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[Q] Xoom MZ600 can't load apps, always crashes, can't factory reset.

Hi guys, I'm a big noob to this, so please bear with me. I never took any sort of software development courses, and never had an android device until a friend that works for motorola gave me a xoom that he put together with different parts from different xooms.. Now with that being said, I'm not 100% sure of the model number, but I think its the MZ600 because it has wifi, says verizon on the back, and says can use CMDA 3g. He told me to say this on this forum because he doesn't know how to fix the problem,
I have an unrooted xoom without LTE thats OS has started bugging. I need to manually reinstall the software, due to the factory reset not working. I have tried doing it through settings, and also through holding the power/down button on reboot ect... My problem is the same as this - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2224081 "Apps were crashing, Google Play wasn't working, Browser as well, and so on.
I decided to do a hard reset, formatting cache, Dalvik Cache, Hard Reset...but nothing was cancelled. As soon as i rebooted my device, everything was back the way it was with the same issues. I noticed my tablet was costantly updating the same apps and even if I updated them the following reboot they were back re-updating themselves."
I have downloaded the Build HRI66 off the https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/standalone/rom-images website, and I have the android SDK, but I am unsure how to use it. If there's anyone willing to help me, that would be awesome. Thanks!

[Q] Soft bricked...?

Hey Xda Devs. This is my first post to this wonderful site. (sorry if in wrong area)
Back to related topic....
I own a Samsung Galaxy SIII - (SCH-I535)
About Three or Four days ago I was sick of using my Cyanogenmod 10. And I decided to do a Factory Restore on it. (Got sick of short battery life and terrible reception)
While doing this it was great (still rooted and running cyanogenmod). Then I got a little stupid and decided I didn't want any Google search in/on my device. So I went and deleted most the apps associated with it. NOT KNOWING it would disrupt my Data / Wi-Fi / and Play Store. (Google store has Unexpectedly Stopped)
So like an idiot, I factory restored AGAIN thinking "maybe it will just go away"
No....
In fact did the inevitable and decided to take out Clockwork Mod and anything else in my SD card thinking maybe that was the reason.
(At this time it was still working ((Send/Receive Calls, Text, and Pics.))) But no data.
Then while on my break at work I put my phone into Clockwork (somehow it was still in my phone) unknowingly I seen a backup. So like any noob I went and clicked Wipe Cache + everything else then prompted with a Recovery.... Well that only made matters WAY worse....
I now sit with a phone that no matter what I do, I can only get into ODIN mode but if left to boot it shows an UNLOCKED Custom Samsung screen but sent to "System software no authorized by Verizon Wireless has been found on your phone. Please....ETC"
I have tried to flash the same way I did but no luck. I tried stock ROM. ODIN always says RESET!!! But does nothing after like it’s just a paperweight now.
I somehow now instead of having 1 custom binary download me have 3....
Everything else says CUSTOM
And Qualcomm secure boot says ENABLE
I’ve been looking for a way to bring it back to just stock ROM.... but no luck on any form, site, or anything!
PLEASE HELP! im sick of using my Droid RAZR M

[Q] Bricked LG Volt - Research Questions

Hey there team. I've been a long time lurker here and might not have made many posts. Getting this phone and given my time flashing, rooting, and following guides here, I really want to start getting in on the conversations and discussions. Let me go through with what happened to my last LG Volt...
I had successfully rooted the device using towelroot and been playing around with the usual root access apps. I had superuser, busybox, etc. What I came across as a problem with the device was it's RAM usage on a lot of apps and the problem was largely just OS (after purging a lot of apps off the device). The biggest problem I was having was with Skype crashing and ending calls anytime you switched out of the Skype app itself.
Being the idiot I am, I began looking into possibly using SWAP memory to try to extend my RAM a little to see if I could correct what Skype was doing (assuming it was a RAM issue, which, now thinking about it, I don't think it was because my EVO V worked fine [On custom roms granted]). So I tried doing some swap stuff and it overall just would not go. I figured it was a KitKat issue involving the SD Card and how the file structure on the LG Volt seemed to handle SD related stuff, all going to emulated memory. So. I decided it wasn't worth the trouble and research anymore, and considering not too much work had been done on the Volt yet, I decided to give up that campaign and wait for more research to get done.
In the mean time, I told the phone to do a factory reset so I can start back fresh and go about using the device normally. This might have been where I made a mistake. I told the device to factory reset and format everything through the Android OS instead of booting into the stock recovery and telling it to do a factory reset. The phone shut off and never came back. I was not able to get it to charge, I could not enter LG Download Mode, I couldn't get into the recovery, absolutely nothing. Tried seeing if I could use the LG Mobile support tool to push anything to the phone since my computer could still see the phone connected... No luck.
So, my questions to the team here on XDA is:
1. What exactly happened to cause the phone to start the factory reset, but, lose everything? I could only assume that the phone kicked the system, data, boot, recovery, and... well.. everything off and fried it's memory. I assume it had to do with what I was trying to do with swap memory and something getting seriously messed up.
2. More specific on what the phone did after, it would not turn on, charge, go to recovery, or download mode. It was completely unresponsive. Would there have been a way to resurrect this phone back from the dead that I wasn't able to find after all the looking and research I had done?
3. With the new LG Volt I recieved from Virgin, how safe would you say things would be to go about rooting again and being more careful with my apps while I wait or get involved with some of the future ROM development for the device?
4. Is there something with how LGs recovery and download partitions are set up that would cause these to be unable to function? Or something that is particular to the LG Volt?
Finally, 5. I noticed that the work done and the team researching the Volt right now have managed to get an unlocked bootloader and a custom recovery that works. Would it be safe with the research done now to go about unlocking and flashing the custom recovery on?
These questions all take into account common knowledge stuff such as, the potentially to brick a phone again is always there and to continue doing as much research and reading as I can to know what I'm doing with the device accurately. Hope my questions can be answered here, until then, cheers gentlemen.

marth141 said:
Hey there team. I've been a long time lurker here and might not have made many posts. Getting this phone and given my time flashing, rooting, and following guides here, I really want to start getting in on the conversations and discussions. Let me go through with what happened to my last LG Volt...
I had successfully rooted the device using towelroot and been playing around with the usual root access apps. I had superuser, busybox, etc. What I came across as a problem with the device was it's RAM usage on a lot of apps and the problem was largely just OS (after purging a lot of apps off the device). The biggest problem I was having was with Skype crashing and ending calls anytime you switched out of the Skype app itself.
Being the idiot I am, I began looking into possibly using SWAP memory to try to extend my RAM a little to see if I could correct what Skype was doing (assuming it was a RAM issue, which, now thinking about it, I don't think it was because my EVO V worked fine [On custom roms granted]). So I tried doing some swap stuff and it overall just would not go. I figured it was a KitKat issue involving the SD Card and how the file structure on the LG Volt seemed to handle SD related stuff, all going to emulated memory. So. I decided it wasn't worth the trouble and research anymore, and considering not too much work had been done on the Volt yet, I decided to give up that campaign and wait for more research to get done.
In the mean time, I told the phone to do a factory reset so I can start back fresh and go about using the device normally. This might have been where I made a mistake. I told the device to factory reset and format everything through the Android OS instead of booting into the stock recovery and telling it to do a factory reset. The phone shut off and never came back. I was not able to get it to charge, I could not enter LG Download Mode, I couldn't get into the recovery, absolutely nothing. Tried seeing if I could use the LG Mobile support tool to push anything to the phone since my computer could still see the phone connected... No luck.
So, my questions to the team here on XDA is:
1. What exactly happened to cause the phone to start the factory reset, but, lose everything? I could only assume that the phone kicked the system, data, boot, recovery, and... well.. everything off and fried it's memory. I assume it had to do with what I was trying to do with swap memory and something getting seriously messed up.
2. More specific on what the phone did after, it would not turn on, charge, go to recovery, or download mode. It was completely unresponsive. Would there have been a way to resurrect this phone back from the dead that I wasn't able to find after all the looking and research I had done?
3. With the new LG Volt I recieved from Virgin, how safe would you say things would be to go about rooting again and being more careful with my apps while I wait or get involved with some of the future ROM development for the device?
4. Is there something with how LGs recovery and download partitions are set up that would cause these to be unable to function? Or something that is particular to the LG Volt?
Finally, 5. I noticed that the work done and the team researching the Volt right now have managed to get an unlocked bootloader and a custom recovery that works. Would it be safe with the research done now to go about unlocking and flashing the custom recovery on?
These questions all take into account common knowledge stuff such as, the potentially to brick a phone again is always there and to continue doing as much research and reading as I can to know what I'm doing with the device accurately. Hope my questions can be answered here, until then, cheers gentlemen.
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1. im not sure what is going on lately, but there seems to be an influx of jacked phones lately from botched modding and attempting to fdr to fix it.
a note for future reference, a fdr will fix nothing you did that required root. so if you mess something up, just go right for the stock flash to try and fix it, if it can be fixed.
2. i doubt it.
3. i would go for it.
4. cant answer that, sorry.
5. absolutely, as long as it is stable.

any body knows how te get correct spc or msl..i try with meid converter but wrong msl..please.

[Q] Setup Wizard Fails - Need to Restore Rooted Kitkat to Verizon factory default

So I have an old Galaxy S3 that I was playing around with, trying to figure out some basics to rooting, as I've never done it before. (I now have a new Galaxy S5 that I'd like to eventually root, but I figured if I was going to brick anything, it would be this older S3).
It has the stock Android 4.4.2 image on it.
After reviewing a number of forum posts on XDA and elsewhere, I've learned that this has a locked bootloader that hasn't been cracked. So, I decided to first try the easy route, and installed Towel Root.
After successfully rooting the phone, I uninstalled some apps that I probably should not have uninstalled, because now when I go to do a factory reset, the setup wizard allows me to select my language (English), but then fails with "Unfortunately setup wizard has stopped."
When I hit OK, I do get dumped out into the home screen, and the phone seems like its mostly (if not fully) functional, minus the apps that I removed which I shouldn't have removed.
So... is there any way of fixing this?

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Moogly507 said:
So I have an old Galaxy S3 that I was playing around with, trying to figure out some basics to rooting, as I've never done it before. (I now have a new Galaxy S5 that I'd like to eventually root, but I figured if I was going to brick anything, it would be this older S3).
It has the stock Android 4.4.2 image on it.
After reviewing a number of forum posts on XDA and elsewhere, I've learned that this has a locked bootloader that hasn't been cracked. So, I decided to first try the easy route, and installed Towel Root.
After successfully rooting the phone, I uninstalled some apps that I probably should not have uninstalled, because now when I go to do a factory reset, the setup wizard allows me to select my language (English), but then fails with "Unfortunately setup wizard has stopped."
When I hit OK, I do get dumped out into the home screen, and the phone seems like its mostly (if not fully) functional, minus the apps that I removed which I shouldn't have removed.
So... is there any way of fixing this?
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I'd suggest re flashing the 4.4.2 NE1 firmware. That should solve your problem. I'd suggest using Odin
Sent from my Nexus 5

Thanks.
I downloaded 4.4.2 from 2 different sources, and the md5sum were different for each, so I knew that at least 1 of them was either the wrong firmware or corrupted in some way.
After further research, I realized I could download Kies 3 onto my Windows computer (official Samsung software), and run a factory reset / image upgrade directly from the computer. I decided that was the safest method.
And it worked!

I think I've bricked my phone and am not sure what to do

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!

Spaciouz said:
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.