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Phone stuck at Samsung Galaxy S2 load screen...

I was running Strongsteve's blue rom and wanted to update to his latest version, so I wiped my cache and delvik and used CWM to install. When I rebooted, the phone never got past the SGS2 boot screen. I took out the battery and rebooted a bunch of times with no luck. I was able to get back in to CWM by holding pwr and up, and I reflashed the rom with no luck. I had Blazer's rom on the internal drive already and flashed that, but it still hung at the SGS2 boot screen. Now, I can't get back in to CWM and I can't charge my phone. I can still get in to USB mode but i've never used it before.
I rooted using auto-root, and i'm going to try using ODIN but i'm not sure what i should flash on there if i can even get my computer to connect to my phone...another ROM, the stock ROM, zedomax root? any advice?
i think i'm gonna go with the stock rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1479677) but not sure if there's other steps or things i should be doing instead...please help!

If you hold the power button + power down, can you boot into download mode?

yes...
i'm going to try odin but i'm not sure what file to flash...any thoughts?

Find the stock tar file in the epic 4g touch development. Someone just posted one not too lon ago. When you flashed the update did you follow all instructions to a t? I have run into similar problems because i thought skipling a step wouldnt matter.
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As long as you can get into download mode, you're good.
Use this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1383678

yeah i followed the instructions but something must have gone wrong. i'm going to try odin when i get home...i'll let you guys know how it goes. thanks!

one more question...do i need to flash the kernel too?

Keep in mind, if you flash the EL29 listed earlier, it will disable the reset ability of the USB jig (will still get you to ODIN D/L mode, just won't reset ODIN flash stats)
I suggest you flash the pre-rooted EL29 ODIN One-Click in my signature, but it is up to you.

mistatwo said:
one more question...do i need to flash the kernel too?
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No, not if u odin. The kernels in there
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fixed! used the el29 odin root method (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101)
THANK YOU GUYS FOR ALL YOUR HELP!

Just a quick question..
Can you avoid all the above steps if you do a nandroid restore? I thought if I just did a nandroid restore and reflash from scratch I should be goodl. I did a nandroid back up when I rooted with the stock ROM and figured if I ever ran into problems I could retore and start fresh? Am I thinking about this the right way or do I need to go through the steps above when/if I get stuck a the boot screen..thx

For all who like to flash. Get md5checker from the market.Use it love it. Never flash a bad ROM again. Saves alot of headaches and time. Not to mention clutter.
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pawmbi1 said:
Just a quick question..
Can you avoid all the above steps if you do a nandroid restore? I thought if I just did a nandroid restore and reflash from scratch I should be goodl. I did a nandroid back up when I rooted with the stock ROM and figured if I ever ran into problems I could retore and start fresh? Am I thinking about this the right way or do I need to go through the steps above when/if I get stuck a the boot screen..thx
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You are correct. As long as you have custom recovery.

btw it might have been a bad download. grab the md5 checker from the market like the guy above me a couple posts said. also redownload the rom if it is.

Phone stuck at logo screen
Hi, pls help..
Yesterday i have try to root my phone and today i have decided to restore to stock firmware.
As i didnt backup my files, and i try to restore by following this website from cnet.co.uk
after restore, my phone stuck at logo screen...
I can't turn off my phone nor entering download mode and boot screen.
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stuck on softbrick nv items

Hi guys hope there is something I can do. I read many posts regarding bricking and things that are suppose to unbrick but nothing seems to work.
What caused the softbrick:
I had data issues and by accident I wrote the wrong backed up NV items to phone, restarted, then was stuck on boot loop. it gets to the samsung splash screen then black screen then blue light then repeats.
What I have tried:
I can get to ODIN and successfully flash and have flashed:
"READ THE OP [ODIN][STOCK][TAR] SPH-D710.EG30 ROM/EG31 Modem"
also flashed this
"[ODIN][STOCK][TAR] SPH-D710.EG30_CL435734 (EG30 Modem/Kernel/ROM - Factory Restore"
But when I boot it still does the exact same thing.
Also when I do the power + vol up all it says is something like "update file is backed up success" then it goes back to boot loop.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!

try to odin something having root access and custom recovery kernel.
If it's successful, then you would be able to access the custom recovery. From there, install the ROM what you want or do the factory reset, wipe everything and odin again with your rom.

Cool actually I just fixed it before I got to read your post, and it required pretty much exactly what you mentioned.
I flashed cwm recovery/kernel from rogue FC07
Then went with a random FC07 rom that had root.
For some reason when I used other roms that included root it didn't make a difference still couldn't do recovery only odin oh and it could never boot.
Thanks

chad99 said:
Cool actually I just fixed it before I got to read your post, and it required pretty much exactly what you mentioned.
I flashed cwm recovery/kernel from rogue FC07
Then went with a random FC07 rom that had root.
For some reason when I used other roms that included root it didn't make a difference still couldn't do recovery only odin oh and it could never boot.
Thanks
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be careful as a lot of bricks are from using ics cwm repacks only flash and wipe from a GB kernel....it's a pain in the ass right now but just be safe no need to brick
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recovery stock tar file passed in odin but wont boot up!

I have flashed the boot stock recovery tar file for my Sprint sph-l900 and it says pass in odin. Then the samsung emblem comes up like its going to boot and then goes black. It wont show its charging while plugged in to charger. But if I take the battery out and hold on, home, and up buttons it will go into stock recovery. So I know that it loaded that at least. Because obviously my TWRP recovery is gone. But I don't understand why its not loading I have done this before and no the steps to take but it is not rebooting properly! I don't know if my only option left is to use ADB side load but if that is the case I do not have the faintest idea on how that is accomplished and done correctly. I woke up this morning and my phone was stuck on the boot screen of the parinoid android rom I had installed that has been working for a good while now. I installed an app to help optimize the system yesterday for better performance and it was an app for rooted phones and it had good reviews so I wasn't worried. I made sure that in the options in the app that the system files and other files that I new could not be touched by the app actions I made sure they were white listed so they would not be effected. That is the only thing that I think could have done this to my phone. And when I realized I could not recover to any nandroid backups I had, that's when I decided to just reinstall the boot recovery stock rar file but not before I wiped the correct files to get a clean install (Flash) Any way that is where I'm at and I do not know what to do...... So could any body please help PLEASE!!!!!!
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Basically your problem is the rom is incompatible with your current boot loader. You'll need to ODIN back to stock rooted MC2 then ODIN a custom recovery then modem. From there flash the rom you want. I'm not sure why you went back to stock recovery with the custom rom but it's not compatible. Or else you need to make sure the md5 is correct for the rom & other files you flashed. I'd just do what I first suggested and make sureyou have a good md5 for ythe rom you want before flashing it. Good luck.

Thanks for the reply!
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Basically your problem is the rom is incompatible with your current boot loader. You'll need to ODIN back to stock rooted MC2 then ODIN a custom recovery then modem. From there flash the rom you want. I'm not sure why you went back to stock recovery with the custom rom but it's not compatible. Or else you need to make sure the md5 is correct for the rom & other files you flashed. I'd just do what I first suggested and make sureyou have a good md5 for ythe rom you want before flashing it. Good luck.
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I don't know about that because it was already mk4 before I ever rooted it and putt the rom on and I have already had to use the same recovery stock rar file two other times to get it back to original stock. And I haven't changed the mk4 since stock not even with the root or the rom Ive installed so it doesn't make sense especially when I have done this twice with the same rar file flashed with odin and always had good result never got stuck from not booting all the way. But so far your the only person all day i have had any advice from and you are a senior member who im sure knows what they are talking about so i guess I will have to find out how to revert from mk4 that Ive never changed to a MC2 and hope that that will do something for me im just baffled that the same thing that Ive done 2 other times wont work again....
Thanks again for the reply any other advice along the way or what ever you feel like adding is more than welcome i really appreciate you now im gonna be on the hunt for this MC2 install and what is the best steps to follow and go on....

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I have flashed the boot stock recovery tar file for my Sprint sph-l900 and it says pass in odin. Then the samsung emblem comes up like its going to boot and then goes black. It wont show its charging while plugged in to charger. But if I take the battery out and hold on, home, and up buttons it will go into stock recovery. So I know that it loaded that at least. Because obviously my TWRP recovery is gone. But I don't understand why its not loading I have done this before and no the steps to take but it is not rebooting properly! I don't know if my only option left is to use ADB side load but if that is the case I do not have the faintest idea on how that is accomplished and done correctly. I woke up this morning and my phone was stuck on the boot screen of the parinoid android rom I had installed that has been working for a good while now. I installed an app to help optimize the system yesterday for better performance and it was an app for rooted phones and it had good reviews so I wasn't worried. I made sure that in the options in the app that the system files and other files that I new could not be touched by the app actions I made sure they were white listed so they would not be effected. That is the only thing that I think could have done this to my phone. And when I realized I could not recover to any nandroid backups I had, that's when I decided to just reinstall the boot recovery stock rar file but not before I wiped the correct files to get a clean install (Flash) Any way that is where I'm at and I do not know what to do...... So could any body please help PLEASE!!!!!!
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What recovery did you use? Philz 6.12. X?
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No TWRP 2.6.3
jlmancuso said:
What recovery did you use? Philz 6.12. X?
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No I had TWRP recovery but when i realized there was no getting to flash the rom nandroid BU I went ahead and did a factory wipe and all the files your suppossed to wipe and then I used odin like I have many times before and flashed the same recovery stock rar I have used before to go back to stock and start fresh any way this time odin said pass as usu-wall and then it acted as though it were going to boot and then it lit up the silver samsung emblem for a hot sec and then went black and stayed black after that even when i plugged the charger in the led light would not even show it was charging. But if I take the battery out and back in while its plugged in to charger the screen comes on with the little green battery icon and shows it charging. if i push pwr it show samsung icon then goes dead. Now if I push all the button for recovery it will boot back to stock android recovery. and i can upload one of the backups which was my last rom but it of course act as if it will load and then fails which i know is because i dont have the custom recovery any more but it didnt work either when I did and i don't know man im baffled...
The only suggestion Ive been given so far was from the senior member above and said i need to flash a earlier firmware than mk4 but that is weird to me since I have never had any thing installed on anything other than an mk4 but it make sense that it could work I just have not found the info that makes me feel confident about choices yet...
Thanks for replying any other thought please share!

Well sounds like the odin flash had some kind of issue even though it did not state one. Try going back into download mode and flash a custom recovery (twrp) then flash billards back to stock MC2. This will restore everything back even if you have the knox bootloader. Link is below for easy access. Two things twrp is recommended and do a factory reset before installing. After install reboot (apply su when asked if you want it) the phone will reboot display a messed up screen then reboot once again (normal dont worry). After that you can flash your custom recovery via odin and you should not have any more issues.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2086769
Let me know if that works for you.

So I found the write far file for mk4 and it flashed beautifully I tried a flash of the Mc2 in the reply from earleier post but it did not pass in Odin but I really expected that because I was pausitive that there was another mk4 rar that would work. And now I'm back to a fresh stock rom and I have all the flash file I need to get it rooted and custom romed in no time. I really do appreciate the help and suggestions it is nice to know there is help when needed! So thanks again and I got the file from TA TRUE ANDROID vpubmk4 firmware android 4.3 for the sprint sph-l900 I just had to do some hunting in order to find it. And it didn't help that my renters from the other side of the duplex were having their Internet fixed and the Tech accidently disconnected my lines out side so I was with out Internet for a long time and then when it was finally fixed I found this and flashed it no problems. Thanks again. If you don't mind I'm gonna send a friend request to you I don't have any friends or contacts in this forum and it would be nice to have another person to occasionally check in with? Ya know any way take my brother and stay cool......
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slade1style said:
So I found the write far file for mk4 and it flashed beautifully I tried a flash of the Mc2 in the reply from earleier post but it did not pass in Odin but I really expected that because I was pausitive that there was another mk4 rar that would work. And now I'm back to a fresh stock rom and I have all the flash file I need to get it rooted and custom romed in no time. I really do appreciate the help and suggestions it is nice to know there is help when needed! So thanks again and I got the file from TA TRUE ANDROID vpubmk4 firmware android 4.3 for the sprint sph-l900 I just had to do some hunting in order to find it. And it didn't help that my renters from the other side of the duplex were having their Internet fixed and the Tech accidently disconnected my lines out side so I was with out Internet for a long time and then when it was finally fixed I found this and flashed it no problems. Thanks again. If you don't mind I'm gonna send a friend request to you I don't have any friends or contacts in this forum and it would be nice to have another person to occasionally check in with? Ya know any way take my brother and stay cool......
Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk
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For the record (since people seem to still be having issues) you CANNOT DOWNGRADE THROUGH ODIN WITH THE NEW BOOTLOADER!!! You can however downgrade through (custom?) RECOVERY using the previously mentioned method.
Sent from my SPH-L900. Please hit the thanks button if I helped you out!

[Q][SOFT BRICK] Weird...

So this is the weirdest "brick" I have ever experienced. My phone was working flawlessly with a TWRP recovery and a slightly modded mostly stock ROM. I was playing around modding the stock MMS app, SecMms.apk, and flashing it through recovery. One of these flashes did not complete successfully. I got to the lockscreen, but it would not respond. And there was no network connection. So I figured something got screwed up. I rebooted into recovery and flashed a stock ROM. Boot loop. I got back into recovery and performed a factory data reset, erased everything, flashed a stock ROM. Boot loop. I downloaded a completely stock ROM with stock recovery, stock everything. Got into download mode and flashed it through ODIN. Boot loop. Well, actually, the initial boot got a screen where I could see the taskbar with time and no-service indicator; the rest of the screen was black for a minute; then I got a popup window stating that "Process system is unable to continue" and asking if I wanted to wait of close it. Then it boot looped. I tried booting without a SIM card and an external SD card - same result.
So, to recap - I can get to Download Mode, and ODIN, but anything I flash, including completely stock ROM boot loops.
I am at a loss as to what to try next. If anyone has ideas, I'm willing to try just about anything. I'm gonna take it to T-Mo store tomorrow to see if they can do anything with it...

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6uPMAH said:
So this is the weirdest "brick" I have ever experienced. My phone was working flawlessly with a TWRP recovery and a slightly modded mostly stock ROM. I was playing around modding the stock MMS app, SecMms.apk, and flashing it through recovery. One of these flashes did not complete successfully. I got to the lockscreen, but it would not respond. And there was no network connection. So I figured something got screwed up. I rebooted into recovery and flashed a stock ROM. Boot loop. I got back into recovery and performed a factory data reset, erased everything, flashed a stock ROM. Boot loop. I downloaded a completely stock ROM with stock recovery, stock everything. Got into download mode and flashed it through ODIN. Boot loop. Well, actually, the initial boot got a screen where I could see the taskbar with time and no-service indicator; the rest of the screen was black for a minute; then I got a popup window stating that "Process system is unable to continue" and asking if I wanted to wait of close it. Then it boot looped. I tried booting without a SIM card and an external SD card - same result.
So, to recap - I can get to Download Mode, and ODIN, but anything I flash, including completely stock ROM boot loops.
I am at a loss as to what to try next. If anyone has ideas, I'm willing to try just about anything. I'm gonna take it to T-Mo store tomorrow to see if they can do anything with it...
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Go into recovery mode and do a complete wipe including "Factory Reset", wipe data, wipe system,
wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache and then if you have a working nandroiod backup restore it.
If you don't have a nandroid backup then go into download mode and flash the official stock
firmware for the N900T phone from http://SamMobile.com
Either one of these two options will get your phone back up and running.
Good luck!

I have already done all of the above, and...no go. Even stock firmware from SamMobile boot loops. Unfortunately, I do not have a nandroid backup, so that's the one thing I cannot do.

6uPMAH said:
I have already done all of the above, and...no go. Even stock firmware from SamMobile boot loops. Unfortunately, I do not have a nandroid backup, so that's the one thing I cannot do.
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Google zedomax you will find his website for unrooting note 3. Will walk you thru with ever step.

It is no longer rooted after I have flashed stock firmware/ROM from SamMobile. Believe me , I have tried all the known methods of returning this phone to stock/unroot. I have flashed through recovery when I had custom recovery. I have flashed through ODIN. So far I have been unable to fix the issue. I am thinking my internal storage is corrupt, or the partition is corrupt. Anyone knows of a way to rebuild/repartition internal storage?

6uPMAH said:
It is no longer rooted after I have flashed stock firmware/ROM from SamMobile. Believe me , I have tried all the known methods of returning this phone to stock/unroot. I have flashed through recovery when I had custom recovery. I have flashed through ODIN. So far I have been unable to fix the issue. I am thinking my internal storage is corrupt, or the partition is corrupt. Anyone knows of a way to rebuild/repartition internal storage?
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Did you try the "boot loop fix" flashable? It's essentially a script that sort of recreates the efs partition in recovery. It's been linked a few times in the twrp thread, and there may be a thread dedicated to the topic (search for "brick loop") - I don't have the links handy though, apologies.

The mans right^ that helped me out through my "soft brick". Totally out of the blue. Wasnt even messing around with anything I didnt knew I was doing
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Anybody has a link? I've searched, but there's nothing specific to Note 3 TMO...

6uPMAH said:
Anybody has a link? I've searched, but there's nothing specific to Note 3 TMO...
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The method is outlined in the OP of this thread but the flashable version of what is outlined there can be found in this thread - hope that helps!

Thanks. I'll give it a go after work.
UPDATE: All is well in the world again. Thanks everyone for all your help. Thanks dwitherell ! The thread you pointed me to was the solution!

revert to stock rom from cyanogenmod something wrong urgent help please

Hello I am mostly noob in regards of rom flashing. I have successfully flashed cyanogenmod 10 after rooting my i317. however i decided to revert back today and used clockwork recovery to flash rooted stock rom:
Stock_Rooted_JB_4.1.2_SGH-i317M_(t0ltecan)_signed
continually rebooting.
After that, ever since it has been continually rebooting.
used clockwork to flash back cyanogenmod it still reboots just after finished loading.
tried odin 307 following:
I317-ODIN-UCUBMK6-rooted
Also reboting.
Not sure what went wrong. I also cleaned all the caches disk data etc., no avail.
I think flashing Stock_Rooted_JB_4.1.2_SGH-i317M_(t0ltecan)_signed did something wrong to the phone. Is there help avialable regarding this?
For now at least I can get to odin or clockwok using the phone shortcut. Thanks!!!

Do you have an i317 or 317m ? After using ODIN did you do a factory reset using stock recovery

guyenxda000 said:
Hello I am mostly noob in regards of rom flashing. I have successfully flashed cyanogenmod 10 after rooting my i317. however i decided to revert back today and used clockwork recovery to flash rooted stock rom:
Stock_Rooted_JB_4.1.2_SGH-i317M_(t0ltecan)_signed
continually rebooting.
After that, ever since it has been continually rebooting.
used clockwork to flash back cyanogenmod it still reboots just after finished loading.
tried odin 307 following:
I317-ODIN-UCUBMK6-rooted
Also reboting.
Not sure what went wrong. I also cleaned all the caches disk data etc., no avail.
I think flashing Stock_Rooted_JB_4.1.2_SGH-i317M_(t0ltecan)_signed did something wrong to the phone. Is there help avialable regarding this?
For now at least I can get to odin or clockwok using the phone shortcut. Thanks!!!
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Flash this via odin in the ap or pta slot and let me know what happens
http://d-h.st/8HG

hey guys thanks for a help. huge gracia.
i did again the wipe out the partition/cache and finally it booted. Thanks!!!!

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Thread moved to Q&A where it should have been posted originally. Please post in the correct sections, thanks.

I had the same issue. Had to go to samobile.com and download the stock firmware from there and flash it via desktop Odin 3.07. Then from there when I was back on the stock firmware I then flashed a recovery and then rooted it