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I just don't get it. I literally follow every instruction to a T and still get hosed every time. The Droid is so much easier to hack than these phones. It's unnerving.
Here's a 'quick' recap of what I've done so far.
My girlfriend has a vibrant, I installed one of sombionix's ROMs on it and she loved it. I think the latest one I installed was 1.7 I convinced her to try out a froyo ROM and she didn't like it, so I went into recovery and attempted to restore a nandroid backup I had made of the 2.1 ROM. Little did I know that apparently you have to install a 2.1 kernel on the Vibrant first if moving from a 2.2 ROM to a 2.1 ROM (Nandroid on the droid restores the kernel too, so I wasn't aware of this). So recovery got stuck at 'restoring data'.
I spent a week trying to get the damn phone into download mode, FINALLY got it there and restored back to stock JI6 (I think that's what it's called anyway). At this point I was on a stock 2.1 kernel and thought that restoring the original nandroid backup would work this time. Yet AGAIN the restore got stuck at 'restoring data'. Can someone please tell me what the hell I'm doing wrong? After waiting 45 minutes at 'restoring data' I rebooted the phone again. The odd thing is, the bionix lady started talking and saying she was initializing bionix. I know this normally takes 10 minutes or so, so I am waiting, but I have a hard time believing the phone will work without being fully restored. Is it possible I didn't wait long enough? (45 minutes on 'restoring data')
Any other suggestions for what I've done wrong? Will Vibrant hacking always be this frustrating? If so, I'm probably going to get her back to stock and leave her that way. The only problem is I *NEED* to get this nandroid backup to work to get some important text messages and other things she had saved. Please help.
So I just odin'd back to stock, and this time before attempting to restore the nandroid backup I went into CWM myself to delete data and cache before restoring. The phone hangs at 'formatting data'. It's as if anytime CWM tries to do anything with the data partition the phone freezes. Any suggestions?
Alright, I FINALLY got the restore process to finish. I then rebooted the phone and now I'm stuck at the Vibrant logo. What on earth am I doing wrong? I just don't understand this. It's like every single time I conquer one obstacle, there's another one waiting for me. What do I need to do now? The bionix lady says 'initiating bionix, hardware acceleration sequence enabled', etc. as if it's going to load up but it does nothing. What now?
ARGH. So after getting the restore process to work and getting stuck on the vibrant screen, I again odin'd back to stock JI6. Instead of Odin flashing me back to stock JI6, somehow my phone came on and is exactly the same as when I made the original nandroid backup I've been trying so hard to restore to, except that there is no root, it's the wrong kernel, and things aren't working right (apps do nothing when clicked, text messages won't open, etc). WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!?! UGH.
I absolutely loathe this phone. Its performance is amazing, but this thing is a hacker's nightmare. I feel bad for those of you that own this piece of ****. I just spent the past hour redownloading a bionix 2.1 ROM, manually restoring all of her apps from titanium backup (free version, so had to do it one by one). I FINALLY got the phone to a point that was very similar to the nandroid backup I've been trying so hard to get back to and the damn thing rebooted, and now launcherpro is force closing repeatedly and not allowing me to do anything else at all. This phone is absolute crap as far as hacking goes. And I know, I know, I'm sure plenty of you will respond with wise ass remarks like 'if you knew what you were doing it wouldn't be', or 'I've never had a problem', but just the fact that this phone is only a few months old and its support forum is 5x more active than the most active Droid support forums shows how much harder this thing is to hack than my Droid. I am so frustrated with this thing I'm about to throw it out the damn window. You literally cannot do anything without encountering a new problem.
I guess I'll start the whole process over again. What a waste of good hardware.
It just never ends with this thing. Now after odin'ing back to stock the phone goes to a black screen and just sits there unresponsive. I ****ing hate my life. I really do. Will someone please help me? Please tell me what I did wrong in each of the 6 to 7 different problems I've had in this thread now?
Well it's all over now. After the most recent debacle I found a thread stating that if stuck on a black screen, flash the 'froyo that doesn't brick' through odin, then downgrade to stock JI6. I did that, and the phone boots now, but it wiped the SD card so it's all over now. All my nandroid backups, all files, everything is gone. Somehow the only thing it didn't wipe is an angry birds APK I bluetoothed to her phone the night it came out, since it wasn't showing up in her market yet. This phone may dominate my Droid in performance, but I have never had so many issues with a device in my entire life, not even when I first began hacking my Droid. I am going to leave her on stock and move on with my life. So many hours wasted on this piece of ****, my head is spinning. I do appreciate all the help on this forum but it's all been in vain. Thanks anyway everyone.
You keep posting to yourself. The reason, you are the issue. Some people forget to go to a2.1 kernel, but this thread is crazy. I've been flashing this phone since it came out with no issues at all. Don't bash the phone because YOU are having a problem.
I think he'd have been well advised to steer his girl to an HTC, not samsnot. Sorry you had such a ***** of a time man.
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Oh boy, may I suggest RTFM before you screw with your girlfriend's phone any longer?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=732458
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=771111
velocity92c said:
I absolutely loathe this phone. Its performance is amazing, but this thing is a hacker's nightmare. I feel bad for those of you that own this piece of ****. I just spent the past hour redownloading a bionix 2.1 ROM, manually restoring all of her apps from titanium backup (free version, so had to do it one by one). I FINALLY got the phone to a point that was very similar to the nandroid backup I've been trying so hard to get back to and the damn thing rebooted, and now launcherpro is force closing repeatedly and not allowing me to do anything else at all. This phone is absolute crap as far as hacking goes. And I know, I know, I'm sure plenty of you will respond with wise ass remarks like 'if you knew what you were doing it wouldn't be', or 'I've never had a problem', but just the fact that this phone is only a few months old and its support forum is 5x more active than the most active Droid support forums shows how much harder this thing is to hack than my Droid. I am so frustrated with this thing I'm about to throw it out the damn window. You literally cannot do anything without encountering a new problem.
I guess I'll start the whole process over again. What a waste of good hardware.
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You say its a hackers nightmare, it is one of the few phones that is almost impossible to brick, do not consider yourself a hacker for using odin, you could not even figure out how to do that right and messed up, that is what happend you are the reason it wouldn't work the phone is great you just suck.
Ok so I was a victim of theft and got my Thunderbolt stolen, sux I know so I got my replacement brand new. I rooted following jcase's thread then proceeded to flash B.A.M.F. 1.7, clean wiped everything about 4 times to be on the safe side. The problem is it wont boot past the splash screen...just flashes goes black vibrates flashes goes black. Thought it was the Rom so tried The perfect Storm and same thing also tried flashing different kernels and still the the same s**t and its really starting to piss me off. With a battery pull i can get into recovery but i dunno what the f**k is up. I succeeded once at a full boot but when i reboot for whatever reason its the same s**t all over again. I don't know what to do or how to figure this out any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to all for reading and thanks for your time!
Are you wiping data and cache before flashing each ROM?
bd1212 said:
Are you wiping data and cache before flashing each ROM?
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yes sir religiously
How long have you waited for it to go past the boot flash screen? Sometimes it might take a while to boot up because it is your first time booting up after all.......
Smok3d said:
How long have you waited for it to go past the boot flash screen? Sometimes it might take a while to boot up because it is your first time booting up after all.......
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I wish I could take video it'd be more easy to understand, so screen lights up says HTC with white background then goes blank then flashes HTC screen again then goes blank I don't even see the bootanimation it never reaches that point i let it do this till the battery died....nothing no change....
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I wish I could take video it'd be more easy to understand, so screen lights up says HTC with white background then goes blank then flashes HTC screen again then goes blank I don't even see the bootanimation it never reaches that point i let it do this till the battery died....nothing no change....
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That sounds bad, can you get it back to stock to see if it works?
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That sounds bad, can you get it back to stock to see if it works?
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When I hboot Jcase's custom mr1 it all works out good but it just doesn't have all the goodies the custom Roms have, (sigh) well ima try gingerbread see how that works out...any developer or anyone with far more knowledge than me got any idea what i could try or any more help...
B3L13V3 said:
When I hboot Jcase's custom mr1 it all works out good but it just doesn't have all the goodies the custom Roms have, (sigh) well ima try gingerbread see how that works out...any developer or anyone with far more knowledge than me got any idea what i could try or any more help...
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Be very careful using GB. It has a somewhat annoying habit of bricking phones. I wish I could offer some better advice about the ROMs. I used to have that happen on my D1. Some ROMs just didn't like it. Have you tried flashing the ROM, when it gets hung, do a battery pull and then try to reboot it? Sometimes that will get it past whatever is messing with it.
ok so my (edit) *Vibrant is not booting up...
I press the power button, the vibrant turns on, logo pops up, boot animation, Tmobile animation and galaxy s animation plus sound all happened, The phone gets to the lock screen and within 3 seconds just shuts down.
Anyone know what could be wrong.
Phone is stock, neither romed or rooted. is this a battery issue, hardware or software
Does it boot up when you have it charging? And which phone is it, the Vibrant or the Captivate? Those are 2 different phones.
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Does it boot up when you have it charging? And which phone is it, the Vibrant or the Captivate? Those are 2 different phones.
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sorry simple mistake, it is a tmobile vibrant...
it boots up when plugged in and when not plugged in... gets to the lock screen and it just waits and then shuts down completely.
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Kontagious said:
sorry simple mistake, it is a tmobile vibrant...
it boots up when plugged in and when not plugged in... gets to the lock screen and it just waits and then shuts down completely.
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If you can boot into stock recovery/download mode, just do a factory reset or flash the stock rom using odin
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If you can boot into stock recovery/download mode, just do a factory reset or flash the stock rom using odin
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I tried the factory reset and it says cannot read update.zip
i tried the odin stock rom flash and same problem persists.
Kontagious said:
I tried the factory reset and it says cannot read update.zip
i tried the odin stock rom flash and same problem persists.
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Maybe you have a defective bootloader or phone. If it's still under warranty, just bring it back to T-Mobile and exchange it.
was trying to fix a vibrant for a friend of mine with a very similar problem
after many hours of work w/ odin & attempting to flash different things.. i concluded that it was hardware related bc i made it all the way to stock but it would just shut down randomly
does it give any sort of message when it shuts off? or just goes black?
have you dropped it a lot?
jonen said:
was trying to fix a vibrant for a friend of mine with a very similar problem
after many hours of work w/ odin & attempting to flash different things.. i concluded that it was hardware related bc i made it all the way to stock but it would just shut down randomly
does it give any sort of message when it shuts off? or just goes black?
have you dropped it a lot?
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im starting to think its hardware related as well. at time when i boot into stock recovery the battery logo just shows up, the android man with the the exclamation point. idk if up to a certain level of currect is drained the battery shorts out. how can i possibly test the battery??
There is no message or anything... as soon as it boots up to the lock screen it just goes black.
i just acquired this phone. I have a HTC Glacier that i use for my everyday. this used to be my friends old phone and it started doing this, he just got another one and gave me this said if i could fix it i could have it to mess around with. as far as i know it hasnt experienced much rough and tough life. on the outside it looks almost brand new.
So I bought a brand new battery and the vibrant won't even charge the new battery...
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sorry to revive this but did you try cleaning the battery contacts?
You probably moved on with life lol
So one day out of the blue, my phone starts acting weird. I think hey no big deal, and I just go on to restart the darn thing. When it boots up it acting normal again, but then I start to get a phone call. No big deal I answer it, but when I go to hang up it is still stuck at the point I answered it. With the answer or decline button. I think to myself to reinstall the rom again. Do that same problem still going on... I install another rom same problem two roms later same problem even after flashing a stock rooted rom.. Now here is my real question what do you think is my problem? I went from cm 10.1 working fine, to an older cm10.1 then fresh rom 3.5 then stock. With the stock rom it would boot all the way to the home screen then restart. But on my cm 10 it would boot up fine act normal then when screen timer turned the screen off it would be stuck off not like frozen the lights at the bottom would cut on but not the screen, and I'd also hear it click off.
Any ideas or is this just something for sprint tep to handle?
More information is needed to even begin to answer.
S-on or S-off, recovery version, clean or dirty flash? Take a look at the sticky for rooting and flashing roms to ensure you are doing the right processes etc.
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UPDATE: SOLVED
Here I am again,
Story
I've been using a HTC One since April , but I keep maintaining my GS3 (I9300) that my girlfriend uses now.
I keep maintaining it because it keeps needing maintenance. I always use stable ROM's and no custom kernels or other modifications, because she just wants a normal working phone. Sadly, it's been problems after problems. First of all, after using CM10 for months starting in April, the phone just stopped working. I still don't understand what happened. It started performing worse and worse, until it wouldn't even boot up anymore. Anyway, I managed to get a stock ROM on it after sadly deleting everything of her phone. The phone at least worked again.
Recently, I decided to flash something different for her because it was such a laggy old ROM. I flashed ARHD 40 (android 4.3) since I use ARHD on my HTC One as well and it's usually very stable. The performance was way better now, her phone was as fast as my HTC One. Though she became aware of one problem quite quickly: the phone takes anywhere from 5 seconds to 1 minute to wake up from sleep. I even called her and it wouldn't appear because the phone was not waking up.
Now here comes the problem
Running ARHD 40 (android 4.3), I decided to flash Boeffla-Kernel 5.1beta12 (newest I could find). As far as I read, this would fix the slow/not waking up from sleep.
Now here comes the real problem
I needed to boot into recovery to flash this kernel. Since this ROM didn't have a quick boot into recovery shortcut, I decided to download ROM Toolbox Lite. First of all to see what it's about, since I recalled hearing nice things about it. And it had a boot into recovery option, so that would be easy.
I pressed the button to go into recovery.
Since then, my phone is completely stuck, constantly trying to boot into recovery but failing. You see it's trying (the 4 buttons at the bottom appearing from the recovery) and sometimes even the wallpaper shows up. But it always stops, after which it reboots and I see the logo. And this keeps repeating over and over again.
I removed the battery a few times, I tried holding down the power button a long time, to force it to just boot itself up normally again. I can enter download mode, though I have nothing there to help me. Phone is basically completely useless.
My question
Does anybody know anything about this? Is it a known problem? Is my first experience with this ROM Toolbox Lite the most horrible one ever, or does it play no role in the problem?
It was to late to start searching for solutions yesterday evening, I had to work early again today and I was so pissed I would have broken the damn plastic thing in two. So I just decided to leave it and my girlfriend is passing this day without one. But I'm really sure I want to fix the damn thing when I get home in a few hours. If possible, to just make it stable, fast and NORMAL, with no more weird problems in the future...
Thanks in advance!
Kind regards
XDA mark said:
Here I am again,
Story
I've been using a HTC One since April , but I keep maintaining my GS3 (I9300) that my girlfriend uses now.
I keep maintaining it because it keeps needing maintenance. I always use stable ROM's and no custom kernels or other modifications, because she just wants a normal working phone. Sadly, it's been problems after problems. First of all, after using CM10 for months starting in April, the phone just stopped working. I still don't understand what happened. It started performing worse and worse, until it wouldn't even boot up anymore. Anyway, I managed to get a stock ROM on it after sadly deleting everything of her phone. The phone at least worked again.
Recently, I decided to flash something different for her because it was such a laggy old ROM. I flashed ARHD 40 (android 4.3) since I use ARHD on my HTC One as well and it's usually very stable. The performance was way better now, her phone was as fast as my HTC One. Though she became aware of one problem quite quickly: the phone takes anywhere from 5 seconds to 1 minute to wake up from sleep. I even called her and it wouldn't appear because the phone was not waking up.
Now here comes the problem
Running ARHD 40 (android 4.3), I decided to flash Boeffla-Kernel 5.1beta12 (newest I could find). As far as I read, this would fix the slow/not waking up from sleep.
Now here comes the real problem
I needed to boot into recovery to flash this kernel. Since this ROM didn't have a quick boot into recovery shortcut, I decided to download ROM Toolbox Lite. First of all to see what it's about, since I recalled hearing nice things about it. And it had a boot into recovery option, so that would be easy.
I pressed the button to go into recovery.
Since then, my phone is completely stuck, constantly trying to boot into recovery but failing. You see it's trying (the 4 buttons at the bottom appearing from the recovery) and sometimes even the wallpaper shows up. But it always stops, after which it reboots and I see the logo. And this keeps repeating over and over again.
I removed the battery a few times, I tried holding down the power button a long time, to force it to just boot itself up normally again. I can enter download mode, though I have nothing there to help me. Phone is basically completely useless.
My question
Does anybody know anything about this? Is it a known problem? Is my first experience with this ROM Toolbox Lite the most horrible one ever, or does it play no role in the problem?
It was to late to start searching for solutions yesterday evening, I had to work early again today and I was so pissed I would have broken the damn plastic thing in two. So I just decided to leave it and my girlfriend is passing this day without one. But I'm really sure I want to fix the damn thing when I get home in a few hours. If possible, to just make it stable, fast and NORMAL, with no more weird problems in the future...
Thanks in advance!
Kind regards
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What do you mean "can enter download mode, though I have nothing there to help me" What happens exactly when you enter download mode....Can't you just flash back to stock with odin in download mode ?
Edit:..Have you tried ADB into recovery or tried this >>> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1703488 <<< toolkit
tallman43 said:
What do you mean "can enter download mode, though I have nothing there to help me" What happens exactly when you enter download mode....Can't you just flash back to stock with odin in download mode ?
Edit:..Have you tried ADB into recovery or tried this >>> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1703488 <<< toolkit
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I can enter download mode normally, so I can use Odin to flash stuff.
I just flashed that kernel I wanted to flash before my phone went trippin, but after flash the same continues. Re-downloading ARHD 40 via my laptop now and going to reflash it via odin, hope that my phone can then let go of it's obsession of trying to get into recovery.
There must be a way to fix this, I didn't make a Titanium Backup for a while. Don't want to lose stuff just because I got some super rare weird problem... again. Why does tech hate me
EDIT:
Realized that I can't flash ARHD 40 because it only comes in zip not tar... anyway, tried flashing the newest version of philz touch recovery, still didn't change anything.
EDIT 2:
Flashed TWRP recovery via ODIN, now everything is fine again. It rebooted into TWRP normally, then choose to reboot the device. Everything is still there, like nothing ever happened.
THANK you lord!
Out of interest, how do you find the HTC 1 compared to the S3?
gsw5700 said:
Out of interest, how do you find the HTC 1 compared to the S3?
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It's an entirely different phone, especially how it feels and looks. After using the One for such a long time, I find it super weird to hold a S3.. it feels so light and "cheap", though ergonomically the S3 is a tad easier to hold then the One. Overall I enjoy using the HTC One much more as it feels really solid.
Besides that it's fast and stable, what you would expect, but not much faster then a S3 with a good ROM. Screen is really excellent, this is also a big difference from the S3. It's a different type of screen and you can really notice. The speakers are the nicest you can get on a phone and compared to the S3 they are really a league above. The camera is average, sometimes it's great sometimes it isn't. Battery life is comparable to the S3.
Not that I didn't enjoy my S2 and S3 at the time, but I'm not really interested in the Galaxy line anymore at the moment. Samsung really has to do something amazing to get my attention again Will see what HTC brings with the successor of the HTC One, might upgrade to that one. I'm also curious about the iPhone 6 to be honest, the small screen is the main reason I haven't owned an iPhone in my life, if that changes I might want to try it. Or I might just use my current device for a second year for a change, since it's excellent
Many thanks for that, I now intend to take a look at the new HTC m8 - hoping the camera is better!
Me too. If they make a big leap with the camera and bring it on par with the iPhone 5S for example, it would be fantastic. Battery life should also be brought to the new higher standards of the LG G2.
If these 2 things happen they already got me, since it's a near perfect phone. Add some bonuses like making the bezels smaller/screen larger in the same body... don't think I could resist