In the process of trying to flash a new firmware to a GIO I somehow managed not to be able to acess the recovery menu anymore. Right now the Phone is rooted, booting fine into stock ROM, download mode is working but no recovery menu. While trying to boot with power and home button it just shows the Samsong logo for ages.
I tried to flash a new recovery several times due to the fact that the stock recovery is only able to apply update.zip and not able to select any custom filename. So I installed su and a new recovery this way. After realizing that there is no recovery anymore I did it using ODIN and download mode. I tried several recovery images from cwm to stock, but everytime the same.
What did I miss?
How to do a dalvik/cache reset outide revovery menu and not doing a full hard reset?
Would a hard reset help?
TiA,
longInt
Guess their are commands to do it with ADB, phone can still go on so thats fine
Download adb
Connect phone to pc
Open command prompt , cmd.bat
Type
Adb
Su
Reboot recovery
Try if it works...
You can also flash recovery with ODIN, cwm v5 can be flashed with odin
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I did already
Flashed cwm-5.0.2.7-ext4+rfs-odin.tar.md5 using ODIN without problems, but as I said, no recovery menu available/accessible. BTW: Do I've todo anything after ODIN triggered the reboot? I just remove the phone and try to access recovery menu...
I do not have adb available at the moment, Sorry. Will try tommorow, but I guess this will not show something different!?
Thx!
Terminal emulator?
Code:
su
Reboot recovery
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OK; will try the Terminal emulation soon. But also when trying "Reboot to recovery" from inside ROM Manager it just hangs showing the SAMSUNG Logo. Did I flash the right recovery in terms of the ext4 thing?
TiA
voetbalremco said:
Adb
Su
Reboot recovery
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This results in a black screen and the phone not booting anymore (just showing the Samsung logo). I'm pretty sure the stock rom is booting again after flashing cwm again (had this before). Doing this now...
Any other ideas, tipps?
TiA
OK, guys, time for new proposals. Whichever way I try to get into recovery it fails. Reflashing recovery brings the phone back, but how to go into recovery!? I even tried to boot recovery using my GS3 Toolkit with the same negative result just to prove there is no way to reach recovery.
Isn't there a need to flash cache and dalvik or something else after flashing recovery!? How?
TiA
Try flashing a full stock rom with odin, so everything is gone, kernel, su etc...
If still not, live with it or bring it to a service center
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OK, thx. If someone is having additional hints/ideas please let me know . Phone is still working but still no recovery...
exact same problem
longint2 said:
OK, thx. If someone is having additional hints/ideas please let me know . Phone is still working but still no recovery...
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I have the exact same problem as you. Same phone as you, phone rooted fine, tried installing CWM now can't get to recovery with the same symptoms as you. Holding Power+Home results in a hanging Samsung logo and no longer being able to boot at all. Removing the battery doesn't help. Reflashing allows me to boot normally but still not recovery mode (download mode accessible all the time). Rebooting from ROM manager usually results in "RAMDUMP mode arm9" instead of recovery (wtf).
Tried different CWM versions recommended for Gio, some older some newer, some with different filesystems.
Tried different methods for installing recoveries (from SD card in the original recovery mode the first time, and from ODIN)
Tried different methods of reaching recovery mode (key combination on boot, reboot from terminal, reboot from ROM manager).
Tried doing "firmware update" with (lol) Kies
Seriously no idea how to solve it, it's exactly the same as the problems in this thread. Advice from friends and these forums has so far not helped, but hopefully someone will discover an answer soon?
Things I don't think are related:
I have hardly any space left on the phone
My battery life has now been reduced to 2 hours average (woohoo!)
Have you tried installing stock rom via Odin? It installs stock recovery itself, and then you would be able to see what happens when you are trying to acces recovery
Very simple, it happened to me sometime ago. The problem was that my pc was blocking Odin to flash correctly, so I figured out the solution. The solution is to try flashing it from someone else's computer. Give it a try and tell me.
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Follow step by step:
Make sure you do it from a PC on which you haven't already installed Samsung USB drivers or KIES.
1. Install Samsung usb drivers.
2. Open Odin and boot phone into downloading mode.
3. Browse Gio.ops and xxxxxxxx.tar file and start flashing.
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nope…
pakistanish said:
Very simple, it happened to me sometime ago. The problem was that my pc was blocking Odin to flash correctly, so I figured out the solution. The solution is to try flashing it from someone else's computer. Give it a try and tell me.
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I doubt this is the problem because the first time I tried flashing CWM was not with Odin (I'm not a Windows user) but from the stock recovery as shown in the video tutorial on this forum. I think I'll try wojtek267's suggestions and reflash the stock rom when I get my USB cable back.
Tried a lot more things, none of them worked
Sorry for double-posting, but this is long.
Update:
I got a USB cable. I tried a lot of stuff that also doesn't work. That's what's covered in this post:
This doesn't work. Naturally the first part doesn't work because it says boot into recovery and I can't do that. Ignoring that and continuing from step 5 does just as little. At the bottom of this post I've written what Odin does.
This also doesn't work, it's basically the same thing.
Tried reinstalling stock ROM as suggested. No difference in results. List of ROMs I've tried at bottom of post.
Tried using Odin from a different PC, as suggested. More on this at bottom of post.
Tried flashing using flash_image in adb. More about that at bottom of the thread.
Tried to get fastboot to work. I get an infinite < waiting for device >. More on that at bottom of the post.
Tried to factory reset the phone using both the menu option in settings, and the dial code, both result in the phone turning off and then starting up with a blank black screen that stays there forever.
Tried taking the battery out a thousand times, seriously why is this suggested so often?
List of Recovery ROMs I've tried:
signed_cwm-5.0.2.7-flashablezip-ext4only.zip
cwm-5.0.2.7-ext4only-odin.tar.md5
cwm-5.0.2.7-ext4+rfs-odin.tar.md5
stockrecovery-DXKT4-odin.tar.md5
All coming from this thread.
Also one or two others from blog about clockworkmod etc.
The point is it has no effect because as far as I can tell it isn't even flashed anyway.
Flashing from fresh PC failed
What I mean by this is:
I took a different PC
did a fresh install of windows on it
installed the Samsung drivers using the Kies CD
put the phone in download mode (VolDown+Home+Power)
start Odin, select OPS and tar.md5 file
connect phone
run Odin
nothing special happens…
What Odin does:
copy image to phone → success
disconnect from COM port and wait for reboot
start countdown timer
at this point phone reboots normally (not recovery or anything) and nothing special happens, the Odin timer eventually time's out and the operation is finished
Update: added actual output from odin as an attachment.
I'm not sure but I don't think the above is what Odin is typically supposed to do.
The odin I'm using is 4.42 for Gio and comes from the threads linked to in the first 2 bullet points linked above.
How flash_image fails
I have tried using both adb and terminal emulator on phone. Root access is given to the emulator via superuser app. This is what I do:
Code:
su
cd system
flash_image recovery recovery.img
This is what I get:
Code:
error scanning partitions: No such file or directory
recovery.img is located in /system/recovery.img
flash_image is located in /system/bin/flash_image with proper chmod setting of 755.
It makes no difference if I mount the system as read/writeable or not.
The flash_image I'm using comes from CyanogenMod wiki, here.
My best guess here is that the reason flash_image finds no recovery partition is that there isn't one. I certainly don't see one. And this would also explain why the phone does nothing (black screen or samsung logo) when you try to boot to recovery.
Please dear God somebody tell me that one of you has seen this before and knows a solution for this?
According to this thread the partition where recovery.img resides is /dev/block/bml9, but how do I get my CWM recovery.img on that partition? Do I cat? dd? What? Is there any partition (e.g. that one, or /system or anything) that I should format to something strange before this will work?
Issues with fastboot
2 problems with this. First one is, how exactly do you get into "fastboot" mode on the phone? I don't even know if it can. I have uncovered the following startup key-combos:
recovery mode (Home+Power) does not work, so now just a blank screen
download mode (VolDown+Home+Power)
ramdump arm9 mode (VolUp+Home+Power)
emergency download mode (VolDown+VolUp+Home+Power)
LK Little Kernel Mode (VolUp+VolDown+Power)
blank screen (VolUp+Power)
blank screen (VolDown+Power)
regular boot (Power) doesn't work after attempting hard reset, only results in samsung logo and inability to boot
None of these seem to be fastboot mode, so I guess it's more complicated than that.
Other problem is I'm using Linux and I've read I'll need to configure Udev to detect the phone ID used when in fastboot mode.
I've read that some people who couldn't flash with flash_image in adb were able to flash using fastboot so I'm hoping for that.
Summary
As you guys can see I've really tried a lot of things. Everything I can think of, and everything I could find on XDA and the rest of the web. I have had no success. Like OP's topic title says, I still have a working phone. When Hard Reset fails and the phone becomes unbootable I can make it bootable again by using Odin to fail at flashing a recovery.
So the phone actually works fine. The problem is I can't get to recovery mode and therefore can not flash CyanogenMod (all CyanogenMod threads say to flash ClockworkMod Recovery before CyanogenMod).
Please can somebody help me with this, I don't know what else to try.
Edit: hey pakistanish, thanks for the suggestions, if I don't install the USB drivers from the Kies CD then where am I supposed to get them from?
Bump?
Nobody able to help with this?
Am I in the wrong sub-forum or something?
One more option you could try: the dd command. Provided you're rooted, copy the recovery.img file you want to flash over to your SD card.
then from a shell: dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/bml9 bs=4096
Also, did you try using ddms or logcat while your phone was stuck at the Samsung logo? There might have been clues as to what the issue was.
Good luck,
Darkshado
very nice try, still no cigarre
Darkshado said:
One more option you could try: the dd command. Provided you're rooted, copy the recovery.img file you want to flash over to your SD card.
then from a shell: dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/bml9 bs=4096
Also, did you try using ddms or logcat while your phone was stuck at the Samsung logo? There might have been clues as to what the issue was.
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Hi thanks for the helpful advice! I tried that now. Backed up the current bml9 to sdcard with dd and then dd'd my recovery.img over it; it seemed successful. I restarted the phone to recovery mode and it just hangs at the Samsung logo like normal. This thread confirms that /dev/block/bml9 is indeed the recovery partition, however replacing it seems to have no effect.
I have never heard of ddms or logcat, what do they do and do you have download links?
I still have the same issue, thx for any advices.
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two days ago, i rooted my phone using simple root, nand unclocked and flashed clockwordmod and everything. i was using fresh rom, and i wanted to use the vanilla lockscreen. but in order to do that, i needed to flash amons ra. i tried doing that, and somehow i got rid of my clockword recovery mod (and amons ra didnt work) so whenever i went into recovery mode, it just stayed at the screen with the phone and triange and red exclamation mark. i tried running the recovery windows .bat file, but it didnt work. and i tried running the ruu .exe file to unroot my phone, but everytime it said it couldnt find my device, even though it was connected via a usb chord. i tried it in charge only mode, disk drive mode, and htc sync mode and none of them worked. i tried using rom manager, but everytime i tried doing something it said error attempting to run privilidged scrips or something. i tried downloading the superuser .apk file and installing it onto my phone, but that didnt work either. the terminal emulator didnt work when i tried to flash something, it just said it couldnt find the file on my sd card, even though i put it on there. help?
Okay, number one: Did you try holding volume UP + power at the red exclamation screen? I think that's how you enter AR recovery.
Number two: You can flash Fresh tweaks without using AR. You just have to reboot into ClockworkMod and flash the .zip files manually.
Are you able to boot ANY ROM right now? If so, is it rooted? If it is, try to reinstall ROM Manager.
Sounds like you went a little off the deep end when you couldn't get into AR.
any suggestions?
Yeah, answer my questions or provide more info so you can get better direction.
you can reflash either recovery with the simple root program or you can follow the first part of toasts root method part 2 to restore recovery.
SilverZero said:
Okay, number one: Did you try holding volume UP + power at the red exclamation screen? I think that's how you enter AR recovery.
Number two: You can flash Fresh tweaks without using AR. You just have to reboot into ClockworkMod and flash the .zip files manually.
Are you able to boot ANY ROM right now? If so, is it rooted? If it is, try to reinstall ROM Manager.
Sounds like you went a little off the deep end when you couldn't get into AR.
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ill try your first suggestion. and i cant boot any rom right now, because rom manager isnt working. and im pretty sure my phone is rooted, because i still have dev tools and CIQ settings and all those rooted apps.
update: your first suggestion worked, except once i entered AR recovery, the only options i had were: reboot system now, apply sdcard:update.zip, wipe data/factory reset, and wipe cache partition. at the bottom, it said "E: can't open /cache/recovery/command,
t3project said:
you can reflash either recovery with the simple root program or you can follow the first part of toasts root method part 2 to restore recovery.
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i tried reflashing with simple root but it didnt work. can you give me a link for toasts method?
i had a similar problem, i used the OTA simple root, get that and plug ur phone back in with debugging on , one of the drop down menus will let you flash a recovery so flash clockworkmod
okay so somehow i managed to unroot it by wiping my data/cache..but now whenever i try using simpleroot or OTA simpleroot it doesnt work, because it says device is not found. i have it plugged in via usb, usb debugging is on, and ive tried it in charge mode and disk drive mode. anyone know what the problem is?
I'm sure there is a way to fix this, but I would suggest using the full root method by toastcfh.
okay i'll just reroot using that method, thanks. also, whenever im on my computer and im using command prompt, none of the adb commands ever work. do i need to download something for it to work?
Yes, you need the ADB framework. Read the guide (or the one by TheBiles, which is basically a rewrite). The ADB framework is a part of the Android SDK. You have to run ADB commands from the ADB directory (which is actually the "tools" folder inside of the SDK directory, wherever you extract that). Just cd to the tools folder, then run your commands from there.
Hey everyone. I know there are already a few threads with boot loop animations, and am having difficulties finding the same situation as what I'm going through. Here is what the phone used to have before it randomly started looping:
Rooted - with Stock rom, using ClockwordMod Recovery 5.5.0.2
Used Go Launcher Theme ( if that even matters )
No additional roms installed or anything, the phone is 3 months old.
Ok here is where I'm stuck. I understand I should reflash somethings like recovery image or something, but I'm stuck with one big problem. My computer and phone don't recognize using the USB mount.
The message I get is called "Unable to open lunfile ( no such file or directory)
Here's what screens I can get to:
1. Hold vol up/down while holding power ( the little android with its belly open, and the options Start - Restart Bootloader - Recovery mode - Power Off )
2. Hold vol down - ODIN mode, with the START option only
I can access WMD recovery and factory reset, Try to install my old backup, nothing works at all in that area, no matter what I do.
Can someone advise me a step by step way of getting my computer to recognize my phone, so that I am able to do fastboot, or reflash, or anything to get my phone working again. I can't access my internal memory at all.
It's even possible that I've read too much, and my frustration is getting in the way, if so I apologize! Some guidance would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance of course! I need my phone for business!
Cheers,
Install the drivers on a computer then use fastboot oem unlock. Or just factory reset it from within recovery.
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Try my siggy.
I'm not sure about the exact error:
But the link there will get you the correct drivers.
Also, as stated...try to factory reset.
You'll lose your apps/data that way though =/
Hopefully you can get the driver installed and get your computer to recognize.
If so, follow this to back up your apps:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1420351
Have exactly the same setup as you (rooted/stock/CWM) and had the animation bootloop - animation would just loop until a battery pull.
Only thing that solved it was a factory reset from recovery. Been working fine for the 4 weeks since. No need for any reflashing etc. Titanium recoveries have all worked fine as well. Didn't try my Nandroid backup as I thought that may still have the 'fault' built in.
I had a boot loop for every from I tried to flash...wat fixed it was before flashing u need to wipe system data and wipe the cache in the recovery...ie a clean install...then every rom I tried worked...so I think ur missing that crucial step coz it worked for me
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Hey guys, as stated above I've done numerous factory resets, it still seems to boot. I will for sure try to get the drivers installed so my phone is recongised by the computer, but would need step-by-step assistance when doing fastboot, or whatever the next step is.
Looking for more help though! Keep em coming!
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Any other ideas?
Thanks!
Ok guys, so here's where I'm at now. I've used Jubakuba's sticky link, located here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529058
Everything is able to be recognized up to the point where it says "Put the su.zip on your phone."
Since I cannot access my phone contents, since I keep getting this "Unable to open lunfile ( no such file or directory), it does not allow me to add anything to my phone.
I re-installed CWD as stated in the list of things to do, and all that went well. But I have the same issue, I tried factory resetting all that. erase cache, and still stuck with the same issue.
What's my next step now peeps? Looking for a quick answer as I have time to do it tonight!
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Just tried this trick: but it says it does not recognize the device?? what is going on! Please help someone! Thanks!
Panic Section! (Something is Wrong)
Q: My phone won't boot!
A: The easiest option is to get into recovery and restore a nandroid using the above guide (pull battery to put phone in an off-state if needed).
However, more advanced options are available if you don't have a nandroid available (You're naughty).
Do you have another rom .zip available on your SD card? If so, simply use the above guide for installing a rom to get you booting again.
If not, you can download one on your PC. Boot into fastboot (the green Android with open chest menu).
Move the .zip to the C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools folder.
Open ADB.
Change the NAMEOFZIP.zip below to the correct file name...and perform the action.
Surely your computer recognizes your phone. Otherwise how were you able to unlock the bootloader and flash the recovery?
And I've never seen that error message before. It doesn't even make any sense to me. Where are you seeing it? On your phone or on your computer? And in what context? What are you trying to do when it shows up?
If your phone isn't booting I'm not sure that you can copy any files to it yet. (Maybe you can use adb in clockworkmod? I'm not sure) What I do know you can do is flash the stock ROM and start over.
Download the image from Google here:
http://code.google.com/android/nexus/images.html
Here's a instructions for the GSM version:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1366806
For the Verizon version, I can't find the thread at the moment but you just replace the filenames and also there's 2 radios to flash so:
fastboot flash radio *filename*
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio-cmda *filename*
"Unable to open lunfile ( no such file or directory) appears on the phone, in CWD mode, when trying to attempt "mount Usb" to be able to access my internal storage .
I am attempting your thoughts right now.
I will post with results
Ok I tried to do this step. This is the outcome I received on the computer after even typing the first step:
'fastboot-windows' is not recognized as aninternal or external command, operable program or batch file.
A thing to stress, I'm not sure how to do step 1: 1) Take a Nandroid Backup if you have CWM installed.
EDIT***
GREAT NEWS!
used this setup!
http://android.modaco.com/topic/348161-01-feb-r4-superboot-rooting-the-gsm-lte-galaxy-nexus/
and it worked!
Thank you everyone! Going to play with my phone and make sure it all works!
Macinshak said:
Ok here is where I'm stuck. I understand I should reflash somethings like recovery image or something, but I'm stuck with one big problem. My computer and phone don't recognize using the USB mount.
The message I get is called "Unable to open lunfile ( no such file or directory)
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the problem is when that happen?? when ur phone is booted and u plug the usb cable to ur pc? or when u are under recovery and want mount the usb mass storage? the second one doesn't work
Long story short im a newb, im sorry for creating a new thread but ive exhausted my efforts looking for a solution to the problem im having. When the problem occured i had restored my original cwm backup that i created when first rooting my phone. I then did a factory wipe and reinstalled cwm and flashed my recovery. I went to install cm9 4-4-12 and i got a pop up that firmware update was available i clicked update system now and got sent to cwm recovery. Every time since then i cannot reboot into the android os, pulling battery. It doesnt matter what i do, ive tried to use a flash recovery zip i found in another thread to exit boot loop. Ive also tried restoring my original back ups and my recent back ups. I have the android sdk installed but having trouble getting adb to work not sure if i should go about trying to fix the recovery or trying to restore phone to its original state either way i think i need to get adb working before i can do either one. Any help is appreciated and im sorry if im wasting your time.
Did you try wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, factory reset before flashing CM9?
Yes. The order i took was Wipe data/factory reset> Wipe cache partition> wipe dalvic cache> installed cm9 zip> installed gaps zip. still nothing got adb to work not doing much with it i know it has root access and when i got the state of the device it came up as unknown although im pretty sure im in recovery mode.
ok a few question and maybe a step by step to help you since i had a same promblem with a bad flash of CM9
1A. Can you boot into Recovery ? if not i can help you reflash your phone with the Kdz files took me forever to get it to work but i finilly found all the files needed.
1B. if it does boot into recovery run adb devices ... does it show the phone in recovery mode ? in the list.
If so then you can Download the following 6 files Dropbox Down link its not mine but was posted in another Nitro Recovery topic i will give credits once i re go threw the topic to see the poster
- recovery.img
- system.img
- baseband.img
- boot.img
- firmware.img
- pushall.bat
in your CWM recovery go to mounts or it may be under advanced and turn on usb mass storage and as long as all of those files are in your adb folder you can run the pushall.bat and it will place them on your sdcard.
After that turn off usb mass storage and run adb devices again to make sure you phone is still showing up. If so run these commands
Adb shell
****** notice the SU command isnt used here**** cant get super user in recovery but it will still let you run the commands and i can confirm it does work
dd if=/sdcard/boot.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p8
dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13
dd if=/sdcard/firmware.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
dd if=/sdcard/system.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p27
dd if=/sdcard/baseband.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p14
You won't be able to issue a reboot command, so just hold power down on your phone til it's off and hold the volume down button so that it comes back up in factory data reset mode. You will want to pull your sdcard at this time if you don't want your data erased.
Hit power twice and your phone should go through its reset process and (hopefully!) come back up in a working (and rooted) AT&T "stock" rom
if not then try to follow this for the CM9 Adb Drivers Wiki for CM adb drivers i know its a little work but it dose the trick then go back up to the previous step and try that to get to stock rooted
i dont think i left anything out but i can help with anything else i know if that doesnt get you back up and running.
Credits to ???? for the drop box link with the godly files for our nitro
and to Malnilion for his guide on unbricking the nitro
edit: re-ran superoneclick for run and it worked! I should be good from here
Got everything to work. Wait spoke to soon tried to reinstall firmware update again got the same problem. oh well guess i should done fw update before installing cwm. Thanks for the help i should be able to repete this problem in the case of another brick... which just occured.
So after going through the process of unbricking my phone a second time my phone was rebooted into software update screen. Updating firmware then software and did not have to go through factory reset. Strange...
I pushed all images to my device via adb,but ota update gets an error when trying to install. At least its not bricked. Anyone know of another method?
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lg nitro in recovery loop
toki, I tried your fix, but, it comes up /sdcard/boot.img is not found. any suggestions?
Tokie the dropbox links are not working
reverendyummypants said:
toki, I tried your fix, but, it comes up /sdcard/boot.img is not found. any suggestions?
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re push the img file back to the sdcard
adb push boot.img /sdcard/ make sure that he boot.img file is in the same folder as your adb and then try the dd command for it it happened to me once
EdwinXVS said:
Tokie the dropbox links are not working
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im uploading to my own dropbox bare with me ill posyt a live link as soon as it ready guys
cwm recovery loop
_Tokie, retried. still dd command cannot be done. file not found. The files ARE IN the adb folder. Not sure what else to do.
when you type adb push boot.img /sdcard/ what does it say ? i dont see why it will do the rest and not that one
dd: can't open sdcard\boot.img : no such file or directory
i was asking about when you pushed the boot.img to teh sdcard... if yyou want i can look at it threw teamviewer total up to you ... if you deside that pm me then info for it
Just take the SD card out and into your computer (assuming you have a card reader) and copy the files to it manually.
drumist said:
Just take the SD card out and into your computer (assuming you have a card reader) and copy the files to it manually.
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im going to assume that he is booting into CWM its thats the case with teh usb cable hooked to the computer he can turn on mass storage from the CWM and just tranfer it that way .. if he doesnt have a reader .. i just dont see why its not copying the boot image
I'm sorry. The files are on the sdcard. When it comes time for the dd command, i get that error which i recently posted.
If you're in CWM you have to ensure your sdcard is mounted. I have got caught up on this step as well lol
Thank you to all that helped! XDA is awesome! Everything is back to normal. It also helps to have the right / or \ lol
Hey guy im posting on behalf of a mate "Hi. A few days ago, I rooted my Galaxy Gio with an SD Card file that I downloaded (the file was something like Bell___.zip). It worked perfect until yesterday, when I downloaded an app called CPU Tuner from Google Play. After setting it to a battery-saving CPU, it started to lag my whole system. The screen froze and alot of applications forced close when I tried to open them. I decided to reboot my system, however after turning off my phone and taking out the battery (inserting after), it got stuck on the Galaxy Gio boot screen. I kept on trying to boot it, even wiping cache in recovery mode did not do anything. Is there any way I can fix this problem without having to factory reset? (And yes, my phone was fully charged)"
I own an Xperia Play so im clueless when it comes to the gio
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1. Nandroid backup
2. Factory reset
3. Advanced restore data partition
Should work
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Back up data only from Recovery
Reflash Stock Rom or the current Rom you're using.
Will the data be lost? He runs the stock kernel, does it have that option?
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If he has cwm installed, do what I said and he won't lose data.
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It's I who is the one with the problem with the Gio, and it hasn't been fixed...
Hi, I'm the mate that Zerosuit was posting on behalf of. I originally posted on gbatemp.net (gbatemp.net/topic/328585-galaxy-gio-wont-boot-after-rooting/), however they referred me here after being unable to solve my problem. I installed CWM via recovery mode and installed an update via the 'apply update from sd card' option. It failed to fix any problems, so I tried Odin. The people on GBAtemp say I used the right files (on page 4 of the GBAtemp thread), however now I can't even boot to recovery mode. A warning message appears when I try to boot and says something about going to recovery in Kies. Doesn't work. Only download mode. Kies doesn't work...Anyways, help please!
Codename13 said:
Hi, I'm the mate that Zerosuit was posting on behalf of. I originally posted on gbatemp.net (gbatemp.net/topic/328585-galaxy-gio-wont-boot-after-rooting/), however they referred me here after being unable to solve my problem. I installed CWM via recovery mode and installed an update via the 'apply update from sd card' option. It failed to fix any problems, so I tried Odin. The people on GBAtemp say I used the right files (on page 4 of the GBAtemp thread), however now I can't even boot to recovery mode. A warning message appears when I try to boot and says something about going to recovery in Kies. Doesn't work. Only download mode. Kies doesn't work...Anyways, help please!
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if you flash the stock recovery from a PC can you go onto recovery on the phone?
Maybe solution
Boot in recovery and connect your phone to your pc
On your phone click mounts&storage -> mount /data.
Download ADB from here: http://motyczko.pl/qtadb/windows_binaries.zip
Place it in a directory and open a command shell and cd to that directory(or go to the folder with adb.exe and hold shift while rightclicking and choose open command prompt here).
Now enter this command: 'adb shell'
You are now in the shell on your phone if the drivers are there(samsung kies needs to be installed)
Do 'cd /data/app' in the cmd, then 'ls'
Look for a apk file that looks like the overclocking app, if you found it do:
'rm <nameofoverclockapp>.apk'
Reboot your phone and have fun
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if you flash the stock recovery from a PC can you go onto recovery on the phone?
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Probably...The thing is, I'm not sure to exactly which files to download and where to put them (in Odin). If you could tell me that, I'm sure my problem would probably be solved...My Gio's a GT-S5660M, is on Virgin Mobile Canada...and it's stock firmware (in which it came with) was 2.3.4. So please help me ASAP!!!
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lemmymet said:
Boot in recovery and connect your phone to your pc
On your phone click mounts&storage -> mount /data.
Download ADB from here: motyczko.pl/qtadb/windows_binaries.zip
Place it in a directory and open a command shell and cd to that directory(or go to the folder with adb.exe and hold shift while rightclicking and choose open command prompt here).
Now enter this command: 'adb shell'
You are now in the shell on your phone if the drivers are there(samsung kies needs to be installed)
Do 'cd /data/app' in the cmd, then 'ls'
Look for a apk file that looks like the overclocking app, if you found it do:
'rm <nameofoverclockapp>.apk'
Reboot your phone and have fun
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That's not my problem anymore. I had installed CWM and then used it to boot Aroma Filemanager. With that, I had successfully uninstalled ch.amana.android.cputuner-1.apk (CPUTUNER). But it still won't boot. I tried to install stock rom with Odin and was unsure of which file went where. So now it won't even boot to recovery and only to download mode.
Now it can boot to recovery and even to the Samsung logo! But then it loops on and on. Maybe I should delete the boot.img from the rom and reflash? If not, immediate help needed..
Help again!
So I flashed my phone, and it finally boots. However, the mobile network state only stays activated for a short moment then it disconnects, making me unable to actually make phone calls and send text messages. Also, the wireless internet randomly switches off and doesn't turn back on unless I reboot it. And third but last, the screen sometimes blacks out even when the touch screen is still activated. Then the display either turns back on and even brighter (doesn't actually change the system settings brightness), or when I press the power button, it flickers and turns off (just as the whole system goes into standby mode when you press the power button). My phone was rooted before flashing and I rooted it once again. I just know this is all the troubles of flashing, rooting and my problem put together. So if anyone can help in anyway (I really don't want to send my phone in), please do.
Hi,
I have Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini (serrano3gxx). I was using this ROM and CWM recovery. I really don't know how it happened. My phone shut down and when I booted it, I saw this message "Encryption Unsuccessful", so I was not able to access my storage. Then, I've searched how to fix this. I tried to backup storage in recovery and I got this error every time "Can't mount /system, /cache, /data", even while trying to mount them manually. After a few try (flashing etc.), I've become to not access ROM (also bootloader) and CWM recovery. When I tried to access them, I only got "Black screen" and nothing appeared on screen. Then, I could access "Download Mode". At this point, I've tried to flash another ROMs (including stock ROM) and recoveries via Odin. Firstly, Odin detected my phone but ADB not. Secondly, when I tried to flash something that I mentioned, Odin's log screen stuck on "Initialization" step. I've waited 1 hour only for flashing recovery... Nothing flashed and still stuck same step...
Now, actual situation is that I can't access even Download Mode! Before this, phone was shaking when I plugged it to charger or USB port and tried to power it on. Now, this is also changed, it is not shaking...
Guys, I am saying "wth is it" now. These occurred step by step:
1. Shut down and message "Encryption failed/unsuccessful".
2. Can't mount /system /cache /data.
3. Can't access both of ROM (bootloader) and recovery // Black screen
4. Can't access Download Mode.
Note that, all of required drivers installed, even Kies. By the way, Kies detected my phone but it could not complete loading to recognize.
I've found this article but I don't know if it is solution.
I guess phone's storage is corrupted.
So, my phone's storage is fried? What should I do? Thanks for helps I will get.
Try flashing the complete stock rom not just the recovery. Or find a fix and flash it!!
Maybe you should get a pit file and flash that. Reanimated a S3 mini with that.
kurtn said:
Maybe you should get a pit file and flash that. Reanimated a S3 mini with that.
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As I wrote, I can't access/reach recovery and download mode. How can I do that if you know it? I am still searching how to fix this but it is hopeless case I guess. "getting a pit file" is ok. I found it for a few roms including stock rom. But how can I flash it? I could not find this.