When my Archos FamilyPad 2 first arrived I was so excited. It was a pre-owned one that I got from Amazon. I took it out and the battery was dead. So I plugged it up to charge for about 15 minutes before I turned it on with the charger still intact. Alright. Everything was fine as I saw the previous owners apps and games on the home page. First thing I did was performed a factory reset from the settings menu. I noticed that the developers option had already been turned on. So I was thinking I would have to tap the build number after the factory reset to get the developers option back on. To my surprise it was already cooked into the OS for some reason. So I started tinkering with it while everything was starting to update. The only way I know how to root is through KingRoot. So that's what I always use to root my devices. The root was successful as it is about 75% of the time with KingRoot. Everything checked out with Root Checker and root was properly installed by KingRoot. Then I got superuser access and granted all permissions. Got BusyBox in and xposed framework. I overclocked it to see what it would do. It ran pretty decent for a duo core with 1 GB of RAM. So I began to start messing with the LCD display and density to make the resolution a bit better and sharper. And it worked. Changed the system font with Font Master. And changed the things that needed to be changed for the system to read it as running Android 6.0.1. So then I wanted to cut the boot time in half by turning off the boot animations. Reboot and yes it did work. I then started to wonder how customized boot animations would look. The .IMG boot animation that I wanted to see is the new Android boot up logo. So I restarted the tablet without turning the boot animations back on. So it started doing a boot loop at that point. So I went into Recovery Mode to try to do a hard reset and I rebooted it again. It can never get past the initial Archos logo now. Even after a hard reset. I don't know how to take the battery out. So I let the battery drain. I thought it may be the same as taking the battery out and resetting it. Well it still just shows the first Archos logo and then the screen goes blank and never gets to the lock screen anymore. Does anyone know a solution to this? Or is it over for this Archos FamilyPad?
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When my Archos FamilyPad 2 first arrived I was so excited. It was a pre-owned one that I got from Amazon. I took it out and the battery was dead. So I plugged it up to charge for about 15 minutes before I turned it on with the charger still intact. Alright. Everything was fine as I saw the previous owners apps and games on the home page. First thing I did was performed a factory reset from the settings menu. I noticed that the developers option had already been turned on. So I was thinking I would have to tap the build number after the factory reset to get the developers option back on. To my surprise it was already cooked into the OS for some reason. So I started tinkering with it while everything was starting to update. The only way I know how to root is through KingRoot. So that's what I always use to root my devices. The root was successful as it is about 75% of the time with KingRoot. Everything checked out with Root Checker and root was properly installed by KingRoot. Then I got superuser access and granted all permissions. Got BusyBox in and xposed framework. I overclocked it to see what it would do. It ran pretty decent for a duo core with 1 GB of RAM. So I began to start messing with the LCD display and density to make the resolution a bit better and sharper. And it worked. Changed the system font with Font Master. And changed the things that needed to be changed for the system to read it as running Android 6.0.1. So then I wanted to cut the boot time in half by turning off the boot animations. Reboot and yes it did work. I then started to wonder how customized boot animations would look. The .IMG boot animation that I wanted to see is the new Android boot up logo. So I restarted the tablet without turning the boot animations back on. So it started doing a boot loop at that point. So I went into Recovery Mode to try to do a hard reset and I rebooted it again. It can never get past the initial Archos logo now. Even after a hard reset. I don't know how to take the battery out. So I let the battery drain. I thought it may be the same as taking the battery out and resetting it. Well it still just shows the first Archos logo and then the screen goes blank and never gets to the lock screen anymore. Does anyone know a solution to this? Or is it over for this Archos FamilyPad?
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okay, so i'm very new to this rooting concept.
i rooted 2 days ago using Z4Root. It seems to have worked, installing SuperUser.
A friend directed me to BlackDroid.net, supposedly to get free apps. I went from my default browser on my Samsung Fascinate and installed a few apps.
One app i installed was Type Fresh. I was messing around with the fonts within the app, trying to understand what was actually changing on the phone. I had rebooted the device around 5 times within an hour after making (what I thought were) font changes.
After changing some fonts, the device began to malfunction:
- Upon reboot, the device will show the Samsung logo while playing the intro music for Galaxy S & Verizon Wireless.
- The device never gets passed this screen.
- After a battery pull, the device showed "downloading - do not turn off target!!!"
- I read in these forums that a battery pull should help. No luck. It still boots up the Samsung logo screen only.
- I've tried a factory reset by holding the volume keys and power button, but the device ONLY boots up into the samsung logo screen.
ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
Wish I could help. Do you have a custom recovery??
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i have nothing. i don't even fully understand your question, unfortunately.
(dunno if this is related or not...)
i have a macbook and considering installing a 30-day free trial of vmware to restore the phone. i didnt, but even if i did, i would have no clue what i was doing. im a quick learner with good directions, but some of the verbiage is not familiar to me.
So I moved some crap from system app (Bloatware) to my sdcard and rebooted and now I'm stuck at system checking.
Am I sol?
Did you do a backup first?
Nope of course not ROFL.
Okay I'm good it booted. What a scare!
"System Checking" means "you're screwed" in Korean. The phone will either reboot itself back to stock or you'll have to do a hard reset to revive it. It's happened to me three times.
yeah happened to me yesterday and ended up with a factory reset phone.
i wish someone would shed some light on this and the conditions by which it happens. This phone is full of mysteries from random reboots to factory resets.
I just wiped and installed EagleBlood, hoping it will do better (at least until CM7 is in good working order).
I thinks it's a corruption issue. Two times I was playing with settings (Bluetooth profiles, changing icons) and the phone started acting weird and I got "System Checking..." when I restarted it. The good news is that I can now completely load my apps and configurations in less than an hour.
happened to me yesterday, but I didn't let to finishing "checking". I pull the battery out and restarted the system. No factory reset or anything. the system booted nicely the second time. so next time you might want to do the same
Happened to me last week, and I wound up having to do a reset.
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So I moved some crap from system app (Bloatware) to my sdcard and rebooted and now I'm stuck at system checking.
Am I sol?
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Glad to hear t booted.
What apps did you move?
this happened to me yesterday. not rooted. my phone did a random reboot earlier in the day and i noticed one of my alarms didnt go off so i powered down, turned back on and it gave me the system checking message. after like 3 mins it booted up fine.
uploder said:
this happened to me yesterday. not rooted. my phone did a random reboot earlier in the day and i noticed one of my alarms didnt go off so i powered down, turned back on and it gave me the system checking message. after like 3 mins it booted up fine.
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I haven't seen this not to say it hasn't happened without me knowing but my guess is if the phone reboots or crashes and then at startup it notices a filesystem error or some corruption is when it throws that up. If it can fix it, it does (people who reboot fine) and when it can't you're hosed.
Think of it like if you have a desktop and you pull the cord. It will try to recover but depending on the state it was in it might not be able to.
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So I moved some crap from system app (Bloatware) to my sdcard and rebooted and now I'm stuck at system checking.
Am I sol?
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my phone only did that after i did super one click and i figured it just verified new files or something. im still up and running great. i have 5 backups. can never be too careful
I notice mine does system checking if I forget to mount the /system filesystem back to read only before a reboot!
Happened to me last night, except i was not so lucky. the phone kept rebooting and never get to pass the LG start up screen. Tried the hard key reset and it showed a message of "S/W Upgrade, Please Wait"
Phone t-mobile, they're gonna send me a replacement phone, less the back cover. As soon as the new phone was on its way, I tried to hard key flash again and this time it worked.
But, I am still gonna return this POS and hope the new one can perform better.
Had this happen this morning. I had used the Quick Boot app to reboot my phone, and after it reset I had "system checking" for a few minutes, followed by an infinite bootloop!
Fortunately I had installed ClockworkMod Recovery yesterday and made a nandroid backup, so after restoring that I was back in business.
I will no longer use Quick Boot though. It seems to shutdown the phone unsafely.
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Hello...
I'm a newbie to modding phones (obvious from the question/problem I've about to ask). I have an HTC Inspire and I followed the one click rooting guide and installed Coredroid7 with the 3rd set of radio/RIL listed in that thread. With a bit of a struggle I got it working - worked great and I loved it. Unfortunately I found on the market place an app (Overclock Widget by Billy Cui ) - clicked on "load on boot" and a few bad settings and the entire phone froze. Since then whenever I boot my phone is stuck on the white screen with green HTC logo. The config on my phone is:
s-off
hboot 0.85.0019
micop-0438
radio 26.09.04.11_m2
emmc boot
I've googled all of the internet and followed advice such as reflashing the radio/RIL. went into recover and typed the "adb shell, etc... to remove files indicated (but they were not there)". tried to do recover but the recovery files werent there. At this state, there is only so many combinations you can do and I feel I have done it all.
there are a lot of advice on set cpu problem with other HTC devices but none of them work/can be applied to the Inspire.
Can someone please help me? In your answer please answer me in a dumb down way - keeping in mind I am new and have a hard time understanding acroynms and how to perform complex operations with the hint of a word phrase (ie - please be explicit for me on how to flash radio, instead of saying flash radio XYZ)
Thanks in advance
PS: I am already nervous/scared of what has happened, I am hoping I don't have to do a eng s-off as part of the solution please
based on my description (white screen with HTC logo) have i bricked my phone or is it in a boot loop?
i tried the following
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1033353
and when i say install PD98IMG.zip it just says installation aborted. This is the image I got from Coredroid7 that was working before the problem started.
also tried this:
http://forum.androidcentral.com/lg-...cks/50301-setcpu-forgot-uncheck-set-boot.html
but my phone does not have the file they wanted me to delete
If you see the white HTC logo your always okay. The problem comes when there is nothing showing, you must have changed some settings that won't let the phone complete some core processes.
This can easily be fixed by pulling battery hold volume down button and power and booting into Hboot. Then go into recovery factory reset and wipe dalvik_cache(under advanced) and flash the desired ROM or do a restore from a point your phone worked perfectly.
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ThEiiNoCeNT said:
If you see the white HTC logo your always okay. The problem comes when there is nothing showing, you must have changed some settings that won't let the phone complete some core processes.
This can easily be fixed by pulling battery hold volume down button and power and booting into Hboot. Then go into recovery factory reset and wipe dalvik_cache(under advanced) and flash the desired ROM or do a restore from a point your phone worked perfectly.
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First... THANK YOU very very much for telling me it is not as bad as it seems.
I have done the following:
go into hboot
recovery option
wipe dalvik
flash coredroid7 again by having it be embedded in PD98IMG.zip however like mentioned above this fails.
Right now I am redoing the process again by formatting my sdcard, creating /download to put the PD98IMG.zip in follow the procedures again above. In case this fails, what are my options?
thanks for the guidance. i flashed it again with:
CoreDroid_Desire_HD_GB_2.3.3_V7.0_RV
and I am out of the white screen mode.
Just remember if your phone boots up but not all the way its still ok you can save it. The easiest although most annoying solution is reflash the rom. Also i know you hear about people bricking there phone. I truly think its harder than anyone thinks. Good luck with the inspire. Also if you want overclocking/underclocking stick with setcpu(you can get it free for being an xda member just search xda). Let it auto detect speeds. Give it root permission (itll pop up asking make sure you check remember above the allow button). If your overclocking I recommend staying undler 1.6 ghz (1600 on setcpu) and go to profile select enable. Then set up a profile for screen off and set it for around 300 mhz to help with battery life.
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Just remember if your phone boots up but not all the way its still ok you can save it. The easiest although most annoying solution is reflash the rom. Also i know you hear about people bricking there phone. I truly think its harder than anyone thinks. Good luck with the inspire. Also if you want overclocking/underclocking stick with setcpu(you can get it free for being an xda member just search xda). Let it auto detect speeds. Give it root permission (itll pop up asking make sure you check remember above the allow button). If your overclocking I recommend staying undler 1.6 ghz (1600 on setcpu) and go to profile select enable. Then set up a profile for screen off and set it for around 300 mhz to help with battery life.
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I think I've had about every kind of soft boot thre is on the sticky guide, and one that isn't, and I have always been able to recover (knock on wood). Even black screens...
I was stuck in a similar situation once:I forgot to take off "load on boot" and increased the max speed all the way to like 1.9. And phone froze.
SetCPU gets permissions in the process of phone boot up, after the whole OS is loaded. There is a tiny time gap between home screen coming up, and SetCPU being granted SU permissions. So this is what I did:
I did a reboot. And after the phone starts, without giving any time opened the app drawer for "SuperUser" app, and took off SetCPU permissions from there. This denied SetCPU of it permissions and it was loaded at default speeds. Then I went into Settings-->Applications, and erased all SetCPU data.
Well, it took me like 3-4 reboots before I could master the timing to get to SuperUser and take off SetCPU from there. But it atleast saved me the hazzle of reflashing everything again. And yes sir, I forgot to take a nandroid backup
thanks
Thanks All
Problem fixed
same issue only worse
I have the same situation. I flashed absolution 2.0 last night. Everything went good. Turned it on this morning seemed to work fine also then I turned it off for work and tried turning it back on at the end of the day and it just runs a loop. I can get to the HBOOT menu but I only have 5 options; fastboot, recovery, factory reset, sim lock, and image crc. There is no advance settings and when I choose any of the available options nothing happens except the phone reboots (crc does run a check but then nothing). Hooked to my pc and it says found android 1.0 but I can't do anything with it. I have also pulled the battery and sims card.
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I have the same situation. I flashed absolution 2.0 last night. Everything went good. Turned it on this morning seemed to work fine also then I turned it off for work and tried turning it back on at the end of the day and it just runs a loop. I can get to the HBOOT menu but I only have 5 options; fastboot, recovery, factory reset, sim lock, and image crc. There is no advance settings and when I choose any of the available options nothing happens except the phone reboots (crc does run a check but then nothing). Hooked to my pc and it says found android 1.0 but I can't do anything with it. I have also pulled the battery and sims card.
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What happens when you select recovery and press power?
It just turns off and starts back up and runs its loop. Same for fastboot and factory reboot.
Go here, I've already informed attn1 and his group that you'd be coming.
Going to the link.
They'll get ya fixed up.
Thanks TX. Those guys on that site were awesome. Attn1 worked with me for over an hour. Unfortunately, my phone itself has a hardware failure. Never the less, GREAT support. I wish there was a thank you button for them. This was my first android phone (lasted 3 months) and b/c of the DEV's and other members it won't be my last. Just hope the next one lasts longer.
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Thanks TX. Those guys on that site were awesome. Attn1 worked with me for over an hour. Unfortunately, my phone itself has a hardware failure. Never the less, GREAT support. I wish there was a thank you button for them. This was my first android phone (lasted 3 months) and b/c of the DEV's and other members it won't be my last. Just hope the next one lasts longer.
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Dang man, that sucks. I can honestly say I've never had a device fail like that.
Good luck on your next device, whatever it may be.
Tx
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Hi, So I had this problem today that first I couldn't move everything to SD card and my phone memory was full, but finally I solved that problem so I thought why not try downloading some stuff to change theme on my phone so I downloaded GO Launcher EX (xe or something like that..) and GO locker EX, but I didn't understand it at all so decided to delete it using my SnapPea on laptop, but then some settings still were there so I tried deleting them manually, but it was still there. Since my phone was rooted I tried unrooting and rooting it again but well that did nothing... So I was out of options I think and decided to delete EVERYTHING from the phone and found the option to wipe data/factory reset that went really quickly so then I followed instructions and rebooted my phone that seems like went like it should too but then my phone won't turn on, it's pretty much stuck on the starting point when it only shows "SHARP" in red with black background then vibrates and screen goes black then the writing shows up again and doesn't turn on still.... I'm really upset about it since I only got the phone recently not even month ago and I really have no idea what to do anymore so please someone help me... T___________T
Hello Everybody
My name is Ilario from Lodi Italia, i have a problem with my nexus 4 16gb
the problem is:
starts will read ANDROID and goes into optimizing applications 104
then finished the optimization app appears starting with the circle of renovation that will continue to rotate endlessly
I have restored the factory, I installed both original ROM that cyanogen mod but the problem remains the same
Have a suggestions?
Many Thanks a lot
Ilario Orlandi
Same Issue
I second this. I am having the same issue. A couple of days ago my phone died. After plugging it in and letting it charge a bit, I tried to power it on but it stayed on the boot screen (rotating light balls) for hours. I rebooted it and then it stated "android is starting...optimizing app x of y." It then stayed on this screen for hours. My phone has never been rooted or even unlocked. It is completely stock, but won't go past the boot screen. I tried clearing the cache, and then did a full factory reset through recovery menu. Still same thing. Downloaded Nexus Root Toolkit and flashed the stock, still same thing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
i_orlandi said:
Hello Everybody
My name is Ilario from Lodi Italia, i have a problem with my nexus 4 16gb
the problem is:
starts will read ANDROID and goes into optimizing applications 104
then finished the optimization app appears starting with the circle of renovation that will continue to rotate endlessly
I have restored the factory, I installed both original ROM that cyanogen mod but the problem remains the same
Have a suggestions?
Many Thanks a lot
Ilario Orlandi
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Did this happen after any specific update.
I think you guys should start the device and leave it all over night. Plug the device in charger and leave it onn whole night.
Next day will bring same happiness for you.
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