OK, so I flashed the wrong ROM today (I9000HVJH1) and the phone now boots into recovery everytime the battery is inserted. I have tried all the tricks to get back to download mode with no luck. The device is recognized by the USB in recovery and was able to push the root update file but can not get it to apply sdcard:update.zip (just sits there and doesn't respond to the power button unless i hold it). Interesting thing is when I plug the USB in and insert the battery, it never goes to charging, it boots into recovery.
Tried:
1. Plug USB
2. Hold vol up (and down but the keys are now backwards in recovery)
3. Insert battery
and
1. Power down (removed battery)
2. Hold vol up + down + power
and
1. Hold vol up (and down too for a few hundred times)
2. Hold power until Samsung logo then release
and
all combo's with and without the USB plugged into the phone.
Beside the tricks shown on the forum, can anything think of a way to get this phone into download mode instead of it constantly booting into recovery? ADB see's the device, just no root access or knowledge of how to get it to apply the update.zip that would root the device.
Thanks~!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741027&page=3
Wrong section. This belongs in general...
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UPDATE!!
After going to T-Mobile on Monday to buy a new Vibrant, I started to think about how to get the "bricked" one working again. I was able to admit defeat for long enough to get a new one but was bothered that I couldn't fix my old one.
I started to think about what I could and couldn't do with the "bricked" one. It would constantly boot start to Android Recovery with error about CSC. No matter what combination of buttons pressed, held, release, the darn phone would never get back to a download mode. Since it could never boot into the OS, ADB seemed impossible. The GOOD news (as it turns out) was when it booted into recovery if I disconnected the USB and reconnected, my computer recognized it and Odin saw it on COM10. I began to look at the batch file for the one click root and noticed the line "adb reboot download". I had messed with ADB the day I screwed up the phone but always tried to do commands after typing "adb shell" and without super user access, I felt doomed. Last night I thought what the heck and powered up the old Vibrant and it went straight to recovery. After another 45 minutes of trying to manually put it into download mode I opened a command prompt and typed "adb reboot download" and the freaking phone rebooted into download mode!!!! So after flashing back to stock I now have fixed the phone
So for anyone who can't get their Vibrant to stop rebooting itself into recovery here is a simple breakdown of what I did.
1 - Power up phone (mine went straight to recovery)
2 - Un-plug the USB and plug it back in (computer should recognize the connection)
3 - Open command prompt and change to the directory that has adb.exe
4 - Type "adb kill-server" and then enter
5 - Type "adb reboot download" and then enter
6 - Phone should reboot into download mode and ready to flash
Make sure you have Odin open with the pit and pda file loaded as there seems to be only a short window of time in which the phone will accept the download and get the status bar moving. If you wait too long, repeat the steps above and start the flash quickly.
I hope this helps someone out that might be experiencing the same problem as me.
So I've had the transformer for a while and I finally took the plunge and followed this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1125714 to root. I got to step 4c, meaning I successfully ran root.bat and cwm.bat and rebooted afterwards. When I rebooted however, the tablet stayed on the "asus powered by nvidia" screen for a very long time. I decided to shut it down, but it immediately started back up again and stayed on that screen again. The only way to stop it was to put it into APX mode so it doesn't drain my battery.
I'm pretty sure I followed all the steps correctly, and I was on the latest .11 OTA update. Help please?
EDIT: I reread the first few sentences of the guide and realized I missed a very important step... I forgot to extract 84411.zip into the "root" folder of tf_rootkit_31, which means I have no boot or recovery image. Is there any way I can recover from this?
Just start over with the correct files in place.
The boot.bat file will write those files and you should be good to go.
With APX mode the transformer is basically un(software)brick able.
sassafras
I tried starting over but I can't seem to boot into APX mode. When I turn it off and then hold power/vol up, device manager refreshes but APX mode doesn't show up. the device also isn't listed under adb devices in the command prompt...
Vertiginouz said:
I tried starting over but I can't seem to boot into APX mode. When I turn it off and then hold power/vol up, device manager refreshes but APX mode doesn't show up. the device also isn't listed under adb devices in the command prompt...
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When you say it doesn't enter APX mode, is it still boot looping? When this happened to me, it took about 10 seconds just holding power and vol+ before I heard the USB connected sound.
Vertiginouz said:
I tried starting over but I can't seem to boot into APX mode. When I turn it off and then hold power/vol up, device manager refreshes but APX mode doesn't show up. the device also isn't listed under adb devices in the command prompt...
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adb won't show the device when it is in APX mode. If you're on windows you need to check your device manager or connected usb devices to see if it's there. The screen on the TF should be black until you start the rooting proccess.
If it is bootlooping just keep power and vol+ unti the screen goes blank - can take a few seconds extra.
Also make sure you use the correct 84411 zip - using the US version on a WW TF will make it go into a bootloop - I suspect the same will happen the other way around.
GL
Thanks for the responses, I'll try again when I get home in 3 hours. also when I say bootloop, it's not turning on and off repeatedly, it just stays on one screen until I turn it off, then it starts back up by itself.
Well it finally worked, I had to reinstall the APX drivers first though, thanks has been given!
Hello,
This is my first post, so please try to bear with me. I just received a Kindle Fire and decided to root and install Cyanogenmod. I found a tutorial which I thought looked pretty straightforward on Lilputing. I downloaded the Kindle Fire Utility and followed both the utility and the article told me to do. After installing TWRP 2.0, disaster. I rebooted the device and the Kindle read, "press power button for recovery," and showed a yellow triangle with a fire icon in the middle. I pressed the power button, and nothing happened. At this point, I rebooted. The device would not get passed this screen, and my PC would not recognize the Kindle. I presume I bricked my device, however (as I do not have any experience in this field) I honestly have no idea what I did, nor do I know where to go next. Any suggestions? Please help!
Same here.
This is the wrong forum for this. This should be in Kindle Q&A.
Thank you for redirecting me. I am a bit new to this (probably why I screwed up my device).
AdamOutler said:
This is the wrong forum for this. This should be in Kindle Q&A.
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There IS no Kindle Q&A.
Anyways, I have a similar problem in that it gets stuck at the triangle if I hit the power button, but for me, if I don't touch ANYTHING it will boot into the Kindle OS just fine.
Mine always powers up to the yellow triangle. If I just leave it there, it boots into android after like 10-15 seconds. Have you guys tried just waiting it out?
If I press the power button, it'll cycle off and on, so you have to wait even longer to get into Android. When I want to get into TWRP, I just press the power button repeatedly until it turns orange.
side comment: this waiting five minutes between posts and not being allowed to post in dev forums blows. i shoulda kept my old account.
bikeracer4487 said:
There IS no Kindle Q&A.
Anyways, I have a similar problem in that it gets stuck at the triangle if I hit the power button, but for me, if I don't touch ANYTHING it will boot into the Kindle OS just fine.
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Regardless... he posted originally in hardware hacking forum. I had this moved here.
kw1999 said:
Hello,
This is my first post, so please try to bear with me. I just received a Kindle Fire and decided to root and install Cyanogenmod. I found a tutorial which I thought looked pretty straightforward on Lilputing. I downloaded the Kindle Fire Utility and followed both the utility and the article told me to do. After installing TWRP 2.0, disaster. I rebooted the device and the Kindle read, "press power button for recovery," and showed a yellow triangle with a fire icon in the middle. I pressed the power button, and nothing happened. At this point, I rebooted. The device would not get passed this screen, and my PC would not recognize the Kindle. I presume I bricked my device, however (as I do not have any experience in this field) I honestly have no idea what I did, nor do I know where to go next. Any suggestions? Please help!
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Okay, try this:
1) Download v6 of the Kindle Fire Utility from here. (The forum thread can be found here)
2) Extract the files into a folder anywhere (but remember where, obviously)
3) Go into the folder, then into 'drivers' and open up adb_usb.ini in a text editor and add "0x18D1" (without the quotes) on a line underneath "0x1949"
4) Open up Device Manager and find "kindle". It should have a yellow triangle near it.
5) Download fastboot.exe from here
6) Open up command prompt and navigate to wherever you saved fastboot to.
7) Run the command "fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000"
8) Power off your device by holding down the power button for ~10 seconds and turn it back on, and this time don't hit the power button to go into TWRP. It should move past the yellow triangle after a few seconds and boot into Kindle. Hope this helps!
kw1999 said:
Hello,
This is my first post, so please try to bear with me. I just received a Kindle Fire and decided to root and install Cyanogenmod. I found a tutorial which I thought looked pretty straightforward on Lilputing. I downloaded the Kindle Fire Utility and followed both the utility and the article told me to do. After installing TWRP 2.0, disaster. I rebooted the device and the Kindle read, "press power button for recovery," and showed a yellow triangle with a fire icon in the middle. I pressed the power button, and nothing happened. At this point, I rebooted. The device would not get passed this screen, and my PC would not recognize the Kindle. I presume I bricked my device, however (as I do not have any experience in this field) I honestly have no idea what I did, nor do I know where to go next. Any suggestions? Please help!
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reinstall the usb driver from the android sdk (using device manager to find the right driver in windows) and change change the bootmode back to 4000.
this hapened to me half way through installing the new burrittoroot my pc couldnt recognize the kindle anymore, had to reinstall the drivers and manually change the boot mode from command promt.
oops... bikeracer beat me to it, jst saw his post.... thats almost exactly what I had to do.
if you didn't.read.the.instructions,.like me, then you might have rebooted.without changing.the bootmode.back to 4000 so I was.stuck.in.fastboot
I had a kernel.handy so I.just typed.fastboit -I 0x1949 boot kernel.img then.once booted I immediately changed the bootmode.
I don't even try to fix the periods from.using the.stock kindle.keyboard.anymore.
bikeracer4487 said:
Okay, try this:
1) Download v6 of the Kindle Fire Utility from here. (The forum thread can be found here)
2) Extract the files into a folder anywhere (but remember where, obviously)
3) Go into the folder, then into 'drivers' and open up adb_usb.ini in a text editor and add "0x18D1" (without the quotes) on a line underneath "0x1949"
4) Open up Device Manager and find "kindle". It should have a yellow triangle near it.
5) Download fastboot.exe from here
6) Open up command prompt and navigate to wherever you saved fastboot to.
7) Run the command "fastboot oem idme bootmode 4000"
8) Power off your device by holding down the power button for ~10 seconds and turn it back on, and this time don't hit the power button to go into TWRP. It should move past the yellow triangle after a few seconds and boot into Kindle. Hope this helps!
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Could you make a video of this for noobs like me?
i can't make a video - but i can guide you through this things
first - if you did it with kfu did you read the tricks from the first page:
Known Tricks
•If you end up stuck at the yellow triangle, in KF Utility select Boot Normal, wait for it to say <waiting for device> and then press and hold the power button 20 seconds until the fire turns off, then when its off turn it back on. This sometimes happens, I have yet to find a clean solution
•If you end up stuck with a yellow triangle, do not EVER unplug it. Leave it plugged in. Check the windows drivers to make sure it isnt showing as "kindle" again. Fastboot is different and can cause this.
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if this is not your issue lets go ahead
download the latest kfu, extract it somewhere (i would recomend to c:\), but don't run install_drivers.bat !
make shure you don't have a driver issue (check device manager for yellow exclamation mark on kindle,android phone - adb devices)
if so you have to correct you drivers:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20855280&postcount=54
then you can do it with the tool or manually
take a look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20872252&postcount=22
So I checked my Kindle Fire and it wont let me play my games. So i checked root checker and it says i dont have root acess. then i checked my device and it said its on 6.2.2 and i didn't even update it. So now I installed root again (the new version) and when I used KFU to install TWRP(the latest one). It would install then I hit reboot now its stuck at the TWRP yellow fire logo thingy. I tried unplugging and connect it now it says, "USB devices not recognized, Uknown Device"
What do i do helppp!!!! pls...
Once you get to the yellow logo press the power button again till it turns orange to get into recovery and then go from there
from the op of kfu:
Known Tricks
•If you end up stuck at the yellow triangle, in KF Utility select Boot Normal, wait for it to say <waiting for device> and then press and hold the power button 20 seconds until the fire turns off, then when its off turn it back on. This sometimes happens, I have yet to find a clean solution
•If you end up stuck with a yellow triangle, do not EVER unplug it. Leave it plugged in. Check the windows drivers to make sure it isnt showing as "kindle" again. Fastboot is different and can cause this.
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and:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20945694&postcount=506
Hi all,
I have just recently rooted my 306SH, the rooting process was fine. The problem started when I flashed an incompatible twrp image. Now I can't boot into anything it seems, no recovery, no fastboot and the power button will show only the logo screen. If connected to a power source the red led light will stay on even if unplugged. The device can be completely shut down and the red light off if I hold the down+volume and power down for few seconds.
I can connect it to my computer via usb by holding up+volume and power (green led light) . I installed google usb driver onto the android device and it stays connected for about 30 seconds to 1 minute. I tried using command prompt and SDK by typing "adb reboot recovery" but get an error message "error: device '(null)' not found.
Things I have installed on my computer:
(ADB, fast boot and drivers) https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48915118#post48915118
SDK Platform-tools
306SH:
Google USB driver
Is there anything I can do from my computer? I was thinking maybe I can flash in an image to replace it. And also my sim card pops out and can't be set back in, is this due to the incorrect flashing?
Any help or input is greatly appreciated, I've been working on this for a while and is getting no where.