So I had cm12 installed and something happened to where my.phone was lagging so I said screw it and reflashed, while something happened and now I tried to while everything. Well I think I did something wrong because I lost all my apps in the app drawer,but when I go into file manager all my stuff is still there,but now the last couple times I tried to reboot the charging light was flashing red to yellow, but when I take the battery out and put it back in it reboots fine back to the screwed up home screen. Still with all my apps and pictures. Viewable in file manager.someone please help I'm freaking out thinking my phone is screwed up for good ....
Very hard to understand you. What ROM did you flash to now? Does TWRP work, can you get into TWRP?
Yes I can get into twrp,basically it threw me back into my cm12 ROM with none of my apps,and I tried to reflash Google apps and it didn't work,so if I can get into twrp is there a way to fix this by doing like a general full factory reset? And if so exactly how do I do that? I dunno this sucks....I dont wanna try anything else until I kinda have an idea what to do, don't wanna screw it up anymore
kjhrezjr said:
Yes I can get into twrp,basically it threw me back into my cm12 ROM with none of my apps,and I tried to reflash Google apps and it didn't work,so if I can get into twrp is there a way to fix this by doing like a general full factory reset? And if so exactly how do I do that? I dunno this sucks....I dont wanna try anything else until I kinda have an idea what to do, don't wanna screw it up anymore
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If you don't know how to factory reset you probably shouldn't be flashing in the first place. I highly suggest just doing a clean flash and flash Gapps right after you flash CM 12. In order to wipe data, you just click wipe in TWRP.
No I know how to factory reset lol.it's just I did that and when it would go to restart I got little error code up in left hand side of screen. But it doesn't matter because thanks to androidrootz I downloaded New firmware connected it to pc and completely reinstalled operating system. So I'm not rooted or anything and I'm back to square one, .but much better than where I was at.
If your custom Rom was bugging out it could have been a corrupted download. Sometimes all you can do is start from scratch. If you want to flash custom, you need to expect these things. Remember that this is a development site. I have seen where the same Rom acts differently on the exact same phone model. This could be due to a variety of things such as microscopic differences in hardware (this is one of the reasons phones of the same model handles being overclocked more our less than others), settings, tweaks, or apps installed.
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My g2x keeps rebooting over and over again! This happened after i mounted it to my pc. it tries to read my sd card then just reboots over and over again. I have nv flash and tried to restore old back up but still does it. can any one help im thinking i need to flash stock.
you need to do a factory reset if your nandroid backup doesn't work. if that doesn't work reflash the rom.
I already did a factory reset and wipe and tried to re install the rom. it just continues to reboot. It starts up and if quick i can get into my lock screen and access things but within seconds it reboots and continues to do that
What rom are you using?
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I was on a stock rooted rom when the problem happened. so i then i did a restore. when that didnt work i reflashed the stock rom that was posted on forum. i think it has something to do with my internal memory which i cannot access. this all happened when i was trying to back up my sd card while in usb and it just got an error when i unplugged it enless reboot.
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I was hoping it was something simple like undervolting with a custom rom. I wish I could help. It sounds like you tried everything I would recomend. Maybe one of the real Android techie type guys can help you. I am still learning myself.
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I was hoping it was something simple like undervolting with a custom rom. I wish I could help. It sounds like you tried everything I would recomend. Maybe one of the real Android techie type guys can help you. I am still learning myself.
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Thanks anyway! I even when as far as to re-flash stock recovery and then try to factory reset it but still did not work. I just dont know what the heck happened. So today I went to t-mobile and they r sending me a new phone and for know I have a loaner 10 days until I get the new phone they said it was backordered. oh well
The usually story, while flashing my NFC somehow managed to disappear, so I went back and flashed to ICS stock and it hasn't allowed me to turn it on either, did a complete lock and flashed complete stock, I have factory reset, wiped, flashed and re-flashed. Any sort of ideas? Anything would help seeing as this has been keeping me up and I feel like I have tried almost every fix NFC related.
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The usually story, while flashing my NFC somehow managed to disappear, so I went back and flashed to ICS stock and it hasn't allowed me to turn it on either, did a complete lock and flashed complete stock, I have factory reset, wiped, flashed and re-flashed. Any sort of ideas? Anything would help seeing as this has been keeping me up and I feel like I have tried almost every fix NFC related.
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Have you tried reprovisioning? As far as I know most people use it to restore service after a bad flash that didn't wipe their IMEI but for some reason it still won't connect to the network. The only reason I bring it up is because that's not its only use, while using Odin to go back to stock works this is supposed to wipe everything and reset everything, not just data but the whole damn phone. I would just give it a try since you've done everything else. Like I said above. Its mainly used for getting data back when your IMEI isn't lost but it does way more than that. It sounds like faulty hardware but this can't hurt to try.
To reprovision you need to be on stock TW and then you need to dial*2767*3855# . Just note that this will wipe everything so get everything off your internal SD you wanna keep.
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So here is the situation.
Regardless what Rom I flash, the phone works fantastic up until the first time you try to reboot it. At that point it gets past the samsung flash screen and gets stuck on the flash screen of whatever rom I'm running. I've even left it on like that for an hour and it never changed. The only way I'm able to get out of this is to reboot into recovery with a battery pull and do a data/internal storage wipe.
I've even tried odin'ing to stock and when it goes to reboot the phone to reset it gets stuck at that screen.
From recovery if i wipe everything and install the rom fresh it works great. Any ideas what is messed up or corrupted? Gets kinda old having to reset everything just because phone needs to reboot lol.
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So here is the situation.
Regardless what Rom I flash, the phone works fantastic up until the first time you try to reboot it. At that point it gets past the samsung flash screen and gets stuck on the flash screen of whatever rom I'm running.
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I have pretty much the same issue with any ROM other than the stock Verizon. I can restore that and everything is fine. I can flash a ROM, flash GApps (if needed) and everything is fine...but restart and yep..hangs at splash screen. If I try a standard wipe data, it fails. I have to do a format of internal memory and then I can proceed to restore or reflash. Kind of a pain in the ass because I really want to run something other than stock. Whoever can solve this problem will be a hero!
Maybe this will help you
Might be a bad partition, a rare problem to all. Maybe this will help you, do this at your own risk. Read first the thread before making a move.
[HOW-TO] Unbrick your soft bricked Galaxy S III (+ bootloader brick)
Note: You know the responsibility when you root your phone, I am not nor them who created this thread have responsibility to your phone, it is your choice.
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Might be a bad partition, a rare problem to all. Maybe this will help you, do this at your own risk. Read first the thread before making a move.
[HOW-TO] Unbrick your soft bricked Galaxy S III (+ bootloader brick)
Note: You know the responsibility when you root your phone, I am not nor them who created this thread have responsibility to your phone, it is your choice.
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Gonna go ahead and read through that and try it, not much to lose at this point. I'll keep you guys updated if it works or not
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Gonna go ahead and read through that and try it, not much to lose at this point. I'll keep you guys updated if it works or not
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Please do...I am interested to see what happens but not ready to try it yet as I am going on vacation and need my phone at the moment instead of bricking it...LOL
I actually had this problem when I just did the regular wipe in TWRP (the one that maintains the internal SD card). When I did an advanced wipe and did everything, excluding the recovery and external SD, things went back to normal.
Used the Unbrick thread and it fixed the problem. Thanks!
Just wanted to post this update for anyone else who had the problem.
I was mucking around with Titanium Backup and froze (*not uninstalled) Blinkfeed. Unfortunately, this caused my phone to crash. Now it will not boot. I am able to get it into CWM recovery, but I never made a .zip to recover from and now I just feel stupid. Is there any way to recover this?
Am I able to do a factory reset in order to get the phone working again? (And also, will this remove my root) The data I'm not terribly concerned about. All important pictures have been backed up already and there are no documents that are dire. I just need a working phone.
Thank you for any help you can provide!
I would just put a rom zip onto a microSD and flash that.
Although I wouldn't have thought that freezing BlinkFeed would crash your phone and get it stuck in a bootloop, so what do I know?
Performed a factory reset and that doesn't seem to have fixed the problem.
I'm going to look into flashing a rom but that is something I haven't done before and I'm not too comfortable with it.
Do you have any suggestions? I just want to keep the standard stuff (what it was shipped with). I was mainly rooting to get rid of bloatware and have a bit more freedom.
EDIT: Rebooted a second time and the factory reset seems to have taken hold. I'm back at square one but it is far better than nothing.
EDIT2: Not quite back at square one as my backup through Titanium Backup still existed and I was able to utilize that. Lost some contacts, call history, and texts. That's all!
Glad to hear that you were able to fix it. If you ever need a stock Sense rom, I would recommend CleanRom. Watch out though, its really easy to become a flashaholic
i did the same thing : )
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Glad to hear that you were able to fix it. If you ever need a stock Sense rom, I would recommend CleanRom. Watch out though, its really easy to become a flashaholic
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, but i actually did delete blinkfeed on the m8 verizon using titanium. screen went black. i can get into recovery mode, but no backup made yet because i havent decided on which rom i like best. i did a factory reset with no change after reboot. can i install a rom on my sd then use it to reboot my phone? please help. thanks in advance
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, but i actually did delete blinkfeed on the m8 verizon using titanium. screen went black. i can get into recovery mode, but no backup made yet because i havent decided on which rom i like best. i did a factory reset with no change after reboot. can i install a rom on my sd then use it to reboot my phone? please help. thanks in advance
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Or run the stock s-on ruu which doesn't wipe.
Hey all, before I start I'd like to apologise for making the post here but I don't know what you guys would classify the state of my phone as, "bricked, soft-bricked, hard-bricked", I have no clue! As a result I have no idea what threads to start looking in so I've come here to make this, sorry again!
I'm here looking for help because I think I've completely destroyed my Moto G and really really would like to fix it.
Basically, I had been running an old version of CyanogenMod for months and was not able to update due to the fact my bootloader was not updated. After finally updating it through a tool on XDA, I installed the newest version of CyanogenMod onto the phone and it was all going well, except for the fact all of my Google apps were crashing and making it impossible to use.
Now, I'm not sure why, but without taking any precautionary measures or looking into it at all or what I needed to do, I then decided to try and flash a Paranoid Android rom onto the phone, which installed fine. I load the phone up and something comes up with a passcode saying I need to unlock it to use the phone. I put in some random things and eventually get it, but it says my data is corrupted and therefore I need to reset to factory settings and there's a button there to do it. I think "why not" and click.
So now, the phone did something weird and basically went into a bootloop of the PA logo, so I restarted the phone and went to the bootloader thing. When doing "Normal Startup" it loads the phone with the PA logo like before, comes up with a brief "Android is Upgrading" screen before showing me the passcode screen for half a second, before repeating this, thus having a bootloop. Every so often, I can put my code in and press the reset button again, but it does the same thing.
On the other hand, if I try to access my ClockworkMod recovery system, the screen repeatedly flashes with the CWM background of the Android Alien guy, as if to say it keeps trying to start but it cannot.
TLDR: I cannot access my phone through a normal powerup or through my recovery, have I screwed it completely?
I'd hugely appreciate any help here guys because I'm stressing like I never have before here, thanks!
EDIT: it is the X0123 version!
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TLDR: I cannot access my phone through a normal powerup or through my recovery, have I screwed it completely?
I'd hugely appreciate any help here guys because I'm stressing like I never have before here, thanks!
EDIT: it is the X0123 version!
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Just a few questions before I start suggesting a full flash to stock.
Did you have any SIM passwords, boot passwords, CWM passwords before flashing?
Also In CWM does it flash before any options are selected and did you dirty flash the new ROM over the old ROM?
Anyway, your phone is not hardbricked as it can get to recovery so thats good news.
I would suggest flashing your phone back to factory stock using the tools here on XDA (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2542219). That should hopefully resolve most of the issues and then if you feel like it you can start flashing custom ROMs again.