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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.
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I recently has some issues with my Captivate, even after I used Odin and MasterClear to return it to stock so I called AT&T. They were troubleshooting the device on the phone with me, and told me to do this other as they put "deeper" factory reset. They had me:
Power Off Device
Remove MicroSD and Battery
Power On Device
Enter Code:
*2767*3855#
(once inputted, automatically did the clearing of the phone)
It seemed to have completely wiped everything from my phone. I was wondering if anyone has any knowledge of how that's different from doing a factory reset in recovery mode, or from the system menu? Is this a valid alternative for those with the AT&T Captivate instead of using MasterClear through Odin?
Thanks!
That code does what is known as a hard reset. Think of it as truly putting everything back as if you never used the phone. It is the recommended way to clear your phone if you sell it. As you found out, it truly wipes everything out.
A Master Clear wipes out the data you had on your SD cards like music, any CWM zipped files, etc.
I hope this helps.
you could also format the sd cards
I've had my sgs for almost 1 year , and except for rooting it i didnt rly fiddle with it .
On new years eve night i noticed my phone was closed, and when i tried to open it , it started going in this endless restart loop where it would show me the Galaxy S gt-i9000 start up screen and then restart.I pulled out the battery and the problem got fixed, but now it's happening again and it seems i cant fix it.
I read on the forums that this might indicate an internal sd card failure, and if thats the case is there any way of getting my data back?
Power the phone down then push the on button.
Then hold down the home key, the on key, and the left key in the down position and it will give you a fresh boot and upload the original settings.......
You will lose all your pics and numbers etc so I hope you have it backed up..
Regards Lee ( cash_13 )
cash_13 said:
Power the phone down then push the on button.
Then hold down the home key, the on key, and the left key in the down position and it will give you a fresh boot and upload the original settings.......
You will lose all your pics and numbers etc so I hope you have it backed up..
Regards Lee ( cash_13 )
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that will get you in the download mode...
If you are indeed rooted a last resort can be downloading the 2.3.5 stock rom from Sam mobile.. Put your phone into download mode as that guy said, there are lots of tutorials about this online then use odin to flash. As I say this is a last resort if nothing else works.
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Use 3 button combo to recovery (Volume up + Home + Power) and do a factory reset and wipe cache. You will see them from the menu. You will not going to lose your personal data. You will just have to install the apps again.
At first don't make factory reset. Try first to wipe Cache, dalvik Cache and fix permissions (all from the recovery). If it doesn't help try flash new Rom (no wipe) or make factory reset. If this don't help either try flashing a 3 file Rom with pit and repartition.
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Did the wipe cache thingy, its still not loading, i dont rly wana do a factory reset ( kinda need some pic's ) so is there any way that i can backup my data before doing a factory reset?
Zurgix said:
Did the wipe cache thingy, its still not loading, i dont rly wana do a factory reset ( kinda need some pic's ) so is there any way that i can backup my data before doing a factory reset?
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Doing a factory reset won't wipe your pics and all.. it'll just wipe the 2GB partition that is used for rom and apps.. your pics are stored on the separate 6GB/14GB partition and that is not affected when you do a factory reset.. all your contacts, messages and applications etc will be wiped though..
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Did the wipe cache thingy, its still not loading, i dont rly wana do a factory reset ( kinda need some pic's ) so is there any way that i can backup my data before doing a factory reset?
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If you have gone into recovery and cleared cache, dalvik cache and fixed permissions, then the only option available now is to factory reset in recovery. You will NOT lose any pictures or music on your sd card. You will however, lose your installed apps, their data, your phone numbers and messages. Hopefully you have your numbers backed up with google or at least stored on your sim.
If this doesn't work, you will need to flash a new rom with odin. It's a 5 minute job once you've downloaded everything required.
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If you have gone into recovery and cleared cache, dalvik cache and fixed permissions, then the only option available now is to factory reset in recovery. You will NOT lose any pictures or music on your sd card. You will however, lose your installed apps, their data, your phone numbers and messages. Hopefully you have your numbers backed up with google or at least stored on your sim.
If this doesn't work, you will need to flash a new rom with odin. It's a 5 minute job once you've downloaded everything required.
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Did as you said and its still not working, because i still have my waranty il take it to the " pros" instead of flasing a new rom.
Only way is to flash a fresh stock rom via Odin since factory reset wouldn't work for you.
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Did as you said and its still not working, because i still have my waranty il take it to the " pros" instead of flasing a new rom.
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Mate, all they will do (all they CAN do) is flash a new rom........ But, whatever - it's your phone and time.
Here is what I do know;
Sprint Galaxy Tab SPH-P100
Gingerbread
Boots as far as to display Samsung logo, then Sprint animation, then Samsung animation repeatedly.
Was said to be working fine until this just happened. No flashing or modding attempted.
I am not familiar with Android at all but, I am reading. As far as I can tell the Odin/Heimdall looks like my best option if I can get it in download mode from this thread;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17817287&postcount=2
Would this be correct?
Yes. The instruction looks good an it is for cdma sprint tab.
But before you follow that instruction, please try to do cache data wipe, and factory reset wipe on recovery mode (press power and volume up).
If you don't get any error message after doing the reset, try to reboot again before you continue flashing, sometimes doing reset solves the problem.
If you get some error message after the reset, you may need to do repartition by adding pit file along with flashing the rom.
Tyvm, I will give that a try tonight.
I have a Samsung Omnia II I8000L and this tab is way different from that. The help is appreciated.
Well, the reprogramming went just fine but, if the Tab is turned off completely, not in standby, then it goes back to the same problem it started with.
I think I may try to roll back to an earlier build. Managed to get EA24 Odin flash to try with.
No joy. All I manage to get is a great view of the Samsung and Sprint logos. To think I was so happy when I found this thing was soft bricked... :/
None of the recovery stuff has never worked either, all errors. Wipe cache, reset to factory... Nadda. Lots of "Failed to mount E:..." sort of stuff.
No idea where to go from here.
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No joy. All I manage to get is a great view of the Samsung and Sprint logos. To think I was so happy when I found this thing was soft bricked... :/
None of the recovery stuff has never worked either, all errors. Wipe cache, reset to factory... Nadda. Lots of "Failed to mount E:..." sort of stuff.
No idea where to go from here.
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Sounds like a hardware problem. I had similar issues and had to send it to Samsung. Try repartitioning with the pit file and a full stock package. If that doesn't help its most likely hardware.
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Can some one help me
So far I have always factory resetted the tab before flashing the latest software using odin but setting up the tab s8 plus again is a real problem. So if I can flash directly without factory reset, I will be able to use Tab without any setting up again. My worry is since Tab is encrypted and connected to Samsung and google accounts, will that make any issues if i do so?
Yes, this is the proper way to manually update your device. No, it shouldn't cause any issues.
Means flash via odin without factory reset, with NO factory reset, with login pin?