Hello;
A little frustrated - Samsung Galaxy Nexus (not rooted - updated automatically) crashed yesterday. I had installed Rocket Media Player and it was scanning for media files. Equalizer Music Player was downloading in the background. The phone crashed and rebooted. It continued to load the OS, but would crash repeatedly. During the window of time before crashing, I attempted removing Rocket Launcher and Equalizer Music Player, both manually and through Google Play. The phone would not retain memory of any changes on the next crash/reboot.
I pulled the battery and card, and let it sit for awhile. Did some charging and attempted reboot again. At this point it bootloops from the 'x' screen back to the 'google' screen and that's it. It has not successfully gone beyond this stage no matter what I have done.
I've attempted Recovery Mode with a factory wipe/reset and cache wipe, with the same result. (This really surprised me.)
So here I'm stuck. Can anyone help me with what to do?
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I installed TWRP to install a different kernel.
It installed and offered to wipe Dalvik Cache, which I thought would be a good idea. It then seemed to get stuck doing this, so eventually I turned off and rebooted.
It rebooted fine, but the internal memory seems to be unreadable and Google Play seems to constantly crash.
I thought the quickest way to start again was to oem lock and unlock again. It then seemed to get stuck booting up.
I got back into TWRP and did a data reset, which is now allowing me to boot again, but I still have no Internal Storage and Google Play still FC's.
I'm currently trying the Nexus 5 Multi Tool to reset back to original state (flash back stock ROM)
It's got 30 minutes to go, downloading the ROM... so I thought I would ask if anyone had any ideas for me?
Thanks.
I've been having spontanious reboot problems where my charge would reboot and get stuck in a boot loop freezing on the droid eye animation and rebooting. In the past I've been able to clear the delvic cache and regular cache and get the phone to boot and go back to working order. Today however, clearing cache didn't work. Thinking this was a software problem, I connected the phone to oden and flashed the stock software ED1. I was planning to install back to EP5 and redo Tweaked 3.2 since the phone had developed a lot of lag.
Now the phone gets to the droid eyebll and stays there. Every so often the animation freezes for a second or two then continues. Is the phone dead? Can it be brought back to life so that I can use it while I figure out a new phone. I'm asking because this is my only smartphone and I'm now stuck activating my old chocolate flip
Mike
Why all the way back to ED1? Do you have everything backed up in case you need to flash with the pit file?
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beavermjr said:
I've been having spontanious reboot problems where my charge would reboot and get stuck in a boot loop freezing on the droid eye animation and rebooting. In the past I've been able to clear the delvic cache and regular cache and get the phone to boot and go back to working order. Today however, clearing cache didn't work. Thinking this was a software problem, I connected the phone to oden and flashed the stock software ED1. I was planning to install back to EP5 and redo Tweaked 3.2 since the phone had developed a lot of lag.
Now the phone gets to the droid eyebll and stays there. Every so often the animation freezes for a second or two then continues. Is the phone dead? Can it be brought back to life so that I can use it while I figure out a new phone. I'm asking because this is my only smartphone and I'm now stuck activating my old chocolate flip
Mike
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No, the phone is not dead, it is a bit lag.
The tablet boots up into android. If I'm fast I can swipe the screen lock and usually swipe once or twice more in Android, but then the tablet freezes, and reboots, and the process begins again. If I do nothing, the tablet boots up to the screen lock for a couple of moments and then freezes and reboots.
The tablet is pure stock with a locked bootloader.
I did boot into the stock recovery once and there was an android update error.
The tablet is my son's so I'm not completely sure what happened.
What are my options? There are no important files on the tablet.
Thanks!
You got two options:
Do a factory reset from Settings > Backup & reset
That will delete all user installed apps and settings. If it is something caused by an app your son installed, this should fix it.
If it doesn't, you may have some system files corrupted (simply runnig the battery down until it crashes can do it) and would need to reflash the firmware manually.
Try the reset first and let me know if you need help to flash the firmware.
The tablet wouldn't run long enough for me to get into settings for a reset, so I booted back into recovery and selected the data reset there. The little android guy popped up and erased the previous system, and then rebooted. Works great now. Thanks!
So I had my phone charging and it suddenly rebooted itself, and it just got stuck in the google screen(the 4 flying color circles)
I have tried going to recovery mode, clearing cache, factory reset and no luck, still stuck on that animation.
I ended up flashing Kitkat and camera, google app store and gallery don't work, but the worst is that it doesn't recognize the sim card, also cant download anything,or store and transfer files between computer to phone, so its pretty much useless on kitkat, I tried every version of kitkat, and clear cache everytime, as soon as I try flashing stock lollipop (any version) it goes back to getting stuck in the flying color circles boot animation.
Any help is appreciated
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So I had my phone charging and it suddenly rebooted itself, and it just got stuck in the google screen(the 4 flying color circles)
I have tried going to recovery mode, clearing cache, factory reset and no luck, still stuck on that animation.
I ended up flashing Kitkat and camera, google app store and gallery don't work, but the worst is that it doesn't recognize the sim card, also cant download anything,or store and transfer files between computer to phone, so its pretty much useless on kitkat, I tried every version of kitkat, and clear cache everytime, as soon as I try flashing stock lollipop (any version) it goes back to getting stuck in the flying color circles boot animation.
Any help is appreciated
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/guide-to-fix-persist-partition-t2821576
The bitdomo guide will fix you phone! See my post http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...p-lollipop-t3098632/post60491129#post60491129
Hi.
I installed some dodgy app which required root access to operate (but it didn't even though I allowed it in SuperSu) and this is where my problems started.
First of all, I noticed each and every app I tried to run would immediately crash. That included system apps, such as the Settings app. At that stage I was left with only the launcher working and attempts to uninstall apps would also cause a crash. Even the shutdown menu was broken and the phone hung up so I was forced to reboot it by holding the power button for 10 seconds.
After that, the phone would no longer be able to boot, it was stuck in a boot loop, but recovery still worked (TWRP for that matter) so firstly I wiped the cache partitions (including dalvik cache) but that didn't help, as the phone still wouldn't boot. In this case there was only one thing left for me to try and that was the factory reset capability of TWRP which claimed to not even touch internal storage so I was fine with that and did the wipe.
Thankfully, the phone booted afterwards and it welcomed me with the first startup guide (the language selection dialog was really buggy but that's Huawei's fault) and the phone was seemingly ok, except that the whole internal storage had been wiped out but not only that - the external microsd card was empty as well! Could you believe that? I couldn't. TWRP promised not to touch internal storage and the external memory card wasn't even mentioned but why would it wipe it anyway?
That's for the story behind it, now for the actual problems I'm facing right now:
The stock remote app is gone
The boot animation has changed to a different one (now it's a silver "android" logo instead of the "honor" logo)
Battery usage stats are not available (see: http://i.cubeupload.com/BXCknW.png)
Sound quality from the built-in speaker seems noticeably worse
Hereby, I'm asking you guys to help me out with all of this.
The "remote app missing" problem could be solved by someone sharing their apk file with me, that's probably the simplest one to fix.
As for the boot animation, I have no clue as I don't even know what files are responsible for that.
The same for the battery stats problem, I'm already through a couple of full-charge-to-discharge cycles as well as wiping the cache partition, but the problem remains.
The sound quality probably has to do with the DTS sound enhancer. The config file for that is either "/cust/unicom/cn/xml/dolby_config.xml" or "/cust/unicomelectric/cn/xml/dolby_config.xml" and I'm asking you to upload these files somewhere so I can compare them with mine to see if anything is different.
The device I'm using is the H60-L02 variant running the B532 ROM.
Does the 3 buttons method erase internal storage as well? I've already set up quite some apps and having to do it again wouldn't be the most pleasant surprise. But at least in this case I could make some backups and whatnot...
Also, would it work if I flashed B535 straight away or does the 3 buttons method expect the same version which is already installed, in this case B532?
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It will wipe internal storage. You can flash any *full* ROM as long as you're not moving up or down from kitkat-lolipop/marshmallow.
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Okay, so I decided I'd do the whole thing today. I downloaded the full B535 ROM on my PC, backed up all the stuff I care about from the phone to the PC as well, and also I downloaded the MultiTool.
Though the MultiTool thread says this in bold red:
VirusPlus said:
EMUI 3.1 WARNING! Update over rooted or system modded in EMUI 3.1 gives a BRICK.
You have to restore system and REMOVE root before every update in EMUI 3.1 for now.
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So I also fired up Titanium Backup in order to defrost all the frozen apps, which went fine, and then I wanted to unroot the phone but I've been unable to do so so far.
To unroot, I launch the SuperSU app, navigate to the "Settings" tab and select "Full unroot". The problem being, it just gets stuck on the screen saying "Uninstalling, please wait...". I don't know how long it usually takes to complete, so far I've waited for maybe 10 minutes and nothing seems to change. Should I care about that? Is that warning about updating rooted/modified EMUI 3.1 resulting in a brick still true?
Can I skip this step and just flash the stock recovery followed by the 3 buttons method?
EDIT:
After some trial and error with the multi tool and different recoveries, I was able to finally unroot. Next, I flashed the stock recovery for B532 and attempted to do the 3 buttons method, but it would say "Install failed. The update package does not exist" (could be because I'm doing the update from a USB flash drive as I don't have an micro sd card big enough to fit the package). So I rebooted the phone into system and used the Updater to perfrom a local update where it would let me pick the USB drive. It completed without errors and then rebooted into some kind of updater (black background and some bluish emui colors) where it also took some time to finish thankfully successfully. I can right now see the phone booting and for what it's worth, the boot animation is once again the good old "honor" logo and not that ugly silvery "android" one
And now it's "Optimizing system...". I really hope it finsishes successfully as it's already a bit late here and I wouldn't like the phone to be unusable tomorrow :laugh:
36% ready...
46% it's kind of fun to watch this, and now 49%
I'd like to thank @pudup once more for helping out, I'm not really that much into flashing recoveries, roms and all that myself. Without your help I would probably be too scared to try doing something on my own :crying:
86%, 89%, 95% and 100%. Aww, what a relief Good old stock lock screen and wallpaper.