starting a couple days ago, my g1 would restart on boot for no reason. It gets into the phone OS and says preparing SD card and then it vibrates and restarts. I've even unrooted my g1 and rerooted just to make sure everything is perfect and nothing is wrong using the cyanogenmod wiki. I have the latest radio/dangerSPL yet this keeps happening. my phone only boots when its not rooted in 1.5 or 1.6. I'd give more info, but I need some help doing that. I even made a useless video for you to watch my problems. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyAOAPAhq2U
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so I got a new (new to me was used) g1 today from a friend at work and everytime I turn the phone off with the power button it only starts in boot loader without pushing the camera button it does it on its own if I take the battery out and wait a minute or two then it will boot and run normally
history of the phone
not sure if this was a problem with previous owner he said that for the 3 months he owned it he never turned it off and so never saw the problem (thats crazy that he kept it charged all the time for 3 months)
phone was off when I got it running the latest ota firmware
I turned it on into bootloader and downgraded to rc29
downloaded telnet never got it to connect
while playing with telnet noticed the problem of booting into bootloader
downloaded flashrec.apk and put 1.4 cyanogen recovery on
made nandroid back up
did hard spl from the g1 faq
put on ota-tmobile cupcake with root
put expansion on for ota-tmobile cupcake with root
bump I will be back tomorrow afternoon to see if any one knows thanks everyone
All,
I received a replacement N1 yesterday from HTC as my previous one developed an earpiece issue. After unlocking the bootloader for the first time, it seems that the phone is overheating and randomly rebooting. I reflashed to stock, with the only exception being the unlocked bootloader using a guide found on this forum.
This was my first experience unlocking the bootloader and trying to flash a rom. I've attached a logcat to see if any info can be provided.
Thanks.
EDIT:
N1 - 1 day old HTC refurb
2.2.1
FRG83
Baseband - 32.41.00.32U_5.08.00.04
Kernel - 2.6.32.9-27240-gbca5320
Is the phone actually getting hot?
This is why I don't get why people get a phone and IMMEDIATELY start loading custom ROMs and such on it.. Use it stock for a few days to make sure it's good.
No it's not getting overly hot. My original N1 got much hotter.
Its my fault for not waiting, I do realize this.
I did wait 6 hours or so, but I know it wasn't enough. Got a bit anxious to load CM6.1.
I had first accidentally loaded Insecure boot which made the rebooting much more common, but went back to stock, and loaded superboot. Everything was fine for a little while, then the rebooting started again.
Just trying to see if I can figure out the issue before giving HTC a call.
etacv said:
No it's not getting overly hot. My original N1 got much hotter.
Its my fault for not waiting, I do realize this.
I did wait 6 hours or so, but I know it wasn't enough. Got a bit anxious to load CM6.1.
I had first accidentally loaded Insecure boot which made the rebooting much more common, but went back to stock, and loaded superboot. Everything was fine for a little while, then the rebooting started again.
Just trying to see if I can figure out the issue before giving HTC a call.
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when i got my nexus back in early january, i dont think that i waited more than a hour before i unlocked the bootloader anyways, your phone seems fine. iy could just be the stock rom you flashed or kernel panics(i doubt). flash cyanogenmod and see if you still get the reboots. unlocking the bootloader doesnt have anything to do with a phone overheating and rebooting. besides, what is overheating? how hot does it get? ive gotten mine to 49C(120F) before
Well that's the thing, it really hasn't gotten that hot. I was just assuming it could be related as it was rebooting after sitting on the charger for a while or trying to download multiple apps from the Market. I was able to get as far as downloading ROM Manager and was part way through the CM6.1 download when the reboots from hell came back.
I used the Signed Passion FRG83 images to reflash.
I'm now attempting to format the SD card to see if it changes anything.
etacv said:
Well that's the thing, it really hasn't gotten that hot. I was just assuming it could be related as it was rebooting after sitting on the charger for a while or trying to download multiple apps from the Market. I was able to get as far as downloading ROM Manager and was part way through the CM6.1 download when the reboots from hell came back.
I used the Signed Passion FRG83 images to reflash.
I'm now attempting to format the SD card to see if it changes anything.
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it sounds like youre stressing the phone(kernel). try to download 1 thing at a time for now. are you overclocked by chance?
I am not. The phone is bone stock at the moment.
Hm, it looks like i'm on FRG83 not 83D. The SD card is having some issues unmounting and i'm not receiving the OTA update to 83D
Yes - it is overheating!
My original phone did not have the problem. Every replacement phone I got from HTC crashes after 5 minutes or less on every application that made my original phone warm to the touch.
Applications that cause this:
RoboDefense
Tower Raiders
Speed Pi (run multiple times)
Curling
I am trying to get HTC to send me a 3rd replacement!
So as an update I formatted the SD card, and it seemed to have helped for a while.
I had the phone in the charger last night and was speaking on the phone for about 10-15 minutes until it started rebooting again. This time it was stuck on the X so i had to remove the battery.
Not sure what's going on...
So looking through the logcat's i've noticed these lines as failed:
E/Zygote ( 58): setreuid() failed. errno: 17
W/DevicePolicyManagerService( 78): failed parsing /data/system/device_policies.xml java.io.FileNotFoundException: /data/system/device_policies.xml (No such file or directory)
D/SntpClient( 78): request time failed: java.net.UnknownHostException: north-america.pool.ntp.org
I'm not sure if it means anything.
The firmware was downgraded to FRG33 and OTA updated to FRG83D
Will probably be sending this back and hoping the unlocked bootloader won't make it cost a fortune to repair...
Hi guys,
Gone through about 100 threads these last couple of days, but nothing helps, so have to start a new one.
What happened was that the other day my phone started ringing.
The screen however was black, so I could neither see who was calling nor answer the call.
I let it ring out, then I held the power button so it would shutdown.
Tried to restart it, and that's when the fun started.
The phone got stuck in a boot-loop, only showing the Galaxy S logo (not getting to the animated one).
Left it in this loop for several hours, since I've had problems recently with the phone needing to do this cycle 5-10 times before booting up.
This time it wouldn't boot, however.
I've tried putting the phone in a bag of rice for 18 hours, in case of any moisture inside, not helping.
Then I tried recovery-mode, formatting the whole thing, but I got the following error:
"E:format_volume: rfs format failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2"
Found this thread to try to fix the format error.
Got into download mode, but Odin does not recognize the phone, and I started believing all hope for fixing it without sending it in was gone.
I've also tried applying a couple of update.zip's from the SD-card, just to have tried it, but every package got Signature verifcation-error.
Anyway, when I headed to bed last night I left the phone in the boot-loop, and to my surprice, 8 hours later it had booted into first-time configuration.
YES!!!
Configured the phone with language etc., then all of a sudden the animated Galaxy S logo appeared...
And it appeared again, and again, and again for about 15 min., until I unplugged the battery.
And now I'm back at square one, stuck in the boot-loop (not getting to the animated logo)...
I have the latest versjon of KIES, not that it probably matters.
Does anyone have an idea of what the problem might be?
What rom were you using? stock or custom? Maybe it has something to do with lagfix if it was activated... im guesing, im not dev just normal user... Maybe try to reinstal usb drivers.
Just use odin 1.3 reflash official rom , everything would be OK.
Not sure about the ROM, bought the phone used... But pretty sure it's stock..
Since Odin didn't recognize the phone, reflashing it with official ROM would be hard...
However, as for the Odin problem, that was caused by a faulty USB-cable...
Used another one, and Odin worked like a charm.
The phone won't start after running through the steps in the thread I mentioned before, but I will try to reflash it with offical ROM now and see how that works.
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Not sure about the ROM, bought the phone used... But pretty sure it's stock..
Since Odin didn't recognize the phone, reflashing it with official ROM would be hard...
However, as for the Odin problem, that was caused by a faulty USB-cable...
Used another one, and Odin worked like a charm.
The phone won't start after running through the steps in the thread I mentioned before, but I will try to reflash it with offical ROM now and see how that works.
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Not sure about used phone, But if I bought the phone used, I would reflash rom first. Because I do not even know what they done before , reflash offical rom would be fix some problem.
porkapple said:
Not sure about used phone, But if I bought the phone used, I would reflash rom first. Because I do not even know what they done before , reflash offical rom would be fix some problem.
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Well, I would have if I knew... But stupid me thought that a phone was a phone.
How wrong was I?
Anyway, a little update here (the problem is kind of solved now):
Flashed the phone with 2.3.3 Gingerbread I found on dkszone, after running the steps in the previous mentioned thread.
And the phone started like a charm.
But after a few hours of configuring etc, I managed to insert the SD-card again, and all hell broke loose again...
Come to think about it, thats what I did yesterday too, so I've come to the conclusion that the SD-card is the main problem...
However, now the phone is slow... REAL slow... Kind of like my 1.5 year old HTC Touch Diamond 2 with WP6.5...
It takes up to 2 seconds to open menu items, keyboard etc.
Is there any way to fix that?
Or should I flash it with another ROM?
You mean the external sdcard? Maybe try to format it...
OK, so this is what I've now figured out:
The phone is damaged...
It seems that the internal SD has gone AWAL, and internal storage has somehow created itself on the external SD-card, thus the phone crashed when I switched cards...
When trying to format the USB-storage, I receive error: SD-card has been removed
So I guess I have to ship the phone off to Samsung ASAP...
y helo thar :3
Okay, to sum it up, today I bought a used Bell Samsung GT-i9000M and realized that the owner never updated his phone to Gingerbread (2.3) from his current version of 2.1. Basically, I did the same procedure as in THIS (EDIT: I think I just realized that the stops shown in that link, having next to nothing to do with updating your phone to 2.3 - kjawekjawen - post still stands, of course) post.
In Odin, everything seemed like a success, until (after Odin labeled it as a success apparently) my phone just started rebooting and rebooting, not getting past the first booting screen (that first black screen showing Samsung i9000 logo, I think).
I can still access the download mode, but my phone just doesn't boot up anymore (gets stuck on this same logo and just keeps restarting 'til the pigs come round).
I'm just afraid to do anything with my phone right nao. Consisder the fact that I am pretty much a noob in this whole hackz0r, elite department of the internets and cellphones. I would love (no homo, hurhurhur) for somebody to assist me through this, because I don't want to end up turning my cellphone into something resembling a clay brick.
:3
Thanks in advance for whoever could help me.
PROBLEM SOLVED: http://androidadvices.com/update-samsung-galaxy-gt-i9000-gingerbread-xxjvr-234-firmware/6/
So here's my story: my phone was JellyBean. I didn't tinker with it, didn't root, just used some launchers. It upgraded to KitKat. I kept using it, even though I liked JellyBean better. Then one month ago it froze and stopped responding even to physical buttons. I managed to restart it, but it wouldn't go past the intel logo. Somehow I got it to go past it and give me like two seconds on before it would freeze and become unresponsive again, so I got to enter safe mode (all following instructions on the internet, which buttons to hold to manage to get into safe mode). Once in safe mode, I deleted every app that had been recently updated or installed, one at a time, trying to turn my phone on each time, until I finally deleted facebook (that enourmous blue monstrosity taking all that internal space), and the phone seemed normal. I re-installed the other apps I had uninstalled, then one day later, it froze again. Now it wouldn't go past the intel logo. Only then I gave up and used RSDLite to re-install the firmware - BUT! The firmware I managed to find was JB, but I had been wanting to downgrade for some time, anyway, so I unlocked the bootloader and flashed JellyBean. And it worked. I was proud. Then one month later, today, it froze again. I can do the same procedure, and lose all my data again, but I fear the problem will remain unsolved and it will freeze/crash/explode one month from now. Can someone help me figure out what my problem is, or give an alternate solution to try?
TL;DR:
my razr i was stuck on the intel logo screen, I unlocked the bootloader and flashed JB, it worked, one month later it is now stuck on the WARNING BOOTLOADER UNLOCKED screen. Please help thank you.