ok! something went screwy with my N7 tonight!!
It powered down when it hit 15% battery left
I plugged it to recharge and it tried to reboot a number of times.
I tried to stop it rebooting by holding down the power button but I ended up with a distorted/static screen.
Finally got it to charge without rebooting. But now when i try to reboot it just loops.
I CAN get into fastboot mode and recovery mode
But can't get ADB to see the deivce!
I've tried a factory reset but that still gets me into a boot loop situation!!
Stuck!! any help / ideas?
or is it effectively bricked???
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.
Hey
I'm having this problem with my S8. I was scrolling through Instagram when my phone suddenly froze and shut off about 10 seconds after. Tried to restart and do a hard reset ( Vol Down and Power), nothing worked all day. No charging LED when plugged in, nothing.
However, I came home and plugged it into my PC and it started charging. Got to 25% before i turned it on. Worked fine. I attempted to do a factory reset just in case it was bad software. When i did the factory reset, it restarted and said installing new software and gave me the "No Command" error and now i have the same problem as before where it wont turn on.
I downloaded fresh software from Sammobile and have Odin installed and ready to go but i cant get the phone into DL mode. HELP!!!
clsheppard said:
Hey
I'm having this problem with my S8. I was scrolling through Instagram when my phone suddenly froze and shut off about 10 seconds after. Tried to restart and do a hard reset ( Vol Down and Power), nothing worked all day. No charging LED when plugged in, nothing.
However, I came home and plugged it into my PC and it started charging. Got to 25% before i turned it on. Worked fine. I attempted to do a factory reset just in case it was bad software. When i did the factory reset, it restarted and said installing new software and gave me the "No Command" error and now i have the same problem as before where it wont turn on.
I downloaded fresh software from Sammobile and have Odin installed and ready to go but i cant get the phone into DL mode. HELP!!!
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hold down volume down,bixby,and power together until screen comes on and let go of power button thats it
So, I rooted and tried flashing the stock ROM (from Sammobile, same country, same exact model [SM-G950F], I already had the stock ROM and had never flashed anything else to the phone other than root, June security update, my phone had July's) to see if I could fix a problem that couldn't be fixed with any other method I had tried.
Everything in Odin seemed to go well, I got the PASS green box at the end. But then the phone couldn't go pass the Samsung logo when booting up. I left it quite a few minutes, before trying to boot into recovery mode and wiping data. Only to realize that I couldn't boot into recovery mode. In fact, I can't even turn the phone off. No combination of hardware keys works other than power button + bixby + vol down, to get into download mode. But that's of no use, because when I plug my phone into my PC (with the same cable and port I used before to root and flash the firmware into it) it is not recognized by Odin or the PC.
It just has the Samsung logo flashing slowly over and over because I can't turn the device off. By the time the battery dies out I'll most likely have the logo burnt into the display.
I also haven't been able to find any help online. Everyone's suggestion is “boot into recovery and wipe data”, but I can't do that.
Is my phone gone for good?
I woke up this morning to my Tablet having lost all of its charge despite it having 80%+ when i fell asleep, when i plugged it into the charger and turned it on it only showed the boot screen and nothing else, I've tried soft resetting and recovery mode doesn't work properly, however the times where i did get recovery to work, i tried wiping cache and factory resetting but neither has worked.
I've tried flashing firmware with Odin but it didn't work either, i don't know what to do at this point and need assistance.