I used to have a Samsung Moment where I downloaded custom roms from here and basically played with the phone. I have since bought the Epic 4G and given the Moment to my fiance. She doesn't want any of the custom roms on the phone, she wants it back to stock completely ... however I went back and ran the Sprint utility re-loading the OS, but when you first power the phone on it has the Haxsung xda-developers loading screen ... is there any way to get that reverted back to the factory screen?
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I just got a new samsung vibrant and I hate the Stock UI so I wanted to root and drop a mod on it. Rooted no problem then remembered a friend with a Galaxy S phone told me he really loved this one Rom. so I snagged it and flashed it without even thinking about the fact that his phone is a Captivate.
That went awful, screen orientation, home, menu, return buttons were all screwy. But I used ODIN to return to stock as per the Development forum here in XDA. Now however, my phone says ATT World Phone as the first thing during boot sequence. Even putting on a new rom with a custom boot animation doesn't change a thing.
Any suggestions how I might go about fixing this?
TheDejos said:
I just got a new samsung vibrant and I hate the Stock UI so I wanted to root and drop a mod on it. Rooted no problem then remembered a friend with a Galaxy S phone told me he really loved this one Rom. so I snagged it and flashed it without even thinking about the fact that his phone is a Captivate.
That went awful, screen orientation, home, menu, return buttons were all screwy. But I used ODIN to return to stock as per the Development forum here in XDA. Now however, my phone says ATT World Phone as the first thing during boot sequence. Even putting on a new rom with a custom boot animation doesn't change a thing.
Any suggestions how I might go about fixing this?
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did you ODIN fully? does the bootanimation INCLUDE the ATT world phone part?
Helpin another guy with basically the same problem...
read this ..... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849028 -To understand the basics
and
that... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737 - To Get you back to stock..
you probably used AT&T stock file when u Odin'ed....read those (well mostly the bottom one) and it should get u back to T-Mobile stock
@xrider Can you define fully? I used the Pit file and the Tar file, attached my phone in dl mode. Clicked start and let it go till it rebooted my phone and told me it was done.
@fearless That second link is what I've been working from, I've been using the T959UVJFD.tar
Here's the exact boot up process,
1) ATT World Phone logo
2) Vibrant / Samsung logo
3) T-mobile sound and animation
4) Swirly Galaxy S logo
5) at main locked screen going through media checks and aquiring signal
something in that Captivate ROM must have really screwed up stuff....i'm thinking the playlogos file got tampered with when you flashed that Captivate ROM....but ODIN would've restored it back to normal....i'll do some more searching....
Thanks, if it helps any, this is the ROM I flashed the first time http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=856877
My Wife's Droid RAZR MAXX stopped working yesterday. We bought her a new phone.
I wanted to play around with rooting a phone and running a custom ROM. (Never tried it before, mainly since we need the phones to be 100% reliable).
Here's the catch. The phone starts up, and boots only to the Red Pulsing Eye / energy ball thing. The eye is constantly moving, but it never boots.
Most of the directions I've seen for loading a new ROM indicate I have to root the phone first, which means the phone has to be working.
I can boot into the special menus, is there any option for proceeding with the special menus, or is the phone truly a brick? (I have factory defaulted it about 3 times)
I also recognize the problem is most likely hardware, but didn't want to just throw it in the trash if I could avoid it. (We'll I'd recycle it..)
Mike
Hi Mike.
Can you get into AP Fastboot mode?
If you can, try reflashing using RSD-Lite, details here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1539192
I believe you have to first get your phone working with stock (manufacturer) ROM first before getting root and flashing custom ROM.
Good luck.
I bought a Lg f6 Metro PCS version a few weeks ago. I rooted it with Kingo Root, flashed the freedom kernel on it, created an adb with my laptop, Titanium backup, ROM installer, ROM Light, SuperSu, etc. Created a permanent Clockwork recovery and had also flashed the Experion custom rom on it. Up until then the phone was running great no problems. Tuesday night I tried to upgrade to a different version of Android the phone has 4.1.2 on it. I downloaded 5 zip files from the internet. Transfered them to the external sdcard flashed the first one it was fine. Then I flashed a radio zip and the phone went into reboot mode. The phone became soft bricked stayed at the LG icon nothing else. I then flashed the Experion custom rom again and the phone rebooted and came out of soft brick mode. Booted the rom back into normal mode. Here is the issue I lost stock rom on the phone, baseline is unknown now, and the phone's identity imei and everything else that comes up on the screen in the settings menu is blank. Other things were lost like keyboard and the dialer pad, phone is working but I think it might be bugged some way. Is there a way the original Android rom can be put back on the phone and all the above mentioned things be restored. I have already bought a new phone. I want to see if I can fix it before I decide to just scrap it. Are there any shops or professional services that specialize in Android software recovery/programing.
P.s I have tried flashing every stock rom, kdz, and the such on my own no such luck the little Android icon on custom recovery just goes into error state.
Thanks!
So I've seen this question covered a few times but not sure if my situation is the same as the ones that have been answered prior.
I have a 1-1/2 year old S4 that I rooted when I received it, using whatever flavor of the day rooting method was out there. I have never used any kind of custom firmware with this device, just rooted and disabled some of the built in features like jedi hand wave mode, follow my eyes, etc. (yeah I know those aren't the real names)
Over the past few days I've been noticing apps not being able to open, the screen would go black for a second like the app was launching and then it would return to the home screen. Also a few times the notification bar would flicker while trying to open an app. So I decided to reboot today and now it is stuck at the verizon boot screen.
I've tried all of these options:
Pull battery for 30 sec, remove and replace sim card, replace battery boot.
go into recovery mode and wipe cache
go into recovery and do factory reset
Of course none of these options worked, which is why this thread exists.
now the next option I'm seeing when I'm looking for an answer is either
replace/update the firmware
return to verizon
I guess I'm wondering if the first option is even available to me since I never flashed anything custom before? If it is, I'm sure there's a wonderful thread here that would walk me through the process, if anyone would be so kind as to point me there. I'm just a little confused over what's available in my particular flavor of firmware.
Or, is there a verizon flavor that I could update to and be able to root as well? I remember when I originally rooted it was suggested to keep the older version so you wouldn't get locked in to not being able to do any custom stuff, but not sure if that's been overcome since. I don't need anything fancy, just a rooted phone works for me.
If updating is not an available option for me, is a verizon return my next step? And if so, can/should I remove signs of rooting before sending it in?
Good day! So I have an SGH-I757M locked to bell thats been sitting in my closet for quite a while now. when I pulled it out and turned it on it would splash to SAMSUNG and then the model number ( i later found out that was the beginning splash screen) and then stall out completely. I hooked it up to ODIN and used a version of the stock bell rom found on XDA and after it loaded up I could get to the beginning of the rom, but it would become glitchy and freeze.
I figured that I could now through a custom rom on it since I had gotten past the splash screen. having put the latest CWM Philz touch i started trying to customize the phone. I had to put a new modem set on there because the one one there was a gingerbread one and the roms wouldnt take. now when I put a rom on there i feel the phone vibrate when I turn it on but its a black screen. I can still get to download mode and CWM no problem. kinda at a loss here.