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feetus

Drinking and flashing don't mix. Need help with a botched CM install on Droid Incredible.

So I rooted a friend's Incredible last night with Unrevoked and everything went okay. I tried to flash CyanogenMod 7 RC. Wiped data, cache and dalvik but I didn't factory reset before flashing. I'm stuck in a bootloop at CyanogenMod animation. I can get into Clockwork but anytime I select something it just sits at a blank screen with the Rom Manager logo in the middle. I tried to factory reset from Hboot but it boots into clockwork and says "E: Invalid command argument". Any ideas?

Edit: Wipe data/factory reset is the same thing.

Edit 2: Good news everyone! Turns out I'm half retarded. This phone has a trackball which means the power button doesn't select things in Recovery. Reflashed and booted up into CM7. Now feel free to downvote this shit into oblivion or just make fun of me.

Posted Mar 12, 2011, 5:07 PM UTC · edited

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Kahnza•

The OTHER kind of flashing while drinking is pretty awesome though. :p

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skyroket•

No reason to downvote. Others might have the same problem and find your solution.

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feetusOP•

True, I didn't think about that.

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xualzan•

I had this happen, no drunk. lol. I went through the unrevoked process again and it fixed all. Hope this helps.

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SupraMarioDinc I, SGIII, TF101, Droid 3•

Yea don't feel bad, I was used to the volume/power selector of the hboot and running clockwork uses the trackball on the incredible, took me a second to realize the power button didnt do shit.

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zachtibMoto X 2014•

Edit 2: Good news everyone! Turns out I'm half retarded. This phone has a trackball which means the power button doesn't select things in Recovery. Reflashed and booted up into CM7. Now feel free to downvote this shit into oblivion or just make fun of me.

I've had that exact problem so many times it's not even funny. A couple friends have Incredibles and I have an Evo and it seems like every time they ask me to update it to the newest CM we're drunk and I spend 30 minutes trying to select ClockworkMod options with the power button.

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feetusOP•

Hah, good to see that I'm not the only one that was stumped by that. I think I'll make sure I'm sober the next time I try to flash a new ROM.

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russphilGalaxy Nexus LTE- MIUI, HP Touchpad-ICS•

Bullocks, I don't even think about changing roms until I've had a few to many most of the time.

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bisconautSamsung Galaxy S4 - CM 10.2.1•

Drinking while flashing don't mix. Need bail money and a good lawyer.

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firstking•

Playing with tech while drunk is fun and exciting!

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