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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BrainSD:
Hello,

just some hours ago my Galaxy Nexus (SC-04D) rebooted while lying on the table next to me. After several sings of vibration I noticed that the phone doesn't boot completely.

When switching on the phone I get the turn-on-vibration, then the google letters are displayed. Most times the word "google" flickers from left to right over the screen (only the line where the word is supposed to be). Sometimes it boots further and I get the colored "X" displayed. This symbol starts flickering, too and if it went so far it reboots.

Here are two pictures I took from the phone failing to boot:

picpaste.com/img_0001_01-Rmm7kDYb.jpg

picpaste.com/img_0001-eoLqVoiM.jpg

The phone is running stock Android from Docomo. The phone is about 14 months old and has never been unlocked, rooted, modded, taken a bath, ... 'til now.

I tried starting with and without SIM-card, with and without charger attached and let it lie around for several minutes without battery between my tries.

Is there any chance to get my data from the phone or even get it fixed? Please give me a hint what I can do.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] GPFboyJS:
Well the Red exclamation mark means that there is a problem with the phone reading the build path. Since you have never rooted the phone, this would mean that the files got corrupt on the phone. With a non-rooted phone a Factory Reset is about the only solution, but is probably only a temporary fix. This is most likely caused by too many apps on the phone and it just freaked out on something eventually.

I think these options might work for you, however I cannot confirm since I have rooted my phone from day one and never looked back:

Power button + up volume= recovery
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BrainSD:
Thanks GPFboy for your fast response,

As far as I understand a factory reset results in a complete loss of data on the phone, right? So without root/unlock there's no chance to get my data from the phone? That would be really bad.

What is "too many"? I think there are about 35 apps installed atm. By the moment the problem arose wifi and 3g-data,BT,GPS were disabled and just a minute before I took a look how late it was. So nothing special.

The phone reaches fastboot mode, but when selecting recovery mode I get the google logo and after that the open android with the red exclamation mark. That doesn't look good, does it?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zepius:
thats stock recovery.

is your bootloader already unlocked or no?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BrainSD:
It's still locked.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Zepius:
you might try and go into recovery,

then press (i think) power and vol up and try and see if you can wipe just cache.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BrainSD:
ok, I tried that several time now, but it didn't work. The only thing when I select recovery and press the power button is that I get the google logo and then the dead android + red exclamation sign, but this screen is scrambled and shows flickering pixels as shown in one of my pictures in the first post. So recovery mode seems not to work for me?

Is there a software or hardware problem with my device?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mrgnex:
You can try to unlock your boorloader and flash a custom recovery like cwm or twrp. Maybe that helps. You can always go back and re lock it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] beekay201:
He wants to keep his data... which, at this point, seems rather impossible.

If fastboot doesn't solve it, i would try omapflash, OP. That "flickering" doesn't look good.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mrgnex:
Well if I was him I would be more worried about my expensive phone instead of data. Maybe a lesson for later to have a backup ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BrainSD:
Yes exactly this is the point. Since I don't have a current data backup the first thing to try is getting my data from the phone. I already tried temporary loading the clockwork recovery through fastboot - with the galaxy nexus toolkit and by hand(sdk) - but it failed ("Bootloader locked").

What I'm wondering about is the fact that the phone seems to behave normally in odin and fastbood mode but going nuts the moment it's expected to boot. Besides the flickering google logo and the "matrix-modded" dead android it even ended up in a totally green screen one time.

At the moment I don't dare trying to unlock/flash the phone because of being afraid getting stuck and ending up with the phone being in some kind of undefined / totally broken state. Initially I was in hope of being able to rescue my data but now i will try my luck with docomo support first.

As far as I understood omapflash is primary used for recovering bricked phones not even starting to odin/fastboot mode. But thanks to your hint I found http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2016628 "Unlock bootloader on GT-I9250 without wipe and without root" This might bring some chance for data access.

I will try to get through 1 to 4 of the guide first and see how far I get.

If this won't work I might try to unlock, recover and try to "undelete" what's possible. (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1994705)

Does this order make sense?

Btw, having a dead phone is bad, of course, even when I got it new for 2300Yen but loosing some pictures i really liked and having no phone atm currently hurts more. Especially when knowing that I was thinking of copying all photos to my computer only one day before when I pulled only some minor important ones from the phone I needed for work and planned to do a full backup and unlock this weekend when I get back my 'Milestone' currently lent to someone else.

Once again something I learned. Backup! Even you phone. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] beekay201:
!!!

It will work actually, I read/also replied to that thread! I had forgotten about it, sorry. I must say that if you had already read the stickies that matter, you'd already know about it.

It will unlock your bootloader, bypassing fastboot. Still, it's not for the faint hearted. I refered to omapflash because its a low level tool, it doesn't require the bootloader to be unlocked, and is able to restore the bootloader to working state, and I got there because you mentioned you see graphical glitches/flickering which may indicate bootloader partition failure and/or consequent corruption.

I think that's your best shot at trying to get your data back. After unlock, boot to fastboot and 'fastboot boot custom_recovery.img', and grab your stuff (if you can) from /data/.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BrainSD:
Your hint was very helpful for me getting the right direction since I'm just starting to dig into all this stuff.

Unlocking went quite well. Writing back to the phone worked without a problem and after that it's shown as unlocked in fastboot mode.

It even started loading clockwork recovery with fastboot. But the initial cw recovery screen (their logo and the cw recovery footer) was already shown on a scattered screen (google logo + unlocked lock was fine). After that the usb port connected and disconnected several times, then the screen went blank.

May this be because of corrupted fs or defective hw?

From my understanding with omapflash one have raw access to the phones internal memory similar to with dd on Unix/Linux. So currently I'm trying to dump ("upload") the emmc from the phone - actually in smaller chunks since omapflash needs to allocate all the memory in advance for the upload and to prevent interruptions. This will take a while...

After that I want to try to 'cat' the parts together and mount the filesystem - might be possible to do this from linux since it seems to be ext4 filesystems
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] beekay201:
Great, so far so good.

Yeah, they're ext4 images, but sparse images i believe - link
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StickyGeko:
I'm due an upgrade now...have 2weeks left on my 3 contract... I'm happy with 3 had a pretty uneventful 2years with them and get great speeds on my nexus4 of about 15-19meg, I don't get any sign at my new place of work....to be honest no1 really gets signal due to the building construction.... 3 have offered me a free home signal box to counter this, so I'm more than happy to stay, my next headache is what phone to get... I've kinda settled on the HTC one, the s4 is too wide as I like to use my phone one handed most of the time....also seen the s4 lag loads....my n4 is too wide...the one fits my hand far better, I have a massive reservation.... The ones been out for a while now...should I upgrade straight away, or wait? Do HTC have something new round the corner? I know there's always something new so you can end up waiting indefinitely, but I've seen the butterfly S is around the corner... Is there a one S peeping its head round there too? Just dont want to get a one only for a month later for a new 1 to come out.... BTW I'm set if I get one to get the black...not bothered about it attracting finger prints as I'll have a case on it...I've seen a few silver ones where the white has slightly got mucky...and kinda of gone yellowish....so if i do opt for the One, its guna be black.... guys your the ones who own it, whats your advice

Thanks
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] biohaz55:
There's no point waiting for what may come next, there are a couple of HTC phones in the pipeline but no telling when they'll be available and in which markets..... buy for today and not wait for tomorrow.

The HTC One is a great phone and I personally can't see myself wanting anything else for a while.... it would have to be a truly exceptional device to make my One feel inadequate.

I have the black one, kept it in a case and after several weeks it still looks like it's just come out of the box.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opher50:
And besides HTC would probably ride on this devices succes for a bit, perhaps they will launch a new windows 8.1 device, or a refreshed HTC One, but for the time being, this device is simply amazing, recomend it alot!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SLver:
is not the butterfly 2 or something "2" coming from HTC, which gonna be very similar to the one but with a sd slot, or maybe the s4 with snapdragon 800 and the adamantium shell?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opher50:
theres the Butterfly S, but then you should choose desing wise and SD if thats youre concern..
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Corduroy-21:
Apart from the smaller HTC One (M4) which probably will come later, there is no other One coming soon.

Maybe a phablet or a new Butterfly.

The companies now replace their phones much faster (and with this many times the people feel "cheated"), but there is nothing coming very soon so if you like the One just go and get it.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wakers:
If the past is anything to go by even if they do bring out some new phones they will be slight upgrades compared to the one it will be a while I think before there's another big step forward
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shan89:
Butterfly S is mainly for Asia market , so i wouldn't wait for it even if it's coming to the U.S. it's not metal >.> tho i do like the 5inch screen :P
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] integracd:
The purpose of this post is to inform those seeking to use the HTC One on AT&T should NOT use the T-Mobile version of the HTC one on the AT&T network due to poor reception issues. Issues may arise from the enabled 42mb hspa+ and/or the inclusion of the 1700 band. Or maybe its just the T-Mobile radio.

I was originally on T-Mobile with a T-Mobile HTC One in Atlanta, Georgia. T-Mobile's coverage wasn't working out for me in buildings so I SIM unlocked the phone and took it over to AT&T. Everything works but AT&Ts coverage was always changing from 1 bar of LTE to barely any bars of hpsa+. I got a AT&T branded HTC One and inserted my SIM and got 2-3 bars of LTE when I was getting either none or one bar of LTE service. I am also getting about 90% more LTE coverage than I previously had with the T-Mobile HTC One on AT&T's network.

I took back the AT&T HTC One as I could not afford to pay full price for the phone at this time. I am still using the T-Mobile HTC One on AT&T and will buy one when they get cheaper.

On a side not my wife has a T-Mobile IPhone 5 and got it unlocked and switch over to AT&T with me and is getting comparable LTE coverage as the AT&T HTC One version. It sucks cause she will have 3 bars of LTE service and I will have 1 bar of hspa+. I wish there was a fix for this rather than having to go through selling the old one and getting a new one. I love my HTC One :).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayden2010:
Im using ninetology i9500 similar to micromax a110. I like bravia engine for my picture and beats audio for my sound. Can somebody teach me how to port in my phone?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] divadiow:
I can't *quite* get what I need to do as bare minimum to get my HTC M7 One M7_UL on to 1.28.401 RUU so that I can get the OTA update top 1.29 and any future updates.

Do I need to

1. get S-OFF using the HTCDEV web site?

2. change my CID to HTC_001?

3. flash this RUU: http://www.androidfiles.org/ruu/get...31.27_10.31.1131.05_release_310878_signed.exe

If there are other options that don't mean I'm alerting HTC HQ to me tampering that'd be grand.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electronic Punk:
1. You will need to use htcdev to unlock which will also wipe preloaded sdcard data and the entire device.

2. Install custom recovery or root stock rom if possible (then skip to 4).

3. Install rooted custom rom.

4. Can then s-off

5. Change cid to htc__001

Then for stock.

6. Restore preloaded SDCard data maybe, not sure if ruu does this

7. Install 1.28.401.x ruu

8. Flash 1.29.40.x ota

9. Wait patiently?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
You can use revone to unlock without using HTCDev if you'd prefer, but you do need S-OFF to flash the generic EU RUU. So to recap:

1. S-OFF with revone

2. Change CID to HTC__001

3. Make sure bootloader is locked/relocked (use revone if required)

4. Flash RUU
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobsie41:
1 Get s-off http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2291087

2 Assuming you are still on stock 1.28.61.7 change your cid to HTC__001

3 Run RUU 1.28.401.7 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2207874

4 You should then get ota update 1.29.401.12. Install it :)

5 Wait patiently, like myself for 4.2.2 update to arrive

6 Say goodbye to the EE update testers like I have :)

ps This should be in Q and A section.

---------- Post added at 01:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:57 PM ----------

With s-off, no need to lock/relock your bootloader. ;)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] divadiow:
thanks all, and sorry about the wrong forum posting.

yes still 1.28.61.7

is the only way to change my CID to use adb and edit that file in a hex editor?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobsie41:
After achieving s-off, in fastboot........fastboot oem writecid HTC__001
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] divadiow:
sweet.

there's no One EE 1.28.61.7 at http://moonshine.io/moonshine-downloads/

I guess I'll use HTCDEV...
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
You don't need to use that, use this instead...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2314582
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] graffixnyc:
delete.....
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
Forgot about that...

---------- Post added at 02:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:26 PM ----------

My first reply was with it in Q&A I'm sure of it...
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobsie41:
HTC dev is for unlocking your bootloader. You do not need to unlock your bootloader to achieve what you requested just s-off.

If you wish to unlock your bootloader, use the revone s-off tool rather than HTC dev to do this. ;)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electronic Punk:
Fair do, thought revone needed root, but if thats not the case then np.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lasertec_06:
Hi My HTC WERE 1.28.61.7 I GET S-OFF VIA REVONE CHANGE CID HTC_001 FLASH RUU But phone not on properly i wipe data cache but still same phone power one screen came i swap touch then phone show htc logo and restart :(. i flash custom rom and i see there imei baseband unknown i get getvar via fastboot it shows imei okey can you help me out about it
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] V4mpjr3:
I already install rom from [CM10.1 + SONY 4.2.2][ALL MDPI] JellyVanilla EX 4.0 - 30/06/13

But in message app, text color is white and background is white too. Therefore very diffucult to read the message. How can i fix it?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karthi1:
Go inside messaging app , select menu button and select settings , there you can personalize looks, feels and colour of your Messaging app :good:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Iczer:
So I got my wife an S4 as we just switched to T-Mobile, but she's becoming quite frustrated with her phone. She never had problems with games on her S3 and I do not have any problems on my Nexus 4. Would rooting and loading a custom rom alleviate this?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] R.Suave:
Yes it would.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Miami8906:
Yes I agree a rooted custom rom will definitely help the lag situation. My boys play spiderman, grand theft auto, iron man, etc. all day with no issues.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] cytonic:
Yea, definitely. I've been using Wicked Rom for a while and barely any lag :cool:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] lalec:
You could also try rooting and disabling all the bloatware. That helped mine a lot and I have stock ROM rooted using CF-AUTOROOT.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] omegajester:
It's not supposed to lag out of the box. Make sure you don't have Power Saving mode on.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] BoboBrazil:
I got mine the other day and have been playing around with it while waiting to activate my service and wow there is a ton of bloatware on this thing out of the box! Coming from Sprint, the GS3 didn't have anywhere near as much as this thing. Definitely going to root and flash a custom rom.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Monkz:
Even if you don't really want to do a Custom ROM, Rooting and installing KTSGS4 Kernel can probably make more than enough of a difference to solve your problems. If you want the phone to be more responsive and run smoother as well as saving battery life at the same time, basically a Win-Win solution, his kernel is the best way to go!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] afvalzak:
I'm using the Cyanogen endeavor 4.2.2 rom (20130627 Nightly) and ever since I started using the ROM I can't access my GPS.

When I installed the GPS Status app it can't find any Satellites (0/0) even after resetting the GPS and getting Xtra data.

I know the GPS of the One X sucks anyhow but this is real bad, is this just me or is this a common problem?

Does anyone khave any tips / answers for this problem?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] redpoint73:
This forum is specific to the EVITA. For the ENDEAVORU, you want to be here: http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1533

I would also suggest reading/searching the CM thread (specific to ENDEAVORU), and see if this is perhaps a known issue; or if you can't find anything there, to post to that thread.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] antosha@t-email.at:
On the web site of t-mobile there is the last version of the german rom (WM 2003SE) for MDA III.

Is it possible to install thir ROM version on MDA II where presently is intsalled WM 2003?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] billymaloney3:
hey guys I'm looking for a battery app that will tell me when the phone wakes and what exactly is draining the battery. My dad is experiencing horrible battery life over night. He had a fully charged S4 and he left it overnight and it was down to 25% and I looked in the stock battery app and Google services sucked up 36% which I know can't be right. Any idea what's happening?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mwm523:
I would try Wakelock Detector. That will tell you what's waking the phone when it's sleeping.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Prophet HERO:
In my experience you will never truly be happy with battery life until you root and flash a new ROM and Kernel. I can finally achieve 24 hours of battery life on the stock battery using the setup in my signature. It is worth looking into.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] billymaloney3:
I've rooted and ROMed my note ii but he xannot due to his work and the email app he has to use won't allow root so he can't
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] AnajaDroid:
Did you try Snapdragon™ BatteryGuru ?It takes 6 days to learn how do u use ur phone, than it starts with battery saving, works perfectly for me,got 2 days out off my battery...using it hard... playing games, browsing etc etc

Google play store link

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwxLDEsImNvbS54aWFtLnNuYXBkcmFnb24uYXBwIl0.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] lSUPERFLYl:
Greenify can stop background processes and apps from waking your device, try using that.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5vYXNpc2ZlbmcuZ3JlZW5pZnkiXQ..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] DarkMenace:
Samsung Link can consume 30-50% CPU throughout the day.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diopskill:
Is it possible to have LWP on lockscreen of Xperia z with stock Rom?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stony-D:
No
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diopskill:
Ok
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mercadescage:
First I have always had usb issues,I bought this second hand and it worked fine before rooting, it charges fine, but no computer in my house, no cords and no software has helped me read this phone via computer.

Secondly, I rooted with Framaroot, it was working fine, I deleted some bloat and froze a few apps that were seemingly worthless (kinda funny in retrospect) and now the phone boots up fine, but freezes at lockscreen and then just restarts, boots again, goes to lockscreen over and over until I battery pull. I can still get into dl mode (kinda worthless seeing as how I cannot use usb) I can get into recovery mode just fine, but don't know where to go from here as in, I have been looking everywhere for a solution but cannot find one for this situ anywhere. Any help would be awesome, thanks if advance. I have been trying to use recovery to flash a stock rom but every time get what looks like the installation I get my poor little andro on his back with the red triangle above him.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpectralHeretic:
Hi all,

I'm having an issue with my phone where it's just not coming on or where i get it to come on it sticks at either the charging battery symbol or N7000 splash screen.

ROM: Vanilla Rootbox 4.1

Kernel: NX kernel 1.3.9

(i think - i'd have to double check the various threads to ensure exact version numbers)

I noticed the battery was v low this morning <5% and charged it briefly while eating breakfast and headed out to work with a view to charge it fully there.

I saw my phone was dead at 10ish so put it on charge for a while here. The only thing it has shown is the battery, but the circle dowsnt spin and the battery charge animation doesnt run. I've tried taking the battery out a few times and attempted start up where it gets as far as the splash screen and freezes also.

I've not as yet been able to enter recovery mode and attempts at entering the download mode give small red lettering saying low battery - cant download. Obviously not charging properly.

I'm at work at the moment, so i've not really been able to look too much at the rest of the forum (but the ones i have seen have been able to access download mode and suggest using PC ODIN - which if i can get it charging is an option for tonight!), and don't currently have access to another USB cable, but neither plugging it in to the computers USB port or the plug works.

Am just about to nip out for lunch but will get another USB cable to see if that helps.

Does any one have any suggestions?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Varad297:
Try another battery which is sufficiently charged and then flash with ODIN. Flashing at critical battery levels is not at all advisable. So first insert a charged battery and then flash the stock.