Ok, simply out of frustration I have exhausted all my options and my phone is acting weird I think. I did the factory reset, tried fruitcaking, and even doing sbf. I am at a stock 2.3.4 however when I want to upgrade to try different roms it is extremely unstable and I always get boot loops. Yes I did try the wiping caches and everything before and even after.
So my question is am I doing something wrong? I had even relocked my device from sbf and unlocked it again by cleaning my device. My phone is rooted and unlocked stock rom atm. I'm not sure what to do at this point but either throw the phone at the wall or sell it.
Please help thanks. I tried searching but I believe my situtation is different.
Let me note that I was able to run the Alien rom just fine on my atrix it is 2.3.4 based I believe.
Have you tried the fastboot wipe option? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1421522
I've been using this as of late as some of my flashes (even factory resetting in recovery) have had lingering settings and artifacts.
I will definetely try this when I get home. Thanks I'll keep this updated.
Either it wont boot and it just restarts or it starts to boot and wont complete the process its just an endless loop. I have had it on ICS before but for some reason it took over 20 bootloops and it finally showed... I'm not sure where to start.
bump, that method doesnt work... I still need help any other alternatives please..
Are updating roms on romracers latest recovery or old recovery versions?
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So I think I may have screwed myself. I was following this guide for changing the battery icon to 1% increments instead of 10%, went to reboot and now my photon is stuck on the Motorola Dual Core technology screen. I can't get adb to recognize it and its been stuck like this for a good 20 minutes. Any thoughts? Am I screwed?
i had this exact problem 3 nights ago
Download rsdlite 5.3.9 , 5.0 would not support the phone.
download either 198-6 or 198-7 sbf found in the devolpment sections
you can flash it with the rsdlite program by booting to rsd, Vol up + power
make sure you have full battery and it will reboot a couple times on its own at the end i had to do a manual reboot but it told me i needed to. your phone will reactivate on reboot
I've been trying to boot to RSD but it seems stuck on that as well.
EDIT: sorry I guess I didn't realize I need RSDlite to make this work. I found a youtube video with links on how to flash this sbf so hopefully this will work. Downloading the 400+mb sbf file now (slow internet so its gonna be ~40 minutes), but after that I'll try flashing.
Are you unable to boot into rsd mode even after pulling the battery? If so then I'm not sure that you will be able to use the sbf file to go back to stock. It's worth a try either way though I suppose if worst comes to worse you can take it back to sprint.
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Are you unable to boot into rsd mode even after pulling the battery? If so then I'm not sure that you will be able to use the sbf file to go back to stock. It's worth a try either way though I suppose if worst comes to worse you can take it back to sprint.
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I didn't realize I needed RSDLite to push the SBF (I really had no idea what rsd mode was). I managed to find a video from qbking on how to unbrick the Photon and follow that. It worked and I am back to where I was.
Thanks guys and a special thanks to Shabbypenguin who helped talk me through the ordeal a bit on IRC.
So I got my Photon up and running again but...I can't make calls with it. I tried to Update profile/Update PRL just to see what would happen but...they both result in force closes on settings and bringing me back to About Phone. I'm going to try and have Sprint reactivate it but...anyone have any thoughts?
You may want to do a factory data reset before trying to flash the sbf again via rsdlite.
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So I managed to reactivate my phone with Sprint. However now I have no data (unless roaming). I read that I may have to update PRL in About phone to get my data back but...whenever I try to update PRL or profile it force closes.
Anything I can do to fix this? I restored everything I had frozen via titanium backup but perhaps something is missing here that is force closing those two?
Durp. Factory reset solved this issue. Data/phone capabilities restored and customization process, take 2, begins now.
Thanks to those that helped again and hopefully this thread will help someone should they soft brick their photon.
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You may want to do a factory data reset before trying to flash the sbf again via rsdlite.
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I am having similar issues as described in this thread with flashing my Photon (back to stock). I forgot to factory reset before I began the flash process and now I can't get access to the O/S so my question is how do you do a factory reset without going into the Android O/S? Can you do this from fastboot/nvflash/RSD?
Hey guys, i think i bricked my Atrix. I was trying to flash CM7. The phone is rooted, SIM unlocked, and was running the stock 2.3.4 ROM on ATT 4.5.91. It was fully funtional (well aside from endless reboots, hangs, crashes, etc) until this evening. it wont get past the dual core screen. i need this damn thing for work. preferably by tomorrow.
heres exactly what i did, in order, and with whatever versions i was able to remember.
I snagged the latest CM7 ROM, Dec 10.
Also snagged ATT latest radio ROM.
had Clockwork Recovery installed already
-DEVICE IS ROOTED, BOOTLOADER UNLOCKED AND SIM UNLOCKED-
batch backed up all user apps
attempted to boot into CWM recovery with power+vol down
-kept getting android exclamation point icon
-plugged phone in and went via CWM (when it boots, if its plugged in i get into recovery mode)
went to backup and restore, made backup of internal SD card to external SD card
installed CM7 ROM from EXTERNAL sd card (just noticed it says to install from INTERNAL SD card)
did NOT data wipe/factory reset, was rushing through and totally forgot
DID wipe cache partition
installed latest radio ROM
attempted to reboot
all i get is the dual core screen.
can i reflash, wipe, or reset it via RSD lite, or some other way? NV flash? any help would be great; i have an old HTC tilt i can use but good god who wants to use THAT nowadays?
...and btw i am not so much a noob as much as i am impatient; i rushed through this (i have screwed with this phone and others a lot, and should have paid more attention. i JUST finished building 2 home server rigs tonight, including manually recovering files from some fools RAID0 arrays and got cocky
Have you tried redoing the process? Doing proper wipes and then installing cm7? Also, how long did you wait until you decide it was no good?
let's say if you can still go into CWM recovery, you can try factory reset, and then do the installation form the zip again. don't forget to wipe the data this time, but according to what you've written, you only see triangle with exclamation mark (default android recovery??), then may be you can choose RSD mode at the start-up and flash a stock ATT Rom first, then, follow the correct footsteps. Don't worry, Atrix is really hard to be bricked totally.
i cant get past the dual core screen, but i do have access to RSD lite and it sees the atrix, so im waiting for the same stock 2.3.4 rom to download, flash, and retry (correctly this time). thanks so far! i have NEVER been able to access recovery via vol down and power for some reason on this phone.
EDIT/UPDATE
well, attempting to flash the original SBF via RSD lite 5.6 didnt help; now i get the dual core boot screen, but i cant enter RSD protocl support OR anything via power/vol down, and upon turning it on, the screen no longer says 'unlocked'. awesome.
i get to 99% flashing the stock SBF, and get this message. RSD lite is no longer recognizing the phone, vol up and power does nothing, basically i have the dual core screen and thats it.
'Error switching phone to BP Pass through mode'
...thoughts?
spiderx_mm said:
then may be you can choose RSD mode at the start-up and flash a stock ATT Rom first, then, follow the correct footsteps. Don't worry, Atrix is really hard to be bricked totally.
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DO NOT take this advice! Flashing SBF after unlocking bootloader can absolutely be the fastest way to brick your phone. Also, it is very easy to brick your phone!
Can you get into fastboot?
Try a full wipe per below:
reboot to fastboot
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase webtop
fastboot erase preinstall
fastboot reboot (to recovery)
flash ROM
If you can't get into recovery, you can flash the ROM through fastboot, and also flash romracers recovery.
This will give you the cleanest install. After flashing CM7, leave your phone sitting until it boots into the OS, which can take 15 minutes. I believe the long first boot times after flashing are due to the kernel being flashed with the ROM. Then leave it another 10 minutes before flashing the radio, (latest radio for ATT Atrix is 36P radio found in the Fruitcake thread).
yes USE FASTBOOT
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ok things have now gotten VERY strange. First off, my Atrix was SIM unlocked, bootloader unlocked, and rooted on 2.3.4 4.1.91.
for over 5 hours i tried everything, figuring it was hard bricked. i went to sleep, with the intent of heading over to ATT to get it replaced under warranty.
...power it on just for the hell of it, and IT BOOTED. stock 2.3.4. does NOT accept the t-mobile sim (NO LONGER SAYS UNLOCKED ON BOOT SCREEN), and apparently is not rooted OR bootloader unlocked from what i can tell. i had left the battery out the whole time, but left it plugged into the wall charger.
so now i guess i root, BL unlock, SIM unlock, and CORRECTLY flash CM7... FUN!
UPDATE
Rooted, bootloader unlocked, SIM (still) unlocked, and running CM7. thanks to everyone! i still have NO IDEA how it went from a hard brick to a stock boot, with locked BL and no root.
Your bootloader won't lock again and when you do a stock sbf it will get rid of root.
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i am aware the BL cannot be locked again, i went through the process mostly because i wasnt sure, my phone no longer said unlocked in the top left, so i also checked to make sure it was SIM unlocked. i have NO IDEA what/how i did what i did, but im up and running CM7 now, so no worries.
OK, so I got a little "cocky" and flashed to another ROM. Apparently it wasn't capability with Rezound as it didn't boot. When I tried to boot into recovery, only could select Hboot. That lead to a loop. Took out the memory card, the SIM chip, battery, cover all to no avail. I finally got Scott's rom that was working back on the phone. But still having issues, the phone constantly reboots. I get to the home screen and/or lock screen it works but then freezes and resets. I no longer have the ability to boot into recovery. When I connect to the MAC (or PC) it says charging only.
When able tried a factory reset but that didn't do anything, I can no longer get to that screen. Did a nandroid backup before playing around with the new ROM but can't figure out how to get to it.
HELP... need your help pretty please
Did you just do a factory reset before you flashed Scott's rom or did you wipe /system as well? Also make sure debugging is enabled as well. Have you tried to boot to recovery with adb?
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DOOD YOUR PHONE IS TOTALLY BORKED. PANIC!
Kidding
in all seriousness. What firmware are you on. ICS or GB firmware?
I.E. have you run an RUU, are you s-off or s-on
if you are unsure, just type out like the first 5 lines in HBOOT.
Did you just do a factory reset before you flashed Scott's rom or did you wipe /system as well? Also make sure debugging is enabled as well. Have you tried to boot to recovery with adb?
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When I was able to select something other than HBOOT I did a factory restore but didn't notice anything different. Also manually deleted. However now when I try to go into recovery mode, only HBOOT is selected and the up/down button doesn't work.
Not sure how to boot to recovery with adp.
Appreciate your wisdom
What firmware are you on. ICS or GB firmware?
I.E. have you run an RUU, are you s-off or s-on
if you are unsure, just type out like the first 5 lines in HBOOT.
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The last time the phone worked, was running Scott's Clean Rom 4.5, Android 4.0.3
Kernel ver: 3.0.16-g8fa42b5
I believe it's s-off but it's fighting me to get back to the recovery screen
Sadly I'm not sure about RUU
What ROM was it if you don't mind me asking? I mean was it at least for the Rezound if so then it shouldn't be that bad..
I didn't do anything different this morning than last nite, but the phone came back to life. I restored the nadroid backup and it appears to be working. Though getting an error about the SIM card after a reboot.
Don't know what I did wrong when trying to flash or if the ROM just wasn't compatible.
Hey guys, had a Note for a little while now and was running stock AT&T GB. I tried upgrading to ICS a couple of times using other threads in this forum, but I'd keep getting stuck in a boot loop and had to revert back to stock AT&T GB to recover my device per Da_G's method here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1506330, and it worked fine.
However, I recently tried one more time to upgrade to ICS, failed and reverted back to stock AT&T GB per Da_G's method, and while my phone turns on, it has become sluggish to the point of being absolutely unusable. Screen touches work fine in some cases, and then take forever to register in the same spot later. The on screen keyboard cannot be invoked - it almost always hangs the phone. And the phone randomly reboots.
I did forget to wipe cache and dalvik cache the last time around while doing the install, and that probably caused this problem. But sine then I've wiped both caches and retried flashing, and also reinstalled a stock AT&T radio in case that was the problem, and also reset the flash counter per braway's methode here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1569206, but to no avail...
My Note is pretty much useless at this time, so any light you guys can shed or any other tack you can suggest is going to help me immensely!
Thanks for the help!
Sid.
Wiping caches is not enough. You need to to a full data wipe/factory reset. At this point why not just flash your phone with Odin.
http://www.samsdroid.com/2012/07/i717uclf6-android-404-usa-at-stock-rom.html
This will fully wipe your phone and install the UCLF6 ICS ROM with matching radio.
Agoattamer said:
Wiping caches is not enough. You need to to a full data wipe/factory reset. At this point why not just flash your phone with Odin.
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Sorry, I didn't mention - I DID do a factory wipe/data reset and I've been flashing the stock GB ROM via ODIN itself. But thanks for the link to the ICS ROM - I'll try installing this and report back.
Okay, I downloaded the UCLF6 ROM from the samsdroid site (took like 3 hours to download!), performed several factory data resets, cache wipes and dalvik cache wipes on my phone, and then flashed the ICS ROM via Odin. Odin showed "Passed", but the phone rebooted into recovery with a message "failed to mount /system" and "failed to mount /data". I then hit "reboot system now" and am stuck at boot loop. Booted back into recovery, got the same message about not being able to mount system and data. Hit "reboot system" again and back to boot loop...
What the heck am I doing wrong???
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You do have an ATT i717 and not a canadian version? But I think your phone has other issues.
It is an AT&T SGH-i717. I've used it for 6 months now and it worked fine - it just never let me upgrade it to anything beyond GB... and now it is unusable even with GB.
Do you think it might be a hardware issue? Although, how could flashing and reflashing ROMs impact the hardware?
If the odin flashing did not straighten things out then I have to believe that there are other issues.
sid.asu said:
It is an AT&T SGH-i717. I've used it for 6 months now and it worked fine - it just never let me upgrade it to anything beyond GB... and now it is unusable even with GB.
Do you think it might be a hardware issue? Although, how could flashing and reflashing ROMs impact the hardware?
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Did you try to flash ICS with Samsung Kies? If that doesn't work, your phone may have developed a hardware problem.
i have had the same issues as well, i am unsure if its me or what but everytime i have tried to flash a tmobile rom on my note which should work it slows down to a crawl i cannot even go through the setup process. I have tried via odin and through cwm touch. the next thing i flashed was t879uvlg3 modem and i was wondering if that was the issue and if so what modem should i flash that way i dont have to use kies for recovery cause man..........thats slow. I even made a nandroid backup and it was slow as well so if anyone has had this issue or any ideas please help me
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Did you try to flash ICS with Samsung Kies? If that doesn't work, your phone may have developed a hardware problem.
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My problem is that the phone does not stay on long enough for Kies to detect it - it keeps rebooting on GB. Well, guess it's cooked! Thanks for the help!
I'm having strange problems with an I9300 I'm trying to fix for friend. Now unfortunately I end up doing things like this not because I know anything about these things, but because I'm I'm slightly more computer literate than the rest of my group of friends, so I'll apologise now if these are stupid questions, I have searched but could find nothing.
Now last night my friend comes to mine with his phone stuck in a boot loop. Now beyond the fact it already had a custom ROM on it I can tell you nothing except he claims he installed AVG and it happened. So I reboot into Windows, start up Kies, and see what I can do. Which so far has been:
1) Try to perform an Upgrade and Initialisation. Jump through the hoops, end up with the message "This device's version cannot be updated."
2) Ok, that didn't work. Hit sammobile to find a stock rom and fire up Odin. Ohh success...
3) Oh noes, too soon. The Samsung chime cuts off early and it's stuck with a pulsating logo.
3) Ok well maybe a downgrade first? Get a 4.1 stock rom and try again. Odin sees no problems again, the chime plays fully. But nope, it's just a longer boot loop.
4) After much head scratching and just trying random stuff I end up finding CM9.1 will boot fully, but the EFS data is screwed. This is the only rom I've found so far that will boot.
So from where I started I'm closer and if the radio worked this would be fine. Now the only suggestion I've heard to get the radio working is flashing a stock rom through Kies but I have no idea how to get Kies to play along. Any ideas?
Thanks.
Your downgrade screwed the efs, flash 4.3 and pray it is still readable.
Your mistake was to not factory reset after the first Odin flash.
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boomboomer said:
Your downgrade screwed the efs, flash 4.3 and pray it is still readable.
Your mistake was to not factory reset after the first Odin flash.
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I did actually try that before flashing 4.3 with Odin and after. Was still stuck in a boot loop... :/
Thanks