I have been a lurker in the forum for a while and now i regret not posting. I am stuck in a bootloop and there is NOTHING in the thread to help :/ can anyone help its a SCH-T989
What caused it? ie. Flashing a Rom, rebooting... Have you tried pulling battery? Details my friend.. details.
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see this is the tricky part. I have had it for a week and in the middle of answering a text it shut down and now it is stuck like this. nothing out of the ordinary.
Try pulling the battery for like 5 to 10 min, put back in and try getting into recovery. If you can't get into recovery try download mode and Odining back to stock, or stock rooted.
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nothing still. cant even get into download mode. all it does is vibrate.
Have you tried Booting into recovery or download mode? If you can get into your recovery try fixing permissions and reboot. .. or odin if you can get into download mode.. Where is your freezing or looping? boot animation?!
edit: did not see your post above, if you can't get into download mode you might as well try and get a refurb from Telus
Well...thank you anyways. My worst fear :/ i hope they will fix/replace.
Try a different usb port on your computer. Also for recovery try pull battery out hold vol up, down and power reinsert battery
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so my phone will boot cwm but will not boot up. it goes to the SAMSUNG screen and just holds. please help.... any ideas would help
Ur not bricked try to get into download mode pull ur battery out slide ur keyboard out press and hold the # 1 key and the power at the same time if ur able to boot into download mode ur ok just use odin to restore back to stock
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usarmy321 said:
so my phone will boot cwm but will not boot up. it goes to the SAMSUNG screen and just holds. please help.... any ideas would help
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If you're able to boot into cwm, then you're fine.
I'm assuming you were flashing a ROM, so just wipe everything x3, and reflash the ROM or a different one.
What he said ^^^^^ or follow this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ2g6J1JgjU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Here you go. Read, read, READ! And if you get lost/stuck, come back here for help.
- How To Fix A Brick -
If this helped, hit "Thanks"...
Sounds like you may still have stock kernel on a custom rom.
nikon120 said:
Sounds like you may still have stock kernel on a custom rom.
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That's what I was thinking. Try flashing a kernel.
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i cant get into download mode need another option, ill try loading an other kernal, but i tried the update but no luck
i cant get into download mode need another option, ill try loading an other kernal, but i tried the update but no luck
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i cant get into download mode need another option, ill try loading an other kernal, but i tried the update but no luck
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Now that doesn't make sense. You can safely get into CWM, but not into download mode?
I have to ask to make sure. With the phone off, you're holding the 1 key on the keyboard and then holding the power button?
Well if that's the case, get to a PC and insert your SD card into a reader. Download a kernel, like Genocide v2 or etc to the card, and boot into CWM to flash the new kernel off the card. See if that helps.
yes i hold down 1 and the power button, and i tried the genocide2.0 and it still does the same just the samsung screen has a different logo
Sounds like my hardware locked vibrant try flashing cm7 or miui then see if you can make it back to dl mode
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Are u rfs or ext4? Cuz sounds like ur trying to flash a incompatible rom
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yes i hold down 1 and the power button, and i tried the genocide2.0 and it still does the same just the samsung screen has a different logo
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What ROM are you trying to flash? If you are getting the Sammy screen, you aren't far away from success
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Update: I have tried all new kernals and new roms, now my phone will not boot to root anymore, nor download mode, it will only freeze on SAMSUNG screen only. I Think its time to take a trip to sprint
usarmy321 said:
Update: I have tried all new kernals and new roms, now my phone will not boot to root anymore, nor download mode, it will only freeze on SAMSUNG screen only. I Think its time to take a trip to sprint
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If your phone has life you should be able to get into download mode. Take your battery out, press the power button for 10 seconds. With the battery still out connect with cable to computer and press and hold the 1 key on the keyboard and then add pressing and holding the power button. Download mode will appear. Connect to Odin now.
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i downloaded darkside digital warfare, moved it to the sdcard and added the flags. installed it from touch cwm recovery, now it it wont boot up. it goes to the darthvader loading screen blue line fills up quick then goes to samsung logo then turns off. just got this phone saturday and now i cant use it. i had a 7in galaxy tab i never had problem loading a rom on. what do you guys think?
Reinstall it through cwm
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Just get back into recovery and flash a different ROM. I had that happen a few times, it's just a bad flash. If the other ROM boots fine, it might have been a bad download.
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ok i have tried about 5 times the 3rd time the blue line went about 1/4in and froze so i had to pull the battery. just to make sure where exactly to i move the zip file to? i have it on the internal sdcard and my external sdcard.
no i cant get into recovery load up my new download of darkside!!
firechicken25 said:
no i cant get into recovery load up my new download of darkside!!
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Pull the battery, hold the buttons to get into recovery and then put the battery in. you should be able to get into recovery.
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When i hold down both vol buttons and power button it does a quick vibe then samsung pops up quick and goes away quick and thats it so now i cant get it into recovery mode. i can get into downloading mode
Odin back to stock and start over if worst comes to worse. Don't worry this seems alot worse than it really is.
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is there a stock rom to download? or is there a guide to help me odin back to stock? i have odin on my computer so i understand how to use it
the battery ended up being dead so its all good now. got it up running
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the battery ended up being dead so its all good now. got it up running
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Great!
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My phone is in bootloop and my verison of CWMR does not work, what can I do?
Pull the battery out, put it back in, hold volume up and down until you get into download mode, plug the phone into your computer via USB, re flash a recovery and ROM with Odin. I'm sure you can find the links and instructions for those things. You seem bright.
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that's exactly what I did man, thanks!
So this is kind of a unique issue i'm having. I have the I-747 on AT&T and flashed AOKP rom (it was taking too long to get JB). It worked for about 3 days and then got stuck in the android boot screen (used the rom feature to get rid of the pink unicorns). after that, I booted into recovery and reset my phone, and it worked again for a few more days, then it wouldnt boot again (I dont believe I changed any settings between the boots). After this time, it wouldnt let me boot into recovery and would only boot to the android start screen and stop. I used odin to flash the stock rom, which only took me to the 2nd samsung boot screen and stopped (after the AT&T splash shows up). I looked online and saw someone say try CF-root using odin, tried that and it didnt help. Then tried using a custom kernel siyah s3, and now it will only show the initial samsung splash screen before turning off again. Any suggestions here? I figured I'd stop researching since i dont want to really mess up my phone worse than it already is
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So this is kind of a unique issue i'm having. I have the I-747 on AT&T and flashed AOKP rom (it was taking too long to get JB). It worked for about 3 days and then got stuck in the android boot screen (used the rom feature to get rid of the pink unicorns). after that, I booted into recovery and reset my phone, and it worked again for a few more days, then it wouldnt boot again (I dont believe I changed any settings between the boots). After this time, it wouldnt let me boot into recovery and would only boot to the android start screen and stop. I used odin to flash the stock rom, which only took me to the 2nd samsung boot screen and stopped (after the AT&T splash shows up). I looked online and saw someone say try CF-root using odin, tried that and it didnt help. Then tried using a custom kernel siyah s3, and now it will only show the initial samsung splash screen before turning off again. Any suggestions here? I figured I'd stop researching since i dont want to really mess up my phone worse than it already is
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I have a similar issue, someone please help
Your main issue now is that you flashed siyah. We don't have one. If you can get to download mode, you will want to flash back to stock.
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As DeathSdoor said...flash stock.
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d3athsd00r said:
Your main issue now is that you flashed siyah. We don't have one. If you can get to download mode, you will want to flash back to stock.
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Thanks guys! So I used odin to flash the stock boot loader and stock rom, but it is still hanging up on the 2nd samsung screen like it initially did (the one after the AT&T boot animation). Any other ideas on what could be the cause?
How long is the hang? Sure is just not the 1st initial boot of the new rom?
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How long is the hang? Sure is just not the 1st initial boot of the new rom?
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The first boot can take as long as 5 minutes sometimes. So, if you haven't waited that long, then try out some patience. Otherwise, try booting into recovery (stock now) and factory reset.
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bump!
I have this same issue. I have restored to stock rom and it does the Samsung boot, then AT&T, then it goes to Samsung pulsating with a blue pulsating LED.
I have left it in that mode for at least 15 minutes and it never boots.
I can still get into download mode.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Has anyone tried booting into recovery after flashing the stock ROM and wiping caches then rebooting?
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Has anyone tried booting into recovery after flashing the stock ROM and wiping caches then rebooting?
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I let it run for 2 hours (left the house came back and i was still on. And phone wont boot into recovery at all ( i tried many times, but it just boots normally and skips recovery until it gets to the 2nd samsung screen, then stops there).
I dont know if this is relevant, but while the phone is off and plugged in, i can still see the battery meter and the Green LED (so i'm guessing it's still working, it just wont boot)
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And phone wont boot into recovery at all ( i tried many times, but it just boots normally and skips recovery until it gets to the 2nd samsung screen, then stops there).
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Same here!!!
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Has anyone tried booting into recovery after flashing the stock ROM and wiping caches then rebooting?
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As Jethro said clean everything and factory format in recovery. Your just not doing the buttons right to get in to recovery
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As Jethro said clean everything and factory format in recovery. Your just not doing the buttons right to get in to recovery
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I went into recovery many times before, I'm definitely hitting the buttons right but it still wont go into recovery, it just tries booting like normal. I can go into download mode easily, but that's it.
jbizz, did you start getting this error after flashing AOKP rom also? trying to figure out what could have caused the issue in the first place
I'm not really skilled on these things, but I once had a similar issue with my phone not booting and had to end up using Kies to emergency restore it. Odin wouldn't recognize my phone but kies would.
Although I think my issue with odin may be stemming from my computers usb ports...
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I actually flashed a bad kernel and the phone wouldn't boot after that.
What is the proper way to boot into Stock Recovery?
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Fixed it! What I did was go into Kies software and did a firmware upgrade instead of trying to flash from odin, then put it in download mode instead of recovery, but it still worked. Thanks for all the help, guys! guess it's time to move to a CM based rom?
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Fixed it! What I did was go into Kies software and did a firmware upgrade instead of trying to flash from odin, then put it in download mode instead of recovery, but it still worked. Thanks for all the help, guys! guess it's time to move to a CM based rom?
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Thats bad badassness! I will try that when I get home!
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mrneilix:
Please give me step by step what you did! Kies is being a bastard!
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jbizz said:
mrneilix:
Please give me step by step what you did! Kies is being a bastard!
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Sure, I'm doing this largely from memory since I mostly figured it out by throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks.
Open Kies->tools->firmware upgrade and initialization->enter model name then serial number (they're behind the battery) -> put the phone in download mode and plug it in. it should take care of the rest.
Fair warning, this will fully wipe your phone, i lost all my pics (thank you google+'s instant upload or i'd be PISSED) and titanium backup (there goes my 3 stars on every level in angry birds and great scores in temple run), but at least you get a phone that can function as more than a paper weight, right?
mrneilix:
You're my new best friend and I don't even know you!!!
Thanks for the help, you're a legend!
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I was rooted and on a custom rom but had a few problems so im trying to go back to stock, i flashed stock firmware and my phone boots then gets stuck at the samsung screen. i have tried to go into recovery with no luck. i see the blue words telling me it's booting to recovery but never does all i can seem to do is get into download mode??
i've tried a couple different stock images and same thing so im kind of stuck as to what i can do to get my phone to work again.
please help asap
Fixed
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Fixed
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Care to share what you did to fix it?
This post is kinda pointless if you don't share what happened.
I say this only because mine is doing the same thing.
Sorry bout that, I'm not really sure. Just after a whole day of trying to get into recovery by holding the volume up, home and power I tried waiting till phone said booting recovery then I let go of all buttons and it worked. The day before I was continuing to hold all three after it said booting recovery.
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