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[Q] Stuck on Jelly Bean Boot Animation (red triangle problem)

I'm sorry I accidently had posted this question in the development forum. Mods please delete that thread.
Guys I need your help. I had 4.0.4 and then I unlocked and rooted my phone to get Jelly Bean (installed V1) following the walkthrough (the day it was released). Tonight I wanted to get to V3 so I made my backups (note not nandroid, just on Titanium & Go Backup) and tried to boot into Recovery Mode. Did the whole vol & power thing and got to the Fastboot mode. Selected Recovery Mode from the menu and was hoping to get to the screen where I can wipe and do the nandroid backup and all. But it shows the Google lock screen (unlocked icon) and then shows the android guy on its back, chest open and a red triangle. I remember having this a while ago when I was unlocking the phone and flashing JB on it but it was no problem. This time it just stays on this red triangle for a while and then the phone reboots (no menu for wipe, backup etc) but the kicker is that it stays stuck on the nexus jelly bean (the "x") animation forever and does not move from there. I've tried to wait it out for over 15 minutes and nothing. I can't even go back to stock on this as I'm using Wugs toolkit and the phone is not recognized in the list devices (I have Win8). I need to get this working as soon as possible. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Did you try ODIN back? I had this problem, but instead of the red triangle, I had the EXCLAMATION mark between a PC and phone icon. Somewhere along the line I messed up with the files and soft-bricked my phone. ODIN would be your last bet, but for me, nothing worked.
Got a replacement next day (covered by warranty)... Good luck, dude...

I met the same problem when I flash JB (JRN84D ROM) from 4.0.4. When I saw "red triangle", I just kept pressing power and press volume up and then it brought me to recovery page. However, be careful, after I did data wipe, I lost all of kernels, rom, cwm recovery...in my phone. it was my first time to flash a phone so I must have done something wrong so now I have 4.1 but re-locked and don't know how to root it again and get CWM back. But at least, you can try power and volume up when you see "red triangle" to enter recovery mode.

sueshake,
thanks for that handy tip with the power and vol up combo. At least now I have some access to phone...thanks
will keep u updated on the progress

You are welcome. Be careful if you want to do superwipe. I guess I almost bricked my phone by doing that. Fortunately, I did flash 4.1 stock rom successfully before wiping data, though I am not sure how I made it from 4.0.4.

[Q] Phone stuck on boot collective rom

First off a little background I downloaded and installed the collective rom from the dev section earlier today and was absolutely loving it. I went into the over the air settings, and downloaded the avengers theme bc I thought it would make a cool edition to show my nephew ( loves the avengers) upon rebooting after successfully flashing I get the avengers A boot logo but it just sits there flashing, and the phone never boots. After waiting a solid 15 minutes for it to boot I held down the power button to power down the phone, and now I can not get it into recovery to reinstall the rom, or install a backup that I made. Clockwork will not come up for some reason, and whenever I try to boot the phone again it gets stuck on the avengers A??? What should I do? What did I do wrong? Thanks in advance
P.S. whenever I plug the phone in it does bring up the battery icon that shows that it is charging, and it will also allow me into download mode.
-Garrett

hino8229 said:
First off a little background I downloaded and installed the collective rom from the dev section earlier today and was absolutely loving it. I went into the over the air settings, and downloaded the avengers theme bc I thought it would make a cool edition to show my nephew ( loves the avengers) upon rebooting after successfully flashing I get the avengers A boot logo but it just sits there flashing, and the phone never boots. After waiting a solid 15 minutes for it to boot I held down the power button to power down the phone, and now I can not get it into recovery to reinstall the rom, or install a backup that I made. Clockwork will not come up for some reason, and whenever I try to boot the phone again it gets stuck on the avengers A??? What should I do? What did I do wrong? Thanks in advance
P.S. whenever I plug the phone in it does bring up the battery icon that shows that it is charging, and it will also allow me into download mode.
-Garrett[/QUOTEf
that is rather wierd. i also use the collective rom its great! but was the avengers theme a flashable theme? or one from theme choooser... if it was flashabble are you sure you did it to the right device.. honestly if i were you and there were no way going into recovery i would unroot and reroot and install ur custom recovery again and restore ur collective rom before this problem happened...
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Thank you for the quick response. Yes I am sure it was a flashable theme, if you are running the collective rom and go to the over the air settings there are themes you can download, and the instructions just say to reboot into recovery, flash the theme, then reboot. after doing that I am now experiencing these problems.
A little more info. Sorry bear with me I'm a noob. whenever I try to reboot (not recovery) it says samsung first then it say samsung galaxy s3 like normal then the next screen is the avengers A and this is where it gets stuck. When I try to reboot into recovery all i get is the first black screen with samsung and then after that the phone turns off and the battery icon comes back up. I don't get the second samsung galaxy s3 screen where you are supposed to release the power button, it just dies and goes to the battery logo.

hino8229 said:
Thank you for the quick response. Yes I am sure it was a flashable theme, if you are running the collective rom and go to the over the air settings there are themes you can download, and the instructions just say to reboot into recovery, flash the theme, then reboot. after doing that I am now experiencing these problems.
A little more info. Sorry bear with me I'm a noob. whenever I try to reboot (not recovery) it says samsung first then it say samsung galaxy s3 like normal then the next screen is the avengers A and this is where it gets stuck. When I try to reboot into recovery all i get is the first black screen with samsung and then after that the phone turns off and the battery icon comes back up. I don't get the second samsung galaxy s3 screen where you are supposed to release the power button, it just dies and goes to the battery logo.
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Since you can go to download mode i assume odin should still recognize your device. If I were you I'd odin unroot...reroot....restore your old collective rom...cuz u wanna stay orange

[Q] Unrooted phone stuck in Android System Recovery

Hello everyone,
My phone is NOT rooted. Earlier today it was stuck on the Samsung Screeen when I turned my phone on. I then used the power, camera, volume down button combo to bring me into recovery mode. Now everytime my phone turns on it stays in recovery mode. I can scroll up and down on my choices but there is not a key that I can press that will select a choice. Any ideas for how I can get my phone to work?
Screen I am stuckl on reads: "android system recovery <3e>
enter: OK key, Select : Vol UP/ Vol Down
reboot system now
apply update from SD cared
Wipe Data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
then theres an exclimation mark in a triangle with the android dude below that
#manual Mode#

If you don't care about existing app data, Odin would be a great choice. Either Odin-ing in a custom recovery or a fresh stock system would get you out of the situation.
Sent from Samsung Captivate Glide @ CM10.1.2

Sounds like you tried to do something and the phone didn't like it, hence you boot back into recovery on it's own.
Use Odin and reflash stock.

Much Thanks
Thank you very much for the responses, for some reason I was under the impression that your phone had to be rooted in order to use odin, much thanks!
I do not care about my personal files getting lost, but just out of pure curiosity, roughly, how would one accomplish that?
I'm try out odin now!

Back to my old problem! Any ideas?
So odin passed twice with all the stock software. Now I am back to my old problem that I had before I was stuck on the recovery screen (hardware issue? idk) When my phone boots up it stays on the samsung screen for 2 mins, then it lags like crazy on the 4g screen (sound and video), and it stays frozen at the Galaxy S screen (for over 6 mins). I need a working phone, luckily I am elgible for an upgrade, but really dont see the need to spend 250 to upgrade my phone or spend 100 for insurance to replace it!
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks again for all of your help so far

apugslovesxda said:
So odin passed twice with all the stock software. Now I am back to my old problem that I had before I was stuck on the recovery screen (hardware issue? idk) When my phone boots up it stays on the samsung screen for 2 mins, then it lags like crazy on the 4g screen (sound and video), and it stays frozen at the Galaxy S screen (for over 6 mins). I need a working phone, luckily I am elgible for an upgrade, but really dont see the need to spend 250 to upgrade my phone or spend 100 for insurance to replace it!
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks again for all of your help so far
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Well, first boot of flashing any custom or stock rom takes a bit to fully boot. If you're stuck at the Samsung or Galaxy S screens, then you should reflash. If you have tried that and still having the same issue, then try a few more times. I've read posts of people having constant boot loops on flashes and they finally got one flash to properly stick after many tries.

So odined again and again, this time my phone eventually did turn on but it literally took 30 mins. When it did turn on I had no network connection nor could I use my touchscreen, it eventually shut off. I'ma go get robbed at the sprint store in a bit lol.

End Thread
End Thread- I got a Samsung Galaxy Note 3. My god- this phone is amazing. Kinda bull**** that I got nothing for my old phone with full insurance when it seems like it was a hardware failure!
Can't wait to play with this beast of a phone tomorrow!

[Q] S3 - Bricked [no recovery, sits at s3 load screen]

Still a bit of noob here - but here's what happened:
I was running clean bean 4.2, then I successfully installed the MK3 baseband w/o any problems. I found that the wifi was broken so I flashed the wifi fix from (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2541900).
Once that flashed ok my system tried to reboot and then proceeded to sit at the samsung loading screen. After 10+ mins I hard pulled the battery and was able to get into twrp and tried a restore backup from before any changes today. Once that finished it rebooted and is still sitting at s3 load screen.
Now when I try to get into recovery nothing happens.
Powering of and on remains sitting at the s3 load screen.
Any help would be appreciated.
Update: Ok not all hope is lost - I can get back into recovery, but restore while successful refuses to load past the s3 screen.
I'm a bit at loss now what to do - would factory resetting it do the trick?
Update 2: Tried a factory reset and still nothing - still sits at the s3 load screen.

Ok - I got a rom manually back on the sd card and reflashed a base rom.
Phone boots back into android. :good:
I have learned my lesson.

Yes, lesson is do not flash zips made for stock touchwiz when you are on AOSP, or vice versa.

Stuck at Samsung splash screen.

Hi,
I recently tried installing the new 4.3 update onto my Samsung Galaxy S3 I747. Also, I never rooted my phone and my carrier is Telus if that matters.
When my phone finished updating, it lead to the lock screen. Just as I was about to enter my pin and unlock it, the phone restarts and gets stuck on the Samsung splash screen. I have tried entering into recovery mode and then wiping the cache and restarting it, but no luck.
I do not wish to restore my phone back to factory settings because I do not want to lose my music and apps. Is there a solution that can fix it without wiping the memory?
Thanks.
edit: i left it charging for a few minutes while it was stuck on the samsung splash screen, and then it went to the lockscreen and restarted it self
... i have to wait five minutes before i can save my edit
editedit: it just went to lockscreen for a second again
editeditedit: its going back to lockscreen quite often and restarting it self

aznpiggy said:
Hi,
I recently tried installing the new 4.3 update onto my Samsung Galaxy S3 I747. Also, I never rooted my phone and my carrier is Telus if that matters.
When my phone finished updating, it lead to the lock screen. Just as I was about to enter my pin and unlock it, the phone restarts and gets stuck on the Samsung splash screen. I have tried entering into recovery mode and then wiping the cache and restarting it, but no luck.
I do not wish to restore my phone back to factory settings because I do not want to lose my music and apps. Is there a solution that can fix it without wiping the memory?
Thanks.
edit: i left it charging for a few minutes while it was stuck on the samsung splash screen, and then it went to the lockscreen and restarted it self
... i have to wait five minutes before i can save my edit
editedit: it just went to lockscreen for a second again
editeditedit: its going back to lockscreen quite often and restarting it self
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When you got it into recovery did you try to wipe data/factory reset??
But to be honest it sounds like your phone is soft bricked maybe. I'm experiencing the almost same problem with my AT&T sgh-i747. Mine is stuck at the Samsung Galaxy S III screen and doesn't go any further than that at all.
You will most likely have to do that same thing I am doing which is reflashing android 4.3 via odin. It may work for you, I'm pretty sure it'll work for mine. Head over here and read this thread and see if this can help if not let me know and we'll come up with somethin else to help you fix your phone. (If I'm correct following this thread and flashing via odin will not erase and of your data.)
Your only other real option is to install the 4.3 MJ2 leak via heimdall. http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2496425
Heimdall will flash odin files. http://glassechidna.com.au/heimdall But odin will not flash heimdall files. It works much like odin flash in download mode so i'm told. I'm trying to figure it out now. I hope this helps.

I was never able to get the above Heimdall installed correctly on my pc. I am still stuck at the black and white galaxy s3 screen. I installed TWRP via odin to try my to run my nandroid i made earlier today and it says successful. But when I go to reboot It says No OS are you sure you want to reboot. I was already on 4.3.3 via the OTA update like you. And now i'm here turn phone on and it's going straight to download mode
Please HELP US BOTH Someone ANYONE