Verizon Tab here.
Finally decided to try installing KhasMek's K-leanMod v2 rom.
I started by installing the bootstrap app from the market as per the instructions. The app rebooted the tab. It backed up everything. It said everything was successfull. After that I rebooted in download mode (power +volume down mode)
I then flashed the rom I downloaded from the thread. When I rebooted it just stuck on the samsung logo. I let it sit for 20 minutes and nothing happened. I decided to try to reflash to see if that would work but now I can't get back into download mode. Interestingly I can get into download mode when it is plugged into the wall, but when its connected to the computer it does not work...
Any suggestions?
Thanks
EDIT: It finally decided to connect to the computer and I flashed the CWM, did a factory reset and then flashed the custom rom and it started working again. I think it might have been due to low battery (it was at 3% when it finally came to)? Anyways just glad I dont have an expensive paperweight.
Just discovered a new problem...
When I have the tab plugged into the wall, it wont turn on. It just sits frozen at the battery charge screen. When I unplug it and power it on all is well.
Any idea what that could be?
I'm not a noob and have tried everything I can think of - hooking my phone up to my pc via odin and adb with zero results. Tried plugging on my phone overnight, etc etc.
My problem - I was at work and took a photo with the camera app, the camera crashed, then I opened the gallery. I went to reboot my phone and nothing happens. Now when I try to power on the phone, nothing happens. I do a battery pull and then put the battery back in and it boots up for no more than 3 seconds to the Samsung logo and then turns off. If I try booting into recovery, same thing - just turns off and the same situation if I try to boot into download mode. Has anyone encountered this problem? Note that I am running a custom recovery - Philz CWM. I fear the worst; my phone is perma bricked.
edit; FIXED - Faulty power button. Power button will stay in and not pop out without prying at it.
So basically this rom is awesome but it had only one problem. When I plugged my phone in the charger while it was turned off, it bootlooped until I restarted with the cable off. It was no big deal and nothing bad ever came out of it.
Yesterday my batter ran out while I was asleep and when I woke up it was already turned off. I, absentmindly, tried to turn it on, LG Logo, off again. Did it one more time, nothing happened, realized it's out of battery. Plugged in charger, try to turn it off/on, usual bootloop happens. Say ok and proceed with what I always did, phone gets past LG Logo, goes into SlimLP boot animation and for the first it has just stayed there. No restarts, just endless loading. Longest i Left it on to load was about 45 minutes. Never got back on.
Apart from that, I think that for some reason my recovery got uninstalled somehow, by itself, a few weeks ago. I only noticed this because before, when I wanted to get into recovery, I pressed the usual buttons and it went straight into TWRP. Now the same buttons take me to the "Factory reset screen". I know that everyone says to just go ahead and press power, but I am afraid, since I am not sure if TWRP is still functioning. This happened to me another time on the same phone, and when I confirmed the factory reset, it factory resetted.
My problem here is that I want to get my music and photos. I'm only able to enter that factory reset screen and download mode. Can I "flash" twrp safely from download mode? Should I use Flash Tool 2014 and Normal flash(which says it keeps the data) a stock g2 rom? Can I mount my phone to the computer in download mode to copy my files? I want the most risk-free approach.
Thanks in advance.
giorgos123 said:
So basically this rom is awesome but it had only one problem. When I plugged my phone in the charger while it was turned off, it bootlooped until I restarted with the cable off. It was no big deal and nothing bad ever came out of it.
Yesterday my batter ran out while I was asleep and when I woke up it was already turned off. I, absentmindly, tried to turn it on, LG Logo, off again. Did it one more time, nothing happened, realized it's out of battery. Plugged in charger, try to turn it off/on, usual bootloop happens. Say ok and proceed with what I always did, phone gets past LG Logo, goes into SlimLP boot animation and for the first it has just stayed there. No restarts, just endless loading. Longest i Left it on to load was about 45 minutes. Never got back on.
Apart from that, I think that for some reason my recovery got uninstalled somehow, by itself, a few weeks ago. I only noticed this because before, when I wanted to get into recovery, I pressed the usual buttons and it went straight into TWRP. Now the same buttons take me to the "Factory reset screen". I know that everyone says to just go ahead and press power, but I am afraid, since I am not sure if TWRP is still functioning. This happened to me another time on the same phone, and when I confirmed the factory reset, it factory resetted.
My problem here is that I want to get my music and photos. I'm only able to enter that factory reset screen and download mode. Can I "flash" twrp safely from download mode? Should I use Flash Tool 2014 and Normal flash(which says it keeps the data) a stock g2 rom? Can I mount my phone to the computer in download mode to copy my files? I want the most risk-free approach.
Thanks in advance.
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Hi, first If you can enter download mode I think you can flash kdz (Kitkat) file to stock using Flash Tool 2014. But I had this problem once and the keep data flashing didn't work (stucked at 50%), I ended up flashed it with other option (erased all data).
2. You can try the "Factory reset" nice and easy.
I think you can't see files on the device unless you enter Twrp.
It's wise to backup your phone on the computer montly or so, thank you.
I went ahead and nuked my download mode using the SRK tools. Then got access to fastboot, through which I booted to twrp and then I could move my files. All's fine, flashed my ROM again and it's going better than ever.
Hello Community!
Hoping you'll be able to help me with this: recently my S7 Edge has been fairly unstable, crashing and restarting itself. Sometimes the reboot would fail, and it would loop restart until successfully launching. Today, however, it has seemingly crashed but the phone has done nothing since - it has not attempted to reboot, and power + vol down, and power + home + vol up aren't doing anything. The screen is black, and there are no LEDs showing. I tried plugging it into a charger, but that didn't give any LEDs either.
How can i get my phone on again? Thanks!
stock or custom? odin or just pc dont recognise it?
wifes phone just had same issue. stock updated to latest September update that rogers pushed down today it rebooted on its own a bunch of times and now wont turn on....like nothing.
i was getting the failed to find /misc a bunch then i tired clearing cache but still had issues
now i was going to try to do a factory reset but it wont boot.
Yesterday, the phone was fine. Then, it was suddenly off even though it had plenty of battery and would not power on. Plugged in and verified battery, then tried vol down and power. This began a boot loop when the phone was plugged in where the samsung screen came up, phone would vibrate, then it would go off and loop again over and over. If unplugged, it does not function at all. I could not get it to open in to the recovery screen. This morning, plugged in again and it immediately went to recovery. I tried clearing cache and rebooting, but another boot loop. It does not always go to recovery, so after much effort, I got it back to that point and selected clear data and factory reset. It again went to the boot loop. There is now an error when I can get it to recovery that is dir ‘/system/carrier/ATT/priv-app/AttIqi_ATT' . I went to Sammobile and downloaded Odin hoping to flash to this. Unfortunately, the phone only has power when it is plugged in and I cannot get the phone in to recovery mode when plugged in to the computer that has Odin on it. Even if I could, I would not be able to follow the steps. Looking for other ideas of how to make this work.