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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.mash:
Hello,

I read a lot of threads but nothing worked and now I just want to now if my handy is dead! I hope you can give me some information. Maybe some solutions.

Here is my actual situation:

On day my handy was turned off. I tried to turn it on but it keeps in a bootloop. Only the first GT-!9100 was seen and it restarts.

I took out the battery and started it again. Then it booted until the message "App 1 of 1 will be optimized". I waited a long time (about 2 hours) and nothing happend. I took out the battery and tried to boot again. Same problem like at the beginning - again bootloop.

Then I tried to get in recovery mode. It worked! I wiped the cache and restartet my handy. But again bootloop. Now I couldn't get into recovery mode. The droid was lying with a red triangle and my handy restartet automatically. So I tried the download mode. It worked! I downloaded from sammobile the actual firmware I9100XWLSD_I9100DBTLS7_DBT. I tried to flash it with odin v3 1.85 over the PDA button. I connected the handy with odin it tells me that he found my handy and I started to flash. It stucks at cache.img. I waited over night. Nothing happend. Still stucking on cache.img. I took my battery out an dwhen I put it back an started may handy I get now the yellow triangle "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again."

So tried another one with three parts and PIT. In this time with re-partition in odin. But same procedure. I stucked at cache.img.

I still have the yellow triangle and I only can get into download mode.

Then I heard from soft/hard brick problem. I also tried the solution with only flashing the PIT. But no success :(

So I tried a custom kernel Clockwork Mode Recovery (GT-I9100_JB_ClockworkMod-Recovery_6.0.2.9.tar) to get in recovery mode back. I tried to flash but it stuicks again at "NAND write". I waited again. Nothing happend. So I restarted my handy with tooking out the battery and putting it back again. But in download mode I see that my handy has a custom binary! So it worked. But I can't get into recovery mode of Clockwork :(

I also tried CF-Root. Here the same problem!

What's wrong with my handy? Is it broken? I've heard maybe I have to re-partition my hand over adb but I found nothing.

One thing is that for half a year I had a problem with my internal SD. It could not mount. After a update of the firmware (luckiely there was a new one!) over OTA it worked again. Maybe I have really a problem with my internal memory...

I hope I have give you all neede information to analyze my problem and I hope really you can help me. If not then it would be good to know if my handy is dead.

Thanks in advance

Best regards,

mr.mash
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neerajganga:
do u have your phone in warranty ?

also as u can get into download mode try flashing kernel stock kernel first then the flash the stock rom (3 way package) .. do not use pit

pit shud b the last option
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndDiSa:
I can image that the following happened to your phone (not sure, only a guess):

- you were on Android 2.3.x or 4.0.x

- there was on OTA update to 4.0.4 which caused the 'updating Apps' message

- for what reason ever it was not able to update all apps successfully

- you went to recovery and *wiped*!

Being on 4.0.4 this bricked your phone due to the emmc brick bug. After that all flashing / booting / etc. will fail ...

If this is the case, there is not much to do. There is a program and a thread to modify the partition table to make it re-useable, but only in special cases.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.mash:
Hello,

thanks for your answers.

[MENTION=3963883]neerajganga[/MENTION]:

No warranty anymore :( I tried the stock firmware from sammobile (I9100XWLSD_I9100DBTLS7_DBT) in Odin with PDA. But I get stucked on cache.img. Or is there another stock kernel I can use?

[MENTION=2188693]AndDiSa[/MENTION]:

I was on the latest stock firmware 4.1.2.

Do you know where I can find this threat to modify the partition table to make it re-useable?

Thanks

Best regards,

Mike
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neerajganga:
well 4.1.2 does not have the brick bug

did u try reinstallin the drivers and also use another usb port ?

---------- Post added at 11:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:53 PM ----------

also u mite wanna read this about emmc brick bug

u can find the extended pit for i9100 here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2094564
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndDiSa:
Tee thread is http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1823918, but if you were already on 4.1.2, you should be save. Probably it's something different and I was wrong.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.mash:
[MENTION=3963883]neerajganga[/MENTION]:

I used a different PC with a different version of Windows (WIN7 on the 1st PC and WIN XP on the 2nd one). Same problem. Odin keeps stucking on cache.img :'(

I read the thread of the emmc brick bug but my problem is that for solution one I can't flash Siyeh Kernel 5.0.1 because of stucking with odin.

For the 2nd solution I need to get in recovery mode and this is not possible because of the yellow triangle.

[MENTION=2188693]AndDiSa[/MENTION]:

The thread says that it is possible to use the scanner manually in adb. Does it mean I can use it without going into recovery mode? If yes, would it be possible to explain to me how I can do it in few steps?

Thanks.

Best regards,

mr.mash
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neerajganga:
u can still try flashing a kernel
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndDiSa:
ADB is useable only in recovery mode or on a running system, unfortunately neither of those are working for you currently :(

Sorry, but currently I don't know what else you could try.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testadeferro:
Try to go in recovery mode and format the whole device inside recovery. Try to use odin to flash a recovery if your device doesn't boot in to. If you're successfully then try from there to flash a kernel and a zip from stock rom.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Key word: pit file

Reason for flashing a pit file: unknown

Solution: flash another pit file

Odds: hard brick, mobo change.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.mash:
[MENTION=3963883]neerajganga[/MENTION]:

Which kernel should I try else? I used CF-Root and Siyeh Kernel 5.0.1. Can you give me some more information? Thanks.

[MENTION=2188693]AndDiSa[/MENTION]:

Nevermind. Thanks for your help.

[MENTION=4506118]testadeferro[/MENTION]

I tried to flash GT-I9100_JB_ClockworkMod-Recovery_6.0.2.9. Odin stucked. After it I tried to get in recovery mode - no chance.

What kind of recovery should i use else?

[MENTION=5015324]gastonw[/MENTION]

I tried to flash only the PIT file with re-partition in odin of different threads. Same problem. Odin stucked. And for flashing a PIT for emmc bricks I need to know the brick start and brick end to choose the right one and for this I need to go into recovery mode.

Thanks.

Best regards,

mr.mash
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neerajganga:
were u able to flash siyah kernel successfully ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Yeah, you need to know what part of your memory is corrupted in order to flash the right pit file. Now tell me something, are you 100% sure your nand was corrupted?

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testadeferro:
If he gets in download mode isn't time for mobo replacement but for a jtag maybee or riff box.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neerajganga:
[MENTION=1047546]mr.mash[/MENTION]

try this pit : http://www.mediafire.com/?3nw116ctfd9nqq2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Not just yet.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neerajganga:
[MENTION=1047546]mr.mash[/MENTION]

also once u done flashing the pit i mentioned above ... flash a stock kernel first .. then flash the entire rom
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.mash:
[MENTION=3963883]neerajganga[/MENTION]:

I used CF-Root and Siyeh Kernel 5.0.1. and Odin stucks. The left upper corner says "Kernel" and the green barrel is full but in the message there is no complete or success info. It just freezes. When I turn my handy on I get the yellow triangle and I can't get into recovery mode. When I'm in the download mode it shows me that I have a custom binary. So I think it worked but no boot or recovery mode possible.

No success with the PIT file. I choosed re-partiton and only your PIT file but Odin stucked.

[MENTION=5015324]gastonw[/MENTION]:

I don't know it exactly. First there was the bootloop then it wanted to optimize 1 of 1 app. After wipe cache no recovery mode anymore. That's why I tried the custom roms. I just can give you the information what I see in Odin and on my phone.

How can I know that my USB drivers are not working correct. In Odin I get the yellow ID:COM with my COM port shown. I tried now a different PC and there I just installed the USB drivers. No KIES. And still the same problem with my phone.

Maybe I really have to re-partiton my phone but right now I didn't found something to try it out. Maybe you can give me some information about it.

Thanks.

Best regards,

mr.mash
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
But you did flash a pit file right?

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.mash:
I tried it but everything stucks with ODIN. The last PIT file from neerajganga just shows me in the above left corner "Set Partition" and in the message it shows "Set PIT file..." and "DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!". Then it stucks. Nothing happend anymore.

I think I can bury my phone...

Best regards,

mr.mash
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testadeferro:
No. Try someone in your area that has a ns riffbox. Generally they take care of such things.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.mash:
Okay I will try to find someone.

Right now I'm tired and I'll go to bed. I hope tomorrow will be a better day for my phone ;)

Thanks all for your help today. Hope we can bring my phone back to life :)

Just for info, I'll write back again tomorrow evening.

Good night,

mr.mash
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
testaferro, do you even know what a riffbox is?

OP: next time "read before you do"

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testadeferro:
Are you kidding? Solved 3 or more situations like him with riff boxes and made myself dozens of times handmade jigs!

Please before posting some dumb acusations read my profile and see ehat my occupation is. Not a noob.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Yeah, you're right, jtagging solves it all.

Hell of a business you're running.

Go save a tree.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testadeferro:
Lol. Peace bro!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Behave!

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testadeferro:
Look friend this is xda. This is a place for educated people. If you have your opinion I respect it. I've been silent for couple of posts while you ve been trying and good to remap the phone through pit. I know where it ends. The memory of the phone is corrupted and using pit files ends where it know is... when he sends phone to samsung they will replace mobo. But that is expensive. Maybe 150 usd or more. There's when riff boxes comming in. For 30 or 40 bucks he can do it for sure. Only need to find a store that has one. Riff boxes aren't dangerous like many noobs think. Jtag is dangerous and expensive. But could be a solution, but there are few people that can do it and its expensive. Further questions?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Behave! = Take care!

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.mash:
Good evening,

oh oh I don't wanted to activate a conflict :(

Today I tried another PC of a friend. He never had KIES on his computer. I installed the USB drivers for Samsung. Then rebooted his PC. Started ODIN pluged the phone and started flashing. Again Odin stucks :(

I think I really have to find someone who has got a riff box. Or I have to buy one ;)

Are there maybe another tricks I can try? Maybe the solution to re-partitioning the phone with adb. But for this I need more information. Do you know some?

Thanks

Best regards,

mr.mash
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
As I said before, you nees to keep trying.

I dunno what is it with people and kies, some can't live without it, some can't stand the sight of it.

At this point, I don't even know what you've flashed, if your nand is indeed corrupted either you flash a pit file blindly (you don't know where's the memory damaged) or try jtagging.

Here's a hint, one of those options won't fix crap.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testadeferro:
So long you keep flashing tons of things maybe you'll end in a full brick. Search somebody in your area that can help you further.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.mash:
Sorry, but I could not leave my phone :)

So I tried to flash the old bootloader with odin and it worked! But when I tried to boot my phone it keeps stucked on the Samsung logo with a yellow triangle. Recovery mode still doesn't worked.Then I tried to flash the original samsung firmware and odin stucked at "NAND Write Start!!" :(

After that I had the same info like at the beginning "Firmware encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again". So I decided to flash again the bootloader and this time it stucks also at "NAND Write Start!!" - WHY??? What I'm doing wrong. What does this means?

Thanks

Best regards,

mr.mash
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] king_below_my_lord:
This usually means that your nand is corrupted and you might have to replace your motherboard.

Edit : What I meant to say is your "handy is dead".
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
He can still flash a pit file, it's like shooting in the dark without scanning the memory via recovery, but well....it's either that or mobo search.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] king_below_my_lord:
If his blind flash succeeded we can help him out with the internal memory reduction by swapping with the external card, so op try out your luck, flash pits until you can get into recovery, the procedure should be like this flash pit, flash kernel with cwm, try booting into recovery, repeat until you succeed/fail. After getting into cwm follow this guide to the letter.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2058683
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Well, he could also end up in a hardbrick.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] king_below_my_lord:
That's what I meant by /fail didn't want to put it directly though, poor guy.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
He needs to start chewing this up.

He needs to know that he's already bricked. Once he realizes that, if he can get it to boot normally he'll be running running naked on the street with 150 bucks to spend in whatever but a new mobo.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr.mash:
Thanks all but now it happened...my phone is dead. I can't turn it on anymore. Even when I use another battery it doesn't work anymore.

The only idea is that I buy a phone with a broken display from ebay to change the motherboard. Is this easy to do?

Thanks again

Best regards,

mr.mash
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neerajganga:
u can either us ea riff box to recover ur dead phone or u can get urself a broken display s2 as u said and change ..
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testadeferro:
No. Because the mobo of the s2 is very well attached on the screen. Maybe you ruin both. Hope you hear me earlier and go with the phone to somebody with a riff box. Now its maybe late. Best wishrs after all.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gastonw:
Riff box don't fix nand; go for the mobo change.

Sent from the little guy
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] testadeferro:
Any (good) news?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjoc10@gmail.com:
same problem phone and firmware how did you fix it

Hi

I have the exact same problem that you had with your GT-I9100

I have the exact same phone and firmware I9100XWLSD_I9100DBTLS7_DBT

Please can you tell me how did you get it fixed?

Regards

Patrick
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] centex99:
In the past, I've never had to root a phone before flashing roms... I've seen a few tutorials on this phone and it seems after you install recovery, you have to use it to flash root before flashing any custom rom?

Is that true, or can you skip that step? If so, why do you have to root it before flashing over the file system?
[AT&T HTC One (M7)] gunnyman:
No.

The natural progression for most folks is to root and run their phones with stock for a while then get bored and install a rOM, but there's NO reason to root before moving right to a custom ROM
[Xperia Z Themes and Apps] bronxdude:
Hi guys!

just wanna ask if anyone of you has the preinstalled videos and pics from Z? kindly upload it for me pls. I lost mine.

Thanks
[Xperia Z Themes and Apps] indycar:
well if you counld do that you could also use the SEARCH button 1st because this is the xth thread with same question
[Xperia Z Themes and Apps] bronxdude:
tried that, but its not giving me the correct result.
[Xperia Z Themes and Apps] Dsteppa:
Sigh.

Url in my sig
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vaultboybos:
Not sure where to ask this but im looking to put the Sense 3.0 keyboard on my S3. The S3 board sucks and I LOVED the one I had on my Thunderbolt. I have tried a few different options using both apks and flashable keyboards and they do not work. The one i flashed did nothing and the apk kept force closing. Anybody have the files I need to make this work?

Straight from Vault 101
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] worf_1977:
Probably it is a matter releated to HTC's framework.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vaultboybos:
Thats what I figured the problem was I just didnt know if someone had ported it or anything.

Straight from Vault 101
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
It is framework dependant since after HTC desire. I really missed my HTC_IME_mod for HTC desire. The ONLY keyboard that ever felt close to HTC for me was Smart Keyboard Pro. The thing is, the Desire was an older Sense keyboard so I'm not sure how similar to the 3.0 keyboard it is, but give the trial a go.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b-eock:
I used to use the HTC_IME_MOD keyboard and I used it on both my Captivate with AOSP and my old Aria on Cyanogenmod.

I used to like that keyboard. But I like Google's AOSP keyboard now.
[General Questions and Answers] skywalker9969:
Guys i am new to rooting and recovery help me with this if possible

i have micromax A25 Smarty i tried to root my device but its showing error tried alot but no effect help me anyone i am attaching screenshot with the thread Thank u in advance :o :)
[General Questions and Answers] skywalker9969:
For firmware version A25_0201_V0409 it shows "partion size changed error 16008 in sp flash tool while click the download button . I've disable the dwnld all .

Please help me!! :confused:
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] soho:
Hi!

I have SX56, it is alive again with original AT&T ROM RUU A 20.17.

But I can NOT upgrade it to 2003 using SD-card and SD-card reader/writer.

I test a lot of building of 2003 updates, but after write I see only start screen with info:

Wicrosoft Pocket PC 2002

some info about new version of rom

But item stop and dont boot. But if I write original AT&T ROM RUU A 20.17.

- all is fine.

My boot loader is 5.22
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] soho:
Additional info:

1) During software upgrade through ActiveSync it stop at 46%

2) If I am using SD-card my upgrade stop at:

PRG: 00F00000

END: 02000000
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] soho:
People, help me, what I need to do? :? :? :?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amarsumajan:
Hi

i have htc desire hd A9191

Can any one tell how to root my phone and update to ICS or Jelly Bean.. current version 2.3.5

HTC sense version 3.13.707.4
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eddiehk6:
wrong section, you should search in the correct place.

don't bother posting this same question in another forum. there will be plenty of guides telling you how to do it because you are not first person to ask!

or try here...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Doesn't matter what custom ROM I use, after the installation they all work until I restart the phone again (I restart the phone after clean ROM installation to see if it will boot, and it never does). After flashing any ROM I flash CronMod INT2Ext4, I have 512MB sd-ext (8GB SD Card). Can anyone help me with this? I would be thankfull.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dvsk69:
Why would you flash INT2EXT4 on any ROM that you flash? By the way, do you delete the already existing a2sd scripts from the ROM before flashing INT2EXT4?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I flash for more internal storage, I know there are other ways, I just didn't know how to do them. And I don't delete any a2sd scrips, looks like I do most things wrong... :(
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chromium:
try flashing the rom without flashing INT2EXT4. Most roms have built in a2sd scripts, which allow you to move apps to an sd ext partition.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eddiehk6:
Also, how did you create the partition, best done with 4ext recovery or gparted.

512MB is also quite small, might want to consider 1-1.5GB.

As above, just flash Rom without another a2sd script as most have them built in or activate with terminal commands, check each thread. Which Rom are you using?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I created the partition with CWM Recovery, I'll look for the guide and make one with 4ext.

I want to use 1Gig but that INT2EXT4 guide said that I need 100mb internal storage per every 512mb sd-ext. (and I had like 150mb free intenal)

ROM I want to use is AOKP CM10. Don't know how to activate a2sd, and I don't need to know it if 4ext recovery will do it...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chromium:
making the partition using cwm may have been your problem. Use this guide to remake the partition. Im assuming you want to use VJ's CM10.1 ROM. If this is the case, there is no need to use INT2EXT4. Instead use the preinstalled a2sd script.

After flashing the rom, you can activate a2sd by doing the following:

Open terminal emulator provided in the rom.

Type the following commands

su

a2sd install

Y

N

Y
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Yes, that's the guide I'm looking into now, but the ROM I want to use is VJs AOKP ROM:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1863780

It doesn't have a2sd I think...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chromium:
It does. And you activate it the same way, as how i said above.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Ok, thank you, now just one more thing. I have to remove the previous sd-ext partition and I can't do that on PC cause disk managment doesn't recognize it, it shows 6.87GB free, I think it should be about 7.3GB cause its 8GB SD. Can EXT4 recovery do that or should I find some program on PC?

---------------

I figured it out.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chromium:
In 4ext, there is an option to "Remove all partitions and start from scratch". Im guessing that deletes/wipes your fat32 partition as well, so back your files up.

If you want to delete it without the fat32 being formated too, you can use gparted. But thats a bit time consuming and a hassle.