Hey guys. I am stuck on my Note 2. I have recently reverted to stock after rooting (about 2 months ago) and now out of the blue my phone has what seems to be a soft brick. I'm wondering if the NAND is dead.
Upon normal boot, the phone is stuck on the Galaxy Note II splash screen. Only way to make it go away is to remove the battery. If I try to plug in my charger after removing the battery the icon for the battery shows up and freezes. I have to remove the battery to get out of that screen as well.
I can boot into recovery mode but I get a android icon laying on it's back with a red triangle and an exclamation point out of it's chest.
I also get a bunch of red text that talks about failing to mount /cache, /sdcard, /cache/recovery/log etc.
I've tried to flash with Odin 3.07 my stock ROM but I get a fail at NAND Write start.
I'm running out of options. I do get the blue menu at the recovery menu and options to update from ADB and from external SDCard both of which don't work. I also tried to wipe the data and do a factory reset from this menu, but it always says it fails to mount /sdcard and /cache.
I've tried rebooting without the external SD card and even without the SIM card. Nothing works.
Any help you could give I would appreciate. Thanks everyone.
oh goodness.. i think the only wait to save it would be the odin method.. i would pursue that more.. maybe try different cables.. make sure you have the correct version of Odin and all the drivers for Samsung... make sure ODIN connects..
best of luck man.. wish I could be more help.. I know i'm not the best at troubleshooting these kinds of issues.. i'm typically one that follows line by line directions to get flashing done.. not sure why and how things work..
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downloading the aio toolbox now but not sure if it will help. I have a vibrant that locked up...battery pull and now it wont start fully (repeating boot ani). Tried the three button method cant get into the recovery, when i adb reboot recovery it resets the phone shows the vibrant logo then tries to boot again cant get into bootloader either! This is my moms phone so the quicker i can get it done the better. I ran a quick adb logcat and am seeing numerous errors about permission denied so im assuming i just need to get into recovery and fix permissions!!
AIO toolbox didnt help. The phone was on an ics rom not sure if that has anything to do with it. Also not sure which recovery to use if i can have it boot right from adb
When you say locked up, what exactly do you mean? Did it just freeze, random reboot, did you get and Encryption Error? What ICS ROM was she running, specifically. What Bootloader did she have (this will tell what key combos to get into recovery or download mode)? You logcat, does it say anything about /data being corrupted?
This ^^^will help to better determine what is going on.
Re-Odin in th toolbox and make sure you hit Repartition, bc the ICS ROMs repartitoned the /system from RFS or EXT4 (Voodoo) to MTD. You need to get it back to RFS.
Follow these directions and jsut so you know, you don't have to see the Android with the shovel to be in download mode. Just need that yellow COM box to light up.
If you are getting a "Phone.. ! ..Computer" image (seen above) when booting phone, yes, you are bricked but it is reversible! Just follow these steps...
Make sure you have ODIN OPEN with admin privileges!
1.) Take off your back cover, remove your sim & mirco sd card.
2.) Remove your battery.
Make sure you have the USB plugged into your PC but NOT your phone!
3.) Hold the volume buttons.
4.) Put the battery in.
5.) Put the USB in.
You don't necessarily need the download mode image to be present. As long as you are getting the COM ID to light up yellow in ODIN, just flash back to stock like normal.
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I got into recovery i pulled the battery sim and sd held all three buttons for about 15 seconds put the battery n cards back in and tried the button trick and it finally went into recovery, cleared cache and dalvik fixed permissions and tried to boot with no luck. Im not sure what happened exactly she said the phone froze or screen went black?? Im not sure what bootloader she had either. Im going to download another ics rom now and flash and see if i can get a boot. Thanks for your help! Well appreciated
[Q] HELP Galaxy S II reinstalling ClockworkMod Recovery stuck at "NAND Write Start!!"
Hi all!
Yesterday night i used the CyanogenMod 10 update tool and updated my device to the 10.1 experimental version, to try it temporairy. There were problems with Play Store and other apps not working, so i went back into ClockworkMod recovery and tried to restore my backup. But it told me that the "Files not found". Restoring from ROM manager didn't work either. I figured that Clockworkmod was broken during the update, so this morning i opened ODIN and set it to reinstall ClockworkMod recovery. Right now it's stuck at "NAND Write Start!!" and has been stuck there for about 10 minutes. I still haven't deconnected the phone, as i don't want to brick it. Can anyone help me with this? What should i do? The phone is still in download mode, and the screen hasn't changed at all during the install. No blue bar popped up and no new text. I can't completely remember what it looks like when installing ClockworkMod, but in a video i watched, a blue bar appeared in the bottom of the screen. On Odin no "Pass" or "Kernel" icon has appeared and the green bar is not on the screen. The ID:COM says "0:[COM3]" and the bar is blue. Can i just deconnect the phone, as it doesn't seem to have done anything?
I won't deconnect the phone until i get an answer
Thank you in advance!
/Gammarik
If you didn't use a .pit file and didnt select re-partition then its safe to deconnect the phone and try again. It's almost impossible to brick it this way, so you are good to go.
Try again, different usb port, different cable etc.
Lennyz1988 said:
If you didn't use a .pit file and didnt select re-partition then its safe to deconnect the phone and try again. It's almost impossible to brick it this way, so you are good to go.
Try again, different usb port, different cable etc.
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Okay, thank you! I think i'll do a fresh install instead.. Had it planned anyway, so... Thank you for the help I was panacing so i couldn't think clear
By the way, is it possible to restore from a ClockworkMod backup via Odin? If there is an easy way to restore my CWM backup, without using ClockworkMod recovery, i can just restore my backup from before i updated to CM10.1!
Hello, I was trying to reset my tab completely and I wiped EVERYTHING. I have CWM version 6.0.1.0, My tab gets stuck on Samsung logo screen. It can go into recovery but nothing else. I was told that the reason it won't boot is because I deleted the rom and there is no rom for it to go to. When I try to mount it, it doesn't show up...I've tried to install CWM 6.0.4.6 zip from external SD but installation gets aborted. PLEASE HELP I NEED MY TAB BACK ! Also it shows charging when it's turned completely off...
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Hello, I was trying to reset my tab completely and I wiped EVERYTHING. I have CWM version 6.0.1.0, My tab gets stuck on Samsung logo screen. It can go into recovery but nothing else. I was told that the reason it won't boot is because I deleted the rom and there is no rom for it to go to. When I try to mount it, it doesn't show up...I've tried to install CWM 6.0.4.6 zip from external SD but installation gets aborted. PLEASE HELP I NEED MY TAB BACK ! Also it shows charging when it's turned completely off...
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When you say mount it do you mean trying to send the files over through ADB or just mounting the SD card or putting it into download mode?
If its the ADB issue, try to put your tablet into download mode by using the volume key and power button, then download odin and its stock firmware and flash it using odin. Your tablet should restore to factory defaults using that method
If its the SD card then use the method above as it sounds like recovery may have lost it a bit
If you can not put the phone into download mode (which i doubt is the issue you may want to think about a USB jig as they sometimes get past those issues but from your description I doubt its a hard brick as it gets to the logo
2 things you can try!
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Hello, I was trying to reset my tab completely and I wiped EVERYTHING. I have CWM version 6.0.1.0, My tab gets stuck on Samsung logo screen. It can go into recovery but nothing else. I was told that the reason it won't boot is because I deleted the rom and there is no rom for it to go to. When I try to mount it, it doesn't show up...I've tried to install CWM 6.0.4.6 zip from external SD but installation gets aborted. PLEASE HELP I NEED MY TAB BACK ! Also it shows charging when it's turned completely off...
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I really new to this, i mean writing to help people, so don't flock me.
First, you say your device still have the recharging lights on when shut down, it tells me it's not only a software error, but some short circuit has happend.
Have you tried a hardreset? search google for your model if you doesn't know how.
From what i can read you still have the CWM Recovery, so download Android-SDK and try flashing the recovery from ADB (Found in platform tools.
Last but most tricky, if nothing helps, you' have to disassemble your device and temporary disable the battery, them press and hold the start button down for 5 sec to remove the poweroverload, reassemble again and try ASB adain, you can't reinstall the recovery directly from the SD
Regards Sc0rpio
I was recently given an S6 from a friend who won it but already had one. I was excited to try and root it, foolish of me to think about maybe getting more information, and I attempted a CF-Autoroot. The root claimed, in Odin 10, to have succeeded. However, it fails to boot entirely. The grey android screen that flashes the word "erasing" as the loading bar progresses during firmware reboot makes it half way before restarting. Now I can boot into Odin mode, and I can boot into recovery. USB debugging was off at the time the phone started to act up so that's a no go. I have tried multiple times in restoring it to no avail. The phone recovery says "failed to mount /efs."
Odin mode said custom and then, after using kies to attempt a restore, would fail to complete and once again get stuck on SAMSUNG screen. If I Return to Odin mode I would notice that the system went back from custom to Samsung again, though the knox counter was still at 1.
I am able to load TWRP and occasionally manage to format and tweat partitions to mount the phone in recovery but can't transfer any files.
I have access to a USB OTG device that loads via mini usb port in the device. This phone has caused me a lot of grief and I Can't think of any way to recover it. Essentially I am left with a brand new device that is worthless. Is there anyone out there with experience recovering this error.
Also I am unable to obtain the lost emergency firmware recovery number.
Thank you in advance for all the time and efforts that I hope will be provided. I have spent many days on this device trying to simply make it work.
Regards, Desmond
My One M9 is stuck on boot screen and I've tried everything. This was just given to me it wasn't brand new though. When I do volume down and power button it just goes to HTC black screen and silver logo then reboots after 2 seconds. When I go to recovery mode to format data and cache it shows data can't be mounted. When I try to install RUU it says low battery when I go on Fastboot mode. And I also tried to install the ruu zip on recovery and it also shows the mount error. I also tried to unlock the bootloader but I can't do it because the OEM UNLOCK option in developer mode is not checked.
My bootloader screen shows
Software: modified
Locked
S-on
I'm so desperate right now I don't know what to do.
I'm having a similar issue. It started with the settings application on my phone apparently getting corrupted. I could no longer open it and couldn't do things like turn WIFI and GPS on and off, also Maps would crash just after launching. This was...inconvenient, as I was on a business trip at the time. Fortunately I had my work phone as a backup. Unfortunately, as I had just bought a larger SD card, I hadn't copied any of my backups over. By the time I got home, the phone would not reboot to the system at all, it just gets stuck on the white HTC screen.
I can still get into recovery/fastboot/download mode, and can still connect via USB in these modes. I first tried to reflash a few different backup ROMS, and some fresh ones. They all had the error "cannot mount /system". I also found out that I couldn't get to the data or system image partitions. After digging around in TWRP, I found that they have a size of 0MB. Looking around various threads, I read that an RUU has a good chance of restoring this, so I tried that out.
I ran into another problem with the RUU...no matter what my battery is charged to, the RUU will not start the install. It fails saying that the battery must be charged above 30%. This is was after I left it plugged in overnight. When powered off, it reads 100%. TWRP also registers it at 100%.
I have also tried extracting the stock ROM from the RUU to flash in TWRP, but no matter how many times I try the .zip that I find in the temp directory says that it is corrupted.
I am Modified/UNLOCKED/S-ON, does anyone have any ideas? I really appreciate any help!
Someone help us, please. Thank you!