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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] theryanfoley:
I would say my experience level is medium and I have rooted and unlocked my OG Evo, TF201, and EV LTE. I have successfully flashed ROMS, Bootloaders, and Firmware more than 50 times...but I have reached the limits of my skills.

My wife got tired of waiting for a Miklatte update and asked me to flash Mean Rom. When I went to flash it I realized she had accidentally deleted internal and external sd card and had somehow gone from TWRP to CWM. I stupidly flashed TWRP and began flashing MEAN Rom 4.8 without backing up first.

The installation was botched and the install said failed. After trying to wipe and flash again TWRP gave me a failure and the internal sd card was corrupt "partition does not exist" or something like that. After messing around for a long time I decided to flash the RUU through windows and started over.

RUU went well and once I booted it said internal sd corrupt and I formatted it through the stock rom. Everything seemed good at this point. After that I Lazy Panda'ed. It turns out Lazy Panda said I was already S-Off but I could not tell because I had modified the text on the boot-loader via Regaw method.So then I rooted via Regaw and then flashed TWRP through Goo Manager. I now have a rooted stock rom with TWRP and I can not flash any rom successfully. The flash process says "successful", but it is not (and it only takes three seconds to say successful). When I go to reboot it says no OS installed. The last line of code in the flashing process says "updating partition details...". See the attached recovery log and photo.

Can someone with mad nun-chuck skills please help me?

EDIT:

Thanks everyone!! Because of the XDA and MikMik community we have solved this one.

It turned out to be a problem with TWRP version 2.3.0.1. Once I loaded TWRP 2.2.2.0 everything flashed fine and no more corrupting data.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] om4:
I'm trying to piece it together in my head but I'm a bit tired today and things are bouncing around in there distracting me. Seems like corrupted memory. Try to repartition the phone in twrp, the settings don't matter as the rom should rewrite them again afterwards. Not guaranteeing that is what the problem is or the solution, just something to try first

---------- Post added at 09:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:47 PM ----------

It seems that there are also issues with the latest twrp, try flashing back to 2.2.2.0
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mexlos:
Wow man, what a crazy journey! Our phones can do some crazy stuff once we take the red pill and go down the rooting rabbit hole, eh?

Before messing with partitions I'd try to switch back to CWM recovery and try ROM through clockworkmod. I like to start with simple troubleshooting solutions and move on to more complex ones if you need to.

If it fails in CWM, then try re-flashing the latest version of TWRP and trying again.

And actually I recently read that the newest newest version of TWRP had some trouble wiping partitions correctly so you could try a superwipe script or trying the next-to-newest TWRP.

Heh, that's a lot of trouble shooting steps. Let me know if none of that works and we'll delve deeper if need be.

Good luck!

Sent from my EVO
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] om4:
No I would not reload CWM it is not at all reliable and has caused more damaged then anything. Some people are still using it and ending up with corrupt partitions left and right. ViperROM has a fix for misc partitions if that one turns out to be damaged, other then that I would downgrade twrp

TWRP 2.2.2.0
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nymusdcxv:
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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nymusdcxv:
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Anyone even having the same issue? Im stuck. Looked all over forums and tutorials
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] s1dest3pnate:
Can some experts throw out a comprehensive list of the consequences/side effects to rooting in general, but especially the S III? I've seen a post or two about precautions to take with Google Wallet and such. Include everything please (comprehensive) from not being able to download OTAs (or it not being preferable to do so due to potentially losing root), the need to wait for/find someone to take the OTA and make it rooted and available for us to install, etc.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: If this should be in General, I apologize - mod please move.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Naddict:
It probably ought to be in Q and A, but only after you have searched Q and A, as this question generally speaking, has been asked quite a few times.. Please, use search...save a life:D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] shiftr182:
Do your research.......

the main side effect is getting a hard brick by flashing something you shouldnt have flashed (rom for another phone) other than that, you can recover from anything and flash back to out the box stock if need be.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] KennyG123:
Read forum rules before posting

Development is for developers to make threads

Moved to Q&A

FNM
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Compusmurf:
The biggest drawback is it gives folks the ULTIMATE ability to do anything they want to their phone. Why is this a drawback????

Sadly, way too many folks just "do" things on blind trust of random folks they don't know on the internet without knowing what they are doing and the consequences of their actions.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dbenney:
This is true... but those of us that are not programmers and not as farmiliar with modding these roms are at the mercy of the devs. I am not a noob but am trying to adjust to the s3, came from the OG EVO. Basically what I do is do some google research, search threads on here. eventually you find devs who you prefer and trust their work w/o question.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] leperme5siah:
Same here, I have only dealt with the original EVO. I want to put the leak JB on my S3 but I want to be able to get the official OTA when that comes out as well. I'm good with this stuff if I have a good guide, I'm just so lost with this one.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Naddict:
you wont get both with rooted custom rom installed...it is one or the other...

choose your path..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] teh roxxorz:
Well sir, he could could flash the stock recovery > take the OTA > he'll lose roo, then can simply re-apply the rooting procedure in 1 minute and have root back. The only thing is it'll be 100% stock rom, with root access.

We both know its just better to wait, but to each his / her own.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] s1dest3pnate:
Exactly my same situation.

How would you flash the stock recovery, and why is this needed? Wouldn't you still get the OTA prompt after rooting and just be able to accept the install - why need stock recovery?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] teh roxxorz:
In the dev section, there is a thread in the there that has the stock recovery you can flash via odin. You need stock recovery because the OTA flashes through stock recovery; which is why on anything but stock, the OTA fails to flash.

And you wouldn't get the ota at that point cuz you'd have it. There are other ways to disable it though.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] csmasn:
That's remembers me, my ex g/f bikini line.

Sent from my O=O
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] s1dest3pnate:
Will the root methods out there work if you're already on the Sprint Jelly Bean OTA (LJ7)?

Before rooting, any precautions to take other than resetting Google Wallet?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
First off, resetting Google wallet isn't necessary. That's old news

And second this question should go into the noob question thread because if you don't already know the answer to this than you don't need to do it. You'll be just another rooted noob that ends up fukn brickin. Dont do it until you can answer this question yourself

Nobody is gonna hold your hand especially not when youre back here in a week askin how to repair your doorstop of a phone
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] s1dest3pnate:
Lol... The issue is that all the information is fragmented all over the place. I understand the general process but am asking the noob questions so that all bases are covered. I was on the OG Evo, rooted and updating ROMs all the time. Don't assume man - just trying to get "comprehensive" details before messing up something - you shouldn't be able to blame me for that. So many different OTAs, versions of Galaxy S III (international and different carriers), Google Wallet comes into play, etc...

So back to my main question: Will the root methods out there work if you're already on the Sprint Jelly Bean OTA (LJ7)?

And is there consensus that no precautions need to be taken with Google Wallet or anything else?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
Root methods don't change. This is a Samsung not an HTC. They don't upgrade hboot or lock the bootloader with an ota none of that stupid crap.

Jb or ICS makes no difference. And Google wallet stores that personal crap that had the potential to make wallet brick up outside of the phone now so reset isn't needed. Although I think that was all hype originally anyway. As someone who has owned the phone since 6-21 I have flashed anything and everything and never reset wallet a single time
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DCRocks:
Seen a lot of comments, so I thought I would throw my 2 cents into the ring

Concerns:

1) flash counter - The SGS 3 has a counter that show how many times you have used ODIN to flash something. The program "Flash Away" resolves this, but to get it 100% back to the stock setting, you also need to flash a 100% official stock ROM. If you never plan on using the warranty, this is a non concern, but it might cause you issues if you bring it in for service.

2) loss of data - some flashes will wipe the internal SD card (yet to see anything wipe the external), so before doing anything major, it is probably a good idea to backup the internal SD to an external source

3) USB cable quality - one of the number one items I have seen that causes issues, is a bad and/or faulty USB cable. Make sure you got a quality cable if you are going to flash with ODIN

4) check the md5 checksum of the file you are going to flash. A bad download will also cause you issues, from minor to serve, so it is a good idea to do a double check before you use the file, just to make sure it is not corrupter
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
Kinda insulting to chainfire to call it flash away. Just saying...

And the counter isn't even that big a threat to ne one anyway. Hell u can even reset it using my stock rom. Definatly second checkin the USB cable tho
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] GadgetNoob:
So I just got the phone today and decided to upgrade to ics, that was a big mistake. The phone won't turn on . When I plug it into the computer it has the green charging led but when I plug it into the charger nothing just a dark green led that will blink every 10 seconds or so. don't care if I have to downgrade I just want it to work. Also when it's not plugged in it does the same dark green blink and when I try turning it on nothing no vibration or anything.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ScatteredHell:
Use flashtool to unbrick your device.

Search on general section
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] anerik:
Weird, maybe you flashed it wrong. Anyways, go back to GB and then flash again to ICS if you'd like to, you shouldn't get any troubles downgrading.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] GadgetNoob:
But that's the problem how do I downgrade without breaking my contract?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] obaidshera:
As for my knowledge this is not possible! but next time use the "MyPhoneExplorer" it keeps contacts in PC so whenever u flash firmware, install its client on phone and run this software on PC and then it will put all the contacts that u had on ur phone before flash. last night i had done rooting on my phone by following steps hope it will also help u for flashing a firmware via flashtool.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1842366
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] pitchblack5691:
Provided you updated via seus try this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1676565

I don't think you'll void your contract because you are re flashing the service providers update .

Your problem may be due to incomplete flashing .

Press thanks if I helped you!

sent from my smultron
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] GadgetNoob:
To tell you the truth i'm not worried about contacts I just want it to work again without blowing off the contract.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihahn:
Which provider do you have? You are scared if you flash an international firmware instead of the one from your provider, you can't use sim card or what's the problem about that? :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] anerik:
You mean your provider, right? Not your contacts like everyone else are saying. Well, nothing will happen, it's just an international firmware, you won't lose the contract... Don't worry
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ScatteredHell:
Don't worry bro, It has nothing to do with your Provider. Go ahead. :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] GadgetNoob:
So your saying if I do the rooting guide to go back I won't lose my contract with At&t. :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] anerik:
Exactly, at least i didn't lose anything (Movistar-Argentina). You might wanna take the SIM off just in case
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] GadgetNoob:
The other thing is can I root it if the phone won't turn on? Its not like it overheated since there is still a slight green light that blinks.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] anerik:
Wait, what? I don't think so, just downgrade to GB, and then root.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] GadgetNoob:
How though and if I did not flash root it before I did it legally with the upgrade tool.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] anerik:
I still dont understand what you're saying... You wanna root it or not?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] pitchblack5691:
1.He upgraded his device to ics and the phone won't boot.

2.He doesn't want to downgrade (gb) or reflash (ics) using international ftf firmware (flashtool method) .

3. He always used official update software and he is afraid of voiding the CONTRACT with his service provider if he uses flashtool method.

4. Please read the op clearly he doesn't mean CONTACTS he means the CONTRACT with his service provider.

5. To the op,

Please post your problem step by step clearly and highlight the important words by using upper case letters or different color.

6. As I've never used a network contract phone I cannot comment on this thread confidently. So others please try to help the op.

Press thanks if I have helped you .
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Annoymous Man:
One won't lose the warranty if he/she fails in an official upgrade, send it to the dealer for repair before trying oneself with Flashtool, which may alter the build.prop, and else. Right?

By the way, my Xperia Mini Pro fails to change the input method by long pressing the text input area with.431 ics ROM, any hints? Thanks.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihahn:
If you have never rooted and bootloader is locked (and I think it is), please send it to service or give it to the shop where you've bought it. This is better, and because it was an official update, you should be able to claim your warranty.

If you try to do it yourself with flashtool, you will modify your phone and if they find out, your warranty is lost. So please don't flash it, give it to service ;)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ghost_j1:
heyyy everyone

I just wanna share an VPN app that works with those none rooted devices

you can download it from the attachment :)

and here is another one

www.vpnoneclick.com

and please if someone else know another apps please share it as plan B :D

if its work please hit thanks button

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[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] kifer:
working. thanks
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ghost_j1:
ur welcome ,man and here is another one

www.vpnoneclick.com :laugh:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] darth5zaft:
Onavo extent also work
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] newfiesteaks:
so i was trying to do a clean install of a rom by wiping both sd cards on my device before flashing . i wiped sd ext in twrp recovery and rebooted my phone without installing rom, wiping system cache factory reset etc to see if it worked...unfortuntly when my phone tried to reboot it couldnt do it, now my power button wont turn on the device and i get a half assed connection sound when i try to connect it to computer. Also when i hold the power button down a couple seconds while connected to the computer it makes the disconnection sound, any ideas?!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] LoopDoGG79:
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it sounds like its hard bricked.
[Asus Transformer TF700] RussellEstridge25:
Hello community, I currently own a TF300T, but decided to upgrade to the TF700 after using the 300 for a week or so... I had a 15 day grace period to "try it out" per say... haha. I did that with a few other tablets too cause I just couldn't decide which one to get but now im certain I want the TF700. Anyway's... Its going to be here Monday and im pretty sure it'll come ICS stock and I was wondering what you recommend to do for me to root it. Do I root before it does the update? Is it possible to root from JB stock with out unlocking the bootloader? I know there are a lot of forums in reguards to this subject but Im not sure how old they are of if things have changed. Can someone just point me in the right direction or just give me a list of links in which order to apply? It would be much appreciated. I love these tablets by asus, dont necessarily like asus themselves but they make a good product and I dont want a very expensive brick. My basic goal here is to just be stock rooted with JB. I dont really want any special rom's atm. Thanks in advance!!!
[Asus Transformer TF700] lafester:
See the root thread in general
[Asus Transformer TF700] jtrosky:
If it comes with ICS .26 or earlier, make *sure* that you save the blobs needed in order to use NVFlash *before* you upgrade it to Jelly Bean. If you save your blobs, you will be able to use NVFlash forever, meaning that you can recover from almost any "brick" situation.

Check out the NVFlash thread for more details. If you upgrade to Jelly Bean before saving the required blobs, you will *not* be able to use NVFlash.
[Asus Transformer TF700] MartyHulskemper:
+1 -- very sound advice. No matter what you do when it comes in, no matter what you are planning to o with it for its entire lifetime, put Nvflash on it while you can. There's no way back once you upgrade to stock JB -- not for now, and there may never be. Once you have done that, your 700 will dance to whatever tune you play and there's not much risk of you bricking it so thoroughly you cannot recover it (relatively) easily.

(For reasons of performance, I'd highly recommend reconsidering flashing a custom ROM. That might be something for the future; just wanted to bring it up. :) )
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BrokenWall:
I have my Galaxy Nexus and I have noticed the battery has just been complete crap lately. Today for example my phone was at 50% and after a 2.5 hour long movie, my battery was down to 19%, and within 10 minutes from that I was down to 14%.

I can easily kill 40% of my battery in one hour driving to work by streaming pandora. I have tried:

CM10, Stock Roms, AOK

Different Bootloaders

Newest radios, older radios, hybrid mixture of radios

Different kernels with hotplug CPU (LeanKernel, FauxKernel)

I might as well walk around with a car battery in my back pocket. I have tried turning off LTE and its better but damn 3G is slow. The thing that pisses me off the most is my Wife's Droid RAZR (not MAXX) has a 1780mAh battery running an OMAP 4430 cpu at the same speed and running LTE all day and she gets a day of use almost out of her device.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Fire n mage:
That's normal battery life on this phone lol. Get an extended battery
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BrokenWall:
My Nexus S was a great phone with great battery, and hell even my HTC Sensation was a great phone but I felt weird with roms that were not true AOSP because of kernel sources having to be patched for newer versions of roms. So I switched and got a GNex when it came out.

So the new Google Nexus Experience is walk around with a charger in your ass, its sad that Google honestly let this device out like this, When and you can look at the S3 or One S/X and that Snapdragon S4 dual core is much better on battery then this OMAP
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
Verizon LTE man. Owns batteries on this phone. Radios aren't the greatest either, which doesn't help.

The GSM model of the Galaxy Nexus actually gets quite respectable battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BrokenWall:
Im about to just fess up and switch to AT&T, at least if you disable LTE you still have great speeds on HSDPA+ to stream pandora and surf the internet. I really only need LTE for Netflix, its even worse when your device uses more power than you are able to provide it while charging.

Turn LTE one and Stream Netflix while on a good car charger, it will just slow your battery drain, im about to drop the money on the 2100mAH battery on Amazon, the one that comes with the replacement door that makes the phone just slightly thicker. Anyone have battery recommendations
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
Issue with switching to AT&T is losing your Galaxy Nexus if you want LTE. AT&T's HSPA+ is plenty fast enough for Netflix honestly. Much faster than Verizon's 3G.

But thats up to you. Battery life on the LTE Galaxy Nexus just isn't that good.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BrokenWall:
I rather not drop the huge money on another phone right now. Think I am going to go with This Samsung 2100mAH battery for now and see if we get a new Nexus Product this year. If not that new RAZR MAXX HD is looking quite nice
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chopper the dog:
There must be something else going on. What is your per hour standby drainage like? I'm on vzw and have the 2100mah batt. But Pandora consumes bout 6~8% an hour if I don't wake the device up to much checking emails and such. My idle sleep drain is about 1% an hour with gmail sync on. I don't have any other apps i.e. Twatter, Face****, G+ and so on. My last 11 hours in the caps.

good day.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] player911:
I used to get great battery but not recently. I don't load my phone down with anything crazy because it is a work phone. I disable 4G and have WiFi always on. A typical day at work:

8am off charger

push exchange, gmail, twitter and Facebook widgets.

Before I used a Winner00 kang. At 1:30pm, I would normally have about 75% left.

Seems with JB I'm lucky to have 30% and 45minutes screen on time.

Its bad. I've changed kernels, ROMs, super wiped, radios. Nothing seems to fix it. I'm wondering if its Google Now or some app update. I've done battery monitoring stats and I'm getting deep sleeps and nothing unusual.

I have VZW 2100mah battery BTW.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] theteamaster:
Yeah I've been getting worse battery life...another thing you can look at is how good the signal is wherever you are. The weaker the signal, the more juice it uses. I realized this once I started attending a university.

I've started to bring my charger wherever I go now. :eek:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rice923:
The CDMA Gnex are notorious for having terrible battery life. I personally can barely get a full days worth of juice from the stock battery, so the 2100 could probably get you by the day without much battery anxiety. But YMMV; I also don't use BookFace cuz I'm too cool for such silliness