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[Q] Soft Bricked GS3 with CM10.1 Update

So I recently updated my GS3 to the nightly 8/12/13 build am I am unable to boot my phone into anything except download mode. When booting recovery it says the blue text, shows Galaxy S3 for a second, then crashes to the recharging icon. I've tried flashing a stock MD4 rooted nodata and a stock recovery through Odin, which pass and return no results. Please help me fix this!!!
It rebooted a couple times once and I got the stock recharging battery, not the blue one but the green one. But other than that there's no signs of change.

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QBKing's site is down, here's an even more in depth explanation of my problem:
I cannot boot past the Sprint Galaxy S3 logo. When it does boot past this, it boots into a battery charging mode, either a blue battery with static circle, or a green touchwiz battery.
I have flashed stock and custom roms without any results, when odin reboots, it simply flashes the galaxy s3 spashscreen again and goes to the battery charging icon. This is true no matter what I do, including entering recovery with the home, power and volume up buttons.
I've tried QBKings tutorials, but in this case without downloads they are not useful. I've tried quite a bit of stuff and I'm not worried about losing data at this point.
I found the link on QBKing's website, so hopefully this will work, I'll update again once I flash.
EDIT: Didn't work after following instructions completely, just stuck in vibrate loop afterwards, and after power cycling it's back to the same thing.
The red light lights up right after I plug it in, and I am unable to run or turn on the phone using battery power, even with a full battery.

Another thing I find exceptionally strange is that it boots into the charging mode, even after trying to enter recovery. The batteries mean nothing at this point and I really don't know what to do.

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Xenthis said:
Another thing I find exceptionally strange is that it boots into the charging mode, even after trying to enter recovery. The batteries mean nothing at this point and I really don't know what to do.
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Hey man, I soft bricked my phone as well. Not with CM but by doing a factory reset on the phone when it was rooted. Im stuck on Galaxy S III screen as well and a vibrate loop. I've tried to unroot/unbrick also but to no avail. Any help anyone?

I just took it to Sprint and it fixed. Not sure what they did.

Xenthis said:
I just took it to Sprint and it fixed. Not sure what they did.
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They didnt ask you about root or nothing??

derryj3 said:
They didnt ask you about root or nothing??
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Nope, they knew too, I had CWM installed when I went in, and it was still there when I came out, with 3 more flashes on the counter. I must have gotten lucky.

Won't boot or anything

Hey,
My sisters galaxy gio won't boot. whenever i try to turn it on, the only thing that happens is that the screens goes on for half a second and then off and back on again forever. I already tried to flash a stock froyo, eclair & gingerbread but nothing works.
I only can go in to download mode (sometimes whitout the pink screen). I can NOT go into RECOVERY mode in any way. I wasn't able to flash cwm through odin either. Changing USB ports and usb cables didn't help either.
I am using the odin (4.4.2).
Is there any way to force it into recovery mode?
Thanks in advance

fluxerik said:
Hey,
My sisters galaxy gio won't boot. whenever i try to turn it on, the only thing that happens is that the screens goes on for half a second and then off and back on again forever. I already tried to flash a stock froyo, eclair & gingerbread but nothing works.
I only can go in to download mode (sometimes whitout the pink screen). I can NOT go into RECOVERY mode in any way. I wasn't able to flash cwm through odin either. Changing USB ports and usb cables didn't help either.
I am using the odin (4.4.2).
Is there any way to force it into recovery mode?
Thanks in advance
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i had a similar problem about a month ago. i took it to my provider and they said that its power circuit was damaged due to liquids.
Do you get any errors with odin?

Locthe said:
i had a similar problem about a month ago. i took it to my provider and they said that its power circuit was damaged due to liquids.
Do you get any errors with odin?
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Odin goes all well. It gets to the poiunt where it says "waiting for reboot" and that's when the phones screen starts flashing again.
I'm 100% it hasn't has anything to do with liquids, I think it began when changing the sd-card. But it was doing strange things before that.

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Put your phone into recovery then do a factory reset and reboot your phone, it should work

[Q] Bricked GS3 - Cyanogenmod Kitkat

So, I think my phone just bricked itself or something.
Last night, I installed nova launcher and started tweaking the phone like a mad man.
Any ways, today when I woke up, my phone was off out no where. It had a little trouble booting up I noticed, but eventually it managed. Used the the phone for a few minutes, then it just turned off on me.
Now, whenever I try to turn the phone on, it won't get passed this screen. It just makes it to this screen, and just turns off again.
I also can't boot into recovery mode or anything.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Was running Kitkat cyanogenmod just fine for the most part this last month or so.

Marion Cobretti said:
So, I think my phone just bricked itself or something.
Last night, I installed nova launcher and started tweaking the phone like a mad man.
Any ways, today when I woke up, my phone was off out no where. It had a little trouble booting up I noticed, but eventually it managed. Used the the phone for a few minutes, then it just turned off on me.
Now, whenever I try to turn the phone on, it won't get passed this screen. It just makes it to this screen, and just turns off again.
I also can't boot into recovery mode or anything.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Was running Kitkat cyanogenmod just fine for the most part this last month or so.
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If the phone displays that screen, it's likely not bricked. If you power off the phone or pull the battery, then boot into recovery (holding power, volume-up, and home at the same time), you can do a factory reset and that should be all it takes to get the phone booting again. You could wipe and reflash your ROM from there too if that doesn't work.

Like I said in the OP, I can't get the phone to boot into recovery mode. It doesn't get passed that screen.

Marion Cobretti said:
Like I said in the OP, I can't get the phone to boot into recovery mode. It doesn't get passed that screen.
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Yep,missed that part. My fault. Can you get into download mode instead? When you plug your phone in, does your computer recognize it? You may be able to use Odin to go back to a stock ROM instead of going to recovery, to start from scratch.

Oh, I should also mention that I have a Mac. Is there anything like Odin or Flashboot for a Mac?

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Oh, I should also mention that I have a Mac. Is there anything like Odin or Flashboot for a Mac?
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I don't think Odin is compatible (don't have a Mac myself, so not sure), but I've heard of people using Heimdall as an alternative to Odin for Mac. Latest version of Heimdall should be available through their website from this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755265

T999 Won't boot/start

Didn't find anything similar on here so I had to post. My T999 no longer boots except for a vibrate when the battery is removed and re-inserted. Occasionally it will get to the CM boot logo and then the screen goes off. If I time the button presses right, I get to the Download screen but before I can hit the Up button to confirm download mode the screen shuts off. This happened all of a sudden yesterday, the last activity being to shut off the Alarm. Tried charging but it will not get past the initial battery icon before the screen goes off. Tried replacing the battery but that didn't help. I also tried to follow the debrick instructions but it didn't help. I was running Vanir AOSP 4.4.4 with no issues until yesterday. The device does not register when connected to the PC using USB and the charger LED does not light up when plugged into charger/PC. My feeling is that something went wrong with the boot but I am unable to get into any usable screen to do anything. I had managed to brick a Samsung Vibrant before but I didn't have to struggle as much to debrick and ODIN back to stock. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm now without a phone .

Mine is also acting like that. It wont boot to any rom even stock ones. But i noticed that if i connect my charger it will boot to the homescreen. Sounds like a battery issue right? I also thought that but when i go to recovery, it did not shutdown after leaving it for a couple of minutes. I'm also baffled why it wont boot. I'll try to borrow other battery to test if it still the same.

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Didn't find anything similar on here so I had to post. My T999 no longer boots except for a vibrate when the battery is removed and re-inserted. Occasionally it will get to the CM boot logo and then the screen goes off. If I time the button presses right, I get to the Download screen but before I can hit the Up button to confirm download mode the screen shuts off. This happened all of a sudden yesterday, the last activity being to shut off the Alarm. Tried charging but it will not get past the initial battery icon before the screen goes off. Tried replacing the battery but that didn't help. I also tried to follow the debrick instructions but it didn't help. I was running Vanir AOSP 4.4.4 with no issues until yesterday. The device does not register when connected to the PC using USB and the charger LED does not light up when plugged into charger/PC. My feeling is that something went wrong with the boot but I am unable to get into any usable screen to do anything. I had managed to brick a Samsung Vibrant before but I didn't have to struggle as much to debrick and ODIN back to stock. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm now without a phone .
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Remove battery snd put back in. Does the device try to turn on by itself? If so you probably have a bad power button.
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Mine is also acting like that. It wont boot to any rom even stock ones. But i noticed that if i connect my charger it will boot to the homescreen. Sounds like a battery issue right? I also thought that but when i go to recovery, it did not shutdown after leaving it for a couple of minutes. I'm also baffled why it wont boot. I'll try to borrow other battery to test if it still the same.
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Boot download mode and flash stock or root66 firmware with Odin. (You may need to factory reset too)

DocHoliday77 said:
Boot download mode and flash stock or root66 firmware with Odin. (You may need to factory reset too)
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Done this using root66 but still the same. Now my phone went to worse. It wont get past the S3 logo in the boot screen and just shuts down followed by a vibrate. But if i connect my charger, it will continue and run as normal. My suspect might be a bad battery but the thing is it doesn't auto shutdown when is download mode or in recovery mode. Will try to borrow other battery and update if this fixes the problem.

This is pretty strange. Woke up to my phone with the Galaxy s3 boot logo. And it wouldn't go past it. Tried flashing different backups I had but none of them let me go past the boot logo. Flashed CM10 since my version of TWRP recovery is so old that it can't flash anything higher up, and it goes past the boot logo finally after 2 hours then goes to the cyanogen boot logo but doesn't go past that. I'm going to try with ODIN tonight.
Seems very strange that there are others that had this happen to them to. My phone has never done this before, and it happened randomly.

What does it mean if my phone doesn't boot past the logo with an odin to root66 file?
Edit: Nevermind seems to have worked... for now.
Edit 2: Okay so now it's stuck in an infinite loop where it boots past the logo, shows the android mascot then does an android is upgrading app 1 of 169 then goes back all over again. This is fun! Can anyone help?
Edit 3: Okay so I had to do a factory reset. Got it working now. Starting to get sick of the things I have to do to get updated firmware. Samsung needs to get their crap together!

LarsonJayz said:
Done this using root66 but still the same. Now my phone went to worse. It wont get past the S3 logo in the boot screen and just shuts down followed by a vibrate. But if i connect my charger, it will continue and run as normal. My suspect might be a bad battery but the thing is it doesn't auto shutdown when is download mode or in recovery mode. Will try to borrow other battery and update if this fixes the problem.
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Hopefully its just the battery.
Download mode may work because of how the battery reports to the os. If its going bad and reporting incorrectly that its low, it may trigger a shutdown. Whereas in download mode the os isn't running so its not reading the battery info the same way. Just a guess.
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What does it mean if my phone doesn't boot past the logo with an odin to root66 file?
Edit: Nevermind seems to have worked... for now.
Edit 2: Okay so now it's stuck in an infinite loop where it boots past the logo, shows the android mascot then does an android is upgrading app 1 of 169 then goes back all over again. This is fun! Can anyone help?
Edit 3: Okay so I had to do a factory reset. Got it working now. Starting to get sick of the things I have to do to get updated firmware. Samsung needs to get their crap together!
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Just for future reference, factory resetting solves about 98% of boot hangs.
Still for both of you, id take this as a sign that you should make sure your backups are up to date. If something is failing you'll be glad you did!

DocHoliday77 said:
Just for future reference, factory resetting solves about 98% of boot hangs.
Still for both of you, id take this as a sign that you should make sure your backups are up to date. If something is failing you'll be glad you did!
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Yeah factory reset unfortunately didn't work for me when I needed it before I had to ODIN to root66. But I was able to do a nandroid after I couldn't get it to boot and extract my sms from Titanium backup. What an awesome app, super thankful to that dev for making it.

DocHoliday77 said:
Hopefully its just the battery.
Download mode may work because of how the battery reports to the os. If its going bad and reporting incorrectly that its low, it may trigger a shutdown. Whereas in download mode the os isn't running so its not reading the battery info the same way. Just a guess.
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Turns out it was the battery sir. I've tested it with another battery from 2 different phones and it worked fine. While the phone i tested with the defective battery didn't event get passed the samsung logo. I've suspected it might be having the low voltage causing the phone to shut down.
Anyways, after that i bought a new battery immediately and everything seems ok. thanks for the reply doc.

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Remove battery snd put back in. Does the device try to turn on by itself? If so you probably have a bad power button.
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I can confirm that it is likely a bad power button, I have tried everything including dismantling it and seeing if I could dislodge any dirt that may be causing the problem but it didn't work. Looks like I have to find a local repair shop or ebay to get it resolved. Anyone recommend a good place to get this fixed. Funds are limited

Im not sure exactly how difficult the repair is most people seem so do it themselves and have given indications that its pretty easy. You can find the part online for a few bucks.

Galaxy tab s 10.5 Stock Firmware Bricked me

Hey guys, I could REALLY use some help with this. So i had my tablet Rooted. Then after a while my google play store wouldn't respond and I couldn't update any apps. So I decided to revert back to stock firmware. This was the file I had used.
(T800XXU1BOJ1_T800XAR1BOJ1_HOME.tar.md5)
I have the Tab S 10.5 bronze.
So I installed it with Odin and I noticed on Odin it said (Succeeded 0/ Failed 0) and the tablet didn't reboot itself. so I thought okay... it must not have worked. Let me reboot the tablet myself. Mind you the screen on the tablet was still in Odin (Download) Mode. After I reboot it, it went into the same bootloop with the TEAMWIN icon popping up over and over again. So I reboot it again to try and put back into download mode. Well it wouldn't. It just popped up with the Samsung Galaxy Tab S Icon and kept repeating that spot. So once again I turned it off to try and get it into Odin mode, and now it wont turn on at all.
Okay. As i was typing this, i have the tablet connected to the computer and it just randomly turned itself on and now its in the TEAMWIN bootloop again. I don't wanna touch it until I get someones opinion on what to do next...

AWESOME it bootlooped itself again but this time when the samsung logo popped up I held the volume button and got it into Odin Mode! now.... what to do next? I dont want to try the same Stock FIrmware. Idk if it was the problem or not.

alright so here is what I just did..
The tablet rebooted itself while I was typing that message while it was plugged into the PC. It turned itself on but when it was at the Samsung Logo I quickly pressed the Volume button and had gotten it into Odin Mode. I disconnected it from the PC, loaded up the Stock firmware from the first post. Plugged in the Tablet while it was in the Downloading Odin Mode. Hit start on Odin and it did the rest. Now the issue is it reboot, samsung logos popped up and went away. the Samsung logo with the little blips of light/stars around it came up. then it said Installing Applications with a loading bar. That lasted about 2 seconds then went back to the samsung logo with the stars. Then the tablet shut off and now i cant get it back on again.....

Hold POWER + VOL DOWN

Yeah. I know that. That's how I got it into Odin mode.. Thanks for four word incredibly helpful post...

Are you sure you downloaded the correct software for your device? You could try another region's firnware or re-download the one you used.
Since you still see the Teamwin icon I guess it didn't install the firmware correctly or all of it since your recovery should be the stock one again after flashing. Or did you remove items from the .tar file you try to flash?

M1LLER_LITE said:
Yeah. I know that. That's how I got it into Odin mode.. Thanks for four word incredibly helpful post...
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I'm telling you how to reset your device not boot into download mode smart mouth!