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Hello,
Last night I tried to install another radio fw on my Hero because of bad reception since the last one I installed.
I placed the new radio on my SD, rebooted and forgot to push the right buttons to access the "Android system recovery" (RA?) part.
Because it takes ages to wait for the phone to boot I pulled the battery and tried it again witch failed again, pulled the battery again etc.
When I finally managed to acces the "Android system recovery" part I flashed the new GSM radio to my GSM Hero. All the steps in described in the manual I used worked and all looked well.
After rebooting the phone started till the point of the Villainrom logo. I kept the phone on for hours till the battery was fully drained but it stays the same.
I can still acces the "Android system recovery", fast boot etc,
Tried the following:
-Wipe
-Restore backup
I'm getting pretty desperate!!
I's there anyone who has recovered his Hero from such a situation?
Please help..
If you can get to the recovery screen then you're not bricked. just reflash your rom and gapps add on and you should be fine or do a nandroid restore.
Hi pwraggcan,
I already restored a Nadroid backup.. Did not do the trick....
Also I tried to reflash the radio fw... Nothing helps. It just hangs at the unfolding Villainrom Logo which every few minutes restarts unfolding (I don't know how to call it otherwise, I do not mean that the phone restarts).
You're not bricked, so you're OK.
Re-flash the ROM you had installed after wiping your /data
Failing that, remove the SD card as that sometimes helps get the phone to boot.
If all else fails set up adb and get us a logcat.
Download the ROM again, full wipe & try again... Just to make sure the download didn't go bad?
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pulser_g2 said:
You're not bricked, so you're OK.
Re-flash the ROM you had installed after wiping your /data
Failing that, remove the SD card as that sometimes helps get the phone to boot.
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Thanx pulser_g2!!
I started with the simple solution, removing my SD..
Without the SD is just starts!!!
HAPPY!!
Thank you for your quick replies!
RealR74 said:
Thanx pulser_g2!!
I started with the simple solution, removing my SD..
Without the SD is just starts!!!
HAPPY!!
Thank you for your quick replies!
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You're welcome
Clear out your SD on your computer (back it up first), format it, and you should be good to go
It's usually the SD when this happens
hello,
before unlock via fast boot with this tool www.unlockstreak.com the phone was working well
but after unlock it started rebooting frequently
i've also updated via sd card but no luck
how to fix it? plz need help.
i'm sorry that i've not read warning abt fast boot in it's wiki before unlock
More info needed
bimes said:
hello,
before unlock via fast boot with this tool www.unlockstreak.com the phone was working well
but after unlock it started rebooting frequently
I've also updated via sd card but no luck
how to fix it? plz need help.
i'm sorry that I've not read warning about fast boot in it's wiki before unlock
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Hi Mate,
Elaborate bit more on the problem bruv, be more descriptive on the issue.
Its hard to understand what fast boot commands were run.
please provide the stats of the phone :
whats the Baseband
Kernel and OEM VERSION
I mean if it made any changes to that.
If you want you can head to the Streak Wiki page and get links to install the 351 or the latest 354 official roms or if you are bit adventurous then you can try custom roms by DJ Steve's Streak Droids or Spidla's Simple streak.
Just remember to be descriptive with the problems that you are facing and you will get answers...For cryin out loud you are at XDA mayn!!
One thing more if you would like then give a shot to factory reset....might help!!
Cheers
GZsammy
Don't for get to hit that thanks button thats a lot of writing there
http://forum.pocketables.net/showthread.php?t=9441 this solve my probl....for now.
Good to know that you got it fixed....
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Noup...didnt resolve probl. After few hours of using, and playing a few games...the same. Even he is connected with pc,staying still...he reset by himself a few times in line, and sometimes reset some settings (exmpl...weather tmp form F to C)
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mavidako said:
Noup...didnt resolve probl. After few hours of using, and playing a few games...the same. Even he is connected with pc,staying still...he reset by himself a few times in line, and sometimes reset some settings (exmpl...weather tmp form F to C)
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So you did everything thats mentioned in the website?? Can you check the about phone section and post the kernel the baseband and the OEM version?
It can be some application as well which is causing this...well post the above requested info...we will take it forward from there!!
Baseband ver:
GAUSB1A134500-EU
Kernel:
2.6.32.9-perf
OEM:
GAUSB1A134500
Build:
15380
Just confirming again did you try a factory reset??
If you mean vol. +- and pwr button and then opt 1...Yes I did...
But there's a lot of probl. Randomly crashing programs, Market especialy.. And randomly reseting mobile phone after using Copilot, or any prog. that use Wifi expl. Youtube, Facebook...
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mavidako said:
If you mean vol. +- and pwr button and then opt 1...Yes I did...
But there's a lot of probl. Randomly crashing programs, Market especialy.. And randomly reseting mobile phone after using Copilot, or any prog. that use Wifi expl. Youtube, Facebook...
Sent from my Dell Streak using XDA App
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Looks like a number of people are having a similar issue to what happened to my streak. Random crashes and force closures then loss of phone functions and a vicious restart loop.
I tried a bunch of stuff thinking that it was the amss and dsp1 updates I made when moving to Streakdroid that did it. Brought my phone back to stock using the QDL tool and then let it do the official update to the latest AT&T build. IT worked fine for a while then the restart loop showed up again.
Not fun. I got another streak and I won't do anything to it until I figure out how to pull the stock 1.6 6601 build from it. That way I can copy that to my faulty streak to see if that fixes anything.
I read somewhere in this forum, someone's sim also cause the phone to act up.
Try see if you have problems with the phone without the sim.
If it still acts up, it's gonna be hard to trace what's going on since most here have tried alot of ways to fix it.
maximoz said:
I read somewhere in this forum, someone's sim also cause the phone to act up.
Try see if you have problems with the phone without the sim.
If it still acts up, it's gonna be hard to trace what's going on since most here have tried alot of ways to fix it.
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Yeah.... once i turned it one without sim... and he didn't crash... must be it. I'll test it.
But I want a phone for all sim cards... still have warranty...maybe to complain to provider. But there's a catch i dont Use T-mobile card, where mobile phone is bought. (he wasn't branded and locked)
And another thing... why he didn't do that when i get it few months ago? why now? Everything worked perfect few monts.
Noup, it's not the sim.I put another providers new sim card and take out sim card, and he still keep reseting.
Hmm maybe also try changing the sdcard and see if it still crashes? If changing the sdcard also crash then it could be some hardware fault somewhere.
Or if you don't mind Simplestreak 1.2 rom, you can try the below:
If you have streakmod recovery installed, i have uploaded a fresh installation of simplestreak 1.2 here http://www.multiupload.com/VO4MPI0U0G.
If you have existing rom back up in your sdcard then unzip and copy the folder into the nanodroid backup directory, else create a directory called "rom_backup" and unzip the folder into it.
Once done, boot into the streakmod recovery and go to the nanodroid backup and select the option to restore.
Hopefully this will restore a working new simplestreak 1.2 rom into your streak.
Hello,
my A500 is now in unstable, weird state, i tried to flash ROM update, but i forgot an old update.zip on SD and also that i have no CWM more. My fault of course.
It started to flash again, suddenly stopped. Now if i reboot, i am on my old ROM, but only Power off .. shutting down message appears. I can touch time, settings, but unable anything to do. Message is still there. I tried to press RESET button, no way. I tried to flash it again with rescue Update.zip no way. Just message still there.
Looks like, it wants to shut down, but this never happens from some reason. But why it is again after reboot there, i don't know.
Any advice please ?
Thanks, Ed
EddieCz said:
Hello,
my A500 is now in unstable, weird state, i tried to flash ROM update, but i forgot an old update.zip on SD and also that i have no CWM more. My fault of course.
It started to flash again, suddenly stopped. Now if i reboot, i am on my old ROM, but only Power off .. shutting down message appears. I can touch time, settings, but unable anything to do. Message is still there. I tried to press RESET button, no way. I tried to flash it again with rescue Update.zip no way. Just message still there.
Looks like, it wants to shut down, but this never happens from some reason. But why it is again after reboot there, i don't know.
Any advice please ?
Thanks, Ed
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Can you install Acer Recovery Installer so you can install CWM from within Acer Recovery Installer?
EddieCz said:
Hello,
my A500 is now in unstable, weird state, i tried to flash ROM update, but i forgot an old update.zip on SD and also that i have no CWM more. My fault of course.
It started to flash again, suddenly stopped. Now if i reboot, i am on my old ROM, but only Power off .. shutting down message appears. I can touch time, settings, but unable anything to do. Message is still there. I tried to press RESET button, no way. I tried to flash it again with rescue Update.zip no way. Just message still there.
Looks like, it wants to shut down, but this never happens from some reason. But why it is again after reboot there, i don't know.
Any advice please ?
Thanks, Ed
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Try flashing cwm mod using Acer recovery and quickboot to reboot into recovery. If that fails install itsmagic via fastboot or cwm mod 1.3.4 via manual method posted. Don't despair mate you be fine.
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I had exactly this problem myself a few days ago...cwm was corrupted and the fix was to download official rom which was chinese and put it onto my external sd card. Then pressing power/volume up forced the update which also reset the cwm and boot sector back to stock. After this I used the official 3.1 rom on this website to update with english version and market app then finally install cwm to use roms.whew it was painful and i cannotremember where i got the chinese rom from...so im only slightly helpful.
smegg said:
I had exactly this problem myself a few days ago...cwm was corrupted and the fix was to download official rom which was chinese and put it onto my external sd card. Then pressing power/volume up forced the update which also reset the cwm and boot sector back to stock. After this I used the official 3.1 rom on this website to update with english version and market app then finally install cwm to use roms.whew it was painful and i cannotremember where i got the chinese rom from...so im only slightly helpful.
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There are many stock ROM links on this forum, I don't think he'll have a tough time finding one.
Thanks for sharing your fix for what appears to be the same situation.
Update
I am not able to put there any ROM, my last hope is that chinese, do you have some link on Multiupload (other site are blocked here).
Funny is, that i see lock screen, proper internet connection, mail marks, proper time and Charging still on 15% forever
Update 2
Looks like that battery is wrong, goes to service, thanks all for help and comments
Wait a second...
Had the exact same problem with failed ota update this morning - managed to resolve it...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1190478
Folks,
I was playing around with the roms and BAM
My phone wont start anymore, it keeps hanging on the Android logo from Kyrillos 7.
I tried flashing other roms, but there's no help here...
Help...
Please
May the phone gods be with me........ 8-0
I'm still able to get in the download, so I guess he's not totaly bricked, right????
factory reset from recovery and reboot it might take a while.
RafayelG said:
factory reset from recovery and reboot it might take a while.
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problem is that it keeps hanging in the ANDROID logo that shines, then suddenly stops, and resets this logo and it all starts all over, very strange...
I'm also able to install the Destiny Rom, and it boots well, but after xxx minutes this version also locks....
I had no problems with K7 OC before (only it locked after restart some days later, that was the prob)
How can I completely reset my phones internal memory?
Could this be unrepairably damaged?
SOLVED !
I can sleep good now !!!!
sorry, I panicked, because I tried several times and nothing worked.
Thanks for the advice !
(can I delete this topic?)
could you explain your solution?
mankokoma said:
could you explain your solution?
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Of course
I formatted with Pc software at first.
I got many times locked at startup (mostly after installing programs, so the phone needs access to the SD)
I installed K7, then flashed the G3rom into it.
And then, most important:
I formatted the SD card from within the Clockwork Manager CWM.
Of course, this erased both partitions (so make backup), but at least now it works
Do you have similar problems?
no, not yet... but maybe it'll help in future & others & just curious... where's the tnx button in this app?
Sent from my GT-I5800 using XDA
Hi All,
I am new here and this is my first post. But i have been reading this forum for quite sometime and know that u guys are now my final stone. I am a proud owner of a Motorola Defy. And I am having this strange behavior, which is effectively rendered the phone almost useless. The phone is acting like its got a restore point in itself, and every time i restart.. it gets back to that point in time.
This includes app installs, uninstalls, stuff placed in system through adb push, theme, everything in the OS. I tried installing a different ROm through clockworkmod, but its not taking effect. Its saying install success but as soon as it restarts, its going back to the old ROM. (takes time to load, so i guess it reinstall back/restored the old version)
Details of device : I am from India and the phone was manufactured in India in around April/May 2011. Its a red lens Defy and and came with Eclair. I updated it officially to the first Froyo release for SEA region. After that i rooted the phone with superone click, and installed WIUI rom. I have been updating the ROM with newer versions around each month. The last one was 1.11.18 though as i waiting for a good ICS version to flash.
The problem occurred after i started installing some gold apps from getJar. It restated in between and install... and that point is kind of acting like a restore point even now.
Things I did: Tried installing different rom by CWM method. Reinstalling second init and CM, both old and new version. Tried restoring nandroid backup of my official ROM. Tried fixed and full sbf flash through rsdlite 4.9.5.2 and now 5.6. First 3 things reset as soon as i restart. For RSDLite, it gives checksum error for each and every ROM i tried. I tried all SEA releases, JORDN_U3_97.21.51, Defy Plus Rom 2.3.6, 2.21 first eclair rom, everything gives the same error. From the RSDLite logs, i could see that there is something wrong as.. say the last successful CG was 33, and the error came for 34, the log says its expecting the checksum on the sbf to be equal to that of CG 33. Its taking the last successful checksum validation and expecting that for all the CGs henceforth. its not showing what the device actually has.
I atlast could somehow, but trial and error, removed all the CGs which were throwing error, and recompiled the sbf to make it pass the RSDLite flash. The CGs present in the ROM (JRDNEM_U3_3.4.3-36-1.7) were 32, 34, 42, 53, 61, 64, 65. And as soon as it booted, it restored back to the checkpoint. Even after i formatted by card and put it in, the app shortcuts remained on the home screen, but as the apps on the card were gone, they are just junk and doesnt open anything.
Thanks in advance. Please let me know what you need from me to help me resolve this issue.
Any help... Anyone?
Can someone please suggest something?
This is what i got from some people. I am not sure how far this is possible, but somehow the theme i installed just before this all happened, from MIUI market.. somehow managed to change something inside phone's kernel, past the locked bootloader? I am totally a noob in this and just a wild imagination?
Or may be some sort of cache wipe is happening everytime the phone boots up, So even when i install the ROM, when it boots up, it gets back the old ROM.. like what would probably happen if i do a factory reset soon after i instal a rom before the restart..?
I would really appreciate it if anyone could help me out with this...
Checksum errors were for me also.
I tried my office computer for flashing and instantly flash was done. The checksum error occurred 7 times on my good computer before that.
Reflashing froyo must take care of all errors happening
Thanks Kapil fr the response. Are you from india? Which sbf did u flash? And waht all did u install in the office pc? I have a pc of my friend where i can try to reflash if you tell me the exact steps that u took in the fresh pc.
Also, can anybody tell me how to use adb commands in CWM mode? Its recognizing my phone in normal mode but as soon as it boots in Moto recovery of CWM, its not recognizing anymore. Want to use adb format commands from recovery.
Hi I was able to use adb in CWM, but format commands were not working. How can i format the system partition? please help me with this.
Is there anyone here who know how to restore a nandroid backup manually using adb commands for MB525???!!!!!
Sounds weird and impossible. Try this. Wipe everything though cwm and flash new rom. Try ms2ginger.
Thanks darshanonline for the suggestion. I tried to wipe everything.. factory reset+cache+dalvik cache wipe. And then tried to install cyanogenmod 7.1 as well as 3 different wiui builds. Everytime it shows that the install was successful, ut as soon as i restart, it would go back to the old ROM.
Is there any checkpoint system in android, seeing the init.rc, i can see comments on something about saving a checkpoint. Is there any particular condition under which this checkpoint may be getting used on very restart?
Also.. is there any way for RSDLite to skip the chksum validations and get the install anyways?.. Some sort of a hack into it?
Ok.. Found something else thats happening. I dont need to shutdown for the system to revert back. Say i install a few things new after a reboot.. After some time.. 1 day at max, i am not able to open them, and neither am i able to open manage applications or market. Everything force closes. I have Ti Backup installed, and i opened it, and i didnt find the new apps to back up. I connected the device and checked through adb, and they were not present in the app folder. They just vanished... So basically after a certain point of tiime, the new stuff just gets deleted on its own.
Guys i know i may sound dumb and stupid with my questions, but i really couldnt find any solution on the net for this. Please tell me waht i should do, and i'll do it. But tell me something. Dont ignore please!
and you did wipe data from within stock recovery (vol down+power etc.), i presume..
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Yes i did that too.
wiped data and cache. Restarted to cwm and installed update.zip (renamed cm 7.1 stable) and by selecting zip from sd card. Same results. Installs successfully but reverts back as soon as i restart.
Same problem here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22617834
Soumik84 said:
Yes i did that too.
wiped data and cache. Restarted to cwm and installed update.zip (renamed cm 7.1 stable) and by selecting zip from sd card. Same results. Installs successfully but reverts back as soon as i restart.
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DL WIUI 1.12.16 ICS > copy to SD card > Boot in CWM > select zip to install > Install WIUI 1.12.16
Hopefully your problem should be solved.
I found 1.12.16 ICS with lesser FC than the 2.21
labsin said:
Same problem here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22617834
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Thanks for the link. Now i know that i am not the only one having this issue. But even there its not resolved yet.
@ headers.chennai - Thanks. I will try that ROM, along with Pikachu ROM with Aroma installer, might be a different installer can try fix it?!
BTW.. does anyone have the TI OMAP board utility? Any chance that it can be available outsite here?
I tried the arora installer and it supposedly formatted the system partition and remade it.. but as soon as it finishes and i restart.. I get back the same ROM.
Is it some way that the files are not getting deleted, like some hardware lock or fault?
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I tried the arora installer and it supposedly formatted the system partition and remade it...
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Hi, bro! What is "arora"? I should try it asap, and all other chance.
My trouble here, same as your.
Hey man.. looks like we are having same problem...
Sorry abt the typo... its Aroma Installer. Its with the Pikachu ROM in this link :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1498843
Its a new installer that launches from cwm when u try and install this ROM. u got some options to select and on selecting the complete install option,, the log shows that it formats the system partition and then creates it. I saved the log file, but for some reason the file shows up blank now. Might be problem with the launcher.. or my phone.. dont know.
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Its a new installer that launches from cwm...
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Not for me, my checkpoint without cwm