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Can't boot into phone, seems no way to recover.

Hello I recently messed up my phone trying to get a custom rom onto my phone. (It is a l710 model)
I can boot into Clockwork Recovery and ODIN just fine, but I phone won't start up.
I used GS3 toolkit to root phone and it all worked fine, but then used clockwork to install custom rom.
I want to recover my phone but the only rom on the internal SD is the one that doesn't work.
I have a Nandroid backup I made using the galaxy s3 toolkit, its on the computer and sd card.
However I cannot restore using toolkit since it just waits for the phone to be on and in usb debugging mode to continue
Recovery says "Couldn't open directory" "No files found" when trying to restore backup.
I would try puting another rom on an sd card but it only browses internal storage (internal sd).
I went to mount external sd but didnt seem to help
Not sure if ODIN can do anything...
Don't know what else to try

firesoul453 said:
Hello I recently messed up my phone trying to get a custom rom onto my phone. (It is a l710 model)
I can boot into Clockwork Recovery and ODIN just fine, but I phone won't start up.
I used GS3 toolkit to root phone and it all worked fine, but then used clockwork to install custom rom.
I want to recover my phone but the only rom on the internal SD is the one that doesn't work.
I have a Nandroid backup I made using the galaxy s3 toolkit, its on the computer and sd card.
However I cannot restore using toolkit since it just waits for the phone to be on and in usb debugging mode to continue
Recovery says "Couldn't open directory" "No files found" when trying to restore backup.
I would try puting another rom on an sd card but it only browses internal storage (internal sd).
I went to mount external sd but didnt seem to help
Not sure if ODIN can do anything...
Don't know what else to try
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If you can get into download mode just flash the stock Odin file
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jamcar said:
If you can get into download mode just flash the stock Odin file
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I tried that but my phone just flashes samsung then the samsung galaxy s III and then turns off (or at least it appears to be off).
Is there a way to restore Nandroid backups with odin?

firesoul453 said:
I tried that but my phone just flashes samsung then the samsung galaxy s III and then turns off (or at least it appears to be off).
Is there a way to restore Nandroid backups with odin?
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You can get adb/the toolkit to see the phone. Go into the device manager while your phone is plugged in and booted to recovery. You should see a device with a ! next to it should be your phone. If you manually install the driver the toolkit will see it. Have the toolkin boot you into download mode. If you have recovery Odin mode should be okay, u sure ur holdin "vol down,home,pwr"?

Thanks for your time.
I managed to get it working.
What I did was
1. using odin, reflash the insecure boot thing.
2. reinstall the rom through recovery
3. factory reset
and then is wasnt stuck in a boot loop anymore
after that I could access internal storeage sd.

I had this same issue. After using ODIN Rom would hang on boot animation. Would never boot all the way and I gave it close to 45 minutes. I also found the only way to resolve this issue was doing a factory reset after flashing through ODIN. Im using Vzw model so I guess it is happening cross platforms.
firesoul453 said:
Thanks for your time.
I managed to get it working.
What I did was
1. using odin, reflash the insecure boot thing.
2. reinstall the rom through recovery
3. factory reset
and then is wasnt stuck in a boot loop anymore
after that I could access internal storeage sd.
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stuck in boot loop and cant boot into recovery HELP
hi i am having a similar problem. i am stuck in my boot with the samsung gs 3 screen but i cant boot into recovery at all i can get into download but it says to install rom volume up but then it gets stuck at the download screen forever. i was trying to flash the cm 10.1 rom and did a clean install but this is what ended up happening am still for the most part a noob, if anyone can help it would be much appreciated idk if i lose everything on the phone just need it working

The download mode screen is supposed to stay froze like that. it doesnt have options. just boot to that screen, plug in your phone to pc and run this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2017470

billard412 said:
The download mode screen is supposed to stay froze like that. it doesnt have options. just boot to that screen, plug in your phone to pc and run this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2017470
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Thanks man that worked I'm just an idiot and thought I was supposed to have options from there
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[Q] Secure Booting Error: Device UnLock!! so Boot Success!!

Hey everyone,
After instaling twrp recovery through Flashify,my tablet doesn't boot. It shows information : "Secure Booting Error: Device UnLock!! so Boot Success!!" and boots to recovery.Storage mount dosn't work either. Can somebody help me?

Gniewus said:
Hey everyone,
After instaling twrp recovery through Flashify,my tablet doesn't boot. It shows information : "Secure Booting Error: Device UnLock!! so Boot Success!!" and boots to recovery.Storage mount dosn't work either. Can somebody help me?
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did you factory reset?

Gniewus said:
Hey everyone,
After instaling twrp recovery through Flashify,my tablet doesn't boot. It shows information : "Secure Booting Error: Device UnLock!! so Boot Success!!" and boots to recovery.Storage mount dosn't work either. Can somebody help me?
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its normal to get this message when you try to boot into twrp http://i42.tinypic.com/5n7psj.jpg, it just means that loki is working. What do you mean your tablet doesnt boot anymore? You d better ask for help in twrp's thread, drgravy who ported twrp for gpad is very helpful.

No I have not tried to factory reset the device. I don't even know how to do it, i guess through LG PC TOOL. I would love to avoid becasue of some stored photos.
"Doesn't boot" - it means that after turning on, apears LG logo, and then the ifno about this error and it automaticly turns to recovery.

I assume you have non stock recovery. Do a search the in the forum. It is finicky and took me 3 tries but then was able to boot into recovery. From there did a factory reset and was able to boot up. Still got that same message during the first 3 seconds of the boot screen but then it switched to the Google kit Kat screen and boot completed.
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I have just tried to do Factory reset and it didn't wokred ... the same error on but and recovery... Is it possible to flash a stock rom through adb?

Gniewus said:
I have just tried to do Factory reset and it didn't wokred ... the same error on but and recovery... Is it possible to flash a stock rom through adb?
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Did you flash a custom rom? Also which version of twrp did you install? 2.6.3.0 doesnt work normally, you need 2.6.3.1 or 2.6.3.2.To flash back to stock there are 2 ways, easiest is the lg mobile support tool (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2590185), you cant flash the stock from recovery or adb atm.

katsika said:
Did you flash a custom rom? Also which version of twrp did you install? 2.6.3.0 doesnt work normally, you need 2.6.3.1 or 2.6.3.2.To flash back to stock there are 2 ways, easiest is the lg mobile support tool (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2590185), you cant flash the stock from recovery or adb atm.
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If we have a twrp backup can we flash back to stock ? I usually make nandroids right after I root my device.
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naruto.ninjakid said:
If we have a twrp backup can we flash back to stock ? I usually make nandroids right after I root my device.
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I havent used this feature in the gpad but it should work if you ever need to restore your tablet to a previous state. Take in mind though that this backup isnt stock as you had rooted your tablet in order to install twrp. To flash back to full stock (recovery, rom and even kernel if you had changed it) you have to use a method like lg mobile support tool.

Nexus 7 (2013) self-bricked??

Hello everyone!
I suspect that my N7(2013) bricked itself overnight. Before going to sleep, I was watching videos on YouTube. If I remember correctly it was around 45% of battery left. I just put it to sleep as usually, and gone to sleep. In the morning it was dead, so I plugged it to charger and left it that way. After an hour, when I came back I turned it on. It showed the google screen and I put it down. After a while I noticed, that it's still on google logo. I decided to hold the power button so it could reboot. After a reboot, nothing has changed. Next idea I came up with was to enter the bootloader. Tablet booted to bootloader normally and then:
-Start option hangs on google logo
-power off works just fine
-reboot bootloader also works
-recovery mode hangs indefinitely on TeamWin logo.
By now, I have no idea what to do with it. The point is would like to save my data. Is there anything that could be done?
Nexus 7 (2013) Wi-Fi
Stock KOT49H - rooted with Xposed Framework
Stock kernel
TWRP 2.6.3.0 if i'm not mistaken
Thanks in advance.

jakubmi9 said:
Hello everyone!
I suspect that my N7(2013) bricked itself overnight. Before going to sleep, I was watching videos on YouTube. If I remember correctly it was around 45% of battery left. I just put it to sleep as usually, and gone to sleep. In the morning it was dead, so I plugged it to charger and left it that way. After an hour, when I came back I turned it on. It showed the google screen and I put it down. After a while I noticed, that it's still on google logo. I decided to hold the power button so it could reboot. After a reboot, nothing has changed. Next idea I came up with was to enter the bootloader. Tablet booted to bootloader normally and then:
-Start option hangs on google logo
-power off works just fine
-reboot bootloader also works
-recovery mode hangs indefinitely on TeamWin logo.
By now, I have no idea what to do with it. The point is would like to save my data. Is there anything that could be done?
Nexus 7 (2013) Wi-Fi
Stock KOT49H - rooted with Xposed Framework
Stock kernel
TWRP 2.6.3.0 if i'm not mistaken
Thanks in advance.
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Sound like pretty much your only option is to flash a factory image thru fastboot, you can download them from here
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#razor
Make sure your boot loader is unlocked
Boot the tablet in to fastboot and run the flash-all.bat file if your using windows, of flash-all.sh for Mac and Linux.you should now have a stock tablet, with the stock recovery, I would also perform a factory data reset thru the stock recovery before rebooting the tablet.
If you would rather use a toolkit, wugs fresh is a good toolkit, and should be able to automate the above steps.
http://www.wugfresh.com
I should also point out that you need to have the proper driver's installed on your PC wugs fresh should guide you thru the process, if you don't already have them installed

I forgot to mention: Yes my bl is unlocked, but doesn't flashing factory image wipe all data? I have one more question: On my PC xperia fastboot drivers are installed. Can I use them, or do I have to install some other drivers? Fastboot recognizes device but I want to be sure.
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jakubmi9 said:
I forgot to mention: Yes my bl is unlocked, but doesn't flashing factory image wipe all data? I have one more question: On my PC xperia fastboot drivers are installed. Can I use them, or do I have to install some other drivers? Fastboot recognizes device but I want to be sure.
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If it is recognize in fastboot you should be good to go, and yes it will wipe you data unfortunately if you can't enter recovery, there's not much that can be done. I have never been in this situation myself, and maybe someone with more experience than I will have a solution, such as reformatting your partitions thru fastboot, but as I said I've never found myself in this situation, and if it were me I would just flash back to stock, if you happen to have a backup on your PC, you can reinstall your recovery, and restore your backup, anything else is above my understanding of this, or is not possible.

All backups are on tablet both titanium and TWRP. I just wanted to know if it's possible to recover it. I'll try to flash everything w/out wiping data. I think there was such option in wugfresh's toolkit. Maybe it's just one partition that's broken. But I've got feeling like it's going to be data partition that's broken. Thanks for help anyway. I'll try that tomorrow, because it's late night now.
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If adb is working then you can adb pull your files assuming the file path it not corrupted
Programming is a race between engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

jakubmi9 said:
All backups are on tablet both titanium and TWRP. I just wanted to know if it's possible to recover it. I'll try to flash everything w/out wiping data. I think there was such option in wugfresh's toolkit. Maybe it's just one partition that's broken. But I've got feeling like it's going to be data partition that's broken. Thanks for help anyway. I'll try that tomorrow, because it's late night now.
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Just Swipe to factory reset in TWRP (leaves data in tact) and flash your Nandroid. Then reboot into system. You can adb sideload onto TWRP from your computer as well. This requires adb not fastboot.
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jakubmi9 said:
All backups are on tablet both titanium and TWRP. I just wanted to know if it's possible to recover it. I'll try to flash everything w/out wiping data. I think there was such option in wugfresh's toolkit. Maybe it's just one partition that's broken. But I've got feeling like it's going to be data partition that's broken. Thanks for help anyway. I'll try that tomorrow, because it's late night now.
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There is a file called flash-all in the factory images, open it and remove the -w from the command line, that is what wipes the data.

LinearEquation said:
Just Swipe to factory reset in TWRP (leaves data in tact) and flash your Nandroid. Then reboot into system. You can adb sideload onto TWRP from your computer as well. This requires adb not fastboot.
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I believe he cannot boot into recovery, so he cannot simply factory reset, no? I also thought that to use the adb side load feature, you had to be able to access twrp advanced>adb Sideload and that's for installing zips, no? I was thinking maybe he could adb pull a backup from the device, then install factory image, flash twrp, then restore from there? Or maybe simply reflashing the recovery? (I personally wasn't going to recommend any of this, since I don't have any personal experience in the situation) Maybe I'm missing something? or maybe I'm just an idiot, and I'm in over my head, and I need to read into things more before I post? feel free to tell me so. I'm always trying to learn about anything I can, and someone with more experience setting me straight is always a good way to achieve this lol. I like mpdamaged idea, but isn't that pretty much a dirty flash, and carries some inherent risks, seeing as how he's using xposed, I know it doesn't make any permanent changes to your system, but wouldn't this be the same concept as accepting an ota, in witch case you would need to first remove the xposed framework? Anyway hopefully someone can fill me in and he fixes his tablet, and I learn something lol.

mdamaged said:
There is a file called flash-all in the factory images, open it and remove the -w from the command line, that is what wipes the data.
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This. You can flash a factory image without data getting cleared and it's a very simple mod. Alternative is to extract the factory image until U have all .img files extracted (have to extract twice if I remember right) then u can fastboot flash system.img and boot.img only and that should work
Another thing, have you tried to reflash TWRP since it stopped working? Could just be corrupted and a reflash could fix it.
Nexus 7 LTE
Carbon Rom
Faux Kernel
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@ Thisguysayswht flashing just the system.img will wipe any system mods such as Xposed, used to do it when I was on stock to be able to install OTA
Nexus 7 LTE
Carbon Rom
Faux Kernel

Don't know if you figured out how to save your data before flashing factory image but there is a very easy way to save your Titanium Backups and TWRP backups,
Plug your Nexus 7 into your computer and using MTP (assuming that still works) and look for the TB and TWRP files you can copy them to your computer and once you get your N7 back working just copy the files back to your N 7 and all your backups will be there for you to use. You can even open the files and save just what is important or save everything.

Yes I know that, but as I said tablet is totally unconnectable via adb. Can't boot to Android and can't boot to recovery. By the way I realized that when I hotbooted stock kernel from fastboot it froze on the bootloader screen but I left it plugged to PC and after a while my PC recognized "unknown MTP device" but couldn't find any drivers for it. If I hotboot TWRP.img is it gonna boot to recovery or it doesn't work like that?
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jakubmi9 said:
Yes I know that, but as I said tablet is totally unconnectable via adb. Can't boot to Android and can't boot to recovery. By the way I realized that when I hotbooted stock kernel from fastboot it froze on the bootloader screen but I left it plugged to PC and after a while my PC recognized "unknown MTP device" but couldn't find any drivers for it. If I hotboot TWRP.img is it gonna boot to recovery or it doesn't work like that?
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TWRP will work like that.
fastboot boot twrp-whaetver.img

If my memory serves me right, Titanium Backup can restore apps from TWRP backup, right? That way I should be able to save all my data.
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jakubmi9 said:
If my memory serves me right, Titanium Backup can restore apps from TWRP backup, right? That way I should be able to save all my data.
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Yes, so does Nandroid Manager.

I've just tried to hotboot TWRP 2.7 but it got stuck on TeamWin logo. It's been two or three minutes now. I don't think it will boot anymore, am I right?
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jakubmi9 said:
I've just tried to hotboot TWRP 2.7 but it got stuck on TeamWin logo. It's been two or three minutes now. I don't think it will boot anymore, am I right?
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Yeah, it would come up pretty quick. Something's not right...try an older version to rule that out, I know 2.6.3 worked for me using fastboot boot.

TWRP is still hanged but device manager showed up "nexus 7" with everything else unknown and code 28 which is no driver installed. Which driver should I install for it?
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jakubmi9 said:
TWRP is still hanged but device manager showed up "nexus 7" with everything else unknown and code 28 which is no driver installed. Which driver should I install for it?
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Officially these: http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html#download
This one worked for me until I figured out how to do it right but must be with PTP not MTP: http://download.clockworkmod.com/test/UniversalAdbDriverSetup6.msi

I think that my nexus boots up everything normally but the screen just hangs on first frame of that thing. Any ideas what would that mean?
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[Q] HTC One M8 (bricked?)

Hi guys I am trying to get my phone in some sort of working order. I have CWM Recovery 6.0.5.1 for some reason no matter what I do to change the recovery it stays the same. I've tried installing lower CWM and also tried installing TWRP which again it says it was installed but when i go to recovery it still shows the CWM recovery. I installed CM11 and it worked fine, when I installed gapps is when the problems started. I've tried install multiple roms now, and it just doesn't want to take anything

thetinyjesus said:
Hi guys I am trying to get my phone in some sort of working order. I have CWM Recovery 6.0.5.1 for some reason no matter what I do to change the recovery it stays the same. I've tried installing lower CWM and also tried installing TWRP which again it says it was installed but when i go to recovery it still shows the CWM recovery. I installed CM11 and it worked fine, when I installed gapps is when the problems started. I've tried install multiple roms now, and it just doesn't want to take anything
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try restoring a stock nandroid backup. if you dont have one then download one from general thread. and also make a nandroid backup of your current rom. not so sure what your problem is but maybe returning to pure stock will help.

I am trying to load the nandroid but I cannot get this recovery to work right. I've tried installing openrecovery-twrp to install the nandroid but i cant get the CWM to remove. I really dont mind what bootloader is on there but anything just to install any rom

thetinyjesus said:
I am trying to load the nandroid but I cannot get this recovery to work right. I've tried installing openrecovery-twrp to install the nandroid but i cant get the CWM to remove. I really dont mind what bootloader is on there but anything just to install any rom
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Install/flash via fastboot the official cwm 6.0.51 that you had. then try again. if your lucky then it might work.

thetinyjesus said:
I am trying to load the nandroid but I cannot get this recovery to work right. I've tried installing openrecovery-twrp to install the nandroid but i cant get the CWM to remove. I really dont mind what bootloader is on there but anything just to install any rom
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Get TWRP Manager from the play store. Hit the three line menu thingy on the top left of the app, and pick install TWRP. Super easy.

Ok guys ive tried reinstalling the same CWM version and reinstalling CM11 with no luck. I cannot change the bootloader to TWRP because it appears to be stuck on the CWM. The problem started for me when I installed the gapps through CWM, as soon as I did that when the phone went to boot it now says please enter the password for android, then says it was the right password but data is corrupt and cant use phone.
Is there a way to attempt to just format the entire phone including partition size and start from scratch again?

thetinyjesus said:
Ok guys ive tried reinstalling the same CWM version and reinstalling CM11 with no luck. I cannot change the bootloader to TWRP because it appears to be stuck on the CWM. The problem started for me when I installed the gapps through CWM, as soon as I did that when the phone went to boot it now says please enter the password for android, then says it was the right password but data is corrupt and cant use phone.
Is there a way to attempt to just format the entire phone including partition size and start from scratch again?
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How are you trying to flash these recoveries (they're not called bootloaders, that is something totally separate)?
Have you tried using TWRP Manager as I suggested earlier, or are you using ADB? And If you are using ADB and trying to flash it that way, what fastboot commands are you giving?
There is no way that your should be "stuck" with CWM.

Okay what i have to do is fastboot its the only thing i can get to work. Not at my computer but yeah i fastboot the recovery img via cmd in windows. Fastboot flash recovey i use ane it successfully does. Doesnt matter what img or recovery i use when i boot into recovery it still uses cwm. Also only way i can put a rom on is adb sideload but now thats even failing with status 7 error

Also when i try the command fastboot oemRUU or whatever the command is it reboots the phone shows CM logo and boots till asking for android pw

thetinyjesus said:
Okay what i have to do is fastboot its the only thing i can get to work. Not at my computer but yeah i fastboot the recovery img via cmd in windows. Fastboot flash recovey i use ane it successfully does. Doesnt matter what img or recovery i use when i boot into recovery it still uses cwm. Also only way i can put a rom on is adb sideload but now thats even failing with status 7 error
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The status 7 error is because of an outdated recovery. Not much help, I know.
It's strange that the TWRP Manager doesn't work. I've helped others with problems flashing recovery, and it has worked for them.
You could also try ROM Toolbox to update your CWM, or ROM Manager, but ROM Toolbox is better/more complete. It has everything ROM Manager has plus some.
The other option that you may not want to take is to do a COMPLETE wipe of your phone. That always sucks.

Going to try those programs. Thank you btw and how do i perform the full wipe i was about to throw the phone out lol.

@thetinyjesus You could also try this app. No PC necessary.

Thanks but cannot use the app i cannot get the phone to boot. Do you have directions for a full wipe

thetinyjesus said:
Going to try those programs. Thank you btw and how do i perform the full wipe i was about to throw the phone out lol.
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Actually, you full wipe in recovery. lol
If you haven't tried TWRP Manager yet, that would be my first choice.

Damn that didnt work than i tried all those format options in the bunked recovery with no luck it sucks

If you're using the command prompt to flash the recovery, provide a screenshot of your desktop so that we can see what you're doing and what "it's" doing.
Starting to think that it's more of an "operator" fault and not anything to do with the device that doesn't want to play along.

Okay once im back home ill show the output

Here is the output from flashing the recovery. Once again when I went to recovery it loaded with CWM.

Also here is the output from sideloading the cm file again (same error no matter what rom I try)
Windows CMD: C:\Users\Jimmy\Desktop\platform-tool>adb sideload cm.zip
sending: 'cm.zip' 100%
Phone: Installing update...
set_perm_recursive: "/system" not a valid uid
E: Error in /tmp/update.zip
(Status 7)
Installation aborted

Anyone?

Stuck at boot

Hi hoping someone can help, I accidentally wrote the wrong file to my system partition and am stuck at smartwatch 3 logo.
i tried pc companion and it tells be there "no software available for my device" all i can get to is fastboot mode stock recovery is gone too
I wrote twrp to it but as of yet have not been able to launch it. its running 5.1.1 os and i cant remember build number other than it began with an L
Please help
ZR1

if you read this and know i have no hope please let me know that too please
seems like if i had stock partitions images i could flash using adb i"d be good yes?? no?

I do not have time to help right now, but since you can get to fastboot, you are probably fine. Find the stock 5.1.1 recovery and boot to it. Then sideload the latest update. You will be good to go.
The command in a terminal window is...
Code:
Fastboot boot <stock recovery.img>
Alternatively, you can boot to twrp and install a twrp flushable zip.
Good luck.

Lekofraggle thank you for your help.
I did what you said with img file from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/sma...50-version-t2988087/post62897403#post62897403
it wrote the img file but still just hangs at boot image, and i still cant get twrp to work after holding power button and choosing recovery option screen goes blank and then starts to boot and hangs at smartwatch 3 image
all the things i"ve rooted before in my life i"ve never screwed up this bad.

zr1 said:
Lekofraggle thank you for your help.
I did what you said with img file from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/sma...50-version-t2988087/post62897403#post62897403
it wrote the img file but still just hangs at boot image, and i still cant get twrp to work after holding power button and choosing recovery option screen goes blank and then starts to boot and hangs at smartwatch 3 image
all the things i"ve rooted before in my life i"ve never screwed up this bad.
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Have you tried Sony Companion to repair your watch?
If you were running 5.1.1, then the recovery you mention is for 5.0.1, so that might be the reason why you can not boot into it. See if you can find the stock recovery for 5.1.1
I have used the following method a couple of times now to get me out of trouble after playing around with my SW3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/smartwatch-3/general/guide-roll-watch-to-previous-software-t3176801
You can then use the stock recovery you already have and update via OTA files to get it back to the latest firmware or via Sony Companion.

I had the exact same issue after I did fastboot flash using corrupt system.img (which wasn't a snapshot that could be flashed but rather a tarball). Since you have TWRP installed you can confirm this by trying to mount system partition in recovery mode. After it fails, connect to recovery via adb and view latest kernel messages (dmesg). It should show something like "failed to locate ext4 filesystem".
If this is your case, you can use TWRP restore function to restore system from your TWRP backup. It will then erase the partition, mkfs.ext4 and write the files from tarball. This did the trick for me.
(If you don't have backup, try looking for downloads in other threads here)
Edit: Re-read your post. Since your TWRP is broken, try hotbooting it using fastboot boot new_boot.img (you can take it here)

ebones thank you thank you thank you
I had downloaded new_boot img already so im not sure what i was doing wrong but i did what you said and she booted right into TWRP i now have to sideload the right update.zip file and run it in twrp correct?
edit; having trouble sideloading wear-supersu.zip what is the correct command?

GOT IT!!! I installed stock rom from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/sma...rom-repacked-stock-rom-swr50-version-t2988087 through TWRP and it works cant thank you guys enough
Thanks ZR1