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[Q] Help! No service/home screen on Xperia X10 after flashing custom kernel

So, basically I am at a loss. I ususally spend enough time on problems like this until I solve them myself, but now I really need the help of others.
I rooted my Xperia X10i, installed some custom ROMs, everything went fine. The phone was still a bit buggy though, so I decided to go a step further.
So I unlocked the bootloader (using some threads from this forum), and had no issues with that either.
Then I installed the custom DoomKernel from here (the failsafe one!):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1253853
It booted just fine, but I noticed I had no Wifi and my SIM card wasn't recognized. So I installed the Wifi modules that can be found in the same thread. I'm not sure which ROM I had on the phone at this point, since I tried many different ones.
The problem is now, that when trying to get the Wifi working, some time after a reboot the phone would ask my pin-code, and after that just gives a blue screen, instead of the usual home screen. I can slide my status bar down, and from there I can access some things, but not much. Basically I can only see that the phone does't seem to recognize my SIM card (even though it asked for the code?) and my wifi doesnt work either. Without a home screen I can't open my apps or anything.
I have since tried to install different ROMs. Again only the status bar works after a boot, besides that all I see is the standard background. Some ROMs can let me turn Flight Mode on from the status bar, and when I click it everyhting works again (except for any wifi or service, of course).
I have also tried to flash different kernels since, but nothing changed. So I used the SE PC Companion to get back to all the official SE 2.3.3 stuff. Still only the status bar works. I can still flash kernels and ROMs and boot into them succesfully, but I will always get a blank screen with just the status bar after tying my PIN code.
So... does anyone have a clue how to solve this issue? Any way to COMPLETELY restore all the phone's software, since updating or repairing using the PC Companion leaves the real problem untouched? Many thanks in advance!

Ok, resolved the issue. Apparently something went wrong while unlocking the bootloader. Restore it by clicking on "Restore" in the newest S1Tool (older versions don't have that button) and everything is solved. Just note that if you have a kernel running that requires an unlocked bootloader at the moment you restore the bootloader, obviously your device won't boot any more. Don't worry, just flash another kernel in that case.

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Hello, i am android newbie, but i use my 5801 for a few months. But with help of this forum i make from my stock phone pretty good machine for me. Everything was perfect, i instal cwm,root, kernel g3 2.4 oc,setcpu, bassbeats,... A still no problems. But two days back i tried to instal BLN via SGS kernel flasher within android. During flashing kernel it was o.k. but at the end phone freeze a take did not reboot. Just screen stay for 10 min same. So i decided to hold power button and turn off phone. After that all the user apps were gone. So i decided to recovery via cwm from backup. after that phone started , still no user apps, only system apps and no possibility to install anything cause task manager in phone showed 0kb data , like rom was not mounted or i dont know... I started panic and wipe everything boot, cache, sd,data ... just all. And reflash kernel 2.4 back to stock
After done that it was totally in ....hole. Phone could boot to recovery but, could not start android. Just logo "samsung" is still on the screen. I tried to instal firmware( samsung 5800 xwjpi with files sbl.bin and boot.bin through odin but still same...Only boot animation is changed now...And still is just shining "samsung" logo. Is there any chance to repare that? I think i should install bootloader but i am not sure how. Or is it automatically doing by flashing rom? Pls help if u can. Many thanks.

lumen2012 said:
Hello, i am android newbie, but i use my 5801 for a few months. But with help of this forum i make from my stock phone pretty good machine for me. Everything was perfect, i instal cwm,root, kernel g3 2.4 oc,setcpu, bassbeats,... A still no problems. But two days back i tried to instal BLN via SGS kernel flasher within android. During flashing kernel it was o.k. but at the end phone freeze a take did not reboot. Just screen stay for 10 min same. So i decided to hold power button and turn off phone. After that all the user apps were gone. So i decided to recovery via cwm from backup. after that phone started , still no user apps, only system apps and no possibility to install anything cause task manager in phone showed 0kb data , like rom was not mounted or i dont know... I started panic and wipe everything boot, cache, sd,data ... just all. And reflash kernel 2.4 back to stock
After done that it was totally in ....hole. Phone could boot to recovery but, could not start android. Just logo "samsung" is still on the screen. I tried to instal firmware( samsung 5800 xwjpi with files sbl.bin and boot.bin through odin but still same...Only boot animation is changed now...And still is just shining "samsung" logo. Is there any chance to repare that? I think i should install bootloader but i am not sure how. Or is it automatically doing by flashing rom? Pls help if u can. Many thanks.
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Try to wipe data and cache

DoR2 said:
Try to wipe data and cache
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Already tried. No improvement. Bootlooping(?) screen again and again for 15 min.

lumen2012 said:
Already tried. No improvement. Bootlooping(?) screen again and again for 15 min.
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Try flashing cm 7
hey..... dont forget to thank me!!!!!!!!

So, it looks problem is solved. I tried to flash froyo kyrillos rom 9.7 and phone finally works. Now I only need to solve problems with freezing, after flashing it happens two times during one hour Updating to 9.7.1. actually not possible cause download servers down...Maybe tommorrow. And why did you say i should install just CM 7 ?

lumen2012 said:
So, it looks problem is solved. I tried to flash froyo kyrillos rom 9.7 and phone finally works. Now I only need to solve problems with freezing, after flashing it happens two times during one hour Updating to 9.7.1. actually not possible cause download servers down...Maybe tommorrow. And why did you say i should install just CM 7 ?
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I think it's kernel related problem. Try to flash CM7 or Kyrillos 10 or use PuruKisadHybrid

It is possible that was only temporary problem as looks , freezing has never repeat again . But after your advices i tried flash cm7 i now use cm7 kyrillos 10.6. Just testing , only well known gaming issues yet. But now i know flashing is so easy :victory:

Stuck at 4GLTE boot screen

I woke up today to some problems. My S3 would boot up and everything but the touch screen was unresponsive and I was stuck at the lock screen in landscape orientation. I had no idea what was going on so I used odin to flash the stock root66 image to try to fix my phone and now I get stuck at the 4G LTE boot screen. Does this mean that there is some sort of kernel issue? If not, does anyone know what is going on? And how would I fix this problem?
EDIT: I fixed it by odin-ing back to a the stock image but now for some reason my messaging app FCs constantly and I can't use it. I installed Go SMS Pro and it works but it does not display any sort of message. It tells me that I have new texts and whatnot but the conversation is blank. I'm going to try to do a full wipe and restart from there

Having the same issue trying to get SMS to work on the GalaxyMod ROM, it'll boot to the rom, but say I have no service. Bummer. But you can always boot to recovery mode and restore a backup; that always works just fine for me, so that you have a working phone in the meantime.

gseyffert said:
Having the same issue trying to get SMS to work on the GalaxyMod ROM, it'll boot to the rom, but say I have no service. Bummer. But you can always boot to recovery mode and restore a backup; that always works just fine for me, so that you have a working phone in the meantime.
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I could not get into recovery to do anything of that sort. I used Odin to push the full wipe verison of the stock, un-rooted firmware and now I have a working device. The only problem now, other than losing a lot of data, is the fact that my phone memory is only showing up as 11.8gb.

That isn't a problem as even though your phone says it is 16 GB but like all devices it needs a certain amount of space for the OS files.

Help Phone wont start, I am not sure if its bircked.

I am really not sure what happened to the phone but I will tell all I did that might have connection to the current sitiuation.
I rooted the phone a while back , no issues with root.
As internal memory is low on this phone (4 gbs) I used link2SD.I have used in past with other phones never had a issue but this time the apps which were linked magically disappeared and some wont start saying " Application has stopped working " , So I decided to , oh wait I forgot I also had TWRP custom recovery on this phone too , no issues happened with it either, yet. So I decided to restore to a backup I made with TWRP a few days ago, I have previously done this thing and it worked perfectly unlike this time.I booted to recovery then restored to that backup but when I booted back the device wouldn't start! All it was showing was the boot screen(circles moving in weird pattern) I waited around 3 hours then I decided to factory reset , I took out the battery (BAM I did a mistake here I guess) went to recovery did a normal factory reset then again I was at the boot screen looking at circles This time I gave a around 10 hours but it still didnt load up , then I took out the battery again next what I see it when I try to start my phone NOTHING WILL HAPPEN only screen turns on for like few miliseconds showing only back screen (NO KARBON LOGO OR ANYTHING) and goes off again. I tried pressing Vol Up and choose recovery mode but it wont let me go in recovery it turns off again as soon I choose okay (RECOVERY DONT LOAD AT ALL NOT EVEN THE LOGO). Please explain what happened to phone and how can I fix it. :crying: :crying: :crying: :crying:

Go To Karbonn Care

I think I told you its rooted and stuff, which voids warrenty

Same thing happed to me with my sparkle v and now its not even receiving stock firmware via sp flash tool

Flash stock firmware by removing the battery

DeepSahota said:
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Hey can you please help me.I have karbon sparkle v.everything is on stock.after marshmello ota updates the phone was little bit unstable .many google apps were getting fc. Recently in decided to factory reset my device.after factory reset I can't get past the "checking connection" screen that we get after factory reset. There is no option to skip that to as usually it is available in other devices and ROMs.can u please tell me how can I fix this.can I flash stock 5.1 via stock recovery ?or maybe 6.0.1 again? I can't bypass the screen so I cannot switch on USB debuinging else everything would have been OK ?.please suggest something

SM-G920I Keeps shutting down and recovery is not seandroid enforcing

Hello everyone,
My Galaxy S6 G920I has started shutting down repetitively. I was on stock and not rooted. After it happened a few times I decided to hard reset it and delete cache but it would get stuck on starting apps screen etc. After many attempts the phone finally started the user's guide for logging in etc. I was getting crash errors for settings and other things. It finally went in only to start shutting down again. Seeing how the apps were crashing I thought that there might be an issue with the stock ROM so I decided to flash a new one. I was having trouble finding my specific so I went for another one found here. I couldn't flash it with ODIN because it was on a zip format so I flashed TWRP on the phone.
The error recovery is not seandroid enforcing is now showing on different versions of twrp (2.8, 3.0).
I can't flash any ROM now and the one found in the device keeps shutting it down.
I don't believe it is a hardware issue as the phone stays on without issues on download mode. Any help on what steps to follow next would be highly appreciated.

apostol96t said:
Hello everyone,
My Galaxy S6 G920I has started shutting down repetitively. I was on stock and not rooted. After it happened a few times I decided to hard reset it and delete cache but it would get stuck on starting apps screen etc. After many attempts the phone finally started the user's guide for logging in etc. I was getting crash errors for settings and other things. It finally went in only to start shutting down again. Seeing how the apps were crashing I thought that there might be an issue with the stock ROM so I decided to flash a new one. I was having trouble finding my specific so I went for another one found here. I couldn't flash it with ODIN because it was on a zip format so I flashed TWRP on the phone.
The error recovery is not seandroid enforcing is now showing on different versions of twrp (2.8, 3.0).
I can't flash any ROM now and the one found in the device keeps shutting it down.
I don't believe it is a hardware issue as the phone stays on without issues on download mode. Any help on what steps to follow next would be highly appreciated.
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Update it via smart switch it will turn on after that for sure. Or download the latest firmware via samfirm and flash it with Odin.

Thanks!
ammarwajihi said:
Update it via smart switch it will turn on after that for sure. Or download the latest firmware via samfirm and flash it with Odin.
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I tried flashing the stock rom with ODIN and the phone successfully boots now. So a big thanks for that as it is progress. BUT the issue I was orginally having persists: The device keeps turning off 10-20 seconds after booting. Do you have any idea why that might be?
Sometimes it will freeze first and then turn off but never stay on for longer.
I have tried Safe Mode and turning all connectivity related modules off.

apostol96t said:
I tried flashing the stock rom with ODIN and the phone successfully boots now. So a big thanks for that as it is progress. BUT the issue I was orginally having persists: The device keeps turning off 10-20 seconds after booting. Do you have any idea why that might be?
Sometimes it will freeze first and then turn off but never stay on for longer.
I have tried Safe Mode and turning all connectivity related modules off.
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This is weird don't know what the problem might be. Still I suggest you to flash it with smart switch once and see.