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[Q] CWM recovery Incomplete phone restarts

Hello all, my First post so please bear with me, Been using these forums for quite a while and all answers have been allready given, so no need to post... till now.
I have a Samsung Galaxy s3 i747 running android 4.1.2 OTA update and used CF-Autoroot. No problems there,
installed Rom manager, and cwm recovery touch. no problem
When I restart in recovery mode, also everything seems fine...
When I try to backup the phone however using cwm recovery it starts backing up everything including system but the just as it starts data the phone restarts.
Tried reinstalling cwm over and over different versions.. nada same result..
went into the settings to mount the various options as suggested to another user. same problem nada...
To be completely clear, I am trying to make a backup of my stock / rooted only Galaxy s3 i747 onto it's own storage NOT SDcard.
as I also could not figure that out either.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. -Erdericks1976
Sorry about misleading Subject. This is about making my first backup successfully..

Followup.
Well seems there are/were more problems here than I thought, it has begun randomly? restarting,..
Well. not Ramdomly. Whem specific apps are run it would restart.
I did a titanium backup and it would backup alot of the apps. but them would restart the phone when it got to 1 specific app.
I think I figured out what I did wrong here.
I have a Galaxy Note 2, and I may have flashed something from it by mistake......
so I have restarted my Gs3 From scratch Re-Following all instructions.. waiting to test and see if CWM works to back it up now..
It sure was faster with the Note2 rooted Kernel though. (if that was in fact what happend)
I'll update soon as its done..

Followup 2
Yep. that musta been it. Used the correct stock (rooted) Rom
OTA updated from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2, then used CF auto root to Re-root, then reinstalled SU and CWM and Backing up now.
Just passed the Data section the phone would always restart at...

Erdericks1976 said:
Yep. that musta been it. Used the correct stock (rooted) Rom
OTA updated from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2, then used CF auto root to Re-root, then reinstalled SU and CWM and Backing up now.
Just passed the Data section the phone would always restart at...
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good for you, yu got it solved fast and easier than expected, XDA is your place for Android and root but also every kind of OS there is
anywz am not that old in XDA i joined in April and officially started rooting and modifying my phone since May and it has been great, bricked my phone 1st time but all in all i got the S3 in case for the loss. yu'll get used to this place and ROOT/custom roms

[Q] Phone came unrooted

I was experiencing a lot of issues within the last few days so I decided to wipe my phone and reinstall the rom. I've been on the 7/11 build of CM 10.1 since it came out. The phone has been a little wonky lately out of the and wouldn't reboot or go into recovery. I managed to get into Recovery through the ROM Manager app. The power button seemed to be a little touchy. I did a factory reset and wiped the cache. Before I could do anything further it rebooted and brought me into the Rom fresh, making me log into my google account and set up the phone from the start.
The issue now is that the phone is not showing as being rooted anymore. Is there something I can do to get root back from this point? Do I just go back into Odin and root as if I’m doing it for the first time? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jaypcarlson said:
I was experiencing a lot of issues within the last few days so I decided to wipe my phone and reinstall the rom. I've been on the 7/11 build of CM 10.1 since it came out. The phone has been a little wonky lately out of the and wouldn't reboot or go into recovery. I managed to get into Recovery through the ROM Manager app. The power button seemed to be a little touchy. I did a factory reset and wiped the cache. Before I could do anything further it rebooted and brought me into the Rom fresh, making me log into my google account and set up the phone from the start.
The issue now is that the phone is not showing as being rooted anymore. Is there something I can do to get root back from this point? Do I just go back into Odin and root as if I’m doing it for the first time? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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not sure how you could lose root on CM 10.1 but you could use odin to flash back to stock and start over, or you can just flash the .tar file for the 2.6.1.0 TWRP recovery in odin and that will root your phone with out having to go all the way back to stock.
Heres the link for TWRP 2.6.1.0 http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/hercules/openrecovery-twrp-2.6.1.0-hercules.tar

hey i had the same thing happen to two t989's that i own, one i had flashed the newest chameleon os on it, the other I had revolt.Basically I tried numerous ways to fix it, even downloading and flashing superuser zip again. thing is, I still had access to custom recovery, but no root. Nothing worked, I ended up finding out that the super user program was the issue. Try downloading this one, from this link, and flashing thru the recovery, it will work. No need to reflash anything else.
http://download.chainfire.eu/351/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.65.zip

Go on dev options and set root access to apps and adb

[Q] sprint gs3 wont boot into twrp

What's up guys!
Using ROM installer I flashed vanir 4.4 along with 4.4 gapps on my sprint gs3 sph l710. I wiped the cache and it looked as if it were installing fine but winded up getting stuck in boot loop mode instead. Now when I try to boot into recovery the twrp screen flashes and then it goes straight into bootlop mode from there. Now i cant acsess any of my backups. I can get into down load mode but unfortunately my computers messed up right now. I can't hit the run button on Odin because the screen is too big. I know it sucks!!! Does anyone know some tricks I can use or have any recommendations. Your help would be greatly appreciated! BTW.. I was running illusion 4.3 when this happened.

ddray said:
What's up guys!
Using ROM installer I flashed vanir 4.4 along with 4.4 gapps on my sprint gs3 sph l710. I wiped the cache and it looked as if it were installing fine but winded up getting stuck in boot loop mode instead. Now when I try to boot into recovery the twrp screen flashes and then it goes straight into bootlop mode from there. Now i cant acsess any of my backups. I can get into down load mode but unfortunately my computers messed up right now. I can't hit the run button on Odin because the screen is too big. I know it sucks!!! Does anyone know some tricks I can use or have any recommendations. Your help would be greatly appreciated! BTW.. I was running illusion 4.3 when this happened.
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Can you try using this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746680
Maybe that'll work, you can use it to return to stock, and if anything I would recommend going back to stock before doing anything else. Also, it may not be the consensus of the site here but in my own opinion, I don't like using rom installer or goo manager or anything. I like doing it all myself in recovery. I've heard one too many stories of people getting hardbricked because their rom installer or whatever downloaded the international version of the rom they wanted :/ always best to check your own md5 checksums and make sure you're downloading the rom for your phone from your phone's forum.
As for the exact reason your phone did that? I couldn't tell you, maybe with a little more info someone more knowledgeable here could tell you

So i got my computer fixed. I havent tried the tool kit in the thread you recommeded. I decided first to use a stock file i have on odin first that has saved me from softbricks in the past. I set everything up hit start, watched the process complete with the pass. Now it shows the stock boot animation but still stuck in bootloop mode. I put it into recovery,which is now stock instead of twrp, wiped cache, davlik cache and factory reset then i reconnected to odin and reflashed the stock file. Still stuck in bootloop mode!!!! Plain reboot and same thing :/ so for the hell of it, i wanted to see if i can to my backups by restoring twrp. So i flashed my cf auto root and then flashed my twrp file and bam!!!! Twrp was full functioning with all my backups!!! :laugh: next i restored my latest illusion 4.3 rom and wala! Ive got a fully functioning rooted phone with a custom rom. I flipped through everything to make sure it looks good and it does. Except.... any photos and music that are saved to phone and not sd card are gone I dont understand, everthing else is backed. Contacts, call logs, messages, text messages, apps, customised settings etc...I even flashed my carbon rom that had the same music and pics. When i open gallery it shows the photo count in snapseed and others im looking for but then they all start dissapearing!!! i also dont understand why the stock file which has saved me from softbricks before didnt work. I dont know anything about checking md 5 checksums but if its worth the time ill do my research! Im happy i got my phone working but i would like to be more solid in what im doing. Maybe someone can help shed some light on this.

soft bricked...i think? please help

I have a sprint galaxy note 2 lte 4g. I needed to get it to work for pageplus, so i did everything needed and got it working. I decided to try and install a new rom so i could get rid of the sprint activation screen. So i downloaded the rom and cleared cache and reset in recovery mode. Now I am stuck on the bootscreen. I tried about 15 different roms and they are all the same. Either i have a bootloop or it just sits at the bootscreen. I was told from a friend that i am probably installing roms for the wrong build, but i dont know my build. I didnt do a back up( i know that was stupid of me). So all i know is that my phone is Sph-L900 because that is what it says under the battery. If any one could help me i really would appreciate it. Like i said i tried so many roms and they installed fine via recovery but wont go to homescreen, i already searched for hours on this and nothing is working. thank you ahead of time to everyone

Try odin/kies
soleil0524 said:
I have a sprint galaxy note 2 lte 4g. I needed to get it to work for pageplus, so i did everything needed and got it working. I decided to try and install a new rom so i could get rid of the sprint activation screen. So i downloaded the rom and cleared cache and reset in recovery mode. Now I am stuck on the bootscreen. I tried about 15 different roms and they are all the same. Either i have a bootloop or it just sits at the bootscreen. I was told from a friend that i am probably installing roms for the wrong build, but i dont know my build. I didnt do a back up( i know that was stupid of me). So all i know is that my phone is Sph-L900 because that is what it says under the battery. If any one could help me i really would appreciate it. Like i said i tried so many roms and they installed fine via recovery but wont go to homescreen, i already searched for hours on this and nothing is working. thank you ahead of time to everyone
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You could try Odin as described here:
http://galaxynote2root.com/galaxy-n...ootunbrick-galaxy-note-2-with-stock-firmware/
The files to flash with odin can be found here: http://www.sammobile.com/
You could try Samsungs kies emergency recovery as described here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2261153
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/faq/FAQ00059169/81100
Both work from download mode and will use official samsung firmware, so you lose both root and your custom recovery.

Tried rooting S3, didn't work, need help.

I am very new at this, so I apologize in advance. I have the Virgin Mobile Galaxy S3 SPH-L710 running 4.3.
I simply wanted to root it so i could get rid of the bloatware and install Sixaxis and play emulators, but I didn't really know where to start, so I started looking around and found this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2546505
So I basically did everything on there. I used Odin to install PhilZ Touch 6 Recovery (CWM 6.0.4.7) Did factory reset, wiped cache/dalvik. then installed the Odexed MK5 stock rooted zip, wifi fix zip, SuperSU update zip, and then the knox app remover zip.
Everything flashed just fine and it started right up. It had the Super Su app, but when I tried to install apps that need root permission it would say I don't have root access. I couldn't delete bloat apps and Super Su didn't show any apps and there isn't much I can do with it. So I guess it didn't work? Either way I wanted to try a different rom. Was gonna give Cyanogenmod a try. But every time I try to install it I get the little "Android bot laying on his back" thing and it says status 7. I tried to flash CM10, CM10.1, CM10.2, CM11. Nothing worked, same thing every time. Even tried different SD cards just in case of a mess up.
The phone itself works fine for now, calls and text work, wifi works. And it says there is an update, but when i hit accept, it reboots to recovery mode, does the "android fallen over" then boots back up.
Now here is my stupid part, I didn't backup the original cause the guide didn't say to. (Not blaming them, i should have know better) So I am assuming I have a messed up version of 4.3 and Cyanogenmod doesn't know what to do with me. I'm not sure. Here is where I am stumped and I have no idea where to go from here.
I posted this by accident in the wrong forum here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help/tried-rooting-s3-didnt-help-t2879278
But someone decided to help me anyways (thank you so much). They said all i need to do is update my recovery. so I went here
https://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/d2lte/
And now I am running PhilZ 6.48.4, but I am still getting status 7 when I try to install CM11. I have tried CM10, CM10.1, CM10.2 and CM10.2.1 as well. I have been at this for days and i am going crazy because nothing I do seems to work. Does anyone have any idea what is wrong with my phone? Thank you so much in advance.

Mumonk said:
I am very new at this, so I apologize in advance. I have the Virgin Mobile Galaxy S3 SPH-L710 running 4.3.
I simply wanted to root it so i could get rid of the bloatware and install Sixaxis and play emulators, but I didn't really know where to start, so I started looking around and found this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2546505
So I basically did everything on there. I used Odin to install PhilZ Touch 6 Recovery (CWM 6.0.4.7) Did factory reset, wiped cache/dalvik. then installed the Odexed MK5 stock rooted zip, wifi fix zip, SuperSU update zip, and then the knox app remover zip.
Everything flashed just fine and it started right up. It had the Super Su app, but when I tried to install apps that need root permission it would say I don't have root access. I couldn't delete bloat apps and Super Su didn't show any apps and there isn't much I can do with it. So I guess it didn't work? Either way I wanted to try a different rom. Was gonna give Cyanogenmod a try. But every time I try to install it I get the little "Android bot laying on his back" thing and it says status 7. I tried to flash CM10, CM10.1, CM10.2, CM11. Nothing worked, same thing every time. Even tried different SD cards just in case of a mess up.
The phone itself works fine for now, calls and text work, wifi works. And it says there is an update, but when i hit accept, it reboots to recovery mode, does the "android fallen over" then boots back up.
Now here is my stupid part, I didn't backup the original cause the guide didn't say to. (Not blaming them, i should have know better) So I am assuming I have a messed up version of 4.3 and Cyanogenmod doesn't know what to do with me. I'm not sure. Here is where I am stumped and I have no idea where to go from here.
I posted this by accident in the wrong forum here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help/tried-rooting-s3-didnt-help-t2879278
But someone decided to help me anyways (thank you so much). They said all i need to do is update my recovery. so I went here
https://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/d2lte/
And now I am running PhilZ 6.48.4, but I am still getting status 7 when I try to install CM11. I have tried CM10, CM10.1, CM10.2 and CM10.2.1 as well. I have been at this for days and i am going crazy because nothing I do seems to work. Does anyone have any idea what is wrong with my phone? Thank you so much in advance.
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only thing i can think of Is Odin the stock rom and start all over with trying to root......

I don't know how to explain it, but now everything is working perfectly....
I went back to the first site I posted about, Redownloaded everything, did the whole thing over, and root worked just fine. So I thought I would try my luck with CM11 and BOOM, working perfectly.
I have been tearing my hair out trying to get this to work for days and days and now, poof, it's all working. I dunno how, but I will take it. Thanks for the advice in both threads.

Mumonk said:
I don't know how to explain it, but now everything is working perfectly....
I went back to the first site I posted about, Redownloaded everything, did the whole thing over, and root worked just fine. So I thought I would try my luck with CM11 and BOOM, working perfectly.
I have been tearing my hair out trying to get this to work for days and days and now, poof, it's all working. I dunno how, but I will take it. Thanks for the advice in both threads.
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Get towelroot, is an apk that root your phone with one click, after that just download your favorite super user from the market and done.