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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nklopfen:
Hi all,

Yesterday my SGS2 froze up and now it won't boot. It's behaving like it's soft-bricked but nothing I've tried has worked so far. I'm posting to see if anybody has any last-ditch efforts to fix it or at least get some more information about what's wrong.

I have a I9100 which has been running CM for about six months, currently 10.1. Everything was working normally until it froze so I don't think the problem is related to flashing the ROM. The phone was plugged in to the wall when it froze.

After it froze, it boots to the SGS2 logo screen, with a yellow triangle on it, and it hangs there indefinitely (does not loop).

When I tried to enter recovery mode (CWM), it would also hang indefinitely. Download mode, however, works correctly.

I tried to reinstall the firmware using Kies. It recognizes the phone when I plug it in in download mode, but shortly after starting the update process it gives me this error message in Korean, which I can't read or copy to translate.

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It gives the same error message on a different PC with a different USB cable, by the way.

I downloaded the original firmware and tried to flash it using ODIN. It took the requisite 5 minutes and ODIN indicated success (green box, no error messages), but nothing changed.

I tried to flash the firmware using Heimdall, and it did not succeed--after a short time it said something like 'Correct response not received' and exited. No blue bar showed on the phone's screen like it did when I was flashing with ODIN.

I tried to flash a recovery kernel using Heimdall, which did apparently succeed--blue bar and it rebooted. But it still won't boot and also the counter on the download mode screen didn't change.

At this point I'm fairly sure it's beyond my ability to fix without special equipment, but I still wonder if there's something else I can try. I'd like to know whether the problem is fixable at all, for one thing.

I'd also like to know if that Kies error message says anything useful--couldn't find anything about it by searching. Also does anyone know if Kies leaves a log file that might have information in it? I can't find one.

I'm thinking that it's giving some error code which ODIN is ignoring (but Kies and Heimdall are not) and there's probably something wrong with the flash memory, since the download counter isn't updating.

Thanks in advance and sorry for the long post.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nklopfen:
I've figured out what's the matter and it doesn't seem to be coming up on any searches, so I'll leave it here in case anybody is unlucky enough to have the same problem.

Although recovery mode looks like it just gets stuck, it actually does boot enough that I can enter with adb. There, everything looks to be fine. However, comparing the dmesg output to what some other people have posted, one line is different:

<3>[ 1.116810] c0 mmc0: PERM_WRITE_PROTECT was set.

Uh oh. That doesn't sound good.

"The CSD register of the SD interface contains a write-once bit called PERM_WRITE_PROTECT that does the follow (quoting) "Permanently protects the entire card content against overwriting or erasing (all write and erase commands for this card are permanently disabled). The default value is 0, i.e. not permanently write protected."

So it looks like a hard brick after all. It must have been the power like I thought.

Does anyone know whether this can actually be turned off in any way, or whether it's like a fuse in the on-board memory? Wondering if it's fixable by any means.
[HTC Droid DNA] mike2246:
anyone else having problems with the Mic? I've noticed if I hold the phone on my right ear the Mic is at the bottom and people I talk to complain, if the phone is on my left ear the Mic is on top and people say it sounds great
[HTC Droid DNA] iOSh8er:
I have people complain that they can not hear me, especially while driving my car (loud exhaust). But I have not noticed that switching sides helps.
[HTC One X] Slaverty:
Ok, so I've now downloaded a different boot.img which should be for stock ics and after flashing that, then flashing stock recovery and doing a system restore via bootloader I will 50% of the time get the lock screen and when I unlock it I see the white HTC screen of the initial setup, then it sticks there a while and reboots. It also reboots after left at the lock screen.

To me this seems like it's doing a check or looking for a certain piece of software/file that's missing but is required to finish the start-up process. Anyone any ideas?

Even if someone can point me in the right direction for an RRU for my phone as football's RRU's seem to be the only one that has the one I need but as of 5 days before all this happened the site they're hosted on doesn't allow 500+MB downloads for free members :(

Cheers,

Sean

**EDIT** Just done a full device wipe then restored only the SYSTEM partition and manually flashed the boot, then when I restarted it sat on the white HTC on the device setup but eventually loaded up, allowed me to complete the device setup and then loaded into the OS. All seemed fine aside from the phone being stuck in turning off airplane mode. Rebooted it to see if that would clear it up and now I'm back to bootloops before the lock screen appears (I just get my background and status bar)
[HTC One X] Mr Hofs:
So you have a nandroid backup ! Then do this

Wipe all in recovery and i mean ALL except the sdcard obvious ! ;) system,data,caches,dalvik cache...

Then boot back into fastboot usb mode and flash the boot.img from the nandroid. Taken with TWRP the boot.img is called something like

Emmc.boot.win (or at least similar to this)

You can flash this file with fastboot command

Fastboot flash boot name of the boot.img (.win in this case)

Then enter the recovery and full wipe if you didn't o that already !

Restore the nandroid and boot it up :thumbup:

Should work
[HTC One X] Slaverty:
Perfect! Thanks so much man, I never even thought to flash the .wim, thought it had to be .img. Just successfully booted fully back into my old system. Hopefully will stay stable the next hour or so but looking good!

Thanks again,

Sean
[HTC One X] sfawad81:
Need help!!!

I'm facing the same problem with my device, i have ulocked bootloader from HTCdev and flash TWRP recovery, was trying to flash Maximus but unfortunately after flashing Maximus in TWRP my device stuck on boot logo. :eek:

Hboot: 1.12.0000

CID: HTC__J15

version-main: 2.17.415.2

Please help.:rolleyes:
[HTC One X] TToivanen:
Did you flash boot.img through fastboot?

Sent from my HTC One X
[HTC One X] sfawad81:
Yes, the one came with Android_Fastboot_KIT_V12.x
[HTC One X] Mr Hofs:
And make sure you flash a 2.17 based ICS rom. You can not run the maximus JB rom on that 1.12 hboot !
[HTC One X] sfawad81:
Then, i have done the mistake there. Now, please guide me what i need to do to get out of this problem.

I have forget to mention my device still S-ON

Please guide, sorry for troubling.
[HTC One X] Mr Hofs:
Download a 2.17 ics Rom and copy it to the phone (mount the sdcard within the recovery as a usb disk)

Take the boot.img file from that rom and copy it to the tool you used to flash it

Then enter the recovery and wipe EVERYTHING except sdcard ofcourse !!! (Cache,dalvik cache, system and data)

Then install the Rom.zip
[HTC One X] sfawad81:
Thank you so much.
[HTC One X] Mr Hofs:
No problem mate ! :thumbup:
[HTC One X] Slaverty:
If you're looking for a Rom, I've got hboot 1.12 as well and tried a few ROMs and only ones I got working were:

Team Baked, based on jellybean though still works with 1.12. No Sense though, and a few things weren't to my liking (to name a couple,backlights on buttons didn't work and multitask button was switched back to menu button like in older devices)

SkyDragon, ics ROM with sense. Only had this a short while but appeared to be an exact stock ROM, everything working the way it should, and with a few added extra improvements.

Good luck :)
[HTC One X] sfawad81:
Is there anyway to restore it to the backup i have made with TWRP which is still in the sdcard???
[HTC One X] BenPope:
Yes.

Copy the boot.img from the backup to your PC (you can mount SD card as USB from TWRP), flash it:

fastboot flash boot boot.img

And restore backup from TWRP.
[HTC One X] Slaverty:
Yeah, if you follow Mr hofs 1st post on the 1st page he describes all the steps required to restore. Worked perfectly for me :)
[HTC One X] sfawad81:
Thanks alot, got it back as it was before.
[HTC One X] sfawad81:
Need to clear a doubt; will I be able to update my device with the OTA, as my device is unlocked, S-ON & TWRP installed?
[HTC One X] Slaverty:
I hope so, I'm in the same boat as you. From what I've been reading, it should still be possible as long as you put back the stock recovery and relock the bootloader.

This website offers links to download the stock recovery

http://www.androidauthority.com/one-x-revert-stock-recovery-76854/

As for relocking the bootloader, I think the process is to run this command whilst in Fast Boot USB mode

fastboot oem lock

After it's run there should be a purple "RELOCKED" at the top of your bootloader menu.

Remember to flash the recovery BEFORE you relock the bootloader ;)
[HTC One X] Mr Hofs:
You do not have to lock the bootloader, just the stock recovery is needed ....

Stock rom (out of the box stock)

Stock boot.img

Stock recovery

Here is the 2.17 based stock recovery for those who needs it

http://db.tt/U5CK4noo
[HTC One X] sfawad81:
Sir, when i trired to flash the above stock recovery it's failed with the msg below:

C:\Android>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

sending 'recovery' (5812 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.858s]

writing 'recovery'...

FAILED (remote: not allowed)

finished. total time: 1.069s

Please advise.
[HTC One X] Mr Hofs:
Did u have the bootloader unlocked ? Seems its locked
[HTC One X] sfawad81:
Yes, it was locked, thanks alot sirf its done.
[HTC One X] dekkien:
i tried the steps but when flashing win it says signature verification failed,, my device is htc desire 820 a51-dtul s-on
[HTC One X] Mr Hofs:
Then you are in the very

wrong

forum ! go to your

device specific forum

and seek help there or open a thread in the

Q&A

there so people can help you
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] johnowenstko:
Does anybody know of a way to export a s note idea sketch with an embedded video to a format that any smart phone could open? Stock export only wants to let me export to a format that won't let the video play on the other end.
[Motorola Atrix HD] CooLoserTech:
Not too long ago (40 some min.) the brown man delived my new atrix hd. Im still setting it up. Im just finished restoring root for JB.

Is there any kinds of things that you guys recommend I should do with the AHD other than a case and screen protector?

Thanks :)
[Motorola Atrix HD] Shawn_87:
Replace with nova launcher and you can get the beta 2.0 version right on xda. Com it just came out and it's awesome
[Motorola Atrix HD] Hemotherapy:
Where's this nova launcher beta?
[Motorola Atrix HD] CooLoserTech:
I was thinking about doing that but im REALLY loving this moto/stock android look and feel on JB
[Motorola Atrix HD] Shawn_87:
YouTube it, a guy named smoking aces has a link rite under the video
[Motorola Atrix HD] ayo234:
Check out the video player it has a slow mo mode. Download the 4.2 keyboard on the play store
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] ergott:
Hey Everyone,

I know a lot of you have the issue with Google voice not showing the correct number. However my request is slightly different. I live in Nova Scotia. and set up google voice while in the states last month. I used it quite a bit while I was down there. Since being home I have attempted to use it, and it does connect find, have my local number verified and everything. When I got my bill last month the numbers were all routed via a toronto number. So i have added that to my "Fav10"

Do you know if there is any app/way to have the number that google voice connects to "show" on my phone? It appears that some Dialers do show this number however mine currently doesn't.

I just want to be able to see this so I can ensure I don't get any long distance charges when I use google voice :)

Any suggestions you may have would be great.

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Venomstar:
How to overclock SGM with baseband ddkq7.

thanks in advance:confused:
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] chemicalrage:
You ll lose battery life when you overclock. Trust me, its just not worth it.
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Gurniwa:
are you any using custom ROM ?

which ROM do you use ?
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Venomstar:
No

No GB official 2.3.6 ddkq7
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] Gurniwa:
Agreed with chemicalrage, you'll loose battery life plus overheat risk.

If you still insist, try no frills CPU control from play store...but DO read about the app first.
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] KawaiiKami:
noob question...

Search boy, search...is it hard to type in Google Play "Overclock" ?

and then: set the minimum to what you want( i recommend 200mhz) and maximum i recommend 780mhz

"On our planet PP-8(Peppa Pig on our planet, WeAreWeird) can fly." says WAW-S52414
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] scufy:
My friend, for you everyone put "stupid question"or "noob question" what's your problem? this section is for Q&A , not everyone is Einstein like you :silly:
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] ast00:
You don't nee to be Einstein to use google play store...
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] KawaiiKami:
He is right...
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] F4uzan:
I think it's better ask n00bish question, rather doing a n00bish action and lead to bricking device ;) right ?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jassin000:
I have a USA Galaxy Note that has been updated to UEALI3 and was rooted with chainfire's enos exploit app. I would like to dump the stock recovery partiton but I can not get it to work. I have run this command in terminal...

su

cat proc/mtd

At this point I'm told file dose not exist. I also used...

su

dd if=recovery-partiton of=/sdcard/recovery.img

This says my path is invalid. Please help, it seems many people are looking for this stock recovery for future OTA updates. I would like to provide it so it can be packaged into a Odin flashable *.tar for them and for my future use incase I want a Nandroid backup with CWR.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jassin000:
74 views and still no one has a answer? The recovery partiton is said to be one of the easiest to dump... I only need the revised command to enter into terminal, come on guys!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jassin000:
Bumping
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] cbucz24:
OK, quick question for anyone who may know. I've seen there's separate threads for the different versions of the note2.

My question is, are the ROMs built using different proprietary files and are ROMs interchangeable? Or are they different?

I've looked around an I can't seem to find model numbers or anything that explains otherwise.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] reinaldistic:
yes the roms are built specifically for their device, that's why they have separate threads. if you put different model roms in your device they will have trouble figuring out your hardware and probably won't work appropriately
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vivek_Neel:
Problem with incoming calls..android.phone has stopped it shows

On revolt ROM version 2.8.2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukode:
Try with fix permission in recovery menu and/or wipe cache.

Enviado desde mi GT-I9100 usando Tapatalk 2
[Sprint LG Optimus G] theshamrockking:
Does anyone know where to find the lifetime call timer log? Trying to find out how much time I have actually spent on the phone since purchase. Can't find it anywhere.

Sent from my DROIDX
[Sprint LG Optimus G] rsjc741:
Try the mobile sprint website.

It should of been your default homepage on the browser.

It's the same thing as seeing your monthly usage, and that's practically the closest you'll get, I believe.

Sent from my LG Optimus Prime G
[Sprint LG Optimus G] theshamrockking:
Yea I'm looking for more of like a info pane where it would say it I know that they exist as ivy seen it on the evo OG in the programing menu and on the spectrum In the system info pane. But can't find it anywhere on the LGOG.

Sent from my DROIDX
[Sprint LG Optimus G] rsjc741:
Considering the two phones are made by two completely different phone companies, I'd have to say if it's not there, it's not there.

I don't see why you'd want it to begin with

Sent from my LG Optimus Prime G
[Sprint LG Optimus G] REDFOCZ:
I have the at&t version but I get to it by, menu key, settings, call, call duration, money.

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[Sprint LG Optimus G] theshamrockking:
Dang, looks like us with the sprint don't have that there. I know it must be somewhere hidden then.

Sent from my DROIDX
[Sprint LG Optimus G] RayTrue04:
Try ##786# if a menu pops up hit view. That's where I find it on my galaxy phones and I think it works on my htc too.
[Sprint LG Optimus G] \m/:
##RTN# (##786#) > View Detail

No need to have root or MSL/SPC. Also keep in mind this is device based, not account based.
[Sprint LG Optimus G] RayTrue04:
I never understood why people do this when the above poster already did... mine wasn't good enough? :confused: :banghead:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Sunsparc:
ROM: Blazer ROM 2.0

Kernel: Ktoon (whatever is included with Blazer 2.0)

Problem: The minimum CPU scale keeps resetting itself up to 1Ghz, which causes my phone to get warm since it's running at a higher frequency instead of dropping down to the normal 384. I keep changing it in SetCPU (since KTweaker was not included) and I even have Set On Boot checked, but it still changes itself every once and a while.

Has anyone else experienced this or know what to do?

Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] freeza:
This is just the msm8960 chipset's behavior. It's completely normal. It's kind of annoying but normal.

Maybe your kernel dev can make it not do that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Sunsparc:
This didn't happen when I was on AOKP though.

The scaling seems to be stuck at full throttle right now and I can figure out how to get it to go down.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Sunsparc:
The battery usage menu is showing that Android System is taking up over 60% of the battery. I've been going 6 hours on charge at 57% and this is with a Hyperion 4200mAH battery, which absolutely should not happen.

I'm this close to flashing back to AOKP. :(
[Galaxy S III Mini General] aavvaallooss:
Not needed/redundant STOCK apps safely deleted with Titanium BackUp:

1. Chat On (Personally I use WhatsApp)

2. Chrome (I prefer Dolphin Browser)

3. E Mail (I keep G Mail instead)

4. Game Hub (Play Store is enough for me)

5. Google + (I use FaceBook only)

6. Help (Read XDA instead!!!)

7. Internet (Dolphin!!!)

8. Messenger (WhatsApp)

9. Play Movies (I don´t see movies in my phone)

10. Play Books (Same)

11. S Suggest (Google Play)

12. S Voice (Keep Voice Search of Google Now)

13. Samsung Apps (Google Play)

14. Talk (WhatsApp again)

15. Video Hub (Same as Play Movies)

16. Video Player (I choose MX Player)

Suggestions are accepted, of course.

Don´t forget 3 little things:

-Do a full BackUp first at all!!!

-Freeze the App before deleting it. And if it all keep working delete safely

-Clean up Dalvik cache

UPDATE: Also dafe to remove:

1. User manual

2. Yahoo Finances

3. Yahoo News

4. Live Wallpapers
[Galaxy S III Mini General] ppero196:
*Mood change*

I see now that this thread is great.

Good job
[Galaxy S III Mini General] aavvaallooss:
OK,

Admin can delete this post if you are right.

I only want to post which apps are SAFE to remove.

Sorry.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] geert000:
i like posts like these, i not so familiar witjh what i can remove and what not.

So its alwaus usefull if i can gind some help
[Galaxy S III Mini General] quendil:
I also like thread like these! When we get a root and a recovery, treads like these can be used to lighten our official ROMs!
[Galaxy S III Mini General] ppero196:
I edited my post above
[Galaxy S III Mini General] quendil:
Just found out about this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2058944

Relevant thread and "fun" conversations:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2058944

:victory:
[Galaxy S III Mini General] cheech01:
Not working in the moment Galaxy S III Mini has not CWM
[Galaxy S III Mini General] quendil:
Dont know yet, havent tried it on our phone.

But this article http://www.xda-developers.com/android/easily-remove-bloatware-from-your-rom-via-recovery/ specifies that it might work on stock recovery.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] aavvaallooss:
CWM

Until a version of CWM will be avaible for our phone, pre-rooted stock firmware is the only option I know.

I think using Titanium BackUp manually is our only choice for lighten our official ROM.

Dou you agree with me?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] aavvaallooss:
Battery

I choose to delete these apps no for getting free memory, because 4,5 GB are enough for me (My former phone only had 221 MB!!!). I choose to do it for keeping bloatware draining my battery running in background or whenever you use them.

For this is also useful useful 2 easy "tricks":

1. AdFree

2. Droid Wall

A lot of "free" apps use bandwith (and battery) everytime you use them. Keeping them to access internet you save both bandwith and battery.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] quendil:
t

What i personally do is go the Settings > Applications and disable every app that i dont need.

This is a new Jelly Bean feature!

You guys can try it until a cwm or root will be available for our device.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] aavvaallooss:
Doing that does these apps re-enable on next reboot? I need something permanent.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] ppero196:
Its permanent.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] aavvaallooss:
CWM

There is a ClockWorkMod ROM manager for Samsung Galaxy Mini and for Samsung Galaxy III but no yet for our S III Mini:

http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager
[Galaxy S III Mini General] jazzzy786:
You can use bloatware remover also (free from play store) it also has option to backup
[Galaxy S III Mini General] swagmeister:
I need to revome a ton of stuff. Thanks!