So recently I got my sister's old phone and now I'm trying to put KitKat on it( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2579431) but there is something really wrong with this phone. I bricked this phone a long ago while trying to put cyanogenmod on and now I'm wondering what the hell did the repairs man do to this phone.
1. Doesn't have a recovery mode, all combinations are leading to download mode.
2. When trying to factory reset from settings menu it shuts down and starts bootlooping.
3. When booting up the phone and then deleting all downloaded apps and changing settings, after a restart everything is back to the way it was.
4. Tried everything to get Cwm on it but simply can't get the drivers for download mode to flash with Odin.
I'm not so experienced with this kind of stuff and maybe someone can help me.
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OK guys I really badly need some help. My phone is in a non-workable state and I am starting to run out of options.
I did some mistakes but I will try to take out the details to list mostly the fact, hoping someone will take the time to give me directions.
- I have a galaxy s I9000 (switzerland/orange)
- I had upgraded to 2.2 via Kies.
- I got tired of the phone becoming increasingly slow. I found out about voodoo lag fix. I read 3000 forum posts, documentation and stuff, and when everything seemd easy enough, I installed voodoo via Odin.
- Here problems started. After installing voodoo, the phone booted, but the robot voice said "convert data partition. Not enough space on partition". Then again. And again. It was stuck in a boot loop. This problem doesn't seem to be documented anywhere i could find. The only instructions I could find on how to disable voodoo were to create some files on the disk, not very helpful when you can't boot the phone.
- I found a couple of threads with people who had the same message, and the advice their were given was to flash another rom.
- So I went to samfirmware.com and downloaded 2.2.1 for I9000 (JS8). I installed it through Odin. The phone booted, showed me the Galaxy S screen, then went black. Then it would vibrate every 20 seconds or so. Once, then 3 times in a row. I waited 30 minutes because in some places it said that may take long, but the situation didn't change. I rebooted, tried again after taking about the battery, wiped data, reset factory settings etc. The phone state wouldn't change, and I started to get a little desperate, because this was a stock rom, and if that didn't work...
- I read 3000 more threads, and phone a guy who had been in this situation, and got out of it by first installing "Eugene's JK2 froyo that never bricks" and then after wards reinstalling the stock rom.
- So I installed Eugene's rom. I knew it was trouble that it was a vibrant's rom, but I figured, I had read everywhere that as long as your phone supported download mode you could still always re-flash a new rom, so I decided give it a try.
- And the phone booted. Asked my pin, loaded stock android and all. I was happy at first, but then new trouble came. Now, whenever I plug in the USB, the phone's screen goes black after 4-5 seconds. When I unplug it, phone reboots. No charging battery appears when I plug the turned off phone on the charger.
- And worst of all, the buttons got mixed up. Vol up is vol down now. But more of a problem, 3 button recovery and 3 button download mode don't work anymore. I couldn't find a way to get them back. So I can't flash a new rom with Odin :-/.
- My latest was to install rom manager since I can access the market. I downloaded the tedgy rom. Installed the "clockwork recovery mode" from Rom Manager. It asked me if I had I9000 or vibrant, wasn't sure what it expected since I have now a vibrant rom on an I9000, but I put in I9000. Then I reboot telling rom manager to install Tedgy. I get a recovery mode screen which offers to reboot/reinstall packages/wipe data, then does a couple of operations, and finally gets stuck on :
can't open /cache/update.zip
(bad)
installation aborted
So there I go, with a vibrant rom on my I9000 (rooted, at least), a phone that can boot a half-functionnal android, but with a useless cable plug, an unchargeable battery, and a download mode I couldn't find... And waiting for my wife to get back with her phone so I can charge my battery again...
Any help or lead to help me get another rom installed on this phone again would be *greatly* appreciated. What other ways do I have to access download mode ? Or is there a way to get to it despite my buttons being messed up ? Maybe the rom manager issue can be fixed ?
OK well I got out of it somehow.
In case someone else had this same issue, here's how I got out of it :
1) Install ADB.
2) launch Odin
3) go to adb folder in command line and type "adb reboot download" but no enter just yet.
4) plug the usb cable on the phone.
5) type enter in the adb shell in the small window of opportunity you have before the screen goes blank. This reboots the download mode and allows new flashing via odin.
Any answer for this thread?
Did you fix the problem?
I'm stuck with the same case...
I can't turn on the donwload mode, reboot to system, even flash something.
Any ideas?
you have to fix bootloader,maybe you must use JTAG box for it.good luck
Problem solved
OK. I "magically" rebooted to download mode and flashed cwm via odin.
In the morning I was hurrying and didn't write everything here. The recovery was working, the theme was for bigger resolution and I've just seen part of the screen. Before I chose in ROM Manager to reboot to twrp so everytime it booted, it was the twrp. I took out the battery, then put it again, turned the phone on and hold the combination of buttons to get to dwnld mode. I hold it and hold and after 3 reboots I've seen the dwnld mode screen. I was never so happy
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I hope you learned a lesson here today. You cant just flash sh*t to your phone.
The "soft brick" is maybe my new tradition. Earlier I had SE X10MP and I've also softbricked it. That was my 1. Android phone and I didn't know how to fix it. After some time I knew much more about Android and my device. Then I noticed that I could fix it myself. In service they just reflashed the soft. That was everything xd
Hello.
I was playing around a bit, and made a bad decision on disabling a sys app, with a root uninstaller app.
Now my phone starts up, but stays on the 'samsung' splash-screen.
My home doesn't seem to get loaded, so its stuck there.
I do, however, get notification sounds from text-messages and push-services.
My phone is rooted, but had no recovery installed, neither did I run busybox.
Not sure wether it runs 4.1.1 or 4.1.2, but I guess 4.1.1 because there's no intern recovery I can activate...
I tried flashing the recovery package with odin, still can't seem to get inside recovery... (Yes I can get into Download Mode)
I tried to reboot into the recovery via adb, but my phone - logically - doesn't respond to those.
Apparently, my USB Debug is not activated also... The phone connects, but I can't even do something with tools like GS3 Mini Toolkit.
Kies doesn't seem to connect either (even when the phone is on)... probably services that don't get started due to a battery saver app...
Long Story Short
Is there a rom & kernel, that can fully wipe my phone, via Odin, cause Download Mode seems to be my only option in recovering my phone.
Or any solutions that you could come up with.. because I already tested so much things,
and it's still stuck on the samsung 'lighting up' logo and a black screen.
The phone is for work & personal use... and I don't have the option to replace it atm.
I really need to get it working again... it was the only smartphone I ever had a decent battery life with (avg. 2.5days)
Thanks in advance!
- Fixed, I got into recovery mode, I forgot to stop pushing the powerbutton... so it rebooted. YAY :highfive:
Hello,
I've been rooted for a few months now and have never had any problems. I wanted to use that Milk Music app from Samsung so I followed the instructions and was able to get it working on my phone and have been for awhile. I recently decided it would be a good idea to change the build.prop file back to its original state, so I copied and pasted it in using Root Browser. (I had made a backup file stored elsewhere). Once I did that I rebooted my phone for the changes to take effect. After I did that I cannot get my phone to turn back on. It displays the LG animated logo screen and then goes completely black. The light on top of the phone radiates blue/green. I've read through several forums about this issue and have tried everything in order to get it to work and for some reason, using my computer and ADB always gives me an error: device not found. I have installed the drivers and everything. Anyone else run in to this problem before? I would really appreciate it.
If you are on stock rom, just rooted. I would think you should be able to factory reset through stock recovery.
Confirm the process but i think you power completely off. Then hold volume down and power at the same time when you see the lg logo release both buttons then press both buttons and hold them.
Should take you to factory reset.
Not 100% certain but this will probably be your next step if you can't get a computer to see it.
Good luck
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The factory data reset didn't really change anything. For some reason I cannot boot into recovery mode either. I can put it in download mode though, but my computer still has a problem recognizing it.
brody_low said:
The factory data reset didn't really change anything. For some reason I cannot boot into recovery mode either. I can put it in download mode though, but my computer still has a problem recognizing it.
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If you can get into dl mode then you should be able to return it to stock which should reset everything. Returning to stock has its own downside but at least you'll be up and running again.
Hey guys
Samsung Galaxy Mini 5570 is a pretty old device now and definitely not worth to talk about, but It's for my aunt and she said i HAVE to fix it otherwise she will kick my butt.
This is the whole story:
Phone was running a very low android version (it was 2.1 or something) that i could barely install apps on it (Just installed WhatsApp), I decided to upgrade it to a higher version so i could install other applications like Line and Telegram for her, so basically i had to flash CWM file first because it was required, I flashed it using this link:
http://www.droidthunder.com/root-install-clockworkmod-cwm-recovery-samsung-galaxy-minipop-gt-s5570/
They said flash the cwm file and factory reset your phone but i flashed the cwm file and rebooted my phone without factory reset, everything was working fine :good: but i decided to follow the instruction so i rebooted into the recovery mode and factory reseted my phone (by my phone i mean her phone, but i'm gonna say my phone instead) and guess what, it never booted up again. stuck on Samsung logo.
But i could go into the download and recovery mode, so basically i followed this instruction:
http://www.droidthunder.com/update-samsung-galaxy-minipop-gt-s5570-android-4-2-1-cyanogenmod-10-1/
which is from the same guy, I flashed it using recovery mode and flashed gapps too, everything went normal without any errors. So i rebooted my phone and ............
a black screen poped up, I was really worried because i couldn't boot my phone, nor could i go into the recovery or download mode. I don't know if i could or not but the only thing I'm getting right now is a black screen or a backlight.
The only thing that seems to be working is when i hold Power+Volume UP button, my laptop can detect my phone (as Samsung CDMA Technologies) but can not flash anything using Odin, it stucks on "setup connection" message. Nothing else is working, I tried:
Home+power+volume down
Home+power+volume down+volume up
Power+volume down
Power+home
etc
I also tried a hundred different ways like completely uninstalling the drivers (with or without kies) pulling battery out, try those key combination while battery is out and reinsert battery while holding them but nothing is working.
I found this article yesterday which is for unbricking the hard bricked phones, but ADB can not detect my phone:
http://www.engineerthink.com/blog/2015/11/how-to-unbrick-hard-bricked-android-phone/
Please help me guys, And do not suggest me to take it in Customer Service because i would if i could.
Thanks in advance