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please help - clockworkmod backup rom problem

ok so, i just rooted my phone and that went fine. did it with the stock rom, but after I did that I installed clockwork mod. well, i tried to do a back up of the current rom and when it rebooted it crashed. now it comes up to the android system recovery screen but it won't let me select anything...... can anyone help?!?!?

i am freaking out here... did i brick my phone?!?!?! anyone????

I don't know why you're having a problem or what caused it but you certainly didn't brick your phone. You can always flash a new ROM in clockwork or use odin to flash the stock .tar.
edit: missed the part about not being able to select anything in recovery. All is not lost, just flash the stock EG31 .tar with odin and you'll be fine. You're gonna have to reroot and set everything back up again (I've done it twice today) but at least you will still have a phone. Try just flashing the kernel first, maybe you can get it to boot without losing anything.

everytime i reboot the phone it just comes back to this android system recovery screen. it's blule, at the bottom is says manual mode. and something sucsessfull but, it won't let me selelect any of the options and it keeps booting to this screen... where can i download odin? i keep seeing stuff about that, i guess i need to flash to a rom or something....
edit: cool, yeah.. can you show me where to download what your talking about??
thank you!!

get odin here- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1274337
stock tar here- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351761
Read the guides if you aren't familiar with using odin. Good luck.

Thanks A lot man!

ogeretla said:
Thanks A lot man!
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Yeah, that sounds like stock recovery. Follow above steps and you should be good
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Got it fixed. Thanks guys!
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Ruh-Oh Is it bricked?

Phone is stuck on the Samsung Galaxy 2 screen, anything I can do?

I'm in this thread with the same issue... Let me guess AOKP or Cyanogen flash? Sounds like brick city.

woah, wait. you're most likely not bricked. You should really share some kind of information about what you were doing when it got stuck.
i've had this happen a couple of times and usually it's been as simple as pulling the battery, booting into recovery and flashing a different ROM.

No actually I was just trying to flash back to el26 kernal.

droidgalaxy said:
No actually I was just trying to flash back to el26 kernal.
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LOL and? If your on an ICS rom the phone is not going to boot lol. You flash EL26 CWM Kernel for CWM, not to boot your phone.

yep. easy fix here. pull the battery, boot into recovery and flash whatever ROM you're looking for. if you're on el26, you should be safe.

So am I screwed? Or is it fixable?

http://forums.techgage.com/showthread.php?t=10681
Looks like our harsh reality

Oh jeeze whyd you link that cruddy thread i made over at techgage. It wasnt all the well written to begin with and is slightly out of date.
Pretty sure this guy flashed the el26 kernel and doesnt know that the phone is not going to boot on it only recovery.

droidgalaxy said:
So am I screwed? Or is it fixable?
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yes it's fixable. Just pull the battery, reboot to recovery (hold Power+Vol Up) and then flash whatever ROM you're trying to flash.
I say this assuming that you either used Odin or Mobile Odin already to flash the EL26 kernel. It's hard to tell because you haven't provided hardly any details.

droidgalaxy said:
So am I screwed? Or is it fixable?
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You tell us, have you tried booting into recovery, the next step you do after installing the kernel so you can flash something. Already told you the phone is not going to boot if your on an ICS rom this is 1000% normal. Battery pull as stated should get you going.

hey rain, if i flash the proper kernel are you saying we may not be bricked?

Or get into download mode and use Odin to flash a one click. Simple as that.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA

I don't know if Droidgalaxy has this problem but the odin one clicks freeze for me in the data img process right before the modem install. So i don't know if that will work. Hopefully his situation is better than mine but i think we both have the same thing going on. So if i 1.85 odin to EL26 i may be ok?

right now im just trying to get it to download mode, keeps giving me the custom os warning screen.

the one that says go to kies?

droidgalaxy said:
right now im just trying to get it to download mode, keeps giving me the custom os warning screen.
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...You mean the custom os warning screen that EVERYONE with an Epic 4G Touch gets?
Maybe read the screen? It has instructions. But why not try recovery first since this is the entire reason you were flashing the EL26 Kernel in the first place for right? I am starting to think there are a few things you have never done before and are jumping into somethign head first without knowing whats going on.

No Instructions just says: If you want to install a custom os press up (which brings me to odin mode) otherwise press down to cancel, Odin mode would work but my pc isn't recognizing the device anymore so I can't get to sd card.

RainMotorsports said:
...You mean the custom os warning screen that EVERYONE with an Epic 4G Touch gets?
Maybe read the screen? It has instructions. But why not try recovery first since this is the entire reason you were flashing the EL26 Kernel in the first place for right? I am starting to think there are a few things you have never done before and are jumping into somethign head first without knowing whats going on.
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yep.
I think this is a good opportunity to say how helpful the "How To" stickies and videos are. I've only had this phone for 2 weeks and I already feel like a pro with most things that involve flashing custom ROM's. if you just take the time to go through the videos or even play them when while you flash for the first time, then you should be set!

Ok got odin working , trying to reflash, Ill let ya'll know if that worked.

Phone is a paperweight!! In need of serious help!!

Ok so I went to go flash a new ROM called Liquid Smooth, doesnt work at all. Which is fine, figured I would just go back to Codename or FreeGS3 since i made a nandroid of both. Attempt to boot into recovery n the phone will not, so that sucks. So I then try to go through Odin and put the stock ROM tar file on my phone n just re-root the phone again from scratch. Put the stock ROM on the phone, Odin says it passed, it reboots and is stuck on the Samsung loading screen. Tried multiple times through Odin and the samething continues to happen. My phone is now a paperweight and useless. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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tarheelsmj12001 said:
Ok so I went to go flash a new ROM called Liquid Smooth, doesnt work at all. Which is fine, figured I would just go back to Codename or FreeGS3 since i made a nandroid of both. Attempt to boot into recovery n the phone will not, so that sucks. So I then try to go through Odin and put the stock ROM tar file on my phone n just re-root the phone again from scratch. Put the stock ROM on the phone, Odin says it passed, it reboots and is stuck on the Samsung loading screen. Tried multiple times through Odin and the samething continues to happen. My phone is now a paperweight and useless. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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How long did you wait for the phone to boot at Samsung screen ? if not long just wait some more !!

I almost dont want to assist based on the title of your thread. your phone is not a paperweight. You need to wipe data so the rom will boot. Flash the custom recovery below in odin and boot into it after the odin flash. As soon as that screen goes dark immediatly press volume up+home+pwr. youll get in

billard412 said:
I almost dont want to assist based on the title of your thread. your phone is not a paperweight. You need to wipe data so the rom will boot. Flash the custom recovery below in odin and boot into it after the odin flash. As soon as that screen goes dark immediatly press volume up+home+pwr. youll get in
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Yea do this but before flashing the recovery in ODIN un-check the Auto Reboot option so you can pull the battery after the recovery passes. If the last thing you flashed was the stock Odin file you now should have stock recovery
Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

billard412 said:
I almost dont want to assist based on the title of your thread. your phone is not a paperweight. You need to wipe data so the rom will boot. Flash the custom recovery below in odin and boot into it after the odin flash. As soon as that screen goes dark immediatly press volume up+home+pwr. youll get in
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I have done this already n it didnt work.

pvinodnayak said:
How long did you wait for the phone to boot at Samsung screen ? if not long just wait some more !!
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I let it sit there for 35 minutes waiting for it to boot, still no go.
My custom binary count is at 10, idk if that has anything to do with it not being able to boot into recovery.

tarheelsmj12001 said:
I let it sit there for 35 minutes waiting for it to boot, still no go.
My custom binary count is at 10, idk if that has anything to do with it not being able to boot into recovery.
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haha

Have you tried redownloading the tar file? Could of been a bad download. I always use QBKing77 videos to figure out stuff. He puts all the links in the descriptions.
How to unroot/unbrick Sprint galaxy s3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypmqJbZqOaU&feature=youtube_gdata_playe
Sent from Pluto.

Speedin07si said:
Have you tried redownloading the tar file? Could of been a bad download. I always use QBKing77 videos to figure out stuff. He puts all the links in the descriptions.
How to unroot/unbrick Sprint galaxy s3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypmqJbZqOaU&feature=youtube_gdata_playe
Sent from Pluto.
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Yea Ive been using his videos all night n all day. Nothing.

AT&T galaxy s3 softbricked

I was trying to install one of drewgarens touchwiz roms. touchwiz milestone 5 firefly i believe. not the most recent one because i was too lazy . boy was that a mistake. everything was going smoothly until it booted and it got stuck on boot. I thought no big deal just go into recovery and use a backup. until i did so and recovery was gone and there was only download mode. I have spent the whole afternoon trying to fix it and none of it has worked. I tried flashing the stock rom and it as well got stuck on boot. I looked at all the AT&t relevant ones and also the international versions. so all in all is there anyway to fix this and has anyone had the same issue? i was flashing from cyanogenmod 10 m1 to the drewgaren rom btw. I can also go to download mode. I tried to flash stock but it still gets stuck on boot. log. I flashed the ATT boot logo and it did not work. all of which were flashed through odin.
any thanks in advance is greatly appreciated.

I think you can flash back to stock with just download mode + odin

Randomacts said:
I think you can flash back to stock with just download mode + odin
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I already tried that. It still get stuck on the Boot logo

stuart26 said:
I already tried that. It still get stuck on the Boot logo
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I can't help you but I wish you luck.

stuart26 said:
I already tried that. It still get stuck on the Boot logo
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Unplug your device. Hold the power button to turn it off. Hold volume up, home, and power. It should go to recovery. If you do the same thing with volume down instead of up, you can get into download mode.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda premium

Sounds like you need a recovery...try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746665
[SAMSUNG GALAXY S3 QCOM TOOLKIT V2.3] Drivers Backup Root CWM BusyBox + MORE [ATT]
Follow the instructions and you should be able to flash the recovery and continue on with what you were doing. Remember to wipe really good when going from aosp back to any stock based ROM. They are completely different and will cause boot loops if you don't wipe.

jethro650 said:
Sounds like you need a recovery...try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746665
[SAMSUNG GALAXY S3 QCOM TOOLKIT V2.3] Drivers Backup Root CWM BusyBox + MORE [ATT]
Follow the instructions and you should be able to flash the recovery and continue on with what you were doing. Remember to wipe really good when going from aosp back to any stock based ROM. They are completely different and will cause boot loops if you don't wipe.
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I cannot enable usb debugging

Crap...there are Odin flashable versions of cwm floating around you'll need to find one of those. If you haven't found one I'll post one up when I get home.

jethro650 said:
Crap...there are Odin flashable versions of cwm floating around you'll need to find one of those. If you haven't found one I'll post one up when I get home.
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K I made it home lol. I'll attach a Odin flashable cwm, it's an older one but it'll get you a recovery, I hope. I just tried it on my phone with Odin, 3.07 both with usb debugging enabled and disabled on my phone and it worked both times. Crap keep getting errors uploading right to xda servers, I'll drop box it in a minute.
Ok here we go Odin cwm--> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28590257/Odin recovery/CWM-Recovery-LTE-SGS3-v4.tar.md5
Newest twrp --> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28590257/Odin recovery/twrp2.3.1install.zip
I'll add the newest twrp for you lol. Flash the cwm with odin, should work and then the twrp is a zip you can flash in cwm.
Hope this helps get you a recovery.
Remember in Odin use only PDA and only have auto reboot checked.

jethro650 said:
K I made it home lol. I'll attach a Odin flashable cwm, it's an older one but it'll get you a recovery, I hope. I just tried it on my phone with Odin, 3.07 both with usb debugging enabled and disabled on my phone and it worked both times. Crap keep getting errors uploading right to xda servers, I'll drop box it in a minute.
I'll add the newest twrp for you lol. Flash the cwm with odin, should work and then the twrp is a zip you can flash in cwm.
Hope this helps get you a recovery.
Remember in Odin use only PDA and only have auto reboot checked.
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This may sound like a stupid question but what boxes do i tick in odin?

After your hooked up and Odin is open under the options on the left side check only Auto Reboot. On the right under files check PDA and use that button to browse your computer and find the cwm you downloaded from my dropbox. Then just hit start on the bottom of the Odin window and let it finish, your phone should reboot when its done. It will get stuck again like you described in your first post but pull the battery, put it back in and boot into recovery using vol up,home and power buttons. That should (if everything flashed OK) put you into cwm 5.5.0.4. Once there wipe data/factory reset then restore the back up you mentioned in your original post, that should get you running again.
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If something has happened to your backup then you could try the stock rooted stuff here , just pick the one for your carrier and follow the instructions. :highfive:

jethro650 said:
After your hooked up and Odin is open under the options on the left side check only Auto Reboot. On the right under files check PDA and use that button to browse your computer and find the cwm you downloaded from my dropbox. Then just hit start on the bottom of the Odin window and let it finish, your phone should reboot when its done. It will get stuck again like you described in your first post but pull the battery, put it back in and boot into recovery using vol up,home and power buttons. That should (if everything flashed OK) put you into cwm 5.5.0.4. Once there wipe data/factory reset then restore the back up you mentioned in your original post, that should get you running again.
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If something has happened to your backup then you could try the stock rooted stuff here , just pick the one for your carrier and follow the instructions. :highfive:
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I was able to get it into recovery but i realized i did not have my sd card in so i turned it off and put my sd card in. unfortunately i was not able to get it back into recovery i tried flashing it again with the sd card in and no luck

That's odd. Couple of stupid questions on my part just to make sure, you had the right button combo, and, you released the buttons soon as the splash screen came on? Can you still get into download mode? Oh and did you do the wipes while in recovery?

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That's odd. Couple of stupid questions on my part just to make sure, you had the right button combo, and, you released the buttons soon as the splash screen came on? Can you still get into download mode? Oh and did you do the wipes while in recovery?
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oh my gosh THANK YOU SOOOMUCH. I was worried i would have to take it to at&t ill be sure to press the thanks button.

I take it you got your phone working lol. Glad I could help a little. Little advice, anytime you switch to a different type of ROM (aosp to stock based or the other way around) make sure you wipe data/factory reset before flashing anything. It will save you problems in the long run.
Oh and could you go back and edit your original post and just add solved in brackets to the title for people in trouble looking for info.

stuart26 said:
I already tried that. It still get stuck on the Boot logo
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Depending on which stock ROM you flashed with odin you should now have a recovery, if not then something isn't right. The full bone stock ROM should have the factory 3e recovery, and the root injected stock ROM should have some version of CWM recovery. A factory reset will most likely fix your boot loop, if there is no recovery flash the rooted stock ROM that matches your device from this guide.
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Need fix: Mobile Odin Modem Flash borked phone, now stuck. Offering bounty

So I have read flashed, read some more and I have gotten nowhere in 5 hours. Going to reach out here:
Situation: used Mobile Odin to flash the 4.4 modem from Fenny's 4.4.2 Stock ROM with MK2, (I'm a dumbass). Upon reboot I would get the SG4 logo then the blue mobile odin logo, then freeze. Was able to get into TW 2.7 but nothing would write, would say that it appeared that ROM wasn't rooted. Odin'd cf-auto, brought me back to stock recovery, odin'd TW 2.6.3.1 so now i'm back into custom. Went to go to one of my backups on my extSD, and it restored. Now I'm stuck at the SG4 logo. Attempted to flash firmware back to AMDL to start over..... nothing is happening. Still stuck on logo. Looking for any suggestions, $20 bounty for a fix

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So I have read flashed, read some more and I have gotten nowhere in 5 hours. Going to reach out here:
Situation: used Mobile Odin to flash the 4.4 modem from Fenny's 4.4.2 Stock ROM with MK2, (I'm a dumbass). Upon reboot I would get the SG4 logo then the blue mobile odin logo, then freeze. Was able to get into TW 2.7 but nothing would write, would say that it appeared that ROM wasn't rooted. Odin'd cf-auto, brought me back to stock recovery, odin'd TW 2.6.3.1 so now i'm back into custom. Went to go to one of my backups on my extSD, and it restored. Now I'm stuck at the SG4 logo. Attempted to flash firmware back to AMDL to start over..... nothing is happening. Still stuck on logo. Looking for any suggestions, $20 bounty for a fix
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First off, please don't post the same question in multiple threads. The Help thread where you posted this was plenty.
Second, try this.
If you are able to get back into recovery, get back to the part where you had twrp 2.6.3.1.
Then restore your backed up rom like you said you already did. (You may still be at that point, but it's not clear if you overwrote that restore when you tried to use Odin.)
Once you are back at that point, wipe cache and dalvik from your restored rom. See if it boots then.

Skipjacks said:
First off, please don't post the same question in multiple threads. The Help thread where you posted this was plenty.
Second, try this.
If you are able to get back into recovery, get back to the part where you had twrp 2.6.3.1.
Then restore your backed up rom like you said you already did. (You may still be at that point, but it's not clear if you overwrote that restore when you tried to use Odin.)
Once you are back at that point, wipe cache and dalvik from your restored rom. See if it boots then.
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Sorry, a moment of frustration, I'm usually better than this. I factory wiped on 2.7.0.1, (I installed that since I can't do anything else at the moment) and I'm still stuck. do I dl a rom and try to abd push it?

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Sorry, a moment of frustration, I'm usually better than this. I factory wiped on 2.7.0.1, (I installed that since I can't do anything else at the moment) and I'm still stuck. do I dl a rom and try to abd push it?
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I would recommend downloading the official 4.2.2 tar file and flashing it via Odin from your computer. What bootloader are you on? With the device powered off, press and hold the volume down button, while holding the volume down button, press the power button to turn on your device. Once it vibrates, release the power button. It will prompt you to press volume up to enter download mode, or volume down to cancel and restart. Press volume up. If you do not have Knox use the 4.2.2 tar file and flash that. It seems like your partitions tables are screwed up. So flashing the official tar file will reset that. Afterwards, you will need to flash your custom recovery again through Odin. Then restoring your backups should work.

elesbb said:
I would recommend downloading the official 4.2.2 tar file and flashing it via Odin from your computer. What bootloader are you on? With the device powered off, press and hold the volume down button, while holding the volume down button, press the power button to turn on your device. Once it vibrates, release the power button. It will prompt you to press volume up to enter download mode, or volume down to cancel and restart. Press volume up. If you do not have Knox use the 4.2.2 tar file and flash that. It seems like your partitions tables are screwed up. So flashing the official tar file will reset that. Afterwards, you will need to flash your custom recovery again through Odin. Then restoring your backups should work.
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Where would i find the official tar? How would i find the bootloader info? I was on mk2. I know I have knox after going to the offical rom

jrkart99 said:
Where would i find the official tar? How would i find the bootloader info? I was on mk2. I know I have knox after going to the offical rom
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I was on amdl.

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I was on amdl.
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This is the tar file you will need. Flash this in Odin on your PC and let it do its thing. Then reboot back to download and flash your custom recovery. If you try to boot after flashing official tar, it won't boot. You will need to wipe data and the original factory recovery, if you wipe data using that, it will also wipe your internal sd card as well.
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I was on amdl.
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Here is a good "How To" thread as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258628

elesbb said:
This is the tar file you will need. Flash this in Odin on your PC and let it do its thing. Then reboot back to download and flash your custom recovery. If you try to boot after flashing official tar, it won't boot. You will need to wipe data and the original factory recovery, if you wipe data using that, it will also wipe your internal sd card as well.
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Here is a good "How To" thread as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258628
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awesome! I found that thread a few posts back and there was no file. I found it on the web. I am flashing now.

Survey says,... Flashed an official tmo tar.md5 file via odin and everything went alright there. immediately went back into dl mode and put in tw 2.7.0.1 back in and booted into that no problem. Factory wiped. Restoring insanity rebirth 4.3,... watching louisville slide in the 2nd,... refresh beer,.. watching louisville regroup,.. kinda,... and,.... after 1 min still stuck at the s4 logo screen.

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Survey says,... Flashed an official tmo tar.md5 file via odin and everything went alright there. immediately went back into dl mode and put in tw 2.7.0.1 back in and booted into that no problem. Factory wiped. Restoring insanity rebirth 4.3,... watching louisville slide in the 2nd,... refresh beer,.. watching louisville regroup,.. kinda,... and,.... after 1 min still stuck at the s4 logo screen.
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Grab a 4.3 kernel and reflash your kernel. If its stuck at the logo screen its more than likely a kernel issue, if stuck at boot animation, its a ROM issue.

elesbb said:
Grab a 4.3 kernel and reflash your kernel. If its stuck at the logo screen its more than likely a kernel issue, if stuck at boot animation, its a ROM issue.
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how do i get it on the phone from a zip?

jrkart99 said:
how do i get it on the phone from a zip?
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Using your recovery. You flash it in recovery like a ROM.

elesbb said:
Using your recovery. You flash it in recovery like a ROM.
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you were right,.. kernal

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you were right,.. kernal
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So is it working?

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So is it working?
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yes. So after i went back to stock I got it up and running. I then went back to restore insanity 4.3, got the logo freeze again. went back into my original stock back up got it running again,... dl latest insanity 4.4 and flashed new kernal with rom and its fine. pm me a pay pal or email and i'll send you 20.

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yes. So after i went back to stock I got it up and running. I then went back to restore insanity 4.3, got the logo freeze again. went back into my original stock back up got it running again,... dl latest insanity 4.4 and flashed new kernal with rom and its fine. pm me a pay pal or email and i'll send you 20.
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I have a donate button if you really want to. I appreciate it!
here is a direct link too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/donatetome.php?u=2675647