Hi all first post here but got help many times from lurking on here.
a child of a family friend, quite a smart 10 year old was messing with my phone (i know bad mistake) he just usually takes photos plays games etc. Anyway i went to use my phone and all seemed fine until i tried to go in the settings and it askes for a password, no idea what this password is and he says he does not know as it was an accident.
The app is called "app lock" trying to uninstall it also askes for a password, its just my settings i cant access or that app. Now i would reset my phone by going in the bootloader as i cant get to settings but i cant access bootloader by holding volume down key because i have fastboot on and cant turn it off in settings now.
Now once i flashed my phone using the official ice cream sandwich release, but i cant do that now to get rid of it because my phone wont communicate with my pc, got 3 new usb cables, no connection, tried different comps etc etc, everything i could find, although i can charge through the connection and access my files, just nothing else like htc sync.
So phone is still useable but cant change any settings at all now, cant even access wigits
I love my desire s and don't want to change it, as i love it and got no money available! imo its the sexiest looking phone still
So what i am asking is is there another way to remove this app?
Hope this is in the correcnt section, feel free to flame me if not.
Thanks for the help guys.
Are u rooted r s-off? If so u could use some kind of root explorer app and mount system rw then delete the app and reboot, that should get rid of it. Or if ur willing to factory reset in bootloader, just pull battery out for 20 seconds n put back in then press n hold vol down + power, that should get u there even tho fastboot is enabled in settings.
hi thanks for the quick reply, im not rooted because of the usb problems with my phone, i wish i was, ive tried many times. Ill try the thing with the battery and get back to you, thanks for that buddy.
desires4life said:
hi thanks for the quick reply, im not rooted because of the usb problems with my phone, i wish i was, ive tried many times. Ill try the thing with the battery and get back to you, thanks for that buddy.
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Dont seem to be having success with the battery thing, maybe its just me, im quite a noob with android, im an ios defector and im so glad i did.
Should get u to bootloader, just tried myself with fastboot enabled. Make sure when u put battery back in that u press and hold volume down then press and hold power button (both same time) bootloader should come up.
U know the app lock, is it an app u downloded from playstore? If it is u could open playstore app and uninstall it there.
jmcclue your a staar, got it sorted now. thanks you most kindly!
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Alright, allow me to summerize to you guys the series of screw ups that happened in the day that I've had my captivate.
Basically, it's like this. I got this phone from my brother (it used to be his). Now when I got it, I began basically erasing his contents and setting up mine. The Phone is on the Cognition OS and everything seemed fine.
Now, when I tried to set up my google account, it said I had to do a factory reset, I did that. Then I realized the market place app was no longer there :/
I did another factory reset, still didn't help, and started looking around for info.
I told my buddy this and he said he could fix it. So he get's the update.zip for rooting the phone, sets it up on the SD card, and goes to root the phone normally. Except when he restarts the phone after, it doesn't go to the set up screen, so he just starts it normally and enters the setup screen by holding home+volume up+power.
Then he presses the reinstall packages, and the phone seems to get to work on the update pack...
Now, every time I turn on the phone the voice says "converting data partition to optimize extension four", turns off, then repeats.
I've looked up this problem and it seems to have something to do with voodoo, but the causes in the other cases the causes were different.
Can someone please help me out here? I've also tried doing a hard reset by holding the volume down button and pressing power, but nothing seems to take me to the recovery mode.
HELP.
Did you pull the battery during this our did you let it run? Should let it run.
Does your phone boot up at all?
At&t or rogers?
Do you have a windows pc with usb drivers installed?
What its your build number, located under battery, something like 1008?
Answer these questions and we can get you back up and running
-Well after he did the reinstall thing we let it run for like 15 minutes, then he pulled the battery out.
-The phone only shows the AT&T screen, say's the "converting data partition..." thing, then goes blank and does it again. I've let it run for like 10-15 minutes before having to turn it off because I couldn't have the speech going off.
-I have a windows PC, and but I'm not sure if I have the drivers installed. I have Kies installed and when I plugged the phone in before Kies could recognize the phone (though it wouldn't fully connect, it would just say "connecting" on the kies screen).
-The Model is SGH-I897, that's the only relevant thing I see under the battery, that good enough?
Thanks a lot.
No, your phone has a build, on phone under battery, the word build is not listed. Something between 1006-1012
If we are going to do this you need to be active, I can not wait 20 minutes in between responses
Sorry the internet kinda crapped out actually.
And I see a 1007 between the bar codes, that it?
Yes
Before we get started try this
Take battery, sim, ext sd our of phone
Plug usb into pc but not phone
Put battery back in
Hold volume up and down, while holding plug in usb
Screen should come on with android with shovel
You can pull the battery again
Confirm this happened
Yep, it happened.
It may be easier if we use gtalk, log in on your pc using google id, send me an invite [email protected]. This way we know when each other respond
Just sent u the inv
I am having the same issue.. Chairchair did your problem get resolved?
Can anyone help?
James
liquorsh0tz said:
I am having the same issue.. Chairchair did your problem get resolved?
Can anyone help?
James
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Have you gone back to stock and then reflashed? Seems like some files are getting corrupted. Because you have a voodoo kernel I would follow these steps. Make sure to back up.
1. Use Odin to flash a non vodoo kernel.
2. Flash stock rom and master clear
3. Reflash rom of choice if it is 2.2
3a. If you want 2.3 follow the tut on it.
4. Breath a sigh of releive lol
I have an unlocked HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus imported from the UK to the US. Ordered from Negri Electronics.
It's not rooted or modded in any way.. Mainly because I don't know how to. As far as I know, it's running stock ICS.
I was using it normally, (using the fb messenger app if it makes any difference) when it suddenly rebooted by itself. The Google logo comes up, then the start up animation, and sometimes the home screen will appear but is not touch sensitive (i cannot slide it to unlock), and then it 'hangs' and the screen goes black. Repeat.
I've tried to fix this by myself and there's a video on youtube (sorry, noob here. can't post links. video is by robbidwv and title is "my galaxy nexus won't boot..") of the same problem that I have, but the posted solution doesn't work for me.
So far, I have entered Coin Mode and pressed Start. Entered Fastboot mode and gone into Recovery Mode (no options appear after that. it just starts booting up and the loop begins), and I've also tried Restart Bootloader.
I've almost given up. Now all I want is to extract my SMS, if they're still on my phone. I can't access the folders on my computer because it won't boot up and connect. Is there a way that I can extract my SMS by using DOS in either Coin Mode or Fastboot mode?
Or even better, does anyone have a solution to this boot loop problem? I'll contact Negri Electronics tomorrow and hopefully they can send me a replacement.
Please help!! Thanks
that problem just started happening with me an hour ago!!
i hate this!!
we need a solution please!
Hey guys, sorry about the issue.the major problem I see here is you wanting to retrieve your txt messages, which might be possible with a little Modding, but if yourwilling to lose them to get a working phone back, then this is what your going to have to do. Make sure your phone is completely off. Hold the 2 volume buttons and the power button together. You will get into a mode with an android Guy. Press the volume button up or down until it says reboot recovery at the top. Press the power button. It will rebootand come to a screen with an android. Hold volume up,down and power at the same time. A menu will come up. Go down to wipe data. Click it, and after it is done reboot. Your phone should work now.
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Hey!
Thanks. Yeah I 'fixed' it already. I was just about to post something similar. After a while I just gave up on trying to recover my data. Good thing that Google syncs everything so the only issue would be recovering my messages, which I decided weren't worth sending it in for a repair which would probably not be able to recover anything anyway.
The thing I didn't know about was to press power + volume up WHILE on the recovery screen. I thought navigating to the recovery screen was it!
Still, this kind of sucks. I love my GNex, but I can't help but be slightly pissed seeing that my crappy iPhone 3GS never did this in the 2 years I had it. Oh well, hope it doesn't happen again!
hey guys! i also did a complete wipe on my phone and got it working again!
but i wonder why this happened in the first place?
last application i installed before the crash was double twist, i dunno why but i feel that it was the reason behind the boot loop!
Sorry for reviving this thread, but I just had this happen to me TWICE!
It happened to me first last Monday, the 23rd - the phone crashed when trying to send an email with an attachment - and went into a boot loop - Google logo would appear, no make it to the animation, and reboot....
I performed a full reset and things worked again. I didn't install all the apps I had before - figuring it must have been due to some app messing with the OS.
Well, it happened again to me yesterday! I was connecting to my bluetooth headset when the phone crashed and went into the boot loop. Full reset worked again, and I've installed even fewer apps - essentially only those that I use on a daily basis.
My phone is still on 4.0.1 and I'm hoping once 4.0.4 is pushed this may get resolved? I have a canadian GNex from Negri. I will call them again (I called the first time, but when the full reset worked I never contacted them again).
I would like to this this is a software issues, and not hardware.
I have the same problem. If you figure it out let me know.
Today my phone also entered a boot loop: [Google logo]->[black screen]->[vibration]->[Repeat]
I tried Recovery Mode, but this is what happens: (sorry for the link but I am not trusted with powerful tools such as outside links apparently, as I have not yet reached the maturity of a person with eight posts... )
dl(dot)dropbox(dot)com/u/53568097/Android.jpg
This is what I see when I navigate to Recovery Mode
For a split second I can see an image of an Android with spinning cogs in his innards, but then this little sad fellow appears. WTF is this?
EDIT:
Oh, and I'm running Android stock 4.0.2, never rooted or unlocked, Swedish. At the time when the phone started doing this, I was using Endomondo, and was about to set off on my bike when it died on me.
Stock ROM galaxy nexus bootlooping after wiping data also.
Hi,
My GNex went into a bootloop so i searched xda and found that factory reseting would be helping my prob. But after wiping the data also its still in going through the loop . Please help .:crying:
so my friend got his kid a tablet for Xmas its a Maylong M270 and his youngest got ahold of it and put a pattern lock on the tablet lol but anyways im trying to access the bootloader this tablet come with a keyboard and has no other buttons on it but a power button im hoping the bootloader is unlocked and i can do a reset there but how do i access it usually it like volume down and power or some but theres no buttons lol im frustrated anyone got any ideas...
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tmathews1988 said:
so my friend got his kid a tablet for Xmas its a Maylong M270 and his youngest got ahold of it and put a pattern lock on the tablet lol but anyways im trying to access the bootloader this tablet come with a keyboard and has no other buttons on it but a power button im hoping the bootloader is unlocked and i can do a reset there but how do i access it usually it like volume down and power or some but theres no buttons lol im frustrated anyone got any ideas...
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Don't bump your own thread please. Read the rules of XDA as you obviously need to do so.
Have you tried unlocking it through the gmail account?
they did not setup a gmail account on the device they only had it for a few hours at this point and the makers Maylong are providing 0 support
How to factory reset the Maylong m270
1. get firmware here
http://www.maylonggroup.com/Tablets/M270CQ1/M-270CQ_Ver 1.5.6.zip
2. Unzip and copy contents of folder to a clean sdcard
3. insert sdcard into the tablet and power on.
4. Wait until screen says 100% and tells you to remove media.
5. enjoy!!
tmathews1988 said:
they did not setup a gmail account on the device they only had it for a few hours at this point and the makers Maylong are providing 0 support
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That download only gets to about 10% and fails. Does anyone happen to have a copy of this firmware. Ive tried numerous ones but the touch screen doesnt work. I had the same pin-lock problem and the screen worked before
First of all, hello everybody on this community.
I'd been reading on internet how to fix this issue, but no clue at all.
My english is not so good so I'll try to be as clear as possible.
My mother gave me a HTC Inspired 4G, it has many apps and stuffs. It was working fine but it has a lot of apps that I wouldn't be using so (here comes the stupidest idea) I decided to reset it from insight (at that moment I didn't know about the power and volume shortcut).
After I did it, it reset itself then after everything seems normal, I unlocked the screen and then the whole screen turned to black. I could still see the time, date and also open the upper menu, but when I pressed Menu or any button, it just vibrate and nothing happens. Also I got a few errors like xxxx stopped working.
I can manage it to open Config menu, but I can't do much, I tryied to add my wifi connection but when I press the white space to put the password, then keyboard wont display. Also when it used to get stuck on Rethink Possible, but after plug in the cellphone to my laptop I could pass it. Now I removed the microsd and won't need to be plug it for that.
So right now, I can't download anything, I don't know how to fix it or return it the way it used to be.
I don't know anything about root and all those stuffs.
But I learn fast, so any link, tutorial, tips or guidance for these issues, I'll make good use of it.
What I have to do in order to make it work.
Thank you very much in advance.
Do you know what software version you are running, whether the phone is unlocked or rooted, or any other details?
It says 2.3.3 if that what you mean, also I don't know exactly what rooted means but if I'm not mistaken, my cellphone is rooted.
When I turned on by pressing volume and power buttons, I get some kind of options like fastboot and so on, also when I choose Recovery, I get something called Ace Hack Kit, I don't know what's for. I see many options but I can't figure it out which one would help me with this.
It's obvious something been done on this cellphone but I though since I reseted it, everything would be deleted.
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It says 2.3.3 if that what you mean, also I don't know exactly what rooted means but if I'm not mistaken, my cellphone is rooted.
When I turned on by pressing volume and power buttons, I get some kind of options like fastboot and so on, also when I choose Recovery, I get something called Ace Hack Kit, I don't know what's for. I see many options but I can't figure it out which one would help me with this.
It's obvious something been done on this cellphone but I though since I reseted it, everything would be deleted.
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What do those options say exactly when you press power and volume?
Help!
So literally three days ago my dad gave me his old phone. It was a rooted Sony Xperia Z3V. I realized that I could not play Pokemon Go and so I installed the files a YouTube video told me to install to get Magisk, a program like root cloaker that should have let me turn on root toggle so that I could play Pokemon Go. I soon realized that this was not the case or I seriously messed up. Now my phone will not turn on. When I hold the power button it just vibrates and does nothing. When I hold the Power button and both volume buttons it shows a Sony logo after a while and then turns to a screen that says System Recovery at the top and has four options: Continue Power up, Safe mode, Factory Reset, and Power down. Absolutely all of them just turn off the phone. The Factory Reset has four options when you select it. At the top it says "Continue with Factory Reset?" and it has the following options: No, No, No, and Yes. All of those do nothing as well other that turn the phone off. My dad said he might have a backup on his SD card that he might be able to restore it to. However, I'm not sure he has this so if you can help please include a way without that. Also, my Dad told me that Sony Companion does not work with this phone. Please help. I know it was stupid but I'm still pretty new to rooting and I'm still in 8th grade. Now I'm back to my Droid Ultra. I know it's kinda a third world problem to have a slightly worse phone but I still broke the phone that my Dad gave me. It would mean so much to me if someone could help me I'm desperate.
Thanks,
jacobpn5042
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Help!
So literally three days ago my dad gave me his old phone. It was a rooted Sony Xperia Z3V. I realized that I could not play Pokemon Go and so I installed the files a YouTube video told me to install to get Magisk, a program like root cloaker that should have let me turn on root toggle so that I could play Pokemon Go. I soon realized that this was not the case or I seriously messed up. Now my phone will not turn on. When I hold the power button it just vibrates and does nothing. When I hold the Power button and both volume buttons it shows a Sony logo after a while and then turns to a screen that says System Recovery at the top and has four options: Continue Power up, Safe mode, Factory Reset, and Power down. Absolutely all of them just turn off the phone. The Factory Reset has four options when you select it. At the top it says "Continue with Factory Reset?" and it has the following options: No, No, No, and Yes. All of those do nothing as well other that turn the phone off. My dad said he might have a backup on his SD card that he might be able to restore it to. However, I'm not sure he has this so if you can help please include a way without that. Also, my Dad told me that Sony Companion does not work with this phone. Please help. I know it was stupid but I'm still pretty new to rooting and I'm still in 8th grade. Now I'm back to my Droid Ultra. I know it's kinda a third world problem to have a slightly worse phone but I still broke the phone that my Dad gave me. It would mean so much to me if someone could help me I'm desperate.
Thanks,
jacobpn5042
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Greetings and welcome to xda. First off don't worry your phone can be fixed easily, there are plenty of threads and tutorials on xda on how to hide root for certain apps. If root isn't important to you then just reinstall a stock rom.
If you ask your question here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3/help
the experts there will be able to help you
Good Luck
Sawdoctor