Hi everyone,
This is regarding my ASUS ZenFone 2 ZE551ML (1.8 GHz CPU, 4 GB RAM, 16 GB ROM). A few days ago, after 1 year and 11 months of excellent service, suddenly I saw that some of the apps (Play Music, ASUS MiniMovie) were corrupted. But a simple uninstall and reinstall fixed them. Later that day, I was about to open settings when a message popped up "Unfortunately, settings has stopped". Rebooting the phone did not fix it and I was totally stuck as I was unable to clear the data also for the settings app which also requires "Settings" to function. I managed to do a factory reset after which, I could not even get to the home screen because that involves the Settings app as well.
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I went on to proceed with factory reset from the recovery mode and to my shock, the recovery mode was also corrupted. Screen just froze with a USB logo. I tried to flash the recovery with xFSTK but got write error.
Then I took apart the device and cooled the flash memory (SK hynix manufactured) with some IPA.
The device booted up and was able to get to the home screen. Then I followed the ASUS standard downgrade procedure to downgrade the device from Marshmallow to Lollipop (which should force flashing of the recovery as well and everything). Phone was stable then. Then following ASUS standard upgrade procedure, I upgraded to Marshmallow and did a factory reset again. Set up everything and phone is rock stable now, performs good as new with no slow downs or anything.
My question is "What exactly happened?" It was never rooted and very well taken care of (even looks like new). Is the flash memory failing? Can the firmware get corrupted on its own?
Any answers would be appreciated. Thanks.
Hello I am also having the same issue? Can you please explain more about the way you have recovered. I love my Asus Zenfone2. I am trying to do Factory RESET which causes this issue. Do you mean, use IPA to clean the Memory side? Please help me. My email ID is [email protected]
Firstly, try to flash it with xFSTK using the tutorial here on XDA. If it fails, then you need to take the phone apart.
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Change the language on my touch pro 2...
Today i both my touch pro 2 but it is in Italian language can i change it by installing a new rom? ( i tried installing custom roms but the unlock failed )
Hard SPL your phone BEFORE you change roms...
Fundamental rule that people with bricks seem to ignore....
But I can't hard SPL my phone... it stays at 0 % and then it shows and error and nothing
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Or it says Loading... on the phone and again nothing happens
tonev said:
But I can't hard SPL my phone... it stays at 0 % and then it shows and error and nothing
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Or it says Loading... on the phone and again nothing happens
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edit2: And then it usually show me 260 error Connection error
how is it that you are ateempting to hard spl your phone? Hopefully you are doing it through active sync. Ensure you have the latest windows mobile device center version and that you unpack the Hard spl and running the correct option from there. Like ultramag69 mentioned, if you keep attempting to flash your device without hspl, you may have no device at all.
I am using sim unlocked htc.
My IMEI is PM me for this
sd card out, sim card out, phone on.
attempting to flash.
downloaded ,installed windows mobile device center
connects.
attempt flash with Rhodium-HardSPL_V2_00R3.exe
automatic flash doesnt work
attempt manual flash
picture of my phone comes up, instruction on flash come up, i agree, continue.
window comes up with 0%
phone screen is still showing 0%
after 6 minutes or so it comes up with UPDATE ERROR.
If you want i can make a video of what i am doing
Better if you eliminate your IMEI from post for security
Anyone help? i love my tp2 but I also want to customize it... at least to change the language...
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This is my first TP2 (device ) i have never flashed another htc before !
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Hi guys, I've been scouring Google for 3 days now and can't come up with an answer, everything says use Odin for this and use Odin for that... well I can't.
A few days ago I downloaded an app from the Google store Linuxonandriod or something like that, it's pretty much an installer to place Ubuntu on your phone side by side with Android, the instructions began with rooting the phone, I began that process and believe I accidently loaded the incorrect pda to the phone (I have so many files now on my comp, I have no clue which one I selected). Odin rebooted the phone and that's that.
If I try to turn on the phone it goes to the first screen that just says SAMSUNG then turns off, never getting to the Samsung Galaxy III screen. The USB on the phone seems to have been botched, none of my computers will recognize it (Windows or Linux), the phone will not even charge. I can however get into both recovery and download modes without problem.
Naturally, download mode does no good because the USB is useless and I do not have clockwork mod installed on the phone to bypass the verification error.
I tried to simply install clockwork via recovery in hopes that would do something, but I get a verification error with that.
Is there anyway around this using the SD card or am I holding a $300 paperweight?
Thanks
Maybe try this-http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2369125
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Maybe try this-http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2369125
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Thanks, for the link. I did check it out, but couldn't figure out what the poster was talking about with drive letters and such. That dmesg | tail told me nothing about my sd. I unzipped everything to the card by a different method but my the computer still wouldn't recognize the phone, so booting back into windows did nothing.
Sorry for the delay in response, I've been extremely busy with work.
I'm still at a total loss on this.
Hi guys,
Hoping you can help me here!
I decided to return to stock after trying a few custom ROMs, so followed the KDZ instructions to the letter, downloaded the correct KDZ as per my IMEI - D85520H_00.
I opted to perform a CSE flash as I was coming from a custom ROM.
All was going well until I went through the set up wizard. I pressed skip on the section to reinstall the LG apps and it just dumped me to the homescreen with neither the notification or on-screen buttons!
Sorry about the poor quality pictures, I can't even take screenshots on the phone!
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I've tried a hard reset twice but to no avail, should I just try the entire process again? It all seemed to go fine!
Cheers,
James.
Edit: Forgot to say on first boot the wizard restarted my phone before I could do anything and the screen then wouldn't respond so I had to do a hard reset.
Edit 2: I've just re-flashed it, not entered any settings for data, Google Accounts, Knock Code etc and the same thing is happening
It happened to me. What i did to solve it was enter to TWRP and wipe everything: data, dalvik, cache, internal memory and system (This will softbrick your device so make sure your download mode is working because theres no turning back). Then put in on download mode and flash to stock.
Good luck.
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It happened to me. What i did to solve it was enter to TWRP and wipe everything: data, dalvik, cache, internal memory and system (This will softbrick your device so make sure your download mode is working because theres no turning back). Then put in on download mode and flash to stock.
Good luck.
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Thanks for that I flashed a different custom ROM in the end, but I might give this another try later when I've got my motivation back!
I have the same problem except that i can't enter in download mode and i don't have twrp recovery. What can i do?
MY PROBLEM IS INSANELY RARE AND (propably) HARD TO FIX
Hello!
I've had i9505 for over 4 years now, I had many problems with root, custom rom etc but I always find ways to fix them - not this time!
Since yesterday, I can't boot to the system. It started when I was just in my ES file explorer and suddenly some weird artifacts popped up and I couldn't see anything (its not a physical screen problem!) then my phone turned off itself so now, I'm trying this:
Hikd power button --> *short vibration* --> Samsung S4 logo pops up --> black screen --> again vibration --> ... and again and again. It just loops here.
So I left it for a night hoping that when I wake up it will be finally working again but no, NOW it was stuck on 'SAMSUNG' logo (the one with a blue background). So I pulled out the battery and the phone started restarting again (boot loop).
But there is something new about this situation. Every 2 or 3 restarts there are ARTIFACTS on the screen. For now, I've experienced 3 different ones and I managed to catch one of them with camera (see image below)
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There is another one with a blue code in really small size, couldn't catch it fast enough tho.
This is what I have been doing with my phone before all this crap happened:
1. I installed 'Udemy' app from Google Play
2. I installed Modded Google Play via Lucky Patcher
3. I updated Lucky patcher
4. I edited build.prop to make my phone visible as s7, but then i changed it back
I think these artifacts may be caused a virus or just broken system files - I don't know :/
And pretty much that's it. I really want to know what possibly could cause this issue.
Please, everyone, I've always found ways to fix problems without flashing phone, so I believe I can now.
I have access to download mode and TWRP recovery.
But one more thing about TWRP - when I try to copy a file or wipe cache, error message pops up "E: Unable to mount storage". Is it possible, that for the first time ever my phone actually got infected?
If I catch any new artifacts, I will show them here.
I would be grateful for any help at this point, thanks
LOGCAT FILE:
https://pastebin.com/sPDJ0QQP
TWRP RECOVERY FILE:
https://pastebin.com/2Y0Fmew5
//Edit I'm not sure if the images are visible although the links are okay
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I'm at a loss here. Updated to c61 today, and it's been goofy. I can't install local upgrade (was gonna try to dirty flash), I can't enable RAM boost (not a big deal), and I can't save cropped pics in the gallery app. I'm not sure if it's related, but apps are randomly cloning themselves, too. Does anyone have any ideas?
it kept freezing and i had to factory data reset. i hate this phone now.
aNGERY said:
it kept freezing and i had to factory data reset. i hate this phone now.
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Stay on OOS 11, nothing compares, no custom ROM nor ColorOS comes close. Custom ROMs are riddled with bugs, and COS is the same.
Also, flashing custom ROMs might introduce more issues at times. I flashed one and couldn't update properly. Then my phone broke and can't use T-Mobile MSM, it's permanently set to IN.
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I'm at a loss here. Updated to c61 today, and it's been goofy. I can't install local upgrade (was gonna try to dirty flash), I can't enable RAM boost (not a big deal), and I can't save cropped pics in the gallery app. I'm not sure if it's related, but apps are randomly cloning themselves, too. Does anyone have any ideas?
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the c61 itself has a local update in it, with the c61 you don't need the local update.apk and that the RAM boost can't be activated for you (I think you're rooted) with root I couldn't activate RAM boost either.
just as with the c61 the RAM see your pic and mine is displayed in a different place if you have root, just like then (without root) another menu opens if you press the 12 GB Ram woman then extra RAM (this menu is not there with root )