[Verizon] May have messed up brother's sprint gnex

[Sharpe Man]

Hi everyone,

First, I know that I'm posting in the Verizon section and not the Sprint section but I have the Verizon version and I feel like I know you guys better since I read a lot of the post here (even though I never post)

So my problem is this:

My brother picked up 2 sprint gnexs yesterday. Used wugfresh's 1.5.2 root toolkit to unlock and root the phone straight away.

I did some research and dl'd 2 different roms for him. (vanirAOSP 2.1, perfect) I then put them in dropbox folder for him. This is where the mistake comes in: I also put the JB bootloader that I used on my Verizon gnex. It was a careless mistake on my part.

On the instructions for the vanir rom, step one says to be on the jb bootloader and so he flashed the one that I sent him.

Now he can't seem to flash either of the two roms that I sent. He gets the "assert failed getprop ro.product.device error. He has tried to unroot and flash stock image from the wugfresh toolkit but it doesn't work (also cannot get it to work on the wife's phone even though nothing has been done to it but running the toolkit to unlock and root)

So I am stuck and don't know what to tell him to do. I cannot seem to find any bootloader (ics or jb) for sprint. He restored the nandroid before he flashed the wrong jb bootloader from me but I don't know if that removed it or not.

Thanks in advance for the help, you guys are the best.

 

[iowabowtech]

Check this out:

[Unofficial] Factory Image Package For Sprint Galaxy Nexus

Kind of strange that you can't use the return to stock option on Wugs since he's the one that posted the unofficial factory images I'm sure he has it applied to the tool. But I guess if worse comes to worse, perhaps try the old manual, fastboot method.

The nandroid didn't fix it. Radios and bootloader aren't backed up or restored using nandroids.

 

[prostang]

It might be a superuser issue. Download the su zip file and flash it via the bootloader. Link

 

[Sharpe Man]

Thanks for the replies, however I wasn't able to help him tonight so I will work on it tomorrow.

iowa: do you think that he needs to flash the stock image (if we can figure it out) because of the jb bootloader that I used on my verizon gnex?

prostang: does he need to flash the latest su (3.1.1)? Also, what is the difference with su and superuser? The wugfresh toolkit put superuser on and not su. Does that matter?

Thanks again.

 

[iowabowtech]

iowa: do you think that he needs to flash the stock image (if we can figure it out) because of the jb bootloader that I used on my verizon gnex?

That's what I'd do IF you can't work it out with the toolkit. I would flash only the boot loader IMG though. No need to flash every partition necessarily.

 

[Sharpe Man]

Iowa: How would I just flash the bootoader image? I've dl'd the file from the link but it is all together in one .tgz file.

 

[iowabowtech]

Iowa: How would I just flash the bootoader image? I've dl'd the file from the link but it is all together in one .tgz file.

Extract with 7zip.

 

[Sharpe Man]

Okay, now should I use the flash-all.sh script from the root guide or would the fastboot flash bootloader "toroplus bootloader.img" then fastboot reboot bootloader be okay to use.

Also, he is being prompted to take a system update from sprint. Would that overwrite the bootloader that we flashed?

 

[prostang]

The system update may make things worse, so avoid it if you can. The su.zip is the same as super user. It doesn't matter really, I believe the one loaded by wugfresh is an older version.

 

[Sharpe Man]

Alright, so I just flash the latest su zip like any other zip in recovery

Iowa: so I used 7zip to extract the tgz file for the stock image and all it put out was a single .tar file. Did I do that right?

 

[iowabowtech]

Iowa: so I used 7zip to extract the tgz file for the stock image and all it put out was a single .tar file. Did I do that right?

It's like a zip within a zip. You need to unpack the .tar file using 7 zip again. Inside is the bootloader img among other things. You want the img.

 

[iowabowtech]

Sorry for the short responses bro, I've been busy the last few days. If you don't want to mess with the full sdk, you can use this bare bones version from my dropbox account:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7460142/android-sdk-windows.zip

Unzip to the root of your computer's C drive. Now place the bootloader img file from the unpacked tar into the platform-tools folder of the skd package on your computer's C drive (drag and drop it there).

Now on the phone, go into the bootloader by powering off, then press and hold volume down + volume up + power. Don't select anything, it's already in fastboot mode by default. Plug in phone to pc. Open a command prompt on the pc and type:

cd c:\
cd android-sdk-windows\platform-tools
fastboot devices

If it shows your phone's serial number your good. If not, install this driver and then reboot the pc and redo the above commands:

[ADB/FB/APX Driver] Universal Naked Driver 0.7 - xda-developers

Once you get a positive response from the fastboot devices command in the form of a serial number then type these commands directly after:

fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-toroplus-primesph-l700.fd02.img (I downloaded the file and extracted the contents to verify the proper filename)

fastboot reboot-bootloader

exit

Ok, so now restart the phone. You can do that from recovery...use the volume up to select a restart. Should be back on the original bootloader and done.

 

[Sharpe Man]

Thanks for all of the help Iowa! I never would've figured out to extract from the file that I just extracted. We were able to push it to the phone with fastboot.

So now just have to see if we can flash a new rom and not get the getprop error. If so, I will try a different su zip. Thanks for the link prostang!