Related
So, been running CM10 for a long time on tab. Decided to go back to stock, and downloaded the JB stock rom. Flashed via ODIN. Everything seemed to go OK, except that after the flash the screen went black for ages, and didn't reboot. So I hard powered it off. Probably what did it, but it wasn't going anywhere for about 15 minutes, so figured it was the next step.
Now, I get the battery charging icon. The system goes through the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 white logo, the swirling then glowing Samsung logo, and then loops through that forever.
It wouldn't be such a problem if I could back into ODIN and do another flash, but I can't get into download mode (normally I do it via adb but that isn't working since there is no USB connection at all). Tried all combinations, power/up, power/down etc. It just boot loops as above. I'm pretty sure I bricked it, but just wanted some confirmation.
Been doing this on and off for a long time, and it's the first time I've ever got stuck like this.
Thanks in advance.
Plug USB charger, your device will boot into charge mode. From charge mode you can boot into recovery by keep holding VOLUME UP button and than press POWER button. Clear data and cache in recovery, reboot.
ketut.kumajaya said:
Plug USB charger, your device will boot into charge mode. From charge mode you can boot into recovery by keep holding VOLUME UP button and than press POWER button. Clear data and cache in recovery, reboot.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks, but I tried all combinations of Power/Volume UP and Power/Volume DOWN, it just goes through a normal boot cycle until it starts looping.
I guess it's possible I'm not using the right timing. I'm assuming that you hold Volume UP or DOWN and then press and hold Power until the screen goes black, and then release? I've done it like that many times, and also continued to hold everything down as the logo appears, and then system goes back to the battery charging icon as if it powers off again. I sound like such a noob when I type stuff like that!
I saw ODIN successfully write system.img, boot.img, and recovery.img, so I'm thinking any CWM recovery I had on there is toast.
sl0ttedpig said:
Thanks, but I tried all combinations of Power/Volume UP and Power/Volume DOWN, it just goes through a normal boot cycle until it starts looping.
I guess it's possible I'm not using the right timing. I'm assuming that you hold Volume UP or DOWN and then press and hold Power until the screen goes black, and then release? I've done it like that many times, and also continued to hold everything down as the logo appears, and then system goes back to the battery charging icon as if it powers off again. I sound like such a noob when I type stuff like that!
I saw ODIN successfully write system.img, boot.img, and recovery.img, so I'm thinking any CWM recovery I had on there is toast.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You must pull usb cable before start.
You can try to re-flash.
tuxafgmur said:
You must pull usb cable before start.
You can try to re-flash.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well, don't I feel like the idiot!
How did I not think to disconnect the USB before trying this? tuxafgmur, your first "Thanks" has been registered, I've got it from here!
P.S. Welcome to the forum!
it sounds strange. never heard of such a strange boot problem. anyway it could be that while transferring boot.img it became damaged due to some error. i know you probably tryed but you may try and connect it to linux or mac os x in order to check if you could retrive more data about the tab. for example the mac could find if it is totally corrupted. normally when i plug my samsung devices it ask me to add the samsung-modem also if they are turned off. meybe if it happens the same to you you can try to adb fastboot it also if i doubt myself about it working, but give it a shot
i hope my bad english is not preventing you to understand what i'm saying!
give us new feedback!
Hi, Everytime my phones battery dies, when i plug it back into recharge, it always boots into recovery. I cant get it to reboot normal until it plugged in for about 5-10 minutes. I have to hold the power button for a while and finally it boots back normal. Any idea why It does that? and how to fix? Its a pain if I have to make a call after finding a charger. Any help is appreciated.
sk8er982 said:
Hi, Everytime my phones battery dies, when i plug it back into recharge, it always boots into recovery. I cant get it to reboot normal until it plugged in for about 5-10 minutes. I have to hold the power button for a while and finally it boots back normal. Any idea why It does that? and how to fix? Its a pain if I have to make a call after finding a charger. Any help is appreciated.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Let me guess CWM recovery? if so swap to TWRP but you will still need to leave it to charge for 5-10 minutes before it will boot and to add this isnt good to let it run out of power, it has been known to mess up and need to be factory reset to work again.
Ill try it
Darknites said:
Let me guess CWM recovery? if so swap to TWRP but you will still need to leave it to charge for 5-10 minutes before it will boot and to add this isnt good to let it run out of power, it has been known to mess up and need to be factory reset to work again.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes CWM. Ill try it and report back. Thanks!
I agree with dark. I had this issue with CWM, switched to TWRP and it works perfectly fine.
But, dont let it run out of juice, the odds that it wont boot is quite high. In both my cases I had to reflash boot.img through fastboot before the device started properly.
If you dont have access to a charger, and the device is about to run out of power - shut it down! Dont let it self-die!
it happend to me , i just reboot using the recovery. No need for hard reboot.
Sent from my HTC One S Special Edition using xda app-developers app
Phone is A3LSGH-T959V.. Will power on and start to boot into recovery mode, but will shut down and start that process over again.. What do I need to do to fix this phone??
tlrichardson said:
Phone is A3LSGH-T959V.. Will power on and start to boot into recovery mode, but will shut down and start that process over again.. What do I need to do to fix this phone??
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Confirm the model of phone you have. If it is indeed a SGH T959V, use the guide in the second link of my signature.
It is confirmed that the phone is in fact the SGH-T959V.. I'm using a Windows 7 PC, and the phone won't stay powered on long enough for the system to load the drivers for it.. Any other suggestions or advice is greatly appreciated...
tlrichardson said:
It is confirmed that the phone is in fact the SGH-T959V.. I'm using a Windows 7 PC, and the phone won't stay powered on long enough for the system to load the drivers for it.. Any other suggestions or advice is greatly appreciated...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Could you provide more info on how the phone got stuck, were you trying to flash a new ROM. Lumins guide is excellent( it has gotten me out of multiple self induced boot loops) but after installing one click, windows will not show you, on the pull down, a samsung composite device. you will have to look through the different drives that are shown to determine which drive your phone is on.
If you can get into the recovery mode, have you simply tried reflasing
tlrichardson said:
It is confirmed that the phone is in fact the SGH-T959V.. I'm using a Windows 7 PC, and the phone won't stay powered on long enough for the system to load the drivers for it.. Any other suggestions or advice is greatly appreciated...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If when you say shut down you mean bootloop, you need to read the guide as it says to put the phone in download mode. If your battery is dead, I'm sure you can figure out what you need to do to charge your battery on your own.
tlrichardson said:
Phone is A3LSGH-T959V.. Will power on and start to boot into recovery mode, but will shut down and start that process over again.. What do I need to do to fix this phone??
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
First make sure the battery is charged as Lumin suggested. If the battery is charged then my bet would be that you have a stuck power button. Try this. Pull the battery and put it back in. If the phone powers on by itself then your power button is stuck.
hechoen said:
First make sure the battery is charged as Lumin suggested. If the battery is charged then my bet would be that you have a stuck power button. Try this. Pull the battery and put it back in. If the phone powers on by itself then your power button is stuck.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Put in a brand new battery.. Phone is powering on by itself, but the power button doesn't feel like it's stuck.. Not saying it isn't stuck IJS.. It goes into recovery mode for a split second and resets.. Drivers won't load because the phone won't stay on long enough.. UGH!!
Definitely stuck
TwitchyEye said:
Definitely stuck
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Without a doubt. Take the phone apart and clean the power button.
hechoen said:
Without a doubt. Take the phone apart and clean the power button.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I did, and seems to be working fine.. EXCEPT when I try to charge it or plug it into the pc.. It goes back into the boot loop.. Thinking the charger port may be the culprit here..
Hi there,
The other day I was on TWRP and tried to flash an ASUS update file (probably didnt really know what I was doing). Anyway, the flash failed.
I then thought I ought to wipe the OS and restore to a backup. I got as far as wiping the OS when the battery died.
The next day I turned the device on and a progress bar appeared but didn't get anywhere. Frustrated, and aiming to reboot into TWRP, I turned off the tablet.
It now will not turn on.
So...Hard brick?
I will have to send this thing off to Asus otherwise.
Many thanks, reply much appreciated.
Chaza
Bump, any ideas?
chaza01 said:
Hi there,
The other day I was on TWRP and tried to flash an ASUS update file (probably didnt really know what I was doing). Anyway, the flash failed.
I then thought I ought to wipe the OS and restore to a backup. I got as far as wiping the OS when the battery died.
The next day I turned the device on and a progress bar appeared but didn't get anywhere. Frustrated, and aiming to reboot into TWRP, I turned off the tablet.
It now will not turn on.
So...Hard brick?
I will have to send this thing off to Asus otherwise.
Many thanks, reply much appreciated.
Chaza
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Bump. Any quick reply would be welcome, I think I've been a noob so sorry if this thread makes you want to smash your head into the keyboard. I hadn't flashed anything for ages so was a tad rusty.
When I plug the transformer into the computer the led on the power button comes on, but the transformer will not power on.
Any ideas?
Many thanks
chaza01 said:
Bump. Any quick reply would be welcome, I think I've been a noob so sorry if this thread makes you want to smash your head into the keyboard. I hadn't flashed anything for ages so was a tad rusty.
When I plug the transformer into the computer the led on the power button comes on, but the transformer will not power on.
Any ideas?
Many thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You should still be able to get into recovery even with a bad wipe/flash, but your battery is drained. You need to plug it into the wall charger and let it charge and then boot directly into recovery.
Once you are there, you should be able to flash a ROM.
I'll give that a try
kiden said:
You should still be able to get into recovery even with a bad wipe/flash, but your battery is drained. You need to plug it into the wall charger and let it charge and then boot directly into recovery.
Once you are there, you should be able to flash a ROM.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi, many thanks for the reply, I will give that a try and get back to you tomorrow.
Many thanks
tried...
kiden said:
You should still be able to get into recovery even with a bad wipe/flash, but your battery is drained. You need to plug it into the wall charger and let it charge and then boot directly into recovery.
Once you are there, you should be able to flash a ROM.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi there,
I charged the tablet over night and the LED was showing as it was charging.
However, it still will not turn on.
When I connect the tablet to the computer the computer eventually recognizes that something is connected but deems it to be corrupted.
Any ideas?
Many thanks
Did you boot into recovery like I instructed?
Boot into Recovery Mode. You can do this by pressing and holding down the Volume Down and Power buttons until you are greeted with a message saying “Press Volume Up to enter RCK (5S)”. In less than 5 seconds, press the Volume Up button to enter Recovery Mode.
kiden said:
Did you boot into recovery like I instructed?
Boot into Recovery Mode. You can do this by pressing and holding down the Volume Down and Power buttons until you are greeted with a message saying “Press Volume Up to enter RCK (5S)”. In less than 5 seconds, press the Volume Up button to enter Recovery Mode.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi, it will not boot at all.
However, when I plugged it into the computer and did so, the computer made a beeping sound therefore recognizing a device was attached after I had pushed down the power button and volume down. On one occasion, it recognized an asus device was connected, and so I proceeded to install the correct driver and so installed 'asus bootloader' or whatever it was called. This didn't seem to change anything so I deleted the driver intending to install Asus ADB bit so I could perhaps force a boot from the computer. However, after uninstalling the driver the computer stopped recognizing the tablet beyond 'APX'.
Any ideas?
manyt thanks
bump
Hi there,
Kindly help... I successfully installed B512 on my TL10 using force upgrade method, afterwhich I changed recovery to TWRP 3.0.2 using mobopx v2.2, which was also successful. And then I installed SuperSU 2.46 via TWRP, then cleared cache/dalvik. But upon rebooting system, I get a blank screen, even after waiting for more than 15 minutes.
And so I tried going to TWRP (Vol+ and power), which was successful, in order to boot to bootloader, with the intention of loading back the stock bootloader via adb, so that I can force install B512 from my microSD card again. It seemed to install fine...
However, at this point, I cannot reboot to bootloader (Vol- and power) anymore, I only get blank screen. Trying recovery (Vol+ and power) doesn't work either. Rebooting normally gives me the same. I cannot by any means connect via adb now.
Is there any way to unbrick my phone at this point?
Thanks so much. Cheers.
Works entrance for the recovery (Vol+ and Vol- and Power)?
rakrakrak said:
Works entrance for the recovery (Vol+ and Vol- and Power)?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No bro...
eusagc said:
However, at this point, I cannot reboot to bootloader (Vol- and power) anymore, I only get blank screen. Trying recovery (Vol+ and power) doesn't work either. Rebooting normally gives me the same. I cannot by any means connect via adb now.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
What happens when you do a Vol up + power?
CloudCompute said:
What happens when you do a Vol up + power?[/QU
The phone "doesn't want to turn off" bro. It has fully discharged, but as soon as I plug the charger in, it immediately powers up. When it does, now it shows the Huawei logo. But it's stuck there, and if I press the power button for a few secs, it will power down, but immediately power up again...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
eusagc said:
CloudCompute said:
What happens when you do a Vol up + power?[/QU
The phone "doesn't want to turn off" bro. It has fully discharged, but as soon as I plug the charger in, it immediately powers up. When it does, now it shows the Huawei logo. But it's stuck there, and if I press the power button for a few secs, it will power down, but immediately power up again...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Let it get fully charged first. Then remove the charger and keep the Vol up and power button pressed for ~10 secs or more, and see where it takes you.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
CloudCompute said:
eusagc said:
Let it get fully charged first. Then remove the charger and keep the Vol up and power button pressed for ~10 secs or more, and see where it takes you.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok dude, will do. Thanks!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
CloudCompute said:
eusagc said:
Let it get fully charged first. Then remove the charger and keep the Vol up and power button pressed for ~10 secs or more, and see where it takes you.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Done bro. Although I must say, I'm kinda back like yesterday when the phone is just helplessly discharging until it drops dead. Pressing vol+ and power restarts the phone, but I'm still stuck at the logo...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
CloudCompute said:
Done bro. Although I must say, I'm kinda back like yesterday when the phone is just helplessly discharging until it drops dead. Pressing vol+ and power restarts the phone, but I'm still stuck at the logo...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You seem to be in a sticky situation bro. Your recovery seems to be broken because in stock recovery Vol up + power should ideally take you to recovery and not restart. If you could somehow boot into fastboot mode then it could open up some options to bring your phone to life.
With no way to connect to the phone the only options left are the hardware buttons. I am sure you'd have tried them already, but just in case you have not, try the other 2 key combinations also, Vol down + power and Vol up + Volume down + power, for ~10 secs, to check if any of these either forces a factory reset or boots the phone into fastboot mode.
eusagc said:
Hi there,
Kindly help... I successfully installed B512 on my TL10 using force upgrade method, afterwhich I changed recovery to TWRP 3.0.2 using mobopx v2.2, which was also successful. And then I installed SuperSU 2.46 via TWRP, then cleared cache/dalvik. But upon rebooting system, I get a blank screen, even after waiting for more than 15 minutes.
And so I tried going to TWRP (Vol+ and power), which was successful, in order to boot to bootloader, with the intention of loading back the stock bootloader via adb, so that I can force install B512 from my microSD card again. It seemed to install fine...
However, at this point, I cannot reboot to bootloader (Vol- and power) anymore, I only get blank screen. Trying recovery (Vol+ and power) doesn't work either. Rebooting normally gives me the same. I cannot by any means connect via adb now.
Is there any way to unbrick my phone at this point?
Thanks so much. Cheers.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Go back to stock recovery reflash stock rom make sure you have a unlocked bootloader......all remember that Google is your friend.....
CloudCompute said:
You seem to be in a sticky situation bro. Your recovery seems to be broken because in stock recovery Vol up + power should ideally take you to recovery and not restart. If you could somehow boot into fastboot mode then it could open up some options to bring your phone to life.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's correct bro. Although it appears from adb that I was able to install the stock recovery, I cannot access it with Vol+ and power.
CloudCompute said:
With no way to connect to the phone the only options left are the hardware buttons. I am sure you'd have tried them already, but just in case you have not, try the other 2 key combinations also, Vol down + power and Vol up + Volume down + power, for ~10 secs, to check if any of these either forces a factory reset or boots the phone into fastboot mode.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes, I did. And I can't even boot to bootloader after all that... The phone only seems to charge, but is stuck at the logo.
I'm ready to send this to Huawei's service center. Is there anything more I can do at this point before I do that? Thanks so much.
stinka318 said:
Go back to stock recovery reflash stock rom make sure you have a unlocked bootloader......all remember that Google is your friend.....
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks bro, but that's what I did, or at least was planning to do. After rooting B512 via TWRP, the phone got stuck at the logo. And so I tried to install stock recovery, which it did, in order to reflash the stock ROM. But at this point I'm still stuck at the logo, and I can't access recovery and BL anymore. The BL is unlocked right from the start...
eusagc said:
Thanks bro, but that's what I did, or at least was planning to do. After rooting B512 via TWRP, the phone got stuck at the logo. And so I tried to install stock recovery, which it did, in order to reflash the stock ROM. But at this point I'm still stuck at the logo, and I can't access recovery and BL anymore. The BL is unlocked right from the start...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Did you try volume down and then plug USB in on computer then command prompt fast boot reboot it may work.
eusagc said:
I'm ready to send this to Huawei's service center. Is there anything more I can do at this point before I do that? Thanks so much.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Go ahead, send it to Huawei service centre. They'll have ways to reach the internal memory after opening up the device.
stinka318 said:
Did you try volume down and then plug USB in on computer then command prompt fast boot reboot it may work.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thank you for this suggestion brother. I tried exactly as you described, however, the phone looks badly discharged, and while the screen was blinking/showing the red battery icon, it doesn't seem to want to charge. I waited around 5 minutes, but nothing seems to progress from here.
And so now, I moved the USB cable to a proper charger, and now it seems to be charging, with the LED light a steady red, and the screen the normal red circle with "0%" inside. It seems to be charging at the moment, although I really have to wait until it shows "1%" until I can surely say so.
One thing that's different now is that the phone hasn't turned on (by itself) yet. And at least this looks promising.
I'll let you know what happens in a while... Thank you!
eusagc said:
Thank you for this suggestion brother. I tried exactly as you described, however, the phone looks badly discharged, and while the screen was blinking/showing the red battery icon, it doesn't seem to want to charge. I waited around 5 minutes, but nothing seems to progress from here.
And so now, I moved the USB cable to a proper charger, and now it seems to be charging, with the LED light a steady red, and the screen the normal red circle with "0%" inside. It seems to be charging at the moment, although I really have to wait until it shows "1%" until I can surely say so.
One thing that's different now is that the phone hasn't turned on (by itself) yet. And at least this looks promising.
I'll let you know what happens in a while... Thank you!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Charging's at 4% now... And the phone hasn't turned on so far... Looks promising...
eusagc said:
Charging's at 4% now... And the phone hasn't turned on so far... Looks promising...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
All well now?
CloudCompute said:
All well now?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I was out of town for the past few weeks and didn't have time to do this. I'm back now and plan to work on this tonight. Thank you bro, I'll let you know how it goes...