formatted boot and accidentally restarted system
now i get the green android logo from the boot loader but it goes no further
i can't get into recovery or download mode
what do i do?
Take the battery out, wait a few seconds, put it back in. Give 'er the three-finger salute (both volume rockers and power held down) until you see the Vibrant logo. Voila. You're in recovery....
nope didn't work
i can get into download mode tho
im familiar with odin but i don't know what i did so i don't really know what to flash
ok well when i get home ill odin lidroid then ics
Did you try the battery thing more than once? I just ask because I think my phone went into boot loop at least twice in a row when I was flashing ICS. Seems odd that it just takes that many times to work, but sometimes you gotta kinda wait it out a little...
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I'm absolutely new to the custom rom scene and I figured I would root my phone and install the rom from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1759642
It went perfectly fine and I started the like the idea of being to install what I want onto a phone, so I decided to make the jump to install CM10.
I ran a nandroid + TB backup and copied the backup to my computer. Then I dragged my CM10 rom (from http://www.droidhive.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1470-cm10-unofficial-for-d2vzw/) to the root directory of my phone. Then I ran rom manager to install cm10. The phone reboots into recovery but gets stuck on recovery. It will constantly reboot and once it reaches recovery, the loading bar with the picture of the green android robot in the background loads about 20-25% of the way, and then the phone vibrates and acts as though I just boot it up (and this process cycles).
I can't get it to ever get past this 20-25% mark and it isn't recognized by my computer to flash it back to stock and I can't do a nandroid restore since I can't get past this state.
Is my phone bricked and if so/not so, what should I do?
redxv said:
I'm absolutely new to the custom rom scene and I figured I would root my phone and install the rom from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1759642
It went perfectly fine and I started the like the idea of being to install what I want onto a phone, so I decided to make the jump to install CM10.
I ran a nandroid + TB backup and copied the backup to my computer. Then I dragged my CM10 rom (from http://www.droidhive.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1470-cm10-unofficial-for-d2vzw/) to the root directory of my phone. Then I ran rom manager to install cm10. The phone reboots into recovery but gets stuck on recovery. It will constantly reboot and once it reaches recovery, the loading bar with the picture of the green android robot in the background loads about 20-25% of the way, and then the phone vibrates and acts as though I just boot it up (and this process cycles).
I can't get it to ever get past this 20-25% mark and it isn't recognized by my computer to flash it back to stock and I can't do a nandroid restore since I can't get past this state.
Is my phone bricked and if so/not so, what should I do?
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Hmm honestly the easiest way out of this is just to flash the stock rom of your carrier through odin (download mode and flash), easy fix. You could try messing around with the recovery and whatnot, ie try flashing a new recovery through adb somehow, but easiest and the most least painful way seems to be to just odin back to stock and try again. and also, i dont get why people use rom manager, heard too many horror brick stories about that. Just adb the recovery to the phone and flash the zip. Why even bother with rom manager.
good luck, hope i helped :good:
I can't get my computer to recognize my phone to use odin / adb.
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I can't get my computer to recognize my phone to use odin / adb.
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Did you put your phone in download mode? turn off, and then hold home vol down and power at same time.
Never mind..
I was asking same thing like Unleashed12
unleashed12 said:
Did you put your phone in download mode? turn off, and then hold home vol down and power at same time.
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Like I said, when I book into recovery/download mode, it just boot cycles.
That is: phone turns on. Samsung boot screen, then android robot screen, loading bar goes about 1/4 of the way, then phone goes black, and starts at samsung boot screen again.
redxv said:
Like I said, when I book into recovery/download mode, it just boot cycles.
That is: phone turns on. Samsung boot screen, then android robot screen, loading bar goes about 1/4 of the way, then phone goes black, and starts at samsung boot screen again.
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Sounds like you haven't actually entered the download mode... power off> hold at same time power, home and vol down... keep holding until the phone turns back on. you should enter download then.
I personally feel like you just have a dirty install without knowing more. Once you enter recovery I'd just data reset, cache reset, dalvik reset and reflash same rom... or a backup
Yeah, my bad. I didn't hold it down long enough. I'm such a noob.
Don't forget to hit thanks for those who helped you...
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Don't forget to hit thanks for those who helped you...
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haha Thanks for that!
So my phone is not even a week old and it may already be bricked...
I flashed this rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1713470) with Siyah v3.4.1 and xxLPS.
Was working for about 6 or so hours. Then following instructions in above thread i flashed the widgets pack.zip. About 10 min after i tried to reboot my phone and that was it.
The first samsung screen with the triangle pops up and then it goes into a black screen with faint sporadic flashes.
I cant get recovery or download mode to work. ive tried taking the battery out and putting it back in...
Im from Sydney so no Jtag options available to me... so what are my options here guys???
Pull the battery out, wait for about 15 sec, put it back in, quickly press and hold Vol Up + Home + Power, it should be able to get into recovery mode. Wipe data / factory reset should get you boot up successfully.
i wish it was that easy
Even that doesnt work...just loads up the first samsung screen with the yellow triangle, and then straight into the black screen with the periodic flash....
No recovery, no download mode, it seems the best solution you have left is the usb jig.
So, I wanted to update the Rom, so tried to go into recovery mode. Pushed the volume down button instead of up, so got into download mode. Pushed the volume down button to cancel. Then pushed the right combination, but nothing past the Galaxy S2 logo with the warning triangle happened.
Tried to reboot a couple of times, but now the phone is completely dead.
Everytime I turn it on the Galaxy S2 logo appear, and when it dissappear the phone seems to be dead. However if I look closely, the screen is not turned off, it it just black (but turned on), and every 5 seconds or so I can see it "blinking", but it blinks "black" if you could say that, you won't notice it if you don't look careful, or you are in a dark room.
If you triple click the home button you normally "invert" the colours on the screen, and this also works in this case. Instead of it flashing with an almost unnoticable black, it is now white and every 5 seconds the screen turns off very briefly, but then the screen is white again.
To get it to stop doing this I need to remove battery. If I push and hold the power button the phone just restarts with the galaxy s2 logo, and then does the same again.
When I connect the phone to a charger or to a PC (while it's powered down), the battery logo appears for a couple of seconds, and then it enters this "blinking" screen thing again.
When connected to a PC it does not appear as a drive - however it seems like windows detects it, it installs the GT-9100 drivers. Samsung Kies can't connect, it just keeps trying to connect forever, without coming with an error, but it's not connecting.
Hard reset is not working in any of the described ways, whatever I do, if its to get it into recovery mode, download mode, or just trying to turn the damn phone on, it just do the blinking thing.
Is this some sort of a boot loop from hell!!?
sounds strange, can you still get it in download mode without issues?
If you can i would advice to flash back to stock(!!)
or you could try to flash a cf-root to see if thats gets you into recovery format system, data, cache, dalvik and flash the new rom.
but im not sure if that would work, a clean install from stock would be better i believe,
as to why it went this way i have no idea!
Good luck!
If you can get in download mode, flash a stock rom with odin and that should do the trick
yes!
Well, that was odd, thought I had tried that several times, but yes now at least I can get it into download.
Now I used ODIN to flash a file (CF-Root-SGS2_XX_XEO_LPQ-v5.3-CWM5.tar) that I had laying on my PC from back when I was originally rooting my phone. ODIN gave me a "Pass" reply and I got the phone into a bootloader. I quickly wiped everything I could, and at the moment I'm seeing if I can boot the phone normally.
Thanks!!
Well my rom is f***** it won't boot, but atleast I can get it into recovery mode.
Have just installed cyanogen 9 stable + gapps, it is now booting up!
Luckily I backed my phone up with Titanium backup just a couple of hours ago!!!
it's working!
Well that saved my ass. I was so close to throwing my phone out of the window and going online to order a S3...
Now I'm setting up my phone - nice, wanted to try Cyanogen 9 anyway.
Cool.. Always be patient.... Rather than thinking of purchasin a new phone when these kind of situations occur. Keep a usb jig with you
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Hey guys, haveing a slight panic attack. My phone, running nightly 1/8/2012 CM10 made a weird noise like a frozen boop sound and shut off, when left alone it buzzes like it's starting up and just keeps doing that with no sign of actually booting. I can get into what seems to be Odin, and am currently downloading the stock Odin file from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1506330 in hopes that this is a brick that is fixable. If anyone can help me identify what happened, or what I might be able to do if this doesn't work. I would really appreciate it.
EDIT: I can get into ODIN but as soon as it shows the "downloading" screen it shuts off and does the repeated buzzing sound..
Please help if you're able too.
If there is lifesigns you don't have a brick.
Just reflash your rom.
I can't boot into recovery, my only life sign is the Samsung logo at first start-up, then nothing. I can get into ODIN, but when in download mode it stays for about 5 seconds and then reboots infinitely.
Have you tried removing the battery, putting it back in, then try getting into recovery?
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Stuck power button ?
Stuck volume button ??
Very common problem on gnote ....g
Volume buttons work fine, I can press down to get into download mode, but it does not stay in download mode. it reboots again and loops with no screen indicators. I can't get into recovery at all and the battery pull does nothing.
Stuck power button.....maybe
that would explain the rapid reboot.
does it attempt a reboot after pulling battery, then putting it back in ? without touching buttons ?
If yes, then power button is stuck...g
I had the same problem as you. I was stuck up in the mountains when this happened. Random reboot and then just 2 second buzzing and black screen. I ended up taking it completely apart all board connections and making sure nothing was fried or stuck. put it back together and was able to get it into download mode and reflash via odin. My only issue im having right now is getting it to root and flash recovery and rom. Hope that helps.
You might consider buying a download mode jig shown here
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A USB jig will not work on the galaxy note.
If download mode is gone, the device must be restored using a JTAG service.....g
Well I was undervolting and underclocking my i9100 for a few months and it would suffer from freezes and stuff like that nothing much as I would be able to perform a hard reset and reboot with my phone completely working everytime that happens. However today, I just locked my phone after taking a picture and I could not unlock it after that. I pressed the power button and home button but the screen would not turn on. So i just took out the battery and tried booting the phone. It was stuck in a bootloop where the boot animation would just keep on playing. So i force shutdown it and booted it into recovery. I had CWM 6.0.4.6 installed and when i booted into recovery, it gave me the message it cannot mount something and cannot load last kmsg and blah. I took no notice and tried to format cache. During this point, the recovery hanged and i force shutdown my phone again. After which, I could never turn on my phone again. No splash screen no nothing. I think it is bricked. And yea btw my usb port is not working anymore and it can only be used for charging. And i was running cm11 infected. Can you all please help me thanks!
so no recovery nor download mode?
Sadly, no
TheImpossibleEnemy said:
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Yep i cannot even boot into anything no splash screen no nothing pressed the power button for like so long i even removed the battery for 2 hours and popped it back in not working
Try this - take out battery,then press and hold volume down+home+power and put battery back without releasing buttons.This may get you into a download mode where you can flash stock jb via odin.