My phone is hanging on the 2nd screen that just says Samsung.
I bought this phone as *locked* and it had a custom ROM on it. <----- didn't know that part of the deal.
I needed to unlock it.
Purchased a unlock code, didn't work.
Seller pointed me to a website to flash the OEM ROM, but it wasn't OEM. It was a rooted version.
Is it bricked? What are my options?
Please point me to a thread, if this has been discussed before.
Need more details? Just ask, cause it's money down the toilet at the moment.
Thanks.
What bootloader and modem are on the phone?
What Rom is on the phone?
It is not bricked at this point, it should be recoverable with a bit or work. Was it running when you purchased it? If you have spent a lot of time customizing it, I would suggest going into recovery and wiping cache and dalvik-cache. This will be an option on custom recoveries. If your device has a custom ROM it should have a custom recovery. To get into the recovery, turn the phone off. Then press and hold the Volume Up, and Home buttons. While holding them, press and hold the Power button. Once you see the small text at the top of the screen, release the Power button. At the next image you can release the other buttons. What you do next depends on the recovery. It will be Wipe if you have TWRP, if you have a sub-menu you could select only wipe/clear cache and dalvik-cache.
If for some reason you have the stock recovery, your only option will be to do factory reset. This will clear a bit more, but should also get you up and running.
Hello, I think to me its look like you get stuck in boot process. Is it ATT phone?
If it is... First you will need to download original ATT ROM. Then using ODIN you will have to install it. When you use ODIN, you will have to use appropriate option. That is "SECRET". Remember that))
99% of boot hang ups such as yours can be solved by factory resetting. If it's a stock recovery it will wipe ALL user data, including internal SD, but should get you running like dawgdoc mentioned.
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I bought the kids A100's last year for Christmas. I ended up un locking the bootloader because the ICS update was WAY too slow for my liking. Two weeks ago my sons decides that the unlock pattern is not going to work. You can get the screen to respond in a couple of spots and then go from there but the lines are jittery. I figure that it might need to have a hardware reset. Do that and get a screen with the bootloader info instead of erasing cache..
Find the sd card I had all the info on and tried to do a master rest. NO go. Brings me back to ICS and his lock pattern. I cannot remember how I unlocked the bootloader, did not add it to my favorites or anything else. Now I am stuck. If I am looking at this right the bootloader is unlocked and needs to be locked before I can do a recovery? Is that correct and how do I get that done and do a factory hardware reset?
Worried that if I call ACER with this I will void his warranty.
Power off, then hold power + furthest from the lock switch, press and hold power then toggle the lock switch a few times when the screen turns on to reset. It didn't reset if there is still a lock screen there.
Edit: forgot to mention, holding volume - while powering on will boot into recovery which if its twrp or cwm you can factory reset there, install a new ROM etc.
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Power off, then hold power + furthest from the lock switch, press and hold power then toggle the lock switch a few times when the screen turns on to reset. It didn't reset if there is still a lock screen there.
Edit: forgot to mention, holding volume - while powering on will boot into recovery which if its twrp or cwm you can factory reset there, install a new ROM etc.
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Awww. ****. You beat me to it.
I'm trying to help!
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Stang951 said:
I bought the kids A100's last year for Christmas. I ended up un locking the bootloader because the ICS update was WAY too slow for my liking. Two weeks ago my sons decides that the unlock pattern is not going to work. You can get the screen to respond in a couple of spots and then go from there but the lines are jittery. I figure that it might need to have a hardware reset. Do that and get a screen with the bootloader info instead of erasing cache..
Find the sd card I had all the info on and tried to do a master rest. NO go. Brings me back to ICS and his lock pattern. I cannot remember how I unlocked the bootloader, did not add it to my favorites or anything else. Now I am stuck. If I am looking at this right the bootloader is unlocked and needs to be locked before I can do a recovery? Is that correct and how do I get that done and do a factory hardware reset?
Worried that if I call ACER with this I will void his warranty.
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You definetly need to find out what you have done. As in if the bootloader is definetly unlocked and if you have a custom recovery. Just because it is not neccesary to do anything (ie: root, unlock or recovery) if you just wanted to flash a leaked ICS or the official.
Like Pio said, if you have a custom recovery, boot to it and factory reset/wipe data from there, or flash another rom/reflash. I'm not sure how the tab will react if you do a stock factory reset with the button sequence when you are rooted, unlocked bootloader, and custom recovery.
If the screen only responds in a few places, and is gittery in others, it could be a problem with the digitizer. Digitzer problems are reletively common on the A100. It would covered under warranty if you still have one. If it turns out nothing fixes it, I would restock it though with this concern. They may ***** if they can see it was flashed, if it was bricked it would be a different story.
I used a post on here to go from HC to ICS. Basically It was rolling the HC back first to get the update to push from Acer. I tried to find the post but am having a hard time finding it, and my dumb ass didn't subscribe to it.
This was about in April of this year.
Now when I try to do a hard reset (power + vol down + switch lock) it goes to a black screen with USB bootloader info in the top right corner (near the vol switch). I don't have it with me so I cant tell you right now exactly what it says.
I would have posted sooner, but didn't get emails that there were responses.
Thanks for everyone trying to help. I will try to get back on this this afternoon.
Stang951 said:
I used a post on here to go from HC to ICS. Basically It was rolling the HC back first to get the update to push from Acer. I tried to find the post but am having a hard time finding it, and my dumb ass didn't subscribe to it.
This was about in April of this year.
Now when I try to do a hard reset (power + vol down + switch lock) it goes to a black screen with USB bootloader info in the top right corner (near the vol switch). I don't have it with me so I cant tell you right now exactly what it says.
I would have posted sooner, but didn't get emails that there were responses.
Thanks for everyone trying to help. I will try to get back on this this afternoon.
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I take it you did the process of going back to HC already and now you can't boot? If its saying its boot loader info in the right corner then its certainly not an ICS boot loader, thats in the upper left corner. It also says ICS in it. Let us know what its actually saying when you boot and we can go from there.
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I will. I also turned on the email instant notification that I know that there are responses. Can't believe that I didn't do that before.
OK top left of the screen where the volume button reads:
Bootloader v0.03.13-ics: Starting Fastboot USB download protocol
This time I was able to do the erase user data. Got to the Welcome screen with the language and Country. Cant get the screen to respond.I am guessing at this point that the screen is shot and needs to be replaced (under warranty) however I need to make sure that this is set to Factory specs so that I don't have to worry about voiding the warranty.
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OK top left of the screen where the volume button reads:
Bootloader v0.03.13-ics: Starting Fastboot USB download protocol
This time I was able to do the erase user data. Got to the Welcome screen with the language and Country. Cant get the screen to respond.I am guessing at this point that the screen is shot and needs to be replaced (under warranty) however I need to make sure that this is set to Factory specs so that I don't have to worry about voiding the warranty.
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It sounds stock to me. From what you have said, I think all you did was revert back to a HC version to get the ICS update ( which some did bck when ics came out if their version wasnt getting the update). If you did this a few months ago, you are just running a stock ICS version.
If that is the case is something missing from the ROM that I cannot get it to reconfigure everything automatically? I thought that it should go directly to the recovery information and reflash the entire tablet (may have the terminology screwed up).
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If that is the case is something missing from the ROM that I cannot get it to reconfigure everything automatically? I thought that it should go directly to the recovery information and reflash the entire tablet (may have the terminology screwed up).
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If your talking about Google's sync. If you have it turned on and sync'ed prior to a factory reset, and turned on after. It will sync some stuff, it may restore your desktop wallpaper, contacts, WiFi info and some apps. But it will not restore it perfectly. Either way if your screen is still messed up, I think your OK to warranty it. IMO. Verified if your bootloader is locked, and under settings > about tablet, you are running ICS version 4.0.3 with a stock Acer build number.
I cant get there though. The screen will not respobd to input. I was going to try a bt mouse and keyboard but not having screen inputs puts a damper on that.
And about reconfiguring I was refering to the os and stock software not yhe stuff from play.
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Ah I think you mean a factory reset. It doesn't flash anything, it erases /cache and /data (not /data/media but that's another story) and let's the system purge any settings apps or data causing issues.
The system itself is left untouched, if its rooted it stays rooted, if something is corrupted or damaged or missing, it stays that way through a reset.
To replace the system itself you'll need to attempt to flash a stock ROM zip named update.zip on the root of your external SD card and powering on holding the volume - key closest to the lock switch.
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Did some searching, and couldn't find my question.
So today, out of nowhere, my phone decides that it's time that my power button do the random reboot thing.
Fortunately, it booted once long enough to back up all my data, do a nandroid, then reboot, do a TiBu, and Triangle Away. Then I booted into download mode. It did/does say official, no custom binary, etc. My first try at ODINing to stock (using the 4.0.4 LG1 ROM) got all the way to system, and about half way through stopped.
I keep trying, but only once at this point has it even hit flashing the system during ODIN. I have tried multiple times of cleaning the power button, but it only seems to help less and less each time I clean it.
My question is, is there a trick to keep the SGS3 in download mode with a faulty power button? Also, I'm guessing there's a good chance that if I can't keep it in download mode, then there's a good chance AT&T can't tell the best flash I've done is half the system?
Thanks, y'all!
I was able to finally get an ODIN to flash all the way. My understanding is that I still need to get a data/factory reset done before it's all in the clear, but that's proving to be an even bigger task. When (it's rare, trust me) it will go into recovery, and I am able to highlight data/factory reset, pressing the power button makes it jump all over the place.
In the event that I do actually get a reset started, what all does the stock recovery's reset do? I saw it starts with formatting /data, what else?
Well, the ODIN to stock plus the initial data reset apparently was enough. It finally booted into the OS. I did a factory reset from there, which was very quick with no words, just Andy and the blue polyhedron.
Let's try this again.
How do I revive my S3 that no longer responses to charging (not even the LED lights up) or any combination of holding the different buttons? It hasn't been drop or physically damaged through shock, water, etc.. The only thing that I've done is flashed material onto my phone kind of haphazardly.
I should've just left it as is.. But, anyway this is what happened to my phone.
1. initially has 4.1.1, cwm v6.0.1.2 (<-- not my doing), and I believe it also had the latest sprint and profile updates
2. I download the "sprint gs3 root kit"
3. and just flash TeamEpic-Root-from-Recovery-v5.zip to root my phone
4. download rom manager and update cwm to latest version
5. downloaded the [STOCK ROM] Stock 4.3 MK3 ROM, wifi fix, knox remover, and flashed them and then...
6. nothing! one or two times my phones tries to turn on but hangs on the logo screen
7. my phone now responses to nothing anymore, I'm assuming it bricked and I have no idea what to do
in between these steps there was some more fumbling I was doing and I did noticed after step two my phone would freeze much more often and crash, so I basically don't know what happens next? should I be considering getting a new phone or is this fixable, which I really hope that it is because I need my phone for everything.
p.s. to clarify what I mean by no response, is that I can have my fully charged battery and phone connected to my charge, or not, and I get no response what so ever. I can never get it vibrate or response at all by using the different 3-button combos, volume up or down + power + menu button. The only response whatsoever that i've gotten is when I connect just the phone without the battery to my charger, the LED will light red for about a minute but then it shuts off.
sounds like you did a dirty flash.
What you need to do is this. Boot back into recovery (CWM) than wipe/factory data reset. wait till that is complete. after that wipe your cache after that wipe your dalvik cache (might be in the advanced section of CWM) after that reflash the ROM than flash the wifi fix after the rom than flash the knox app remover.
u just install sp flash and flash again.
my phone same situation with you. wat i do install sp flash. then flash again. i bet you know how to flash it right?
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How can I do any of that my phone doesn't ever turn on it just stays black. I could hold the power button for as long as I want or try to get It to boot by using 3 button combinations but none of that does anything. Guys just talk to like a complete noob, all I know how to do is flash something on to my phone, but as far as this sp flash thing, I don't know what it is, can it revive my phone? I feel like that's the first step I have to take because I can't even get to cwm or anything yet.
I've made some significant edits so I just wanted to bump this post.
From a full power off, how do I boot into stock recovery? I've tried multiple button configurations and none work.
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I called T-Mobile and they said:
1. Power off
2. Press and hold the Vol - and Power button until the LG boot screen appears.
3. Release the Power button ONLY. Do not release the Vol - button.
4. After 1 second, press and hold the power button again. You should see the white recovery screen.
Use the Vol+/- to navigate and Power to select.
This brought up a Factory data reset menu on my H815.
Brings up factory reset on T-mo version H-811
That is the LG factory recovery.
thank you this worked
With a Verizon model, I had to keep holding both Power and Vol - until the recovery screen appeared. If I released and then re-held Power, as described above, it did not work.
When I hold down power and vol down, it boots to an IMEI display screen. It shows a long barcode. Can't get to recovery with the hold, release and hold down again the power and volume down buttons. Frustrating.
I love you so much right now. It boots into what appears to look like a default LG G4 factory reset page. For me, i clicked reset, and then yes, and surprisingly it brought me to where i wanted to go. TWRP Recovery.
THANK YOU!!!
amd206 said:
I love you so much right now. It boots into what appears to look like a default LG G4 factory reset page. For me, i clicked reset, and then yes, and surprisingly it brought me to where i wanted to go. TWRP Recovery.
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I love you!
Your comment just saved me from doing a complete factory reset!
I never clicked "Yes" in the Factory Reset phone option because I thought it would do just that. Instead it took me to TWRP!!
gonsa said:
I love you!
Your comment just saved me from doing a complete factory reset!
I never clicked "Yes" in the Factory Reset phone option because I thought it would do just that. Instead it took me to TWRP!!
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This is funny because It just factory reset my phone.
joesee said:
This is funny because It just factory reset my phone.
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oh no!
how come it has different outcomes..
sorry to hear that.
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oh no!
how come it has different outcomes..
sorry to hear that.
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The difference was that you have twrp recovery and he didn't. The question pops for both, but for those that have the original recovery it will do the factory reset.
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worked for me, but the first screen is the one where it ask if i want to factory reset, i had to pick YES, then again confirm, and then i was in TWRP
gonsa said:
I love you!
Your comment just saved me from doing a complete factory reset!
I never clicked "Yes" in the Factory Reset phone option because I thought it would do just that. Instead it took me to TWRP!!
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joesee said:
This is funny because It just factory reset my phone.
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And I get a factory reset as well on my H811, even though TWRP was already installed and working on the recovery partition.
Something else funny going on, the OS seems to kill TWRP after the next one or two boots tho. Maybe I need to set the TWRP option to allow change of the system partition to read/write? (Since apparently it writes something there that prevents the OS from killing the custom recovery after it's been installed)
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And I get a factory reset as well on my H811, even though TWRP was already installed and working on the recovery partition.
Something else funny going on, the OS seems to kill TWRP after the next one or two boots tho. Maybe I need to set the TWRP option to allow change of the system partition to read/write? (Since apparently it writes something there that prevents the OS from killing the custom recovery after it's been installed)
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I've learned a lot with LG phones over the past few weeks.
The biggest thing is.. when you first flash over TWRP, you HAVE to reboot into recovery before you try rebooting the system, or else the bootloader will overwrite the TWRP install and replace it with the factory recovery.img. (You probably already know this.) To make sure it boots into TWRP first, since fastboot doesn't have a "reboot-recovery" command.. I just pull the battery then do the button combination to boot directly into TWRP. Doing this allowed me to say "YES" to the question "Do you want to factory reset the phone".
I don't know how many times I've wiped my phone because of this:
1. flash TWRP.
2. reboots (tries to hold the finger combo but failed - and didn't know it)
3. gets asked question - "do you want to factory reset the phone"
4. I hit YES expecting it to take me to TWRP - but instead it wipes the phone and puts stock recovery back on.
Just do this:
1. flash TWRP.
2. PULL THE BATTERY
3. Use finger combo to boot recovery.
4. When asked "do you want to factory reset the phone" - hit YES
5. TWRP boots in like 5 seconds.
This has worked now for my G4 and my V10 since they both have this issue. The V20 however does not (my current phone) - so hopefully LG is done with this crap!!
Good luck!
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The biggest thing is.. when you first flash over TWRP, you HAVE to reboot into recovery before you try rebooting the system, or else the bootloader will overwrite the TWRP install and replace it with the factory recovery.img. (You probably already know this.)
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What was happening on my H811 was that it was either corrupting the recovery partition afterwards or just invalidating it or something because instead of getting back the stock recovery, I'd get the scary "broken robot" screen when trying to boot into recovery.
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To make sure it boots into TWRP first, since fastboot doesn't have a "reboot-recovery" command.. I just pull the battery then do the button combination to boot directly into TWRP. Doing this allowed me to say "YES" to the question "Do you want to factory reset the phone".
I don't know how many times I've wiped my phone because of this:
1. flash TWRP.
2. reboots (tries to hold the finger combo but failed - and didn't know it)
3. gets asked question - "do you want to factory reset the phone"
4. I hit YES expecting it to take me to TWRP - but instead it wipes the phone and puts stock recovery back on.
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The technique I've learned to appreciate (which apparently is a new thing, and is now the suggested method for installing via fastboot according to the twrp.me website) is to load a copy of TWRP into RAM to do the flashing and rebooting. ("fastboot boot [TWRP_IMAGE_NAME]")
I try to avoid battery pulls as much as possible but I have never relied on them on a phone the way I have done over the last week (just had my G4 for about a week now) due to these funky mechanisms that LG has for getting into recovery/bootloader/download mode.
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Just do this:
1. flash TWRP.
2. PULL THE BATTERY
3. Use finger combo to boot recovery.
4. When asked "do you want to factory reset the phone" - hit YES
5. TWRP boots in like 5 seconds.
This has worked now for my G4 and my V10 since they both have this issue. The V20 however does not (my current phone) - so hopefully LG is done with this crap!!
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TBH I am fearful of even trying it now. (Especially since I just read about how a nandroid backup done from TWRP doesn't backup anything on the /data partition, either.. )
Which makes me even more appreciative of LineageOS's "advanced reboot" power button menu. :good:
One of the problems in my view with this LG system is that it can be very difficult to reliably press both the power and volume at the same time on this phone due to it's unusual placement of those buttons. Much harder than on a phone with those buttons on opposite sites of the device. Not to mention this silly "press both these, then release one, then 1s later press that one again" stuff.
And due to the way they designed these sequences, which among other things often have no way to easily escape them (can you imagine having this on a phone with a non-removable battery?? ), but worse, have defaults that progress to another state without any user interaction (because of the limitations of this control logic - eg, if you boot to bootloader but can't escape and don't do anything in 2 minutes, the device automatically reboots), I personally have to wonder if this doesn't make a significant contribution to the infamous bootloop issues that lots of people are having with recent LG's like the G4, G5, V20, etc.
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Thanks.
My wife's old S3 was given to me to use. I had originally flashed CM 11 on it and tried to upgrade to CM 12.1. In doing so I accidentally forgot to flash GAPPS.
I reverted to the stock ROM via Odin but now I'm stuck in a boot loop. The best part? The device's power button does not work and I cannot make any selections within the stock recovery to clear the cache and reset to factory settings.
Can anyone help me?
Pull the battery to turn off the phone and put it back in. If you feel the phone power up by vibrating upon putting the battery in and not touching the power button and go into loop then you have a bad power button. Do you have this problem? If so, then your only options are repair or remove the power button (there is an alternate way to power the phone up). Let us know if it is a bad power button or not so that hardware issues can be accounted for and go from there.
NOTE: The S3 has been known for some time now to have power buttons that fail. Mine did, and I opt to remove mine as I could not justify paying for a repair when the S3 is my backup phone and test platform and I have a method to power up. I use widgets for controlling power off, restarts, and recovery once powered up.
I no longer have a power button either and recently encountered this same issue after using Odin to flash a stock image.
My solution was to flash TWRP recovery using Odin, which allows one to perform operations using touch instead of the power button.
Gargat said:
I no longer have a power button either and recently encountered this same issue after using Odin to flash a stock image.
My solution was to flash TWRP recovery using Odin, which allows one to perform operations using touch instead of the power button.
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That works. Glad you found a way to get through it.
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My wife's old S3 was given to me to use. I had originally flashed CM 11 on it and tried to upgrade to CM 12.1. In doing so I accidentally forgot to flash GAPPS.
I reverted to the stock ROM via Odin but now I'm stuck in a boot loop. The best part? The device's power button does not work and I cannot make any selections within the stock recovery to clear the cache and reset to factory settings.
Can anyone help me?
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Bootloops have not been uncommon when reverting from LP to KK. Once you have flashed TWRP as others in the thread have suggested, you will probably need to wipe/ format the internal sdcard. The other remedy some have posted is to load a stock recovery and do a factory reset from within that stock recovery.
Not sure how to get into recovery without a power button.
Is the button loose or not functioning at all? You could try opening the phone and removing everything from the frame and see if the power button functions.
I haven't tried this with my SGS3, but on my Acer tablet I have booted into recovery using adb and fastboot. This requires connection to a computer, but not a power button. Unless you have a touch version of a custom recovery installed you still would not be able to select an item.
You may be able to flash a custom recovery using adb. I had broken my stock recovery on that tablet and used fastboot to reflash a working stock recovery.