Root How Long Does a NAND Restore Ususually Take?

[Brian Rubin]

Hey y'all, question? I was running Cyanogen, and backed up my ROM using Amon RA. Then, with Amon RA, tried to flash another ROM, which failed. I'm now restoring the backup, but it's been going for over an hour. Does a restore usually take this long? Thanks!

 

[mdizzle99]

No it usually only takes 5 minutes or so. Pull the battery or press the power and volume buttons to reset the phone and try again. Or try a different nand backup. That happened to me once before.

 

[Brian Rubin]

K, I only have one backup through AMON Ra. I do have another backup in ClockwordMod though. How could I flash ClockworkMod if I had to?

 

[Brian Rubin]

K, so the restore completed in a moment or so, but it's still on the white screen for what's longer than usual.

 

[Brian Rubin]

Sigh, okay, I restored the NAND backup successfully, but it's been on the white screen for ages now. I have another backup, but in ClockworkMod. How can I flash ClockworkMod so I can use that instead of Amon RA?

 

[Muellersirch]

If you can get into the phone, the easiest way to flash a recovery image (amon Ra or clockwork) is to use ROM manager

 

[Brian Rubin]

Sigh, I can't get to the phone I think, It sits at the white htx EVO 4G screen for ages.

 

[Muellersirch]

Try pulling the battery and letting it just boot like normal. Sometimes my phone takes a while to boot up, just be patient.

 

[Brian Rubin]

Alrighty, I'll give that a try. So frustrated.

 

[Brian Rubin]

K, been on the white screen for 30 minutes now.

 

[wrapkgb]

You can access the sd card from your pc while in recovery. Put another rom on your sd card, wipe flash and reboot. Then load rom manager and flash clockwork back.

 

[Brian Rubin]

I can't flash it because I keep getting this error:

assert failed: write_raw_image("/tmp/boot.img","boot")

I'm getting really scared. Please help.

 

[wrapkgb]

Have you tried more than one rom and still get that error? It may ne a bad zip.

 

[Brian Rubin]

The Cyanogen and MIUI zip's both give me that error.

 

[wrapkgb]

Do you have hboot 2.02? I hear amon doesn't play nice with it so that might be your problem. I have search high and low and can not find the clockwork thread over on xda!

 

[Brian Rubin]

I do have 2.02. Blerg. I'm trying to figure out how to flash back ClockworkMod.

 

[wrapkgb]

Alright I think I may have found a fix. Goto this thread [ROOT][GUIDE] HBoot 2.02/2.10 SOFF - Its a Wrap Edition - Upd. 12.31.10 - xda-developers and at the very bottom of the first post is instructions to fix a broken recovery. It is a pc36img so you will install from hboot. Its from the 2.02 root guide so it should get you back to where you.need to be!

 

[Brian Rubin]

K, it seemed to complete properly, and I'm now at the white screen again.

 

[wrapkgb]

Let me know!!!

 

[Brian Rubin]

Am I supposed to let it try to boot as normal, or do I need to go back into recovery and try to restore a NAND?

 

[Brian Rubin]

K, NM, I tried to reflash Cyanogen after running that update, and it completed successfully! Now I wait while the white screen is on, but I know booting takes longer after a wipe of the caches.

OMG OMG IT'S BACK. THE CYANOGEN BOOTSCREEN IS ON! YAY! YAY! THANK YOU!!!!!!!

 

[Brian Rubin]

Wait, I might've spoken too soon. The boot screen keeps reloading.

 

[wrapkgb]

Your making progress! Did you wipe everything prior to flashing? Also are you on clockwork now? If so try and restore a nand.

 

[akazabam]

I know I'm late to the party here, but I thought I'd ask - where did you get RA recovery from? ROM manager? RA has the same issues that Clockwork did up until the very recent update. The RA recovery available from that post wrap linked to is basically a fixed version for newer phones. If you flashed the normal RA recovery, that explains why it didn't work.

Right now, it sounds like you're just in a boot loop. Take wraps advice, and make sure you've wiped everything. Once you get everything back up, you should make sure you haven't wiped out your wimax keys.

 

[Brian Rubin]

Whew. I actually flashed the PC36IMG.zip file from here in the HBOOT screen and finally was able to boot to a stable ROM, load ROM Manager, flash ClockworkMod, and do another backup. I've since reinstalled Cyanogen, and everything is working as it should. Thank you sooo much, everyone, for your help today.