Hello everyone,
So I stupidly wiped my OS in TWRP and now I am having a difficult time flashing any ROMs as they keep "failing" when I try to install them. Please help.
Thank you
Try flashing a stock rom for your phone model, you can get the files from here. You'll be able to flash the rom through Odin via 'Download Mode', rather than using TWRP. Hope that helps, good luck!
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When I try to install a rom it wont install system files it skips over them only to extract some apps which means no bootup.
Any suggestions?
I've tried to install stock and then wipe and then install a rom and i still get same result however sometimes when i flash stock with odin i get fail at the very end whether it be for HLOS file or modem...
I think i can fix this if i wipe my partitions and get them partitioned again.. or maybe one of Odin's tick marks could help??
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please help
I'll probably sell this phone
More information is needed. What version of stock are you running? Are you rooting your phone? Are you installing a custom recovery? Which custom recovery are you using? Name at least one rom other then stock you've tried to install and how you tried to install it. I would guess no one has responded because they don't have the information needed to give you the help you are asking for.
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More information is needed. What version of stock are you running? Are you rooting your phone? Are you installing a custom recovery? Which custom recovery are you using? Name at least one rom other then stock you've tried to install and how you tried to install it. I would guess no one has responded because they don't have the information needed to give you the help you are asking for.
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Im having the same problem too I cant seem to install no rom other then the backup of my Stouck MDL...I tired installing wicked rom and of course it got stuck at the Samsung screen and i did everything when it came to wiping it ....sooo the i tried insane KItKat and that to as well got stuck on boot and im on the latest TWRP 2.7.0.1 recovery running MDL stock
I've tried to install with CWM Recovery by OUDSH and TWRP and no luck I've tried installing WickedRom Hyperdrive and GE by Kot49H I can only install stock with Odin and the reason its not installing is because its avoiding the extraction of system files to the phone.
im sorry if this has been asked before. i was very hesitant to post but ive been trying to resolve this issue for 2 days and browsing and reading as much as i can with minimal results. i am trying to update to 4.4 from 4.2.2. i initially had a hard brick but was able to restore life with the img file but am stuck there. it boots into paranoidkangdroid sometimes (which is the rom i used before it hard bricked but not the one on the img file i created...weird i think). i think the more reading i do the more confused i get. im not sure if i have to flash to stock to get the ota, or whether i can just flash a 4.4 rom. im not sure what other information i should provide. thanks for any help and again, sorry if this is inappropriate.
Does your phone boot into download mode? If it does, flash a custom recovery and custom ROM to at least get your phone into a working state.
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Does your phone boot into download mode? If it does, flash a custom recovery and custom ROM to at least get your phone into a working state.
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i am able to boot into twrp no problem
audit13 said:
Does your phone boot into download mode? If it does, flash a custom recovery and custom ROM to at least get your phone into a working state.
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i was finally able to get some where!
i used this method to restore my phone to 4.3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2658486
what steps do i have to take now to update to 4.4 and flash a custom rom?
do i first need to flash a 4.4 bootloader?
Personally, I prefer cwm over twrp.
Just copy a custom ROM to your external SD card, boot into recovery, wipe cache, dalvik, data, system, install ROM, reboot.
Depending on the ROM you install, you may have to update your bootloader and modem.
Hi all,
I am new here and I am having trouble with my Galaxy 3 SGH-I747 from at&t
I rooted the phone using KingoRoot and everything was fine.
I used the phone for about a week and decided to update from kitkat 4.4.2 to lolipop 5.0.
I have a micromax phone that is rooted and I didnt have any trouble updating it while it was rooted, so i figured it wouldnt be a problem but when I updated the s3 it said update failed at 94% and started rebooting and got stuck in an update loop.
I searched and searched and tried finding recovery options using odin but I cant find a 4.4.2 stock firmware, and cant find much information on recovering my device.
I am unable to boot in to recovery. I cant find a link for the SGH-I747 to philz recovery, the links all seem to be dead.
I can boot in to download mode.
I want to install a custom recovery via ODIN but i cant find one for my phone.
After I install the custom recovery, how will i know which stock OS my phone is currently at
I appreciate any advice you can give me, thanks.
Use TWRP for custom recovery. CWM and Philz haven't been updated in quite a while. You can get odin flashable tars from here.
Flashing TWRP should get you to working recovery, and you can find the rom zips you need to get back up and running in the development section here.
Unrooted stock will overwrite TWRP with stock recovery upon boot. Depending on how far your phone is getting into the booting process that might happen if you let odin auto-reboot. Your best bet is to uncheck auto-reboot in odin, so it won't restart on you automatically. Upon success remove the USB cable and pull battery. Replace battery and boot straight to recovery by holding home+vol up+power until you see tiny blue text in the upper left corner then releasing.
Thankyou! i was able to install the recovery by TWRP.
I just need to figure out what firmware to install and where I can get it... I was on kitkat, I tried to update to lollipop but it didnt work. My phone is bricked so I dont know how i would see the firmware version on it.
I really just want any kind of stable firmware that is rooted. Any ideas where I could find one? I'm trying to sift through the forums
Lots of ROMs are available here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-att/development
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Lots of ROMs are available here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-att/development
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I appreciate all the help - It seemed really hard because I was finding roms and flashing with ODIN but it always failed TWRP is giving me results. I flashed slimkat and got my phone working again! the only problem is my sound is a bit junky, idk why.
I plan on trying out Octos - M, because I heard marshmallow OS has a lot better battery life among other things
If i upgrade to a custom marshmallow OS, is there any coming back to a former custom OS like 4.4.2? or is it a permanent upgrade?
Do you guys recommend any custom OS? I need something stable, that uses the resources efficiently.
Before flashing additional ROMs, make sure the phone is running the latest bootloader and modem.
To verify the installed bootloader and modem, install the Samsung Phone Info app from the Play store.
With a custom ROM, you can flash from one to another, usually without any issues as long as you perform a complete wipe (system, data, cache) before flashing a new ROM. If you are upgrading an existing custom ROM with a newer custom ROM (e.g. CM12.1 2016-01-01 nightly to CM12.1 2016-01-02 nightly), you can just flash the updated ROM over the existing ROM.
I owned this phone a while ago, gained root access on it, and after a year or so I gave it to a friend. My friend has given it back but before doing so she did a factory reset on it. Now it is stuck on a TWRP bootloop. To be clear, when I turn it on I get the TWRP boot screen, then it flicks off and back on again. Basically a loop. I cannot get INTO TWRP to do anything.
I cannot recall what version of TWRP it has, but I know 3.0.0.0 was troublesome for a lot of people (they reported this TWRP bootloop, or something similar).
There are a couple threads similar to this, but no solutions.
This post (http://androidforums.com/threads/how-to-fix-twrp-bootloop-easy-method.1026682/) seems like a good solution, but so far it is not working for me.
I know this device is old now, so hope is low for getting it working again... but if anyone knows what I need to do I would be really grateful if you could suggest something for me to try! I don't have much to loose, so happy to try nearly anything.
I would start over by flashing a stock rom from sammobile.com, then twrp, and a custom rom is required. Remember, flashing a stock rom will wipe all data.
If you need the data, try flashing twrp 2.87 or the latest twrp with Odin.
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I would start over by flashing a stock rom from sammobile.com, then twrp, and a custom rom is required. Remember, flashing a stock rom will wipe all data.
If you need the data, try flashing twrp 2.87 or the latest twrp with Odin.
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Thanks! Am I able to flash this when phone is in TWRP bootloop? The link I posted in my last message implies it ought to be fine to do so...
Yes, you can just flash a stock rom when you are in a twrp boot loop as long as the phone can enter download mode.
Ok cool, thanks! Will give it a shot ASAP.
I am trying to re-install STOCK ROM on SM-T705. I was previously running Lineage OS 14 with TWRP Recovery.
Downloaded the Stock ROM and used ODIN to reinstall the ROM. On reboot, it first showed the android Logo restoring OS and then on reboot, is stuck on Samsung logo. The tablet vibrates periodically, but nothing happens. Have waited for couple of hours.
I encountered similar problem last time when installing Lineage OS. At that time, I got around this by flashing TWRP via ODIN. But I do want to go to Stock Recovery.
I can get the tablet back into ODIN mode.
Any help is most appreciated. My overall experience in installing ROM and Rooting, etc is very limited.
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I am trying to re-install STOCK ROM on SM-T705. I was previously running Lineage OS 14 with TWRP Recovery.
Downloaded the Stock ROM and used ODIN to reinstall the ROM. On reboot, it first showed the android Logo restoring OS and then on reboot, is stuck on Samsung logo. The tablet vibrates periodically, but nothing happens. Have waited for couple of hours.
I encountered similar problem last time when installing Lineage OS. At that time, I got around this by flashing TWRP via ODIN. But I do want to go to Stock Recovery.
I can get the tablet back into ODIN mode.
Any help is most appreciated. My overall experience in installing ROM and Rooting, etc is very limited.
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My SM-T700 was in same situation but i was able to fix it by re-flashing twrp then doing full data format, then after that format the cache partitions, then odin flash the factory firmware.
After doing that booted to the factory setup wizard. Hope this helps you out of your situation
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I managed to fix the issue. I tried flashing another ROM from Sammobile and lower version of ODIN and did the patching and it started working. I guess had a bad ROM downloaded from SAMMOBILE.
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