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 ?
themadba said:
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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chef_dracula said:
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.
themadba said:
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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Okay I've never read such a weird explanation on any thread in this forum.
Btw, I recently flashed InDroid 4.3. Less than a week ago.
My phone was running perfectly, but my google account linked with my phone was not what I wanted it to be. So I added another account and my phone said that to delete my previous account I had to do a factory reset.
So I deleted my older backup that I had created using Titanium Backup (when I was using stock ROM) and I created a new backup.
So I held down the power button and tried to get into recovery. But my phone just got stuck at the "samsung i5801" screen. I let it be for 10-15 minutes but it won't go beyond that. So I re-inserted the battery, and tried to get into recovery again. Didn't work.
Then I tried to just start my phone in normal mode, but still it just got stuck at the i5801 screen. I removed the sim card, SD card and tried, still stuck at the same screen.
Then I tried to get into downloading mode, which (thank god) worked.
Now I know the logical thing to do is just to flash a new ROM but my questions are :
a- WTF happened?!??!?!?!
b- since I can't get into recovery or normal mode, how do I reset factory settings / clear cache? And if I don't do all that, will flashing be successful? and safe?
btw, I'd like to continue with InDroid until Kyrillos 6.0 is perfectly stable.
-That happens frequently with indroid.. main cause could be the filesystems..
-flash kyrillos v6 its pretty much stable..
-Once you flash a new rom you'll be able to boot into recovery..
-Remove sdcard while flashing once done insert sdcard and wipe data n cache from recovery..
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 ....
tnx
Hi, thanks for looking at this.
I have a Galaxy S 4 Google Edition phone. I rooted it, and I have TWRP 2.5.0.2 running on it. I have backed up my system a few times.
I tried flashing a rom of cyanogenmod for the first time today, cm-10.1-20130801-NIGHTLY-jfltexx.zip (http://get.cm/get/jenkins/36550/cm-10.1-20130801-NIGHTLY-jfltexx.zip)
I wasn't having any luck with the boot, so I turned to this thread, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2370101, which utilized a modified updater-script. That still was giving me no dice, so I tried editing the updater-script myself. Cyanogenmod boot-up appears! . . . and then it just keeps spinning. I turn off phone, boot into custom recovery, factory reset phone, try again. Same deal, try it again. Factory reset again, then I try restoring my device so that I can try again with different parameters. TWRP says that the restore is successful. This turns out to be not true, however, as when I reboot, the Google logo shows up, vanishes, and then nothing happens.
This is where I'm stuck. I can boot into TWRP, but that's it. Everytime I try to wipe dalvik or data, it fails. Restores supposedly work, but they don't, no matter if I'm restoring just system, or system data and cache. I have tried mounting my sd card so that I might load another rom, but even though TWRP says "USB Storage Mounted", nothing happens.
I'm completely at a loss here. I simply can't afford to brick a $700 phone. This is crazy.
PLEASE HELP
Vivisec said:
Hi, thanks for looking at this.
I have a Galaxy S 4 Google Edition phone. I rooted it, and I have TWRP 2.5.0.2 running on it. I have backed up my system a few times.
I tried flashing a rom of cyanogenmod for the first time today, cm-10.1-20130801-NIGHTLY-jfltexx.zip (http://get.cm/get/jenkins/36550/cm-10.1-20130801-NIGHTLY-jfltexx.zip)
I wasn't having any luck with the boot, so I turned to this thread, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2370101, which utilized a modified updater-script. That still was giving me no dice, so I tried editing the updater-script myself. Cyanogenmod boot-up appears! . . . and then it just keeps spinning. I turn off phone, boot into custom recovery, factory reset phone, try again. Same deal, try it again. Factory reset again, then I try restoring my device so that I can try again with different parameters. TWRP says that the restore is successful. This turns out to be not true, however, as when I reboot, the Google logo shows up, vanishes, and then nothing happens.
This is where I'm stuck. I can boot into TWRP, but that's it. Everytime I try to wipe dalvik or data, it fails. Restores supposedly work, but they don't, no matter if I'm restoring just system, or system data and cache. I have tried mounting my sd card so that I might load another rom, but even though TWRP says "USB Storage Mounted", nothing happens.
I'm completely at a loss here. I simply can't afford to brick a $700 phone. This is crazy.
PLEASE HELP
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UPDATE: THANK YOU TO THIS THREAD: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2388504
PROBLEM FIXED!
Hi,
I am writing this on behalf of my mother's phone. She has a completely stock Nexus 4 on Net10.
This phone hasn't been touched by a computer. Any development settings are also disabled.
I came home from work and my mom showed me that her phone wouldn't boot. It was boot looping on the "X" boot animation.
So I went ahead and accessed the boot menu and selected recovery and did a cache wipe. No help. I let the phone run out of battery and charged it back up, no help.
I have no clue what happened. The phone was working fine previously. Again, the phone has NOT been unlocked, rooted, etc. Completely stock Nexus 4.
I would like to fix her phone but I would also like to keep her data intact. She even told me it is very important to "keep everything on the phone".
Any assistance would be great.
xrawritsjack said:
Hi,
I am writing this on behalf of my mother's phone. She has a completely stock Nexus 4 on Net10.
This phone hasn't been touched by a computer. Any development settings are also disabled.
I came home from work and my mom showed me that her phone wouldn't boot. It was boot looping on the "X" boot animation.
So I went ahead and accessed the boot menu and selected recovery and did a cache wipe. No help. I let the phone run out of battery and charged it back up, no help.
I have no clue what happened. The phone was working fine previously. Again, the phone has NOT been unlocked, rooted, etc. Completely stock Nexus 4.
I would like to fix her phone but I would also like to keep her data intact. She even told me it is very important to "keep everything on the phone".
Any assistance would be great.
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Try the following:
- wipe cache and dalvik cache
- Flash a custom kernel
- See if boots
- Make a complete UROOTED backup and save it in the computer
- Flash factory image and relock bootloader
- Restore backup
Tell us if worked
By flashing a custom kernel it is required to unlock the bootloader which will wipe the entire phone.
Your only hope is to use stock recovery to install a signed OTA package (if it's on 4.3 wait for 4.4 ota package).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2145848
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so... my phone suddenly wouldn't accept my password anymore to unlock. i tried a couple of things, like deleting the files lockscreen files using TWRP to bypass that... but then it got stuck in a "android is booting" screen and everytime i tried to change my PIN, it would crash.
So i went to TWRP and wanted to reflash my ROM (I was using Resurrection Remix), but then I couldn't decrypt the data because ... the password again wouldn't work. so I finally decided to use sideload to try to flash everything again and it works, but the problem is that even after the factory reset, the phone will boot up but there won't be any images. You can hear the jingle play when you first turn on any android phone... but it's all black.
edit: I've tried flashing two different roms: RR & Lineage OS, both will boot up, but same problem.
I haven't been able to back anything up because... well the OS wouldn't boot up and my TWRP was being wonky and I can't restore anything...
Anyone have any ideas of how to fix this? I feel like i could use the format data and start from scratch... and make it work but then I assume that would wipe my titanium backups, which I haven't been able to extract out. so if anyone has any guidance on how to do that, that would be great. I've tried to use adb to extract stuff out but it hasn't worked and now I can't even do it anymore because I don't have usb debugging on.
nova_vo1 said:
so... my phone suddenly wouldn't accept my password anymore to unlock. i tried a couple of things, like deleting the files lockscreen files using TWRP to bypass that... but then it got stuck in a "android is booting" screen and everytime i tried to change my PIN, it would crash.
So i went to TWRP and wanted to reflash my ROM (I was using Resurrection Remix), but then I couldn't decrypt the data because ... the password again wouldn't work. so I finally decided to use sideload to try to flash everything again and it works, but the problem is that even after the factory reset, the phone will boot up but there won't be any images. You can hear the jingle play when you first turn on any android phone... but it's all black.
edit: I've tried flashing two different roms: RR & Lineage OS, both will boot up, but same problem.
I haven't been able to back anything up because... well the OS wouldn't boot up and my TWRP was being wonky and I can't restore anything...
Anyone have any ideas of how to fix this? I feel like i could use the format data and start from scratch... and make it work but then I assume that would wipe my titanium backups, which I haven't been able to extract out. so if anyone has any guidance on how to do that, that would be great. I've tried to use adb to extract stuff out but it hasn't worked and now I can't even do it anymore because I don't have usb debugging on.
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have you try to re-flash your TWRP? maybe re-flasing your TWRP will work, also maybe installing the original rom will work, and then you can try to flash whatever rom you desire
as i know doing a factory reset from the TWRP delete all of your files, i mean everything. so i don't think that you still have the backup files
Flash the Official recovery of the oneplus 5 and then install OOS by adb into thé recovery.