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Hi,
This is my very first post (NOT ANYMORE - I posted the same on anther thread, but the thread was related to Nexus One). I am a total newbie regarding smartphones and even more regarding Android. 3 weeks ago I acquired a GT-I5500B (Samsung Galaxy 5). The phone itself is very good and the OS fits well on it. As curious as I am, I started poking around and found lots of good things about android devices like, rooting, flash Custom Roms, Images backups and recovery. Soon I found that was was supposed to be an easy and fun task like applying custom roms and OS upgrades are indeed quite hard to figure out. I give credit to the word 'Hard' to the carriers that like to make things as obscure as possible so for an OS upgrade you should get a new device. Seems that this is the problem with mine (I5500B).
They went so far that they removed the possibility of rebooting in recovery mode just by pressing a buttom combo (Power + Home + Volume Up). The recovery image is there, garanteed. It can be accessed by using 'adb reboot recovery'. The menu is quite simple and doesn't have the Backup, Restore option. Also, as a side note, I'd like to add that I have a feeling that a simple configuration change would make this work because while trying to enter in
recovery mode the screen hangs at the GT-I5500B logo and doesn't go further until I release the phone buttons. It is like if it was trying to find the boot and/or recovery partitions but couldn't...
I was checking up the OS installation on the device. I am somewhat skilled in linux so navigating through the shell was pretty familiar. For my surprise the /boot and /recovery partitions don't show up.
I would love to start playing around with my phone but I have a few questions before I do that.
1) From what I've been reading seems that there is no way I can perform an image backup without flashing a custom recovery image. IS this true ?? Isn't there another way of performing a Full backup before starting flashing things around ??
2) If there's no way to make a full phone backup before flashing, I think the appropriate way to push back the stock OS is by using the ODIN method (Download mode has not been disabled on I5500B), right ?? If so, how can I find the stock rom for my device ??
3) Do you have any idea if I can mount the recovery and boot partitions so I can take a look at their contents ?? Or even backup those partitions to an external drive. How can I find out on what device they are on ?
Any kind of answer, documentation pointing, blog, any new information helps...
Thanks,
SoonS_BR
Try posting at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=781149. This tread is still active and since it applies to your phone model I assume you could get an answer there.
HLeenders said:
Try posting at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=781149. This tread is still active and since it applies to your phone model I assume you could get an answer there.
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Thanks HLeenders.. . I will do that.
PS: If any modarator wouldn't mind, could this thread be deleted ??
Just purchased a used G-Tablet from ebay.
Started it up for the first time, and on the initial device setup ( setting up the date ) I get the error: "android.process.acore has stopped"... and I forceclose it.
When I goto the next step ( wifi settings ) the same error message happens again... and again... and....
After the last step, it happens again, and then goes back to step 2, and repeats and I cant get past the set up screen....
Anyone have this problem? Know what to do... I tried the power button + volume up to reset and that didnt work. get the same error...
Any possible way to save it, if it is stock and has no mods (to my knowledge) ?
Thanks - G-Tab N00b...
It an issue with contacts data. You need to clear the data from contacts storage to stop this from happening. Easiest way to do this for you is to install CWM recovery and factory reset your gtab. Since you don't have any data to loose at this point wiping data and cash (factory reset) is an easy fix.
Check this link out for easy step by step instructions to get CWM installed.
http://viewsonic-gtablet-for-dummies.webs.com/
You can also search the forums with the search button for android.process.acore and find many threads detailing what causes this issue.
Thanks, that was going to be my next step, but Is there anyway to know which branch I have, since I cannot get into the system?
Thats tricky. I would say have nvflash ready just in case. There isn't really a way to tell that I know of unless you can get to system. Lucky for you the link above has nvflash instructions too.
If you hold power volume + at boot and it doesn't bring you to a recovery screen with selectable options for factory reset your most likely on bl1.1. As far as I remember 4349s stock recovery had a menu that had that and 3558 didn't.
There is no menu in recovery, so I guess I'll try 1.1...
Thanks for the help!
Hopefully I'll be up and running soon, and can officially join the community!
Good luck! Your already official, you got a good screen name, posted a valid question. Not only that but you were completely respectful in asking and graciously mashed the thanks button when helped. That's the way we roll here in the gtab forum
Hi!
I try to tell my lovely story, let's hope someone can help me, because i am in a huge trouble.
Today i installed WIFIunlocker on my device, and unfortunately, i gave access to the device administrator right to the application, plus i set up a password. Using the app i realised this is not that iam looking for, so i decided to remove it. Tryed to uninstall it, but for the first try i got an error, later on i realised that i need to turn off the device administrator mode inside the app, everything is fine, i was able to unintall it. Now the nightmare starts...
After uninstalling the app, locking the screen then unlocking the phone, it asks for password. I was a bit surprised because i just removed the related app. Nvm, i just entered my "password", but it was wrong. Before the uninstall it worked, now, after the uninstall it doesn't. At this point i can't do anything with the phone, because iam stucked on the "password screen".
What i did today:
- started from Litening rom v2.0
- i was hopeless, so wiped data/factory reset, wiped cache + darvik cache, formated system+data+cache
- installed LeoMar v2.5
- After the boot the it still asked for the password, i removed the sim-card, and somehow was able to access the phone, but unfortunately it locked itself, the "password screen" popped up again.
- My last try was flashing stock KG6 rom then later on CF-Root, but now i can't boot the phone into recovery mode. Download still works.
- What happends when i try to boot it to recovery, the Samsung Galaxy S 2 title shows up, but after that immediately asking for the "password". Before this, the phone booted fully / i was able the access the recovery mode.
So my question is, what can i do now? How can i get rid of this "password screen?"
Youtube video
Same problem
But I switched off administrator mode before uninstalled
and i used only one password so it can not be wrong.
I think that the app is a joke or a prank?
DID you managed to fix that?
Well I managed to make my phone the same brick as yours.
What now.
Did g4rb4g3 = Garbage did in purpose?
I think using download mode to restore your efs partition backup will fix this since password and pin info is saved on it.
Volume DOWN + Home + Power.
Do you have a custom recovery?
Wipe everything. All of it. Flash a new rom. How the hell is this impossible to remove? Flashing a rom wipes all crap right? Wth..
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Edit: Seems the app is known for this bug with many others. Mods should take the app down, it's killing devices, turning them unusable. If the dev can reproduce the problem or if someone smart enough could come up with a fix..
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Volume DOWN + Home + Power.
Do you have a custom recovery?
Wipe everything. All of it. Flash a new rom. How the hell is this impossible to remove? Flashing a rom wipes all crap right? Wth..
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Wrong the password/pin is on the efs partition which is NEVER touched during flashes or wipes.
Or flash a AOSP rom like cm7 or MIUI since they don't use the efs partition for lock settings.
ANd i fixed it again from the brick
Just go to download mode
flush it with stock
after restart try to go to recovery it will ask you about the password
type anything as many timea as it will tell you that if you will try again it will wipe out your internall sd card
of course try once more it will wipe out your sd card and ask you again for password
type anything again and again and it will warn you again that if you try again it will wipe the internal sd card and after that you will see red info that your pass was changed to NULL
restart
and you are in and all is back to normall
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Well I managed to make my phone the same brick as yours.
What now.
Did g4rb4g3 = Garbage did in purpose?
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You can blame him same as yourself. This story shows that you need to be really careful when you mess with your phone. This true from the developer side and from the user side. At least we have some information about this for the future and we can help people out.
Before I get flamed or eaten up by people who I have so inconvenienced their day by creating a question that has been asked before, I have searched for this.
On the site, and on Google itself for a solution to my problem. So please bare with me and help me out, if you can.
I own an Optimus V. The phone is rooted, but it has no custom ROM installed onto it at all. I had the CM ROM manager, but that was it.
I wanted to factory reset my phone because I was having texting issues, so first thought to mind, lemme just go ahead and reset it. #stupid
Now, the LG logo flashes, fades away and then I am stuck at a black screen (the LCD is still on) and it doesn't go away. I have tried holding home button + volume down + lock button, and home button + volume up + lock button, and even when I press the camera button it occasionally turns on and off. All of the threads here about this issue are all from phones that had custom ROMs flashed onto them, and are all about getting the recovery onto the SD card and installing your ROM off the card.
I don't want that. I just want my phone to turn on again after its reset...
Please help
Also, some information I may have been missing:
The phone is rooted with Gingerbreak 1.2.
If this means anything, I received a replacement phone after September first due to a past issue, so I'm not sure if it has the newer screen or not. Also, I might have put recovery from Clockwork Mod. I'm not sure though, but as stated before, I have not installed any custom ROMs on to this phone.
I factory reset this phone a few months ago while rooted with the same options (although I didn't have the CM ROM manager...).
In other words, as far as I know, I probably did put recovery from Clockwork Mod. I really don't want to go out and buy a new phone
If your phone is just rooted and you do a factory reset it shouldn't hurt the phone at all, If your phone is rooted and have clock work mod installed and did a factory reset it shouldn't hurt the phone at all, when you do a factory reset to a phone all it is doing is erasing info, apps, contacts etc...its not deleting or restoring system files. Now you say that you did a factory reset and now there's a black screen and you can not go into clock work mod (cwm)? did you have cwm flashed from rom manager? I do not understand what you mean "I had the CM ROM manager, but that was it" Do you mean you had clock work mod or just rom manger? Sounds to me like you didn't have clock work mod on your phone at all, when you root your phone flash clock work mod, it can save alot of headaches, if you had cwm you could of just flashed a new custom rom. If you have a warranty for that phone just take it back and tell them it doesn't work and your having problems. I have taken my phone back a couple times at radio shack and it was soft brick and they didn't even notice. Sounds to me like its just a faulty phone that you bought (its normal it happens) nothing that you did at all, hope this helps
ErkelMan said:
I wanted to factory reset my phone because I was having texting issues, so first thought to mind, lemme just go ahead and reset it.
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First of all: How did you "factory reset" your phone? And sorry to ask, but how can it be that you do not know if you have custom recovery or not? As far as I know the only way to factory reset the phone is to enter the custom recovery and choose the corresponding option, or to start the stock LG recovery which would do this automatically. So how can you not know after having reset which recovery did it?
Anyway, since you are stuck now, there seems no other possibility than unbricking your phone using kdz (please search in the sticky section) or getting it to service.
I assume he ment Factory reset from the options in the phone...settings/privacy/factory reset
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Android311 said:
I assume he ment Factory reset from the options in the phone...settings/privacy/factory reset
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O.k. ... in my (german) P500 this option - which I was not aware of until now - would have to be translated to "reset memory/storage", but not "factory reset" which I only knew from custom recovery. Anyway, in my opinion this should not be capable of bricking a device, because all it should do is delete the /data partition.
And even more it should under no circumstances be capable of corrupting the recovery partition... therefore I can only repeat my previous suggestions (assuming that accessing recovery is not working):
1) Try unbricking using kdz; or
2) Go to LG service.
Considering the description of the thread starter I would believe that the hardware is defective.
One other thing to the thread starter: What do you mean by "lock" button? The power button? The combo for accessing recovery is holding home+vol- and then pressing power until recovery starts. And what do you mean by "camera" button??? There is no such button on my P500 at least... And what does it mean when you say the device starts when pressing this "camera" button?
Mine says factory data reset, that's what I'm trying to understand why and how it bricked
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I was wondering if anyone could help me. My phone had froze and rebooted itself a couple of times which I didn't really think anything of until I replied to a text message and put the phone down, a couple of minutes later I saw out of the corner of my eye that the phone light had come back on. I'd noticed that the phone was rebooting itself again although this time it never got past the black boot screen with the "Samsung Galaxy S III" text in white on it.
My phone is rooted however I never bothered with custom ROM's etc. The only thing I did install was a volume hack package to increase the speaker volume as I kept missing calls because it was too quiet, this had been installed for months and I'd never had any problems with it.
The phone is running 'Stock Ice Cream Sandwich'.
Samsung told me that it sounds like the phone needs to be reflashed but because the phone had been rooted, they wouldn't touch it.
Is my phone now completely knackered? Is there anything I can do myself to get it to work again?
I might also add that I only have access to a Mac computer.
I'd be very grateful to anyone that could help me out as I'm now poor and can't really afford to lose the cash I paid out for this phone. :crying:
Thank you in advance. :good:
If you flashed a custom recovery when you rooted then you can reflash the latest stock rom for your country, read in general stickies how to do this. You should really have updated to this long ago, your phone is currently vulnerable to SDS.
If you have stock recovery then you need a pc with odin installed, I have no idea if this is possible with a mac.
The exact same thing happened to me a few months ago, the system partition just corrupted for no apparent reason - I just went to recovery and rolled back to a nandroid I'd made a few days earlier - it's been fine ever since.
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My phone is rooted however I never bothered with custom ROM's etc. The only thing I did install was a volume hack package to increase the speaker volume as I kept missing calls because it was too quiet, this had been installed for months and I'd never had any problems with it.
The phone is running 'Stock Ice Cream Sandwich'.
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If you have already rooted your phone, you can easily flash the latest firmware corresponding to your country. This is the same way.
Your data were backup on your computer for example? If it's, you can start by cleanning the phone and try to restart it. For that, go to Recovery (Volume Up + Home + Power buttons) and do a "Wipe data/wipe cache". (In the menu, you can move up and down with the two buttons Volume et Select an entry with the Power buttun (by pressing, no holding it).
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If you have already rooted your phone, you can easily flash the latest firmware corresponding to your country. This is the same way.
Your data were backup on your computer for example? If it's, you can start by cleanning the phone and try to restart it. For that, go to Recovery (Volume Up + Home + Power buttons) and do a "Wipe data/wipe cache". (In the menu, you can move up and down with the two buttons Volume et Select an entry with the Power buttun (by pressing, no holding it).
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CWM doesn't work anymore, I can only access the standard Samsung update thing (Volume down - power - home) I have no idea if I backed anything up to be honest, I just followed some instructions off this site to root it and it was months and months ago.
s1mon87 said:
CWM doesn't work anymore, I can only access the standard Samsung update thing (Volume down - power - home) I have no idea if I backed anything up to be honest, I just followed some instructions off this site to root it and it was months and months ago.
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Flash stock rom via Odin .
You will need to search and find a Mac tutorial or borrow Windows .
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Hey guys. I went to download the new cyanogen mod rom and and I installed the wrong gapps twice and but that didnt work and i went to a system restore and now i don't know to do. I need help ASAP.
ssingh0247 said:
Hey guys. I went to download the new cyanogen mod rom and and I installed the wrong gapps twice and but that didnt work and i went to a system restore and now i don't know to do. I need help ASAP.
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Dont hijack threads
Read the basic faqs and guides before flashing all posted in General section .
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Never mind already fixed it.