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[Q] I think I bricked my phone :( HELP PLEASE!

Hello,
I think I bricked My Galaxy S3.
What happened was I flashed a kernel through CWM and now the boot up stops on a black screen after the logo. I can get into download mode though. I am also on a Mac so I do have heimdall.
Can somebody PLEASE help me find the proper solution to all of this?
I know, I'm such a noob.

phamu said:
Hello,
I think I bricked My Galaxy S3.
What happened was I flashed a kernel through CWM and now the boot up stops on a black screen after the logo. I can get into download mode though. I am also on a Mac so I do have heimdall.
Can somebody PLEASE help me find the proper solution to all of this?
I know, I'm such a noob.
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Just flash d stock rom of ur country thru download mode
HiT ThE ThnX BuTTon If I Help U

What he said, get into Download mode, flash it with a stock .tar through Odin. Then reset all settings through CWM(dalvik, wipe cache, data/factory reset).

Why not just boot into recovery and wipe and flash a rom he wants?
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium

I can't get into Recovery Mode. Download mode is the only one I can get into.
mt3g said:
Why not just boot into recovery and wipe and flash a rom he wants?
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Also, I tried both a custom ROM and a stock ROM in Heimdall and got error messages.
STOCK ROM: firmware.xml is missing from the package
CUSTOM ROM: tar header contained an invalid file size.
Please help me, thank you so much in advance.

phamu said:
I can't get into Recovery Mode. Download mode is the only one I can get into.
Also, I tried both a custom ROM and a stock ROM in Heimdall and got error messages.
STOCK ROM: firmware.xml is missing from the package
CUSTOM ROM: tar header contained an invalid file size.
Please help me, thank you so much in advance.
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Y dont u flash cwm from download mode and gden go to cwm and factory reset
HiT ThE ThnX BuTTon If I Help U

Bhavik Jain said:
Y dont u flash cwm from download mode and gden go to cwm and factory reset
HiT ThE ThnX BuTTon If I Help U
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I'm trying to flash CWM but I'm getting "tar header contained an invalid file size".
I am using the latest heimdall for mac. So frustrated!!

Y dont u download the cwm file again
Or go 2 ssc and claim ur warranty just say my fone is not starting
HiT ThE ThnX BuTTon If I Help U

And it might not work to flash a custom or stock ROM without clearing the cache/dalvik cache 1st. At least that's what happened to me. What I eventually found to work was to flash the stock recovery and boot into that (same procedure as booting into CWM). You will be able to clear cache from here and then flash stock ROM.

behappy said:
And it might not work to flash a custom or stock ROM without clearing the cache/dalvik cache 1st. At least that's what happened to me. What I eventually found to work was to flash the stock recovery and boot into that (same procedure as booting into CWM). You will be able to clear cache from here and then flash stock ROM.
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But how do I do this without Recovery mode? I can't access Recovery Mode, only Download Mode.

phamu said:
But how do I do this without Recovery mode? I can't access Recovery Mode, only Download Mode.
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You do this by downloading the stock recovery and flashing it through ODIN/Download mode.

behappy said:
You do this by downloading the stock recovery and flashing it through ODIN/Download mode.
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Unfortunately I have a mac, and I get error messages trying to load up the packages in Heimdall.
STOCK ROM: firmware.xml is missing from the package
CUSTOM ROM: tar header contained an invalid file size.
Any idea how this is solved? Thank you so much for your attempt, friend!

phamu said:
Unfortunately I have a mac, and I get error messages trying to load up the packages in Heimdall.
STOCK ROM: firmware.xml is missing from the package
CUSTOM ROM: tar header contained an invalid file size.
Any idea how this is solved? Thank you so much for your attempt, friend!
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Hmmm... Not familiar with the Mac situation. You have a friend/place you can go to use a PC?

You will not be able to do this on a MAC. You will need a PC. ODIN does not run in MAC.
PM Me is you need help and have access to a PC. I pulled mine out of a reboot loop yesterday and it was pretty simple. You just need a quality TAR file and ODIN. Then run a reset on all.

samson_420 said:
You will not be able to do this on a MAC. You will need a PC. ODIN does not run in MAC.
PM Me is you need help and have access to a PC. I pulled mine out of a reboot loop yesterday and it was pretty simple. You just need a quality TAR file and ODIN. Then run a reset on all.
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Darn, I don't have access to a PC. Why does heimdall trip out like this?

phamu said:
Darn, I don't have access to a PC. Why does heimdall trip out like this?
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Go to a public library, university, hotel business lounge. Be resourceful, as you can definitely find a PC close at hand.

I have lost my recovery!

After all the problems i had with my Wifi using ics (arco) i decided to downgrade to stock rom but with the new baseband hoping to solve the prblm. I downgraded according to "the-e"'s guide using ODIN but, i didnt flash stock recovery because i thought i would still have CWM recovery.
Now that i want to root, the "Box" comes up when i reboot but it just restarts and doesnt enter recovery mode~ i have no recovery. I tried using ODIN again, but it cant find my phone, it says "please connect phones". Even kies says my phone is incompatible!!?
What do i do?

sevenmad said:
After all the problems i had with my Wifi using ics (arco) i decided to downgrade to stock rom but with the new baseband hoping to solve the prblm. I downgraded according to "the-e"'s guide using ODIN but, i didnt flash stock recovery because i thought i would still have CWM recovery.
Now that i want to root, the "Box" comes up when i reboot but it just restarts and doesnt enter recovery mode~ i have no recovery. I tried using ODIN again, but it cant find my phone, it says "please connect phones". Even kies says my phone is incompatible!!?
What do i do?
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When using odin you have to put your phone into download mode and then plug it into the pc while opening odin. Do you did that?
Sent from my GT-I8150 Indroid remICS v5.1

reddvilzz said:
When using odin you have to put your phone into download mode and then plug it into the pc while opening odin. Do you did that?
Sent from my GT-I8150 Indroid remICS v5.1
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I cant enter download mode?! The page comes where i have to press the volume up button but that doesnt bring any reaction. neither does volume down (which is supposed to restart the phone).

download mode is volume down+home dude
maybe reflashing from odin could work?

If not mistaken, we will lost CWM and it may go back to stock recovery if we flash a stock ROM, by the way did you manage to enter into stock recovery?
If yea just download the Zip-file from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1317394 to get root
Some guides related to CWM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1867870 & http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1924846
Hope it helps
Good luck

MyDeSTiNaTe said:
If not mistaken, we will lost CWM and it may go back to stock recovery if we flash a stock ROM, by the way did you manage to enter into stock recovery?
If yea just download the Zip-file from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1317394 to get root
Some guides related to CWM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1867870 & http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1924846
Hope it helps
Good luck
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Yeah i managed to get into stock recovery, but download mode isnt getting through.

hadidjapri said:
download mode is volume down+home dude
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thats odd! Rebooting directly from ics to download mode didnt get through but what you said worked. Thankyou very much

try this link >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G5sHPPnins

Tried to install CWM via app, now no ODIN

Hello,
I had my phone rooted and on the last stock ICS ROM. I wanted to install CWM so I downloaded the app from the Play store and hit the install recovery button. I chose the Epic 4g as it was the closest device to mine. Now when I go into recovery I get a strange looking recover multi CSC version? Very few choices and whenever I try to flash a zip they always fail authentication. PC Odin does not recognize the phone. What can I do to either get ODIN back or the real CWM? Thanks.

piedra92 said:
Hello,
I had my phone rooted and on the last stock ICS ROM. I wanted to install CWM so I downloaded the app from the Play store and hit the install recovery button. I chose the Epic 4g as it was the closest device to mine. Now when I go into recovery I get a strange looking recover multi CSC version? Very few choices and whenever I try to flash a zip they always fail authentication. PC Odin does not recognize the phone. What can I do to either get ODIN back or the real CWM? Thanks.
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Clockwork Mod Touch recovery bricks this phone. Sounds like a hard brick...

piedra92 said:
Hello,
I had my phone rooted and on the last stock ICS ROM. I wanted to install CWM so I downloaded the app from the Play store and hit the install recovery button. I chose the Epic 4g as it was the closest device to mine. Now when I go into recovery I get a strange looking recover multi CSC version? Very few choices and whenever I try to flash a zip they always fail authentication. PC Odin does not recognize the phone. What can I do to either get ODIN back or the real CWM? Thanks.
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If you can go into whatever that recovery is try this... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1865102
I don't see any other option.
Whats up with so many new bricks?? Why don't you all read and ask before doing stupid things? There are NO apps that install ANYTHING like that to our phone.

BluesRulez said:
If you can go into whatever that recovery is try this... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1865102
I don't see any other option.
Whats up with so many new bricks?? Why don't you all read and ask before doing stupid things? There are NO apps that install ANYTHING like that to our phone.
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OP, can you post more details as to how you got that recovery?
This is good information for others to avoid having problems, honestly.
(And if CWM site is saying that it works someone should kindly inform them that it does not.)

Mac of York said:
Clockwork Mod Touch recovery bricks this phone. Sounds like a hard brick...
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The funny thing is I can use the phone. It works fine except that since the TAR file of FK09 did not install the modem I have no 3g but do have 4G and WIFI. If I am able to root the phone I should be able to use Mobile Odin again to install the modem file. We shall see.

piedra92 said:
The funny thing is I can use the phone. It works fine except that since the TAR file of FK09 did not install the modem I have no 3g but do have 4G and WIFI. If I am able to root the phone I should be able to use Mobile Odin again to install the modem file. We shall see.
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Only 2 ways to flash a modem are CWM and PC Odin.
If you're already on FK09 try flashing the Rooted nodata version and see if that gets you back where you need to be.
You'll lose CWM but that may not be for too long.
You can always flash one of Agat's CWM repacks for ICS, backup/restore and then flash back the stock FK09 kernel via Odin for now.

picture of recovery screen
I have attached a picture of what the recovery screen looks like on my E4GT. It doesn't matter if I try to update from external sdcard or through ADB Sideload command, everything fails signature verification. Thanks for all of the help so far.

piedra92 said:
I have attached a picture of what the recovery screen looks like on my E4GT. It doesn't matter if I try to update from external sdcard or through ADB Sideload command, everything fails signature verification. Thanks for all of the help so far.
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That is stock recovery. I am not sure if flashing the ota update zip would work or not.
What os version were you on before this happened?
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BluesRulez said:
That is stock recovery. I am not sure if flashing the ota update zip would work or not.
What os version were you on before this happened?
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ICS 4.0.4 (FI27?) the stock rooted OTA. I had root so I ended up using Mobile ODIN to flash the KJ09 tar file but it didn't bring the modem so I have no 3g.
I saw something about version 2e not having the signature check. I need to find a properly signed modem.bin or how to downgrade my phone to 2e.

Sorry this seems to be really obvious question, but Did you try flashing a kernel/recovery through mobile Odin?
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Unfortunately since I no longer have root I can't use it. Does anyone know if the standard recovery can be downgraded to 2e?
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piedra92 said:
Unfortunately since I no longer have root I can't use it. Does anyone know if the standard recovery can be downgraded to 2e?
Sent from my SPH-D710 using xda app-developers app
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Flashing a one click restore pkg will correct the recovery... which honestly looks like the FJ10 JB engineering build.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2

garwynn said:
Flashing a one click restore pkg will correct the recovery... which honestly looks like the FJ10 JB engineering build.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2
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ODIN will not see the phone when it is in the standard recovery screen. I can ADB to it but 3e has signature verification and none of the files I have downloaded have proper signatures so they all fail.

piedra92 said:
ODIN will not see the phone when it is in the standard recovery screen. I can ADB to it but 3e has signature verification and none of the files I have downloaded have proper signatures so they all fail.
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You have to be in Odin mode not recovery

bigdaddy619 said:
You have to be in Odin mode not recovery
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I appreciate everyone's attempts at helping me so I will lay out where my phone is at this momen:
ODIN recovery no longer exists on my phone. When I hold down vol down+power the phone boots up normally - NO ODIN
The recovery that does come up is the Android Standard Recovery 3e which has signature validation turned on - this makes all of the files fail since they are not properly signed.
I am trying to find a way to downgrade the Standard recovery to 2e (no signature verification) or see if signature verification can be turned off in 3e.
I am hoping that getting any of the official Sprint update files might help as those should be signed.
Thanks in advance to all.

piedra92 said:
I appreciate everyone's attempts at helping me so I will lay out where my phone is at this momen:
ODIN recovery no longer exists on my phone. When I hold down vol down+power the phone boots up normally - NO ODIN
The recovery that does come up is the Android Standard Recovery 3e which has signature validation turned on - this makes all of the files fail since they are not properly signed.
I am trying to find a way to downgrade the Standard recovery to 2e (no signature verification) or see if signature verification can be turned off in 3e.
I am hoping that getting any of the official Sprint update files might help as those should be signed.
Thanks in advance to all.
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Thanks for the update.
1) Any luck with a USB jig?
2) Any luck trying 'reboot download' from ADB and seeing if that will get you to ODIN?
If memory serves.. and you're really stuck on recovery as the only option you're going to need to find a way to dump an update.zip onto the phone to get anything to flash. And here's the tricky part - I think it needs to be in a certain location. There are custom .ZIPs that have signatures on them - crawj might even be able to help with that.
If we can't get you to Odin then let's figure out how you can use the recovery to do that... recover. But let's hope we can find you a way to get into Odin one way or another.

piedra92 said:
I appreciate everyone's attempts at helping me so I will lay out where my phone is at this momen:
ODIN recovery no longer exists on my phone. When I hold down vol down+power the phone boots up normally - NO ODIN
The recovery that does come up is the Android Standard Recovery 3e which has signature validation turned on - this makes all of the files fail since they are not properly signed.
I am trying to find a way to downgrade the Standard recovery to 2e (no signature verification) or see if signature verification can be turned off in 3e.
I am hoping that getting any of the official Sprint update files might help as those should be signed.
Thanks in advance to all.
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I think qbking77 has a video on how to update with a link that only work with stock recovery
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garwynn said:
Thanks for the update.
1) Any luck with a USB jig?
2) Any luck trying 'reboot download' from ADB and seeing if that will get you to ODIN?
If memory serves.. and you're really stuck on recovery as the only option you're going to need to find a way to dump an update.zip onto the phone to get anything to flash. And here's the tricky part - I think it needs to be in a certain location. There are custom .ZIPs that have signatures on them - crawj might even be able to help with that.
If we can't get you to Odin then let's figure out how you can use the recovery to do that... recover. But let's hope we can find you a way to get into Odin one way or another.
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1. I don't know what the USB jig is, where can i find info on that?
2. I have tried that from ADB and it simply reboots the phone into the OS. Seems there is no ODIN to be found on the phone.
Where would I find signed Zip files to try to restore to FI27? Thanks.

piedra92 said:
1. I don't know what the USB jig is, where can i find info on that?
2. I have tried that from ADB and it simply reboots the phone into the OS. Seems there is no ODIN to be found on the phone.
Where would I find signed Zip files to try to restore to FI27? Thanks.
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Wait... You can get into the system?
Then why not download the Mobile Odin Lite (free here on XDA), flash Agat's 0.6.0 repack and then crawj's FI27 rooted .ZIP through Agat's recovery?
That should not only fix the Odin problem but everything else!

garwynn said:
Wait... You can get into the system?
Then why not download the Mobile Odin Lite (free here on XDA), flash Agat's 0.6.0 repack and then crawj's FI27 rooted .ZIP through Agat's recovery?
That should not only fix the Odin problem but everything else!
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Tried that, Mobile Odin won't work because I don't have root.

[Q] stucked on boot logo. didnt flashed twrp or cwm before it got struck.

I rooted my note 2 using framaroot.apk. it rooted
without any prob. then I unknowingly installed
chainfire 3d. it installed cf3d drivers and when the
phone on its way to restart, strucked on boot logo. I
came to know that flashing with odin could help. I
dint enabled usb debugging before this got struck. I
tried odin to flash twrp on my note 2 via download
mode, odin recognised my device but failed to
flash. is this becoz of not enabling debugging. pls
someone help. pls pls pls!

Try to get to stock recovery. This will activate fastboot (Correct me if I'm wrong). From there you can access the phone with adb or the toolkit. You can restore the phone then
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pathan929 said:
I rooted my note 2 using framaroot.apk. it rooted
without any prob. then I unknowingly installed
chainfire 3d. it installed cf3d drivers and when the
phone on its way to restart, strucked on boot logo. I
came to know that flashing with odin could help. I
dint enabled usb debugging before this got struck. I
tried odin to flash twrp on my note 2 via download
mode, odin recognised my device but failed to
flash. is this becoz of not enabling debugging. pls
someone help. pls pls pls!
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now try to flash stock via odin 3.09 before try to get into recovery if you can and try data reset

I didnt understand what you said. sorry, I am not a techie. could you please mail me [email protected]

shhbz said:
now try to flash stock via odin 3.09 before try to get into recovery if you can and try data reset
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I can get into recovery, tried wiping data, cache but no use. still stucked on boot logo.

pathan929 said:
I can get into recovery, tried wiping data, cache but no use. still stucked on boot logo.
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flash stock via odin and see if it boots up for you

shhbz said:
flash stock via odin
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stock is of 1 gb, thats why I thought that I could test with twrp. but twrp failed. is it compulsory to to enable the usb debugging to get odin work.

pathan929 said:
stock is of 1 gb, thats why I thought that I could test with twrp. but twrp failed. is it compulsory to to enable the usb debugging to get odin work.
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no not necessary but once the rom is up and running make sure u tick that option and enable developer mode as its considered good just like getting admin rights on windows.
I hope u understand for now , since any custom recovery is not working so no other option but to flash stock best is to get this dmg odex N7100XXDMG1_N7100ODDDMG1_N7100DDDMG1- Odexed - India it will help you in future too its just stock with root
if you already have other just proceed with that except a 4.1.1

shhbz said:
no not necessary but once the rom is up and running make sure u tick that option and enable developer mode as its considered good just like getting admin rights on windows.
I hope u understand for now , since any custom recovery is not working so no other option but to flash stock best is to get this dmg odex N7100XXDMG1_N7100ODDDMG1_N7100DDDMG1- Odexed - India it will help you in future too its just stock with root
if you already have other just proceed with that except a 4.1.1
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are you sure that stock will flash, what if it fails like the twrp.

pathan929 said:
are you sure that stock will flash, what if it fails like the twrp.
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flashing is not a issue of usb debugging, but its recommended but not necessary .if you think there is a prob uninstall drivers and start fresh using odin I have done it many times with my previous phones and it revives.
No use asking a silly ques if i am sure the rest is upto you or push recovery via adb
get into download mode and flash stock

Please Help: No OS Installed

I've been at stock root for a long time, and after being nagged about the OTA update to 4.3, decided to install Smoothest Note2/3 Rom from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582027
Before doing so, in TWRP I made a backup and also copied that backup to my PC. I also used the app MyBackupPro to back up all info and copied that to my pc as well.
I believe I followed the instructions properly to install the Rom, but am now told there is no OS installed.
I can access both TWRP and download mode via Vol up/down home and power. But that's about it at the moment.
Can anyone help in getting back up and running? I think/hope I can use the backup on my pc to reflash to the phone?

ptmuldoon said:
I've been at stock root for a long time, and after being nagged about the OTA update to 4.3, decided to install Smoothest Note2/3 Rom from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582027
Before doing so, in TWRP I made a backup and also copied that backup to my PC. I also used the app MyBackupPro to back up all info and copied that to my pc as well.
I believe I followed the instructions properly to install the Rom, but am now told there is no OS installed.
I can access both TWRP and download mode via Vol up/down home and power. But that's about it at the moment.
Can anyone help in getting back up and running? I think/hope I can use the backup on my pc to reflash to the phone?
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Flash Philz recovery and reinstall smoothest. Make sure yoy dont use the latest version of Philz.
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jlmancuso said:
Flash Philz recovery and reinstall smoothest. Make sure yoy dont use the latest version of Philz.
Sent from my SPH-L900 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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I just tried to flash Phiz v 6.01.2 tar.mdf via Odin. And although Odin says PASS and complete, I have lost recovery, including the TWRP that I had.
Now I just have download mode. Can I flash a recovery image via Odin to get it back up? I'm starting to get myself a little worried now

ptmuldoon said:
I just tried to flash Phiz v 6.01.2 tar.mdf via Odin. And although Odin says PASS and complete, I have lost recovery, including the TWRP that I had.
Now I just have download mode. Can I flash a recovery image via Odin to get it back up? I'm starting to get myself a little worried now
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Flash philz via Odin but uncheck reboot. When done pull battery with battery our so recovery key sequence while inserting battery.
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i have had this message before and all I did was re wipe and then install again what rom I wanted.

johntheman_692003 said:
i have had this message before and all I did was re wipe and then install again what rom I wanted.
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Thanks guys. Gave me a scare as I don't play much with my phone. But was able to reinstall the rom and got it going. Still experimenting but its pretty nice.