Hello all,
From what I can tell XDADevelopers is the best place to ask stupid questions - because I'm noticing with how much time I've spent on here trying to solve this problem that everyone here seems to be particularly helpful! However, I have spent way too much time trying to solve this myself, so this is my last ditch effort before I go and buy myself a new phone, haha. If anyone can get this phone working again for me I will PayPal, send some BTC, or eTransfer ( if you're in Canada ) for your time!
So here goes:
I installed an 8.0 Oreo Superman ROM ( I don't remember the exact one I flashed - IIRC it was this one but I'm not entirely sure, but it was working really well and I was extremely satisfied with how everything was working ). Now I did this a while ago and I've been extraordinarily busy lately so it's been a while, so forgive the lack of detail. I was trying to install some sort of application/feature through Magisk Manager and it wasn't working as expected so I did what in hindsight what I know now to be an incredibly stupid idea - which was to disable OEM Unlock and disable developer options and reboot hoping it would get whatever I was attempting to install working. Instead I was greeted immediately to the following bootloop upon starting the phone again:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
( here's a direct link just in case since the thread preview isn't showing the image for whatever reason: https://i.gyazo.com/1a8af44f100198c70ef9ebfc98fea374.jpg )
I'm unable to boot into TWRP and Odin/PC does not recognize the phone at all. I've tried on multiple computers, different cables, etc. My other Samsung S7 has no trouble being recognized by my PC & Odin as well as Samsung Kies, so I know it's not a driver issue. I only have the IMEI engraved on the back of the phone since I have long lost the box that had the SN on it, which might allow me to reset it through Kies as far as I understand. I am starting to think this is well beyond my capabilities to fix, or the phone could potentially be completely bricked. But again, that's why I'm here asking for advice.
I have tried my best to solve this on my own but I simply don't have time to keep working on this - so like I said, I'd be willing to pay to have someone attempt to come up with a fix for this issue or at least tell me I need to go and buy a new phone - though, ideally I'd prefer the former, haha. If the phone is toast, I was thinking of getting a lightly used Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 off Kijiji or Ebay or something - but if anyone has any recommendations for an alternative I am open to that as well, but I like the bezel-less design and the fingerprint reader, but ideally I'd like an OLED and wireless charging.
Anyways, hopefully someone on here has a solution or at least tell me with 100% confidence that I can safely toss this phone and I will keep my fingers crossed....
Thanks guys - any help would be greatly appreciated.
Related
Hello everyone!
I seem to have a big problem with my phone that I cannot figure out. I'm fairly good with phones and very good with PC, but this problem eludes me.
My Huawei H866C was working just fine yesterday until boom, system freeze. This happened numerous times and most of the time, all I was doing was looking around in the settings etc. My first gut reaction was to factory reset it.
So I did.
When it was done, the phone rebooted like it should, and there I found the "tutorial" screen.
I tap the green android and it proceeds to the next screen which has only one button labeled "Begin"
When I press begin, it immediately throws this error; The application SetupWizardEx (process com.huawei.setupwizardex) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.
Well, needless to say, I've many dozens of times with no success.
I recall a similar incident with my sisters motorola droid bionic, in which after a reset the phone wanted some carrier info before it would load the home screen and let you use the phone. With that incident, I was able to bypass it by touching all 4 corners of the touchscreen. I can't find anything like that to bypass this tutorial nonsense.
I know that the phone isn't bricked, because I never rooted it. Furthermore, I can still bring up swype keyboard settings by holding the menu softkey. From there, I can click a web link in swype help and open the browser with no wifi connectivity. I can go through browser settings, and swype settings. When I first turn the phone back on, I can even use the slide-down menu briefly before it takes away my access.
I was really starting to like this phone until now.
Is there any way to bypass this annoying tutorial so I can use the phone? Otherwise, I'm afraid my money was wasted.
I have included some fairly low quality pictures to try and illustrate my problem.
ANY help at all would be greatly appreciated.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Well admins, you may as well delete this thread. It's helped no one, including myself. I'm just going to return the phone and get my money back..
HuaweiTurk said:
Well admins, you may as well delete this thread. It's helped no one, including myself. I'm just going to return the phone and get my money back..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
And that's exactly what I did. My best advice? STAY AWAY FROM TRACFONE/NET10/Straight Talk at ALL costs! Sure, they give you cheap unlimited everything, but the phones are pure garbage. :good:
BYOP
Sent from my HUAWEI Y536A1 using XDA Free mobile app
Hello
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
I cannot access debugging mode from this generic ZTE V72M Tablet.
There is no way to enter the settings menu as there is a prompt for a security system login (I found this brand new tablet in a junk box in my uncle's store)
I can't access the tablet through fastboot while in recovery mode
I have a little bit of general knowledge for samsung and htc phones but these generic tablets (specifically this one where I can't access anything) is like cracking a safe.
Anyone have any ideas as to how I can go about successfully installing a recovery, rooting the tablet, and putting a generic ROM on it? Thank you so much.
I'm offering a $5 bounty if this helps. (Paypal)
bump
bump
bump. please help
ehaalandtluk said:
bump. please help
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm kinda in the same boat, came across one of these at a surplus store. I thought it'd be a fun project to turn this thing into a Netflix tablet for my daughter. But I have no idea about android or the equipment. So, I'm learning fast One thing I have noticed is that if you hold the power and volume Down, until it reboots then hold the two volumes at the same time, eventually it displays FTM. This seems to be the only way I can get adb to talk to the tablet. I still doesn't seem to talk to fastboot for me. Hopefully this wasn't an obvious find, but a nudge in the right direction for you. Let me know if this helps, maybe you can direct me in what to do in FTM mode with adb. I've read about flashing custom ROMs but I haven't been able to do it. I'm not sure I entirely understand the process...
Bump
I also have one of these and would be interested to hear any progress
I have 2 of these and want to be able to put Action Tiles on it for Samsung Smart Things.
Old thread, but anyone have any luck unlocking this tablet from at&t digital life to use as a basic tablet?
---------- Post added at 09:57 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:44 AM ----------
anyone figure out how to get past at&t digital life and use this as a basic tablet yet?
I am also interested in this. I am sure everyone has moved on but just curious.
Hello all!
First of all, I need to point out that I am a newbie when it comes to Android modifications, but I work in IT, so I have a good general knowledge on how these things work. I say "general", because obviously, working in IT does not make me a professional in this in any way...far from it. I'm just saying so in case you guys can explain to me, or point me a guide I can follow to achieve what I'd like to do Also, English is not my first language, so I apologize in advance if my text is hard to read..
I ordered a cheap chinese tablet from Aliexpress, but I can't post links...so I can't show you. But it's an Octa Core MT8752, 10 inches (really 9.6 though )
For the price I paid, it really does the job, and I am very satisfied. However, I hate the interface. It's not a big deal, but it's annoying. The icons, for one, are ugly. I own a Nexus 7 (2012 model) and it does not look the same, even if they both run on 5.1 Lollipop. I know it sounds stupid, but it bothers me Plus, everytime it boots, I see the big, ugly, Mediatek logo pop-up before the Android one does.
I'm well aware it shouldn't really matter, but I'd like to change that. Is there a way I can flash this tablet with another rom? I was already successful rooting it with KingRoot. I was about to go on and see how to make a backup with MTK Android Tools.
All that rambling to say I'd like to change the look and feel of the tablet and get rid of some junk applications that came already installed on the tablet. Some of these applications were installed by me.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
The specs are as follows:
Also, it bothers me that it seems like the disk space was split in two partitions. Can I change this?
Now, I searched for a while, and I've come across what I believe may be the factory file for flashing, but I am really unsure...I wonder if these files will come with the same icons built in.
Does anyone have any experience with said tablet? I would just like to know what I can do to flash it with another rom, without screwing anything up. I'm really new at this, and I'm not even sure which guide I should follow.
Thank you for your time
Hey folks,
Got a bit of a problem. Seem to have bricked my S7. Which is a bit of a problem.
I was following this guide;
https://theunlockr.com/2016/09/03/ro...xy-s7-s7-edge/
Which borked once I flashed it via Odin.
So I went about google how to take this back. Tried to follow this;
https://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...xy-s7-t3600380
Failed half way through reflash and now comes up with;
"An error has occured while updating the device softwareuse the emergecy recovery function in the smart switch PC Software"
So i found this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yXQUFrEWg4
So I download the Smart switch software and get to device initialisation and then it asks for my Serial Number. Which, I can't get because it's in the software of the phone. There's no external Serial number. I think if I could get an SN for a SM-G930T phone I might still have a shot at saving this.
Can anyone help me with this? I'd rally, really appreciate it.
https://samsung-firmware.org/model/SM-G930t/
Just found this which could be useful if I could get into the download bit, which I can't seem to be able to anymore.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/tmo...store-t3367007
This too looks useful, again, only if I can get back to the download screen.
Could anyone send me an SN for an SM-G930T so I could get the emergency software recovery to work? That would be great.
Quote:
Originally Posted by *Detection*
Serial number should be printed on the back of the phone near the bottom / on the box
Not sure someone else's serial would work
It's not on the back of this phone. I also got this second hand from Ebay and so didn't have a box. So, I just found one on the internet and that has worked.
I've managed to get it back working... but I don't want to talk too soon. it's taking me through the usual startup stuff but I'm not out of the woods yet... This has been a hair raising adventure so far and I'm absolutely no further forward than I started.
Not ideal finding a random SN tht matches your model number but we will see if that has any lasting repurcussions. In the meantime, it appears to have got me out of a hole.
Don't suppose you can link me to a rooting process for the SM-G930T could you?
So I have a SM-G930T on Android 7 (Nougat) and I'm looking to root it ultimately to make some changes about tethering identification as I did with my former Z2 and posted a solution on how to do that.
Any help would be grately appreciated.
http://galaxys7root.com/galaxy-s7-s7...id-7-0-nougat/
This looks good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC9wpPUl7A0
There's the video. Will be investigating this further later.
when you boot in download mode, press the home button before you press confirm, it will give u your serial and imei
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Useful info... but sadly not what is needed I'm afraid.
As it happens, doing those steps, my SN shows blank.
Moving thread .... don't believe its a sprint issue
I switched from sprint to T-Mobile. They screwed up and let us keep our old phones and did a discount for the hassle. I figure I don't need 2 S8's so I would just sell it. Welcome to my nightmare.....
So I factory reset the phone to get all my data off, I did this through the settings menu. No issues the phone reset. It was at the beginning new phone screen so I just left it and placed the phone on craigslist.
I get a buyer and we meet at the store. The lady who works at sprint and was going to verify the phone was not stolen starts the phone and asks me for the password..........huh?....
The phone is at a password screen and I have maybe 5 at most that I use various combos of, none of these work. She brings it over to the "techs" there are they say they have never seen this. I then apologize the the man who wanted to buy the phone and proceed home. I do some searching online and find out how to get into certain menus and do resets, and re-flash the stock rom. Even after those it wants a password.
I then think I'll just use find my phone with good and unlock it. Well it is a sprint phone and I have T-Mobile now so it has no connection, and I can't get past the password to get to the wifi settings. So google says it can't find my phone.
I contact Samsung and since it’s been less than a year they say they will help. I send in the phone and they send me it back with the crack on the back of the phone fixed and nothing else. I called and they said they have record of me asking for help with a password problem. I then ask if I can send it back and get that taken care of and they said it would cost 150$ because they fixed the phone......huh?
I really just want this password off the phone. At this point it’s a matter of I am more curious about finding a way to get it off the phone than selling it. I’m also open to all ideas. Taking it apart, flashing something third party on it.
If you need pictures I will get them up shortly. Or a video. At work currently, so I can probably reply in a timely manner. If you need more info please ask and I’ll try and get whatever you need
Thanks in advance
EDIT 1 - PICS
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
EDIT 2- sigh* I don't know why the images are sideways. They show the lock screen // the fact that is is not FRP locked // i have done a factory reset