Root Bricked the unbrickable?

[jerry42570]

So, without the ability to flash Mobile Sensei's Stock 605 Deodexed ROM I figured I'd sbf, take the .605 OTA update (for the first time ever), root, and flash a theme. Well.....what I did not take care of was MAKING SURE I WAS DEODEXED FIRST!!!!

So, here I am - unable to sbf my phone and stuck in a bootloop after sbfing. Any suggestions?

I've sbf'd at least five times since yesterday - as I've done numerous times in the past using the same .602 sbf file. The only thing different this time around, is that I took the OTA .605 update rather than flashing a .605 based ROM. What to try next? Any......and I mean ANY, suggestions would be appreciated. I use numerous forums for such things, and AF usually has someone who has experienced any issue I've ever run into before. But this time around I can not for the life of me find any comparable scenario.


EDIT- Ummmm....never mind. I was able to get into stock recovery, wiped evrything, and I'm OK now . And, sorry for getting all panicky and stuff

 

[colchiro]

Glad you got it figured out.

Good day to wear brown pants?

 

[cougar214]

We always recommend wiping thoroughly after.....Did you forget yer toiletpaper?....lol

 

[VoidedSaint]

always flush before you walk away

 

[colchiro]

Spoiler

... and wipe from front to back.

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

 

[jerry42570]

LOL at all of the above!

But seriously though I think my CWR is messed up. My whole dilemma started with getting MD5 sum mismatch error messages when trying to restore certain backups. Even now, after sbfing, I tried to restore backups from my sd card and I got weird errors for each, saying that the file is empty or something like that. Unfortunately I've deleted all of my backups now and can not recreate the messages.

Thank goodness for Tibu.

 

[colchiro]

Yup, you don't want all your eggs in one basket. I update TIBU and make a backup in recovery before flashing a rom or doing something risky.

 

[cougar214]

Another thing you always want to do is when using TiBu to restore your apps, don't restore system data. Restore apps and user data is fine. But never system data. It will give you system file mismatches and you will get nothing but force closes and will have to SBF again.

This of course is assuming you make a backup with a fresh install of .605 and then proceed to flash a new Rom and/or theme over it. If you stay on stock .605 then you can restore everything.