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Need help. Potential brick.

WhippyNom

Newbie
Phone is rooted.

I wanted to allow for the "homescreen" to rotate. The only function of the "Allow rotation" was for all of my apps and everything that I use the phone for except a phone.

I followed these instructions, and figured that the worst that could happen is that the phone would reboot and revert....
https://forums.androidcentral.com/v...home-screen-rotation-4-1-2-requires-root.html
Well, it did not. The phone does not boot. It displays the samsung logo when turning on. It does turn off when you hold the button. The computer knows something is turning off and on by beeping at me. I cannot see the phone when it connects via windows file explorer. When the phone is "off" the big green battery logo is visible.

I did save a copy of an unedited version of this file, as well as a backup in the root folder.

Any way I can fix this from a pc or another android device?

I need some help lol.
 
And to give more info, I am able to boot to the android repair screen. Can I load something from SD card? I have the file that was not edited currently off the phone.
 
I can get into android recovery. I did attempt to reinstall default settings, and it did nothing.

I have a copy of the default rom. Is there a way I can install that from recovery?
 
Problem solved.

I installed an image by holding the down button while booting.

The curious thing now is that the rooting won't work with the towelroot.
 
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