Ok, I have root and have used it quite effectivly as well as the apps/programs available. That is, until now. While tired and foggy headed, I went ahead and copied a file into my System folder. However, the way I did it was oh so very stupid. Instead of actually copying the file itself over, I decided to copy the System folder that 1 file was sitting in over onto the device. Oh lucky day, doing that wiped everything but that one file from the System folder so that my phone had a heart attack and I had to pull the battery. Saying a prayer to the Root Gods, I turned my phone back on and, you guessed it, it went to the recovery screen with the happy Update Android sitting there. Due to not having a recovery image or file to be able to recover my phone, I am in need of some assistance. I hope someone out there can help me. Any further questions for me, please ask.
I really hope someone can help me with this.
Pammykins said:
I really hope someone can help me with this.
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Don't have an LG Realm myself but I couldn't really understand the problem. Is it a Qcom or MTK device? Can you access recovery? Can you access ROM? Can you access Emergency/Download Mode? Does the device turn on?
I am attaching a pocture of the screen. After i wiped out the root system folder, the phone had to be hard restarted so i pulled the battery. When the phone went to restart, it didnt go to the loading screen. It went to the Android System Recovery screen. The android Installing System Update screen is there and all i can do is use the volume keys to go between options. One of them is Apply Update From External Sdcard, the rest are to apply from inside the phone, which cant happen because of my goof up. It also says E:missing bitmap stage_empty and missing stage_fill.
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I am attaching a pocture of the screen. After i wiped out the root system folder, the phone had to be hard restarted so i pulled the battery. When the phone went to restart, it didnt go to the loading screen. It went to the Android System Recovery screen. The android Installing System Update screen is there and all i can do is use the volume keys to go between options. One of them is Apply Update From External Sdcard, the rest are to apply from inside the phone, which cant happen because of my goof up. It also says E:missing bitmap stage_empty and missing stage_fill.
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What happens when you are pressing power button when on reboot system now?
I have actually tried all the options. Reboot brings me back to that screen after the LG splash screen. The other options look for the recovery in the phone, which is not there. That was why i was looking for a possible recovery file to put on my sdcard and use the external sdcard option.
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I have actually tried all the options. Reboot brings me back to that screen after the LG splash screen. The other options look for the recovery in the phone, which is not there. That was why i was looking for a possible recovery file to put on my sdcard and use the external sdcard option.
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How you managed to delete /system partition describe me please. The thing is that I don't find any Stock Rom you can flash... Well tell me how you got it deleted and if you made a backup somehow first.
Like i said in my op, i never did anything this stupid before. I ended up copying another system folder on top of the original. The one i copied only had 1 file in it that was for my signal. However, when it copied over, it replaced the folder with everything needed to keep my android phone working with the folder with just the one file. And like an idiot, i never made a backup of my phone after i rooted it. Like i said, i am actually not a beginner at this, just made a big mistake of instead of just moving the one file over.
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Like i said in my op, i never did anything this stupid before. I ended up copying another system folder on top of the original. The one i copied only had 1 file in it that was for my signal. However, when it copied over, it replaced the folder with everything needed to keep my android phone working with the folder with just the one file. And like an idiot, i never made a backup of my phone after i rooted it. Like i said, i am actually not a beginner at this, just made a big mistake of instead of just moving the one file over.
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It's **** we need to flash a new Firmware on your phone nothing where I can fine one there is a way though. Give me a pm with this:
Your IMEI
Your S/N
the name of phone (EX. LG P710) the number and letter if there is not Realm. Ofc IMEI S/N of the phone. Not here in pm .
this sounds exactly like my problem. I have two LG realms. I was messing around with the build.prop on one of them. I saved the original but somehow when I copied and pasted it back into sys file, the phone gets a black screen of death right after the boot screen. I am able to get into the stock recovery, but no further. I'm thinking that a copy of the stock firmware is my only help.
Sorry for bumping an old thread, but I have the same problem. Come on, don't leave us hanging please!
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Alright, I was trying to replace the SystemUI.apk with the new menu buttons. I renamed the old one to Systemui.apk.bak and after I did that ICS started acting up again and restarted by itself. When it turned back on, no menu bar, and the system won't let me rename it to the original or move the new one. I've tried everything I could think of, such as using adb through my pc and downloading multiple file explorer apps. Nothing works. Any help would be great cause I can't back out of an app without restarting the system.
Are you mounting the drive in R/O mode? Must be Read/Write to make changes.
Wow, I guess I should have thought of that. I got it working now. Thanks alot.
Hi there,
I upgraded my Galaxy 551 to Gingerbread 2.3.6. All went well. Unfortunately it seems to be a common side effect that the Z and Y keys (and some others) get swapped. The fix is apparently to modify the file /system/usr/keychars/sec_keypad.kcm.bin. The ideal thing is to put the old file from before the FW update back in, but of course I don't have that anymore! But the existing one can apparently be altered. If I can copy it to the SD card I can alter it in a hex editor and put it back.
So, I rooted my phone with that one click application, and that went OK too. I installed root explorer and found the file. There were also some others in the same folder I may be able to use. But, I cant make the folder R/W (pressing the button does nothing) so cant do anything with the file. I also tried Super Manager with no luck.
I am new to the phone fiddling stuff so noob level instructions would be appreciated!
Think I have it sorted. I installed superuser and then Root Explorer allowed me to select read/write. Now to try sort out this file!
OK, seems that you need to edit the file /system/usr/keylayout/sec_keypad.kl. Did that. DO'H now my keyboard doesn't work at all! Glad it saved a backup for me! Not sure what I did wrong, only edited two characters in a text file! Even the power button doesn't work. Got to pull that battery out LOL!
It seems when the file was saved it was saved with zero size. When I try to delete it to replace it with the backup it says cant delete, read only. So, not sure how I am meant to replace this and fix this problem.
Any ideas, remembering that I cant actually use any buttons on the phone!
Dear community,
several months ago, i swore not do modify or anything with my after a soft brick, but since this day legs were annoying, so today ich got rooted again and wanted to speed up all things a little bit as described in the forums here.
I also removed the "build.prop" ot better renamed it to "build.prop.bak" because off the" Install the Pimp My Rom app" as it was written in the description on modification in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2230779
now after the asus/tegra logo, i get stucked on a black screen and do not know what to, i think i´ll first try to put an update.zip file on external sd, but don´t know if it functions,
via adb, the device is not found by my computer, do you have any ideas what to do? please please please help
i hate it, such a nice, beautiful, expensive device, but delivers bad performance.....
problem solved....if somebody got questions contact me
poroigor said:
Dear community,
several months ago, i swore not do modify or anything with my after a soft brick, but since this day legs were annoying, so today ich got rooted again and wanted to speed up all things a little bit as described in the forums here.
I also removed the "build.prop" ot better renamed it to "build.prop.bak" because off the" Install the Pimp My Rom app" as it was written in the description on modification in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2230779
now after the asus/tegra logo, i get stucked on a black screen and do not know what to, i think i´ll first try to put an update.zip file on external sd, but don´t know if it functions,
via adb, the device is not found by my computer, do you have any ideas what to do? please please please help
i hate it, such a nice, beautiful, expensive device, but delivers bad performance.....
problem solved....if somebody got questions contact me
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Do you have a recovery flashed? Normaly under "Advanced" there is a File Manager with which you can rename the build.prop.bak to build.prop again.
Otherwise you can always flash another ROM.
EpicLPer said:
Do you have a recovery flashed? Normaly under "Advanced" there is a File Manager with which you can rename the build.prop.bak to build.prop again.
Otherwise you can always flash another ROM.
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nope, the last chance to get things working, was to flash the official image from the sd card...
Hey guys! I have an MTCD unit, but i wanted to post here to get as many eyes as possible. I'm trying to do a custom boot animation. I've never made one, but I think i have the gist of it. I go in to the factory settings, and select "bootanimation_dancing_droids.zip" for the ani, then go to root explorer and replace that file with my custom one, and name it the same. Then i change the permissions to 644.
From what i understand, this is the correct process. I think the problem may be in my actual zip file. I followed a guide, but when it boots up it just shows a green line in the upper corner. Could possibly be a part of one of the images, but nothing moves or anything. I even tried exporting it with the Boot Animation Factory app. It previews perfectly fine in there....but still doesn't work on the actual unit. I am going to link to the zip file, if you could have a look at it and let me know what I did wrong, i'd GREATLY appreciate it.
Battle Truck boot :
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B3nKnbyFrS1jdTctNGNldUZjeTg?usp=sharing
In case you're wondering, my truck is nicknamed Battle Truck, and i'm trying to theme the rom to match up with it. At some point, i'd like to learn how to play a sound that says "Battle Truck Engaged" when it boots up...don't know if that's possible though. THANKS AGAIN GUYS!
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Hey guys! I have an MTCD unit, but i wanted to post here to get as many eyes as possible. I'm trying to do a custom boot animation. I've never made one, but I think i have the gist of it. I go in to the factory settings, and select "bootanimation_dancing_droids.zip" for the ani, then go to root explorer and replace that file with my custom one, and name it the same. Then i change the permissions to 644.
From what i understand, this is the correct process. I think the problem may be in my actual zip file. I followed a guide, but when it boots up it just shows a green line in the upper corner. Could possibly be a part of one of the images, but nothing moves or anything. I even tried exporting it with the Boot Animation Factory app. It previews perfectly fine in there....but still doesn't work on the actual unit. I am going to link to the zip file, if you could have a look at it and let me know what I did wrong, i'd GREATLY appreciate it.
Battle Truck boot :
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B3nKnbyFrS1jdTctNGNldUZjeTg?usp=sharing
In case you're wondering, my truck is nicknamed Battle Truck, and i'm trying to theme the rom to match up with it. At some point, i'd like to learn how to play a sound that says "Battle Truck Engaged" when it boots up...don't know if that's possible though. THANKS AGAIN GUYS!
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Make sure you save your animation.zip with compression method "Store". and I have when testing boot animations on 5.1 it sometimes doesn't work with bootanimation_dancing_droids.zip so I saved the animation.zip twice.
1 called bootanimation_dancing_droids.zip
2nd called bootanimation.zip
I'll try the thing with saving both of them. I have been using the store method I probably should have mentioned that.
Greetings. Yesterday i edited the build.prop, I am a Hearthstone player and I wanted to change my phone's fingerprint in order to make it look like it's a Galaxy S6 to get a free card back. I messed up something and the phone won't boot now, it shows the carrier logo for 4 srconds and then the screen goes "backlight" black. I can still enter recovery (TWRP 3.03), I made a backup before editing the build.prop and after this I replaced every ALLVIEW and P7_PRO (that's my phone) into SAMSUNG and SM-G920F. I got the card, and i replaced the build.prop with the backup one. Here are two possibilities:
1. I didn't sort out the permissions on build.prop ( i know that replacing a file resets it's permissions).
2.After i pasted thr backup one i edited it again because i had an modified line and I wanted to go full stock, and I think by mistake i pressed the enter button and created a blank line.
I heard about pushing the build.prop with ABD, I know that i can even use TWRP for this, but I don't wanna get things any messier than this.
Any help would be very appreciated. I there arr any grammatical problems forgive me, this is my mother's phone and I'm not used to the keyboard.