Hey guys,
Sorry to be one of those d**ks who registers and first post is asking for help >_<
Take a seat and join me on this epic quest of failure, which has been my life for the last 12 hours.
Had this phone since release, over the years it has got more and more bogged-down with crap, even from the word go it had tonnes of bloatware installed, but I always avoided the temptation to root, just because I didn't want the hassle if something went wrong... lol.
Yesterday decided to finally take the plunge and root it, whatstheworstthatcouldhappen.jpeg
Here's how it went down....
1. Kingoroot via PC (first tried the apk but it wouldn't work).
2. Hated all the additional stuff that had been added to the phone (new wakeup screen with ads etc)
3. Used a guide to remove and replace kingoroot (kinguser, kingroot, kingmaster) with superuser. zidroid dot com/how-to-get-ride-and-replace-kinguser-with-supersu-app/ <<Here's the guide
4. Stuck on "Installing, please wait" (just after step 8 in the guide)... as the guide explains, if this happens then reboot. So I did...
5. Phone now won't get past the samsung logo (I die a little inside).
6. Google crap for a few hours (Boot into recovery mode etc) I clear cache, remove data.
7. Try loading a stock rom I downloaded and opening it from the sd card... no joy
8. Try Kies... no joy
9. Try Odin... no joy
10. During all of this frantic messing around I loose the option of booting into recovery mode, now I can only get to download mode.
11. Basically spent about 6 hours last night and a few hours this morning trying to get this fixed from all info I could find online... STILL NO JOY.
So now I'm biting the bullet and having to own up to the public, that's you guys.
Anyone here got a clue as to what may have gone wrong/what I can do to resolve this?
Not even fussed about keeping the phone stock, just need it running something!
As I'm sure you can tell I'm new to messing around with android, but I'm not entirely tech-naive so hopefully with some help I might be able to get this back to more than just a paperweight?
Cheers!
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Some of you might have seen my earlier thread, my ReZound is rooted. HTC sent out the ICS update my phone attempted to install it and afterwards it would not advance past the white HTC screen. After many hours of playing around with it (being semi-noobish to all things rooting, but decently knowledable with technology) I realized that on the H-boot screen it was telling me that the Image was missing. I assumed that the HTC update deleted it? After thinking about it, I thought that maybe installing a custom ROM would fix this, so I grabbed Scotts Clean ROM. Sure enough I did and I was finally able to advance past the white HTC screen. It looks as if everything is working fine with the phone now EXCEPT I have no data and no calling connection. Im assuming that my phone is just that messed up from the attempted upgrade this morning that im missing files needed for the connection.
My next thought was to just say heck with it and do a factory reset hoping to get back to a bone stock phone that at least functioned, but when I try the factory reset it doesnt work....
Any ideas of what I should do next? Ive spent 5-6 hrs trying to fix this phone today, I really hope to get something figured out. Thank you everyone for your help!
EDIT: I feel like an idiot... Because of putting the battery in and out for resets I left the back off the phone. I now have service. Main issue now is that when I try to call out, as soon as I type a number on the dialer it freezes up and restarts itself....
The phone still tries to look for the old image on the restart and gives me issues every time on startup still also. Id like to be able to get this back to not needing a ROM....
If it were me, I would download the official RUU for ICS found here: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...cream-sandwich-ruu-for-final-ota-3-14-605-12/ IIRC, mirror #3 was the fastest. Then follow the directions from that site:
After downloading the file, rename it to "PH98IMG.zip" (no quotes)
Place the renamed file onto the root of the SD Card
Power down your device
Reboot into the bootloader by holding VOL DOWN + Power
The flashing process should begin automatically
Let the device reboot, and you should be done.
That will get you up and running. Then you can go about rooting it again if you like.
Hi,
I have one hard bricked Galaxy Note Pro 12.1 2014 Version tablet I bricked while loading custom ROM. I mistakenly popped out the external sd card that the rom was installing from. I was having some trouble with battery issues and was thinking a fresh install of the custom rom would fix it.
When the external card popped out while the rom was loading from the screen said it failed. On reboot the screen goes thru Galaxy logo then goes black. I tried installing recovery images and whatnot thru odin. Some would pass some would fail. And on reboot it just goes thru logo then goes black. I could see its on but nothing else. It does accept a charge though.
Its probably completely broken and at a complete loss but I thought maybe there was some chance. I think it might be possible to repartition or something to that affect but thought I'd see what is possible.
FYI: Not under warranty. Knox is tripped. I am willing to provide a $50 reward to whomever can walk me thru a possible fix. Yeah I know, if you help and it works again I could just say it still doesn't work but all I can offer is my word that you will be rewarded if it gets fixed.
Thank you for any positive feedback.
Tom
Solved
Kies was able to fix this problem. I tried odin a recovery tar , everything numerous times, even kies several times, nothing would do it. Also tried odin a stock rom and that helped a tiny bit. After installing stock rom several times (at first it didnt want to and would fail) it finally did go thru on like the 3rd try installed and passed. But then it would only go to samsung logo and lock up. This morning it tried kies again and miraculously it didnt lock up like it did before and install all the way thru. On reboot it went past logo and turned on completely as new. Moral of the story, have faith and dont give up. I almost trashed this thing and was ready to press the buy it now button for a new one but I decided to insanely try again as if some miracle might happen. And sure as sh#t a miracle happened.
Hi everybody.. I've been viewing and reading the XDA forums for years, looking for help and tips with various phones.. I just registered today so I could share my recent experience with rooting the Note II (sch-i605 from Verizon) that I bought used.
I was doing my due diligence, researching different methods of rooting, several different websites, which I've concluded are a waste of time because they all link back to the best! Trying to decide if it was worth it with the locked bootloader.. After reading up on several different threads, I figured what the heck.. So I bit the bullet and dove in.. No easy task this, because I don't have internet access at home, other than on my wife's phone with unlimited data.. Downloading the files necessary, saferoot, safestrap, twrp, various versions of drivers, some programs.. All very time consuming over 4g! Lol..
Anyway, having rooted a Motorola Droid Razr, a Samsung Epic 4g, OG Droid, an LG G2, along others in the past, I'm not an expert, but not exactly a n00b at rooting either.. I Odin on my PC from when I did the Epic, and adb was there from multiple devices, so that saved a little time.. So over to the PC I go with my Note 2, wife's G2 and my trusty USB cable..
Saferoot worked beautifully! First time success! Installed jrummy root check to verify.. :good:
I let that be it for while since the bootloader is perma-locked.. But after a couple hours of reading more threads about ROMs, I started feeling the itch again.. So off to download twrp so I can play with some shiny new ROMs.. The twrp website has installation instructions for twrp manager from the play store, upgrading from inside an earlier version, fresh install with Odin, and using "su dd if=/sdcard/twrp.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p9".. Since I was on the other side of the room, I decided to try the dd method.. Not having experience with this particular command, I figured some practice was in order.. Read up on what it does, played around with it using some worthless files.. Then I used it in reverse.. Finally I ran the did command for real.. That's when it all went downhill.. When I rebooted I ended up with the Dreaded Yellow Triangle of Doom! Unauthorized software and take the phone to Verizon.. Ask I had was download mode.. :crying:
Fought with the phone and the computer for a while until my wife made me give it up for the night. Studied up some more on the , and jumped right into things first thing this morning.. Downloaded a couple .IMG stock room files, one rooted one not, and a stock recovery .IMG to use with Odin.. Got them into the PC, Windows 7 Pro, hooked up the new brick and fired up Odin.. No joy.. Odin wouldn't see my phone! Time for a smoke break, just had to step back and think about things for a minute or two. After a Google search and some digging, i found a YouTube video describing exactly my problem(Odin or Kies won't recognise download mode). I tried it, and guess what, IT FREAKING WORKED! I don't understand it, but taking the battery out made Odin see my phone!
Now onward we go..Back to trusty old XDA! That's when I found the Android toolkit bySkipSoft.. Talk about a phone saver! Got my phone hooked up, in download mode, tried a few different things in the Unified Android Toolkit, couldn't download anything since the PC has no internet but I already had stock recovery and stock rom images, and the toolkit told me where to stick em! First I tried to use a few adb commands to try to get the data off the phone I wanted to save, but I finally gave up because adb couldn't see the phone since it couldn't see that USB debugging was active, even though I promised it was..
Before I tried flashing the stock rom I thought I'd flash the recovery since that was the beginning of the problem. About 4 mouse clicks, 30 seconds, and a reboot, my phone was alive again! :victory:
Still on the stock mj9 release, rooted with saferoot, and chugging along splendidly.. I may just let it sit this way for a while.. Lol!
TLDR: got a used Note 2, rooted it, b0rked it, and fixed it with the help of the awesome devs and members of XDA!
Unfortunately, I didn't keep track of all the threads, devs, and members I looked at and read that helped me solve my conundrum.. However, the main reason I finally registered was so that I could say a great big THANK YOU to the community here.. It's the best! And you came through for me in my hour of need..
Theude
P.s. as I have time over the next few days I'm going to try to find the posts I used for information, and add my thanks there too.. Also will try to post links, but they'll probably be in text not actual links lol..
Hey lovely ladies and gents,
So here is the situation: I have an LG Optimus l70 MS323, which until yesterday was with a stock ROM. I banged my head against the wall, trying desperately to follow a guide and root it, along with trying to unlock the bootloader until I watched a video (in Spanish. Thank you high school spanish!) which used flashify to flash a CWM and boot to the custom recovery. I loved it, since that meant that I would be able to finally flash an official Cyanogenmod OS. The first ROM that I flashed was cm-13.0-20160121-NIGHTLY-w5.zip, which worked and made me feel SO HAPPY (I almost yelled Eurika for the sake of historical comedy). I then went ahead and installed an Superuser-SU binary update through the CWM recovery because I wanted to keep on having root. Then I installed a nano gapps package for ARM, Android 6.0 with some minor complications (mostly the "Setup Wizard" crashing every 2 seconds). I rewiped and reinstalled Cyanogenmod through CWM, flashed gapps on the same go, and made a little backup through the recovery menu. I booted up successfully to be met with that buttery-smooth GUI of Marshmallow (ugh, so good.) I decided to go ahead and fetch some apps from the Play Store, such as Messenger and ROM manager. I saw that the Cyanogenmod Update Center had pushed out a notification that the newest nightly snapshot is already downloaded and decided "Meh. What new features have been added? Let's reboot and reinstall." At that point it was 4:40am (keep in mind that I've been trying to get the goddamn phone to cooperate since ~10pm) and I noticed that the boot sequence takes up a lot longer and told myself "It's probably taking a bit longer than usual, it's normal." I put the phone next to my head, hoping that it's going to be ready to use in the morning.
Fast forward to 8:07 am. Bootloader is still going, phone is so hot it can cook an egg.
GNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH. WHY YOU GOTTA DO DIS TO ME PHONE?!??! WHY!?!
SO, the CURRENT situation:
1. Whenever I press the power button, it starts off normally. According to my definition of bootloop, it's stuck in a bootloop.
After hours of staring that goddamn cyanogenmod mascot do you realize that it's going to boot itself into the booting oblivion.
2. I don't have access to CWM. I have tried holding down the power buttons with godknowswhat combinations (I like to call them the Naruto Jutsu of pure despair). Maybe I should hold the buttons for 2 milliseconds longer and it might work. *Sigh*
3. I don't think that I can use fastbood or adb. My computer doesn't see the phone. (GNAAHHAHASDJFLSKDHFSLJHLKJ.)
4. I am totally clueless about what I should do or try. I've basically softbricked my phone and don't know how to unbrick it.
So, now that you see that saying that I'm frustrated is truly an understatement, what do you suggest I do?
In advance, I'd like to thank you SO MUCH for even giving a sh!t about my problem.
Other misc info: I have a 32GB SD card on which I have all the different tools I have used throughout this journey.
I am willing to have it back on stock ROM. My biggest goal is to somehow boot into CWM recovery. From there on, I will be able to deal with it. Until I come back to this forum, begging for mercy.
Have u tried using LG suite or LGUP u need to go to LG 's firmware page I'm not sure about this phone but it worked w my k7 about 100 times also helped unlock it. Check out the LG k7 forum lots of guys on there that use the lgup program and can help
I had rooted my T110, but it was still very slow. I took everything I didn't use out of there, including the default keyboard. I ended up getting a new tablet through a Verizon promotion, so decided to sell the T100. A friend was looking for one for her son, I told her to look at it and if he wanted it, to let me get it ready. I explained I had done a few things that needed to be undone before he could reset it. She either didn't listen or didn't understand. When he said he wanted it, she factory reset it. It started up and all seemed fine until she found there was no keyboard.
I have used Odin 3.09 and tried to put stock firmware on it. Odin says it was successful but it was still coming up without a keyboard. Now I can only boot into download mode. It only stays on for a couple seconds in any mode except download mode, and even then if it is not connected via usb to the computer it shuts down. I can't get it into recovery mode at all and as I said, to try to just start it, it gets to the first page saying Samsung Tab 3 Lite, then almost immediately shuts down.
Can anyone help me find an answer for this? I might be wrong, but keep thinking since I am able to get it to work with Odin, it is possible that I haven't totally lost it and still may be able to get a few bucks out of it.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!!