So I was modding framework-res, and somewhere I did something wrong and my phone will no longer boot. I can go into recovery but I did not install any extra recovery apps, so I can't do many things but wipe data, restart, etc. I've tried every option in the recovery but nothing works, it still doesn't boot.
I would go to the att store to have it exchanged but my screen is cracked so I can't do that.
is there anything I can do? I just got this phone and I don't want to have to buy another one. Please, any help would be greatly appreciated.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1535769
Thanks, I'll try that and report back. Hopefully that ones works, I've tried other tutorials but none seem to do a thing
put that beast in download mode, and reflash a kdz...should bring it to a stock form.
just make sure after your flash, boot into recovery if you are getting a boot loop, and clear data / cache option...then reboot.
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2 nights ago I thought I would have a go at installing ULTIMATE ROM 3.0. I have flashed many Roms on my Galaxy S before and not had a problem yet. I have ClockworkMod Recovery 2.5.1.0 installed.
However, this time- something went wrong. I don't think the installation completed properly. When I tried to reboot the system (to go back into my previous ROM) I wasn't able to. The Samsung logo appeared before the phone booted back into Recovery mode.
I tried to re-flash my previous working update.zip but had problems. I wasn't able to properly re-flash as the Installation would abort for various reasons. After doing cache clearing and data/factory reset I still had no luck. I resorted to reformatting the sdcard. Still didn't solve the flashing problem.
Throughout the whole time I was able to adb into the phone, browse the file system and I could push files on to it and take files off. But Kies wouldn't recognise the phone and Odin isn't able to complete a transfer to the phone (not sure why).
Today, I am able to successfully flash update.zip files (at least, that's what it looks like) but the phone ALWAYS boots into ClockwordMod recovery.
I am fast running out of ideas. Does anyone have any suggestion?
How can I tell if my ROMs are really 'there' but I can't access them because ClockworkMod is preventing them from booting?
hmmm... me too.. stuck in a loop, that keeps going back to the CWM recovery menu, and no matter what i do, keeps going back to it... cant even get to the download screen to flash (again).... here i was thinking no matter what happens when installing custom roms, i can always flash to my stable secure rom, but not this time... need some software that can perform surgical operations, any suggestions?
bradels said:
2 nights ago I thought I would have a go at installing ULTIMATE ROM 3.0. I have flashed many Roms on my Galaxy S before and not had a problem yet. I have ClockworkMod Recovery 2.5.1.0 installed.
However, this time- something went wrong. I don't think the installation completed properly. When I tried to reboot the system (to go back into my previous ROM) I wasn't able to. The Samsung logo appeared before the phone booted back into Recovery mode.
I tried to re-flash my previous working update.zip but had problems. I wasn't able to properly re-flash as the Installation would abort for various reasons. After doing cache clearing and data/factory reset I still had no luck. I resorted to reformatting the sdcard. Still didn't solve the flashing problem.
Throughout the whole time I was able to adb into the phone, browse the file system and I could push files on to it and take files off. But Kies wouldn't recognise the phone and Odin isn't able to complete a transfer to the phone (not sure why).
Today, I am able to successfully flash update.zip files (at least, that's what it looks like) but the phone ALWAYS boots into ClockwordMod recovery.
I am fast running out of ideas. Does anyone have any suggestion?
How can I tell if my ROMs are really 'there' but I can't access them because ClockworkMod is preventing them from booting?
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myrobelle said:
hmmm... me too.. stuck in a loop, that keeps going back to the CWM recovery menu, and no matter what i do, keeps going back to it... cant even get to the download screen to flash (again).... here i was thinking no matter what happens when installing custom roms, i can always flash to my stable secure rom, but not this time... need some software that can perform surgical operations, any suggestions?
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Thats too bad guys,and i m sorry to hear that news.I would like to havean answer but i dont...
The fact is that since most people in this forum use some custom roms,and all of us think the same,that we can always go back,so it would be great if you give some more details about what happened to you,and mybe why it went wrong,and it would be even better if one of the BIG guys would give some explanation about this...
I already thinking of not updating my rom anymore,dot want to end up in looping too,so lets see if someone will find something.Good luck guys..
By the way,i didnt get it right,CWM recovery cannot load your backup????
I just got an idea,but not sure if or how it would work or not.
Since you can push file with ADB,if soeone made a clean backup with his CWM (o e mail,contacts,setting saved) and send it to you,so that you log in with CWM recovery and flash that ???
Just an idea..maybe stupid dont know...
Its not very clear if youve tried this already but cant you just boot into recovery through adb? or does that not work either?
So I'm trying to get my VZN Galaxy Tab back on its feet. After trying to get Gingerbread in it so I can use Netflix - and failing - I'm going through a lot of motions.
Okay. First I rooted it with Super One Click. I should have been happy with that, but noooo. Then I tried flashing GB on it (I wish I can remember which ROM I started with...it's a mess. I think the pit file was gt-p1000_mr? Does that sound right?).
When that didn't work, I went to the much-cross-posted procedure for returning it to stock using Heimdall and SCH-i800_VZW_stock. Tried it five times. Each time, it booted into the Galaxy Tab/Samsung logos, then a fast glimpse of scrambled letters for a second followed by twinkly music, then black nothingness. It would then bootloop. I attempted to boot into recovery to wipe data/cache, but I couldn't get there. Vol-Up/Pwr just brought up the logo and scrambled video again.
Since I was still able to get into download mode, I tried flashing another ROM...this one the "P1000XXJQ1_P1000XXJQ1_P1000XXJPZ" method. With this, I was able to also flash CWM so I have SOME recovery mode. Sadly, booting brings up the GT/SAMSUNG logos and I get the spacey animation, but after that, again - blackness. This time, however, the Menu/Home/Back/Search buttons light up, so something's happening in there.
Also, booting into CWM, I cannot get my sdcard to be recognized. I tried different cards, so there's something goofy with the slot itself, I'm guessing.
So nothing is really working, but since I can get into CWM and also download modes, I'm holding out hope that this is not completely bricked.
I just need to find the right method of getting it back to a functioning tablet. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm all eyes. Thanks so much.
UPDATE: I tried reflashing stock using the tried and true method. But this time, I went in and flashed CWM replacing the stock recovery which never worked for me. I got the Galaxy Tab/Samsung logo, and at long last, the animated VZW logo. Then it would bootloop there. I booted into CWM recovery and wiped the data/system and the cache from the first page. It still booted and bootlooped the same. This time, I booted into recovery, went to the mounts and storage section and formatted the system, data and cache. Opening logo only. CWM again, and got a whole bunch of "cache missing" messages. But I think I'm getting closer. Back to work.
UPDATE II: So the farthest I can get is the animated VZW logo using the combo of the stock flash through Heimdall, then flashing CWM with Odin. Still no sdcard access. Anything I should try here? Thanks.
same question here
Did anyone figure out how to restore Verizon tab?
I rooted my droid 4 a few months ago when I first got it so I could tether. I removed a couple of programs using titanium backup (blockbuster app and some other bloat). Phone worked fine until monday when the touchscreen stopped working. I did a reboot (power + volume down) whereupon it just sat at the M "Dual Core" logo. I tried booting into the recovery menu but selecting "recovery" didn't do anything - it would just hang.
Last night I was able to get it working again by going into the recovery menu and selecting asp fastboot, then using RSDLite to push a stock Droid 4 ROM onto the phone. However, it didn't wipe my old system, and didnt install over it either because all my files were there, and the programs I removed were still gone. So the phone worked for a few hours then the touchscreen stopped working again.
I repeated the process with RSDLite and after a few failed attempts where the phone would hang while booting, I finally got it to boot into the OS again. And this is where I am at now.
I am pretty sure that the problem is related to the OS that is on the phone now and that I need to wipe the phone and start fresh with either a custom ROM or the stock D4 ROM. The problem is that I can't get recovery to do a factory reset. As I mentioned above, recovery just hangs and doesn't do anything. I am reasonably literate when it comes to this stuff but I get really confused because there are so many different ways that people seem to do this stuff (safestrap, bootstrap, CM( etc). I would love to try CM9 but my priority right now is just to have a phone that works. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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I rooted my droid 4 a few months ago when I first got it so I could tether. I removed a couple of programs using titanium backup (blockbuster app and some other bloat). Phone worked fine until monday when the touchscreen stopped working. I did a reboot (power + volume down) whereupon it just sat at the M "Dual Core" logo. I tried booting into the recovery menu but selecting "recovery" didn't do anything - it would just hang.
Last night I was able to get it working again by going into the recovery menu and selecting asp fastboot, then using RSDLite to push a stock Droid 4 ROM onto the phone. However, it didn't wipe my old system, and didnt install over it either because all my files were there, and the programs I removed were still gone. So the phone worked for a few hours then the touchscreen stopped working again.
I repeated the process with RSDLite and after a few failed attempts where the phone would hang while booting, I finally got it to boot into the OS again. And this is where I am at now.
I am pretty sure that the problem is related to the OS that is on the phone now and that I need to wipe the phone and start fresh with either a custom ROM or the stock D4 ROM. The problem is that I can't get recovery to do a factory reset. As I mentioned above, recovery just hangs and doesn't do anything. I am reasonably literate when it comes to this stuff but I get really confused because there are so many different ways that people seem to do this stuff (safestrap, bootstrap, CM( etc). I would love to try CM9 but my priority right now is just to have a phone that works. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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select recovery by holding the vol buttons and power on boot just like fastboot. press vol - for recovery. when u see dead droid hit both vol up and vol down and theres the recovery
Thanks, I was finally able to get into recovery. Wiped data and did a factory reset which again got stuck at the logo screen. Went back into fastboot and ran RSDlite again to flash the stock ROM which gets me to the "Welcome to Droid4" screen where it says "touch the android to start" but the touchscreen is unresponsive. Starting to think there is something physically wrong with the phone....
send it to motorola, I've heard their customer support is pretty good. but if you voided your warranty by rooting/flashing other roms, I've heard bricking the phone and sending it in works to get a new one too
The only way I can send it back is through an insurance claim so I am trying to save myself $75j if this thing will just work. I just did a reboot and now the touchscreen seems to be working so I am going through the setup process....so weird.
Update: I was able to get the phone to load up and configured my google account etc. It appears that the phone is now running on completely stock installation of OS.....
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The only way I can send it back is through an insurance claim so I am trying to save myself $75j if this thing will just work. I just did a reboot and now the touchscreen seems to be working so I am going through the setup process....so weird.
Update: I was able to get the phone to load up and configured my google account etc. It appears that the phone is now running on completely stock installation of OS.....
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So it has been a couple days now and the phone works totally fine. It looks like the problem was that by removing whatever bloatware that I did, the phone's OS got borked when VZW pushed an update of some kind. Flashing the stock ROM without doing a factory wipe would temporarily solve the problem but eventually the update would get pushed again and the whole thing would lock up again. The factory wipe + reinstall seems to have been the solution to the problem.
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 ?
okay so just like you read, i took a photo, opened an mms to send it, then the phone bricked itself. i got a black screen as if the phone was to freeze but then after several attempts to reboot (holding down the power button for long time, pulling battery, etc, etc) i got stuck in a boot loop and this is where i am now.
cannot get into recovery, only download mode.
the phone IS NOT ROOTED. which is what confuses the hell out of me.
i use nova launcher and a bunch of basic apps. nothing has been done to this os other than the launcher and the kernel is all stock too.
can really use some help because i need to retrieve some files off the phone storage.
thanks so much
nycdave said:
okay so just like you read, i took a photo, opened an mms to send it, then the phone bricked itself. i got a black screen as if the phone was to freeze but then after several attempts to reboot (holding down the power button for long time, pulling battery, etc, etc) i got stuck in a boot loop and this is where i am now.
cannot get into recovery, only download mode.
the phone IS NOT ROOTED. which is what confuses the hell out of me.
i use nova launcher and a bunch of basic apps. nothing has been done to this os other than the launcher and the kernel is all stock too.
can really use some help because i need to retrieve some files off the phone storage.
thanks so much
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odin the base you were on and you should be good, you probably somehow got your partition corrupted so you may want to do a clean flash after that
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odin the base you were on and you should be good, you probably somehow got your partition corrupted so you may want to do a clean flash after that
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tried that and it still will not boot. gets stuck at the splash screen as if to boot into recovery and then it freezes.
nycdave said:
tried that and it still will not boot. gets stuck at the splash screen as if to boot into recovery and then it freezes.
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go into recovery and do a factory reset/data wipe
xnknown said:
go into recovery and do a factory reset/data wipe
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go back and reread the OP. come on bruh.
nycdave said:
okay so just like you read, i took a photo, opened an mms to send it, then the phone bricked itself. i got a black screen as if the phone was to freeze but then after several attempts to reboot (holding down the power button for long time, pulling battery, etc, etc) i got stuck in a boot loop and this is where i am now.
cannot get into recovery, only download mode.
the phone IS NOT ROOTED. which is what confuses the hell out of me.
i use nova launcher and a bunch of basic apps. nothing has been done to this os other than the launcher and the kernel is all stock too.
can really use some help because i need to retrieve some files off the phone storage.
thanks so much
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Sorry that you are having such problems. I honestly doubt that it had anything to do with you sending a picture. This looks more like a hardware failure that might be the reason you cannot enter the recovery.
Maybe this helps with the Data recovery. Connect the phone to your computer maybe you are lucky and it gets recognized as a hard drive and you can manually move the files that you want.
If that doesn't work you might want to download the original firmware from your phone (the one that you are using) and flash it via download mode. should that not work try to flash a previous firmware version.
Should none of that work you can try to download just the recovery and flash that and see if that works.
If that doesn't work you might try to root the phone and install a custom rom.
Once you make it into the recovery you should be able to do a reset - however that will destroy the data on the phone.
Good luck with that and you might have to return the phone to be serviced.