hey guys need some help, i am currently running the MaxQ rom kk4 and well i decided to use titanium backup to remove a app, the app i wanted to remove was quickoffice, as i already installed a pro edition from market. and i didnt want to have two icons showing.
so i selected force remove app in titanium backup, the phone was suppose to reboot twice and the app was to be gone. but instead the phone rebooted and hangs at teh att logo. how can i get this phone going without loosing everything?? i did make a backup using cwm before it happaned, but i cant get into recovery mode. i may be doing something wrong.
Get into download mode then flash back to stock. Finally root, then install cwm and do the back up
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Hey guys, I'm in a bit of a pickle....
I downloaded skype a while back, but while it was downloading, it randomly hard reset my phone (Im running bionix rom and it does that sometimes). It didn't even show the samsung logo. It went to the boot animation and continued to loop it and never started back up. Now, whenever I try to redownload skype, it freezes my phone because part of skype is still in my phone and it doesn't know what to do with it. I tried uninstalling it but I didnt show up under my apps. What the hell do I do??
Did u try using root explorer to find it?
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I don't know where to find it, I've looked.
I rooted my phone and replaced all kinds of things and a installed a new launcher, but the startup time was unbearable. I let my friend tinker with it, and from the SuperMaid app, he apparently froze the Android OS (I guess he thought my launcher was an OS) before I had a chance to back anything up with Titanium. When the phone died, it won't of course won't load. It's a Samsung Mesmerize, so I have the the one file from ClockModRecover, and that's it. I tried to restore that file, and it won't. Is my phone bricked? I'm kicking myself for all of this.
Well...did you install clockwork mod recovery? Not the manager app in android, but the actual recovery? If so, did you do a nandroid backup? If you did, restore it. If you never bothered to do a backup but do have cwm recovery, do a factory reset. If no cwm then last thing is boot into normal recovery and try a reset from there. You will likely lose root, and will need to root the phone again, and keep your friend out of your OS.
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recovery isn't working
When I tried to restore the nandroid backup, it repeatedly failed saying it couldn't (I can't remember if it was mount or unmount) the system. So I did the factory restore as you suggested, and when I turned on the phone, I received a text message. However, I'm getting a force close message that's preventing me from doing anything: "The application TwLauncher (process com.sec.android.app.twlauncher) has stopped unexpectedly...") When I click Force close, it just pops right back up, cutting off functionality of the phone.
Ok reboot back into recovery, wipe cache, go to advanced, wipe dalvik, fix permissions, reboot.
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didn't work =(
I did all those things and the system repeatedly wouldn't unmount. I had to just go back to Froyo 2.2 with Odin. The good news there is now I can install Ice Cream Sandwich. I figure I can't do too much damage, and if I do, I still have the backup
I said to reboot not restore or flash, but I'm glad you got it all figured out. The fix permissions and caches being wiped was to try to fix the current install, not prep for a new rom or restore. At least I assumed flash or restore since you mentioned system not unmounting which only happens for that.
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Well, I just installed a new ROM and then once I was done, I installed Google Wallet using the wallet installer. Once I got Google Wallet setup, I went back into the installer to restore the build.prop. and that's when my troubles began. The phone shut off and then went into a bootloop. It won't go past the Samsung logo and I can't get into CWM. Not sure what else to do now .. I need help!
Chris
Pull the battery out then put it back in and boot into recovery. Hopefully you have a backup stored on your phone so you can restore from that and start over. I'm afraid I don't know anything about messing with build.prop.
criscross79 said:
Well, I just installed a new ROM and then once I was done, I installed Google Wallet using the wallet installer. Once I got Google Wallet setup, I went back into the installer to restore the build.prop. and that's when my troubles began. The phone shut off and then went into a bootloop. It won't go past the Samsung logo and I can't get into CWM. Not sure what else to do now .. I need help!
Chris
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If you made a backup in cwm of your current rom, then get into advanced restore and only restore system from your backup.
You have to be able to boot into recovery, volume up + home + power. Once the phone vibrates, let go of power button only until the phone completely boots into recovery.
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Hi all
I’m a complete noob at this and it seems like I have got myself into a bit of a pickle. Sorry for the massive description but I thought it would make it easier to get a good answer.
My Phone:
Samsung Galaxy S4 GT 19505 LTE
PDA I9505XXUEMK8
CSC I9505BTUEMK5
MODEM I9505XXUEMK8
I successfully rooted my phone using Odin. In Odin I added the "CF-Auto-Root-jflte-jfltexx-gti9505.tar.md5" file to the PDA field then rebooted the device. Then I added the "openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.1-jfltexx" file to the PDA field, rebooted the device and the phone automatically opened in TWRP recovery. In recovery mode I wiped the cache, system and dalvik cache. I then went to install, browsed to the "I9505 Official_Google_Edition_4.3_by_Jamal2367_Finaly_v2.0" file on my SD card, rebooted the device and the Google logo came up on the screen for a few minutes and all was good. Got my new ROM, ran a root checker and all was good.
After some research I decided I wanted to use the Pacman ROM as it seemed to a lot more customisable. Using the same method I went to TWRP recovery wiped the cache, system, and dalvik cache. I then went to Install, browsed for the pacman ROM and the Gapps file on my SD card and everything installed ok, the phone restarted and the pacman logo came up everything was fine. Although I did notice on start up that I got this message.(and have had this error message ever since)
kernel is not seandriod enforcing
set warranty bit : kernel
After using the Pacman ROM for a day I noticed a lot of bugs like my apps would disappear, I couldn't use my banking apps and my phone was generally performing very badly. So I decided to remove the ROM and use CyanogenMod ROM under the recommendation of a friend. So again I pressed home+power+vol up to enter recovery mode but this time it didn’t enter the TWRP recovery it entered the stock recovery mode. This was slightly concerning but I proceeded to use the list menu and cleared the cache etc, browsed the SD card and went to the CyanogenMod 10.2 ROM I previously downloaded. It began to install but in red I got the error message stating that I didn’t have the right permission or signature. The phone rebooted back to the Pacman ROM. I tried the above three times and it still continued to boot back into Pacman ROM sometimes I struggled to even get back into recovery mode.
Soooooo I decided to try and go back to the Google Edition 4.3 ROM and play it safe, using the method from my first paragraph. But when it installed through TWRP I got an error message saying cant find MD5 file. The device rebooted and the Google edition logo came up on the screen but it seems to be locked in a loop. The Google logo wont go away and the phone vibrates once then three times quickly every 10 seconds.
I can still enter both TWRP recover and Download Mode. But I don’t want to mess around with it anymore without getting some advice. Any help would be much appreciated as I really need my phone working.
Thanks again
Aiden
Did you create a backup while on your first run with google edition? If so wipe cache, system, and dalvik and restore to your backup. Should put you back to where you began.
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I know I should, but I didnt. Is it still fixable ?
*Update*
Couldnt help myself had to have a tinker around. Managed to get Cyanogenmod 10 working with Gapps. Gonna see how I get on with this. Although still would like to know I have been having all these problems.
Sometimes things just dont go as planned: p I have easily soft bricked my phone around 10 times and always able to fix it. You really should have made a stock backup before flashing anything. I recommend doing it now so you at least have a known working configuation backed up for future use. Trust me backups are your friends!
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Thanks for your replies.
Ye gonna that right now Cyan Mod so far is running very smooth without any problems.
Regards
Aiden
Ok, so for some reason when my phone ran out of juice today, it got stuck on boot screen and won't boot up when i plugged it back in. I've done battery pull, made sure the power button wasn't stuck, went into TWRP and cleared cache and dalvik cache but still when I reboot, I get stuck at the boot screen. I can get into recovery to maybe reinstall my last back up but is there anything I can do before I try that? Thanks!
Btw, I'm running carbon ROM. I believe the last stable release before kitkat ....I've been on it for a while now.
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Never mind. Restored an older back up and its working but for some reason now, I've seem to lost root access. Totally weird. I have carbon ROM 4.2.2 running just as before. I installed superuser too. But for example, when I try to enter titanium backup, it says I don't have root permission. Also, superuser app says "su binary not found" then the box below it is checked "outdated binary notification".... Any thoughts or ideas on what I need to do to get root back? Thanks
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