So. .. I did something really stupid and accepted the tmobile marshmallow update on my rooted G3. Now it is stuck in a bootloop that takes me back to twrp recovery.
I had backups that are now not showing.
Any suggestions?
Start with your backups, if they are on your SD or internal establish that. If they are on internal use android commander PC app while your phone is plugged into your PC and browse for them in the windows app while the phone is in recovery. Extract them and put them somewhere safe. Download and install LG PC drivers. Download a kdz firmware file and flash back to factory stock using LG Mobile Support Tool. In Windows you need the modem driver and the diag port driver showing in device manager for it to work (MPT driver not necessary) or it will fail around 50%. Reroot, reinstall recovery, backup boot partition just to create new twrp backup folder, place recovered backups into new twrp backup folder, restore.
You should be back to normal.
PS it wasn't the Marshmallow update
It's more than likely that the phone will mount its internal storage when connected to the computer. Thats what mine did at least. You should then be able to drag over a working stock ROM and flash it Via recovery.
Theres a working flashable stock ROM on here somewhere I believe.
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Ok, so for a few months I had been running a rom on my phone (AOKP, I think.) Then the other day it died on me, totally. SD Card, CWM backups, the whole lot. Totally gone.
Anyway, did a bit of raking around and managed to get it restored to stock using the relevant RUU file. Then, instead of learning from my lesson and using backups and so on, I proceeded to install the latest OTA. You can probably see where this is going. So, got the rom installing again when the phone decided to crash again. Now sitting with a phone that will load into fastboot, but which goves me no access to the filesystem. Cant do another RUU update as there is no RUU available that i can see for what I have, which is:-
version-main: 2.17.161.4
and
VODAP001
Had a look at a few other threads but I couldnt see any that was relevant. Any help would be much appreciated.
download this nandroid backup
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5rart6rb2jsi5yx/Vodafone UK 2.17 VODAP001 2012-12-10.16.53.18.zip
unzip it looking like this on the phone sdcard
clockworkmod\backup\*time and date folder*\*the backup files*
time and date folder should be inside the zip (or whatever its packed with)
you can enter the bootloader, from there to the recovery ? mount inside the recovery the sdcard as a mass storage device and copy over the backup
copy the boot.img file from the backup to your fastboot folder and flash it. then perform a full wipe inside the recovery (except sdcard) and restore the nandroid backup
then you flash back this recovery
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wbav46spkbznovp/stock recovery 2.17.img
and you can start updating the phone to JB again. use the manually update in settings - about - softwareupdates
Excellent, thanks.
The other problem I have is since this happens, explorer no longer picks up the phone when I connect it and I have no idea why.
You mean when you mount it inside the recovery ?
I've obviously gotten myself so wound up trying to sort this I'm missing something obvious.
No, when I plug the phone in via USB it only detects it as a removable drive, but then doesn't open, instead prompts me to insert a disk into the removable drive. Must be a problem with the internal SD card as I've installed the HTC syns programme so I'm guessing the drivers should be up to date.
Ok, so I can still access CWM via the recovery, Ive mounted all the drives I can see via the mount options in there. Now I get two drives in explorer, E: and F:, neither of which I can access.
Don't mount all the drives, only
Mounts & storage - mount as mass storage (the most bottom one)
Then it should pop up. Don't touch any other option
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And deinstall the sync manager and leave the drivers installed
Sorry for wasting your time, starting to feel i should have left well alone.
De-selecting everything other than the above. Now I get "failed to open usb master mode" on the phone and nothing on the pc..
Also, mentally enough, although nothing shows up in explorer now, its in devices and printer as an optical drive..
Hmm reflash the custom recovery
http://db.tt/Krlm4dPs
When I go to mount the usb storage i click it, the only options i get are unmount and go back.
Yes and if you see that the drive should come up on the pc ... if you go back or tap unmount it closes/unmounts the sdcard as a mass storage device
Ok, so got the files in a row. Did the boot flash, restored the nandroid but when i go to flash the restore doing fastboot flasf flash restore recovery.img i get:- FAILED (remote not allowed). Any ideas?
Scratch that. Rebooted an all fine. OTA installed fine as well.
Thank you so much for your help.
Nice
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Hello,
Please i need help in my phone, I've installed "Font Installer ★ Root ★" App from Play Store, then i've changed my system font, then when i tried to restart the phone it freezes on boot Nexus logo.
I've tried to wipe cash... nothing changed..
My Phone info:
- Officially upgraded to 4.2.1, notifications for 4.2.2 shows but i didn't upgrade it yet.
- Unlocked (using nexus toolkit 10)
- Unrooted (using nexus toolkit 10)
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I need to solve this problem without losting any of my data... sms, photos, files, apps, and specially it's data.
Is it possible to install rom without formating and flashing the current rom? i don't have custom recovery btw.. it's the original Android, so i don't have backup command in it's menu.. only read from ADB, read from USB, flash data, flash cash.
Please help, i'm ready for any consequences... PLEASE! :crying:
(Sorry for bad english!) :cyclops:
update
i've tried to install "clockworkmod recovery" from the fastboot, it says installed successfully, then it need restart..
but while my phone didn't complate the starting up, i've removed the battery then back to recovery mod... but the problem is stock recovery still in!!! and there's nothing updated!!!
I've installed "Clockworkmod" also I've tried "TWRP" and made a backup on internal storage...
but it doesn't matter!! cuz i can't mount this memory on pc to copy these files.. cuz the SDCARD is only folder in internal memory for galaxy nexus!!
i need to copy my files from SDCARD folder to my PC... Any Help!!!
You may want to try to flash system img through fastboot. You don't need a custom custom recovery to do that. There should be a sticky in one of the gnex sections on how to do it. Make sure you always make a backup before changing anything in the system partition, this stuff happens and that is the only way to restore without losing the data that you are not wanting to lose.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
I was experimenting with the xposed framework and got stuck in a boot loop after restarting for a second time to install some more modules. The safe mode booting didn't work and neither did the included restore zip file for getting out of it. I tried to restore from the backup on the phone, but it already had the xposed framework in it and it got into a boot loop too!
I tried to adb sideload the backups that I made, and that didn't work either.
I keep backups, made from CWM Recovery, and I pull these to my computer using a WiFi file explorer. (I don't have enough storage to keep two alternative backups so I always have the second stored on my computer)
Anyway, I cant seem to get the restore file that I uploaded to my computer (a restore image) to reload on to my phone and restore. I have attempted to transfer it back to the phone into the folder it came from, but the file wont flash as a zip and it doesn't show up to be restored if I select the restore feature. (BTW-The restores have plenty of SD room to restore on, that isn't the issue)
I realize that the WiFI File Explorer that I use may be zipping the files, so shouldn't I be able to "install zip" in CWM recovery and it restores the image? (apparently not, can you explain why, and what I can do?)
Can I get access to the mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod/backup/ to put the file there to be restored again?
Or,.. How do I put the restore file on my phone (in the correct place) to be restored again?
Is my problem being caused by where I am pulling/pushing the file from(mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod/backup/)?
What am I missing/doing wrong?
Nexus 4
CM11 installer version xnpq08q
Rooted Unlocked
CWM Recovery
HTC EVO 4g Sprint cant figure out how to get it back. please help will pay. dont even care about the money just need it fixed asap. thanks
What did you do? Can you still boot to recovery? If yes you can flash a rom.
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jpisini said:
What did you do? Can you still boot to recovery? If yes you can flash a rom.
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I unlocked bootloader with windroid tool. Then I flashes twrp. Then this being my first time messing with an android in years I went and just grabbed the first rom I thought I could use, do to the fact that I had done no backup no nandroid anything so I flashed a rom and after it did it every time I tries to flash different rom because it said the rom I did first failed. So everytime I tries to do anything else with windroid it says there is a log file in the logs folder. Send this to windycity's forum so it can be tAken care of. But I couldn't find this file or where to submit the file so I thought if I just reset the phone back to factory I could restart. And after resetting it multiple times it still said, there is a log file in the logs folder send this to Windy City. So since I do still have the twrp tool that I can use I went in there and found that it has to rm -f delete everything Linux code so I did that. And since I've done that all I can do is get to bootloader and twrp. But the so is deleted. So basically nothing works. I can't figure out how to get the sd to mount or it won't mount for whAtever reason. And since the phone is wiped it won't enable USB debugging to connect to computer. I can get it to start to enable and connect for a second but not long enough for it to do anything. And I believe it's a htc evo 4g sprint. So that's the situation. The next thing I was gunn try was to go buy a mini sd card reader so I can mount it to computer and then put the rom in there. This **** is so confusing and ridiculous. I mean I can jailbreak an apple device no problem. But holy mother of God androids are the most insanely retarded phones to root. Drivers, adb, sdk...... Anyways if u can help let me know because there's a million roms and kernels out there and I don't know what build to use and how to set it up and the whole kernel process sounds confusing.
Do this. Go to the link below. Look at the second post. Go to the "Current Release" section and download either the stock rooted odex or deodex ROM, doesn't matter. Put the ROM zip on your external SD card. You can do this with the mount option in TWRP (select the mount option then select your external SD card from the menu. You should then be able to transfer the ROM zip from your computer directly to your phone), or just use a card reader to transfer the file from your computer to your SD card, then put the card back into your phone. Boot into TWRP and go to the wipe menu. Do a wipe of system, data, Dalvik & cache. Once you've done this, go to the install option, then locate the ROM zip you placed on your SD card. Flash the ROM. Once the install completes, reboot the phone. The first boot will take a few minutes so be patient. Afterwards the phone should boot to the OS.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671395
Also, USB debugging is only useful when the phone is actually booted to the OS. It doesn't matter that it isn't enabled for your particular dilemma. If all else fails, shoot me a PM and I may have something else that can get you up and running.
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Do this. Go to the link below. Look at the second post. Go to the "Current Release" section and download either the stock rooted odex or deodex ROM, doesn't matter. Put the ROM zip on your external SD card. You can do this with the mount option in TWRP (select the mount option then select your external SD card from the menu. You should then be able to transfer the ROM zip from your computer directly to your phone), or just use a card reader to transfer the file from your computer to your SD card, then put the card back into your phone. Boot into TWRP and go to the wipe menu. Do a wipe of system, data, Dalvik & cache. Once you've done this, go to the install option, then locate the ROM zip you placed on your SD card. Flash the ROM. Once the install completes, reboot the phone. The first boot will take a few minutes so be patient. Afterwards the phone should boot to the OS.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671395
Also, USB debugging is only useful when the phone is actually booted to the OS. It doesn't matter that it isn't enabled for your particular dilemma. If all else fails, shoot me a PM and I may have something else that can get you up and running.
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Can you still boot into recovery
I put TWRP on it and can boot to recovery. However, it fails flashing the Cyanogenmod zip because (it says) you need to wipe the device due to an incompatible device layout. So I tried that and naturally it wiped the zip off the /sdcard. Then I mounted the sdcard from TWRP but I couldn't write to it from my computer. (I could see the now-empty drive.) So I said what the heck and rebooted the system and had a like-new device.
I had backed that up before I did anything. So transferred another copy of the cyanogemod zip to the tablet, rebooted to TWRP and tried to install it again. Still no luck. I then transferred my backup to my tablet and restored the backup so I'm back where I started.
Is there another way I haven't thought of?
I put 12 on my n5110 before I found slim rom 4.4.4. Had no trouble with the install of either one. Have you tried putting the cm zip on the external sd card and installing from that using twrp? I also think you can use either Odin or adb but as I recall the methodology will be different. Lots of people with a lot more experience here maybe someone else has some suggestions as well.
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Expat