Yesterday I tried to install CyanogenMod7 on my phone, which failed miserably, and since I have been reading and trying all sorts of things, without success.
At the time it had CF-Root installed, and a ROM manager installed from Market.
I tried installing CM7 through the user interface, the phone rebooted, and then it hung at the Samsung logo screen, and has never gotten past that point again.
I have booted into Android Recovery System (3e) to attempt to install CM7 from there, but i cannot see my SD card in the ARS(3e). It claims to be showing the SD cars, and that it is in the /sdcard folder, but the contents of the folder are those of the internal storage.
So basically I am stuck at the boot logo, I can access Download Mode and Recovery Mode, but that's it.
Oh, and the SD card is 2 weeks old, and has been working perfectly.
Does anyone here have any advise on how I could get my phone up and running again?
It sounds like you haven't flashed the kernel.
I did flash the kernel by installing the CF-root for my device using ODIN.
I have since installed the stock kernel again, to see if that helped.
CM7 Q&A post ????
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1176411
Usual steps are to follow the instructions .
You require a CWM 4 or above root and CWM .
jje
I was following the instructions, and I have done this before with other Android phones.
My problem is that when I am trying to select the Update.zip, the directory listing shows my internal storage, and not the SD card. So I am unable to select an OS to install.
REPEAT
You have
I have booted into Android Recovery System (3e)
You require CWM 4e
jje
The problem is repeating.
I have tried installing CVM 4e, but I am still left with a phone that hangs on the initial Samsung logo, and where I am unable to access the SD card from the CVM.
JJEgan said:
REPEAT
You have
I have booted into Android Recovery System (3e)
You require CWM 4e
jje
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jje
he is stuck on the bootloader screen and cannot access cwm 4e, the best he can do is the stock recovery 3e as he is trying to flash the update located on the external sdcard which can not be accessed from recovery 3e as it is not seen only internal sdcard can be seen in recovery mode.
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funfarm
Can you see your phone's directory when you are plugged into the computer.
If yes, move the update into the root of the internal sdcard and use which ever recovery you have to flash on to the phone>
I can not see the phones directory when I am plugged into the computer, but I copied CM7 onto the phones internal directory just in case. So it is there, but it has the original file name, and I get errors, when I try to install it from CVM 3e or 4e.
If by "recovery" you mean something other than CVM7, I have no way of accessing the phones internal storage, as far as I am aware of.
Boot loop thread has instructions go back to a clean stock rom and flash 4 e recovery and root .
Make sure you're running a rooted device.
Root your device and install ClockworkMod Recovery (http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1118693)
Do a Nandroid backup!
WIPE (wipe data/factory reset + wipe cache partition) - do it for real.
Install the ROM from internal sdcard using ClockworkMod Recovery
i just followed those instructions to the letter and CM7 installed no problem .
Wiped phone clean installed a stock rom then rooted with cwm 4 e .
jje
jje
JJEgan said:
Boot loop thread has instructions go back to a clean stock rom and flash 4 e recovery and root .
Make sure you're running a rooted device. - Check!
Root your device and install ClockworkMod Recovery (http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1118693) - Check!
Do a Nandroid backup! - Check!
WIPE (wipe data/factory reset + wipe cache partition) - do it for real. - Check!
Install the ROM from internal sdcard using ClockworkMod Recovery - Check
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I have CM7 and MoDaCo on my internal storage. When I try to install the CM7, it fails with a (status 7), and when I install the MoDaCo it claims to install without errors, but when I reboot, the phone hangs on the Samsung boot screen logo.
I am wondering if there is something wrong with the rooting, or if it has failed? If so, is there a way to root the phone, while unable to boot into the os, and is there a way to restore the phone to it's original OS and ROM?
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I am wondering if there is something wrong with the rooting, or if it has failed? If so, is there a way to root the phone, while unable to boot into the os,
You dont need the OS for rooting a phone .
Guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1125282
Stock Roms .and csc
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
Root + CWM .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103399
Root faqs
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1246131
I had the Superuser App installed after I rooted it, so I guess it must have been properly rooted.
Then I unfortunately have no idea what to do from now on.
Anyone got any ideas?
The same
download mode
install stock rom
reboot set up phone power off
install cwm and root
End
Install whatever custom rom you want .
jje
JJEgan said:
The same
download mode
install stock rom
reboot set up phone power off
install cwm and root
End
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The "reboot set up phone power off" part I assume is there the phone boots into the Android OS, and I have to set it up, before I can use it.
The problem is, that I have several times tried installing the stock rom. There is no problem there, but the phone still only boots until the Samsung boot logo, and then it hangs. I never get to boot into the OS.
So I have three options when I turn on the phone:
* Boot into Download Mode
* Boot into CVM 4e
* Boot normally, and the phone hangs at the first boot screen.
And I still do not have access to the external SD card from the Recovery, so I am not able to add anything to the storage, for me to work with.
Essentially what I have, is an expensive paperweight
Funfarm said:
The "reboot set up phone power off" part I assume is there the phone boots into the Android OS, and I have to set it up, before I can use it.
The problem is, that I have several times tried installing the stock rom. There is no problem there, but the phone still only boots until the Samsung boot logo, and then it hangs. I never get to boot into the OS.
So I have three options when I turn on the phone:
* Boot into Download Mode
* Boot into CVM 4e
* Boot normally, and the phone hangs at the first boot screen.
And I still do not have access to the external SD card from the Recovery, so I am not able to add anything to the storage, for me to work with.
Essentially what I have, is an expensive paperweight
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Man not from the ext memory card...from internal....
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA App
I only have CM7 and MoDaCo on internal storage, and they don't work. I have no way of putting anything else on the internal storage, since the phone does not show up in windows, when I connect it.
I find it difficult to follow .
You have CMW 4 recovery but you have are trying to carry out an impossible task with it .
If you have CWM 4 recovery and you boot into it you can go to mounts and storage .
Format sd card format system format data format cache return advanced wipe dalvik cache .
Phone is now empty no OS nothing .wiped the sd card .
Next step would be to flash a stock firmware through Odin .
If none of that works you need a service centre and hope its not expensive repair .
jje
Roms to flash are placed on internal sd card not external sd card .
Funfarm said:
I only have CM7 and MoDaCo on internal storage, and they don't work. I have no way of putting anything else on the internal storage, since the phone does not show up in windows, when I connect it.
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Alternatively, you can do a proper hard reset with typing *2767*3855#
As this will wipe your internal SD-card, be sure to have everything in backup.
Then you can flash a stock ROM via Odin in download mode.
Send from my SGS2 (GT-I9100) running XXKI3 with CF-Root 4.2
Hi,
Currently using latest firmware KI3 with root.
I'm able to use CWM, backup, install zips, everything.
However, if i install a ROM trough a ZIP, i get a boot loop.
Only way to get back the phone, it's to install via ODIN with latest KI3.
Even tried with Litening Rom, and got the boot loop.
Any ideas ?
I was very keen to return to CM7.
Tx in advance.
Did you exactly what's mentioned here?
Install via ClockworkMod (do not use ROMManager for initial install):
Make sure you're running a rooted device.
Root your device and install ClockworkMod Recovery (http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1118693)
Do a Nandroid backup!
WIPE (wipe data/factory reset + wipe cache partition) - do it for real.
Install the ROM from internal sdcard using ClockworkMod Recovery.
Do not reboot! We mean it - do nothing except choose zip and continue next step (if you come back to us with permission issues in install, we will know you did not read the directions and will call you an idiot). If it just plain hangs, reboot directly back into ClockworkMod recovery and continue at the next step.
Install the ROM from internal sdcard using ClockworkMod Recovery, again (due to a bug in the install).
Reboot
Install the Google Addon through ROMManager which is easiest, but you can
download the gapps.zip and install via ClockworkMod recovery instead.
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Did you try flashing a old stock ROM like KH3, root it then try from this base?
I went from Villain ROM 2.3.5 to CyanogenMOD without any problems.
It's essential that you flash CyanogenMOD !TWICE! in a row when you're coming from a stock ROM.
Thanks.
Gonna check, as soon as i'm @ 127.0.0.1
Same behaviour, back to boot loop.
Tanx anyway!
I had a similar problem so here goes my help.
Cf root kernel uses a modified version of CWM that isn't compatible with CM7 or something like that. So what I did was flash this kernel http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1118693. Get the kernel with CWM 5.x.y.z With that I got a compatible version of CWM and from there I flashed CM7. It is important that you do a full wipe, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, format \system, everything so you don't get any trouble. THen you flash the CM7 zip file, when tha t is done, flash the zip again for a second time (don't reboot just do it after the first flash). After that reboot. That worked for me at least.
A tip: If you can't reboot your phone and you have no ROM zip file to flash via CWM you can mount usb storage from CWM for putting the ROM in sd card and flash with CWM. That way you don't have to use ODIN to recover.
Tanx Tomas.
Tried with CWM 5.x.y.z and upon "WIPE" always got an error for mounting partitions.
Could't mount CACHE, SDCARD .....
Tx anyway.
Back to ODIN, back to stock 2.3.5
PS : I have to get a JIG to reset ...
I have been trying to get to the screen where i can install from sd but it will not let me get to that point. I boot into recovery mode but the options it gives me is
reboot system now
reinstall packages
delete all user data
delete cache data
format internal sd-card
the letters are blue..................
can some help me out????? i want to install a different rom but i can't get to the install rom from sd option
Thanks
Download cwm rom manager from the manager, and install the recovery.
After that you can install the rom you desire!
i tried that and still same result. I have install other roms before but now it wont let me get to the install from sd screen
You should probably learn how to flash back to stock first (instructions are in many of the Guides). If you are flashing roms, eventually something will go wrong, and you will need to reflash to stock, or at least install a new kernel and recovery. Using Odin or Heimdall to install a kernel is part of the instructions for installing CM. Better to have Odin and the JFD file on hand when your phone bricks or boot-loops.
doozerpaul said:
I have been trying to get to the screen where i can install from sd but it will not let me get to that point. I boot into recovery mode but the options it gives me is
reboot system now
reinstall packages
delete all user data
delete cache data
format internal sd-card
the letters are blue..................
can some help me out????? i want to install a different rom but i can't get to the install rom from sd option
Thanks
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Select reinstall packsges....you may have to do it twice then you should be out of stock recovery and into clockwork recovery
Sent from My I Screamed Vibrant
You can download CWR from my signature and put it on your internal SD. Put the update.zip on the internal and make sure it is only thing labeled .zip on there. Hit Reinstall Packages, let it cycle then hit it again. Recovery will go from blue to green and then you can install ROM from SD.
+1 on the reading and how to install ROMs. Plus while you are in CWR, go to Backup/Restore and do a nandriod backup.
Good luck.
i have all that and have gone back to stock and everything. still same results
doozerpaul said:
i have all that and have gone back to stock and everything. still same results
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What these guys have told you has worked time and time again for most everyone else. What I would recommend is that you get the AIO toolbox. Everything you need in a one-stop-shop.
Apologies this is my first post and am asking for help but this is driving me crazy now!
I don't seem to be able to flash ANY ROM zip files through CWM. When I try to install a Rom it loads for about 20seconds, says "finding update zip" "installing update zip" then "zip installed " then when it reboots it is stuck in a loop on the Samsung logo start up screen (one with the yellow triangle to say it is rooted).
Only thing I can do to get it working is to flash a ROM (new stock ICS one) through Odin, then root and restore from my backup - the only backup that will work is my backup of the ICS ROM none of my other backups work CM7 / CM9 if I try and restore them I just get in to the same loop.
I have tried this loads of times now - factory reset, wipe cache, wipe Dalvik cache, format system partition. I have tried installing ROM zip files twice etc etc.
This went wrong when I flashed the new stock ICS ROM in odin then tried to do a restore to CM7 not sure what I have managed to do to get it like this.
Anyone any ideas of what I can do to get it so I can install ROM's via CWM again so I can get back to CM7 or CM9?
Any help much appreciated - thanks.
Flash a new CWM and root kernel.
Root + CWM .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103399
jje
Hi, thanks for the reply. I have tried flashing a new kernel a few times now but still get the same thing when I try and flash a new ROM in CWM, the install takes about 20 seconds then the phone is stuck in a loop at the first boot screen.
Any more ideas on what I can do?
:edit:
aha fixed this now, I followed this excellent guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1457458 on Fix an unflashable or soft bricked GSII had to do the bootloader to get it to work.
I tried installing back to noot v9 without back-uping on my s3 using clockworkmod and it gave me error status 7. I tried repairing it using odin and this rom stockroms(dot)net/file/GalaxyS3/i9300/stockrecovery/International-GT-i9300-StockRecovery.tar. Odin sais that everithing went ok and shows that big green pass icon, but everithing it did was to delete even the cwmr everything that remained being android system recovery. Also, it can't mount my sd card (I tried formating it as NTSF and FAT32).
PS: I don't know if my phone is original.
flash latest twrp
No. To be sure, that everything works, exec factory reset in samsung-recovery and reboot.
he have cwm, he should flash latest (cwm end suporrt in 2014 )
only twrp, that rom work for me
Android system recovery isn't CWM. CWM or TWRP aren't ROMs. Read&understand 1st.
read again rp158
he use default recorvery for repartition,
bisoros
check checksum rom.zip and flash custom recovery again, full wipe and try again