So my gf is staying over for a month and I lent her my mom's old phone (the mini) so she could use a Portuguese number while she's here.
Phone was full of crap so I tried to reset through android menus... No luck! Phone restarted and went into CWM (was previously installed just to root phone). So I decided to reset with CWM so I used the Reset/wipe option.
Everything went peachy... Up to the point where the phone doesn't boot!
It's stuck on a boot loop. Samsung Galaxy mini screen, carrier screen Samsung loading screen and then...again back to zero and keeps on looping.
I've tried to recover it using this method:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2226030
But odin doesn't detect the phone (it's in download mode) . In fact, I get a message from Windows saying a connected device is not working properly.
I really want to get the phone running for my girl, what's the next step?
driver!
1. Did you install the driver for samsung mobile phones? I guess, if the windows cannot detect your phone properly, your driver is broken. google a proper one like " SAMSUNG USB diver for Mobile Phones"
2. If the driver is correct, you can try other version of odin. I used to have v3.0.7 (or v4.3.8? I can' t remember) .
3. If you don't need the data and apps in your old phone, just flash a new ROM with an external sd card!!
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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.
(its my dad phone)
hi so yestarday i installed the "aosp-k3note-5.1.0" rom and it all went fine but worked slow and without bluetooth.
so today when i got home my dad told me he just installed a new rom from romnation(he dosent remember which rom but he said it was an offical rom)
BUT he downloaded it stright to the phone and installed it without erasing anything(date/cache/davlik)...
so when he tried to use the phone it will gives errors like gaps stoped working and all kind of stuff that made the phone useless...
so i downloaded "VIBEUI_V2.8_1526_7.80.1_DEV_K50-T5" rom and gapps64 and went to the CMW and this time i erased the date cach and davlik and installed the rom and after that the gapps
and now i cant get past the welcome screnn becuase as soon as i choose english or chinse it will give me "wlan has stopped" and return to the language menu...
so now im stuck becuase i cant use adb to root it and SP tools dosent work too(i tried to keep it pluged for an hour and it still wont do anything with ot without the battery)
what can i do? and thanks for any help...
Try this to get CWM back on.
rollcage0 said:
(its my dad phone)
hi so yestarday i installed the "aosp-k3note-5.1.0" rom and it all went fine but worked slow and without bluetooth.
so today when i got home my dad told me he just installed a new rom from romnation(he dosent remember which rom but he said it was an offical rom)
BUT he downloaded it stright to the phone and installed it without erasing anything(date/cache/davlik)...
so when he tried to use the phone it will gives errors like gaps stoped working and all kind of stuff that made the phone useless...
so i downloaded "VIBEUI_V2.8_1526_7.80.1_DEV_K50-T5" rom and gapps64 and went to the CMW and this time i erased the date cach and davlik and installed the rom and after that the gapps
and now i cant get past the welcome screnn becuase as soon as i choose english or chinse it will give me "wlan has stopped" and return to the language menu...
so now im stuck becuase i cant use adb to root it and SP tools dosent work too(i tried to keep it pluged for an hour and it still wont do anything with ot without the battery)
what can i do? and thanks for any help...
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Try removing the battery and plugging the phone in to the PC.
Start SP Tools with CWM set in the scatter and only recovery ticked
Press Download in SP tools and then insert the battery
CWM should download to phone
If that fails repeat but plug the phone in once you press Download, then insert the battery.
rollcage0 said:
(its my dad phone)
hi so yestarday i installed the "aosp-k3note-5.1.0" rom and it all went fine but worked slow and without bluetooth.
so today when i got home my dad told me he just installed a new rom from romnation(he dosent remember which rom but he said it was an offical rom)
BUT he downloaded it stright to the phone and installed it without erasing anything(date/cache/davlik)...
so when he tried to use the phone it will gives errors like gaps stoped working and all kind of stuff that made the phone useless...
so i downloaded "VIBEUI_V2.8_1526_7.80.1_DEV_K50-T5" rom and gapps64 and went to the CMW and this time i erased the date cach and davlik and installed the rom and after that the gapps
and now i cant get past the welcome screnn becuase as soon as i choose english or chinse it will give me "wlan has stopped" and return to the language menu...
so now im stuck becuase i cant use adb to root it and SP tools dosent work too(i tried to keep it pluged for an hour and it still wont do anything with ot without the battery)
what can i do? and thanks for any help...
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Omg..i have almost exactly the same problem and the solution that MrAAnderson suggested didn't work.Here's how i ended in this problem.I was running VIBEUI_V3.0_1602_7.407.1_DEV_K50-T5 ROM on TWRP recovery made By Pr1nc3V app Lenovo K3 Note Manager [v2.1].Since i had annoying bug with "R" (roaming icon) and "gapps stopped working" issue i wanted to re-flash same ROM.I entered into TWRP recowery,cleared dalvik+cache,rebooted into recovery again.Now i wanted to flash ROM,but it didn't flash it gave me an error,same thing happens if i try to flash stock recovery (i even tried naming ROM and recovery as "recovery.zip" and "update.zip").Rebooted the phone but i'm also stucked on welcome screen where i can't pass it because of "Unfortunately,WLAN stopped working".
Tried to flash ROM and stock recovery with SPFlashTool but the tool doesn't see phone at all,same as Lenovo K3 Note Manager by Pr1nc3V .Right now i'm running out of solutions for this mess i created,any advice will help.Help me please to restore my phone.
EDIT: i just realized that i actually made a "factory reset" in TWRP recovery..not just wipe data,cache and dalvik.....what are my options now folks?
Ok i'm happy to announce that i resolved my problem (after a panic mode on,lol).Here is what i did..
1. Obviously you have to get back on your stock (original,ugly chinese-english one) recovery (in case you already didn't..).To do that i used SP Flash tool.(i wouldn't go into details but if you need just ask).
After that we have following situation..stock recovery + dev ROM (which isn't working well).
2.If you try to flash any ROM in this state it will fail (based on my experience,i tried to flash exactly same ROM which is already installed..no way.).So now next step is to get a CUSTOM (TWRP or CM) recovery,again flashing it with SP Flash tools.
From this point you can choose wher would you go...STOCK rom ,MODDED one ...anything actually.I hope i clarified a bit.
sptools is not detecting my device
I'm a complete newbie to android phone modding, and I was really proud of myself when I was able to install the Cyanogen 12.1 and Google Apps onto my Samsung S3 Mini. However, I made the mistake of trying to put my work email on it, which requires that my phone be encrypted. Well, I guess the encryption and rooted phone didn't want to play nice together, so I got the error message that my phone would be factory reset. Boo! Well, it got worse. Instead of a factory reset, my rooted phone now is stuck in what I have now learned is called a bootloop. Basically I turn my phone on, and the Cyanogen start screen (with the text "TEAMWIN") just infinitely flashes on the screen until I pull the battery.
I have tried using Odin 3.07 and cm12.1_golden.nova.20160210.ODIN_TWRP.tar.md5. I do the three button system boot, connect the usb, run Odin, get the phone recognized, and then install the .md5 in the PDA section of Odin. It tells me that it succeeded, but when I restart my phone it's still the same bootloop. I also tried swearing, but that didn't help either.
Has anyone else out there had experience with Cyanogen and this particular error? I would love to get this phone working again... preferably with either a Lollipop version of android or back to Cyanogen 12.1.
Any info would be greatly appreciated! Thanks everyone.
So I've got an update if anyone's interested... I can't call it progress, but it's a different problem now.
I was able to download and use Odin to do what was shown on this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2122548&highlight=root
Everything worked in Odin, the phone rebooted, and went to the Team Win Recovery Project diagnostics screen, rebooted again, and then to the samsung logo. However, it immediately goes to the "Encryption Failed" error screen, and the only option is to 'reset device'. Of course, doing this just reboots the phone and it then has the Team Win loading screen, Team Win Recovery Project diags screen, Samsung logo, and back to the 'Encryption Failed' screen again. So now I have a new infinite loop to solve. *sigh*
any thoughts?
Have you been able to get into TWRP? If you are, maybe you could wipe everything from there and flash the recovery version of your ROM.
I was able to put the stock bootloader onto the phone using Odin, download the original tar from here: http://live.samsung-updates.com/index.php?device=GT-I8190, then used the stock bootloader to install it from the sd card. Everything went fine, but now when I boot the phone it just hangs on the Samsung Galaxy S3 mini GT-i18190 start screen indefinitely. Is this progress, or have I created a new problem now?
You're playing around with heavy stuff. I won't recommend using an upgrade flash (CM over Odin) as an full flash. Please try flashing a stock image.
If you did something wrong to the partitioning, then it's likely to not allow you to do a successfull factory reset. Maybe you can try re-flashing a stock Odin image with PIT repartitioning.
Remember to try to backup the EFS folder, doing that kind of flash might wipe it.
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
Hi, first time post here. I have an unrooted Samsung Note 5 Verizon, I have been using Package Disabler Pro app to disable unwanted bloatware for months. The other morning I put the phone into ultra-power saving mode (for first time since PD Pro install) and it locked up phone. Upon reboots, it loads until the red Verizon screen and go on further. I did not have the phone in USB debugging mode (checked) before it locked. It is not recognized by my windows pc as a drive when connected by usb. (a Samsung device does show in the device manger under USB when connected). Phone is running Android 6.0. and i can get to the recovery menu. Is there any way I can still safely recover my data, before I have to resort to a hard reset which will destroy data?
I have also used odin to reflash stock image, and it still hangs on verizon red screen after flash.
Thank you for any advice provided.
jmature said:
Hi, first time post here. I have an unrooted Samsung Note 5 Verizon, I have been using Package Disabler Pro app to disable unwanted bloatware for months. The other morning I put the phone into ultra-power saving mode (for first time since PD Pro install) and it locked up phone. Upon reboots, it loads until the red Verizon screen and go on further. I did not have the phone in USB debugging mode (checked) before it locked. It is not recognized by my windows pc as a drive when connected by usb. (a Samsung device does show in the device manger under USB when connected). Phone is running Android 6.0. and i can get to the recovery menu. Is there any way I can still safely recover my data, before I have to resort to a hard reset which will destroy data?
I have also used odin to reflash stock image, and it still hangs on verizon red screen after flash.
Thank you for any advice provided.
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When you use odin to flash stock image, have you tried booting into recovery and then wiping data? I know I had to do this on all my devices when I flash either using odin or fastboot.
Hi, I am trying to save the data before wiping the device first. I would like to access my data and save it before wiping system. That where I am stuck.
jmature said:
Hi, I am trying to save the data before wiping the device first. I would like to access my data and save it before wiping system. That where I am stuck.
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Well, unfortunatly, you are out of luck. If you were for example stuck in a bootloop because of flashing supersu binary, you can flash the old one and be back up and running, but, when you flash stock ROM you are out of luck...
If I have to go the hard reset route is there any software out there to try to recover some of my data files and images/videos after the reset?
jmature said:
If I have to go the hard reset route is there any software out there to try to recover some of my data files and images/videos after the reset?
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I know you can recover dead hard drives and SSDs so I guess it is the same way, the only problem is that whatever caused your brick might still be there when you restore and if you have encrypted your device (which most, non-rooted phones are) you are out of luck.