[Q] gs3 wont boot - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

used es explorer to change build.prop so i could install jellybean camerea app. phone immediately crashed after this and willnot boot. gone into cwm recovery and i cant factory reset because i cant mount sdcard.
what can i do to fix it?
also adb does not recognize my phone as a device

kilps31 said:
used es explorer to change build.prop so i could install jellybean camerea app. phone immediately crashed after this and willnot boot. gone into cwm recovery and i cant factory reset because i cant mount sdcard.
what can i do to fix it?
also adb does not recognize my phone as a device
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Boot into Download mode (VolDown + Home), find a stock AT&T ROM, and flash it using Odin. Search the forums for the AT&T ROM and the Odin tool, both are very easy to find.

qJake said:
Boot into Download mode (VolDown + Home), find a stock AT&T ROM, and flash it using Odin. Search the forums for the AT&T ROM and the Odin tool, both are very easy to find.
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downloading stock now. will update when done. thank you

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NEED HELP cant access CW Recovery

I just rooted my phone everything seemed to go the way its supposed to. I have superuser and have downloaded titanium backup and it works fine. I wanted to back up my phone so I can have a stock back up but when I went into fast boot and tries to access clockwork I got the android on his back with the red exclamation mark. I'm not sure what happened. I was able to access it once. Maybe a reboot did something. I'm not new to rooting but I'm new to the galaxy line. Thanks so much for any help its appreciated geeatley.
I rooted using the dev kit v7.0 I'd that helps any.
cyaiphone said:
I just rooted my phone everything seemed to go the way its supposed to. I have superuser and have downloaded titanium backup and it works fine. I wanted to back up my phone so I can have a stock back up but when I went into fast boot and tries to access clockwork I got the android on his back with the red exclamation mark. I'm not sure what happened. I was able to access it once. Maybe a reboot did something. I'm not new to rooting but I'm new to the galaxy line. Thanks so much for any help its appreciated geeatley.
I rooted using the dev kit v7.0 I'd that helps any.
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Nexus line.
have you tried reflashing cwm recovery via fastboot?
flash CWM via fastboot.
and why do you need a backup of stock? You can always re-flash the stock images to go back to completely stock. Restoring a rooted nandroid backup won't put you back to stock anyways...
OK makes sense. Is there a how to and link to the cwm download? On HTC you used to just download the file rename it pc86img and reboot into fast boot and let it update. Is it the same for the nexus?
cyaiphone said:
OK makes sense. Is there a how to and link to the cwm download? On HTC you used to just download the file rename it pc86img and reboot into fast boot and let it update. Is it the same for the nexus?
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Similar, except you put it in a folder on your PC and flash it over USB with the command line.
martonikaj said:
Similar, except you put it in a folder on your PC and flash it over USB with the command line.
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Crap is there a how to any how to do this? I've never used adb or command prompts.
cyaiphone said:
Crap is there a how to anywherebonnhow to do this? I've never used adb or command prompts.
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Go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529058
And look for the "Setting up ADB for our device:" then "Obtaining Root Access and Custom Recovery:".
Can you boot into the OS? If you can, download Rom Manager from the Play Store and use that to install CWM Recovery.
Did you delete recovery-from-boot.p from /system? I had to do this to "permanently" install the recovery. My first Samsung phone, my first Nexus device, so not sure if this has been a regular thing ... never had to "permanently" install a recovery up until then. That fixed my issue as my recovery was only sticking once per boot ... was blowing my mind for a couple hours.
Not sure if root via toolkit solves this, but I did a manny root and had to do this. Hope it helps.
edit-
- remount /system in read/write mode (use something like the Root Explorer app or ES File Explorer; both have root modes (check the app's settings) for remounting /system as writable)
- rename the /system/recovery-from-boot.p to /system/recovery-from-boot.p-bak
(note: you could delete it, but renaming is much safer since its easily reversible)
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Could also, apparently, rename it. I just reinstalled recovery, deleted, and haven't had a single problem since.
What bleedblue said; now go into fastboot, and reflash cwm.
Sent from my i9250

I have lost my recovery!

After all the problems i had with my Wifi using ics (arco) i decided to downgrade to stock rom but with the new baseband hoping to solve the prblm. I downgraded according to "the-e"'s guide using ODIN but, i didnt flash stock recovery because i thought i would still have CWM recovery.
Now that i want to root, the "Box" comes up when i reboot but it just restarts and doesnt enter recovery mode~ i have no recovery. I tried using ODIN again, but it cant find my phone, it says "please connect phones". Even kies says my phone is incompatible!!?
What do i do?
sevenmad said:
After all the problems i had with my Wifi using ics (arco) i decided to downgrade to stock rom but with the new baseband hoping to solve the prblm. I downgraded according to "the-e"'s guide using ODIN but, i didnt flash stock recovery because i thought i would still have CWM recovery.
Now that i want to root, the "Box" comes up when i reboot but it just restarts and doesnt enter recovery mode~ i have no recovery. I tried using ODIN again, but it cant find my phone, it says "please connect phones". Even kies says my phone is incompatible!!?
What do i do?
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When using odin you have to put your phone into download mode and then plug it into the pc while opening odin. Do you did that?
Sent from my GT-I8150 Indroid remICS v5.1
reddvilzz said:
When using odin you have to put your phone into download mode and then plug it into the pc while opening odin. Do you did that?
Sent from my GT-I8150 Indroid remICS v5.1
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I cant enter download mode?! The page comes where i have to press the volume up button but that doesnt bring any reaction. neither does volume down (which is supposed to restart the phone).
download mode is volume down+home dude
maybe reflashing from odin could work?
If not mistaken, we will lost CWM and it may go back to stock recovery if we flash a stock ROM, by the way did you manage to enter into stock recovery?
If yea just download the Zip-file from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1317394 to get root
Some guides related to CWM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1867870 & http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1924846
Hope it helps
Good luck
MyDeSTiNaTe said:
If not mistaken, we will lost CWM and it may go back to stock recovery if we flash a stock ROM, by the way did you manage to enter into stock recovery?
If yea just download the Zip-file from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1317394 to get root
Some guides related to CWM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1867870 & http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1924846
Hope it helps
Good luck
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Yeah i managed to get into stock recovery, but download mode isnt getting through.
hadidjapri said:
download mode is volume down+home dude
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thats odd! Rebooting directly from ics to download mode didnt get through but what you said worked. Thankyou very much
try this link >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G5sHPPnins

Please help me - i am stuck on odin mode (battery pull does not work)

Hi,
i just wanted to flash Android 4.2 - i did a super wipe with mike 1986s super wipe flashable zip.
Now i am stuck on the "Downloading" Page. In the upper left corner "odin mode" is displayed.
What can i do
connect gnex to pc via usb and then go back to stock via odin
k786 said:
connect gnex to pc via usb and then go back to stock via odin
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What is odin? A programm? Where can i get it? Which version respectivly....
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bunnahabhain said:
What is odin? A programm? Where can i get it? Which version respectivly....
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30089044&postcount=1
Why would you use odin?? Why not use Gnex toolkit?? never used odin but with the toolkit i can 1 click root, flash recovery, etc etc etc :good:
you can try booting into bootloader download toolkit and factory reset your phone then root it and install recovery, download a AOSP 4.2 ROM and flash it via recovery
Gnex Toolkit
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392310
k786 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30089044&postcount=1
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Ok i just used the pit file with odin to get into fastboot mode... from there on i downloaded and installed the factory imgae from google. Now i could boot into Android. But i can't access fastboot mode by default by pressing Volume_Down and Power. The Gnex keeps on booting in odin mode.
This way it is not possible to root the Phone again and apply a custom recovery. How do i set the phone to automatically boot into fastboot?
Because you have to push Vol - / Vol + / Power !
bunnahabhain said:
Ok i just used the pit file with odin to get into fastboot mode... from there on i downloaded and installed the factory imgae from google. Now i could boot into Android. But i can't access fastboot mode by default by pressing Volume_Down and Power. The Gnex keeps on booting in odin mode.
This way it is not possible to root the Phone again and apply a custom recovery. How do i set the phone to automatically boot into fastboot?
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To enter Fastboot you need to hold down BOTH volume keys (up and down) along with the power button.
bunnahabhain said:
Ok i just used the pit file with odin to get into fastboot mode... from there on i downloaded and installed the factory imgae from google. Now i could boot into Android. But i can't access fastboot mode by default by pressing Volume_Down and Power. The Gnex keeps on booting in odin mode.
This way it is not possible to root the Phone again and apply a custom recovery. How do i set the phone to automatically boot into fastboot?
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sigh..
vol up and down and power
DieGo316 said:
Why would you use odin?? Why not use Gnex toolkit?? never used odin but with the toolkit i can 1 click root, flash recovery, etc etc etc :good:
you can try booting into bootloader download toolkit and factory reset your phone then root it and install recovery, download a AOSP 4.2 ROM and flash it via recovery
Gnex Toolkit
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392310
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read THREAD TITLE = "Please help me - i am stuck on odin mode (battery pull does not work)":
fail
Suggesting a toolkit to a user that doesn't even know the combo to enter fastboot:
fail
DieGo316 said:
(...) then root it and install recovery, download a AOSP 4.2 ROM and flash it via recovery
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Huh no need to root to install a custom recovery nor to flash a rom:
- You managed to fail three times in the same post. Some reading would do you some good:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626895
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1812959

Clock work mod problem, please help

Galaxy S3 from at&t, i rooted my phone as soon as got it several months ago, I've flashed colockwordmode 3 times in the last day or so and i cannot make to work, i followed the steps exactly as described, Odin is showing the green pass, the binary cont is increasing every time I've tried but i can't get the phone to start in recovery mode by holding volume up, home and power! it just reboot and turns the phone on or it goes into the Samsung recovery mode (blue screen). Very frustrating!, anyone can please help.
BTW, when i rooted my phone i installed clockwordmode then and it worked fine, i had not has to use it since, I'm running the stock ROM i want to flash another ROM, before i do that i need to use clockworkmode and that's when i realized that it was not working anymore, then tried to flash it 3 times but no success. I still have root.
Have you tried twrp?
athens71 said:
Galaxy S3 from at&t, i rooted my phone as soon as got it several months ago, I've flashed colockwordmode 3 times in the last day or so and i cannot make to work, i followed the steps exactly as described, Odin is showing the green pass, the binary cont is increasing every time I've tried but i can't get the phone to start in recovery mode by holding volume up, home and power! it just reboot and turns the phone on or it goes into the Samsung recovery mode (blue screen). Very frustrating!, anyone can please help.
BTW, when i rooted my phone i installed clockwordmode then and it worked fine, i had not has to use it since, I'm running the stock ROM i want to flash another ROM, before i do that i need to use clockworkmode and that's when i realized that it was not working anymore, then tried to flash it 3 times but no success. I still have root.
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This will happen until you load a custom rom I believe. Same thing happened to me then when I installed a rom it started being able to boot into cwm
Sent from my SGH-I747 using xda premium
athens71 said:
Galaxy S3 from at&t, i rooted my phone as soon as got it several months ago, I've flashed colockwordmode 3 times in the last day or so and i cannot make to work, i followed the steps exactly as described, Odin is showing the green pass, the binary cont is increasing every time I've tried but i can't get the phone to start in recovery mode by holding volume up, home and power! it just reboot and turns the phone on or it goes into the Samsung recovery mode (blue screen). Very frustrating!, anyone can please help.
BTW, when i rooted my phone i installed clockwordmode then and it worked fine, i had not has to use it since, I'm running the stock ROM i want to flash another ROM, before i do that i need to use clockworkmode and that's when i realized that it was not working anymore, then tried to flash it 3 times but no success. I still have root.
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flash recovery again in odin but make sure the "auto reboot" box is NOT checked. once its done flashing, unplug it and remove the battery for a second. replace the battery and immediately hold down vol up+home+power. this should take you into cwm if it flashed correctly
this could happen when you didn't root it properly
anyways, if you are rooted(as you said), get twrp and see
+1 for twrp
athens71 said:
I still have root.
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If you still have root, you might want to try installing CWM directly from your phone, using the dd terminal command to copy CWM into the right partition:
Download the latest CWM .img file from CWM's site: http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager
Put the file in your phone. For simplicity reason, I would suggest you put it in the root of your internal SD card. And because you will need to type the whole path+filename in the terminal in your phone, I would also suggest you rename the file to something simple, like cwm.img;
If you don't already have it, install Android Terminal Emulator;
Now, open the terminal emulator, and type the following commands:
Code:
su
dd if=/sdcard/cwm.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
(That is, if you rename the CWM file to "cwm.img" and you actually put it in the root of your internal SD card. If you put it somewhere else or did not rename your file, you will need to adapt the "if=" part of the command.)
Profit.
athens71 said:
Galaxy S3 from at&t, i rooted my phone as soon as got it several months ago, I've flashed colockwordmode 3 times in the last day or so and i cannot make to work, i followed the steps exactly as described, Odin is showing the green pass, the binary cont is increasing every time I've tried but i can't get the phone to start in recovery mode by holding volume up, home and power! it just reboot and turns the phone on or it goes into the Samsung recovery mode (blue screen). Very frustrating!, anyone can please help.
BTW, when i rooted my phone i installed clockwordmode then and it worked fine, i had not has to use it since, I'm running the stock ROM i want to flash another ROM, before i do that i need to use clockworkmode and that's when i realized that it was not working anymore, then tried to flash it 3 times but no success. I still have root.
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Just curious: are you trying to flash CWM via Odin? If so where did you get it from? Did you install a botched version of stock recovery maybe (or one that is from another model of S3)? Try TWRP from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28019751&postcount=1. It is at the bottom of the post and it is labeled "Odin Flashable TWRP Recovery" under Miscellaneous files. Download and install via Odin.
And if you are on Jelly Bean, your flash counter will increment in your dealings with custom recoveries and roms. You only option at this point (if you have root still) is to get Triangle Away and run it in order to reset the counter. However, even if you clear your flash counter, if you go back into recovery it will trip again.
drock212 said:
This will happen until you load a custom rom I believe. Same thing happened to me then when I installed a rom it started being able to boot into cwm
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I'm still using stock ROM, i'd like to install a custom ROM but i'm reading that you have to have Clockworkmod to do a successful install.
When i check in the files of the phone (sd card) i can see the clockwordmod folder in there there but still can't get it to boot into cwm recovery, only the Samsung recovery and I've tried the volume up home and power button so many times but no success.
Why do you think it worked when i first rooted the phone and not now?
this is frustrating, thanks for the help.
aybarrap1 said:
Just curious: are you trying to flash CWM via Odin? If so where did you get it from? Did you install a botched version of stock recovery maybe (or one that is from another model of S3)? Try TWRP from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28019751&postcount=1. It is at the bottom of the post and it is labeled "Odin Flashable TWRP Recovery" under Miscellaneous files. Download and install via Odin.
And if you are on Jelly Bean, your flash counter will increment in your dealings with custom recoveries and roms. You only option at this point (if you have root still) is to get Triangle Away and run it in order to reset the counter. However, even if you clear your flash counter, if you go back into recovery it will trip again.
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Yes I've tried 3 times via Odin, i can't remember where i got the cmw file from, it's a tar file (clockworkmod.TAR), the part i don't understand is why when i first rooted the phone in August cwm worked, i used it to install the root and now after trying to install it again 3 times i can't get it to work.
I'm using the stock ROM, not jelly bean.
thanks for any help
xBeerdroiDx said:
flash recovery again in odin but make sure the "auto reboot" box is NOT checked. once its done flashing, unplug it and remove the battery for a second. replace the battery and immediately hold down vol up+home+power. this should take you into cwm if it flashed correctly
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I've tried it with "auto reboot" check and without but still no luck. Like i said it reboots in the Samsung rm.
androidsavage23 said:
Have you tried twrp?
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No i have not, i can't find where to get it for galaxy S3 at&t! would you know where i could find it?
Thank you
athens71 said:
No i have not, i can't find where to get it for galaxy S3 at&t! would you know where i could find it?
Thank you
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Download goo manager app and open that. There will be an option to "install open recovery" in the menu. Voilà a superior recovery that's easier to use
You can even use it to boot into recovery or install the new update for it.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda app-developers app
athens71 said:
No i have not, i can't find where to get it for galaxy S3 at&t! would you know where i could find it?
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Easiest way to install TWRP is using GooManager from the Play Store.
1. Open GooManager.
2. Press the menu key to open the contextual menu, and select Install OpenRecoveryScript.
3. The app will ask you to confirm you really want to install a new recovery image.
4. GooManager searches for the correct TWRP build for your device. Look at the Filename line, it should display openrecovery-twrp-2.4.1.0-d2att.img for AT&T or openrecovery-twrp-2.4.1.0-d2can.img for Rogers/Bell/Telus. Again, confirm the installation.
5. Wait for the download to begin. TWRP will install. Done.
If it does not work or if GooManager does not find the correct build for your device -- in this latter case, this should raise a flag for you, as you may not have a SGH-i747/SGH-i747M; double check your phone model --, you can always install TWRP manually. From TWRP website (http://www.teamw.in/project/twrp2), you can grab the IMG file to manually install from the terminal emulator, and a TAR file to install using ODIN.
athens71 said:
I've tried it with "auto reboot" check and without but still no luck. Like i said it reboots in the Samsung rm.
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Did you try it exactly as i said to?
drock212 said:
This will happen until you load a custom rom I believe. Same thing happened to me then when I installed a rom it started being able to boot into cwm
Sent from my SGH-I747 using xda premium
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So if that's the case (This will happen until you load a custom ROM) how can i back up my stuff before installing a new ROM? that's the reason i was trying to make cwm work so i could back my stuff.
Is there a different way to do a full back up?
thanks
xBeerdroiDx said:
Did you try it exactly as i said to?
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Yes i did, when i tried to flash cmw 3 times yesterday, the description was exactly like yours.
thanks you
athens71 said:
Yes i did, when i tried to flash cmw 3 times yesterday, the description was exactly like yours.
thanks you
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if you have root, download Rom Manager and install cwm from the menu.
i've also heard that, if rooted, you can erase /system/recovery-from-boot.p and /system/etc/install-recovery.sh (using ES File Explorer or Root Explorer) an that will make cwmstick. this is due to newer software versions overwriting your stock recovery on reboot.
xBeerdroiDx said:
if you have root, download Rom Manager and install cwm from the menu.
i've also heard that, if rooted, you can erase /system/recovery-from-boot.p and /system/etc/install-recovery.sh (using ES File Explorer or Root Explorer) an that will make cwmstick. this is due to newer software versions overwriting your stock recovery on reboot.
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By installing cwm from the app store (ROM manger) will i get the same back up as i would with Odin install of cwm, in other words do i risk loosing my back up ROM using "ROM manager?"
thanks
athens71 said:
By installing cwm from the app store (ROM manger) will i get the same back up as i would with Odin install of cwm, in other words do i risk loosing my back up ROM using "ROM manager?"
thanks
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you've created a backup already? if not, install cwm from ROM Manager, boot into cwm recovery and make your nandroid there. then you'll be all set to to try a new ROM

bricked?

Hi, i've the gt-n5100 model from yesterday. I've rooted it and modified the build.prop to change the lcd density from 213 to 160. Reboot and the device doesn't boot :crying: only appears the SAMSUNG logo, how i can restore it?
i've check that can boot in download or boot mode, by pressing vol +, i'll can fix it doing a wipe of all?
Can boot to in Odin mode with vol -
any tutorial step-by-step to flash it to stock rom?
juanmol said:
any tutorial step-by-step to flash it to stock rom?
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as far as i remember the note toolkit has an option to restore stock rom. it leads you through the whole process including downloading necessary files. might work..
or just flash the stock rom in Odin...
Hopefully, you learned a lesson to always back everything up before you make major changes to your rom..
wase4711 said:
or just flash the stock rom in Odin...
Hopefully, you learned a lesson to always back everything up before you make major changes to your rom..
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where i can find a stock rom that is not alocated in hotfile? Are 1'2GB and hotfile have 70KB/s ¬¬
juanmol said:
Hi, i've the gt-n5100 model from yesterday. I've rooted it and modified the build.prop to change the lcd density from 213 to 160. Reboot and the device doesn't boot :crying: only appears the SAMSUNG logo, how i can restore it?
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Yes that is what it does.
Here is a signed update.zip that will install the stock build.prop for 5100XXBMF2 version.
Remove your external SD and place the update.zip on it , reinsert your externalSD and boot to recovery.
select update from externalSD.
(should work on stock recovery)
If that doesn't work install a custom recovery (with Odin, see dev section for toolkit , odin is in that toolkit if you open the folder, your tablet needs to be in download mode)) and install it with that.
Then just reinstall stock recovery if you want. Or just reboot as if you didn't remove the recovery from boot.p file your custom recovery will be automatic replaced by a stock recovery when you reboot your tablet.
My THREAD HAS FIX FOR ALL BRICKED TABLETS N5110
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