Hello all! Noob alert, first post and everything, sorry to bother you.
I'm not sure whether this is the right place to do it, but I couldn't find a solution to this problem by searching the threads, etc, so, I'll try to be brief.
I've been planning to root my phone for a long time, but unfortunately have been blocked by the OTA update I had, until now. And now my beloved phone is stuck in the flickering MIUI load screen.
Steps that led to this point:
* I had the latest OTA update in the phone.
* I backed up stuff, naturally.
* I had ROM Manager installed
* I used aahk to root the phone, that worked out fine.
* I downloaded the MIUI rom for DHD from miuiandroid.com
* I gave ROM Manager root access.
* I restarted to clockworkmod recovery mode, selected fourth(?) option, to install a rom, I chose the MIUI rom, and said yes, I really want to do this, then selected reboot the system now.
* I watched this epidemic for 15 minutes and tried to detach the battery and see what happens. When I started the phone again, it's still doing the same thing.
So, what actually looks like is happening, is MIUI starting, then starting again, and again and again...
Is there anyway to recover from this, or am I a lost case?
Thank you.
yap it is a solution to bring your phone to life just instal the drivers on your pc and download your RUU version , if you have s-off just download the RUU 2.36.405.2 good luck my phone works , if it work give me a thanks
Pull out the battery, put it back in, hold down the volume-down key, hold down the power button, keep them held until you boot back into the bootloader, choose recovery to get back into clockworkmod recovery, wipe system, data, etc and reflash the ROM zip the same way you did first time round.
From your post it doesn't look like you wiped your data partition before flashing your new ROM, so I'd guess that there's some stuff left from your stock install that doesn't play nice with MIUI.
//sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk; all errors entirely intentional.
hopscotchjunkie said:
Pull out the battery, put it back in, hold down the volume-down key, hold down the power button, keep them held until you boot back into the bootloader, choose recovery to get back into clockworkmod recovery, wipe system, data, etc and reflash the ROM zip the same way you did first time round.
From your post it doesn't look like you wiped your data partition before flashing your new ROM, so I'd guess that there's some stuff left from your stock install that doesn't play nice with MIUI.
//sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk; all errors entirely intentional.
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That should solve all problems
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hopscotchjunkie said:
Pull out the battery, put it back in, hold down the volume-down key, hold down the power button, keep them held until you boot back into the bootloader, choose recovery to get back into clockworkmod recovery, wipe system, data, etc and reflash the ROM zip the same way you did first time round.
From your post it doesn't look like you wiped your data partition before flashing your new ROM, so I'd guess that there's some stuff left from your stock install that doesn't play nice with MIUI.
//sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk; all errors entirely intentional.
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YES!!! Thank you! I figured enough to get to the recovery mode myself, and flash it with cyanogenmod, but it had the same problem, but clearing the /data and /sdcard/.android-sec...... and flashing again after that did the trick! Thank you very much, sir, you just saved my day! A thank you coming up!
quinnirill said:
YES!!! Thank you! I figured enough to get to the recovery mode myself, and flash it with cyanogenmod, but it had the same problem, but clearing the /data and /sdcard/.android-sec...... and flashing again after that did the trick! Thank you very much, sir, you just saved my day! A thank you coming up!
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And now that you're back .. instead of trying standard MIUI from MIUI.us/miuiandroid.com .. try SCI MIUI or Freshly Squeezed. Better tested, better performance ..
SCI MIUI: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1196670
Freshly Squeezed: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=970196
Hey,
Hope you're liking MIUI! I've just went back to it myself. This isn't an advertisement or anything but try 4ext recovery from the market. It's like cwm, but when you select a ROM .zip file when you're on your phone, you can select to use the app 4ext and then it'll give you options like back up, wipe cache, wipe data etc. I use it all the time as I hated pressing the down button in cwm all the time lol. It seems pretty good, and ask others on here. Then you don't need to really do anything, as that boots into recovery, backs up your rom, wipes, installs new rom, and can fix permissions (I do this just incase), then boots your phone again.
But, I don't know if cwm (Clockworkmod) does this, as I haven't used it since I got this. I don't really open rommanager anymore.
But talk to others about it first, as being new to rooting and everything all this may seem a bit over the top or confusing or stuff =) Hope you enjoy miui! Here's a tip, hold the home button on the lock screen for the torch. Handy instead of unlocking the phone, trying to find the app and stuff.
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I used Rom Manager to install bugless beast and in the start up screen it just keeps resetting. I see the android thing being drawn out in animation constantly, and nothing else is happening. What do I do?
Djlevy said:
I used Rom Manager to install bugless beast and in the start up screen it just keeps resetting. I see the android thing being drawn out in animation constantly, and nothing else is happening. What do I do?
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okay, were you NAND unlocked?
Did you do a factory wipe and dalvik cache wipe pryor to installing to stop the boot loop take the battery out did you back up your nand prior to the flash if so take the battery out then get into recovery and restore your nand backup
"evo you look good won't you back that nand up, damn that rom is fine won't you back that nand up, dude that's a sweet theme won't you back that nand up, what a cool lock screen won't you back that nand up"
krizno said:
"evo you look good won't you back that nand up, damn that rom is fine won't you back that nand up, dude that's a sweet theme won't you back that nand up, what a cool lock screen won't you back that nand up"
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hands down the best post i've come across on xda... also, very true.
best thread title i've come across although unfortunate.
I used unrevoked 3. That's all. I apparently should have NAND it first, I'm assuming. What should I do to get my old rom back?
Djlevy said:
I used Rom Manager to install bugless beast and in the start up screen it just keeps resetting. I see the android thing being drawn out in animation constantly, and nothing else is happening. What do I do?
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Boot into recovery (down volume + power).
Wipe call caches and factory reset
Flash Buglessbeast
Consult Wiki
Have you consulting the wiki that toast has compiled? The link is found in the first sticky post in this EVO Dev forum.
Djlevy said:
I used unrevoked 3. That's all. I apparently should have NAND it first, I'm assuming. What should I do to get my old rom back?
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Hopefully you did a Nandroid backup. Just factory wipe/dalvik/cache and restore.
If you didnt, dunno what to tell ya man. Better hope there's a trick to it, maybe use the search function.
Djlevy said:
I used unrevoked 3. That's all. I apparently should have NAND it first, I'm assuming. What should I do to get my old rom back?
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what rom were you using previously and is the zip for that rom still on your sd?
The previous rom I was using was the stock rom. I did hit backup rom when I was installing it. Now the system has finally started up, but now I'm trying to go through the google settings, and it keeps crashing the phone on step three, and I can't work my way around it, unfortunately.
Djlevy said:
The previous rom I was using was the stock rom. I did hit backup rom when I was installing it. Now the system has finally started up, but now I'm trying to go through the google settings, and it keeps crashing the phone on step three, and I can't work my way around it, unfortunately.
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stock rom with root? do you have the zip file for the stock rom?
did you try what others suggested and wipe dalvik/cache/data factory reset and try re-flashing bugless or any other rom on your sd?
krizno;
"evo you look good won't you back that nand up said:
LMF'nAO.....that is great!!....and true to be sure!
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It's not the end of the world.
Djlevy said:
I used unrevoked 3. That's all. I apparently should have NAND it first, I'm assuming. What should I do to get my old rom back?
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here a few steps you can try. Assuming that since you was able to use Rom Manager to install Bug's that meant you already have clockwork flashed and working correctly if not you won't be able to use Rom Manager to flash anything.
Steps if you are lucky and still have either damage or any other rom's zip file still on you sd card, if you do not have it, i recommend open up your back cover, take out the micro sdcard and connect it to your pc so that you can download and transfer a ROM that you want to use then put the sdcard back on your phone then follow the steps below.
1) power off you phone. if you can't use the power button then kill the battery.
2) hold the down volume button and the power button while booting up your phone until you see the Fastboot menu before letting those buttons go.
3) you should see a menu with a few choices on it. use the volume key to navigate down/up to where it say Recovery then press the power button to choose it. If everything is working in your favor, your phone should now boot into a black screen with ClockworkMod Recovery xxxxx as your title.
4) from here, you will be using the up/down volume button to navigate to wipe data/factory reset then push the power button to pick it. it will make you scroll down to yes on the next screen to be sure so follow the instruction.
5) after it finished wiping, you may also want to do the same thing with wipe cache patition as well to be sure.
6) if you are on any other menu other than the one with the ClockworkMod title at this point. please go back to it.
7) now pick install zip from sd card and pick the one you want to flash and with much luck you would be up and running in 10 minutes.
good luck.
ps: if you need help or step by step instruction you can email me and will gladly wipe my damn phone and go through it with you. lol seem I love all the ROM from all these developers too much that I pretty much do this at least 5 times a day.
Djlevy said:
The previous rom I was using was the stock rom. I did hit backup rom when I was installing it. Now the system has finally started up, but now I'm trying to go through the google settings, and it keeps crashing the phone on step three, and I can't work my way around it, unfortunately.
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please tell me you didn't go and restore stocked ROM on a rooted EVO? :O
Can't you skip the step? Yes everyone loves the quote I believe they made a you tube video off my quote ha ha ha
Djlevy said:
The previous rom I was using was the stock rom. I did hit backup rom when I was installing it. Now the system has finally started up, but now I'm trying to go through the google settings, and it keeps crashing the phone on step three, and I can't work my way around it, unfortunately.
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"evo you look good won't you back that nand up, damn that rom is fine won't you back that nand up, dude that's a sweet theme won't you back that nand up, what a cool lock screen won't you back that nand up"
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here a few steps you can try. Assuming that since you was able to use Rom Manager to install Bug's that meant you already have clockwork flashed and working correctly if not you won't be able to use Rom Manager to flash anything.
Steps if you are lucky and still have either damage or any other rom's zip file still on you sd card, if you do not have it, i recommend open up your back cover, take out the micro sdcard and connect it to your pc so that you can download and transfer a ROM that you want to use then put the sdcard back on your phone then follow the steps below.
1) power off you phone. if you can't use the power button then kill the battery.
2) hold the down volume button and the power button while booting up your phone until you see the Fastboot menu before letting those buttons go.
3) you should see a menu with a few choices on it. use the volume key to navigate down/up to where it say Recovery then press the power button to choose it. If everything is working in your favor, your phone should now boot into a black screen with ClockworkMod Recovery xxxxx as your title.
4) from here, you will be using the up/down volume button to navigate to wipe data/factory reset then push the power button to pick it. it will make you scroll down to yes on the next screen to be sure so follow the instruction.
5) after it finished wiping, you may also want to do the same thing with wipe cache patition as well to be sure.
6) if you are on any other menu other than the one with the ClockworkMod title at this point. please go back to it.
7) now pick install zip from sd card and pick the one you want to flash and with much luck you would be up and running in 10 minutes.
good luck.
ps: if you need help or step by step instruction you can email me and will gladly wipe my damn phone and go through it with you. lol seem I love all the ROM from all these developers too much that I pretty much do this at least 5 times a day.
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Thank you so much. I was able to restore my phone. My only issue I'm having now is that I've looked high and low, and for some reason I can't root to the nand because I think I downloaded the last OTA. =/
You might want to check out this thread if you haven't yet http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=721055 it looks to be pretty helpful
My phone was working fine until evening. But when i install the new SPRINT LOVERS rom on it, it takes horribly long time to boot up and just stay on the white "HTC EVO 4G" screen for considerable amount of time. When it finally booted, i was not able to use the touch screen. It is not responding to my touch at all.
Though the hardware keys (POWER & VOL KEYS) are working fine in the recovery mode.
I tried installing 3-4 different roms but none of them helped.
Now it is not even showing the red led light on connecting the usb cable.
PLus it takes horrible long time to start up.
As i mentioned before, that it works fine in recovery mode.
And the biggest mistake i made was that i forgot to do nandroid backup and i deleted my previous nandroid backup files like a week ago.
Help me out guys, I know ur best. I am feeling like an handicap without my phone.
good luck bro!
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Do a complete wipe before flashing a new rom.
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If I were you I would try starting from scratch and flashing the original Sprint RUU
flash a different ROM or kernel
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Do a complete wipe before flashing a new rom.
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Remove battery and replace.
Reload Amon_Ra's recovery.
Reload a new copy of the rom and reflash. Move it to your sdcard in adb (mount, push ) or simply take the sd chip to your laptop.
You do get one shot at loading your "old rom's" apps from market, after the first invoke of market it will only remember the paid and loaded apps at closing.
Who's recovery were you using ?
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Remove battery and replace.
Reload Amon_Ra's recovery.
Reload a new copy of the rom and reflash. Move it to your sdcard in adb (mount, push ) or simply take the sd chip to your laptop.
You do get one shot at loading your "old rom's" apps from market, after the first invoke of market it will only remember the paid and loaded apps at closing.
Who's recovery were you using ?
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Has already tried all that but even the complete fresh install didnt even work.
But my phone is not letting me install rom through RUU, It says that phone is not detected.
But when i plug in the charger, i can see the symbol of charging and usb debuging in the notification area.
I am using clockworkmod recovery
You need to switch to aman ra recovery. That will help. Clockworkmod recovery doesn't play nice with the new software and hardware and doesn't wipe as good. You will save alot of headaches by switching recoveries. Do a search on here and you should be able to find a flashable zip you can load from the bootloader.
Hi guys, a little background :
I S-Off'd my Desire S a few weeks ago and installed/clicked gingerbread which i gather roots it?
One day my screen went blank randomly with just the notification bar showing up top. No buttons worked, couldn't turn it off etc.. so I did a battery pull. It then got stuck on the HTC screen, so I googled, tried clicking recovery/factory reset etc.. all while not really knowing what i was doing, but in the end it randomly loaded after a long wait.
Phew, or so I thought.
Now it constantly crashes, turns itself off, the camera doesn't work, force closes galore.. it's a mess. Figured the battery pull messed something up.
Searched a bit more and figured i should try and flash a ROM which might fix it and get it stable again.
Tried installing using 'download ROM' in Rommanager, it did all the installing and whatnot, but when it rebooted nothing had changed. Tried three times, same deal. Figure I should install a ROM via the SD card instead.
Found this forum and a relatively simple/safe guide :
I'm using the guide here : How to flash a perfect ROM.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1257731
The Rom is MIUI.
However, I'm only on step 2 : Format data. (Formatting /system was fine)
Clockworkmod says Formatting /data for about 5 minutes, then : Error formatting /data.
Help!
A big thanks in advance.
wrong section.
look in the desire S forum
bortak said:
wrong section.
look in the desire S forum
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Sorry, cheers, just posted there.
meh, I'll help you anyway.
reboot in recovery (poweroff [battery pull if necessary], hold VOLUME DOWN and POWER [or at least that's what it is in the Deisre - now you see why you gotta post in the right section] and then use VOLUME buttons to navigate to RECOVERY and then press POWER to select
do a full wipe (if you can), then download and flash cyanogenmod since I know for a FACT it will work. Again just make sure you download it for Desire S not Desire
bortak said:
meh, I'll help you anyway.
reboot in recovery (poweroff [battery pull if necessary], hold VOLUME DOWN and POWER [or at least that's what it is in the Deisre - now you see why you gotta post in the right section] and then use VOLUME buttons to navigate to RECOVERY and then press POWER to select
do a full wipe (if you can), then download and flash cyanogenmod since I know for a FACT it will work. Again just make sure you download it for Desire S not Desire
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Thanks.
I tried installing MIUI but it gave an error, now I'm mid-restore, hoping my backup went ok.
Is this the correct cyanogenmod? : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1240177
I'll give it a try if this restore actually works and I haven't killed the phone somehow.
Cheers again.
yeah it must be, there's no way you killed your phone, the only way to do so is if you interrupted a radio or hboot flash or RUU. it's usually about having to format the entire phone and then reflash a stable ROM.
the reason why MIUI didn't boot (I'm guessing) is did you download the Data2EXT version? if yes you need to partition your sd-card with an ext partition (warning: this erases all your files). and if you didn't then I have no clue.
Hello all. Let me first thank you for your time in reading my post. I appreciate it. I'm not a fan of only posting for help but I suppose that the site suggesting to always search first is to thank for that because I am usually able to find answers. So please forgive me if this is posted elsewhere but I really have searched and asked around but haven't seen anything similar to my issue. If there is something like it I do not know what to call it. I at first thought it was a sudden death, but realized I think my device model & the symptoms have disproved this theory.
My story...
I bought my AT&T Galaxy S3 feb 2013. I have had it, spent a month or two stock everything. The past month & a half I have flashed CM 10.1 & most recently PK-2.32 for about 3 weeks. Have ran it and loved it with no issues. Used the kernel that comes with both ROMs.
4 days ago
I was charging my phone at work, picked it up after a while, and it wouldn't turn on. It was stuck in a loop of 2 of the screens in my attachments(the battery screen & the SGS3 logo). The battery screen is not in motion, it is stationary like that so that the circle doesn't move.
I have tested quite a few things in regard to what I thought might be the issue...other batteries, chargers, cables pull sim & SD and still no luck...etc.
While the phone is unplugged I get no indication of life. Only when I plug it in will it show me the battery symbol & the logo.
After some playing with it while it is plugged in I have been able to get it into download mode quite frequently with no issue as seen in the third attachment.
So yes I can get into download mode but I'm still "fairly new" and not sure where to proceed from here. I'm not sure what my options are as this is new to me and I can't find anything related, nor can my much more experience friend who is not so new at it that got me into wanting to load custom ROMs.
And yes, as you can see it has tripped my flash counter up once, from what I've read there's only one way to fix that if I need to send it in.
So...If you are able and willing to help I would greatly appreciate it and any options you might give me. I'm willing to try almost anything as my phone is of no use to me at this moment.
if you can access download mode,one option is to connect the device to your PC and flash the stock firmware via odin. untick the Auto Reboot option. once you get a PASS, pull the battery, replace and immediately hit vol up + home + power button. when the device vibrates, release just the power button. in recovery, wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache. reboot.
first, can you boot into recovery at all?
xBeerdroiDx said:
if you can access download mode,one option is to connect the device to your PC and flash the stock firmware via odin. untick the Auto Reboot option. once you get a PASS, pull the battery, replace and immediately hit vol up + home + power button. when the device vibrates, release just the power button. in recovery, wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache. reboot.
first, can you boot into recovery at all?
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First of all, thank you for your reply. I will definitely use your suggestion if that turns out to be my best option.
Secondly, it's funny you should ask about recovery. I have tried and tried to get into recovery, I have only been able to boot into it one time while it is on a charger, did not try anything because I thought that if I could get in it once I could get in it again, but since then no I have not...
UNTIL just now when you asked, I tried again and I am in TWRP. It is still in recovery at this moment, again only because I have it plugged in so I am open to your advice.
Well, since you're in recovery, I would consider wiping data/factory reset, wipe cache and dalvik, flash rom again and gapps. Reboot to see if that got you cleared up. This would mean you have to reset up your phone for the most part.
You could also consider wiping cache and dalvik, and flashing the rom and gapps. maybe this would correct your issue without wiping the device data.
Sou your device just did this? You weren't trying to flash a new kernel or anything?
moose0003 said:
First of all, thank you for your reply. I will definitely use your suggestion if that turns out to be my best option.
Secondly, it's funny you should ask about recovery. I have tried and tried to get into recovery, I have only been able to boot into it one time while it is on a charger, did not try anything because I thought that if I could get in it once I could get in it again, but since then no I have not...
UNTIL just now when you asked, I tried again and I am in TWRP. It is still in recovery at this moment, again only because I have it plugged in so I am open to your advice.
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You have a few options at this point. You can access recovery and download mode so this is good. You can try and flash a new ROM through TWRP. You can also go into download mode and install a stock rom to start over. With TWRP choose a ROM of your choice (as long it is intended for your model). You could just restore a nandroid of one that you know worked...if you made any.
xBeerdroiDx said:
Well, since you're in recovery, I would consider wiping data/factory reset, wipe cache and dalvik, flash rom again and gapps. Reboot to see if that got you cleared up. This would mean you have to reset up your phone for the most part.
You could also consider wiping cache and dalvik, and flashing the rom and gapps. maybe this would correct your issue without wiping the device data.
Sou your device just did this? You weren't trying to flash a new kernel or anything?
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Thanks again for your reply. I will try this and check back.
You are correct, it just did this, no kernel or anything. I will try wiping the device the data doesn't bother me. I won't lose much.
Have you or anyone else heard of this happening or know a cause? I could not find anything.
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You have a few options at this point. You can access recovery and download mode so this is good. You can try and flash a new ROM through TWRP. You can also go into download mode and install a stock rom to start over. With TWRP choose a ROM of your choice (as long it is intended for your model). You could just restore a nandroid of one that you know worked...if you made any.
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Thanks for your reply. I have a few backups. I will try stock first and see where that takes me and go from there.
Sorry about the delay. I was in recovery but I could not get it to recognize my SD card. So I took it out to try to load it in the computer and I'm having the worst time getting either of my computers to recognize either SD card I have even with 2 different readers. Still working on it though...
moose0003 said:
Sorry about the delay. I was in recovery but I could not get it to recognize my SD card. So I took it out to try to load it in the computer and I'm having the worst time getting either of my computers to recognize either SD card I have even with 2 different readers. Still working on it though...
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Ouch sounds like your sd card is corrupted, you may not be able to get any info off it. You may have to use Odin to flash a stock ROM. You can still get to Download right?
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Ouch sounds like your sd card is corrupted, you may not be able to get any info off it. You may have to use Odin to flash a stock ROM. You can still get to Download right?
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Thanks for commenting. You were correct, my sd card was corrupted. Had my 4gb card that was working so I was able to determine that was the case.
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I was frustrated at the most recent attempt to load recovery, which I never succeeded in doing. I then decided to load a stock ROM from odin. Started this process, and it was going well until the reboot phase, which is what I was fearing the most.
Once it attempted the reboot, it attempted to reboot, then would just vibrate shortly over and over and over, with nothing on the screen.
Unplugged the device hoping for the best, yet nothing happened upon my attempts to power on.
Plugged back in and would initiate the same sequence in my original post, with the image of the battery, to the image of the SGS3 logo.
So...hoping for any good news someone has to offer, but have come to terms with the worst.
Again, appreciate any comments toward the struggles with my phone.
xBeerdroiDx said:
Well, since you're in recovery, I would consider wiping data/factory reset, wipe cache and dalvik, flash rom again and gapps. Reboot to see if that got you cleared up.......
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Forgot to mention in my last post...I did the steps above while in recovery then I tried to reboot with nothing happening still. I did this before doing anything in ODIN.
moose0003 said:
Forgot to mention in my last post...I did the steps above while in recovery then I tried to reboot with nothing happening still. I did this before doing anything in ODIN.
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after flashing stock via odin, you generally have to boot into stock recovery to wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache. reboot.
moose0003 said:
Thanks for commenting. You were correct, my sd card was corrupted. Had my 4gb card that was working so I was able to determine that was the case.
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I was frustrated at the most recent attempt to load recovery, which I never succeeded in doing. I then decided to load a stock ROM from odin. Started this process, and it was going well until the reboot phase, which is what I was fearing the most.
Once it attempted the reboot, it attempted to reboot, then would just vibrate shortly over and over and over, with nothing on the screen.
Unplugged the device hoping for the best, yet nothing happened upon my attempts to power on.
Plugged back in and would initiate the same sequence in my original post, with the image of the battery, to the image of the SGS3 logo.
So...hoping for any good news someone has to offer, but have come to terms with the worst.
Again, appreciate any comments toward the struggles with my phone.
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Well usually after a fresh Stock Install using Odin you need to to go into the recovery and wipe data, cache/dalvic cache, factory reset. That should fix your problem.
Lol...beerdroid bro i didnt hit the next page you said what i just did.
metalsnakebite said:
Lol...beerdroid bro i didnt hit the next page you said what i just did.
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haha. i've done that before. cheers, buddy.
xBeerdroiDx said:
after flashing stock via odin, you generally have to boot into stock recovery to wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache. reboot.
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metalsnakebite said:
Well usually after a fresh Stock Install using Odin you need to to go into the recovery and wipe data, cache/dalvic cache, factory reset. That should fix your problem.
Lol...beerdroid bro i didnt hit the next page you said what i just did.
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Thanks for the input guys. I'm having a difficult time to get it to stay into recovery now again. It acts like it wants to go in but it will just reboot. I will keep trying and if I need anymore help I will come back. Thanks so much again.
Back again. So I kept playing and was finally able to get into recovery as you guys suggested. Once I got in it finished the odin process and actually booted up! First time in a week. So ran through setup and then was able to determine that wifi is not working with stock ROM. Not sure if it's the phone or the ROM.
After it booted up and turned on was able actually do most functions, didn't test a lot wanted to see if it would work without being plugged in...this answer was no.
So after much testing I think what determines what will power it on and off is determined by what it is plugged into. I still think it is having hardware issues though because of the lack of powering on, but I am fairly certain that I can start it every time with a certain cable/charging dock.
I think the next thing I might try since I can get it to turn on is to root it again, load TriangleAway from an SD card, fix flash counter, unroot, load stock & see if they will warranty for hardware issues on the battery connection or whatever it is.
Haven't done this yet but will start tonight & have it finished by tomorrow is the plan. If anyone has any better suggestions I would gladly take them.
So this should be my last post unless a question arises for me.
moose0003 said:
.....I think the next thing I might try since I can get it to turn on is to root it again, load TriangleAway from an SD card, fix flash counter, unroot, load stock & see if they will warranty for hardware issues on the battery connection or whatever it is.....
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This is what I said I was going to try to do. Took it to work and found time to do the above. TriangleAway worked a lot better than I ever thought it would. Flash counter reset, loaded unrooted stock and have a replacement on the way. Went very smoothly.
So doubt I will root & rom again until out of warranty. I appreciate everyone's help with my issue.
XDA is a great place.
I am in need of some serious help. My AT&T M8 won't boot past the HTC logo screen and won't allow me to go into recovery or the hboot screen. I believe I may have wiped the OS on it; this is the only thing I can think of that makes sense. Furthermore, when I try to power down the device by long pressing the power button, it doesn't respond at all. It just stays on the logo screen. It was so bad that I just left it plugged in overnight and I don't have a clue as to how long it took to power off because I fell asleep before it did. If there's a video tutorial out there that someone has or simply a link that can show me how to install something via backdoor on this device, that would be great!
alpinesun said:
I believe I may have wiped the OS on it; this is the only thing I can think of that makes sense. !
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Recount as best you can, all the steps that got the phone to this point.
What were you trying to do when this happened?
Also, need much more info in order to help:
1) bootloader unlocked?
2) custom or stock recovery
3) custom ROM?
4) what hboot number?
5) s-on or s-off
6) did you make a nandroid with custom recovery?
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Furthermore, when I try to power down the device by long pressing the power button, it doesn't respond at all. It just stays on the logo screen.
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Hold power and vol up for several seconds to force a reboot. The moment the screen goes dark to reboot, let go of those buttons, and just hold vol down. Don't let go until the hboot screen appears.
Thanks already. I didn't realize I had to hold down the volume down button after it goes dark. It got me into twrp. I believe I should be good from here after I download a new rom to sideload. But to give you a run down, I was prepping the phone to sell it by wiping the data and installing the rom the guy said he wanted on it. When I was going thru the normal procedure to install the rom (wipe, flash, etc) that's when the phone started sticking on the logo screen. My assumption was that I downloaded a bad rom, so since then I've been trying to get back into twrp so I can load a new rom and finally was able to after you told me this. I'll report back if a new rom actually didn't help the situation. I only thought I wiped the OS because something similar happened with my Note when I was tinkering and that was the result.
alpinesun said:
I'll report back if a new rom actually didn't help the situation.
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If you need any further help, please answer all the questions I previously asked.
Good luck.
redpoint73 said:
Recount as best you can, all the steps that got the phone to this point.
What were you trying to do when this happened?
Also, need much more info in order to help:
1) bootloader unlocked?
2) custom or stock recovery
3) custom ROM?
4) what hboot number?
5) s-on or s-off
6) did you make a nandroid with custom recovery?
Hold power and vol up for several seconds to force a reboot. The moment the screen goes dark to reboot, let go of those buttons, and just hold vol down. Don't let go until the hboot screen appears.
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So, it seems I'm still having the problem, even while trying to install cyanogen. Here are the answers to those questions...
1) bootloader unlocked?... YES
2) custom or stock recovery... TWRP
3) custom ROM?... It was a custom AOSP Rom
4) what hboot number?... 3.16.0.0000
5) s-on or s-off... S-OFF
6) did you make a nandroid with custom recovery?... It was erased
Any help you can give from this point would be awesome. Thanks again!
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So, it seems I'm still having the problem, even while trying to install cyanogen.
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Failure to flash ROMs can often be solved with fastboot erase cache, then install TWRP by fastboot again. Update TWRP version, if you are using an outdated one.
Also, if you try to flash any ROMs based on Sense software beyond version 1.x (huge majority of them are past 1.x at this point) you will likely experience extremely long boot times (10 minutes or more) and broken WiFi due to outdated firmware. But CM should be okay.
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6) did you make a nandroid with custom recovery?... It was erased
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It was erased, or you wiped it?
Okay. Do you suggest trying an older sense rom to see if it works? The last time touched the phone was when I picked up my Note 4, so I will look for something that predates that.
As for the nandroid being erased, I can only assume it was my actions that caused it to be deleted, but I don't recall intentionally doing it.
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Okay. Do you suggest trying an older sense rom to see if it works?
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Sure, it couldn't hurt. With your current firmware, you will need a ROM based on 1.x software. There aren't a heck of a lot of those left. But there are a few. GoldenEye is one I can personally vouch for, since I was running it for a while back in the day:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2705640
But I would definitely recommend just trying fastboot erase cache and re-install TWRP first. I've lost count how many times suggesting this simple fix has helped other users here on XDA, when ROMs fail to flash.
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As for the nandroid being erased, I can only assume it was my actions that caused it to be deleted, but I don't recall intentionally doing it.
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Fair enough. Just FYI, don't do a factory reset in bootloader (in the OS settings or recovery is OK). On modded phones this may cause the internal storage to become corrupted. Nandroids have sometimes been lost this way. This may or may not be what happened to you. Just wanted to throw that out there.
Also, there has been the occasional occurrence of internal storage being corrupted, possibly by TWRP. It may not even have been something you caused.