So I am officially disappointed in Lollipop and can no longer take the FC of apps I use frequently and the lagginess of it all. I've tried to downgrade via Odin to an official NK2 tar and I am unable to boot after the Samsung logo appears. The screen just goes black and nothing happens, does this have to do with the bootloader? If anyone has successfully downgraded or know how, I am very interested so please share. Thank you.
Try wiping data/cache with the original recovery after you Odin to NK2
Sounds like a wipe or factory reset would have fixed lollipop for you but if you want to downgrade I don't blame you, it's nothing special. Take the advice above though, should be good to go.
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fawkiPhone said:
So I am officially disappointed in Lollipop and can no longer take the FC of apps I use frequently and the lagginess of it all. I've tried to downgrade via Odin to an official NK2 tar and I am unable to boot after the Samsung logo appears. The screen just goes black and nothing happens, does this have to do with the bootloader? If anyone has successfully downgraded or know how, I am very interested so please share. Thank you.
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Go into recovery mode volume up +home button + power . From there wipe data and cache. That should allow the phone to boot
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Go into recovery mode volume up +home button + power . From there wipe data and cache. That should allow the phone to boot
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Did this work for you OP?
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with odin ?
iTz KeeFy said:
Sounds like a wipe or factory reset would have fixed lollipop for you but if you want to downgrade I don't blame you, it's nothing special. Take the advice above though, should be good to go.
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Even after a wipe and factory reset the update harbors bugs for some reason. For me, I can't swipe the contact to make a call. Couple apps force close out of nowhere (not including the contacts issue) as well as battery life gets worse and worse. Tried just doing wipe cache partition, but seems like it doesn't do anything.. Guess I just gotta factory reset.
Let me know how that goes. Thank you.
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Let me know how that goes. Thank you.
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I decided not to do it since I'm going to be upgrading to the S6 soon don't feel like setting up my phone again.
fawkiPhone said:
So I am officially disappointed in Lollipop and can no longer take the FC of apps I use frequently and the lagginess of it all. I've tried to downgrade via Odin to an official NK2 tar and I am unable to boot after the Samsung logo appears. The screen just goes black and nothing happens, does this have to do with the bootloader? If anyone has successfully downgraded or know how, I am very interested so please share. Thank you.
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I did and I'm glad I did! With Lollipop my battery life was cut by 3/4! Horrible! I got KitKat and did the deed on Odin and my battery life is back to normal. I'll not upgrade anymore because this seems to work fine and now I understand that battery life is a key factor in my satisfaction with they phone.
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My s3 Bluetooth is not turning on. After clicking it doesn't show green. Rather it remains off. My s3 is 100% stock. Not rooted or anything. I dint get in update yet. Rather I'm using 4.0.4 still. Please help
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muid02 said:
My s3 Bluetooth is not turning on. After clicking it doesn't show green. Rather it remains off. My s3 is 100% stock. Not rooted or anything. I dint get in update yet. Rather I'm using 4.0.4 still. Please help
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Reboot. Check whether it works or not. Reboot again. If not then Wipe data/factory reset it by going into stock recovery (Remember this will wipe everything including apps.) If still doesn't work. Flash a stock official ROM through Odin.
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Go to recovery mode, wipe dalvik cache and fix permissions
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how can i access recovery mode. my phone is not rooted. this will void my warranty. and i tried rebooting many times. doesnt work.
muid02 said:
how can i access recovery mode. my phone is not rooted. this will void my warranty. and i tried rebooting many times. doesnt work.
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silly me. i forgot you are not rooted :silly:
you can try factory reset :fingers-crossed:
Hi, i'm a new user of SG SII, and i don't know much about it. I was trying to install new ROM on it, first I tried to unroot my phone with CF ROOT, after that everthing was OK. Then i tried to install REVOLT JB i9100 ver 2.8.2, when i got by CWM in recovery, instead of clicking wipe data, then cache and ccache partition i did: wipe data/factory reset, and wipe cache partition, wipe dalwik cache and format system. I flashed kernel and during ROM installation phone turned off and did turn on. i think it's hard bricked. I don't know what to do, please help.
Are you still able to get into don't download mode o your phone ? ( volume down, home key, power button )
If so, reflash your kernel and go from there.
Also have a look at CyanogenMod, they have a good post with instructions on here.
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Are you still able to get into don't download mode o your phone ? ( volume down, home key, power button )
If so, reflash your kernel and go from there.
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no, phone doesn.t response on anything, even if i'm charging the battery.
Try removing your battery and unplug cables.
Then try download or recovery mode again.
If it really doesnt work then there is probably something fried on your system board, doubt anything you can do about it as i had the same not that long ago out of the blue.
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Try removing your battery and unplug cables.
Then try download or recovery mode again.
If it really doesnt work then there is probably something fried on your system board, doubt anything you can do about it as i had the same not that long ago out of the blue.
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Did it and still nothing, do you think that maybe JIG plug could be a good idea?
You could always give it a go, havent had any experience with i myself tho so hopefully someone else here can give you a hand
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I had a similar issue with sgs1 back in the day. I built a jig and got it working so give it a shot if you can. Its worth it for the cost of a jig surely?
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ok, i'll try to do it. but i have to ask if that will not work, can i save my phone by changing main board on warranty in service?
You can always tell them that you were updating via kies and it dropped dead just like that.
Your battery was low when you tried to flash it, wasn't it?
try a jig first tho; there's something fishy about those wipes you mentioned.
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Hi, i'm a new user of SG SII, and i don't know much about it. I was trying to install new ROM on it, first I tried to unroot my phone with CF ROOT, after that everthing was OK. Then i tried to install REVOLT JB i9100 ver 2.8.2, when i got by CWM in recovery, instead of clicking wipe data, then cache and ccache partition i did: wipe data/factory reset, and wipe cache partition, wipe dalwik cache and format system. I flashed kernel and during ROM installation phone turned off and did turn on. i think it's hard bricked. I don't know what to do, please help.
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On some occasions flashing a device can use 40-50% of battery to prep and flash device which is why its advised to never flash your phone unless you have at least 50-60% battery.
If power cuts out during flashing procedure it can damage nand/ic chip, corrupt bootloader, corrupt sdcards etc.
After leaving it plugged into to charger overnight try a USB jig to see if you can get it to wake up in download mode, If you can re-flash rom and go from there.
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You can always tell them that you were updating via kies and it dropped dead just like that.
Your battery was low when you tried to flash it, wasn't it?
try a jig first tho; there's something fishy about those wipes you mentioned.
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battery was about 70%, so it should not have turned off
pawlo130 said:
battery was about 70%, so it should not have turned off
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then I was right with the fishy wipes.
pray for the jig.
From what you described, it couldn't have hard bricked your phone. In fact, it isn't easy to hard brick our phone unless you install that infamous ICS 4.0.4 leaked ROM or mess with flashing of PIT file. Try to use another fully charged battery to boot up or go into CWM recovery.
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From what you described, it couldn't have hard bricked your phone. In fact, it isn't easy to hard brick our phone unless you install that infamous ICS 4.0.4 leaked ROM or mess with flashing of PIT file. Try to use another fully charged battery to boot up or go into CWM recovery.
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while i was installing new rom, process was like 0% for about 5 minutes, and then phone just turned off. When i did flashing and installing CWM everything was ok. I rooted it with CF root.
Exact same problem here. Followed the root guide to the letter and all OK. Set omega rom installing and it stayed at 0 for five mins then it shut off. Now no life at all.
Gonna build a jig tomorrow so I'll update here if it works.
Really hope so as it's a mates phone.
I've done my s3, s1 and the Mrs s2 without it going wrong so I'm not sure how it went wrong this time.
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Exact same problem here. Followed the root guide to the letter and all OK. Set omega rom installing and it stayed at 0 for five mins then it shut off. Now no life at all.
Gonna build a jig tomorrow so I'll update here if it works.
Really hope so as it's a mates phone.
I've done my s3, s1 and the Mrs s2 without it going wrong so I'm not sure how it went wrong this time.
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Your phone have got super brick, and the JIG nothing to do.... You must go to service.
The reason for this is stock kernel who has kode cause brick.
Sorry for my english!
Ah that's a shame. Fingers crossed it's still under warranty or it's gonna be an expensive month.
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Ah that's a shame. Fingers crossed it's still under warranty or it's gonna be an expensive month.
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Don't worry will be fine. JTAG must be repair all
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While using titanium backup i froze all apps. (too hard headed I didn't care about the warning) but I made backups on apps that I think was important. It was working just fine. But when I restarted it. The logo just appeared. It's almost a day and it's still like that please help me gosh I hoped it wasn't bricked.
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While using titanium backup i froze all apps. (too hard headed I didn't care about the warning) but I made backups on apps that I think was important. It was working just fine. But when I restarted it. The logo just appeared. It's almost a day and it's still like that please help me gosh I hoped it wasn't bricked.
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Unless you remember all the apps you froze, which is unlikely, go into recovery mode and factory reset your device.
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Unless you remember all the apps you froze, which is unlikely, go into recovery mode and factory reset your device.
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Oh. Thank you. I have tried it. But I don't know.. Is it possible that I froze something that is required for the recovery?
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Oh. Thank you. I have tried it. But I don't know.. Is it possible that I froze something that is required for the recovery?
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If you can get into recovery then no, are the any custom Roms for your device? I suggest you try flashing one. They normally have all the bloatware removed already. Either that or flash your stock ROM again using Odin. Which device do you have?
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If you can get into recovery then no, are the any custom Roms for your device? I suggest you try flashing one. They normally have all the bloatware removed already. Either that or flash your stock ROM again using Odin. Which device do you have?
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It's an LG L7 p705 sir. It's rooted but I haven't flashed any custom roms yet.
I really think I froze something that has to do with the recovery. I can't access it.
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It's an LG L7 p705 sir. It's rooted but I haven't flashed any custom roms yet.
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If you prefer stock ROM then use Odin to flash a stock ROM on your device. I don't see any other way out of this
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DearestMartha said:
I really think I froze something that has to do with the recovery. I can't access it.
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Can you acces Emergency Mode my friend. Pull out battery. Insert it back then Hold Volume up + Volume down + power button tell me if you see a yellow screen.
I doubt you can use Odin as you say you have an lg device. Many lg devices have fastboot access via bootloader if yours is on then you should be fine. I doubt you froze anything that would keep you from booting to the recovery as you can't freeze your kernel so keep trying to get there. But a factory reset will doubtfully help as you probably removed some system apps that don't return when doing a factory reset, but still worth a try
If you can get into recovery and a factory reset doesn't help then wipe all and then flash a custom ROM.
If this won't work than hope you have fastboot access and or another method such as nvflash or whatever
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Ok. Thank you so much for your replies I really appreciate it. I guess that recovery is my only hope.. I'll try to get to it. I was nervous that I think I froze something that have to do with the recovery. I'll try to be more careful now, I'll just post if it's working fine now.
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Ok. Thank you so much for your replies I really appreciate it. I guess that recovery is my only hope.. I'll try to get to it. I was nervous that I think I froze something that have to do with the recovery. I'll try to be more careful now, I'll just post if it's working fine now.
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Man can you enter Emergency Mode tell me so i can give you details on how to flash Stock.
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Man can you enter Emergency Mode tell me so i can give you details on how to flash Stock.
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I've tried it again and again. Still can't access it.
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I've tried it again and again. Still can't access it.
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Ok put battery out then try only Volume up + Power button and hold them untill you see the yellow screen.
I have a note 2 that I kept stock for a long time. And decided to root it about a week ago. I used the latest casual one click root. And it seemed all dandy initially until i went between a few different roms and it decided it wanted to shut off randomly and not boot back up past the note 2 screen on its own. But the odd part was it booted while connected to the wall or to the computer. So I flashed to 4.1.2 stock via odin and the issue still remains. I can only use it fine on charger. Is there something else im missing on flashing back to stock?
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Hmm when you installed 4.3 did you do so wiping everything could be an app causing the problem. Try it from brand new with no apps installed and see if that helps. Could be also a radio issue as well.
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Yeah I wiped everything. Actually used odin twice to revert to stock 4.1.2. I tried a few cm nightlies before it began. Is there anything else I should flash on top of whats already been done?
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Yeah I wiped everything. Actually used odin twice to revert to stock 4.1.2. I tried a few cm nightlies before it began. Is there anything else I should flash on top of whats already been done?
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I've found that even after using ODIN to go back to stock 4.1.2, that there's still leftover data on the phone from custom ROM's. I've read where others had the same issue. I don't know why Odin doesn't seem to fully wipe everything ... but this has been my personal experience.
The way I've fixed this (and all this may not be necessary).. . is that after Odin'ing back to stock 4.1.2, I boot into stock recovery, then do a full factory reset and wipe cache. Then I booted into the stock Rom and used the bypass setup trick (touch the left side of the screen right above Emergency... then right side, then left, then right again, and then volume up... this should bypass setup to save time).
Then went into phone's settings and performed a factory reset from within the stock Rom too...
Finally... (because I'm a bit OCD... so this is probably not necessary), but I ODIN'd back to stock 4.1.2 one more time and then proceeded with using CASUAL again to root /unlock the bootloader).
I know this is a pain in the butt... but this has worked for me. Maybe others will have some better suggestions.
(Edit : Forgot to mention that if you're not wanting to return to stock to start over again... check out this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53624921) on how to flash a stock recovery for the purposes of doing a proper data wipe... then can you odin your custom recovery back to the device without having to fully restore to stock... this can be a real time saver. Please make sure to thank the OP for the helpful info).
So in the end I tried to reset from stock recovery and wipe cache. Than do a reset from the settings and the issue presisted. But now I have root and recovery as well. So I may give a rom a try.
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So in the end I tried to reset from stock recovery and wipe cache. Than do a reset from the settings and the issue presisted. But now I have root and recovery as well. So I may give a rom a try.
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This is totally a guess, but I'm thinking that you may have a battery problem... and it's just a coincidence that these problems started happening around the same time that you rooted. You may try replacing the battery to see if that fixes things.... (you can get one pretty cheap off ebay or Amazon).
Yeah thats odd. I had bought another battery from a phone store I use to work at and have no issues now, back on 4.1.1 rooted.
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Yeah thats odd. I had bought another battery from a phone store I use to work at and have no issues now, back on 4.1.1 rooted.
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Cool. Hopefully you'll have no more problems with it for a while.
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I encrypted my device, now all it says is to input the password, and when I do enter the correct password it just says, try again. It was rooted with some stuff deleted so I tried using odin to flash it from NG6 to NC5 It was a NG6 prior to encryption . Thanks
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I encrypted my device, now all it says is to input the password, and when I do enter the correct password it just says, try again. It was rooted with some stuff deleted so I tried using odin to flash it from NG6 to NC5 It was a NG6 prior to encryption . Thanks
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So now I updated it to NG6 and am just getting to the red Verizon boot up screen and then no more activity just stays lit. Any help seriously appreciated you will prevent me from making this thing a paperweight.
Did you do a full wipe Odin might help. You could try a factory reset from stock recovery. Both of these with wipe everything but your ext sdcard but is probably your only hope
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tshelby73 said:
Did you do a full wipe Odin might help. You could try a factory reset from stock recovery. Both of these with wipe everything but your ext sdcard but is probably your only hope
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I used Nand and erase (is this what you mena by a wipe?) all in odin but still only gets to the red verizon screen and stops... also how do I do a factory reset I pressed the poawer home key and volume down but it only warns me about a costume os and then puts me into download mode.
Do the full wipe method here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2735172
Sorry for slow response. Been busy.
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Do the full wipe method here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2735172
Sorry for slow response. Been busy.
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The wait was worth it, SUCCESS thank you so much, I guess the PIT file was the key didn't know about it or what it does any idea? And what exactly does encrypting your phone do? I was curious and probably will never do it again after this incident unless its worth it.
I think the pit file basically rebuilds the partitions on sense wiping everything I think. Encryption makes the phone more secure but I wouldn't use it unless it's completely stock myself.
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