Hey guys,
A newbie Android user here, got my first smartphone on Android OS about a week and half ago..
Like an idiot, I was following random guide online to update my firmware to gingerbread 2.3.5 (http://androidflip.com/install-andr...-samsung-galaxy-s2-gt-i9100-installing-guide/) and it completely messed up on me.
Symptoms: My phone only starts up in recovery mode, and while it's booting up in yellow letters, it messes up at "Application Update" section and some red sentences come up.. It passes by too fast for me to type everything. Then it will go into the recovery selection screen, but I can't make any of the choices though I can scroll up and down using my volume key. I can still make it go into Download mode, but it is no longer recognized by my computer as a USB source so I can't really flash anything else...
I have tried reinstalling KIES and the Samsung drivers, but no luck..
If anyone near SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, USA is willing to help me with this, I am more than happy to provide good compensation for the service... It seems like a minor issue that is easy to fix for an expert but for a newbie like it, this is all hell breaking loose
Thanks for reading, and have a nice day, everyone.
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I did a search for this issue, and I cant find a solution mentioned anywhere on this sire, or any other for that matter.
I just got my new HTC Magic 32A, and decided to root it. The reason I wanted to do this was simply to be able to access the pay applications, as Rogers in Canada blocks it.
I did the root following the 'theunlockr.com' procedure, using the flashrec-1.1.3-20091107-2.apk and recovery.RAv1.2.3H.
I typed in the following text into the empty box during the process " /sdcard/recovery-RAv1.2.3H.img ".
I tried loading few custom ROMs, but it refused each time, citing an error (different errors, as I recall).
The new ROM wasnt a big deal, so I decided to simply turn on the phone. The phone it stuck on the 'Rogers' logo, and after a while it turns into android letters on a black screen. Basically I am left without a phone, after spending pretty much everything I had on it.
At this point, all I want to do is revert it back to the original state and forget about it all. I tried doing the hard reset, to no avail. Tried doing the procedure with the sappimg.nbh file, but it turned out it only works for the mytouch in the states. The only other procedure they have on the website is through loading some sort of a file onto the phone, but I can't do that as the phone doesnt turn on! Kind of sucks, especially with Christmas coming up soon.
Guys, I am totally stuck and help would be really appreaciated.
Thanks to everyone in advance.
Bump.
Someone please help....
I am able to get into the phone by pressing "power + volume down" as well as "power plus home".
Is the phone dead?
Will giving you an spl and radio versions help? How do I get these numbers?
I am willing to up the ante, as I will donate $40 to the first person who fixes my phone, if possible.
Phone fixed.
First off this is my first post, and I gotta thank everyone cause I've been able to do some cool stuff with my phone and without the support of the community and the vast knowledge some of the guys (and gals) have on xda, I would be just another average consumer. And I'm still learning.
So a few days ago I tried to update my rooted Vibrant (with the lag fix) through Tmobile, like a noob, without unrooting my phone and everything was going great until the phone rebooted and got stuck on the "Samsung" startup screen.
I was able to fix that after reading through the odin3 fix and got the phone up and running again. Decided I didn't need froyo that bad and just reinstalled all my old stuff with Titanium backup.
Then after reading through the forums a little more I got the itch to try 2.2 again, so I was a little smarter this time, undid the lagfix, unrooted the phone and started the update. But once again, frozen at the "Samsung" screen...
Odin to the rescue again. But this time as odin was doing its thing, the power went out in my house, ughhh! Got everything back up and running and when I tried to turn the phone on it goes to a screen I haven't seen before, with a "phone" icon, two dots, a "triangle caution" icon, two dots, and a "computer" icon, and it wont get out of it. It won't connect to my computer so it won't connect to odin.
I'm usually decent at finding the solutions on the forums and I could have sworn I read somewhere about this type of problem, but I guess I'm wording my searches wrong so nothing is coming up.
So how do I get my phone out of this mode? Or is it bricked?
Also does anyone now why the phone would freeze like that after the update? I probably should have just flashed one of the froyo roms, but I figured it would be easier to return if the OS was from Tmobile.
steambrick said:
First off this is my first post, and I gotta thank everyone cause I've been able to do some cool stuff with my phone and without the support of the community and the vast knowledge some of the guys (and gals) have on xda, I would be just another average consumer. And I'm still learning.
So a few days ago I tried to update my rooted Vibrant (with the lag fix) through Tmobile, like a noob, without unrooting my phone and everything was going great until the phone rebooted and got stuck on the "Samsung" startup screen.
I was able to fix that after reading through the odin3 fix and got the phone up and running again. Decided I didn't need froyo that bad and just reinstalled all my old stuff with Titanium backup.
Then after reading through the forums a little more I got the itch to try 2.2 again, so I was a little smarter this time, undid the lagfix, unrooted the phone and started the update. But once again, frozen at the "Samsung" screen...
Odin to the rescue again. But this time as odin was doing its thing, the power went out in my house, ughhh! Got everything back up and running and when I tried to turn the phone on it goes to a screen I haven't seen before, with a "phone" icon, two dots, a "triangle caution" icon, two dots, and a "computer" icon, and it wont get out of it. It won't connect to my computer so it won't connect to odin.
I'm usually decent at finding the solutions on the forums and I could have sworn I read somewhere about this type of problem, but I guess I'm wording my searches wrong so nothing is coming up.
So how do I get my phone out of this mode? Or is it bricked?
Also does anyone now why the phone would freeze like that after the update? I probably should have just flashed one of the froyo roms, but I figured it would be easier to return if the OS was from Tmobile.
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Email me [email protected]
Thegreat520 said:
Email me [email protected]
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That's nice of ya GreatOne
+1 vote for personalized help...
~SB
Hi everyone, I've been lurking around here unregistered since I got my first Android device last year, namely the ZTE Blade.
Now however, I'd love to get help because somehow I've managed to make my brand-new tablet not to boot, and I seek expertise from the experts.
I've searched around both Google and here on XDA, but haven't found anything because I don't know how to search for it, due to the fact that the error is in Chinese.
So to make a story short I just arrived today from a trip in HongKong.
I was very pleased with my ZTE Blade so I decided I'd buy a cheap Android-running tablet during my stay, and so I did.
I got myself an "Acho C908", which I tested in the store first. May be an unknown brand, but it's a really nice tablet.
It sure has nice specifications and I was pleased with the performance for the price I payed, however I managed to make things worse.
Everything was going good except I couldn't install any apps in Playstore, I always got the “Error Processing Purchase DF-BPA-09″. So I searched this error up and found the guide: ...technipages.com/google-play-error-processing-purchase.html
I followed the guide and cleared the data from Google Services Framework. However, after doing so things got bad. My tablet began to freeze so I restarted it. After it booted the "explorer" (forgot the name in Android, refering to Windows-term) didn't answer and crashed and the tablet froze again.
So I rebooted it again and here's where I got stuck.
The thing is that I don't seem to have bricked my tablet, because I'm able to pass the boot logo, however I'm getting stuck at something else. The worse thing is that because of the tablet being a Chinese one, the text is in Chinese! However, this happened to me at the airport when I was heading back from HongKong so I managed to ask some Chinese people.
Here's the "error".
XXX.img692.imageshack.us/img692/4594/tableth.jpg
(please replace the XXX with WWW)
From what the Chinese people I asked told me, it says something about "Password Failure" and that I would need to "Reset to Default Settings"?
I have tried to enter some sort of Factory Settings/Hard Reset mode, but holding Volume+ or Volume- or both together during turn on of the device yielded nothing but getting stuck at the first logo during start-up, namely "ACHO".
So do you have any guesses on what to do?
I actually bought two of these tablets, one for me and one for my father. So if there's any information on the working tablet you would need to help me, I would be able to provide you with that.
I'd love to get my new tablet working.
Thank you very much in advance.
Best Regards
Nikkop
acho c98
nikkop said:
Hi everyone, I've been lurking around here unregistered since I got my first Android device last year, namely the ZTE Blade.
Now however, I'd love to get help because somehow I've managed to make my brand-new tablet not to boot, and I seek expertise from the experts.
I've searched around both Google and here on XDA, but haven't found anything because I don't know how to search for it, due to the fact that the error is in Chinese.
So to make a story short I just arrived today from a trip in HongKong.
I was very pleased with my ZTE Blade so I decided I'd buy a cheap Android-running tablet during my stay, and so I did.
I got myself an "Acho C908", which I tested in the store first. May be an unknown brand, but it's a really nice tablet.
It sure has nice specifications and I was pleased with the performance for the price I payed, however I managed to make things worse.
Everything was going good except I couldn't install any apps in Playstore, I always got the “Error Processing Purchase DF-BPA-09″. So I searched this error up and found the guide: ...technipages.com/google-play-error-processing-purchase.html
I followed the guide and cleared the data from Google Services Framework. However, after doing so things got bad. My tablet began to freeze so I restarted it. After it booted the "explorer" (forgot the name in Android, refering to Windows-term) didn't answer and crashed and the tablet froze again.
So I rebooted it again and here's where I got stuck.
The thing is that I don't seem to have bricked my tablet, because I'm able to pass the boot logo, however I'm getting stuck at something else. The worse thing is that because of the tablet being a Chinese one, the text is in Chinese! However, this happened to me at the airport when I was heading back from HongKong so I managed to ask some Chinese people.
Here's the "error".
XXX.img692.imageshack.us/img692/4594/tableth.jpg
(please replace the XXX with WWW)
From what the Chinese people I asked told me, it says something about "Password Failure" and that I would need to "Reset to Default Settings"?
I have tried to enter some sort of Factory Settings/Hard Reset mode, but holding Volume+ or Volume- or both together during turn on of the device yielded nothing but getting stuck at the first logo during start-up, namely "ACHO".
So do you have any guesses on what to do?
I actually bought two of these tablets, one for me and one for my father. So if there's any information on the working tablet you would need to help me, I would be able to provide you with that.
I'd love to get my new tablet working.
Thank you very much in advance.
Best Regards
Nikkop
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try to download the new firmware here:
http://www.acho.com/downc.asp?ID=3476
put it in sd card
boot the tablet in recovery mode (vol- and on)
launch "update frome external card
reboot
I don' remember al the steps: please read the istruction on achos site too, at the same link above
bye
Hi guys,
Last night while i was out at the pub i managed to win a Tokio Tablet from one of those games machines.
I booted it up this morning and found it was running android 2.3.3.
I managed to root it with gingerbreak, superuser works etc...
I was wondering if anyone has every used on of these and if it's possible to flash a different rom to it?
The default rom is so clunky and slow, kinda makes the tablet useless.
Any info would be much appreciated
I think i have managed to find a recovery menu or something similar but when you boot it up while holding the home button it boots onto a screen saying "unexpected updater mode"
also, bump
Try my guide to make a proper recovery: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1935162
Tokio freezed on start up please help!
My 10 year old lad won one of these tabs and used it for a few hours. His cousin downloaded a starwars screensaver and all seemed ok. However, we put it on this morning and it gets to the "android" screen at start up and freezes. We cannot get any further. I have tried resetting it through the little hole, I have tried attaching to my pc to see if i can get into it, nothing.
My lad is upset as you would imagine.
Any help appreciated.
Thank you.
richardvilla said:
My 10 year old lad won one of these tabs and used it for a few hours. His cousin downloaded a starwars screensaver and all seemed ok. However, we put it on this morning and it gets to the "android" screen at start up and freezes. We cannot get any further. I have tried resetting it through the little hole, I have tried attaching to my pc to see if i can get into it, nothing.
My lad is upset as you would imagine.
Any help appreciated.
Thank you.
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I search a lot spent hours but didn't find official or unofficial ROM for this Tablet. every question is unanswered like how to Flash, Root, CWM
Tokio 2 vanilla marshmallow 5"
Won one at the arcade, disappointed it wasn't 'L', as was looking to root it. But 'M', although with Google Play, doesn't have all the rest of the Mountain View GAPPs, just about Vanilla Android, and boy does it fly. Battery good so far, easily beats similarly spec Alcatel Popstar.
Soft buttons transposed at bottom, but not a biggy. Cleaner on longpress home button. Seems to be better color with big apps like Chrome, Opera etc., but just using bog standard nakedbrowser.com/android for now. There is a 7.5" Tokio iv in the arcade now...may well get it for summer.
Pity there's next to nothing about them in English on the net.
Hi everybody i am asking for advice on trying to repair a phone for a family member the phone is a galaxy alpha F variant UK stock rom, factory unlocked and unrooted the problem started after finishing a call the handset was left un attended and when it was later picked up the screen was black but does not appear broken aywhere and does not appear to respond to touch
i have tried un successfully to get it into recovery or download modes the handset turns on and the blue lights come on and you can hear the start up tone but see nothing on screen, it also charges and i have tried a new battery, odin does recognise a device but as i cant get it into download i cant flash a stock rom which i have already downloaded.
So my question is, is there any software that i can download to diagnose whether or not the screen is dead or whether it is a f/w issue or is there a way around this where i can use a different tool to get into the handset and flash a new stock rom in case the current f/w is corrupted
Thanks in advance for any useful help and advice
Please understand that i am a newb to this so if i have made some mistakes or my questions have been answered elsewhere previously i do apologise
I think it seems pretty obvious that the problem is the display itself
Hi BigHands,
I faced a problem having the exact same symptoms as yours twice in the last few month: screen was staying black but phone reacted to some "external" actions (ON/OFF), blue light.
Not sure what happened exactly, but removing the battery and trying to restart the phone finally brought the device back to life after trying more than than 10 times!!!
So in my case, the display was probably not the (only) root cause.
Really weird however that I needed to reboot the phone >10times to make it work: usually when software is screwed either one single power cycle will bring the device back to life or it will never power up again!
Anyways, a FW issue is still a possibility considering the number of bug this phone has (for the price it was sold, that phone is definitely the worse gadget I ever owned!)... But it seems there is a bunch of FW updates on going on this model accross the world, so there is still a little hope things might improve... Samsumg may have woken up; who knows...
JF