Hello members hoping I can get some guidance.
Damaged my old phone in a accident the other week so I used my wife's old spare (unlocked) Galaxy Ace GT-S5839I.
As you all know it's a bit dated and slow so I decided to read (a lot) of this forum and decided a rom update was in order.
Looked at the CynagenMod roms. Read the tutorials and downloaded necessary files for the update from SD Card.
Started with CM9_cooperve_Beta_05, excellent rom, used it for 24 hrs but it's unsupported and has a few bugs.
So I decided to go for cm-11.0.0-GT-S5830i-cooperve, again excellent rom but it wouldn't boot with my sim card installed which defeats the objective of having a phone for communication.
I read about installing the modem file to overcome this sim problem and so installed MODEM_S5360_XXMK1.
This did not solve my sim boot issue, so the decision was made to revert back to CM9_cooperve_Beta_05 till I found something withy less issues.
This is when I started having an issue with the rom, though I can't remember the exact phrasing but it was something like Encryption Error when the rom booted, my only option was to reboot and wipe cache etc, which I did, however this did not solve the the issue. It just booted again, every time, with the same encryption issue.
So I came back to these forums and read many threads, some advice was that the intenral sd card was now unreadable, which I guess is real bad.
Other suggestions were to flash a stock rom to the phone, using odin, this could solve the issue, so I have, except now the phone is in a kind of boot loop. Showing a brand logo (used vodaphone and orange roms amongst others) then the Samsung logo then brand logo and so on, stuck in a boot loop I guess.
I have also read that to overcome this boot loop, if the internal sd is damaged, is to use my sd card as an external sd replacement for the internal sd.
This is as far as I got as its 6.15am and I haven't been to sleep yet.
Now most advice on the internet is a little flaky at best so im hoping any members here may be able to give me some good solid advice as to how to best rescue this phone as I really don't want to give up yet.
I can still enter download and recovery modes with the phone.
So please, someone throw me a bone here.
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I've had my streak for just over a year now so it's sadly out of warranty. The problem I have is out of the blue random apps will fail to work when you start them, then if I reboot the phone it resets itself and on restart loads up as if it's a brand new phone but with setup process error meaning I have to reflash as a reboot or factory reset doesn't fix. Once I've set it all up again after a few days the same thing will happen, it used to do it about once a month for 2-3 months but now it's doing it almost every other day.
I'm scared of turning my phone off as on reboot it resets itself or comes out with errors and reformats itself. I've done numerous factory resets, reset cache, completely wiped the external sd card and checked the internal card in engineering mode but nothing I do seems to fix it.
Any suggestions or will I have to hold out till June when I can get a new phone?
Also I'm running the power rom evergreen edition, it has done the same on gingerstreak as well.
al these symptoms seem to point in the direction of a corrupt inner SD card , i expierenced these problems as well , and as soon as i replaced the inner SD , they dissapeared
Might give that a try then, was it easy to replace?
pretty much all the information you need will be discussed in this video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w4AbtIGp8A
i have not done it myself but the dude over at the phone repair shop said it really was just swap work
I had a similar sort of situation when I flashed a ROM some months ago.
I think it was in the setup of the ROM as something went a bit awry in the reboot.
The way I seem to remember resolving it was by taking it right back to stock 2.1 and starting afresh again wiping caches and factory resetting the whole way back to 2.3.
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Well I got myself a kingston 4gb class 10 card and cut away a hole in the back to replace the standard card. It's been 2 days now and I've not had a single problem so it looks like it has worked thank god!
Hello everyone,
I'm new to these forums and I joined so that one of you could help me with a severe problem that I'm facing.
I've got a Google Nexus One (Yes, I know it's old, but I'm a student with a low allowance, so you can't expect me to buy a really expensive phone).
It's two years old and I was getting tired of Gingerbread, so I decided to install ICS. I followed a guide here on this site, but skipped the Blackrose step so I kinda messed up.
My phone gets stuck on the "X" logo and doesn't move past it at all. I've even erased the SD card and all, but it's still stuck there. However, I can get to bootloader. Someone recommended that I download an old firmware rom and place it in the SD card and then install it via bootloader. However, when I go to 'restore' on bootloader, it takes me to 4ext, through which the rom does not install. I get some kind of error.
I don't need ICS anymore, I just want my phone to be working again, on Gingerbread as it always has. Please help me out with this issue?
ok, here comes the story.
i know you guys hate when we open new forums, but this here is a topic that i have been dealing with since about 2 weeks ago.
also, i wanted to thank you all for your help,ever since than...
the problem started as i said, few weeks ago. i have an s2, i tried to install a rom, and an error occued. the problem was know that i needed to factory reset and wipe the data from the phone in order to boot the phone. this was not possible due to an internal error (i got sucked), later on, i also discover that the problem i faced was due to the partions inside my phone.so, i tried to fix the partions, but i was unable,until i found a thread here dealing with the same problem on Note 2. so after a lot of work, i was able to repartion my internal memory (lost 6 GB) to fix partions 9, and 10. once that was done i was able to wipe data and factory reset.the problem was now that i was unable to install any rom using odin except CM10 which stucked also at the end of the process. but luckily for me i was able to get into the recovery of CM10 and i installed from the restriction remix rom. after wiping and factory reset, i was finally able to boot successively into the home-screen.
now, my phone seams to have swamped the internal and external memories. in the build in device manager of rr-rom, i only see my memory card labeled as internal. but this is not the big deal. the real problem is that this phone constantly keeps on restarting itself from time to time. so, it shut down from alone, tries to boot up, gets stucked at the logo, reboots itself several time in the same way, until in finally boots successively,
any help??
ah, i just wanted to add a funny fact, which is that on the day i fixed my phone,i accidently dropped it in the toilet (it fall from my pocket, no bad ideas please, it was fully at random from alone). i manged to save it also at that day. so, i some got a feeling that this phone just don't want to get repaired
Reinstall stock rom and start from scratch.
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Well I have seen some ridiculous generic topic titles in my time (like "Help" and "Help please" etc) but this topic with its complete lack of a title just takes the crown as the most idiotic.
Hello,
I received a bricked nook tablet from a friend who bought it from the U.S, i live in the Middle East (Palestine), so i can't take it back to support, andI've searched the forums and other similar forums for a week now, spent almost 50 hours (i kid you not) trying to solve my issue, , anyways, my friend tried to install CM10 on the nook and some how it seems like he "damaged" the emmc, i got the recovery loop issue + the "can't mount /cache" when i boot CWM recovery from the external SD, and when i tried to boot CM10 from the SD card it was stuck spinning during boot (though i think this might been an issue of a corrupt image), anyways, I've tried to flash the internal card with CM7/9/10 .. nothing worked, i tried to reset to stock of course and it didn't work ... it seems like booting from the SD card is my only option, which i won't mind for reading online stories if i didn't need to plug the USB cable in the tablet each time i restart the device ... hence this is another problem, anyways, i am a total noob and i truly appreciate your help if you can help me, i will be around to answer any questions, please don't hesitate to throw any suggestion you think might help.
thank you very much.
Rami
If you'd like to take another shot at flashing CM10, see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35669871&postcount=1.
If you'd like to restore to stock, some info/tools can be found at https://github.com/succulent/acclaim_recovery_sdcard.
Before you consider using some of the so-called "unbrick" tools/methods, see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=37515697&postcount=31.
Hello everyone, I need serious help, I have Chinese A13 7'gps tablet
7-inch-GPS-navigation-Wifi-DVR-AV-IN-FM-8GB-512MB Android4.0.4ICS - from Aliexpress - sorry but can't leave external links yet as I'm new to this forum,
I am pretty novice to Android. The tablet works great, but I need to learn the way to restore the system without loosing everything. I've learned how to flash ROM from memory card, I've got the ROM from seller, but they don't know how to help me further. Main problem is - it can't go into recovery as it doesn't have volume buttons and I can't find right CWM for it with touch support. Anyway, it wouldn't help much because the problem occur when android won't boot at all, just hangs without continuing to boot screen (not by itself - it sometimes happens when I test new CWM for an example) and I can't find a way to reset it. The stage where it hangs does not allow it to be recognized as connected if I plug it to PC, so I can't use "Uberizer" which is great for almost everything. The only way I assume, would be from memory card (like with ROM flashing) but without formatting so I can keep my SD data. Is there a script or something, to do that on my device?
Thanks in advance -I hope someone will have time to answer
All the best
bp