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Root Problems After Rooting

All the guides I see say to upgrade to ext3 and not even use ext2. I wonder if using ext2 somehow messed everything else up.
 
MizzouBrent said:
All the guides I see say to upgrade to ext3 and not even use ext2. I wonder if using ext2 somehow messed everything else up.
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First, the error is basically the same.

Second, the errors occrred after I "Partition sdcard," which doesn't give any choices as to ext level.

Third and extremely urgent. I tried using Rom Manager to re-partition the sd card. I got the message I needed to flash Clockworkmod, which I accepted and did. And that screwed me royally. It supposedly installed the latest version (5.0.2.2, I thnk). I didn't realize it would do that until I saw it listed as the current recovery. I tried to get into recovery, but it hangs the phone makng it necessary to take out the battery. Additionally, I tried to do your nine steps, but the phone hangs during the power down stage during a factory reset and nothing gets erased. I tred to re-root the phone (without unrooting), but unrevoked won't finish. I also tried flashing a new recovery, but HBoot doesn't do what the instrutions say it should with respect to a PC36img.zip file. Nothing happens at all. The phone boots up and will shut down, but I can't get to recovery or do a reset. So, now what do I do? (I think I should have left well enough alone -- at least once I got back to the stock rom; the sd-ext thing was far more minor). Seems the problems get worse and worse as I go along. :mad::confused::(
 
Ok first get your recovery needs to get back to Amon RA 2.3. Get the PC36IMG.zip file and put it on your sd root. It needs to be named EXACTLY that, capital letters count. Make sure you don't have the file name as PC36IMG.zip.zip or something like.

Don't use rom manager to do anything other than fix permissions. You can partition your SD card in recovery. You don't need to worry about unrooting and then re-rooting or any of that jazz. Get your recovery back first and then we'll go from there.
 
MizzouBrent said:
Ok first get your recovery needs to get back to Amon RA 2.3. Get the PC36IMG.zip file and put it on your sd root. It needs to be named EXACTLY that, capital letters count. Make sure you don't have the file name as PC36IMG.zip.zip or something like.

Don't use rom manager to do anything other than fix permissions. You can partition your SD card in recovery. You don't need to worry about unrooting and then re-rooting or any of that jazz. Get your recovery back first and then we'll go from there.
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I suppose you want me to then go to HBoot and wait until it prompts me to flash the file? As I thoght I described in my latest lamentation, I tried that with Clockworkmod 2.6.0.1, thinking that I'd try to work back to RA 2.3 in the order I got there in the first place. I also tried to flash RA that way originally and nothing happens. It just sits there on the HBoot screen, which is where I thought this prompting to flash occurs. If it was doing that, I wouldn't be on the verge of hari kari. In fact, my whole purpose for running unrevoked3 again without unrooting was to try to overwrite the current non-working Clockworkmod with the older version that's part of unrevoked -- it was sort of a last ditch effort before coming here with tears in my eyes. So now what?
 
Whether hboot picks it up has nothing to do with your current recovery. If hboot isn't reading the file them it's not named correctly. You need the PC36IMG.ZIP file for Amon from xda. It should be listed in the first post under the heading "the bootloader way". That file needs to be exactly named as I stated above so hboot can read it. Also the file needs to be in the sd card root which means it should be in the top level of your sd card...so not in a folder or anything like that.
 
MizzouBrent said:
Whether hboot picks it up has nothing to do with your current recovery. If hboot isn't reading the file them it's not named correctly. You need the PC36IMG.ZIP file for Amon from xda. It should be listed in the first post under the heading "the bootloader way". That file needs to be exactly named as I stated above so hboot can read it. Also the file needs to be in the sd card root which means it should be in the top level of your sd card...so not in a folder or anything like that.
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The file IS in my root of my sd card. And the file IS named PC36IMG.zip. Does the "zip" need to be in uppercase as well?

Here's something else. I was up early this morning and thought perhaps I could flash an image file from the terminal emuator. I used it to check for flash_image using a command a found in another post on this site. The command is:

su which flash_image

I got no listing. I don't know whether it was the command or the file wasn't found. So, I used Root Explorer to search for it first in /system/bin and then a general search. Root Explorer didn't find it.

So, I'm wondering if that could be why the bootloader isn't doing anything. Or is there a separate flash utility in the bootloAder?

Update: I just tried renaming the file from PC36IMG.zip to PC36IMG.ZIP. Still nothing happened.
 
mjtaryan said:
The file IS in my root of my sd card. And the file IS named PC36IMG.zip. Does the "zip" need to be in uppercase as well?

Here's something else. I was up early this morning and thought perhaps I could flash an image file from the terminal emuator. I used it to check for flash_image using a command a found in another post on this site. The command is:

su which flash_image

I got no listing. I don't know whether it was the command or the file wasn't found. So, I used Root Explorer to search for it first in /system/bin and then a general search. Root Explorer didn't find it.

So, I'm wondering if that could be why the bootloader isn't doing anything. Or is there a separate flash utility in the bootloAder?

Update: I just tried renaming the file from PC36IMG.zip to PC36IMG.ZIP. Still nothing happened.
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when you name, it leave the zip part out. windows hides extensions.
pc36.png
 
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