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Root Psuedo stock rom idea?

Update: looks like I have to start this crap all over again. Winrar crashed after 2 hours and only 67%...

HA! I edited this as well. Here is how you fix your phone if you installed beats audio or some crap and then your phone won't boot right...BUT you still have access to download mode! To those who think this is shady well---it's not the official way to do business but it fixed my phone, so there you have it.

1. Follow the instructions in xInterlopeRx's thread about Flashing the CWM recovery and do that first.
2. Download this file - > COMING SOON.
3. Extract this folder to the root of your sd card via your PC. It should say look like this: /[root]sdcard/clockworkmod/etcetcetc. Make sure you have plenty of space. THIS WILL TAKE A RIDICULOUSLY LONG TIME...probably an hour or more depending on the speed of your computer. IT WILL BE WORTH THE WAIT.
4. Go into recovery mode on your phone. HOPEFULLY YOU KNOW HOW TO DO THIS BY NOW! :)
5. Select backup and restore
6. Choose advanced restore from external sd card.
7. Choose system
8. Select the only file that should be there (should say 1980-01-01...etc, etc (Not sure why it's that date but it's a moot point))
9. RESTORE IT and then restart the phone...hopefully that fixes your problem.

10. If that did not work, try choosing simply "restore from external sd card" for step 6 then skip to steps 8-9*

*you MUST... I REPEAT MUST go into the settings on your phone and do a COMPLETE FACTORY RESET of the phone after you do this as there may be some of my personal information left behind, depending on how you had to fix the phone. Also DELETE THIS FILE off your computer immediately. Once you have completed the factory reset, then go into your CWM and make YOUR OWN BACKUP.

12. You can thank me (and Interloper especially) by sending us/me a COPY of your backup which has factory settings in place. I will then pull my personal backup down and put that one up. I would have done this but I didn't have time.

THANKS!

GOOD LUCK!
 
bump. stay tuned for the file. compressing it now, 25% done. Should be up hopefully in about 1.5 hrs.

I meant to mention this method also. My Photon-Q was fixed like this in the same manner. Maybe someone can do a factory reset, perform the backup and give us that image to restore???
 
If someone had done this the same day you posted the CWM thread, everyone's issues would have been resolved by now! heh heh...ya live ya learn.

I meant to mention this method also. My Photon-Q was fixed like this in the same manner. Maybe someone can do a factory reset, perform the backup and give us that image to restore???
 
One question, if I understand you correctly you said do a factory reset from the booted android system after you do the restore. Now all my other phones if you do a factory reset from the android system and you have a custom recovery you get a brick. Is that not the case anymore? Sorry if this is dumb question.
 
sorry man it appears that winrar crashed after 67% :(. I can't start the process all over again at this point. Looks like they are about to work out the bugs in flashing the stock roms so I would just wait for that. Again, sorry.
 
sorry man it appears that winrar crashed after 67% :(. I can't start the process all over again at this point. Looks like they are about to work out the bugs in flashing the stock roms so I would just wait for that. Again, sorry.

download 7zip instead of WinRAR and use that
 
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