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[Motorola Droid RAZR] stereoactivo:
hi, I have a gsm razr, and I want to know if I root, install a recovery and after that, install a rom, if there is an option to get back the phone to the point before I root, without sbf.

in my droid 3, I hsve a recovery with safe mode, that allows me go back if I flash a rom. and I think that is possible to unroot and remove recovery

Thanks :)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] AndroidOL:
You can flash official “.img”(Fastboot file, I don't know how to call it) use RSD(6.0) in fastboot:)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Felivel:
I have a problem with my phone.

I believe that the internal partitions are messed up.

I have tried a couple of guides to fix this but no luck. I get "error formatting /data!" on recovery. I also tried using the formatting tools from adb shell (e2fsck, gparted).

The main problem is that when i restart my phone the /data partition gets wiped, and the phone reboots in blank, no apps no setting (some of them remain).

I wonder if i can solve this by setting my sd-card to be the new /data. I doesn't matter if i have to leave the sd-card on all the time. i mainly use this phone for developing apps.

Thanks.:good:
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
It could probably be done if you could get the sdcard to mount at boot, not sure if thats possible. You would need to create a flashable much like the ext4 mod, that edits the init.inc.rc file to mount the sdcard and /data to it. You would want to partition your sdcard with an ext3 or ext4 partition and use that for data.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiny4579:
Yes it can be done. That's how boot manager works, by modifying the ramdisk to load images from sdcard or emmc instead of the partition. I think I have an idea on how to make your request work.

Edit: If you feel like trying a project, what needs to be done is create a file data.img and mount it as loopback using busybox (ROM needs a working busybox).

Then the boot.img needs to be updated replacing the mount /data entry in init.inc.rc with the location of the loopback device and a loopback setup prior to this. The data.img created needs to be formatted ext3 or ext4. I know it's not too detailed but rather just a summary.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
Ok, so today my niece had spilt milk al over my phone while I was baby sitting. I thought everything was fine when it booted up and my stuff was working, ect. But, as I got home, I notice that now my phone can charge, but will not allow me to mount USB. I can't use ODIN to flash back to stock so i can send it back, either. So...

Does anyone have the Stock firmware (any) in a flashable ZIP, alone with the Stock recovery in a flashable ZIP?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Mike:
I'm not sure about stock recovery but a stock cwm flashable firmware can be found in one of Vincoms stickies in my sig.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Illnevertell:
Well your mistake was turning it on without rice drying for 24 hours. And no without Odin you can't get stock recovery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Mike:
What do you mean by send it back? Send it in for repair or are u within the return period?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xcrazydx:
Yup. Never turn it on. Take it apart and put in rice for at least 24 hours
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
The thing was, it was on. After the milk got on it, I pulled the battery then examined it. There was like nothing in it, except a few small wet spots. I mean, the water/liquid sensor didn't even trip. So, what I mean by sending it back is calling ATT and having them ship me a new one.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Mike:
You have a warranty with them? If that's the route you want to go then although incredibly impractical you could have it jtagged. Mobile tech videos also does repairs. You could shoot them an email describing your issue and possibly get it fixed for like $30

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Sent from my Skyrocket i727 running CM9

For a one stop shop here are Vincom's threads

Everything Root: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1773659

Returning to Stock: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1652398
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] garydv2002:
Or since you are still in the return window call Att tell them you were upgrading to ics via Samsung kies and right in the middle it locked up and the phone shut off and will not come back on. Then if they ship you a new one before boxing your old one up download a stock cwm flash able rom for any other Samsung phone the i777 or something close to ours and flash it and brick the phone box it up and send it back and pray like hell they just wipe it and don't check it....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Mike:
You could do that but I wouldn't recommend it. The phone is still usable. You should be able to get it repaired. Its putting a lot of faith in att. If you break it and they don't replace it then you are left with no phone and paying out of pocket for a new one. Although I believe your idea would in fact work, its still a big risk imo

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Sent from my Skyrocket i727 running CM9

For a one stop shop here are Vincom's threads

Everything Root: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1773659

Returning to Stock: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1652398
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Illnevertell:
No that works all the time why would jtag help if the data pins on his USB are screwed at that point all he gets is stock phone that still won't work properly so then he still has to send it in to get replaced others have done the brick it and blame it on official update issues no problem
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
Again, does anyone have, or could by any chance get, a flashable stock recovery?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
its in the stickies, goto 1st link in my sig its under firmwares, there you will find cwm firmwares, cant remember if they took out the stock revovery though

edit: i asked mohan if he can provide the stock recovery
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
I did, I've tried flashing the base twice now, it just hangs are the boot logo SAMSUNG with blue behind it. I'll wait about 5 mins before I pull the battery. I wiped everything then flashed, but It hung.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
reset and wipe caches in recovery, this info is in the sticky, that should fix it, which cwm are u on

edit: which stock did u dl and from which link did u get it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
I have the one that the guy said he'd post the recovery.

I had TWRP on, now I downloaded the same recovery it was made for, CWM 5.5.0.4. So far, the same thing. It just hangs.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
Well, now if I get that recovery, I can just say after trying to flash the update on ATT, it just froze up.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
and you did a reset?

also check the md5, the dev host site been screwy lately
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
The MD5 Hash was verified fine.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
I redownloaded and fallowed all the steps to the T and it has stock on it now. I just need that recovery
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Illnevertell:
I don't think stock recovery has cwm flashable zip then again I've been wrong before
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
mohan can do it, hes smart, just dont know if hes willing to make one, but i know its possible, mohan stated as such

---------- Post added at 10:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:18 PM ----------

cool, there was one awhile ago, cant find it, but it was the gb recovery which is a little different than ics recovery, but dont think att would of noticed that
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] :
You would think someone would have just in case lol you know what I'm saying that would have come in handy quite a few times for a lot of people
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
Well, I hope he is willing too. Anyhow, he's getting Thanks just for the ROM! XDA's Devlopers are amazing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
Hey, I just thought of something... Does anyone have the GB stock in a CWM zip? If so, I could just flash that, then do the OTA update to 4.0.4 and that should redo the recovery...?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] :
You need a stock recovery to take an ota it won't work bud
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
Are you sure?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] :
Its very rare that I'm wrong here yes I'm sure
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
What would happen if I tried this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
4.04 is not an ota, its kies only update anyway

try this, goto the repository firmware link in my 1st sticky and try downloading the zip files there, then check inside the file and see if theres the recovery.img file
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
I'm downloading right now. If so, how would I go about flashing this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] :
Vin I didn't even think about using terminal to place the stock recovery to its dev block you sneaky man you
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
How!?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
ah, ya, thats what i was thinking, lol

but damn thats a way to do it

i was just going to tell him to flash the whole firmware, just needed to know if it included the recovery

but never used terminal, so just extract it out of an official sammobile tar and he can use termimal, can u tell him how to use terminal and the commands to do it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
I can't flash the firmware via ODIN or KIES because the USB is still messed up.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] :
$ su

# dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22 bs=4096

Edit /sdcard must be replaced with the path to your recovery.img so pay attention
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
?? Do I need root for this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
i edited my post, he just needs the official sammmobile tar

yes u need root

just get external sdcard reader/writer and copy it from your comp or dl it dirctly to your phone
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
I have that one ROM flashed that doesn't contain root. I can't use OneClick so, how do I root it?

EDIT: Should I just flash the busybox-su thing in the OP over what I have booted up, or reinstall the rom altogether?

EDIT: And do I extract just the Recovery.img? or the whole .TAR file?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
read above, just dl the su files from my root sticky to your phone directly, reboot to cwm and flash

edit: forgot u have no rom, external card writer

edit: can u boot into rom
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
Do I just grab the whole .TAR or just extract the recovery.img?

EDIT: Yes, i can boot into ROM now/I am booted into rom
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
just recovery img like the code above says for terminal
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
So, if I just place JUST the recovery.img on my sdcard, can I use that path specified?

If so, What program should I use to do this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] :
I would make sure the path is correct bro is your internal called emmc or sdcard is your external called external_sdcard or sdcard the path is important to enter those commands use terminal emulator from play store
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
Okay, I've done this several times now. What is the EXACT path please? I've done sdcard/recovery.img and external_sdcard/recovery.img
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] :
I don't know its your phone you know where you put it not me I told you to check your path I can't spoon feed you I'm not on your phone bro

Edit you have gotten more assistance from me than anybody since I was nrm normally I just troll you guys
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
All I did was place is on my external sdcard. I even checked with ES to make sure taht file was there. In the termial, this is what I've been typing:

dd if=/sdcard/external_sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0pp22 bs=4096

After that, i get this:

Cannot open or read: No suck file or directory exsist.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] :
I give someone else school him I've done all I can stand
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] DoctorQMM:
I'm no expert, but I believe it's "external_sd" not "external_sdcard"
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] :
That's why I told him to check his path but no matter he got the cwm flashable
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] whassupmyninja:
What do they always say "No crying over spilled milk"? :p
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
As an update,

While on the phone with ATT Support, the phone randomly started working again. Wouldn't last night with the same software, but now it does. Strange, really.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] vincom:
lol, i just made a new guide in the general section to help users that were in your situation to help them return to stock if they have a bad usb port and need warranty service
[Samsung Galaxy 5 I5500] rodrigolopezpeker:
Copy/Paste from BOOT LOOP post:

It's my girlfriend's phone, and she's going to kill me if i dont fix this! :(

The phone is a Galaxy GT 5500L (phone company: Claro, country: Argentina).

I rooted and updated to Android 2.2.2 with Kies.

The phone reboots as soon as it turns on. (No samsung logo on it)

I can enter into Download Mode, and I tried to flash everything i found with Odin, but it always says:

And the phone reboots and enter in the loop again.

Really, if someone could point me into the right direction it would be awesome ( i lost my samsung warranty, and the company doesnt offer any tech support in Argentina).

Thanks....
[Samsung Galaxy 5 I5500] rodrigolopezpeker:
143 views and counting.... THERE MUST BE SOMEONE WITH AN ANSWER.

Enviado desde mi GT-N7000 usando Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Galaxy 5 I5500] 123shree:
Why go play with the efs partition???

In the Galaxy5 even trying read the efs partition bricks the phone... it's kind of a security feature.

U didn't format the efs partition. You mounted it so the phone is bricked.

Unlike other phones (mostly high end one's) u can't do anything with the efs partition!!!!.(no backup,no restore,etc.,)

My suggestion is Google more or else go to samsung.. They'll fix it for you.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 321jurgen:
Is there any way this title will come to android devices and have a proper port?

If anyone knows something about this I would really like to know because I loved the game on my iPod Touch.
[Asus Transformer TF700] GearPrimer:
Considering that Ouya will be built with the same CPU/GPU/RAM specs as the Infinity, I feel like it's safe to assume that if it does even moderately well, we'll be getting to see a lot of games that truly push our hardware. We've seen many Tegra 3 games come out so far - some incredible, some disappointing, but overall not a bad start for high quality mobile gaming.

If the Ouya does really well, the TF700 gamers may wind up with an insane catalog of games that most people will only be playing at home with any decent quality. It could make the TF700 a very good competitor for portable gaming. I'm kind of excited to see what happens, but I'm trying not to get my hopes up before we start seeing the actual production of the Ouya and developer support that follows.

What is everyone's thoughts on the matter? Any specific games announced so far that your excited for?

Also, it's been said that the talked about Oculus Rift will have Android support later on, though I have no clue if much would come of that.
[Asus Transformer TF700] fortunz:
Nvida's tegra push did narrow my field of tablet options some. I would love to see higher end games and a more PC-like set of tools (more control options, more performance scaling, more flexibility in general), and nvidia seems to have their eye on something similar. No one Android maker has the clout or sales to make android a more serious gaming platform right now, but nvidia might. They've got a certain credibility with players and producers that stands out and raises a particular set of expectations that even the biggest maker, Samsung, can't bring to the table.

While Ouya can bring more living room games to the fold, perhaps more controller utilization, the Nexus 7 might be equally influential at broadening support through sheer numbers. Storage is the main handicap, but it still has lots of potential.

That said, I don't expect much from even a best case scenario. Game investment is a lot more complicated than many players seem to realize. My favorite small dev is trying to fund an expansion of the best Tower Defense ever through kickstarter and its not uncommon for someone to accuse them of unconscionable greed for not being able to completely self-fund from the proceeds of their first game -- this while storied studios backed by major pubs are closing their doors. It's a struggle for survival out there. Small devs doing high end original content are taking huge risks.

Best case here is more big studios/publishers start testing the waters at tegra 3 and actually produce a serious and well stocked platform at tegra 4 or 5. Infinity should have more gaming options than her predecessors, but I doubt she'll be a gaming beast.
[Asus Transformer TF700] lovekeiiy:
Not likely. Ouya, at this point, is more about the idea of trying to bring the independent developers to the living room with less cost through the Android platform. As eluded to, it costs a lot of money to make AAA games on the consoles or PC. I've chosen to back them, but I'm skeptical. I think Ouya may be redundant, as you're indirectly eluding, since all you need is the microHDMI cable and blue tooth controller. It's just a matter of the game developers adding the code for the controllers.

One thing is certain, there is market for games on the mobile platform--Android and iOS--beyond these "casual" games such as Angry Birds, Plants vs Zombies, Bejweled, Words with Friends, Draw Something, and so forth. There's some indication people may want a more traditional console/PC game with some decent success of games like Shadowgun and Dead Trigger, and so forth; sorry I wasn't able to list a more diverse list, but I don't play many mobile games. Add that up, with more powerful mobile devices, you'll see the games improve. Just don't quite expect a game to look like PS3/360 game, nor give you that over ten hours game experience with cut scenes and so forth. Well, not while people are complaining about games being over a dollar, and piracy being very easy to do, like the old days on the PC.

On a side note, you may see something you're thinking with technology that OnLive is developing. That has the potentional to bring the similar game experience across multiple game platforms. I use it on the PC and my HTC Evo 4G. I tried it out on a buddy's Nexus 7.

On a side note, I did see EA did an update for Dead Space for the Nexus 7, so some developers are thinking about tablets.
[Asus Transformer TF700] alienedd:
I noticed that the UDK supports Android (it specifically mentions honeycomb though) which might indicate at least an industry consideration for such focus. As far as indies go, frameworks like this being offered to small-time devs will provide the potential for an Android "real gaming console". The estimated price of specifically the Ouya would make for other poorer countries to acquire and put as a target platform for development, in which case Android focus could increase world-wide (PS3 for R$1100 or Ouya for R$400?). I'm still skeptical, but the distribution of the system globally will really tell who's going to make it into a priority. If the saturation gets high enough, everyone will be jumping on that wagon.
[HTC Amaze 4G] fightguy:
First of all, I am a complete novice at this and in hindsight should probably not have attempted to do this. If you can be of assistance, please try to use layman terms whenever possible. I am really quite clueless as to some of the jargon used on here.

Anyways, I was successful in installing unlocking the bootloader and rooting the phone, and subsequently installed the Android Revolution HD ROM. Afterwards (probably in error), I was trying to perform s-off, but while running controlbear, the screen turned to the 3 green arrows forming a circle. Now it is completely stuck like that. I have tried removing the battery, SIM card, and every other fix I have found on here but nothing is working.

I tried pressing power + down arrow but that gets be to fastboot, but none of the options help. The only options I getr are Bootloader, Reboot, Reboot Boatloader, and Power Down. Under Hboot, I have Fastboot, Recovery, Factory Reser, Clear Storage, Simlock, and Image CRC. I have tried every option and all of them lead me back to the green arrows. In addition, my SD card is not recognized my computer making it impossible to install anything from it.

Right now the phone is unlocked, with HBOOT 1.93.0002

I have tried running controlbear several times, and have gotten many different responses. Below are a few

After doing the wire trick, I hoped it had helped but it still only boots to the arrows.

Can anyone please give me advice? I don't care if you berate me for being such a noob as I probably deserve it, but I want this damn thing to work!

Thanks in advance
[HTC Amaze 4G] Double0EK:
Keep trying the wire trick until it confirms a successful run. You can't stop if it says its still sober. Then when its done you can reflash the ruu in bootloader.
[HTC Amaze 4G] fightguy:
I would, but I can't even get it back to that now. :(
[HTC Amaze 4G] kgs1992:
Close controlbear

Uninstall HTC Sync

run controlobear

As for the other one, reduce the pause between taps to 1.5 sec

If you want to stop, open cmd & cd to the controlbear folder & type "controlbear -r" without quotes
[HTC Amaze 4G] fightguy:
Ok, so I took the phone back and got a new one. I am an idiot and am thinking of trying this again :fingers-crossed:

If I decide to proceed, in what order should I try these things?

unroot

Juopunutbear S-OFF

HTC Amaze 4G All-In-One Toolkit V3.2

I am gonna punch myself in the balls if I screw this one up
[HTC Amaze 4G] fightguy:
A HUGE thank you kgs1992 for helping me get this done! It is much appreciated!

Thread can now be closed
[HTC Amaze 4G] amandez:
Run ruu

Sent from my MyTouch 4G Slide

Yes girls know about XDA

you can thank a girl on here ;)
[HTC Amaze 4G] Dark Nightmare:
You don't need to run the ruu after s-off, just simply unlock the bootloader or rebooting in general after it takes you to the bootloader should work fine, I never had to run a ruu reload after the multiple s-off's I did, dunno why it's recommended.
[HTC Amaze 4G] amandez:
O ohkay

Sent from my MyTouch 4G Slide

Yes girls know about XDA

you can thank a girl on here ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Methos013:
Sorry if I posted this in the wrong section!

So yeah. There is this project to make Andy the Android a Lego kit.

http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/22758#

They need to hit 10K supporters to make it happen. The kit looks really neat. All the info is in the link. Also, it doesn't cost anything to support the project. It's more like a petition.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Treatcon:
Bump this, please help support by clicking the support button.

RootzWiki is helping out as well...

http://rootzwiki.com/news/_/articles/android-lego-creation-needs-community-support-r1032 :good: