Ok so lastnight I was messing with my G Tab and doing normal stuff.. Nothing Biggie. I had put the GTABCOMB 3.3 b1.1 awhile back (month ago) and have been enjoying it just fine. Lastnight I turned off my Gtab and today when I turned on it goes throught the Viewsonic "Birds" to the first "Android" load and cuts off and back on and cycles back through. Will not go past.. I wiped everything and reinstalled GTABCOMB 3.3 but it still does same thing. Suggestions?? HELP?? Im sorry if this is somewhere within the threads but figured I could get quicker response by posting.. Thanks for your help!!
I saw a symptom like that, and it turns out my partitions had gotten corrupted. I got through it by repartitioning and reflashing.
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Ok, I've tried everything I've read here so far, but I think my issue is slightly different than everything else I've read. So, here goes:
I had 1.2 BoS alpha 6 on my gTablet, everything was working great. Yesterday, I installed NetFlix on the tablet, and everything was fine. A little while later I was reading a PDF file (Gears of War - Aspho Fields... good book ). I got up to go to the bathroom and when I did the tablet ended up rotating into portrait mode for a sec. It hasn't worked since.
When it went into portait mode, everything but the back/home/clock area went black, and I couldn't go back to the home screen or anything. So I turned it off. Reboot, stuck at the Viewsonic birds screen. Greaaaaat.
Today, I decided that I might as well NVFlash since it's not doing much more than operating as a doorstop at this point. So I downloaded everything and did the NVFlash, and it worked fine. Everything installed, tablet rebooted, started up with the T'n'T loading screen... and sat there, looping for about 15 minutes. I tapped the power button... and now it only boots to APX mode. Double greaaaaat.
So I figured that I'd NVFlash again and maybe that would work. There's just one problem. Now the computer sees the tablet as "Unknown Device". It won't NVFlash anymore, says there's no USB device connected. But the computer sees a device and recognizes when I plug it in, so I know the tablet is actually turned on and in APX mode.
My guess is, I'll have to wait for the battery to drain and try again once it's completely dead...? I don't feel like cracking the case if I don't have to. And if there's too much work involved with trying to revive this thing, I'm gonna go pick up a Transformer. (I just bought one for my wife, she brought it home a couple hours before my tablet died. I'm jealous, and pissed. lol.)
I guess my biggest question is, why would the tablet suddenly stop being recognized by my laptop (which is Win7,btw)? It worked fine about 20 minutes before the second NVFlash attempt.
I have got a similar issue. I can either go to CWM or APX or watch it loop on the TnT loading screen. If anyone knows how to fix this I would greatly appreciate it.
I think my problem got started because I tried to nvflash with an sd card inside though.
Sorry for taking up space and your thread. If you are unable to go to CWM I have no idea what to do but if you can then you can data wipe/factory reset and it should boot up.
koreanschoolkid said:
I have got a similar issue. I can either go to CWM or APX or watch it loop on the TnT loading screen. If anyone knows how to fix this I would greatly appreciate it.
I think my problem got started because I tried to nvflash with an sd card inside though.
Sorry for taking up space and your thread. If you are unable to go to CWM I have no idea what to do but if you can then you can data wipe/factory reset and it should boot up.
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I haven't been able to get the tablet to reboot since it went into APX mode, it won't shut off again and I can't reflash it to kickstart the reboot. (I'm also not real sure the flash I used had CWM on it.) I'm draining the battery now... and probably picking up a Transformer on my way home from work tomorrow... I was going to use this for school, I ebook'd all my textbooks this semester. So I'll probably pick up that and then try to get this back up and running again and eBay it.
Oh... I guess I should mention that I had an SD card in mine, too... I didn't see anywhere in the instructions that I should have removed it. But even so, I'm still stuck and can't reflash to try it without the SD in it.
Good news... after draining the tablet's battery, I was able to boot into recovery mode and install the BoS alpha 6 update.zip I had saved on the tablet, which got me booting again. Now I'm reflashing to Flashback Beta 7.1
Ok so lastnight I was messing with my G Tab and doing normal stuff.. Nothing Biggie. I had put the GTABCOMB 3.3 b1.1 awhile back (month ago) and have been enjoying it just fine. Lastnight I turned off my Gtab and today when I turned on it goes throught the Viewsonic "Birds" to the first "Android" load and cuts off and back on and cycles back through. Will not go past.. I wiped everything and reinstalled GTABCOMB 3.3 but it still does same thing. Suggestions?? HELP?? Im sorry if this is somewhere within the threads but figured I could get quicker response by posting.. Thanks for your help!!
why is this is the dev section it is a question
I did repost in Q&A thread. Sorry. I havent posted much on here wasnt sure what I needed to do to be honest..
Hey guys, this is my first post on XDA as I'm usually lurking or keeping up with updates. I've searched many forums for an answer to my problem but it does not seem that anyone has had the same issue.
Anyway, lately I've run into the problem of an unresponsive touchscreen. I can't even unlock my phone! Two nights ago I made three consecutive calls and about ten minutes later I couldn't unlock my phone.
In order to correct this problem, I first took off the screen protector to no avail. I was running CM7, flashed a sense ROM, flashed my backup of the stock ROM, went back to stock with S-ON, pulled the battery a bunch of times, completely wiped, removed the SD card, Soft & hard reset at a VZW store. Nothing.
Took it with me to school today, powered it on and before it completely loaded I was able to unlock it by chance, skipped the setup and it was working fine all day. I was hella overjoyed... until it did it again tonight. D: I so want it to be OS issues rather than hardware because I don't want to wait two days to get a 'reconditioned' TB from VZW.
HALP! Please? Thanks, guys for even looking!
MP
P.S. I do apologize if I did not follow proper procedure to post or posted in the wrong subforum. S:
I'm frustrated and sitting around with an unrooted TB, ohnoes. (Although the screen looks sexy as hell without a screen protector.)
moneecuh said:
Hey guys, this is my first post on XDA as I'm usually lurking or keeping up with updates. I've searched many forums for an answer to my problem but it does not seem that anyone has had the same issue.
Anyway, lately I've run into the problem of an unresponsive touchscreen. I can't even unlock my phone! Two nights ago I made three consecutive calls and about ten minutes later I couldn't unlock my phone.
In order to correct this problem, I first took off the screen protector to no avail. I was running CM7, flashed a sense ROM, flashed my backup of the stock ROM, went back to stock with S-ON, pulled the battery a bunch of times, completely wiped, removed the SD card, Soft & hard reset at a VZW store. Nothing.
Took it with me to school today, powered it on and before it completely loaded I was able to unlock it by chance, skipped the setup and it was working fine all day. I was hella overjoyed... until it did it again tonight. D: I so want it to be OS issues rather than hardware because I don't want to wait two days to get a 'reconditioned' TB from VZW.
HALP! Please? Thanks, guys for even looking!
MP
P.S. I do apologize if I did not follow proper procedure to post or posted in the wrong subforum. S:
I'm frustrated and sitting around with an unrooted TB, ohnoes. (Although the screen looks sexy as hell without a screen protector.)
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sounds like it could be a digitizer(hardware related) issue. on the plus side, you can pickup a new digitizer pretty cheap... downside though is you'd have to open up the phone to replace it. it's not that hard to do and there's videos online showing you how to.. you'd just have to be comfortable i suppose.
i'd just fix it rather then going the refurbished route considering that god know's what was wrong with it before it became "refurbished" not to mention you have no idea how much use the phone had been put through and how much life it has left.
here are some observations:
Every so often the hardware keys stop working. (soft keys seem fine) Quick fix is put unit into standby then unlock and keys work again.
Lookout Mobile: while doing a backup the system shuts down for some reason.
I just upgraded my wife's g-tab yesterday to G-Harmony. She hasn't had any of the issues that you mentioned.
From what I can tell from the main thread, you need to completely wipe the gtab before flashing the rom. Here's (Basically) what I did.
Formatted each and every mount point
Cleared each and every cache
Connected to my computer via USB
Flashed the Rom in.
Booted and let it sit about 20 minutes before I did anything.
Downloaded a Term emulator and ran V6.
Everything pretty much seems to be ok. Every once and a while she experiences an issue with an app or two after it sits running for a long period of time but a reboot seems to fix it.
Hope this helps.
Other issue observations...
After loading G-Harmony on my wife's tablet this weekend, I've noticed a few things (complaints from her).
* After running for about 1 1/2 - 2 hours, system will get very slow and eventually just locks.
* Browser simply goes to a white screen
* Audio stops running (I found a thread that said to turn off GPS and reboot. I've tried that, but I don't know if it has made a difference yet.).
That's all for now. Is anyone else seeing anything like this?
There is a new ics rom by jamcar. Try it out. I did and it runs very good.
Thanks.
I'll take a look at it. Not sure if my wife will give up her tablet or high scores (again) but I'll see how she reacts. ;o)
I've been running the GHarmony ICS ROMs for a while, and have really been loving the 1.5 release. Super excited to try 1.6, but no matter what I do, it won't boot past the birds. (Trust me, I mean NO MATTER WHAT - I've tried everything anyone suggested anywhere that I could find, I asked anyone that would give me any suggestions. Nothing has worked.)
I'm not sure if it's some abnormality in my hardware or the changes in the ROM - I was hoping maybe to get some advice or at least commiseration here...
Is anyone else using this ROM?
If so, is anyone else having this problem?
if so if so, has anyone figured out a workaround or a fix?
I could switch to a different ROM (most others have worked with no problem) but in my experience, this is the best ICS I've used on this tablet...
I'm in the exact same boat.
I had been using flashback for the past few months and loving it. However over the last few weeks, it had gotten to a point where I felt like playing around with what is out there and decided to move to g-harmony.
After running the nvflash file and installing (which work perfectly) the most i can get is a black screen after the birds that just sits there and does nothing.
I just reinstalled flashback with no problem at all on the gtablet.
Really looking forward to using g-harmony but need help.
Can you get any version of GHarmony to work? What process did you follow to nvflash and do your install?
I was able to get earlier versions (pre-1.6) by following the raywaldo instructions first (the "nvflash for dummies" ones, but they were recommended to move to an ICS ROM), and they went on perfectly, no problems.
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I'm in the exact same boat.
I had been using flashback for the past few months and loving it. However over the last few weeks, it had gotten to a point where I felt like playing around with what is out there and decided to move to g-harmony.
After running the nvflash file and installing (which work perfectly) the most i can get is a black screen after the birds that just sits there and does nothing.
I just reinstalled flashback with no problem at all on the gtablet.
Really looking forward to using g-harmony but need help.
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I have not. However, point me to 1.5 and i'll give it a shot.
I did just give 120 a shot however and got excited because the birds were flashing more than before, but same results, a black screen going nowhere.
Yeah, I'd like to know if your problem is with all of t hem, or just w/ the latest (like mine).
I can't include an external link here, so check your PM - I'll send it there.
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I have not. However, point me to 1.5 and i'll give it a shot.
I did just give 120 a shot however and got excited because the birds were flashing more than before, but same results, a black screen going nowhere.
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Sorry, looks like mine is a different issue. Just puts me in an endless reboot to the birds stage. I tried nvflashing the 250 mb again. I even tried the 300mb on raywaldo and still, the same result.
And even though i didnt want to go to the drh rom, i gave it a shot to see what would happen there. Same result, just a loop through the birds and then the black screen making it look like something is loading but nothing is happening.
Went back and installed flashback again, no problems at all. Booted up perfectly the first time.
So GHarmony 1.5 just gives you the endless reboot to the birds? If so, that's what I get. The birds, then a quick flash, then back to the birds.
The 300MB version didn't help me either. Neither did any of the diagnostic techniques anyone suggested anywhere.
I did get stuck in a loop last night where I went from the birds to a black screen, after I nvflashed something. I was able to get out of it after nvflashing something different. It looked just like APX mode, except it didn't respond to commands.
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Sorry, looks like mine is a different issue. Just puts me in an endless reboot to the birds stage. I tried nvflashing the 250 mb again. I even tried the 300mb on raywaldo and still, the same result.
And even though i didnt want to go to the drh rom, i gave it a shot to see what would happen there. Same result, just a loop through the birds and then the black screen making it look like something is loading but nothing is happening.
Went back and installed flashback again, no problems at all. Booted up perfectly the first time.
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Exactly what i'm getting.
dmahon said:
So GHarmony 1.5 just gives you the endless reboot to the birds? If so, that's what I get. The birds, then a quick flash, then back to the birds.
The 300MB version didn't help me either. Neither did any of the diagnostic techniques anyone suggested anywhere.
I did get stuck in a loop last night where I went from the birds to a black screen, after I nvflashed something. I was able to get out of it after nvflashing something different. It looked just like APX mode, except it didn't respond to commands.
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So i had gotten excited. After getting flashback running, i decided to download all of the g-harmony files again and give it another go. Figured something happened with the download of the files.
Run nvflash again, wipe cache, reboot into tnt, worked great.
Fresh download of 1.6, installed no problems at all.
Power off.
Birds show up for about 2-3 seconds and then just a black screen. Not apx mode since you can tell the screen is still on, but just blackness on the screen.
So similar, but not quite the same as what I'm getting. I don't know what the problem is, It's weirdest that there's no hint of a problem anywhere. All the installs go fine, the tablet will boot before I install the ROM or after I restore it back, and I even checked all my partitions and made sure they're the same size, with no bad blocks (that I could find) or anything else that might gum things up.
I haven't seen anything else in the topic about the ROM itself that suggests others are having issues, so I don't really know what a next step should be.
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So i had gotten excited. After getting flashback running, i decided to download all of the g-harmony files again and give it another go. Figured something happened with the download of the files.
Run nvflash again, wipe cache, reboot into tnt, worked great.
Fresh download of 1.6, installed no problems at all.
Power off.
Birds show up for about 2-3 seconds and then just a black screen. Not apx mode since you can tell the screen is still on, but just blackness on the screen.
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