I was on mdk rooted running hyperdrive 8.1 that soft bricked my phone. I tried to Odin everything I could find. The only way I could get back running was to flash a set from darkmenace (thank you very much) to this me7 crap. Of course now no custom Rom which makes me despise the phone a little.
Last night I was streaming hbo go over the mhl adapter when I had a random restart. This time I got the familiar Samsung splash screen with the unlocked lock and the word custom. This got me a little excited thinking there might be a way to get a custom recovery back or a custom Rom....
Was this a random fluke or something usable?
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with my phone rooted I have noticed that when I do a restart mine also shows custom and has a unlock on it if I hold vol up & pwr while it is restarting I can get into the stock recovery with a normal power up if I try to go to recovery it just bypasses it and boots
Been able to get into stock recovery no matter which way I boot....thought maybe it had to do with it being a random reboot versus one I initiated.
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It means nothing more than the system was modified at one point.
It means absolutely nothing regarding a ME7 bootloader exploit.
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Okay thanks......
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trying to root a friends gs2 i777 and after using odin to run the tar file, it started to reboot and has been stuck on the samsung logo for about 30 minutes now. i was just told that he is still on froyo so i think that had something to do with it but he is no longer using an at&t sim card so it wouldnt let him upgrade to 2.3 over the air. but i am stuck at the logo screen and tried to reboot back into stock recovery and it gets stuck at the logo still. please someone help
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trying to root a friends gs2 i777 and after using odin to run the tar file, it started to reboot and has been stuck on the samsung logo for about 30 minutes now. i was just told that he is still on froyo so i think that had something to do with it but he is no longer using an at&t sim card so it wouldnt let him upgrade to 2.3 over the air. but i am stuck at the logo screen and tried to reboot back into stock recovery and it gets stuck at the logo still. please someone help
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I'm pretty sure the i777 never had froyo... Have you researched this issue?
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I'm pretty sure the i777 never had froyo... Have you researched this issue?
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Yeah been using Google like a fiend. And I live no where near this guy and its his phone. We are actually at a bar right now so I'm in a big time constraint
Hold both volumes and power button to hard reset and access cwr
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Hold both volumes and power button to hard reset and access cwr
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I did that and it just boots back into the Samsung logo
Hold power down and volume down and plug it in for download mode and flash a kernel that can wipe and install.
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Or if at bar.....
Hold all three buttons till Samsung appears and dissapears then let go of all three to get into recovery menu to see if you have a kernel.... then wipe clear data and reflash.
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I think the moral of the story is not to flash ROMs while drinking at a bar.
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Phalanx7621 said:
I think the moral of the story is not to flash ROMs while drinking at a bar.
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Haha not drinking
Liquors calling the shots now and doing the rooting/flashing Lol!!
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kendall316 said:
trying to root a friends gs2 i777 and after using odin to run the tar file, it started to reboot and has been stuck on the samsung logo for about 30 minutes now. i was just told that he is still on froyo so i think that had something to do with it but he is no longer using an at&t sim card so it wouldnt let him upgrade to 2.3 over the air. but i am stuck at the logo screen and tried to reboot back into stock recovery and it gets stuck at the logo still. please someone help
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I'm pretty sure the i777 never had froyo... Have you researched this issue?
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The i777 NEVER had Froyo. It was released with GB 2.3.4. When trying to root "a friends" phone it's best to have read everything and be prepared if things go wrong. Its a hard sell, when you trying to explain why their phone is borked. Also I find Heimdall a bit easier to use than Odin.
Nobody seems to be asking the obvious question: are you positive this is an I777, and not another variant of the S2, like a skyrocket, our even the 1900?
Take out the battery and look at the label under the battery. what model does it say the phone is?
I agree with wgoldfarb, I very nearly did the same thing to my work phone a few months back. It was in a ballistic case, and I couldn't tell the difference until I opened it and held it side by side with my i777,but it turned out it was an older infuse. $20 says that if he's positive he had froyo, it's the same situation.
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Sure sounds like an Infuse... I had one of those...yuck
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Sorry, but drunk posting from a bar about trying to root a phone, but not being sure what phone it is (again, it never had 2.2...), has no place on this forum..
So, I just brought home a brand spanking new GS4 from a verizon store. Came out of a sealed box. I shut it down just now to put an SD card in. I boot it back up and notice something very peculiar, during the first boot after putting the card in, I didn't get the Galaxy S4 logo, I didn't get the Verizon logo, just an unlocked padlock and the word "Custom"
Kinda like my N10 which indicates the unlocked bootloader during boot. I shut it back down, rebooted, and it went away. It was just the first time after plugging in a micro-sd. Any ideas?
You didn't root or anything?
I'm getting the same thing, but followed by the Samsung and Verizon splash screens. I am rooted.
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mbh87 said:
You didn't root or anything?
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Nope, no root.
zregnier said:
I'm getting the same thing, but followed by the Samsung and Verizon splash screens. I am rooted.
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Hmm, interesting. Well, it doesn't seem to be doing it any more. Who knows.
This did come up for a lot of people after flashing the prerelease kernel for rooting. Once back on stock firmamware rebooting twice fixes, as it allows the bootloader to read and recognize that you are stock. If its gone now, you should be good. Go into odin mode and look in the top left, does it say custom or official?
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Do you need to remove twrp to take OTA?
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Yes you need to be on total stock to take the OTA. Once you take the update there is no going back however which means no custom recovery or custom ROMs
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Yes you need to be on total stock to take the OTA. Once you take the update there is no going back however which means no custom recovery or custom ROMs
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Can you remove twrp without a computer assisting? Or just using the phone
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The most easy way to take the ota would be to Odin the stock image of the phone then accept the update
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If youre going to take the ota you might as well just flash me7 through odin. Then you dont have to bother with removing recovery. Flash and go.
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If you altered your phone in any way like removed bloat, then just removing twrp won't help. The ota will simply fail. I'd just flash back to stock with odin. I'm assuming that your on MDK and want to update to me7 via ota.
well main problem is i would love to use odin for update but when i plug into my usb it keep connecting and disconnecting the phone. i have the latest drivers i have no idea why its doing that. i have it set t MTP but does not show up.
How do you have it set to mtp, the phone has to be in download mode which there is no options to change. However if you have a problem with a usb port trying a different one will sometimes resolve it. If youre not using the stock cable that could be it as well.
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How do you have it set to mtp, the phone has to be in download mode which there is no options to change. However if you have a problem with a usb port trying a different one will sometimes resolve it. If youre not using the stock cable that could be it as well.
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ive tried about 4 ports now it does the same thing even in download mode. connects and disconnects immeddiatly
Have you tried a different pc? Maybe your port on your phone is going bad
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Have you tried a different pc? Maybe your port on your phone is going bad
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yikes phone isnt that old at all sadly. I really hope that isnt the case. only thing that happens is it charges, connects and disconnects over and over again. so far have had nothing but problems with this PoS.
Yeah that would definitely suck. Maybe try cleaning it as well as the cable but im sure you tried that already.
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well i think my drivers are just screwed up or something now. i used my old ass ancient laptop and its downloading and going thru the update process right now. so now im just trying to find ways to uninstall Samsung kies and falling into a hole because it will not uninstall it, and shows up without an icon in the "uninstall or change a program" menu.
Is there ANYTHING for this phone at all?
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Yeah, I have the same phone, but I cannot find ANYTHING about it. It has so much bloatware, and I need to root out to get rid of it, but i can't find any successful methods.
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This is the root method page actually. Its the discussion about this phone. But the method is for the xperia I think.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2455999
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Okay so me and my buddy rooted his zte supreme all went well then he froze some system apps and installed a few to many fonts now we are stuck in a boot loop. I'm not all that new to android and adb but I can't get it out of this. I was wondering if there was any way to completely while the device to a blank canvas and start over I don't care if the phone can be used as a phone anymore, I will be satisfied with just wifi. I have a stock boot img system img and recovery. But everything I do in adb ends up with a fail. When I boot my device all I get is a flashing android word. Is there anything at all I can do?
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I would recommend if you can bring up recovery doing a system reset and that should cut everything out. But if you have no recovery loading the phone up with the boot.img you have will have to be done without the sim card in.
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So im thinking if the root method for the Xperia L works for this phone maybe the roms will work with a modified resolution and stock kernel.
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I noticed this is a ZTE supreme forum so maybe you guys can help.
I got a notification of an update for my phone last night. I said yes not thinking anything of it and after it updated the phone stopped working, It won't connect to the virgin network. Cant open camera. It freezes everytime I try to go to an app and it just goes slow. Also restarts sometimes. What can I do?
Help, I'm a n00b
I have had my zte supreme for about 6-7 months now, and i plan on buying a new phone in 6-7 months, so I'm at the 1/2 way point with my phone. I want to root my phone and put android 4.4 on it. If anyone could lay out the exact steps that i could do, that'd be nice.
So I bought this phone used and it would randomly reboot and so I installed 4.4.2. But that didn't solve it so I ran the Viper RUU and then flashed it back to 4.4.2 and that still doesn't solve . Two curious things: when I bought it it came with a locked bootloader but s off and when it boots up it says for development use only. And now it won't boot at all I might be able to get it to boot temporarily though if I'm lucky. Any ideas?
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Sounds like the previous owner may have had issues, ran a RUU & got rid of it. Running a RUU would put the bootloader back to being locked, even with it being S-off. It's hard to say what the issue could be, honestly. The red development disclaimer you're referring to when the phone boots up is normal on a rooted device. I'm almost wondering if the battery could be at fault, particularly since you say you can't get the phone to boot at all now. Will the phone charge at all?
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I had a similar problem using the 4.4 roms. So since then I have just been using the older roms waiting until the new ones get the issues ironed out.
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It was giving me trouble on pure stock too so I don't think that's the problem it could be the battery though how difficult is it to replace that?
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Phone will now charge and boot but it is still really fussy with reboots and getting it to boot.
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Have you tried the 3.17 Ruu?
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Could you shoot me a link plz?
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Hit the top link in my sig. The link is at the bottom of the first post.
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