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[Q] Nexus s Stuck at the colors replay it wont start

i tried to boot rom it now its stuck on the starting screen with the four colors going

skm1892 said:
i tried to boot rom it now its stuck on the starting screen with the four colors going
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what did you flash???
thats not a normal booting screen. have you tried to redownload and flash what you were flashing before? did you make a nandroid backup in recovery before you flashed? give us a bit more info please.

Did you make a backup of stock rom??
If yes
Reboot your phone and go to clockworkmod recovery and restore your previous rom
If dont have it ... you need to download the stock rom from anywhere else and copy into your phone
For copying the downloaded rom to your phone ,you can use also the clockworkmod recovery for mounting the sd.!!!
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skm1892 said:
i tried to boot rom it now its stuck on the starting screen with the four colors going
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Thanks for giving us plenty of information to help you with!
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after nandroid restore phone got stock at boot

after nandroid restore phone got stock at boot, it just stay there it wont load

K.
What rom are you on? What kernel?
Kind of hard to help with no details man.
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sorry im shaking right now :/
GB 2.3.6
kernel:bhudven stock with lag fix and cwm5

jules2142 said:
sorry im shaking right now :/
GB 2.3.6
kernel:bhudven stock with lag fix and cwm5
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It's okay man we'll try to get you back to normal! Relax, boot loops aren't really a big deal.
Are you running stock 2.3.6 or a custom rom?
If i remember correctly nandroid restores were broken on gb, or was it just kj6(2.3.6) either way, you should be able to get back into recovery and flash the rom again
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im running stock 2.3.6
can u give step on how to restore it tnx by the way

jules2142 said:
im running stock 2.3.6
can u give step on how to restore it tnx by the way
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Can you get back into recovery? (hold vol up vol down and press power) I assume you have cwm recovery? It's red and will say cwm recovery at the top.
If so hit up the dev section and find one of our many awesome custom roms id suggest start with valhalla final by whitehawkx. Download it on your computer.
Now go to "mounts" inside your cwm recovery and select mount usb.
Connect your phone to the computer with your usb, it'll open like usual on your comp.
Put the downloaded zip on your sd.
Now go back to the main screen in your cwm recovery and choose install zip from sd. Choose the zip and it'll flash it. You should be good then!
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recovery is not working :/
i hold the buttons just like the way you said (yes, i have cwm)
but it is still stock at "galaxy s 4g,exclusively from t-mobile" screen
but i can get to download thou,

What might get you into recovery is by trying:
shutting the phone down (you might have to remove the battery). Hold down volume up, volume down, & the power button. keep holding them down until you see the "Galaxy S" screen. When that screen gets a bit brighter only let go of the power button. Keep holding the volume buttons down until you see the recovery screen.
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but the screen didn't got brighter,
anyway i just used this step http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498
i hope this works,
now its booting up and running lag fix update

jules2142 said:
recovery is not working :/
i hold the buttons just like the way you said (yes, i have cwm)
but it is still stock at "galaxy s 4g,exclusively from t-mobile" screen
but i can get to download thou,
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please refer to the post above this.
If you still can't get into recovery after that, we might have to have you odin a rom, since you said dl mode is good...
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and it booted
now i need help what to do next?

jules2142 said:
and it booted
now i need help what to do next?
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Youre in recovery now? Hop back to post 6, here I quoted it for you, follow the instructions in the bold type.
tehgyb said:
Can you get back into recovery? (hold vol up vol down and press power) I assume you have cwm recovery? It's red and will say cwm recovery at the top.
If so hit up the dev section and find one of our many awesome custom roms id suggest start with valhalla final by whitehawkx. Download it on your computer.
Now go to "mounts" inside your cwm recovery and select mount usb.
Connect your phone to the computer with your usb, it'll open like usual on your comp.
Put the downloaded zip on your sd.
Now go back to the main screen in your cwm recovery and choose install zip from sd. Choose the zip and it'll flash it. You should be good then!
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tnx for the tips bro,
no i have selected the ROM i want http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1404863
i followed the steps and i got stuck at step 2 :/
it said "2) Mounts for CWM are UMMU (Under Mounts and Storage menu)"
but it say in the Cwm error: system cannot be unmounted

jules2142 said:
tnx for the tips bro,
no i have selected the ROM i want http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1404863
i followed the steps and i got stuck at step 2 :/
it said "2) Mounts for CWM are UMMU (Under Mounts and Storage menu)"
but it say in the Cwm error: system cannot be unmounted
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back in the mounts section of cwm choose them so they're in this order: "unmount, mount, mount, unmount"
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yeah i did it but the last unmount which is "/system" say "error unmouting /system"

jules2142 said:
yeah i did it but the last unmount which is "/system" say "error unmouting /system"
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Ignore it man, it should be fine. Most devs put the mounts in their flashing scripts anyway tbh...
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ok i'll try,
but WHAT IF i don't work,
could it boot loop my phone again?
my mom is gonna kill me :/

jules2142 said:
ok i'll try,
but WHAT IF i don't work,
could it boot loop my phone again?
my mom is gonna kill me :/
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it should work, but worst case scenario it'll be but looped again, then we'll just odin back to stock
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how about getting it bricked xD
anyway i didn't use odin i use this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498

jules2142 said:
how about getting it bricked xD
anyway i didn't use odin i use this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498
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Nah that shouldn't brick it. It's almost never bricked except when dumb people flash roms built for other phones lol
And ahh yes heimdall is a great choice too ;P
either way, glad you're up and running again!
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[Q] download mode not working...

I tried searching, but the search is down?
I have spent several hours looking.
I used odin (phone went into download mode without issue) to put my phone back to stock so I could get the ota update.
Went back into download mode with Odin to install CWM, this "passed" and after a restart my phone went into samsung recovery, not CWM.
Now my phone will not go into download mode? I tried different cable, ports, etc.
any help?

so what is it doing since it's not going into download mode.

it wouldn't do anything, I finally reinstalled the drivers and after holding down the power and volume - let go... nothing! push the volume - twice and it went into download mode. Odin recognizes it and goes through the motion, but the phone has a AX_timeout in red at the top left corner of the screen?
Odin continues and say's passed, but when I try to reboot into CWM it hangs on the samsung logo.
It will not boot into recovery, but it will start the phone and everything seems to work.
im using odin 1.83 / windows 7 64bit.

Remove the battery, put the phone in download mode, put the battery back in, and flash CWM. Before you fully boot the OS, flash a custom kernel. If you don't flash a custom kernel, the default kernel will overwrite CWM with the default recovery.

Morrisme said:
it wouldn't do anything, I finally reinstalled the drivers and after holding down the power and volume - let go... nothing! push the volume - twice and it went into download mode. Odin recognizes it and goes through the motion, but the phone has a AX_timeout in red at the top left corner of the screen?
Odin continues and say's passed, but when I try to reboot into CWM it hangs on the samsung logo.
It will not boot into recovery, but it will start the phone and everything seems to work.
im using odin 1.83 / windows 7 64bit.
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I would try using odin v1.82... My experience with this tool has told me that our charge doesnt always "play nice" with other versions... Also try redownloading the latest CWM, you could of had a bad download.
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Cilraaz said:
Remove the battery, put the phone in download mode, put the battery back in, and flash CWM. Before you fully boot the OS, flash a custom kernel. If you don't flash a custom kernel, the default kernel will overwrite CWM with the default recovery.
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Also in my experience I have had CWM recovery with the stock kernel... So something seems funny, stock kernel must not always overwrite custom cwm... Hmmmm. Who can help us here....????
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stebomurkn420 said:
Also in my experience I have had CWM recovery with the stock kernel... So something seems funny, stock kernel must not always overwrite custom cwm... Hmmmm. Who can help us here....????
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If you happen to flash a ROM that doesn't include the script that the kernel calls for the overwrite, then you could have ended up with CWM on a stock kernel.

stebomurkn420 said:
Also in my experience I have had CWM recovery with the stock kernel... So something seems funny, stock kernel must not always overwrite custom cwm... Hmmmm. Who can help us here....????
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There's a script, can't remember where it's at, that is run at boot to replace the recovery. If that script is not there, it doesn't get replaced. All custom roms have it removed.

shrike1978 said:
There's a script, can't remember where it's at, that is run at boot to replace the recovery. If that script is not there, it doesn't get replaced. All custom roms have it removed.
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/system/etc/install-recovery.sh

Hmmm... So your saying there basically wasnt a way for me to have cwm with stock rom/kernel with root... I could have swore I had that setup at some point...
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stebomurkn420 said:
Hmmm... So your saying there basically wasnt a way for me to have cwm with stock rom/kernel with root... I could have swore I had that setup at some point...
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There is, root, boot up, delete the script power off, re root and you're good
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stebomurkn420 said:
Hmmm... So your saying there basically wasnt a way for me to have cwm with stock rom/kernel with root... I could have swore I had that setup at some point...
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There is. You can download the Superuser CWM to your phone, flash CWM, boot immediately to CWM (don't let it boot normally), flash Superuser, and reboot.
At that point, if you desire, you can delete /system/etc/install-recovery.sh and reflash CWM if you want to keep it.

shrike1978 said:
There is. You can download the Superuser CWM to your phone, flash CWM, boot immediately to CWM (don't let it boot normally), flash Superuser, and reboot.
At that point, if you desire, you can delete /system/etc/install-recovery.sh and reflash CWM if you want to keep it.
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You think this would work on the nexus... Seems its kind of a universal method...?
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Cant boot, cant get into recovery

Guys suddenly i booted my phone and all the apps starting to crash, so i got into recovery, wipe cache, dalvik cache and data then reflash the rom i used and now its stock into boot screen! i cant get into recovery! i can only boot into download mode!.
So im trying hard to find Roms flashable via ODIN and all the Roms i found have the links brokens! cant find anything good to solve my problem via ODIN can you guys help me?! this has never happened to me.

Try to flash a custom recovery like CWM
Hit thanks on help
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coolprateek.kumar said:
Try to flash a custom recovery like CWM
Hit thanks on help
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but how? i can only boot into download mode and use ODIN what do i do?
Thanks for answering! im a bit of despearte.

Railius said:
this has never happened to me.
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This did happen to you. lol There is a first time for almost everything.

Railius said:
but how? i can only boot into download mode and use ODIN what do i do?
Thanks for answering! im a bit of despearte.
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Three finger salute
Hold volume up, volume down and power until you get to the Samsung splash screen then release the power button. You should find yourself in recovery after the kernel splash screen. If it goes into your boot animation, you failed and should do it again.
Edit: I saw that most of your other stuff is with the SGSIII. Do you have a SGS4G that you are doing this on, or did you wonder here by mistake?
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Pull the battery first, with the USB unplugged. Put the battery back in, then do the three finger salute. That's what I do when reboot loops happen for me...

Railius said:
but how? i can only boot into download mode and use ODIN what do i do?
Thanks for answering! im a bit of despearte.
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Didn't you had cwm before??
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coolprateek.kumar said:
Didn't you had cwm before??
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yes guys! forget about the s3 sig, i have it also, but i rooted a sgs4g of my friend and installed Ccustom rom, not he had this issue after like 5 months i told him to reflash the ROM and hes in a bootloop, he CANT get into recovery :/, he cant boot only odin!.

If you are doing this via proxy (him actually doing what you tell him) then tell him to get rid of odin and download one of the Heimdall one clicks. If you can get into bootloader mode you can flash a back to stock.
Also If you pull the battery and wait a couple minutes then put it back while holding the three buttons sometimes that will jumpstart recovery mode.

We have an awesome guide on how to get back to stock gingerbread which will allow your friend to flash back to a stock rom if he can get into download mode. Full guide with pictures
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21953878&postcount=2
Don't forget to hit lumin's thanks button

Well of he is using odin, this is a better one click for him. You get rooted with a cwm kernel.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500427
Part three is a Odin one click to GB
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[Q] I need major assistance

1st things 1st I'm a total noob and I flashed a rom to cwm but I was trying to go through the options to see the features in cwm and I un mounted sd and maybe more un mounts than that Im running gingerbread and entity with menu mod please help me with loading proper files or recovery from sd card to recover my phone it's stuck at the t mobile boot screen and never changes I I try to get into cwm but I have screwed up the mounts and cwm doesnt load at all please help!

jeffreylin_ said:
When you can't get into recovery, all is not lost! Use the one click back to stock .jar and revert back to the way your phone was when you found it! This will reset kernel and ROM.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19601787
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Now I'm having issues installing Heimdall One-Click I'm going to start from scratch I'll update you on any progress

Thank You for directing me I'm back in business
jeffreylin_ said:
When you can't get into recovery, all is not lost! Use the one click back to stock .jar and revert back to the way your phone was when you found it! This will reset kernel and ROM.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19601787
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It wasn't hard I was using win zip and winrar I uninstalled them both and java took over thanks I appreciate the help!