Hi XDA community,
I need urgent help!
Problem:
My Xiaomi Mi 3 WCDMA freezes when booting up. First the "MI" logo appears, after that the "android" logo on the bottom too (the last step before the lockscreen comes up), but then nothing happens. It just remains like this as if it was freezed...
What I've done:
I disabled the host files in the app "Adaway" because I wanted to click on a commercial link. I didn't reboot at that time, although it was recommended from the app itself. Then I enabled the whole app again and rebooted eventually.
Now I've the described problem.
I still can get into CWM and bootloader and so I wiped cache and dalvik cache, but it didn't help. The last thing I want to do is to preform data/factory reset, because I have no backups at all. Neither from the internal SD card (the device only has an internal), nor from any apps (Whatsapp etc.).
Do you guys have any ideas/solutions? It's the last hope I have...
Best regards,
Prolution
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I had my phone randomly soft brick today and I was wondering if someone might be able to shed some light on what happened to me.
So, my phone is a Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000M on Bell Canada. Rooted, ADW, Clockword Recovery, *No* Lagfix (I removed it), GPS Update. Today I went to open an app and the phone froze and subsequently rebooted. Upon restart the boot animation displayed for a while and then went to a black screen. Phone did not respond to any input. Force restarting led to the same effect. Tried a battery pull, no dice. Wiped the cache partition, no dice. Booted into recovery then clockwork recovery. Restored to my last nandroid backup. Phone restarted, displayed boot animation for a long time then went to the black screen and accepted no input. Restored to my nandroid before that, no luck. Wiped dalvik cache, no luck. Connected the usb, booted into recovery, opened android commander, and pulled down a copy of everything on the internal sd card. Finally, while walking to the Bell Canada store to get a replacement, I did a factory reset... The phone booted.
So what has me extremely curious is what did a factory reset do, that restoring from a nandroid backup didn't? And what the hell happened to the phone that an app crash trigged a quasi soft brick. Let me know if anyone has any ideas.
Thanks!
I had the same thing happen to me all the time on the XXJPC TOM after having installed the TaskManager update (it was 1.4 back then) from Samsung Apps. Everything seemed fine until I rebooted. After the boot animation played, there was the "I'm crashing" vibration (vibrating once, then three times shorty after) at which point the phone went off. I had this happen four times in a row before I figured out (by accident) that it's the TaskManager update that did this to me. Only a factory reset could revive the phone. Did you, by any chance, install the TaskManager update, too, on a Froyo ROM?
Hope this helps a bit. It was rather frustrating to me.
I'm just running a rooted stock i9000 rom (android 2.1). No task manager update.
I did manage to recover. The process ended up being this:
Backup data on internal sd card while in recovery mode
Factory reset
Wipe cache partition
Boot
Install rom manger
Copy data back to internal sd card
Restore from most recent nandroid backup
The only thing I can think of is somehow I suffered a corruption of my data partition, so the factory reset fixed it by wiping the partition. Not sure if that's a possible explanation.
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Today I found my Bell Vibrant (GT-i9000M) with a blank screen and lit up buttons. I had not done anything other than root and lag fix a few weeks ago. Holding the power button brought up the menu to power off but it locked up when I selected power off. I had to pull the battery. Now every time it starts up it sits at the Galaxy S screen for a long time then goes to a blank screen and nothing happens except the buttons light up when I touch it.
I want to know if there is a way to get my data off the internal SD. I have some pictures on there that I do not want to lose. I fear my only option is to wipe the device and factory reset it.
Some help and advice would be greatly appreciated. I have spent the last three hours searching for a solution but I haven't found anything that might work without wiping my data.
Thanks
the data must go if you want to get your phone back
there is no way to repair the phone without losing data
Well the factory reset worked. At least it booted up anyway. I wonder what happened to my phone. It was fine and then I left it on my desk for maybe 20 minutes and all the sudden it is broken. :/
I have the same issue. How do i factory reset from here?
#1RAGE said:
Well the factory reset worked. At least it booted up anyway. I wonder what happened to my phone. It was fine and then I left it on my desk for maybe 20 minutes and all the sudden it is broken. :/
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How did you factoyr format it?
Get into recovery mode and do it
Sent from my GT-I9000
Reflashing / Resetting Factory Defaults etc. do NOT touch your Internal SD.
Guys i got the same prob,did factory reset and the problem still remains...what can i do???Black screen,some vibraton,and the buttons lit,but nothing else.Any advices plz??
You all may be suffering from a corrupted /system partition because of the lagfix applied. Read up on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9365294#post9365294 to see if that applies.
These are too complicated for me....i tried to do the lagfix,but it had loopback error,so i guessed it didnt do it.I rebooted my phone just to clear the memmory and play a game or something,and never got on again...just stays there vibrating.So i did factory reset and still nothiing.
I have similar problem. i9000 samsung screen appears, then goes blank, and appears again continuous cycle until battery is removed. Animated logo doesn't even start. I cannot seem to enter recovery mode. I can enter download mode (dwn vol, home, and power) and I tried to USB to my computer in download mode to try and pull the pictures off with ADB, but ADB doesn't seem to see the device connected in download mode. Is Odin my next option? Or does that only work with unlocked phones. I was on stock 2.2 that Kies updated for me.
Pleeeeaaase help. My children opening christmas gifts are on the phone and once i get the videos I can just send it off to Bell for full replacement. They have told me that once it gets sent out for repair my pictures will be gone.
boot-loop after flashing CM10 for galaxy s plus
the screen says cwm-based recovery v5.5.0.4
-reboot system now
-install zip from sdcard
-wipe data/factory reset
-wipe cache partition
-backup and restore
-mounts and storage
-advanced
after install gaspp and CM10 and thenreboot system now.... Im stuck here .... please help!!!!!
Hello Forum,
i'm using darktremor A2SD, but i noticed, that it didn't work anymore since the last wipe. I wanted to format my sd so performed a "rebuild and move dalvik cache to internal storage".
The phone restarted, showing 15 min long the "galaxy ace" title and then turns off the display. I removed the SD-card, restartet the device but still the same.
Any suggestions?
There's one catch .. the home button is broken, so i can't enter the downloading mode
Try restarting a couple of times, waiting ~3 minutes before each restart. I remember it took around 5 restarts once for me (simple dalvik wipe).
Anyway, if that doesn't work, just flash stock ROM using ODIN. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1225493)
EDIT: Oh, right. You can't. Well, try the usb jib method.
just ordered a jig
what's the most stable all-day-rom, with darktremor or something similar?
My phone has been running cyanogen mod 9 for quite a long time and about two days ago it was giving me a low on space problem (RAM as both internal and external memory are more than 60% free)
So I stoped some background apps to clear the memory and gave the phone a restart. Now it is stuck in the boot screen :S I have already tried taking the battrey off and restarting the phone but still it gets to the boot screen and never loads :S
How can I fix this without flashing a new ROM as I have not backed up anything :S
Thanks
Well although I have not the galaxy s, what I would do:
1. Remove the microSD and SIM, turn it on to see if it boots.
2. If not start, go into recovery mode - Wipe cache partition and dalvik cache (not the wipe data factory reset, because you lose all) - then fix permissions.
3. If not start, reinstall the kernel compatible.
4. Crossing fingers
joser1309 said:
Well although I have not the galaxy s, what I would do:
1. Remove the microSD and SIM, turn it on to see if it boots.
2. If not start, go into recovery mode - Wipe cache partition and dalvik cache (not the wipe data factory reset, because you lose all) - then fix permissions.
3. If not start, reinstall the kernel compatible.
4. Crossing fingers
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Hi,
1. Did it still the same
2. I went to recovery mode wiped cache and dalvik now problem is even worse. I cannot go into recovery mode more (only download mode).
Before (I did as u said wipe dalvik and cache) it was stuck on this screen:
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/llsq931ZNWQ/0.jpg
and now it is stuck on this screen:
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/hv1YKVV9W9s/mqdefault.jpg
Remove your battery and try combo again while putting your battery back.
(you must release combo about 1 second after Galaxy S appears on the screen)
guerini said:
Remove your battery and try combo again while putting your battery back.
(you must release combo about 1 second after Galaxy S appears on the screen)
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I have tried that a million times this morning I doesnt work believe me!!!
Now how can I restore my phone to a working state even if it takes deleting all data at this point all I care about is a having a working mobile...
RiKKu28 said:
I have tried that a million times this morning I doesnt work believe me!!!
Now how can I restore my phone to a working state even if it takes deleting all data at this point all I care about is a having a working mobile...
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have u tried installing the bootloader using ODIN? try that and then try installing TWRP or clockworkmod recovery.. i think it should solve the problem of getting your phone up.. once the recovery is setup you can install any other rom..
RiKKu28 said:
I have tried that a million times this morning I doesnt work believe me!!!
Now how can I restore my phone to a working state even if it takes deleting all data at this point all I care about is a having a working mobile...
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check out My Android Solutions for solutions to your problems
so long as you can go into download mode, you can flash a semaphore kernel or a ROM from My Android Collections to solve it
But First powerdown, pull out Battery, SIM CARD, and EXT.SD card, press power button for a minute, than powerup without SIM and Ext.SD Card....Do remember to backup your contacts, data, images etc and also your EFS folder before flashing a ROM and make sure you have more than 50% battery charge before you attempt any sort of flashing.
hello there,
i recently installed cyanogen mod 11 (4.4 kitkat) on my phone via CWM. i used following guide to restore my data:
http://androidforums.com/threads/guide-to-retaining-data-after-flashing-a-new-rom.682090/ (basically just restoring my data through a cwm option).
however, the system keeps optimizing 78 apps on every boot. on the first boot it were around 170 apps. i tried some of the solutions on the internet, e.g wiping my dalvik cache (which leads to oprimizing the 170 apps again) or not charging while booting, needless to say none of them worked.
one solution i havent tried yet is to reinstall the apps. i would like to know if you have suggestions which may work. also please tell me if i you need any further information.
Doflaminhgo said:
hello there,
i recently installed cyanogen mod 11 (4.4 kitkat) on my phone via CWM. i used following guide to restore my data:
http://androidforums.com/threads/guide-to-retaining-data-after-flashing-a-new-rom.682090/ (basically just restoring my data through a cwm option).
however, the system keeps optimizing 78 apps on every boot. on the first boot it were around 170 apps. i tried some of the solutions on the internet, e.g wiping my dalvik cache (which leads to oprimizing the 170 apps again) or not charging while booting, needless to say none of them worked.
one solution i havent tried yet is to reinstall the apps. i would like to know if you have suggestions which may work. also please tell me if i you need any further information.
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Have you tried:
Boot (and update), software shutdown, reboot? (i.e. select Power Off on the screen)
Boot (and update), hardware shutdown, reboot? (i.e. hold down the power button until it dies)
Boot (and update), remove and replace battery, reboot? (i.e. don't let the operating system shutdown properly at all)
Taking a backup after it's updated, then restoring from that backup?
Wiping regular cache as well as dalvik?
That's just "this might work" things I might try.
As for actually diagnosing the issue and prescribing a targeted response - that's beyond my expertise.
assuming with "update" you mean the optimization process: yeah, tried most of them except your fourth suggestion. going to try that one soon. even if it should not work, your answer is appreciated