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Reboot Loop in Fresh 3.0.1.2 Any suggestions?

My phone is just rebooting to the Fresh boot animation over and over again. Here is what I've done.
I did a full wipe (3 times), cleared storage in recovery, wiped dalvik cache, pulled the battery, fastboot, wipe cache partition, wipe data/factory reset in recovery and nothing works. I'm using Clockwork Recovery v2.5.0.1 and I rooted via this method for mac:
http://forum.androidcentral.com/htc-evo-4g-roms-hacks/17766-how-full-root-evo-4g-mac.html
I'm pretty sure half the **** I did was not necessary but I had to try something. Any ideas on what to do next?

Usually clearing cache/dalvik works... And you've wiped everything else... Have you checked the MD5 of your ZIP that you're flashing from? Or tried a different ROM?
Furthermore, have you just let the phone sit for a bit? The first boot after wiping cache can take quite a while.
EDIT: Also, did you do NAND unlock/eng hboot when you rooted?

I never did a nand backup. What would happen if I nand backup while having these problems? How do I check MD5?

I'm a bit confused at what you're trying to do here...but maybe this will help.
Factory reset/data wipe does not wipe your /system/ which is where most/all of the core files are stored for any ROM.
You could trying doing a logcat from adb to maybe get a better idea on what is causing the bootloop.
Or a broader approach would be to just flash Fresh again and it will overwrite anything in /system/ and whatever files, or lack thereof, that are causing the bootloop issue will be added/overwritten.

Well doing a Nandroid backup of a broken ROM won't do you any good.
As for MD5, you should be able to open adb shell, then use the "md5sum" command to get the MD5 of the file. For example:
Code:
adb shell
md5sum /sdcard/some_rom.zip
You can then compare the MD5 it outputs with the MD5 posted by the ROM maker. If they haven't posted an MD5, you might want to re-think about using that ROM, and the competence of its creator. For example, CM6 Nightly has the MD5 posted in a text file in the same directory as all the ROM zip files for flashing. Amon RA Recovery has the MD5 posted in the OP of the thread, etc.

Philosuffer said:
I'm a bit confused at what you're trying to do here...but maybe this will help.
Factory reset/data wipe does not wipe your /system/ which is where most/all of the core files are stored for any ROM.
You could trying doing a logcat from adb to maybe get a better idea on what is causing the bootloop.
Or a broader approach would be to just flash Fresh again and it will overwrite anything in /system/ and whatever files, or lack thereof, that are causing the bootloop issue will be added/overwritten.
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What I'm trying to do is get my phone to work again. Here's what happened:
I downloaded this Rosie Clear Taskbar zip file that I found in the Themes section and flashed it. It looked horrible and was showing distorted so I figured I'll just reset my whole phone and get rid of it. Well it didn't work and it put me in a boot loop. I have no idea how to do a logcat and I'm pretty much new at this unless you post instructions I can adb with my mac. I need my phone today because it's my daughters birthday and people are going to be calling me left and right for details on the party. My phone just keeps rebooting at the Fresh boot. I can enter recovery just fine:
Is there a command I can do in adb while in recovery to make it ''safe boot''? How do I flash Fresh again?
Is re-flashing the ROM as easy as me taking the downloaded Fresh Rom.zip, placing it on my SD and flashing from recovery? I don't want to experiment and possibly mess everything up. Thanks.

It's that easy
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Is re-flashing the ROM as easy as me taking the downloaded Fresh Rom.zip, placing it on my SD and flashing from recovery? I don't want to experiment and possibly mess everything up. Thanks.
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Yes, it's that easy.
I'm not a big fan of how Clockwork wipes, I prefer Amon_RA, where you know you are wiping dalvik cache. Still if you are reinstalling Fresh 3.1.0.2 do a complete wipe.
Once you have your phone operating, immedaitley make a nand back up, or in Clockwork a nandriod. You can then always have a working base to go back to if something isn't playing nice.

Jim M said:
Yes, it's that easy.
I'm not a big fan of how Clockwork wipes, I prefer Amon_RA, where you know you are wiping dalvik cache. Still if you are reinstalling Fresh 3.1.0.2 do a complete wipe.
Once you have your phone operating, immedaitley make a nand back up, or in Clockwork a nandriod. You can then always have a working base to go back to if something isn't playing nice.
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When Clockwork wipes data it deletes the entire folder, which happens to contain the cache and dalvik folders. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
And OP, you might want to wait for Fresh 3.2. Just came out for donators today. I'm using it right now.

Apparently in my case it isn't as easy as flashing from the zip. I downloaded the ROM from geekme and put it on my SD card. Flashed it and even though it was successful I still get boot loop. Could it be because I accidentally did a nand backup of the problem?
What else could I do. I'm using Clockwork but is there a way to flash the other recovery through ADB even though my phone won't boot.
I can't take this to Sprint as it's rooted and showing the Fresh boot screen.

I had the same problem. Turns out I had the wrong kernel flashed from a previous rom. I had constant reboots, couldnt access my sd card, and the usb quit working. I had to ship it back to Asurion. Just got my new one back.
Bottom line:
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT KERNEL BEFORE YOU FLASH A NEW ROM!!

SD Card
Do you have another memory card that you could use? Try putting a copy of a rooted stock ROM on it and try to install that.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=743352

As others have mentioned clockwork does not always work well with Fresh, try Amon RA's recovery

TheBiles said:
When Clockwork wipes data it deletes the entire folder, which happens to contain the cache and dalvik folders. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
And OP, you might want to wait for Fresh 3.2. Just came out for donators today. I'm using it right now.
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The dalvik cache is under /data but the android cache has it's own partition.

[Q] Help Recover From Sdcard Crash

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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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.

[Q] Need some serious help =/

I was in the middle of installing cm7 r2 and I managed to drop my phone and it got shut off. Now when I turn it on it won't get past the first screen, then it resets and brings me to clockworkmod recovery. So I hope there's a way to fix this since I have access to that, but I can't find anything cause really, I don't know what to look for. Any help would be grealy appreciated.

Kaymor said:
I was in the middle of installing cm7 r2 and I managed to drop my phone and it got shut off. Now when I turn it on it won't get past the first screen, then it resets and brings me to clockworkmod recovery. So I hope there's a way to fix this since I have access to that, but I can't find anything cause really, I don't know what to look for. Any help would be grealy appreciated.
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If you can access the bootloader and recovery, then you're most likely fine, and have nothing to worry about. Unless, of course, something was damaged internally (hardware wise) when you dropped it. Do you have any nandroid backups that you made with clockwork recovery? If you do, all you should need to do is restore that backup. I like to do a full wipe (data/factory reset, cache, dalvik cache) before restoring a backup. If you don't have any nandroid backups, then just use clockwork recovery to install the rom. Assuming CM7 rc2 is already on your sd card ( if it's not, just put CM7 and Gapps on your sd card ), go into clockwork recovery, and select wipe. Wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache (under advanced). Go to 'install zip from sd card', find the CM7 rc2 zip. Select it, and let it flash. Once it completes, go back to install frm sd card, and flash the Gapps. Once that's done, reboot. That *should* get you going again. Good luck.

i would try wipe caches, restoring my back up and make sure everything works, then star the process to install cm7 all over again

k2buckley said:
If you can access the bootloader and recovery, then you're most likely fine, and have nothing to worry about. Unless, of course, something was damaged internally (hardware wise) when you dropped it. Do you have any nandroid backups that you made with clockwork recovery? If you do, all you should need to do is restore that backup. I like to do a full wipe (data/factory reset, cache, dalvik cache) before restoring a backup. If you don't have any nandroid backups, then just use clockwork recovery to install the rom. Assuming CM7 rc2 is already on your sd card ( if it's not, just put CM7 and Gapps on your sd card ), go into clockwork recovery, and select wipe. Wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache (under advanced). Go to 'install zip from sd card', find the CM7 rc2 zip. Select it, and let it flash. Once it completes, go back to install frm sd card, and flash the Gapps. Once that's done, reboot. That *should* get you going again. Good luck.
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I'm pretty sure no hardware was damaged. Sadly I didn't care enough about the stuff I'd lose to make a back up. I did assume I'd be able to put the rom on my sd card but I can't find a single download for cm7...but thanls for the help, I'm glad to know my phone can be saved , now off to find this file...
Found it, will update if phone will work

Kaymor said:
I'm pretty sure no hardware was damaged. Sadly I didn't care enough about the stuff I'd lose to make a back up. I did assume I'd be able to put the rom on my sd card but I can't find a single download for cm7...but thanls for the help, I'm glad to know my phone can be saved , now off to find this file...
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Look here, gapps are on the bottom of the page, CM7 will be somewhere in the middle
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Latest_Version#HTC_Evo_4G
EDIT: you seem to have found it

Kaymor said:
I'm pretty sure no hardware was damaged. Sadly I didn't care enough about the stuff I'd lose to make a back up. I did assume I'd be able to put the rom on my sd card but I can't find a single download for cm7...but thanls for the help, I'm glad to know my phone can be saved , now off to find this file...
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=956187
All the downloads you need should be in the first few posts of this thread. Don't forget about gapps, otherwise you won't have google apps. And once you get everything up and running and stable, I suggest creating a nandroid backup! It only takes about 5-10 minutes, and can save you some real hassles in certain situations. And, since you can't boot into the ROM, you have a couple options to transfer the files to your sd card. 1) Take your sd card out of the phone, and put it in a card reader/adapter, and into your computer. 2) Put it in a different phone to transfer the files 3) the easiest way, is while you're in clockwork recovery, there should be a setting called 'usb ms togge' or something similar to that (i use AR recovery, and that's waht it's called in Ar), and that should mount your sd as a disk drive to your computer. Good luck.
Edit: I took too long, you found it already! Nice. Let us know if it all works out, or if you need more assistance.

Hooray! Phone works again!!! Thanks everyone so much for the quick and helpful replies, I'm impressed by the such friendly community!

Kaymor said:
Hooray! Phone works again!!! Thanks everyone so much for the quick and helpful replies, I'm impressed by the such friendly community!
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You're welcome! Glad you're back up and running again! And yes, XDA is a great community, and houses many knowledgeable, friendly, and very smart people. Welcome aboard.

Bricked; Help reverting to stock, please!

I just successfully rooted my device w/Odin, then decided I wanted to start fresh. I used CWR to wipe my partitions, including the System partition. I take it that was incredibly stupid? I guess I'm so used to having a full .zip ROM package to flash with my old phones that I didn't stop to think about what I was doing.
Now I'm permanently stuck at the T-Mobile splashscreen. The progress bar fills, but the phone boots no further. Is there any existing way to restore the system partition to stock? I still have access to CWR and can still flash with Odin. I do see that there are .img dumps of the system partition; can I do anything with these? Thank you!

Have u tried to Odin back to stock?
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Do you mean by flashing the ~10MB SGH-T989-Stock-UVKID tar file? If so, yes. The file successfully flashes in Odin, but it the phone still doesn't boot.
Is it at all possible that I need to reflash the system partition? I've downloaded a couple >300MB images of System, either as .img or .zip files. Can I do anything with these?

Then I have no idea sorry
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sb61g2 said:
I just successfully rooted my device w/Odin, then decided I wanted to start fresh. I used CWR to wipe my partitions, including the System partition. I take it that was incredibly stupid? I guess I'm so used to having a full .zip ROM package to flash with my old phones that I didn't stop to think about what I was doing.
Now I'm permanently stuck at the T-Mobile splashscreen. The progress bar fills, but the phone boots no further. Is there any existing way to restore the system partition to stock? I still have access to CWR and can still flash with Odin. I do see that there are .img dumps of the system partition; can I do anything with these? Thank you!
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Did you happen to make a NANDROID BACKUP prior to your formatting frenzy?
ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS...you get the point yet? If someone else hasn't uploaded one, I'll post one when I get home in about 4 hours...

Well, thank you for trying. To reiterate my problem:
I have ClockworkMod Recovery installed and working. While in it I did the following, thinking this would cause the phone to reboot in a "factory fresh", but rooted state:
-wipe data/factory reset
-format /system
-format /emmc
-format /sdcard
-Wipe Dalvik Cache
I then rebooted, and thus cannot boot the phone. The progress bar fills on the Samsung/T-Mobile splashscreen and then just hangs. Could someone confirm for me that I caused this by formatting /system? If so, is there any way to copy the OS back over to the system partition?

Shamwow, that would be amazing. I did a Nandroid backup, then proceeded to format the microsd card on which it was stored. Chalk it up to pure, unadulterated stupidity.

Anyone willing and able to post their Nandroid backup?

[Q] Is it nesesary wiping everything when changing rom?

Well, i heard about the new releases of Cyanogenmod 11 for the tablet and i'm really excited. I have experience with roms and i read that i need to wipe everything, even the fake sd card partition and i have like 20gb of data there, is it really necesary to wipe it? I tought i could change rom just wiping system data but if it is necessary i would move all that to my pc.
Thanks so much in advance.
By the way, if anyone is using cyanogenmod, does it improve the perfomance on battery and all that? Thanks again for answering.

DiegoConD said:
Well, i heard about the new releases of Cyanogenmod 11 for the tablet and i'm really excited. I have experience with roms and i read that i need to wipe everything, even the fake sd card partition and i have like 20gb of data there, is it really necesary to wipe it? I tought i could change rom just wiping system data but if it is necessary i would move all that to my pc.
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No need to wipe the SD, a simple factory reset/system format when going from one Rom base to another (from stock to CM in this case) is enough.

Pfeffernuss said:
No need to wipe the SD, a simple factory reset/system format when going from one Rom base to another (from stock to CM in this case) is enough.
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So the factory reset on twpr recovery wouln't wipe all my data stored on the sd? Have you tried it by yourself? Does Cm11 worth the change? Thank s for the answer and sorry for the lot of questions haha

DiegoConD said:
So the factory reset on twpr recovery wouln't wipe all my data stored on the sd? Have you tried it by yourself? Does Cm11 worth the change? Thank s for the answer and sorry for the lot of questions haha
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Yup, won't touch the SD at all... Doing it all the time using TWRP 2.6.3.1.
CM11 runs nice here, am using a non-Caf version so more kernels are compatible. Using ElementalX myself :good:

i did something stupid....
i did wipe my sd card.
This is what i get for not paying attention and watching football while i was wiping.
this is what i did:
1) downloaded cm 11 and gapps on tablet
2) went into twrp and did a nandroid.
3) went into advance wipe & wiped everything: dalvic, system, data, internal storage, cache
4) went to install and it was blank so i slapped the forehead
5) went to https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#razor and downloaded https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/razor-krt16s-factory-7235eb0d.tgz on the computer
6) also went ahead and downloaded http://download.cyanogenmod.org/get/jenkins/50524/cm-11-20131208-NIGHTLY-flo.zip on the computer
7) also downloaded http://www.mediafire.com/download/ahbnc2k5u5op501/pa_gapps-full-4.4-20131126-signed.zip on the computer
so i am still in twrp.
can i boot into bootloader? is it there?
i thought the image file extension ended in .img
what was downloaded was a .tgz file.
since i dont have an os on the tablet i can not enable usb debugging so will adb work?
im a bit of a noob with adb but i think im about to get a crash course.
Thanks in advance for some advice

error629 said:
i did wipe my sd card.
This is what i get for not paying attention and watching football while i was wiping.
this is what i did:
1) downloaded cm 11 and gapps on tablet
2) went into twrp and did a nandroid.
3) went into advance wipe & wiped everything: dalvic, system, data, internal storage, cache
4) went to install and it was blank so i slapped the forehead
5) went to https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#razor and downloaded https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/razor-krt16s-factory-7235eb0d.tgz on the computer
6) also went ahead and downloaded http://download.cyanogenmod.org/get/jenkins/50524/cm-11-20131208-NIGHTLY-flo.zip on the computer
7) also downloaded http://www.mediafire.com/download/ahbnc2k5u5op501/pa_gapps-full-4.4-20131126-signed.zip on the computer
so i am still in twrp.
can i boot into bootloader? is it there?
i thought the image file extension ended in .img
what was downloaded was a .tgz file.
since i dont have an os on the tablet i can not enable usb debugging so will adb work?
im a bit of a noob with adb but i think im about to get a crash course.
Thanks in advance for some advice
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ok so i cheated and used wugfreshs nexus toolkit.
i did have my bootloader there.
just flashed stock and root.