Yup, darn near bricked my Pantech Element....

[GenuineDickies99]

Ak, so I think I messed up during my root. I've been having severe trouble in recovery mode, severe as in it completely fails whenever I try to get into a S/W update, download, or recovery screen. No errors, just semi brick requiring a soft reset to wake it up (and this morning that took some doing)

Could someone take a look at my partitions and mounts, from what I can gather my recovery partition is just flat out GONE.


shell@android:/ $ cat proc/partitions
cat proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

179 0 15388672 mmcblk0
179 1 32768 mmcblk0p1
179 2 500 mmcblk0p2
179 3 1500 mmcblk0p3
179 4 1 mmcblk0p4
179 5 500 mmcblk0p5
179 6 2048 mmcblk0p6
179 7 2500 mmcblk0p7
179 8 10240 mmcblk0p8
179 9 500 mmcblk0p9
179 10 4096 mmcblk0p10
179 11 3072 mmcblk0p11
179 12 3072 mmcblk0p12
179 13 614400 mmcblk0p13
179 14 1048576 mmcblk0p14
179 15 8192 mmcblk0p15
179 16 174080 mmcblk0p16
179 17 262144 mmcblk0p17
179 18 10240 mmcblk0p18
179 19 51200 mmcblk0p19
179 20 3072 mmcblk0p20
179 21 3072 mmcblk0p21
179 22 3072 mmcblk0p22
179 23 3072 mmcblk0p23
179 24 8 mmcblk0p24
179 25 20480 mmcblk0p25
179 26 51200 mmcblk0p26
179 27 12945399 mmcblk0p27
179 64 512 mmcblk0boot1
179 32 512 mmcblk0boot0
179 96 15558144 mmcblk1
179 97 15554048 mmcblk1p1


shell@android:/ $ cat proc/mounts
cat proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p13 /system ext4 rw,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p15 /persist ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p14 /data ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered,noauto_da_alloc,discard 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p16 /cache ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p17 /tombstones ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /firmware vfat ro,relatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=lower,errors=remo
unt-ro 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p19 /system/etc/firmware/misc_mdm vfat ro,relatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortn
ame=lower,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:27 /mnt/sdcard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,co
depage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro,discard 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:27 /mnt/secure/asec vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=00
20,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro,discard 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/sdcard/.android_secure tmpfs ro,relatime,size=0k,mode=000 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:97 /mnt/sdcard/external_sd vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_u
time=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0




I've got a Nandroid backup, version JWUS12052011 that I would like to get on it so I can apply the ICS update to it. I'm not the original owner and I'd like to do a complete wipe on it. However, since I can't access recovery I have no idea what to do.


These are what I have to work with:

Element Clockworkmod Backup Stock P4100_JWUS12052011.zip​

(Contents)
boot.img
cache.ext4.tar
data.ext4.tar
nandroid.md5
recovery.img
system.ext4.tar

Pantech_Element_OsUpgradeTool_Ver2.5.0.zip
(contents)

10,485,760 boot.img
11,776 cache.ext4.tar
2,048 data.ext4.tar
237 nandroid.md5
10,485,760 recovery.img
277,303,296 system.ext4.tar

The first file is a backup that should take it back to a much older version and the second is the upgrade to get it to ICS. I haven't been able to figure out how to force an overwrite of the ICS install using the files from the upgrade and since I can't get into recovery I didn't think a wipe was a very good idea either.

I know I have what I need here to fix this, I just can't fathom how without recovery.


Any help would be appreciated.