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I finally made it, Soft-Brick in another Way... -.-

Yeah, i finally made it. I bought a TMO-DE One S (With S4 Processor) 5 Days ago, unlocked the Bootloader (HBoot 1.09), rooted and SuperCID´d it, installed CWM Touch and installed TrickDriod V8.0 incl. its Tweak Package. After that i installed another Radio and everything was fine. It could have been SO easy, but i just HAD to do more, and now its soft-bricked.
At all TrickDroid is a really good ROM, but i hated the thingy that it shows G symbol instead of H when getting HSPA speeds. So i decided to dump it and go for a 4.0.4 / Sense 4.1 Stock Rom without branding instead until a JB / Sense Rom comes out. And thats were the trouble started. i flashed the stock rom with CWM, installed the boot.img that came shipped with it and booted it up. I did a full wipe before flashing. It booted up, Sense Stock Background Image came on and it showed "Unfortunately Wiper App is closed" at the "Preparing phone storage" stage. After OK´ing that another Screen came up about some system service wouldnt respond (dont know the exact Text anymore) wich i could close or wait for it. No matter what i do, or if i do nothing, after ~20 seconds the phone crashes and restarts. After the first restart the phone only boots into a black screen but with the Android bar at the top is working with time, battery-charging and a warning smybol. But the Phone wont react to anything i do except for lockscreen button. When its "online" i can push files via adb to the internal SDCard so i thought it wouldnt be a big problem. i pushed ONE MaximuS V2.5 ROM to the SD Card, booted into CWM and installed it. then flashed the boot.img of it via fastboot and booted it up. but nothing happens. still black screen with bar on top and not reacting phone that reboots every 20 seconds. i allready tried full wipe, cache wipe, dalvik cache wipe and i dont really know what to do now.
A broken SD Partion cant be since i can push files via ADB to it and install them with CWM. But whatever i try to install every ROM boots only in this blackscreen. its clearly not hanging in bootloader, but in android itself. I dont really know what to do, and returning to my dealer is no option since Rooting, SuperCID´ing and flashing another ROM. You maybe have a Idea what to do now?
Peace
TK
PS: Sorry for my bad english, hope you can understand it
Edit: Okey, i got something. i formatted everything i could in CWM, and now (as its now supposed) it hangs in bootloader since no system is there for booting. The good thing is in CWM i get ADB Connection so i can still push files to the SDCard. Im now trying installing a ROM again. So at least i have a starting Point if it fails again
Edit 2: Okey, found it. The "Stock" ROM is broken, not my Phones Fault. and MaximuS just doesnt install right so nothing was changed. Installed TrickDroid again for testing and everything is fine again. Close this one...

[Q] HTC Explorer boot loop

Hi everyone! I am new to this forum. A few days ago I rooted my HTC explorer successfully. Today I (forgot and) reset my phone to factory settings and now it is in continuous boot loop. I tried to rerun the "recovery.bat" instructions and reinstalling "Superuser.zip" but not successful. What should I do now? Installing a custom ROM? Is it possible to resolve this issue by flashing ROM with default firmware? Primarily I rooted my phone for some applications and I assume that installing custom ROMs have some disadvantages too (e.g., CPU load or reduced battery timings maybe). Am I right? Considering my requirements, I don't need a custom ROM that is why I prefer default ROM.
Please suggest some solution and the procedure to follow.
Thank you very much.

Try REBOOT BOOTLOADER
Hi,
I'm new guy too..
The same thing happened to my mobile after installing several apps (now i knew, I should NEVER do that) at once & I was worried just as you did.
My phone continuously restarted & was stuck at the logo
Planned for custom ROM flashing and just before that, eventually gave a try on my own.
Press power+volume down button after switching off.. you'll be directed to new screen with 4 options
FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
************ (sorry.. cant remember)
SIMLOCK
Select FASTBOOT and then select "REBOOT BOOTLOADER" when 4 options comes under fastboot menu
Next select POWER DOWN from the same menu..
Now try restarting your phone normally. This could possibly work just as it happened to me. (I was so much relieved after it worked)
P.S: Dont ask me how it would work or why it didn't work.. bcoz as i said, I'm also new to android..
Cheers pal.. :fingers-crossed:

solution for boot loop
muhammadalidildar said:
Hi everyone! I am new to this forum. A few days ago I rooted my HTC explorer successfully. Today I (forgot and) reset my phone to factory settings and now it is in continuous boot loop. I tried to rerun the "recovery.bat" instructions and reinstalling "Superuser.zip" but not successful. What should I do now? Installing a custom ROM? Is it possible to resolve this issue by flashing ROM with default firmware? Primarily I rooted my phone for some applications and I assume that installing custom ROMs have some disadvantages too (e.g., CPU load or reduced battery timings maybe). Am I right? Considering my requirements, I don't need a custom ROM that is why I prefer default ROM.
Please suggest some solution and the procedure to follow.
Thank you very much.
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You are not supposed to use the factory reset in settings once you added a recovery. That would be the reason for your boot loop.
Now you may try to reset your phone with option available in recovery. It may help your device but chances are rare.
What i would suggest is to install a custom ROM which suits your needs and give life to your phone.
If you choose the ROM which suits with your usage you will not be having any problem.
Good luck with that

A handful of problems after performing a factory reset

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?
EDIT:
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.

My SM-930FD freezes at 27.50%, 25% and 65% during rom flash everytime!

Hi all.
Hoping someone can provide some help.
I have a SM-G930FD and I am on Superman rom ver 1.19.1. The phone had been restarting at random times more recently so I thought to do a clean flash through TWRP to the same 1.19.1 rom (it worked for me and I didn't need any new features etc from newer roms).
So I rebooted into recovery, did a clean wipe, select install rom, go through aroma as usual selecting/deselecting things, install rom. But for some reason the phone freezes at exactly 27.50%. I had to hold power+down+home to reboot the phone then power+up+home to get into TWRP. I have tried flashing the same rom again several times but freezes at 27.50% again. If I don't select any tweaks and all stock options in aroma I get to 65% but always freeze at 65%.
The only thing I can do at the moment is restore. Luckily I did a full backup in TWRP prior to flashing. But even the restore had been crashing at random % progress and I have to force restart several times for the restore to complete. Right now my phone is restored to the same state before I tried flashing. It still random restarts.
I also tried flashing to the lastest 2.9 Superman rom. Updated BL and CP through Odin and installed latest TWRP too. But guess what, it also freezes at 27.50% during the rom install. I also tried flashing the Ultimate Nougat Rom V2.6 but guess what, freezes at 25% on multiple attempts.
I tried flashing from 2 different microsd cards and also tried flashing from internal memory. All freezes at either 27.50% or 25% or 65%.
If someone can help I would really appreciate it! The S7 is my secondary phone, it's not the end of the world if I can't update to a newer rom, but I would like to be able to solve why!

bootloop after weeks of normal usage

bootloader unlocked
MIUI 9.5.19 global ROM installed
Magisk 16.4
Have been using the phone for 2 weeks now it's the second time that the phone shut down because of battery to low. OK so far but it then only is booting into TWRP. Also deleting DALVIK and CACHE i can see it booting and then the black screen with the navigation arrows are visible for a second. It's seems that there is something preventing the system to come up properly. After 5 short attempts with black screen and navigationbar visible it boots into TWRP.
Also re-flashing Magisk is not solving it.
OK I could now re-flash the Global ROM again but it won't fix the general issue why the phone get's stuck once it shuts off because of empty battery and again I would loose all my data.
Anyone with ideas how to fix it or what could be the root cause?

EDIT: It seems that there is really a problem with the system itself. If I instantly hold the power button once booted until the black screen I could keep it running and I see the restart, shutdown, airplane buttons but nothing more.
In Windows I would say it's not starting the explorer.exe
anyone who had something similar?

Have you tried re-flashing with MiFlash?

Bootloop after weeks of normal use is pretty misleading considering that you are using a custom recovery that isn't even official plus Magisk and possibly other mods. You should flash the official stable ROM with the MI Flash Tool and then run the phone without any mods to see if you still experience the same problem. And if you decide to use TWRP again you are better off using it through fastboot so the stock recovery remains installed on the phone.

THx for your replies... I think I've figured it out:
It seems that the alternative launcher is the root cause. I've been using Microsoft Launcher since moths across all my devices (light+fast+sexy). Without it (replaced by Nova now) it seems that the problems are fixed