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[Q] Nexus S keep's restarting itself.

Good day all, I recently got a Nexus S for free from my brother becuase it keep's restarting its self. The phone was rooted with Cyanogen rom, and from what he told me has been dropped a couple of times. With this all being said, he went ahead and flashed a fresh rom on there (unk which one) and wiped everything etc.. Anyone exp this type of problem before and if so what can be done to fix it?

King350z said:
Good day all, I recently got a Nexus S for free from my brother becuase it keep's restarting its self. The phone was rooted with Cyanogen rom, and from what he told me has been dropped a couple of times. With this all being said, he went ahead and flashed a fresh rom on there (unk which one) and wiped everything etc.. Anyone exp this type of problem before and if so what can be done to fix it?
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Lol I think you over clocked it on the minimum ... try the minimum at 800m ... or if anything flash a new rom.. its probably the rom itself
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Try another (stable) rom? (no development rom)
Wipe everything.
And yes, probably its underclocked/overclocked too high.

I would like to flash a rom but once I turn it on it keeps force closing everything and I am unable to do anything on the phone, It boots into recovery mode just fine though
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King350z said:
I would like to flash a rom but once I turn it on it keeps force closing everything and I am unable to do anything on the phone, It boots into recovery mode just fine though
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Good news, you flash your ROM from recovery. Download the package, boot into recovery. Mount the SD card and push or push using adb push. Flash the zip from CWM.

my friend purchased the phone yesterday and he is on the latest Official version (2.3.6) and the phone keeps rebooting!!!
is this normal?? there must a problem!

3mar84 said:
my friend purchased the phone yesterday and he is on the latest Official version (2.3.6) and the phone keeps rebooting!!!
is this normal?? there must a problem!
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Wipe data/factory reset from recovery if it's a used phone.

If he just bought it return it... thats easy
If he rooted it and changed the rom -- put it back to stock or put a new rom on it
I personally found that most of my restarts were due to me trying to pull the stock launcher into an unfamiliar rom. Make sure (if you are using Titanium backup) to only load apps not system *unless you are trying to go back to the same rom*
good luck

First check if he overclocked too much or underclocked too much. Put it to normal.
Alternatively you can just flash another rom. Before flashing remember to wipe everything
Goodluck!

[Q] Jelly Bean Flash gone wrong

My phone got stuck in what appeared to be recovery mode while trying to flash Jelly Bean using this guide:
http://www.android.gs/update-verizon-galaxy-s3-to-vralg7-ics-update-rooted-and-deodexed-firmware/
The phone seemed to flash took about 8 minutes then just went blank. Nothing. After about 10 minutes of waiting still nothing. I finally tried to get it to respond by hitting up/down/power and home buttons and still nothing. I then pulled the battery figuring I had bricked it anyway. After pulling the battery I restarted the phone and it came on but in a stock configeration. Not bricked but lost my root and cannot seem to get the phone to restore from Titanium Pro back up (not rooted any more). Any help getting things back the way they were would be appreciated.

drzcharlie said:
My phone got stuck in what appeared to be recovery mode while trying to flash Jelly Bean using this guide:
http://www.android.gs/update-verizon-galaxy-s3-to-vralg7-ics-update-rooted-and-deodexed-firmware/
The phone seemed to flash took about 8 minutes then just went blank. Nothing. After about 10 minutes of waiting still nothing. I finally tried to get it to respond by hitting up/down/power and home buttons and still nothing. I then pulled the battery figuring I had bricked it anyway. After pulling the battery I restarted the phone and it came on but in a stock configeration. Not bricked but lost my root and cannot seem to get the phone to restore from Titanium Pro back up (not rooted any more). Any help getting things back the way they were would be appreciated.
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Section 5 of my guide...use the prerooted jellybean version. This will wipe your internal so back up what you dont want to lose.

By the way what you linked is for an ICS update not the jb leaks. Listen to droid style. I woke audio recommend getting your files, etc from here in XDA or rootz wiki. I see a lot of problems of people following these random guides online.
Sent from my SGS3 running Eclipse 2.1

kintwofan said:
By the way what you linked is for an ICS update not the jb leaks. Listen to droid style. I woke audio recommend getting your files, etc from here in XDA or rootz wiki. I see a lot of problems of people following these random guides online.
Sent from my SGS3 running Eclipse 2.1
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I've noticed this as well. It seems every week or two someone is having major issues and they stem from using these rooting guides from sites I've never heard of.
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droidstyle said:
Section 5 of my guide...use the prerooted jellybean version. This will wipe your internal so back up what you dont want to lose.
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After this happened I read more, a lot more about rooting and decided I wasn't rooted now.
Trying to root again produces an (amb?) error which I can't get past.

drzcharlie said:
After this happened I read more, a lot more about rooting and decided I wasn't rooted now.
Trying to root again produces an (amb?) error which I can't get past.
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Do you have a super su app n the phone because what you linked is supposed to be pre rooted
Sent from my SGS3 running Eclipse 2.1

No Super SU, though I had it previously. I've checked in my applications list and it's not there.

Phone restarts if it gets stuck on some apps

I just recently had this problem. I tried flashing PSX ROM and managed to mess it up. So I had to restore back to my original backup. Before trying to flash a ROM, my phone never had problems. Today my phone restarted on its own 5 times within 10 minutes. I have Franco kernel right now. Anyone else have any restarting problems by any chance? If not, I'm about to unroot
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choboii said:
I just recently had this problem. I tried flashing PSX ROM and managed to mess it up. So I had to restore back to my original backup. Before trying to flash a ROM, my phone never had problems. Today my phone restarted on its own 5 times within 10 minutes. I have Franco kernel right now. Anyone else have any restarting problems by any chance? If not, I'm about to unroot
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You don't need to unroot. Just wipe system, data, and the caches and then restore your backup.

(Q) (Help) Problems flashing Roms - can't mount system

Let me start by saying that I am not new to flashing Roms on my devices, that being said I have never had an LG phone till now.
When I go in to Twrp and try to flash a new rom or even wipe it tells me it can't mount system. I've tried fixing permissions but nothing helped. I ended up having to use Nexus tool to restore phone to stock. (lost everything on phone)
I got the phone rooted and flashed carbon rom but decided that I wanted to flash a rom with 4.4.1 and same thing happened with phone not able to mount system. This time I was able to restore a Twrp backup I had and then flash the stock 4.4.1 rom available on this forum.
Is there something with this phone that is different then flashing on others? Can't seem to flash more then once without going back to stock? I have 2 nexus 7's 2012 & 2013 models and everything seems fine on these have flashed numerous Roms without a hitch.
I came from GS3 and have Asus prime, Motorola, HTC and just about every other manufacturers device in my house. Why is this one giving me so much issues.
Also battery won't charge past 77% now. Any ideas?
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nelomen said:
Let me start by saying that I am not new to flashing Roms on my devices, that being said I have never had an LG phone till now.
When I go in to Twrp and try to flash a new rom or even wipe it tells me it can't mount system. I've tried fixing permissions but nothing helped. I ended up having to use Nexus tool to restore phone to stock. (lost everything on phone)
I got the phone rooted and flashed carbon rom but decided that I wanted to flash a rom with 4.4.1 and same thing happened with phone not able to mount system. This time I was able to restore a Twrp backup I had and then flash the stock 4.4.1 rom available on this forum.
Is there something with this phone that is different then flashing on others? Can't seem to flash more then once without going back to stock? I have 2 nexus 7's 2012 & 2013 models and everything seems fine on these have flashed numerous Roms without a hitch.
I came from GS3 and have Asus prime, Motorola, HTC and just about every other manufacturers device in my house. Why is this one giving me so much issues.
Also battery won't charge past 77% now. Any ideas?
Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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the battery percentage should be an issure with your custom rom, for the mounting problem... are you using the latest version of twrp? - and maybe you could try cwm ( i recommend that always ) - also, no there isn't a difference in flashing things on an lg device, as log it's an nexus one

nelomen said:
Let me start by saying that I am not new to flashing Roms on my devices, that being said I have never had an LG phone till now.
When I go in to Twrp and try to flash a new rom or even wipe it tells me it can't mount system. I've tried fixing permissions but nothing helped. I ended up having to use Nexus tool to restore phone to stock. (lost everything on phone)
I got the phone rooted and flashed carbon rom but decided that I wanted to flash a rom with 4.4.1 and same thing happened with phone not able to mount system. This time I was able to restore a Twrp backup I had and then flash the stock 4.4.1 rom available on this forum.
Is there something with this phone that is different then flashing on others? Can't seem to flash more then once without going back to stock? I have 2 nexus 7's 2012 & 2013 models and everything seems fine on these have flashed numerous Roms without a hitch.
I came from GS3 and have Asus prime, Motorola, HTC and just about every other manufacturers device in my house. Why is this one giving me so much issues.
Also battery won't charge past 77% now. Any ideas?
Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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I would try: fastboot flash cache cache.img. use cache.img from the 4.4 factory image.

golem95 said:
the battery percentage should be an issure with your custom rom, for the mounting problem... are you using the latest version of twrp? - and maybe you could try cwm ( i recommend that always ) - also, no there isn't a difference in flashing things on an lg device, as log it's an nexus one
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Thanks for the response. The battery issue has resolved itself by running battery down to 0%and recharging.
I will give CWM a try. Maybe.
I've noticed that before I started flashing Roms I ran stock go 2 weeks and was consistently getting almost 5 hours of screen time. Coming for the GS3 I was amazed but since I've started using custom rooms I'm barely getting 3.
Going to test this out some before I do too much more flashing.
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I've used cataclysm rom with franko kernel and have gotten 24 hours with over 7 screen on

nelomen said:
Thanks for the response. The battery issue has resolved itself by running battery down to 0%and recharging.
I will give CWM a try. Maybe.
I've noticed that before I started flashing Roms I ran stock go 2 weeks and was consistently getting almost 5 hours of screen time. Coming for the GS3 I was amazed but since I've started using custom rooms I'm barely getting 3.
Going to test this out some before I do too much more flashing.
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wow, 5hrs i get barely 3h +/-

golem95 said:
wow, 5hrs i get barely 3h +/-
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Check it out. That was on stock in the first couple of days of getting the phone. But once I started flashing Roms it has only been about 3. Going to try stock for another while see if I can reproduce the amazing battery life I first had.
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Maybe u must change ur cwm
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nelomen said:
Check it out. That was on stock in the first couple of days of getting the phone. But once I started flashing Roms it has only been about 3. Going to try stock for another while see if I can reproduce the amazing battery life I first had.
(not sure if pics attached but they are of my 5hrs screen time)
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nelomen said:
Let me start by saying that I am not new to flashing Roms on my devices, that being said I have never had an LG phone till now.
When I go in to Twrp and try to flash a new rom or even wipe it tells me it can't mount system. I've tried fixing permissions but nothing helped. I ended up having to use Nexus tool to restore phone to stock. (lost everything on phone)
I got the phone rooted and flashed carbon rom but decided that I wanted to flash a rom with 4.4.1 and same thing happened with phone not able to mount system. This time I was able to restore a Twrp backup I had and then flash the stock 4.4.1 rom available on this forum.
Is there something with this phone that is different then flashing on others? Can't seem to flash more then once without going back to stock? I have 2 nexus 7's 2012 & 2013 models and everything seems fine on these have flashed numerous Roms without a hitch.
I came from GS3 and have Asus prime, Motorola, HTC and just about every other manufacturers device in my house. Why is this one giving me so much issues.
Also battery won't charge past 77% now. Any ideas?
Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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When your in TWRP and your trying to flash a ROM try restarting recovery by pressing reboot then reboot recovery then flash the ROM
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OptimusVDarwin said:
When your in TWRP and your trying to flash a ROM try restarting recovery by pressing reboot then reboot recovery then flash the ROM
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Thanks, I've never tried that but am willing to give it a shot after I finish my testing of battery life on stock compared to custom roms.
For some reason I am getting about 2 hours more screen time with stock then with custom rom.
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[Q] System Update fails installation and keeps returning

Hey guys,
Hoping someone here might be able to help me get rid of the bane of my existence right now. I've been reading all over and using various methods other people seem to have had success with but nothing is working for me.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G from Virgin Mobile. I'm also responsible for 2 others that are having the same issue.
A while back I had rooted all our devices and put TWRP on them but have total stock rom.
A few weeks ago we all started getting this system update prompt that lets you install now or later. If we tried to install it with TWRP it just boots into TWRP. So I put the stock recovery back on and took the prompt and let it reboot. It begins installing but halfway through I get a red yield sign and it stops and reboots the phone. If we go this route the prompt usually doesn't show up again for days.
So I went and tried custom recovery and custom rom next. Didn't get the update on the custom rom until the next morning when I woke up. Went and got a perfect custom recovery/rom package for the phone and went total stock. Same issue as before where it gets halfway through and fails.
I've tried navigating to the root/cache folder as another thread suggested and renaming the update stored there but the update has never shown up in that directory.
Basically now, periodically this prompt continues to pop up, sometimes very frequently on the foreground of whatever you're doing on the phone and constantly reminds/annoys the hell out of us.
I'd take a screenshot but it hasn't reappeared in 2 days since I last took the update and it failed.
Appreciate any help from anyone!

Your phone needs to be stock for the update to work. No custom recovery, no root, no ROM. Flash back the official stock firmware and the update should work.
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bweN diorD said:
Your phone needs to be stock for the update to work. No custom recovery, no root, no ROM. Flash back the official stock firmware and the update should work.
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I had not thought to try going stock with no root. That is the only thing I haven't tried. Will report back. Thank you