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Root GPE flash problems

ChadWilliam1

ChadWilliam1

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I just flashed twrp recovery and did a clean install of GPE 5.0 and everything seemed to go fine it loaded up and was downloading my apps and for some reason after twenty minutes into it. It is now on the screen where the green, yellow, blue and red dots are floating around in the center of the screen. It has been doing this for an hour now and i can not get it to anything. Any advice?

Thanks Chad
 
Well I got the GPE working fine but I found it to be boring so i decided to flash viper rom when i went to make a back up with TWRP recovery it failed no matter where I put it internal memory or SD card. So I flashed it anyway and I got a viper rom failure status 7. So I tried an older version and same thing. I then flashed the GPE back on. I did do a full wipe every time both with twrp and with the instillation of the roms. My concern is i dont think it is doing a full wipe I think it is doing a full wipe because when i look at my available storage it says 24 gigs instead of 32 gigs or around the formatted amount.
 
I think that's right - of 32 about 24 are available to the user.

As I recall, you can set the wipe to do "rm - rf" (force recursive removal rather than format) - check under advanced settings.

I'm going by memory here but aren't there two GPE rom methods? One uses the same partition layout as the Sense phone and the other doesn't?

If you used the modified-partition one, that might explain it - and you have to restore your original Sense partition layout first. Maybe even a TWRP change for that?

Again - my memory is old on this.

Got a link handy for the GPE you used?
 
when i go to wipe data on twrp and advance settings i can check these options. I do not know what the default is. But any idea why i can no back it up. I tried saving it to both internal and Sd.
dalvik cache
system
cache
data
internal storage
micro sd
usb otg
 
nevermind it just let me back up the system. Maybe i will try checking all those options but the last two and installing it again?
 
There's no point in saving cache or Dalvik. Those rebuild themselves and are the first thing you want to wipe after any flash or backup restore.

Boot should also be in the list to backup.

The default for a wipe is format. The rm keeps the previous format and does an exhaustive erase of what's within it.
 
Under normal circumstances, wipe via format is better but the rm option is there for when things turn abnormal.

I was saved by the rm option when I had a corrupted flash really hose me a few years back.

After getting back to normal, I switched back to the default format for wiping.

FULL format is an extreme measure.
 
I just did the rm option then wiped it through twrp but I did not wipe it again through the viper install and it failed
 
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