Guest Laika97 Posted October 23, 2011 Report Posted October 23, 2011 OK, this is probably the stupidest thing I've ever done I was trying to convert my phone from Gen1 to Gen2 so that I could install CyanogenMod 7.1. I installed the Gen1-to-Gen2-TPT-v9-custom.zip TPT file on my computer, copied it to my device, unzipped it. Then, on my phone, I checked the file and moved the 'image' folder to the SD card. I rebooted my phone holding down the 'menu' and 'volume up' keys. Text came up, and my phone rebooted into a blue version of Clockwork 5.0.2.0. Previously, I had installed update-cm-7.1.0-Blade-signed.zip via my computer, transferred the file to my SD card and unzipped it (why?!). Considering my job done (this gets better and better...), I rebooted my phone as described above, and WIPED my data AND my cache partition. Hence, I now have that wonder of usable OS's, Clockwork, as my only operating system. I am fairly horrified at my stupidity. Please, please, will anyone take pity on me? *sob* Any help with installing a ROM, I don't care which one, would be most appreciated. Is there anything I can do?
Guest Posted October 23, 2011 Report Posted October 23, 2011 (edited) You done the TPT process,which worked,as you are now left with clockworkmod,thats good,dont panic. So you put cm7.1 on SD Card. In clockworkmod,go to install zip from sd card. Select cm7.1,yes install. Clokworkmod does its work...... Reboot into your rom. What part of that went wrong for you ? It seems you are saying you unziped cm7.1,is that what your saying ? If so,there is your mistake. You flash a rom as a zip NO UNZIPPING Edited October 23, 2011 by Guest
Guest AdrianoPL Posted October 23, 2011 Report Posted October 23, 2011 dont panic, as long as you are able to boot cwm you're fine, just remove sd card from the phone and mount it anywhere else, then copy cm 7.1 zip on it (or any other gen2 rom), put it back into the phone and install by cwm
Guest Laika97 Posted October 23, 2011 Report Posted October 23, 2011 Followed instructions and am now using Cyanogen. I already had a version of the file unzipped, but could not access it. Moving it to 'download' seems to have sorted this out. Thanks! Laika
Guest t0mm13b Posted October 23, 2011 Report Posted October 23, 2011 (edited) Uhmmmm A gentle reminder... please read (NSFW) this and learn the usage of the word 'bricked'.... :rolleyes: In fact, that linky should be stickied somewhere for others to read and before tearing off into a 'panic'... Cheers, B) Edited October 23, 2011 by t0mm13b
Guest iKrautDroid Posted October 24, 2011 Report Posted October 24, 2011 More advice: Never start a thread called "awful"
Guest t0mm13b Posted October 24, 2011 Report Posted October 24, 2011 More advice: Never start a thread called "awful" +1 from me! You're 100% spot-on... quite honestly, some OPs should really look up and read about the etiquette or manners of naming threads, they have got bad lately and increased or is it I'm getting too old... :D
Guest Laika97 Posted October 24, 2011 Report Posted October 24, 2011 OK, OK, fair enough. Nobody told me, though. Sure, it was hardly 'permanently broken', but it's a common and attention-grabbing term. And what's this, then? Isn't 'de-bricking' restoring a bricked phone? If you want newbies to stop calling their variably unusable/ROM-less devices 'bricked, then there should at least be a disclaimer on the page! P.S. How else was I supposed to name this thread? It WAS awful ... Next time I'll be more factual, that was only my second post, plus I was convinced that I'd catastrophically devastated my Blade...
Guest iKrautDroid Posted October 26, 2011 Report Posted October 26, 2011 Ok, i know what it feels like when you think you screwed up a mod and think u f*ckd your device... I still get an adrenaline rush when i think about my first itouch jailbreak...
Guest glossywhite Posted October 26, 2011 Report Posted October 26, 2011 If your SF turns on, it's not bricked. Such a mis-used phrase. There's a reason for the term "bricked"; bricks don't turn on!
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