Ok, so I tried flashing the JI6 update and guess what... stuck at the Vibrant boot screen. I'm able to get into recovery and tried to restore an old nandroid backup to no avail.
The only thing that I have done to the phone is root and the GPS fix (in the Tips& Tricks Thread).
Any ideas on how to get a workable phone again?
How long did you let it sit at the Vibrant screen for? I remember mine taking a while. Maybe let it sit for 10 mins or so. If that doesn't work, an Odin flash should solve your issue.
Good luck.
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I am trying to update to the newest fresh rom and started out by flashing my radio. When it got to the point where it was supposed to reboot it never did after waiting about 20 mins for the thing to reboot I finally hit the power button. It vibrates and eventually does the fresh boot animation sound and everything but the screen never comes on. It doesnt come on for the for white HTC logo or anything.
If I pull the battery and let it sit for about 10 mins I was able to get it to come back once but then as soon as it reboots again it doesnt come back on. Have yet to be able to get it back again
I apologize if this has been covered I tried to search but that just made me more frustrated trying to sift through everything.
please help.
Have you tried to do a nandroid restore?
I cant get to recovery mode to do one. The screen never turns on when I try to reboot into recovery
Can you get into the bootloader at all?
I was able to once when the screen came on. I did a nandroid backup and it is still happening.
The only thing you might be able to do is use the official ruu and then root all over again
do you think that will fix it? I hate to lose everything
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do you think that will fix it? I hate to lose everything
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either way, even if it doesn't fix it, you don't want the fresh boot sound if you take it in for service... voids your warranty... ruu it. if it fixes it, great, if not, there is no way to tell if the warranty is voided
If you nandroid backupped after you experienced problems, there's no use in restoring. If you can get into recovery, wipe everything and reflash your Rom.
Hey guys i know "Help!" threads get annoying (at least in the Fascinate forum they do.) but i could really use some help.
Rooted my friends phone today (root,clockwork,rom manager), and was going to install regular JAC kernal /voodoo w/o color fix.. I made sure the phone had the smaller NAND chip. Installation went fine (phone booted, voice told me it was switching to ext. 4.) and the voice said voodoo was complete. The phone was stuck at the S logo for about an hour and it was then i decided voodoo was botched. From there i rebooted to clockwork and went to restore the nandroid i made when i rooted. The nandroid got stock at one of the Data files for about 30 minutes. (i have a feeling this is around where i messed things up myself) Decided screw it and was going to flash JI6(T959UVJI6) and the stock kernal with ODIN. Now the phone boots past the S logo but the screen stays black and only the backlight menu buttons light up. It wont go past there. Any quick help is appreciated.
You didn't disable the lagfix I'm assuming.
Odin Eugene's Froyo that doesn't brick, then Odin JFD, install ROM of you're choosing.
Did you even try to search for a fix before posting???
~SB
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Hey guys i know "Help!" threads get annoying (at least in the Fascinate forum they do.) but i could really use some help.
Rooted my friends phone today (root,clockwork,rom manager), and was going to install regular JAC kernal /voodoo w/o color fix.. I made sure the phone had the smaller NAND chip. Installation went fine (phone booted, voice told me it was switching to ext. 4.) and the voice said voodoo was complete. The phone was stuck at the S logo for about an hour and it was then i decided voodoo was botched. From there i rebooted to clockwork and went to restore the nandroid i made when i rooted. The nandroid got stock at one of the Data files for about 30 minutes. (i have a feeling this is around where i messed things up myself) Decided screw it and was going to flash JI6(T959UVJI6) and the stock kernal with ODIN. Now the phone boots past the S logo but the screen stays black and only the backlight menu buttons light up. It wont go past there. Any quick help is appreciated.
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If you can still boot into clockwork recov. you can save it by pushing the undo voodoo zip file that was mentioned about. Assuming that u have adb access. If not odin froyo that doesnt brick tepartition checked. Turn off. Boot back in download. Odin stock jdf. Ji6 isnt a standalone rom. Its more like a no wipe update. Lucky his vibrant wasnt hardware locked lol. He will have a 90% chance of losing EVERYTHING
Had to odin flash froyo that doesnt brick then jfd and yep he lost all his data but he didnt have much to begin with. Now happily running Fusion. Thanks for the help guys!
I'm a relative newbie and not very tech-oriented, and I appear to have screwed up big time. I'd appreciate any help that can be offered. To cut to the chase, when I attempt to boot up my Fascinate, it gets stuck indefinitely on the Samsung logo.
Here's what I did to screw it up. I rooted my phone when I first got it last year and did a lagfix. It unrooted with the update to JD05. Yesterday I attempted to root it again using two different 1-click methods, neither of which worked. I then followed the instructions in the "Modified CWMrecovery for Odin" thread, not having it work until finally succeeding in getting root using CWM Red. The phone rebooted and was rooted, and everything seemed fine, so I used Rom Manager to Boot to Recovery. This did something strange--it took 15 minutes to get to the recovery screen, with a digital voice periodically telling me how much longer it would take. When I got to the recovery screen the first thing I did was to perform a backup. I think this effort to be safe did me in, because the phone must have already been screwed up then and I think I backed up the screw-up.
I then attempted to reboot and since then all efforts get me stuck on the Samsung logo. I've tried almost all options from the Recovery screen: reboot system now, apply sdcard update.zip, wipe date/factory reset, wipe cache partition, install zip from ascard, and restore. All bring the same locked up phone.
I'd appreciate any ideas to bring my Fascinate back to life!
First off the only way to get to red CWM is to install a voodoo 5 kernel. I'm thinking the voodoo kernel and the one click lag fix don't play well together. I'm sure someone else will step in with more info however I would start by looking for a thred called how to completely remove voodoo. Then try odin to restore. Good luck.
Edit. I read your post again and not sure if u did one click lag fix or just an older voodoo kernel. Either way same result u have to disable voodoo 4 and one click to install voodoo 5. Odin it. The voice u hear was the voodoo kernel converting your system to ext4 if this was the first time you've heard this I think your first lag fix may have been the one click.
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Yes this happed to me too. If i take it to the Verizon store will they know my phone is rooted and moded? i need help ASAP
Search the forums on how to properly removed the voodoo lag fix. Then you need to reflash dj05. Voodoo doesn't really do much except for show you a higher quadrant score and limit to what roms/themes you can install. Same thing happened to me. Just do a quick search, I think its in the development section. The easiest way to remove it is with and. Hope this is somewhat helpful.
so fresh and so superclean.
Don't bring it to verizon because you would be defrauding them for your mistake. see if you can access your sd card through the computer and put either a file or folder in the voodoo folder called disable_lagfix and try booting again. If that doesn't help (it is probably too late for that) then you need to flash back to stock through odin. find the thread in development on how to do that. Good luck. Your phone is not broken. Breathe.
Sent from my sch-i500 using dl09 supah clean
Here is the ODIN back to stock if you don't want to bother with removing Voodoo. That should fix your phone with or without Voodoo. It's always worked for me.
THANKS SO MUCH its back to normal i cant thank you enough
Many thanks for all of the help.
Ok, I just started experiencing an issue. I suddenly can't get into recovery. Here is a little back history. My N7 was running CNA 3.6.6 (I know, but...), and I was bored so I decided to try ParanoidAndroid. Well, I have that gotta try something else feeling again, and when I try to get into recovery, it will go to the google screen, then go black for about 10 seconds, then go back to the Google screen and boot up. This happens if I reboot to recovery through the power menu, or getting into recovery from the bootloader. I even tried Quick Boot, in hopes it had some magic I didn't. No luck. The same crap. I even switched from TWRP to clockwork recoveries, and the same crap happens (I tried the same things I did originally).
Also tried through other apps too, like Rom Manager, Rom Toolbox, and TiBu. Everything works, but I am bored with this rom... I have tried turning it off, plugging the N7 into a PC and trying to get into recovery. Again, I can get into the bootloader, but as soon as I select recovery, it goes black, then fully reboots...
Anyone have any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Have you tried re-flashing a recovery image, eg TWRP 2.3, from fastboot?
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Have you tried re-flashing a recovery image, eg TWRP 2.3, from fastboot?
Sent from my Nexus 7
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Thanks for the reply. I will give this a try (gotta wait until after 10pm...or 17 minutes!). Again, thanks, hope this works.
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Thanks for the reply. I will give this a try (gotta wait until after 10pm...or 17 minutes!). Again, thanks, hope this works.
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Scheiße, I reflashed TWRP in fastboot, and I am getting the same result. I think my N7 forgot it has a recovery!? I will try flashing clockwork through fastboot and see if this works. Thanks for your help...
Edit: Clockwork does not help. There is no recovery for me. I am now at a loss. Hopefully someone will have some suggestions...
Finally got my recovery back...damn latest bootloader!
Yeah, this has sucked. I have spent several hours figuring out what the hell went wrong. It turns out its the latest bootloader. Others are having this issue. So, I had to go back to stock (which will erase EVERYTHING) and then had to re-root. Now that my bootloader is back to JRO03D, I am back up and running.
So, the first time I did this route, I decided to take the update and re-root my N7, and ran into the same issue. I could not get into recovery. So, I had to do it all over, this time not taking the update and not updating the bootloaders, and I am now back and already have a ROM running and everything installed.
If you want to go this route, here are a couple of links that will help...
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/28544-guide-nexus-7-bootloadersrecoveriesrootback-to-stock/#entry764328 and go to the Back To Stock section. The next part is for rooting (if you wish to do this yourself)...
http://www.talkandroid.com/guides/misc/how-to-unlock-and-root-the-nexus-7/
I will post this in case anyone has a need for this info...
Unable to get into Recovery after 4.1.2 upgrade... - xda-developers
Any help?
I installed CM10.1.3 using Odin and TWRP. Well, I didn't have my contacts so I'm trying to restore it to the backup I made so I can save those to the SD card and reload CM. Therein lies the problem. I cleared the caches, restored the backup and all went well until I tried to reboot. My phone has been stuck on the Sprint screen for over half an hour and won't boot. I know the first boot takes longer but not 30+ minutes right?! What's going on?
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I installed CM10.1.3 using Odin and TWRP. Well, I didn't have my contacts so I'm trying to restore it to the backup I made so I can save those to the SD card and reload CM. Therein lies the problem. I cleared the caches, restored the backup and all went well until I tried to reboot. My phone has been stuck on the Sprint screen for over half an hour and won't boot. I know the first boot takes longer but not 30+ minutes right?! What's going on?
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Try a battery pull and start from scratch.
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Try a battery pull and start from scratch.
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Start from scratch as in reload the backup? Or just try to power on?
Trying both. Pulled battery and tried to turn it on with the same result. Stuck on the Sprint screen. I'll try restoring the backup again and report back.
Not looking good. Restored the backup again and clicked Reboot. 10+ minutes on the Sprint screen so far.
Didn't work. Gonna try reinstalling cyanomod. Hopefully I can end up with at least something that will fully boot.
Nothing is working. I can't even figure out how to get cyanogenmod back on the divice. Last time I downloaded that from the phone.
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Nothing is working. I can't even figure out how to get cyanogenmod back on the divice. Last time I downloaded that from the phone.
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Which build are you on? MDC, MDL,MF9, MJA? Just curious?
GS4 Stock Rooted MJA 4.3,Philz Touch CWM,HotSpot Mod,Transparent Weather Widget,8SMS(Stock Messaging,KitKat)
Simply try a factory reset in your recovery.
I would also recommend a factory reset, either through recovery or from ODIN. Worth noting that, if you back your contacts up to your Google account, you can import them from there when you reload, without having to reflash, export to SD, flash again. This could also work for you in the unfortunate incident that you have to factory reset without a functioning backup (like now).
Also, Titanium will of course back up contacts and MMS/SMS, for future use once you get through the soft brick.
Hey Bud, just got your PM. One thing I Noticed with the S4 is that restoring nandroids can be a real pain. I struggled with mine for hours before I came up with a way to get it done AND get root back, which was my problem.
Granted, I'm on US Cellular, but it should work the same way
The first thing you need to do is make sure you're using Odin 3.07 As Administrator
Get into D/L mode (Power + Vol Down, then hit Vol up when the screen appears - works better if you're not connected to your computer yet)
Connect your phone and open up Odin, then check Reboot, PDA and flash the stock ROM for your phone.
I THINK the .tar file is in THIS Thread
Click start, once it loads into Odin, which could take a minute so don't freak if you get Odin (Not Responding)
If it boots back up into stock, you're golden. Then you can try and re-root as normal.
Now, the problem I had, was getting Root back. It just wouldn't take, even though it showed Success, using CF Auto-Root, Klingo, etc. All of them. SU got installed, but binaries would not install, SO, here's the procedure to get Root back.
You'll need the Chainfire SuperSU Update on your SDCard and you'll need the .Tar file for either CWM (I recommend) or TWRP for the Sprint S4. Not sure where to find those but someone will know on here
Put the SU Update on your sdcard
Boot to Recovery (Power +Volume Up)
Do a Factory Reset then reboot. Skip over the setup
Power down then reboot to Download Mode
In Odin, Use PDA to browse to the CWM.tar and run it - Now you have Custom Recovery
After Phone boots up, power down and reboot to recovery.
Flash the Chainfire SU Update
Done! Just like that.
Power up and check root
Hope this helps, neighbor
All good guys. Thanks for the help.