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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mohammed Atef:
Stuck at samsung boot screen (the one with samsung logo and NOT galaxy note) is called bootloop

You need a fresh new system, try the following:

1- reboot into recovery (Home + Power + Volume UP)

2- Install a safe kernel - I recommend (Abyss GB Kernel)

3- In recovery >> Advanced >> reboot Recovery

4- when it boots up, do Factory Reset/Data Wipe 3 times

5- Do Cache wipe 3 times

6- Go to Advanced & do Dalvik Cache wipe 3 times

7- Go to Mounts & Storage & do FORMAT SYSTEM

8- Go to Mounts & Storage & do FORMAT PRELOAD

9- Now, Re-Flash Alliance ROM & Reboot - The ROM should come with its own Kernel

Furthermore, it is best if you did your nandroid backups in CWM just before installing a new ROM and while being on Abyss kernel (or whatever safe kernel you're intending to use) to avoid MD5 Checksum failure when restoring

Also, I would recommend you do MD5 Checksum on the Alliance ROM zip file and make sure it matches the one in the thread (you'll find it in the OP, almost always next to the download link - I use MD5Check for windows

P.S. If you can't get into recovery, you got a brick issue, refer to brick threads

Best of luck :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alynutzzz4u:
Hi everyone, i`m new here, i need your help.

Yesterday i put on my i9100 Jely Bean 4.1.2 rom with odin,and everything was great,but when i power on my phone it asked me: simlock network is locked. please input unlock code.

I was searching so many forums, and i rooted my phone with philz root, and installed super user from recovery mode, i installed busybox,latest version,and then galaxys_unlock i tried to unlock with this method,but after step 2 from galaxys_unlock i`m stuck,because it asked me again for unlock code.

I tried the app from play store from xda-developers but gave me no code unlock,i even try SamsungUnlocker_v1.4 and patch nv_data.bin,and replace with original and no results, what should i do?

I forgot to mention that my phone had ics 4.0.2 from france orange, and worked like charm in all networks,any help?

P.S. HW VERSION 1.5.

Thanks alot and sorry for my poor english.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadowofdarkness:
You need to use "Galaxsim unlock" for it to work with the JB leak. Just search the forums for the free version or pay in the Play Store.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alynutzzz4u:
It worked like charm.thx alot.For 2 eur its great.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aneesh.techhive:
Is it safe to update to the XXLSA Firmware??

I was planning to update my phone to XXLSA.. Also, can anyone confirm battery issues and other issues about XXLSA?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nokiamodeln91:
As it's a leaked firware there will be some bugs but lot of fixes are there. It's safe to install xxlsa deodexed by eyebee and other variants. If you downloading from sammobile then install philz kernel patched for safety later
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aneesh.techhive:
I downloaded it from Sammobile already... And thanks for the help...

Ill surely install that Kernel
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dimedropper:
If I was coming from a custom firmware with a stable kernel and flashed the official leajed XXLSA firmware, do I need to re flash the kernel with a safe one (i.e. philz kernel)?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nokiamodeln91:
Where did you download the xxlsa from?

If you flashed a zip file, it will already have philz kernel which is safe.

To check boot into recovery.. Do you seem cwm philz, the you are safe
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fosics:
It was a good choice for me. No major issues so far after 5 days of daily use

Heres the link

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2007589

i advice you to follow the instructions step by step.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nokiamodeln91:
Agreed, thats one of the best Leaks available there. has been on it since the day it released and not a single issue till now.. wont even urge me to try out other custom roms based on XXLSA as well. (well done eybee)
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] slugger09:
Ok so I went back to stock after CM9, all went fine, phone rebooted and does the animation and sound but it won't go any further, I tried getting into the recovery screen but goes as far the little android guy and then reboots. Any ideas?
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] slugger09:
Reflashed Euro stock and again stuck at boot animation, I can't get into recovery to wipe or anything as it won't go past the little Android guy and reboots any ideas? On my SGS2 what I would of done at this stage is go into recovery and reset all, but can;t do this, gonna try flashing CWM to see if this helps, stock recovery seems fooked.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] Ruxa1987:
flash

Hi! You have to flash your phone stock ROM. And then again try to flash the MOD
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] bacrot78:
Have you checked the zip file you downloaded is corrupt or not?

There is a difference 1mb will cause bootlop on your device.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] Madzix:
Ok, recorrect.

I missread.

Have u got an SD card?

Just put a new stable ROM in it.

And befoure installing the new ROM wipe factory settings, cache, dalvik cache.

And make sure it is wiped, then install the new one.

Because it might save some setting from that ROM, and they might be corrupted, so it's recommended to wipe those befoure ROM installing, and after, when the ROM is installed already.

And if you can't get into recovery mode, then ur phone might be bricked.

No idea, how to solve that.

Haven't experienced that at all.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] pepoluan:
If you can go into Download Mode, you can try using Odin to fix things up. Otherwise, your phone is hard-bricked, and only SSC can help.

-- xda app / Pristine NoMod CM9b4 / CastagnaIT kernel / GT-I8150 --
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] miki2o:
Hi!

Try to remove the external sd card!!

My phone had a bootloop like this on every custom rom,(also stock rom but with wipe i had resolved).

So try to remove the sd card! :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] JamrD:
I am sure you guys have heard this one before.

BTW thanks again for all the help on rooting my GNex. I did it only for experience and being able to tether my N7 to my phone and it works pretty good. The Gnex crashes sometimes while tethering.

So being on 4.0.2 and rooted stock and on Verizon I noticed several months ago my OTA updates were not being verified and thus not being installed. I was hoping the problem would go away but it has not and now my Gnex is crashing, almost daily, re booting and bugging the heck out of me with that nagging window telling me there is an update available.

Please keep in mind that I really love the tethering on my unlimited data plan and would like to keep a way to do that.

So should I try to side load the update to get to 4.04 or go back to stock? and start over.

Thanks for all the help

JamrD
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] JamrD:
Bump

Can anyone point me to a fix for this problem?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 30secondstosam:
Hi guys. I have the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 UK non LTW version. For some reason over the last 2 days, it's reset itself twice and gone to the Samsung black screen. No reason for it. I haven't installed anything in the last couple of days. I'm wondering whether the odd random reset is normal or should I get onto Three(3) to supply my with a replacement device?

Also, I used to be an iphone user (shudders) and one of the best things was the fact that you could back the phone up and if you needed a replacement, it would be like having your phone again with a new shell. Is there anything like this for Android? Installing 50odd apps again and changing settings on a new device will be a right pain in the arse.

Cheers for the help
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee2012:
If you are rooted you can backup user apps and settings with Titanium Backup or make a nandroid (CWM) backup. If you are not rooted you can use an app like AppMonster to backup apps (but no data i`am afraid).

So make a backup and save important files to the pc and do a data/factory reset in backup and restore. If that doesn`t help you might reflash the rom with Odinv3 3.04. Good luck mate :)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 30secondstosam:
Thanks pal. Shame about the lack of data backup.

Quick question – By rooting it, will I be on Android 5.0 quicker than if I didn't root? And will I lose functionality? Just weighing up the pros and cons now
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee2012:
Rooting will not limit functionality in regards to Samsung apps and will add a lot of extra goodies, and yes if you are rooted you will get quicker upgrades (custom rom`s and leaked stock versions). We are allready running 4.1.2 ;)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 30secondstosam:
So I don't use the stylus functionality?? That's cool. Tempted to root...
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xwingkiller:
do you have amazon appstore? mine started doing this too. it may be coincidence...but it always happens when i get a notification saying amazon store has an update available.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 30secondstosam:
Nahh I don't. I'm trying to figure out what i've installed recently that could have caused it!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 30secondstosam:
What's the best ROM then :)?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jiggykilla:
I was wondering if anybody has this problem, my battery gets very hot while playing games like temple run or angry bird! I'm on paranoid ROM 2.99.

Spilled from my Atrix4g utilizing Tapatalk
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tatperson:
My battery never gets hot, but the processor always does. Is the warm spot at the bottom of the phone? Because if it is, then its the processor, which is very normal for a dual-core/ quad-core phones when doing tasks like heavy gaming etc.

Sent from the world's (once) most powerful smartphone.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gradd:
i had issues before as well, i was on nottach an overclocked kernel 1.3ghz, not just a normal heatup coz it really smells burning circuits inside, just below the sim card slot where the processors are. :cyclops:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lovekeiiy:
I'm getting rapid battery drain issues while using MHL adapter. I'm still trouble shooting, but have to experiment more. In the mean time, I was thinking maybe someone may have some suggestions.

I just transition from the HTV Evo 4G. Great phone, but it's showing its age. I have a job with a lot of dead time. With the Evo, and Cyangenmod, I would mirror the phone onto a 16" HDTV and watch Netflix, Hulu, NFL, Crackle, Plex, play games and so forth. I would also WiFi tether so I could use my tablet to do email, web browser, IM and so forth. I had the phone over clocked and used the performance gov. If had the phone connect to a charger, it would actually charge, albeit slowly back up to a fully charge This is with the screen that new shut off while pausing a media, but set to the lowest brightness.

The GN2, nowhere near the performance. If I WiFi tether and stream some media and mirror to the TV via the MHL adapter, I loose around 20% battery.per hour. I have power save on. I use my tablets power adapter with outputs 2.1mah instead of the 1 like the one that comes with GN2. I still have the screen set to lowest brightness.

From the settings menu for battery, the screen takes up the most juice. This is expected. But I also streamed content on phone while charging and it did build up a charge, albeit very slow.

I'm thinking it may be the MHL adapter itselt. I have the have USB charger connected to work. It's possible the phone doesn't put out enough power to work the MHL adapter. I'm not certain, but it's possible the MHL adapter is only doing a trickle charge. I had it plugged in, but phone screen off, and looks like it draining the battery. I want to run a longer test to confirm.

I purchase a cheap MHL from monoprice. I had to get the 11pin to 5pin adapter to use it. I'm not sure it is the MHL or the adapter that may cause issues.

In the mean time, I changed the kernals to Persus. Hoping to get better performance, or higher charging capablities. It's improved slightly, maybe 18% drain per hour. I'm just using CPU Mater, free version. I upped the CPU to 1.8ghz, but the free version does include anything for the battery. I don't really want to spend the $3 on SetCPU because I don't know if there gov has a lot towards the battery charging mods.

Any ideas or suggestions?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] reinaldistic:
A. you are wrong, the charger that comes with our phone is 2 amps.

B. make sure you use the cable that came with the phone as it is rated for 2 amps, other cables will have too much resistance

C. it is normal for the mhl adapter to eat through your battery, maybe not as much as you are saying, but this phone uses the 11 pin mhl adapter which allows for FULL hd unlike older mhls/microhdmi ports so it is bound to murder your battery

D. I don't recommend you wirelessly tethering at the same time, my phone will eat through my battery like crazy with the screen turned off while tethering to play online games... this might be the root of your problem
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lovekeiiy:
I think you're right on the cable. I tried it at home, using the charger and cable that came with the phone. Did an hour of Netflix, WiFi tethered the tablet. Battery drain...1%

I'll guess I need to get new USB cables since I like to keep extras in various locations, LOL.

Also, I miss read the chrager. I shouldn't read when I'm too tired. The good news, my tablets 2.1A charger should be only a very low risk of too much power. I was concerned with it, when I thought the charger was 1A

I realize what I'm doing is power drain, but it should be doable is the phone is on a charger. I'm not necessarily expecting it to charge back up, but I figure in the six to seven hours, a reasonable drain on the charger should be maybe 30%. This is only an assumption since I don't know how much the screen drains the battery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] reinaldistic:
there is no risk of overcharging from amperage, the phone will take what it wants and not use the rest... you could have a 500 amp charger yet our phone would only use the 2 amps it's rated for. The problem comes from voltage if you have to much voltage then you overcharge.

you also fail to realize that the phone takes a lot of juice to convert it's image into a standard hdmi signal, it's the difference between you talking to yourself and you trying to make someone else understand you... the processor has to act as a graphics card, a sound card and its usual processing needs... the epic 4g touch ate just as much power per hour while on mhl yet it was only outputting 16:9 480p

as for getting more cables be careful and ensure they can handle the 2 amp drop
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] lovekeiiy:
Well, it seemed the biggest culprit was not the cable, but the charger. I actually brought the Samsung charger to work. I was only getting around 2% to 5% battery drain per hour. It was really low.

Unfortunately my ignorence on electricity is showing. I'm not seeing why such a dramatic difference between the Samsung and ASUS (TF700T tablet) chargers. Their readings are similar but not exact:

ASUS: Input: 100-240V 50/60Hz 0.5A, Output: 5V==2A or 15V==1.2A

Samsung: Input 100-240V 50/60Hz 0.35A, Output 5V ==2.0A

As for cables, I'm not sure where I can go to find good USB cables that work as well or better than the one that came with the phone. Usually I just go to monoprice, but that's where I got my other cables.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] goodpup420:
BlackBerry cables r usually more beefy than others since they are rated for data transfer. whenever flashing through Odin that's what I use never had a problem. assuming it's the same for charging. they usually only run like 5 bucks too
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] reinaldistic:
they might be beefy, but still have ****ty materials. it all depends on the impedance of the cable... if you have a multimeter check the resistance on the cables and compare them to the stock
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Yellowfriedrice:
The problem I encountered must be the worst problem ever! For some reason my nexus reboot randomly and its not just a regular reboot but it reboot as a DEEP FREEZE. So basically once it rebooted, it goes back to a same specific point of time. I can't even delete stuff from the phone, for example if I deleted 1GB of music off my phone, after few second the phone will reboot automatically OR if i reboot the phone myself the 1GB of music would be back in my phone. Like WTH? I am completely lost. I have no idea how it happened, but I know it happened after I installed Paranoid Android AOSP 2.99 beta5. I was fine when flashing Paranoid Android 1,3,4. ALSO I cannot do a factory reset or install a factory rom. It just go back to 4.2.1 AOSP 2.99 beta5...

please guys, if anyone can help me that would be great. If you guys need more explaining please email or PM me. I will be glad to write a whole essay on what you guys need to know to help me out. Thank you
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] beekay201:
Go back to stock and start fresh.

Sent from my i9250
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Yellowfriedrice:
That didn't work either. I tried going back to stock but it didn't do anything, I keep booting into 2.99 beta5. I was able to get into recovery mode but I think that when it load the "Google" boot up screen, that's when it start the deep freeze process. Do you get what I mean though? I can post a video to show you guys what I mean. So like if I wanted to flash another ROM I have to go into recovery, but before getting to recovery, you have to go through the "Google" loading screen correct? Then when I get into recovery to flash, the ROM is not there..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ahmadallica:
Which "ROM" is not there? Do you have any flashable zip of any ROM on your internal sdcard to flash? :confused:

I think you should go ahead and post a video so it will be much easier to understand what is going on exactly then hopefully we can help you here :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] n-0-s:
You cant brick a nexus! Try making a jig with this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKRrTZayRxU Then get download odin and an img file of whatever rom you want and flash it through odin. Problem should be solved.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] khuzema9:
man what i think is you should download nexus toolkit , i think its latest edition is 10. something and try to reflash your stock image and recovery . just try that.

---------- Post added at 08:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:27 PM ----------

did something work out
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] altimax98:
Based on the language used in the OP I think he used a toolkit to root/unlock his Nexus and that's why he knows nothing about his device and how to fix it.

OP- look up fastboot images nexus and follow what you read. Basicly you should download the fastboot images and flash them all in fastboot. Then start from scratch again
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ahmadallica:
That's right and probably the cleanest way of going out of this mess. Here is a thread that can help you accomplish that:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1626895

Read the instructions carefully because this will delete all your data including the internal (and only) sdcard of your GNex, so consider the backup part of that thread very well.

Good Luck :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Yellowfriedrice:
still didn't work

I couldn't use the driver from the thread you sent, it says "access denied" and I tried to disable windows signature verification but that didn't work either. So I thought maybe I'll use the driver from Nexus toolkit. I manage to complete all the steps from the instruction to the core except for the driver but it still didn't work. It would not erase the 2.99 beta5 and so I cannot go back to stock. Perhaps I should try to use the driver from the thread but I just don't know how to get pass the signature verification when installing the driver. Assist me if you can please. Thank you
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ahmadallica:
I really have not done anything to my GNex via Windows becuse I am using Ubuntu Linux so I have not experienced installing these drivers on Windows. I also have neither returned my phone to stock before nor used the Nexus toolkit. I am doing everything manually.

I think you are referring to the drivers in this page. If you are using Windows 8 then there are some steps mentioned on how to get pass the driver signature enforcement.

If you are on Windows 7, then look here.

Just to confirm something else because I did not read that you have done it, did you try wiping system, factory reset, cache and dalvik cache from the recovery then install any other flashable zip of a ROM on your sdcard (if you have) and still nothing is erased and you are stuck on the same ROM?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Yellowfriedrice:
Yes, I have but that didn't seem to work either. I put a flashable ROM into the internal memory when it was rebooted, when I tried to go into recovery the file is not there anymore. Its because the phone erases everything that was placed into the internal during the Google reboot process. I even tried using the nexus toolkit to flash a stock ROM, the procedure went through successfully but it still loads 2.99 beta5.

I will try to post a video as soon as I buy a webcam.. But a webcam is cheaper than a nexus phone right now so I don't mind. lol
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ahmadallica:
You may try to boot into recovery then use "adb push" to send the file to your sdcard from your computer. If the file is sent successfully, then you can find it in the recovery and install it thus escape the reboot problem.

Hope this works! :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Yellowfriedrice:
still no good.. used the recovery sideload to push but it still didn't work.

tried odin but that didn't work either.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ahmadallica:
Was there any progress of pushing the file then it did not appear in your recovery or it did not show any progress at all of being pushed?

I have experienced this and used to push the file two times (one after another while still in recovery mode) in order to successfully find the file in recovery. Give it a try and good luck :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Yellowfriedrice:
I pushed it before and while it was in recovery mode. Tried both ways but I didnt see any file in there.

I also just noticed that all the files within the folders are missing. The folders are there but when I go into any folders, it said no files found within the folders.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] altimax98:
Thank Goodness im not the only one who has this issue... Bugs the crap outta me lol..

To the OP:

Try this, 1: make sure your an admin on your PC. From the sounds of it you may not be if it said 'access denied'. 2: Plug your nexus in while in the 'device manager' section of windows. 3: Find the new device and delete it. Delete anything that says Android ADB or Android anything or galaxy Nexus or Galaxy phone. Just delete them. Windows will warn you but do it anyways... 4: reboot the pc. 5: Plug your nexus back in, it should either install the device or fail. At that point find and download the newest samsung naked drivers and use the option on windows to install driver from disk and navigate to your unzipped folder.

That is the sure fire way to get it working again. Sorry to say if you still have driver issues then your doing something wrong. Do alot of reading and the answer will show itself.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] andythegreenguy:
1. Can you boot your phone into fastboot mode?

2. If so, once in fastboot mode, what happens when you connect the phone to the computer?

It is very very difficult to brick a nexus, so don't worry... :).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ahmadallica:
Sorry for not being able to help you better. I'm sure that others who are familiar with Windows can help you overcome your earlier issues with drivers and so on thus be able to return to stock and start fresh :)

Good Luck :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Yellowfriedrice:
OKAY i tried everything.. nothing seem to work.. selling my nexus!