My wife and I have the same phone, Verizon GNex. However, our phones are completely different! I'm currently on AOKP build 4. She was on Build AOKP ICS 40. I attempted to flash build 4 and gapps after a full wipe, etc, but I never could get it to flash properly. The first time I flashed it, it allowed to try to sign her into her account. She had google 2 step on and I wasn't able to get her loaded. The second phone on file for 2 step was her own, so when the text came I couldn't get to it (for whatever reason the soft keys were missing and I couldn't get out once I was stuck in the 2 step process.) I then pulled the battery to reboot. It was stuck in a boot loop that I couldn't get out. When I tried to flash back to the backup file from build 40 it was missing, as was all the other backup files. I didn't have a copy to flash to and the rom was stuck in boot loop. I couldn't use fastboot because it was saying "fastboot read error 2147483647" I decided to odin 4.02 stock software. It worked great to get me out of the loop and get the phone up and going again. Since that point I updated the stock software, rerooted ,and reinstalled CWR. However, no matter how I try to flash any build of AOKP now it fails. I even pulled the files from my phone that I had flashed just days before and put them on my wife's phone. Nope. Didn't work. I tried TWRP and I couldn't get it to work either. What other options should I take to get the rom on my wife's phone. She's about to kill me already for "messing" it up.
Redownload the ROM, make sure she doesn't have toroplus and you're trying to flash a toro ROM or something like that, make sure if she has a toro GalNex she also has a toro recovery, try flashing the latest 4.1.1 radios....
Toro is Verizon GalNex, toroplus is Sprint.
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I tried something different. One phone good. One phone JACKED!
I tried a clean download via a wired connection. Same result, FAIL! Instead I used the odin files I found to flash the toro (VZW). After which I rerooted the device and downloaded CM10 nightly and flashed without ANY problems.
My phone (AOKP toro JB build 4) ran completely out of battery charge that it powered off. The ironic thing is, after charging completely in the off state I started it back up...(same) BOOT LOOP! I've searched a little bit on the forums, but I can't seem to find the exact way to undo this. This is the same boot loop I had with my wife's phone. I tried to flash my most recent JB 4 backup and it gets an error after the system restore and just before the data restore. I tried all the other backups of many different builds with CWM and had the same result. I tried flashing the AOKP JB 4 but it just ends up in the boot loop again.
I can't push any new files to it for whatever reason so I can't try to flash the radios or bootloader. Honestly, I can't even read the internal memory where everything is stored. I think it's because the debuging mode isn't turned on since I tried to reflash a new build and restore my backup. " I love AOKP, but I'm going to hold off until a new milestone build comes out. At this point I just want the pictures/videos from my phone. I have a backup on my computer saved, but none of the pictures/videos are saved.
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-Chlorine
jimmyco2008 said:
Redownload the ROM, make sure she doesn't have toroplus and you're trying to flash a toro ROM or something like that, make sure if she has a toro GalNex she also has a toro recovery, try flashing the latest 4.1.1 radios....
Toro is Verizon GalNex, toroplus is Sprint.
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Chlorine tablet said:
I tried a clean download via a wired connection. Same result, FAIL! Instead I used the odin files I found to flash the toro (VZW). After which I rerooted the device and downloaded CM10 nightly and flashed without ANY problems.
My phone (AOKP toro JB build 4) ran completely out of battery charge that it powered off. The ironic thing is, after charging completely in the off state I started it back up...(same) BOOT LOOP! I've searched a little bit on the forums, but I can't seem to find the exact way to undo this. This is the same boot loop I had with my wife's phone. I tried to flash my most recent JB 4 backup and it gets an error after the system restore and just before the data restore. I tried all the other backups of many different builds with CWM and had the same result. I tried flashing the AOKP JB 4 but it just ends up in the boot loop again.
I can't push any new files to it for whatever reason so I can't try to flash the radios or bootloader. Honestly, I can't even read the internal memory where everything is stored. I think it's because the debuging mode isn't turned on since I tried to reflash a new build and restore my backup. " I love AOKP, but I'm going to hold off until a new milestone build comes out. At this point I just want the pictures/videos from my phone. I have a backup on my computer saved, but none of the pictures/videos are saved.
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-Chlorine
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Code:
fastboot boot cwm_or_twrp.img
when in recovery:
Code:
adb pull /sdcard/
note: if no folder is really pulled, change /sdcard/ to /data/media
Some tips for the two step verification that I have found out. Although it says not to use a Google voice account it is by far the Best method for dong two step. For me I always have some other device logged into Google Voice and I use that device to get the text. The other thing I do is forward texts with that string to my gmail account so I get it as an email. I figure if someone has my device and is trying to log in then they can't see my Google voice or emails
I will try this in the morning. I just drove the family 12 hours back from our Disney vacation. Ah, my own bed to sleep in.
-Chlorine
bk201doesntexist said:
Code:
fastboot boot cwm_or_twrp.img
when in recovery:
Code:
adb pull /sdcard/
note: if no folder is really pulled, change /sdcard/ to /data/media
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While waiting for things to settle down this morning I thought I would try one last thing to get the phone back to working. Within CWM I choose to use fix permissions. After a few minutes it finished and returned to CWM menus as normal. I rebooted the phone and it's working. I'll need to copy the files from it before progressing forward. Once I do this I will try rebooting and see what it does. Take in mind I tried flashing, recovering, etc before I even thought of the fix permissions. It stopped me in my tracks with the errors. Once I reboot I will post my results. I just hope I didn't leave my cable in Florida.
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-Chlorine
Just bought a new cable and I'm starting a full backup now. I'll reboot and see if the phone loops again or not in an hour or so. Details to come.
Reboot. No boot loop.
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Using Galaxy Nexus ToolKit v3.0, I have unlocked my GNex, flashed CWM and was attempting to flash CM9 KANG when all hell broke loose.
I have wiped all data and trying to get stock 4.0.2 back on here, eventually trying to get to CM9 KANG.
Willing to slide $25 to someone who can work with me to get a working phone again.
PM me or email me at gmail.com.
Did you flash the "toro/mysid" version of CM9?
Wiping Data consists of: factory, cache, dalvik.
The file name was "update-cm-9.0.0-RC0-GN-CDMA-KANG-01082012-signed.zip". I got the file from the CDMA specific GNex forum.
I just attempted to flash stock image 4.0.2 again (I did nothing different than the previous 50 attempts), and when it was finished it rebooted on it's own (again, something it hasn't done in the previous 50 or so attempts.
Now I'm boot looped on the startup animation. So maybe one step further than I was 20 minutes ago.
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The file name was "update-cm-9.0.0-RC0-GN-CDMA-KANG-01082012-signed.zip". I got the file from the CDMA specific GNex forum.
I just attempted to flash stock image 4.0.2 again (I did nothing different than the previous 50 attempts), and when it was finished it rebooted on it's own (again, something it hasn't done in the previous 50 or so attempts.
Now I'm boot looped on the startup animation. So maybe one step further than I was 20 minutes ago.
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So what are you wanting to do? Return to stock? Flash another ROM?
I don't know what I just did, but it now just boot to stock and has the stock welcome screen.
Now, how can I safely (and sanely) get the CM9 KANG?
mtoomey79 said:
I don't know what I just did, but it now just boot to stock and has the stock welcome screen.
Now, how can I safely (and sanely) get the CM9 KANG?
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Note that CM9 is still in early development. It doesn't have your everyday CM features, I personally use another ROM but I'm sure CM9 is functional.
Get the latest http://fitsnugly.euroskank.com/skankwich/toro/ (You're going to need gapps as well)
You're able to get into bootloader mode, recovery mode just fine correct?
Have Clockwork Recovery installed as well?
Edit: here are the gapps, http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ak6g0f0l9joh1n1
Problem solved.
Thanks zephiK!
I made a real dumb mistake just now and hoping there is a way out of this. I was in titanium back up after updating to 4.0.4 GSM and decided it would be a good idea to use the integration of updates to rom option, one of the apps was phone or contacts or something like that and it was the first app to be processed and it appeared to be stuck not doing anything, so I made the real bad mistake of force closing titanium backup. Now I don't have signal, my baseband is unknown. I tried restoring all system apps and tried to flash the 4.0.4 update which gave me a status 7 error.
I was hoping there might be a way to fix this without opening my boot loader and having transfer all my stuff to PC which is painfully slow on my window xp PC. Then fast booting the full factory 4.0.4 and set up literally everything again.
Please advice...
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you'll have to unlock your bootloader to fix this. its inevitable. after you get it up and running, you can relock it if you wish to do so.
TIP: you NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER want to restore system app data. it is calling for bad news.
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I was in titanium back up after updating to 4.0.4 GSM and decided it would be a good idea to use the integration of updates to rom option
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This is NEVER a good idea.
The Gingerbread Man said:
Now I don't have signal, my baseband is unknown. I tried restoring all system apps and tried to flash the 4.0.4 update which gave me a status 7 error.
I was hoping there might be a way to fix this without opening my boot loader and having transfer all my stuff to PC which is painfully slow on my window xp PC. Then fast booting the full factory 4.0.4 and set up literally everything again.
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I honestly don't have any ideas for you. There are so many things that may have messed up.
If you want, I can give you a link to the /system dump that I made for adrynalyne, and you can boot into CWM and try to copy all those files overtop of the files currently in your system and see if that will work. But my suggestion would be to unlock your bootloader and flash a fresh image...
efrant said:
This is NEVER a good idea.
I honestly don't have any ideas for you. There are so many things that may have messed up.
If you want, I can give you a link to the /system dump that I made for adrynalyne, and you can boot into CWM and try to copy all those files overtop of the files currently in your system and see if that will work. But my suggestion would be to unlock your bootloader and flash a fresh image...
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Pretty much would be the best and easiest way of resolving all of this. Unlock bootloader, fastboot flash stock google images. And relock your bootloader (if you desire... I see no purpose of relocking it) and be on your way.
Thanks guys didnt think I could do it without unlocking my boot loader. Here's to spending all tomorrow morning on the PC and getting in the neck from gf who is meant to be phoning me in the am!
Will fresh flash entire 4.0.4 rom in the morning as its 2.45 am UK time now, got alarm set for 7.30, just hope I can fix it before going to work! Thanks again guys
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The Gingerbread Man said:
Thanks guys didnt think I could do it without unlocking my boot loader. Here's to spending all tomorrow morning on the PC and getting in the neck from gf who is meant to be phoning me in the am!
Will fresh flash entire 4.0.4 rom in the morning as its 2.45 am UK time now, got alarm set for 7.30, just hope I can fix it before going to work! Thanks again guys
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Easiest way is to do this:
1) Plug your device into your computer and open a command prompt in the same directory as your adb.exe file
2) Get all your data off your device by typing: adb pull /sdcard
3) Follow this guide for a fresh yakju IMM76D install.
phone fixed now finally. In the end i went back to 4.0.2 as i had it on my pc flashed that then rooted it and then moved 4.0.4 back on to my phone and used stock recovery to flash it and then booted into cwm and flashed su.zip. Now to just put all my stuff back onto my phone...
Hi all, I recently soft bricked my VZW Gnex by trying to flash CNA 3.8.
A little background:
I was on CNA 3.6.6 for awhile but the phone started to reboot during certain actions. So I decided to flash CNA 3.8. I was having trouble wiping the phone. I would do a full wipe in CWM touch (format data/cache/system/dalvik cache) and I when I rebooted it was as if nothing happened. Everything was still there. I tried a couple of times, and the same thing would happen, the phone wouldn't wipe.
After posting a thread about not being able to wipe the phone, I was advised to switch to TWRP and try again, which I did. Tried flashing CNA 3.8 and got hung up on the boot animation. I couldn't find my nands with TWRP so I switched back to CWM to try to restore a nand. When I tried to restore, I got md5 mismatch so I couldn't restore. I tried to do a clean reflash of CNA 3.6 but phone always got hung up at the boot animation.
I've been doing battery pulls and numerous wipes/flashes trying to get the phone to boot, but to no avail. Only thing I can do is boot into CWM recovery and fastboot. No matter what I do, the phone will not get past boot animation.
I have the Gnex toolkit but haven't been able to do much with it.
I've been advised to go back to stock (which I tried to do with the toolkit) but still stuck.
Also installed Android SDK for ADB, but admittedly I'm a noob when it comes to trying to get ADB to work.
At this point, is there anyway I can pull userdata from the phone before I try a return to stock approach which erases userdata?
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated! Please help me!
Tool kits are not the best way to mod your phone as when you have an issue your a bit lost.
Jubakuba has a panic section in her guide stickied to the Q&A page, Efrant also has a guide on the same Q&A page. Have a good read, the steps and fastboot/adb commands are all given.
you are not bricked
What happens if you hold down both volume buttons and power with your phone connected via USB?
EDIT: Just reread and saw you can get into fastboot
Connect your phone to your PC while in fastboot. Run GNEX toolkit as Admin.
Choose option 16
choose option 9
download, extract and wipe intnernal
you should be good to go
Thanks for the advice guys.
@Rudeguy: If I do this, I will lose all my personal data on the sdcard correct? Is it possible to pull stuff like pictures, music, etc. before I proceed with going back to stock and starting from scratch?
supasizefries said:
Thanks for the advice guys.
@Rudeguy: If I do this, I will lose all my personal data on the sdcard correct? Is it possible to pull stuff like pictures, music, etc. before I proceed with going back to stock and starting from scratch?
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There is an option to keep your data. However sometimes you will have to sacrifice your data as it is causing the issue
danstah said:
However sometimes you will have to sacrifice your data as it is causing the issue
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This is what people don't understand.
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bk201doesntexist said:
This is what people don't understand.
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Thisvis why at minimum, once a week, i pull all pics off phone and put on pc and external. Got kids and grandkids, probably take 1000 pics a month, dont want to lose pics.
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I was able to pull user data using adb. Learned how to do it from another thread. No worries now.
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I apologize in advance if any of this makes you roll your eyes at my stupidity.
Good Afternoon
I have an ATT samsung galaxy s3, Because of the glitches with 4.3 I was experiencing I decided to install custom software on my phone. So I looked up guides and got everything I needed. I did manage to get root access, and verified with super user. I also installed TWRP and CWM because each kept giving me errors when I tried to install CM 11 onto my phone. I tried CWM first, and when that didn't work I tried TWRP. It says there was no MD5 information found when I try to install any mod. how ever I have used the md5 file checker program and the MD5 matches up to what was listed in this one for example.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2518998
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CM 11.0 Unofficial Beta 7 for d2tmo and d2att
MD5: ef93957db1e6704f23f9015231a82826
So the MD5 matches, yet when I try to install it keeps giving me errors. I also tried other versions of CM that I found on here via links. Right now my phone has no OS as another guide I read some where also said to wipe system data (sorry if that was stupid, I was just following a guideline) And even more stupid, no I don't have a backup because in my naivety and stupidity I didn't think I'd need one as it seemed so simple from all the guides and videos I'd seen.
Yesterday a friend of mine knowledgeable with tech stuff took one of the original stock Image ROMs I'd downloaded and using linux and some program he managed to do some crazy stuff I can't even describe on here. All I saw was a lot of typing of command lines and it got my phone working again, how ever it wasn't exactly the stock image I guess because the phone would not make or receive calls/texts.
Since my phone was powering on again and the android OS was loading I figured I could connect it to my computer and use KIES to download the official latest update so my phone would be back on the legit software. But trying to do that...well broke my phone again. So I'm at a loss now of what to do. Right now I can still get to download mode on my phone, but when I try to get into recovery mode I get an error that "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in KIES & try again." Which I've tried, and every time I try it gives me an error message.So I'm at a loss of what to do next.
So I'd like to get a working OS on my phone asap so I can get calls and texts.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. And being new I'm sorry if I broke any taboos or did not give some information that is typically given when describing a problem.
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I apologize in advance if any of this makes you roll your eyes at my stupidity.
Good Afternoon
I have an ATT samsung galaxy s3, Because of the glitches with 4.3 I was experiencing I decided to install custom software on my phone. So I looked up guides and got everything I needed. I did manage to get root access, and verified with super user. I also installed TWRP and CWM because each kept giving me errors when I tried to install CM 11 onto my phone. I tried CWM first, and when that didn't work I tried TWRP. It says there was no MD5 information found when I try to install any mod. how ever I have used the md5 file checker program and the MD5 matches up to what was listed in this one for example.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2518998
Download:
CM 11.0 Unofficial Beta 7 for d2tmo and d2att
MD5: ef93957db1e6704f23f9015231a82826
So the MD5 matches, yet when I try to install it keeps giving me errors. I also tried other versions of CM that I found on here via links. Right now my phone has no OS as another guide I read some where also said to wipe system data (sorry if that was stupid, I was just following a guideline) And even more stupid, no I don't have a backup because in my naivety and stupidity I didn't think I'd need one as it seemed so simple from all the guides and videos I'd seen.
Yesterday a friend of mine knowledgeable with tech stuff took one of the original stock Image ROMs I'd downloaded and using linux and some program he managed to do some crazy stuff I can't even describe on here. All I saw was a lot of typing of command lines and it got my phone working again, how ever it wasn't exactly the stock image I guess because the phone would not make or receive calls/texts.
Since my phone was powering on again and the android OS was loading I figured I could connect it to my computer and use KIES to download the official latest update so my phone would be back on the legit software. But trying to do that...well broke my phone again. So I'm at a loss now of what to do. Right now I can still get to download mode on my phone, but when I try to get into recovery mode I get an error that "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in KIES & try again." Which I've tried, and every time I try it gives me an error message.So I'm at a loss of what to do next.
So I'd like to get a working OS on my phone asap so I can get calls and texts.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. And being new I'm sorry if I broke any taboos or did not give some information that is typically given when describing a problem.
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same error happened to me yesterday and spent the whole day figuring it out. get into download mode. boot up ODIN and reflash your preferred custom recovery. after that, i couldn't find anything else to restore my phone with so i installed 4.3 leaked from here. doesn't matter which one you select. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2498233. place it on your sd card and head into recovery mode, wipe data/factory reset and cache. head to install zip from sd card and select the 4.3 zip you downloaded. reboot system and it should work. the at&t boot screen takes a while so be patient
MrHaPpY66 said:
same error happened to me yesterday and spent the whole day figuring it out. get into download mode. boot up ODIN and reflash your preferred custom recovery. after that, i couldn't find anything else to restore my phone with so i installed 4.3 leaked from here. doesn't matter which one you select. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2498233. place it on your sd card and head into recovery mode, wipe data/factory reset and cache. head to install zip from sd card and select the 4.3 zip you downloaded. reboot system and it should work. the at&t boot screen takes a while so be patient
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First of all thank you for trying to help me, I hope you are having a good Thanks Giving.
I used the thread you linked to, and downloaded the version with out knox. I followed the instructions
transferred ROM and flashed kernel file to SD card
used odin to flash TWRP,
used twrp to flash rom and kernel file.
and it takes the file thankfully, there's only one issue. My phone can't make or receive calls/texts. Is yours able to?
I messed up and was playing with things That I had no business playing with and decided that I should do a restore of a backup (TWRP) I made as soon as I rooted the 4.3 OTA. well it has soft bricked my phone. it was a TWRP 4.3 Nandroid and has me messed up a little.
so far I tried My nandroid (no dice now a soft brick) cleared cache and dalvik, It was booting as far as the white at&t spinning thing,
Factory reset same on booting,
Tried a format of the internal sd this is where it gets sketchy it now goes as far as the second samsung screen(the one that says Samsung GALAXY S III)
4.3 OTA .zip (no dice TWRP wont flash it) same on the booting 2nd samsung boot screen
Tried the files in the link above and got a Hard brick
Used the debricking .IMG file and got TWRP and download mode back
Any suggestions?
Looks like I might need a JTAG/RIFF BOX for this one. If nothing else I spent many Hours of darkness discovering the darkness of android 4.3
If I get recovered from this and with a different rom like 4.1.2 I will be happy. the 4.3 OTA was very stable but I did miss wifi tether and the whole hardbrick thing was kind of a bummer. it would be real nice to have an ODIN file to fix this (AHEM samsung) or atleast perhaps stopped the progression of it to a hard brick.
New update
I got my phone booting up again however there is a catch. That unbrick.img file on my 16GB sd card is still required to boot the phone and I have no cell service what so ever. Tried to check apn settings because at home I sometimes get poor service and I run net10 so I was going to fix my apn and it says insert sim??? the sim is properly inserted???
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the bootloader I flashed apparently flashed to the external sd card? I flashed another one and it is booting from the internal sd. I had to flash a different modem the one in the bootloader/modem file I flashed from the link above didnt take? I got most everything sorted out, but im getting tired, it has been an all night adventure. its 08:23 est now
sorry for the delay in updating this I had to get some rest.
theramsey3 said:
I messed up and was playing with things That I had no business playing with and decided that I should do a restore of a backup (TWRP) I made as soon as I rooted the 4.3 OTA. well it has soft bricked my phone. it was a TWRP 4.3 Nandroid and has me messed up a little.
so far I tried My nandroid (no dice now a soft brick) cleared cache and dalvik, It was booting as far as the white at&t spinning thing,
Factory reset same on booting,
Tried a format of the internal sd this is where it gets sketchy it now goes as far as the second samsung screen(the one that says Samsung GALAXY S III)
4.3 OTA .zip (no dice TWRP wont flash it) same on the booting 2nd samsung boot screen
Tried the files in the link above and got a Hard brick
Used the debricking .IMG file and got TWRP and download mode back
Any suggestions?
Looks like I might need a JTAG/RIFF BOX for this one. If nothing else I spent many Hours of darkness discovering the darkness of android 4.3
If I get recovered from this and with a different rom like 4.1.2 I will be happy. the 4.3 OTA was very stable but I did miss wifi tether and the whole hardbrick thing was kind of a bummer. it would be real nice to have an ODIN file to fix this (AHEM samsung) or atleast perhaps stopped the progression of it to a hard brick.
New update
I got my phone booting up again however there is a catch. That unbrick.img file on my 16GB sd card is still required to boot the phone and I have no cell service what so ever. Tried to check apn settings because at home I sometimes get poor service and I run net10 so I was going to fix my apn and it says insert sim??? the sim is properly inserted???
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Go into Settings, About Phone, Status and check to see if your IMEI and Serial Number are present. If you only lost your IMEI there's a guide on how to inject it back (I'm not sure where the guide is). However if you've lost your serial number and don't have a Nandroid that can restore it I don't know what to do.
spongdangly said:
Go into Settings, About Phone, Status and check to see if your IMEI and Serial Number are present. If you only lost your IMEI there's a guide on how to inject it back (I'm not sure where the guide is). However if you've lost your serial number and don't have a Nandroid that can restore it I don't know what to do.
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i have my serial number showing but no IMEI number. So is that all that's needed for me to be able to call and text again?
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i have my serial number showing but no IMEI number. So is that all that's needed for me to be able to call and text again?
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I updated my post above and showed my soultion. I simply had to flash a new modem and almost everything was kosher. I also had to flasah a different kernel but that was for preference not because things werent working.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47817339&postcount=23 Modem download
I used that modem, flash it and see if your problems go away. I use Net10 so after I flashed the Modem I had to create an APN aswell, but that is nothing new for me.
theramsey3 said:
I updated my post above and showed my soultion. I simply had to flash a new modem and almost everything was kosher. I also had to flasah a different kernel but that was for preference not because things werent working.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47817339&postcount=23 Modem download
I used that modem, flash it and see if your problems go away. I use Net10 so after I flashed the Modem I had to create an APN aswell, but that is nothing new for me.
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I will give that a shot, but what's an APN, sorry. And how do I create one, and is it needed for me to do so?
gvazquez82 said:
i have my serial number showing but no IMEI number. So is that all that's needed for me to be able to call and text again?
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It should be, I'm working right now so I don't have time to fine the guide on how to inject your IMEI. If I remember correctly it involves using QPST. If you have an old (or any) working Nandroid backup that should fix the problem.
FYI, make sure you don't use the guide for the international S3 as it has different hardware and folder structure/contents.
As for the APN, it should automatically fill itself in since it reads it off the SIM Card (I might be wrong).
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I updated my post above and showed my soultion. I simply had to flash a new modem and almost everything was kosher. I also had to flasah a different kernel but that was for preference not because things werent working.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47817339&postcount=23 Modem download
I used that modem, flash it and see if your problems go away. I use Net10 so after I flashed the Modem I had to create an APN aswell, but that is nothing new for me.
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I tried it and it work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
67 texts just came in. Sir, I thank you oh so kindly. You have made this gloomy rainy day oh so joyous.
No problem. Glad I could help you.
The real credit should go to -Mr.X-, loserskater and anyone else(no disrespect there were alot of files) whose stuff I tried to flash lastnight thank you all in the dev community who contribute.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda app-developers app
So I guess the next question, do I try again to install kit kat on my phone.
I've already made bucks of my existing working phone haha....but I'd still like to have kitkat in place. I believe the issue of my phone not reading MD5 confirmations would still be in place, does anyone know how to remedy that situation?
At the same time I'm more than happy to leave my phone as is.
gvazquez82 said:
So I guess the next question, do I try again to install kit kat on my phone.
I've already made bucks of my existing working phone haha....but I'd still like to have kitkat in place. I believe the issue of my phone not reading MD5 confirmations would still be in place, does anyone know how to remedy that situation?
At the same time I'm more than happy to leave my phone as is.
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Pretty sure you can turn off MD5 checks in TWRP. Probably in CWM too. Sorry if this has been mentioned. Didn't have time to read the whole thread. Just skimmed through.
2nd, there is a major difference between an IMEI that reads 0 and an IMEI that shows unknown. If it shows an unknown simply reflash your ROM and modem and you will be good to go. Sometimes a reboot is all you need. If your IMEI is showing a 0 on the other hand its gone and will require that it be injected back in which is a messy situation that usually results in tour phone being stuck on EDGE.
3rd, as someone mentioned on the previous page, restoring a working nandroid will NOT reinject your IMEI if it shows up as 0. No amount of flashing anything will get it to come back. Not even stock. It needs to be reinjected manually.
flexfulton said:
Pretty sure you can turn off MD5 checks in TWRP. Probably in CWM too. Sorry if this has been mentioned. Didn't have time to read the whole thread. Just skimmed through.
2nd, there is a major difference between an IMEI that reads 0 and an IMEI that shows unknown. If it shows an unknown simply reflash your ROM and modem and you will be good to go. Sometimes a reboot is all you need. If your IMEI is showing a 0 on the other hand its gone and will require that it be injected back in which is a messy situation that usually results in tour phone being stuck on EDGE.
3rd, as someone mentioned on the previous page, restoring a working nandroid will NOT reinject your IMEI if it shows up as 0. No amount of flashing anything will get it to come back. Not even stock. It needs to be reinjected manually.
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do you know of a good stable kit kat like ROM I could use for the s3? And any speculation as to why the ROMs werent taking for me?
Hello all!
This is my first foray into the world of custom Android systems, and I'm having a hell of a time with it... if somebody would be able to help me out, I would greatly appreciate it.
First off, the situation:
I am on Sprint, and I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy S3 (SPH-L710) from Sprint to use as a backup phone, I used it for a while on Stock, then deactivated it so I could give it to my wife. First though, I wanted to put a custom ROM on it, and experiment/play around a bit and see what this world of options could do for me. Long story short, I ended up flashing an AICP ROM, and everything seemed to go smoothly, but when I went to activate the phone on my account again and it would not work no matter what I tried (details below). I figured maybe I could activate on the stock setup then just restore my custom setup, so I tried to revert to my stock ROM backup and I couldn't do anything because I was constantly getting messages that various programs had closed... Then I tried to wipe and restore my custom ROM backup and I get stuck in a boot loop... so I tried to flash a stock recovery and I get stuck in a boot loop... I'm out of ideas here, and now I'm stuck with a phone I can't use or do anything with, and I can't activate.
Details:
The initial rooting/install process seemed to work ok, and was fairly straightforward. I followed various guides on http://galaxys3root.com/ to get my phone rooted and backed up (Don't recall which ones now, but I've read through so much by now I don't know if it matters...).
My phone:
Samsung Galaxy S3 (Sprint) SPH-L710
Modem: L710SPRDNJ2
My Desktop:
Debian Linux
Here's the steps I performed:
Rebooted phone in Odin mode
Downloaded CWM S3 Sprint Recovery from the http://galaxys3root.com/ website (can't find the link any more)
Flashed the CWM recovery using Heimdall then rebooted phone into CWM
Installed SuperSU through CWM, then rebooted
Checked that the phone was rooted successfully (it was), then ran Titanium Backup on the whole device to my SD card, then copied the backup files to my desktop computer
Rebooted into CWM, and performed a backup through CWM, then rebooted and copied the CWM backup to my desktop.
Downloaded AICP Rom for my phone from here: http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/GalaxyS3Sprint/roms/AICP/aicp_d2spr_lp-10.0-RELEASE-20150707.zip, put it on my SD card, then installed it through CWM and rebooted
At this point, I was happy with how everything was working, so I did some minor theme customizations then made another backup through CWM, and copied it to my computer, but I did NOT run Titanium this time...
After all of this, I tried to go ahead and activate it through the Sprint web service. This process failed continuously with an unhelpful error message of "Sorry, this device can't be activated right now". I then got on Chat to see if they could activate it manually, and then the problems began. They did their thing activating the phone, but when I booted up I got no data connectivity, and couldn't make calls, and the SIM was not changing over to the new number. I was on the chat with them for over an hour trying to get the situation resolved, but that finally ended when they started asking me to punch in ## codes, because I discovered that none of them worked on my custom ROM. Some quick research told me that this was non-trivial to get around so I had them switch everything back and I started researching the issue.
I found this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626638&highlight=sph-l710 that looked like it would let me do what I needed from the custom ROM, but I couldn't tell if it would fix my problem for sure, so I figured "I'll just restore my stock setup from that backup I took, activate it and update, then start over". This is when things got really frustrating...
First I rebooted into CWM, went to 'backup/restore', and restored my stock backup
Rebooted, and as soon as I got past the lock screen, I get inundated with messages of various apps being closed unexpectedly.
I researched a bit, discovered the issue may be caused by stale dalvik cache, so I rebooted into CWM, cleared the dalvik cache, formatted the /cache partition, then tried to restore the stock backup again, but this time I get stuck in a boot loop.
I then rebooted into CWM, tried to restore the backup of my AICP ROM, only to be stuck in a boot loop as well.
Trying to get into any usable system, I rebooted to CWM, cleared dalvik cache, then formatted /cache, /data, and /system just to be sure, and re-flashed the base AICP ROM I started with. This worked fine, and before long I had stock AICP back
Since I still couldn't get the phone to activate in the custom ROM, and my backups are apparently completely useless, I rebooted into CWM, wiped dalvik, /cache, /data, and /system again and tried to install a different stock ROM I found in the XDA forums (here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-sprint/development/stock-rom-4-4-2-t3010642) only to be greeted by another bootloop
At this point I've spent well over 24 man-hours trying to get this to work, reading, researching, flashing, etc all to no avail. Nothing I do seems to work, and it seems like every article, tutorial, or forum thread I read either has nothing to do with my device, is too old, or doesn't describe my problem.
I'm at wits end, and am so frustrated I'm ready to just give up and smash this device and buy a new one... My questions to the community are as follows:
I know I screwed up on a couple of things, but in my initial research of doing this there was no indication that these were even things I needed to watch out for... Is there any more organized sources of information for doing this sort of thing?
Does anybody else out there use Sprint on a custom ROM, and if so how you you pull this off
Where else have I screwed up, and how can I fix this situation? (My end goal is still to get the S3 onto Sprint with a custom ROM)
What can I do differently next time? I would like to figure this out and do it to other phones and devices I have, but if it's this much trouble every time, I just don't have the time to mess with it.
Thank you in advance, and I appreciate any information that the community can provide.
This sounds like a CWM problem to me. If I were you, I'd boot the phone into Odin Mode and flash TWRP ( www.twrp.me ) then try flashing the latest aicp nightly downloaded from the official site ( www.aicp-rom.com ). Check the md5sums on everything! Then maybe try flashing a touchwiz ROM and activating your phone. Remember that you need to wipe the internal storage when you go between KitKat and lollipop.
I'm fairly certain you have to do activation with the stock Touchwiz roms -- once the phone is activated you can flash a custom.
You should go into recovery and wipe everything (System/data/etc) EXCEPT for the External SD Card
Power off - pull the battery for a few - power on directly into download mode
Odin NJ2 back onto the phone and reboot and activate it (skip through most of the setup since you'll flash a custom after)
Once you know it's activated and working under the stock Touchwiz, then again power off and Odin TWRP recovery
Then you can go back into recovery, wipe everything except External SD, and flash the custom rom back on.
Looks like swapping CWM for TWRP did the trick.
Flashed TWRP no problems, and put CleanBean on there to get the phone activated. Still wouldn't work automatically over the Sprint website, but I got on chat with them and they fixed me right up. Downloading a fresh copy of AICP now...
Is it worth it to keep the CWM backups I made earlier, or should I just go ahead and flush them? I figured just get rid of them since restoring them wasn't working anyway, but I figured I would ask.
Now to move all the data over to the new phone. Thanks so much for your help guys!
afarris01 said:
Looks like swapping CWM for TWRP did the trick.
Flashed TWRP no problems, and put CleanBean on there to get the phone activated. Still wouldn't work automatically over the Sprint website, but I got on chat with them and they fixed me right up. Downloading a fresh copy of AICP now...
Is it worth it to keep the CWM backups I made earlier, or should I just go ahead and flush them? I figured just get rid of them since restoring them wasn't working anyway, but I figured I would ask.
Now to move all the data over to the new phone. Thanks so much for your help guys!
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Get rid of them. TWRP can't restore CWM even if the backup is good