Installed CARBON-UNOFFICIAL-20130923-dlx-CDMA-M7.zip followed by gapps-jb-20130813-signed.zip and booted the phone. I restored my apps with ROM Toolbox Pro and then tried to restore phone data (I selected Bluetooth pairings, Wifi, Wallpaper, and messages). It then suggested I reboot the phone to apply the settings. The phone then went into a loop showing the Carbon splash screen followed by a brief look at the lock screen, followed by a prompt "com.android.system has stopped unexpectedly" followed by the Carbon splash screen and so on. After many, many attempts, I finally was able to reboot into recovery by quickly unlocking the phone, selecting the boot options menu, selecting "recovery", and pressing "ok" in about 2 seconds or less. I then restored my nandroid and am back to stock/rooted. I do have a suggestion. If possible, the power button/down volume should always be available by default to get back to recovery and/or the bootloader menu. I understand the risky nature of choosing to use these ROMs but if that fail safe were always provided, it would make it a lot less risky. After a brief look at the ROM, I would like to go back to it but I am a little gun shy at the moment.
Note: I would have posted this in the Droid DNA developer area but apparently I haven't made enough posts because it would not let me.
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Installed CARBON-UNOFFICIAL-20130923-dlx-CDMA-M7.zip followed by gapps-jb-20130813-signed.zip and booted the phone. I restored my apps with ROM Toolbox Pro and then tried to restore phone data (I selected Bluetooth pairings, Wifi, Wallpaper, and messages). It then suggested I reboot the phone to apply the settings. The phone then went into a loop showing the Carbon splash screen followed by a brief look at the lock screen, followed by a prompt "com.android.system has stopped unexpectedly" followed by the Carbon splash screen and so on. After many, many attempts, I finally was able to reboot into recovery by quickly unlocking the phone, selecting the boot options menu, selecting "recovery", and pressing "ok" in about 2 seconds or less. I then restored my nandroid and am back to stock/rooted. I do have a suggestion. If possible, the power button/down volume should always be available by default to get back to recovery and/or the bootloader menu. I understand the risky nature of choosing to use these ROMs but if that fail safe were always provided, it would make it a lot less risky. After a brief look at the ROM, I would like to go back to it but I am a little gun shy at the moment.
Note: I would have posted this in the Droid DNA developer area but apparently I haven't made enough posts because it would not let me.
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Its not removed, it still works. If you can't get it to fire then try holding power until the key lights blink, then when they stop and the screen blanks, let go and hold volume down, this always works for me and I'm sure I flash more broken stuff then you do
Also, stop restoring settings between Roms, that's why it broke. For a first flash of a new ROM always do it fresh and don't restore anything, it'll go so much smoother.
Tapatalked from my HTC DNA - Akakaze
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Its not removed, it still works. If you can't get it to fire then try holding power until the key lights blink, then when they stop and the screen blanks, let go and hold volume down, this always works for me and I'm sure I flash more broken stuff then you do
Also, stop restoring settings between Roms, that's why it broke. For a first flash of a new ROM always do it fresh and don't restore anything, it'll go so much smoother.
Tapatalked from my HTC DNA - Akakaze
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I'm using [ROM]MIUI/CM7 Hybrid v3 multi-lang update 04/07/2012 and haven't had any issues whatsoever. Tonight I updated a bunch of Play Store apps that I've been putting off for a while and the only one that I could think of that could possibly have caused a problem is MiHome. Everything else was a pretty standard app/game.
Well my phone rebooted and now after it boots and shows the lock screen it goes blank a few seconds later. I tried unlocking it before it went blank and and I did see the home screen but it went blank again before the icons showed up. I can tell it's still on because there is a very slight glow from the screen if you look at it from an angle.
PLEASE HELP ME. I have no idea how to fix this and wouldn't even know where to begin!!
You've flashed a ROM before, you should know this already... Reboot into recovery, do a wipe data/cache (factory reset), reboot. If that doesn't work then wipe all and re-flash the ROM+gapps.
If you've been messing with system files, it's probably best to go straight to wipe all and re-flashing.
Re-install apps, re-configure the dozen or so apps you actually use on a normal day-to-day basis, and set a lovely wallpaper when you're done. 1 hour tops.
At the very least you'll be available for phone calls and text messages again within the next 10min.
Next time make sure to do a backup so you can restore a working copy of your data and cache whenever you need.
Unless you already know what the issue is, or how to fix it, sorry to say it, but the above steps are likely the quickest way to a resolution.
You're right I am very familiar with those steps but I can't reboot into recovery or any other method. My screen is blank and everything is unresponsive. The only way I can reboot is to pull the battery. I do remember there is a way to boot into recovery from a power off status but I can't remember how to do that.
BTW...thank you for your quick reply!
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You're right I am very familiar with those steps but I can't reboot into recovery or any other method. My screen is blank and everything is unresponsive. The only way I can reboot is to pull the battery. I do remember there is a way to boot into recovery from a power off status but I can't remember how to do that.
BTW...thank you for your quick reply!
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Hold down the volume-down key while booting up, when you see the Fastboot option appear, press the volume-down key repeatedly to cycle through the selections until you get to Android Recovery, then volume-up to select.
Try this:
- remove the battery
- press Volume Down and hold
- insert the battery (tricky part when holding Volume Down)
- wait till system menu appears
- release Volume Down
- press Volume Down again few times till "Recovery" shown.
- press Power
Thank you guys (or girls)! That's what I couldn't remember. Wiping now and will reinstall ROM.
Hello
I rooted my Galaxy s2 i777 using 2.3.6 (I think that was it - what ATT pushed out earlier in the summer) and next flashed CWM using ODIN. I noticed that the menus weren't working in CWM. When I use the home or menu buttons it just toggles a logo screen, and power does nothing (volume keys do work). I noticed others had this issue with this phone but didn't encounter any solutions.
Poking around the Rom Manager application I noticed a reboot into recovery mode feature and thought I'd try it. It did as advertised. But now when I reboot by holding down power it immediately reboots into recovery mode. I'm guessing what happens is the "reboot into recovery mode" feature put itself at the head of the boot sequence and instead of removing itself from there on load, which it probably should, it waits until the user exits the program cleanly. Unfortunately, because I can't get the keys to work in the program, the only way I can exit is to hold down power. I can navigate to the "power off" or "reboot" options but I can't execute them (press "enter"). So it stays at the head of the boot sequence (just my theory) and I can't get out. Actually when I power off by holding down the power key the phone just reboots immediately, right back into cwm recovery, so there seems to be something more going on.
I have a backup of the system but I can't figure out how to get out of the sequence. I tried the download mode and recovery mode key sequences but they don't work (not even sure if they're supposed to work in this recovery screen). Any ideas? I have a backup of the system, so I'm happy to attempt scorched earth suggestions. Kies can't recognize the phone anymore. Many thanks.
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Hello
I rooted my Galaxy s2 i777 using 2.3.6 (I think that was it - what ATT pushed out earlier in the summer) and next flashed CWM using ODIN. I noticed that the menus weren't working in CWM. When I use the home or menu buttons it just toggles a logo screen, and power does nothing (volume keys do work). I noticed others had this issue with this phone but didn't encounter any solutions.
Poking around the Rom Manager application I noticed a reboot into recovery mode feature and thought I'd try it. It did as advertised. But now when I reboot by holding down power it immediately reboots into recovery mode. I'm guessing what happens is the "reboot into recovery mode" feature put itself at the head of the boot sequence and instead of removing itself from there on load, which it probably should, it waits until the user exits the program cleanly. Unfortunately, because I can't get the keys to work in the program, the only way I can exit is to hold down power. I can navigate to the "power off" or "reboot" options but I can't execute them (press "enter"). So it stays at the head of the boot sequence (just my theory) and I can't get out. Actually when I power off by holding down the power key the phone just reboots immediately, right back into cwm recovery, so there seems to be something more going on.
I have a backup of the system but I can't figure out how to get out of the sequence. I tried the download mode and recovery mode key sequences but they don't work (not even sure if they're supposed to work in this recovery screen). Any ideas? I have a backup of the system, so I'm happy to attempt scorched earth suggestions. Kies can't recognize the phone anymore. Many thanks.
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1. you obviously flashed a kernel WITH CWM via Odin.
2. Rom Manager should not be used.
Flash a rooted stock ROM via ODIN.
read around in the stickies of the i777 forum, and get acquainted with things.
Boot into CWM correctly, and go about flashing whatever you want knowing what you just learned by reading the correct stuff.
Welp, first things first.
1. Read, search, Google, only look at results from this forum, i.e. the ATT Galaxy S2 I777 forums on XDA. Any info from any other sites is more likely to get you nowhere or brick your phone further.
2. After having done so, you'll learn never to use Rom Manager. EVER.
3. Also after having done #1, you'll learn to never try to flash CWM separately. As Moto implies, CWM for our phones is built into custom kernels, it is not separate.
4. Follow this guide to start over and get back to stock.
5. Then follow this guide to root and flash custom ROMs and kernels.
You sound like an intelligent guy, so as long as you do more reading around here you'll figure everything out slowly. Make sure to read stuff multiple times until you fully understand everything, and feel free to ask questions about stuff you don't understand, but only after reading said guides multiple times.
EDIT: Gah Moto, why you gotta post ahead of me D:
Actually the problem is most likely the fact that he is probably using an old version of cwm where the home button selects stuff. And rom manager.
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karate104 said:
Welp, first things first.
1. Read, search, Google, only look at results from this forum, i.e. the ATT Galaxy S2 I777 forums on XDA. Any info from any other sites is more likely to get you nowhere or brick your phone further.
2. After having done so, you'll learn never to use Rom Manager. EVER.
3. Also after having done #1, you'll learn to never try to flash CWM separately. As Moto implies, CWM for our phones is built into custom kernels, it is not separate.
4. Follow this guide to start over and get back to stock.
5. Then follow this guide to root and flash custom ROMs and kernels.
You sound like an intelligent guy, so as long as you do more reading around here you'll figure everything out slowly. Make sure to read stuff multiple times until you fully understand everything, and feel free to ask questions about stuff you don't understand, but only after reading said guides multiple times.
EDIT: Gah Moto, why you gotta post ahead of me D:
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Thanks, that did it. I'd actually read the stickies, I just didn't think I could get into download mode because the phone was stuck in that auto-reboot loop.
For anyone else stuck in that loop cwm recovery loop, the download mode entry method (press both volume keys and insert usb) needs to be timed just so, since you usually perform the sequence when the phone is powered down (in stable way) but in this situation you only have a moment before it restarts. After powering down, just as it restarts automatically you can see the capacitative buttons blink for an instant, and that's when I started the sequence. Took me about half a dozen times but I eventually caught it. Am I the only one struggling with how hard these captchas are getting over the years? there's probably a sticky for that too I guess nvm.
If I'm not mistaken you can get into download mode without having a battery plugged in, so no need for trying to time it. Just hold volume buttons and plug in USB. For future reference; glad you got it worked out. Make sure to read the second guide thoroughly so you know how to safely flash stuff, and hit my thanks button if i helped you out.
Sent from my SGH-I777
I have a T-679. it is only lightly modded. I still have stock UVLE1 with Clockworkmod recovery...v5.5 i think. All has been well until recently I have been trying out a lot of new apps. recently i got the adw launcher and camera sensor. now when i reboot i see one Samsung logo, then tmobile/android logo and jingle, then another Samsung logo and it hangs here. if i wait some time and start pushing buttons I see that the phone seems to be active. if i push the power button then the vol-up/down i hear the sound of the volume being adjusted. also very curiously i just found that if i hold down the home button and press the power button i hear a shutter sound!? In some instances, haven't figured out if its a particular button press of just random, i can get the lock screen to come up, which then allows me to unlock the phone and all works normally... until i reboot again.
any ideas suggestion how to proceed? Thanks.
edit: I just checked I have CWM recovery v5.5.04,b
I have a backup from a while back and i just made another backup
I also tryied wipe cache/dalvik which i thought it helped because i think it booted directly after that, but i just tryed again and
this time i see no benefit/effect
overload1 said:
I have a T-679. it is only lightly modded. I still have stock UVLE1 with Clockworkmod recovery...v5.5 i think. All has been well until recently I have been trying out a lot of new apps. recently i got the adw launcher and camera sensor. now when i reboot i see one Samsung logo, then tmobile/android logo and jingle, then another Samsung logo and it hangs here. if i wait some time and start pushing buttons I see that the phone seems to be active. if i push the power button then the vol-up/down i hear the sound of the volume being adjusted. also very curiously i just found that if i hold down the home button and press the power button i hear a shutter sound!? In some instances, haven't figured out if its a particular button press of just random, i can get the lock screen to come up, which then allows me to unlock the phone and all works normally... until i reboot again.
any ideas suggestion how to proceed? Thanks.
edit: I just checked I have CWM recovery v5.5.04,b
I have a backup from a while back and i just made another backup
I also tryied wipe cache/dalvik which i thought it helped because i think it booted directly after that, but i just tryed again and
this time i see no benefit/effect
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After wiping everything such as data, cache, dalvik-cache, battery stats in CWM, try restoring the Nandroid backup which you've created. If still, it gives weird issues, fresh install another ROM.
Hello everyone ... I think I dun goofed, but perhaps someone knows something that I don't :\
So today I wanted to switch to a new Custom ROM... standard procedure I guess. Without doing anything, btw, apart from using my phone, I got several random reboots into bootloop today, especially while texting, which I didn't get at all, but didn't mind because they ceased after several times.
So I get home and get cracking ... backup my Contacts, try to make a NANDROID backup, which gets stuck while backing up /data ... which I didn't get, but unfortunately CWM didn't wanna react after this, so I had to hard reset, and lookie lookie, it rebooted into Android. Now, however, nothing works.
I put in the battery, the bootloop begins, not even a press of the Power Button is needed, I press the combination for Download Mode, actually SEE THE WARNING SCREEN, can't however proceed because the reboot begins immediately after, and CWM won't load either
Does this mean I'm pretty much f'd in the a?
EDIT: Welp, seems like removing the battery right when the loop starts makes it so that I have to press the power button again which makes me able to access both Android and CWM, I literally have no clue how this could have come.
Hi, android noobie here, I have a rooted m8 that keeps rebooting after updating the at&t software.
I get the pop up that says AT&T software is available. If I clicked on continue it reboots to teamwin during boot up and once i reboot to system it just reboots itself every 30 secs or so.
I had to do a factory reset just to get my phone working again. But now the update screen is popping up again and I have to keep it under 35% so it doesn't auto update and keep pressing remind me later.
How do I disable this auto update? or is there an easier way to make the phone go back to stock since I really don't have any use of a rooted device besides watching MLB games...
Thanks for the help.
howyodoing said:
Hi, android noobie here, I have a rooted m8 that keeps rebooting after updating the at&t software.
I get the pop up that says AT&T software is available. If I clicked on continue it reboots to teamwin during boot up and once i reboot to system it just reboots itself every 30 secs or so.
I had to do a factory reset just to get my phone working again. But now the update screen is popping up again and I have to keep it under 35% so it doesn't auto update and keep pressing remind me later.
How do I disable this auto update? or is there an easier way to make the phone go back to stock since I really don't have any use of a rooted device besides watching MLB games...
Thanks for the help.
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If I'm not mistaken, you would need to un-root your phone prior to installing any OTA Updates from AT&T. Also, you should only install the OTA Updates while using the stock recovery. So, you should re-flash the stock recovery and then attempt to complete the OTA Update. After that, you could re-install TeamWin, re-root and prosper.
Refer to this link on reverting back to stock... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2721435
howyodoing said:
Hi, android noobie here, I have a rooted m8 that keeps rebooting after updating the at&t software.
I get the pop up that says AT&T software is available. If I clicked on continue it reboots to teamwin during boot up and once i reboot to system it just reboots itself every 30 secs or so.
I had to do a factory reset just to get my phone working again. But now the update screen is popping up again and I have to keep it under 35% so it doesn't auto update and keep pressing remind me later.
How do I disable this auto update? or is there an easier way to make the phone go back to stock since I really don't have any use of a rooted device besides watching MLB games...
Thanks for the help.
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Flash factory recovery, take the update, flash twrp back
or..
Titanium backup to freeze att update
an0ther said:
Flash factory recovery, take the update, flash twrp back
or..
Titanium backup to freeze att update
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Just downloaded titanium back up. How do I freeze the update?
howyodoing said:
Just downloaded titanium back up. How do I freeze the update?
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Try searching next time.. I see you are new here so i'll at least give you a link this time
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2752718
howyodoing said:
Hi, android noobie here, I have a rooted m8 that keeps rebooting after updating the at&t software.
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Good rule of thumb, do not install OTA updates on any modded Android device, without at a minimum doing thorough research on what will happen.
Depending on the device and the update in question, attempt to install an OTA on a modded device will remove root, possibly plug existing exploits (and render the phone unable to be rooted), or put you in a boot loop (as you have experienced).
In particular, OTAs require stock recovery in order to install. So if you have custom recovery installed, this is why the OTA install is failing (and why it keeps booting into TWRP).
Also, there is little (if anything) contained in the OTAs that doesn't get posted in a safe format (flashed from custom recovery) in the Development section soon after the OTAs start to roll out.
Solution for HTC OneM8 (continous restarting after update)
howyodoing said:
Hi, android noobie here, I have a rooted m8 that keeps rebooting after updating the at&t software.
I get the pop up that says AT&T software is available. If I clicked on continue it reboots to teamwin during boot up and once i reboot to system it just reboots itself every 30 secs or so.
I had to do a factory reset just to get my phone working again. But now the update screen is popping up again and I have to keep it under 35% so it doesn't auto update and keep pressing remind me later.
How do I disable this auto update? or is there an easier way to make the phone go back to stock since I really don't have any use of a rooted device besides watching MLB games...
Thanks for the help.
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Hi, i have a HTC One M8, and when my first update popped, i was very enthuziast.
I accepted to download the update, installed it, and... the problem appeared. The phone made his restart after update... and continued to do so over and over again. (Vibrate/HTC screen on for 30 secs/screen off and so on)
I checked the HTC website for solutions, i entered live chat with a consultant, and he asked me to start the Hard reset procedure. To do that, while turned off, you have to press both volume keys, and press the power button. The phone will enter in the Bootloader menu where you have some options. But... tell me, how to do that if the phone restarts continously? you have about 1-2 seconds to do that, while the screen is off. It gave me a hardtime to do that... Finnally, i managed to enter the Bootloader menu.
There... you have 2 options: (using volume up/down to select, and power button to select) you can select to poweroff(shutdown) the phone - and the phone will shutdown,
or you can turn off the fastboot, and the phone will restart normally.
The thing is that when you restart your phone normaly, while fastboot on, the phone skips some steps, and go directly to to turn it on and show you the startscreen.
When you make a major update, like system upgrade, when the phone restarts, he needs to load all the boot setting. And here is the problem. If you have fastboot on, and make a major update, the phone will enter in this ****ty cicle of continous restarts.
Remember to deactivate this Fastboot before you update!
sergiu.dragan25 said:
I checked the HTC website for solutions, i entered live chat with a consultant, and he asked me to start the Hard reset procedure. To do that, while turned off, you have to press both volume keys, and press the power button.
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This is not correct. To force a reboot, you hold power and vol up (not both vol buttons). Then, when its restarting (the moment the screen goes dark and before the white boot screen appears) you let go of both those buttons, and only hold vol down.
sergiu.dragan25 said:
But... tell me, how to do that if the phone restarts continously? you have about 1-2 seconds to do that, while the screen is off.
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In the case of a bootloop (phone keeps restarting), all you need to do is hold vol down during one of the reboot cycles. The timing doesn't matter in this case. Just sit on the vol down button until the bootloader screen appears.
sergiu.dragan25 said:
There... you have 2 options: (using volume up/down to select, and power button to select) you can select to poweroff(shutdown) the phone - and the phone will shutdown,
or you can turn off the fastboot, and the phone will restart normally.
The thing is that when you restart your phone normaly, while fastboot on, the phone skips some steps, and go directly to to turn it on and show you the startscreen.
When you make a major update, like system upgrade, when the phone restarts, he needs to load all the boot setting. And here is the problem. If you have fastboot on, and make a major update, the phone will enter in this ****ty cicle of continous restarts.
Remember to deactivate this Fastboot before you update!
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First, the FASTBOOT selection in bootloader is not the same as "Fast boot" in Settings>Power. The latter just makes the phone start faster from power OFF. The former is an adb (Android Debug Bridge) special mode that allows you to flash partitions from a computer.
Second, in bootloader, you should have the following selections:
FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
FACTORY RESET
SIMLOCK
CHECK SMARTSD
IMAGE CRC
SHOW BARCODE
Of course, its the FACTORY RESET option you want if you want to wipe the phone. Scroll down to (using vol keys) and select with power button.
On the bootloader screen, the active selection is the blue box with white text below the green phone info (hboot number, radio number, etc.). FASTBOOT should only be the default "active" selection if your phone is connected to a computer by USB. Otherwise the default selection in bootloader should be HBOOT.
Third, the "Fast boot" option in Settings>Power does not make a restart "faster" by skipping any steps. It just makes a start from power OFF faster. Its kind of a trick, where power OFF is not really off, but just a deeper sleep mode. A restart is always a restart, regardless of whether "Fast boot" is selected or not in Settings>Power.