Help! LOL! ok...it all started with a damaged sd card. I removed it; I copied my phones files onto my computer. Next I decided to do a factory reset. It seemed to be going ok, until I hit the Use Google screen. It looks like my font is too big so I cannot scroll down to hit next. I was able to set the time zone and clock and etc. EVEN the wifi was set. Is there some way to use the computer to do a factory reset on my player. My phone was rooted before and I deleted some apps. Is there some way to fix this? Oh...and I can get into download mode. ???? I would like to flash a custom rom, too. But that can wait. Thank you so much for your help.
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Hey guys, this is my first time starting a thread on this site, so please bear with me for a bit. Earlier today my S2 was working fine, i was browsing the net, chatting and etc. But when i started my "whats app" it started lagging for a bit, because i was chatting to a group. Then all of a sudden when i lock my phone and later on unlocked it, it said the phone was running on "Safe Mode". Soo i google'd "how to exit safe mode on galaxy" and it gave me a few solutions, one of them told me to switch off the phone and remove the battery for a minute. I did that, and all of a sudden when i unlock my phone, applications keep crashing including the interface itself ("TWLauncher" i guess that's its name) Soo please help me as i don't know much about this. My phone is not even rooted, i could manage to open the task manager but that's all. I can't even use the usb as it will crash again. All help would be greatly appreciated =)
*small update* I could access my settings and i could switch to the ics launcher but i still can't use the net and stuff =S
Basically I've noticed the default apps that comes with the phone are acting up :S
Sephm said:
Hey guys, this is my first time starting a thread on this site, so please bear with me for a bit. Earlier today my S2 was working fine, i was browsing the net, chatting and etc. But when i started my "whats app" it started lagging for a bit, because i was chatting to a group. Then all of a sudden when i lock my phone and later on unlocked it, it said the phone was running on "Safe Mode". Soo i google'd "how to exit safe mode on galaxy" and it gave me a few solutions, one of them told me to switch off the phone and remove the battery for a minute. I did that, and all of a sudden when i unlock my phone, applications keep crashing including the interface itself ("TWLauncher" i guess that's its name) Soo please help me as i don't know much about this. My phone is not even rooted, i could manage to open the task manager but that's all. I can't even use the usb as it will crash again. All help would be greatly appreciated =)
*small update* I could access my settings and i could switch to the ics launcher but i still can't use the net and stuff =S
Basically I've noticed the default apps that comes with the phone are acting up :S
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If you are not bothered about your installed apps and data and you can manage to go to settings/ Privacy / Factory Data reset.....have a try
zaheedahmed said:
If you are not bothered about your installed apps and data and you can manage to go to settings/ Privacy / Factory Data reset.....have a try
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I can't do that really =S Because i have alot of important data on my phone, this problem came out of nowhere. I hope i could find a solution before referring to that
You have not backed up your data ??? Nor do you have a nandroid backup ???
If so you need to access the internal storage of the phone via USB mass storage and copy off what you can .
Alternative methods such as rooting and installing a no wipe custom rom will probably keep your data but void warranty .
jje
JJEgan said:
You have not backed up your data ??? Nor do you have a nandroid backup ???
If so you need to access the internal storage of the phone via USB mass storage and copy off what you can .
Alternative methods such as rooting and installing a no wipe custom rom will probably keep your data but void warranty .
jje
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Problem is, i never backed up my data =S
And i can't access the USB mass storage, the thing keeps crashing and telling me to "force close" even if i try reporting the wifi isn't connecting to the network soo things are really messed up =S
I don't mind rooting my phone, as long as you could provide me a step by step guide on how to root my phone without loosing my data.
Sephm said:
Problem is, i never backed up my data =S
And i can't access the USB mass storage, the thing keeps crashing and telling me to "force close" even if i try reporting the wifi isn't connecting to the network soo things are really messed up =S
I don't mind rooting my phone, as long as you could provide me a step by step guide on how to root my phone without loosing my data.
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try to go and check Application/ development /USB debugging - ticked
connect the phone and select from notification bar connet to PC....
Wich firmware version is on your Phone?
zaheedahmed said:
try to go and check Application/ development /USB debugging - ticked
connect the phone and select from notification bar connet to PC....
Wich firmware version is on your Phone?
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My phone version is 2.3.3
Kernel Version (if this is important :S) is 2.6.35.7-19100
Soo i really don't know what to do now. Luckily i already had ICS installed soo i could switch between that and twlauncher but still same problems i can't access my initially installed apps that came with the phone such as (internet,clock,calender,gallery and etc.) But the downloaded apps that don't require internet access are running fine.
Sephm said:
My phone version is 2.3.3
Kernel Version (if this is important :S) is 2.6.35.7-19100
Soo i really don't know what to do now. Luckily i already had ICS installed soo i could switch between that and twlauncher but still same problems i can't access my initially installed apps that came with the phone such as (internet,clock,calender,gallery and etc.) But the downloaded apps that don't require internet access are running fine.
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are you able to open application "my files" ?
if you are still not able to access your phone from PC, then you can copy and paste your stuffs to external SD using "my files".
Give the complete detailes when you see about phone or dail *#1234#
zaheedahmed said:
are you able to open application "my files" ?
if you are still not able to access your phone from PC, then you can copy and paste your stuffs to external SD using "my files".
Give the complete detailes when you see about phone or dail *#1234#
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I can't use the dialer =S As for the copying i guess i have to do that by tomorrow, because i have to get another empty sd card. I'll give it a try and get back to you. Thanks for the help though (Y)
helpppp!!
i have the Galaxy S. just the first one. its a samsung and it does the same things Your S2 is doing. it started when a popup saying i was low on storage space started showing up so i deleted a few apps i never used. but now its beyong slow and nothing will open. not even my main menu where i can acess my settings. the only things it will let me open is my facebook app on the main screen. the TWlaunch thing pops up and a few others that ask me to force close. please helppp i have no idea how to fix this phone. i dont have any of my dadta backed up and idk what rooting my phone means. so someone talk me through this mess
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i have the Galaxy S. just the first one. its a samsung and it does the same things Your S2 is doing. it started when a popup saying i was low on storage space started showing up so i deleted a few apps i never used. but now its beyong slow and nothing will open. not even my main menu where i can acess my settings. the only things it will let me open is my facebook app on the main screen. the TWlaunch thing pops up and a few others that ask me to force close. please helppp i have no idea how to fix this phone. i dont have any of my dadta backed up and idk what rooting my phone means. so someone talk me through this mess
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If you are not worried about your applications you just do factory reset of the phone and try
settings/privacy/factory data reset
if you are not able to do this,
Volume Up + Home + Power brings your Phone into Recovery Mode.
Volume up: Highlight up
Volume down: Highlight down
Home: select
Power: back
select wipe data factory reset
if your phone keep crashing and you will not be able to factory reset... then you can did it from recovery mode from stock ..
Just hold power-menu-vol up from off condition then chooswl wipe data from recovery mode
if u thank me then i will thank you ( 이 승 기 )
The phone was left out in the sun for an hour or so. Once it was brought inside the phone was off and would not turn on. I had to hold the power button down for about 15 seconds before it rebooted and turned on. The phone seemed to be fine for a few days. Then we noticed it would keep rebooting randomly, or so we thought it was random. Turns out the internal storage is inaccessible. You cannot add or delete anything from the phone. If you try, the phone will reboot. If you deleted something (an account, a picture, icon from home scree, etc) it will return after the reboot. I have went to recovery and attempted a system restore but all that happens is the screen goes black with a red triangle. When you force it to reboot everything is the way it was before. I have tried to access it via astro file manager and through win 7 and win 8. No matter which way you try you cannot delete or add to storage.
Any ideas or is it a brick?
Thanks for any advice or replies.
mbanken
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I have tried to access it via astro file manager and through win 7 and win 8. No matter which way you try you cannot delete or add to storage.
Any ideas or is it a brick?
Thanks for any advice or replies.
mbanken
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It definitely looks like a hardware issue, you might want to return it for servicing.
So I totally jacked up my phone and I don't know what else to do. I have the Galaxy S3 tmobile (sgh-t999). I had rooted it over a year ago and everything was fine until today. I had used Odin and set up the clockworkmod... rom... thing. Of course now I doubt I even did that correctly, maybe I'm just in over my head...anywho...
I was trying to transfer some files from my pc to the phone. (kies air never worked for me) Well, I had plugged in my phone and in windows explorer it showed something along the lines of 'samsung mtp phone' when I opened it up only 2 folders showed... media and data. The data folder looked like the list of files/folders I would see when I'm in the file manager on the phone but everything listed were showing ad unknown file types. No option to open anything up. The media folder was the same but only listed my pictures and music.
Well, i had rebooted phone and computer, reinstalled usb drivers, same result. So I guessed that maybe my rom version was outdated or something. No luck on figuring out how to update, so I had the briliant (sarcasm) idea to try a different rom. Long story short on that mess, the new rom didn't improve anything with help of transferring files from pc. Then I decided maybe factory reset would fix the issue.
Here comes more ignorance on my part, apparently the new mod I put in was removed but the original stayed. Fine whatever. Here's where my phone it jacked up...
First off, I don't have my notification bar (I've checked in every setting menu, no avail)
I am also missing my web browser (tried downloading from play store which leads to next issue)
I cannot download anything from the play store, I click on install and nothing happens, no error message, nothing (I had attempted to download the .apk file for google chrome and move it onto my phone via memory card but when I click on it to install it says 'unable to find application to perform this action')
Now trust me, I have tried clearing cache, clearing data, app permissions, force stop, uninstall updates and I've done a factory reset 5 times. I apologize for the long post, but I just want to give all the info I can and hope to no end that I can get my phone functional again. What else can I do??
wow such a long letter
ok let me think about it
and tell about it soon as possible
Update....
I got the idea to flash the stock rom back onto the phone. After I flashed it and did another factory reset, I have been able to get my phone functional again. Everything is working fine. Even the phone doesn't know it had been rooted. Currently I am getting everything updated while it is still stock, I'll then just root it to get rid of the bloatware... no more tinkering.
Hi Everyone, I need some serious help - thanks in advance!
I have a LG Enlighten phone - I am a tech, although I am new to the whole smartphone thing (ya, I know, where have I been lol). Anyway, as you probably know it has limited internal storage. So I have a Sandisk 32gb micro sd card installed where I move things over to it to keep space open on the internal. The phone is rooted.
Ok, things were going well - and I am not sure what happened precisely, but obviously I must have moved something over to the sd card I shouldn't have. The phone went wonky on me after a reboot. I got stuck in a boot loop I could not recover from. So I did a factory reset (power button, home, and volume up). That went just fine. I activated just fine to. Problem is after that all I get is: Sorry! the application com.android.lgsetupwizard (process com.android.lgsetupwizard)has stopped unexpectedly. please try again.
You can press the force close button a million times (I probably have) and nothing happens. I have tried EVERYTHING to try to clear this and I can't get passed it. I've spent two days online reading forums, web pages, watching youtube videos - nothing has helped. Problem is, since I did a factory reset its back to defaults (I am assuming) meaning USB debugging and mounting is turned off because it is turned off as default. I can't get passed that infernal screen to turn it back on.
I don't have any data on here that I care about I just want my phone back. I don't mind flashing the rom but for the life of me I can't get at it!
When I go into restore mode, at least with the enlighten it doesn't give you options - it just shows the picture of the android for a few seconds then reboots. No idea what it's doing there.
I tried re-formating the micro sd card thinking maybe it was picking something up from there, that didn't seem to do anything.
I have Android Studio installed, I was hoping to do something through it - but again the phone isn't mounting when plugged into my laptop (windows 7) - it was before - no doubt because that feature is turned off because of the factory reset.
If you have ideas, please speak in small words with lots of steps. Thanks.
HELP!
Is there any way to exit Ultra-Power-Saving-Mode while locked out of my S5 using recovery mode, installing some update, etc? I have a lot of development experience with several languages and tools, but not Android.
I've been using my fingerprint for access for over a year and now I have no idea what my alternative password is... since I've never used it regularly and can't find any record of it. I usually right document such things, but apparently not this time.
Unfortunately, this last Sunday while in Ultra-Power-Saving-Mode something went wrong with my phone and now it only asks for the alternative password... which I can't recall. I've used the Android Device Manager 4 times since then to reset the lock PUK/PIK. After each time resetting it, the lock screen does show the new greeting I set via the Android Device Manager, but it still asks for the alternative password... instead of asking for the PUK/PIK that I just reset.
I am suspecting/hoping that if I can somehow get my phone out of UPSM that the lock screen will allow me to use the reset PUK/PIK to get back into my phone.
So, I am asking if you know of any app that can be installed remotely that will allow me to get my phone out of UPSM? Or, if there is any way to get it out of UPSM by rooting the phone, but installing an ADM update, etc.
Normally I would just do a factory reset because everything is synced up to my Google account. However, apparently my SD card, which was my primary storage, filled up on May 2, so everything since then has been stored on internal memory and thus will be lost if I do a factory reset. I've taken a lot of pictures and video of my 2 1/2 yr old boy and I am trying to avoid losing everything since May 2.
Thanks for any help.
rjlyders said:
Is there any way to exit Ultra-Power-Saving-Mode while locked out of my S5 using recovery mode, installing some update, etc? I have a lot of development experience with several languages and tools, but not Android.
I've been using my fingerprint for access for over a year and now I have no idea what my alternative password is... since I've never used it regularly and can't find any record of it. I usually right document such things, but apparently not this time.
Unfortunately, this last Sunday while in Ultra-Power-Saving-Mode something went wrong with my phone and now it only asks for the alternative password... which I can't recall. I've used the Android Device Manager 4 times since then to reset the lock PUK/PIK. After each time resetting it, the lock screen does show the new greeting I set via the Android Device Manager, but it still asks for the alternative password... instead of asking for the PUK/PIK that I just reset.
I am suspecting/hoping that if I can somehow get my phone out of UPSM that the lock screen will allow me to use the reset PUK/PIK to get back into my phone.
So, I am asking if you know of any app that can be installed remotely that will allow me to get my phone out of UPSM? Or, if there is any way to get it out of UPSM by rooting the phone, but installing an ADM update, etc.
Normally I would just do a factory reset because everything is synced up to my Google account. However, apparently my SD card, which was my primary storage, filled up on May 2, so everything since then has been stored on internal memory and thus will be lost if I do a factory reset. I've taken a lot of pictures and video of my 2 1/2 yr old boy and I am trying to avoid losing everything since May 2.
Thanks for any help.
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Only option I can think of would be to install TWRP custom recovery and use the built in file manager to rename the UPSM app. This wouldn't work if you have an ATT or VZW model, as the bootloaders are locked down, not allowing installation of TWRP, but pretty much any other carrier model should be fine.