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Stuck at bootscreen, can't enter CWM

I'm experiencing some issues. I flashed a bad rom and now I'm stuck at boot screen (google logo). I can enter fastboot, but I can't get into CWM. I've tried the nexus toolkit, but the ADB drivers won't function.
What do I do next?

Hope I haven't bricked my phone...

If you can enter fast boot then your phone is not bricked. Read up on how the flash the stock Google image using fast boot. You will loose all you data but you will have a working phone again.
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Ok, the problem is that suddenly my computer won't see the phone as an ADB device. I've tried every usb driver I can find. I've tried the PDAnet, but I won't install properly when I can't enter the rom and tick the usb debugging mode.

killbox said:
Ok, the problem is that suddenly my computer won't see the phone as an ADB device. I've tried every usb driver I can find. I've tried the PDAnet, but I won't install properly when I can't enter the rom and tick the usb debugging mode.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626895

I managed to get into CWM
What I'm actually trying to do is to restore a cwm backup I made before I sent my device to repair the usb port.
So far I've figured out that you must be using a ICS rom to be able to restore a ICS backup right?

killbox said:
I managed to get into CWM
What I'm actually trying to do is to restore a cwm backup I made before I sent my device to repair the usb port.
So far I've figured out that you must be using a ICS rom to be able to restore a ICS backup right?
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Not necessarily but you will need to format/wipe data if restoring a different OS version.
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Ok, will I loose everything on SD card then? included cwm backups?

killbox said:
Ok, will I loose everything on SD card then? included cwm backups?
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Nah only app+data. Your "SD Card" will be fine.

Ok, tried that.
I get:
Error while restoring /system!
I'm not quite sure, but I think the rom I'm trying to restore is ARHD 4.1.0, while the one I have now is ARHD 6.1.0

killbox said:
Ok, tried that.
I get:
Error while restoring /system!
I'm not quite sure, but I think the rom I'm trying to restore is ARHD 4.1.0, while the one I have now is ARHD 6.1.0
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Did you ever figure out how to fix this??
I just ran into a similar dilemma and have yet to fix it.
On my Verizon Galaxy Nexus, I had Vicious Jellybean V.5
Starting acting up.
Made a backup using CW.
Went to recovery.
Wiped the device for a clean install.
Then went to use the toolkit and the drivers wont install properly..
FML.
I can boot into FASTBOOT, CWM recovery, and ODIN. But Google logo is as far as it gets when I try to get into android..
I'm using the latest version of Galaxy Nexus Toolkit V.7.8
Any way to flash using Odin?? Way back when, there was something like odin that I used for my Droid X.. Does that exist?
PLEASE HELP :\

mikeright25 said:
Did you ever figure out how to fix this??
I just ran into a similar dilemma and have yet to fix it.
On my Verizon Galaxy Nexus, I had Vicious Jellybean V.5
Starting acting up.
Made a backup using CW.
Went to recovery.
Wiped the device for a clean install.
Then went to use the toolkit and the drivers wont install properly..
FML.
I can boot into FASTBOOT, CWM recovery, and ODIN. But Google logo is as far as it gets when I try to get into android..
I'm using the latest version of Galaxy Nexus Toolkit V.7.8
Any way to flash using Odin?? Way back when, there was something like odin that I used for my Droid X.. Does that exist?
PLEASE HELP :\
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If you can boot into recovery you can just flash a ROM onto your phone. If for some reason you don't have one then just boot to recovery, go to mounts and storage, mount the SD card, then you should be able to put a ROM on there and flash it.
For future reference I would personally stay away from the toolkit. It's convenient but there isn't really a substitute for knowing how to do everything yourself =]
If you need more help feel free to PM me!

foxehkins said:
If you can boot into recovery you can just flash a ROM onto your phone. If for some reason you don't have one then just boot to recovery, go to mounts and storage, mount the SD card, then you should be able to put a ROM on there and flash it.
For future reference I would personally stay away from the toolkit. It's convenient but there isn't really a substitute for knowing how to do everything yourself =]
If you need more help feel free to PM me!
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Hey,
Thanks so much for the quick response! Unfortunately, the biggest problem lies in the fact that I am unable to push anything to CWM recovery because my computer wont install the driver properly and I've been trying to figure out a way to do that or push a file to the phone for 6 hrs now
When I did a factory reset and wiped cache it actually deleted the backup that I made and everything else..
So I need to find a way to get a zip file on to the phone to flash or figure out how to get this driver working. Maybe a different computer.. Ugh.
I've been looking into ODIN and such, But this is so frustrating. Can't believe I made such a rookie mistake.
-Mike

mikeright25 said:
Did you ever figure out how to fix this??
I just ran into a similar dilemma and have yet to fix it.
On my Verizon Galaxy Nexus, I had Vicious Jellybean V.5
Starting acting up.
Made a backup using CW.
Went to recovery.
Wiped the device for a clean install.
Then went to use the toolkit and the drivers wont install properly..
FML.
I can boot into FASTBOOT, CWM recovery, and ODIN. But Google logo is as far as it gets when I try to get into android..
I'm using the latest version of Galaxy Nexus Toolkit V.7.8
Any way to flash using Odin?? Way back when, there was something like odin that I used for my Droid X.. Does that exist?
PLEASE HELP :\
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If you can go to CWM, AND you have fastboot and adb files, you can always push one of the ROM to sdcard via "adb push ROM_NAME.zip /sdcard/"
If you don't have adb and fastboot files, just google them. It wouldn't be hard to find

mikeright25 said:
Hey,
Thanks so much for the quick response! Unfortunately, the biggest problem lies in the fact that I am unable to push anything to CWM recovery because my computer wont install the driver properly and I've been trying to figure out a way to do that or push a file to the phone for 6 hrs now
When I did a factory reset and wiped cache it actually deleted the backup that I made and everything else..
So I need to find a way to get a zip file on to the phone to flash or figure out how to get this driver working. Maybe a different computer.. Ugh.
I've been looking into ODIN and such, But this is so frustrating. Can't believe I made such a rookie mistake.
-Mike
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Did your computer recognize the device before? If so then you shouldn't need to reinstall the drivers. PM me and I can try to wlk you through it over gtalk or something.
---------- Post added at 04:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:58 PM ----------
The drivers can also be found here. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15110285/FYA Files/GNexus-root-package-FYA.zip

Have you tried downloading the drivers again?
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Change operating systems..
Just uninstall all drivers, reboot, feed it the same driver again.

bk201doesntexist said:
Change operating systems..
Just uninstall all drivers, reboot, feed it the same driver again.
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Thanks guys for the ideas
But, yes my computer used to recognize the Nexus just fine.
Now, tried all usb ports didn't work, and trying it in my old computer (with the 32bit version of win7 instead of x64) gave a pnpui.dll error (which I'm going to assume means plug n play user interface error).
The first kind of fresh idea is using ADB commands [good thought], but I haven't used those since I first got it, when the nexus was released.
And I believe, in that case the drivers will still need to be recognized..Right?
I'm going to try going through the precise steps in the WugToolkit for installing the drivers, but I have a feeling that something that affects the drivers may have been wiped when I did the whole factory reset/cache wipe (to an already corrupt version of jellybean)
Any other ideas guys?

mikeright25 said:
Thanks guys for the ideas
But, yes my computer used to recognize the Nexus just fine.
Now, tried all usb ports didn't work, and trying it in my old computer (with the 32bit version of win7 instead of x64) gave a pnpui.dll error (which I'm going to assume means plug n play user interface error).
The first kind of fresh idea is using ADB commands [good thought], but I haven't used those since I first got it, when the nexus was released.
And I believe, in that case the drivers will still need to be recognized..Right?
I'm going to try going through the precise steps in the WugToolkit for installing the drivers, but I have a feeling that something that affects the drivers may have been wiped when I did the whole factory reset/cache wipe (to an already corrupt version of jellybean)
Any other ideas guys?
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I recommend using this package by 1wayjonny. It works perfectly and, unlike most other packages, 1wayjonny’s repack does not install any crapware along with it. That said, it doesn’t include an .exe file, so it needs to be installed manually from the .inf file. If you do not now how to do that, see here for instructions.

killbox said:
Ok, the problem is that suddenly my computer won't see the phone as an ADB device. I've tried every usb driver I can find. I've tried the PDAnet, but I won't install properly when I can't enter the rom and tick the usb debugging mode.
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Just a quick FYI "adb" is only accessible once booted up to the rom.

[Q] Access SD card while ..

My Phone is completely Screwed.. I tried to use Odin to flash to stock while It had a bootloop issue and during the middle of the writing it slipped into another bootloop thus causing the OS to be corrupted(I'm Guessing). So I wish to know.. How Can I access the SD card while the phone is in a bootloop ? If Possible.. I just wish to get everything off of my phone to get prepared for my replacement phone..Think If I tell em My phone shut off during a ICS update they'd believe it ?.

Seshin said:
My Phone is completely Screwed.. I tried to use Odin to flash to stock while It had a bootloop issue and during the middle of the writing it slipped into another bootloop thus causing the OS to be corrupted(I'm Guessing). So I wish to know.. How Can I access the SD card while the phone is in a bootloop ? If Possible.. I just wish to get everything off of my phone to get prepared for my replacement phone..Think If I tell em My phone shut off during a ICS update they'd believe it ?.
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Without at least access to a recovery, you cannot access the internal SD card. No way you can't go into download mode and Odin flash CWM?
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ADB pull doesn't work? I can usually access ADB even during bootloops.

LoopDoGG79 said:
Without at least access to a recovery, you cannot access the internal SD card. No way you can't go into download mode and Odin flash CWM?
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium
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Well I have CWM on my phone but ever since I tried to use Odin to flash Back to stock it pops up and tells me to use Kies in order to fix the OS issue.

h.nocturna said:
ADB pull doesn't work? I can usually access ADB even during bootloops.
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ABD Pull? Please Explain mode.. I wish to just access the SD card and grab everything off before i return this phone..

if you have access to recovery how to access the internal SD
Hi there,
I have a similar problem (phone stuck on splash screen on CynogenMod 10), but I can actually reboot on recovery. THhe problem is that this recovery mode is currently useless. It does not work properly as I cannot install any zip (when I try the phone freezes)... I would like to access the internal SD, get my data and try to put on the internal SD a new version of CWM (the one that I have is clearly not working anymore if I cannot use the zips).
Any suggestions on what I can do? ADB does not recognize the phone, and Odin is not working either. They simply do not see the phone.
I cannot reboot on download mode. When I use the Vol up+down + power I only get to recovery mode...
I would really appreciate your help.
LoopDoGG79 said:
Without at least access to a recovery, you cannot access the internal SD card. No way you can't go into download mode and Odin flash CWM?
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium
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[Q] Phone stuck in boot loop, not recognized by Odin

Earlier I reflashed back to the stock rom for my Galaxy S III, and after I flashed a new install of cyanogen mod I can't get my phone out of the boot loop. I can still access download mode but Odin and my computer won't pick up on it, and I can still access Clockword Mod. Is there anything to do or am I out of luck because my computer doesnt recognize my phone

Do you have an ext SD card ? Place a ROM on the ext card.
Did you wipe cache in stock recovery after flashing back to stock ?
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re: bootloops
iamblue337 said:
Earlier I reflashed back to the stock rom for my Galaxy S III, and after I flashed a new install of cyanogen mod I can't get my phone out of the boot loop. I can still access download mode but Odin and my computer won't pick up on it, and I can still access Clockword Mod. Is there anything to do or am I out of luck because my computer doesnt recognize my phone
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Try this, usually in a case like yours there is at least a 50% success rate.
Reboot the phone into recovery and do a "Factory Reset".
After doing that reboot the phone and see if it boots completely.
If the phone boots up completely, you will also be able to go into download mode.
You may want to shell out less than $5.00 including shipping for a USB JIG on eBay or other places.
With a JIG all you do is turn the phone off or remove your battery, wait 20 seconds - replace battery and plug the little JIG into the usb of the
phone then wait a 2-3 seconds more or less and like magic you will be in download mode ready to Odin flash(tar) a proper Touchwiz Jellybean
I747 4.1.2 stock rooted rom which are very much un-like all these CM10/AOSP/AOKP roms which are all just experimental.
Once you have flashed the stock rooted jellybean 4.1.2 TAR rom you will be able to flash any custom Touchwiz Jellybean
custom rom of your choice unless you still want to go ahead and flash another experimental CM/AOKP/ASOP rom.
Good luck!

Not to nit pick, but the latest stock Jelly Bean for the I747 is 4.1.1, not 4.1.2. Also, most of the stock rooted roms don't include custom recovery. They usually include the stock 3e recovery. To get a custom recovery, just dl Rom manager for cwm, or goo manager for twrp, and they can install a recovery for you that will have you ready to flash.

Which version of stock did you flash?

jperry73 said:
Remove Kies and install the Samsung USB drivers for ODIN to recognize it.
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Yup.
Was just going to ask if the OP was successful in connecting the S3 with ODIN in the past.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda app-developers app

iamblue337 said:
Earlier I reflashed back to the stock rom for my Galaxy S III, and after I flashed a new install of cyanogen mod I can't get my phone out of the boot loop. I can still access download mode but Odin and my computer won't pick up on it, and I can still access Clockword Mod. Is there anything to do or am I out of luck because my computer doesnt recognize my phone
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hi, umm did you get your matter resolved man? i am stuck with the same problem. please assist.

shaq64 said:
hi, umm did you get your matter resolved man? i am stuck with the same problem. please assist.
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What bootloader and modem are currently on your phone?
What ROM were you on and what were you flashing when the troubles started?
Since you can get into download mode, can you get into Recovery Mode? If you can, try putting CM11 on a MicroSd card and flash it from CWM.

iamblue337 said:
Earlier I reflashed back to the stock rom for my Galaxy S III, and after I flashed a new install of cyanogen mod I can't get my phone out of the boot loop. I can still access download mode but Odin and my computer won't pick up on it, and I can still access Clockword Mod. Is there anything to do or am I out of luck because my computer doesnt recognize my phone
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dawgdoc said:
What bootloader and modem are currently on your phone?
What ROM were you on and what were you flashing when the troubles started?
Since you can get into download mode, can you get into Recovery Mode? If you can, try putting CM11 on a MicroSd card and flash it from CWM.
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My sgs2 is stuck in a boot loop, computers won't recognize the usb connection, and my sd card won't mount on philz touch 5 V6.0.3.7 My SD card is, however, recognizable if I plug it directly to my computer using an adapter.
so I rooted my phone using CWM. After that, my computer stopped recognizing my phone. I tried everything to fix it including factory resetting my phone, formatting cache, data, system, and sd card all under the CWM boot menu (hold volup+home+power). Soon afterwards, my phone got stuck in a boot loop. On startup, it hangs on the white "Samsung" logo. While trying to fix the issue, I noticed that my sd card won't mount.
I've tried this method, but it requires that I either have usb access or access to my phone. I've tried formatting the SD card in my computer. I've tried using different computers. I've tried using different usb cords. I've tried searching Google and these forums for a solution. i have uninstalled the samsung drivers countless times and rebooted with no success.
I need to figure out a way to flash the stock rom back to my phone. In order to do this, I need to get my usb to recognize or manage to have phil touch 5 v 6.0.3.7 mount the sd card. If I can do this, the rest is easy. Does anyone has any ideas on what can be done? please please assist!

shaq64 said:
My sgs2 is stuck in a boot loop, computers won't recognize the usb connection, and my sd card won't mount on philz touch 5 V6.0.3.7 My SD card is, however, recognizable if I plug it directly to my computer using an adapter.
so I rooted my phone using CWM. After that, my computer stopped recognizing my phone. I tried everything to fix it including factory resetting my phone, formatting cache, data, system, and sd card all under the CWM boot menu (hold volup+home+power). Soon afterwards, my phone got stuck in a boot loop. On startup, it hangs on the white "Samsung" logo. While trying to fix the issue, I noticed that my sd card won't mount.
I've tried this method, but it requires that I either have usb access or access to my phone. I've tried formatting the SD card in my computer. I've tried using different computers. I've tried using different usb cords. I've tried searching Google and these forums for a solution. i have uninstalled the samsung drivers countless times and rebooted with no success.
I need to figure out a way to flash the stock rom back to my phone. In order to do this, I need to get my usb to recognize or manage to have phil touch 5 v 6.0.3.7 mount the sd card. If I can do this, the rest is easy. Does anyone has any ideas on what can be done? please please assist!
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Did you find something ? I just have the same problem...

[Q] Soft Bricked....can't unbrick or revert to stock rom...any thoughts?

I got a replacement GS3 through insurance and rooted it yesterday. Instead of flashing CWM I tried going with TWRP this time but didn't realize that TWRP doesn't read external SD cards and my roms were all saved on the external SD. And of course, this was after I wiped everything. So I tried unrooting and flashing back the stock firmware but it keeps failing in ODIN. So I tried re-rooting and flashing CWM which works but none of the roms will flash. I keep getting a system 7 error or something to that effect when I try flashing any rom. So now I can either get to recovery mode, or download mode. If I power the phone on it gets stuck on the Galaxy S3 screen. Any thoughts as to processes to try? Links? Threads? I've tried just about everything I could find.

kinjo1023 said:
I got a replacement GS3 through insurance and rooted it yesterday. Instead of flashing CWM I tried going with TWRP this time but didn't realize that TWRP doesn't read external SD cards and my roms were all saved on the external SD. And of course, this was after I wiped everything. So I tried unrooting and flashing back the stock firmware but it keeps failing in ODIN. So I tried re-rooting and flashing CWM which works but none of the roms will flash. I keep getting a system 7 error or something to that effect when I try flashing any rom. So now I can either get to recovery mode, or download mode. If I power the phone on it gets stuck on the Galaxy S3 screen. Any thoughts as to processes to try? Links? Threads? I've tried just about everything I could find.
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Since when does TWRP not read external SD cards? It see's mine just fine, for well over a year. Where is your nandroid backup, you know the one you made before you did anything just incase it didn't go as planned? In any case you didn't give much information to help troubleshoot. 'I tried unrooting' - if you were going to flash a stock ROM there is no need to unroot anything as the stock firmware is just that, stock. How did it fail in ODIN? Did it say why it failed, what file were you trying to flash? More often than not the system 7 error is caused from an out of date recovery, normally i would tell you to start there but given the fact you admitted to just randomly attempting to flash things to the device you are going to want to start from stock. The second sticky thread in this sub-forum is where you should start reading, because based on your post you either need a refresher or never have read it to begin with.

dntesinfrno said:
Since when does TWRP not read external SD cards? It see's mine just fine, for well over a year. In any case you didn't give much information to help troubleshoot. 'I tried unrooting' - if you were going to flash a stock ROM there is no need to unroot anything as the stock firmware is just that, stock. How did if fail in ODIN? Did it say why it failed, what file were you trying to flash? More often than not the system 7 error is caused from an out of date recovery, normally i would tell you to start there but given the fact you admitted to just randomly attempting to flash things to device you are going to want to start from stock. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1725839
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For whatever reason, TWRP wouldn't read my sd card. And when I said I tried unrooting - I just meant flashing back to the stock ROM. Odin fails when it gets to system write. It goes down a bunch of lines of code successfully but when it gets to system write, it fails every time. I've downloaded a few different stock ROM versions for AT&T and tried switching USB ports around my laptop. I've also tried a few different versions of ODIN but I'm not coming up with anything but a soft bricked phone still.

kinjo1023 said:
For whatever reason, TWRP wouldn't read my sd card. And when I said I tried unrooting - I just meant flashing back to the stock ROM. Odin fails when it gets to system write. It goes down a bunch of lines of code successfully but when it gets to system write, it fails every time. I've downloaded a few different stock ROM versions for AT&T and tried switching USB ports around my laptop. I've also tried a few different versions of ODIN but I'm not coming up with anything but a soft bricked phone still.
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Did you have usb debugging enabled before you attempted to flash via ODIN? It sounds like it doesn't have permission to write to the /system partition. You can try doing a factory reset from recovery to get past the bootloader and make sure, or use Kies to flash to stock via this thread.

dntesinfrno said:
Did you have usb debugging enabled before you attempted to flash via ODIN? It sounds like it doesn't have permission to write to the /system partition. You can try doing a factory reset from recovery to get past the bootloader and make sure, or use Kies to flash to stock via this thread.
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I could have swore I made sure to check before I started the process but I cant' check now because the phone won't boot. Can't flash back to stock. Can't flash any roms. I can get into download mode and recovery though. It's weird. I've reverted other phones back to stock plenty of times. It just keeps failing no matter what I do with this.

dntesinfrno said:
Did you have usb debugging enabled before you attempted to flash via ODIN? It sounds like it doesn't have permission to write to the /system partition. You can try doing a factory reset from recovery to get past the bootloader and make sure, or use Kies to flash to stock via this thread.
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Here's another question for you, I've looked all over for the newest CWM in .tar format but everything comes in .img format. I can't use the .img in ODIN to flash to the phone and can't boot my phone to use the CWM app to flash. I suppose I could try TWRP again but when I flashed the first time - TWRP wouldn't read my EXT SD card.....

kinjo1023 said:
Here's another question for you, I've looked all over for the newest CWM in .tar format but everything comes in .img format. I can't use the .img in ODIN to flash to the phone and can't boot my phone to use the CWM app to flash. I suppose I could try TWRP again but when I flashed the first time - TWRP wouldn't read my EXT SD card.....
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if you could wipe everything get on odin with 4.1.2 update reboot use cf root to root it (if you dont have root) after reboot download ROM Manager from Play Store install CWM recovery (easiest way to root) hope this works

Bootloop into TWRP recovery

I flashed Slimkat 4.4.4 a couple weeks ago and don't like it so I attempted to change it to AOSP tonight and I wiped the cache, partition, formatted the system and attempted to flash the rom and got a "fail" sign. Now when I reboot from TWRP menu, it keeps going back into TWRP recovery, after I see the Samsung and Slimkat words on my phone. I tried rebooting into system, keeps going back into recovery. I was going to attempt to reflash Slimkat but now my laptop won't recognize my phone. I saw where someone pulled the battery out and it just booted into recovery. Please help me and thank you in advance.

This is why you should never manually format your /system partition. If your rom flash fails, you have no OS to boot into. I really dont know why so many people still say to do this.
You need to either use Odin to flash your firmware, or download another rom (or your previous one) and flash it from TWRP. Youll have to plug your external SD Card into your computer and copy it to there, then put the card back in and flash.

DocHoliday77 said:
This is why you should never manually format your /system partition. If your rom flash fails, you have no OS to boot into. I really dont know why so many people still say to do this.
You need to either use Odin to flash your firmware, or download another rom (or your previous one) and flash it from TWRP. Youll have to plug your external SD Card into your computer and copy it to there, then put the card back in and flash.
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Lesson learned. I really don't know who to listen to, I should have just left it alone like a good girl. But I really did not like Slimkat. :laugh: My laptop is not recognizing my phone through usb. Would Odin recognize it if I put it in download mode?

Its worth a try I think. But otherwise do you have a way to plug your sd card into the computer? You could copy a rom to flash im recovery that way.
If not youll probably need to try installing different drivers. You can get plenty to try from the link in my sig.
I usually say to just follow the instructions in the OP of what you are trying to flash. If they tell you to format system, I would ignore that part unless they have a good explanation for why.

DocHoliday77 said:
Its worth a try I think. But otherwise do you have a way to plug your sd card into the computer? You could copy a rom to flash im recovery that way.
If not youll probably need to try installing different drivers. You can get plenty to try from the link in my sig.
I usually say to just follow the instructions in the OP of what you are trying to flash. If they tell you to format system, I would ignore that part unless they have a good explanation for why.
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I'm guessing the only other way to plug an sd card into my computer is to stick the card in another phone? Meanwhile I will try to install drivers and get my computer to recognize my phone.

You can usually find an adapter for a few bucks online or at places like wal mart. Sorry. Was just assuming you had one. Without it, yes youll have to try different drivers or find another way to get it going via one of the two methods I mentioned.
When trying different drivers, just installing the package doesn't always do the job. You should go into device manager and manually select update drivers, then browse to the folder in Program Files and choose it there.
When you plug in now, does it at least detect it? Are you trying while in Download Mode?

DocHoliday77 said:
You can usually find an adapter for a few bucks online or at places like wal mart. Sorry. Was just assuming you had one. Without it, yes youll have to try different drivers or find another way to get it going via one of the two methods I mentioned.
When trying different drivers, just installing the package doesn't always do the job. You should go into device manager and manually select update drivers, then browse to the folder in Program Files and choose it there.
When you plug in now, does it at least detect it? Are you trying while in Download Mode?
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I tried putting my SD card into my daughters phone which is a Samsung but different model and I thought I put the old Slimkat rom what looked to be the extsdcard folder but when I went to recovery to install the rom I saw the corrupt rom I attempted to install last night. When I went to device manager to manually update the drivers, the computer recognizes my phone but said that the drivers couldn't be installed. Maybe I'm getting confused with this TWRP recovery I'm not familiar with. It has an install feature, so I tried to flash the rom last night using that. Did I screw up?
Ok....I finally managed to get the files onto my SD card. I attempted to install the Slim rom (the one that's been on my phone the last couple weeks) and heres the message I get:
Format and Mount System, Mount Data.....
Symlinks and permissions....
set_metadata-recursive: some changes failed
E:Error executing updater binary in zip ' /extern
Error flashing zip '/external_sd/Slim-d2lte-4.4.
Updating partition details....
FAILED

What version of TWRP are you using? You could try flashing CWM or Philz recoveries and try the rom again. If you still get flashing errors you may have to find a way to get Odin to work.
Try uninstalling drivers from device manager. Then with the phone unplugged, reinstall the driver package. Plug phone back in and hopefully itll automatically install the drivers and work.
And have you tried connecting while booted to Download Mode?

DocHoliday77 said:
What version of TWRP are you using? You could try flashing CWM or Philz recoveries and try the rom again. If you still get flashing errors you may have to find a way to get Odin to work.
Try uninstalling drivers from device manager. Then with the phone unplugged, reinstall the driver package. Plug phone back in and hopefully itll automatically install the drivers and work.
And have you tried connecting while booted to Download Mode?
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I'm using TWRP 2.6.3.0. Ok friggin awesome...I rebooted it into download mode and the computer recognizes my phone.

You might need an updated recovery to flash that rom. Latest TWRP is 2.7.1.0.
But since you can connect in Download Mode you can flash your firmware via Odin...hopefully.
If you have the I747, it depends on if you have ever updated via ota. If so, do you remember if you had updated to 4.3 or 4.4.2?

DocHoliday77 said:
You might need an updated recovery to flash that rom. Latest TWRP is 2.7.1.0.
But since you can connect in Download Mode you can flash your firmware via Odin...hopefully.
If you have the I747, it depends on if you have ever updated via ota. If so, do you remember if you had updated to 4.3 or 4.4.2?
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I have the i747. I've never been able to do an OTA update, I heard because it was rooted. When I tried to unroot it, I still wasn't able to do an OTA update. I'm going to try to update the recovery first and then the rom. Which rom do you use? The main reason I don't like SlimKat is because of the Google search bar on the home screen and all the extra crap on the lockscreen I couldn't get rid of.
Update: I flashed the latest TWRP and it still bootlooped. So I flashed CWM instead and it booted right back into CWM recovery.

I have a T999 and I only use Touchwiz roms. Personal preference.
When you are in Download Mode, if you do not see a Warranty Bit, youll be free to flash any firmware you want with Odin. You can download it at http://sammobile.com/firmwares

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I have a T999 and I only use Touchwiz roms. Personal preference.
When you are in Download Mode, if you do not see a Warranty Bit, youll be free to flash any firmware you want with Odin. You can download it at http://sammobile.com/firmwares
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Doc, Thank you so much for helping me. I flashed the slimkat rom in cwm recovery and its fine now. However I don't want Slimkat and I was eyeing Touchwiz. Someone was saying how great a rom it is so I'm going to try that shortly. No more TWRP for me. I'm comfortable with CWM. Thanks again. :victory: