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[Verizon] Help me unbrick please!

magpullin

magpullin

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Clean flashed Jellybelly 3.9 started it up reinstalled apps and went to do a nandroid through Clockwork.
Phone froze before getting into recovery.
Pulled battery and recovery booted up, but then froze again.
Tried to restore to a previous backup and it failed and gave me an error message.
Tried to reinstall 3.9 and it aborted and gave me the red triangle.
BTW I am on Clockwork mod v6.0.1.0 is this the problem?
 
well bud i am not 100% sure which clockwork mod is good or bad for the nexus, but to unbrick i can easily help you with that. here:
http://androidforums.com/verizon-ga...gs-root-samsung-galaxy-nexus.html#post3957198

however!
i would rather you try and flash a different recovery, such as twrp, or clockwork mod touch!
then attempt to reinstall a different rom or the same jelly belly rom.

if you need help just respond and i got your back
 
I've heard the ClockworkMod 6.0+ editions are super buggy and are known to cause issues, so I'd suggest TWRP. Super easy and clean to use touch based recovery. Hope it all works out for you. You're in great hands here!
 
I am still a bit of a noob, so can I just flash CWMtouch or twrp via adb? I will have to relearn how to do all that. I figured it out at one time, but have not done it in such a long time I forgot it all.
Also the computer no longer recognizes the phone so reinstall the drivers?

Thanks for helping us lost rooters when things get all borked up:o
 
If you still have the sdk installed, let's just see if you have fastboot connectivity before installing new drivers and so forth. So start by downloading this:

http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.0.2-toro.img

Place the above file into the platform-tools folder of the sdk (hopefully residing on the root of your pc's c drive)

Now make sure the phone is off, pulling the battery and then replacing if necessary. When off, hold both volume buttons at the same time and the power button until you feel a vibration, then let off. You're now in the bootloader, don't touch anything. Instead, hook up to the PC via usb cable. Open a command prompt and assuming you installed the full sdk to the root of your c drive, enter these commands:

cd c:\
cd android-sdk-windows\platform-tools
fastboot devices

If you get a phone ID output from the fastboot devices command you're good to go. So finish up by running this:

fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.0.2-toro-img

Ok so then you can attempt to enter recovery from the bootloader and either attempt to restore a nandroid (if that nandroid was made with a pre-6.x version of cwm! Otherwise clean flash a rom.
 
yes I have the sdk manager on the C drive. What I can't remember how to do is get the recovery.img to the sdk tools folder.
Can you tell me exactly how to do that and I will be back in business ??????
thanks...
 
to flash the recovery image is simple :)
get to the bootloader screen, then open adb
type in this:
fastboot flash recovery fullnameofrecoveryimagehere.img
then you're done, just move the bootloader menu to reboot recovery and you're set
 
magpullin said:
yes I have the sdk manager on the C drive. What I can't remember how to do is get the recovery.img to the sdk tools folder.
Can you tell me exactly how to do that and I will be back in business ??????
thanks...
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Just download it to your PC desktop. Then use windows explorer to navigate to the sdk, then drill into it until you find the platform-tools folder. Then just drag and drop the file from the desktop and into platform-tools.
 
iowabowtech said:
Just download it to your PC desktop. Then use windows explorer to navigate to the sdk, then drill into it until you find the platform-tools folder. Then just drag and drop the file from the desktop and into platform-tools.
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I am missing something or really stupid.
Opened SDK Manager
Click on tools folder
opens Android sdk tools and....
Android SDK Platform-tools
Those are not folders though and can't drag anything to them.
I know I am doing something wrong.
 
magpullin said:
I am missing something or really stupid.
Opened SDK Manager
Click on tools folder
opens Android sdk tools and....
Android SDK Platform-tools
Those are not folders though and can't drag anything to them.
I know I am doing something wrong.
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Yeah you don't have to open sdk manager. Just open the main anddroid-sdk-windows folder, then inside that there should be a platform-tools folder unless you have a really old version of the sdk in which case it may be a tools folder. Main thing is that the fastboot and adb utilities should be located in the folder you need to do business with.
 
iowabowtech said:
Yeah you don't have to open sdk manager. Just open the main anddroid-sdk-windows folder, then inside that there should be a platform-tools folder unless you have a really old version of the sdk in which case it may be a tools folder. Main thing is that the fastboot and adb utilities should be located in the folder you need to do business with.
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Yep that is the problem. I don't have a main android-sdk-windows folder?????
I have the sdk manager, but have not seen where this main sdk folder comes from. Sorry I am trying to read 5 different guides to find what I need.... and I am not too computer savvy
 
magpullin said:
Yep that is the problem. I don't have a main android-sdk-windows folder?????
I have the sdk manager, but have not seen where this main sdk folder comes from. Sorry I am trying to read 5 different guides to find what I need....
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I was under the impression from an earlier post of yours that you'd already used the sdk so I assumed it was already installed on your machine. If you are just now installing it, then you do in fact need to use the sdk manager and check the top few boxex to get tools, platform-tools and I can't remember if there's another item or so.
 
iowabowtech said:
I was under the impression from an earlier post of yours that you'd already used the sdk so I assumed it was already installed on your machine. If you are just now installing it, then you do in fact need to use the sdk manager and check the top few boxex to get tools, platform-tools and I can't remember if there's another item or so.
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I used it one time a long time ago, but have forgot all of what I did then. I reacall that I was following some good detailed instructions on what to do and it all went very smooth. This time I just seem to be getting more confused with every post. Very lost and frustrated now.
 
thanks guys....I have done this once before, but a couple little things are tripping me up.

I already have the sdk installed, but couldn't find the folder only the manager.
found the folder now and put the recovery-clockwork-touch file in the
>C: > SDK > platform-tools folder.

typed in cd c:\
ok
then cd android-sdk-windows\platform-tools but get.....
the system cannot find the path specified
 
magpullin said:
thanks guys....I have done this once before, but a couple little things are tripping me up.

I already have the sdk installed, but couldn't find the folder only the manager.
found the folder now and put the recovery-clockwork-touch file in the
>C: > SDK > platform-tools folder.

typed in cd c:\
ok
then cd android-sdk-windows\platform-tools but get.....
the system cannot find the path specified
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First, you need to make sure that the fastboot and adb utilities are in fact inside the platform-tools folder. If so, then you need to find your correct path to that folder...I listed the typical path for newer sdk installs, yours may be different if you are using an older version of the sdk or if you did something strange during install to fudge the typical path. So go to the root of the c drive, then find the entire path you'd have to take to end up at the platform-tools folder or whatever folder houses adb/fastboot. Your final path once you get there should show up in the navigation bar of that win explorer window. That's the path you'll need to use for your commands then.
 
chances are you installed it into your program files and not your C:
look for the folder called android
thats where you will find it
 
Nah, I had it on C:, but I needed to delete it and reinstall to get it to work right.
Sooooooo....Got clockwork touch installed finally! Tried to reflash 3.9 and crap red triangle abort again.
Tried to restore and old nandroid and it went all the way through, but on boot it booted to the 3.9 boot logo and boot looped there.

Suggestions now please....

edit: nevermind i just took it back to stock. thanks again for the help
 
i apologize for the long time to respond, i went to the gym and just got back. but i hope it was easy for you to get back, make sure you keep 2 separate roms and gapps on your storage at all times!
 
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