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I started updating my phone to gingerbread today after being told the update was available. However now my phone is stuck at a screen that has the update logo and a progress bar with a micro-sd card next to it; the progress bar is stuck at ~30%. It's been this way for about two hours now and hasn't moved since then. Would it be safe to remove the battery and do a full phone reset or would I completely brick my phone? Also if it is relevant my phone was connected to my PC charging at the time I started the update (it's still connected)
Possible Answer To The Problem!
First, It Maybe Your Memory Card Is Corrupt!
Secondly, You Can't Have The Device Connected To Your PC/ Laptop. Well It Depends On Whether You Was Charging Your Device Or Sync Or Even Moving Files!
When You Have Connected Your Device, It Automatically Has Access To Your Memory Card, Which Maybe a Problem, Because When You Updating, The Phone Needs Complete Access To The Memory Card!
The Update Process Probably Didn't Have Access To The File, Because Your Computer/ PC Sync Was Enabled.Try Updating It Again, With The Memory Card Inside Without It Being Connected!
Also, What Model Of Desire Z Have You Got? Unbranded? Country? Carrier?
The device was charging only afaik does this matter?
It's an unbranded desire z I imported from singapore and my carrier is 3 (Australia)
If I disconnect and restart my phone it will not brick? I'd have to remove the battery to do this because I can't get past the update screen after it reboots.
Thanks for your reply.
Saw your post on reddit. For the moment, I'd hang tight and leave that battery IN. If you pull the battery and it's in the middle of flashing the radio or hboot, you're in trouble. Do you happen to know which portion of the upgrade is in progess (radio, system, hboot, splash, etc)?
quick edit: Having the phone charging via USB shouldn't cause a problem. The SD card would still be mounted by the phone (which is the default behavior unless you've explicitly set it to automatically mount via USB)
tun4f1sh said:
Saw your post on reddit. For the moment, I'd hang tight and leave that battery IN. If you pull the battery and it's in the middle of flashing the radio or hboot, you're in trouble. Do you happen to know which portion of the upgrade is in progess (radio, system, hboot, splash, etc)?
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No I don't sorry all I can say is that its close to 30% done and has just sat there like that.
hit3k said:
No I don't sorry all I can say is that its close to 30% done and has just sat there like that.
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Do you have ADB setup on your computer? If so, try running an "adb devices" and see if you get anything back.
Sadly it returns nothing
Well, it's not looking good. You're really out of options here. The first thing I would do is disconnect it from the computer, wait a minute or 2. If nothing happens, pull the battery and reboot straight into the bootloader (hold vol- and power at the same time).
If you can get into the bootloader, you may be able to restart the update. Worst case scenario, your phone is a paperweight, and HTC *should* (I need to read up on their warranty) give you a replacement -- their software update nuked your phone after all (possibly exacerbated by an underlying hardware problem, but the software possibly sealed the deal). Alternatively, maybe you can get some sort of HTC support on the phone right now?
Good luck, mate.
Thanks I will try that. It's 9pm at night here so I doubt I'll get anyone from HTC that is able to help me.
tun4f1sh said:
Well, it's not looking good. You're really out of options here. The first thing I would do is disconnect it from the computer, wait a minute or 2. If nothing happens, pull the battery and reboot straight into the bootloader (hold vol- and power at the same time).
If you can get into the bootloader, you may be able to restart the update. Worst case scenario, your phone is a paperweight, and HTC *should* (I need to read up on their warranty) give you a replacement -- their software update nuked your phone after all (possibly exacerbated by an underlying hardware problem, but the software possibly sealed the deal). Alternatively, maybe you can get some sort of HTC support on the phone right now?
Good luck, mate.
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Thank you so much! taking the battery out appears to have worked! The update restarted and everything (appears) to be working fine.
hit3k said:
Thank you so much! taking the battery out appears to have worked! The update restarted and everything (appears) to be working fine.
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All thanks to you, my friend. You're the one that had to gather up the cajones to pull that battery out. Enjoy 2.3, but maybe consider rooting next time!
hi there,
was going to flash back to from 2.3.4 to the 181 Generic World image to root the phone again. i ran into the 1% battery bug thing. ok, so i removed the battery, put it back in, started the phone and now i can't use the phone no more.
it boots up, claims that it can't find the SIM card, hangs, then shut it self down.
if i remove the SIM card and SD card the phone boots up and shut it self down after a sec.
i can actually don't do anything, it simply shuts down.
i was flashing some other firmwares but always with the same outcome. i also tried to wipe all the user data while flashing, no sucess either.
this is the most bad situation i can imagine, so help would be much much appreciated
tahnks in advance
damo
ok, i just booted with the usb cable plugged in an it works.
seems like i got the 0% battery problem, thus the phone shuts it self down immediately (makes sense).
****, now i have to solve this bloody ****.
thanks anyway
damogran said:
****, now i have to solve this bloody ****.
thanks anyway
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For 0% battery, is not yet any good solution unfortianly.
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there's the domocmo kernel which gives you 1% battery so it ain't all too bad actually
try the 0% battery workaround by bazoocase...it works fine...if not try when booting try to activate the plane mode...it requires fast hands and timing...plane mode minimizes battery use....
I think you have to use the flashtool and flash the new firmware. Goodluck
damogran said:
hi there,
was going to flash back to from 2.3.4 to the 181 Generic World image to root the phone again. i ran into the 1% battery bug thing. ok, so i removed the battery, put it back in, started the phone and now i can't use the phone no more.
it boots up, claims that it can't find the SIM card, hangs, then shut it self down.
if i remove the SIM card and SD card the phone boots up and shut it self down after a sec.
i can actually don't do anything, it simply shuts down.
i was flashing some other firmwares but always with the same outcome. i also tried to wipe all the user data while flashing, no sucess either.
this is the most bad situation i can imagine, so help would be much much appreciated
tahnks in advance
damo
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Oh brother...it's like I am watching a mirror :'(
Sent from my LT15i using XDA
Nearly At the end of every month my my phone gets into some kinda software problem (example : Google has stopped working then process.android has stopped working and some other random **** which is quite annoying) whenever this happens the phone restarts on its own and never turns on,i mean it does but is stuck on loading screen.(note: I dont do anything stupid which might harm my phone. )So i have to flash my phone with spflashtool it.This time when i flashed the phone it didnt turn, i held the button for long but it was of no use, so i thought it might be the low on battery,but when i put it on charge nothing popped up... it wasnt charging. Then I thought it was the battery but my battery wasnt swollen and the day before I flashed it,it was running fine with full charge. , there was no sign of battery problem anytime i used it the consumption was normal.
Please help me fix this problem, and I also want a permanent fix to the software problem too.
Any senior member please help..
TIA
:fingers-crossed:
Update:I flashed the phone with new files but results were the same :'(
Saad6459 said:
Nearly At the end of every month my my phone gets into some kinda software problem (example : Google has stopped working then process.android has stopped working and some other random **** which is quite annoying) whenever this happens the phone restarts on its own and never turns on,i mean it does but is stuck on loading screen.(note: I dont do anything stupid which might harm my phone. )So i have to flash my phone with spflashtool it.This time when i flashed the phone it didnt turn, i held the button for long but it was of no use, so i thought it might be the low on battery,but when i put it on charge nothing popped up... it wasnt charging. Then I thought it was the battery but my battery wasnt swollen and the day before I flashed it,it was running fine with full charge. , there was no sign of battery problem anytime i used it the consumption was normal.
Please help me fix this problem, and I also want a permanent fix to the software problem too.
Any senior member please help..
TIA
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Update:I flashed the phone with new files but results were the same :'(
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same happens to me bro my android one is also dead same problem as yours when i tried with sp flash tool its end up with this error..... scr shot attached
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Bro,I flashed it thrice after but it didn't give any errors,but sadly it just wont turn on
If it were permanently bricked then it wouldn't have detected the phone...and bro lemme give you a suggestion,try changing it to firmware upgrade instead of download only.
Thanks for the reply
simmilar issue
same problem pls help in my case when i charge not charging the battery indicator just pops up and out i think its a battery error put in a new battery try to boot up nothing try to go in recovery nothing i have nothing to boot up from i think ill still try using fastboot and/or flashing and reporting back(ima try dead usb flash using spflash tool)
okay flashing works perfectly now i just need for figure out if the problem is with the charging/battery or the phone is dead
Same Problem
Bro, i have run into exact same problem. I even went to gallery and gave them the phone, they said they will charge 1500 as motherboard is dead but after one month they returned to me the phone saying that motherboard is not available. They are taking almost 14 days to return money so i have to visit again on 3rd june. But coming back to problem i have tried flasing with and without battery for 3-4 times. every times it shows success but the phone wont start. Even memory test was all fine. cant figure out what's the problem. i have tried both download only and format+download mode but nothing seems to work, If anyone finds a way to fix the phone please tell ASAP.
Same problem as the OP, mine's bricked as well after it began showing random FCs. Flashed KK and LP firmwares using SP Flash Tool but to no avail. The flash was successful tho but the phone never booted up
I'm kinda stuck in a similar situation. Let's start from the beginning -
When I got my Redmi Note 3 I stopped using my Canvas A1 and vaguely i remember that it was having software issues, rather than fixing it I just kept it away for a lot of months, and vaguely I remember that it just needed some flashing of rom and it would've gotten fixed.
And after all these months i'm need of this phone again. I don't remember much in depth details of the processes involved with it like flashing stuff etc. But I gathered as much knowledge as I could from the docs I had stored as backup & from the internet.
And IMO I think the flashing process was successful, but the screen is not turning on. Only once when I connected it to PC, the charging battery sign appeared(flashing thrice) but that was it. Nothing after that. And whenever I connect it to PC it detects the phone.
For now I've given it to a repair guy but I don't have much hope. He was saying that it could be just software problem, but I don't agree. If a smart person could comment on this thread so that we all could get some benefit out of it, in order to solve the situation or at least in my case I could research on something specific in the meantime.
ok so bottom line is, I was in the middle of flashing official rom when at about 25% it failed. Don't ask why! (i still had recovery at this point) so I went ahead and cleaned absolutely everything thinking i'll just try and reflash as before. Now with power lead out it won't switch on at all and when power is supplied it shows message "An error has occured while udating the device software." loops at approx 3 sec intervals cant do anything with it.
Ive tried everything I can think of all to no avail! yes its my own fault bla bla bla just wondering if i act have f***** it.
Thanks to anyone with any ideas
You probably going to get a better help at TAB S2 board this is for the tab S1.
If it is hard bricked there is JTAG methods that can help, just need to find one for your device, not easy though.
But all I can do is share my experience with something like this, in a more "cheap" way than JTAGs, dunno if it helps:
I never had a similar problem on the tab S. But in the past a galaxy player 5.0 of mine had a very similar problem (as far I remember the screen just powered the back light but without any letters or simbols)
in 2012, I bricked it trying to mount a swap partition (280mb RAM ftw) accidentally pointing the wrong partition, and got the entire internal storage corrupted.. everything.. system, bootloader, recovery etc
My player was turning on only connected to a USB or charger, like yours. in fact It was hard bricked
I was able to recover it using Linux (because it is the only system able to communicate with the bricked device I had)
The problem is that everything need to be very specific, for example I used a software made for the galaxy s1 to "revive" my player 5 (both have the same hardware) it just made the device be detected via ADB. So I needed to prepare a SD with the same size as the internal storage (in this case 8gb) using the Linux terminal to mount in the SD an exactly schematic of the internal memory using a dump of another device that a xda user shared, (the dump was empty only with the bootloader, recovery etc) but it still had 8gb decompressed. So after that I used ADB to push the SD card content to the internal memory. And it get back to life \○/
Well.. it took me 1 week with a guide!! On the trial and error method. But it worked.. not perfectly, I get bootloops every time I try to flash a rom via Odin, but recovery works, and I have the device working until today
Hi, I Greatly appreciate your reply and advice. Think tho that your solution is a bit beyond my know how I know a little about ADB etc but i would have difficulties in compiling necessary files to sideload. Also many tanks for the link din't realise. Thanks Pal!
Alpha1BA said:
ok so bottom line is, I was in the middle of flashing official rom when at about 25% it failed. Don't ask why! (i still had recovery at this point) so I went ahead and cleaned absolutely everything thinking i'll just try and reflash as before. Now with power lead out it won't switch on at all and when power is supplied it shows message "An error has occured while udating the device software." loops at approx 3 sec intervals cant do anything with it.
Ive tried everything I can think of all to no avail! yes its my own fault bla bla bla just wondering if i act have f***** it.
Thanks to anyone with any ideas
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If you can get it in to download mode you can flash stock rom back on it.......refer to xda samsung tab s2 for more details on this........
thx for reply but it reboots approx every 3 seconds so I dont have enough time to do anything with it :/
Alpha1BA said:
thx for reply but it reboots approx every 3 seconds so I dont have enough time to do anything with it :/
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Plug in changer and push power and volume up and down all together and you will see the battery charger icon then you can get it in to download mode from there.....
stinka318 said:
Plug in changer and push power and volume up and down all together and you will see the battery charger icon then you can get it in to download mode from there.....
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Stinka ure a superstar (atm!) I did as you suggest to no avail but I noticed a slight increase in the time it took to start rebooting again. I do not know which buttons did this but some 20 later it lasted long enough for me to be able to flash twrp. Now i havent actually tried that as yet as i wanted to check with you first... I have the battery logo on screen, i tried recovery and it started as it should but then rebooted, now im unsure at this time whether the battery is almost dead or not so i got it on charge and have the grey battery with a white flash inside... is this what i want for now until its charged? if so i'll keep you informed thamnks more than u know if uve helped me fix this, the reason i was flashing was because when i received it (no warranty!!) the screen sometimes flickered and it would constaly end up rebboting after digging around re that im lead to believe it need a new battery and for the connecting wires to be resoldered. Anyways thanks again n as I say i'll keep this updated
Cheers
Tony
one of the probs i hab/have with this unit is that it takes approx a day to fully charge!!! when i received it the screen flickered on the odd occasion but it was rebooting much more frequently. It came with stock n not messed with previously (i new this prior to purchase so got it for right price thinking it only needed flashing, how wrong was I!!!) so I flashed and encountered the above mentioned problems! thanks to stinka I surprisingly managed to flash a recovery... now provided all goes to plan, which rom would one suggest for stability and generally hassle free and prusuming the aforementioned probs, rebooting etc are still there what could i try to stop that? other than a debloated stock I found Lineage an excellent rom but still the problems got so bad the unit became unusable and was lucky not to go out the window. Im thinking do i start with a replacement battery and check the wires etc or could this still be a software issue??
if i endevoured to do the hardware myself would I attempt it by removing screen or the base for access to battery/connector??
Thanks again
In the tab s1 the best way is removing the back cover, but for some reason tab s2 seen to be the screen... at least in this guide: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Samsung+Galaxy+Tab+S2+Battery+Replacement/56616
Look like alot more complex than the s1 :/
RoIlingThunder said:
In the tab s1 the best way is removing the back cover, but for some reason tab s2 seen to be the screen... at least in this guide: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Samsung+Galaxy+Tab+S2+Battery+Replacement/56616
Look like alot more complex than the s1 :/
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Thanks for that!!!
Tony
does look somewhat OTT!!!
will i have to odin stock first then flash rom i want or will it go straight from first flash via twrp considering there is absolutely nothing on phone at mo apart from twrp.
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if i endevoured to do the hardware myself would I attempt it by removing screen or the base for access to battery/connector??
Thanks again
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My guess is your issue is lack of charge in the device. That's the reason for the flashing failure and the reboot loop with the firmware error.
Bang it on charge for a while then irrespective of what it's doing, whether it's looping or not, hold POWER + HOME + VOL DOWN until download mode appears.
Reflash the stock firmware with odin.
swapped battery and reflashed stock via odin. It has helped although the issues are all still there its just they happen less frequently which doesnt mean its any less frustrating.
Hello,
My S4 Mini I9192 Suddenly died while charging overnight and now no response whatsoever. Only thing I know is that I am in 9008 mode.
QFIL Can see the phone, but i need a firehose programmer and some XML files. Can anyone tell me where I can find those files? Thanks in advance.
kasa ssg said:
Hello,
My S4 Mini I9192 Suddenly died while charging overnight and now no response whatsoever. Only thing I know is that I am in 9008 mode.
QFIL Can see the phone, but i need a firehose programmer and some XML files. Can anyone tell me where I can find those files? Thanks in advance.
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I read a little about using qfil some time ago, and even if you can find the files I don't think it will work on Samsung phones, though I stopped researching when I read the following link (luckily my phone was not bricked, so I didn't need to), he says QFIL won't work as Samsung do not use the default options (well that was my understanding)
http://www.androidbrick.com/unbrick...-have-the-right-kind-of-rom-qhsusb_dload_edl/
I think the only option is take it to a repair shop for jtag or new emmc/motherboard, but I could be wrong. (or buy an old phone with cracked screen and use the motherboard from that)
While I was searching the web for files the phone was connected to the pc. It didn't show any signs of life until a battery icon suddenly popped on the screen. I was even able to boot into download mode, but when I went to recovery it said "No Command". Odin recognized the device, I flashed stock, but when i tried to boot it up, It was in a bootloop. I tried flashing many times with no success, still bootloops. Even after the flashing the recovery was in "No Command" mode. Yesterday i tried to flash it for the last time with the same rom, and this time it just booted to the Samsung logo and then turned off. Now I'm back to the 9008 mode. I tried the sdcard method with a debrick.img, no success. Any idea what might be wrong with the phone?
Okay so now I'm again in download mode, but everytime i boot up the samsung logo distorts and stock recovery shows up but it says E: Can't mount /cache or smth. I've read that i need the correct pit file, apparently the one I have is for the 8gb version. Can anybody send me the .pit file for the 16gb version?
kasa ssg said:
Okay so now I'm again in download mode, but everytime i boot up the samsung logo distorts and stock recovery shows up but it says E: Can't mount /cache or smth. I've read that i need the correct pit file, apparently the one I have is for the 8gb version. Can anybody send me the .pit file for the 16gb version?
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I can't help as I have different model but yakapa40 can as usual, if nobody else has pit for you
https://www.sammobile.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30208
Exact Same Case
kasa ssg said:
While I was searching the web for files the phone was connected to the pc. It didn't show any signs of life until a battery icon suddenly popped on the screen. I was even able to boot into download mode, but when I went to recovery it said "No Command". Odin recognized the device, I flashed stock, but when i tried to boot it up, It was in a bootloop. I tried flashing many times with no success, still bootloops. Even after the flashing the recovery was in "No Command" mode. Yesterday i tried to flash it for the last time with the same rom, and this time it just booted to the Samsung logo and then turned off. Now I'm back to the 9008 mode. I tried the sdcard method with a debrick.img, no success. Any idea what might be wrong with the phone?
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kasa ssg said:
Okay so now I'm again in download mode, but everytime i boot up the samsung logo distorts and stock recovery shows up but it says E: Can't mount /cache or smth. I've read that i need the correct pit file, apparently the one I have is for the 8gb version. Can anybody send me the .pit file for the 16gb version?
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Hey, Hi.
So same thing happened with me, I was on Stock Kitkat S4 mini i9192, phone froze while using and never booted up. But then I left it connected to laptop and it vibrated and showed the battery icon and I got every problem same as you, like no command, boot loop, and again phone went into QHS_DLoad mode.
I want to know that how did you manage to get back into the Odin Download mode again because since the last time my phone didn't show any sign of life and I also want to know if you were able to fix it? I have not tried debrick.img yet. Please help to fix my phone :laugh:
geek_hsk said:
Hey, Hi.
So same thing happened with me, I was on Stock Kitkat S4 mini i9192, phone froze while using and never booted up. But then I left it connected to laptop and it vibrated and showed the battery icon and I got every problem same as you, like no command, boot loop, and again phone went into QHS_DLoad mode.
I want to know that how did you manage to get back into the Odin Download mode again because since the last time my phone didn't show any sign of life and I also want to know if you were able to fix it? I have not tried debrick.img yet. Please help to fix my phone :laugh:
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Well, sorry to disappoint you, but I found out that the flash memory of the phone was dead. After all I've done the phone just turned off, and never turned on again. I also found out that this phone is known for dying memory chips.
Howdy. Does anybody know what happened here and how to fix it???
Claudio4780 said:
Howdy. Does anybody know what happened here and how to fix it???
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Just press power button when rebootnow is highlighted by using volume buttons.....
HemanthJabalpuri said:
Just press power button when rebootnow is highlighted by using volume buttons.....
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Thanks, tried it. But it just starts in Recovery Modus or Bootloader Modus
Claudio4780 said:
Thanks, tried it. But it just starts in Recovery Modus or Bootloader Modus
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Flash TWRP and flash custom rom like you did before.....
And If you want stock rom then flash my stockrom lite in twrp
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kasa ssg said:
Well, sorry to disappoint you, but I found out that the flash memory of the phone was dead. After all I've done the phone just turned off, and never turned on again. I also found out that this phone is known for dying memory chips.
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Thank you, I was thinking that once the battery is empty and when you connect it via USB mode, it reboots itself, so maybe that is why you got the second chance with it but when I got the phone turned on, I charged it up to 90 percent and now my battery is not draining. Previously my phone died when it was having around 35% of charge which was drained in 20 days. So I have avery strong reason to believe that its just a corrupt bootloader and I have to flash using pit.
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Thank you, I was thinking that once the battery is empty and when you connect it via USB mode, it reboots itself, so maybe that is why you got the second chance with it but when I got the phone turned on, I charged it up to 90 percent and now my battery is not draining. Previously my phone died when it was having around 35% of charge which was drained in 20 days. So I have avery strong reason to believe that its just a corrupt bootloader and I have to flash using pit.
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I did try flashing with .pit, but to no avail. Actuall, it recalled to me right know, god knows how I managed to flash stock firmware., BUT, everytime the phone started booting, the samsung loading logo would become slowly more and more distorted, until all my screen became pink with white stripes. It was strange.