Hey guys,
I have a problem, which i couldn't solve using the search. Sorry if i was too stupid to search at all
The thing is this:
I have a Nexus S I9020T which i bought as "broken"
It is stuck at the Google logo with the open lock. I thought i could save that device easily but i can't get that thing to work again.
At first: I still have my first android phone here: a Milestone. I had it for a year now and i would say that i flashed pretty much everything to that device. So i know a thing or two about android and flashing. But i have never had a nexus s in my hands before.
So i did this:
I Opened the Bootloader -> success
I flashed a few different CWM recovery -> also no problem here
I flashed a SU_2.3.6.1 which was already on the sdcard and it flashed without an error
I tried to delete all the files of the previous uswer -> at first I could delete all but as soon as i unmount and mount the usb storage, everything is back to the way it was. Means I can't delete or write anything onto the sdcard
Sometimes i have luck and i can write a .zip file to the card but as soon as I try to flash the ROM CWM says : e:can't open /sdcard/***.zip (bad)
so i know, that sometimes the zip files is just... bad. So i downloaded at least 10 different roms. Always the same problem.
I can'T format the SDcard, at every new mount, everything is back to how it was when i got the phone.
I tried to flash with Odin. But the only thing that changed was that i lost the recovery. So i flashed it new and here i am still stuck with that thing
Odin gets stuck while flashing with som PK[][][] thing -> screenshot. Doesn't seem to get further.. so flashin failed... any ideas?
So my question is:
Is there a problem with the SD card?
Is there just a problem with drivers?
Can My Phone be repaired?
Please you guys help me with your knowledge.
I am living in germany and the nexus is bought in the USW at bestbuy in december 2010. Does someone know how the warranty thing is handled for such a scenario?
Thanks a lot guys for even reading my problem.
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Help.
I completely screwed up but do not know where.
Had problems rooting but eventually made it with 'Automatic-Root-Enabler--U8510--v1.1' which worked first time.
Then used rom manager to install HuaweiU8510.zip which did not work so tried U8500_Huaweid.zip.
cache and Delvic cleared, rebooted and red huawei came on screen and there it stayed.
Removed battery, boot into recovery went into firmware update(image in dload but cant remember name) starts step 1 unpacking get yellow triangle with ! and says update failed. also tried again with zip files on sd card but back to red Huawei
Any one got any ideas please as I can get to the sd card but not to the internal memory and not adb/fastboot. So no way of getting a new recovery image into dload
Keith
Here in the netherlands there are no huawei phones too bad because on the wmc they announced some pretty good phones ..
But on topic...
Does your phone still start normal?
If not try flashing it back to stock firmware..
Maybe it's a problem with the custom rom...
Sarvesh50 said:
Here in the netherlands there are no huawei phones too bad because on the wmc they announced some pretty good phones ..
But on topic...
Does your phone still start normal?
If not try flashing it back to stock firmware..
Maybe it's a problem with the custom rom...
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1. no
2. trying once I get original rom
3. Funny it is every one I tried
Keith
I do own a galaxy s...
Once i had a similar problem...
It was caused by the filesystem
Samsung uses the rfs system but custom roms prefer ext4 which is better...
When your filesystem isn't compatible with your custom rom than you will have a startup problem so try to figure out if you have to change the filesystem.
can't post links from other sites cause i am a newby to xda forums this is really annoying
Check this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1200195.html
Hi guys, my first post on here so hopefully this is in the correct forum!
Okay, so I've decided to flash a custom ROM (candy5 version 1.5.1) on to my HTC One XL (code name: Evita)
Being new to this, I had to unlock Bootloader on my phone and flash Clockwork Mod. I followed some steps on YouTube and everything was working perfectly up to this point. (One thing that might've been wrong now that I look back was that my Bootloader had ***TAMPERED*** on top of ***UNLOCKED***)
Not knowing that that might have been a problem, I went ahead and installed Candy5 version 1.5.1 (an unofficial build of Cyanogenmod 12) and Google Apps 5.x.x onto my phone. This was when the problems arose with both of them having "installation aborted" messages.
I decided to go on regardless and flashed boot.img from my PC using Command Prompt. It came up with two "OKAY" messages so I thought everything was alright. So then I rebooted my phone, and surprise surprise, it didn't work.
So I decided to do a bit of detective work and because I am a noob at this stuff, I clicked on Factory Reset on Bootloader and I wiped my whole phone.
That deleted my backup on Recovery and I now cannot access any files on my SD card as it comes up with the message "E: can't mount /SD card." I also cannot access my phone to make any phone calls etc. as I only have access Bootloader and Recovery and I cannot connect my phone to my PC.
So as you can see, I am in a bit of strife here and I now have a very expensive paperweight...
Any advice to, first of all, make my phone usable would be much appreciated. Furthermore, any information to make my phone run Andoid Lollipop 5.0.2 using a custom ROM would be awesome too!
Thanks in advance for all your replies!
The Afterlife6.0 was said to be compatible with my Nitro 401D which has the aame MTK no.
However, whenever I try to flash it (using cwm) it says installation aborted. It doesnt say any status about it eg Status 6 or Status 7 but i still used the fix for one which is trying to change the name in the updater script to fit the name of my phone but when I looked, it doesnt have that particular line for checking the name. And the other one was changing the directory of the lines in it but I didnt want to change it because i wasnt so sure about the directories myself.
Ive tried downloading from another source, still didnt work. Now Im wondering maybe its my phone so Ive been considering using SP flash to force it in(? Im still not quite sure what it does tho) and also change my custom recovery (currently cwm) to twrp or ctr. Maybe my phone cant flash anything at all so ive been also considering trying to flash a small file or like a test rom, are there any of those?
What should I do next? Im scared of forcing it in causr it says that if the phone has the wrong preloader my phone can never be recovered..
rexel325 said:
The Afterlife6.0 was said to be compatible with my Nitro 401D which has the aame MTK no.
However, whenever I try to flash it (using cwm) it says installation aborted. It doesnt say any status about it eg Status 6 or Status 7 but i still used the fix for one which is trying to change the name in the updater script to fit the name of my phone but when I looked, it doesnt have that particular line for checking the name. And the other one was changing the directory of the lines in it but I didnt want to change it because i wasnt so sure about the directories myself.
Ive tried downloading from another source, still didnt work. Now Im wondering maybe its my phone so Ive been considering using SP flash to force it in(? Im still not quite sure what it does tho) and also change my custom recovery (currently cwm) to twrp or ctr. Maybe my phone cant flash anything at all so ive been also considering trying to flash a small file or like a test rom, are there any of those?
What should I do next? Im scared of forcing it in causr it says that if the phone has the wrong preloader my phone can never be recovered..
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Your Device name and SOC?
MTKcROM said:
Your Device name and SOC?
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My device name is Arc Mobile Nitro 401D but I dont know what SOC means (system on a chip if i guessed right) and or what it refers to but if it refers to the MtkXXXX then its mtk6572
rexel325 said:
My device name is Arc Mobile Nitro 401D but I dont know what SOC means (system on a chip if i guessed right) and or what it refers to but if it refers to the MtkXXXX then its mtk6572
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Do you install CWM successfully? Did you try another custom rom?
MTKcROM said:
Do you install CWM successfully? Did you try another custom rom?
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From everything I have done on trying to root this phone, I guess MTKdroid tools installed CWM in the process. It is rooted now tho, checked with rootchecker basic. I havent tried any other roms since Afterlife 6.0 is the only one i found.
UPDATE:
Apparently, the CWM wasn't properly installed, my bad :crying:
I tried to install another ROM like Lollifox (will try MIUI later, still downloading) but I don't think I ported it successfully tho because it just showed installation aborted, no Status whatsoever.
I have now flashed Afterlife6.0. However, its now stuck at boot but a while ago it was on boot loop but after wiping caches and doing a hard reset, its now on boot forever. By boot I mean it just shows the Sony logo (supposedly the Arc Mobile logo before I flashed the rom) then the logo disappears and then its just a black screen (a black screen as in its still turned on and not a black screen as you would see when a phone is off).
I'll try to flash my stock rom and root it again so that I could flash other roms for now while waiting for your reply.
try stock rom on the official site. than try to update cwm and try rooting again.
I already fixed it by flashing the stock tho so no worries I guess.
I successfully ported Lollifox but I encountered a problem where I couldn't save anything because my phone doesn't recognize my SD card. It can be seen in the settings/storage though but what the rom can't do is recognize that the "SD card" is internal not external. Its sort of hard to explain, I have 2 storages: Internal memory and Phone storage. The internal memory is the default place where apps go while the Phone storage acts like the SD card of this phone but its internal as well ( at least that's how it acts on the stock ROM). I tried unmounting it (apparently I have that option on Lollifox but its internal so I don't know how that's possible) and remounting it but no dice. Also, since it doesn't recognize the SD card, it kind of explains why there's no USB mass storage option when I connect it.
I tried to port the MIUI and did the 2 ways of porting it told in the site where the rom came from but whenever I flash it, it boots up and gets stuck at the logo of MIUI.
I'm leaning away from Afterlife 6.0 now cause I can't really see it would be a better ROM (and you got to give it that the themes of MIUI and Lollifox are pretty AF) but I think its more suitable (still can't flash it tho) . Can anyone give thoughts on the best rom for this or a fix for these problems?
rexel325 said:
sometimes you need to format the phone memory at the beginning for one time after you install new ROM. Try that and restart the phone. One time i did this like this problem. Sorry for my english.
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Solved
I think I already solved my own problem though. I just had to do a few tweaks and do a little bit of trial and error myself. However, I still couldn't flash Afterlife (also tried porting it myself and Im suppose to do a logcat or something but I lack free time) but I still have a rom flashed don't worry. Kind of feel sorry it feels like a waste of a thread.
Now Im asking for this thread to be closed(or atleast I think thats how it works cause I dont seem to have that option myself)
Thank you
Hey, I made this account to ask this question I'm pretty desperate,
My phone was acting up (overheating, WiFi didn't work half the time), so I decided to reflash my cyanogenmod rom, me being the idoit that I am I didn't do a backup before formatting my phone, I tried to flash the zip file but twrp kept crashing, so the next logical step was to use ADB sideload to flash the rom, that didn't work as well as I expected either the install kept failing at 88% as I was rebooting the phone for yet another attempt, recovery wouldn't start at all, at that point I was pretty frustrated, so I decided to flash the phone back to stock touchwiz, I downloaded the stock firmware and attempted to flash it with odin, low and behold that didn't work either (auth error), I tried again multiple times with firmware files downloaded from different sites but those didn't work either, I also tried flashing stock PIT files to no avail.
So here I am at 5 am with a bricked phone and 8gb of tar files on my desktop any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
i know this thread is old, but can you get to download mode still?
What's the model and type of phone is this ?
Yo, I've been trying to fix the damned phone for ages now. I accidentally wiped it by being a dumb idiot. Now I'm trying to fix the situtaton. So, I've tried installing a stock firmware and just flashing it with Odin. After trying this with like three different Firmwares, and sequential failures, I moved on to trying to flash it with a custom rom using adb, as the s6 doesn't have a removable sd. So I tried this, It said it worked. I used an installer and everything. But after I reboot, it still says there's no os and I cant find the zip anywhere on my phone to install. I'm not sure what to do. I'm a noob with this hence why my phone is in this state. Help MUCH obliged, S6 edge Sprint
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3219484