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Desire Z hboot install only with your phone

I have been following closely the G2 rom development threads and up to now everything has gone well.
If you want to install Virtous new roms you must install the new PC101.img first.
As didnt want to setup a ADB enabled PC again, I just followed these steps.
1-Ensure you already have a 4 way reboot rom (Recovery, hot restart, restart, and bootloader).
2-Download the new PC101.img to the root dir of your minisd card. Be prepared with a PC and minisd card reader. Or prepare another sdcard with any rom.
3-Reboot phone into bootloader. Be sure the PC101,img is on the minisd installed on your phone.
4-You will be in the bootload-reset-etc menu (the white menu). Select bootload.
This will flash your phone with the new PC101.img. You will see a small vertical line filling up as it flashes.
5-When finished, it will prompt you to reboot your phone. Do so.
6-You will see the green HTC logo, just let it there for 3 minutes and dont panic, you still have to install a rom. Pull battery.
7-Now swap the minisdcard with the card that contains the rom (Unity works great). Install battery and push the on button while pressing volume down to go to Clockwork recovery mode.
8-Install rom. No need to wipe as the new PC101.img formatted the internal 4Gb ram.
Thats it, hope it works.Worked for me.

I thought the file had to be pc10img.zip?
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Yes, that one. Sorry, will edit. Thanks for the point out.

I tried but it keeps telling me no image or wrong image.
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Ty. Directions on how to return to g2 hboot without unrooting and installing a full pc10img would be great.
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DROID76 said:
I tried but it keeps telling me no image or wrong image.
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Did you download the pc10img.zip to the root dir of your sdcard?

xsteven77x said:
Ty. Directions on how to return to g2 hboot without unrooting and installing a full pc10img would be great.
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I believe theres a thread that contains all stock and modded hboots. Also has instructions. May I ask why would you return to stock?

codecxbox said:
Did you download the pc10img.zip to the root dir of your sdcard?
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I would chance to say that it has to be renamed to capital letters, as in runs in a 'nix environment.

[Q] Can't restore because of sd card not mounted?

My phone was rooted and I did a backup before flashing it to a starburst v1.7 rom. I did everything correct and now my phone just keeps doing a soft reboot every 10 seconds no matter what.
When I tried to restore it from the CWM recovery screen it says "error sd card not mounted", so therefore I can't even restore. I've done the rooting and flashing soo many times on my other android phone right before I switched to Sprint.
Is there anything I can do?
Thanks

Ddownload a .tar file and flash stick rom and kernal and try again?

Did u access cwm manually? Try to use rom manager off the market see what happen. Internal sd or external sd u talking about? When u access to cwm mount and storage check there too.
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Hello,
I had this same problem, just go back to stock using Odin & you will be good to go. You can also trying updating to the latest clockword- that has worked for me before as well.

There were some rushed CWM builds released. You may want to try a newer release
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Ok, this is what you do.
In cmw, there is an option to mount the phone to a computer, i cant recall where it is in this version. After selecting it, connect your phone to your computer, and move your backup from ur sd card to the phones internal memory, and then restore it from internal memory.
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Need help A.S.A.P. please. WIPED phone

Call me a noob. I was on a CM10.1 ROM, and wanted to try out a new TW ROM. I installed TWRP 2.4.1.0 last week, where as before was running CWR recovery.
So this is my first time using TWRP. I rebooted from CM10.1 into recovery, was always told to wipe data, factory reset, wipe cache, wipe davlik. I always do those three things, but also read going from CM10 back to TW is good idea to wipe internal as well. I did that.
Now I go to flash my ROM, that I downloaded and put on sd/card earlier today at the office. I go to install, and there is nothing on the sd/card, it's empty ? WTF did I do ? :crying:

Zorachus said:
Call me a noob. I was on a CM10.1 ROM, and wanted to try out a new TW ROM. I installed TWRP 2.4.1.0 last week, where as before was running CWR recovery.
So this is my first time using TWRP. I rebooted from CM10.1 into recovery, was always told to wipe data, factory reset, wipe cache, wipe davlik. I always do those three things, but also read going from CM10 back to TW is good idea to wipe internal as well. I did that.
Now I go to flash my ROM, that I downloaded and put on sd/card earlier today at the office. I go to install, and there is nothing on the sd/card, it's empty ? WTF did I do ? :crying:
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If your down grading from 4.2.1 to 4.1 you have to flash the sd card fix. all TW roms are JB 4.1 I forgot where the file is posted

spawn50ak49 said:
If your down grading from 4.2.1 to 4.1 you have to flash the sd card fix. all TW roms are JB 4.1 I forgot where the file is posted
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Thanks, I know about that file, put that on my sd/card too. My problem is, nothing seems to be left on my sd/card ? After I wiped everything in TWRP, there seems to be nothing left to install ? WTF ? :crying:
I am new to TWRP, I have always used CRW for recovery, even rooted my Note 2 with CRW recovery, an flashed all my ROM's lately with CRW recovery, just installed TWRP this week, first time trying it.

Zorachus said:
Thanks, I know about that file, put that on my sd/card too. My problem is, nothing seems to be left on my sd/card ? After I wiped everything in TWRP, there seems to be nothing left to install ? WTF ? :crying:
I am new to TWRP, I have always used CRW for recovery, even rooted my Note 2 with CRW recovery, an flashed all my ROM's lately with CRW recovery, just installed TWRP this week, first time trying it.
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if you do a data wipe it only wipes internal sdcard not external. so if you have all your stuff on external it should be there. unless you wiped external by accident.
here is the link for sd card fix file is at bottom of first post. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36873319&postcount=1

you wiped your internal sd card
so the only thing you can do now is using odin to flash a stock rom and start from stratch (root and flash new rom again)
or if you made a nandroid in your external sd, restore it in recovery.

What you did was format data with your sd card on the phone that will definitely will wipe everything. And I hqve the same experience that you had so next time I recommend you take out your sd card out

pcshano said:
you wiped your internal sd card
so the only thing you can do now is using odin to flash a stock rom and start from stratch (root and flash new rom again)
or if you made a nandroid in your external sd, restore it in recovery.
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Uh, OK. Uh...
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Now what you can do its download the room to.a computer plug in your sd card and transfer the files to sd card. You dont have to start from scratch I did that way. Download all files that you are goind to need and your still rooted and have twr
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Come on why you tell him to start from the beginning just do why I didi and you will be fine don't worried we all make mistakes and from does mistakes we learn

pegapega02 said:
Now what you can do its download the room to.a computer plug in your sd card and transfer the files to sd card. You dont have to start from scratch I did that way. Download all files that you are goind to need and your still rooted and have twr
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Come on why you tell him to start from the beginning just do why I didi and you will be fine don't worried we all make mistakes and from does mistakes we learn
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I have the ROM downloaded on my PC now. How do I transfer that onto my phone ? I plugged in phone USB to computer, but the computer doesn't see it now in recovery ?
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Get your sd card out from your phone. I don't what kind of computer you have but if it doesnt suport your sd card because of the size you have tou used a card adaptor its like the ones the ise on camera's

I am screwed.
#1 I don't have an external sd/card, only what the phone came with. #2 If I go buy one, what type of adapter do they make, where an sd/card fits into a portable USB stick ?
My computer is my custom built gaming rig, no sd/card adapter on that beast, I don't think ? Unless on my motherboard ?

Best buy or any store can help you out. But you said you have only the one that came with the phone if you have a secon phone or any think that you can put it and just to open it and put the files inside that will help you or do the odin file

It appears that you are posting from a Galaxy Nexus. The major problem with an external SD is that the Galaxy Nexus does not have one.
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ksizzle9 said:
It appears that you are posting from a Galaxy Nexus. The major problem with an external SD is that the Galaxy Nexus does not have one.
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That was a reply, due to phone being down. I have an old Verizon Galaxy Nexus, I just use at home on WiFi.

pegapega02 said:
Best buy or any store can help you out. But you said you have only the one that came with the phone if you have a secon phone or any think that you can put it and just to open it and put the files inside that will help you or do the odin file
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I might have an old external card from my EVO 4G days, if I can find it. But what do i do with that little card ? I don't have any adapter for something that small, never even seen anything like that before.

Other option. Get a cheap mini SD. Flash cwm recovery. mount ext SD in cwm and transfer file from computer to ext SD through cwm. Wish twrp had that option.
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I am shocked there is no option once in Recovery, to mount the phone to the computer, with USB cable, and download ROM's onto the sd/card while in Recovery.

Ones you put your sd card back you nedd to restar your phone to recovery again for the phone van read the sd vard again

pegapega02 said:
Ones you put your sd card back you nedd to restar your phone to recovery again for the phone van read the sd vard again
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How do I do that ?

pegapega02 said:
Ones you put your sd card back you nedd to restar your phone to recovery again for the phone van read the sd vard again
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Also you need to format the sd card before putting in to the galaxy note reason is that sd card was in another phone. Formate or delete which ever option you may have
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If your using Twr in the home page in the button said reboot you go there and then recovery

Phone stuck in bootlooop!

I installed ParanoidRom and everything was going fine till my phone did not start and went into bootloop.I'm really worried,i don't know what to do.
I've gone into recovery and wiped everything from cache to sd card but nothing seems to help.I have tried re-flashing boot.img and recovery.zip files but nothing works.I tried downloading stock RUU for my device but could not find the right one.
I want to flash another custom ROM but i don't know how to do it without access to SD card.SD card does not show up in my computer.It shows up only if i start my phone and change from "charge only" to "disk drive" but since i can't boot into my phone that option is closed.Is there any way to install the ROM from the zip file on my computer?
I have tried extracting the contents of the ROM zip file to the fastboot folder and flashing the boot.img but it gives a BootMagic check fail error.
Is my phone bricked,is there any hope,i can't lose my phone.

Yes there is hope, so don't worry
Go to recovery, Mount SD card, transfer ROM to phone and flash
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soham_sss said:
Yes there is hope, so don't worry
Go to recovery, Mount SD card, transfer ROM to phone and flash
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But how do i transfer ROM to phone?

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Get into recovery->advanced->mount usb storage. The pc will open your sd card. Just paste the rom then on the phone do unmount
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mr_nooby said:
Get into recovery->advanced->mount usb storage. The pc will open your sd card. Just paste the rom then on the phone do unmount
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When i go into recovery,the phone opens the clockwork mod recovery and under it's advanced menu the only options are :
reboot recovery
wipe dalvik cache
report error
key test
show log
fix permissions
partition internal sdcard
go back
There is no option to mount USB storage!

R: Phone stuck in bootlooop!
Oh sorry I use twrp recovery. In clock work there should be a mounts and storage option, then mount usb storage
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mr_nooby said:
Oh sorry I use twrp recovery. In clock work there should be a mounts and storage option, then mount usb storage
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I did that but the sd card does not show up in my computer.

mr_nooby said:
Oh sorry I use twrp recovery. In clock work there should be a mounts and storage option, then mount usb storage
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Ok i managed to copy the ROM zip file to SD card but when i tried to flash boot.img it gave me a BootMagic check fail error.What do i do now.

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Why are you still trying with that rom?
Custom roms are sometimes bad, its happened to me 2 times one after the other....theyre just too buggy to work.
also putting stuff on microsd card from phone is kinda....stupid. just use the microsd card adapter for pcs they always hand out one along with the micro.
Download ANOTHER custom rom (there are many better ones than paranoid...foxhound or rootbox are good. Not cyanogen they still need to make a complete version for s3).
And FACTORY RESET/FORMAT EVERYTHING and then flash from rom package. Why bother flashing boot image?
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Plus theres no reason to be worried if ur phone is stuck in bootloop. Bootloop saves phones not kills them. If it can't run the os (custom rom)....well it just can't. Take off the battery and re insert, at least it wont run out of battery life.
Then when uve got everything ready along with rom on sd card just boot in recovery mode and do what i told you earlier. If sdcard is a problem i remember there was an option in clockwork to have the rom pushed to the phone from the pc just like what happens when u root with odin...
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killbubble said:
Why are you still trying with that rom?
Custom roms are sometimes bad, its happened to me 2 times one after the other....theyre just too buggy to work.
also putting stuff on microsd card from phone is kinda....stupid. just use the microsd card adapter for pcs they always hand out one along with the micro.
Download ANOTHER custom rom (there are many better ones than paranoid...foxhound or rootbox are good. Not cyanogen they still need to make a complete version for s3).
And FACTORY RESET/FORMAT EVERYTHING and then flash from rom package. Why bother flashing boot image?
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I'm trying a different ROM.I'm not using Paranoid ROM i'm using PAC ROM.I don't have a microsd card adapter but anyways i was able to successfully copy the ROM zip file to the sd card.
I have downloaded PAC ROM but i can't install it.If i install it by flashing the boot image in fastboot folder it gives a BootMagic error and if i try to install it via CWM recovery it aborts the installation and gives some weird error.

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Hallucinogen-X said:
I'm trying a different ROM.I'm not using Paranoid ROM i'm using PAC ROM.I don't have a microsd card adapter but anyways i was able to successfully copy the ROM zip file to the sd card.
I have downloaded PAC ROM but i can't install it.If i install it by flashing the boot image in fastboot folder it gives a BootMagic error and if i try to install it via CWM recovery it aborts the installation and gives some weird error.
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Boot magic? What boot.img are you installing?
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mr_nooby said:
Boot magic? What boot.img are you installing?
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I'm using the boot image found in the zip file of PAC ROM.When i flash this boot image it first sends boot but there's and error when it tries to write boot.
I was using the command fastboot flash boot boot.img but that was giving an error so i tried using another command,fasboot flash system boot.img and there was no error this time.So i typed the command fastboot reboot and went into recovery to open CWM recovery and chose install zip from sd card,i chose the zip file but it gave an error and did not install.I don't know what to do.Looks lik my phone is done.

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Don't do that stuff without asking! I don't think it was a good idea to do fastboot flash system.. But it may be fixable. I've never used that command so just wait that someone that knows what to do gets here.
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mr_nooby said:
Don't do that stuff without asking! I don't think it was a good idea to do fastboot flash system.. But it may be fixable. I've never used that command so just wait that someone that knows what to do gets here.
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using that command didn't do any damage.The problem is that i cannot install from Zip file on the sd card,it gives an error :
E:Error in /sdcard/Winzipfile.zip (winzip is the name of the ROM file)
(Status 0)
Installation aborted.

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Are you going mad? What the hell is pac rom? Are you fixated with paranoid android? All they have are.dropdown windows like tablets...not really very useful. Get a MORE popular rom, and more stable. Try aokp.
And dont flash just the bootimage. Flash it ALL. Reset everythung to factory and install FULL rom...at this point its obvious.the problem of the paranoid rom doesnt rely in bootimage...maybe its kernel.
So:
Intstall new rom + new kernel(just to be sure its not kernel problem).
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killbubble said:
Are you going mad? What the hell is pac rom? Are you fixated with paranoid android? All they have are.dropdown windows like tablets...not really very useful. Get a MORE popular rom, and more stable. Try aokp.
And dont flash just the bootimage. Flash it ALL. Reset everythung to factory and install FULL rom...at this point its obvious.the problem of the paranoid rom doesnt rely in bootimage...maybe its kernel.
So:
Intstall new rom + new kernel(just to be sure its not kernel problem).
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How about googling something before calling someone else mad?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1911478
PAC rom is quite popular.
And only image files can be flashed and there is only one image file in the zip file called boot.img

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dont get sensitive i was trying to help. What i meant was:
"Good sir, would it not be wiser to stop flashing bits of roms and instead flash all of it through cwm?
It does, in fact, seem to me that your downloaded rom/roms appear to be broken or somewhat buggy, perhaps flashing some evem MORE popular roms that the already very popular pac rom would fix the problem, thus liberating all of us from the madness you cell-phone is causing and making it's user happy once more"
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Hallucinogen-X said:
using that command didn't do any damage.The problem is that i cannot install from Zip file on the sd card,it gives an error :
E:Error in /sdcard/Winzipfile.zip (winzip is the name of the ROM file)
(Status 0)
Installation aborted.
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Try to change rom, or copy it again, maybe the file got damaged
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mr_nooby said:
Try to change rom, or copy it again, maybe the file got damaged
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I downloaded Cyanogen Mod and successfully installed it however the phone is still stuck in bootloop.

R: Phone stuck in bootlooop!
Damn....what about kernel? Try flashing one...
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[Q] Cannot make nandroid backup on DN3

As mentioned in many posts, usually I make backup before flashing any rom. With Philz 5.15, I was able to make backup of DN3 version 1, 2 and 3. Problem started after installation of DN3 version 3.1. Whenever I try to make backup in Philz, it simply doesn't make any backup and goes to usual menu. I have still 15 Gb space in ext SD card and 6 Gb in phone memory. Any sugesstions?

To elaborate further, problem started when during installation of DN3 v3.1, option of full wipe in aroma was enabled. This led to phone being stuck in Samsung logo boot loop. With difficulty came out of this boot loop. Then found that cannot make backup either via philz or rom manager etc

Even tried TWRP flashing and it also gave following error message
E: error opening /data/data/com.android.settings
E: Error :too many open files

Ok problem sorted after trial and error technique. Problem was that with each flashing, lot of application data remained in data partition despite usual wipes ands even factory resets. So after formating internal drive and re flashing was able to make back up with twrp
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#ForeverAlone..!!
Talking to yourself??
Mate try Philz 5.0.15 and report back..

You are right. Posts were there for two weeks without any input. I tried both philz 6 and 5 but in vain. Not sure why it was not wiping the data partition clean
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lol .... drufan you dont give up
drufan I dont have some answer for you
but I need to know how to make backup of my phone,
I have installed custom rom on my n7100 ... now I just want image file ... like windows ghost,
so that whenever i want ... i can recover it in two minutes
with all my settings
anything like this is possible ... i think i have philz recovery 5 installed
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You are right. Posts were there for two weeks without any input. I tried both philz 6 and 5 but in vain. Not sure why it was not wiping the data partition clean
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Yes you can , open phone in recovery mode, philz menu will be open, go to back up and back whole system on ext sd card. That's it.
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By recovery mode I mean pressing power, home and volume up button simultaneously
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Thanks drufan for the guide