Hi there
Im usually quite good with all things rooting etc but this has me stumped.
I bought a droid pro off ebay from the US and recived it all working fine - bar no cell connection. My intention was to update the radio root custom rom and done.
I downloaded boot strap to get it all installed with recovery and noticed the owner had left his gmail account on there. Being the nice guy I am I thought......factory reset to clear the account.
Did this and not the phone is stuck at the activation call to verizon.
I dont have a verizon sim is there anyway to get round this to install the bootstrap apk?
I know they have an encrypted bootloader so the usual vol down and power on wont work. can you force it to adb or fastboot to push files across?
Any help and advise appreciated as Ive never had the issue with phone activation in this way in the UK.
Many thanks
Gurry
okay, this is what i lerned.
1) stuck wifi issues (random stick wifi on) starts to happen after cf auto root is installed
2) once you have a knox bootloader, you can downgrade bootloader but only up to the least recent big release ie) NE1 can be downdraded to NC1 but you cannot downgrade to 4.2 or 4.2, odin throughs an auth fail error. so because i bought a gs4 with NC1 im stuck with NC1
3) NC1 is very picky with custom roms and kernel. I have been runnining GETW Danvdh for a day now and no more stuck wifi. yet after initial flash, i did have issues enabling wifi. Seems that on the NC1 the rom and kernel need a day to settle before the wifi issue goes away? odd? i think the knox bootloader is interfering with the wifi driver load at boot. when it does not work, pulling the battery, booting into bootloader then switching off, toggling airplane mode and installing a different recovery are all things you should try when it acts up. when it fails its not always the same solution to fix.
4) re-flashing to stock will fix the issue but once you re-root stock with chainfire, issue comes back.
5) when wifi fails to start, flashing another custom rom does not fix wifi, wifi stick persists among different custom roms but reverting to stock via oden fixes wifi.
I've been having a stuck with problem myself when rooted and stock. Currently on stock when the wifi gets "stuck", I find if I turn on the wifi and bluetooth at the same time the wifi will eventually connect. Weird I know.
I need to warranty my phone before the first year runs out.
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saj222 said:
I've been having a stuck with problem myself when rooted and stock. Currently on stock when the wifi gets "stuck", I find if I turn on the wifi and bluetooth at the same time the wifi will eventually connect. Weird I know.
I need to warranty my phone before the first year runs out.
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Same bootloader as me? Do you really think it's hardware related?
cantenna said:
Same bootloader as me? Do you really think it's hardware related?
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My bootloader is NE1. Now that I think about it the stuck wifi hasn't happened since I've been on NE1 which hasn't been that long.
The stuck wifi definitely was quite prevalent this past Fall. I think this was 3 bootloaders ago.
As for hardware, I don't know to be completely honest. I do have another motivation for submitting a warranty claim - my phone's CPU sucks with custom kernels. It really likes stock. My hope is that the tech might just replace the whole printed circuit board assembly and I'd get a new CPU b/c believe me it's almost always cheaper to replace the assembly then to go poking around and lifting legs / desolding things and spend time doing it.
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cantenna said:
Okay, back on google experiance by Danvdh, added the line above to build.prop and for now it seems to be working. :fingers-crossed:
So I guess people who say knox no big deal, have random wifi stucks periodically? I don't have this problem on MDJ bootloader
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I have been having the same problem - wifi takes almost forever to connect, lock screen doesnt work, some widgets dont load until a "certain" event happens on the phone and then everything works perfectly. I have a SGH-i337 and I see the problem when running i9505 roms.
What works for me is to open recent apps and remove everything and then wifi will connect immediately. I am not sure if it will work for you but you could try.
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The other night my gs4 running OC3 decided it didn't want to live anymore and randomly rebooted and hung at the ATT splash screen. Took the phone to best buy and had them reflash it. The phone would then boot but ran incredibly slow and certain apps just wouldn't open. Fast forward to last night and the network died. My IMEI is gone and everything having to do with the phones identification was wiped out.
I'd like to downgrade the phone from 5.0.1 to 4.2.2 and possibly get twrp onto it. I don't care about tripping knox or bricking the phone as I've already gone and got a new one. Worst case scenario I have a brick, best case I can install custom roms and use it as a multimedia device. Can anyone point in the right direction for experimental methods people are too afraid to test or guides that might help out? I did some searching and found a few relevant posts but nothing concrete relating to this situation. Any help is appreciated!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2370699
Could try hear to get imei back
Quick, recap, I own a galaxy S5 Lolipop 5.1.1 SM-G900W8 build #LMY47X.G900W8VLU1COI4, previously rooted.
It all begin, when my phone been experiencing some battery draining issue. So I decide to do factory rest. But get this at that time my phone was fully rooted, w/Lolipop 5.1.1...
So I've read all the informations I could get online made sure to unroot the phone ( using CF-Auto Root ktlevl-sm G900W8.), with Odin, and reflash the phone with custom recory (G900W8VLU1COI4.tar.md5 file). I've made sure to get the exact one matching my phone carrier.
And after rooted the phone...All went well...Then 24-48 hours after the **** hit the fan.!!!!
They weere dialogue box keep poping up, from Touchwiz has closed, to Unified Daemond has closed just to name a few...
I decided to factory rest the phone again, reflash and rooted same problem occuring occuring.
So I decide not to root and the issue stop but now I'm unable to fully use my phone because it anin't root so certain function of my phone can't benefit such like using Airplane mode or Mobile data toggle using tasker. When my phone was fully rooted I was able to take full advantage of my Tasker profile. I've google the web and came acrros people who expericing the same issue as I did, but can't find a solution.
If there anyone who had that problem and manage to solve it, kindly share your story and solution with me....
Thank you in advance on getting back to me,
SM-G930W8 cannot get past this crap. 7.0 nougat
have tried a ton of solutions posted all over and nothing works.
i don't have a bluetooth headset first of.
second it won't allow me to use bluetooth in a call with realterm. give me message can't use in this call.
so i saw that i could downgrade to an older version however that gives me an error on the phone in download something about fw version.
i figured this is because it was at the latest version of the bootloader from my reading.
currently was able to downgrade only to G930W8VLS3BRA2 version
apparently i need to go back to G930W8VLU2BQH1 but i can't
how can i downgrade to a firmware that will allow me to open up something to get this frp removed.
thanks in advance for any help.
btw this is not a stolen phone in case anyone is thinking this.
I bought it from someone on kijiji with a broken screen.
i fixed the screen and was presented with this.
I took it to fido and they said it is not blacklisted imei and i can use it if i get it going again....
smuddge said:
SM-G930W8 cannot get past this crap. 7.0 nougat
have tried a ton of solutions posted all over and nothing works.
i don't have a bluetooth headset first of.
second it won't allow me to use bluetooth in a call with realterm. give me message can't use in this call.
so i saw that i could downgrade to an older version however that gives me an error on the phone in download something about fw version.
i figured this is because it was at the latest version of the bootloader from my reading.
currently was able to downgrade only to G930W8VLS3BRA2 version
apparently i need to go back to G930W8VLU2BQH1 but i can't
how can i downgrade to a firmware that will allow me to open up something to get this frp removed.
thanks in advance for any help.
btw this is not a stolen phone in case anyone is thinking this.
I bought it from someone on kijiji with a broken screen.
i fixed the screen and was presented with this.
I took it to fido and they said it is not blacklisted imei and i can use it if i get it going again....
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Did you resolve this?. I don't even under stand why I'm getting this frp issue I had this phone for 2 years and set up with my Google account my child attempted to root it and it got stuck in a bootloop so I had to reset it. Now I can't get in it. It's a sprint s7 I tried the headset thing with 2 different Bluetooth sets managed to hook up to Bluetooth hook up to Wi-Fi but I cannot get the headset to make any screen pop up I did manage to get on the internet but it will not allow me to download anything I'm wondering if they blocked this way of doing this