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So about a week ago I tried to flash the alpha honeycomb rom. Played around with it a bit, but since Im in India I need my Tab to make calls via wifi back to the states, so I restored back to just before the flash. Then I saw there was a new build of Koush's kernal so I flashed that. About 3 days ago I started getting a weird wifi modem error and I would have to reboot to get wifi back. I just thought at first it was because the internet at my hotel isnt exactly amazing, and maybe i was building up a cache somehow? Honestly didnt really have a clue, but I didnt really care. Last night it got strange tho, I suddenly only had .90 mb of internal storage. I couldnt do anything because i had 0 space. So I deleted a few apps as fast as I could and used titanium to move everything else to the SD. I rebooted into cwm and wiped the cache, dalvik cahce, and even factory reset to no avail. then I downloaded the newest Koush rom thinking that if I just flashed another rom Id be fine because it would repartition and start fresh. Apparently not so much. I just bootlooped at the Verizon screen somehow. So again, thinking i knew what I was doing, tried to restore. Nooooothing again. Then I had to go to work so I got a buddys laptop and rebooted into download mode, installed heimdall on the pc and proceeded to try to flash the stock files from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=955342&highlight=vzw ... thought all would be well, but I got an error saying descriptor not found. So i reinstalled the driver thinking that was the error I got. Tried again and got an error -12. So i unplugged to see if I could do aaannnything in cwm... and my screen did this... has anyone seen this or know how screwed I am?? Im in Mumbai for 12 more days and I think Ive had the tab for about 2.5-3 months so far... kinda screwed huh?
Don't worry!
This is my icon, I have been friend of it. My Tab still surive, see my signiture.
You will be back soon, I belive.
By the way, yours is CDMA , right?
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rainbow ng said:
Don't worry!
This is my icon, I have been friend of it. My Tab still surive, see my signiture.
You will be back soon, I belive.
By the way, yours is CDMA , right?
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You don't have a signature right now, just sayin'.
This statament :
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state I am using the Tab to browse through the forum
If u using GSM tab, I think I can help
Your case seem the stock rom u mentioned is not a full set rom with modem and phone, try to unzip the rom,is there dbdata.rfs? the icon only mean software brick which will back to life easily.
sadly im using cdma
Dude calm down. Thats an alternative download mode. Find a cdma stock firmware that you had search around for it. follow the guide of reflashing and you should be up and running again
Have a look at this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=967175
This is the one that worked for me. Good luck!
So why have you posted in this forum?
The "non forum mod" mod strikes again... In his usual manner.
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so I made an attempt to flash the stock files. Hiemdall said it worked, but the progress bar on the tab never went past about halfway, overnight. Now it wont show that download screen unless its plugged into a power source and it turns itself off randomly then immediately turns back on into the download screen and does that process repeatedly. If I plug into the pc it is unresponsive and then turns off after a few min WTF did I dooooo?!?!
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so I made an attempt to flash the stock files. Hiemdall said it worked, but the progress bar on the tab never went past about halfway, overnight. Now it wont show that download screen unless its plugged into a power source and it turns itself off randomly then immediately turns back on into the download screen and does that process repeatedly. If I plug into the pc it is unresponsive and then turns off after a few min WTF did I dooooo?!?!
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If you plug into a power source, without trying to turn your Tab on, do you get a battery icon?
Sounds like your battery is dead, in which case, if you can get it to charge you may yet be able to reflash...
Try letting it charge for at least a few hours and then take another crack at flashing.
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The "non forum mod" mod strikes again... In his usual manner.
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Because im sick of seeing non-dev posts in the dev section. Its irritating to see and baffling how anybody could not have enough common sense to realise that posting stuff like this in here is wrong, We have a Q&A and Gen forum for that.
Because there doesn't seem to be any active Tab mods here to move/move, the only way make the users who make the posts in here aware is to tell them. If they are not made aware they will post their next topic here.
If nobody else is prepared to make them aware and to try and cut the crap down, I will, and don't care what you think.
when i had the origional error that you had it was because i tried flashing a kernel via heimdell on a virtual machine. i had the same screen, when i got to work the next day with a laptop that was windows i just booted into download mode and flashed a working kernel and it booted right up.
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Because im sick of seeing non-dev posts in the dev section. Its irritating to see and baffling how anybody could not have enough common sense to realise that posting stuff like this in here is wrong, We have a Q&A and Gen forum for that.
Because there doesn't seem to be any active Tab mods here to move/move, the only way make the users who make the posts in here aware is to tell them. If they are not made aware they will post their next topic here.
If nobody else is prepared to make them aware and to try and cut the crap down, I will, and don't care what you think.
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I agree that the forums need clearing. But you ploughing into every single misplaced thread isn't going to help.
You do realise you can tell the op that this isn't the right forum AND help them and point them in the right direction. Doesn't sound too hard right? Maybe try it sometime.
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I agree that the forums need clearing. But you ploughing into every single misplaced thread isn't going to help.
You do realise you can tell the op that this isn't the right forum AND help them and point them in the right direction. Doesn't sound too hard right? Maybe try it sometime.
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And I do!
The point is that the help/advice had already been given on this one but nobody made the Op aware that he/she had posted in wrong place so would have likely done same again next time.
If nobody tells them how will they know? (apart from the obvious, ie reading forum titles.)
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And I do!
The point is that the help/advice had already been given on this one but nobody made the Op aware that he/she had posted in wrong place so would have likely done same again next time.
If nobody tells them how will they know? (apart from the obvious, ie reading forum titles.)
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I posted here because in other forums the general is mostly for those who have not rooted, and also have not flashed. In most cases people that know what theyre doing tend to only frequent the Dev sections, between that and the fact that all of my issues came from posts in the Dev section I thought this would be the correct place for it. apparently I am wrong, and sooo thankful that someone as heroic as yourself has stepped up to do away useless threads since we obviously have a space limit in our forum. wouldnt want to bog down our servers with my useless post of course...
regardless of the flaming and trolling... im still screwed, my post isnt moving and i will continue to ask those that know for help. thanks for the advice though, ill take it into consideration for my next post... now run along...
I have charged for about 9 hours now and still nothing could i have fried it somehow? If I bring it to verizon in the state its in, is there anyway for them to tell i flashed it? or will they just assume i did since it is pretty much in a state of brickiness as far as i can tell...
TIA and thanks to those whos British bigotry hasnt stood in the way of reading my post and attempting to lend a hand... where i come from the main purpose of a forum is to ask those who know for help and share the knowledge weve attained...
and im not getting a battery icon when i plug in, just the flashing on and off of the alternate download screen
thanks again
Ok to put this at rest coz its getting irritating. You are active old users. And you believe that tab needs more forum modding. I dunno what are the rules but when applying for a mod positions open apply or root for a candidate like yourself or nautious or bytork or anyone.
As for op does your tab get identified by your computer in odin or heimdell? As i said thats an alternate download mode. If computer identifies it. You can get a shot at flashing. Do it via a windows computer please. If tab is fried beyond repair which i doubt verizon will never know you flashed unless you tell them of course
sadly as of now the tab isnt read by the comp and i cant keep it in the download mode unless its plugged in
Today i went and got my tablet replaced for a bad pixel. I
i pulled it out of box went into download mode and did pit,pda,modem
tmobile sgh-t849
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gt-p1000_mr.pit
GB_Stock_Safe_v3.tar
\T-Mobile Modem\modem.bin
it failed 75% and didn't really say a specific error. Its bricked doesnt turn on or go into download mode.
im not sure what i did wrong. I have performed the same steps with success in past.
Please help me figure out what i did wrong.. First time i have ever bricked and i have flashed a lot of phones.
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Today i went and got my tablet replaced for a bad pixel. I
i pulled it out of box went into download mode and did pit,pda,modem
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Could you have forgotten to replace the protected bootloaders?
You should have given it a full charge before you tweaked your tab.
Anyway, try to give it a full charge plugged into the wall, then try again.
So you didn't even give it a first boot? Should have at least done that and checked for protected bootloaders...
without more detail... Yeah... As ranger said, you didn't even give it a full charge?
Sent from my "better than an iPad" tab running Overcome Hermes.
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i mean perhaps it was 90 percent charged
and yes i had it already booted into froyo. I mean the first one wasn't protected so i guess i jumped the gun. But i don't think the boot loader was the issue.
knew i shouldn't have put the screen protector on.. always curses me.. hehe
I did two post to revise my title to get a better answer on how to correct next time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1133590
Thanks. I will try but it was full battery
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can you follow the steps that in the thread i gave you ? is it so hard to listen ppl , WTH wrong with you ? posting 2 thread in the wrong section and the same question ? OMG ... i really need BANHAMMER ...
"help me understand why i bricked my vibrant"
I got slightly confused by that title..
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"help me understand why i bricked my vibrant"
I got slightly confused by that title..
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you'll shock if you know that he post this Q in the general section 2 times ....
i didn't mean to post twice...
you guys are trolls...
I bricked my device and i was quite upset... Why i reposted smart guy was to redo the title so that someone would verify my steps were correct.
You havent shown me anything yet that answers my questions. Sending me to a Q & A post didn't help anything. I read that **** before i even even bought the phone. I don't need you to tell me the differences between bricks..
the **** charged all night last night and i let it run all the way down before hoping it would discharge. I had just flashed my other one that had a bad pixel the night before and i had no issues. I did the same steps as before.
i find it funny you guys are more worried about where i posted then the actual issue.
If you want to talk about a waste.. you have wasted space with your nonsense all day replying to this thread with no useful information.
This is my 6 android device and first one i even bricked so spare me. I followed the steps exactly just like i did the day before with no issues. Your so cool sending me to the Q & A because i posted twice.
All I said is that I got confused by your title. That's it. I didn't come here to troll or say that you shouldn't post here or there or anything like that.
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Moved to Q&A, OP, you can edit the title of a thread by editing your original post, then clicking "go advanced"
Lets keep it civil and help this guy get his tab fixed eh folks......
to the OP .. can you tell me what tab you have , your firmware ? ? old stock rom you have ? lets go serious now
I went to tmobile and got my old one back.
I returned the bricked one and got back the one with 1 dead pixel. I already had it good to go with 2.3.3 so im going to leave it alone for now.
It would be nice if i could still understand why it happend.
it came with froyo
tmobile sgh-t849 2.2
i flashed the GB_Stock_Safe_v3.tar which is 2.3.3. It just said failed with no other information. At this point i would be weary of using odin on my desktop.
iv used odin alot in the past and never really had any issues
is your tab can call ? sorry for my dumb question .. your tab is GSM P1000 ?
@OP can you be more fast to reply . its 4:33am here .. so be fast !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The OP has already told us TWICE that his device is a Tmobile SGH-T849 meaning that it is NOT an SGT-P1000
yeah Mokhattab , i know , thats why i wanna just show him what he did ...
though his tab can't get the Gingerbread right , either the Stock safe from yours ...
@OP thats why you bricked your tabb
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yeah Mokhattab , i know , thats why i wanna just show him what he did ...
though his tab can't get the Gingerbread right , either the Stock safe from yours ...
@OP thats why you bricked your tabb
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I beg to differ
@OP
There is no reason why you can't flash Overcome
Having a TMO SGH-T849 is certainly no brickable offence in terms of using Overcome
While the problem may no longer exist, it's definitely worth investigating to know why you had problems (also to get you over your newly acquired fear of Odin )
Is there the slightest possibility the cable was nudged or such?
You seem to be comfortable using ODIN and your setup must be OK if you've flashed your current Tab before so I'm thinking it might have been a freak accident of some sort
When isit released? Anything expected date?
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When isit released? Anything expected date?
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Currently its due for september.
seriously though, its released when its ready. No sooner.
And if the devs have to take the time to answer questions like this, then it will further delay the release.
If you really want to find out, read what alterbridge/pittbul have posted in the official thread in the dev section, like the rest of us.
Oh my God i can't wait for Overcome 2.1.
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Is there any particular functionality you are having difficulty living without?
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Is there any particular functionality you are having difficulty living without?
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For me personally, i really need the auto-coffee-vending tweak, aswell as the flamethrower option.
Sent from my walking,talking,fingerlicking good braai.
I think we forgot to mention in the Changelogs that it will also turn your Tab into a microwave oven and a foldable car...
To the OP,
Follow the changelogs and release developments (when they happen) on teamovercome.net or on the main Overcome thread here on XDA
This is a bit of a pointless thread
All I need more from overcome are normal battery stats .... these are very annoying, every time I look at then I think I have android os bug ...
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stoney73 said:
Currently its due for september.
seriously though, its released when its ready. No sooner.
And if the devs have to take the time to answer questions like this, then it will further delay the release.
If you really want to find out, read what alterbridge/pittbul have posted in the official thread in the dev section, like the rest of us.
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hi yaaa how are you buddy ? along time disappearing ? any problems or just the life out side XDA?
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hi yaaa how are you buddy ? along time disappearing ? any problems or just the life out side XDA?
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I seem to be spending most of my xda time on the sgs2 section....I'm happy with my tab, so just pop in now and again to see what is new. Basically to see if cm7 is matured, and also to see what wizardry the overcome team have produced.
But the sgs2 has tons more development(more is not necessarily better though, seeing as people just seem to be releasing 'themed' roms, nothing original apart from villainrom), but its a lot to keep up with
I can't live without the foldable car option.
I heard there will be invisibility built in too.
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I can't live without the foldable car option.
I heard there will be invisibility built in too.
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You have no idea dude...
It's going to come with an optional Kernel that will give the invisible foldable car awesome JamesBondAstonMartin-style weapons
(someone please close this thread before it gets outta hand)
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You have no idea dude...
It's going to come with an optional Kernel that will give the invisible foldable car awesome JamesBondAstonMartin-style weapons
(someone please close this thread before it gets outta hand)
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Cm7 on sgs comes with a pony!
Thats a feature to be jealous about. I wish it will be ported to the tab.
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Cm7 on sgs comes with a pony!
Thats a feature to be jealous about. I wish it will be ported to the tab.
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I hope the new overcome comes with a 'mating' option.....my sgs2 is getting randy and keeps flashing my tab.....
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I hope the new overcome comes with a 'mating' option.....my sgs2 is getting randy and keeps flashing my tab.....
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i want the new rom come with it Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman .. Mokhattab is that possible to make
Stony glad to see ya around , keep in touch and forget about SGS2 flashing you getting addictive
Overcome 2.01 crashes after upgrade from Overcome 1.6
Hi, I am new to the forum so please bear with me.
I had previously installed Overcome 1.6 on a Telstra Galaxy tab; I ran it for around 2 month with no hiccups. I recently updated to Overcome 2.01 to have video on skype; however ever since the upgrade the Tab is really unstable. It crashes every time I try to look for directions from google maps while on the road.
The crash is so severe that it won’t go past the overcome boot logo after restart. I reinstalled a couple of times with the same result. I also tried following the guide to step 6 and see if it also happened on the “factory fresh gingerbread” form; and this time it crashed as soon as I used the browser over wi-fi. The crash is as severe, the tablet shows a lot of pop up errors after boot and then it boots itself again.
Can I revert back to Overcome 1.6 while the new version (Android 2.3.4) is released; or I can’t go back from gingerbread to froyo?
Thank you for advising.
Cheers,
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Hi, I am new to the forum so please bear with me.
I had previously installed Overcome 1.6 on a Telstra Galaxy tab; I ran it for around 2 month with no hiccups. I recently updated to Overcome 2.01 to have video on skype; however ever since the upgrade the Tab is really unstable. It crashes every time I try to look for directions from google maps while on the road.
The crash is so severe that it won’t go past the overcome boot logo after restart. I reinstalled a couple of times with the same result. I also tried following the guide to step 6 and see if it also happened on the “factory fresh gingerbread” form; and this time it crashed as soon as I used the browser over wi-fi. The crash is as severe, the tablet shows a lot of pop up errors after boot and then it boots itself again.
Can I revert back to Overcome 1.6 while the new version (Android 2.3.4) is released; or I can’t go back from gingerbread to froyo?
Thank you for advising.
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U can go back to froyo
Gingerbread is 2.3.3
Anyways thats strange , and u mentioned that you reflash it couple of times and its still crashes , but u can reverse back for sure
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Hey, just wanted to say that overcome 2 has been rock solid for me since installing on its release.
Did you follow all the instructions including a wipe?
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Hey, just wanted to say that overcome 2 has been rock solid for me since installing on its release.
Did you follow all the instructions including a wipe?
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Hi There,
I indeed followed the instructions to the line the 3 times and the result is always the same.
I did notice that on the last step when loading the rom itself, the screen flickers a few times and during the "loading kernel" line a few blue lines appear; the process still finishes normally.
Should I use the Telstra modem file instead of the one on the JK3 folder?
Cheers,
hi carludo
crash while jusing wifi maybe the wrong modem. you are from australia?
is it a euro or asian tab? so look for the right modem. many times flash
the same maybe wrong.
best wishes to downunder.
Hi There,
Correct, it is a Telstra Galaxy tab, I used the modem file in the JK3 folder as per the instructions; I will give it another try and use hte modem file from that Testra restock thread and see if it makes a difference.
I will let you know later tonight how it goes.
Cheers from sunny Sydney
Hello everyone
I have recently developed this annoying issue with my captivate running 2.2. When I am reading my txt messages, I keep getting a search window pop up, without me hitting the search kit on the phone. It sometimes flashes in and out of the search and it sometimes even brings out the voice search. Each time I have to hit the back key a few times to get back to composing my txt or reading it. I've done a search on the net and I don't seem to be the only person experiencing this issue, but I can't seem to find a solution for it either. It is starting to get more frequent. How can I fix this issue? Do I have a virus?
It could be on the rom your on, if your on one or stock? Or maybe it could be a hardware error
Next time state what rom, kernel, elect your on. So that can help people make more sense off the problem
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It could be on the rom your on, if your on one or stock? Or maybe it could be a hardware error
Next time state what rom, kernel, elect your on. So that can help people make more sense off the problem
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Hey speedy_11
Thanks for your reply. Forgive me I am a newbie so I will try my best. The phone is an At&t phone that I unlocked and use on the Fido network in Canada. The current firmware version is 2.2, the kernel version is 2.6.32.9 and the build number is FROYO.UCKB1
I don't have any roms just the regular Samsung update. Where do I go from here?
Moisture problems I have the same thing. Throw it in a bag of rice overnight and be glad it is not the back button doing it
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Moisture problems I have the same thing. Throw it in a bag of rice overnight and be glad it is not the back button doing it
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Thanks crystalhand
I will try that out tonight.
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Thanks crystalhand
I will try that out tonight.
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Any luck with the rice? this is a fairly rare problem and i just want to make sure it works for everyone
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Any luck with the rice? this is a fairly rare problem and i just want to make sure it works for everyone
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I tried it out and still no luck. I was planning on trying it out again tonight and hoping for the best but as of yet no luck. Is there something else other than rice that I can try?
Downloaded decrappified 1.1. Computer has a bad usb port and i think it disconnected before it was finished downloading. At this point the phone became stuck in cwm, so I erased user data and reset settings. The phone then said i had a bad sim card, but two replacements didnt fix it. I bypassed the sim card with up, down, search, home and the decrappified seemed to have flashed, but the phone now resets itself every 30 seconds or so.
I'd like to at least get this phone back to stock so i can take it in. been using my wifes old purple curve for the last 2 months. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Downloaded decrappified 1.1. Computer has a bad usb port and i think it disconnected before it was finished downloading. At this point the phone became stuck in cwm, so I erased user data and reset settings. The phone then said i had a bad sim card, but two replacements didnt fix it. I bypassed the sim card with up, down, search, home and the decrappified seemed to have flashed, but the phone now resets itself every 30 seconds or so.
I'd like to at least get this phone back to stock so i can take it in. been using my wifes old purple curve for the last 2 months. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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My wife told me if I bricked my phone, I would have to go back to using the Cricket Wireless phone we had. YUCK. "Again" she says as she is reading over my shoulder. Anyhow.... stay calm, all is fine. In the forums there is a way to fix it. The phone is unbrickable. LG thought of everything. So diagnose the issue, and look in the forums. You will probably need ADB and stock programming, you can search our forums for ADB and you should track it all down. If you run into issues you can go to IRC the channel we have there is #lgrevolution and someone might be there to help you. It took Cubed 5 minutes to fix my phone, but it took 5 hours for him to come on IRC. I will try to dig up somethings. But you will need ADB so go get that.
Yeah, that blackberry is one hell of a leap backwards, nevermind the comments i get for carrying a purple phone. Even the wife likes to poke fun.
Ive been looking through the archives some and not sure what route to go, not farmiliar with ADB but i'll start looking into that.
nesta111 said:
Yeah, that blackberry is one hell of a leap backwards, nevermind the comments i get for carrying a purple phone. Even the wife likes to poke fun.
Ive been looking through the archives some and not sure what route to go, not farmiliar with ADB but i'll start looking into that.
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Decrappified is a Froyo Rom, the Revo is now on Gingerbread. Either restore your back up, or download and install GingerVolt Rom.
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Decrappified is a Froyo Rom, the Revo is now on Gingerbread. Either restore your back up, or download and install GingerVolt Rom.
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If you didn't make a back up, there is a nandroid in the the development section. When did you get your phone? How long ago did you root it? Do you have Froyo or Gingerbread? If you had Ginger, of course Mt is right, you would do the Gingervolt. But you gotta take it back to your stock to get rid of decrap. Most of your answers will be in the Development section of our forums.
I didn't make a back up, so that isn't an option. I rooted and then broke the phone 2 to 3 months ago, i am not sure if that was before gingerbread or not. I guess i'll search the development section for answers on getting back to stock.
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My wife told me if I bricked my phone, I would have to go back to using the Cricket Wireless phone we had. YUCK. "Again" she says as she is reading over my shoulder. Anyhow.... stay calm, all is fine. In the forums there is a way to fix it. The phone is unbrickable. LG thought of everything. So diagnose the issue, and look in the forums. You will probably need ADB and stock programming, you can search our forums for ADB and you should track it all down. If you run into issues you can go to IRC the channel we have there is #lgrevolution and someone might be there to help you. It took Cubed 5 minutes to fix my phone, but it took 5 hours for him to come on IRC. I will try to dig up somethings. But you will need ADB so go get that.
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I disagree. I Hard Bricked my Revo. Won't get into details as it's not important and I managed to find a local seller via Craigslist for same day replacement.
What happened is a flash occurred that should've failed, but didn't. The power button would no longer function and the 'failsafe' usb, no battery recovery method would not even work either. I would get a quick response when pulling the battery with USB plugged in, but then it would fail beyond that. Have since then destroyed the board due to some very private files located on internal board that were 'in transition' and couldn't chance being recovered by other parties for security purposes. I do, however, have a nice parts phone, such as screen, body, and battery cover.
Anyhow, moral to the story.. YES, the Revo CAN BE BRICKED!
-Cybie
Cybie257 said:
Anyhow, moral to the story.. YES, the Revo CAN BE BRICKED!
-Cybie
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Nicely done! Now help this poor guy fix his. ; )
Also, if it was closer to 3 months ago then it was going to be froyo, right? Find the v4 stock and flash that. I'd link the thread but I'm on my Revo. : /
I found a rooted stock rom posted by thecubed, currently downloading that to my sd card. Anyone see a problem using that? Also found some tot files for stock. I think i had ver 6, but my phone wont let me check. Does it make a difference which one I use if i go that route?
nesta111 said:
I found a rooted stock rom posted by thecubed, currently downloading that to my sd card. Anyone see a problem using that? Also found some tot files for stock. I think i had ver 6, but my phone wont let me check. Does it make a difference which one I use if i go that route?
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You are nit making this easy, lol. You should have the v6 version. I would go to the tot file. Also you would have had froyo, but after a month it should have updated to ginger bread. So go get the v6, then I would check phone status and see if there is an update. majority of us got the gingerbread update, if you don't there isinfo on how to do it. If you do, there is the one click tool kit that will get your phone rocked out.
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Cybie257 said:
I disagree. I Hard Bricked my Revo. Won't get into details as it's not important and I managed to find a local seller via Craigslist for same day replacement.
What happened is a flash occurred that should've failed, but didn't. The power button would no longer function and the 'failsafe' usb, no battery recovery method would not even work either. I would get a quick response when pulling the battery with USB plugged in, but then it would fail beyond that. Have since then destroyed the board due to some very private files located on internal board that were 'in transition' and couldn't chance being recovered by other parties for security purposes. I do, however, have a nice parts phone, such as screen, body, and battery cover.
Anyhow, moral to the story.. YES, the Revo CAN BE BRICKED!
-Cybie
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Bull****!!! I tried absolutely everything to try and brick this phone in order to get a replacement and I was able to recover every single time... what did you do.. I got to know in case this phone sucks also???
drt054 said:
Bull****!!! I tried absolutely everything to try and brick this phone in order to get a replacement and I was able to recover every single time... what did you do.. I got to know in case this phone sucks also???
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Jeez, I know, I just took him at his word, no need to fight over it. Lol. When cubed told me it was unbrickable he said he did everything possible too, and the secret to fixing it was dependent on how the phone acted, what lights were on, what the screen did, because each one had its own fix. I had a mismatch md5 and it said in the instructions don't turn off your phone. I did and caused it to brick. But there was a section in our forum to fix that brick. And with cubes help and mt laughing at me,we got it fixed.
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This whole situation was answered by mt. Just flash a gingerbread ROM either the stock v7 or gingervolt And you're good to go.
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Beamer9408 said:
This whole situation was answered by mt. Just flash a gingerbread ROM either the stock v7 or gingervolt And you're good to go.
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Got it unrooted and back to stock! The phone still resets itself every minute or so. Not sure if that is because I manually forced it past the sim card setup screen. Anyway, at least I can now take it into verizon. Thanks all for the help.
Glad to hear you're making progress. You may still want to go the ADB route and put zv6 on. I understand getting the Over The Air push upgrade to zv7 will then get you the upgraded radio. I haven't heard any other method for getting the radio.
I found my own noob way to brick a Revo, not in a good way.
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Bait-Fish said:
Glad to hear you're making progress. You may still want to go the ADB route and put zv6 on. I understand getting the Over The Air push upgrade to zv7 will then get you the upgraded radio. I haven't heard any other method for getting the radio.
I found my own noob way to brick a Revo, not in a good way.
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That kind of makes no sense flash the v7 tot it will get you to gingerbread get rid of your reboot issue. Also I wouldn't take the phone to Verizon unless you don't have cwm recovery in your phone cause more than likely they are going to try And factory reset your phone which will then boot into cwm recovery. Either way you're going the long way about fixing that phone.
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Old posts like these (below) lead me to believe the radio is only OTA. Of course it's old info and things may have changed. I didn't follow the TOT thread/s as closely since my phone behaved and did the OTAs fine. Realized I forgot there was a radio update on zv6. That's partly why I was paying attention to mentions of radio upgrades and it was taking a while to get root for zv6.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18947155&postcount=1111
mtmichaelson said:
The radio is not inside the boot.img. It is stored in a different partition, and lg has done a fine job of covering it up, so it is difficult to tell.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18843721&postcount=91
mtmichaelson said:
My roms already had the update except for the updated radio and boot.img (kernel & ramdisk). I will update the boot.img in the roms, but lg has covered up the radio mount point, so the radio may have to be updated through the actual update.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18907274&postcount=25
drt054 said:
Only other option will be to downgrade or ugrade using LGNPST. Or wait, one of the other Members is attempting to get the v7. Tot file then can just use LGNPST to upgrade.. or MTMichaelson will be posting Gingervolt some time today which will have everything except new radio.. that you need to flash through LGNPST or the OTA update.. the radio that is along with the firmware.
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Edit: Realize re-reading I need to clarify. My POV was just regarding his method and maintaining all features, not the reboot issue per se.
Right the tot is everything...sorry wasn't trying to be a **** might be how it came out though.
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No problem
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mtmichaelson said:
Decrappified is a Froyo Rom, the Revo is now on Gingerbread. Either restore your back up, or download and install GingerVolt Rom.
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yep, that was all it took. I downloaded gingervolt and the reboot problem went away. Hopefully a new sim card will get it back up and running. Thanks again for everyones help.