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OK, I got my Nexus S yesterday and it's been freezing on me multiple times each time requiring a battery pull. All I've done to it is unlock fastboot and root it using the superboot .bat file method. No custom kernels or anything else. I haven't even flashed clockwork recovery. The only other thing I did was use root explorer to put the hex edited flash apk on it so I can use it to watch hulu, but it's done this about 4-5 times today and twice in the last two hours. My bootloader is still unlocked right now, but I doubt that's the issue either. Anyone know of a solution or should I just brave the Christmas line tomorrow and exchange it for a different one?
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And I know the score means nothing but, every time I tried to run Quadrant it fails. Anyone know why that is?
Thanks
edit: post actually says what the problem is now.
qreffie said:
OK, I got my Nexus S yesterday and all I've done to it is unlock fastboot and root it using the superboot .bat file method. No custom kernels or anything else. I haven't even flashed clockwork recovery. The only other thing I did was use root explorer to put the hex edited flash apk on it so I can use it to watch hulu, but it's done this about 4-5 times today and twice in the last two hours. My bootloader is still unlocked right now, but I doubt that's the issue either. Anyone know of a solution or should I just brave the Christmas line tomorrow and exchange it for a different one?
Side note:
And I know the score means nothing but, every time I tried to run Quadrant it fails. Anyone know why that is?
Thanks
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cant exactly pinpoint what your problem is?
and no quadrant is broken on 2.3
qreffie said:
OK, I got my Nexus S yesterday and all I've done to it is unlock fastboot and root it using the superboot .bat file method. No custom kernels or anything else. I haven't even flashed clockwork recovery. The only other thing I did was use root explorer to put the hex edited flash apk on it so I can use it to watch hulu, but it's done this about 4-5 times today and twice in the last two hours. My bootloader is still unlocked right now, but I doubt that's the issue either. Anyone know of a solution or should I just brave the Christmas line tomorrow and exchange it for a different one?
Side note:
And I know the score means nothing but, every time I tried to run Quadrant it fails. Anyone know why that is?
Thanks
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None of this post makes sense. What's the problem? :|
There must be a sentence missing because I don't see a problem anywhere either
Oops I fight to post the problem. It's been freezing several times. At least 5 times today. I even got the ! screen on one of the freezes and I've had to do battery pulls each time.
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Do a factory reset either through the privacy settings or through recovery. I don't know if you'll have to root again, but that should fix any software issue that preexisted root.
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was your phone doing this before you add the root or whatever extra stuff you added?
I think it froze maybe 1 time. I did the factory reset and I'm charging my battery right now. I didn't lose root which is good, but I don't know if it'll solve the problem. I guess I'll be able to tell if factory reseting it worked or not in a few hours.
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Still freezing after the factory reset. Looks like I'll be making a trip to Best Buy this morning to get a new one.
qreffie said:
OK, I got my Nexus S yesterday and it's been freezing on me multiple times each time requiring a battery pull. All I've done to it is unlock fastboot and root it using the superboot .bat file method. No custom kernels or anything else. I haven't even flashed clockwork recovery. The only other thing I did was use root explorer to put the hex edited flash apk on it so I can use it to watch hulu, but it's done this about 4-5 times today and twice in the last two hours. My bootloader is still unlocked right now, but I doubt that's the issue either. Anyone know of a solution or should I just brave the Christmas line tomorrow and exchange it for a different one?
Side note:
And I know the score means nothing but, every time I tried to run Quadrant it fails. Anyone know why that is?
Thanks
edit: post actually says what the problem is now.
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sounds like a user error
What user error would that be?
Best Buy gave me the HARDEST time exchanging it. They kept asking me about whether or not I got the update and that it should fix my problem despite me telling them that even Samsung tech support said it wouldn't fix the issue and to get a new phone. Then they decided to test it out and it froze on the Google boot screen. Then all of s sudden they were OK with exchanging it.
Just hoping my second phone doesn't have the same issue.
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I finally got my "Alltel Bee" rooted last nite using super one click. Before I roll out any custom roms etc, I'd like to make sure I get a backup, and my phone is hanging on the alltel logo whenever I try to boot into recovery (whether I boot in from Rom manager or from Hboot.) I always end up pulling the battery and rebooting the phone.
I do have an idea as to how I got to this point, and I have only myself to blame, but in my frustration of trying to root this thing I did try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=743289 and recovery has hung like this ever since.
I've got root now, and have installed Rom manager, used that to flash clockwork recovery, yet I still have the issue. After a few google searches, I've seen some suggest that fixing file permissions can fix this, and I've done that as well with no change.
Where do I turn next?
So after some more searching and reading and such, I've discovered that even though I have root access, booting into HBOOT shows S-ON still. Could this be the issue in my inability to get a recovery written? Anyone know how to deal with it?
How do you know it is a hang in recovery? If you see the triangle and nothing happens, just click the power button once and usually you will land in the recovery mod menu.
I don't get the triangle at all. I get the initial Alltel logo and that's it. I've waited several minutes before pulling the battery before, but I don't get to the triangle or the menu.
Super one click will only do a temp root. There are no hard roots for the bee that i am aware of. DO NOT TRY UNREVOKED AS IT IS FOR THE BUZZ AND COULD YOUR BEE OR A FROYO BUZZ
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Doh! Thanks, I guess I'll wait patiently. (My network switches from Alltel to AT&T inside of 2 months, at which time I'll be provided an Aria.)
Still, it would be nice to customize this thing a bit before it turns into an mp3 player
Send me a boot.img from the bee and I'll get you a recovery
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Even though i dont have the bee would yoi mind clarifiying jacob
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If I get a boot image from a shipped rom, I can extract the kernel and build a recovery image
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I'm more than willing to help, How do I pull what you need?
I also have the SDK installed, I've been looking into writing some code for this new toy...
edit: I think I have what I need to get this pulled. Ill see if I can find some time for it this weekend.
willing to help
just starting out. complete noob
But if i can help in any way let me know. in the same boat as the original poster. our section of Alltel is being acquired by at&t and switching to the aria. but would love to help any way i can
Would love to get my "bee" rooted to play with it some more to get familiar with it all
Just got through doing a romdump. Which files do you want?
I am also having this issue... has anyone successully extracted a recovery image for the bee?
I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, because its a request not a question... sorry if its not.
I need the stock splash screen for mytouch 4g. I changed it to the nexus s Google splash screen when I switched to cm7. I need to unroot it to use the insurance for a replacement. My power button stopped working and the micro-usb port only charges occasionally now. Any help with this would be awesome. I tried searching but I have to from my phone at the moment and that makes it pretty difficult to sift through countless xda pages. Lol.
#AngelFace#
Look in the theme section, there's multiple threads on splash screens. I'm pretty sure, one of them had the stock one.
From my fist to your face, enjoy.
Go to the theme thread in the 4g section. If not, unroot. U should have the stock splash screen.
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Blazin'j83 said:
Go to the theme thread in the 4g section. If not, unroot. U should have the stock splash screen.
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Even if he unroots, it'll still be what ever he changed it to. You can flash roms left an right, but that'll still always be the same. The location of the splash screen file is different then where we have our roms located.
From my fist to your face, enjoy.
/b/rotherJudas said:
I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, because its a request not a question... sorry if its not.
I need the stock splash screen for mytouch 4g. I changed it to the nexus s Google splash screen when I switched to cm7. I need to unroot it to use the insurance for a replacement. My power button stopped working and the micro-usb port only charges occasionally now. Any help with this would be awesome. I tried searching but I have to from my phone at the moment and that makes it pretty difficult to sift through countless xda pages. Lol.
#AngelFace#
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I backed up everything from when I first flashed a new rom, including the splash.
Here's a link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YE603C62
Here's how to change it though you should already know:
Here is how to flash a new splash screen image to your phone using Terminal emulator.
Please keep in mind that as with any mod you can damage your phone beyond repair if done incorrectly.
1. Rename your 480x800 image file to (custom.img) and move it to your sdcard.
2.Open Terminal Emulator and type "su" to get a #
3.Then type this exactly as it appears and hit enter. Make sure not to make any mistakes!!!
dd if=/mnt/sdcard/custom.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p19
It should show you that the file has transfered. You can now back out of terminal emulator and reboot
your phone to see the new splash screen.
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Thank you. I downloaded and unrared the file. But I can't seem to get it with terminal emulator. I typed the commands exactly, and even tried modifying them as my phone shows /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.2/mmcblk0op19
Any ideas?
#AngelFace#
Before there's a need to ask. I unrared it and put the custom.img in the root folder of my sdcard.
#AngelFace#
splash screen flasher
Try this, it worked for me
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/splash-screen-flasher-and-image-converter-tool/
I wanna ask a question. Earlier, I used 4ext Recovery Control (the app,not actual recovery) , but i was changing the recovery theme. Anyway I chose 'reboot into recovery' to check out how the theme looked, and my phone went black and vibrated 3 times, and the orange light blinked continuously. I took out the battery and put it back in and pressed power, and same thing..black, vibrate x3, blinking light. So i took out battery again, waited bout 5 minutes, put it back and pressed vol dwn + power and it booted into hboot menu, where i entered recovery and selected reboot and it powered up normally, thank goodness! But my question is, is that a sign of something bad that i should be aware of in the future? I do have the bad chip, and i thought it was a goner! Has anybody else experienced this? Im kinda scared to be messin around now.. just wondering if y'all have seen this before.
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Your phone will do that if the volume up is held during boot. Maybe the button took a dump.
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Your phone will do that if the volume up is held during boot. Maybe the button took a dump.
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Thanks...I was holding it and maybe i did press it by mistake. Its been fine since so no worries ...
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jjbadd385 said:
Thanks...I was holding it and maybe i did press it by mistake. Its been fine since so no worries ...
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Nothing like an easy fix!
Yea i had just reversed the Htcdev unlocked bootloader, a few days ago. I was happy I had my phone True rooted, s-off, eng. Hboot..and that happened! I damn near had a panic attack!
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I also had the three fast vibrations and blinking orange led. I downgraded from Gingerbread to stock Froyo, rooted using Visionary and gfree. I then changed the engineering bootloader to 0.85.2007. I got into hboot, and verified I was S-off with that bootloader. I installed Clockwork mod recovery, and was able to create a recovery image. But, when I tried to make a backup of the rom, I got a black screen, When I tried to flash a rom I just got the orange symbol. I tried to reboot, and that’s when I first got the vibrations and orange light. I was able to restart with a battery pull, So I thought there was something wrong with my clockwork mod recovery. I reinstalled it again with the same results. I followed advice I saw in another post and pushed volume down and power and waited for the bootloader. I still had the original stock rom on there. It recognized it after a few tries, and updated. When it said reboot by pushing the power button, I got the vibrations and orange light again. It erased everything I had put on there. I wanted to see if I still had S-off, so I went to the bootloader, and I still have S-off, but the bootloader changed back to to 0.86.0000. When I tried to reboot via the power button this time, I was still getting the vibrations and orange light, and could not get it to restart. I let it charge for a while, and then pulled the sdcard in and out, along with the battery pull, and got it to restart.
I’m still new at this, so I’m not sure what I should do next. Should I try another sdcard with the stock rom? Should I try to reinstall Visionary first?
Any help will be greatly appreciated. I really don’t want to stay on Froyo .
I think u should be ok to flash another rom. I was told it can be a result of holding volume up + power. Do you know if you might have did that by accident? Also, have you had any problems with your volume buttons sticking or anything? Since i had the problem, i have flashed several times, so maybe for me it was an isolated incident. I dont want u to blame me for anything, but my opinion is you should be ok to flash a rom, just be careful not to press the vol button while rebooting.
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Thanks for the response. Should I try to run gfree again? Will it hurt anything? Even though the bootloader said S-off, when I run terminal emulator, and type in su, it says permission denied. Also I can't find gfree in the data/local folder I pushed with adb yesterday. Could this be the reason my 0.85.2007 bootloader didn't stick? I'm wondering if I should try another sdcard.
Thanks,
Erin
EMcTx said:
Thanks for the response. Should I try to run gfree again? Will it hurt anything? Even though the bootloader said S-off, when I run terminal emulator, and type in su, it says permission denied. Also I can't find gfree in the data/local folder I pushed with adb yesterday. Could this be the reason my 0.85.2007 bootloader didn't stick? I'm wondering if I should try another sdcard.
Thanks,
Erin
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Now when you ask me if it will hurt anything, I am still quite new myself, and I dont want to tell you anything that would cause you to brick your phone. Do you know what emmc chip you have? Its been stated that some chips are more likely to mess up than others. If I could tell you anything, it would be to read what others have done, read the guides til you understand more..because there is no way to be sure that you won't brick your device. I have 2 mt4g so i took more chances than i should have. but go to the Ultimate Rooting, s-off guide in the wiki section, if you are choosing to continue. Im sorry i cant be of more help but i am only slightly ahead of you on this journey of learning ...
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Before I did anything to the phone, I verified the emmc chip, it is the "good one".
This is actually my second phone. I bricked my first one in November, and it had the "bad" chip. I didn't know about that problem until I had rooted it already. I was waiting for the ICS roms to get going before I did anything. That's why I've waited so long. I ran gfree verify through adb but got su: permission denied. It seems that the gfree didn't take, although I do have the backups gfree created.
I may try to see if I can undo them in a couple of days. I need a break from the stress it creates .
Thanks again for your input.
I know what ya mean about the stress it causes...I wanted to stop, then i would lay there and think..I can do this! Then i would stop..then start again! But what really helped me more than anything, was just reading posts by other users, about similar issues. It helped me get a better grasp of what I was doing. But whatever u decide, good luck.. I think you will get it, provided you remain patient. If ya have anymore questions just ask here and if I can help I will...
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My phone still vibrates 3 times and flashes the orange light everytime I reboot. The only way to get it restarted is to do a battery pull and wait 5 minutes. I tried to flash the stock rom again through hboot. This time I used a different freshly reformatted sd card. I just don't know what to try next. Does anyone have any other ideas?
Thanks,
Erin
I finally got it to boot normally! I unrooted my phone to get s-on again. It may have had something to with gfree. I'm going to try to root it again.
EMcTx said:
I finally got it to boot normally! I unrooted my phone to get s-on again. It may have had something to with gfree. I'm going to try to root it again.
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Very good, I have been following ur progress, so post back your results ..
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It's definitely the gfree. I tried it two other times, with the same results. I was able to use the gfree method on my other phone, it just had the bad chip, so it died a few days later. I'm going to have to try another way to root the phone.
okay, I used the VISIONary method to root, and I now have S-off. No more vibrations and blinking lights.
Hey guys rookie mistake went to flash a new seemingly successful rom and forgot to make a back up first. Now my phone is on but black screen. I can get into recovery but I have no backup. Also when I connect my phone to the computer it no longer recognizes it. I have all up to date drivers. They worked yesterday. Ive been reading about bricked g2 on boot loop and other variances and trying different things all day with no success. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
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This may have been discussed before. Ive searched here and google. Plenty of horror stories and the only one ive seen with the same problem never got a fix or least didnt reply on the boards about being fixed. My phone will not turn off no matter what I do. The screen is slightly lite up and will only boot to recovery(where I have no backups) and download mode where it basically does nothing and will not connect to my computer reguardless of it having the right drivers. So I have no way to my knowledge to flash a new/stock rom. I even got desperate and did a hard reset. Changed nothing but deleted the original rom I was attempting to flash.
Install pda net driver or koush drivers.
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Ok I'll try that. Ty
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