My problem is slightly getting me desperate at this moment. but I do know there must be a way to fix it.
I have an LG G3 D855 phone. Runs on Android 5.0. I have rooted it a couple of months ago, had no issues with it, but in the last few days my phone ceased connecting to the Google Play store. Mainly all the Google Play services are inactive because the phone couldn't connect with my Google account. It kept asking me to Retry, but with no success.
While still rooted I took notice of a method that could've been the solution to this problem - edit the hosts file with a text editor by placing a # in front of the 2nd row of numbers, although the example number given as an instance wasn't matching the form of the number written in the hosts file on the 2nd row. I tried placing it on both rows, each at a time, but with no success as for some reason the hosts file would not change despite saving and exiting. The hosts file is as it was before at the moment, I suppose, with no modification.
My last choice was to factory reset my phone. Which I did. But the problem was still there - ''Can't establish a reliable connection to the server.'' it says this time around. I figured that upgrading the firmware of the phone would fix things, so I went in the SuperSU app settings and tapped 'Full unroot'. It would take forever the first time, so I restarted my phone and the 2nd time it seemed to have worked - the SuperSU app would stop working each time I tried accessing it. I rebooted my phone and the SuperSU was no longer there. However when I tried upgrading the software of my phone it wouldn't let me as my phone is suspected of having been rooted. I read on the internet that there is a more manual way of unrooting your phone by using a root explorer app and deleting some files yourself.
Here's the catch - at the moment I have no internet browser on my phone nor access to the store to download any apps whatsoever. So I'm stuck like this.
I'd appreciate it tons and worlds if any of you could guide me on what to do. A last method would be to flash the phones ROM again or something like that. Keep in mind that I've been an Android user since March and this phone is my first Android phone. I don't have all that much experience, so detailed explanations are really welcome!
Thanks for the help in advance!
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Hello all,
I'm sorry, but I couldn't find any device-related subforum for the Samsung Galaxy Rugby (GT-S5690M). If my questions are in the wrong section, please move it to the right place (mods)?
So here's the story: I just got my first smartphone. Since it's locked to Bell, it has some bloatware and need for sim-unlocking. I did a lot of reading and through some tutorials I managed to root Android and got rid of some bloatware (just four Bell apps). So far so good! Then I tried to unlock the phone. There are some apps in the Google Play that state that they can unlock the phone for free ("works on various Galaxy models").
I tried them out, but none of them could provide a solution. The last app I tried (Galaxy_S Unlock) requested that BusyBox were to be installed, so I did. During the installation the app remarked that already some BusyBox version was installed, but not the version that it was trying to install. I was suppose to try another type of installing (I used the normal/safe mode). But it said it was already installed, so good enough. Right? I tried the unlocking app again, but it still said it had errors getting to communicate with BusyBox. None of the unlocking apps gave me the impression that they changed anything in the system.
I figured that maybe a reboot of the phone would fix this. However, now the phone got several issues:
- booting takes forever (18 minutes) It does the animated Samsung logo (though, not with sound any more) and then keeps on slowing the glowing Samsung name.
- the speaker doesn't seem to be working at all
- it can no longer check for updates. After agreeing with the disclaimer, it says it can't connect.
- KIES doesn't see the phone any more.
- the phone is generally very slow now. Even when typing a password the phone sometimes hangs for about 5-10 seconds. Loading the disclaimer for the Software Updater takes 10-15 seconds.
I tried to reset to factory defaults and reload the rooting zip file again, but to no avail.
I've been trying to read up on the isolated symptoms, but I'm simply starting to feel overloaded with all the info, especially since I'm a Android newbie.
Does anybody recognize these symptoms and, more important, has any tips on what to try to restore whatever has gone wrong?
Additionally, I would really be interested in knowing if there's a way to force-upgrade to Jelly Bean. It appears that this firmware hasn't been made available to Rugby users yet through the regular update channels. But are there alternatives?
Thanks in advance!
Hello,
I have ran into some rather severe complications of rooting my LG G3 and I don't know where to find the needed information to repair the damage done to my advices functionality.
Okay so to summarize what led to my phones current state I had to downgrade the firmware to vs98510b to root the phone. The downgrade and rooting went fine, however once I got root access I decided to remove a good portion of the bloatware software on the phone to try and increase performance and security. I used a root access level program to uninstall a total of 42 bloatware apps installed by LG and Verizon. After I rebooted the device I discovered that somehow the lg keyboard had been removed with the other bloatware, seeing as thats the only keyboard app installed by default I basically had no on screen keyboard at all in order to fix that I had to use bluetooth to send a keyboard apk to my phone to install.
After I finally got my keyboard back and functioning again I discovered that my phone was no longer being detected when plugged into my computer. on the phone it stated that I needed to install the USB drivers or plug and unplug the device back in to fix the issue, it would not get resolved by either method. So I looked more into what apps had been removed when I removed the bloatware and it looks like the file manager, keyboard and a few other apparently important bloatware had been removed.
If I connect the phone to the computer adb claims no device is connected, and if I boot the phone into download mode it never goes past 0% however it wont get detected by my computer itself at all. From what I have found so far it appears I need to flash the phone back to the complete stock state to get the bloatware reinstalled, however without a pc connection about 99% of the tutorials I have found cannot be used since it wont connect to the pc anymore. I am completly stuck and need advice and possibly a set of links to read on or guide to follow to repair the phone. Finally the last thing I noticed was the phone battery status cannot be detected through the android ui I have to actually use different battery monitoring software just to even know the correct charge level.
I look forward to yours alls response .
Hi,
Here's a dedicated help thread in your device section that you can ask for help in,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/help/help-thread-lg-g3-question-t2947298
Also, you really need to know what you're debloating. One wrong thing and you're in a mess. A way to try to avoid this is using titanium backup to freeze bloat, instead of uninstalling it. Then if you're able, you can always unfreeze if you need to. Uninstalling is not gaining you much space, as those apps tend to be very small in size. ?
Good luck!
Okay you may lock this thread now since you redirected me to the correct forum
You can lock this thread if you like since you linked me to the correct forum/thread regarding this issue .
Thanks for the help
PS I attached the list of all my system apps currently on the phone I removed 42 total system apps, however I am unsure as to which ones they were as when I went to fix the problem I factory wiped the phone to try and repair the issue. However, after trying that I basically narrowed the issue down to needing to flash the stock rom back onto the phone to get the bloatware back. I would have to do it all from the phone though without the computer since some of the bloatware I removed makes it unable to connect to my computer now .
Ask for help in the link I gave.
But I'll say, you removed many things that I don't know what they are for. So chances are you don't know what they're for either.... A number of them could be causing you issues.
Never debloat things you are unsure of. You want to know exactly what they are for, and know that they are safe to freeze.
And again... Freeze them, don't uninstall them... That's my opinion anyway. All of those combined take up very little space. ?
I did actually ask for help in the other thread I just wanted to give you the curtousy of replying to your questions.
In regards to the removal of the bloatware itself. I have never had a rooted or even rootable phone before, bloatware removal in computers never negatively effected me thats why when I did a rather short set of searches regarding to the apps I removed they seemed like they would be fine to remove, however the effects made things I didnt remove not function aswell. I have learned my lesson if I want to avoid bloatware I am better off installing a custom rom and recovery than messing with the android bloatware integreted in the stock firmware.
You can close this thread
Well after a few days of what I can only describe as a nightmare I did manage to repair my phone back to a stock state, I even managed to get a customer rom on it called Ressurrection Mod!
Woot woot overcame my epicfail!!!
EDIT: In case anyone wants to know how I resolved the situation my fiances phone me and her got the same exact phones and models. When I rooted her phone last night the idea came to me to use a Nandroid backup from her phone to overwrite the data on my phone to restore all the bloatware. After doing so my phone is back to functioning correctly again! . All I had to do was rename the backup from her phone to match the generated hash on my phone so that TWRP would recognize the backup!!!
I have recently purchased a Wikipad 7 tablet and have been using it for a few weeks. I rooted the tablet using KingoRoot and the root was successful. Using a app included with the root called Superuser I deleted some system files I considered safe to do so in order to speed up the tablet and free up some space and the tablet worked fine after doing so. A couple of days later, I decided to perform a factory reset in order to get rid of multiple large files I had downloaded but could not have the effort to find. The reset went as normal until I tried connecting to wifi in the setup wizard. A screen showing 'Connecting to wifi' appears for some time before the message 'Unfortunately, Setup Wizard has stopped.' appears and I'm taken back the first screen where I have to choose my language. I have tried multiple times to connect to wifi successfully but to no avail. I have tried things such as turning off the router in order to bypass the process but the screen that appears after skipping wifi configuration (the one which asks permission to let google access your location) shows the same message after tapping on the left or right arrows located at the bottom to let me proceed through the setup or go back.
I have tried to search the internet for a solution to this problem, but the solutions were unexpectedly complicated for me to get around as I not understand some of the terminology used and the steps to fixing the problem seem to be specifically for one kind of device.
If anybody could have any knowledge on how to solve this problem then help would be greatly appreciated. It would be preferable if the method to fixing this problem would be as simple as possible to perform and understand. If you would like any additional information regarding the tablet in order to help with solving the problem, please to not hesitate to ask as I will provide all I can.
Yet again, any kind of help would be greatly appreciated!
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I have recently purchased a Wikipad 7 tablet and have been using it for a few weeks. I rooted the tablet using KingoRoot and the root was successful. Using a app included with the root called Superuser I deleted some system files I considered safe to do so in order to speed up the tablet and free up some space and the tablet worked fine after doing so. A couple of days later, I decided to perform a factory reset in order to get rid of multiple large files I had downloaded but could not have the effort to find. The reset went as normal until I tried connecting to wifi in the setup wizard. A screen showing 'Connecting to wifi' appears for some time before the message 'Unfortunately, Setup Wizard has stopped.' appears and I'm taken back the first screen where I have to choose my language. I have tried multiple times to connect to wifi successfully but to no avail. I have tried things such as turning off the router in order to bypass the process but the screen that appears after skipping wifi configuration (the one which asks permission to let google access your location) shows the same message after tapping on the left or right arrows located at the bottom to let me proceed through the setup or go back.
I have tried to search the internet for a solution to this problem, but the solutions were unexpectedly complicated for me to get around as I not understand some of the terminology used and the steps to fixing the problem seem to be specifically for one kind of device.
If anybody could have any knowledge on how to solve this problem then help would be greatly appreciated. It would be preferable if the method to fixing this problem would be as simple as possible to perform and understand. If you would like any additional information regarding the tablet in order to help with solving the problem, please to not hesitate to ask as I will provide all I can.
Yet again, any kind of help would be greatly appreciated!
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I'm sorry to hear about your trouble. We cannot provide technical support and other members can't reply to your posts here on XDA Assist and there is no forum specifically for the WIkipad family of devices but you may want to ask your question with all relevant details in the friendly general Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting forum at http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help. That's a good place to start where members familiar with your device might be able to advise you.
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I'm going on a well educated guess that the EM756 is a very unpopular tablet, but I have a hard time believing that it's so unpopular that NO ONE has attempted rooting it.
Going on that hope (what little is left), let me explain why I'm having such a hard time.
I updated the tablet to the latest Android version. Somehow in doing so, it deleted all my accounts. I am unable to add a new one at all as I get the error "Unable to establish reliable connection". Rebooting my router and the device didn't work, nor did switching to another network. I have tried various workarounds and trick to work past it, but without having a google account to sign in with, the tablet is pretty useless as an account is needed to access things like the play store.
I finally read somewhere that there is a line of code I need to delete to get past the error or something to that effect, but to do it I need to root the tablet.
Every "One Click" tool I have used has failed (I've tried about 9 so far I think). The closest I got was using this guide on the forums here. My issue with that one is the programs provided don't see my device even after switching from MTP to PTP (At which point my computer doesn't recognize the device anyway)
I have spent a combined time of 16 hours trying to do this to no avail.... Any help would be nice by this point.
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rjvegeto said:
I'm going on a well educated guess that the EM756 is a very unpopular tablet, but I have a hard time believing that it's so unpopular that NO ONE has attempted rooting it.
Going on that hope (what little is left), let me explain why I'm having such a hard time.
I updated the tablet to the latest Android version. Somehow in doing so, it deleted all my accounts. I am unable to add a new one at all as I get the error "Unable to establish reliable connection". Rebooting my router and the device didn't work, nor did switching to another network. I have tried various workarounds and trick to work past it, but without having a google account to sign in with, the tablet is pretty useless as an account is needed to access things like the play store.
I finally read somewhere that there is a line of code I need to delete to get past the error or something to that effect, but to do it I need to root the tablet.
Every "One Click" tool I have used has failed (I've tried about 9 so far I think). The closest I got was using this guide on the forums here. My issue with that one is the programs provided don't see my device even after switching from MTP to PTP (At which point my computer doesn't recognize the device anyway)
I have spent a combined time of 16 hours trying to do this to no avail.... Any help would be nice by this point.
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Thanks for using XDA Assist.
I believe kingroot works on the EM756 > Android Development and Hacking > Android Apps and Games > [ROOT ANDROID][2.x-5.1] KINGROOT: The One-Click Root Tool for Almost All Devices . I noticed another user in that thread got it to work.
Good luck
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I hate to bother, and I apologize in advance if this post seem obvious. I tried my best to do my own research.
For a reason (SD card functionally); I decided to try install another operating system (FaR) on my T-mobile Alcatel Evolve 2 4037t (I know, I am low on funds currently). I did learned a bunch about the mod world, but eventually arrived at the conclusion that my t-mobile phone "won't allow it). However, now, I have a basic understanding of rooting, CWM, flashing a ROM like Cyanogen; basic. I should've figured it out sooner when I was using CWM and CWM did not support my phone, but I certainly learned a few things, all good. But now I have a few concerns.
I was going to leave my phone as it was, but my phone started acting up. And, I am certain it was something a I did. I will try to post Yes and No numbered questions:
1) If I use my phone as a hotspot, could potentially "bad" programs on my phone infect my laptop?
2) I performed factory reset on my phone (twice). However, the Root Checker app (from the play store) says that Busy Box is still installed. Are there any potential security concerns having Busy Box installed? (phone is no longer rooted so I am thinking no)
Any suggestions for a google PlayStore (P.S) app, for security?
For what it's worth:
What concerned me, was how Android File Transfer acted on my laptop. After the first factory reset it would change from USB storage to (MTP), I would unplug the teether, change it back, plug it in and it would change to (MTP) again. And another time , it opened a vast number of Android File Transfer alerts. The only app I downloaded from the net was KingRoot. I had to use Lucky Patcher (from the G.P.S) to get rid of Purify that comes with KingRoot.
My very humble Thanks in Advance!
I am great at mucking dung up, sometimes I wonder if I went to far.
Paul
pbech said:
Please skip to the number questions if don't want the background.
I hate to bother, and I apologize in advance if this post seem obvious. I tried my best to do my own research.
For a reason (SD card functionally); I decided to try install another operating system (FaR) on my T-mobile Alcatel Evolve 2 4037t (I know, I am low on funds currently). I did learned a bunch about the mod world, but eventually arrived at the conclusion that my t-mobile phone "won't allow it). However, now, I have a basic understanding of rooting, CWM, flashing a ROM like Cyanogen; basic. I should've figured it out sooner when I was using CWM and CWM did not support my phone, but I certainly learned a few things, all good. But now I have a few concerns.
I was going to leave my phone as it was, but my phone started acting up. And, I am certain it was something a I did. I will try to post Yes and No numbered questions:
1) If I use my phone as a hotspot, could potentially "bad" programs on my phone infect my laptop?
2) I performed factory reset on my phone (twice). However, the Root Checker app (from the play store) says that Busy Box is still installed. Are there any potential security concerns having Busy Box installed? (phone is no longer rooted so I am thinking no)
Any suggestions for a google PlayStore (P.S) app, for security?
For what it's worth:
What concerned me, was how Android File Transfer acted on my laptop. After the first factory reset it would change from USB storage to (MTP), I would unplug the teether, change it back, plug it in and it would change to (MTP) again. And another time , it opened a vast number of Android File Transfer alerts. The only app I downloaded from the net was KingRoot. I had to use Lucky Patcher (from the G.P.S) to get rid of Purify that comes with KingRoot.
My very humble Thanks in Advance!
I am great at mucking dung up, sometimes I wonder if I went to far.
Paul
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