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Help! I messed up cwm recovery and now cant recover.

I have a Koodo Samsung Galaxy 2x sgh-t989d. running ICS 404 .I have been attempting to root and run a custom mod.CM9
I installed cwm recovery and was able to root, but made a mistake and I dont believe cwm recovery was installed correctly as I was not properly in download mode when I ran odin.
Was able to achieve root, but phone had odd quirk that it would hang on shut down. Had to remove battery.
I installed cm9 but it hung on boot screen animation so i restored but the hang on shut off remained. I then attempted to reinstall CWM recovery again using odin. thinking it didnt install correctly the first time....bad idea
Result: now when I try to access CWM recovery the lines are double spaced and I cant do anything but reboot.
Is there a way to repair the cwm recovery or flash my phone back to stock?
I am a total noob and hope this is the right place for this and would very much appreciate any help I can get.

If you're rooted you can download ROM Manager from Play, it will flash CWM for you.
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RTFOP said:
If you're rooted you can download ROM Manager from Play, it will flash CWM for you.
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Thanks for the response. Unfortunately No I had tried to restore to factory because of the hanging on shutdown so I am stuck with the phone unrooted. I can access the CWM recovery folders via the sd card, so its really a matter of fixing the CWM install without root.
I have noticed that there is a koodo stock signed zip for my phone on this site which i have downloaded. Is there a way to flash that onto the phone bypassing CWM.
My phone is still operational and so I am a little afraid of making it worse.

If you can get your phone in download mode and connect to odin the you should be able to restore back to stock rom/recovery and perhaps try the process again..
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rymanh said:
If you can get your phone in download mode and connect to odin the you should be able to restore back to stock rom/recovery and perhaps try the process again..
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+1 agreed
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rymanh said:
If you can get your phone in download mode and connect to odin the you should be able to restore back to stock rom/recovery and perhaps try the process again..
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Yes, I can still get into download mode and hook to odin.
Oddly I installed CWM the first time with odin, in recovery mode I believe, and it installed with an error but it worked.
Reinstalling CWM using odin in download mode is what messed up CWM in the first place, so I was a little afraid to try it again..
I clicked pda and pointed towards recovery.tar.md5 as per instructions that I cant link to yet.
so your saying I should try it again?

rymanh said:
If you can get your phone in download mode and connect to odin the you should be able to restore back to stock rom/recovery and perhaps try the process again..
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Thanks for your timet guys, How do I use odin to get back to stock? I know how to use CWM to do it.

this is for soft bricked, but it's exactly the same process.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1414341
Happy flashing!
Side note: make sure you run odin as admin, less likely to get errors. And i don't know much about koodo but i would assume that you would need their stock tar file for all this to work
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6KayZee9 said:
Thanks for your timet guys, How do I use odin to get back to stock? I know how to use CWM to do it.
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I don't know if there is an odin flashable stock koodo rom in the development thread yet. You could need that to do it..
However if you are having problems with cwm there is an odin flashable twrp in the dev thread.. Once you install that you can flash superuser and root your phone.. Or even go back to cwm if you choose to
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EnigmaticGeek said:
this is for soft bricked, but it's exactly the same process.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1414341
Happy flashing!
Side note: make sure you run odin as admin, less likely to get errors. And i don't know much about koodo but i would assume that you would need their stock tar file for all this to work
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Cant find the file after searching, if anyone has it. On this thread it appears they are working on it but whats been posted is for a CWM recovery I believe. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1844657.

rymanh said:
I don't know if there is an odin flashable stock koodo rom in the development thread yet. You could need that to do it..
However if you are having problems with cwm there is an odin flashable twrp in the dev thread.. Once you install that you can flash superuser and root your phone.. Or even go back to cwm if you choose to
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I am reading up on twrp and will get back to you with ?? thanks again for the help.
Does TWRP use the same recovery tar files as CWM?

6KayZee9 said:
I am reading up on twrp and will get back to you with ?? thanks again for the help.
Does TWRP use the same recovery tar files as CWM?
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It doesn't use .tar files and neither does cwm I think what you are referring too is .zip files..
Unless specified you can flash anything in this forum with twrp. Some roms require cwm but once you have a working recovery on your phone you will easily be able to switch from one to the other
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It doesn't use .tar files and neither does cwm I think what you are referring too is .zip files..
Unless specified you can flash anything in this forum with twrp. Some roms require cwm but once you have a working recovery on your phone you will easily be able to switch from one to the other
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852753
Here is a link to the thread you will find the odin flashable twrp file
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It doesn't use .tar files and neither does cwm I think what you are referring too is .zip files.
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Oops yes, sorry zip files.
Ok after a little research here is my plan. First to install TWRP 2.2 using odin (since I dont have root) from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852753
and then use TWRP to install this stock original rooted koodo ICS 4.04 zip rom from here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849748
will it work?

6KayZee9 said:
Oops yes, sorry zip files.
Ok after a little research here is my plan. First to install TWRP 2.2 using odin (since I dont have root) from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852753
and then use TWRP to install this stock original rooted koodo ICS 4.04 zip rom from here:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1849748
will it work?
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Yes it should work.. after you have twrp you can flash the stock koodo rom or any other rom for the T989/D or the Skyrocket but for the Skyrocket you will need the rotation fix that can be found by searching this forum
Oh and report back with your progress
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rymanh said:
Yes it should work.. after you have twrp you can flash the stock koodo rom or any other rom for the T989/D or the Skyrocket but for the Skyrocket you will need the rotation fix that can be found by searching this forum
Oh and report back with your progress
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Ok i will move forward then thanks.
First off in the instructions to install TWRP using odin it says to reboot to bootloader is that the same as download mode? Not taking chances at this point.

6KayZee9 said:
Ok i will move forward then thanks.
First off in the instructions to install TWRP using odin it says to reboot to bootloader is that the same as download mode? Not taking chances at this point.
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Yes you need download mode to connect to odin..
Before you go further I just wanna clarify one thing.. Is it cwm on your device that is causing problems or are you just unrooted?.. Because if you are just unrooted then flashing a rooted rom will fix that
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6KayZee9 said:
Ok i will move forward then thanks.
First off in the instructions to install TWRP using odin it says to reboot to bootloader is that the same as download mode? Not taking chances at this point.
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So I googled it and supposedly bootloader is recovery mode , not download or odin mode in other words up and down plus start button. Is this right when I installed CWM with odin it was supposed to be in download mode??

rymanh said:
Yes you need download mode to connect to odin..
Before you go further I just wanna clarify one thing.. Is it cwm on your device that is causing problems or are you just unrooted?.. Because if you are just unrooted then flashing a rooted rom will fix that
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CWM is the problem if I boot into recovery mode the menu displays, but is double spaced and unresponsive as if its not loading correctly.
I am trying to get around not having a working version of cwm installed.
Now I am confused why the install instructions for TWRP say enter bootloader mode with odin ???? thanks for helping me here rymanh

6KayZee9 said:
So I googled it and supposedly bootloader is recovery mode , not download or odin mode in other words up and down plus start button. Is this right when I installed CWM with odin it was supposed to be in download mode??
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You must be in download mode to use odin.. Otherwise it won't detect your phone...Open odin then Hold Vol down + power the release power once your phone vibrates then connect it to your computer with usb.. Then you should be connected
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Ok so I installed TWRP in odin mode as suggested and it worked. Now if I enter bootloader or recovery mode TWRP runs first hurdle cleared. so I will try and flash the new rom now.

[Q] CWM problem please help!

I was running cyanogenmod 9 on my phone when I looked into rom manager, I realized that there was a new version available (6.0.2.7) so I installed it via rom manager. A few days later i found that a stable version of cyanogenmod 10 was available so i put the zip file on my phone and followed the instructions to flash it. I did a darkside superwipe and everything. Then i went to boot my phone and it was stuck on the boot animation for 30 minutes, i scrolled down the page to find a comment from a person having the same issue, he said that to fix it he just pulled the battery out of his phone, put it back in and booted into recovery, did a factory reset, cache wipe and fixed permissions, then booted and it worked. I decided to try, so I booted recovery and tried to do a factory reset, clockworkmod froze. I tried it again, and it froze again. I then tried to clear the cache, clockworkmod froze. I tried to do a darkside superwipe, clockworkmod froze. No matter what I try to install clockworkmod will freeze. Has anybody on here had this problem, or know how to fix it? Or maybe know how to downgrade clockworkmod without being able to actually use the phone?

First off, don't use the Superwipe script on anything other than CWM 5.0.X. It'll cause a boot loop and ruin your recovery. I think your best bet is to boot into download mode and flash a recovery using Odin.
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I just discovered that I can't get into download mode either.

Have you ever tried to reset your phone through kies? If not give it a try. Open kies on your computer then go to tools and click on upgrade and initialize. It will ask you to enter your device model, then the s/n number and just follow the instructions from kies. Let me know if that works for you
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isoul said:
Have you ever tried to reset your phone through kies? If not give it a try. Open kies on your computer then go to tools and click on upgrade and initialize. It will ask you to enter your device model, then the s/n number and just follow the instructions from kies. Let me know if that works for you
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Good idea, but my phone won't actually get passed the boot animation, so Kies can't recognize it.

Yeah mine was doing the same, can you get it in download mode?
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I tell you what, plug your phone to the computer and press volume up down and power it should get you in download mode then try to do the above trick
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If you can still get back to CWM recovery mode, you can use adb from a PC to reboot it into download by
Code:
adb shell
su
reboot download
After that you should be able to use Odin to push anything you need to (or Kies *should* work when it's in download mode, it's been a while since I've used it for anything)

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Yeah mine was doing the same, can you get it in download mode?
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I tell you what, plug your phone to the computer and press volume up down and power it should get you in download mode then try to do the above trick
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Yes just figured out to get my phone in download you have to just hold the down volume button, then put in the usb cable. Rather then holding both up and down.

Just to let you you don't need kies to recognize your device to do that.
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isoul said:
Just to let you you don't need kies to recognize your device to do that.
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Just retried and it started, but then I got a notice with a bunch of Chinese writing, then the upgrade shutdown.

Well sorry to hear that. I would recommend to go galaxys2root.com and look for how to unbrick, I used that the last time my bricks
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If you can get to download, you can try Odin to push a new recovery image. If you get CWM back up and running, you can use various adb spells and have a pretty good chance to get your phone back into working condition.

Let us know how things going. We will try to get your phone back to working condition.
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isoul said:
Let us know how things going. We will try to get your phone back to working condition.
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alright so, heres where I am: the whole kies thing didn't work, so I tried to flash a new recovery through odin, it failed and now my phone is on a message that looks like the download screen, but instead of "downloading" it says "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in kies and try again.

May be try kies again. I also post a web site to check I used it the last time my phone bricked. If you didn't see it here it is galaxys2root.com and look for how to unbrick. It worked for me.
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isoul said:
May be try kies again. I also post a web site to check I used it the last time my phone bricked. If you didn't see it here it is galaxys2root.com and look for how to unbrick. It worked for me.
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Figured out that the screen I was seeing is still download mode, and odin still recognizes my phone. Found on the website that if I try to flash the stock firmware via odin, it should unbrick/ unroot the phone. When I tried to flash through odin it got stuck on the boot.img process and wont load any further. I tried kies again and still had the same problem.

Sorry to here that. In the meanwhile, I will do some research, will let you know.
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isoul said:
Sorry to here that. In the meanwhile, I will do some research, will let you know.
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alright thanks man, i'm going to come up with a good story to tell Samsung to get it warrantied lol, any ideas?

Yeah man that sounds like a good plan. Tell them your phone wasn't acting like it used to so you went on kies trying to upgrade / initialize in hope that it will work but it damages your phone with some chinese or korean dialog box that you didn't unstand
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HELP! Cannot boot to recovery!

HELP! rooted, checked its rooted but cannot boot into recovery! flashed recovery also many times already
Keep on going to samsung boot screen with a off-centre logo and flickering screen, then it goes blank.
Please help! Trying to flash some custom rom but just cant get into recovery.
Thanks!

Try a different recovery or different method to flash.
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UtkarshGupta said:
Try a different recovery or different method to flash.
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That works, TWRP works, but CWM just wont. I'm using a n7105 international variant, any possible reasons?
another weird thing, i can only flash TW based roms, like cleanrom etc. All CM and aokp roms will go through the flicker thingy and blank screen.
Help please! the reason i root is to do away with tw!

I'm having this exact problem and have no idea what the issue is. If I wait a while after the screen goes black I see the buttons light up and when I press them I get hapic feedback. So I'm assuming it's disabling the screen or something?

Yeah you are correct.
As long as capacitive buttons turn on and the phone vibrates, it means it has booted which generally means a successful boot but failure in screen.
Secondly make sure you do not flash N7100 roms on N7105.
They are too very different phones.
Additionally try cleaning cache dalvik data and system.
Also make sure recovery is for n7105.
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Flash stock rom with PC Odin. Root again & flash TWRP Recovery.
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I also had this flickering recovery bug. I was flashing CWM with Toolkit v3.0.0 and i think, the problem is in recovery version it uses 6.0.1.7). I reflashed it 3x but every time the same flickering. So i found 6.0.1.5 somewhere, and it is working like a charm.
Hope it helps

Same problem here. Would you mind if i ask for a copy of the 6.0.1.5? I would like so much to root my phone but cant go to CWM or the android system recovery.
Tuxxperia said:
I also had this flickering recovery bug. I was flashing CWM with Toolkit v3.0.0 and i think, the problem is in recovery version it uses 6.0.1.7). I reflashed it 3x but every time the same flickering. So i found 6.0.1.5 somewhere, and it is working like a charm.
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No problem mate. Here you go: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1901196

Try philz recovery
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How did you flash the 6.0.1.5 Tuxxperia? did you still use the toolkit or just odin?
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I also had this flickering recovery bug. I was flashing CWM with Toolkit v3.0.0 and i think, the problem is in recovery version it uses 6.0.1.7). I reflashed it 3x but every time the same flickering. So i found 6.0.1.5 somewhere, and it is working like a charm.
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Gt-n7100 4.1.2
got the same problem too. every time i boot to recovery(-volume+home button+power) i got this flickiring and then the screen shutsdown, i tried different version of cwm but not those with img file type.
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Try philz recovery
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Thx a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have the same problem 2 ' I dont have access to my laptop can I use mobile odin
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I flashed via mobile odin made nandroid backup all is well and working ' thank you verymuch now I can gets aflashing ' only got my note 2 replacement yesterday its been hard not being able to flash roms liquid jellybean here I come
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[Q] HELP, I Soft Bricked my SIII (I747M)

Hey guys i'm new to the forums and looking for some help.
I've rooted my S3 succesfully and installed CWM as well as flashed the updates for it, but after flashing the CM 10.1 ROM i cant't seem to get passed the CM logo, the screen just stays black. I've been looking through the forums and managed to find some stock ROMs but for some reason Odin(3.0.7) keeps giving me a fail message every time I try to do it.
Please help me I would just like to start from scratch and give it another go, is there any sort of guide to just reset everything either using Odin or from recovery?
Thanks

Flash a stock type ROM from development section or try to download another cm type rom . didnyoubtry anything else before you flashed cm and after
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Flash a stock type ROM from development section or try to download another cm type rom . didnyoubtry anything else before you flashed cm and after
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I've tried flashing a few stock roms and they all fail using odin, am I doing something wrong? And i can't flash from recovery because ic ant access internal storage while its stuck at logo.

To use Odin:
Usb in the back of computer (#1 on a laptop)
Reboot computer
Phone in download mode (volume down+ home+ power)
Run Odin as administrator
Use a known good cable
After flashing back to stock, when you get hung up on boot:
Pull battery, wait 2 minutes, reinsert
Boot into recovery with button combo, factory reset, reboot.

mrhaley30705 said:
Boot into recovery with button combo, factory reset, reboot.
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When I try this it just reboots back into CM logo and again at the black screen, I am wiping all caches and formatting every directory.

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elyjah said:
I've tried flashing a few stock roms and they all fail using odin, am I doing something wrong? And i can't flash from recovery because ic ant access internal storage while its stuck at logo.
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Are they in the .tar format ? You can't flash .zip ones in Odin. You can get them from the no tripping flash counter root method
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mrhaley30705 said:
To use Odin:
Usb in the back of computer (#1 on a laptop)
Reboot computer
Phone in download mode (volume down+ home+ power)
Run Odin as administrator
Use a known good cable
After flashing back to stock, when you get hung up on boot:
Pull battery, wait 2 minutes, reinsert
Boot into recovery with button combo, factory reset, reboot.
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I've restarted and ran as admin, tried multiple ports and still getting the fail message when I click start on Odin with my md5 file under the PDA slot, could it be a bad file?

And you have to extract the file one time after downloaded.

Maybe try using Odin v1.85?
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And you have to extract the file one time after downloaded.
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What do you mean? I have a stock on but its in .zip, the md5 is the one not working and I have already extracted it once.

elyjah said:
What do you mean? I have a stock on but its in .zip, the md5 is the one not working and I have already extracted it once.
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Okay have you tried putting a rom in an ext SD card sand flashing from there ?
Sounds like you are using Odin fine, maybe a bad download ?
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hednik said:
Okay have you tried putting a rom in an ext SD card sand flashing from there ?
Sounds like you are using Odin fine, maybe a bad download ?
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Yes I loaded some stocks onto an external SD, but couldent figure out how to flash from them, can only seem to access the internal storage using recovery?

With twrp I know how but I haven't used cwm in forever.
I think its install zip from school card and then choose zip from ext SD card
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hednik said:
With twrp I know how but I haven't used cwm in forever.
I think its install zip from school card and then choose zip from ext SD card
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Yea I can't find it, not sure what to do next.
I tried using Odin 1.8.5 but still no luck.
Does anyone have any links for the canadian stock ROMs? Maybe I could try a few and see if any work?

elyjah said:
Yea I can't find it, not sure what to do next.
I tried using Odin 1.8.5 but still no luck.
Does anyone have any links for the canadian stock ROMs? Maybe I could try a few and see if any work?
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Stock rooted Canadian to flash in Odin is in the rooting walkthrough. So you can't get into recovery at all ?
Tried a different cord ?
Canadian gs3 have a different button combo I think.
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Stock rooted Canadian to flash in Odin is in the rooting walkthrough. So you can't get into recovery at all ?
Odin does recognize your phone ?
Canadian gs3 have a different button combo I think.
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hednik said:
Stock rooted Canadian to flash in Odin is in the rooting walkthrough. So you can't get into recovery at all ?
Tried a different cord ?
Canadian gs3 have a different button combo I think.
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Wow ok I managed to flash TWRP using Odin, then was able to flash a stock rom through my external SD and it seems to have brought it back to stock, weird how odin could not do it itself, anyways thank you so much for your help.

elyjah said:
Wow ok I managed to flash TWRP using Odin, then was able to flash a stock rom through my external SD and it seems to have brought it back to stock, weird how odin could not do it itself, anyways thank you so much for your help.
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No problem at all. I find twrp a bit more intuitive to use and that odd cwm didn't find ext card. Glad it worked.
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[Q] TWRP won't load anymore and phone can't detect sim

I've had Sons of Android installed on my phone for a few months and a few days ago my phone stopped detecting the sim, I haven't had service since it stopped. I was going to try doing a restore to the stock rom but when i try to boot into TWRP it shows the splash screen for a few seconds, then it goes black and vibrates 3 times, and then it boots into android. Is there anyone here that can help me with my problem?

for your sim. try looking up as if it was.block?
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I don't understand what you mean by .block
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Go to the imei and see if the imei on the phone was blacklisted.
S2 running stock jellybean 4.1 and proud of it.
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Look up return back to stock for t989.
S2 running stock jellybean 4.1 and proud of it.

How do I do that?

tmobile offfer this service. just google blacklist check imei. also check under your settings -about phone and check under imei.does it say unknown
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Yes, my imei is unknown. BTW I'm with Koodo, not t-mo, I live in Canada.
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have you try flashing the latest radio. do at your own risks.
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jason4962 said:
have you try flashing the latest radio. do at your own risks.
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I'm going to try flashing the stock rom with odin in the morning, I'll post if it works.

transilvanianhunger said:
I've had Sons of Android installed on my phone for a few months and a few days ago my phone stopped detecting the sim, I haven't had service since it stopped. I was going to try doing a restore to the stock rom but when i try to boot into TWRP it shows the splash screen for a few seconds, then it goes black and vibrates 3 times, and then it boots into android. Is there anyone here that can help me with my problem?
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Put the phone into download mode and reflash twrp 2.6.0.4 maybe u deleted something u shouldn't have, reflashing the recovery should fix that, and if u wanna go back to stock u need to go to sammobile.com download ur firmware and flash with Odin, same thing put phone in DL mode and use odin to flash stock IMG.
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After flashig TWRP with Odin I have service but I still can't load TWRP.

transilvanianhunger said:
After flashig TWRP with Odin I have service but I still can't load TWRP.
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How are u trying to get into recovery? Hold power and vol+vol- until phone shuts down, as soon as u feel the first vib let go of power button but continue to hold vol+vols until u see twrp screen, or depending on which ROM ur on u may have an advanced rebbot screen?, try updating ur su app, or better yet download twrp manager from play store, u can flash/backup/restore right from ROM without having to boot into recovery, but u need to have twrp recovery installed for this app to work
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I can't get into TWRP from the button combo but if I use goomanager it loads.

transilvanianhunger said:
I can't get into TWRP from the button combo but if I use goomanager it loads.
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Try twrp manager from play store, u won't need to boot to recovery, u can do it all from main system, or use Odin to reinstall twrp and see if that helps sometimes goo can cause issues
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