Hello.
I just rooted my phone for the first time with Motochopper and flashed the Google Wallet Mod. Everything was working fine until after a while I tried turning my screen on and it wouldn't turn on. I rebooted the phone and the Samsung Logo with the Custom Lock logo appears for a short while, then the screen goes black. After about 20 seconds the blue LED stays constantly lit and slowly fads in and out - after a few minutes the device becomes really hot. The screen stays black and I can't do anything. Is there any way to get my phone back to normal without deleting everything off my phone and restoring the stock ROM?
I have a US AT&T Samsung Galaxy S4 16GB (SGH-I337).
Any help is appreciated,
Thank you.
-Problem fixed.
You have any backups? try restoring one and see if you get the same result. If not, odin back to stock would be your only option.
TheAxman said:
You have any backups? try restoring one and see if you get the same result. If not, odin back to stock would be your only option.
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Unfortunately I don't have any backups. This is my first Android phone, coming from an iPhone, and I'm still getting used to rooting as opposed to jailbreaking. I installed TWRP before I flashed the Google Wallet mod but thought I would be fine until I get an external micro SD card to create the backup on. Is there any way I can access and transfer my photos that are on the device either via Recovery Mode or Download Mode to my computer before I loose everything restoring back to stock?
If you just rebooted thru power menu, try pulling battery--
Did you try manually booting into recovery--
rugmankc said:
If you just rebooted thru power menu, try pulling battery--
Did you try manually booting into recovery--
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The first time I rebooted, I used some combination of the power and home button because when I tried to turn it on the screen was black. Something must have happened while the device was idle because everything was fine but when I turned it on it wouldn't come on so I rebooted. When it boots, the screen stays black with the blue LED and if I try to reboot, the same thing happens - it's stuck in a loop and the only way to turn it off is to pull the battery out. I can manually boot into recovery, but I have no backups. I've tried doing a Factory Reset in the TWRP, but no dice.
Wow--lesson learned hard way--ALWAYS have backup on phone and pc, including a copy of your sdcard--
That should be at top of every phone forum stickies--
I am not expert on Samsung yet. But, on my HTC phone we would have downloaded a rom to the pc and thru adb pushed it to phone then wiped and flashed it.
It is easy, but you will need to get adb files on your pc or download and install Android ADK. I think if someone has them for this phone you can copy them to pc and put in adb folder and bypass SDK. They are in some of the exploits like motochopper. Matter of fact you could probably extract motochopper and put in your download folder or to desktop and run adb from there. It has all the commands.
Some one else more expert on phone can confirm that and give exact push command to get rom to phone. I can Google it, just haven't used those commands for awhile,
It will be something like putting motochopper extracted folder onto pc. Opening a terminal window and cd'ing to where ever you put it
Then typing adb push rom.zip /sdcard rom.zip
Of course you need to rename rom to "rom.zip" or use the exact name of the rom you put on pc.
That command will have rom.zip on root of sdcard
I pretty much had this happen to my phone -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2331112
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Bilateral Pneumothorax said:
Unfortunately I don't have any backups. This is my first Android phone, coming from an iPhone, and I'm still getting used to rooting as opposed to jailbreaking. I installed TWRP before I flashed the Google Wallet mod but thought I would be fine until I get an external micro SD card to create the backup on. Is there any way I can access and transfer my photos that are on the device either via Recovery Mode or Download Mode to my computer before I loose everything restoring back to stock?
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Connect the phone to PC, then you can access the internal folders
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Bilateral Pneumothorax said:
Unfortunately I don't have any backups. This is my first Android phone, coming from an iPhone, and I'm still getting used to rooting as opposed to jailbreaking. I installed TWRP before I flashed the Google Wallet mod but thought I would be fine until I get an external micro SD card to create the backup on. Is there any way I can access and transfer my photos that are on the device either via Recovery Mode or Download Mode to my computer before I loose everything restoring back to stock?
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I am on an iMac and use Android File Transfer. Not sure how they do it on PC as I thought we still can't mount sdcard in Recovery. Maybe Kies if it works for you. But, if you can only get to recovery and no backup, pushing a rom may be the answer. Come morning you'll get more answers. One thing I noticed coming from TMobile HTC to US ATT, not much overnite posts since we are all within 3 hour time zones. With Tmobile, lots of Europe folks.
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Wow--lesson learned hard way--ALWAYS have backup on phone and pc, including a copy of your sdcard--
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Lesson well learned. When I get my phone up and running my first priority after re-rooting will be making a backup.
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I am on an iMac and use Android File Transfer. Not sure how they do it on PC as I thought we still can't mount sdcard in Recovery. Maybe Kies if it works for you. But, if you can only get to recovery and no backup, pushing a rom may be the answer. Come morning you'll get more answers. One thing I noticed coming from TMobile HTC to US ATT, not much overnite posts since we are all within 3 hour time zones. With Tmobile, lots of Europe folks.
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I was actually able to mount USB Storage via TWRP and use the ADB command adb pull /sdcard/DCIM/Camera to extract the photos off my phone to my computer. Now it's not so bad if I have to restore to default.
Always always backup FIRST before attempting to do anything, that is lesson one period.
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Bilateral Pneumothorax said:
Lesson well learned. When I get my phone up and running my first priority after re-rooting will be making a backup.
I was actually able to mount USB Storage via TWRP and use the ADB command adb pull /sdcard/DCIM/Camera to extract the photos off my phone to my computer. Now it's not so bad if I have to restore to default.
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Great. Since you are up on adb you can easily push a rom. I will have to try to mount in recovery again. I think android file transfer messes with mounting.
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rugmankc said:
Great. Since you are up on adb you can easily push a rom. I will have to try to mount in recovery again. I think android file transfer messes with mounting.
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Instead, I used Odin to flash the stock GS4 firmware. Now my phone is working again. Oh and I made a backup this time.
Thank you to all who helped me.
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Super. Having not used Odin and on an imac, not sure that was an option in your case. Glad you got it.
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I had the 3.2.1 and I used the script to turn backdoor on and also OTA updates back on. My Acer is rooted but stock rom. It saw the ICS update and downloaded and rebooted and I got the android guy with the gears turning and that progress bar went all the way and it looked like it rebooted again.
Now it is stuck at the "Android" name...usually its a black screen with a few seconds of that Android screen popping up then going back to black and it never progresses...i've tried rebooting. Anyone else having this issue?
Can you boot into recovery?
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Can you boot into recovery?
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Actually it's been so long since I have done that I don't remember how..power button and vol down or something? I didn't ask that cause I know it can be easily found just been running around this morning so haven't had time to check it out. Sucks..didn't think i'd have an issue due to being on a stock rom
EDIT: Yes just tried it...it booted into recovery I believe..shows the android guy laying on his back with his stomach opened and a red triangle with an exclimation point
This may be posted somewhere but what app do I need to use to get my tablet back and running from recovery mode?
im in da same boat as you.......i need a downgrade or something!!
Me too. I have an image file, but cannot get it onto the tablet. Can someone tell me how I can use a PC to get an update.zip file onto the tablet so I can get it working again? I can get into recovery, but do not have a zip file to select from. I have an old SD card from a DX that I just got rid of for a Galaxy Nexus, but I do not have the phone anymore. I have a card reader, but cannot get windows to recognize the card. If I can get widows to recognize the card reader, I can get the zip file and transfer it that way. Please help???
Capadac said:
im in da same boat as you.......i need a downgrade or something!!
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Me too this sucks
I'm trying to follow directions on how to unbrick from other threads but they all mentions doing things on the tablet that I can't access because my tablet won't do anything at all. When I boot into recovery mode it gives me no options at all and my pc cannot see any of my files/drives on my tablet so how do you guys even do anything with it?
dxharmon said:
Me too. I have an image file, but cannot get it onto the tablet. Can someone tell me how I can use a PC to get an update.zip file onto the tablet so I can get it working again? I can get into recovery, but do not have a zip file to select from. I have an old SD card from a DX that I just got rid of for a Galaxy Nexus, but I do not have the phone anymore. I have a card reader, but cannot get windows to recognize the card. If I can get widows to recognize the card reader, I can get the zip file and transfer it that way. Please help???
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Me either...everyone seems to have a recovery mode with options...I have nothing at all but an android guy logo. Even if I could take my SD card out of my tablet and into my phone to put any kind of files on there..if I put it back into my tablet I woudn't be able to access them anyways.
Fee454 said:
Me either...everyone seems to have a recovery mode with options...I have nothing at all but an android guy logo. Even if I could take my SD card out of my tablet and into my phone to put any kind of files on there..if I put it back into my tablet I woudn't be able to access them anyways.
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Do you need help getting into recovery?
Power Off, hold in landscape so your volume buttons are on the upper left. Hold the volume + and power button for a few seconds, when the 'ACER' logo comes up, let go of the power button and keep the volume+ until you are into recovery.
I'm going to have to borrow a phone on Monday from someone to get the image file onto an old Droid X SD card I have and hope that solves my problem.
I fought with ACER customer support for an hour. Because I bought it on WOOT, they have the tablet registered to some other company and are telling me it is not in warranty.
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Do you need help getting into recovery?
Power Off, hold in landscape so your volume buttons are on the upper left. Hold the volume + and power button for a few seconds, when the 'ACER' logo comes up, let go of the power button and keep the volume+ until you are into recovery.
I'm going to have to borrow a phone on Monday from someone to get the image file onto an old Droid X SD card I have and hope that solves my problem.
I fought with ACER customer support for an hour. Because I bought it on WOOT, they have the tablet registered to some other company and are telling me it is not in warranty.
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Hmm for me the power button and volume - button puts it into recovery but the problem is it doesn't give me any options but shows the android character laying down with a red triangle above him. I don't have any options like I do when I go into recovery on my infuse phone. I still have a warranty as my tablet was purchased in December but I'd really rather not have to send it out :-/
When you go into recovery you have options?
And that sucks about the warranty situation...that's messed up
A500 wont boot after ICS update
I have the same issue. ACER logo comes on then Android then it goes blank, flashes and seems stuck in a loop.
Trying to go into recovery does not work and you get the android down with a red triangle above its chest. It looked like it was looking for update.zip which was not on the SD card or external SD card. Not sure if it looked at both.
Please Help
noahbody said:
I have the same issue. ACER logo comes on then Android then it goes blank, flashes and seems stuck in a loop.
Trying to go into recovery does not work and you get the android down with a red triangle above its chest. It looked like it was looking for update.zip which was not on the SD card or external SD card. Not sure if it looked at both.
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Yes. Exactly what happens with mine. Do we need to load an update.zip onto the sd card and then try recovery or would it only search on the internal memory? If that is indeed what it is trying to do.
Fee454 said:
Yes. Exactly what happens with mine. Do we need to load an update.zip onto the sd card and then try recovery or would it only search on the internal memory? If that is indeed what it is trying to do.
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Update.zip goes on the root of an external SD.
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Update.zip goes on the root of an external SD.
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I am not completely sure if my tablet ever actually updated to ICS or failed and stayed at HC and "bricked" Does anyone know where I can get an update.zip file that would possibly work?
Found this site from another thread..not sure if it'll work but may try.
http://vache-android.com/v1/index.php?site=files&cat=28
Nope...put update.zip on root of external sd..looked like it was updating and then a configuring screen popped up and then rebooted and now its back to the same loop again
The only thing u can think of is to make sure the screen orientation switch is locked in landscape (towards the left) when gilding it landscape.
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The only thing u can think of is to make sure the screen orientation switch is locked in landscape (towards the left) when gilding it landscape.
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Yeah it is :-/ Might end up having to send it in unless there is a fix.
Yup, returned mine to work, they took it back even though it was a few days outside of the warranty.
If I buy another one I'll buy direct from acer.
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Yup, returned mine to work, they took it back even though it was a few days outside of the warranty.
If I buy another one I'll buy direct from acer.
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I got mine from walmart and I checked acers site and I must have registered it the day I got it...shows when purchase date was and that the warranty is still good so I should be ok with sending it to them if I cannot find a fix.
Fee454 said:
I am not completely sure if my tablet ever actually updated to ICS or failed and stayed at HC and "bricked" Does anyone know where I can get an update.zip file that would possibly work?
Found this site from another thread..not sure if it'll work but may try.
http://vache-android.com/v1/index.php?site=files&cat=28
Nope...put update.zip on root of external sd..looked like it was updating and then a configuring screen popped up and then rebooted and now its back to the same loop again
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If the OTA was successful it should tell you, so we will assume you're still on the HC b/l.
If you cannot boot to the OS or Recovery AND the update.zip method doesn't work THEN
Use TD's V4 if your original build is gen2 OR
a EUU package from vaches thread to recover your tab
If you can boot to recovery then restore from backup
Fee454 said:
I had the 3.2.1 and I used the script to turn backdoor on and also OTA updates back on. My Acer is rooted but stock rom. It saw the ICS update and downloaded and rebooted and I got the android guy with the gears turning and that progress bar went all the way and it looked like it rebooted again.
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yep i used td's backdoor/rootkeeper the first time i got the same result as you.
took a couple of tries but finally i'reverted to 3.01 and then OTA'ed up to 3.2.1
i did the following to get it to work
1) make sure backdoor is on, check sound is off - i had to run it twice before sound turned off
2) run busybox and backed up su location
3) run rootkeeper
4) opened acer recovery installer and loaded up stock recovery
5) and enabled the option in settings just to make sure and rebooted
6) checked system update and yes i have a new update
all four OTA's installed fine, i did lose root tho but opened backdoor and reset sticky bits
opened ari once again and got superuser request for access
loaded up cwm and booted into recovery and got recovery verified failed message. i had forgotten to uncheck the load stock recovery option in settings.
once i did that i was back to cwm
yeh it was a bit of a process and once i get the ICS OTA - i'll save it before installing - just for future possible borks - then put stock recovery back unroot b4 trying the OTA install - with any luck i should be ok....
Can you explain better what you did.
I over the air updated my tablet. And now am in the loop.
I do not have an update.zip. How do I recover to any version of android.
I had back door on.
i tried to flash paranoid android on my n7 running stock 4.2( i was rooted and unlocked ) after flashing all i get is setup wizard has stopped repeatedly i can boot back to recovery but when i click on install zip there are no files there anymore and the backup i made is no longer there either im not sure what to do next i can get to bootloader and recovery but i cant mount sd card or do anything really any help would be greatly appreciated ive been googling for a couple of hours and cant find my specific problem thanks
Recovery > Factory Reset / Wipe
^ that should get it back to working
You can also "adb shell" in while in recovery and look if your backups are in a subfolder of /data/media, like /data/media/0 most likely.
And in the future always keep a copy of your backups on your PC
HellcatDroid said:
Recovery > Factory Reset / Wipe
^ that should get it back to working
You can also "adb shell" in while in recovery and look if your backups are in a subfolder of /data/media, like /data/media/0 most likely.
And in the future always keep a copy of your backups on your PC
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i tried recovery but it does nothing im trying to set up adb but it just makes no sense to me at all its almost like the computer doesnt even see the phone i know it has to be something simple as to why i cant access the files from clockwork recovery but for the life of me i cant figure it out
Download Google Nexus 7 Toolkit V3.2.0
choose option "9. Download, Extract + Flash Google Factory Stock Rom and follow the instructions..
i had the exact same problem with my nexus 7 and this worked like a charm
hope it helps.
Thanks for the help but I fixed the problem. I let it boot to the setup screen where it kept saying setup wizard has stopped. From there I could recognize the device on a computer and transfer files over even though it read grouper on full android and not nexus 7. Now I'm on eclipse and it seems to be working great but I'm going to get rid of clockwork and install twrp just so I can hopefully not have that happen again. One weird thing though when I look for my backup I made prior to all of this and even the paranoid android ROM and gapps I can't find them anywhere on my SD card its like they literally vanished.
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oogabooga912666 said:
Thanks for the help but I fixed the problem. I let it boot to the setup screen where it kept saying setup wizard has stopped. From there I could recognize the device on a computer and transfer files over even though it read grouper on full android and not nexus 7. Now I'm on eclipse and it seems to be working great but I'm going to get rid of clockwork and install twrp just so I can hopefully not have that happen again. One weird thing though when I look for my backup I made prior to all of this and even the paranoid android ROM and gapps I can't find them anywhere on my SD card its like they literally vanished.
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Where did you copy the files to? I have the same thing. The only folders I have are: Alarms, android, carbon, clockworkmod, dcim, digital editions, download, mobile systems, movies music notifications pictures podcasts and ringtones?
Unless there is a wy for it to be an actual drive right now it shows up as a music device in my computer.
when you did a wipe did you wipe all data? I know when I went to flash a ROM I wiped data like I did with my bolt and it erased everything on my n7.
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Hi guys, I hope this thread is still active...
I'm having the same problem here. I tried installing cyanogenmod onto my n7 and am now getting the same "unfortunately, setup wizard has stopped" message. I've tried wiping the data and rebooting, to no avail. I have the toolkit, but it won't recognize the tablet so I can't reboot from there. I have a backup on my PC, but can't get to it! Sigh...
Thanks in advance for the help
Yesterday my N7 'crashed' on me...
Device Info: N7 32gb non-3G, Android 4.2.1, Rooted via Toolkit, Stock, CWM v6.0.1.0 (non-touch), Bootloader 4.1.3 Unlocked (of course)
Recent changes: I had initially installed a 2nd account for my son to play games on without messing up my progress shortly after 4.1.2 launched... I immediately noticed that the N7 seemed more sluggish but put up with it so he would have his own account. Well he hasn't used my N7 for weeks and I hoped that maybe if I uninstalled that 2nd account that the sluggishness would go away... So a few days ago I went into settings and removed it... Not sure if it made a big difference. I only mention this because I am not sure if it had anything to do with what happened yesterday...
The Crash: Yesterday when I came home with my N7 I heard some notifications letting me know that it had logged into my home wifi and had connected with Gmail... About an hour later I went to use the tablet and when I hit the power button I briefly saw the wallpaper and unlock pattern. Almost immediately the wallpaper disappeared and was replaced by blackness. I could still see the unlock pattern and then the screen 'shifted' - got smaller, bigger and then bam... the tablet reset. This whole thing took just a few seconds.
After that it seemed to be stuck at the nexus logo/animation... I assume it was stuck in a boot loop. I let it go for a good 30 minutes and nothing changed... still had the animation. At that point I did the following:
So I rebooted into the bootloader and rebooted from there... same result.
So I rebooted into the bootloader and then recovery and rebooted from there... same result.
I gave up in frustration and powered it off from the bootloader and went to bed.
Today I went back into recovery and did a Nandroid backup. It gave me no options, it just did a full backup. Based on the amount of free space that was reported it seemed as if my SD card partition was intact. Up to that point I didn't know if the glitch maybe wiped everything out...
After that I formatted the /cache, /system and /data (not sure of the order). Then I tried rebooting and now it won't go past the Google screen with the unlock icon.
So I went back into recovery to see if I had a zip that I could flash. The only one there on my SD card that I can find is the CWM/Superuser one from the toolkit. That file is named CWM-SuperSU-v0.94-signed.zip and is in the root directory. I checked and the Nandroid backup seems to be where it should be...
So I figured that I need to flash the factory image but cannot seem to mount the N7 via USB. When I plug it in my Windows 7 machine, Win 7 lets me know that it has installed the "Nexus ADB" driver that my N4 installed and seems to be connected. But there is NO /USB in the Mount menu in Recovery and Windows 7 doesn't see the N7 from the My Computer/Windows Explorer.
My Questions:
Do I need to 'push' a stock image via ADB?
What ADB command do I type to see if the N7 is in-fact accessible from my Windows 7 machine?
I am assuming that when I formatted the three partitions mentioned above I wiped the boot ability of the N7. Is that why it won't go past the Google screen now?
Did I do anything wrong in what I've done so far?
Thanks in advance!
OldDogEyes said:
Yesterday my N7 'crashed' on me...
Device Info: N7 32gb non-3G, Android 4.2.1, Rooted via Toolkit, Stock, CWM v6.0.1.0 (non-touch), Bootloader 4.1.3 Unlocked (of course)
Recent changes: I had initially installed a 2nd account for my son to play games on without messing up my progress shortly after 4.1.2 launched... I immediately noticed that the N7 seemed more sluggish but put up with it so he would have his own account. Well he hasn't used my N7 for weeks and I hoped that maybe if I uninstalled that 2nd account that the sluggishness would go away... So a few days ago I went into settings and removed it... Not sure if it made a big difference. I only mention this because I am not sure if it had anything to do with what happened yesterday...
The Crash: Yesterday when I came home with my N7 I heard some notifications letting me know that it had logged into my home wifi and had connected with Gmail... About an hour later I went to use the tablet and when I hit the power button I briefly saw the wallpaper and unlock pattern. Almost immediately the wallpaper disappeared and was replaced by blackness. I could still see the unlock pattern and then the screen 'shifted' - got smaller, bigger and then bam... the tablet reset. This whole thing took just a few seconds.
After that it seemed to be stuck at the nexus logo/animation... I assume it was stuck in a boot loop. I let it go for a good 30 minutes and nothing changed... still had the animation. At that point I did the following:
So I rebooted into the bootloader and rebooted from there... same result.
So I rebooted into the bootloader and then recovery and rebooted from there... same result.
I gave up in frustration and powered it off from the bootloader and went to bed.
Today I went back into recovery and did a Nandroid backup. It gave me no options, it just did a full backup. Based on the amount of free space that was reported it seemed as if my SD card partition was intact. Up to that point I didn't know if the glitch maybe wiped everything out...
After that I formatted the /cache, /system and /data (not sure of the order). Then I tried rebooting and now it won't go past the Google screen with the unlock icon.
So I went back into recovery to see if I had a zip that I could flash. The only one there on my SD card that I can find is the CWM/Superuser one from the toolkit. That file is named CWM-SuperSU-v0.94-signed.zip and is in the root directory. I checked and the Nandroid backup seems to be where it should be...
So I figured that I need to flash the factory image but cannot seem to mount the N7 via USB. When I plug it in my Windows 7 machine, Win 7 lets me know that it has installed the "Nexus ADB" driver that my N4 installed and seems to be connected. But there is NO /USB in the Mount menu in Recovery and Windows 7 doesn't see the N7 from the My Computer/Windows Explorer.
My Questions:
Do I need to 'push' a stock image via ADB?
What ADB command do I type to see if the N7 is in-fact accessible from my Windows 7 machine?
I am assuming that when I formatted the three partitions mentioned above I wiped the boot ability of the N7. Is that why it won't go past the Google screen now?
Did I do anything wrong in what I've done so far?
Thanks in advance!
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Use this tool to connect via adb and restore stock+unroot then after re-lock the bootloader, this will give you the same state as when the tablet left the factory then re-root and start over
http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/
Oli1122 said:
Use this tool to connect via adb and restore stock+unroot then after re-lock the bootloader, this will give you the same state as when the tablet left the factory then re-root and start over
http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/
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Will I lose the SD partition?
My Nandroid backup isn't backed up anywhere else...
That was the first thing I was going to do after connecting the dead N7 to my Windows 7 machine...
Nervous about that aspect!
Thanks
OldDogEyes said:
Will I lose the SD partition?
My Nandroid backup isn't backed up anywhere else...
That was the first thing I was going to do after connecting the dead N7 to my Windows 7 machine...
Nervous about that aspect!
Thanks
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Yes locking and unlocking your bootloader will wipe all data as far as Im aware. I dont know how viable your Nandrid backup would be regardless though. It was made after the boot looping errors occurred right? That would probably mean restoring a back up from that time frame would reapply all those errors. You could try to pull your nandroid back up using adb to see if theres anything salvageable from it and Id redo everything on your device. Heres a link to a bunch of useful ADB commands which may help ya out. ADB useful commands
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I dont know how viable your Nandrid backup would be regardless though. It was made after the boot looping errors occurred right? That would probably mean restoring a back up from that time frame would reapply all those errors.
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That is true. As you can tell I am semi-knowledgeable but not as proficient as many.
So I thought that the Nandroid backup was divided into different pieces... And that I could choose which pieces to restore and by doing that, just restore the portion of my tablet that represented the 'setup' (apps, layout, etc) but not the OS... Maybe I'm wrong about that...
As for ADB, yes, I thought about that as well and already did an ADB Pull to grab the Nandroid ... now I'm doing one to grab everything on the SD Card.
Thanks for that!
Yeh you should be fine so long as you backup your sd before hand. You can also use the same nexus tool to backup your apps and restore them using the developer tools backup
Long story so please bear with me. I have a Sprint I9505. I had installed a rom which made me lose mobile data and I eventually called Sprint to help me restore it. I of course did not mention that They did a great job of helping me but one of the things that they made me do was a hard reset. I did so and went about going through the process of re-configuring my phone but it will not let me get past the wi-fi set-up screen because the wi-fi will not turn on. So that's where I am stuck. I rebooted into recovery mode and see that I still have CMW installed but it will not read my external 64g card nor will it let me mount it. My intent was to restore a nandroid back-up that I had made prior to installing the rom that gave me the issues. But no luck. I have my phone next to me and although it is not going past the wifi set up screen, I still hear my phone vibrate and the screen turns on so I assume that I'm still receiving notifications. I tried to install the I9505 firmware and go back to stock but it fails everytime with about 10 percent to go. I tried to download the firmware for Sprint but it gives me a download error after completion (I assume that it is a PC issue not a firmware issue). So I'm assuming that I'm not totally screwed since I can still get into recovery mode. I'm in a bit of a time crunch since I'm going out of the country Saturday and would like a working phone before then. Thanks to all of you in advance for any help that you can provide.
louie68 said:
Long story so please bear with me. I have a Sprint I9505. I had installed a rom which made me lose mobile data and I eventually called Sprint to help me restore it. I of course did not mention that They did a great job of helping me but one of the things that they made me do was a hard reset. I did so and went about going through the process of re-configuring my phone but it will not let me get past the wi-fi set-up screen because the wi-fi will not turn on. So that's where I am stuck. I rebooted into recovery mode and see that I still have CMW installed but it will not read my external 64g card nor will it let me mount it. My intent was to restore a nandroid back-up that I had made prior to installing the rom that gave me the issues. But no luck. I have my phone next to me and although it is not going past the wifi set up screen, I still hear my phone vibrate and the screen turns on so I assume that I'm still receiving notifications. I tried to install the I9505 firmware and go back to stock but it fails everytime with about 10 percent to go. I tried to download the firmware for Sprint but it gives me a download error after completion (I assume that it is a PC issue not a firmware issue). So I'm assuming that I'm not totally screwed since I can still get into recovery mode. I'm in a bit of a time crunch since I'm going out of the country Saturday and would like a working phone before then. Thanks to all of you in advance for any help that you can provide.
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Try to flash the stock firmware + .pit file for your phone using Odin
Thanks, I'm the process of downloading the Sprint firmware from a different link from my previous one to see if that works or if it's my PC.
Aerys said:
Try to flash the stock firmware + .pit file for your phone using Odin
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Sigh most wifi and data issues from roms come from a kernel issue never hard reset with faulty connections you should of imediately went into recovery and flashed the nandroid some roms arent out of the oven yet i would put that card in a card reader see if you can copy the nandroid and push it to the phones internal storage (if all possible) and see if it will boot off of that if not see if you can get the ruu
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gothicasshole said:
Sigh most wifi and data issues from roms come from a kernel issue never hard reset with faulty connections you should of imediately went into recovery and flashed the nandroid some roms arent out of the oven yet i would put that card in a card reader see if you can copy the nandroid and push it to the phones internal storage (if all possible) and see if it will boot off of that if not see if you can get the ruu
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this is Galaxy S4 my friend
Ok guys, I'm in deep trouble here. Kind of extremely desperate.
Please bare with my wall of text!
So I had just backed up my ROM, copied over the previous nandroid over to my computer and deleted it to make space for the new one. Made the new one, copied over the kernel I wanted to flash. Rebooted into recovery and simply flashed the kernel. That's where the screw-up started.
Wiped my cache and rebooted to a flashing purple and blue screen. Turned my phone off immediately and went to restore the backup I had just made. Not even midway through, I got "error while restoring /system". Nandroid is apparently no good?!
Now, I don't have anything on my SD to flash, not even a clean CM, another backup, nothing. I can only boot to recovery, if I try to reboot, I just get the google logo, then it goes off and back on, and so on. If I connect the phone to my PC, it obviously isn't detecting it.
I need a way to push or copy another nandroid backup or just a ROM over to my SD to flash something! I can't have bricked my phone!
Not too familiar with adb commands, haven't used them in ages!
I appreciate any help you can give me!!
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Ok guys, I'm in deep trouble here. Kind of extremely desperate.
Please bare with my wall of text!
So I had just backed up my ROM, copied over the previous nandroid over to my computer and deleted it to make space for the new one. Made the new one, copied over the kernel I wanted to flash. Rebooted into recovery and simply flashed the kernel. That's where the screw-up started.
Wiped my cache and rebooted to a flashing purple and blue screen. Turned my phone off immediately and went to restore the backup I had just made. Not even midway through, I got "error while restoring /system". Nandroid is apparently no good?!
Now, I don't have anything on my SD to flash, not even a clean CM, another backup, nothing. I can only boot to recovery, if I try to reboot, I just get the google logo, then it goes off and back on, and so on. If I connect the phone to my PC, it obviously isn't detecting it.
I need a way to push or copy another nandroid backup or just a ROM over to my SD to flash something! I can't have bricked my phone!
Not too familiar with adb commands, haven't used them in ages!
I appreciate any help you can give me!!
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Have you thought of using a toolkit like WugFresh NRT?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766475
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Berrydroidcafe said:
Have you thought of using a toolkit like WugFresh NRT?
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If you're talking about this one, reading the thread right now. About to download the windows version and try to flash stock and unroot, then root again.
Do you recommend anything else? I didn't want to lose root.
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If you're talking about this one, reading the thread right now. About to download the windows version and try to flash stock and unroot, then root again.
Do you recommend anything else? I didn't want to lose root.
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As far as losing root, you shouldn't lose it, and there's no reason to believe that you might have already lost it, but if you are planning on flashing stock and unrooting then it wouldn't matter anyway.
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Berrydroidcafe said:
As far as losing root, you shouldn't lose it, and there's no reason to believe that you might have already lost it, but if you are planning on flashing stock and unrooting then it wouldn't matter anyway.
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I'm stuck!!!
I tried flashing stock and unrooting, but I had issues with what it said could be either my drives not being installed, or my USB Debugging not being enabled. I don't think I ever enabled USB debugging after this last time I flashed CM. I tried going through full driver installation, but I still hit the same wall with USB debugging not being enabled!!
What should/can I do?
Boot into recovery and connect your USB cable on it. Download an ADB standalone and place the files you want to transfer there, open it and type:
adb push (local of the rom/kernel/wharever) (path to sd/internal storage). it would be something like that
adb push rom.zip /sdcard/0/
this will transfer the file to the root of the internal storage.
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I'm stuck!!!
I tried flashing stock and unrooting, but I had issues with what it said could be either my drives not being installed, or my USB Debugging not being enabled. I don't think I ever enabled USB debugging after this last time I flashed CM. I tried going through full driver installation, but I still hit the same wall with USB debugging not being enabled!!
What should/can I do?
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Did you go through the steps in the Full Driver Configuration Guide?
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sky0165 said:
Boot into recovery and connect your USB cable on it. Download an ADB standalone and place the files you want to transfer there, open it and type:
adb push (local of the rom/kernel/wharever) (path to sd/internal storage). it would be something like that
adb push rom.zip /sdcard/0/
this will transfer the file to the root of the internal storage.
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Tried sideloading, sideloaded CM over. Seemed to work, but when I rebooted, got through to the CM logo and got stuck in a bootloop.
Rebooted into recovery and wiped device again.
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Did you go through the steps in the Full Driver Configuration Guide?
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I tried, but I got stuck because I couldn't do Step 1 without having USB Debugging enabled!
EonHawk said:
Tried sideloading, sideloaded CM over. Seemed to work, but when I rebooted, got through to the CM logo and got stuck in a bootloop.
Rebooted into recovery and wiped device again.
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Just a thought, have you considered using TWRP? Are you sure it was actually a bootloop and not a boot that is just taking a little longer than usual to finish?
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Berrydroidcafe said:
Just a thought, have you considered using TWRP? Are you sure it was actually a bootloop and not a boot that is just taking a little longer than usual to finish?
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I waited for over 5 minutes, turned it off, and tried booting it up. After another 3 minutes of nothing, I gave up.
Tried sideloading an old backup but wasn't able to sideload anymore..
Currently trying to do the driver things in the toolkit..
I may have screwed this up even more.
While doing Step 1, I again couldn't do the whole USB Debugging enable/disable, so I just went and did everything else that I could. Step 2 installed, Step 3 couldn't recognize my phone, just went back to Google bootloop.
I don't think I can even try sideloading stuff anymore.
I may have screwed this up even more.
While doing Step 1, I again couldn't do the whole USB Debugging enable/disable, so I just went and did everything else that I could. Step 2 installed, Step 3 couldn't recognize my phone, just went back to Google bootloop.
I don't think I can even try sideloading stuff anymore.
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Ok, sideloading CM again. Currently at 70%. I'll keep you guys posted.
Sorry to post 4 times in a row, but still stuck in the CM bootloop.
Is there anything better I should try sideloading? Maybe a factory image?
Something that would completely restore everything?
Sorry to post 5 (FIVE) times in a row!
FIXED IT! **** YES! I was running out of time too, have to wake up in four hours for work, hahahah.
I really don't know what happened this time. Tried running the Flash Stock + Unroot again, and it went through!
Going to enjoy stock for a while, this scared me way more than my previous adventures with rooting have, and I'm not entirely (but mostly) new to this!
Thank you so much for your help man, couldn't have done it without some support. Really feel indebt to the guy that made the toolkit, though. Thanks all around!
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Sorry to post 5 (FIVE) times in a row!
FIXED IT! **** YES! I was running out of time too, have to wake up in four hours for work, hahahah.
I really don't know what happened this time. Tried running the Flash Stock + Unroot again, and it went through!
Going to enjoy stock for a while, this scared me way more than my previous adventures with rooting have, and I'm not entirely (but mostly) new to this!
Thank you so much for your help man, couldn't have done it without some support. Really feel indebt to the guy that made the toolkit, though. Thanks all around!
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Great! :thumbup:
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