Ok so I was trying to go from CM10 to stock by flashing odin and it didn't work..
it would get to samsung thing and that animation would loop. *after the AT&T boot sound thingy*
I can get into download mode but flashing the stuff into PDA isn't working its giving the same thing.
Edit: Fixed it
I was able to get into recovery *Vol up + home + power* and then I flashed CWR then CM10 and I was back in buinsess.. ish even tho I didn't achieve my goal of going back to stock.
Randomacts said:
Ok so I was trying to go from CM10 to stock by flashing odin and it didn't work..
it would get to samsung thing and that animation would loop. *after the AT&T boot sound thingy*
I can get into download mode but flashing the stuff into PDA isn't working its giving the same thing.
Edit: Fixed it
I was able to get into recovery *Vol up + home + power* and then I flashed CWR then CM10 and I was back in buinsess.. ish even tho I didn't achieve my goal of going back to stock.
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I had the same issue. I had to go back to recovery and wipe everything and then flash odin again. It worked fine for me
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Hey guys,
I managed to soft brick my device by flashing all sorts of crap today. :laugh:
I am able to get into download mode and Odin recognizes the phone. I have been trying to get my hands on the stock factory ROM in Odin flashable format but haven't had any luck. All the links I have found around here are either broken or are taking so long they are timing out.
If anyone has a working link to the stock ROM that I can flash through Odin I would be very grateful.
Thanks!
Do you have stock recovery? I had same problem before lol.
I will try to seaech my old thread.
Edit :: here we go http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1854778
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium
bikrame said:
Do you have stock recovery? I had same problem before lol.
I will try to seaech my old thread.
Edit :: here we go http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1854778
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium
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No, I was on TWRP Recovery. I flashed from CM10 to the new JB Touchwiz leak after performing a full wipe, which went fine. but then i decided to flash the nav bar mod and a theme just to see how far I could push it. Clearly the limit was hit. :laugh:
Thanks for this. Flashing now.
Strange, after flashing the stock boot image in Odin (which went successfully) I cannot seem to get the phone to boot past the Samsung logo. I also can't boot into recovery (volume up + volume down + power) is not working.
Any ideas?
sn0warmy said:
Strange, after flashing the stock boot image in Odin (which went successfully) I cannot seem to get the phone to boot past the Samsung logo. I also can't boot into recovery (volume up + volume down + power) is not working.
Any ideas?
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Boot into recovery (you're doing it wrong) and do a factory reset
Volume up + Home button + power until the screen comes on, then quickly release and you'll be in recovery. Then factory reset, you'll be good to go
sn0warmy said:
Strange, after flashing the stock boot image in Odin (which went successfully) I cannot seem to get the phone to boot past the Samsung logo. I also can't boot into recovery (volume up + volume down + power) is not working.
Any ideas?
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If you still want stock:
Download T999UVALH2: http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=3&model=SGH-T999&pcode=TMB&os=1&type=1#firmware
Flash it through Odin.
ingenious247 said:
Boot into recovery (you're doing it wrong) and do a factory reset
Volume up + Home button + power until the screen comes on, then quickly release and you'll be in recovery. Then factory reset, you'll be good to go
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Whoops. You were correct. And that solved the problem.
Thanks guys!
Hi guys,
Was trying to install a ROM last night in CWM Recovery, then I was having some difficulty, after each ROM swipe I was doing the Factory Wipe/Dalvik Cache Wipe/Cache Wipe.
Anyways, I ended up having to try and flash the pre-rooted Stock ROM, I used Odin 3.07 to flash it and in Odin it appeared to work fine, the phone was rebooting and Odin was in "Pass" mode, but the phone never gets beyond the Samsung boot screen.
I then tried to see if I could flash CWM Recovery in Odin and try and get into Recovery mode, it flashed fine in Odin and the device rebooted but still stuck in Samsung boot screen.... but I cannot get into Recovery mode manually, I even tried getting in via the Q3 Toolbox kit, and it says it cannot locate the device :/
So today, last desperate option, I tried flashing the un-rooted stock image for my carrier (Rogers), it seemed to work fine in Odin but it STILL just will not boot back up, still stuck in the Samsung boot screen.
Is this what a brick is? Beyond continually trying to re-flash the stock carrier MD5 via Odin, what can I do? Oddly enough the phone does recognize in the Q3 Toolbox for the Root options, just not for the Reboot into Recovery option. Is there something I can try in the Q3 Toolbox?
/Scared / really concerned
Please help, any help is appreciated.
Once again, I CANNOT get into CWM Recovery.
Sianspheric said:
Hi guys,
Was trying to install a ROM last night in CWM Recovery, then I was having some difficulty, after each ROM swipe I was doing the Factory Wipe/Dalvik Cache Wipe/Cache Wipe.
Anyways, I ended up having to try and flash the pre-rooted Stock ROM, I used Odin 3.07 to flash it and in Odin it appeared to work fine, the phone was rebooting and Odin was in "Pass" mode, but the phone never gets beyond the Samsung boot screen.
I then tried to see if I could flash CWM Recovery in Odin and try and get into Recovery mode, it flashed fine in Odin and the device rebooted but still stuck in Samsung boot screen.... but I cannot get into Recovery mode manually, I even tried getting in via the Q3 Toolbox kit, and it says it cannot locate the device :/
So today, last desperate option, I tried flashing the un-rooted stock image for my carrier (Rogers), it seemed to work fine in Odin but it STILL just will not boot back up, still stuck in the Samsung boot screen.
Is this what a brick is? Beyond continually trying to re-flash the stock carrier MD5 via Odin, what can I do? Oddly enough the phone does recognize in the Q3 Toolbox for the Root options, just not for the Reboot into Recovery option. Is there something I can try in the Q3 Toolbox?
/Scared / really concerned
Please help, any help is appreciated.
Once again, I CANNOT get into CWM Recovery.
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You're soft bricked, don't panic just yet. A hard brick is when the device is completely unresponsive. So far this sounds fixable.
To get into recovery, are you holding down the volume up + home key for long enough after the Samsung logo appears?
I'd try that again, but if not: Try to Odin CWM again but uncheck "Auto-Reboot" in Odin. After it's done flashing, pull the battery out, put it back in, and use the key combos to get into recovery. Hopefully you have a nandroid backup saved or another rom saved on your sd that you can restore at this point. (Please note that using this method may increase your flash counter, but that can easily be fixed with Triangle Away).
Hope this helps.
If its just hanging at the samsung logo..pull the battery, put it back in, boot into stock recovery ( vol up+home+power) wipe data/factory reset then reboot.
After that just download one f the one click rooted stock rogers roms. Odin it, Then use the S3 toolkit to flash a recovery only.
Should be goo to go from there
I am flashing the pre-rooted stock ROM's via Odin again, and then will try and flash CMW Recovery again but without the Auto-Reboot selected.
I was pretty certain I was holding the keys long enough previously to try and get back into Recovery but it never would actually go into CWM Recovery.
Will let you guys know how it goes, thanks for replying.
skrambled said:
You're soft bricked, don't panic just yet. A hard brick is when the device is completely unresponsive. So far this sounds fixable.
To get into recovery, are you holding down the volume up + home key for long enough after the Samsung logo appears?
I'd try that again, but if not: Try to Odin CWM again but uncheck "Auto-Reboot" in Odin. After it's done flashing, pull the battery out, put it back in, and use the key combos to get into recovery. Hopefully you have a nandroid backup saved or another rom saved on your sd that you can restore at this point. (Please note that using this method may increase your flash counter, but that can easily be fixed with Triangle Away).
Hope this helps.
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Just tried this.
Flashed the pre-rooted stock ROM, it went to Pass in in Odin, device never booted past the boot screen. Pulled out battery, re-inserted and then flashed CWM Recovery in Odin with Auto-Reboot turned off, that went fine to Pass, pulled battery and did the key combo to enter Recovery. I got the "Booting Recovery" in top left corner in blue for a second, held onto the key combo and nothing, just went back into the same Samsung boot screen and it's stuck there.
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Just tried this.
Flashed the pre-rooted stock ROM, it went to Pass in in Odin, device never booted past the boot screen. Pulled out battery, re-inserted and then flashed CWM Recovery in Odin with Auto-Reboot turned off, that went fine to Pass, pulled battery and did the key combo to enter Recovery. I got the "Booting Recovery" in top left corner in blue for a second, held onto the key combo and nothing, just went back into the same Samsung boot screen and it's stuck there.
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Hmmmm...one more thing to try. Re-download the stock firmware image in the unlikely event that you got a bad/corrupted download (also may want to try the version that doesn't have root injected). Then try again.
I'd say to try a different USB port on your pc, but since Odin is saying Pass that doesn't seem likely. Worth a shot though if the above fails (and also worth trying to Odin from a different computer).
Hang in there, you aren't hard-bricked yet! :fingers-crossed:
It has to rebuild cache everytime you flash, if you are clearing things correctly. This can take up to 10 minutes. Also, when the first samsung logo appears take finger off power button and hold the home and appropriate volume button.
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The Q3 Toolbox kit saved me.
I couldn't flash into Recovery (not CWM Recovery, stock Recovery) no matter how long I held the key combo
But I eventually managed to get into Stock Recovery using the Q3 Toolbox.
Thanks for the advice people.
Holy shiiit that was nerve wracking for a while.
So today i was gonna try to install a custom rom, more specifically Cyanogenmod 10.2. for my Tmobile Galaxy S3 (SGH-T999). When i went to boot into recovery, i saw the screen that is displayed right before you enter recovery, but then after that it just stayed on a black screen. I took out the battery for a few seconds and powered on my phone. Then i tried entering recovery directly through ROM Manager. I got the same black screen, but now if i try to power on my phone without entering CWM, it automatically tries to go into CWM recovery regardless. . I tried a few battery pulls and nothing has worked yet. Luckily i am able to enter download mode so i can flash the stock rom via odin and then restore my backup from the SD card later. I just wanted to know if there is a simpler fix than this so i don't have to go through the trouble of flashing stock rom again. Btw i am still on the stock rom running android 4.3 jelly bean.
Try flashing custom recovery again and make sure it's the newest.
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Try flashing custom recovery again and make sure it's the newest.
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The problem was i couldn't boot up my phone in the first place because it would automatically go into recovery. I actually fixed it by going it to download mode and then pressing the down button which rebooted the phone properly. I used rom toolbox and now im just gonna stick with TWRP.
RootNoob1299 said:
The problem was i couldn't boot up my phone in the first place because it would automatically go into recovery. I actually fixed it by going it to download mode and then pressing the down button which rebooted the phone properly. I used rom toolbox and now im just gonna stick with TWRP.
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That's what I meant, you can flash recovery in download mode but as long as you got it working its all good. And yes I highly suggest using twrp over cwm
Thanks anyway man! TWR FTW!!
I tried going back to stock so that I can do the OTA update to go 5.0. I flashed the Odin tar file and now I am getting a boot loop, it goes to the yellow screen where it says Sprint Spark and it loops there. I can still enter download mode with Down+Home+PWR. Booting to recovery doesn't work with Up+Home+PWR. Tried odin a few more times with NIE and NK2.
Anyone have any ideas before I heard to Sprint tomorrow?
I believe this may be a simple fix if I was able to go to the stock recovery using UP + home + power and clear out the cache. but from day one that stock recovery never worked. Is there any way to clear out cache inside of the Odin?
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I tried going back to stock so that I can do the OTA update to go 5.0. I flashed the Odin tar file and now I am getting a boot loop, it goes to the yellow screen where it says Sprint Spark and it loops there. I can still enter download mode with Down+Home+PWR. Booting to recovery doesn't work with Up+Home+PWR. Tried odin a few more times with NIE and NK2.
Anyone have any ideas before I heard to Sprint tomorrow?
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vuxdu said:
I believe this may be a simple fix if I was able to go to the stock recovery using UP + home + power and clear out the cache. but from day one that stock recovery never worked. Is there any way to clear out cache inside of the Odin?
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Go back into the stock recovery and select factory reset. Should reboot (and take a while at the spark screen), then boot right up.
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Go back into the stock recovery and select factory reset. Should reboot (and take a while at the spark screen), then boot right up.
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Thank you for trying to help.
The problem is, it wont let me enter the stock recovery. I've always entered recovery through software. (yes I know, should have done an exchange when I got the phone)
When I first got the phone the up button was sticking it was hard to increase the volume. Over time I pressed it many times and the volume up key started working again. But the only thing that never worked was going into recovery from a cold boot.
Brought it into sprint today, they were able to reflash the firmware for free. I was ready to pay $200 TEP.
I think if you would have flashed trwp recovery you could have factory reset in there and it would boot.
my tab is rooted with Team win recovery, I was gonna sell it . so I went into settings and did a normal factory reset. now its stuck on the samsung logo. definitely been stuck there for awhile, ive tried flashing a stock firmware with odin. odin completes, the tab reboots, and is again stuck on the samsung logo. any ideas please? on a positive note, I can still get into download mode.
Why do people use the factory reset mode from settings? It's unreliable at best and certainly won't work with a custom recovery installed as it only works with stock recovery.
Boot into recovery and factory reset from there.
You should now have the stock recovery if you have flashed the stock firmware.
Wait for at least ten minutes for the tablet to boot.
ashyx said:
Why do people use the factory reset mode from settings? It's unreliable at best and certainly won't work with a custom recovery installed as it only works with stock recovery.
Boot into recovery and factory reset from there.
You should now have the stock recovery if you have flashed the stock firmware.
Wait for at least ten minutes for the tablet to boot.
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lol thats the thing, its not letting me go into stock recovery. its only letting me go into download mode
ashyx said:
Why do people use the factory reset mode from settings? It's unreliable at best and certainly won't work with a custom recovery installed as it only works with stock recovery.
Boot into recovery and factory reset from there.
You should now have the stock recovery if you have flashed the stock firmware.
Wait for at least ten minutes for the tablet to boot.
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maybe i should let it die, and then see if I can get into recovery when the screen is off? after its charged enough to turn back on of course.
armyms25 said:
maybe i should let it die, and then see if I can get into recovery when the screen is off? after its charged enough to turn back on of course.
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Letting it die will have no point.
Not being able to get into recovery is 99% pilot error.
Reflash the stock firmware then boot into recovery.
Hold POWER + HOME + DOWN until it restarts then immediately change to VOL UP whilst still holding the other buttons.