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[Q] I9000 Not working due software mess-up

Hey guys!
First off, i was searching through loads of forums and attempted different solutions. Anything to get it back working. This only made it worse
What happened was as follows:
After having CM 10.1 or some version of it (had the OS at 4.3 i believe), my phone was very slow, so slow in fact that i got so mad at it that i almost bit through it. So one day when i was in a tent at the foot of a mountain all alone (not that long ago) i decided to rollback the phone to its original state from backup i made some months ago before i upgraded the OS. At the same time just before this i backed up the current build just in case. Using ClockWorkMod 3pointsomething.
It went through everything and then asked me: Do you want to root this device? (or something in those lines). I, having no clue, clicked one of the million "no" on the screen.
After this it rebooted with errors saying "Can't detect this drive can't detect that drive". In other words, it couldn't detect niether Internal SD nor External SD. While having the Samsung logo being displayed without booting if i didn't go into "Volume Up, Menu Key and Start your tiny engines!".
I thought i could fix it and looked through tremendous amount of internets in attempt to fix it. Neither Odin nor Heimdall Frontend could detect the device even after installing the drivers and samsung kies and messing about with those two in between.
After a while i ended up with "Phone . . ! in a orange triangle . . PC" aka black screen of death, while the phone can go into download mode. Which in my hand is equally useless as no program can detect it still.
Now i just decided to start a new thread even though there is endless amount of other threads but none seem to cover exactly this as i haven't yet managed to fix it. Plus a response on progress is always pleasant as i personally don't know when i succeed unless phone works fully again.
How bad off am i?
Any input will be greatly appreciated! :victory:

Hoping not to have to spend money on a new one and as far as i've gathered this can be solved - Anybody can give me some tips on where to look or what i could try?

Adventurove said:
Hoping not to have to spend money on a new one and as far as i've gathered this can be solved - Anybody can give me some tips on where to look or what i could try?
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First you are posting in the wrong location as i9000 has its own forum here for Q&A and others too
second click on My Android Solutions (link below) and try methods to fix USB connection problems first after that get into download mode and use a rescue kit from MY Android Collections (link below) or follow this to flash a Gingerbread JVU stock ROM
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Minix X5 Boot Problem

First post but have been reading this forum for a long time. This be the first time I have ran across an issue that has not been covered already on this forum or really any other. So here's the issue(s):
I have a stock X5 that is stuck on the Minix boot screen. I've made no attempts at modifying this device. This happened after watching some shoddy torrents of Breaking Bad. I had been noticing significant lag with the device prior to the downloads. Nothing other than standard media, social networking and gaming apps installed......there is a task killer on the device, the name escapes me at the moment.
Here's what I've tried:
1. Unplug all external devices (keyboard, external hard drives and removed SD card) and power up. Boot issue remains.
2. Unplug (then replug) power supply and start. Boot issue remains.
3. Hold reset button with pin and power up. DROID laying down with red triangle and exclamation comes up for a minute or two then it goes to the indef boot screen.
4. Held in reset button, power button and had girlfriend plug in the device. (I had no delusions of this doing anything but it stopped the gf's nagging to get it fixed for a while. I'm an electronics tech.....apparently that is the same thing as a programmer in her eyes.)
5. I've left the boot screen on for about 48 hours. Obviously this didn't fix anything.
6. Hooking the device up to my Samsung 7.7 tab. It turns on Android debugging on my tab but I really had no idea where I was going to go once I connected the devices. I just now thought of this and am planning on exploring this option a bit more with some searches. I'm quite sure there are no guides for working with these two specific devices though.
Hooking up to a computer to deal with recovery is not an option for me. I am not in the US and access to computers (other than an Internet cafe) is not an easy task. I am going to bet this is the best fix for most though.
My tab is rooted running PAC ROM if that is worth anything. This is currently my only real option for hooking up to another device. Hope to get some ideas here.

Hmm, so no one has any ideas? If using a comp is the only way can someone post how to recover an X5?

Jammertech said:
Hmm, so no one has any ideas? If using a comp is the only way can someone post how to recover an X5?
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In case you didn't know, there is an (un)official Minix forum. May be they can help. (link)
Also, SomeCoolTech in YouTube has done a video on how to flash Minix X7. That could also be helpful.

Thanks for the reply. I was able to find someone to let me borrow their computer. Flashed the Finless ROM and it got it running again. The thing is not running smoothly though.

I had all kinds of issues then sent it in for rma, new x5 works perfectly, that is likely your best option. could you elaborate on your specific issues I am curious?

[Q] Bricked worse than I thought? Help! (long)

Hey gang - I've been traveling for work and just have some crappy slow satellite wifi for access. The phone has been great because I can use wifi calling and all is good.
A few weeks ago my phone crashed. When I rebooted I was at the "touch android to begin" screen. Well... fix permissions and clear caches didn't work.
So next I restored a backup from CWM.
Unfortunately, after that the phone hangs at the initial Samsung splash screen.
Now, stupid me didn't go an a six-month trip with the Android software on my laptop - so I had to wait for my wife to mail me a thumbdrive that has SOC, HOC, drivers, & etc. on it in order to do anything.
In a previous thread from when this first happened, you all recommended I use HOC to flash the phone back to stock. Which now that (yesterday) I got the thumbdrive in the mail, I am happy to do.
My problem comes from the fact that the phone hangs at the Samsung splash screen seemingly no matter what I do... zadig.exe doesn't recognize the phone on the USB port (just "unknown device") and therefore HOC can't do anything (I think?) Furthermore, I can't even get back into recovery or download mode; at least not with the several techniques I've tried so far.
Recommendations? Or am I hosed?
Thanks in advance,

JaimeZX said:
Hey gang - I've been traveling for work and just have some crappy slow satellite wifi for access. The phone has been great because I can use wifi calling and all is good.
A few weeks ago my phone crashed. When I rebooted I was at the "touch android to begin" screen. Well... fix permissions and clear caches didn't work.
So next I restored a backup from CWM.
Unfortunately, after that the phone hangs at the initial Samsung splash screen.
Now, stupid me didn't go an a six-month trip with the Android software on my laptop - so I had to wait for my wife to mail me a thumbdrive that has SOC, HOC, drivers, & etc. on it in order to do anything.
In a previous thread from when this first happened, you all recommended I use HOC to flash the phone back to stock. Which now that (yesterday) I got the thumbdrive in the mail, I am happy to do.
My problem comes from the fact that the phone hangs at the Samsung splash screen seemingly no matter what I do... zadig.exe doesn't recognize the phone on the USB port (just "unknown device") and therefore HOC can't do anything (I think?) Furthermore, I can't even get back into recovery or download mode; at least not with the several techniques I've tried so far.
Recommendations? Or am I hosed?
Thanks in advance,
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Interesting problem. I have bricked my phone a bunch of times and have always been able to get back to at least "download Mode". The method I use to go to "Download Mode" is With the usb cable plugged into the computer only, power off the phone. If phone wont power off, or stay powered off, pull battery, then put battery back in. Now hold vol down and vol up buttons only, keep holding these buttons as you plug the usb cable into the phone. In 3 seconds the download screen should appear. I hope this helps you get your phone back.

JaimeZX said:
Hey gang - I've been traveling for work and just have some crappy slow satellite wifi for access. The phone has been great because I can use wifi calling and all is good.
A few weeks ago my phone crashed. When I rebooted I was at the "touch android to begin" screen. Well... fix permissions and clear caches didn't work.
So next I restored a backup from CWM.
Unfortunately, after that the phone hangs at the initial Samsung splash screen.
Now, stupid me didn't go an a six-month trip with the Android software on my laptop - so I had to wait for my wife to mail me a thumbdrive that has SOC, HOC, drivers, & etc. on it in order to do anything.
In a previous thread from when this first happened, you all recommended I use HOC to flash the phone back to stock. Which now that (yesterday) I got the thumbdrive in the mail, I am happy to do.
My problem comes from the fact that the phone hangs at the Samsung splash screen seemingly no matter what I do... zadig.exe doesn't recognize the phone on the USB port (just "unknown device") and therefore HOC can't do anything (I think?) Furthermore, I can't even get back into recovery or download mode; at least not with the several techniques I've tried so far.
Recommendations? Or am I hosed?
Thanks in advance,
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This sounds like a time where a jig would be helpful. Any chance you can have your wife order one, and send to you? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7I4dFX_iJ4
This should put you straight into download mode, and you can then flash.

Thanks, guys. I continued fiddling and got the phone into DL mode.
I also noted that when plugging and unplugging the phone, it would show up in zadig as "unknown device."
I tried to load the drivers on that, but (a) it still shows up as "unknown device" and (b) when I run HOC it doesn't see the phone under the list of compatible devices.
So.... still kind of stuck.
Any more ideas?

Oop. duplicate post

It's been awhile since I've played with the one clicks, but, "serial gadget" is what I remember seeing when I used them.

Right. MORE messing around later and "Serial Gadget" is it.
That said, I still think I have a driver issue. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the zadig-recommended drivers for Serial Gadget several times. I also tried manually installing the drivers from Super One Click.
Anyway, now when I load up HOC I get the green <<connected>> at bottom; but then sometimes it wants me to install the drivers (again) and sometimes it gets past that part, but then goes to
Flashing Kernel: 0%
...hangs there for about 10 seconds and then
Failed!
So... driver thing you think?
Thanks again,

If you reboot the phone after the 0% hanging for 10 seconds, does it go to the yellow exclamation mark screen? If so, just reflash again and you should be back to working... both my and my wife's phone always did that when I had to flash a kernel.

That's just another download screen that theraze is describing.

Exacatly. But the alternate download screen always came up after restarting the phone after a 'failed' flash where it stayed at 0% where it was successfully communicating through the cable. That just meant to not break the drivers or unplug anything... just reboot fast and finish up quickly.

Okay - I can definitely try that! It had not occurred to me to try and reboot the phone right then.
Question, though - when I get the "Failed!" Then HOC essentially hangs, when it says something along the lines of "ending session..." and never progresses from there. So how do you "restart quickly?" Because I have to like, close and reopen HOC. I guess I will see if it succeeds at ending the session when I reboot.
I will try it again. Strange though, sometimes HOC accepts the existing driver (I managed to DL the Samsung driver installer) and sometimes it wants to reinstall "WinUSB." does that make sense? Is the WinUSB an acceptable one?

The winusb is the right driver for heimdall, it doesn't like the Samsung driver.
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Samsung drivers and the one click drivers clash. Yes, uninstall Samsung completely if you want to use the one click.

Hm. Thanks for that - might be part of the problem.
Dunno what I did differently, if anything, but last night I tried flashing again and this time it went through! I was very glad to see the whole HOC process completed successfully!
So anyway - thanks so much for the help, guys.

[Completed] [Q] Need help with Trio Stealth 7c (LY-F1 clone)

A couple of days ago, I was trying to get Google Play on the tablet so that I can play the games I bought since it is slightly faster and has a larger screen than my phone. After unsuccessfully jumping through various hoops, I went to clockwork it. First, I attempted to make a back-up, but looking back on it, I don't think it worked because I never got any type of confirmation. Then, with the firmware image on the extSD, I started up the clockwork. In the recovery menu, I formatted the data, but the tablet slipped out of my hands and hit the floor, jostling the battery and turning the tablet off.
Now, if I try the vol+ POW button combo, I just get a black screen. My computer understands that something was plugged in, but adb and fastboot can't find the device. If I try just starting it up normally, all it shows is the Android character standing there doing nothing. I have been trying to get this thing back up and running with any type of ROM I could, but nothing seems to locate the device except for Livesuit, but when I select a ROM for it to load, the application stops working and closes out. So I am at a complete loss at what to do.
Tablet information
Trio Stealth Pro 7c
Allwinner A13
Device ID: VID_1f3a_PID_efe8
Original Android version: 4.0.4
That's all the information I have currently, if you need anything else, please let me know and I will try to find it out.
Thank you for reading!

bennimarru said:
A couple of days ago, I was trying to get Google Play on the tablet so that I can play the games I bought since it is slightly faster and has a larger screen than my phone. After unsuccessfully jumping through various hoops, I went to clockwork it. First, I attempted to make a back-up, but looking back on it, I don't think it worked because I never got any type of confirmation. Then, with the firmware image on the extSD, I started up the clockwork. In the recovery menu, I formatted the data, but the tablet slipped out of my hands and hit the floor, jostling the battery and turning the tablet off.
Now, if I try the vol+ POW button combo, I just get a black screen. My computer understands that something was plugged in, but adb and fastboot can't find the device. If I try just starting it up normally, all it shows is the Android character standing there doing nothing. I have been trying to get this thing back up and running with any type of ROM I could, but nothing seems to locate the device except for Livesuit, but when I select a ROM for it to load, the application stops working and closes out. So I am at a complete loss at what to do.
Tablet information
Trio Stealth Pro 7c
Allwinner A13
Device ID: VID_1f3a_PID_efe8
Original Android version: 4.0.4
That's all the information I have currently, if you need anything else, please let me know and I will try to find it out.
Thank you for reading!
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Man, that's some really bad luck you got there. My sympathies.
However, I was unable to find much support for your device on XDA, and I also think you may have bricked it pretty bad. my advice would be to try a visit to the service centre to get it fixed.
If you want to do it yourself though, visit this thread and see if you can figure it out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/android

FIXED!
Thank you thank you thank you! Your reference to search those forums led me to someone fixing their bricked tablet. Since the Trio was so similar to theirs, I tried it as well, and it worked!
For any one else looking for a fix for their own Chinese Trio Stealth Pro 7c tablet, got here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2537189

bennimarru said:
Thank you thank you thank you! Your reference to search those forums led me to someone fixing their bricked tablet. Since the Trio was so similar to theirs, I tried it as well, and it worked!
For any one else looking for a fix for their own Chinese Trio Stealth Pro 7c tablet, got here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2537189
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I'm glad you figured it out. Congratulations!
Thread closed.

Problems rescuing a flytouch superpad 7

Hello All.
So the other day I paid a visit to the local skip, as you do, and I found a Flytouch Superpad 7 in its' box, so I took it home.
Plugged it in and it started to boot up, first screen had "Tablet PC powered by...." then the next screen was of the Android Droid with its' arms folded, it usually freezes here. Sometimes it will go onto a screen with "Android" in the centre, but no further.
So I have tried various combination of pressing buttons to no avail. Cannot access a recovery anything.
I took it apart and found it is a Yones Top Tech BC1003, so have been searching and searching for information and roms etc for days.
What I would like to know is, do you think this tablet is saveable?
I have plugged it into my laptop but it doesn't recognise it, but wouldn't the tablet have to boot to be recognised?
I have read thread upon thread, but still do not understand how I could get a rom onto this tablet if it is not recognised by the laptop and it doesn't show a recovery section where I could boot from a SD Card.
Any advice gratefully accepted. Just trying to save something from the landfill.

Just an update to say I managed to get the tablet up and running.
I ended up going to a lot of foreign language website through Google Translate and found some firmware for this board at the Koncaso site. Burned the .img file and put it in the tablet, which now works again.