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I only did the first step. I see I have lost the superuser icon and lost the button for TV out in the Display settings. With Serendipity I had a button that didn't work. Now I have a stock looking handset with all the bloatware from ATT and Samsung, and can't find any button to use HDMI. I did the download mode and tried this thinking the HDMI would work and I'm chicken to try step 2.
It is to download Defuse 1.5
It says it lets you flash a rom with CWM. Can I avoid step two and try Superoneclick?
Now, I hold the buttons and see blue recovery the way it sits now I don't see advanced, and therefore no wiping any Delvic Cache (whatever that is LOL) Blue recovery looks like it could wipe and flash, maybe don't worry about Delvic?
Oh and now I don't have root!?
I'm a newbie, can you tell? Point me to some more stuff to read. I quit while I'm ahead and don't wanna brick LOL
also I can't put my phone in download anymore, and it says follow the instructions above
pulling / replacing battery, then holding down both volume buttons while pluging in the usb cable doesn't put you in download mode???
If not, try a different cable.
Truckerglenn said:
pulling / replacing battery, then holding down both volume buttons while pluging in the usb cable doesn't put you in download mode???
If not, try a different cable.
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Yes, both volume buttons while plugging, it when into download mode and then I flashed that second step and it worked! It did not boot, just made it to samsung logo... so I did the three button deal and gave me red clockwork. I proceeded to wipe data, factory reset, wipe cache partition, wipe delvik cache, wipe battery stats, then installed custom zip from sd card (Serendipity VII).
Thanks Truckerglenn.
Right now it's hung on it's first reboot, hoping S7 will fire up, but it's taking a long time. And I never noticed the female voice saying unintelligible remarks every once in a while. What is that?
time stamp
Not trying to spam, just keeping track. Would like to report it's still hung on the Serendipity logo, but I saw it BLINK OFF and I had a black screen for about ten seconds! It lit back up to be hung on the Serendipity VII logo again. And that's how things sit at the moment, me on the edge of my seat, deciding to give the darn thing all day if necessary.
I should give it extra time right? The battery was almost full when I started. I am reluctant to pull the battery and try a reboot now after seeing it blink off and then back on.
progress bar
All this time of being hung up on the S7 logo, that horizontal bar, it is not a regular progress bar, but rather has diagonal green stripes that are starting to show movement every once in a while.
Hope no one minds me logging the details. (I know better than to post in the Dev thread, esp talking about AFTER trying the att back to stock and not liking it LOL
Anyway I find it encouraging (still hung up at this time stamp) that the green stripes are moving constantly. Ten minutes ago I thought I saw them wiggle, they mostly stood still, now they move along and then stop and stay frozen, then start moving again)
So I'm trying to be patient and let it do it's thing, I am resisting the temptation to panic and pull the battery at this point.
green diagonal stripes in progress bar at S7 logo
wow cool, the movement rate changed! It changes from moving, to stopped, to now I saw it do a very slow crawl inch, inch, inch, along type movement the green stripes did! Oh and as I type this, it went dark again, but this time for only 2 seconds.
stuck it would seem
Does a custom rom ever take more than a whole hour to load? I think something is wrong. It's still blinking off for a few seconds, then changing movement rate on green stripes of Serendipity VII logo, getting bright, freezing up, over and over and over...
I'm thinkin' I should go ahead and pull the battery and start over with three buttons.
Anyone else think I should let it cook like this all day and risk running my battery down?
all four buttons on the bottom lit!
I removed the back cover and thought I noticed a difference, turned the phone to look at it and the menu buttons on the bottom, all four were lit up. Then as I held it, again reluctant to mess up, decided pulling the battery might be the wrong thing to do, the darn phone made a short vibrate!
I've been watching to see if it's stuck in a pattern and I can't tell. Decided to let it cook like this a while longer and be patient. I'm going to ignore it and go make breakfast. Darn thing is driving me nuts sitting here watching and wondering.
I never loaded that ROM, but if one takes longer 15 minutes, I pull the battery and start over.
That's what I do. If you do, remember it's at your own risk.
pattern
Truckerglenn said:
I never loaded that ROM, but if one takes longer 15 minutes, I pull the battery and start over.
That's what I do. If you do, remember it's at your own risk.
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Ok I yanked the battery. I'm gonna do some reading more then. Thanks for the reply. If you could spend a few more keystrokes on me, should I be looking to go into download mode and do the heimlick manuever that takes me back to stock would be my way out of this?
Superoneclick doesn't root the att 2.3.6 stock?
I wonder if being as I heimdall'd to att stock, and lost root?, is maybe why Serendipity didn't load? And now I'm stuck with heimdall first step is the only way to light up my phone now? With all that att bloatware? Phooey! It's better than no phone at all, but I'll be reading here seeing if there is a way to get root, and flash S7 again.
Sounds like it. You need to be rooted to load a custom rom.
Cranky...
Yes i tried and it works. I used superoneclick and got root.
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I have been running the new cm9 ics ROM for about 2 days now, and had just got all my data and apps sorted and fully working. I sat down, watched some TV, and after 30 mins i checked my phone. Black screen ( i assume its locked) i tap the power button, nothing, again nothing. I now think i must have turned my phone off. I now hold the power button, nothing, again, nothing. I grab my charger, put my phone on charge and notice no orange or green light. I have repeatedly tried to revive my phone but nothing works. I don't know if its the software, battery, charger, Im so confused. Please if anyone has had the same problem, or has any suggestions, i would appreciate it very much. Thanks.
some extra details: i charged my phone over night the day before, so it shouldn't have died ( i know you shouldnt charge overnight, but i do :/)
i wasn't trying to flash anything or messing around with files, it was in my pocket.
i didn't drop it
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I have been running the new cm9 ics ROM for about 2 days now, and had just got all my data and apps sorted and fully working. I sat down, watched some TV, and after 30 mins i checked my phone. Black screen ( i assume its locked) i tap the power button, nothing, again nothing. I now think i must have turned my phone off. I now hold the power button, nothing, again, nothing. I grab my charger, put my phone on charge and notice no orange or green light. I have repeatedly tried to revive my phone but nothing works. I don't know if its the software, battery, charger, Im so confused. Please if anyone has had the same problem, or has any suggestions, i would appreciate it very much. Thanks.
some extra details: i charged my phone over night the day before, so it shouldn't have died ( i know you shouldnt charge overnight, but i do :/)
i wasn't trying to flash anything or messing around with files, it was in my pocket.
i didn't drop it
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Don't panic. Stay calm. The most of our ics roms suffer from reboots or freezes at this stage of development. Your phone simply froze, this can happen with screen on or turned off. If the three button combo (power and volume + -) does not work, You need to wait until the battery drains out.
if you pull the battery there is a chance to freeze your emmc chip and really brick your phone. If you connect the phone to PC before pulling the Batt there's a little lower risk. But I still don't recommend to do so. After your phone is running again, you should overvolt by 25 to hopefully prevent your phone from freezing again.
Ps.
Really, please stay calm, this happened to me about 20 times on ics roms and I'm not the only one.
Sent by my fingers to your head.
thanks, i will just wait then, is it normal that adb won't recognise the device? and also two things, how long roughly will it take to drain completely? and when it is completely drained, what do i do? charge as normal?
thanks a lot
Gaff3rs said:
thanks, i will just wait then, is it normal that adb won't recognise the device? and also two things, how long roughly will it take to drain completely? and when it is completely drained, what do i do? charge as normal?
thanks a lot
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1. Yes, if it's frozen adb does not recognize the device
2. Depends on how much loaded your battery was. Could be between 1-12 hours
For me very often it didn't need that long, phone restarted by itself after some time.. (30 mins?) But sometimes I also had to wait long..
3.yes, charge normal
Edit: since your screen is off it could take even more than 12 hours
post your results
Sent by my fingers to your head.
Nothing yet i think i will have to wait to tomorrow
EDIT: 11:00 am GMT still nothing, it's been almost 24 hours; should I just keep waiting?
And is there any way to tell wether it's frozen, or the Emmc chip is broken? Thanks
Hey, I've been looking around the forums, and it seems to me that my phone's emmc chip is fine. I admit I did, in a panic, pull out the battery and re-insert it, but on other forums people with a 'fried' emmc chip can at least boot their phone, mine is just completely un-responsive, with a black screen and nothing, when you put it on charge. Am I right or could you shed some light on the problem?
Thanks
Gaff3rs said:
Hey, I've been looking around the forums, and it seems to me that my phone's emmc chip is fine. I admit I did, in a panic, pull out the battery and re-insert it, but on other forums people with a 'fried' emmc chip can at least boot their phone, mine is just completely un-responsive, with a black screen and nothing, when you put it on charge. Am I right or could you shed some light on the problem?
Thanks
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Seems to me exactly like the freeze I and a bunch of others are suffering from. If you think you can take the risk, you could try pulling the battery.
1. Connect to PC first.
2. Pull battery.
3. Pull USB cable
4. Insert battery after few minutes
5. Try to reboot recovery with adb
As I said there is a chance of freezing your emmc. You might succeed, but you might totally brick your phone too. I'm not responsible, I told you the risk..
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I had a spare battery lying around, did what you said above, instead putting the other battery in and not going on adb, but nothing happened. I think I am going to have to try what you said above ^^^
Oh and once I have put the battery back in do I turn the phone on? It might sound stupid but I don't want to get it wrong :/
Alright a few details:
My phone connected to the computer with a battery in (I don't have a clue how full it is) is not recognised as a 'device with removable storage'
It won't charge (or the orange light won't come on)
Yes, to see if it's booting, I would suggest to turn it on
As I said, try to reboot via adb.
And I would recommend to reboot into recovery and flash another ROM or backup, you don't want to freeze your phone again today, do you?
Sent by my fingers to your head.
I've taken my bay out and am just waiting a few minutes :/
Alright it seemsbe booting, could be a boot loop though
Edit : it's working I'm on the home screen of cm9
You don't know how much I love you right now thanks so much for all the help (I didn't even need adb, it just booted normally 0.o)
Keep your fingers crossed
Edit: glad you already solved it.
You're welcome mate
Sent by my fingers to your head.
As I said, overvolt by 25 to hopefully prevent the phone from freezing again.
Or simply do flash a stable ROM. I would prefer this as I don't like to freeze my phone and brutally pull the batt
Sent by my fingers to your head.
I'm trawling through pages and pages of ROMs I think I will stick to stable ones now
If you want sense, try endymion, by far the best.
No sense - reaper, fastest ever.
Just my personal opinion.
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I may have not the thread in its entirety..
But did you try VolumeUp + VolumeDown + Power button combination.
Which can often reboot a hung/stuck phone?
So, tonight I just turned my screen on and then off real quick to check if I have any messages and set my phone down. Then I look down and see the Samsung logo. I'm a bit confused and notice that the Samsung logo keeps showing for 1-2 seconds going black for 1-2 seconds and then back to the Samsung logo for 1-2 seconds, over and over. I pull the battery and then when I put it back in, the phone starts doing it again before I touch any buttons. Clearly something is causing my power button to be "on" continuously. This seems to be a relatively common problem from doing some searching, but most of the posts I find seem to be full of people responding who fail to understand the problem. People seem to think that this is a boot loop and that it can be fixed by going into download mode. This is clearly not the case, the problem is obviously with the power button since the phone automatically starts up and keeps doing this as soon as the battery is reinserted regardless if no buttons are pushed or all buttons are pushed. Has anyone managed to fix this problem? I'm thinking I'm going to have to take the infuse apart and see if the button is stuck or if there contact occuring somewhere it shouldn't be. Any help would be appreciated.
Yeah, i have this problem. First what i did, i'd hit gently the power button a few times and it seemed to work. But after a few days it got worse, till the point it wouldn't work. I decided to open up the phone myself, and trying to manipulate the small power button. Apparently it worked, but i decided not to use the power button anymore, i wake the phone by touching the volume +/- buttons and i turn it off with a widget i downloaded from the playstore. This problem seems to be on every infuse i'm saving up some money to buy another phone, since i won't be able to sell this one with this problem.
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Here is a video of a screen replcement- not what you are doing but it shows you how to take the phone apart. Hope this helps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WS5I0SpL6c
Thanks for the link. I took it apart using that and cleaned everything and just clicked the power button a whole bunch and its working again for now.
Pony Express said:
Here is a video of a screen replcement- not what you are doing but it shows you how to take the phone apart. Hope this helps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WS5I0SpL6c
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Nice one, bro.
z3ddicus said:
So, tonight I just turned my screen on and then off real quick to check if I have any messages and set my phone down. Then I look down and see the Samsung logo. I'm a bit confused and notice that the Samsung logo keeps showing for 1-2 seconds going black for 1-2 seconds and then back to the Samsung logo for 1-2 seconds, over and over. I pull the battery and then when I put it back in, the phone starts doing it again before I touch any buttons. Clearly something is causing my power button to be "on" continuously. This seems to be a relatively common problem from doing some searching, but most of the posts I find seem to be full of people responding who fail to understand the problem. People seem to think that this is a boot loop and that it can be fixed by going into download mode. This is clearly not the case, the problem is obviously with the power button since the phone automatically starts up and keeps doing this as soon as the battery is reinserted regardless if no buttons are pushed or all buttons are pushed. Has anyone managed to fix this problem? I'm thinking I'm going to have to take the infuse apart and see if the button is stuck or if there contact occuring somewhere it shouldn't be. Any help would be appreciated.
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It happens that to one of my infuse before and i send it so Josh @ http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/ he replaces my power buttons and services is amazing and shipping is fast.
Hi folks! Long time XDA lurker (Nexus 7, 10, and Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7 forums), first time poster.
I picked up a XOOM off of EBay last week. The device ran well once I got it charged, it did software updates and was running on 4.0.3 with no issues until last night. I went to pop in a micro SD card, and when I pressed the power button to get it out of sleep mode, the screen began flashing colors, cycling between all colors, a checkerboard test pattern at one point, gradients from light to dark, etc. I did a bunch of Google searching last night and found one link where someone had the same issue, but no solution was mentioned. I have also looked here, but no luck. The one link I found last night seems to indicate it's some files from ICS getting corrupted during the update to 4.x, but it wasn't really clear whether that was the case or not.
I have tried the power+vol up button trick; that turns the screen off after a second or two, then the light show begins again. I can't find a way to shut off to be able to get it into recovery mode, and I have tried installing the Lord AIO tool but on running it, it seems to be stuck at the 'list of devices attached' section. Any ideas, other than letting the battery run down to nothing, then maybe it being able to get put into recovery mode? The place I bought it from on EBay does have a 14 day return policy, so I have a few days still to figure this out, but not sure how long it'll take to run the battery down. The light show on the screen does time out after about a minute or two, but I obviously can't keep hitting the power button every two minutes until it does finally drain the battery.
I really like the XOOM, it feels like you're actually holding something real & solid, compared to other tablets, and want to get this back up & running again. Any ideas what I can do next?
I hope this is the right place for this.
My problem is that the screen goes to rest while I'm using the phone.
I.e reading something, after 30 sec the screen goes black. I changes the timeout to, say 2 min,
the next time I switch on the phone it's back to 30 sec..
Used to have Xperia, and they stayed waken as long as I was looking at the phone, and didn't go to rest
until I put the phone down.
Is this the way life's meant to be? Or have I missed something?