Long story short, my phone was just bricked. If you want the readers digest version, the battery died, I plugged it in but didn't wait long enough before turning it on, and as it was booting up while charging it died again, which caused a bootloop. I did a backup to my sd card through recovery mode, then left my phone and went to sleep as it was finishing. When I woke up, my phone was hot and completely bricked. Straight Talk is sending me a free replacement. I was running on cm10 nightly (I think my last update was 6/16/13.
This is my plan, can somebody tell me if you think it'll work?
- Install the same cm10 nightly update that the old phone had
- Create a backup of my new phone to the sd card
- Replace the "Data" file of the backup of the original phone with the "Data" file of the backup from my new phone
- Restore the backup of the new phone with the old data file
Do y'all think this will work? Hopefully it wasn't anything in the data file that caused the bootloop!
Oh and btw when I would reset the cache before it bricked, it would turn on and say "Updating apps" and it would go through all 150 or so, then when it said "Starting Apps", it would stop and wouldn't go any further.
Thanks in advance for your help!!!
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My phone will not turn off, everytime it shuts down it comes back on within 5 seconds, so I am about to return it back to orange for repairs.
I am back on stock firmware now and binary count etc is all reset. On my internal card I got efs backup files should they be there on a stock phone?
Transfer the EFS backup files to your external SD card/PC in case you need them at some stage after you get the phone back ?
As long as you've done a factory reset & made sure there are no other signs of the phone being rooted/running non-stock firmware you should be OK. But there are never 100% guarantees you'll get warranty service once you've messed with the phone (nor should you have any expectations of same).
welshman010 said:
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My phone will not turn off, everytime it shuts down it comes back on within 5 seconds, so I am about to return it back to orange for repairs.
I am back on stock firmware now and binary count etc is all reset. On my internal card I got efs backup files should they be there on a stock phone?
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Wipe everything off your internal memory (presumably you wont be supplying your external memory card with the phone, otherwise you'd wipe that also).
Reinstall the firmware to rebuild your file directories if android doesn't do this automatically on reboot.
Make a backup.
Put the efs backup on your computer (I also backed mine up to dropbox too just to make sure) and wipe everything.
All done.. Sammy sending out bag to send phone back to them. Hope it goes smoothly and gets fixed
So I was backing up my data to my computer's hard drive and I left the SD card in the computer. No big deal, right? Wrong. My phone (rooted Razr with Batakang) refuses to start up. Tried mounting and unmounting, system off, power button and vol down, nothing will save it. I can get to Matt's utility just fine, but from there the phone will not start up properly on stock OR rooted rom.
Please help, it is like a boot loop when I leave it alone.
boland3 said:
So I was backing up my data to my computer's hard drive and I left the SD card in the computer. No big deal, right? Wrong. My phone (rooted Razr with Batakang) refuses to start up. Tried mounting and unmounting, system off, power button and vol down, nothing will save it. I can get to Matt's utility just fine, but from there the phone will not start up properly on stock OR rooted rom.
Please help, it is like a boot loop when I leave it alone.
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UPDATE: I flashed Batakang to the same ROM slot where I think I had it before (It won't let me switch slots) and it is working but I guess I lost everything I had into the oblivion. Id like to get some of my app information like saved texts, etc back but I guess thats all gone.
I had that ROM so perfect, it is such a shame to see it go. If anything good comes out of this, hopefully people reading this will be made aware that it is possible for a battery death while SD card is removed can SERIOUSLY screw up a rooted phone somehow. Never would have guessed.
Hey guys, first post only because of the level of stress I been goino through trying to figure this out.
So I Had Rooted My phone succesfully At One Point I Wanted To Flash My Rom and It Failed using twrp. I had backed everything up using twrp and when it came time to trying to restore, it failed as well. Long story short I've been searching for a way to fix this as my phone is stuck in factory mode. Weird thing is that my imei number is still correlates correctly with the sticker on the phone but there are no files/ folders in the efs folder and I feel I've exhausted all of my options. I've tried factory wipes, nandroid restore via twrp which failed. Reinstalling factory Rom via kies and Odin to no avail with this issue.
Am I missing something? Where do I go from here? I know there's something that was backed up onto my sd card as the folder upwards of 1gb. when backed up in twrp I made sure to check everybox. Should i have performed a wipe prior to backup? Any help is much appreciatedas this phone is about a week old and its starting to get a bit frustrating...
i only have one real connectivity issue and it only happens on wi-fi. if i turn it on, it will connect than within 5-10 sec the rom will reset to boot screen and it will say "Factory Mode On! wi-fi is now turning off" other than this, i have full network access.
as of right now i'm stock worst comes to worst, may have to send the phone in, if warranty is void, i have a $175 deductible... trying to avoid this on a brand new phone.
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Hello everyone,
Last month I rooted my LG G2, and installed cyanogenmod. Everything was going smoothly but for some reason I decided to restore my phone from a backup I made before installing cyan and then just continued using it like that. Two nights ago an android software update took place automatically overnight and when I woke up it was just stuck in the TWRP menu. I tried restoring from previous backups, wiping it and re installing the cyanogenmod that was still on the virtual SD card to no avail, and finally completely formatting the phone to see if I could get it to show up on the computer because it makes the connection noise but it doesn't show up as a device or hard drive.
So now when it boots up it shows the LG logo and then brings me back to TWRP but now I have no restore points on the phone. So is there anyway to get my computer to recognize it so I can add files and hopefully get a working backup on the phone? Or is there a way I can even just flash the stock firmware on it again? Or am I out of luck?
cj0435 said:
Hello everyone,
Last month I rooted my LG G2, and installed cyanogenmod. Everything was going smoothly but for some reason I decided to restore my phone from a backup I made before installing cyan and then just continued using it like that. Two nights ago an android software update took place automatically overnight and when I woke up it was just stuck in the TWRP menu. I tried restoring from previous backups, wiping it and re installing the cyanogenmod that was still on the virtual SD card to no avail, and finally completely formatting the phone to see if I could get it to show up on the computer because it makes the connection noise but it doesn't show up as a device or hard drive.
So now when it boots up it shows the LG logo and then brings me back to TWRP but now I have no restore points on the phone. So is there anyway to get my computer to recognize it so I can add files and hopefully get a working backup on the phone? Or is there a way I can even just flash the stock firmware on it again? Or am I out of luck?
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so you formatted your sdcard too. (jokes aside, thats genius). Mind my sarcastic fun-poking, you will have to put your phone into emergency mode and use a tool to flash the stock rom. Usually you can navigate to the manufacturers support page and they will have an updater tool that can flash one of the updates. if not, then scour the forums for an unbrick guide that will flash the stock rom from emergency mode.
Hi,
I have successfully rooted my GT P7500 and installed ClockWork Recovery. When I tried to create a backup in it, the backup process got stuck. Probably because lack of free space during the backup process as there was a lot of data. So I tried to reboot the device - first time it booted up and got stuck on homescreen. So I had to reset it. After reset the device does not start at all - display is off (no reaction), battery is fine (was around 50%), even putting on charger does not do anything to show up on display.
Is there a way to do something about it? A special "reset" or anything?
Thank you for any advice.