Related
I just had my phone rooted on tuesday by a friend. It started turning itself off for the first few hours and went back to normal for a day. Last night it started turning itself on and off every minute. I know nothing about phones, can anyone help me?
How did your friend root?
Did they delete system apps?
Did they apply lag fixes?
Perhaps just flash a custom rom. Their better than stock and should fix your issue. I hope they didn't do a lag fix. Disable it if they did.
He did something like holding the power button/volume up/down to get into download mode? That's all i know. He said he didn't remove any of the system apps, or change anything. He added a wifi-tethering for me, that's why he rooted it. I know nothing about phones and computers. I'm out of town for another week so i can't have him fix it, but i need to do something so i can use my phone. Any suggestions?
oh ya, he used ODIN if i remember right
I don't know why he would be using Odin if all he was doing was rooting the phone. Can you get to the web to DL anything? I would try flashing something with clockwork till you can re-flash to stock with Odin. You need to find out what exactly your friend did when he worked on your phone.
Can you adb? I would like to see the log.
Sent from my Bionixed SGH-T959 using XDA App
my phone wont stay on long enough to do anything. When i push the power/up/down buttons at the same time i get a picture of a droid and it says power reset or unknown upload mode
whats adb? I'm a preschooler when it comes to anything computer/phone related
I was getting panic mode/upload when I was messing with eugenes kernals.
intruda119 said:
I was getting panic mode/upload when I was messing with eugenes kernals.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
As was I, and that's the only time I've seen that screen.
OP, you're friend definitely did more than simply root your phone. Especially if you say he used Odin? There's no reason to use Odin to gain root.
I would recommend you Odin back to stock and start fresh.
is there any way i can do it without Odin? I'm out of town for a week and need my phone
Rom manager / clockworkmod. Just go to the app store (it's free) and download it. Flash the recovery and flash back to stock 2.1 eclair. It should fix it then when you get home just use the one click root method to root your phone. Check the vibrant bible in android dev. to do it, it's really easy to do yourself since it is literally, one click ^_^ Also for the rom of 2.1 I also recommend going to the vibrant bible for that as well. All you have to do is dl rom manager, put the 2.1 rom on the root of your sd (not external sd) then go into rom manager and install custom rom (pick the stock 2.1). It will wipe your data but your phone should be fixed and you can always dl back your apps and import contacts through your gmail account. Hope this helps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=740077
that's eugene's stock 2.1 for vibrant flashable through clockworkmod ^_^
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.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App
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.
Hello, I am travelling and am in urgent need of fixing my mistake. I updated to EB13 and lost my root, so I rooted my epic with the EB13 fix. Everything was fine. THEN I saw the EB13 fix that also updated CLockwork and allowed you to reformat into EXT4. I did this, but somehow I am now unable to boot the phone. It hangs at the "samsung" screen.
I believe that I caused this by forgetting to flash the EB13 DualFS Kernel before rebooting... but am not sure.
Any ideas? Worst case scenario, would factory reset through clockwork fix this or am I screwed now that I went to EXT4.
Just use Odin to go back to the stock EB13. Everything will work fine after that.
scourgedirge said:
Hello, I am travelling and am in urgent need of fixing my mistake. I updated to EB13 and lost my root, so I rooted my epic with the EB13 fix. Everything was fine. THEN I saw the EB13 fix that also updated CLockwork and allowed you to reformat into EXT4. I did this, but somehow I am now unable to boot the phone. It hangs at the "samsung" screen.
I believe that I caused this by forgetting to flash the EB13 DualFS Kernel before rebooting... but am not sure.
Any ideas? Worst case scenario, would factory reset through clockwork fix this or am I screwed now that I went to EXT4.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah the problem is that u forgot to flash the dual rfs ext4 kernel. So ya u are screwed. U are going to have to flash back with odin to di18 then u have to root with the 1 click root 2.5.x.x the flash the pre rooted eb13.zip update then re root with the 1 click root cwm3. Before u re boot u have to flash the kernel. The u should b good to go with eb13 ext4. Good luck and I hope this works out for u. I went through the same thing and that's what I did.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
Whew! Thanks a lot guys. I am preparing to try this fix right now.
On a higher note, I am in Vegas, so spending a night doing this (even if I had to buy a new phone tomorrow) was probably cheaper than going out.
Yeah I kinda did the same thing I flashed the kernel but did reflash my rom. It booted up but that was about it kept hanging up screen going blank after about 20 seconds. Was a mess but a reflash of eb13 and my old rom got me going again.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using Tapatalk
I now have a working phone! Thanks for all the help... now I just have to get root AND ext4 going, then I will be happy.
i think i bricked my fone.....its stuck at the samsung screen..im able to boot clockwork but my fone wont boot up...i see suggestions for odin...but im not sure how to use it. pleaseeeeeeee help!!!
mikej826 said:
i think i bricked my fone.....its stuck at the samsung screen..im able to boot clockwork but my fone wont boot up...i see suggestions for odin...but im not sure how to use it. pleaseeeeeeee help!!!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
pm me I'll help u personally
Lol im glad to see the search works
Hello all, I'm basically freaking out as I just got my Samsung Galaxy Continuum within the last 24hours and already managed to screw it up. I used superoneclick to root the phone with no issues. I then got Titatnium Backup and enabled the chuck norris thing to freeze bloatware. I rebooted the phone and now it says Samsung lights up the intro screen and then after that I can't see ANYTHING. Please if anyone can help I'm moving to Seattle in 2days and this will be my only source of info/communication till my things arrive 10days after me. I NEED this to work : /
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Aaaahahaha you're so screwed. See, God is punishing you for voiding your warrenty.
I'm kidding. Try to relax. I've recovered my phone from worse than that. I'll look into it today when I get to work and see what I can come up with.
Sent from my Samsung Droid Charge 4G-LTE
Aesik said:
Hello all, I'm basically freaking out as I just got my Samsung Galaxy Continuum within the last 24hours and already managed to screw it up. I used superoneclick to root the phone with no issues. I then got Titatnium Backup and enabled the chuck norris thing to freeze bloatware. I rebooted the phone and now it says Samsung lights up the intro screen and then after that I can't see ANYTHING. Please if anyone can help I'm moving to Seattle in 2days and this will be my only source of info/communication till my things arrive 10days after me. I NEED this to work : /
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Just go into development section, find a stock odin .tar and odin itself and use it to reflash the latest stock rom. Dont panic, Its pretty hard to brick a Samsung, not impossible but pretty hard.......
Sent from my SCH-I510 using XDA App
I appreciate the quick responses, I'm honestly losing it the phone was a gift and here I am mucking it up. I would like to keep it rooted as my last phone was and never had an issue. I think the issue was somewhere with the Titanium Backup Mod. Is there anychance you could link me to this odin flash program you speak of? I'm very new to this and confused, would rather not make this problem worse. Thanks again!
Ok I have downloaded Odin3, now I just need to know how to use it and with what files to get my Continuum working again. I tried to read through some posts but everyone is so confusing >.<.
Ok so I think I did it in the correct order but, I'm still not sure I'm so lost. I go Odin3 and the .pit file for the continuum and the .tar file for CWR. I put into recovery mode or whatever with the little android guy digging, and then ran the odin program. It said it was succesful and passed but, when it rebooted itself it's the same deal. It loads up and then halfway through the intro screen it freezes and turns the screen off while the sounds finish with there little jig. I've tried to call my cell from another phone and it's acting as if it's turned off.
Aesik said:
Ok so I think I did it in the correct order but, I'm still not sure I'm so lost. I go Odin3 and the .pit file for the continuum and the .tar file for CWR. I put into recovery mode or whatever with the little android guy digging, and then ran the odin program. It said it was succesful and passed but, when it rebooted itself it's the same deal. It loads up and then halfway through the intro screen it freezes and turns the screen off while the sounds finish with there little jig. I've tried to call my cell from another phone and it's acting as if it's turned off.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
first some questions,
did you do a nandroid backup
did you download the odin files from dj20 thread
did you download cwm recovery
and you dont really need the pit file, i been flashing files without it
Files
Aesik said:
Ok so I think I did it in the correct order but, I'm still not sure I'm so lost. I go Odin3 and the .pit file for the continuum and the .tar file for CWR. I put into recovery mode or whatever with the little android guy digging, and then ran the odin program. It said it was succesful and passed but, when it rebooted itself it's the same deal. It loads up and then halfway through the intro screen it freezes and turns the screen off while the sounds finish with there little jig. I've tried to call my cell from another phone and it's acting as if it's turned off.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20459391/SCH-i4000-VZW-Continuum.pit
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20459391/0530_continuum_novoodoo.zip
Use this pit and this kernal in pda via Odin. Jump in the IRC for more help.
i think i bricked my continuum too. i flashed cwm recovery and got root and everything fine, then accidently flashed the wrong voodoo file and now it wont go past the samsung screen. ive looked for stock roms everywhere. how do you flash the kernel and pit. i got the pit file in but how do you select the folder for the kernel
can you still get into recovery?
VOoDOo
VooDoo convert takes a long time. Have you tried to wait it out?
Hello I too have prob. I flashed clean rom then tried to restore my nandroid backup but it says error mounting system and I cant now wont go past samsung no matter what I try?
Go to the link below. The only problem is the one-click unroot has a peculiar side-effect: it will make you believe your Continuum is invincible, and you'll try all sorts of crazy stuff with it!
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/one-click-unbrick-for-samsung-phones-having-odin-guide/
I forgot to mention, you need to be in download mode. Remove the battery, and hold the vol- while inserting the usb cable until the screen indicates that you're in download mode. I hope this helps!
Ok I got it to boot into clean rom again but along the way I did a system wipe so my question is how to restore backup and get apps/data back? What was I doing wrong? I have titpro and nandroid backup saved and copy of sd card on my laptop so any help is appreciated...
Sent from my SCH-I400 using XDA Premium App
nodixe said:
Ok I got it to boot into clean rom again but along the way I did a system wipe so my question is how to restore backup and get apps/data back? What was I doing wrong? I have titpro and nandroid backup saved and copy of sd card on my laptop so any help is appreciated...
Sent from my SCH-I400 using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
A nandroid backup isn't going to be much help without root. If you have it, get rooted, and flash adrynalyne's framework and cwm. Then you should be able to restore.
Ok...so I need to reroot? This why I wanted to restore it in 1st place. Su is installed and it opens from appdroor but says bin needs update but the zip wont work that it dl's to my sd? I thought root was included on clean rom? Or do I have to SOC again?
Sent from my SCH-I400 using XDA Premium App
Uh... Your restore problem is probably because your using yellow cwm... it has problems.... Im not sure if there are any other questions really xP
And read the other threads please? Everybodys already had these problems and they've been solved months ago
Sent from my Continuum Transfunctioner
nodixe said:
Ok...so I need to reroot? This why I wanted to restore it in 1st place. Su is installed and it opens from appdroor but says bin needs update but the zip wont work that it dl's to my sd? I thought root was included on clean rom? Or do I have to SOC again?
Sent from my SCH-I400 using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You might have to SOC again. Alternatively, if you really need it, I have a DL17 ODIN bone-stock rom, both rooted and unrooted, and if push comes to shove, I can upload it and post it here.
The yellow CWM uses edify which to my understanding is only useful for 2.2 and above. You wont be able to install any zip files designed for 2.1 or before. You need the cyan version of update.zip which will allow you to reinstall the stock rom software. Send me a PM and Ill email you the proper update.zip file if you need it.
-J
Hi!
So I followed Djembeys guide to root my s4 back when ME2/MF2(or smthn in that matter)was the newest firmware avable. But now I wanted to go back to stock and update my phone and as stated in the guide that would be no problem, well OTA didn't work so i did it via Kies. It worked as expected for a while before my phone started freezing and rebooting itself forever, like as soon as i get into the launcher.
Things I've tryed to do:
*Checking in download mode that everything is official, it is, and the phone doesn't seem to reboot while in download mode, should I flash a stock rom, I mean, what if the phone shuts off in the middle of the process?
*Doing a factory data reset via stock recovery, the "android" in recovery falls down and a triangle at his stomach. However the data reset worked, but it didn't solve the problem, still reboots but now when the phone is trying to set itself up.
What can i do guys? You think i can send it back to the store seeing everything is official in download mode?
NidexX said:
Hi!
So I followed Djembeys guide to root my s4 back when ME2/MF2(or smthn in that matter)was the newest firmware avable. But now I wanted to go back to stock and update my phone and as stated in the guide that would be no problem, well OTA didn't work so i did it via Kies. It worked as expected for a while before my phone started freezing and rebooting itself forever, like as soon as i get into the launcher.
Things I've tryed to do:
*Checking in download mode that everything is official, it is, and the phone doesn't seem to reboot while in download mode, should I flash a stock rom, I mean, what if the phone shuts off in the middle of the process?
*Doing a factory data reset via stock recovery, the "android" in recovery falls down and a triangle at his stomach. However the data reset worked, but it didn't solve the problem, still reboots but now when the phone is trying to set itself up.
What can i do guys? You think i can send it back to the store seeing everything is official in download mode?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Which s4 is this? This is the sprint variant. Post it in the appropiate s4 of your carrier. You can try to odin back to stock.
Sent from my SPH-L720 using xda app-developers app
ROMANTiC KiD said:
Which s4 is this? This is the sprint variant. Post it in the appropiate s4 of your carrier. You can try to odin back to stock.
Sent from my SPH-L720 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Aww really, i totally missed that this was for sprint:/. I have the NEE version(unbranded GT-I905). Are you sure i can flash stock, what if it would reboot while flashing? It is already stock, just that I have this damn problem with the reboots;(
Mine did some of that kind of thing when I first went to MF9 a few days ago. I think the reason I had the problem was because I did a nandroid recovery using a custom recovery (TWRP). I think (but have no proof) that it overwrote some of the MF9 stuff with MDL stuff. So to fix it, I redid everything and recovered my apps and data through Titanium Backup instead. All good now.
Follow the directions I posted yesterday in the following thread to get to unrooted, stock MF9:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2427006
jejb said:
Mine did some of that kind of thing when I first went to MF9 a few days ago. I think the reason I had the problem was because I did a nandroid recovery using a custom recovery (TWRP). I think (but have no proof) that it overwrote some of the MF9 stuff with MDL stuff. So to fix it, I redid everything and recovered my apps and data through Titanium Backup instead. All good now.
Follow the directions I posted yesterday in the following thread to get to unrooted, stock MF9:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2427006
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It worked fine and your phone didn't reboot in download mode? I've tested to be inside download mode for around 10 min, so i guess it's fine if i flash stock rom.
NidexX said:
It worked fine and your phone didn't reboot in download mode? I've tested to be inside download mode for around 10 min, so i guess it's fine if i flash stock rom.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, but the phone worked fine once I redid it. Before that, it would have random boots, and then multiple boots like a boot loop. But it never did more than 2 boots before actually coming up. But it would reboot after a while. BlueTooth would not turn on, stuff like that. It just was not right. But the redo with the TiBu restore worked great. I'm now very stable on MF9, rooted, stock rom.
jejb said:
I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, but the phone worked fine once I redid it. Before that, it would have random boots, and then multiple boots like a boot loop. But it never did more than 2 boots before actually coming up. But it would reboot after a while. BlueTooth would not turn on, stuff like that. It just was not right. But the redo with the TiBu restore worked great. I'm not very stable on MF9, rooted, stock rom.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
nvm dude, seems like it's hardware failure. I tried flashing it with stock MGA firmware and the problem remains, as well as the screen ****ing up just before it is about to reboot. Well, thanks anyway!