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Root HELP! Can't boot, cant Factory reset

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juleskywalker

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I have been having a lot of trouble flashing ROMs recently, and I seemed to lose functionality each time. I try clearing cache and Dalvik cache from recovery, then flash a rom from the SD card, but since flashing a few days ago, the apps and settings remained and lately my phone has gotten so unreliable, even the phone function crashes. I am trying to do a factory reset either with the button or through recovery to get back basic functionality, but it keeps trying to boot my last rom. How can I get my phone back?

I am less concerned about data then I am about having a working phone at this point.

History:
1. Rooted with Unrevoked3
2. Flashed Nil's Business Gingersense (Sense 3.0) but had some problems with 3G, etc
3. Flashed Cyanogenmod, but decided I liked Sense
4. Reflashed Business Gingersense. Began losing functionality (is there a kernel problem?)
5. Tried to go to my backup of the original rom, data somehow wasnt erased.
6. Noticed problem with recovery looking for pb31img.zip
7. Tried to update to Business Gingersense (Sense 3.5). Data wasnt erased again, and everything began crashing.
 
How are you wiping, Rom manager or directly in recovery? If recovery, are you wiping data, then cache, then Dalvik. I noticed you didn't mention the data wipe in the OP which would certainly explain the situation.
 
I have tried "Clear Storage" in both boot and recovery, then "wipe cache partition" and "wipe dalvik cache" in recovery, and it still tries to boot into Business Gingersense. Did I miss another wipe option?
 
None of what you did affects the ROM, clear storage erases your storage memory, not ROM. Wipe cache and wipe Dalvik only clears these temporary cache. When the ROM boots and runs apps, the cache will be back.

You need to FLASH a new ROM or RESTORE a ROM backup.


juleskywalker said:
I have tried "Clear Storage" in both boot and recovery, then "wipe cache partition" and "wipe dalvik cache" in recovery, and it still tries to boot into Business Gingersense. Did I miss another wipe option?
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Goto recovery, assuming Clockwork. Choose "wipe data/factory reset", then "wipe cache partition", then wipe Dalvik if you want. Then while still in recovery and with your rom of choice in the SD card..."install zip from sdcard", "choose zip from sd card", navigate to your rom and install it.
 
I tried recovering my backup, and now my phone is back up, but I was under the impression that it would not have all my data after all that. My background is the same, and my app icons are back where I had them. Does the recovery handle all that? I guess I just assumed it would be a clean slate as it was when I flashed a new rom.

Hopefully this is working, and not psuedo working, as it was before, when it started to degrade.

Thanks all!
 
Nandroid restore in Clockwork brings you back to exactly where you were at the time of the backup. Only things that could possibly be different are hboot and radio and that's only if you independently flashed either via hboot since the backup was made. Otherwise, nand restore brings back the works.
 
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