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PrinceCorwin

PrinceCorwin

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I tried the pwnage tool. I think the connection was loose because the command prompt got stuck on "waiting for reboot". My phone had finished rebooting but the debugging and internet connection icons were not in the notification bar. When I lifted the phone, they came back and the prompt said everything failed and then "rebooting one last time". That stayed that way for almost an hour with nothing happening. So I x'd out of the command prompt and started over. After I chose "n" for "am I rooted", nothing happened. Also, my phone now says "no service" and I can't uncheck debugging. It's greyed out.

What do I do now?
 
Also, my phone will no longer let me select internet connection. When I do, It simply keeps whatever the previous selection was.
 
Everything you're saying suggests a bad USB connection. Try a different cable. You can't select anything that has to do with USB on the phone while you're on stock (debugging, Internet methods, etc) unless it sees a connection.

Does your phone show up as a connected device on the computer? It may be easier to see on an app like usbdeview sorted by connected devices.
 
I failed on the pwnage with a bad cord..... LOL. But I just redid the pwnage tool and it worked fine (lucky me I guess). Just chose not rooted for failsafe.

Check and make sure you didn't somehow accidently softbrick the phone by erasing NV data. If you should still get an IMEI reading from the phone software side and if it matches the hardware code on the back you should be good. If you did damage it, well, I hope you have a backup. LGNPST 1.3+ would have done it auto, the former was manual.

If cab method recovery doesn't work, try a .tot.
 
steamer86 said:
I failed on the pwnage with a bad cord..... LOL. But I just redid the pwnage tool and it worked fine (lucky me I guess). Just chose not rooted for failsafe.

Check and make sure you didn't somehow accidently softbrick the phone by erasing NV data. If you should still get an IMEI reading from the phone software side and if it matches the hardware code on the back you should be good. If you did damage it, well, I hope you have a backup. LGNPST 1.3+ would have done it auto, the former was manual.

If cab method recovery doesn't work, try a .tot.
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I finally got the connection to stabilize and redid it. It worked. Backing up with TB now. Gonna flash CM next
 
PrinceCorwin said:
What's "the tar method"
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In CWM?

There's 2 methods of backup. Tar or Bup or whatever it is.

Tar creates a full backup in tarballs each time you run a backup. This lets you copy individual nandroids for archival that you can then restore later. It's somewhat slower and takes up more space on the SDcard if you don't manage your backups.

The other method, whatever it's called, makes differential backups basically and stores all of your backups as blobs. You can't break free individual nandroids for archival. Though, it is faster and overall it should take up less space on the sdcard. Though, if the blobs get corrupted you lose all of your backups.
 
Can't get my compy to show my phone's sd card now. Don't know if that will be a problem. Gonna drop the ROM and GAPPs via cloud. Anyone know why this is happening?
 
Did you change your USB mode back in the stock rom?

Under System > Storage hit menu, you should have a USB connection mode. Change that to mass storage.

Also, you may have a notification that is prompting you to turn on USB storage for the computer.
 
Am I right in assuming that to install ROM and Gapps, I just put the zips on the root of my sd card and after making nandroid, I just navigate to the files and tap on them. ROM first then gapps?
 
PrinceCorwin said:
Am I right in assuming that to install ROM and Gapps, I just put the zips on the root of my sd card and after making nandroid, I just navigate to the files and tap on them. ROM first then gapps?
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Assuming that you've backed everything up in tar format:

Place the rom and Gapps on your SDcard, correct.

Make sure that you're using the right GAPPS, you need the ones for 4.2.2 if you're running CM10.1 AOKP42 or PAC.

Wipe Data/Factory Reset
Wipe Cache
Advanced > Wipe Dalvik
(really the first one covers the second and third, but never hurts to be safe)
Install zip from SDcard > Choose Zip > Scroll to your rom zip, tap it and select yes
Repeat but for your Gapps zip.
Reboot System, and configure everything.

If you didn't do a backup of everything in Titanium Backup, you can get it now. I believe the new one lets you extract and restore from a nandroid.
 
Yoinx said:
Did you change your USB mode back in the stock rom?

Under System > Storage hit menu, you should have a USB connection mode. Change that to mass storage.

Also, you may have a notification that is prompting you to turn on USB storage for the computer.
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Duh!!! That one actually made me feel stupid because I didn't change the setting. So much new stuff going on for me, I'm forgetting the little stuff
 
PrinceCorwin said:
Duh!!! That one actually made me feel stupid because I didn't change the setting. So much new stuff going on for me, I'm forgetting the little stuff
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No worries.

If you still can't get it mounted, to save yourself from having to upload/download from the cloud... I like to use airdroid it lets you access the phone via wifi so you get full speed and you're upload straight to the phone so there's not the delay having to upload then download.

You can also just push it from adb.

adb push file_name.zip /sdcard/file_name.zip

With file_name being whatever your zips are named (obviously). This would give you your full usb speed, but if your cable is finnicky... airdroid may be a better choice.
 
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