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[Q] stuck in bootloader/recovery

help, stuck in bootloader/recovery
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stock 2.2 3.29 rooted w/unrevolked.
any help is appreciated.
So I was looking into roms and I downloaded ROM manager 3.0.1.1. Thats when my trouble started. I did a back up with the rom manager and it wiped my old nandroid back ups and I was stuck in bootloader/recovery and couldn't restore my back up. I do an nandroid back up about once a month and they were all gone. I did back up my sd card in december and I had an old back up on it and I flashed it and it worked.
Tonight I tired to flash an older version of clockwork (like I had before) and I'm stuck at the bootloader/recovery again. I tried to restore an old nandroid and nothing seems to work.
I'm open to suggestions.
Should I try to flash a new rom and start over ?
any way to get my old customized rom back ? (I have the clockwork back ups)
thanks

are you able to boot a rom at all?

I haven't tried a different rom, but I cannot boot my current or older.
It can't load PM36IMG.zip, I tried loading one onto my card but it just aborts the installation. Is there a more current or older one one I need ?

that might be a problem. you sayed you were trying to put a PM36IMG.ZIP on but you need a PC36IMG.ZIP i believe if your on an evo. use amon-ra and and flash a new rom and see if it works. copy and paste this link into your url and it will start a download for amon-ra recovery. hope this works
http://files.androidspin.com/downloads.php?dir=amon_ra/RECOVERY/&file=PC36IMG.zip

also don't try to flash a clockwork nandroid backup with amon-ra or vise versa. it will mess up your phone from what ive heard

I wonder if it does not like your sd. I am thinking try a different sd or see if you can format yours.
I also do not like ROM managers. They always seem to want an upgrade and then when you do the upgrade your old backups may or may not be compatible any more. To get your old file back you would probably have to run an unerase or some type of debug program on the sd card. erased files are not really erased they just have an F5 in front of them to tell the computer that the space is availible. If you have a backup on your compter or old SD I think you should be able to that.

I did check for errors on my SD card, nothing bad there.
I put a PC36IMG.zip on my SD and when I try to install the zip from my sd it says operation aborted.
I think my entire problem is the fact that I have clockworkMod recovery v3.0.0.5. I've read (after) that anything after 2.6 is not going to play nice with my evo.
I tried downloading a stock rooted rom and I cannot flash it. Anytime I boot the phone it stays on the HTC EVO white screen, I can hold down the - and power and I can go into HBOOT/fastboot/bootloader/recovery, then it cannot find the PC36DIAG.zip, and PC36ING, and a few others.
I really appreciate the help, keep it coming
edit: I'll try pulling everything off my card and formatting it...

card is fine.
I loaded a older clockwork recovery then tried to flash a different rom...
it started opening, installing, formatting, deleting, copying, then...
E: can't symlink/system/xbin/su
E:failure at line 76:
synlink/system/bin/su SYSTEM:xbin/su
installation aborted.
and when I restore a previous nand backup it appears to work then when I reboot the screen looks scrambled and freezes.
I'm tired

I'm starting to think a hard reset and starting over might be my only way out.

Your system can not root since it can not find /system/xbin/su su is not in bin
ln -T /system/xbin/su /system/bin/su would probably be the approach if you were running. Not sure if you could edit line 76 to change bin to xbin, copy a proper symbolic link or?

I looked in bin and there were many links to the tool box that appeared to be associated with error logging. With this in mind it seems to me that this link is part of the recovery/installation process.
I would try to correct the permissions.

I was able to do a hard reset and my phone booted up rooted still..so I restored my apps from Titanium Back up.
Right now I can shut my phone off, restart it, no problem. If I go into recovery, problem.
I need to get rid of clockwork asap, I've read about Amon_ra's recovery but I don't think I have enough knowledge yet on how to install. I've tried installing from a zip but I'm just not doing it right. I can go into folders on my phone (root explorer), should I just delete clockwork anywhere I find it ? I just don't want to go blindly deleting files, that would be dumb.
I need recovery back...this is scary
suggestions ?

I have been into Android modding since My G1 from day ONE, I bricked a friends G1 and had to swap internal stuff and fixed it so I have never had a problem I could not solve till now, Like the guy above I cannot boot into my ROM. I have running Myn's Roms since his(their) first release with ZERO problems until RLS5. I started getting random reboots so like any other time when this happened with anyone elses ROM I did the Recovery, Wipe Dalvic Cache, Wipe Cache reboot and that was that, However today my Evo would not stop rebooting every 5-10 minutes so I wiped from scratch even my sd card was wiped, then reflashed Myn's RLS5 got it to boot once and after finishing SETUP it was on for like 2 maybe 3 minutes and again REBOOT!!! this time staying on the white screen, So I pulled the battery and went to recovery and wiped dalvic and cache rebooted and from then on It does not get past the white screen, I can still get into Fastboot and Recovery but it DOES NOT boot into the ROM, I am now Flashing MYN'S Z 2.2 and praying it boots. Do you guys think VIRUSES are now affecting OUR EVO's????

I just need to get rid of clockwork and I'm still stuck on that...

help ...

Attached is amon_ra 2.3 boot into the bootloader and apply update, reboot, boot into recovery and clockwork will be gone.

teh roxxorz said:
Attached is amon_ra 2.3 boot into the bootloader and apply update, reboot, boot into recovery and clockwork will be gone.
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ok, I just want to be clear.
First, I'm sorry if I'm noobish
next, I'm gonna put that PC36IMG on my SD card (just anywhere on the card) then go into the bootloader, choose apply update, then boot into recovery, then done, correct ?
side note, I've read around that it should be put on the root of the card, I don't have a root folder on the card, but there is one in the internal system file (found it in root explorer).
just want to clarify before I loose everything again.

You are correct, and the "root" of the sdcard means to just be on the sdcard, not inside any folders. Also don't extract the zip file.

solved.
you sir, are my hero.
you have solved my problem, I'm speechless and so freakin excited right now.
I sincerely thank you and owe you.

teh roxxorz said:
Attached is amon_ra 2.3 boot into the bootloader and apply update, reboot, boot into recovery and clockwork will be gone.
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Would this work for the Incredible as well? I have the same issue (tried to flash clockwork recover but can't get into it on the phone). Also cannot get into the ROM, so stuck at the boot screen and nearly every command brings me back to it...
Thanks

[Q] Flashable Zips not showing up in ClockWorkMod

Alright so I have looked quite hard on this forum for an answer, which I found no trace of, but anyways, I have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus running CyanogenMod 10, and I have been trying to get Gapps so that way I can run it like a regular Android device, but after I transferred the proper Gapps .zip to my SDcard, boot into custom recovery, and then go to install .zip from SDcard, the .zip doesn't show up, I've tried moving it to different places, (SDcard root, and downloads folder) but it still doesn't show up. But here's the thing, I can still see the CM .zip in the root of my sdcard, so it must only be this one .zip. Please help me, I would "thank" you and be very grateful.

maybe you should upgrade your clockworkmod recovery.

Phantom internal storage problem (Stable CM10.1.0 on AT&T I747)

Hi, I just installed CM10.1.0 on my GS3 using CWM recovery from the device after rooting. I'm thinking this may be part of the problem, since it didn't seem like it entirely formatted the internal SD, but I'm not entirely certain. View the first attachment to see what I'm talking about (btw, Misc. got cut off but says 7.07MB).
As you can see, my total space is 12.05GB and it's saying that only 2.38GB is available, though the status bar and storage categories don't support that information (adversely, only about 2 gigs should be used). When connected to my laptop, it says that all this space is being used (view second attachment).
Am I correct about the way I installed it being a problem? Or, is there really phantom storage on my device? It seems that the phantom storage would be coming from the \data folder, but I'm unable to find any problems via SD Maid.
If it's a problem with the way I installed it, I was unable to get Heimdall running properly (on my Windows 7 laptop) with the instructions provided by Cyanogenmod or several threads on XDA, so if anybody could help me get it installed properly I'd be grateful!
Edit: I also flashed Gapps from ROM Manager w/ CWM Recovery after I finished CM10.1.0 installation. Could this be part of the problem?

i'm assuming you came from stock firmware. make sure you have everything backup up and follow the wipe procedures outlined in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2179330 before flashing the ROM and gapps again. cheers

xBeerdroiDx said:
i'm assuming you came from stock firmware. make sure you have everything backup up and follow the wipe procedures outlined in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2179330 before flashing the ROM and gapps again. cheers
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Ok, so you're suggesting to flash from recovery so everything is wiped properly and CM10.1.0/Gapps will be installed at the same time? The first time I tried this, I thought I had put the CM zip file in but couldn't locate it, so I flashed stock/rooted and did it through ROM manager. If you really think that will help, I'll give it a try.

I don't think the wipe recovery actually wipes user's data. Just the applications and settings.
I've noticed that when I wiped my GS3 after I initially installed CM10.1 and even yesterday when I installed LiquidSmooth and did a wipe afterwards it created a folder called 0 and moved everything in there instead.
When I had the phone connected to the computer. Folder 0 properties would show there is nothing inside. but when I browse into it. I can see that my wallpapers, ringtones, music files were still there. So I cut and pasted it to the main \sdcard folder and deleted the folder 0.
Perhaps the same thing has happened to you? Use a file browser on your phone or connect it to the computer and see if you see the 0 folder. if you do your previous data files might be the reason why your phone reports low storage available.

1. when you're changing android versions, for example from 4.1.1 to 4.2, it is always recommended to do a full wipe before flashing.
2. when you're changing from one 4.2 ROM to another 4.2 ROM, you will also often see this multiple 0 folder issue when not fully wiping.
3. never flash a rom from anything other than a custom recovery - TWRP or CWM
please understand what you're doing before you continue.

Espada04 said:
I don't think the wipe recovery actually wipes user's data. Just the applications and settings.
I've noticed that when I wiped my GS3 after I initially installed CM10.1 and even yesterday when I installed LiquidSmooth and did a wipe afterwards it created a folder called 0 and moved everything in there instead.
When I had the phone connected to the computer. Folder 0 properties would show there is nothing inside. but when I browse into it. I can see that my wallpapers, ringtones, music files were still there. So I cut and pasted it to the main \sdcard folder and deleted the folder 0.
Perhaps the same thing has happened to you? Use a file browser on your phone or connect it to the computer and see if you see the 0 folder. if you do your previous data files might be the reason why your phone reports low storage available.
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xBeerdroiDx is right that I was flashing from a stock rom and I'm definitely not having the same problem as you, but if I were you, I'd use the link he posted above to make sure you were fully wiping before installing CM and Gapps. Looks like I'm going to have to do the same thing to fix my own problem though.

xBeerdroiDx said:
i'm assuming you came from stock firmware. make sure you have everything backup up and follow the wipe procedures outlined in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2179330 before flashing the ROM and gapps again. cheers
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I followed your instructions and it didn't work... still shows 2.75GB available after reboot. Any other ideas?

For anyone who may be experiencing this problem, I fixed it by following xBeerdroiDx's instructions and then by formatting sdcard. Be sure to put the rom and Gapps on an external sd and remove from the device before booting into recovery. After all that's stuff wiped, you may put the external sd back in and load the zip files from the external sd.

[Q] deleted os after bad rom flash. WIll pay for repair$$

HTC EVO 4g Sprint cant figure out how to get it back. please help will pay. dont even care about the money just need it fixed asap. thanks

What did you do? Can you still boot to recovery? If yes you can flash a rom.
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jpisini said:
What did you do? Can you still boot to recovery? If yes you can flash a rom.
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I unlocked bootloader with windroid tool. Then I flashes twrp. Then this being my first time messing with an android in years I went and just grabbed the first rom I thought I could use, do to the fact that I had done no backup no nandroid anything so I flashed a rom and after it did it every time I tries to flash different rom because it said the rom I did first failed. So everytime I tries to do anything else with windroid it says there is a log file in the logs folder. Send this to windycity's forum so it can be tAken care of. But I couldn't find this file or where to submit the file so I thought if I just reset the phone back to factory I could restart. And after resetting it multiple times it still said, there is a log file in the logs folder send this to Windy City. So since I do still have the twrp tool that I can use I went in there and found that it has to rm -f delete everything Linux code so I did that. And since I've done that all I can do is get to bootloader and twrp. But the so is deleted. So basically nothing works. I can't figure out how to get the sd to mount or it won't mount for whAtever reason. And since the phone is wiped it won't enable USB debugging to connect to computer. I can get it to start to enable and connect for a second but not long enough for it to do anything. And I believe it's a htc evo 4g sprint. So that's the situation. The next thing I was gunn try was to go buy a mini sd card reader so I can mount it to computer and then put the rom in there. This **** is so confusing and ridiculous. I mean I can jailbreak an apple device no problem. But holy mother of God androids are the most insanely retarded phones to root. Drivers, adb, sdk...... Anyways if u can help let me know because there's a million roms and kernels out there and I don't know what build to use and how to set it up and the whole kernel process sounds confusing.

Do this. Go to the link below. Look at the second post. Go to the "Current Release" section and download either the stock rooted odex or deodex ROM, doesn't matter. Put the ROM zip on your external SD card. You can do this with the mount option in TWRP (select the mount option then select your external SD card from the menu. You should then be able to transfer the ROM zip from your computer directly to your phone), or just use a card reader to transfer the file from your computer to your SD card, then put the card back into your phone. Boot into TWRP and go to the wipe menu. Do a wipe of system, data, Dalvik & cache. Once you've done this, go to the install option, then locate the ROM zip you placed on your SD card. Flash the ROM. Once the install completes, reboot the phone. The first boot will take a few minutes so be patient. Afterwards the phone should boot to the OS.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671395
Also, USB debugging is only useful when the phone is actually booted to the OS. It doesn't matter that it isn't enabled for your particular dilemma. If all else fails, shoot me a PM and I may have something else that can get you up and running.

Magnum_Enforcer said:
Do this. Go to the link below. Look at the second post. Go to the "Current Release" section and download either the stock rooted odex or deodex ROM, doesn't matter. Put the ROM zip on your external SD card. You can do this with the mount option in TWRP (select the mount option then select your external SD card from the menu. You should then be able to transfer the ROM zip from your computer directly to your phone), or just use a card reader to transfer the file from your computer to your SD card, then put the card back into your phone. Boot into TWRP and go to the wipe menu. Do a wipe of system, data, Dalvik & cache. Once you've done this, go to the install option, then locate the ROM zip you placed on your SD card. Flash the ROM. Once the install completes, reboot the phone. The first boot will take a few minutes so be patient. Afterwards the phone should boot to the OS.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671395
Also, USB debugging is only useful when the phone is actually booted to the OS. It doesn't matter that it isn't enabled for your particular dilemma. If all else fails, shoot me a PM and I may have something else that can get you up and running.
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Can you still boot into recovery

Please help a beginner with Recovery and Cryogen

Hey guys,
I am a total noob at all this rooting stuff. I have had my S3 for several years now and am still pretty happy with it, but I like technical work and decided to get the most out of my phone. I have been trying to figure some things out and have read alot of posts but still a little hazy. The best way to avoid hours of fixing something you broke out of ignorance? Double check with the pros.
Android version 4.3
So here is what I have done so far: I made a samsung smart switch backup of my phone then followed this posts instructions http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2793071 . Worked great. I am all rooted, I have superSU installed. Everything went fine. because it sounded like a good utility I downloaded ROM manager from the playstore (from this post's recommendation http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2135588 . I set up and ran the clockwork recovery app, it did a weird boot and screen and proceeded to run a backup. I cannot find that backup file but it says it made one and when i tired its remote backup download server (which is only for premium users) it showed a backup even through I could not download it. Then I downloaded titanium backup * root from the playstore and I had it backup system and user apps. After failing to find my titanium back up (it made 306 backups? ok......) I created a new folder in my SD card and routed the backups there. I open that folder and found a ton of files with GZ extension. I copied that whole folder (1.4gb) onto my computer.
That is what I have do to this point. I want to use the Cryogen ROM so I went to their site and found my phone model (https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/D2tmo_Info). That page has a big warning about incompatible ICS Bootloader and tells me to update my firmware. I would be fine with running slightly older version of Cryogen, pre 10.1 but A) security concerns and B) I dont think what they have posted are the stable releases and C) no recovery (i have no idea what that is supposed to do,. recover what?) At that point I stopped and did some research but came away not at all enlightened. A lot of posts talk about other utilities such as adb, Odin, and so on but I am clueless. If I haven't mentioned a program or an action assume I dont have it or have not done it.
Also, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2135588 mentions booting into recovery mode and making two backups (one to each sd card and phone) I want to be as safe as possible but all these backups are eating up alot of space. Do they all need to be stored on my phone at all times? Which ones can I copy to my computer for storage and delete from my phone?
Things I want to do:
--create good backups
--transfer as many backups as possible to my computer
-- install Cryogen ROM
What are the next few steps?
My current thinking is to boot into recovery mode and create backups as specified in the noobs guide. Transfer those backups to my computer. Then use ROM manager to install cryogen v12.1. (firmware update? need? how?). I am not taking any further action until I hear back from this thread, but I just wanted to explain my current plan of action which is probably incorrect.
I really appreciate any help you fine folks can give.
Edit: after doing all the titanium backups stuff i talked about I returned to home page... my background has changed. WTH?
Edit2: I went ahead and ran two backups in clockwork recovery mode, one to sdcard and one to sdcard1 ( I assume to phone card and external card). I found a bunch of files in the SD card's clockwork file. My device and card are running low on space, I need to get the backups onto my comp. Holding off until I find out if I need to keep a backup on the device at all times.
Edit 3: I keep getting a pop up that says t-mobile account app has stopped working.

In order to run the latest CM ROM for the T999, recommend installing the latest bootloader and modem on the phone. I recommend using the latest CM ROMs to help ensure that the phone is running the latest security patches.
To determine the baseband and bootloader on the phone, download and install the Samsung Phone Info app from the play store and run it.