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S3 won't boot, load CWM, go into download mode...

Alright, so I have an i-747 (AT&T GS3) running AOKP Jellybean (8.28 build) with the KT747 kernel. I just tried to install Chainfire 3D using the automated installer, and when the phone rebooted, it stuck at the Samsung Galaxy S3 logo until I pulled battery. So I tried rebooting into CWM - same problem. And again with download mode. Even after pulling the battery for a good 5 minutes, nothing works. Am I bricked, or is there some fix for this?

If you can get into CWM your not bricked. If you haven't backed up your phone there is a good chance you will have to start fresh. Its always a wise decision to do a nandroid backup via cwm before doing anything major. Including installing chainfire.
Have you tried wipe/factory reset in CWM?
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g2tegg said:
If you can get into CWM your not bricked. If you haven't backed up your phone there is a good chance you will have to start fresh. Its always a wise decision to do a nandroid backup via cwm before doing anything major. Including installing chainfire.
Have you tried wipe/factory reset in CWM?
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Yeah, I made a nandroid just this afternoon, but I can't actually boot into CWM at all. As in, I turn on the phone (power+home+volume up), it gets to the Galaxy S3 logo and just hangs there. If I could get into CWM (or download mode) this would be about a 10 minute fix, but I'm kind of out of luck here.

Huh. After another battery pull, it let me boot into download mode. I'm gonna try to reflash to stock and hope for the best.

HELP I have the same issue
Hey, Im stuck in the same situation and was wondering if you were able to get it into CWM mode?
MrPhantom31 said:
Huh. After another battery pull, it let me boot into download mode. I'm gonna try to reflash to stock and hope for the best.
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Hi, sorry to say but sounds like its bricked
Thanks

MrPhantom31 said:
Huh. After another battery pull, it let me boot into download mode. I'm gonna try to reflash to stock and hope for the best.
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I doubt it's bricked if he got it into download mode. I'm sure he's flashed it and even got his wallpaper back up by now. Please let us know of you've managed to solve this or not MrPhantom.
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Curious?
I know its technically "Solved" but does anyone have any idea why this is happening? I have a Verizon GS3 and it's happening to me. I try to boot and it vibrates once and doesn't turn on. Recovery does the same thing. But going into Download mode works. Odin back to stock as we speak but I'm just curious what went wrong. I just did a clean install of a rom, set it all up (working at the time), set it down for the night and woke up to it like this.

rrrs444230 said:
Hey, Im stuck in the same situation and was wondering if you were able to get it into CWM mode?
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Same thing happned to me but your not bricked. You can get into bolth download and boot mode easy
Here is how you do it.
RECOVERY MODE
Unplug the USB cable.
Shut down the phone.
Hold down the 'HOME' + 'VOLUME UP' buttons and press the 'POWER' button for about 5 seconds to enter Recovery Mode.
[edit]Download Mode
Save that somewhere. Make sure do it right. I got stuck also and thought I couldn't get into recovery but I had to do it right (it hit recovery mode first try) I have learned that most people do it slightly wrong. Make sure follow directions
Download mode
Unplug the USB cable.
Shut down the phone.
Hold down the 'HOME' + 'VOLUME DOWN' buttons and press the 'POWER' button for about 2 seconds until a WARNING! Screen appears. Press the 'VOLUME UP' button to enter Download Mode.
To get out of Download Mode, simply press and hold the power button until the phone restarts
if helps hit thanks.
Just save that to a text file somewhere
I have also soft bricked when I deleted my rom once on accident. I dunno how I did it but I would get stuck at the TWRP screen. It wouldn't go to download or anything however when I plugged it into odin it saw it .... I even had a soft brick when screen went black from a bad boot animation and same thing.. and I had one bad soft brick where it took about 100 trys to get it into download mode (black screen) but odin detected it. I spent like 4 hours working on it.
I think
1. People don't follow directions correct (they do it a little wrong) which is enough if your phones messed up for it not to work.
when your phones normal it can get into recovery or download easy but when its sick you got to do it perfect.
2. I think something wrong with the phones (my s2 never had any issues in 2 years of owning it) S3 has tons of issues from usb, to bluetooth, to these soft bricks I have had)
3. Roms play a big part
4. I also think the way storage works in this new phone causes lots issues I dunno why just what I think
anyway Like I said now when I have a isssue I open text and read it and make sure I do it right and 95 percent of the time it was my fault I wasn't doing it right. K just my thoughts

when i try this on my verzion s3 it wont load back into the CWM after installed to finish rooting. it just goes back into the android system recovery. tried it about 10 times and nothing different

phatchef1 said:
when i try this on my verzion s3 it wont load back into the CWM after installed to finish rooting. it just goes back into the android system recovery. tried it about 10 times and nothing different
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That's most likely cause you're not in the right section..: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1708

Need help!! s3 wont go into recovery/download mode.

Hello! So I'm very new to rooting and roms but I'm very tech savvy.
So here's the situation... I buy a 1 month old s3 from someone and he had a AOKB ROM installed on it. It worked perfectly when I got it but then I decided to revert it to stock and factory settings. I don't know much about aokb ROM but I guess it wouldn't matter since I was just gonna flash the stock ROM on it with Odin. So I turned off the phone and try the recovery boot button combination and it didn't work, it just started normally, I did it several times and suddenly it wouldn't boot anymore. I then try to go into download mode but it wouldn't either, it would just restart and freeze in booting splash screen.
I'm panicking and don't know what to do. How can it possibly brick from resetting and why wouldn't it let me access the recovery/download menu I thought that was standard on all androids no matter what ROM you have installed in it.

esteban089 said:
Hello! So I'm very new to rooting and roms but I'm very tech savvy.
So here's the situation... I buy a 1 month old s3 from someone and he had a AOKB ROM installed on it. It worked perfectly when I got it but then I decided to revert it to stock and factory settings. I don't know much about aokb ROM but I guess it wouldn't matter since I was just gonna flash the stock ROM on it with Odin. So I turned off the phone and try the recovery boot button combination and it didn't work, it just started normally, I did it several times and suddenly it wouldn't boot anymore. I then try to go into download mode but it wouldn't either, it would just restart and freeze in booting splash screen.
I'm panicking and don't know what to do. How can it possibly brick from resetting and why wouldn't it let me access the recovery/download menu I thought that was standard on all androids no matter what ROM you have installed in it.
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What button combo are you using?
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esteban089 said:
Hello! So I'm very new to rooting and roms but I'm very tech savvy.
So here's the situation... I buy a 1 month old s3 from someone and he had a AOKB ROM installed on it. It worked perfectly when I got it but then I decided to revert it to stock and factory settings. I don't know much about aokb ROM but I guess it wouldn't matter since I was just gonna flash the stock ROM on it with Odin. So I turned off the phone and try the recovery boot button combination and it didn't work, it just started normally, I did it several times and suddenly it wouldn't boot anymore. I then try to go into download mode but it wouldn't either, it would just restart and freeze in booting splash screen.
I'm panicking and don't know what to do. How can it possibly brick from resetting and why wouldn't it let me access the recovery/download menu I thought that was standard on all androids no matter what ROM you have installed in it.
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Is it dead? No you can't brick from button combo. I'm guessing the battery died. When you charge it you can then try the button combo or boot it up and go into adb and type adb reboot download

esteban089 said:
Hello! So I'm very new to rooting and roms but I'm very tech savvy.
So here's the situation... I buy a 1 month old s3 from someone and he had a AOKB ROM installed on it. It worked perfectly when I got it but then I decided to revert it to stock and factory settings. I don't know much about aokb ROM but I guess it wouldn't matter since I was just gonna flash the stock ROM on it with Odin. So I turned off the phone and try the recovery boot button combination and it didn't work, it just started normally, I did it several times and suddenly it wouldn't boot anymore. I then try to go into download mode but it wouldn't either, it would just restart and freeze in booting splash screen.
I'm panicking and don't know what to do. How can it possibly brick from resetting and why wouldn't it let me access the recovery/download menu I thought that was standard on all androids no matter what ROM you have installed in it.
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The button combo is holding volume down and the home button while powering on for recovery, or Volume up and home for download.

hey im in panic mode guys, i just got my brand new phone, instaleld the OTA update to JB, then i odin the preroot version everythign worked perfectly.
Then i tried a custom rom with CWM, the marshmellow perfection one. It flashed and worked, but I wanted to go back to stock
So I odin flashed back to the preroot JB rom i had used before, and now it it hangs at the Samsung boot logo after reboot.
Odin says Pass and everything.
I also cannot get into any sort of recovery other than download mode.
What can i do to fix this???

Try this....plug charger in....when it completely shutdown you'll see battery charging icon on screen.....press volume up, home and power.....release power when you feel it viberate..... release everything else right after you notice blue text in upper left corner...
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You'll also have to wipe data from recovery screen...before new ROM initializes...
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Wrong post sorry
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Gr8Danes said:
The button combo is holding volume down and the home button while powering on for recovery, or Volume up and home for download.
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i think you have to hold all 3 buttons until you see the little blue text.

CM10 Boot Loop? Help!

I rooted my phone to a stock root on my Jelly Bean Galaxy S3. I then installed ClockworkMod through ROM Manager, then CM10. It installed OK, now stuck in a boot loop. No big deal, I'll reinstall to my Kies backup. Doesn't work, I can't seem to get into recovery mode. I hold the buttons, it vibrates, and the screen stays black until I let go at which point it boots to that horrendous boot loop. I really need my phone back!
P.S. Please explain as if I am five years old.

Flightfreak said:
I rooted my phone to a stock root on my Jelly Bean Galaxy S3. I then installed ClockworkMod through ROM Manager, then CM10. It installed OK, now stuck in a boot loop. No big deal, I'll reinstall to my Kies backup. Doesn't work, I can't seem to get into recovery mode. I hold the buttons, it vibrates, and the screen stays black until I let go at which point it boots to that horrendous boot loop. I really need my phone back!
P.S. Please explain as if I am five years old.
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Download mode couldnt get any simpler bud
Edit: just incase if you dont know its down home power button to get to it, find your galaxy s3 firnware (ATT/Bell etc...) and your back stock nonrooted. And then you can root againif you wanna

While in a boot loop, hold the buttons. The phone will power off and stay off as long as you hold them down. Let go of all three, then immediately press all 3 again. When you see a little blue line of letters on the top left of your screen, let go again. Should boot into recovery from there.

mrhaley30705 said:
While in a boot loop, hold the buttons. The phone will power off and stay off as long as you hold them down. Let go of all three, then immediately press all 3 again. When you see a little blue line of letters on the top left of your screen, let go again. Should boot into recovery from there.
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Did you read the question bro.. he said he CAN'T go to recovery mode only other option is download mode

No, the option is to boot into recovery and perform a factory reset (which may fix his problem). IF that doesn't fix his problem, he can flash a different ROM from recovery, provided he had custom recovery.
The only difference in getting to download as opposed to recovery is which volume button you use. Chances are if he can't 3 button into recovery, download will be the same result.

Thanks
Got it fixed guys, thanks for the help, now I'm back at Stock Rooted 4.1.1, but am still on the quest for a deodexed rom!

Excellent suggestion - it worked for me
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While in a boot loop, hold the buttons. The phone will power off and stay off as long as you hold them down. Let go of all three, then immediately press all 3 again. When you see a little blue line of letters on the top left of your screen, let go again. Should boot into recovery from there.
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I got a Galaxy S III on 23rd Dec 2012 with Ice Cream Sandwich installed. A couple of weeks later it updated itself with a little help from me to the latest Jelly Bean. Since then it's gone into the reboot loop 3 times without any provocation; i.e. I get it out of my pocket and it's in a reboot loop but it had been fine the last time I used it. I tried pressing various buttons alone and in combination and eventually it came out of the loop. At no time did I have to remove the battery. The only mod I've made to it is the addition of a 64GByte SD card, apart from the upgrade to Jelly Bean. I've seen many posts on this problem but yours is the first that confirms my solution for getting out of it. It's obviously a common problem so somewhere there must be a description of what causes it and, hopefully, how to prevent it as it's a real nuisance when you want to use your phone and it's in a reboot loop. If and when I find a definitive article I'll post here again.
Thanks MrHaley.

PLEASE help me!!!!!!

Hi guys hope someone can please help me.... I was trying to return my Canadian Rogers Galaxy S3 back to stock firmware using Mobile Odin and following this youtube video, and now Im stuck in a recovery boot loop..... I followed the procedure step by step, same as the video uploader and now it just loops.... it shows the mobile odin image says wiping dalvik cache, goes black, vibrates, goes into recovery shows mobile odin image and repeats itself..... Ive taken the battery out and put it in and it just does the same thing...... am i screwed or what? Im not very impressed right now cuz im gonna be out $500 if I cant fix this..... can someone please help me?? PLEASE??? Thank you in advance guys and have a great day!
Jeff

djnavig8tor said:
Hi guys hope someone can please help me.... I was trying to return my Canadian Rogers Galaxy S3 back to stock firmware using Mobile Odin and following this youtube video, and now Im stuck in a recovery boot loop..... I followed the procedure step by step, same as the video uploader and now it just loops.... it shows the mobile odin image says wiping dalvik cache, goes black, vibrates, goes into recovery shows mobile odin image and repeats itself..... Ive taken the battery out and put it in and it just does the same thing...... am i screwed or what? Im not very impressed right now cuz im gonna be out $500 if I cant fix this..... can someone please help me?? PLEASE??? Thank you in advance guys and have a great day!
Jeff
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Pull the battery. Reboot into stock recovery. Factory reset and reboot. You'll be fine. Happens all the time.
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KorGuy123 said:
Pull the battery. Reboot into stock recovery. Factory reset and reboot. You'll be fine. Happens all the time.
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Volume up + power + home if you didn't know. Sorry should have specified. Some people don't know.
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when I pull the battery and put it back in.... i power it up and the loop automatically starts back up again.... cant get into recovery mode, download mode.... NOTHING.... none of the buttons work... nothing happens when I plug it into the computer, charger NOTHING.... just loops over and over.....pulling the battery does nothing.

This is the video I followed
http://youtu.be/djcq5Wgf9zo

djnavig8tor said:
when I pull the battery and put it back in.... i power it up and the loop automatically starts back up again.... cant get into recovery mode, download mode.... NOTHING.... none of the buttons work... nothing happens when I plug it into the computer, charger NOTHING.... just loops over and over.....pulling the battery does nothing.
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Ok take a breather, stress makes this seem like a catastrophe.
Pull the battery. Put in the battery. It won't turn on after a battery pull until you turn it on, which is why it's recommended. Press and hold volume up + power and home at the same time when you feel the first rumble and see the Samsung logo let go of power and keep holding the other two buttons.
Its literally all about timing. Might take two or three tries.
Trust me there is no damage from a boot loop. I flashed back to stock this morning and had to do the same thing I'm explaining right now. Took me 3 tries and I've done this a hell of a lot of times.
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djnavig8tor said:
when I pull the battery and put it back in.... i power it up and the loop automatically starts back up again.... cant get into recovery mode, download mode.... NOTHING.... none of the buttons work... nothing happens when I plug it into the computer, charger NOTHING.... just loops over and over.....pulling the battery does nothing.
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Pull the battery. Replace. Immediately press Vol up + home + power in that order. Do not just press the power button first nor just by itself. Release just the power button as soon you get a vibrate

Different guy having the same problem with the same solution we are suggesting. Just timing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31549817
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Hey guys thanks for the help.... ive flashed about 10 roms in the last 2 weeks and ive booted into recovery about 2100 times... and im telling you there is no way it will go into recovery mode no matter what order i press the buttons or how I press them.... it just goes into the loop again....

Only other option is to Odin back to stock and start over

mrhaley30705 said:
Only other option is to Odin back to stock and start over
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He can't get into download mode. You have a jig?

Thats exactly what im trying to do..... GET BACK TO STOCK!!! But i cant get into recovery to flash and unroot back to stock.... can you pretell how | use odin and go back to start when i cant do anything with the phone at all.

It will go into recovery...

Quasimodem said:
It will go into recovery...
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then please tell me how.... and remember, its not just normal recovery loop.... Odin is actually flashing back to stock firmware and it is stuck in ODIN and it says "wiping Dalvik cache" ....so its not like its been already flashed back to stock and its just in boot loop.... Odin hasnt finished flashing it and its looping while still in Odin.....and as i said before...no matter what order i press the buttons or when i press them... it wont go intop recovery mode.... unless you know a different way... this will not work.

djnavig8tor said:
then please tell me how.... and remember, its not just normal recovery loop.... Odin is actually flashing back to stock firmware and it is stuck in ODIN and it says "wiping Dalvik cache" ....so its not like its been already flashed back to stock and its just in boot loop.... Odin hasnt finished flashing it and its looping while still in Odin.....and as i said before...no matter what order i press the buttons or when i press them... it wont go intop recovery mode.... unless you know a different way... this will not work.
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Just do this:
Hook up the phone without a battery... While holding only Home and Vol-Down insert the battery and continue to hold them... The USB will force it into Download mode while holding them and putting in the battery... Flash it with Odin...

djnavig8tor said:
then please tell me how.... and remember, its not just normal recovery loop.... Odin is actually flashing back to stock firmware and it is stuck in ODIN and it says "wiping Dalvik cache" ....so its not like its been already flashed back to stock and its just in boot loop.... Odin hasnt finished flashing it and its looping while still in Odin.....and as i said before...no matter what order i press the buttons or when i press them... it wont go intop recovery mode.... unless you know a different way... this will not work.
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You need to be in download mode to use odin, not recovery mode
Vol down instead of Vol up in button combo

Quasimodem said:
Just do this:
Hook up the phone without a battery... While holding only Home and Vol-Down insert the battery and continue to hold them... The USB will force it into Download mode while holding them and putting in the battery... Flash it with Odin...
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Thank you so much.... that worked... so now im in download mode and i already have Odin installed on my computer. Without sounding like a total newb and idiot, can you please walk me through what to do next as im using my inlaws computer and i have to leave soon and i dont have a computer at home or wifi there so im stuck till tomorrow if i dont fix this here within the next half hour. Thank you so much again... you have no idea how grateful i am to you right now. If this helps im in canada using rogers/fido SGH-1747m and I was using Liquidsmooth at&t before this happened.

I dont care what direction this goes, whether its back tostock or rooted.... i just need my phone to work before i leave here. thanks bro.

djnavig8tor said:
Thank you so much.... that worked... so now im in download mode and i already have Odin installed on my computer. Without sounding like a total newb and idiot, can you please walk me through what to do next as im using my inlaws computer and i have to leave soon and i dont have a computer at home or wifi there so im stuck till tomorrow if i dont fix this here within the next half hour. Thank you so much again... you have no idea how grateful i am to you right now. If this helps im in canada using rogers/fido SGH-1747m and I was using Liquidsmooth at&t before this happened.
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Get ODIN here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1722686
The drivers here:
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/SGH-I747MBAATT
A stock ROM for Rogers, Fido, whatever it was here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1968625
Put the .tar in the PDA slot, only auto-reboot checked, hit Start, when it's done it will be stuck at Samsung until you go into recovery and factory reset and wipe cache...

[Q] Odin to recovery? or Odin to reset device to factory

Hey guys,
So I have an interesting issue: I was trying to install a new boot animation but now the phone doesn't start. I tried installing the stock UVLE1 using Odin and that was successful, and the phone goes through the boot animation and the sound plays but the phone gets stuck at the samsung logo screen. I've tried reinstalling the rom a couple of times but everytime it gets stuck at the same spot.
I can't get into recovery (I tried adb but that didn't find a device, the power button is broken so can't do it manually), when the phone gets to the samsung screen it is not recognized by the computer but odin works fine (at boot).
I want to recover the info in the internal storage if that's possible and ideally fix the phone too.
If you guys have any suggestions, that would be awesome!
Thanks!
Edit: I've tried a lot of different stock roms from 2.3.6 to 4.1.2 and they all have the same issue (were successful but stuck on samsung logo)
Edit: Solution: Boot into odin and restart phone while holding volume up/down and remove usb to enter recovery.
Thanks to all that helped!

jzz said:
Hey guys,
So I have an interesting issue: I was trying to install a new boot animation but now the phone doesn't start. I tried installing the stock UVLE1 using Odin and that was successful, and the phone goes through the boot animation and the sound plays but the phone gets stuck at the samsung logo screen. I've tried reinstalling the rom a couple of times but everytime it gets stuck at the same spot.
I can't get into recovery (I tried adb but that didn't find a device, the power button is broken so can't do it manually), when the phone gets to the samsung screen it is not recognized by the computer but odin works fine (at boot).
I want to recover the info in the internal storage if that's possible and ideally fix the phone too.
If you guys have any suggestions, that would be awesome!
Thanks!
Edit: I've tried a lot of different stock roms from 2.3.6 to 4.1.2 and they all have the same issue (were successful but stuck on samsung logo)
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What Odin version? I had issues with 3.07, but 3.04 worked great for stock 4.1.2.
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kj2112 said:
What Odin version? I had issues with 3.07, but 3.04 worked great for stock 4.1.2.
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That didn't work either
Tried 1.85 and 3.07 as well

jzz said:
That didn't work either
Tried 1.85 and 3.07 as well
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Have you tried clearing cache and dalvik cache after flashing?
Maybe even factory reset after.
And you will need to Odin the image, then Odin custom recovery right after to do those.
If you can't get into recovery ....then something is very wrong.
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kj2112 said:
Have you tried clearing cache and dalvik cache after flashing?
Maybe even factory reset after.
And you will need to Odin the image, then Odin custom recovery right after to do those.
If you can't get into recovery ....then something is very wrong.
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I can flash the recovery, but can't get into it because the power button is broken. If there's another way to get into recovery, let me know!
I'll try flashing and then flashing recovery right after and see if that works
Thanks for helping!
Edit: That didn't send it straight to recovery on boot either. Still stuck on the samsung logo.

jzz said:
I can flash the recovery, but can't get into it because the power button is broken. If there's another way to get into recovery, let me know!
I'll try flashing and then flashing recovery right after and see if that works
Thanks for helping!
Edit: That didn't send it straight to recovery on boot either. Still stuck on the samsung logo.
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Broken power button ....yeah, that's an issue. There are lots of apps to boot to it, if you're rooted.....but without the phone running and root, I'm not sure what you can do.
Maybe someone else does?
Fastboot command maybe?
I don't even remember if fastboot works with Samsung. Lol
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Use adb to get to stock recovery, wipe data/factory reset, and it will boot. Easy.

jzz said:
I can flash the recovery, but can't get into it because the power button is broken. If there's another way to get into recovery, let me know!
I'll try flashing and then flashing recovery right after and see if that works
Thanks for helping!
Edit: That didn't send it straight to recovery on boot either. Still stuck on the samsung logo.
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Is the power button stuck in on position? if it is, it will most likely boot up just by putting in the battery and it should also auto restart about 15secs after you see the Samsung logo.
If your power button isn't stuck on and you can get the device to power up, hold both volume up & down while powering on device, no need to hold power on, once you see Samsung logo release volume keys and it should boot to recovery.

Almite said:
Is the power button stuck in on position? if it is, it will most likely boot up just by putting in the battery and it should also auto restart about 15secs after you see the Samsung logo.
If your power button isn't stuck on and you can get the device to power up, hold both volume up & down while powering on device, no need to hold power on, once you see Samsung logo release volume keys and it should boot to recovery.
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Power button was broken (in on position which basically made it reboot halfway while booting up) a while back. I removed the power button, and it was working fine for a couple of months.
BUT OMG YOU ARE A GENIUS! It worked.
Just for future reference if anyone needs it, here is what I did:
Enter the odin screen (with usb) and push vol down to reboot. Then quickly remove the usb and keep pressing the volume buttons until the samsung logo comes up and you're in recovery.
THANKS!!!! :good::good::good::good:

please help me!!!
i have the same problem but my power menu works fine and i can go to recovery and i cleared catch even data but the samsung animation still stucks what to do please help me!!!!