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[Q] Need a bit of help.

About a month ago I decided I wanted to try out Synergy ROM for my EVO, so I went for God Mode and everything has been running fine...until now. I had installed a kernel earlier this week for underclocking and such, but decided today that I didn't really use it as much as I though so I decided to reflash the HTC stock 4.24. I just did that about 10 minutes ago, I made a backup in case something went wrong and I backed up all my apps/texts as well. It flashed, rebooted...then it got stuck in a boot loop. So I pulled the battery and booted up into the bootloader to go into recovery...when I found every time I hit recovery it would just restart to the bootloader. So I'm not really sure if there is anyway to restore my backup or any other way to boot into recovery. Am I just screwed? Or can I use ADB to boot into recovery/restore my backup? This is sort of my first question post so...If you need any more information just ask.
Thanks,
Suprgamr232

If your phone is still going into bootloops. Connect your phone to your computer and go to adb and type in adb reboot recovery. There you can revert back into a nandroid backup. Hope this helps

Not to be rude, but you didn't read the entire post did you? I can't access my recovery and AFAIK adb doesn't work while it's in a bootloop. Also, I don't think adb recognizes my device when it's in the bootloader either.

Hey im just trying to help, Maybe some how you lost your recovery? Maybe try reflashing your recovery from the bootloader, make sure it named pc36img.zip. See if you can access your recovery after that. What recovery are you using btw, clockworkmod or amon ra? and did you wipe your cache and dalvik cache files through recovery before you flashed your kernel?
If you can access your recovery after reflashing it, Try wiping those in recovery and rebooting, see if it boots into your rom. If not and you still get a boot loop but you can access recovery do a full wipe and reflash your rom or try restoring a nandroid

Not gonna argue with you, so I'll let it slide...I'm using clockworkmod and I did wipe my cache and dalvik cache. ATM I haven't been able to get a hold of a new recovery img for some reason...can never get it to download 100%, will try it soon hopefully.

There's no need to argue Ive heard that clockworkmod doesnt always completely wipe the cache and dalvik maybe try using amon ra this time around http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026
Cant hurt to try it. hope you can get it working for ya, gl

Still stuck in the bootloop. I tried restoring but that didn't help. I tried reinstalling the ROM and the kernel I used before and no change, I don't really want to wipe my phone and try it but...I guess it might turn out that way. Before I do though I was wondering if there is anything else I should try?

suprgamr232 said:
Still stuck in the bootloop. I tried restoring but that didn't help. I tried reinstalling the ROM and the kernel I used before and no change, I don't really want to wipe my phone and try it but...I guess it might turn out that way. Before I do though I was wondering if there is anything else I should try?
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You're gona have to do a full wipe [ factory/data, cache, and dalvik ] , reflash your rom, kernel, ect. Once you sign in, boot, ect, you can use titanium backup to restore your apps and data, NOT system settings.

Alrighty then. Did that and everything seems to be working fine...A little disappointed but as long as I have my phone! Thanks for your help!

suprgamr232 said:
Alrighty then. Did that and everything seems to be working fine...A little disappointed but as long as I have my phone! Thanks for your help!
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Glad its working again.

What could be causing bootloops on AT&T SGS3?

Hello,
I am from the i9300 forum. My GF has a SGH-i747. When she updated it to official Jelly bean using Kies, all seemed to go well but then when she booted up to her home screen the phone would reboot. It would continuously do this over and over again.
So we had to use KIES to do a complete format of the phone and reboot it. This deleted everything and made it factory brand new again. This is that option where you have to type in your serial number into kies to do the emergency firmware recovery.
Well a few months went by and today while my GF was using her phone it froze and rebooted. It is now stuck in the bootloop. I don't understand why this is happening. She doesn't have the phone rooted nor has she flashed anything on it. I'm not familiar with the SGH-i747 so I'm not sure if this is a common bug that has been addressed for fixed.
Please help, my GF needs her phone for work and she's a few miles away from me. Any help or advice would be appreciated.

SlimJ87D said:
Hello,
I am from the i9300 forum. My GF has a SGH-i747. When she updated it to official Jelly bean using Kies, all seemed to go well but then when she booted up to her home screen the phone would reboot. It would continuously do this over and over again.
So we had to use KIES to do a complete format of the phone and reboot it. This deleted everything and made it factory brand new again. This is that option where you have to type in your serial number into kies to do the emergency firmware recovery.
Well a few months went by and today while my GF was using her phone it froze and rebooted. It is now stuck in the bootloop. I don't understand why this is happening. She doesn't have the phone rooted nor has she flashed anything on it. I'm not familiar with the SGH-i747 so I'm not sure if this is a common bug that has been addressed for fixed.
Please help, my GF needs her phone for work and she's a few miles away from me. Any help or advice would be appreciated.
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Might've to get in recovery (hold vol up+home+power), clear cache, reboot.
If that doesn't work, back in recovery and factory reset, then reboot.

BWolf56 said:
Might've to get in recovery (hold vol up+home+power), clear cache, reboot.
If that doesn't work, back in recovery and factory reset, then reboot.
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Yeah, I tried all that. I managed to back up her data so maybe we can restore her apps and information later. But this is similar to last time. I had her factory reset it, wipe cache, wipe dalvick, format system and format data.
We then followed by restoring her backup but the problem still persist. I might need to flash the stock ROM.
Could Fix Permissions fix the problem? It seems that the phone boots up to the home screen. While loading files, something at this point is causing it to bootloop. It will freeze after a few seconds and then reboot and repeat the problem.
Something is definitely conflicting within the first 30 seconds of booting up to the home screen. Any ideas?

SlimJ87D said:
Yeah, I tried all that. I managed to back up her data so maybe we can restore her apps and information later. But this is similar to last time. I had her factory reset it, wipe cache, wipe dalvick, format system and format data.
We then followed by restoring her backup but the problem still persist. I might need to flash the stock ROM.
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Debloated stock ROM might be a good idea. When restoring, you might be bringing the problem right back. It should be very minimal (the needed stuff that you can't simply re-download or re-setup) to avoid issues coming back.

BWolf56 said:
Debloated stock ROM might be a good idea. When restoring, you might be bringing the problem right back. It should be very minimal (the needed stuff that you can't simply re-download or re-setup) to avoid issues coming back.
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I edited my post above about fixing permissions.
But this is very similar to what happen last time. I had wiped factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvick, format data and system, installed fresh new ROM and that boot looped too.
It took KIES emergency firmware recovery (where you have to type in your serial number) to fix the problem, but everything was deleted even the internal SD card.

SlimJ87D said:
I edited my post above about fixing permissions.
But this is very similar to what happen last time. I had wiped factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvick, format data and system, installed fresh new ROM and that boot looped too.
It took KIES emergency firmware recovery (where you have to type in your serial number) to fix the problem, but everything was deleted even the internal SD card.
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I doubt fixing permissions will change much but could try it.
From the way you describe it, it sounds like a app or some bad data. Is she using a external SD? If so, try booting without it. If not, my guess is that there's a rogue app or something corrupted her data.

BWolf56 said:
I doubt fixing permissions will change much but could try it.
From the way you describe it, it sounds like a app or some bad data. Is she using a external SD? If so, try booting without it. If not, my guess is that there's a rogue app or something corrupted her data.
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Thanks. Yes she's using an external SD card. I will have to get a hold of her phone and see what's going on. The first time it happened was because we upgraded to Jellybean. it happened right after so I don't think it was a rogue app. This time she just pulled her phone out of her purse and noticed it boot looping. Something sounds wrong with her phone... I think we might need to send it back for warranty repair.

Okay I need help. I have discovered the problem and it is the SUPERUSER app. When Superuser was updated it caused my GFs phone a boot loop.
Now that I put fresh rom and cleared everything her phone was working. But the moment I rooted the phone itboddly didn't come with SU, so upon installing SU nothing could access SU for some odd reason. So I found out you need a SU for Jelly Bean, upon installing this version of SU is when everything went to he'll and the same boot loop came back.
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SlimJ87D said:
Okay I need help. I have discovered the problem and it is the SUPERUSER app. When Superuser was updated it caused my GFs phone a boot loop.
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What rooting method did you use to root your girlfriend's phone?
If I'm not wrong, most of the rooting method -- if not all -- for the SGH-i747 involve the SuperSU app instead of the Superuser app. And I believe most of the custom ROM, if you switched ROM, come with SuperSU pre-installed. If you try to install Superuser (without removing SuperSU), might that be the cause of your trouble?

Alexandre-P said:
What rooting method did you use to root your girlfriend's phone?
If I'm not wrong, most of the rooting method -- if not all -- for the SGH-i747 involve the SuperSU app instead of the Superuser app. And I believe most of the custom ROM, if you switched ROM, come with SuperSU pre-installed. If you try to install Superuser (without removing SuperSU), might that be the cause of your trouble?
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Perhaps, I will try and fix the problem again. We just got back from a movie. Thank you.

if everything doesn't work
here's what you should do
first go look for AT&T 4.1.1 stock rom
download ODIN
go to recovery by vol up + power + home
clear cache, data and dalvik
flash stock rom thru odin.
that should fix soft brick

[Q] Stuck at LG screen

I acidentaly formated data, so I had to LGNSPT to stock jellybean. I re-rooted and unlocked the bootloader. Later I decided I wanted to flash the venum rom so I booted into TWRP and I wiped both cache and dalvik-cache and factory rested by mistake because I wanted to make a backup. So when the wipe finished I did. I backed up the boot and system. Then I formated system and flashed the rom. Everything went smoothly, so I rebooted the phone and got stuck at the LG screen. I thought it was a bad flash, butI re-did the process multiple times. I did a restore which was the boot and system and that didn't work. While I was running out of options I just decided to reboot the recovery and it said I have to fix permissions for root and I thought that was the problem so I tried again. But it didn't workand everytime I tried I reboot the recovery it said I had to fix permissions over and over again. Is there a way I can fix this without a computer? Plz help.
If I have no other way of fixing the problem without a pc then tell me how I can fix my phone with one plz

Cjay1518 said:
I acidentaly formated data, so I had to LGNSPT to stock jellybean. I re-rooted and unlocked the bootloader. Later I decided I wanted to flash the venum rom so I booted into TWRP and I wiped both cache and dalvik-cache and factory rested by mistake because I wanted to make a backup. So when the wipe finished I did. I backed up the boot and system. Then I formated system and flashed the rom. Everything went smoothly, so I rebooted the phone and got stuck at the LG screen. I thought it was a bad flash, butI re-did the process multiple times. I did a restore which was the boot and system and that didn't work. While I was running out of options I just decided to reboot the recovery and it said I have to fix permissions for root and I thought that was the problem so I tried again. But it didn't workand everytime I tried I reboot the recovery it said I had to fix permissions over and over again. Is there a way I can fix this without a computer? Plz help.
If I have no other way of fixing the problem without a pc then tell me how I can fix my phone with one plz
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LGNPST ZVB or teeny bins. Factory reset shouldn't wipe data.
Edit. My brain cramp. Without computer try another backup. Or., factory reset, then in advanced, tick all 4. Then do your restore.
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format data
engine95 said:
LGNPST ZVB or teeny bins. Factory reset shouldn't wipe data.
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I know I actually hit the option "format data" and wiped out my entire internal storage.

Cjay1518 said:
I know I actually hit the option "format data" and wiped out my entire internal storage.
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Well... if you wiped /system and had already formatted /data, i don't think you can get it to boot without a computer. I didn't see /recovery listed in your restore and i think might be the issue.
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If you still have Twrp, try reflashing it. 2.6.0.0 just came out and octhrope made a flashable zip for it in the TWRP thread.
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I just had a similar problem but for a different reason. My rooted and unlocked started acting funny by asking me to turn on GPS when it was already on. I rebooted and got the LG screen, never, never to get better. Sprint couldn't do anything so I got a new phone. I suspect it may be a battery issue, or a power issue where the handset does not have enough power to power up. I paid $50 for Sprint to fix my first one since I did not carry insurance. Might try working something similar.

[Q] "gapps stopped" loop after CWM restore

Hi,
I was frustrated with the delay in T-Mobile's release of KitKat for the GSIII, so I decided to root my phone last night in order to try flashing CM11 on it. Rooted my phone with Towelroot, installed ROM Manager and CWM, and created backups on Kies and through CWM. Then I proceeded to do data wipe/factory reset, cache wipe, and /system format. Tried to flash CM11, but got a status 7 error.
I freaked out, so I decided to restore everything from the backup I'd created. Restoration seemed like a success, but now I get the error "Unfortunately, the process com.google.process.gapps has stopped" in an endless loop, and it prevents me and any apps from doing anything. I tried clearing dalvik cache in recovery, but the problem still persists. Read on a few threads that I should flash to stock firmware via Odin, but I'm currently on a macbook, so I can't install it.
tl;dr - Prepped to flash CM11, reached status 7 error, got freaked out, and did restore via CWM, only to get infinite loop of gapp crashes. No access to Odin or PC. Not hard bricked or soft bricked, but essentially useless phone. Help? );

if you can still get to recovery, download latest gapps and flash that

Did you factory reset before or after you restored your back up?

Yeah, I've tried flashing gapps--no avail.
And yeah, I did factory reset/data wipe, cache wipe, /system format 3x each before attempting to restore. Was that wrong? /:

Try to factory reset again

vvnn said:
Yeah, I've tried flashing gapps--no avail.
And yeah, I did factory reset/data wipe, cache wipe, /system format 3x each before attempting to restore. Was that wrong? /:
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If I'm not mistaken, there is some device ID that will change each time you flash a new rom. It may be something to do with this ID not matching the one in the restored data. Purely a guess but seems logical to me.
Anyway, factory resetting will most likely solve this for you, but I wanted to add that except in certain circumstances, you shouldn't ever manually format /system. (and one format on any partition is sufficient. There shouldn't be any need to format multiple times). If you format /system, you are wiping the O/S off of your device. Then what happens if you have problems flashing a rom, or firmware? I've seen it happen many times and I often end up spending a couple of days working with them just to get the thing to boot up again!
When you flash a rom, the first thing it does is format /system. So there is just no need to do this manually. At least if the rom fails to flash (such as failing the assert checks), youll still have something to boot into. Hope this helps in the future!

I have had the exact same issue. I have a Samsung note 2 N7105. I rooted made a backup in CWM and flashed ditto n3/s5 rom made another backup in CWM. No issues. Got a bit cocky seen as it was my first time doing anything like that. My next adventure was to try a custom kernel (agni). This didn't go so well, so I tried to do a restorw to my working backup of ditto n3/s5 rom through CMW. restore went smoothly and the phone booted. once I opened the lock screen I got the gapps error as described. I had to do a factory reset to get the phone working and then re-flashed ditto n3/s3. I've since flashed other roms and when ever I try to do a restore, I get the issue described. Note I am using the latest CWM. I putting off flashing and trying any other ROMs because of this issue. I do love dn3/s5 but id love to try others. Anyone can help it would be appreciate.

No service after root

I have a galaxy s3 SPH-L710 from Virgin mobile and have flashed a Cyanogen mod nightly(cm-11-20140916-SNAPSHOT-M10-d2lte.decryptedKLR_) by installing its zip after wiping data,cache through CWM recovery i had no connection whatsoever so I restored my backup and gave it another try to no avail. I have tried this several times with different Roms but I have had the same problem. Now I am unable to restore my backup, and my system file now has very little space left in it. I assume I'm doing something wrong in my flashing, and need delete some of my previous flashes, but i don't know either of these, any hep would be wonderful, I'm at the end of my patience and am nearly ready to just scrap it.
Thank you for anything you can do

Instead of restoring from a backup, have you tried to do a full restore from a full wipe tar?
If you know how to use Odin, download this HERE and update PRL and Profile

sparthens said:
I have a galaxy s3 SPH-L710 from Virgin mobile and have flashed a Cyanogen mod nightly(cm-11-20140916-SNAPSHOT-M10-d2lte.decryptedKLR_) by installing its zip after wiping data,cache through CWM recovery i had no connection whatsoever so I restored my backup and gave it another try to no avail. I have tried this several times with different Roms but I have had the same problem. Now I am unable to restore my backup, and my system file now has very little space left in it. I assume I'm doing something wrong in my flashing, and need delete some of my previous flashes, but i don't know either of these, any hep would be wonderful, I'm at the end of my patience and am nearly ready to just scrap it.
Thank you for anything you can do
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Not sure if cwm can do this (I use twrp), but every time I flash a new ROM I wipe system, cache, and data, not just data and cache.