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G1 Won't Fully Boot - Backlight Only

Hey there. I've found some similar threads, but nothing exactly matching this situation, so I thought I'd post:
G1, running Cyanogenmod, though I'm not sure of the version. Latest update notice said there were 11 updates available. ( i know, but i couldn't upgrade my sd card yet)
Issue: Phone was fine, but then battery was accidentally removed while powered on (was cleaning camera lense).
Now, Phone will begin booting, and get to the skateboarding android screen, but after that it will just hang, black screen with backlight on.
Home+Power boot will go to control menu. Power + Camera goes to correct screen, also.
Is there any way to fix other than a restore? I can restore if needed, would just rather not since it's always a bit of a pain to set it back up.
thanks for any info! Other issues like this seemed to be posted in this forum, which is why i chose it. please let me know if it should appear somewhere else.

robsclone said:
Hey there. I've found some similar threads, but nothing exactly matching this situation, so I thought I'd post:
G1, running Cyanogenmod, though I'm not sure of the version. Latest update notice said there were 11 updates available. ( i know, but i couldn't upgrade my sd card yet)
Issue: Phone was fine, but then battery was accidentally removed while powered on (was cleaning camera lense).
Now, Phone will begin booting, and get to the skateboarding android screen, but after that it will just hang, black screen with backlight on.
Home+Power boot will go to control menu. Power + Camera goes to correct screen, also.
Is there any way to fix other than a restore? I can restore if needed, would just rather not since it's always a bit of a pain to set it back up.
thanks for any info! Other issues like this seemed to be posted in this forum, which is why i chose it. please let me know if it should appear somewhere else.
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just goto recovery "home + end key" and wipe data + cache + ext and reflash everything. or you cant goto console in recovery and try fix_permissions. it might help

thanks for the suggestion! Trying to do the restores and permission fixes, I've realized that the issue was with the SD card. Apparently it's died on me :-/
partitioning a new SD card got the phone to boot again with all my settings intact, but unfortunately none of my apps.
I hear that the common problem with sd cards is the controller stopping working; does anybody know what my options are for trying to recover the data on it?
Thanks again for the help

[Q] Did I just Brick My Phone?

I finally decided to attempt to load a custom ROM on my Samsung Fascinate after a couple of months of owning it. Before I started anything, I backed up my current ROM twice using ROM Manager, then used ROM Manager to do the new ROM download and install.
Things didn't go well. At all.
Once the new ROM was installed, my phone restarted, got back to the puzzle screen (thinking I was in business!) and as soon as I unlocked the screen the force closes just kept on coming. One right after another. Pretty much anything and everything force closes, so much so that it is the only thing you can do on the phone now. I have tried force closing things for as much as 5 minutes thinking I might get to the end of it, but no luck.
So now I have 2 backups on my SD card. I went into my Android System Recovery (+, - volume and power button), selected apply sdcard:update.zip which gets me to ClockworkMod Recovery v. 2.5.1.0. From there I go into Backup and Restore, select Restore and then my restore file. After some time the restore process is complete and the phone asks to reboot. I do the reboot and low and behold nothing seems to have changed in the phone. I still have the custom ROM with all of the force closes.
Am I missing something with this CWM restore process? I have read what seems like dozens of forum entries and nobody else seems to have problems with the restoration.It seems like it is pretty straight forward but I am not having any luck with it at all.
Any help is appreciated!

Try This and see if it helps:
http://forum.androidcentral.com/fascinate-roms-hacks/38029-how-escape-force-close-loop-hell.html

Perfect! I am back in business thanks to you. Sure appreciate your help!

Did you wipe first?

[Q] Note 3 stuck in some weird "Factory Mode" No lock screen

Hi Guys!
Sorry, I couldnt find any problem similar to mine regarding note 3.
Device: N900W8 Canadian (Rogers)
TLDR: After flashing a rom a second time (First time was perfect) phone says its in factory mode and now stock lockscreen doesnt work at all no matter what settings. In factory mode wifi is one of the settings it says isnt suppose to work but it does work, and Im extra confused.
Steps leading to the problem:
- Rooted using cf auto root
- twrp to backup entire stock rooted rom
- flashed Darthstalker v6
- phone works flawlessly, except with gps issues which I suspected was not a rom issue
- decided to test it out anyways, tried to restore my stock rooted backup but for some reason failed (Honestly have no idea why)
- flashed Darthstalker v6 again, complete clean install to see if GPS fixes itself
Phone now boots up normally, but on first boot up it showed a short popup that disappears shortly saying something like this
"Factory mode is ON, in this mode some settings such as wifi may not work blah blah blah"
Thing is, it does work, so far the only difference that I see from this mode is that I cant have a lock screen no matter what setting I put on it. Right now forced to use an alternative lockscreen (Go locker).
Just flashed Jedi Elite v5 yesterday, same issue as above, but everything else is working fine...
Thanks for the help guys!

I suspect it is and EFS thing, but I dont know what that is.
I used root explorer to look in the folder and nothing seems to be inside (Even when selecting to view hidden files and folders)
Unfortunately since my original stock root backup did not work I have no way of restoring the original. If you think this is the issue can someone point me in the right direction to get my EFS folder proper? Currently I only see Backup/restore options. Not the full EFS folder that I think I might need.

Two more things I noticed
- 4 way reboot doesnt work, it just turns off the phone
- when playing youtube "An error occurred" appears for maybe 10 seconds and disappears. Video is playing in the background so its pretty annoying.

Download this file by firasusman and flash thru recovery. Don't know if the lockscreen will come back but if it doesn't reinstall whichever rom you have right now to fix the broken file.

Phone restarts at startup.

Well this is my 1st post so first of all hey everyone
I just spent a week in Amsterdam and my phone restarted twice, different times different days and I dont remember what I was doing with it back then.
But as I landed back home I put the phone back from "Airplane Mode" and went on to toggle "Cellular Data" on.
The second I pressed the cellular data shortcut on my the phone restarted itself but this time whenever it would finish the screen would be on but fully black and sometimes it'll show battery precentage at the top but then will restart again in an infinite loop.
Sometimes it'll pop up the "Optimizing Apps" window and will go through all 24, upon finishing it will restart once more and do the same.
I tried using the bootloader and it worked (the bootloader that is) but the phone would do the same thing even after Rebooting from there or shutting down from there and then turning back on.
I contacted tech support on chat but they couldnt help past telling me to go to bootloader and reboot, said I should factory wipe when it failed.
Also tried wiping cache but to no avail.
I have no backup of my phone (wanted to do one before the flight but got lazy and I suck for not doing one sooner) since probably October and google doesnt backup my contacts properly for some unknown reason.
I already downloaded Android Studio with everything included for me to try using adb to sideload stock without wiping but its my first time and I couldnt get it to do anything at all...
I already got the official stock .gz file from the motorola website.
Anyway here are the specs to my phone:
XT1575
Everything is stock. didn't root or change recovery once in my life.
Was fully updated and had plenty of drive space (I have almost 128GB with the 64GB version + 64GB SD)
I'm really lost here so help will be very appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
-Noam

Start with a full wipe and if that doesn't work flash the stock image. Not sure what your question is though as you never really say. Once fixed I would unlock and make a backup so you don't have to deal with this again.

lafester said:
Start with a full wipe and if that doesn't work flash the stock image. Not sure what your question is though as you never really say. Once fixed I would unlock and make a backup so you don't have to deal with this again.
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The thing I pretty much want to know is if theres a way to either backup the phone now with it connected to the computer while in bootloader or recovery. or a way to flash the stock rom without wiping which I read someone did with his tablet. I cant post source normally because I'm a new user so here it is but change spaces to dots: schnouki net/posts/2014/08/13/flashing-a-stock-android-image-without-wiping-user-data/
Also while in recovery I noticed 2 options under wipe: 1. userdata only. 2. userdata+(insert something I dont remember here) and I was wondering what gets deleted in both? if I delete only userdata what data will remain? something helpful?

Sure you can try flashing without wiping data but being locked I personally wouldn't risk it. No idea about backing up in your state... somewhere I remember a thread on backing up without root try searching in q&a.

lafester said:
Sure you can try flashing without wiping data but being locked I personally wouldn't risk it. No idea about backing up in your state... somewhere I remember a thread on backing up without root try searching in q&a.
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Out of curiosity why shouldnt I try flashing with no wipe if ill lose the data anyway? worst case wont I just have to wipe after it fails and flash again?
And I will try thank you
Do you have any knowledge about the 2 wipe options?
Thanks in advance

Well I tried turning the phone on and it took a couple of minutes before loading to a fresh start. It apparently wiped itself on its own. Managed to restore almost everything.
Anyhow the phone takes too long to boot now. Was even stuck at boot and I had to restart it.
Anyway to fix my software? Or at least check for corruption?
Sent from my XT1575 using XDA-Developers mobile app

Suddenly stuck in boot loop (official rom, unrooted)

So i was simply updating youtube through google play, and messenger through messenger it self and suddenly the phone went into boot loop and can't get it out.
opening recovery mode is hard but when i managed to do it, it simply shows the android icon and installing system updates then restarts again. (tried it ~4 times). thanks to that i can't try clearing cache or any of that stuff on the list that is supposed to appear in recover mode.
trying force restart also does nothing.
trying to remove memory card and sim also didn't work.
i read that flashing HOME_CSC from a rom could fix it but the rom websites i know offer limited sizes and speeds and i don't have a strong internet which ends up timing out, can someone help me out? G935FOJV2ERGE is the one i need.
if you have any other ideas that can help, i would also greatly appreciate it, i really don't want to have to buy a new phone atm, and don't want to lose all my data because i don't used backup services cuz they ate up data .
edit: I am on latest official rom, only used OTA updates, haven't rooted the phone.
edit 2: i managed to get a different region's rom and flashed it's home_csc file, and force restarted it and seems to have worked booted, then it started doing it again just 1 second after that. i didn't even have time to unlock it.
edit 3: managed to get into recovery mode list once, wiping cache didn't work. couldn't get into recovery mode again after that. then i gave up and tried flashing a full rom. still the same problem.