Hello all,
I am merely posting here if anyone has a better insight or idea, since I haven't followed with all issues regarding the Galaxy S II International version.
I have purchased mine from one of my country's carrier nearly 2 years ago. I have in the course of these 2 years, rooted it, flashed CyanogenMod, and happily updated it every so often. I always used nightlies, updating almost everyday.
In the last 2 months, it had become sometimes very sluggish, frequent slowdowns, and many lockups, freezing, and some random reboots. I was getting a little tired of it, but was getting used to it.
Yesterday, I was using it normally, when a slowdown started. The app (was 3D game) got unresponsive, but I could still pull the notification drawer, so it wasn't frozen. I pulled and pushed the drawer about 2 times, and then it also stopped responding. The screen was on, touchlights were on, and since I had seen it before, I pressed the power button for a reset.
Then the first boot screen, with the yellow triangle (where it says Samsung Galaxy S II GT-I9100) appeared, but it got stuck there and didn't get past, apparently frozen.
I tried a quick more reboots, and then tried (with very difficulty) entering CWM recovery. I got eventually there, and CWM was working as it should. I considered wiping the cache, or just reinstalling the last nightly I had saved, but decided first to just press "reboot system now".
It also got stuck on the yellow triangle initial screen. This time I couldn't get to the CWM recovery (it seems there was a very small time frame to it to enter before it actually restarted again from long pressing the power button). In a dark room, I noticed that even when the yellow triangle screen was black, the display was on, the backlight was on. The black was bright, and if I pressed the powerbutton for a reset, I could see the screen actually turning off and then on again, and going back to the yellow triangle screen.
I tried to go into Odin recovery, and eventually made it there.... So I pressed to restart the phone, and it continued frozen on the yellow triangle.
I went home with the screen frozen (I couldn't power it off, and I didn't remove the battery). I noticed that after some minutes it restarted, the screen went black and again to the frozen yellow triangle.
I managed to get to CWM recovery after several attempts with the 3 button press, but a different error had appeared: E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/command (or something like it)
So I got home, downloaded codeworkx CWM recovery, put the S2 in Odin recovery, and using Heimdall uploaded it. It completed successfully.
I managed after several tries to get to CWM recovery, it opened again, but more "Can't mount messages" appeared, system_log and such, as I have seen on some forums, and that by then I never had. Read somewhere that probably the system partition got corrupted.
Then this time I reinstalled from the internal memory another nightly I had. I was with June 19, and used the June 16 one. It flashed successfully.
Then I pressed reboot system now, but still got stuck at the yellow triangle screen. And again the message "Can't mount /cache/recovery/command".
So I got into Odin recovery mode (volume down) and using Heimdall again uploaded CWM recovery. But Heimdall got stuck at "Loading KERNEL 100%" It reached 100% but never exited. And the bluebar that was supposed to appear on the S2 screen (that appeared the first time I flashed CWM), didn't appear.
Since it got stuck there for a while, I Ctrl-C'ed my way out of Heimdall, and pressed the power putton on the S2 for another reset.
But this time, it never woke up again. No more yellow triangle screen. No more "active bright black screen". Nothing.
And it doesn't charge even when plugged to the charger.
I am reading about SGS2 that won't turn on and won't charge. It seems a general agreement that Samsung assistance tells us it's a motherboard failure, and should be replaced (and at least here in my place it's helluva expensive).
Since many cases the phone just went dead, mine wasn't quite the case, since it was somewhat alive in the yellow triangle and apparently I could have f*cked up when I Ctrl+C'ed Heimdall and turned off the phone when Odin recovery clearly states "Do not turn off target !!", even though when the flash goes ok, you have to reset it.
Two questions:
1. Is there anything else that can I do to revive it?
2. Can I recover at least the pictures and videos I had saved on the internal memory? I had a ton of pictures and videos inside DCIM/Camera, where for a long time CM10.1 camera could only save pictures to the Internal memory, and when a nightly fixed it, I kept it in internal memory.
If anyone got this far since I was exhaustingly detailed, thank you for your attention!
Unpluging was the bad move that killed your phone. Can try a jig
andrewwright said:
Unpluging was the bad move that killed your phone. Can try I jig
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Well I had just done the same process, and it was quick. There was no waiting period after the 100%, and Heimdall exited cleanly.
The last time it got stuck in 100% for about 30 seconds, and I decided to abort with a Ctrl+C, unplugged and restart...
Hello everyone,
I'm a bit crying right now, i hope you can help :-/
So, i thought about going to cyanogen on my tf201 some months ago. What i remember is that i unlocked it using the asus software then i installed some versions of twrp (i think). After that i stopped because i was kind of lost between many tutorials.
I did not use the tablet since that, i was abroad.
I get it back today and i tried to reset everything, so i went in the settings and click on the reset thing. It did not work, the tablet just blocked on Asus screen and when i manually restarted it, it was like i did nothing (normal boot and no reset).
So i went in the bootloader (power + vol down) and i tried the (4th?) option to wipe everything. The thing said something like "loading image ...." and blocked.
Now the tablet is blocked on the first screen (with asus writen in the middle) and it won't boot, i can not go into the bootloader either, i only have that screen.
I can not even shut it down, keeping power pressed will only restart it.
Is there anything i can do or is the tablet dead ?
Thanks for any help
During normal use the phone just locked up and wouldn't respond so I took out the battery and put it back in expecting for it to just turn back on but it just stayed at the Lg logo and I realized what had happened, (I have had multiple issues with this phone in the past) I just shoved it in my pocket and went on business when I pull it out again and the screen is black I click the power button and it shows (Translated from polish)
Encryption
Reset phone
I've had this happen once before so I sighed angrily and pressed the button to wipe my phone. Nothing again nothing, again and nothing. The button wouldn't do anything. So I reboot it and this time it just hangs I let it go for 3 days straight on the LG logo. I try various methods to reflash the phone back to a working state none of them work and the last one is what shattered it. This is the link for it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2748384 I try using that tool and it goes to 27 percent and fails so I try again and it the process won't start so I (apparently not learning my lesson about rebooting phones) take the battery out and try to get into s/w mode again. It won't go so I rush to my only computer with fast boot working and I couldn't get anything to flash onto the phone. The partitions are missing apparently. So how do I reset my partition table so I can reflash my phone. Note I did try this method: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2546571 but the LG software kept erroring about 25%.
Hi guys,
first of all thank you for taking your time and reading through this. I'm not completely new to android, nor using fastboot and recovery. I flashed a few phones over the past years I even resurrected bricked ones. However I have no idea what is happening to my Honor 8. One thing to mention, it's the latest Nougat update, and a STOCK ROM.
It all started this afternoon. The phone suddenly reboot while using it. After that, the android screen came on, then Honor animation and.. freeze. Completely. I had to reboot using the long press method since it was stuck between the bootloader and the rom itself. It started up ok after that.
An hour passed, and while I was typing a message, it froze again. I could go back to home but the phone was really slow. After opening up Messenger again, it froze completely. Had to restart again with the long-press reboot method. It started up ok, entered the sim pin and upon entering the screenlock code it froze again, completely. Long-press reboot, again.
Since then, the phone won't boot. It gets stuck every time on "Honor powered by Android" for about a minute, then it reboots itself. I even got some weird green screen with a blue and a red rectangle, but that just stopped after a few reboots.
I mentioned that I know how to recover and fix stuff when something acts weirdly, but that's not the case, I can't do ANYTHING. No fastboot, no recovery, no button combinations, I can't even turn off the phone. It just keeps rebooting on and on, and yes, the battery will eventually die, but I have no access to any recovery options. I even tried dload but no luck.
It's still under warranty so I can send it back but I just rather fix it at home (without taking it apart), because I don't want to wait 3 weeks to get fixed. But it seems like that is the only option right now, I have never ever seen anything like this happen.
Any help or comment is appreciated. Even if it's not possible to do it at home (hardware issues?), I am really curious what can be the cause of this issue (damaged rom, filesystem permission issues?).
Thanks.
My V30 worked perfectly for years, Android 9 running, had it rooted using the sticky guide, and Magisk installed. I had just boarded a plane on Monday, sat down, and noticed the LG screen with the bootlaoder unlocked message warning you always see when rebooting. Then it just reboots again, I see the LG logo, the bootloader warning message, reboots again after about a minute.
I also could not turn it off because it would just turn itself right back on, and go back into the loop. Eventually the battery drained and it died. When I got home, I held the power button and the volume down then plugged in to go into I think it's recovery mode, which worked, but my only options were to flash or reboot (I think, my memory is fuzzy). Then I ran LGUP and it detected my phone, but said it can't load the model from C:\Program Files\LG Electronics\LGUP\model\com.
Next I tried running adb commands against it which is working, however I"m getting back LGUS9983322eaa5 unauthorized which I don't understand because I clearly had debugging turned on (which I think is what causes that message?)
Any ideas on what to try next, or what could have happened? I had not installed anything new. This data recovery company called Drivesavers quoted me 900 to get my files off, but I have backups, and there's nothing on the internal memory I can't live without.
Thanks for your help!