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SPB 3D now no boot stuck att screen

Help! My atrix now is stuck at the "Rethink Possible" Screen and I only installed SPB 3D Shell.
Suggestions?

reflash the SBF file using RSD lite.

Thanks, but I was looking for something a little less severe.
That's like saying, oh, I've got a bug in my windows -Friend "Better wipe and reinstall windows" that's the only solution! and so forth.
THAT would wipe the phone.
I've made some progress, it seems that the Beautiful Widgets and the SPB are conflicting, and I can get into the desktop but it's black. If I press the search icon, then I get the google page.
It's only stuck at a black home screen. I have this thing set up to the nth degree and I can't bear the thought of doing it all over again, and horking up my wifi and so forth with the flash rom.
Got any suggestions on how to get to a moto blur screen with taps etc?
It's not like I rooted the damn thing or screwed it up that way. Just an install of a 15.00 program messed it up big time.

i couldnt get SPB to work on mine...

Dang. Wish I got the refund in time. The 15 minutes isn't enough. It took me 30 minutes to realize that this launcher has little room for customizing, and there's little things like slow scrolling that make LP better.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.

OK, I could get to "search" mode google etc., so I searched the catalog of apps on the phone and then I found "task Manager" and got in that way. Uninstalled Beautiful widgets and stopped SPB but didn't uninstall it. Then the next time I booted I had complete hang and had to do a hard reset. Oh well, not like it's the most fun part of a phone - setting it up, so maybe I'll do a better job this time.
I never did have to reflash the rom, I knew it wasn't THAT bad.
What's irritating is nearly 90 users read my post and only 3 replied in any way. How irritating.
That's people for you I guess.

jesus the same thing is happening to me right now..
stuck on the rethink possible screen. WTF

Fountainhead931 said:
OK, I could get to "search" mode google etc., so I searched the catalog of apps on the phone and then I found "task Manager" and got in that way. Uninstalled Beautiful widgets and stopped SPB but didn't uninstall it. Then the next time I booted I had complete hang and had to do a hard reset. Oh well, not like it's the most fun part of a phone - setting it up, so maybe I'll do a better job this time.
I never did have to reflash the rom, I knew it wasn't THAT bad.
What's irritating is nearly 90 users read my post and only 3 replied in any way. How irritating.
That's people for you I guess.
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how did you get to a black desktop?

ok my phone finally got past the Rethink possible screen, but now i'm staring at a blank desktop and can only access the contact/dialer screen... search button will only allow me to search contacts
pressing a bunch of buttons also allowed me to get into the browser.. i'm fine with doing a reset if i can figure out how to get to the settings screen somehow.

you can do a factory reset without doing a reflash by going into android recovery and wiping user data/cache
hold vol down and power on
hit vol down till you get to android recovery
hit vol up
tap lower right of screen
use vol up/down to select wipe data/factory reset
tap ok on lower left
select wipe cache partition
tap ok
select reboot
tap ok
redo everything you jacked up...... only better this time

diedemus said:
you can do a factory reset without doing a reflash by going into android recovery and wiping user data/cache
hold vol down and power on
hit vol down till you get to android recovery
hit vol up
tap lower right of screen
use vol up/down to select wipe data/factory reset
tap ok on lower left
select wipe cache partition
tap ok
select reboot
tap ok
redo everything you jacked up...... only better this time
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ok, i got the the "android recovery" part, hit vol up, then it says "Entering Android Recovery mode OSD 1" or something like that.. now i see a little green android with the exclamation.. volume up/down does nothing/ there is no option for a reset or anything else... stuck here and afraid to touch any different buttons but the volume buttons aren't giving me any new options..
is it safe to do a battery pull at this point and try again or will it brick my phone?
by the way, my phone is totally stock..
...pulled battery, attempted again, same issue.

OK, here's how i fixed it without any resets..
from the dialer, i held down the search button, used Vlingo to search "Settings", uninstalled SPB, voila, phone back to normal.
thank f'king god.

It is not compatible with Atrix I guess, I have tried to install from PC... It says ur device is not compatible

I tried it out on my Atrix, ran fine with no trouble even after a few reboots. So I don't know if it is SPB itself or if it is conflicting with something you guys have installed.

Same here. Works great for me not one problem so far.

at the screen with the little android guy you tap the bottom right of the touchscreen

[Q] Please help me

As suggested, starting a new thread.
Hello,
Straight to the point, Rooted UK Atrix, running 2.3.4. no other MOD OR rom or anything, i like motoblur.
Stupidly Used Bloatfreezer to freeze 'home' without having another launcher to return to. Can't use the phone now. Trying to reset (hard or soft i do not know the difference) and the phone reads ''fastboot'' then i toggle down using volume - to android recovery and the phone is coming up with starting rsd protocol x2 and nothing else (using the power + & - methods).
If i leave my phone to just boot it resides on a white screen teasing me with noises of logging in but i cannot see anything.
I'm really lost to be honest, i have no idea what to do and i am not good with terminology either (adw, flashboots, cm7 i have no idea what they are).
I know there are sooo many threads with different answer's so that is why i am starting a new thread.

To factory reset using recovery...
1.Power off the phone, press and hold volume down button, press power button.
2.Screen will come up with "Fastboot", press Vol down key to cycle through choices until you get "Android Recovery", press Vol up key
3.Wait for the "triangle ! / Android" screen then release the volume down button
*4.Tap on bottom right corner of the screen (may take a few times). a menu will come up
5.Tap on "wipe data/factory reset", and press OK. Another Confirmation screen will come. Press Yes and OK
6.After userdata is cleared, the "reboot system now" option will be highlighted by Default. Press OK.
7.Phone will reboot to initial setup MOTOBLUR screen.
NOTE/If on Android 2.3.4 then replace step #4 with pressing both Volume buttons at the same time. Also, use the Power button to activate the highlighted option instead of looking for the OK.
Sent from Rob's Atrix

atrixuk said:
As suggested, starting a new thread.
Hello,
Straight to the point, Rooted UK Atrix, running 2.3.4. no other MOD OR rom or anything, i like motoblur.
Stupidly Used Bloatfreezer to freeze 'home' without having another launcher to return to. Can't use the phone now. Trying to reset (hard or soft i do not know the difference) and the phone reads ''fastboot'' then i toggle down using volume - to android recovery and the phone is coming up with starting rsd protocol x2 and nothing else (using the power + & - methods).
If i leave my phone to just boot it resides on a white screen teasing me with noises of logging in but i cannot see anything.
I'm really lost to be honest, i have no idea what to do and i am not good with terminology either (adw, flashboots, cm7 i have no idea what they are).
I know there are sooo many threads with different answer's so that is why i am starting a new thread.
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Can you get to android market via your computer? If so go to it, log in, find a launcher and install to your phone. Once rebooted to the phone, it *should* give you a choice or just automatically choose the new launcher. What does double tapping your home button bring you too? I was able to find my alternative launcher by moving around via that.

sounds like ya have frozen system files
prolly be easyest to unlock bootloader and push a custom rom to it (they work better than stock anyway

Yes i did freeze the home app.
I really mean thanks to those replied. Unfortunately i have tried the first suggestion but it doesn't let me get to step 3 with the triangle, fast boot - android recovery - can't fast boot 2 etc can't get passed that.
i have just plugged it in the Laptop, taking sim out, and it has started! i thought it was broken!! but unfortunately not 'home' yet...
SO it is at the motoblur login screen, should i log in? press factory reset? Any suggestions?
I'm not sure how to push an app straight to phone so i can install a launcher...
we're nearly there guys!

In addition to what Robkort said a few posts up ^^^ to get into the recovery on 2.3.4 you may have to scroll down once you see fastboot, until you see "Android Recovery" and press vol up - when the android dude comes up, if tapping the bottom right corner doesnt get you into recovery, press BOTH volume buttons at the same time.

It is now up and working with me just simply plugging it in, running moto sync, logging in to market from laptop and sending the launcher app..
Wifi was enabled luckily before i froze home, so when i pressed log in it went 'error' then launcher pro just popped up so now i think i just unfreeze home, turn it off, put my sim in and fingers crossed..
wish me luck!

Yahooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
It's worrying how much happier i am now that i am back on top with my phone working. Pretty dependant we become!
All my widgets, and motoblur have gone, and some writing is in a different language :/ universal inbox is not there either.
Still Thanks for all the suggestions!
I suggest this thread should be 'FROZEN' or just stay open if anyone ever freezes 'home' without having another launcher installed.
I'm glad i didn't need to flash anything, put other ROMS on, hard reset losing everything, solved pretty simple luckily.

[Q] Dragging or touch and hold not working

Hi all,
I have pretty weird problem with my rooted galaxy s4. I can't drag icons or anything. If I long press anything on desktop or any game or actually anywhere on my phone it acts like it was normal click. So in example if I try to drag browser to somewhere else on screen it opens it.
I have cleaned the screen so it shouldn't be the problem.
I removed the screen protector.
Cleaned screen again.
I flashed back to stock rom. (problem happens on cyanogenmod too)
I oiled my hands just to test if those were too dry or something like that.
I have no idea what is causing this.
It might have something to do with that when I was trying to call samsung to check if they had any ideas and when I was in their press this number if you want this menu my phone started to press buttons on its own so I ended up something like 31254665423213254 on screen. Although this was first time that I notices this kind of behaviour and I haven't been able to reproduce it so it might have been just some random event.
Does any one have any ideas at all what could fix this, Samsung does not and they won't fix my phone since it's rooted.
Edit I put the option that shows touches on screen on and it showed me tens of little balloons running on screen so there is definitely something weird going on. I have screenshot of it but I can't post it since I have too new account.

Since it happens on more roms, it's most probably a hardware issue

[Q] Screen goes black after booting into android.

Hello, yesterday I started having a problem with my i9505 that I never seen before....
I noticed that when I unlocked the screen, the screen kept black and just the led on the buttons turned on, so I tought the phone had frooze, and I took the battery out then put it back and turned the device on again...
The "samsung galaxy s4 i9505" scren appeared just fine, the cm splashscreen was fine too, but when it finished booting, the screen went black...
I noticed that the screen doesn't give any haptic feedback, the buttons that are lit give haptic feedback normally, and the home button also don't have any feedback, even by pressing it, or holding it...
If I take screenshot, the screen flashes white, but goes back to full black....
If I hold the power button, the options "Power off - Reboot - Airplane mode" appears, and the buttons work, but if I press outside the popup, the screen goes black...
So, there's no hardware problem related to the screen, since it works fine while booting, and on recovery mode
But there's something software related that makes the screen keep black after booting, and it's not brightness related, since the menu by holding power button shows correctly...
Has anyone seen anything like this?
My device is an i9505
The ROM I'm using is optimized cm12.1 from JDCTeam:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...lop/exclusive-antaresone-alucard24-s-t3066696

Specht77 said:
Hello, yesterday I started having a problem with my i9505 that I never seen before....
I noticed that when I unlocked the screen, the screen kept black and just the led on the buttons turned on, so I tought the phone had frooze, and I took the battery out then put it back and turned the device on again...
The "samsung galaxy s4 i9505" scren appeared just fine, the cm splashscreen was fine too, but when it finished booting, the screen went black...
I noticed that the screen doesn't give any haptic feedback, the buttons that are lit give haptic feedback normally, and the home button also don't have any feedback, even by pressing it, or holding it...
If I take screenshot, the screen flashes white, but goes back to full black....
If I hold the power button, the options "Power off - Reboot - Airplane mode" appears, and the buttons work, but if I press outside the popup, the screen goes black...
So, there's no hardware problem related to the screen, since it works fine while booting, and on recovery mode
But there's something software related that makes the screen keep black after booting, and it's not brightness related, since the menu by holding power button shows correctly...
Has anyone seen anything like this?
My device is an i9505
The ROM I'm using is optimized cm12.1 from JDCTeam:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...lop/exclusive-antaresone-alucard24-s-t3066696
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You could have problems with your gapps, try minimal gapps for 5.1, made by jabj
Hope I helped :3

_Bon_Bon said:
You could have problems with your gapps, try minimal gapps for 5.1, made by jabj
Hope I helped :3
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Do you mean flashing over the system I have now?
I tried flashing the ROM again wiping just cache and dalvik cache, but didn't help

Are you using xposed?

donkyshot said:
Are you using xposed?
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No, never used xposed

I've seen this before, but it took me a while to remember where. Usually, a black screen as you're describing occurs when the device has no launcher app. Since there is no launcher app there's no way to do anything. Now, it's unlikely you removed all your launchers so I can only guess you have a software issue with the launcher app itself.
Try doing a dirty flash of the ROM, if you haven't already done so. Don't wipe data or internal storage, but do wipe the cache. See if that solves the problem.

Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
I've seen this before, but it took me a while to remember where. Usually, a black screen as you're describing occurs when the device has no launcher app. Since there is no launcher app there's no way to do anything. Now, it's unlikely you removed all your launchers so I can only guess you have a software issue with the launcher app itself.
Try doing a dirty flash of the ROM, if you haven't already done so. Don't wipe data or internal storage, but do wipe the cache. See if that solves the problem.
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I alreadly dirty flashed the ROM wiping cache and dalvik cache

You're probably going to have to wipe everything then. Make a nandroid backup however, as you can restore your data partition after flashing.

Could be a Rom bug too...
Specht77 said:
Hello, yesterday I started having a problem with my i9505 that I never seen before....
I noticed that when I unlocked the screen, the screen kept black and just the led on the buttons turned on, so I tought the phone had frooze, and I took the battery out then put it back and turned the device on again...
The "samsung galaxy s4 i9505" scren appeared just fine, the cm splashscreen was fine too, but when it finished booting, the screen went black...
I noticed that the screen doesn't give any haptic feedback, the buttons that are lit give haptic feedback normally, and the home button also don't have any feedback, even by pressing it, or holding it...
If I take screenshot, the screen flashes white, but goes back to full black....
If I hold the power button, the options "Power off - Reboot - Airplane mode" appears, and the buttons work, but if I press outside the popup, the screen goes black...
So, there's no hardware problem related to the screen, since it works fine while booting, and on recovery mode
But there's something software related that makes the screen keep black after booting, and it's not brightness related, since the menu by holding power button shows correctly...
Has anyone seen anything like this?
My device is an i9505
The ROM I'm using is optimized cm12.1 from JDCTeam:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...lop/exclusive-antaresone-alucard24-s-t3066696
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I hope you tried reflashing your CM12. If that didn't work clear all data and flash a freshcopy of CM12. It could be a problem with your Rom too.... you could get an update soon..

I had the black screen problem and it turned out to be the silicon case I had just bought for it. Guessing it was pressing buttons together or something causing a corruption. After restoring it twice, twigged this and binned the case. Problem solved lol

Samsung s5 black screen

Question 1. This just happened right now my s5 is starting up and sometimes it shows the s5 startup powered by android sometimes not after that it proceeds in starting up with the usual sound effects but the problem is the screen is just plain black. Now i believe my phone is proceeding to the homescreen cause i tried to ring it and it did plus my ringtone music played. I tried pulling the battery multiple times and start the phone but still same result. I also tried the taking the battery off and pressing the power button for a minute. also tried the safe mode, but none of them worked. What do you think? is it a firmware or a hardware issue?
Question 2. Im still not sure the cause of the problem. Because of the black screen issue i I wanted to backup my files saved in the phones memory. However my phone is locked through my fingerprint and I guess because of that when I connect my phone to the pc im unable to access my files. Is there anyway I can access my files through a pc and unlock it using my phone's fingerprint alternative password?
TIA

If the initial logo sometimes won't show up, it sounds more like hardware as that is not part of the ROM
If your phone is secured by fingerprint, wait for it to boot, press the home or power key to wake it up, then swipe like normal, if it's just a faulty screen, the fingerprint swipe should still work

*Detection* said:
If the initial logo sometimes won't show up, it sounds more like hardware as that is not part of the ROM
If your phone is secured by fingerprint, wait for it to boot, press the home or power key to wake it up, then swipe like normal, if it's just a faulty screen, the fingerprint swipe should still work
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hey thanks alot swiping the through the black screen unlocked my phone. so do you think it is a hardware issue I assume its the LCD?
but if ever the LCD is broken , the finger scanner should also not be functional? or im wrong?

The finger scanner is a separate button (Home button)
There are two parts to the screen iirc, the digitizer (Touch) and the panel itself for displaying, could be just the panel if the digitizer is still working
You can use this to control your phone without a screen, might help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2786395

i'm experiencing the same problem again. Before I guess after 40-50 restart I was able to open my s5 with a screen, but now it happened again and the difference is that when I boot it the "Samsung s5 powered by android" rarely shows and it will proceed until the home screen with a black screen?
i have already removed the battery, charged it, changed battery, boot it in recovery and safe mode but still all i'm getting is a black screen.
Any idea how to fix this? Is this a hardware issue already

kenchii17 said:
i'm experiencing the same problem again. Before I guess after 40-50 restart I was able to open my s5 with a screen, but now it happened again and the difference is that when I boot it the "Samsung s5 powered by android" rarely shows and it will proceed until the home screen with a black screen?
i have already removed the battery, charged it, changed battery, boot it in recovery and safe mode but still all i'm getting is a black screen.
Any idea how to fix this? Is this a hardware issue already
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Hi kenchii17
As you didn't provide answer to @*Detection* 's suggestion for backup, here comes another:
[TOOL] Tickle My Android
To get rid of all this inconvenience, I would suggest a complete reinstall. Clear everything through Recovery and then flash a new Stock ROM via ODIN.
Nice regards.
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