Help Please Help Me! :(

[aroid48]

Hi I really need help. my phone wasnt working normally so i went into recovery mode and wipe user data. when the phone rebooted a lot of messages with force closes keep coming. i cant open most google apps. i was rooted and then i unrooted and it didnt help so i rooted back.

 

[melll]

Do factory reset! You can do that in recovery mode.

 

[aroid48]

how do i do that?

 

[bootsie]

I had this same exact thing happen and u have to keep closing those force errors and get into settings and go to applications and do the factory reset there. It took forever to do since all the errors Kept poppingnup. I am sure someone has an easier way though

 

[melll]

I had this same exact thing happen and u have to keep closing those force errors and get into settings and go to applications and do the factory reset there. It took forever to do since all the errors Kept poppingnup. I am sure someone has an easier way though

How did you get in to recovery mode? Same way, when you get recovery mode, you can select "FACTORY DEFAULT" and then everything should be fixed for you.

Power phone off.

Hold: Home Button + Power Button + Vol up button.

When the phone powers on, let go of the power button.

And keep holding the rest of the buttons till you get in recovery mode.

Let go of all the buttons when you see you're entering recovery mode.


Use the Vol Up / Vol Down keys to navigate, and press the power button to select.

 

[bootsie]

I knew it hahaha. Brain fart on my part

 

[aroid48]

thanks so much you guys!!!!!!! i thought the wipe user data was the reset. i never knew about his.

 

[SamsungVibrant]

how do i do that?

Easiest way to do a factory reset is just dial the following code:
*#*#7780#*#*

easy as pie

http://androidforums.com/vibrant-ti...ck-built-day-time-firmware-gps-test-more.html

 

[melll]

Easiest way to do a factory reset is just dial the following code:
*#*#7780#*#*

easy as pie

http://androidforums.com/vibrant-ti...ck-built-day-time-firmware-gps-test-more.html

I know easier way.

Settings -Privacy - Factory Data Reset

 

[SamsungVibrant]

I know easier way.

Settings -Privacy - Factory Data Reset

too many steps for me, anyways all 3 methods do the same thing

 

[melll]

thanks so much you guys!!!!!!! i thought the wipe user data was the reset. i never knew about his.

Congrats man. Hope you dont wreck your phone again before Froyo comes out

Your phone will be like brand new again when its out!

 

[aroid48]

Congrats man. Hope you dont wreck your phone again before Froyo comes out

Your phone will be like brand new again when its out!

hopefully i wont. what could have caused this though?

 

[melll]

hopefully i wont. what could have caused this though?

Only Samsung truly knows.

My phone somehow bricked itself after applying lag fix and root a few days after use.

Which is why I stay away from that stuff now.

 

[aroid48]

Only Samsung truly knows.

My phone somehow bricked itself after applying lag fix and root a few days after use.

Which is why I stay away from that stuff now.

oh man that sucks. i applied the lag fix from the market and rooted like two days ago.

 

[w_bovine]

hopefully i wont. what could have caused this though?

Just the fact that it's a complicated electronic device could be why it wigged out on you. If problems persist however I'd seriously consider taking it back for an exchange.

 

[melll]

oh man that sucks. i applied the lag fix from the market and rooted like two days ago.

I would stay away from lag fix root stuff.. I heard it can cause a lot of problems eventually it just crashes itself.

So theres my 2 cents. Just personal belief from personal experience and people who all experienced the same thing.

After factory reset, your phone gets unrooted - un lag fixed.

So you are good now.

 

[melll]

Heres a couple of quotes Ive read around...

It's ext2 guys, seriously, there's no journal for ext2. Yes, it's fast, but it's going to fail. There's a reason nobody uses ext2 anymore, unless it's for caching things, since cache is expendable data.

Don't do that lagfix. It's ext2, and it will become corrupt in a matter of days.

I ran an ext4 lagfix for a while, worked great. I undid it a few days ago though, anticipating that the froyo update will break it

It creates a large file (1+gb), mounts it as an ext2 filesystem, then copies a few directories to it, and makes symlinks to the new (faux) filesystem. In other words, if this filesystem goes poof, so does all of your apps.

Skim through thread to read all about it from people who had their phone bricked after a few days of rooting + lag fixing

[UTIL] One Click Lag Fix 2.0 - xda-developers

 

[aroid48]

I would stay away from lag fix root stuff.. I heard it can cause a lot of problems eventually it just crashes itself.

So theres my 2 cents. Just personal belief from personal experience and people who all experienced the same thing.

After factory reset, your phone gets unrooted - un lag fixed.

So you are good now.

i'm still rooted, but i won't apply the lagfix anyway

 

[SamsungVibrant]

i'm still rooted, but i won't apply the lagfix anyway

try the new unoffical ROM that was released by samsfirmware.com, some speculate it infact may be the official ROM.