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[Q] Bricked? Can't switch on after deleting digital clock via Titanium

Hi
I seem to have bricked th phone...argh!
Delete system app DigitalClock.apk via Titanium. The phone restrted and showed an image of a opened box with an arrow and a moving bar underneath., After a few seconds all DARK and the phone is unresponsive.
Also tried to plug it and go to flash mode but nothing not led will switch on.
Any idea?
Alex

No idea what has happened, but simply removing that app didn't cause it.
You will probably have to reflash I'm afraid.
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Yea just from deleting the clock it wouldnt have bricked it flash a ftf again mate through flashtool
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what you saw was the OTA screen.so you have accepted the OTA update.
locked or unlocked bootloader?
Regards
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Actually I did not. I just did what I said in the previous post and then the phone rebooted and bricked.
I already had fallen into the OTA update problem so I know what it is (see also my messages in the proper forum post. I assure you this was not it. It might be the problem but I did not accept any OTA update, it just went on its own from Titanium to that screen to brick.
I will try reflash tonight.
Cheers
Alex

[solved...almost]
I followed the procedure to unbrick the phone that apparently went into the FOTA update on its own. The phone works! But...
I can't install or update my apps.It says no spcace in the phone but I have 90Mb left. I also can't run Fix permission from ROM manager it says
"An erro occured while attempting to run provoleged commands!"
Ideas??
Thanks

SandroV1972 said:
I followed the procedure to unbrick the phone that apparently went into the FOTA update on its own. The phone works! But...
I can't install or update my apps.It says no spcace in the phone but I have 90Mb left. I also can't run Fix permission from ROM manager it says
"An erro occured while attempting to run provoleged commands!"
Ideas??
Thanks
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try reflashing it with the flash tool

Do you mean reflash with the flashtool to unbrick it or reflash the entire firmware?

You'd be better of starting from scratch imo, so yes, re-write the whole firmware.

I feared you'd say that. I really don't understand why though this happens. I uninstalled the updates of my Market and now it doesn't install or update but it doesn't give me any error.
I get SU privileges but can't fix permissions from RomManager.

Flashed Firmware it works now!

Hi lord Bin4ry,
it seems we were both right. I installed the new firmware and out of curiosity tried to uninstall Chinese keyboard via Titanium. I got a message saying that it had to reboot twice to uninstall as NAND:
first rebott and...image of a box with a arrow coming out of it
then nothing, bricked again...
Si I did not accept any OTA update it seems to get into this state anytime I try to remove a system app via Titanium
Any idea?

That is weird bug. Do you have branded FW or Generic FW?

You fellow are rebooting into recovery mode, that much is certain.
Possible you have set up your Titanium to always reboot into recovery to make new nandroid backup?
I am browsing in CWM myself now, so what you speak of is so obvious. The question is now then why does your phone boot into recovery? What have you done to make it do that?

SandroV1972 said:
I installed the new firmware and out of curiosity tried to uninstall Chinese keyboard via Titanium. I got a message saying that it had to reboot twice to uninstall as NAND:
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When removing apps with TB, it should be a short tap, I assume you're long pressing then "force removing"?
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Rom DESIRE HD?

Hi
I am trying to install '4EXTRecovery v2.1.3' however it wont work.
Do I need to root my phone before doing this.
The major problem I am facing is that everytime try to run a cmd file it
says
'error: device not found'
I have tried using visionary that doesnt work either, it doesnt temporary root so I cant to the perm root afterwards.
I have android 2.3.
Software no: 2.37.61.11
Visionary+
rooting phone please wait> then comes a black screen and if you click back on visionary it doesnt open, so I cant perm root after temproot
I am not trying to install any rom right now, what I do want to do is format the whole phone so it has nothing on it, except the '4EXTRecovery v2.1.3 loader so I can install my own rom later on.
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Please tell me what is it that I have to do.
Thanks

this tool obviously seems to need s-off as well as root rights, so you'd need to downgrade.
but the device not found issue may be caused by missing adb drivers, so install HTC sync and try again, and don't forget to choose "Charge only" and enable USB-Debugging!

Alskarl is right.
You need to downgrade using a goldcard before you can use visionary.
Once you have downgraded you can use it.
once you have root you must eng-off/s-off to install a rom.
Also the other problem is due to missing drivers as alskarl said. =)
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Alskarl said:
this tool obviously seems to need s-off as well as root rights, so you'd need to downgrade.
but the device not found issue may be caused by missing adb drivers, so install HTC sync and try again, and don't forget to choose "Charge only" and enable USB-Debugging!
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thanks, you two have put a smile on my face, i tried everything, hopefully it should work

Dont forget to hit thanks for us both
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thisisuzair said:
thanks, you two have put a smile on my face, i tried everything, hopefully it should work
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the phone seems to cant find htc sync installed on my pc. what should I do, I have re installed it and yet I see the same issue

thisisuzair said:
the phone seems to cant find htc sync installed on my pc. what should I do, I have re installed it and yet I see the same issue
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its because the adb drivers are not installed properly. i had this problem but never solved it and gave up. i re-installed numerous times with no luck, i tried everything and even installed drivers maually. still doesnt work now. my advice is try another pc. if you cant do that then start a new thread. sorry i cant help any more.

I had this same problem recently when attempting to root my wife's phone. After I rebooted my PC and deleted the USB devices from Device Manager it seemed to find it on the next hardware search and it configured it as a Android 1.0 device. Don't know how much help this will be but just thought I'd throw my personal experience out there.

adb server is out of date: killing
Could you please tell me what that means and how I can fix it.
Can you please tell me If I have been successful in installing 4extrecovery.
if i have then how do I access it on my phone.
Thanks

that "out of date" message is normal, I get that as well and android is just working fine for me

Power down. Hold the volume button down and press power. Keep holding the volume button until you enter hboot then select recovery. If it was flashed properly it should load into the recovery console.
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Need help with unroot

I need to send my phone in for warranty repairs and need to make sure it will be good to go. USB input is not working without holding the cable in a certain position.
This is where I am at right now.
Phone was rooted with ODIN on EL29 stock rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101) never used a custom rom or changed anything else
Deleted all Superuser files with explorer
Uninstalled all apps that were root related
After this process my 5 year old nephew was playing with my phone and clicked the Android update taking me to ICS 4.0.4
Did a factory reset in Privacy>Factory Reset Data
I believe it is not rooted anymore which is fine, but what else would I have to do to not void my warranty? Was reading about resetting the counter and needing to go back to stock recovery.
Any advice will help me greatly. Not sure what i should/need to do next.

Do nothing the update killed your phone. Take it back and explain what happened (minus the fact that it was rooted). The OTA kills root and puts on ICS stock.

I'm not a developer but I'd think that just deleting superuser files is not removing all traces of root. Try Odining an unrooted stock ROM, holding the USB cable in that specific way that works. And then remove the superuser files if you still have them.

Since I did the OTA ICS update, does that mean root is now gone and all I need to do is get rid of the Superuser files?
Any more help would be excellent. Trying to get this shipped out today.

If you did the ota update you no longer have root
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Ok I followed this tutorial exactly to go back to stock EL29.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101&highlight=yellow+triangle
This should have gotten me back to stock everything like the day it was shipped to me. Should I just update it to ICS and then ship it out to Samsung?
Is this the yellow triangle of death? I noticed that peoples yellow triangles are on the splash screen, mine is ont he screen prior to the downloader.
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If you used that method you will have root. Just use root explorer or something along those lines and delete the SU apk and SU binary in the Xbin folder. if you don't delete the binary file it will still be rooted.

g_ding84 said:
If you used that method you will have root. Just use root explorer or something along those lines and delete the SU apk and SU binary in the Xbin folder. if you don't delete the binary file it will still be rooted.
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Uhoh lol. I thought doing this would put everything back to stock unrooted. Now how do I unroot from here after I get rid of those superuser files? I already turned off the service on this phone and hooked up my old one so I upgrade it to ICS.

ams30gts said:
Uhoh lol. I thought doing this would put everything back to stock unrooted. Now how do I unroot from here after I get rid of those superuser files? I already turned off the service on this phone and hooked up my old one so I upgrade it to ICS.
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once the SU apk and Xbin binary file is deleted run root checker App (market) and you should be unrooted. Yes you can upgrade to ICS the official OTA that will also remove root.

g_ding84 said:
once the SU apk and Xbin binary file is deleted run root checker App (market) and you should be unrooted. Yes you can upgrade to ICS the official OTA that will also remove root.
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Thank you very much. I deleted the SU files and then did a factory wipe for good measure. I then used root checker and it said i didn't have root.
I would have upped to ICS but my phone doesn't have service right now and it can't be downloaded via wifi.

no problem.

You still had root because the newer stock Odins that sfhub made started coming with root. If you did EK02 then you would've had a completely stock ROM.

Is this the dreaded Yellow Triangle that I should get rid of? Or is this one there by default? I do not have on on my splash screen and never did either.

The dreaded yellow triangle is on the Samsung splash screen(before boot animation). It will say Samsung galaxy S2 and i9000 with a yellow triangle.
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g_ding84 said:
The dreaded yellow triangle is on the Samsung splash screen(before boot animation). It will say Samsung galaxy S2 and i9000 with a yellow triangle.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA
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ok got it thanks

[Q] Phones' Dead Please Help

Ok, so here is what happened, I got a new job and wanted to receive push email messages to my phone, the IT department was like you can set it up yourself if you can figure it out, but since you don't have a "company phone" we can't walk you through it. So i set it up of course and found out the only way my phone would do it was after I encrypt it and my sd card.
so not knowing that i would have to enter in a pin or pw to unlock my phone every time in addition to on every reboot, I did the encryption and it lasted 1 day before i got feed up, I am a good flasher and never had any big issues, but now when i went to flash it says failed, also when i try to wipe it as failed. Since i never got that message before i i figure its because of encryption. So i do a Data Format, which says it will remove encryption.
it did, but now it says i have no OS installed when i go to reboot, and it wont let me install custom roms from twrp either now?? , So i go back to Odin and try to install a stock PDA package, it runs through fine and adds a counter to flash log, and after reset it stays on Galaxy screen and never changes. I have reset/wiped and reflashed through Odin several times with the same result.
Please Help, the only thing I can think of now is maybe I can't flash because the stock package i flashed took away root, but if thats the case how do I but on a stock rom so i can root it back ???

Sounds like you need to "re-partition" the phone in Odin, dont know if the tar has the "pit" file needed for the partition as in a all in one. Maybe someone will link you to a "pit".
Dont worry about "root" sextape..etc have stock roms with "root" already buit-in.

Unknown Zone said:
Sounds like you need to "re-partition" the phone in Odin, dont know if the tar has the "pit" file needed for the partition as in a all in one. Maybe someone will link you to a "pit".
Dont worry about "root" sextape..etc have stock roms with "root" already buit-in.
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I hope its not too hard of a fix since i need my phone for work

PhonezDoctor said:
I hope its not too hard of a fix since i need my phone for work
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Try going to rwilco12.com and download the ma7 stock rooted One Click for the Note II. That should get you going. You won't need to use Odin and select pda, just download the ma7 stock rooted exe open it up on pc, boot into download mode and connect your phone to pc, phone gets recognized press start and it does its thing. If you need some help hit me up on gtalk [email protected]
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PhonezDoctor said:
Ok, so here is what happened, I got a new job and wanted to receive push email messages to my phone, the IT department was like you can set it up yourself if you can figure it out, but since you don't have a "company phone" we can't walk you through it. So i set it up of course and found out the only way my phone would do it was after I encrypt it and my sd card.
so not knowing that i would have to enter in a pin or pw to unlock my phone every time in addition to on every reboot, I did the encryption and it lasted 1 day before i got feed up, I am a good flasher and never had any big issues, but now when i went to flash it says failed, also when i try to wipe it as failed. Since i never got that message before i i figure its because of encryption. So i do a Data Format, which says it will remove encryption.
it did, but now it says i have no OS installed when i go to reboot, and it wont let me install custom roms from twrp either now?? , So i go back to Odin and try to install a stock PDA package, it runs through fine and adds a counter to flash log, and after reset it stays on Galaxy screen and never changes. I have reset/wiped and reflashed through Odin several times with the same result.
Please Help, the only thing I can think of now is maybe I can't flash because the stock package i flashed took away root, but if thats the case how do I but on a stock rom so i can root it back ???
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I was having a similar issue, no os installed and it would error on data partition on restore and wouldnt install anything. I used a no data tar in odin then rebooted to stock recovery. there was an error about a data log and something else, but I formatted data and cache in the stock recovery and rebooted and it worked. It took me about 45 mins to get it to boot.

Elw00d said:
Try going to rwilco12.com and download the ma7 stock rooted One Click for the Note II. That should get you going. You won't need to use Odin and select pda, just download the ma7 stock rooted exe open it up on pc, boot into download mode and connect your phone to pc, phone gets recognized press start and it does its thing. If you need some help hit me up on gtalk joe.delano74 [user=652814]@gmail[/user].com
Used this .sxtpdevelopers.com/showthread.php?t=74c same thing, I wish I saw this post sooner, but i figured it out. THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE HELP!!! this is why XDA is the best techno website!
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PhonezDoctor said:
Used this .sxtpdevelopers.com/showthread.php?t=74c same thing, I wish I saw this post sooner, but i figured it out. THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE HELP!!! this is why XDA is the best techno website!
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Yeah its the same, they both work together just remember http://rwilco12.com for modems/kernels/stock roms and other misc files for your Note 2. Very nice repository and highly recommended.
Glad you got yourself back and running
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[Q] Bricked, and Broken (mentally)

Hello internet, I'm a noob, so excuse my noobiness. Basically, I've managed to "brick" my SGH-T989D, also known as a Samsung Galaxy S2X, or Hercules; I'm on the Koodo network, and using 4.1.2 which I acquired from Kies. I was attempting to flash TWRP to achieve root using Odin as suggested by this website:
http://www.androidayos.com/2013/04/29/root-t989dtlumc4-samsung-galaxy-sii-sgh-t989d-teluskoodo-jelly-bean-4-1-2/
I followed the instructions, but Odin failed in the middle of the flashing. Now I'm stuck with this screen (not my picture):
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One of the attachments is a screen shot of my "About Device" information from before I was bricked. I've tried flashing multiple stock ROMs through Odin, typically with a name similar to "T989DTLUMC4_T989DOYBMC4_KDO", but it consistently fails. The point at which it fails varies, and I'm not confident about what's causing the failure, but I've noticed it tends to hang up on "<ID:0/003> SetupConnection..", or fails at "<ID:0/003> Complete(Write) operation failed.". I'll attach a screenshot of what Odin looks like upon failure with the message box clearly visible. I don't have any recovery files, because, ironically, I was bricked while flashing a recovery to prevent bricking. Also, I'm open to trying things other than Odin.
I'd like assistance to get my phone back to a usable state (at least able to make calls, and text). I would be especially grateful if it ended up rooted, and/or with a safe method of flashing, and trying custom ROMs (I eventually wanted to have Cyanogen mod 10.1, and Clockworkmod Recovery). However, any help is appreciated; Thank you for your time.

TRY
You need to search for ODIN version 1.85... hard to tell what you're using but it looks very different from mine. ill try to attach a good copy of it. The one i used was nice.
In the mean time... have you gone into Kies and at the top select "tools" and "emergency recovery" or somethign similar to those words? that WILL restore your device to a usable state... that's guaranteed.

Droid8Apple said:
You need to search for ODIN version 1.85... hard to tell what you're using but it looks very different from mine. ill try to attach a good copy of it. The one i used was nice.
In the mean time... have you gone into Kies and at the top select "tools" and "emergency recovery" or somethign similar to those words? that WILL restore your device to a usable state... that's guaranteed.
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Hey! thanks for the reply. I was using Odin v3.07. I have a couple of screenshots for you. Kies wants me to provide a recovery code (screenshot), which is not given to me. I believe that option only works if your phone was bricked while updating using Kies. Also, Kies doesn't seem to be connecting to my phone. It never advances from the connecting screen (screenshot), and seems to give up when I navigate to different menus. This is probably due to the current state of my phone. Lastly, I downloaded Odin v1.85, but the flashing failed with a similar error (screenshot). I hope you have more ideas.

IT WORKED!! (screenshot) I don't know what's changed since the last time I tried it; why is Odin so inconsistent? Regardless, thank you to Droid8Apple, and XDA forums. There is a lot for me to learn in unlocking the potential of my android device.

Coltonkoop said:
IT WORKED!! (screenshot) I don't know what's changed since the last time I tried it; why is Odin so inconsistent? Regardless, thank you to Droid8Apple, and XDA forums. There is a lot for me to learn in unlocking the potential of my android device.
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You have to make sure Kies is disabled before using Odin, it'll cause Odin to either not recognise or fail.
T989D
latest CM10.1
latest Uber nightly

noob41 said:
You have to make sure Kies is disabled before using Odin, it'll cause Odin to either not recognise or fail.
T989D
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Thank you for the advice; I'll certainly remember that. By disabled do you mean simply closed (clicking the red "X" at the top right), or is there something further I need to do like kill processes in the task manager, for example?