Okay so I was running Unnamed 1.3.1 rom when curiosity got the best of me and i wanted to try out The Nightly. So i did a nandroid backup then booted into CWM recovery wipe data factory reset and proceeded to install the zip file named "update-cm-7.2.0-RC0-Galaxys2ATT-KANG-signed.zip" from the link i downloaded. I sat my phone down and when i came back it was stuck on the Samsung Gs2 boot screen.
1. I tried removing the battery 5 times and it does nothing.
2. It won't even boot into CWM just Download mode when i try the Power vol trick.
3. I only have aftermarket batteries so connecting to a computer via USB to fix this is out of the question because the absence of the nfc chip in the battery will cause the phone to boot loop if connected via usb.
So my question is... How can i boot into CWM while my phone is in this state so i can do a restore?
With the phone off, you pressed and held both volume buttons and the power button until the galaxy s ii showed up, disappeared, showed up again, and then you let go of them?
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Where's the battery that came with the phone?
And are you sure it will boot loop? Have you tried it out for yourself? I have an international battery and it doesn't bootloop. I know some do, but if you haven't tried, it's worth trying.
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you are the motherfu$%^& MAN!!! I tried holding the both volumes buttons like you said and it worked!!! Previously i only knew about the volume down + power button for download. Thanks alot! its restoring right now.
Also i have two replacement batteries for my phone; One is made by acesoft 1900mah the other is an off brand 2000mah. I purchase both online for cheap (5-10$). The replacement batteries don't have the NFC chip that comes with the standard OEM battery.
Gotcha. Glad I could help.
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When flashing cm7 you need to flash the rom twice before booting. That's why you were stuck in a boot loop
Thanks will try
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I'm not one to ask many questions i usually just read everything and tinker until i fix it but this has me stumped.
I have a fascinate with MIUI on it currently it runs fine for the most part.
But When the battery runs out or it gets powered off it ends up in a boot loop after i change the battery or plug it in. (the screen flashed the battery icon for a second then goes black then flashes the battery icon)
I can temp fix it by ODIN'ing a recovery (usually CWM-recovery all i have tried a few others one for Cyanogen mtd , etc) and it will boot up fine and run perfect until i need to shut it down. then it loops again
I have done a ext4 format before loading miui.
when it is loaded and up and running if i plugg it in to a pc it connects and disconnects over and over.
any suggestions?
I was wondering if there was a possibility that i screwed up the samsung recovery and it isn't loading up the custom recovery unless i odin it each time?
Thanks in advance!
edit: i odin'd an old eclair stock rom and get the same thing
Dustin1980 said:
I'm not one to ask many questions i usually just read everything and tinker until i fix it but this has me stumped.
I have a fascinate with MIUI on it currently it runs fine for the most part.
But When the battery runs out or it gets powered off it ends up in a boot loop after i change the battery or plug it in. (the screen flashed the battery icon for a second then goes black then flashes the battery icon)
I can temp fix it by ODIN'ing a recovery (usually CWM-recovery all i have tried a few others one for Cyanogen mtd , etc) and it will boot up fine and run perfect until i need to shut it down. then it loops again
I have done a ext4 format before loading miui. any suggestions?
I was wondering if there was a possibility that i screwed up the samsung recovery and it isn't loading up the custom recovery unless i odin it each time?
Thanks in advance!
edit: i odin'd an old eclair stock rom and get the same thing
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when you odin back to the stock rom did you put the atlas 2.2 pit file in the pit function of odin and make sure repartition is checkd?
I've had this happen a couple of times. Just hold vol up and power till you see samsung.
good day.
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when you odin back to the stock rom did you put the atlas 2.2 pit file in the pit function of odin and make sure repartition is checkd?
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yes. I used the atlas 2.2 file when i went back to stock. I have tried a few stock roms too.
chopper the dog said:
I've had this happen a couple of times. Just hold vol up and power till you see samsung.
good day.
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How long should that take?
I pulled the battery and replaced it to start a loop.
Then I held volume up and the power button and nothing happened but the same loop?
Should i pull the battery and put it back that way?
I can't even get volup voldown power to work only vol down and power.
the vol up key does work when a rom is up and running
****now it just flashes the battery logo once and turns off unless you hold down the power***
I should know better than to attempt fixes when i'm not near a pc to undo it...
now i'm phoneless until 5pm...
oh well
odining a recovery got me back running but i still can't shutdown or remove the battery with out having to odin a recovery
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odining a recovery got me back running but i still can't shutdown or remove the battery with out having to odin a recovery
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edit* Thats a wierd one not sure what the issue is. Normally repartitioning will take care of issues like that.
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edit* Thats a wierd one not sure what the issue is. Normally repartitioning will take care of issues like that.
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Yeah I can wipe everything back to stock use it like normal just if the battey dies, i shut down, or the battery gets pulled i get a loop of the battery screen then black. i can't even do a power off charge on it( power off the phone and plug it in so you get the green battery charging screen)
battery draining strange
I also have noticed that the batteries have been draining in an odd manner. after i take it off the charger it will stay at 100% for a long time then drain very quickly.
Have you by chance tried another battery? Maybe it's starting to crap out on you??
I have a few batteries. One is brand new. I have the OEM that came with it, a replacement oem, and a generic.
None will allow me to power the phone off and boot it back up successfully. All show the battery charge screen for a second then go black.
use a download mode jig (301kohms between USB pins 4 and 5). If that does not work, then just say funk it and install the Fascinate UnBrickable Mod. UBM allows you to upload "Download Mode" to any kind of bricked device when it's powered off.
I can get into download mode holding down volume so it's not as if it is totally fubar it just doesn't like being powered off and back on.
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when i'm on a stock rom i can occasionally get into recovery after a shut don and get booted back up with a custom rom i can't with out odining another copy over top
usb issue too
I also have issues with a usb connection connecting and disconnecting repeatedly when i have any rom loaded
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I also have issues with a usb connection connecting and disconnecting repeatedly when i have any rom loaded
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You've got a bad cable.
I have a few cables. they all do that.
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on the brightside my gps seems to be locking much much quicker!
I loaded a build of ICS onto my friend's phone. She then decided she didn't like it and wanted me to restore it to factory. I tried loading the original software back on using various different "official" samsung builds, but the phone is now stuck in a boot loop. The vol up+ power button combo no longer brings up a boot menu; it has "forced upload by key pressing". The only way I can load anything onto using odin is by having the battery out and connected thru usb (then for some reason the phone lets me put in a custom OS).
Idk if it's just the bootloader or what. Please help. I can't afford to buy a phone that's not even mine!
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I loaded a build of ICS onto my friend's phone. She then decided she didn't like it and wanted me to restore it to factory. I tried loading the original software back on using various different "official" samsung builds, but the phone is now stuck in a boot loop. The vol up+ power button combo no longer brings up a boot menu; it has "forced upload by key pressing". The only way I can load anything onto using odin is by having the battery out and connected thru usb (then for some reason the phone lets me put in a custom OS).
Idk if it's just the bootloader or what. Please help. I can't afford to buy a phone that's not even mine!
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Can you enter the bootloader when connected without the battery,if so it sounds like a battery malfunction,try a different battery.
Tired a new battery. Still nothing...
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Tired a new battery. Still nothing...
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Can you get into recovery?
No it wont.
The volume up combo gives me "forced upload by key pressing" the volume down combo does nothing. The ics build i loaded was for the european gs2. Could that have messed with the mapping?
did you ever manage to solve this? i have a similar problem with my s2
plug your phone into a running pc... its flat. after about half an hour try to boot it into bootloader and restore. good luck!
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The volume up combo gives me "forced upload by key pressing" the volume down combo does nothing. The ics build i loaded was for the european gs2. Could that have messed with the mapping?
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Hello
did you tried to load an other custom ROM with Odin ?
there is the chance to get back the recovery menu and you can reset everything.
i have just exp with I9000 but there it was worked to do a factory reset, wipe all cache and you can try to reset battery related info also under advanced option in recovery
then plug your phone to charger switched off, when show full, remove the charger and plug it back immediately, and wait again to see when it is show full
then try to boot your phone with the new custom rom and then can try to change back to original
hope that's help
Hi Abantai
Odin should work but it has been long time so i guess you already solved the problem at some point.
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Hi everyone.
I have had the i777 for quite some time and I have never had problems with this phone until today. My phone will constantly boot into the charge mode (the screen with the battery) and will not boot normally if I press and hold the power button. It will however boot into download mode. I have flashed stock (from entropy's thread) but no luck. In fact, once it rebooted I would have the flash screen (AT&T Stock "rethink possible" bootup animation) reboot. I assume that rebooting into recovery and clearing stuff would do it but I cannot do that. If I do the 3 button sequence, I go straight to download mode. Has anyone had this problem? Any remedies? Is it the device or just the battery?
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Hi everyone.
I have had the i777 for quite some time and I have never had problems with this phone until today. My phone will constantly boot into the charge mode (the screen with the battery) and will not boot normally if I press and hold the power button. It will however boot into download mode. I have flashed stock (from entropy's thread) but no luck. In fact, once it rebooted I would have the flash screen (AT&T Stock "rethink possible" bootup animation) reboot. I assume that rebooting into recovery and clearing stuff would do it but I cannot do that. If I do the 3 button sequence, I go straight to download mode. Has anyone had this problem? Any remedies? Is it the device or just the battery?
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I had this same issue a couple months ago. Sounds like a faulty USB port. I had to warranty exchange my phone. There are multiple threads about this issue. Here is one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1498771&highlight=charging Some users claimed they fixed the issue with cleaning the usb port with alcohol swabs
Definitely USB. Mobiletechvideos can put in a new one for $40.
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Thank you guys. I'll contact him.
I was using this topic to try to fix my phone from an earlier issue
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432
I accidentally flashed a CM9 from the i19100 instead of the i777, and when I tried to flash the Siyeah kernal, the phone stopped working. I used the topic I mentioned above and tried to use Odin to flash back to fix it, and now the phone just loops in the AT&T logo if it's not plugged in to the USB, and just flashes the batter icon at me if it is plugged while I try to enter download mode.
I cannot find a solution for this. I tried the Vol Up+Down+Power, which didn't work, and since I can't get it to turn on, nothing else will work. I have no idea how to proceed.
EDIT: Fixed by getting into download mode by holding Vol Down + Power, instead of the three button trick. Might come in handy for others. I had the boot loop on the AT&T splash screen that seems to require a jig most of the time.
Mononon said:
I was using this topic to try to fix my phone from an earlier issue
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432
I accidentally flashed a CM9 from the i19100 instead of the i777, and when I tried to flash the Siyeah kernal, the phone stopped working. I used the topic I mentioned above and tried to use Odin to flash back to fix it, and now the phone just loops in the AT&T logo if it's not plugged in to the USB, and just flashes the batter icon at me if it is plugged while I try to enter download mode.
I cannot find a solution for this. I tried the Vol Up+Down+Power, which didn't work, and since I can't get it to turn on, nothing else will work. I have no idea how to proceed.
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Cant enter download mode while USB is plugged in.
try Vol up, Vol down. Insert USB.
And if that works, next time, try searching more.
Flashing a CM9 from i9100 will not brick your phone, hell it should boot still. but get d/l mode and back to a i777 kernal, then recovery, and flash ROM. i777 ROM
MotoMudder77 said:
Cant enter download mode while USB is plugged in.
try Vol up, Vol down. Insert USB.
And if that works, next time, try searching more.
Flashing a CM9 from i9100 will not brick your phone, hell it should boot still. but get d/l mode and back to a i777 kernal, then recovery, and flash ROM. i777 ROM
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It booted, but was giving me a Status 7 error when I tried to flash a nightly (because I didn't realize I had flashed a i9100 rom at the time, figured that out after some searching) so I decided to just use Odin to flash back stock.
And, no luck on the Vol Up+Down then plugging in. Tried with battery and without. With batter, just shows the charged batter screen like it did before. Without battery it just flashes the grey battery icon over and over.
I had a similar issue. to get to download mode use Vol up+down+power with the USB cable plugged in. make sure you hold them down until the download mode appears.
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I had a similar issue. to get to download mode use Vol up+down+power with the USB cable plugged in. make sure you hold them down until the download mode appears.
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Been trying that for hours. Definitely not getting to download mode that way.
Odin still recognizes my phone when I turn it on. If I unplug it, turn it on, then plug it back in, Odin will recognize the phone, though I can't actually enter download mode.
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Been trying that for hours. Definitely not getting to download mode that way.
Odin still recognizes my phone when I turn it on. If I unplug it, turn it on, then plug it back in, Odin will recognize the phone, though I can't actually enter download mode.
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Do you have recovery? do a factory reset inside recovery?
But you got bigger problem if you cant get into download mode. you sure your doing it right? sorry have to ask.
Vol up Vol down, hold both those while inserting USB, hold untill screen pops up.
Or a Jig.
No, no recovery. Splash screen and batter screen. Those are the only things I get to see.
I looked at the jig, but I don't have the supplies to make it off hand (no soldering iron), and no one I could find seemed to have as many problems with this as I was. Most of them just couldn't get into download mode and weren't having looping issues.
Mononon said:
No, no recovery. Splash screen and batter screen. Those are the only things I get to see.
I looked at the jig, but I don't have the supplies to make it off hand (no soldering iron), and no one I could find seemed to have as many problems with this as I was. Most of them just couldn't get into download mode and weren't having looping issues.
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You can get one off eBay for $5 I got one way back in the day its a life save and works on more phones that just Sammy.
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techn said:
You can get one off eBay for $5 I got one way back in the day its a life save and works on more phones that just Sammy.
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Yeah, I guess there's no other solutions. I thought maybe there was just something I couldn't find. I ordered a jig from amazon with overnight shipping. Hopefully it will work.
Try the following;
USB cable plugged into phone and motherboard battery out. Hold volume +/-. Insert battery. Continue holding volume +/- until you either get the battery charging animation or download mode.
If that doesn't get you download mode nothing short of a jig or jtag will..
Goodluck!
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neubauej said:
Try the following;
USB cable plugged into phone and motherboard battery out. Hold volume +/-. Insert battery. Continue holding volume +/- until you either get the battery charging animation or download mode.
If that doesn't get you download mode nothing short of a jig or jtag will..
Goodluck!
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Nope, but thanks for the suggestion. My jig should be here tomorrow.
Alright, I can get into download mode and 3e recovery, but I have no idea what to do from there.
The phone will boot, but idk how to put CM9 back on it and I'm not really getting anything from search.
Mononon said:
Alright, I can get into download mode and 3e recovery, but I have no idea what to do from there.
The phone will boot, but idk how to put CM9 back on it and I'm not really getting anything from search.
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I would flash completely back to stock first.
mattdm said:
I would flash completely back to stock first.
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Yeah, I reflashed stock + root, then flashed a kernal with CWM, then flashed CM9, then Siyah. Now I'm back to where I was, finally.
It turned out that in the beginning, when I was having the bad boot loop problem, I could get into download mode by holding Vol Down + Power, which wasn't mentioned anywhere that I could find. I just did it for kicks while the internet wasn't work and while I was turning my phone on and off.
Anywho, after much work and me learning to use Heimdall, the phone is working. Thanks for all the suggestions everyone!
Ok, I've had my galaxy s2 for a while now and have been running either AOKP or CM of some sort for almost a year. I've been running AOKP JB since it was released and things seemed fine... until today. I was at the gym on my lunch break from class and noticed after about 45min I had lost 50% charge. I had noticed that beautiful widgets had taken a long time to do an update later and thougth maybe it was a rouge app acting up. So I forced closed it and rebooted my phone. Now it just sets on the Samsung Galaxy SII screen. I can't boot into recovery or anything.
I've pulled the battery and followed the steps to get into recovery manually, but nothing works. Any help would be appreciated.
Phones dont brick themselves.
battery charge when powered off and connected to charger?
get download mode if you connect USB while holding vol buttons and powered off?
Recovery is tricky, kinda. Hold vol buttons, press and hold power. wait for bootscreen to come on, off, back on, wait a sec then release power button. recovery should pop up after a few seconds.
I'd wipe cache, dalvik, and fix permissions when you get into recovery.
MotoMudder77 said:
Phones dont brick themselves.
battery charge when powered off and connected to charger?
get download mode if you connect USB while holding vol buttons and powered off?
Recovery is tricky, kinda. Hold vol buttons, press and hold power. wait for bootscreen to come on, off, back on, wait a sec then release power button. recovery should pop up after a few seconds.
I'd wipe cache, dalvik, and fix permissions when you get into recovery.
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My plan before it started acting up was to reboot it and wipe cache and etc to hopefully fix the crazy drain. I will be able to put it on the charger once I get out of class and check to see if I get the charge icon.
After some messing around on my breaks in class I can get into download mode by holding volume down and the power button. Where it ask me to press volume up to continue or down to cancel IIRC.
Recovery VIA holding vol up and down plus power isn't working. So, hopefully once I get home I can get into download mode and reflash it. I've seen a few threads on using odin to flash stuff, but it keeps mentioning that I need a gingerbread kernal. Since the phone has already been rooted etc can I just reflash the Fluxi kernal that comes with the AOKP and hopefully get back into recovery to do wipe and reinstall?
My stock s2 did basically the same thing. I picked it up to check email, it froze and rebooted, and no wont go past the Galaxy SII screen.
Not even rooted. From what I understand from the Rep, its a memory failure, and is fairly common.
That's coming from a Rep though, so take it as you will.
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My plan before it started acting up was to reboot it and wipe cache and etc to hopefully fix the crazy drain. I will be able to put it on the charger once I get out of class and check to see if I get the charge icon.
After some messing around on my breaks in class I can get into download mode by holding volume down and the power button. Where it ask me to press volume up to continue or down to cancel IIRC.
Recovery VIA holding vol up and down plus power isn't working. So, hopefully once I get home I can get into download mode and reflash it. I've seen a few threads on using odin to flash stuff, but it keeps mentioning that I need a gingerbread kernal. Since the phone has already been rooted etc can I just reflash the Fluxi kernal that comes with the AOKP and hopefully get back into recovery to do wipe and reinstall?
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If you dont care about the flash counter, then yea, you can flash whatever kernel you want in Odin/Heimdall. boot into recovery and then flash the ROM again.
As for the memory failure. h/w failure would explain the issue. but thats something that I havent heard of, and even noobs of this site are smarter than most at&t reps.
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After some messing around on my breaks in class I can get into download mode by holding volume down and the power button. Where it ask me to press volume up to continue or down to cancel IIRC.
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Are you sure you have SGH-I777. That is not the button configuration for download mode on the I777. Could your phone be SGH-I727?
Alright it lives again. I was able to use the Odin3 one click to get back to GB then reflash AOKP JB from there.
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And thanks for the help guys!
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