First off I want to say that I tried searching for this issue and what I found didn't seem to be exactly what was happening to me, if anyone knows of a thread about this please send me there so we don't bog the forum down with preexisting information .
T-Mo Samsung Galaxy S3 - (SGH-T999)
* Not Rooted
* No Custom ROM
I'll cut to the chase here. Phone started boot looping after restarting it this morning. Tried wiping the cache, didn't help. Tried pulling battery and waiting 5 min, didn't help. Removed the SIM card and pulled bat again, didn't help. Put SIM back in and removed SD card and pulled bat again, worked this time. I retried all the combinations again two more times each and got the same results so I am fairly confident the SD card or something on it is causing the issue. I tried a spare SD I had laying around and it gives me the same issue even after reformatting it. So now I'm wondering if something is wrong with the OS when it tries to mount/read the SD card. Anybody have this issue before or have any ideas? Any help is much appreciated!
P.S. I'm trying to avoid a factory reset if I can, but if I must, then I will do it.
Cant say ive seen this one before. But if you want to avoid the factory reset, try reflashing your current firmware build with Odin. Maybe try a slightly newer one as well.
You could also try flashing a custom recovery. Then try just wiping cache and dalvik. If needed, then try a factory reset. With a custom recovery installed it will not wipe your internal sd.
If none of this helps, use recovery to try and get important data off, then reflash stock firmware and factory reset again. Doing so with stock recovery actually formats the partition and will wipe internal sdcard. But it is the only way to completely clean everything up for more troubleshooting.
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Fellow rooters and modders,
I have just done a serie of stupid things.
1) I have rooted my desire with the root sequence described from Modaco (risk free rooting. My phone was unlocked, so no need for the Goldcard.
2) Then, I installed clockword mod, and installed different custom roms (latest one was Defrost 1.8) from the rom manager.
3) As i was getting sick of the low on space notifications, I wanted to format my SD card through ROM manager, to support ap2sd . I highly suspect this was unnecessary. Anyway, after I launched this process, my device rebooted. I waited and waited. And finally got tired and interrupted the process by rebooting. I have not been able to start a single rom since.
I tried flashing, wiping and erasing everything I could (data, cache, dalvik, ST-ex, SD Card) and install new roms through clockword..
It still won't go past the green HTC screen, the screen stuck and lighting my face in despair...
What can I do to fix the boot sequence, and "start from scratch"'????
Any help would be appreciated, I am now down to make a Goldcard, even though I am convinced this won't help any....
Thanks in advance.
just remove the battery. put it back into the device. then make root again:
http://theunlockr.com/2010/06/07/how-to-root-the-htc-desire/
wipe erverything
chrysochire said:
Fellow rooters and modders,
I have just done a serie of stupid things.
1) I have rooted my desire with the root sequence described from Modaco (risk free rooting. My phone was unlocked, so no need for the Goldcard.
2) Then, I installed clockword mod, and installed different custom roms (latest one was Defrost 1.8) from the rom manager.
3) As i was getting sick of the low on space notifications, I wanted to format my SD card through ROM manager, to support ap2sd . I highly suspect this was unnecessary. Anyway, after I launched this process, my device rebooted. I waited and waited. And finally got tired and interrupted the process by rebooting. I have not been able to start a single rom since.
I tried flashing, wiping and erasing everything I could (data, cache, dalvik, ST-ex, SD Card) and install new roms through clockword..
It still won't go past the green HTC screen, the screen stuck and lighting my face in despair...
What can I do to fix the boot sequence, and "start from scratch"'????
Any help would be appreciated, I am now down to make a Goldcard, even though I am convinced this won't help any....
Thanks in advance.
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Have you tried to reformat your sdcard ?
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I tried to remove the Battery, Install a different SD Card, Format the SD Card I had, wiping everything (Factory Reset, Dalvik, etc.......).
I finally got past that screen, by actually, redoing the entire root process from Paul o Brien again.
But when I try to get back to shadowfrost 1.8, it stalls again at boot screen.... It might just be an issue with this particular rom...
Thanks for your help, I will try to post again on that thread...
I was running MIUI 1.9.2..hadnt updated in a few weeks.
Randomly today, I stated getting a crazy amount of force closes.. (framework, google voice, browser, messaging, etc.)
Went to go restart the phone and got stuck in bootloops.. Pulled the battery and tried it again, same thing.
Than I tried to boot into CWM recovery...noo good..stuck on splash screen. No idea what the problem is or how to go about fixing it.
Any ideas?
Thanks guys
If you can get into fast boot, but not recovery, try flashing the recovery from fast boot, or running an RUU to get back to stock, then reroot, but that means losing all your data. Try just recovery first.
Edit: I'm a firm believer of it's not bricked till it doesn't power on.
Yeah that sounds like a good idea. How exactly should I go about flashing recovery?..Via adb or can I put it in the root of the sd and flash it in fastboot
SD card must be fat 32. Put the recovery zip in the root of your sd card. Should be a file named PB31IMG.zip dougpiston.com (I think) is the site that has most of them, and you flash it from fast boot.
Oh yeah I remember him, hes over on the incredibleforum. Thank man, appreciate it
Got recovery working, tried re-flashing the ROM without a full wipe. Still stuck with bootloops. Is my only option to do a full wipe and lose everything?
Try wiping cache, dalvik, and boot, reflash ROM, then fix permissions. That doesn't work, do the above steps again, but right after, flash another kernel (I use incredikernel). If that still doesn't work, you might have to do a full wipe.
Yeah, I tried all that, no luck. Thanks anyway man. I don't even know why this happened in the first place. Very random.
Try reformatting you SD card. Save everything to your PC first of course, then copy everything back on and then reflash your Rom. This has worked for some.
Hey guys.Im kinda a noob, so bear with me. I have a SGH i747 (att galaxy s3) and I rooted it on my mac using motochopper. I backed up all my apps and system data with titianium backup to my SD card, and i also backed up my stock ROM to my internal storage using ROM Manager. I then downloaded liquid smooth using my phones browser, and then I selected it within ROM manager and clicked "reboot and install' (keep in mind, i didn't wipe memory or anything) So it was stuck at the boot screen. Then i realized what i did and went and wiped data/factory reset, dalvic cache, and the other cache, within Clockworld mod recovery (vol up + power + home). After that, it worked, but only to find that all my apps were gone, and the play store and browser app didnt work. so basically softbricked however I can make phone calls and text (lost all contacts). Then i went into cwm and tried to restore my phone, at first it came up with two backups (neither of which had the name I named my backup) but said no files found and then when I mounted my storage, the bottom one said md5 mismatch but the top one worked. the top one would work for about 6 min then while it was restoring data it would reboot into liquid smooth and i would have like 3 apps i didnt have before (other times i would get stuck at the boot screen). I also tried restoring it right after I wiped data/ factory reset and cleared the caches, but then it would get stuck at the liquidsmooth boot screen. Tried pretty much everything.
I just want my phone back the way it was before root or anything, with all my data. But I backed up all my stuff besides apps to KIES, so willing to reset it to stock firmware if possible
need all the help i can get. thank you all very much
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Well, when you did a factory reset, that wiped out all your apps, contacts, personal data, etc. No big deal. Your phone is in good shape, not bricked in any way, you just don't have all your personal stuff.
The only way to get it back to stock is to flash a stock firmware via ODIN or mobile ODIN, tutorials for doing both can be found here. I'm not 100% on how to do it (ODIN) with a mac other than either booting windows if you have the capability on your computer or running windows in a virtual box and using odin that way.
Or...if you have an SD card you could stick it in your computer, download another rom or liquid smooth again and reflash the proper way in recovery to get it to work. It sounds like you neglected to flash the separate GAPPS file that is required for the AOSP ROMS.
All is good. Your phone is not in bad shape. Take a breath, do some research before you flash anything else. Don't compound the problem by flashing random things that you think might help.
worked. I owe you much gratitude
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Well, when you did a factory reset, that wiped out all your apps, contacts, personal data, etc. No big deal. Your phone is in good shape, not bricked in any way, you just don't have all your personal stuff.
The only way to get it back to stock is to flash a stock firmware via ODIN or mobile ODIN, tutorials for doing both can be found here. I'm not 100% on how to do it (ODIN) with a mac other than either booting windows if you have the capability on your computer or running windows in a virtual box and using odin that way.
Or...if you have an SD card you could stick it in your computer, download another rom or liquid smooth again and reflash the proper way in recovery to get it to work. It sounds like you neglected to flash the separate GAPPS file that is required for the AOSP ROMS.
All is good. Your phone is not in bad shape. Take a breath, do some research before you flash anything else. Don't compound the problem by flashing random things that you think might help.
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I went to friends PC and ran odin. worked perfectly. no problem losing all my data as long as i have a phone that works. thank you
I'm having a strange problem with my phone. Earlier today it stopped booting for some reason (Gets to boot animation, then reboots), so I figured something was wrong with my ROM. So, I went into CWM and tried to wipe my phone, but when it got to wiping /data, my phone rebooted. Nothing allows me to format /data, and my phone refuses to boot. I would Odin to stock, but I don't have the files (or know which ones to use as my phone had the bootloader required for newer CM), and I'm worried it may cause more problems. Anyone know how to fix this?
FIXED: So... Yeah, that was weird. The second (and I do repeat, second) time I tried to wipe data with no external sdcard (A suggestion I saw in another thread), data formatted like it was no one's business, and I was able to flash a new ROM to my phone. So, I guess everything is good now.
I just got done taking the PG1 update and things were working fine except TitaniumBackup had the issue with the writing to SD Card. So I did some research and thought that I could modify the
Code:
/system/etc/permissions/platform.xml
, however when I rebooted the phone, I started getting the dreaded "NetworkSystemProvider" and "Google Play Services" stopped errors every few seconds. I have put the file back the way it was, rebooted, cleared cache & dalvik, but still I get the error. I really do NOT want to factory reset if I can help it.
It's frustrating even more-so because I generally run TitaniumBackups nightly and even TWRP backups pretty regularly too. I just hadn't gotten to one of the later, and ironically I was trying to fix the damn SD card write issue so that I could in fact do my TBs!! #FML
This seems like it should be something fixable no? I do have root and TWRP. I just can't find a good site that explains how to do it. I also tried to run the TWRP 'fix permissions' button too to no avail.
Can I just re-ODIN the PG1 or something worse case? And then re-root? ... without a factory reset I mean, so I keep my data and settings as they are?
I really don't understand how things go so jacked up from just changing an .xml file (and putting it back the way it was)??
Please help! Thanks!
Did you make a backup before you started modifying?
Did you try wiping cache and rebooting? Did you have a backup of the file you modified to restore? Check name and permissions?
If neither of the above help, factory reset and Odin again. Make a backup right after TWRP in case this happens again. Marshmallow is tricky and petty sometimes, unlike the earlier Android OS versions.
What you need is a PG1 modified services.jar for custom ROM. Don't recall seeing one shared for PG1. But there is a custom ROM in development forum.
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