Had an issue with my MoPho a couple weeks ago that required a SBF. Completed fine, etc, etc. My question is, when I SBF'd I used 154. It updated to 198_6 just fine but it's had some wierd behavior ever since. Should I have SBF'd directly to 198_6? It just isn't quite as smooth as it was before I had to SBF.
And, Yes, I formatted system, cache, Sd, and wiped everything.
I'm a MoPho-er
If you are just going to update it anyways you may as well just sbf to the version you will end up with
I may do just that. Never had that issue before. Always just SBF'd whatever version for whatever device. If it needed updates after, it did. Just never had one behave "oddly" after a restore like I'm having now. Guess I'll just d/l the 198_6 SBF and do it again.
I know a SBF is sometimes needed, but setting up after is a PITA. I've held off on unlocking cause I use 4G enough to make it worth having, but if I had CWM I wouldn't have to SBF for most issues.
Thanks for the reply.
I'm a MoPho-er
I went directly to 198 two nights ago, no problem. And I did not have to reactivate with Sprint as many told me! Whole process took 30 minutes!!!
Few things of note, I have Gateway i5 Quad with 8Gb of memory. I was not running any background programs during the process and I wiggled the mouse as to not let it sleep. Before first reboot, not alot of processor, Not alot of reads, but the writes were hell. The disk then balance lowly, and the cores shot up. Then back to the writes, then the reads shot up and the writes down. Then a reboot...........Good to go! 10 minutes of screen adjust, finding network, ect. Signed onto Google, synced, called mom, sign into other accounts, got bank apps, news, weather toggle wiget, off to the races!
Good luck.
Edit: ZumoCast was disconnected. Later I had to reboot PC and then good!
Quick Question.
What's the difference between 198_6 and 198_7?
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Ok so here's the deal. I had the OTA from T-Mobile pop up on my phone early this morning. Not fully thinking that decision through, I let it do its thing. I went back to sleep for a little bit, and when I woke up (30 minutes later) it was still on the boot up screen. I let it sit some more while I jumped on here to read what other people were experiencing. An hour and a half later, it's still on the same screen.
Next I pull the battery and pop it back in and try to get into recovery mode... No go. I try this at least ten times and it would go black and then come right back to the Vibrant screen. Now irritated, I search around more intently now on what i should do but none of the threads or google searches I pulled up are of people yielding the same results. Some time in my searching away the key lights light up and remain that way for a good ten minutes (from what i saw) but nothing else happens. I let it sit for another half hour roughly with no positive results.
I pull the battery yet again and this time when I try to access recovery mode, it works. Ecstatic that i'm making some progress, I load a nandroid that I saved last week. I let it do its thing then when it's complete I opt to reboot the phone. Now here we are back at square one because it just sits at the Vibrant screen. Mind you this isn't my first time restoring a backup on an android phone and I am aware that it takes a while for the initial boot to get everything going. 45 minutes later... I still have nothing. I can get back into recovery but that's about as far as that goes.
I've exhausted my personal resources and I've never used ODIN (not even exactly sure what that is). Is there anyone else that has experienced this same exact dilemma or am I a one man show on this one? My main reason for diligently trying to restore my phone is I don't want to lose any of my media etc.
Is there any hope for me? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
you wont lose any media as long as you have photos and videos save to your external SD card (not the 16 GB). you'll lose settings, programs, and contacts saved to your phone; but all contacts are usually saved to your gmail account anyways.
if you're phone is stuck at the vibrant screen, you have to do the odin trick. the odin trick is very easy ans straight forward; longest thing is downloading the package from the thread. you will lose all of your phone settings and contacts, but not the media as long as you saved it to your smaller SD card. if you don't want to lose those settings/contacts...then you'll also be stuck with a phone stcuk at the vibrant screen.
Try this thread.. it's a common problem with the OTA. If you just follow the second set of instructions to flash to JI6 without a pit file or repartitioning, your data should not be affected.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803492
This worked for many of us to fix the problem.
The problem is I don't have all that stuff saved to the external. It's all on the 16GB i'm afraid.
Going to attempt the ODIN process right meow.
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The problem is I don't have all that stuff saved to the external. It's all on the 16GB i'm afraid.
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The flash to JI6 shouldn't touch any user data on the internal 16 GB either.. at least it didn't in my experience. Don't use the PIT file or repartition and you *should* be fine.
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The flash to JI6 shouldn't touch any user data on the internal 16 GB either.. at least it didn't in my experience. Don't use the PIT file or repartition and you *should* be fine.
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Thank you for the info. Going to try and see where it gets me
Same thing just happened to me man. Let me know if this works for you. I am rooted but I have never used ODIN
I just don't get it. I literally follow every instruction to a T and still get hosed every time. The Droid is so much easier to hack than these phones. It's unnerving.
Here's a 'quick' recap of what I've done so far.
My girlfriend has a vibrant, I installed one of sombionix's ROMs on it and she loved it. I think the latest one I installed was 1.7 I convinced her to try out a froyo ROM and she didn't like it, so I went into recovery and attempted to restore a nandroid backup I had made of the 2.1 ROM. Little did I know that apparently you have to install a 2.1 kernel on the Vibrant first if moving from a 2.2 ROM to a 2.1 ROM (Nandroid on the droid restores the kernel too, so I wasn't aware of this). So recovery got stuck at 'restoring data'.
I spent a week trying to get the damn phone into download mode, FINALLY got it there and restored back to stock JI6 (I think that's what it's called anyway). At this point I was on a stock 2.1 kernel and thought that restoring the original nandroid backup would work this time. Yet AGAIN the restore got stuck at 'restoring data'. Can someone please tell me what the hell I'm doing wrong? After waiting 45 minutes at 'restoring data' I rebooted the phone again. The odd thing is, the bionix lady started talking and saying she was initializing bionix. I know this normally takes 10 minutes or so, so I am waiting, but I have a hard time believing the phone will work without being fully restored. Is it possible I didn't wait long enough? (45 minutes on 'restoring data')
Any other suggestions for what I've done wrong? Will Vibrant hacking always be this frustrating? If so, I'm probably going to get her back to stock and leave her that way. The only problem is I *NEED* to get this nandroid backup to work to get some important text messages and other things she had saved. Please help.
So I just odin'd back to stock, and this time before attempting to restore the nandroid backup I went into CWM myself to delete data and cache before restoring. The phone hangs at 'formatting data'. It's as if anytime CWM tries to do anything with the data partition the phone freezes. Any suggestions?
Alright, I FINALLY got the restore process to finish. I then rebooted the phone and now I'm stuck at the Vibrant logo. What on earth am I doing wrong? I just don't understand this. It's like every single time I conquer one obstacle, there's another one waiting for me. What do I need to do now? The bionix lady says 'initiating bionix, hardware acceleration sequence enabled', etc. as if it's going to load up but it does nothing. What now?
ARGH. So after getting the restore process to work and getting stuck on the vibrant screen, I again odin'd back to stock JI6. Instead of Odin flashing me back to stock JI6, somehow my phone came on and is exactly the same as when I made the original nandroid backup I've been trying so hard to restore to, except that there is no root, it's the wrong kernel, and things aren't working right (apps do nothing when clicked, text messages won't open, etc). WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!?! UGH.
I absolutely loathe this phone. Its performance is amazing, but this thing is a hacker's nightmare. I feel bad for those of you that own this piece of ****. I just spent the past hour redownloading a bionix 2.1 ROM, manually restoring all of her apps from titanium backup (free version, so had to do it one by one). I FINALLY got the phone to a point that was very similar to the nandroid backup I've been trying so hard to get back to and the damn thing rebooted, and now launcherpro is force closing repeatedly and not allowing me to do anything else at all. This phone is absolute crap as far as hacking goes. And I know, I know, I'm sure plenty of you will respond with wise ass remarks like 'if you knew what you were doing it wouldn't be', or 'I've never had a problem', but just the fact that this phone is only a few months old and its support forum is 5x more active than the most active Droid support forums shows how much harder this thing is to hack than my Droid. I am so frustrated with this thing I'm about to throw it out the damn window. You literally cannot do anything without encountering a new problem.
I guess I'll start the whole process over again. What a waste of good hardware.
It just never ends with this thing. Now after odin'ing back to stock the phone goes to a black screen and just sits there unresponsive. I ****ing hate my life. I really do. Will someone please help me? Please tell me what I did wrong in each of the 6 to 7 different problems I've had in this thread now?
Well it's all over now. After the most recent debacle I found a thread stating that if stuck on a black screen, flash the 'froyo that doesn't brick' through odin, then downgrade to stock JI6. I did that, and the phone boots now, but it wiped the SD card so it's all over now. All my nandroid backups, all files, everything is gone. Somehow the only thing it didn't wipe is an angry birds APK I bluetoothed to her phone the night it came out, since it wasn't showing up in her market yet. This phone may dominate my Droid in performance, but I have never had so many issues with a device in my entire life, not even when I first began hacking my Droid. I am going to leave her on stock and move on with my life. So many hours wasted on this piece of ****, my head is spinning. I do appreciate all the help on this forum but it's all been in vain. Thanks anyway everyone.
You keep posting to yourself. The reason, you are the issue. Some people forget to go to a2.1 kernel, but this thread is crazy. I've been flashing this phone since it came out with no issues at all. Don't bash the phone because YOU are having a problem.
I think he'd have been well advised to steer his girl to an HTC, not samsnot. Sorry you had such a ***** of a time man.
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Oh boy, may I suggest RTFM before you screw with your girlfriend's phone any longer?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=732458
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=771111
velocity92c said:
I absolutely loathe this phone. Its performance is amazing, but this thing is a hacker's nightmare. I feel bad for those of you that own this piece of ****. I just spent the past hour redownloading a bionix 2.1 ROM, manually restoring all of her apps from titanium backup (free version, so had to do it one by one). I FINALLY got the phone to a point that was very similar to the nandroid backup I've been trying so hard to get back to and the damn thing rebooted, and now launcherpro is force closing repeatedly and not allowing me to do anything else at all. This phone is absolute crap as far as hacking goes. And I know, I know, I'm sure plenty of you will respond with wise ass remarks like 'if you knew what you were doing it wouldn't be', or 'I've never had a problem', but just the fact that this phone is only a few months old and its support forum is 5x more active than the most active Droid support forums shows how much harder this thing is to hack than my Droid. I am so frustrated with this thing I'm about to throw it out the damn window. You literally cannot do anything without encountering a new problem.
I guess I'll start the whole process over again. What a waste of good hardware.
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You say its a hackers nightmare, it is one of the few phones that is almost impossible to brick, do not consider yourself a hacker for using odin, you could not even figure out how to do that right and messed up, that is what happend you are the reason it wouldn't work the phone is great you just suck.
Ok, here we go.
(Was ) Running on SC2.8 voodoo, no problems with the ROM so far. However, just since yesterday my 3g data connection has...um...went south.
Being the curious type, I followed GizmoDroid's instructions in one of the other recent threads on how to turn your hidden menu on (*#22745927) and other dial codes (##data# and **debug). Now, also reading his warning about what had happened to him, I changed NOTHING.
However, soon (I think after pressing the Advanced menu button under ##data#), the Phone process forced closed. Ever since that, my 3G connection has come in and out randomly, being gone about half the time. That's not all though: even when the service is present, it's sloooow. I've run tests in the Speedtest app many times; only once have I achieved a ping better than 999 (the highest it'll show), and downstream and upstream data seldom exceed 100 kbps.
Now, I've tried a variety of things: *228 (of course), restoring a nandroid (of EB01 I think), flashing an entirely different ROM, Odin-ing an old package for DL09, and most recently, Odin-ing Adrylnalyne's "whole enchilada" EB01 package, including PIT. None have fixed the problem.
I've read where GizmoDroid activated an old phone then re-activated his Fascinate, and this solved his issue. I can't really do that right now, as I don't have an old smartphone laying around.
Anyone have any suggstions?
See link below. Scroll down and check one of my posts for links to 2 modems. The dl09 radio gives me a more reliable data connection than the eb01 radio does.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=985920
good day.
same here
I did the same thing with the ##data##. Changed nothing, was just curious about the menu. My 3g did exactly the same thing as yours, spotty and slow- icon would completely disappear at random. Searched everywhere for an answer.
I used Odin to go back to 100% stock, factory reset, *228 , dl09 modem- the works. No difference at all.
I called Verizon out of sheer desperation. Went through the usual battery pull, etc.
Much to my surprise, they said my phone was defective and sent out a new one overnight as a warranty replacement. Just flashed everything back to SC2.9 and did a nandroid restore - works perfect.
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I did the same thing with the ##data##. Changed nothing, was just curious about the menu. My 3g did exactly the same thing as yours, spotty and slow- icon would completely disappear at random. Searched everywhere for an answer.
I used Odin to go back to 100% stock, factory reset, *228 , dl09 modem- the works. No difference at all.
I called Verizon out of sheer desperation. Went through the usual battery pull, etc.
Much to my surprise, they said my phone was defective and sent out a new one overnight as a warranty replacement. Just flashed everything back to SC2.9 and did a nandroid restore - works perfect.
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Yeah, that's what I may end up doing...I'm pretty sure they'll give me a new one; they have no idea what's actually going on, thus they can't no I might've screwed it up myself.
I do think re-activating an old phone then this one again would fix it, but I have the promotion for $9.99 off per month for upgrading to a smartphone during that time. It goes away if I remove the smartphone data plan from my plan, which would happen automatically if I'd activate an old non-smartphone, and I don't have an old smartphone laying around.
So perhaps into Verizon I go...
I went througjh that exactly. I ended up restoring to stock, and going to verizon. Had a replacement fedexed 18 hours later. I freaked and did every "fix" imaginable.
Getting back to eb01 was easy. Just wish i got a replacement screen protector!
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I went througjh that exactly. I ended up restoring to stock, and going to verizon. Had a replacement fedexed 18 hours later. I freaked and did every "fix" imaginable.
Getting back to eb01 was easy. Just wish i got a replacement screen protector!
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Yeah, apparently you can't stress enough not to go into the Verizon specific menus, at least not in SC.
I'm going to end up doing that here pretty shortly. About the screen protector: I've never used one as, in my opinion, the gorilla glass does a pretty decent job of resisting scratches. After ~3 months and having dropped it more that once, stored it with keys, etc., I only have one fairly tiny scratch.
Nothing worked for me either. Flashed every modem through odin/heimdall, restored nandroid, and put another phone on the account. It seems unfixable to me. :-/
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I have root, s-off, custom rom (Viper4g) and whatnot. Phone had been running great. Today I decided to start using Google Drive to back up my pictures. I installed the app, started sending up my photos, and the phone restarted part way through. I restarted and it was running very slow. I shut some things off, removed Google Drive and a few other things. No change. Restarted a couple times. No change. Backed up the phone in tw recovery. Cleared cache/data. Loaded a backup from a couple months ago. Same thing. Slow to get started, very sluggish to use. Swiping down takes 10 seconds to register. Everything is working, just very poorly. I removed the micro sd card hoping that was dying and causing problems but no luck.
Anything I should try? Did it fry something inside? This is a used replacement I bought a few months ago.
If you haven't already done so I'd suggest running the latest RUU to update to Android 4.3. Click the top link in my sig and scroll to the bottom of the first post. If you've done this already I suggest installing a different ROM and see if performance improves, or at least do a clean install of Viper with a complete system wipe.
Recently I have been dealing with the same thing and yesterday I flashed a new ROM (and Kernel) and it has returned to operating normally again. We'll see if that changes, but for now all is well.
[Q] Please Help Me: Rooted Phone & Weirdness After Factory Reset & Failed ROM Flash
So I rooted my SGS4 a few months after getting it from VZW. I was fine with it simply being rooted for over a year and finally decided there was a few things I no longer wanted to live with. I started going down the path of flashing a ROM and after what I felt was enough research settled on the one that would work with my phone. Or so I thought. Short story is it did not and I found out later it wasn't compatible. Prior to flashing said ROM I created a backup and did a factory reset and wipe like a good little boy. Well, I think this is what caused the issues I'm now experiencing. I'll start with the few I can think or right off-hand as being the man annoyances but I reserve the right to add more later as they come up.
So, w/o further adieu, here's the issues I'm having, numbered for our convenience.
1) Whenever I boot up my phone I get the 'Android is Upgrading' after every single reboot with about 62 items 'upgrading' so it takes a while. I use my phone a lot and carry spare batteries that I change out every time it gets low so this can be several times a day and many times the wait of several minutes is quite inconvenient. As I found in a search, I tried using an app called 'Lucky AppManager' to clear the ODEX files and it reboots and I do it again a few times and it still doesn't seem to do any good.
2) for some reason all of my contacts has a little SIM card next to them that I don't recall seeing and it now won't let me edit any of them to add or remove information. This is annoying.
3) This one had been going on for a bit prior to me attempting to flash a ROM so I had hoped at minimum it would be resolved after the reset. Nope. Power down times are very slow. It used to be whenever I powered it down it took only a dozen or so seconds. Even less right when I got it. Then, one day, it took a minute or two to completely power down and has taken that long every since. Annoying.
There was something else but as I type this I'm drawing a blank. Any help that anyone can help me on any of the above would greatly help me.
Thanks!
p.s. This is a duplicate thread since I was so rudely made aware that I had posted to the wrong subforum. Sometimes this forum earns is rep. Sorry to those who genuinely care because a few bad apples ruin it for everyone.
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So I rooted my SGS4 a few months after getting it from VZW. I was fine with it simply being rooted for over a year and finally decided there was a few things I no longer wanted to live with. I started going down the path of flashing a ROM and after what I felt was enough research settled on the one that would work with my phone. Or so I thought. Short story is it did not and I found out later it wasn't compatible. Prior to flashing said ROM I created a backup and did a factory reset and wipe like a good little boy. Well, I think this is what caused the issues I'm now experiencing. I'll start with the few I can think or right off-hand as being the man annoyances but I reserve the right to add more later as they come up.
So, w/o further adieu, here's the issues I'm having, numbered for our convenience.
1) Whenever I boot up my phone I get the 'Android is Upgrading' after every single reboot with about 62 items 'upgrading' so it takes a while. I use my phone a lot and carry spare batteries that I change out every time it gets low so this can be several times a day and many times the wait of several minutes is quite inconvenient. As I found in a search, I tried using an app called 'Lucky AppManager' to clear the ODEX files and it reboots and I do it again a few times and it still doesn't seem to do any good.
2) for some reason all of my contacts has a little SIM card next to them that I don't recall seeing and it now won't let me edit any of them to add or remove information. This is annoying.
3) This one had been going on for a bit prior to me attempting to flash a ROM so I had hoped at minimum it would be resolved after the reset. Nope. Power down times are very slow. It used to be whenever I powered it down it took only a dozen or so seconds. Even less right when I got it. Then, one day, it took a minute or two to completely power down and has taken that long every since. Annoying.
There was something else but as I type this I'm drawing a blank. Any help that anyone can help me on any of the above would greatly help me.
Thanks!
p.s. This is a duplicate thread since I was so rudely made aware that I had posted to the wrong subforum. Sometimes this forum earns is rep. Sorry to those who genuinely care because a few bad apples ruin it for everyone.
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If you're on nk1 or ng6, have you tried going back to nc5 via odin? It sounds like you need to flash the full wipe nc5 and start over from scratch.