Hey Guys,
I have a peculiar problem with my girlfriend's phone. I've been stumped for almost a week now trying to unbrick her phone without making an attempt to root to try other things, but here's the scenario:
Phone is completely stock.
One day she came home and her phone was stuck at the Verizon screen.
I'm not sure what version was her Rom prior to the brick, but the phone recently told her there was an update about a month ago. She installed the other updates prior to this one.
I ultimately ended up performing a factory reset, and a cache wipe from the recovery, and it still wouldn't get past the Verizon Splash Screen.
I then used the Verizon Repair Assistant as suggested by many members on the forum, and it looked good for a second. It started updating all the apps, and survived past the splash screen, and into the welcome screen to get started. I started the activation process and boom, the phone reboots itself. I noticed something strange about the boot screen though. It started to look like it's glitching out.
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This one is like VZW's version of the Nyan Cat! Ha.
I then tried the Odin route, Installing VZW-I535VRUCNC1-20140430102617 onto the phone. Same result.
The last thing i tried while writing this thread was removing the AIM, and attempting the no activation WiFi, which it ultimately did take me back into the phone...
I moved fast enough where I was taken back into the UI, but I would see errors like
"Unfortunately Samsung Keyboard has Stopped"
I was able to swipe around on the screen for a bit before it froze, but the weird thing is when i press on the softkeys, I could still hear the water drop sounds. Then it would either go back through it's boot looping, or it would shut down. Pressing the power button won't work here, and only a battery pull would allow it to go through the boot cycle again.
I feel like a noob still, even after being able to successfully root 3 generations of the Samsung Galaxy Phones, (Epic, S3, and S5.) but I'm totally stumped on this one.
Seems like something is locking it up,
Any help would be appreciated, and if you are local (Silicon Valley, Bay Area), I'll buy you a coffee, or a beer. hah. :fingers-crossed:
Thanks in advance!
Anyone?
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I was using my phone normally, (chatting on msn and got a text message) when the phone locked up completely. Mine hasn't ever just locked up before but I waited a minute to see if it would recover before I finally used the stylus to do a soft reset. But instead of booting now my phone just displays this message.
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Rebooting the phone from that just gave me the same message. I could still get into the boot-loader etc so I did a hard-reset on the phone. Still got the same message.
I was about to try flash a new rom to it when I thought I'd try pull the battery out, wait a couple of minutes and put it back in. Now my phone boots again!
I'm not sure if it would have worked without the hard reset or not but obviously some hardware had got itself into an error state and a hard/soft resets wouldn't clear it.
Good luck.
heh. thats very interesting.
hmmm what rom were you running?
It was ROMeOS 1.62 but I suspect it was a hardware problem as opposed to just something in the ROM because a hard reset didnt fix it. Not until I pulled the battery out did it boot again. I figured that seeing I had reset it and had to set the rom up again I'd change to ROMeOS 1.70
I just posted it because I hadn't ever seen this before and figured I'd save someone else panicing for a few minutes.
Maz
This message typically means that OS loader could not initialize the hardware. If the ROM you are using was cooked with a XIP from another model, it's possible that there are some weird compatibility issues.
Another possible cause if corruption of RAM of NAND flash data...
just had the same problem on mine. Thank god for this forum! i was freaking out
BTW, I am running one of NATF's ROMs, too lazy to look up the version right now
OMG, just got the same problem on blackstone...
Same resolution except that I had to wait 15 minutes with the battery out before it worked again...
Thank you very much for the post!!!
HELP, "Your OS ROM erro" same error day after day...
I has getting this error "Your OS ROM", day after day, now this error occor with more frequency. Removing the battery and wait some minutes are work like described, but sometimes few minutes "up" and I got the message again.
Any help?
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I has getting this error "Your OS ROM", day after day, now this error occor with more frequency. Removing the battery and wait some minutes are work like described, but sometimes few minutes "up" and I got the message again.
Any help?
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If my theories on this are correct, your battery is loose. Open up your phone and check if your battery slides around.
So, I was over at a friend's dinner party, and a friend of mine was screwing around with my phone. She tried the password a bunch of times, then was at the 2 minute lock timer, and I don't know if the battery came loose or something, but the screen went black and wouldn't turn back on. So she gave me back the phone, I took out the battery and put it back in to reboot.
I get the phone locked wait for x amount of time thing.. for 113 6xx minutes.
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Edit: I just looked at the numbers and just realized I'm an edited. It's 2 and a half months. lol.
I do know the PIN, but I don't want to wait that long. And I really don't want to reset it since I got a few things I want to keep on there. Is there any way around this?
Additional info: Samsung Focus, developer unlocked, running latest updates.
Please help me out. Thanks!
Connect to Zune and restore it to previous backup. or better post in MS phone support forums for quick help
n do post the solution here when u get it
I figured my only option would be to restore or hard reset. I restored it to my last point which was about a month ago which isn't too bad, but I wish I had a later restore point.
In addition, I just realized it set the date and time to Oct 18 for some reason, which is exactly 78.xxx days (amount of minutes left) of the timer away from the current date.
So for anybody who can figure it out, the lock timer probably can be changed by learning how to change to date and time through another method. I was thinking Zune could sync up with it somehow, but I didn't feel like trying. Needed my phone.
Thanks
Yeah get that girl to buy you a new phone or rent one for 2 and a half months lol
lol enough with the giggles you're best solution would be to restore from previous versions
Hello everyone!
I seem to have a big problem with my phone that I cannot figure out. I'm fairly good with phones and very good with PC, but this problem eludes me.
My Huawei H866C was working just fine yesterday until boom, system freeze. This happened numerous times and most of the time, all I was doing was looking around in the settings etc. My first gut reaction was to factory reset it.
So I did.
When it was done, the phone rebooted like it should, and there I found the "tutorial" screen.
I tap the green android and it proceeds to the next screen which has only one button labeled "Begin"
When I press begin, it immediately throws this error; The application SetupWizardEx (process com.huawei.setupwizardex) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.
Well, needless to say, I've many dozens of times with no success.
I recall a similar incident with my sisters motorola droid bionic, in which after a reset the phone wanted some carrier info before it would load the home screen and let you use the phone. With that incident, I was able to bypass it by touching all 4 corners of the touchscreen. I can't find anything like that to bypass this tutorial nonsense.
I know that the phone isn't bricked, because I never rooted it. Furthermore, I can still bring up swype keyboard settings by holding the menu softkey. From there, I can click a web link in swype help and open the browser with no wifi connectivity. I can go through browser settings, and swype settings. When I first turn the phone back on, I can even use the slide-down menu briefly before it takes away my access.
I was really starting to like this phone until now.
Is there any way to bypass this annoying tutorial so I can use the phone? Otherwise, I'm afraid my money was wasted.
I have included some fairly low quality pictures to try and illustrate my problem.
ANY help at all would be greatly appreciated.
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Well admins, you may as well delete this thread. It's helped no one, including myself. I'm just going to return the phone and get my money back..
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Well admins, you may as well delete this thread. It's helped no one, including myself. I'm just going to return the phone and get my money back..
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And that's exactly what I did. My best advice? STAY AWAY FROM TRACFONE/NET10/Straight Talk at ALL costs! Sure, they give you cheap unlimited everything, but the phones are pure garbage. :good:
BYOP
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Moving thread .... don't believe its a sprint issue
I switched from sprint to T-Mobile. They screwed up and let us keep our old phones and did a discount for the hassle. I figure I don't need 2 S8's so I would just sell it. Welcome to my nightmare.....
So I factory reset the phone to get all my data off, I did this through the settings menu. No issues the phone reset. It was at the beginning new phone screen so I just left it and placed the phone on craigslist.
I get a buyer and we meet at the store. The lady who works at sprint and was going to verify the phone was not stolen starts the phone and asks me for the password..........huh?....
The phone is at a password screen and I have maybe 5 at most that I use various combos of, none of these work. She brings it over to the "techs" there are they say they have never seen this. I then apologize the the man who wanted to buy the phone and proceed home. I do some searching online and find out how to get into certain menus and do resets, and re-flash the stock rom. Even after those it wants a password.
I then think I'll just use find my phone with good and unlock it. Well it is a sprint phone and I have T-Mobile now so it has no connection, and I can't get past the password to get to the wifi settings. So google says it can't find my phone.
I contact Samsung and since it’s been less than a year they say they will help. I send in the phone and they send me it back with the crack on the back of the phone fixed and nothing else. I called and they said they have record of me asking for help with a password problem. I then ask if I can send it back and get that taken care of and they said it would cost 150$ because they fixed the phone......huh?
I really just want this password off the phone. At this point it’s a matter of I am more curious about finding a way to get it off the phone than selling it. I’m also open to all ideas. Taking it apart, flashing something third party on it.
If you need pictures I will get them up shortly. Or a video. At work currently, so I can probably reply in a timely manner. If you need more info please ask and I’ll try and get whatever you need
Thanks in advance
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EDIT 2- sigh* I don't know why the images are sideways. They show the lock screen // the fact that is is not FRP locked // i have done a factory reset
Hey all,
My Pixel 3 standard started freaking out today. I have initiated an exchange, yet thought perhaps someone may have had/fixed similar issues. I was in the middle of playing a game and my screen kept shutting off. I closed the application and found that SystemUI was crashing at random intervals, which is what was causing the screen to blank. The phone was also very slow at this time and wouldn't respond to several inputs. I also had a few instances where the phone opened random apps on its own. I tried going into safe mode and I don't seem to experience the issue. I am presently unrooted and on the latest November OTA. I've also tried removing any apps that updated today as that's when the issues started.
I've started the exchange process, yet it's five days out for a replacement and it's going to be painful to be without a fully functional phone for that amount of time.
Any ideas of what to try? I thought perhaps crash logs, yet I'm not sure which to parse...
Thanks!
I too started seeing System UI isn't responding message. Tapping to wake the phone or pressing hardware buttons had a delay in both normal mode and safe mode. I tried reapplying an OTA image from December and same result. So I tried Factory image vs OTA image, same result. Turned off always on display to see if that improved. Same result. Removed any case and screen protector to see if that was contributing, but same result.
I'm having a harder time getting google to initiate the exchange as I bought my device off swappa and can't access the original owner's email or order id. Never thought that was needed - until now. Buyer beware. I bought pixel 1 and 2 straight from google, but went secondhand with the pixel 3. My mistake.
blueline-pq1a.181205.006-factory-af1829a6.zip
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Have you factory restored?
I have tried to factory reset my phone and I'm still having this problem.
It happens at random when getting an incoming call, I can't see the caller screen, the UI is frozen, can't silence it pressing the buttons, can't wake up the screen until the phone decides to let me use it.
It's so annoying.
I am stuck with this issue during this lockdown, can somebody help? Or tell me what worked for them?