I'm not exactly sure what happened, I installed the recovery and then tried to load a ROM, the rom didn't work so the recovery aborted it. Now I can't use my phone other than in recovery mode, when I start it I get a bunch of coloured blocks show. Is there a way to flash a bin without actually having the phone on as normal mode, will the acer tool work if i enable the usb from the recovery?
Ok so I have been looking around for two days now and have not been able to find an answer to my problem. I've even searched and tried everything on these forums so please don't ask me to google or use the forums search.
I've got a Bell Canada Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000M, it was working fine a few days ago and I picked it up to check my messages and it was frozen. After a few minutes I pulled the battery and went to restart the phone.
The phone will now only show the Samsung Galaxy S white logo and simply restart itself and play that logo over and over. If the phone is plugged into the wall it will show the battle charge logo briefly and than restart to the logo. It will go no further than this point.
I have tried to do a factory reset via Home + Power + Vol Up but it seems to reset itself before it will actually load into that menu. Home + Power + Vol Dn will bring me to the download screen which is stable and will not reset the phone.
This is where it gets strange, I have tried Odin and a 100% stock flash on the phone with no luck the phone just sits resetting. After a download of DarkyROM it will actually load the white Galaxy S logo along with the DarkyROM logo and simply go back to resetting.
So the phone is clearly in some state of a working order able to download and accept ROMs but just keeps restarting itself after the white initial Galaxy S logo.
Any and all help would be appreciated! I hope I have explained this problem well enough, maybe it is in need of being brought to a shop to be fixed? Just happens that the warranty expired last week, almost seems coincidental.
Thanks!
After you installed DarkyRom (or any other ROM with CWM), did you try re-entering the recovery menu? Perhaps you will now be able to enter recovery?
tptp said:
After you installed DarkyRom (or any other ROM with CWM), did you try re-entering the recovery menu? Perhaps you will now be able to enter recovery?
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No, after the install of the ROM it would load up the white galaxy logo along with the DarkyROM logo and than just go back to resetting itself over and over. I could still go back to to the download but not access the reset menu.
Knagar said:
No, after the install of the ROM it would load up the white galaxy logo along with the DarkyROM logo and than just go back to resetting itself over and over. I could still go back to to the download but not access the reset menu.
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run through My Android Solutions, link below and do the first step after that to immediately to recovery or download mode , than flash a rescue or resurrection kit from My Android collections, link below, all this done without sim card or exts SD card inserted
None of this has worked, I have tried every trick I can find on the net but I can't seem to get it to go.
As before the phone will go into download mode, will accept roms and so on as shown by the DarkyROM logo showing up and going away with the removal of it.
After every attempt I am still not able to get into recovery mode but am still able to access download mode. The phone seems to be in some state of working order but continues to reset itself only when turned on but will run stable in download mode.
ADB doesn't see the device and even if it did I think it would still just reboot once it started into recovery.
It's almost as if the phone starts and after it shows the starting Galaxy S GT I9000 it just turns itself off for some reason
Is their any way to totally reformat the phone and start 100% from scratch without getting into recovery to do factory reset?
Step by step instructions on what to do and download for Odin would be fantastic. I am still not sure 100% on what the PIT/Bootloader/PDA/Phone/CSC are or do so the files I need to put in those and a good explanation would be great!
This happens sometime. To fix, Do this.
1. Boot into download mode.
2. Flash stock ginger bread with Odin using 512 pit.
3. Now boot into recovery and wipe data/factory reset.
4. Boot again into download mode.
5. Flash devil or semaphore kernel.
5a note. Your phone doesn't need to be able to boot. All we need is recovery mode.
6. Boot into the new recovery and wipe data/factory reset.
7. Format /system.
8. Flash ROM / gapps etc.
9. Boot with success.
10. Happy dance time, brings good luck.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using xda premium
Knagar said:
Step by step instructions on what to do and download for Odin would be fantastic. I am still not sure 100% on what the PIT/Bootloader/PDA/Phone/CSC are or do so the files I need to put in those and a good explanation would be great!
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ok, try flashing a gingerbread Ezboot loader, visit My Android collections, link below, has complete guide at download page
Well I've tried both suggestions with no luck. I am starting to think it's some sort of hardware problem which I can't understand because it is 100% stable and won't reset in download mode. It will accept ROMs and so on but instantly just starts to restart itself after the first logo is shown. No work around will let me into recovery mode and no method I have found so far will just reload how the phone boots. I guess it's time for a new phone eh chaps?
Knagar said:
Well I've tried both suggestions with no luck.
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hmm, its strange..anyway, you should remove SIM Card and Ext SD card, and try to use any tool from My Android Collection, to format the Internal SD card and flash a 2e recovery to see , if you can get your recovery back or even a i9000 rescue kit would be good to go after formating your Internal SD card
Formatting you Internal SD card, will resolve any settings, data, delvik cache etc that would be the cause of your initial problem.. there are formatting tools as well a recovery tools that can be used to achieve this
Did u flash the correct stock firmware for ur I9000M? try this http://www.hotfile.com/dl/162558059/7efd7bc/I9000UGKG3_I9000BMCKG3_VMC.zip.html.
Source : http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=3&model=GT-I9000M&pcode=0&os=1&type=1#firmware
Ok progress is being made, first I used Odin to load I9000UGKG3-I9000BMCKG3_VMC in the PDA slot without doing a reboot. Then I loaded JPK_Root_Recovery_2e using just the i9000_Kernel and was able to boot recovery.
After doing a Wipe Cache and then Factory reset the phone went back to a boot loop and I was unable to get back to the recovery menu.
After repeating the first steps I am once again in the recovery mode with no boot loot but am unsure as to where to go from here.
Currently the screen reads
Android system recovery <2e>
Samsung Recovery Utils
- for BML -
reboot system now
apply sdcard:update.zip
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache
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E: Invalid command argument
-- Install from package...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
# Manual Mode #
--Appling Multi-CSC...
Installing Multi-CSC
multicsc : src /system/csc/BMC/system/ .
*EDIT* Seems once you restart from the recovery mode it goes right back to a boot loop, was not able to apply the SD card update either. So getting to recovery is currently a one time deal without having to go back and reload VMC and 2e. Once restarted all is lost.
You will need to flash another firmware with 3 file method @odin. Search on this forum a firmware and flash it!
Don't worry, u can't brick your phone that easily. I flashed my phone 10times in a day, for boot loops, when i tried to upgrade to 4.0.4
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Ok so this time I used Odin to do VMC in the PDA slot, then I9000 Kernel went back to VMC and loaded that then when I restarted the phone it went back to the same boot loop.
I have no way to clear the internal SD or anything like that because the programs will not see my phone connected to my PC.
What could be causing my phone to just continue to restart?
Knagar said:
Ok so this time I used Odin to do VMC in the PDA slot, then I9000 Kernel went back to VMC and loaded that then when I restarted the phone it went back to the same boot loop.
I have no way to clear the internal SD or anything like that because the programs will not see my phone connected to my PC.
What could be causing my phone to just continue to restart?
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I gave u a source, download the guide on flashing through odin. It should work. Dun flash 1 file by 1 file.
EDIT : u can find more firmwares here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102881&page=1
Pm me if you need any help!
Ok so here is where I am at..
I have tried everything everyone has listed so far. The only think that has made any sort of progress at the moment is going into download mode, connecting to the USB after loading Odin. Using JPK_Root_Recovery_2e I9000_Kernel.tar will bring me to the recovery screen.
wipe cache partition + reboot = boot loop
wipe cache partition + wipe data/factory reset + restart = boot loop
wipe data/factory reset + restart = boot loop
Any of the above mentioned plus loading stock firmware results in a boot loop.
Any of the above mentioned plus loading DarkyROM Resurrection 10.2 will again show the Galaxy S I9000 Logo plus the DarkyROM logo and proceed to boot loop.
Clear cache and factory reset than load of i9000XXJVT pit/pda/modem/csc results in boot loop.
If I am missing something please explain in detail and not shunt me off to some other page.
As before I have tried everything mentioned with no luck at getting past this boot loop. Clearly the phone is able to accept roms and so on so the internel SD seems to be ok but the boot sequence seems scrambled. Strange that it will boot to download and boot to recovery with JPK but upon restart it just boot loops and without Odin and JPK I can only get back to download mode.
Seems to me you also have some partition woes. Try to find an older rom (Milky's worked for me) that requires re-partitioning to be done. Flash via ODIN, wait for 10-15 mins for whole process to complete. CWM flash any rom from there ... (Darky's Extreme also repartitions)
Good afternoon, I am currently running a 7310 and have tried everything to try and unbrick my device. The only thing I can do is get into download mode and can flash everything in there. I have tried stock ROMS, stock recovery, added a p5_0614.pit file, added the proper bootloader......however I consistently get the SAMSUNGTAB8.9 logo hanging and doesn't go any further. If I try recovery with stock or CWM it just simply goes to a blank screen. If I use TWRP then it launches but it cant find E: it won't mount Data just system. APX is recognised and NvFlash works but from there I have no idea where to go.
Any help would be greatly appreciated thank you
when I did it go into bootloader but it could not go into download mode, i know how to restore back to stock rom unroot. i rooted it using towelroot then flashed wrong recovery but recovery worked, it was on 6.0.0.0 something. When I try to go into fastboot and it say "loading" top of screen and tap volume up to continue, nothing moving foward into download mode.
Please Help.
Pull battery? Enter recovery (or flash new recovery.img in fastboot). If this doesn't help, try kdz.
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Pull battery? Enter recovery (or flash new recovery.img in fastboot). If this doesn't help, try kdz.
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I will try it when I get home, already did battery pull, that did not do it. So I was thinking doing lg tool to update firmware then downgrade later.
Where do I can find this recovery IMG? Custom recovery or stock recovery?
Thanks for replying.
Custom : see thread from cm11, @Quarx, twrp or cwm. @shoxxy has latest twrp
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when I did it go into bootloader but it could not go into download mode, i know how to restore back to stock rom unroot. i rooted it using towelroot then flashed wrong recovery but recovery worked, it was on 6.0.0.0 something. When I try to go into fastboot and it say "loading" top of screen and tap volume up to continue, nothing moving foward into download mode.
Please Help.
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When making this kind of post, ALWAYS include the device model you are speaking of. There are 4 different models of the LG L90. From your location, I'll guess that you have the LG-D415 model.
From what I'm reading, you are NOT in fastboot mode but Software Update Mode. You MUST zero out the LAF partition in order to enable fastboot on the device. Also, fastboot and download modes are one in the same.
And what exactly are you trying to do? If your recovery is your issue, you can go here and scroll down to post #4 and download a flashable version of TWRP which can be flashed with the recovery you already have. Once flashed, find an option in your current recovery to "Reboot Recovery". It's probably in the "Advanced" menu. This will unload the current recovery from memory and load and execute the new recovery.
You also may want to have a look at the Frequently Asked Questions - LG Optimus L90 thread.
Well I messed up big time, no os installed, But device stills works were able to see download mode with numbers beside left screen not on second screen with bars.
Able to go in Twrp but it keep saying failed when i flash stock rom (remounting problem?).
Device I battery pull and put battery in and able to see LG logo then it went into CWM recovery itself then I selected Recovery reboot from CWM leaded me to TWRP recovery.
Tried to flash using lgtool2014 but flashing stock rom bars hasn't moved kept saying replug usb and retry.
Good News! I got it to work again!
Searching many website homework endless hours and I got my phone to work again. I was not panic I had nexus 6 with me, so I had a experience previous devices rooting.
Anyway, I went through to unlock bootloader and then I reboot the phone into TWRP recovery and flashed stock.zip sucessfully, unmounting was failed. Clicked reboot phone and LG logo appears stayed for like few sec then starting seeing tmobile boot up and everything seem well. gonna root again to see if i get any of this to work.
This is my 1st Samsung device and I'm coming from a LG.
LG phones typically have a "Download Mode" separate from the recovery boot. Its a useful tool that can reflash the phone to stock conditions, even if you managed to somehow mess up the rom and the recovery. As long as you could get into Download mode, you'd always recover from any brick.
So does Samsung or Galaxy S6 have anything like this? Or is it rooting and recovery flashing as normal and pray the recovery never fails...
Chocolina said:
This is my 1st Samsung device and I'm coming from a LG.
LG phones typically have a "Download Mode" separate from the recovery boot. Its a useful tool that can reflash the phone to stock conditions, even if you managed to somehow mess up the rom and the recovery. As long as you could get into Download mode, you'd always recover from any brick.
So does Samsung or Galaxy S6 have anything like this? Or is it rooting and recovery flashing as normal and pray the recovery never fails...
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Samsung has a download mode as well, which is contained in your secondary boot-loader. You can access it via "adb reboot download" or from a power-off state holding: power, vol_dn, and home buttons down until you see the download mode warning text (you may have to release power a bit before the other two if the phone keeps rebooting just as you see download mode come up).
Thank you!