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[Motorola Atrix 2] JRW 28:
I know we have no way of getting back to stock since we don't have an FXZ yet but why couldn't we use the stock Android recovery upon boot then use our nandroid backup from the ATRIX 2 bootstrap incase someone is stuck on a bootloop or messes their phone up? Would this work?
[Motorola Atrix 2] PeteSeiler2010:
It sounds plausible, we just need someone that is still within their 30 day return time that has the nerve to try it. They would have to do a nandroid then purposely soft-brick and hope and pray I guess.
[Motorola Atrix 2] JRW 28:
Well I dont remember being able to do this on my OG Atrix but today I was messing around and powered my phone off. I was wanting to get to the boot option screen so I could boot into stock recovery. Well I did and got the usual green man with a triangle. Then I proceeded to push the same buttons that got me to the boot option screen and then the stock recovery menu showed up just like CWM recovery. Was we able to do this on the OG Atrix because I dont remember?
[Motorola Atrix 2] lfaber06:
In the Droid razor forums they have a way to boot cwm on power up. Ill post the link later. Why couldn't we port that to our phones?
[Motorola Atrix 2] JRW 28:
If what I have just done will work we can do the same thing upon boot without having to port anything.

We should be able to flash any zip located on the sd card upon boot via the stock android recovery.

Hoping someone with a lil more knowledge of this stuff will chime in here :)
[Motorola Atrix 2] lfaber06:
The stock recovery wont work for a few reasons the biggest is you cant backup and restore. We need cwm no question about it. we need this on our phones.. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1385283

I have been talking to hashcode about porting his safestrap method from the droid 3 to our a2's. That would work even better because then we'd be able to restore to stock w/o an fxz or sbf.
[Motorola Atrix 2] JRW 28:
Why can't you restore with the stock recovery? We can create backups through our bootstrap so that isnt a problem and it works just fine. But we have no option at boot which is the problem. Look at my last pic. That is my nandroid backup through our bootstrap.
[Motorola Atrix 2] lfaber06:
I'm Uploading a video to youtube of what we need.. Hold tight. And I thought you couldn't use backups created from other recoveries?

http://youtu.be/H3fIdf5fQ70

So this is the droid 3 safestrap from hashcode working on my A2. I have been able to make backups that are actually 300mb more then the bootstrap cwm backups. I have Not tried restoring backups using it. I have replaced my phone 4 times now with best buy I don't want to try again.. I have sent hashcode some files he requested to hopefully port this over to the A2.

Check it out!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1315982&highlight=safestrap

I'm not trying to spam the board here it just looks like this would really work for us.
[Motorola Atrix 2] JRW 28:
THAT is what I don't know?

Yes I'm familiar with hashcodes safestrap and if he can get it ported to our A2 then that would be exactly what we would need. I was thinking hard about asking him for help myself. So I'm glad you did :)

I know just enough about this stuff to be dangerous, as in making paperweights with phones

LoL

DONE SOME DIGGING AROUND AND I've ANSWERED MY OWN QUESTION. NO IT WON'T WORK. STILL LEARNING EVERYDAY :/
[Motorola Atrix 2] frycook15:
Was bout to say I'd give it a shot for you guys was exchanging my phone today but guys you got it figured out anything changes before end of day lemme know
[Motorola Atrix 2] svtfmook:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1349439
[HTC Sensation] jaaystott:
Just a quick question regarding the HTC Sensation.

Got mine last Saturday, already a happy rooted customer using Android Revoloution HD! ;)

Just got a slight issue with the build quality, I'm not even honest if you would call it that? If I squeeze the bottom left of my device between my fingers with minimum force there is a squeaking of the case and device moving together. I know this isn't such a major problem, but for a phone that i'm going to be having for the next two years it isn't ideal. I regard my Sensation as the 'Lamborghini of Phones' and my comparison is that 'If I had a Lamborghini that squeaked every time I pressed the breaks, I would certainly return it.' So the question is, is this a general fault I will find with ALL Sensations, or am I one of the unlucky few?

Thanks Guys! :D
[HTC Sensation] TheStigx:
Naah, you aren't the only one. I am pretty sure other have it too, and I am one of them.

:)
[HTC Sensation] stroobach:
had the same :P

i just clicked the backcover off and clicked it back on with a little force and now its gone :)
[HTC Sensation] moshe22:
Pretty much all Sensations have that squeaking noise due to the nature of the backcasing.
[HTC Sensation] jaaystott:
Thanks for the replies, guess it saves me bugging Orange for a new phone. Bad design if you ask me, would have been better if they designed the casing to come off like the Mozart!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] souleater11:
Guys, I plan to flash Mui Galnet 1.12.9 from a newly rooted android stock 2.1.

would this be safe ?

or will it cause an issue?

Note: In the Mui Galnet Manual, the international version of Samsung Galaxy S requires 2.2 before flashing.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bfranklin1986:
the first time you flash it, it will boot loop you, pull the battery and use the 3 button combo to get back into recovery, and flash again.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] souleater11:
I plan to follow the steps on the website below:

http://theunlockr.com/2010/10/12/ho...droid-phone-after-any-one-click-root-methods/

Your suggestion seems to confuse me as to why I have to flash the miui gingerbread rom for a second time. I would appreciate it if you explain your reason.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Woody:
Because it will bootloop, so you pull battery and reboot into recovery again and reflash the zip back over itself like you would do with CM7. Look at Noob_in_N33d's guide on how rom flash MIUI. It is stickied and has everything you need.

Btw anything from unlocker.com is about as generic as it can come. Use the users guides here. That is what XDA is for, right?
[HTC ChaCha] andrew21:
Hello, im completely new to the world of cha cha phones and need to flash a ROM with russian language in it..can anyone help me and tell me the full procedure or direct me to link for all info?
[General Questions and Answers] phemark:
Hi,

I have a problem with proximity sensor.

I looked through many threads here, but they didn't solve it to the end.

Problem:

When I am making/received call, my screen goes blank (near ear or far).

Tried using various apps (ProximityOFF, Sanity, ScreenBl), also tried adding "gsm.proximity.enable=false" to a build.prop file in system, didnt help.

At the moment I am using ScreenBl (it is always on), but it works kinda weird - it helps me keep screen awake during every SECOND call, i.e. call happens - screen off, call happens - screen on, call happens - screen off, call happens - screen on and so on.

Also, during that every second call with screen on, if i press speaker button twice, screen goes off (until call is ended).

So i wanted to ask, maybe someone found a solution of how to PERMANENTLY disable proximity sensor?

Thanks

P.S. I also cant figure out why it happens every SECOND call... maybe if you could help with that, we could find a solution?..

P.P.S. It's a Galaxy S, Darky's ROM, 2.3.3 - worked fine for many months, until couple weeks ago (dont know what changed....)

Edit: Same thing is happening without ScreenBl - still screen is on/off every second call...
[General Questions and Answers] manohd87:
hey,

similar issue with my SE xperia x10, the touchscreen broke in that corner where the sensor is so every time i make a call the screen gets locked and i have to remove the battery to end it.

the solution i found was intalling this app: Screen On from the market.

it keeps the screen on when some apps or process are running. i choose "active call".

please excuse my spelling, english is not my native language!

i hope you can solve the issue!!

rgrds,

Manuel
[General Questions and Answers] igim_tm:
I have a galaxy tab7 and it is being rooted and unlock. I want to upgrade the OS from Froyo 2.2 to Ginger Bread 2.3.4 but it said that "Your device does not support software upgrading via kies" .

Current firmware version: P1000DXJK2/P1000LBJJ2/P1000DXJJ2/P1000DXJK2

Please help me about my problem. Thank you!
[General Questions and Answers] Dr. Cooper:
me too

I have the same problem with a GT-I5510L...
[General Questions and Answers] yunimaru:
Its simple,you need to change CSC code,im using SGS2 i9100G and before this my SGS2 CSC code is KOR but i live in Malaysia so i need to change it,Malaysia CSC code is XME,so you need to find your CSC that same as your region,google it to find the CSC code region..to change CSC just type *#272*IMEI# then choose your region CSC..BEWARE!after you install new CSC it will factory data automatically,but after that you can update your phone via kies,its works on my phone now.. :)
[General Questions and Answers] termagazis:
i have the same problem with galaxy Y!anyone can help?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] AdamOutler:
Introduction

Hey guys.. I came up with a partial recovery method for black screen bricks. It's not a full recovery yet as the device won't get past booting the kernel. However, this is a matter of obtaining the proper firmware... So, until a better firmware is obtained the next best thing is to at least get the device into Download Mode.

Generally Hard bricks occur when the improper firmware is flashed on a device. When the wrong bootloaders are loaded, the device attempts to boot and fails. Instead of hanging, sometimes the device will enter a "Lucky Brick" state. These lucky bricks are very common on Galaxy Player.

The Galaxy Player tends to failover into a safe mode which we call UnBrickable Mod. This safe mode can only effectively be used in Linux because of a lack of decent windows drivers and a lack of any real development for Mac outside of Apple Corp ;).

Heimdall has not yet been upgraded to handle the Galaxy Player so a virtual machine is required for this procedure.

You Will Need:

Linux installed on a computer: http://ubuntu.com/download

The UnBrickable Resurrector Revision36 or higher installed in Linux

Oracle Virtualbox installed on linux: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

Your OWN copy of Windows installed in Virtualbox

Samsung drivers installed on Virtual Windows Machine

The GalaxyPlayer-Bootloader.zip downloaded into Windows

Instructions

First plug your Galaxy Player into the computer.

Launch the UnBrickable Resurector R36 and observe the following image. If the device does not detect, hold the power and home button for 10 seconds to make the device reboot.

Note: if you cannot get this screen, stop. You will not be able to continue. You've given it a shot and there are no other known methods which will currently work

Select S5PC111 from the Device Type Dropdown List. Then click the "Download Mode" Button. Your device should be detected as the picture in the following displays. If your device is not detected, try again and ensure you have the proper Resurrector selected

Unzip the GalaxyPlayer-Bootloaders.zip to the Desktop folder in your Windows VM

Launch Odin3 in the Windows VM

Set the PIT option as "GalaxyPlayerPart.pit" Set the "Bootloader" option to GalaxyPLayerDownloadModeOnly.tar

In the menu bar on your Windows VM, in Linux, select Devices>USB Devices>SAMSUNG Gadget Serial to attach the device to Windows.

Note: you should see the device connected and a "COM" assigned in Odin after the device has installed properly

Click "Start" on Odin3. Note: If this fails, you will need to reinstall Samsung Drivers.

This is where this guide ends. I have tried several firmwares but none have been effective at recovering the Galaxy Player...

Conclusion

Your device is now in Download Mode.. If anyone can help in locating a /data/ partition(Not dbdata), I could sterilizeit of your information and it would be helpful. If anyone can post up an EFS partition, I could remove the information from that and force it into a default...

Basically, I need a full dd dump of every single partition on the device in order to finish this resurrection DIY.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] rumirand:
Hi AdamOutler:

You can find that here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=19840746&postcount=420

That's a full dump of /dev/block/mmcblk0
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] AdamOutler:
and how do you upload that through download mode?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] rumirand:
That's my question, lol.

On wednesday I can upload the dd dumps of every partition so they can be flashable via odin.

I've 'dd'ed that image to a sdcard. Checked partition table and it seems ok. So the only think needed is to dump the right partitions. Right now, I'm busy with exams, so I can't before.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] AdamOutler:
This is what we need: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=20201368#post20201368
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] iJimaniac:
Hmm, it gets stuck at "set partition".

Any advice?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Zyxxeil:
Ima post the md5 file needed to flash with odin in just a sec hold on.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] AdamOutler:
The problem is that we need a partition information table which is proper for each device. I started that thread here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1389873
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] rumirand:
AdamOutler:

http://db.tt/5AoiJA8G

They're all the partitions on separate files of YP-G70 international.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] gaad0701:
Uh-oh

Ok so I have an issue that is between the hard brick and the lucky brick I think.

My Galaxy is stuck in Android Stock Recovery (My soft keys are not working) and I have attempted to get the Resurrector to work on my device, but it seems like it won't see my player correctly for me to bring it back.

If you know any kind of fix for this I would really appreciate it, my Wife is ready to kill me...
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Jesse6749:
Adam, I have Ubuntu and the virtual machine setup and working. I just cannot get Ubuntu to allow me to open the resurector file as an executable, any idea why and how I can fix that issue, it tries to open it as a archived compressed file. I have the black screen and badly need to revive my Player.

Update: After searching on google I finally got Ubuntu to execute the resurrector file and I revived my player and have Froyo 2.2.2 running on it now, but the capacitive buttons do not work. I will dowload the soft button app to fix the buttons till someone finds a solution for the dead buttons which was caused on my player by the Korean 2.3.6 firmware leak that I flashed yesterday and caused all my problems. After searching some more I found the files I needed to get my capacitive buttons working again on the samfirmware.com web site, so now I have restored my player to the original working state.

Adam, you are a life saver, Thank You very much for the excellent recovery guide!!!!

Everyone on the forum, have a Happy New Year!!!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] azoller1:
How did you make it run as an executable I have this same problem it opens like a zip compressed file
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Meticulus:
java -jar whateverfile.jar
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] AdamOutler:
I generally right click and open with Java.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] ishish9:
I'm still unable to fully unbrick my device (YPGB70) even with all the proper files, it still just hangs at the logo, I can get into download mode just fine though. The only files missing from Samsungs official rom they released are efs.rfs, userfs_16G.rfs, inand_16G.bin these are the only file listed on the pit but aren't in the rom file. Are the userfs and inand crucial file and if so can I use files from the international or US models and do they have to be the same 16G size?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Jesse6749:
What I did once I got it to the download mode using Adam's guide, then I downloaded the 2.2.2 froyo rom for the player found at www.samfirmware.com and flashed it using odin that got the player working but the capacitive key would still not work, so then I put the player back into download mode and downloaded and flashed the rom from Maticulus found here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1450013 using odin again and this got the player working like new again including the capacitive keys.

Good Luck!!! :p
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] gonti:
My YP-G70 still freeze on Odin on Set Partition :( Any idea ? (international 16GB version) Download mode works, but lock on Odin ...
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] NeoSmart:
HELP

I have a samsung galaxy player 5.0 and I try to unbricked by fallowing your tutorial and it detect my device it said:"S5PC110 DETECTED !" and when I hit Perform Resurrection and said:"Failed to write 1310730 bytes" I try using the "Galaxy Player S5PC111 and it didn't work" then I try to use "S5PC110 GALAXY S" then I try "S5PC110 GALAXY S" " and it didn't work Please Help

My Model is a YP-G70CWY/XAA galaxy player 5.0
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] NeoSmart:
Pictures of the problem that I am having when trying to unbrick

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[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] AdamOutler:
boot into ubuntu. don't use a VM. Mac is a hit-and-miss platform for Samsung devices.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] :
Yeah, I don't trust attaching a usb device to a VM anyway... I just installed ubuntu using wubi...
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] dingoo12:
Yep another one.

Totally embarrassed but managed to hard brick my device!

I have created a dual boot and have set up java, samsung drivers etc, but not able yet to get odin to view the device (YP-G70, 8Gb)

1) Boot into ubuntu, run the unbricked and select the driver for the "Player"

2) The device is connected, and after I hit the button, a screen appears with the download logo on the 5" (right shifted by 10% - so the last 10% of the screen appears on the left)

3) I then restart in Windows (device remains on) - windows identifies the device as an "unknown" device - as such Odin cannot connect

I have uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers a few times (as per link) with no joy - I even tested the drivers by putting my 7" tab in download mode, and that one recognised straight away!

The only curious aspect is that the it says SECPC110 but when I select it through the unbricker (as per instrucion i choose the player option SECPC111) - Have tried the galaxy s SECPC110, but it did not even bring up a logo

Ill log the exact contents of the unbricker when i get home.

Am I doing something grossly stupid - Advice, Ideas appreciated - SO CLOSE, yet so far ....
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] dingoo12:
Update

Got home ... now when i use the unbricker, it brings up a icon of a mobile / exclamation mark / Computer :sad:

Also get a warning in the program (gksudo:3849):Gtk-WARNING **; Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap

Also help, suggestions appreciated here :sad:

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] dingoo12:
Phew

Last update ....

Change the powered hub i was using / reset all drivers / rebooted and it all worked!

Thanks for a stunning recovery app and have a beer or two on me :)

Regards

dingoo12
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] yhdks:
I followed this instruction and got stuck in the Download Mode..

I flashed the stock rom but still can't get out of the Download Mode..

What should I do?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] wingcook:
Pulling out whatever hair I have left.....

Ok, here we go. I have rooted my US 5.0, and tried to load up a kernel (Steve's Daily Driver), and now it won't start. I have gotten it to download mode through the resuurector, and Odin sees it in the VM. Here is the problem, I cannot get it to reboot after loading the pit and tar (PDA file.) For the .tar I am using ueki8_min.tar.md5 and for the .pit, I am using ueki8.pit. All goes fine until Odin reboots the player. At that point, the player reboots and then nothing.

Please tell me I'm doing something real boneheaded and this is an easy fix.

Thanks for any and all help.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] cvcduty:
It took many... many tries but I was able to take a fully bricked (black screen - sec s5pc110 test b/d) YP-G70 US 5.0 player and get it back to functioning as new.

I have CM9 loaded now and runs it like a champ.

I used this guide as well as few others that I found from other forums.

Ultimately, I used a Ubuntu installation and Ressurector to get the player to display the phone (!) computer icon. The trick was (which the instuctions did was not quite clear on) was that the Download mode which the Ressurector get the player into, does not display the Andy with yellow triangle sign. It's the Phone (!) PC icon that is the download mode.

Anyway, I was not able to get a VM session of the Windows within my Ubuntu box (spent 2 hours trying to figure out why!!!) but I had a dual boot session.

I kept the player plugged into the USB port to keep the Phone (!) PC mode on and restarted my laptop to switch to the Windows session to run Odin.

Here, I had to flash the device with Odin 3-4 times until it let me boot into Recovery mode.

So the first time I flashed with Odin, I followed the direction from OP and flashed the pit and bootloader. This got me to the Download mode... problem was, when I flashed the Eryigit Rom (PDA), it successfully flashed but it was still stuck in Download mode when I rebooted.

So next I got a Stock GB (2.3.6) from here - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1520728 and flashed it. This file contained a pit file as well... and since I was stuck in Download mode, I figured that maybe my system was not seeing the right partitions. So I tried flashing the pit file from here and it got stuck in "Partitions". So When I yanked the cable and restarted my player, now I had the phone (!) pc icon again.

Back to step 1 and this time, I flashed the pit and bootloader from OP... and then power down and power up to flash the Stock rom that I mentioned above without the pit file found with the rom.... just the stock rom.

Now, I was booted into recovery mode and recovery mode only... so I got the player back to Download mode and flashed the pit file from the OP but this time, I used the SamsungPlayer Bootloaded found in the OP instead of the Download Mode only bootloader.

Once this was done, I rebooted the player into Download mode yet again, and flashed the Eryigit's US rom... reboot... recovery... DANM!!!... here I accidentally pressed the restart system and this time I was seeing the Samsung logo... and then Android bootanimation... My player was alive...

Anyway, this was not an easy task but THANK you for pointing me out a few things that I could try in order to get the player back to life.

Sorry for the long post... I know a few on this thread are experiencing the same issues I saw... I am trying to point out that there is a way to fix the player... just got to try a bit harder... :)
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Ahmed Karim:
I have Galaxy s WiFi 5.0 and i have tried to install the official firmware but now my device get a Black Screen only! I cant open it and the UnBrickable Resurector can't detect it ! Please help me. I bought the device yesterday !

Help please
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] AdamOutler:
I just want to 'point out' that it was an ABSOLUTE ton of work to develop this method. Your problems were operator error. I didn't 'point out' a few things you can try... Rebellos and I worked out the security and protocol issues, developed a bootloader, then turned it into a one-click, tested it extensively, released the tool to fix your problem, and released the source. You clicked a few buttons and learned how to operate your computer and device.

I find your statement about giving you a few things to try offensive. We developed the damn solution which Samsung would otherwise charge you for a new board.