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[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjnouri:
First of all, thank you polo for helping me out!!!

At first, I was flashing nandroid backups between AOKP, CM10 M2, and CM7. Then it got stuck in a boot loop of a different sort (don't remember the details) and before I remembered to come over to XDA, I formatted some partitions under Mounts and Storage in CWM like an idiot. However I did wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache and still nothing.

I just googled some directions on unlocking from fastboot, flashing CWM, and from there let's see how it goes. Wish I brought a cable with me to work, but it'll have to wait a few hours. Thanks polo!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polobunny:
Well if you formatted system and the like, you pretty much wiped your ROM. If you installed a stock ROM, it's possible your recovery was replaced by the stock recovery, otherwise there should be no reason for your recovery to get wiped.

Rooting again with the whole unlocking process and re-installing a ROM will get you back online in no time. :)
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjnouri:
Welp, it looks like I need a little more help if you don't mind polo. For someone who was rooted, I guess I didn't know much, but learned a lot from this so far.

I flashed CWM from my desktop via fastboot and can now get into CWM. I then mounted the phone as a USB drive and loaded CM7.2 and then installed it. "Install from sdcard complete." after that. Rebooted and now it's looping at the boot animation for CM7.2. Wiped data/factory reset and same thing happens.

What am I missing here?

After I'm in CM, I plan on going back to stock + root.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polobunny:
Make sure you also wipe cache and dalvik cache. If this doesn't seem to work, in mounts and storage format cache, data, sdcard and system then reinstall your rom. Be sure you have the correct rom for your phone and not the crespo4g version or vice versa.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjnouri:
I just followed those exact instructions and it still loops at the boot animation. Damn.

The world needs more people like you polo. Thanks for trying to help me through this!! I have a genuine gratitude for you my friend.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] das_webos_transformer:
OK, run a log cat with Adb. First night I had mine had serious issues, nothing worked same problem.

If you don't know how to do log cat

Is

Adb logcat > log.txt

Same as if fastboot. Upload that and we can find your prob instantly.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjnouri:
das_webos_transformer, I just PMed you the dropbox link since I can't post links here, but I don't see it in my sent. Did you get it?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] albundy2010:
I would try the factory images from Google. Make sure the phone is working as per usual and then take it from there.

There are guides on how to do so on the forums. It is very easy.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjnouri:
Hey Al. Thanks for replying. My problem is I'm seeing too many guides. I know it's a mortal sin to ask, but can you link me to one that you think is done correctly? Unfortunately I need a little more hand holding if that ok with you guys.

UPDATE - SOMEhow, I got CM10 installed and gapps. Just flashed it it worked. I did nothing differently than before. I installed a bunch of apps and that went well. I had a feeling I wasn't in the clear and now I can't restore a nandroid backup, a fancy widgets transparent background goes missing but the text remains, and Swype won't install. It's just weird. I'm more than willing to go back to stock now. If you can provide a link for how to flash the stock images, I'll definitely give it a shot. Thank you!!!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] albundy2010:
You're all over place so here are some general FYI.

Depending on which recovery was used to make the nandroid you may not be able to restore it with a different recovery.

When you say you can't restore a nandroid and a widget or swype won't restore I am lost. What are trying to restore it from and with what.

Anyways. Stock images are here https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

Make sure you download the ones for your device. The sprint d720.

Once the download is finished extract the file. You should have a few .img files and a update zip in there. Take those files and move them to the directory you have fastboot in.

With the phone in the bootloader enter the commands.

Fastboot flash bootloader bootloader file name.IMG

Fastboot reboot bootloader

Fastboot flash radio radio image name.IMG

Fastboot reboot boot loader

Fastboot -w update image name.zip

You can most likely skip the reboot 2nd and third reboot bootlaoders . People seem to do it for some reason. If your device already has versions of the bootloader and radio installed you can skip those flashes as well.

Make sure you change the commands to the actual file names you're going to flash. Can manually type/ paste the names or just hit tab after you typed the first letter. Example. Fastboot flash radio r tab. It should auto fill it in. Check anyways.

If you're not comfortable with this dont do it. Read some more or find a video on YouTube if you're unsure. I am not responsible if you screw something up . End result will give you factory up to date bootloader radio and rom. It also wipes the phone but not the internal storage. The bootloader will still be unlocked so you can relfash a custom recovery later and do what you want.

Guides are all over. Just make sure you're flashing the correct files for your device. The commands and procedure is the same for all nexus devices.

And last if the factory images give you issues then there most likely is something actually wrong with the device. Or you managed to screw up flashing.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjnouri:
Thanks Al! I did all that and am pretty comfortable with this stuff, but when time came to flash the image...

C:\Users\Nouri\Desktop\Fastboot>fastboot -w update image image-sojus-jro03r.zip

error: failed to load 'image'

Same issue without the -w. I'm starting to think something is wrong with the phone. But how can it. It's functioning. is it possible that a hardware problem can cause these inconsistent issues?

Issues

- When I had CM10 installed, it ran choppy. It ran fine when I flashed it a few days ago. I didn't do much and flashed another ROM, but I know the S 4G is capable of running CM10 smoothly. Swipes between homescreens were choppy and so was bringing up the app drawer.

-I couldn't take a screenshot. "Screenshot not saved" or something to that effect

-Swype would get to 100% download and then halt for a few minutes. I'd hit Install and it would just stay there for a few minutes and nothing would happen.

-I couldn't restore from a CWM nandroid that I just made.

Internal sdcard faulty maybe?

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!!!!!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjnouri:
Nevermind! Back to stock! Thank you so much Al!!!! Holy crap you have made me a happy man before I sleep tonight dude!

The last step was actually fastboot -w update image.zip, but it's all good!!!!! Thank you ALL!!! XDA is a pretty special place where you guys help someone to the best of your knowledge. I'm going to pass this forward.

Polo, das, Al, I can't thank you guys enough. Know that you guys helped someone out big time here. Hopefully this makes your day better too!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjnouri:
Hey all. I just wanted to send a quick update your way. I successfully went back to 100% stock thanks to Al's awesome directions. Still couldn't install swype and there were some files on the internal storage that had all sorts of strange symbols and were .01 to 5 GB in size! Clearly there is something wrong here. I rebooted and that all went away actually. This morning I rebooted and I see a notification saying "Damaged USB storage - USB storage is damaged. Try reformating" I tapped it and successfully formatted the storage, but that's my issue all along. Wish I left the notification up there, but I'll get it back and take it to Sprint. Hopefully get a replacement.

You guys freakin rule. You helped me until we all, especially I, were blue in the face. Thanks again!!!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] albundy2010:
If you're going to take it sprint you should probably re lock the bootloader. They may not check or care but eh

Fastboot oem lock.

That doesn't wipe anything

Fastboot oem unlock does and that would be needed if you wanted to root and flash your device again .
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjnouri:
Thanks and yup! I got pretty good at this whole thing now. I feel very good now learning fastboot. I flashed completely stock like you said. It worked. Problems arose. Locked the bootloader and tucked the phone away. If it wasn't for Google Voice, my life would suck right now! Hopefully my trip to Sprint turns out well. A few short hours.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kmd612:
hi sorry if this is already out there been searching for 4 hours now i went to restore my rom from 4ext and it never went to the rom it just keep loading now i seen it say system is in safe mode and to format it did that and rebooted recovery now after a hour of trying i switched to cwm recovery and now it does the same i go into it and after i format or try to install the phone reboots and trys to load but no rom is on it to do that now idk if anyone can help but please if you can guide me around this problem thank you and this is my first post and first time ever stuck
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drowe:
Can't tell you the exact steps, but.... If you can copy a new ROM to the sd card, can you flash that in recovery? Or, you may have to go back and flash a stock RUU via hboot and re-root. Those are a couple of emergency steps I've had to do in the past.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kmd612:
im going to try ruu now
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kmd612:
also no matter what i do in recovery it just restarts by it self and starts over thats why i can flash any thing and i noticed if i do a full wipe it does not do system
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] disconnecktie:
Are you using format all except SD card in 4ext? Cwm will not format boot or system partitions.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kmd612:
I did do that in 4ext and soon as it started it would reboot then try to boot up finally had to use a ruu and start all over and it worked thanks for all the help and earlier when I tryed a ruu it would fail but finally worked
[HTC Amaze 4G] b33j7030:
Ok... after having a tpu cover for several months i finally took it off and gone nekked.. it's my day 2 and boy it sure does feel pretty good in the hand and i'm loving the fact that i can always glance at it and admire its build quality and the overall looks of it. Although don't get me wrong...even though covers serves your cell extra protection from slippage, nicks etc it still won't prevent it from damages like scratchess and i'm just not a fan of slight bulkiness. what's your take on this???
[HTC Amaze 4G] Y2Ne1:
this is what i have on full body cover http://www.ebay.com/itm/180800325521?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

cheap , one of the best in market , easy to install
[HTC Amaze 4G] PeterC18st:
I have a tpu case myself and as much of a keep it bare kind of guy HTC did a stupid thing with making the touch screen higher than the body itself. But the tpu case I'm a fan.

Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads!
[HTC Amaze 4G] SocalTeknique:
I have a TPU cover with translucent back that shows the rear and HTC logo. I mostly have it on for work and when working out. I go naked whenever I go to restaurants or out in public and just slip it in its Nexus One like "Andy" pouch.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Theshawty:
Well, it's basically my understanding that the camera in aosp is, to keep it nice, less good than the one in BloatWiz roms. Although, what is the actual difference, photo quality-wise? I currently run CM10 and have no photos (serious ones, at least) to compare with CM10 camera ones.

Is it worse, much worse or almost on par with the one in bloatwiz roms?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mvh_01:
The software of Touchwizz makes for nicer pictures than the stock camera app imo. I hope Google will improve their camera software greatly and will add a native HDR function.

That said, most functions can be added with a third party camera like Pro Capture.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BoogWeed:
The only reason I am using Omega ROM (TouchWiz based) is because of the camera quality, ESPECIALLY in night mode. CM/AOKP night mode is horrendous!

I love AOKP but the camera quality just isn't up to scratch. If they can fix that I will go back to AOKP right away.

Edit: Also CM doens;t have metering mode on the camera which is a feature I regularly use.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ho0o0o11111:
Just try Camera FV-5 in play store.

Good photo quality (You can fine tune to set the sharpness, contrast and photo quality in apps)

Metering mode and adjust of exposure etc are also included.

I use this app with CM10.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Theshawty:
They can't fix it because of Samsung Korea.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] projektHAZE:
Long story short ..I already had EZ Recovery 2.2 installed but then I had to flash my phone & i ended up installing Team Win's Recovery UNOFFICIAL-2.2.2.1

So I was wondering is there any way to uninstall TWRP? or should I just get rid of EZ instead

Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
EZ Recovery is only an app. Flash whatever recovery you want and it will replace your current recovery. :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] projektHAZE:
Thanks! much appreciated
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] r00tPT:
Has anyone tried disassembling the Xperia P and change its battery?

Disassembly Guide

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sv_m2E50RY

http://goldphone.tv/articles/196450/

It doesn't seem much difficult, but funny thing is the specific xperia P batteries on eBay don't seem to fit there, whereas the ones for xperia U seem to be good.

Anyone has any experience with this?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Morphix52:
Easy job

Hi there,

@ 1st:

thx for sharing the links, they helped me to solve my problem.

Now to my experience:

The disassembling is simple, just the top-cover (with the audio-jack) is tricky to release.

There is no glue in use just 3 little clips.

The unibody battery-cover is hold by 4 screws (use a T4 x40 screwdriver)

I needed the TUT to release the battery, cause my LT22i was in a boot-loop.

CU

Morphix
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Fullm3tal:
Hello,

Although batteries for U fit in Xperia P, are they functionnal ? The standard capacity of Xperia U batteries is 1320 mAh whereas the Xperia P batteries one is 1305 mAh.

By this way, Xperia P could benefit of a little improved autonomy ...
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Morphix52:
If I see it right, the battery of the Xperia U is just cliped into the device-body and there is no cable needed two connect the battery.

For the Xperia P you need a cable to connect the battery at the phone.

Battery for Xperia U

Battery for Xperia P

Where did you see that both battery has the same dimensions?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] vikramam:
To stop boot-loop you just press vol up+power button until it vibrates 3 times, Then the device will shutdown completely
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Morphix52:
AW: [Q] Xperia P Disassembly - Change battery

Thx 4 Info... ;)

I will try it next time...
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Aamirx27:
How to open the top cover its making me MAD
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] jadi90:
Xperia P camera problem

Hi

since you have disassembled the xperia P, i was wondering if you could solve my problem.

when i use camera in low lights with flash on, it gives yellowish tint and blued image. i noticed that there is a blue shade on the lens of xperia P when it is placed at a certain angle with light. i was thinking that its lens may be covered with a plastic sheet. as it is on xperia U. can you please confirm this issue?

Thankx
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Joej970:
1500 mAh battery

Hey guys!

What do you think about this battery?

batteryupgrade.com/shopBrowser.php?shopGroupId=91313639&tracker=adwords_si_PDA&langId=1&gclid=COrg0suO3LUCFdEzzQodESwAVw#/assortmentProductId/93188393/shopGroupId/91313639

It has 1500 mAh. Is safe to buy a battery which has larger capacity than stock battery? And I noticed that this battery fits to other Xperia phones. Doesnt every phone model have an unique battery?

Greetings
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Xperia_Fans:
SONY is strongly not recommended our user to disassembly the phone and modification the hardware cause it will harm you!!!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] RizwanSharp:
Hi,

Do you have any recommendations on how to remove the Top Cap? What technique did you use to push those clips to release from the housing?

Thanks,

Rizwan
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] rajsris:
Hi,

I realize this is not the recommended method, but I've been running every CM10 rom off the sdcard using Succulent's method and the instructions on this blog.

This worked very well on every rom from Chris, as well as every SGT7 rom up to 10/04. 10/08 and 10/12 never get to the Cyanogenmod splash screen. I'm wondering what changed between 10/4 and 10/8 that caused it to stop booting. I have yet to try the cpuidle rom using this method.

Thanks!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rvalentin913:
Is there an available sytabex7-2 custom rom or am I out of luck?
[HTC Amaze 4G] spiz516:
Not finding this answer anywhere, but is it possible to just disable the landscape option for the home screen? Obviously I want it to be able to go to landscape for texting and web browsing and stuff, but it's annoying when it does it on the home screen. Am I just not seeing this option? Any help is much apprecaited. Thanks!
[HTC Amaze 4G] Double0EK:
+1 not diggin the landscape homescreen.
[HTC Amaze 4G] vrracing:
Flash nightmare sense 1.4. They removed that god awful feature.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Brooklyn8807:
Unless I'm doing something wrong..No they didn't. Still an awesome Rom. I don't really mind landscape too be honest. Still, would be nice to have the option.

EDIT: I reflashed 1.4 and formated everything possible. And now landscape is gone. Good deal.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Johnny Two Tone:
wooden haosect

Oh, weird. After getting an HTC Amaze 4G all I ever heard was people (with the OEM ROM) complaining about not having the ability to go landscape with the home screen.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Joker10s3:
You have a tweak installed which make it landscape
[HTC Amaze 4G] Brooklyn8807:
Yea I found that out the hard way. Lol. It Came back after I reflashed tweaks.

Any way to edit zip so that it doesn't mess with nightmare 1.4 fixes? I have no clue how to do any of the fancy stuff these amazing devs are making. Lol :D
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
Where's v1.4 download anyway guys?

- Sent from a Starbucks.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Brooklyn8807:
In the development section/nightmare 1.3. Check post 1642 by Ziggy or post 1722 by Gideo. They both have links to 1.4.

They haven't updated OP yet.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 2oublethink:
Hi all,

I'm on Rogers GS3 (i747m)

I've searched and searched. I cannot find a fix to my problem.

Last night I downloaded the AOKP 10.16 update and was trying to flash it above my 10.03.

It gave me an error while flashing, but then the phone would boot and stay stuck at the glowing samsung logo.

I downloaded the stock rogers rom and tried to flash it using oding. Same thing would happen, glowing samsung logo.

I was finally able to flash a recovery image but now it won't recognize my internal sd and keeps telling me that there was an error mounting external sd. I can't format /data because of that.

When I try to flash another recovery through Odin 3.07, it keeps telling me "Odin downloader has stopper working." With Odin 1.85, it says "Odin communicator has stopped working."

I'm about to give up. Will keep searching. But I'm losing hope at this point.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jerrycoffman45:
have you tried this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1828152
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] liltitiz:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=28175077

Try this toolkit. It may help you. You can also try to flash twrp recovery. And do you have a nandroid backup?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tswtech2:
any solution

hello, has anyone found a solution to this "odin has stopped working"? i have a gnex that has bad "volume down" and "power" buttons. so if my phone dies i usually charge it and then flash a recovery via odin to boot it back up without having to redo my whole phone. now everytime i try to use any version odin, the program crashes. i've seen a lot of people with this issue lately but since i do not have working buttons, odin is the only way i can boot my phone. please help :( ps. i know i don not have a s3 but i am going through the same issue and i need the odin to work so i can fix a s3 as well.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] amzi:
that used to happen to me what version are you on?? ill give you the attachment that worked for me
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] amzi:
You arent hard bricked dont give up :D YOUR PHONE IS STILL ALIVE xD

This will keep all your data!

Unbrick:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypmqJbZqOaU&feature=relmfu

Obviously you'd want to root again (;

Root:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoEVDgjTTdg&feature=plcp
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] resrevni:
Whenever I get stuck at the Samsung logo boot animation, I reboot into recovery, factory reset, reboot into download mode and flash again with Odin. Works every time.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] amzi:
The thing is he doesnt have to lose all his data
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tswtech2:
i was using version 3.07 from the toolkit. yes , i was trying not to lose my data. after trying all night, i was able to load a stock image and bring my phone back. all data was lost but at least my phone is working. i guess i just need to stop being cheap and get another phone but, we all know the outrages prices guys charge for phones on craigslist. does anyone know if the gnex is available through google still?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] totti107:
hey guys

let me start off by saying i am a noob to this site and android in general , ive learnt a lot from my galaxy s2 .

now i got the s3 , ive rooted it .. however i tried to upgrade to 4.1 awhile back . kept getting error .

anyways i want to upgrade to jellybean im sick of waiting like everyone else.

cm10 seems like a good rom , ive read a lot on this forum, could some one tell me what the first step is do i flash cwm first on the rogers stock or do i have to put ATT stock on it

thanks

cheers
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] :
Hi!

Welcome to the site! You'll really love the community here!

Here are some simple instructions I found for you: http://www.androidauthority.com/gal...elly-bean-cyanogenmod-10-cm10-preview-104742/

Just make sure you download the latest CWM from here (6.0.1.2 currently): http://download2.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-6.0.1.2-d2att.img

And flash it to your device.

Then follow those steps, wipe/format data partition, as it says there. CAREFUL make sure you download the latest CyanogenMod version from here too, the top one on the list is always newest, latest version came out today actually: http://get.cm/?device=d2att

Let me know how it goes and if you're enjoying it! Tried leaked version of JB on my S3 with Telus in Canada and didn't like the bugs in there...so let me know if the 'CM Finishing Touch' on there is really better than stock!

Michael
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] totti107:
thanks man. i will give it a try soon and let you know..

so just i get this straight i can do everything from my rogers stock rom right .. i dont have to download the att stock rom ??

starting off with the flashing of cwm recovery ?

cheers