I've had a great experience so far with my xoom! I had it rooted and overclocked since the first day I had it!
Its starting to get sluggish and things are beginning to go a little wonky, so I'd like to reflash to either the stock honeycomb 3.1 installation, or one of the roms that I've seen floating around.
The trouble is that the minute I saw the 'encryption' feature, I used it. I did that before ever rooting or overclocking it.
I am now unable to reset to factory defaults. Here is what I've tried:
- using the menu option from inside of the settings area to reset the tablet to factory defaults: When I do this, it reboots and gets to a screen with a little android logo and a progress indicator - however within several seconds the progress indicator goes away and is replaced by that nasty little triangle with the exclamation point saying something isn't right.
- Booting into clockwork mod and formatting everything available to be formatted from CWM: This actually broke the tablet and I had to reflash things to get it working properly. However all of my user stuff and all the settings remained intact.
Does anybody know how to reset the tablet to factory default after its been encrypted? You guys know 50x more than Verizons support team will.
My only other option is to back up all of my data, "break" the tablet, then go use my warranty at the store to get another one. I'd really like to avoid that if at all possible.
What version CWM do you have? Flash the newest recovery if you flashed the recovery from ROM manager. If that doesn't work then flash stock software.
What version Xoom do you have? This is for 3g http://www.xoomforums.com/forum/motorola-xoom-hacking-guides/2788-how-return-stock-3g-4g-hr166.html
You don't have to do the last step of locking if you want to reroot. That should also remove encryption. If it doesn't do a factory reset from settings. And verify CWM works as well.
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I've tried a lot of things.
Long and short of it, I was dumb. I was playing around with kernels and installed one I shouldn't have. Reason being as I wanted to go back to stock and they stock kernel on hydra-kernels.net(?) was good but it had an error for me. The error was involving phone storage.
So, I went and downloaded a stock D'inc kernel but this as it turns out was from 2.1 or so. Naturally this didn't work and broke my phone or at least really ticked me off.
I tried the downgrade but the bootloader won't see the image (formatted sd to FAT32 both in windows and OS X)
tried to hard reset: nothing
clearing cache nothing
Is there any hope?
any suggestions would be appreciated
Bump.
I need a working phone
Can you get into recovery? (Clockwork or Amon Ra)
If so, just flash a backup. If you do not have a backup (shame on you), wipe everything and flash your ROM of choice. You will of course have to start from scratch this way, but your phone will be working once again.
I was thinking of this. When i boot into recovery and select "wipe data/factory reset" it does it's thing and upon reboot I'm still stuck at the white screen
For some reason it won't install any roms either
Spoke with a Verizon tech and they're sending me a new phone
Should I be worried if they perform tests on it? The phone itself is S-Off because of root. Will they charge me for the new phone?
I have to send the one I have back to Verizon.
My father brought home the G Tablet yesterday after getting it at Office Depot because it was on sale and was the last one left.
I didn't want to open it because I've had my eye on the ADAM tablet and was going to wait for it to come out and compare the two. However, he convinced me to mod the G Tablet to run TNT 2.0.
It worked fine for a while today. I got it up and running, fixed the Market, and was able to download apps and games. Then, I woke it out of sleep mode and the Market started coming up with errors. I figured that I'd just need to turn it off and boot it back up again.
The problem that I'm having is that the thing doesn't want to boot back up. It goes to the ViewSonic screen, then to the G Tablet logo, pauses for a second, then goes back to the ViewSonic screen.
I attempted to do a recovery and see if I could reinstall TNT; it refused. It will see that there is a kernel, but when it goes to install it, I get an exclamation point flashed on screen and then it goes back to the ViewSonic screen (I'm getting really sick of looking at those birds).
Is there any way to fix this, or did I have the shoddy luck to have one with bad hardware?
I didn't use Clockwork to install the firmware. I realize that that might have not been the best choice now.
I haven't had that, probably I'm still stock, but there are threads about getting out of the problem. Use forum search, in this forum. Search titles only, for 'loop'.
Jim
Thanks.
I tried flashing it again with clockwork installed to no avail. I also tried to set it back to the manufacture default, but encountered the same loop.
Looks like it's going back to Office Depot!
Kaizykat said:
Thanks.
I tried flashing it again with clockwork installed to no avail. I also tried to set it back to the manufacture default, but encountered the same loop.
Looks like it's going back to Office Depot!
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If you have clockwork installed then go to advanced and partition the sdcard. I use 2gb, and 0 for swap. Do a wipe data/factory reset, and a wipe cache partition from clockwork also. Problem will likely go away after that. Partitioning the sdcard will remove any data but that's the way it goes sometimes.
Then I would reflash from clockwork something like TnTLite 2.4, or the VegaN Beta 3 rom. You can do that from clockwork also.
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If you have clockwork installed then go to advanced and partition the sdcard. I use 2gb, and 0 for swap. Do a wipe data/factory reset, and a wipe cache partition from clockwork also. Problem will likely go away after that. Partitioning the sdcard will remove any data but that's the way it goes sometimes.
Then I would reflash from clockwork something like TnTLite 2.4, or the VegaN Beta 3 rom. You can do that from clockwork also.
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x2 on the sd re-partition, it will most likely fix the issue. Many users have reported similar issues.
Here's the problem -- this is very common and exchanging it probably won't help as you might eventually have the problem again. You already have cm on the device, so you are 90% there already.
Alright. This is a 100% stock Nexus S- nothing "development" wise was done to the device, no system tools installed that could cause issues, basically nothing but basic apps loaded on the device.
It just started today. I was working on my bf's Vibrant (another, more successful story) and grabbed my Nexus and hit the power button and it did not turn the screen back on. Holding the power button down did not reboot the device, and none of the buttons would light up or function.
So, I pulled the battery. Now every time I try to boot, it hits the "Google" screen and stays put. I left it alone for 5 minuets hoping it would finish booting and nothing. The soft buttons will light up, and if I touch them they register the touch but it does not help the phone to boot.
I do know that the phone was basically dead right before this happened, and at first I thought it was just dead. However, its been on the charger for at least 30 minuets- which should have given it enough of a charge to boot up, and still nothing.
What could cause this issue?
I did install a couple of new applications today, and I know the market updated a bunch of them but they're all apps that I've had on several phones (minus the two new ones today) and have never had an issue with any of them. The two new ones I downloaded were OS Monitor, and a 2G/3G toggle for hopes of improving some battery life.
But those are the only two things I've done differently. I've only been using the phone for a week but I haven't had any problems at all, before this.
Now- if worst comes to worst I can seem to get into the bootloader, and through that, stock recovery. So I can try to do a factory reset and wipe cache but without a backup I really kinda hope thats a last resort.
Please help, and let me know if you need any more information.
Thank you!
I understand that you're fully stock which I assume means you have a locked bootloader (everything I say from here on out assumes as such)? First, I'm going to also assume that you didn't update to 2.3.3? If not, then follow the steps in this guide to boot into a custom recovery and from there go to backup and restore and do a NANDroid backup. Now go to mounts and storage and mount USB storage (or whatever its called, don't have my phone right here). Plug your phone into your comp and copy over whatever you'd rather not lose from your SDcard (just in case you have to wipe). Now download the 2.3.3 update from here and put it on the root of your SD card. Now go back and flash this. Reboot and see if you're golden. If so, great, if not try a factory reset.
If that doesn't work go through the steps again to boot into a custom recovery, you might have to unlock your bootloader and wipe all your data (again) and restore your backup and try doing a factory reset with that. Don't worry about unlocking the bootloader, it can be relocked with a simple command and it won't wipe anything to relock it.
Here is the command just in case:
Code:
fasboot oem lock
I got all the way to having clockwork recovery booted up on the phone, but nothing would mount. Everything gave me an error, and factory reset froze...
I don't think there is anything I can even do from here, is there?
Hey guys,
First off I am the newbiest of the noobs. And I think I stumbled into bricking my asus tf101. I was wondering if you incredibly amazing developers would have a work around for me
I had rooted the TF101 a while back it worked everything was fine, I was frustrated with the poor video performance and thought maybe upgraded to jellybean may improve some speed issues with the tablet. So I ran off did some fast googling and found a forum that posted the nightlies. (Team EOS from this site)
I downloaded the first one (right to the tablet) booted into the root bootloader thing (yea im so noob I don't even know the proper wordage) and installed from that.
Now when it boots it sits at a 4 colored square logo that rotates a pules. each little piece glows (like it's loading) but it just sits there forever. i have waiting 10-15-30-45 minutes nothing.
I was wondering if there was a way I could download a new jellybean file on a SD card, and somehow install over with that?
Could really use the help and need it explained to me like im 2 ..
Really sorry to have to ask guys. Save me!
It's a very well discussed issue here and in the teameos thread.
Did you do a full cache, dalvik, system and factory reset of the device through recovery?
Which recovery are you using? (you probably need a newer one)
If you can still boot in recovery (you should) then wipe cache, dalvik, system, do a factory reset (does not wipe sdcard but you will lose all other data) and finally reflash the rom.
If you can't boot in recovery for whatever reason, you can use easyflasher to go back to stock then start over. Frederuco made an awesome post detailing the entire procedure on transformerforums.
I noticed One+ was a bit slow so I decided first to switch from power save to balanced and it was still going slow so I decided to do a reboot. After the reboot the phone got stuck at the boot animation. I can get into recovery tried a factory reset didnt help. Im wondering if i try flashing the OS if that would work. Plus what would be the best way to do so.
What ROM, Kernel are you using?
Switching from Power Save to Balanced shouldn't cause your phone to be stuck in a boot loop. Something else caused it.
Everything is stock, it was really weird I was considering maybe using adb to flash a stock img (although i have little experience doing that). I tried rebooting again to potentially start this process (this is after a good 5 or 6 reboots and a factory reset) and it started up to the welcome screen. Another side issue it seems like the factory resets for this device only wipe the apps + user data. I know if I was rooted i wouldnt expect the media to be wiped but its stock with the stock rom. I bought it off ebay and when i went to load my stuff i did a factory reset and noticed the previous owners data including call/text logs and contacts were all on the device
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Everything is stock, it was really weird I was considering maybe using adb to flash a stock img (although i have little experience doing that). I tried rebooting again to potentially start this process (this is after a good 5 or 6 reboots and a factory reset) and it started up to the welcome screen. Another side issue it seems like the factory resets for this device only wipe the apps + user data. I know if I was rooted i wouldnt expect the media to be wiped but its stock with the stock rom. I bought it off ebay and when i went to load my stuff i did a factory reset and noticed the previous owners data including call/text logs and contacts were all on the device
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If you were to flash a stock image, it would be done in fastboot mode and not adb mode. So is your phone booting yet?
You can always adb sideload a custom ROM and flash that to get your phone to a bootable state again.
The phone booted up after a good 3 hours a factory reset and multiple reboots