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Received a brand new Ace yesterday, and immediately rooted it with super one click with no problems.
However I then tried to run the 'Galaxy Ace Unlock apk' which I'd found elsewhere.
It generated an unlock pin, but after rebooting it stuck on the Galaxy Ace flash screen. After 5 minutes I pulled the battery out, waited, then rebooted. Now it doesn't even get to the Galaxy Ace screen when switched on.
The screen backlight comes on (with a black screen) for a couple of seconds, then off, then on - but it never gets any further.
So far I've tried
- Flashing Stock Froyo via Odin
- Flashing VillainRom via Odin
In both cases the phone enters download mode, Odin completes all steps without error, but on reboot I am left with the black screen of death again!
Anything else I could try?
I have the same problem.
Have you found a solution?
zongamin said:
Received a brand new Ace yesterday, and immediately rooted it with super one click with no problems.
However I then tried to run the 'Galaxy Ace Unlock apk' which I'd found elsewhere.
It generated an unlock pin, but after rebooting it stuck on the Galaxy Ace flash screen. After 5 minutes I pulled the battery out, waited, then rebooted. Now it doesn't even get to the Galaxy Ace screen when switched on.
The screen backlight comes on (with a black screen) for a couple of seconds, then off, then on - but it never gets any further.
So far I've tried
- Flashing Stock Froyo via Odin
- Flashing VillainRom via Odin
In both cases the phone enters download mode, Odin completes all steps without error, but on reboot I am left with the black screen of death again!
Anything else I could try?
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Hey!
Dose you RESET FACTORY SETTINGS and FORMAT CACHE in recovery, before flashing with ODIN?
CHEERS!
Did the light lit when you entered the download mode? That's the indicator.
I got the same proble, tried several firmwares with odin but, when the phone reboots it starts flashing again
Hey!
You all, try THIS one.
CHEERS!
casiocas said:
Hey!
You all, try THIS one.
CHEERS!
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I tried it, several times with different firmwares but it doesn´t do anything. The phone, when rebooting with odin, keeps flashing the black screen
moe_szislack said:
I tried it, several times with different firmwares but it doesn´t do anything. The phone, when rebooting with odin, keeps flashing the black screen
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Hey!
Just wanted to ask, FROM WHERE you downloaded you UNLOCK soft. Can you give me the link? PLEASE!
CHEERS!
casiocas said:
Hey!
Just wanted to ask, FROM WHERE you downloaded you UNLOCK soft. Can you give me the link? PLEASE!
CHEERS!
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Sorry if it sound rude, it wasn´t my intention.
I download the soft form samfirmwares.com.
Cheers
moe_szislack said:
Sorry if it sound rude, it wasn´t my intention.
I download the soft form samfirmwares.com.
Cheers
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Ok, I get. But SORRY, then I cant help. You must contact then, from where you downloaded it.
Just I hope you get fixed your phone(If you most take it to SERVICE, try to explain them that you tryed RESET FACTORY SETTINGS. It work for several ppl-s here, who must take his phone to SERVICE). Just be 10 times SURE, that you cant flash or recovery you phone, or they can do the same and see that your phone WAS ROOTED or FLASHED the CUSTOM ROM(JUST BE SURE, THEY CANT ACCESS YOU PHONE or you lose you WARRANTY).
I hope all ENDS good! Fingers crossed for you phone!!!
CHEERS!
casiocas said:
Ok, I get. But SORRY, then I cant help. You must contact then, from where you downloaded it.
Just I hope you get fixed your phone(If you most take it to SERVICE, try to explain them that you tryed RESET FACTORY SETTINGS. It work for several ppl-s here, who must take his phone to SERVICE). Just be 10 times SURE, that you cant flash or recovery you phone, or they can do the same and see that your phone WAS ROOTED or FLASHED the CUSTOM ROM(JUST BE SURE, THEY CANT ACCESS YOU PHONE or you lose you WARRANTY).
I hope all ENDS good! Fingers crossed for you phone!!!
CHEERS!
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I forgot to say that I put a sim card (from other country) inside the ACE to check if it was unlocked.
Can it be the problem?
moe_szislack said:
I forgot to say that I put a sim card (from other country) inside the ACE to check if it was unlocked.
Can it be the problem?
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Hey!
I want to help you, REALLY, but a bout that queation, I CANT ANSWER, RIGHT NOW. DONT KNOW EXACTLY. SORRY!
I try to find answers tomorrow(we have here 23:27). Tomorrow to work.
CHEERS!
casiocas said:
Hey!
I want to help you, REALLY, but a bout that queation, I CANT ANSWER, RIGHT NOW. DONT KNOW EXACTLY. SORRY!
I try to find answers tomorrow(we have here 23:27). Tomorrow to work.
CHEERS!
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Ok, Thank you
Need help screen just flashes and blinks..
Tried multiple rom flashes...odin says pass but the ph doesn't boot up
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misterio_mr111 said:
Need help screen just flashes and blinks..
Tried multiple rom flashes...odin says pass but the ph doesn't boot up
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
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The same thing happens to me, Anybody has any idea?
Just send it to the service center.
No other recovery method is know.
I have been in every forum arond for this kinda brick and there is no solution for YOU to do. Also there is absolutely no way for Samsung to see either say that after the first boot the battery went dead and it never started again. It will be covered by your warranty and brand new ace! Now dont go making stupid mistakes again hope i helped
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Apk/sim bricked my phone.
Unlock Apk also bricked my phone in the same manner.
The app generating the code is not the problem on it's own, it's when you put the "other" Sim card in and reboot that does the damage.
I got a buzz when i could still get Download Mode and Odin gave me a PASS when i reflashed, but alas the phone never rebooted and it still flashed black at me.
I'm trying everything to bring it back to life before it goes to the Service Centre and i have to give them some blag as to why it's bricked.
Other than Download Mode i can get "Emergency Dload Mode"(ARM9) & RAMDUMP.
BLZBud said:
Unlock Apk also bricked my phone in the same manner.
The app generating the code is not the problem on it's own, it's when you put the "other" Sim card in and reboot that does the damage.
I got a buzz when i could still get Download Mode and Odin gave me a PASS when i reflashed, but alas the phone never rebooted and it still flashed black at me.
I'm trying everything to bring it back to life before it goes to the Service Centre and i have to give them some blag as to why it's bricked.
Other than Download Mode i can get "Emergency Dload Mode"(ARM9) & RAMDUMP.
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I got the same problem and still nobody has found how to unbrick the phone.
I´ll keep searching
moe_szislack said:
I got the same problem and still nobody has found how to unbrick the phone.
I´ll keep searching
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Even Samsung don't have an easy way to repair it, hence they replace the mainboard to fix the issue.
I've done some searching and come up with nothing so maybe I'm overlooking something or I need help. I flashed the AOSP ROM and was attempting to clear out the SD card and make sure everything was in its place when I rebooted my phone only to be greeted with a LG logo for a second or two followed by a black screen and nothing else. The first thing I tried was to reboot into recovery and it didn't go. So then I tried to power the phone off and make sure I was hitting the combo correctly and got nothing. Again. So I'm scratching my head wondering what to do next. I though I might need to use LGNPST but I can't find a download for it (I will join the IRC and get it that way if I need to but I wanna be sure before bothering anyone in there). What do I need to do? Am I SOL? Is there anything I can check for to see just how bricked I am? Thanks for the help and I'll keep looking while I wait for replies. I appreciate it, guys.
Edit: After LGNPST was giving me a hanging boot animation I did a hard reset with vol down and power. It prompted me to reset, I did that and now everything is working. Thank you all and hopefully this can help someone else in the future.
colbyfink said:
I've done some searching and come up with nothing so maybe I'm overlooking something or I need help. I flashed the AOSP ROM and was attempting to clear out the SD card and make sure everything was in its place when I rebooted my phone only to be greeted with a LG logo for a second or two followed by a black screen and nothing else. The first thing I tried was to reboot into recovery and it didn't go. So then I tried to power the phone off and make sure I was hitting the combo correctly and got nothing. Again. So I'm scratching my head wondering what to do next. I though I might need to use LGNPST but I can't find a download for it (I will join the IRC and get it that way if I need to but I wanna be sure before bothering anyone in there). What do I need to do? Am I SOL? Is there anything I can check for to see just how bricked I am? Thanks for the help and I'll keep looking while I wait for replies. I appreciate it, guys.
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Can you get into download mode.
xxgmon3yxx said:
Can you get into download mode.
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Yes, I can.
Went ahead and found LGNPST and the instructions to use it. It should all put me back where I need to be but if it doesn't for some crazy reason then I'll bump the thread.
Alright, I thought LGNPST would work but I'm missing something apparently. I'm getting a reboot at 67%, which is normal, and then LGNPST jumps to 85% which I assume is also normal. After that the phone does the at&t boot animation and sound and then it just hangs up at "Rethink Possible" with LGNPST saying it was disconnected and to cycle the power (which I have tried, and I also tried just letting it boot, and rebooting and letting it boot and they all yield the same results). What is going on? What am I missing here? I've tried on a desktop running XP and a laptop running Windows 7 and the phone is still booting to the animation and seems to be working alright from a hardware standpoint so I don't know what the deal is. I'm gonna keep trying but any help or troubleshooting steps I should try would be greatly appreciated. I'm sorry for the triple post, as well. I just really would like to get this fixed tonight so I can sleep haha.
Edit: I'm gonna charge it while I sleep and see if anything changes. It will charge and I charged it for about 45 minutes before trying LGNPST after I found out it would charge. When it first came on it said the battery was too low and it needed to before booting so maybe that's my issue with it booting the new rom or finishing LGNPST. To get to where I am all I did was flash AOSP coming from SnowJB (the LGOG version, NOT the N4 conversion version) and tried to clear out my SD card. I'm guessing that's where I messed something up but it could have been anything, including a hardware failure. I've read about a lot of folks having a similar issue with no resolution and either saying they'll return it or the thread dead ends and nothing else is said. If anyone has any advice I'd appreciate it and if charging helps then I'll report back as well so as not to leave anyone hanging if they stumble upon this thread and need help. I also think it's time for a LGNPST thread with links to the program and steps on how to use it and all that jazz to culminate all these issues. I'm not sure why it has to be so hidden and hard to get to.
LGNPST can't be shared publicly due to legal reasons. To get your phone to boot try a hard reset. From powered off state hold volume down and power buttons. When screen appears select reset.
Edit...If that doesn't work your miscellaneous partition may be messed up, Shelnutt2 on irc can help with that.
If this is the same problem I would try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38571768
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Dr0!dFreek said:
If this is the same problem I would try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38571768
Sent from my LG-E970 using xda premium
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Alright, I ran across that last night and thought about trying it. Do I do that with command prompt or what? Usually I wouldn't ask that but I've never done anything quite like this. And thank you for your help. I appreciate it a lot.
adfurgerson said:
LGNPST can't be shared publicly due to legal reasons. To get your phone to boot try a hard reset. From powered off state hold volume down and power buttons. When screen appears select reset.
Edit...If that doesn't work your miscellaneous partition may be messed up, Shelnutt2 on irc can help with that.
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I didn't even think about retrying a hard reset after I got it to go as far as the boot animation. It worked! Thank you, so much. And everyone who replied thank you too! Thank you guys so much. If I had more than just thanks I would surely give it.
Hi my process of root and installation gone very bad. now my mobile does not power up by itself but only when its connected with PC via USB cable it flashes intermittently, please see the attached photo.
How it happens:
1. SG II was okay and functional so i entered into recovery mode and did wipe clean of data and then cache.
2. Entered into download mode and tried Odin and install custom Rom but there were few rejected attempt.
3. Odin was terminated and mobile battery removed to try again
4. It shown me "software update failed logo" plz see image i uploaded.
5. my phone still connectable with Odin, so i flashed it with "MyGKernelV1.1.1_CWM5.tar" as we found it in one forum to fix this error message.
6. Took battery out and this boot-loop stuck on my mobile. (See the first image uploaded, its kind of screen saver as this logo keep going on n off)
Odin 3 does not register it connected on my PC, i cannot enter into recovery or download mode.
Please, let me know if anyone got idea to fix it, will appreciate lot, as after 3-4 hours search through numerous forums and pages, i am frustrated.
Pictures uploaded to show my case are searched online to be close enough but they represent same problem.
Regards
Sunny
model:GT-I9100G
Baseband: I9100GZCLPK
Kernel:3.0.8-1067026
Build No: IMM76D.ZQLR7
That's forced download, get a stock ROM meant for your device and flash it via odin.
Now that I think about it the only thing I saw was the pic you posted so I dunno if your pc sees your device.
if it does, cool.
If it doesn't try another cable/port/pc/re install kies and on and on. Check the last page of the phistachio thread about unbricking, there's a lot of guys with that exact problem.
PS: I didn't want to edit it either so I kept typing. Crazy.
Sent from the little guy
Thanks mate, yep Odin doesnt not show it connect to PC so i got hard ball to play...i was fixing my mate's mobile and got kinda bad feeling that his mob bricked , he will be devastated if i cannot make it work...
...thanks again ...your words sounds nice to me and i will give it a go..
gastonw said:
That's forced download, get a stock ROM meant for your device and flash it via odin.
Now that I think about it the only thing I saw was the pic you posted so I dunno if your pc sees your device.
if it does, cool.
If it doesn't try another cable/port/pc/re install kies and on and on. Check the last page of the phistachio thread about unbricking, there's a lot of guys with that exact problem.
PS: I didn't want to edit it either so I kept typing. Crazy.
Sent from the little guy
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Thanks mate, yep Odin doesnt not show it connect to PC so i got hard ball to play...i was fixing my mate's mobile and got kinda bad feeling that his mob bricked , he will be devastated if i cannot make it work...
...thanks again ...your words sounds nice to me and i will give it a go..
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Since it's showing you that forced download screen (it's the device's way to beg you to flash something because as it for now, nothing is working for it) I can tell you that is not THAT bricked just yet. You just need your pc to see it.
Try other Odin versions and make sure you get the right ROM for your device.
BTW, are you sure it's a I9100G device? did you check under the battery?
Before i started wiping and cleaning it, i made note of its model no, baseband etc ...so all that info is right.
Also, to give you better idea, this mobile current state is this one attached again..it keep flashing this screen info when connected with laptop otherwise it stays blank.
gastonw said:
Since it's showing you that forced download screen (it's the device's way to beg you to flash something because as it for now, nothing is working for it) I can tell you that is not THAT bricked just yet. You just need your pc to see it.
Try other Odin versions and make sure you get the right ROM for your device.
BTW, are you sure it's a I9100G device? did you check under the battery?
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And it shows I9100G.
What happened with the other screen? Does it show up at all?
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No that screen was there for a while till i did Step 4 and dis appeared when i applied that patch on step five ....please see my very first post on top..
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And it shows I9100G.
What happened with the other screen? Does it show up at all?
Sent from the little guy
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Oh, sorry, now I remember. It was when you flashed something from other site.
So, no DL mode? 100% sure? usb jig is your next step then.
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gastonw said:
Oh, sorry, now I remember. It was when you flashed something from other site.
So, no DL mode? 100% sure? usb jig is your next step then.
Sent from the little guy
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That's what i figured out,
looking on
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-download-mode-jig/
:good: thanks mate...
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surenzxx said:
I recently installed CyanogenMod with the Unlock Bootloader for noobs and I noticed the internal SD wasn't mounted. So I tried to flash an ICS ROM to see if it would work but it didn't. I was stuck at the boot screen. I tried restoring an ICS CWM backup and a JB backup but it didn't work. Currently, I have a flashed JB backup with a messed up touchscreen (because of the way I unlocked the boot-loader). It won't boot and I don't know how I can install the stock ROM. I really just want my phone to work at this point. I don't know if there's any way to use the offline method to flash a .kdz since I can't access android. I tried hard resetting, but when I do it starts up Clock Work Mod which I believe happens because of the way I unlocked boot-loader.
I'm trying to use this guide to fix it using SW upgrade. I did find a .bin and .fls which i'm downloading right now.
If anyone could help or give some advice that would be great. I really just want to use my phone, I don't care about flashing a custom ROM right now. As long as my phone works, I'll be happy.
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Let me know if this works for you! Also you can do the offline fix just as long as you can get into S/W Upgrade mode. But I am curious to see if you can use the bin/fls files tool that you mentioned to get your phone working again.
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surenzxx said:
Thanks for the reply! I'm planning on trying this method out tomorrow and ,if you don't mind, could you please elaborate on how I can do the offline fix with S/W Upgrade mode? I'll check back on the forum tomorrow!
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Well just get your phone into S/W Upgrade mode and follow this tutorial. Getting into S/W Upgrade:
1. Get stock ROM here.
2. Turn off your phone
3. Press and hold the vol + button while inserting USB to computer
4. Keep holding the vol + until you see the S/W upgrade mode
5. Flash ROM with tutorial mentioned above.
Good Luck!
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surenzxx said:
Isn't that just an infobank of all the KDZs? I'm pretty new, but can you flash a kdz with the offline method? To clarify, I was asking how to flash the kdz with the offline method in S/W upgrade mode. So ROMs/KDZs are essentially the same, right?
Edit: I read everything over again and realized what KDZs really are. I'm just wondering now if I could just hard reset in some other way because the LG Update Tool doesn't recognize my phone even though I see all the drivers. It's stuck at 15%.
Edit 2: I tried the method I suggested and it resulted with "Magic number does not concide".
So I'm stuck here with a phone that is stuck in bootloop, and has CWM installed. Can anyone help?
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alright, this is all from memory but the offline flash didnt work as well for me when stuck in weird bootloops.
Step one-going back to online flash---->
A---
the easiest way i found was to go to C:/windows/system32/drivers/ect/hosts
right click>open with notepad
there should be two lines at the bottom
"127.0.0.1 csmg.lgmobile.com
127.0.0.1 csmgdl.lgmobile.com"
i would cut them out and paste them in a text doc in the same folder for reference later...
but either way you should remove them from the hosts file and save
B----
Make sure your small server is closed! once you minimize it it should go down to your status bar (shttps)
Step two-LGMS---->
make sure you have LG mobile support installed or install it.
open lg mobile support
install needed drivers for your phone
power your phone off/remove the battery
put battery back in
connect it to your computer holding down the volume up button
S/W UPDATE mode should pop up, if it doesn't preform and hardreset and try again til it works (it will)
then in the top right corner there should be a button or two click them both until you see
"restore update" or Update restore or something to that effect
select that
and let it ride man
i got my phone ****ed many times and just had to keep redoing this until it worked. if your bootloader is truely unlocked you can probably go through all that again and get CM10 working, i did but im still working through kinks.....
GOOD LUCK feel free to ask any more Q's about this process if you run into any problems
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surenzxx said:
Hello! Sorry for the late reply. Before I start, do you mean LG Mobile Support form when I unlocked the boot-loader, if not could you provide a link to it? And by the way, when I tried hard resetting, the phone sent me back to CWM, any ideas why?
I was reading the CM10.2 notes yesterday and I realized there isn't supposed to be an internal SD card showing up when you plug in your phone to your PC. So I did tried fixing what wasn't broke.
Anyway, thanks for the info!
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that could work, but i just downloaded the LG Mobile Support that i found from a google search. im pretty sure it was just from lg's website
GOOD LUCK
was your phone off before you hit the vol up and home, then clicked power for three-five seconds?
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that could work, but i just downloaded the LG Mobile Support that i found from a google search. im pretty sure it was just from lg's website
GOOD LUCK
was your phone off before you hit the vol up and home, then clicked power for three-five seconds?
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Such a late reply, sorry! I did nothing. Before you replied I flashed CM10.2 but never bothered to boot up my phone. Preparing to connect my phone to my comp, I couldn't start CWM so I figured " I'll just leave my phone plugged in for a few hours." Two hours later, my phone has a blank screen, i'm thinking "This shouldn't be blank? What the hell?." I pressed the power button and was greeted with Cid. I screamed out loud: "**** yeah!"
If people have the same problem as me all I did was: Reflash my my phone with 10.1, stock, 10.1 again, and then 10.2. I did that, only that.
What's funny is that I never checked to see if my phone was working after I flashed CM10.2. :silly:
Can't wait for Kit-Kat. Thank you for keeping up with my post, CROSSFREEZE I appreciate it!
Edit: I might submit a really specific and simplified version of the "Unlock Bootloader for Noobs P769" for the take of contributing.
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Edit: I might submit a really specific and simplified version of the "Unlock Bootloader for Noobs P769" for the take of contributing.
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love that idea, theres al;ot of reading i skimmed it and watched the video and after skippiing half the steps it worked for me but there was alot of messed up stuff to fix
I have an E970 which I have loved over the past 16 months. Love it. It's not rooted or modded in any way, but I had it set up real nice.
I was at the hospital emergency room yesterday visiting someone and had some time to kill, so I updated some apps that needed updating. I did this over LTE, not hospital WIFI. I mention this because of what happened next.
Last night I started getting an error message when I attempted to get into the settings: "unfortunately settings has stopped." Everything else looked normal at this point.
Of course, the first thing I did was reboot and there was no change.
So, I did a little research and the suggestion was:
1) something you installed or updated last messed it up, try uninstalling the updates.
2) try putting the phone into safe mode and see if it works.
So I uninstalled the apps I had updated while at the hospital. Swiftkey keyboard, Chrome, Dolphin, the MyAT&T app (never used), and some others. About 12 in all. No dice, settings was still not working.
So after another reboot, I put the phone into safe mode (which I didn't know existed on Android). It took a long time to reboot into safe mode, much longer than a normal reboot. Settings was still not working. Same errror. Thats when things got worse.
Rebooted back out of safe mode. It still took a long time to reboot. Now not only does settings not work, but now the notification area on the top of the screen is gone, the notiication shade is now gone, and long pressing home does not bring up task manager. I am able to get into the settings for the home screen and the lock screen via the menu key. I cannot access sound settings or wifi or anything else in settings. I also lost my wallpaper. The LG launcher was still working as was the LG lock screen. All else looks fine, my MMS, contacts, email, etc.
This morning, I tried rebooting again. Now the phone won't boot past the white AT&T logo after the animation and sound plays.
I tried removing the sim and the sd card. No change. No boot.
What the hell happened to my phone and what should I do?
At this point I realize I'm probably going to lose everything in my phone memory, and I'm at peace with that. I had my photos and media all on my SD card, but my contacts and my text messages from the last 16 months are going to be gone.
I am not versed in rooting or recovery, though I am actually very technical. I would appreciate any assistance anyone could give. Thank you.
jaytee23 said:
I have an E970 which I have loved over the past 16 months. Love it. It's not rooted or modded in any way, but I had it set up real nice.
I was at the hospital emergency room yesterday visiting someone and had some time to kill, so I updated some apps that needed updating. I did this over LTE, not hospital WIFI. I mention this because of what happened next.
Last night I started getting an error message when I attempted to get into the settings: "unfortunately settings has stopped." Everything else looked normal at this point.
Of course, the first thing I did was reboot and there was no change.
So, I did a little research and the suggestion was:
1) something you installed or updated last messed it up, try uninstalling the updates.
2) try putting the phone into safe mode and see if it works.
So I uninstalled the apps I had updated while at the hospital. Swiftkey keyboard, Chrome, Dolphin, the MyAT&T app (never used), and some others. About 12 in all. No dice, settings was still not working.
So after another reboot, I put the phone into safe mode (which I didn't know existed on Android). It took a long time to reboot into safe mode, much longer than a normal reboot. Settings was still not working. Same errror. Thats when things got worse.
Rebooted back out of safe mode. It still took a long time to reboot. Now not only does settings not work, but now the notification area on the top of the screen is gone, the notiication shade is now gone, and long pressing home does not bring up task manager. I am able to get into the settings for the home screen and the lock screen via the menu key. I cannot access sound settings or wifi or anything else in settings. I also lost my wallpaper. The LG launcher was still working as was the LG lock screen. All else looks fine, my MMS, contacts, email, etc.
This morning, I tried rebooting again. Now the phone won't boot past the white AT&T logo after the animation and sound plays.
I tried removing the sim and the sd card. No change. No boot.
What the hell happened to my phone and what should I do?
At this point I realize I'm probably going to lose everything in my phone memory, and I'm at peace with that. I had my photos and media all on my SD card, but my contacts and my text messages from the last 16 months are going to be gone.
I am not versed in rooting or recovery, though I am actually very technical. I would appreciate any assistance anyone could give. Thank you.
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Two option that I can think are a factory reset and restoring with a program named lgnpst.
Factory reset would be simplest if it works, but will definitely wipe your phone.
Using lgnpst usually doesn't wipe the phone. Let me know how you want to proceed.
adfurgerson said:
Two option that I can think are a factory reset and restoring with a program named lgnpst.
Factory reset would be simplest if it works, but will definitely wipe your phone.
Using lgnpst usually doesn't wipe the phone. Let me know how you want to proceed.
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First of all, thank you very much for replying!
LGNPST doesn't wipe the phone? Well, I'm all for that if it works. Boy, I thought for sure I was 100% going to lose everything. Now at least maybe there is a tiny chance of not losing everything.
I had joined the lg-optimus-g irc and user autoprime directed me to the guide there. I downloaded and installed tSilenzio's Automated LGNPST already. I was going to use it to flash the stock rom, but I didn't do that yet. Is that what you need me to do with LGNPST, flash the stock rom or does LGNPST have other options? Please let me know, I'll wait for your reply, sir!
jaytee23 said:
First of all, thank you very much for replying!
LGNPST doesn't wipe the phone? Well, I'm all for that if it works. Boy, I thought for sure I was 100% going to lose everything. Now at least maybe there is a tiny chance of not losing everything.
I had joined the lg-optimus-g irc and user autoprime directed me to the guide there. I downloaded and installed tSilenzio's Automated LGNPST already. I was going to use it to flash the stock rom, but I didn't do that yet. Is that what you need me to do with LGNPST, flash the stock rom or does LGNPST have other options? Please let me know, I'll wait for your reply, sir!
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I would use the stock firmware posted by g33k3r, it is a zip that contains a tot file which you rename to .bin for use with lgnpst. If afterwards you want to try custom ROMs we can go from there.
adfurgerson said:
I would use the stock firmware posted by g33k3r, it is a zip that contains a tot file which you rename to .bin for use with lgnpst. If afterwards you want to try custom ROMs we can go from there.
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I'm downloading LGE970ATT-V20j-Stock.bin.zip right now. It's a super slow download though...
Let me see if I can find the one from g33k3r...
jaytee23 said:
I'm downloading LGE970ATT-V20j-Stock.bin.zip right now. It's a super slow download though...
Let me see if I can find the one from g33k3r...
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http://downloads.codefi.re/g33k3r/LGE970AT-01-V20j-310-410-MAR-08-2013.zip
adfurgerson said:
I would use the stock firmware posted by g33k3r, it is a zip that contains a tot file which you rename to .bin for use with lgnpst. If afterwards you want to try custom ROMs we can go from there.
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Is this the file you wanted me to dl?
LGE970AT-01-V20j-310-410-MAR-08-2013.zip
adfurgerson said:
http://downloads.codefi.re/g33k3r/LGE970AT-01-V20j-310-410-MAR-08-2013.zip
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I found it just before you posted that... DLing now.....
So flashing this *may* repair my phone without losing everything? I'm guessing it will overwrite all the Android OS, LG and AT&T files?
jaytee23 said:
Is this the file you wanted me to dl?
LGE970AT-01-V20j-310-410-MAR-08-2013.zip
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Is it a .tot file when unzipped? If so it should be right.
adfurgerson said:
http://downloads.codefi.re/g33k3r/LGE970AT-01-V20j-310-410-MAR-08-2013.zip
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got it, unzipping now... I also need to reboot my PC since I haven't done that since installing LGNPST...
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Is it a .tot file when unzipped? If so it should be right.
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aw crap, i just ran LGNPST and the com port is not showing up.. the instructions say that a com port should show up in the list
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Is it a .tot file when unzipped? If so it should be right.
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or does the com port only show up when the phone is attached?
jaytee23 said:
aw crap, i just ran LGNPST and the com port is not showing up.. the instructions say that a com port should show up in the list
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Is your phone in download mode?
Edit just seen second post yes connect phone to PC and enter download mode.
adfurgerson said:
Is your phone in download mode?
Edit just seen second post yes connect phone to PC and enter download mode.
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on it... hold on...
adfurgerson said:
Is your phone in download mode?
Edit just seen second post yes connect phone to PC and enter download mode.
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okay, the phone is in download mode and plugged in... it showed up in LGNPST on COM4
adfurgerson said:
Is your phone in download mode?
Edit just seen second post yes connect phone to PC and enter download mode.
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I selected the DLL and the BIN file.. i'm guessing i'm ready for the transfer?
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Is your phone in download mode?
Edit just seen second post yes connect phone to PC and enter download mode.
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is there a way to use LGNPST to try to back up my phone book before I flash this?
adfurgerson said:
Is your phone in download mode?
Edit just seen second post yes connect phone to PC and enter download mode.
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I think i'm screwed.. I did the flash, it rebooted, but is stuck on white AT&T screen...
I think I have to do the factory reset.
well, that's it. did the factory reset. that worked.
>sigh<
the only stuff I wish I could have saved would have been the contacts and the text messages. They are gone now.
Thank you, adfurgerson, for the hand holding. I appreciate it!
jaytee23 said:
got it, unzipping now... I also need to reboot my PC since I haven't done that since installing LGNPST...
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Sorry I didn't reply back of was set for email alerts but they didn't come through. Your contacts don't sync to google.?