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
hi
I just flashed to cyanogenmod7.
Deciding that I want another ROM instead, I downloaded leedroid and copied it to my sdcard.
Going into recovery, I chose
apply zip from sdcard'.. but recovery tells me that there are no files on the card.
I booted up, went to filemanager, and my files were there no problem.
I tried clicking the new ROM and it recognized it as a ROM and asked my to reboot into recovery to continue..
I did, and got the same result. recovery won't recognize the card? or at least it won't recognize any files or folders??
What could be the cause? and more importantly, what can I do to fix this?
If you apply a zip from sdcard it must be named update.zip
You can also choose "Install zip from sd" and manually search it
hi
yes, I realise that, but since it cannot find any files on the sdcard, I cannot do any flashing nor any updating.
But I did manage to fix this by using an sdcard formatter on the PC.
Symbiot78 said:
hi
yes, I realise that, but since it cannot find any files on the sdcard, I cannot do any flashing nor any updating.
But I did manage to fix this by using an sdcard formatter on the PC.
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You should add a [SOLVED] to topic's heading, so everybody knows this problem is solved.
Recently, I tried flashing a new ICS ROM on my Amazon Kindle Fire. This is the first time I have ever tried flashing a ROM, so I'm very new to all this. When I transferred the files from the ROM over to the Kindle Fire, and went into TWRP (v2.0) to install them, nothing came up as a flashable ROM. I have tried downloading at least 3 different ICS ROMs and even though I see them in the SD card, it won't even give me the option to flash them. I think it must have something to do with the way I'm transferring the files over to the SD card. When it is done downloading, it comes up in WinRAR and I have tried extracting it straight into the SD card, and I have tried putting the files into a folder, then putting that folder onto the SD card. Like I said, I'm very new to this. Any help would be appreciated
you dont extract them you just put them on the sd card in zip form and make sure you add a gapps package I didnt hear anything about a backup the most important step. Also before flashing you need to wipe factory/data reset dalvik and cache. Jumping right to ics on your first flash is very risky because you dont know what your doing I would suggest modaco as your first flash to get a feel for it. No gapps needed with modaco. I dont wanna see your next post saying "I dunno what I did wrong Im bricked" http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1638452 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1552547
seconding what Thepooch said,
Generally from what I've seen the instructions all pretty much say not to extract the .zip files.
In most cases, download the file, don't touch it, and move to the kindle. The TWRP should see it.
Don't use this thread as a crutch though, go back and read the instructions on how to flash with TWRP, there are things you need to clear etc, and if you don't you can end up with a broken kindle / non-working OS.
Also: Make sure to back-up your current ROM in case something screws up.
I recently wrote a blog post on installing custom ROM on Kindle Fire with easy to follow instructions. And yes you do not extract any of the zip files. Check the post link and you should be fine. http://bit.ly/JU066l
I put TWRP on it and can boot to recovery. However, it fails flashing the Cyanogenmod zip because (it says) you need to wipe the device due to an incompatible device layout. So I tried that and naturally it wiped the zip off the /sdcard. Then I mounted the sdcard from TWRP but I couldn't write to it from my computer. (I could see the now-empty drive.) So I said what the heck and rebooted the system and had a like-new device.
I had backed that up before I did anything. So transferred another copy of the cyanogemod zip to the tablet, rebooted to TWRP and tried to install it again. Still no luck. I then transferred my backup to my tablet and restored the backup so I'm back where I started.
Is there another way I haven't thought of?
I put 12 on my n5110 before I found slim rom 4.4.4. Had no trouble with the install of either one. Have you tried putting the cm zip on the external sd card and installing from that using twrp? I also think you can use either Odin or adb but as I recall the methodology will be different. Lots of people with a lot more experience here maybe someone else has some suggestions as well.
Regards
Expat
Hi,
currently I am running CyanogenMod 13 on my Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini (serranoltexx). Now, as it get's outdated and insecure, I am about to update it to LineageOS. But I am worried, because I can't just flash the ROM over CM, but I have to wipe everything. Sure, I can take backups of all my data, but my question is:
What do I have to select in Clockworkmod Recovery in order to clean up for LineageOS? And the second point is that I parted my SD-Card to use Android's option to emulate one partition as internal storage. So if I wipe, can I keep the partitions and what do I have to save before?
Oh and.. I have tried to do a Nandroid Backup, but I can't copy it onto my PC because the storage is mounted differently within CyanogenMod (the 2 partitions I wrote about) and ADB doesn't work for this either.
I hope somebody can help me
Done! /ReqClose
Hi,
I'm glad to say that I have done it yesterday. The thread can be closed and for all who have the same questions I had:
First of all I took a backup of all my data (Apps, Music, Photos etc) and put LineageOS, GApps & SuperSU on my SD-Card. Then I booted into my recovery (CWM) and wiped all data. Unfortunately it didn't work (CWM said something like "error in lineageos.zip") so I decided to use TWRP for it. There was just an unofficial build but I didn't care too much, so I used this one. It was an img file, so I needed to convert it to .tar.md5 first using a tool I found in the Internet. So I flashed TWRP then using Odin. When I booted into TWRP everything seemed to work, but when I tried to install the zip file it just rebooted immediately without an installation. So I finally used ADB sideload, and it finally worked! Now my phone is working fine!
Hope this helps someone!!