[Q] HELP! - Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

my just rooted my phone and attempted to flash a rom, wiping data and cache first. now i it gets stuck at boot screen! i do a battery pull and it goes back to recovery but i dont know what to do?!?

Let me guess, its an EXT4 Rom and you install clockworkmod 2.5.1.2 or 3.

the clockwork mod that came with the simple root. and yes it was ext4....

Then you aren't using an EXT4 compatible clockworkmod

okay then what do i do? i wiped data/cache/davlik and rebooted but it stays on the boot screen...

Odin back to stock and try again.

Beezer80 said:
Odin back to stock and try again.
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Correction , odin to stock than install clockworkmod 3

wow! thats awesome! i just came from the Evo and we didnt have anything this cool. if you cant do anything from recovery then you were screwed. loving this phone. thank you so much for your help! sorry for my newb histeria!

f10g44 said:
wow! thats awesome! i just came from the Evo and we didnt have anything this cool. if you cant do anything from recovery then you were screwed. loving this phone. thank you so much for your help! sorry for my newb histeria!
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Since I'm a bit of a grammar-nazi I can't help but say that it's HYSTERIA, that is all.

ugh lol now im just trying to find out how to use it... went to wiki but still kind of confused..

You load the Rom as PDA, the modem as Phone and boot into download mode on your phone by holding the power button and 1 on the hardware keyboard

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Trouble with ClockworkMod 3.0.0.3.

I flashed the most recent ClockworkMod to my phone using ROM manager so I could do a ROM backup, and now my phone will not go into recovery mode. When I get into the boot menu and try to go into recovery, it goes into the splash screen and stays there.
Has anyone else had this happen with ClockworkMod 3.0.0.3? It took my phone quite a while to boot after that, and it put me into panic mode for a good moment.
I'll be flashing Amon_RA now to do my backup/ROM flashing. The latest updates to ClockworkMod keep doing crazy, crazy things to my poor EVO. Has anyone else experienced this?
YES! I was flashing a rom earlier tonight with the latest clockwork from rom manager and it messed up everything. Tried a bunch of different things. Still hangs on splash screen. How long did you have to wait?
yes also nothing wanted to flash had to go back to clockwm.. 2.5.0 where everything was petfect lol
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same here, went to flash a few zips and installations kept aborting. just flashed amon ra and no problems now. hopefully they fix whatever happened to clockworkmod before ppl go crazy lol
my evo is doing that as i type this, i will definitely be switching to amon ra (as soon as my evo stops freaking out) until it gets fixed.
Alfred F. Jones said:
I flashed the most recent ClockworkMod to my phone using ROM manager so I could do a ROM backup, and now my phone will not go into recovery mode. When I get into the boot menu and try to go into recovery, it goes into the splash screen and stays there.
Has anyone else had this happen with ClockworkMod 3.0.0.3? It took my phone quite a while to boot after that, and it put me into panic mode for a good moment.
I'll be flashing Amon_RA now to do my backup/ROM flashing. The latest updates to ClockworkMod keep doing crazy, crazy things to my poor EVO. Has anyone else experienced this?
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same thing happened to me and I thought I bricked my phone-took a few hrs to sort out. very disappointing
how did you solve the issue? my phone is basically in a bricked state...
ricankng787 said:
how did you solve the issue? my phone is basically in a bricked state...
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can you boot into HBOOT? if so flash back to an older version of ClockworkMod.
taintbad said:
can you boot into HBOOT? if so flash back to an older version of ClockworkMod.
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yes I can boot into hboot, how would i push files onto the phone? and flash from there?
ricankng787 said:
yes I can boot into hboot, how would i push files onto the phone? and flash from there?
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I used the ClockworkMod from unrevoked
http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/forever
place the appropriate file on the root of the sdcard using a card reader and boot into HBOOT.
I got out of it by crossing my fingers and doing a battery pull, then booting normally. Thankfully it worked, so I had the chance to use ROM Manager to flash Amon_RA, but I can't guarantee it would work for everyone's.
hope this helps some one I went to appmarket and romanager and uninstalled update then went to app to flash back to older version 2.5
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I hope so too. At this point I'd probably recommend that everyone with trouble either go back to 2.5 or even suggest switching to Amon_RA... nothing but problems with 3.0. !

please help - clockworkmod backup rom problem

ok so, i just rooted my phone and that went fine. did it with the stock rom, but after I did that I installed clockwork mod. well, i tried to do a back up of the current rom and when it rebooted it crashed. now it comes up to the android system recovery screen but it won't let me select anything...... can anyone help?!?!?
i am freaking out here... did i brick my phone?!?!?! anyone????
I don't know why you're having a problem or what caused it but you certainly didn't brick your phone. You can always flash a new ROM in clockwork or use odin to flash the stock .tar.
edit: missed the part about not being able to select anything in recovery. All is not lost, just flash the stock EG31 .tar with odin and you'll be fine. You're gonna have to reroot and set everything back up again (I've done it twice today) but at least you will still have a phone. Try just flashing the kernel first, maybe you can get it to boot without losing anything.
everytime i reboot the phone it just comes back to this android system recovery screen. it's blule, at the bottom is says manual mode. and something sucsessfull but, it won't let me selelect any of the options and it keeps booting to this screen... where can i download odin? i keep seeing stuff about that, i guess i need to flash to a rom or something....
edit: cool, yeah.. can you show me where to download what your talking about??
thank you!!
get odin here- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1274337
stock tar here- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351761
Read the guides if you aren't familiar with using odin. Good luck.
Thanks A lot man!
ogeretla said:
Thanks A lot man!
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Yeah, that sounds like stock recovery. Follow above steps and you should be good
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Got it fixed. Thanks guys!
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Phone is a paperweight!! In need of serious help!!

Ok so I went to go flash a new ROM called Liquid Smooth, doesnt work at all. Which is fine, figured I would just go back to Codename or FreeGS3 since i made a nandroid of both. Attempt to boot into recovery n the phone will not, so that sucks. So I then try to go through Odin and put the stock ROM tar file on my phone n just re-root the phone again from scratch. Put the stock ROM on the phone, Odin says it passed, it reboots and is stuck on the Samsung loading screen. Tried multiple times through Odin and the samething continues to happen. My phone is now a paperweight and useless. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
GS3
tarheelsmj12001 said:
Ok so I went to go flash a new ROM called Liquid Smooth, doesnt work at all. Which is fine, figured I would just go back to Codename or FreeGS3 since i made a nandroid of both. Attempt to boot into recovery n the phone will not, so that sucks. So I then try to go through Odin and put the stock ROM tar file on my phone n just re-root the phone again from scratch. Put the stock ROM on the phone, Odin says it passed, it reboots and is stuck on the Samsung loading screen. Tried multiple times through Odin and the samething continues to happen. My phone is now a paperweight and useless. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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How long did you wait for the phone to boot at Samsung screen ? if not long just wait some more !!
I almost dont want to assist based on the title of your thread. your phone is not a paperweight. You need to wipe data so the rom will boot. Flash the custom recovery below in odin and boot into it after the odin flash. As soon as that screen goes dark immediatly press volume up+home+pwr. youll get in
billard412 said:
I almost dont want to assist based on the title of your thread. your phone is not a paperweight. You need to wipe data so the rom will boot. Flash the custom recovery below in odin and boot into it after the odin flash. As soon as that screen goes dark immediatly press volume up+home+pwr. youll get in
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Yea do this but before flashing the recovery in ODIN un-check the Auto Reboot option so you can pull the battery after the recovery passes. If the last thing you flashed was the stock Odin file you now should have stock recovery
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billard412 said:
I almost dont want to assist based on the title of your thread. your phone is not a paperweight. You need to wipe data so the rom will boot. Flash the custom recovery below in odin and boot into it after the odin flash. As soon as that screen goes dark immediatly press volume up+home+pwr. youll get in
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I have done this already n it didnt work.
pvinodnayak said:
How long did you wait for the phone to boot at Samsung screen ? if not long just wait some more !!
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I let it sit there for 35 minutes waiting for it to boot, still no go.
My custom binary count is at 10, idk if that has anything to do with it not being able to boot into recovery.
tarheelsmj12001 said:
I let it sit there for 35 minutes waiting for it to boot, still no go.
My custom binary count is at 10, idk if that has anything to do with it not being able to boot into recovery.
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haha
Have you tried redownloading the tar file? Could of been a bad download. I always use QBKing77 videos to figure out stuff. He puts all the links in the descriptions.
How to unroot/unbrick Sprint galaxy s3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypmqJbZqOaU&feature=youtube_gdata_playe
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Speedin07si said:
Have you tried redownloading the tar file? Could of been a bad download. I always use QBKing77 videos to figure out stuff. He puts all the links in the descriptions.
How to unroot/unbrick Sprint galaxy s3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypmqJbZqOaU&feature=youtube_gdata_playe
Sent from Pluto.
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Yea Ive been using his videos all night n all day. Nothing.

[Q] m8 gpe.. pulling my hair out

been trying to unroot and relock, or get back to stock, and it seems impossible... read post wrong and thought i need to root to manually update to lollipop when in fact you cant be rooted to install it.. now i have flashed stock recovery but anytime i hit apply from phone storage it just reboots the phone.. i cannot get s off as nothign seems to work.. i reallly need this phone back to stock.. please someone help
adrake913 said:
been trying to unroot and relock, or get back to stock, and it seems impossible... read post wrong and thought i need to root to manually update to lollipop when in fact you cant be rooted to install it.. now i have flashed stock recovery but anytime i hit apply from phone storage it just reboots the phone.. i cannot get s off as nothign seems to work.. i reallly need this phone back to stock.. please someone help
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here you go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=57296531&postcount=3194
Dude leave your hair alone. Leave it alone. Leaaaaavvee it alone.
clsA said:
here you go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=57296531&postcount=3194
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Thanks i really appreciate it. So just put that in twrp back up file and then wipe then restore from that file??
adrake913 said:
Thanks i really appreciate it. So just put that in twrp back up file and then wipe then restore from that file??
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That should do it
clsA said:
That should do it
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omg.. internal storage got wiped.. i have lost everything. only thing i can do is get in bootloader and recovery. am i totally screwed??? there are no backups and no root and no OS. i dont know what to do.. please help me
adrake913 said:
omg.. internal storage got wiped.. i have lost everything. only thing i can do is get in bootloader and recovery. am i totally screwed??? there are no backups and no root and no OS. i dont know what to do.. please help me
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did you restore the Nandroid ? factory reset does not wipe the sdcard
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did you restore the Nandroid ? factory reset does not wipe the sdcard
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i flashed the boot.emmc.win then factory reset then restored the nandroid backup. everything seemed fine but when it rebooted it was just stuck on "google"... i left it for awhile but nothing. went back into twrp and meant to wipe system too, figured it might help, hit interanl storage by accident...
thank u again for responding
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i flashed the boot.emmc.win then factory reset then restored the nandroid backup. everything seemed fine but when it rebooted it was just stuck on "google"... i left it for awhile but nothing. went back into twrp and meant to wipe system too, figured it might help, hit interanl storage by accident...
thank u again for responding
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why are you flashing a boot.ing ? All I said was restore the nandroid.
You have to start over now ... download this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2706441 and put it on your ext_sdcard and flash it
clsA said:
why are you flashing a boot.ing ? All I said was restore the nandroid.
You have to start over now ... download this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2706441 and put it on your ext_sdcard and flash it
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that thread u linked me too said flash boot first.. k ill try this. thank u
clsA said:
why are you flashing a boot.ing ? All I said was restore the nandroid.
You have to start over now ... download this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2706441 and put it on your ext_sdcard and flash it
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ok so i put that file on the ext_sd and flashed it.. said successful... but when system reboots it just the black screen with "google" in the middle and nothing happens.... just sits there... any ideas?
adrake913 said:
ok so i put that file on the ext_sd and flashed it.. said successful... but when system reboots it just the black screen with "google" in the middle and nothing happens.... just sits there... any ideas?
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how old is your firmware ? what version of recovery are you using ? are you s-off ?
clsA said:
how old is your firmware ? what version of recovery are you using ? are you s-off ?
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latest twrp
i am s off
i actually waited and it finally loaded up.. went thru initial set up and phone actually cam eon.. went to sign into hangouts and it got stuck so i rebooted.. now stuck in a boot loop.. tried wipiong cache and dalvik but it didnt help. still boot loop
dont know firmware
Just wiped n tried again. Once u get in there's no notification bar no WiFi. Any app u go In u can't get out. Theres no bottom buttons
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2708589
Try this method it should work although it says its for conversion.
adrake913 said:
latest twrp
i am s-off
i actually waited and it finally loaded up.. went thru initial set up and phone actually cam eon.. went to sign into hangouts and it got stuck so i rebooted.. now stuck in a boot loop.. tried wipiong cache and dalvik but it didnt help. still boot loop
dont know firmware
Just wiped n tried again. Once u get in there's no notification bar no WiFi. Any app u go In u can't get out. Theres no bottom buttons
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You just said in your first post that you weren't S-Off. Anyway, I suggest finding an RUU for your correct M8 variant and flashing it via fastboot or the external sdcard method. There is a high chance that the internal sdcard will be wiped so be warned.
Vigz said:
You just said in your first post that you weren't S-Off. Anyway, I suggest finding an RUU for your correct M8 variant and flashing it via fastboot or the external sdcard method. There is a high chance that the internal sdcard will be wiped so be warned.
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I do have s off
adrake913 said:
been trying to unroot and relock, or get back to stock, and it seems impossible... read post wrong and thought i need to root to manually update to lollipop when in fact you cant be rooted to install it.. now i have flashed stock recovery but anytime i hit apply from phone storage it just reboots the phone.. i cannot get s off as nothign seems to work.. i reallly need this phone back to stock.. please someone help
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Hopefully, your issue gets fixed.

boot loop and no recovery mode

Hi, my S4 mini entered a boot loop and pressing volume up+home+power doesn't enter recovery mode.
I haven't been playing anything strange with it, it has stock rom.
I just boarded a plane, put it to plane mode and when I landed it was like this.
Please help, I don't know what to do.:crying:
Thanks
Flash stock firmware using odin.
Or you can try flashing a custom recovery and making factory reset. You will lose data but phone will recover.
Stock rom odın flash, recovery wipe data ve cache and reboot
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Thank you, but Odin is only for windows and I don't have it.
Any other program for Mac that could do that?
If possible I would not want to have the phone factory reset, I haven't done anything to justify this.
With my previous galaxy I had been playing and I could understand something similar,
but with this one I did absolutely nothing, do you understand why it happened?
I think you can not solve without turning to factory settings
Data are data without opening the phone what I will do if you can work something yok.he half of
Sorry Bad For English
Ok, I managed to get a windows PC and flashed the rom again with Odin.
It turned out that is not the problem. The problem is that after that (as much as before), when I start in recovery mode it shows the dead android and says "no command", after which it enters the boot loop again.
Now the phone has a freshly flashed stock rom, so what could it be???
I also flashed CWM-recovery and stil I can't get into recovery.
Kinda desperate now!
yukdav said:
I also flashed CWM-recovery and stil I can't get into recovery.
Kinda desperate now!
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Just grab a latest build of any custom recovery for your device and flash it via odin.
Use TWRP or CWM latest builds. Once they flash successfully and the screen turns off
as device reboots, press and hold home and vol up keys which takes u to recovery.
Now go to advanced wipe and choose cache, data, dalvik AND INTERNAL STORAGE.
It is recommended to wipe internal storage this time. Just in case. Then reboot.
Thanks, but in which way is your suggestion different from what I just did?
yukdav said:
Thanks, but in which way is your suggestion different from what I just did?
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Oh sorry. So it does not work even with custom recovery....
Did you try to flash it with a pit file earlier ? I mean did you do any re-partition ?
This is indeed really strange.
I tried CWM, not TWRP.
I don't know what a pit file is, I didn't repartition it, I did absolutely nothing to it.
I boarded a plane, put it in plane mode (I think) and when I landed 9h later it was off.
When I started it, it boot looped and no recovery.
Ok, now I tried also TWRP, nothing new
Does anybody have any further suggestion? I'm totally stuck and without phone almost a week now.
yukdav said:
Ok, now I tried also TWRP, nothing new
Does anybody have any further suggestion? I'm totally stuck and without phone almost a week now.
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Better to take the phone to service center.
They will solve it.
even better I'll buy an iphone next time

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