Hello,
I've encountered a problem that I cannot fix anyhow. Namely, my Nook Simple Touch wants to install some kind of rom and fails to do so. The thing is, I rooted it something like 4 months ago, however, I restored it to stock after a few days. It worked as a charm, but now something went wrong. The screen froze during reading and it did not respond to pushing the on/off button, so I decided to charge it. Having done so, the installation screen appeared. I tried the '8 interrupted starts' method, I tried to root it, I tried to restore it to stock via CMR, all this to no effect. I will appreciate any suggestions
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My wonderful wife gave me an Acer a500 for Christmas. Awesome gift. I had rooted it immediately with no problems, since all of my phones and families phone are rooted, it just seemed to be the natural thing to do.
As someone that "plays" with their android a lot I did all of the backups. Well, the time came to have my tablet "approved" for use at my company and also have the appropriate "encryption" software and keys added. Just as a precaution I decided to restore the original backup and unroot the tab.
All was going well until I received the update message. I went ahead and downloaded the update and ran it. During the install process it froze. I thought it was just busy so I left it for a good 20 minutes and finally realized it was frozen. I rebooted and it went through a couple of reboots and finally settled on the lock screen. But now I find the touch screen unresponsive.
I plugged in a mouse and keyboard in hopes that I could get back into it and start over, but, although, the mouse shows up, it is jumpy sluggish and will not grab the lock to slide open and eventually freezes.
I have tried all of the "update.zip" files I could find and they all fail at one point or another.
ADB allows me to explore in shell but since I unrooted, I cannot get su privileges.
Acer is of course, useless and the vendor it was purchased from is worthless.
I have been through every thread I could find and tried every trick I could come up with. Now I'm just stuck.
Any help is appreciated
I've had this a couple of times already. Usually just turning the screen off and on a couple of times does the job (the issue seems to be with the driver, also on various custom roms). Just try it after each off-on cycle, most of the time it takes no more than two or three tries, though there are exceptions.
Thanks, but it has been rebooted many many times since it's demise.
Decided to skip sleep tonight and keep plugging away.
I found an update.zip recovery file for an a501. Figured I can't do much worse so I went ahead and ran it.
It froze at about 95% but.........
Good News:
The tablet is responsive and touch panel works again.
Bad News:
It boots straight into system settings and although you can open the settings menu, nothing actually launches.
Decided to try all of the old update.zips and still everything fails.
No more ADB response.
When you originally unrooted your device did you revert back to the stock recovery or did you leave cwm on your device?? If you left cwm on your device that may be the problem with the update.zips and OTAs.
You are sooo right. I've never gone back to a stock rom before and I completely forgot about reverting to the stock recovery.
As a matter of fact, I was on Civato's Flexstriker 3.2.1 rom with the new CWM before I reverted back to the stock rom.
Well, at least we've determined my stupid mistake, but now the question lies: "How do I get back to any working rom?"
Here's an update. I did find an update.zip file that also begins to load but does not finish. It stops at 95% still.
I will attach the photos in case someone notices something otherwise I am at a loss. In addition to all of the above, I tried everything I could to get into APX mode but nothing. I am willing to try almost anything at this point, so all suggestions are appreciated.
Something I noticed was the recovery for the a501 was android with gears spinning in the body. The recovery I have now is a package with an arrow. The recoveries are different. The current update file is Acer_A500_1.145.05_COM_GEN1
So this brings me to a question: Can I put Thor's 1.6 CWM back on the a500 and at least work from there? I do have my original backups and thought I might be able to get somewhere that way.
Hey guys. I rooted my M a couple days ago (5th or 6th device ive rooted) and am having some trouble this morning.
Everything seemed to be fine, I got rid of some crapware, grabbed droidwall, font installer, etc. The only major(?) change i made was putting safestrap on the phone. Afterwords, I rebooted and seen that there was no "splash screen" show up like the directions said there would be, so i figured it didnt work. This was a couple days ago. I didnt have any problems with the phone starting up at all until I changed the font a couple times. The first time, I changed it, rebooted normally, and everything changed over and appeared normal. After a few minutes of looking through the options again, I found one I liked better and installed that one. Reboot - stuck on the boot screen. Bummer. Tried to get it to start back up and it always does the same thing.
So I did some reading and am currently charging up my phone and downloading the razr_M_utility to restore and start over. Not sure what I did or why this happened. I dont recall making any other changes that could have caused it. I did use uninstall master to uninstall some of the bloatware, and thought that maybe I got rid of something that i wasnt supposed to. However, I have rebooted a few times since then and its been fine until now. Plus I'm pretty sure that I didnt uninstall anything to cause a problem.
Any additional thoughts on this would be appreciated. Like everyone else, im learning as i go! thanks
tangler27 said:
Hey guys. I rooted my M a couple days ago (5th or 6th device ive rooted) and am having some trouble this morning.
Everything seemed to be fine, I got rid of some crapware, grabbed droidwall, font installer, etc. The only major(?) change i made was putting safestrap on the phone. Afterwords, I rebooted and seen that there was no "splash screen" show up like the directions said there would be, so i figured it didnt work. This was a couple days ago. I didnt have any problems with the phone starting up at all until I changed the font a couple times. The first time, I changed it, rebooted normally, and everything changed over and appeared normal. After a few minutes of looking through the options again, I found one I liked better and installed that one. Reboot - stuck on the boot screen. Bummer. Tried to get it to start back up and it always does the same thing.
So I did some reading and am currently charging up my phone and downloading the razr_M_utility to restore and start over. Not sure what I did or why this happened. I dont recall making any other changes that could have caused it. I did use uninstall master to uninstall some of the bloatware, and thought that maybe I got rid of something that i wasnt supposed to. However, I have rebooted a few times since then and its been fine until now. Plus I'm pretty sure that I didnt uninstall anything to cause a problem.
Any additional thoughts on this would be appreciated. Like everyone else, im learning as i go! thanks
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Utility is gonna take care of it for you...I'm certain. I cant think of anything that caused it though. That's kinda weird. But if I were you I would just stick with the stock ROM with that issue and just troubleshoot it and if it happens again...hit it with the utility again
Also if you don't mind losing camcorder the 4.2.2 ROMs are great and don't require safe strap as Kong as you unlock boot loader through the utility. But will void your warranty.
Good luck! And follow those instructions on Matt's utility perfectly!
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Hi all. I used to mess with my Nook Color a lot around a year and a half ago but recently was just using it to read and occasionally browse. I'm 99% sure I was working with just a nook which was used with manual nooter, so that I had the Google Play store and Zeam launcher with stock B&N as well. I was having issues with things "not being able to update" so I tried to mess around, only realizing too late that I wasn't really interested in cm10 and wanted to stick with zeam. Since then I've been trying to get back to how I started but I'm failing miserably. I've so far tried wiping/factory resetting my device. Installing cm7 from zip, resetting everything using the guide here and installing 1-4-1 cam oc zip from here and still I fail. I can get into the set up screen, but when the device will not find any wifi signal and then freeze without allowing me to type it in under "other". Honestly I'm not sure what else to do now. I just want my nooted device back -__-.
Please let me know if I can submit any more information that can help solve this problem. Thank you for your time.
I'm literally infinitely stuck staring at this screen.
Managed to fix everything. Used section A15. Enjoy anyone who ran into similar trouble.
Hello,
I have a problem with my i9505. The phone had been rooted with stock ROM. I've installed Avast Antivirus and decided to install Anti Theft feature. Installing it requires reboot. After confirming rebooting the phone beeped twice and rebooted. And this is where my problem begins.
After reboot the screen is black. It shows nothing. The phone boots, LED shows charging, connecting and disconnecting charger makes phone beep, but with few seconds delay. Connecting to PC shows content of phone memory.
I have managed to get to recovery. Odin had seen the phone so I've flashed official Samsung ROM. It didn't help.
Surprisingly after few hours with battery removed the phone started to work normally... until the next reboot.
And now it works until the reboot. After reboot the screen is black. After about 30 minutes without battery it works again.
The phone never got dropped or damaged in any way.
Before I get my phone to the service (hoping that they'll fix it under warranty) I'd like to ask you, if somebody had similar problem and knows how to fix it.
Thanks in advance.
Same problem on same phone
Hi,
I too had this problem, and fixing it wasn't difficult, however I used the TWRP recovery which @ingvarr_zaag probably doesn't have installed (seeing as they had stock firmware). Nevertheless I can confirm this identical problem on my own i9505.
I was using a CM10.1 nightly build for my i9505 and attempted to install the AVAST Anti-Theft feature using the root install method. On the first attempt at installation there was a free-space error, in which the amount of free space shown in the /system partition had overflowed and showed negative free space. To work around that error I filled up my /system partition until there was only 100mb free and then the install worked. All went well until I did a reboot; the phone hung at the i9505 screen.
I tried rebooting the phone and removing the battery for a short while, but nothing worked - the phone still hung at the i9505 screen. However, all other functions worked, so I just reflashed CM10.1 after wiping /cache, /data (but not /data/media), /system, and the Dalvik-cache (though that is in /cache AFAIK so pretty redundant). All was fine after that reflash, other than the annoyance of having to set everything up again (didn't make a backup recently).
Obviously the Anti-Theft wasn't very secure if it could be removed by a simple reflash. But to be fair, I highly doubt any software can protect itself from a format!
Anyway, just letting people know that I can confirm this this problem exists, and how I fixed it on my phone.
ingvarr_zaag said:
Hello,
I have a problem with my i9505. The phone had been rooted with stock ROM. I've installed Avast Antivirus and decided to install Anti Theft feature. Installing it requires reboot. After confirming rebooting the phone beeped twice and rebooted. And this is where my problem begins.
After reboot the screen is black. It shows nothing. The phone boots, LED shows charging, connecting and disconnecting charger makes phone beep, but with few seconds delay. Connecting to PC shows content of phone memory.
I have managed to get to recovery. Odin had seen the phone so I've flashed official Samsung ROM. It didn't help.
Surprisingly after few hours with battery removed the phone started to work normally... until the next reboot.
And now it works until the reboot. After reboot the screen is black. After about 30 minutes without battery it works again.
The phone never got dropped or damaged in any way.
Before I get my phone to the service (hoping that they'll fix it under warranty) I'd like to ask you, if somebody had similar problem and knows how to fix it.
Thanks in advance.
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Flash stock firmware using odin
Go to stock recovery there factory reset and wipe
Reboot
Note all data will be lost take backup b4
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sheomualjy said:
Hi,
I too had this problem, and fixing it wasn't difficult, however I used the TWRP recovery which @ingvarr_zaag probably doesn't have installed (seeing as they had stock firmware). Nevertheless I can confirm this identical problem on my own i9505.
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I had Clockwork Recovery installed but I couldn't use it, because after reboot the screen was black. I managed to get to android recovery and flashed stock Samsung ROM by Odin. It didn't help.
After 2 weeks in service it's possible that today I get my phone back. Finally, because two weeks with Samsung Galaxy Advance were miserable.
Actual status on service's page says, that they replaced main board in my phone.
BTW: no Avast Anti Theft ever again.
Hi, i bought a NST and i rooted it a month ago.
Yesterday i decided to factory restore, because it began to get stucked on any screen.
I took the micro sd card with te nook manager and i restored to factory zip.
The first time it get stucked on loop when it finished the restoring process and then it restart to enter to the restoring process again for almost an hour.
Next i tried to restore the backup and it worked almost well but it remained stuck at the end of restoring.
After almos 30 minutes i decided to restart the nook and voila! it works and begin the screen saying that i need to register and everything, but the touchscreen doesn't work.
I restarted it, almost 10 times but i can´t even unlock the screen. i think that maybe on the restoring and reset it doesnt install the drivers of the IR sensors, but I can´t make it work.
In this moment I´m making again the restore but it's taking almos 30 minutes in the last part of the restoring screen.
Anyone could help to me?
Sorry for my english, I still working on it.
Felipe
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Generally speaking, if the NookManager factory restore doesn't fix the problem, you're in trouble.
However, since you at least are booting up okay, there might be hope. Perhaps not, though.
Let me know what happens after that reset you mentioned was in processing, and we'll go from there.
Finally, the restoring screen never ends, so, I made a manual reset and magic! The touch worked!
Thanks!!!!