Need help, going to try and give as much detail as possible so sorry for the long post. I dropped my phone a few weeks ago and the LCD broke so got a refurb warrenty replacement phone. Att S4 - got it 12/24 and rooted using towelroot on NJ4. Everything was fine until sunday or monday when I realized my Beautiful Widget weather was still stuck in NJ where i had been a few days ago and the last time I'd turned locations on, thinking location was still just GPS like it used to be. read up on all the location info of power saver vs full accuracy, and decided I would just set my widget to my home zip code. Within 24 hours i started experiencing random reboots of the phone, with the occasional boot loop. tried turning the location settings back off and that helped for about a day before starting having reboot / power off issues again.
So last night I decided I would give up and try and do a factory reset. First i wiped the cache from stock recovery. Then the phone wouldn't boot past the att screen at best. So I went back into stock recovery and did a full reset. at this point the phone will no longer get past the Custom Samsung boot animation. I tried using the one-click unbrick tool, but my phone wasn't coming up as a USB option and I haven't been able to find any additional trouble shooting to get that to work.
So next I decided to Odin the stock unrooted firmware, which i believe was NB1. Now i can't get the phone into recovery at all. It is hit or miss if the phone will even get to the custom boot animation, but immediately shuts down from there. I can still get into download mode at times. Wondering if there may be a hardware issue either my battery (which was from my original phone) or the power button on the refurb because there were points last night when i would have to hit/hold the power button 5 or 6 times before the phone would do anything, regardless of what other buttons i was or wasn't holding down. that seemed to improve once the phone cooled down for a while.
I really have no idea what else to do. Based on everything i've read the phone should be working at this point or should be totally bricked. any guidance is greatly appreciated. I would try and just warranty it again and claim they sent a bad phone but of course it boots just enough to show the custom animation, even after i odin'd on stock. HELP!!!
dingbat005 said:
Need help, going to try and give as much detail as possible so sorry for the long post. I dropped my phone a few weeks ago and the LCD broke so got a refurb warrenty replacement phone. Att S4 - got it 12/24 and rooted using towelroot on NJ4. Everything was fine until sunday or monday when I realized my Beautiful Widget weather was still stuck in NJ where i had been a few days ago and the last time I'd turned locations on, thinking location was still just GPS like it used to be. read up on all the location info of power saver vs full accuracy, and decided I would just set my widget to my home zip code. Within 24 hours i started experiencing random reboots of the phone, with the occasional boot loop. tried turning the location settings back off and that helped for about a day before starting having reboot / power off issues again.
So last night I decided I would give up and try and do a factory reset. First i wiped the cache from stock recovery. Then the phone wouldn't boot past the att screen at best. So I went back into stock recovery and did a full reset. at this point the phone will no longer get past the Custom Samsung boot animation. I tried using the one-click unbrick tool, but my phone wasn't coming up as a USB option and I haven't been able to find any additional trouble shooting to get that to work.
So next I decided to Odin the stock unrooted firmware, which i believe was NB1. Now i can't get the phone into recovery at all. It is hit or miss if the phone will even get to the custom boot animation, but immediately shuts down from there. I can still get into download mode at times. Wondering if there may be a hardware issue either my battery (which was from my original phone) or the power button on the refurb because there were points last night when i would have to hit/hold the power button 5 or 6 times before the phone would do anything, regardless of what other buttons i was or wasn't holding down. that seemed to improve once the phone cooled down for a while.
I really have no idea what else to do. Based on everything i've read the phone should be working at this point or should be totally bricked. any guidance is greatly appreciated. I would try and just warranty it again and claim they sent a bad phone but of course it boots just enough to show the custom animation, even after i odin'd on stock. HELP!!!
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Odin back to NJ4 :/ You can boot into download mode so that means your phone isn't hard bricked. If that doesn't work than I think I'll have another idea. Oh, by the way, what ODIN version are you using? If its 3.09 put the .tar in the AP section and for 3.07 and below its PDA. Also, make sure it's the correct image. Anything below NB1 doesn't work for KitKat users.
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I apologize already if this has already been posted before, I couldn't see one that had my issues so I'm making this thread.
OK, so here is my problem and everything that I can think of that I've done to my phone.
Today I tried to restart my phone as it was getting a bit sluggish. When I did it started booting fine then the animation sound stopped while the droid eye was being put together. Now my phone will not pass the droid eye during the boot phase. I press the power and both volume buttons and after a few seconds it starts itself back up again. I do the power button and down volume buttons and it still does the same thing. I've even performed the factory reset twice and it still won't help.... And no matter what I do it keeps booting itself back up on its own.
What I've done to my phone:
I am rooted but never got the boot loader unlocked since i waited too long and the last update wouldn't allow the boot loader unlock methods anymore. I have used titanium backup app to delete some system apps for example the Verizon football one, slacker radio, and any of those useless apps that I never use. I haven't deleted anything lately and have restarted my phone many times since. I have been delaying the recent update hitting no or not now, whatever it says. I thought that I said no today on the system update as well. Even then my phone was working before I restarted it.
PLEASE I hope that there is something that I can do to fix my phone because I'm forced to use my LG Vortex again and my upgrade isn't for another year..... I don't want to buy a new one since this phone has been great and I'm almost certain that if there was a way to reinstal or flash the droid razr m OS that that would fix my issues.
Thanks in advance for your input and please know that I'm a novice with this kind of thing so you will have to explain the process to me. If i have instructions I can definitely follow them.
THANKS!
You Factory Reset a couple of times, so that tells me you know how to get into recovery. See if you can get back into recovery and try clearing cache/dalvik too. I think you can still do that from stock recovery.
If that doesn't work and your battery is good, you can fastboot to recover it. If your battery was low when you started this, charge it prior to fastbooting. Just hold down the power button until the phone shuts off and plug into a WALL charger until it's charged. If the battery is good, you can grab the firmware from here http://sbf.droid-developers.org/phone.php?device=8 (use the second one from the bottom, .3, if you flash the last one you will not be able to gain root) and flash in RSD. Another choice is to use House of Moto to recover: http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/28162-house-of-moto-20/ .
OK, so I deleted the cashe and still a no go. For the second step of getting the .3 to regain root. would it be possible to get an even earlier version so I can unlock the boot loader? Also when you say flash in RSD, what is that? I know of the AP flash from the first menu, is that something inside of Recovery menu options?
Thanks for your help!
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THANKS! I was able to eventually figure it out and used the last option that you said and my phone works! Now working on getting root back. Thanks again!! But I really would like to know if I could do the same thing but with an earlier version to unlock the bootloader.
Droid Razr starting up issue
Hi guys, I am facing a weird issue with my Droid Razr and hoping pros to help me sort this out and get my phone running.
I am using Droid Razr but since last one week it is not starting up. Let me elaborate, currently it is switched off and not getting up. While starting it pass through M logo but can't go ahead for startup animation (droid eye animation). Even after leaving on that animation for entire day, it is not going ahead of that.
However, if I connect it to a wall charger (while it is off) it shows battery getting charged. It is taking a usual timing of 90 minutes for full charge.
I have important pictures and data into phone memory is there any way to recover it.
I would appreciate if you can guide me to get my phone up and running as usual.
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You Factory Reset a couple of times, so that tells me you know how to get into recovery. See if you can get back into recovery and try clearing cache/dalvik too. I think you can still do that from stock recovery.
If that doesn't work and your battery is good, you can fastboot to recover it. If your battery was low when you started this, charge it prior to fastbooting. Just hold down the power button until the phone shuts off and plug into a WALL charger until it's charged. If the battery is good, you can grab the firmware from here (use the second one from the bottom, .3, if you flash the last one you will not be able to gain root) and flash in RSD. Another choice is to use House of Moto to recover: .
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I've been messing around with my phone, trying to flash CWM and CyanogenMod (to no avail), and yesterday something happened. I woke up, my phone was dead so I started charging it. It booted into the Stock OS (the one that ships with the G2--build D20010o I think). Shortly after, a message appeared on the screen about an update the phone was going to install (I'm assuming one that AT&T was pushing to my phone), and shortly after it powered down on its own. I have not been able to get it to boot into the OS since.
Before all of this happened, I rooted the phone with IORoot, tried to flash CWM (I think successfully), but was not able to install CyanogenMod, so I flashed an earlier build of the stock OS (D20010o), rooted it again (I'm not sure that I had to--I think it stated that my phone was already rooted), tried to flash CWM again (unsuccessfully this time), and I gave up. Then this problem occurred.
Every time I try to power on the phone, the LG logo flashes, and the screen stays on, but it's black. If I try to do a factory reset via the hardware buttons, I am able to see that screen, but as soon as I follow the instructions of pressing the power button twice, it says that it's initializing the reset, but then the phone's screen goes black again--not sure if the screen is on or off, though. The LED light is also not on during any of this.
I'm unsure what to do. I've had the phone for about 6 months, but I had not owned an Android before that--iPhone user for 3 years. I obviously did not do enough research or ask enough questions, but I would like my phone to be in a usable state. I would greatly appreciate any help that anyone can give me!
NEVER take an OTA with a recovery.
Use the lg flash tool to go back to stock
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
Sorry, should have also mentioned that I can't boot into Download Mode. I'm assuming there's no .kdz file for AT&T, and the other method in that link requires Download Mode. :/
so my sister has an att galaxy s4. And she started having this problem with it only booting into download or factory mode. So after two days of struggling I finally got it to boot normally only after doing the download mode button combo, and selecting for it to cancel the boot. Then it kept on doing it after every boot so I thought i would flash the stock firmware from odin. This did not work as well and I kept getting "fail". Now I did an over the air update and as far as I can tell, it is still having the issue. Also I cannot get into recovery with the button combo to delete the cache. Thanks for the support and any help would be greatly appreciated as I do not know where to go with this.
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so my sister has an att galaxy s4. And she started having this problem with it only booting into download or factory mode. So after two days of struggling I finally got it to boot normally only after doing the download mode button combo, and selecting for it to cancel the boot. Then it kept on doing it after every boot so I thought i would flash the stock firmware from odin. This did not work as well and I kept getting "fail". Now I did an over the air update and as far as I can tell, it is still having the issue. Also I cannot get into recovery with the button combo to delete the cache. Thanks for the support and any help would be greatly appreciated as I do not know where to go with this.
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Update: after the update it has now started to boot successfully without the extra steps, will report here again if it reoccurs.
problem still persisting
Well now the phone can boot into the normal stock Rom just fine, only after the previous method is done. Phone does not stay off after powering down and just reboots automatically into download mode. Thanks for any help guys, no idea what to do now.
Kind of sounds like some of the buttons are sticking. Maybe the power button (why it won't stay off) and/or the volume button rocker switch. You could try repeatedly pressing to clear whatever is making it stick. Also you can open the phone up and use a can of air to clean out the buttons. The only thing I can think of that may be causing this issue
So I had Alliance ROM on my phone to begin with and I downloaded this http://www.alliance-rom.com/communit...able-nd7.9054/ and installed it in safestrap recovery mode. After the file was finished installing the phone turned off. (I thought it was going to restart and well that never happened, The phone doesn't even turn on. I've taken the battery out and tried to power it on, I've tried taking the SIM and SDCard out and turning it on. I've left it plugged in and charging and tried turning it on, I'v plugged it into a computer and tried it that way. Nothing that I have tried has worked. If anyone can please help me get this working I would HIGHLY APPRECIATE IT!! I use this phone for work and to keep in touch with my Daughter. Thank you ahead of time for any ideas that may or may not work.
First thing, the link you posted doesn't work. There's dots in the middle. Second, if it won't even boot to the Galaxy S5 screen before the boot animation that could be one of two things. A. It installed a custom boot loader not meant for your device that could be fixed if you could boot to download mode, which you can't. Or b. your phone is physically broken and you'd need to take it to Verizon to get fixed. Right now it's probably the second, but I have little clue as to the ROM you installed.
This has been pretty much answered for you in your other thread. You put a rom meant for note 2 on your S5 , probably not going to be fixable. But your ONLY chance is to get the phone into Download mode. Then odin a stock S5 ROM. No longer any need to panic you have brick so...At this point remain calm and move slowly so you don't make another mistake hope you get lucky.
I unplugged my wife's phone from its charger today and BAM boot loop occurs. No idea why. Of course she blames me cause I touched it and it breaks. Haha. So I tried pulling the battery no good. I attempted recovery mode and selected factory reset which after it did its reset the phone rebooted still in boot loop but now I cannot get into recovery mode. It just freezes or reboots when I attempt recovery mode. I just get the "recovery booting" message and then either phone reboots or it freezes. It is an AT&T SGH-i337 with lollipop on it. I spent about 4 hours sifting through XDA forums trying various methods using ODIN like here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221 and here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2407443 and here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2573080 but problem persists. At this point I could use a little help from the community. Maybe some down to earth help that can point me into the right direction or the right files to download and try. Currently I can put the phone into download mode and my computer recognizes it and ODIN sees it just fine. I've witnessed some crazy screen stuff like the matrix happening when I turn it on. Its weird. Sometimes when I turn it on and it sits at the Samsung Logo the background slowly turns green and gets all pixelated. It is very bizarre. Maybe that might tell you something. I'd really just like the stock rom back on whatever that may be. It was on stock but had been rooted using Kingroot a while back. At this point I'd prefer any rom, Kitkat or lollipop, CM I don't care. I just want the phone functioning.
JDubbed said:
I unplugged my wife's phone from its charger today and BAM boot loop occurs. No idea why. Of course she blames me cause I touched it and it breaks. Haha. So I tried pulling the battery no good. I attempted recovery mode and selected factory reset which after it did its reset the phone rebooted still in boot loop but now I cannot get into recovery mode. It just freezes or reboots when I attempt recovery mode. I just get the "recovery booting" message and then either phone reboots or it freezes. It is an AT&T SGH-i337 with lollipop on it. I spent about 4 hours sifting through XDA forums trying various methods using ODIN like here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221 and here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2407443 and here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2573080 but problem persists. At this point I could use a little help from the community. Maybe some down to earth help that can point me into the right direction or the right files to download and try. Currently I can put the phone into download mode and my computer recognizes it and ODIN sees it just fine. I've witnessed some crazy screen stuff like the matrix happening when I turn it on. Its weird. Sometimes when I turn it on and it sits at the Samsung Logo the background slowly turns green and gets all pixelated. It is very bizarre. Maybe that might tell you something. I'd really just like the stock rom back on whatever that may be. It was on stock but had been rooted using Kingroot a while back. At this point I'd prefer any rom, Kitkat or lollipop, CM I don't care. I just want the phone functioning.
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Assume that you do not have any hardware issue.
Charge the phone.
First try the 10 sec methods to see whether you can go to recovery mode.
Press power button + home +volume up for 10 sec. when the phone vibrate release the power button but keep pressing the home and volume up until you see the recovery message.
If you can get into recovery but you can not revive the phone or you can not go into recovery at all, you need to flash the firmware via odin.
the only odin flashable firmware for lollipop phones are the kit-kat NB1 firmware cooked by Muniz_ri. You can get the file from here.
Muniz_ri cooked the firmware such a way that you can use towel root to root it.
Let see that fix your problem first.