Luckily this isn't my main phone as it's close to junk now, but I wanted to test out 4.2 since my current device doesn't have a ROM yet. That being said, I'm in a real sticky situation that I don't think is possible to get out of.
So here's the problem
-micro USB port is fried, only charges when 0% battery and off. Can't mount storage at all.
-when it boots start up apps force close and it's impossible to get to the homescreen because of infinite popups. Factory reset does not fix this. Why this is is a mystery since it's the gapps that are force closing.
-sdcard is now mysteriously empty. I'm almost positive that I didn't wipe it on accident.
I need to get a new ROM onto it since a full wipe doesn't fix the problem. I can't mount the sdcard/adb push/fastboot due to fried port, I can't download through wifi/bluetooth due to infinite force closes.
Is there any possible solution that I'm not thinking of that can save my beloved gnex?
EDIT: Never mind I fixed it. I ended up wiping data, system, cache, and dalvik individually instead of trusting the factory reset option to do it for me. This of course caused the ROM to be removed completely so there wasn't anything to boot into. I was messing around in the recovery since that's all I could do and I figured out that for some reason whenever I did a factory reset it created another /0 directory on my sdcard. I had something like /sdcard/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/ before I could get to my real /sdcard. I flashed a ROM I had saved and am now up and running again. If I didn't have that ROM saved, I would have been screwed for sure.
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I currently have SyndicateRom Frozen 1.1.0 installed on my Epic.
Today, the phone seemed to start repeatedly rebooting.
I pulled the battery and restarted the phone.
After it booted up, all of my apps that are on the SD card don't register as installed.
Most of the apps on the phone force close as soon as I try to boot them up. Including Gmail and Maps. The Market seems to be one of the few things I can actually get into. My Gmail account is still active on the phone after looking in the account list under the phone settings.
It also seems as if my Keyboard no longer has it's dictionary up to date with the things I've added. When I tried to swype in my email address, it doesn't register and I had to type it in again.
Not exactly sure what happened here, but my phone doesn't seem to do much of anything right now. I can get text messages and phone calls at least.
Anyone have any idea what may have happened or how to fix it?
Shinomitsu said:
I currently have SyndicateRom Frozen 1.1.0 installed on my Epic.
Today, the phone seemed to start repeatedly rebooting.
I pulled the battery and restarted the phone.
After it booted up, all of my apps that are on the SD card don't register as installed.
Most of the apps on the phone force close as soon as I try to boot them up. Including Gmail and Maps. The Market seems to be one of the few things I can actually get into. My Gmail account is still active on the phone after looking in the account list under the phone settings.
It also seems as if my Keyboard no longer has it's dictionary up to date with the things I've added. When I tried to swype in my email address, it doesn't register and I had to type it in again.
Not exactly sure what happened here, but my phone doesn't seem to do much of anything right now. I can get text messages and phone calls at least.
Anyone have any idea what may have happened or how to fix it?
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That is what happens when the phone gets improperly shut down with journaling off.
I'd say download 1.1.1 here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1091680, put it on your sd card (hopefully you have a way to get it on there... if not just wipe data cache and dalvik 3X and flash 1.1.0, put 1.1.1 on your sd card, wipe data cache and dalvik 3X and flash 1.1.1.) If you can put 1.1.1 on your sd, just wipe everything 3X and flash it through clockwork.
qbking77 said:
That is what happens when the phone gets improperly shut down with journaling off.
I'd say download 1.1.1 here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1091680, put it on your sd card (hopefully you have a way to get it on there... if not just wipe data cache and dalvik 3X and flash 1.1.0, put 1.1.1 on your sd card, wipe data cache and dalvik 3X and flash 1.1.1.) If you can put 1.1.1 on your sd, just wipe everything 3X and flash it through clockwork.
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Thanks for the info qb. The phone is definitely registering that the SD card is there. I can still browse my picture gallery and stuff like that.
Will flashing 1.1.1 restore the phone to the way it was or will I have to reinstall all of my stuff and restore all my data?
I can get 1.1.1 on the SD card I'm sure. Since it's reading the SD card, hopefully it will read it when I connect the phone to my PC. If not, I have a microSD -> USB drive that I can use.
You will need to restore your last known good data from a backup.
Do you BONSAI?
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Thanks for the info qb. The phone is definitely registering that the SD card is there. I can still browse my picture gallery and stuff like that.
Will flashing 1.1.1 restore the phone to the way it was or will I have to reinstall all of my stuff and restore all my data?
I can get 1.1.1 on the SD card I'm sure. Since it's reading the SD card, hopefully it will read it when I connect the phone to my PC. If not, I have a microSD -> USB drive that I can use.
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If you have made a nandroid backup since flashing this rom you can just restore that. If not, then you will have to restore everything after wiping everything 3X and flashing the rom again. I'd recommend going to the 1.1.1 thread and look in the first or second post there is a way to turn on journaling and that wil eliminate this problem from happening again.
Well after wiping everything and installing 1.1.1, now it won't connect to my Wireless network.
keeps saying "connecting..." then goes right to "disconnected."
This really sucks.
Edit... wait.. that was my network being a little *****. No problems.
qbking77 said:
If you have made a nandroid backup since flashing this rom you can just restore that. If not, then you will have to restore everything after wiping everything 3X and flashing the rom again. I'd recommend going to the 1.1.1 thread and look in the first or second post there is a way to turn on journaling and that wil eliminate this problem from happening again.
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Wiped everything and installed 1.1.1 and all is well now. I actually didn't have a recent back up (shame on me) so I'm starting fresh again.
Thanks for the info.
Back story: Every time I turn on / reboot the phone, the media process would crash. It didn't look like it affected anything but annoying non the less. In an attempt to fix it (which I did, so far) I cleared the data from "Media Storage." This deleted all my pictures, which is fine - they're all automatically backed up with Dropbox.
Now, all of the factory sounds are gone.
Is there a way to restore them or copy they back into the correct folder on the phone? I'd like to avoid wiping the phone, if possible. If I have to do a factory reset, it's not the end of the world, but just a PITA.
Thanks in advance!
Hey guys, got a strange problem here. I'm running MIUI-XJ 2.3.30 A2SD.
Had 8 apps to update via Google Play and 31mb internal left (over 600mb on sd-ext, too). In the middle of updating the apps I've got a Google Play crash followed by few other fc's, phone said my internal memory is too low to operate and such - so I tried the most obvious fix, which is of course rebooting the phone.
That was a mistake, apparently. Phone will not boot anymore - goes through the bootscreen and gets stuck on the yellow MIUI splash. It's not a bootloop, the phone just freezes and the only thing I can do is battery removal. Tried booting it up with no sd card as well, nothing seems to help though.
Is there anything I can do except full wipe via recovery? I had some important sms and spent quite a bit of time customizing the desktop, I'm not to keen on doing that again.
Is it possible to delete some apps via adb or something like that? Or is there a point in trying to install the rom again on top of my system?
Thanks in advance, help really appreciated!
Try clearing dalvik cache and cache from recovery and then boot. Thereafter clear some space or change your a2sd scheme.
Thanks for the answer! Makes me feel silly I did not think of that myself lol, sounds like an obvious solution.
Problem is, it still does not seem to help though - wiped /cache and dalvik-cache on data, sd-ext and system - still nothing, same problem persists. Stuck at MIUI bootanimation.
Any other ideas? I'm really kind of desperate to recover the data.
- Take a nandroid backup first. So you can start over if need be.
Some things to try
- Only flash ROM and see if it helps.
- Wipe data. Flash ROM fresh. Install Titanium Backup. With TB locate nandroid on sdcard and try to extract your data. Maybe restoring the launcher and messaging will do the trick. Not sure . Try. You can always start over.
- Fix permissions in recovery
There's an app called AROMA Filemanager that can be started from recovery and allows you to modify all phone partitions, all you need is to mount them before starting the app. Here it is:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25911276
Tried flashing the ROM again on top of my system - no effect whatsoever, still gets stuck at bootanimation. Also, tried the permission fix as well as the RMD recovery "apk uid mismatches" fix. Still nothing.
Going to give the AROMA a try, having some problems right now though - using RMD recovery, no touch support. Trying to flash 4ext touch from fastboot somehow!
Thank you. Will keep you updated.
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Managed to get the AROMA up and running, deleted few apps from /data/apps, nothing to delete from /system really. /cache is cleared, so are all 3 dalvik-cache folders.
System still does not want to start.
Any ideas what might have happened? Seems like I'm running out of options and will have to do a clear install, after all.
You probably damaged some important system files so tho phone can't load system. The best solution is to restore some nand backup if you have, or to do a full wipe and start from scratch.
Sent from my HTC Desire using Flashes and Thunders
If that was the case, reflashing the ROM on top of my current system should fix the problem, while it didn't - right? Also, I find it hard to believe that "important system files" could have been damaged during routine Google Play apps update...
Than a full wipe and fresh install is inevitable...
Sent from my HTC Desire using Flashes and Thunders
I know it may sound weird, but apparently the two topics listed in the subject are related. Starting maybe a couple of months ago, after about a week of watching YouTube and/or other internet videos, as well as local videos on my external SD card, the video display starts glitching full screen, and eventually starts glitching when windowed (or not full screen) as well. When I wipe cache via Recovery (Philz) this problem goes away, but it takes a LONG time to wipe the cache -- like over 10 mins. I've owned numerous phones and tablets (mostly Samsung) and none of them have ever taken that long to wipe the cache partition. Even right after I wipe it, if I wipe it again it still takes >3-5 minutes to wipe (an apparently empty) cache partition.
I've tried formatting it instead of wiping it, but I'm guessing they're one and the same thing because it takes the same amount of time no matter which menu option I choose. Also, I was using TWRP when I first discovered this problem, and that's why I switched to Philz Recovery because I thought the problem might be TWRP. I'm not running anything fancy -- just the latest rooted stock ROM. I only rooted it after receiving the latest OTA and finding out about the stupid external SD card access limitation that came with Kitkat. Otherwise I probably would not have ever rooted it as I didn't really feel the need to even though almost all my other devices are rooted.
Anyone know (1) Why this video issue is happening in the first place and (2) what could be wrong with my cache partition?
I went into recovery mode and wiped everything clean\reset everything, and then installed the last stable CM for LG G3 D855, but it keeps crashing all the time. I can't get past the wi-fi connection thing when you first start the phone. Though I can open "settings", but that's about it. It keeps crashing to black screen and going back to the first page when you first turn the phone on - where you choose language.
How can I fix this?
P.S.
Is it possible the last install corrupted something? Internal memory? RAM?
Now I managed to get past all of it, but it says memory is going low and there is not enough space for the system, while there is 24.5GB!
What can I do?
(all the apps keep crashing)
Wagnerian said:
Now I managed to get past all of it, but it says memory is going low and there is not enough space for the system, while there is 24.5GB!
What can I do?
(all the apps keep crashing)
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sounds like one of your partitions may be too small were they modified and did you install the right rom?
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to be clear make sure you are flashing the right rom for your phone
wipe system / data / cache / dalvik
flash cyanogenmod and micro gapps
wipe cache / dalvik
reboot system
tell me if problem persists.
if so which gapps did you install, try switching to micro version if the problem is system partition that should fix it.
Thanks. I tried that but it didn't work.
How to I change the partitions?
Fixed by installing stock ROM. Looks awful, though, so I'll try moving to cm13 again...