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Help, my HD2 won't start after installing and removing banana game.

Hi, could you please help. I installed the banana game then realised that the game wasn't compatible with HD2 as the game was showin g only on 3/4 of the screen and thye sense was unstable. I removed the app and the device switched offf. Sinced the I haven't been able to turn it on all i get is the initial black screen wity the pink ring. It won't resen using up down method and task 29 wont work as it is unable to connect. can anyone help....

what "up down method" its not up then down lol if you want to hard reset turn youre phone off press and hold up and down volume buttons and turn the phone on you should get a grey screen then follow instructions, and task 29 will work if you can get in bootloader but why would you want to wipe the mobile if you dont no what you doing?
and the banana game doesnt really give us much insight does it lol

Demon_man said:
what "up down method" its not up then down lol if you want to hard reset turn youre phone off press and hold up and down volume buttons and turn the phone on you should get a grey screen then follow instructions, and task 29 will work if you can get in bootloader but why would you want to wipe the mobile if you dont no what you doing?
and the banana game doesnt really give us much insight does it lol
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Hi Demon,
I am glad you find this funny but here I am in tears re: the situation. I meant vol up and down for hard reset but its not working bfore turn on. I chose the task 29 as I am desperate and willing to reset to default setting. I did try vol up and down before turning on my mobile and still not working. See below url for the game downloaded but I didn't downloaded from this site I used the omarket. thanks
freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-bananas

I wasnt laughing mate, so can you get in bootloader?? (press and hold volume down while turning the phone on keep holding till you get a coloured screen)is you battery charged?

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I wasnt laughing mate, so can you get in bootloader?? is you battery charged?
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No I can't all i am getting is the RGD screen...
Thanks

what do you mean RGD screen, can you post a pic if you have a camera

try taking the battery cover off, and then press the vol up and vol down together, carefully. Make sure you feel the contact as you press it. I struggled at the beginning to make it wiork. the button isn't really meant to bend at both ends, so it feels like you have them both pressed, but dont.
Once you are confident that both ends are pressed, only then tap and release power to start the phone.
ALl being well, 5 or so seconds later the three coloured screen should come up.
Fingers x'd

Demon_man said:
what do you mean RGD screen, can you post a pic if you have a camera
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See attachment... this is a uk t mobile phone

try the tip sam posted for getting into a hard reset he explain better than me, does it normally start up like that never seen that before

Yes it does normally start like that ... I did try sam's advice still same screen coming up.
Thanks

samsamuel said:
try taking the battery cover off, and then press the vol up and vol down together, carefully. Make sure you feel the contact as you press it. I struggled at the beginning to make it wiork. the button isn't really meant to bend at both ends, so it feels like you have them both pressed, but dont.
Once you are confident that both ends are pressed, only then tap and release power to start the phone.
ALl being well, 5 or so seconds later the three coloured screen should come up.
Fingers x'd
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I tried again and you are right just a tap on the power as before i think i was pressing too hard on the power button ....now I have a gray screen with the following:
This operation will delete all your personal data ......
What should I do now to avoid losing all data...
Thanks

ok, now dont take this the wrong way mate because everyone has done this, but you must be doing it wrong or not catching the buttons right, if you have someone with you, you're easiest option would be turn your phone on as normal take your battery cover off, press and hold both volume buttons and keep holding them, get someone to press the red button near the batter with a pin, that way you have hold of both volume buttons, keep holding them while the phone is restarting and you should get a different screen come up,
like i said its quite tricky to get it the first time.
you cant not loose anything this is youre only option im affriad, but youre phone will work again

Demon_man said:
try the tip sam posted for getting into a hard reset he explain better than me, does it normally start up like that never seen that before
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You are right, Sam's advice did work now i have a grey screen with the followings: This operation will delete all your personal data .... etc
How can i restart without losing all the data.
Thanks

HD2 Jay said:
You are right, Sam's advice did work now i have a grey screen with the followings: This operation will delete all your personal data .... etc
How can i restart without losing all the data.
Thanks
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you will loose it all mate no choice, if you want you're phone back up and running, sorry,

HD2 Jay said:
I tried again and you are right just a tap on the power as before i think i was pressing too hard on the power button ....now I have a gray screen with the following:
This operation will delete all your personal data ......
What should I do now to avoid losing all data...
Thanks
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hehe, its a bit of a three handed job. I usualy use a thumb on each vol button, and my top lip to press power, lol.
I think sadly your data is gone. I can't think of a way to save it if the phone wont boot.
Plus, if this banana thing did mess your phone up, you want to be sure its gone.
(A good lesson in syncing your data regularly )
If the hard reset doesn't work, then my next steps would be to task29 from bootloader (volume down and power, dont touch vol up) followed by flashing your stock rom over usb.

Demon_man said:
you will loose it all mate no choice, if you want you're phone back up and running, sorry,
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Thats fine, I am happy with that. Thanks to the both of you... you guys are legends.
Have a good evening.
Jay

HD2 Jay said:
Thats fine, I am happy with that. Thanks to the both of you... you guys are legends.
Have a good evening.
Jay
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credit to Sam he great at explaining things properly, Glad you got it sorted mate

Demon_man said:
credit to Sam he great at explaining things properly, Happy you got it sorted
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lol nah you were both great!!!!!
take care

Demon_man said:
credit to Sam he great at explaining things properly, Glad you got it sorted mate
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HD2 Jay said:
lol nah you were both great!!!!!
take care
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group hug! hehe.

hi just wondering can you conect the phone via usb to pc does the pc read you r phone ?

My vibrant is totally bricked

Unable to turn it on. totally bricked

So... Are you unable to turn it on due to no fingers?

Lol yea what happened?

Well, we need a bit more info.
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1. have you tried "power button" ?
2. have you charged the phone ?
on a bright side, you are the 1st one !

Maybe your battery is loose? Not to mention that bricking a
phone is usually due to screwing up a software flash. So, is brick really the right word?
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kolyan said:
1. have you tried "power button" ?
2. have you charged the phone ?
on a bright side, you are the 1st one !
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LOL!!
Try holding down the volume down button as you turn the phone on...see if that does anything.

Only time I'd allow the "First" comment to be used in a thread.
Im guessing CW Recovery...

Thank you guys
I think it's bricked, and unrecoverable.
After several flashing, It suddenly turned off then never woke up again. Any effort so far is hopeless

bl4ckdr4g00n said:
Thank you guys
I think it's bricked, and unrecoverable.
After several flashing, It suddenly turned off then never woke up again. Any effort so far is hopeless
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What were you flashing? Give more info and maybe ppl would/could help you!

All~G1 said:
What were you flashing? Give more info and maybe ppl would/could help you!
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I tried with captivate stock firmware, i9000 international firmware, then I flash back to vibrant stock firmware.
After had things done with Odin, my phone restarted, and it was the last time I saw my baby working as a smart phone.

Did you try to reboot the phone into recovery or download mode?

DAKIDD236 said:
Did you try to reboot the phone into recovery or download mode?
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How can I do that when I can't even turn it on?

bl4ckdr4g00n said:
How can I do that when I can't even turn it on?
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Have you tried plugging it into your charger? does the battery/charging screen come on?

bl4ckdr4g00n said:
How can I do that when I can't even turn it on?
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try this Koush posted this in his thread.. hope it works
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If you are stuck on the phone to PC screen, you are NOT bricked. During development, I ended up getting into this state a couple times myself. You can still get into download mode in the same fashion.
Connect your phone to USB so you get the phone->PC screen. Press and hold both volume up/down. Then press and also hold Home. Then start pressing and holding power for 2 seconds. After 2 seconds, let go of power. Continue holding volume up, volume down, and home, until you get into download mode.
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All~G1 said:
Have you tried plugging it into your charger? does the battery/charging screen come on?
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no, a completely blank screen.
no icon, no GUI, no nothing (

Yeah, weird...I just flashed back to US firmware and now my phone is totally unresponsive to everything. Keep in mind I've flashed back and forth several times...even once thought my phone was bricked because the power button wouldn't even turn the screen on. But after holding the correct buttons it finally booted into download mode. I was even using my phone earlier just fine, and having it run quadrant test of 1700, but as soon as I flashed back to 100% stock US firmware, my phone now no longer boots. Go figure lol.
Though this time I think it has bit the dust for real, lol. So be weary of flashing back to US firmware if you are flashing a lot of different other firmwares. Cuz I think something happens and the key combinations get deleted so it refuses to boot into any mode.

DAKIDD236 said:
try this Koush posted this in his thread.. hope it works
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I"m at the phone to pc screen..but the Home button is not a "button" it's a touch sensitive button on my vibrant and it won't go into download mode...
I got here because i flashed the custom kernel to put the market and data on a ext4 partition...and it reversed my volume buttons and reversed the routing of sound..headphone speaker..that stuff....so i couldn't hear anything...so when i went to reflash stock t-mobile firmware it told me not to unplug for like hours..it wasn't doing anything.....i took the battery out and now i'm stuck at phone to pc...i think i might just use the warranty..seeing as u can't do a think with it...atleast i can't that is..i feel like a moron...
the forum said to work on com7 but com4 was showing up in odin...i couldn't get it to go on com7 so i thought it should still work....

fykick said:
even once thought my phone was bricked because the power button wouldn't even turn the screen on. But after holding the correct buttons it finally booted into download mode.
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what was your combination?

I hold volume up and down..then hold home with those..then power for 2 seconds..let go and nothing...it doesn't recognize i'm holding the home because it's a software based button..the home key that is..and with no software...no button...so i'm afraid this screen means bricked...adb reboot download won't work either...i'm gunna get it exchanged in the morning..under buyers remorse..

Multiple Windows Live Profiles... how'd that happen? :/

Hi guys... well as you can see by the title, i'm confused as to how this may have happened. I've tried to do a reset (settings > about > reset) but that doesn't seem to rid the thing back to square one... anyone got any ideas? This is really bugging me big time... is there a way to hard reset with bootloader screen like holding certain buttons down with power button as well cus i haven't seen any info on that either
Thanks in advance if someone can help me on this one

SOLVED... full format is...
hold vol DOWN and CAMERA buttons and then power up device... press windows button twice when prompted to wipe the thing!

TheShowStopper said:
SOLVED... full format is...
hold vol DOWN and CAMERA buttons and then power up device... press windows button twice when prompted to wipe the thing!
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Goes to the Wiki, millions of thanks

anaadoul said:
Goes to the Wiki, millions of thanks
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You're welcome mate. Only took a few battery pulls and trial and errors on my part to guess the right combo! lol
Glad to be of use at last!
*THINK* Now can someone help us Windows XP users out and finally crack this blummin XAP and SDK problem as commented on on many posts i wonder? As luck would have it, probably not!

Safe Mode

I just stumbled upon a 'safe mode' that our Atrix can be booted into, I believe its similar to windows safe mode, as in it only loads essential system files.
To do this, power off your Atrix, and press the power button to turn it on. Once the boot ANIMATION starts, immediately press and HOLD the vol up + vol down buttons until you get a long vibe, then release. you'll then see 'safe mode' at the lower left of the screen when the lockscreen comes up.
Im sure this could be of some use... for something. Just unsure exactly what this could be useful for at this point.

Is the data working? Can you make phone calls? I didn't try it yet.
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jgc121 said:
I just stumbled upon a 'safe mode' that our Atrix can be booted into, I believe its similar to windows safe mode, as in it only loads essential system files.
To do this, power off your Atrix, and press the power button to turn it on. Once the boot ANIMATION starts, immediately press and HOLD the vol up + vol down buttons until you get a long vibe, then release. you'll then see 'safe mode' at the lower left of the screen when the lockscreen comes up.
Im sure this could be of some use... for something. Just unsure exactly what this could be useful for at this point.
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I'm sure there are more than this, but I've heard safe mode mainly being used by people who get the force close of death loop (aka force close loop that never ends, even when restarting). This way in safe mode you can try to do something about the app causing the trouble.

like delete it?

Safe Mode FTW! Thank you! Thank you!
I was in a force-close loop after a launcher update and this was the solution.
XDA comes through again!!!
Thank you so much!

Someone should compile all the button configurations into a thread or something like that?

Syl said:
Someone should compile all the button configurations into a thread or something like that?
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This, and the combinations for getting into fastboot and such are the only combinations I know of...
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G-Man. said:
This, and the combinations for getting into fastboot and such are the only combinations I know of...
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Way to go on the quick reply...Roflmao
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I know, right? Procrastination at its finest!
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First time I found out about safe mode, it was when I was booting my Galaxy Note and at same time rubbing it against my trousers to wipe the screen clean. In GNote, during the boot animation the Menu key has to be tapped several times, no wonder the rubbing did the trick.
It is good to know now when it would be useful.

CSharpHeaven said:
no wonder the rubbing did the trick.
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Doesn't it always?

I can do the same in my defy...but quarxs and the orher devs never found a use for this mode...
Maybe in atrix we can use it for something.
from the (m)ATRIX...

[HELP] My Note rebooted in to some wierd factory mode

Could anyone with knowledge tell me if it is safe to reboot my Galaxy Note when this image is shown?
(see relevant images in the attachements)
A small history to this incident:
While I was at work my Note had started the "in car"-app (don't know what it is called, but it is activaded by voice I think). Which I found a bit odd, but I closed it down. After a few minutes the app started by it self again and at which point I decided to reboot my phone as some software was obviously screwed up.
Said and done I rebooted but instead of getting the regular boot my phone instead entered Factory Mode with the message "Downloading... Do not turn of target!!"
This of course scares me a bit so I haven't had the gut to turn it off or reboot.
Is this something that can be fixed or do I have to return it for service?
/ tonii

toniimirrkare said:
Could anyone with knowledge tell me if it is safe to reboot my Galaxy Note when this image is shown?
(see relevant images in the attachements)
A small history to this incident:
While I was at work my Note had started the "in car"-app (don't know what it is called, but it is activaded by voice I think). Which I found a bit odd, but I closed it down. After a few minutes the app started by it self again and at which point I decided to reboot my phone as some software was obviously screwed up.
Said and done I rebooted but instead of getting the regular boot my phone instead entered Factory Mode with the message "Downloading... Do not turn of target!!"
This of course scares me a bit so I haven't had the gut to turn it off or reboot.
Is this something that can be fixed or do I have to return it for service?
/ tonii
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Mate, that's just "Download Mode" used for downloading new firmwares on the phone, used in Samsung services as well.
You access that by pressing Volume Down (or up, not sure) + Home + Power. Just pull out the battery and try to reboot it again. It's nothing to worry about, you might have hit the buttons by mistake or if not just some weird Note act-up...

eug3n91 said:
Mate, that's just "Download Mode" used for downloading new firmwares on the phone, used in Samsung services as well.
You access that by pressing Volume Down (or up, not sure) + Home + Power. Just pull out the battery and try to reboot it again. It's nothing to worry about, you might have hit the buttons by mistake or if not just some weird Note act-up...
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Exactly. Nothing to be worried about there unless it keeps happening without interaction from you then there be something going on.

toniimirrkare said:
Is this something that can be fixed or do I have to return it for service?
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had a little chuckle at this

eug3n91 said:
Mate, that's just "Download Mode" used for downloading new firmwares on the phone, used in Samsung services as well.
You access that by pressing Volume Down (or up, not sure) + Home + Power. Just pull out the battery and try to reboot it again. It's nothing to worry about, you might have hit the buttons by mistake or if not just some weird Note act-up...
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Oh. I feel a bit silly right now ^_^
Don't think I hit the "home"-button, but i'm starting to believe it's a bit messed up anyway since the "car"-app is starting by it self. it has happened a couple of times now. I'll wait and see if it happens again, and if so I'll try a factory reset.
Thanks for the quick reply!
/ tonii

toniimirrkare said:
Oh. I feel a bit silly right now ^_^
Don't think I hit the "home"-button, but i'm starting to believe it's a bit messed up anyway since the "car"-app is starting by it self. it has happened a couple of times now. I'll wait and see if it happens again, and if so I'll try a factory reset.
Thanks for the quick reply!
/ tonii
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That's a bit weird with the car-app, although part of the beauty of Android for nerds like me is solving bugs like that A factory reset should do the trick.
And if you're feeling brave and have plenty of time on your hands, you should start reading about flashing other ROMs, there are a lot of users here and guides who will walk you through it and explain everything you need Once you get something custom on your note, stock firmware will seem utterly unworthy
Best of luck solving your problem

panyan said:
had a little chuckle at this
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Heh, good for you
I'm not that experienced with Samsung, and by the text on the phone I thought it could be bricked if I rebooted

eug3n91 said:
That's a bit weird with the car-app, although part of the beauty of Android for nerds like me is solving bugs like that A factory reset should do the trick.
And if you're feeling brave and have plenty of time on your hands, you should start reading about flashing other ROMs, there are a lot of users here and guides who will walk you through it and explain everything you need Once you get something custom on your note, stock firmware will seem utterly unworthy
Best of luck solving your problem
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Thank you!
I'll consider trying other roms when and if I get tired of the one Samsung provides!
Have just had it about two months, and coming from the HTC Wildfire this phone is a beast! ^_^

eug3n91 said:
That's a bit weird with the car-app, although part of the beauty of Android for nerds like me is solving bugs like that A factory reset should do the trick.
And if you're feeling brave and have plenty of time on your hands, you should start reading about flashing other ROMs, there are a lot of users here and guides who will walk you through it and explain everything you need Once you get something custom on your note, stock firmware will seem utterly unworthy
Best of luck solving your problem
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:/ I had an issue similar to this with the car mode constantly opening up, and it was thinking it was charging when it wasn't, it wouldn't connect to the computer via usb, etc. Ended up being a bad USB port but Amazon shipped me a new one for free. Hopefully that's not the case for you, but if it starts to get worse... ( I had mine for only two and a half months)

toniimirrkare said:
Oh. I feel a bit silly right now ^_^
Don't think I hit the "home"-button, but i'm starting to believe it's a bit messed up anyway since the "car"-app is starting by it self. it has happened a couple of times now. I'll wait and see if it happens again, and if so I'll try a factory reset.
Thanks for the quick reply!
/ tonii
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Don't fret just yet. Give it time so dat u strt undstanding ur fone
Remember these:
1) Press and hold Power button for about 10 secs to reset (its like a computer restart). Also called soft reset. U could do this when ur fone behaves unusually like hanging, draining too much batt, etc.
2) Vol up+Home+Power until u see the Samsung logo takes u to Recovery Mode. From here u may factory reset ur device. Also called hard reset. Do this when soft reset doesn't solve a small problem. Remember to make backups 1st.
3) Vol down+Home+Power brings u to Download mode. U may use this when u need to flash a ROM urslf (once u have read ample info abt it, be warned)
4) Two other ways to hard reset ur device:
a) Select Settings>Privacy>Factory data reset
b)From ur dialer, enter just key in *2767*3855#

StygiAn TrepidAtioN said:
Don't fret just yet. Give it time so dat u strt undstanding ur fone
Remember these:
1) Press and hold Power button for about 10 secs to reset (its like a computer restart). Also called soft reset. U could do this when ur fone behaves unusually like hanging, draining too much batt, etc.
2) Vol up+Home+Power until u see the Samsung logo takes u to Recovery Mode. From here u may factory reset ur device. Also called hard reset. Do this when soft reset doesn't solve a small problem. Remember to make backups 1st.
3) Vol down+Home+Power brings u to Download mode. U may use this when u need to flash a ROM urslf (once u have read ample info abt it, be warned)
4) Two other ways to hard reset ur device:
a) Select Settings>Privacy>Factory data reset
b)From ur dialer, enter just key in *2767*3855#
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Many thanks for the tips!
Much appreciated