I am one of the many Droid Pro users that did not receive the Gingerbread update before Verizon pulled the OTA update. I decided tonight that I would try to update with an update.zip file using the recovery method. The install appeared to be going well right up until the end. At around 90% or so the update failed and abandoned the update, I selected to restore the original firmware and restarted the phone. The phone restarted and this time the Motorola icon had changed from the normal white icon to a red icon, I'm assuming that something changed. The phone then went black, power still applied to the screen but just black. I could hear the phone starting up as it made its characteristic DROID noise and the keyboard and screen buttons illuminated, however nothing shows up on the screen, it still remains black.
I have tried numerous methods to reset or restore but I am unable to get anything to display on the screen other than the red icon as the device powers up. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
should flash the stock firmware.
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Did the new update to MK2, and after I finally fixed some issues I was having with the Kies firmware update error screen, my phone was working great. I turned my phone off last night to put a new battery in, and when I turned it back on, it booted my home screen, but it was completely black. I can access the status bar, and get to the settings, but there are no apps at all showing in the application manager. It seems as if everything is missing.
I have downloaded the MK2 update, flashed it through recovery as well as adb and it still boots but everything just shows black. It won't let me flash back to MF3 through Odin. After I do a MK2 flash, it boots to the welcome screen, but when it scans for wifi, there is no keyboard to type in my password. I have skipped through that, and made it to the homescreen, but still black. Any suggestions? All help is appreciated!
I somehow got the MF3 files to flash on my phone, but now when it boots, it comes up with the "Software not authorized by Saumsung has been found on your phone". I can get to Odin mode, but when booting to recovery, the blue line shows at the top that says "Recovery Booting" then it goes to the software not authorized screen.. At the top of the software screen it says secure fail:kernel.. Can anyone tell me we what to flash to get rid of this? I feel like pulling my hair out because I've worked on it so long lol
Got a brand new vs980 from Verizon with stock OTA 24A on it. I rooted and then used the KITKAT 24A OTA FREEDOM file from this thread to try and install TWRP 2.7. It ran, asked me if I wanted to boot into recovery. I chose yes. It appeared to have worked fine. However, now my phone just gives me the ERROR: boot certification verify screen. I've tried to get into download mode, but it never makes it past the first screen (dots). It never makes it to the screen with the progress meter and the usb icon. It seems to be properly bricked. Is this thread my only hope?
C'mon guys, this is a crisis. On my way to work this morning i had to listen to the radio! Like, with commercials and stuff.
Any luck? My phone is doing the exact same thing. I can't get into download mode or fast boot. The LG sign pops up, the error flashes for less than a second in the upper left hand corner then the screen goes blank and does nothing else until I hold the power button for 10 seconds or power button + volume down key, then it just repeats the LG sign and message all over again. We're screwed brotha
I have the ATT model g2. it was running android 4.2.2 and i rooted. i got an OTA notification yesterday so i unrooted it, and uninstalled busybox. and went ahead with the update. now, my phone does not turn on. you go to turn it on and the lg logo flashes for a second or two, then a black screen, if you look closely you can tell that the screen panel is still lit, but nothing shows up. It will not boot to download mode, and it does boot to the (stock LG recovery, i never had a custom recovery) recovery, but when i hit the power button 3 times to do the hard reset, i get the black screen again, and no boot. when i connect it to my computer, it gives me a bunch of popups saying that i need to reformat a drive before i can use it, somewhere around 15-20 of them? ive run out of ideas to fix it. any and all help is appreciated. would really like my g2 back, im back to my old phone which was a nexus 5 that has a terribly cracked screen, and i really like to get the g2 back rather than having to pay to get my screen replaced.
Hi,
I have received OTA update for my MotoXPlay, phone has restarted, a black screen with android logo was shown with small blue progressbar.
After that phone has rebooted and now it loops in that state - I mean, I can see a motorola splash screen then phone is resetting and again and again...
I have locked device (no root, no custom room etc). I can access to the bootloader menu.
Any suggestions?
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Howdy, all! This is my first post on XDA, and it comes after days of frustration. I'm relatively new to the back-end of phones, especially android. What happened is this:
About 4 or 5 days ago, I woke up to my phone completely dead, despite being plugged in. I tried turning it on, and got stuck on the "Samsung Galaxy S7" screen for a while, and then finally a blue screen with the android logo saying "Installing update." That process seemed to end rather abruptly and then went back to the first loading screen, followed by a black screen, then "Samsung," and repeat. At this point I tried plugging the phone in to see if smart switch would detect it... and this is where my ineptitude with phones starts to show.
I didn't realize that smart switch has an emergency recovery mode under "file," (*sigh*) so when my phone didn't show up on the main screen I assumed the worst. After some google-searches, I went in to clear the cache through Android Recovery. I was still trying to save my data at this point, so I didn't just erase everything and start fresh. I regret that now.
After clearing the cache, I rebooted the system through the menu, and was stuck in loop with the first screen being all black, except for some blue text in the upper left hand corner saying, "Recovery booting." The screen would then flash back to a blue screen with the android logo and "Installing system update," and then go black and repeat the whole process. Getting back into the recovery menu was sporadic after this, but was possible occasionally. This is where my ineptitude REALLY starts to show...
Despite having my current rom version displayed to me multiple times on the recovery menu, I neglected to write it down or record it in any way. Instead, I googled "SM-G935A stock firmware," and was able to find a presumably helpful link on these forums guiding me on flashing stock oreo files through Odin. I say presumably, because in the hands of someone who actually has knowledge on this subject, the thread was incredibly helpful. In my hands, however, it seemed to create a monster. I flashed the stock files downloaded from the link, and all looked good- Odin gave a solid pass, and the phone rebooted to the normal initial two loading screens. And then disaster- another boot loop. But this time, I have no idea what firmware used to be on my phone before I started fooling around.
At this point, I've had one near success with a flash of SM-G935AUCS8CRK1 through Odin where I actually got a blue LED indicator for the first time, as well as the AT&T logo and chime. Now, however, it seems that I either get stuck in that loop, or back to the original "Recovery Booting," "Installing Update," loop.
The phone is not rooted. I don't have a custom recovery installed, and I'm not even sure if I ever got around to enabling developer mode through the OS settings.
ANY help is appreciated. I'm pretty sure I've made the problem significantly worse than it was originally, but I've at least learned a lot in the process- hopefully I won't mess things up this badly in the future! Thanks for taking the time to read through this mess!