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[Q] Stuck on Boot Animation on Custom Kernel

hey guys, my phone was working fine overnight with ICUP-speedy2. i checked my messages, left it alone then went back to it after breakfast and i saw that all these processes were stopped.
so i powered off the phone to reboot and i'm stuck on the bootscreen (aka google nexus square animation)
i'm able to get into recovery. i tried fixing permissions and wiping the dalvik and cache. i tried uploading the kernel again. still no go.
any help? i really do not want to do a factory reset and lose data. i forgot to do an nandroid backup.
any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

also, my superuser is up to date with the ICS binaries and i'm currently running CMW 5.0.2 with the install-recovery.sh renamed.

i bit the bullet.
i wiped data and just did a factory reset. all is well in the world again.

zaiuss said:
i bit the bullet.
i wiped data and just did a factory reset. all is well in the world again.
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This has been happening to me on various roms and kernels. As soon as I get a working combo, I back it up.
Sent from my Skanky Nexus S in the Matr1x using XDA App

zaiuss said:
i bit the bullet.
i wiped data and just did a factory reset. all is well in the world again.
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You know you could have made a nandroid after messing it up, then wiped your data and manually restored some of your settings? CWM Recovery only tar's files and makes a MD5 hash check. A copy/paste is nearly as effective.

The same thing just happened to me as well. I'm using Speedy 3 by eugene. I received a text messaged then my phone rebooted randomly, after that all the apps had a bunch of errors when the phone loaded. After rebooting it cycled the boot animation over and over again. Is there anyway to recover from this state?

calisoldier83 said:
The same thing just happened to me as well. I'm using Speedy 3 by eugene. I received a text messaged then my phone rebooted randomly, after that all the apps had a bunch of errors when the phone loaded. After rebooting it cycled the boot animation over and over again. Is there anyway to recover from this state?
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Reflash the rom your using
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using xda premium

Esteway.619 said:
Reflash the rom your using
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using xda premium
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How do I do that if I don't have the rom zip on my phone anymore? I do have a restore of the stock rom that came with the phone, but would that conflict with the current kernel? I'm seeing there are ways to use the shell once in recovery, but I do not know all the commands, as to sending the zip.
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I downloaded adb shell, trying to figure out how to push the rom to the device. any commands would be helpful.
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got it 10 char

[Q] Newbe question regarding Vzw touchwiz roms...

Newbe to vzw Samsung Galaxy s3.... I kind of enjoyed the TouchWiz features in the vzw store. Can someone point me in the right direction for a touchwiz rom with root where I can use the hand swipe to do a screen snapshot, etc, etc?
Currently I have a aopk rom on my phone that someone else loaded on it. Unless I am missing something, it doesn't seem to have touchwiz.
Can someone help a fellow out?
Thanks in advance.

I like this one. It has everything you asked for and it's cleaned of the bloat.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1832070

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30640131
Link above will list pretty much all ROMs and kernel available.
You can test and see what you prefer.
Stable rms I have tested: cleanrom as stated above ans synergy.
....but just flash different ones and see what you like. That's part of the fun!
Sent from a SYNERGIZED GalaxySIII

Thanks for the replies... I see Clean and Synergy. I currently have Synergy on my TB. Right now on my s3, it came to me preloaded with AOPK. But that doesn't have TouchWiz. Which version of Synergy would be considered the most stable? It's hard for me to tell which versions are which. I did see someone post something about a version 1.7, but for the life of me I don't see that.

R73 is the most current 4.0 build. It's fan-friggen-tastic! 4.1 jb build us just beginning, so wouldn't recommend that one for you. Click the current build link and it will list all recent versions.
Throw on a Trinity kernel and a little dark horse rises theme, and love life for the great moment in time your in...
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda premium

Thanks, I found Synergy R73. Now I am waiting on it to finish booting up. I am sitting on the 'Synergy ROM' boot animation, and it has been on that for at least 5 minutes. I think something went afoul here. Hmmmm.

Nope, takes a bit first time
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Ok, I will let it go for a while longer. I hope this takes *wow*.... heh... I can't help but be a little nervous because it seems like it is taking forever. Wish there was a percentage bar or something... lol...

It's still going.... so all in all so far it has been 25 minutes.... I think this is taking too long- don't you think?

That's long, your bootloader is unlocked correct?
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Describe in as much detail as possible all actions taken after you got your device and decided to change the rom..
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Yes unlocked. Tried a few battery pulls but no go. Then tried to go into recovery. Now it is telling me "Downloading... Do not turn off target!"

Your in download not recovery mode. Hold power button down, it should shut off after 20 seconds give or take. Then power, home, up (not down) for recovery
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Device came preloaded with AOPK. I have not activated it yet. It's to replace my HTC Thunderbolt. I was wanting to put on a TouchWiz rom and load that first before trying to activate. Then once activated, I was going to get all my apps back from the market, etc.
I downloaded Synergy 1.7 from the download area. I copied it to a UTILITIES folder on the internal card. I did a MD5 checksum prior to installing Synergy and the checksum was perfect.
I then went to install zip from internal sd. I navigated to the UTILITIES folder, and selected the Synergy zip file. It then did some processing for a few minutes and told me it was done.
It was at that time I rebooted the device, and from there it sat on that Synergy boot animation.
I then tried several battery pulls after it was at the boot animation for 30 minutes or so. But they all just sat at the boot animation. Finally I attempted to get into recovery mode. I am not sure if I selected the proper keys, but used Power button, Home button, and Volume down button.
That's how I ended up where I am now.

Sorry I didn't see your message until just now. I will try again and report back in just a sec.

Did you make a backup before the flash? Did you wipe data before the flash? Have you been able to get into recovery as I mentioned above?

Ok, it took a few times, but I am now in Recovery. Should I do a "wipe data/factory reset"?

annoyingduck said:
Did you make a backup before the flash? Did you wipe data before the flash? Have you been able to get into recovery as I mentioned above?
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Yes I made a backup of aopk before the flash.
No I did not wipe data before the flash.
Yes, I am now in recovery mode using the steps you outlined

Ok good, you were just on sh*t street, but not on F'd lane! Yes wipe data, wipe cache, go to advanced wipe dalvik. Then reflash the synergy rom. This should work fine. bootup will be anywhere from 5 to 10 min
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wipe data twice to be sure

annoyingduck said:
Ok good, you were just on sh*t street, but not on F'd lane! Yes wipe data, wipe cache, go to advanced wipe dalvik. Then reflash the synergy rom. This should work fine. bootup will be anywhere from 5 to 10 min
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wipe data twice to be sure
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*Whew*
I wiped data, cache, and dalvik. I did that 3 times on each one to be sure...
Now I am attempting to install Synergy again.
Will post back in a few mins.
Also, annoyingduck, thanks for all of your assistance and getting me out of that bad situation. Hopefully this time things will go smoothly.
- Update - it just finished installing. Now it is starting to boot up. I now have the boot animation screen and it is 29mins after the hour. I am watching the clock.... *keeping fingers crossed*

Ok, that's done. I don't currently have a sim card inserted into the device. I wonder if I can use the one from my TB? Or should I use the one that came with the phone?

Nexus 5 slow down!

Hi,
recently i have noticed my Nexus 5 acting strangely. A couple of tasks have become very slow while the rest of the phone is fine.
Taking pictures normally is fine but when I try to take a HDR now it will take one, take an age to process it and will lock up the camera in the mean time.
Also taking a screenshot takes an age, first theres a delay then it takes long for it to save.
Finally when i come out of an app to the home screen's there is a 2-3 second phase where all it shows is the wallpaper and nothing else.
Other general use and using apps etc seems fine. Iv tried restarting but noting changed.
Anybody else having similar issues? any solutions to this.

Easiest fix is probably just backing up your apps and data with titanium backup and clean flashing the firmware again. Should weed out any troubles.
And give you a fresh clean start.
Just don't erase your internal SD.

yh your probably right, by clean flashing the firmware, do you mean factory reset.
I haven't rooted etc

TurkzZ said:
yh your probably right, by clean flashing the firmware, do you mean factory reset.
I haven't rooted etc
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You can try factory reset.
But I actually meant flash the firmware with fastboot.
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If you have custom recovery, you can also try just wiping cache and dalvik cache first.

@KJ you silly you don't need a custom recovery to wipe cache/dalvik

Sandman-007 said:
@KJ you silly you don't need a custom recovery to wipe cache/dalvik
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I've never used stock recovery on any device for anything. Lol
But good to know. ?

(HELP) Stuck on Bootloop, no issue...

Hey guys, today I don goofed.
I went full flashing frenzy mode after week and weeks of restraining myself in fear of doing irremediable damage to my phone. I rooted it and unlocked boot loader without changing the recovery because I wanted as much as possible "stock" root (don't ask why, this is stupid I know).
So I Updated Binaries, Installed Xposed framework, installed a bunch of modules (I can list them if you need), then I installed all the lollipop apk's I could get my hands on (GPL, Google Play Store, Google Search, Music) and I decided, this isn't enough. I then flashed Franco Kernel R27, and things were going great. As that wasn't enough flashing, I flashed the Smooth Scrool Mod and finale Vomer Tweaks. I think this is where it went south, because I didn't find the file for Vomer (that I was supposed to install), so I flashed It once again. After that, my phone started to bug a bit, so I rebooted, and at first I would get no signal, would not detect my SIM card etc. I tried a factory reset and now my phone is booting, getting to the setup screen, and booting again. At this point I still have access to TWRP, Fastboot etc. I then decided to do I full complete recovery using THIS GUIDE to get "100 stock". I'm still getting the reboot at setup screen. I am know trying THIS METHOD
AND IT ****ING WORKED. Holy ****. I'm leaving this post so I can thank all the great guys that help me save my ass... I learned my lesson and do a Nandroid before doing stupid **** like that (i Know i'm gonna do it again...). I was scared ****less. I'm still curious as towhead happened though. Any clue ?

Yep @markbencze guide has saved my A$$ more than once.

i am having bootloop issue, tried many roms, erased partition too, still no use. continuous bootloops
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S M G said:
Yep @markbencze guide has saved my A$$ more than once.
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i am having bootloop issue, tried many roms, erased partition too, still no use. continuous bootloops
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i am having bootloop issue, tried many roms, erased partition too, still no use. continuous bootloops

April 2016 software update one plus: stuck at lock screen

Device: OnePlus One Sandstone Black 64 GB
This phone only has factory installed software and has been updated after automatically receiving software update prompts on the phone.
On 28th April, 2016 a software update popped up on my OPO. I installed it and started using it. My 4G/LTE internet from T--mobile was NOT working, so I thought of a reboot. After a reboot, I'm not able to get past the phone LOCK. When I swipe the screen to unlock my phone, the screen dims and the phone is useless. What are the options to fix this? I've imp data inside the phone.
Is there a way to go back to the state before the update. I've found lot of stuff on the internet that has overwhelming info. I'm afraid to follow most of them because of the fear of losing data.

Same here.
Wipping data is not working aswell.
Dunno what to do.
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I have just void my warranty and istalled a custom recovery. Wipped, and it worked!!!!!!!

Did u try to do factory reset?
Can you please post the link to how did u install it and which custom ROM was it.
leokook said:
Same here.
Wipping data is not working aswell.
Dunno what to do.
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I have just void my warranty and istalled a custom recovery. Wipped, and it worked!!!!!!!
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Hi @ironhydeq.
So, i own an OPO, stock, running COS 13 ( received update a few days ago). No ROOT, no Bootloader unlocked.
Today, early in the morning (My local time) I restarted my OPO because my Google Fit was not able to record my activity. After the reboot, i tried to unlock my phone, but it got STUCK. Freeze if you will.
I tried from Cyanogen Recovery to Wipe Cache, it did not worked.
I tried from Cyanogen Recovery to Wipe Data, it did not worked.
i do not the reason for wipping not working but i was scared. Because whenever a tried to boot into system, I was stuck at lockscreen
I tried to perform a wipe from adb, but adb shell was printing a "error closed". So i got scared .
I thought that i could fix my issue by performing a Wipe...
I Download the OPO toolkit. Put my device into fastboot, and unlocked my bootloader ( yes i void my warranty). After that, the toolkit installed the TWRP ( Custom Recovery ) with just one click.
Then i boot into recovery and perform a wipe. Phone was no longer stuck at lockscreen (actually i lost all data)
After that, my phone has been working great. (more than 12 hours from the issue)
Good luck mate.!