Hello,
I have a Verizon S3 (SCH-I535) which I've been using for over a year now. I decided to root the phone about a month ago with TowelRoot and everything seemed fine. But just a few days after I had rooted my phone, Verizon issued their KitKat update for my phone (I dont know why I received the update a few months late). I didn't want to update because I knew that if I did, it would just soft-brick my phone. So I thought I would just connect my phone to Odin and load the stock 4.3 firmware back onto my phone (since deleting the root files won't really have any effect). But when I tried connecting my phone to the computer, the computer won't even recognize it (I had the drivers installed). It charges, but it won't get recognized on any computer I plug it into. After this, I realized that the micro USB module got messed up.After my phone wouldn't connect to the computer, I thought that if I had just soft-bricked the phone by trying to install the update and then restarted the phone from recovery, I could just boot up my phone regularly and I wouldn't get the update anymore. I didn't want the update constantly bugging me every single time I used my phone. But to my dismay, the update downloads once every 24 hours. So I used my phone for a few days, but then I realized I that had another problem, none of the Google apps (Play Store, Google+, Hangouts, etc.) were working. So I decided to clear the cache and memory of all of them and sign out and into Google services again. When I tried signing back in, it would say that I couldn't establish a reliable connection to the server, even if I had really fast internet. Along with these problems, I don't receive notifications from any app even if I turn them on and some apps are starting to crash when I open them up, such as the camera app. I've tried a number of solutions, such as trying to install CyanogenMod through Clockwork, but none of that works because of Verizon's locked bootloader. I've even tried factory resetting, and it still soft-bricks that way. Could anyone please help me with this? Thanks.
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I returned my old GS3 and got a new one today and I rooted, unlocked the bootloader, and installed TWRP all with the one click method from beanstown. Then, for the last 4 hours, I've been trying to transfer my rom file/gapps/kernel zips and they will not transfer and I feel like I've tried everything. The error I get is "The device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected." This happened on my old GS3 but I was usually able to fix it with a reboot. And now it's doing it on my new GS3 stock rooted but reboots aren't fixing it. It obviously is a driver issue because it isn't working on my new GS3, but I've tried reinstalling the drivers to no avail. I've rebooted about a thousand times and it still isn't working. It basically starts copying, the green progress bar goes about an inch to the right, freezes for about 5-10 minutes, and then gives me the error message. What can I do to fix this? I know I can transfer through wifi but that'll make it take a long time and I might get a corrupted transfer, plus I want to get this to work
Well hooray I fixed it. The solution was to use a different usb port, which I tried about 4 hours ago but it turns out my third usb slot was the winner
I have a GNEX running 4.3 build JWR66Y that I was using up until a few weeks ago when I got the S4, both Verizon, Got my S4 pretty much situated since it's an i545 and still not much offered for it by developers. But its ok. So I hear today that you can get kit kat 4.4 on the GNEX ( mine has been rooted for as long as I've had it). Problem I had was that when I recently upgraded my ROM from 4.1.2 to 4.3 it got screwed up and I ended up with no play store and none of my root apps. I think I lost root. So I go back to the Nexus master Wugfresh. download the tool box go thru the whole process, removed drivers, everything. Wiped it and went thru the root process again and checked the box to have a custom rom flashed at the same time. I get done and I have SuperSU but no play store so I cant get Titanium backup, CWM. TWRP. Nothing. I look into it some and I discovery I didnt have the wifi on when I opened SuperSU so no updated Binaries. I use my S4 as my hot spot and it easily supports my pc, iPad, and iPod all together at the same time. So I go into my gnex to turn on wifi and it just will not connect. It will say, "getting IP address" or checking connection, but it never fully connects. Now I know it worked earlier today because I used it just to see if it would work as a wireless device without phone service. So without the play store, a good wifi connection to get the binaries when I open SuperSU and no idea how I would even get the play store (was gonna try to download some g-apps to get it if I ever get that far) I'm seemingly stuck with no where to turn. At this point I've got no options unless I can find another internet source but I really don't think that's the issue since it works or every other device in the house. Any ideas or suggestions greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Michael S
Hey guys, let me just start off by saying I have spent almost 8 hours straight today trying to figure this out and dig myself out of a hole I've created for myself, that being said, I'm going to try and be as detailed as possible so you guys know EXACTLY where I am and what I've tried. This post looks long but that's because it is. It's pretty much my entire day's worth of trouble typed out. So just bare with me and see if you guys can help me out here!
I have a T-Mobile Galaxy S4 model: SGH-M919 it has Android 4.4.2. Now on to the problem: I've had this phone for almost a year now and a few months ago I rooted it. Did a simple Youtube tutorial and used Odin to do the work and everything worked out fine. A couple months down the road (yesterday), after using the phone like a teenager, downloading apps and cluttering it up it started to slow down and not run some apps. After thinking about it I decided to factory reset it. All of my contacts, photos, and videos were backed up on Google so I thought "why not?" Well, this is where $#!% hit the fan.. being rooted then factory reset, right before the phone came online it had me answer two questions about the root. Something to the effect of "Do you want to keep root? (This option is not reversible)" I thought since I wasn't using the features I originally rooted the phone for I figured nah just get rid of the root. So the phone did its T-Mobile boot up and started the Initial setup.
Everything up to to this point was fine until I wanted to log in to my Google account during the setup. Please understand that where I am I have full 4G LTE coverage and have access to a pretty fast and sturdy wifi connection. Well, when it came to the google sign in I entered my email and password and it came up with a message reading "Can't Sign in - Can't establish a reliable connection to the server" (believe me i wish that was the only issue) so after reading that, I thought I'd try with my wifi.. nope. Same thing. Since neither my 4g or wifi worked I thought it was Google's servers so I tried again this morning, same thing. (keep in mind at this point i think my phone isn't rooted anymore.) I call the t mobile store and they give me a technical support number, so I call it and I tell them i cant sign into Google. The gentleman told me he cant do anything because he can tell my phones been rooted. Only thing he suggests is to contact Google, well, the customer care number just tells you go to google.com/support and there's nothing there about my problem.
This is where I dig my hole even deeper. I tried another factory reset and up in the top left corner i still see that root text. Even the rooted android symbol pops up before the Samsung logo or t mobile. Since I saw that I thought "ohh it just didn't get unrooted all the way." I look up ways to completely remove a root and a lot of them require plugin your phone into the computer and using Odin to flash a stock firmware on to the device. I went to plug my phone into the usb port but my computer didn't recognize the usb device, having experienced this a long time ago I searched around for the latest Samsung usb drivers and I installed those. Device still isn't recognized. Let me just note before people tell me to use MTP mode or Developer tools> usb debugging or connection mode.. The only thing that happens when plugging my phone via usb is the phone starts charging and my computer makes the trumpet noise like something is plugged in. Other than that, there is NO notification of it being plugged in. The reason i stress this is because I called Samsung technical support at this point and the guy (not gentleman) treated me like a 5 year old and ran me through all of these options after i told him I already did everything he was suggesting, including downloading Samsung Kies 3 and having it install the drivers. It does not pick up the device either.. at this point I looked up ways to remove the root without the computer. I found out you can just go into the root app "SU" or something and theres a remove root option. I jumped on that opportunity and had it removed. I restarted the phone and all the problems still persist, it even still has the root text on the top left when you factory reset it again. However now, even if you factory reset and select the option "keep root," thinking it would bring back the"SU" app it does NOT.
So lets recap. I have a phone that thinks its rooted and even appears rooted to t mobile but doesn't have any of the root apps or privileges or capabilities to fix my Google log in issue (like the host file in filemanager). And I can't re-root to get that app back because none of my 3 usb ports, 3 different usb cables (one being the cord that came with the phone), or any of the ports/cables on someone else's computer will recognize the darn thing to work on that way! I have all these issues that are supposed to fix each other but I can't do any fixing because they cancel each other out too... I'm at a dead end.
In case this isn't the right forum/website/thread/post area etc.. I have this whole message saved in Microsoft Word document so I can repost it anywhere you guys might suggest better results. Any help/advice will be much appreciated.
XT1080 Maxx - no recovery, no factory, and no USB connection to PC
I am trying to fix my brother's XT1080 Maxx, or at least get his photos off of it. This phone is stock, as my bro is not tech savvy at all.
He went to bed one night. I am not sure if the phone tried installing an update while unplugged or what happened, but when he woke up in the morning and tried turning it on, it stuck on the droid eye screen. He tried rebooting a few times and was finally able to get to the unlock screen, but once unlocked, everything crashed, like motolauncher, gapps, acore, media, etc.
We took it to several Verizon retailers, some official stores and some authorized retailers. Everyone said they could not help.
At this point, he gave it to me to work with. I tried recovery from fastboot, but it says boot failed. After lots of turning on and off, I was able to get to the unlock screen. After pushing OK to the millions of crashes, I was able to get to the settings screen. I tried everything from clearing cache to factory resetting within the settings. Nothing would work. Anything to do with data would bring up a .media crash. The best I got was turning on the Bluetooth, but nothing useful can be done with it. I also tried NFC, but could never complete a transfer, which didn't matter because I could not get to his gallery anyway. I booted in safe mode a few times and always got the same results.
I tried every option possible to connect the phone to my computer. The USB never did a thing, no matter what driver I tried using. I downloaded all kinds of programs from these forums. The computer would not recognize it in fastboot either.
I told my bro he was screwed and tried a fastboot factory reset. All it does is boot the phone in the normal way, which either sticks on the droid eye or finally makes it to the unlock screen. At this point, I am raging mad.
I decided to disassemble the phone to see if removing the battery would somehow magically allow me to connect it to the computer. I currently have just the board and battery connected to a PC. I had a fastboot driver to come up for a split second, but I have no idea how or why. I am not sure if I bent the board just right, which allowed a contact to be made, but I have not been able to replicate it.
Does anyone have any ideas? The phone is screwed for sure, so if there is anything extreme I can do to save his pictures, I will do it. Thanks in advance.
So i got this sprint galaxy s7 and figured i'd try to root it. All was going well till the activation thing came up and it just wont work. It would constantly retry to connect but that failed so then it went to a manual activation thing so i figured it was fine. Well after the manual activation setup thing is over the phone reboots and i go through it all over again. Not sure if i can flash the stock firmware since i had factory reset it and usb debugging is obviously no longer turned on and i also can't even get to it. If anyone has any answers i'm up to try them out.
I've already tried bypassing the setup wizard but that doesn't seem to work.
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can't even find any stock firmwares because i guess host sites have a 2 gig limit to downalods and i'd have to get premium.