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Endless "bzz, bzz-bzz-bzz" Force close, unable to boot

Okay, I'm really worried. I was playing around with the root app Anim Mod, and installed custom animations. I had to reboot for them to take effect, although on reboot, I get the vibrate, pause, triple vibrate pattern over and over and a black screen after the sidekick and samsung boot screens. Is there any way I can restore the phone completely? I'm less worried about loosing things and more worried about the phone being completely screwed in this case. Any ideas?

djake93 said:
Okay, I'm really worried. I was playing around with the root app Anim Mod, and installed custom animations. I had to reboot for them to take effect, although on reboot, I get the vibrate, pause, triple vibrate pattern over and over and a black screen after the sidekick and samsung boot screens. Is there any way I can restore the phone completely? I'm less worried about loosing things and more worried about the phone being completely screwed in this case. Any ideas?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1088413
[ROM][ODIN] Stock ODEXED T839UVKD1 (Sidekick 4G) Firmware [6/12/11]
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Thanks, I'll try that right now

Wait, is this possible on a Mac, or do I need to find a PC?

djake93 said:
Wait, is this possible on a Mac, or do I need to find a PC?
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Good question.... I don't know..... I have a pc.
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Looks like I'm going to be phoneless for a while then. Thanks for the help anyway, I'll try and find a PC tomorrow, I'm in dire need of sleep right now...

by the way Odin restores your phone to factory stock so _everything_ you put on there will be gone.

Well I can't get it to boot so not like I can get anything off there anyway. Looks like it's my only option.

djake93 said:
Well I can't get it to boot so not like I can get anything off there anyway. Looks like it's my only option.
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are you rooted and have CWM recovery ?

Okay I'm trying to do this odin stock thing, but I can't get it to boot into download mode, It just boots into the same black screen with vibrations...

ayoteddy said:
are you rooted and have CWM recovery ?
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Sorry I didn't see that, I was rooted, but don't have CWM recovery. Although I can't boot to be able to get it on there, so I think I'm screwed.

Okay I got it into download mode and that link worked, thanks a heap!

[Q] Getting my hands on a bricked g2x today....

he said he bricked it trying to upgrade to ICS.
is the sticky at the top still the way to unbrick it? i noticed that a couple links were dead in the first post. granted i didn't go through all 17 pages, just wanted to make sure there wasn't anything newer then whats already been posted.
edit: he did say that the screen is showing s/w if that matters

Was it bricked by flashing a o2x rom? I think that may be the hardest brick I have heard of but still fixable. I believe if that is the case than following the sticky should restore the baseband and everything else.
Honestly though I would first try just reflashing CWM via nvflash, boot into recovery and load a stable GB rom. If that works, great.

LurkerRWO said:
Was it bricked by flashing a o2x rom? I think that may be the hardest brick I have heard of but still fixable. I believe if that is the case than following the sticky should restore the baseband and everything else.
Honestly though I would first try just reflashing CWM via nvflash, boot into recovery and load a stable GB rom. If that works, great.
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he just said things went haywire when trying to flash ICS. i've been messing around with the sticky but can't get anything to work....yet!

im on windows 7 if that matters
and after i boot into recovery the screen is just flashing black. any ideas?

everything i do with flashing it just sits at the prompt saying "flashing" and nothing else happens.

blackbeasst said:
he just said things went haywire when trying to flash ICS. i've been messing around with the sticky but can't get anything to work....yet!
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You apparently you did not even read the first post. XP only, will not work with Windows 7.
"As many have stated, pushing the v21E_00.kdz via the KDZ_FW_UPD program does work. It's just touchy.
This is a step by step guide to get you back in to working shape.
Note: You MUST do this via a PC running Windows XP. Running Vista/7 in compatibility mode is not going to work, period.
Edit: As an alternative, a virtual environment running XP will do the job. Those steps are up to you."

That's not true. I updated the baseband using win7 on my first try. No need for comparability mode.
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LurkerRWO said:
That's not true. I updated the baseband using win7 on my first try. No need for comparability mode.
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Can confirm that too. Was working fine on 32 bit win7, using the method from the stickies upgrading wind's June baseband.
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duple and lurker, thanks for the confirmation that it works with 7
when i try and push the kdz i get the dreaded phone not found.

ok im on my xp machine here at work and heres what i got:
Part 1: Download the files you will need below.
V21E_00.kdz
KDZ_FW_UPD_EN
One-Click-G2x-recovery-flasher-06-16.rar
LG USB Drivers G2x
Part 2:
1) Install the LG G2x USB drivers to your WinXP machine.
2) Extract the entire contents of the One-Click recovery in to a folder and keep it handy.
3) Remove the battery from the phone. Hold both volume buttons and plug in the USB cable. If you are asked for a driver, look in the APX folder where you extracted the One-Click recovery archive.
4) Run OneClickRecoveryFlasher.exe and flash the stock recovery. Wait for the process to finish and close all windows and unplug the phone.
no problems with above steps. after that nothing works. when i put the battery back in and turn on thats when i get the flashing black screen, not back to the s/w screen.
5) Put the battery back into the phone and turn it on. You will be back at the S/W Upgrade screen. This is where you want to be! Now plug the USB cable back in to the phone. If everything is up to snuff you should have no driver problems at this point.
6) Extract KDZ_FW_UPD_EN.7z in to a folder. Inside is a msxml.msi. You need to run and install this first!
7) Run KDZ_FW_UPD.exe.. Leave the type set to CDMA and the phone mode set to DIAG. DO NOT CLICK ON "Read phone information"
8) Click the folder icon and load the V21E_00.kdz
9) Click launch software update (and pray!)

ok just for craps and giggles i tried booting into recovery and actually got the box with arrow and android! but it then reboots back to the lg screen and then flashing black screen

WOOT! finally able to get into CWM recovery!
is all that needs to be done now is install a stable rom?

double WOOT! back up and running. time to test the functionality of if though!
edit: can't find the sim and no service.

blackbeasst said:
double WOOT! back up and running. time to test the functionality of if though!
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Delighted to hear that. So, another confirmation of the "old" folks stating it's 99.9% un-brickable.
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DupleX01 said:
Delighted to hear that. So, another confirmation of the "old" folks stating it's 99.9% un-brickable.
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and im a tard. sim was inserted bass akwards

blackbeasst said:
and im a tard. sim was inserted bass akwards
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Congrats man.
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wifi seems to be flaky. keeps scanning and dropping work and home network
also it appears that the market wasn't on that version of the rom. is that a quick fix?

Now you have the recovery and baseband sorted, start from scratch and do a full wipe(including system internal/external SD). Then flash a stable ROM Weapon/EB to make sure everything is good. Just my 2 cents
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DupleX01 said:
Now you have the recovery and baseband sorted, start from scratch and do a full wipe(including system internal/external SD). Then flash a stable ROM Weapon/EB to make sure everything is good. Just my 2 cents
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im was lucky to get it up and running, so im still a flashing noob! but what is considered a stable rom for this phone?
i grabbed one from cyanmod earlier today. i think it was from around 3/13?

blackbeasst said:
im was lucky to get it up and running, so im still a flashing noob! but what is considered a stable rom for this phone?
i grabbed one from cyanmod earlier today. i think it was from around 3/13?
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You were lucky, indeed!
A CM nightly can be stable too, however I would flash either Weapon or Eagles Blood for a couple of days to have a piece of mind that everything is working cool. The most important would be a proper full wipe (cache, dalvik, system under mounts and storage, battery stats and imho internal and external SD too) too get rid of the previous mess caused by the unsuccessful flash, etc.
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Bricked G2X

GUYS HELP PLEASE I nullifed my device, left it on all night (unplugged) because I fell asleep. Now, I can't boot to CWM.. I've tried to install stock recovery, but once I turn it on it just stays on the plain, white LG logo. If I hold down volume down + power buttons the same thing happens. Can you guys help me please. I hope I didn't permanently brick my G2X.

U cant permanently brick it. Search the forums there's been a thread like this in the past week
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Use this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1590523
Next time read the little part which is in big bold letters about not turning off your phone with out flashing a ROM or restoring a nandroid immediately afterward.

MrFdhigsKp said:
GUYS HELP PLEASE I nullifed my device, left it on all night (unplugged) because I fell asleep. Now, I can't boot to CWM.. I've tried to install stock recovery, but once I turn it on it just stays on the plain, white LG logo. If I hold down volume down + power buttons the same thing happens. Can you guys help me please. I hope I didn't permanently brick my G2X.
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Try this method, this will bring your phone back to life. Make sure you root your phone again and install CWM.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1248644
Good luck

thanks guys. I think I lost root access

MrFdhigsKp said:
thanks guys. I think I lost root access
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Just root your phone again and install CWM and you are good to go

ratza66 said:
Just root your phone again and install CWM and you are good to go
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No need to root, just nvflash cwm and flash a ROM.

buru898 said:
No need to root, just nvflash cwm and flash a ROM.
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really? but I when I installed TB it says I have no more root access =( and also my internal storage got wiped. LIFE'S HARD. I blame LG. lol

MrFdhigsKp said:
really? but I when I installed TB it says I have no more root access =( and also my internal storage got wiped. LIFE'S HARD. I blame LG. lol
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Flash a ROM which is rooted
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Hey guys, I rooted my friends G2x and everything went fine until I flashed the ROM. Like an idiot, I did not make a nandroid backup...I downloaded BionixReloaded and up it on the sd card. Rebooted to recovery and went through the usual steps. I did a factory reset and formatted the system. However, when I went to flash the ROM, I got the "E: Can't open /sdcard/zROM/*name of ROM*.zip (bad). Now the phone won't reboot which I'm assuming is from formatting the system. I can still get into recovery and download mode....will this method fix the problem? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1248644#
Like I said, I'm not very familiar with the G2x, so any help be be appreciated!

I cannot remember for the life of me remember what that error means, but you can just re-download the rom you want and place it in the sdcard by mounting USB storage through mounts and system, and then flash.
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drscott333 said:
Hey guys, I rooted my friends G2x and everything went fine until I flashed the ROM. Like an idiot, I did not make a nandroid backup...I downloaded BionixReloaded and up it on the sd card. Rebooted to recovery and went through the usual steps. I did a factory reset and formatted the system. However, when I went to flash the ROM, I got the "E: Can't open /sdcard/zROM/*name of ROM*.zip (bad). Now the phone won't reboot which I'm assuming is from formatting the system. I can still get into recovery and download mode....will this method fix the problem? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1248644#
Like I said, I'm not very familiar with the G2x, so any help be be appreciated!
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Make sure the Rom.zip isn't named Rom.zip.zip. if so rename correctly, also can check md5 of the zip to ensure its a good download prior to flashing.
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Thanks everyone for the quick responses. I'm guessing it boiled down to a bad download, but for some reason I could not connect via USB from recovery on my laptop, so I brought it to my friends house and was able to get it to connect so I redownloaded the ROM along with another incase I got the same error, but it worked flawlessly. Thanks again to all that offered help instead of sending me a useless link via LMGTFY!

Cannot Load CWM after ICS

So here is what happened...
Flashed ICS in Odin (made sure not to click repartition)
ICS didnt load for me
Restored back stock through Odin but got boot loop instead of going back normal
installed CWM through Odin
That is where I am at right now. The problem is that I cannot get CWM to load so I can restore/flash anything. The screen loads the initial Blaze loading screen, I then get the Tmobile sound, then it goes back to the Samsung pulsing label for a few minutes then repeats. Any thoughts anyone on getting CWM loaded again? I have tried reflashing in Odin to no avail. It says it completes fine and auto reboots. Any suggestions?

Mine reloads every time. it was tricky the first time though. Had to pull battery and try several different times.
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2vivid said:
Mine reloads every time. it was tricky the first time though. Had to pull battery and try several different times.
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I've tried 30+ times and still cant get it. I'm worried mainly about getting the bootloop while returning to stock. I just redownloaded all the files and still nothing. Is there a way to reset the flash counter in Odin?

thats crazy, i just went into recovery a couple of times to see if i could get it to mess up on me. But mine does it fine, im not sure of the cause of this. let me see what i can find out

2vivid said:
thats crazy, i just went into recovery a couple of times to see if i could get it to mess up on me. But mine does it fine, im not sure of the cause of this. let me see what i can find out
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Thanks, I'm still looking around myself, gonna try two more things before I give it the boot lol. I've still got a warranty on it so no biggie either way. Lets hope this last past half hour of googling was worth it.

dispozable said:
Thanks, I'm still looking around myself, gonna try two more things before I give it the boot lol. I've still got a warranty on it so no biggie either way. Lets hope this last past half hour of googling was worth it.
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good luck man, everything ive been reading just says go back to stock and try again. not such a hope builder there .

2vivid said:
good luck man, everything ive been reading just says go back to stock and try again. not such a hope builder there .
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No biggie either way, I got insurance

Fixed! I am not quite sure what did it. I took out the sim card, used my gf's battery, and redownloaded all the files. I still could not get the stock to boot but I did manage to get CWM to load normally after this process. I'm convinced its my phone now as I still cant get stock to load but DK8 runs fine. I'm gonna wipe the counter and send it in just in case.

dispozable said:
No biggie either way, I got insurance
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Will it not go into CWM at all or do you get the sparkle screen? If you get the sparkle screen you may still have ADB. If you can connect pull the defaul.prop and see if it's t769 or i577. If it's I577 push t769.

dispozable said:
Fixed! I am not quite sure what did it. I took out the sim card, used my gf's battery, and redownloaded all the files. I still could not get the stock to boot but I did manage to get CWM to load normally after this process. I'm convinced its my phone now as I still cant get stock to load but DK8 runs fine. I'm gonna wipe the counter and send it in just in case.
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I'm glad you got man.

HELP with Soft Brick

So I have an old Infuse that my kids use and it went crazy the other day. Not sure what happened. Long story short I keep getting a boot loop at the ATT screen. This phone is not rooted and I'm not sure if it was on Froyo or GB. I've flashed every return from brick I can find on XDA. I'm using Odin and I'm pretty familiar with flashing/rooting etc. Can't figure this one out. The only thing I can think is the boot loaders are not the correct ones? Not sure, I keep seeing GTG's ultimate unbrick but all the links I get to it don't work. this is the only thing I haven't tried. Any help would be appreciated.
Edit to add: After I flash in Odin it goes to reboot then does the open update, verifying update, installing update, successfully installed update package.
Copying media files it says failed to mount/sdcard, can't mount /sdcard your storage not prepared yet please use UI menu for format and reboot. ??? I think that's the problem. How do I fix??

Just search in the stickies for bootloaders. That will solve your problems
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COfatboy said:
So I have an old Infuse that my kids use and it went crazy the other day. Not sure what happened. Long story short I keep getting a boot loop at the ATT screen. This phone is not rooted and I'm not sure if it was on Froyo or GB. I've flashed every return from brick I can find on XDA. I'm using Odin and I'm pretty familiar with flashing/rooting etc. Can't figure this one out. The only thing I can think is the boot loaders are not the correct ones? Not sure, I keep seeing GTG's ultimate unbrick but all the links I get to it don't work. this is the only thing I haven't tried. Any help would be appreciated.
Edit to add: After I flash in Odin it goes to reboot then does the open update, verifying update, installing update, successfully installed update package.
Copying media files it says failed to mount/sdcard, can't mount /sdcard your storage not prepared yet please use UI menu for format and reboot. ??? I think that's the problem. How do I fix??
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If you'd like to try GTG's Ultimate Unbrick, you can find a working download here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22404446&postcount=391

Tried everything and no go. Not sure where to go from here. Sure seems like a hardware issue.

COfatboy said:
Tried everything and no go. Not sure where to go from here. Sure seems like a hardware issue.
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You mentioned it's boot-looping at the Samsung logo - perhaps there's an issue with the power button.
Here's a couple of threads that may be helpful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2107558
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996709

prairied0gg said:
You mentioned it's boot-looping at the Samsung logo - perhaps there's an issue with the power button.
Here's a couple of threads that may be helpful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2107558
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996709
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It goes past the Samsung logo screen then to the ATT Rethink Possible screen then keeps looping on that screen over and over. It charges normally also.

COfatboy said:
It goes past the Samsung logo screen then to the ATT Rethink Possible screen then keeps looping on that screen over and over. It charges normally also.
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I would try flashing just a kernel (not the whole unbrick package). I have been in a similar situation and after trying everything imaginable that's what ended up fixing it for me.
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prairied0gg said:
I would try flashing just a kernel (not the whole unbrick package). I have been in a similar situation and after trying everything imaginable that's what ended up fixing it for me.
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Tried that earlier I thought, tried again just to make sure. Still no go. I appreciate all your help! :good: I'm gonna give up for tonight anyways.

COfatboy said:
Tried that earlier I thought, tried again just to make sure. Still no go. I appreciate all your help! :good: I'm gonna give up for tonight anyways.
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This happened to me earlier. What I did was-
1 Went to full stock using heimdal one click, After completetion, U may stuck in bootloop in at&t as you said
2 Flash efs.zip found in the link below using odin. put efs.zip in odin and untouch any other setting and flash, (Ur imei may be previously corrupted so u got bootloop). This doesnot do any harm. So flash with confidence. If ur device doesnot show up in odin after u flash with heimdal one click , reinstal drivers with kies mini
Link for download http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1729838
3 Now u'll be out of AT&T bootloop if ur imei was previously corrupted.
I was in similar situation. And this solved my proble.
Hit me thanks if I helped you :good:

Thanks for all the advise. Still not working. Tried everything above and much more. Different things I do give different results but pretty much the same in end. Either sticks in recovery or boot loops one way or another. Really don't see how this could be related to software but you never know I guess.
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