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T-mobile Samsung Galaxy S2 / CM9 Stuck at boot screen

So this is my first time posting so im a pretty big noob at this, but here it goes. I have a T-mobile Galaxy s2 that i rooted a few months ago. Today CM9 released the stable version, which is what Ive been waiting for so i decided to try it out. (again, Ive never flashed a rom before I only used the stock one) I followed all the steps to do it and now its been at the boot screen for over an hour. The instructions said be patient, but I feel that over an hour is too long. I decided to pull the battery, hoping I could go into recovery mode and do a factory reset. When I try to go into recovery mode it vibrates a couple times but doesn't go into recovery mode. I can't go into download mode either. Does anyone have any idea for what I can do to at least do a factory reset? Thank you in advance for the help.
Edit* After going into recovery, I tried a factory reset but its still trying to boot into CM9. Why is it doing that?

When factory reset it doesn't go back to stock rom .
How are you flashing the rom?
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bmakk2055 said:
When factory reset it doesn't go back to stock rom .
How are you flashing the rom?
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Actually, for some reason recovery was being really strange. I had to hold down the power and the volume buttons 3 times for it to go to recovery, then I restored an older backup that was on my memory card and it took a while then finally worked
Do you by chance know why it didn't work?

I've been getting this same problem. I can get back to recovery and recover from my backup just fine, but every time I try to get CM9 working, it won't go past the boot screen, even after about an hour of waiting.
I've tried the CM9 hercules stable release off the CyanogenMod website and the CM9 RC2 download through ROM Manager, I've tried installing through ROM Manager and straight from booting into recovery, and I've tried putting the zip on both external and internal storage just in case that might conceivably affect something. I have the same problem every time. I'm using CWM 5.0.2.7 and currently on rooted stock.
Any ideas on how I might get this rom working?

You need Darkside super and cache wipes, which are both available in a sticky with an obvious title in the development section of the forum.
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RTFOP said:
You need Darkside super and cache wipes, which are both available in a sticky with an obvious title in the development section of the forum.
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Cool, thanks. :good:

RTFOP said:
You need Darkside super and cache wipes, which are both available in a sticky with an obvious title in the development section of the forum.
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What he said. Non touch clockwork mod for this phone has a broken cache wipe function. Will cause infinite boot. Flash tdjs cache wipe NOT THE SUPER WIPE. and you should be golden.
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How long should a flash take, on average?

Flashing a rom on my phone, and it's on the loading/rom animation for a hour at least.
Should I do something or just wait it out?

Are you talking about flashing the rom or restarting phone after flashing a rom?
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Restarting after the flash. aokp boot animation is nice and all.....
.xxx. said:
Are you talking about flashing the rom or restarting phone after flashing a rom?
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Restarting the phone after flash depends from rom to rom. Anyways the general idea about how much time it takes will be around the same time when you had first started your phone i.e when you had purchased it. The time taken after first boot is same as that of when you have flashed a fresh rom. Hope you get it since my English isnt that great.
Btw it wont take an hour XD
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johnny johnny said:
Flashing a rom on my phone, and it's on the loading/rom animation for a hour at least.
Should I do something or just wait it out?
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You did something wrong. Are you coming to aokp from a touchwiz rom?
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Usually it doesn't take more than 5 to 10 minutes to boot after a rom flash. Those are the longest times I have experienced with my phones. It usually takes 3 minutes or less for me.

Stock rooted Sammy rom. I did read the op, and followed the procedure.
I just fixed it with the other procedure some people have mentioned.
factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik, format data
flash again, reboot straight back into recovery
factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik
Phone booted up in about 30 seconds after that.:good:
mitchdickson said:
You did something wrong. Are you coming to aokp from a touchwiz rom?
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Can't Wipe Phone

Hello all, weird problem. I've tried numerous times to wipe my phone to reinstall CNA 3.6.6. I'm running the latest CWM.
I boot into recovery and do a factory reset and wipe/data/cache/system. All the prompts show that the phone is being wiped etc... Then I reflash the ROM and Gapps. When I reboot its as if nothing happened. It seems like the Full wipe did nothing. Any ideas? Really perplexed!
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Best to just flash back to stock. Format internal SD while you are at it just to be sure.
You still have GNex toolkit installed on your PC right? Download and flash the stock ROM, format internal memory and start from scratch.

Disregard this post.

Thanks. I'll give it a try.
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This happened to me last night. Was on jbsourcery, wiped, flashed aokp and it wouldn't boot. Reflashed jbsourcery and it booted as if I never wiped it.
Had to unroot and start over but ran into some issues and am stock for the time being.
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The real question here is what recovery are you running?
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I'm in CWM 6.0.2.3
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supasizefries said:
I'm in CWM 6.0.2.3
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try twrp recovery. it could be an issue with cwm most likely. its a shame if you went through the process of flashing the factory image and reroot if its just an issue with that recovery.

I haven't done anything yet. I'll give TWRP a shot soon. Thanks!
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supasizefries said:
I haven't done anything yet. I'll give TWRP a shot soon. Thanks!
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easiest way to install the latest twrp.. install goo manager from the play store(free), press menu(3 dots top right), press install openrecoveryscript, press yes, let it do its thing, and you are done.

Yup, just did it. Gonna back up some things and flash a new ROM. Thinking about going from CNA 3.6.6 to 3.8
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Just tried to wipe with Twrp...same thing happened.
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You know which partitions are mounted?
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Installed CNA 3.8 with TWRP but its all down hill from there.
Now stuck at "android is updating". My phone never gets past that screen. Numerous battery pulls leave me stuck at the "x" boot animation. Only access I have is to recovery. Did I just brick my phone?
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supasizefries said:
Installed CNA 3.8 with TWRP but its all down hill from there.
Now stuck at "android is updating". My phone never gets past that screen. Numerous battery pulls leave me stuck at the "x" boot animation. Only access I have is to recovery. Did I just brick my phone?
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Flash a prior nand if possible.

I made a backup when I was on CWM. I'm now on TWRP and can't find it the backup.
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You could adb push cwm back and restore the backup. But to be honest I would go back to stock and wipe the sd if I where in your shoes.

FrostyF7 said:
You could adb push cwm back and restore the backup. But to be honest I would go back to stock and wipe the sd if I where in your shoes.
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I was able to push CWM but when I tried to restore a backup, I got a md5 mismatch. I'm thinking about going back to stock to start over BUT is there anyway I can retrieve my personal data? Thanks.

supasizefries said:
I was able to push CWM but when I tried to restore a backup, I got a md5 mismatch. I'm thinking about going back to stock to start over BUT is there anyway I can retrieve my personal data? Thanks.
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I remember there is a computer program called android commander. You might be able to use that to get the info but tbh I really don't know. This is the issue about not having a removable sd card

Problem solved. I was able to adb pull what I needed and returned to stock. Phone is working now. Thanks.
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HELP! TouchWiz Home has stopped

I tried flashing and installing the gs4 touchwiz home but now it loaded up and now touchwiz has stooped and there is no home screen. I dont know how to get out of it.
Can I get out of it by flashing stock Odin? Where are those links

CooLoserTech said:
I tried flashing and installing the gs4 touchwiz home but now it loaded up and now touchwiz has stooped and there is no home screen. I dont know how to get out of it.
Can I get out of it by flashing stock Odin? Where are those links
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Flashing stock would definitely get you out of it.
Simple search for stock rooted Roms will give you what you need.
Here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
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KorGuy123 said:
Flashing stock would definitely get you out of it.
Simple search for stock rooted Roms will give you what you need.
Here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
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I did that but now my phone is stuck at the samsung logo
It just worked and booted up and I got to the lock screen and then all of a sudden I rebooted again and now im stuck at the samsung logo. Should I try it again? Please help

CooLoserTech said:
I did that but now my phone is stuck at the samsung logo
It just worked and booted up and I got to the lock screen and then all of a sudden I rebooted again and now im stuck at the samsung logo. Should I try it again? Please help
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If stuck at the Samsung logo boot into recovery wipe cache dalvik and do a factory reset.
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KorGuy123 said:
If stuck at the Samsung logo boot into recovery wipe cache dalvik and do a factory reset.
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i dont think i can i just flashed odin and i think I lost recovery
edit: nevermind. I found it. I cant wipe dalvik cache it doesnt have an option, only cache partition. And now ill do a wipre data/factory reset
Sorry for not knowing much. Im just now getting back into using the forums. The last time i used it was when I had a nexus s and after that I got an Atrix HD (which was impossible to root) but now that I have a gs3 Im getting back into things

Thanks a lot. Just got past the samsung logo. When this happened I was flipping out worrying that Id have to return it or something, thank you so much for your help.

CooLoserTech said:
i dont think i can i just flashed odin and i think I lost recovery
edit: nevermind. I found it. I cant wipe dalvik cache it doesnt have an option, only cache partition. And now ill do a wipre data/factory reset
Sorry for not knowing much. Im just now getting back into using the forums. The last time i used it was when I had a nexus s and after that I got an Atrix HD (which was impossible to root) but now that I have a gs3 Im getting back into things
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NP.
You lose custom recovery flashing those files. You retain root though so you can just reflash a recovery and than wipe if you didn't want to wipe through stock recovery.
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[Q] about android 4.3

I've been looking for help and can't find any
Does anybody know why android 4.3 will not start back up after a reboot, it just stays on the Samsung boot screen but never boots up.
I've tried wiping both cache and full wipe the system everything I can think of
can someone plz Help me
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vwpro177 said:
I've been looking for help and can't find any
Does anybody know why android 4.3 will not start back up after a reboot, it just stays on the Samsung boot screen but never boots up.
I've tried wiping both cache and full wipe the system everything I can think of
can someone plz Help me
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I've got the same problem. Totally clean installs but upon reboot, I'm stuck at the note 2 screen. 4.2.2 ROMs boot. Probam roms mentioned having an unlocked bootloader but i thought that was a prerec to being rooted?

No problems here. One thing on 4.3 roms is the su binary needs to be updated usually. Supersu from the play store addresses this. I'm running the cm 4.3 9-1 nightly.
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vwpro177 said:
I've been looking for help and can't find any
Does anybody know why android 4.3 will not start back up after a reboot, it just stays on the Samsung boot screen but never boots up.
I've tried wiping both cache and full wipe the system everything I can think of
can someone plz Help me
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Which recovery are you using to flash it?

Twrp
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Clockwordmod superuser app was the key! After the first boot, I ran the app and even though it always wanted to be updated (even after it went through its process) 4.3 ROMs would reboot! I tried probam and pacrom. Each time I flashed new, I had to re update the su or else no reboot. Thanks for your help!

Stuck at cyanogenmod screen on t0ltetmo 10.2 Need help
I'm having the same problem, I had stock new 4.1.2 t0ltetmo. Rooted/TWRP recovery booted fine. Loaded RomManager booted into recovery flashed 10.2 nightly from 9/9/2013 then flashed 4.3 GAPPS, Wiped cache, now it's just sitting at the cyanogeMod screen does not boot. I've installed a lot of roms w/o issue but am a novice.
How do I get back into recovery? What is my course of action? HELP!! Thanks