so my sisters boyfriends G1 powers on but after the G1 screen it goes to the screen with an exclamation point in a traingle. whats wrong with it?
dglowen23 said:
so my sisters boyfriends G1 powers on but after the G1 screen it goes to the screen with an exclamation point in a traingle. whats wrong with it?
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It's going into recovery mode. Probably a hosed boot image.
I believe that pressing ALT-I should show the recovery menu.
ALT + L shoes Log, and then, you might want to wipe by pressing ALT + W. Maybe that'll fix it.
i wiped it and it still does the same thing... he said he dropped it in water but that usually means that the screen would turn white right?
dglowen23 said:
i wiped it and it still does the same thing... he said he dropped it in water but that usually means that the screen would turn white right?
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Why would WIPING it make any difference? And why would the screen turn white by dropping it in water?
Try writing a new system image to the thing.
If that doesn't work, probably the HOME button is broken -- will need to be taken apart and replace the button.
well wiping it was the only option i could choose since the phone isnt rooted and the recovery image only wipes.. and the screens on phones go white or wont even turn on at all if theres water damage ive witnessed it happen about 3 times on 3 different phones
dglowen23 said:
well wiping it was the only option i could choose since the phone isnt rooted and the recovery image only wipes.. and the screens on phones go white or wont even turn on at all if theres water damage ive witnessed it happen about 3 times on 3 different phones
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3 times on 3 different phones?
Keep the hell away from my phone -- you're obviously very dangerous.
And no, if a phone gets shorted out, the most likely thing to happen is for the screen to go BLANK.
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I recently bricked my G1 (flashed radio after SPL, silly me), and I'm considering buying one with a cracked screen. I have no problem taking and it apart and what so, but if I were to place the screen of the bricked g1 on that of the cracked one...would this work? I don't think the bricking has anything to do with the screen, but I just want to make sure with this forum before I go ahead and purchase a G1 with a cracked screen.
nasman1993 said:
I recently bricked my G1 (flashed radio after SPL, silly me), and I'm considering buying one with a cracked screen. I have no problem taking and it apart and what so, but if I were to place the screen of the bricked g1 on that of the cracked one...would this work? I don't think the bricking has anything to do with the screen, but I just want to make sure with this forum before I go ahead and purchase a G1 with a cracked screen.
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go for it you should be ok. dont snap them ribbons
Thanks for the quick reply. I'll purchase a G1 with a cracked screen, and I'll begin taking apart my brick right now. I just didn't want to rush anything, in case this idea doesn't work.
nasman1993 said:
I recently bricked my G1 (flashed radio after SPL, silly me), and I'm considering buying one with a cracked screen. I have no problem taking and it apart and what so, but if I were to place the screen of the bricked g1 on that of the cracked one...would this work? I don't think the bricking has anything to do with the screen, but I just want to make sure with this forum before I go ahead and purchase a G1 with a cracked screen.
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I have one with broken screen but it has been open (myself) but it is working no problem and its running jf 1.5 can send you pics or a short video how much are you willing to pay for it ? just want to know if it's worth selling or i should keep it as a testing device I have 2 G1
I'm hoping not to go over $50, maybe a bit over with shipping. How much are you hoping to get for it? Also what color is it? It really doesn't matter, because mine is white, and I can replace just the screen, but it's easier to replace it with the casing. Let me know, thanks.
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I'm hoping not to go over $50, maybe a bit over with shipping. How much are you hoping to get for it? Also what color is it? It really doesn't matter, because mine is white, and I can replace just the screen, but it's easier to replace it with the casing. Let me know, thanks.
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that's cool but come on 50 buck .not worth selling i just keep it
Hey, make an offer! $50 isn't my final.
WAIT!!!
nasman1993 said:
Thanks for the quick reply. I'll purchase a G1 with a cracked screen, and I'll begin taking apart my brick right now. I just didn't want to rush anything, in case this idea doesn't work.
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How bricked is bricked... what did you do, and what does it do now?
90% of "Bricked" phones are not really bricked....
Read through all of the "Bricked" threads before you attempt to "Break" your phone to fix it.
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How bricked is bricked... what did you do, and what does it do now?
90% of "Bricked" phones are not really bricked....
Read through all of the "Bricked" threads before you attempt to "Break" your phone to fix it.
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Sir I'm positive my G1 is bricked. I can't get into bootloader or recovery menu, none of the button commands work except for trackball + power, which turns on the blue light at the top, and no one knows what that's for.
Like I said, I was preparing my G1 to install SuperHero V2. I flashed the radio after the SPL, thus bricking my G1. It hangs at the first G1 splash screen. I've also read through plenty of bricked threads.
Bricked
If you are stuck at the G1 screen...
Press (at the same time) the end + menu + call buttons.
without releasing them, slide your finger from the call (green phone) button to the home button. release the menu button so you are holding the home and end key, the phone should vibrate. realease all buttons and the phone should go into recovery mode.
Let me know how it goes!
Well what I did was I booted to the G1 splash screen with the red button. THen I pressed red, green, and menu, let go of green and pressed home while still holding onto red and menu, then let go of menu. Nothing happened.
I also tried booting with red, green, and menu and doing the same.
Am I doing something wrong?
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Well what I did was I booted to the G1 splash screen with the red button. THen I pressed red, green, and menu, let go of green and pressed home while still holding onto red and menu, then let go of menu. Nothing happened.
I also tried booting with red, green, and menu and doing the same.
Am I doing something wrong?
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naah your doing nothing wrong he's just wasting your time i've told him that his method does not work with hard bricked phones but he just won't listen now he's aggravating you and making you think your doing something wrong. after 2 hour of seeing him bug you i had to tell you this. just ignore him he'll go away.
Yeah I figured it was probably a troll. But I was willing to go for anything with this useless phone of mine. Hopefully I can get a cracked screen G1 for cheap.
Sorry, accidental double post. Mods please delete.
So I inherited a G1 that looks like its in good shape. But when I turn it on it briefly flashes a boot screen that quickly fades to black.
If I hold down the power and camera button it starts to boot, I let go of the power button and keep the camera button held down the screen will stay lit and I can see the fastboot mode. As soon as I let go of the camera button some other words flash on the screen and it dies again.
I looked through the forum assuming I could quickly fix this and have a new backup phone but this forum is now so advanced nobody seems to be having basic problems like this. And anyone who is still here seems to have lots more experience than me with this particular model of phone. Usually the stickies have an unbrick thread but I cant seem to find it.
I am sure this is something simple but if someone could point me in the right direction, or say the screen is burned out, I its bricked, or whatever you think it might be, I would appreciate it.
After more reading and discussing with previous owner, I think that the Camera and power button puts it into fastboot. (not sure exactly what that is yet)
From there it tries to install something from the SD card but fails.
The SD card contains DREAIMG.nbh and two empty folders. It seems to be trying to install something else besides DREAIMG but it fails so fast I cant catch it.
Is there something else I should place on the external SD card or perhaps a different version of the same file?
The previous owner also told me the G1 had been running CM6 if that makes any difference. ( I know it does on CM7 ).
I can get it to the screen with the three skateboarding androids (engineering spl indication? )but any time I let go of any of the buttons the screen fades right to black, making any further button pushing useless.
Any helpful hints? Anyone? Even a thread you think I should read completely?
I copied the DREAIMG.ngh to the desktop of my computer and reformated the SD card. After I bunch of button pushing and holding I managed to get it to hold on the HBOOT screen without going black. I pushed the trackball down and it reloaded the image apparently. Now it turns on and such but none of the keyboard buttons work and it says safemode in the bottom left corner. I will continue to read and search.
I cant find anything in this forum about safe mode. I am stumped.
The phone will boot and tries to get me to sign up for the gmail account but the keyboard only has the d, e, f, and x keys working.
The emergency dialer seems to work. I dialed my other phone with it and it said its not an emergency number and wont let it dial.
I am pretty sure this is not a lost cause here. There is just something I am missing. Could it be a bad flash from the DREAIMG.nbh?
Would it be possible to download a different image.nbh from someplace and try that?
Anyone have any ideas?
ok what are you trying to do exactly? i think your having trouble because the files on your sd... take them all off and see what happens??
can you boot into recovery? holding home+power??
ldrifta said:
ok what are you trying to do exactly? i think your having trouble because the files on your sd... take them all off and see what happens??
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Trying to get a functioning phone is all. I am comfortable fiddling with it , just dont know the process to go through.
I pulled the SD card and rebooted and its the same result. Little grey box in the bottom left that says 'safe mode' and it proceeds to the google account screen.
The touch screen works, and the trackball seems to. but Home and Menu dont so I cant even back out of the sign in screen.
Booting up with home+power gives me the triangle with the ! inside it instead of any kind of recovery mode like I expected.
Like I mentioned earlier, I believe it might be running CM6 but I am not even positive about that. I was told it was.
Any suggestions on my nextstep to get it into some kind of functoning state? I am willing to try anything suggested. New ROM or whatever.
I really thing its something simple, I just dont have any expreience with this model at all.
After more searching I guess the ! with triangle is the first screen of the recovery mode? But pushing Alt+L or Alt+I doesnt do anything.
I am used to the Galaxy S recover mode being all right there on the screen.
So next step would be......?
no wait you get the triangle and the !?? thats good lol that is the stock recovery mode.. so now i know what to work with when you get to that screen you can press alt+L and a list should pop up!!
FireRaider said:
After more searching I guess the ! with triangle is the first screen of the recovery mode? But pushing Alt+L or Alt+I doesnt do anything.
I am used to the Galaxy S recover mode being all right there on the screen.
So next step would be......?
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oooo it doesnt do anything?? hmmm
you sure nothing happens? try pushing down alt hard and keep holding it.. than press down on L hard see if a list pops up.. it only like 3 choices..
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you sure nothing happens? try pushing down alt hard and keep holding it.. than press down on L hard see if a list pops up.. it only like 3 choices..
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Nothing, hold down Alt and then press and hold L. No changes.
The other odd thing is now when I do the camera+power combo it takes me to the welcome screen instead of the HBOOT screen. I was going to try reflashing the image on the external SD card and now it wont do that either.
The return+power combo also takes me to the welcome screen now.
The welcome screen is where I want to be except the 'safe mode' seems to be keeping the keyboard from functioning?
what welcome screen? lol
are the keys sticking maybe? lol
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what welcome screen? lol
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First I get the T-Mobile G1 screen.
then the Android guy
then the Welcome to T-MobileG1, touch the android to begin.
That all seems normal to me, except for teh grey box that says 'safe mode' in the corner.
So i touch the android and it moves to the Setting upp your T-mobile G1 screen and wants me to enter my account info, which I cannot do because the keyboard is not funtioning properly. Its almost like the image flash borked the keyboard drivers or something.
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are the keys sticking maybe? lol
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the d, e ,f , x keys are all working so I think its not a stuck key. no other keys seem to work though. nor the menu buttons.
would safe mode mean some of the drivers are disabled? kind of like on a desktop computer?
And if so, how to get out of safe mode?
uhhh i never even been on safe mode.. is the led blue while its on? my advice would be to unroot but you cant get recovery functioning properly so im not sure what to do.. do you know what radio and hboot you have?
does it go to safe mode when you just boot up normally?
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does it go to safe mode when you just boot up normally?
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Yes, safe mode shows in the bottom left corner of the screen when I power up normally.
I should have writen down what radio and such as I saw it displayed when I was in HBOOT and installing the DREAIMG.nbh file but I didnt think to.
Now I am either getting the Welcome to T-mobile screen or the first step of the recovery screen depending on the button combo I use.
But I am unable to proceed to do anything useful.
Triangle with an exclamation point above a droid icon I'm seeing? I just tried to boot into recovery mode following this and now my phone's just chilling on this screen. wont do ****.. lol
nvm. idk what the deal was but I walked away and came back like 30 mins later and it had brought up a menu and let me reboot. weird.
When you see that icon, you are supposed to press both volume buttons to bring up the recovery menu.
I had tho I was pressing everything and nothing happened lol. I'm thinking it was because my battery was damn near dead when I went into it. I might use the unroot script then reroot or something tho. My phones been acting weird and really all I've done with root is make back ups and take screenshots.
So for some reason all the widgets on my screens have been resized to half their size, when I try to click and drag and resize **** below the halfway mark on the screen it doesnt register but if i just tap it does and the phones running sluggish for no reason at all.
Hi all,
I woke up this morning and my note's screen hasn't been working. I didn't drop it or spill anything on it, it just doesn't turn on. I know the phone is on because i can hear and see the capacitive buttons light up when i touch them. Does this mean i need to replace the Super AMOLED/digitizer unit?
The only thing i can see is the white Samsung logo (very faintly at that) when its booting up.
I found a site that sells replacement units but i don't want to buy it unless i have to.
I need some advice.
junior19871 said:
Hi all,
I woke up this morning and my note's screen hasn't been working. I didn't drop it or spill anything on it, it just doesn't turn on. I know the phone is on because i can hear and see the capacitive buttons light up when i touch them. Does this mean i need to replace the Super AMOLED/digitizer unit?
The only thing i can see is the white Samsung logo (very faintly at that) when its booting up.
I found a site that sells replacement units but i don't want to buy it unless i have to.
I need some advice.
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Did you try go to recovery or download mod?
If it samething you need to change the screen.
Good luck
avetny said:
Did you try go to recovery or download mod?
If it samething you need to change the screen.
Good luck
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Hey thanks for the reply. But i my phone is not even rooted. it was working fine last night.. the only thing i did different was i didn't charge it over night. So i thought at first it was a battery issue. I'm so sad... lol
sounds like the backlight is burnt out... unfortunately this is not something that can be replaced itself... the digitizer/lcd will need replaced. now is the fun part... either find the country your note is made for and mail it to the warranty dept, or have it fixed by a reputable repair shop out of warranty...
No need to have root, to go to stock recovery
Just switch off device, keep holding vol up + Home + Power
when light turns, release power button, but keep holding other two.
If you able to enter in recovery, N can read on screen, means screen is intact.
wipe cache, wipe data
N still error remains, flash Stock ROM
My note 5 is completely stock, and it just locked up watching you tube. So i did a soft reset (power+volume down). It powered off for just a second and then started to reboot, the very first screen you see that says "Samsung Galaxy Note 5" and at the bottom "powered by android" came up like normal, but then its just stuck in a loop at that screen, essentially its just flashing. I see that screen for a second, then black, then back to that screen, then black. It never gets past that screen. I cant get it to power off to try to do a hard reset or anything. I've tried the hard reset buttons combo as well, which is (power+up vol.+home screen) no to avail.
Any suggestions? I've had the phone like two weeks....fairly irritated. Of course its on the first Note that you cant take the battery out....
Right now my phone is just sitting here flashing at me....like its mocking me.
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My note 5 is completely stock, and it just locked up watching you tube. So i did a soft reset (power+volume down). It powered off for just a second and then started to reboot, the very first screen you see that says "Samsung Galaxy Note 5" and at the bottom "powered by android" came up like normal, but then its just stuck in a loop at that screen, essentially its just flashing. I see that screen for a second, then black, then back to that screen, then black. It never gets past that screen. I cant get it to power off to try to do a hard reset or anything. I've tried the hard reset buttons combo as well, which is (power+up vol.+home screen) no to avail.
Any suggestions? I've had the phone like two weeks....fairly irritated. Of course its on the first Note that you cant take the battery out....
Right now my phone is just sitting here flashing at me....like its mocking me.
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So doing some reading...is this considered a "soft brick"? Wondering if i should try to fix it myself, or just take it back to the store and have them do it? Really dont want to be without my phone, but at the same time...dont want to void any warranties...Can i restore the phone to its stock software safely myself?
SM-N920A
Model is SM-N920A....i cant seem to find any stock firmwares for this....anyone have a copy?
Drbromiandufewd said:
Model is SM-N920A....i cant seem to find any stock firmwares for this....anyone have a copy?
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http://www.galaxynote5update.com/galaxy-note5-stock-firmware/
Here is the stock firmware for your phone flash it through Odin
Did that help
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Did that help
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I couldnt get it to take. I kept get a re-partition error. The phone is only 2 weeks old, so I ended up just doing a warranty claim, which is pain, cuz now im out my phone for a few days.