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[Q] I9000 Crash and Failure to Boot

I had my phone randomly soft brick today and I was wondering if someone might be able to shed some light on what happened to me.
So, my phone is a Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000M on Bell Canada. Rooted, ADW, Clockword Recovery, *No* Lagfix (I removed it), GPS Update. Today I went to open an app and the phone froze and subsequently rebooted. Upon restart the boot animation displayed for a while and then went to a black screen. Phone did not respond to any input. Force restarting led to the same effect. Tried a battery pull, no dice. Wiped the cache partition, no dice. Booted into recovery then clockwork recovery. Restored to my last nandroid backup. Phone restarted, displayed boot animation for a long time then went to the black screen and accepted no input. Restored to my nandroid before that, no luck. Wiped dalvik cache, no luck. Connected the usb, booted into recovery, opened android commander, and pulled down a copy of everything on the internal sd card. Finally, while walking to the Bell Canada store to get a replacement, I did a factory reset... The phone booted.
So what has me extremely curious is what did a factory reset do, that restoring from a nandroid backup didn't? And what the hell happened to the phone that an app crash trigged a quasi soft brick. Let me know if anyone has any ideas.
Thanks!

I had the same thing happen to me all the time on the XXJPC TOM after having installed the TaskManager update (it was 1.4 back then) from Samsung Apps. Everything seemed fine until I rebooted. After the boot animation played, there was the "I'm crashing" vibration (vibrating once, then three times shorty after) at which point the phone went off. I had this happen four times in a row before I figured out (by accident) that it's the TaskManager update that did this to me. Only a factory reset could revive the phone. Did you, by any chance, install the TaskManager update, too, on a Froyo ROM?
Hope this helps a bit. It was rather frustrating to me.

I'm just running a rooted stock i9000 rom (android 2.1). No task manager update.
I did manage to recover. The process ended up being this:
Backup data on internal sd card while in recovery mode
Factory reset
Wipe cache partition
Boot
Install rom manger
Copy data back to internal sd card
Restore from most recent nandroid backup
The only thing I can think of is somehow I suffered a corruption of my data partition, so the factory reset fixed it by wiping the partition. Not sure if that's a possible explanation.
Sent from my GT-I9000M using XDA App

[Q] Phone stuck when booting - how to fix?

Hi All,
Suddenly my phone gets stuck during booting at the S logo and it vibrates sometimes similar to FC-ing.
I have the feeling that some process keeps crasing in an infinite loop.
I havent touched the ROM for at least a month.
It was upgraded to JPY via KIES with reg hacking and it has worked fine until today.
Yesterday before going to sleep I shut it down and when this morning I turned it on it could not get past the logo it just vibrates and front leds are lit.
Battery is fully charged, screen showing fully green battery when charging.
I can enter both Recovery and Dowload modes, nothing unusual is displayed there.
Battery out-in did not help.
No lagfix, phone was rooted with modified kernel (chainfire afair) more than 1 month ago.
No problems like this whatsoever.
Last successful boot was yesterday evening, no signs of any problem.
I have not done factory reset yet as my last Titanium Backup was quite a long ago.
Questions:
- is there any kind of "safe mode" boot like in windows?
- I can not access its internal SD card from PC (USB), is there a trick to make the pc recognize it?
- any other suggestion before FR?
It is International Galaxy S, JPY, unbranded
Thanks in advance!

if you have CWM recovery then i think there is an option to mount the sd card so its visible on your pc,
another thing. there is a safe mode i accidentally entered it a few months ago, what you need to do is boot up the phone and whilst it is booting press the left key (menu) until the keys light turns off, (or keep pressing the menu key) and then the phone should come up in safe mode..
i havent tried it with a boot loop and i dont know if anyone else has so it may not work..
and finally if you do have CWM you can do a nandroid backup thru that, then do a factory reset and re-apply the nandroid backup.

Unfortunately I do not have CWM.
I tried safe mode the way you wrote but it did not work for me, neither worked the other Menu + Home + Power combination mentioned elsewhere, probably the problem comes earlier than that.
Is there a chance to install CWM in this limited mode of my phone?
the problem is that int sd does not seem accessible.
does update.zip work only from internal sd?

im afraid so yes its not possible to do it from the external sd unless you have a steam kernel.
looks like your only option would be to do a factory reset in recover or re-flash through odin.. but you will lose your data..
your best bet is to just write down as many apps as you can remember you had, and maybe re download them after the flash 1 by one.
but all the stuff on your internal sd card WILL STAY INTACT. e.g pictures music movies ect
EDIT::: you can now access the market on-line so perhaps you check that to see if your apps show on there before you do the reset... I've not checked it out yet...

My market on web looks good so that should not be a problem.
I was just told that I could have CWM by flashing a kernel that contains it.
If that is true I can do what you said earlier: do a nandroid backup + FR + restore
I except this to save my Angry Brids achievements that are in not on the int sd card but only in the app data.
Does this make sense?

jasahu said:
My market on web looks good so that should not be a problem.
I was just told that I could have CWM by flashing a kernel that contains it.
If that is true I can do what you said earlier: do a nandroid backup + FR + restore
I except this to save my Angry Brids achievements that are in not on the int sd card but only in the app data.
Does this make sense?
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Replying to myself: It made sense.
I flashed a SpeedMod kernel to have CWM
- tried booting, but no success (as expected)
and then from CWM
- I mounted USB storage to back up SD card
- did Nandroid backup as well to make backup of the rest
Then Factory Reset -> phone could boot again
tried to only 'Restore data' from nandroid backup -> failed to boot
ok, FR again and get back the most from my 1 month old titanium backup
My is guess that some program with root rights corrupted something which made me unable to boot
What I learned -> backup frequently !
Now what remained is to get back my Angry Birds progress from nandroid backup
Thanks for help!

[Q] LG Optimus X2 root questions

hi there im new to root and stuff like that but i rooted my lg p990hn with SuperOneClick and the exploid was on auto. so then after that i instaled an unofficial cwm called 4.0.0.5-modaco-2x-clockworkmod after that i backed up the current rom i had that came with the phone. after that i installed a rom called NovaHD_Rebuild_v1.1.0 i wiped data/factory reset and cache partition i went throw all the steps and it installed all good untill i rebooted and was just at the lg blue and purple screen that was never there before.so i wanted to ask u guys how i can fix it. i tryed to use nvflash but i dont really know how to use its.so plz if ur still reading i would be soo happy if some 1 replyed. thankss and another thing is that i cant even restore the rom because there is a error mounting the system and when i try to mount the system in advance setting it wont even mount the same error

Relax, you will be able to recover your device. Our P990 is almost unbrickable.
Can you still get into recovery mode by switching on the phone pressing power button and the volume down? If yes, simply do a factory reset, wipe /system and /cache and dalvik. Then reinstall. If it ****s up your Phone again, download the ROM again. Might be a broken download.
If your phone seems to be really dead, you can recover it using NVFlash. Search the forums, it's been posted so many times. Keep in mind that you can only use ONE SINGLE command in one NVFlash Session. After that you have to plug out your phone and try again. Be careful. NVFlash can recover but also destroy your phone.

like above. you just need to be brave and stuff. no offence.

Advance Restore
ok so when i restore my back up i cant even do that when i try to do it it gives me an error saying that i cant mount /system and then i go to advance restore i can restore every thing else but system and the old blue splash screen is gone it was my old 1.

andrew.amaya1 said:
ok so when i restore my back up i cant even do that when i try to do it it gives me an error saying that i cant mount /system and then i go to advance restore i can restore every thing else but system and the old blue splash screen is gone it was my old 1.
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if you can enter recovery, wipe cache, dalvik cache, data . Under mounts and storage format system, then reflash the rom, just make sure the zip file was downloaded correctly.

WOOOOW u guys dont get it i have a problem with mounting the system i cant even restore my old rom because there is and error with mounting the system!!!!!!! and dont worry i know i have to whipe delvik cache etc.

[Q] Lg Thrill System File Recovery

Hello,
I made the mistake of taking my Lg Thrill p925 and trying to install an ICS mod on android froyo. (QMEMO), So anyway's when I had tried to boot up the Thrill, and discovered it was stuck in a boot lock. After going back into CWM I had done a factory reset and realized it continued to remain in a boot lock. At first I had gone and cleared everything then reinstalled the stock rom after discovering that didn't work, without considering the consequences I had cleared the internal sd card. I quickly realized I made a mistake, thinking that the system file's would remain unchanged I went ahead and cleared it. I was wrong and there was nothing left and no backup's made to a nonpresent external SD card.
Originally I though ok no big deal I can just go in CWM which support's adb sideload and reinstall the stock rom/ system files. I discovered that the Thrill was not recognized by the pc as anything but an LGE COSMO usb Device and there is no driver to be installed for this. So I basically gave up hope after that thinking I had tried everthing (odin included). So I was wondering is there any other way to reinstall the system file's so I can stop using the Iphone 3g I had laying around . If you can help me please let me know.
-Garret_Broemser

i have a similar problem
hi Garret_Broemser
did you find the driver for LGE COSMO USB device?

[Q] D415 Doesn't boot, details in thread.

So I flashed a new .kdz to the D415R in order to root it again, which was successful albeit a couple bugs that other people were having. Following this I installed a font with the app Font Installer from the Play Store, worked flawlessly, and then I was not satisfied with it so I chose a different font. Upon doing so the phone got stuck in a boot loop. I am able to boot into recovery and wiped my /data, /cache and dalvik cache with TWRP. After this I figured I would be okay. Nope, I was wrong. My phone will not boot up past the LG Life is Good screen. Literally nothing but an endless display of the LG logo to mock me. I have a CM11 ROM on my sdcard in the download section but TWRP for some stupid ****ing reason has decided that it isn't an important folder on my card and won't let me access it. What do I do? My computer doesn't detect the sdcard like it would if I was using CWM. Any advice, tips or help? I only have one phone and kind of need it. All help would be appreciated.

you're unable to connect to your pc in download mode and reflash stock rom again ?