[Q] Ace 2 CM 10.1 bricked - Editing backup. - Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello, it's my first post on xda
I've CM 10.1 and I bricked my phone.
I turned on developer settings and tried various functions.
When I changed resolution to HD Ready, phone got jammed and I had to take out the batery.
Now my phone stucks on the CM logo.
I don't want to wipe my phone and install CM 10.1, so I made back up and copied it to my computer to edit it.
Now, question is - Where is a file responsible for CM 10.1 settings?
I checked build.prop, but a resolution in the file is normal (800x480).
Pls help

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[Q] Quick question regarding CM7 and custom boot animation

Hello all,
Well I am currently using CM7 [build 12, downloading 13 as I type] but my question is I want to change from the Cyanogenmod animation, not that its bad, but I like my own. I have previously changed animations before and also changed my splash screen, so I know how to change them, though I am using CW3, I have tried some that were edify compatible, and clockwork says it flashed, but once re-booted, it is still Cyanogen. I have tried manually flashing, adb, and the "pushboot" method. I also changed the animation zip file in the rom, to the animation of the Android scribble and then re-flashed it. The image changed from Cyanogen, but it was just a Android in metalics that flashed, not the above image. Can anyone help me? Thank you in advance.
Hmm.. I have no issues changing my boot animations on cm7..
So not sure why its not working for you but make sure your file is named bootanimation.zip and that your installing it to.. system/media/

[Q]Desire Z keeps rebooting after few seconds on home screen

Hi,
I ve been through all this forum and the rest of the internet, but I couldnt find the answer ... so hopefully you will help me.
I have Desire Z - about 3 months old.
I ve rooted the phone and flashed to cyanogenmod 7.1 stable. All the time Ive followed guides here or on cyanogen section/wiki. CM has been running stable for a month maybe until today.
This morning I couldnt make a call - so I rebooted phone.
After reboot phone gets to the home screen and automatically reboots itself after 5 seconds.
info from hboot
VISION PVT ENG S-OFF
HBOOT-0.84.2000 (PC1011000)
MICROP-0425
eMMC-boot
OS ver 1.34.707.3
CID 1111111111
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Ive already tried:
Wipe cache / davik cache
Wipe battery status
Recover to CM - backup created right after first flash - successfully - problem remains
Recover to original ROM - successfully - problem remains
any ideas?
also - if you dont have any advice to fix this problem - Id like to ask you, if you could point me to the best way, how to unroot/(s-on) etc. phone and make it look like its like stocked one for the purpose of waranty. - i dont mind any data nor in phone nor on sdcard, everything I need is synced to gmail acc. Thank you
cyber-mythius said:
Hi,
I ve been through all this forum and the rest of the internet, but I couldnt find the answer ... so hopefully you will help me.
I have Desire Z - about 3 months old.
I ve rooted the phone and flashed to cyanogenmod 7.1 stable. All the time Ive followed guides here or on cyanogen section/wiki. CM has been running stable for a month maybe until today.
This morning I couldnt make a call - so I rebooted phone.
After reboot phone gets to the home screen and automatically reboots itself after 5 seconds.
info from hboot
Ive already tried:
Wipe cache / davik cache
Wipe battery status
Recover to CM - backup created right after first flash - successfully - problem remains
Recover to original ROM - successfully - problem remains
any ideas?
also - if you dont have any advice to fix this problem - Id like to ask you, if you could point me to the best way, how to unroot/(s-on) etc. phone and make it look like its like stocked one for the purpose of waranty. - i dont mind any data nor in phone nor on sdcard, everything I need is synced to gmail acc. Thank you
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Pull /proc/last_kmsg and see what it says; should help you narrow it down.
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App
could you gimme hand how? - the only point where I can get in the phone is to bootloader / recovery.
so i cant run terminal from apps in phone.
+ could anyone help me how to charge up battery with my problem? I have about 20% on both batteries and I dont want to loose them during repair progress.
to the /proc/last_kmsg - i could not find anything like this on sd
cyber-mythius said:
+ could anyone help me how to charge up battery with my problem? I have about 20% on both batteries and I dont want to loose them during repair progress.
to the /proc/last_kmsg - i could not find anything like this on sd
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Sorry, I just got to work. The last_kmsg is on your device, not the sdcard. If you have ADB set up you should be able to access it by connecting your phone to your computer
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App
I have everything installed on the other PC where Ill be on monday. Maybe Ill find some time to look through it tommorow.
Thank you now for pointing me somewhere - Ill add more info when I ll have it.
I had a similar problem after flashing new rom. My Desire Z was also rebooting after a few seconds.
I downloaded 1.34.707.3 firmware(used to downgrade Desire Z from gingerbread) from CM wiki, installed it through fastboot (step 8) , rooted my phone once again following the wiki and since then my phone is working without any problems.
Battery can be charged up while the phone is turned off.
well I flashed phone with the downgrading rom as you mentioned and it helped a little
- phone is running and not restarting after few seconds - but randomly after 5-60 seconds (so I am able to do at least something ))...
On monday I ll root that bi*ch again, pull there CM7 or some other ROM and post here actual status.
Thank you so far
Similar problem
Hi, I have the exact same problem with my Desire Z. I've attached the last_msg if someone could help me with that.. also, my sdcard is not partitioned so could that have anything to do with it? Thanks, hopefully I'll get an answer soon
Resurrecting a bit of an old thread here but I have just experienced these exact symptoms.
A friend gave me his old Desire-Z so of course I immediately set about rooting it and trying some ROMs.
As a start I went with the most recent Cyanogenmod which is 7.2 at this time. Everything was going smoothly and was just getting used to the phone and it's physical keyboard. My biggest worry was that the battery life wouldn't be good enough for me so I was running a test to see how long it would last. I am a very light phone user. With background wifi disabled, gps disabled and the phone set to 2G only it ran for 7days and 3 hours! No problems there even with a well used battery. When it eventually died I hit the power button to wake it and it started booting and then shutdown again as you would expect. However after I had fully charged it it booted no problems but then went into the boot loop described above. It boots successfully to the home screen but then after 10-15 seconds it reboots. Frustrating!
I tried some things:
Clear cache from CWM: No change
Factory reset from CWM: No change
Reflash CM7.2 from CWM: No change
Clear Dalvik Cache from CWM: No change
Clear Battery stats from CWM: No change. I was hopeful this might be the problem as the battery had been unusually flat, perhaps some flag had been set that caused the reboot.
I have now recovered by reflashing the exploitable original image, PC10IMG.zip, and then going back through the rooting process. I wouldn't want to have to do it again though.
Possible explainations for the behaviour: I was running a battery monitor app (GSam Battery Monitor) which runs continuously and has various power related functions. Though I would have thought anything that was doing would have been removed by factory reset or reflashing CM.
During the 7 days I was testing ROM manager prompted me to update it and then to update the version of CWM that I had. This is perhaps more likely as would have survived everything else I tried to recover until I reflashed the original recovery.
Hope that helps someone and if anyone has any insight on this I'd lobe to hear it.
Steve
Looks like I spoke too soon. First time I had to reboot the phone I got stuck in the reboot loop again.
Hmm, really confused now. No idea what can be causing this that isn't solved by reflashing CM7.2 but is by going back to the original rom?
Steve
the only thing, that helped me back then was to flash another ROM ... give it a try.
there is several other ROMs based on CM, I'm pretty sure, that you'll find one, that will suit you best.
Thanks for the reply I appreciate you taking the time.
It's very odd I can't think what might be causing this. I ran CM7.2 with zero issues for a week. Then first time I had to reboot it gets stuck in the loop.
Since I was away from home I could not get into recovery. I could get into HBoot (by holing Vol. Down + Power) but because I had a PC10IMG.zip file on my sdcard it would just go straight in to asking if I wanted to update from that with no way to select recovery. And of course I needed to have the sdcard in the phone to get an image from it!
So I have been running from the exploitable 2.2 Rom from the rooting procedure since. That can reboot no problems.
Today I tried a much more recent CM10.1 based rom - stuck in boot loop.
Then a tried the Rooted G2 stock ROM which is obviously much older. It booted correctly one time. Then I rebooted it (actually shutdown and then turned on, it doesn't have a reboot option) and now I'm stuck in the reboot loop.
I'm doing a factory reset and clearing the Dalvik cache after flashing each ROM.
I have also tried booting without the sdcard or SIM card, no change.
Something I have observed is that the phone will reboot once after flashing with every ROM, even the original ROM, but then either runs correctly or continuously reboots.
I can only think that possibly I have wrong phone model. I know that the previous owner bought this contract free so it may be some import. Perhaps it's actually a G2 and I'm using the wrong HBoot? I think that's unlikely as it would show an error during the rooting process.
Steve
I doubt you have the wrong hboot, it wouldn't even start if you did. I would do a complete wipe and format maybe change firmware as well. Backup SD and reformat that as well. If you have true radio soff (rooted via gfree) then you are safe to use one of the pc10img.zips I created here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27796375 (see post 30)
Make sure to remove it from SD this time or at least change the name when done
This will give you new engineering hboot, updated 4ext recovery, .19 radio but all can be changed to whatever if you want.
After the flash reformat all in recovery and flash a new rom
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Thanks for your input.
Updating the radio rom does seem tempting if potentially dangerous! The claimed power saving especially. I haven't ever used 4ext recovery but given how CWM seems to be failing me I might give it a try.
I don't wan to speak too soon here (but doing so anyway!) it looks like I may have corrected the problems by using SuperWipeG2+ from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1044992
After running that, which can easily be done from CWM, the phone booted first time with no reboots.
I'll update this if that did not fix it.
Steve
Yep spoke too soon!
However I have found a way to reliably recover but it's not straight forward.
Boot to recovery. Run SuperWipeG2+.
Attempt to boot the phone, boot fails as there is no ROM installed. This step seems important.
Boot to recovery. Install ROM from zip and Gapps from zip.
Reboot and phone will boot successfully and stay booted!
I then have to recover all my contacts and apps from Google which takes a further 20/25 mins.
Having done that I still cannot reboot the phone. If I reboot (or shutdown and power on) it is then stuck ion the boot loop and I have to do that all over again!
This means I cannot ever allow the phone to go flat.
Aaarrgh!
Any suggestions? It has been suggested that installing another ROM could fix this. Any specific ROM? Any idea why that would work?
I have found that the light sensor doesn't seem to be working and the suggested fix for that is to install a Sense based ROM and then switch back. I can't see how that could work either.
Steve
Yeah I've heard the sense ROM thing works, I don't see how but people seem to swear by it. I would suggest you change all your firmware, new hboot, new radio, new recovery and what not a new ROM. There are lots of good ROMs to choose from so I wouldn't know what to recommend for you, personally I almost always use gingerbread based ones
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[Q] CM10.1 Theme icons help

I'm running CM10.1 on my (Verizon) Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
I just recently put CM on it and have been messing around with a few themes and boot animations. Everything was just fine.
While trying to create my own boot animation and use it, though, something went wrong. The boot animation never fully ended and I could only see half of my homescreen when I was in landscape (portrait mode showed the full, frozen boot animation). So, after a few tries of rebooting to get it to go through, I wiped it completely and redid CM10.1 and GApps. This isn't the problem.
Now, for some reason, regardless of what theme I apply, the Camera and Gallery icons don't change. Even though I installed the same GApps and everything as the first time. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Also, I apologize in advance if this is a dumb question or something of the sort. I'm a noob.

[Q] Need help getting a custom boot animation loaded on my Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 SM-T210R

I am quite new at all of this rooting and changing to custom roms and whatnot.
I have a rooted Galaxy Tab 3 SM-T210R with ROM toolbox PRO installed on it. I would like to install a custom boot animation. I have gone into ROM toolbox >swiped right to "Interface" > Boot Animations > Selected "Tablet - BattleF3" > Pressed install. The file downloads but does not take effect when I reboot the tablet.
I rooted the tablet through ODIN and I have the TWRP Recovery whatchamacallit installed on it.
I would like to know what I am doing wrong. Any help is appreciated.
Also, the boot animation I would really like would be the mech startup sequence (probably gen 2 or gen 3) from the xbox game "Steel Battalion". Anyone know if one exists? Or how hard would it be to make one? The boot up sequence is found easily on youtube, and I think ROM Toolbox may have the option to make your own boot up animations.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you!
Well nevermind everyone. I figured it out on my own. Worked all day on it and not only was I able to get a custom boot animation on my tablet, but I was also able to download the Steel Battalion clip I wanted from youtube, edit the video to just the part I wanted, convert the video to jpg, then to a boot animation, and then was able to put it on my tablet. It looks awesome! This website was where I got most of my information. Thank you everyone!
I put the file down below. Feel free to use it.
Now if only I could figure out how to get the sound added to it....

[Q] Cannot copy files to /system after NANDROID backup

Hey guys, I'm running into some issues with my Samsung Galaxy S II Hercules.
I recently had to preform a NANDROID backup as a boot animation soft bricked my phone. The backup completed successfully, and everything seems to be in working order, except, when I try to change my boot animation, my phone resets after being locked up for a few seconds.
I've tried uninstalling/re-installing boot animations from the playstore, redownloading the animation, and I still get the same problem.
So I tried to install the boot animation manually by moving it placing the bootanimation.zip into /system/media, and it still crashes my phone. I wanted to try just making a new file to see if it would lock up; low and behold, it did.
My question is:
Has anyone had this issue before? If so, how/could the fix it without reflashing?
I suspect that somehow the /system folder is corrupt in some way, but I would like to exhaust all other options before flashing my phone.
FTR:
I'm using CyanogenMod 10.2, Android 4.3.1 and I'm running it on my Samsung Galaxy S 2 T989d Hercules.
Thanks in advance for any help on this subject!
Regards,
Welp, couldn't find any fixes. My suspicion still lays with a corrupt nandroid backup. Either way, I flashed with a CM Nightly and now everything is working fine.
Thanks again,
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jtgr94
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