Hey there!
I've got a brand new SGS2 and I've installed a few apps on it, rooted it this morning after the installations and now, for some reason, I can't seem to update some of the apps I downloaded.
Whenever I try, it downloads the update and clicking on it says the app is not installed.
Luckily, the default apps have no problem.
Is this a common problem or did I screw something up during root?
(I do remember Odin or something had a button that allowed installation of apps or something, but I did not click it, was that needed?)
EDIT:
The button in question is in SuperOneClick and it says: "Allow Non-Market apps".
I hooked up my phone, tried clicking on it and the program hangs.
Tried it in download and Recovery mode, still hangs.
I have it on admin mode but it still doesn't work...
What can I do, please!?
(I posted this here as I did not see any support section, if I missed it, please move it over there, thanks and sorry!)
Realized the damn thing kept crashing because I kept forgetting to enable the USB Debugging mode, clicked the allow non-market apps and the process ran smoothly.
restarted the device (I've got a yellow triangle with an exclamation point on the first screen on boot, is that bad?)
Turned off debugging and it's still a no go!
I'm out of ideas, PLEASE HELP!!!
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The Android Market is no longer installed on my Captivate. I have been running Cognition 2.6.32.9 for a while now and decided I needed to upgrade to 4.2.3, so I started doing that following a guide I found that said I needed to disable the lagfix. Once the phone started back up after I disabled the lagfix it seemed to be at default rom settings. It changed the background back to the cognition background, none of my apps were on the home page, etc etc. Another thing I noticed is that I can't find the market anywhere on the phone. I need to install clockwork so that I can install the new version of Cognition. How do I go about doing this?
SGTME113 said:
The Android Market is no longer installed on my Captivate. I have been running Cognition 2.6.32.9 for a while now and decided I needed to upgrade to 4.2.3, so I started doing that following a guide I found that said I needed to disable the lagfix. Once the phone started back up after I disabled the lagfix it seemed to be at default rom settings. It changed the background back to the cognition background, none of my apps were on the home page, etc etc. Another thing I noticed is that I can't find the market anywhere on the phone. I need to install clockwork so that I can install the new version of Cognition. How do I go about doing this?
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You can get the market app on their website.
As for cwm, it's usually implamented in custom ROM? Try to reboot in recovery and if you get the green text (cwm 2.5) -> You have it already!
When I go to the market in the browser it says that Rom Manager is already installed, but I can't find it anywhere in the app drawer.
SGTME113 said:
When I go to the market in the browser it says that Rom Manager is already installed, but I can't find it anywhere in the app drawer.
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Are you on a custom ROM already? (Cognition I believe you said?) If it's the case, go in recovery using the extended power menu. You don't need Rom Manager to do it for you.
Also, you can re-download Rom Manager even if it says it's installed.
I tried to redownload Rom Manager in the brower. It didn't do anything though. When I went into recovery I was given the option to reboot, reinstall packages, delete all user data, delete cache data, and format the internal sd card. I tried to reinstall packages but that didn't seem to do anything. Another thing I noticed is that when I try to connect the phone to my computer the phone doesn't seem to realize it is connected. I don't get the option to turn on the usb connection.
edit: Well now I seem to have bigger problems. I managed to get into recovery and reinstall cognition 2.6, then I got the zip for 4.3 onto the phone. Then I went back into recovery to install that, started installing and then I got an error, and it stopped installing. I tried to install it again, same thing. So I just gave up and went to reboot and now it is stuck at the at&t screen. I can get the screen to turn black for a few seconds by holding the power and volume buttons, but then it goes back to the at&t screen.
SGTME113 said:
I tried to redownload Rom Manager in the brower. It didn't do anything though. When I went into recovery I was given the option to reboot, reinstall packages, delete all user data, delete cache data, and format the internal sd card. I tried to reinstall packages but that didn't seem to do anything. Another thing I noticed is that when I try to connect the phone to my computer the phone doesn't seem to realize it is connected. I don't get the option to turn on the usb connection.
edit: Well now I seem to have bigger problems. I managed to get into recovery and reinstall cognition 2.6, then I got the zip for 4.3 onto the phone. Then I went back into recovery to install that, started installing and then I got an error, and it stopped installing. I tried to install it again, same thing. So I just gave up and went to reboot and now it is stuck at the at&t screen. I can get the screen to turn black for a few seconds by holding the power and volume buttons, but then it goes back to the at&t screen.
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Ok you need to give more info on that error.. Were you on 2.2 froyo? If so, you'll need this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052991
Now for your actual problem.. You'll need to get in download mode:
Unplug usb;
Remove battery;
Hold volume buttons; (don't release no matter what)
Plug the usb;
Put the battery back in.
You might need to try a few times for it to work.
After that, you'll need Odin3 one click downloader (and only that one) to get back to stock.
From there, you'll be able to recover.
I figured it out now. Thanks for the help. I'm on Cognition 4.3 now and it's working perfectly.
just some info for anyone that reads:
sometimes after flashing a custom rom, the market thinks its a new phone, and will show your "purchases" of all your "phones" sometimes you must push install to your "new phone"
also sometimes you need to reboot for the push to go to your phone, or wait about 5 minutes.
but you got it glad to hear!
SGTME113 said:
I figured it out now. Thanks for the help. I'm on Cognition 4.3 now and it's working perfectly.
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Np! Glad you got your phone back the way you like it
i im on the same rom but an old version. if i were to upgrade or transfer to a different rom i would have to disable lag fix? correct? or could i just odin it and flash it?
Hey guys.
I just felt that i had to write because i have done everything in my power and searched my ass off with no success.
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To the problem.
My computer cannot find my phone, it does detect it but the phone doesn't show me any "activate USB mode" screen. The phone just does nothing.
This all happened very suddenly, and it specially happened after installing chainfire3D.
Anyone there who knows what i should do in order to fix this problem? and my main goal is to remove the "superuser" app in the menu so that i can at least get my warranty back.
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It seems that the phone is half rooted and half not.
When updating superuser binary it tells me that there is no "su" path and it does not update.
Z4root freezes and dies
Superoneclick doesn't detect phone
Check root tells me that i am not rooted.
i am still on stock room, i just rooted it for some apps that i wanted like chain-fire and so on.
Please guys help me if you can would be much appreciated.
This should work: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17177547&postcount=2
Try it out, it's quite simple.
you can also use this guide, it helped me when i used it
I have a Sprint Epic 4G Touch. I was planning on unrooting my phone and setting it back to factory settings. I was using the directions from the site epic4gtouchroot , which is the same site I used to root my phone in the first place. I went through all the steps normally, and when I got to "Step 5. Hit “Start” and your Epic 4G Touch will start to restore EL29 stock ROM. ", I started it. After about 10 seconds of it running, I accidentally bumped my phone (I know youve all heard that 1000 times), and it disconnected from my computer.
By this point, the screen on my phone was showing a progress bar, but it was wasnt moving forward anymore. So I rebooted my phone, and it came up to the screen saying :Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again.". I can still force it into download mode using the power button and down volume button.
Also, I can no longer connect my phone to my computer. When I plug it in, my computer realizes i plugged something in and gives me a popup that says "USB device not recognized".
I've already tried downloading drivers through Kies and reinstalling Kies, but it still wont work.
Any thoughts?
Wrong forum. I've asked mods to move your post here.
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Wrong forum. I've asked mods to move your post here.
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Hello all.
I just received my Lenovo A850+ today that I bought from China (via ebay). After charging it to full I put in my o2 Sim and blank micro-SD card and started having a play with the phone. (It worked fine before I started messing). Noticing there was no google play store I set about finding a way to put it on. The first thing (perhaps wrongly) i did was install some lenovo usb drivers that some site told me to use with the idea I would flash a custom rom (which i never did in the end) and enabled usb debugging.
I tried to root the phone with a program called Xroot, which unsuccessfully rooted the phone, then I downloaded a new version which updated to Xroot 1.7.7 and that supposedly successfully rooted the phone. It also installed a new app with a name similar to xroot which i then opened. It has what looked like an app manager so i started deleting apps that i thought were unnecessary (bloatware). Suddenly the list of apps changed and the phone froze. I took out the battery and attempted to restart the phone. I now have the following problem:
After hitting the power button the phone it vibrates once, plays an animation and then gets stuck on the logo screen:
Left like this it occasionally vibrates once every 20secs or so but doesnt load any further. When plugged into my PC via usb, after a minute or so my pc recognises the device (but not removable storage and CD Drive (D Lenovo Suite (an exe) pops up. after installing a chinese software suite is installed, which does pop up when my phone is plugged in.
The phone only responds when i hold the power button, which turns it off. Basically I want to fix my phone, hopefully without sending it back to china. I assumed I could just get into a recovery menu and factory reset it. I dont think I can. I can get into the following 3 menus:
factory mode: (power+volumeUp) I dont read chinese, the top few seem to be info/component checks, the bottom one restarts the phone and the eMMC option doesn't fix anything.
recovery mode: (power+volumeUp+volumeDown)Has a menu with power off, reboot, wipe user data (didnt fix anything) and install update package (i tried copying an official rom onto root of sd card but it doesnt recognise it (it looks like it specifically wants a zip called update.zip) i even renamed but didnt help.
meta mode: (power+volumeDown) Doesn't appear to do anything and has no options.
Does any1 have suggestions on how I can perform a factory reset/install a rom or fix my phone or is it just bricked? If you want me to try anything just post and I will give it a go.
Thankyou.
Capiech said:
Hello all.
I just received my Lenovo A850+ today that I bought from China (via ebay). After charging it to full I put in my o2 Sim and blank micro-SD card and started having a play with the phone. (It worked fine before I started messing). Noticing there was no google play store I set about finding a way to put it on. The first thing (perhaps wrongly) i did was install some lenovo usb drivers that some site told me to use with the idea I would flash a custom rom (which i never did in the end) and enabled usb debugging.
I tried to root the phone with a program called Xroot, which unsuccessfully rooted the phone, then I downloaded a new version which updated to Xroot 1.7.7 and that supposedly successfully rooted the phone. It also installed a new app with a name similar to xroot which i then opened. It has what looked like an app manager so i started deleting apps that i thought were unnecessary (bloatware). Suddenly the list of apps changed and the phone froze. I took out the battery and attempted to restart the phone. I now have the following problem:
After hitting the power button the phone it vibrates once, plays an animation and then gets stuck on the logo screen:
Left like this it occasionally vibrates once every 20secs or so but doesnt load any further. When plugged into my PC via usb, after a minute or so my pc recognises the device (but not removable storage and CD Drive (D Lenovo Suite (an exe) pops up. after installing a chinese software suite is installed, which does pop up when my phone is plugged in.
The phone only responds when i hold the power button, which turns it off. Basically I want to fix my phone, hopefully without sending it back to china. I assumed I could just get into a recovery menu and factory reset it. I dont think I can. I can get into the following 3 menus:
factory mode: (power+volumeUp) I dont read chinese, the top few seem to be info/component checks, the bottom one restarts the phone and the eMMC option doesn't fix anything.
recovery mode: (power+volumeUp+volumeDown)Has a menu with power off, reboot, wipe user data (didnt fix anything) and install update package (i tried copying an official rom onto root of sd card but it doesnt recognise it (it looks like it specifically wants a zip called update.zip) i even renamed but didnt help.
meta mode: (power+volumeDown) Doesn't appear to do anything and has no options.
Does any1 have suggestions on how I can perform a factory reset/install a rom or fix my phone or is it just bricked? If you want me to try anything just post and I will give it a go.
Thankyou.
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you can go download a rom from needrom dot com.
there two roms there.
the official older is multilaguage and the newer is english/chinese.
sorry, but cannot post a link.
You need:
1. Flash tool
2. ROM (official or custom)
see instructions here: www*needrom*com/mobile/lenovo-a850/
thanks fixed now
hi i have same problem here and my laptop cant detect my device
i try to flahing new rom and restore from twrp but my phone still stuck at logo
help me please
ojik said:
hi i have same problem here and my laptop cant detect my device
i try to flahing new rom and restore from twrp but my phone still stuck at logo
help me please
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You need to install the ADB drivers and the Drivers for your device. If they are both installed you can check if your device is recognised by PC by typing this command: "adb devices". If you don't know how to use ADB I posted a helpful tool.
Then you need to download a ROM on your PC and then flash it via Sideload to your device.
Possible bricked A850+
Have a possible bricked A850+ I tried to install custom recovery as I wanted a custom rom and it wanted SuperSU we installed but it failed to update binary 3 times on normal, when turned I it off and back on again it was stucked in the boot screen.:crying:
I have tried to wipe all date via Recovery which I can access but still no luck with the ordinary boot, when trying to use flash tool absolutely nothing happens when the phone is connected, so can anybody in here help with my problem?
Thanks in advance
Bregnhoj
Im trying to fix my GFs phone its stuck on the boot screen when the phone got turned off during an update
I got ADB installed and can see it in the CMD but its not showing my phone as connected,
I suspect this is because I dont have USB debugging enabled but seems the phone cant turn on i cant enable it, ive spent a few hours googling and googling but i cant find any way to get anything to work seems it wont connect to the phone
The phone does show up on my drives list when plugged in but it does not show up as an android device in the device manager. Am i screwed or is there another way to fix this?
Every single thing i try has "Make sure USB Debugging is enabled." ......
is there some way to enable it when i cant get the phone turned on....
Mega brick
Hi all,
I have mega bricked my A850 with flash tool trying to install custom ROM. When I click, hold or whatever, nothing happens. USB not responding at all, LEDs not flashing. Is there a method or place where I could bring it back to life?
I have a Lenovo A850+ thats always rebooting/restarting automatically, i can't also send sms. What is the problem and solutions? Thanks... Hoping for immediate response.
ejpolaron said:
I have a Lenovo A850+ thats always rebooting/restarting automatically, i can't also send sms. What is the problem and solutions? Thanks... Hoping for immediate response.
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Hi all,
I've hit a dead end and am hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
I have a Verizon Xperia Z2 tablet that had been a Verizon store demo (fully functional). I rooted it with KingRoot to get all the Verizon crap off (I only use it as WiFi anyway), upgraded it to stock Android 5.1.1, used Super-Sume to get rid of KingRoot and set it up with my apps.
Everything was fine until the other day, when I put an SD card in, installed Apps2SD, opened the app for the first time and it said it could not gain root access. So I ran Root Checker and it confirmed that the tablet was no longer rooted.
I then closed everything and tried to reboot it, which was definitely a mistake, because ever since then, the farthest I can get is the Verizon boot screen. I can get to TWRP, but my backup does not appear there. Factory Wipe does not have any effect.
I did try to use FlashTool to get the FTF I put on there back. The log spat out an error message that USB debugging might not be switched on (it had been) and then gives me the message "Upgrading, do not disconnect device from PC. SOftware Status: Modified". It then reboots and goes to the Verizon boot screen, where it stays forever.
I think I've read every Xperia thread I can find and can't get past where I am. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
wcs2 said:
Hi all,
I've hit a dead end and am hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
I have a Verizon Xperia Z2 tablet that had been a Verizon store demo (fully functional). I rooted it with KingRoot to get all the Verizon crap off (I only use it as WiFi anyway), upgraded it to stock Android 5.1.1, used Super-Sume to get rid of KingRoot and set it up with my apps.
Everything was fine until the other day, when I put an SD card in, installed Apps2SD, opened the app for the first time and it said it could not gain root access. So I ran Root Checker and it confirmed that the tablet was no longer rooted.
I then closed everything and tried to reboot it, which was definitely a mistake, because ever since then, the farthest I can get is the Verizon boot screen. I can get to TWRP, but my backup does not appear there. Factory Wipe does not have any effect.
I did try to use FlashTool to get the FTF I put on there back. The log spat out an error message that USB debugging might not be switched on (it had been) and then gives me the message "Upgrading, do not disconnect device from PC. SOftware Status: Modified". It then reboots and goes to the Verizon boot screen, where it stays forever.
I think I've read every Xperia thread I can find and can't get past where I am. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
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Greetings and welcome to assist. It sounds like your sytem partition may have got corrupted or the pit file. Can you install another rom through twrp and can twrp file manager see any of your system files when mounted ? The only way to tell what is really going on is to adb a logcat while the phone is bootlooping if that is possible
Good Luck
Sawdoctor
Thanks! I'm not sure what other rom would work for the Z2 tablet. From what I've read, only stock roms work. But if there's something else you recommend, please let me know.
When I try copying the log to the SD card, it does tell me that SELinux support is present and I can read the log when I connect the tablet to my computer. When I go to File Manager, I can see some files, but the system and system/bin folders are empty.
I can sideload ADB if I understand you correctly. What would the next step be?
Thanks again, I really appreciate the help.