Waffle_Factory
Lurker
Well, as you may or may not know, sometime during the month of April, firmware "g" for the Motion was put out for the phone as a system update, with nothing but the removal of a few bloatware apps, as well as bug fixes.
I had never gotten an interest in rooting my phone until, say, 2 weeks ago. Found it really convenient that you can install an apk file and have the dirty work being done with a single (or two) clicks. Didn't do anything drastic after rooting, I simply just granted superuser access for apps such as Clean Master, Greenify, and Lucky Patcher. That was until I decided I was unsatisfied with the ROM, and knew I had the advantage to change it.
Now, here's the problem I'm facing -- mentioning the firmware "g" update earlier, I'm led to believe it's the cause of this:
Basically, I look into THIS YouTube video as a guide to boot into CWM Recovery Mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhnoulznQCo
I download everything necessary, such as the gapps.zip, and of course CM10.zip, even the CModem.zip. I wanna have everything in preparation, and after all that is done, that is when I install the apk file, click on "2nd-init Recovery", grant superuser access, then click on "Reboot Recovery"
What happens after that? Well, seeing that it luckily didn't unbrick, it also didn't boot me to the CWM Recovery. Completely confident that I would get the rest of the steps done in a solid manner, the phone itself won't even let me get to one of the first ones. I then download ClockWorkMod ROM Manager, thinking I need it, but on the contrary. My phone isn't exactly compatible with that app, so I was in fact taking the right step by downloading the Lte2Recovery.apk. I didn't know this until I took the risk of setting whatever, and rebooting to recovery through ROM Manager. All that did was factory reset my phone leaving me on the same firmware, and I was surprised that didn't manage to brick it. Even more surprising was the fact that my phone didn't unroot.
Even after the factory reset, with many attempts, clicking on "2nd-init Recovery", and "Reboot Recovery" (all downloads done), as instructed in the video, it does nothing but reboot my phone back to the lockscreen, when it shouldn't.
My hypothesis was that it had to do with the firmware, but I wouldn't say that's definite. Any chance I could get any help out of this? Anything I'm doing wrong?
I had never gotten an interest in rooting my phone until, say, 2 weeks ago. Found it really convenient that you can install an apk file and have the dirty work being done with a single (or two) clicks. Didn't do anything drastic after rooting, I simply just granted superuser access for apps such as Clean Master, Greenify, and Lucky Patcher. That was until I decided I was unsatisfied with the ROM, and knew I had the advantage to change it.
Now, here's the problem I'm facing -- mentioning the firmware "g" update earlier, I'm led to believe it's the cause of this:
Basically, I look into THIS YouTube video as a guide to boot into CWM Recovery Mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhnoulznQCo
I download everything necessary, such as the gapps.zip, and of course CM10.zip, even the CModem.zip. I wanna have everything in preparation, and after all that is done, that is when I install the apk file, click on "2nd-init Recovery", grant superuser access, then click on "Reboot Recovery"
What happens after that? Well, seeing that it luckily didn't unbrick, it also didn't boot me to the CWM Recovery. Completely confident that I would get the rest of the steps done in a solid manner, the phone itself won't even let me get to one of the first ones. I then download ClockWorkMod ROM Manager, thinking I need it, but on the contrary. My phone isn't exactly compatible with that app, so I was in fact taking the right step by downloading the Lte2Recovery.apk. I didn't know this until I took the risk of setting whatever, and rebooting to recovery through ROM Manager. All that did was factory reset my phone leaving me on the same firmware, and I was surprised that didn't manage to brick it. Even more surprising was the fact that my phone didn't unroot.
Even after the factory reset, with many attempts, clicking on "2nd-init Recovery", and "Reboot Recovery" (all downloads done), as instructed in the video, it does nothing but reboot my phone back to the lockscreen, when it shouldn't.
My hypothesis was that it had to do with the firmware, but I wouldn't say that's definite. Any chance I could get any help out of this? Anything I'm doing wrong?
