I've already bricked 1 ET4G and don't wanna do so again(Thx best buy for replacement!)!!! I followed all the steps and warnings! I went back to gingerbread & EL26 recovery! I had flashed many other times without incident, but this time I went to install, it opened package and started update(install) i dont remember which it was then proceeded to sit there for 4 hrs and do nothing! Being a JACKASS(!!!!) figured nothing had really started and started pushing buttons basically! My question is, is there anyway to SAFELY stop or back out of and install if something like that happens again??? Any help greatly appreciated! I don't know if best buy will buy the whole bad OTA BLUE LIGHT SPECIAL again!
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I've already bricked 1 ET4G and don't wanna do so again(Thx best buy for replacement!)!!! I followed all the steps and warnings! I went back to gingerbread & EL26 recovery! I had flashed many other times without incident, but this time I went to install, it opened package and started update(install) i dont remember which it was then proceeded to sit there for 4 hrs and do nothing! Being a JACKASS(!!!!) figured nothing had really started and started pushing buttons basically! My question is, is there anyway to SAFELY stop or back out of and install if something like that happens again??? Any help greatly appreciated! I don't know if best buy will buy the whole bad OTA BLUE LIGHT SPECIAL again!
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Stop doing things you don't understand. Its really that simple.
There is more than enough info available in these forums. This post is so incredibly redundant.
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Your best bet is to power off hard, pull battery, then Odin one click a gb rom in download mode. That's about all anyone can say.
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thx i guess!
I do thank u for the second post at least! I do have a clue what I'm doing thx very much! Like Isaid I've done the reading and did follow the steps! Not new to this just some what new to the phone! Just trying to see if anything I missed that wouldn't directly(pull the battery) brick my phone! Thx for the time though!
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I do thank u for the second post at least! I do have a clue what I'm doing thx very much! Like Isaid I've done the reading and did follow the steps! Not new to this just some what new to the phone! Just trying to see if anything I missed that wouldn't directly(pull the battery) brick my phone! Thx for the time though!
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That has happened to me before too and I did a battery pull. Could not get the phone to boot but I could however get back into download mode and recovery so I just like the previous person said Odin'd back to stock and re rooted. That is what I would do if I were you. Also what recovery were you using when it froze? If it was hitman I would stay away. That is the recovery I was using when I got messed up too.
Like he said, i would stay away from Hoffman and CWM9(TOUCH). Both are buggy. Use cwm7 rogue. Never had a problem with that.
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Hitman sry. Darn Swype lol.
Can you hold down power and volume down within recovery to boot you into download mode without pulling battery?
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No. You can't. Just pop battery. Wait till all the had buttons shut down. Then put in the battery but don't boot up. Now Vol down + power + home into download mode. Press. Vol up. Odin back. (flash again)
If a USB jig doesn't work, ur bricked and should probably stop messing with ur phone til u do some research. Not being a ****, I'm somewhat a noob, but I read OP instructions to the T and if I'm confused I Google, check YouTube, and if I have to post on xda lastly.
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I rooted my phone and somehow messed it up. I took it to sprint but they told me since I have custom roms they wont be able to help me. The guy at the store pointed me this way. He said something about stuck power cycle on splash screen. I need to get back to the original roms. Before this happen the phone was on android 2.2
Thank you soo much
Abdi said:
I rooted my phone and somehow messed it up. I took it to sprint but they told me since I have custom roms they wont be able to help me. The guy at the store pointed me this way. He said something about stuck power cycle on splash screen. I need to get back to the original roms. Before this happen the phone was on android 2.2
Thank you soo much
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Best fix, is to ODIN back to stock and start over. If you flashed a ROM, you could try going into CWM and wiping data/cache/dalvik and reflashing...
Go to Development section and follow the thread near the top in the stickies regarding how to fix a semi bricked epic.
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adamdelozier said:
Best fix, is to ODIN back to stock and start over. If you flashed a ROM, you could try going into CWM and wiping data/cache/dalvik and reflashing...
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How do I do that, will you be able to post a link on how to do that. much appreciated
Abdi said:
How do I do that, will you be able to post a link on how to do that. much appreciated
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Here is the post Kenny was referring to.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
Thank you very much, you guys are the best
How do I get the phone into download mode???
Abdi said:
How do I get the phone into download mode???
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With the phone off, press and hold the 1 key on the physical keyboard then add pressing and holding the power button. Yellow triangle saying download mode will pop up. Then you connect the cable to the PC with Odin or Heimdall running.
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here is what I did
i was coming from Calkulin ROM and decided to go with milestone 5 so i did what the directions said i flashed el26 through odin and when i was doing that the computer died on me (my fault) so i thought it was over, it was time to call in for a new phone but when i took the battery out and went in my recovery and did a restore it was back to normal
so i took my chances and flashed it again this time it worked but i forgot to flash the gaaps so i tried to go back to the recovery i had a stock recovery 3a so i tried flashing el26 through odin mobile and that f***ed everything up now my phone is stuck at the galaxy sII screen with the yellow triangle
so my question is whats best to do? call sprint get a new phone
* i dont want to but a jig might as well get a new phone*
or is there somewhere someone can point me to to fix it
any help will be appreciated thanks.
Are you able to get into download mode by holding power+volume down for a few seconds?
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Can you get it into download mode? If so, hook it up to a PC and use the Odin OC EL26 to see if that will clear it up. (The yellow triangle can be removed with Triangle Away once you get to ICS)
And please don't thank me for this - I've just seen sfhub post the same thing time and time again. If anyone deserves credit it would be him for this post.
yea im in it right now
You got this far so your chances of being hard bricked dropped dramatically. Hope the Odin OC does it for you on the first try.
An ICS rom won't boot with el26 kernel so its normal. Just boot into recovery from the triangle screen, wipe, then reflash the from and gapps
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garwynn said:
You got this far so your chances of being hard bricked dropped dramatically. Hope the Odin OC does it for you on the first try.
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when in OC Odin what do i do its empty and it finds my phone fine but what am i missing?
When in download mode use sfhubs one click restores and you should be up and running again
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Why the topic is possibly bricked (Lol) the lol.shouldn't be there
Epic touch phone of xXHELLBoy91Xx
A30laa said:
when in OC Odin what do i do its empty and it finds my phone fine but what am i missing?
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Once you are in download mode and it finds your phone (a yellow box with a COM port lights up and you'll see "Added!" in the log box) just click Start and wait until the bigger box to the left of the yellow one says "PASS!" If it looks like it's hanging at the Modem, just wait - process takes about 10 minutes regardless if you have a power system or not.
(I'm exaggerating on the time but you'll get the point.)
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Why the topic is possibly bricked (Lol) the lol.shouldn't be there
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Cus this has happened to me about
10 times since messing with androids lol cant be mad if i dont read every little thing like im suppose to
Thanks everybody hes alive again lol so my question is now after flashing el26 to get milestone what kernel should i get then to make sure i dont lose my custom recovery ?
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Hey OP I hope you get it up and running but with all the threads about what to do in every situation if your phone takes a dump... I am not sure why you posted this and scaring more people but ok do you!
Next time try odin , try Google, try JTag, try Sprint and last but not least try your TEP. Those are the true steps to getting another phone or your phone up and running(notice none of the steps say make a new post about bricking). I know to some it may seem like this was useless but for those that get it... well Good luck OP
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Cus this has happened to me about
10 times since messing with androids lol cant be mad if i dont read every little thing like im suppose to
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see you got it up and running ..... LOL enjoy and glad to see you got a sense of humor as well
There is no custom recovery for ICS roms until the source is released.....custom recovery on ICS causes bricks
Ya without the custom recovery you're safest option is going to be to Odin back to EL26 with CWM5 any time you want to switch to something else. It's an extra step but the one pretty much surefire way not to get a brick. And use Calk's Format All instead of doing all the wiping manually.
My Phone all of a sudden restarted and now has a black screen and keeps vibrating. my battery isnt dead and it will boot into the ROM I have flashed for a brief second then reboot itself back into the black screen. It won't even boot into recovery nor will it boot into download mode. PLEASE HELP!!!
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My Phone all of a sudden restarted and now has a black screen and keeps vibrating. my battery isnt dead and it will boot into the ROM I have flashed for a brief second then reboot itself back into the black screen. It won't even boot into recovery nor will it boot into download mode. PLEASE HELP!!!
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So what exactly happened?
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Sounds strange. What exactly did you flash before hand? From/kernel/mods anything.
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Odin you noob. Why do you even waste time with posting such useless garbage? If you can't get back to stock from Odin then post.
I handed my phone to my mother to show her a picture and when she went to hand it to my aunt, my aunt dropped it. I didnt think nothing of it when I locked the screen but when I went to unlock it, my phone restarted and went to a straight black screen and started to vibrate over and over again. I tried to pull the battery and then re-insert it and boot into recovery but when recovery showed up and I went to restore to a previous ROM the phone rebooted itself and started vibrating again. Now I'm at the computer trying to place it into Download Mode. The screen pops up that says to either push Vol + for Download or Vol- for restart. When I press Vol+, the phone restarts and goes straight to a black screen again.
And I'm not a noob, I know what I'm doing my phone just started acting up
And I'm Running the AOKP ROM with Eugene's ICS Kernel with the Tmo_SGH-T989_LC8_Radio
What previous from were you trying to restore?? When you restore a nand back up you have to make sure that the rom you're restoring is the rom that's already installed. In other words if you wanted to restore a back up you would have needed to flash the correct rom before hand. Though I'm confused because if you did try and restore a previous rom say a cm9 back up and you have aokp currently installed it shouldn't work. Cwm will tell you there's a mismatch and it aborts the installation. My guess is this drop did some damage. Your phone isn't making it past post per say of your using pc terms. Can you try and boot back into cwm? You said download mode doesn't work. But does cwm?
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Odin you noob. Why do you even waste time with posting such useless garbage? If you can't get back to stock from Odin then post.
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He mentioned he can't boot into download mode. You didn't even bother to read the whole post before jumping the gun and insulting the guy. You are what's wrong with these forums. Idiot.
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I couldn't even get into cwm at all. But now i was able to get into Download Mode to flash back to Stock ICS using Oden and now Oden won't flash The ICS ROM back to my phone for some reason. Oden does recognize my phone but it won't flash anything
I would buy a USB jig they're cheap on eBay it'll force into download mode so u can restore in odin
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I don't know what I did but thankfully I got it to boot into CWM and I'm restoring my ROM
maybe hardware problems if you dropped it, wasn't bricked, we usually say bricking a phone from bad flash, don't we? lol, i am not sure. try taking off sim card, micro sd card and battery then carefully put them back on next time if you have problems from drops etc........
Got to admit the whole "Brick" wording gets thrown around way too much for my liking and lets be honest if you are not a noob then you know all the steps to take in my opinion to try and restore your phone. If those steps dont work and you have researched the web then let Insurance kick in if you have it.
Not trying to flame or be an ass but just saying any non noob should know the steps to try and bring our phone back from the dead... I dont think starting a "Brick" thread should be on that list... Coming from the epic touch where the ICS kernel was bricking everyone its just makes me cringe when I see that word.... My bad man if you don't care for my opinion
IJS
Have the exact same problem, can't get it into recovery or download mode.
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RushAOZ said:
He mentioned he can't boot into download mode. You didn't even bother to read the whole post before jumping the gun and insulting the guy. You are what's wrong with these forums. Idiot.
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He got as far as ROM so I knew for a fact that he could get to download and/or recovery. Just like he in fact did.
Idiot. Learn more about the phone you hold.
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Play nice. It's fun to read about people's phone situations.
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Here is my 2 cents
Yes people jump the gun and post bricked phone threads but that's probably because they are panicking.. And yes I agree that people should use the search function and read whenever possible.. And yes people should be reminded to do so..
But if you have the time to criticize someone then why don't you try to help them too..
If you have nothing helpful to add then don't post anything
I like my Roms the way I like my women..... Clean and smooth
I had this same problem,when I tried to go in to recovery and do a restore it would reboot its self even while flashing a Rom.what I did was...go in to recovery and quickly clear cache before it reboot then go back and clear dalvik then go back and try to flash the same Rom you had installed. It did work for mange when I was trying to restore.
Hope this helps
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Sounds strange. What exactly did you flash before hand? From/kernel/mods anything.
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Honestly, your the type of person everyone hates on xda.
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so you tried..
1. remove battery.
2. plug in phone to usb on computer with battery STILL OUT
3. while plugged in hold down volume up and down.
4. Still plugged in and still holding the volume up and down, insert your battery.
5. boom choose continue and find download mode.
If this doesn't get you to DL mode then either something broke hardware wise when you dropped it, OR your not being honest with what you did to cause the problem..
Hi all
Ok was playing around with the samsung toolkit and somehow managed to brick my phone as it will only go to the boot screen.
I can only get it to go in to the download screen (Vol down, home, power)
Ive tried this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030&page=3
but when i try even the first step i left it nearly 30 mins and it dosnt seem to do anything
Any help you could give would help me alot
Thanks
avenger79 said:
Hi all
Ok was playing around with the samsung toolkit and somehow managed to brick my phone as it will only go to the boot screen.
I can only get it to go in to the download screen (Vol down, home, power)
Ive tried this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030&page=3
but when i try even the first step i left it nearly 30 mins and it dosnt seem to do anything
Any help you could give would help me alot
Thanks
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Just keep trying to flash via Odin. I had that happen where it just sits there five times in a row. Just gotta keep trying
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elesbb said:
Just keep trying to flash via Odin. I had that happen where it just sits there five times in a row. Just gotta keep trying
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I must have done it 100 times and always seems to hang never seems to get any further, I've gone straight to the rom too and same thing looks like its doing something but nothing how long does it take?
avenger79 said:
I must have done it 100 times and always seems to hang never seems to get any further, I've gone straight to the rom too and same thing looks like its doing something but nothing how long does it take?
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Are you using the file that is stated in the post you referenced? Im no unbricking expert but Not sure putting verizon firmware on a tmo phone works very well...
Also I had a problem with Odin awhile back and it turned out to be the cable I was using...
If you can get into download mode and have odin recognize your phone I believe you will be good to go if you put the correct software on your phone...
Think you should try to Odin back to a stock firmware for your phone instead of using some sort of "unbrick" method... use only one from this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949687
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Not sure putting verizon firmware on a tmo phone works very well...
Also I had a problem with Odin awhile back and it turned out to be the cable I was using...
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Agreed on both accounts.
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From an Odin guide I read, can't remember the one now. I believe it said to use the cable from the wall charger. Other cables may work, but that is the one that should work for some reason no matter what.
Good Luck.
If nothing else works on it, search for mobiletechvideos.com. I flashed I-9300 ROM onto my T-999 phone. Hard bricked it. I sent it to those guys and within 1 week, phone was back and was like it was before I flashed the wrong ROM. Great service they provide. It was also my only option. ha.
Hi, I flashed a custom ROM with CWM.
I have flashed multiple ROMs before with no issues.
However, when I flashed CleanROM ACE for Galaxy Note 2 SGH-i317m, this time it has a boot loop issue.
It shows the samsung logo and it would not proceed.
The most troublesome thing is that I cannot get into download OR recovery mode because it stalls at the Samsung screen..
I would really really appreciate someone's help....
Thanks,
jmapark91 said:
Hi, I flashed a custom ROM with CWM.
I have flashed multiple ROMs before with no issues.
However, when I flashed CleanROM ACE for Galaxy Note 2 SGH-i317m, this time it has a boot loop issue.
It shows the samsung logo and it would not proceed.
The most troublesome thing is that I cannot get into download OR recovery mode because it stalls at the Samsung screen..
I would really really appreciate someone's help....
Thanks,
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Are you on the Canadian carrier? if you are using the CR 4.2 it will go into a bootloop. But scrosler updated it to 4.2.5, which fixes the bootloop.
jmapark91 said:
Hi, I flashed a custom ROM with CWM.
I have flashed multiple ROMs before with no issues.
However, when I flashed CleanROM ACE for Galaxy Note 2 SGH-i317m, this time it has a boot loop issue.
It shows the samsung logo and it would not proceed.
The most troublesome thing is that I cannot get into download OR recovery mode because it stalls at the Samsung screen..
I would really really appreciate someone's help....
Thanks,
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If you can't get it into down mode or recovery. Im not sure it can be brought back to life. Sounds like a hard brick.
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jeremyandroid said:
If you can't get it into down mode or recovery. Im not sure it can be brought back to life. Sounds like a hard brick.
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I really hope it isn't a hardbrick.. especially because I still see the samsung logo, it's just that the phone can't kick itself out of the boot screen..
I am going to try to use a usb jig and see if it'll force my phone into download mode..
Did you pull the battery and then put it back in and hold volume up, home, and tgen power to get ya into recovery? If ya get into recovery factory reset
Your not hardbricked calm down
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tyshemi said:
Did you pull the battery and then put it back in and hold volume up, home, and tgen power to get ya into recovery? If ya get into recovery factory reset
Your not hardbricked calm down
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Thanks for the suggestion, but as I mentioned in the original message, it does not let me get to recovery mode. When I try to get into recovery mode, it stalls at a samsung boot screen.
Same kind of issue with download mode and normal mode
Have you tried that battery pull? Ive been there many many times your not hard bricked . Hardbricked is no sign of life
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Doing the battery pull and before you power on hold proper button combo it forces it into recovery if not theny friend ive never seen that
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Doesn't sound hard bricked. Try multiple times the home button/power/volume up till it comes up. It doesn't always work with mine either. With the S3 you can only hold them down for a few seconds then let go. If you hold them too long it will just reboot the phone again.
Certainly doesn't sound like a boot loop. There's still hope!
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Have you tried that battery pull? Ive been there many many times your not hard bricked . Hardbricked is no sign of life
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Doing the battery pull and before you power on hold proper button combo it forces it into recovery if not theny friend ive never seen that
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Yes I tried doing the battery pull a couple of times. I even tried leaving the battery out for up to an hour, but still no fix.
I always press down on the home button and the volume up key before pressing the power button to avoid the chance of turning on the phone without getting into recovery mode. (same with download mode)
I plan on getting some 300Kohm resistors tomorrow so I can try USB jig, but if there are any other things I can try before then, please let me know.
Thanks!
I think I always push volume up then home then power and when it shows samsung release all and let it do its thing it may have to be in that order
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Exynos I have seen hard brick and still show start up screen. I read an article that about that that after it happen to my freind he still has the ohome and its still like that. The jig may "trick" it into recovery. His issue building from source his firsr rom he had heap so low it wouldnt even boot past screen and not enough heap to get to recovery. You jig may work . Dont leave it in too long . Just my opinion. Im a noob to android lol.
I read that too . No need to go into detail I'm not one to argue. Just keep trying bro I hate it for you. Just keep trying until it gives in good luck. Ill try to find that article again. Cyanogenmod had alot of write ups those exynos are different ball game than your usually hard brick thats the reason I said that in first post. Im not saying they did the write up it just seems like they did. Im no expert though
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tyshemi said:
Have you tried that battery pull? Ive been there many many times your not hard bricked . Hardbricked is no sign of life
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Doing the battery pull and before you power on hold proper button combo it forces it into recovery if not theny friend ive never seen that
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OMG I might have just saved my phone!
Thanks for nailing that thought into my mind tyshemi!
Whenever my phone stalled at the boot screen, I always tried just pressing the power button to reboot, or just take the battery out.
One thing I didn't think of doing was pressing the volume up key, home key and the power button WHEN I already was at the stalled screen!
I managed to get it into download mode and I was able to unbrick the phone via Odin!
Thank you so much tyshemi!!
jmapark91 said:
OMG I might have just saved my phone!
Thanks for nailing that thought into my mind tyshemi!
Whenever my phone stalled at the boot screen, I always tried just pressing the power button to reboot, or just take the battery out.
One thing I didn't think of doing was pressing the volume up key, home key and the power button WHEN I already was at the stalled screen!
I managed to get it into download mode and I was able to unbrick the phone via Odin!
Thank you so much tyshemi!!
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Hey anytime my friend thats what xda is for happy flashing :thumbup:
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Funny, because I flashed the exact same ROM (never downloaded another one), and I flashed it the exact same way as before, the ROM works perfectly now... :S
Yea ive noticed that aroma and some other tweaks throw the phone off a little I use twrp to flash got sick or cwm being inconsistent
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