[Q] New to posting, not new to the forum - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi everyone,
I have been frequenting XDA for quite a while. Hugely into android and custom roms and things of the sort, but have never had a real reason to post. I have either been lucky enough to be able to find what I need by searching, or figured it out myself. This time however, I am pretty stumped.
I did a fair amount of research before starting this, and am now seeing that I did not do quite enough. If I am in the wrong place please direct me to a better one.
Here is my issue:
I have an LG g2 that I recently picked up used. Phone has never been rooted or worked on...until now. Decided I would spend my weekend working on it. Successfully rooted, and installed TWRP. Decided to flash a rom, downloaded my rom as I have always done, put it on the sdcard, made a couple of nandroids, and flashed it. Everything seemed ok, booted back up, got the correct boot animation, but it bootlooped. No big deal Im thinking, go back into recovery and wipe a couple times. Still wont boot. Go back in and restore my nandroids, and they wont boot either.
So now I am worried. Try it a coulple more times, and somehow get it to reboot to the setup screen. Wont go past there. Do the trick to avoid it and cant get it to activate. Double check everything, power off, wipe, power back on and now it wont even load to there. I tried sideloading a different rom as well as what seems to be the stock software and nothing. Im lost, I need help. Any advice?

skizzyp said:
Hi everyone,
I have been frequenting XDA for quite a while. Hugely into android and custom roms and things of the sort, but have never had a real reason to post. I have either been lucky enough to be able to find what I need by searching, or figured it out myself. This time however, I am pretty stumped.
I did a fair amount of research before starting this, and am now seeing that I did not do quite enough. If I am in the wrong place please direct me to a better one.
Here is my issue:
I have an LG g2 that I recently picked up used. Phone has never been rooted or worked on...until now. Decided I would spend my weekend working on it. Successfully rooted, and installed TWRP. Decided to flash a rom, downloaded my rom as I have always done, put it on the sdcard, made a couple of nandroids, and flashed it. Everything seemed ok, booted back up, got the correct boot animation, but it bootlooped. No big deal Im thinking, go back into recovery and wipe a couple times. Still wont boot. Go back in and restore my nandroids, and they wont boot either.
So now I am worried. Try it a coulple more times, and somehow get it to reboot to the setup screen. Wont go past there. Do the trick to avoid it and cant get it to activate. Double check everything, power off, wipe, power back on and now it wont even load to there. I tried sideloading a different rom as well as what seems to be the stock software and nothing. Im lost, I need help. Any advice?
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would really like someone to chime in...running linux.

Bump. Can anyone give me any advice?

skizzyp said:
Bump. Can anyone give me any advice?
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Sounds like you need to restock and start over. I'd give you links but how to do so varies by which version or carrier the phone is from.

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[Q] AT&T splash screen loop

So, SGH-177 had been rooted and installed CM7, then Unnamed, then AOKP. All were pretty buggy. We wanted to bring it back to factory (with root if possible). Not for a warranty claim, just so it would be somewhat stable.
Anyway, I found a one click ODIN solution for UCKH7 stock. I used that, it passed. then the phone just looped through the AT&T "Rethink Possible" splash screen. I tried to get into recovery mode, but it wouldn't load, so I flashed the Siyah kernel to get CWM on there. Still I can only get into download mode and the phone loops the splash screen.
I hoped that it was just taking some time to load up the first time, so I left it overnight. Still stuck on the splash screen this morning.
I spent hours on here last night and found lots of people saying that if you have access to download mode, or recovery mode, you should be able to fix it. I wasn't able to find any answers as to how.
Help?!
I've had this same problem before. what always fixes it for me is to get into the factory 3e recovery to do a reset. I know you said you couldnt get there but make sure (while the phone is off; remove battery if you have to before this) you are holding down both Volume buttons and the power button at the same time until you see the "Samsung Galaxy SII" screen, then release the buttons.
factory reset, then it should be fine.
If you can't get to recovery, read some more on here. I'm sure something is out there, but I don't know what it is.
Here are two posts that might help you out. I've been doing the same research since my "Oh crap its stuck in a bootloop I'll sell it cheap on eBay" SGII is due to arrive today or tomorrow.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1451590
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1580885
Best of luck to you!
UnNamed buggy?
Out of curiosity how did you root and flash, cause that is probably one of the most stable builds we have with minor changes to stock.
Anyways good luck getting back to stock.
So, for some reason, the next time I tried booting into recovery, it worked. I got a couple errors, but then it booted up just fine. Don't know why it wouldn't get into recovery before.
Everything seems to be working as it should so far.
I'm guessing this may be why some of the threads I had seen didn't really offer a solution. Sometimes it finally works if you just hold your head right.
Thanks all!
Regarding UnNamed... I don't recall the method I used to root, it's been a long time and I've done various work on this (my wife's phone) and my Nexus One. Easy to get it confused. I flashed it through CWM recovery, factory wipe, flash from SD.
It worked fine for a while (a couple months), then it got really glitchy. Unable to answer phone calls, random reboots, etc.
Major Wood said:
I flashed it through CWM recovery, factory wipe, flash from SD.
It worked fine for a while (a couple months), then it got really glitchy. Unable to answer phone calls, random reboots, etc.
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Did you also wipe cache and dalvik? May have been the problem...
I don't recall, but would be surprised if I hadn't done that
A year ago. When I first started flashing roms. I spent an entire week just reading the atrix forums and learning. I planned. I schemed. I asked questions. Through pm. And googled a LOT. Then when I had learned enough I did it. Point is....if yer not willing to have patience and learn as much as u can before u jump into this. Then its maybe not for you.
Sent from my SGH-I777 using Tapatalk 2

Interesting story regarding a Fascinate I bought off craigslist...

I bought a fascinate from good ol craiglist for a friend. When I bought it I noticed the original user had already rooted it and installed CM7.
Because I didnt know what he had done to it I decided to start from scratch and used Odin and flashed powerwashed_20_b3_Full_ec09modem and the atlas_v2.2.2.pit
After that I flashed cwm4_fixed_for_cm7-ODIN.tar and began getting ICS on this baby (teamhacksung-ota-eng.BUILD2.zip followed by build 11 at the time).
Everything was gravy and I gave the phone to my friend who was a happy panda. Several weeks later he calls and tells me the phone is stuck in recovery, I assume he borked something so I headed over thinking I will just Nandroid the ICS ROM that I set up before I gave it to him.
Funny thing was after rebooting from the Nandroid, the phone goes back to recovery! I was a little confused but assumed that maybe the Nandroid went bad when I backed it up. So I decided to just reflash build 11 again, after the flash was successful i reboot and.... back to recovery?
At this point I was pretty confused, CWM appeared to be working but it wasnt. Nothing was working, not even flashing CM7. The only way I got it to work again was to Odin the powerwashed_20_b3_Full_ec09modem and the atlas_v2.2.2.pit again. So that was what I did and got him back to ICS (build 13 this time).
Thinking it was a freak occurence I didnt pay it any mind, until he called me again several weeks later saying its stuck in CWM again!? So I check it out and sure enough it keeps booting to recovery and not able to nandroid or flash anything (even tho it says it does successfully).
At this point I assume its a hardware issue but dont understand what exactly, I bought another on craiglist and will swap with him and further investigate the issue.
I looked around the forums to see if anyone had a similar issue but have not seen anything like this. Anyone have any ideas??
This is most likely caused by doing the three finger reboot on the newer ICS roms. Tell them to pull the battery instead the next time their phone locks up. Also, there is boot loop breaker in the development section.
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I assumed that as well, however my friend has no experience with these devices and would never hold down all three buttons for any reason. Both times he had reported that the phone randomly went into recovery on its own.
He could be BSing me of course, but I'll be testing it when I get it back tomorrow and see if I can recreate the scenario.
But I will be including the boot loop breaker file in the SD card and see if that at least makes this phone usable again instead of having to use ODIN every time. So thanks for that info!
Check kernel settings. Sleep Of Death, maybe?

help stuck

so my gtab will only show the three birds, i took the cover of the back and held down the reset button and it turned off then back on to the same screen. I even tried to nv flash it and it says that it currently update. Im not even able to get into recovery mode. Am i screwed or did i miss something, im sorta new to this stuff....thanks
1. What rom were you using?
2. Which version of CWM are you using?
3. What were you doing to the tablet when it froze like that?
There's a lot of things that can go wrong and which NVflash you use (250m partition or 350m partition) is going to be determined by which rom you wish to run.
The Gtablet for dummies site really helped me out while I was starting off, but it appears its no longer online.
Going to need some more info and I'll try to help as best and as fast as possible, but real life keeps me pretty busy most of the time.
tobalaz said:
1. What rom were you using?
2. Which version of CWM are you using?
3. What were you doing to the tablet when it froze like that?
There's a lot of things that can go wrong and which NVflash you use (250m partition or 350m partition) is going to be determined by which rom you wish to run.
The Gtablet for dummies site really helped me out while I was starting off, but it appears its no longer online.
Going to need some more info and I'll try to help as best and as fast as possible, but real life keeps me pretty busy most of the time.
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i had ics, not sure what version, clock i think was 5. something. i know that this dont help much. i was able to get it working,
what i was trying to do was get it back to the way it came new so i could start all over with a new rom. Now i found what i thought was the stock rom but all it will do is sit on the screen where it says gtablet, i even let it sit over night,while i was at work and still the same screen.
Nobe (has some kick ass roms) has already done the legwork in another thread, try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2070655
first download, should but you back at stock with a 1.2 branch ready to go.
I know it sucks, I've NVflashed dozens of times to work off of stock, I still get a little jittery every time I load another rom.
tobalaz said:
Nobe (has some kick ass roms) has already done the legwork in another thread, try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2070655
first download, should but you back at stock with a 1.2 branch ready to go.
I know it sucks, I've NVflashed dozens of times to work off of stock, I still get a little jittery every time I load another rom.
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so i tried reloading ics 4 beta that i had, after it said everything was installed and went to reboot it and just sat on the screen with birds. im able to turn off, go into recovery, and apx. So my father in law installed the 350 zip and jellybean 5.3 on his with no issues. i followed the same video he did and it said that everything installed good until i went to reboot, there it got stuck on the bird screen but im still able to do nvflash, apx and power down....Am i screwed ??
racefan82 said:
Am i screwed ??
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We'll have to see.
See this thread, run the commands there and post the output.
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Am i screwed ??
You may also try the detailed instructions by Raywaldo (Google Raywaldo for his site) on installing new ROMs on GTablet. In my opinion Smoother Bean v 1.5 (by nobe1976) is the best/fast ROM for this device.

[Q] New ROM, Cell not Working

Hey guys,
Just rooted my phone today, and have had a pretty bumpy time. I've made it through most of it, but am having trouble getting a new ROM installed (NilsP's Business ICS Sense 6.4). Basically, install is going fine, but when I make it to the ROM, I get no cell signal, no data, and gps won't turn on.
I'm running S-on, and the install will complete and it will automatically reboot to hboot for the kernel. However, nothing happens that indicates that the kernel installed. Upon reboot, the ROM will open, I'll skip through the setup wizard, and once out cell, data, and gps fail to turn on.
I tried placing the kernel's zip file directly onto my SD card's root drive. Once booted to hboot, the kernel will install. However, problem will persist. I updated to 6.4 OTA with no change. I tried disabling the Fast Boot option and cycled various settings, as suggested in NilsP's original thread. Prior to rooting, I had the most current update from Verizon (pushed through about a week or two ago). I even tried installing with the s-off option, which gave the same result.
I spent about five hours today searching these forums, as well as others, for a similar issue but was unable to find one. Until I figure out a way forward. I feel like I'm missing something simple, since I'm almost there! As I said, I'm a newbie, so forgive me if I misused any terms. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!
flash stock recovery and do factory reset.
Damasterjj said:
flash stock recovery and do factory reset.
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from the HBOOT
But first... did you put the back cover on again? The antennas are in there so you won't get any service without it on.
feralicious said:
But first... did you put the back cover on again? The antennas are in there so you won't get any service without it on.
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Yup, tried with the lid back on, too. Figured there must have been an important circuit with all those contacts in there.
I'll try the reset from HBoot later this evening. I wiped every time I tried to reflash the OS, though only from the recovery menu. I'll let you know how it goes.
Thanks for the help guys, it ended up installing just fine after a factory reset from Hboot. Now I'm running into the same Play Services issue as everyone else using this ROM. Go figure. I'll monitor NilsP's original ROM thread for a solution. Looks like he's working on it already.

[Q] Atrix 4g (Non-standard) Boot Loop

Hello, all. First, I'd like to say thank you for taking the time to read this and potentially try and help me out. Any assistance with this matter would be greatly appreciated!
I added the (Non-standard) to the title, as I've been flashing and modding this phone for over two years, and I've never experienced this issue. I'm not the type to ask for assistance, as my research skills are well above par, but after digging through literally countless forums and topics, I have yet to find anything quite like my situation...
ISSUE: Performed recent flash attempt to epinter's CM10.1. Now loads to Moto splash, sits there the usual few seconds, but when it comes time to load the rom, it reboots and starts the process again... (I swear I think I see it trying to load the rom splash for like a micro second, but then it could just be the delirium of long hours researching and fighting this problem.) Now, you might be thinking, "Eh, pretty common...", right? Yeah, me too, until I couldn't fix it like I've done a million times before... I can boot into recovery. I have performed ALL standard actions regarding flashing a new rom, yet the problem persists. The problem persists now no matter what rom I attempt to flash. Now you might be thinking, "Just flash your nandroid recovery...", but I wish, oh how I wish I could... I am currently using CWM-based Recovery 5.0.2.7, although I've tried more than a few different recoveries since this issue, all provide the same results... Which is nothing. I'm at the end of my rope here.
I've even tried flashing TWRP (two different versions) so I could at least get some charge to the battery so I could continue this debacle, but it hangs at the TeamWin splash screen...
Fastboot loads fine. Wipes performed to system, caches, partitions, etc, to no avail... Battery pull, already tried...
I've covered all the basic fixes, but my issue seems to be bigger than my knowledge base (at the moment).
Okay, here's the exact details of what led up to this...
My Atrix WAS unlocked, rooted, and using RR's CWM for recovery at the time. I had flashed everything coming and going as the scene grew, but eventually went back to CM7.2 and had been running it for ages. Well, I decided to try something new, and settled on trying BeanStalk. Flashed Aroma Prep, no problem. Flashed ROM and Gapps, no problem. Booted up fine. Decent start on the rom, but a little too buggy yet for me. So on this note I wiped and restored my CM7 nandroid backup, no problem. All was well, until I came across epinter's CM10.1 and thought, "Eh, why not?" (...and now look at the mess I'm in!) Performed a new nandroid backup of my CM7, and began the process that ended me... Everything went along just fine. Performed all my wipes, flashed my zips, rebooted, and BAM... boot loop! Little did I know what kind of headache I was in for, until I couldn't restore my backup. Now, I'm just praying I find a solution before my battery drains out completely...
SIDE NOTE: While attempting to restore fails and just resets recovery back to the main screen, there are no visible errors reported. Attempting to flash ANY of my other roms results in the same behavior. Flashes "appear" to go smoothly, but the end result is the same... I did notice upon attempting to flash BeanStalk again that there is an error reported in the aroma installer. It performs all wipes correctly, but when it comes time to actually install, it reports a broken symlink error, or something to that effect... (I would reproduce the install error message, but at the moment I'm trying to hang onto as much battery life as possible. My apologies for the inaccuracy of any statement.)
PLEASE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I BEG OF YOU... If anybody has been unfortunate enough to have found themselves in my shoes, then hopefully you were lucky enough to get it figured out by now and would be willing to pass along the info. Although not my primary phone anymore, it still gets more than it's share of use. I'd hate to see it go out this way...
Any help to guide me in the right direction would be most appreciated! Thank you all in advance!

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