Might be in trouble.

[garment69]

Just rooted and was preparing to flash a new rom. Went into CWM and wiped everything as instructed. Rebooted phone and now its stuck on the Samsung Galaxy S2 screen with the yellow triangle. Been like this for about 15 minutes. Tried a battery pull, same thing.

How much trouble am I in?

Just reflashed and all ok. Any idea why this might have happened?

 

[Shotgun84]

What ROM were you flashing? Was it cyanogenmod as you have to flash that twice. Once to put their recovery system on your phone, the other to flash the ROM. Strangely they don't mention that in the flashing instructions.

 

[garment69]

What ROM were you flashing? Was it cyanogenmod as you have to flash that twice. Once to put their recovery system on your phone, the other to flash the ROM. Strangely they don't mention that in the flashing instructions.

I was going to flash Pure ICS. Did full wipe, wipe partition and then wipe davik cache. Phone would not reboot. Just stuck on the yellow triangle GS2 page. Never even made it to flashing the rom.

 

[Shotgun84]

Honestly I'm not really sure why it didn't flash properly the first time. I guess its just one of those things. There's been times when things haven't flashed properly for me the first time round for no apparent reason. As long as your phones up and running now I probably wouldn't worry about it too much.

 

[garment69]

Honestly I'm not really sure why it didn't flash properly the first time. I guess its just one of those things. There's been times when things haven't flashed properly for me the first time round for no apparent reason. As long as your phones up and running now I probably wouldn't worry about it too much.

I think I'll tempt fate and give it another shot.

 

[daffyduck]

One thing you can do, if the developer provides an MD5 for the rom is to check the MD5 reference when you download the rom.

If you Google MD5 checker, there are some good freeware programs that can check the MD5 of any rom file (can't remember if it only works on zip files, been a while since I used the laptop last).

But yes, I've also had the problem of having to flash twice when changing rom also means it needs to upgrade the version of CWM. When it first happened to me, I thought I may have bricked my phone as well.

 

[garment69]

One thing you can do, if the developer provides an MD5 for the rom is to check the MD5 reference when you download the rom.

If you Google MD5 checker, there are some good freeware programs that can check the MD5 of any rom file (can't remember if it only works on zip files, been a while since I used the laptop last).

But yes, I've also had the problem of having to flash twice when changing rom also means it needs to upgrade the version of CWM. When it first happened to me, I thought I may have bricked my phone as well.

You think it might be a bad version of cwm? Like I mentioned, I didn't even get to flashing the firmware. All I did was wipe and the phone wouldn't reboot.

 

[ykkfive]

Just rooted and was preparing to flash a new rom. Went into CWM and wiped everything as instructed. Rebooted phone and now its stuck on the Samsung Galaxy S2 screen with the yellow triangle. Been like this for about 15 minutes. Tried a battery pull, same thing.

How much trouble am I in?

Just reflashed and all ok. Any idea why this might have happened?

i saw it once before. the phone was unable to boot since it couldnt find/read some boot info and forced to the download mode. usually caused by improper partition cleanup/mount process

 

[garment69]

i saw it once before. the phone was unable to boot since it couldnt find/read some boot info and forced to the download mode. usually caused by improper partition cleanup/mount process

So I did it again and it worked fine. I realized that I made a mistake in rebooting the system after doing all the wipes. This time I did the wipes and then flashed the new ROM straight away, without rebooting the phone first. Dont know if that made the difference but it seems to have worked.

 

[ernest101]

So I did it again and it worked fine. I realized that I made a mistake in rebooting the system after doing all the wipes. This time I did the wipes and then flashed the new ROM straight away, without rebooting the phone first. Dont know if that made the difference but it seems to have worked.

If i am right, after wiping and you reboot the phone's system, it starts to develop cache and dalvik-cache as it loads, which screws with your flashing of the new ROM.