Help!! I can open clockwork recovery but I can't boot Droid 1

[Biggerdave]

Yesterday I flashed a custom rom and now when I turn the phone on all I get is the M for a second and then a black screen forever. I can open clockwork mod recovery by pressing Power and X at the same time but I don't know what to do next. Somebody please help

 

[hookbill]

Yesterday I flashed a custom rom and now when I turn the phone on all I get is the M for a second and then a black screen forever. I can open clockwork mod recovery by pressing Power and X at the same time but I don't know what to do next. Somebody please help

Well, if you can get into recovery you should be able to restore your back up.

You did make a back up, right?

 

[coondogg97]

If you can still get into Clockwork Recovery you should be able to just reflash another rom. Just download the ROM you want to use and put it on your SD card. Then you can install the ROM directly from your phone.

Good luck!

 

[Biggerdave]

Yep. I made a backup using Rom Manager before I ran into this problem. How do I go about restoring my back up?

 

[kylo77]

If you did a backup then once you are in clockwork recovery scroll down to Nandroid (use the volume rocker) and then press the camera button to select. Once in there press restore (again with the camera button), you should then see a list of your backups. Select the backup and let it go. Once it's done select reboot phone.

 

[em1]

If that doesn't work, there's always sbf. You can flash it back to its original out of the box state

Sent from the Milestone

 

[Biggerdave]

My phone started doing this when I was flashing a ROM. I'm worried that it wasn't compatible. I have Froyo FRG22D. Any recommendations? And how do I flash them with clockwork recovery after I get them on the SD card?

 

[kylo77]

Your phone started doing what? At this point you should restore your backup to stabilize the phone they try a custom ROM all over again.

 

[Biggerdave]

Sorry for the confusion Kylo77. Didn't see your first post haha Im trying that right now.

 

[em1]

If he has a backup. If not, you will.need a tool called RSD Lite an a compatible SBF file that you'll.have to flash in bootloader mode. There's a full how to on XDA Forums

Sent from the Milestone

 

[Biggerdave]

Alrighty I got the back up to work. Thanks a lot. I REALLY appreciate it :icon_ banana:

 

[kylo77]

I've been in your shoes...happy flashing!

 

[teddyearp]

@ em1, flashing a full .sbf file with RSD Lite 4.6 should ALWAYS be considered as a totally last resort. If the op couldn't have fixed with a backup, there were still many, many, many different ways to fix the phone without RSD Lite.

 

[em1]

@ em1, flashing a full .sbf file with RSD Lite 4.6 should ALWAYS be considered as a totally last resort. If the op couldn't have fixed with a backup, there were still many, many, many different ways to fix the phone without RSD Lite.

If it wasn't responding to ANYTHING past recovery, RSD Lite would've fixed it. I'm sorry if you don't see it this way, but sometimes it's easier to wipe and restart than mess with something and make it completely useless am unfixable.

Sent from the Milestone

 

[teddyearp]

@ em1, flashing a full .sbf file with RSD Lite 4.6 should ALWAYS be considered as a totally last resort. If the op couldn't have fixed with a backup, there were still many, many, many different ways to fix the phone without RSD Lite.

If it wasn't responding to ANYTHING past recovery, RSD Lite would've fixed it. I'm sorry if you don't see it this way, but sometimes it's easier to wipe and restart than mess with something and make it completely useless am unfixable.

Sent from the Milestone

Are you basing this on your knowledge with the Milestone? Because that is the only way that it is totally true. I am not saying that RSD Lite wouldn't fix it, but considering that RSD Lite is Motorola proprietary software as are the leaked .sbf files, if anything goes wrong there, then you can brick your phone to total useless state in a hurry and that is why IMHO it should be the last resort.

For the A855 Droid, if you can boot into recovery, there's tons of things you can do there to restore your phone, and NONE of them will leave a A855 Droid phone "completely useless and unfixable". Factory data rest, restore a backup, flash a different kernel, flash a different rom, just to name a few.