My note has been acting strangely lately. I had let the battery run fully down after a couple months of use and did a full charge cycle, but when I tried to start it up, I'd get 'SAMSUNG' and then it'd shut off. This repeated a good dozen times until it finally woke up and did a normal boot. Then today I tried to get into recovery mode so I could do a backup prior to trying CM10, VolUp+Home+Power at boot and it sits there and does 'buzz...... buzz....... buzz.....' endlessly until I let go and then it boots normally.
What happened to my phone? All I've ever done is root it to clear the bloat from AT&T. Did my recovery get corrupted somehow?
tigerknight said:
My note has been acting strangely lately. I had let the battery run fully down after a couple months of use and did a full charge cycle, but when I tried to start it up, I'd get 'SAMSUNG' and then it'd shut off. This repeated a good dozen times until it finally woke up and did a normal boot. Then today I tried to get into recovery mode so I could do a backup prior to trying CM10, VolUp+Home+Power at boot and it sits there and does 'buzz...... buzz....... buzz.....' endlessly until I let go and then it boots normally.
What happened to my phone? All I've ever done is root it to clear the bloat from AT&T. Did my recovery get corrupted somehow?
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What Rom are you running right now? if your phone boots normally, try downloading Quickboot from the play store instead of using the 3 buttons to recovery. GL
Ltilt2 said:
What Rom are you running right now? if your phone boots normally, try downloading Quickboot from the play store instead of using the 3 buttons to recovery. GL
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Running stock + root.
Quick boot helped a lot, thanks. Apparently it was my superuser setup that got mangled somehow. had to uninstall/wipe it from memory and reinstall. After that the quick boot (and TiBackup) worked. running a backup now.
tigerknight said:
Running stock + root.
Quick boot helped a lot, thanks. Apparently it was my superuser setup that got mangled somehow. had to uninstall/wipe it from memory and reinstall. After that the quick boot (and TiBackup) worked. running a backup now.
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Nice! glad you got it working.
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I recently installed JAC's kernel, and today I was getting force closes on nearly all of my apps. Even market would FC. So I did a nandroid (the nandroid was with the stock kernel), and now the phone won't boot past the Vibrant Samsung screen. Recovery menu works however. I'm guessing the issue is that I shouldn't have flashed a nandroid that was non-JAC kernel.
I have absolutely no idea what to do in this situation. Can anyone help? I really appreciate it, thanks.
UPDATE:
I flashed the Official T-Mo ODIN images, and got the phone working again. I'm not sure if there was some other way without wiping the phone, but this way worked.
I did a nandroid recovery last night of my stock image and it took about 5 minutes to get past the Vibrant Samsung screen, but it ultimately made it past it.
Hm, I must have been not paitient enough. I didn't count but it felt like I waited 4-5 minutes.
I can NOT get past this screen or into download or recovery mode... All I get is a spinning wheel... tried to downgrade from CM7.... I tried everything Ive read to try to get into download mode...any ideas?
l0stcaus3 said:
I can NOT get past this screen or into download or recovery mode... All I get is a spinning wheel... tried to downgrade from CM7.... I tried everything Ive read to try to get into download mode...any ideas?
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I was finally able to get into download mode..... I spent hours getting my google on reading all the different was to get into download mode...Now my phone would not boot past the "Samsung Vibrant" screen and all the different button combos wouldnt work... Here is what what worked for me..
1 I ungluged the phone from the laptop and removed the battery to make sure the phone was off...
2 I held down BOTH vol+ AND vol-
3 While holding down BOTH vol keys I plugged in the USB and BAMM!!!!!! download mode.....
I hope this helps someone.....
didnt think nandroid backed up the kernel
so doing nandroid to get back to the kernel you were on before wouldnt have done anything
All,
I have been on here for months, but this my 1st post. I have an Atrix that has been rooted, boot loader unlocked, Tenfar's recovery, but running stock ROM 1.8.x. I have not done any "tampering" with or ROM updates or anything like that. The phone in a few weeks and it has been working flawlessly.
However, this morning when I woke up, the phone is just sitting there dead. My wife said she heard a weird beep a few hours earlier. It will not power up via battery and the power button does not appear to work either.
I attached it to the wall charger an it will come up to the motorola and display "unlocked" but will not go past that screen. I also noticed that no charge led is lit up at all ... Strange ? I was able to get into recovery and I tried for a restore using Tenfar's CWM but after it completed and I went for a "reboot phone now" it just went back to the black screen and never booted at all.
Any thoughts ? Thanks in advance !
-Nathan
nathanmurray said:
All,
I have been on here for months, but this my 1st post. I have an Atrix that has been rooted, boot loader unlocked, Tenfar's recovery, but running stock ROM 1.8.x. I have not done any "tampering" with or ROM updates or anything like that. The phone in a few weeks and it has been working flawlessly.
However, this morning when I woke up, the phone is just sitting there dead. My wife said she heard a weird beep a few hours earlier. It will not power up via battery and the power button does not appear to work either.
I attached it to the wall charger an it will come up to the motorola and display "unlocked" but will not go past that screen. I also noticed that no charge led is lit up at all ... Strange ? I was able to get into recovery and I tried for a restore using Tenfar's CWM but after it completed and I went for a "reboot phone now" it just went back to the black screen and never booted at all.
Any thoughts ? Thanks in advance !
-Nathan
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Could be simply that your battery is dead. If you have a friend with an Atrix the first thing to try is an alternative battery.
If that doesn't help the second thing to try would be a full rom flash and full wipe via fastboot.
This happened to me as well. The phone will not charge during boot so what I did was enter fastboot with hardware(or an option like that) and I got past it started up in a couple minutes.
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It appears to be the battery ... I tried it with a different one and it booted without issue. Very strange as it appears to have died all of the sudden. Just glad it is not the actual phone. Anyway, thanks for the info, much appreciated !
I believe I'm running ICS Passion, I'm not sure what version
Last night I turned my Vibrant off. It wasn't anything special, just a boot because my messenger app wouldn't open. However, when I got home and tried to turn my phone back on the phone will take an unusually long time to get past the loader, and then the boot animation seems to run forever. I left it on overnight and my phone was not booted in the morning. The process seems to take up a lot of battery as well. I'd like to avoid flashing another rom because I haven't had preparation, but I need to update soon anyway so it's not completely out of the question. How can I attempt to fix this?
Odin back to stock
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Odin back to stock
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I figured I'd have to do this.
I used my home made jig to get into download mode (because the three button combo isn't working) however my computer is refusing to recognize the device when I open Odin. I'll try on my desktop when I get home, but for now I'm just going to let the phone boot and see what happens.
I'll post back if I still can't odin to stock.
I went from Shostock2 ICS to Shostock Gingerbread--flashed through recovery, everything seemed fine, rebooted a couple of hours later and the phone froze at the "Samsung Galaxy S II" screen. As of now I have NOT been able to get back into recovery though the volume rocker/power method ... Nothing happens at all. Half the time my phone wont boot, period, but if I pull the battery and put it back it will boot the first time into that same screen. Not at home so I can't connect it to my computer but if I can't boot into recovery not sure how I'm going to get my PC to recognize the phone .... (sigh.)
Please advise.
EDIT: Finally managed to get into recovery via volume rocker ... Don't know why it worked this time after failing over and over before. Have reflashed the Gingerbread zip ... Keeping my fingers crossed that it works out.
Haints said:
I went from Shostock2 ICS to Shostock Gingerbread--flashed through recovery, everything seemed fine, rebooted a couple of hours later and the phone froze at the "Samsung Galaxy S II" screen. As of now I have NOT been able to get back into recovery though the volume rocker/power method ... Nothing happens at all. Half the time my phone wont boot, period, but if I pull the battery and put it back it will boot the first time into that same screen. Not at home so I can't connect it to my computer but if I can't boot into recovery not sure how I'm going to get my PC to recognize the phone .... (sigh.)
Please advise.
EDIT: Finally managed to get into recovery via volume rocker ... Don't know why it worked this time after failing over and over before. Have reflashed the Gingerbread zip ... Keeping my fingers crossed that it works out.
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Boot into recovery and wipe data/factory reset, that should get it to boot after you flash the GB zip!
I was recently working on flashing a custom ROM on my Galaxy s4 device. When after wiping the device, I realised i was missing something so i booted my phone back up to find that the google play stor no longer works. Every other Play service works except the store. It crashes every time I open it. I have already trying clearing the cache and the data. Also my phone is not letting me boot into recovery. It just boots up normally even after saying RECOVERY BOOTING.... in the top corner. I'm really lost on this.
*Edit: Its now stuck in ODIN mode and I have tried pulling out the battery and sitting here from 20 mins.
Edit 2*: It's out of ODIN mode and boots normally but the play store still won't even open. I press it and my phone just freezes for around 5-6 seconds and then the app crashes.
If you're in Odin mode, I guess it will be fine after you turn it off. But if the playstore is not working, its also another issue. hmmm
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If you're in Odin mode, I guess it will be fine after you turn it off. But if the playstore is not working, its also another issue. hmmm
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The thing is though. It's stuck in ODIN mode I cant get the phone to boot. I tried using goomanager to get to recovery and that's what screwed me.