Hi, new to this forum, been reading through and lots of useful information.
I rooted my Defy using Superoneclick and unistalled a couple of motoblur account files by accident. My email and text message apps stop working, tryed to reinstall the apps which I had made backups of but titanium just hung at backing up, so I performed a factory reset. Now all I get on start up is a blank screen with the status bar at the top, browser seems to work by holding down the home button, but there is no access to the menu and any apps. Is my phone bricked? and if so any simple advice on restoring the phone back to the original state.
Any help would be much appreciated
P.S. my Defy is UK T-mobile.
The best option is to load up to stock recovery and do a factory reset and see how that goes
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My phone has decided to stop connecting with activesync. So I wanted to do a hard reset, but PDA Viet in his infinite wisdom decided to remove the Clear Storage function from his ROM. I've tried the power+reset button which doesn't work, and read another way to do it that involves a camera button, but my phone is the camera-less version, so I don't have that button. What can I do?
Edit: Was able to get into bootloader mode to reinstall a ROM, but when it completed and booted back up, the old ROM and all my settings were still there! WTF?!
Hi,
I recenty got my Defy and started playing around with the great rooting/optimization/overclocking guide here. I messed up flashing an older sbf now the only thing I can see is my home screen and I cant access my menu or contacts etc. Before flashing, I noted that my Android version was 2.2.1. As a final try, I flashed the T-Mobile Android 2.2.1 rom 3.4.2 but still cant access anything apart from the homescreen.
One thing I noticed was that everytime I flashed a sbf, my custom active wallpaper remained the same, when I expected the stock one which comes with TMO when you do a first run.
Can anyone please advise me on how to restore it to factory condition with blur etc.? Is it possible to wipe out everything and have it the way it was on the first run?
Thanks in advance.
I don't know if you can restore itto factory settings, but you can try to wipe all data before flash the that rom. Power + Vol Down, touch the bottom right corner (ou pres vol up + down, depending on the rom). Then Wipe all.
Hi,
Yesturday my phone updated itself to 4.3 and it ended up soft bricking itself. It would go to and stay at the Samsung logo and occasionally go to the lock screen for a second then restarting itself again. I tried using Odin v3.07 to reinstall the 4.3 update onto my phone but still no luck. The only difference is that it goes to the lock screen more often and it will stay there for one to two seconds longer.
Are there any alternative methods to fix my phone without wiping the internal storage?
Thanks.
You could try to go into recovery and factory reset it, keep in mind that you will lose all of your apps and settings. Try wiping cache first.
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Hello everyone!
I wanted to see if anyone has any ideas. I noticed that my Huawei Watch recently started to show some errors saying "Unfortunately, Android Wear has stopped" and also the same but with Google Play Services. Some days ago it was appearing maybe once a day, but today started to appear every 20 seconds. Now, I restarted the watch and I attempted to do a factory reset and left the watch doing the reset some minutes.
When I looked back at the watch, I saw that everything was exactly the same, no reset was done. I tried doing it again, and then the error alerts now are appearing constantly, interrupting the factory reset. When I dismiss them, they come again immediately, I can only see the watchface for 1 second and I cannot even attempt to do a reset again (which might even fail again).
I don't know what happened but now my watch is contsantly showing these errors and even a force reboot is exactly the same. As soon as it reboots the error white screens appear as soon as it boots.
Is there a way to do this factory reset via the computer instead of the watch itself? I have read some posts and seems that factory reset fixes the initial not-so-frequent alerts, but now it is unmanageable. Does anyone has any idea how to fix this?
Thanks a lot for your help!
Hello everyone! Don't know what happened, but I got lucky and after one reboot the messages kind of disappeared and I could do a factory reset. Seems everything is OK now
austmathr said:
Hello everyone! Don't know what happened, but I got lucky and after one reboot the messages kind of disappeared and I could do a factory reset. Seems everything is OK now
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Glad it worked out well for you.
I've suddenly started having this issue ... and I've done a number of reboots and it still keeps crashing. When I do get the watch running again, it will run with regular crashes, and when I access the settings menu, the watch immediately restarts. This means that I can't get to the settings menu long enough to request a factory reset. Is there any way to do a hard (factory) reset without going through the menu? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
amogley said:
I've suddenly started having this issue ... and I've done a number of reboots and it still keeps crashing. When I do get the watch running again, it will run with regular crashes, and when I access the settings menu, the watch immediately restarts. This means that I can't get to the settings menu long enough to request a factory reset. Is there any way to do a hard (factory) reset without going through the menu? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Yes, you can get into fastboot then from there you can get into recovery.
To get into fastboot
Phone must be powered down (which may be hard for you because you cant get to shut down menu...
Hold power / stem until it vibrates. Release then hold again. This should get you into fastboot.
Next press the stem button until you see reboot recovery. Now long press the stem.
Now you should be in recovery and there should be a factory reset option.
I was thinking you may have to let your watch battery die if you cannot get into the "settings" menu to power down. If you have to do that then you know when you connect the charger the phone will power on. Same rules apply when the phone is powering on from the charger...
Good luck and let us know how it goes!
So I feel like this is different from a typical bootloop (certainly different from ones I've had in the past). Any ideas short of factory reset would be very much appreciated. I just need it to load once more to do a Titanium Backup (and I guess I should install TWRP and do a nandroid backup)!
I've been using my Tab Pro for years now, rooted, works perfectly, and I always leave it on. I thought yesterday, perhaps this is a bad idea, I should turn it off every once in a while. But I wanted to play a game before I did. I click the game icon and then everything froze and it restarted itself.
It gets stuck at the SAMSUNG logo page. Sounds like a typical bootloop. After 20 minutes of waiting, nothing changes, so I hold down the power button and it restarts and actually loads to my home screen! Great! I swipe the screen lock, click on my game -- it restarts, rinse, repeat. Each time it restarts itself it stops at the SAMSUNG page, forcing a second manual reboot that fully loads, but doesn't go 10 seconds before restarting. I try to load different things each time and finally give up.
So I look some stuff up online. There's a suggestion to go into recovery (I could've sworn I had custom, but apparently not?) and "Wipe Cache/Partition." I look up that this is safe and do it (Sidenote: Power+Home+Vol Up only works around every 5th try or so. It glitches out every other time, there's a quick flash and a horizontal line and it restarts again). Now I restart and it worked! It loads and no reboot!
But now, a third of my apps/games have the android guy as an icon and even more of the real icons are all grayed out. I figure one more restart and it would come back. Now I'm back into my weird bootloop. I try wiping cache/partition again and again and it no longer works as a solution...
TL;DR - Tablet keeps restarting to SAMSUNG logo, requires 2nd manual restart. Home screen loads, but then restarts 10 seconds later. Clearing cache/partition made things worse. HALP!
EDIT: My current build is KOT49H.T520XXUANAE. I can't even find the stock ROM for this! Does it exist?
EDIT 2: After letting it charge for an hour (it was already 93%) I went back to it and it had loaded! But the home screen was blank save for the Google search and the Apps icon (which found no apps....). I was able to get into settings and attempted to click Application Manager and then it froze again.
Update: Still in need of help if anyone has any. A wonderful person on the forums linked me to my stock ROM, I pushed that through ODIN, it worked and did the "Android is Updating App XX of 200" thing.
It loaded and didn't crash! Most of the icons came back, but were still grayed out (I have a second partition via Link2SD which, when not rooted, doesn't load!)
So I went to Settings to see if USB debugging was enabled... and it froze. Kind of. It let me bring up the task bar and close settings, but not reload anything. Eventually I was forced to restart because I couldn't do anything. I tried booting into safe mode and still nothing.
Now when it loads, I get repeated "Unfortunately, Samsung keyboard has stopped working." and then the touch screen stops functioning and it restarts. I'm having a great day.
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Update: Still in need of help if anyone has any. A wonderful person on the forums linked me to my stock ROM, I pushed that through ODIN, it worked and did the "Android is Updating App XX of 200" thing.
It loaded and didn't crash! Most of the icons came back, but were still grayed out (I have a second partition via Link2SD which, when not rooted, doesn't load!)
So I went to Settings to see if USB debugging was enabled... and it froze. Kind of. It let me bring up the task bar and close settings, but not reload anything. Eventually I was forced to restart because I couldn't do anything. I tried booting into safe mode and still nothing.
Now when it loads, I get repeated "Unfortunately, Samsung keyboard has stopped working." and then the touch screen stops functioning and it restarts. I'm having a great day.
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Few of this probs I did have too.
I would recommend to start from scratch and wipe also your data and sd-card (with TWRP). Install either stock or Custom, but put out your sdcard before re-booting.
Just play around and after that (with no probs hopefully) insert it again.
starbright_ said:
Few of this probs I did have too.
I would recommend to start from scratch and wipe also your data and sd-card (with TWRP). Install either stock or Custom, but put out your sdcard before re-booting.
Just play around and after that (with no probs hopefully) insert it again.
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I appreciate the response, but as I said, I'm looking for anything shy of factory reset. If I lose all of my apps and data and configuration, I might as well throw out the tablet and buy a new one.
Still trying to figure out the pattern. I got another attempt of it not restarting for 10 full minutes. The keyboard failing is annoying because it doesn't stop, but I can live with it if it means being able to backup my tablet with Titanium Backup. I only got 6 apps backed up before it froze, but I'll get through all of them eventually (I hope). It's just going to be incredibly frustrating.