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any recovery chance?

hi people,
I was trying to upgrade my firmware via Kies. However after the completion of the process and reboot, only thing that I could see that black screen with the turning "S".
That was just the beginning, I tried some recovery stuff myself and everything did go worse and worse.
Now my device (i9000s) has 2 options remaining which brings me nothing.
1. vol up +power+main screen ->
update.zip does not work, installation aborts, so I cannot move here.. (partition wiped, factory reset etc done...)
2. vol down +power+main screen ->
downloading.... (brings me nothing)
I downloaded a new "update.zip" from internet and moved it to external SD card and it also brings me nothing.
after I reboot, I get a black screen with Samsung I9000 text, nothing more.
Do you think that I can recover this stupidness of mine?

same problem was posted already in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=809567.

I dont think that this is my situation

its exactly the same, and I have it too. Meaning the original problem after update.

ok I will try this also,
but I cannot find:
Upgrade Firmware upgrade File (.tar) can be downloaded from Samsung-Firmware.
only thing I see in ODIN:
0:[COM18]

HELP!! my fone wont go on recovery and everything else is acting WIERD!!!

Just to make the long story short!..I am not too familiar with the android interface and I bought my nexus one (second hand ROOTED) I wanted to try on the rodrigoes MIUI
What I did exactly:
first thing I did a nandroid backup of my fone, then I went to the recovery mode and did a factory reset on the fone.. once that was done, I then did a restore the back up. Here is the problem now....
once the back up was running...it was stuck on this one file for the longest time (about 40-50 mins) I dont know why but I took off the battery and rebooted again...I now have a slow working fone... with most of my apps not working!!! IT WONT GO TO RECOVERY MODE!!!! even my rom manage wont let me do anything...it gives me a error message or hangs up on that screen...should I format my sd??...
Can someone please tell me the step to get my fone back to working condition. I dont mind wiping my fone entirely and starting all over again..and can you also recommend what MIUI should i install (fast and stable) right now i have no preferences.. I JUST WANT MY FONE WORKING BACK !!!
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks

Quick and easy option.
Download: http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Pas...le_WWE_2.16.1700.1_FRG33_MFG_Shipment_ROM.zip
Extract the zip file from it, and rename it passimg.zip. Copy that file to the root of your SD card.
Power the phone off, hold Vol- and turn it on, it will prompt you to install the file, choose yes.
Your phone will be back to stock and away you go.

Rusty! said:
Quick and easy option.
Download: http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Pas...le_WWE_2.16.1700.1_FRG33_MFG_Shipment_ROM.zip
Extract the zip file from it, and rename it passimg.zip. Copy that file to the root of your SD card.
Power the phone off, hold Vol- and turn it on, it will prompt you to install the file, choose yes.
Your phone will be back to stock and away you go.
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Thanks buddy!!! you got my fone up and running!!! thnaks a ton!
Ok so I now am running FRG33 and i formatted my sd card too...I wanted to root my phone now... do u recommend using a build number before I root iit, because i cant find the fastboot for FRG33..

FRG33 is an odd build, you should get an OTA update to FRG83D at some point, I'd wait till then as your root access will be lost when you get it.
Or you can manually do it, takes two steps. Download this: http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Pas...RG83 OTA update, possibly from FRF91 too).zip
Rename it to update.zip and copy it to the root of the SD card, boot into recovery (Vol- with power on and pick recovery), open the menu (Power & Vol+ at the warning triangle) and pick install update.
Then download this: http://android.clients.google.com/p...signed-passion-FRG83D-from-FRG83.ecb21b75.zip and repeat the above process. You're now upto date and root away.

Rusty! said:
Power the phone off, hold Vol- and turn it on, it will prompt you to install the file, choose yes.
Your phone will be back to stock and away you go.
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When the HBOOT starts it loads the passimg.zip automatically and a blue loading bar appears at the top right. After the blue bar became full it disappear and nothing happens.
My phone still hung on the "X" logo and i'm unable to get into recovery and install any update.zip
What can I do?

The file is a zip within a zip, did you extract it first, or just rename the file you downloaded?

Rusty! said:
The file is a zip within a zip, did you extract it first, or just rename the file you downloaded?
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lol thank you didn't notice it

[Q] Soft-Bricked G1

So I purchased a used G1 and I knew it has some software issues. I have no idea what version OS or anything is on this phone. Issue is it will not boot up into the OS. After researching (I am new to android) I have found what it can and what I cant get it to do. I can get into recovery mode no problem and after an ALT-L I see "Android System Recovery <2e>". The phone usually boots into this mode straight away, or I can hold home+power and it will enter the mode. Tried doing a "wipe data/factory reset" but nothing changes. If I reboot the phone and hold "back" I would expect it to enter Fastboot mode where I could do stuff. Instead I see the "rainbow screen" very briefly and then a message saying that if I want to restore factory setttings press send, otherwise hit any other key to cancel. No matter what I press nothing happens and I have to pull battery. I can only get into this mode every now and then. It seems pretty finicky about getting into it, and again no options when I do. Finally the camera+power to get into the bootloader does nothing. I can get the PC to see the phone when in recovery mode. It showed up as a mass storage device and i got that changed over to "Android Phone" by installing the SDK drivers.
Is there anything I can do on the recovery screen? That is the only thing that consistently works. I have tried a few update.zip files (various OTA updates I downloaded) but I either get a "No signature" error or it starts installing and then immediately get an "Installation aborted".
Any help to get this up and running would be appreciated. Hopefully its not just useless. For now an OEM 1.5 build is really all a i need. I can worry about updating/rooting later.

Download dream.nbh and format your sd card then place the dream onto ur sd card reboot holding home+cam button and let it do its magic that's how I fixed mine I'm sure if you go to the htc site you will find all the files u need just do a bit more research before trying this
Sent from my HTC Magic/Dream using XDA App

I mentioned in my original post that the camera+power button to enter bootloader mode does not do anything. I have already researched solutions, but it only seems I have access to the recovery mode screen. What can be done from there to assist with this issue (if anything)?

Download and flash the files from here http://developer.htc.com/adp.html (ota radio and system image) rename them update and flash them one at a time
Sent from my HTC Magic/Dream using XDA App

As for the no sig error just do some reasarch on adb shell and flash clockworkmod recovery from there its easy once u do some searching.....dw a couple of weeks ago I was you lol it'll pan out ok the people round here are really helpful
Sent from my HTC Magic/Dream using XDA App

Does this require adb? I have not been successful in making my pc get an adb connection. When in recovery mode the phones shows up on my pc and I got it to show up as android, but "adb devices" does not show anything listed. Everything referencing adb says it needs USB Debugging enabled, but I cant do that I cant get into the OS to enable. I dont seem to be able to enter fastboot mode either (see original post).

Download the radio and recovery image format sd card rename the ota radio update.zip boot into recovery and select apply update from sd card one you have that done delete the update.zip and then place the recovery image on sd card but rename update.zip and do the same....should work for ya
Sent from my HTC Magic/Dream using XDA App

When trying to update the radio files (tried all 3 versions on the download page) I get the "E: No signature (5 files)" error. Can I generate a valid signature for the files?

its worth a try lol if that dont work then i really dont know whats wrong lol

So far I have tried the following files:
The following pass verification and I get to the "Installing update..." but I then instantly get an "Installation Aborted". No other error message as to why:
signed-kila-CRC1-from-CRB43-FIX.7ca4a1d7.zip
signed-kila-DRC83-from-CRC1.c41b93c1.zip
signed-kila-ota-148830.de6a94ca.zip
signed-PLAT-RC33-from-RC30.zip
signed-RC30-from-RC29-fat.1582cace.zip
The following I get a "No Signature" error:
signed-dream_gfh-ota-147201.6d1386de.zip
ota-radio-2_22_19_26I.zip
ota-radio-1_22_12_29.zip
ota-radio-1_22_14_11.zip
I did a Wipe data and Cache before each update.zip attempt and this was using the "Android system recovery <2e>" screen.
Ideas? I will look and see if I can add a signature to the radio files.

dont spose u flashed the recovery with clockworkmod recovery 2.5.0.7
too short

I have not been successful flashing anything to the phone so far. All this was done via the "Android system recovery <2e>".
I signed the radio files myself, but they came out identical and same issues occurred. No idea what the "No signature" error is. Seems like a bunch of people get it on the forums, but no solutions. No idea why the good updates suddenly abort.

forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4647751&postcount=1

Unfortunatly that seems to require fastboot, adp, or a rooted phone. I tried installing another SPL and I keep getting the "No Signature" error.

wow man your having a tough ass time lol ill keep researching for ya

i think your home button maybe stuck lol
far to short

You know thats not a bad idea. It does actually boot into recovery mode without holding the home button like you are meant to. Would holding home when powering on prevent the boot loader from starting if I hold the camera button?

on my g1 if i hold home power and cam buttons i get the bootloader/fastboot menu

So I ordered a new battery for it today too. The phone does not seem to work too long without being plugged in. Maybe that will help.
I also managed to capture some pictures of the screens I have, so maybe that will assist people with diagnosing the issue.
The first is the rainbow screen I get when holding back on a reboot. It flashes for 1 second or so and then displays the white screen with blue text. The last pic is the recovery menu I have access to.
It looks like this is a fully stock phone, no flashes. I am going to keep trying to get into that bootloader screen. Getting into the rainbow screen works once every 20 tries or so. Maybe the bootloader is similar. Hitting send on the white screen does nothing and requires a battery pull to reset phone.

how long can you stay in the coloured menu for ?????? also what happens if you stay there like what options do you get???

Massive problem with the tablet

I have spent about 10 hours sitting here, with over 200 tab open trying to find a solution to my problems but I could not find one. My last option is to post here and hope someone can help me out.
I recently bought the tf701t which came with Android 4.2.2. Everything worked fine. A few days ago, I got pushed an update to android 4.3 but it was .1.7 not .1.18 (the newest apparently). With that update, my problems came. When I light up the device by pressing the power button, the lock screen was unresponsive. I pressed my pin numbers in but there was no response and it was as if the touchscreen was broken. However, the home and back button were all working fine. I had to randomly keep pressing until it finally started becoming responsive. When I got in, the quick management window (the one you get by swiping down), kept popping up the moment i press the screen. Because of this, I couldnt do anything. I couldn't even turn off the tablet as the power off option was unable to be pressed by me (When i did press, the window came up again).
After a while, i managed to get around this by again randomly pressing stuff. I got really frustrated and decided maybe if I install a custom rom, this problem might be fixed.
I read around a bit and found that the CROMix rom required firmware 1.18, which I did not have. Because of this, i decided to try install 1.18. First i used the asus unlock tool. Next I tried booting into recovery but here I met my problem. I have guides telling me to first boot using power button + volume down key. This worked. It then told me to choose the RCK option and press the volume up key. This however, did not work. When I selected the RCK option, the android figure appeared lying down with a red triangle and exclamation mark over it.
Unsure of what to do in this situation, i read one of the guides on this forum which said simply place the 1.18 zip file (yes i unziped the zip file from the file i downloaded), in the root folder then reboot and it would automatically update. This didnt happen.
I then tried using the adb thing but it said no devices were connected even when my tf701t was connected to the PC. I guessed that I needed to be in the recovery mode that I could not get into, before it would work.
I then read around and they said I had to first get Rom manager + the CMR recovery thing but Rom Manager said it needed root access. In order to get root access, I needed to get into the recovery mode yet again.
So now I am stuck. Whenever I try the RCK option, the error pops up and I can't get any further.
WIll someone please help me? I have no idea what to do anymore except throw the tablet out.

zhuang281 said:
I have spent about 10 hours sitting here, with over 200 tab open trying to find a solution to my problems but I could not find one. My last option is to post here and hope someone can help me out.
I recently bought the tf701t which came with Android 4.2.2. Everything worked fine. A few days ago, I got pushed an update to android 4.3 but it was .1.7 not .1.18 (the newest apparently). With that update, my problems came. When I light up the device by pressing the power button, the lock screen was unresponsive. I pressed my pin numbers in but there was no response and it was as if the touchscreen was broken. However, the home and back button were all working fine. I had to randomly keep pressing until it finally started becoming responsive. When I got in, the quick management window (the one you get by swiping down), kept popping up the moment i press the screen. Because of this, I couldnt do anything. I couldn't even turn off the tablet as the power off option was unable to be pressed by me (When i did press, the window came up again).
After a while, i managed to get around this by again randomly pressing stuff. I got really frustrated and decided maybe if I install a custom rom, this problem might be fixed.
I read around a bit and found that the CROMix rom required firmware 1.18, which I did not have. Because of this, i decided to try install 1.18. First i used the asus unlock tool. Next I tried booting into recovery but here I met my problem. I have guides telling me to first boot using power button + volume down key. This worked. It then told me to choose the RCK option and press the volume up key. This however, did not work. When I selected the RCK option, the android figure appeared lying down with a red triangle and exclamation mark over it.
Unsure of what to do in this situation, i read one of the guides on this forum which said simply place the 1.18 zip file (yes i unziped the zip file from the file i downloaded), in the root folder then reboot and it would automatically update. This didnt happen.
I then tried using the adb thing but it said no devices were connected even when my tf701t was connected to the PC. I guessed that I needed to be in the recovery mode that I could not get into, before it would work.
I then read around and they said I had to first get Rom manager + the CMR recovery thing but Rom Manager said it needed root access. In order to get root access, I needed to get into the recovery mode yet again.
So now I am stuck. Whenever I try the RCK option, the error pops up and I can't get any further.
WIll someone please help me? I have no idea what to do anymore except throw the tablet out.
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Did you try to put the update on the external sd card? Not sure if that would make a difference but i remember i used to put it there...
You could also flash a custom recovery and flash the update that way. You can find more info in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2636093

You should safely be able to update your factory firmware first by putting it at /sdcard location.. Then just reboot. It automatic. I Thought there was also an update available in settings after that. Don't unlock til you are at 4.3.
To unlock with Asus unlock tool make sure Google 2 Step verification is disabled.
Then I used fastboot to flash CWM recovery from a computer. I think you flash with fastboot from the newly unlocked bootloader. Power + Vol DOWN.
After you have flash recovery then you can enter it. No scary man lying down.

YayYouFixedIt said:
You should safely be able to update your factory firmware first by putting it at /sdcard location.. Then just reboot. It automatic. I Thought there was also an update available in settings after that. Don't unlock til you are at 4.3.
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I forgot to mention one thing at the start. I don't actually have on hand a external microSD card. Which I think might be why placing the zip file in the root of the internal storage did not work.
Should it work? Is there any way to get around it? I've been trying to use sideload with cwm (finally got cwm working), but it comes up with "failed to write data protocol fault no status"
EDIT: Through cwm, I chose "choose zip from /sdcard" then select the "0" file directory then i found my zip at the location. I selected it and confirmed install. However, it then comes up with "Error in data/media/0/(name of update here).zip status 6"
Thanks for the help so far but anyone have an idea about this?

Not sure. After googling I see this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1535546
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You can put the zips anywhere when your recovery is installed.

Okay so I finally managed to get the custom rom installed and working. However, this did not fix my problem with the touchscreen. I think it is because it only changed the firmware but not the android version (still 4.3).
Is there any place I could find android 4.2.2 rom? This was the one the tablet was on before the update that screwed everything up. If I could downgrade to that version, it may work again.
Thanks
I gave up and just put on the android 4.3 ota from droidbasement. Now the tablet randomly restarts and is stick in reboot loop. It wont even allow me to boot into cwm recovery to delete the cache. But i accept that I now have a $600 piece of **** on my hands. Going to bed. Night.

Ya i dont like the whole void your warranty for "using it" idea. If it responds to fastboot you might be ok.

You should be able to download a 4.2.2 rom from Asus' website (.47 was the last build for 4.2.2). You can use fastboot to install it.

Alta1r said:
You should be able to download a 4.2.2 rom from Asus' website (.47 was the last build for 4.2.2). You can use fastboot to install it.
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I tried that before but it stated "update aborted" immediately after i pressed confirm, in CWM.
But all that is in the past now. I am pretty sure that the tablet is hard bricked since it no longer even opens bootloader. I accidentally pressed the wipe data option and I read that irreversibly damages the tablet. When I hold pwr+vl down, nothing happens anymore, it keeps on its reboot loop.

[Q] Stuck in HTC one screen

I have a HTC One (M8) and I was in Framework.res and copied it to mess with it on sd card and I changed the name to .zip to do so. After I copied it I apparently wasn't in the sd card (I was in the active files), and the phone kept saying this and that was closing. I realized this and tried to go back and change it and the phone shut down and started to reboot. I thought all was fine but it is stuck on the white HTC One screen. I've tried other suggestions such as the bright light to reboot it and no luck. All I need is recovery and I'll be fine. My PC won't recognize it either. HELP!

Boot into recovery and dirty flash a rom ?
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eeezduzit said:
I have a HTC One (M8) and I was in Framework.res and copied it to mess with it on sd card and I changed the name to .zip to do so. After I copied it I apparently wasn't in the sd card (I was in the active files), and the phone kept saying this and that was closing. I realized this and tried to go back and change it and the phone shut down and started to reboot. I thought all was fine but it is stuck on the white HTC One screen. I've tried other suggestions such as the bright light to reboot it and no luck. All I need is recovery and I'll be fine. My PC won't recognize it either. HELP!
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Can you even launch into recovery by holding "Power + Volume Down" at the same time?
Did you have a custom recovery at all?

eeezduzit said:
I have a HTC One (M8) and I was in Framework.res and copied it to mess with it on sd card and I changed the name to .zip to do so. After I copied it I apparently wasn't in the sd card (I was in the active files), and the phone kept saying this and that was closing. I realized this and tried to go back and change it and the phone shut down and started to reboot. I thought all was fine but it is stuck on the white HTC One screen. I've tried other suggestions such as the bright light to reboot it and no luck. All I need is recovery and I'll be fine. My PC won't recognize it either. HELP!
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Had same situation yesterday too for some reason saving stuff on sdcard and flashing from it corrupts dunno why. But try this my pc didn't recognize my phone either at first but it worked. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2729173

WasANamee said:
Had same situation yesterday too for some reason saving stuff on sdcard and flashing from it corrupts dunno why. But try this my pc didn't recognize my phone either at first but it worked. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2729173
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i have a sprint m8.hk ruu installed.i had checked fastboot under power options.after few minutes it went to switch off mode and not responding since then.no led notification even on charging.power button and volume button tricks not working.black screen.plz help..