Just got Desire S, locked to Ireland O2 network.
The first time I booted it, fresh from the box, it bootlooped on me a couple of times. It was strange, but I didn't worry too much - I said to myself "doesn't matter, I'll overwrite /system anyway".
Ran Alpharev, everything worked, got into recovery, backed up stock ROM, tried to flash ROM. Didn't work - stopped almost immediately. Checked /system, almost nothing there, only /app and several apps inside it.
Reflashed recovery to different ones, tried flashing ROMs again, didn't help. Tried to return to stock ROM backup - and only then noticed that system.img has size of 0.
Then I got worried, reflashed O2 RUU. Everything was back to stock, booted, started setting up the stock ROM - voila, bootloop again.
Is this anything known, are Ireland O2 Desire S versions special in any way (why was I unable to flash /system properly?), or did I just get a bad phone?
Thanks.
Jack_R1 said:
Just got Desire S, locked to Ireland O2 network.
The first time I booted it, fresh from the box, it bootlooped on me a couple of times. It was strange, but I didn't worry too much - I said to myself "doesn't matter, I'll overwrite /system anyway".
Ran Alpharev, everything worked, got into recovery, backed up stock ROM, tried to flash ROM. Didn't work - stopped almost immediately. Checked /system, almost nothing there, only /app and several apps inside it.
Reflashed recovery to different ones, tried flashing ROMs again, didn't help. Tried to return to stock ROM backup - and only then noticed that system.img has size of 0.
Then I got worried, reflashed O2 RUU. Everything was back to stock, booted, started setting up the stock ROM - voila, bootloop again.
Is this anything known, are Ireland O2 Desire S versions special in any way, or did I just get a bad phone?
Thanks.
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i dont think there is any area specific problem
i think you just got a bad device or something went wrong when flashing
Since it bootlooped both out of the box and right after RUU, I don't think there's any chance that none of the many flashes worked correctly.
Oh well, I guess warranty repair it is.
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Hi,
The release of the stable CM7.1 really encouraged me to finally S-OFF my phone and install it. I used Revolutionary 0.4pre4, and installed CWM 5.0.20. I wiped everything (data, system, cache, dalvik, you name it), and installed the CM7.1 update zip and right afterwards the new Google apps zip. Eventually, I used Fix Permissions, and rebooted.
I was quite happy, until I saw the com.android.phone FC message. It just showed the same message over and over. I updated my radio to the latest version, to no avail. I tried reformatting, re-wiping, reinstalling quite a few times, and I even tried 3 different sim cards. I finally decided to go back to RUU (kept S-OFF), and didn't get any FCs.
I'm really frustrated, since it is my first Android phone, and I really believe I tried everything already.
Thanks in advance.
I got no problem at all until now.
Another thing I've discovered is when I get these FCs, sometimes if I enable the bluetooth, the phone suddenly discovers the network and the FCs stop. That's just very odd, to me.
I really hope that's not a problem with my phone (especially since it does work properly with RUU).
foouser said:
Hi,
The release of the stable CM7.1 really encouraged me to finally S-OFF my phone and install it. I used Revolutionary 0.4pre4, and installed CWM 5.0.20. I wiped everything (data, system, cache, dalvik, you name it), and installed the CM7.1 update zip and right afterwards the new Google apps zip. Eventually, I used Fix Permissions, and rebooted.
I was quite happy, until I saw the com.android.phone FC message. It just showed the same message over and over. I updated my radio to the latest version, to no avail. I tried reformatting, re-wiping, reinstalling quite a few times, and I even tried 3 different sim cards. I finally decided to go back to RUU (kept S-OFF), and didn't get any FCs.
I'm really frustrated, since it is my first Android phone, and I really believe I tried everything already.
Thanks in advance.
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Nothing has ever broken my phone quite as much as when I have done the 'fix permissions' thing. Totally screwed my phone and was FC city. I've never done it since, and never had any problems since. Try going back over your steps and leave out the fix permissions part!
I recently had a quick go with CM7 nightlies and had no issues. This included the last nightly before it became stable which was very close to the stable version.
wnp_79 said:
Nothing has ever broken my phone quite as much as when I have done the 'fix permissions' thing. Totally screwed my phone and was FC city. I've never done it since, and never had any problems since. Try going back over your steps and leave out the fix permissions part!
I recently had a quick go with CM7 nightlies and had no issues. This included the last nightly before it became stable which was very close to the stable version.
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Tried doing the same process without fixing permissions, twice already, and I still get the same problem.
have you tried this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18309360&postcount=9
Helped with the market issue, but not yet with the com.android.phone FC...
foouser said:
Helped with the market issue, but not yet with the com.android.phone FC...
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Odd. Here is how I did mine, step-by-step. (Do a NANDroid backup before this, and copy it to your PC/Mac.)
1. Install latest 4EXTRecovery from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1130004
2. Use this to format all partitions to EXT4. (Not sure if you are using EXT3, not sure if it matters, just saying I'm on EXT4 formatting with no issues.)
3. Do the full wipe & manual format routine (including boot) again just in case!
4. Flashed CM7.
5. Flashed Gapps.
6. Flashed Tiamat kernel (1.1.4)
7. Reboot.
I'm used the same radio as in my sig but also doubt that matters. Not sure what else to suggest. Try downloading the ROM again, and compare the MD5 of your two downloads.
Wow, I believe I'm in some big trouble now. I decided to try and get my phone replaced in the store since I just recently bought it. I used this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17481836&postcount=2 to get back to S-ON, but when I tried to flash back the RUU, I get a CUSTOMER ID ERROR and the flash fails.
I've tried two RUUs: RUU_Saga_HTC_Europe_1.47.401.4_Radio_20.28I.30.085AU_3805.06.02.03_M_release_199410_signed
RUU_Saga_hTC_Asia_WWE_1.48.707.1_Radio_20.28I.30.085AU_3805.06.02.03_M_release_199476_signed
But they both end up the same way. I'm now stuck on the HBOOT screen with S-ON and a big purple security warning (I guess since CM7 is still on the /system partition).
Any help?
Try solution 2 of this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1284196
but replace the mmc....
With
mmcblk0p25
this will format your system partition,
maybe also data could be formatted by replacing mmc... with mmcblk0p26,
after that run the ruu again.
Swyped from my Desire S
Tectas said:
Try solution 2 of this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1284196
but replace the mmc....
With
mmcblk0p25
this will format your system partition,
maybe also data could be formatted by replacing mmc... with mmcblk0p26,
after that run the ruu again.
Swyped from my Desire S
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I don't really have access to recovery (it just gets me back to fastboot), let alone Android, so I don't see how I can follow this guide (maybe I misunderstood)...
I have FC with Market. Everytime i try to acces it.
foouser said:
I don't really have access to recovery (it just gets me back to fastboot), let alone Android, so I don't see how I can follow this guide (maybe I misunderstood)...
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Don't mind the recovery step, just do the commands within adb shell
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mihaibuda said:
I have FC with Market. Everytime i try to acces it.
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Have you tried wiping cache and
dalvik cache?
I also had fc after an update, this solved it for me.
If you're using cyanogen, try changing the language to English us, this solved it for some users.
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Never mind, I actually created a goldcard in order to bypass the CUSTOMER ID error and flashed my phone back to original and S-ON. Thanks anyways.
Just as a note to everyone, you should really go about getting back to S-ON via this way: Flash any RUU, get the original HBOOT image from that RUU (you can find it in your temp folder while flashing the RUU), and then just downgrade the HBOOT using fastboot. Easier than going through ENG HBOOT, and allows you to avoid these kind of problems (CID errors).
The problem is that you restored "DIALER STORAGE" via titanium backup. Reflash ROM, and don't restore this. It'll work, FOR SURE.
foouser said:
Never mind, I actually created a goldcard in order to bypass the CUSTOMER ID error and flashed my phone back to original and S-ON. Thanks anyways.
Just as a note to everyone, you should really go about getting back to S-ON via this way: Flash any RUU, get the original HBOOT image from that RUU (you can find it in your temp folder while flashing the RUU), and then just downgrade the HBOOT using fastboot. Easier than going through ENG HBOOT, and allows you to avoid these kind of problems (CID errors).
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Can you please post the thread that contains the Gold Card creation process (if there was one) so that I can add it to the INDEX.
As no doubt this will be useful to others...
ty
ben_pyett said:
Can you please post the thread that contains the Gold Card creation process (if there was one) so that I can add it to the INDEX.
As no doubt this will be useful to others...
ty
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Sure, it's really the same process for all HTC phones and works even on the newest models (Sensation generation). Thanks a lot to EFI from AlphaRev who actually pointed me in the right direction.
I used this guide: http://theunlockr.com/2010/03/10/how-to-create-a-goldcard/
I'm using Windows 7 x64 and when I inserted the card after modifying it, Windows required me to format it (as opposed to what's written in the above guide), but it still worked. Also, since my phone was stuck on HBOOT I had to use another Android phone to get the SD's CID (I used a friend's SGS, and the SD slot to query is mmc2 on it).
shrome99 said:
The problem is that you restored "DIALER STORAGE" via titanium backup. Reflash ROM, and don't restore this. It'll work, FOR SURE.
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Well, I actually didn't use Titanium Backup at all, so nope.
Hi,
I'va had CM7 a10 flashed on my Sensation for a few days. A couple of days ago I've decided to get back to Stock ROM, and then the problems started. Before installing CM7 everything was fine. After restoring my backup from before flashing CM7 weird things started to happen (apps dissapearing, settings changing on their own, hangs, and other stuff). So I've done a SuperWipe a few times, and flashed a completely new Stock ROM via USB using: RUU_Pyramid_HTC_Europe_1.50.401.1_Radio_10.56.9035.00U_10.14.9035.01_M_release_223042_signed file. Then I've done a few factory resets, just in case. But still weird things are happening (eg. now I have a clean phone - once again - and trying to setup the sync options and the options app hangs everytime. and installing something from market is like praying for a miracle). I've tried doing factory reset, clear cache/dalvik (but with dalvik CWM recovery says that the partition or files wasn't found). Don't know what to do. Does anyone have any ideas ?? Please help. Phone worked fine before, and after CM7 everything is f*cked up
Wierd, looks like you've tried everything I could think of while reading the post.
Do you still have a nandroid backup of CM7, if so does that work if you restore ?
Can you use ADB to get to the phone ? If so you could check some things from there.
When you installed the RUU from the PC, did it install without errors ? Presumably you had to re-install CWM after that.
CM7 nand backup works fine after restore.
I can use ADB to comunicate with the phone.
No errors while updating RUU.exe / CWM recovery flashed without problems also after that.
I think that there's something screwed up with the file permissions.
I've downloaded and installed about 20 apps since the last HR, and now I have about 40 apps more queued in Market, and as before the downloads are stuck every 1-2 apps. Then I have to restart to CWM recovery and run fix permissions. After that another 1-2 apps will download and get stuck again, and so on...
Anyone has any ideas what the hell is going on ? Because my I'm getting more then irritated by this, and beggining to think that the best solution will be to send my phone flying through the window.
A few questions first.
What country are you in?
Who is your carrier?
What version did your phone originally come with? I believe 1.5xxxxx RUU was released recently, but I could be wrong.
Did you ever change your CID?
Have you ever flashed a new radio and RIL?
Did you copy all of the data from your SD card to your computer, then format your SD card using the phone?
Answer these questions and try the SD card thing, then report back. I may be able to help.
Poland.
T-Mobile (Sensation) / Play Mobile (Gio)
Don't remeber what version my Sensation originally came with - I have a 1.50.401.1 RUU that I'm flashing with currently.
Yes, I've changed CID to 11111111 some time ago, but I'm back to original HTC__001 now.
No I haven't changed my radio or RIL.
I've tried formatting the SD card using the phone, my laptop, my linux NAS, my other phones.
The weird thing is that yesterday all of this was progressing. It came to a point that after a factory reset or even a whole ROM reflash nothing would install (not even Market update). And this also started to happen on my Samsung Gio. So after very very very frustrating evening, and part of the night I gave up. And in the morning it was still the same (on both my android phones). But now things are starting to work (updates/installs). So I think I'm going to blame the whole thing on Google and Market. I'll see what happens while I'll install all my apps in the next few hours.
Still have to restart the phone every 1-3 apps installed. This is driving me crazy
Hey guys, so I'm worried I might have bricked my One S, or at least messed it up beyond what I can personally repair.
Basically what happened was that I was trying to install the Auto brightness patch (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1638559) onto my One S, because I wasn't happy with the batterly life. Stupidly, I tried to install it without checking accurately for matching RUU version numbers. I thought the Virtuous Ville v1.40 ROM I was running had a 1.78 base, but it has a 1.70 one. Still, I figured that in case anything went wrong, I would just make a nandroid backup and restore. Unfortunately this did not work out so well.
My phone got stuck in a boot loop, so I reset it. When I tried to restore my Nandroid backup, I got an error saying "can't mount /sdcard" or something of the sort. Other Nandroid backups had always worked.
I think before entering recovery, I selected "factory reset" on the HBOOT menu instead of "recovery" by accident. It still loaded into the recovery though, so I wasn't sure what I had actually done. If I did press the wrong thing don't know if that somehow messed up the recovery's access to the SD card.
So now I don't know what to do. I don't mind having to reinstall everything and losing my data, I just want my phone to work. Everytime I try to turn it on it gets stuck in a boot loop, and there doesn't seem to be any way I can access my storage for either nandroid nor installing any roms.
Any help would be immensely appreciated.
Sorry guys, false alarm.
For anyone that's curious, all I had to do to fix my problem was simply reflash CWM recovery(interim touch). Not sure what went wrong, but I think that was that fixed it. Unfortunately I lost all my data and customizations(not sure ifbecause of the factory reset in HBOOT or because I also accidentally clicked on "clear storage" >_>) but since i just got the phone a few days ago and have been installing ROMs very frequently, it's no biggie.
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napilopez said:
Sorry guys, false alarm.
For anyone that's curious, all I had to do to fix my problem was simply reflash CWM recovery(interim touch). Not sure what went wrong, but I think that was that fixed it. Unfortunately I lost all my data and customizations(not sure ifbecause of the factory reset in HBOOT or because I also accidentally clicked on "clear storage" >_>) but since i just got the phone a few days ago and have been installing ROMs very frequently, it's no biggie.
Can a mod close this?
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You shouldn't be using the interim release of the touch recovery anymore.
There is an official release now: Official Touch Recovery
And yes, you lost everything because you did a factory reset... it's all in the name you know... 'factory reset' - does it ring any bells?
I'm having the same problem here. I've tried to fastboot flash alternate recoveries and keep getting the sdcard error. I was trying to install cm9 and now phone won't boot and no sdcard!
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated........
Try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630459
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I was running slim 4.2.1 for quite some time with no problems, i loved it. I flashed 4.2.2 and my phone got stuck in NV and my phone number would come up as 000-000-3370. On first boot everything seems to be fine except that i get an error when i try to open up the play store. On my next boot is when I would see these problems. I tried everything from dirty flashing from a working 4.2.1 rom to completely formatting everything, even my external sd, and the same thing happens. This happens with every 4.2.2 rom out there. When i reboot i get stuck on the activating screen and my phone will get stuck in NV and ruim/sim wont stick no matter what i do. i don't know what else to do. someone please help!
It isn't a rom issue it is an S 3 issue that randomly occurs when flashing ROMs. You will have to flash the stock rom and reprovision your phone. I know because it has happened to me twice and both times it was with a Touchwiz ROM. You should have backed up your IMEI just in case this happens.
my imei is backed up. but why is it only 4.2.2 roms that do this?
I was able to flash back to a 4.2.1 Rom, namely pure Google for now, with no problems. but when I flash any 4.2.2 Rom the same thing happens.
All 4.2 ROMs used to do this to me.
However.
Only also happened when I flashed miui.
Now I run liquid smooth and haven't had the problem since.
sent from that young galaxy.
God bless the American people!
do u guys think I should Odin back to stock, then root, unlock, and try to flash 4.2.2?
Actually, there is an easier way
I have had this happen numerous times and it lef me to mess with my phone a little bit. I originally thought that setting it to CDMA/SIM and then rebooting would fix the problem, but I found a simpler solution to that. The last time I encountered the problem I simply set the phone to RUIM/SIM under mobile networks and then Turned on airplane mode for a few seconds then turned it off and I found my number under phone settings and everything. Try that and let me know how it goes.
Edit: Sorry, the term is RUIM/SIM, not CDMA/SIM. My bad.
hmmm, I'll definitely give that a shot later on tonight.
well I tried it, it works. but only temporarily. once I reboot it reverts back to how it was. any other thoughts?
anyone?
Chitala383 said:
anyone?
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try this. i had the same problem. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35600769&postcount=2
nope, none of that works either. no matter what I do ruim/sim will not stick on a reboot on any 4.2.2 Rom. I'm really getting frustrated with this.
no one has any other solutions for me?
Chitala383 said:
anyone?
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Does your phone display an IMEI number?
Settings->About->Status
Don't need the number, just to know if you have it there....
Also do you still have Root/Unlocked bootloader?
yes, i have an imei. i lost it once before so now its backed up, i'll never make that mistake again. it was a nightmare trying to get it back. and yes, i am rooted and unlocked.
Chitala383 said:
yes, i have an imei. i lost it once before so now its backed up, i'll never make that mistake again. it was a nightmare trying to get it back. and yes, i am rooted and unlocked.
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Have you done a complete factory restore through Odin? You would lose root and unlocked bootloader, but it may be faster to restore to stock, and reroot/mod than to try to find an "easy" fix. I was having some issues the other day in between a few ROM's, but I just factory restored, and restarted from "scratch". Now I am running perfect.
You may have already tried, but on page 1 you asked if you should, and I did not see a confirmation you did so.
Had the same problem... And yes, the phone must be reprovisioned. Although sometimes you can just adjust the network settings and change it from NV. That worked for me also.
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I flashed root 66 via Odin, bootloop. flashed the ma2 stock image, bootloop. then flashed the lk3 stock image with success. but still with the same results as before.
tomorrow I'll try flashing g1 and start from scratch there. what do u guys think?
well, I odin'd back to bone stock G1, rooted with rootdebugfs, flashed cwm with ez recovery, unlocked my bootloader with ez unlock, flashed liquidsmooth 4.2.2 rc2 and guess what. same ****!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm really getting fed up with this. someone has to have a solution to this cuz this is really pissing me off.
Hello First post here so hopefully in the right place! I've got a nexus 5, UK model purchased around January time. I had rooted, running stock with SuperSU installed and a few apps installed with xposed mod.
It was running perfectly fine, until a few days back where I was required to reboot, it then got stuck at the Google screen and wouldn't go past that, I turned the phone off for a while and eventually could get into it.. Great, until it happened again.. I spoke to a friend who said perhaps it was the xposed which was causing it, so I flashed back to factory, ran it for a while and it was fine, so went back to root and tested it, was stable so I reinstalled xposed.. It then got stuck in the bootloop again, so flashed to factory certain that it was xposed causing issues. I'm now running factory, however the phone will still get stuck in bootloop but will also randomly reboot itself now.. Has anyone experienced this? After scanning the forums I can't find anything so hopefully someone can help!! My boot loader is still unlocked.
Thank you, Jordan.
arsenaljordan said:
Hello First post here so hopefully in the right place! I've got a nexus 5, UK model purchased around January time. I had rooted, running stock with SuperSU installed and a few apps installed with xposed mod.
It was running perfectly fine, until a few days back where I was required to reboot, it then got stuck at the Google screen and wouldn't go past that, I turned the phone off for a while and eventually could get into it.. Great, until it happened again.. I spoke to a friend who said perhaps it was the xposed which was causing it, so I flashed back to factory, ran it for a while and it was fine, so went back to root and tested it, was stable so I reinstalled xposed.. It then got stuck in the bootloop again, so flashed to factory certain that it was xposed causing issues. I'm now running factory, however the phone will still get stuck in bootloop but will also randomly reboot itself now.. Has anyone experienced this? After scanning the forums I can't find anything so hopefully someone can help!! My boot loader is still unlocked.
Thank you, Jordan.
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Are you able to flash a custom recovery? like TWRP, PHILZ, CWM? try it.
if successful, flash a custom Rom. just to discard the possibility of emmc failure.
GUGUITOMTG4 said:
Are you able to flash a custom recovery? like TWRP, PHILZ, CWM? try it.
if successful, flash a custom Rom. just to discard the possibility of emmc failure.
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I am able to flash a custom recovery and so forth, so wouldn't think it to be emmc failure.
arsenaljordan said:
I am able to flash a custom recovery and so forth, so wouldn't think it to be emmc failure.
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It doesn't really exonerates emmc from being bad yet. now, wipe and flash a Rom, a stock/aosp based one
GUGUITOMTG4 said:
It doesn't really exonerates emmc from being bad yet. now, wipe and flash a Rom, a stock/aosp based one
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I have already flashed the stock recovery and ROM back to the device