[Q] soft bricked my tablet, need help - G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

i need help. i used TWRP 2.6.3.2 to flash a rom but something happened and i can't boot into android. everytime the device powers on it goes into twrp. unfortunately for me for some reason this version of twrp won't read any micro sd cards i insert into it. is it possible to use adb on windows to flash a newer version of twrp so i can go back to the stock rom? if so how? adb does not recognize it when i enter adb devices. can anyone guide me towards the right direction, i'm at a loss at what to do to get my tablet up and running again.

atomicblue said:
i need help. i used TWRP 2.6.3.2 to flash a rom but something happened and i can't boot into android. everytime the device powers on it goes into twrp. unfortunately for me for some reason this version of twrp won't read any micro sd cards i insert into it. is it possible to use adb on windows to flash a newer version of twrp so i can go back to the stock rom? if so how? adb does not recognize it when i enter adb devices. can anyone guide me towards the right direction, i'm at a loss at what to do to get my tablet up and running again.
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It should read the SD card. are you saying you are unable to mount it? you may have to hit the check box to mount your SD card. I think it might be under Advanced, but I'm not sure. I know its there somewhere!

sleekmason said:
It should read the SD card. are you saying you are unable to mount it? you may have to hit the check box to mount your SD card. I think it might be under Advanced, but I'm not sure. I know its there somewhere!
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that worked, thanks. however i can't install any roms now. they all seem to fail. i've been looking for a download link to the stock rom since i think i need that as a base since i probably wiped it from my tablet. any idea on where i can find it?

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[Q] Half way through flashing rom - need urgent help

Hey, well I made a mistake (supprise). I was following a guide on here and mixing it up with cyanogen's own guide for flashing their rom and well basically I whipped my phone without having the rom on my ssd, i took the ssd out and put it into another phone to put the rom on and now when i put the ssd back in i'm getting:
E:can't mount /sdcard
when I try and install the rom from it.
Suggestions? Please tell me i've not bricked my phone. I only just realised I should have done a rom backup but it wasn't said it the guides I was following and i was so fixated on doing it word for word It only just poped into my head.
Cheers. Fast replies would be nice, I don't like sitting here with my phone in clockwork without anything on it.
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I have another ssd card current set up as a gold card. Could I use that? Both are htc supplied ssd cards.
Ok so i just pluged my gold card in and it could open it. Should I just use that or reformat my other ssd and use that instead?
:EDIT:
in the process of backing up my ssd and formating it, going to see if that fixes my problem. Figure I should probably start a new rom on a fresh ssd anyway.
Be nice to know for future if wiping everything is actually needed for roms
You said your goldcard was recognized correctly by the phone? Did you use another card before?
Where does the error occur, when downgrading or did you already downgrade and are already rooted and want to flash the rom already?
unhallowedone said:
You said your goldcard was recognized correctly by the phone? Did you use another card before?
Where does the error occur, when downgrading or did you already downgrade and are already rooted and want to flash the rom already?
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I've done everything but the flash so far. I was on the final bit and I had "full wipe" zip on my ssd and it opened fine and then i reset to factory settings and cleared cache and then my ssd couldn't be read any more so I couldn't flash with my rom.
However my other ssd which I had to previously format to turn into a gold card can have the zip's read on it. So I figure if I reformat the ssd I wish to use (not gold card) and put the rom back on it will be fine.
Also can you charge the battery while in recovery? I think my battery must be getting quite low now as it's been stuck in it a long time and was only about 40% when I started. I presumed 40% was enough to install a rom, didn't expect this delay of a few hours.
I'm also presuming I can't boot into anything any more as I think i've wiped the previous rom no?
Ok now after formating it and putting the rom on it says "no files found" :/. Does it even matter if I use a differnt ssd to flash as to the one I wish to use long term? i was under the assumption it would install other things to the SSD but now I realise thats probably totaly wrong.
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Put the rom on my other ssd and now also says no files found. it appears the rom is causing the problems?
Put the rom on my goldcard ssd and now also says no files found. it appears the rom is causing the problems? It could read the zips on that ssd 10min ago
If you did a full wipe you have to get it going again by flashing a new one ^^ So yes, go ahead with flashing. The Goldcard was especially necessary for the DHD to load the downgrade-zip, because when I did that originally it gave me an error (had wrong goldcard). Of course, I now have a working one, still using it.
You could try twice, like 1. reformat the sd you wish to use and put the ROM onto it or 2. use the other one to load the rom. Think about it, worst would be "yo man, wrong card"
Edit: this is confusing, indeed. So you actually did a new format of the SD and tried to open it in CWM and it says NO FILES FOUND?
Just to confirm a few things.
DHD rooted, S-OFF , etc....
Full wipe
Removed SD
SD No longer recognised
Rock > YOU < Hard Place
My suggestion, would be to format the first SDcard in your pc, copy ROM to it, place in the phone, reboot recovery.
unhallowedone said:
If you did a full wipe you have to get it going again by flashing a new one ^^ So yes, go ahead with flashing. The Goldcard was especially necessary for the DHD to load the downgrade-zip, because when I did that originally it gave me an error (had wrong goldcard). Of course, I now have a working one, still using it.
You could try twice, like 1. reformat the sd you wish to use and put the ROM onto it or 2. use the other one to load the rom. Think about it, worst would be "yo man, wrong card"
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Well aparently neither of my SSD's work. Is it possible to boot into clockwork without going into the software? Ie can i get into clockwork straight from boot? Because I might need to restart clockwork to get this to work now.
andyharney said:
Just to confirm a few things.
DHD rooted, S-OFF , etc....
Full wipe
Removed SD
SD No longer recognised
Rock > YOU < Hard Place
My suggestion, would be to format the first SDcard in your pc, copy ROM to it, place in the phone, reboot recovery.
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Exactly, but tryed and the moment I put this rom on it apperas it cant read the ssd.
Its cyanogen 7.02 and google addon.
Ok then, my formated ssd (which is apparently empty according to clockwork) formatted and was empty on windows, put the roms on it. When i plug it back in to windows it has all my old **** back on which was several gig so there is no way I accidently copyed that over with the roms and didn't notice.
You can boot directly to the bootloader by holding volume down then pressing power.
Did you download the ROM from ROM Manager or direct from here/cyanogen
EDIT: What version of clockwork you using?
8igdave said:
Well aparently neither of my SSD's work. Is it possible to boot into clockwork without going into the software? Ie can i get into clockwork straight from boot? Because I might need to restart clockwork to get this to work now.
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Sure, Power off the DHD then hold Volume DOWN and press POWER. It then boots into Recovery.
I dont think you will have bricked it. As far as I know you cant brick a phone by flashing a rom. Bricking is as a result of radio installation gone wrong. If your SD card is being recognised, just wipe it and put in in empty. Then install the desired rom using ADB shell on your PC. About charging in recovery I think it will work. If not just turn the phone off and plug it into USB.
EDIT. This is sounding above my level of understanding now. Ignore my advice. I was assuming clockwork is behaving itself
Downloaded from CM7 them selves, ah ok I will reboot. Yup now neither of my ssd's have data on them apparently.
Rebooted recovery and now not working. I click to use an option and it just goes straight back to the top of the list, even reboot option.
edcoppen said:
Ok first I dont think you will have bricked it. As far as I know you cant brick a phone by flashing a rom. Bricking is as a result of radio installation gone wrong.
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Or by using CWM 3.0.2.5 to format the SD as I did 6 days ago - have a new DHD now
edcoppen said:
About charging in recovery I think it will work. If not just turn the phone off and plug it into USB.
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I would suggest power charge instead of USB, because the real charger loads your phone faster due to lower power values over USB. Afaik.
OK, worst case scenario here is having to flash a 1.32 RUU and rooting, ENG S-OFF-ing again. I don't think your at that stage yet. Did you Radio S-OFF before this?
edcoppen said:
Ok first I dont think you will have bricked it. As far as I know you cant brick a phone by flashing a rom. Bricking is as a result of radio installation gone wrong.
If your SD card is being recognised, just wipe it and put in in empty. Then install the desired rom using ADB shell on your PC.
About charging in recovery I think it will work. If not just turn the phone off and plug it into USB.
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The light on the dhd only comes on when the phone is turned off and charging for me atm.
Ok then how do I use ADB, i was getting real confused by that earlyer today.
OMGGGG I just restarted recovery for the 5th time and it's reading my ssd card!
YES!
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nvm got the right rom.

[Q] Is it Bricked?

Well, last night, after doing a complete wipe, INCLUDING the /system partition, my sd card would not eject properly. (Using Lion OSX 10.7.1)
So, I manually ejected it; when I tried to reboot the phone, it wouldn't boot.
To make a long story short, basically, in CWM, when I tried to flash anything, or recover my backup, I keep getting the "E": SD Card not recognized, won't mount" error, no matter what I do.
I tried to format my card, I tried a different card, but no matter what, my phone won't recognize my sd card. Also, it used to give me the option of flashing from my "internal" sd card, but that option does NOT show up in the CWM menu anymore, Probably because I formatted my system partition..
I had formatted the system partition a few times before, when I had fc's after trying a different theme or rom, but, I was always able to get back into recovery, and flash something that fixed it.
Is there anything else I can do at this point? My phone isn't "seen" by my computer anymore, so I can't get anything on to it directly, and it won't recognize my sd card, no matter what I do..
Thanks for any help or ideas you can offer
use odin to flash back to stockhttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282420
thanks for the suggestion, but I'm on mac OSX Lion; Odin won't work on it
Try this on your Mac http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1277000
sk63 said:
Try this on your Mac http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1277000
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Thanks, but all that does is root the phone and install a rooted kernel..not a rom which is what is needed to boot the phone, and its already rooted
looks like its time to get a PC..
I just had the same SD error in CWM, ODIN'd a fresh CWM 5023 and back to working again! I was worried it was going to be a serious issue (had similar problems with a Vibrant that rubbed me the wrong way) But it was an easy fix
fortunately, the good folks at Best Buy had no problem swapping my phone for me..
Thanks for your suggestions, and be careful when you wipe your /system partition!
wase4711 said:
Thanks, but all that does is root the phone and install a rooted kernel..not a rom which is what is needed to boot the phone, and its already rooted
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Not true. Heimdall does the samething as odin does. I use heimdall instead of odin most of he time. Its better.
Sent From My Evo Killer!!!
Interesting; do you need the GUI front end, or do you do everything through command line?
Fortunately, I got a new phone from Best buy today, so my immediate issue is fixed; I was just wondering about using it sort of like ADB to push stuff through via a mac..

HTC Incredible stuck on white screen.

Since I didn't have a sdcard, I changed vold.fstab so it would think emmc is an sdcard. When I tried to reverting the changes, I screwed up, and both my storage options said unavailable. So I tried to fix it by re flashing and what not, and that messed up my phone because I couldn't access emmc still and I didn't have an sdcard. So now I can only access hboot and fastboot. If I don't hold volume it gets stuck at the white htc incredible screen. If i try to use clockworkMod recovery 5.0.2 it says
E: Invalid command argument<br/>
E:Cna't mount /cache/recovery/log<br/>
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log<br/>
E:can't mount /cache/recover/last_log<br/>
etc etc..
I've tried RUU but it said it can't update it.
I don't have a sd card, but I've updated it by putting an update on emmc, I can't get to it though! Is there a way I can flash a stock rom with fastboot from my computer? I DLed plenty of stock roms. I really need my phone back because I have to sell this laptop and I won't have any Internet access without it. I tried messing with fastboot flashall but I don't want to mess it up anyfurther.
Any suggestions anyone? I'm in desperate need of help.
After doing more research, I need to use sdparted to get all my partitions back in order.
In cwm I can mount /emmc and I'm thinking I can use adb push to place a zip there and run an update from cwm.
The thing is, using adb devices, the phone serial doesn't show up.
I don't think I can get to it without enabling usb debugging (I've used eclipse so the drivers are installed already).
I'm running out of options here. I think getting an sdk card is the only option I have left now. which will take 3 days to get
here
i have installed roms from EMMC. as long as CWM can see the contents it should be no different than installing from SD Card. of course your issue seems to be how to get files onto the EMMC without a booting OS.
so in that case, you should invest a dollar and just buy an SD Card.
tekweezle said:
i have installed roms from EMMC. as long as CWM can see the contents it should be no different than installing from SD Card. of course your issue seems to be how to get files onto the EMMC without a booting OS.
so in that case, you should invest a dollar and just buy an SD Card.
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I was afraid so, I guess it's easier if I just did that.
Thanks for replyin

[Q] Need ADB sideload

Hello.
I have problem with my phone, i format all memory, and now i have no recovery or any rom to flash it,from what i know and read, only option for me is ADB sideload rom to phone, cause like now i can only go in fastboot, flash new recovery, that it.
The problem is, i think only twrp have ADB sideload function, and .......i can't use it, touch don't work in twrp, volume up/down also do nothing. is there any other method to put rom on card in phone ? Also i can't connect phone to my pc, for some reasons computer don't see my phone, i'm able to flash new recovery through cmd, but can't make pc to see phone as usb mass storage. So now i stuck. anyone have something similar ? And figure out how to put rom in memory card ?
withoutnickname said:
Hello.
I have problem with my phone, i format all memory, and now i have no recovery or any rom to flash it,from what i know and read, only option for me is ADB sideload rom to phone, cause like now i can only go in fastboot, flash new recovery, that it.
The problem is, i think only twrp have ADB sideload function, and .......i can't use it, touch don't work in twrp, volume up/down also do nothing. is there any other method to put rom on card in phone ? Also i can't connect phone to my pc, for some reasons computer don't see my phone, i'm able to flash new recovery through cmd, but can't make pc to see phone as usb mass storage. So now i stuck. anyone have something similar ? And figure out how to put rom in memory card ?
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How in the World you managed to do so???
Erasing recovery???
Well, I never used ADB push. The easiest way is to flash Philz recovery again, mount sd card and copy the ROM.zip to sd card.
And why double posting problems. Old thread is only 3 days old
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582565
Flash this recovery
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yqzlpqo8illa53j/Philz recovery 5.15.9.img
And do whats been told. Mount the sdcard in the mounts and storage menu. Wait a couple of minutes (yes literally minutes) it will pop up !
And if you did search the twrp thread (touch not working) you would have found the repacked 2.4.0.0 -JB twrp recovery. It's been discussed there many......many times !
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i can't do it cause in recovery i can't mount phone as storage so i can't put rom on it. having only recovery give me nothing if i'm not able put rom in phone. if problem will be only recovery, then i wouldn't bother you guys. my main problem is that pc don't see phone, all drivers are installed, yet nothing works.
withoutnickname said:
i can't do it cause in recovery i can't mount phone as storage so i can't put rom on it. having only recovery give me nothing if i'm not able put rom in phone. if problem will be only recovery, then i wouldn't bother you guys. my main problem is that pc don't see phone, all drivers are installed, yet nothing works.
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Man flash the recovery on @Mr Hofs with fastboot. After this go in recovery and mound sd card and put your ROM on the card and flash the boot.img and the rom!!!
Thant said:
Man flash the recovery on @Mr Hofs with fastboot. After this go in recovery and mound sd card and put your ROM on the card and flash the boot.img and the rom!!!
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only one recovery which allowed me install sd card is philz touch 6.0.1.0 , no other works, so i manage that, just now get error 7 in few roms. this phone drive me crazy !!! but i WILL install some rom.
withoutnickname said:
only one recovery which allowed me install sd card is philz touch 6.0.1.0 , no other works, so i manage that, just now get error 7 in few roms. this phone drive me crazy !!! but i WILL install some rom.
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And on @Mr Hofs work but on 5.15 you must to wait 2-4 minutes to mount the sd card. Wich ROM are you try for the first time I ever heard for Error7 when you copy the rom to sd card unmount the same and disconect the phone from computer while the installation.
Thant said:
And on @Mr Hofs work but on 5.15 you must to wait 2-4 minutes to mount the sd card. Wich ROM are you try for the first time I ever heard for Error7 when you copy the rom to sd card unmount the same and disconect the phone from computer while the installation.
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i try viper, cm11,project x revolution, always had error 7
i put rom on sd card in phone, flash boot img, shut down, disconnect cable, boot in recovery, wipe and stuff, install rom, error 7, i never disconnect cable during installation, i even don't touch phone more than i need to.
Its the recovery i guess. Have you tried this.....rom is now on the phone so that problem is done. Flash the 5.15 recovery and install the rom.zip.......spit out ideas and thinking out loud.....these are all things to test.
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I gave up, just bought new phone, root, rom, no problems, same model. maybe previous one was kinda...."different"

[Q] I have deleted the OS with cwm recovery and dont know how to get the OS back help

HELP!!!
I was trying to get all the files that are useless of off my sd card so i formated it in clockworkmod recovery and did not realize that i just deleted everything on the sdcard. And since i was just so clueless i went ahead and formated everything else that i could and then when i tried to reboot my device it takes me straight to the hboot menu. Is there any way i can get my OS back on to my device, i don't care about my files i just want the main OS back so i can use the phone again. And if you need any extra information please just ask in the comments and i will give you any info i can.
Thank You
If you can get to your recovery, go there. Then flash your ROM of choice.
how?
Arcticfrost said:
how?
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From the bootloader, choose recovery. If that is not an option, choose either fastboot or bootloader (whichever one is there), then choose recovery. If you don't have a ROM zip on your sdcard, mount the usb storage on your computer. Download the ROM zip on your pc, then place it on your sdcard. Unmount, then follow the instructions in the OP of your ROM thread, namely by flashing the zip. Then reboot into your new ROM.
i have clockworkmod recovery but im not sure how to flash the ROM because my sdcard has problems when i try to put files onto it.
Arcticfrost said:
i have clockworkmod recovery but im not sure how to flash the ROM because my sdcard has problems when i try to put files onto it.
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If you have a bad sdcard, you can either transfer them to the internal 8gb memory (not sure, it's been awhile since I've messed with my inc), or you should really just get a new sdcard. You don't want a bad sdcard to start filling up with possibly corrupt app data and mess up the ROM.
i cant mount my sdcard with cwm recovery i can still get the device to connect to adb and fastboot
Arcticfrost said:
i cant mount my sdcard with cwm recovery i can still get the device to connect to adb and fastboot
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Again,
PonsAsinorem said:
If you have a bad sdcard, you can either transfer them to the internal 8gb memory (not sure, it's been awhile since I've messed with my inc), or you should really just get a new sdcard. You don't want a bad sdcard to start filling up with possibly corrupt app data and mess up the ROM.
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Note that internal 8gb memory does not mean the sdcard. Also, I'm not saying you can do this, because I can't remember. But if your sdcard is bad, you should replace it.
how do i know if the sdcard is bad though?
and how do i use the internal storage?

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