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[Q] cannot start galaxy s after update.zip

Hello
I am in a great panic mode.
I applied this lagfix : forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7587405&postcount=417 and since I did it I cannot use my phone.
I am not able to start my phone. It shows me Galaxy S logo, and after that I hear the start up music but nothing on the screen (no animation). Pressing hardkeys does not do anything either.
Above all I cannot even enter my recovery mode. When I press volumedown+poweron button, the screen keeps showing me Galaxy S logo and it does not go any further.
Please help me if you know how to getaround.

Were you rooted when yoou applied update.zip?
Anyway,did you try to shutdown the phone removing battery,and then try entering recovery?

the fix did not mention I had to root my phone, it said it would self install.
Yes I did shut down after removing the battery, and then I am trying to get into recovery using volumedown+poweron button but I am not able to get into it. All I see is Galaxy logo and hear start up music after that with nothing on screen.

OK, I am able to get into recovery mode.. I was trying wrong combinations
Now what should I select I get these options:
1. reboot system now
2. apply sdcard:update.zip (will never do this again)
3. wipe data/factory reset (should I do this)
4. wipe cache partition

yes.. you should do 3.) wipe data. If that doesnt solve your problem, you need to flash firmware agian

somusingh said:
Hello
I am in a great panic mode.
I applied this lagfix : forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7587405&postcount=417 and since I did it I cannot use my phone.
I am not able to start my phone. It shows me Galaxy S logo, and after that I hear the start up music but nothing on the screen (no animation). Pressing hardkeys does not do anything either.
Above all I cannot even enter my recovery mode. When I press volumedown+poweron button, the screen keeps showing me Galaxy S logo and it does not go any further.
Please help me if you know how to getaround.
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Why did you choose to install something not on main page, something obviosuly not very tested and something 2 month old (god knows there are close to ten newer or more tested fixes).
If you can access download mode, than reflash. If not... Well, try the exotic methods (dont know them, as I have working 3 butons)

Hey, for a second I thought it did noy fix my problem as I did not get my animation screen and ony heard music.. But then suddenly it starts up
I think I lost my animation on start up though
I still see that MCR Scripts icon on app loader screen, How could I know if its enabled or disabled?
Thanks a lot guys.. XDA rocks .

dupel said:
Why did you choose to install something not on main page, something obviosuly not very tested and something 2 month old (god knows there are close to ten newer or more tested fixes).
If you can access download mode, than reflash. If not... Well, try the exotic methods (dont know them, as I have working 3 butons)
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I regret doing something like that.. But it was really confusing as there are so many topics on the forum and I was really tempted to solve the lag issue I started facing recently (I installed too many apps).

hey i have the same problem.. my phone goes up into the Samsung logo and hangs there forever, occasionally blinking and making a weird vibration. i've tried factory reset but that doesn't help..
How do i flash firmware again?

glbc said:
hey i have the same problem.. my phone goes up into the Samsung logo and hangs there forever, occasionally blinking and making a weird vibration. i've tried factory reset but that doesn't help..
How do i flash firmware again?
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Read the FAQs
Insanity cm 014/glitch

reflash the rom by odin will solve the problem
make sure your kenel is speedmod if u updated the rom from your sdcad，
enter into recovery ，do the wipe then updated ，disable all lagix ，all this work done u could updated the rom

[q] need help! Black screen on my verizon galaxy tab 7

I tried a flash and think i messed my tab...now its just a black screen with a faint light in the background like its on but its no images.......my battery icon pops up then distorts away and thats it ....can get into download mode but not recovery.....tried holding all 3 buttons got this lil android dude in the corner with a sign sayin something about power reset but cant select nothing......help me please......

Put it in d/l mode and flash one of the stock roms with Heimdall.
D

i tried a stock flash with heimdall it flashed successfully but i still get the SAMSUNG logo that flashes and go away,buttons light up at the bottom,can go in download mode but not reboot mode,phone stay on with a faint light ,so i assume that its on somehow.....help

Did you follow this exactly?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=967175
One thing I missed here before was to wipe data and cache. Otherwise I go into boot loop.

how to get recovery mode
i cant wipe nothing because i cant get to recovery,just download mode

done it step by step
i followed evrything it flashed successfully but when it rebooted i turned off.and tried recovery but nothing......

chubbyflood said:
i followed evrything it flashed successfully but when it rebooted i turned off.and tried recovery but nothing......
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Use UnBrickable Mod
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1341753

Although you get a black screen on boot, it might still be working....
Chubbyflood,
If you are in the same situation as I am then the tab is still working, you are just getting black screen on boot up. It played tricks on me for ages when I was first rooting by tablet; but it turned out it is just the boot up screen that isn't showing.
This is my situation:
-Press and hold Power button to turn on.
-I see the Galaxy Tab / Samsung initial boot image for about 1 second, and also hear the "boot chime"
-Then the screen goes completely blank (but you can tell it is still on with a little light showing.
-The four "hard button" lights will light up briefly a couple times
-Wait approximately 30 seconds to a minute (to be safe and give the tablet time to boot up - it is actually booting up)
-Tab the Power button once, to turn the tablet off (now the screen is clearly off)
-Tab the Power button again, and the tablet will be up and running as normal.
I am guessing the boot animation / images are failing in some way, but the tablet is booting up as normal.
I've just learned to live with it, because I haven't had a chance to figure out what's going on, but it honestly took me a good hour or so, and a few (unnecessary) flashes, before I realized the thing was up and running fine, it just need to have the button pressed on and off.
One final thing to mention; don't have the tablet plugged into anything. I seem to remember leaving it plugged into the PC didn't help (I think).
Hope that makes sense.
Cheers
Ed.

Has your situation been resolved?
I am in the same boat. What I have done to temporarily fix this was to Flash a ROM that uses Hemdall and it will boot as flukebu stated but only with the Galaxy Cubed ROM.
I cannot get the factory files to boot as you have stated.
I have continually tried to return to stock using the files provided on this forum and all "unbrick" posts.
While flashing the stock images everything completes and works well. The device reboots and the Samsung Splash screen appears. Once it appears it disappears and scrambles the screen. I believe it then goes into a bootloop which easily enough I could access factory recovery to correct but when I do attempt to access factory recovery the screen is as posted above (black but illuminated).
Once I flashed Galaxy Cubed ROM and it booted I hit the power button and the locksreen appeared. I can tell you I was excited but there are some issues with that ROM I have not tried to correct yet because my main goal is to return to stock.
Even with this ROM working correctly I have attempted to access CWM once installed to complete a Data Wipe and that does not show up either.
I would really like to find a solution to this I want to return to stock and not have this custom ROM running.

Juiced_RL said:
Has your situation been resolved?
I am in the same boat. What I have done to temporarily fix this was to Flash a ROM that uses Hemdall and it will boot as flukebu stated but only with the Galaxy Cubed ROM.
I cannot get the factory files to boot as you have stated.
I have continually tried to return to stock using the files provided on this forum and all "unbrick" posts.
While flashing the stock images everything completes and works well. The device reboots and the Samsung Splash screen appears. Once it appears it disappears and scrambles the screen. I believe it then goes into a bootloop which easily enough I could access factory recovery to correct but when I do attempt to access factory recovery the screen is as posted above (black but illuminated).
Once I flashed Galaxy Cubed ROM and it booted I hit the power button and the locksreen appeared. I can tell you I was excited but there are some issues with that ROM I have not tried to correct yet because my main goal is to return to stock.
Even with this ROM working correctly I have attempted to access CWM once installed to complete a Data Wipe and that does not show up either.
I would really like to find a solution to this I want to return to stock and not have this custom ROM running.
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Have you found a resolution to this? Mine tab is doing the exact same thing as yours after the cubed rom.

[Q] Slimbean 2.9+ bootloop w/o Powerbutton

I have been running Slimbean 2.8 since it came out, tried to upgrade to 2.9 when it came out and got a bootloop. I saw some where to hold the power button down till the phone shuts off to fix the bootloop, the problem is my power button doesn't work. Thought I would just wait for the next release to come out, so I went to upgrade today to 3.1 and same problem.
It may not actually be a boot loop, but that is the best way I can describe it. It boots the first time and goes through the app initialization then reboots. After that it hangs on the slimbean boot animation.
I have tried pulling the battery and reinstalling, re-wiping dalvik/cache, re-downloading zip. I haven't tried a factory reset(hoping to avoid that).
Any suggestions?
Thanks

WSlinky said:
I have been running Slimbean 2.8 since it came out, tried to upgrade to 2.9 when it came out and got a bootloop. I saw some where to hold the power button down till the phone shuts off to fix the bootloop, the problem is my power button doesn't work. Thought I would just wait for the next release to come out, so I went to upgrade today to 3.1 and same problem.
It may not actually be a boot loop, but that is the best way I can describe it. It boots the first time and goes through the app initialization then reboots. After that it hangs on the slimbean boot animation.
I have tried pulling the battery and reinstalling, re-wiping dalvik/cache, re-downloading zip. I haven't tried a factory reset(hoping to avoid that).
Any suggestions?
Thanks
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Have you tried flashing the ROM, rebooting into recovery and re-flashing it?

I tried that and it didn't fix the problem. However I started doing some playing, since it seemed to boot the 1st time and die after it loaded the apps I figured it was app related. So I formatted datadata and data and re-flashed, everything worked fine after that.
Thanks for the suggestion
Sent from my SGH-I897 using slimbean 3.1

Galaxy exhibit not booting properly

OK so my problem is as stated above. My exhibit boots to the Samsung logo for about 3 seconds then reboots in a continuing sequence. I have tried entering recovery mode with no luck as the phone does not stay on long enough. I am able to boot into download mode however, when i tried restoring the stock firmware nothing happened. Its says that everything went well but the phone keeps rebooting in the same pattern. Though this is no longer my primary phone I would like to get it fixed. Any help is deeply appreciated.

akeem127 said:
OK so my problem is as stated above. My exhibit boots to the Samsung logo for about 3 seconds then reboots in a continuing sequence. I have tried entering recovery mode with no luck as the phone does not stay on long enough. I am able to boot into download mode however, when i tried restoring the stock firmware nothing happened. Its says that everything went well but the phone keeps rebooting in the same pattern. Though this is no longer my primary phone I would like to get it fixed. Any help is deeply appreciated.
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When you get to recovery try hitting the menu button several times with a pause in between. If you can get in, wipe data and you will be good to go.
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cm12 wont enter recovery

hey guys... this morining suddently my z1 turned off... and now it wont boot. The cm face shows up but after 2min it freezes. I tried to enter recovery but it wont happen. The LED turns purple.. i press the vol up button but nothin happen.. the phones starts booting normaly :/
i flashed twrp via fastboot but this was not a solution..
i'm on cm12-2015-01-30... any ideas?

same situation here bro

hmm.. maybe its possible to install cm only via fastboot? special files need?

Read this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3000822
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3002887
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thanks.. but this wont wort for me. The volume up button doesnt bring me into recovery

same here! Cm12 update 31.01. installed, reboot at bootanimation stuck and can´t enter recovery ... will go fastboot

had the same problem....it was a hit and miss for me.....after a lot of tries recovery started rendomly at one.....but i was dumb enough to flash 30/01 nightly again ...then today morning after the hit and miss session when the recovery started....i took my sd card....replaced 30/01 nightly with 28/01 nightly....popped the card back and flashed it....voila...its working now.......hope you find a fix too..

dont know why... yesterday i flashed twrp via fastboot and it didnt work.. today i tried again and it worked! In recovery i wiped dalvik and cache, hit reboot and the system started! yay !
maybe the solution was twrp... philz touch didnt worked.. hope it will work for you guys

When you on Cm12 there is no TWRP it's the new Cyanogenmod Recovery. You can enter it by pressing the volume down and up button after the Sony logo pops up.

Got the same problem, have been trying many different recoveries, no success. Does anyone have a definite fix?

Also the same for me. Cyanogen logo freeze (or sometimes restart phone) and this for the nightly buids of 201500130, 20150131 and lastest 20150202.
I had to do a fresh wipe with an AOSP rom to install again CM12. The first boot was ok after fresh install but on reboot, the problem was getting back.
I'm going to revert to the 20150128 nightly and look out the next changelog to see if a fix will be available.

Okay. Look at the Cyanogenmod page. In the faq they say. "when the light is purple press volume up button" it works every time http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Honami_Info

Z1 wont boot proplerly - cant get into recovery
-Happy Feet- said:
Okay. Look at the Cyanogenmod page. In the faq they say. "when the light is purple press volume up button" it works every time
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I've been trying that for days, and it very rearely works (mayvbe 2 or 3 rimes in as many days). My phone is in a real bad way - about 99.99% of the time its just stuck on the CM boot logo. Very occasionally I can get into recovery, but in order to get into my OS, I actually have to reflash CM. Simple boot from recovery never works.
I've tried installing fotaZ1_2.8.4.img (as suggested by a user on another thread) from fastboot, but can only get into that very rarely too.
I've also tried flashing the boot.img from the last few CM nightlies, but once again no joy.
This is getting real bad, as I've spent days reading threads on here and reflashing / resetting the phone! In fact my fingers are aching from stabbing at those damn power and volume buttons!
If anyone could please help or suggest a solution, I'd be eternally grateful. CM 12 is freaking great...when . if it works... ;-p
cheers
[edit]
Managed to get into TWRP, so decided to just wipe the phone completely, including int SD card. Thankfully TWRP has a file manager, so I could copy my stuff to my ext SD beforehand. Reflashed cm12-20150202 and it seems to be ok now. Done 3 or 4 test shutdowns, as well as reboots and its been booting ok so far. Getting into recovery still seems to be a bit touch and go though, but I can live with that for the time being I guess.

Any news here? I can't get into recovery mode, and my phone is now effectively "bricked".
-Happy Feet- said:
When you on Cm12 there is no TWRP it's the new Cyanogenmod Recovery. You can enter it by pressing the volume down and up button after the Sony logo pops up.
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I upgraded from CM11 to a CM12 nightly (the one with the broken boot animation that hangs). Before upgrading I had TWRP, and could boot into recovery by holding volume down while turning on the phone. This is not working any more. Have tried a lot of different combinations, but nothing seems to work.
Please, if anyone can help, give me a tip.
Btw: my led never lights up, only after a few seconds, the Sony logo shows, then the broken boot animations starts.

What worked for me was to only press volume-up after the Sony logo had appeared and the LED shows purple briefly. I then cleared cache and dalvik and was able to boot.
I already had fotaZ1_2.8.4.img installed, and had rebooted one of the affected CM12 nightlies.

idle1 said:
Any news here? I can't get into recovery mode, and my phone is now effectively "bricked".
I upgraded from CM11 to a CM12 nightly (the one with the broken boot animation that hangs). Before upgrading I had TWRP, and could boot into recovery by holding volume down while turning on the phone. This is not working any more. Have tried a lot of different combinations, but nothing seems to work.
Please, if anyone can help, give me a tip.
Btw: my led never lights up, only after a few seconds, the Sony logo shows, then the broken boot animations starts.
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you can enter recovery when you boot the Phone, plugin USB Cable and when the LED shows purple then hold the volume up button, that worked for me.
btw. Bootloop: flash the rom.zip again then it boots. after that install from playstore this Bootanimation: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.appublic.cyanogenboot and install this animation. After that boot work fine and you can flash new updates without issue

Thank you very much, both of you. I could not get any of your tips to work, though this morning the strangest thing happened. When i got up, I suddenly heard the alarm ringing from my Z1. It was booted and seemed ok. I have no idea how it booted...
Anyway, now it's working again with todays nightly. Thanks again.
btw: I can now enter the new recovery (twrp is replaced by a CM one) by tapping vol-up while the Sony logo is showing. Rebooting directly into recovery from the OS does not work.