Hello folks,
Generally loving my Vibrant, of course hungry for Froyo. I have two Vibrants, the first I've been using and have modded it with root and other enhancements. I gave the other phone to a friend as a gift, but when I wanted to root theirs using the same method I've used on multiple occasions, it would NOT boot into the recovery mode. I use the UP + DOWN push, plus the power button. No dice, just get the cheesy "come together" Tmobile screen, I tried up, down, waited for the Samsung to flash twice, no dice. It was not that complicated on my phone and I can continue to do so. I have looked up threads and there is suspicion that T Mobile disabled this on later vesrions? This version was shipped to me slightly after my own, within a week or so.
It would be disheartening if I couldn't root and make his phone more efficient to deal with the battery hog issues as well as other enhancments. Maybe I'm doing it wrong but I've treid multiple combinations and never get into the utility/recovery screen.
Any thoughts on this? I tried rooting before that with the Ryan one click lag fix, and it seemed to indicate it was done,b ut then Iwhen I opened ROM manager, it said it was not rooted yet. Then when I tried the one click app fix again, it mentioned it couldn't because soemthing about the SD card mounting,etc. I could put the stock PIT file on it via ODIN could I not? But I dont' want to go to all that hassle if it's something else. Is there a another app solution that can root for you? I can mount and drag the update zip there, but can't get tot he screen to reinstall packages.
Hopefully TMobile isn't stripping this down so we can't customize and it's something else but I'm trying all combinations short of doing the hokey pokey.
Thanks in advance!
Kelly
Samsung Vibrant
Apparently either Samsung or Tmobile are having the option disabled via the normal ways to get into recovery. There are numerous other threads regarding this throughout the forums detailing other peoples experiences regarding this.
Take a look here for one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=771247
Join the club. I'm on my third vibrant with this same issue. I am returning it this week for a refund. My first....and last samsung phone.
thank you guys, I was afraid of that. one of the phones greatest assets was it's hackability. Froyo had better do something with battery consumption, speed, etc, or this phone will be a great screen and not much more. boo to hardware lockdowns! let the hackers hack and if you want to void the warranty, do it. I'll see about this ADB mode, I'm wondering if someone can create an app that would successfully root so ROM manager will work. I wonder why the one click fix lag app, which supposedly roots, did not. It seems like an overall lock down on this access?
At any rate, I'll try the other options but it's looking like more and more, my buddy will be a slave to Samsung release timeframe, and thats assuming froyo and updates will fix significant bugs and improve battery life.
thanks again guys! I'll keep trying.
And what about the download mode, can you get in it?
not sure, you mean the little digging android feller? I will try that, I gave the phone to my friend but sent him the page in this thread earlier regarding multiple attempts to get into either / or mode. would that actaully help install the packages aka root the phone? I only used that last time to reinstall via Odin, the T Mobile factory build because it was soft bricked due to a bad lag fix that froze the phone on the Samsung logo.
download mode , can that get it rooted? Or just wanting to know if all hardware access has been blocked?"
not sure, you mean the little digging android feller? I will try that, I gave the phone to my friend but sent him the page in this thread earlier regarding multiple attempts to get into either / or mode. would that actaully help install the packages aka root the phone? I only used that last time to reinstall via Odin, the T Mobile factory build because it was soft bricked due to a bad lag fix that froze the phone on the Samsung logo.
download mode , can that get it rooted? Or just wanting to know if all hardware access has been blocked?
Yeah, that the digging guy. It won't help you to get rooted, but i can't get in download mode, so if you can advise me how can i do that, i appreciate
Hi everyone,
I have bought galaxy tab 2 p5110 last weekend and when i started it up, the screen was unresponsive.. so I locked the screen and when I unlocked it worked normal. I used it for couple of hours then I gave it to a friend for him to root it.. he installed ClockworkMod, CryogenMod, used Odin etc and set up android 4.2.2
However this screen issue hit back later and it still continues for more than a week.. If i have to describe the issue a bit more detailed: "when I unlock the tablet, if i dont click on anything, sometimes the screen becomes unresponsive so i have to lock and unlock it again only then it works fine for hours. It used to happaned rarely now it happens a lot more often.. Now it also happens during games or while surfing as well so it is even more annoying."
Now that we have rooted it, I can't return it to store bec we violated the warranty. So I need a solution for either to solve this screen problem or I need to return this to out-of-box state untill this saturday so that I can return it to store before return date expires. But unfortunately we dont know how to turn it back to out of box state.
P.S. I ve searched a lot but i couldnt find a way to remove CWM. I guess I also will need to use Triangle Away to reset the counter? Somewhere it was written that i will need to find and install stock rom or recovery rom i dont know what exactly. I found the p5110 4.0.4 firmware for my country but not sure if it will be useful. To cut the story short: I am new to this rooting talks but If someone could detail me what to do step by step, my experienced friend may do it for me.
I appreciate any suggestion..
Thank you very much everyone in advance!
Unroot using any unrooting app or use adb shell
Sent from MOON......
Hello Xda community,
Alright after exhausting all other options i have decided to turn to our community in hopes that i can come to some sort of resolution for this matter. Okay i own a Sophix Tab-840g past warranty my problem is my software was causing freeze and reboots i left it that way for a while because it wasn't bothering me. So i waited long enough for them to make a new firmware and i upgraded, however upon doing so i was not able to use the touchscreen. Also, i have no back up...... was a bad move in retrospect. I did some research and found that that the freezing was due to the actual firmware and many people had tried to update running into the same situation where the touchscreen stopped working.
The only difference between when i did it and when they did it is the company had there older firmware available still. That is no longer that case they only have the new firmware and after calling they no longer have old software available. Other people reverted back and atleast there tablet worked, however I CANNOT get the old firmware ANYWHERE........in there guide they talk of the use of update "update-tab840-v02-20130315.img" when using there batch program. The only firmware available is the new one “upgrade-tab840-v03-20130607" i'm looking for the older update "update-tab840-v02-20130315.img" to fix my tablet or a way to fix this touchscreen hard reset is out of the option i have already done this method a couple times, i tried installing from sd, and from the computer all with the same error. Thank you so much for reading this and also for any help i procure. I will be uploading the version of my firmware i have no and the old one if i get it so this can the fix for this dreaded problem with so few forums talking of a fix.
Thank you,
Captainsploof
P.S. having trouble uploading firmware at this point keeps saying page unavailable during upload 8/18/2014
Hi
I have a Samsung Galaxy core prime running on lollipop 5.1 and I recently rooted it with kingroot 6.1.
Everything has been fine ever since then. I've been getting notifications about some kind of update kingroot has but I ignored it cause I didn't think I needed to. Anyways I don't know if anything I just mentioned has anything to do with my problem. I don't know much about roms and flashing I don't even have a computer. So yesterday I turned my phone off to reboot it but then it wouldn't turn back on. It was stuck on a screen saying custom binary blocked by frp. I didn't do anything everything was fine til I restarted it. Can someone please help me fix this please????????
Princess. said:
Hi
I have a Samsung Galaxy core prime running on lollipop 5.1 and I recently rooted it with kingroot 6.1.
Everything has been fine ever since then. I've been getting notifications about some kind of update kingroot has but I ignored it cause I didn't think I needed to. Anyways I don't know if anything I just mentioned has anything to do with my problem. I don't know much about roms and flashing I don't even have a computer. So yesterday I turned my phone off to reboot it but then it wouldn't turn back on. It was stuck on a screen saying custom binary blocked by frp. I didn't do anything everything was fine til I restarted it. Can someone please help me fix this please????????
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Only solution I've seen to this is to use ODIN to restore to stock and start over. I haven't seen any alternative ways around this yet, though someone else may know more, as I don't typically use Samsung devices.
Idk how to do that
Hello guys.
Few days ago I recieved my G Watches from service - motherboard and battery was replaced with new.
Android version was 5.1.1m but watch didnt worked good enough.
So I tried to restore them to default stock.
I Tried this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/g-watch/general/restore-unroot-lock-bootloader-t2824710
But seems now I get like stock firmware with locked bootloader, and I cant activate watches.
Connecting them to my phone - and then its only "Just a sec..". and after it says, that cant get Internet connection. Tried both WiFi and Cellular - nothing helped. Sometimes it shows "Oops, something got wrong. Try again?"
And also - I cant anyhow to change firmware or even unlock bootloader - adb doesnt recognize or shows unauthorized status.....
Im tottaly messed up and confused..
Please, help me with this.
What can I try?
Thanks in advance and sorry for my English.