Okay, this might not be the place to get some divine intervention to start (or stop) happening, but I'm really starting to get a nervous breakdown and I desperately need some help. I'm going to tell you my story, because it's my last resort before throwing this phone in a fire and never buy anything Samsung related ever.
So the phone came out of the box and for some magic reason I got the bootloader unlocked and phone rooted. It all started with installing CWM I think. This stopped my phone from taking OTA updates. Of course I could have known, but for some reason I installed CWM. I don't know why! I regret it, I don't even want a different ROM installed, I thought it was necessary to root the phone. So when I got the OTA, at first I was like YEAH YEAH, but then the on the back laying android with the exclamation mark turned up and I felt like I wanted to kill someone. It was 2 in the morning and I had to get up early to go to Dublin for two weeks. This was really not the time...
So after trying a few times of getting the OTA update message again and failing every time I got it, I started searching. Yes, CWM is installed so you can't OTA they all said. Nice, now I hate on the back laying androids AND CWM. Of course the one to hate is me, but I already hate myself so that's no use. Anyway I used the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit 5.6 to put back stock recovery. Now I had to wait a few weeks again before the update turned up again... By this time the phone started to be REALLY slow when scrolling through the home screen(s). It also is empty before the day is done, but I don't know if that's because of the phone being f'ed up or because I'm too demanding.
Anyway, back to the story. Finally the update came about a week ago, and again I was like YEAH YEAH! But then the on the back laying android with the exclamation mark turned up and I felt like I wanted to kill someone. To make things more fun it did a reset of my Go Launcher, 7 screens of widgets and autistic arranged shortcuts gone... Of course I wanted to try again, so this morning the OTA came again and had the same result. By now I killed quite a few, so this has to end, but don't worry there is more torment ahead.
I can't figure out what is wrong now, so I thought, f~ this s~, this phone deserves a full undress and back to the womb operation. So installing all Galaxy Nexus Toolkit v6.0 stuff and drivers. Connect phone, start toolkit, choose 3 (GSM 4.0.2. build ICL53F), phone turns up in main menu, try to put back recovery, -waiting for device-...
It stopped... Or it didn't really stop, it just stood there saying, -waiting for device-... So again a few innocent people died. Tried a different choice, (relock bootloader, just to give the phone a good beating) -waiting for device-...
I raged, pulled my hair, again killed a few, silently cried in a corner and finally started typing this eulogy...
Please kind sirs and madams, help me get this phone back to stock 4.0.4, accepting OTA, bootloader unlocked and rooted, I'm really desperate...
Why did you even root it? If u have root and cwm, you should be able to flash the rooted version of whatever stock os update you want. OTA's are a waste, you just wait a few hours for xda devs to root it and make it flash able.
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How do you proceed?
First you need the SDK for you system
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
After this you have to start the SDK manager and install "Android SDK Tools" and "Android SDK Plattform-tools" if you are using Windows you have to install USB drivers too. You could find this under the point "Extras".
After that you have to download the factory image to clean your device, once.
(Notice your SD-Card gets wiped)
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Look for right version, which fits to your device.
Now you have to bring your telefon into the bootloader by pressing all 3 buttons at the same time Volume+/Volume-/Power. After this you have to unlock your bootloader if you don't already done this.
Now plug in your phone into your computer an go into the unpacked folder from your factory image. There would be an file called flash-all. You have to run this file. Now your phone is flashed with stock rom, stock kernel newest baseband and stock recovery. Now you get ota updates from google. After this you should look for an howto root your phone in the developer section. You don't have to install clockworkmod recovery for rooting. But clockworkmod isn't change the ota. You get OTA with cwm.
Hope i understand your problem an you could understand my bad english. But i want to help. If some questions ask here into the thread.
regards
theSlack said:
Why did you even root it? If u have root and cwm, you should be able to flash the rooted version of whatever stock os update you want. OTA's are a waste, you just wait a few hours for xda devs to root it and make it flash able.
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I'm out of the house a lot, leaving for Brussels in a couple of hours. I don't want the hassle anymore. I just want to be able to leave the house to go to another hotel and update OTA. I don't have time for all this flashing stuff.
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When the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit says "-waiting for device-..." you need to turn off your phone, press the volume down then the volume up then the power button together. Once you have done that the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit will continue.
There is also tutorials on youtube on how to use the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit.
I hope that helps.
If you want to head back to stock ROM, then one of the ways to do it would be to install Android SDK & then follow the instructions from Google developers site.
Else you can try using the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit to do this for you. I think the latest version is 5.7.
Android SDK - http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html
Android Images - https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#yakju
Galaxy Nexus Toolkit - http://windows.podnova.com/software/5996358.htm
smsmad said:
When the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit says "-waiting for device-..." you need to turn off your phone, press the volume down then the volume up then the power button together. Once you have done that the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit will continue.
There is also tutorials on youtube on how to use the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit.
I hope that helps.
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Ah yes, I now see where I went wrong with the toolkit, I didn't put the phone in fastboot. Stupid...
How is the stock recovery supposed to look like? After putting back stock recovery with the GN Toolkit, I press 'vol+/vol-/power' and choose recovery. It then displays the belly up android with exclamation mark. Is that the way it should be? Am I doin' it wrong?
yes it is the stock recovery. But you dont need it. Flashing everything into fastboot mode(bootloader)
So, I'm currently running a stock phone, but OTA won't update my phone...? Why is OTA constantly failing if I'm running everything stock? Is my bootloader supposed to be locked? Is a rooted phone not updated OTA?
If you flashed the latest Factory-Image there is no OTA out there. It is the newest version of ICS for your Device.
Maybe i don't understand what you mean with failing OTA. Could you explain it a little bit more?
As I said in the long story, I'm currently 4.0.2. and every time when my phone says, "You have update 4.0.4. standing by, please reboot" it fails.
i would prefer to flash the factory image and root your phone again
then you have a cleaned phone and OTA should work but you don't need them because you are at latest version.
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
i wrote how you could flash it page before, remeber you wipe your data from sdcard
Lex_Michdeandroid said:
So, I'm currently running a stock phone, but OTA won't update my phone...? Why is OTA constantly failing if I'm running everything stock? Is my bootloader supposed to be locked? Is a rooted phone not updated OTA?
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I don't know if I can answer why the OTA isn't working (I'll leave that to smarter men than I), but having an unlocked bootloader and root access won't stop the OTA. I had my phone in that state when the 4.0.4 update came out and all was fine, just had to run the command to get root of my phone again as OTA removes root.
Ah great! S~ has just hit the fan, it's bootlooping after trying option 8 (flash stock rom from google). Oh I really am going to kill myself sooner or later...
Edit: not killing myself yet, just had to pull the battery... Let's see what I f~ up next...
Very strange you problems i don't know the Toolkit and don't know how it flash the stock rom. But i could imagin that it only flash rom and not the other things like recovery and so on.
Try out the hard way without toolkit and use sdk and included batch file into the factory image. it is the clean way and you see whats done.
Ok, I now rebooted the phone after option 8 in the toolkit and it seems I'm running 4.0.4. I have to go to Brussels now for two weeks, but I'll try to post some screenshots later. I'll also be back to thank all of you for holding my hand, I just don't have the time right now. Of course this won't be my last problem (I still have a TF101 that needs some RMA action), but I hope I won't be needing too much time consuming support anymore.
Just got in the hotel, and unable to use my phone in Belgium. No available network... Wifi works, 2G/3G works in The Netherlands, 2G/3G unavailable in Belgium...
Screenshot of my device: http://oi46.tinypic.com/34xp89y.jpg
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Just tried my SIM in a different phone, problems are with my network. Phone works with different SIM, so false alarm.
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If you dont want to root and or flash roms, and knowing android its buggy and you gotta be stuffing with the phone all time to be able to be up to date, cuz even google releases updates oftem and even with OTA things can go wrong, meaning you have to do stuff again...
Dont blame Samsung or google the whole system needs some fixes all time.. I was devoted to stock but after i tried AOKP (Milestones) i wont ever go back to stock and or another rom, these guys has loads of features for a better user experience, stable as hell, and great support, but as you show with your very active/traveling life and those killer instints (poor innocent people), why dont you just go Iphone?
No need to flash anything and will plain work... Thats it no need to worry about anything but being an apple fan boy xDD
Cheers
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msedek said:
If you dont want to root and or flash roms, and knowing android its buggy and you gotta be stuffing with the phone all time to be able to be up to date, cuz even google releases updates oftem and even with OTA things can go wrong, meaning you have to do stuff again...
Dont blame Samsung or google the whole system needs some fixes all time.. I was devoted to stock but after i tried AOKP (Milestones) i wont ever go back to stock and or another rom, these guys has loads of features for a better user experience, stable as hell, and great support, but as you show with your very active/traveling life and those killer instints (poor innocent people), why dont you just go Iphone?
No need to flash anything and will plain work... Thats it no need to worry about anything but being an apple fan boy xDD
Cheers
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I rather eat my own shhhhh... shorts than buy something with an apple on it. With the help of you guys it always works out fine, it just takes a life or two.
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2 days had passed since I bought SGN and already I had loved it. I had rooted it using Nexus Root Toolkit and pushed the 4.1.1 JB update. Last night suddenly and without a particular reason while I was out I was unable to make calls. The mic and speaker wouldn't work. Also the screen opened with no reason and closed after a few seconds. I came home and wiped data and cache via CWM. The problem was not solved. As a friend suggested I also formated everything, system etc. But due to the fact that I was used to my HTC Desire having an SD card I forgot to push the ROM. Since SGN does not have an SD card I can't do it anymore.
I tried pushing the ROM via Nexus Root Toolkit but I was unable due the fact that I must have USB Debugging on. Also every other feature of the Nexus Root Toolkit must have USB Debugging on. Well, I have no operating system to do that so... The only thing I want to do for now is to push a ROM in my phone to install Android again. Any ideas or directions on how to do that?
Thank you in advance.
did you do a backup?
Can you get it into fastboot? Maybe try pushing the factory JB image through fastboot flash boot.img?
Somebody tell me if im on the right track.
get into fastboot and flash a factory img via gnex toolkit or manually
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You could probably push the ROM though fastboot using adb commands, but besides that do an Odin (the easy way out) restore but it would completely wipe your phone.
Firstly, thank you all for the quick response. I did use Galaxy Nexus Toolkit and managed to return to ICS stock. More of that, mic and speaker now work (!). I wonder if that problem knocks my door again though... One more (smaller) problem this time. For a peculiar reason my SGN does not mount when I connect it to the PC. I tried the laptop, no luck there too. The phone charges and I have enabled USB debugging. Any suggestions/directions to that?
Thanks in advance.
p.s.1: I already have thanked the ones who pointed me in the correct direction.
p.s.2: Definitely I'm going to donate a beer to the developer of Galaxy Nexus Toolkit!
EDIT: Since this has become into a new problem and probably not connected to the previous, I opened a new thread here and marked this as solved.
Today while I had my phone connected to my computer I heard some popping noises and smelled burning plastic. Apparently this has happened to other Galaxy nexus's. So I have my phone insured through Verizon. I can get a free phone if the malfunction is hardware failure but costs money otherwise. My phone still functions other than not being able to use the microusb. I'm trying to restore it to stock so I can bring it in and get a replacement handset.
All of the methods I've seen in my searching for restoring to stock require usb connection. I'm trying to find someway to restore my phone using clockworkmod. I can't find any stock android zip files out there to install via cwm. Anyone have any idea of a way I can restore it to stock without using the usb connection?
assuming you have root, you can do this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.mobileodin.pro
Zepius said:
assuming you have root, you can do this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.mobileodin.pro
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Do you think copying in the individual image files and overwriting them in a nandroid backup I have and then do an advanced restore for each of the images work?
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There are stock cwm zips in the development section.
Edit: here's a link for a rom, it's deodexed, and otherwise stock, but VZW will never figure that out:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2176954
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There are stock cwm zips in the development section.
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Can you point me in their direction? I've been looking around and haven't found anything.
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If you have all of the files you need on your computer, you can use apps such as tappin or WiFi_ftp to put them on the phone wirelessly. I don't know the mechanisms to apply them once they are on the phone, but at least you can get them on the phone without the USB. On mine, the USB connector broke so I have to use ftp or tappin to move files to and from the phone, and charge the battery outside of the phone. Too bad Samsung never produced a pogo-capable product.
I had a beautifully running dlk3 at&t SGH-I747. had problems with battery so I flashed odin to stock DLK3. then I took the OTA from at&t and let it complete. at the end I told cwm not to let it lose root or lock boot loaders, I answered 2 questions about preserving root and secured or some thing like that. rebooted and I have the jb4.1.2 . all good.
you know I gotta see if I am missing out on any thing by using cwm to preserve root ect.
so I start over clean DLK3 take the OTA form At&t . this time I have cwm not interfear. ok great i'm jb 4.1.2 again works good.
I used CF-Auto-Root-d2att-d2uc-samsungsghi747 and now I get fail at system. as you can tell i'm still learning and learning my lessons, but if some one could direct me to what step I should try i'd appreciate it.
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after I tries keis to fix it it failed and after a battery pull and retrying odin to DLK3 stock. open oden , plug phone in com does not light up but it lists the top 0 failed threads. so I un plug and plug in and retry DLK3 and end up taking screen shots
I have lost my recovery all together I only have download mode
Start with the basics...try a different micro usb/usb cable. Then if that doesn't work, try a different usb port on the pc. Don't use a hub. Make sure the phone's micro usb port is clean of debris, as well check the ends of the cable and usb port to make sure they are clean.
The cable is usually the cause of the failure in urs and other similar instances. :thumbup:
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Start with the basics...try a different micro usb/usb cable. Then if that doesn't work, try a different usb port on the pc. Don't use a hub. Make sure the phone's micro usb port is clean of debris, as well check the ends of the cable and usb port to make sure they are clean.
The cable is usually the cause of the failure in urs and other similar instances. :thumbup:
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thankx for your reply I broke out the original usb cable and tried different portsand stilo the same.
I here searching the forums now looking for a clue as what to do to get my stock recovery back.
Just for giggles, try using Odin v3.07. Several people say the version your using is ok, but I've always used 3.07 on the s3 with no problems.
that's the version I'm using. I found a pit file reset it and got a recovery flashed. it allows flashing from external storage, but when I try to do that it sends me to the internal storage where I cannot put a file yet.
I'm thinking about sending it to get jtag repaired but then I wouldn't have gotten to fix it my self.
as I know see I flashed cf auto root on locked boot loaders ( the method of checking for locked boot loaders I used was dumb) and I got bit.
can any one tell me of how they handled this?
thankx
Bootloaders on this device, I747/m, are not locked, afaik. And the screen shot you posted was from Odin 1.81.
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Try flashing lg1 stock, not rooted. It will o wipe your internal sd, but may get you fixed up. Lg1 is the only full wipe stock package we have.
oh crap i now know what happened. th file that had odin 1.81 in it. i knew better but it was in the pre packaged auto root for the at&t sgh-I747.
after you pointing out i didn't use the rite one for the auto root (even tho i uves 3.07 sgs3 odin rite after i didn't notice that i used 1.81.
thats why i posted the errors in full scren shot just ncase i did some thing stupid hopping some one would point it out.
so i can get in to download and if i work at it i can now get into a buggy but usable stock recovery.
i was using stock not rooted DLK3 from the same place as the Lg1. i tried but still only barley alive.... but i believe i can fix it. no proof yet tho.
i already bought a brand new sgh-I747 off of swappa and it will be here about the 9th. so now i have time to fix it. it'll be a project / testing phone.
now that i know that the http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1963790&highlight=autoroot where i downloaded http://autoroot.chainfire.eu/ sgh-I747 file using odin 1.81 packed in with it, and followed all the instructions.
i am using odin 3.07 galaxy 3 odin.
can any one help me on what i could do with my testing phone to fix it if i can adb in?
and suggestions will be considered.
i don't post much. i'm a reader but i had to speak out as i'm running out of options.
i read this forum more than the news. i'm always a little behind the development thats going on and i follow as a student.
I broke the digitizer on my note 2, completely destroying any chance of ever being able to view the screen again. Also, I never set up my note II in android device manager to be able to erase it. I bought a new phone, have no desire to put a new digitizer in this phone, and want to sell it. What are my options?
Samsung dive you tried?
Unfortunately I didn't set up Samsung Dive on my phone either.
You could flash your existing rom (if you know which one you had) through odin.
Only thing you have to do 'blind' is bring device in download mode (with device off...volume down/home/power...wait a bit...volume up....hook to your computer and odin suppose to say 'added').
If you don't know which rom was on it, search sammobile for the latest one and flash it as described...make sure it is a full wipe rom (otherwise your data will stay). I think the roms on sammobile that have the orange Kies symbol next to it are non wipe, the ones with grayed Kies symbol are full wipe, but don't shoot me for that
Another solution to be sure of a full wipe rom is to find a similar one here on the forums and ask in the specific thread.
The phone wasn't flashed...
For 'flashing' a rom through Odin your device would not have to be flashed in the first place.
Flashing in this case just means putting the original firmware back on it.
If you don't know which firmware was on your device give Sammobile a try to find the latest firmware.
Sorry, I meant the phone was never even rooted...
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In the following link at post 6 you can find emergency factory reset firmwares which also reset your SD card personal information etc. Unfortunately the links was at hotfile which is not working anymore, but I saw at same thread some users have uploaded them to other servers search the thread starting from last post to first and u will find the links. The thread has installation instructions via odin. After installing browse your SD card via pc at android/data to see if any data of your installed application exist, if not and are only the applications which coming with phone means that your phone reseted successfully
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1915386
For flashing via pc odin you have to go blind as nirak wrote to u earlier for entering at download mode. Follow his instructions to enter download mode and after the instructions of the thread I gave u. Also u have to install first Samsung kies software for the drivers and after to enter at task manager at your pc and terminate all the processes of kies, 4 processes if I remember well because kies don't allows to flash via odin. You need it only for the drivers.
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