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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Hellstorm32:
Hey guys. I am stuck on my Note 2. I have recently reverted to stock after rooting (about 2 months ago) and now out of the blue my phone has what seems to be a soft brick. I'm wondering if the NAND is dead.

Upon normal boot, the phone is stuck on the Galaxy Note II splash screen. Only way to make it go away is to remove the battery. If I try to plug in my charger after removing the battery the icon for the battery shows up and freezes. I have to remove the battery to get out of that screen as well.

I can boot into recovery mode but I get a android icon laying on it's back with a red triangle and an exclamation point out of it's chest.

I also get a bunch of red text that talks about failing to mount /cache, /sdcard, /cache/recovery/log etc.

I've tried to flash with Odin 3.07 my stock ROM but I get a fail at NAND Write start.

I'm running out of options. I do get the blue menu at the recovery menu and options to update from ADB and from external SDCard both of which don't work. I also tried to wipe the data and do a factory reset from this menu, but it always says it fails to mount /sdcard and /cache.

I've tried rebooting without the external SD card and even without the SIM card. Nothing works.

Any help you could give I would appreciate. Thanks everyone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jaws4God:
oh goodness.. i think the only wait to save it would be the odin method.. i would pursue that more.. maybe try different cables.. make sure you have the correct version of Odin and all the drivers for Samsung... make sure ODIN connects..

best of luck man.. wish I could be more help.. I know i'm not the best at troubleshooting these kinds of issues.. i'm typically one that follows line by line directions to get flashing done.. not sure why and how things work..
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jozer99:
I have a Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 3rd gen that I rooted running the 4.5.5.1. It popped up a message saying I should upgrade to 4.5.5.2, and dumbly I allowed it. Now it boots up to the "Fire System Recovery" menu, allowing me to "Reboot your Kindle" or "Reset to Factory Defaults". Both options ultimately lead back to this menu. I assume this was caused by the root.

I attempted to use the KFHD recovery tool from here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2011126

But it sticks on the "waiting for devices". When I reboot the kindle while connected to my Win10 PC, the PC recognizes a device for about 15 seconds, then disconnects. As mentioned, the recovery tool never recognizes the device.

I'm in over my head, how do I get the kindle up and running again?
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jozer99:
Ah, thank you for pointing that out. I didn't find a similar tool for the HDX on XDA, does one exist?

On my windows 10 computer, the Kindle briefly shows up to ADB as "0123456789ABCDEF UNAUTHORIZED" and I can't run any commands on it.

I'm trying to get a 32 bit windows 7 machine up and running, since most of these tutorials seemed to be aimed at older OSes.

Is there any hope?
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jozer99:
Ok, I got a Windows 7 32 Bit machine running and installed with Android SDK, fastboot, and ADB. As I mentioned previously, my kindle is only "detected" by my computer for about 30 seconds before it disappears. The same is true on the Windows 7 box, unfortunately. When I run "adb devices" while the device shows up, it comes up with "0123456789ABCDEF unauthorized". When I run fastboot devices, it doesn't find anything.

How can I get my device detected properly?

How can I get the kindle to stop in ADB/fastboot mode so I have more than 30 seconds to try things?
[Lenovo A6000/Plus Questions & Answers] Phone_Beast:
Hi, As I Flashed My AOKP MM ROM it Was hanging very Much and was experiencing Heating Issues. I would like to know how can I downgrade my android to lollipop.

I don't have a backup of lollipop ROM but I have the stock ROM and I have TWRP. I tried Clearing System and Flashing but it says error in updater script. Please Help me Out!
[Lenovo A6000/Plus Questions & Answers] faidrohman:
Extract the stock rom and flash system.zip with stock lollipop recovery, i hope this help u.

Sorry for my bad language
[Lenovo A6000/Plus Questions & Answers] Phone_Beast:
Didn't work. Thanks for the effort
[Lenovo A6000/Plus Questions & Answers] shivamgupta1996:
Extract system.zip and india.ota.zip .

Wipe Dalvik,Data,system and cache.

Flash India.ota.zip and then system.zip.

You can use TWRP.

Sent from my Lenovo A6000 Plus
[Lenovo A6000/Plus Questions & Answers] Phone_Beast:
I'll try this method but it won't brick my phone right?
[Lenovo A6000/Plus Questions & Answers] shivamgupta1996:
No, it won't.

Sent from my Lenovo A6000 Plus
[X Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sethspeed:
So I was trying to root my Moto X Play using SuperSU, after I put the zip file onto my phone, went into the fastboot and selected recovery mode, but then it said the ramdumb has failed... But now every time I boot it up its says the ramdump has failed, same thing happens if I try to go into recovery mode, so now it can only boot into the fastboot. Also it's only showing up on my computer as an unspecified device so I can't access the phone files to remove the SuperSU file. Plus it's not getting recognized as an android, just as "fastboot" so adb commands aren't working (Just says device 'null' not recognised). Really need help here!!!!
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] panzerox123:
EDIT: SOLVED!!!

Hi guys! I have a question. I have twrp that I installed with the help of advanced stock kernel. But it doesn't look like a permanent recovery. If I install a custom ROM without a recovery, I will lose my recovery. Can you help me install a permanent recovery on my phone. ?

I have tried flashing using flashtool and it only boots into twrp and not android.....

Thanks !
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
The reason you lose recovery when installing a new ROM is because TWRP is built in Advanced Stock Kernel,and when you flash for example SLiMM ROM it reflashes its kernel.

That means that every time you install a new ROM you will need to reflash the kernel.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] panzerox123:
Don't worry, Im going to close the thread now . The problem was that i cannot flash the kernel on roms like PA or CM without getting a bootloop, but i managed to find out how to flash a recovery to the recovery partition and then enter it using a key combo, and it works quite well, perfect for my needs!

Thanks anyway!:good:
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EternalSeekerX:
Dear XDA,

So I rooted my Asus Nexus 7 back when I got it with cyogenmod back in the day. It stopped working due to it dying and would not charge. So after a miracle and being plugged in for three days it would work. Now when its battery died it would not power on or charge at all. If I plug it in to the charger, my screen shows nothing but I can see the screen backlight so it is doing something. If I try to open the bootloader with the PWR and the volume rockers pressed the screen would flicker but won't show the android mascott with the gear's at all!! I was planning on upgrading to an unoffcial andriod 6.0 rom and run some linux on it. Is my device really dead?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j.arsenault:
It could be the battery reached its end of life or an I eternal short happened in it. I had a droid 4 that did the exact same thing. The bootloader checks the state of the battery and won't go past initializing the screen if it detects an issue
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drfox96:
Hey guys..

Iam trying to install xposed on my htc (mm 6.0)

However ima getting this error in recovery when i try to install******************************

Xposed framework installer zip

******************************

- Mounting /system and /vendor read-write

- Checking environment

Xposed version: 86

- Placing files

chown: /system/bin/dex2oat.orig.gz: Read-only file system

Updater process ended with ERROR: 1

I:Legacy property environment disabled.

Error installing zip file '/external_sd/download/xposed-v86-sdk23-arm.zip'

Updating partition details...

I:Data backup size is 1770MB, free: 2162MB.

I:Unable to mount '/usb-otg'

I:Actual block device: '', current file system: 'vfat'

...done
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Juwapa:
I'm not sure what rom you're using but for me personally I am running CM13 and I used Xposed Version 78, try that version.
[Dell Venue] Anonzombie:
plss tell me which drivers should I install on my pc?

I have enabled fastboot mode in my tab.

but the bootloader is not unlocked..

I have rooted my device using a tool made my sir vampirefo..

I have to install custom rom..

plss help me..
[Dell Venue] TamaziAce:
can you tell me how can i root my venue 3830? and install custom rom? or link me
[One (M9) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrownEye02:
Hay guys. I'm in the process of returning my AT&T phone back to stock and locked as I need to ship it back to HTC for an advanced replacement.

I have successfully set the CID and MID, locked the bootloader, S-ONed, and run the AT&T RUU.exe. The only thing that is stopping me from saying goodbye to this phone is the software status modified flag. From what I'm reading running the RUU should correct this but I have run it twice with no success. I found this thread for changing the flag with s-off and root but is this seriously the only way to correct this flag?! I mean I can re-S-off and root but from my previous thread I'm mentally done trying to get this thing back to stock.

I guess the only other question is, will HTC care about this flag or should I just ship the phone off?
[One (M9) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] degerli43:
You have to flash RUU at download mode. Try to download rom.zip for att and flash it via download mode
[One (M9) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrownEye02:
That did it. Thanks!
[Nokia X] Cherubimlee0715:
Hi All,

I got a Nokia X+, RM-1053. Checked around the forum, I saw lots resources about X, but no mention about X+. I know the hw difference is about RAM, is these X resource applicable to X+?

Thanks in advance
[Nokia X] yshalsager:
yes, you can use Nokia x ROMs for Nokia X+
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] Chrisluck7:
To be completely honest I realy don't have a clue what I was doing lol but anyhow It boots up with red letters up top saying custom binary blocked by frp lock what's can i do to fix it I'm new to all this thanks in advance
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] Prashanthc:
What you have done is after changing your recovery you have gone to developer options and unticked OEM unlocking after that you have rebooted. To fix this flash lollipop/marshmallow pda file through odin.
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] Chrisluck7:
Okay thanks I'll give it a try hope I can fix it is just learned about rooting so I'm in the learning proses
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] bichitrax:
I think I bricked my phone.

Same thing happened to me. My little daughter unticked OEM unlock i didn't know. Now phone is not booting. Flashing MM firmware by odin fails. Smart switch says unsupported mobile. Any help will be helpful.
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] Davidargentina:
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This work to me, in my galaxy sm-j710mn , only follow the steps and flash the recovery
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] Dustinsk22:
I unbricked mine when i did that by reflashing back to stock firmware. Just have to leave the oem unlock tab alone after your done rooting or have twrp.

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Try flashing with a different version of odin. If nothing happens try a different computer or reinstalled samsung drivers and restart.
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] bichitrax:
Thaks friend..anyway I managed to get rid by flashing the latest firmware through odin.

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Try flashing with a different version of odin. If nothing happens try a different computer or reinstalled samsung drivers and restart.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for help..BTW I managed to boot by flashing only latest firmware.
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] rajnikant574:
Use smart switch emergency software recovery in download mode. See if it helps.
[Samsung Galaxy J7 Questions & Answers] bichitrax:
I was able to boot after flashing the latest firmware.

BTW smart switch could not recognise my device at that time.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Hellstorm32:
Hey guys, I have a Galaxy Note II SCH-I605 that won't boot. It's stuck on the Galaxy Note II splash screen, and Odin is failing at NAND write start, Recovery menu has a bunch of stuff about not being able to mount /cache and /sdcard. I tried a lot of things, booting without external sdcard/simcard and trying to load my stock ROM with the external SD card and ADB which both don't work. I'm wondering if my NAND is fried and dead.

Any thoughts?

EDIT: This is my only phone, same phone I've had for 3 years plus. I reeeeally want to get this working again. I don't have the money to buy a new phone, and I have all my contacts and data on this one. I hope someone can lend a hand!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Droidriven:
Try booting to recovery and factory reset and wipe cache and then try Odin again. Verify that you are using the correct stock firmware for your model number and your region.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Hellstorm32:
Thanks for your suggestions, I appreciate all help I can get. I have already tried Recovery Mode. I haven't had any success. Every time I attempt to launch recovery mode it won't launch the traditional way I am familiar with. It always takes a while to start, then goes into a picture of the Android with the spinning geometric shape, then it turns into a red triangle with an exclamation point. Then it has a bunch of red text show up on the screen about "E: failed to mount /efs (No such file or directory), E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/log, E: Can't open cache/recovery/log, E: failed to mount /system (No such file or directory), E: failed to mount /cache (No such file or directory), E: failed to mount /sdcard (No such file or directory)". I then get a blue menu with all the red text still in the background. I have 6 selections on this menu: reboot system now, apply update from ADB, apply update from external storage, wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache partition, apply update from cache. I've tried apply update from ADB, to which I can't get ADB to recognize my phone. I've tried loading my ROM on the external SD card, but the menu won't navigate to the external SD card and i get more additional red text stating E: failed to mount /sdcard (No such file or directory).

I've tried the laymans ways to flash the phone (I've rooted with GhettoRoot before, but recently reverted to a stock ROM about 2 months ago due to not having the time to stay on top of things so I'm familiar with all the standard troubleshooting. I'm out of the general options that I can think of.

I have tried flashing the stock ROM with Odin, but it always fails at NAND write start. I've tried different USB cables, and I'm using Odin 3.07. The stock ROM I have is good, I've used it before to recover a soft brick I had a year and a half ago (tried installing TWRP from the play store, didn't know about bootloaders back then).

If you have any other ideas on how to fix it, I would be happy to listen and try. I'm heading to Best Buy tomorrow (they're going to try to flash me with a stock ROM.)

Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Droidriven:
When you get the blue menu, have you tried the factory reset and the wipe cache and then flashing with Odin?

Have you tried finding the PIT file for your model number then flashing it along with the stock firmware in Odin. Those mount errors tell me that your partitions are corrupted somewhere, the PIT will make sure its flashing everything to the correct partition.

If you can find your firmware in a 4 part file you can flash them in Odin but you have to put each part of the firmware in the slot they go in when using Odin. This is different than having an all in one firmware, these you flash in the AP slot but the 4 part is not flashed in the AP slot.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Hellstorm32:
Yes, I have tried clearing the cache. I only get errors on not being able to mount /cache. I have just located a .pit file that says it's for SCH-I605. I will try to flash that with Odin. I'm using an old version of Odin because I didn't understand the newer ones. Last time I had to use it was about a year and a half ago, so I wasn't familiar with all the new fields in Odin 3.12.

I wasn't able to find many different links with the .pit file for the SCH-I605. I found one link that was still good, and I'm going to try it. I believe the file is 3k, which makes sense to me because it's just partition data.

I'll let you know how this works out.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Droidriven:
Use the newer Odin and put the PIT in its own slot and the stock firmware in the AP slot. Do a search if you don't know where to put the PIT in Odin, also, make sure you have the correct options checked in Odin, if you select the wrong options it'll mess the device up.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Hellstorm32:
Well, I hope I didn't jump the gun. I did use the .pit file in Odin 3.07, I just saw your message about Odin 3.12. I loaded the PIT in the PIT slot, loaded my ROM in the PDAslot, and it seems to be taking a while on the <ID:0/003> Get PITfor mapping..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Hellstorm32:
How long should it take for the "Get PIT for mapping.." part? I've been waiting about 8 minutes, and it's still on that step. I have a newer computer, i3 processor 16gb ram and I don't remember it taking this long before. Would I be safe to unplug if it takes much longer, or is it a bad idea since I'm using the PIT file?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Droidriven:
Don't ever unplug it while flashing, that's a brick scenario for sure. You can cancel if it doesn't start the flash process, I'm not sure what results will be though.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Hellstorm32:
Ok. It's still on this step, "Getting PIT for mapping.."

All the buttons are greyed out (can't click on them) so that tells me that the flash process is undertaking, but I can't understand why it's taking so long. I don't see my HDD light flashing, and Odin is using zero CPU in my resource monitor.

I'm wondering if my flash process is stuck and not progressing.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Hellstorm32:
Text in Odin so far..

<ID:0/003> File analysis..

<ID:0/003> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/003> Initialzation..

<ID:0/003> Set PIT file..

<ID:0/003> DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!

<ID:0/003> Get PIT for mapping..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Droidriven:
Yep, its stuck, close Odin and then disconnect the device.

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Check this thread out and see if it helps

xdaforums.com/galaxy-s2/general/guide-t2345831

Ignore that its from the S2 forum, its about Odin issues so it might help.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Hellstorm32:
Ok, I've closed Odin. I've disconnected my device. I've checked and yes, I can still enter download mode (phew, I don't have much hardmod skills to get it running if it's hard bricked).

I'm going to bring it in to Best Buy today and see if the Samsung staff can flash it there. I was running stock when this happened. It's crazy, I was driving my car and I had my phone in my mount on the dash. I just happened to look over and it was stuck on the boot screen. No warning. It just restarted and froze on it's own.

Thanks for the help, I'm going to keep working on it today and see if I can get things moving.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Hellstorm32:
Ok, so here's an update. I was able to send my stock ROM to my device using the ADB sideload option from the recovery menu, but was unable to load the ROM due to the partition being corrupted.

I attempted a flash in Odin 3.12.3 with the PIT file and my stock ROM in the AP slot. I haven't been able to obtain a ROM in 4 seperate parts like you had suggested, I'm only still using the ROM that I have had for a year or so. This flash fails at partitioning. Odin message: Re-Partition operation failed.

I scoped out the guide you linked to me for the S2, and from what I'm seeing they say that if Odin fails a partition operation there is no hope. Only thing I can do is get a new motherboard.

Looks like the phone is completely dead. I'll look on Ebay for a new MB, but I may just end up getting a new phone.

Thanks for the help man. Too bad we couldn't get it up and running. I'm probably going to still mess with it. Please let me know if you have any other suggestions.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Droidriven:
Don't give up yet, I'm not done with my bag of tricks.[emoji6]

There is a method that involves using a debrick.IMG to boot from extsdcard like using a bootable USB drive on PC.

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2660566

You'll have to find the debrick.IMG that was created from the same stock firmware that you have. If you can find someone with your same model number device that is rooted, you can get them to pull a debrick.img from their device using Terminal Emulator, you'll have to do a google search to find the terminal command for your model number to pull the debrick.img.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Hellstorm32:
Wow man, that sounds good! Never heard of that before...I gotta admit though, I'm wondering what my chances are of finding someone with a Note 2 SCH-I605 that's rooted nowadays...I gotta admit my phone feels kind of ancient. I think it's going to be tough to find, but I will do some searches and look around. Thanks for the suggestion! I'll report back what I find.

Also, how do I do this method? If I find the file, do I load up recovery and try to load from SDcard?

UPDATE: Also, I tried enabling the Nand Erase All checkbox in Odin, and no dice. The error was that it failed to write to the NAND during the erase process. The more I mess with this the more I think my flash memory in the NAND is dead. I'm still completely open to your advice though and appreciate it very much.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Droidriven:
If you did NAND erase all its dead. I started to warn you when you first mentioned NAND to leave it alone and don't mess with NAND in Odin. You can send it in for JTAG service, its usually $50 and they send it back to you fixed. Cheaper than replacing the motherboard. JTAG is the last ditch effort.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Hellstorm32:
I can still load to the Download screen. Does that mean that there's still hope? Or is the fact that the erase operation fails to write indicate that the flash hardware is bad like I've thought?

I also have thought about just getting a new mobo for it. Is there soldering involved in installing one? Also, is there some sort of hardware signing that will prevent me from installing a different mobo than was shipped with the phone?