So my phone has been a little buggy for a while now, nothing major, just kind of annoying so I backed it all up, and went to recovery to wipe and fresh install android. The aroma installer got stuck on wiping cache, so after half an hour I rebooted the phone, and tried to just wipe the partitions from the recovery. same thing, got stuck and I had to reboot. the phone wont boot back up so I guess it was able to wipe the system partition at least, I'm 99% sure its the cache partition thats the problem. I tried both twrp and cwm, and nothing. phone is of course unlocked, and s-off as well. as a side note, I sent my phone in a few months back to have the camera fixed, and they said they replaced the motherboard as well, though when I got it back I was able to wipe the phone no problem. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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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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Hi guys. Yesterday night I was installing a few new apps but the seemed to be stuck installing forever. So I decided to reboot. However, after the reboot, it never goes past the second boot screen.
I know I can just flash to another rom but is there a way to save my data in the instance? I can still get into recovery mode if that helps. Thanks
I've read you can hook up to your pc and mount your sdcard from cwm. Never tried it but if it works you can save your data that way then maybe a master clear/cache or dalvik wipe will help.
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BumRush said:
Hi guys. Yesterday night I was installing a few new apps but the seemed to be stuck installing forever. So I decided to reboot. However, after the reboot, it never goes past the second boot screen.
I know I can just flash to another rom but is there a way to save my data in the instance? I can still get into recovery mode if that helps. Thanks
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You can mount USB in recovery and get all your stuff off of your SD that way. You can also nandroid your current ROM in CWM and re-flash it, then restore from backup. As far as saving texts and all that, Idk if you can, but I'm sure someone else does.
Also, you could try clearing dalvik, cache, and then running the kernel cleaning script. It's gotten me out of a few binds before. It might help you to where you wouldn't have to flash again.
When i try to flash a stock firmware particularly XXKPK after i see the PASS i disconnect the usb cable and wait for phone to start but it keep restarting to samsung animastion.
I am now waiting for 10 minutes and it is just the same. I followed the exact procedures from this article http://droidangel.blogspot.com/2011/08/samsung-galaxy-mini-s5570xxkpk-android.html
But i can't get to Region selection screen. First i had to do something else to pass the boot loop. I don't remember what i did before but i guess i did a wipe system and cache from recovery and after that i could went inside.
Is this normal or should i pass boot loop after flashing without wiping cache and system...
its normal..
But in the guide writer only mentioned about wiping the cache. And he/she said it after selecting the regional settings. Thats why i got confused.
after flashing, pull out the battery,
put it in again,
turn on into recovery mode,
wipe cache and system/data,
reboot now.
if still bootloop,
try flashing again.
sent from Nokia 3310
Usually it will bootloop maximum 3 times. Try wipe your data,cache and dalvic first before you flash
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I did experienced same problem with this case, I just reflash the firmware and it worked like a charm.
hey guys, recently I have been experiencing a lot of crashes and other weird things.
sometimes the android gapps process or acore process would stop forcing me to reboot my phone.
the strange thing is, sometimes it will behave as if it was a first boot, so it would ask me to enter my details etc.
but after a battery pull and rebooting, it would boot normally.
however, it has also come to my knowledge that when i boot into CWM recovery, half the time it would say
"can't mount cache, etc etc etc" when it boots into it, and i cannot successfully flash on or wipe anything.
so it takes another few reboots to get it to finally work.
im on 2.02 blackrose running CWM 5.0.2.0
any ideas guys? cheers! :3
spazzy1912 said:
hey guys, recently I have been experiencing a lot of crashes and other weird things.
sometimes the android gapps process or acore process would stop forcing me to reboot my phone.
the strange thing is, sometimes it will behave as if it was a first boot, so it would ask me to enter my details etc.
but after a battery pull and rebooting, it would boot normally.
however, it has also come to my knowledge that when i boot into CWM recovery, half the time it would say
"can't mount cache, etc etc etc" when it boots into it, and i cannot successfully flash on or wipe anything.
so it takes another few reboots to get it to finally work.
im on 2.02 blackrose running CWM 5.0.2.0
any ideas guys? cheers! :3
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My Nexus 7 just did that after I screwed around with everything in fastboot.
Try this:
\Change to 4EXT
Backup
Full wipe
Restore
My Incredible S doesn't see much screwing around any more and its still fine. I only had that problem after changing bootloaders to blackrose, then I wiped and the problem is gone
markj338 said:
My Nexus 7 just did that after I screwed around with everything in fastboot.
Try this:
\Change to 4EXT
Backup
Full wipe
Restore
My Incredible S doesn't see much screwing around any more and its still fine. I only had that problem after changing bootloaders to blackrose, then I wiped and the problem is gone
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woops, i forgot to mention that i was on 4ext touch before and it still happened :S
it used to happen before, but not as frequently, so that is why i am a bit worried
when i get my pc back ill try reverting back to 1.13 bootloader :S
Hi, I have a rooted T-mobile Htc One I am running the Google Edition ROM , Earlier I was browsing on my phone through the Google Chrome app, and I guess I ran into a shady website or something, because I was stuck in a clicking loop, and finally I got a YOUR PHONE IS INFECTED, webpage. I couldn't change tabs or anything, and when I got to the home screen I saw a few force closes and maybe stuff getting deleted and added to my phone, that really freaked me out so I restarted my phone and ended up with most of the homesceen stuff deleted, so I went into CWM, and deleted all backups (noob move) and wiped my phone (dalvic cache, cache, factory data reset) Now my phone seems to be okay, but I am still worried, so is there any way I can COMPLETELY wipe my phone, I don't care about losing root.... Also do you think my gmail and other accounts were infected?? Really could use some help especially on the COMPLETELY wiping my phone.
Twrp, wipe, advanced wipe, check everything and wipe. This will erase it all. You will have to adv sideload a Rom. Or, rebootRUU and flash stock file. I assume you are s-off?