Apologies if this is a repeat/stupid question - I've looked and looked and can't find/understand a solution that fits my problem. I just acquired a Fascinate, and couldn't help myself - I wanted it rooted. I previously owned multiple Erises and rooted them all, so I figured it couldn't be that bad.
I followed the one-click instructions in the Android Central forums, as I had trouble finding instructions for a Mac user that I could comprehend anywhere else (sorry, I'm new enough that I can't post a full link): forums dot androidcentral dot com/verizon-fascinate-rooting-roms-hacks/65924-guide-tools-information-mac-os-x-users-updated-04-07-a.html
Somewhere between steps 3 and 5, my phone got stuck in recovery mode and won't come out. Everything looked like installed successfully. But now it's a black background, blue text. Clicking "apply sdcard:update.zip" gets me an error message. Wiping seems to work. Rebooting just gets me back to the same screen. No option to choose a zip.
I googled around all last night, and can't find a solution. It looks like there are lots of options to use Odin in some way, but I have a Mac. In this case, there's TOO much information out there, and I can't decipher it. HELP!
I realize I'm totally at fault for jumping the gun on rooting, but here I am. The thread I used has been quiet for weeks and no one's answering. Can anyone help? How can I get my phone back on track?
Thank you!
Since you're using a mac you need heimdall to fix it...or find a friend who has a pc to use odin.your phone is recoverable so your not really screwed yet but I have little knowledge on how to use heimdall...do some searching on the site, dale v had an excellent walk through on how to use it but I just can't find the link right now...maybe someone else will see this and post a link for ya.
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How To Recover Your Fascinate From Any Brick, And Rooting Methods
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1026746
You are welcome.
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[GUIDE] Flashing with Heimdall
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=878686
Thank you both - I will check all of the links out. Much, much appreciated.
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I am sure by now you have caught some of my posts floating around the forum in a near panic with confusion. Here are the steps I have taken followed by the issue I am dealing with. I understand I may have taken these steps out of order and am very interested in getting some detailed help on how to fix the issue I am in.
Starting with a fresh stock Atrix I..
Step 1 - Ran Adeo for version 0.1 I downloaded all of the drivers correctly from the MobileTech video website however I honestly don't know what this even means.
Step 2 - Rooted using Super Once click.
Step 3 - I tried to install the Gingerbread theme but after much frustration and many failed attempts I found out I suffer from the missing ADBD file.. I read the thread and it said to download the file unzip it and add it to SBIN.. I have done this countless times and my phone is still unreadable but AROOT, Super once click and Adeo installer..
Rebooting removes the file as mentioned in that thread but I can never actually get anything to recognize my device while the file is in there.
I am set to USB connection NONE and using the Debugging setting in the ON position.
At this point I want to start all over.. Completely go back to stock and then try again, maybe not even that.. I am very turned off of this experience and am starting to get worried considering the investment in this phone I have. (Full Retail)
I understand many people on this forum are not only busy but do no suffer from this problem but I have also seen some incredible help given so as always anyone who is willing to help me just know it will be very appreciated. Thanks!
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I am sure by now you have caught some of my posts floating around the forum in a near panic with confusion. Here are the steps I have taken followed by the issue I am dealing with. I understand I may have taken these steps out of order and am very interested in getting some detailed help on how to fix the issue I am in.
Starting with a fresh stock Atrix I..
Step 1 - Ran Adeo for version 0.1 I downloaded all of the drivers correctly from the MobileTech video website however I honestly don't know what this even means.
Step 2 - Rooted using Super Once click.
Step 3 - I tried to install the Gingerbread theme but after much frustration and many failed attempts I found out I suffer from the missing ADBD file.. I read the thread and it said to download the file unzip it and add it to SBIN.. I have done this countless times and my phone is still unreadable but AROOT, Super once click and Adeo installer..
Rebooting removes the file as mentioned in that thread but I can never actually get anything to recognize my device while the file is in there.
I am set to USB connection NONE and using the Debugging setting in the ON position.
At this point I want to start all over.. Completely go back to stock and then try again, maybe not even that.. I am very turned off of this experience and am starting to get worried considering the investment in this phone I have. (Full Retail)
I understand many people on this forum are not only busy but do no suffer from this problem but I have also seen some incredible help given so as always anyone who is willing to help me just know it will be very appreciated. Thanks!
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At a glance I would try looking into the adb offline issue [fixed] thread in this section. though thats from the glance over what you seem to behaving and use aroot, superoneclick is sai by some devs to make a mess of things.
Sadly this is my actual problem. I do suffer from the missing ADBD file however unlike others in that thread I am unable to get anything to work after adding the file back in.
Someone has to have a solution to this. I know my OP is long but I'm at a loss here.
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At this point I would be willing to make a hefty donation to a devs paypal to help solve my issue.
Would anyone at least be able to offer advice on what to do from this point forward? Thanks
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Would anyone at least be able to offer advice on what to do from this point forward? Thanks
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Warning this will restore your phone to a "updated" stock build and will wipe all your data
1) Download this http://bandbinnovations.com/OLYFR_U4_1.5.2_SIGNED.rar
2) Change the .rar to .gz then extract with .7zip or Winrar
4) Install if not already the 32 bit http://www.multiupload.com/QNFILE4F07 and/or 64 bit http://www.multiupload.com/FIN3KYUD7S
5) Install RSD Lite 5.0 (from here http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/1TFKDEHB/rsdlite_5.0.msi_links )
6) Turn off the phone
7) Turn on the phone while holding the volume button top
8) Once again, press the volume key up
9) click the ... icon in rsd lite select the firmware file and click start
10) grab a beer and wait until it says passed
Hi i am writing this after i dont know how many threads i read, how many videos i saw especially after the noob video.
But all fail i need to ask the masterminds,
i was trying to back up the ROM and one of the guides stated to use nvflash for full recovery i tried to follow that but after shutting the tab down in recovery mode.
its not turning on at all, its not even getting detected to windows 7 or linux ubuntu.
i just bought this tab today and i badly need help
so please help.
i am sure i rooted the tablet.
but havent installed any roms on it.
thank you for any help
you're getting a bump because I am in a similar situation.
I had VeganGinger on my tab. Was tired of the market crashes and was going to NVFlash back to the original and *possibly* go to the Flshback Honeycomb.
However after following all the instructions for NVFlash my tab was stuck in the boot loading screen. I tried to power off and boot into Clockwork Recovery Mode based on the Gtab for dummies site. however it would not do that. So I also followed suggestions to flash again. This time it seemed that the bat that ran on my computer ran more stuff (great terminology I know - sorry). I figured, hey - maybe it was a bad install. but alas, it did the same thing.
Again, following Gtab for dummies, I tried their NVFlash file. Same deal. However here is where I hard bricked. stuck in the loop again. Can't leave it like that forever. So I powered down. Now it won't do anything. Nada - zilch - zero.
So now you know my whole sad saga.
So I now have a piece of worthless plastic?
I would GREATLY appreciate any help!
Oh - and darn if I wasn't worried about running out of battery while putting a new ROM on there, so the battery was finishing charging shortly before the brick.
Hi there. I posted in another thread my question but i dont think its in the right section so sorry for reposting it here.
I was trying to delete a useless app with Titanium Backup (TWlauncher) but it turns out this was not the useless app i was looking for. Now i cant boot my phone. I'm just stuck at the Samsung Galaxy SII loading screen. I only got the phone yesterday and rooted it thanks to your guides on here. I've not got any restore options when i boot the phone into download mode. I have tried to just flash with a new ROM but i dont know what i'm doing wrong. Tried to look around the forums for old threads that might help but i couldnt find one. If anyone could link me to the needed information i would be very grateful. I'm a total n00b when it comes to android phones but have a little experience hacking various other items (Wii, iPhone and a little bit of Xbox)
Thanks in advance for any help and sorry if this isnt the right place to ask but i'm pretty worried! Only took the phone out the box yesterday, rooted it fine and stupidly deleted something i thought was useless.
Sorry to hear that. Have you attempted a manual factory reset? If you have then I would suggest you contact your mobile phone service provider or the company themselves and ask them what they suggest. If nothing has worked and you have tried all of this then your device is most likely bricked. Hope this helps!
After a lot of worry and many google searches I found out that i have got a backup, i just needed to hold the up volume instead of the down volume to get to the restore screen. I was just being a n00b basically. Sorry for wasting your time but maybe this might help someone else at some point (someone as stupid as me)
Ok I am a noob per say. I am new here to XDA and semi new to the android world. I have plenty of experience with iPhone's and have been getting into the android world for the past few months. I have been on XDA a few times as a guest and found many answers to my questions in the past but in this case I can not seem to find an answer so I hope someone can help or at least point me in the right direction. So to my question. I have an LG doubleplay which i have successfully rooted but was wondering if there was any type of software i can use to carrier unlock it. I have rooted and unlocked the Galaxy S Vibrant using SGS Pro 1.3 and wondered if there is any such type of software out there that could do the same for the Doubleplay. I have searched XDA for answers on this matter but found none nor is there really a section for the doubleplay for me to properly ask this question so if I have posted this in the wrong section please let me know and I will repost in the right section or if possible could a Mod move this post to the right section if this indeed is posted wrongly. Please all help on this would be a god send. While I'm at it, not sure if there is a universal type of unlocker but i also have two other phones i need to also unlock which would be the Optimus T LG-P509 and a ZTE Z990. I did read a bit about the hex editing method to get an unlock code but was looking for a more user friendly way of unlocking. thanks
Im sorry
I am sorry that I cant answer your question!
what caught my Attention is that you have Rooted the Doubleplay! I am desperate! Please give any information you have on how you did it. I have been searching for months.
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what caught my Attention is that you have Rooted the Doubleplay! I am desperate! Please give any information you have on how you did it. I have been searching for months.
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Hi - I just rooted mine with unlockroot dot com - I haven't found a ROM to load (yet) but it appears to have worked as Rom Manager and System Toolbox both report that they have root access. SU was installed, busybox was not (although a quick trip to the marketplace remedied that)
One odd thing. After rooting, I installed Rom Manager (premium) from the marketplace, it reported that clockwork was already installed, so I told it to reboot into recovery. It rebooted to the picture of the android standing next to the open software box with the scrolling status bar below, stayed there for a few moments (10-15 sec) and then rebooted again and went straight to the initial setup wizard. And... the phone had been wiped of all user data. This kind of matches up with the "android unpacking screen" mentioned in this T-Mobile support dock regarding performing a master reset of the phone: support.t-mobile dot com/docs/DOC-2980
Unfortunately, I haven't come across any ROMs for the DoublePlay, and the 'net in general seems to have washed it's collective modding/hacking/tweaking hands of it.
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I apologize up front if this is has been previously asked. I found lots of helpful info on here searching through old threads but being a bit of a luddite I was a bit confused exactly which situation applied to me. I live in China and recently bought a s3 I9300I and attempted to root it using the chainfire method from the video on this site. Odin declared success but when the phone rebooted it just went back to download mode with a message at top saying, "Could not do normal boot, ODIN MODE." Turning it off and on, removing battery and retrying Odin flash produce no results. The most important thing of course is just to get the phone back to functioning but I'd also like it rooted if at all possible. I read that using Odin to install a custom kernel would root it and I would not be at all opposed to a good custom kernel. I read something about a binary counter that may need to be reset but that seemed to require doing something with the actual phone functions which don't seem to work. Odin still recognizes it when I plug it in and attempts to let me redo the rooting but it just shows a progress bar then reboots right back into download mode. Sorry if this is basic stuff but I'm kind of terrified of bricking this thing and am just not sure what the best course of action is here. Thanks for any help you can offer.
Chinese stock firmware is different to the international, there is a special thread in general forum on rooting etc.
Do you have a link to that thread? I have looked and cannot find anything that seems specific to this problem.
Please. Searching for "China" or "Chinese" gets me absolutely no relevant results. If this has already been covered can someone please direct me to the thread. I really need to get this phone working and am at a loss. Thanks.