Hi Everyone,
I'm running a rooted HTC Evo with Fresh Evo 3.4.0.1 on it. I understood that the reason AppBrain's fast web installer does not work is because the "Android ID" on the device is the same, and it needs to be unique...
I changed the Android ID, and now the phone only get's up to what I assume is loading the OS. It's the part where you hear "fresh" and see the penguin.
It repeats fresh over and over again, but never loads the OS.
Any ideas on what might be going on and how I can fix it?
In case anyone is interested, I figured this out. It was a bit of a process, but was able to get my system to boot again doing the following:
1. Booted into recovery mode
2. Used 'nandroid' to back up bad system (but it was the data partition that I was interested in.
3. Performed a clean wipe/factory reset (the system booted up fine)
4. From the clean reset, grabbed out of the data partition the file "/data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db". Put this file on my sdcard.
5. Rebooted the device and went back into recovery mode.
6. Used 'nandroid' to restore the bad system back
7. Copied the clean 'settings.db' over the bad one.
8. Rebooted and everything was fine. I had lost a bunch of settings, but other important information was all there.
Hope this might help someone.
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So I was trying to to change ROM's and now I believe I have "soft bricked" my phone. I am able to reboot into recovery (CWM) but I did a full format (internal SD along with all system, cache, data, etc). So, needless to say I have no backup. When I enter CWM I did a full wipe and format, restarted recovery, loaded my ROM and went to reboot.
This ROM had a disclaimer that said "may return to stock", or something to that effect, so I clicked go back. It instantly rebooted anyway. I thought is was something with permissions so I went back in and fixed them but still nothing. So I dumped a different ROM onto my external card and loaded it (using the same above method...full wipe). Same.
The phone goes to post, gets to the SG3 screen then goes black and nothing. If I pull the battery and put it back I can get back inot recovery but nothing else.
What do I need to do?
Ok, so I booted into download mode and and got the recovery file from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1727443 and followed his instructions and it it booted. Don't know what I did wrong, or if I should do something now, but I'm good for the moment.
A Galaxy 3 is not a Galaxy S3. Just ticked as I'm searching for the 3.
Hoping someone here can give me some help. Sometime last night my phone crashed - had an error message on the screen asking me if i wanted to restart - basically the android version of a blue screen.
I rebooted and when it started up it tried to activate but failed. Tried it a few times, never activated. I called sprint and they had me type in 2 different codes:
##72786# which didn't get an error but didn't help anything
They had me try a 2nd 6 digit number, which I'm not sure if it's unique to my phone or not so I wont post it here but that did nothing at all - typed in the ##______# and nothing happened. They claimed it was because the phone is rooted, but the phone is ONLY rooted. I haven't installed a new OS it's the stock rom as far as i can tell.
Anyone have any ideas whats going wrong here or how to fix it?
thanks
edit: and apparently now I wiped the OS from the phone since it wont go past the LG logo. Is there some way for me to either copy a rom onto the phone from TWRP or copy a backup onto the phone? I've got a couple of TWRP backups saved on my pc, but since the phone wont start up I don't have any way of copying them onto the phone - damn non-user removable sd cards.
merkk said:
Hoping someone here can give me some help. Sometime last night my phone crashed - had an error message on the screen asking me if i wanted to restart - basically the android version of a blue screen.
I rebooted and when it started up it tried to activate but failed. Tried it a few times, never activated. I called sprint and they had me type in 2 different codes:
##72786# which didn't get an error but didn't help anything
They had me try a 2nd 6 digit number, which I'm not sure if it's unique to my phone or not so I wont post it here but that did nothing at all - typed in the ##______# and nothing happened. They claimed it was because the phone is rooted, but the phone is ONLY rooted. I haven't installed a new OS it's the stock rom as far as i can tell.
Anyone have any ideas whats going wrong here or how to fix it?
thanks
edit: and apparently now I wiped the OS from the phone since it wont go past the LG logo. Is there some way for me to either copy a rom onto the phone from TWRP or copy a backup onto the phone? I've got a couple of TWRP backups saved on my pc, but since the phone wont start up I don't have any way of copying them onto the phone - damn non-user removable sd cards.
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Can you boot to recovery?
If you can, then flash a newer TWRP build, they have MTP support, you can mount it while connected to your PC, copy a ROM zip over (there is a stock on in these threads somewhere), flash it from recovery, wipe everything first. Then you should be able to boot into a working device.
Yes I can boot into twrp, but I'm not sure how to copy files that way. I tried using adb but it couldnt find the phone. Can you give me some tips on how to copy a new ROM or twrp backup to the phone?
Thanks
merkk said:
Yes I can boot into twrp, but I'm not sure how to copy files that way. I tried using adb but it couldnt find the phone. Can you give me some tips on how to copy a new ROM or twrp backup to the phone?
Thanks
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Yes, first thing is to flash this.
http://cubegamemc.de/kevinjoa/lollipop/recovery-geehrc/twrp/
You can flash it through fastboot.
follow these steps:
1. Download and place the file on your PC.
2. Reboot your device into Fastboot Mode. To do that, simply hold down the Volume DOWN+Power buttons together.
3. Once inside the Fastboot mode, connect your device to your PC via USB cable.
4. Launch a Command Prompt Window in the folder you saved the recovery image to. You can do that by holding down the Shift button on your keyboard and right-click on any blank area on the screen, then select Open command window here.
4. Enter the following command into the Command Prompt Window. You need to replace recoveryfilename.img with the actual name of the Recovery Image you downloaded.
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recoveryfilename.img
5. Once it is done, reboot your device
Code:
adb reboot recovery
should do it. If not, just hold down the power button, and get back to recovery.
at that point you should have the newest recovery. This recovery has MTP enabled so you can transfer files just like you can if you had a running device.
Once it shows up on you PC you can transfer a ROM zip or a backup to the internal SD. From there you I am sure you know how to flash a zip or restore a backup. It is the same as an older version. MTP should be under the "MOUNT" section of TWRP. I don't remember because I have a different device now.
Good luck!
If this doesn't work, follow the thread here: You would need the super big full bin file if you do though because you do not have a working ROM or zip currently on your internal SD card and this contains a very old recovery, but it does work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2230106
edit: I altered the directions from the source here for the att version. Don't worry, I changed them to suit your current need.
http://theunlockr.com/2013/03/26/how-to-install-twrp-recovery-on-the-lg-optimus-g-att/
My phone seems to behave a little differently than what you describe. Holding down the volume down and power button just turns it on. Holding vol up and power puts me into a screen with the android bot on it with the option to restart bootloader, go into recovery, or power off. and at the bottom there's some text indicating fastboot mode is on.
I was able to use the fastboot command to load the newer recovery. But for some reason, none of the adb commands work on my phone.
I'm copying a twrp backup to the phone now and i'll restore that. Hopefully that'll fix the issue of the phone not booting and if i am really lucky, fix the issue of the phone not being activated, but I'm not too hopeful about that.
Thanks again for all your help
hey - just wanted to say thank. Got my phone to boot back up again. Unfortunately the backup restore doesnt seem to have fixed my initial problem. Phone is back to saying it needs to be activated. Any ideas about that? It's also showing zero bars - not sure if that's what it's supposed to show when it's not activated.
Thanks again for your help
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hey - just wanted to say thank. Got my phone to boot back up again. Unfortunately the backup restore doesnt seem to have fixed my initial problem. Phone is back to saying it needs to be activated. Any ideas about that? It's also showing zero bars - not sure if that's what it's supposed to show when it's not activated.
Thanks again for your help
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EDIT:: TRY THIS FIRST<
Do a full wipe of the system and data, not internal. GO to recovery, select wipe, then factory reset. Then boot your phone. You will have to setup everything again but it might help. If it does not, you can always restore your backup again.
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Interesting that your phone was the opposite for the buttons. Maybe I had it backwards, or maybe my source did. Either way I am glad you have a device that boots now.
Check this...
Go to the about section and see if your imei and other information are blank or have 0's. I am almost certain that there are 0000's.
If that's the case then you lost your EFS some how. and there is a way to recover that as long as you have a backup somewhere. You should have one somewhere if you used freegee to unlock your phone in the beginning. If not, perhaps an earlier backup you had of your device. A lot of the recoveries for this device make a backup of the EFS.
well i just dropped the phone off at a sprint repair store to see if they could do anything with it now that it actually boots. If they can't fix it, I'll try what you suggested. Although i already tried a factory reset and that didn't help.
well you are right about the esn/meid/IMEI - they are all zeros
I did a restore and then used freegee to restore the efs. Will free tell you if there is no backup of the EFS? Because i restored it, it finished pretty much instantly, and then i restarted the phone just be safe. Unfortunately it didn't fix it.
Phone still says searching for service, and now there's a little red x over the bars. Before the bars were blank but there was no red x. Not sure if that makes any difference.
Also, something else weird is going on now. I just tried copying a newer backup to the phone to try and restore the newer one. I don't seem to be able to copy files now. When i drag the folder windows , it says the device has stopped responding. If i try and copy each individual file in the backup folder, it starts to copy, and then just sits there like it froze, or like it's copying so slowly it might as well be frozen. I had to reflash twrp to the newer version and then I'm able to copy files.
Reloaded the efs backup again but still can't activate/have all zeros.
First, this phone is converted from C72 to A42 by the seller.
I have enabled encryption and therefore I cannot use the "Fuse wipe data".
It went amok and start bootloop few days ago. I tried cache wipe with simcard and sdcard taken out. It still failed to enter into system UI.
Any idea what went wrong? I have not backed up my data and hopefully avoid hardware reset.
Looking for someone who can help me. TIA.
First of all: My method deletes everything on your phone. But it should work in mostly all cases.
Download this
Extract it, boot phone into bootloader, then run flashall - stock reco.bat and wait until the phone reboots on its own.
I apologize if this has been covered before, but several searches haven't turned it up.
I'm trying to upgrade my Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 to Android 7.1 and I'm running into a roadblock in the recovery mode. I have options for Wipe data/factory reset and Wipe cache partition, but there's no Advanced option, so I can't wipe the Dalvik cache.
The tablet is rooted -- I checked it after running Odin, and even ran Odin once more to be sure -- and I had Debugging checked under Developer Options, so I think I should be seeing the Advanced option, but it's not there.
I tried installing the new OS anyway, but I got failure messages, and then the tablet rebooted itself to 4.4.2, still rooted. I've restarted Developer Options and re-checked Debugging.
I must be missing something, but I can't see it. Thanks in advance.
This is driving me insane. Every time I think I'm making progress I run into a roadblock. At this point I'm just trying to load/install TWRP recovery so I can do a thorough wipe, including the Dalvik cache, but although I can find the flash file in my file manager, TWRP doesn't see it.
On the tablet's own storage TWRP starts its search at emulated/0, but I can't find folders in the file manager called emulated or 0. It will also look in sdcard, but even though I've copied the file there, TWRP doesn't see it, although it seems to be looking for "extsdcard." It also doesn't see zip files I've downloaded to the sd card, if that matters. It seems that TWRP can only find folders, not files.
I uninstalled and reinstalled TWRP, but it's the same. So I uninstalled TWRP again and tried to go with CWM, but it's not compatible with my tablet.
Part of me knows there must be a solution somewhere, but this has just about reached the point of "life's too short." If anyone can offer any help, it would be greatly appreciated.
I've finally had some success! I found instructions for installing TWRP with Odin, and they worked. And so, I expect, did the TWRP backup of the tablet's OS. All I need now is a Nougat 7.1 download that works; the one I have now:
Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 Lineage OS 14.1 [mondrianwifi] [Android 7.1.1 Nougat]
...isn't working. TWRP attempted the zips I downloaded (OS and GAPPS?) but the verification failed. So at this point I can only boot to TWRP. If I just start the tablet normally, it hangs at the Samsung logo screen, and while I can turn it off, it starts itself again after 10 seconds or so, requiring a boot to TWRP and shut down from there.
I'm hopeful I'll find downloads that work, but some of the links I've found appear to have expired. I should be able to go back to 4.4.2 from the backup, but since I've gotten this far I'd like to follow through. It looks like I have more searching ahead of me.
More success! I found the following link to the OS and downloaded the Pico GAPPS as that author suggested, and it worked! My thanks to Marc0601!
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...m-resurrection-remix-5-8-5n-02-09-18-t3837764
I'm trying to install LineageOS 17 on a OnePlus 6.
I can boot into twrp and the install process appears to work successfully. I can swap slots and install into either slot.
When I reboot the phone I get to the screen that says "Start" and "Fastboot mode" at the top. If I try to start the phone it comes back to this screen. When I go back into twrp, the contents of /sdcard is empty. I can copy over files using adb push, install the rom and then reboot. However, every time I reboot it seems like it completely wipes the phone including the install it's just done and /sdcard is also wiped.
When I booted into twrp previously, it required my unlock code. It now no longer does that. I wonder if this is part of the problem?
If I install just oxygenos, it takes me to the oxgenos recovery screen but I cant' do anything from there. I'm guessing that won't allow me to boot with an unlocked bootloader?
Can anyone advise how I can get out of this? Installing anything using twrp looks like it works, but it's like it gets wiped every time I reboot.
I can't even seem to get OxygenOS back to working.
Can anyone give me some tips on where to go from here? Nothing I can do from TWRP seems to help. I have tried wiping everything in both slots and reinstalling oxygen, no luck
Still stuck?