Root Why did my phone brick after a simple font change?

[Xaviera2010]

I rooted my phone yesterday for the first time. It went great with no problems, even deleted some bloatware and no problems. After that I decided to fiddle with font changes since that was the main reason I wanted to root.

I got fonts from here: Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses. | Font Squirrel

And followed the instructions on here: How to Change the Fonts on Your Android Device [App Slackin'] - YouTube

The first font I used worked fine, it just didn't display good on my phone. Was too small and couldn't read it well. Then I decided to pick the same font, just use the "Bold" one so I can see it better. I rebooted my phone to apply the changes and my phone bricked and kept displaying the splash screen over and over again. I couldn't even hard reset it, I had to do that unbrick method. It worked but I lost EVERYTHING because I didn't back anything up (STUPID).

What I want to know, is why a simple font change bricked my phone, and how do I prevent it from happening again in the future?

Another thing I'd like to know is, what is the easiest way to backup your phone? Contacts, settings, apps, everything.

I am really noob at this stuff.

 

[Trevor Philips]

I rooted my phone yesterday for the first time. It went great with no problems, even deleted some bloatware and no problems. After that I decided to fiddle with font changes since that was the main reason I wanted to root.

I got fonts from here: Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses. | Font Squirrel

And followed the instructions on here: How to Change the Fonts on Your Android Device [App Slackin'] - YouTube

The first font I used worked fine, it just didn't display good on my phone. Was too small and couldn't read it well. Then I decided to pick the same font, just use the "Bold" one so I can see it better. I rebooted my phone to apply the changes and my phone bricked and kept displaying the splash screen over and over again. I couldn't even hard reset it, I had to do that unbrick method. It worked but I lost EVERYTHING because I didn't back anything up (STUPID).

What I want to know, is why a simple font change bricked my phone, and how do I prevent it from happening again in the future?

Another thing I'd like to know is, what is the easiest way to backup your phone? Contacts, settings, apps, everything.

I am really noob at this stuff.

Make a backup and try using the loki kernel. That can probably help out since it prevents some bricking such as the morning call error.

 

[Xaviera2010]

Make a backup and try using the freedom kernel. That can probably help out since it prevents some bricking such as the morning call error.

Thanks for the reply, can you expand on that? When I say I am a noob, I mean I am a noob. I had a user named Tokenpoke make me 30 minute video just explaining to me how to even root the darn thing lol. He told me to skip backing anything up and just don't mess anything up because I didn't understand how to do backups.

 

[Bard]

I am not sure how App Slackin's font change works but it may touched some of the locked files in the phone (maybe Framework-res.apk).

Without Loki patched Kernel any modification on those locked files will brick the phone.

I cannot provide detailed step by step guide but you will have to these in order to bring Motion back to life + font change.

But again I am not sure how the font change works. If you still get the phone bricked after successful loki patch, it may not be compatible with Motion. Then I will say just use system fonts (two available?) or try different method.




1) First use Unbrick method to restore your phone to factory setting.
All your files in internal memory will be gone.
Your rooting will go away too.

http://androidforums.com/motion-4g-all-things-root/610609-guide-unbrick-unroot-lg-motion-4g-kdz.html


2) Root and Recovery again.
I find out this is the easiest & most convenient.

Root and Recovery


3) Install GT's Freedom Kernel.
This will free up locked files so you can safely remove apps (Google Magazine, Video and etc..) along with other system files (framework-res.app)

http://androidforums.com/motion-4g-...el-ms770-loki-freedom-kernel-overclocked.html


4) Now try the font changing. Again I cannot watch Youtube.. so I don't know what/how they do



Good luck!

 

[Hadron]

Use your custom recovery to back up (aka a "nandroid" backup). Restore that from recovery and your ROM, apps, data are all back.

I recommend doing that before changing system files in any way. My first bootloop came from a simple theme modification that went wrong.