Ok so i'm trying to figure out whats wrong.
I got my G- Tablet, got clockwork running with no issues, installed Cyanogen 7 build 38 (which was available at the time) and installed gapps.
Everything was running perfect.
Today I got an SD card in the mail for it and I popped it in, booted up, and now its stuck in the Cyanogen boot animation screen. I've rebooted several times, removed the sd all together (at the time it had nothing on it), loaded the latest build along with cyanogen 6 beta 4 etc and i'm always stuck at the boot animation.
I've done factory resets, and wiped cache, and even tried to wipe the Dalvik cache.
I'm at a total loss, does anyone know what I can do?
You know what I have found. with the CM7 boot. When I first installed it with no apps it would take 3 to 4 arrow passes around the android to get to the home screen about 4 seconds. But after I installed all my apps the time went up a lot. After about 30 passes I stopped counting and it takes several minutes to boot up.
worst comes to worst you can always use nvflash to go back to stock and start over again
Well....i thought that maybe that was the issue....that ill just let it loop its way to death and see what happens when i walk away for 5 minutes but I found the tablet turned itself off :-/
Hows this nvthing work?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=861950
that has a very good step by step guide on what needs to be done. Just an FYI that will put you on stock rom and I think the OTA update is down right now, so you might not be able to update to 3588 till OTA comes back up.
wow excellent, thank you so much for the info.
I will give this a try, and report back my findings
ok, so I tried this nvflash thing and it ran successfully. I let it reboot....and now instead of the cyanogen flash animation i get the g tablet animation loop.
For some reason this thing is getting stuck at the boot animations...is there something I can do within clockwork to format something...???
Wiping Cache and Data usually clears up looping at the animation for me. If that doesn't help then repartition.
SOLVED. Ok so I did some reading on the topic, it turns out that the tablet needs to have the sd card partitioned a certain way in order to get everything running again. The link at the bottom has all the information if your g tablet doesn't get past the splash screen and your stuck in a boot loop.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865245
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ive been running the energy rom for like two months now everything has been fine. today my phone hangs a little bit so i restart it and it wont boot all they way up!!! what do i do to fix this please help!!!its stuck at the screen right after the screen of the color sparklers.
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ive been running the energy rom for like two months now everything has been fine. today my phone hangs a little bit so i restart it and it wont boot all they way up!!! what do i do to fix this please help!!!its stuck at the screen right after the screen of the color sparklers.
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use the proven process of elimination, have you installed something recently?
a Manila Mod, or tweak? I hope you have a backup of everything essential
on your device, as it may that you need to HR
maybe its only a dead sd card..
take out sdcard, sim card and battery for a few minutes and reinsert only the battery and try to boot up...
if this doesnt work, you'll need an hard reset..
so i kept resttiing until it booted up. then i saw these posts and decided to restart the phone and it doesnt work again. so i reset again an pressed the talk button then it went to the launching sense screen. me being a gambler i reset it again and it stalled again until i hit the talk button. now i reset it a couple of more times and its back to loading normal on its own. im only stating everything i did just in case someone else might come across this problem at some time. thanks for you guys quick response and help
Try a full reinstall using the flashaholic app that does a full OS ROM format, also backup any files on the SD card and reformat that too and see what happens.
I should add that the full "task 29" format thing probably wont work well unless you have HSPL installed (otherwise you have to first install a stock ROM, then SSPL install your custom ROM; kind of defeats the point of the full format!)
I just received my new Gtab and wanted to test it before making any changes. After charging, I booted it and the first thing I noticed was that it did not enter setup as it was supposed to. I went through the steps in the manual and set up my network, etc. No problems. I checked for updates and got the message that it was up to date. I thought this odd since Viewsonic says there's an update that you should download immediately. I tried all the installed apps and then tried the update again. This time I got the message that an update was available so I downloaded it and then installed it. When this completed, the screen started to flash and I could get nowhere else. I rebooted and I get the startup screen and then the flashing. I can't get pass this because I can't use the touchscreen - it's blank and flashes every 10 seconds or so. Any suggestions????
When you use the Gtab for the first time, you will not get a setup screen like mentioned. I think this is because they tested at the factory and did the setup for you. If you revert back to stock rom and boot for the first time, the setup portion comes up and you have to make a few selections before you enter the rom for the first time.
I can't really comment on your situation with the update install since I am on vegan ginger rc1 and do not get the OTA updates. But when I first got my GTAB a few weeks ago, I did an OTA update to 3588 I believe, and it worked fine. Some of these updates take a while to configure before the first boot into the updated rom. Without seeing your problem I don't really have an answer for you but maybe you should power on and give the tablet some time to configure.
Same story
I assume you finally got your from woot, as I did. I had the same thing happen. I got the tablet back by booting into recovery, Volume up plus power, hold them, both until it turns on. Follow the directions to move the cursor and wipe cache, then factory reset, then apply update.zip. That should get you back in business.
Good luck.
Tom
Purchased from Tiger Direct. I tried booting into Recovery but I get the first message in the top left of screen and then screen goes blank except for the occasional flash!
I suggest you go under development sections and find the section on how to use nvFlash. Once you have it setup use nvFlash to restore back to stock.
nvFlash is a very powerful utility that has been made very easy to setup and use because of the devs here. It will come in handy when you start putting custom roms on your tablet(which I strongly recommend), and will help you recover from any kind of soft-brick.
Was it a brand new gtab or a returned used one?
Also you probally picked the wrong day for this because of the new update. Did you happen to notice the version before you updated?
If I was in your situation I would do an nvflash back to stock and start over.
Thanks for the suggestion. It is new and I managed to restore it back to stock and started over. Everything is running fine now but I know I'll need help from here as I mod on!
Hey, guys,
So here's the deal. My tablet was bricked, and I used nv flash method as found on g tablet for dummies. Worked great. Accessed recovery menu, and installed gtabcomb 3.3--rom was stable and awesome. I reboot, and it gets STUCK AT THE SPLASH SCREEN (three birds). Then it doesn't move. I can't access recovery at this point, either. Only APX mode.
So I did NV Flash again, but whenever I reboot, the same problem happens: Stuck at three birds, with no access to recovery anymore, thereby forcing me to reformat to stock rom.
Any guesses?! There has to be an android wizard out there!
Try this procedure out.
No dice
Did you follow the steps exactly? At a few places it asks you to make sure that certain things have happened and not to proceed if they haven't. In Part 1, Step 4, for example, you have to verify that you got into CWM. Did that happen? If that worked, then which step failed?
If you installed 3.3 right it takes up to 5 minutes or more for the system to actually show any action, getting past the three birds. Then you will see the android logo and it will take a while for it to run also. It could be another 5 minutes. Its slow on the first start up but it gets faster after the first initial run.... also you want to make sure that your NOT using REBOOT in CWM to run the initial set up, it can cause a loop.
I could recommend a very good video for step by step gtabcomb 3.3 install. This guy is very good at showing you how to do this with less stress.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnbikAdqKys
So here is the problem, the phone was working perfectly, like idiot i froze an app that looks it was needed for the system to start, and then when i rebooted the system, it didnt boot. Got stuck between M logo and the Nextel carrier animation. Then reboot loop.
So i decided to wipe cache and data but didnt work. Next move was to flash the stock rom, but it start a new reboot loop at the welcome screen, less than 10 seconds and reboots. So i decied to try my last resource, an non supported rom for my XT626, ICS 4.0.4. It worked, but simetimes reboots.
I dont know what else to do, is there any other rom, i looked for the xt627, but no luck. Or way to stop the rebootings? For any of the roms.
Thanks
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So here is the problem, the phone was working perfectly, like idiot i froze an app that looks it was needed for the system to start, and then when i rebooted the system, it didnt boot. Got stuck between M logo and the Nextel carrier animation. Then reboot loop.
So i decided to wipe cache and data but didnt work. Next move was to flash the stock rom, but it start a new reboot loop at the welcome screen, less than 10 seconds and reboots. So i decied to try my last resource, an non supported rom for my XT626, ICS 4.0.4. It worked, but simetimes reboots.
I dont know what else to do, is there any other rom, i looked for the xt627, but no luck. Or way to stop the rebootings? For any of the roms.
Thanks
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Kind of fixed it... sent it to service, received a new one, some problem with the board caussed by the non original charger.
Hi, got some difficulty flashing.
Just trying to flash liquid smooth onto my old s3, but having some difficulty.
Previously loaded with a temasek rom and with devil recovery, pretty sure that the partitions had been reformatted to f2fs to boot. Well, I tried to reformat the partitions to ext4, complete wipe, install rom, gapps and then wiped cache and dalvik. Tried many times to boot, got it to load once but resulted in an unresponsive touchscreen (still works in recovery though). I didn't do anything specific to get it to boot this time, it just hung on the Samsung screen for over 10 minutes, saw a liquid smooth writing (which I thought was a boot loop) for about 20 minutes and then the intostart screen but unresponsive. Needless to say something isn't right, and it can't take half an hour just to reboot the phone!
I would go through odin, and start from scratch, but it's no longer my phone and the phone is no longer recognised by my pc (I guess the connector has been damaged, I had to get the volume buttons repaired this morning just to access recovery!). It can charge, just not specified under device manager on the pc... therefore can't seem to use odin at the moment.
Question is does anyone have a solution? Is there a specific recovery (do you have to use TWRP)? or am I doing something wrong? I've loaded lollipop onto my xperia z2, and a friends galaxy s4 but I'm facing issues with the s3... I have no idea why it just won't boot but if anyone could give me a hand it would be greatly appreciated! I've been banging my head against the wall for hours now! The only way I can get the phone to work again is to restore from my backup... something is definitely wrong here but for the life of me I can't figure out what!