A while back I rooted my Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-i9506, I didn't modify it other than that, I just rooted so I could hack games, install snapchat addons, etc. No Custom Roms/Kernels, none of that. Then my phone smashed and the screen stopped working, it took me about 2 months to get it fixed so when I got it back it was being really slow, all it needed was time but then the Samsung Sync was not working, so I tried to update, it said that I couldn't because my device was modified, so I eventually after doing a couple things, got my device to Android 5.0.1 Lolipop by Flashing with Odin and TWRP. When I first got onto 5.0.1 my wifi didn't work, my data does but not the wifi, I have been looking for at least a week for a fix for this, but nothing seems to work. I'm not sure if i'm missing something but i'm tired of this, i've been using a very smashed s3 and I want to use my S4 quite badly, If anyone got point me in the right direction or even help me out on this one, I would appreciate it heaps! When I hit the wifi button it doesn't get stuck on that grey/green or anything, it just doesn't turn on, it goes straight back to grey. I assume this is the modem but I have tried getting a newer modem and it hasn't worked, i'll be checking this for a while until this problem is resolved, any help would be very appreciated!
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This is the deal:
I bought my wife and I Vibrants back in February and from the minute I got it I started looking into updating from eclair.
I was following the info on xda after researching about rooting phones, so I rooted my phone using the Superonclick method. Just before getting ready to flash custom roms, I read that froyo was available through kies. So I did that. It worked well enough for me, so I updated my wife's phone as well and hers works beautifully. I also changed the home launcher to LauncherPro. love it.
Mine however has been going on the fritz. I'm in the middle of using an app or I'm doing nothing at but turning on my phone and the screen will be all black with nothing but the notification bar showing.
The media scanner is constantly running.
No gsm is detected.
I keeps vibrating after touching the screen.
No amount of turning it on and off gets it past that state.
It just randomly decided to start working on its own.
Any Ideas?
Should I unRoot my phone. I don't want to,
I'm still researching changing the bootanimation, (waiting for a Portal 2 theme, also researching how to do it myself).
SOS guys.
sorry if tldr.
I would suggest restoring your phone back to stock Via Odin, and starting fresh. The problem you most likely had is that you updated to Froyo through Kie's while your phone was rooted.
Or, at the very least do a factory reset on your phone.
But if you need to go the Odin route, just search the forum, can't miss it.
oh wow, I didn't know that was an issue updating while rooted. I must have missed something while reading (so many threads -_-).
Guess I have some more light reading to do...
thanks.
Did a little research, should I unroot my phone first before factory reset? or is there a method that will take care of removing the root?
Hello everyone. I am struggling with an issue with my Samsung S II. Basically I get mobile connection even HSUPA , I get the icon, but many times it will not work. Basically to get it working again I have to put my phone in airplane mode and back on normal. EVERYTIME.
So basically there is the icon, it says it's connected, but it really is not, and this is kind of annoying because of the intense use I make of apps such as whatsapp.
I had this problem with the stock firmware back with Jelly bean, recently I rooted the phone and put on cyanogenmod 10.1 hoping it'd fix the problem but it really didn't.
Today for the first time it's beginning to happen even with the WIFI! What the..?
The phone is still in warranty, should I un-root and send it over or maybe is there something I can do to avoid the process?
Thanks.
dttah said:
Hello everyone. I am struggling with an issue with my Samsung S II. Basically I get mobile connection even HSUPA , I get the icon, but many times it will not work. Basically to get it working again I have to put my phone in airplane mode and back on normal. EVERYTIME.
So basically there is the icon, it says it's connected, but it really is not, and this is kind of annoying because of the intense use I make of apps such as whatsapp.
I had this problem with the stock firmware back with Jelly bean, recently I rooted the phone and put on cyanogenmod 10.1 hoping it'd fix the problem but it really didn't.
Today for the first time it's beginning to happen even with the WIFI! What the..?
The phone is still in warranty, should I un-root and send it over or maybe is there something I can do to avoid the process?
Thanks.
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You could try doing fresh install using @hawkerpauls gs2romnuke script if you haven't already done so.
First off, I'd like to say my S2 is the Virgin Mobile version (model i9210) so I'm not sure if it's okay for me to post this in this forum or not. Feel free to move it where it should be, I won't be offended.
Edit: Originally had posted this in the Samsung Galaxy S2 forum, but it was nicely moved to this forum in hopes that it would be seen more~ So to clarify, my phone is the Virgin Mobile Samsung Galaxy S2, running Android 4.1.2, model number SPH-D710.
The ROM I have is BiftorROM-V8-JB-XWLSN-NoWipe.
Onward. This is my first Samsung phone AND my first Galaxy, and when I decided to root my phone, I had no idea how much different it would be from my past phones. How I didn't completely brick this phone, is nothing short of a miracle. I had trouble with some ROMs so someone eventually linked me to a Sprint stock ROM, saying it was compatible with my phone.
Since then I've been using that ROM, despite having a Virgin Mobile phone, with no problem. Recently I noticed an app I use (SD Maid) was listing my phone as unrooted. It was weird but I ignored it, because the app still worked. Even later, I noticed other apps that require root access were not working correctly, so I decided to download a root checker.
Status: Unrooted
Well, then. I'm not sure how this happened, or what's going on, but I figured again, it was no big deal because my ROM was running perfectly and I had no desire to change my ROM or anything else soon. Last night my phone started acting completely different. Lagging like crazy, and when I tried to unlock my phone, it would take a good 15 seconds just for the screen to turn on and my lock screen to start functioning normally. Then another 20 seconds or so for the screen to register my touch and actually unlock my phone. I tried disabling all lockers, but my screen would just turn black and I would still have to wait.
A friend suggested that I simply go through the process of rooting as though my phone really were unrooted and just hope that fixes it, but I'm not sure if that would be a good idea. If my phone wasn't operating so slowly this wouldn't be as big of a problem, but it is, and I'm pretty afraid that I'll mess my phone up somehow.
I once found a forum with the topic the same as mine but I haven't been able to find it since, so I'm hoping someone here could point me in the right direction. Do I go through the root process, maybe try just reflashing my current ROM? I've also thought about just doing a system restore on my phone and see if that helps. Thanks in advance.
Hey guys Im new to the forum, and new to android and I really need help. I bought an HTC one m7 today, used off kijiji, and it came with cynogenmod. While unrooting my phone and installing the stock firmware everything went smoothly until the end, I followed the guide, locked the oem, and installed from the rue file. I have a rogers htc one btw. After everything finished I went through the activation and to my disbelief my touch screen was barely working. It kept randomly clicking things in the middle, and I thought maybe after I restarted my phone it would be fixed. I restarted it, hard reset it, and even reinstalled from the ruu and it still isn't working. I figured if I was to reinstall cynogenmod than it would start working again, because before I uninstalled cynogenmod it worked perfectly. Can someone please help me because right now I want to cry like my phone is so hard to use right now, I can't even swipe down the notification bar. I've tried googling everywhere and I've found nothing. I've been trying to fix this for the last 4 hours
and guys it was perfect before I tried to unroot it, it was after that that all this started. Its a rogers HTC one, and the screens just going crazy like random apps keep opening and when i press back they open again. Does anyone know what I should do, I literally just bought this phone
Edit: just realized I posted in the wrong area. Feel free to move it. Sorry about that.
Everything was fine until my phone died last night. Upon restart, Hotspot would turn on, but no other devices showed it as available to connect to. Like it wasn't even on. Did a little research and tried the many suggestion about soft reset, pulling battery while running, holding power for 30 seconds while battery removed, etc....all to no avail. My hotspot still won't actually show up in a WiFi list. So I started looking for a stock Verizon Hotspot apk with no luck. I don't have any backups done, either. It's been rooted with Kingroot. Tried to flash a different recovery on it and almost bricked it a few times. It actually got stuck in a boot loop at one point but I got it working in a few minutes. This was 3 months ago when I rooted it.
So has anyone seen this before? Is there a fix? Am I looking at a factory reset? It's not hard. I know lol. It's just doing everything to get prepared to reset and then the anxiety over wondering if you missed any backups or if there were any files that were forgotten lol. Hoping it's an easy fix. Been using Bluetooth tether for now but I'm not sure how much longer I can do that. 1 hour? Maybe 2? lol. thanks!
New issue. Cant do a factory reset. I get a big yellow caution triangle saying use software repair to fix. I assume it's got something to do with the recovery I tried to flash. If I could get that sorted out I could wipe the phone. I did set everything else back to stock with no help. So how do I fix the recovery system? Flash stock recovery back on it?
Edit: I tried to search for this info yesterday and couldn't find it. Ironically, I came across it today while looking at something else. I just need to flash a stock OF1 and start over. Or that's what the info said that I found. Hoping it cures my Hotspot issue. I can't believe it just stopped working because my phone died.
1 more question. Can I extract the recovery.img from a stock OF1 build and just use flashify to flash it instead of converting back to tar for Odin?
Just to give this an ending and In case anyone else has this issue, it's solved. I had Verizon suspend and reconnect my hotspot service and it cleared out whatever was keeping me from broadcasting a signal or however it works. I'm my opinion, the system thought I was still connected when my phone died. Resetting my hotspot reset the system. That's about the best explanation I could come up with as I know zero about this stuff.
Anyway. It's fixed. Terminating Hotspot service and reinstating cleared whatever issue was causing the problem. Hopefully this can help someone else in the future. I only figured it out after a bunch of testing and logical reasoning.