Hi all,
Had my SGS3 for a few weeks now and it's been good for the most part, but as of a few days ago things started to go wrong.
Had a message from Orange saying that i've been using my phone out of the EU and i've used 2MB (even though i haven't) this issue hasn't raised it's head again, i also had four apps install themselves, "slots", "cab app", "droid apps" and "new message", i've since wiped and had no issues.
Then this morning i had an icon show up saying car mode enabled, click here to disable, theres nothing i can do to remove it besides reboot the phone and then it promptly comes back again
The other one is since installing villain rom, which has been a solid rom and the dev's there are top notch so i don't even think it's the rom, but i've been getting a strange error too.
Also getting rebooting of the phone randomly also happens and again theres nothing i can do about that either.
I've attached screengrabs of both the car mode issue after i click on the notification and the error i'm getting when using villainrom.
Any help at all with any of these issues would be great.
Many thanks.
PS: Things i've tried:
Rebooting.
Full wipe, data, cache and dalvic.
Re downloaded the rom and full wiped again.
Cleared the internal and external memory.
Tried different kernels
The car mode issue was also present on Omega rom and i imagine it would follow me onto any other rom, i'm actually suspecting that it's some malware which has been left behind and has installed itself, so even after wiping it's just installing itself again.
I don't use apk's too much but i do use titanium after every flash although i am careful as to what i install.
Might i need to go back to stock and start over?
Thanks.
~EDIT: Just used the toolkit to go back to a stock rom and i'm still receiving errors "Unfortunately the process android.process.acore has stopped ?? wtf? It's supposed to be clean?
Anyone?
EDIT 2: Re rooted the phone and everything went perfect, flashed a custom rom and still good, then signed into google and as it was loading up my numbers and changing my wallpaper, attempting to download my apps, it crashes, i reboot and as soon as it's connected and trying to finish off what it was doing, it reboots again? This lump of **** is going back.
Baad.
Bump.
Yeah.bump. don't know what is causing this. But try this
Full wipe, go to mount/storage and format system, then flash new rom
Do have full access to all your apps,if not then your phone is on "safe mode/car mode" and i never use that feature, so i don't know how to turn it off.
Hope this can help
dladz said:
Bump.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Maybe if you "tick-off" the sync_with_google option before finishing the first time gmail setup??
And you could try Settings --> Back up and reset --> and untick Automatic Restore??
Good luck
zodiaxe66 said:
Yeah.bump. don't know what is causing this. But try this
Full wipe, go to mount/storage and format system, then flash new rom
Do have full access to all your apps,if not then your phone is on "safe mode/car mode" and i never use that feature, so i don't know how to turn it off.
Hope this can help
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Completely unrooted, flashed a stock rom, still having issues.
Called orange, getting a new phone tomorrow, courier to my door Now that's service.
Don't know how to fix the issue but i had 6 reboots on the train on the way to work, couldnt' even send a text.
System was clean, i'd already wiped anything that could be wiped.
Hardware issue.
QuaQuaRaQuaQua said:
Maybe if you "tick-off" the sync_with_google option before finishing the first time gmail setup??
And you could try Settings --> Back up and reset --> and untick Automatic Restore??
Good luck
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sign in or don't sign in, the problem persists.
Car mode has stayed away but the reboots are still present, for a 20 day old phone i think it's utter bull****.
Must have been tested by a bunch of corpses, either that or the testers were high and thought it'd be funny to send out some dud unit's.
Even in my place of work, i sometimes set up client's phones, up til now i've done hundreds, about 10 of them have been dead from the box, some have had issues with the touchscreen, lalalalallalalaaaaaa, not good enough samsung, i understand that some bad eggs can slip through the net but for me the ratio is just too high.
Like i said, i'll be getting a spanking new phone delivered tomorrow morning, hopefully this one isn't on it's arse.
zodiaxe66 said:
Yeah.bump. don't know what is causing this. But try this
Full wipe, go to mount/storage and format system, then flash new rom
Do have full access to all your apps,if not then your phone is on "safe mode/car mode" and i never use that feature, so i don't know how to turn it off.
Hope this can help
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If this issue is happening to you, send it back, mine went from being on it's knees to being on it's back in a coffin in one day.
I would suggest you do a full wipe as suggested and try to use a different GMAIL account initially to see if your issues return.
burmo said:
I would suggest you do a full wipe as suggested and try to use a different GMAIL account initially to see if your issues return.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
M8, i HAVE done a full wipe, i've also signed in AND not signed in as i've previously said.
Both yielded the same results.
....................................
Clean Slate for those that balls up the firmware .Or need to return to service or decide if its hardware/firmware problem .
Backup data first if phone is working .
Boot CWM recovery
Mounts and Storage
Format cache data system sd card .
Remove battery
Boot to download mode
Open Odin
Install correct stock firmware for your phone .
Still problems Triangle Away to set rom counter to zero flash stock rom .
Return to service centre .
jje
Clean Slate for those that balls up the firmware .Or need to return to service or decide if its hardware/firmware problem .
Backup data first if phone is working .
Boot CWM recovery
Mounts and Storage
Format cache data system sd card .
Remove battery
Boot to download mode
Open Odin
Install correct stock firmware for your phone .
WHoa
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm not sure what your addressing here?
Balls'ed up the firmware? Not likely sunshine, not me
NO i think you'll find that this ***** has hardware issues, at least since it still reboots at stock.
Either way if someone does want to go back to stock then there is only one place they need to go to.
There is no script or anything else needed for it.
Just the tool kit.
Congrats, u neither helped me nor, did anything else, u just gave some unwanted info. Kudos i think????
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE POINT OF YOUR POST, AT ALLLLLL.]
/I'm not sure what your thanks meter represents??
Related
I previously had the S2, I've just got the S3 and I've managed to somehow restore it to factory settings; in this case, factory settings meant nearly no system apps.
I managed to push Play and TiBu to the phone, then restored Swiftkey (the default keyboard was wiped) and then... well, a few hours later, here I am. Play doesn't entirely work, it throws "Server error" whenever I try to use it. I've managed to set up my Google account, though. I'm sure I can restore the remainder of my apps using TiBu, but it'd still be useful to be able to get these apps updated, for example.
I've tried searching and all I can turn up are posts/threads/articles about restoring to factory settings, but this was the problem.
I'd be extremely grateful to someone that could tell me how to:
Get the phone working in the current state (I'll gladly supply any further information required), or;
Restore it to the original, stock, out-of-the-box I9300 ROM and apps
Of course, if another post already does instruct on one or more of the above, I apologise, and I'll gladly look at those if someone could point me in the right direction.
jamess362 said:
I previously had the S2, I've just got the S3 and I've managed to somehow restore it to factory settings; in this case, factory settings meant nearly no system apps.
Thats wrong all system apps should be restored .
Suggest one factory reset phone via recovery menu .
Fails then match your current rom details to one in stock rom/branded rom thread .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671969
jje
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Suggest one factory reset phone via recovery menu .
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I've tried this - multiple times - and it doesn't seem to help. Seems like CM doesn't actually install the stock apps? Unusual, or perhaps I'm doing something wrong.
Fails then match your current rom details to one in stock rom/branded rom thread .
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm currently downloading stock, and will post back when something more has happened.
Hey, so I've tried the above; it seems to work except that the phone gets stuck on the Samsung logo screen while booting.
I'm not sure whether I just need to wait longer for it, but it's been a while now and I'm not sure that this has worked.
Is there any way for me to find out whether I just need to wait, or whether there's something else that's gone wrong here?
Something is going wrong .
Factory restore just reinstalls the last flashed firmware file including all its apps .
Stuck at boot loop pull battery replace and see if it boots if not flash stock firmware again following the instructions .
jje
So perhaps something is seriously wrong.
I've removed then replaced the battery, then I've re-flashed stock firmware, and still stuck on logo screen - the glowing Samsung logo, mind, not the Samsung I9300 screen. But still no luck.
I've rooted my S2 plenty of times with no such problem, I have no idea what to do next, though.
Any more ideas?
Fixen (somehow)
So at some point after one of the backups I've done this morning, it's started working. Not sure why, but hurrah! :laugh:
Hello everyone, I hope I'm posting in the good section.
I usually can find solutions to my problems by searching and reading, but this time, I can't, and I have a huge problem.
As the title says, every new application that I install since a few days ago will crash when I try to use it. When I do, the phone will hang for a few seconds, then a message saying "unfortunately, <appname> has stopped", with two choices given: OK and report.
Every other app that was installed before still works. I uninstalled an app that worked and reinstalled it, it doesn't work anymore.
I have a galaxy S3 i9300, with jelly bean 4.1.1 (official rom from my carrier SFR), rooted with SuperSU through exynos abuse.
I don't know exactly when the problem actually happened (realized by trying to install and run new apps), but here is what I did before realizing the problem and that may be the source:
I tried to replace the android.policy.jar file to activate long press volume buttons to change songs. Didn't work, put the original back in place (with total commander).
I tried to installed Xposed after that to activate it, but it crashed too, so I uninstalled it.
Now that I think about it, it may have been with the same error message, but I can't say for sure. I dismissed it, thinking it was not compatible with JB and forgot it.
I uninstalled AdService through the task manager, and reinstalled it after realizing the problem, by using the apk backuped by rootuninstaller. But I can't force stop it from the task manager, so I guess it's not even running.
I also softbricked (stuck on boot logo) it by installing Chainfire3D on JB (I know, stupid of me. I did read the description though, but missed the "doesn't work on JB" somehow). I was able to unbrick it by using "adb -d shell su -c "/system/lib/cf3d_uninstall.sh"" (would that command work if the phone is not rooted by the way? I'd guess yes but I'm not sure) from my computer while the phone was in recovery mode (thanks to a user of this forum for the tip), but it was before all that and I'm sure I installed apps after that that would work.
Now when an app crash, the report is always the same:
Exception class name: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException
Source file: BaseDexClassLoader.java
Source class: dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader
Source method: findClass
Line number: 61
The stacktrace is also always the same, and is basically what's above.
I fear that I may have lost some system files (even though I don't remember modifying any beside android.policy.jar nor granting root access to apps that would. I didn't tinker a lot with my phone).
The strange thing though is that old apps still works, which leads me to think that maybe it is thanks to the dalvik cache and odex files that I read about (but don't know much) but that newly installed apps don't have.
I'd really appreciate any kind of help. Otherwise I guess I'll have to reset to factory settings, but I'd like to avoid that if I can.
Thanks in advance.
You're not, General is not for questions. Q&A is
Glebun said:
You're not, General is not for questions. Q&A is
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Aw, such a fail... So would a kind moderator move the thread there or should I repost it and let this one drown to the abyss of this section?
If no one else comes up with any answers, I'd say that your best option would be to wipe everything and install a stock ROM again. That should sort it out.
DeadSOL said:
If no one else comes up with any answers, I'd say that your best option would be to wipe everything and install a stock ROM again. That should sort it out.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's what I'm thinking about, but I have a question about that: would the reset to factory option from the recovery menu work? I see a lot of people advising to flash a stock rom, is there a difference between both (I do not have CWM)?
And is there a difference between "factory settings" and "store settings"? I mean, if I reset it to factory, will I have my phone in the same state I did when I bought it (with my carriers modifications and apps) or not?
hey01 said:
Aw, such a fail... So would a kind moderator move the thread there or should I repost it and let this one drown to the abyss of this section?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You ask via the report button on your post .
Wipe phone factory reset .
jje
hey01 said:
That's what I'm thinking about, but I have a question about that: would the reset to factory option from the recovery menu work? I see a lot of people advising to flash a stock rom, is there a difference between both (I do not have CWM)?
And is there a difference between "factory settings" and "store settings"? I mean, if I reset it to factory, will I have my phone in the same state I did when I bought it (with my carriers modifications and apps) or not?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes, I always factory reset via Recovery. This will give you a clean ROM with no extra apps installed.
Buuuuuut you need to repair your ROM since you messed with it. Just flash a stock ROM and you're good to go!
DeadSOL said:
Yes, I always factory reset via Recovery. This will give you a clean ROM with no extra apps installed.
Buuuuuut you need to repair your ROM since you messed with it. Just flash a stock ROM and you're good to go!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok, so I seemed to have mistaken a few things, I thought the factory reset did reinstall the rom, but apparently it just wipes user data and settings. And it also seems that flashing a new rom doesn't erase everything, such as CWM or similar things, right? So I wonder if it would solve my problem or not.
Also, I just realized, when in recovery mode, I have the classic 6 options in blue at the top, but then in the middle, I have this in yellow:
# MANUAL MODE #
-- Appling Multi-CSC...
Applied the CSC-code : SFR
Successfully applied multi-CSC.
And in the background, the android robot lies open with a red warning sign above.
The typo in "Applying Multi-CSC" and the warning sign make me think that this is not as it should be and there is a problem.
Would flashing also solve that problem, if it is one?
I'm sorry for the noob questions, but even though I'm reading a lot of guides and tutorials, I'm still quite confused.
The problem got worse: I did the wipe data/factory reset, and things got worse: when booting, I get dozens of "application stopped". Literally all of them, it's hard to even turn off the phone (need to press ok on all the popup to reach the shutdown button).
So I then tried to flash my phone, but problem again. I followed this guide exactly, but when I press start, Odin 3.04 hangs for a bit and crashes, be it on a windows XP or 7. It writes:
"checking md5... do not unplug the cable
please wait"
and crashes
I then tried to download another version, 3.07, but when I put the firmware in Odin, it does the md5 check at that moment and crashes again, on both computers, so it seems the problem isn't even related to the phone.
My phone is totally unusable now if I can't flash it, I'd really need some help.
hey01 said:
Ok, so I seemed to have mistaken a few things, I thought the factory reset did reinstall the rom, but apparently it just wipes user data and settings.
WRONG it reinstall the rom .
And it also seems that flashing a new rom doesn't erase everything, such as CWM or similar things, right?
Correct unless its a wipe rom .
The problem got worse: I did the wipe data/factory reset, and things got worse: when booting, I get dozens of "application stopped". Literally all of them, it's hard to even turn off the phone (need to press ok on all the popup to reach the shutdown button).
Sounds like the firmware stored in recovery is damaged .
Download a stock rom and flash via Odin and report failure point if it does not work .
jje
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
JJEgan said:
hey01 said:
Ok, so I seemed to have mistaken a few things, I thought the factory reset did reinstall the rom, but apparently it just wipes user data and settings.
WRONG it reinstall the rom .
And it also seems that flashing a new rom doesn't erase everything, such as CWM or similar things, right?
Correct unless its a wipe rom .
The problem got worse: I did the wipe data/factory reset, and things got worse: when booting, I get dozens of "application stopped". Literally all of them, it's hard to even turn off the phone (need to press ok on all the popup to reach the shutdown button).
Sounds like the firmware stored in recovery is damaged .
Download a stock rom and flash via Odin and report failure point if it does not work .
jje
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok, I downloaded another rom from another forum, specific from my carrier, and Odin didn't crash. I flashed my phone, and it's working again. Only thing still worrying is that warning sign over the open android robot if I boot in recovery mode. It is still there and I can't find anywhere what it means.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Update, if any case someone has the same problem and ends here:
I tried once again to activate that long press, replace the .jar with another, it didn't work (I guess it does only on deodexed ones). Replaced the new jar by the original one, and the crashing new apps problem arised again.
Being less panicked than last time, I realized the permissions changed. The android.policy.jar should be rw-r--r--, as every other file there, but they were rw-------. So yes, bound to make problems.
So adb -d shell su -c "mount -o remount rw /system"
and then used total commander to change the permissions back to original. Rebooted, it works.
OK. So. I've been encountering nothing but problems since I received my Huawei Ascend P2 phone.
To begin with -
I bought the phone for the sole purpose of it being 4G/LTE. When I got it, I couldn't figure out how to get it, so I contacted Three and was told that my phone had to be 4.3 - it was running 4.1.2.
When I tried to get 4.3 through whatever means, it stopped working.
I tried to do a complete factory reset and now I'm getting many more problems -
I keep getting errors that anything Google related has stopped working (especially Google keyboard).
My contacts won't auto-sync, despite me having my Google account synced up with it.
The icons at the bottom of the screen (back, home, settings/whatever else) won't light up and the home button isn't working.
It's a different loading screen than normal - before it was a Huawei Ascend splash screen, now it just says "Android".
It is not being detected by my laptop whatsoever.
When I try and download anything using a browser, it says "starting download" but nothing works.
So, anyone have a solution? It is driving me demented. And all because I wanted bloody 4G.
boneyarsebogman said:
OK. So. I've been encountering nothing but problems since I received my Huawei Ascend P2 phone.
To begin with -
I bought the phone for the sole purpose of it being 4G/LTE. When I got it, I couldn't figure out how to get it, so I contacted Three and was told that my phone had to be 4.3 - it was running 4.1.2.
When I tried to get 4.3 through whatever means, it stopped working.
I tried to do a complete factory reset and now I'm getting many more problems -
I keep getting errors that anything Google related has stopped working (especially Google keyboard).
My contacts won't auto-sync, despite me having my Google account synced up with it.
The icons at the bottom of the screen (back, home, settings/whatever else) won't light up and the home button isn't working.
It's a different loading screen than normal - before it was a Huawei Ascend splash screen, now it just says "Android".
It is not being detected by my laptop whatsoever.
When I try and download anything using a browser, it says "starting download" but nothing works.
So, anyone have a solution? It is driving me demented. And all because I wanted bloody 4G.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I think we need some more info on the attempt to upgrade via whatever means. What steps / guide were you following? Did you install a custom rom? If so, what rom and what recovery are you using? From a few minutes of searching around, it seems that there is no official 4.3 update for the phone, and just being ON 4.3 itself will not automagically enable LTE service as this has much to do with the radio/baseband used as much as the actual operating system and that will not get updated via a custom rom (99.999% of the time unless SPECIFICALLY stated). Seems like they are working on an LTE capable update/patch for 4.1.2 soon according to this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50495570&postcount=162 (that post is part of a thread about your phone on a UK carrier so should be pertinent).
es0tericcha0s said:
I think we need some more info on the attempt to upgrade via whatever means. What steps / guide were you following? Did you install a custom rom? If so, what rom and what recovery are you using? From a few minutes of searching around, it seems that there is no official 4.3 update for the phone, and just being ON 4.3 itself will not automagically enable LTE service as this has much to do with the radio/baseband used as much as the actual operating system and that will not get updated via a custom rom (99.999% of the time unless SPECIFICALLY stated). Seems like they are working on an LTE capable update/patch for 4.1.2 soon according to this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50495570&postcount=162 (that post is part of a thread about your phone on a UK carrier so should be pertinent).
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thank you for your reply.
I'll talk you through the steps I took as much as I can.
Firstly I rooted the phone using eRoot, which did work and allowed root access.
I then downloaded P2Tools, which was obtained from this thread and it allowed me to put CWM on it.
Once this was done, I attempted to put CM 10.2 on it, but kept getting a Status 7 error. Some quick Googling later, I discovered this video, which showed how to solve it.
When I followed the steps on there, I kept getting a Status 0 error.
That was when I started to encounter those problems, so I wiped everything I could, even system, but that part failed.
And that's about it.
boneyarsebogman said:
Thank you for your reply.
I'll talk you through the steps I took as much as I can.
Firstly I rooted the phone using eRoot, which did work and allowed root access.
I then downloaded P2Tools, which was obtained from this thread and it allowed me to put CWM on it.
Once this was done, I attempted to put CM 10.2 on it, but kept getting a Status 7 error. Some quick Googling later, I discovered this video, which showed how to solve it.
When I followed the steps on there, I kept getting a Status 0 error.
That was when I started to encounter those problems, so I wiped everything I could, even system, but that part failed.
And that's about it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
K. So you are still on the stock rom, rooted, with CWM recovery (which version?), and after you attempted to wipe /system, it failed to wipe (what was the error message there?), and now it boots and has all kinds of weird glitches? First thing to try would be to go back to CWM and wipe Cache and Dalvik Cache and then Fix Permissions. This MIGHT help. If it doesn't then you will just probably want to throw a stock rom back on there to get back to running right again.
es0tericcha0s said:
K. So you are still on the stock rom, rooted, with CWM recovery (which version?), and after you attempted to wipe /system, it failed to wipe (what was the error message there?), and now it boots and has all kinds of weird glitches? First thing to try would be to go back to CWM and wipe Cache and Dalvik Cache and then Fix Permissions. This MIGHT help. If it doesn't then you will just probably want to throw a stock rom back on there to get back to running right again.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I've wiped the Caches and Dalvik Cache and can't seem to find "Fix Permissions". I did some searching and it seems this feature was removed from CWM? I'm running v6.0.3.7 of CMW.
When I try to format the system, it says
E:format_volume failed to unmount "/system"
Error formatting /system!
Weird, they did take it out. Koush said it was a placebo. Which normally I would take as law, if it weren't for many times I have ran fix permissions and it caused apps that were force closing to not force close anymore. But whatever, if you wanna try, flash this: http://db.tt/9aWdF8Rp. It'll either help fix something, or do nothing. Won't make it any worse. If it can't mount to format though, it's either or a bug with CWM for your device, or after factory reset, reboot recovery and try again. But you really don't want to wipe /system unless you have a nandroid or another rom on your storage that is accessible.
Thanks so much for your help so far. Took me ages to figure out how to get that file on my phone, but I managed to do it. I then installed zip from recovery mode and chose the fix_permissions. Then reboot and it asked me to root the phone again. It's now upgrading and hopefully it will work now.
It is still saying "Unfortunately, Android keyboard has stopped" and other things. What do you reckon I can do now? You're right, it seems like I can't make it any worse.
boneyarsebogman said:
Thanks so much for your help so far. Took me ages to figure out how to get that file on my phone, but I managed to do it. I then installed zip from recovery mode and chose the fix_permissions. Then reboot and it asked me to root the phone again. It's now upgrading and hopefully it will work now.
It is still saying "Unfortunately, Android keyboard has stopped" and other things. What do you reckon I can do now? You're right, it seems like I can't make it any worse.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok. So looks like first thing to check is to see WHICH version of the P2 you have because it seems like there are at least 2 different sub versions of it. The P2-6070 and the P2-6011. Please go to Settings / About Phone/Device and let me know all the software info there.
Also, have you unlocked the bootloader (I'm guessing so since you have recovery, but just checking)?
I found some more info on how to get you back up and running, but want to confirm the system version so everything goes as smoothly as possible. There's a new update that just came out not too long ago that people are saying LTE works on, so hopefully we can get you to that point.
es0tericcha0s said:
Ok. So looks like first thing to check is to see WHICH version of the P2 you have because it seems like there are at least 2 different sub versions of it. The P2-6070 and the P2-6011. Please go to Settings / About Phone/Device and let me know all the software info there.
Also, have you unlocked the bootloader (I'm guessing so since you have recovery, but just checking)?
I found some more info on how to get you back up and running, but want to confirm the system version so everything goes as smoothly as possible. There's a new update that just came out not too long ago that people are saying LTE works on, so hopefully we can get you to that point.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Mine is the P2-6011.
Swear if we get this working, never changing anything ever.
Yes, the bootloader is unlocked.
Alright, so here is a link for the newest firmware for your phone :
http://huaweidevices.ru/ROM4221/P2/...R001C00B038CUSTC19D001_United_Kingdom_H3G.rar
Need to be on stock recovery. Unpack the rar file and put the whole folder /dload on the root of the SD card. This has the update.app that should take care of everything for you. Turn off the phone and turn it on by holding Vol + and - and Power together. This is supposed to boot it into the mode to take care of the update for you.
If you don't wanna go back to complete stock, I have another way that involves switching to TWRP recovery and restoring a rom via nandroid restore. If you'd prefer that, lemme know and I'll shoot you the links.
es0tericcha0s said:
Alright, so here is a link for the newest firmware for your phone :
http://huaweidevices.ru/ROM4221/P2/...R001C00B038CUSTC19D001_United_Kingdom_H3G.rar
Need to be on stock recovery. Unpack the rar file and put the whole folder /dload on the root of the SD card. This has the update.app that should take care of everything for you. Turn off the phone and turn it on by holding Vol + and - and Power together. This is supposed to boot it into the mode to take care of the update for you.
If you don't wanna go back to complete stock, I have another way that involves switching to TWRP recovery and restoring a rom via nandroid restore. If you'd prefer that, lemme know and I'll shoot you the links.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If I ever meet you I definitely owe you a drink. Did exactly as you said and everything (from what I can tell) is working.
It's one of the things I love about Android phones - unless you do some serious damage to it physically, for the most part it is fixable.
So, thanks button isn't enough - you saved me giving up and buying a new phone
*Hi Five* Glad all is well!
But yea, I do this for a living. Seriously. Helping people on here is how I stay sharp. lol
getting a gateway 504 error from link to firmware, would love to get this update working as i keep getting a notification on phone saying update available but it wont work
boneyarsebogman said:
Thank you for your reply.
I'll talk you through the steps I took as much as I can.
Firstly I rooted the phone using eRoot, which did work and allowed root access.
I then downloaded P2Tools, which was obtained from this thread and it allowed me to put CWM on it.
Once this was done, I attempted to put CM 10.2 on it, but kept getting a Status 7 error. Some quick Googling later, I discovered this video, which showed how to solve it.
When I followed the steps on there, I kept getting a Status 0 error.
That was when I started to encounter those problems, so I wiped everything I could, even system, but that part failed.
And that's about it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Can you post the link of the CM 10.2 rom For huawei P2.
I search for a long long time. but still dosnt found a rom.
Thx
Sorry for digging this up but does someone have the stock ROM of the P2? Im stuck like the fella who started this thread and havent found the stock ROM anywhere.
Thanks for the attention.
So I was having an issue with an older version of fre ROM where the screen wouldn't turn on. Usually I could just do a battery pull and reboot and that would fix it. Recently it got worse where the screen would be blank even after a battery pull, you could hear the device booting as well as vibrate upon turning on but the screen was just blank and unresponsive. I figured out that I could boot download mode first and reboot from there and that would fix the problem on the first try. Today my screen turned off and nothing would fix it: rebooting phone, trying to boot into recovery, booting into download mode, nothing.
So I get home and charge the phone hoping I would be able to run ODIN without the screen being visible. Thankfully after about an hour on the charger I was able to get the phone to finally boot with the screen on, lol. Figuring this was a sign that I should stop being lazy I ODIN'ed Android 4.4, ODIN'd TWRP recovery, then did a full install of the latest fre rom. When the phone booted and Android finished updating everything was set up exactly the way it was before I started the process.
My noob question is this: how does Android remember all your settings and apps even after doing a full wipe through ODIN? I mean I didn't even have to log into Google or anything. Does ODIN not fully wipe the phone like it did back in the day?
Thats weird. At the very least you should have had to log back in with Google acct. Odin should wipe everything. Ive heard of it wiping ext sd card on some devices.
Real_JESRadio said:
Thats weird. At the very least you should have had to log back in with Google acct. Odin should wipe everything. Ive heard of it wiping ext sd card on some devices.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah I know. I remember it happened the last time I ODIN'd too. Not that I'm complaining, it makes life way easier, but I wish I knew how to get a complete wipe for future use. Maybe I need to check reformat if I want to get full wipe.
1greek4u said:
Yeah I know. I remember it happened the last time I ODIN'd too. Not that I'm complaining, it makes life way easier, but I wish I knew how to get a complete wipe for future use. Maybe I need to check reformat if I want to get full wipe.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
What version of Odin are you using? I've had the best luck on 1.85
Real_JESRadio said:
What version of Odin are you using? I've had the best luck on 1.85
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I used 3.09. I have no problems flashing. I'm on the new version of Android that I flashed. It's just when I start up the phone my desktop is setup exactly the way it was and all the apps I already had are either already on the phone or download/update themselves. I never even have to log into Google or re-enter passwords for facebook, pandora, wifi, etc. Maybe it's a feature of fre ROM or something but I find it weird that it would remember all that considering I used ODIN with stock 4.4.4 before I flashed fre ROM. Where would that information even get stored?
1greek4u said:
I used 3.09. I have no problems flashing. I'm on the new version of Android that I flashed. It's just when I start up the phone my desktop is setup exactly the way it was and all the apps I already had are either already on the phone or download/update themselves. I never even have to log into Google or re-enter passwords for facebook, pandora, wifi, etc. Maybe it's a feature of fre ROM or something but I find it weird that it would remember all that considering I used ODIN with stock 4.4.4 before I flashed fre ROM. Where would that information even get stored?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No way you are getting a full clean wipe then. Search Odin v 1.85 here on XDA and try that. On my Note 3 i Odin d back to 4.4.2 rerooted and installed Philz recovery. Solved almost all issues i was having. My phone did not like NH7 4.4.4. Supposed to be an update coming December early to fix those issues but i just grabbed a Note 4
Hey All,
I've upgraded my 925F to Official MM 6.0.1. Rooted it through kernel Xspace and then installed recovery TWRP_3.0_MM_S6_by_ManhIT
My only concern is when I'm in TWRP I can't reboot, it just freezes.
I can nandroid backup no problem just the reboot part freezes TWRP.
Anyone else had this problem? is there another TWRP to be used?
nb : I tried clearing cache + dalvik, freezes still happen before rebooting.
thanks for ur help.
kaemon said:
Hey All,
I've upgraded my 925F to Official MM 6.0.1. Rooted it through kernel Xspace and then installed recovery TWRP_3.0_MM_S6_by_ManhIT
My only concern is when I'm in TWRP I can't reboot, it just freezes.
I can nandroid backup no problem just the reboot part freezes TWRP.
Anyone else had this problem? is there another TWRP to be used?
nb : I tried clearing cache + dalvik, freezes still happen before rebooting.
thanks for ur help.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try this TWRP form arter... this is the only TWRP being use by many of us here.. you flash it through odin or recovery...
I had the same problem and i solved changing my kernel
Inviato dal mio SM-G925F utilizzando Tapatalk
fabiok81 said:
I had the same problem and i solved changing my kernel
Inviato dal mio SM-G925F utilizzando Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The issue is not the kernel... its the recovery that doesn't work when reboot to system is touch and is freezing..
Go to advance then terminal
Write reboot
Easy!
Yes i know the iusse is about the recovery but it seems because there is not compatibility between some recovery and some kernel. I tried various recovery 3.0 and i have always a kind of freeze. The TWRP... by Manhit for example gave me freeze with xspace kernel but not with hacker kernel. I don't no the reason....
Inviato dal mio SM-G925F utilizzando Tapatalk
same but different
Hi All,
I'm experiencing a freeze in TWRP after about a few seconds, the whole recovery stands still and this happens every time.
I flashed the Xspace kernel which hasn't help.
The TWRP from arter97 works great, except it doesn't allow me to copy files to my PC using MTP, message says unexpected error.
yet, the ManhIT and Original TWRP allow me to copy data but both of them freeze up after a few seconds which causing the copying to fail.
Reasons I'm doing this is because my SM-G925F start looping and I've tried flashing stock so many times to no avail.
I'm sure all i need to do is data/ factory wipe and my phone will boot fine, I just really need some data before I do that.
Is there perhaps a different kernel I can try?
or if anyone has any suggestions that would be very much appreciated.
Regards
wahwahward said:
Hi All,
I'm experiencing a freeze in TWRP after about a few seconds, the whole recovery stands still and this happens every time.
I flashed the Xspace kernel which hasn't help.
The TWRP from arter97 works great, except it doesn't allow me to copy files to my PC using MTP, message says unexpected error.
yet, the ManhIT and Original TWRP allow me to copy data but both of them freeze up after a few seconds which causing the copying to fail.
Reasons I'm doing this is because my SM-G925F start looping and I've tried flashing stock so many times to no avail.
I'm sure all i need to do is data/ factory wipe and my phone will boot fine, I just really need some data before I do that.
Is there perhaps a different kernel I can try?
or if anyone has any suggestions that would be very much appreciated.
Regards
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try with hacker kernel. Wipe cache but not data
callumbr1 said:
Try with hacker kernel. Wipe cache but not data
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for your response callumbr1.
I've attempted two different kernels:
g925-hacker-echoe-kernel-V14.zip
hacker-kernel-S6-Universal-V12.zip
Above mentioned problems persist.
Since arter97 TWRP is not freezing on me, if I run a back up on the Data only. Then perform the wipe, the backup should still be there, correct?
and lets say I flash the stock ROM again if necessary and I'm able to boot the device.
Would it be possible to restore that data back up at all ?
or perhaps copy that back up to my PC and access/extract the files with a separate application?
Many Thanks
wahwahward said:
Thanks for your response callumbr1.
I've attempted two different kernels:
g925-hacker-echoe-kernel-V14.zip
hacker-kernel-S6-Universal-V12.zip
Above mentioned problems persist.
Since arter97 TWRP is not freezing on me, if I run a back up on the Data only. Then perform the wipe, the backup should still be there, correct?
and lets say I flash the stock ROM again if necessary and I'm able to boot the device.
Would it be possible to restore that data back up at all ?
or perhaps copy that back up to my PC and access/extract the files with a separate application?
Many Thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I think best thing to do is get an otg storage adapter that plugs direct to phone. They are cheap.
Then run the backup of data and store on otg storage. Then you have it safe and it can be restored at a later time with restore option in twrp.
Or you can always do a full nandroid backup.
Can you get onto the phone now? Does it boot up?
Is there anything specific you need off the phone? To be backed up?
callumbr1 said:
I think best thing to do is get an otg storage adapter that plugs direct to phone. They are cheap.
Then run the backup of data and store on otg storage. Then you have it safe and it can be restored at a later time with restore option in twrp.
Or you can always do a full nandroid backup.
Can you get onto the phone now? Does it boot up?
Is there anything specific you need off the phone? To be backed up?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I plan on getting one of those, they seem extremely useful. A colleague has one which I plan to use tomorrow if they remember to bring it, I will then do as you suggest.
Never done a full nandroid back up before but will do some searching on that.
Phone still hangs at the Samsung splash screen.
And its really only pictures and some videos that I want, contacts would be nice too.
PS, this happened when I plugged my device into the PC to charge it was at about 5%, and I was making use of side sync to control the device when it just shutdown. I thought maybe the battery died so left it to charge a bit, it eventually tried to boot up by itself and its been looping ever since. Was really strange cause it gave me no issues prior to this. When I tried to get to the recovery it would hang at the "installing updates" section once I flashed the stock ROM I was able to get to recovery to wipe the cache but no luck.
Thanks for your suggestions much appreciated.
wahwahward said:
I plan on getting one of those, they seem extremely useful. A colleague has one which I plan to use tomorrow if they remember to bring it, I will then do as you suggest.
Never done a full nandroid back up before but will do some searching on that.
Phone still hangs at the Samsung splash screen.
And its really only pictures and some videos that I want, contacts would be nice too.
PS, this happened when I plugged my device into the PC to charge it was at about 5%, and I was making use of side sync to control the device when it just shutdown. I thought maybe the battery died so left it to charge a bit, it eventually tried to boot up by itself and its been looping ever since. Was really strange cause it gave me no issues prior to this. When I tried to get to the recovery it would hang at the "installing updates" section once I flashed the stock ROM I was able to get to recovery to wipe the cache but no luck.
Thanks for your suggestions much appreciated.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
They are really useful, one of the best things ive ever bought regarding my phone. I use it daily now.
As for nandroid backup, it basically backs up absolutely everything including the firmware and data and all partitions. I always do it before flashing or modifying anything. Then if anything goes wrong, you just flash back your nandroid backup.
Can i ask before this happened did you use google photos? If so and sync was on they will all be saved. If you dont use it i reccomend you to use it from now on incase this ever happens in future.
See how you go making the backup when you can then if you need help regarding flashing the stock and getting the phone working ill help
callumbr1 said:
They are really useful, one of the best things ive ever bought regarding my phone. I use it daily now.
As for nandroid backup, it basically backs up absolutely everything including the firmware and data and all partitions. I always do it before flashing or modifying anything. Then if anything goes wrong, you just flash back your nandroid backup.
Can i ask before this happened did you use google photos? If so and sync was on they will all be saved. If you dont use it i reccomend you to use it from now on incase this ever happens in future.
See how you go making the backup when you can then if you need help regarding flashing the stock and getting the phone working ill help
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Good day callumbr1
I never made use of google photos, not the biggest fan of cloud storage to be completely honest but I do see its benefits when it comes to times like these. lol
as for the device, last night I flashed a custom recovery (arter97) and made use of the SkipSoft Android ToolKit to pull my photos, videos and documents through the adb protocol. That being said, I have the data I wanted so all is well there.
However, after wiping the cache and doing a data / factory reset. I reflashed the stock ROM, it all goes swell until the android pops up with a message displaying " installing system updates". It gets to 32% changes to erasing then restarts , and this happens constantly no matter how many times I flash it or restart the device.
I read on another forum that my devices is probably dead and it could be the mother board. Any thoughts?
You think maybe a custom ROM would bring it up?
wahwahward said:
Good day callumbr1
I never made use of google photos, not the biggest fan of cloud storage to be completely honest but I do see its benefits when it comes to times like these. lol
as for the device, last night I flashed a custom recovery (arter97) and made use of the SkipSoft Android ToolKit to pull my photos, videos and documents through the adb protocol. That being said, I have the data I wanted so all is well there.
However, after wiping the cache and doing a data / factory reset. I reflashed the stock ROM, it all goes swell until the android pops up with a message displaying " installing system updates". It gets to 32% changes to erasing then restarts , and this happens constantly no matter how many times I flash it or restart the device.
I read on another forum that my devices is probably dead and it could be the mother board. Any thoughts?
You think maybe a custom ROM would bring it up?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thats good about your data :good:
As for the little android guy and the installing updates then erasing, this normally happens. It happens every single time i restore and normally boots fine just after its not normally an issue. After yours says erasing does it then just reboot and restart the process of erasing constantly?
What i would suggest first is to flash a different stock ROM, preferably one with newest bootloader.
After flashing, boot to recovery and wipe dalvik cache. If it gets as far as the samsung logo just leave it as the first boot can take a while... like 30 minutes.
If that doesnt work try to flash a custom ROM. I reccomend CarHD ROM. I uave used it for quite some time and no issues.
It deffinately does not sound like motherboard issue. Normally you would have many issues and errors on boot prior to having main board issues.
See how you get on and keep me updated.
callumbr1 said:
Thats good about your data :good:
As for the little android guy and the installing updates then erasing, this normally happens. It happens every single time i restore and normally boots fine just after its not normally an issue. After yours says erasing does it then just reboot and restart the process of erasing constantly?
What i would suggest first is to flash a different stock ROM, preferably one with newest bootloader.
After flashing, boot to recovery and wipe dalvik cache. If it gets as far as the samsung logo just leave it as the first boot can take a while... like 30 minutes.
If that doesnt work try to flash a custom ROM. I reccomend CarHD ROM. I uave used it for quite some time and no issues.
It deffinately does not sound like motherboard issue. Normally you would have many issues and errors on boot prior to having main board issues.
See how you get on and keep me updated.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It doesn't say erasing after the first time. Right after the flash it will reboot to the blue screen with the android, it displays Installing update with a percentage bar which gets to 32% then that disappears and shows erasing, then again it shows installing update with no percentage bar. The android guy has a two arrows on his chest spinning which eventually stops. The device then reboots. It goes back to the Android guy but this time it shows "installing system update" without the percentage bar, it will then freeze again then reboot. That will continue forever until the battery dies.
After flashing though I can't seem to get to recovery to wipe the cache, I hit the buttons as I always do, but the blue screen and android always appears.
This is the stock ROM I'm currently using:
https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/105085/G925FXXU4DPJB_G925FXFV4DPJ2_XFV/
Do you perhaps have a link to that custom ROM? would it work fine with the service provider here in SA (Vodacom) ?
And well at least that is some good news, I'm not too keen on having to take this into a shop and pay for parts.
wahwahward said:
It doesn't say erasing after the first time. Right after the flash it will reboot to the blue screen with the android, it displays Installing update with a percentage bar which gets to 32% then that disappears and shows erasing, then again it shows installing update with no percentage bar. The android guy has a two arrows on his chest spinning which eventually stops. The device then reboots. It goes back to the Android guy but this time it shows "installing system update" without the percentage bar, it will then freeze again then reboot. That will continue forever until the battery dies.
After flashing though I can't seem to get to recovery to wipe the cache, I hit the buttons as I always do, but the blue screen and android always appears.
This is the stock ROM I'm currently using:
https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/105085/G925FXXU4DPJB_G925FXFV4DPJ2_XFV/
Do you perhaps have a link to that custom ROM? would it work fine with the service provider here in SA (Vodacom) ?
And well at least that is some good news, I'm not too keen on having to take this into a shop and pay for parts.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thats pretty much exactly what happens to mine after restoring or flashing but mine boots up.
Flash the firmware again but in odin options uncheck auto reboot. This time after flashing, the phone should stay off. Then you can boot to recovery.
If that doesnt work, whilst it is on the blue screen with android guy hold only vol down and power, phone will reboot, as soon as the screen goes off switch to recovery combo and this should force it to recovery.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6-edge/development/rom-carhdrom-1-t3111519/page1427
Here is the link to custom ROM, it will work fine on your phone. You need to flash this through TWRP. If you need steps on how to do this please tell me.
callumbr1 said:
Thats pretty much exactly what happens to mine after restoring or flashing but mine boots up.
Flash the firmware again but in odin options uncheck auto reboot. This time after flashing, the phone should stay off. Then you can boot to recovery.
If that doesnt work, whilst it is on the blue screen with android guy hold only vol down and power, phone will reboot, as soon as the screen goes off switch to recovery combo and this should force it to recovery.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6-edge/development/rom-carhdrom-1-t3111519/page1427
Here is the link to custom ROM, it will work fine on your phone. You need to flash this through TWRP. If you need steps on how to do this please tell me.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Man I think I'm just going to try the custom to see if it works.
Would I need to flash a custom kernel or can it be stock?
After flashing the kernel with twrp I'm going to assume I would follow the same step.
1. flash TWRP custom recovery
2. copy .zip file to sdcard
3. go to recovery, install , select the .zip
Is that it or am I missing anything else when it comes to flashing ROMs through the recovery?
wahwahward said:
Man I think I'm just going to try the custom to see if it works.
Would I need to flash a custom kernel or can it be stock?
After flashing the kernel with twrp I'm going to assume I would follow the same step.
1. flash TWRP custom recovery
2. copy .zip file to sdcard
3. go to recovery, install , select the .zip
Is that it or am I missing anything else when it comes to flashing ROMs through the recovery?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thats it.
Before installing rom go to wipe in TWRP, wipe data, dalvik, cache and system.
You dont need to flash a kernel though.
However when flashing carhd rom aroma installer will go through some choices, from there you can choose to install arter kernel. I reccomend doing this rather than keeping stock kernel.
Remember once installer complete and rom is installed leave it a while if it hangs on samsung logo screen. It can take a while to boot.
callumbr1 said:
Thats it.
Before installing rom go to wipe in TWRP, wipe data, dalvik, cache and system.
You dont need to flash a kernel though.
However when flashing carhd rom aroma installer will go through some choices, from there you can choose to install arter kernel. I reccomend doing this rather than keeping stock kernel.
Remember once installer complete and rom is installed leave it a while if it hangs on samsung logo screen. It can take a while to boot.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Currently waiting on the custom to download, don't have the quickest internet connection.
while I've been waiting, I've tried the stock ROM again.
something I forgot to mention before, which has happened a few times:
During the blue screen with the droid stating installing updates.
it switches to a screen with a big yellow triangle two dots below it and a dead droid.
After this I get to recovery, I wiped the cache and its getting to the samsung logo but freezes and then restarts all over again.
I'm just curious if you know what the yellow triangle thing means?
wahwahward said:
Currently waiting on the custom to download, don't have the quickest internet connection.
while I've been waiting, I've tried the stock ROM again.
something I forgot to mention before, which has happened a few times:
During the blue screen with the droid stating installing updates.
it switches to a screen with a big yellow triangle two dots below it and a dead droid.
After this I get to recovery, I wiped the cache and its getting to the samsung logo but freezes and then restarts all over again.
I'm just curious if you know what the yellow triangle thing means?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I think it normally means a failed update. Sometimes there are instructions to use smart switch other times it just means the update failed.
Try with the custom ROM and keep me updated.