I just finished flashing SKY onto my phone, and it works, but whenever I put the phone to turn off or reboot, it goes into the powering off animation and finishes, but the soft buttons at the bottom stay lit up and won't turn off. Same if I try to reboot, it stays stuck with the soft buttons lit up and doesn't perform a reboot. I followed all the instructions except flashing a radio and kernel, they're still stock. So how can I make my phone actually turn off?
Sounds like you might have a bad install. I'd get a fresh download of the ROM, check the MD5 on it, then do a full wipe and reinstall. Make sure you're doing exactly as the 4.2F6 OP says to, and don't forget to wipe /system as part of the install prep.
Update your recovery it's usually the cause.
A simple way to fix it is to make a nandroid and restore it instantly.
Ok, the updated recovery did it. Updated my recovery since I realized I had used a outdated link and now it's working fine, rebooting and powering off normally. Thanks
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i've searched high and lo, been reading up on this forum for awhile now, reading the tutorials, etc. i must now hang my head in shame. managed to root my phone, put android revolution ROM on it, yay go me. decided i wanted to restore back to previous ROM. couldn't boot into bootloader via vol - and power, so i used ROM manager. went into backup/restore and picked a previous version. rebooted phone and now it hangs on the white HTC screen. i can take my battery out and put it back in and it will charge my phone. i think this might be my mistake, the battery was yellow when i tried all this. but it's been charging for awhile now, and still nothing. when i try to turn it on or the vol- and power it gets stuck on the white screen and is no longer charging. i've looked and looked and seen some suggestions of booting into recovery, etc. but i can't for some reason boot into anything. i'm not sure if i'm doing something wrong or what. any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
ok, when i take the sd card out, it boots just fine, so what would my next step be?
Haha....you didnt wipe your device clean before restoring from your backup!
Remove the battery and place it back in, hold the bottom volume button and lock button...you should boot into Hboot(white screen also)
give it like 20 seconds because it will search for a file and select the recovery option by scrolling using the volume keys.
factory reset phone and go into advanced-wipe dalvik-cache
now install any rom or any backup!
You must do this for every ROM and every restoring of a backup...
thank you for your response, but i corrected my mistake, and wiped everything, but the backups i was trying to go back too still didn't work. still got stuck on the screen. i was however able to flash the ROM i had, but it's very basic, and nothing like what i flashed from it originally.
I recently acquired a "broken" SGH-T869. Can't boot into recovery, nothing shows up on the screen to indicate a regular boot, etc, but it does boot into Odin for some reason...
So far I've tried flashing ICS firmware and Gingerbread, to no avail. This post says that you need to wipe data to get out of the boot loop, but I can't get into any recovery: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23257624#post23257624
So I saw this thread where people were wiping data from Odin. Maybe that would work? But the link doesn't exist anymore:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26484341
Update: I flashed CWM using the heimdall suite, but still nothing boots except download mode. Unless there's some magic way into recovery I don't know about?! I only see a power button and the volume rockers.
Update #3: Everything's fine!
Not sure what happened. I left it plugged in overnight, then later on I noticed the screen was on (but completely black), so I tried the power button to turn it off. Then it booted! Since I already tried flashing CWM I just dropped a new rom on there and wiped everything. Whew.
Wondering what the issue was though. Guess it doesn't matter, but I'm still curious.
Okay this is the second time this happened. My phone just completely shut down randomly as I was opening a tab in Chrome. I turn it back on, flashes Samsung then the Slimkat screen but won't go past. I put the battery in it, it turns itself back on (vibrates right after I put the battery back in). I can get to recovery and I can get to download mode.
When I had CM11, the phone would keep rebooting. The last time it did this, it had the same problem, so last night I said screw it and went to Slimkat. To fix this issue, I had to go back to a stock rooted rom, then flash recovery, then flash Slimkat, etc. It worked until today. I flashed the build on my phone and that doesn't fix it either.
What is the problem? Seems like my phone is soft bricking itself? I'd rather not go back and configure everything yet again.
Okay I've wiped data, tried to reflash the rom, and now when I get into download mode, the phone just goes black.
Hello. I have a rooted OPO, running 05Q. Last night I finally succumbed to the temptation to flash a ROM. I used the app "CM downloader" to obtain the latest nightly of CM12. Using TWRP, I created a backup, then installed the downloaded ROM. It didn't work; the phone got stuck in what is, I think, called a bootloop. That is, it just kept showing "Updating Android" then going back to a CM animation, over and over.
After letting this go on for quite a while, I powered the phone down and rebooted into Recovery. From there I restored the backup I had created. That seemed to go without a hitch; everything looked as it did before I set out on this adventure. But when I let the screen go dark after 30 seconds of not doing anything, I found that double-tap wouldn't wake it, and neither would pressing the power button. It seemed to be still working, since notifications were coming in, but I couldn't get the screen to light up. So I did a reboot, which worked, but only until the screen went dark again, at which point I had the same problem.
So...I used Titanium to backup all apps and settings, and did a "reset to factory", then restored apps and settings. This seemed to work, but once again I found that once the screen went dark, the only way to wake it up was to reboot. And again, even though the screen was dark, the phone was working. I listened to a podcast while driving to work, even though I couldn't wake the screen up.
Any ideas what the cause of this might be? I did check the Settings to make sure the double tap to sleep and wake were turned on. Everything was as I'd left it. And in any case, even the Power button wouldn't do it.
You need to flash cm11 firmware, that is the radio and stuff to get your cm11 05Q to work properly again
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You should flash this
http://boeffla.df-kunde.de/bacon/modems/Full-XNPH05Q-modem-flashable.zip
waterdaan said:
You need to flash cm11 firmware, that is the radio and stuff to get your cm11 05Q to work properly again
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You should flash this
http://boeffla.df-kunde.de/bacon/modems/Full-XNPH05Q-modem-flashable.zip
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Thank you, that worked!
I have a question, dont really know where to ask. I have the tmobile j700t, and I've tried restoring with odin, (with the j700t firmware of course) and im not sure if its doing everything. Everything seems to go fine in odin, flashes boot, modem, system etc. reboots, rebuilds cache, then it just goes to my original lock screen with my custom wallpaper and all my apps still on. I can do a factory reset after, but it doesnt seem to do anything but clear the cache. Am I missing something? I enables OEM UNLOCK and USB debugging before hand.
The inability to make write changes sounds like a bad NAND issue, you could try flashing with a .pit file but the phones internal memory could be physically damaged.
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I have a question, dont really know where to ask. I have the tmobile j700t, and I've tried restoring with odin, (with the j700t firmware of course) and im not sure if its doing everything. Everything seems to go fine in odin, flashes boot, modem, system etc. reboots, rebuilds cache, then it just goes to my original lock screen with my custom wallpaper and all my apps still on. I can do a factory reset after, but it doesnt seem to do anything but clear the cache. Am I missing something? I enables OEM UNLOCK and USB debugging before hand.
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Try clicking the Nand erase all box and unclicking auto reboot. Flash the factory ROM and when it completes hold volume down, home and power buttons until the screen goes black. This is important, as soon as the download screen is gone you need to hold the recovery buttons (volume up, home and power) so the phone can erase all system data and update itself the way it's designed to after flashing a factory update. If the device reboots before you enter recovery you have to start over. Hit thanks if this helps bro.
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Try clicking the Nand erase all box and unclicking auto reboot. Flash the factory ROM and when it completes hold volume down, home and power buttons until the screen goes black. This is important, as soon as the download screen is gone you need to hold the recovery buttons (volume up, home and power) so the phone can erase all system data and update itself the way it's designed to after flashing a factory update. If the device reboots before you enter recovery you have to start over. Hit thanks if this helps bro.
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well that seems to have fixed it, weird though, when I rebooted into recovery like you said, it did an update, there was a progress bar, then it rebooted, and rebooted AGAIN, did an "update" and then rebooted. Weird, I usually see it say "updating" but then it will stop and you can bring up the recovery menu. Never seen a progress bar and then it just reboot twice. Well anyway it seems to have worked so thank you!
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well that seems to have fixed it, weird though, when I rebooted into recovery like you said, it did an update, there was a progress bar, then it rebooted, and rebooted AGAIN, did an "update" and then rebooted. Weird, I usually see it say "updating" but then it will stop and you can bring up the recovery menu. Never seen a progress bar and then it just reboot twice. Well anyway it seems to have worked so thank you!
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Whenever you flash back to stock or update a stock firmware through official means, it automatically boots into recovery and erases the system you have in place, very similar to TWRP. If you try to flash a stock firmware without erasing everything you will always run into some kind of incompatible memory error. The screen you're thinking of is just the stock recovery checking your system and OTA's for an official upgrade. Glad I could help man.