Decided to channel my inner Hugh Jeffreys yesterday and replace the screen on a phone what i broke ages ago. The repair itself was actually pretty fun, albeit not perfect, and it worked really well for all of 30 minutes before i tried flashing a new custom rom onto it. In my finite wisdom, i tried to reboot back into the recovery menu, only to find out that the new rom had overwritten the previous recovery menu and replaced it with nothing. It's boot looping now and i haven't found a way to make it stop :) I've unplugged the battery in the hopes that it might sort itself out after a day or two, but otherwise there's a way to flash the stock firmware back on that didn't work.
Sucks too. Despite the fact that it's like the quintessential pov indian c*nt phone, it has reasonably good specs considering how much it cost and there doesn't look to be much on the market that fits my incredibly narrow definition of a good phone is (doesn't look offensively ugly). anyways if you'll excuse me i'm going to start a phone repair kiosk in a shopping centre now
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Can't you use adb and fastboot to get a new recovery on the phone?
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It tries to immediately boot to recovery mode so doesn't respond to the key combo for fastboot. I did manage to boot it to Android before this, and think it's bootlooping specifically because I tried to reboot to recovery from android. Hence, my rationale for removing the battery is that the ram or whatever will reset itself, so when I put the battery back in it'll (hopefully) boot like normal, and then I can go back into Android and fix everything.
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