But anything that may change the state would be a huge help if you have a thought?
All I have right now is a quick LED and battery charge signal for a second then gone.
I can't get into download or recovery mode or power on.
I switched CWM versions (after a nandroid and attempting to reinstall the previous CWM would error) and then tried to flash cm10.
I went into bootloop and tried to pull the battery since i couldnt force it to recovery so i could restore factory but nothing now.
Again, I think i screwed myself, but if you can save me money I'd appreciate any thoughts.
dont know how to help man. unless you know how to jtag, it sounds like you are hard bricked. by the way, you do know that cm10 is SUPPOSED to bootloop for a few minutes on every boot right? or maybe your battery was really low during flash, or maybe you got a bad md5 sum for your download? more info on what you did to make this happed would make it easier to help you.
Make sure your doing the right combination for download mode. Volume down home button and power.
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dont know how to help man. unless you know how to jtag, it sounds like you are hard bricked. by the way, you do know that cm10 is SUPPOSED to bootloop for a few minutes on every boot right? or maybe your battery was really low during flash, or maybe you got a bad md5 sum for your download? more info on what you did to make this happed would make it easier to help you.
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yeah. it rebooted over a dozen times.
im not sure if when i updated CWM to touch and a newer version if for whatever reason it didnt recognize the nandroid from an hour earlier.
but that doesnt really make sense.
i have to think i did something wrong with the recovery img
so now there is no response to any of the hardware buttons.
crap. and thanks.
How about listing the steps on what you did to get where you are now.?
I've had somewhat similar problem. Mine turned out to be dead battery and phone wouldn't charge. I ended up charging battery on buddies phone, which allowed phone to boot. Then I wiped everything and started from scratch. Everything returned to normal
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I boot directly into recovery mode every time I shut down and or cold boot my phone. I'm not too sure why, but if I can get help on how to get a log that will show if and or why it is happening, thank you.
into boostrap recovery? mine does that too. i never thought anything of it, just hit reboot system now and it boots like normal. slightly annoying but no big deal i dont think.
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into boostrap recovery? mine does that too. i never thought anything of it, just hit reboot system now and it boots like normal. slightly annoying but no big deal i dont think.
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Yes, into bootstrap recovery. It sometimes boots when I plug it into charge after a complete shutdown. True, it's just an extra step, I guess it's good in a way. Haven't figured out how, but just a wild guess. Thank you for the reply botnryan
botnryan, how did you get your phone to boot into bootstrap after looping?
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botnryan, how did you get your phone to boot into bootstrap after looping?
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im guessing youre talking about when i pretty much bricked it after applying a theme? Well, i had it on (looping) and pulled the battery and immediately reinserted it. you shouldnt have to hold down the power button for it to come back on, and it SHOULD boot into bootstrap recovery. Now the 2nd time i bricked my first d2g, this didnt work, therefore i couldnt fix it. Hopefully it works for you. Try plugging it in to charge and then pulling/reinserting the battery too.
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Yes, into bootstrap recovery. It sometimes boots when I plug it into charge after a complete shutdown. True, it's just an extra step, I guess it's good in a way. Haven't figured out how, but just a wild guess. Thank you for the reply botnryan
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This is a safety feature so if you've messed up your phone but not too bad you can get into recovery and fix your mistake.
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How do you wipe bootstrapper recovery? In case I ever have to return my GF's D2G I would like to get it back to stock before I take it in.
Hey all
Before anyone mentions that i should be searching around more, i would like to say that i've been on multiple threads and they all state the same thing (use NVflash to flash CWM and then boot into CWM but the solution did not work for me past flashing CWM and then trying to access recovery after) and i wasn't able to find one that had a similar problem as mine.
I have CWM flashed through NVflash and was running CM7.1 RC1. I took a screenshot with the 'shootme' app and proceeded to look at the gallery to make sure it came out okay. The gallery crashed and i was sent to the home screen. I swiped to a different homescreen when my phone froze halfway through the transition to the next screen. No combination of buttons/long presses were able to get me out of it so i went ahead and did a battery pull. So my dilemma is that now i'm stuck at the LG boot logo with no blue status bar under it. It freezes there and will not do anything every time i boot up. volume down+power does not give me access to recovery nor does any other button combo get me past the LG boot logo.
Are there any other methods i might be able to use like ADB or what not to get myself out of this situation? or at least into recovery? Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated as i've been searching for hours with little help and my eyes are starting to get strained.
hmmm.. I know it's a simple question, but I gotta ask.. are you holding the pwr and volume down button long enough? you have to keep holding it even after you see the LG screen.. Keep holding until you see the 2nd screen?
If so.. do the nvflash again? Edit: Not sure if I would do this without getting further guidance tho..
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hmmm.. I know it's a simple question, but I gotta ask.. are you holding the pwr and volume down button long enough? you have to keep holding it even after you see the LG screen.. Keep holding until you see the 2nd screen?
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This. I remember when I boot looped my phone I had the problem of letting go of the volume key too early, you need to hold down volume and power from a totally powered off phone until recovery actually starts and you see the green "android" logo of CWM.
Try re-flashing CWM, NVFlash CAN fail. There is literally nothing you can do within the OS that will prevent recovery from working. Either you did something wrong somewhere along the recovery process or you discovered an entirely new problem with the phone. I'm going to hazard a guess and say it's the former.
Thanks for the response guys. I wish that it was the case of not holding the buttons long enough. I have tried numerous times with the buttons held down for a long period of time. I even held the combo down for almost 5 minutes a few times.
Every time i try to boot up, it won't go past the LG boot screen so i would pull the battery out and go through flashing CWM through NVflash again. I'm sure I'm not missing anything because everything goes through and gets sent to the phone successfully.
I did happen to run into a thread that was closely similar to mine but his method was to just keep reflashing CWM and the stock recovery back and forth every time it failed until it turned on. I might have to try that if i cannot figure out this problem out soon. Not being able to use this phone is killing me! heh.
I just joined your club. Wow this sucks.
So apparently this is a whole new problem that's been found? Every other help thread seems to point to using NVflash or remaking the partitions due to a bad flash using an O2x based file instead of G2x.
But none of those solutions come close to doing anything. There has been some people with the same problem as me but aren't proactive at all enough to get someone's attention, so i'm guessing this problem is getting pushed to the side with people just going about getting their phones replaces/buying new ones.
I did happen to run into a thread on paulobrien/modaco's forum that had people using NVflash to get out of any sticky situation like this. It just reverts everything back to the stock factory settings but with root. We cannot use this though because he hasn't built it to be compatible with our LGP999's because everything was built for their UK LGP990's. Maybe that's a start to getting this solution fixed?
I hate to say this, bit you might have to call t mobile and get a replacement. Flash back to stock recovery and they won't know you messed with anything.
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Don't send back....you'll get same defacement a battery pull go into nvflah and go back stock then flash nv flash fix pArtitions
As I have mentioned before, NVflash does NOT give me access to my recovery let alone solve anything else. NVflash DOES work and does sucessfully send both CWM and the stock recovery but when I try to boot into either of them, let alone just power on normally, it simply DOES NOT go past the LG boot screen. it just hangs there doing nothing at all until I pull the battery out and do the same process over until it just hangs again.
while it is on/stuck at the LG screen, my computer does not recognize it so i cannot even try and run ADB commands. It does however, recognize it when I plug it in using the volume buttons held down when I use NVflash but there's nothing else I can do besides use NVflash obviously.
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As I have mentioned before, NVflash does NOT give me access to my recovery let alone solve anything else. NVflash DOES work and does sucessfully send both CWM and the stock recovery but when I try to boot into either of them, let alone just power on normally, it simply DOES NOT go past the LG boot screen. it just hangs there doing nothing at all until I pull the battery out and do the same process over until it just hangs again.
while it is on/stuck at the LG screen, my computer does not recognize it so i cannot even try and run ADB commands. It does however, recognize it when I plug it in using the volume buttons held down when I use NVflash but there's nothing else I can do besides use NVflash obviously.
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Did you ever find a solution to this issue? Because my phone is doing this...
I attempted to restore my phone back to the wrong backup that was from a galaxy sII (2.3.4 i think); needless to say, the restore failed. I then restarted my phone from CWM and it gets stuck at LG screen.
I have tried to NVflash back to stock; nothing. same thing reflashing back to CWM.
ideas?
have you tried this link out yet?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1180331
same problem..... anybody find something to fix this yet?
From what I heard is that you need to remove the battery, then boot into recovery or something.
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Use smartflash for the p990 but only use the p999 ap.bin file which will put the rom and kernel back to stock p999.
Rom for recovery always fixes any soft brick back to stock 2.3.3 OTA. It's saved my phone multiple times from stuck on S/W screen to being stuck on lg logo or even the dreaded can't mount sdcard-cache errors in cwm.
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I used the following method when Clockworkmod became corrupted and was unable to mount my sd card. I had just wiped everything on my phone intending to install a new rom when the issue happened. I could not even get to the S/W upgrade screen. It saved my phone. Hope it works for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17258229
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I used the following method when Clockworkmod became corrupted and was unable to mount my sd card. I had just wiped everything on my phone intending to install a new rom when the issue happened. I could not even get to the S/W upgrade screen. It saved my phone. Hope it works for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17258229
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omg thank you so much! It worked! Not only that but i was stuck on frodo 2.2.2 before which is why i was messing with my phone in the first place and now its on gingerbread. Awesome! thank you!!!!
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omg thank you so much! It worked! Not only that but i was stuck on frodo 2.2.2 before which is why i was messing with my phone in the first place and now its on gingerbread. Awesome! thank you!!!!
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Glad for you that it worked.
Kwes1020 pointed me in the right direction last week. Be sure to give a thanks to ILUHA_89 who came up with the fix.
Amazing how people are soo lost without providing them link after link to other threads. They are soo lazy and can't follow simple directions, each time i get a new phone i go to that section on xda and soak up all the information as it usually is already there. It's just funny is all i guess.
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Amazing how people are soo lost without providing them link after link to other threads. They are soo lazy and can't follow simple directions, each time i get a new phone i go to that section on xda and soak up all the information as it usually is already there. It's just funny is all i guess.
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It's really not that big a deal. I was brand new to android once and asked all sorts of things.
I, like you, happen to read everything I can get my hands on. Some struggle going through all the info. I was here the day the forum opened, so I kind of remember where everything is.
Some are lazy and others just have no idea what the heck is going on and are intimidated by certain processes. I would rather help someone instead of listening to them ***** about their broken phone.
A few details before I start
I am on Galaxy S3 i535 from Verizon, was running CleanROM 5.6 for a few hours after coming from Codename Android that I was using for a few days(I've been going crazy with trying roms lately.)
I flashed LiquidSmooth 2.0 with CWM (never have used odin)
On all of these flashes before i did so I wiped system/factory reset, wiped cache and dalvik cache, and formatted system, cache, and data.
I had just finished flashing Liquid Smooth about an hour ago and was installing a few things with titanium back up. everything up until this point was going fine, got all my apps instaIlled and ready to go, and I head into the settings and try to turn on a few things and edit some settings in the Liquidsmooth settings.
Now my phone is stuck in a bootloop and I'm not sure what to do. I have tried power/volume down, power/home/volume up, power/home/volume down, and nothing will get it to reboot. I dont know whether or not it is safe to take out the battery and start from there, so if that is the route I should take, please let me know.
I have no experience with odin, but I can most definitely look that up so I wont need help there. Just some help on whether or not I should take out the battery or do something else. I just don't want to brick it in any way if that is avoidable:fingers-crossed :fingers-crossed:
Thanks to whoever can help me!
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I used the search a little better this time and saw people say pull battery on similar cases, and I did that, and I'm still stuck in bootloop. (It seems like in most of the threads I found pulling the battery was a given so people didnt mention it, but I needed to know for sure.) So I am still in the bootloop and am just going to boot into download mode and go from there.
Alright I was able to odin to stock, and now im back to square one.
Not sure how to delete threads :S
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A few details before I start
I am on Galaxy S3 i535 from Verizon, was running CleanROM 5.6 for a few hours after coming from Codename Android that I was using for a few days(I've been going crazy with trying roms lately.)
I flashed LiquidSmooth 2.0 with CWM (never have used odin)
On all of these flashes before i did so I wiped system/factory reset, wiped cache and dalvik cache, and formatted system, cache, and data.
I had just finished flashing Liquid Smooth about an hour ago and was installing a few things with titanium back up. everything up until this point was going fine, got all my apps instaIlled and ready to go, and I head into the settings and try to turn on a few things and edit some settings in the Liquidsmooth settings.
Now my phone is stuck in a bootloop and I'm not sure what to do. I have tried power/volume down, power/home/volume up, power/home/volume down, and nothing will get it to reboot. I dont know whether or not it is safe to take out the battery and start from there, so if that is the route I should take, please let me know.
I have no experience with odin, but I can most definitely look that up so I wont need help there. Just some help on whether or not I should take out the battery or do something else. I just don't want to brick it in any way if that is avoidable:fingers-crossed :fingers-crossed:
Thanks to whoever can help me!
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I used the search a little better this time and saw people say pull battery on similar cases, and I did that, and I'm still stuck in bootloop. (It seems like in most of the threads I found pulling the battery was a given so people didnt mention it, but I needed to know for sure.) So I am still in the bootloop and am just going to boot into download mode and go from there.
Alright I was able to odin to stock, and now im back to square one.
Not sure how to delete threads :S
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ok i only read the first few lines but manually boot into cwm by either vol up or down and multi function and power at the same time and upload a rom like synergy i know it works and u should be good
WOW!
This I cant believe!
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I have tried power/volume down, power/home/volume up, power/home/volume down, and nothing will get it to reboot.
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ok i only read the first few lines but manually boot into cwm by either vol up or down and multi function and power at the same time and upload a rom like synergy i know it works and u should be good
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Yeah, we noticed you only read the first few lines. :what:
If you are gonna try to help at least read the whole OP.
And to manually boot recovery its: Volume up+home+power.
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EITHER vol up or down and multi function and power at the same time
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OP you are missing the point here. You have to take the battery out and put it back in before going to recovery. Once you have done that try vol-up/home/ power at the same time. Once samsung logog appears look at the top left if you see words release. it will boot to recovery. You can take it from there.
I flashed the JB ROM on my Tab 7 Plus. After the "succeess" of the flashing as said by Odin v1.85, I tried to turn on the device, but it didn't. I tried to access download mode or recovery mode but it didn't work either. I tried to hold the volume down button and connect the cable to the tablet. That opened the download mode but the screen was "flashing". The rate at which the screen "flashes" keeps increasing until it becomes very fast and the device turns off. I tried to flash a ROM, but Unfortunately it turns off fast that there will be no time for the flashing process to continue.
Any idea what should I do?
what model device do you have and what exact ROM did you flash? and which ROM did you have before flashing.
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what model device do you have and what exact ROM did you flash? and which ROM did you have before flashing.
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My Device is GT-P6200 and I got the GT-P6200 JB ROM for it.
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I left my device to charge all night. When I woke up I tried to see if the 'flashing' of the screen still occurs, but it didn't happen. I think I can flash a ROM now
I tried to flash the ROM again and it worked, luckily it was not a hard brick. Problem solved. It is weird that the flashing didn't succeed the previous time. Maybe the battery level was low (about 20%) when I flashed the ROM the previous time, can this be the problem?
yes, also a faulty or non-OEM cable would be the culprit.
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I tried to flash the ROM again and it worked, luckily it was not a hard brick. Problem solved. It is weird that the flashing didn't succeed the previous time. Maybe the battery level was low (about 20%) when I flashed the ROM the previous time, can this be the problem?
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yess. flashing(blinking) screen is how download mode tells you that your battery is low. probably less than 10% since it even turned off by itself.
This Happend To me and I got it BACK
Hello... I totally understand your frustration... This exact same thing happened to me after my battery went dead just after I installed JB...
well here is the kick and it's kind of tricky...
If you want you can call me and I can tell you the instructions, it's complicated but if you follow the steps it will work...
I can also take the time to write it down, but i'm bad a typing.
let me know if you are interested...
Sorry for the late reply. It was fixed after less than a day from starting this thread.
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My Photon Q won't boot up for some reason. I didn't do anything especially strange to it. It ran out of power, I plugged it in as it was turning off and then it wouldn't boot up. It's not a problem with the screen because when I turn it on it still comes up with "Bootloader unlocked etc" but then I just get a blank screen, with the LCD on, but just black. So the phone is rooted and I managed to get it into TWRP. Any ideas on what I can do to get it working?
Charge it enough to see if you can get it to boot... This is always a dangerous scenario with this device it seems, running the battery completely dead.
I had similar issues where I could not boot because the battery would die before it would finish booting. If you can get it to offline charge, that's the best thing to do. If not, try to charge it in TWRP.
Once you get enough of a charge, it should boot. If it still doesn't, restore a backup in recovery.
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Charge it enough to see if you can get it to boot... This is always a dangerous scenario with this device it seems, running the battery completely dead.
I had similar issues where I could not boot because the battery would die before it would finish booting. If you can get it to offline charge, that's the best thing to do. If not, try to charge it in TWRP.
Once you get enough of a charge, it should boot. If it still doesn't, restore a backup in recovery.
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Hi arrrghhh, thanks for the reply. I tried doing that and it didn't work, but thankfully I managed to backup my photos, phone numbers and text messages using TWRP, followed this guide (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2295643) and did a stock reset. So now I can relax in the knowledge that my phone isn't dead afterall.
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Hi arrrghhh, thanks for the reply. I tried doing that and it didn't work, but thankfully I managed to backup my photos, phone numbers and text messages using TWRP, followed this guide (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2295643) and did a stock reset. So now I can relax in the knowledge that my phone isn't dead afterall.
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Evidently you didn't have a full backup?
You should definitely make one - can't always depend on links to stay alive with this old device.
Honestly that should be step #1 after flashing a custom recovery like TWRP... immediately take a full backup in case you ever need to restore.
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Evidently you didn't have a full backup?
You should definitely make one - can't always depend on links to stay alive with this old device.
Honestly that should be step #1 after flashing a custom recovery like TWRP... immediately take a full backup in case you ever need to restore.
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Do you know how to get APNs working? You probably know that changing the MNC number causes the APN to disappear. I managed to get it working before, but that was ages ago and I can't remember how I did it.
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Do you know how to get APNs working? You probably know that changing the MNC number causes the APN to disappear. I managed to get it working before, but that was ages ago and I can't remember how I did it.
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OK, it turns out I didn't have to change the MNC, and it's working with the default value of 20. Thanks anyway!