I've been working off and on for a week on this and I'm guessing I'm out of luck but figured I'd ask just in case I missed something on here.
I've been attempting to resurrect my father's GNex. He had it working fine -- stock 4.2.2 via OTA updates - it's never even been unlocked -- and then suddenly it gets stuck in a bootloop. He tried resetting it back to factory settings but it continued the loop -- would get as far as the language selection screen and then would reboot.
I attempted to unlock/reflash using the toolkit and it would get stuck on flashing the CDMA radio -- will hang for hours if I let it. I've tried the current 4.2.2 build, the original 4.0.4 using the GalazyNexusRestore utility, and everything in between. I've tried flashing the radios via CWM as well.
Of course I only attempted this myself (I've been rooting and installing ROMs since the G1) because the warranty ran out in August. Is there anything else I can try before giving him the bad news?
first of all have you tried odin? (basically its samsungs flashing tool)
second of all is a verizon gnex or sprint? (both are cdma)
for verizon try this- http://www.galaxynexusforum.com/forum/rescue-squad/4707-how-return-stock-using-odin-vzw-lte-only.html
for sprint try googling for "sprint galaxy nexus stock odin files" (mainly all you need are the correct files for sprint and the guide in the verizon post should work)
Finally got around to trying Odin. Just gave it a go (I've got a verizon phone) and it failed on radio.img.
I assume that there's nothing else that can be done?
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Hi guys. I am stuck at an impasse here and I know someone here will be able to help.
My wife and I just bought two Samsung Galaxy 2 Epics (refurbished) from the retailer Glyde. I purchased from them because they are partnered with my new carrier, Ting.
My phone activated and ported my number with no issues. Everything works perfectly.
Her phone appeared to activate and then rebooted. It will not go past the Sprint 4G animated opening. I have rebooted, wiped cache, and done factory reset. Still ... 4G logo animation appears and the screen either goes black (appears to shut down) or it just stays on the 4G logo without moving on and then a few minutes later goes black. The phone worked fine before we tried to activate it. It logged in her gmail and connected to wifi.
I am able to get to recovery mode. I was probably going to root and cyanogenmod mine. In your opinion, would this type of action possibly correct the problem with her phone? Is it possible to root and flash the original stock rom in a situation like this? Would that even work seeing that factory reset did no good?
I have contacted Glyde and am waiting - they may or may not replace. If they do replace that is a 2-3 week turn-around. I would rather work some magic here, if possible.
Thoughts and help are appreciated!
Brian
You might have to Odin a stock rom most likely
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9/10 Times if you can Odin it, you can fix it. BUT, restoring to stock via Odin will break your flash.
Chances are your flash is already cracked up a little.
A simple cricket nv gen google search combined with Odin, drivers, and DFS Tool. You'll be able to get it back up and running smoothly.
And if your device was on a stock rooted ROM, and you have a custom recovery, then flash a 4.1.2 Custom touchwiz ROM. That way, no programming will be lost.
If you decide to flash an AOSP/AOKP ROM like Cyanogen you could possibly break your flash.
2 cents.
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Would you guys believe it was the battery? It was. I swapped batteries and the other phone started doing the same thing. Battery replaced and problem solved. I guess I panicked, but it sure seemed like a software issue. Thanks for the advice.
After browsing the internet all day yesterday I never did see an actual fix for this issue for this specific model. I did see a lot of random ones for different carriers which would probably work. But not for Sprint specifically.
Problem? My Sprint Galaxy Tab 3 7" failed at 27% whenever I attempted to update it.
Issue: The Tab was Rooted by my brother - who then Un-Rooted and returned it back to Factory before giving it to me. Then failed to mention he had rooted the thing to begin with.
Fix: Re-Flash using Odin and stock 4.2 image.
So I tried getting Kies installed and working. Tab would NEVER connect no matter what I did. I tried installing the USB drivers again (though the computer recognized the damn thing), reinstalling Kies, trying to put Kies into Compatibility mode (since I'm on Windows 8.1)
After ALL that I finally called my brother who gave it to me as a gift. Found out the thing may or may not have been Rooted. But he thought he had reverted it back to stock and un-rooted it.
So back to searching on the internet. Finally found this article: http://theunlockr.com/2014/03/21/unroot-samsung-galaxy-tab-3-7-0-sprint/ which suggested I try re-flashing using Odin to get rid of Root on the device.
I followed the steps in the article (Tip: Do a search on Google for the correct image zip for your model tablet and download it from androidhostfiles) Example for my specific model T217SVPUANB8: http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23329332407579787
Was able to restore it back to "true stock" and was able to update to KitKat. Kies started working finally. And all was well with the world again.
Oh, and I uninstalled Kies immediately after I was done with that POS software. :silly:
Hopefully this will help the I dunno the two other people that still have one of these that they received for free from Sprint.
Heya people.
I have a weird issue.
First some history.
I bought this phone years ago as a backup and soon after I decided I did not like it and got another phone. Meanwhile I fiddled with custom roms. This was back in 2012 probably so im pretty sure the rom that is on the phone now is Cyanogenmod unofficial android 4.0.
Phone boots fine but is quite unstable. random reboots etc when using it to its fullest.
I litterally threw it in a box, and forgot about it. until my mom called me needing an emergency phone. I remember I had it and offered it. Saying it could be there in about a day or 2. She needs a phone for a couple off weeks till her current phone gets replaced by Huawei since it broke. She specificly needed a simlock free phone. Mine is unlocked so that would have been great.
So I read up about Odin and how you are supposed to reflash to stock firmware. Downloaded the stock firmware from Samfirmwares. Dutch firmware. I downloaded 2 versions since there is a vanilla one and a vodafone branded one.(my phone is the vodafone branded one so I tried that one first)
First I used the newest Odin version and it didnt work. Got stuck on setup connection for about 5 minutes and then timesout with a fail.....
Ok so I went back to browsing and found that using a older version of Odin might work. Been there done that. tried 4-5 different lower numbered Odin versions. All the same issues. Switched USB ports multiple times and also doesnt work.
I am currently at a loss.
PS I also tried the Samsung Kies method.. Initialize firmware and upgrade. type model number(succes) type serial number(succes) then it tells me my device is unsupported for this method.
Hi!
I've been trying to root and flash Cyanogen 12 to my unlocked Fido S4 i337M (Canadian) to no avail.
I'm coming from a Nexus phone, and jumped right in assuming it would be just as easy with Samsung as with my Nexus, thought I could use a toolkit like Wugs NRT.
I was wrong. I finally got my phone rooted, Cyanogen flashed, but then I couldn't play any media, no music, browser crashed when YouTube was used, and I had no service most of the time, all sorts of crap, so I decided to go back to stock and figure this out later.
Things really aren't in my favour. Using Odin, I flashed the Rogers stock ROM from here: http://www.androidrootz.com/p/galaxy-s4-stock-firmwares.html?m=1
The wifi won't turn on, the switch goes over to on and flips right back, so I tried the Bell one, still no luck.
Can anyone help me? What's going on?
The problem you seem to have is that the stock firmware you've flashed probably won't be the right one, your modem part of the firmware will be different than the one you need.
Look for another firmware or next time when flashing anything make sure it excludes the modem part
Hi folks. Admitted Noob here asking for help.
[backstory]
After many years resistance I finally decided to get a phone. Freedompop's free plan was enough to push me over the fence. Found a nice S3 (L710VPUDOH1) on ebay and bought it. Everything was fine...except the stock rom had so much crap in it I was about to have a seizure. Back in the day I had put CM on a nookcolor so I thought that was the way to go. I consulted with a friend who assured me that CM played nicely with freedompop so down the rabbit hole I went.
[the first sign of trouble]
Installing CM went fine. Odin. Heimdall. I installed the latest clockwork mod touch recovery (6.0.4.5). Then I installed the latest CM snapshot (cm-12.1-20151117-SNAPSHOT-YOG7DAO1K7-d2spr.zip) and the appropriate gapps. Worked great. Nice and fast, good configuration options, no bloat....but it couldn't connect up to the 3g/4g network. Freedompop worked as long as WiFi was on and would not otherwise. Crap. What's the point of a cell phone if I have to have a WiFi hotspot???
Some googling revealed that the APNs were wrong so I tried that route. I was able to get LTE working but never got 3G. I live out in the boonies, so 3G is kinda important. Also found that CM breaks Sprint's PRL auto update which doesn't seem too happy.
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So, I decided to go back to the factory ROM and see how FP worked as I dutifully made a backup before installing CM. Now the SHTF. When I restore from backup in CWM (followed by a factory wipe data and cache to avoid the boot loop) the ROM cannot connect to Sprint's network. Doesn't know its IEMI or much of anything. It does connect up to wifi, log into my google account, get my paid apps, etc....but still no phone.
I installed Kies and attempted to restore/upgrade firmware (non-emergency mode). Kies got to about 66% and said there was an unexpected error. I'm guessing it didn't like the custom recovery and just plain quit on me. Was worried that I'd made a brick but alas I could still get to download mode. </bullet dodged>
I would like to put the phone back to stock (including recovery) but I have no factory recovery image. Does anyone have a recovery image for L710VPUDOH1? Alternatively, is there any harm in flashing the full ND8 onto the phone even though it had OH1 running before? I seem to remember reading things about bricking phones when trying to downgrade....which is in effect what I would be doing.
Any other suggestions about how to get back to stock would be most appreciated.
TIA
You can flash nd8. Nj2 is newer though. I don't think anyone has captured the oh1 tar yet. The only thing you should not do is flash anything before nd8 (pre Knox) like mk3 or older. Which is jellybean anyways so....
Hope this helps.
Yes, thank you; that was exactly what I needed to know.
I have a working phone at the moment so stock is not necessary required. For others that may be interested I flashed in Wicked X 8.2. From there the phone once again knew its IMEI and I was able to carrier reset and get it activated with Freedom Pop.