Hi all!
I have a rather major problem.
Today Kies told me that I have a new upgrade for the firmware of my Samsung Galay S i9000. It ran stuck rom with only a few apps installed. I said i want to upgrade so it started to check everything, done a backup of my contacts, started to download the firmware on my PC. So far everything is good.
After that the phone rebooted into an android working logo and said "Downloading..." it stayed like this for a while and after that Kies gave an error. Now the phone is stuck on this screen. Disconecting the device from the usb cable and pluging it back in does't do anything. Kies tries to connect to it but after a couple of minues gives an error that the device is not responding and I should try to rebot the device.
Any idea what to do? This is the work phone so I have to fix this.
Any help is appreciated.
EDIT: Fixed the problem with odin. I know I should get a warning for not searching first...but I panicked.
Easy stuff to fix, start by posting in the right section.
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Hello all,
Im afraid i may have bricked my nexus 7 ...
I tried to flash the new clean rom 4.2 over an older rom, but now the tablet wont get past the boot screen animation and i cant even get it to boot into the recovery, when ever i try it just keeps rebooting.
I have tried this while connected to my pc as well but no joy, can this be done using fastboot as the pc does not even seem to see the nexus 7 connected
Any help would be great thanks
I am sorry to start a new thread but I have been reading threads and trying things now for over 7 hours straight. I have bricked my mothers A500.
I installed Skrillex V8 bootloader to my own tablet with Thor 1.7.3 recovery and a CM10.2 rom, everything worked fine. My mother liked how my tablet had way more battery and seemed faster then her own so she asked me to do it to hers.
I did everything the same except I had deleted the files and had to find a different bootloader so I found the "lightspeed" version of Skrilex V8 and as it seemed to just be a re-skin figured it was fine.
I downgraded to the unstable 3.0.2 build then installed iconia root and a Thor recovery via acer recovery. I then installed the lightspeed bootloader via thor with intentions of then installing the newer thor and rom after.
This is where im stuffed, after installing the new bootloader it is screwed. I cannot enter recovery or boot the primary kernal. I attempt to enter fastboot and although the tablet goes into fastboot it outputs errors and has random lockups and freezing on the tablet which the computer identifies as it being disconnected.
I have tried searching the forums for an answer and have tried everything I can understand but I am truely boned. As I am writing this I am installing packages to my Ubuntu laptop so that I can obtain the UID through the terminal in hopes it will work with APX and blackthunders tools.
If I cannot get it working I will simply wipe and give my mother my tablet, But I would really like to try and get this son of a ***** working again. I am currently incredibly annoyed at it and am probably missing something obvious. Please help me.
[UPDATE 1]
I have managed to obtain my CPUID and thus my SBK through the method described here -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1751978
I am still unable to use any tools as my PC will not recognize it in APX mode, I have reinstalled the drivers, restarted, tried multiple USB ports, uninstalled the failed unrecognized device and started from scratch a few times and I just cant seem to get it to detect them. Also tried other USB cables incase it was iffy, checked contacts on ports. There also cannot be any env variable or reg conflicts as I used my diagnostic machine to check it and it booted into its clean OS.
the APX seems to work with my linux unit though, but the blackthunder tools are for windows...
[UPDATE 2]
Using the tutorial here ->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2444187
I made it boot into the APX mode with the yellow acer logo and the APX mode text at the top, however I left it for a while and it didnt seem to finish flashing, using lsusb I can see its still connected to the linux box but it is clearly not flashing properly.
I am going to leave it for a bit then try unplugging from linux and plugging into windows while in the yellow acer logo screen with verbose output and see if blackthunders tool detects it.
[UPDATE 3]
DO NOT try what i did in update 2, I believe i removed it when it was formatting the partition, it wont even boot to the bootloader now. black screen with white light on power button and cannot be detected as APX.
[UPDATE 4]
I treid a few more times at getting it into APX mode and it turns out its just being dicky and freezing randomly, however, by trying a few times (this is dangerous but i had nothing to lose at this point) to run the Nvflash script on my linux box eventually it run through and installed the v9 bootloader. This bootloader allowed me to go into Fastboot without the freezing or crashing or loss of communications i was experiencing before. I then using fastboot flashed a recovery appropriate to the v9 bootloader and am now using that to flash a 4.3 rom. This should completely fix all the problems.
I am now sure (as previously I could only guess that the problem was caused by a dicky install of the lightspeed bootloader (a custom variant of skrilex v8 designed to match the theme of the lightspeed rom).
[UPDATE 5]
Working
Adding solved to title as I know the feeling when you come across an old thread that talks about your problem and has no replies or help.
-V0L4T1LE
Been using XDA for years never bothered to post as have never had to spend more then a few hours to solve a problem, this one took me a long time though so I decided to ask for help. Nevermind, didnt need it.
Awsum and well done getting yrself sorted, thanx for posting
rgds dibb
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Can you extract the partition 4 using nvflash --rawdeviceread to a file and share to me? My A500 is bricked and cannot download to it. only --rawdevicewrite works.
Thanks!
Ok, I have the sgh-i337m, found a nifty lollipop rom and downloaded and flashed it, everything's good. On that rom in the settings>about section, it said the model number was the i9505g, and I just assumed they were basically the same phone. I decided I wanted to try MIUI again, and looked on their site. I couldn't find one for the i337m, so i downloaded the i9505 version. Flashed it and whatnot, and it gets stuck on the booting animation. I thought okay no big deal, and tried restoring my lollipop rom. The restore looked like everything went well (the lollipop boot animation was playing), but it never booted up. I left it for hours. I thought ok time to cut my losses and downloaded a stock sasktel i337m firmware and fired up odin and download mode, and it isnt showing up on odin now and i'm realizing im an idiot. Also, it says 'Write Protection: Enabled' while in download mode, if that means anything. Anyone had this issue? Please tell me my phone isn't dead just yet. If you have any other questions about it, just ask, I'll be sitting at home all day bashing my head on my phone until it boots up.
It's not dead. You just need Odin to recognize it. Try different usb cables and ports. Use the ports in the back of your pc. Also 2.0 not 3.0
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Hello friend, I followed your advice and I just kept trying random ports (unfortunately, I don't have any USB 2.0 ports on my computer, only 3.0), and it eventually showed up in Odin, I don't know how I forgot to try different ports, but thank you. I flashed the firmware, but it still looks like it isnt booting. It's showing the stock samsung boot animation, and sitting there with the blue LED on, I know it should take a while on the first boot, but i've given her a good 5ish minutes. I'll post again if she doesnt boot after 10-15 minutes.
jd1639 said:
It's not dead. You just need Odin to recognize it. Try different usb cables and ports. Use the ports in the back of your pc. Also 2.0 not 3.0
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Still doesn't seem to be working following the Odin flash. If it matters, I flashed the I337MVLUFNI2_I337MOYAFNI2_I337MVLUFNI2_HOME.tar.md5 file.
Gutana said:
Hello friend, I followed your advice and I just kept trying random ports (unfortunately, I don't have any USB 2.0 ports on my computer, only 3.0), and it eventually showed up in Odin, I don't know how I forgot to try different ports, but thank you. I flashed the firmware, but it still looks like it isnt booting. It's showing the stock samsung boot animation, and sitting there with the blue LED on, I know it should take a while on the first boot, but i've given her a good 5ish minutes. I'll post again if she doesnt boot after 10-15 minutes.
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Boot into recovery and do a factory reset. That should get you past the bootloop
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i purchased my ideatab a3000h a few years back backed with jellybean after a few months due to introduction of new android(lollipop) in the market i thought to upgrade its android version to kitkat. In xda i found rom of 4.2.2 which i could flash through pc. i downloaded it and flashed.
it gave an error of preloader.bin file corrupt, the tablet got disconnected and did not showed again. i did have debugging enabled. tablet did not have even recovery , only is a black screen neither vibration nor a boot logo. please help
thank you