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Root Cyanogenmod/custom ROM issues

JerryScript said:
When you use the IHO recovery mentioned earlier, you select items with the camera button instead of the menu button. ;)
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I've been trying the camera button (it has worked before), but none of the buttons work. They either take away the menu and give me a solid colored icon in the middle or move up or down the menu.
 
Try not to get ahead of yourself. I've been helping people get there phones straightened out for quite a while. Be patient. You recovery is borked. In order to get a good recovery on your phone we need to put the proper flash_image for the custom recovery.
 
AndyOpie150 said:
Try not to get ahead of yourself. I've been helping people get there phones straightened out for quite a while. Be patient. You recovery is borked. In order to get a good recovery on your phone we need to put the proper flash_image for the custom recovery.
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I know I'm sorry, I've just been working on this all day today and all night last night. I really screwed up. But, how can I get the flash_image for the recovery?
 
Go to the link provided on a PC and download it. Insert the sd card into the PC and transfer the download (after you unzip it) onto the sd card. While you got access to sd card rename recovery after making sure if unzipped. No need for ES file explorer.
when done put back into phone. Then follow install instructions starting with the terminal emulator part to run the code you did just before I got back, making sure sd card is mounted.
 
Sorry I won't keep you up, but I will probably need help still.

I can't rename the file recovery.img because that name already exists??
 
@lilrob You really do need to slow down. Andy is awesome at this, but because your posting three times to each of his, you're running yourself ragged. As he said earlier, be patient. He'll get you squared away.
 
Okay, I got it, but uh-oh. it went into a blue screen (not recovery) and it says:
Fastboot mode started
gpio_i2c: invalid khz: 0
bl: i2c write error
udc_start()
-- suspend --
-- reset --
-- portchange --
fastboot: processing commands

and it seems to be stuck in this screen. What should I do??
 
brotherswing said:
@lilrob You really do need to slow down. Andy is awesome at this, but because your posting three times to each of his, you're running yourself ragged. As he said earlier, be patient. He'll get you squared away.
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I can tell he is, and based on the links and forums he keeps popping up in I know he is good. I just get frustrated and I am leaving for California Thursday and I will need my phone cuz I am meeting my girlfriend... long story short, I pray this works. lol
 
Whoa! You've reached the bootloader. I suggest you set your phone down, and patiently wait for Andy, or bigsupersquid to assist you. Your in deeper than most people even know exit, let alone how to deal with. Don't try to do anything else with it tonight, you are in a place where you could do some damage. Your phone isn't trashed, but you do need to wait for more experienced help.
 
hahaha awesome! I feel accomplished (sarcasm) lol Hopefully Andy or bigsupersquid can help soon! I guess I will get some shut eye... after all it's 1:00 am. :)

edit: now it says:
Fastboot mode started
gpio_i2c: invalid khz: 0
bl: i2c write error
udc_start()
-- suspend --
-- reset --
-- portchange --
fastboot: processing commands
-- suspend --


so I guess I stink at this lol
 
lilrob1213 said:
I have a Macbook Pro... will this help? Also, I had Android 2.2, but I went into about this phone and it says Android version 2.3.7. What happened was I wanted Ice Cream Sandwich, so I found the final edition of the ROM here: [ROM] ICSandwich2.3.7 - Final Edition [December 12, 2011] - xda-developers
but then I downloaded it, made a titanium backup, wiped dalvick cache, wiped data, and made a nandroid backup. Then I tried to flash zip from sd card and it showed up, but it kept going into the files in the folder, instead of unzipping the ROM?? And I did use ROM manager to flash my clockworkmod recovery (I still don't really know what all of this means lol). I will be checking on going to the market with my mac, but I tried to download the apps from my phone using the web browser, and it said it was already installed (from my previous version maybe but not this one).
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i wanted to try the rom mentioned here but it didn't download as a zip :(
 
Hey cammy, it's a little triicky, but it will.
Go to the middle of the download page and find the place where it says free user(slower download) . It might pop up another page. If it does, exit that page. Go back to center page. You have to put in a couple of funky words into a little box.
Go to just under the red(fastest download) bar. Top of the right hand box. Look at were it says mega cloud with a picture of a house. Wait for the green download bar to appear. Click on it.
 
lilrob1213: pull battery and hold power button down for 30sec.
Reinstall battery . Tell me step by step what you did.
Getting into the boot loader shouldn't have happened. Tell me how you got there so I can make sure you don't go there again.
will be able to help at 1:00 pm eastern time.
 
@cammy You do know that it isn't really ICS, right? It's 2.3.7 (BACKside, in fact) themed much like your tutorial. Just wanted you to know...
 
AndyOpie150 said:
lilrob1213: pull battery and hold power button down for 30sec.
Reinstall battery . Tell me step by step what you did.
Getting into the boot loader shouldn't have happened. Tell me how you got there so I can make sure you don't go there again.
will be able to help at 1:00 pm eastern time.
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I did that and it loaded the phone back to what it was! thanks! :D its not completely fixed but it's at least back to a working phone.
How I got there was, I renamed the xionia recovery file to recovery.img like you said and went into the terminal emulator and typed in your instructions word for word:

su(return)
mount_-o_remount,rw_-t_yaffs2_/system_/system(return)
cat_/sdcard/flash_image_>_/system/bin/flash_image(return)
chmod_755_/system/bin/flash_image(return)
flash_image_recovery_/sdcard/recovery.img(return)
reboot_recovery(return)

And it went into that blue screen.
 
When you got done typing the code, before the part that says: reboot recovery, you should have gotten some code streaming down the page. At the bottom of it all, by itself should have been a #
If not we need to make sure everything is typed in exactly. Spaces were there supposed to be and everything just so.

You might have a Novatek screen which means Xionia v1.2518.6 won't work.
we need to get the other recovery, VM670NH, unzipped. It will work with either screen.
I forgot! Can you transfer things to the sd card while it's in the PC?
 
AndyOpie150 said:
When you got done typing the code, before the part that says: reboot recovery, you should have gotten some code streaming down the page. At the bottom of it all, by itself should have been a #
If not we need to make sure everything is typed in exactly. Spaces were there supposed to be and everything just so.

You might have a Novatek screen which means Xionia v1.2518.6 won't work.
we need to get the other recovery, VM670NH, unzipped. It will work with either screen.
I forgot! Can you transfer things to the sd card while it's in the PC?
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Okay, that's alot to think about. I didn't get some stream of code after typing in the reboot recovery I don't think. Should I delete the xionia file and get the VM670NH file instead? and you want me to unzip it on the root of the sd card correct? and yes I can transfer things to the sd card while it is plugged in to my mac through the usb cable. (This is random, but for some reason it won't let me when it is just the sd card in the adapter thing in my sd card slot on my mac it says read only but when plugged into the phone it works just fine.)

edit: I got the VM670NH recovery it says .img already so is that unzipped? I clicked on it and my computer said nothing to mount to or something like that but idk exactly what... I will be gone for maybe an hour or so but I'll be back.
 
Ok. Try the VM670NH. Were did you get it from? It should already be unzipped.
delete the xionia off your sd card and rename the VM670NH to recovery.img

If you have a hard time unzipping it I'll find you one that already is.
 
Okay, I got it, but it shows up twice in my file manager?? I have too many files I think cuz I have a
._.TemporaryItems
._.Trashes
._VM670NH_recovery.img (4.00 KB)
._flash_image (4.00 KB)
._gapps-gb-20110828-s... (4.00 KB)
._signed_ICSandwich2.... (4.00 KB)
BACKside-IHO-VM670... (63.37 MB)
VM670NH_recovery.img (4.01 MB)
flash_image (9.41 KB)
gapps-gb-20110828-sig... (6.11 MB)
signed_ICSandwich2.3.... (70.30 MB)

so there are more choices to choose from than just one and I'm not sure why because when I put in the SD card, it only shows one of each?
 
AndyOpie150 said:
...You might have a Novatek screen which means Xionia v1.2518.6 won't work.
we need to get the other recovery, VM670NH, unzipped. It will work with either screen.
I forgot! Can you transfer things to the sd card while it's in the PC?
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Sorry to butt in, but...
the Novatek screens work with all sprint and vm software.
It's the cruddy Hitachi screens that cause trouble.
The .6 xionia works with both. But it's written for sprint optimus.

The blue screen means a bad recovery flash.
You can actually use that mode to install a recovery if you have the fastboot program, but I don't wanna go into that in this thread.

For now, it looks like flash_image is installed, so try two lines in terminal
Code: 
su
flash_image recovery /sdcard/VM670NH_recovery.img
then report the output here.
 
Those are the good files.
Keep them on the root of the sd card and then go back to the installation instructions.

If after typing all the line of code EXCEPT FOR(reboot recovery) you get a #(weather you get the streaming line of code), then and only then can you type in: reboot recovery.

Don't forget to rename the recovery or type it in exactly as its spelled on the sd card if you cant get it renamed.
 
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