I've looked for 2hours and cant find an answer to my problem seen bricks where it wouldnt turn on at all or diff soft bricks but nothing quite like mine. If some one can help me out I'd be a nice guy and pay pal them a few beers
Today got a new Nexus S 4G. Rooted it with OneClickRoot from here
downloaded rom manager and updated recovery to version 5.0.2(I think)
did a back up
Then installed [NS4G] gingerbread-deck rom from here
it had no market app and a few others missing so I decided to go back to original until I found something else.
Stupid me thought you held down vol + power to get into bootloader as on other phones I've had in the past so when it wouldnt get me in I stupidly(again :/) ran the oneClick method my thinking being it would gain me temp root access to recovery well it downgraded recovery back to 3.0.2.4 and when I went to restore my back up it skipped a few things saying "system.img,data.img and cache.img not found" then restore complete.
So phone hung during boot with that so I then went to reinstall the deck rom thinking i could send a new rom to the phones storage via USB with that and get back to recovery now that i knew vol up + power would get me into bootloader.
trying that gave a variety of errors the last saying
E:Error in /sdcard/rom.zip
status 7
installation aborted
so i can get into boot loader and recovery but that is it
Any help is greatly appreciated
Definitely not as bad as you think it is.
Have a working fastboot setup on your computer.
Use fastboot to flash the latest CWM recovery (5.0.2.0) instead of ages old 3.0.2.4
From there flash any custom ROM.
Read this to learn how to use fastboot
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Fastboot
Get the latest CWM recovery from your phone here
http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager
Read this to learn about the mount function of CWM recovery and get a ROM on your memory even if you don't have a ROM installed
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...-and-how-to-use-it-on-android-complete-guide/
Tried going into Mount/Unmount and selecting Mount USB Storage but Under windows 7 I get no drive to transfer things to.
Thanks for the other tips I'll read up on those.
mysongranhills said:
Tried going into Mount/Unmount and selecting Mount USB Storage but Under windows 7 I get no drive to transfer things to.
Thanks for the other tips I'll read up on those.
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You just need to do mount USB storage. Then unplug and replug your phone to make it detect. That will mount your internal memory used as SD card.
Tried that. it still won't pull up under My computer. Maybe after I update clcok work???
I'll try. Thanks!
So last night, while my phone was charging, I went to check some messages and I noticed it was frozen (couldn't turn on the screen).
After unpluging it, I pulled out the battery and rebooted the phone and that's when I saw that it wouldn't check the USB Storage for errors.
Now I have a USB Storage that isn't recognized by the phone, but works if I mount it from cwm to my pc.
I tried: formatting USB Storage, resetting the phone to factory settings, flashing a new ROM, and none worked. Plus, now when it tries to boot, I get the boot animation for ages, and it doesn't do anything else.
If someone knows how to help me, please reply. (I searched xda and the internet and all I managed to find was USB Storage not mounting to pc...)
The ROM is CodenameAndroid 2 with android version 4.0.4.
It seems an hardware failure, or at least, a serious corruption of the boot and recovery.
Does it boot to fastboot(vol up plus power button)? If yes, I would try to go completely stock by installing through fastboot one of the factory images which are available here on xda.( Before doing that you would need to perform a backup of your \efs folder.)
In this way you rewrite boot,radio, recovery, kernel and ROM. If the malfunction was due to some corruption of system files, that should fix it.
If it does not boot to fastboot, there may be another chance with Odin. I have seen in a thread for booting with a broken power button that by simultaneously pressing vol up and vol down you enter in download mode. You need a Odin factory image, which also includes the fastboot, I think. Such a file, together with the right version of Odin is provided in that link.
Hope that this helps,
Good luck
Lionhe
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I am able to get the phone into recovery mode, where it says it can mount SD Card and even USB Storage, but when I try to flash the stock image, it stops and says "(bad)", even though that's the same image I've flashed a couple of times before. I am also considering it could be a hardware failure, but for the moment I'm trying to elimminate all possibilities.
EDIT: it seems I can flash recovery and boot through fastboot, but not system.img
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I am able to get the phone into recovery mode, where it says it can mount SD Card and even USB Storage, but when I try to flash the stock image, it stops and says "(bad)", even though that's the same image I've flashed a couple of times before. I am also considering it could be a hardware failure, but for the moment I'm trying to elimminate all possibilities.
EDIT: it seems I can flash recovery and boot through fastboot, but not system.img
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hi me also but i flash cwr recovery-twrp-2.2.0-crespo and mit fixfor at lees
flodb113 said:
I am able to get the phone into recovery mode, where it says it can mount SD Card and even USB Storage, but when I try to flash the stock image, it stops and says "(bad)", even though that's the same image I've flashed a couple of times before. I am also considering it could be a hardware failure, but for the moment I'm trying to elimminate all possibilities.
EDIT: it seems I can flash recovery and boot through fastboot, but not system.img
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go to seetings and format sd card or plug to your pc and format in fat32. then go to fastboot and reflash stock image... it will erase your data but at least u will not gona have any more problems
Hi,
Today,after turning off my phone when i tried to turn it on again it just wouldnt and stayed stuck on the android logo.
Later on after removing battery and putting back on it went on fastboot mode.
I tried the command prompts solution but my phone isn't recognized for some reason.I also tried using LGMDP but altough the process went ok it didnt solve the problem and now even LGMDP doesn't recognize it anymore.So i can enter both emergency and recovery but can't get it to work.any idea ?
you said that it enters in recovery mode, so I understand that this phone was rooted and you have a custom recovery
copy this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18853517&postcount=5381 on sd card and flash it to see if it works
if not copy on sd card a custom rom and wipe everything, including mounts-> wipe sistem do it at least 2 times befor flashing new rom
Hi All,
I rooted and installed a custom recovery. Now I am facing the following problems.
1. My SD card cannot be mounted and I cannot install any zip files from SD card. (I forgot to turn 'usb debugging on')
2. My phone gets recognized in recovery mode but in download mode the phone is not recognized by odin as well as computer. (All drivers are installed. Latest Kies installed)
3. When I switch it on normally it gets stuck at boot logo.
Could somebody help me to revive my phone.
let me know if it works
try factory reset with recovery mode but you will lose data
stuck at Samsung Infuse Logo will not go into recovery Newbie
Hi, I need help desperately.
I was trying to increase my internal memory with the External SD card by partitioning but I think I partitioned my Internal SD. I did copy all the flash programs that I had onto my External SD to my computer but when I went to install from zip, it could not install anything it Kept giving me errors then I was then stuck at the recovery. So I thought the best thing would be to use GTG ultimate Unbrick- Return to stock- working Pit included and was successful in using Odin and it has PASSED however I am not able to go into recovery now whatsoever on the phone. I am stuck at the Samsung Logo. It is not booting. I do not know what to do I have tried flashing others to the phone as well and they are all passed but when I do the 3 button to get into recover I cannot get into any restore on the phone. I tried the Adb and fastboot but it will not recognize my device. What can I do to get my phone into restore so I can get passed this Samsung Logo. I need from what I understand is to be able to delete the cache. PLEASE HELP. I am trying to go back to stock because I was stuck on recovery prior to it. I do have the Samsung drivers installed but my computer only recognizes my phone as a Samsung Composite USB. PLEASE HELP
Solved after 40 hours
This guy saved me... go to this link and follow the instructions. Much Thanks
Opps. forgot the Link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081