OK, I made a stupid mistake and before I throw my phone away, I thought I would at least check to see if someone has a recommendation first.
In CWM, I chose to format system, data, and all the other format options. It essentially wiped my device, and then when I chose to reboot recovery, it hangs at the Vibrant screen. I am now not able to boot into recovery. I assume that my choice in formatting everything removed recovery? Not a problem in and of itself because I can get my phone into download mode and use Odin to put my recovery and desired ROM except that my micro USB port is damaged to the point that my phone will not charge or connect to a PC.
In short, is there a way to install a version of recovery onto my external sd card and then have my phone boot from external SD card? Since I cannot physically plug my phone into a computer, the only way I can think of getting files onto the device is via the external SD card.
Any other suggestions are appreciated, including what to do with my new brick
You can always fix the USB port on your phone so don't toss it, unless you want to toss it my way!
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I searched the forums, and didn't see an easy to follow answer to my question.
I just got one of the woot tablets, so I've only had it a few days. It is stock, but I did temp root it so I could apply the market fix. Everything was working fine for a couple of days, but this morning when I turned it on, it seemed to be in a boot loop (the Tap N Tap screen kept cycling until it shut itself off).
Will I need a micro sd card to recover? I saw some threads that talked about connecting to a computer and transferring a file to the internal drive, but my computer isn't recognizing the internal drive on my g-tab. I can only see it when the G-tab is booted up, and I turn on the USB transfer from the G-tab.
If there is already a thread with easy to follow instructions could someone point me in the right direction?
BTW, I have already tried the vol+ and power button, I get the message that says recovery key detected, and then the box in the center of the screen. but then it continues into a boot loop.
Thanks for your help.
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I searched the forums, and didn't see an easy to follow answer to my question.
I just got one of the woot tablets, so I've only had it a few days. It is stock, but I did temp root it so I could apply the market fix. Everything was working fine for a couple of days, but this morning when I turned it on, it seemed to be in a boot loop (the Tap N Tap screen kept cycling until it shut itself off).
Will I need a micro sd card to recover? I saw some threads that talked about connecting to a computer and transferring a file to the internal drive, but my computer isn't recognizing the internal drive on my g-tab. I can only see it when the G-tab is booted up, and I turn on the USB transfer from the G-tab.
If there is already a thread with easy to follow instructions could someone point me in the right direction?
BTW, I have already tried the vol+ and power button, I get the message that says recovery key detected, and then the box in the center of the screen. but then it continues into a boot loop.
Thanks for your help.
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You probably need to do the NVFlash to stock ROM.
Well.. I'll throw my idea out there.
I think you may need to re-partition the SD card.
Apparently this happens to all of them at some point, and in fact it did happen to mine.
The device comes rooted, so you aren't rooting or unrooting in any of this. Its already rooted.
Go here: (the clockwork guide)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865245
You'll want to download the cwmod_microsd from the first post, then extract the zip to the root of a micro sd card. Put the microSD card into the tab, then boot using the Vol+ and power. You will get the message that a recovery key was pressed then its going to automatically install clockworkmod recovery.
I dont recall if it finished booting at that point or shuts itself down. Regardless you'll still be in your bootloop so start it back up again using the vol+ and power key again.
This time you'll be greeted with clockwork recovery.
Once in the menu, you can go to Advanced and mount the sd card. Copy any files off of it that you may need to your computer, the next step will erase the internal SD card.
If nothing is needed, ignore this step.
**I repeat, the internal SD card will be wiped here.
From within clockwork mod recovery go to Advanced->Partition SD card. Choose 2048 for the first option and 0 for the swap.
Go back to the main clockwork screen and choose to restart device.
Cross your fingers that you boot up without a loop.
I'm doing this from memory, so if my verbage is a little off my bad. But you should see what I'm talking about.
Thank you... So I guess I need to go out and buy a micro sd card. Any size/class recomendations?
Depends.. Do you want it to get it back up and running.. 1gb or less.
Or do you want to also increase the storage of the device.. 4-32gb recommended.
If you just wanna get rolling again then get whatever the cheapest one available is.
If you're going to continue to use it, try and get a class 4 card or better, it will help with bigger file transfers.
LisaBham,
Yes, you probably will need a microSD card and it's good to get one that comes with an adapter so it fits in a SD slot to read/write. Also, if your computer does not have
a built-in reader that reads micro- or SD cards, you might need an adapter to USB.
Main thing is that you have two options, it looks like to me:
1. If you have a microSD card, you can make a CWM Recovery card out of it. Then
you can possible load CWM and get it to work even though you at looping (and BTW,
that's not your fault -- G-Tabs just do that one in a while.):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1020747
If you can get CWM loaded and up, go to Advanced and run the Partition (2048 and 0)
option and the Fix Permissions Option and the Wipe Dalvik Cache option. Then go back to the Main Menu and run the Wipe Cache and Wipe/Reset Factory Data.
The shut down, boot and see if the G-Tablet will come up and work.
2. If one doesn't fix the looping problem, then you will need to continue and nvflash
back to a fresh, stock copy of the os.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=861950
If you follow this thread all the way through, it installs a copy of bekit 1105 which is stock version 2638. Assuming that boots and runs, the when you hook up the wifi
connection it shortly will offer you an OTA (over the air) upgrade to 3588. Then
you are back to where you can do what you want to.
Hope this helps.
Rev
I have an extra note 3 phone and when I plug it in and hold the power button down it comes on but only shows the Samsung screen in silver with the words up top left recovery booting..... In blue letters And then it will go black. And if I push the power, home and volume up or down instead of going into recovery or download mode it just vibrates and shows the Samsung in silver and recovery booting.... In blue and then goes black again every once and a while I can get it to make a sound like I took a screen shot. but it just gets hot until the battlery dies. So I wish I could fix it and sell it but I don't know what else to do so any help would be appreciated.
I think it's a timing thing. As soon as you feel that vibration press volume down and home key. Try it a couple of times. It happened to be once.
No I've tried that I'm good about the whole timing thing to get in to either mode. So not sure still I saw a thread on an unbrick image that you can put on an sd card and it boots from that but I have no clue on how it is done.
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No I've tried that I'm good about the whole timing thing to get in to either mode. So not sure still I saw a thread on an unbrick image that you can put on an sd card and it boots from that but I have no clue on how it is done.
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True there is a thread on that, but you have to be able to get into recovery, stock or custom so that you can toggle to the sd card. So just to be clear, you are holding down the power button, volume down button, and the home button at same time under constant pressure until a screen with a yellow triangle comes up asking if you want to go to download mode by pushing the volume up button or reboot the device by pushing the volume button down.
BTW here is a way to do it without toggling to your sd card. Here is the link for a SM-N900P unbrick img. for your sd card http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2651696&page=2 go to post #19 and download the file to your PC desktop, remove the sd card from your device and install in the adapter that allows it be installed in your PC. (black plastic adapter that comes with ext sd card) First, backup all data on sd card to PC. Format/erase your SD Card, then copy and paste .img file to sd card, install back in phone and boot up device. Once phone is booted, and settled down a minute power down device. Pull sd card, boot phone into download mode and use odin to flash a fresh copy of NC5 on phone. install sd card back in PC and format/erase it, now install back in device and all is back to normal.
Got the info from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2600869 but you don't have to create the boot img file someone already did it in the link above on post #19.
Thanks for this. But no I can't get in recovery or download mode. So can I still do it if I can't get in download mode? Also I need to buy another sd card to use I don't want to use the one in my current phone. And the only other one I have is a 2gb sd. Also I have formatted a sd card once before to fat32 but I have forgotten how to do the formatting. How big of an sd card do I need?
Ok so I read the links and it seems I need a 16 or 32 gb sd card and I can just format the sd card on my current working phone in setting/ more storage. Hope fully this will work thanks so much for the help.
slade1style said:
Ok so I read the links and it seems I need a 16 or 32 gb sd card and I can just format the sd card on my current working phone in setting/ more storage. Hope fully this will work thanks so much for the help.
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Ok, but you are talking about a ext sd card in your working device, right? If so just copy the entire sd card via your usb cable to a file on the desktop of your PC. Then format/erase the sd card and copy the SM-N900P unbrick img file to the sdcard and install in the bricked device and boot it up. Then Odin the stock NC5 through download mode and once it is up and running, erase the sdcard via usb cable to PC. Put the sd card in the other device and copy the files back from desktop file, and all should be ready to go.
Before you do all this. Try booting to download mode. If you can get to download mode you can push a recovery image again via Odin. That would fix issue or even flash nc5 tar to go back to factory
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Thanks Jimzweb I will try that! And no Kaos I cant get into download mode!
Hello,
Last week I decided to update my old rooted 4.1.2 for a brand new 4.4.4 ROM you can see in the thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...29-9-2014-official-stock-rom-testing-t2890734
It went quite well, I used PhilZ 6.48.4 to install the zip file. For not very rational reasons I wanted to do it a second time to make it "perfect"; I did go on PhilZ to wipe all my data like the other time, I verified if "mount USB storage" worked before doing so, it did as in ADB my phone was detected....problem is after formating my phone storage on Philz, strangely I can't connect my phone to my PC anymore. It just says on my computer (Windows 8.1) "USB device got a problem", ADB doesn't detect it anymore, same for ODIN, smells bad lol.
So I wondered if you can use an external SD Card on Philz, in order to put the ROM zip file on this external SD Card and bring back my phone from the dead with it??
I precise that my phone isn't Hard Bricked, I can't start it anymore coz I formatted all, but I can still access to a fully working PhilZ Touch interface...aside that my dumb PC won't recognize my phone again
Thank you for you future help
In Philz when you mount USB storage from "Mounts and Storage" it mounts your external SD.
Great so there is a way out of this! I'll try it out by buying a micro SD card
My G3 is a blank slate right now.
I put the SD card into my PC and downloaded the CM12 file and the Gapps file. Now with it back in the phone I can't find them. I click install > External Sd > nothing there.
Under "mount" it wont let me click the SD card.
Where do I start?
I would plug the phone in and reflash back stock and start over. But u could try mounting the the phone as usb storage and dl the files directly to it thn search for them on the internal storage since it wont connect to the sd.
deron37129 said:
I would plug the phone in and reflash back stock and start over. But u could try mounting the the phone as usb storage and dl the files directly to it thn search for them on the internal storage since it wont connect to the sd.
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Plug it into where and reflash it how? You have to ELI5. I'm reformatting my SD card now to see if it will recognize it.
Wow. I really had to go through some trial and error there. I spend the last few hours trying to get the ADB side loading to work. Trying ever driver known to man. I kept getting the no devices message. There was a specific order that it had to be done in order for it to be recognizing the device at the time of loading. Enable mtp > adp > plug in > side load.
I'm up and running CM12 now. And I'm ready for bed!
Since you have twrp installed, why not just get an SD card and put a ROM on it and flash? Seems like the easy way to me.
For future reference, was the phone recognized by adb when in TWRP? If so, did you try to push any files to the internal storage?
I did that once I just flashed a tot file then just rerooted I couldn't connect phone back with adb or anything
Hello, today I wiped my data thru TWRP and now im stuck in boot system ( Pixel Experience )
My pc doesnt recognize my phone , maybe its the cable or the port fault, so i cannot transfer files. I thought to use an micro sd card, I found one in the house but its very old ( 128Mb ) I know in system it used to work but in TWRP I dont see any external storage. I even formated in FAT32 the sdcard, it may not work
because it's very old? Shall I try to get a new one? Whats the solutin if a new cable and a new micro sd card wont work to transfer files into my storage?
Format data again from TWRP. Restart to recovery.
See if your PC recognizes your phone.
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Format data again from TWRP. Restart to recovery.
See if your PC recognizes your phone.
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I don't understand why it doesn't detect my micro sd, I tried with another one and twrp doesn't see any other storage. I think my cable is screwed that's why it doesn't connect to PC, also it charges only with only slow charging mode, I hope its not my port fault.
Strange, I would try formatting internal storage too.
Another option would be pen drive with otg cable/adapter.
Ensure the storage is mounted.
I cleaned very well my port and now it worked