So, I wanted to update the Rom, so tried to go into recovery mode. Pushed the volume down button instead of up, so got into download mode. Pushed the volume down button to cancel. Then pushed the right combination, but nothing past the Galaxy S2 logo with the warning triangle happened.
Tried to reboot a couple of times, but now the phone is completely dead.
Everytime I turn it on the Galaxy S2 logo appear, and when it dissappear the phone seems to be dead. However if I look closely, the screen is not turned off, it it just black (but turned on), and every 5 seconds or so I can see it "blinking", but it blinks "black" if you could say that, you won't notice it if you don't look careful, or you are in a dark room.
If you triple click the home button you normally "invert" the colours on the screen, and this also works in this case. Instead of it flashing with an almost unnoticable black, it is now white and every 5 seconds the screen turns off very briefly, but then the screen is white again.
To get it to stop doing this I need to remove battery. If I push and hold the power button the phone just restarts with the galaxy s2 logo, and then does the same again.
When I connect the phone to a charger or to a PC (while it's powered down), the battery logo appears for a couple of seconds, and then it enters this "blinking" screen thing again.
When connected to a PC it does not appear as a drive - however it seems like windows detects it, it installs the GT-9100 drivers. Samsung Kies can't connect, it just keeps trying to connect forever, without coming with an error, but it's not connecting.
Hard reset is not working in any of the described ways, whatever I do, if its to get it into recovery mode, download mode, or just trying to turn the damn phone on, it just do the blinking thing.
Is this some sort of a boot loop from hell!!?
sounds strange, can you still get it in download mode without issues?
If you can i would advice to flash back to stock(!!)
or you could try to flash a cf-root to see if thats gets you into recovery format system, data, cache, dalvik and flash the new rom.
but im not sure if that would work, a clean install from stock would be better i believe,
as to why it went this way i have no idea!
Good luck!
If you can get in download mode, flash a stock rom with odin and that should do the trick
yes!
Well, that was odd, thought I had tried that several times, but yes now at least I can get it into download.
Now I used ODIN to flash a file (CF-Root-SGS2_XX_XEO_LPQ-v5.3-CWM5.tar) that I had laying on my PC from back when I was originally rooting my phone. ODIN gave me a "Pass" reply and I got the phone into a bootloader. I quickly wiped everything I could, and at the moment I'm seeing if I can boot the phone normally.
Thanks!!
Well my rom is f***** it won't boot, but atleast I can get it into recovery mode.
Have just installed cyanogen 9 stable + gapps, it is now booting up!
Luckily I backed my phone up with Titanium backup just a couple of hours ago!!!
it's working!
Well that saved my ass. I was so close to throwing my phone out of the window and going online to order a S3...
Now I'm setting up my phone - nice, wanted to try Cyanogen 9 anyway.
Cool.. Always be patient.... Rather than thinking of purchasin a new phone when these kind of situations occur. Keep a usb jig with you
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Hey, I've just installed the ViperDNA rom and tought I would try it out. I've installed everything correctly with TWRP and Aroma showed me everything was installed fine.
Now I am booting my phone and I've noticed it was stuck for over 7 minutes in splash screen, so I tought okay I will do a hard-reset. I've pressed over the home button for a minute and the it didn't restart, the panel was flashing but it didn't restart. I've tried to click on other buttons and all but it didn't work, I've connected it to the PC and tried to find it with ADB and it showed the device is not connected. The battery is full and it's in the splash screen still, how could I possibly restart the phone?
- ADB dosen't find the phone
- Tried to check if suddenly the phone is stuck in fastboot (sometimes happend with my old phones, unknown how)
- Tried to press the home button for over 1 minute to restart when it should be 10 seconds.
Anyone knows how to do something? I am hoping my battery will run out somehow like this, but untill then. I need some suggestions.
Hard reset is holding power button for 10secs not home.
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My problem is with black screen Xiaomi Mi Play. No fastboot, no recovery. If it is connected to charger only led flashes two times every minute. Also, when holding Power button + Volume Down/Up phone vibrate after every 10-15 seconds. I download official fastboot ROM and tried to connect the phone with XiaoMiFlash but phone is not showing. Only I can hear(on PC) a USB connection (and disconnection 1 second after) every 10-15 seconds while I'm holding Power button + Volume Down.
I tried to deattach battery to try to reset it, but nothing happens.
Unfortunately this phone is 8 months old but still doesn't have much support (recovery twrp, custom roms, root guides...etc.),
PLEASE HELP ME quickly because my battery was at 60% when it went to black screen yesterday, so I asume I don't have to much time left to do something.
History: Bootloader is unlocked. I tried to flash unofficial twrp for Mi Play and completely lost access to any recovery. I rooted phone with Magisk(trough fastboot) and it worked fine (Root Checker also). Then I started Factory Reset in phone (because I hoped it will get me at least official stock recovery), but instantly phone goes black.
Thanks very much
Anyone??? Please help me.
Does "test point" can help? Does anyone knows where they are?
Cool. Why did you rooted your phone? ????
My problem is with black screen Xiaomi Mi Play. No fastboot, no recovery. If it is connected to charger only led flashes two times every minute. Also, when holding Power button + Volume Down/Up phone vibrate after every 10-15 seconds. I download official fastboot ROM and tried to connect the phone with XiaoMiFlash but phone is not showing. Only I can hear(on PC) a USB connection (and disconnection 1 second after) every 10-15 seconds while I'm holding Power button + Volume Down.
I tried to deattach battery to try to reset it, but nothing happens.
Unfortunately this model is 8 months old but still doesn't have much support (recovery twrp, custom roms, root guides...etc.),
PLEASE HELP ME quickly because my battery was at 60% when it went to black screen few days ago, so I asume I don't have to much time left to do something.
History: Bought new in store last week. Bootloader is unlocked. I tried to flash unofficial twrp for Mi Play and completely lost access to any recovery. I rooted phone with Magisk(trough fastboot) and it worked fine (Root Checker also). Then I started Factory Reset in phone (because I hoped it will get me at least official stock recovery), but instantly phone goes black.
Thanks very much
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Sons 2 in 1 tablet pc duel sim 6 weeks after warranty expired has had a software crash. I cant even say that its stuck boot looping as all I've got is backlight flicks on stays on for 20 seconds no logo no anything then flicks off for 5 seconds then repeats that same cycle over and over and over and..... you get the picture.. The only access i can gain is the to the boot menu, Power + Vol Down and that consists of 3 options, Recovery, Normal or Fast. All 3 options have been tried and the result across all 3 options results in nothing more then the above cycle. Need a steer Root Flash ROM etc ..