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[Q] stuck in reboot loop with broken USB...can anything be done?

USB has been broken for a while....at the time i had Z's FreeX10 2.2 rom installed and running well recently updated to FreeXperia CM7.0.1 GB2.3.3 rom but realized that it had some bugs....accelerometer lag and a few other things. I was stuck on BB52 so couldn't flash newer GB 2.3.5 roms
Yesterday I found another rom that I decided to give a shot, this would put me back to froyo CM6.4, but this rom had GB features, and it was said to work on BB52 so i downloaded and flashed following the steps exactly. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1151933
Now my phone is constantly rebooting....no microSD (not mounted) no WIFI(error) no 3G...and as mentioned above my USB is broken. Can't get into xRecovery. When the phone loads i have a few minutes to browse before it reboots...so I have a short window to change some things.
I'm pretty sure there's nothing I can do to fix this, so it's basically a brick, but if you guys have any ideas...i'm willing to try your suggestions.
Thanks!

U probably need a baseband patch from coborato. Your probably on achjotans Rom. If u.can some how download that patch and flash it in recovery before it reboots you'll b fine. But honestly id get the phone repaired if I were u. These new gingerbread roms are amazing
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trollertron22 said:
U probably need a baseband patch from coborato. Your probably on achjotans Rom. If u.can some how download that patch and flash it in recovery before it reboots you'll b fine. But honestly id get the phone repaired if I were u. These new gingerbread roms are amazing
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Yeah that's the one i'm on right now. I did flash the baseband patch before booting into the new rom....that didnt help...and now I cant load into xRecovery. Tried repairing the USB port twice now, both times no luck. Official SE repair shop said that it's not repairable since the problem is with the main board. Ah well...gonna have to wait till my contract runs out Thanks for your suggestion tho.

Before when xRec had this "Unable to access SD card" issue...
I found an MicroSD USB adapter where i could just plug in my SD card into it, and it becomes an USB stick.
From that i just transfered a new rom/etc, then just unplug and jam it back into my phone.
Not sure if that helped at all but ya, if you have a broken USB Connection... that'll be a smart alternative~
Good luck mate,
J.T

I'd probably go with the above suggestion, get a micro sd card reader and transfer the needed files that way, boot into recovery and install them. Or whip out your tools and disasemble your phone and re-solder the broken usb if possible. Good luck with any way you choose!
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thats so bad

If you could of access recovery that would of had been great because you could buy a card reader insert your sd install desired rom and flash whit recovery but not so sure about baseband since you have broken usb :/
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Here, this might help http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=989196
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Can't get past the google loading screen after my unlock attempt.

First I want to say there is a lot of information on this site, I have about 20 tabs open right now with threads that I think could help me, but I can not seem to put everything together.
I used the tutorial on nexusshacks to try and unlock my Nexus S. I first had to figure out how to get the drivers working, which kind of work on my laptop, as in I can see the phone in my computer, but I still get errors about some driver when I plug the phone into my laptop.
But on my desktop I can't get it to do anything after the first round of driver error messages.
I have Vista on my laptop, and Win7 on my desktop.
But now that I have that out of the way, I have been looking for some Odin thing to fix my phone. But I have no idea what is what and when I think I found what I need the links don't work.
I have:
Basebond version # I9020UCKD1
Bootloader Version# I9020XXKA3
My phone locks on the Google screen with the unlocked symbol.
I want to unlock and root it so that I can put MIUI on again, like I had on my N1.
This is proving much more difficult then the N1 though.
Any help would be great,
Thanks,

When the lock icon appears the phone is unlocked. You don't need root to install MIUI. Just get cwm recovery for your device, flash it via adb, navigate into custom recovery, mount sd card, copy miui on the device, wipe everything, install miui from sd card.
Get drivers from pdanet.
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rentaric said:
When the lock icon appears the phone is unlocked. You don't need root to install MIUI. Just get cwm recovery for your device, flash it via adb, navigate into custom recovery, mount sd card, copy miui on the device, wipe everything, install miui from sd card.
Get drivers from pdanet.
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ok I got drivers from pdanet, but I still can not seen the device in my computer.
I managed to get CWM recovery v3.0.2.4 on my phone and I am in it.
But now all the phone does it go into CWM recovery screen.
I can not see the phone from my computer, so can not place a zip on it to try and install from zip.
And no actual sd card means I can not just take it out and pop it into my computer

Did hou mount sdcard in mount&storage than went to mount usb storage?
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rentaric said:
Did you mount sdcard in mount&storage than went to mount usb storage?
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Worked like a charm once I did that
Thank you!

Help!! Boot Looping(Phone doesn't Boot)

I just downloaded VirtuousAFFINITY today and installed on MyTouch 4g. Problem is that it just stays on the BOOT LOGO(Looping) and then the phone turns off. My phone is rooted(S-OFF) I F***ED Up and DID NOT do a NanDroid BACKUP(Yup...Dumb A**) I did do a wipe all data, dalvik and to be sure a second data wipe. Hopefully i didn't mess up my phone. Any HELP would be appreciated!

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I just downloaded VirtuousAFFINITY today and installed on MyTouch 4g. Problem is that it just stays on the BOOT LOGO(Looping) and then the phone turns off. My phone is rooted(S-OFF) I F***ED Up and DID NOT do a NanDroid BACKUP(Yup...Dumb A**) I did do a wipe all data, dalvik and to be sure a second data wipe. Hopefully i didn't mess up my phone. Any HELP would be appreciated!
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redownload the rom or try another rom. probably a bad download.

saranhai said:
redownload the rom or try another rom. probably a bad download.
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Thanks saranhai but how do i go about redownloading the rom if It just stays on the bootloop? I pull battery out and it goes to the bootloop when i turn the phone back on. I know how to get into the bootloader screen(Recovery etc. I already re downloaded the ROM but how do I put it on my SD Card if it only goes to the bootloop?

thekoopers said:
Thanks saranhai but how do i go about redownloading the rom if It just stays on the bootloop? I pull battery out and it goes to the bootloop when i turn the phone back on. I know how to get into the bootloader screen(Recovery etc. I already re downloaded the ROM but how do I put it on my SD Card if it only goes to the bootloop?
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Adb or sd card adapter
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Insert your sd into another device and redownload from the device. Then insert the sd card back to your device and reflash.
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thekoopers said:
Thanks saranhai but how do i go about redownloading the rom if It just stays on the bootloop? I pull battery out and it goes to the bootloop when i turn the phone back on. I know how to get into the bootloader screen(Recovery etc. I already re downloaded the ROM but how do I put it on my SD Card if it only goes to the bootloop?
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if you go into recovery, there's an option to mount USB storage (SDcard) to the computer under 'mounts and storage' ;0

Tez MyTouch said:
Adb or sd card adapter
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Thanks for the Info. I had a card adapter but it messed up and Adb...man I been trying to install on my desktop Windows Vista 32-bit and itgoes on trying to install new or updates forever...Thank You for your respnse.

Tez MyTouch said:
Adb or sd card adapter
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coupetastic-droid said:
Insert your sd into another device and redownload from the device. Then insert the sd card back to your device and reflash.
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I will try that and hopefully it installs...Thanks for your response.

saranhai said:
if you go into recovery, there's an option to mount USB storage (SDcard) to the computer under 'mounts and storage' ;0
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Ahh...I see. I will give that a go. Thanks saranhai.

thekoopers said:
Ahh...I see. I will give that a go. Thanks saranhai.
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no problem, if i've helped, please hit thanks

Help

hi, I rooted my TAB and tried to flash a theme. I did not flash a ROM. Now my tab will not boot. It stops on the samsung logo. Do I have to flash a custom rom. How do I do a full wipe? How do I get access to the SD card? What to do? Please help me - i'm a newbie.

jebinio said:
hi, I rooted my TAB and tried to flash a theme. I did not flash a ROM. Now my tab will not boot. It stops on the samsung logo. Do I have to flash a custom rom. How do I do a full wipe? How do I get access to the SD card? What to do? Please help me - i'm a newbie.
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It depends, do you have a ROM.zip or a backup saved?
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unfortunately I have nothing saved................... Is it possible to get the tab back to its orginally state?

Holding volume - and power will boot into recovery mode, you will find the wipe options there. Go to advanced, wipe dalvik cache. Go back and wipe both cache and data and then reboot. Cross your fingers haha. Worse case scenario just wipe a full ROM if my first suggestion doesn't resolve the issue.
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My friend did the same thing and I am trying to figure it out. I can't even get into odin mode. When I hold down volume down and power nothing happens I get a connect ping on my computer than an instant disconnect ping. No Samsung logo no options menu. What do I do?

Disconnect from PC and hold volume down and power (long) then it should go....
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mullemulle86 said:
Disconnect from PC and hold volume down and power (long) then it should go....
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ok got it now where do I get a rom. any kind of rom to flash with odin. This devices has no roms on its sd. I can't get adb to pick it up and it won't show me usb storage so I have no way to flash anything with it. So im stuck.

I am far from an expert on this stuff but here is an idea.
If you can download an app from the market and are rooted, try installing Samba Sharing which will allow you to see your SD card on your networked PC. If you get that far, you should be able download whatever ROM you want to the PC, transfer it to your SD card and install it.
As part of the process, you should probably try to backup whatever you have on the Tab first.
Bob

Stalte said:
ok got it now where do I get a rom. any kind of rom to flash with odin. This devices has no roms on its sd. I can't get adb to pick it up and it won't show me usb storage so I have no way to flash anything with it. So im stuck.
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Go to recovery wipe everything then boot. It will ask you to setup the tab, input your wifi info, connect to wifi. open a browser find xda search for galaxy tab 10.1, go to development thread, and download the rom of choice. Power off boot into recovery and install rom
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Stalte said:
ok got it now where do I get a rom. any kind of rom to flash with odin. This devices has no roms on its sd. I can't get adb to pick it up and it won't show me usb storage so I have no way to flash anything with it. So im stuck.
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For ROMs you need to just copy them to your storage on your tab, then boot into recovery and flash them. Odin installs .tar files and the likes. Sounds like your best bet is to find a stock recovery image/file and push it through Odin and then re-root and copy a ROM and flash it in CWM.

Stuck in Recovery

Any help would be appreciated at this point :/
Phone had been rooted, installed TWRP, downloaded the ROM I wanted and put it on external SD card... good so far?
Rebooted into recovery, made sure ROM and gapps were in the correct folder, wiped everything accordingly...The *contents* in the folder in which the ROM and gapps were placed were deleted. The folder its self was not, nor were any other folders or their contents in the mother folder.
Any clues? Now I'm sitting here stuck in either recovery or download mode whichever I so choose and the computer cannot identify the phone for me to transfer files over.
Uh......

phr0zen said:
Any help would be appreciated at this point :/
Phone had been rooted, installed TWRP, downloaded the ROM I wanted and put it on external SD card... good so far?
Rebooted into recovery, made sure ROM and gapps were in the correct folder, wiped everything accordingly...The *contents* in the folder in which the ROM and gapps were placed were deleted. The folder its self was not, nor were any other folders or their contents in the mother folder.
Any clues? Now I'm sitting here stuck in either recovery or download mode whichever I so choose and the computer cannot identify the phone for me to transfer files over.
Uh......
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Odin back to stock ROM.
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You could uninstall and reinstall the USB drivers and use a USB port that directly connects to the motherboard (back of the PC) and try flashing stock again via Odin. Or, head down to Walmart and grab a micro sd card to place your rom, gapps, backups, etc on. I highly...HIGHLY recommend using a micro sd card if you plan on living the rooted life

How about taking out the external sd card, plug into computer and transfer rom and gapps onto card, put card back into phone and then reboot back into recovery.

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Odin back to stock ROM.
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This is your best bet. Otherwise you could adb push the ROM and gapps to your sd. But if you're not set up for adb, that's a lot of work.
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Thanks guys for all the information. I have been having issues with installing the drivers correctly (Win8) but Kies seems to work well for the most part. I decided to open Kies and do the emergency restoration and it's back to normal now.
Question: If one were to restore it via Kies, could another model number be searched for and installed? ie the i9500 or i9505 firmware? Just a thought.
Anyway, thanks again... oh and I do have a micro sd card. I came from the Skyrocket and flashed probably half a million times lol. This is what threw me for a loop, deleting the ROM from inside the folder but not the folder, nor anything else on the sd card.

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Question: If one were to restore it via Kies, could another model number be searched for and installed? ie the i9500 or i9505 firmware? Just a thought..[/QUOTE]
I don't think it would work and it wouldn't be a good thing to do. Bricks are made from less
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jd1639 said:
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Question: If one were to restore it via Kies, could another model number be searched for and installed? ie the i9500 or i9505 firmware? Just a thought..
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I don't think it would work and it wouldn't be a good thing to do. Bricks are made from less
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Hehe, I figures just as much. Wasn't going to try it anyway, unless it was maybe the Google version without all the crapware, which is supposed to be released shortly from my understanding

getbuzzin said:
How about taking out the external sd card, plug into computer and transfer rom and gapps onto card, put card back into phone and then reboot back into recovery.
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I always do this. It will save you time to make sure you keep a hard copy of your main roms on your PC. And have a way to transfer them to your mini sd (old phone, usb device, or mini to full size adapter. As most PC's have a full size slot. This method has saved me countless hrs.. Flashed about 15 roms on my new S4 and haven't even downloaded Oden.. But I've had to use this method twice. Works great.
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