I installed MIUI 1.6.17 on my captivate yesterday and I've been having serious problems with it. I can't receive phone calls, the home button doesn't work, there is no lock screen, and I can't boot into any other rom or restore any of my backups. I tried master resetting the phone, but it did nothing. When I rebooted all my apps, settings, etc were still there as if I never reset it. I tried reflashing the rom but nothing has worked and I keep rebooting to the same problem filled phone. The same goes for flashing other roms. I tried flashing a different rom with no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Can you get into DL mode? If so use this to go back to stock eclair.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
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Please use the proper sticky for ROM-specific questions.
As miami said, please use the sticky. On that note, thread closed.
Hi everyone
Thanks for everyone's support before. It gave some confidance.
It doesn't work though. It's starts updating and then reboot with the message "Update failed, try using Kies, or go to Samsung service centre".
I removed root it didn't help. I got CWD flashed. Could that be a problem.
Could I get rid if it just to be able to uodate?
Need some help here. Kies seems dodgy judging by the posts.
Thanks in advance.
You need stock recovery if you want to update the official way.
What do I do
Could you explain to me what to do please. And should I mess with Kies. Or it wouldn't work either?
Or may be I could just flash it with Odin? Do you know where I could get
the latest Honeycomb flashable file? Since I already have CWM. And everything from xda seems to work. I just thought mabe just ODIN that update if I could get it.
Stock recovery means that I would need to get rid of CWM. How could I do it please?
Surprisingly enough I managed to get back to stock recovery. The Guide in this forum is amazing. I was scared stiff since i never done it before. It went well but still the update doesn't work. No root. No CWM. Still stops and reboots.
Anyone any ideas please?
Exactly what are you trying to do? You want the latest stock rom? Yes, you can flash it with Odin, there's a guide for that also.
I think it worked. I flashed a stock recovery with Odin. And then updated with Kies. It went down rather well. I sleepless night and all that stress just to see that I liked HC 3.1 better. Especially the dock bar that I could swipe before. And now I have to hit a stupid mini triangle.
Anyway, learnt quite a lot. Used Odin for for the first time and CWM. Cool.
It crashed already twice. Could it be because of installing too mush stuff too quickly? I'm just too impatient to get it back on the road. Like over a 20 apps at the rate of 2 or 3 at a time. Or is it supposed to be able to take it and sth is wrong with the ROM?
Cheers
Nobody cares probably but I'd just like to thank everybody who replied to
my posts. Everything seems to work now. I think it's better. Ebook in the update rom reads French now. Which is handy. That's life, as far as the fact that I bought Moonreader goes. Google play did a wierd thing that I didn't ask for but It saved me about 5 hours. It just backed up, finaly that feature worked, 95% of my apps and then automaticly reinstalled them after a crash and a factory reset. So now I have to sort out the sleep debt.
Love this forum even more now.
Oh and the Guide is ****ing brilliant.
I attempted to root my SGS (which had stock Gingerbread Value 2.3.6) using a guide on the Snappyguides blogspot page (the system won't let me, as a newbie, post the URL).
Odin did its thing and then the Samsung Galaxy screen came up (just the white lettering, not the multicoloured animated S) and then... nothing. It just stayed like that for about five seconds, then the white Samsung Galaxy S came up again, then the blank screen ad infinitum.
I can access the download screen and I can access the recovery screen (which does seem to indicate that ClockworkMod v2.5.1.0 has been installed). The trouble is that none of the options seem to do anything.
I have tried searching the forum for similar problems and have read the sticky. The only answers I seem to have been able to find so far suggest flashing a new Rom.
Before I go this far, is flashing a new Rom really necessary in this instance? I have never done this procedure before, so I'm wary of messing things up even further. But obviously if the phone is past the point of no return as far as the stock Rom is concerned, then that'll be what I have to do.
I'd appreciate some advice before doing anything else to my phone though.
I now seem to be able to get the recovery menu options to respond, so maybe all is not lost. Have set it to root and it's currently converting to EXT4 and is about halfway through that.
I'm hoping once that's done, it'll be bootable.
If not, what do I need to do to make the SGS boot again? Is there any way of getting back to stock or can I only flash a stock rom back on?
Nope, still not booting. It just keeps going to the Samsung I9000 white lettering, stays there for five seconds, goes blank for five seconds, then the white lettering goes back and on, off like that forever.
So... anyone willing to help?
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have a look in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1225879
Lexrsk said:
have a look in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1225879
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Thanks for responding.
Sorry for being a n00b but I can't find anything in there that helps me. All I see is a lot of jargon about various roms, kernels and something called Voodoo.
I had a working phone with Gingerbread 2.3.6 Value. I added Clockworkmod via Odin. Now I can't get the phone to boot beyond the splash screen. It doesn't even get as far as the animated S, all I get is the splash screen going on and off every few seconds.
All I want is to get my phone working again, I really couldn't care less about custom roms etc.
If anyone can help this poor n00b, I'd be very grateful!
Incidentally, I've downloaded what I understand to be the factory rom for JW4 from sammobile.com - this is a 171MB zip file with just two files inside - a tar file called JW4_JW5_JW4 and a dll file called SS_DL.dll. I'm not really sure what to do with these to restore my phone via Odin. This is the kind of thing I need help with - the threads I've read so far don't make much sense to a poor confused n00b I'm afraid.
evilcartman2 said:
Thanks for responding.
Sorry for being a n00b but I can't find anything in there that helps me. All I see is a lot of jargon about various roms, kernels and something called Voodoo.
I had a working phone with Gingerbread 2.3.6 Value. I added Clockworkmod via Odin. Now I can't get the phone to boot beyond the splash screen. It doesn't even get as far as the animated S, all I get is the splash screen going on and off every few seconds.
All I want is to get my phone working again, I really couldn't care less about custom roms etc.
If anyone can help this poor n00b, I'd be very grateful!
Incidentally, I've downloaded what I understand to be the factory rom for JW4 from sammobile.com - this is a 171MB zip file with just two files inside - a tar file called JW4_JW5_JW4 and a dll file called SS_DL.dll. I'm not really sure what to do with these to restore my phone via Odin. This is the kind of thing I need help with - the threads I've read so far don't make much sense to a poor confused n00b I'm afraid.
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I'll help u, I went through this when I was a noob and because I didn't know about xda I had to just figure a way out, I am sorry to say but u have soft bricked your phone, luckily its not hard to unbrick, here's a link to a post i made the other day with proper guides that I use often and they are noob friendly, the files u need to download are there but it 2.3.3 and it JW4 but it will be a start to get ur phone back to life,
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Here the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25572245
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OK, thanks for that. I'm supposed to be asleep right now, so I'll come back to this later but thanks for helping.
But just to clarify for now - this will restore the phone to a working version of 2.3.3 and from there I can get back to the latest stock rom (2.3.6) via Kies, yes? I need to get into Kies anyway to restore my contacts from backups (as I haven't yet seen a way of restoring the backups except via Kies).
Thanks once again.
evilcartman2 said:
OK, thanks for that. I'm supposed to be asleep right now, so I'll come back to this later but thanks for helping.
But just to clarify for now - this will restore the phone to a working version of 2.3.3 and from there I can get back to the latest stock rom (2.3.6) via Kies, yes? I need to get into Kies anyway to restore my contacts from backups (as I haven't yet seen a way of restoring the backups except via Kies).
Thanks once again.
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Yip I guess that is right. I have never tried it but yes it should work
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Well, I did get it working again in the end by using a factory rom. Thanks for your help anyway, W1nst0n.
I do intend to attempt to root it again but this time I intend to do it properly.
Any suggestions on what may have caused the boot problem I had? Perhaps using a version of ClockworkMod that was incompatible with 2.3.6 Value?
evilcartman2 said:
Well, I did get it working again in the end by using a factory rom. Thanks for your help anyway, W1nst0n.
I do intend to attempt to root it again but this time I intend to do it properly.
Any suggestions on what may have caused the boot problem I had? Perhaps using a version of ClockworkMod that was incompatible with 2.3.6 Value?
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Yeah that or the wrong root file for ur baseband
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evilcartman2 said:
Well, I did get it working again in the end by using a factory rom. Thanks for your help anyway, W1nst0n.
I do intend to attempt to root it again but this time I intend to do it properly.
Any suggestions on what may have caused the boot problem I had? Perhaps using a version of ClockworkMod that was incompatible with 2.3.6 Value?
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Check in about phone for the kernel version. for example mine is 2.6.35.7-I9000TDVJV6-CL530973
The important part is the bold text.
search the link that i posted earlier for a odin version and flash as PDA
Good luck
Evilcartman, when u wanna get me help find me on the I9000 q&a-ask me anything I got the answer thread, it where I spend most of my time.
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So sorry for having to ask ... I have managed to get my One (ATT) version stuck in a boot loop. I cannot seem to find anything to restore from in CWM and the only thing on the SD card currently is the custom ROM I was attempting to flash ... I really don't know how to fix this, if anyone could help me I'd really appreciate it. I did some searching around and haven't found a solution to my specific problem, even though others have soft bricked theirs, it seems their fix was much more simple than mine.
I'd love to help, can you explain what rom you were flashing and what went wrong? Did it get stuck in aroma installer?
You should always perform a nandroid backup before doing anything for future reference.
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Thanks for the quick reply. I was flashing Android Revolution HD. However, when it was complete I attempted to use Titanium Backup to restore my contacts etc. Apparently the ROM didn't like some of the things I attempted to restore as it conflicted. Like Blink Feed didn't work any longer, just a blank screen where it once was. I decided I would try and re-load the rom again via CWM and went through the wipe process. However, before I went through that I believe I accidentially unrooted the phone by selecting fastboot? Before I got into recovery. Now, if I try to re-load Android Revolution ROM .zip via CWM, it will become unresponsive halfway through the installation. I am pretty sure CWM re-rooted my phone for me as I saw a message asking if I would like to do so and I selected yes. So as of now, I'm just stuck and unaware of what I need to do to fix it =(
Ok so, me messing up and not thinking that Samsung devices would be so difficult to root compared to others, I tried downgrading my Note 3 from 4.4.2 to 4.3 in Odin. I used 3.09. Something had happened where I thought everything was fine but now it only boots up to the screen that says "Samsung Galaxy Note 3" and nothing more before Vibrating 2 times and starting over. I can go into download mode and if I try recovery it says recovery but when I let go of the button need to do so nothing happens but a boot back to the first screen. What did I do or need to do to get back to stock 4.4.2? I have tried everything but maybe not the right combo of things. Please I know that a answer may be in a thread from way back when but this is asap. I need it for tomorrow and have been working on it and researching it for 12 hours now before posting. Thanks in advance/.
Not to kick your head while you're drowning but a little more searching before rooting that 4.4.2 att note 3 could've saved you going to best buy to reflash the official firmware. It is unrootable at the moment. Also check out a thread by carl1961. It would get you booting again but it wouldnt be the official firmware.
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