
Following an update i applied, i cannot boot past android launch screen. no problem i thought, i had just made a backup from clockworkmod )). So i rebooted into recovery, and selected restore - the clockworkmod tells me i have no backups (there were 3 backups at least there...). the sd card mounts to clockworkmod as i can see its contents when browsing for a zip to install.
I then went to reinstall the rom from fresh, but as i dowloaded through rom manager, i can only see the 7.0.3 cyanogen update, not the full rom...
So i'm stuck with my desire unable to boot - i cant copy over a backup or rom image, and there are no backups on my card (but there were!!!).
Any ideas?
ps , yes i have used search but can't find anything that'll help me.
Ignore.
10char
You can always take your SD card out of the phone, and using a memory card reader (or similar), download a ROM on your PC and copy across to your SD card. Put it back in the phone and boot into recovery and flash away...
Good Luck
DanPratt said:
You can always take your SD card out of the phone, and using a memory card reader (or similar), download a ROM on your PC and copy across to your SD card. Put it back in the phone and boot into recovery and flash away...
Good Luck
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yeah i thought that would be possible, just don't have a micro-sd reader...
is ther any other way of getting data onto the sdcard without using a card reader?
What did you update?
You could use fastboot to push the ROM file to your sd card.
And / or use recovery to mount the sdcard.
Mr_JMM said:
What did you update?
You could use fastboot to push the ROM file to your sd card.
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i attempted to flash lordmod kernel + PUV mod. i knwe that the PUV can be problematic, so backed up before i flashed. the backup complete, and i flashed the kernel. after finding the kernel wasn't working, i went to restore and no backups there at all...
looking up restore via fastboot now. only problem i have a mac, but could run it via VM...
maybe quicker to drive to the store to get a reader!!
OK, finally got fastboot working on my mac, device recognised as "HT11MRX11410 fastboot"
i have nothing shown with "adb devices"
How do i flash a rom or a clockworkmod backup to this device using fastboot?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=532719
Sent from my Ericsson T39m

New Rom Manager/Clockwork won't see my sd card, help please

So I have been using Rom Manager/Clockwork recovery since I got the S3 (sprint),
I have all my backups on the sd card (external). It asked me to update Rom Manager/new clockwork mod for Sprint,
so I did. Now I can not see any of my sd card contents and backups. In Clockwork recovery I go to backups and see none,
I go to install zip from sd card and it shows all the files in the phones INTERNAL system memory, not my external sd card,
I maybe I am a noob (not really), but I can not find out how to get clockwork recovery to see the external sd card instead of the
internal, so I can get at my files/backups. Maybe it is a problem since I have the 32gb S3 instead of the 16gb standard?
hotstocks said:
So I have been using Rom Manager/Clockwork recovery since I got the S3 (sprint),
I have all my backups on the sd card (external). It asked me to update Rom Manager/new clockwork mod for Sprint,
so I did. Now I can not see any of my sd card contents and backups. In Clockwork recovery I go to backups and see none,
I go to install zip from sd card and it shows all the files in the phones INTERNAL system memory, not my external sd card,
I maybe I am a noob (not really), but I can not find out how to get clockwork recovery to see the external sd card instead of the
internal, so I can get at my files/backups. Maybe it is a problem since I have the 32gb S3 instead of the 16gb standard?
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Go to the bottom of the menu in ROM Manager and choose the all versions (or something like that). You should have the option to flash an earlier version of CWM. Choose the earliest version, flash it, reboot into recovery, and you should be fine. I would give you version numbers, but I have moved to TWRP for recovery.
Just use twrp its better in every way
Well thanks, kinda. Going back to the earliest version of clockwork DOES allow me to see the files on the SD card (external),
but now under ext sd/clockworkmod/backup/ ALL my backups say the name with / after it such as 2012-08-16-Stock/
when I chose one, it says no files found, Like it is looking at a directory instead of the backup file which should NOT have a / after it.
Any ideas?
Yeah, but you can't use your old clockwork/nandroid backups with twrp,
so I would lose everything!
Ok, I got it to work using the oldest clockwork recovery and not being an idiot.
Once I was able to see the external sd card, I was trying to install my backup from zip.
When I went to backup and restore and restored it from there, it allowed me to chose the
correct file and it worked. And yes, twrp looks slick and allows choosing internal or ext sd,
if I had a new phone without a bunch of stock and cyano backups already in clockwork,
I would go with twrp. But twrp SHOULD make the clockwork mod backups compatible, or offer
a converter program, because who can really switch if they can't use any of their old backups?
hotstocks said:
Ok, I got it to work using the oldest clockwork recovery and not being an idiot.
Once I was able to see the external sd card, I was trying to install my backup from zip.
When I went to backup and restore and restored it from there, it allowed me to chose the
correct file and it worked. And yes, twrp looks slick and allows choosing internal or ext sd,
if I had a new phone without a bunch of stock and cyano backups already in clockwork,
I would go with twrp. But twrp SHOULD make the clockwork mod backups compatible, or offer
a converter program, because who can really switch if they can't use any of their old backups?
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Copy those CWM backups over to your computer (rename them as needed to be able to remember what they are). Install TWRP and start using it for your backups. If you ever need/want to go back to one of those earlier backups you can always go flash CWM over TWRP and re-install them. If you want to, you could even do a restore in CWM then flash TWRP, then back it up in TWRP, back to CWM, back to TWRP, etc., until you have them all in both formats. Depending upon how many backups you have that may or may not be all that time consuming.
Neil Fruit said:
Copy those CWM backups over to your computer (rename them as needed to be able to remember what they are). Install TWRP and start using it for your backups. If you ever need/want to go back to one of those earlier backups you can always go flash CWM over TWRP and re-install them. If you want to, you could even do a restore in CWM then flash TWRP, then back it up in TWRP, back to CWM, back to TWRP, etc., until you have them all in both formats. Depending upon how many backups you have that may or may not be all that time consuming.
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Nice idea, but CWM has been the standard and reliable for so long. I don't know if I would trust my
backups to TWRP yet. But maybe I could start using it and just save a couple old backups one of Cyano and one stock.
I don't want any black screens, bricks, or problems because I don't know ADB and am not great with problems/odin.
Will TWRP give me more or less headaches than Clockwork witch I am used to? And can you run it from a phone app like
Rom Manager runs clockwork?
Thanks guys
Gotta admit, I'm fairly new to TWRP myself, but I am not aware of an integrated app like ROM Manager and CWM. As far a reliability, I know TWRP has been around a while and while it may not be as widespread as CWM I trust most of the people who I checked with who say that TWRP is not only as good as CWM, but even better. I know it takes a while to get used to a new UI and program, but with time I am sure I will feel as comfortable with TWRP as I was with CWM.
no sdcard (microsd)
same issue, have tried a variety of different rom manager versions. Want to do a full wipe/clean flash but need the card working for the rom and gapps after the wipe.
Any suggestions?
Had to get card formatted fat32.. All good!
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Sd card damaged

About 2 weeks ago I suddenly received the SD card damaged message in the status window.
I ended up buying a Kingston 16GB to replace the original SanDisk but I'm still getting the same problem. I'm not seeing a problem with the Sandisk or Kingston on a PC.
Presently;
*If I boot into Clockwork Mod Recovery and mount the sd, I can create partitions, FAT32 and EXT3 and the phone will refuse to boot.
* If I delete the partitions and create a single FAT32 volume, the phone boots but complains that the card requires formatting. If I format the card in android it appears to work.
* I can then mount it inside of android and windows can see the contents ok.
* If I reboot into clockworkmod recovery, and mount the sdcard which was formatted inside of Android, Windows can't see the volume and gparted reports that the volume is corrupt.
I've read that this may be a hardware problem, but it seems more like software to me since clockwork is reading the card differently to android?
Many have said after replacing the phone the problems went away. Can anyone comment on this problem? I had been using Gingerburst and Data2SD for over a year prior to this issue suddenly developing. It just occurred while trying to play a song in an mp3 player and being told the file wouldn't play. I rebooted the phone and then the memory card problem developed.
Change cwm recovery to 4ext. Go here:
www.4ext.net
Download recovery updater and use to flash recovery.
When you finish flashing the recovery reboot to it and repartition your sd, first make it whole in fat32, then make partitiins as you wish.
Sent from my HTC Desire using Flashes and Thunders
Hi thanks for the suggestion. It seems I had a very old version of clockwork mod recovery installed, 2.0.5.7. I used Clockworkmod Recovery Manager to try and update it but it never mentioned the version of CMW Recovery which it was obtaining and attempting to flash, or that the flash was failing.
I tried to install your 4EXT recovery but it kept failing, I noticed Superuser was outdated, so I tried to upgrade that but it couldn't flash the upgrade binary. I was suspecting there was some sort of latent rooting issue present, so I then used 'revolutionary' (available from http://revolutionary.io/) to S-Off and root the phone again. This updated clockwork mod to 4.x.x.x. I used Clockwork Mod Recovery manager to flash the CWM Recovery and it reported success this time. I then used the partition manager and it seems to have successfully entered CMW Recovery and created the partition. Looks like the phone is stuck booting at the moment however, seems to hang on the HTC splash screen every time you add that second partition.
I will delete the EXT partition and go back and try to flash 4EXT again now I have rerooted and confirmed S-Off. This has been a right pain, I hope it isn't a hardware issue.
Fixed!
Partitioned directly from CMW Recovery 5.0.2, installed the rom. Booted into android, rebooted into CWM Recovery. Installed the data2sd script. Booted, waited about 20 minutes for the boot to finally complete.
Checked from both CWM recovery and Android and the card is visible on the pc and in android on both. No idea what went wrong, maybe the original volumes did become corrupt but in addition looks like something was wrong with the old version of CWM which was causing the inconsistency in the volumes being visible from android and not CMW Recovery (and vice versa).
Steps performed to fix:
* Installed Revolutionary which offers the CWM Recovery upgrade to 4.x.x.x.
* If necessary use the CWM Rom Manager from the Market to upgrade CWM Recovery to 5.x.x.x as the upgrade does not seem to flash correctly from the 2.x.x.x version I had installed (I could boot by deleting then creating a single partition with fat32).
* Use CWM Recovery to partition SD card directly with EXT partition.
* Factory reset/wipe cache/delvik cache
* Install android rom.
* Boot into android, wait for the boot to fully complete.
* Reboot into CWM Recovery and Install Data2SD.
* Boot and wait bloody ages (approx 20 minutes).

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