guys i have a funny issue wonder if i can get some help. I flashed FlappJaxx Beta 3 and had a bad down load or something so anyway tons of reboots and nothing just the non stop vibrate.. well i i finally got it back to the down load screen after pulling the battery several times. and got it Odin back to unrooted and turn on followed the unroot instruction well i left it stock and have had same issue where i click something and it flashes and just vibrates over and over until i pull battery.. well is this phone dead is there a fix?
I odin back again and same thing im going to odin back to stock again then do a stock root and flash another room but its doing the stupid reboot over and over vibrate thing even with the non-rooted stock rom. i just can't seem to find any direction on how to fix this or is it just a lost cause. wanted it to hold on till Note 2 hit shelves but looks like a s3 in my futures.
OK didnt work still FC and boot looping this time i installed Kies and put in download mode and updated the firmware and im getting same thing. GOSH DOGGIT hahaha.. Yea i need some advise i tried everything ive read i must be missing something somewhere.
i guess no one has ever had this before? still no solution i have tried everything format the internal disc but want to know if i do that will i be able to flash odin back to stock any help there?
walkerkd said:
i guess no one has ever had this before? still no solution i have tried everything format the internal disc but want to know if i do that will i be able to flash odin back to stock any help there?
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First of all, I'm no pro at this stuff but I feel your pain.
It sounds like you are getting stuck in a boot loop of sorts.
What I would do if I was you, after flashing a rom, go back into Recovery mode on the phone and clear out the cache partion, wipe Dalvik cache, and then wipe data/factory reset. After that, reboot your phone - it should start up normally. This is what I do to my phone to get it to function as it should.
Hope that helps
i went in to the advance tab and formatted everything hahah.. it juts wiped and odin back to stock again bout to wipe it and try to odin root see if i can get it done. worth a try ive tried to much stuff im bout to take phone out get my 338 tape to a zombie target and have some fun!
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i went in to the advance tab and formatted everything hahah.. it juts wiped and odin back to stock again bout to wipe it and try to odin root see if i can get it done. worth a try ive tried to much stuff im bout to take phone out get my 338 tape to a zombie target and have some fun!
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What language are you using here? I have no idea what you are saying.
kmacsouris said:
First of all, I'm no pro at this stuff but I feel your pain.
It sounds like you are getting stuck in a boot loop of sorts.
What I would do if I was you, after flashing a rom, go back into Recovery mode on the phone and clear out the cache partion, wipe Dalvik cache, and then wipe data/factory reset. After that, reboot your phone - it should start up normally. This is what I do to my phone to get it to function as it should.
Hope that helps
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Agreed ...
When returning to stock via Odin ...you must reboot into your recovery and wipe data and factory reset the device prior to rebooting.
Even though you wiped prior to flashing the stock Odin .tar image.
These devices stay dirty even after wiping data on occasion ...g
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Agreed ...
When returning to stock via Odin ...you must reboot into your recovery and wipe data and factory reset the device prior to rebooting.
Even though you wiped prior to flashing the stock Odin .tar image.
These devices stay dirty even after wiping data on occasion ...g
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Yea i think thats what happen. it was not a clean wipe but i think i got it now i have gotten two fc & reboot i can live with that. thanks you guys for your help.
walkerkd said:
Yea i think thats what happen. it was not a clean wipe but i think i got it now i have gotten two fc & reboot i can live with that. thanks you guys for your help.
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Boot into your recovery, and "fix permissions "...then reboot.
That should clear up the rest of the issues ...g
gregsarg said:
Boot into your recovery, and "fix permissions "...then reboot.
That should clear up the rest of the issues ...g
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oh really? wow i didnt even think about that im wiping again and flashing odin to stock but this time after it boots i will wipe factory reset. then root factory reset and fix permissions. thank for the help!
Always welcome ....
Fixing permissions is overlooked a lot ...
And the wrong permissions will cause FC's all over the build ..
I always fix permissions after any flash or modification ....it's just a good habit to get into ...IMHO ...g
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Hi, I'm pretty new at this. I managed to odin to JFD, and flashed Toxic Crazy8 which I really love. I've been using it for most of this week. Tonight I decided to flash the Carbon Fiber Blue theme for it. So I followed the instructions in the dev thread - booted into clockwork recovery, wipe cache partition, flash theme, wipe dalvic, fix permissions, reboot.
At that point, it hung on the spinning Samsung animation of the bootup and would go no further. So, I went back to recovery, and restored to my latest nandroid backup. (wiped dalvic, fixed permissions, reboot) Now its stuck on the Bali startup screen with the palm tree and will go no further.
Advice please? So sorry I messed with it when it was working so well.
Best way is to go into download mode and flash back to JFD
Thanks. I'm at work right now so will have to wait till I get home to hook it up to the computer to use odin. Is that the only way? Could I just flash the Toxic 8 rom or will that mess things up worse?
Go here and download the Revert package. Flash it and then reflash the Carbon if you want or leave it at stock. I ran into this a few times. Something about the themes.
A nice theme is in that same thread. It is a Gingerbread theme. I used it for a long time.
Recovery
Wipe Cache and Dalvik
Flash Revert
(if you want to flash another theme, here is where you want to do it).
Wipe again for good measure
Fix permission for good measure
Reboot. This will take up to 5mins but should do the trick.
Woodrube said:
Go here and download the Revert package. Flash it and then reflash the Carbon if you want or leave it at stock. I ran into this a few times. Something about the themes.
A nice theme is in that same thread. It is a Gingerbread theme. I used it for a long time.
Recovery
Wipe Cache and Dalvik
Flash Revert
(if you want to flash another theme, here is where you want to do it).
Wipe again for good measure
Fix permission for good measure
Reboot. This will take up to 5mins but should do the trick.
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Thank you. I think I will leave at stock I don't need these messes. But now that I'm stuck at the Bali boot screen, how do I load that revert file onto the phone? I'm having a brain cramp here probably because I worked all night.
What I think you can do is, if you can get into recovery with the button combo, do that. Hopefully you have either the original ROM zip on your SD card or you can get into your backups.
It really all depends on what you have on your internal SD since right now it is un-usable as-is.
A. Boot into recovery, wipe and flash your backup.
B. If this doesn't work, then flash the original ROM. Let it boot. Once that is done then you should be able to reflash your backup or at the very least reinstall XDA app and go to this thread and download the revert package and reflash.
C. Wait until you get home and Odin and then reflash your backup.
Sucks I know and especially being "trapped" at work.
Ok, got it into red recovery. I'm home now. I tried downloading the AIO Vibrant toolbox program, but it keeps freezing on my computer.
When you say "wipe and flash your backup" I want to make sure I understand what wipe you're talking about. Wipe cache? or wipe data/factory reset ?
I do so appreciate the help. I learn by making mistakes and man, I've learned so much the past couple of weeks messing with this phone.
Edit: I managed to mount the usb storage in recovery, so copied the revert file to my sd card.
I wiped cache and dalvik, flashed the revert, wiped again, fixed permissions, and rebooted. Still stuck at the Bali screen.
knitten2000 said:
Ok, got it into red recovery. I'm home now. I tried downloading the AIO Vibrant toolbox program, but it keeps freezing on my computer.
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Don't forget to download the .net files too.
When you say "wipe and flash your backup" I want to make sure I understand what wipe you're talking about. Wipe cache? or wipe data/factory reset ?
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Wipe cache and wipe dalvik-cache. Don't Factory Reset unless you are doing a clean install, otherwise you'll wipe out the nandroid you just restored.
I do so appreciate the help. I learn by making mistakes and man, I've learned so much the past couple of weeks messing with this phone.
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We have all been there. Don't let this scare you off though. Use what happened and learn from it. When theming though, always look for a revert package and download that before flashing any themes.
Hey you knew rule #1 though. "Always make a backup". Good luck and try the Gingerbread theme. It is refreshing as opposed to the stock Black that came with the ROM.
I edited my last post as you were replying. I wiped, flashed the revert, and now stuck at the Bali screen again.
Keep trying. IIRC i had to do it a couple of times for it to stick. Remember it takes a bit to rebuild the Dalvik after a wipe.
If you keep trying and it doesn't work, the since you can get into red recovery, maybe flash fresh ROM and once it boots up and settles down, maybe try restoring you back up then.
Ok, I'm searching for info on restoring the backup. Do you just use the backup and restore menu in recovery? Or do you somehow flash the backup file in a different way?
Just use Restore/ Backup in the recovery. There is an advanced part of it too. Try just restoring the /system part only as it holds the Framework-res.apk and Services.jar files that the themes use. Hopefully that will do the trick. If not then you can restore all and it should be fine.
Well after trying the revert twice, I flashed the Toxic Crazy 8 zip instead. It's alive!!! Thank you so much!!
This stuff is not for the faint of heart I can see. So glad for the help here.
Will be putting it aside for now and getting some sleep.
Since you'll be essentially starting from fresh, you should flash Deranged9 (also from JCC with equally great battery life) and a nice blue theme (RC3 is the one now).
Or try Fish's redux of Bionix' 1.3.1
My daughter has this phone and looking to root it but I see many pole getting stuck. I think ill wait on doingthat
Rooting is easy. Just go to the Noob guide stickied up in Q&A and scroll down to Option A. Download that, put it on your internal SDcard, reboot into recovery, reinstall pacakages (will have to do this twice) and reboot.
ROOT does not do anything but give you permission to the internal Adroid O/S. It is usually the mods that you do after the fact that can/will screw things up. Rooting doesn't change o/s, doesn't affect battery life, doesn't make your phone not send data,...all it does it give you access (and probably void your warranty).
Hi Guys
I flashed the leaked ICS but hate it. Can I flash to stock GB via Odin? What about the baseband versions etc.., would it matter?
Sorry, I read another thread but it's unclear and I want to avoid bricking. Thanks
As far as what I've read you can flash stock from Odin or even use CWM to a previous nandroid of gingerbread.
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If you got your Note from AT&T, simply flash this stock ODIN:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1506330
I went from ICS back to Gb cause I missed the tethering and it was easy. Just make sure you clear the caches and all should be well.
Thanks.. I was worried of the different baseband would have any adverse effect, but it doesn't sound like it will. I'll give it a try.
I Odin'd back to stock and I'm in a world of ****. My phone cant do anything, it just gets stuck on every swipe and reboots about every 5 minutes. Does anyone have any ideas?
Mines fine..only baseband is different, phone works.
Before I Odin to stock, I booted into recovery, factory reset and wiped cache. Odin, then booted into recovery and performed another factory reset and wiped cache again.
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I Odin'd back to stock and I'm in a world of ****. My phone cant do anything, it just gets stuck on every swipe and reboots about every 5 minutes. Does anyone have any ideas?
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Try factory wipe/format usb from within GB..it may help.
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beall49 said:
I Odin'd back to stock and I'm in a world of ****. My phone cant do anything, it just gets stuck on every swipe and reboots about every 5 minutes. Does anyone have any ideas?
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figured it out. My post is below.
lindenhurst said:
You get it figured out? I did the same thing. . My old apps still there. I can tell it is gingerbread, but nothing works now. I hope you got your figured out!!
When I boot into recovery I get the screen that tells me to use the up and down keys and when I choose factory wipe, and press power button, nothing happebs. If I hold it down eventually the phone shuts off. When i restart it, nothing changed.
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I had to revert from ICS to GB yesterday and, even tho I am on Telus, I had success by flashing the pda-odin-att-stock.rar image
I can't post links .. I'm too new. But literally.. google what's bolded above and you will find the hotfile link.
It replaced everything (including the recovery) ... FULL system image. Solved everything and brought me back to 100% stock.
So yes, I lost my root and my CWM recovery software.. but it got my phone working again.. I can reflash CWM and re-root as I need.
After the install, wipe cache, factory reset etc.
I too flashed the stock ATT rom but like the previous poster, it gave me a phone which started up but wouldn't work. When I tried to get into recovery mode, it went to a screen with the recovery mode stuff at the top, but with a yellow warning sign in the middle and some words about manual mode, and it would not let me do a wipe or reset.
Here is what I just did that did work.
I flashed the recovery-i717-cwm-b4.tar file with odin. This worked and allowed me to get into the "proper" recovery mode to do a wipe and factory reset, as well as a cache wipe. I then reflashed tieh the stock ATT rom, and my phone now is back to stock.
I did the unroot method here:
http://rootgalaxynote.com/galaxy-no...brick-att-galaxy-note-sgh-i717-android-2-3-6/
And everything seemed to workout fine until i got to the Samsung/Rethink Possible Boot loop. It's been boot looping for about 15 minutes now so that's why im worried.
I even tried removing he battery and going back to download mode and flashing a newer version of the tar provided in that link and to no avail, the same boot loop.
I can access download mode for sure.
Can anyone help? Im just trying to go to stock, update to ICS, and root. But id be happy if i could just get unrooted and back to stock.
I have a basic understanding of rooting/flashing because ive been doing it since the G1 days. But i have soft bricked every phone ive had. lol.
graveghoul said:
I did the unroot method here:
http://rootgalaxynote.com/galaxy-no...brick-att-galaxy-note-sgh-i717-android-2-3-6/
And everything seemed to workout fine until i got to the Samsung/Rethink Possible Boot loop. It's been boot looping for about 15 minutes now so that's why im worried.
I even tried removing he battery and going back to download mode and flashing a newer version of the tar provided in that link and to no avail, the same boot loop.
I can access download mode for sure.
Can anyone help? Im just trying to go to stock, update to ICS, and root. But id be happy if i could just get unrooted and back to stock.
I have a basic understanding of rooting/flashing because ive been doing it since the G1 days. But i have soft bricked every phone ive had. lol.
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have you gone into recovery and wiped after doing the odin like the site says?
JamieD81 said:
have you gone into recovery and wiped after doing the odin like the site says?
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Thank so much jamie for responding. I had hoped someone would. I wanted a fresh install. I managed to get everything running with this tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqBrwCXzQyE
Thank the android gods!
Now, to get rooted and start fresh lol.
graveghoul said:
Thank so much jamie for responding. I had hoped someone would. I wanted a fresh install. I managed to get everything running with this tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqBrwCXzQyE
Thank the android gods!
Now, to get rooted and start fresh lol.
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a quicker less stressful way would be to
wipe factory data reset
wipe cache
wipe dalvik
wipe system
wipe internal sdcard *AFTER BACKING UP YOUR FILES!*
fix permissions
connect to pc and transfer a rom zip and gapps
clean clean install
JamieD81 said:
a quicker less stressful way would be to
wipe factory data reset
wipe cache
wipe dalvik
wipe system
wipe internal sdcard *AFTER BACKING UP YOUR FILES!*
fix permissions
connect to pc and transfer a rom zip and gapps
clean clean install
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NOTEd. lol No pun intended. Thanks so much Jamie. Youre the best!
My 2nd topic in about 20 mins!
I've just flashed Siyah Kernal but made a mistake and flashed an older version accidently (I flashed 1.3 instead of 1.7)
Now my phone doesn't boot, it gets to the loading screen where it displays model etc and then stops. I can boot into recovery, I was thinking I can just flash the other kernal but I don't have it on my storage.
I wiped cache then davlik cache and then installed the old version and rebooted and now I'm stuck
I'm thinking just wipe data and reflash ROM but I've never messed around with kernals before so I don't know if it's any different
Help is GREATLY appreciated!
If you have an external SD, transfer the updated 1.7rc1 syiah to that, and flash it from recovery.
Should solve the problem.
If it doesnt, wiping and reflashing the rom, then the corect kernel should work as well.
NewAussiefromCanada said:
If you have an external SD, transfer the updated 1.7rc1 syiah to that, and flash it from recovery.
Should solve the problem.
If it doesnt, wiping and reflashing the rom, then the corect kernel should work as well.
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shall I just straight flash the kernal? no wiping cashe or anything?
UrbanDesigns said:
shall I just straight flash the kernal? no wiping cashe or anything?
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I would start with that.. if any problems occur, then go to wiping.
I would wipe delvic and cache
Update Syiah myself a few times without a wipe. Although I am sure some would recommend a wipe.
I've just put my external SD into its adapter so that my laptop can read it and I get write protection errors.
Can I just wipe data/factory reset and reflash the ROM to gain access to my phone again and then flash the kernal?
UrbanDesigns said:
I've just put my external SD into its adapter so that my laptop can read it and I get write protection errors.
Can I just wipe data/factory reset and reflash the ROM to gain access to my phone again and then flash the kernal?
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first off is the switch on ur adapter set to lock?
Yes if you factory reset and wipe, then install rom, then you can flash the kernel and enjoy all the benefits!:victory:
aaaaand I'm back!
I noticed the little slidy thing on the adaptger and put it the other way and it worked, having that "lock" is pretty ridiculous if you ask me.
I'm all sorted now, I would be useless if it wasn't for the people on this forum
Thank you all so much for the help, whenever stuff like this happens I overact and instantly assume my device is bricked
Thanks to you all!
UrbanDesigns said:
aaaaand I'm back!
I noticed the little slidy thing on the adaptger and put it the other way and it worked, having that "lock" is pretty ridiculous if you ask me.
I'm all sorted now, I would be useless if it wasn't for the people on this forum
Thank you all so much for the help, whenever stuff like this happens I overact and instantly assume my device is bricked
Thanks to you all!
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LOL Those Pesky little lock sliders always causing trouble!
Glad I could help!
Hopefully your enjoy the benefits of Syiah after all your hard work! :victory:
UrbanDesigns said:
aaaaand I'm back!
I noticed the little slidy thing on the adaptger and put it the other way and it worked, having that "lock" is pretty ridiculous if you ask me.
I'm all sorted now, I would be useless if it wasn't for the people on this forum
Thank you all so much for the help, whenever stuff like this happens I overact and instantly assume my device is bricked
Thanks to you all!
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I'm glad you got this sorted. I personally love when something like this happens, you get such a sense of achievement when your phone finally boots again
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ChrisHRocks said:
I'm glad you got this sorted. I personally love when something like this happens, you get such a sense of achievement when your phone finally boots again
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ive been new to root for just 2 days.. but i have assumed i have bricked my device a couple of times.. but yeh I agree, when you get it working you feel like you are finally understanding how these things work..:victory:
i have just one issue left unresolved that I have in another thread, when thats fixed i'll have the phone I wanted it to be and I'll be satisfied ( that wasnt trolling by they way.. erm, assuming trolling is trying to redirect a thread to another.. im not sure what trolling is.. but i didnt do it lol )
ChrisHRocks said:
I'm glad you got this sorted. I personally love when something like this happens, you get such a sense of achievement when your phone finally boots again
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indeed and 3 cheers for XDA, the best place to get help.
Hey XDA
This all started when I didn't put my phone on charge one night, and the morning after I got a text then I went to read it, my screen flickered and my phone crashed, this was usual when my phone dies.
However this time, when I put my phone on charge, it wouldn't boot up, it would stay at the boot animation screen.
I was running AOKP 4.2.2.
I then thought it was just a corrupt ROM so I went to re-install the ROM.
First, when I went to wipe the dalvik cache it said it had failed, this immediately showed warning signs, then when I went to install the ROM from my SD card it said that had failed also.
This left me only 1 option, to restore back to the stock ROM through Odin.
This seemed to go fine until I got to the end went instead of booting into an "android is updating" type thing, it was stuck on a boot loop.
This now leaves me stumped for ideas, so I turn to you, how do I fix my phone?
I hope I can fix this phone as it is my only phone.
Thanks, Jem
jem.graham said:
Hey XDA
This all started when I didn't put my phone on charge one night, and the morning after I got a text then I went to read it, my screen flickered and my phone crashed, this was usual when my phone dies.
However this time, when I put my phone on charge, it wouldn't boot up, it would stay at the boot animation screen.
I was running AOKP 4.2.2.
I then thought it was just a corrupt ROM so I went to re-install the ROM.
First, when I went to wipe the dalvik cache it said it had failed, this immediately showed warning signs, then when I went to install the ROM from my SD card it said that had failed also.
This left me only 1 option, to restore back to the stock ROM through Odin.
This seemed to go fine until I got to the end went instead of booting into an "android is updating" type thing, it was stuck on a boot loop.
This now leaves me stumped for ideas, so I turn to you, how do I fix my phone?
I hope I can fix this phone as it is my only phone.
Thanks, Jem
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after you install the stock rom via Odin boot into the stock recovery and do a factory reset and wipe the cache. should boot up after that.
one thing i notice after installing 5 different OTA though odin last night they dont wipe user data you have to do it your self. so i would give that i try im sure that should fix your problem
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after you install the stock rom via Odin boot into the stock recovery and do a factory reset and wipe the cache. should boot up after that.
one thing i notice after installing 5 different OTA though odin last night they dont wipe user data you have to do it your self. so i would give that i try im sure that should fix your problem
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Thank you very very much, I didnt see the factory reset option in the stock recovery.
You're a true life saver, thanks
jem.graham said:
Thank you very very much, I didnt see the factory reset option in the stock recovery.
You're a true life saver, thanks
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no problem at all now if i can just figure out my clients gt-i9300 issue my life would be great hahaha