hello,
i just bought the phone and used it for a half a day
after installing a new keyboard from the market the phone just died
wont turn on. cant get into recovery/download mode
after few hours i tried to charge the battery, the phone turned on for like a 30 sec and then died again. now it wont charge, wont communicate with the pc. just dead.
is there something i can do?
thanks,a
Like me Exactly ..
But the difference ..
My device can go through download mode only ..
When itried to go to recovery..
Nothing happen ..
I hope some one help you to help me ..
Factory reset?
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dr.3rman said:
Like me Exactly ..
But the difference ..
My device can go through download mode only ..
When itried to go to recovery..
Nothing happen ..
I hope some one help you to help me ..
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If you can access download mode, flash a new ROM using Odin. Check the dev thread for whatever rom you wish to use. As long as you can get into download mode you're fine.
TheGhost1233 said:
Factory reset?
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how can i do it if the phone wont turn on?
arthurz said:
how can i do it if the phone wont turn on?
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put on charge around 20 min
hold power button, vol down, and home until you will see download mode
after you know what to do...(download Lite'ning Rom and flash from ODIN, after take any rom you want)
Next time when you flash ROM
wipe everything
wipe catch
wipe dalvik
go to mount remount
wipe catch
wipe system
wipe data
avetny said:
put on charge around 20 min
hold power button, vol down, and home until you will see download mode
after you know what to do...(download Lite'ning Rom and flash from ODIN, after take any rom you want)
Next time when you flash ROM
wipe everything
wipe catch
wipe dalvik
go to mount remount
wipe catch
wipe system
wipe data
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thanks for the help, but i wrote in the original post that i cant get into download mod :/
when the phone is connected to the charger there is no sign of charging.
i though to send it to Samsung labs but the phone was bought abroad and they don't have international warranty on mobile phones
arthurz said:
thanks for the help, but i wrote in the original post that i cant get into download mod :/
when the phone is connected to the charger there is no sign of charging.
i though to send it to Samsung labs but the phone was bought abroad and they don't have international warranty on mobile phones
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Get ahold of a USB jig, which may be able to get your phone into download mode.
THANKS FOR THE HELP GUYS
ill keep trying
Hi, this phone can take a while to build up a decent charge, leave it for a couple of hours, if it still wont turn on just double check nothing is obstructing your battery contacts. If all ok then go to your nearest phone shop and explain the problem, ask if you can borrow a battery for a minute just to see if you phone boots. If it boots then it is either not charging or your battery is dead. See if they will let you plug if into charge in the shop with the borrowed battery in, if it charges then it just sounds like you have a duff battery.
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 pretty new to the whole flashing business, so if whatever I asked does not make sense, please be patient. Thanks!
I recently flashed the Neutrino Rom V2.6 from V2.5p2. Got lazy and didn't do a full wipe before flashing (also my battery was at ~5% ) After the installation, I successfully booted into Android, but realized that the fresh ROM didn't have multilingual or sync support (since the Neutrino Rom is a stripped down CM7), so I booted back into recovery (still with low battery)
I subsequently flashed the addons provided by the dev for multilingual and sync support, and when I selected "Go back" in CWM recovery, it displayed a long string of error messages, I believe starting with E:\"........."
Ignoring the error messages, I selected "reboot system", hoping luck would be on my side, but it wasn't
the result of all this is is that I can only "turn on" the phone with it plugged, and it will go through loops at the Moto bootscreen...also if I try to enter recovery by pressing "power+vol down", the screen goes blank and does not enter CWM recovery. Further, I am also unable to charge the battery for some reason, because as soon as I plug the phone into the wall charger, it will go through the Moto bootloop
My question is, is this a hardbrick or softbrick?
If it's a softbrick, is there any way of fixing it, or has somebody else ran into a similar problem?
Please help me out here, like I said, I'm new to the whole world of flashing stuff, so much advice is needed, and any help would be appreciated!
Thanks a lot ahead of time
pkvlover004 said:
I'm pretty new to the whole flashing business, so if whatever I asked does not make sense, please be patient. Thanks!
I recently flashed the Neutrino Rom V2.6 from V2.5p2. Got lazy and didn't do a full wipe before flashing (also my battery was at ~5% ) After the installation, I successfully booted into Android, but realized that the fresh ROM didn't have multilingual or sync support (since the Neutrino Rom is a stripped down CM7), so I booted back into recovery (still with low battery)
I subsequently flashed the addons provided by the dev for multilingual and sync support, and when I selected "Go back" in CWM recovery, it displayed a long string of error messages, I believe starting with E:\"........."
Ignoring the error messages, I selected "reboot system", hoping luck would be on my side, but it wasn't
the result of all this is is that I can only "turn on" the phone with it plugged, and it will go through loops at the Moto bootscreen...also if I try to enter recovery by pressing "power+vol down", the screen goes blank and does not enter CWM recovery. Further, I am also unable to charge the battery for some reason, because as soon as I plug the phone into the wall charger, it will go through the Moto bootloop
My question is, is this a hardbrick or softbrick?
If it's a softbrick, is there any way of fixing it, or has somebody else ran into a similar problem?
Please help me out here, like I said, I'm new to the whole world of flashing stuff, so much advice is needed, and any help would be appreciated!
Thanks a lot ahead of time
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Before you begin, turn OFF phone, remove battery, and connect to wall charger charger. When ? appears, install your battery and let it charge for a long time. NEVER FLASH WITH LOW BATTERY!
You need to reflash your recovery. Before you start, perform a proper WIPE. SKIP THE FIRST 4 STEPS, read this:
CaelanT said:
boot to recovery (DISREGARD)
Wipe Dalvik (DISREGARD)
wipe cache (DISREGARD)
factory reset/data (DISREGARD)
boot into fastboot
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase webtop
fastboot erase preinstall
fastboot reboot
flash ROM in recovery
wipe Dalvik
wipe cache
reboot
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This is the Recovery you should be using: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1204500
Make sure you fully understand before proceeding! If you do not know about fastboot, read up on it.
NOTE: I believe your device is soft bricked.
i have the same problem i was trying to connect my wifi it showed ..error...flashing 1-cm7 rc 1 ....neurtrino ee....darkside.....then neutrino gt in that order i flashed........i get the same thing u get the phone just continues to turn on n off on boot animation screen.....no cwm i just shows a black screeen ............anyone can assist us with are problem
wsxyz said:
i have the same problem i was trying to connect my wifi it showed ..error...flashing 1-cm7 rc 1 ....neurtrino ee....darkside.....then neutrino gt in that order i flashed........i get the same thing u get the phone just continues to turn on n off on boot animation screen.....no cwm i just shows a black screeen ............anyone can assist us with are problem
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Are you able to select Fastboot from the menu?
Soldier-2Point0 said:
Before you begin, turn OFF phone, remove battery, and connect to wall charger charger. When ? appears, install your battery and let it charge for a long time. NEVER FLASH WITH LOW BATTERY!
You need to reflash your recovery. Before you start, perform a proper WIPE read this:
This is the Recovery you should be using: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1204500
Make sure you fully understand before proceeding! If you do not know about fastboot, read up on it.
NOTE: I believe your device is soft bricked.
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Thanks for the reply!
When I plug in the phone without battery, it just goes to the Moto boot screen, and starts the loop again...the usual "?" symbol doesn't appear at all
I've done battery calibration before, where it was required to plug phone into wall charger without battery, and the "?" has always appeared
Soldier-2Point0 said:
Are you able to select Fastboot from the menu?
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I CAN select Fastboot from the menu, but it says "battery too low to flash"
pkvlover004 said:
Thanks for the reply!
When I plug in the phone without battery, it just goes to the Moto boot screen, and starts the loop again...the usual "?" symbol doesn't appear at all
I've done battery calibration before, where it was required to plug phone into wall charger without battery, and the "?" has always appeared
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Can you plug in your phone, with the battery in, to your pc and get to the fastboot, recovery, etc menu???
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pkvlover004 said:
I CAN select Fastboot from the menu, but it says "battery too low to flash"
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Try getting to that menu and let it charge for a while? Have you tried that? ANd I mean, let it charge for about an hour. Charging might take longer than usual because your screen will be on.
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Are you able to select Fastboot from the menu?
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Can you plug in your phone, with the battery in, to your pc and get to the fastboot, recovery, etc menu???
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Try getting to that menu and let it charge for a while? Have you tried that?
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trying to charge at fastboot menu now
will try fastboot/recovery via USB soon
pkvlover004 said:
trying to charge at fastboot menu now
will try fastboot/recovery via USB soon
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Good luck!
update: charging on the fastboot screen now - the battery is a little warm, that means it's getting charged up?
pkvlover004 said:
update: charging on the fastboot screen now - the battery is a little warm, that means it's getting charged up?
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It is possible, but remember your screen is on.
I guess you're good now?
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sorry for the late reply...and thanks for all the help
no actually am not, I still can't get the battery charged up, which is the biggest issue right now...
I think if I can find someway to charge the battery without plugging in the phone, it's possible to enter fastboot with a charged battery
otherwise, even if I get to the bootloader menu (fastboot, nvflash, recovery etc etc), when I plug the phone into the computer and select fastboot, it'll still say "battery too low to flash"
Just a suggestion...trying to help. What if you find out a fresh charged battery before starting the recover procedure? I dunno if it will work because I dunno if there is some kind of serial number checking at this low level in the phone....I see that under no circunstances could you charge your battery again...
Marcelocohenarg said:
Just a suggestion...trying to help. What if you find out a fresh charged battery before starting the recover procedure? I dunno if it will work because I dunno if there is some kind of serial number checking at this low level in the phone....I see that under no circunstances could you charge your battery again...
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pkvlover004 said:
sorry for the late reply...and thanks for all the help
no actually am not, I still can't get the battery charged up, which is the biggest issue right now...
I think if I can find someway to charge the battery without plugging in the phone, it's possible to enter fastboot with a charged battery
otherwise, even if I get to the bootloader menu (fastboot, nvflash, recovery etc etc), when I plug the phone into the computer and select fastboot, it'll still say "battery too low to flash"
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Borrow or buy a battery. Or make a new thread asking how to charge battery. Title on the thread is misleading.
thanks
Soldier-2Point0 said:
Before you begin, turn OFF phone, remove battery, and connect to wall charger charger. When ? appears, install your battery and let it charge for a long time. NEVER FLASH WITH LOW BATTERY!
You need to reflash your recovery. Before you start, perform a proper WIPE. SKIP THE FIRST 4 STEPS, read this:
This is the Recovery you should be using: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1204500
Make sure you fully understand before proceeding! If you do not know about fastboot, read up on it.
NOTE: I believe your device is soft bricked.
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i use this method n it worked thanks..to bad my wifi still shows up error after i attempt to connect it it doesn't reboot thats good i think
low battery
Even i am stuck in recovery. No matter how many times i flash a ROM after wipe data/ cache partition and dalvik and then install the ROM i still boot into recovery when the ROM asks to reboot the device.
Here's what happened
1. Had a nandroid backup of older version of CWM mostly 5.0.2.x
2. Based on Nottachtrix thread installed the romracer recovery(updated flashable zip)
3. Updated to Nottachtrix 1.3.1 and successfully booted
4. Figured out that contacts everything weren't synced. So wanted to go back to older CM7 rom using restore ROM
5. Something went wrong during restoration. Data and other wern't restored and i guess only boot had been restored
6. Endless loop into recovery thereafter.
Trying out different things like flashing boot.img, recovery etc battery drained and couldn't flash.
Fasbtoot and other options triggered by using volume buttons and power button works fine. RDS also detects the device but bootloader unknown and other info all were unknown.
Since battery drained i was searching on methods to charge the battery. Had figured out that custom method for charging the phone needs to be implemented.
While playing around again with phone i powered it through directly through charger and opted for linux cold-booting which gave me the battery icon with the question mark on screen. Popped in the battery and it started to charge. So now i know i can charge the battery using this method.
I am yet to make progress on flashing ROM successfully again. Is my backup lost ? Did the error happen because i backed up using an older version of CWM or flashing to Nottachtrix changed something
I even restored successfully to my previous ROM after deleting .android secure from ext SDcard but still it threw me to CWM only :|
Help appreciated.
Just have an query about this problem.
The battery of the phone was quite low and the phone started heating up and switched off. Tried to leave the phone on charge for a few hours and it didn't show any reaction at all.
I have tried the hard button reboot (Power, Home and Volume Up/Down) but to no avail.
Then I left the battery out for while, inserted it and still didn't charge.
Thr phone is not rooted and the software hasn't been tampered with at all.
Any other way to attempt fixing it?
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A jig or try a different charged battery.
I had the same problem, I think. Try this:
1) Remove the battery.
2) Plug the phone on the power cable.
3) Insert the battery with the phone plugged.
I had the same problem, I think. Try this:
1) Remove the battery.
2) Plug the phone on the power cable.
3) Insert the battery with the phone plugged.
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if the above does not work, then please put your phone to recovery and do a factory reset or at least
- wipe cache partition
- wipe dalvik cache (under advanced)
- fix permissions (under advanced)
and if you reeally can't get to recovery,
then go to download mode and flash another firmware from sammobile.com
cheers
Was flashing a rom on ss 3.65 when screen went black and device bricked, now i can boot only to the picture of the sick android and PC only sees it as an unreconizable usb device, tried reinstalling motorolas drive to no avail. Until pc can see it properly i cant go to RSD and reflash. Any sugestions?
Thanks all
Did you do a nandroid backup when you first rooted and added safestrap? Just hold down pretty Ten seconds till reboot and restore...unless you try till flash on safe side...I ran into same and rsd...my computer wouldn't read either but I reopen loaded driver from Moto site, then kept plugging unplugging sub till it read....good luck
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mpdayii said:
Did you do a nandroid backup when you first rooted and added safestrap? Just hold down pretty Ten seconds till reboot and restore...unless you try till flash on safe side...I ran into same and rsd...my computer wouldn't read either but I reopen loaded driver from Moto site, then kept plugging unplugging sub till it read....good luck
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I have the backup problem is i think the recovery bugged it self, so i cant boot into safestrap, otherwise would have restored....
Now i can go to AP fastboot but it says battery is low, tried charging on the wall, on the pc, no sucess. Whats the fix to the low battery? Any magical charging way?
brosso said:
Now i can go to AP fastboot but it says battery is low, tried charging on the wall, on the pc, no sucess. Whats the fix to the low battery? Any magical charging way?
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Last time I had this, I booted into fastboot and left it 1 hour on charger, this helped me to get rsd working working, otherwise only a factory cable
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Turn off device and put on charger....should charge then..only way I could get mine to charge when I had same problems...
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Hi all, I have a Motorola xt912, not accidentally flash its firmware (droid 4 utilyti xt894), now the phone will not turn and no shows in PC (no windows 7, not Ubuntu), use normal USB and factory Cable, tried almost everything to no avail, help please