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Hi all,
this is the 3rd time this is happening to me with different ROMs. The problem is:
The phone boots up normal, I can swipe to unlock, enter my PIN, but after pressing OK it won't unlock the SIM. If I lock the screen it won't come back on. It stays black whatever I do. After some time the phone reboots (soft reboot) and everything starts from the beginning.
The first time this happened I was using Modacos Ir9. I had the phone switched off over night and switched it on. Only thing that seemed to help was completely unrooting the phone and rerooting it again.
The second time I was using codeworkx CM9 Builds and tried to update. I restored my nandroid, but it kept happening. Flashing the XXKK1 Radio did the trick here.
Now it is happening again. This time I installed dropbox and the phone froze on the setup wizard...
I don't want to unroot the phone, it takes forever to restore the SD card.
Any advice on this one?
Update:
- Flashed the following radio images without any success: XXKL1, KRKL1, UGKL1 and XXKK1
- Used my older nandroids from CM9 and Modaco Ir10. NOT WORKING
- Wiped every nandroid. NOT WORKING AT ALL
- Reflashed CM9 and Ir10. Still NOT WORKING
I'm so lost I'm going to revert to stock and unroot... and try how far I can throw an 1 month old GNx from the fourth story.
I don't know much on the development part so I don't know why its doing that I can only suggest using odin and going back to stock.
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I had similar problems with mine once. Only thing that helped me out wasn't unrooting though. A complete factory reset was enough to make me go on again.
I posted a thread here then to ask people if anyone experianced the same but got no reaction what so ever zo I guess "we" are a dark minority.
I don't know what it caused it or what the solution might be but a Factory reset did it for me.
Good Luck!
C-4Nati said:
I don't know much on the development part so I don't know why its doing that I can only suggest using odin and going back to stock.
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Last time it was working again after reverting to stock. But I bought it to use Custom Roms
I would say go back to stock w/ odin, Wipe everything and start again.
Diger36 said:
I had similar problems with mine once. Only thing that helped me out wasn't unrooting though. A complete factory reset was enough to make me go on again.
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Factory Reset wasn't helping unfortunatly.
Flashed the original factory image through fastboot. Now everything is working again. I'm restoring my SD backup now and will try to get CM9 working again.
If it would keep failing in stock I could return the phone. Now I'm left with "hopefully it isn't happening a fourth time" and "My phone doesn't work I need 4 hours to get ich working"
the_alien said:
Factory Reset wasn't helping unfortunatly.
Flashed the original factory image through fastboot. Now everything is working again. I'm restoring my SD backup now and will try to get CM9 working again.
If it would keep failing in stock I could return the phone. Now I'm left with "hopefully it isn't happening a fourth time" and "My phone doesn't work I need 4 hours to get ich working"
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Fastboot flash stock google images. And your phone isn't bricked. Stop using the term wrong. It's most likely a software issue or you're doing the rom flash procedure incorrectly.
A bricked phone is a phone that is unaw to go into bootloader and recovery mode and cannot start android.
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zephiK said:
Fastboot flash stock google images. And your phone isn't bricked. Stop using the term wrong. It's most likely a software issue or you're doing the rom flash procedure incorrectly.
A bricked phone is a phone that is unaw to go into bootloader and recovery mode and cannot start android.
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Sorry for using the term wrong, I thought it just referes to broken phones.
The ROM flash is correct and it runs for some time and the problem occours after a few days... the only thing that helped was reverting to factory images and after that restore the nandroid from the "broken" Rom.
So the Rom works... than keeps crashing, I do a nandroid backup and only a factory image stops the crashes. But the Rom keeps working after I restore it.
I can't see why this could be a hardware issue. And I can't see how I should explain it to the store "Yes, it is working but not with custom roms, and I bought the Nexus because of custom roms..."
the_alien said:
Sorry for using the term wrong, I thought it just referes to broken phones.
The ROM flash is correct and it runs for some time and the problem occours after a few days... the only thing that helped was reverting to factory images and after that restore the nandroid from the "broken" Rom.
So the Rom works... than keeps crashing, I do a nandroid backup and only a factory image stops the crashes. But the Rom keeps working after I restore it.
I can't see why this could be a hardware issue. And I can't see how I should explain it to the store "Yes, it is working but not with custom roms, and I bought the Nexus because of custom roms..."
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I'm willing to bet an app is causing it.
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One of my colleagues had this issue with an early CM9 build on his Nexus S - turned out it was an app that is incompatible with ICS. Every time it tried to launch a notification, poof. So I would have to side with Josh in the post above mine.
A way for you to verify / discredit this theory would be : When you say it works with the stock ROM, are you re-installing everything you have when you are on stock? My understanding from what you've written above is that you're only getting your full suite of apps back when you restore your (presumably custom ROM) nandroid backup...
Potterified said:
One of my colleagues had this issue with an early CM9 build on his Nexus S - turned out it was an app that is incompatible with ICS. Every time it tried to launch a notification, poof. So I would have to side with Josh in the post above mine.
A way for you to verify / discredit this theory would be : When you say it works with the stock ROM, are you re-installing everything you have when you are on stock? My understanding from what you've written above is that you're only getting your full suite of apps back when you restore your (presumably custom ROM) nandroid backup...
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It can't be any app or ROM because IF it happens, it happens on all ROMs, regardless of wipe or not.
It just happened again and i wiped everything and tried using AOKP MS 3. Wasn't working... So I tried using the phone without the SIM card, because the hell only breaks loose after entering my PIN. And it worked. I could use the phone...
I put it back in and it worked...
I'm restoring my CM9 nandroid right now. I'm hoping it works...
edit: Nope, ripping out the SIM doesn't work. I'm reverting to stock and wait what happens. If it crashes again I'm trying to return it.
So just got this phone a couple of weeks ago. I feel like Im no stranger to rooting/flashing, but obviously Im no expert. Ive flashed custom roms on ppc6600, ppc6700, Treo 600w, HTC Diamond, Palm Pre(rooted it, no roms), Samsung Moment, Hero, Evo 4g, Evo 3d, Hp touchpad, and for a few weeks my Epic Touch4g. Ive never had a single problem until today. I must admit when I got this phone, for the first time I was actually scared to root it/flash roms. I read and re-read everything I could find, and finally took the plunge. I had great luck until I tried to flash the jellybean port.
I was originally on Agats rom tFF18_v0.1.0 which I flashed through ODIN. I tried a few other TW roms but ultimately kept Agats rom as my nandroid back up. Since it was a safe kernel/recovery I would always restore my nandroid to do any wipes or flashes. I thought this was being safe.
This morning I updated the kernel with AGAT_v0.3.0 with tREC_v0.2.1 7/19/12, which I flashed through agats recovery. Worked fine. I then wanted to try out CM9. So heres what I did:
I downloaded/flashed the newest nightly and Gapps and flashed them in Agats recovery which worked fine. I loved CM9 so I made a nandroid back up along with my other agat rom backup. I did notice that it was a different recovery but just assumed it was safe since it was a newer nightly. (Mistake?)
I kept CM9 for a few hours and saw that a JB port was available on androidcentral. Had flashed enough without issue, so I thought I try it out.
Heres where I screwed up.
I downloaded the JB port, JB gapps and it said to get chris41g's [Kernel][AOSP] Safe CWM6/TWRP which I did.
First I wiped data(full wipe), cache, and dalvik, then tried to flash the rom in CMW recovery that came with CM9. It gave me an error and aborted the flash.
Then I rebooted the phone back into CM9 because I thought maybe I had a bad download. I went back to the site reread the OP and noticed I was supposed to flash chris41g's recovery first, so I went back into recovery, flashed the Kernel, rebooted back into recovery and tried to flash JB. I didnt wipe anything, I just flashed it. It seemed to do its normal thing, but the progress bar never grew, it just sat there. I let it sit for like 10mins and the next thing I noticed, the screen was off. I picked up the phone, hit the power button.....nothing except the blue light I had read so much about.
I accept full responsibility for what I did. But to be honest, Im really confused what I did wrong. I was under the impression that most bricks happened when doing wipes? This happened when flashing the rom, which Im sure wipes before flashing, so maybe that where I had the problem? Im gonna go to sprint tomorrow and see if they can help, so hopefully Ill get a replacement, but I DONT want it to happen again. Sorry for the MAJORLY long post, but I wanted to be thorough with my explanation so I dont make the same mistake, and maybe someone else could learn from my screw up.
If possible, please be gentle, I already feel like a total idiot.......
EDIT: BTW, if I didnt make it clear, Im COMPLETELY aware this was my fault. I knew what I was getting into, and messed up somewhere by not FOLLOWING directions to a tee.
Your mistake was not wiping anything at the jb flash part.
Plus i think people was flashing jb using the el26 recovery (cwm5) but dont quote me on that i havent read the jb flash procedure throughly
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Sometimes stuff like that just happens... Let us know how the replacement goes
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I read somewhere they wont release the jb post on here because of all the bricks that was going on. Tell sprint u prolonged the ics update and ignored it. Then u finally decided to install and it would not boot at all
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rovar said:
Your mistake was not wiping anything at the jb flash part.
Plus i think people was flashing jb using the el26 recovery (cwm5) but dont quote me on that i havent read the jb flash procedure throughly
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Yeah I thought people were using Chris41g's EL26 CWM as well. Sbrissen himself said when in doubt use EL.
Thanks for the responses guys. My phone now has no solid blue light. Just a VERY VERY dim flashing blue light. Its been plugged in for the charger for like 2 hours. Is it possible maybe something just went wrong with battery? It was plugged in when I flashed, and the battery was pretty full, but not topped off...
vinscuzzy said:
So just got this phone a couple of weeks ago. I feel like Im no stranger to rooting/flashing, but obviously Im no expert. Ive flashed custom roms on ppc6600, ppc6700, Treo 600w, HTC Diamond, Palm Pre(rooted it, no roms), Samsung Moment, Hero, Evo 4g, Evo 3d, Hp touchpad, and for a few weeks my Epic Touch4g. Ive never had a single problem until today. I must admit when I got this phone, for the first time I was actually scared to root it/flash roms. I read and re-read everything I could find, and finally took the plunge. I had great luck until I tried to flash the jellybean port.
I was originally on Agats rom tFF18_v0.1.0 which I flashed through ODIN. I tried a few other TW roms but ultimately kept Agats rom as my nandroid back up. Since it was a safe kernel/recovery I would always restore my nandroid to do any wipes or flashes. I thought this was being safe.
This morning I updated the kernel with AGAT_v0.3.0 with tREC_v0.2.1 7/19/12, which I flashed through agats recovery. Worked fine. I then wanted to try out CM9. So heres what I did:
I downloaded/flashed the newest nightly and Gapps and flashed them in Agats recovery which worked fine. I loved CM9 so I made a nandroid back up along with my other agat rom backup. I did notice that it was a different recovery but just assumed it was safe since it was a newer nightly. (Mistake?)
I kept CM9 for a few hours and saw that a JB port was available on androidcentral. Had flashed enough without issue, so I thought I try it out.
Heres where I screwed up.
I downloaded the JB port, JB gapps and it said to get chris41g's [Kernel][AOSP] Safe CWM6/TWRP which I did.
First I wiped data(full wipe), cache, and dalvik, then tried to flash the rom in CMW recovery that came with CM9. It gave me an error and aborted the flash.
Then I rebooted the phone back into CM9 because I thought maybe I had a bad download. I went back to the site reread the OP and noticed I was supposed to flash chris41g's recovery first, so I went back into recovery, flashed the Kernel, rebooted back into recovery and tried to flash JB. I didnt wipe anything, I just flashed it. It seemed to do its normal thing, but the progress bar never grew, it just sat there. I let it sit for like 10mins and the next thing I noticed, the screen was off. I picked up the phone, hit the power button.....nothing except the blue light I had read so much about.
I accept full responsibility for what I did. But to be honest, Im really confused what I did wrong. I was under the impression that most bricks happened when doing wipes? This happened when flashing the rom, which Im sure wipes before flashing, so maybe that where I had the problem? Im gonna go to sprint tomorrow and see if they can help, so hopefully Ill get a replacement, but I DONT want it to happen again. Sorry for the MAJORLY long post, but I wanted to be thorough with my explanation so I dont make the same mistake, and maybe someone else could learn from my screw up.
If possible, please be gentle, I already feel like a total idiot.......
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I like story's like this that are long very interesting when bored I'm sorry for your lost...try simple small stuff like the stable good looking fully working roms
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vinscuzzy said:
Thanks for the responses guys. My phone now has no solid blue light. Just a VERY VERY dim flashing blue light. Its been plugged in for the charger for like 2 hours. Is it possible maybe something just went wrong with battery? It was plugged in when I flashed, and the battery was pretty full, but not topped off...
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Seems unlikely to be the battery, sorry bud :/ seems like your issue was not wiping anything before flashing the jb rom. Not to mention the jelly bean port is unstable as is. And the ics recoveries. I don't care if people say they're safe, i still odin to el26 to flash. I would've stayed away from jb regardless. But thanks for being mature about what happened, you more than most bricks actually seem like you're careful and read.
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vinscuzzy said:
So just got this phone a couple of weeks ago. I feel like Im no stranger to rooting/flashing, but obviously Im no expert. Ive flashed custom roms on ppc6600, ppc6700, Treo 600w, HTC Diamond, Palm Pre(rooted it, no roms), Samsung Moment, Hero, Evo 4g, Evo 3d, Hp touchpad, and for a few weeks my Epic Touch4g. Ive never had a single problem until today. I must admit when I got this phone, for the first time I was actually scared to root it/flash roms. I read and re-read everything I could find, and finally took the plunge. I had great luck until I tried to flash the jellybean port.
I was originally on Agats rom tFF18_v0.1.0 which I flashed through ODIN. I tried a few other TW roms but ultimately kept Agats rom as my nandroid back up. Since it was a safe kernel/recovery I would always restore my nandroid to do any wipes or flashes. I thought this was being safe.
This morning I updated the kernel with AGAT_v0.3.0 with tREC_v0.2.1 7/19/12, which I flashed through agats recovery. Worked fine. I then wanted to try out CM9. So heres what I did:
I downloaded/flashed the newest nightly and Gapps and flashed them in Agats recovery which worked fine. I loved CM9 so I made a nandroid back up along with my other agat rom backup. I did notice that it was a different recovery but just assumed it was safe since it was a newer nightly. (Mistake?)
I kept CM9 for a few hours and saw that a JB port was available on androidcentral. Had flashed enough without issue, so I thought I try it out.
Heres where I screwed up.
I downloaded the JB port, JB gapps and it said to get chris41g's [Kernel][AOSP] Safe CWM6/TWRP which I did.
First I wiped data(full wipe), cache, and dalvik, then tried to flash the rom in CMW recovery that came with CM9. It gave me an error and aborted the flash.
Then I rebooted the phone back into CM9 because I thought maybe I had a bad download. I went back to the site reread the OP and noticed I was supposed to flash chris41g's recovery first, so I went back into recovery, flashed the Kernel, rebooted back into recovery and tried to flash JB. I didnt wipe anything, I just flashed it. It seemed to do its normal thing, but the progress bar never grew, it just sat there. I let it sit for like 10mins and the next thing I noticed, the screen was off. I picked up the phone, hit the power button.....nothing except the blue light I had read so much about.
I accept full responsibility for what I did. But to be honest, Im really confused what I did wrong. I was under the impression that most bricks happened when doing wipes? This happened when flashing the rom, which Im sure wipes before flashing, so maybe that where I had the problem? Im gonna go to sprint tomorrow and see if they can help, so hopefully Ill get a replacement, but I DONT want it to happen again. Sorry for the MAJORLY long post, but I wanted to be thorough with my explanation so I dont make the same mistake, and maybe someone else could learn from my screw up.
If possible, please be gentle, I already feel like a total idiot.......
EDIT: BTW, if I didnt make it clear, Im COMPLETELY aware this was my fault. I knew what I was getting into, and messed up somewhere by not FOLLOWING directions to a tee.
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Where did you have the JB ROM located, on your internal memory or your SDcard?
And wait, Flashing blue light? When mine bricked using the same methods you were using, save for the lack of wiping and I used calk's wipeall before flashing, I had a solid blue light.
Eh, Least now I have a paperweight with a nice light on it for now.
Ophois said:
Where did you have the JB ROM located, on your internal memory or your SDcard?
And wait, Flashing blue light? When mine bricked using the same methods you were using, save for the lack of wiping and I used calk's wipeall before flashing, I had a solid blue light.
Eh, Least now I have a paperweight with a nice light on it for now.
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it was on the internal memory. And yeah, its weird. It started as a solid blue light for like an hour. I plugged in the charger and a few hours later I thought the light was completely off, but if you look real close, its a super dim flashing blue light.
vinscuzzy said:
it was on the internal memory. And yeah, its weird. It started as a solid blue light for like an hour. I plugged in the charger and a few hours later I thought the light was completely off, but if you look real close, its a super dim flashing blue light.
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Alright, That's two people who got a brick and had flashed it from their internal.
I'll try and get ahold of the other user who bricked their device and find where they had it and from there, We'll know a probable cause and how to prevent it.
I flashed sb's jb from internal. no problem here.
on el26.
please not I am not trying to be a wise ass; however have you read through this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525495 ? I have "bricked" a few times and have been able to revive my phone using Odin (the pc version). seems as long as you can get the phone into "download" mode (volume rocker down and power button) be sure to check out QBKing77's posts on YouTube. you have nothing to lose and everything to gain
good luck
al_b said:
please not I am not trying to be a wise ass; however have you read through this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525495 ? I have "bricked" a few times and have been able to revive my phone using Odin (the pc version). seems as long as you can get the phone into "download" mode (volume rocker down and power button) be sure to check out QBKing77's posts on YouTube. you have nothing to lose and everything to gain
good luck
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Yeah, that was the post that scared me to even root the phone. I can't get into download mode, and have been trying every combination of turning it on, vol up/dwn, plugging it in without the battery, tried different cables, chargers, scoured all the different Samsung forums to see if there was a way to force into download mode, nothing. Its completely dead. I got this phone right around the time the kernel source got released and that post hasn't been updated since may, so I kinda came to the conclusion(stupidly) that maybe the problem had been fixed. I wasn't around for all the leaks that were causing the bricks.
not being able to get into download mode = not good. there are also dongles out there that cost $5 +/-. might work. I believe you mentioned you have insurance, if that is true take the device to your local corporate Sprint store and play "Micky the dunce" i.e. I have no idea what happened to it; I was updating my PRL and this is what happened ... of course if you accidently backed over it with your car on the way to the store that may dissuade them from trying to resurrect it
vinscuzzy said:
Yeah, that was the post that scared me to even root the phone. I can't get into download mode, and have been trying every combination of turning it on, vol up/dwn, plugging it in without the battery, tried different cables, chargers, scoured all the different Samsung forums to see if there was a way to force into download mode, nothing. Its completely dead. I got this phone right around the time the kernel source got released and that post hasn't been updated since may, so I kinda came to the conclusion(stupidly) that maybe the problem had been fixed. I wasn't around for all the leaks that were causing the bricks.
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the MMC_CAP_ERASE code that causes the emmc controller to bug out and brick is still present in the FF18 kernel, entropy512 has been in contact with samsung about this, but last time i read the emmc thread a a few days ago he was still having difficulty convincing samsung that it was actually their code directly causing all these bricks... sorry about the brick, I just spent some time with cm10 and the vanilla jb rom and thanks to you and the other gentleman that bricked flashing from internal sd I double checked that the zips were on the external... so at least you've helped some of us out! good luck with sprint
does DirectoryBind_0.2.0k.apk help with the EMMC freakiness? a month or so ago this was useful work around. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262&highlight=directorybind
gershee said:
I flashed sb's jb from internal. no problem here.
on el26.
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That is the difference, The other two and I appear to have flashed it from internal but we were using CWM6.
I guess CWM6+Internal=brick whereas EL26+Internal=good to go
Though this is all conjecture, I cannot be completely sure with such a small sample size.
When I was little I once had a jelly bean stuck in my nose.
Good luck.
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No worries happened to me too( sadly :/). On the lighter/much, much darker side[you choose] sprint reps. won't be able to look at your phones files probably. When it happened to me the tech just came out with the 'WTF?' face and said what did you do, to which I replied "I applied the EL29 update and my phone bricked" cheers.
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Hi everybody!
I figure we should have a thread dedicated to telling horror stories about flashes gone wrong. Whether it's because of power failures, bad USB cables, poorly labeled packages, or pure user error, we've all had that moment of worry: "Did I just turn my device into a paperweight?"
It's my hope that, by sharing these stories, we can help each other realize that we're all human, we all make mistakes, and most mistakes can be recovered from. Don't be afraid to share your stories; we can't learn from each other's mistakes if nobody talks about them!
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My first story is from my Telus SGS3 (I747M, you'll see why that matters in a moment) and is definitely a user-error kind of story.
I've been playing around with CM10 and its derivatives for the past month or two (got my SGS3 on release day and it wasn't running Samsung software 3 hours later) and I'm not new to Android, having run XDAndroid on my HTC Diamond, and bouncing between CM7 and CM9 on my Milestone. The first thing I did when I got my SGS3 was a full block device backup using DD from the command line, which is the only reason I don't have a paperweight today.
I decided to try out Paranoid Android over a week ago and I've been loving it, so I haven't been flashing much lately. But, when I got back from vacation and saw that CM10 had gone into nightly builds, I couldn't resist the temptation to try a clean install. I've got folders on my SD card for ROMs, GApps, kernels, recoveries, and anything else flashable just to make my life easier. Apparently at some point I downloaded an AT&T (I747, no M) modem, stuck it in a "/modems/" folder with the rest of my flashables, but realized that it wouldn't work on my device, so I never used it. I then promptly forgot that I had put it on the SD card, and it had a fairly cryptic filename. Away I went, flashing CM10, GApps, a nice bootscreen, and... the modem.
Dammit. :crying:
At this point, I was running the newest CM10 build, but with a borked modem. I thought I had fallen victim to the IMEI bug that's been going around, but then I remembered something about that modem file not being usable on a Telus device... And had no idea how to get back to a working state. I already knew that none of my nandroid backups would have the modem in them, and the only "stock" flashables I could find were rooted kernels and a nearly-700MB "stock" package that wouldn't download any faster than 10 kb/s. I couldn't wait 20 hours for a download, I wanted my phone now! I tried using Odin with a few of the TAR packages I found, but that only made my situation worse to the point of failing to boot entirely, even restoring a nandroid wasn't helping anymore.
I started digging through the forums in the hope that someone had ripped the Telus modem into a CWM flashable zip, but had no luck. I tried both the Rogers and Bell modems with the same results. That's when I remembered that I had done a block backup, but I had no idea which block device was the modem, and my phone wouldn't even boot up to let me MTP the files over. I was left with CWM recovery as my only option, and had to ADB push 2.5 GB of .img files to the SD card, and DD them one at a time through the ADB shell.
Somehow, it all worked out, and I was back to running Stock Touchwiz with root, and was then able to restore a nandroid from yesterday and amazingly enough Paranoid Android booted up, happy as ever, and in came my emails and text messages. I know I'm lucky that my IMEI didn't get lost in that mess, but it just goes to show that there's no such thing as a backup being "too extensive". You never know when "mmcblk0p99" needs to be replaced with a known working copy.
I do believe im going to flash a stock/rooted ROM and then do a dd backup.
What options do you set for your backups?
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I did as follows:
Code:
cd /dev/block/
ls
(get the list of mmcblk devices from here)
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 of=/sdcard/dd/blk0p1 bs=4096
...
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p99 of=/sdcard/dd/blk0p99 bs=4096
Obviously you shouldn't have 99 partitions... but you get the idea. I ran each line manually.
Then just move the /dd/ folder off your /sdcard/ and onto some safe storage.
I bought my device off someone from Craigslist 2 nights ago. Went home with device working great. Decided to update from ICS to JB, downloaded everything on the ol gaming machine, go to update using Kies, then BAM! Hung update, bricks phone immediately. Woo....great experience after dropping $400 on phone lol. Contacted Samsung support who told me my update wouldn't work until I registered? I told him it bricked my phone and it wasn't being picked up by computer anymore and I wanted to go back to ICS, he apparently thought waiting 24 hours would fix driver issues. Found JB official rom and learned about Odin. Worked at it until 2-ish am, never worked, woke up, did ICS instead same method, worked immediately, then update worked.
Moral of story? Don't trust Samsung apparently, go with 3rd party everything....
Can we share from other devices? Because I've had a serious one with my nitro HD lol.
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After having my phone on stock rooted touch wiz since day one I was tempted to go jellybean... So months later I'd say Octoberish I finally said f**k it I'm going aokp... So I ran the task and k toonsen romantic for a while until they started porting the t mobile jelly bean stock tw rom... It made me miss tw and it's awesome camera app... So I flashed it after a week or so upon its release... First thing I noticed was the phone would get txts and phone calls rarely (keep in mind I'm in an lte area) and it became un bare able after about an hour. So I reverted back to my aokp nandroid and just figured I'd call it a day... But when I restored my nandroid my service was still messed up.. So after a bit of gooogling I checked my phone status to find my imei to be 0!!! I was beyond upset... So I tried re flashing stock in Odin and everything else I could find (unfortunately the imei restorer wasn't existent yet) and it came to the point where I left it stock and went to the att repair center down the road... The guy didn't know what was wrong with it and I just played dumb... After about 30 mins he came to the conclusion that my sim card slot was broken and I got a new phone...
After getting this one back home I instantly rooted it again
I've been staying away from those ported tmobile roms ever since
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rani9990 said:
Can we share from other devices? Because I've had a serious one with my nitro HD lol.
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I dont see why not. All stories are interesting lol
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No bad flashes .... Yet?
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Alright then,
It was my first day with the LG Nitro HD. My first smartphone (don't comment xD) and I was prepared to root and flash the living crap out of it. Done with rooting, now to install CWM. Simple enough, right? WRONG. This was the one time where google was not my friend. I followed a horribly misleading guide, and ended up with a paperweight. Turns out I flashed the recovery image to the secondary bootloader partition, thereby bricking my phone completely and utterly, irreparably. Had to ship it off to LG, and they fixed it, no questions asked. Thank God for that...
I had an HTC Touch Pro on Sprint. You had to flash a stock ROM before flashing a new custom ROM or the phone would stop working properly after almost exactly an hour. The file system would become completely messed up but the OS would keep running from RAM. It would fail to reboot after that. It was such a pain that I updated my phone every ~3-4 months.
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This one actually just happened this weekend.
So I finally got bored of having stock ICS on my i747 (Rogers), and since I loved cm 7/9 on my SGS2, I figured I'd go with the latest (15 dec) CM10 nightly.
downloaded to phone, rebooted in recovery, wiped data and cache, and installed the new firmware.
booted up and I've got no (or inconsistant) cell service. Figure it's a bug that hasn't been fixed, so no biggie, I backed up a week ago, so I decided to revert back to stock for the time being.
go through the process, and discover I still only have EDGE data.... WTF?
So I do some reading *AFTER the fact, hur dur...* and discover the IMEI wipe issue, and surprise surprise, I didn't do an NV backup, since I didn't know it'd get wiped.
Spent a couple hours keeping the phone / computer away from the 13 month old while I replace the IMEI NV data.... Still stuck on EDGE.... at least my IMEI is showing up though.
Nick
Odin back to stock worked for me when that happened to me.... YMMV.
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The night I got my phone, I rooted via odin and when it booted, I'd get a framework FC every 90 seconds or so. It took me almost two hours to get cwm recovery on my phone to flash AOKP. Not a brick, but since I hadn't even activated it, yet....not happy.
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Each Phone an Adventure
I can completely relate to all of you. Though I'm new as a member (thought I already had an account but apparently I didn't), I've been using the forum for a long time. I have rooted four phones to date, each with its' own disaster story and happy ending. My latest was the AT&T S3. While not a disaster entirely, the no flash counter guide ended up not working out for me. So I paved my own trail so to speak and I found all the root dependencies (Recovery, ROM, the works) by myself. The entire process took me about a day. I also used TriangleAway which threatened explosions if anything went wrong and thankfully nothing did. I'm glad I never had to send a phone back, I've always been very cautious about any type of flashing and always read the forum before doing it.
When I was on the captivate, I really wanted JB so I thought I could grab the Nexus S JB ROM cause the devices were so close to each other. Flashed it via Odin. Good God was that a mistake. I couldn't get back to download mode using the button combo since the button mapping was all switched up. I had this one cable that would give me bad connection, so I jiggled that around in the port for 35 minutes trying to get download mode. Finally, I got it and flashed the stock package. Learned my lesson, will never flash something from a different phone or anything that won't work 100%.
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goobs408 said:
When I was on the captivate, I really wanted JB so I thought I could grab the Nexus S JB ROM cause the devices were so close to each other. Flashed it via Odin. Good God was that a mistake. I couldn't get back to download mode using the button combo since the button mapping was all switched up. I had this one cable that would give me bad connection, so I jiggled that around in the port for 35 minutes trying to get download mode. Finally, I got it and flashed the stock package. Learned my lesson, will never flash something from a different phone or anything that won't work 100%.
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The thing about the Captivate was, no matter what ROM you flashed, the jig ALWAYS worked. It saved my ass quite a few times, until that is, the memory in the phone decided to die. I could flash through Odin as much as I wanted and it would pass everytime, but never go past the boot animation.
Dave the Knave said:
The thing about the Captivate was, no matter what ROM you flashed, the jig ALWAYS worked. It saved my ass quite a few times, until that is, the memory in the phone decided to die. I could flash through Odin as much as I wanted and it would pass everytime, but never go past the boot animation.
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Flash stock GB with forgot name of kernel baked in. After that in cwm recovery partition external SD card.. then reflash in Odin then install whatever ROM u want
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Trying to use Kies to flash anything. That's always a bad story for me
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Don't attempt to explain to a friend of little flashing knowledge how to root their phone. He hard bricked my phone. Odin is easy if you read but he turned it into rocket science and yeah.. Had to wait for another phone
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Well let me begin by saying I have a Galaxy Nexus and have been flashing roms, etc like it's going outta style. It's very simple to me and I am no newb. So with this logic in mind, I got a brand new GS3 the other day and proceeded to do the same. First, it took my a while to realize there are so many variants of our phone, then when I did a search I saw that there was a i9305 that is LTE....you already know where this is going. I figured that was the correct variant, spent like an hour trying to install a recovery because of the auto wipe feature and thus increasing the flash counter to 10+ (wtf!). Finally I download a rom, flash it. Freezes half way through (knew that wasn't good) and when I pull the battery, BAM, bricked phone.
After some more reading, not only did I find out the correct way of flashing to not increase the counter but also that the Canadian versions are the i747! Luckily it happened a day after I got it and I switched it out for a new one. Moral of the story: If you are flash happy and think all phones are like the Nexus, that's your biggest mistake! lol
Is there a way to undo the leaked ICS firmware I've flashed? I've been hit with the post viper CM10 lag that seems to be going around and I thought I'd try everything to get rid of it.
Have you tried chilly's super wipe? There is a thread for it.
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Same here. I super wiped two days ago and formatted my sd card. I thought I had it and my phone ran fine for a day. I charged it over night and when I took it off the charger, it was shot again today. When it actually boots, I can't get past the unlock screen. It holds there for about a minute before going into a boot loop. I didn't even think of the ics firmware. Maybe I'll try going back to stock tomorrow and then reflashing cm10.
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I don't know if it's the firmware or not, but I thought it was worth a shot. I have used chilly's wipe and I have gotten the huge lag since then. I'm running his PAC rom now and I used his wipe twice before I installed. I've also v6 supercharged so I'm waiting to see if it happens again. Is there a copy of the old firmware that is flashable like the new one?
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I don't know if it's the firmware or not, but I thought it was worth a shot. I have used chilly's wipe and I have gotten the huge lag since then. I'm running his PAC rom now and I used his wipe twice before I installed. I've also v6 supercharged so I'm waiting to see if it happens again. Is there a copy of the old firmware that is flashable like the new one?
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There at threads for different ruu's. I'm not sure which one you need. Search through those. Also, when your phone starts lagging try connecting to a computer in adb I think, someone posted that that fixed theirs temporarily. I think they narrowed it down to the SD card being bad and with it connected it dismounts the SD card and doesn't have the problem. That might help.
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There at threads for different ruu's. I'm not sure which one you need. Search through those. Also, when your phone starts lagging try connecting to a computer in adb I think, someone posted that that fixed theirs temporarily. I think they narrowed it down to the SD card being bad and with it connected it dismounts the SD card and doesn't have the problem. That might help.
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I'll give that a shot next time. Usually I just pull the battery and install cm7 so I have a working phone.
Okay, 1st you need to return to stock:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1599767
After this process you need to flash cwm and superuser:
I believe this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1751796 has all the files (including adb) set up in one .zip under "TACOROOT"
Or just download them from here:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/77740451/recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-vivow.img
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/77740451/Superuser-3.0.7-efgh-signed.zip
This is what I did to remove the firmware. I didn't have the lag, but I was hoping to solve camera issues.
SkinnyT said:
Same here. I super wiped two days ago and formatted my sd card. I thought I had it and my phone ran fine for a day. I charged it over night and when I took it off the charger, it was shot again today. When it actually boots, I can't get past the unlock screen. It holds there for about a minute before going into a boot loop. I didn't even think of the ics firmware. Maybe I'll try going back to stock tomorrow and then reflashing cm10.
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Just a quick note...When I was running CM10 I would get the boot loops at the lock screen, but if I just let it alone, it would loop 2-3 times and then settle in. It took a while, and I avoided rebooting my phone at all costs, but have you just let it sit for about 10 minutes to see if it pulls out of the boot loop? Mine usually came out in less than 5, but you never know. After it booted up it settled down and ran fine. I've never used the Venom rom or super wipe though, so ymmv.
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Just a quick note...When I was running CM10 I would get the boot loops at the lock screen, but if I just let it alone, it would loop 2-3 times and then settle in. It took a while, and I avoided rebooting my phone at all costs, but have you just let it sit for about 10 minutes to see if it pulls out of the boot loop? Mine usually came out in less than 5, but you never know. After it booted up it settled down and ran fine. I've never used the Venom rom or super wipe though, so ymmv.
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Mine doesn't boot loop, it runs great for a few days then starts to lag so bad it's unusable.
Baloeb said:
Mine doesn't boot loop, it runs great for a few days then starts to lag so bad it's unusable.
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Some have reported that it's linked to a usb / sdcard / storage issue. Lag starts after connecting.
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Well I finally made the leap back to Android from iOS (Had a Nexus One & S back in the day) and got an S3 that I went about rooting yesterday. After finally getting it rooted and adding CWM, I flashed the nightly build of CM10, and that's when it all went downhill. The phone was taking forever to boot, and as a fairly impatient person, I led to my own doom. I rebooted into CWM thinking that an erase and reinstall would do the trick. The kicker, I literally formatted every option as far as formatting goes... Don't ask. Clearly didn't think about what I was doing. At this point when attempting to boot the phone, it shows Samsung for a sec, then black. I can still access CWM, but when I attempt mounting anything, my Mac (Yes, don't judge) does not see it. I do have access to a PC if needed, I just need to get this phone working again, preferably with a custom ROM. Someone, anyone.. Help this poor idiot.
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Well I finally made the leap back to Android from iOS (Had a Nexus One & S back in the day) and got an S3 that I went about rooting yesterday. After finally getting it rooted and adding CWM, I flashed the nightly build of CM10, and that's when it all went downhill. The phone was taking forever to boot, and as a fairly impatient person, I led to my own doom. I rebooted into CWM thinking that an erase and reinstall would do the trick. The kicker, I literally formatted every option as far as formatting goes... Don't ask. Clearly didn't think about what I was doing. At this point when attempting to boot the phone, it shows Samsung for a sec, then black. I can still access CWM, but when I attempt mounting anything, my Mac (Yes, don't judge) does not see it. I do have access to a PC if needed, I just need to get this phone working again, preferably with a custom ROM. Someone, anyone.. Help this poor idiot.
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The best advice I can give you is to not worry about ROM or root right now. Best bet is to get on the PC and ODIN back to stock. Once you're back up and running, then root to your hearts content.
I've found (the hard way) that this phone is hard bricked very easily. You don't want to do that, just start fresh.
From this link you can get a stock jellybean rom with root injected into and flash it through odin. But as with anything read carefully.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
If you have a MicroSD card, you can shove a rom inside there and install it by launching into Recovery mode. Works for me everytime.
laserlight959 said:
If you have a MicroSD card, you can shove a rom inside there and install it by launching into Recovery mode. Works for me everytime.
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Came to say the same. If you can still boot into recovery then just insert sdcard with a rom and flash. Then make a backup so it doesn't happen again lol.
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