Soft Brick on Galaxy 3 - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

So I was trying to to change ROM's and now I believe I have "soft bricked" my phone. I am able to reboot into recovery (CWM) but I did a full format (internal SD along with all system, cache, data, etc). So, needless to say I have no backup. When I enter CWM I did a full wipe and format, restarted recovery, loaded my ROM and went to reboot.
This ROM had a disclaimer that said "may return to stock", or something to that effect, so I clicked go back. It instantly rebooted anyway. I thought is was something with permissions so I went back in and fixed them but still nothing. So I dumped a different ROM onto my external card and loaded it (using the same above method...full wipe). Same.
The phone goes to post, gets to the SG3 screen then goes black and nothing. If I pull the battery and put it back I can get back inot recovery but nothing else.
What do I need to do?

Ok, so I booted into download mode and and got the recovery file from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1727443 and followed his instructions and it it booted. Don't know what I did wrong, or if I should do something now, but I'm good for the moment.

A Galaxy 3 is not a Galaxy S3. Just ticked as I'm searching for the 3.

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[Solved] Tried to change Android ID, not rom is not booting

Hi Everyone,
I'm running a rooted HTC Evo with Fresh Evo 3.4.0.1 on it. I understood that the reason AppBrain's fast web installer does not work is because the "Android ID" on the device is the same, and it needs to be unique...
I changed the Android ID, and now the phone only get's up to what I assume is loading the OS. It's the part where you hear "fresh" and see the penguin.
It repeats fresh over and over again, but never loads the OS.
Any ideas on what might be going on and how I can fix it?
In case anyone is interested, I figured this out. It was a bit of a process, but was able to get my system to boot again doing the following:
1. Booted into recovery mode
2. Used 'nandroid' to back up bad system (but it was the data partition that I was interested in.
3. Performed a clean wipe/factory reset (the system booted up fine)
4. From the clean reset, grabbed out of the data partition the file "/data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db". Put this file on my sdcard.
5. Rebooted the device and went back into recovery mode.
6. Used 'nandroid' to restore the bad system back
7. Copied the clean 'settings.db' over the bad one.
8. Rebooted and everything was fine. I had lost a bunch of settings, but other important information was all there.
Hope this might help someone.

[Q] Recovery and/or Wipe not working.

OK, so I have my wife's old Incredible that was Rooted with Unrevoked. It was kept stock Rooted.
She got an Incredible 2 and I now want to sell her old Incredible. Tried to Wipe data and SD Card using the Data and Storage Settings menu. The phone acts like it is doing both things, but doesn't actually format the SD Card, and when doing a Factory Reset, the phone reboots and acts like it is wiping the data. When it boots back up, her background is still there and there are a bunch of widgets that say "Problem Loading Widget" on them. It does seem to remove some items as email accounts are reset, GMail, etc. are all wiped.
So, I reboot into Recovery to try and reflash the stock Radio, put S-On, and install the stock ROM, but no matter what I choose in Clockwork Recovery, I get a "blank" screen after choosing a menu item. For example, when I go to "Install Zip from Sdcard," It will take the input and where it would normally ask what Zip I want to install, it only shows the background of CWR. If I try to Wipe Data, where normally it would have all the menu options with "NO" and the one that says "Yes - Wipe Data," that menu never shows up.
So, I can't fully wipe the thing, and I can't seem to flash stock Boot, Recovery, etc. to get this back to stock so I can sell it.
Any ideas?
I'll try helping you out.
1) download a new Incredible recovery from dougpiston.com/ and follow his directions above the downloads.
2) reboot into hboot (you can also turn off phone then hold vol down + power). It should prompt for an update, which you should accept. Let your phone do it's thing, it may take several minutes or longer.
3) Once you have a new recovery, delete that PB31IMG recovery file.
Your recovery should work as expected now. Btw, where did you download the s-on file from?
SlimSnoopOS said:
I'll try helping you out.
1) download a new Incredible recovery from dougpiston.com/ and follow his directions above the downloads.
2) reboot into hboot (you can also turn off phone then hold vol down + power). It should prompt for an update, which you should accept. Let your phone do it's thing, it may take several minutes or longer.
3) Once you have a new recovery, delete that PB31IMG recovery file.
Your recovery should work as expected now. Btw, where did you download the s-on file from?
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I downloaded both the Stock recovery, flashed and got a picture of a phone with a Red Exclamation point on it. I then downloaded CWR 3.0.0.8 and flashed that, this time it goes into recovery but does the same thing the other one does: Shows the menu options but then the screen goes blank if I try to choose an option.
EDIT: Holy poop, I think I know what the issue was all along! Basically, I was thinking that recovery worked like my Thunderbolt in that the Vol +/- was how to scroll in CWR menus and the PWR button was the select. Turns out that you use the trackball to both scroll AND select menus in CWR on the DInc!
I just wiped the device in CWR and it is booting up. I already sold the phone to a friend and she told me to keep it Rooted with a stock ROM on it, so I don't have to go any further provided that it wipes properly!
Well as long as it works!

[Q] Stuck on main boot screen

My phone will not get past the first boot screen.
I am rooted with S-off.
I can charge, boot into recovery, and boot into the bootloader.
I tried to maybe install an RUU to get a clean slate but since the phone doesnt mount that didnt work.
I also put a PB31IMG on my SD to maybe boot a fresh update as well but it didnt seem to see it. Could be a bad one because I was able to downgrade the radio.
Any ideas or help would be appreciated. I dont have anything that is important so if I need to go back to stock that is fine.
Not sure if this will help - I'm not one of the super-experts on here, but when I first tried modding my phone (without the proper knowledge), I got stuck in a bootloop. I pulled the battery from the phone, downloaded a rooted stock rom from XDA and loaded it on my sd card. Put the card back in the phone, put the battery in, started it up and booted into recovery.
From there I took the usual steps:
Choose "wipe data/factory reset"
Go into "mounts and storage" menu and choose "format /boot" and confirm
Choose "format /system" and confirm
Go back to main menu and choose "install zip from sdcard"
I browsed to the Stock Rom I had downloaded from XDA and chose it - it worked and my phone went back to normal.

Won't boot, can't mount sdcard

Hello,
First of all, I feel like an idiot right now, and I most probably am. I'm using a HTC One X from ROGERS. Here's the whole story:
1) I unlocked the bootloader succesfully
2) I rooted my phone via a superboot script or something like that
Note: At this point the phone was working perfectly and I stayed that way for 3-4 days.
3) I finally found a working CWM recovery image for the One X from Rogers
4) I flashed it and was able to enter CWM Recovery
5) Following the thread on Android Revolution that's around on these forum, I downloaded something called Super Wipe and the ROM itself
6) When trying to "install" Super Wipe from within CWM Recovery, it kept giving me an error with Status 0
7) Got tired trying stuff so I did Wiped data/cache/Delvin (however it is spelled) cache/battery stats/everything I could wipe
8) Tried again, still didn't work
9) This time -and here is where I think I massively screwed up- I decided I'd try the format options, so I formatted cache, data, sdcard and system.
10) At this point I noticed the phone wouldn't boot anymore, I'd just get the "This build is for development purposes blah blah blah" and it would loop on that forever
11) Going back into CWM recovery, I now noticed that the sdcard was unmounted, when I tried remounting it, it would give me an error message saying E:Can't mount \sdcard (or was it "Error mounting \sdcard"? Not so sure anymore)
12) Tried re-locking and re-unlocking the boot loader, didn't work
So now here I am, phone won't boot, will just loop, and I can't mount the (internal?) sdcard anymore, actually I never really noticed if it was mountable, but I assume it was since I recall being able to complete the wipe everything operation in CWM recovery.
Is there anything I can do? I've heard of a few options, namely installing the RUU or something like that and a software called Odin which after searching a bit I believe is only for Samsung devices. The thing with the RUU is that I have a Rogers handset, and I don't think the RUU for that one is available. Also, is there any way I can access the internal sdcard on my PC while the phone is in the bootloader or CWM recovery? Maybe I'd be able to do something that way...
Also, I bought with the 3-years contract from Future Shop 5 days ago, think I can just go back and say "Hey, the phone crapped up" and expect them to change it without inspecting it too much to notice the **Tampered** **Unlocked** tags in my bootloader?

[Q][Very serious]Non-booting/non-changing/not working problem

I woke up today to a bootloop. After pulling out the battery, I cant turn it on, it was stuck at the google logo. I thought it was some rom issue or something. When I had the time, in the afternoon, I just boot to recovery, and wiped data+sd card. Turns out sd card was not wiped.
Just now, I found a way to boot it. (AFTER WIPING DATA) I used the gnex toolkit and boot with insecure image, and guess wat? My old rom boots. Everything was the way it was, and then it crashed and stuck on the google logo again.(I made sure i wiped things two to three times, data and sd) I did a few experiments:
1) Flash using ODIN
2) Flash CWM using toolkit--it changed back to twrp after reboot
3) Changing the icon on my homescreen after boot--- everything was the same again after booting
4) Flash stock image using toolkit
5) Wipe data using manual adb
6) Try to lock my bootloader

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