Just want to say Hi to all who contribute to this forum, which had helped me so much over the years of searching for a better experience with my electronic devices
This is more a heads up than a question so I'll keep it brief. Last couple of days, I had issues buying apps from playstore, but no issue downloading free apps. Whenever I tried to buy something I was receiving a message that my order cannot be completed. Yesterday I finally decided to flash a custom rom and after unlocking my device, I had to flash the stock rom again, since my device stuck in boot loop. When everything was restored on stock rom, I updated manually "TalkBack" and "Chrome" and the issue repeated. I flashed one more time and this time didn't performed update to "TalkBack" from google. Now everything is fine with purchasing. Does anyone else noticed same thing?
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Last evening, I put a new ROM on my phone, which has been rooted for quite some time running Goldeneye with no issues prior to earlier this week, and the rom installed without a problem, but when I went to flash an addon for the rom that came from the dev, the entire thing went south. I was using TWRP which is what's been on the phone since it was rooted, I do NOT have MF3 on the phone however after this install through TWRP, the phone how has the unlock icon on it, and won't boot past the samsung screen. If I try to get into recovery, it boots into odin, and freezes. I tried to do a recovery through Kies, and it just says connecting, then says the phone is not responding. For the first time since I've owned this phone, I feel well and truly stuck. Any help would be greatly appreciated, since after almost two years of rooting and installing ROMS on various devices from Samsung, HTC and Motorola, I made a mistake somewhere along the way and I am not even sure what the hell I managed to do, and the multiple forums I've been reading on here don't seem to be getting me anyplace. Apologies if this is a repeat and I missed a simple solution somewhere, but I've been at this for almost two hours now, so time to swallow the pride...
Think I figured it out
Well after writing this, for my own personal sense of masochism and an overall morbid curiosity, I kept reading, and figured out how to get the phone to actually boot into proper recovery mode (as in NOT Odin), and was able to get a ROM back on the phone, as I didn't care for any of the nandroids I had there. As I am not sure that anyone actually viewed this before I resolved my own issue much less had a chance to respond, it's not appropriate to thank anyone for solving my own problem, except for the poster of the thing that I read which led to my resolution, but I will throw out a blanket thank you to all those that take the time to develop, write, and help others solve the stupid stuff, it is appreciated, at least by this Ohioan, who sometimes manages to get in over his head!
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Last evening, I put a new ROM on my phone, which has been rooted for quite some time running Goldeneye with no issues prior to earlier this week, and the rom installed without a problem, but when I went to flash an addon for the rom that came from the dev, the entire thing went south. I was using TWRP which is what's been on the phone since it was rooted, I do NOT have MF3 on the phone however after this install through TWRP, the phone how has the unlock icon on it, and won't boot past the samsung screen. If I try to get into recovery, it boots into odin, and freezes. I tried to do a recovery through Kies, and it just says connecting, then says the phone is not responding. For the first time since I've owned this phone, I feel well and truly stuck. Any help would be greatly appreciated, since after almost two years of rooting and installing ROMS on various devices from Samsung, HTC and Motorola, I made a mistake somewhere along the way and I am not even sure what the hell I managed to do, and the multiple forums I've been reading on here don't seem to be getting me anyplace. Apologies if this is a repeat and I missed a simple solution somewhere, but I've been at this for almost two hours now, so time to swallow the pride...
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Hi, I'm Nyshan and I've been having a bit of a problem with XCOM:EU. I recently purchased it from the Google play store after looking through several forums and seeing that my device (Nexus 4) was compatible. I then proceeded to download it to my (at the time) rooted, 4.3 OS on Franco Kernel. To my dismay the game refused to launch. So I did the only rational thing and unrooted my device while also backing up XCOM. I then reinstalled XCOM after the unrooted and to my absolute disgust found the game still would not load up. I then proceeded to update my phone to the latest OS (4.4.2, still unrooted with a locked boot loader, mind you) in the waning hope that it might fix my problem. Obviously, it didn't. So now, I come here as an absolute last resort.
For ease of access:
Nexus 4
Currently Stock (4.4.2)
Unrooted, Boot loader locked
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Nyshan
P.S. I made this on my phone, so I apologize for the block of text. Also the search bar refuses to function without disappearing every time I try to use it, so sorry if this was an already resolved issue.
Has anyone else had this problem?
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Hey all! I'm having a strange issue regarding boot looping that I can't seem to find an answer to on here or anywhere else, I hope you guys can help.
So my T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S5 (SM-G900T), purchased in May 2014, while perusing Facebook the other day, randomly shut down in the middle of perfectly normal use and started bootlooping. I had never had the problem before. The device had been rooted for months (I forget what method I used) but it was running a stock Lollipop rom. The first thing I did was factory wipe and cache wipe through Android stock recovery. It worked!... for a couple hours. Then the bootloop started again.
I went and sought a new stock rom, believing that somehow mine had been corrupted, and flashed it via Odin. I also flashed TWRP. Clean wipes, new rom, dalvic/etc. wipes, and booted into stock Marshmallow. It worked!... for a couple hours. Then it started bootlooping again. I went into TWRP and tried to wipe just caches and whatnot, but it wouldn't start again. Long battery pulls sometimes allowed the phone to boot, but it started looping again after ~5-10 minutes.
So I installed the Twisted Lollipop but couldn't even get that to boot. I went back and found the earliest available firmware for my device (as I bought mine right after it came out) and flashed it. Wipe wipe flash wipe whatever, and a succesful boot. It was looking good! I was able to install a number of OTA updates. I was at Android 5.1 when I decided to call it a night and hold off on the further OTAs for today. Today I got up and got ready for work, all's well. As I'm getting ready to leave, I allow Google to update some apps, and begin installing Facebook, Spotify, Cap Metro (for my area's public transit system) and maybe something else, I don't remember. Anyway, as the updates are downloading or installing and I'm checking my email, boom, crash, bootloop.
What's going on here? I've never heard of hardware causing boot loops, but could it be that? I dropped my phone (although protected by a Spigen case) earlier this summer and it cracked the screen-- could it have messed with the motherboard in some substantial way? I had noticed it getting hotter and the battery lasting less than usual, but I attributed that to the device's age.
Any help, any advice, any direction you could give would be extremely appreciated. I don't have the capital to replace the phone right now, and I use it all the time. Thanks folks!
If this has been answered somewhere in this forum I apologize and please direct me to the answer. Back when I got my phone in march I rooted my phone using one of the guides on this discussion page so I could have open wifi tethering. While I did have some hiccups not the least of which being soft-bricking my phone and having to flash what I thought was a stock rom but ended up being a android 7.0 rom that seemed to work fine on my phone. Learning my lesson I made a backup right then and there of the stock install as well as two afterwords once I got everything set up the way I wanted. Flash forward to today my phone is bugging me for a seemingly benign system update and after ignoring it all day I dumbly install it without thinking. Now no matter what I do booting my phone only takes me to the TWRP recovery menu. I have tried running all of my backups and nothing is working. Of course because this has been a couple months the image I used is gone so I can't use that. Would that even work, wtf did I do. Let me know if anyone has an answer I will be eternally grateful
Ok problem solved.... after whiping my phone several times I attempted an install of cypherOS. and well.... it worked. I think I'll stick to this . Just let this post die I guess... I am going to set my alarm and go to bed I am very tired and have work in the morning
I noticed a week or so ago that every time I reboot my Nexus 4, I have to sit through the optimizing apps every time. I have been going crazy searching for info on this and cant seem to find anything that helps. Phone is running 5.1.1, nothing custom, OTA update. I tried rolling back to 4.2 and everything seemed ok up until I got back to 5.1.1, then optimizing apps every boot again. I prefer Lollipop, but this constant half hour + delay before I can use the phone is unacceptable.
Any help would be appreciated, I really can't afford to buy another phone right now but this is driving me crazy trying to figure it out.
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I noticed a week or so ago that every time I reboot my Nexus 4, I have to sit through the optimizing apps every time. I have been going crazy searching for info on this and cant seem to find anything that helps. Phone is running 5.1.1, nothing custom, OTA update. I tried rolling back to 4.2 and everything seemed ok up until I got back to 5.1.1, then optimizing apps every boot again. I prefer Lollipop, but this constant half hour + delay before I can use the phone is unacceptable.
Any help would be appreciated, I really can't afford to buy another phone right now but this is driving me crazy trying to figure it out.
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I'm not an expert but I have some experience with my Nexus 4..
any root? SuperSu maybe?
You receive the 'Android is starting optimising app xx of xx'?
if you have SuperSu, install the last version...
Another cause may be some file in your internal storage, make a backup, delete all and restart 2 times to see if there is a change...
Last resort, flash the rom stock with nexus root toolkit with all wipe
I did use NRT to flash 4.2 back on and wiped it, then let it work its way through the upgrades again. Once it got back to 5.0+ the optimizing problem started. Phone was not rooted, just bootloader unlocked.
I flashed a custom rom based on Oreo on it and the problem stopped, so I am assuming this is a Lollipop problem, but I would really rather be able to run stock Lollipop on my phone.