I tried loading a theme with Metamorph and my phone is semi bricked now. It starts up and when it tries to load the homescreen a couple apps keep continually crashing and do not let me do anything.
Any ideas? I tried erasing the user data but that didn't help.
Not a brick, load up your old framework or reflash
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Btw, a brick is a brick. Big paper weight that cost a couple hundred bucks. What you got turns on, just has apps crashing.
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How do I reflash?
Sorry im a noob
What rom are you on? Use odin to go back to stock. Then go back to the rom you're on now. Themes only work for the rom they are made for. Can't innermingle em. I'm guessing your on stock and tried to apply a theme.
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Hello everyone,
I searched the forums for awhile but could not find a satifying answer for my question. So i am hoping you guys will have an answer for me.
First of all i would like to point out that i am not looking for an answer for how to unbrick the phone. There are several guides and hopefully when i get home i will be able to fix the problem. *Fingers crossed*
I did not have my Galaxy S for long. After getting it and installing KIES and updating my firmware the battery life what terrible so I rooted the phone and then installed Gingerbread 2.3.6 JVU. it worked like a charm.
Yesterday when I was playing with the CWM application, I decided that i was going to back up the phone and backed it up using the application. This morning one of my programs was acting weird and I decided to restore the backup I have done yesterday.
Upon going into applications and CWM, I chose the restore option and started the process. Everything was going smoothly, the phone was plugged in to the charger as well.
When the phone rebooted after the initial process I am stuck at logo screen. i can go into download mode (That is why I am hoping that I will be able to unbrick it) however that is as far as the phone goes. When I try to go into CWM Recovery mode, I am once again welcomed by the phone getting stuck at logo screen.
Does anyone have any idea as to why this might have happened? To avoid future problems is there any extra steps I should have taken before using the CWM restore function?
Thanks for the help.
m_hawkmoon said:
Hello everyone,
I searched the forums for awhile but could not find a satifying answer for my question. So i am hoping you guys will have an answer for me.
First of all i would like to point out that i am not looking for an answer for how to unbrick the phone. There are several guides and hopefully when i get home i will be able to fix the problem. *Fingers crossed*
I did not have my Galaxy S for long. After getting it and installing KIES and updating my firmware the battery life what terrible so I rooted the phone and then installed Gingerbread 2.3.6 JVU. it worked like a charm.
Yesterday when I was playing with the CWM application, I decided that i was going to back up the phone and backed it up using the application. This morning one of my programs was acting weird and I decided to restore the backup I have done yesterday.
Upon going into applications and CWM, I chose the restore option and started the process. Everything was going smoothly, the phone was plugged in to the charger as well.
When the phone rebooted after the initial process I am stuck at logo screen. i can go into download mode (That is why I am hoping that I will be able to unbrick it) however that is as far as the phone goes. When I try to go into CWM Recovery mode, I am once again welcomed by the phone getting stuck at logo screen.
Does anyone have any idea as to why this might have happened? To avoid future problems is there any extra steps I should have taken before using the CWM restore function?
Thanks for the help.
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Maybe your backup was corrupted somehow. You could have tried wiping the dalvik cache after restoring your backup (before rebooting), but its too late now. Since you can get into download mode, you can easily fix the problem (your device is just soft bricked - nothing to worry too much about).
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Maybe your backup was corrupted somehow. You could have tried wiping the dalvik cache after restoring your backup (before rebooting), but its too late now. Since you can get into download mode, you can easily fix the problem (your device is just soft bricked - nothing to worry too much about).
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The phone rebooted automatically. Did not give me the chance to do anything beforehand.
As you said the phone was soft bricked so when i got home that day i just fixed it. No problem. However I am really really into getting to find out how a 1 day old back up can get corrupted.
Ive been running a GTN7000 on rooted ICS for some time without any errors however today I decided to remove Chainfire 3D, after the compulsory reboot my phone shows no display after the initial logo. The normal jingles and vibrations take place and the buttons are lit but there is no screen output.
Does anyone know how to fix this without wiping my phone? thanks
It seems like you have a soft brick. Try a reset via Samsung Kies or look for a soft brick undo guide or something.
I am sorry I cannot help any further as I do not own a note myself and therefore have minimal experience with the device.
Would like to hope you can fix it.
Hit thanks if I helped.
i think you should try to soft reset it. you can use any reset method you already know....
sorry if i couldnt help you any further too. but as for me, when i face some error like that, i've always reset my phone (coz i already backup my data with titanium backup)
Hi guys, sorry for the delay.
I've finally managed to fix it.
After fighting through a whole heap of errors and reflashing the device at least 10 times I now have my phone back to a fully working rooted ICS state. I did however loose all my data.
Hi guys,
I went into rom manager today and tried to get a new font. After I did the backup(it told me to), I installed the font and it went into my home screen and just sat there. I got frustrated at waiting, and pulled the battery out. When I tried turning it on again, my phone is stuck at the at&t rethink possible sign. I tried going into recovery mode, but it just vibrates continuously. Can anyone help me?
which recovery r u on
can u get into dl mode, if yes just flash a new recovery, howto is in my sig
does it vibrate and/or bootloop booting into android, or is it still stuck at logo
If it's vibrating, it's probably a soft brick. Put it into download mode and restore to stock, then put the same recovery you had back onto the phone and restore the Nandroid you made before messing around with system files. You did make a Nandroid immediately before messing with system files so that recovering from a soft brick would be a breeze, right? If you didn't, all of your apps and data are gone. Tough lesson to learn, but it's better than a hard brick.
If you can't get yourself into download mode, well, yeah, it's a hard brick for all intents and purposes. JTAG or warranty. Either way, anything not on the external SD is gone.
To reiterate: messing with system files, such as fonts, is inherently risky. Clearly, you're now aware of this. Any time you intend to modify a system file or flash anything, do a Nandroid backup first. Even the best of us have had random soft brick moments, and a fresh Nandroid makes it easy to bring our phone back after using Odin to restore to stock and clear the bootloop.
I rooted my phone back in December and have been using it without problems since then. I've rebooted it tons of time, haven't installed anything unusual or tried to modify anything. I just followed the normal instructions for rooting and flashing a custom rom. Today, I rebooted my phone and now it's hanging at the Galaxy SIII logo screen. Taking out the battery didn't help. I have no idea why it would do this out of the blue. What are my options for fixing this? Can I recover my data?
blueintegral said:
I rooted my phone back in December and have been using it without problems since then. I've rebooted it tons of time, haven't installed anything unusual or tried to modify anything. I just followed the normal instructions for rooting and flashing a custom rom. Today, I rebooted my phone and now it's hanging at the Galaxy SIII logo screen. Taking out the battery didn't help. I have no idea why it would do this out of the blue. What are my options for fixing this? Can I recover my data?
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Should be easy to fix. Common issue.
Try booting into recovery. If you can then clear cache and dalvik. Try rebooting then.
If that doesn't work try re flashing the rom,
If you can't reboot into recovery but can get into download mode then you can easily fix it at the cost of losing all your data.
Let me know how it turns out.
At this point, my phone is just one big tweak.
Wiping the caches didn't work, so I ended up having to reflash the rom. Everything seems to be back to normal now though, thanks!
Hi I am new to rooting and soft bricked my phone on a Sprint Samsung S6 Edge G925P, I was messing with titanium back up and I clicked run on one of the batch files I believe it was replace apps with new versions but im not for sure. A lot of error messages kept popping up saying "name of app" closed and i could not finish my back up with titanium it was stuck at 50%. I went to go look at my phone and all the google apps such as play store and youtube were down and was replaced with the green android robot logo. I panicked and decided I should restart my phone with a factory reset. However, I can not get the reset to finish it always gets stuck on checking for updates or just a sec after waiting for long periods of time.
Please Help!!!
bhanu saini said:
I Think that in this situation i recommond you two option
No.1- if you have done a backup in cwm recovery than you have to restore it
No.2- if you dont have any backup than flash your phone stock rom with odin
I hope that this will work 馃槈馃槈
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It honestly took me a entire day to find the right files and fix it ,but I just now fixed it im so relieved. It was a huge pain in the ass after trying several files and methods ,but luckily I got the right files now and have them saved on my computer now. I didnt see your message til just now but luckily i saw it on my newly fixed S6 edge thank you for the reply im new to XDA forums