So this is my first time posting so im a pretty big noob at this, but here it goes. I have a T-mobile Galaxy s2 that i rooted a few months ago. Today CM9 released the stable version, which is what Ive been waiting for so i decided to try it out. (again, Ive never flashed a rom before I only used the stock one) I followed all the steps to do it and now its been at the boot screen for over an hour. The instructions said be patient, but I feel that over an hour is too long. I decided to pull the battery, hoping I could go into recovery mode and do a factory reset. When I try to go into recovery mode it vibrates a couple times but doesn't go into recovery mode. I can't go into download mode either. Does anyone have any idea for what I can do to at least do a factory reset? Thank you in advance for the help.
Edit* After going into recovery, I tried a factory reset but its still trying to boot into CM9. Why is it doing that?
When factory reset it doesn't go back to stock rom .
How are you flashing the rom?
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bmakk2055 said:
When factory reset it doesn't go back to stock rom .
How are you flashing the rom?
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Actually, for some reason recovery was being really strange. I had to hold down the power and the volume buttons 3 times for it to go to recovery, then I restored an older backup that was on my memory card and it took a while then finally worked
Do you by chance know why it didn't work?
I've been getting this same problem. I can get back to recovery and recover from my backup just fine, but every time I try to get CM9 working, it won't go past the boot screen, even after about an hour of waiting.
I've tried the CM9 hercules stable release off the CyanogenMod website and the CM9 RC2 download through ROM Manager, I've tried installing through ROM Manager and straight from booting into recovery, and I've tried putting the zip on both external and internal storage just in case that might conceivably affect something. I have the same problem every time. I'm using CWM 5.0.2.7 and currently on rooted stock.
Any ideas on how I might get this rom working?
You need Darkside super and cache wipes, which are both available in a sticky with an obvious title in the development section of the forum.
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RTFOP said:
You need Darkside super and cache wipes, which are both available in a sticky with an obvious title in the development section of the forum.
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Cool, thanks. :good:
RTFOP said:
You need Darkside super and cache wipes, which are both available in a sticky with an obvious title in the development section of the forum.
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What he said. Non touch clockwork mod for this phone has a broken cache wipe function. Will cause infinite boot. Flash tdjs cache wipe NOT THE SUPER WIPE. and you should be golden.
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I downloaded Starburst ROM. I followed the instructions and it keeps force closing and powering on/off.
So I downloaded and flashed again. Same thing.
I know I have an Epic Touch 4G. I downloaded from this forum in the development section. I remember when the phone would start up it would say SPH-D710 or something like that. Now when I turn it on it says GT 19100 (at the start up menu).
I am trying to go back to stock, having a hard time.
I've wiped EVERYTHING, 3 times. I've downloaded 3 different ROMS. Everytime I boot up the phone it says GT I9100 at the start up.
How do I go back to complete stock?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Any custom kernel will do this..... look in dev acs has a rom to flash with odin that will take you back to stock ....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282420
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So any custom kernel will make my phone think it's a GTI 9100 and make is boot over and over?
FatTony1 said:
So any custom kernel will make my phone think it's a GTI 9100 and make is boot over and over?
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No it will not make it boot loop you must not have wiped .... wipe dalvik and cache before flashing kernel ....
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Yesterday I tried updating to CM9 alpha 6 and when i updated i got stuck in a boot loop. it wasn't a clean install from 5 then when i got to the bootloop i did a factory reset and I'm still stuck. Someone told me it was possibly a bad ROM file. He told me to reflash a kernal and see if it boots up and if that doesnt work try flashing a newly downloaded CM6 Rom. I flashed the FF11 kernel and now i cant boot into recovery. If i hold power and up, it just boots normally put gets stuck in the CM9 animation. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Try to Odin back to el29 that should do the trick just would have to start everything all over again.
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yellowman82 said:
Try to Odin back to el29 that should do the trick just would have to start everything all over again.
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Ok so let me see if i got this process correctly, odin to el29 which puts me back on GB TW, then i boot into recovery then install the ROM? do i need to reflash gapps? also another question. I did a factory reset on my phone, that doesnt delete the internal storage partition that the phone reads as "sd card" correct?
Yes factory reset does not delete internal SD memory. You don't have to go back to gb. Just go into download mode, Download el26 cwm kernel and flash that through odin/PC and wipe everything. Flash cm9 alpha 6 and gapps. Should be good to go.
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daniel4653 said:
Yes factory reset does not delete internal SD memory. You don't have to go back to gb. Just go into download mode, Download el26 cwm kernel and flash that through odin/PC and wipe everything. Flash cm9 alpha 6 and gapps. Should be good to go.
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sweet! im going to do it right now. thanks
armandosal said:
sweet! im going to do it right now. thanks
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You're welcome. Let be know if it works.
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it worked. thank you so much. I had a feeling that was what i was supposed to do but i completely bricked my last epic touch so now im very weary about doing flashes unless im 100% sure
I flashed TWRP 2.5 and then flashed Task's AOKP 4/9 ROM and everything went down hill from there. The phone kept rebooting after a minute or so, so I did a factory reset and reflashed the ROM. That didn't help, it actually made it worse in that it would not get past the kernel splash screen. So I did another wipe and the same thing. I wiped again and flashed an older version of AOKP 4/5 and again would only get to the kernel splash. After another hour or so I decided I'll just go back to rooted stock, so using Odin 3 3.07 I flashed my trusted root69.stock_ATT_I747UCALG1 image and now it just stays on the Samsung screen.
I've run out of thoughts on what the hell is the problem and thought I'd ask.
Anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to get this paper weight working again?
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I flashed TWRP 2.5 and then flashed Task's AOKP 4/9 ROM and everything went down hill from there. The phone kept rebooting after a minute or so, so I did a factory reset and reflashed the ROM. That didn't help, it actually made it worse in that it would not get past the kernel splash screen. So I did another wipe and the same thing. I wiped again and flashed an older version of AOKP 4/5 and again would only get to the kernel splash. After another hour or so I decided I'll just go back to rooted stock, so using Odin 3 3.07 I flashed my trusted root69.stock_ATT_I747UCALG1 image and now it just stays on the Samsung screen.
I've run out of thoughts on what the hell is the problem and thought I'd ask.
Anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to get this paper weight working again?
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Not sure about the problem with aokp. But your bootloop just pull the battery, reinstall battery, go into stock recovery, factory reset and voilà
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KorGuy123 said:
Not sure about the problem with aokp. But your bootloop just pull the battery, reinstall battery, go into stock recovery, factory reset and voilà
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This will do it. Flashing back to 4.0.4 will bootlopp until you factory reset in stock recovery
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Same thing happened to me. Boot loop with 4/9 AOKP task so I Odin to the same file as you but that ran just fine. I would try to Odin again.
Oh and after stock with root I flashed 4/9 and all was good. By chance did you have custom boot animation?
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drock212 said:
Same thing happened to me. Boot loop with 4/9 AOKP task so I Odin to the same file as you but that ran just fine. I would try to Odin again.
Oh and after stock with root I flashed 4/9 and all was good. By chance did you have custom boot animation?
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Yes I had a custom boot image.
Getting ready to factory reset and reboot. Hope all goes well.....
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Yes I had a custom boot image.
Getting ready to factory reset and reboot. Hope all goes well.....
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I think it's the custom boot causing this issue. Anyway good luck. I know my heart skipped a beat when my phone would boot loop while to get into recovery. Once I Odined back to stock with root first/only thing I downloaded was goomanager and installed TWRP then flashed 4/9.
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I think it's the custom boot causing this issue. Anyway good luck. I know my heart skipped a beat when my phone would boot loop while to get into recovery. Once I Odined back to stock with root first/only thing I downloaded was goomanager and installed TWRP then flashed 4/9.
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I'm back up and running again. A little embarrassed I forgot the factory reset last night.
Thanks for the reminder!
AOKP is a great ROM.
When flashing ROMs always follow these steps and you will be fine.
1- nandroid backup
2- format system
3- wipe cache
4- wipe Dalvik
5- factory reset.
Most suggest doing each 3 times.
6- install ROM and reboot
7- flash gapps
Let sit for 10 minutes.
Follow those instructions and everything will be fine.
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I tried flashing and installing the gs4 touchwiz home but now it loaded up and now touchwiz has stooped and there is no home screen. I dont know how to get out of it.
Can I get out of it by flashing stock Odin? Where are those links
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I tried flashing and installing the gs4 touchwiz home but now it loaded up and now touchwiz has stooped and there is no home screen. I dont know how to get out of it.
Can I get out of it by flashing stock Odin? Where are those links
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Flashing stock would definitely get you out of it.
Simple search for stock rooted Roms will give you what you need.
Here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
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KorGuy123 said:
Flashing stock would definitely get you out of it.
Simple search for stock rooted Roms will give you what you need.
Here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
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I did that but now my phone is stuck at the samsung logo
It just worked and booted up and I got to the lock screen and then all of a sudden I rebooted again and now im stuck at the samsung logo. Should I try it again? Please help
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I did that but now my phone is stuck at the samsung logo
It just worked and booted up and I got to the lock screen and then all of a sudden I rebooted again and now im stuck at the samsung logo. Should I try it again? Please help
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If stuck at the Samsung logo boot into recovery wipe cache dalvik and do a factory reset.
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If stuck at the Samsung logo boot into recovery wipe cache dalvik and do a factory reset.
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i dont think i can i just flashed odin and i think I lost recovery
edit: nevermind. I found it. I cant wipe dalvik cache it doesnt have an option, only cache partition. And now ill do a wipre data/factory reset
Sorry for not knowing much. Im just now getting back into using the forums. The last time i used it was when I had a nexus s and after that I got an Atrix HD (which was impossible to root) but now that I have a gs3 Im getting back into things
Thanks a lot. Just got past the samsung logo. When this happened I was flipping out worrying that Id have to return it or something, thank you so much for your help.
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i dont think i can i just flashed odin and i think I lost recovery
edit: nevermind. I found it. I cant wipe dalvik cache it doesnt have an option, only cache partition. And now ill do a wipre data/factory reset
Sorry for not knowing much. Im just now getting back into using the forums. The last time i used it was when I had a nexus s and after that I got an Atrix HD (which was impossible to root) but now that I have a gs3 Im getting back into things
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NP.
You lose custom recovery flashing those files. You retain root though so you can just reflash a recovery and than wipe if you didn't want to wipe through stock recovery.
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Alright, im not completely new to rooting but I have encountered a new problem.
I rooted my phone through odin (galaxy s3 T999), had some hiccups with that so I ended up downloading the stock rom tar and reflashed using that, problem solved good to go still rooted. awesome.
So, I attempted to flash the cyanogen rom using clockwork mod. it wouldn't come past the load screen, went into clockwork mod to recover my backup but for some reason it wouldn't let me access the SD card to get it. next thought was to go back to odin and flash the same file I used previously to get back to where I was, for some reason this is not working, I can get to download, use odin to flash it, says success and all that, then upoon rebooting it stays at the Samsung loading screen.
So from there I went and downloaded the GS3 toolkit and tried all of their recovery files, all having the same issue. about 18 flashes later I tried reformatting from the phone itself, same issue with the samsung logo being stuck. And now, I am currently baffled, anyone wanna help me out? I have a feeling it has something to do with the .pit option on odin, but I am not that advanced and its just a hunch. so...thanks in advance guys!
So I understand not to touch pit, roger, reading other posts makes that clear, but still cant find a fix, the top right of my download says
ODIN MODE
Product Name SGH-T999
Custom Binary yes: 19 counts
Current Binary Samsung Offical
System Status Custom
Qualcomm secureboot Enable
Okay, what is the current state of the device?
Whst do you see when you boot into recovery ( take battery out of phone the put it back in and do the following: hold volume up, home button and power button, let go of all buttons when you feel the phone vibrate and blue text flashes in the upper left corner of the screen)?
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I just tried to send a rom over that had CWM 6.0.2.3 and it installed that, but still stuck on logo. going into recovery I am in CWM 6.0.2.3
have the standard options wipe/factory, install from zip etc.
You flashed a rom that had cwm 6.0.2.3 or did you flash a rom while on 6.0.2.3?
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I'd say about 98% of the time, when it hangs like that you just need to factory reset.
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Flashed a rom that had 6.0.2.3. I do not have any roms on my ZIP, been doing everything through ODIN. Very confused as to why it suddenly stopped working.
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I'd say about 98% of the time, when it hangs like that you just need to factory reset.
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tried to factory reset and it does the same logo stuck business. That was the last thing i tried after attempting to back up and reflash numerous times. tried flashing again recently, it will install CWM if it is attached to the rom but still gets stuck on the logo. tried re installing odin as well, it is working as usual, starts, restarts the phone, sits awhile, success. then i restart the phone and never get past logo.
I would do what Doc said.
If it still doesnt work, download a rom of your choice (in the t-999 section) and do a full wipe before flashing the rom you picked.
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Da Kine said:
I would do what Doc said.
If it still doesnt work, download a rom of your choice (in the t-999 section) and do a full wipe before flashing the rom you picked.
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what do you mean by full wipe, factory reset? or something else?
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what do you mean by full wipe, factory reset? or something else?
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When flashing a new rom, you have to do a full wipe or youll run into problems like you are currently having.
If you dont know what a full wipe is, then stop what you are doing and put your phone down. Just about every rom thread here on xda explains what a full wipe is, it will be in the first post of the thread.
Like I said, find a rom you like in the t-999 section and flash it after doing a full wipe.
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Da Kine said:
When flashing a new rom, you have to do a full wipe or youll run into problems like you are currently having.
If you dont know what a full wipe is, then stop what you are doing and put your phone down. Just about every rom thread here on xda explains what a full wipe is, it will be in the first post of the thread.
Like I said, find a rom you like in the t-999 section and flash it after doing a full wipe.
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Looked it up, that is what I do by default, didn't know thats what was considered a full wipe, just tried it with similar results, didn't know about the dalvik cache though. im on a work computer so I cannot currently DL a new rom from the site, I hope thats what the issue is, but I still cannot see why my other ones would suddenly not work.
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tried to factory reset and it does the same logo stuck business. That was the last thing i tried after attempting to back up and reflash numerous times. tried flashing again recently, it will install CWM if it is attached to the rom but still gets stuck on the logo. tried re installing odin as well, it is working as usual, starts, restarts the phone, sits awhile, success. then i restart the phone and never get past logo.
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I'm just not sure what you mean by it installing CWM attached to a Rom? Recoveries shouldn't be included with a Rom.
Odin flash the root66 firmware, then reboot to STOCK recovery and factory reset. This will wipe all user data, including your internal sd card. Then try rebooting again.
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