Hi guys,
A friend of mine Samsung Galaxy Nexus is blocked in the boot sequence and I would like to help him out. The phone has (or at least had..) Paranoid installed, my friend doesn't know what it is or how it works, he just bought a secondhand phone on ebay and Paranoid was already installed.
Here is the problem: some days ago the phone restarted automatically after a sort of crash, so my friend entered in the bootloader screen (using the 3 combo buttons) and did a reset or restore idk, removing all the data on the phone. When the phone restarted it could not connect to the provider (no call and no messages allowed), so my friend downloaded whatsapp using wifi. During the log in it is like if the battery dropped and the phone turned off.
Since that moment if you try to turn on the phone it starts but blocks after few seconds on the "Google screen", the one with black background and the text Google in the middle of the screen (it doesn't reach the screen with the google symbol spinning around) and it remains there eternally. I tried to enter in the bootloader screen but the only option available is "Start", and obviously if I select it the phone restarts and blocks again on the same google boot screen. In my opinion probably Paranoid is damaged or has been removed, so there is no OS to start.
Does anyone has an idea/suggestion/guide on how can I make the phone working again? It would be great to be able to install again an official Android release (kitkat, jelly bean or something like that), but the priority is obviously to repair the phone!
Thank you in advance!
A friend of mine Samsung Galaxy Nexus is blocked in the boot sequence and I would like to help him out. The phone has (or at least had..) Paranoid installed, my friend doesn't know what it is or how it works, he just bought a secondhand phone on ebay and Paranoid was already installed.
Here is the problem: some days ago the phone restarted automatically after a sort of crash, so my friend entered in the bootloader screen (using the 3 combo buttons) and did a reset or restore idk, removing all the data on the phone. When the phone restarted it could not connect to the provider (no call and no messages allowed), so my friend downloaded whatsapp using wifi. During the log in it is like if the battery dropped and the phone turned off.
Since that moment if you try to turn on the phone it starts but blocks after few seconds on the "Google screen", the one with black background and the text Google in the middle of the screen (it doesn't reach the screen with the google symbol spinning around) and it remains there eternally. I tried to enter in the bootloader screen but the only option available is "Start", and obviously if I select it the phone restarts and blocks again on the same google boot screen. In my opinion probably Paranoid is damaged or has been removed, so there is no OS to start.
Does anyone has an idea/suggestion/guide on how can I make the phone working again? It would be great to be able to install again an official Android release (kitkat, jelly bean or something like that), but the priority is obviously to repair the phone!
Thank you in advance!