So I got a kinda bricked fake s4 from a friend to fix, usually it's no problem for me to fixed such things but this is special. When i turn on the phone it displays the message that the launcher stopped working, and system can not repair it. I can not access any settings menu to indirectly access play store to install another launcher, so i was gonna factory reset it through recovery, but the thing is, there is no recovery on this thing,no matter what combo i press, so i searched the web a bit, and found that i can install recovery through download mode and odin. BUT, this thing doesn't even have download mode. Is there anything possible i could do to somehow reset this thing or access play store to install a launcher?
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Long story: Went in, got my Vibrant, immediately downloaded a few apps to play/test the device in the store. I got handcent and barcode scanner. Went home, tried rooting phone, couldn't get into the recovery menu. Gave up on rooting for the moment and tried to download launcher pro, and immediately after it started the download it gave me a "download unsuccessful" error, regardless of whether I was connected via 3G or Wifi. I then tried downloading several other apps and got the same error. Afterwords, I tried clearing the market's cache, signing in/out of Google Talk, uninstalling the apps I had originally downloaded, rebooting the phone; nothing worked (and I was unable to reinstall the apps I had managed to install in the first place, due to the same error).
I then attempted a factory reset and was unable to do that, given the error "No reset was performed because the System Clear service is unavailable." After going through tech support through everything I did, they asked me to do a hard reset of the phone, which I didn't realize used the same recovery menu as one must access to root the phone. Since I couldn't get into the recovery menu for whatever reason (I blamed my fingers at the time), I was told to go back to the store to swap my phone out for a new one. Did that, repeated the app downloading process but didn't connect it to anything other than a car charger, and the app store gave me the same error, and I'm again unable to perform a factory reset or a hard reset. I know it's not my fingers, though, because I was able to get into the recovery menu of a display phone at the store.
I'm going back to the store tomorrow to swap my SIM out, since tech doesn't know what else to do with it, but I was wondering if you guys had any input.
Short story: First symptom was all market downloads failed with error: Download unsuccessful. Second symptom was inability to perform a factory reset or a hard reset. Possible causes/solutions?
To fix the download unsuccessful error go to Settings>Applications>Manage Applications, then tap menu, select "Filter", select "All". Scroll down to Download Manager, select it. Tap "clear data".
That should resolve it. Found that somewhere on here and i I haven't had that error since. As for the other... Make sure you're holding down BOTH volume keys at the same time. I screwed that up at first because I thought it was a rocker switch and not two individual switches.
That seems to have fixed it! Thanks!
Yesterday i tried to install this rom(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1889581 ,Xperia Fidelity JB v1.0 (JB) on my Xperia U ST25a, so i went to recovery and install it as normal and the install was succesfull,but when i turned on my phone again the wallpaper took a lot of time to load and they will apear a lot of windows on my phone saying"system UI has stopped working would you like to close it?",and a lot of crashes, so i tried to factory reset it and i did, but when i turned on again after the factory reset the phone will do the same, oh and the CMW recovery is gone, i cant connect it to the computer to install it again, it says "USB connectivity has crashed" and the worst part is that when i try to download an apk from internet it says that SD card is required to download the file(but xperia u doesn't have a SD slot!),now i cant remove the rom i installed and my recovery and notification bar are gone,and when someone is calling me the phone will just vibrate but it wont show the answer/deny screen, i just can send sms and call please help me with this,this is frustrating!
Federic321 said:
Yesterday i tried to install this rom(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1889581 ,Xperia Fidelity JB v1.0 (JB) on my Xperia U ST25a, so i went to recovery and install it as normal and the install was succesfull,but when i turned on my phone again the wallpaper took a lot of time to load and they will apear a lot of windows on my phone saying"system UI has stopped working would you like to close it?",and a lot of crashes, so i tried to factory reset it and i did, but when i turned on again after the factory reset the phone will do the same, oh and the CMW recovery is gone, i cant connect it to the computer to install it again, it says "USB connectivity has crashed" and the worst part is that when i try to download an apk from internet it says that SD card is required to download the file(but xperia u doesn't have a SD slot!),now i cant remove the rom i installed and my recovery and notification bar are gone,and when someone is calling me the phone will just vibrate but it wont show the answer/deny screen, i just can send sms and call please help me with this,this is frustrating!
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that's weird... here's a possible workaround but you're gonna need another android phone or something else that you can bluetooth things over to your phone with. ok, so you still have root access hopefully. so first lets solve the recovery problem, download the latest apk you can find for rom manager of the internet, bluetooth it to your phone. install, through this install cwm recovery, now bluetooth a rom and gapps you know are stable to your phone, finally boot into CWM and install. hope this works!
blu422 said:
that's weird... here's a possible workaround but you're gonna need another android phone or something else that you can bluetooth things over to your phone with. ok, so you still have root access hopefully. so first lets solve the recovery problem, download the latest apk you can find for rom manager of the internet, bluetooth it to your phone. install, through this install cwm recovery, now bluetooth a rom and gapps you know are stable to your phone, finally boot into CWM and install. hope this works!
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Yeah, i have root acces still and the playstore still works, i already have rom manager, when i enter the program it will tell me"SD card needs to be mounted before using rom manager" well, i just press ok and the program will work "properly"(i think) , so i go to the recovery setup option and i try to to install and i select CMW 3.x+ and it tells me that the operation has been succesfull now i try tp reboot into recovery and it wont work still
I have searched and search, and could not find any solution to my problem.
The other day, I downloaded xposed framework, installed the flat style theme to make my notification menu look like an ios7 one, upon reboot my com.android.systemui keeps crashing every two seconds. So it's impossible for me to get to my settings to factory reset my device in order to remove the xposed framework. I tried getting to the boot menu and it says Secure FAIL: KERNAL "System Software not authorized by verizon wireless has been found on your phone. Please turn your phone off and go to the nearest Verizon Wireless store for help".
I have tried using odin to flash the stock rom for my device, even tried using kies (which keeps saying my serial number is incorrect, when I am typing it in correctly).
I even tried remote factory reset from the google android device manager and it only cleared my sd card, but not the device itself.
I don't know what to do, is there some way to use Odin from the computer to force a factory reset?
I am deleted my only Launcher with KingRoot and now everything disappeared I can only see the time and when I am enter into recovery mode everything in chinese. I tried the .... e MMC but the phone restart and again nothing happens, please help.
Well.. that is something i haven't heard before, an android phone without launcher :-?. I guess you can't open any app to install one. However, if you have a connected google account, you can try to log on PC (play google.com) and download a launcher (and it will automatically download on phone if it's open and if it have an internet connection).
And if what Raddub suggested doesn't work, you can make a Factory Reset, right?
Factory reset won't install his launcher back... if my method doesn't work he should reflash via SP Flash Tool his stock rom.
I've Galaxy S4 Verizon - SCH1545 with 5.0.1 Lollipop and Baseband 1545VRUGOF1. Bought a month ago, it worked fine for 15 days but then sound went off. Also I was unable to play any video nor any application is working. Getting error of Unfortunately UI has stopped and(App) is not responding. Upon trying below steps, sound comes sometime and app works fine then but it doesn't stay long when again starts same behavior. I get it when start phone and it doesn't play the sound when shows Samsung logo.
1. Cleared the cache of Play Store, Google Framework and Google Play Services
2. Wiped cache partition and Factory Reseted
3. Rooted the device
4. Unable to install TWRP or CWM
5. Odin gives Nand write error
6. If phone stuck with "Use Verizon Software Repair Assistant...", able to bring it back by CF Auto JFLTEXX-GTI9505.tar.md5. Although Odin gives error but after error, I disconnect the USB cable and phone starts
7. Tried Verizon Software Repair Assistant and Samsung Kies to update the firmware but same issue
8. Can't find GooManager in Play Store. Installed by APK but GooManager doesn't find any list or unable to find Script (to install TWRP)
9. Rooted the phone. Confirmed by Root Checker but Flash Fire shows "are you rooted?"
will be very thankful for anyone who has idea or had same problem.
As far as I understand custom recoveries are only available for MDK. Your best bet is to odin your current build and start there.
Jalh said:
As far as I understand custom recoveries are only available for MDK. Your best bet is to odin your current build and start there.
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I don't mind any rom or whatever settings are. Just want to solve sound and other issues I'm facing.
I tried Samsung Kies and Verizon Software Repair Assistant to reload the firmware but still the same issue of sound goes off, youtube, apps and videos don't play.
I know its not hardware problem because this all gets ok sometimes after maybe reset, wipe cache, clear play store/services storage or factory reset... then goes off again after some time.
thanks for the reply
noticed one more thing. If I keep it off for few hours, the sound come back. And again goes off after some time.