I got a problem I am stuck in a boot loop with my Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus (GT-S7500). I updated my software because a message popped up with: 'There are software updates for your phone' So I as a new rooter updated it and now when I try to boot my phone it goes to the ClockWorkMod and I searched on the forum and I tried a lot of stuff and it didn't work. (I rooted with Odin, thought this could be useful)
I think when you updated your phone you or the software bricked it. Hence it is having a bootloop. If you can, i would recommend you to get a latest -STOCK firmware for your device and flash it with Odin.
P.S. Use Stock rom and Odin ONLY(atleast for now) because if you use another method or non-stock rom/custom rom, it might brick your phone even badly.
Hope i helped
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Just wondering if anyone had any experience with this issue. I rooted using philZ kernel, and it was stable for about 3 weeks. Thereafter the screen stopped recognising gestures with my s-pen (& finger) and, after trying to restore from recovery mode, I could not get past the GTN7000 start up icon.
Have managed get phone working again after flashing stock ROM using Odin, but it's not rooted now, which I miss........any ideas?
P.s. I must say I'm new to all this, and have looked around the site for similar threads relating to this issue but haven't found any
Cheers
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Hello everybody at xda. My name is George and I'm fairly new to android hacking and such. It's been a month since I rooted my first phone (Samsung galaxy y) I found there was very limited custom ROMs but nevertheless was proud of what I had done. Since then, I have rooted a galaxy s gt I 9000 and have installed CM 11 nightly. It was fairly simple. I rooted my dad's lg optimus 4xhd p880. When I tried to install CWM recovery my dad's phone got an error report when trying to boot. (On the lg logo it had tiny red writing at the top.) After researching I discovered we hadn't unlocked his boot loader and trying to flash CWM had soft bricked. We ran the phone in SW mode by holding vol down with the battery out and connecting a USB to the computer. Then with lg tools flashed the stock recovery back. After that we unlocked the boot loader with a BL unlock .exe found on xda and BINGO!! I flashed CWM 6.0.4.4 touch on (because it's the only one that will flash 4.4+ kitkat ROMs in this device) and now it's flashed with beanstalks 4.4.2 ROM. It's totally amazing. I've also rooted a galaxy s3 mini gt I 8190n and flashed dmod on it witch is an OK rom. As much as I love rooting and stuff I don't have any more devices so I was hoping for some feedback and ideas of what I can do next!
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Hi.
I made an account just to post this because I honestly don't know where else to go. I'm new at rooting so please explain everything in simple terms.
I rooted my Verizon Galaxy S4 a few days ago and everything was great. I did a few soft mods with Xposed and Wanam and everything was still great. I thought I would wait until the weekend to do some custom ROM flashing and whatnot since I knew it was a time consuming process.... MAN was it a time consuming process. Mainly because I messed up my whole phone.
I installed Safestrap v3.71 (CWM Recovery wasn't compatible with my phone or something...?) and flashed Hyperdrive RLS13 to my MK2 build Verizon Galaxy S4 on ROM Slot 1. It worked great but I saw that all my free space in my internal memory was taken up because of my Stock ROM being too large. So I proceed to wipe data from the Stock ROM slot after backing it up and putting the backup on my computer. I factory reset the Stock ROM and hit reboot. I think the error occurred because I forgot to reselect the ROM Slot 1. Or maybe factory resetting like that isn't supposed to happen... I don't know.
But now my phone won't boot up all the way. It's stuck on the Samsung Galaxy S4 screen. I tried booting into recovery but it just takes me to the stock recovery. Apparently Safestrap is unable to be booted into directly or something... so i tried to factory reset from there and it did.
Now my phone won't even go into recovery mode. If I try it will say "Recovery Booting" but the screen will go black and reboot again and get stuck on the Samsung Galaxy S4 screen.
I HAVE LOOKED EVERYWHERE ON THE INTERNET and nothing directly applies to me or is simple enough for me to understand... I am currently downloading the NO-WIPE method stock ROM or something for what I think applies to me from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2578209 so I can put that into Odin which I downloaded (but don't really know how to use) and it says it will take 3 hours to download. GREAT. More waiting. I would like something quicker if possible.
SO MY QUESTION IS:
WHAT THE HELL DO I DO???
Specs of my phone again:
Verizon Galaxy S4 SCH-1545
Android 4.3
Build MK2
Kernel Mk2
(I'm not even sure what all that means but there it is)
ALL HELP WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED BECAUSE I DON"T KNOW WHAT TO DO!
Thank you. So. Very. Much.
Ditto
the immunity said:
Hi.
I made an account just to post this because I honestly don't know where else to go. I'm new at rooting so please explain everything in simple terms.
I rooted my Verizon Galaxy S4 a few days ago and everything was great. I did a few soft mods with Xposed and Wanam and everything was still great. I thought I would wait until the weekend to do some custom ROM flashing and whatnot since I knew it was a time consuming process.... MAN was it a time consuming process. Mainly because I messed up my whole phone.
I installed Safestrap v3.71 (CWM Recovery wasn't compatible with my phone or something...?) and flashed Hyperdrive RLS13 to my MK2 build Verizon Galaxy S4 on ROM Slot 1. It worked great but I saw that all my free space in my internal memory was taken up because of my Stock ROM being too large. So I proceed to wipe data from the Stock ROM slot after backing it up and putting the backup on my computer. I factory reset the Stock ROM and hit reboot. I think the error occurred because I forgot to reselect the ROM Slot 1. Or maybe factory resetting like that isn't supposed to happen... I don't know.
But now my phone won't boot up all the way. It's stuck on the Samsung Galaxy S4 screen. I tried booting into recovery but it just takes me to the stock recovery. Apparently Safestrap is unable to be booted into directly or something... so i tried to factory reset from there and it did.
Now my phone won't even go into recovery mode. If I try it will say "Recovery Booting" but the screen will go black and reboot again and get stuck on the Samsung Galaxy S4 screen.
I HAVE LOOKED EVERYWHERE ON THE INTERNET and nothing directly applies to me or is simple enough for me to understand... I am currently downloading the NO-WIPE method stock ROM or something for what I think applies to me from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2578209 so I can put that into Odin which I downloaded (but don't really know how to use) and it says it will take 3 hours to download. GREAT. More waiting. I would like something quicker if possible.
SO MY QUESTION IS:
WHAT THE HELL DO I DO???
Specs of my phone again:
Verizon Galaxy S4 SCH-1545
Android 4.3
Build MK2
Kernel Mk2
(I'm not even sure what all that means but there it is)
ALL HELP WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED BECAUSE I DON"T KNOW WHAT TO DO!
Thank you. So. Very. Much.
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REPLY:brother I do feel ya..I have S4 SCH-1545...Was messing around with root..Didn't know I had it 100% cause of the whole kingo super user app...Any who I ended up soft brick in in Bootloop mode..Red Verizon Screen wouldn't get past it..So I found similar firmware NO Thanks to SamMobile..Verizon 5.0 lolipop..1545pp...Not sure what the pp after 1545 stood for either...so I lemme explain how I got in to Bootloop mode..I downloaded kingroot and it literally broke my fone..Maybe it was to much to handle...kingroot and kingroot plus superuser app..and twrp as well...So I flashed some firmware I found online with Odin and it worked...Took a good couple if minutes but it worked..
Okay. So we all know the d2vzw isn't perfect.
Right?
Mine recently has slowed to a grinding halt. Really nothing worked, the battery lasted maybe 30 minutes of usage (and maybe 10 hours standby), and the boot time was unbearable. So, I decided to try flashing and installing CyanogenMod 12, mainly because I have read that it breathes new life into the phone. But, alas, I am not cut out for this sort of gig alone, as I have discovered.
I come to you all today to ask for some help, or links to help. My recovery mode has been completely messed up, and I don't know what to do.
My questions are: 1. Can I still install a fresh OS, be it CyanogenMod, AOKP, or anything else? 2. How or why?
For more information, here is a timeline of what exactly I did to the phone.
-Bought the GS3
-Owned for ~1.5 years
-Updated to 4.4 KitKat
-Noticed battery life started sucking, as did speed
-Decided to root/flash/install
-Rooted using Towelroot V3
-Tried flashing ClockWork Mod via Odin, but Odin couldn't connect or something. No yellow box.
-Tried flashing CWM via terminal and rebooted into recovery
-Got the message "System Software not authorized by Verizon Wireless has been found on your phone. Please turn off your phone and go to the nearest Verizon Wireless store for help." when entering recovery mode
-Managed to get around that by quickly pressing the volume-up button a few times while booting
-Installed BusyBox
-Got a new Splash Screen that says "Samsung" then at the bottom an unlocked lock that says "Custom"
-Tried using Flashify to flash CWM
-Same error message when booting into recovery
-Tried flashing CWM Touch with Flashify
-Same issue
-Tried using SafeStrap
-Says "Install Successful" but the state still says "Not Installed"
-Tried using EZ-Recovery from Google Play Store
-Didn't work
And that's it so far. The phone works, however recovery mode does not, and I still have all the slow and battery problems.
I have no idea where to go from here.
If you have any more questions, just ask! If you have any suggestions, please let me know!
Thanks!
lordkennedy99 said:
Okay. So we all know the d2vzw isn't perfect.
Right?
Mine recently has slowed to a grinding halt. Really nothing worked, the battery lasted maybe 30 minutes of usage (and maybe 10 hours standby), and the boot time was unbearable. So, I decided to try flashing and installing CyanogenMod 12, mainly because I have read that it breathes new life into the phone. But, alas, I am not cut out for this sort of gig alone, as I have discovered.
I come to you all today to ask for some help, or links to help. My recovery mode has been completely messed up, and I don't know what to do.
My questions are: 1. Can I still install a fresh OS, be it CyanogenMod, AOKP, or anything else? 2. How or why?
For more information, here is a timeline of what exactly I did to the phone.
-Bought the GS3
-Owned for ~1.5 years
-Updated to 4.4 KitKat
-Noticed battery life started sucking, as did speed
-Decided to root/flash/install
-Rooted using Towelroot V3
-Tried flashing ClockWork Mod via Odin, but Odin couldn't connect or something. No yellow box.
-Tried flashing CWM via terminal and rebooted into recovery
-Got the message "System Software not authorized by Verizon Wireless has been found on your phone. Please turn off your phone and go to the nearest Verizon Wireless store for help." when entering recovery mode
-Managed to get around that by quickly pressing the volume-up button a few times while booting
-Installed BusyBox
-Got a new Splash Screen that says "Samsung" then at the bottom an unlocked lock that says "Custom"
-Tried using Flashify to flash CWM
-Same error message when booting into recovery
-Tried flashing CWM Touch with Flashify
-Same issue
-Tried using SafeStrap
-Says "Install Successful" but the state still says "Not Installed"
-Tried using EZ-Recovery from Google Play Store
-Didn't work
And that's it so far. The phone works, however recovery mode does not, and I still have all the slow and battery problems.
I have no idea where to go from here.
If you have any more questions, just ask! If you have any suggestions, please let me know!
Thanks!
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Well I have bad news, your bootloader is locked if you took the OTA to Kitkat version 4.4.2 NE1. You can't flash custom roms or even a custom recovery (twrp, cwm, philz) your limited to safestrap as a recovery and approx 3 roms that are TW) touchwiz based)
Safestrap should work and your going to be on the lookout for roms in the development section that say BL(bootloader locked) if you have anymore questions feel free to post them
Sent from my Nexus 5
ShapesBlue said:
Well I have bad news, your bootloader is locked if you took the OTA to Kitkat version 4.4.2 NE1. You can't flash custom roms or even a custom recovery (twrp, cwm, philz) your limited to safestrap as a recovery and approx 3 roms that are TW) touchwiz based)
Safestrap should work and your going to be on the lookout for roms in the development section that say BL(bootloader locked) if you have anymore questions feel free to post them
Sent from my Nexus 5
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That's what I feared. Thank you for letting me know! So, even though it's locked up, can I revert what I did? I still would like to send the phone into Verizon for some trade-in money when I upgrade.
Thanks again!
lordkennedy99 said:
That's what I feared. Thank you for letting me know! So, even though it's locked up, can I revert what I did? I still would like to send the phone into Verizon for some trade-in money when I upgrade.
Thanks again!
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Yes you can. You can Odin back to that same version which should bring it back to stock kk with the 4.4.2 update
Sent from my Nexus 5
ShapesBlue said:
Yes you can. You can Odin back to that same version which should bring it back to stock kk with the 4.4.2 update
Sent from my Nexus 5
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Okay, great! Do you know of a place to get the ROM and some instructions for flashing? Also, I couldn't get Odin to connect to my phone. Is there something I need to do before flashing to make it connect correctly?
Thanks!
lordkennedy99 said:
Okay, great! Do you know of a place to get the ROM and some instructions for flashing? Also, I couldn't get Odin to connect to my phone. Is there something I need to do before flashing to make it connect correctly?
Thanks!
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I do but if it's not connecting to Odin that may be a problem. I've yet to see a device that won't connect to Odin
Sent from my Nexus 5