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Fresh 0.3 Reboot

Got a slight issue...flashed system fine and messed up trying to customize my bootscreen...anytime I try to mount as a disk drive the phone freezes then reboots.
Only thing I can think of is the 'mount' command in shell. Didn't mean to run the command, but I did. Is there an easy way to fix this?!
I've tried re-flashing the ROM and fixin the permission...neither worked.

l3l2ad said:
Got a slight issue...flashed system fine and messed up trying to customize my bootscreen...anytime I try to mount as a disk drive the phone freezes then reboots.
Only thing I can think of is the 'mount' command in shell. Didn't mean to run the command, but I did. Is there an easy way to fix this?!
I've tried re-flashing the ROM and fixin the permission...neither worked.
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what commands did you use...? nothing in customizing bootscreen should damage anything on your phone...?
Last resort = RUU back to stock re-root and reflash..

So why did you feel you needed to make a new thread about this instead of just posting in the thread itself which is already dedicated to the rom and issues...

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Tenny said:
So why did you feel you needed to make a new thread about this instead of just posting in the thread itself which is already dedicated to the rom and issues...
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because it would get buried and no one would read it for days... hes hoping this way to get a speedy answer... im sure if you felt like you screwed up your phone somehow you'd be clicking on new thread to get as much help, as soon as possible... ???
if you cant help or are willing to help stop cluttering the forums with your "forum police" attitude...

i'm not going to answer your question specifically BECAUSE you made a new thread instead of posting in the existing one.

l3l2ad said:
Got a slight issue...flashed system fine and messed up trying to customize my bootscreen...anytime I try to mount as a disk drive the phone freezes then reboots.
Only thing I can think of is the 'mount' command in shell. Didn't mean to run the command, but I did. Is there an easy way to fix this?!
I've tried re-flashing the ROM and fixin the permission...neither worked.
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wipe everything then try to reflash.

wrx4memp said:
what commands did you use...? nothing in customizing bootscreen should damage anything on your phone...?
Last resort = RUU back to stock re-root and reflash..
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I used the 'mount' command while in shell.
Thanks for the help even though I posted WRONG.
I got my issue fixed by using a nAndroid backup..retsored and th issue was gone. I'm thinking the problem happened because I didn't have the droid SDK on my PC..fixed that too!

haha. mount by itself only displays the current mounted volumes. there isn't anything you can do with mount alone in order to render your system unusable.
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geekykid said:
haha. mount by itself only displays the current mounted volumes. there isn't anything you can do with mount alone in order to render your system unusable.
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Thanks for the info...well im not sure what happened then LOL I'm tryin to teach myself so go easy on me

back to stock

I checked the forums and couldnt find my answer.
I am rooted and have twrp, and the android market installed. I would like to go back to bone stock.
I can just reset the KF under device right? How do I uninstall twrp?
Thanks

No thats incorrect you dont just reset the device you must wipe well and flash stock I must tell you numerous people are bricking themselves fairly bad attempting to do the same personally I would avoid it just flash modaco instead other than that the method to return to stock is in the second post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1638452

And actually it might even be a safer approach to revert to stock from a stock like rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1439916

Bricked beyond all recognition baby!
Thepooch said:
No thats incorrect you dont just reset the device you must wipe well and flash stock I must tell you numerous people are bricking themselves fairly bad attempting to do the same personally I would avoid it just flash modaco instead other than that the method to return to stock is in the second post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1638452
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android.process.acore
process.android.providers.calendar
These are wise words indeed. Installed Twrp and MiUI ics rom and played with it but gave up after day or so and was headed back to stock... battery was/is apparently too low AND I keep getting 2 force close errors for (right after boot) ...
-android.process.acore
-process.android.providers.calendar
(happens right after the UI starts loading ... if Im quick enough I can get one of the homescreen apps to load, but I notice the settings menu item or none of the software buttons for home, etc are there
... then after I click the force close button it just starts to boot again... not enough time to try to get twrp back on to handle boot so I can wipe and try to flash update.zip (the fires stock rom).
Oh well, its only 200.00 and I'll be getting another one I guess. glad it was with this and NOT one of my smartphones I tinker with from time to time. lesson learned about playing with rom flashing when battery is low I guess.

putney1477 said:
I checked the forums and couldnt find my answer.
I am rooted and have twrp, and the android market installed. I would like to go back to bone stock.
I can just reset the KF under device right? How do I uninstall twrp?
Thanks
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Even if you want to go back to pure stock, keeping/reinstalling both TWRP and FFF are the safest and smartest things to do.

Thepooch said:
No thats incorrect you dont just reset the device you must wipe well and flash stock I must tell you numerous people are bricking themselves fairly bad attempting to do the same personally I would avoid it just flash modaco instead other than that the method to return to stock is in the second post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1638452
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Wow.....looks complicated. I just rooted and flashed twrp yesterday, wish I never had. I want to sell my kf, but I want it stock. Reading the post, it looks like I will mess it up pretty badly. I dont know how to use adb
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putney1477 said:
Wow.....looks complicated. I just rooted and flashed twrp yesterday, wish I never had. I want to sell my kf, but I want it stock. Reading the post, it looks like I will mess it up pretty badly. I dont know how to use adb
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The only mention of ADB is "adb push C:\kfu\software\update-kindle-6.3.1_D01E_4107720.bin /sdcard/update.zip", which you can easily avoid if you don't want to touch ADB.
Just rename your downloaded file to update.zip (watch out for the file extension, Windows hides most of them on default settings), then just copy it into your KF like you do any other file. Do not place it in any subfolder.
Be sure to follow the steps carefully, or else you may end up with a soft brick (fixable).

Dasanko said:
The only mention of ADB is "adb push C:\kfu\software\update-kindle-6.3.1_D01E_4107720.bin /sdcard/update.zip", which you can easily avoid if you don't want to touch ADB.
Just rename your downloaded file to update.zip (watch out for the file extension, Windows hides most of them on default settings), then just copy it into your KF like you do any other file. Do not place it in any subfolder.
Be sure to follow the steps carefully, or else you may end up with a soft brick (fixable).
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Ohhh ok so i just change the file to update.zip and flash it In twrp? Will that break root too? So thats all i have to do to get back to stock? Should i wipe in twrp before i flash?
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tamaker said:
android.process.acore
process.android.providers.calendar
These are wise words indeed. Installed Twrp and MiUI ics rom and played with it but gave up after day or so and was headed back to stock... battery was/is apparently too low AND I keep getting 2 force close errors for (right after boot) ...
-android.process.acore
-process.android.providers.calendar
(happens right after the UI starts loading ... if Im quick enough I can get one of the homescreen apps to load, but I notice the settings menu item or none of the software buttons for home, etc are there
... then after I click the force close button it just starts to boot again... not enough time to try to get twrp back on to handle boot so I can wipe and try to flash update.zip (the fires stock rom).
Oh well, its only 200.00 and I'll be getting another one I guess. glad it was with this and NOT one of my smartphones I tinker with from time to time. lesson learned about playing with rom flashing when battery is low I guess.
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I have the same problem, but my battery was 100% when flashing back. Is this good night for the kindle then?
It boots in to the 6.2.2 software, but these errors pop up and force close then eventually does a restart. Dammit!

putney1477 said:
Ohhh ok so i just change the file to update.zip and flash it In twrp? Will that break root too? So thats all i have to do to get back to stock? Should i wipe in twrp before i flash?
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No, that's not all you should do to get back to stock... follow ALL the STEPS. Wiping is VERY important. Ie, don't just rename the file to update.zip and flash it right away, or you'll most likely end up with a soft brick. I was only clarifying that one specific step.

Dasanko said:
No, that's not all you should do to get back to stock... follow ALL the STEPS. Wiping is VERY important. Ie, don't just rename the file to update.zip and flash it right away, or you'll most likely end up with a soft brick. I was only clarifying that one specific step.
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oh ok, thanks

Just a side note after restoring to stock you need to then perform a factory restore as well which will wipe your sd card if all goes well it should smooth out from there

Dasanko said:
The only mention of ADB is "adb push C:\kfu\software\update-kindle-6.3.1_D01E_4107720.bin /sdcard/update.zip", which you can easily avoid if you don't want to touch ADB.
Just rename your downloaded file to update.zip (watch out for the file extension, Windows hides most of them on default settings), then just copy it into your KF like you do any other file. Do not place it in any subfolder.
Be sure to follow the steps carefully, or else you may end up with a soft brick (fixable).
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Anyone know how to check to see if windows adds .zip? Like how do I check the default settings for file extensions. Also do I need to unroot before I flash back to stock? or will flashing take care of that for me?

putney1477 said:
Anyone know how to check to see if windows adds .zip? Like how do I check the default settings for file extensions. Also do I need to unroot before I flash back to stock? or will flashing take care of that for me?
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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/show-or-hide-file-name-extensions That applies for Vista/7. XP is almost the same.
Flashing back to stock will undo anything you've ever done or had on the device, except for the contents of /sdcard (the stuff you've copied to it from the computer).

Dasanko said:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/show-or-hide-file-name-extensions That applies for Vista/7. XP is almost the same.
Flashing back to stock will undo anything you've ever done or had on the device, except for the contents of /sdcard (the stuff you've copied to it from the computer).
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OMG! I can't thank you enought for taking the time to answer all of my questions!!! It worked!!!! I am back to stock! (I had no doubt, thanks to you!) THANK YOU!!!
Heather

Sudden Boot Loops - I'm Lost

I've been using my Galaxy Nexus for a month or so, with the official JB ROM (JR30C or whatever, deodexed and rooted) and today I opened Gmail.
That's it. I opened GMail, switched accounts, and my phone has been bootlooping ever since.
I wiped everything in CWM multiple times and reflashed it, and I can't get the phone to do anything else.
Any clues?

Do you have a working nandroid? Have you tried flashing a different ROM?
Allons-y

Xfanatic said:
Do you have a working nandroid? Have you tried flashing a different ROM?
Allons-y
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I do not have a working NANDROID. I wasn't sure about the Internet policies at work, but it looks like I can at least make it on here, I'm not sure I'll be able to download another ROM.
I'm confused though, I mean I know it would help to try as many options as possible (to fix it) - but this ROM has been working for weeks. And the phone died randomly, not due to a recent file change or a botched program. The only boot loops I've experienced before were on the Nexus One, and it was always due to a buggy/bad flash or a corrupted ROM download - this one just developed epilepsy on its own...

Here's my plan, since these are the only things I can manage to download due to restrictions on Internet usage at work.
Factory 4.1.1 takju image from here : https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#takju
Modified ODIN software here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1586807
ODIN won't rewrite my bootloader, recovery, or userdata, since I already OEM unlocked, but will reflash a stock image.
EDIT: ODIN won't do anything with my device. Trying this ROM instead:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801664 was using bigxie OTA before.

is your (sd)storage recognized? thus is a similar symptom to when the stirage goes bad.

Hook the phone up to adb, boot it, and let logcat run. Maybe that will turn something up.
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simms22 said:
is your (sd)storage recognized? thus is a similar symptom to when the stirage goes bad.
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Hmm, you know, I'm not able to find the option to mount to USB in CWM...and just in case I forgot where that is, when I plug it in, I get the "hardware failed" noise from Windows and not the usual friendly "plug in" sound.
infazzdar said:
Hook the phone up to adb, boot it, and let logcat run. Maybe that will turn something up.
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I'm at work, and I only have my work computer. Group/secpolicy won't allow me to install anything, no admin rights, etc.
Would it even do anything? The phone barely makes it through one second of the boot animation before it loops.

sheik124 said:
Hmm, you know, I'm not able to find the option to mount to USB in CWM...and just in case I forgot where that is, when I plug it in, I get the "hardware failed" noise from Windows and not the usual friendly "plug in" sound.
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you cant mount the sd card. there is no USB mass storage period. not in recovery or booted normally.

Zepius said:
you cant mount the sd card. there is no USB mass storage period. not in recovery or booted normally.
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Oy. Then how do I get another ROM on here? fastboot/adb?

sheik124 said:
Oy. Then how do I get another ROM on here? fastboot/adb?
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Adb push.
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Zepius said:
you cant mount the sd card. there is no USB mass storage period. not in recovery or booted normally.
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sheik124 said:
Oy. Then how do I get another ROM on here? fastboot/adb?
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Got more than one additional ROM on there via adb/recovery - my clue that CWM hasn't actually been able to do anything since the phone start looping is I'm still getting my custom boot animation.
I'm using the toolkit to reflash a stock image now. What a mess.
Even reflashing a stock image via fastboot did nothing. WTF happened to my phone? Won't stay on long enough to get a logcat

I'm having the same problem as this guy:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1827685&page=2
I just got finished trying to flash 4.1.1 using ODIN. It still shows me the custom animation from bigxie's ROM (which has supposedly since been overwritten 2-4x times).
Screw you Samsung...this phone is a month old, I flashed -once- to rooted Jelly Bean, and the phone dies when I open the GMail app.
EDIT: WTF - I write screw you Samsung, it boots to the Welcome screen! Just long enough for me to see that my files aren't on it anymore, then it bootloops again. And again. Now it's re-stuck in a bootloop.
And now I'm at the homescreen. I can't rely on this thing like this...is my flash dying or something?

Nobody?
It worked long enough for me to re-enter all of my different Google account information and now it's dead again. Now it only flashes the boot animation for a split second for bootlooping.

I'm thinking of a hardware defect.
Beamed from my Grouper

Mach3.2 said:
I'm thinking of a hardware defect.
Beamed from my Grouper
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Mee too. As you can see from my signature, I gave up and bought a One S yesterday night from Craigslist. Feels like a true successor to the Desire / N1. It's nice to finally have an AMOLED screen that actually seems color calibrated after the ugly mess that was my RAZR and my less than perfect GNex. It's a damn shame how much more painless flashing a recovery was on this thing.
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How to Unbrick a Hard Brcicked T-Mobile Note 3 SM-N900T

This is how I un-hard bricked a T-Mobile Note 3 SM-N900T
Part 1: What you need
A SD Card that is the Same Size as your Phone's internal memory. Mine was 32GB and I used it.
The unbrick image which can be found here: mega.co.nz/#!wxZh3CwR!UU1OBBAHACKHEO0eMK4crHBjKXUKJ7y8-vqjkQGzsMY
A program to put the image on a SD Card which is here for windows users: sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager
The Stock ROM. I got mine here. samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SM-N900T
ODIN 3.04 (this is what I used): mega.co.nz/#!xw4FHBzD!Zw9EMltI0g5AZYspg8aM6hFSXJFiiwCRORMqxoandW8
Part 2: Prep
Get the battery charged to 100%.
Find a PC and plug the powercord (microUSB Cord) directly into the motherboard. NOT ANY OTHER PORT.
Format the SD Card to ExFAT you need from Part 1.1.
Using the #3 Program from Part 1.3, burn the image to the SD Card. Its simple.
Part 3: Turn it on
Put the battery into the phone.
Plug the charging cord into the phone.
Put the phone into download mode by holding: <Volume Down> + <Home Button> + <Power>
Once you are in download mode press <Volume Up> to enter download mode. Now go to part 4
Part 4: Putting the ROM back on
Don't Deviate from anything here or do extras.
Open Odin from Part 1.5.
Press PDA and Select your STOCK ROM from Part 1.4
Wait a min for Odin to analyze the file.
Hit Start on Odin.
Part 5: How about someone get a MOD to fix the links in Part 1
How about someone get a MOD to fix the links in Part 1 as I was unable to link Properly. I am not going to do it because it pissed me off. :silly:
Notes:
Turn it on was just basic as can be, It just popped right on. Per the USB Ports I did use a USB-3 Ports on the back of my machine. I am not sure if that would make a difference or not.
Credits:
Credits are due, but I need to research who to credit again... It is Christmas Eve, and I am going drinking. I will do this on Monday when I get back to work.

So are these the instructions on the other thread I'd say is the original M
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Thanks! Whats with the grey letterboxing? Thats probably killing your link. Glad the info on the thread helped you unbrick your device! Because when you pmed me asking me how to do it, I had no idea you already knew Until and if it is fixed, copy/paste works fine.

msmercy42 said:
Thanks! Whats with the grey letterboxing? Thats probably killing your link. Glad the info on the thread helped you unbrick your device! Because when you pmed me asking me how to do it, I had no idea you already knew Until and if it is fixed, copy/paste works fine.
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system did it automatically. I have no clue why. I do like how it boxed out the parts.
and it is the why you do it from the other thread... I was asked to put links to what I used and how I did it. Nothing pisses me off more than having to dig through a thread looking for the solution. I just put it on top of a new thread. This way people don't have to dig. It does make sense if you think about it.

Imagine how much digging I had to do about two months ago when it seemed like I was the only person in this forum asking about it. Reading the pages in the thread I created answers alot of questions, and has detailed information that could prevent future mistakes that could result in such. Also at the same time actually learning something about the way file system repair and recovery on android can work.
It's all in the way you look at it. I'd open a bag of chips, crack open a beer, and read the whole thing - especially if I could learn new things - no matter how experienced I am.

chuko303 said:
So are these the instructions on the other thread I'd say is the original M
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These are the steps zinnium took in order to get his to work, but the other thread is the original.
The other thread was pieced together from over a month of research and trial/error. We tried several methods, dug up some secret Samsung documents (credit given to those provided), and then came up with the OP solution by finally piecing some things from the sgs3, sm-n900a, and help from some experienced devs.
The important thing is though, that the method works.
Anyway, @OP, the image I have on media fire seems to download better. Take that link from the other thread and post here. MEGA sucks donkey balls IMO. There servers are slow, and always makes you wait forever.

ive never heard of anyone needing to connect the device before it would sdboot, so the following steps arent needed:
Find a PC and plug the powercord (microUSB Cord) directly into the motherboard. NOT ANY OTHER PORT.
Format the SD Card to ExFAT you need from Part 1.1.
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HOLY S#!T, That's LEGIT!
A-effin'-MAZING!! I CAN'T THANK YOU ALL ENOUGH!
I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT WORKED!
I couldn't resist recording my first attempt. BOY I WAS SURPRISED!!
*For The Record; Shabby is correct, you don't have to be plugged into any external power source, for this to work...
**ALSO!; The Stock ROM may not always be needed, depending on the individual and their case's circumstances...
I've had ppl tell me that no matter what, they try turning on their phone(SGN2/SGN3/SGS4) and it automatically goes into download mode(without showing the warning screen)... So since it wouldn't boot system OR Recovery, I'd try Button-Combo into ODIN-mode, and press Volume-down at the warning screen, and system would boot!
I Had a hunch that might work in this case, and it DID! lol.
Now I'm just trying to put the unbrick.img onto the sdcard I wrote it to... I can't seem to get MTP up, through USB, though ADB works fine...
**EDIT: I forgot, that before I Bricked it, I had the USB settings to DM+MODEM+ADB, cause I WAS unlocking it...
(until a slip of a click and I wrote a backup of the NVdata to the EFS... =/ )
But, after I put the sdcard into my laptop, realized there's not nearly enough room to copy the .img to it...
***SO.... How am I supposed to be able to "dd if=/sdcard/unbrick.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1024 count=168960"?
I can't put the .img on the sd? Do I put it on the internal? or do I put it on another sdcard and put it in??
**** ACTUALLY, NVM.... THAT'S what I'm gonna do! XD ha
*****
[email protected]:/ # dd if=/storage/extSdCard/unbrick.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1024
count=168960
ck.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1024 count=168960 <
168960+0 records in
168960+0 records out
173015040 bytes transferred in 9.488 secs (18235143 bytes/sec)
[email protected]:/ #
=AWESOME!

M1k3Carson1369 said:
A-effin'-MAZING!! I CAN'T THANK YOU ALL ENOUGH!
I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT WORKED!
I couldn't resist recording my first attempt. BOY I WAS SURPRISED!!
*For The Record; Shabby is correct, you don't have to be plugged into any external power source, for this to work...
**ALSO!; The Stock ROM may not always be needed, depending on the individual and their case's circumstances...
I've had ppl tell me that no matter what, they try turning on their phone(SGN2/SGN3/SGS4) and it automatically goes into download mode(without showing the warning screen)... So since it wouldn't boot system OR Recovery, I'd try Button-Combo into ODIN-mode, and press Volume-down at the warning screen, and system would boot!
I Had a hunch that might work in this case, and it DID! lol.
Now I'm just trying to put the unbrick.img onto the sdcard I wrote it to... I can't seem to get MTP up, through USB, though ADB works fine...
**EDIT: I forgot, that before I Bricked it, I had the USB settings to DM+MODEM+ADB, cause I WAS unlocking it...
(until a slip of a click and I wrote a backup of the NVdata to the EFS... =/ )
But, after I put the sdcard into my laptop, realized there's not nearly enough room to copy the .img to it...
***SO.... How am I supposed to be able to "dd if=/sdcard/unbrick.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1024 count=168960"?
I can't put the .img on the sd? Do I put it on the internal? or do I put it on another sdcard and put it in??
**** ACTUALLY, NVM.... THAT'S what I'm gonna do! XD ha
*****
[email protected]:/ # dd if=/storage/extSdCard/unbrick.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1024
count=168960
ck.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1024 count=168960 <
168960+0 records in
168960+0 records out
173015040 bytes transferred in 9.488 secs (18235143 bytes/sec)
[email protected]:/ #
=AWESOME!
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Dangit! STILL can't get it to boot back up without the sdcard in it...? =/

Did you flash the stock firmware in odin...?
Also are you SURE that you have a HARD brick? It sounds like you've got a soft brick which has nothing to do with the method we are using here.
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M1k3Carson1369 said:
Dangit! STILL can't get it to boot back up without the sdcard in it...? =/
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you need to have teh sdcard in there, boot to download mode and flash a full odin tar that includes the bootloaders.
once that's all said and done youll be good

shabbypenguin said:
you need to have teh sdcard in there, boot to download mode and flash a full odin tar that includes the bootloaders.
once that's all said and done youll be good
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Dang! Samsung-Updates is giving me a hard time trying to download from the links (tera-something 7 something-gator)...
Alright, if that's the only choice... =/ ha
ecs87 said:
Did you flash the stock firmware in odin...?
Also are you SURE that you have a HARD brick? It sounds like you've got a soft brick which has nothing to do with the method we are using here.
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Yes, I'm quite sure. Read back through the original thread, you'll see my description of it.
**Oh, you know what? While I wait for a successful download of complete stock rom, I'm gonna plug back into the box, and see if maybe rewriting the original backup of the EFS will fix it... (It was originally a mis-click that bricked it to begin with.. Accidentally wrote a backup of the NVdata to the EFS 0_o)
Worst case scenario; I end up still waiting for the download anyway! (if I can ever get it to start dl'ing)

M1k3Carson1369 said:
Worst case scenario; I end up still waiting for the download anyway! (if I can ever get it to start dl'ing)
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Do you have the SM-N900T? I can pm you my Dropbox link to download the stock firmware.
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lm that guy said:
Do you have the SM-N900T? I can pm you my Dropbox link to download the stock firmware.
Sent from my SM-N900T using Tapatalk 2
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That would be AMAZING! I'd really apreciate it. Thanks!

Hahaha! Success!!!! >=p
WOW!!!
I gotta say, when the only Sign of life I got were "QHUSB_BULK" and Google only found FIVE hits relevant, which were all questions about it as well!?! I was pretty distraught. Thought for sure I'd end up having to send for JTAG, or worse, a replacement... 0_o
But Now, Beyond my most wishful thinking, an unbrick method so simply straightforward and effective.... I'm still trying to pull my Jaw back up...
Thank you all; msmercy42, noobtoob, ecs87, aiti1980, shabbypenguin, lm that guy, & especially zinnium (for testing/confirming)!..! And any contributors whom I failed to mention!
Thanks for all your experience and efforts! That right there is why these forums exist...

Hey I appreciate the thanks, you're welcome!! Just glad to help! This is exactly what I started the thread for! Couldn't have done it without the big time developer support, and from Senior members you listed above - we made a great team!! Merry Christmas!

msmercy42 said:
Hey I appreciate the thanks, you're welcome!! Just glad to help! This is exactly what I started the thread for! Couldn't have done it without the big time developer support, and from Senior members you listed above - we made a great team!! Merry Christmas!
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@msmercy42, i really did think you had completed it back on the original thread. It was so goofy when it kicked on right before I read you email that you never got it to work. I was like, what?????
That download sucks right now from Samsung updates. With Hotfiles gone, we are all going to have to get use to slow ass downloads. Mine took like 10 hours and I even paid for one of the services.... TOTALLY NOT WORTH IT.

I still don't get how you thought that as I never once posted that I managed to unbrick mine. In fact mine technically is still bricked as I do not have the proper size sd card at the moment.
I never even implied it
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Also a proper dd command in terminal will write the image to the phone, therefore negating the necessity of Odin. However that is entirely by choice. In my opinion, unless you are very comfortable using powerful Linux commands that could damage your phone, thus rendering it unusable - then Odin is a better choice as it is a powerful software flashing tool that can allow you to control multiple functions in a single operation.

I'll throw a N900T Odin tarball I have stashed away onto my mediafire account. It should deliver decent speeds and it won't get shut down for excessive traffic (COUGHDROPBOXCOUGH). Just gotta drag my ass into work today to do it.
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ecs87 said:
I'll throw a N900T Odin tarball I have stashed away onto my mediafire account. It should deliver decent speeds and it won't get shut down for excessive traffic (COUGHDROPBOXCOUGH). Just gotta drag my ass into work today to do it.
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HA! I posted the recovery thread via Heimdall here a while back, right before we met through this thread. Within 10 minutes, I hit my "threshold" with drop box. Moved to mediafire and haven't looked back.
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Recovery?

Hey guys I want to get into twrp recovery but after staying on the 'entering recovery' screen it will reboot . It worked fine till today and I tried reflashing it to no avail. Any suggestions?
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Boot into fastboot and type "fastboot erase cache" then flash the recovery.
Try it with both CWM and TWRP.

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Boot into fastboot and type "fastboot erase cache" then flash the recovery.
Try it with both CWM and TWRP.
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Yup. Wipe cache and install recovery again, usually solves this.

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Yup. Wipe cache and install recovery again, usually solves this.
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I tried this but it still wouldn't boot into recovery. I then tried installing an older version on TWRP and finally it booted properly. I was looking through it and something caught my eye. MY ENTIRE INTERNAL STORAGE WAS WIPED!!! I have no idea how this happened!! I tried restoring from my sd card but it couldnt mount /data. Would adb sideloading a ROM work do you think?

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I was looking through it and something caught my eye. MY ENTIRE INTERNAL STORAGE WAS WIPED!!! I have no idea how this happened!! I tried restoring from my sd card but it couldnt mount /data. Would adb sideloading a ROM work do you think?
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It may or may not. Or if it flashes, you might not be able to mount any data partitions or cache.
Try connecting to a PC, and formatting the internal storage with Device Manager.

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Yup. Wipe cache and install recovery again, usually solves this.
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redpoint73 said:
It may or may not. Or if it flashes, you might not be able to mount any data partitions or cache.
Try connecting to a PC, and formatting the internal storage with Device Manager.
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Last time i couldn't mount /data i just rebooted into recovery and let it sit for a day then it was fine... when I'm about to try to reboot into recovery though it says "no OS installed, are you sure you want to reboot?" will it be safe to reboot?

I hope you get your issues sorted soon. Don't know what i can contribute to help you achieve that. You seem to have more issues than one, but i like to give you one tip and that is to stay in one thread only. I seen you around now in multiple threads and its getting confusing on your actual status. Please don't take this the wrong way, it's very well ment advice
Cheers.

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when I'm about to try to reboot into recovery though it says "no OS installed, are you sure you want to reboot?" will it be safe to reboot?
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Should be safe. You won't have an OS, so it will just boot into bootloader.

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Should be safe. You won't have an OS, so it will just boot into bootloader.
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Thanks for your help. You answered many of my questions and were very patient with my questions. I regret to say though that my phone is now bricked. Only bootloader will show up, recovery is a black screen and so is bootup. This wouldn't be so bad if my /data is still corrupted after everthing i tried and no computer will recognize my device. I will come back to xda when I actually know what I'm doing and when my phone isn't as valuable. Thanks again for all your help.

Not sure if this is a similar issue or not but I had some issues getting into recovery after doing Sunshine S-Off today. Had TWRP installed and working fine, but after doing the s-off exploit I would see the recovery screen for a split second before the phone would reboot normally again.
Even running fastboot boot recovery.img to run it directly wasn't working.
However, downloaded and installed CWM instead and all is fine again. Phew

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Thanks for your help. You answered many of my questions and were very patient with my questions. I regret to say though that my phone is now bricked.
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Its not bricked if the screen comes on. I sincerely think we can get this thing back up and running. A phone that doesn't work isn't "valuable" so you might as well keep at it.
Delete all HTC drivers, and connect the phone to a PC. Go to Device Manager, select the option to manually select drivers, and select the generic Android MTP device.

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Its not bricked if the screen comes on. I sincerely think we can get this thing back up and running. A phone that doesn't work isn't "valuable" so you might as well keep at it.
Delete all HTC drivers, and connect the phone to a PC. Go to Device Manager, select the option to manually select drivers, and select the generic Android MTP device.
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wait I was going to replace it but i succeeded re flashing recovery (don't ask). Where do i go into device manager to reformat my storage?
{EDIT} WTF i flashed cwm and now my phone is up and running again... this after TWRP said i had no OS... Im confused

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wait I was going to replace it but i succeeded re flashing recovery (don't ask).
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Looks like you solved it. But did you mean you were going to replace the phone? That shouldn't ever be necessary just due to software mods you did, as long as the screen comes on. I've seen only one exception so far, where several users here helped the user exhaust every possible fix to the memory not being mountable and nothing worked, and it might have been a fried emmc chip or similar hardware fault. In your case, I still had plenty of hope, as there were still several options that were not tried.
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wait I was going to replace it but i succeeded re flashing recovery (don't ask). Where do i go into device manager to reformat my storage?
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Control Panel, under Hardware. Also, if you click the Window button in the taskbar, you can just type Device Manager in the "Search Programs and files" area.
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{EDIT} WTF i flashed cwm and now my phone is up and running again... this after TWRP said i had no OS... Im confused
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No OS is a known issue for some folks on TWRP. It is puzzling, since it only seem to affect some people. TWRP was pretty rock solid and reliable on my past device, so its a bit disheartening to see it appears to be considerably more buggy on the M8.
So is the phone fully up and running, no issues mounting memory?

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Looks like you solved it. But did you mean you were going to replace the phone? That shouldn't ever be necessary just due to software mods you did, as long as the screen comes on. I've seen only one exception so far, where several users here helped the user exhaust every possible fix to the memory not being mountable and nothing worked, and it might have been a fried emmc chip or similar hardware fault. In your case, I still had plenty of hope, as there were still several options that were not tried.
Control Panel, under Hardware. Also, if you click the Window button in the taskbar, you can just type Device Manager in the "Search Programs and files" area.
No OS is a known issue for some folks on TWRP. It is puzzling, since it only seem to affect some people. TWRP was pretty rock solid and reliable on my past device, so its a bit disheartening to see it appears to be considerably more buggy on the M8.
So is the phone fully up and running, no issues mounting memory?
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I reflashed TWRP and restored one of my backups... i have no idea what happened these past few days but thanks for sticking with me. Thanks again!

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I reflashed TWRP and restored one of my backups... i have no idea what happened these past few days but thanks for sticking with me. Thanks again!
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You're very welcome. Not sure how much I actually helped, as it sounds like you pretty much figured it out yourself. So nice job!