Hello, sorry if I seem like an idiot here, I'm new to all of this...
I've been playing around with an old Verizon Fascinate for 2 weeks now. I successfully rooted it and loaded one of the CM10.0 nightly builds. It was running just fine until I decided to do a factory reset and go back to stock. After I did all of that, when I booted the phone it would take over 15 minutes to boot since it was booting almost at 1 frame per second. I tried fixing the problem via Odin but no success. Is there something I'm doing wrong? If anyone knows what I should do... Please tell me...
TheViceLeader said:
Hello, sorry if I seem like an idiot here, I'm new to all of this...
I've been playing around with an old Verizon Fascinate for 2 weeks now. I successfully rooted it and loaded one of the CM10.0 nightly builds. It was running just fine until I decided to do a factory reset and go back to stock. After I did all of that, when I booted the phone it would take over 15 minutes to boot since it was booting almost at 1 frame per second. I tried fixing the problem via Odin but no success. Is there something I'm doing wrong? If anyone knows what I should do... Please tell me...
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Droidstlye's Guilde In the General Section
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238070
extra reading too
2012 Fascinate Rooting Glossary for Noobs - Definitions in layman's terms
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513143
hhp_211 said:
Droidstlye's Guilde In the General Section
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1238070
extra reading too
2012 Fascinate Rooting Glossary for Noobs - Definitions in layman's terms
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513143
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I read the threads you linked and tried to fix my mistakes more carefully but got another slow boot. Could there be anything else I could try? If not, I think I might have another Fascinate to use. Thanks for the help!
TheViceLeader said:
I read the threads you linked and tried to fix my mistakes more carefully but got another slow boot. Could there be anything else I could try? If not, I think I might have another Fascinate to use. Thanks for the help!
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really hard to say,,, the first few reboots can be slow coming up as the phone has to set up certain things and then rechecks them again and will take care of things it may have missed.
If it runs fine once booted up, dont worry about it too much.
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Ok, so I've tried to do my own research and have come up with very little. It took me about a year to figure out what rooting actually meant and did. So I rooted my SGS vibrant and flashed a bionix rom (i think). It says "bionix shut down sequence initiated" or something like that when I turn it off (any ideas on what it is or how I can find out). I really have no idea what version it is. I also would like to put a new rom on my phone but am scared ill screw it up. I watched a youtube video that told me how to do it the first time I flashed anything. It works with a few random screw ups but KILLS my battery. I would really like for someone who knows more than me to explain what a nandroid backup is and how to do one. What the clockwork rom manager can help me do. What the one click lag fix did. Why my computer won't read the storage things on the phone when connected to the phone anymore. What is this odin thing. What is a kernel. will I still get the ota updates without the stock rom. Where did my stock rom go when I pushed backup before I flashed this rom in the rom manager app. Did I actually wipe all the original data from the phone. Why can't I restore boot animation with one click lag fix(it says somethings not found... Did I wipe/delete it?). What is an apk and sdk(or skd)? What is a voodoo lag fix. How many times can you flash beer something goes wrong. I'm really new to ALL of this and have had no help really when I've asked a lot of people who apparently know more than I. ANY help from ANYONE who knows ANYTHING would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
Almost all of those questions can be answered by reading the Tips and Tricks or Noob Guide threads. Those two threads have given me all the info I've ever needed for the Vibrant.
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Ok, so I've tried to do my own research and have come up with very little. It took me about a year to figure out what rooting actually meant and did. So I rooted my SGS vibrant and flashed a bionix rom (i think). It says "bionix shut down sequence initiated" or something like that when I turn it off (any ideas on what it is or how I can find out). I really have no idea what version it is. I also would like to put a new rom on my phone but am scared ill screw it up. I watched a youtube video that told me how to do it the first time I flashed anything. It works with a few random screw ups but KILLS my battery. I would really like for someone who knows more than me to explain what a nandroid backup is and how to do one. What the clockwork rom manager can help me do. What the one click lag fix did. Why my computer won't read the storage things on the phone when connected to the phone anymore. What is this odin thing. What is a kernel. will I still get the ota updates without the stock rom. Where did my stock rom go when I pushed backup before I flashed this rom in the rom manager app. Did I actually wipe all the original data from the phone. Why can't I restore boot animation with one click lag fix(it says somethings not found... Did I wipe/delete it?). What is an apk and sdk(or skd)? I'm really new to ALL of this and have had no help really when I've asked a lot of people who apparently know more than I. ANY help from ANYONE who knows ANYTHING would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
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Theres a lot of questions in there so I'll just bite off a few at first. Before that, have you taken a look at the vibrant bible thread in the dev forum? It covers a lot of the basic ' how tos '.
Firstly, you can possibly see what version of bionix you are running by looking under settings - about phone - build number. now might be a good time for you to odin back to stock and start fresh. Odin is a program that runs on your pc and can safely install a rom on top of any lag fix you may have enabled. You can read about using odin to go back to stock in the vibrant bible thread I mentioned earlier. Once you go back to stock you can receive ota updates from tmo if that's what you want or you can reroot and flash another custom rom. If you choose to flash another rom I would recommend reading every post on that rom's thread so you can learn from other's experiences. I would also recommend you keep reading the bible thread, theres a ton of good info there.
Good luck.
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willcwells said:
Almost all of those questions can be answered by reading the Tips and Tricks or Noob Guide threads. Those two threads have given me all the info I've ever needed for the Vibrant.
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Dude, THAT is why I do those stickies, thank you! So glad it helped man!
That was really helpful, thank you and I will be looking into this more little by little. But I also have 2 very specific questions:
1. Is it possible to turn an htc windows phone into an android phone?
2. will I lose everything if I push the flash clockwork recovery in the rom manager app? I haven't done it yet but everything I've read has told me to do it the first time. I have the bionix rom running and don't remember flashing the clockwork recovery thing EVER. have I messed up or can I just do it whenever? And is it true thats how you make a nandroid backup because thats what I've read.
I really appreciate you taking the time to help me out, and being patient with me. You guys are the reason I love android. Thank you from your very lost, slowly learning, new friend.
Human.debris420 said:
1. Is it possible to turn an htc windows phone into an androids phone?
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Depends on the phone, many do have android roms available. Just look up whatever windows phone you have in the forum section and if there has been some android development there will most likely be a section in the thread devoted just to android development.
You need to odin back and start from new
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getting to be far too familiar a scenario lately....
lately EVERY time i reboot my phone (running ics build 2, 3 and 4, stock kernel) it gets stuck on samsung logo.. somehow my phone will only boot into the frigging cm7 recovery which as im sure youre all aware is rather useless to fix any problems im having in ics and leaves me unable to flash, backup, or restore anything. it's quite frustrating and i have no idea how to fix it but by going back to bml, re-partitioning, then odin ei20 modem, cm7 fixed recovery, then flash back to ics but doin this every reboot it getting very tedious..
ive read about recovery loops, but the fix doesnt work for me as i cant mount the ICS /system partition in cm7 recovery...and ive been all over trying a zillion things to get it to work and havent pulled dmesg or logcat but if someone thinks it would be useful ..i wish i knew why EVERYTHING is great, then BANG, reboot and it's FML city.
i should add this phone is a replacement via insurance and that the entire time ive had it, i've been having this problem to varying degrees of intensity,.sometimes if i rebooted enough the ics boot animation would finally come up and freeze part way through, and in the first week with this phone is seemed fine. the first few times i rebooted and battery pulled until it started but this is the fourth time in two weeks ive found myself going back to repartition from odin and then back to ics.. the phone is only mine for a month,.
if nobody has any ideas ill be getting it replaced tomorrow in store. i have the no fee insurance replacement plan, but i would prefer not to have to use another as it's not under warranty and this would be my second replacement and this mes has to last me until the gnex hits uscc in hopefully april if it ever does because i'd rather switch to vzw than take any of usccs other offerings currently.. if they dont get the gnex it'll be time for me to move on...
anyway please advise.. thanks
http://exzacklyright.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-flash-ics-on-verizon-samsung.html
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http://exzacklyright.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-flash-ics-on-verizon-samsung.html
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Thanks for the response. Sounds like a good guide for newbs but in my case information is redundant. I have no problems with the install, unless recovery switches to cm7 recovery during reboot and cannot manage to boot/flash/nandroid until I Odin stock ei20 with repartition and wipe out every bit of data I had. The posts about howto fix CWM bootloop for cm9 do not seem to work for me, as the post says.. Please reread the OP, ya got me excited thinking there was a solution ;-/ thanks anyway, maybe it will help another user.
wizayne said:
Thanks for the response. Sounds like a good guide for newbs but in my case information is redundant. I have no problems with the install, unless recovery switches to cm7 recovery during reboot and cannot manage to boot/flash/nandroid until I Odin stock ei20 with repartitions and wipe out every bit of data in had. The posts about howto fix cwm bootloop for cm9 do not seem to work for me, as the post says.. Please reread the OPEN, ya got me excited thinking there was a solution ;-/ thanks anyway, maybe it will help another user.
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have you tried flashing glitch kernel to the phone. imo it sounds like a kernel issue and not so much a phone issue.
mkuehl06 said:
have you tried flashing glitch kernel to the phone. imo it sounds like a kernel issue and not so much a phone issue.
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The problem started after using ics from alphalulz v1 on around build 3 team hacksung IMMEDIATELY AFTER flashing glitch kernel v14 build 4...I have since kept away from glitch on ics, and the problem remains.
Lately it hasn't been as bad though and it seems by hitting random buttons during boot that it will eventually start but reading tells me glitch v14 build 5 is still recovery bootloop ridden and I haven't seen a word about it in the OP for ANY ics components be it team hacksung roms or glitch kernel, and an issue like this which from reading is seemingly widespread *should* be mentioned.
Any suggestions?
In your op you said e120, what phone are you using. E120 isn't a fascinate build.
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Ei20 is the latest and greatest version of gb/radio from uscc for the mesmerize, not that it'll change the outcome afaik to go to anything else... unfortunately ;-/
But it is a full flash package if ya open the tar up complete with movinand, sbl, radio, rfs, etc.. I think it is a 10 or 11 file package and I've used it a hundred times with making the switch from mtd to bml
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Ei20 is the latest and greatest version of gb/radio from uscc for the mesmerize, not that it'll change the outcome afaik to go to anything else... unfortunately ;-/
But it is a full flash package if ya open the tar up complete with movinand, sbl, radio, rfs, etc.. I think it is a 10 or 11 file package and I've used it a hundred times with making the switch from mtd to bml
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That makes more sense to me now I know what phone your on. Try rootzwiki they have a mesmorize section, they can help ya out more than I can. I have fassy so idk much about mes
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Ok, first of all I am NEW to all of this. I have read and read and read for the past month, and finally got the urge to fix my phone myself. It is a att gs2 i777. The guy I got it off of had it flashed to a i9100 for some reason, and of course the 2 buttons and mic did not work. I followed these instructions http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432 to return the phone to factory settings. I flashed the
The kernel + rooted UCKH7 system package first and had trouble with google framework errors not letting me set the phone up. So then I flashed the Kernel + cache + rooted UCKK6 system package and viola! The phone set up just fine, all buttons work and voice on my calls work!
My main question is why does during the boot up screen or in the odin download screen it still shows the phone as a i9100? Or should I not worry about it? Also now that the phone is back to factory it will not go into recovery mode. I would like for it to have the latest update, but not sure what my next step would be.
I was going to try myself so I read that I need to flash the SGH-I777_ClockworkMod-Recovery_5.0.2.3 into Odin..I tried and it did not pass. I am using Odin3 v1.7 by the way.
I appologize if these are stupid questions, I am just trying to learn and felt like I have tried everything that I have read. Thanks for all of the help guys!
jmeador88 said:
Ok, first of all I am NEW to all of this. I have read and read and read for the past month, and finally got the urge to fix my phone myself. It is a att gs2 i777. The guy I got it off of had it flashed to a i9100 for some reason, and of course the 2 buttons and mic did not work. I followed these instructions http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432 to return the phone to factory settings. I flashed the
The kernel + rooted UCKH7 system package first and had trouble with google framework errors not letting me set the phone up. So then I flashed the Kernel + cache + rooted UCKK6 system package and viola! The phone set up just fine, all buttons work and voice on my calls work!
My main question is why does during the boot up screen or in the odin download screen it still shows the phone as a i9100? Or should I not worry about it? Also now that the phone is back to factory it will not go into recovery mode. I would like for it to have the latest update, but not sure what my next step would be.
I was going to try myself so I read that I need to flash the SGH-I777_ClockworkMod-Recovery_5.0.2.3 into Odin..I tried and it did not pass. I am using Odin3 v1.7 by the way.
I appologize if these are stupid questions, I am just trying to learn and felt like I have tried everything that I have read. Thanks for all of the help guys!
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Read the stickies. They will explain all of that. Except maybe the i9100 thing. That means someone flashed custom firmware on it through Odin. Also, only stay on this site or you wont get any help
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Read the stickies. They will explain all of that. Except maybe the i9100 thing. That means someone flashed custom firmware on it through Odin. Also, only stay on this site or you wont get any help
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Buddy I have read the stickies.....I would not be asking these questions if I had not read and tried a few things first. Maybe I have read over what I needed to and didn't know it, because like I said I am NEW to all of this. I feel the time I have spent reading and researching this "new language" that I have began to somewhat understand more than I thought I ever would. Like I said I have read and read and read for the past month, I think I deserve to ask a few questions that I need help with. I'm not sure what you are referring to when you say "only stay on this site or you wont get any help". This is the only site that I have been reading from, with anything that I needed to know. I tried to join androidforums a while back and it was full of rude people who treated anyone that was trying to learn anything like complete idiots. You have to ask some questions sometimes in order to learn. Thanks for your help on the i9100 issue, under About Phone it has now changed to i777, but I think in a couple of places it still thinks its a i9100. Atleast it is working now, I am better off than when I started I guess.
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Buddy I have read the stickies.....I would not be asking these questions if I had not read and tried a few things first. Maybe I have read over what I needed to and didn't know it, because like I said I am NEW to all of this. I feel the time I have spent reading and researching this "new language" that I have began to somewhat understand more than I thought I ever would. Like I said I have read and read and read for the past month, I think I deserve to ask a few questions that I need help with. I'm not sure what you are referring to when you say "only stay on this site or you wont get any help". This is the only site that I have been reading from, with anything that I needed to know. I tried to join androidforums a while back and it was full of rude people who treated anyone that was trying to learn anything like complete idiots. You have to ask some questions sometimes in order to learn. Thanks for your help on the i9100 issue, under About Phone it has now changed to i777, but I think in a couple of places it still thinks its a i9100. Atleast it is working now, I am better off than when I started I guess.
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Follow the guide to flashing custom binaries without incrementing flash counter
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Hi Guys, I had previously been using resurrection remix rom for a few months, worked fine...
I wanted to go back to stock so i downloaded the latest stock vodafine firmwirm from sammobile:
http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=3&model=GT-I9100T&pcode=VAU&os=1&type=1#firmware
EVENTS: I cleared cache and davlik cache and tried doing the process through clockwork recovery, which obviously failed because I forgot that you needed to get into recovery.
So I turned off my phone, loaded the resurrection rom and went back to that.
The next day I reread the procedures and did it properly via recovery through odin, I have tried this with 2 different firmwares and they both finished with a pass but get stuck at the same point.
PROBLEM: It doesn't get past the glowing S logo.. with either firmware, branded or unbranded.
Please helppp!!!!
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updated, could someone please help
You may have to wipe data/factory reset when downgrading from JB to ICS. Did you do that?
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You may have to wipe data/factory reset when downgrading from JB to ICS. Did you do that?
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No i didn't do that. how would I have done that via download mode?
Oh my bad...didnt read the OP properly...
maybe ask in the RC thread if not sorted yet...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1648351
can anyone help?
Boot into recovery, wipe/factory reset ? If you can't manage that Bootloop thread.
Hint - Thread titles like 'Help !' tend to get you the exact opposite of what you're looking for.
Extra hint - That you didn't know how to do a factory reset suggests to me you should read the Guides and learn basics before you end up adding your phone to the Great Wall of XDA.
Hint 3 - Do not bump a thread after 21 minutes ever again. If I catching you doing so, I will make it my life's work to have you thrown off here permanently. People here have lives. There's not 478 people sitting around doing nothing just waiting to answer questions from people who didn't RTFM within 5 minutes of them posting a question :-/ What people like you need to understand is, many people who used to answer questions here have either sold their S2's & moved on (or moved on for various other reasons *cough*). There is simply not the same number of people around to help bozos who get in over their heads.
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Boot into recovery, wipe/factory reset ? If you can't manage that Bootloop thread.
Hint - Thread titles like 'Help !' tend to get you the exact opposite of what you're looking for.
Extra hint - That you didn't know how to do a factory reset suggests to me you should read the Guides and learn basics before you end up adding your phone to the Great Wall of XDA.
Hint 3 - Do not bump a thread after 21 minutes ever again. If I catching you doing so, I will make it my life's work to have you thrown off here permanently. People here have lives. There's not 478 people sitting around doing nothing just waiting to answer questions from people who didn't RTFM within 5 minutes of them posting a question :-/ What people like you need to understand is, many people who used to answer questions here have either sold their S2's & moved on (or moved on for various other reasons *cough*). There is simply not the same number of people around to help bozos who get in over their heads.
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Well i appreciate your help, but just so you know, I didn't bump the thread after 21mins I tried deleting an update that I made yesterday as I didnt want to create another thread and didn't find a delete option so just changed the content to bump...
Read and ye shall learn.
First of all, I am not new to flashing, rooting and etc. I have helped many of my friends with custom roms and etc so flashing and Odin is not something I know nothing about.
However, I was asked by my friend that his S2 was running slow and wanted me to put a custom rom on there. So I did the usual thing of using the ZergRush method to give him root access and I tested Superuser with Root Checker and everything was fine. So I went to install a custom recovery (Phil's CWM) via Odin and using the latest tar file from Phil's website but this is where things didn't go according to plan.
When I hit the Start button in Odin, it did the normal thing of writing to the NAND but instead of taking the usual 8-10 seconds, it took a lot longer. I actually waited 20 minutes and nothing was happening. There was no indication on the S2 that anything was happening and Odin was still stuck on the NAND Writing with all the buttone grayed out. So I waited a bit longer and after 30 min I decided to close Odin and try again, but when I try to get into Download Mode, I got the message 'Software Update Fail'. I tried to flash the custom recovery again but when it gets to the NAND Write, it instantly goes to 'Fail'.
Out of the 8 Samsung phones I have rooted and put a custom rom on, this is the first time this has happened. I searched the forum but most of it point to a bricked phone. I know at this point is is pretty critical that I do not try any random thing and asking you guys for any advice. I have tried flashing with a different version of Odin and also on different computers but gave me the same result. So any help would be much appriciated.
Hopper8's 'Odin troubleshooting' guide; search for it. You need to try everything in that thread over & over & over, only way you're fixing it is if you get a successful Odin flash away. In particular flashing the 3 part firmware might fix it.
Given the alternative - motherboard replacement or new phone - keep trying stuff, these cases are sometimes fixed by persevering (for whatever reason the first 8 stock rom flashes you try don't work but the 9th does, etc)
Thanks for the information MistahBungle, I have tried most of what has been said but I have not tried the leaked rom for the i9100. I will definately give this a shot.
No worries The rationale with flashing the 3 part is it will wipe the phone & hopefully remove any 'remnants' of what was previously on the phone which might be causing issues. If that doesn't work, download a bunch of stock roms from Samfirmware (carrier/country doesn't matter, just make sure you DL I9100 firmwares) & start flashing, this sometimes solves problems like this as I mentioned in my PP. Good luck.
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No worries The rationale with flashing the 3 part is it will wipe the phone & hopefully remove any 'remnants' of what was previously on the phone which might be causing issues. If that doesn't work, download a bunch of stock roms from Samfirmware (carrier/country doesn't matter, just make sure you DL I9100 firmwares) & start flashing, this sometimes solves problems like this as I mentioned in my PP. Good luck.
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Just giving you an update. The 3 part leaked rom did the trick! I been flashing for a few years now but never ever had Odin go wrong so this is a new experience for me. I really appricate your help with this, was so worried I stuffed up a friends phone.
Good news then No worries, glad you got it sorted (& you've still got a friend ). Yeah, that's a handy trick the 3 part, it's bailed a few people out. Don't forget to thank Hopper's OP in his thread.
Z-Blade said:
Just giving you an update. The 3 part leaked rom did the trick! I been flashing for a few years now but never ever had Odin go wrong so this is a new experience for me. I really appricate your help with this, was so worried I stuffed up a friends phone.
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Good to see you got it working, always like hearing of people getting their (or not their own in your case) phone back to life
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Good news then No worries, glad you got it sorted (& you've still got a friend ). Yeah, that's a handy trick the 3 part, it's bailed a few people out. Don't forget to thank Hopper's OP in his thread.
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Thanks for keeping on referring my thread, the more people it can help the better I'm working 6 days a week for now so haven't much time to go on Q&A and help out. Also thanks for before, I think you know what I'm referring to. Much appreciated. :good: