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[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
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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.
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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.

[Q] CM9, no usb recognized, cant get out recovery mode

hi, my samsung infuse has several problems, my brother installed CM9, but after that it doesnt worked because he miss install the correct bootloaders,
But then I read that one click can help me out, and finally i could run it back to gingerbread, then my brother again put the CM9 and it worked, I install fine, but now the computer does not recognize samsung infuse, that's a problem, now I try to return it to cm7 through room manager, but didnt work it , I can not get out of recovery mode, plus its looks several rainbows , after I download the latest CM9 version and try to install but nothing happened, I know I am new here and i will aprecciate all you guys can help me, do not quite understand the English very well, thank you

wildwarbird said:
hi, my samsung infuse has several problems, my brother installed CM9, but after that it doesnt worked because he miss install the correct bootloaders,
But then I read that one click can help me out, and finally i could run it back to gingerbread, then my brother again put the CM9 and it worked, I install fine, but now the computer does not recognize samsung infuse, that's a problem, now I try to return it to cm7 through room manager, but didnt work it , I can not get out of recovery mode, plus its looks several rainbows , after I download the latest CM9 version and try to install but nothing happened, I know I am new here and i will aprecciate all you guys can help me, do not quite understand the English very well, thank you
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Well...never use rommanager...that will brick your phone...
Here's what you do...
1) get heimdal
2) put phone in download mode
3) press flash on heimdal
4)let it do its thing and you should reboot with stock...
How to get in download mode?
1) pull battery
2) put battery back in
3) hold down volume up and volume down at the same time...do not let go
4)while holding volume keys plug in the USB cord...do not let go of volume keys
5) you phone should now be in download mode...continue with heimdal
Sent from my SGH-I997 using XDA

mg2195 said:
Well...never use rommanager...that will brick your phone...
Here's what you do...
1) get heimdal
2) put phone in download mode
3) press flash on heimdal
4)let it do its thing and you should reboot with stock...
How to get in download mode?
1) pull battery
2) put battery back in
3) hold down volume up and volume down at the same time...do not let go
4)while holding volume keys plug in the USB cord...do not let go of volume keys
5) you phone should now be in download mode...continue with heimdal
Sent from my SGH-I997 using XDA
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I am new to heimdal, so sorry for the silly question..
When you flash in heimdal, you need not select any stock ROM?
yesterday I selected the UCBL3 stock ROM, and clicked flash, and my phone doent turned on, after that. I am getting a replacement phone, but I want to know what I have done mistake, Once I get new phone, I want to install GB bootloaders on it, and this time, i want to do it correct.
TIA.

HELP! Did I just make my phone a $600 brick??

I just got a new Verizon S3 about a week ago and a few days ago I followed the instructions in the Original development section to install the CM10 nighties. Everything was working great but just a little bit ago I tried to upgrade to the newest build through the clockworkmod rom manager that was installed with cm10 but now when I restart the phone just constantly boot loops. It shows the samsung screen followed by samsung screen (but with booting recovery at the top) and finally the android dude for a few secs then just repeats! How do I fix my phone! Or did I F**K myself good?

vanattab said:
I just got a new Verizon S3 about a week ago and a few days ago I followed the instructions in the Original development section to install the CM10 nighties. Everything was working great but just a little bit ago I tried to upgrade to the newest build through the clockworkmod rom manager that was installed with cm10 but now when I restart the phone just constantly boot loops. It shows the samsung screen followed by samsung screen (but with booting recovery at the top) and finally the android dude for a few secs then just repeats! How do I fix my phone! Or did I F**K myself good?
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Odin back to stock

vanattab said:
I just got a new Verizon S3 about a week ago and a few days ago I followed the instructions in the Original development section to install the CM10 nighties. Everything was working great but just a little bit ago I tried to upgrade to the newest build through the clockworkmod rom manager that was installed with cm10 but now when I restart the phone just constantly boot loops. It shows the samsung screen followed by samsung screen (but with booting recovery at the top) and finally the android dude for a few secs then just repeats! How do I fix my phone! Or did I F**K myself good?
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Can you get into recovery (volume up + home + power) to try flashing a previous rom download or restore a backup? If that doesn't work, you'll probably need to Odin your way back to stock or stock.root66 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762709)

PJnc284 said:
Can you get into recovery (volume up + home + power) to try flashing a previous rom download or restore a backup? If that doesn't work, you'll probably need to Odin your way back to stock or stock.root66 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762709)
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Ok I was able to get into recovery. I tried restoring a backup but that did not help I am now going to try and re install the downloaded rom. I might just odin back to stock I don't know if my nerves can handle the stress of this mod thing.

I tried installing from downloaded rom and that did not work ether. I down loaded the odin and the Samsung drivers but the drivers don't seem to be installing right. The phone shows up under devices and printers but has an ! on it. I tried telling it to update the driver by had but I got this error:
Code:
Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it
SAMSUNG Mobile MTP DEVICE
This device cannot start (Code 10)
I have the device booted in to recovery ClockworkMod Recovery because thats the only place I can get it with out it continually restarting. (I thought that the Recovery I had was called K-exec or somthing? It looks the same I think though so I am not sure. Is that what broke my system did I break somthing my flashing ClockWorkMod recovery over K-exec? Can I fix that from clockWorkMod Recovery. HELP

Odin back to stock to be safe.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717.

joeyu629 said:
Odin back to stock to be safe.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717.
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How can I odin back to stock if I can't get the driver to install? Can I odin while in the booted clockworkmod recovery menu?

vanattab said:
How can I odin back to stock if I can't get the driver to install? Can I odin while in the booted clockworkmod recovery menu?
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Did I have to have odin installed on my phone before hand??

vanattab said:
Did I have to have odin installed on my phone before hand??
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/facepalm
Odin is a PC program. You need to go into download mode to connect to it and flash back to stock.

Vorfidus said:
/facepalm
Odin is a PC program. You need to go into download mode to connect to it and flash back to stock.
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I don't think I can get into download mode(If thats the thing with the yellow triangle) you do that with (vol up+power+home) right. Then I press that combo I go to ClockworkMod Recovery v5.8.4.8. I think I have tried most all the options from there.

vanattab said:
I don't think I can get into download mode(If thats the thing with the yellow triangle) you do that with (vol up+power+home) right. Then I press that combo I go to ClockworkMod Recovery v5.8.4.8. I think I have tried most all the options from there.
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From the sounds of it you should have never attempted any of this, download mode is volume down + home + power.
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vanattab said:
I don't think I can get into download mode(If thats the thing with the yellow triangle) you do that with (vol up+power+home) right. Then I press that combo I go to ClockworkMod Recovery v5.8.4.8. I think I have tried most all the options from there.
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Ok never mind download mod is down arrow. I read the web page wrong. Whats more is I was able to install drivers once I entered download mode so it looks like I might be alright. I am downloding stock rom now and will update you all soon. Thanks for your help and patience with my n00bness

actually download mode is hold volume down +home (button on the front in center) + power till the screen shows download mode
edit: posted this same time you figured it out lol

bc760 said:
From the sounds of it you should have never attempted any of this
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Probably true or at least I should have done my homework first.

we all learn somewhere. funny how thought of a brick gets people researching more than they normally would, right? lol, all been there

Upgrade your recovery from cwm touch to cwm 6.whatever.it.is. Cwm touch is buggy. I don't know how exactly you do that if it's not booting to the rom but maybe this can help point you down the right path.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda app-developers app

psycopanther said:
learn somewhere. funny how thought of a brick gets people researching more than they normally would, right? lol, all been there
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Downside of all the one click this and one click that. You should be required to root at least once using odin and adb before having access to the one click tools as you may end up needing those down the road.

Ok guys I got my phone back up and running! http://forum.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/good.gif Thanks for the help! However the bloatware that popped up right away is about enough to make me risk flashing 4.1 again.

vanattab said:
Ok guys I got my phone back up and running! http://forum.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/good.gif Thanks for the help! However the bloatware that popped up right away is about enough to make me risk flashing 4.1 again.
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If you really don't wanna take the risk you can just delete it all with Titanium Backup. But hey, if you really want to, go right ahead. Just do a little more research before you jump in. We've all been there, though, so don't feel stupid.

PJnc284 said:
Downside of all the one click this and one click that. You should be required to root at least once using odin and adb before having access to the one click tools as you may end up needing those down the road.
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i agree. more community is informed, faster we all progress

[Q] Samsung infuse has gone crazy bricked!!!

ok so i had paranoid android v1.5 and i wanted to update it so i came here and updated to v 2 i believe what ever the newest version of it thats out. ok well i moved the zip folder along with gapps zip folder over the sd card 3 button comboed it to recovery and installed zip from sd card wiped dalviche cache and all it said everything was go i rebooted and it went directly back to recovery this time it updated my cmw to v6 something all looked ok except it didnt boot up so i tried to install again and after that everything went black ... it took me 2 hrs to figure out how to get it to the samsung boot loop screen.. download mode not working also not my computer isnt picking up right it keeps failing...
Now for everyone else they say remove battery wait 2 mins. plug usb into pc then into phone and quickly install battery while holding volume up and down. i usually hold the power button plus volume buttons down then plug in usb and insert battery and then release power to get recovery .\
now i dont have recovery or download mode and for me to get the samsung boot loop i have to use this combo
everything out of the phone battery sim card sdcard everything... plug usb into pc then hold volume down (only) plug in usb and insert battery
and ill get bootloop.
if i hold all three buttons my phone stays black but the pc still shows up that the usb is still not good.... is this a brick i can come back from???!!
o and ive installed kies about 40 times and when i check in my device manager i get the unknown device i uninstall that . what should my device manager look like for a windows 7
also if i unplug everything and remove everything from the phone all i have to do is plug in the usb to the pc and it gets the malfunction error like it always does except it shouldnt be powering on.. unless that the charger failing to iniciate
HOW DO I FIX THIS????!!

I think to get to download mode you don't actually press all three buttons.
pull battery
hold down volume buttons
insert usb
inserb battery
download should start up.

okie dokie
okay well i waited 12 hr.s and tried again and i got it into download mode i downloaded the return to stock odin package uclb3 stock root
flashed it no problems with the flash now it wont read sims card also when i power the phone down to reboot it wont power up...it flashes the little loading circle really fast and then nothing.. download mode is easy to get in and ive tried flashing like 4 times now.. one of those times the sims card was readable but the phone would not reboot. idk whats going on

ugh its late...
okay after gtg unbrick flash and a factory reset i now have signal!!! now let me try to power down and reboot.... i hope it works lol,

holy wtf.....
okay well that was another fail.... everything seems to work fine except rebooting the phone..... now when i go into heimdall suite and run zadig to reinstall deivce driver and then find device and then print pit file it reboots the phone and everything seems fine.. idk whats going on....

Okay i fixed it. Im getting better at trouble shooting. Lol
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jlboy85er said:
Okay i fixed it. Im getting better at trouble shooting. Lol
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Same happens to me some times, I try 3-4 times before success!!!, I prefer ODIN vs heimdall works better for me.

i dont know about that...
i dont i like to use half my pc ports for hiemdall and half for odin lol cant go wrong.,, i just use the sgh repartition java program to return to stock and i follow that up with odins return to stock. then uclb3 entrophy but i just remember i should be using ROM MANAGER to make a back up on the sd card duh!!!!! omg im a retard i swear..... heheh got it going now!

fml its done it again...
jlboy85er said:
i dont i like to use half my pc ports for hiemdall and half for odin lol cant go wrong.,, i just use the sgh repartition java program to return to stock and i follow that up with odins return to stock. then uclb3 entrophy but i just remember i should be using ROM MANAGER to make a back up on the sd card duh!!!!! omg im a retard i swear..... heheh got it going now!
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okay its been fine for 2 days and down for two days the moment my phone hits a charger it freaks out.... idk wtf igo thats the most accronyms
i could muster at one time :silly: well if anyone has more ideas on what i should do.

brian Marshall said:
I think to get to download mode you don't actually press all three buttons.
pull battery
hold down volume buttons
insert usb
inserb battery
download should start up.
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no i was just saying the recovery mode method and download mode i just didnt word it in correctly.but none the less none of them work for atleast 12 hr.s of no battery no sims, no sdcard. I can have nothing in the phone for an extended period of time in order to acheive dl mode
recovery mode doesnt come back until i reflash to stock then reflash to stock uclb3 rooted deo, zipalined,entrophy's, (modded e3 recovery) only way i get recovery back

Stuck in boot, have cwm

Hi there. I had a stock S4g, had froyo 2.2.1. I Rooted the phone. That went fine. I went to install a new kernel (baliSGS4G) The instal got interrupted, second reboot had the android logo flashing while the normal galaxy s logo was on, so I knew from there it was screwed up...
It booted up fine actually, and i was able to operate around in on the phone, altho the home button didnt work... I went ahead and tried a restart to see what it would do and it would stick at the galaxy s boot screen and the voice would say "restore operation" and just reboot and be stuck on a boot loop...
I CANNOT get into recovery mode UNLESS I remove my sdcard... if I do I CAN... BUT it seems as tho the cwm recover is somewhat useless to me now that the sdcard isnt in.... If I boot into recovery and THEN put the card in, it saws E: Can't mount /sdcard..
Ive tried wipe cache partition, wipe data/factory reset... nothing..
Any suggestions? THankyou!

use any one of the "one clicks".
p.s. gb is a better os
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium

sorry, i've very novice, what do you mean by the one clicks? Like a one click flash program or something?
And yeah, I actually have a galaxy SIII.....the reason i grabbed this one out is i have a little go pro style project im going to do with it and dont want to risk breaking my new phone.
I will try the newer os If i can get this fixed.. Hopefully!

Superbeeblaze said:
sorry, i've very novice, what do you mean by the one clicks? Like a one click flash program or something?
And yeah, I actually have a galaxy SIII.....the reason i grabbed this one out is i have a little go pro style project im going to do with it and dont want to risk breaking my new phone.
I will try the newer os If i can get this fixed.. Hopefully!
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Second link in signature will help.

Ok Lumin, I did what you said and I am getting to the command promt and it is not seeing my phone, It still shows the phone is disconnected... I have CWM recovery, is that an issue?? That opens when i hold the up,down,up button combo, not the stock download mode screen.
Very well written tutorial btw.

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Superbeeblaze said:
Hi there. I had a stock S4g, had froyo 2.2.1. I Rooted the phone. That went fine. I went to install a new kernel (baliSGS4G) The instal got interrupted, second reboot had the android logo flashing while the normal galaxy s logo was on, so I knew from there it was screwed up...
It booted up fine actually, and i was able to operate around in on the phone, altho the home button didnt work... I went ahead and tried a restart to see what it would do and it would stick at the galaxy s boot screen and the voice would say "restore operation" and just reboot and be stuck on a boot loop...
I CANNOT get into recovery mode UNLESS I remove my sdcard... if I do I CAN... BUT it seems as tho the cwm recover is somewhat useless to me now that the sdcard isnt in.... If I boot into recovery and THEN put the card in, it saws E: Can't mount /sdcard..
Ive tried wipe cache partition, wipe data/factory reset... nothing..
Any suggestions? THankyou!
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Try One-Click Gremlin Remover to flash and fix. Found this to be easier than Heimdall for the uninitiated: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500427
1 Open Gremlin remover on PC
2. Remove battery from phone
3. Hold down both the Up and Down on the Volume Rocker
4. Plug Phone into USB (without battery)
5. Insert battery into phone and replace cover
The phone should automatically boot into Download mode, and Gremlin Remover should recognize the phone. This should wipe it back to stock but leave it rooted. Then you can start again. I recommend the SGS Kernel Flasher App to flash new kernels in the future. Much less prone to error.

OK its late, i wasnt reading close enough, I was holding the power button too like an idiot... Got it to work, now my phone boots up like new.
Thanks for the help guys.
I can sleep well tonight. :laugh::good:

ariesgodofwar said:
[/COLOR]Try One-Click Gremlin Remover to flash and fix. Found this to be easier than Heimdall for the uninitiated: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500427
1 Open Gremlin remover on PC
2. Remove battery from phone
3. Hold down both the Up and Down on the Volume Rocker
4. Plug Phone into USB (without battery)
5. Insert battery into phone and replace cover
The phone should automatically boot into Download mode, and Gremlin Remover should recognize the phone. This should wipe it back to stock but leave it rooted. Then you can start again. I recommend the SGS Kernel Flasher App to flash new kernels in the future. Much less prone to error.
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You might refrain from recommending a different flashing utility (ODIN) when somebody has already started using Heimdall and is just asking for help to finish the process. All you are doing is inviting more problems with driver and USB port issues by doing so. You gave him a simple set of instructions that mentioned nothing about drivers.
And SGS Kernel Flasher is great but it only works properly on our GB ROMs.

lumin30 said:
You might refrain from recommending a different flashing utility (ODIN) when somebody has already started using Heimdall and is just asking for help to finish the process. All you are doing is inviting more problems with driver and USB port issues by doing so. You gave him a simple set of instructions that mentioned nothing about drivers.
And SGS Kernel Flasher is great but it only works properly on our GB ROMs.
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Oops! Wasn't me.
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