PDA

View Full Version : Can't Flash any ROMs on my Dev Phone


RichardRahl
10-13-2009, 05:18 PM
I have a Android Dev phone. I was trying to load the new 4.1999 version of CM.

I was at 4.1.11 of CM ROM, I had 1.4 Recovery Image loaded.

As per instruction I loaded the stock recovery image of 1.6 from the HTC website. I think I did something stupid at this point and instead of flashing 4.1999 I think I hit wipe. What that caused for some odd reason is when I went back to recovery mode I lost my CM 1.4 Recovery Image and was back to stock recovery image. so I'm stuck with the stock 1.6 recovery image. I've been trying to load the 1.4 recovery image back on but in terminal emulator it gives me the "permission denied" error. Thinking that I should try using another ROM that come with the tools I've tried flashing cm 4.1.11, stock 1.5, Hero Roms... and the stupid thing won't let me flash ANY of them.

I put the image in the sdcard, name it update.zip. go to recovery mode and tell it to use the update.zip. It goes through the verification stage but when it gets to install image it promptly aborts the installation.

At this point I don't know what else to do. Any suggestions?

Thank you
ceas909
10-13-2009, 05:24 PM
i dont remeber where i read this but.. i remeber comin across a thread or at cyanogen website... that some people were lossing root after intalling the rooted base...
vigan8
10-13-2009, 05:25 PM
hm, thats weird, i think you should try FlashRec app, the 1 click root thing, see if that works, if not, try rooting with this guide
http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-root-a-t-mobile-g1-and-mytouch-3g-android-phone/
use method B
RichardRahl
10-13-2009, 05:32 PM
hm, thats weird, i think you should try FlashRec app, the 1 click root thing, see if that works, if not, try rooting with this guide
http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-root-a-t-mobile-g1-and-mytouch-3g-android-phone/
use method B

So the issue could be that I've lost root privileges? I didn't know that was possible seeing that I have the Dev phone.... thats odd
vigan8
10-13-2009, 05:33 PM
yea, you have lost root access, it is an easy process getting it back, especially with the 1 click root app! tell me how it goes. good luck
simms22
10-13-2009, 05:42 PM
How did you put cyans rom an d recovery on in the first place , recovery flasher ?
RichardRahl
10-13-2009, 05:58 PM
How did you put cyans rom an d recovery on in the first place , recovery flasher ?

yes I've had CM's 1.4 Recovery image on there for a while now.
vigan8
10-13-2009, 05:59 PM
but how did you get it on your phone? Terminal way.. (flash_image recovery /sdcard/...?)
simms22
10-13-2009, 06:27 PM
I've noticed this with the recovery flasher . The recovery that is used isn't perminent . You havre to install the recovery manually after . And since you never actually rooted your phone , you don't have root anymore . I wiped by accident the first time I was trying for 4.1.99 , and I still have root because I rooted manually . All the recovery flasher does is exploit a security hole to use cyans recovery 1.4 , its never yours , its the apps . And since you wiped , you lost it . Try rooting manually or the recovery flasher again . Only this time , install the recovery manually after . Its not your fault , you had no way of knowing .
RichardRahl
10-13-2009, 06:53 PM
but how did you get it on your phone? Terminal way.. (flash_image recovery /sdcard/...?)

Sorry did not understand the earlier question. yes I had used terminal emulator to pu the cm1.4 recovery image on the first time around.

As for the one click root thing, I installed recovery flasher app, it supposedly let me download the cm1.4 recovery image to my phone but the "Flash recovery image" button is grayed out. The backup recovery image function fails.
vigan8
10-13-2009, 07:08 PM
thats weird... i think you should try rooting the manual way, thats how i rooted my g1 back in the day, i used 1 click for my mytouch, they both work perfect but i prefer to do it manually
crazynorwegian
10-14-2009, 12:36 AM
had the same problem if you have Fastboot set up on your computer. just drop the cm-recovery-1.4 image into the adbwin folder and navigate to it in command prompt.. restart the phone holding the camera button, connect though usb to computer and then hit the back button. and then
type
fastboot flash recovery cm-recovery-1.4.img

after its done transferring type
fastboot reboot

it then the cm recovery should come back

if it is giving you an error before installing then type
fastboot devices
if none are listed then your computer is not setup for fastboot.