So today my beloved Galaxy Nexus completely self-destructed.
I've been trying out Franco's M2 kernel with AOKP M4, a good combo supposedly. I was in a coffee bar, logging onto a wifi network, when it suddenly froze and required a battery pull. Not that big a deal. Then it got locked into an endless boot.
I'm able to get into bootloader/recovery. So, I tried a few things.
1. Tried to restore from an older nandroid. It loads up into Android, but then immediate locks up before I can really do anything. Not the result I'm looking for.
I had heard of this happening before... for instance, somehow a kernel really messes up a phone, requiring a total wipe and restore. Sucks, but not the end of the world.
I did a nandroid of my existing data. Perhaps not such a good sign, the phone REBOOTED ITSELF during a couple of the backup attempts.
2. I did a total wipe and flashed the ROM I've been using, with no restoration of any data. Same problem! It loads up to the very beginning of the configuration screens, then freezes.
3. I had heard that doing a complete total wipe, including sdcard, sometimes was necessary! So, after using adb to transfer out the necessary files, I locked and unlocked my bootloader, which essentially wipes out everything.
4. I tried fastboot installing the system image for 4.0.2 (minus the bootloader and radio). It installed the recovery, but aborted for the actual data. Error is "too many links"
5. So now, I have essentially no actual ROM on the Nexus. As a last attempt, I adb push some ROM zips onto the sdcard. This is hit or miss, as sometimes the file ends up there, and sometimes even though adb reports it as successful, it's nowhere to be found.
I reinstall the ROM zip and now it freezes at the boot animation.
I'm beginning to think there's a major hardware breakdown somewhere.
The screen sometimes does a horizontal 'shake' (the image quickly flickers to the right or left). Usually on the boot animation. That's not a good sign either.
I consider myself well-versed in how these things work, so, I'm looking for any other suggestions before I throw this thing in for a warranty repair.
Idk... that "horizontal shake" of the boot animation that you described sounds like it is toast (hardware problem). Perhaps try restoring using Googles stock Images (including radio and boot loader) and use the flash-all.sh script instead of individually (fast boot flash blah blah blah). Other than that idk...
Thanks for the thoughts.
I left the battery out overnight, and amazingly, it actually booted first thing this AM! Great, I thought!
Um, no. It allowed me to do some MTP file transfers, so I put a nandroid backup onto the /sdcard. As soon as I tried doing anything required, like logging into the market, it crashed within seconds.
Same problem when I restored a good nandroid backup, crashing 5 seconds after loading Android. And the same flickering screens (in recovery too!) accompanied by reboots.
Negri RMA is going in today. They're quite prominent on this forum, with aiding in warranty repairs, so I will report back. I expect their word to be good.
The phone was always babied, never overclocked or overvolted, so a bit sad.
Are you overclocking the CPU? Maybe a heat issue?
No overclocking at all. Battery life is my main priority, so I never pushed the envelope for speed =)
Also, I would expect (though I don't know for certain) that all those settings would be remedied with ROM clearing and reflashing.
if the screen flickers and freezes in the bootloader, you have a bad motherboard. good to see you're already RMA'n it.
Turns out it's a bad processor apparently. Either way no software is going to fix that!
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This is quite a story I've got here, but just bear with me while I tell it.
Two days ago, I spotted a fps unlock kernel on the Development board here on XDA. I was feeling a bit reckless, so I decided to flash the kernel without doing a Titanium backup. At this point, I was running Fresh 0.5.3. After installing the kernel and rebooting the device, I was greeted with a looping boot animation. Needless to say, I wasn't a happy camper. I flashed every previous version of this kernel, as well as the original kernel, with no success. A Nandroid restore proved to be futile as well. I also tried flashing a fresh copy of the rom onto my phone without doing a complete wipe. No go on that attempt. Finally, I did the stupidest thing I've done with this device and did a complete wipe (data/cache/dalvik,sd:ext), followed by a fresh flash of Fresh (har har). That did the trick. Keep in mind that before performing this last step, I copied the app and app-private folders from my SD card in case of anything.
However, it was then that I realized that my stupid ass had no way of restoring the apps! You see, at least a hundred of the apps on my phone are non-market apk files that would take FAR too long to reflash individually. With that in mind, I installed a bootable version of Ubuntu onto my flash drive, which I used with my netbook in order to access the ext3 partition on my Evo. Afterward, I copied over all of the data from app and app-private onto my SD card. I thought I had finally succeeded in doing something that could have been done so much more easily had I waited to back my **** up previously!
Anyway, that last part occurred about an hour ago. After the files had copied, I exited recovery mode and restarted my phone. I was greeted with the glorious 'FRESSSSHHHHH' boot animation. And then it greeted me again. And again. AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN RAAARRGH. Anyway, that's where I'm currently at in this whole dilemma. I thought the boot loop meant that the apks in the two app folders were being installed, but an hour is an awfully long time for that to happen.
So now, I am here begging for help from you, the fine people at XDA developers. Is this boot loop animation normal when I've just copied all those files over to the app and app private folder? If not, is there any way to restore my apps without installing them individually through adb or the phone itself?
i don't have fresh, but i use dc 3.2.3 and had a similar issue. i don't honestly remember exactly what i did, but i do know i did a bunch of stuff without backing up and got the boot loop.
here's my thread on it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=722072
i'd link you to the solution we found, but as it's not the exact rom, maybe the troubleshooting steps will resolve your issue. i ended up flashing the engineering build to get access to android, and then flashing dc again to get up to speed.
good luck and let us know how it goes!
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i don't have fresh, but i use dc 3.2.3 and had a similar issue. i don't honestly remember exactly what i did, but i do know i did a bunch of stuff without backing up and got the boot loop.
here's my thread on it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=722072
i'd link you to the solution we found, but as it's not the exact rom, maybe the troubleshooting steps will resolve your issue. i ended up flashing the engineering build to get access to android, and then flashing dc again to get up to speed.
good luck and let us know how it goes!
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It's not so much fixing the bootloop that I'm worried about. I've already experienced it three times this week, and that can be fixed by wiping the phone clean. What I'm wondering is whether I can install the apps I have backed up by copying over the files from app and app-private
Needless to say, I'll read the thread you linked me to. It might have some useful information .
Having a problem here. Today I got a refurbished dinc, and tried to root w/ unrev. 3.2 and it went all the way through the process up to the point where it says waiting on reboot (could take 5 mins.) After that U.R said it lost its connection with the phone and rebooted. since then its been stuck in boot loops. S-off was never achieved and clockwork wasn't installed. I've tried resets and a 2.2 pb13img and nothing can stop the loops. Once in a while of random resets and fumbling around in the stock recovery it will boot to the phone program screen to call *228. It reboots and loops right after it goes to mount storage. I've tried taking out the card thinking it might be that.
It's a amoled screen.
I've rooted before and have no issues on my other dinc.
Plz help.
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Having a problem here. Today I got a refurbished dinc, and tried to root w/ unrev. 3.2 and it went all the way through the process up to the point where it says waiting on reboot (could take 5 mins.) After that U.R said it lost its connection with the phone and rebooted. since then its been stuck in boot loops. S-off was never achieved and clockwork wasn't installed. I've tried resets and a 2.2 pb13img and nothing can stop the loops. Once in a while of random resets and fumbling around in the stock recovery it will boot to the phone program screen to call *228. It reboots and loops right after it goes to mount storage. I've tried taking out the card thinking it might be that.
It's a amoled screen.
I've rooted before and have no issues on my other dinc.
Plz help.
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What is your HBOOT version?
Hboot 0.92
Radio 2.15.00.07.28
Clockwork 2.5.1.2
Un.Rev. 3
Un.Rev. Forever
Incredibly re-engineered 2.2
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Managed to get Un.Rev. to install with cw. And installed a Rom. Now I still get random reboots. Everything will be fine...ill update and install a bunch of apps. and I can use the phone for a while. Then all of a sudden it reboots over and over. To get it to stop, I have to re-do everything. Wipe cache, wipe dalvik, wipe battery stats, data/factory reset. I get an error after dalvik clear though "can't mount /dev/block/mmeblk12 (file exists)"
That puts me to square one.
Everything will be ok and then.....reboots...randomly at different points. sometimes right away and some times after an hour or two. No real pattern. I have a gut feeling it has to do with onboard memory?
Are you overclocking? What kernel are you using?
Try installing a different kernel, make sure it is a sense based kernel as you are using a sense based rom.
You can pick one from here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=866736
No I'm not over clocking. And I'm using the kernel that came with the Rom.
I do, however, seem to remember reading something about dincs overheating and rebooting until they cool. Maybe this is the case with mine.
I had the exact same issue when i received my refurbished phone. It is not uncommon that these issues - and others, will occur. Even before rooting i was having the issue.
I did notice that it will happen when i pushed the phone a bit, like talking and trying to download something from the market at the same time.
My suggestion is to unroot, everything stock, test the phone and see if it happens again. The Verizon representative tried to reset the phone and it started boot looping right in front him! And then they order another refurbished phone, which also had issues. Long story short, they gave me a new phone after i begged. (thank u VZ local store, which btw i sent a few customers your way )
According to some inside people i talked to, the 3rd party companies (or individuals) that fix these phones do a terrible job at it and the Verizon stores see quite a few people everyday with similar issues. I have no way of verifying this, just what i was told.
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No I'm not over clocking. And I'm using the kernel that came with the Rom.
I do, however, seem to remember reading something about dincs overheating and rebooting until they cool. Maybe this is the case with mine.
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I would still try another kernel first, HeyItsLou or Ziggy IMO. If you still have the problems then, flash back to complete stock and take it to Verizon.
Yea, ill give that a try. If I have no luck, ill send it back. After unrooting of course.
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Riley, were you able to fix it? I'm really interested in some analysis of the problem and investigating issues with refurbished phones boot looping. Someone else just posted a similar problem.
Nah. No luck here. Still randomly looping. Nothing seems to have an effect in when it why it loops. It'll loop even w/o any apps installed.Even after a "fresh" install of a rom and system wipe.
Gonna send it back.
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Nah. No luck here. Still randomly looping. Nothing seems to have an effect in when it why it loops. It'll loop even w/o any apps installed.Even after a "fresh" install of a rom and system wipe.
Gonna send it back.
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Sorry to hear that, as i said i had the same issue and i had to get another one. if you get a second "lemon" refurb go to Verizon and talk to a manager. They might do an out of the box replacement and put it in the system as defective under warranty. Good luck.
Hey everyone,
So this is my last ditch effort to attempt to save my device. I would really prefer not to perform another warranty exchange given that I am not under insurance, but I'm afraid I have no choice.
My phone was rooted and I was using Darkside without issues, as I had been for the past two weeks. I am always careful when I flash roms and I made sure to follow every possible protocol. That's the background information.
My battery life was running at approximately 6 percent yesterday and I sent a text message as normal, and it was stuck at sending. I tried turning wireless data off from the toggles in the pull-down and it was unresponsive. When I went to Wireless Network in the settings option, my phone rebooted. Once it started up again, my service would not come back, and the phone would continually bootloop once it got past the traditional "media scanner running", etc. My window of opportunity to do anything was really slim.
I charged my phone to see if it made a difference, but it didn't. Tried with my SIM card removed and it still bootlooped. I was able to get to CWM from the advanced power menu before it rebooted again and I fixed permissions and cleared cache and dalvik. Now the phone wouldn't even get past the boot animation before rebooting.
I put the phone into download mode and reverted back to stock using Odin. The phone now got past the boot animation in stock mode, but was unable to find service and after about 10 seconds fell into the same bootloop pattern. I tried removing the SD card but that didn't help either. Using Odin again, I reflashed recovery, followed by root and tried reinstalling a rom through CWM (I have only used regular CWM, not the touch version) with a superwipe to ensure a clean flash. Once again, it wouldn't make it past the boot animation before bootlooping. I reverted back to stock using Odin, and this is where I stand.
I have tried all traditional methods to salvage the phone and, for the life of me, I cannot understand what happened. The only thing I notice is that regardless of how long the phone stays on before rebooting, it is never able to find service. It's like the radio or modem broke and the phone has no other choice but to restart forever. But reflashing the stock UVKL1 should also reflash the proper modem and radio, right?
Has this ever happened to anyone? Any suggestions (aside from the typical reverting to stock) as to how I might be able to stop it? I searched but haven't been able to find a situation quite like this one. Thanks in advance for your help.
Really sorry to hear about your problem. Assuming the 2.3.6 stock image you flashed via Odin is the one provided by Przekret and that that didn't work, then I'd try one or both of these two longshots to try to clear possible corruption problems in either the kernel or modem spaces:
For each of the following wipe cache and Dalvik cache in CWM before flashing and again wipe Dalvik afterwards and also fix permissions:
1) Format system (do this 3x) under mounts & storage in CWM. Flash the standalone Darkside kernel X v1 final immediately after flashing, e.g., the current Darkside rom. (You'll need to wipe data, too, if not coming from a Darkside rom. Do not do any Superwipe - neither the standalone version nor using a flag.)
2) Flash the KID modem (do this 3x). Both Odin- and CWM-flashable versions are available. (You can always flash back to KL1 if the problem is fixed.)
Hope this is clear. It's late! These are both things that have helped get my phone out of troubles, though not as bad as yours. Good luck!
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Also if u used the one from przekret then I'm almost positive that Odin package flashes the new radio too. If memory serves me right. Op let us know what happened
Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, nothing has worked. I'm on the phone with T-Mobile, I see no other solution but to get it exchanged under warranty and it's not getting here until March 15th, according to the representative. I suppose I'll just use a replacement phone in the meantime. It's just really weird and frustrating... I could understand a bad flash or something similar, but I followed every step accurately as I always have and everything was working just fine until it randomly decided to die without warning.
Well since you're getting another one anyways I would continue trying to fix this one, just in case you come up with a solution and for another worst case scenario for your new phone.
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I think your efs folder got corrupted. Its scary to see this happening so often. Many other users have also reported corrupted efs ....
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shehrammajid said:
I think your efs folder got corrupted. Its scary to see this happening so often. Many other users have also reported corrupted efs ....
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Forgive me for asking, but what is the EFS folder?
After flashing the latest CM9 nightly, I turned on my phone and found that it is running incredibly slow. Like, it takes over 15 seconds to launch any app. I have reflashed different nightlys and HO!NO!'s rom but the problem persists. I have also checked to make sure that I don't have any CPU settings that are keeping the processor slow. I even restored a nandroid backup, it didn't help.
I have now done the following:
-Wiped Data/factory reset
-Wiped Cache
-Wiped Dalvik Cache
-Install from zip
It is still slow.
Is there something I am overlooking? Any idea what is going on?
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This is a logcat(whittled down to ~400 lines) of the issue happening in kernalpanics rom. I had the dialer open, put phone to sleep, woke up phone, and immediately started dialing a number. The phone hangs for about 5-15 seconds, and "catches up" later. The log starts right after I woke the phone, so it should pop up at the beginning.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16882142/logcat-copy.txt
Here are two videos of the problem(sorry for the wmv):
CM9
GB Rom
Recap:
-I have formatted SD card and tried without SD
-I have tried with and without the SIM card
-I have flashed many different nandroid backups
-I have formatted everything and installed new Roms (I couldn't get HO!NO!s Rom working though)
-I am trying to follow the "unbrick methods" to flash stock firmware. I cannot get the flash to start though(Post)
-I am running out of ideas!
Sounds to me like you got a lemon. Look into this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24179363&postcount=4
Out of curiosity is it a phone from bell?
No, its from AT&T. It is actually a refurbished replacement to a new phone I got in December. I want to return it to factory settings but ADB will not recognize the LGP930. This is incredibly frustrating, when I try to install the drivers through LG software I manually put in my IMEI and it says "File not found"
Thank you for the reply, I really need to try to restore this thing.
EDIT: To reiterate, something is seriously messed up with this phone. It takes ~30 second to launch any app. IT will say the program is not responsding and I have to "wait" instead of close to get it to load.
Try formatting system partition then install CM9 again.
Thank you for taking the time Drumist. I have actually already reformatted /system then reinstalled a nightly. I just did it again and still, it is messed up. My main issue right now is that I can't even connect this damn phone to ADB, I can't try to replace this with CM9, rooted, and CWM.
Can anyone help with the driver issue. HO!NO! won't even install anymore, it just sticks on the LG logo. So I am stuck with CM9, but the drivers don't work. Everytime I hook it up to either of my computers, it will detect it as LGP930 for a split second, then try to find drivers, then it recognizes the device as 4 different devices! LGE Modem, LG USB Composite device, LG GPS, and unidentified device. Please, does anyone know how to get into ADB, I am desperate here.
I essentially have an unusable phone. Just to make a call I have to click on phone, then it hangs for about 30 seconds until it says the app is not responding and asks if I want to force close it. I have to select wait, then eventually the app will load. All list-views work fine so I can scroll the contact list. But when i select a contact I have to wait another 30 seconds.
I have searched and read this forum for hours on what to do about the drivers, but no luck.
Is it possible that this is the fesult of a corrupted file system?
My very limited troubleshooting skills with Android says you've either got a/some app(s) running that's soaking up all the CPU/System resources, or there's some major I/O issues going on with your phone (whether because of messing with the ROM or with Hardware is unknown).
Unfortunately you've also stated that you can't get ADB to work, which throws a big wrench in the works to get some debug logs.
If you haven't already tried, there's a very helpful thread on getting ADB working on the Nitro (via stock Google USB driver, not LG). I highly recommend doing those steps and get ADB working for further troubleshooting: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1601159
Another thing to try, for giggles, pull the SDCard out and see if there's any performance gain...Maybe you've got a hosed SDCard, or bent/bad pins in the SDCard slot (worth a shot anyway).
Good luck!
Namuna! Thanks for your reply.
I figured out it is somehow related to the SD card, THANK YOU! I actually tried removing the SD card yesterday when the problem first started, but the trick is I have to boot my phone up with no card in it. Once I put a card in, even if I take it out, the problem starts up again.
Since my phone ran out of battery hours ago, I am at work, and I left my cable at home; I cannot try the google drivers. I won't be geting home until late so I'm going to have to do some more experimenting tomorrow.
You don't need the Google drivers now. LG drivers are working again.
I remember that that is the case Malnilion, but I need to try something.
Bad news, apparently I jumped the gun because my phone is super slow again, with or without an SD card.
I just really need ADB access, a log would be a godsend.
I have found I can get to ADB when in CWM, but I can't get the drivers to work when in CM9 so I can't get a logcat.
Try to adb in recovery. Did you format that SD card?
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I now have a version of kernalpan1cs rom running on my nitro. Almost everything runs fine, but the slowness happens when I try to make any phone call and with other random apps.
I have ADB now, and I am going to post a logcat of what happens when I try to dial a number using the phone app, then when I try to make a phone call.
I just need some help, I can look at the logcat when I do ADB logcat, but I have a hard time keeping track of when the problems happen. There are so many things that happen immediately after it that I cannot keep track of where the previous information was in the console window.
BTW, I notice that when the slowness happens when I dial a number in the phone app that the log reports a bunch of stuff about going into wakelocks and coming out of wakelocks. I thought this was kind of weird.
2 things.
1. I salute you for sticking with this phone through all the issues you've had (and still continue to have). I would've got the thing back as close to stock as possible and then exchanged it for another Nitro a long time ago. You've already done it once, it seems the refurb you got is also suffering some hardware issues...Might be time to do it again!
2. If you are dead set on chasing this rabbit down its' rabbit hole though, then I suggest getting acquainted with another debug tool called ddms (http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/debugging/ddms.html). It's a GUI based debugger that utilizes logcat, but is much more robust with tools for filtering and viewing associated processes.
Good luck!
Have you tried replacing the sim? Sounds like a shot sim to me.
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Have you tried replacing the sim? Sounds like a shot sim to me.
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This is a good point, especially if it's the same SIM that you used on your previous Nitro...Thereby bringing the issues with it!
Thanks guys! First off, I have exams going on so this has definitely taken the backburner, otherwise I would be on top of this.
@beaups: I'm pretty sure it isn't the SIM, when the SIM is out the slowness continues in either ROM.
@Namuna: I think I will give ddms a try once I have some time(hopefully this weekend). Thanks for the tip, I usually like getting my hands dirty
This is a logcat(whittled down to ~400 lines) of the issue happening in kernalpanics rom. I had the dialer open, put phone to sleep, woke up phone, and immediately started dialing a number. The phone hangs for about 5-15 seconds, and "catches up" later. The log starts right after I woke the phone, so it should pop up at the beginning.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16882142/logcat-copy.txt
Lastly, if I try to exchange this phone for another, what should I do in order to make it more factory-like? Install a stock ROM? Uninstall CWM?
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Here are two videos of the problem(sorry for the wmv):
CM9
GB Rom
I also got the same thing here after updating the cm9 followed by a wipe data.. Tried all the things listed.. format system, gb roms.. Have you had any luck with the unbricking method?
I have same situation about the super slow after cm9. However, i fixed the problem after using the unbricking method. everything back to normal now. You can take a try. It seems like cm9 mess up some I/O address, cause it only slow down whenever you need to input or output from system.(Example: phone call, music ..etc)
did it
had the same problem, [Guide] Unbricking Solution for LG Nitro HD (P930) did it for me, back to usual speed
Yes, the unbricking solution worked for me, I just had to use the method in the original post once I worked out some driver issues.
I still am wondering what caused this though.
Hey guys, long time browser, first time poster, but not a reason for celebration, alas.I come to you guys out of frustration after hours of being unable to solve my issue cruising the interwebs, and the thread title kinda says it all.
To start from the beginning, I recently delved into the rooted world by means of towelroot (kitkat 4.4.2), installed xposed framework, got the modules XBlast and XPrivacy, and you might have guessed, fiddled around with each. Everything was fine and dandy until I was having issues receiving/making calls through an app (LINE, if you know it), and so I attempted to figure out what the issue was, very much assuming XPrivacy to be the culprit. Couldn't get it to work, which is when I decided to restore my backup I made using Clockwork. Should have been nice and smooth sailing, but...
Upon having it "restored" I booted on into it, which is when I got smacked in the face; as soon as I'm booted, most, if not all, my apps are reporting that they have stopped working by a bombardment of error messages in endless succession, making just browsing the home screens almost impossible. Also with this barrage came the lack of cell service, a nice white n' slashed out circle in what should be my bars of signal. I tried again to restore my phone from my backup. Same issue, but I did notice during the recovery it made mention of something like "secure_android" missing? This sent me on my hours of head banging, turning up *possible* resolutions, which didn't work. I've tried flashing the stock bootloader, gapps, and nothing. Now, my data and apps are all still there and I can get into recovery without issue, it's just the pain of not being able to actually using any of it.
I have debugging switched on on my phone, but do not have some sort of adb app installed on it, nor could I access any market place to try. I'm not so sure I would be able to install anything on my phone given my current circumstances, anyway.
Please, if any of you out there have some idea as to what is going on, I'm all eyes (as ears on a forum don't work so well)! If there are any details I may have omitted and so on, just let me know and I'll supply it--
Thank you all so much in advance for any possible steps that may resolve this issue!
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Hey guys, long time browser, first time poster, but not a reason for celebration, alas.I come to you guys out of frustration after hours of being unable to solve my issue cruising the interwebs, and the thread title kinda says it all.
To start from the beginning, I recently delved into the rooted world by means of towelroot (kitkat 4.4.2), installed xposed framework, got the modules XBlast and XPrivacy, and you might have guessed, fiddled around with each. Everything was fine and dandy until I was having issues receiving/making calls through an app (LINE, if you know it), and so I attempted to figure out what the issue was, very much assuming XPrivacy to be the culprit. Couldn't get it to work, which is when I decided to restore my backup I made using Clockwork. Should have been nice and smooth sailing, but...
Upon having it "restored" I booted on into it, which is when I got smacked in the face; as soon as I'm booted, most, if not all, my apps are reporting that they have stopped working by a bombardment of error messages in endless succession, making just browsing the home screens almost impossible. Also with this barrage came the lack of cell service, a nice white n' slashed out circle in what should be my bars of signal. I tried again to restore my phone from my backup. Same issue, but I did notice during the recovery it made mention of something like "secure_android" missing? This sent me on my hours of head banging, turning up *possible* resolutions, which didn't work. I've tried flashing the stock bootloader, gapps, and nothing. Now, my data and apps are all still there and I can get into recovery without issue, it's just the pain of not being able to actually using any of it.
I have debugging switched on on my phone, but do not have some sort of adb app installed on it, nor could I access any market place to try. I'm not so sure I would be able to install anything on my phone given my current circumstances, anyway.
Please, if any of you out there have some idea as to what is going on, I'm all eyes (as ears on a forum don't work so well)! If there are any details I may have omitted and so on, just let me know and I'll supply it--
Thank you all so much in advance for any possible steps that may resolve this issue!
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Sounds like your backup was a downgrade (old version).
I would suggest doing a factory reset, test it. If that doesn't do it, use Odin to flash stock firmware (which can be found in the general section stickies).
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Sounds like your backup was a downgrade (old version).
I would suggest doing a factory reset, test it. If that doesn't do it, use Odin to flash stock firmware (which can be found in the general section stickies).
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Thanks for responding! I did try a wipe data/factory reset via CWM, then restored from there. Didn't work. I'm not sure if there is a particular order in how it should be done such as "factory reset, reboot phone into recovery, restore" or if I should be able to get away with "factory reset, restore", the latter being what I did. I also got a hold of a bootloader file and modem base band for build I747UCUFNE4, if those would be useful in any way.
If it's of any help, I somehow got the Unofficial Omni ROM 4.4.4 to work without any issue, but not quite happy enough with the overall interface of it, yet slowly adapting having installed a touchwiz launcher just to hold me over.
I've tried locating the backup CWM created on my phone so that I could store it on my computer and generate another backup as from what I read, the unpaid version only allows you one at a time, but had no luck digging through my directories. I'm currently investigating this online nandroid backup thing to see if there's anything to it.
I've also come across some file labeled "I747UCUFNE4_Stock_Rooted_Deodex" which is a zip, but I'm reading ODIN uses tar as it's compression of choice? Does this mean I should flash this file via recovery, or? Also, the file size is a whopping 920MB or so... that normal? (Edit: this is where I found the file http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2788357 which says to flash in recovery)
Thanks again for your response! I was really thinking my problem would just be glanced over.
Fingerless said:
Thanks for responding! I did try a wipe data/factory reset via CWM, then restored from there. Didn't work. I'm not sure if there is a particular order in how it should be done such as "factory reset, reboot phone into recovery, restore" or if I should be able to get away with "factory reset, restore", the latter being what I did. I also got a hold of a bootloader file and modem base band for build I747UCUFNE4, if those would be useful in any way.
If it's of any help, I somehow got the Unofficial Omni ROM 4.4.4 to work without any issue, but not quite happy enough with the overall interface of it, yet slowly adapting having installed a touchwiz launcher just to hold me over.
I've tried locating the backup CWM created on my phone so that I could store it on my computer and generate another backup as from what I read, the unpaid version only allows you one at a time, but had no luck digging through my directories. I'm currently investigating this online nandroid backup thing to see if there's anything to it.
I've also come across some file labeled "I747UCUFNE4_Stock_Rooted_Deodex" which is a zip, but I'm reading ODIN uses tar as it's compression of choice? Does this mean I should flash this file via recovery, or? Also, the file size is a whopping 920MB or so... that normal? (Edit: this is where I found the file http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2788357 which says to flash in recovery)
Thanks again for your response! I was really thinking my problem would just be glanced over.
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I meant factory reset without restoring.
But now that you're back up and running, there's no need for it (unless you flash another ROM). You could flash NE4 if you wanna get back on the official ROM but there are also tw custom ROM which you can look into (you're currently using an aosp one).
As for the 920mb, yeah.. That's Sammy at its best, bloating their ROMs.
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I meant factory reset without restoring.
But now that you're back up and running, there's no need for it (unless you flash another ROM). You could flash NE4 if you wanna get back on the official ROM but there are also tw custom ROM which you can look into (you're currently using an aosp one).
As for the 920mb, yeah.. That's Sammy at its best, bloating their ROMs.
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You think it would be safe to do a factory reset and try to restore just the data from my recovery? Or is it possible that the data is somehow the issue with everything going wonky?
I'm very new to the ROM thing, Omni was easy to get up and running, but actually playing with a ROM was more of a last ditch effort to see if the problem would be resolved that way and give any sort of indication as to what the issue was (still haven't the sllightest). It's currently not rooted (at least according to my root checker) and the towelroot method doesn't seem to work on it. I kinda need to be rooted if I wanted to make a nandroid, I really want to make a back up of what I currently have set in case I screw the pooch trying to get things back to "normal", yet I'm afraid of overwriting my only recovery and losing whatever data is embedded, though I'm not too deeply saddened by the thought of not having chat histories and whatnot, it would just be nice to have. Perhaps you have thoughts, or anyone else out there, on the matter? I know my first step would be to at least root my current ROM, then back up, I found this as a means to root Omni (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2672160), but how do I determine whether I'm using an ARM based or x86 based device?
Good to know the file size for the stock ROM is considered normal. I didn't even consider carrier/Samsung bloat to have such a huge impact.
Thanks, yet again!