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I'm having a very strange issue with my device right now. Basically whenever I flash any custom ROM I end up in a boot loop. It started last night after I flashed a couple of CM10 based ROMs and then tried to revert back to Skynote which is touchwiz based. I was able to fix it by using Odin and flashing the stock Rogers ROM .tar file. That fixed everything and stock was running fine all night with no reboots or issues. This morning I did a fresh download of the ROM rebooted to TWRP wiped cache *2, Formatted system *2 and factory reset *2, installed the ROM and rebooted. I should mention I am using TWRP version 2.4.1.0. The ROM usually loads for about 1-2 mins then reboots and repeats over and over. Does anyone have any ideas? I've even formatted the internal and external storage. I did notice there is one folder on my internal SD card that I cannot seem to remove called Z and has a LMT.apk and another folder with wallpapers in it. I cannot delete or remove this folder as it keeps saying the folder is write protected. Even after formatting the internal storage that folder remains which makes me wonder if my SD card is screwed up.
Sorry for the long post but I am running out of ideas and don't want to be stuck on Stock. What could be causing this? I've tried flashing a new kernel from TWRP and still the same results, I've even tried different ROMs just in case but still the same results. The only thing that seemed to work so far was the stock ROM via Odin.
veebomb said:
I'm having a very strange issue with my device right now. Basically whenever I flash any custom ROM I end up in a boot loop. It started last night after I flashed a couple of CM10 based ROMs and then tried to revert back to Skynote which is touchwiz based. I was able to fix it by using Odin and flashing the stock Rogers ROM .tar file. That fixed everything and stock was running fine all night with no reboots or issues. This morning I did a fresh download of the ROM rebooted to TWRP wiped cache *2, Formatted system *2 and factory reset *2, installed the ROM and rebooted. I should mention I am using TWRP version 2.4.1.0. The ROM usually loads for about 1-2 mins then reboots and repeats over and over. Does anyone have any ideas? I've even formatted the internal and external storage. I did notice there is one folder on my internal SD card that I cannot seem to remove called Z and has a LMT.apk and another folder with wallpapers in it. I cannot delete or remove this folder as it keeps saying the folder is write protected. Even after formatting the internal storage that folder remains which makes me wonder if my SD card is screwed up.
Sorry for the long post but I am running out of ideas and don't want to be stuck on Stock. What could be causing this? I've tried flashing a new kernel from TWRP and still the same results, I've even tried different ROMs just in case but still the same results. The only thing that seemed to work so far was the stock ROM via Odin.
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I should probably add that I was coming from Android 4.2.2 and want to get back on 4.1.2
veebomb said:
I'm having a very strange issue with my device right now. Basically whenever I flash any custom ROM I end up in a boot loop. It started last night after I flashed a couple of CM10 based ROMs and then tried to revert back to Skynote which is touchwiz based. I was able to fix it by using Odin and flashing the stock Rogers ROM .tar file. That fixed everything and stock was running fine all night with no reboots or issues. This morning I did a fresh download of the ROM rebooted to TWRP wiped cache *2, Formatted system *2 and factory reset *2, installed the ROM and rebooted. I should mention I am using TWRP version 2.4.1.0. The ROM usually loads for about 1-2 mins then reboots and repeats over and over. Does anyone have any ideas? I've even formatted the internal and external storage. I did notice there is one folder on my internal SD card that I cannot seem to remove called Z and has a LMT.apk and another folder with wallpapers in it. I cannot delete or remove this folder as it keeps saying the folder is write protected. Even after formatting the internal storage that folder remains which makes me wonder if my SD card is screwed up.
Sorry for the long post but I am running out of ideas and don't want to be stuck on Stock. What could be causing this? I've tried flashing a new kernel from TWRP and still the same results, I've even tried different ROMs just in case but still the same results. The only thing that seemed to work so far was the stock ROM via Odin.
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Do you have SD Card adapter for the computer? If so, try removing the card from the phone, then plug it into the computer and formatting it that way. For the ROM boot loop issue, try flashing a stock ROM using ODIN, then using whatever method you like the most to flash the ROM you want to use.
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Do you have SD Card adapter for the computer? If so, try removing the card from the phone, then plug it into the computer and formatting it that way. For the ROM boot loop issue, try flashing a stock ROM using ODIN, then using whatever method you like the most to flash the ROM you want to use.
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I'm now pretty certain its a bootloader issue as I'm downgrading from Android 4.2.2 to 4.2.1 but thanks.
take your external sd card out and see what happens
wase4711 said:
take your external sd card out and see what happens
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I wiped everythign 2x and then I flashed the file you posted in the other thread and removed my SD card but still getting reboots. Should my SD card be called sdcard0 still in my files?
yes, your card will still be called sdcard0
take your external card out completely, and see if the phone still boot loops
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yes, your card will still be called sdcard0
take your external card out completely, and see if the phone still boot loops
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It still loops. This is crazy, when I used Odin to go back to stock it was working ok but everythin else has made it bootloop. I can try using Odin again when I get home and see if the restore SD card file works then. Does anything have to be done to the bootloader?
no, don't mess with the bootloader; you will probably brick it if you do
go back to stock via odin for a day or 2, and make sure its not the hardware itself..
wase4711 said:
no, don't mess with the bootloader; you will probably brick it if you do
go back to stock via odin for a day or 2, and make sure its not the hardware itself..
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So its not like moving back to ICS from jellybean where you had to flash a new bootloader?
Op you're on Rogers right? Make sure that you have the Skynote without the new modem.
~PsyCl0ne
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PsyCl0ne said:
Op you're on Rogers right? Make sure that you have the Skynote without the new modem.
~PsyCl0ne
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yes I am on Rogers, sorry but how can I tell that?
I don't think I have flashed a new bootloader more than once in the last 6 or7 years, on an htc evo4g..
you should not ever have to do that on this phone
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yes I am on Rogers, sorry but how can I tell that?
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oh wait I think I see what you're refering to. I wonder how many different mistakes I have actually made durring this fiasco of mine.... I'll give that a try when I get home and post back
veebomb said:
oh wait I think I see what you're refering to. I wonder how many different mistakes I have actually made durring this fiasco of mine.... I'll give that a try when I get home and psot back
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Okay I'm out right now but I'll check in every once in a while.
~PsyCl0ne
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Same here
I am having the same exact problem you are veeboom. It's not boot-looping because it actually lets me into the phone for about one minute; then it reboots. I have tried everything that you have tried, right along with you and result is nil. It won't stay on for more than a minute. The only difference is that I am just trying to get Roger's Clean Stock ROM working. It sounds like you have accomplished that and are trying to get a custom going. I have tried Odin flashing 3 times; once without the sd card. I am pretty sure SD card is not the issue. I have wiped this phone at least 5 times (everything except the the extSdCard (AKA sdcard1).
I am going to see if I can find some other posts on this problem and will let you know if I finally find a fix. Hope you will do the same.
Happy to report the end of the boot loop!
Although I'm kind of embarrassed to admit it was caused by an incompatible modem file I flashed over and over... :silly:
Thanks for everyone's help.
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I am having the same exact problem you are veeboom. It's not boot-looping because it actually lets me into the phone for about one minute; then it reboots. I have tried everything that you have tried, right along with you and result is nil. It won't stay on for more than a minute. The only difference is that I am just trying to get Roger's Clean Stock ROM working. It sounds like you have accomplished that and are trying to get a custom going. I have tried Odin flashing 3 times; once without the sd card. I am pretty sure SD card is not the issue. I have wiped this phone at least 5 times (everything except the the extSdCard (AKA sdcard1).
I am going to see if I can find some other posts on this problem and will let you know if I finally find a fix. Hope you will do the same.
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You should have started your own thread but can you give us a run down of what you did prior to having the boot loop?
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Things just got worse
I have have the phone for about two months. A week ago I rooted it with Samsung Note II tool box and everything was fine, until I found out that there were these "custom ROMs" available. So I flash one, but it was unstable. I flashed liquid smooth; same thing, then I tried a few ROMS that were a little more mature, but their were always things I could not live with (like no blue tooth or apps crashing). I also found out what a boot loop was all about. It sucked, but the forums help me get it fixed. Now I am tried of messing with all these custom ROMs and I just want my old reliable system back, with root. Currently I am trying to get Roger's CleanROM AT&T Special Edition 1.2 working again (with I believe I started with). I have been unable to remedy boot loops that happen about every minute. I have flashed, wiped (everything), unrooted, re-rooted, flashed with Odin, flashed core kernel via odin per instructions, called it bad names and threatened it; then said I was sorry. I have repeated all these things many times, including with and without the extSdCard. SD card does not seem to be the issue. I am still looking for more things to try. Just now it has started refusing to boot at all. I gets to the boot screen and gets stuck.
I am trying to find out more about how to use ADB to re-partition upon stock ROM flash. You know anything about that? I have been at this all day.
It sounds like you may have done the same thing I did which was flash an incompatible modem file. My suggestion would be for you to use Odin and flash back to the Rogers Stock ROM. It's easy and takes less than 10 minutes.
Basic instructions,
1. Download and unzip Odin
2. Put your phone in download mode (turn off your phone, and press the buttons together: vol down + home + power for a few seconds)
3. Run Odin then hit PDA button on the right side, then find and choose the firmware file you downloaded to be flashed.
4. Make sure your device is recognized in Odin3 (The ID: COM box near the top left part of the Odin program should go yellow once you connect your phone)
5. Make sure re-partition in NOT checked
6.Press Start to initiate flashing
7. Once finished your device should automatically reboot. You may need/want to do a factory reset which will wipe all your data and you would be back to the way your first got your phone. Enter into recovery mode by turning off your phone and next press the three buttons simultaneously: volume up + home + power. After getting into recovery, select Wipe/Factory reset.
8. Reboot
You are now stock 100%
Here is a link to download Odin,
http://www.mediafire.com/?x4356fnc1ge48hf
Here is a link to the Rogers stock ROM you flash with Odin,
http://www.hotfile.com/dl/180165074/47da708/I317MVLALJ2_I317MOYAALJ2_RWC.zip.html
Here is a link to a guide with some instructions and a few pictures,
http://www.andromods.com/unroot-locking/how-to-restore-samsung-galaxy-note-2-to-stock-rom-firmware-with-odin.html
I've got a T-Mobile Note 3 that I picked it up on launch day last Thursday at a T-mobile store. I proceeded to root the phone with Odin, then restore via Titanium Backup and then fix the backup with "restorecon -R -v /data". Life has been great until last night. Initially I got a circle with a line through it instead of the mobile signal and my cellular link would not connect, but my wifi was fine. When the problem was sill occurring this morning I figured it was an odd cellular problem and rebooted the phone this morning when it persisted. Now the phone is rebooting a few minutes after it completes booting.
It will boot normally, then I'll unlock the phone and get my window manager (Holo)...then I'll get the error "Process system isn't responding. Do you want to close it?". Then I get the error "Unfortunately, Favorite Apps has stopped." Regardless whether I interact with those error messages the phone then reboots a minute later. I have *not* done a restore from CWM ever and the phone doesn't seem to have suffered any physical damage.
The things I've tried include:
*) power down, remove sdcard, then reboot
*) power down, remove sim card, then reboot
*) power down, remove sim card, remove sdcard, then reboot
*) clear cache, then reboot
*) clear dalvik-cache, then reboot
*) clear dalvik-cache and cache, then reboot
*) clear dalvik-cache, clean cache, then wipe to factory, then reboot
In all the above scenarios nothing has changed. The phone reboots after it completes booting.
In the past, I've rooted and flashed on a G1, a G2, and an S3. I've bricked my S3 that had to be repaired via JTAG. This reboot problem with my Note 3 is completely unlike any of the things I've seen with previous phones.
I've read through some of the other threads about reboot loops, but all the threads I've read were caused by a CWM restore and have no solution yet.
Does anyone know the cause of this and what could fix it?
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I've got a T-Mobile Note 3 that I picked it up on launch day last Thursday at a T-mobile store. I proceeded to root the phone with Odin, then restore via Titanium Backup and then fix the backup with "restorecon -R -v /data". Life has been great until last night. Initially I got a circle with a line through it instead of the mobile signal and my cellular link would not connect, but my wifi was fine. When the problem was sill occurring this morning I figured it was an odd cellular problem and rebooted the phone this morning when it persisted. Now the phone is rebooting a few minutes after it completes booting.
It will boot normally, then I'll unlock the phone and get my window manager (Holo)...then I'll get the error "Process system isn't responding. Do you want to close it?". Then I get the error "Unfortunately, Favorite Apps has stopped." Regardless whether I interact with those error messages the phone then reboots a minute later. I have *not* done a restore from CWM ever and the phone doesn't seem to have suffered any physical damage.
The things I've tried include:
*) power down, remove sdcard, then reboot
*) power down, remove sim card, then reboot
*) power down, remove sim card, remove sdcard, then reboot
*) clear cache, then reboot
*) clear dalvik-cache, then reboot
*) clear dalvik-cache and cache, then reboot
*) clear dalvik-cache, clean cache, then wipe to factory, then reboot
In all the above scenarios nothing has changed. The phone reboots after it completes booting.
In the past, I've rooted and flashed on a G1, a G2, and an S3. I've bricked my S3 that had to be repaired via JTAG. This reboot problem with my Note 3 is completely unlike any of the things I've seen with previous phones.
I've read through some of the other threads about reboot loops, but all the threads I've read were caused by a CWM restore and have no solution yet.
Does anyone know the cause of this and what could fix it?
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I would just Odin to stock and restart. I'm guessing some app your restored form another phone did it.
YellowGTO said:
I would just Odin to stock and restart. I'm guessing some app your restored form another phone did it.
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I don't believe it was an app that was restored because the restore had run perfectly for 5 full days. I completed the restore last Thursday...that's what makes this so unusual.
Do you know where to get the stock zips to use with Odin?
digitalfiend said:
I don't believe it was an app that was restored because the restore had run perfectly for 5 full days. I completed the restore last Thursday...that's what makes this so unusual.
Do you know where to get the stock zips to use with Odin?
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There's some stock Odin tar files in the Android development forum. Download and flash using Odin. Once it reboots, remove battery and manually boot into stock recovery and do a factory reset/wipe. Reboot and it should work.
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jmerlos said:
There's some stock Odin tar files in the Android development forum. Download and flash using Odin. Once it reboots, remove battery and manually boot into stock recovery and do a factory reset/wipe. Reboot and it should work.
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It looks as if the stock tar in zip format (N900TUVUBMI7_N900TTMBBMI7_TMB.zip) can be downloaded from either of these links:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2465764 (faster download link)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2468275 (slow download link)
I just finished downloading from the first link and after extracting the zip file I have these files:
N900TUVUBMI7_N900TTMBBMI7_N900TUVUBMI7_HOME.tar.md5
SS_DL.dll
This seems like an obvious thing, but want to ask because of how odd this problem is: Do I simply flash the "N900TUVUBMI7_N900TTMBBMI7_N900TUVUBMI7_HOME.tar.md5" file the same way that I flashed the CWM through Odin?
Yes, but IIRC, just uncheck reboot, reboot manually into recovery, then wipe, factory reset, etc. Pull your battery, reboot. Check the TWRP thread, it has exact directions.
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Warrior1975 said:
Yes, but IIRC, just uncheck reboot, reboot manually into recovery, then wipe, factory reset, etc. Pull your battery, reboot. Check the TWRP thread, it has exact directions.
sgh-TWEAKED-889©
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Got it, thank you! Here's what I'm referencing for the Odin options:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=46110842&postcount=2
I'll flash this and update the thread.
Good luck bro!!
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Ok, I flashed with Odin then once it completed I got the "PASS!" status in Odin. I shut down Odin, pulled the battery from the Note 3, then allowed the phone to boot. There was a "booting recovery" message in blue at the top of the screen before the phone booted, then it booted to the "samsung logo", then the animated circular logo, then the white screen with the "T-Mobile 4G LTE" logo, then rebooted. The second boot, it did the same thing but stayed on the "T-Mobile 4G LTE" screen for many minutes...then it seemed as if it was completing it's reboot because I got the notification bar with the time and the circle with the line through it for the cell signal strength. I got the same error when the phone seemed to have completed booting, then a reboot. Now it's back to the same place it started in it's rebooting cycle.
This makes absolutely no sense at all. If I'd have done a CWM restore then I could understand that...but there's no reason for this that I can see. The phone acts as if it was knocked off of the T-Mobile network and now it finishes it's booting cycle long enough to be rebooted.
So now I have a useless Note 3. I'm game for taking the phone back to the T-Mobile store and requesting that they replace the phone, which they probably would, but I have no guarantee that this wouldn't happen again. I'm open to suggestions as long as they don't cause me to brick my phone completely.
I finished installing TWRP and darthrom successfully. However, after the darthrom finishes booting I have the exact same problem with the phone rebooting that the stock ROM had.
I'm back to square one.
I'm open to suggestions.
There are a lot of people having boot loop problems even without root though they are spread out among various sub forums. Try this thread for example:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2467005[Q] Reboot cycle after restart help
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Dumbo53 said:
There are a lot of people having boot loop problems even without root though they are spread out among various sub forums. Try this thread for example:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2467005[Q] Reboot cycle after restart help
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I saw a couple threads last night when I was searching around on the web about other models of phones with SIM socket and SIM card issues. I'm beginning to think that my issue is hardware-related, and not software. I did another wipe last night based on this thread's post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=46157872&postcount=6&nocache=1&z=7848000959493220
Instead of simply wiping, I formatted /data/, then wiped, then I flashed on the stock ROM, then flashed on the darth rom. I got slightly different results once the phone was done with it's firstboot - it kept giving me the error that a new SIM card had been installed and the phone needed to be rebooted. This causes me to suspect the physical hardware of my Note 3 or the SIM card. I have ruled out the SIM card because I've been using it in my old G2 since this started, via an adapter for the G2's SIM socket, and it's been fine. I'm planning on taking the phone to T-Mobile today and seeing what they can sort out with either a SIM exchange or phone exchange.
The note 3 misbehaved the same way while in the T-Mobile store. They swapped the phone out under warranty after asking only the basic questions and trying a factory reset. The same SIM card in the new note 3 works fine.
I'm on the same boat. Got my Note 3 this morning, rooted an hour ago with CMW, made backup and flashed Stock ROM from Jovy. Result: bootloop. Restore backup and still on bootloop. DLing the Odin stock .tar to see if it helps. Any more suggestions?
Edit: After flashing with Odin the stock tar from Sammy all it's good...at least for now.
Wally72 said:
I'm on the same boat. Got my Note 3 this morning, rooted an hour ago with CMW, made backup and flashed Stock ROM from Jovy. Result: bootloop. Restore backup and still on bootloop. DLing the Odin stock .tar to see if it helps. Any more suggestions?
Edit: After flashing with Odin the stock tar from Sammy all it's good...at least for now.
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How far into the booting process would you get before the phone rebooted?
digitalfiend said:
How far into the booting process would you get before the phone rebooted?
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Never passed Samsung! In my case, flashing the .tar with Odin from Samfirmware fixed my issue. I think imma wait for a more stable recovery.
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Wally72 said:
Never passed Samsung! In my case, flashing the .tar with Odin from Samfirmware fixed my issue.
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Interesting...it sounds like you had the boot loop that many others have had...it's cool to hear that you got it fixed. I think my problem was hardware-based since the phone completed it's boot process and *then* had issues. Luckily T-Mobile was there for me and helped out.
Wally72 said:
I think imma wait for a more stable recovery.
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I know what you mean as far as waiting for a stable recovery. If it's any help, I've decided to stay far away from the recovery restore and simply use Titanium backup to do restores. It's more work than a nandroid recovery, but it reliably does it's job well for me.
digitalfiend said:
Interesting...it sounds like you had the boot loop that many others have had...it's cool to hear that you got it fixed. I think my problem was hardware-based since the phone completed it's boot process and *then* had issues. Luckily T-Mobile was there for me and helped out.
I know what you mean as far as waiting for a stable recovery. If it's any help, I've decided to stay far away from the recovery restore and simply use Titanium backup to do restores. It's more work than a nandroid recovery, but it reliably does it's job well for me.
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Well...I'm doing a lot of reading. I can't stand this "stock look" and me, every time I root a phone, I always do my own modifications within the ROM I choose to flash. SystemUI and apk's. I only change the .png's, therefore, getting the visual look I want/like. Always done it with certain ROMs/Themes. I downloaded Jovy's stock ROM and made the visual changes I wanted. I flashed and got into that bootloop scenario. Restore backup with CWM provided by Zedomax and made it worse. I think the problem is recovery (at least from what I've read). In this case, CWM been less unstable than TWRP. I f you read a bit around, must ppl if not all, had the "dead bootloop" issue with TWRP. I haven't read from anybody yet having the "dead bootloop" with CWM. Ppl with CWM that flashed their backup and got that bootloop, fixed it flashing back to stock, where ppl that had TWRP have tried to flash back to stock and their phones never boot completely
Again...imma wait a little more for good reports as far as recovery goes!
Bigbiff has a file he uploaded, it may be a fix for the bootlooping issue. You'd be the first to try at this point. It's linked below, but the entire thread is in the OG development of tmobile.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46379854
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I've never seen so many issues with a brand new flagship phone before. Makes me think it wasn't tested fully before release. I mean all these problems!
Even though I returned my N3 after I tried restoring and getting bootloop of death, I feel this model is really flawed. Hearing new things everyday.
So, I was stock rooted and wanted the ota.
I defrosted everything in titanium, flashed to stock and took the ota.
Did a factory reset and found a few things...aside from could not stand the colors, my cover view would not work, and s health was goofy. Ok, so i wipe, odin, and reset everything back to 4.4...twice.
The second time to restore a downloaded from stock roms thinking I may have had a bad tar?
Anyway, when my phone boots up, i get "TouchWiz has stopped working"
...it starts on its own after a bit, then my keypad sounds turn themselves on every time i reboot.
Sure, i know...big world problems
Just wondering if anyone else has or had this, and what they did to clear it
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ibcenu said:
So, I was stock rooted and wanted the ota.
I defrosted everything in titanium, flashed to stock and took the ota.
Did a factory reset and found a few things...aside from could not stand the colors, my cover view would not work, and s health was goofy. Ok, so i wipe, odin, and reset everything back to 4.4...twice.
The second time to restore a downloaded from stock roms thinking I may have had a bad tar?
Anyway, when my phone boots up, i get "TouchWiz has stopped working"
...it starts on its own after a bit, then my keypad sounds turn themselves on every time i reboot.
Sure, i know...big world problems
Just wondering if anyone else has or had this, and what they did to clear it
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When you wipe, do you do system, data, cache, dalvik, internal storage?
I heard lollipop encrypts internal SD. Also, don't take the ota while you're rooted.
Just .tar the stock NK2, Wait for it to optimize for 15 minutes, do a prl profile update, then take the OTA. Don't touch it or do anything that involves using data in any way.
When you update, make sure you have 100% battery life or plugged in, once you're on LP, do another prl profile update and reboot, have it optimize again and then start setting up.
Edit..wrong thread
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In the past few days after flashing alliance v2 i noticed that my phone would freeze then power cycle when I attempted to make or receive a call. Everything else works, I tried a different rom and still having the same issue. Any ideas?
eeeeeeeeek said:
In the past few days after flashing alliance v2 i noticed that my phone would freeze then power cycle when I attempted to make or receive a call. Everything else works, I tried a different rom and still having the same issue. Any ideas?
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Take a look at posts 2 and 3 of this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3067828
HELP!!! Need a PIT file for N4
Odd problems that carry past factory reset and ROM flashes require a better flush. And clean install.
samep said:
Take a look at posts 2 and 3 of this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3067828
HELP!!! Need a PIT file for N4
Odd problems that carry past factory reset and ROM flashes require a better flush. And clean install.
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So I had already started when I saw that, though the second post on that thread is a little confusing. However I had already odin back, booted up, but didn't wipe it, so instead I hooked it up to samsung kies, and did a full restore from kies. Made a test call, still froze, and crashed. So re rooted and put twrp then did an excessive number of advanced wipes. I even used the repair option to repair system then data. Just flashed vision and waiting on it too boot to see. Should I move further questions to that thread?
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So I had already started when I saw that, though the second post on that thread is a little confusing. However I had already odin back, booted up, but didn't wipe it, so instead I hooked it up to samsung kies, and did a full restore from kies. Made a test call, still froze, and crashed. So re rooted and put twrp then did an excessive number of advanced wipes. I even used the repair option to repair system then data. Just flashed vision and waiting on it too boot to see. Should I move further questions to that thread?
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I'd suggest keeping your posts on this thread. Just referred to that to save time.
Try the steps. Ask if not clear. If it sounds too extreme, start with the factory reset, Odin and factory reset again before flashing a deodexed ROM like Alliance. Update with results.
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So I had already started when I saw that, though the second post on that thread is a little confusing. However I had already odin back, booted up, but didn't wipe it, so instead I hooked it up to samsung kies, and did a full restore from kies. Made a test call, still froze, and crashed. So re rooted and put twrp then did an excessive number of advanced wipes. I even used the repair option to repair system then data. Just flashed vision and waiting on it too boot to see. Should I move further questions to that thread?
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Ii did as follows and tried several other ways, same results on factory image, unless I have a bad image, I pulled it off of one of the forums here
Are you powering down prior to Odin of stock tar? Did you use your PC to download the tar? Have you tried doing this without the sdcard? The full wipes are important.
Try the NIE stock tar.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=56853341
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Are you powering down prior to Odin of stock tar? Did you use your PC to download the tar? Have you tried doing this without the sdcard? The full wipes are important.
Try the NIE stock tar.
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Ive wiped everything and formatted data repeatedly......I had a nand backup i forgot about, I'm going to restore that and see. I haven't tried flashing anything without the sd card from recovery, I have removed my SD card for the moment. It does seem like this is the issue, something with the partition. It's of course possible I didn't follow directions properly, though I feel I have. I'll also try NIE if need be. It's very bizzare issue. everything else works fine.
Update: Flashed NK2 stock tar, tried to make a call, same thing, phone freezes and powercycles.
Update 2: I even tried a different dialer, same results. Could a hardware issue cause this?
My suggestion is to try the factory reset, power down, Odin and Dial*##72786# to reprovision the phone; data profile update and try again.
Still fails? Could be hardware failure.
Anyone else?
samep said:
My suggestion is to try the factory reset, power down, Odin and Dial*##72786# to reprovision the phone; data profile update and try again.
Still fails? Could be hardware failure.
Anyone else?
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Ive done all of this, even the 72786, tried wifi calling too just to be sure. maybe something with the antennai
Outside of a good suggestion, I'd stay with stock, call Sprint support. If not resolved there, setup a tech appointment.
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I just got done taking the PG1 update and things were working fine except TitaniumBackup had the issue with the writing to SD Card. So I did some research and thought that I could modify the
Code:
/system/etc/permissions/platform.xml
, however when I rebooted the phone, I started getting the dreaded "NetworkSystemProvider" and "Google Play Services" stopped errors every few seconds. I have put the file back the way it was, rebooted, cleared cache & dalvik, but still I get the error. I really do NOT want to factory reset if I can help it.
It's frustrating even more-so because I generally run TitaniumBackups nightly and even TWRP backups pretty regularly too. I just hadn't gotten to one of the later, and ironically I was trying to fix the damn SD card write issue so that I could in fact do my TBs!! #FML
This seems like it should be something fixable no? I do have root and TWRP. I just can't find a good site that explains how to do it. I also tried to run the TWRP 'fix permissions' button too to no avail.
Can I just re-ODIN the PG1 or something worse case? And then re-root? ... without a factory reset I mean, so I keep my data and settings as they are?
I really don't understand how things go so jacked up from just changing an .xml file (and putting it back the way it was)??
Please help! Thanks!
Did you make a backup before you started modifying?
Did you try wiping cache and rebooting? Did you have a backup of the file you modified to restore? Check name and permissions?
If neither of the above help, factory reset and Odin again. Make a backup right after TWRP in case this happens again. Marshmallow is tricky and petty sometimes, unlike the earlier Android OS versions.
What you need is a PG1 modified services.jar for custom ROM. Don't recall seeing one shared for PG1. But there is a custom ROM in development forum.
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