[G Tablet General] iamjakecali:
First, sorry if this does not belong here. I did search here and Google and there were a few posts touching on this, but for the most part they were old and the issues were unresolved.

PLEASE Skip The Following (between ** and **) at first unless you really want to read it. My questions are at the end.

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1. I say this a lot. Though I have abstained for the past week, since I first received my GTab, I have bricked it in various ways and always recovered (thanks to all the G Masters here and elsewhere).

2. This time I really do not know what happened. I added a new program and next time i rebooted ended up in a loop. No problem: I have been very cautious about making backups in CWMod regularly (and using NVFlash ever week or so).

a. Followed acceptable procedures to restore via CWMod. Nothing. Stuck in bootloop again.

b. Turned to ADB and NvFlash. Batch restored BL and the 11 partitions. Wasn't really paying attention to the screen at the time. No errors, all success. Boot loop again.

c. Went back and tried again, this time paying attention. Though the utility enumerates and formats all 11 partitions, it does not appear to upload the part-2.img and part3.img (Boot Config Table and Partition Table).

d. Those sound important so I tried to use the rawdevicewrite command (NOTE: beokit's NVFlash version does not include this command). It would not let me proceed without installing the bootloader again along with Part-2.img. That worked ... insofar as it did write the img to the partition.

e. Move on to Part-3.img. Tried to use --resume and it told me that the bootloader was bad. Tried to reinstall bootloader with it and it failed also indicating that the bootloader was bad.

f. Reboot--nothing but black. Fortunately I knew that ADB was still there.

g. Tried to use the NVFlash Format utility followed by Stock 3558 recovery followed by NVFlash - CWMod. Best I got was back to boot loop. Various other permutations including replacing Part-9.img with the boot image from CWMod backup.

h. Finally, I broke down and repartitioned the internal SD ... which, for some reason TBD, only took about 2 seconds. Reboot Recovery --> forgot about wiping the SD and decided to flash Vegan 7 right away. Install from SD-->choose file-->flash. Reboot ---> No loop, 30 seconds later fully booted. Second recommended reboot.

i. Wait a minute --- I installed from the SD Card that I just partitioned???? Annoyed that I wasted a good 10 minutes backing up the SDcard to my computer before partitioning, rebooted into CWMod and tried to repartition again. Success in 2 seconds. So Repartitioned again with different values (not 2048/0). Success in 2 seconds. And again back to 2048/0. Reboot recovery.

j. Navigate to SD card in CWMod. Still untouched. Installed Pershoot's kernel and booted in 30 seconds again. Currently in Titanium Back up restoring my 198 items...

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I have the correct versions of NVFlash and CWmod.

Questions:

I . Why does NVFlash format Partitions 2 and 3 if it doesn't NVFlash then Restore partitions 2 and 3?

II. The only thing that got me out of the boot loop was to repartition my SDCard. Any thoughts on how this fixed the problem even though it did not actually repartition? And maybe why it didn't repartition (or why all my files were intact)?

At this point I would just really like to understand what went on? I am currently attributing success to the supernatural.

Also: This has been said many times before on here: BACKUP and REPARTITION your SD Card when nothing else seems to be working (especially when you are stuck in boot loop or frozen boot and cannot mount DATA partition in CWMod). Maybe it will help even if it doesn't actually repartition it at all...

Thanks!