Hey so I rooted my tab 2 a while ago, like back in april I think after I got it. Anyways its been working fine until a couple of weeks ago it started saying "Android is upgrading... starting applications" every time at boot up but after that it was fine. I didn't think anything of it. Well yesterday I left it on the bed and I came back and the battery had run out and died while I was gone. So I plugged it in and booted it up and it said "Android is upgrading... starting applications" then flickered to the homescreen and went back to the "Android is upgrading..." message. It stays in this loop and won't boot. Ive done some searching and havent come up with anything. Any idea what is going on?
I believe that it is still on the original firmware (although rooted) so that would mean 4.01 What I want to do is to back up all my data but I am not sure this is possible if the device is bricked to some extent. Is there any way I can do this? If there is a way to recover the system then that would be great. Otherwise I will just do a factory reset and then upgrade to the latest firmware and what not. Thankyou for your help! - Josh
I think your cache partition is corrupt. Try wiping cache in recovery?
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G2x appears to be stuck in a boot cycle. After completely draining its battery, it began to happen. Ive tried charging while its off and it still happens. Its gets to the lock screen and it tuns off again. Stock rom, rooted, nv flash. Help..
When I had this problem on the gb leak I had to unlock as soon as it showed up. I switched to bionix as soon as it was released and it hasn't happened since. Might be an app causing the problem though.
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Did you make a backup after you flashed clockworkrecovery? If so than retore it and you should boot fine. If you didnt make a backup then boot into recovery and do a factory reset.
REG, I have clockwordmod and I did a backup of my stock, but I think I did not have sufficient space on my SD card, so when I did the restore it succeeded, but when I rebooted my phone it's stuck on LG logo, do I have to reboot in recovery and do a factory reset?
Things to try
1 Factory reset in cwm
2 Load CWM internal recovery via nvflash (since you seem to have a small microsd)
3 Load another rom or nandroid back to stock again of your internal mem
I don't want to screw it up, would factory reset work for me in cwm?
It'll just wipe all your apps/cache. If that doesn't load correctly, then you got something wonky in either your boot or system.
Okay, so if that doesn't work, how can I get passed the LG reboot?
Mikeglongo said:
Okay, so if that doesn't work, how can I get passed the LG reboot?
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I already told you what to do. Look at what I wrote for options 2 and 3.
Edit: I actually told the OP what to do, but it goes for you too if you are in the same situation.
This happened to me today while I was out getting my car fixed! I was playing the new free game from amazon when it got a little hot so I let it rest, then next thing you know it was stuck doing the rebooting cycle. I was pretty pissed since I really raved earlier about how good this phone was until it struck me all the sudden.
I was at costco when this was still happening and showed it at the kiosk and asked if I could get a new another model since the G2X was making me pull my hair and basically I just have to bring the box in and they will replace it with the phone of my choice. Hoping they have sensation before the end of the month because this piece of brick is going. In the end I had to press down on the volume and power at the same time to LOSE ALL MY DATA to do a hard reset.
I don't care what people say about this phone and how great it is. I literally in the middle of costco curse the crap out of this phone!
Titanium and nandroid backup is definitely your friend.
Hello everyone,
I searched the forums for awhile but could not find a satifying answer for my question. So i am hoping you guys will have an answer for me.
First of all i would like to point out that i am not looking for an answer for how to unbrick the phone. There are several guides and hopefully when i get home i will be able to fix the problem. *Fingers crossed*
I did not have my Galaxy S for long. After getting it and installing KIES and updating my firmware the battery life what terrible so I rooted the phone and then installed Gingerbread 2.3.6 JVU. it worked like a charm.
Yesterday when I was playing with the CWM application, I decided that i was going to back up the phone and backed it up using the application. This morning one of my programs was acting weird and I decided to restore the backup I have done yesterday.
Upon going into applications and CWM, I chose the restore option and started the process. Everything was going smoothly, the phone was plugged in to the charger as well.
When the phone rebooted after the initial process I am stuck at logo screen. i can go into download mode (That is why I am hoping that I will be able to unbrick it) however that is as far as the phone goes. When I try to go into CWM Recovery mode, I am once again welcomed by the phone getting stuck at logo screen.
Does anyone have any idea as to why this might have happened? To avoid future problems is there any extra steps I should have taken before using the CWM restore function?
Thanks for the help.
m_hawkmoon said:
Hello everyone,
I searched the forums for awhile but could not find a satifying answer for my question. So i am hoping you guys will have an answer for me.
First of all i would like to point out that i am not looking for an answer for how to unbrick the phone. There are several guides and hopefully when i get home i will be able to fix the problem. *Fingers crossed*
I did not have my Galaxy S for long. After getting it and installing KIES and updating my firmware the battery life what terrible so I rooted the phone and then installed Gingerbread 2.3.6 JVU. it worked like a charm.
Yesterday when I was playing with the CWM application, I decided that i was going to back up the phone and backed it up using the application. This morning one of my programs was acting weird and I decided to restore the backup I have done yesterday.
Upon going into applications and CWM, I chose the restore option and started the process. Everything was going smoothly, the phone was plugged in to the charger as well.
When the phone rebooted after the initial process I am stuck at logo screen. i can go into download mode (That is why I am hoping that I will be able to unbrick it) however that is as far as the phone goes. When I try to go into CWM Recovery mode, I am once again welcomed by the phone getting stuck at logo screen.
Does anyone have any idea as to why this might have happened? To avoid future problems is there any extra steps I should have taken before using the CWM restore function?
Thanks for the help.
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Maybe your backup was corrupted somehow. You could have tried wiping the dalvik cache after restoring your backup (before rebooting), but its too late now. Since you can get into download mode, you can easily fix the problem (your device is just soft bricked - nothing to worry too much about).
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Maybe your backup was corrupted somehow. You could have tried wiping the dalvik cache after restoring your backup (before rebooting), but its too late now. Since you can get into download mode, you can easily fix the problem (your device is just soft bricked - nothing to worry too much about).
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The phone rebooted automatically. Did not give me the chance to do anything beforehand.
As you said the phone was soft bricked so when i got home that day i just fixed it. No problem. However I am really really into getting to find out how a 1 day old back up can get corrupted.
Hi guys, my phone is right borked and I hope someone can help me out. I've been searching forums all day and I find bits and pieces of advice that apply to parts of my situation, but haven’t found a fix yet.
I installed CyanogenMod on my Rogers Samsung G3 a couple months back. Everything has been going smoothly until last night when I installed an update.
The phone rebooted and got stuck on the Samsung splash screen with the blue cyanogen dude. I left it for 30 min and when I got back, it was still the same.
I took the battery out, turned it back on and ended up in the same spot. I took the battery out again, turned it on and left it over night. Same thing this morning.
On advice from this forum I put the phone in recovery mode. I thought I had TWRP, but Clockwork Recovery comes up.
I did a factory reset, and cleared the cache. Rebooted and still the same thing.
I tried to flash the ROM, but it doesn't work. The android dude just lies there, dead. Poor guy.
I plugged it into my computer but even though the computer makes the connection ‘cah-ching’ its not recognized. Through the recovery screen I tried unmounting and mounting everything, and mounting as usb and the computer still won’t pick it up. I uninstalled Kies, and the drivers for the phone and re installed everything. The driver pop up says MTP has failed.
Any suggestions?
Ok.. I might have messed up something internal in the phone, because no matter what I do, the phone keeps to the 'Optimizing Apps Screen' then it reboots, and returns back to it.. starting it all over and continuously repeating this since I tried to install CarHD ROM on my SM-G925P
I did all of the following:
Factory reset my phone
Completely removed the rom off the phone
Reinstalled stock (several times in fact)
Cleared EVERY file that I could clear in TWRP
Restored from an system image (til I accidentally deleted it.. oops)
Cleared cache
I still haven't found a way to fix my phone.. I dont really want to break the news to my parents that I messed up my phone either..
Anyone can help me out?
Ok.. The phone is fully charged now but now it seems to completely power off right when it gets to the end of the optimizing, and when I turn it back it, it goes back again optimizing apps from 10 of 56 on the G925PVPS4CPI3_G925PSPT4CPI3_G925PVPS4CPI3_HOME.tar firmware and with the G925PVPS4CPI3_G925PSPT4CPJ1_G925PVPS4CPJ1_HOME.tar firmware, it doesn't even get to the half way mark anymore.
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Well, what it did for the G925PSPT4CPI3firmware is no longer doing that when I tried to flash the G925PSPT4CPJ1, it just restarts towards the end (between 40 and 49)
There is something I notice whenever I flash the stock roms, the blue screen (with the android that says Installing system update) pops up and begins trying to update.. but, it only gets to 32% (and every time, it got stuck there no matter how many times I flashed), then it says "Erasing", then it says "Installing updates" but with no progress, then just moves on to the Optimizing apps. But this never occurs again until I flash the rom again.
I powered the device off and that seemed to have allow it to get to 56 of 56 of optimizing my apps, but after a few seconds, the phone just turns off (using the G925PSPT4CPI3)
Hey, did you find a solution?
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Hey, did you find a solution?
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Yeah, I had to actually wait a couple of weeks.. For some reason 'letting it rest' made the phone decide to come back on.
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Yeah, I had to actually wait a couple of weeks.. For some reason 'letting it rest' made the phone decide to come back on.
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I still have the issue after 3 months. Had to buy a new phone. I wasn't even flashing at the time, it was on my desk when I was in a meeting, and when I came back it was stuck in this bootloop.
alamoaz1 said:
I still have the issue after 3 months. Had to buy a new phone. I wasn't even flashing at the time, it was on my desk when I was in a meeting, and when I came back it was stuck in this bootloop.
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That's sucks, I wonder why it started boot looping like that.. Did you ever root it?
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That's sucks, I wonder why it started boot looping like that.. Did you ever root it?
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I had been when the phone first came out, but I went back to stock a few months later.
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I had been when the phone first came out, but I went back to stock a few months later.
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Hm, possibly a software update messed it up, but its strange becuase I have since went back to stock and downloaded an OTA update with no problems
guys try this....when u odin "check" nand erase.
Hi everyone!
Yesterday my GT-3100 got stuck on bootloop. Around two years ago, I got tired of seeing the Jellybean look so I gave custom ROMs a try. Even though I was incredibly scared of bricking my device, I went through with it anyway and flashed CyanogenMod 12 and made sure to make a backup of the stock version. Ever since then I've used the upgraded Lollipop 5.0.2 version. Occasionally it would get stuck on bootloop and it would get fixed on erasing the cache partition. Just yesterday the bootloop started again and even after trying everything, nothing's working.
I have CWM Recovery v6.0.2.7 installed, which I installed 1.5 years ago. I have tried factory resetting and after it rebooted I realized that nothing was even erased. My backup seemed to have disappeared as well since CWM can't find it even though it takes up almost 8Gbs of storage. After restarting, the home screen appears for about 30 seconds before restarting again in a continuous cycle.
I'm a noob when it comes to these things so any help (in simplified language) helps.
Thank you so much! :laugh:
Its probably a broken emmc. That means you need to replace the motherboard.