Reboot issue - Hero CDMA General

I've been messing with my sprint HTC Hero phone for a few days now. Rooted the phone, and trying to upload mods and what not. One thing led to another, I somehow managed to make the phone loop on reboot over and over again. I tried wiping, did not make a nandroid, so I think at this point, the phone is useless unless there is a way out of this.
I just want the phone to be in its original state. I'm about to go to the store to see if the technician can somehow put the original rom back in.
Any suggestions?

Dave2582 said:
I've been messing with my sprint HTC Hero phone for a few days now. Rooted the phone, and trying to upload mods and what not. One thing led to another, I somehow managed to make the phone loop on reboot over and over again. I tried wiping, did not make a nandroid, so I think at this point, the phone is useless unless there is a way out of this.
I just want the phone to be in its original state. I'm about to go to the store to see if the technician can somehow put the original rom back in.
Any suggestions?
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Power off the phone (pull the battery if you have to), power back on while holding the home button. Do you get to recovery? If you do then you are fine.
If the above doesn't get you to recovery, plug the phone into your usb port, then open cmd on your computer and type :
Code:
adb reboot recovery
Now are you in recovery?
Once in recovery you can use the nandroid in this thread to flash back to the 1.56 OTA image, otherwise just download and flash whatever custom ROM that you want to use.

Where is that code? Am I moving the NoRootNand in the folder of the sdcard? There's absolutely nothing on the sdcard. Is that the way I'm supposed to name it on the sdcard?

Dave2582 said:
I've been messing with my sprint HTC Hero phone for a few days now. Rooted the phone, and trying to upload mods and what not. One thing led to another, I somehow managed to make the phone loop on reboot over and over again. I tried wiping, did not make a nandroid, so I think at this point, the phone is useless unless there is a way out of this.
I just want the phone to be in its original state. I'm about to go to the store to see if the technician can somehow put the original rom back in.
Any suggestions?
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Okay...what are /data/app, /data/app-private, /data/dalvik-cache, /data/data and /system/app pointed to:
Go into the phone shell by typing adb shell, then type the following command:
ls -l /data
I need to know what the entry for app, app-private, data and dalvik-cache look like.
Next, type ls -l /system
Tell me what the entry for app look like.

Reboot
You are a life saver!
Figured it out. A million kudos, thanks!
Edit-- You guys/gals rock. Went from an almost useless phone to the original state of the phone...Took me the whole night only to get frustrated. Then I asked for some assistance, had a little help, with huge end results. Again, thanks. I consider this a hard lesson learned to make sure I back everything up before anything.

That's what we are here for.
Dave2582 said:
You are a life saver!
Figured it out. A million kudos, thanks!
Edit-- You guys/gals rock. Went from an almost useless phone to the original state of the phone...Took me the whole night only to get frustrated. Then I asked for some assistance, had a little help, with huge end results. Again, thanks. I consider this a hard lesson learned to make sure I back everything up before anything.
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ok im fubard
first off i was messing with the apps in the /system/app and deleted senceui so i made my way around and found it in a pull of the os that i had done. so i tried to push it back. insted of pushing just one file at a time i tried to push the whole folder. this left me with a pissed of hero.
i figure i can just go back and recover from my nandroid recovery. no big deal thats why its there and why i did it. heres the major rub... I DELETED IT!! when i formated my sdcard.
so now im left with a nice hero paper weight that just does the sprint animation over and over.
is there anyway that someone elses nandroid back up could rescue my phone or do i just need to call sprint and tell them i need a new phone.
ps..
i still have access to the recovery screen so i can back up if there is a way.
(update) just talked to sprint and they cant send out a new phone because im still in my 30 days. however they did credit my account allmost 40 bucks for the travel to the nearest sprint store. i still need to get this fixed if i can.
ricersniper said:
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ok im fubard
first off i was messing with the apps in the /system/app and deleted senceui so i made my way around and found it in a pull of the os that i had done. so i tried to push it back. insted of pushing just one file at a time i tried to push the whole folder. this left me with a pissed of hero.
i figure i can just go back and recover from my nandroid recovery. no big deal thats why its there and why i did it. heres the major rub... I DELETED IT!! when i formated my sdcard.
so now im left with a nice hero paper weight that just does the sprint animation over and over.
is there anyway that someone elses nandroid back up could rescue my phone or do i just need to call sprint and tell them i need a new phone.
ps..
i still have access to the recovery screen so i can back up if there is a way.
(update) just talked to sprint and they cant send out a new phone because im still in my 30 days. however they did credit my account allmost 40 bucks for the travel to the nearest sprint store. i still need to get this fixed if i can.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=559622
That thread has links to all the official ROM Update Utilities for the various Hero's to return you back to stock (factory settings). That should work for you (you might need to reflash things but it should get you working again at least...hopefully!)
ricersniper said:
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ok im fubard
first off i was messing with the apps in the /system/app and deleted senceui so i made my way around and found it in a pull of the os that i had done. so i tried to push it back. insted of pushing just one file at a time i tried to push the whole folder. this left me with a pissed of hero.
i figure i can just go back and recover from my nandroid recovery. no big deal thats why its there and why i did it. heres the major rub... I DELETED IT!! when i formated my sdcard.
so now im left with a nice hero paper weight that just does the sprint animation over and over.
is there anyway that someone elses nandroid back up could rescue my phone or do i just need to call sprint and tell them i need a new phone.
ps..
i still have access to the recovery screen so i can back up if there is a way.
(update) just talked to sprint and they cant send out a new phone because im still in my 30 days. however they did credit my account allmost 40 bucks for the travel to the nearest sprint store. i still need to get this fixed if i can.
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i can send you my back up if you like
moderator if your reading this could you sticky the location of this file? It's over in hero development forum
ftp://xda:[email protected]_Hero_C_Sprint_1.29.651.1_signed_release.exe
this fixes like 90% of the stuff you could screw up on your phone
and before you ask, you can root this version with the current asroot method
hope it helps
-Grant
ricesniper try taking your micro sd car out my phone was doing the same thing i just took it out and now it booted
thecodemonk said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=559622
That thread has links to all the official ROM Update Utilities for the various Hero's to return you back to stock (factory settings). That should work for you (you might need to reflash things but it should get you working again at least...hopefully!)
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it appears to be working... i will still probably return it tomarow it had a dead pixel and it was driving me nuts plus the 2 gig sd card is dead
is works with it out?
i just wiped the phone its up and rooted again.
please send me your back up! i'm having a similar problem. sorry i know this post is sorta old but i would really appreciate it So so MUCH!!
Can you mount your SD card from recovery, copy a new zip file to yiur SD, and just flash another rom?
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App

[Q] rebooting my phone does factory data reset every time

i had problems playing with dirrk oc kernals, so i ended up having to do the complete odin restore and managed to get the phone back to stock it seemed. but no setting will save on the phone, its like a factory reset every time i reboot the phone. can anyone help? when i did the odin restore i lost root, not sure if that means anything. anyone else having issues like this?
You have zero internal memory and the phone is not saving that you have run it.
Find the "FIXED 0.00 INTERNAL MEMORY" Topic in this forum.
Sent from my SCH-I500-Fascinate using XDA App
One of the steps I took with the zero memory issues that finally fixed my problem was to "factory data reset" in the privacy menu. I went from 0.0 to 1.0 gb memory.
BTW, I went through the 0.0 internal memory topic as well, but found that the above reset fixed it.
I wasn't patient enough when I did that to my phone on day 1. I just swapped it out at Best Buy, haha. Since it wasn't rooted at all, it just looked like corrupt firmware.
I will keep that in mind if I run into that issue again.
thank you for the quick responses. i tried the factory data reset already and still had zero memory. im not quite sure how to go about trying the solutions suggested in the other thread without having root. maybe im just misunderstanding what they are suggesting? or maybe there is a way i can root my phone now even with no memory???
Meh..
Takes less than 10 minutes, and gets you as close to stock as possible while still being rooted. It's not really monumental or earth-shattering.
I'll be the first to admit I was scared as hell the first time I did it.
Yeah..the first time. You think I actually *learned* from my mistake? Well, I did..I just keep making new, more interesting ones.
That *is* the point of Android, isn't it?
Steps:
Using adb, copy original.mbr (from that thread) to your phone.
flash stock.zip through CWM (you should still be able to get into recovery).
At this point, I diverged from the steps in the topic and restored my original stock+root backup as well)
Reboot, wipe data/cache, delete "databases" folder in /dbdata through root explorer.
(At this point I then did the nandroid revert to stock from the forums, updated, and had a nice functional phone again)
How far are you getting?
ok heres everything i have done and i still have no memory. i used the instructions to get back to stock with odin that came from the sticky on how to do everything. it included putting the original mbr on the phone and a few other things, im not so sure exactly what all it did but i followed those instructions to the t. then i had to use odin to get cwm back and i then used cwm to wipe and then tried to restore a backup. the backup restore didnt fix the memory so i wiped again and reflashed the superclean rom, still with no memory. thats where im at now, im too new to be comfortable doing much in adb without detailed instructions
ok i understand your instructions i think now, but i cant get the mbr on my phone using adb because i lost root. thats where i think im stuck
ok now ive got root back it seems but i cant do the adb thing it says to do for the original mbr. it just says "adb: not found" after i type in the cat /sdcard/original.mbr > /dev/block/mmcblk0 part
adb is part of the root zip you used earlier. Just go into the folder you ran start-root.bat from. Right-click on the folder/command-prompt here, should make it so you can use adb:
Adb shell
Such
Cat.....etc.
G/L.
Beamed from my Zinc 1.1 Fascinate (Dirrks D02 LV 1250) OC.

Possible Brick?[Solved with Nandroid Backup]

I know you guys hate when people jump the gun...but I'm honestly running out of ideas here. Earlier today I tried to use LCD Density changer on my Nexus S...whether this was stupid on my part, you all can decide later. As for now my nexus boots a black screen. I'm only posting here cuz maybe in finding a solution we can uncover a bit about how the nexus is set up, because it seems to refuse any changes made to the system through fastboot or adb push.
I have tried just about every option to restore the system to stock format, and need help getting my nexus back to booting condition. I've tried fastboot flashing the system.img and just get a "write failed" error. I've pushed the whole system dump to /system through adb and when i reboot it is still missing the files i just pushed. I've flashed different boot.img's in combination with the first two steps, and still my phone remains unbootable.
Any ideas what could be going wrong?
fykick said:
I know you guys hate when people jump the gun...but I'm honestly running out of ideas here. Earlier today I tried to use LCD Density changer on my Nexus S...whether this was stupid on my part, you all can decide later. As for now my nexus boots a black screen. I'm only posting here cuz maybe in finding a solution we can uncover a bit about how the nexus is set up, because it seems to refuse any changes made to the system through fastboot or adb push.
I have tried just about every option to restore the system to stock format, and need help getting my nexus back to booting condition. I've tried fastboot flashing the system.img and just get a "write failed" error. I've pushed the whole system dump to /system through adb and when i reboot it is still missing the files i just pushed. I've flashed different boot.img's in combination with the first two steps, and still my phone remains unbootable.
Any ideas what could be going wrong?
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Is it safe to say you didnt do nandroid restore prior?
Yes, that is correct...didn't think it'd cause this much of a problem(stupid me). I asked earlier if maybe some could upload a nandroid restore for me so I could at least attempt that. But I got no response, so I'm still in the dark.
fykick said:
Yes, that is correct...didn't think it'd cause this much of a problem(stupid me). I asked earlier if maybe some could upload a nandroid restore for me so I could at least attempt that. But I got no response, so I'm still in the dark.
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When I get home in an hour, I'll factory wipe and make a backup of the stock rom for you.
Any recommendations on where to upload?
I got you man im backing up right ow....going to wipe then backup again and ill upload it so give me a bit
maybe ill be really nice and include some custom transitions for you
Only been 1 day since it came out, since it boots to black, take it back to the store, act stupid, get another one. Solved.
nandroid
pm'ing you the link
let me know if it works
mount usb storage copy and paste the into clockworkmod/backups
unmount usb storage and restore....gave you all the goodies too
nxt said:
Only been 1 day since it came out, since it boots to black, take it back to the store, act stupid, get another one. Solved.
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Hahahahaha best thing I've heard all day
Apparently the NS is super-brickable, according to JBQ (@jbqueru) on android-building:
-Even though Nexus S is designed to be suitable for AOSP work, there
are some caveats. I very strongly recommend against trying to use
Nexus S for anything related to AOSP at the moment. Trying to unlock
or use your Nexus S for AOSP work could easily turn it into a Nexus B
(where B means "brick"); I have two of those, they're not very useful.
I'll send some guidelines about what is currently possible once I've
finished pushing the source code.
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Is there anyway I can get the link for that nandroid? I seem to have messed my system files up as well.
wdfowty said:
Hahahahaha best thing I've heard all day
Apparently the NS is super-brickable, according to JBQ (@jbqueru) on android-building:
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Now that is a frightening prospect;( How can google make a dev phone thats super brickable... hmmm
JD
AndHel said:
Is there anyway I can get the link for that nandroid? I seem to have messed my system files up as well.
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Can I get the link for the stock nandroid also? I need to use a secure boot image.
Okay, thank you very much for the Nandroid. It worked and I'm back up and running.
OKay
So i sent the backup to at least 3 people anyone care to let me know hows its going and whether or not they like the customizations
drexman8244 said:
So i sent the backup to at least 3 people anyone care to let me know hows its going and whether or not they like the customizations
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maybe you can upload it to mediafire or somewhere else, and create a thread? it might help others out
ill take your advice on that Thanks
adb push may not have been working because your system wasn't mounted properly in Clockwork recovery. I had this issue when trying to root. In Recovery, go to Mounts & Storage and hit "Mount System" THEN adb push the system dump.
You probably didn't need to nandroid. Could have just used adb to reset the density line in your build.prop I assume?
fykick said:
Okay, thank you very much for the Nandroid. It worked and I'm back up and running.
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Please mention it on the Thread Title PROBLEM SOLVED.
An nandroid backup can be found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877601
Hi guys, i'm the developer of LCD Density Changer. Sorry about the problems it caused.
Is it true that the Nexus S, doesn't support a density change. That would be a real bummer! Not for the app, but in general. I just don't hope Google blocks a density change in their new Android versions.
A question: does the "preview/temporarily" density change works in the LCD Density Changer app. If so, there is still hope.
Meanwhile, based on these reports I will put up a note to warn Nexus S users.

[Q] Semi-Brick?

Okay, today I was about to flash a new rom so I attempted to wipe, but I got an error that the phone could not mount the cache (and later couldn't mount data). It says "E:Can't mount CACHE:recovery/command" on the next line "E:Can't mount CACHE:recovery/log" and the next "E:Can't open CACHE:recovery/log". So I have tried reflashing recovery to fix it and it did not work. I cannot flash any rom without an error or restore my nandroid backups. I am in the process of trying to restore the nandroid backups throught fastboot. Can anyone give me any help on this?
SOLUTION: blancoisgod recommends formatting the cache partition to fix this problem
Did you pull the battery and retry?
Yep. Actually, the phone wont even turn on anymore. I will just have to return it to tmobile tomorrow
toby4059 said:
Yep. Actually, the phone wont even turn on anymore. I will just have to return it to tmobile tomorrow
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This is exactly why manufacturers don't want people rooting and messing with their phones.
So because of your stupidity and lack of foresight you're now going to return your phone?! That's laughable.
Now T-Mobile and HTC have to pick up the bill for someone else's ignorance.
Note to self....remember your name and never help you!
No man dont turn it into tmobile. Now everyone is gonna ride you because you broke it and your going to return it because of what you have done,not the manufacturer.
Go ahead and turn it in, but please read around a bit before you do this again.
CBConsultation said:
This is exactly why manufacturers don't want people rooting and messing with their phones.
So because of your stupidity and lack of foresight you're now going to return your phone?! That's laughable.
Now T-Mobile and HTC have to pick up the bill for someone else's ignorance.
Note to self....remember your name and never help you!
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Your right it is my fault; although, I am not sure what I did wrong. I am not a complete idiot and have been doing this stuff for a while. I did everything by the instructions and this happened. I actually saw this happen to someone in the G2 forum but no one found a solution. I see how returning the phone would be wrong but what are my options? I am only 15, no income, so what could I do. If I had income of course I would just pay for a new phone. I hope I am not coming off as a dumb juvenile crook, I apologize.
toby4059 said:
Your right it is my fault; although, I am not sure what I did wrong. I am not a complete idiot and have been doing this stuff for a while. I did everything by the instructions and this happened. I actually saw this happen to someone in the G2 forum but no one found a solution. I see how returning the phone would be wrong but what are my options? I am only 15, no income, so what could I do. If I had income of course I would just pay for a new phone. I hope I am not coming off as a dumb juvenile crook, I apologize.
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Did you make a backup image? If so you could just flash your recovery image and be golden. If not, then your options are very limited.
I was not trying to hurt or insult your feelings but we constantly see people who 'think' they know what they're doing with these same issues all day every day.
My advice is limited as well at this point because I'm not sure exactly what you've done or precautions you had in place for this.
Can you even boot into the OS at all? Do a factory reset?
CBConsultation said:
Did you make a backup image? If so you could just flash your recovery image and be golden. If not, then your options are very limited.
I was not trying to hurt or insult your feelings but we constantly see people who 'think' they know what they're doing with these same issues all day every day.
My advice is limited as well at this point because I'm not sure exactly what you've done or precautions you had in place for this.
Can you even boot into the OS at all? Do a factory reset?
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I cannot turn the phone on what so ever. I was flashing my backup through fastboot then tried to reboot and now it will no longer turn on. I fastboot erased recovery, system, userdata, and boot and restored them from the nandroid backup I had taken prior to the error. The day prior I had rooted successfully and flashed the desire z port. I decided I wanted to try the HD port so I wiped and flashed the rom. When I rebooted it got to the lockscreen and it showed some graphical corruption then began to boot loop. I turned it off and went to recovery and thats when the CACHE errors started. Was I supposed to wipe the dav cache because I am pretty sure I did. I just want to find out what I did wrong so it won't happen to me or anyone else.
toby4059 said:
I cannot turn the phone on what so ever. I was flashing my backup through fastboot then tried to reboot and now it will no longer turn on. I fastboot erased recovery, system, userdata, and boot and restored them from the nandroid backup I had taken prior to the error. The day prior I had rooted successfully and flashed the desire z port. I decided I wanted to try the HD port so I wiped and flashed the rom. When I rebooted it got to the lockscreen and it showed some graphical corruption then began to boot loop. I turned it off and went to recovery and thats when the CACHE errors started. Was I supposed to wipe the dav cache because I am pretty sure I did. I just want to find out what I did wrong so it won't happen to me or anyone else.
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Between ROM's, you said you wiped. What did you wipe? Cache? Dalvik? Partition?
You said you're not too sure so I am going to assume you either didn't wipe something you should have or you did wipe something you shouldn't have.
Try this. Remove the battery for 10 minutes. When the battery is removed, hold the power button for about 2 minutes. This will drain any residual current left on the board. After the 10 minutes are up, try reinserting the battery, hold the volume- button and try to power on. We'll see if you can manage to boot into recovery at this point.
CBConsultation said:
Between ROM's, you said you wiped. What did you wipe? Cache? Dalvik? Partition?
You said you're not too sure so I am going to assume you either didn't wipe something you should have or you did wipe something you shouldn't have.
Try this. Remove the battery for 10 minutes. When the battery is removed, hold the power button for about 2 minutes. This will drain any residual current left on the board. After the 10 minutes are up, try reinserting the battery, hold the volume- button and try to power on. We'll see if you can manage to boot into recovery at this point.
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Okay I will give that a try thanks.
I had the same error just right now man
What you want to do is format the cache partition when you get the thing booted.
blancoisgod said:
I had the same error just right now man
What you want to do is format the cache partition when you get the thing booted.
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Did you do that and did it fix? I did that through adb and thats when it stopped booting, although I think the boot issue is unrelated to my current problem.
i did it via clockwork
Alright, I will try this if I can ever get my phone started again.

Phone keeps bootlooping, possible EFS corruption?

I tried flashing X-Note 6.0 and things have gone sour from there. I keep getting bootloop, i'm able to do initial setup until it asks me for gmail, once i input my address, it pulls my name and when it asks me to confirm it, it restarts the phone. Then im able to finish setup, but as soon as i'm back and i reboot again, im stuck in infinite bootloop.
I tried reverting back to stock via odin, but i got bootloop again, fortunately for me, after about 1h, it booted back into OS and i was able to root and reinstall twrp.
I dont have a backup of my EFS, again i'm not even sure thats the real problem, can anybody please help?
EDIT: On stock the bootloop is not infinite, after about 10 minutes the phone eventually boot back in OS
polish_pat said:
I tried flashing X-Note 6.0 and things have gone sour from there. I keep getting bootloop, i'm able to do initial setup until it asks me for gmail, once i input my address, it pulls my name and when it asks me to confirm it, it restarts the phone. Then im able to finish setup, but as soon as i'm back and i reboot again, im stuck in infinite bootloop.
I tried reverting back to stock via odin, but i got bootloop again, fortunately for me, after about 1h, it booted back into OS and i was able to root and reinstall twrp.
I dont have a backup of my EFS, again i'm not even sure thats the real problem, can anybody please help?
EDIT: On stock the bootloop is not infinite, after about 10 minutes the phone eventually boot back in OS
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Please help me someone. I tried the EFS fix here with no success. I tried to restore via odin, factory reset, every time i finish initial setup and restore my apps and reboot, it bootloops.
Shot in the dark, but disable auto installing of apps/restoring apps. Could be that it is triggering the bootloop due to an incompatible app with X-Note.
If no good. You gotta be brave and strip that badboy back with a full wipe/dalvik/cache, reflash your stock image (get shot of recovery also) then see if it can get past the bootloop (don't forget to remove your SD Card also if you have one) - Give it shot, see what you come up with.
Also if you're on an N9005 model, head over to Djembays thread and grab an image of him, seems to have gotten a lot of people out of issues (JayTheNut uses his images when he messes up) -
Lemme know how you get on, I'll have a nose around see what else it could be.
radicalisto said:
Shot in the dark, but disable auto installing of apps/restoring apps. Could be that it is triggering the bootloop due to an incompatible app with X-Note.
If no good. You gotta be brave and strip that badboy back with a full wipe/dalvik/cache, reflash your stock image (get shot of recovery also) then see if it can get past the bootloop (don't forget to remove your SD Card also if you have one) - Give it shot, see what you come up with.
Also if you're on an N9005 model, head over to Djembays thread and grab an image of him, seems to have gotten a lot of people out of issues (JayTheNut uses his images when he messes up) -
Lemme know how you get on, I'll have a nose around see what else it could be.
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I dont think you read the thread. I'm not on xnote anymore, i'm on stock firmware, MJ4, i also have a W8 and the EFS script fix is for international version. I've odined back to stock and all the issues i'm having are also present on stock firmware
polish_pat said:
I'm not on xnote, i'm on stock firmware, MJ4, i also have a W8 and the EFS script fix is for international version
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Ah ok, so that changes the playing field a little. - Give @CalcProgrammer1 a Message, he uses the W8 and the guy certainly knows a thing or two about it. All I can think of at this time.
EDIT: actually thinking about it, you haven't upgraded your bootloader by mistake have you?
I have a feeling background WiFi scanning is enabled in Settings -> WiFi -> Advanced - I don't think any of the newer ROM updates ever managed to have that not bootloop your phone on reboot. In case you're stumped and can't find the setting, you'll have to hit the menu key on the WiFI screen.
radicalisto said:
Ah ok, so that changes the playing field a little. - Give @CalcProgrammer1 a Message, he uses the W8 and the guy certainly knows a thing or two about it. All I can think of at this time.
EDIT: actually thinking about it, you haven't upgraded your bootloader by mistake have you?
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I dont think so, unless flashing Xnote 6.0 or using odin to restore stock does that. Thats pretty much all I did, but i think i might have done something that might have fixed the problem, i'm not sure yet, but i'll confirm shortly
radicalisto said:
Ah ok, so that changes the playing field a little. - Give @CalcProgrammer1 a Message, he uses the W8 and the guy certainly knows a thing or two about it. All I can think of at this time.
EDIT: actually thinking about it, you haven't upgraded your bootloader by mistake have you?
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I use the N900T (T-Mo) version, though I guess it's pretty similar to the W8. Unfortunately I don't know anything about the efs side of things on the N900T or equivalents. I've been avoiding the backup and restore functionality in TWRP since it was widely reported to cause bootloops in the first few weeks after release anyways. Have you tried the bootloop fix method over at the T-Mobile N900T forum? I forget what the process exactly was but people reported great success using it (including those who intentionally recreated the problem to test the fix). I did have a similar boot loop issue on my Note 1 which was fixed doing a complete Odin restore with a full factory image (bootloader, system, modem, kernel, recovery, etc. - the entire complete factory restore). I don't know if such a package exists for the N900W8 and that's something I wouldn't use the wrong variant's version of.
odin was one of the first thing i tried, as mentionned the problem was on 100% stock device. Now i've tried formating SD cards and i was able stop the bootloops but now instead i get a worse problem when my phone keep giving me force closes and everytime i dismiss one, another one pops back up and its just a FC Loop:crying:
I have an W8...I also had terrible boot loop problems and I can't quite remember the cause, but this is what fixed it.
Obviously I can't stress enough to read this and type this in very carefully, and that if your phone stops working, turns into a robot, explodes, or tries to kill your dog I'm not responsible .
1. Reboot to recovery
2. Hit "Advanced" Select "Terminal Command"
3. Hit "Select" (lower right corner)..Do not select any specific folder, just hit select..
4. keyboard will open, type in the following commands, make sure you put the spaces and / where they need to be, it needs to look exactly as outlined..
mke2fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p12
Hit Go - The command will run.
Clear the box, type the following command
mkdir /efs
Hit Go - The command will run.
Clear the box, type the following command
mount -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p12 /efs
Hit Go - The command will run.
Do a factory reset, reboot system
Can't remember where I got this from, only saved the text not the forum >.<
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Hello guys .... I wanna say first ... that I tryed all options and all efs backups etc etc ... everything works just fine back up my efs . and restore but .. when I try to register my phone on network ends like this :
- only emergency calls
- when try to insert a new sim card my n9005 just reboot when search for network also ... is charging but allways remain at 8-10% no more up .
I tryed all kind of stuff ... made back ups .... and tryed install stock firmware etc ... rooting and did anything ... I will apreciate any kind of help ...I just wanna tell you I am close to deat ... becouse is my wife phone and still does not know I messed up with
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EDIT: I'm offering a 50$ bounty to anybody that gives me a solution that fixes my phone, paid in full by paypal
I tried flashing X-Note 6.0 and things have gone sour from there. I keep getting bootloop, i'm able to do initial setup until it asks me for gmail, once i input my address, it pulls my name and when it asks me to confirm it, it restarts the phone. Then im able to finish setup, but as soon as i'm back and i reboot again, im stuck in infinite bootloop.
I tried reverting back to stock via odin, but i got bootloop again, fortunately for me, after about 1h, it booted back into OS and i was able to root and reinstall twrp.
I dont have a backup of my EFS, again i'm not even sure thats the real problem, can anybody please help?
EDIT: On stock the bootloop is not infinite, after about 10 minutes the phone eventually boot back in OS
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Hey dude i think xnote 6 is mk2 based, so what basically is going wrong is that you're trying to downgrade your bootloader. please try flashing an mk2 stock rom ( or an mj7) via odin, that should fix it ..
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Hi guys i tried everything my phone was in a constant state of bootloop and wouldnt connect to any carrier. Then i came across this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2567133 and now my phone is working, still wont connect to a carrier but the phone is now stable which is a good thing. Hope this helps some of you :fingers-crossed:
Thanks for all the input, as of now, i was able to stop the boot-looping on stock rom, but I do still have major issues like i cannot install twrp, by goomanger it tell me its done but when i reboot into recovery, i end up in stock recovery. And yes, i'm rooted. Also i cannot format my SD card from the OS, it keep telling me the card is being checked all the time. I also have a lot of other small issues that should not be there on a fresh install. i honestly dont know what screwed up so bad but i will try some of the solutions mentioned above and report back.
To me that sounds like your partitions are all screwed up have you tried flashing using a pit file?
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Steeno78 said:
To me that sounds like your partitions are all screwed up have you tried flashing using a pit file?
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Never. I'm def not that newbish. I dont know whats happening but everytime i format the phone it gets a little better.
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