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(Q) Bootloop unable to boot dowloading do not turn off target

I just tried to do an nandroid to a previous ROM, this has been done many times before via CWM. This time after reboot I got stuck in a bootloop as I pulled battery and manually tried to get into recovery with power/volume this time it went to odin mode and now says dowloading, do not turn off target.
I have powered down phone from ODIM mode. but now when trying to re-boot im stuck at samsung galaxy boot screen. I now have tried once or twice to manually get into recovery to see if sends me to CMW but phone resets back to the boot rather than bootloader.
I have tried to hold volume up and power to try and boot into recovery and all I get is the bootloop while holding the buttons, never gets routed to recovery. (I heard for ODIN you hold volume down and power)
Has anyone experienced this? I have never used ODIN so no sure where this is comming from.
I have tried to manually get into recovery and I get a samsung message that downloading a custom OS can be harmfull either I can proceed or re-boot. If I proceed (volume up) I get the "downloading do not run off traget" in ODIN mode if i do volume down I reboot but that back at the bootloop

If you cannot get into recovery you are probably going to have to flash through Odin. From the sound of it you never used odin before. I would flash back to the stock rooted rom and then reinstall clockwork mod. I will provide links. A file probably just got corrupt during the nand restore. Lets hope I can get ya back up and running.
Install stock rooted rom:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7pWjmKCsoc&context=C3947c01ADOEgsToPDskJI18lFujJeVrMeUHHZ0m_o
Reinstall Clockwork Mod:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZRnH-_XZmM
Make sure you follow the steps exactly and do NOT pull out the cable during odin until it is complete or you WILL brick your phone!
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If anyone has an easier way please feel free to share it as I am not a noob but not as much of an expert as some others on this site.

rbtrucking said:
If you cannot get into recovery you are probably going to have to flash through Odin. From the sound of it you never used odin before. I would flash back to the stock rooted rom and then reinstall clockwork mod. I will provide links. A file probably just got corrupt during the nand restore. Lets hope I can get ya back up and running.
Install stock rooted rom:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7pWjmKCsoc&context=C3947c01ADOEgsToPDskJI18lFujJeVrMeUHHZ0m_o
Reinstall Clockwork Mod:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZRnH-_XZmM
Make sure you follow the steps exactly and do NOT pull out the cable during odin until it is complete or you WILL brick your phone!
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If anyone has an easier way please feel free to share it as I am not a noob but not as much of an expert as some others on this site.
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When I get home ill give it a shot, you are correct I never used ODIN, I came from the EVO's so CMW has been all ive dealt with.

I think you hit it on the head rbtrucking.
Odin restore + root
CWM
Flash away
Sent from my Blazing ET4G

tkemack said:
I think you hit it on the head rbtrucking.
Odin restore + root
CWM
Flash away
Sent from my Blazing ET4G
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Thanks guys, seemed to do the trick got my phone up and running just like it was. I just need to download CMW and ive done that when firdt rooted so shouldnt be a problem. You think if I use a backup from before (other than the one i used when i initaly had issues) will be a problem?
Thanks again

you should be good.

Stuck at "Data.img" thru odin. Possible EMMC brick fix! Thanks to Jaymoon pg.#44

Stuck at "Data.img" thru odin. Possible EMMC brick fix! Thanks to Jaymoon pg.#44
So here's the deal. I just couldn't help myself and I flashed shabbys ICS test build this morning. Well the more I started reading in the thread about guys having issues restoring there backups I tried it. Flashed the cwm touch recovery....did a full wipe and then went to restore my nand of Blend. Booted up and gets stuck at the Samsung boot screen. I let it sit there for about 10 minutes. Then from there I pressed volume up and power to see if i could get back into cwm. I was able to and had rogue recovery. I then went to do a full wipe again. The data wipe took about 2 minutes....which was strange...then wiped cache and dalvik. Then went to flash Blend(not the nand backup) and again stuck at the samsung boot screen.
So I then went into odin mode and attempted to odin back to stock using the D710USEL29_20120105.stock from qb777's you tube vid. All went good....got the pass and once again stuck at the Samsung boot screen. Then from there I went back into odin download mode and attempted to odin the stock rooted file(not the file to keep your data file) and it got stuck at "Data.img" in odin.
So now I sit with the battery out of my phone and have no idea what I can try from here. I think I remember reading that as long as you can get into odin download mode there should be a fix. As alot of you can probably tell from reading this I am new to odin. I should have never flashed this test build if I was not a hundred percent sure that I could get back and also should have been WAY more familiar with odin before flashing.
I'm off to hit the sack....have a fat headache from this screw up of mine. I'll be up at 6am to check in here. If anyone can help I would really appreciate it......and whatever suggestions you may offer please take into account that I just learned about odin last week, so maybe a "odin for dummies" could help me out the most.
A little freaked out about this and really hope someone knows a way they can help.
THANKS in advance
[EDIT] Looks like we may have a fix. Refer to Page numbers 44,45. Thanks to Jaymoon and everyone else involved.

nevermind 10 char

try this homie...
odin this recovery.... http://goo-inside.me/kernels/TeamRo.../rogue_ET-recoveryonly-1.1.4-rc0-odin.tar.md5
it finally allowed me to wide data which i couldnt do all this time...
im just gonna stick with this for now and try a few things

caspersfi said:
So I then went into odin mode and attempted to odin back to stock using the D710USEL29_20120105.stock from qb777's you tube vid. All went good....got the pass and once again stuck at the Samsung boot screen. Then from there I went back into odin download mode and attempted to odin the stock rooted file(not the file to keep your data file) and it got stuck at "Data.img" in odin.
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It is possible somehow your partitions got messed up.
If you look at section A2 of the EL29 ODIN One-Click, you will find the regular ODIN tar.md5
You can use that with regular ODIN. The file you download is a self-extractor so you need to double-click and select where to unpack. That will give you a tar.md5 file. Use the *PDA* slot in ODIN to select that file. Double-check you used the *PDA* slot. Then the only option you should select in ODIN (that isn't already selected for you) is Re-Partition (so you should have Re-Partition and Auto-Reboot checked)

so sfhub,
after doing the wipe in the stock recovery.... i did a reboot system
THe "samsung Galaxy sII" screen just flashes on and off every couple of minutes.

dadoc04 said:
so sfhub,
after doing the wipe in the stock recovery.... i did a reboot system
THe "samsung Galaxy sII" screen just flashes on and off every couple of minutes.
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So this is different that what it was doing before? Perhaps you are making progress.
Try ODIN flashing just the rooted ROM (section #B4)
Sorry it is taking so long. I'm kind of using you to debug the actual issue.

sfhub said:
So this is different that what it was doing before? Perhaps you are making progress.
Try ODIN flashing just the rooted ROM (section #B4)
Sorry it is taking so long. I'm kind of using you to debug the actual issue.
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no problem... your help is appreciated... gimme a minute download #B4 and ODIN... ill post results
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I dont see a B4... maybe im looking in the wrong thread... u mind linking me?
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NEVERMIND>.. i was using the wrong link.. i found it
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do you want me to select anything in odin? or just the auto reboot?

It is a self-extractor so remember to double-click on it to extract the tar.md5 before using in ODIN.
Just auto-reboot is fine.
You've already flashed the kernel and reformated /data. The only thing needed to boot that might not be correct is the ROM, so hopefully this works.

alright... ill let you know in a few minutes what happens

It will probably take a little bit of time. The ROM is the largest image.

^ yea...
its going now... currently in FACTORYFS...
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it says PAss..... not sure where it did data though....
factoryfs
NAND Write Start
RQT CLose
RES OK
REmoved
Completed
All threads completed (succeed 1/ failed 0)

It didn't do /data (data.img). You already formatted that using stock recovery, so it shouldn't be necessary to flash it.
Factoryfs.img is the ROM.
You previously already flash the kernel and verified it was working because you were able to boot into stock recovery.
So that takes care of kernel, ROM, and /data. I doubt anything is wrong with the modem. So everything that is needed to boot should be in place.

its just flashing the "samsung galaxy s II" screen again
it goes to a grey battery image screen

That is usually what it does when you power down your phone. What happens when you press and hold power until something happens?

press and hold power = gray battery screen....
edit... the battery went away and "samsung galaxy s2" is back

If it is looping again, try booting into recovery and wipe data/factory reset one more time.

I wonder if you can run adb logcat as the phone goes from off state to stuck on samsung logo. You might be able to see whats going on if adb picks it up.

^ That's a good idea ^ Might provide some clues.

sfhub said:
If it is looping again, try booting into recovery and wipe data/factory reset one more time.
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wiping data/factory reset now... ill let ya know how it goes. It took a while last time as i think it was hung up
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im comfortable with ADB...
tell me how/when to do it and ill give it a shot....
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wipe is complete...
still shows the E:file is written: not updated

in command prompt, type
adb logcat
it will more than likely say "waiting for device" . thats fine, just plug in your phone to the pc and boot up the phone as usual. if the phone is booting far enough, adb should pick up the device and start displaying the logcat.

Help first time Flash/ Root

I am very interested in rooting over to.
☼[ROM] Frankenstein's Ego 5.1 (FE22 ICS)(new S Voice fix)☼ 5/29/2012
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1653826
But i don't wanna get bricked i have already installed ICS 4.0.3
Baseband version : S710.10 S.FD24
Kernel Version [email protected] #3
Build number IML74K.FD24
The reason i installed this because no root was required, I really wanna learn how to do this, so if you could offer any advice or help on what to do next, Like do i reboot back to stock from using a program such as ODIN v1.85, Do i just restore from phone? before trying to put frankenstein on.
Anything you could offer anything is greatly appreciated. Thanks

There is a link to a youtube video in the first post of the Frankenstein's Ego 5.1 thread. Do as it says and you will be fine!

rwright64 said:
There is a link to a youtube video in the first post of the Frankenstein's Ego 5.1 thread. Do as it says and you will be fine!
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Even if i already have a custom rom installed?

Yep.
Read through this first and make sure you understand it!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1587607

rwright64 said:
Yep.
Read through this first and make sure you understand it!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1587607
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Thanks one more question before installing the new rom should i power off the device load in recovery mode and wipe it prior?

Restore back to el29 then install your recovery back and go onto youtube and find qbking he has great videos and he has a video on how to install Frankensteins ego rom.

Zero Night said:
Restore back to el29 then install your recovery back and go onto youtube and find qbking he has great videos and he has a video on how to install Frankensteins ego rom.
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You dont have to go back to el29. All you have to do is flash the el26 kernel, boot into recovery and your ready to go.

disit said:
Thanks one more question before installing the new rom should i power off the device load in recovery mode and wipe it prior?
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Whenever you flash a rom you should wipe data you can back up your apps then restore it later but if you don't wipe you will probably get a bootloop.
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rwright64 said:
You dont have to go back to el29. All you have to do is flash the el26 kernel, boot into recovery and your ready to go.
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Ok thanks but once i did it with mobile odin on a leaked build and my phone would get stuck in the splash screen so I am not going to do it with mobile odin again.
Or is it not supposed to boot you just install your rom.

Zero Night said:
Ok thanks but once i did it with mobile odin on a leaked build and my phone would get stuck in the splash screen so I am not going to do it with mobile odin again.
Or is it not supposed to boot you just install your rom.
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This is whats supposed to happen. You flashed a gingerbread kernel so it cant boot your ICS rom. Just boot into the recovery after flashing from Mobile Odin, theres nothing wrong.

Thanks guys for all your help, finally got it.
Is it normal for when booting up shows Yellow caution sign??
How to remove it.

disit said:
Thanks guys for all your help, finally got it.
Is it normal for when booting up shows Yellow caution sign??
How to remove it.
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That is normal. There is an app called "triangle away" that can get rid of the triangle. However, it is sort of risky but you can use a usb jig. First, power off your phone. Then plug it into your charger port. It will wipe your flash counter which doesn't really matter, but it will remove the triangle. This method is recommended even by Chainfire.
Click here to get a usb jig.

[q] samsung galaxy note 2 bricked what to do

Hello im a noobie on android so i bought a samsung galaxy note 2 in my try to root it i think i bricked it.
The only think that the phone does is to stuck on Samsung GANAXY NOTE II GT-N7100 logo and nothing more.
I used the Galaxy note 2 toolkit to root it everything was ok but the phone opens for first time after root i was tried to change the permissions from the ROM manager then the phone reboots and from then is stuck on the logo.No matter what im doing.
The only place that i have access is the CWM recovery but i havent got a backup
Can anyone please help me????

loupasmi said:
Hello im a noobie on android so i bought a samsung galaxy note 2 in my try to root it i think i bricked it.
The only think that the phone does is to stuck on Samsung GANAXY NOTE II GT-N7100 logo and nothing more.
I used the Galaxy note 2 toolkit to root it everything was ok but the phone opens for first time after root i was tried to change the permissions from the ROM manager then the phone reboots and from then is stuck on the logo.No matter what im doing.
Can anyone please help me????
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All is not lost.
Download ODIN from here
Download CF root from here
Follow steps below carefully:
1.Open Odin.
2. Go to PDA tab and click on that.
3. Select the CF-Auto-Root-SGN2.tar
4. Switch your device off. In your case since its stuck on logo just pull the battery out and put it back in.
5. Press Vol down + Home +Power together. Incase it restarts as soon as you put the battery in then while putting the battery in just keep Vol down + Home +Power pressed.
6. When the screen comes on you'll see an option which says press Volume up to enter into download mode.
7. Press Volume up to enter into download mode.
8. Once there connect your device to your PC and you should see the colour change in the same right below where it says ID:COM. (Make sure you have all drivers installed)
9. Hit start.
10. Let it complete. Takes a few seconds. Once done itll say PASS.
11. Reboot and you'll have SU.
Pretty sure that would resolve your bootloop.

Thank you so much for your responce.
I did everything you say.
But the phone is still lags on logo screen.

You need to get into download mode. Keep Vol down + Home +Power pressed all at the same time when putting the battery in.

elevation_2 said:
You need to get into download mode. Keep Vol down + Home +Power pressed all at the same time when putting the battery in.
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Yes i did i put the phone on download mode im adding in odin the CF-Auto-Root-SGN2.
Im pressing start it makes the process the phone restarts pops app a message for CF-auto-Root (with red android logo)
It makes restart again and stucks on Samsung logo again.

What message are you getting in Odin on your PC when you do this?

PASS!

Before posting on the forum in my try to fix it i made a format from CWM recovery in system mount.
Can this cause the stuck on the logo?

Okay lets try another way.We can flash clockwork recovery and then do factory reset, wipe cache etc land see if that works.
Do the same process to get into download mode but use the file downloaded from here instead in Odin.
Make sure it is .tar extension when using it in Odin.
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loupasmi said:
Before posting on the forum in my try to fix it i made a format from CWM recovery in system mount.
Can this cause the stuck on the logo?
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Are you saying you already have CWM installed?
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If you formated the files in CWM you just need to flash CWM again.
Use this in ODIN. Same steps as before....DOwnload Mode, PDA etc.
See if it works after this.
If not the download recovery cache fix from here and use ODIN.
One of these 2 methods above should fix it.

elevation_2 said:
Okay lets try another way.We can flash clockwork recovery and then do factory reset, wipe cache etc land see if that works.
Do the same process to get into download mode but use the file downloaded from here instead in Odin.
Make sure it is .tar extension when using it in Odin.
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Are you saying you already have CWM installed?
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Ok i put cwm-root-note2.tar.md5 in odin.It pops up a gray background some code runs, the phone restats and lag again on the logo

loupasmi said:
Ok i put cwm-root-note2.tar.md5 in odin.It pops up a gray background some code runs, the phone restats and lag again on the logo
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The cwm-root-note2.tar.md5 is doint the same lag on the logo, the cache recovery after restars opens the recovery menu but with none of the choices changed anything after rebooting it still stuck in the logo

loupasmi said:
The cwm-root-note2.tar.md5 is doint the same lag on the logo, the cache recovery after restars opens the recovery menu but with none of the choices changed anything after rebooting it still stuck in the logo
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Have you tried flashing a stock rom with Odin and then flash cf root after that?
Sent from my GT-N7100 using xda premium

DMax99 said:
Have you tried flashing a stock rom with Odin and then flash cf root after that?
Sent from my GT-N7100 using xda premium
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No how i should do that?Sorry that im asking but i am a complete noobie on android

Flash the stock rom first man b4 trying rooting and cwm,use odin to flash ur stock rom.All what u need to flash ur stock rom via odin is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1896696
Just read it carefully first,then u will be fine..
↖(^▽^)↗ Sent from Rego Galaxy Note ↖(^▽^)↗

Full wipe.
U hv to do it.
Fired From My FireDevice.

eng.rego said:
Flash the stock rom first man b4 trying rooting and cwm,use odin to flash ur stock rom.
[/COLOR]All what u need to flash ur stock rom via odin is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1896696
Just read it carefully first,then u will be fine..
↖(^▽^)↗ Sent from Rego Galaxy Note ↖(^▽^)↗
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Thank you so mutch it works again

U are welcome man..
↖(^▽^)↗ Sent from Rego Galaxy Note ↖(^▽^)↗

since the system partition is formatted, u must flash a ODIN based ROM first as eng.rego siad.

Please help!

Hey guys I'm in some trouble. I tried to flash a new ROM to my phone and for the first time ever something bad happened. It wouldn't get pass the splash screen. So i entered recovery mode again using TWRP and reflashed everything. Kernal, rom etc...Still nothing. When I tried to reboot out of TWRP it said I didn`t have root. I choose to install it but nothing happened. I tried to use odin to flash but it failed. On the download screen of the phone it said I didn`t have a custom binary installed. Anyways i tried to reboot into recovery after the ODIN fail and now I get a screen saying `Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again`. Also my custom binary count went up to 2!
This is the first time this has happened to me and it happened at a really bad time of the day. Any help would be appreciated !
Edit : I can`t get into recovery but i can get into download.

So i was able to reinstall TWRP with Odin. But I don`t know hot to get back root since my rom won`t both. I cant restore a nandroid because TWRP can`t mount anything at all. Even when I try to reinstall the rom.

BoostRoid said:
Hey guys I'm in some trouble. I tried to flash a new ROM to my phone and for the first time ever something bad happened. It wouldn't get pass the splash screen. So i entered recovery mode again using TWRP and reflashed everything. Kernal, rom etc...Still nothing. When I tried to reboot out of TWRP it said I didn`t have root. I choose to install it but nothing happened. I tried to use odin to flash but it failed. On the download screen of the phone it said I didn`t have a custom binary installed. Anyways i tried to reboot into recovery after the ODIN fail and now I get a screen saying `Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again`. Also my custom binary count went up to 2!
This is the first time this has happened to me and it happened at a really bad time of the day. Any help would be appreciated !
Edit : I can`t get into recovery but i can get into download.
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The first bootloop you got would have been remedied by doing a factory reset and wiping cache and dalvik.
Odin always raises your binary counter.
Reboot into download and flash a stock rooted Rom with Odin. The Firmware error is common after a bad flash with Odin, just ignore it. You should be fine.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda app-developers app
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KorGuy123 said:
The first bootloop you got would have been remedied by doing a factory reset and wiping cache and dalvik.
Odin always raises your binary counter.
Reboot into download and flash a stock rooted Rom with Odin. The Firmware error is common after a bad flash with Odin, just ignore it. You should be fine.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda app-developers app
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Edit... what Rom did you flash? Some kernels don't agree with some roms. Best to flash Rom and set up kernel later after initial set up.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda app-developers app
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BoostRoid said:
So i was able to reinstall TWRP with Odin. But I don`t know hot to get back root since my rom won`t both. I cant restore a nandroid because TWRP can`t mount anything at all. Even when I try to reinstall the rom.
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Your best bet is to flash stock and re root and start over again.
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Hey thanks man. I somehow got it working again though I erased my sdcard by accident. Oh well. Lesson learned. Thank you.