Not sure how this one happened but stuck in a reboot cycle. I get the samsung galaxy logo, black screen and then it just hangs. I have 1 nandroid since I just started playing, and I can get into recovery, but when I try to restore I am getting an MD5 issue so won't restore.
This was a pretty much a stock galaxy 4, rooted with the hotspot mod flashed, so I won't be losing that much. I do see an option in recovery to wipe data / factory reset, but not sure if that will even work.
I don't have my windows machine with me, but my other thought from my old evo day's would be to mount the SD and flash from the SD, but have 3 hours to sit around and the wipe/factory reset could be done and re-setup by then.
Thanks for all read/replies.
try the factory reset and if that doesn't work, you can disable the md5 check in twrp and force the nandroid restore. If that doesn't work you are no worse off. If none of that works you will probably have to wait until you can use Odin to flash the MDL stock rom and start over.
cruise350 said:
try the factory reset and if that doesn't work, you can disable the md5 check in twrp and force the nandroid restore. If that doesn't work you are no worse off. If none of that works you will probably have to wait until you can use Odin to flash the MDL stock rom and start over.
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Yep, option 2 worked as expected ....
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ok so i was trying to get LTE option back on my phone and flashed the stock rom twice. didnt work. thought it could need a factory reset. didnt fix it. tried flashing stock another 2 times. still no LTE.
flashed TWRP recovery did a wipe inc system, data and cache. flashed stock in odin.
now wont boot up. gets stuck at the S4 logo.
trying again to flash the stock rom in odin will post soon if it starts up. but if not what do I do?
also how come i couldnt get LTE back in mobile networks?
only had the phone for 2 days LOL
came from the s2 and s3 so have a fair bit of knowledge about these.
thanks
EDIT: NOPE still wont boot
have you tried to wipe data/factory reset after odin i suppose it won't if not also try a Rom with another build either a complete stock on odin or a pre rooted one
ok so after a hour of playing with it i fixed it. I used wipe data factory reset and it just booted up lol.
back on omega rom now
HELP! I've been using my LG G2 for around 3 months with mo problems at all. I'm rooted with Janjan's custom rom. This morning my phone froze, so i rebooted it. From then on i could not connect to my mobile network as well as Wifi networks. I can see the phone is also scanning the media files, and i cannot open any programs. The phone then restarts itself after about 20 seconds. If i turn the screen off, i cannot turn it back on.
I have already tried restoring to a backup i had on CWM, but the same thing happens.
Has anybody experienced this before? Any suggestions on what to do????
Thanks!
**Edit.
Was able to snap this pic before it rebooted on me again. The "Error" message, stays on even if i exit Settings.
Flash back to stock using this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
But before you try to return to stock, make sure you completely wipe the device in CWM.
MalignantQuechnitlan said:
Flash back to stock using this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
But before you try to return to stock, make sure you completely wipe the device in CWM.
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hey thanks for the reply. I've tried returning it to stock. Wiped cache and factory reset in CWM, and followed the tutorial to return to stock.
After the phone restarted, it showed stock boot animation and is totally stock now.
BUT the problem is still there. My phone continues to reset itself every 10-20 seconds, and still cannot connect to any networks.
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hey thanks for the reply. I've tried returning it to stock. Wiped cache and factory reset in CWM, and followed the tutorial to return to stock.
After the phone restarted, it showed stock boot animation and is totally stock now.
BUT the problem is still there. My phone continues to reset itself every 10-20 seconds, and still cannot connect to any networks.
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Hmm, that is odd. Do you have a back up of the phone before you changed anything? i.e. a stock backup?
because it seem you may have wiped your EFS partition by accident.
No i don't have any backups, The only back up i had was a stable version of the ROM i was using. And it seems like when i reverted back to stock, all the files in the internal memory is erased as well.
Hi all,
I'll just dive into the problem, on dot-point form:
1. Started with Unrooted Stock TouchWIz Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505
2. Rooted with Chainfire Autoroot via Odin
3. Flashed TWRP 2.7 via Odin
4. Made backup via TWRP, saved in external SDCard.
5. Flashed the Mahdi 4.4.4 rom
6. After new ROM, I wanted togo back to old original rom.
7. Booted into TWRP to restore back to TouchWiz.
8. Restore success, rebooted.
9. Samsung boot animation played and white "SAMSUNG" logo displays.
10. Waited for almost an hour.
11. Still on that "SAMSUNG" boot screen. The blue glow behind the text pulses.
Please Help, I can't get anything to work, Also, I can't afford to delete all backup( contacts,
Seems like you've hit a boot loop, basically your phone will reach the boot logo and no more. Unfortunately, the only way I know to deal with a boot loop is to wipe data/factory reset via recovery. Something didn't quite work out in the backup/restore, and probably why this happened. It does seem you will lose contacts etc unless they are saved to the SIM card.
Edit: Try wipe data/factory reset and then restore. If it boot loops again, you'll have to wipe.
I was able to make it work after I have reinstalled the Mahdi 4.4.4 rom. Now, how can I do it correctly to restore it and make it work without any problems ?
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Seems like you've hit a boot loop, basically your phone will reach the boot logo and no more. Unfortunately, the only way I know to deal with a boot loop is to wipe data/factory reset via recovery. Something didn't quite work out in the backup/restore, and probably why this happened. It does seem you will lose contacts etc unless they are saved to the SIM card.
Edit: Try wipe data/factory reset and then restore. If it boot loops again, you'll have to wipe.
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I was able to make it work after I have reinstalled the Mahdi 4.4.4 rom. Now, how can I do it correctly to restore it and make it work without any problems ?
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Well first off, I would backup everything important, eg contacts to SIM or external SD card, photos, messages, accounts, email settings etc. Because as far as I can see, you're just going to hit a boot loop when you restore again. At least you have everything important backed up and can start afresh without losing anything important.
Ok, What's the best way to backup, I know the twrp doesn't work.
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Well first off, I would backup everything important, eg contacts to SIM or external SD card, photos, messages, accounts, email settings etc. Because as far as I can see, you're just going to hit a boot loop when you restore again. At least you have everything important backed up and can start afresh without losing anything important.
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My 2 year old pushed the wrong pin 5 times and locked up my encrypted S4. Now when it asks for pin after restart and I put in the right one, it says it's wrong. I tried to Odin a fresh mk2 stock rom, but I kept getting errors. Write being enabled might be the problem, but, I don't know. Thanks!
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My 2 year old pushed the wrong pin 5 times and locked up my encrypted S4. Now when it asks for pin after restart and I put in the right one, it says it's wrong. I tried to Odin a fresh mk2 stock rom, but I kept getting errors. Write being enabled might be the problem, but, I don't know. Thanks!
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Hate to say it but I think trying a factory reset might be your best best. Good luck..
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Hate to say it but I think trying a factory reset might be your best best. Good luck..
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Wish I could. I keep getting the "restart kies" screen. The one time I was able to get into recovery mode and tried a factory reset/wipe, cache wipe I thought I was successful. When it booted up I thought I was golden and then realized my wifi wasn't working and neither was bluetooth. So, I went back into ODIN download mode and tried to flash the MK2 at that point and it failed and failed and failed. Any suggestions on factory resetting it?
I used to have my S4 encrypted but I don't anymore because I have heard it creates issues. I don't have a suggestion outside what you have tried, when you are flashing a new ROM, there should not be any issues once it has been completely wiped. Another option is to wipe and try flashing a custom ROM instead. Good luck let us know what happens.
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.
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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.
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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?
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