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Well I rooted my girlfriends Kindle a few weeks ago, without a hitch, everything went swimmingly, absolutely no issues until tonight.
I've got the latest Jandycane ROM running on it, TWRP Recovery, FIREFIREFIRE Bootloader.
She's been messing with the fonts on it via Font Installer *Root* from the Play Store, and she's changed fonts a few times now, but this time she changed it, went to reboot to apply, and now it just keeps playing the boot animation until I shut it off. It will boot into recovery no problem, the only issue is..........she does NOT do any sort of periodic backup. so the only backup is one I made two weeks ago and she doesn't want to have to redo all she's done so far. So is there any way to fix it, via ADB, recovery, etc? Or should I just restore/reflash and redo everything for her?
DownTheCross said:
Well I rooted my girlfriends Kindle a few weeks ago, without a hitch, everything went swimmingly, absolutely no issues until tonight.
I've got the latest Jandycane ROM running on it, TWRP Recovery, FIREFIREFIRE Bootloader.
She's been messing with the fonts on it via Font Changer (root) from the Play Store, and she's changed fonts a few times now, but this time she changed it, went to reboot to apply, and now it just keeps playing the boot animation until I shut it off. It will boot into recovery no problem, the only issue is..........she does NOT do any sort of periodic backup. so the only backup is one I made two weeks ago and she doesn't want to have to redo all she's done so far. So is there any way to fix it, via ADB, recovery, etc? Or should I just restore/reflash and redo everything for her?
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Do a full wipe including the system just don't wipe the SD card or as its called on some versions of twrp external storage reflash ROM reflash gapps reboot and call it a day...
Thanks for the quick reply, man!
I'll go ahead and just do that then, I figured that's what I'd end up doing but thought I'd see about any alternatives.
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Thanks for the quick reply, man!
I'll go ahead and just do that then, I figured that's what I'd end up doing but thought I'd see about any alternatives.
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Best to start fresh
Definitely a great idea to start fresh, I just got my HTC Vivid back in working order after forgetting to flash a ROM after a kernel.
I'm digging the lively dev scene for the kindle, it's way nicer than the vivid scene.
So my phone is stuck in bootloop. and I cant get my phone to boot correctly.
To start, I was running 4.2.2 AOKP for about half a year and it started to not work as well. Force closing alot, freezing etc. So I decided it was time to update. While I was running AOKP, I experienced bootloop almost every time I turned off my phone. This became regular, but by pulling the battery and trying again (sometimes I had to do with a few times) it always got working again.
I went and found the new 4.3 Carbon ROM and decided that looked cool and would be a nice upgrade. So I downloaded it and the new 4.3 gapps. Put them on an external sd card, and put it into my phone. I then booted into CWM and did a factory reset. Then I went and installed the Carbon from the external sd, installed gapps, and rebooted immediately. I was then, and still am, stuck in a bootloop.
I can restart my phone go back into clockwork.
But I cant get the phone, despite all my efforts, to boot correctly. I have tried to wipe caches, wipe dalvik, format system. All of it. yet I cannot boot correctly.
I really need a working phone. Any help would be really great.
Thanks all
Also, I am using TWRP 2.6.3 to do the flash of the Carbon after it failed the first time
Moheemo said:
Also, I am using TWRP 2.6.3 to do the flash of the Carbon after it failed the first time
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2.6.3.0 seems to be giving many people issues. You need to install 2.6.1.0.
And is your radio up to date? Only 2 work...the new T-Mobile and Telus radios.
After those 2 things are taken care of, you should be fine. Tho lots of things can cause boot loops, and there's many.. many posts about it. If my suggestions don't help.....Search and read up. Try some various fixes.
Maybe try a different rom too.
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Hope you did a nandroid backup in recovery? Restore it if so. If not, you may need to start from scratch and Odin flash stock rom, flash recovery and root again.
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Moheemo said:
So my phone is stuck in bootloop. and I cant get my phone to boot correctly.
To start, I was running 4.2.2 AOKP for about half a year and it started to not work as well. Force closing alot, freezing etc. So I decided it was time to update. While I was running AOKP, I experienced bootloop almost every time I turned off my phone. This became regular, but by pulling the battery and trying again (sometimes I had to do with a few times) it always got working again.
I went and found the new 4.3 Carbon ROM and decided that looked cool and would be a nice upgrade. So I downloaded it and the new 4.3 gapps. Put them on an external sd card, and put it into my phone. I then booted into CWM and did a factory reset. Then I went and installed the Carbon from the external sd, installed gapps, and rebooted immediately. I was then, and still am, stuck in a bootloop.
I can restart my phone go back into clockwork.
But I cant get the phone, despite all my efforts, to boot correctly. I have tried to wipe caches, wipe dalvik, format system. All of it. yet I cannot boot correctly.
I really need a working phone. Any help would be really great.
Thanks all
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flash stock rom zip via odin then you should be good to root and try to flash another custom rom again:good:
Hi guys,
I had already suffered in the past for sudden reboots, but at least i was able to use the phone for a decent amount of time and fix it. After last night, though, the situation seems desperate. When i woke up i was able to turn off the alarm clock, check my email, but then hell started...
My phone is a gsm Nexus (maguro i9250), with CyanogenMod11 snapshot M5 and the appropriate google apps (at least they were appropriate about 1 month ago). I recently had some minor issue with the Google+ app, after it was updated: it kept crashing, until i uninstalled it and reinstalled after downloading from the Play Store. Should i instead search for a newer gapps packet?
Now the situation is pretty awful. The phone will reboot after at most 2 minutes. I don't really know what makes it crash so bad.
I also have two weird problems. Whatever change i manage to make before the phone reboots doesn't get persisted. For example, the alarm clock will always start activated, no matter if i managed to deactivate it before the reboot.
I'm also not able to reset it to factory defaults. I am using ClockworkMod 6.0.4.7. If i try the reset procedure, the /data and /cache partitions are formatted, but not the sdcard one. Indeed, i get the following output:
Code:
Formatting /data
Formatting /cache
Formatting /sd-ext
E: unknown volume for path [/sd-ext]
Formatting /sdcard/.android_secure
Data wipe complete
When i reboot the phone after this procedure, everything is still there, and the phone will keep doing its reboots after 1-2 minutes.
What can i do? Is there an hardware way to hard-reset the phone? Is there a program i could use?
Thanks in advance!
Fried EMMC (memory)
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mrgnex said:
Fried EMMC (memory)
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Maybe, but if everything is still there after a reboot, sounds doubtful.
Have you tried installing a different rom? Can you connect via adb? Do you have a nandroid?
Format /system under Mounts and Storage in CWM and reflash ROM and GApps?
Hi guys, thanks for your replies! Sorry for the late answer, i was pretty busy.
I spent last night trying everything i could, but i think my phone is gone
I used Skipsoft's Android Toolkit and Odin, with no success.
The first one seemed to succeed: i tried twice, with two different stock roms, but i always ended up with the same CM11, same apps, same everything.
Odin always failed (i tried at least 3 times, i honestly lost the count).
I did find a post in the forums regarding a guy with my same problem, and he was told about the eMMC as well. I am pretty sure that is my problem as well.
Further proofs of that:
1) I downloaded the latest CM11 nightly build, was able to push its zip file on the device using Eclipse (i swear it was there), but when i tried to flash it using CWM, the file wasn't there.....
2) With Android Toolkit i was able to boot into a different recovery tool (TWM, i think). I wiped everything with it, and i was starting to hope.... but the same darn CM11 appeared!
I don't have a nandroid, i formatted everything i could in Mounts in CWM (i got to a point that i formatted everything that was formattable). I also tried to reflash the rom and gapps. No luck, always ended up with the same situation.
I didn't really try a different rom. I didn't try to connect using adb on the terminal, but i think that Eclipse is based on that, so i think adb is working.
Oh well... Right now i'm using an old phone, but i have started looking for a new one, i am tempted by the Nexus 5
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Hi guys, thanks for your replies! Sorry for the late answer, i was pretty busy.
I spent last night trying everything i could, but i think my phone is gone
I used Skipsoft's Android Toolkit and Odin, with no success.
The first one seemed to succeed: i tried twice, with two different stock roms, but i always ended up with the same CM11, same apps, same everything.
Odin always failed (i tried at least 3 times, i honestly lost the count).
I did find a post in the forums regarding a guy with my same problem, and he was told about the eMMC as well. I am pretty sure that is my problem as well.
Further proofs of that:
1) I downloaded the latest CM11 nightly build, was able to push its zip file on the device using Eclipse (i swear it was there), but when i tried to flash it using CWM, the file wasn't there.....
2) With Android Toolkit i was able to boot into a different recovery tool (TWM, i think). I wiped everything with it, and i was starting to hope.... but the same darn CM11 appeared!
I don't have a nandroid, i formatted everything i could in Mounts in CWM (i got to a point that i formatted everything that was formattable). I also tried to reflash the rom and gapps. No luck, always ended up with the same situation.
I didn't really try a different rom. I didn't try to connect using adb on the terminal, but i think that Eclipse is based on that, so i think adb is working.
Oh well... Right now i'm using an old phone, but i have started looking for a new one, i am tempted by the Nexus 5
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You can try by downloading a clean google factory image and then flash it using bootloader and see it helps, it could be a bad script inside. If this doesn't help then you should totally get the Nexus 5. I got GNex only recently and its still a good device I reassure you. A little tweak and a little overclock makes it as good as a stock N4 minus the bad graphics.
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Hi guys, thanks for your replies! Sorry for the late answer, i was pretty busy.
I spent last night trying everything i could, but i think my phone is gone
I used Skipsoft's Android Toolkit and Odin, with no success.
The first one seemed to succeed: i tried twice, with two different stock roms, but i always ended up with the same CM11, same apps, same everything.
Odin always failed (i tried at least 3 times, i honestly lost the count).
I did find a post in the forums regarding a guy with my same problem, and he was told about the eMMC as well. I am pretty sure that is my problem as well.
Further proofs of that:
1) I downloaded the latest CM11 nightly build, was able to push its zip file on the device using Eclipse (i swear it was there), but when i tried to flash it using CWM, the file wasn't there.....
2) With Android Toolkit i was able to boot into a different recovery tool (TWM, i think). I wiped everything with it, and i was starting to hope.... but the same darn CM11 appeared!
I don't have a nandroid, i formatted everything i could in Mounts in CWM (i got to a point that i formatted everything that was formattable). I also tried to reflash the rom and gapps. No luck, always ended up with the same situation.
I didn't really try a different rom. I didn't try to connect using adb on the terminal, but i think that Eclipse is based on that, so i think adb is working.
Oh well... Right now i'm using an old phone, but i have started looking for a new one, i am tempted by the Nexus 5
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Well I got bad news well not really bad but kinda. If you wiped efs data while you were wiping your phone will never properly connect to the network anymore. That obviously won't matter unless you somehow get out of this bootloop.
I am a frequent experience Android user and have been flashing Roms since like forever.
Owning gs4 been nice installing Roms all the time however recently when I went to install new gpe ROM (new kernel seemed prime to have) coming from HDrom rls20 I downloaded currupt zip. When I tried installing currupt zip (not knowing yet it was currupt) it gave me red errors not allowing me to proceed.. Then, I turned off device got fresh dload and made sure md5 sum was legit and it was tried again of course first factory data reset with advanced system wipe the ROM proceeded to aroma installer this time.. Attempting to install I chose all my settings and it went to progress bar to install and skipped any system extraction and went straight to Apks.. Batch completed and I hadn't a ROM installed for it took it 5seconds.. I have had this problem in the past before and I sold it they returned it (didn't like condition) and bingo I was able to install Roms again (this was way back in the day with this same gs4) I'm assuming system partition not mounting because also when I tried installing that currupt file it was saying in red unable to mount system and stuff. Luckily I downloaded NK2 firmware (took 8hs) and am fine on stock but I'm hoping someone has a clue to point me in right direction.. I saw forum of somebody with similar issue their fix was pushing zip via computer adb commands then installing. I'll have to give it a try but sticking to stock for a bit. BTW this happens with every ROM just skips system files in fact cyanogenmod just hhung at installation wouldn't fail or complete. I used TWRP LATEST. Please help developers I'm sure this ones a no brainer for y'all. Except seems like issue only I've encountered for this isn't a popular thing at all on google.
SOLVED
Thanks to somebody in gs3 forums all i had to do was push adb the rom and wow it worked installed system YAY IM HAAPPPYY
Stoowyguy said:
Thanks to somebody in gs3 forums all i had to do was push adb the rom and wow it worked installed system YAY IM HAAPPPYY
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What does it mean to "push adb" a phone's rom? Doesn't Odin automatically flash the selected rom?
All I want..... Is an S3 with AICP on Sprint's network.
Two weeks ago I bought an S3 for $50, started playing with it, easily flashed AICP and TWRP 2.8.7.0 Recovery. Everything was awesome, until Sprint couldn't activate it. I flashed back to stock through Odin, Sprint still couldn't activate it (problems with programming). There was no Sprint boot screen, so assuming that was the main problem I found "SPH-L710_ND8_Full Restore_UNROOTED.exe" that restored the Sprint boot logo and viola! I had Sprint 4GLTE and talk and text.......... But now, this little devil S3 won't flash Roms that are 5.0 or newer. I have tried AICP, PAC-ROM, Vanir, Exodus.... all just boot to the boot logo and stay there, but when i try Gummy 4.4.4 it boots and works fine.
I always wipe cache, dalvik, & use correct gapps. Using TWRP 2.8.7.0 and have tried two other recoveries with same result. Tried flashing L710VPUDNJ2_L710SPRDNJ2_L710VPUDNJ2_HOME.tar.md5 through Odin and then reflashing recovery and retrying ROM, same result.
Right now its working fine with gummy 4.4.4 but I want 5.1-6.0 because that's the only way I will feel ok about having an S3 I'm sure I'm forgetting some details as this has been a two week off and on thing trying to get this phone to work, so if I am please forgive me and have pity (I'm using a blackberry Q10)
Why will lollipop roms not boot?!?!?!
Please..... help me obi wan kenobi...... you're my only hope
Papa Z said:
All I want..... Is an S3 with AICP on Sprint's network.
Two weeks ago I bought an S3 for $50, started playing with it, easily flashed AICP and TWRP 2.8.7.0 Recovery. Everything was awesome, until Sprint couldn't activate it. I flashed back to stock through Odin, Sprint still couldn't activate it (problems with programming). There was no Sprint boot screen, so assuming that was the main problem I found "SPH-L710_ND8_Full Restore_UNROOTED.exe" that restored the Sprint boot logo and viola! I had Sprint 4GLTE and talk and text.......... But now, this little devil S3 won't flash Roms that are 5.0 or newer. I have tried AICP, PAC-ROM, Vanir, Exodus.... all just boot to the boot logo and stay there, but when i try Gummy 4.4.4 it boots and works fine.
I always wipe cache, dalvik, & use correct gapps. Using TWRP 2.8.7.0 and have tried two other recoveries with same result. Tried flashing L710VPUDNJ2_L710SPRDNJ2_L710VPUDNJ2_HOME.tar.md5 through Odin and then reflashing recovery and retrying ROM, same result.
Right now its working fine with gummy 4.4.4 but I want 5.1-6.0 because that's the only way I will feel ok about having an S3 I'm sure I'm forgetting some details as this has been a two week off and on thing trying to get this phone to work, so if I am please forgive me and have pity (I'm using a blackberry Q10)
Why will lollipop roms not boot?!?!?!
Please..... help me obi wan kenobi...... you're my only hope
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If you the original Sprint S3 and not the new Sprint Triband S3 then you should not have any problem at all! How long are you waiting on it to boot? I had the new Triband model and I had and I thought the lollipop roms wouldn't boot either but I had to give it 5-10mins sometimes on the 1st boot!
RootSuperSU said:
If you the original Sprint S3 and not the new Sprint Triband S3 then you should not have any problem at all! How long are you waiting on it to boot? I had the new Triband model and I had and I thought the lollipop roms wouldn't boot either but I had to give it 5-10mins sometimes on the 1st boot!
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I have let it sit overnight a few times now.... just to make sure. With the Gumy 4.4.4 Rom it only took about 2 minutes which I was shocked by.
I feel like I have literally tried everything.
Papa Z said:
I have let it sit overnight a few times now.... just to make sure. With the Gumy 4.4.4 Rom it only took about 2 minutes which I was shocked by.
I feel like I have literally tried everything.
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Yea Kitkat roms don't take very long on 1st boot anymore. But as for lollipop what all roms have you tried flashing?
There's only 2 reasons I can think of that they might not be working. 1st is your model SPH-710T or SPH-710 and 2nd are trying to flash a custom kernel with it?
Another thing I feel like is worth mentioning.... When I first flashed the AICP Rom I played with it for a few days so i had all my stuff installed. Realized I had to flash to stock to activate on Sprint so i made a Nandroid backup of my AICP 5.1 setup. When i restore this backup it boot loops as well.
Tried restoring everything except data, wiped dalvik and cache, all using the same twrp recovery. So strange...
RootSuperSU said:
Yea Kitkat roms don't take very long on 1st boot anymore. But as for lollipop what all roms have you tried flashing?
There's only 2 reasons I can think of that they might not be working. 1st is your model SPH-710T or SPH-710 and 2nd are trying to flash a custom kernel with it?
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I have tried AICP, PAC-ROM, Vanir, Exodus.... all just boot to the boot logo and stay there. Mine is the SPH-L710 not the triband 710T. The Roms I tried to install, as far as I know, come with the kernel in the ROM zip. I have tried AICP and the pac-rom with just the rom zip and gapps, as well as with a few custom kernels just to see if it would change anything.
Ah another thing, may be unrelated because I only get this when flashing AICP and Pac, it says "unmount of /system failed; no such volume" and then flashes boot img and seems to be successful.
When I flashed exodus and Vanir it does not say this, and all seems to go perfect..... buuuuuut still boot loops/gets stuck at boot animation
Even tried flashing rom and gapps via adb sideload
I have a bad esn l710 in really poor condition. Just flashed the same recovery, same AICP rom, same gapps, all from the same SD card, and this one is working fine. Boots up in just a few minutes.
So i have to be missing something or something is wrong with the one I can actually activate.
EDIT: So "unmount of /system failed; no such volume" error doesn't matter, same thing happened on the bad ESN device that booted up fine.
Update (if anyone cares lol): I flashed both devices completely to stock with the "SPH-L710_ND8_Full Restore_UNROOTED.exe" and then did the exact same thing to both devices, twrp>aicp rom>gapps>dalvik>boot, the bad ESN crap device boots AICP fine, the good condition good ESN one boot loops forever.
I am at a loss here, both devices are exactly the same SPH-L710, flashed to stock completely, but the one with a good ESN that would actually work will not boot lollipop roms. I disassembled both devices to look for hardware differences of any kind, they're identical (with no signs of damage). The only difference is the bad esn one is a slightly deeper shade of blue. I'm pulling my hair out.
I even tried using the force, but my midichlorian levels have never been that good.
Who knows man
I've seen this only a couple times. One guy had luck. When it was stuck, he just kept randomly hitting the power button and eventually long pressed until it was about to reboot (screen freezes for a second) and when it shut off, held home and volume up so it booted recovery when it came on. Then just rebooted system, and this time it booted. Also, sometimes when going back and forth between KitKat and lollipop, you need to wipe internal storage. Make sure you have the latest twrp too (2.8.7.0).
Just shots in the dark, but you never know.
I saw one member who was never able to boot lollipop roms, you would be the second. So its pretty rare.
Well you now know 3 people that cant flash lollipop roms on an l710 NON tri-band.... Ive tried all of them including a couple of Vanir 6.0 roms and the ONLY one i could get to take was a BeanStalk 5.01 rom and a Candykat only after flashing its KitKat predecessor... All KitKat roms work just fine.. Curious,, as I also used the same odin non- rooted rom to get back to stock and after that had trouble flashing lollipop roms period.. Maybe something with the symlinks in that un-rooted rom??? I'm at a loss myself...
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I've seen this only a couple times. One guy had luck. When it was stuck, he just kept randomly hitting the power button and eventually long pressed until it was about to reboot (screen freezes for a second) and when it shut off, held home and volume up so it booted recovery when it came on. Then just rebooted system, and this time it booted. Also, sometimes when going back and forth between KitKat and lollipop, you need to wipe internal storage. Make sure you have the latest twrp too (2.8.7.0).
Just shots in the dark, but you never know.
I saw one member who was never able to boot lollipop roms, you would be the second. So its pretty rare.
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As the only possible solution I have not tried, I will attempt to randomly press/long press the home button as it boots and then boot recovery..... lol
What's even weirder is it worked fine with AICP lollipop just about a month ago, before i had done anything to it. but I repeated all the things i did to it on another s3 and that one still worked fine with lollipop roms.
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Well you now know 3 people that cant flash lollipop roms on an l710 NON tri-band.... Ive tried all of them including a couple of Vanir 6.0 roms and the ONLY one i could get to take was a BeanStalk 5.01 rom and a Candykat only after flashing its KitKat predecessor... All KitKat roms work just fine.. Curious,, as I also used the same odin non- rooted rom to get back to stock and after that had trouble flashing lollipop roms period.. Maybe something with the symlinks in that un-rooted rom??? I'm at a loss myself...
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I used that same unroooted Odin rom on a bad esn s3 and it works fine with lollipop roms. So strange
Edit: no idea what symlinks are
I have similar probl.
After 4 months with CM12.1 I'm flashing NJ2 and upd. to OH1.
After THAT - I cant to flash anything ROM lollipop and higher.
I dont know, what is it.
I was waiting for 4 hours, 8 hours, 12 hours, a day!
I dont know, I dislike TW roms, help anyone!
CyanogenMod 13.0 D2SPR
...I dunno, wanna start from scratch?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-sprint/development/rom-d2spr-cyanogenmod-13-0-t3248561
- Use the Sprint-made TWRP .img in the OP with Flashify (from the Play Store)
- Flash a CM 13, add GApps (from OpenGApps), and a recent SuperSU.
I'm a bit of a half-no0b, so I may be talking out me pants.
Bonne chance!
DavidovDI said:
I have similar probl.
After 4 months with CM12.1 I'm flashing NJ2 and upd. to OH1.
After THAT - I cant to flash anything ROM lollipop and higher.
I dont know, what is it.
I was waiting for 4 hours, 8 hours, 12 hours, a day!
I dont know, I dislike TW roms, help anyone!
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I'm glad I'm not the only one. Someone has to know how to fix this.... somewhere.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one. Someone has to know how to fix this.... somewhere.
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Yep!:crying::crying::crying:
I had the same problem. Try this. It worked for me today.
I have a d2spr (originally from sprint). It is now activated with boost. L710VPUDOH1 bootloader and baseband. CF-Auto-Root-d2spr-d2spr-sphl710.tar.md5 flashed with odin for root. twrp-2.8.7.0-d2spr.img.tar.md5 flashed with odin as recovery. I backed up Apn's with "APN Backup & Restore" app. I wiped system, cache, dalvik, data. Flashed cm-12.1-20151117-SNAPSHOT-YOG7DAO1K7-d2spr.zip... . Flashed pa_gapps-modular-full-5.1-20150315-signed.zip. I Wiped Dalvik. The device booted smoothly within approximately 7 minutes. I had full function as far as I could tell. Everything worked well. Ran this setup for about a month. I decided to restore a stock w/root backup made with twrp2870. Bootlooped until I learned to wipe internal sd when going back to 4.4.2. I wiped the internal sd and successfully booted stock w/root backup. When I tried to go back to cm 12.1 backup, I ran into the same problem... boot loop for hours. Multiple times. Backups and different nightly zips. I found and flashed every custom recovery I could find for this device to try to make it work. Eventually... while I had twrp-2.8.7.2-d2spr.img as my recovery (not sure if it makes a difference or not). I found this...
(apparently the link is not allowed due to my lack of posts with this forum)
im pasting from another page at this point...
Ha! Got it! Visited the #cyanogenmod channel on freenode irc and there were some VERY helpful people there. So I've got a few instructions.
Flash the latest TWRP recovery via ODIN. (2.8.7.0-d2spr at the time of writing).
Flash your CM 12 zip file
On your PC (with adb installed) run the command "adb shell dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist of=/sdcard/persist.img"
Then run "adb pull /sdcard/persist.img" (This will give you a backup of the persist partition in case anything goes wrong)
Run the command "mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist"
Run the command "adb reboot"
If it boots into OS, great! Reboot into recovery and install the lastest gapps package.
I did it from adb in a Cygwin64 Terminal. The device booted my cm12.1 backup the first time I tried. I think it would work just as well with adb from a windows command prompt. I only found this on another page. Credit goes to someone from "#cyanogenmod channel on freenode irc". Hope it is as much help to all of you as it was to me.
HouseHG said:
I have a d2spr (originally from sprint). It is now activated with boost. L710VPUDOH1 bootloader and baseband. CF-Auto-Root-d2spr-d2spr-sphl710.tar.md5 flashed with odin for root. twrp-2.8.7.0-d2spr.img.tar.md5 flashed with odin as recovery. I backed up Apn's with "APN Backup & Restore" app. I wiped system, cache, dalvik, data. Flashed cm-12.1-20151117-SNAPSHOT-YOG7DAO1K7-d2spr.zip... . Flashed pa_gapps-modular-full-5.1-20150315-signed.zip. I Wiped Dalvik. The device booted smoothly within approximately 7 minutes. I had full function as far as I could tell. Everything worked well. Ran this setup for about a month. I decided to restore a stock w/root backup made with twrp2870. Bootlooped until I learned to wipe internal sd when going back to 4.4.2. I wiped the internal sd and successfully booted stock w/root backup. When I tried to go back to cm 12.1 backup, I ran into the same problem... boot loop for hours. Multiple times. Backups and different nightly zips. I found and flashed every custom recovery I could find for this device to try to make it work. Eventually... while I had twrp-2.8.7.2-d2spr.img as my recovery (not sure if it makes a difference or not). I found this...
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im pasting from another page at this point...
Ha! Got it! Visited the #cyanogenmod channel on freenode irc and there were some VERY helpful people there. So I've got a few instructions.
Flash the latest TWRP recovery via ODIN. (2.8.7.0-d2spr at the time of writing).
Flash your CM 12 zip file
On your PC (with adb installed) run the command "adb shell dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist of=/sdcard/persist.img"
Then run "adb pull /sdcard/persist.img" (This will give you a backup of the persist partition in case anything goes wrong)
Run the command "mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist"
Run the command "adb reboot"
If it boots into OS, great! Reboot into recovery and install the lastest gapps package.
I did it from adb in a Cygwin64 Terminal. The device booted my cm12.1 backup the first time I tried. I think it would work just as well with adb from a windows command prompt. I only found this on another page. Credit goes to someone from "#cyanogenmod channel on freenode irc". Hope it is as much help to all of you as it was to me.
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I flashed mine back to stock and sold it.... got a good deal on an S5 and flashed MOAR to it.
I found this thread a while back and attempted to do what it says to do, but I couldn't get it to work for me. What exactly does running those commands do that suddenly makes it work?
I think it either reformats or converts the persist partition to ext4. I'm not 100% sure yet bc I haven't had time to look into it.
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