Can someone please help?
i did something so totally stupid last night. i don't know why I did it. I must have been on a sugar high from all the candy, or something, but I made the stupid stupid stupid mistake of "rooting" my beautiful Ascend Mate 2 using Kingroot.
And now it won't shut down.
I started the shutdown process when I wen to bed last night and it was still doing the shutdown process when I got up this morning, and it won't shut down.
Can someone please help? I really need my phone to shutdown or to remove this, what I now know to be not very good, Kingroot rubbish.
Thanks.
Hold the power button for I believe 10 seconds and it should shut down, or possibly attempt to reboot. Do you know if it will boot or work normally afterwards?
Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
If I hold down the power button it reboots. I don't want it rebooting. I like to shut my phone down every night.
Any other options? Is there no way to remove Kingroot? I tried a bloatware remover app. It said it had uninstalled Kingroot but it is still showing on my phone and still works so I'm assuming it didn't remove it.
Would doing a factory reset work? I hate to have to do it but i will if necessary. Also, if I do a factory reset will it keep Android 5.1 or will it revert back to whatever Android was on the phone when I got it?
Thanks.
Even the Kingroot uninstaller won't uninstall this app.
I tried resetting the phone but all my apps (including Kingroot) are on my phone - even when I choose the option of setting it up as a new device.
I'm going to cry
So your device boots and works normally? I think you should just back up the apps/files you need onto your computer and then wipe the phone from recovery mode.
ScoobSTi said:
So your device boots and works normally? I think you should just back up the apps/files you need onto your computer and then wipe the phone from recovery mode.
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I tried doing a wipe data/factory reset using the power/volume up button combination and setting it as a new device but Kingroot was installed when it booted up after performing this procedure.. So i tried a second time. Same result. I tried several times to uninstall it using the apps own uninstaller. It won't uninstall.
I have managed to get it to a point where Kingroot is force-stopped and disabled but I'd like it removed.
I'd also like my phone to shut down properly.
I used to love this phone. And now I don't. All because of my own stupidity!
You're probably going to have to reflash the stock firmware for your phone to get Kingroot fully removed. This will clear out all your files so make sure you have everything you want backed up. The firmware files for your phone can be downloaded from the mirrors provided in this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=61682526&postcount=3 . They should contain a folder called dload with some files in it. Copy the dload folder to the root folder of of an SD card and put the card into your phone. Reboot into SD upgrade mode by holding Volume up + Volume down + Power buttons at the same time. You can let go of the Power button when your phone powers on.Now, just sit back and watch the installation progress as the device verifies and flashes the update. After that, your phone should reboot automatically. This will clear out anything you have on the phone itself and will flash the stock firmware. once it reboots you should be free of Kingroot. hope this helps.
robertbarber said:
You're probably going to have to reflash the stock firmware for your phone to get Kingroot fully removed. This will clear out all your files so make sure you have everything you want backed up. The firmware files for your phone can be downloaded from the mirrors provided in this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=61682526&postcount=3 . They should contain a folder called dload with some files in it. Copy the dload folder to the root folder of of an SD card and put the card into your phone. Reboot into SD upgrade mode by holding Volume up + Volume down + Power buttons at the same time. You can let go of the Power button when your phone powers on.Now, just sit back and watch the installation progress as the device verifies and flashes the update. After that, your phone should reboot automatically. This will clear out anything you have on the phone itself and will flash the stock firmware. once it reboots you should be free of Kingroot. hope this helps.
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Thanks for the reply. I'm trying to to do it now but it seems to stuck on 0 % .Hasn't moved since I started. Not sure if I should try to reboot phone or not.
Hi,
Just to let you know I did it last night at home, finally, and it worked a treat. Shuts down and restarts as it should and my keyboard works as fast as I do and not three hour behind like it was.
Thank you everyone who tried to help and to robertbarber for the solution.
Appreciate it
Hi,
Just to let you know I did it last night at home, finally, and it worked a treat. Shuts down and restarts as it should and my keyboard works as fast as I do and not three hour behind like it was.
Thank you everyone who tried to help and to robertbarber for the solution.
Appreciate it
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I know I'm going to get flamed, but really, shouldn't a forum be were people go to get help. And as long as others are willing to answer questions, what's the point in flaming... (but I digress) I did a search and really haven't found a similar situation.
I successfully flashed AOSP-ish last night and spent the day playing with it and getting all my apps just the way I wanted them. I didn't do the SD-Fix as it really didn't seem like I needed to. I was able to copy some files to the internal SD and read most every file I tried, but oddly, I was not able to copy all the files from the TB folder to my PC and I had trouble writing some .apk files to the phone.
At some point in the day, I removed the update.zip and AOSP zip file from the internal SD. I thought I would go ahead and do the SD Fix, so I copied this to the phone and went into Clockworkmod, but being maybe too paranoid, I thought I should take a backup first so I wouldn't lose all my tinkering (I had been backing up using TB all day, so this may have been overkill). As soon as I hit the Backup Current ROM option in CWM, the phone reboots and comes back to the Samsung Vibrant screen, and there it has been stuck ever since.
I waited like 15 minutes and decided to do the 3 button thing. When that didn't help, I tried pulling the battery and doing the 3 button thing.
What can I do to get my phone booting properly again?
Thanks in advance.
Download the latest version of Odin from the Vibrant bible.
Download the stock firmware for our phones (file called T959UVJFD.tar)
Download something called s1_odin_20100512.pit.
Put your phone in the download state:
1. Make sure phone is completely off.
2. Hold down the Volume up and Volume down keys.
3. While still holding down the Vol up/down keys, plug in your USB cord into your phone (other end should already be in your computer of course).
4. The phone will turn on and keep holding Volume up/down until a yellow triangle with an android shoveling dirt appears then...
Open Odin.
Your phone should pop up as "COMX", X being any number.
For the "PIT" select the .pit file you downloaded.
For "PDA" you'll use the .tar file you download.
Don't edit any of the other settings and press "Start" and wait until it finishes and you're all good.
Hope this helps!
vtxGump said:
I know I'm going to get flamed, but really, shouldn't a forum be were people go to get help. And as long as others are willing to answer questions, what's the point in flaming... (but I digress) I did a search and really haven't found a similar situation.
I successfully flashed AOSP-ish last night and spent the day playing with it and getting all my apps just the way I wanted them. I didn't do the SD-Fix as it really didn't seem like I needed to. I was able to copy some files to the internal SD and read most every file I tried, but oddly, I was not able to copy all the files from the TB folder to my PC and I had trouble writing some .apk files to the phone.
At some point in the day, I removed the update.zip and AOSP zip file from the internal SD. I thought I would go ahead and do the SD Fix, so I copied this to the phone and went into Clockworkmod, but being maybe too paranoid, I thought I should take a backup first so I wouldn't lose all my tinkering (I had been backing up using TB all day, so this may have been overkill). As soon as I hit the Backup Current ROM option in CWM, the phone reboots and comes back to the Samsung Vibrant screen, and there it has been stuck ever since.
I waited like 15 minutes and decided to do the 3 button thing. When that didn't help, I tried pulling the battery and doing the 3 button thing.
What can I do to get my phone booting properly again?
Thanks in advance.
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might sound stupid, but power the phone completely off, put it on the charger untill the battery icon pops up, then power it up and it may boot. i ran into a problem like this when i used that rom.
Here is what I would do.
Get the phone into download mode, restore the phone using 1 of the roms from dev section. Then use clockwork to restore back to 1 of the back ups.
Incase you need help to get phone into download mode,
Remove the battery, plug the phone to USB, make sure the USB connected to PC.
Press and hold both volume buttons and put the battery back on. that shoud get you into download mode.
Use the latest version of ODIN from dev section. Hope this helps.
Thanks buru, that worked perfectly. I appreciate the detailed response.
On a side note, do you know what caused the problem? I'm always looking to learn and would love to know what not to do in the future.
Thanks again.
Gump
Haha you're welcome , just started flashing this phone yesterday haha and I ended up messing it up somehow and had to look everywhere to learn how to fix it.
I'm not too sure what happened but can only guess that maybe you flashed over a ROM and when you deleted the old on the new one was "corrupt" and it just deleted your old on and stayed like how it was?
I think that's what happened to me though lol, but had to use the Odin thing twice already ;p.
And people say all these weird ways to get into the Downloading screen lol.
buru898 said:
Download the latest version of Odin from the Vibrant bible.
Download the stock firmware for our phones (file called T959UVJFD.tar)
Download something called s1_odin_20100512.pit.
Put your phone in the download state:
1. Make sure phone is completely off.
2. Hold down the Volume up and Volume down keys.
3. While still holding down the Vol up/down keys, plug in your USB cord into your phone (other end should already be in your computer of course).
4. The phone will turn on and keep holding Volume up/down until a yellow triangle with an android shoveling dirt appears then...
Open Odin.
Your phone should pop up as "COMX", X being any number.
For the "PIT" select the .pit file you downloaded.
For "PDA" you'll use the .tar file you download.
Don't edit any of the other settings and press "Start" and wait until it finishes and you're all good.
Hope this helps!
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Just did this too, thanks a million, worked like a charm when nothing else did!
YUP. I "soft bricked" my t-mobile galaxy s (vibrant here in the us) or so I hope. The phone was rooted via z4 on the latest android t959uvji6 from t-mobile.
How did i do it? Brick my phone that is...
The 3d gallery was pissing me off by picking up everything on the phone. I tried clearing the default setting via the manage app but nothing changed so I decided to delete it. First backing up the apk and odex file from the system folder with titanium backup then deleted them from the system folder via root explorer. Rebooted the phone, pulled out the battery, waited for 30 seconds or so, popped in the battery and booted up the phone w/o any issues.
I tried installing the backup 3d gallery apk file and got the "app not installed" error on numerous attempts. Then tried simply copying it over again with ti backup and nothing happens. Gave up and said the heck with and went the factory restore route, got all the relevant apps installed and tried reinstalling the 3d gallery apk but resulting in the same "app not installed" error prompt. So I again copied over the apk and odex file into the system folder. Rebooted and nothing... phone does not boot into the home screen.
At this point here is what the phone is able to do.
It will boot up and display the default galaxy s animation, goes through it's array of colors then comes to a stop at all white letters then the screen goes blank and nothing happens - zip. nadda. i left it on for 12hrs like that - blank screen w/all the hard keys lit up.
What i did notice was win7x64 recognizes the phone after it gets into the blank screen of death as mass storage units.
So far i've tried booting into the recovery screen via the three button method and none of them works.
Did the karma-volume up-home-power twist - nothing
Did the karma-volume down-home-power roll - nothing
Did the karma-volume up and down-power jiggy - nothing
I tried the key combos for about 2hrs without any success then jumped into adb. After reading for a bit I realized that the phone was still rooted and the debug mode was enabled the last time i shutdown the phone (good'ol ti-backup)
For a while there adb did not recognize the phone at all but with an odd power cycling while spamming "adb reboot recovery" it was able to finally nab hold of the phone and jump into the recovery console. At first I thought it was pure luck so unplugged everything and tried it again - works every time if i did the odd out of sequence power cycle while spamming the adb console with "adb reboot recovery".
In the reboot recovery - deleted the user data and did the restore.
Here's where I think I really screwed up - now the phone is no longer in debug mode.
Long story short - is there a way to get into the recovery screen w/o debug mode on?
**quickly pulls on flack jacket**
but seriously any suggestions would be great
Wrong section bro. You probably won't get an answer here.
To answer your question. Yes, Remove Battery, Plug your phone to USB, Press and hold the volume down and the power button Put the batter back on. This should get you into download mode. Use ODIN to restore.
the usb jig trick did the work - now i have two phones!!!! (bought the nexus s yesterday) lol
Time to ODIN.
To access Download mode.
Unplug. press volume up and down togheter, and connect USB. VOILA!
If ODIN does not recognize it, plug and unplug again
chichu_9 said:
To answer your question. Yes, Remove Battery, Plug your phone to USB, Press and hold the volume down and the power button Put the batter back on. This should get you into download mode. Use ODIN to restore.
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no!
Why the hell are people giving others ideas on how to get into download when their doing it wrong.
its JUST THE VOLUME BUTTONS, NOT THE POWER BUTTON ALONG WITH IT.
volume + power = Recovery, which in this case you probably cant get into
Volume - Power = Download mode, which everyone can get into unless if they somehow hard bricked, if its possible.
I'm absolutely new to the custom rom scene and I figured I would root my phone and install the rom from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1759642
It went perfectly fine and I started the like the idea of being to install what I want onto a phone, so I decided to make the jump to install CM10.
I ran a nandroid + TB backup and copied the backup to my computer. Then I dragged my CM10 rom (from http://www.droidhive.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1470-cm10-unofficial-for-d2vzw/) to the root directory of my phone. Then I ran rom manager to install cm10. The phone reboots into recovery but gets stuck on recovery. It will constantly reboot and once it reaches recovery, the loading bar with the picture of the green android robot in the background loads about 20-25% of the way, and then the phone vibrates and acts as though I just boot it up (and this process cycles).
I can't get it to ever get past this 20-25% mark and it isn't recognized by my computer to flash it back to stock and I can't do a nandroid restore since I can't get past this state.
Is my phone bricked and if so/not so, what should I do?
redxv said:
I'm absolutely new to the custom rom scene and I figured I would root my phone and install the rom from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1759642
It went perfectly fine and I started the like the idea of being to install what I want onto a phone, so I decided to make the jump to install CM10.
I ran a nandroid + TB backup and copied the backup to my computer. Then I dragged my CM10 rom (from http://www.droidhive.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1470-cm10-unofficial-for-d2vzw/) to the root directory of my phone. Then I ran rom manager to install cm10. The phone reboots into recovery but gets stuck on recovery. It will constantly reboot and once it reaches recovery, the loading bar with the picture of the green android robot in the background loads about 20-25% of the way, and then the phone vibrates and acts as though I just boot it up (and this process cycles).
I can't get it to ever get past this 20-25% mark and it isn't recognized by my computer to flash it back to stock and I can't do a nandroid restore since I can't get past this state.
Is my phone bricked and if so/not so, what should I do?
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Hmm honestly the easiest way out of this is just to flash the stock rom of your carrier through odin (download mode and flash), easy fix. You could try messing around with the recovery and whatnot, ie try flashing a new recovery through adb somehow, but easiest and the most least painful way seems to be to just odin back to stock and try again. and also, i dont get why people use rom manager, heard too many horror brick stories about that. Just adb the recovery to the phone and flash the zip. Why even bother with rom manager.
good luck, hope i helped :good:
I can't get my computer to recognize my phone to use odin / adb.
redxv said:
I can't get my computer to recognize my phone to use odin / adb.
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Did you put your phone in download mode? turn off, and then hold home vol down and power at same time.
Never mind..
I was asking same thing like Unleashed12
unleashed12 said:
Did you put your phone in download mode? turn off, and then hold home vol down and power at same time.
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Like I said, when I book into recovery/download mode, it just boot cycles.
That is: phone turns on. Samsung boot screen, then android robot screen, loading bar goes about 1/4 of the way, then phone goes black, and starts at samsung boot screen again.
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Like I said, when I book into recovery/download mode, it just boot cycles.
That is: phone turns on. Samsung boot screen, then android robot screen, loading bar goes about 1/4 of the way, then phone goes black, and starts at samsung boot screen again.
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Sounds like you haven't actually entered the download mode... power off> hold at same time power, home and vol down... keep holding until the phone turns back on. you should enter download then.
I personally feel like you just have a dirty install without knowing more. Once you enter recovery I'd just data reset, cache reset, dalvik reset and reflash same rom... or a backup
Yeah, my bad. I didn't hold it down long enough. I'm such a noob.
Don't forget to hit thanks for those who helped you...
Sent from my SAMSUNG Captivate™ Glide i927
Aquethys said:
Don't forget to hit thanks for those who helped you...
Sent from my SAMSUNG Captivate™ Glide i927
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haha Thanks for that!
My phones loads up to home screen then reboot in about 10 seconds... Any ideas? Running EMUI 3.1/Android 5.1 beta build. was trying to revert back to stock B013 and thats when this problem started
you go back from 5.1.1 to 5.0?
I had the same Problem,after a factory reset it works again
letschky said:
you go back from 5.1.1 to 5.0?
I had the same Problem,after a factory reset it works again
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For some reason, I can't boot into factory reset...
use ADB and Huawei update extractor to reinstall the ROM of your choice:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56447461&postcount=17
Djiban said:
use ADB and Huawei update extractor to reinstall the ROM of your choice:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56447461&postcount=17
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Thanks... I will sure give this a try!
I got into FASTBOOT&RESCUE MODE..... What next? When I get to my home screen/desktop, my phone still reboots after 10 seconds so I can't do anything there... Any help would be appreciated
Steamer2499 said:
I got into FASTBOOT&RESCUE MODE..... What next? When I get to my home screen/desktop, my phone still reboots after 10 seconds so I can't do anything there... Any help would be appreciated
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If you can goto fastboot, simply install recovery.img from UPDATE.APP(use huawei update extractor to extract img).
then copy update.app to dload folder in sd card and poweroff device.
press vol down + power button, it will boot into recovery and install UPDATE.app.
I faced this problem when from 5.1, i installed kangvipB015. it worked the way i told above.
Okay... I had my phone plugged into my usb 3.0 then I plugged the phone into my usb 2.0 port and phone started responded to my holding down volume and power buttons then phone booted up into unknown update and now everything is fine.... weird though
Huawei x2 loop
Hello. my X2 boots and reaches lockscreen, when I input my password a window comes up that says the system is not responding. After I click OK or WAIT the homescreen shows up, but after a while phone restarts and the same sequence happens again. I have tried booting into safe mode but the same thing happens. I also tried POWER plus VOL UP to clear cache. I have left the phone off and with zero battery power to simulate a battery pull. I cannot RESET however since I have valuable data on the phone which I cannot lose. Before this I was attempting to delete files by uploading to Google Photos, the phone froze so I restarted. When it booted that is when the looping began. I don't remember the version my X2 is in but since I got it I only had updated it once last year. I hope someone can help me.
Mia
Hello Guys,
I have been looking all over a solution to this issue but haven't been lucky at all. You might be able to help me. Here's the case:
The past weekend I shut my phone off to remove my SIM off of my phone in orther to test it in another Android Phone. Once I put it back into my phone and powered it on it took like 10 minutes to power on and then optimize apps. The thing is that it didn't recognize my SIM card anymore and It also couldn't be shut off without having to force the shut down. It would be looping 'shutting down' all the time and never shut off. It also can't be detected by my PC but it can be charged normally with a charger. The phone once is powered on works kind of normally, but I find personally sometimes sloppy.
I already have restored it to factory state via settings and nothing has changed. I can't restore via recovery since I cannot acces. I've tried all the possible combos to enter and haven't been lucky so far (power+volume down, power+volume up, power+both buttons pushed, power+clicking several times volume up or down, etc.).
My Z2 is running stock lollipop 5.1.1 - .264.
Any idea of what's happening?
Greetings,
Fernando
esponges said:
Hello Guys,
I have been looking all over a solution to this issue but haven't been lucky at all. You might be able to help me. Here's the case:
The past weekend I shut my phone off to remove my SIM off of my phone in orther to test it in another Android Phone. Once I put it back into my phone and powered it on it took like 10 minutes to power on and then optimize apps. The thing is that it didn't recognize my SIM card anymore and It also couldn't be shut off without having to force the shut down. It would be looping 'shutting down' all the time and never shut off. It also can't be detected by my PC but it can be charged normally with a charger. The phone once is powered on works kind of normally, but I find personally sometimes sloppy.
I already have restored it to factory state via settings and nothing has changed. I can't restore via recovery since I cannot acces. I've tried all the possible combos to enter and haven't been lucky so far (power+volume down, power+volume up, power+both buttons pushed, power+clicking several times volume up or down, etc.).
My Z2 is running stock lollipop 5.1.1 - .264.
Any idea of what's happening?
Greetings,
Fernando
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Does this happen with another SIM card? Did you have custom recovery installed before? Have you tried to flash a fresh FTF firmware trough flash tool?
5ageman said:
Does this happen with another SIM card? Did you have custom recovery installed before? Have you tried to flash a fresh FTF firmware trough flash tool?
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I haven't tried with other SIM card but it's a fact that my sim card does work. I tested it in another phone.
It used to have once a custom recovery but I flashed it back to stock a while ago via flashtool.
Can't do any fresh flash via flashtool since my computer wouldn't detect the phone by USB lol.
I feel kind of screwed...
esponges said:
I haven't tried with other SIM card but it's a fact that my sim card does work. I tested it in another phone.
It used to have once a custom recovery but I flashed it back to stock a while ago via flashtool.
Can't do any fresh flash via flashtool since my computer wouldn't detect the phone by USB lol.
I feel kind of screwed...
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I can confirm it can't be flashed via Flashmode. Phone won't start via flashmode (volume down then plug) step.
Is your phone rooted? If not try with kingroot method and then flashing a recovery and if it succeed then flash a new rom.