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i followed the instructions to the letter and after it was done
i was presented with a picture of an IC microchip and an arrow pointing down.
i restarted the phone and now it wont start.
i cant get into bootloader mode or recovery mode...
Please help me get my phone back!!!!
did you let it finish? the ic microchip and arrow pointing thing? or did you yank out the battery?
i panicked and yanked out the battery...i killed it, didnt i?
I think he didn't let the phone finish and restarted the phone cause it wasa taking too long if that's the case 99.0% the phone is bricked. It happend to somebody else here already. Jy
He just call tmobile and told them the wasn't turning on and they send him a replacement.
I think this is something that needs to be added to the flashing roominstructions.
slyfury said:
i panicked and yanked out the battery...i killed it, didnt i?
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Im sorry man, you did the one thing you shouldnt have while flashing
Perrosky said:
I think he didn't let the phone finish and restarted the phone cause it wasa taking too long if that's the case 99.0% the phone is bricked. It happend to somebody else here already. Jy
He just call tmobile and told them the wasn't turning on and they send him a replacement.
I think this is something that needs to be added to the flashing roominstructions.
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i agree 100% please add that to the instruction for noobs like me
oh well, i just hope i get a replacement quickly
that happened to me so i called t-mo and told them that my g1 wont turned on at all and tried the other battery so they send me a replacement. of course i was a noob back then. i learned my lesson in a hard way so i suffer a week without my precious g1 lol.
slyfury said:
i followed the instructions to the letter and after it was done
i was presented with a picture of an IC microchip and an arrow pointing down.
i restarted the phone and now it wont start.
i cant get into bootloader mode or recovery mode...
Please help me get my phone back!!!!
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also once you called t-mo do not let them know that youre modifying your phone otherwise they will not send you another handset.
slyfury said:
i followed the instructions to the letter and after it was done
i was presented with a picture of an IC microchip and an arrow pointing down.
i restarted the phone and now it wont start.
i cant get into bootloader mode or recovery mode...
Please help me get my phone back!!!!
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how about take out the sdcard and connect it to the computer, put the jfr33 in it, and flash your phone again. It works
also he could try getting into recovery mode using adb or sumthin...i am not too sure about it...but i think it can be done..!!!
tannyfiles said:
also he could try getting into recovery mode using adb or sumthin...i am not too sure about it...but i think it can be done..!!!
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If the phone can't reach the bootloader or recovery console I don't think ADB is going to work but I could be wrong.
patience is a virtue
your topic title is misleading and could lead users who haven't tried yet to be too wary about flashing over to Haykuro's builds...
Ultimately...your phone didn't mess up after flashing 4.X..YOU messed up.
if you cant turn on youre g1 then it is dead, even if you connect it to pc or what if it cant be turned be on, it is dead cuz thats what happened to me so just call t-mo and tell them youre phone wont turn on and you tried another battery still wont turn and DO NOT tell them you modify or even saying you attemped to modify your g1's rom.
the best thing for him to do would be flash rc29 nbh and start from scratch...the phone is more than likely not bricked.
korndub said:
the best thing for him to do would be flash rc29 nbh and start from scratch...the phone is more than likely not bricked.
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To my opinion, i do not think the phone is bricked since there is no hardware issue is involving, it's the software itself, if he can access to the root of the sd card, problem is solved.
but oh well, i would call Tmobile and request a new shinny phone . wait... they will send a refurbished one won't they? oh noo...
I have a similar problem, i was attempting to move apps to the sd card, partitioned it, installed the lucidrem rom and then started using his code and the flashing android loop started, turned it off and back on and still the flashing android, i used the fastboot method to restore my nandroid backup, and the phone is back to working, my problem is that i cant access recovery mode.
everything else is fine, just when i try to load the recovery mode it just stays on the boot screen, can anybody help a newbie out?
the bootloader works, and the phone can load normally, but the recovery mode wont start.
cueballv2 said:
I have a similar problem, i was attempting to move apps to the sd card, partitioned it, installed the lucidrem rom and then started using his code and the flashing android loop started, turned it off and back on and still the flashing android, i used the fastboot method to restore my nandroid backup, and the phone is back to working, my problem is that i cant access recovery mode.
everything else is fine, just when i try to load the recovery mode it just stays on the boot screen, can anybody help a newbie out?
the bootloader works, and the phone can load normally, but the recovery mode wont start.
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That happened to me also. When I installed lucidrem's rom the recovery would work. What it actually was that when you first rooted your g1 do you rmr installing the recovery img? Well its pretty much the same thing lucidrems rom didn't have a recovery img command line attatched to it. I just installed recovery again from the terminal emulator just like it said in the root your g1 thread.
Atleast that is my side of the story. I don't anything about coding. So I could be wrong but that was just my experience.
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That happened to me also. When I installed lucidrem's rom the recovery would work. What it actually was that when you first rooted your g1 do you rmr installing the recovery img? Well its pretty much the same thing lucidrems rom didn't have a recovery img command line attatched to it. I just installed recovery again from the terminal emulator just like it said in the root your g1 thread.
Atleast that is my side of the story. I don't anything about coding. So I could be wrong but that was just my experience.
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wow, thanks alot for your help, reflashed the recovery.img and it worked a treat, thought id bricked it good and proper, but your advice worked, thanks again.
Im not a big computer guy but for the most part can figure stuff out, i have rooted several phones before and flashed new roms. I just got the verizon g2 and rooted it, then attempted to do twrp recovery, Nothing even came close to working until i read that flashify worked, so i did that and it said it worked, took 2 seconds, when it restarted it showed my ddroid dead with a warning symbol comin outta his belly. I held down volume down and power keys and it came back on. It will not go into download mode or restore mode.
I had hoped that it worked so tried to flash malladus but once again, nothing!
I have been going at this for close to 12 hrs now and i am about to just break this thing.
Please, i need step by step instructions of what to do that for sure will work.
the forums about twrp do NOT work no matter what i do. and im not missing anything, debugging mode on, connected with ethernet, all info entered correctly, files in the correct folders, yet nothing works!!! PLEASE HELP.
I just want to get that rom! lol
i have an lg g2 vs980 and i rooted it but have not yet installed a recovery like twrp it is only the very basic root with super user. it decided to install some ota update and now it will not boot past lg screen, white letters flash really fast all i could make out was secure boot error or something. i cannot get it into any kind of download or reset mode, iv tried absolutely everything anyone on this forum has recommended or suggested and nothing works, also when i connect it to my pc running windows 8 it is seen as QSUSB_BULK i have installed the correct updated drivers for my phone and iv manually installed them, nothing i have done will allow my pc to see my phone correctly. when i plug it in it under computer there are local drives f-u that pop up and say i have to format them in order to use them, but they are write protected so i cannot view whats in them, format them or anything. does anyone out there have any kind of suggestion to fix this or am i just completely stupid and missing some big major step? i am also very new to android this is my first android phone lol im a converted apple user haha so the more indept detailed instructions would be greatly appreciated
Same issue here
haeli said:
i have an lg g2 vs980 and i rooted it but have not yet installed a recovery like twrp it is only the very basic root with super user. it decided to install some ota update and now it will not boot past lg screen, white letters flash really fast all i could make out was secure boot error or something. i cannot get it into any kind of download or reset mode, iv tried absolutely everything anyone on this forum has recommended or suggested and nothing works, also when i connect it to my pc running windows 8 it is seen as QSUSB_BULK i have installed the correct updated drivers for my phone and iv manually installed them, nothing i have done will allow my pc to see my phone correctly. when i plug it in it under computer there are local drives f-u that pop up and say i have to format them in order to use them, but they are write protected so i cannot view whats in them, format them or anything. does anyone out there have any kind of suggestion to fix this or am i just completely stupid and missing some big major step? i am also very new to android this is my first android phone lol im a converted apple user haha so the more indept detailed instructions would be greatly appreciated
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Has anyone come up with a solution to this? I am very new to Android, I have Rooted my G2 so I could install Custom Rom's. Yesterday I receive a OTA update, I refused it and then later when it came up again was going to refuse it, but my shaky finger touched the screen and started the update! next thing I know I have a $600.00 brick. if you hold the power button down It will flash the LG logo and then NADA, screen is lit but nothing happens. Hold the power button and after a few it will Flash the logo again but NADA again. If you hold the down and power button it will go to the reset screen, but again this will not reset the device. PLEASE HELP!
Thank you.
Hello guys,
Long time reader, first time poster over here.
I'm having a serious problem and wouldn't bother you with it, but i've scrolled through hundreds of forumposts, tried serveral things but haven't find the solution yet. (because the problems in those posts are only a part of my problem :s)
So I hope, by posting and explaining it myself, you guys can help me fixing my HTC One S (wouldn't want to lose it this way -.- )
Here it goes: my phone has been rooted for more than a year now, i've used several ROMs, been through some problems but no big deal and was able to solve them myself).
A couple of months ago, I decided to try the newest Cyanogen (11) mod based on Android 4.4, needed a new recovery but got it installed and working fine.
After a while I installed a Nightly update, and after that the trouble started and went from bad to worse to nearly death
first of all the phone kept rebooting at total random moments, enormously frustrating!
so I decided to do another update, after this update, I wasn't able to turn my Wi-Fi on
No big deal i thought, but after a while it began to annoy me, so another Nightly update was incoming
After this update **** really got messy, the message "com.android.systemui has stopped" kept popping up and the only thing I could do was click OK, then it popped back up -> OK -> and so on and so on
so my phone was as good as useless at this point
At this point I've had it with this ROM, so I put another one on my internal SD card (via coupling with my PC): Beanstalk 4.4 STABLE
This new ROM actually was installed as an update of the previous one, so the damned message "com.android.systemui has stopped" was still popping up constantly.
At that point I totally had it with 4.4 and decided to put an older ROM on it with which i've had had a good experience.
And that's where **** got fcked up:
When I go into recovery (CMW 6.0.4.5) and want to access my internal storage, it says "E: can't mount /storage/sdcard0"
So I wanted to connect to my pc to flash a new ROM to my device using Fastboot, but my pc isn't recognizing my phone and neither is Fastboot.
In fastboot, when I try "fastboot device" it keeps searching and doesn't find my device.
My PC however sees my phone, cause I hear the usbconnection sound when they're coupled, but it isn't showing up as a Removable Storage Device.
So to summarize:
once my phone is booted, i can't do anything apart from clicking OK on the "com.android.systemui has stopped" alert
in recovery, i can't mount my internal storage
when 'connected' to the PC, the PC and fastboot can't detect the device.
Other info:
i've tried it on a pc running W7 and W8
phone is HTC One S S4
I hope you guys can help me out here!
PC connection
DieterW91 said:
Hello guys,
Long time reader, first time poster over here.
I'm having a serious problem and wouldn't bother you with it, but i've scrolled through hundreds of forumposts, tried serveral things but haven't find the solution yet. (because the problems in those posts are only a part of my problem :s)
So I hope, by posting and explaining it myself, you guys can help me fixing my HTC One S (wouldn't want to lose it this way -.- )
Here it goes: my phone has been rooted for more than a year now, i've used several ROMs, been through some problems but no big deal and was able to solve them myself).
A couple of months ago, I decided to try the newest Cyanogen (11) mod based on Android 4.4, needed a new recovery but got it installed and working fine.
After a while I installed a Nightly update, and after that the trouble started and went from bad to worse to nearly death
first of all the phone kept rebooting at total random moments, enormously frustrating!
so I decided to do another update, after this update, I wasn't able to turn my Wi-Fi on
No big deal i thought, but after a while it began to annoy me, so another Nightly update was incoming
After this update **** really got messy, the message "com.android.systemui has stopped" kept popping up and the only thing I could do was click OK, then it popped back up -> OK -> and so on and so on
so my phone was as good as useless at this point
At this point I've had it with this ROM, so I put another one on my internal SD card (via coupling with my PC): Beanstalk 4.4 STABLE
This new ROM actually was installed as an update of the previous one, so the damned message "com.android.systemui has stopped" was still popping up constantly.
At that point I totally had it with 4.4 and decided to put an older ROM on it with which i've had had a good experience.
And that's where **** got fcked up:
When I go into recovery (CMW 6.0.4.5) and want to access my internal storage, it says "E: can't mount /storage/sdcard0"
So I wanted to connect to my pc to flash a new ROM to my device using Fastboot, but my pc isn't recognizing my phone and neither is Fastboot.
In fastboot, when I try "fastboot device" it keeps searching and doesn't find my device.
My PC however sees my phone, cause I hear the usbconnection sound when they're coupled, but it isn't showing up as a Removable Storage Device.
So to summarize:
once my phone is booted, i can't do anything apart from clicking OK on the "com.android.systemui has stopped" alert
in recovery, i can't mount my internal storage
when 'connected' to the PC, the PC and fastboot can't detect the device.
Other info:
i've tried it on a pc running W7 and W8
phone is HTC One S S4
I hope you guys can help me out here!
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I've had success getting a connection to Windows just be using a different USB port, the ones at the back are best. Then at least you get fastboot access...But I also still have the problem with the sdcard, still working on that, trying to figure out a way to fix it from fastboot...
any progress yet rosanna? I was also able to make the connection with my pc, by using the usb ports on the back (thanks for that!). But I haven't been able to mount my sd card yet. I tried with another recovery but that didn't do the trick.
I got into the UI of my current ROM, and then my pc said I needed to format the SD before I could use it.
But I wasn't sure this is a good idea to do in windows.
Anyone know if it is save to format your internal sd card when prompted to do so in windows?
Have a look here
Sent from my ElementalXed One S
Try using a Linux live cd (try Ubuntu). You'll need a blank DVD to burn the iso to. Reboot your computer and see if it recognizes your device (no drivers needed). If it does try a more stable build this time.
benJX said:
Have a look here
Sent from my ElementalXed One S
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I did read through that thread and tried it.
But i'm not quite sure everything went as plannend.
I even think it went wrong on the first step, flashing back to the stock recovery. This one isn't included in the all in one toolkit right?
So I started searching for one myself (I have an S4 VLE version of the phone) but I haven't downloaded one yet, although I've seen links that bring me to new links and so on and so on, I wasn't quite sure which link to trust.
If you could help me further I would really appreciate it
DieterW91 said:
I did read through that thread and tried it.
But i'm not quite sure everything went as plannend.
I even think it went wrong on the first step, flashing back to the stock recovery. This one isn't included in the all in one toolkit right?
So I started searching for one myself (I have an S4 VLE version of the phone) but I haven't downloaded one yet, although I've seen links that bring me to new links and so on and so on, I wasn't quite sure which link to trust.
If you could help me further I would really appreciate it
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1 minute - downloadlink is on the way
Here you are: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2622663&d=1394422408
You can flash it with the toolkit selecting "Custom recovery".
When you're Storage is back alive and kickin' you can flash a custom revovery again.
My favourites are
TWRP 2.7.0.0 - http://techerrata.com/file/twrp2/ville/openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.0-ville.img
and
PhilZ advanced CWM - http://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/ville
In my opinion TWRP is easiest to handle and PhilZ has some more features.
DieterW91 said:
I even think it went wrong on the first step, flashing back to the stock recovery. This one isn't included in the all in one toolkit right?
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Another direct link here, I personally flashed it manually trough fastboot, for me the easiest and fastest way to do it. Then proceed to the clear storage and flash your custom recovery (like @LS.xD I recommend TWRP but this is your choice )
THX Guys! :victory:
Thanks to your links to the stockrecovery, my phone is back alive and kicking.
I feared for a while for my phone, but on the other hand I knew the xda community would help me fix it!
1000 times thanks :good::laugh:
DieterW91 said:
THX Guys! :victory:
Thanks to your links to the stockrecovery, my phone is back alive and kicking.
I feared for a while for my phone, but on the other hand I knew the xda community would help me fix it!
1000 times thanks :good::laugh:
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ok i think i just completely messed up my phone with no hope of recovery but im praying one of you guys is a miracle worker so heres what happened like any other person wanting the latest software i wanted to upgrade my lg g2 to lollipop i found a tutorial and it explained that i needed a custom recovery system (Phone was rooted btw) any way he was usisng twrp so i looked on how to install it from here .addictivetips.com/android/what-is-twrp-how-to-install-use-it-on-android-devices-guide/ then after reading some i went to this link .addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-install-a-custom-recovery-to-an-android-phone-device/ thinking i was a smart ass and not fully reading the article called "Automated Methods" i knew a little about ROM manager and took it from there installed it on my phone and messed with the settings trying to figure out how to install it only to read the article and realize i needed goo manager which is not on the play-store instead is a twrp app so i downloaded that and went to install loaded the twrp file on my phone that i got from their site and installed it and also picked my device as listed lg g2 international it was called so after this thinking i was done i became stuck in fastboot mode thats all it said on the screen so i looked for a way to solve it and found this .reddit.com/r/lgg2/comments/1soiyj/stuck_in_fastboot_mode_need_help/ which is how my phone looked when plugged in my computer so i followed the instructions and this is where i messed up i did everything it said to do but when doing "fastboot flash boot 6-boot.img" command i got an error so i skipped it and did the other commands in order then came back and tried to do it again and i kept getting error so i ignored it my great mistake and typed the final command "fastboot reboot" after which my phone turned off and never restarted and now i cant turn it on and when plugged into my computer nothing happens at all PLEASE HELP no matter how long i hold the power button nothing happens and power and volume do nothing either is this fixable or is my phone done for??? Also as a new user i couldnt post links so deleted the www part im sorry for going against rules but i feel like looking at the links would help alot
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ok i think i just completely messed up my phone with no hope of recovery but im praying one of you guys is a miracle worker so heres what happened like any other person wanting the latest software i wanted to upgrade my lg g2 to lollipop i found a tutorial and it explained that i needed a custom recovery system (Phone was rooted btw) any way he was usisng twrp so i looked on how to install it from here .addictivetips.com/android/what-is-twrp-how-to-install-use-it-on-android-devices-guide/ then after reading some i went to this link .addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-install-a-custom-recovery-to-an-android-phone-device/ thinking i was a smart ass and not fully reading the article called "Automated Methods" i knew a little about ROM manager and took it from there installed it on my phone and messed with the settings trying to figure out how to install it only to read the article and realize i needed goo manager which is not on the play-store instead is a twrp app so i downloaded that and went to install loaded the twrp file on my phone that i got from their site and installed it and also picked my device as listed lg g2 international it was called so after this thinking i was done i became stuck in fastboot mode thats all it said on the screen so i looked for a way to solve it and found this .reddit.com/r/lgg2/comments/1soiyj/stuck_in_fastboot_mode_need_help/ which is how my phone looked when plugged in my computer so i followed the instructions and this is where i messed up i did everything it said to do but when doing "fastboot flash boot 6-boot.img" command i got an error so i skipped it and did the other commands in order then came back and tried to do it again and i kept getting error so i ignored it my great mistake and typed the final command "fastboot reboot" after which my phone turned off and never restarted and now i cant turn it on and when plugged into my computer nothing happens at all PLEASE HELP no matter how long i hold the power button nothing happens and power and volume do nothing either is this fixable or is my phone done for??? Also as a new user i couldnt post links so deleted the www part im sorry for going against rules but i feel like looking at the links would help alot
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The battery died perhaps and if the firmware gets bad then the charge handler doesnt charge the phone. Then again, there is no such thing as a total brick. You should take it to a service shop and have it looked at for a second opinion. Just for the heck of it, hold down the volume up key and plug in the USB cable. Does it show download mode anyways?