Hi All,
I woke up in the morning to check the time and found the screen off. (Which was ok just ten min before when alarm was buzzing.). I was confused why the device power button was not responding which was ok ten mins ago.
I tried restart it by long pressing power button. And was happy to see the normal boot and lock screen. I opened the lock screen and in the notification appeared "Preparing USB, checking for errors.", and then in about 10 seconds, the phone got frozen. I restarted many times by removing external SD, sim , etc but no use. Tried even connecting to PC, but didnt even detect.
Frustrated and then went to recovery mode (vol up+power+home) and "deleted cache data" . And checked , but no use. Now I have tried to factory reset from recovery mode (vol up+power+home). Now the android symbol appeared and then on the " Installing applications " screen, the device gets struck.
I went to Samsung service center, those guys informed it might be software prob and installed afresh, but no use the same happens. the service guy says software loading passed successfully but bo use. Screen stops at the same point " Installing applications " .
The service center guy says that my motherboard is gone...
Unfortunately just completed by warranty period also...
Any help anybody....:crying:
(Its was having ICS 4.0.4 of middle east version before this damage. I have not done any sort of tampering in terms of software or any external damages or drop down...)..pls guide...never even tried rooting stuff.. It was quite strange for me, with such a baby care, its gone forever...:crying:
maka11 said:
Hi All,
I woke up in the morning to check the time and found the screen off. (Which was ok just ten min before when alarm was buzzing.). I was confused why the device power button was not responding which was ok ten mins ago.
I tried restart it by long pressing power button. And was happy to see the normal boot and lock screen. I opened the lock screen and in the notification appeared "Preparing USB, checking for errors.", and then in about 10 seconds, the phone got frozen. I restarted many times by removing external SD, sim , etc but no use. Tried even connecting to PC, but didnt even detect.
Frustrated and then went to recovery mode (vol up+power+home) and "deleted cache data" . And checked , but no use. Now I have tried to factory reset from recovery mode (vol up+power+home). Now the android symbol appeared and then on the " Installing applications " screen, the device gets struck.
I went to Samsung service center, those guys informed it might be software prob and installed afresh, but no use the same happens. the service guy says software loading passed successfully but bo use. Screen stops at the same point " Installing applications " .
The service center guy says that my motherboard is gone...
Unfortunately just completed by warranty period also...
Any help anybody....:crying:
(Its was having ICS 4.0.4 of middle east version before this damage. I have not done any sort of tampering in terms of software or any external damages or drop down...)..pls guide...never even tried rooting stuff.. It was quite strange for me, with such a baby care, its gone forever...:crying:
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The Worst thing to do on an android phone running Stock Android 4.0.4 firmware is doing a 'Wipe Data/Factory reset' on its Stock recovery ma8
as the stock kernel that comes with the same is plagued with the infamous ' Brick Bug'
I dunno how u missed this 'Sticky' link below for the same
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1756242
If ur phone is responding for now then still u have a chance to revive the same, go thro the link above and see for some possible solutions
Sun90 said:
The Worst thing to do on an android phone running Stock Android 4.0.4 firmware is doing a 'Wipe Data/Factory reset' on its Stock recovery ma8
as the stock kernel that comes with the same is plagued with the infamous ' Brick Bug'
I dunno how u missed this 'Sticky' link below for the same
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1756242
If ur phone is responding for now then still u have a chance to revive the same, go thro the link above and see for some possible solutions
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Thank you for your reply. Informed your suggestions to service center also.
The service center guy has informed that by doing some experiments, he could recover the phone, except one problem. That is the media scanning never ends and the galary doesnt open.
Any suggestions.
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I've flashed my Galaxy S2 with Odin several times and it has worked fine until yesterday, when I tried to flash again, and everything just froze.
I followed the normal instructions for flashing and the phone just stopped at the "downloading" screen where it says, "Do not turn of target!!".
So it has been, for several hours now. The Odin window on my computer seems to be waiting... but for what? Will it ever time out?
Is it normal that a flash session can take several hours?
Is it safe to interrupt it?
fugy56 said:
I've flashed my Galaxy S2 with Odin several times and it has worked fine until yesterday, when I tried to flash again, and everything just froze.
I followed the normal instructions for flashing and the phone just stopped at the "downloading" screen where it says, "Do not turn of target!!".
So it has been, for several hours now. The Odin window on my computer seems to be waiting... but for what? Will it ever time out?
Is it normal that a flash session can take several hours?
Is it safe to interrupt it?
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Odin will flash, takes less than 5 minutes.
Is there any data running that you can see? I mean at the bottom left. I would suggest you turn off the phone, battery pull, wait for 5 minutes, and reflash back.
If it semi bricked, use JIG to revive it.
Either way, you can't be letting the phone there for the next few days etc right?
Did you click Start in Odin??
Although i don't have an s2(will be getting one soon) did you try to reset your pc? When i was flasing my sgsl i was stuck in this situation where odin seems to freeze everytime. I restarted my pc and poof, flashed without a problem
Edit: was flashing successful? If so maybe you should follow the instruction from the post below.
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This might sound stupid but did you have 'auto-reboot' checked? It happened to me once even though I have flashed hundreds of times. Odin was still open after flashing a kernel and never reset.
Start was clicked - yes.
Re boot was checked - yes.
I reset my computer and restarted my phone and - now it's still frozen, but with an icon on the center showing three icons in a line. First is a phone, second is a exlamation mark and third is a computer. Yiipiiiee. It doesn't boot. I can't get into recovery mode. Download mode does work however, but still the same behaviour. It freezes if I try to flash it.
Now what? Where is that reset-button which resets the phone and clears its brain down to original mode? A simple "brain wash" would be nice.
Is there anyway out of this "freeze of death" ?
Flash CWM kernel, download CM7 rom, copy it on SDCard (mount USB storage in CWM, connect to PC via USB, copy ROM), flash ROM from CWM
fugy56 said:
Start was clicked - yes.
Re boot was checked - yes.
I reset my computer and restarted my phone and - now it's still frozen, but with an icon on the center showing three icons in a line. First is a phone, second is a exlamation mark and third is a computer. Yiipiiiee. It doesn't boot. I can't get into recovery mode. Download mode does work however, but still the same behaviour. It freezes if I try to flash it.
Now what? Where is that reset-button which resets the phone and clears its brain down to original mode? A simple "brain wash" would be nice.
Is there anyway out of this "freeze of death" ?
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Try to go into recovery mode and factory reset and clear cache and try flashing again (make sure you are on download mode)
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Hold power button to off it (hold a lil longer for this).
Then Go into recovery mode (power, home button and volume up at same time). Try do wipe all data, cache and even dalvik. Reboot and see if that works.
Alternatively, at the same place, go into restore backup.
The man said: "I can't go into recovery mode"
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Recovery mode doesn't work - nope. But thanks anyway. It's nice to see that people at least try to help. Big hugs to you all.
If I try to flash CWM, I come into the same freeze again. Mindbending stuff ala Samsung, huh. They clearly don't make idiot-safe products. I'm stuck. My next phone might be a StarTAC...
Has happened to me before. KIES was opened. I closed all KIES files and the flashing fun started again~
Good point, make sure Kies isn't running when using Odin!
Also, now that you've flashed CWM, can't you boot on it?
Kies is not running and whatever I flash - it freezes. The green progress bar in Odin reaches maybe 1 cm, but no blue progress bar is visible on the phone as usually happens when flashing. It just says, "Downloading... Don't turn off target!!"
Am I slowly heading towards the brutal-axe-method?
Sounds like the NAND is damaged to me, but I'm no expert...
"NAND" means? Why does it sound like it's damaged? How can it get repaired?
NAND is the flash chip (internal sdcard). Seems that its damaged because you're unable to fully flash it.
I don't think you can have that repaired (if the NAND is truly damaged, like I said I'm no expert), you'd have to get the phone replaced.
With all respect, let's hope you aren't an expert, but better. But has anyone else interrupted a flash process and went though a "freeze"?
I'm looking for a way to reset the phone to use only what was burnt into ROM from first delivery. I just can't accept that it is so easy to mess up a phone, and I doubt Samsung would be so crazy not to build it with a rescue kinda last savior. Am I totally naive? Is my baby dead? :'(
lol I hope for you that I'm wrong also!
fugy56 said:
With all respect, let's hope you aren't an expert, but better. But has anyone else interrupted a flash process and went though a "freeze"?
I'm looking for a way to reset the phone to use only what was burnt into ROM from first delivery. I just can't accept that it is so easy to mess up a phone, and I doubt Samsung would be so crazy not to build it with a rescue kinda last savior. Am I totally naive? Is my baby dead? :'(
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Something similar had happened with me too. The phone was stuck b/w flashing with odin. And the startscreen was showing those 3 icons. It was soft bricked.
But I then finally fixed it by flashing CF and then a ROM
hello, my name is shahrukh and i need some help. i downloaded animmod (from 4shared) and then i donwloaded busybox. then i pressed blur and then it asked me if i want to reboot it. i pressed yes. this is when the problem starts. It turned off and then it turned on half way and then it turned off. it kept doing that and then i just left it for the night. in the morning it was not doing anything. when i held the power button it turned off and on for like two times and then turned off. i cant even start it up so i have no idea what to do.
i don"t know what to do
please help!!!!
Okay, we need details, describe exactly when "halfway on" is. We need your full model number and rom version (if you know it). Have you tried plugging it in to charge? Does it show anything now that you try to boot it? try holding volume up and powering on to enter recovery menu.
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ok so when it turns on it says samsung. then after like 10 seconds it turns off. it does that for a few times and then it just goes in a black screen. the model number is YP-G7OC/NAW. when i plug it in to charge it goes on and off two times and then off. if it has low battery it just shows the sign. as for the rom i don't think i have any. i just rooted it using superoneclick. if it goes to recovery mode what do i do?
thanks!
(you got me really fired up when i saw the recovery menu!)
If you can get to recovery menu, try a factory reset, and clear cache. I am not sure if there is a recovery rom for your device, you should check samfirmware.com
tried both of them...no luck. and i couldn't find a recovery rom on samfrimware.com.
Your device has capacitive or mechanical home button?
it has a capacitive home button...the usa version
shahrukhraza said:
it has a capacitive home button...the usa version
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The phone boots in recovery?
If so, I can investigate a little more what's happening.
I'll try to post a return-to-stock image soon... The problem is that mine is cluttered with crap that the zergRush exploit added (it insisted on installing busybox instead of just rooting...)
(I'm not sure, but I think someone else already posted a stock zImage and system image...)
Here is the post about fixing capacitive buttons. A quick search of forum should have found it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1421797
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nooooooo!!! you guys have all got it wrong. first of all it doesnt boot in recovery. the only way to get in recovery mode is when it shows the battery sign i hold "up volume"+ power button.and the capaciative button is completely fine. im just stuck in a bootloop (i think) and it has nothing to do with a broken capacitive button! i will try to post a video today to show you guys exactly whats happening.
i kind of had the same problem, one time i thought i had entropy's kernel on and i had CWM well i didn't but i still thought i had so i tried rebooting into recovery using the terminal:
su
reboot recovery
then i turned off and went to this weird recovery menu it had four options, reboot system, apply update from SD card, wipe data partition, and power off and it had a ton of red letters and words saying like, couldn't access data partition or cache partition and couldn't access /data/media, or system, and then i just turned it off because i wouldn't let me choose an option, and then i got stuck in a loop but not during when it says SAMSUNG mine happened during the animation music part that look like fireworks and then SAMSUNG would light up blue then go through it again and 2 more times then go black and i tried flashing the US stock ROM in download mode but still would go through the loop and it doesn't even charge so i got nothing
so did you somehow fix yours? and i never got a recovery menu that showed something about shut down.:confused
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wait....are you asking me those questions? just to tell you im no developer or something. im just a 12 year old who has his galaxy player stuck in a boot loop. you have to make another thread if you have a problem.
sorry!
Ok. : ) You got it wrong. No problem. His case is different from mine. Just wanted to use her Brick in case. Nothing more. good luck.
I resolve my doubts alone. Nothing that Google does not respond. haha
At least before brick.
ok. let me ask google too xD
anyways..anyone have any idea of how to fix this boot loop?
im trying to do the Linux thing by running the ressurector ans the VM windows the forum is posted under development called hard brick recovery for galaxy 5.0
ok.(i have no idea what you are saying...just saying!)
Greetings,
My device is probably about three years old, I was totally satisfied until I noticed sudden change in my phone's performance about three months ago, way too laggy even after doing factory resets and etc.. , battery was being sucked faster than it supposed (even with a new battery), heating up whenever it decides to, not being able to handle hardcore-use which it could handle in the past... etc.
So, I took all that as a sign that my phone needs to be replaced. Last night while I was on my pc and the phone was sitting in front of me, I caught the phone restarting by it's own. I noticed this happening frequently over the past few months, and usually nothing wrong happens, although I had to remove the SD card once.
But this time its a whole different issue, the phone was stuck on "Samsung galaxy s III .. blah blah" , pressing the power button wouldn't turn off the phone and it would turn itself on the moment I put back the battery. I surfed the web for info and found topics that called this "stuck power button issue" and they suggested to smack the power button with battery or smack the phone itself (without holding any grudge against the phone ). I did that and it fixed the issue of the phone turning itself on.
At this point I found out the next issue, the OS won't boot & i would still be stuck at "Samsung galaxy s III ..." screen. So I tried to boot into CWM (Power+Home+Vol Up) but it would loop me back to the same screen 'till death >_>
Then I checked if I could enter download mode and it was a success, afterwards I downloaded a stock .md5 for my phone (and specified country), Loaded it to odin and tried to flash using that, and it failed on me ... check the pic below if you wanna see the error massages
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FAIL !! I tried it twice, I can't think of what to do anymore ... Being able to access BBM (I got a habit of making notes there) & Contacts (I am not sure if superbackup was being a good boy and made backups everyday) would be nice .. But I don't think it's gonna happen ... All I really care about is being able to recover everything from my Internal storage, I don't care if the phone becomes unusable or whatever.. I just need the internal storage.
+ My phone is rooted, I have some nandroid backups and the Rom I was using was Android Revolution HD
Update 12/10
I messed around with the phone, and found out that I can still get in cwm, but I keep getting stuck with "can't mount cache/recovery/..." "can't open cache/recovery/..."error
Since the phone is three years old the battery could be the culprit. Try with your friends battery to see if the phone is booting properly. Still if your phone stucks in boot loop then repalce your power button.
I faced similar issue. My phone went into bootloop even when in recovery. It would reboot while OS installation is in progress. Weird. Rebooting while in recovery could damage the recovery itself and next time it wont even boot into recovery.
mpadhu said:
Since the phone is three years old the battery could be the culprit. Try with your friends battery to see if the phone is booting properly. Still if your phone stucks in boot loop then repalce your power button.
I faced similar issue. My phone went into bootloop even when in recovery. It would reboot while OS installation is in progress. Weird. Rebooting while in recovery could damage the recovery itself and next time it wont even boot into recovery.
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thank god someone replied, I thought nobody would respond so I gave up on xda .. anyways I just updated my post.
I am positive that the issue is not the battery, since it's new and i did try the older one and nothing changed. I still get stuck at the same screen x_X
As i mentioned from the title my recovery menu appearing and disappearing every 3-4 second. Menu shows him self 3-4 second and blinking and showing again.
The problem was maybe virus. Because when i plug the phone for charge, sometimes it was discharging. And next boot-up told me your phone encrypted and need to be factory reset. And there was a button to reset phone from system. I clicked and now recovery menu even not opening. Seems i need some help :crying:
Edit: I was using Resurrection rom 5.4.9 Android 5.1.1
I'd suggest finding your original service provider rom and flash it using odin. This should wipe it and put it back to factory. Then re-install from there.
Thank you for answer, i will do it today.
Hi everyone.*
I'll give you a background on what has happened and would be appreciated you guys could offer some assistance or steer me to the right direction.
I have a Samsung Note Edge (SM-N915G) that suddently restarted randomly while it was sitting on my desk. The phone is not rooted and USB debugging was not switched on prior to crashing if I recall correctly.
The phone is now bootlooping or freezes at the optus screen. Sometimes its barely gets on the home screen before restarting again.
I have tried the below but with no success.
1. Replacing brand new batteries.
2. Changing the firmware through ODIN v3.13.1 (tried both old and current firmwares). It passes through ODIN but still the same problem.
3. Tried to recover data via programs like Dr. fone to recover the data but it keeps failing.
Basically I want to recover the data thats on the phone is my main concern, then recover the phone. Last option put it back to factory state.
Any help would be appreciated.
Hi , probably you was using fast charging option , and that reduces battery life.
So you said that you replaced new battery , you must be sure that is exactly like yours , because many store has a copy of batteries silimar like Original.
Next what you can try is to Wipe Cache Partition from recovery and if you are able to use your phone , go fast to the Settings and disable Fast Cable Charging.
See how to do that , I hope you fix this issue . : ) Good luck
Teddy Lo said:
Hi , probably you was using fast charging option , and that reduces battery life.
So you said that you replaced new battery , you must be sure that is exactly like yours , because many store has a copy of batteries silimar like Original.
Next what you can try is to Wipe Cache Partition from recovery and if you are able to use your phone , go fast to the Settings and disable Fast Cable Charging.
See how to do that , I hope you fix this issue . : ) Good luck
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Yeps I used the original Samsung battery.
I have wiped the cache Partition and still the same thing.
I am unable to go into the phone as its in bootloop like I mentioned previously so no go disabling Fast charging.
NightOwlRoan said:
Yeps I used the original Samsung battery.
I have wiped the cache Partition and still the same thing.
I am unable to go into the phone as its in bootloop like I mentioned previously so no go disabling Fast charging.
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Tell me are you able to enter into Download mode without Rebooting ?
Teddy Lo said:
Tell me are you able to enter into Download mode without Rebooting ?
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Yes I am able to go into download mode via the normal way by restarting the phone and holding down volume down, home and power button. Then pressing up volume to enter download mode as normal
Try to flash this firmware with latest version of ODIN .
https://updato.com/firmware-archive-select-model?record=1103664FEDC511E69215FA163EE8F90B
Good Luck
Teddy Lo said:
Try to flash this firmware with latest version of ODIN .
https://updato.com/firmware-archive-select-model?record=1103664FEDC511E69215FA163EE8F90B
Good Luck
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Ive just downloaded it and installed it.
Its been sitting on the Galaxy Note Edge Screen with the "recovery booting..." on top of the screen in blue.
Ill leave it for a while and see how it goes and let you know the outcome
NightOwlRoan said:
Ive just downloaded it and installed it.
Its been sitting on the Galaxy Note Edge Screen with the "recovery booting..." on top of the screen in blue.
Ill leave it for a while and see how it goes and let you know the outcome
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I got "No command". Oh now it went through rebooting process after a while.
It was booting for several times. Now "Android is upgrading" green screen. Hoping it will be fixed after
NightOwlRoan said:
I got "No command". Oh now it went through rebooting process after a while.
It was booting for several times. Now "Android is upgrading" green screen. Hoping it will be fixed after
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I got to my home screen for a few seconds before freezing, restarting and back to bootloop
NightOwlRoan said:
I got to my home screen for a few seconds before freezing, restarting and back to bootloop
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Hi , try to wipe cache partition , and Factory reset your phone , if that doesn't help you or battery is problem or is some hardware issue like eMMC chip or power ic chip I don't know , try to boot your phone with his original battery .
Teddy Lo said:
Hi , try to wipe cache partition , and Factory reset your phone , if that doesn't help you or battery is problem or is some hardware issue like eMMC chip or power ic chip I don't know , try to boot your phone with his original battery .
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Non of those worked as I have also tried them all before.
I'm trying to avoid factory reset as like I mentioned before
Could possibly be hardware issue.
If it is a power issue, then why am I able to still power up into download mode without turning off...