Hi Folks
Thanks for the time at visiting this thread, and I'm offering 2 beers as a part of my appreciation, should someone be able to help me getting the phone to a state, where a system can be flashed.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 mini (GT-I8190), which is now in a hard-bricked state, where the only gasp of life, is the notorious drill from the vibrator, as the phone seems to try and start-up, every 2 seconds. No Screen, light, or anything else.
The story behind is, that while having stock android, it started to spontaneously restart and go into a boot loop, until attached to a charger.
First every 7 days, then 3 days, then once a day, before it was several times a day.
I decided to root it, and install CM 11, and that wasn't without it's quirks, but flashed it became.
I noticed that the problem was still there, and there where some apps force closing all the repeatedly, so I went into TWRP that was flashed together with CM 11, and wiped data, and did a complete system factory setting.
I pushed the reboot to system button, and the next thing I remember, is that it vibrates, and nothing more, which is what it does every 2 second. When I leave it discharged for a while, and try to turn it on the first time, then it sounds like it "tries" the best, as there are 4 seconds between the vibrations, and then it goes as usual....
I suspect that I have manage to damage the boot loader somehow, and it can't either go in download mode, nor system "aka" Hard Bricked.
I have been looking around at the site, and have seen guides for other phones, where the boot loader is put on an micro SD card, and then revived that way.
Any help/method to get this phone into a usable state is widely appreciated, and once again, thanks for taking your time to read this!
Hi
Thanks for writing to us at XDA Assist. A quick search of XDA has found your device section here:
Samsung Galaxy S III Mini
That's the best place for you to start, all relevant information for your device can be found there. There's even a dedicated Q&A sub-forum for your device there as well:
Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
So if your search in your device section doesn't prove to be fruitful that's the best place to ask your question as it will be seen by people who own the same device and therefore have experience with it. Please note that in order to post in that section you will need to create an XDA acount.
Good luck with your phone!
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How do I get my android back? Or, Can I?
This will become obvious, so here it is... I/Me = Noob. Thanks for the patience in advance.
I did a good month of research & playing around before, then finally installed ClockWorkMod & rooted my S2. Was up late trying to get something done on it & had just installed cwm. I choose the option within cwm to "backup" and let it run it's course, assumed (never, I know) this was done correctly & I was free to do what I love, customize - optimize - edit - etc. Well, apparently is was not done. I realized this last night and immediately scrambled (panicked) & may have made my matters so bad that I will be walking into the Sprint store with my tail, & ego, between my legs forking over some hard earned cash.
I formatted all files within "Mounts and Storage," cleared all "caches" and did a "wipe data/factory reset" - Basically did every option I could at least 2x's.
I did look for the back up - but it was not there (prior to all wipes)
I feel like I can get my phone back witch is stuck on the Samsung Galaxy S2 screen when on, and the battery pic when on charger. But, I need access to the external SD drive so I can install the files that I have on my CPU. I have researched this all day! Took off work today, and tomorrow seemingly. If this is a hopeless task, for the love of all things righteous, someone please put me out of my misery!
BTW - First post ever on any site. I am smart enough to know that when it comes to this stuff I cannot keep being hard headed and not asking for help. I just hope its not to late.
Thanks. Apparently l only the cool people are allowed to post and actually get a response. I am so glad I paid for this bull$hit. Middle finger at ya
If you can only access cwm them you should be able to download a ROM for your phone and flash it within CWM.
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Seriously? That's definitely a good attitude to hold when you don't receive help. Just get hostile with the people you are requesting help from! But I digress. Well, if you did indeed botch a backup somehow, it sounds like all you need to do is just flash another ROM or something and you should be golden. The backups are stored in your external SDcard for future reference though, under CWM -> Backup.
In response to the attitude... what else would you have me do when I need help, I ask, and I am ignored? Plus, my tactic worked, but, I digress.
In the days of emptiness with no help, I list cwm and now have real problem. I can still access default recovery mode, and a screen that says got to kies and do recovery mode. My main issue after several hours troubleshooting, is, I cannot get my phone to be recognized by any drive on my laptop. It will also not respond to being charged.
I have already replaced the dam phone, but I am not giving up on the seemingly fubarred one.
Without sarcasm, thank you for your response and attempted assistance. I do appreciate it, despite what you feel about any prior comments.
First of all, I want to thank you all for this wonderful webpage/forum - it's very unusual to see such a 'friendly' forum and how willing people are to spend a great amount of time helping others out.
But to my problem, I tried to install Ubuntu tablet OS on Samsung Galaxy note 10.1 (GT-N8010) as it seemed no problem at all. But ever since then I've been stuck in this damn ODIN mode (download mode) - and to be honest I believe I have read and followed the instructions in every single "help thread" about this or similar issue, but however there seems to be NO way I can get my tablet to work normally again.
The device charges perfectly normally, KIES detects it, but it however doesn't seem to be able to recognize what "kind" of device this is. ODIN also (of course :silly: ) detects it, but no matter what help/tutorial/guide I've followed, nothing has worked to fix this. The only screen I can get can be seen on attached picture no. 1. I'm unable to enter recovery mode, but the screen I get when trying to boot to recovery mode can be seen on attached picture no. 2 - which is basically the same as on pic. no. 1, except for these beautiful gray bands/streaks I get all over the screen. No matter what I try, it won't enter recovery mode.
I've gone through this process both on Win 7 and Mac OS X (using Heimdall, Odin and all this stuff - flashing CWM, etc etc, to the tablet). I've even removed the battery twice with no observable success However I sometimes get the message in Odin that everything went all right, as in "passed", but this just keeps the same.
I've, as mentioned before, gone through all the help articles/threads about this or similar issue I can find here, through google and MUCH more so this is my final attempt to recover (or fix) my note 10.1 by asking you guys for help. Does anyone of you sweet sweet guys/girls have ANY idea about what I could do to fix this problem, or is it just hammer time?
Thank you SO much for reading, and ANY advice is appreciated and warmly welcome! And also thanks to all of you for the great knowledge you share in many other posts, I love browsing the forum here!
Kindest regards,
August
And yea, sorry for the bad picture quality, the darn iPad refused to take better shots - or, which is much more likely, I'm a horrible photographer :fingers-crossed:
Okay so I've been looking for a LONG TIME trying to find a solution to this problem, but have yet to find one, so if this thread is a duplicate issue, please move it to where it needs to be.
I have a Metro PCS Kyocera Hydro XTRM. I rooted the phone and it was fine. I will be the first one to tell you i am a major newbie when it comes to smartphone tweaking. I have been playing with electronics for years, and can pretty much build a desktop computer but newbie when it comes to android devices. So upon suggestion from a dev, I downloaded an app from the play store "BootUnlocker."
As Soon as I rebooted my phone, BAM! It gets stuck on the METRO PCS screen and stays there. I have pretty much tried everything I can think of. I have removed the battery a billion times and tried to hard reset the phone numerous times as well. And now, it won't even turn on but the LED power light on the front flashes when it's plugged in. I was thinking of trying Odin but when I plug the phone into the computer's USB port....it does absolutely nothing...doesn't read a thing.
I am hoping someone will be able to help with this soon as I would really like to know how to go about recovery on a phone that is completely Hard Bricked (as mine is now). If anyone has any suggestions, or has recovered a hard bricked xtrm, I would be so very thankful for your input.
Hi there! I'm afraid XDA doesn't have any information on that device that I can find. So....you can ask in our general Q&A section. I will ask a moderator to move your post there.
This is where it will go....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/help?nocache=1&z=581026349682360
The only other suggestion I can give is to try searching the web for info on your device.
Hope you get it worked out!
never mind
Hello everyone. I am new in this forum.
The reason I registered is because I bought a ZOPO ZP700 about 5 months ago and I've been having serious problems with it. At first I thought that the touch screen sensor got screwed up because when I touched-selected an icon or option, the phone would select anything but what I wanted. I cannot even type a proper SMS or punch in a password because the phone has a mind of its own and it types characters by itself. It pops up windows by itself and if I'm lucky enough I get to tap-select the option I want after like 10 tries. I have also noticed that it goes even crazier if it's plugged in the power charger.
I have also attached a little video to show what's going on.
I am using the original ROM the phone came with (it was already rooted by default) and Android 4.2.2.
I read somewhere that ZOPO has officially published Android 4.4 Kitkat for the ZP700 model but I cannot install it using the phone's default update app. I have downloaded it separately but I keep having problems using the flashtools, etc. I'm a rookie with such stuff.
Is there anyone who can help? I would like to install Android 4.4 or at least be able to flash the ROM, well, if that's the issue here.
Soooo frustrated!
Thank you in advance.
Hi,
Hopefully its not a hardware issue but if it turns out to be consider sending it in for RMA
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help
This is a good place to ask for help as your phone doesn't have a specific subforum
Best of luck!
demkantor said:
Hi,
Hopefully its not a hardware issue but if it turns out to be consider sending it in for RMA
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help
This is a good place to ask for help as your phone doesn't have a specific subforum
Best of luck!
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Thank you, I'll try that
Hello, I'm sorry beforehand if I'm not posting this in the right area, but I am kind of in a hurry and need this problem fixed ASAP. So here is the story:
My phone was running slow and the battery would drain out like crazy, so I read through a few forums here and there and decided I would FACTORY RESET my phone. Now might I mention, my phone was previously rooted by using a method from galaxyroots2 ( I picked the one for GT-I9100 ). I had ROOTED IT TWICE before. Both times work flawlessly. Now this time, for some very odd reason, my phone is stuck on a Screen which displays "Samsung GALAXY S II GT-I9100" with a little YELLOW TRIANGLE at the bottom. I pulled out the battery a few times but to no avail. Now I Am able to access DOWNLOAD MODE, but I cannot access the other mode where you hold the VOL button up rather than down. I'm kinda out of ideas, I figured this would take me 5 minutes like the last time. The KERNEL is a JEEBOO Kernel, I used Odin v1.85. I haven't performed any updates since it has been rooted.
NOW MY QUESTION IS : HOW CAN I GET PAST THE SCREEN WITH THE YELLOW TRIANGLE? and please dumb down things as much as possible. I'm not the greatest when it comes to these sort of things.
Hi,
You need to ask this in the Galaxy S2's help section. Here's the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/help
Good luck with your device!
Thank you.
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