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Hello everyone, I totally pulled a noob earlier, with all the excitement going around with the official ICS update going around, accidentally I pushed a 19100 ROM into my sgs2 by sprint; and now my device is semi brick, neither Kies, Odin nor SimpleDownloaderTool for SPH-D710 recognizes the device, after downloading the correct drivers into my computer.. now what do I do?
If you have a Galaxy S 4G SGH-T959V follow the second link in my signature, read thoroughly and follow directions.
sgs4g SGH-T959V always reboot into download mode, even after successful oneclick
lumin30 said:
If you have a Galaxy S 4G SGH-T959V follow the second link in my signature, read thoroughly and follow directions.
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Hi, I used OneClick. Things seems to work. The flash was successful. If I do a reboot using the phone's power button or if I pull its battery, the phone always boot back into download mode, thus negating the flash and I have to start over. When the phone is in this state, I am not able to connect via adb or reboot into recovery mode.
One strange thing is if the reboot is done via 'adb reboot', via the OneClick process, or via the reboot option in recovery mode, it boots normally. So esstentially it means after a successful flash, the phone has to remain on forever, with an occasional adb reboot.
Is there anything I can do to restore this phone? Or as a consolation prize, force a normal restart on a one off basis via my computer somehow.
P.S. I'm new to the forum. Please let me know if this is not the right place to post this. Thank you.
Pro tip: Open a new thread if you need to ask a question or need help. Don't "hi-jack" other threads. (considering that the original thread is from 2012)
But it's done...
teevoo said:
Hi, I used OneClick. Things seems to work. The flash was successful. If I do a reboot using the phone's power button or if I pull its battery, the phone always boot back into download mode, thus negating the flash and I have to start over. When the phone is in this state, I am not able to connect via adb or reboot into recovery mode.
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Did you follow @lumin30's guide?
teevoo said:
One strange thing is if the reboot is done via 'adb reboot', via the OneClick process, or via the reboot option in recovery mode, it boots normally. So esstentially it means after a successful flash, the phone has to remain on forever, with an occasional adb reboot.
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The phone is in download mode. The phone isn't being reset by adb, it's being reset by heimdall/odin. I think this sounds like a USB issue.
teevoo said:
Is there anything I can do to restore this phone? Or as a consolation prize, force a normal restart on a one off basis via my computer somehow.
P.S. I'm new to the forum. Please let me know if this is not the right place to post this. Thank you.
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I've seen this problem a few times, and usually I found it was a bad cable or a bad USB port.
Also make sure the usb port is clean of any lint/objects/dirt.
I had a dell laptop once, where none of the usb ports worked with heimdall or odin. I tried the same one-click on my apple mac, and on another HP laptop. I found that I also had a bad cable. I replaced the cable and everything worked on my Mac and HP, but still nothing on my dell. Same setup - debian linux - on each laptop. The one-click looks like everything flashes, but if you pull the battery and turn it on, it's back at the download mode screen.
bhundven said:
Did you follow @lumin30's guide?
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Yes. Oh and I made several posts (not hijack ) regarding this issue elsewhere in the forum but got no response. One thing I forgot to mention in this version is that originally, the download mode on phone was triggered physically somehow. My uncle accidentally dropped the phone in water. He then blew it dry with a strong fan and must have turned it back on too early. Since then the phone's been in download mode.
bhundven said:
The phone is in download mode. The phone isn't being reset by adb, it's being reset by heimdall/odin. I think this sounds like a USB issue.
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I'm now wondering if there is a program that can do a reset like heimdall/odin without going through the whole reflashing process. Assuming the phone's memory components haven't been physically damage, at least this would mean I can restart the phone to normal mode quickly.
bhundven said:
I've seen this problem a few times, and usually I found it was a bad cable or a bad USB port.
Also make sure the usb port is clean of any lint/objects/dirt.
I had a dell laptop once, where none of the usb ports worked with heimdall or odin. I tried the same one-click on my apple mac, and on another HP laptop. I found that I also had a bad cable. I replaced the cable and everything worked on my Mac and HP, but still nothing on my dell. Same setup - debian linux - on each laptop. The one-click looks like everything flashes, but if you pull the battery and turn it on, it's back at the download mode screen.
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Ok, I'll try to find a different computer to do this with, although right now I'm thinking USB is not the case as I have successfully performed the same flash on a different sgs4g and it works just fine (the difference was that phone was never stuck in download mode to begin with). For the problem phone, I have tried a couple of ports and 2 different cables on my Mac. From what you just told me, perhaps the phone's usb port is the culprit.
Thanks for your reply, and thanks for all the programming work you've contributed to this forum :good:
Hey guys,
after I have got some problems with charging in the past (wallchargers are always recognized as USB, very slow loading) I upgraded my OPO to CM13.
Now my phone does not charge anymore at all, all animations and charging recognitions seems to work (except wallchargers are still shown as USB), but the input current is always 0 mA, now I am stuck at 2% battery with power-save mode
Powering off and loading seems not to work, after powering on after some time battery is not increased
Ampere shows, that I am still losing 10-40mA with status discharging, but usb charger plugged
At the beginning (or afterI had noticed) I had Boeffla kernel and app, which showed, that input current massively drops from 250-400mA to 0 mA after one second charger plugged in. I tried to increase from stock logic to 1500mA, but same problem
MV stuck at ~3620mV
Does anyone know this problem?
Get a new Battery
So a broken battery causes a wrong detection of charger type, for example?
I am really wondering, if this is just a battery problem
I could load battery over night in TWRP with about 7-10% per hour, device was now full and mV was about 4230
Now powered on, decreases again
Atleast for me and a friend, only the original OPO AC Charger + Cabel gets reconized as AC Charger. Everything else, no matter what, is only a USB Charger with around 600mAh-800mAh max (Samsung Fast Charge AC Adapter 2000mAh which works on S5)
I don't belive that your IC Power Circit Chip is broken, in normal cases it would lead into a complete board dead. But yours still working, so it should be allright.
If you lucky its just the battery, I in your position would replace it anyway. Secound part to set the focus on is the USB Port, it can be damaged or just corroded over the time. So if you plan to setup a order buy the two parts.
tt might software problem. when u flash a new kernel and u forgot to wipe cache and dalvik , it sometimes make ur phone take more time to charge. (srry bad english)
Traace said:
Atleast for me and a friend, only the original OPO AC Charger + Cabel gets reconized as AC Charger. Everything else, no matter what, is only a USB Charger with around 600mAh-800mAh max (Samsung Fast Charge AC Adapter 2000mAh which works on S5)
I don't belive that your IC Power Circit Chip is broken, in normal cases it would lead into a complete board dead. But yours still working, so it should be allright.
If you lucky its just the battery, I in your position would replace it anyway. Secound part to set the focus on is the USB Port, it can be damaged or just corroded over the time. So if you plan to setup a order buy the two parts.
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Thanks I will change battery first I think
As said, i could load over night to 100% (4230+mV) in TWRP, vey strange, the charging symbol in TWRP (the "+") was shown, currently I am trying the same again, but it seems not to load anymore right now
MojoManagement said:
Thanks I will change battery first I think
As said, i could load over night to 100% (4230+mV) in TWRP, vey strange, the charging symbol in TWRP (the "+") was shown, currently I am trying the same again, but it seems not to load anymore right now
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Okay nice to hear. I advice to replace both. The USB part is just 5$ more ~ and its not that difficult. As for the battery, u have to open the opo anyway.
did you use battery calibration to clear the battery file after flashing?
I changed the battery and the usb connector with flex cable. Same issue.
Btw in my car the phone loads sporadically, but with about 1500mA, very very strange. I checked it again with 4 wall chargers and different usb cables, here it does not work
So it seems that I have to load the phone in my car.
Oneplus support has not been writing back for over a week.
Only the original charger and cable gets recognized as AC charger
KuranKaname said:
Only the original charger and cable gets recognized as AC charger
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No, I got a few chargers and some of them were recognized as AC already. Anyway, the original one is not recognized as AC either.
My OPO is also not recognized by any computer anymore.. so no fastboot flash
Anyone got another idea what I could try?
MojoManagement said:
Anyone got another idea what I could try?
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Hi, by advance sorry for my poor English.
Since you changed the battery it doesn't seem to be a material issue.
I don't really think that this will solve your problem, and you may want to keep using cm13, but you could try this :
-Make a nandroid backup and save all your data.
-Flash TWRP(2.8.6.0 !), you could either flash it or just boot the image via your computer if you want to keep stock recovery.
-Clean Flash Oxygen OS (oxygen_1.0.0_flashable.zip)
-Don't forget to do a factory wipe via TWRP, and reboot.
Then try the "OPO charging current" app, and see if it is charging above 800mA or not.
If oxygen OS doesn't work, you can try Calkulin's_Stock_OPO_XNPH44S_ROM_v1.0.zip
I'm running cm13 (114) nightly and I also have some charging issues, tough they are not as serious as yours.
<!> EDIT <!> : Before flashing another rom, you can try this, it significantly improved my charging speed over cm13 :
-Go to Settings -> Gestures and disable everything. Then reboot and try OPO charging current app.
MethylHaine said:
Hi, by advance sorry for my poor English.
Since you changed the battery it doesn't seem to be a material issue.
I don't really think that this will solve your problem, and you may want to keep using cm13, but you could try this :
-Make a nandroid backup and save all your data.
-Flash TWRP(2.8.6.0 !), you could either flash it or just boot the image via your computer if you want to keep stock recovery.
-Clean Flash Oxygen OS (oxygen_1.0.0_flashable.zip)
-Don't forget to do a factory wipe via TWRP, and reboot.
Then try the "OPO charging current" app, and see if it is charging above 800mA or not.
If oxygen OS doesn't work, you can try Calkulin's_Stock_OPO_XNPH44S_ROM_v1.0.zip
I'm running cm13 (114) nightly and I also have some charging issues, tough they are not as serious as yours.
<!> EDIT <!> : Before flashing another rom, you can try this, it significantly improved my charging speed over cm13 :
-Go to Settings -> Gestures and disable everything. Then reboot and try OPO charging current app.
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As said, my OPO is not anymore recognized by usb at every computer.
So in case of any error, I could not flash anything with fastboot.
I am wary about flashing Oxygen OS in TWRP, also I have cm13 and caf things at phone
Oxygen OS 2.4.1:
Also, do not try to flash this build through TWRP. You will most likely lose your radio and IMEI which means a trip to our customer support. It won't lead to thermonuclear war but just don't do it.
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I have TWRP 2.8.6.0 installed already and my problem existed with latest cm 12.1 nightly, with temasek 5.1.1 and latest cm13 nightly.
Only with sultanxda caf cm 13 charging works with plug-in delay and very slowly
MojoManagement said:
No, I got a few chargers and some of them were recognized as AC already. Anyway, the original one is not recognized as AC either.
My OPO is also not recognized by any computer anymore.. so no fastboot flash
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So u changed the USB port and the OPO is not recognized at all anymore?, then u made something wrong, or the part is broken
MojoManagement said:
As said, my OPO is not anymore recognized by usb at every computer.
So in case of any error, I could not flash anything with fastboot.
I am wary about flashing Oxygen OS in TWRP, also I have cm13 and caf things at phone
Oxygen OS 2.4.1:
I have TWRP 2.8.6.0 installed already and my problem existed with latest cm 12.1 nightly, with temasek 5.1.1 and latest cm13 nightly.
Only with sultanxda caf cm 13 charging works with plug-in delay and very slowly
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I though it could be okay since you bought a new cable.
The version of oxygen OS you're supposed to flash is, as I said, 1.0.0, not 2.4.1, and via twrp 2.8.6.0. This ain't supposed to cause your phone any harm (At least, it didn't caused me any trouble).
Also, this may be a stupid question, but were all drivers correctly installed on the computers with which you tried to detect your phone while in fastboot mode ?
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So u changed the USB port and the OPO is not recognized at all anymore?, then u made something wrong, or the part is broken
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It was already broken before, but I dont know the exact date and reason
I replaced the complete usb dock with cable to board and battery, same issue
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I though it could be okay since you bought a new cable.
The version of oxygen OS you're supposed to flash is, as I said, 1.0.0, not 2.4.1, and via twrp 2.8.6.0. This ain't supposed to cause your phone any harm (At least, it didn't caused me any trouble).
Also, this may be a stupid question, but were all drivers correctly installed on the computers with which you tried to detect your phone while in fastboot mode ?
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Of course all drivers are here, the phone is not recognized at all, no windows sound when plugging in or any new device in device manager. Every other phone works here. I also tried 3 different computers
I read so many issues with Oneplus RMA... so I try everything else before
Edit: forgot to mention again, charging does not work in TWRP, too, so I dont think its an OS issue
Any one know oneline market where can i order opo power ic chip?
Hi guys,
Sorry, I guess I have f*cked up my moms tab 2 (model GT-P5110)
I guess it's hard bricked, because it doesn't power up, but I'm not 100% sure maybe you guys can help me out or provide me with some tools which I can try to get life back into it.
- I can't access recovery mode via the normal way
- I can't access download mode via the normal way
There is a battery sign, but it's not rotating or anything else, just there... (kept it already 24hr in wall charger but without effect)
On the other hand if I try to connect it with USB to laptop, then it's saying " USB device not recognized" (and this " error" is coming every 5 seconds)
(sorry can't post pictures, because I'm a new user to this forum)
Hope you guys can help me.
Thank you in advance
Angerfistt said:
Hi guys,
Sorry, I guess I have f*cked up my moms tab 2 (model GT-P5110)
I guess it's hard bricked, because it doesn't power up, but I'm not 100% sure maybe you guys can help me out or provide me with some tools which I can try to get life back into it.
- I can't access recovery mode via the normal way
- I can't access download mode via the normal way
There is a battery sign, but it's not rotating or anything else, just there... (kept it already 24hr in wall charger but without effect)
On the other hand if I try to connect it with USB to laptop, then it's saying " USB device not recognized" (and this " error" is coming every 5 seconds)
(sorry can't post pictures, because I'm a new user to this forum)
Hope you guys can help me.
Thank you in advance
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Hard brick won't even show a battery sign, have you tried using a new cable? Perhaps the cable ia at fault? What exactly did you do?
billysam said:
Hard brick won't even show a battery sign, have you tried using a new cable? Perhaps the cable ia at fault? What exactly did you do?
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Thank you for your reply.
I haven't tried a new cable, because I don't have one, but to be honest I don't think that could be the solution, because if I put it inside my laptop to gives some sign of life "USB device not recognized".
I can't post pictures or link parts..., but the ring inside the batterij doesn't rotate. It's just there sometimes and frozen.
Looking forward to your response or any other responses
Angerfistt said:
Thank you for your reply.
I haven't tried a new cable, because I don't have one, but to be honest I don't think that could be the solution, because if I put it inside my laptop to gives some sign of life "USB device not recognized".
I can't post pictures or link parts..., but the ring inside the batterij doesn't rotate. It's just there sometimes and frozen.
Looking forward to your response or any other responses
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I had the same error on my pc everytime i tried and the only way i get over it is by, proper drivers, trying different usb ports and changing my data cable.
And i have seen hard brick as well, it won't show anything, not even a unrecognized usb cable msg.
And there is not much you can do without a recovery or download mode. So the first thing that you can rule out is your cable is not at fault.
billysam said:
I had the same error on my pc everytime i tried and the only way i get over it is by, proper drivers, trying different usb ports and changing my data cable.
And i have seen hard brick as well, it won't show anything, not even a unrecognized usb cable msg.
And there is not much you can do without a recovery or download mode. So the first thing that you can rule out is your cable is not at fault.
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Thank you for your reply.
I used the original USB cable with an not origional USB adaptor or the USB directly into my laptop but neither worked.., but yesterday I collected the original USB adaptor at my parents house and put it in a wall charger over night. I pressed the buttoms to access download mode and suddenly it works this morning ..... really really strange, so I guess that this is the problem.
Mom told me: Yes, sometimes there is a red cross inside the battery, but it will charge if you wait or try to unplug and plug it a couple of times.
My guess what happened:
- (sunday) Tab was very low battery with flashing around 10%
- (sunday) Stopped with flashing at 5%, because it was too late
- (monday morning) did nothing, battery empty and charging failed over the day.
- So I guess during the flash the battery broke down completely....
I directly switched on my laptop after I could acces download mode and downloaded stock rom. Unfortunately have to go to work and the download will take one hour , so hopefully it will stay in download mode the hole day, because I don't want to take the risk to turn it off
Guys,
I have another issue.
It connects to odin, but it failed to setupconnection if i try to flash a standard rom + pit..
<ID:0/005> Added!!
<ID:0/005> Odin v.3 engine (ID:5)..
<ID:0/005> File analysis..
<ID:0/005> SetupConnection..
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
Can someone help?
Solved:
Solution, go to CWM and wipe data, mount and storage and so on.
Reconnect to download mode and flash stock rom
Tablet is working fine on origigional software right now...
If all else fails..what i did for clients was open tablet and charge the battery externally with 5v usb for 2 hours,then reinsert and do necessary fixes
Angerfistt said:
Thank you for your reply.
I used the original USB cable with an not origional USB adaptor or the USB directly into my laptop but neither worked.., but yesterday I collected the original USB adaptor at my parents house and put it in a wall charger over night. I pressed the buttoms to access download mode and suddenly it works this morning ..... really really strange, so I guess that this is the problem.
Mom told me: Yes, sometimes there is a red cross inside the battery, but it will charge if you wait or try to unplug and plug it a couple of times.
My guess what happened:
- (sunday) Tab was very low battery with flashing around 10%
- (sunday) Stopped with flashing at 5%, because it was too late
- (monday morning) did nothing, battery empty and charging failed over the day.
- So I guess during the flash the battery broke down completely....
I directly switched on my laptop after I could acces download mode and downloaded stock rom. Unfortunately have to go to work and the download will take one hour , so hopefully it will stay in download mode the hole day, because I don't want to take the risk to turn it off
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Angerfistt said:
Hi guys,
Sorry, I guess I have f*cked up my moms tab 2 (model GT-P5110)
I guess it's hard bricked, because it doesn't power up, but I'm not 100% sure maybe you guys can help me out or provide me with some tools which I can try to get life back into it.
- I can't access recovery mode via the normal way
- I can't access download mode via the normal way
There is a battery sign, but it's not rotating or anything else, just there... (kept it already 24hr in wall charger but without effect)
On the other hand if I try to connect it with USB to laptop, then it's saying " USB device not recognized" (and this " error" is coming every 5 seconds)
(sorry can't post pictures, because I'm a new user to this forum)
Hope you guys can help me.
Thank you in advance
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Greetings;
Like others already said: Get a Good USB Cable, and try other USB Ports when such thing Happens.
When Computer fails to Install the Device: Get Device Drivers (Kies).
A "Red Cross" at the Battery: Means your Charger does not have enough power to charge your device. Also Happens with USB on Computer.
When a Device Boots to Recovery, that ususlly means 97% of Times you can Fix it Totally or Partially. Depending on the " Damage " / "Mistskes" done previously.
Note: Mistakes happen to everyone,specially when learning or messing with Android Devices.
TIPs:
1) Before you proceed with any customization, always make backups (ROM Backup, EFS Backup and Personal Data).
2) Always Make Sure Whatever you Flash is for your Exact Device Model.
3) Have a Stock Rom and Recovery files close, just in case something goes bad.
Finally: Read a Lot, and Make questions when you dont Understand something, etc..
You will learn a lot, save lots of time and you will let yourself stay out of trouble.
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Let us know if you experience " Duplicated Data " or other Errors.
Judging by the steps mentioned here I assume you are.
Hopefully your Device Runs Ok Now.
Best Regards,
Richard
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rgxHost said:
Greetings;
Like others already said: Get a Good USB Cable, and try other USB Ports when such thing Happens.
When Computer fails to Install the Device: Get Device Drivers (Kies).
A "Red Cross" at the Battery: Means your Charger does not have enough power to charge your device. Also Happens with USB on Computer.
When a Device Boots to Recovery, that ususlly means 97% of Times you can Fix it Totally or Partially. Depending on the " Damage " / "Mistskes" done previously.
Note: Mistakes happen to everyone,specially when learning or messing with Android Devices.
TIPs:
1) Before you proceed with any customization, always make backups (ROM Backup, EFS Backup and Personal Data).
2) Always Make Sure Whatever you Flash is for your Exact Device Model.
3) Have a Stock Rom and Recovery files close, just in case something goes bad.
Finally: Read a Lot, and Make questions when you dont Understand something, etc..
You will learn a lot, save lots of time and you will let yourself stay out of trouble.
x)
Let us know if you experience " Duplicated Data " or other Errors.
Judging by the steps mentioned here I assume you are.
Hopefully your Device Runs Ok Now.
Best Regards,
Richard
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Hi Richard,
Thank you for your reply , I learned indeed.
Did a lot of flashing (around 20times before on my Galaxy S1 and Note 2) without a lot of trouble
This was the first time I tried to flash a custom rom on a Tablet, but failed
It's currently running on stock rom without issues.
Will Root and flash custom rom this evening again, but this time with full battery instead of <10%
Will update the post afterwards .
Greetings;
Ok.
Please proceed with caution now. xD
Before Flashing Remember to:
- Have a Backup of your Device Saved on Your SDCard (Made with CWM).
- Never Delete Battery Stats.
- Never Mess with Odin Checkboxes. Specially " EFS Clear"
If you do so you may end up in Losing your Imei, Wifi and Bluetooth Mac Adress and make then unavailable or not working. Consider yourself warned. As most people wont tell you this small tremendous problem.
- Try to get someminfo about the Custom Rom you're about to Install. Specially if it will change your partitions.
It is good to know that in case you need to revert the process. If it chamges your partitions, then reverting to stock may require you to select "Re-Partition" under Odin. Yet please double check with the Rom author.
1) Go Recovery, Erase Cache, and Dalvik (If you Have Dalvik Option under Advanced Tab under ClockWorkMod Recovety)
2) Proceed to your Flashing Method.
3) Install CF-Root / Kernel (If Custom Rom Doesnt Include It)
If your Device Goes into Bootloops or Kernel Panic after Flashing:
Take your Battery out, Press Power Button to Discharge the Memory Components, Place your Battery Back.
You're Most Likely Good to Go.
After putting the Battery Back I prefer to:
Boot into Recovery, Clean Cache and Dalvik. Then perform a Factory Reset (Yes Factory Reset Also Cleans Cache - But I find this method effective to prevent further errors).
After this I think you're good to go.
Although I wouldnt go for Custom Roms. There's just no need.. =)
If your goal is Performance, Battery Duration and Storage Space you don't need Custom Roms.
If your goal is having something different, (usually Buggy) and low Battery Duration... Well go for Custom!
Sounds Crazy, but thats the way it is.. Good Luck
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rgxHost said:
Greetings;
Ok.
Please proceed with caution now. xD
Before Flashing Remember to:
- Have a Backup of your Device Saved on Your SDCard (Made with CWM).
- Never Delete Battery Stats.
- Never Mess with Odin Checkboxes. Specially " EFS Clear"
If you do so you may end up in Losing your Imei, Wifi and Bluetooth Mac Adress and make then unavailable or not working. Consider yourself warned. As most people wont tell you this small tremendous problem.
- Try to get someminfo about the Custom Rom you're about to Install. Specially if it will change your partitions.
It is good to know that in case you need to revert the process. If it chamges your partitions, then reverting to stock may require you to select "Re-Partition" under Odin. Yet please double check with the Rom author.
1) Go Recovery, Erase Cache, and Dalvik (If you Have Dalvik Option under Advanced Tab under ClockWorkMod Recovety)
2) Proceed to your Flashing Method.
3) Install CF-Root / Kernel (If Custom Rom Doesnt Include It)
If your Device Goes into Bootloops or Kernel Panic after Flashing:
Take your Battery out, Press Power Button to Discharge the Memory Components, Place your Battery Back.
You're Most Likely Good to Go.
After putting the Battery Back I prefer to:
Boot into Recovery, Clean Cache and Dalvik. Then perform a Factory Reset (Yes Factory Reset Also Cleans Cache - But I find this method effective to prevent further errors).
After this I think you're good to go.
Although I wouldnt go for Custom Roms. There's just no need.. =)
If your goal is Performance, Battery Duration and Storage Space you don't need Custom Roms.
If your goal is having something different, (usually Buggy) and low Battery Duration... Well go for Custom!
Sounds Crazy, but thats the way it is.. Good Luck
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Hi,
You can't remove a battery out of a tab2.
In your opinion there is no benefit to flash a custom rom, because they are worse than stock?
You can. Try searching YouTube for:
"Removing Samsung Galaxy Tab Battery"
Custom ROMs are good:
- To have Nice visual themes;
- To simplify some operations like (Deodexing and Removing Bloatware, Install Custom Kernel, Add or Remove Funtions)
- To have a upgraded Firmware. (when brand wont release more updated Stock ROMs)
- Maybe some more (but I dont recall everything at this moment).
But on the other hand, expect:
- Bugs;
- Maybe Device Brick or Component Damage;
- Lots of time fixing your device.
- Sometimes Device may not work properly;
- For sure: Less Battery Duration;
Everything will depend on what's the purpose for your device.
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Hi,
Rooting and flashing a custom ROM worked perfectly, without having issues.
Now running CyanogenMod 12.1 Android 5.1.1
Verstuurd vanaf mijn GT-N7100 met Tapatalk
Hello Angerfistt;
Glad to know.
Tip: Install Greenify and Set it up properly.
You will see some improvement in your battery duration.
Hi forum,
Basically a couple of days ago my S6 stopped fast charging and was charging at a very slow pace (~5% idle/hour) and have tried pretty much all the things on the internet (safe mode, checking for lint, toggle in settings, etc.) before as a last resort doing a factory reset. It also decided that it would not be picked up by the PC properly and showed as a malfunctioning device by device manager which I overlooked a little bit, as I assumed it was a software problem.
Anyways, after doing a factory reset through TWRP my phone can no longer boot to the operating system and now instead boots to TWRP. I have read online that I'd be able to flash firmware/files through Odin to fix the problem, however my phone does not get picked up by the PC so that's not an option for now, I've tried going into download mode also which it allowed me but it's still not recognised and I cannot boot to safe mode. Is there anything else I can try? I have tried restoring my boot and system partitions but still the same problem. The only thing I can think of is to try and find some more lint in the charger port to try and fix the USB if its a hardware problem still, as the S6 doesn't have removable storage so I can't bring any files over.
It will be fun seeing the expressions on the Samsung guys' faces when I walk in with a TWRP boot loop asking for a USB repair on warranty
Hope someone can help
I had issues charging too and it turned out to be my USB cable. Have u tried other cables?
Tapatalked yah
joppz said:
I had issues charging too and it turned out to be my USB cable. Have u tried other cables?
Tapatalked yah
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Yes I've tried about four cables and two fast charge bricks however that is no longer the primary problem, from what I can see I need to figure out how to get the charger port working so I can flash or find something within TWRP to fix the boot.
Thanks though :highfive:
If we focus on just getting un boot looped I have a backup of my system and boot partitions from about a month ago and I tried restoring these to the device to help boot up, as far as I'm aware deleting the other partitions wouldn't help? Does anyone know which partitions are required for the system to run? And I'm going to try and see if there is an incompatibility with the drivers on windows otherwise I suspect a hardware issue. Looked online and the average cost for the usb port to be replaced is ~£150, which I may have to do as I'm rooted and therefore out of warranty. Would be great if TWRP could transmit files over wifi or had its own file downloader but I guess not everyone is on a bootlooped s6 with no SD card slot for transferring files and with USB problems :cyclops:
Any more ideas? Am I bricked indefinitely until the USB port is fixed??
Hello guys,
It is my first time yesterday to flash and root my Xperia Z5 since the camera app always says that it is currently in use.
I used this guide by sceryavuz . And it turned out great, I have used my phone for a day without any errors or problems encountered. But the thing is, I still cannot use the camera app and it has the same currently used by other application message so I decided to downgrade it to Marshmallow this morning. So I went to the same routine, downloaded an FTF file and loaded it into the flashtool.
After clicking Flash device in the flashtool and waited for the flashmode, I connected and pressed the volume down button of my phone but the flashtool is not reading and recognizing my phone. So I decided to open the TWRP and assumed that factory resetting my phone will do the work and it turns out that it just removed the /system folder and now I have a bigger problem with my phone.
When I'm connecting in flashmode the LED is turning to red, green, then will turn off, and then will do the same cycle if left unattended.
Could you guys please help me out with this. You'll be greatly appreciated guys. Thanks!
My phone is E6653 Xperia Z5
Well, you should reflash the system, by a custom rom of your choice or even the stock rom if you want to.
I'm using a custom rom and I highly recommend you to do so if you already lost your data, give it a try.
You don't need to downgrade to MM, it not an android version issue, I would recommend you carbon rom. Go to it's thread and figure out how to flash it, if you need help ask over there or quote me back in this thread.
Another option could be restoring your phone with xperia companion but you will need to relock the bootloader and get flashmode to work again. You can also try flashtool from your computer. Anyway I recommend you to do so ONLY and ONLY if you want your phone to run stock again as it was when you bought it.
Otherwise yep, figure out what's a customrom and how to flash it, you find tons of custom roms in xda threads. having already TWRP is an advantage, less sketchy stuff to do.
Hope it helped, as I said, quote me back if you need help
Edit: if you need the files we're running the exact same device, if you don't find em (and only if you can't find em) i could send them to you.
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Well, you should reflash the system, by a custom rom of your choice or even the stock rom if you want to.
I'm using a custom rom and I highly recommend you to do so if you already lost your data, give it a try.
You don't need to downgrade to MM, it not an android version issue, I would recommend you carbon rom. Go to it's thread and figure out how to flash it, if you need help ask over there or quote me back in this thread.
Another option could be restoring your phone with xperia companion but you will need to relock the bootloader and get flashmode to work again. You can also try flashtool from your computer. Anyway I recommend you to do so ONLY and ONLY if you want your phone to run stock again as it was when you bought it.
Otherwise yep, figure out what's a customrom and how to flash it, you find tons of custom roms in xda threads. having already TWRP is an advantage, less sketchy stuff to do.
Hope it helped, as I said, quote me back if you need help
Edit: if you need the files we're running the exact same device, if you don't find em (and only if you can't find em) i could send them to you.
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Hi ofmoll,
I'm sorry for the very late response, I had an internet connection issue this past week. I have tried your suggestion by using Carbon Rom, it works perfectly fine but I have one problem. It is not charging and the battery keeps saying that it is on 100% even if it is not. I'm trying to reflash other ROMs and I'll get back to you as soon as I finish flashing. Happy new year! Thanks!
Hi,
I tried to flash my phone a carbon rom and a crdroid rom and it was successful, my problem was it wasn't charging, and whenever I try to use flashtool, and I am entering flashmode, the phone turns red then green then after a minute it turns red again and then green after I press volume down and connect the phone to my PC. And the PC seems cannot recognize my device since no sounds are going off my computer when I connect it. I hope you can share your expertise regarding this.
Toshiiiiiiii said:
Hi,
I tried to flash my phone a carbon rom and a crdroid rom and it was successful, my problem was it wasn't charging, and whenever I try to use flashtool, and I am entering flashmode, the phone turns red then green then after a minute it turns red again and then green after I press volume down and connect the phone to my PC. And the PC seems cannot recognize my device since no sounds are going off my computer when I connect it. I hope you can share your expertise regarding this.
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So you say it's not charging? Or did you manage to solve that? You don't really need flashtool at this point (unless you want to relock the bootloader, but I guess there are backdoors for that as well)
If it's not charging, well, the options are this: either it's a hardware problem, for example charger or charge port, or a software problem, because some files are needed for the phone to detect a charger source plugged in.
1. If the software is crashing you can try going into TWRP and wipe cache and dalvik cache, may help may not, try. If you get it yo work remember to calibrate the battery after it, it might be important because after flahsing roms and having this kind of issues the battery could not be showing the actual percentage of battery. So just calibrate, it's easy, Google it.
2. It could happen that the phone is charging but the battery status icon won't show it, I'm not too sure about this but I heard that could happen, might not be the case.
3. In none of that works, search, make a lot of research of people with your same problem and try amd try and try, If nothing works a clean reflash should solve it, usually does, if not try another rom, another kernel or go back to stock. It's your choice, but anyway I guess a clean reflash should get it working. I had the same issue with LineageOS and wiping Dalvik Cache solved it.
If you wipe dalvik expect a long reboot time, I don't suggest you to turn the phone off while it boots up. Wiping Dalvik means all cache files have to be built again the next time you reboot your phone, so yeah, expect some battery drain and a hot device while it boots up, but don't panic, it's totally normal.
Happy new year, hope you get it working again
Remember to hit thanks, cheers!
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So you say it's not charging? Or did you manage to solve that? You don't really need flashtool at this point (unless you want to relock the bootloader, but I guess there are backdoors for that as well)
If it's not charging, well, the options are this: either it's a hardware problem, for example charger or charge port, or a software problem, because some files are needed for the phone to detect a charger source plugged in.
1. If the software is crashing you can try going into TWRP and wipe cache and dalvik cache, may help may not, try. If you get it yo work remember to calibrate the battery after it, it might be important because after flahsing roms and having this kind of issues the battery could not be showing the actual percentage of battery. So just calibrate, it's easy, Google it.
2. It could happen that the phone is charging but the battery status icon won't show it, I'm not too sure about this but I heard that could happen, might not be the case.
3. In none of that works, search, make a lot of research of people with your same problem and try amd try and try, If nothing works a clean reflash should solve it, usually does, if not try another rom, another kernel or go back to stock. It's your choice, but anyway I guess a clean reflash should get it working. I had the same issue with LineageOS and wiping Dalvik Cache solved it.
If you wipe dalvik expect a long reboot time, I don't suggest you to turn the phone off while it boots up. Wiping Dalvik means all cache files have to be built again the next time you reboot your phone, so yeah, expect some battery drain and a hot device while it boots up, but don't panic, it's totally normal.
Happy new year, hope you get it working again
Remember to hit thanks, cheers!
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Hi Sir,
Happy new year! Thanks for your reply and I really appreciated it. When I connect the phone to my charger when it's off, it turns on then shows the screen of charging 0% by carbon rom then immediately dies after 2 bars being filled. I hope that it is not a hardware problem since when I connect my phone to my computer via the usb, it lights on but the computer can't recognize it. I am suspecting that this is a rom problem with my phone since the phone shows that it's charging connected to AC and 100% even if it is not connected to a charger. I am trying to get the flashmode to work again so I can flash a stock rom to it because the stock rom works perfectly fine but the camera. I will try all your suggestions tomorrow and I'll research harder to solve this. Will post an update once done. Cheers!
Toshiiiiiiii said:
Hi Sir,
Happy new year! Thanks for your reply and I really appreciated it. When I connect the phone to my charger when it's off, it turns on then shows the screen of charging 0% by carbon rom then immediately dies after 2 bars being filled. I hope that it is not a hardware problem since when I connect my phone to my computer via the usb, it lights on but the computer can't recognize it. I am suspecting that this is a rom problem with my phone since the phone shows that it's charging connected to AC and 100% even if it is not connected to a charger. I am trying to get the flashmode to work again so I can flash a stock rom to it because the stock rom works perfectly fine but the camera. I will try all your suggestions tomorrow and I'll research harder to solve this. Will post an update once done. Cheers!
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As said, first of all try what I said. It nothing of that solves it, I suggest you 3 options
1. Either go stock, try using XPeria Companion, but I think since you flashed custom it doesn't work, at least for me. For Companion you'll need to relock bootloader. Or go stock by flashing a stock rom via TWRP. Note that after flashing a custom rom you'll never go back to the "real" stock if you don't have a backup, but you can always flash a stock rom.
2. You can also try to reflash the rom and see if that works.
3. Download a Custom kernel, then go to TWRP, wipe everything, then first of all flash the Kernel (remember to ensure that's a kernel for your device). Then reflash the ROM. This could look stupid because the ROM comes with a built-in kernel itself, but it solved an issue I had with random reboots. I didn't read this anywhere, I tried and for me it solved a problem I had which everybody was telling me that was caused by hardware, then it came out to be a Kernel issue. Try to if you want.
Try what I said before as well. This is all I know
Cheers
Edit: I forgot to tell you that PC Companion won't recognize your phone if it's running a customROM. Use Android File Transfer instead. You also need to check "use usb to transfer files" on the notifications pannel. Enable USB debugging as well, I guess you know how to do it, in case: you need to go to "about phone" in settings, hit 8 times Build Number, then the developer options should appear and check Android Debugging. That's it.