I've been running various CM9 nightlies for a while now and I use CWM and ROM Manager to handle updating. Today I accidentally put CM10 over CM9, it booted but things were messed up. I then figured I'd just try putting CM9 over that and see what would happen rather than reverting to a backup. Now it's stuck on the CM9 boot animation. That just keeps running endlessly.
I can't get into recovery though. I hold power, volume up and home, the phone vibrates, and Samsung appears briefly on the screen, then nothing. As soon as I release the buttons it just starts a normal boot. I'm not sure how many minutes I need to hold the buttons, but I'm pretty sure I've tried it long enough. Using power, volume down and home I got into the download screen, but I'm not sure what I should do with that at this point.
Is there some trick to getting a T-mobile phone into restore? I thought when I originally rooted it I had to release one of the buttons at a certain time to get into download mode.
KeithLM said:
I've been running various CM9 nightlies for a while now and I use CWM and ROM Manager to handle updating. Today I accidentally put CM10 over CM9, it booted but things were messed up. I then figured I'd just try putting CM9 over that and see what would happen rather than reverting to a backup. Now it's stuck on the CM9 boot animation. That just keeps running endlessly.
I can't get into recovery though. I hold power, volume up and home, the phone vibrates, and Samsung appears briefly on the screen, then nothing. As soon as I release the buttons it just starts a normal boot. I'm not sure how many minutes I need to hold the buttons, but I'm pretty sure I've tried it long enough. Using power, volume down and home I got into the download screen, but I'm not sure what I should do with that at this point.
Is there some trick to getting a T-mobile phone into restore? I thought when I originally rooted it I had to release one of the buttons at a certain time to get into download mode.
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Try booting into download, CANCELING, then immediately holding home and vol up. See if that works.
I managed to get into recovery by holding the three buttons and as soon as I saw the Samsung logo I released all three buttons and if finally worked. I'll keep that other method in mind if I continue having issues, thanks.
Now hopefully my backup will take.
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Well Hello there, my name is poszy and i am having a very difficult experience.
So about a week ago i rooted my Acer A100 because i wanted cynogenmod, (i was running stock ICS)Long story short i bricked my tablet because CWM froze while i was wiping my tablet.
i did all of the following
1.) Rooted Tablet
2.) unlocked bootloader
3.) installed clockwork
All of these steps were done with the methods found here, Maybe it bricked because i was on Stock.
Anyways, i was lucky enough that my tablet only bricked to the point where it only looped during the android logo.
I am able to access the bootloader, but as soon as i tried to go back to ICS stock (because that was the only rom i could go back to and try to bring my tab back to life) that locked the bootloader. so now i have the stock bootloader. Everytime i try and flash a stock ICS update.zip it does not go past the android logo.
So i tried to flash the Honeycomb stock Acer_A100_1.014.08_COM_GEN1 Via stock recovery, and it all flashes well but for some reason it keeps asking me for a password.
i obtained the Acer_A100_1.014.08_COM_GEN1 from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1307046
Stock Recovery seems to be working fine because when i power on my tab it loads into honeycomb but i cant get past the first screen because it keeps asking me for a password. :crying:
i have tried to do a hard reset with the pinhole but that does not do anything. Every Honeycomb stock rom i try to recover from always tells me to enter a password and every ICS rom i try to flash with the default recovery will not boot past the android logo.
on honeycomb i cannot do anything, i cant mount storage or access app drawer or anything because the pinlock dosent allow me to.
Can someone please help me and tell me what im doing wrong?
i was fortunate enough to make a nandroid of my ICS stock rom, but thats no use with a stock recovery right?
Since you flashed a stock rom, you should have a stock recovery, locked bootloader and unrooted. So you should be good to go, to just do a normal factory reset. To get rid of the pin lock.
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-Press and hold the Volume up button. Which is located farthest from the corner.
-While still holding the Volume up button, press and hold the Power button for 3 seconds and then immediately release it. Continue holding the Volume up button.
-The tablet will vibrate in approximately 1-2 seconds after you release the power button, once you feel or hear this vibration, slide the screen lock switch on and off repeatedly while continuing to hold the Volume up button.
-As soon as the Erasing Userdata... message appears in the upper left corner of the screen, release the Volume up button and stop sliding the screen lock switch. You should then also see the Erasing Cache... message below that as proof that your device is being wiped.
Many thanks
Romman0 said:
Since you flashed a stock rom, you should have a stock recovery, locked bootloader and unrooted. So you should be good to go, to just do a normal factory reset. To get rid of the pin lock.
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-Press and hold the Volume up button. Which is located farthest from the corner.
-While still holding the Volume up button, press and hold the Power button for 3 seconds and then immediately release it. Continue holding the Volume up button.
-The tablet will vibrate in approximately 1-2 seconds after you release the power button, once you feel or hear this vibration, slide the screen lock switch on and off repeatedly while continuing to hold the Volume up button.
-As soon as the Erasing Userdata... message appears in the upper left corner of the screen, release the Volume up button and stop sliding the screen lock switch. You should then also see the Erasing Cache... message below that as proof that your device is being wiped.
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HOOOPLAA!!!! :highfive: thanks alot that worked perfectly! my tab is back to 3.2.1. Thanks alot!!
I rooted my phone to a stock root on my Jelly Bean Galaxy S3. I then installed ClockworkMod through ROM Manager, then CM10. It installed OK, now stuck in a boot loop. No big deal, I'll reinstall to my Kies backup. Doesn't work, I can't seem to get into recovery mode. I hold the buttons, it vibrates, and the screen stays black until I let go at which point it boots to that horrendous boot loop. I really need my phone back!
P.S. Please explain as if I am five years old.
Flightfreak said:
I rooted my phone to a stock root on my Jelly Bean Galaxy S3. I then installed ClockworkMod through ROM Manager, then CM10. It installed OK, now stuck in a boot loop. No big deal, I'll reinstall to my Kies backup. Doesn't work, I can't seem to get into recovery mode. I hold the buttons, it vibrates, and the screen stays black until I let go at which point it boots to that horrendous boot loop. I really need my phone back!
P.S. Please explain as if I am five years old.
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Download mode couldnt get any simpler bud
Edit: just incase if you dont know its down home power button to get to it, find your galaxy s3 firnware (ATT/Bell etc...) and your back stock nonrooted. And then you can root againif you wanna
While in a boot loop, hold the buttons. The phone will power off and stay off as long as you hold them down. Let go of all three, then immediately press all 3 again. When you see a little blue line of letters on the top left of your screen, let go again. Should boot into recovery from there.
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While in a boot loop, hold the buttons. The phone will power off and stay off as long as you hold them down. Let go of all three, then immediately press all 3 again. When you see a little blue line of letters on the top left of your screen, let go again. Should boot into recovery from there.
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Did you read the question bro.. he said he CAN'T go to recovery mode only other option is download mode
No, the option is to boot into recovery and perform a factory reset (which may fix his problem). IF that doesn't fix his problem, he can flash a different ROM from recovery, provided he had custom recovery.
The only difference in getting to download as opposed to recovery is which volume button you use. Chances are if he can't 3 button into recovery, download will be the same result.
Thanks
Got it fixed guys, thanks for the help, now I'm back at Stock Rooted 4.1.1, but am still on the quest for a deodexed rom!
Excellent suggestion - it worked for me
mrhaley30705 said:
While in a boot loop, hold the buttons. The phone will power off and stay off as long as you hold them down. Let go of all three, then immediately press all 3 again. When you see a little blue line of letters on the top left of your screen, let go again. Should boot into recovery from there.
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I got a Galaxy S III on 23rd Dec 2012 with Ice Cream Sandwich installed. A couple of weeks later it updated itself with a little help from me to the latest Jelly Bean. Since then it's gone into the reboot loop 3 times without any provocation; i.e. I get it out of my pocket and it's in a reboot loop but it had been fine the last time I used it. I tried pressing various buttons alone and in combination and eventually it came out of the loop. At no time did I have to remove the battery. The only mod I've made to it is the addition of a 64GByte SD card, apart from the upgrade to Jelly Bean. I've seen many posts on this problem but yours is the first that confirms my solution for getting out of it. It's obviously a common problem so somewhere there must be a description of what causes it and, hopefully, how to prevent it as it's a real nuisance when you want to use your phone and it's in a reboot loop. If and when I find a definitive article I'll post here again.
Thanks MrHaley.
I rooted my Galaxy S II t989 and used goo.im to install the recovery program (whichever it found compatible with my phone) and Cyanogenmod 10. I flashed CM10 from goo.im, and the phone backed up and rebooted to the the cyanogenmod screen. It was stuck there forever (over 30 minutes), so I pulled the battery and tried to get into recover mode, but no dice. I can't get to recovery mode, and it just goes back to the cyanogenmod screen.
When I hold volume up, down, and power it'll flash the "teamwin" blue screen, but then just go blank and if I keep holding volume up, down, and power, it'll just pulse the vibrator every second until I let go (forever if I just keep pressing). When I let go, it just goes to the cyanogenmod screen.
I'm kind of at a loss here, and I'm afraid of bricking the phone. What can I do?
wademosthenes said:
I rooted my Galaxy S II t989 and used goo.im to install the recovery program (whichever it found compatible with my phone) and Cyanogenmod 10. I flashed CM10 from goo.im, and the phone backed up and rebooted to the the cyanogenmod screen. It was stuck there forever (over 30 minutes), so I pulled the battery and tried to get into recover mode, but no dice. I can't get to recovery mode, and it just goes back to the cyanogenmod screen.
When I hold volume up, down, and power it'll flash the "teamwin" blue screen, but then just go blank and if I keep holding volume up, down, and power, it'll just pulse the vibrator every second until I let go (forever if I just keep pressing). When I let go, it just goes to the cyanogenmod screen.
I'm kind of at a loss here, and I'm afraid of bricking the phone. What can I do?
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Just go back to stock use Odin or flash the teamwin recovery
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esema1o said:
Just go back to stock use Odin or flash the teamwin recovery
Sent from my SGH-T989 using Tapatalk 2
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I think I figured out how to get into recovery. If I take the battery out and start holding the buttons before I put the battery back in I can get into recover. I am now flashing stock. But if I couldn't get into recovery or download mode how could I flash anything with Odin?
wademosthenes said:
I think I figured out how to get into recovery. If I take the battery out and start holding the buttons before I put the battery back in I can get into recover. I am now flashing stock. But if I couldn't get into recovery or download mode how could I flash anything with Odin?
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The easiest way to get into recovery is to shut your phone off, press volume up and down buttons and power. When you feel it vibrate let go of the power button only.
For download mode turn off, press both volume buttons and plug phone into computer.
meekrawb said:
The easiest way to get into recovery is to shut your phone off, press volume up and down buttons and power. When you feel it vibrate let go of the power button only.
For download mode turn off, press both volume buttons and plug phone into computer.
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How timely, I thought I had seen something weird before with releasing the power button.
Thanks.
So I'm running CM 10.2 android version 4.3 and I started to notice that when I pressed the power button, it brought up the reboot menu instead putting my screen to sleep so I downloaded the newest nightly and figured it was probably just a bug and went to flash the latest nightly. Upon reboot, my phone got in an infinite bootloop so I pulled the battery, let it sit for a minute and then held the power, volume up and menu button to enter recovery. I got the blue words in corner that you will normally see when booting into recovery, then saw the S3 screen that you'll see right before entering recovery, however, my phone started rebooting again constantly vibrating etc. So then I decided to try and get into download and flash back to stock with Odin. So I entered download mode, pressed volume up on the confirm screen and then it entered download mode and then immediately rebooted and wouldn't stop. Is my phone bricked? I'm wondering if the power button is broken since when in download mode, it reboots which normally occurs when you hold the power button in download mode. Sorry for the long description but just wanted you guys to know what I've done so far and am experiencing. Any help is appreciated. I've been rooting phones from all manufacturers for years now and I'm out of ideas at this point. Thanks!
Definition of a bricked phone: A completely unresponsive device which doesn't turn on at all. Doesn't vibrate upon start up and doesn't have any signs of life.
You most likely have a jammed power button as that has been the issue with the GS3. Not a brick.
Clearly not bricked as the first reply explained. And for the love of god, please use some white space (paragraphs) next time.
If you think that a button is jammed, see if you can physically unjam it without causing damage. If you believe that the flash may be messed up, the mskip's Samsung Toolkit may be able to reflash a known good ROM even with a stuck button. And look into some of the button remapping apps like the aptly titled Fix Broken Power Button app.
Good luck.
It's been stuck at this loading screen for hours. Are there any ways out of this? I cant power off nor can I connect it to my PC. It always rebooted perfectly until I flashed the 5.0 version of ElementalX. Then this happened. Hope to hear some input asap as I'm trying my best not to panic. No other kernels are on here except for micro gapp and CM 13. I would remove the battery pack, but might as well get a new phone at that point. I would post a picture but I'm a new user so I'm restricted. Thanks!
legitbeans said:
It's been stuck at this loading screen for hours. Are there any ways out of this? I cant power off nor can I connect it to my PC.
would remove the battery pack, but might as well get a new phone at that point.
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No need to do a battery pull on this phone, as you know is not really feasible. HTC has already thought that out, and built-in a hardwired button combo that does the same thing. Hold power button+ vol up until the phone reboots (may take a minute or so in the current condition). The moment the screen goes dark to reboot, slide your finger from vol up, to vol down (no need to keep holding power button at this point) and don't let go until the bootloader screen appears. From there, you can boot recovery, connect fastboot, etc.
If the button sequence above fails, its virtually always due to getting the timing wrong, either not pressing vol down soon enough, or letting go too early. Either of which, will result in trying to boot normally (not bootloader) which in your case puts you back stuck on the loading screen. Just repeat until you get it right.
Although, at this point, your battery may have just run out. In which case, you should be able to charge, and just hold power+vol down to boot directly into bootloader.
legitbeans said:
It always rebooted perfectly until I flashed the 5.0 version of ElementalX.
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Here was your mistake. ElementalX is only for Sense and GPE ROMs, it doesn't work on AOSP ROMs like CM13.
Once you get booted into recovery, you should be able to dirty flash CM13 to re-install the CM kernel, then reboot. Or at the worst, wipe, flash CM13 and gapps again.