Hey everyone
Ive been using the Nexus S 4g with Slim ASS mod and have had no issues so far. It had been constantly reminding me to update to the new rom version [3.8 to 4.0] so I downloaded the file, booted into recovery, and installed from sd card. Now whenever I boot my phone, it gets to the Google progress bar, loads all the way up, and locks up. Nothing can get it off this screen besides removing the battery.
I can still boot into recovery [volume up + power] but nothing from there seems to change anything. My computer wont recognize it when its connected even though it makes the noise that it did, so I couldnt even try to do - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884093
Is there anything that can be done or will I have to wipe my phone and start over? Will that even fix the problem?
I was able to use http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884093 by mounting USB storage in recovery mode but when I boot with this, Airplane mode will not turn off rendering the phone still useless.
I can mount anything in recovery mode. However, when i try to connect my phone to the computer not using recovery mode's mount usb storage, my computer doesnt recognize the phone.
I havent found a reason why airplane mode will not turn off. I tried using the one click back to stock files but that gives me an error saying USB debugging is not enabled even though it is. Ive tried using that by mounting usb storage and having my phone booted but nothing seems to help.
Not trying to double post but I figured I'd at least let it be known what I can do with my phone and what hasnt worked.
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Alright, after spending hours upon hours researching multiple forums I can firmly say I'm stumped. As an FYI, I change ROM's frequently and have preformed these actions multiple times. So this isnt about me being a noob and doing something incorrect due to lack of knowledge (at least i hope not).
After multiple methods I can not find a single way to get into download mode.
Methods attempted:
1. cards and Battery out
waited up to 30 min with battery out,
battery in
hold volume buttons (tried to do this before the battery goes in as well)
usb plugged in (odin on in background of course)
I have gotten into download mode multiple times using this method, however, doing it now (and multiple variations, including holding only volume up or volume down, tapping power once and a bunch of random things people from various forums 'claim' to work) will result in only one thing; having the battery charging screen pop up and freeze on me. I know it is frozen as the progress timer is stuck at the 12:00 position and doesnt change, even if left there for an hour or two.
If the phone is allowed to power up normally (or i press the power button when trying to go into download mode) the phone will go to the standard ATT screen flash once then show up again and finally go into recovery mode. My research hasnt shown that i can do anything from recovery mode without having access to the internal SD.
upon further research, I came across only one other thread of e=people who had a similar problem, however the OP said he performed the download mode method mentioned above over and over and then it eventually worked. Which doesnt make a whole lot of sense to me, but nonetheless he said he got it within 40 times, I must have done this over 100 times now with the same frozen battery screen result.
I even tried ADB, which is something that was new to me. But after getting ADB to successfully work on the command line, it does not recognize that the phone is connected (my assumption is because in recovery mode, which is the only place i can be with the phone on besides the frozen screen, the internal SD isnt mounted for mass storage). So ADB didnt work either.
I am within my 30 day period, but of course, I would prefer to just fix this thing as opposed to going down to have 'the talk' about bricking my phone with ATT. Has anyone seen this issue? Anyone else have any ideas? Anything I can do from the recovery screen?
Thanks for your help
Adb should work in recovery mode.
Let me know 2 things: your batch #
What ROM you were using when it went out
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PS don't tell att you modded your phone
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Yea I had the same problem when i bricked my brothers captivate. I did all the 3 button method and i couldnt still go to download mode but i figured another way on how to get there =) thanks to me. But this method only works if your computer recognize your phone like if your stuck on atnt screen or galaxy s screen or even more if its all dark screen, but most importantly is that your computer recognize your phone and you have clockwork recovery. Here is the link of my post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842484
@fattire
1. Where do i locate the Batch #
2. It had just finished flashing into Cog 2.3b4. I had flashed to stock (like I normally do) before flashing to Cog. Looking at the screen, everything looked like it went fine and Cog was installed properly. After it finished it started restarting the phone, and this is where I am now.
P.S. Yeah, that goes without saying just so much of a hassle with the ATT people....
P.P.S. I didnt know if this was normal or not, but in recovery mode the computer can see the phone's drive but it (the phones drive) is not mounted so I can not access any of the files on it. From all that I have read ADB is working correctly and have confirmed it in the command line. I have the correct drivers ( and i know they are the right ones bc Ive done this before on the same computer with the same USB port). Odin also recognizes the phone and says it is connected but upon trying to flash to stock or anything else it just hangs, again my assumption is bc the internal SD is not mounted correctly...
@G1
Thank you for your suggestion, unfortunately it appears the phone is not being mounted correctly on my comp to recognize it properly. So your method will not work.
But keep the ideas coming!! Anyone else?
There's a solderless procedure to go in download mode.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=841512
@Silver
I attempted the procedure and it only resulted in the phone booting up to the att screen then going into recovery mode.
After this procedure, performing method 1 to get into download mode does not result in a stalled battery screen, it now goes into recovery mode. Maybe I fried something....
Oh well off to att tomorrow.....
madpuma13 said:
@fattire
1. Where do i locate the Batch #
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Under your battery 100? number
madpuma13 said:
@Silver
I attempted the procedure and it only resulted in the phone booting up to the att screen then going into recovery mode.
After this procedure, performing method 1 to get into download mode does not result in a stalled battery screen, it now goes into recovery mode. Maybe I fried something....
Oh well off to att tomorrow.....
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If you can get to recovery mode then your fine well it depends if you have clockwork recovery. Clockwork have an option that will take you to download mode.
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Okay, I honestly have googled the crap out of this, and scoured the forums and all, but I can't seem to find a solution. My Captivate seems to have become invisible to computers. I've tried it out on 3 different laptops, tried installing kies, installing drivers, restarting the computers, restarting the phone, restarting the usb debugging, turning mass storage on and off, still the computers give no indication that the phone is even there.
I'm guessing the problem is within my phone, as it doesn't work on any computer, and I'd like to get it worked out, as I was hoping to try out Cyanogen mod, and Odin won't work without usb connection. For the record, I am running Firefly 2.4 with the Suckerpunch #50 kernel. Anyone have any ideas?
Try flashing a more updated kernal
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Same Here...
I have also been trying to find a solution to this after I flashed Di11i's 6.0 awhile back apparently my phone can no longer be picked up in download mode by Odin either XD I was also hoping to also try Cyanogenmod.
Tried updating Suckerpunch, no go. Suppose I could try another kernel, but I'm a little nervous as bricking finally seems like a real possibility. Also, I haven't read about anyone having this problem with suckerpunch. This is seriously going to cramp my style.
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I was having the same problem trying to istall darky's ROM.
unplug phone from computor
reboot in colckwork recovery
select "mounts and storage"
select "mount usb storage"
select "mount"
Then select "back" until you can roboot
Hope that helps.
p.s. I've been having this problem all week with every custom ROM i have installed.
I thought that one had potential, but no go. Thanks for the try, though.
I found that after I was still having the same problem when back in stock.
Odin3 would not see the phone in debugging mode, but would see the phone in sync mode.
phone would not mount. I would select mount phone from dropdown, the phone would give normal mounting response, but the computer would not see the phone.
Here is what I finally did.
uninstalled the SGS driver
reinstalled the driver as administrator
while waiting for it to install
entered recovery mode on phone and cleared cache and all user data
read a book while waiting for driver to finish installing...
rebooted computer
enabled USB debugging
connected phone to computer - got an installing driver for device message
ODIN3 worked fine after that
USB mounted with no trouble
did a master clear and everything worked fine
rooted to phone with AIO toolbox - everything went fine and I ODIN3 one click and three button see the phone properly in debugging mode, and USB still mounts properly.
I doubt if clearing the cache and stuff did anything, but it doesnt hurt. I suspect I made a change to the phone that confused the driver. Im also not sure if connecting for the first time in dubugging mode is important or not, but i suggest doing it to be safe
timpac said:
Okay, I honestly have googled the crap out of this, and scoured the forums and all, but I can't seem to find a solution. My Captivate seems to have become invisible to computers. I've tried it out on 3 different laptops, tried installing kies, installing drivers, restarting the computers, restarting the phone, restarting the usb debugging, turning mass storage on and off, still the computers give no indication that the phone is even there.
I'm guessing the problem is within my phone, as it doesn't work on any computer, and I'd like to get it worked out, as I was hoping to try out Cyanogen mod, and Odin won't work without usb connection. For the record, I am running Firefly 2.4 with the Suckerpunch #50 kernel. Anyone have any ideas?
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Load up odin and then try connecting in download mode and see if odin detects it.
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Load up odin and then try connecting in download mode and see if odin detects it.
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Not a thing. That's actually when I first noticed that the phone wasn't being recognized, as a matter of fact. I was doing the cyanogen mod thing, already applied the efsbackup.zip. Which didn't hurt anything fortunately, or I'd be completely screwed.
I haven't found this issue so here is my story...
For some reason my lock PW keyboard changed to numeric on me today and for the life of me I couldn't get it to go back so after an hour of rebooting, flash back-ups in CWMR and removing the batery, nothing would get me back to a regular keyboard. I got flustered and just punched in stuff seeing that warning that if I fail again it will erase all data. I thought that will be a pain but I can restore everything in an hour or so because I back everything up, right? WRONG. All data was ALL F$%^&ng data! external SD, cleaned off too.
BUT hold on, I have it also backed up on my PC because I'm smart still right? No dice...get error E:Can't open /sdcard (bad)
So this is what I have to work with...
I can get into CWMR Touch v5.5.0.4 ( I can see what is on my external SD card but cant run anything)
I can get into DOWNLOAD mode BUT Oden wont recognize...it reads device connected for about 2 seconds and then device disconnected)
If im CWMR mode Oden will see my device...not sure if that is good or bad
if I just power on the phone it just goes to the samsung logo and starts booting but never quite gets there....( I left it spinning for 20 min and nothing...)
Any thoughts?
I feel if I could get ODEN to see my phone I would be in good shape.
Also I have another phone and SII and all is read fine so I know it isn't my cord, USB, PC, ODEN...
Thanks in advance
Oh...I think my phone isn't in debugging mode...and that could be it but how could I get in to check if I cant boot the phone?
First you have to make sure your phone drivers are installed correctly, so either download and install kies if you don't have it. Or if you have it got to connection troubleshoot, make sure your phone is not plugged, let it run and when its done put your phone into download mode and connect it. Let the computer install the drivers, don't unplug the phone until it's done or it may screw up. When its done close kies completely and run odin.
Did you try simply flashing a rom from CWM?
And I'm pretty sure you could get a restoration program and recover the data from your external SD card, usually deleting only means its being marked as free space but all the previous data should still be there until something new is written.
When you in download mode are you pressing the up volume to confirm you want download mode?
You can go into download mode but still need to hit up or down to confirm.
As for CWM not reading your external SD did you check to make sure that it's mounted?
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specter07 said:
When you in download mode are you pressing the up volume to confirm you want download mode?
You can go into download mode but still need to hit up or down to confirm.
As for CWM not reading your external SD did you check to make sure that it's mounted?
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CWM "read"s my SD card, ( I can see the rom and backup on it) but once I try to flash, that's when I get the error saying the the path is not valid :/
For DL mode, yes, I hit up and the little droid shows up saying Downloading. In the Upper left corner it reads
ODIN MODE
Product Name :SGH-I727
Custom Binary Download: NO
Current Binary: Samsung Official
kishke said:
First you have to make sure your phone drivers are installed correctly, so either download and install kies if you don't have it. Or if you have it got to connection troubleshoot, make sure your phone is not plugged, let it run and when its done put your phone into download mode and connect it. Let the computer install the drivers, don't unplug the phone until it's done or it may screw up. When its done close kies completely and run odin.
Did you try simply flashing a rom from CWM?
And I'm pretty sure you could get a restoration program and recover the data from your external SD card, usually deleting only means its being marked as free space but all the previous data should still be there until something new is written.
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The only way I can get the phone to be read by my PC is in CWMR..Keis will not recognize it but I did reinstall the drivers.
Should I remount in CWMR? Would it still read what was on the card if it wasn't mounted correctly?
I got ODIN to read my device and was able to flash Stock ICS 4.0.4 on it!
Thanks for your feedback!
:good::good::good::good::good::good:
So it was driver issue after all.
Yup...not sure what the deal was with the driver though in the fist place. It wasn't like I reloaded it this morning. :/
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Hey so i was messing around with my phone the other morning and decided to encrypt my phone but it failed and messed up my system i got this message. The picture is down below.
So I press reset phone and it factory wipes it. But it really doesn't, the phone then reboots and the same message comes up again. I cant access anything on the phone there is no lock screen or status bar. Nothing.
So decide to boot into AP Fastboot mode and then into the stock recovery. My phone lets me do this. I do this with the intention of manually factory wiping my phone. I wipe the cache and factory wipe the phone. It says it does it successfully so I reboot but I still get the that same message!
Okay whatever at this point its starting to look like ill just do a SBF. Haha but that would be to easy RSD lite does not recognize my phone the Droid Razr Maxx while it is in USB Mass Storage Mode. But usually keep my phone in mass storage mode for convenient file transfering to my computer.
Normally if I had to SBF I would connect my phone to my computer drag down my notification bar and change it out of mass storage mode to MTP media device mode or to PTP Camera mode. But I cant because the only thing that shows up after the phone boots is that same message.
What can I do? Can i use ADB to change my phone out of mass storage mode and into MTP mode?
Thanks and sorry for all the words but I figured I should be detailed.
Am I being clear enough?
seanmac61 said:
Am I being clear enough?
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make it simple bro!!
Reboot your phone into fastboot then you should be able to SBF. Here's a good tutorial with all the steps http://www.droidviews.com/restore-your-motorola-droid-razr-from-bootloop-using-fastboot-files/
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seanmac61 said:
Hey so i was messing around with my phone the other morning and decided to encrypt my phone but it failed and messed up my system i got this message. The picture is down below.
So I press reset phone and it factory wipes it. But it really doesn't, the phone then reboots and the same message comes up again. I cant access anything on the phone there is no lock screen or status bar. Nothing.
So decide to boot into AP Fastboot mode and then into the stock recovery. My phone lets me do this. I do this with the intention of manually factory wiping my phone. I wipe the cache and factory wipe the phone. It says it does it successfully so I reboot but I still get the that same message!
Okay whatever at this point its starting to look like ill just do a SBF. Haha but that would be to easy RSD lite does not recognize my phone the Droid Razr Maxx while it is in USB Mass Storage Mode. But usually keep my phone in mass storage mode for convenient file transfering to my computer.
Normally if I had to SBF I would connect my phone to my computer drag down my notification bar and change it out of mass storage mode to MTP media device mode or to PTP Camera mode. But I cant because the only thing that shows up after the phone boots is that same message.
What can I do? Can i use ADB to change my phone out of mass storage mode and into MTP mode?
Thanks and sorry for all the words but I figured I should be detailed.
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Give as short description of the problem/issue as possible bro..
It makes it easy for experts to provide solutions or else they would get dizzy after just looking at the lengthy essays(like you did above)!
This is slightly unfortunate.
Today, my phone decided to say something about the NFC process not working, like it crashed. Over and over. The moment I hit OK, it appeared again. I couldn't even unlock my phone.
I then went to TWRP and went to factory reset, and the problem was still there. Odd. I must have messed up the NFC apk.
I then went to TWRP and tried to wipe the whole phone. I can't remember which button I hit, however it was either wipe or format. I don't think I hit format, but that's all that I can think I did to cause this.
Basically, at this point, I can turn my phone on to either fastboot mode or TWRP, but normal boot gets me stuck at at the 1+ : powered by android screen.
My phone isn't seen by my PC in adb devices or fastboot - presumably because I deleted my OS, and it can't be in USB Debugging if there's no OS to be in the mode? It's either this, or I can't get my PC to see my phone because of a driver issue. If anyone can direct me on the next step of getting my phone working, I'd be greatly appreciative. I have no cares for any data on the phone, I just want it working.
UPDATE : The phone will no longer turn on. Holding any button combo for three seconds makes it buzz. Nothing changes that. It's plugged in using a Nexus 7 charger to an AC outlet.
What did you expect to happen by wiping the whole phone? Stop trying to turn it on, charge it for eight hours, then try booting it into fastboot mode and getting fastboot to work.
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