I have softbricked my at&t samsung SGH-i727 running Android 2.3.X (probably stock, but I can't remember). I believe I did this when I was in settings and chose to wipe data from my google wallet app. My phone immedidately shut off. Booting phone now has intro animation with flipping colored tiles and then has a black screen instead of loading the gingerbread 2.3 OS. I remember rooting the phone to run outside of at&t network.
I have no recovery backups stored (maybe for the ROM but thats all)
I am able to hold volume up + volume down + power button to enter clockwork mod 5.0.2.7. In separate attempts to be able to boot into android again, I wiped the cache partition, the devlik cache, and repaired permissions. All these functions seemed to work in CWM.
The next step was to try and mount data and recover files to a PC. I encountered this problem.
E: unable to write to ums lunfile (no such file or directory)
After some research on this forum, apparently this version of CWM might not have this function working properly. I thought it was my golden ticket to get my files backed up to PC.
Can someone advise on my next step. It seems there is software for helping me that costs $40-$140, but it isn’t clear to me that it will help. I think the software wants me to put phone in download mode and then connect to the software on my PC.
I am looking to first recover photos, contacts, and message history. After that, getting the phone back to it’s working state would be a nice bonus.
Google Play has not worked for me for at least 3.5 years. Some core apps were still working great though. I hope someone can shed some light on this for me. It is not clear if I’m able to charge the phone since I have no feedback for the charging status. TIA !
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Alright. This is a 100% stock Nexus S- nothing "development" wise was done to the device, no system tools installed that could cause issues, basically nothing but basic apps loaded on the device.
It just started today. I was working on my bf's Vibrant (another, more successful story) and grabbed my Nexus and hit the power button and it did not turn the screen back on. Holding the power button down did not reboot the device, and none of the buttons would light up or function.
So, I pulled the battery. Now every time I try to boot, it hits the "Google" screen and stays put. I left it alone for 5 minuets hoping it would finish booting and nothing. The soft buttons will light up, and if I touch them they register the touch but it does not help the phone to boot.
I do know that the phone was basically dead right before this happened, and at first I thought it was just dead. However, its been on the charger for at least 30 minuets- which should have given it enough of a charge to boot up, and still nothing.
What could cause this issue?
I did install a couple of new applications today, and I know the market updated a bunch of them but they're all apps that I've had on several phones (minus the two new ones today) and have never had an issue with any of them. The two new ones I downloaded were OS Monitor, and a 2G/3G toggle for hopes of improving some battery life.
But those are the only two things I've done differently. I've only been using the phone for a week but I haven't had any problems at all, before this.
Now- if worst comes to worst I can seem to get into the bootloader, and through that, stock recovery. So I can try to do a factory reset and wipe cache but without a backup I really kinda hope thats a last resort.
Please help, and let me know if you need any more information.
Thank you!
I understand that you're fully stock which I assume means you have a locked bootloader (everything I say from here on out assumes as such)? First, I'm going to also assume that you didn't update to 2.3.3? If not, then follow the steps in this guide to boot into a custom recovery and from there go to backup and restore and do a NANDroid backup. Now go to mounts and storage and mount USB storage (or whatever its called, don't have my phone right here). Plug your phone into your comp and copy over whatever you'd rather not lose from your SDcard (just in case you have to wipe). Now download the 2.3.3 update from here and put it on the root of your SD card. Now go back and flash this. Reboot and see if you're golden. If so, great, if not try a factory reset.
If that doesn't work go through the steps again to boot into a custom recovery, you might have to unlock your bootloader and wipe all your data (again) and restore your backup and try doing a factory reset with that. Don't worry about unlocking the bootloader, it can be relocked with a simple command and it won't wipe anything to relock it.
Here is the command just in case:
Code:
fasboot oem lock
I got all the way to having clockwork recovery booted up on the phone, but nothing would mount. Everything gave me an error, and factory reset froze...
I don't think there is anything I can even do from here, is there?
Hi,
This is my first post on this website. I have owned a RCA Tablet (RCT6378W2 purchased on Black Friday from Walmart) for about 9 months now. Last night, while using it, it sort of stopped for about a minute. Then the screen had some lines on it, and the unit restarted itself. However, after this, it could not get past the RCA Boot Screen with the dogs on it. I tried leaving on this screen overnight with no success. Because the unit turns on and hangs on the boot screen, I figured it was likely a software or operating system corruption issue. Since then, I have figured out how to enter the recovery system v4.2.01 (holding volume + and Power). I have tried:
1. Wipe Cache Partition --- did not resolve problem
2. Wipe Data/factory reset --- seems to have been successful, but still not boot.
3. Apply update from cache -- there are no choices available to choose from.
It seems that unless I can find a way to make a self-booting SD card (is that possible?), then I am stuck with only 3 options (apply update from ADB, Update RKimage from external storage, and apply update from external storage). I have read many threads and websites, but have had no success. It seems that these are some of my obstacles:
1. I cannot seem to find a stock RCA rom image for this device. It appears that RCA has not made these available as other manufacturers have done. If you are able to find this, please send me a link!
2. I have tried to make a self-booting SD card using Phoenix Card, but can't find an .img that works with it. I have also tried using a generic sd card image and custom rom to install, but have failed at that. I have never rooted a device before or installed a custom rom.
3. I have tried looking for custom roms, but can't find one that is compatable with this tablet (seems they are mostly for the big name tablets). I have tried downloading Cyanogenmod for Nook Color (I heard this would work), but the recovery system does not seem to allow for any other firmwares to be installed (unless I am doing something wrong)
4. This tablet is not rooted, nor has the developer tool options been enabled (which I cannot do now that it doesn't boot)
Do you have any ideas? As stated, I am new to all of this, so please answer in detail if you can. Please help!
I have a Samsung Galaxy tab 2 GT-P5110 which I had successfully installed CM12 onto. I decided to set up work email which insisted that I encrypt the device. I believe that the process completed successfully.
At that point I decided that I would like to flash the device with CM12.1. Restarted the process (Factory reset, Wipe Cache, Wipe dalvik cache) and flash the new CM12.1 zip file from external SD card.
I cannot now get to the recovery mode and the device doesn't always boot into anything recogniseable. The screen goes black and blacker! I have manaed to get to the CM logo and then a screen asking me for the PIN for the encryption. The next screen tells me that the PIN is right but the data is corrupt. It gives me the option to "RESET TABLET" but that really doesn't do anything and won't let me in to the recovery menu.
I can get into the Download mode and connect Heimdall up to it.
Is there anything that anyone can point me at that will help me to unbrick it?
I hope I've passed on enough information to help. It seems to me I need to somehow re-format the internal SD but I can't get to any menu that will allow me to do that.
Any thoughts anyone?
Ta
Fixed It
I seem to have fixed it. I flashed the CWM Recovery rather than the recovery that I had been trying to use and I got control of the device back. Not sure why that made a difference but this time the Android Robot came on screen with the 3D polygon rotating inside it and it seems to be running correctly now and updated to Android 5.1 ... Magic!
Hello everyone. I am an old member, seeing as I registered almost four years ago, but I guess either your database was refreshed and it lost my username, or I only lurked. So, as the title suggests I have one of those lowly, inexpensive, down right cheap Kyocera phones. Here is what I have figured out so far. I was able to root it using Kingroot. That went splendidly, though because of my over adventurousness I decided to swap some apps out. I added a new launcher to the /system/app folder and wanted to upgrade the com.android.settings.apk with one from a newer build. This phone (was) running Android 4.0.4 Kyocera release r77 build date 2013. Apparently Kyocera loves to lock the bootloader so if I was able to spin a custom system rom I wouldn't be able to flash it. Another thing which discovered was upon boot up the system checks the integrity of app the system apps. If one of them fails the check it will not boot the system fully. I was able to recover the stock boot/recovery/system roms from a thread on here, but I seem to be stuck in a soft brick loop. One thing that another thread said, the thread that had the rom images, it said that you could used ADB to flash the roms to the phone. Thing is, when I boot the phone it restarts, and if I put it into recovery mode (press and hold volume down plus power for ten to fifteen seconds) the only options I have are "reboot system now", "wipe data/factory reset", "wipe cache partition." There is no "flash update from sd card" or wipe dalvik cache option. As I have said before, I could try to flash the rom to it using adb but I believe that wiping the system partition unset the USB debugging setting. When I connect it to my computer windows device manager notices the kyocera removable device for a second then as the phone reboots it goes away. Setting it into recovery mode does not make it show up in windows. Is there any way I can flash the stock rom onto it? Any android sdk or adb trick I can use that can boot it into some recovery mode? I was trying to see if I can get it to boot into download mode but seeing as it has soft keys and not a physical home button I do not know if I can manage that. I was thinking that maybe they tied one of the physical keyboard buttons to the home button but I have yet to uncover that one. Any help would be appreciated.
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Hello everyone. I am an old member, seeing as I registered almost four years ago, but I guess either your database was refreshed and it lost my username, or I only lurked. So, as the title suggests I have one of those lowly, inexpensive, down right cheap Kyocera phones. Here is what I have figured out so far. I was able to root it using Kingroot. That went splendidly, though because of my over adventurousness I decided to swap some apps out. I added a new launcher to the /system/app folder and wanted to upgrade the com.android.settings.apk with one from a newer build. This phone (was) running Android 4.0.4 Kyocera release r77 build date 2013. Apparently Kyocera loves to lock the bootloader so if I was able to spin a custom system rom I wouldn't be able to flash it. Another thing which discovered was upon boot up the system checks the integrity of app the system apps. If one of them fails the check it will not boot the system fully. I was able to recover the stock boot/recovery/system roms from a thread on here, but I seem to be stuck in a soft brick loop. One thing that another thread said, the thread that had the rom images, it said that you could used ADB to flash the roms to the phone. Thing is, when I boot the phone it restarts, and if I put it into recovery mode (press and hold volume down plus power for ten to fifteen seconds) the only options I have are "reboot system now", "wipe data/factory reset", "wipe cache partition." There is no "flash update from sd card" or wipe dalvik cache option. As I have said before, I could try to flash the rom to it using adb but I believe that wiping the system partition unset the USB debugging setting. When I connect it to my computer windows device manager notices the kyocera removable device for a second then as the phone reboots it goes away. Setting it into recovery mode does not make it show up in windows. Is there any way I can flash the stock rom onto it? Any android sdk or adb trick I can use that can boot it into some recovery mode? I was trying to see if I can get it to boot into download mode but seeing as it has soft keys and not a physical home button I do not know if I can manage that. I was thinking that maybe they tied one of the physical keyboard buttons to the home button but I have yet to uncover that one. Any help would be appreciated.
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Hi and thank you for using XDA Assist
If you can access your recovery it is already a good thing, try first to wipe data and see how it goes.
nilac said:
Hi and thank you for using XDA Assist
If you can access your recovery it is already a good thing, try first to wipe data and see how it goes.
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So, I boot into recovery and I do the wipe data/factory reset then the wipe cache partition for good measure and it still halts on boot. Same thing. Boot, kyocera logo, virgin mobile boot splash, then it halts where it would normally go into android. Then it reboots. Rinse repeat.
Any suggestions? I sorta need the information off the phone.
Hi.
I installed some dodgy app which required root access to operate (but it didn't even though I allowed it in SuperSu) and this is where my problems started.
First of all, I noticed each and every app I tried to run would immediately crash. That included system apps, such as the Settings app. At that stage I was left with only the launcher working and attempts to uninstall apps would also cause a crash. Even the shutdown menu was broken and the phone hung up so I was forced to reboot it by holding the power button for 10 seconds.
After that, the phone would no longer be able to boot, it was stuck in a boot loop, but recovery still worked (TWRP for that matter) so firstly I wiped the cache partitions (including dalvik cache) but that didn't help, as the phone still wouldn't boot. In this case there was only one thing left for me to try and that was the factory reset capability of TWRP which claimed to not even touch internal storage so I was fine with that and did the wipe.
Thankfully, the phone booted afterwards and it welcomed me with the first startup guide (the language selection dialog was really buggy but that's Huawei's fault) and the phone was seemingly ok, except that the whole internal storage had been wiped out but not only that - the external microsd card was empty as well! Could you believe that? I couldn't. TWRP promised not to touch internal storage and the external memory card wasn't even mentioned but why would it wipe it anyway?
That's for the story behind it, now for the actual problems I'm facing right now:
The stock remote app is gone
The boot animation has changed to a different one (now it's a silver "android" logo instead of the "honor" logo)
Battery usage stats are not available (see: http://i.cubeupload.com/BXCknW.png)
Sound quality from the built-in speaker seems noticeably worse
Hereby, I'm asking you guys to help me out with all of this.
The "remote app missing" problem could be solved by someone sharing their apk file with me, that's probably the simplest one to fix.
As for the boot animation, I have no clue as I don't even know what files are responsible for that.
The same for the battery stats problem, I'm already through a couple of full-charge-to-discharge cycles as well as wiping the cache partition, but the problem remains.
The sound quality probably has to do with the DTS sound enhancer. The config file for that is either "/cust/unicom/cn/xml/dolby_config.xml" or "/cust/unicomelectric/cn/xml/dolby_config.xml" and I'm asking you to upload these files somewhere so I can compare them with mine to see if anything is different.
The device I'm using is the H60-L02 variant running the B532 ROM.
Does the 3 buttons method erase internal storage as well? I've already set up quite some apps and having to do it again wouldn't be the most pleasant surprise. But at least in this case I could make some backups and whatnot...
Also, would it work if I flashed B535 straight away or does the 3 buttons method expect the same version which is already installed, in this case B532?
pudup said:
It will wipe internal storage. You can flash any *full* ROM as long as you're not moving up or down from kitkat-lolipop/marshmallow.
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Okay, so I decided I'd do the whole thing today. I downloaded the full B535 ROM on my PC, backed up all the stuff I care about from the phone to the PC as well, and also I downloaded the MultiTool.
Though the MultiTool thread says this in bold red:
VirusPlus said:
EMUI 3.1 WARNING! Update over rooted or system modded in EMUI 3.1 gives a BRICK.
You have to restore system and REMOVE root before every update in EMUI 3.1 for now.
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So I also fired up Titanium Backup in order to defrost all the frozen apps, which went fine, and then I wanted to unroot the phone but I've been unable to do so so far.
To unroot, I launch the SuperSU app, navigate to the "Settings" tab and select "Full unroot". The problem being, it just gets stuck on the screen saying "Uninstalling, please wait...". I don't know how long it usually takes to complete, so far I've waited for maybe 10 minutes and nothing seems to change. Should I care about that? Is that warning about updating rooted/modified EMUI 3.1 resulting in a brick still true?
Can I skip this step and just flash the stock recovery followed by the 3 buttons method?
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After some trial and error with the multi tool and different recoveries, I was able to finally unroot. Next, I flashed the stock recovery for B532 and attempted to do the 3 buttons method, but it would say "Install failed. The update package does not exist" (could be because I'm doing the update from a USB flash drive as I don't have an micro sd card big enough to fit the package). So I rebooted the phone into system and used the Updater to perfrom a local update where it would let me pick the USB drive. It completed without errors and then rebooted into some kind of updater (black background and some bluish emui colors) where it also took some time to finish thankfully successfully. I can right now see the phone booting and for what it's worth, the boot animation is once again the good old "honor" logo and not that ugly silvery "android" one
And now it's "Optimizing system...". I really hope it finsishes successfully as it's already a bit late here and I wouldn't like the phone to be unusable tomorrow :laugh:
36% ready...
46% it's kind of fun to watch this, and now 49%
I'd like to thank @pudup once more for helping out, I'm not really that much into flashing recoveries, roms and all that myself. Without your help I would probably be too scared to try doing something on my own :crying:
86%, 89%, 95% and 100%. Aww, what a relief Good old stock lock screen and wallpaper.