I finally decided to attempt to load a custom ROM on my Samsung Fascinate after a couple of months of owning it. Before I started anything, I backed up my current ROM twice using ROM Manager, then used ROM Manager to do the new ROM download and install.
Things didn't go well. At all.
Once the new ROM was installed, my phone restarted, got back to the puzzle screen (thinking I was in business!) and as soon as I unlocked the screen the force closes just kept on coming. One right after another. Pretty much anything and everything force closes, so much so that it is the only thing you can do on the phone now. I have tried force closing things for as much as 5 minutes thinking I might get to the end of it, but no luck.
So now I have 2 backups on my SD card. I went into my Android System Recovery (+, - volume and power button), selected apply sdcard:update.zip which gets me to ClockworkMod Recovery v. 2.5.1.0. From there I go into Backup and Restore, select Restore and then my restore file. After some time the restore process is complete and the phone asks to reboot. I do the reboot and low and behold nothing seems to have changed in the phone. I still have the custom ROM with all of the force closes.
Am I missing something with this CWM restore process? I have read what seems like dozens of forum entries and nobody else seems to have problems with the restoration.It seems like it is pretty straight forward but I am not having any luck with it at all.
Any help is appreciated!
Try This and see if it helps:
http://forum.androidcentral.com/fascinate-roms-hacks/38029-how-escape-force-close-loop-hell.html
Perfect! I am back in business thanks to you. Sure appreciate your help!
Did you wipe first?
What I want to do is install a stock non rooted rom, kernel, and recovery. I am not sure how to change recovery to stock either is it like flashing a rom? Please give me some links for these I can't seem to find them, besides the stock kernel I found that.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------The reason I want the above is bellow, if it matters.-----------------------------------------------------
My phone is about 95% broken.
Before, every rom/kernel combination would randomly restart, it was my phone it self I believe.
I went to a stock rooted rom, but then it restarted, and my lock screen worked, yet my home screen was black all i could do was slide my status bar down.
After that i restarted my self and then it got stock forever on the screen where it says Samsung galaxy s4.
The 5% working part is my recovery, for the most part.
I keep having to do a full wipe, not just system wipe otherwise it says error unable to mount preload or i/o or a few other things, I have to system wipe before every rom attempt.
I tried several popular roms such as sacs and triforce and a few other roms and all the kernels also.
The phone will turn on, work for a little normally, then crash again and go into the infinite loading screen where is simply says galaxy s4.
This phone is only 3 months old, so I want to take it back to sprint being completely stock so they give me a new phone.
I need links to files I need, and if i am forgetting to change anything back to stock please let me know. Thank you.
I replied to you in the newbie thread, but to return to complete stock download the latest firmware from here: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/ and install it with odin. Do a factory reset before and after install to make sure you have cleared out what ever is causing your problems. After this process you will be completely stock and unrooted. If you are still having problems after this it is probably hardware related.
Hello, lurker here and new to rooting and custom roms.
I was having problems with my alliance rom and ended up going into safestrap recovery and had read that if I reset to factory it wold fix my problem.
Sooo my phone turns back on and I'm missing all of my root/rom mods and most of my applications return a Google play store errors. I've fixed a couple by getting into my data/data folders.
I previously installed alliance rom on my note 3 and all was working well until I did the stated above. Now when I restart it loads alliance rom but I have no control on the theme or controls on the mod. (Alliance rom crashes when options for it are clicked)
So I guess what is my question is, how can I just restart and start fresh? Because it seems I have bits and pieces of the rom but not others. I can boot into recovery with safestrap but I don't have a cess to a desktop for about a week. So this would have to be done on my phone only.
Thanks
Hi guys
I'm using samsung galaxy S5 (4.4.2) and recently upgraded to 5.0 using custom rom which I found here. It was working just great. I created 2 Nandroid using TWRP. One after a fresh installation another one after restoring my file contents from Helium and Titanium backup..
However something went wrong and i decided to restore my nandroid backup to revert back my changes. To my surprise both nandroid backup failed. I got a success message (using recovery mode) however when i reboot my phone im getting tons of messages like "System failed to start" "process failed to start" wait or press ok.
When I reflash the custom rom, it works fine, however i couldnt recover my system from nandroid backup.
I repeated several times but both nandroid gave me this same error. I even tried fixing permissions but no use. Then I used odin to flash a stock rom (BOA3) and rooted that using TWRP and most recent SU binaries. Its working great now, however I just wanted to know what is the best method to take a nandroid backup now? I'm afraid TWRP will bail out on me once again.
All the while I used CWM and it was great however 5.0 requires latest binaries and only can be rooted via TRWP recovery. Any suggestion? I just want to take a complete nandroid backup and save it in case if something goes wrong.
Thanks
sam20e said:
when i reboot my phone im getting tons of messages like "System failed to start" "process failed to start" wait or press ok.
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I'm being plagued by this problem since I updated, flashing stock Lollipop using odin.
The problem first appeared after trying to restore my app+data using Titanium.
I went back to the beginning and flashed again but my phone is still unstable and I still occasionally get the '"System failed to start" "process failed to start" wait or press ok' issue that you have. A reboot generally sorts it out but the update has made my phone very unstable.
I also have big problems entering recovery and download modes using the buttons.
Cleaning my cache/davlik hasn't solved it either.
Hopefully someone can help us.
Anyone?
Got "Reactivation Lock" disabled?
Settings > General > Security
*Detection* said:
Got "Reactivation Lock" disabled?
Settings > General > Security
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Yes. Thanks for the suggestion though.
Trouble in Galaxy town
Hi, I'll try make myself short.
1) Back when I had an Galaxy S2 i modded it a little bit but I haven't done it at all since then.
2) Now a few years later I got bored/sick of the stock ROM that comes with the S5 so I wanted to install something I knew had a good reputation, Cyanogenmod.
3) Getting a new recovery was an nightmare itself but eventually I got it working and made an backup so I could roll back if needed to.
4) Now, 24 hours of using CM12 I can only say one sentence: "What kind of crap is this?!" It's so unstable it's almost ridiculous. Bluetooth hangs up all the time thus requiring a reboot which leads to most-annoying-thing-ever-#2. The clock resets itself upon EVERY boot which makes WhatsApp go bananas. Doesn't matter if I previously set the time/date manually or let the phone do it automatically. Then there are the random hang ups that occur all the time and one third thing. Hardware acceleration in BS Player doesn't work AT ALL!
5) Said and done I reversed to the back up but oh man the phone wasn't happy about this (yes I made a wipe before recovering the backup). Nearly every basic service malfunctioned and were forcibly shut down. A factory reset made no difference...
6) For some reason I opened KIES and found out that an update with android lollipop was available so I (in a moment of despair) installed that hoping for salvation.
7) The phone boots properly and everything seems to be going wonderful until I realize that my network connection is high on something. Loses connectivity to my provider all the time thus the phone is totally useless.
8) I HAD to have a working phone for work and since no support is given on Sundays from Samsung I again installed CM12 just for the day.
Now to the good part!
9) When trying to recover the backup once again it's gone corrupt! Can't recover so now I'm stuck with buggy-as-h*ll-cyanogemmod12 with no means of reverting.
What-the-actual-****-do-I-do? Been trying to make some sense from the thread "Galaxy S 5 Original Android Development" but I feel so lost. So if someone could point me in the right direction I would be very grateful!
EDIT: What I want is to reverse back to original stock ROM. Screw the bloatware. I just need the phone stable and working!
EDIT2: After some more googeling I've figured out I need a stock ROM with the right CSC. I use a swedish carrier other than 'tre'. Shall I look for ROMs with CSC 'HTS' anyway? Can't find any info about other carriers in sweden.
EDIT3: Now I've found what I think is right on sammobile.com/firmwares/database/ (search query: 'g900f', first hit 'Sweden' CSC 'VDS'). Worried thou as it's Android Lollipop which made my phone go nuts. Can't find the KitKat version on that site...
EDIT4: Found the KitKat version on samsung-updates.com. The download speed is sooooooo slow (~6 hours)! Download limits should be illegal...
Thanks! //R
Good day everyone, i am going to report my delicate and infuriating problem that has been haunting my head for two months
I'll describe my problem in extreme detail, hoping you guys able to identify this disaster.
My android phone is Lenovo A6000 Plus, i've bought it 2 years ago and it's running on latest Lollipop version 5.1.1 I never alter the system files, since i only use my phone for games and communications, and i'm not really into tinkering android's software. so i use my phone like a normal person, do the updates when the settings asked me, update the apps, etc. and this phone running smoothly in my service. i wanted to ask both WISDOM and HELP in this thread.
1. The Bootloop disaster symptoms started on april 2018, when the phone boot SLOWLY AS HELL, seriously.. it took about 1-2 hours to boot, and it also shows the (ANDROID IS UPGRADING 0/132 apps) like wtf? , i haven't update or install any new android apps before this symptom happened. So i leave my phone plugged in and wait it to complete the upgrade; then it worked normally as it should. Unfortunately, it happened EVERYTIME i turn my phone on, EVERY SINGLE TIME.. T_T. so i struggled to avoid my phone from running out from battery as i can. This symptom happened for 3 weeks and it got from bad to worse. I wonder what kind of problem is this?
2. The worse part came when my phone is running at high RAM usage, let's say, i game on my phone alot in my spare time, using the ram up to 1800mb everytime i play game or open chrome browser (Lenovo A6000 plus have 2GB ram). When i close/task manager the apps, my phone launcher wont appear normally as it should (long pressing bottom left button) and it FORCED me to restart the phone and suffer the 1-2 hour LONG BOOT. That's unusual, i cleaned my phone regularly (using cleanmaster) and preserve both of my internal and external storage with 3-4GB free space. I wonder what kind of curse is this?
3. So the bootloop disaster finally got me this May when i turn my phone off and tried to reboot. And... no Android is upgrading 0/132 showed up, i waited for 4 hours and reboot my phone again and again and again. And its finally STRANDED on BOOTLOOP :crying:
Im on panic mode when problem 3 happened, then i searched the almighty Google for help, and found that i can backup my data with TWRP recovery, so i do as it said, followed the guides and BACKED UP all of my data.
For once i felt relieved my data is now saved. Now onto the main problem.
I've had enough of this problem so i format the phone into factory reset, wipe the Dalvik ****s, cache, system and data. All of it. thus, making my phone virgin again.
4. Now im trying to resurrect my phone, and tried my effort by downloading Stock Lollipop 5.1.1 OS again along with its prerequisites. I tried to zip-install it using TWRP but it said that "has not switched carriers and cannot be upgraded" i scratched my head and searched almighty Google again then found that i need to do ####6430### thingy before doing that. umm.. so my phone domain need to be changed, how can i do that with a phone who can't boot? (I'm from Singapore btw). What did i do wrong?? did my phone just turned into useless BRICK? but i've read that bricked phone can't even start the recovery, yet my phone still able to start either with Lollipop stock recovery or TWRP (if i adb fastboot it with adb tools from .cmd), so it's not totally fuc.. uh., BRICKED and i got the chance to fix it.
TL;DR
So, Guys.. i desperately need help. i'm a peon both in work and college, and a dead phone will not make a great company for a person like me.
I searched for enlightments and breakthroughs but always ended up failed resurrecting my phone, can you guys PLEASE :crying: tell/give me a SAFE and WORKING walkthrough to re-install my Lenovo A6000 Plus with Lollipop 5.1.1? And does it running a custom OS like those Cynadrogen thingy is good and worthy enough to speed up my phone? is the chances of getting bricked is unavoidable when running custom OS? I thought its going to be easy like reinstalling Windows, but i was wrong.
FYI, my phone now is UNROOTED and running on TWRP 3.0.2 and i can easily revert it back to Lollipop stock recovery if needed (does it considered rooting if i install custom recovery?) I also need a valid info if my phone would never turn like this again if i resurrect it again.
PLEASE HELP ME PEOPLE
THANK YOU.. ! :highfive:
sevenvoldizm said:
Good day everyone, i am going to report my delicate and infuriating problem that has been haunting my head for two months
I'll describe my problem in extreme detail, hoping you guys able to identify this disaster.
My android phone is Lenovo A6000 Plus, i've bought it 2 years ago and it's running on latest Lollipop version 5.1.1 I never alter the system files, since i only use my phone for games and communications, and i'm not really into tinkering android's software. so i use my phone like a normal person, do the updates when the settings asked me, update the apps, etc. and this phone running smoothly in my service. i wanted to ask both WISDOM and HELP in this thread.
1. The Bootloop disaster symptoms started on april 2018, when the phone boot SLOWLY AS HELL, seriously.. it took about 1-2 hours to boot, and it also shows the (ANDROID IS UPGRADING 0/132 apps) like wtf? , i haven't update or install any new android apps before this symptom happened. So i leave my phone plugged in and wait it to complete the upgrade; then it worked normally as it should. Unfortunately, it happened EVERYTIME i turn my phone on, EVERY SINGLE TIME.. T_T. so i struggled to avoid my phone from running out from battery as i can. This symptom happened for 3 weeks and it got from bad to worse. I wonder what kind of problem is this?
2. The worse part came when my phone is running at high RAM usage, let's say, i game on my phone alot in my spare time, using the ram up to 1800mb everytime i play game or open chrome browser (Lenovo A6000 plus have 2GB ram). When i close/task manager the apps, my phone launcher wont appear normally as it should (long pressing bottom left button) and it FORCED me to restart the phone and suffer the 1-2 hour LONG BOOT. That's unusual, i cleaned my phone regularly (using cleanmaster) and preserve both of my internal and external storage with 3-4GB free space. I wonder what kind of curse is this?
3. So the bootloop disaster finally got me this May when i turn my phone off and tried to reboot. And... no Android is upgrading 0/132 showed up, i waited for 4 hours and reboot my phone again and again and again. And its finally STRANDED on BOOTLOOP :crying:
Im on panic mode when problem 3 happened, then i searched the almighty Google for help, and found that i can backup my data with TWRP recovery, so i do as it said, followed the guides and BACKED UP all of my data.
For once i felt relieved my data is now saved. Now onto the main problem.
I've had enough of this problem so i format the phone into factory reset, wipe the Dalvik ****s, cache, system and data. All of it. thus, making my phone virgin again.
4. Now im trying to resurrect my phone, and tried my effort by downloading Stock Lollipop 5.1.1 OS again along with its prerequisites. I tried to zip-install it using TWRP but it said that "has not switched carriers and cannot be upgraded" i scratched my head and searched almighty Google again then found that i need to do ####6430### thingy before doing that. umm.. so my phone domain need to be changed, how can i do that with a phone who can't boot? (I'm from Singapore btw). What did i do wrong?? did my phone just turned into useless BRICK? but i've read that bricked phone can't even start the recovery, yet my phone still able to start either with Lollipop stock recovery or TWRP (if i adb fastboot it with adb tools from .cmd), so it's not totally fuc.. uh., BRICKED and i got the chance to fix it.
TL;DR
So, Guys.. i desperately need help. i'm a peon both in work and college, and a dead phone will not make a great company for a person like me.
I searched for enlightments and breakthroughs but always ended up failed resurrecting my phone, can you guys PLEASE :crying: tell/give me a SAFE and WORKING walkthrough to re-install my Lenovo A6000 Plus with Lollipop 5.1.1? And does it running a custom OS like those Cynadrogen thingy is good and worthy enough to speed up my phone? is the chances of getting bricked is unavoidable when running custom OS? I thought its going to be easy like reinstalling Windows, but i was wrong.
FYI, my phone now is UNROOTED and running on TWRP 3.0.2 and i can easily revert it back to Lollipop stock recovery if needed (does it considered rooting if i install custom recovery?) I also need a valid info if my phone would never turn like this again if i resurrect it again.
PLEASE HELP ME PEOPLE
THANK YOU.. ! :highfive:
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When 5.1.1 update arrived?
Okay lets get to the point. Just don't panic. You have the stock rom file, extract a file named 'system.zip'. Now go to TWRP, perform advance wipe (wipe dalvik, data, system and cache partitions) and flash that file from TWRP. You'll be on stock rom with a fresh new experience.
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Custom ROMs are amazing and far better than the stock lenovo rom. Believe me, no one here is using that crap stock rom. You just need some instructions to flash and your phone will get a new life. We are here to assist you.