[Q] Did CM installer brick my phone?

sblar

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Dec 12, 2009

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• Jun 27, 2014

• #1

Soft brick after CM installer

Hi guys, I could really need some help here. I tried the Cyanogenmod installer and everything went fine, except my phone was stuck in
bootscreen for too long time (never booted).
In CWM recovery I did a factory reset/wipe, reboot, but to no avail; still stucked on CM bootscreen.
I then tried to flash CM11 by recovery sideloader. This goes to 100% and recovery says "Installing update", but nothing happens.
Is it supposed to install and finally reboot by itself, or should I do something?

I tried to installed zip from SD-card, but got "E:Can't mount /sdcard". I guess that means that I can't push the .zip over ADB to /sdcard
either.

What else can I try?

 

sblar

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Dec 12, 2009

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• Jun 27, 2014

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Edit: I wiped /data and then I could suddenly push the .zip to /data/media and the, finally flash the .zip from sdcard!

Why on earth the installer didn't wipe everything from the beginning, I don't get...

Did I miss anything obvious about the wiping thing?

 

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nateboi81

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• Jun 28, 2014

• #3

A factory reset should do the trick normally. But if you ever get a message that you can't mount something you have to wipe that partition in recovery. I haven't used CWM in a long time. I prefer twrp as a recovery these days

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sblar

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• Jun 29, 2014

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Thanks, I'll remember that, should it ever happen again. What's the benefit for TWRP over CWM?

 

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Ayman.y88

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• Jun 29, 2014

• #5

in Htc One i always had this problem.
I'm pretty sure you will never be able to mount SD
but its not a big problem since you can still sidepush the zip file.

and to be honest there is not much difference between TWRP and CWM . its a matter of preference.

On my Htc one i always used TWRP but on other android devices for some reason i sticked with CWM.

 

sblar

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• Jun 30, 2014

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Ayman.y88 said:

in Htc One i always had this problem.
I'm pretty sure you will never be able to mount SD
but its not a big problem since you can still sidepush the zip file.

and to be honest there is not much difference between TWRP and CWM . its a matter of preference.

On my Htc one i always used TWRP but on other android devices for some reason i sticked with CWM.

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Unfortunately, I was not able to sideload the image, the transfer went well, the phone said "Installing update" but nothing happened!

 

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Ayman.y88

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• Jun 30, 2014

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sblar said:

Unfortunately, I was not able to sideload the image, the transfer went well, the phone said "Installing update" but nothing happened!

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i guess u will have to install back the official ruu and after it add the rom u want to flash on the sd card and flash it ...

let me know if it works with you.

GL

 

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tiny4579

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• Jun 30, 2014

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Ayman.y88 said:

i guess u will have to install back the official ruu and after it add the rom u want to flash on the sd card and flash it ...

let me know if it works with you.

GL

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Post 2 implies op was able to flash the zip successfully after wiping /data.

 

sblar

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• Jun 30, 2014

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Correct, and I could probably also have sideloaded after wiping /data...