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[Q] Root Question

I am a dummy when it comes to some technology but I really want to update to Froyo. I have followed several videos and instructions on how to root. I get all the way to the blue screen that says that the phone is rebooting and thats where Im stuck. It doesnt reboot into Android System Recovery. I have tried to do a force restart by pulling the battery and still nothing. Any suggestions????

wassa112 said:
I am a dummy when it comes to some technology but I really want to update to Froyo. I have followed several videos and instructions on how to root. I get all the way to the blue screen that says that the phone is rebooting and thats where Im stuck. It doesnt reboot into Android System Recovery. I have tried to do a force restart by pulling the battery and still nothing. Any suggestions????
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Im new to this also but im running EC05 froyo on my epic 4g and i rooted it lastnite to SyndicateFrozen 1.1.0 Twilight 1.1 kernel jst by looking at the youtube vids and coming back and readin this site. Its fairly easy honestly...let me see if i can post a link. Oh and have u tried to boot it into recovery urself by turning the phone completely off holding down the volume buttons, camera and power button until it turns on that will put you into recovery mode jst make sure you already have your file saved to you sd card or your gonna have a nice time converting back to stock like i did lastnite lol. Are you familiar with Odin?

You 2 should not be rooting your phones. All phones are different, and neither one of you posted what phone you have.

lowandbehold said:
You 2 should not be rooting your phones. All phones are different, and neither one of you posted what phone you have.
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How did I not tell him what I have when I stated plain as day I rooted my Epic 4G? Lol smh....
Sent from my Rooted n booted Epic 4G

go in the development section to find the best rom for yourself

wassa112 said:
I am a dummy when it comes to some technology but I really want to update to Froyo. I have followed several videos and instructions on how to root. I get all the way to the blue screen that says that the phone is rebooting and thats where Im stuck. It doesnt reboot into Android System Recovery. I have tried to do a force restart by pulling the battery and still nothing. Any suggestions????
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NOT ADVISEABLE TO ROOT!!
BUT WHAT is that ur facing!! r u not able to open ur phone completely and also cannot get into recovery mode??!!
if thats so then ur screwd big time!!
try again to get into recovery by pressing the key combinations thats needed!!
if it goes into recovery then fine post it here and i will tell u whats to do next..
else try to hard reset ur phone by pressing key combinations thats generally given in ur phone manual!!

I have a Samsung Captivate...

[Q] I Think I KIlled MY G2X HELP!!

I was Removing Tmobiles built in Apps when I acidently deleted the telephony apk. I rebooted to see if the the devide would restore the file then it began to boot loop. i pulled the battery like three times then i tried to power on using both volume buttons and power and the device never turned back on. Is there a way to fix it? Please anyone who knows something can you help?

Try resetting your device. Turn it off then turn it on and keep the volume down button pressed.

The phone wont turn on now

Take out battery, hold both volume buttons down and plug usb cable in
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA App

how long do i have to hold the buttons down for?

it keeps boot looping i see the factory recovery it reboots pass the navidia screen then just boot loops

Jjperez1920 said:
how long do i have to hold the buttons down for?
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About 47 minutes, until your screen rapidly starts changing colors.

first off wrong section.
not sure if it works with this works with this phone but you can try oden.
you will have to find a oden flashable rom and boot your phone into download mode.
or you could put your phone in a microwave for 10 secs and take it back to the store and tell them it wont work. they will replace it as long as the water meters arent red.

Look at the post for one click installing clockwork mod and do that. Then find the post with the stock nandroid (or eagleblood) download it either put the files on sd via a reader or boot to recovery and use adb push to get the files on the sd card.
Then wipe the data and cache and apply the new rom. That should work. Don't use Odin as that's only for Samsung phones.
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA App

how do i boot into download mode?

Jjperez1920 said:
I was Removing Tmobiles built in Apps when I acidently deleted the telephony apk. I rebooted to see if the the devide would restore the file then it began to boot loop. i pulled the battery like three times then i tried to power on using both volume buttons and power and the device never turned back on. Is there a way to fix it? Please anyone who knows something can you help?
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Do you have clockwork recovery installed via nvflash? If not, you need to do that, then download the stock rooted backed that is posted in the development thread...Once you do that, download SuperOneClick and unroot your phone, you should not be messing with this stuff if you don't know what your're doing...After that, check out the stickies in the G2x forums and read the rules about what should and should not be posted in the each of the forums.

sorry about the miss posting never posted before and thanks for the help.

still no success i cant get the phone to stay in recovery to flash nvflash im pressing power and down volume but the phone reboots and begins to boot loop again

You don't go into recovery to flash nvflash. You hold down the volume buttons while plugging it into usb with the battery removed. Search for the thread on one click nvflash.
Sent from my G2x

thanks gonna try now

Do this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847
Then once you get into clockworkmod recovery go to backup/restore and use this NANDROID
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048274

sw20matt said:
or you could put your phone in a microwave for 10 secs and take it back to the store and tell them it wont work. they will replace it as long as the water meters arent red.
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This made me roflcopters...
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA App

word to the wise.....NEVER delete the preinstalled apps just use titanium to FREEZE them.... makes life easier and avoids the possibility of you doing dumb ass ish like this LOL

flashed cwm and installed cm7 thanks everyone for the help.

Solid amber light with no/long boot

I know this title comes up a lot but I can't seem to find my problem.
I wanted to go back to the stock rom and I used the proper RUU but totally forgot to use the S-ON tool before hand. It installed successfully but now I get a solid amber light and so far I got my inspire to boot once only to get stuck on the splash screen with it vibrating non-stop.
And now it just vibrated once, went to a black screen and then shut off. I really don't know what to do since I can't even get to HBOOT nor will the computer recognize it.
I've done numerous batter/sim card pulls as well as clean them out.
Any help would be greatly appreciated

Have you tried booting into the bootloader and doing a factory reset?
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA

I think he was referring to the bootloader as HBOOT. I had this problem while rooting my sisters Inspire. Might be a corrupted bootloader.
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lay012 said:
I think he was referring to the bootloader as HBOOT. I had this problem while rooting my sisters Inspire. Might be a corrupted bootloader.
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Last I remember my bootloader was TWRP which I guess I had accidentally installed somehow. If you think its a corrupted bootloader how would I go about solving this, if there is a solution?

moutansos said:
Have you tried booting into the bootloader and doing a factory reset?
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA
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Never do a factory reset on a S-OFF device....it will jam u up.
greggyt79 said:
Last I remember my bootloader was TWRP which I guess I had accidentally installed somehow. If you think its a corrupted bootloader how would I go about solving this, if there is a solution?
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It seems that the RUU you flashed was a Froyo one and your phone was running GB so you messed the bootloader. Hit the Hack Kit IRC channel (is in the OP thread) and we will lend u a hand to fix that....

Alright so I went to the IRC and they told me they couldn't help because it did not deal with the hack kit, fair enough.
I have been able to get the phone to boot after waiting for about 10 minutes but I cannot get to the bootloader. I tried rooting the phone again this way I can turn s-on then flash the stock rom again but the phone ends up not being detected half way through the process.
I really don't know what else to do...
Forgot to mention, now my inspire boots but then fades to a greyed out screen. My computer recognizes the phone as something occupying the usb port but is not accessible. Wish the phone had a physical reset button somewhere that i can poke with a paperclip...
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA

greggyt79 said:
Alright so I went to the IRC and they told me they couldn't help because it did not deal with the hack kit, fair enough.
I have been able to get the phone to boot after waiting for about 10 minutes but I cannot get to the bootloader. I tried rooting the phone again this way I can turn s-on then flash the stock rom again but the phone ends up not being detected half way through the process.
I really don't know what else to do...
Forgot to mention, now my inspire boots but then fades to a greyed out screen. My computer recognizes the phone as something occupying the usb port but is not accessible. Wish the phone had a physical reset button somewhere that i can poke with a paperclip...
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA
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Greggyt, Hit the IRC Channel again,.....it was a rough day and we were a bit pissed. I just connected after you were gone....=0) just hit the channel again....

glevitan said:
Greggyt, Hit the IRC Channel again,.....it was a rough day and we were a bit pissed. I just connected after you were gone....=0) just hit the channel again....
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I will get back on the IRC this evening when I get home from work thanks again!!!

Does it say anything about QHUSB_DLOAD USB device being connected?

I ran into a similar problem not too long ago, immediate vibrating followed by a solid amber light and no phone activity (nothing on the screen at all). I knew I had a backup in Recovery, but I couldn't even get into recovery.
In order to work around this, I did the following steps.
1. Deleted the PD98IMG file from my SD card (so I could get to recovery once I made it to the bootloader).
2. Take out the battery, then put it back in.
3. Plug in the phone, and let it sit for a few minutes.
4. Start into bootloader (hold power + Volume Down)
Now, in my case I was just trying to get back into recovery. if you don't have a working recovery, or no ROM to flash, you'll want to grab a few RUU 's to try from the bootloader. Try stock GB first, then try a stock Froyo just for the heck of it.
Hope this helps! Good luck to anyone else that's stumbled into this problem.
side note: I've also heard of this "power problem" occurring to other people without bootloops or screwed up bootloaders: which is solved by doing steps 2 and 3, then it'll boot up normally.

help
im having same issue i have gb stock and i accidtly did froyo ruu phones power bottun does nothing i have to plug it into computer and it will get solid amber light then eventually it either brings up battery charge icon and then if i press power button or unplug it. it just shuts off the i plug it back in and wait sometimes white htc screen comes up and it vibrates for a while then boots ad works like nothing is wrong but i cant flash gb ruu when i try to do that or re root and go to recovery to reistall ics that is on my sd as soon as phone restarts during process it doesnt reboot then i have to go threw whole procss of trying to get it to boot back up

glevitan said:
Never do a factory reset on a S-OFF device....it will jam u up.
It seems that the RUU you flashed was a Froyo one and your phone was running GB so you messed the bootloader. Hit the Hack Kit IRC channel (is in the OP thread) and we will lend u a hand to fix that....
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im new to this site but i did exactly what you said in your post and now my inspire wont reboot unless i go threw a few hour process of plugin my phone in and i get solid amber light for like 5 min then a battery charge screen comes up then i have to unplug my phone and plug it back in the last time i did this it took about 8 hours of tryin until it finally got amber light for like 5 min then started vibrating for a min or 2 then it booted up and its bin workin fine for like a week now ive tried to reflash gingerbread ruu ive tried doin upgrade from my phone and tried reroot but as soon as it shuts down to start upgrade my phone is off and wont reboot

Stuck at intro screen. Bricked! Help!

OK so I used the CWM recovery to flash the GenericGinger2.0 ROM and since then my phone wouldn't boot up. My recovery became the red voodoo recovery i gues... and it kept saying cannot mount SD card when i try to recover the backup i created before all of this. then it finally let me go back to the orange CWM recovery. it tried to recover my backup, but froze. now I am stuck at the sidekick 4g screen that comes on when u start the phone. BRICKED. what the hell can I do?

Sorry, best bet is to odin, and reflash the original stock rom and kernal. No hope getting your recovery fully back. Did you check your mounts ??
Sent from my rooted gift from God 4G running a Gloriously Overdosed ROM using the expensive XDA app

senrai180 said:
Sorry, best bet is to odin, and reflash the original stock rom and kernal. No hope getting your recovery fully back. Did you check your mounts ??
Sent from my rooted gift from God 4G running a Gloriously Overdosed ROM using the expensive XDA app
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shouldve checked my mounts before trying to root maybe did it wrong. But now I am stuck at splash screen, when I try to boot recover via vol - + and power, nothing. i try to boot into download mode so I can try ODIN but the trackball/vol -/power combo not working either. and I cant find the StockKG2ODIN.tar.md5 i need to download anyway smh all links i have seen are broken.

I'm gonna look into this more further, may take some time, ill be quick tho
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switches, umetroa
senrai180 said:
I'm gonna look into this more further, may take some time, ill be quick tho
Sent from my rooted gift from God 4G running a Gloriously Overdosed ROM using the expensive XDA app
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if you figureanything out let me know. im totally stuck right now. still cant find the rar.md5 file and still cant even boot into download mode to use ODIN anyway. even when i plug it in to charge, it freezes at the first charge icon (empty battery) so im thinkin its worse than just a simple solution

youngzae said:
if you figureanything out let me know. im totally stuck right now. still cant find the rar.md5 file and still cant even boot into download mode to use ODIN anyway. even when i plug it in to charge, it freezes at the first charge icon (empty battery) so im thinkin its worse than just a simple solution
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I got mine to go into Download mode as like this, Take out Batter, **Plug Phone Into Computer USB** then do the VOL - + Power + Track Ball
My problem is I also can't find the KD1StockODIN.tar.md5 that was originally used in the process =/ . Let me know if you come across it.
Thanks in advance.

I think I'm bricked, what should I do?

I flashed a Jellybean touchwiz rom for Verizon GS3, and went to reboot and now nothing, zero zip nada. No charging led light, no way to get into recovery and no response.
Anything I can do?

what happens when you do vol up + home+power button?

Absolutely nothing. I tried to get back into the recovery to see if I could restore my backup and nope.

did you try leave it pluged in for 30mins ?
does it vibrate once when you try to turn it on?

No vibrating and no sign of life at all. Even when plugged into my computer, I was going to try the unbrick guide but it listed that I should be able to get into the recovery still.

NickTheMajin said:
No vibrating and no sign of life at all. Even when plugged into my computer, I was going to try the unbrick guide but it listed that I should be able to get into the recovery still.
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leave it plugged in for a while to make sure its not drained battery
do you have a usb jig?

I don't have a USB jig but this is possibly good news. I removed the battery and SD card and plugged it into my computer and it tried to install drivers (failed but tried) and the led light comes on red.

if your gettin led now you more then likely need to let it charge

It doesn't give me the led with the battery in

Plug it into a wall charger for at least 30 or even better if you can get a battery from someone.
Sent from my sexy white Eclipsed galaxy S3

I think its gone still nothing.

red led means qualcomm download mode. sounds dead to me

Yeah, haha. I saw it and mentally prepared myself for it. Literally just got the phone today so Verizon had no qualms with just sending me a new phone. Guess I'm reactivating my Rezound in the meantime. Thanks for the help guys.

you know
I am surprised. That also happened to me the first time i flashed that very same rom (touchwiz) with twrp . I have done this so many times , i literarily can flash a rom on the way to work .
I was in shock , i still dont know how the heck can i flash a rom and brick .
I plugged mine into windows and i got the device manager driver error from hell . and my phone never came back up again
I stayed away form twrp and touchwiz and i still cant possibly comprehend how a simple rom flash can brick my phone .

Which ROM did you flash?
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda premium

you could probably send it to get Jtag'ed for around $60 if your warranty is invalid (ie used device)

You just hard bricked it. I did the same thing. Check here - post 5 shows the same symptoms :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1770341
And here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1791721
I was pushing a copy of root66 that I hadn't md5'd. Took a JTAG to bring me back (twice) .
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda app-developers app

So, in the future, md5 checksum absolutely everything since I'm assuming now that that is why this happened? (Since I made doubly sure I was flashing a rom for my phone).

If you still have the file you downloaded, you can check it. That would answer that question. If it checks out fine, then we have to look elsewhere for the problem.
BTW, MobileTechVideos.com can bring you back - based on my experience with them, I highly recommend.
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Please share exactly what you did so others can benefit from your unfortunate experience.
What ROM did you flash?
Did you use ODIN or a recovery?
If recovery, which one - CWM or TWRP?
Was there any unusual condition you can think of ... low battery, USB connected to computer or to charger, etc?