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[Q] Cannot USB Mount OR Download from Market!!

Okay... this will be my second attempt to get this fixed.
I rooted a week or so ago according to justadude's great tutorial. I made a nandroid backup... I thought I took all the recommended precautions. Then I fiddled. Deleted some of the T-Mobile bloat, installed launcher pro... that's it! Now, I can't USB Mount to my computer (even with USB Debugging turned on... it says I can mount, but when I do "mount" it doesn't register on my computer). I also can't download anything from the Market! Everytime it just got stuck Starting Download... so I searched and followed some recommended instructions for clearing Cache and Uninstalling Update. Now I just get notifications that say Download Failed.
I HAVE searched the forums for answers, so please, I don't need sarcastic comments about how I should just figure it out. I wouldn't be posting if I could just punch in the magical search that fixes everything.
Thanks!

when deleting your bloat stuff did you delete tw launcher or any other touch wiz stuff?
That would probably cause problems if you are still running stock rom.

No, I only deleted stuff like Avatar, MobiTV, GoGo... the apps that I would never use.
I forgot to mention that I restored to my backup as well, so now all the crap is back, but I still have the same problems with the USB and Market... I've been sifting through forums all day and can't seem to find a good solution other than a factory reset (obviously... not ideal).

i just had this issue, not with the market, but with pc recognizing my phone.
1. make sure you got the proper samsung usb drivers installed on your pc.
2. turn off usb debugging on your phone if you have it enabled.
3. turn off your phone.
4. turn on your phone and give it some time to scan your sd cards.
5. turn on usb debugging on your phone.
6. plug in the usb cable and go ahead and mount the sd card.
the above steps was what I did just now 10 minutes ago to the T (except install usb drivers since my pc already had it and for some reason stopped recognizing it just now) and my computer recognized my phone again. worth a shot.

Thanks! That resolved my USB issues... now all I need is to be able to download apps again and I'll be a happy man!

Well, I changed my game plan a little... just flashed Bionix Fusion 1.1 (out of curiosity and just plain fed up with this Android Market issue). It's all good! The ROM rocks and all my issues are fixed. Thanks to those of you who posted trying to help out!

Installation Aborted

Hi all! I know this has been asked in the general forum, but it said to ask this in the specific phone forum, so I hope some good brains can help me on this very demotivational experience.
I just bought my Arc S, but because of SE massive bloatware on this phone, I got massive slowdowns and memory-related issues very fast. I wanted to uninstall some stuff to see if this helped, but it just has led me down a path of insane troubles so now I just want to give up and return to stock ROM. I've already wasted 10 hours of my life on this so soon a new phone will be cheaper than to keep up this circus
I've downloaded around 10 different ROMs (mostly official ones from different sources), and all but the Cyanogenmod 7.1.0.2 aborts the installation process. I've also hash-checked them and all are 100% OK according to Fastsum 1.7.
Even worse, I've removed the original ROM and cannot use anything computer-based (like flashtool, fastboot) because of this. Flashtool won't recognize my phone when I don't already have a OS installed.
Sometimes I also get an error message when trying to re-install the CM mod again, saying it's a LT15 (Arc) installation and I have a LT18 (Arc S). In other words: inconsistency.
can I update/repair my kernel? (when I reboot I see the icon of the "freexperia" logo from a leftover installation).
I've cleared all caches, dalviks and factory rebooted lots of times, before every install attempt.
So the only tools I have are my boot-unlocked SE Xperia Arc S, and Clockworkmod (CWM-based recovery v5.0.2.6) and a possibility to transfer files to my sd card via usb cable.
Any help is HUGELY appreciated.

So you cant enter flash mode and fastboot?
Which kernel are you using now?

Try turn off phone and plug it in computer in Flash MODE. It will install driver. Also, if FlashTool detects your phone but it can't recognize just because your phone is LT18i and the build.prop of the ROM is LT15i. In that case, it will ask you to select your device. Just select in that list.
The man idea is, if your phone's still working fine, no need to worry. You just lost driver and FlashTool won't detect it. Try install PC Companion

Thanks for your help! In the end I managed to install a new ROM with Flashtool. 2.3.4 working fine now, only minor issues with Google Market, but finally my phone is fun to use, and with 140-160 MB more memory now than with the SE 2.3.5 update.

[Q] green defy fixed sbf flashed no gapps or phone service

Hi All,
Please HELP.
I was a complete noob to rooting until I started this but spurred on by successfully rooting and overclocking / undervolting my defy I thought I would try to install Gingerbread so I can use the stupid stupid sky+ app which no longer supports 2.2.2.
Its all gone horribly wrong and I still dont know why as I checked and rechecked the prep but S..t happens so they say.
I have pretty much given up on this and will buy a new phone tomorrow if I cant sort today but would like to ask everyone that has more knowledge than myself on this subject (which doesn't narrow the field much!) if they have any ideas.
Well where do I start, I bricked my defy.
Apart from when I flash shadows rom (see below) I have only black screen, white led on usb connection, no recovery boot. phone is visible to rsd lite but nothing else. This happened after I lost sd card availability after reset / wipe trying to install a fixed gingerbread rom using RSD lite.
I could not flash back to froyo and every other recovery sbf i tried wouldn't work until I found an old sbf from shadow which actually booted up! YESS!! but then Nooo!. phone screen looks very nice - not sure what version it is but assume ICS (its got spareparts folder which I`ve not seen before) - and works as alarm clock and web browser but no phone function at all - no signal, no call or end call buttons - just not there! this (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14762402&postcount=143) is the link where I found shadows version, couldn't wipe in between each step so just flashed 3 files in turn using rsd lite and it seemed to work - phone booted up after 3rd sbf was flashed. The rom is set up for developers and has some developing tools included acr, api demo,dev tools, hstcmd & redlinecap
Main problems:-
The rom is a tmobile version and I`m on vodaphone so maybe this is why there's no phone service but I wasn't prompted for an unlock code so assume its not locked.
The 2nd boot recovery no longer works even after reroot and reinstall (see below). I can surf the web very well via wifi - much quicker than before but downloads dont seem to work but only tried shortfuse.org and that site is apparently down atm and anything that requires google wont work as Gapps got deleted. I cant install GAPPS without boot menu.
recovery from main boot menu is unavailable and zip from sd just reboots.
I also cant connect my phone to my pc via usb and have the sd card available at the same time, as soon as the USB is connected the sd card is not available to the phone, I can see it on the pc and can read / write / delete from the pc - (usb debugging is disabled). when I access the sd card via file manager on phone (with usb disconnected) I can install some programmes that I have transferred from my pc; 2ndinit installed and said 2nd init installed ok again (after re-rooting) but still no blue led on reboot.
I've since tried everything I can think of or search for - After loosing the sd card availability I copied card contents to pc and reformatted sd card on pc. copied back the files immediately before flash attempt to sd as well as the rooted froyo backup I had and nothing changes. I have a titanium backup on the card but have so far been unable to install titanium again to try and restore it. no play acces as no gapps and when I try to access via pc and send it to phone it says installed but its not on the phone. every other file on the sd card results in error parsing file or file type not supported.
BTW when I say originally that I lost sd card availability I have now realised that it was the problem with having the usb installed at the same time which caused it and if I had unplugged it may have worked but still dont understand where this problem came from but I did have usb debugging turned on at the time.
I have scoured these holy pages for 2 whole days and tried several fixes which have probably really messed up everything even more but nothing has changed with the usability (or not) of the phone. A lot of the old links found were dead or taken over by a fake install of filemanager that my antivirus caught was a trojan. Due to this I may have missed an avenue or 2 but think I`ve tried everything I can.
At this stage I do not know exactly what I`ve tried as the list is endless but it includes reflashing the green lense kernel, attempting to reflash the original rom and any other recovery, fixed or stock roms I have found which don't specifically say only for defy+ and the only rom that allows the phone to boot is shadows above and that has no functionality.
I would love to install the latest cm10 build but cant get into the 2ndinit menue so unless someone knows away to flash it using RSD lite I`m stuck.
I do not even know if the cm10 would work as I`ve probably messed up the kernel and the original rom so the 2nd init may not get a look in.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. You'll find me under the stairs mumbling to myself and probably dribbling a bit - my wife thinks I`ve gone mad and is not talking to me until I get another phone or fix this one but I hate admitting defeat on technical problems.:crying:
PS I dont mind if I fix the issues with shadows rom, go back to any stable build or get cm10 working I just need the phone.
Thanks in advance, Tim

update
Hi All,
Just a quick update on this thread as I`ve had a bit more of a play and think I`m getting somewhere possibly.
I have now eliminated the problem of not being able to see the sd card files in file manager when the usb is connected.
How? - i haven't got a clue, i just unsuccessfully tried flashing a few more roms and when I reinstalled shadows rom i could view files whilst connected.
Also the 2ndinit now gives me the green led when it installed the 2nd boot but unfortunately I still dont get the blue led on reboot.
Another strange thing is I dont get the round M logo on boot but motorola written in white??
If I could just get to the CW recovery on boot I could install cm10.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Tim

fixed by flashing with JDGC_U6_2.13.0
YESS FIXED BY FLASHING JDGC_U6_2.13.0 SBF using RSD lite.
Many thanks to everyone that helped via another thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1217016&page=2, I thought they were far too many issues with this phone to repair but the latest froyo rom and kernal in the above sbf worked fabulously.
As has been said on several posts flashing this SBF will not allow you to return to the uk stock rom after (to return a phone under warranty etc) but if you're stuck with a brick then this should clean up your phone to original settings to allow the install of cm10 or another rom of your choosing (as long as its build 6 or later)

[SOLVED] [Q] LG Optimus L7 P700 bootloop brick

Hi guys! I have been using [L5/L7][4.4.4][KTU84P][FINAL]Unofficial Paranoid Android 4.4 rom build by Cr3pT and yesterday i installed android tweaker 2, messed around with it a little bit and when I restarted my phone to apply the changes i got into a bootloop. Since then I tried literally EVERYTHING. I tried flashing the rom again, flashing the stock rom by making a zip out of kdz file, adb, wiping and formatting everything (except external sd), and many more (I can't even remember). The only available part of my phone is CWM 6.0.3.2. The one thing that is strange to me is that no matter what the computer doesn't recognise my device (I've tried on two different computers). This makes everything difficult, I can't use kdz updater etc. I have tried reinstalling the usb drivers several times and it's always trying to recognise the device with no success. Does this mean that the internal sd is damaged? Or I messed things up while formatting? I hope someone can help. Thank you.
EDIT: I was able to solve a problem, but it the solution is weird. So I had the stock rom and kdz updater, connected the phone in emergency mode without battery, then plugged the battery back. Although the pc didn't recognise my phone, I started the kdz update with default settings and here is the trick: I had to shake the phone while kdz was flashing the rom (I'm not joking).

thomekk91 said:
Hi guys! I have been using [L5/L7][4.4.4][KTU84P][FINAL]Unofficial Paranoid Android 4.4 rom build by Cr3pT and yesterday i installed android tweaker 2, messed around with it a little bit and when I restarted my phone to apply the changes i got into a bootloop. Since then I tried literally EVERYTHING. I tried flashing the rom again, flashing the stock rom by making a zip out of kdz file, adb, wiping and formatting everything (except external sd), and many more (I can't even remember). The only available part of my phone is CWM 6.0.3.2. The one thing that is strange to me is that no matter what the computer doesn't recognise my device (I've tried on two different computers). This makes everything difficult, I can't use kdz updater etc. I have tried reinstalling the usb drivers several times and it's always trying to recognise the device with no success. Does this mean that the internal sd is damaged? Or I messed things up while formatting? I hope someone can help. Thank you.
EDIT: I was able to solve a problem, but it the solution is weird. So I had the stock rom and kdz updater, connected the phone in emergency mode without battery, then plugged the battery back. Although the pc didn't recognise my phone, I started the kdz update with default settings and here is the trick: I had to shake the phone while kdz was flashing the rom (I'm not joking).
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Computer doesn't recognize phone.

I started having issues with my phone and tried to fix them. The problem was simple. The sensors stoped working. First I tried a hard reset (didn't work). Installed Lineage OS. Didn't fix the issue and made some errors form the install. Tried the stock ROM. I tried two of them with the first one I discovered that it was a problem with the firmware of the sensors. The I tried an older version thinking that the firmware wouldn't be compatible and that it would work better. (I'm not entirely sure but I think it was this version MPD24.65-18.1)
The installation went well without problems. The firmware was (again) downgraded (and later upgraded without asking permission). The big issue is that my phone now is unable to connect with the computer. When I plug it it starts to charge but nothing more happens. The computer isn't aware that it has anything plugged (according to the ports). So I cannot run adb and cannot change anything on the phone. I tried to install from a SD card on the recovery mode but I think I'm not doing it as it should. I plug the card and run the updater from the SD. The first thing that is odd is that it actually displays the internal memory. And then when I run either a OTA.zip or a compress of a build named PG86IMG.zip I get a verification error.
I do not know what to do. I would like either to have working sensors or the 7.1.1 version.
Phone:XT1563 16 gb
Computer:Mac