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[Verizon] Having trouble rooting? Think your bricked it? LOOK HERE FIRST! Q&A

Well, my boot image worked just fine :) ;).

Oh, and email with the boot image has been sent to you (thanks for the PM!).

After I flashed back to stock, I simply did this to soft-boot the new boot image:

fastboot boot rooted-usb-debugging-boot.img

and then after the phone started booting, I did an:

adb logcat

It waited for the adb daemon to be launched and then started pumping-out a ton of logcat messages (as I would have expected on my device).

The starting of the adb daemon does appear to start pretty late in the boot cycle, so I don't hold out too much hope, but we can at least try.

Let me know what you see (or don't see).
 
scary alien said:
Well, my boot image worked just fine :) ;).

Oh, and email with the boot image has been sent to you (thanks for the PM!).

After I flashed back to stock, I simply did this to soft-boot the new boot image:

fastboot boot rooted-usb-debugging-boot.img

and then after the phone started booting, I did an:

adb logcat

It waited for the adb daemon to be launched and then started pumping-out a ton of logcat messages (as I would have expected on my device).

The starting of the adb daemon does appear to start pretty late in the boot cycle, so I don't hold out too much hope, but we can at least try.

Let me know what you see (or don't see).
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Alright, I was doing some tinkering so Ill need to flash some of the stock images back.

So ill be running these commands?
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-toro-primekk15.img

fastboot reboot-bootloader

fastboot flash radio radio-toro-i515.ek02.img

fastboot reboot-bootloader

fastboot flash radio-cdma radio-cdma-toro-i515.ek05.img

fastboot reboot-bootloader

fastboot -w update image-mysid-icl53f.zip

after phone reboots/bootloops go back into fastboot mode and type the following command: fastboot boot rooted-usb-debugging-boot.img ?

then type adb logcat and see what I get?

Edit: do I do the adb logcat while the phone is rebooting...say on the google screen?

 
Namrak said:
Alright, I was doing some tinkering so Ill need to flash some of the stock images back.

So ill be running these commands?
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-toro-primekk15.img

fastboot reboot-bootloader

fastboot flash radio radio-toro-i515.ek02.img

fastboot reboot-bootloader

fastboot flash radio-cdma radio-cdma-toro-i515.ek05.img

fastboot reboot-bootloader

fastboot -w update image-mysid-icl53f.zip

after phone reboots/bootloops go back into fastboot mode and type the following command: fastboot boot rooted-usb-debugging-boot.img ?

then type adb logcat and see what I get?
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Exactly right...don't forget the adb logcat right after the reboot starts (USB debugging does get nicely enabled in that boot image). You are soft-booting it by the way, so it won't "stick", but that probably doesn't matter at this point if it doesn't work.

I'm still concerned that you can't even re-lock it...do you get any messages from the DOS prompt or on the phone's screen (really small print at the bottom of the phone)?

edit: lol, I see you snuck in the "adb logcat" thing (or I just missed it, LOL ;) :))
 
With the samsung droid charge, sometimes you could not get it back, even with odin and proper images.

There is a samsung flash utility that I downloaded somewhere (replaces odin), it was the ONLY way to get an odin image to flash on a bjorked phone.... ie back to stock was one example.

I found it on xda, droid charge, and the odin recovery(stock) instructions, somewhere buried in that thread was a link to another forum where they had the Samsung Flash Tool and further instructions. Worth a search if you are bjorked right now.

My laptop died where I had that link in a folder with the tool, so haven't dug it back up yet. odin is probably the recommended way to go on this forum IMHO, most people don't initially get root, cwm, fastboot, etc.
 
scary alien said:
Exactly right...don't forget the adb logcat right after the reboot starts (USB debugging does get nicely enabled in that boot image). You are soft-booting it by the way, so it won't "stick", but that probably doesn't matter at this point if it doesn't work.

I'm still concerned that you can't even re-lock it...do you get any messages from the DOS prompt or on the phone's screen (really small print at the bottom of the phone)?

edit: lol, I see you snuck in the "adb logcat" thing (or I just missed it, LOL ;) :))
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I soft-booted the image and right after my phone started I put in the adb logcat command and all I got was a "-waiting for device-" followed by the usual bootlooping

As for the locking. on the DOS prompt I get an okay and on the bottom left it says "lock status-locked" and below that highlighted in blue it says "fastboot status-okay"
 
syntrix said:
With the samsung droid charge, sometimes you could not get it back, even with odin and proper images.

There is a samsung flash utility that I downloaded somewhere (replaces odin), it was the ONLY way to get an odin image to flash on a bjorked phone.... ie back to stock was one example.

I found it on xda, droid charge, and the odin recovery(stock) instructions, somewhere buried in that thread was a link to another forum where they had the Samsung Flash Tool and further instructions. Worth a search if you are bjorked right now.

My laptop died where I had that link in a folder with the tool, so haven't dug it back up yet. odin is probably the recommended way to go on this forum IMHO, most people don't initially get root, cwm, fastboot, etc.
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Was it cygwin?
 
Namrak said:
I soft-booted the image and right after my phone started I put in the adb logcat command and all I got was a "-waiting for device-" followed by the usual bootlooping

As for the locking. on the DOS prompt I get an okay and on the bottom left it says "lock status-locked" and below that highlighted in blue it says "fastboot status-okay"
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IDK, Namrak...

I don't know what else to tell you to try... I'm wondering if there's some memory issues going on and that your the phone is stuck trying to mount one of the partitions...can't finish booting if it can't mount all its goodies, etc.

I don't know enough about this device to tell you how to even begin, or diagnose, or fix something like this...flashing back to stock should get you "back", but clearly isn't.

You'll have options available to you as long as you can use fastboot and adb while ClockworkMod is mounted--I just don't know what those further options are at this point :(.

Sorry...I'll keep searching and thinking about this...
 
Thread is here, there's a link to an offsite somewhere buried, sorry I don't have the time to search through those pages right now:

[HOW-TO]Fix your phone - xda-developers

If you do find it, post it.... I might have some time tomorrow afternoon to search for that tool.

It basically put a link in my xp work laptop in the start menu with something like Samsung Flash something utility.

Sorry I can be of more help right now, especially since my work lappy with it on there, they had to replace the HD, and I never really backed up my /android folder with shortcuts to the web forums, notes and the downloaded software.

Just thought it might be something to look into since us ex-Charge owners would have been bricked without it.... but your problem could be something else.
 
syntrix said:
Thread is here, there's a link to an offsite somewhere buried, sorry I don't have the time to search through those pages right now:

[HOW-TO]Fix your phone - xda-developers

If you do find it, post it.... I might have some time tomorrow afternoon to search for that tool.

It basically put a link in my xp work laptop in the start menu with something like Samsung Flash something utility.

Sorry I can be of more help right now, especially since my work lappy with it on there, they had to replace the HD, and I never really backed up my /android folder with shortcuts to the web forums, notes and the downloaded software.

Just thought it might be something to look into since us ex-Charge owners would have been bricked without it.... but your problem could be something else.
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Thanks. Searching through it now
 
Namrak said:
When looking in cwm-mounts and storage. is the /system supposed to be mounted or unmounted? same question for /cache and /data
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You mean using adb to navigate in ClockworkMod?

I think /system is NOT explicitly mounted, nor is /data.

/cache does appears to be mounted:

Code: 
~ # [COLOR="Blue"][B]mount[/B][/COLOR]
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name/cache on /cache type ext4 (rw,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,barrier=1,data=ordered)

You can manually try to mount /system and /data from the Mounts and Storage menu item in CWM.
 
syntrix said:
Thread is here, there's a link to an offsite somewhere buried, sorry I don't have the time to search through those pages right now:

[HOW-TO]Fix your phone - xda-developers

If you do find it, post it.... I might have some time tomorrow afternoon to search for that tool.

It basically put a link in my xp work laptop in the start menu with something like Samsung Flash something utility.

Sorry I can be of more help right now, especially since my work lappy with it on there, they had to replace the HD, and I never really backed up my /android folder with shortcuts to the web forums, notes and the downloaded software.

Just thought it might be something to look into since us ex-Charge owners would have been bricked without it.... but your problem could be something else.
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Is it the samsung Flash PST as found in here Droid Charge Full Factory Tar, and Flashing Software - MyDroidWorld
 
scary alien said:
You mean using adb to navigate in ClockworkMod?

I think /system is NOT explicitly mounted, nor is /data.

/cache does appears to be mounted:

Code: 
~ # [COLOR=Blue][B]mount[/B][/COLOR]
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name/cache on /cache type ext4 (rw,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
You can manually try to mount /system and /data from the Mounts and Storage menu item in CWM.
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Just checking to see if mine was the same...it is
 
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