I just went back to stock, updated to ICS, and began the process of installing a new ROM. I went into recovery to do a superwipe, install the radio, and then forgot to put the ROM on the sdcard. When I tried to reboot the phone, the load screen bar gets stuck at about 95% and just stays there. I did a /system format and wipedata/factory reset. What else should I try?
Where's the rom you downloaded? PC? Put it on your ext sd then put it back in phone and flash from there.
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I am running incredibly reengineered rom. My sdcard caras and I had to reboot with a new sdcard. I was able to back up recovery or any other the other files the sdcard was toast. Now my phone boots but force close rom manager, titanium back up, etc and although my phone is rooted and I can still boot into recovery I dont what todo to get the rom working again. Do I find a recovery image and flash it or do I flash the rom again?
Might want to try booting onto recovery.....wipe/factory reset, wipe cache, and dalvix cache and then reboot and let me know what happens
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newtoroot said:
Might want to try booting onto recovery.....wipe/factory reset, wipe cache, and dalvix cache and then reboot and let me know what happens
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Thank you! That's exactly what I did. I booted into recovery, did a back up just in case something went horribly wrong. Then I did a wipe/factory reset, empty dalvix cache and viola. My phone was still rooted and I reinstalled Titanium backup and was able to put all my apps back on the phone. Afterward I did a back up of all my stuff, then I flashed the recovery and backed up the ROM. Everything is working better than normal. Thanks!
Good glad I could help......
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Periodic SD to PC backup
As you've learned, a periodic backup of SD to PC is a good practice.
Same thing has happened to me, been backing up SD to PC approx. monthly since then.
Here's the deal. I got a new 16GB sd card, copied everything over (including hidden files) and it worked fine for about two hours. Then the screen went black but the LED and soft buttons stayed lit. I did a Clockwork recovery (with a version that I've used successfully before) but it couldn't find SD-EXT so it would boot up to the red Droid "eye" thing (right before loading the homescreen) and then just keep showing that animation.
So I put the old card back in, tried again, and it still couldn't find the SD-EXT file so I've got a phone now which is stuck at this animation.
My question is, can I just boot into Clockwork and install Cyanogen (because I couldn't find a DINC custom recovery file anywhere) from a zip on the SD and have everything start working again? Don't want to mess it up more than it already is.
Unless you have made an SD-EXT partition, it will give that "error" in recovery. Its not actually messing anything up. I'm not sure why its bootlooping but you can try wiping data and cache then reboot or you can download a zip from www.dougpiston.com to take your phone back to stock.
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I actually discovered that in further research after I posted.
Clearing the cache was a no-go so of DP's site should I go with PB31IMG or with one of his recovery images? I'm think of going with the one with CWM 2.5 on it.
I would try either doing a complete wipe and reflash of whatever rom you choose or you can use the PB31IMG.zip to get back to stock and flash a rom from there. Make sure you're doing a complete wipe as well (wipe data/factory reset, cache, dalvik cache) and do it manually in recovery, not with rom manager.
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Ok, So I wanted to change my ROM and I thought I did it right, but obviously that was not the case lol.
Pretty much I flashed the clockwork recovery, had it set to wipe the two things you want to wipe and then once it came back I installed zip from sd card, however, when I thought I was done and restarted my phone it just continuously loops back and forth back and forth.
I know there's a way to fix it since I have a micro sd reader, but how? I've got something REAL important to do tomorrow and not having my phone will be a huge mess.
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Ok, So I wanted to change my ROM and I thought I did it right, but obviously that was not the case lol.
Pretty much I flashed the clockwork recovery, had it set to wipe the two things you want to wipe and then once it came back I installed zip from sd card, however, when I thought I was done and restarted my phone it just continuously loops back and forth back and forth.
I know there's a way to fix it since I have a micro sd reader, but how? I've got something REAL important to do tomorrow and not having my phone will be a huge mess.
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What ROM were you on and what ROM are you going to?
What did you wipe?
How did you wipe?
How did you flash?
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What ROM were you on and what ROM are you going to?
What did you wipe?
How did you wipe?
How did you flash?
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I was on the stock rom and I was trying use the update-cm-7.0.3-vision-signed
I used Clockwork Recovery to wipe and it already had two options checked to wipe, Pavlik cache and wipe data or whatever it says... Then I flashed into clockwork recovery and I went to install from ZIP, I went and found the rom file on my sd card and pressed install, it took a few moments and was done. I also added the googlepack using the same method right after. Then when I thought I was finished I rebooted my device and its been stuck in a loop ever since.
Appreciate you trying to help, I guess I figured it out with a good ole fashioned guess hahaa.
I went and wiped my phone and data to factory, wiped the Pavlic (which I think I'm saying wrong lol) and then I installed the ROM again and it worked this time.
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I was on the stock rom and I was trying use the update-cm-7.0.3-vision-signed
I used Clockwork Recovery to wipe and it already had two options checked to wipe, Pavlik cache and wipe data or whatever it says... Then I flashed into clockwork recovery and I went to install from ZIP, I went and found the rom file on my sd card and pressed install, it took a few moments and was done. I also added the googlepack using the same method right after. Then when I thought I was finished I rebooted my device and its been stuck in a loop ever since.
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I would recommend flashing the superwipe from this thread. there are 3 downloads, Try the standard superwipe first. and use superwipe+ if you have GPS problems.
Super wipe automaticly wipes system, data and cache partitions. Flash the ZIP in recovery as you would flash a ROM.
And it is recommended not to use ROM manager for flashing and to always to it manually in CWM.
So download superwipe, flash superwipe, flash ROM, flash GAPPS and reboot.
I would also recommend flashing cm 7.1 because its an outrageously HUGE upgrade over the one you just flashed.
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Can a rom file just go bad? This is what happened. Running CWM was running jedi x9 with the glass2.7 theme. Went and flashed the sense theme rebooted and got stuck on the boot screen. booted back into CWM wiped cache and delvik again. flashed the theme again fix permiss. got stuck on the boot screen. Booted back to CWM full wipe with system wipe reflashed the jedi x9 rom. Got stock on boot screen again. so i just did a restore back to stock rom. tried reflashing jedi again and again got stock on the boot screen.
Im not sure if it can just go bad. But I would check md5
I notice sometimes when I move .zips between SD cards (internal/external)
I get errors when trying to flash the .zip in question. So I try not to move files especially .zips around to much ..maybe a 3x wipe and a fresh download would help.
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I have been going back and forth between Quantum, SlimHalo and Task's and I have never had a problem. I would wipe all but SD and storage, flash away, let the apps download and that was it.
Now, regardless of ROM, I wipe everything including data, flash the ROM, GAPPS, reboot and it all works but if I reboot or if the ROM crashes, the phone will get stuck at the kernel's boot screen.
Other than the SD card I don't think there is anything else I can wipe before flashing. Even when I restore a backup that used to work, the phone won't reboot. It'll get stick on the underwear if I have tasks' ROM or the SlimRom logo for SlimHalo. Those are both ROMs that worked perfectly. In fact they seemed to work better before I formatted the data partition.
I redownloaded the ROMs, GAPPS, same thing every time. I can't get a ROM to reboot even if I wipe everything.
I use TWRP 2.6.3.0
I'm having the exact same problem. Even flashed stock rom back via Odin, but no luck. Gets stuck at "Samsung" screen indefinitely. And I mean it, I've left it going for a few hours.
Maybe you should try one of the older TWRPs from the Team Win website and see what happens.
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I managed to fix the issue by flashing the stock image via Odin and factory resetting right afterwards.
I am having very similar issues trying to update to several different 4.3 ROM's. I have a thread going in the Q&A section already. I haven't had time to grab a logcat yet but am confused so far. I am also on TWRP and usually after the "freeze" I have to wipe the internal memory completely, reboot recovery and then flash my backup other wise the restore just "fails". Starting to question if TWRP is the culprit here but have no time to experiment lately.
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I am having very similar issues trying to update to several different 4.3 ROM's. I have a thread going in the Q&A section already. I haven't had time to grab a logcat yet but am confused so far. I am also on TWRP and usually after the "freeze" I have to wipe the internal memory completely, reboot recovery and then flash my backup other wise the restore just "fails". Starting to question if TWRP is the culprit here but have no time to experiment lately.
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Here is how a managed to fix the issue.
Downloaded slimhalo and its gapps again.
Put the 2 files on my external SD
Booted to recovery
Formatted data
Wiped the usual plus internal storage
Installed the ROM and gapps from the SD card
Took the SD card out
Booted.
I then unchecked the option to download the google backed up apps
Downloaded and installed apps.
I haven't put my SD card back but that phone reboots fast and it had no issues rebooting 10 times in a row.
I hope this helps other people
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I tried formatting an SD card, putting ROM and GAPPS on it. Booted to recovery, wiped all internal complete. Flashed ROM and GAPPS. Powered off and pulled SD card. Booted up and unchecked Google back up settings and then set up accounts and such. Tried rebooting and same problem. Just freezes at Samsung logo... Good thought but still no go... Flashed back to backup now.