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[Q] Help!!! I think i bricked my phone

Okay, so i finally got my incredible rooted, and i installed cyanogen mod...but it wont finish booting, it keeps getting stuck at the Nexus boot animation and wont go beyond that

Did you use a hydra kernel?
Trust me, your not bricked. This happens to me several times a day.
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Whoa...easy...let it boot. Sometimes the first boot when loading a fresh rom can take a long time.

I think he is describing a boot loop....and cm6 does take long to boot
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how long should it take?...ive been waiting about 5-10min

schwartzman93 said:
how long should it take?...ive been waiting about 5-10min
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Not that long.
Question, did you install the new hydra kernels?
Also, is it just hanging at the nexus logo or is it starting, stopping, and restarting;
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Did you do a full wipe?

Go back into recovery...wipe cache and data and then load the cyanogen zip again.
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It just keeps doing the nexus loop..and no i didnt clear anything...but i will try

schwartzman93 said:
It just keeps doing the nexus loop..and no i didnt clear anything...but i will try
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that would be the problem wipe data cache

it worked, thank you guys...but how do i get it back to Sense?...i did a backup of the sense ROM...so do i just have to select that in rom manager?

In the main menu of ROM Manager > Backups and Restore > Choose your backup.

Trouble Installing T-mobile update on rooted SGS2

Having trouble with today's freshly produced update. I'm on factory ROM, so there shouldn't be any trouble, but everytime i hit restart phone it goes into CM manager, I hit reboot and it just reboots with the update still uninstalled =\

I think you need stock recovery to get the update to install. I may be mistaken though.
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how do i go to stock recovery? this update thing pops up every hour, it drives me nuts! (even after i hit 1-day).

Download Bloat Freezer from the market and use it to freeze Device Manager....... The notifications will stop.
Or go back to stock.....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18811273
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ty for your help joemm! I only need to go back to stock recovery, not stock rom, my rom is literally as it was from the factory lol, I'll definitely give that 2nd link a try

[Q] Am I bricked?

I have Team Venom's JellyBombed Ver 13. I did a battery pull to swap batteries and ever since I cannot boot, not even into recovery. When I boot I get the Samsung, then the Samsung Galaxy 3 logos but then screen goes black except for the soft menu and back keys on the bottom which are illuminated.
Please help.

I don't think that you bricked your phone, from what I understand and I could be wrong but long as it boots to your splash screen you aren't bricked. I would check the battery contact pins if your swapping battery's your increasing the potential of damage occurring . or even the batteries themselves. I don't think its a software issue. You can try Odin if you have it. Odin should be able to read the com port without the battery in the phone..if it can read it you can go foward and install a deoxdex rooted stk. Odin flashable tar. And start over ...good luck. , Hope this helps
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Damn I got into cwm recovery and tried to do a wipe data/factory reset.... it immediately displayed a green android with the blue thing spinning - it seems to be hanging - afraid to pull battery and try again....

Have you tried other cwm functions.? Or maybe a nandroid restore?
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KUSHLEGEND said:
Have you tried other cwm functions.? Or maybe a nandroid restore?
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I can't believe I did not think to try that - nandroid restore - trying a restore...... damn memory lapse
My most recent pre issue nandroid backup is a little old... a little over a month but I did a Titanium backup more recent so hopefully if I get things going I can restore from there....
Thanks.

Just go to download mode (volume down home and power buttons at the same time) and use odin go to stock
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Rev3ge07 said:
Just go to download mode (volume down home and power buttons at the same time) and use odin go to stock
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I'm going to have to agree with this your best option is to plug into your computer and flash to stock from Odin. Usually the phone is not completely bricked unless it's totally unresponsive. I recently bricked one my self ... The only time you need to worry if you can't get to a splash screen, can't boot into recovery or download mode mine was totally done when I plug it in it wouldn't even charge for sure charge indicator and when you push the power button there was no vibration to indicate it was starting.
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Maybe the NFC of the baterry is bad and if the phone is trying to "read" it you may be stuck on boot. Replace the battery again.
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Thanks for everyone that offered suggestions.
Fortunately, I was able to boot into recovery, restore an old android nandroid, wipe, flash Jellybomb, and then use titanium to selectively restore from the post corruption Nandroid I was able to make. I lost some data but Im back and running.
I think I have an aftermarket battery that is bad too.

System Info on all Screens

Upgraded 2 S2's to 4.1.2, 1 with no issues the other has system info displaying, can anyone help me to get rid if it?

No one has seen this?

bulldog812 said:
No one has seen this?
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I'm having the same issue now I've tried everything......if I figure it out I'll let you know
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Have you tried Dark side Super wipe? I may solve your problem.
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thakrew317 said:
I'm having the same issue now I've tried everything......if I figure it out I'll let you know
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Thanks!
alloycowboy said:
Have you tried Dark side Super wipe? I may solve your problem.
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No I have not tried that, will do it tonight when I can get my hands on the phone.

Well the infamous wipes were a no go also....so I wiped everything once again did a fresh install of the PAC man ROM by jay dub and it wasn't on there so I'm wondering if it has something to do with the touchwiz ROM Idk to be honest tho it really confuses me on why no one else is having the issue it was on my wife's phone that I was having the issue on so I'm going to try and reproduce the issue on my phone later
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Wipe didnt work here also, its a stock rom that i have with the issue.

I was having it with every jellybean touchwiz based rom
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I just flashed the stock rom released by Telus through ODIN. Getting same screen. No idea what to do or what's causing this.
I did a formate/wipe cache in recovery.

balla786 said:
I just flashed the stock rom released by Telus through ODIN. Getting same screen. No idea what to do or what's causing this.
I did a formate/wipe cache in recovery.
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Same thing man I even called T-Mobile and they have never heard of this issue and every custom TW ROM I flashed it still showed up until I flashed PAC man ROM on it
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I havnt tried reflashing another TW ROM since it was on my wife's phone I'm jus gonna leave her on PAC until she starts having issues
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I have tried everything, trying to keep this ROM stock... anyone figure this out yet?

bulldog812 said:
I have tried everything, trying to keep this ROM stock... anyone figure this out yet?
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I actually called Samsung about it and they said it needs to be professionally reflashed by them which is stupid cuz I just got my phone back after they had it for 4 weeks he said its a software issue
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flashed multiple Roms on this, the only way i can get rid of the info on screen is by going back to 4.0.4. has anyone come to figure out where this is coming from?

Little late
Okay so i know its late but if anyones feels the need to go back to stock heres the fix:
-Have root access
-Use titanium backup to find Systeminfo 4.1.2
-Clearing data will remove that
-You should only need to do this every boot
Not sure if you can remove this program, but that would eliminate the problem

railinandnailin said:
Okay so i know its late but if anyones feels the need to go back to stock heres the fix:
-Have root access
-Use titanium backup to find Systeminfo 4.1.2
-Clearing data will remove that
-You should only need to do this every boot
Not sure if you can remove this program, but that would eliminate the problem
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I know its an old thread, but i am wondering if any one can shed some light as to why this system info screen appears, i was able to get rid of it by just deleting the file from titanium backup, no visible problems what so ever , data, phone, mms, every thing works as it should.
Just wondering why it popped up after odin back to stock..
Also I've read a few other samsung forums, and they relate this info screen to either; permanent safe mode due to imei faking, or corrupted efs drive/partition or some what.
Fyi, with the imei faking there would be no data/cellular services.
So I'm going with that something might be wrong with my efs? Maybe?

I had the same issue. I fixed it by restoring efs from a TRWP efs backup.
When I had this system screen show up it also flashed below it on startup that factory mode was on. If you go to youtube and search "Samsung Galaxy S4 : How to Get out of Factory Mode" it may help those without a efs backup

[Q] A lot of things I do makes my phone unbootable

This started about 6 months ago. Every now and then when flashing a new rom, or updating a rom, my phone would get stuck on the screen before the boot animation starts playing. It has been getting a lot more common. Especially on the new CM10.2 nightly. What happens is this...I updated from 10.1.2 to 10.2 (dirty flash), and then it got stuck on the splash screen before the boot animation. Whenever this happens, the only remedy to make my phone bootable again is to wipe the "data" partition. Thats really annoying as I lose all of my podcasts, and more importantly all of the pictures I have taken.
So I decided to just wipe everything, and start from scratch with the cm10.2.zip. Let me take the time to show you my process of installing a new rom, I have done this probably two or three hundred times, but maybe I forgot how to do it along the way or something.
1. Boot into TWRP (v2.4.1.0)
2.Wipe Factory Reset 3 times, System 3 times.
3. Install ROM.zip, install propper version of GAPPS.zip
4. Reboot System
5. Wait for it to boot, reboot again, wipe cache/dalvik 3 times.
6. Good to go
Did that exact thing for cm10.2.zip, and it worked great. Did some app installs, and had to reboot. Bam, stuck at splash screen. This happens on cm10.2 no matter what after a reboot. If I do a clean install of 10.2, not touch anything afterwards, just restart, it will be stuck on the splash screen. But as I said before, it happens randomly when I am installing any rom/update. I am not messing the kernels anymore, haven't for awhile.
Any ideas?

Few things get the latest version of your recovery secondly as I just did recently. Re-Odin everything back to stock through DocHolidays thread I chose DLJC and then Odin your recovery just get it from twrps site and then go about your business. I too was having the weird boot up and hang on bootani with every ROM I installed, I would just hard reset via holding power button but finally cleared it all up by doing the steps above.
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And just in case, don't restore system data such as accounts, settings, etc from a backup such as one from titanium. Imo its best to restore as little as possible this way. Some of it may be incompatible.
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DocHoliday77 said:
And just in case, don't restore system data such as accounts, settings, etc from a backup such as one from titanium. Imo its best to restore as little as possible this way. Some of it may be incompatible.
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I only do apps+data, no settings or anything.
Sorry to be a bother, but I can't find the thread mt3g was referencing anywhere.

Stickied in development, and linked in my sig.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Stickied in development, and linked in my sig.
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Thanks

And in my signature as well lol.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Stickied in development, and linked in my sig.
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Sorry, I looked at the stickies in a few categories, and Googled for a few minutes and couldn't find anything. Wasn't sure what the actual thread was about. The link in your sig was pretty obvious, but I didn't think to look there.
It's gonna take an hour to download the stock firmware, so I will probably work on this tomorrow. Will update then.

Def do and ask questions in this thread or search his thread as it has more than likely been covered a few times I suggest downloading the needed files and putting them in an easy place as well using 7zip and having it ready for use as well.
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ArkAngel06 said:
Sorry, I looked at the stickies in a few categories, and Googled for a few minutes and couldn't find anything. Wasn't sure what the actual thread was about. The link in your sig was pretty obvious, but I didn't think to look there.
It's gonna take an hour to download the stock firmware, so I will probably work on this tomorrow. Will update then.
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Are you downloading it from me? Or the sammobile/Samsung-updaets links I put with them? Afh should download that a bit faster than that I thought.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Are you downloading it from me? Or the sammobile/Samsung-updaets links I put with them? Afh should download that a bit faster than that I thought.
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For the Odin firmware, all the links I see are hosted on Androidfilehost and Hotfile. I was only getting about 100kb/s on both sites.
Just tried this morning though and its downloading at 7mb/s. Guess they were just bogged down last night.

Ok, glad its better now! the whole reason I host them on afh is because hotfile is sooooo sloooow! If afh was going that slow they may have had some problems.
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So I had fun this morning...
After flashing the root66 DLJC, I got stuck in a bootloop. I know its supposed to take up to 10 minutes according to the thread, but I let it go for a good 30 minutes before I decided to try again. Tried the root66 DLJA, same thing. Finally decided to try completely stock unrooted DLJC, and still the same thing. Booted into stock recovery for the hell of it, and factory reset/wipe cache and it booted up fine. Not sure what the deal was there.
I got my recovery installed, and all seems to be working on cm10.2.
I did try updating my TWRP last night before going back to stock, and it didn't help the problems I was having.
But it seems to be all in working order now, thanks for your help.

Anytime! Glad you figured it out. 99% of bootloops and boot hangs are solved by a factory reset. Its because some previous data was left over that was incompatible with what you were flashing.
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