[Q] Xperia Z C6603 Crashing while booting topic

I recently bought an Xperia Z and in my notification bar it said there was a new firmware available. I downloaded & installed the firmware but when my device was meant to boot up, it just crashed. I tried to turn it on again but it just kept crashing.

It comes up with the 'Sony' logo then the phone crashes. Sometimes it says 'Xperia' then crashes. Then lastly it has the purple wave and then crashes...

I flashed different firmwares. 4.3 JB, 4.4.2 KK, 4.4.4 KK. It still happened. Repairing with PCC didn't work either.

When I try to charge it from a wall adapter it turns on then switches to the charging screen. I hold the power button and the phone boots up normally. I can use the phone. I unplug it and it is fine for a few minutes. When I click an app or exit an app, sometimes the phone just shuts down and then the crashing happens again, unless I connect it to the charger.

Anyone had a similar problem and fixed it? I'm honestly stumped right now.

[Q] LG Optimus G not booting up normally or into recovery except fastboot topic

I own a LG Optimus G AT&T. Yesterday I dropped my phone and it wont turn on . Phone does show charging screen while while connected to a wall charger for a second or so and then dies . I had custom rom CM11 Installed . I can get into download mode and fast boot from there select recovery but it does the same shows google logo and then dies .

Please help - Samsung Tab 10.1 booting to recovery and download mode only - no normal topic

Hey guys hope someone can point me to the right direction or knows this problem:

Galaxy Tab 10.1 Wifi (P5110).

Device will only boot recovery no matter what. (both with stock or custom recovery AND stock or custom rom installed - tried all combinations already)

Stock rom has been installed with odin and pit-repartition has also been tried.

When I turn on the tablet it boots straight to recovery. On stock recovery it says something about update, then "no command" and when I then choose reboot system, it says error and powers the device off.

Please help.

[Q] Phone not booting up and stuck at black screen topic

My phone is lava iris 455(MTK6577 chipset). So, I put a custom ROM yesterday, but it was laggy so I decided to go back to stock. I had CWM recovery installed. I used SP flash tools to flash the original ROM,but after a purple bar came, the PC just froze. Everytime, the same thing happened.

I used the ROM from this link-[FIRMWARE]LAVA Iris 455 Official Jellybean 4.1.1 Firmware and everywhere on the net its the same firmware.

And my CWM recovery is gone as well;only a black screen comes up for a few seconds and then it switches off. I can't boot to recovery too.

I tried installing CWM recovery through SP flash tools, but it gave me an error saying that the handset doesn't support DRAM(didn't happen the first time I installed recovery which was yesterday).

So, what do you guys think the problem is? Is it hard bricked? My PC does recognise the phone though. Any help is appreciated.

Booting to fastboot topic

Hi,

After doing a factory reset, I disabled root in SuperSU. Upon restarting, the device refuses to boot and is stuck on booting animation.

I was trying to get into fastboot but had no success yet.

Can anyone help me with this?

Regards,

[Q] [ROM DEV] My Lollipop custom ROM isn't booting. topic

I've recently been working on a custom Lollipop rom for the One with dsixda's Android Kitchen for modification, and zipping the rom with WinRar and signing with this sign tool: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...96#post6050996 I'm also unable to record a logcat, because adb doesn't detect my One when it is stuck on the boot screen (Stuck on OnePlus Logo).

The rom is based on SlimSaber for the One but I have been customising APKs and icons, fonts, build.prop, etc. I'm flashing the rom with TWRP 2.8 and Lollipop Gapps, flashing the Rom is all ok but it flashes suspiciously fast, a lot faster than the Gapps. I have also added a custom kernel which is SM/Linaro (http://forum.xda-developers.com/onep...2861919/page75) I've zipaligned all of the apks and there is no root as of now.

Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance.

[Q] help with Kindle fire X43Z60 not booting up topic

I see some similar threads in this forum but nothing that was suggested helps, so I thought I'd create a new question:

I got a kindle fire X43Z60 that is stuck at boot. I was told it had a problem with the charging port that needed to be replaced. I'm assuming after a while a lot of jiggling was needed to charge it and even that stopped working after a while.
I purchased a main board off of ebay, the board was described as from a broken kindle and but was tested and was in working condition. I replaced the old board with the new one but the symptoms are exactly the same. Then I bought a replacement battery off ebay, but new battery did not help either.
I don't have the original charger for the kindle but have multiple micro USB chargers and I assume one of them would work (from Galaxy S4, original nook, others).

The way it looks (with new and old, battery and main board), is that when I press the power button initial "kindle fire" shows up and then disappears. When I press and hold the power button, the "kindle fire" logo disappears, I let the button go, then the logo appears again, disappears for a second and it appears again but now there's this graphical effect rolling over the logo as if it was booting up. At some point after it just powers off abruptly. Occasionally I'm able to boot it up all the way using that method and it would stay on for a minute until a message would appear "are you sure you want to power down" and it would power down without me having a chance to respond. It kind of looks like the battery is drained. When I do boot it up all the way the battery indicator shows it as not nearly drained.
When I hook the kindle up to a PC using USB cable, the initial kindle fire logo just appears and disappears in a loop. I dont see the kindle being visible to the PC.

What else can i try to fix it?

[Q] Please help! (Kernel compiling, android booting) topic

Hello everyone!

I've seen everyone asking for Android on the Gear 2, but I'm not sure if anyone has actually _tried_. Has anyone? Is there a device tree I can use? has anyone found some info about it?

I thought at least I would give it a try, so I started digging a bit...
First thing is always the same, get to know the platform you're working with:

For what I've seen so far the CPU is quite similar to Galaxy S5 mini (Exynos 3470) but with 2 cores. GPU seems the same.

Gear 2
CPU: Exynos 3250
GPU: Mali 400
Display panel type: MIPI

Partition table:
boot -> ../../mmcblk0p5 --> Main Kernel
bota0 -> ../../mmcblk0p1
bota1 -> ../../mmcblk0p2
csa -> ../../mmcblk0p3 --> ext4 -> /csa
csc -> ../../mmcblk0p12 --> ext4 -> /system/csc
fota -> ../../mmcblk0p10 --> seems empty
module -> ../../mmcblk0p9 --> ext4 -> /lib/modules <-- Just one kernel module, I don't know why they left this here and not compile it directly, it makes no sense
param -> ../../mmcblk0p4 --> raw, it has some values lost along the flash, header starts with adv_eng.img
ramdisk1 -> ../../mmcblk0p7 // empty
ramdisk2 -> ../../mmcblk0p8 // ext4, it really doesn't seem to use it for anything, it looks like it's supposed to boot some kind of recovery but as far as I've seen, you can delete it all and it won't matter, recovery works from rootfs (look below)
recovery -> ../../mmcblk0p6 --> looks like another kernel, zImage-recovery when flashing, not sure if it's used
rootfs -> ../../mmcblk0p15 ext4 "/" --> Root file system, recovery works from here too. If you break it it will only boot to download mode.
system -> ../../mmcblk0p11 EMPTY --> Did samsung start with Android on this thing then changed their minds?
system-data -> ../../mmcblk0p13 --> ext4, /opt
user -> ../../mmcblk0p14 EXT4, /opt/usr --> all user data, including the MTP available part (/opt/usr/media)

Both kernel and recovery kernel partitions do have enough space to pack a boot image with a ramdisk, and in case that would be an issue for any other reason, Tizen kernel boots directly to the rootfs, so we could leave the init files in there and simply keep the root= parameter intact.

Now, to the main issue: Recompiling a kernel:
I grabbed the kernel source from Samsung's dial-up speed developer portal. I found the relevant config file for the Gear 2 (from now on, b2), and attempted to compile it:

Code:

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make ARCH=arm tizen_b2_defconfig

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Then, when you try to compile it...

Code:

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In file included from include/drm/exynos_drm.h:32:0,
                from arch/arm/mach-exynos/board-tizen-display.c:19:
include/drm/drm.h:47:24: fatal error: sys/ioccom.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
scripts/Makefile.build:307: recipe for target 'arch/arm/mach-exynos/board-tizen-display.o' failed
make[1]: *** [arch/arm/mach-exynos/board-tizen-display.o] Error 1
Makefile:947: recipe for target 'arch/arm/mach-exynos' failed

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I've tried to disable the DRM part of the config, but the board-tizen-display is dependent on that code, failing to compile due to missing functions hardcoded on the display. Disabling the board-tizen-display entirely would render the LCD disabled, so that's not an option. Any ideas on how to fix this?

In case you're curious I've attached both bootloader log and the first try on booting TWRP recovery on this thing (it halts on healthd, and it eventually reboots itself...)

Attached Files

	twrp_launch_attempt1.txt - [Click for QR Code] (73.8 KB)
	sboot.txt - [Click for QR Code] (5.6 KB)

[Q] Booting from MicroSD? topic

I own a galaxy note 4, and I want to know if it's possible to boot it from the micro-sd card slot. Then I would be able to load custom ROMs.

[q] htc desire x not booting up . Vibrate 7 times topic

hi,

i tried rooting my htc desire x last night.
while installing SU using TWRP , a message appeared cannot mount cache.
After that I started my phone to chech whether it has been rooted.
It was not rooted as it said that it failled to upload the binary or something.
So I turned off my phone to check it. But after turning , my phone does not switch on.
After some times it vibrates for 7 times and nothing happens. Even HTC LOGO wont appear.

I tried to open the recovery using volume down and power on it is also not working out.

Kindly help.