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[Q] Help my SGS went wrong, probably dead

Hi, i have a SGS (originally) GT-I9000T but then i updated to Froyo 2.2.1 with XXJPY and now is GT-I9000.
Everything was working normally, then i install Darky's rom and working fine, but today i was about to upgrade to Darky's 9.0.2, but i though that was a good idea to clean all the installs and updates i've installed.
What i did was to format the internal SD from the phone options what i've read about this option it's that it will erase all my media content and data from my internal sd, so i did it, then i went to recovery mode and i did a Wipe data/factory reset and i clear the cache, so reboot the phone and at that point was everything OK, but when the phone was booting i realized that the Voodoo LagFix enables itself at that time the phone was working fine but without of personal data, so i turned off again and went to "download mode" because i though i will need again the CF-Root (BusyBox), so i flashed with Odin and when the phone restarted it won't boot normally it was locked on the SAMSUNG screen, i did try to take the battery out and restart several times, but nothing happened.
At that point i remember that the lagfix was enabled i though the LagFix create a conflict with it, or i don't know why, so the story doesn't stop there, in my desperation i try to go back to my original rom, so what i did was to download the Telstra FW for GT-I9000T model (850 band) so then i was to be able to update my original rom, so i flashed with Odin, when the phone boot the model number was GT-I9000T again, and go through the Samsung logo, play's the music and it show the Telstra logo, but suddenly turns in to black screen and don't load the OS.
I will appreciate it if anyone can help me.
UPDATE: I just fix the problem, how i did it: i just flash the Froyo 2.2.1 with XXJPY again and when the phone boot for first time it wont load, so on the RECOVERY mode i selected the format SD, factory reset and that it, reboot and works 100%
Many tanks for the attention.

[Q] Please help, stuck on dual core screen Motorola Atrix 4G

Hello everyone, this is my first post on your web site. I have spent the past 6 hours nosing around xda's web site trying to find a simple straight forward answer. Heres my situation, I unlocked the boot loader and installed tenfar cwm. I re-booted my phone and everything was fine. I then continued to download the gingerblur .zip file and copied it from my pc to my atrix on the internal sd card. I shut my phone down and went into android recovery and created a backup of my current oem rom right after I gained superuser access. I assumed it created the entire back up since it was date and time stamped as this website said it would. I then re-booted my phone and went back into recovery and installed the .zip gingerblur file from the recovery program. Once I did that it installed through the recovery program and gave me an option at the top of the recovery program to install from internal sd, install from external sd, or back. I selected back and kept clicking back until I got to reboot the device. Once I clicked reboot the device from android recovery mode my phone went to the dual core screen and stayed there for approximatly 45 minutes before I pulled the battery. After that I can not get past the dual core screen. I have "unlocked" still displayed at the top left corner of my screen and I used the automatic unlock script to re-install tenfor cwm. I cleared all of the cache, data and tried to restore my phone from the backup I performed earlier... it says it successfully loaded the boot load image but all of the other images it gives errors. Needless to say I have a phone with essentially no operating system. I read a thread on XDA's website stating it could be a problem with the version of cwm I am using and with that there is a link to another thread stating to download a recovery.img file and flash it through fastboot. I can not find out how to flash it through fastboot. Any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated. I am sorry this is so long, but I would rather someone trying to help me have the whole story then just a portion of it. Please help me!!!!!! Thank you for taking the time to read this. My question is simple, how do I get my atrix back to the state it was in before I decided to try to install a gingerblur rom.

I've fixed this problem by wiping everything and installing a fresh copy of gingerbread 4.5 beta. Up and running again!!!
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[Q] So, I've managed to become THAT guy (who screws up even with instructions)

So. I probably jumped in over my head with this, but too late to cry about that.
1. I rooted the phone with superoneclick. Tested with terminal emulator, everything went fine.
2. I backed up original ROM with rom manager.
3. I downloaded CM7, transferred to phone via USB. (Is this where I went wrong? Using the USB cable instead of making sure it went on the SD card by putting it into my computer?)
4. Went into rom manager, clicked wipe data and cache AND wipe dalvik cache after selecting the ROM zip file.
5. Rom manager did its thing, saw the installation screen, then phone rebooted.
Then it just stayed on the LG boot screen for 5+ minutes, so I pulled the battery. Turned it back on, same result. So I pulled it again and this time held volume down while powering on. Now it's been on the same "S/W upgrade please wait while upgrading" screen for probably more than 10 minutes.
So it seems like I bricked the phone. If I can't access the recovery from power off, what do I do?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847

Never use ROM Manager. Even if ROM Manager works perfectly. Always best to use CWM.
And RM isn't compatible with the G2x. Follow the guys link above me.
Sent from my LG-P999 using xda premium

Also, the first boot of a new ROM (or CM update) always takes significantly longer than usual. This is normal.
I also agree with not using RM.

Rom Manager works perfectly with G2x. Just because of NVFlashing, it doesn't write a real custom recovery.... which is why you have to do it manually.
Not a big deal. Just NVFlash like you should have done, then boot into CWM and do a factory reset to wipe cache and data, which is required from moving to stock to custom roms... then reflash CM7 and Google Apps.
Once you NVFlash, proceed using Rom Manager.

Stuck in a loop, need help

Hi all
I’m a complete noob at this and it seems like I have got myself into a bit of a pickle. Sorry for the massive description but I thought it would make it easier to get a good answer.
My Phone:
Samsung Galaxy S4 GT 19505 LTE
PDA I9505XXUEMK8
CSC I9505BTUEMK5
MODEM I9505XXUEMK8
I successfully rooted my phone using Odin. In Odin I added the "CF-Auto-Root-jflte-jfltexx-gti9505.tar.md5" file to the PDA field then rebooted the device. Then I added the "openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.1-jfltexx" file to the PDA field, rebooted the device and the phone automatically opened in TWRP recovery. In recovery mode I wiped the cache, system and dalvik cache. I then went to install, browsed to the "I9505 Official_Google_Edition_4.3_by_Jamal2367_Finaly_v2.0" file on my SD card, rebooted the device and the Google logo came up on the screen for a few minutes and all was good. Got my new ROM, ran a root checker and all was good.
After some research I decided I wanted to use the Pacman ROM as it seemed to a lot more customisable. Using the same method I went to TWRP recovery wiped the cache, system, and dalvik cache. I then went to Install, browsed for the pacman ROM and the Gapps file on my SD card and everything installed ok, the phone restarted and the pacman logo came up everything was fine. Although I did notice on start up that I got this message.(and have had this error message ever since)
kernel is not seandriod enforcing
set warranty bit : kernel
After using the Pacman ROM for a day I noticed a lot of bugs like my apps would disappear, I couldn't use my banking apps and my phone was generally performing very badly. So I decided to remove the ROM and use CyanogenMod ROM under the recommendation of a friend. So again I pressed home+power+vol up to enter recovery mode but this time it didn’t enter the TWRP recovery it entered the stock recovery mode. This was slightly concerning but I proceeded to use the list menu and cleared the cache etc, browsed the SD card and went to the CyanogenMod 10.2 ROM I previously downloaded. It began to install but in red I got the error message stating that I didn’t have the right permission or signature. The phone rebooted back to the Pacman ROM. I tried the above three times and it still continued to boot back into Pacman ROM sometimes I struggled to even get back into recovery mode.
Soooooo I decided to try and go back to the Google Edition 4.3 ROM and play it safe, using the method from my first paragraph. But when it installed through TWRP I got an error message saying cant find MD5 file. The device rebooted and the Google edition logo came up on the screen but it seems to be locked in a loop. The Google logo wont go away and the phone vibrates once then three times quickly every 10 seconds.
I can still enter both TWRP recover and Download Mode. But I don’t want to mess around with it anymore without getting some advice. Any help would be much appreciated as I really need my phone working.
Thanks again
Aiden

Did you create a backup while on your first run with google edition? If so wipe cache, system, and dalvik and restore to your backup. Should put you back to where you began.
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I know I should, but I didnt. Is it still fixable ?

*Update*
Couldnt help myself had to have a tinker around. Managed to get Cyanogenmod 10 working with Gapps. Gonna see how I get on with this. Although still would like to know I have been having all these problems.

Sometimes things just dont go as planned: p I have easily soft bricked my phone around 10 times and always able to fix it. You really should have made a stock backup before flashing anything. I recommend doing it now so you at least have a known working configuation backed up for future use. Trust me backups are your friends!
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Thanks for your replies.
Ye gonna that right now Cyan Mod so far is running very smooth without any problems.
Regards
Aiden

[Completed] Help, series of unfortunate noob events messed up my GT-N5120

Hello everyone,
Welcome to a series of unfortunate noob events;
All I wanted was to set my default storage to SD, since my Samsung Note 8 GT-N5120 only had 16 gb of internal memory.
I am aware that with my device, I can move apps to SD, but only a part of it gets moved, a huge chunk still stays in the internal memory (i.e 60 mb of an app goes to sd and 100mb of an app stays in memory).
So I searched online and all signs lead to rooting, in order to tweak my device to its fullest ;therefore, making the feature I want available at my disposal. And so I did, I followed tutorials correctly, from usb debugging mode to using odin. SuperSU was there and I downloaded Root Checker just to verify.
My device was working perfectly, but during bootup instead of a screen that shows the android with a pirate patch, it shows a static white screen before going into the samsung logo screen. I've searched through the forums and found out that other GT-N5120 owners had the same problem as well. It was no big deal and I didn't mind.
After that I searched online on things to do after rooting my device. It says install a CWM for better recovery options than what the stock recovery offers, so I did I used this tutorial: droidviews.com/root-and-install-cwm-on-samsung-galaxy-note-8-0-gt-n5100-gt-n5110-gt-n5120-all-models/
Everything was fine and I thought I was getting the hang of this thing, so I moved on to the next step and downloaded ROM Manager, to use a Custom ROM, I used this tutorial: androidtipsz.com/how-to-install-a-custom-rom-on-your-android-phone-using-rom-manager
This part got hazy,
ROM Manager asked me what version of CWM I am using and the options were: 2.0 or 5.x+, I picked the latter
and I was all set,I just needed a Custom ROM to use I picked Paranoid Android. Went to their site downloaded the .zip file that corresponds to my device and used ROM Manager to flash Paranoid Android, but it got to a screen that says my .zip file is for GT-N5120 your device is GT-N5110, which was weird because anywhere I checked on the device (including ROM manager, except when it gets to the said screen) says my device is GT-N5120.
This where the unorthodox noob of myself comes in:
Without hesitation I downloaded the Paranoid Android .zip for GT-N5110 and flashed it with ROM Manager. It worked, the tab still boots and Paranoid Android is running, but the tab got laggy and Google Store stopped running and Email stopped running and because of that, no games would work. SuperSU and ROM Manger didn't open too, I forgot the message tho. Keep in mind I did all this WITHOUT BACKING UP MY FILES igotrektnub :crying:
I looked everywhere for a solution to revert without deleting all my files, Ive decided to download the Stock Rom for GT-N5120, the only problem was there were GT-N5120 Stock Roms from different regions, I think that my tablet was from the Sweden Region so I went ahead and downloaded that.
Question#1
Should the Stock Rom I use be region specific? If so how would I check which region my device came from?
So I went to Odin Mode again and flashed this MD5 file:N5120XXDNE4_N5120AUTDNF1_N5120XXDNE4_HOME.tar
it was ok but it got stuck on system.img for a good 2 hours or so? So I did the unthinkable, turn off the device...
After that every time I turn on my device it just boots to the white static screen and never gets past it, I can still go to download mode and recovery mode, but thats about it. I think my recovery mode went back to stock. I tried flashing the root files CF_Auto but it didnt do anything, the same for the CWM, I went into recovery mode factory reset and data wipe and cache wipe, but it still wont get pass the static white screen.
Please help, Ive read somewhere that as long as it still boots download mode, it can still be fixed. :fingers-crossed:
Sincerely,
Nubdatgotrektbyhimself

XDA Visitor said:
Hello everyone,
Welcome to a series of unfortunate noob events;
All I wanted was to set my default storage to SD, since my Samsung Note 8 GT-N5120 only had 16 gb of internal memory.
I am aware that with my device, I can move apps to SD, but only a part of it gets moved, a huge chunk still stays in the internal memory (i.e 60 mb of an app goes to sd and 100mb of an app stays in memory).
So I searched online and all signs lead to rooting, in order to tweak my device to its fullest ;therefore, making the feature I want available at my disposal. And so I did, I followed tutorials correctly, from usb debugging mode to using odin. SuperSU was there and I downloaded Root Checker just to verify.
My device was working perfectly, but during bootup instead of a screen that shows the android with a pirate patch, it shows a static white screen before going into the samsung logo screen. I've searched through the forums and found out that other GT-N5120 owners had the same problem as well. It was no big deal and I didn't mind.
After that I searched online on things to do after rooting my device. It says install a CWM for better recovery options than what the stock recovery offers, so I did I used this tutorial: droidviews.com/root-and-install-cwm-on-samsung-galaxy-note-8-0-gt-n5100-gt-n5110-gt-n5120-all-models/
Everything was fine and I thought I was getting the hang of this thing, so I moved on to the next step and downloaded ROM Manager, to use a Custom ROM, I used this tutorial: androidtipsz.com/how-to-install-a-custom-rom-on-your-android-phone-using-rom-manager
This part got hazy,
ROM Manager asked me what version of CWM I am using and the options were: 2.0 or 5.x+, I picked the latter
and I was all set,I just needed a Custom ROM to use I picked Paranoid Android. Went to their site downloaded the .zip file that corresponds to my device and used ROM Manager to flash Paranoid Android, but it got to a screen that says my .zip file is for GT-N5120 your device is GT-N5110, which was weird because anywhere I checked on the device (including ROM manager, except when it gets to the said screen) says my device is GT-N5120.
This where the unorthodox noob of myself comes in:
Without hesitation I downloaded the Paranoid Android .zip for GT-N5110 and flashed it with ROM Manager. It worked, the tab still boots and Paranoid Android is running, but the tab got laggy and Google Store stopped running and Email stopped running and because of that, no games would work. SuperSU and ROM Manger didn't open too, I forgot the message tho. Keep in mind I did all this WITHOUT BACKING UP MY FILES igotrektnub :crying:
I looked everywhere for a solution to revert without deleting all my files, Ive decided to download the Stock Rom for GT-N5120, the only problem was there were GT-N5120 Stock Roms from different regions, I think that my tablet was from the Sweden Region so I went ahead and downloaded that.
Question#1
Should the Stock Rom I use be region specific? If so how would I check which region my device came from?
So I went to Odin Mode again and flashed this MD5 file:N5120XXDNE4_N5120AUTDNF1_N5120XXDNE4_HOME.tar
it was ok but it got stuck on system.img for a good 2 hours or so? So I did the unthinkable, turn off the device...
After that every time I turn on my device it just boots to the white static screen and never gets past it, I can still go to download mode and recovery mode, but thats about it. I think my recovery mode went back to stock. I tried flashing the root files CF_Auto but it didnt do anything, the same for the CWM, I went into recovery mode factory reset and data wipe and cache wipe, but it still wont get pass the static white screen.
Please help, Ive read somewhere that as long as it still boots download mode, it can still be fixed. :fingers-crossed:
Sincerely,
Nubdatgotrektbyhimself
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