Ok.... so, I done gone and did it. I think I managed to brick my gtab. Which is odd, because it was working one minute, then said "shove off" the next.
I was running the VEGAn-Tab Gingerbread Alpha and couldn't stand the lack of hardware acceleration anymore. Choppy video, games, and such. So, I decided to jump back to 5.1. I flashed the .8 recovery again and was able to get it installed zero issue. I was even running 5.1 for a good day or two. I was in the middle of redoing the Angry Birds levels since the backup data from GB wasn't playing nice for just that one app.. I noticed there was no sound after a bit, thought another app might have been holding priority over the audio, so I went to reboot. Shuts down, when it should reboot, the screen just stays black. The screen is definitely on, just blank.
The power button shuts it off after a second or two of holding it, so it's still functioning from some form of data to know to do that... I figured nvflash might work, but I can't figure out how to get it going without my computer picking up on a USB device.
Have I just screwed myself here, somehow? any ideas?
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Ok.... so, I done gone and did it. I think I managed to brick my gtab. Which is odd, because it was working one minute, then said "shove off" the next.
I was running the VEGAn-Tab Gingerbread Alpha and couldn't stand the lack of hardware acceleration anymore. Choppy video, games, and such. So, I decided to jump back to 5.1. I flashed the .8 recovery again and was able to get it installed zero issue. I was even running 5.1 for a good day or two. I was in the middle of redoing the Angry Birds levels since the backup data from GB wasn't playing nice for just that one app.. I noticed there was no sound after a bit, thought another app might have been holding priority over the audio, so I went to reboot. Shuts down, when it should reboot, the screen just stays black. The screen is definitely on, just blank.
The power button shuts it off after a second or two of holding it, so it's still functioning from some form of data to know to do that... I figured nvflash might work, but I can't figure out how to get it going without my computer picking up on a USB device.
Have I just screwed myself here, somehow? any ideas?
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Sounds like a brick to me, same thing happened to me.
Luckily for you the gtab is virtually unbrickable.
Follow the method from the following thread to get your gtab back to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=861950
G'luck
Yep, Semibricked.
Happened to me 2 days ago. See the last post from me, pazzu510 and you´ll see some images from the process. XD It makes it so easy to have ubuntu specially linux mint(i dont know if the "run in terminal" works in other distros and in which).
Good luck and dont get too worried. Not even data get lost(just some apps).
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Yep, Semibricked.
Happened to me 2 days ago. See the last post from me, pazzu510 and you´ll see some images from the process. XD It makes it so easy to have ubuntu specially linux mint(i dont know if the "run in terminal" works in other distros and in which).
Good luck and dont get too worried. Not even data get lost(just some apps).
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wait... there are actually running versions of Ubuntu on this thing? I've been hoping for that since I decided on this thing over the Adam. lol I've only seen a few posts around for Karmic.
I'll give the methods mentioned a try and report back. I'm glad this is fixable. My only experience with this stuff is with my Droid and old iPod Touch(which I semi-bricked quite a few times with all of my tinkering. lol)
edit: Wait.. sorry.. I just realized you meant on a normal computer. lol My brain kinda jumped the gun there, for a second. lol
Ok... So, I had no choice but to do the nvflash from linux because windows 7 decided it didn't want to play nice with the drivers. I've been meaning to dual-boot Ubuntu anyway, so it pushed me into doing that now instead of procrastinating. lol
I did the nvflash without any issues, got back into android. It reinstalled TnT, but whatever.
Enter issue number two... It works "fine"(about as good as the stock TnT, pre-updates could.. lol). I go to reboot, screen doesn't come on at all. Not even the on but blank. Not even the back light this time. nvflash cures it, but if I ever turn it off, it does the exact same thing. I was hoping to switch back to VEGAn 5.1.1 or at least get the stock TnT updated. I can't reboot for the update or the same thing happens. Which also leaves out hope for getting into recovery to format.
I went from ... lol
Its rebooting into apx mode. Exact same thing Happened to me a month back. You need to make sure you are using the correct nvflash files. Which ones are u using?
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Its rebooting into apx mode. Exact same thing Happened to me a month back. You need to make sure you are using the correct nvflash files. Which ones are u using?
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I was using the files in the zip with the later date in bekit's dropbox. I figured they were just updated files. I'll give the other one a try and see how that goes.
yup. That was it. I used the other set of files and it's working fine now. Thanks for catching that. I probably would have went a few more days before trying that. lol
Np man in glad you got it.
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ok so its really only half bricked. it started after i flashed the 1.6ghz ROM...my data wouldnt kick in. a clean wipe and flash, i opened the market to begin my restore of apps and contacts, and when i tried to sign into google, it said "cant establish a reliable data connection" okokok dont panic, i wiped dalvik, and rebooted to no avail i turned 3g on and then off, no go. i tried signing in, and then opening the browser to kick the 3g into drive, and still no joy. i noticed that the upload arrow was the only one being colored in. i called sprint, and they had me do a master reset and STILL nothing. so in a last desperate attempt, i am trying to ODIN and it keeps getting stuck on factoryfs. i googled it and found a few threads involving it, but no real solutions (i rebooted and changed ports before even googling it)
im sorry if this is uninformative ive been working on it for 2 hours and my brain is numb so please if you have any ideas i beg you to share cause im starting to get worried
obliged
ahhh im sorry i hit new thread in the wrong tab
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ahhh im sorry i hit new thread in the wrong tab
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use odin from the vzw fascinate thread....just use the epic pit...I dont know why, but this happened to me also, but the odin for the fascinate with the pit for epic WILL work.
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use odin from the vzw fascinate thread....just use the epic pit...I dont know why, but this happened to me also, but the odin for the fascinate with the pit for epic WILL work.
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hi there i tried this and it didnt work, still stuck on factoryfs
im gunna take that as a hint it might be a bad download of the tar/pit? imma redownload and see what happens
Try a full redownload of the tar. Make sure it's about 255MB or so.
Restart your PC, the phone and Odin. Put the phone into download mode, start Odin, and only THEN plug it into the PC.
I heard that sometimes removing your sdcard before odin may work.. may not do **** but worth a shot. I've had good luck with odin personally.
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hi there i tried this and it didnt work, still stuck on factoryfs
im gunna take that as a hint it might be a bad download of the tar/pit? imma redownload and see what happens
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Okay, I had this happen to me last nite.....Depending on where you got your instructions from you might be putting the TAR file in the wrong section. Please make sure that you are putting that TAR file in the PDA box and not PHONE....I am assuming that around 35% or so it'll just stay at Factoryfs.rfs...Correct? This is probably why so check that out and also make sure that the only two boxes checked on the left are "auto-reboot and debug en"...you should be good to go.
Odin is a very technically retarded program, as it gives limited output as well as ridiculous requirements to get it working correctly. I have had it work flawlessly sometimes and not at all others, so keep at it and eventually it will work, just try every possible combination of settings you can think of and restart the phone/computer multiple times if things still seem to lock up. Hope you get it fixed, I've been there and it sucks!
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I used Odin this morning with no issue at all. I battery pulled, and pulled out my sd and left it out until i got my phone back to factory settings. Also restarted my PC before trying running odin. Worked great for me hopefully will do the same for you.
You know I had this SAME EXACT problem! So im sure you wanna know what was up, well, try going to menu,sdcard: see if the sdcard is greyed out in unmount, and format. If so, re-insert your sdcard.. Hope that helps
Oh BTW, if all your trying to do if go back to stock, all you need is the "MD5 tar file for DI18". Put that file in the PDA section, and over to the left there should be 2 boxes checked, 1 should be "reboot" and the ONLY other 1 should be checked is the "Debug" box! MAKE SURE that no other box is checked. Another thing, you can obtain the "DI18" MD5 tar file from the sticky wicky page....
Ok, check this out. I had the exact same issue. My phone freaked! Lemme ask this, did you phone have problems transferring large files (i.e. roms and such) when you would mount it before? Turns out with me, for whatever reason and I'm assuming software. It was an issue with my computer that screwed me. At least try this, get your laptop or any computer that you haven't used to mod or connect your epic to. Download the Samsung USB drivers to it and odin. I found that Odin3 v1.3 works the best. Here is the zip which has everything you'll need for odin h**p://rapidshare.com/files/429741564/Odin.zip . However you'll have to get the samsung drivers on your own. As soon as I used a computer that I had not used to previously mod my epic before, it worked flawlessly. Just get the phone into download mode. Wait til odin is on and then connect it. Only check debug. You should not need the pit file with this, only move the md5 file into pda. That was all I needed. I hope this helps.
Sounds like you've tried alot of the "standard" fixes. The only thing I don't see mentioned is the usb cable that you used. I've seen numerous posts where a cheap 3rd party cable would cause hangs during the ODIN transfers. Are you using the cable that came with the phone? If so, do you have another good quality cable to try?
Good Luck!
oh wow...all the responses! you guys have been amazingly helpful, ill be forever greatful.
good news! odin decided to work this morning, it was definatly a bad download (the .tar was like 5kb lol) and i got my phone up and running
bad news! still no data. i dont understand how an odin couldnt fix any possible software issues....is sprints 3g down, or is my radio shot??
i can still make calls and texts and receive them, but for the life of me cant sync my contacts and i have about a billion ppl calling my today (my day off )
ahhhhhh
igotsthemagicinme said:
oh wow...all the responses! you guys have been amazingly helpful, ill be forever greatful.
good news! odin decided to work this morning, it was definatly a bad download (the .tar was like 5kb lol) and i got my phone up and running
bad news! still no data. i dont understand how an odin couldnt fix any possible software issues....is sprints 3g down, or is my radio shot??
i can still make calls and texts and receive them, but for the life of me cant sync my contacts and i have about a billion ppl calling my today (my day off )
ahhhhhh
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I had that problem once, I think is was some stupid fix. I did a couple things.
1. I called sprint and they did a re-activation-- I dont recall that working right off
2. In the browser it asks for your phone number the first time
Http://vision.sprintpcs.com
Then it seemed to work.
After that I have had no problems, even after flashing new roms.
Strange huh.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833608&page=2
I'm assuming I was affected by the network down-age too. But...
You guys are amazing! Really rose up to help me out, I can't believe how great it is to know if someones got a problem, ya'll help. Double thanks to the guy who PM'D me. I'm sure you guys will be glad to know I did indeed get ODIN to work, and my data eventuall came back (almost seems faster, too!). So...idk...group hug! Or something
Would it be wrong to hijack and ask some questions before this gets moved(feel free anytime, mods, and again, my apologies for that) ill just go ahead hehe
I'm looking for an aosp theme. I'm running baked snack, and its performing beautifully, but I don't like the water mark nor the general theme at all. I looked thru all 10 pages to no avail. Any suggestions? If there isn't, that'll be my contribution (meaning ill make one)
Blue led. It seems retarded its only used when the battery is full. Id prefer to have it in reverse...blue for notifications, and blue until its fully charged. Is this possible?
Four buttons in the notipanel. If they were customisable or something, or you could scroll and there was more, id like it...but it seems other han wifi, they chose the 4 shortcuts I use the least. Are these changeable or removable?
I asked this on a while back...about swapping the camera and power button. I find that when its changed in the .kl that when I turn the screen off it turns right back on...and if its off for a while, it lags when being turned on. Has anyone else tried this and suceeded? What was your method?
Thanks again guys!
My turn! Odin not working.
Edit: Never mind. johnyardavid's download of the newer Odin fixed it for me. Thanks so much!
So everything was going fine, I used this method and it was about 90% done with the second of the two updates.
Then my dog walks into the room and pulls the cord out from my phone.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry right now, but it just stayed on the update screen (computer and phone with a white arrow, etc.). Pulled the battery and it just started up back to that screen.
Please, any suggestions on how to restore from a backup?
HOLY ****.
So after it restarted and was on the update screen, I replugged it in and found the computer/Zune didn't recognize it. Then right after I posted this thread, the phone reset and what the **** do you know, the update completed!
I am going to go do a happy dance now.
So for anyone else that might have this happen, just plug it back in and hope for the best! I might have been lucky I was so far along in the update, but it's worth a shot.
mcorrie1121 said:
HOLY ****.
So after it restarted and was on the update screen, I replugged it in and found the computer/Zune didn't recognize it. Then right after I posted this thread, the phone reset and what the **** do you know, the update completed!
I am going to go do a happy dance now.
So for anyone else that might have this happen, just plug it back in and hope for the best! I might have been lucky I was so far along in the update, but it's worth a shot.
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congrats. I've seen this (or very similar) posted in one of the longer Mango threads. That person reported that the upgrade failed, but when he restarted the phone and connected it to Zune it finished and reported success.
If you run into an issue you can always flash a new ROM
just ran into the same problem (laptop reboot for no reason). Phone looks fine now and shows mango installed. Should I restore and re-start again?
derausgewanderte said:
congrats. I've seen this (or very similar) posted in one of the longer Mango threads. That person reported that the upgrade failed, but when he restarted the phone and connected it to Zune it finished and reported success.
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Said so here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1164607
ghlu said:
just ran into the same problem (laptop reboot for no reason). Phone looks fine now and shows mango installed. Should I restore and re-start again?
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If everything is working fine, don't do anything.
I would suggest restore and redo the update, for one. Especially since you know something went wrong.
You don't want to end up with incomplete software/update and keep in mind that if it works for now it's not a guarantee it will work later.
Your call, however.
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I would suggest restore and redo the update, for one. Especially since you know something went wrong.
You don't want to end up with incomplete software/update and keep in mind that if it works for now it's not a guarantee it will work later.
Your call, however.
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Indeed. The device might be "working" fine but something may be unfinished/bugged on the back end, you won't be able to know until it's too late.
First off id like to say, yes im a noob and yes i researched this. Looked for a good 30 minutes with no luck so I figured id go right for the source and start something new. If im just an idiot who hasn't looked hard enough, point me in the right direction and ill gladly fallow
Ok, so heres my story....
I decided to try and root my Inspire with the mind set of gaining access to Netflix by changing the Manufacturer and model code in the rom, but I never really got that far. I used This program and fallowed the video tutorial to the best of my abilities. I did back up my phone using Wondershare Mobilego, but could only grab contacts, messages and apps. I also copied the entire contents of my SD card into a separate folder before I started the format. Everything was going smooth, I got to the boot menu on the phone, and unpacked/updated the PD98IMG.zip file. I did the reboot and opened the rom editor included, went through the process and it said it was gonna crash but it never did. I waited and waited and it never happend. I pressed the home button and tried to open it again, worked fine. It said it was gonna crash again, never did. At this point I was getting a little mad. Im almost sure I entered everything right. I rebooted the phone and it came up with the boot manager, but guess what It freezes. So I just turned off the phone and booted back up again. It works fine other than the fact that it thinks its a Desire HD and everything went all British on me. Im guessing its stuck on the downgrade. The real problem is that any and all speakers do not work. When people call I cant hear a thing. The rear speaker doesn't work either. The headphone jack doesn't even work! WTF?! Got any suggestions on what to do?
Thanks,
Adam
If you can get into recovery just flash an inspire rom. Or find the stock rooted one that attn1 did. It flashes through hboot and also flashes the newest ATT ota radio.
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gmurphy0487 said:
If you can get into recovery just flash an inspire rom. Or find the stock rooted one that attn1 did. It flashes through hboot and also flashes the newest ATT ota radio.
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+1. It also does a full wipe. It should fix you up and you should be good to go to flash a custom rom if you so choose. Just look in the dev forum for attn1's Ace_Cingular_US rom. Be sure to get the one with sideloading enabled.
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First off id like to say, yes im a noob and yes i researched this. Looked for a good 30 minutes with no luck so I figured id go right for the source and start something new. If im just an idiot who hasn't looked hard enough, point me in the right direction and ill gladly fallow
Ok, so heres my story....
I decided to try and root my Inspire with the mind set of gaining access to Netflix by changing the Manufacturer and model code in the rom, but I never really got that far. I used This program and fallowed the video tutorial to the best of my abilities. I did back up my phone using Wondershare Mobilego, but could only grab contacts, messages and apps. I also copied the entire contents of my SD card into a separate folder before I started the format. Everything was going smooth, I got to the boot menu on the phone, and unpacked/updated the PD98IMG.zip file. I did the reboot and opened the rom editor included, went through the process and it said it was gonna crash but it never did. I waited and waited and it never happend. I pressed the home button and tried to open it again, worked fine. It said it was gonna crash again, never did. At this point I was getting a little mad. Im almost sure I entered everything right. I rebooted the phone and it came up with the boot manager, but guess what It freezes. So I just turned off the phone and booted back up again. It works fine other than the fact that it thinks its a Desire HD and everything went all British on me. Im guessing its stuck on the downgrade. The real problem is that any and all speakers do not work. When people call I cant hear a thing. The rear speaker doesn't work either. The headphone jack doesn't even work! WTF?! Got any suggestions on what to do?
Thanks,
Adam
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Sounds like you are stuck with a bad radio combo. Do as suggested above and you,should be fine. Worst case is set aside about an hour and start from stock, then use Ace Hack Kit (just the one I used, not sure about the others) just follow the manual and you will be fine.
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Sounds like you are stuck with a bad radio combo. Do as suggested above and you,should be fine. Worst case is set aside about an hour and start from stock, then use Ace Hack Kit (just the one I used, not sure about the others) just follow the manual and you will be fine.
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I had to do everything twice with the hack kit. Every step. It was rather harried but I think I had similar issues, and I just tried it all again and it worked the second time. The issue does sound recoverable.
Hi there, I hope you guys can help me out on this.
I just got my HOS a few days ago and it was all good.
Rooted it after 1 day, everything was fine.. at first.
Played a few games, installed themes and so on. After a few hours, my HOS began to vibrate out of nowhere and apps started here and there, menu opens on its own and all that stuff. It was out of control xD
I then saw that theres an update available. Flashed stock recovery and unrooted it. Afterwards, I installed 1.78. Still unrooted, downloading most of my Apps again, works flawless. Gaming(specially Temple Run xD) is smooth.
Yesterday, I decided to root it again. At first no problems at all.
Just now on the train, playing Temple Run again, my HOS started going crazy, vibrating all the time as if it is pressing buttons on its own and I see the phone doing all kinda stuff(opening new apps, browsing thru home screen etc xD).
Has anyone else expierenced something similar? I have no idea where its coming from and it really annoys the hell out of me.
Right now I'm on TrickDroid v3.1 (wiped system/data/dalvik/cache before flashing)
Kernel: 3.0.8-01136-g9d2ad32
Baseband: 0.16.31501S.17_2_10.23.31501S.10L
Build: 1.70.666.1 CL52668
That really is strange !!! Its as if root contains some sort of poltergeist
I would have imagined a factory reset would have cleared it up, But in your case it didnt....
Have you tried an alternative rooting method ?
Nope, I did not. Always used the All-In-One Toolkit, except for when I flashed Trickdroid, since it comes rooted.
Is it ok if I unroot the HOS with Rootkeeper(is this just temp. unroot?) and then root it again with Superboot?
Unbranded HOS bought in Germany, if that matters. Also, no other recovery works for me except Intermin, CWM just won't boot for me.
that is weird...
Unlocking the bootloader was successful right ?
I dont understand why your phone is rejecting software lol.. Oh and I didnt know root keeper can unroot ive never used it..
how i got root was by flashing paul obriens recovery and then the root package zip file.. I did this on day one and have never had any issues at all.. Ive tested every single ROM and every single recovery lol..
Make a nandroid in recovery and just test out different methods and try get this issue fixed. If you have any issues just restore the nandroid..
Check your phone for remote access apps, maybe you got hacked. Most of those require root to function. Also check your google account for which IPs logged in and check the password recovery options for weird emailadresses and phonenumbers...
Ars has a writeup on hardening your android device, not very technical but some good stuff there. http://arstechnica.com/security/201...-smartphone-against-stalkers-android-edition/
Forget whatever i wrote.
My HOS registers my thumb, even tho I'm not touching it at all. If I'm like 5mm away from the screen, it registers it as if I'd touched it. My gf also has a HOS and it acts only if I touch the screen.
I also noticed that the hotter my HOS gets, the distance increases at which it recognized my "touch".
The distant screen touch has happened on my uprooted tmo us HOS. I've also experienced some craziness out of the device. I've kept it stock, no unrooting/rooting going on.
I was thinking an exchange with HTC cause I also have excessive battery drain and wavy lines in the screen but now I also have an awesome cracked screen too :-\
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i also dont need to touch my screen to select something
I just hover my finger over the app, real close to the screen and it selects it...
I guess we have special powers
i also dont need to touch my screen to select something
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Same here.
lets keep this quiet, We dont want people to know we are superhuman...
I cant be arsed with the fan mail from the CIA,,, Nor do i have the time to fight crime and save the world....
Id rather just continue to flash a ROM.
Okay, So ive been banging my head against the wall for 2 days straight now with this problem so ive finally come to post about it to see if anybody has ANY idea how i can fix this. I have searched high and low for anyone who has come across this problem and i cant find another poor soul stuck in this predicament.
I have the D850, and have had it since last July. It was Bumped the day that it came out and ive been happily running roms on it since. I have honestly probably tried every ROM that was ever released for this phone, never had any issues.
I had flashed back to stock maybe a few weeks ago bc i had never done so, and after flashing a million roms i figured id try out straight stock for the first time in a year. SO i flashed the kitkat stock rom, and booted up everything was fine, then there was maybe 2 updates that i did OTA. I knew lollipop was out so i updated to that and all was well. I eventually got weary of straight stock quickly so i rooted and installed some of the fun stuff. Now this is where i noticed something i hadn't had before- when i would boot into TWRP i would get an unsecured boot error: error 1300- or at least i think that's what it said...Everything would flash fine and boot up so i didn't think much of it, but now that im having the issues im having, i think this is where it stems from.
Fast forward to 2 days ago- i figured i would flash back to 100% stock because i will be receiving my 6P next week and was going to donate this phone to my aunt bc i have taken such good care of it i figured id hand it down to a needy relative instead of get $20 bucks for it on ebay- All goes well i get the Blue screen with the 3 on it, pull battery and reboot. Everything seems normal..att logo...welcome screen..i go to touch the screen and its frozen. then reboots. weird. it does this a few more times, sometimes staying alive for up to 3 mins before freezing and rebooting again. Sometimes it even screams at me- no joke- it will freeze and make a high pitch screeching noise then shut down. scared the Sh*t out of me the first time it did it.
Ive tried everything people...i have downloaded fresh tot files/tried 5 different computers/fresh installs of flashtool/LG PC suit/hard reset/ran in safe mode/changed flash settings form upgrade to Board- to no avail. I honestly don't know how the phone hasn't died yet bc i think ive flashed the thing 30 times in the last 2 days from various computers. Remember- every time i flash in flash tool it passes, its only when it boots back up that it freezes/screams/reboots.
Sorry for the long winded post, but i wanted to give you some context. I'm going to try and mess around with it some more today but i keep getting closer and closer to throwing it off the wall bc this is frustrating. I think my problems would be solved if there was a lollipop tot file to flash, but i looked around and couldn't find anything. Thanks for reading everyone, any ideas are welcome. I'm out of warranty so ill try ANYTHING to fix this. At this point even if i FUBAR it i don't gaf bc its broken right now anyways. Any ideas are welcome. Thanks guys and i hope this never happens to you
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Okay, So ive been banging my head against the wall for 2 days straight now with this problem so ive finally come to post about it to see if anybody has ANY idea how i can fix this. I have searched high and low for anyone who has come across this problem and i cant find another poor soul stuck in this predicament.
I have the D850, and have had it since last July. It was Bumped the day that it came out and ive been happily running roms on it since. I have honestly probably tried every ROM that was ever released for this phone, never had any issues.
I had flashed back to stock maybe a few weeks ago bc i had never done so, and after flashing a million roms i figured id try out straight stock for the first time in a year. SO i flashed the kitkat stock rom, and booted up everything was fine, then there was maybe 2 updates that i did OTA. I knew lollipop was out so i updated to that and all was well. I eventually got weary of straight stock quickly so i rooted and installed some of the fun stuff. Now this is where i noticed something i hadn't had before- when i would boot into TWRP i would get an unsecured boot error: error 1300- or at least i think that's what it said...Everything would flash fine and boot up so i didn't think much of it, but now that im having the issues im having, i think this is where it stems from.
Fast forward to 2 days ago- i figured i would flash back to 100% stock because i will be receiving my 6P next week and was going to donate this phone to my aunt bc i have taken such good care of it i figured id hand it down to a needy relative instead of get $20 bucks for it on ebay- All goes well i get the Blue screen with the 3 on it, pull battery and reboot. Everything seems normal..att logo...welcome screen..i go to touch the screen and its frozen. then reboots. weird. it does this a few more times, sometimes staying alive for up to 3 mins before freezing and rebooting again. Sometimes it even screams at me- no joke- it will freeze and make a high pitch screeching noise then shut down. scared the Sh*t out of me the first time it did it.
Ive tried everything people...i have downloaded fresh tot files/tried 5 different computers/fresh installs of flashtool/LG PC suit/hard reset/ran in safe mode/changed flash settings form upgrade to Board- to no avail. I honestly don't know how the phone hasn't died yet bc i think ive flashed the thing 30 times in the last 2 days from various computers. Remember- every time i flash in flash tool it passes, its only when it boots back up that it freezes/screams/reboots.
Sorry for the long winded post, but i wanted to give you some context. I'm going to try and mess around with it some more today but i keep getting closer and closer to throwing it off the wall bc this is frustrating. I think my problems would be solved if there was a lollipop tot file to flash, but i looked around and couldn't find anything. Thanks for reading everyone, any ideas are welcome. I'm out of warranty so ill try ANYTHING to fix this. At this point even if i FUBAR it i don't gaf bc its broken right now anyways. Any ideas are welcome. Thanks guys and i hope this never happens to you
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If it's making noise and freezing after flashing, that sounds like an hardware issue. Since you've already tried reflashing it several times and it still does it nothing else can really be done. You can try selecting board_id in flash tool at the tot selection screen and try that.
Also I always gotten secure boot error when booting into twrp on my LG phones I've rooted and loaded twrp on them.
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hyelton said:
If it's making noise and freezing after flashing, that sounds like an hardware issue. Since you've already tried reflashing it several times and it still does it nothing else can really be done. You can try selecting board_id in flash tool at the tot selection screen and try that.
Also I always gotten secure boot error when booting into twrp on my LG phones I've rooted and loaded twrp on them.
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Yea man i tried that and it it boots into a screen that says DO NOT TOUCH SCREEN and then just continues to boot to that and i get a fail on the flash tool . thanks for your tutorial btw, thats what i used for all this troubleshooting. i found a thread about actually taking the phone apart and shorting it out and then trying to flash. i am going to give that a try if i cant get this f0cker to boot up correctly.
wait- did you mean select board DL?
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Yea man i tried that and it it boots into a screen that says DO NOT TOUCH SCREEN and then just continues to boot to that and i get a fail on the flash tool . thanks for your tutorial btw, thats what i used for all this troubleshooting. i found a thread about actually taking the phone apart and shorting it out and then trying to flash. i am going to give that a try if i cant get this f0cker to boot up correctly.
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When it continues to boot what happens? Flash tool is supposed to fail.. Once the phone is out of download mode flash tool will fail as its done and has no connection. Once flash tool hits 80/85% its done. Never heard of the LG phone and taking it apart to short it out. That would be something if you had a brick and the phone doesnt go into download mode.
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When it continues to boot what happens? Flash tool is supposed to fail.. Once the phone is out of download mode flash tool will fail as its done and has no connection. Once flash tool hits 80/85% its done. Never heard of the LG phone and taking it apart to short it out. That would be something if you had a brick and the phone doesnt go into download mode.
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so it faild out at 89%, then the miniOS screen comes up, but then it just keeps boot looping into the AAT-mini OS 3.1 screen where it says AUTO TOUCH TEST dont touch screen!!
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so it faild out at 89%, then the miniOS screen comes up, but then it just keeps boot looping into the AAT-mini OS 3.1 screen where it says AUTO TOUCH TEST dont touch screen!!
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Strange. But yeah once phone reboots it's done. Flash tool percent means nothing. But very strange.
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hyelton said:
Strange. But yeah once phone reboots it's done. Flash tool percent means nothing. But very strange.
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oh well it was a great phone while it lasted. Thanks for the input.