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YUP. I "soft bricked" my t-mobile galaxy s (vibrant here in the us) or so I hope. The phone was rooted via z4 on the latest android t959uvji6 from t-mobile.
How did i do it? Brick my phone that is...
The 3d gallery was pissing me off by picking up everything on the phone. I tried clearing the default setting via the manage app but nothing changed so I decided to delete it. First backing up the apk and odex file from the system folder with titanium backup then deleted them from the system folder via root explorer. Rebooted the phone, pulled out the battery, waited for 30 seconds or so, popped in the battery and booted up the phone w/o any issues.
I tried installing the backup 3d gallery apk file and got the "app not installed" error on numerous attempts. Then tried simply copying it over again with ti backup and nothing happens. Gave up and said the heck with and went the factory restore route, got all the relevant apps installed and tried reinstalling the 3d gallery apk but resulting in the same "app not installed" error prompt. So I again copied over the apk and odex file into the system folder. Rebooted and nothing... phone does not boot into the home screen.
At this point here is what the phone is able to do.
It will boot up and display the default galaxy s animation, goes through it's array of colors then comes to a stop at all white letters then the screen goes blank and nothing happens - zip. nadda. i left it on for 12hrs like that - blank screen w/all the hard keys lit up.
What i did notice was win7x64 recognizes the phone after it gets into the blank screen of death as mass storage units.
So far i've tried booting into the recovery screen via the three button method and none of them works.
Did the karma-volume up-home-power twist - nothing
Did the karma-volume down-home-power roll - nothing
Did the karma-volume up and down-power jiggy - nothing
I tried the key combos for about 2hrs without any success then jumped into adb. After reading for a bit I realized that the phone was still rooted and the debug mode was enabled the last time i shutdown the phone (good'ol ti-backup)
For a while there adb did not recognize the phone at all but with an odd power cycling while spamming "adb reboot recovery" it was able to finally nab hold of the phone and jump into the recovery console. At first I thought it was pure luck so unplugged everything and tried it again - works every time if i did the odd out of sequence power cycle while spamming the adb console with "adb reboot recovery".
In the reboot recovery - deleted the user data and did the restore.
Here's where I think I really screwed up - now the phone is no longer in debug mode.
Long story short - is there a way to get into the recovery screen w/o debug mode on?
**quickly pulls on flack jacket**
but seriously any suggestions would be great
Wrong section bro. You probably won't get an answer here.
To answer your question. Yes, Remove Battery, Plug your phone to USB, Press and hold the volume down and the power button Put the batter back on. This should get you into download mode. Use ODIN to restore.
the usb jig trick did the work - now i have two phones!!!! (bought the nexus s yesterday) lol
Time to ODIN.
To access Download mode.
Unplug. press volume up and down togheter, and connect USB. VOILA!
If ODIN does not recognize it, plug and unplug again
chichu_9 said:
To answer your question. Yes, Remove Battery, Plug your phone to USB, Press and hold the volume down and the power button Put the batter back on. This should get you into download mode. Use ODIN to restore.
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no!
Why the hell are people giving others ideas on how to get into download when their doing it wrong.
its JUST THE VOLUME BUTTONS, NOT THE POWER BUTTON ALONG WITH IT.
volume + power = Recovery, which in this case you probably cant get into
Volume - Power = Download mode, which everyone can get into unless if they somehow hard bricked, if its possible.
I had my original FR008 rooted Aria stolen, and my insurance replacement had the updated AT&T crapware. So, I found someone with an XTC Key. It took 2.5 hours (FML!!) but it's done.
The guy said that he put on the "Z4 Root" ROM. Things seem to work ok, but I'd like to use something more common.. either CM or FR008. Plus, I'm not sure how comfortable I am with some guy in a strip center rooting my phone..
So... when I rooted my original phone, I used the shad0wf0x custom Ubuntu LiveCD. S-OFF is now fixed, but I still have the new version of HBOOT. Can I expect things to work the same?
Do you have Clockworkmod installed? If so you should be OK. If not you may need to come to the IRC channel to see if someone can help you through the process of getting it installed.
I don't think I have CW mod. I powered on where you can see S-OFF and HBOOT. That menu shows
HBOOT
FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
CLEAR STORAGE
SIM LOCK
If I remember right, if clockwork is installed it will have an entry on that menu..
Highlighted because I'm bored, but it's the recovery option.
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I don't think I have CW mod. I powered on where you can see S-OFF and HBOOT. That menu shows
HBOOT
FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
CLEAR STORAGE
SIM LOCK
If I remember right, if clockwork is installed it will have an entry on that menu..
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I thought that it said something like CW RECOVERY.. I'll try it out..
Ok, this is weird..
I power on holding the down arrow, and I see the HBOOT menu. I try to navigate to "RECOVERY" and nothing happens. There's no response to the volume up, volume down or power buttons.
After about 5 or 6 seconds, the phone automatically goes into "HTC Liberty System Diag 1.0". In this menu I only have two options: "Clean S58 Data" and "Device Info"..
"Device info" gives a bunch of stuff including the serial number, IMEI, etc..
I don't know what "Clean S58 Data" does, so I haven't gone to it
The only way I'm able to exit this menu is by pulling my battery.
Having thought about it a little, if I do have clockwork, then I should be able to just load a new ROM from there without needing to run the LiveCD.. The problem is that since I can't navigate at the HBOOT menu, I can't get into clockwork..
Any ideas?
Choose the Clean S58 option, let it do its thing, then choose reboot. That Clean S58 was the last step in Clockworkmod to root the phone when I did it the other day.
HTH
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Ok, this is weird..
I power on holding the down arrow, and I see the HBOOT menu. I try to navigate to "RECOVERY" and nothing happens. There's no response to the volume up, volume down or power buttons.
After about 5 or 6 seconds, the phone automatically goes into "HTC Liberty System Diag 1.0". In this menu I only have two options: "Clean S58 Data" and "Device Info"..
"Device info" gives a bunch of stuff including the serial number, IMEI, etc..
I don't know what "Clean S58 Data" does, so I haven't gone to it
The only way I'm able to exit this menu is by pulling my battery.
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Thanks to attn1 and the folks on his IRC channel, I was able to get this fixed.
The process of SOFF'ing with the XTC clip puts a diagnostic program (HDIAG) your SD card. Removing the SD card prevented the phone from going to HDIAG and allowed me to navigate to the "recovery" menu in the HBOOT screen.
I had to to quite a bit more to get the phone rooted though. I'll detail that out in the next post..
ShinerDraft said:
I had my original FR008 rooted Aria stolen, and my insurance replacement had the updated AT&T crapware. So, I found someone with an XTC Key. It took 2.5 hours (FML!!) but it's done.
The guy said that he put on the "Z4 Root" ROM. Things seem to work ok, but I'd like to use something more common.. either CM or FR008. Plus, I'm not sure how comfortable I am with some guy in a strip center rooting my phone..
So... when I rooted my original phone, I used the shad0wf0x custom Ubuntu LiveCD. S-OFF is now fixed, but I still have the new version of HBOOT. Can I expect things to work the same?
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Here are the details of what I did to get my phone rooted. Hopefully this will help others that run into some of the the same issues..
The first hurdle was that I couldn't navigate to "recovery" on the HBOOT screen. The phone would not respond to the volume up or volume down buttons, and would boot into HDIAG. The solution to this was to simply remove the SD card. (See my previous post for more info)
So I navigated to "recovery" hoping that it would take me to clockworkmod. Nope. The guy that SOFF'd & rooted my phone did not install clockwork. I got the white HTC screen, and then a black screen with a red triangle & exclamation point over an image of the phone. The phone was trying to start the stock HTC recovery app, which wouldn't work without the SD card installed.
So I needed to install clockworkmod myself. Per Attn1's instructions, this was how: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13650191&postcount=27
I installed the Android SDK which has the adb and fastboot tools on my laptop (Windows 7). (Note: The adb.exe and fastboot.exe applications used to be together in the "\tools" directory. In the latest version of the SDK, adb has been moved to the "\platform-tools" directory. This comes into play later..)
I turned on my phone, connected it to my laptop (charge only, usb debugging on), opened a command prompt in the "\platform-tools" directory, and typed "adb devices" to verify that my phone was connected. It was, so I typed the first command from attn1's post linked above ("adb reboot bootloader"). The phone went to the HBOOT screen. Things were looking good..
I navigated back to the "\tools" folder to run the next command ("fastboot erase cache") using fastboot. I got an error message that a .dll file was missing. I had a hunch that this file might have been moved to the "\platform-tools" directory with adb.exe. Yep, it was there. So I copied the .dll file to the "\tools" folder where fastboot could use it too. (Sorry, I don't remember the name of the file..)
I re-enter the "fastboot erase cache" command and got a response of "waiting on device". I waited a while, and the phone didn't do anything. The IRC folks said it was probably a driver issue, and it was. After a couple of hours (and adult beverages) I got it to work..
I installed HTC sync from this driver pack: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LI4UVDDD
I followed these instructions: http://www.unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php?id=public:windows_hboot_driver_install
I started all over again with attn1's instructions to install clockworkmod from the first step. I copied the "clockwork2501.zip" file into the "\tools" directory and everything went smoothly after that. I thought that I might have to uninstall HTC Sync, but I did not. Your results may vary..
So I disconnected the phone, and powered up to the HBOOT screen. The SD card was still out, so I was able to navigate to "recovery" which now took me to clockworkmod instead of the stock HTC recovery. (I did notice that the phone seems to still try to go into HDIAG. It doesn't respond to volume button navigation for about 5 seconds, then it lists a few files that it can't find on the SD card, then it goes back to the HBOOT screen where it does respond to volume button navigation...)
I powered back down, put in a brand new (larger) SD card, and put the FR008 zip file on it. Powered up to HBOOT, navigated to "recovery", wiped data, wiped cache, wiped dalvik, and then installed FR008 from the zip file.
Done. Finally.
Thanks again to attn1 and all the folks on his IRC. Hopefully this will help others who run into some of the same problems that I did.
ShinerDraft said:
The first hurdle was that I couldn't navigate to "recovery" on the HBOOT screen. The phone would not respond to the volume up or volume down buttons, and would boot into HDIAG. The solution to this was to simply remove the SD card. (See my previous post for more info)
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Yes, alternatively you could have just booted the phone and then deleted the relevant files from the root folder of the SD card. The HBOOT scans the SD card for these files and if it finds them, it automatically loads them, which was the issue. The files I'm talking about are the ones named either LIBEIMG or LIBEDIAG.
I navigated back to the "\tools" folder to run the next command ("fastboot erase cache") using fastboot. I got an error message that a .dll file was missing. I had a hunch that this file might have been moved to the "\platform-tools" directory with adb.exe. Yep, it was there. So I copied the .dll file to the "\tools" folder where fastboot could use it too. (Sorry, I don't remember the name of the file..)
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Really Google intends for you to have the platform-tools folder added to your system PATH variable so that you wouldn't need to move the files around. You can do this by typing the following at the command line prior to running the other commands.
Code:
path %PATH%;C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools
(You would obviously have to adjust this based on where you placed the Android SDK folder.)
(I did notice that the phone seems to still try to go into HDIAG. It doesn't respond to volume button navigation for about 5 seconds, then it lists a few files that it can't find on the SD card, then it goes back to the HBOOT screen where it does respond to volume button navigation...)
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In case you were wondering, this is normal behavior (i.e., happens on all versions of HBOOT). It's just checking for the files I mentioned above. If they aren't found, it then gives you control to select an option in the menu.
Anyway, glad to see you got everything working. I just wanted to touch on a few points in case anyone else is having similar problems and reads this thread.
Background info:
The G Tablet came with 1-1-3389 and I performed the OTA update to 1.1-3588 which went fine. I then rooted it with z4root and that went fine too.
1. I then side loaded ROM Manager and was able to install CWM Recovery and then was able to do a backup of my base ROM.
2. I then copied update-cm-7.0.3-Harmony-signed.zip and gapps-gb-20110307-signed.zip to the internal storage on my G Tablet.
3. In ROM Manager I chose to install ROM and I selected the gapps-gb-20110307-signed.zip and the tablet rebooted and came up in CWM Recovery. I watched it install 7.0.3 and then it rebooted on its own.
4. The tablet now will only come up to the Viewsonic screen with the birds on it and it just sits there.
5. I press the power button and hold it down to power off the tablet. I then press the + side on the volume rocker and press the power button. I get the "Recovery Key Detected" and then get a screen with a box on it with an arrow pointing down and a task bar underneath then it reboots and comes back up to the bird screen and just sits there.
I have read many threads about this but I am not sure just what my problem is exactly. The fact that I am unable to boot into recovery seems to be the biggest issue.
I have downloaded update-smb_a1002-3588-user.zip and update-smb_a1002-3389-user.zip and have went so far as to unzip the 3588 zip and copied its contents to my microSD card and inserted it and have booted it up while holding the + rocker down again...in another post on the subject I thought I should get "Recovery Image detected" due to the fact the microsd has the following on it...
data folder
META-INF folder
boot.img
bootloader.bin
recovery.img
system.img
Or did i totally misunderstand what I read?
Any ideas?
Maybe others can give a more specific answer, but:
If you're willing to completely reset your tablet, you can use nvFlash to get it back to factory condition.
Just Google:
nvFlash "g tablet" roebeet
And follows the steps that roebeet outlines to get your tablet up and running again. It looks rather complicated, because the instructions could be formatted more clearly, but in reality it's a pretty simple process.
Note that doing this WILL erase ANYTHING you have on there.
thanks for the reply....I do not mind losing anything to get it going again
I am back rocking again...thanks!
So I will tell you my story, it all started like this.
The other day I wanted to trade my iPhone 4s for a Galaxy note, So i met up with this guy from craigslist, He had the device, I checked it out, It looked fine and workeed fine, so I took the trade. I saw that he had some personal backgrounds, profiles, etc on the phone do I decided to do a factory reset. I went to settings and followed through with the factory reset. The phone was on the samsung flashing logo, and the battery fell out, I put it back in and powered back on and went straight to the samsung logo, so I assumed it would just pick up from where it left off. I waited about an hour to an hour and a half and it was still on the samsung logo, so I called samsung customer service. I had to do a Hard factory reset, (Hold the 2 volume buttons, and the power button, then let go of the power button) it brought me to some screen that it wasnt suppose to, the Screen was "Team Win Recovery Project v.2.2.1.1" Then it gave me all these on screen buttons to push " Install, Wipe, Backup, Restore, Mount, Settings, Advanced, Reboot" So I clicked install, but there is nothing on the device to install, I have no OS to install, I was just screwing around with it, I click "reboot" and then "System" then it says "No OS installed!Are you sure you wish to reboot?" so I just swipe to reboot, and the phone just gets stuck again and in ittle print at the bottom of the phone it says " E: System is not installed - preventing reboot" so it just stayed there for a while. So then I did some reasearch and I Held the "Volume down button and power button" I that brought me to some thing that was like " WARNING Custom OS can damage the phone or something like that" then it said "Volume Up to continue" or "Volume Down to Cancel (restart phone) so I clicked volume down, and It got stuck at the blinking samsung logo again,I held the same buttons again and Instead of clicking volume down, I clicked the volume up this time, It got stuck on some Android screen, with the big Green android guy. I just took the battery out, now Im back at a black screen. So Now I have this useless paper weight, no cell phone, and I dont have the guys number that sold me the phone.
(PLEASE HELP)
If anyone has some idea of for me what to do, Please post, anything Im desperate!!!
XDA is no longer worth my time.
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So I will tell you my story, it all started like this.
The other day I wanted to trade my iPhone 4s for a Galaxy note, So i met up with this guy from craigslist, He had the device, I checked it out, It looked fine and workeed fine, so I took the trade. I saw that he had some personal backgrounds, profiles, etc on the phone do I decided to do a factory reset. I went to settings and followed through with the factory reset. The phone was on the samsung flashing logo, and the battery fell out, I put it back in and powered back on and went straight to the samsung logo, so I assumed it would just pick up from where it left off. I waited about an hour to an hour and a half and it was still on the samsung logo, so I called samsung customer service. I had to do a Hard factory reset, (Hold the 2 volume buttons, and the power button, then let go of the power button) it brought me to some screen that it wasnt suppose to, the Screen was "Team Win Recovery Project v.2.2.1.1" Then it gave me all these on screen buttons to push " Install, Wipe, Backup, Restore, Mount, Settings, Advanced, Reboot" So I clicked install, but there is nothing on the device to install, I have no OS to install, I was just screwing around with it, I click "reboot" and then "System" then it says "No OS installed!Are you sure you wish to reboot?" so I just swipe to reboot, and the phone just gets stuck again and in ittle print at the bottom of the phone it says " E: System is not installed - preventing reboot" so it just stayed there for a while. So then I did some reasearch and I Held the "Volume down button and power button" I that brought me to some thing that was like " WARNING Custom OS can damage the phone or something like that" then it said "Volume Up to continue" or "Volume Down to Cancel (restart phone) so I clicked volume down, and It got stuck at the blinking samsung logo again,I held the same buttons again and Instead of clicking volume down, I clicked the volume up this time, It got stuck on some Android screen, with the big Green android guy. I just took the battery out, now Im back at a black screen. So Now I have this useless paper weight, no cell phone, and I dont have the guys number that sold me the phone.
(PLEASE HELP)
If anyone has some idea of for me what to do, Please post, anything Im desperate!!!
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Well, if I were you I would install the stock (although rooted) ICS ROM as found here
If you have a microsd card and laptop/home computer I would download a ROM onto the microsd then reinstall it on your NOTE then you can reboot into the "Team Win Recovery" thing as you did before and install according to the instructions found in the thread below.
1) Download the pure ROM as found here in the first post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766933
2) move the zip file to your microsd and then insert to your NOTE (you have to remove the battery to do so).
3) As mentioned, do what you did before to get to the "Team Win Recovery".
4) Follow the instructions for the ROM to install...basically Wipe Data then Factory Reset and then INSTALL the ROM. You will have to look for it on your external card.
andrawer said:
Well, if I were you I would install the stock (although rooted) ICS ROM as found here
If you have a microsd card and laptop/home computer I would download a ROM onto the microsd then reinstall it on your NOTE then you can reboot into the "Team Win Recovery" thing as you did before and install according to the instructions found in the thread below.
1) Download the pure ROM as found here in the first post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766933
2) move the zip file to your microsd and then insert to your NOTE (you have to remove the battery to do so).
3) As mentioned, do what you did before to get to the "Team Win Recovery".
4) Follow the instructions for the ROM to install...basically Wipe Data then Factory Reset and then INSTALL the ROM. You will have to look for it on your external card.
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THANKS SO MUCH, But I need to find away to get the Micro Sd Card into my Mac, and then how to transfer the data
your gonna need to get a card reader to put that micro sd card.
get one of those usb card reader. then connect to your mac.
mac should recognize that with no problem.
So here is what I have done so far, I downloaded the Zip file "SGH-I717-UCLF6PS.zip" to my mac, From there I connected my Galaxy Note to My iMac via USB cable, I kept the micro sd inside the phone. The mac recgonized the Galaxy Note, so I dragged and dropped the file into the folder of the Note, and let in download, Then I open Team Win Recovery Project, hit install, then located the "SGH-I717-UCLF6PS.zip" file, clicked on it, then "Swiped to confirm flash" I did that then I get an error "Unable to open zip file"
Everything seems to go wrong :crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
i have had that happen when my download was corrupt or didnt finish
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i have had that happen when my download was corrupt or didnt finish
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I have a mac also and purchased a cheap card reader that plugs into my usb port.
BUT, if your mac recognized your Note as a device then that should work.
Just got to redownload the zip file and "eject" it after you transfered to the note's microsd.
You actually dont need a card reader or anything. If you plug your phone into your PC and then boot into recovery holding the 2 volume buttons. then choose mounts and storage (i believe thats the catagory, im copying music to my phone so i dont want to reboot right now) in there you want to mount the USB storage, your computer will download the drivers and then ask you if you want to view the files in it. Just copy over a ROM to your SD card or internal storage and install it and your good to go.
Daviddag16 said:
THANKS SO MUCH, But I need to find away to get the Micro Sd Card into my Mac, and then how to transfer the data
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Hi earlier my son was on the nabi 2 and randomly it started spamming "Unfortunately google search has stopped" every 3 - 4 seconds, which affects the keyboard I suppose, now I'm just stuck on the "Enter the password" but no keyboard to do so? Please help me I'm not sure how to run these programs to fix it or how to even start.
"Unfortunately google search has stopped"
eyon99999 said:
hi earlier my son was on the nabi 2 and randomly it started spamming "unfortunately google search has stopped" every 3 - 4 seconds, which affects the keyboard i suppose, now i'm just stuck on the "enter the password" but no keyboard to do so? Please help me i'm not sure how to run these programs to fix it or how to even start.
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hello, my son's nabi is behaving the same. Did you ever get a way around this? If so please post
My daughters is the same. It's incredibly irritating as we can't get into parent mode to try updates. Only thing I can think to do is a factory reset but am loath to do it as she has had this nabi for 3 years and has a lot of stuff on it. Anyone find a solution?
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My daughters is the same. It's incredibly irritating as we can't get into parent mode to try updates. Only thing I can think to do is a factory reset but am loath to do it as she has had this nabi for 3 years and has a lot of stuff on it. Anyone find a solution?
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Not sure what android version you are on. With ADB you could try
adb shell pm clear com.google.android.gms
Otherwise it will likely be a factory reset.
You could try and enter recovery mode and clear the cache.
1. Turn the tablet off completely.
2. Hold volume up and power.
3. A menu should pop up.
4. Use the volume keys to scroll the menu selection. volume down scrolls the menu down.
5. Scroll to recovery kernel and press volume up to select it.
6. Wait until an android lying on it's back with a warning triangle popping from it's body appears.
7. Hold Volume Down, and while you're holding it, press volume up.
8. A menu should appear. Using the volume down button, scroll to "wipe cache partition" and press power to select it.
9. Using the volume down button once again, scroll to "yes" and press power to select it.
10. When it says it's done and the menu is back, press power and the tablet will restart.
This worked for me: delete com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox in data/data
Hello, all. I joined just to post this solution I just discovered.
Problem:
"Unfortunately Google Search stopped working" + no keyboard + thus Nabi is stuck in "Kid Mode" as OP described, because you can't get to system settings in "Mommy Mode" to disable the malfunctioning app, because you can't enter the Mommy Mode password.
Background:
My daughter's Nabi2 tablet (running Android 4.1) did not have USB debugging enabled before it flaked out, so I thought I was out of luck. Moreover, doing "fastboot delete cache" didn't work, nor did deleting the cache and the Dalvik cache via TWRP. But this DID work:
1) Installed Android SDK tools to get fastboot utility working. (How to do this is amply documented elsewhere.)
2) Installed TWRP, twice. First an older version 2.3.x, then 2.8.5.0. You may be able to go straight to 2.8.5.0. but I followed a helpful post on beatificabytes dot be (search for "Nabi 2 Bricked"), who did it in two stages, and this worked easily for me.
3) Optional: I made a backup of my data using TWRP 2.8.5.0, just in case anything went wrong. I also made a backup of the whole system. (The earlier version of TWRP couldn't access the files, but loading 2.8.5.0 enabled me to back up files.)
4) Go to TWRP file manager. (Tap "Advanced" tab, then "File Manager") I navigated to data/data and deleted the whole folder named com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox You have to look carefully for it because the end of the name gets cut off in the left-hand window that lists folders. Just tap the folder name, then when it shows you the contents in the right-hand window, tap delete without tapping anything in the right-hand window. You can verify that you are deleting the whole folder after you tap delete.
5) Exit TWRP. I did not opt to install SuperSU; I left the tablet unrooted. Reboot to normal system.
Voila! "Unfortunately..." no longer appeared, and the keyboard was back!
I took a moment to go into Mommy Mode and enabled USB debugging for future use.
Hope this helps. There seem to be a lot of people trying to fix this bug! Saved me a factory reset and my daughter losing all her progress in her games.
Other folks have suggested directly attaching a keyboard to the Nabi using an "on the go" cable. (Female normal size USB to male micro USB.) I didn't have one handy so didn't try it, but let folks know if it works for you, because it's an easier solution than installing a recovery program. But I am extremely grateful for the TeamWin community and those who ported it for Nabi2.
EJJ
Buy an OTG cable and plug a wired keyboard into the nabi 2. Type your password in and you will be in mommy mode!! The cable costs 1 buck to 3 bucks online. While in mommy mode go to your settings. Open APPS. Select ALL in top right and find Google search. Open it and clear all cached as well as all data! Tablet is back to normal without losing a thing!!!!! I just did this to my nieces today and it worked great!!!