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Mesmerize won't boot

My phone will not turn on. I was doing a factory reset, but it seemed to freeze, so I did a battery pull. Now my phone is either stuck on the samsung logo, or an empty batter symbol with a white circle. Please help.

Only thing I can think of is to try to get into download mode (remove the battery, plug the phone into a computer, and press the volume down button). If you can get to download mode, you should be able to flash a stock rom via Odin (instructions for this can be found in multiple threads on this forum.
Sent from my voodoo froyo Mesmerize

Mesmerizeuser said:
Only thing I can think of is to try to get into download mode (remove the battery, plug the phone into a computer, and press the volume down button). If you can get to download mode, you should be able to flash a stock rom via Odin (instructions for this can be found in multiple threads on this forum.
Sent from my voodoo froyo Mesmerize
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Yes, do that.

download odin and the stock 2.1 build. then place your phone in download mode. flash the rom the way the instructions tell you too. then walk into your local uscell and complain til they give you a new mesmerize. that should solve all your probs

Got mine to reboot
i got my samsung mesmerize to turn on by pressing in the startup button on the right AND the volume control button on the left (up, don't know if that matters) at the same time for a few seconds (at least 5) and eventually the SAMSUNG logo appeared and it is now working fine.
I hope this helps anyone who has the same issue!

lately EVERY time i reboot my phone (running ics build 2, 3 and 4, stock kernel) it gets stuck on samsung logo.. somehow my phone will only boot into the frigging cm7 recovery which as im sure youre all aware is rather useless to fix any problems im having in ics and leaves me unable to flash, backup, or restore anything. it's quite frustrating and i have no idea how to fix it but by going back to bml, re-partitioning, then odin ei20 modem, cm7 fixed recovery, then flash back to ics but doin this every reboot it getting very tedious..
ive read about recovery loops, but the fix doesnt work for me as i cant mount the ICS /system partition in cm7 recovery...and ive been all over trying a zillion things to get it to work and havent pulled dmesg or logcat but if someone thinks it would be useful ..i wish i knew why EVERYTHING is great, then BANG, reboot and it's FML city.

[Q] Rooted G2x is bricked, will LG be able to tell if I return it under warranty?

I'm positive my G2x bricked itself and I need to replace it asap! It had been crashing repeatedly since I first got it and I have had to do several hard resets (pressing power + volume down). The day after I last reset it, it froze on the LG start up screen and won't do anything else. No custom ROMs were installed and no back-ups besides Titanium. If there is no way to restore it, will LG or T-mobile be able to tell it was rooted and the bloatware was removed?

dude if u can plug in your usb and get sound your not bricked even if your phone just gets to the lg screen, bricked is when u get nada no lights no nothing when charging, nothing!, try installing recovery the nvflash one then put the stock rom back on your phone if u cant get it to fire back up, search development theres a oneclick nvflash recovery, and a rooted stock image floating around, remember search, u will be ok

also u said u removed bloatware what exactly did u remove??

I removed App Pack, Wifi Calling, Car Home, Qik video, & Swype. I get no sound, just starts up and never gets past the 2nd LG start-up screen that has the Android with a striped bar. I can't get NV to work & my PC wont even recognize my G2x as being plugged in via USB. I'm using my b/f G2x right now which I modified much more extensively but it has very few bugs.
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If its been crashing since you got it, it could be dodgy hardware. Get on the phone to your carrier and have a moan off and they should offer to replace it. They wont know nothing because I think they will just throw your old one away.
Sent from my Nexus S running NSCollab, Cyanbread Theme and OC'd to 1.2ghz (Perfection)

Wouldn't they try to flash their own ROM & attempt to refurbish it? If so, would something like Super User remain on the hard drive for them to find?
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I don't think they bother. Just say its been crashing since you first got it and they will write it down as dodgy hardware. You have to give the old one back to the courier who drlivers ya new one, so if they do see superuser its too late to do anything.
Sent from my Nexus S running NSCollab, Cyanbread Theme and OC'd to 1.2ghz (Perfection)

so u get no sound at all plugged into usb?? hmmm how come u cant get nvflash to work i might be able to help

I would go to the One-Click ClockworkMod NvFlasher thread below. it is in the development section.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847
It contains NVFlash and APX drivers, a CMW recovery, and the one-click installation tool. If you "CAREFULLY follow the instructions in the OP, you will have a recovery that you can use to either flash a different ROM or the Stock ROM (also in a thread in the development section (Not the Firmware).
AFTER flashing the Stock ROM, you could run just the one-click .exe only again and reinstall the stock recovery.

Just exchange it and be done with it.

Not sure if this means anythjg but I got this from the g2 forum.
stian230 said:
If You got root.
You use it in terminal on your phone*
$ su
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18*
# sync
# reboot*
#dead.
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It bricked my g2 real nice
G2x with CM7 and faux .18 kernel. [email protected] 5091 quadrant.
G2x with CM7 and faux .18 kernel. [email protected] 5091 quadrant.

I tried the nvflash it with no luck. If I'm holding down both of the volume buttons, my computer recognizes there being an apx device and says its functioning normally. I tried reinstalling the apx driver and also the LG driver. No matter what, nvflash says there is no USB device detected. I may be sol.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054492 ok so go to that link now after u go to it scroll down to the newest recovery now copy the commands, like right click mouse and choose copy first tho, then hold both vol buttons, THEN plug in usb and hold the buttons the WHOLE time then open command prompt type cd \ ....let it go to next line then just type, start...then paste commands in new window that is what worked for me hold the vol buttons the whole time!... let it do its thing in the command prompt window then when its done u should see s/w upgrade on your phone let it sit for a minute just to be safe then pull usb...and your golden

Press both vol buttons and plug in the USB, but don't let go.
Issue the command nvflash --sync, does it come back with some data on your g2x? If it doesn't, remove drivers, reinstall, etc. and try again.
If it does, disconnect USB, hold down both vol buttons and plug in your USB again, don't let go. Now issue the nvflash command to flash the recovery.
If I issue a nvflash command once, the second time it won't work. I would need to reconnect USB everytime.

I'll give it a whirl when I get home shortly!
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GideonX said:
Press both vol buttons and plug in the USB, but don't let go.
Issue the command nvflash --sync, does it come back with some data on your g2x? If it doesn't, remove drivers, reinstall, etc. and try again.
If it does, disconnect USB, hold down both vol buttons and plug in your USB again, don't let go. Now issue the nvflash command to flash the recovery.
If I issue a nvflash command once, the second time it won't work. I would need to reconnect USB everytime.
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yes listen to this man he helped me, good dude rite there also the way i tryed worked too but yes try what he said cuz if u cant even get that then u have to reinstall drivers

Just thought I would let you know that I had an issue with my newly replaced G2X where I was also freezing bloatware (stuff I had done before) and it froze on me. I could only get to the LG logo and after a few seconds it would dim, then turn off. Only a battery pull would turn it back on. I tried so many times to "wipe, restore, and wipe" I thought I was screwed. After leaving it in my pocket it turned on about 5 hours later when the battery was at 1% or less. I don't know why it did, but I was able to throw it on the charger until i could unroot it and send it back. Funny thing is, even after restoring and unrooting, the next time i turned the phone off it again went into the LG logo freeze. Sounds like software/hardware issues to me
Does yours seem like the same story.

My device does not boot ROMs any more (Booting & shutting down screen)

I'm so embarrassed to post this, but there we go.
CWM installed following the tutorial for the P920 using the 3D ROM MANAGER (rooted by superoneclick). Apparently installed successfully, but when trying to install the mod's ROMs (King_3d, ThiaiZ, KINGDROID, etc), all of them will not boot completely and then turn off your device as you pressed the power button (shutting down screen).
Trying to see what could be wrong, I saw on the back label that my device it's a P925. I was stupid and not able to make the backup old ROM.
I just killed my phone or there is still way out of it?
PS: I tried to run this rom from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1270832 but this also does not boot completely, and the device shutting down.
Maybe a problem with the CWR?
I followed exactly as instructed, format /system /data and /cache. With the ROM ThiaiZ again without success. Booting ROM (Break Dancing Droid) and then Power off
I do not know what else to do...
Shutting Down Screen.

I have good news! Or bad news too. I just decided to turn on the device with the USB cable plugged in and booted it as well. He is not holding battery charge, consisting as 0% of charged. I tested another battery from a friend and did the same thing. If I unplug the USB cable the device shutting off immediately. It may be a software problem or a hardware problem coincidentally?

i have this problem right now
please anyone is there a way to fix this, I have installed multiple roms I have followed all instructions to the t, my cwm is thor 2002, at the bottom left hand of the screen it says "Not running HC Bootloader, itsmagic not needed" in recovery mode. every rom goes through the boot screen and stops and powers off. Over the pass three days I have been at a fight, I am running on dtermination now. please help.
thanks to everyone who got me this far, they know who they are because they wrote the posts.
ps. to all those with problems never give up because at least u learn something

which phone p920 , p925?

Samsung Boot Logo is GONE

Hi,friends
I just bought a used Rogers Infuse 4G I977 from ebay.
It was a rooted phone with Stock 2.3.3 UXKG3 installed
and there's problem with it:
1) It cannot boot into CMW/e3 recovery mode,when i press 3buttons(power +/-) or hold +/- and plug in USB cable,the screen will turn on with 4 lights on(home/search etc.) but nothing else shows on the screen,if i press the power button again it will reboot but reboot into another black screen with some sound,sounded like turning the phone in normal way but nothing shows.
2.When I turn on the phone normally,there is NO Samsung/Rogers Logo,it only has the booting sound and 1-2mins after I will have to press the power button myself to open up the lockscreen and use the phone
What I did:
Re-flash the root UXKG3 via Odin
UNROOT my phone
Install CWM via Rom Manager
Install e3 and use the file explorer to put update into CMW
Lots more,i tired EVERYTHING in the forum
Goal :
Now i don't care i can install a ROM/Root or not.
I Just Want To Have My Samsung/Rogers Logo backed on when i Turn on my phone,just wanted to look like a normal phone.
Please help me!This will be a gift for my friend and I wanted to look really nice and stock give it to him,I've been reading on Infuse 4G forum for 13Hours striaght and i have tried everything i could.
I own Galaxy S 2 with lots of root/custom experience so i'm not a noob and i know what i am doing but i really can't fix this.
I can provide video of the loading screen and everything etc.

Odin or heimdall back to stock,
Run the program
Place pone in download mode
Do what it says on the program/on the op of the program
Download mode: pull battery, put battery back in, hold volume up and down, then plug in USB cord.
You have to pull the battery or it won't work...at least its never worked for me without pulling the battery...
Edit: just saw you have already tried Odin...maybe try a different Odin?
Actually when I first flashed cm9 I had no Samsung logo on boot, I'd get a rainbow screen then it would go into the cm9 boot animation...I flashed gingerbread boot loaders through heimdall and then reflashed cm9 and the rainbow screen was replaced with a galaxy s logo with cm9 logo under that
So maybe you don't have the right bootloaders...Odin does not replace bootloaders-at least as far as I know it doesn't. So try heimdall...however be aware that flashing boot loaders is the easiest way to actually brick this phone...so do it at your own risk...I'm not saying flashing new boot loaders will fix your problem...I'm just saying it worked for me on a different but similar situation.
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Alright i will try helium tonight,thanks.

[Q] Possibly unfixable Nexus S?

First off, I know I'm a new member, and I did watch the video, I've been searching the forum for days now trying to find someone with the exact some problem as me but I've come to the conclusion I must be special as I haven't seen this problem else where. Lucky me...
Let me start off with some information about the phone.
Carrier: Vodafone AU (says XSE on the recovery screen)
Baseband Version: I9020XXKI1
Bootloader Version: I9020XXKL1
HW Version: Rev 52
Model: Nexus S i9023
Lock State: Unlocked
Primary computer: iMac
Fairly certain I have USB debugging turned off :\
I rooted and unlocked the phone and was running the latest CyberGR mod ROM and the latest AirKernel kernel. The phone was running brilliantly, not a problem in the world, very smooth, very fast, excellent battery life, I loved it. Only thing I didn't like was how the keyboard became unresponsive at times. For that reason, I think I'll be switching to the Bugless Beast ROM and thalmus kernel when (if) I get this phone fixed.
So a few days ago, the power button on my Nexus S stuffed up and wouldn't work anymore. Completely unresponsive. I couldn't lock/unlock my phone using the power button. I had to either connect/disconnect it from the USB or turn it on/off by taking the battery out to be able to use it. Needless to say, this got very tedious very quickly and I decided to unroot it and send it back to Samsung.
I looked into how to unroot and came across the Odin app and decided that I'd use that to unroot. (noob error on my behalf, I realise now) Regardless of what I'd read, Odin doesn't work on a Nexus S apparently and although I didn't flash to stock, my phone became significantly less useable, half the time it wouldn't respond to anything I did on it. I tried to boot into CWM and although I was able to do so, it was useless as my power button wasn't working.
At this stage, I took out the battery, put it back in and the phone booted up again. I didn't press the power button, it just booted up straight away. I took it out again and held the volume up button on the side and this time, I didn't get put into the CWM menu, but the normal Android recovery menu. I went to press the volume up and down buttons but nothing worked. Power button is still unresponsive.
When I don't boot into recovery, it goes past the Google screen with the unlocked lock on the bottom of it, and goes to a screen where it says "Android" in a metallic style (I disable the boot animation logo in CyberGR mod so I was used to this screen) and it just hung on there, it never booted up past that screen.
Every time I tried to use fastboot -w to wipe the phone, or oem lock or anything, I would just get < waiting for device >
I plugged it into my Windows 7 laptop, tried the one_click_stock app and got the message that my phone has no boot.img. I then googled problems regarding the boot.img and no one really had any solutions that helped me out.
The SDK won't recognise my phone is there, but the sound pops up on Windows saying a device has been connected and disconnected but it never shows up.
Is it bricked or unfixable? Clearly warranty is void, not sure if I should just take it into Vodafone and ask for a new phone (as its still within warranty period, hence why I wanted to lock it and flash a stock ROM).
Very sorry for the lengthy post, I know I was meant to be brief but I thought the more information I could give, the better chance there would be for anyone to help me out. Thanks.

Make the root of your phone with any application in the market and install the recovery ClockworkMod touch with Rom manager premium or Rom toolbox Pro. Restart recovery using Rom manager or Rom toolbox and do a full cleaning on the phone. Wipe only data and cache.
Now, select from mount and storage mount USB storage and copy over to your i9020 storage any rom ( try using the cm9 ). If the installation is successful restart, if not try some other roms. More than that I do not know how to help.
P.s.: In theory it should go smoothly, otherwise I do not assume any liability for further damage to the phone ... Good luck!

Did you know you can operate cwm using the capacitive search button instead of the power button?

Alfaneo said:
Make the root of your phone with any application in the market and install the recovery ClockworkMod touch with Rom manager premium or Rom toolbox Pro. Restart recovery using Rom manager or Rom toolbox and do a full cleaning on the phone. Wipe only data and cache.
Now, select from mount and storage mount USB storage and copy over to your i9020 storage any rom ( try using the cm9 ). If the installation is successful restart, if not try some other roms. More than that I do not know how to help.
P.s.: In theory it should go smoothly, otherwise I do not assume any liability for further damage to the phone ... Good luck!
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Thanks for the reply, I can't actually boot into the phone or get to any market place or any screen that could make the phone useable at all, it just sits on the CyberGR android screen for when you disable the boot animation.
bedalus said:
Did you know you can operate cwm using the capacitive search button instead of the power button?
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I was pressing the search button (the volume buttons were working when I could boot into CWM) and the text just disappeared off the screen and just showed the logo. I can no longer boot into CWM.
I've installed Ubuntu and I'm going to try running the unrbickable java app that a user on here created, hopefully that may work.