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Hi all.
Followed the guide on here:
http://androidandme.com/2010/01/hacks/video-how-to-unlock-and-root-a-nexus-one/
Rooting wasnt a problem, installing the RA wasnt a problem.
It took awhile to get the phone detected in windows through the USB Debugging mode.
Flashed it using the update-cm-5.0-N1-beta3-signed update.
Now its stuck on the screen thats flash ....
Just keeps doing it over and over. WTF is happening?
Any ideas please.
Thanks
nyzrox said:
Hi all.
Followed the guide on here:
http://androidandme.com/2010/01/hacks/video-how-to-unlock-and-root-a-nexus-one/
Rooting wasnt a problem, installing the RA wasnt a problem.
It took awhile to get the phone detected in windows through the USB Debugging mode.
Flashed it using the update-cm-5.0-N1-beta3-signed update.
Now its stuck on the screen thats flash ....
Just keeps doing it over and over. WTF is happening?
Any ideas please.
Thanks
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Did you wipe?
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Did you wipe?
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Dont know how to.
Ok detailed instructions.
You rooted and loaded Amon's recovery.(clearly being you flashed beta 3).
Did you Nandroid back up before you flashed as the directions said?
If so, you can simply restore that. and Phoen should be good.
If not,
boot back into Amon's recovery. Hold down volume thing as you click power, to get bootload, then scroll to recovery..
In Amon's recovery, you need to Wipe, Then flash Cyan's beta 3 which should be located on the top level of you SD card.
IN future. ALWAYS do Nandroid backup. I'm new, but when i screwed up i could just restore really easily. Avoided alot of pain/stress that way.
If you still end up having trouble, we can chat via some instant messenger or something.
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If you still end up having trouble, we can chat via some instant messenger or something.
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PM Me your msn or AIM please.
nyzrox said:
Dont know how to.
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Using Amon's RA, there are a list of options, one of them is "wip", open that up and it will give you a list of things to wipe. You will want to "wipe data", "wipe dalvik-cache" and "wipe ext"... then, go to SD card and repair your ext.
Now would be a good time to add in an ext file to your SD card if you want to use apps to SD card... you cand do that in Amon's recovery as well under the SD option, just select "partition SD card FAT32, ext2" and follow the insturctions... then I would recommend selecting the "upgrade ext2 to ext3" option afterwards.
Once you have done all the wiping, partitioned your SD card, do 1 more "wipe data" for good measure, then flash CM's 5.0 beta, then flash the google apps pack, then reboot and you should be good to go.
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Did you wipe?
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Dont know how to.
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I just lol'd.
I didnt see the Wipe option under flash from SD thats all
if you dont wipe first before installing new rom then this will happen to you.
i had the same problem and i wiped it and re-installed and it worked perfectly
theres a "wipe" option when you in the recovery boot image
Its all ok now. I got worried and flashed standard rom back using 'fastboot flash system system.something'
Then it booted fine, so turned off. Went into the bootloader, then down to recovery and saw 'Wipe'
Haha
haha, i am curious to know if anyone has managed to brick their N1 yet?
Okay, today I was about to flash a new rom so I attempted to wipe, but I got an error that the phone could not mount the cache (and later couldn't mount data). It says "E:Can't mount CACHE:recovery/command" on the next line "E:Can't mount CACHE:recovery/log" and the next "E:Can't open CACHE:recovery/log". So I have tried reflashing recovery to fix it and it did not work. I cannot flash any rom without an error or restore my nandroid backups. I am in the process of trying to restore the nandroid backups throught fastboot. Can anyone give me any help on this?
SOLUTION: blancoisgod recommends formatting the cache partition to fix this problem
Did you pull the battery and retry?
Yep. Actually, the phone wont even turn on anymore. I will just have to return it to tmobile tomorrow
toby4059 said:
Yep. Actually, the phone wont even turn on anymore. I will just have to return it to tmobile tomorrow
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This is exactly why manufacturers don't want people rooting and messing with their phones.
So because of your stupidity and lack of foresight you're now going to return your phone?! That's laughable.
Now T-Mobile and HTC have to pick up the bill for someone else's ignorance.
Note to self....remember your name and never help you!
No man dont turn it into tmobile. Now everyone is gonna ride you because you broke it and your going to return it because of what you have done,not the manufacturer.
Go ahead and turn it in, but please read around a bit before you do this again.
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This is exactly why manufacturers don't want people rooting and messing with their phones.
So because of your stupidity and lack of foresight you're now going to return your phone?! That's laughable.
Now T-Mobile and HTC have to pick up the bill for someone else's ignorance.
Note to self....remember your name and never help you!
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Your right it is my fault; although, I am not sure what I did wrong. I am not a complete idiot and have been doing this stuff for a while. I did everything by the instructions and this happened. I actually saw this happen to someone in the G2 forum but no one found a solution. I see how returning the phone would be wrong but what are my options? I am only 15, no income, so what could I do. If I had income of course I would just pay for a new phone. I hope I am not coming off as a dumb juvenile crook, I apologize.
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Your right it is my fault; although, I am not sure what I did wrong. I am not a complete idiot and have been doing this stuff for a while. I did everything by the instructions and this happened. I actually saw this happen to someone in the G2 forum but no one found a solution. I see how returning the phone would be wrong but what are my options? I am only 15, no income, so what could I do. If I had income of course I would just pay for a new phone. I hope I am not coming off as a dumb juvenile crook, I apologize.
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Did you make a backup image? If so you could just flash your recovery image and be golden. If not, then your options are very limited.
I was not trying to hurt or insult your feelings but we constantly see people who 'think' they know what they're doing with these same issues all day every day.
My advice is limited as well at this point because I'm not sure exactly what you've done or precautions you had in place for this.
Can you even boot into the OS at all? Do a factory reset?
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Did you make a backup image? If so you could just flash your recovery image and be golden. If not, then your options are very limited.
I was not trying to hurt or insult your feelings but we constantly see people who 'think' they know what they're doing with these same issues all day every day.
My advice is limited as well at this point because I'm not sure exactly what you've done or precautions you had in place for this.
Can you even boot into the OS at all? Do a factory reset?
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I cannot turn the phone on what so ever. I was flashing my backup through fastboot then tried to reboot and now it will no longer turn on. I fastboot erased recovery, system, userdata, and boot and restored them from the nandroid backup I had taken prior to the error. The day prior I had rooted successfully and flashed the desire z port. I decided I wanted to try the HD port so I wiped and flashed the rom. When I rebooted it got to the lockscreen and it showed some graphical corruption then began to boot loop. I turned it off and went to recovery and thats when the CACHE errors started. Was I supposed to wipe the dav cache because I am pretty sure I did. I just want to find out what I did wrong so it won't happen to me or anyone else.
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I cannot turn the phone on what so ever. I was flashing my backup through fastboot then tried to reboot and now it will no longer turn on. I fastboot erased recovery, system, userdata, and boot and restored them from the nandroid backup I had taken prior to the error. The day prior I had rooted successfully and flashed the desire z port. I decided I wanted to try the HD port so I wiped and flashed the rom. When I rebooted it got to the lockscreen and it showed some graphical corruption then began to boot loop. I turned it off and went to recovery and thats when the CACHE errors started. Was I supposed to wipe the dav cache because I am pretty sure I did. I just want to find out what I did wrong so it won't happen to me or anyone else.
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Between ROM's, you said you wiped. What did you wipe? Cache? Dalvik? Partition?
You said you're not too sure so I am going to assume you either didn't wipe something you should have or you did wipe something you shouldn't have.
Try this. Remove the battery for 10 minutes. When the battery is removed, hold the power button for about 2 minutes. This will drain any residual current left on the board. After the 10 minutes are up, try reinserting the battery, hold the volume- button and try to power on. We'll see if you can manage to boot into recovery at this point.
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Between ROM's, you said you wiped. What did you wipe? Cache? Dalvik? Partition?
You said you're not too sure so I am going to assume you either didn't wipe something you should have or you did wipe something you shouldn't have.
Try this. Remove the battery for 10 minutes. When the battery is removed, hold the power button for about 2 minutes. This will drain any residual current left on the board. After the 10 minutes are up, try reinserting the battery, hold the volume- button and try to power on. We'll see if you can manage to boot into recovery at this point.
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Okay I will give that a try thanks.
I had the same error just right now man
What you want to do is format the cache partition when you get the thing booted.
blancoisgod said:
I had the same error just right now man
What you want to do is format the cache partition when you get the thing booted.
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Did you do that and did it fix? I did that through adb and thats when it stopped booting, although I think the boot issue is unrelated to my current problem.
i did it via clockwork
Alright, I will try this if I can ever get my phone started again.
Guys, its my first time to try to do some modding on Android and unfortunately Im stuck with a problem.
I did a good install with drivers, unlocked it successfully then installed TWRP 2.5 mako. after installing TWRP, I locked my phone again. Then I went to TWRP recovery then made a backup. After backup was complete, I was to reboot but was prompted something like "my device seemed not to be rooted. Do you like to install SU?" But I choose "dot not install" instead. Then it rebooted. Then the Google logo showed up longer than usual, then the X logo and was stuck on it from there. I waited till morning thinkin the phone might be configuring itself for the first time after all the things I have done but to my surprise, when I got up this morning, still on the X logo! I then tried to reset by pressing the power button for some seconds. It rebooted but same thing happens, google logo showed up for a longer time than usual then stuck again on the X logo. Then I tried fastboot, it did went to fastboot. Tried to reset bootloader, tried using TWRP reset system and reboot but still no success.
What do you think happenede and what did I do wrong? What should I do now to fix this.
Im really nervous now thinking I might have bricked my phone. Im a newbie so I really have no idea..
Hope you guys could help. Thanks!
Try clearing cache in twrp if that doesn't work flash the stock recovery and clear cache from there.
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El Daddy said:
Try clearing cache in twrp if that doesn't work flash the stock recovery and clear cache from there.
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thanks for the reply. You mean using "Wipe" in twrp right? After choosing wipe, i was prompted with 2 button options and a swipe option. 1 button was "advance wipe", the other was "format data" and the swipe option was "swipe to factory reset" what should I use? It says "factory reset wipes data, cache and dalvik (not including internal storage). Most of the time this is the only wipe that you need." You mentioned to try to clear cache, do you mean to say the data and dalvic as well? If so then should I choose the swip option which is "factory reset"?
Thanks again..
Nope just the cache. This phone sometimes has issues when wiping data/cache from the bootloader. (Which is what happens when you unlock the bootloader) The way to fix the bootloop problem is to wipe cache using the stock recovery.
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vinz_bangiz said:
thanks for the reply. You mean using "Wipe" in twrp right? After choosing wipe, i was prompted with 2 button options and a swipe option. 1 button was "advance wipe", the other was "format data" and the swipe option was "swipe to factory reset" what should I use? It says "factory reset wipes data, cache and dalvik (not including internal storage). Most of the time this is the only wipe that you need." You mentioned to try to clear cache, do you mean to say the data and dalvic as well? If so then should I choose the swip option which is "factory reset"?
Thanks again..
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Try factory reset first if that doesn't work you may have to sideload a ROM onto it. The same thing happened to me a couple of times. Sometimes a factory reset worked but most of the time I ended up sideloading.
El Daddy said:
Nope just the cache. This phone sometimes has issues when wiping data/cache from the bootloader. (Which is what happens when you unlock the bootloader) The way to fix the bootloop problem is to wipe cache using the stock recovery.
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so just to clear, i would not try anymore to clear cache via twrp or should i try it first before flashing stock recovery and clearing it from there? To be honest, im quite careful now in every move ill make coz Im afraid i might make matters worst.
Pls advice. thanks for your patience.
by the way, in case I would really need to flash stock rom, how to do it and where to get right stock recovery?
Thanks again!
All the info to flash recovery and resources are here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
Basically, download the stock image. Extract the folder down til you see the recovery.img.
Then using fastboot type the command:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Then boot into recovery and clear cache.
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El Daddy said:
All the info to flash recovery and resources are here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010312
Basically, download the stock image. Extract the folder down til you see the recovery.img.
Then using fastboot type the command:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Then boot into recovery and clear cache.
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oh ok. I understand now. Sorry, its my first time so im not that familiar yet on how things go. I did a lot of reading and browsing as well but xda sure is very overwhelming in information..
P41ll37 is suggesting sideload which I also am not yet familiar with. i tried to search it but most of it led to using a toolkit. I mentioned in another post that I made that I wanted to learn instead of jsut being able to fix my problems. Could you advice me as well or lead me to the right link to know how to do this.
Thanks!
Guys! before trying anything else, I tried to clear cache using TWRP and choosing advance then marked the delvic cache and cache then restarted system, was asked if I wanted to installed SU, this time I choose yes, it rebooted by itself, but still nothing happened. same stuck on X logo problem.
But then, I tried wipe again in TWRP this time choosing factory reset, then restarted system again, google logo did stay a longer but not as long as before, then X logo appeared and stayed there like forever but after a minute or so.. FINALLY! it went to the Welcome screen asking for what language I should use.
So i guess this means it is fixed already?
Also, since I choose to install SU a while ago, does this mean my phone is already rooted as well? How would I know? Well, maybe installing a root app like titanium backup should tell right?
If so, then looks like I have advanced already on my step by step learning to mod my phone. I was only in the unlocking and custom recovery part last night. Tonight was supposed to be rooting and putting custom rom but I was still trying to learn thru our forum guides.
I wana thank you guys for your time, kind help and suggestions. This was my first experience in modding and right away I was faced with a problem to be solved. This is good anyway as a learning experience.
One last thing, could you guys tell what really happend, how I went into this kind of problem or what caused it? As I mentioned, I was noping not only to mod or fix my phone but rather really learn on how to do or fix things. Like a difference between a toolkit and manually doing it. Right?
Thanks again guys!
vinz_bangiz said:
Guys! before trying anything else, I tried to clear cache using TWRP and choosing advance then marked the delvic cache and cache then restarted system, was asked if I wanted to installed SU, this time I choose yes, it rebooted by itself, but still nothing happened. same stuck on X logo problem.
But then, I tried wipe again in TWRP this time choosing factory reset, then restarted system again, google logo did stay a longer but not as long as before, then X logo appeared and stayed there like forever but after a minute or so.. FINALLY! it went to the Welcome screen asking for what language I should use.
So i guess this means it is fixed already?
Also, since I choose to install SU a while ago, does this mean my phone is already rooted as well? How would I know? Well, maybe installing a root app like titanium backup should tell right?
If so, then looks like I have advanced already on my step by step learning to mod my phone. I was only in the unlocking and custom recovery part last night. Tonight was supposed to be rooting and putting custom rom but I was still trying to learn thru our forum guides.
I wana thank you guys for your time, kind help and suggestions. This was my first experience in modding and right away I was faced with a problem to be solved. This is good anyway as a learning experience.
One last thing, could you guys tell what really happend, how I went into this kind of problem or what caused it? As I mentioned, I was noping not only to mod or fix my phone but rather really learn on how to do or fix things. Like a difference between a toolkit and manually doing it. Right?
Thanks again guys!
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basically whenever you flash a factory image (and perhaps even some custom ROMS) you have to do a factory reset for really two reasons. The first reason is to get it out of bootloop. For some reason whenever the phone is flashed it will go on endless loop until you boot into recovery and factory reset. Also, you will need to check your storage after you flash. The phone has a tendency to lose half its memory after a flash. Check storage and if at half memory do another factory wipe and you should be good to go.
The easiest way I do it is to simply reboot the phone after flashing the files, I then allow the phone to reboot and get stuck on the bootloop. I then hard shut the phone off by holding down power. Once shut down boot into fastboot and then fastboot boot TWRP recovery where I then wipe the phone. After it reboots it will stick on the X logo for a few minutes and get to the welcome screen. From there log in and get it set up again.
Also, this is where you should check storage. I notice that more often than not mine still is only half storage (despite my TWRP wipe), so I use the phone to factory reset and then when it reboots the phone has full storage again.
Im sure there is probably someone out there with a better system but that is how I do it.
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basically whenever you flash a factory image (and perhaps even some custom ROMS) you have to do a factory reset for really two reasons. The first reason is to get it out of bootloop. For some reason whenever the phone is flashed it will go on endless loop until you boot into recovery and factory reset. Also, you will need to check your storage after you flash. The phone has a tendency to lose half its memory after a flash. Check storage and if at half memory do another factory wipe and you should be good to go.
The easiest way I do it is to simply reboot the phone after flashing the files, I then allow the phone to reboot and get stuck on the bootloop. I then hard shut the phone off by holding down power. Once shut down boot into fastboot and then fastboot boot TWRP recovery where I then wipe the phone. After it reboots it will stick on the X logo for a few minutes and get to the welcome screen. From there log in and get it set up again.
Also, this is where you should check storage. I notice that more often than not mine still is only half storage (despite my TWRP wipe), so I use the phone to factory reset and then when it reboots the phone has full storage again.
Im sure there is probably someone out there with a better system but that is how I do it.
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Thanks for the reply. really very informative!
The easiest way I do it is to simply reboot the phone after flashing the files, I then allow the phone to reboot and get stuck on the bootloop. I then hard shut the phone off by holding down power. Once shut down boot into fastboot and then fastboot boot TWRP recovery where I then wipe the phone. After it reboots it will stick on the X logo for a few minutes and get to the welcome screen. From there log in and get it set up again.
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Actually, this is exactly what I did and the one that solved my problem.
Also, this is where you should check storage. I notice that more often than not mine still is only half storage (despite my TWRP wipe), so I use the phone to factory reset and then when it reboots the phone has full storage again.
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About this, are you referring to the remaining free storage or that actual usable storage of the phone. To my knowledge, a new 16gb nex4 would actually give you about 12+gb of free usuable space. Do you mean I should observe if this has dropped to about 6gb? or are you reffering to for example I have 5gb remaining free space before flashing and rebooting then after this I should observe if the "remaining free" space is now only around 2.5gb after rebooting it?
Looking forward to your clarification.. thanks again!
Hi fellow XDA-ers,
I am sorry to say I was too overconfident this time and while attempting to reset my phone, and i bricked it (i think).
So I was updating my N910F to the latest build of the official CM12.1, but I kept receiving weird problems such as no audio when taking videos, or random force closes. Since i hadn't done a wipe in a while (approx 3 months) i thought I'd do it before installing the latest build.
I booted into TWRP recovery, and then did an advanced wipe, and wiped system, data, cache and dalvik (i.e. everything but the ext sd card and the internal storage). I wanted to be thorough you see...
I then attempted to reboot the recovery before doing the installation, but I accidentally pressed system instead of recovery in the reboot menu.
Now my phone only gets to the samsung splash screen, waits for about 3 seconds and then closes again. I have to remove the battery and reinsert it again to get it to repeat this. Plugging it into the PC doesn't allow it to start. I can't reach recovery (otherwise this would be simple!). What can i do?
I would appreciate any and all help you can offer! please help!!
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Hi fellow XDA-ers,
I am sorry to say I was too overconfident this time and while attempting to reset my phone, and i bricked it (i think).
So I was updating my N910F to the latest build of the official CM12.1, but I kept receiving weird problems such as no audio when taking videos, or random force closes. Since i hadn't done a wipe in a while (approx 3 months) i thought I'd do it before installing the latest build.
I booted into TWRP recovery, and then did an advanced wipe, and wiped system, data, cache and dalvik (i.e. everything but the ext sd card and the internal storage). I wanted to be thorough you see...
I then attempted to reboot the recovery before doing the installation, but I accidentally pressed system instead of recovery in the reboot menu.
Now my phone only gets to the samsung splash screen, waits for about 3 seconds and then closes again. I have to remove the battery and reinsert it again to get it to repeat this. Plugging it into the PC doesn't allow it to start. I can't reach recovery (otherwise this would be simple!). What can i do?
I would appreciate any and all help you can offer! please help!!
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Don't be scared mate, I know it looks ugly but I doesn't, here what you need to do:
first of all try to boot into DOWNLOAD mode, if you can, then you are FINE, power off the phone and press and hold Volume down+home+power for about 5 sec then let them go, phone will boot into DOWNLOAD mode, then
go to www.sammobile.com and download the latest firmware for your device model,
download Odin, there on sammobile website they have the instructions and everything you need,
read and follow all steps and instructions
after downloading the firmware you gonna unzipped and extract the odin file, then
open Odin, Click PDA and navigate to the file you extracted,
then click start, PHONE MUST BE ON DOWNLOAD MODE
This will restore your phone from factory, everything will be wiped, just to let you know, you gonna end having like a brand new phone, now after that, you can root your phone again, and be more carefull fashing roms,
If helped please use the Thanks Button, god bless, cheers:fingers-crossed:
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Don't be scared mate, I know it looks ugly but I doesn't, here what you need to do:
first of all try to boot into DOWNLOAD mode, if you can, then you are FINE, power off the phone and press and hold Volume down+home+power for about 5 sec then let them go, phone will boot into DOWNLOAD mode, then
go to (link) and download the latest firmware for your device model,
download Odin, there on sammobile website they have the instructions and everything you need,
read and follow all steps and instructions
after downloading the firmware you gonna unzipped and extract the odin file, then
open Odin, Click PDA and navigate to the file you extracted,
then click start, PHONE MUST BE ON DOWNLOAD MODE
This will restore your phone from factory, everything will be wiped, just to let you know, you gonna end having like a brand new phone, now after that, you can root your phone again, and be more carefull fashing roms,
If helped please use the Thanks Button, god bless, cheers:fingers-crossed:
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Hi, thanks for your reply
Before restoring I did a full backup on titaniumBackup so I'm not worried at all about resetting the phone to stock. Trouble is, i can't get to download mode. The phone dies before I can get it to that mode. Is there a way to force it into download mode?
thanks so much for replying so quick!
thefirstguyafterthatguy said:
Hi, thanks for your reply
Before restoring I did a full backup on titaniumBackup so I'm not worried at all about resetting the phone to stock. Trouble is, i can't get to download mode. The phone dies before I can get it to that mode. Is there a way to force it into download mode?
thanks so much for replying so quick!
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[edit] managed to get it into download mode after unplugging it from the PC
thanks so much! it's great to see the phone reply for once!
will follow your steps and report on how it goes
thefirstguyafterthatguy said:
[edit] managed to get it into download mode after unplugging it from the PC
thanks so much! it's great to see the phone reply for once!
will follow your steps and report on how it goes
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that's very good news to read, follow all steps very carefully, im sure everything will be ok, let us know, cheers:fingers-crossed:
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that's very good news to read, follow all steps very carefully, im sure everything will be ok, let us know, cheers:fingers-crossed:
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It lives!
It works perfectly now! thank you so much! I have been rooting for many years now so I thought I knew it all! Guess we learn something new everyday
Speaking of which, if you are willing, can you please explain what went wrong? I would like to know what I did so I can better understand my mistake. I am sure it has to do with what i deleted from the advanced wipe menu? What happens if i wipe and then restart?
Thanks again friend, very quick, friendly and helpful.
thefirstguyafterthatguy said:
It lives!
It works perfectly now! thank you so much! I have been rooting for many years now so I thought I knew it all! Guess we learn something new everyday
Speaking of which, if you are willing, can you please explain what went wrong? I would like to know what I did so I can better understand my mistake. I am sure it has to do with what i deleted from the advanced wipe menu? What happens if i wipe and then restart?
Thanks again friend, very quick, friendly and helpful.
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well, for my understand this is where you made a mistake I then attempted to reboot the recovery before doing the installation, but I accidentally pressed system instead of recovery in the reboot menu.
after wiping everything you phone doesn't have anything to boot, ive done it before as well, nothing wrong with that, that's the only cost, booting to factory again, but it was good you had everything backed up with titanium, just like me lol, you already know next time just go easy thru recovery, cheers:fingers-crossed:
so..
i have a g900f to resoft it.
i downloaded odin 3.12 and the latest android 5(yeah, 5, because the owner doesn't like the 6th android)
1)i started odin
2) i selected the software in AP
3)i turned off the samsung, started it in downloade mode(i forgot to activate usb debugging)
4)i connected it to pc
5)i presed START and waited
Odin finished it's proces, but the phone didn't go over "samsung"(when i turn it on). I asked a friend, and he told me that i can't flash an old android, if i installed android 6 Over The Air(yeah..the owner's phone updated it OTA)
OK...I downloaded the latesc android version, repeat the same proces, but now..the phone stucked again at "samsung" step when it was restarting. i reflashed the same version...and it worked. The phone starded to instal 270 files. i was happy, but..i picked up the phone, and the battery feld down when it was installing those 270 files. i put the battery back, turn it on, but it stucked on "samsung". i tried to reflash the same version, but it keeps to stuck in "samsung" step.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO NOW!!!
PLEASE HELP ME!!! (
boot into recovery and wipe caches and reset phone.
whenever downgrading need to wipe/reset
vincom said:
boot into recovery and wipe caches and reset phone.
whenever downgrading need to wipe/reset
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how can i do it?
i hate samsung...i own a sony. can you give me your facebook, to talk live, if you are good, please
ooo!
i forgot to mention!
when it is stuck in "samsung" step, it show "sistem UI stopped working" over and over...
i dont belong to any social media sites.
its easy, i could post info but there are many utube vids on "how to boot samsung s5 into recovery"
vincom said:
i dont belong to any social media sites.
its easy, i could post info but there are many utube vids on "how to boot samsung s5 into recovery"
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i wiped cache, and nothing..
vincom said:
i dont belong to any social media sites.
its easy, i could post info but there are many utube vids on "how to boot samsung s5 into recovery"
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what happens if i wipe data/factory reset?
CHINEZU097 said:
i wiped cache, and nothing..
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CHINEZU097 said:
what happens if i wipe data/factory reset?
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u also need to reset, it wipes any apps/data that were not part of fw and resets phone back to default settings
vincom said:
u also need to reset
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how can i reset? cand you write me, pls, a step by step tutorial to solve this phone?
CHINEZU097 said:
how can i reset? cand you write me, pls, a step by step tutorial to solve this phone?
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its one of the menus in recovery - wipe data/factory reset
watch the vids, take your time and dont rush, phone is not broken, relax
ok..
1)enter in recovery mode
2) wipe cache
3)wipe data/factory reset
4) restart now
is it right?
sorry if i look dumbass, but i realy don't know what to do..i don't know why didn't work to reaflash a new firmware with odin and solve everything
CHINEZU097 said:
ok..
1)enter in recovery mode
2) wipe cache
3)wipe data/factory reset
4) restart now
is it right?
sorry if i look dumbass, but i realy don't know what to do..i don't know why didn't work to reaflash a new firmware with odin and solve everything
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yup
CHINEZU097 said:
how can i reset? cand you write me, pls, a step by step tutorial to solve this phone?
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wipe cache, factory reset, then turn off straight away.
Turn on into download (opposite vol button from recovery)
Open odin
put device in, get port blue
make sure odin is set up properly
flash again
thats all i can think of
andyg33 said:
wipe cache, factory reset, then turn off straight away.
Turn on into download (opposite vol button from recovery)
Open odin
put device in, get port blue
make sure odin is set up properly
flash again
thats all i can think of
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if reset didnt work then that would be his next step, reflash via odin, but didnt want to jump the gun and give him too much to think about.
theres also another step if reflashing fails lol.
vincom said:
yup
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done that...and it is stucked in "samsung" step for 10 minutes, and it is very warm
CHINEZU097 said:
done that...and it is stucked in "samsung" step for 10 minutes, and it is very warm
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it could take well over 10mins to completely bootup, being warm is actually a good sign, blow onit to keep it cool or take off battery cover to help keep cool
vincom said:
if reset didnt work then that would be his next step, reflash via odin, but didnt want to jump the gun and give him too much to think about.
theres also another step if reflashing fails lol.
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You're right, keep that for later
vincom said:
it could take well over 10mins to completely bootup, being warm is actually a good sign, blow onit to keep it cool or take off battery cover to help keep cool
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ok..it started..in the end
if you wanna answer, i have some quiestions:
1)after the next update OTA, phone's owner will make it(because she is noob..she doesn's listen to me to update it with pc), if the phone will have problems again, can i only wipe cache => wipe data/factory reset=> restart now to make it like new, from factory, or i have to flash the latest firmware with odin?
2) she will instal a lot of trash on it, and it will have lag and won't work properly.... can i wipe cache=> wipe data/factory reset => restart now to make it like new? (in this case, the phone is on the actual firmware, no updates)