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I think I bricked my Rogers S3.
I had JB running on it. Today I decided to root it again ( I rooted it couple of months ago and then went back to stock). I did the same procedure as last time i.e. using toolkit, however, when I had to choose which file to choose in odin to be flashed in insecure boot, I chose "boot-insecure-spr-l710palen.tar" instead of choosing "boot-insecure-canada-rogers-i747mvale8.tar".
Now after odin finished doing ALLINONE "insecured boot, CWM, root phone + install busybox", my phone restarted and I could hear the samsung logo voice but the screen was totally blank.
I went back to odin and chose ALLINONE "insecured boot, CWM, root phone + install busybox" and this time chose the right file but still the same thing.
So now I decided to unroot the phone by flashing the custom rogers version back on, so I flashed the custom rom using ODIN but still my phone keeps on getting stuck at the samsung logo at the start up. It doesn't go any further.
Is it bricked? How can I solve this problem? Thanks
Note: If i press volume up+home+power, I can get into the mode where it gives me the options to reboot, wipe etc.
Should I try to root it again and try to get into recovery mode to see what can be done to fix it?
Bumped!!!!!!!!!
It's a soft brick, so you're okay.
Just download Odin and flash a restore image on your phone with it.
Search the "development" subforum for "Odin" and you'll find everything you need.
CZ Eddie said:
It's a soft brick, so you're okay.
Just download Odin and flash a restore image on your phone with it.
Search the "development" subforum for "Odin" and you'll find everything you need.
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No no...do a factory reset
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twanskys204 said:
No no...do a factory reset
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Yup. It worked. I just performed a factory reset along with cache wipe and phone started working again. Thanks guys.
So, i am helping my friends to unroot her device, i317m bell's carrier.
My friend did rooting by her self but because she flashed cwm recovery, the flash count went up by one.
However the triangle away doesnt seems working(tried several times but didnt work), need to use the option 'Auto reset on boot' to reset the count.
She want to unroot her device. So i am going to do this and please comment on my idea about will be working or not.
So first, i am going to flash clean firmware to get official recovery,
Second, going to flash rooted rom but not cwn recovery.
Third. Reset the flash count with truangle
Fourth. Re-flash the clean rom.
But what i an havign confusion is at third step.
So as i said before, the triangle need to reset on every boot to get 0 count but if i flash the unrooted rom, will the flash count stay at 0 or back to 1 since it doesnt have root access??
Thanks a lot.
imjunpark said:
So, i am helping my friends to unroot her device, i317m bell's carrier.
My friend did rooting by her self but because she flashed cwm recovery, the flash count went up by one.
However the triangle away doesnt seems working(tried several times but didnt work), need to use the option 'Auto reset on boot' to reset the count.
She want to unroot her device. So i am going to do this and please comment on my idea about will be working or not.
So first, i am going to flash clean firmware to get official recovery,
Second, going to flash rooted rom but not cwn recovery.
Third. Reset the flash count with truangle
Fourth. Re-flash the clean rom.
But what i an havign confusion is at third step.
So as i said before, the triangle need to reset on every boot to get 0 count but if i flash the unrooted rom, will the flash count stay at 0 or back to 1 since it doesnt have root access??
Thanks a lot.
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1.Download Bell rom from link below it is root injected already.
2. Run Triangle away.
3. Open Superuser / SuperSu and do full unroot.
4. Go to stock recovery and perform factory reset twice.
5. Reboot device.
6. Go to Download mode (Down, home power button) and check the status there. If all shows official or Samsung if forgot then you just successfuly reset the counter.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004650
Sent from my SGH-I317M
Unlooting!
twanskys204 said:
Unlooting!
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Lol good eyes I didn't see that.
Sent from my SGH-I317M
I thought we already unlooted when we bought the phone!
twanskys204 said:
Unlooting!
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LOL i always make this stupid mistake ;(
twanskys204 said:
I thought we already unlooted when we bought the phone!
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I did....g
imjunpark said:
So, i am helping my friends to unroot her device, i317m bell's carrier.
My friend did rooting by her self but because she flashed cwm recovery, the flash count went up by one.
However the triangle away doesnt seems working(tried several times but didnt work), need to use the option 'Auto reset on boot' to reset the count.
She want to unroot her device. So i am going to do this and please comment on my idea about will be working or not.
So first, i am going to flash clean firmware to get official recovery,
Second, going to flash rooted rom but not cwn recovery.
Third. Reset the flash count with truangle
Fourth. Re-flash the clean rom.
But what i an havign confusion is at third step.
So as i said before, the triangle need to reset on every boot to get 0 count but if i flash the unrooted rom, will the flash count stay at 0 or back to 1 since it doesnt have root access??
Thanks a lot.
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The newest version of Triangle Away is working properly.
Thanks all for the replies!!! going to try tomorrow.
Merry Christmas everyone. I tried to resolve this issue my self but was unable to. I had stock 4.3 rooted and flashed MOAR. MD5 matched. Everything seemed ok but when I flashed, it was stuck on "updating apps" for over 20 min. I did a battery pull. My phone started and I was able to go to TWRP recovery. I did a cache wipe and factory reset with plans of reflashing but everything was gone, including my nandroid. I tried to flash stock firmware from http://samsung-updates.com/ it said "failed". I cannot get back into TWRP. Is there any way I can restore to 4.1.2? Or 4.3? I just want to get the phone working again. Ideally I would like to get root back but my main priority is obviously just to get the phone working. Thank you.
jeppuda said:
Merry Christmas everyone. I tried to resolve this issue my self but was unable to. I had stock 4.3 rooted and flashed MOAR. MD5 matched. Everything seemed ok but when I flashed, it was stuck on "updating apps" for over 20 min. I did a battery pull. My phone started and I was able to go to TWRP recovery. I did a cache wipe and factory reset with plans of reflashing but everything was gone, including my nandroid. I tried to flash stock firmwa.
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I had a similar bad expreience with updating my rooted S3,
to recover your phone try to get md5 recovery room and install it using odin, try to get the one that called recovery (runs stock 4.0.4) then you can update by Kies to 4.3.
If stock means the Samsung update you need to flash the 4.3 firmware. If stock means the de-Knoxed version from here, I would start by flashing a new recovery image then reinstalling the de-Knoxed one.
Can you not get into any recovery at all?
mjkubba said:
I had a similar bad expreience with updating my rooted S3,
to recover your phone try to get md5 recovery room and install it using odin, try to get the one that called recovery (runs stock 4.0.4) then you can update by Kies to 4.3.
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MD5 recovery room (or rom I googled both)? I could not find it. I'm sorry i have never done this before...could you post the link for it?
Kevets said:
If stock means the Samsung update you need to flash the 4.3 firmware. If stock means the de-Knoxed version from here, I would start by flashing a new recovery image then reinstalling the de-Knoxed one.
Can you not get into any recovery at all?
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When I press the volume up, home and power button it says "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in kies and try again."
I installed the de-knoxed version..I would like to go back to the de-knoxed version if possible. Is there a way to flash new recovery image through ODIN...again, I'm not very confident in my abilities right now and don't want to flash anything to make it worse. Would it be possible to send me a link with what to flash. Thank you
Sorry I meant rom not room, but youv still can get it from the dev "room" forums. I got it from there.
sorry I cant post links here yet, i dont have the enough posts, but google "unroot sprint galaxy s3" it's one of he first links and once you get the md5 file you can use it with Odin, it's a simple process.
fixed it
Fixed it, got to keep root also. Flashed a new recovery image through ODIN (link for recovery in case anyone else needs it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38079994). Then flashed ROM. Thanks for your help guys.
So I have read flashed, read some more and I have gotten nowhere in 5 hours. Going to reach out here:
Situation: used Mobile Odin to flash the 4.4 modem from Fenny's 4.4.2 Stock ROM with MK2, (I'm a dumbass). Upon reboot I would get the SG4 logo then the blue mobile odin logo, then freeze. Was able to get into TW 2.7 but nothing would write, would say that it appeared that ROM wasn't rooted. Odin'd cf-auto, brought me back to stock recovery, odin'd TW 2.6.3.1 so now i'm back into custom. Went to go to one of my backups on my extSD, and it restored. Now I'm stuck at the SG4 logo. Attempted to flash firmware back to AMDL to start over..... nothing is happening. Still stuck on logo. Looking for any suggestions, $20 bounty for a fix
jrkart99 said:
So I have read flashed, read some more and I have gotten nowhere in 5 hours. Going to reach out here:
Situation: used Mobile Odin to flash the 4.4 modem from Fenny's 4.4.2 Stock ROM with MK2, (I'm a dumbass). Upon reboot I would get the SG4 logo then the blue mobile odin logo, then freeze. Was able to get into TW 2.7 but nothing would write, would say that it appeared that ROM wasn't rooted. Odin'd cf-auto, brought me back to stock recovery, odin'd TW 2.6.3.1 so now i'm back into custom. Went to go to one of my backups on my extSD, and it restored. Now I'm stuck at the SG4 logo. Attempted to flash firmware back to AMDL to start over..... nothing is happening. Still stuck on logo. Looking for any suggestions, $20 bounty for a fix
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First off, please don't post the same question in multiple threads. The Help thread where you posted this was plenty.
Second, try this.
If you are able to get back into recovery, get back to the part where you had twrp 2.6.3.1.
Then restore your backed up rom like you said you already did. (You may still be at that point, but it's not clear if you overwrote that restore when you tried to use Odin.)
Once you are back at that point, wipe cache and dalvik from your restored rom. See if it boots then.
Skipjacks said:
First off, please don't post the same question in multiple threads. The Help thread where you posted this was plenty.
Second, try this.
If you are able to get back into recovery, get back to the part where you had twrp 2.6.3.1.
Then restore your backed up rom like you said you already did. (You may still be at that point, but it's not clear if you overwrote that restore when you tried to use Odin.)
Once you are back at that point, wipe cache and dalvik from your restored rom. See if it boots then.
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Sorry, a moment of frustration, I'm usually better than this. I factory wiped on 2.7.0.1, (I installed that since I can't do anything else at the moment) and I'm still stuck. do I dl a rom and try to abd push it?
jrkart99 said:
Sorry, a moment of frustration, I'm usually better than this. I factory wiped on 2.7.0.1, (I installed that since I can't do anything else at the moment) and I'm still stuck. do I dl a rom and try to abd push it?
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I would recommend downloading the official 4.2.2 tar file and flashing it via Odin from your computer. What bootloader are you on? With the device powered off, press and hold the volume down button, while holding the volume down button, press the power button to turn on your device. Once it vibrates, release the power button. It will prompt you to press volume up to enter download mode, or volume down to cancel and restart. Press volume up. If you do not have Knox use the 4.2.2 tar file and flash that. It seems like your partitions tables are screwed up. So flashing the official tar file will reset that. Afterwards, you will need to flash your custom recovery again through Odin. Then restoring your backups should work.
elesbb said:
I would recommend downloading the official 4.2.2 tar file and flashing it via Odin from your computer. What bootloader are you on? With the device powered off, press and hold the volume down button, while holding the volume down button, press the power button to turn on your device. Once it vibrates, release the power button. It will prompt you to press volume up to enter download mode, or volume down to cancel and restart. Press volume up. If you do not have Knox use the 4.2.2 tar file and flash that. It seems like your partitions tables are screwed up. So flashing the official tar file will reset that. Afterwards, you will need to flash your custom recovery again through Odin. Then restoring your backups should work.
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Where would i find the official tar? How would i find the bootloader info? I was on mk2. I know I have knox after going to the offical rom
jrkart99 said:
Where would i find the official tar? How would i find the bootloader info? I was on mk2. I know I have knox after going to the offical rom
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I was on amdl.
jrkart99 said:
I was on amdl.
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This is the tar file you will need. Flash this in Odin on your PC and let it do its thing. Then reboot back to download and flash your custom recovery. If you try to boot after flashing official tar, it won't boot. You will need to wipe data and the original factory recovery, if you wipe data using that, it will also wipe your internal sd card as well.
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I was on amdl.
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Here is a good "How To" thread as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258628
elesbb said:
This is the tar file you will need. Flash this in Odin on your PC and let it do its thing. Then reboot back to download and flash your custom recovery. If you try to boot after flashing official tar, it won't boot. You will need to wipe data and the original factory recovery, if you wipe data using that, it will also wipe your internal sd card as well.
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Here is a good "How To" thread as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258628
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awesome! I found that thread a few posts back and there was no file. I found it on the web. I am flashing now.
Survey says,... Flashed an official tmo tar.md5 file via odin and everything went alright there. immediately went back into dl mode and put in tw 2.7.0.1 back in and booted into that no problem. Factory wiped. Restoring insanity rebirth 4.3,... watching louisville slide in the 2nd,... refresh beer,.. watching louisville regroup,.. kinda,... and,.... after 1 min still stuck at the s4 logo screen.
jrkart99 said:
Survey says,... Flashed an official tmo tar.md5 file via odin and everything went alright there. immediately went back into dl mode and put in tw 2.7.0.1 back in and booted into that no problem. Factory wiped. Restoring insanity rebirth 4.3,... watching louisville slide in the 2nd,... refresh beer,.. watching louisville regroup,.. kinda,... and,.... after 1 min still stuck at the s4 logo screen.
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Grab a 4.3 kernel and reflash your kernel. If its stuck at the logo screen its more than likely a kernel issue, if stuck at boot animation, its a ROM issue.
elesbb said:
Grab a 4.3 kernel and reflash your kernel. If its stuck at the logo screen its more than likely a kernel issue, if stuck at boot animation, its a ROM issue.
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how do i get it on the phone from a zip?
jrkart99 said:
how do i get it on the phone from a zip?
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Using your recovery. You flash it in recovery like a ROM.
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Using your recovery. You flash it in recovery like a ROM.
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you were right,.. kernal
jrkart99 said:
you were right,.. kernal
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So is it working?
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So is it working?
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yes. So after i went back to stock I got it up and running. I then went back to restore insanity 4.3, got the logo freeze again. went back into my original stock back up got it running again,... dl latest insanity 4.4 and flashed new kernal with rom and its fine. pm me a pay pal or email and i'll send you 20.
jrkart99 said:
yes. So after i went back to stock I got it up and running. I then went back to restore insanity 4.3, got the logo freeze again. went back into my original stock back up got it running again,... dl latest insanity 4.4 and flashed new kernal with rom and its fine. pm me a pay pal or email and i'll send you 20.
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I have a donate button if you really want to. I appreciate it!
here is a direct link too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/donatetome.php?u=2675647
hello all. i have been reading all day and cant find help so i am asking here since i cant post in dev sections. i have recently odin to stock ne2. I have the new knox boot loader since i purchased the phone after market. I want to install any ne2 rom as close to stock as i can but just deodex. I have flashed custom recovery via odin (tried tw and phils) ... when i odin the stock tar everything is great. when i restart in recovery and do a clean wipe then install any other deodex ne2 rom , once it loads my phone just runs through hands free activation and reboots over and over and over. please ... any help would be great!!
figured it out... recovery was not allowing the full factory reset... thank anyway
lastrites said:
figured it out... recovery was not allowing the full factory reset... thank anyway
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this happened to me too, it got fixed when i went from TWRP recovery to Philz. try that.