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Hi all,
I'm pretty much a noob here, though I'm trying to read and figure out what I've done wrong.
I was on v10c and had rooted my O2x using superoneclick, easy-peasy. Had SU going, and TiBackup. Backed up my files to Dropbox, decided to go ahead with the LG update, not realizing it would remove my root.
I had frozen a bunch of apps with TiBackup, and those seem to still be frozen, so that's all good. Everything is mostly working well, except I can only move some apps to SD, some just say it's full, even though there's 3gb free. Oh well, it seems to fix it if I un/reinstall, but I'm not so short of space that it's a big deal.
The annoying thing is that SU keeps popping up saying I'm out of date and of course I can't update it without root and I can no longer use TiBackup. I've tried using Superoneclick again but it thinks I'm still rooted. So I tried un-rooting it, but that didn't do anything as when I rebooted and went back in, Superoneclick still thinks I'm rooted.
Any ideas? Also, please explain it as though I'm dumb, cause for these purposes, I kinda am.
TIA
Oliver
btw, at the mo, I have no interest in custom ROMs or whatnot, just want to be able to backup & restore stuff.
I rebooted my computer, rebooted the phone, plugged it in and tried to un-root it again. This didn't get any popups, though I did get a 'FAILED' message at the bottom of the superoneclick message window, can't remember which operation. Nonetheless, I took it as a positive. Rebooted the phone again.
Now it's stuck in a reboot loop! Ffuuuuu.....!!!!
The battery is low, so I'm going to put it on the charger for a while and see if it decides it wants to boot later.
So for THIS problem, I've read that you should take out the sim and battery for a while and try booting it later, correct? If no go, then do a factory reset?
So if I DO a factory reset, what are the correct steps to root the device afterwards? I assume a factory reset just puts Android v2.2.2 back on but doesn't touch the firmware, so it'll stay at v10e, correct? I figure I'll just have to run Superoneclick once and then I should be good to go, right?
Thanks again,
Oliver
This mucking with my phone scares the bejeebus outta me - I always figure I'm gonna brick it. But it's worth it if I can disable the awful Car Home, F-Secure and the horrible FB/TWitter/Myspace crap that LG cripples the phone with.
Just factory reset phone and then root using superoneclick...if that doesnt work, load custom rom, topogigi would be nearest to stock
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Okay, I tried to reset it by holding VOL- and then turning the phone on. It says 'S/W UPGRADE Please wait while upgrading' but it appears to be frozen there as it's been sitting on that screen (while plugged in to power) for about 20 minutes.
Any suggestions? Is it safe to pull the battery and try again? Should I have done VOL+ and HOME and then powered it on?
I'm starting to worry here.
I think our phone is unbrickable. I have even tryed to repartition it (failed) and I still managed to fix it. You can follow this guide for going back to stock and then you can upgrade to 10E with lg tool and then do the root. the guide is in greek and i translated it with google translate. Original page here http://www.myphone.gr/forum/showthread.php?t=300529
How to return to the Stock Rom LG 2X
Caution: The perierchomena of internal sd will be erased.
Go here and download the Greece / Italy Firmware.
Download drivers and smartflash here.
Run the SmartFlashTool_P990.exe from PC
Close the phone, remove battery, connect the phone and hold down the Volume down (Here we should see a message "software update" and "COM port" in smartflash will be filled automatically after install the drivers if needed)
Select the "ROM Copy D / L"
Check that the "Normal Mode" is selected
Check that the "Erase CAL" is NOT selected
Press the button "browse" next to "AP Bin:" and choose the (BIN) file
Press the button "browse" next to "CP Bin:" and choose the (FLS) file
Press "Start" and wait to complete the flasharisma
Thanks to Jastonas
These I have tried without any problems, but I have to say:
NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR PHONE Pathe ...
Thanks very much for that, orlox.
I did end up getting it working. I don't know what S/W upgrade was all about, but I decided to pull the battery and try a reset again. This time it worked, in no time flat.
Here's the weird thing.
I set it all up from scratch, and when I plugged it in to root it again, Superoneclick said it was already rooted, did I want to go ahead anyway. I said no, then downloaded Superuser - sure enough, rooted. WTF?
Weird, but I'm not going to argue. Everything's working and it's working well. I don't know what app it is, but the more I install, the slower it gets. Not awful slow, but noticeable. A "fresh" phone always feels so snappy. I don't do all that much, but I put on GO launcher, a bunch of apps. I only use 3 home screens. I have the GO FBwidget, APW Calendar, Typoclock and Fancy widget forecast (4x1). Then I've just got some app shortcuts and that's it. It's not laggy. Just..... not quite as snappy as it was before I installed everything. Perhaps I should just can all the widgets? But then wouldn't I just have an iphone?
Anyway, thanks to those who responded.
For those interested, it is still on v2.2.2 and v10e.
if you dont use a2dp bluetooth and fm radio go for cyanogenmod. Youll see a HUGE speed improvment
just go for v20e if in case its still slow, or even Cyanogen. As for me, same thing and same scenario happened, did a factory reset and that's it, its fixed. As for slow performance in v10e, removed most LG apps except SNS and App Adviser and its all good even on the stock LG Launcher
I have an AT&T Note 3. I was rooted using the KINGO app, but returned my phone to stock several weeks ago and the rom shows official and the knox count is 0. I am running the stock AT&T Note 3 Android 4.3
The other day, an official AT&T android update was pushed to my phone. The update bricked my phone and now I am unsure if I can even recover what was on my phone...or at the very least get it running again. For now, I am without a phone.
When I can get the phone to power up, the phone attempts to "Recovery Booting" (this is displayed in blue letters in the top left corner with the galaxy Note 3 Logo in the middle). It tries to install this AT&T update following the recovery wording when powering it on normally and when using Volume UP/Home/Power . The update progresses towards 100% then "completes" sometimes, but then the screen goes black and the phone does not start back up. I have to remove the battery for a period of time and replace to get the phone to do anything
I can get the phone to go into download mode (Volume down/Home/power), but my phone did not have USB debugging turned on the last time I was able to access the options, so it is not recognized by kies/odin, etc!
Even though their update caused the problem, AT&T wont help me (over the phone or at the store) as my phone is over a year old...their solution is to buy a new phone and plan as they say they can't do anything to fix the phone.
ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!
Can you get into recovery?..if so try to factory reset then maby you will be able to power up get to developer options and turn on debug so you can use odin...other option..I have heard of some doing this..go to Bestbuy Samsung counter..ask them if they have the odin tool. If they do they may be able to get you up and running.
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Don't worry bro.
Just follow this post to put your phone back to stock and get it rooted again. My phone used to brick and I went through it.
Follow the steps carefully, and you'll get your phone back.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2559715
I have had my Sm-N910T for about a year now. When I first got it I rooted it without thinking it through. I used Odin and flashed cf autoroot. I unrooted it when it started giving me issues. Then it would restart, freeze, etc. I now have an app called wakelock and it prevents my phone from turning off. It works great it has the original firmware that installed through Samsung kies but when I try to restart it just shuts down. When I power off I can't always power back on right away. I have to pull the battery and hold the power button for 1 minutes release, then put the battery back in and it works again. I have put the original firmware and it is not rooted anymore. Is there any way I can fix this issue? So basically it works fine but if I turn it off I have to pull the battery to be able to turn it back on. Every once and awhile it'll go into download mode on its own too.
Enalay527 said:
I have had my Sm-N910T for about a year now. When I first got it I rooted it without thinking it through. I used Odin and flashed cf autoroot. I unrooted it when it started giving me issues. Then it would restart, freeze, etc. I now have an app called wakelock and it prevents my phone from turning off. It works great it has the original firmware that installed through Samsung kies but when I try to restart it just shuts down. When I power off I can't always power back on right away. I have to pull the battery and hold the power button for 1 minutes release, then put the battery back in and it works again. I have put the original firmware and it is not rooted anymore. Is there any way I can fix this issue? So basically it works fine but if I turn it off I have to pull the battery to be able to turn it back on. Every once and awhile it'll go into download mode on its own too.
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Hi,
I have reported this thread to be moved to the right Q & A section where you might be able to get help quickly.
-Vatsal
Enalay527 said:
I have had my Sm-N910T for about a year now. When I first got it I rooted it without thinking it through. I used Odin and flashed cf autoroot. I unrooted it when it started giving me issues. Then it would restart, freeze, etc. I now have an app called wakelock and it prevents my phone from turning off. It works great it has the original firmware that installed through Samsung kies but when I try to restart it just shuts down. When I power off I can't always power back on right away. I have to pull the battery and hold the power button for 1 minutes release, then put the battery back in and it works again. I have put the original firmware and it is not rooted anymore. Is there any way I can fix this issue? So basically it works fine but if I turn it off I have to pull the battery to be able to turn it back on. Every once and awhile it'll go into download mode on its own too.
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sounds like the same software issue I had. Idk what happened but the internal memory failed on my note 4. Have you experienced constant freeze ups? also have you gone into download mode with an error that says "mmc_failed can't boot"? It was something along the lines of that.
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alfadog77 said:
sounds like the same software issue I had. Idk what happened but the internal memory failed on my note 4. Have you experienced constant freeze ups? also have you gone into download mode with an error that says "mmc_failed can't boot"? It was something along the lines of that.
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Yes I have those same issues. I am getting a new phone but I have to give this one to someone else and I need it in good shape to give it to them. Do I need to just buy a replacement or is there any way I can get it fixed?
Enalay527 said:
Yes I have those same issues. I am getting a new phone but I have to give this one to someone else and I need it in good shape to give it to them. Do I need to just buy a replacement or is there any way I can get it fixed?
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Have you tried to update to the latest firmware? DOK2 fixes a lot of issues including the memory leak.
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aaldiar said:
Have you tried to update to the latest firmware? DOK2 fixes a lot of issues including the memory leak.
Sent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk
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I updated it ota then on Samsung kies with the latest firmware. Everything works fine except the power off issues.
I think this is a common 5.0.1 issue, same thing started happening to me after update. Gotta wait for update or back to 4.4.4.
Enalay527 said:
I have had my Sm-N910T for about a year now. When I first got it I rooted it without thinking it through. I used Odin and flashed cf autoroot. I unrooted it when it started giving me issues. Then it would restart, freeze, etc. I now have an app called wakelock and it prevents my phone from turning off. It works great it has the original firmware that installed through Samsung kies but when I try to restart it just shuts down. When I power off I can't always power back on right away. I have to pull the battery and hold the power button for 1 minutes release, then put the battery back in and it works again. I have put the original firmware and it is not rooted anymore. Is there any way I can fix this issue? So basically it works fine but if I turn it off I have to pull the battery to be able to turn it back on. Every once and awhile it'll go into download mode on its own too.
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I would recommend downloading the full DOK2 firmware. You can find it in the below linked thread. Make sure you use the newest version of ODIN to flash it 3.10.7.
It should give the phone aq complete clean install of the firmware. Kies sometimes can be janky. It you are going to get rid of the phone the best is to do a full ODIN flash.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-tmobile/development/mirror-stock-tw-t3260858
I been having the same issues ...even with full firmware flashed DOK2....I get internal memory failure. Hope someone finds a fix. Have to pull out battery, sim cards, and spen, then press all the buttons, thennnnn....put everything back to boot up. Power button won't work, and reboot won't reboot. It Just turns off. Sucks...I love this phone. Right now it's acting ok...occasionally I get freezes and major lag. Someone please help!
notufatjesus said:
I been having the same issues ...even with full firmware flashed DOK2....I get internal memory failure. Hope someone finds a fix. Have to pull out battery, sim cards, and spen, then press all the buttons, thennnnn....put everything back to boot up. Power button won't work, and reboot won't reboot. It Just turns off. Sucks...I love this phone. Right now it's acting ok...occasionally I get freezes and major lag. Someone please help!
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I had this problem too except it got really really laggy and would constantly reboot anytime I tried to do anything. Best I could figure out was it was a problem with the internal sd. Called TMO tech support, told them I did factory reset, tried it without the sd card, blah blah blah. I said it's a hardware issue that is beyond my control and I don't feel like I should have to pay for it. They said well it sounds like you already did the work for us. I guess it was still under warranty but I got a new phone the next day and no problems since. Hopefully whatever was wrong they have fixed the issue by now but so far so good.
Definitely mention the mmc read fail error or whatever it says. All it cost me was a $5 charge. Give em a call.
I have the same problem, and it only happen when I update the phone to newest firwame, DOK2.
When I use COG1 firwame it very fast and easy use. but when I update DOK2 over Odin, I few very lag and usually restart the phone when I run a big application, then It can't restart after, just turn off.
And after that, can't turn on the phone. I had remove pin in 10s, pull in and it power on normal.
Sometime I turn on the power and the phone go into download mode with notice "mmc_fail can't boot".
Now I just only want to download my phone to old firwame, COG2 and use it normal, but the new firwame with new bootloader don't allow to download old bootloader. So sad
anyone can't show me how to download to COG2 firwame, Please....
tony yayo said:
I had this problem too except it got really really laggy and would constantly reboot anytime I tried to do anything. Best I could figure out was it was a problem with the internal sd. Called TMO tech support, told them I did factory reset, tried it without the sd card, blah blah blah. I said it's a hardware issue that is beyond my control and I don't feel like I should have to pay for it. They said well it sounds like you already did the work for us. I guess it was still under warranty but I got a new phone the next day and no problems since. Hopefully whatever was wrong they have fixed the issue by now but so far so good.
Definitely mention the mmc read fail error or whatever it says. All it cost me was a $5 charge. Give em a call.
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Hello there, I'm having the same exact issue lately, phone is a Year old, and I think its failing, One question though!
Was your phone ever rooted? mine is, but I flashed the Stock DOK2, so its official with NO root now, but I think the Device status is CUSTOM not official, Also KNOX has tripped while rooting, would T Mobile honor a replacement? At least its on the Official OS with NO Root now.
Please enlighten me
Willy318is said:
Hello there, I'm having the same exact issue lately, phone is a Year old, and I think its failing, One question though!
Was your phone ever rooted? mine is, but I flashed the Stock DOK2, so its official with NO root now, but I think the Device status is CUSTOM not official, Also KNOX has tripped while rooting, would T Mobile honor a replacement? At least its on the Official OS with NO Root now.
Please enlighten me
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Not really sure. Mine was never rooted. I've heard of plenty of people sending their rooted phones in with no problem.
thiennvbk said:
I have the same problem, and it only happen when I update the phone to newest firwame, DOK2.
When I use COG1 firwame it very fast and easy use. but when I update DOK2 over Odin, I few very lag and usually restart the phone when I run a big application, then It can't restart after, just turn off.
And after that, can't turn on the phone. I had remove pin in 10s, pull in and it power on normal.
Sometime I turn on the power and the phone go into download mode with notice "mmc_fail can't boot".
Now I just only want to download my phone to old firwame, COG2 and use it normal, but the new firwame with new bootloader don't allow to download old bootloader. So sad
anyone can't show me how to download to COG2 firwame, Please....
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Make sure you are using the ODIN version 3.10.7 if you are using an older version of may be what caused the issue.
If you did use the newest Odin, then I would factory reset your device, but into twrp and wipe everything but external SD Card, boot back into download mode and flash the firmware again. Most likely a few files for messed up during your Odin flash and it messed up the process. Also make sure you are using the USB cord that came with the device.
I found the fix for this mmc_failed. Making a new thread for this.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3277144
Here's is the fix. Don't forget to hit Thanks button
Hello.
I have a Galaxy Note 4 SM-N910T2. In january of this year i upgraded it to 6.0.1 (N910TUVU2EQI2) from 4.4.4(N910T2UVU2AOG1) using the SM-N910T firmware for the upgrade, everything was working perfectly but the day before yesterday i wanted to perform a wipe cache because the phone was being a bit laggy. after the wipe cache was perform and i hit the reboot, the recovery got stucked on Verifying DMhash tree. so after 30 minutes i took the battery out and powered on my phone, the problem is: The phone started to freeze, reset it self even the process system crashed. I read that downloading the Wake Lock power management helps and it did but i didn't want to use this app forever so i downgraded back to 4.4.4 it's original firmware, it does run better but now my phone reboots itself and it freezes just a little bit. Also i've got the Process system is not responding do you want to close it?
Things i've done so far:
1- Reflashed 4.4.4, 3 times, i've done wipes before reflashing and after. Nothing
2-Flashed TWRP wiped everything, repaired the file system, Flashed the stock again (4.4.4) nothing.
I'm not going back to 6.0.1.
Do i have to buy a new phone or maybe a new rom with a kernel will help ?
Pigoath said:
Hello.
I have a Galaxy Note 4 SM-N910T2. In january of this year i upgraded it to 6.0.1 (N910TUVU2EQI2) from 4.4.4(N910T2UVU2AOG1) using the SM-N910T firmware for the upgrade, everything was working perfectly but the day before yesterday i wanted to perform a wipe cache because the phone was being a bit laggy. after the wipe cache was perform and i hit the reboot, the recovery got stucked on Verifying DMhash tree. so after 30 minutes i took the battery out and powered on my phone, the problem is: The phone started to freeze, reset it self even the process system crashed. I read that downloading the Wake Lock power management helps and it did but i didn't want to use this app forever so i downgraded back to 4.4.4 it's original firmware, it does run better but now my phone reboots itself and it freezes just a little bit. Also i've got the Process system is not responding do you want to close it?
Things i've done so far:
1- Reflashed 4.4.4, 3 times, i've done wipes before reflashing and after. Nothing
2-Flashed TWRP wiped everything, repaired the file system, Flashed the stock again (4.4.4) nothing.
I'm not going back to 6.0.1.
Do i have to buy a new phone or maybe a new rom with a kernel will help ?
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All i can say is your phone mmc chip is about to die soon or later you will get mmc_read failure message and your phone wont be able to boot into the system and you won'tbe able to flash anything.
My best suggestion is sell it ASAP.
Trex888 said:
All i can say is your phone mmc chip is about to die soon or later you will get mmc_read failure message and your phone wont be able to boot into the system and you won'tbe able to flash anything.
My best suggestion is sell it ASAP.
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I came across the mmc_read failure before I realized it was happening and have been researching ways to at least verify there was nothing important on the device before retiring it to Samsung heaven.
Instead of useful advice, everyone seems to be spouting "sell it ASAP" as though it doesn't make you trash as a person to attempt selling it as any sort of working device. The inclusion of "ASAP" and lack of "with a disclaimer" tends to suggest they aren't recommending you actually tell anyone about the issue.
Good advice would be to back up everything you can now and begin looking for a new device. You could attempt to sell it for parts, but make sure to inform people of the situation. If it is that close to failure, chances are it will still be well within the 30 day return policy on most sites and they always favor the buyer. Your device is already ruined, but there is no reason to destroy your reputation with it.
Hi everyone, this morning the OTA update notified me that the october update was avaible for my phone, i started the update and after then it was working perfectly. When i was trying to unlock the phone, it started having some trouble recognizing or my face, either my fingerprint. So i decided to restart the phone, but back then it is contiously turning on and off, and sometimes it says "Android is updating your apps". When it is on i can try to use it but there is nor notification bar neither the back, home button. If i try to connect the phone to the pc, it is recognized. Can somebody help me? It is the european model, with exynos, 128 GB and 6 GB of RAM.
(sorry for my bad english, it is not my native language)
Wilson22087 said:
Hi everyone, this morning the OTA update notified me that the october update was avaible for my phone, i started the update and after then it was working perfectly. When i was trying to unlock the phone, it started having some trouble recognizing or my face, either my fingerprint. So i decided to restart the phone, but back then it is contiously turning on and off, and sometimes it says "Android is updating your apps". When it is on i can try to use it but there is nor notification bar neither the back, home button. If i try to connect the phone to the pc, it is recognized. Can somebody help me? It is the european model, with exynos, 128 GB and 6 GB of RAM.
(sorry for my bad english, it is not my native language)
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I would get the current stock firmware files for your phone model and the current version of Odin onto your laptop. Then just flash over everything. Try dirty flashing first (without wiping) as to not lose any data. If that doesn't work, wipe everything while flashing. You'll lose all your data and will have to set everything up again.
I honestly wouldn't bother trying to sort this yourself (And potentially making things worse), I'd just go straight to Samsung, you shouldn't be having to fix their mistakes.
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I would get the current stock firmware files for your phone model and the current version of Odin onto your laptop. Then just flash over everything. Try dirty flashing first (without wiping) as to not lose any data. If that doesn't work, wipe everything while flashing. You'll lose all your data and will have to set everything up again.
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After a while the phone battery discharged. When i tried to turn it on, it started working again like nothing happened. Thanks for helping
Wilson22087 said:
Hi everyone, this morning the OTA update notified me that the october update was avaible for my phone, i started the update and after then it was working perfectly. When i was trying to unlock the phone, it started having some trouble recognizing or my face, either my fingerprint. So i decided to restart the phone, but back then it is contiously turning on and off, and sometimes it says "Android is updating your apps". When it is on i can try to use it but there is nor notification bar neither the back, home button. If i try to connect the phone to the pc, it is recognized. Can somebody help me? It is the european model, with exynos, 128 GB and 6 GB of RAM.
(sorry for my bad english, it is not my native language)
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Now this is what I worry about! Samsung needs to do better than this! It's bad enough that we dont get OTA updates in time and to then mess up my phone while giving me an already late update is so not good. Hopefully some day, we will see a change ?. I will surely know to back up all my data before any updates.. for whenever it comes....
william-johnson said:
Now this is what I worry about! Samsung needs to do better than this! It's bad enough that we dont get OTA updates in time and to then mess up my phone while giving me an already late update is so not good. Hopefully some day, we will see a change [emoji849]. I will surely know to back up all my data before any updates.. for whenever it comes....
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I agree, the problem is that, before updating, i checked online if someone had issues with this update but i found nothing, so i decided to update... i won't do it again without backing up the phone before updating[emoji28][emoji28]
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