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Alright, so last night I was fooling around with "Type Fresh," which you guys have probably heard of. It was released here... It's a font changer...
Anyway, things were going good until I tried a font named, "Joystix," which replaced quite a few of my fonts. That caused my phone to go into a crazy bootloop.
So, at this point, I do not have Clockwork Recovery. I actually have the Stock Recovery. For some strange reason, my stock recovery just takes me to a screen with a red triangle, and factory reset just shows this hard drive and a loading bar that never goes anywhere before rebooting my phone into a boot loop.
I've checked to see if ADB will work in my stock recovery, and it does, except for the fact that my phone is, "offline," which is probably not good.
Is there anyway I can get my phone to work again? I remember when I was getting bootloops and I somehow got the phone to reinstall all the correct stuff after going into the stock Volume Down+Power thing a few days ago. I don't know or remember how. Like, it was going into the whole process of giving me the choices and said, "Do you want to update?" I said yes and voila, everything is back to normal. Sadly, this isn't the case atm. :|
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wauterboi said:
I've checked to see if ADB will work in my stock recovery, and it does, except for the fact that my phone is, "offline," which is probably not good.
Is there anyway I can get my phone to work again? I remember when I was getting bootloops and I somehow got the phone to reinstall all the correct stuff after going into the stock Volume Down+Power thing a few days ago. I don't know or remember how. Like, it was going into the whole process of giving me the choices and said, "Do you want to update?" I said yes and voila, everything is back to normal. Sadly, this isn't the case atm. :|
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Well I've never personally used type fresh to change fonts, I've done it in other ways. Just a thought for ya, but I would recommend that if you can get adb to recognize your device (cmd: adb devices) try booting into hboot(volume down + power), and see if it recognizes it regularly that way, from there I recommend trying a program called Droid. It's a windows program that I used when I messed up re-rooting my replacement mt4g (tip: Don't try rooting when having been awake for 26 hours for no apparent reason ). It has a feature called Debug Console which fixed a bootloop, and constant force close that I somehow managed. I also suggest pulling your sdcard, getting a usb scard reader, and installing the stock recovery zip (Pdimg or something like that, I forget off hand).
That's all I can think of, hope it helps
...I finally looked at my SDCard via my brother's phone.
Every thing in my SD Card pretty much has "Font" in front of it in regards to the name.
I mean... Yahoo became FontsYahoo.
wat
Solved.
For those who were wondering, I found out that I had to rename the recovery file to the PBNASFASodhwhatever it was.
I've been ROM-hopping, trying Synergy, Alliance, Myn, and several others. On the last one, MikG 2.3, I had it loaded up and working fine. I started installing apps from the Android Market. That, too, was going fine, until it suddenly rebooted in the middle of an app download/install.
It went to the white screen with HTC EVO 4G on it, and then went black, then back to the white screen, over and over.
Six hours later, I'm still stuck in the loop. To make matters worse, I accidentally lost root (I see "S-ON" at the top). So now I'm stuck without root until GB is rooted successfully, which hopefully isn't tooooo far off in the future.
But that's the least of my concerns. I would be extremely happy with a stock install of any sort at this point, but I can't get anything to load. No recovery, no ROMs, but I can get into HBOOT so I'm able to try to load any PC36IMG.zip files. The last one I tried was the "PC36IMG_SuperSonic_GB_Sprint_WWE_4.24.651.1_Radio_2.15.00.05.02_NV_2.15_release_199233_signed.zip" (renamed to just PC36IMG.zip, of course). It appears to load just fine and in the end says "Update Complete... Do you want to reboot device?"
I choose yes, it reboots... and we're back in the loop. I have no idea what to do or try at this point. Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated! My next step is to take it to the Sprint store, but that's over an hour away and will have to wait till the weekend.
Thanks everyone!! If you need any more information, let me know. Believe me, I'll be monitoring this thread closely!
/Kevin
I'm sure uve heard this before and prob won't work but worth a try....try reformatting ur SD card and then flashing the file in bootliader again. Could be a corrupt SD card
Papa Smurf151 said:
I'm sure uve heard this before and prob won't work but worth a try....try reformatting ur SD card and then flashing the file in bootliader again. Could be a corrupt SD card
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Yeah, I tried. I have several SD cards of varying sizes (4GB, 8GB, and my primary 16GB). Formatted the 4- and 8GB ones and tried from each, but no go. Thanks for the try though!
/Kevin
Reset phone to recovery (stock), choose fastboot. Plug in USB to computer.
Look for the correct ruu exe file and ruu it via exe method
trim81 said:
Reset phone to recovery (stock), choose fastboot. Plug in USB to computer.
Look for the correct ruu exe file and ruu it via exe method
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Just did it and the process went well, said it was successful... but it's still stuck in the same loop. I'm thinking the phone is beyond repair. Thanks for trying, though. It really looked like it might work for a second.
/Kevin
what was the app?
That's what I want to know and how do you get accidentally to S-On?
Put the phone in a refrigerator ... as crazy as it sounds, it might be the infamous overheating issue.
Put in refrigerator, for about 5min
The app was "Kid Zone" (Zoodles), but I'm not blaming the app by any means. I've used it for a long time, it's highly-rated in the market, etc. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
As far as getting back to S-ON, I think it must have been when I flashed the stock recovery. I was flashing so many things out of desperation that I can't swear to that, but I'm pretty sure that's what did it. Now that it looks like I'm heading to the Sprint store tomorrow, I guess it's a GOOD thing it's back to S-ON. Heh.
Pretty sure it's not heat-related. My phone was off all night (since it's not usable) in an air conditioned room, so it's cool to the touch. I tried the RUU process again with the same results. (I'm not sticking it in the refrigerator, because I'm afraid of activating the water-damage sensor -- I don't want any excuses from Sprint when I bring it in tomorrow!)
Appreciate the help!!
/Kevin
That sucks, but tbh, I have yet to see one case of anyone at Sprint checking a bootloader to see if a phone is S-On. MOF, I bet if it doesn't boot at all, or is a stock ROM , they wouldn't even know the difference.
HipKat said:
That sucks, but tbh, I have yet to see one case of anyone at Sprint checking a bootloader to see if a phone is S-On. MOF, I bet if it doesn't boot at all, or is a stock ROM , they wouldn't even know the difference.
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I hear ya. I haven't run into any techs at my local stores that are knowledgeable about this kind of stuff. (I know others have, so you never know, but I have yet to see one.)
/Kevin
To conclude this: I went to the Sprint store today where they assured me they would reload the software but it would take 1.5 hours. I came back 1.5 hours later... and they handed me a new (refurb) EVO. They said they weren't able to load anything on the phone.
So, no surprise with the outcome there. I was fairly certain they were going to have to replace the EVO, and they did.
Thanks to everyone who tried to help, but it was just beyond help!
/Kevin
I had that same problem with my phone back in November. Continues boot loop. Finally, having boot loop for 8hrs, I took it to Sprint and they replaced my phone. They called it a power cycle issue. $35 new refurbished phone works well. Never had a problem since.
tl;dr: Interrupted update. cant do jack. tried acer tech support. failed
I grew bored with waiting the two minutes for my tablet to install the new update. so i stood up and hit the power button to put it to sleep like a boss. then i cam back later, the lock screen was unresponsive
i figured out be double tapping the pwr button i was able to unlock the tablet to see the powering down screen (see attachment). I can get to the setting menu, but evrytime i try to mess around in it, the window closes itself.
an interesting note is that the time is wrong, and the battery suddenly went from 100% to 15%
I called acer tech support, and with ther guidance...
pressed the reset button to no effect
powered on holding the pwr & vol- buttons down to get an error (see attachment). then the tablet turns off.
Ive dled some "update.zip" files i found online that are supposedly used to unbrick the tab... but i just got the same error picture(see attachment)
one other thing i tried was to hold the power and vol+ buttons. this cleared a chache, but had no other effect.
I am a noob at droid, but not to tech. i would like to avoid perma bricking, and im unsure about mailing this in. waiting is gay. I would like to restore it to factory settings w/o rooting it etc. as ive never done that before. but im not opposed to installing a CFW if it somes to that...
Im looking for ideas guys here guys. wtf is wrong with this thing?
Haha
Lmao "hit the power button to put it to sleep like a boss", funny ****.
Can't help you though sorry
ive been around he web, and have seen this exact series of symptoms happen to a handful of other guys... i haven figured out a solution yet, and it is looking more and more like ill be sending it in via warranty
my best guess at this point is i have corrupted a crucial system file. as to why i can do jack in the factorys recovery mode... idk. but then again, idk what the factorys recovery mode should look like or how it would function. youtube only shows CWR... which i dont have
if i believed i could anything reasonably withing my abilities, i would... but voiding the warranty on a long shot seems dumb.
still ANY ideas would be great
I too faced exactly the same problem today.. Dunno why this is happening... I am too worried now... Kindly post the solution as you find them...
Am sure calling tech-support is just waste of time..
Thanks in advance..
IM GOLDEN...
Ive reflashed to the original factory build. the problem was with the "update.zip" files i have been using. i guess they were corrupt.
multiupload<dot>com/WCT2FYLMQC
this is the file i used. I tried several from other guides, etc... a guy on another board told me to use this one. i put it on the root of my SD card, then held the power and vol- buttons until the loader had started. it took awhile, and it looked like it froze during the process...
DONT TOUCH IT
just let it do its thing, and it will reboot itself and run through the setup process like when it was new.
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IM GOLDEN...
Ive reflashed to the original factory build. the problem was with the "update.zip" files i have been using. i guess they were corrupt.
multiupload<dot>com/WCT2FYLMQC
this is the file i used. I tried several from other guides, etc... a guy on another board told me to use this one. i put it on the root of my SD card, then held the power and vol- buttons until the loader had started. it took awhile, and it looked like it froze during the process...
DONT TOUCH IT
just let it do its thing, and it will reboot itself and run through the setup process like when it was new.
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How to put this file on the root folder when am not able to switchon the Tablet itself... and how reliable is this file??
stuck on same screen also!
My friend and i who both purchased this Acer Iconia tab are both having the same problem. We both received a message on the tablets to do the update. We both got stuck and have gone thru tech line and there is no remedy. She was able to return hers within the 15 day period; I on the other hand am a week over that so have to mail it to Acer for repair. I'm thinking this is more than a cooincidence and there is a problem more spread... Acer would neither verify or confirm....
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How to put this file on the root folder when am not able to switchon the Tablet itself... and how reliable is this file??
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He said the root of his SDCARD. You can take out the sdcard and put it in a sd cardreader on a computer and copy the file to it then put it back in the tablet. The file worked for him so it might be worth trying. Just have patience while it is loading as some of these updates take a while to load and sometimes you may not see anything happening but it is. The more patches and roms you load on Android the more you'll learn to just leave it alone and let the updates finish. Its pretty rare for updates to be messed up. Its usually people getting anxious and clicking on stuff.
Good luck
Sent from my A501 using Tapatalk
still stuck on shutdown screen any updates?
Anyone had any luck with a fix? If not --sending it to Acer for warranty repair after the hurricane hits..Sure hope this isn't a wide spreasd Acer issue do to the new download. Wish I could just return the thing all together. Worked well while I had it a whole 3 weeks...... Thanks in advance for any information.
npena said:
IM GOLDEN...
Ive reflashed to the original factory build. the problem was with the "update.zip" files i have been using. i guess they were corrupt.
multiupload<dot>com/WCT2FYLMQC
this is the file i used. I tried several from other guides, etc... a guy on another board told me to use this one. i put it on the root of my SD card, then held the power and vol- buttons until the loader had started. it took awhile, and it looked like it froze during the process...
DONT TOUCH IT
just let it do its thing, and it will reboot itself and run through the setup process like when it was new.
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Thanks a lot dear npena.. you are simply great.. i was very anxious initially to try your method as no other member here who face the same problem thanked or recommended your suggestion...
I tried it and it worked... I am really very thankful to you...
Cheers..
you are my hero indeed.. thank once again..
BuntZ
Friends, who face this problem you must try it... it just takes few mins b4 you can get your acer tab to work again beautifully without loosing any settings or installed apps... they remain intact...
Yay!
Glad you got it running again - had a similar problem when doing a ota update myself, was so worried I bricked the tab, went thru about 7 update.zip files until I found one that magically worked, letting me get back into the system and flash the correct rom for my region
hi! i have the same problem with my a500. I write a guide to solve this problem. Problem in firmware. here is the gude http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1572622
Ill start this saying, yes, im a noob. I rarely post or visit unless i have problems.
But i do have experience rooting this specific phone before. But this time around its giving me a LOT of problems...
Ill start with:
Samsung Epic 4g (D700.0.5)
FM 2.3.6 (GB)
BB EL30
K 2.6.35.7
Now i will attempt to explain all the problems as well as what i have done to try to fix them and i will give as many links to the pages that i used for guidance as i can.
As i said, i have experience rooting this specific phone in the past. I ran a stock rooted ROM and everything was fine other then some glitches that i just learned to live with. But about 3 months ago i got a few more problems that have been driving me crazy so i desired to reroot.
When i power down the device, it will not turn back on just by pressing/holding the power button. Removing the battery, reinserting it, and holding the power also dose not work. I finally figured out that i have to remove the battery, replace the battery, then quickly (before the on-screen battery disappears) insert a charging cable thats connected to a power source. Then when the battery turns green (even with minimal power or full power) i can then power it on, but only when the on screen battery shows green. If i wait too long and it disappears it will not work and i have to start over from the beginning. (Removing Battery...) That was the 1st problem.
Soon after this happened (maybe 1-2 weeks) my phone started doing random shutdowns and not powering back on (i assume because it didnt have a power source connected). This would happen at anytime of the day or night, even when it was connected to a charger and actively charging. Yesterday i finally had the last of it and started researching this problem. I found that apparently some/all of the epics have this problem in time. From what i read the micro(or mini im not sure) USB port dosnt fit 100% snugly. So it causes heat. This heat causes corrosion and eventually leads to this problem. (I have never got this phone wet in the 1.5 years i have had it, i take very good care of my electronics.) Around the time this started my phone also would drain its self in about 2-3 hours, this was due to it constantly thinking i was plugging and unplugging it from a computer and requesting that i choose from the 3 options of mass storage.... Eventually the whole screen turning black with the android and the 3 buttons went away but the pop up on the notification bar continued, and as already said, it will drain the battery quickly.
NOW on to the rooting problems.
I dont remember what rom i was running originally, but following a few videos from QBKing77.
I odin'd back to EC05. This went fine no problems. (Useing odin 1.85)
I then tried to use the e4gtauto.zip file and running the "RUNFIRST.bat"
Used option A (install Root not EL13/newer)
Everything went though like it was suppose to. No errors or problems. Phone rebooted into recovery rather then to the lock screen.
Not remembering how to use recovery, i did some research, apparently the camera button is SUPPOSED to be the select button, but this did not work for me at all. After several manual reboots (pulling battery) this was the only thing i could get to (not even download mode to try to flash back to EC05 again). I did some research and found a post that said the "home" button on the front of the screen was his selector for some strange reason. This worked for me. I selected "reboot now" or something like that (the 1st option) and it rebooted into what i was thinking was a rooted rom, checked and there was no SU, or BusyBox (as said would happen in the e4gtauto).
I downloaded an su.zip and figured i would flash it with CWM (last time i installed CWM it was "purple" or 3.1.0.1)
Well it seems that my CWM is gone... i did the ever famous "3 finger salute" of Vol Down + Camera + Power and nothing except that i had to select "reboot phone" again from what i believe is stock recovery. Which booted me back into EC05.
By this time it was late at nite (2am or so) so i went to bed, over night apparently it updated and is now EL30. Thinking this was a good thing (and deff proving im not rooted) so today i tried rooting it as EL30.
Still do not have CWM seemingly.
Also would like to note, inorder for me to get to download mode, i have to take out my SD card, take out my battery, plug in the phone, and hold 1+power when the green power indicator comes on as stated above. This is the only way i can get into DownloadMode (if that helps at all)
If i could get any information on how to root from EL30 i would appreciate it greatly!!!
I will answer any questions as fast as possible, and i will provide as much information as you request when as soon as possible.
Thank you all in advance.
LATE:
Im not able to post links... so i cant give all the steps ive followed so far, I have attempted to take out all infomration already stated related to a link or video... Sorry.
I can do this for you remotely via teamviewer 7 google it and install it pm me the id and password and ill do it all for you
Oh and you used the epic touch one click root... not ours.. and el30 doesn't work on one click root.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using xda premium
As i was writing the above i thought of something. What if i do the same thing i have to do in order to get into download mode to boot into CWM.
No, this dosnt work, it brings me back into the what i believe is stock recovery. I decided to mess with the "install from sdcard" option. I tried the various .zips i have on there and they all fail a signature check.
YourLordAndMaster said:
As i was writing the above i thought of something. What if i do the same thing i have to do in order to get into download mode to boot into CWM.
No, this dosnt work, it brings me back into the what i believe is stock recovery. I decided to mess with the "install from sdcard" option. I tried the various .zips i have on there and they all fail a signature check.
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You have the wrong recovery installed... you used the epic touch one click root... ... just go get teamviewer and ill fix it for you.
oh but now your on stock recovery because samsung has a script in the kernel to restore the stock recovery upon boot.
The rooting has been fixed.
I didnt install a CWM file apparently
and i also did a lot of bad things
Big thanks to "Big Goron" for the help he provided
Well it's been almost a month now my Note 3 is in coma, and I gave up and ordered a Note 4 but I have not totally given up, not yet.
It started with this problem I mentioned earlier, http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-3/help/phone-wont-boot-please-help-t3295416
And even now its still same, worse actually, cause most times the display won't even turn on now! Anyway, the phone does go into download mode, I mean I can feel it, but can't see it, Odin flashed the latest TWRP successfully too, but then again I can't enter Recovery, or rather I can't see it, but I can feel that recovery is being accessed cause when I touch on the display I feel the vibration here and there.
Anyway, I just want to do one more thing before I totally give up, try to connect the phone via ADB and flash the Norma ROM, the ROM which started all these problems. Now I have forgotten everything about it, how to run it, what files to download and all that, so could someone please redirect me to that? Last time no one replied, but please do this time. Its common sense to realise how much pain a dead phone causes.
Thanks in advance.
Have you tried to install official firmware via Kies or flash with Odin ? If odin detects phone, you should try.
Kies can't detect phone unless its on right? Well mine isn't on. It just goes into download mode and recovery that's all. Of course I flashed stock ROM via Odin several times, even with additional options like NAND erase all, Phone EFS clear etc. checked, but no benefit.
Is the phone recovery is working ?
Odin is best option to flash it.
Flash custom recovery first. You don't need Pc to install firmware after that just copy Firmware in sd card put it in your phone go to recovery Install the Firmware
Like I said, Recovery might be working fine, cause I can feel the vibrations on the screen when I touch it, but the display just won't come up!
Have you tried flashing on odin with a pit file for your model?
Mustafa Jafri said:
Have you tried flashing on odin with a pit file for your model?
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Yep, that's done, did it only few hours ago. On the positive side, the ROM was flashed without any error at all and the phone rebooted successfully after the ROM flash, which was until now a rarity, a successful reboot without any loop I mean, the Samsung boot sound was there too, and even the capacitive hardware buttons were lighted up, I can also hear the water droplet sound when I touch the screen, but the screen is dark, there is nothing on it! From this point, anyone will say the display is dead, but if previous experience accounts for something then the display will come back, maybe after few hours or few days, but it did come back before from what it looked like a completely dead display.
I remain clueless!
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Yep, that's done, did it only few hours ago. On the positive side, the ROM was flashed without any error at all and the phone rebooted successfully after the ROM flash, which was until now a rarity, a successful reboot without any loop I mean, the Samsung boot sound was there too, and even the capacitive hardware buttons were lighted up, I can also hear the water droplet sound when I touch the screen, but the screen is dark, there is nothing on it! From this point, anyone will say the display is dead, but if previous experience accounts for something then the display will come back, maybe after few hours or few days, but it did come back before from what it looked like a completely dead display.
I remain clueless!
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Might be a faulty LCD then.
ithehappy said:
Well it's been almost a month now my Note 3 is in coma, and I gave up and ordered a Note 4 but I have not totally given up, not yet.
It started with this problem I mentioned earlier, http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-3/help/phone-wont-boot-please-help-t3295416
And even now its still same, worse actually, cause most times the display won't even turn on now! Anyway, the phone does go into download mode, I mean I can feel it, but can't see it, Odin flashed the latest TWRP successfully too, but then again I can't enter Recovery, or rather I can't see it, but I can feel that recovery is being accessed cause when I touch on the display I feel the vibration here and there.
Anyway, I just want to do one more thing before I totally give up, try to connect the phone via ADB and flash the Norma ROM, the ROM which started all these problems. Now I have forgotten everything about it, how to run it, what files to download and all that, so could someone please redirect me to that? Last time no one replied, but please do this time. Its common sense to realise how much pain a dead phone causes.
Thanks in advance.
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Have you tried different software version ?
Try install different software version it may be bad rom ?