Recently had to replace my E4GT and the new device was sent to me with FI27 firmware. I want to install Blue Kuban or something similar, however I can't get the phone to boot into recovery. I can access download mode, which I used to flash a rooted version of the stock rom, however when I try to boot into recovery (holding power and volume up) the phone displays the samsung boot screen twice then boots like normal. Can I flash to a CWM or something through Odin in download mode, to gain access to custom firmware and recovery mode? Assuming I can, is there a preferred firmware to use now?
Get the el26 kernel that had cwm recovery in it and flash thru odin .
When the phone resets pull out the battery and place it back put the phone then boot into recovery
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beneboi said:
Recently had to replace my E4GT and the new device was sent to me with FI27 firmware. I want to install Blue Kuban or something similar, however I can't get the phone to boot into recovery. I can access download mode, which I used to flash a rooted version of the stock rom, however when I try to boot into recovery (holding power and volume up) the phone displays the samsung boot screen twice then boots like normal. Can I flash to a CWM or something through Odin in download mode, to gain access to custom firmware and recovery mode? Assuming I can, is there a preferred firmware to use now?
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Post 2. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1953783
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Post 2. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1953783
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I really appreciate the guide, and I followed it, installed odin lite, got the right apk for my phone to flash, grabbed the cwm and flashed it, however I still can't boot to recovery and obviously can no longer boot back into the rom I had. I suppose I will wait until I get home and use odin on my pc to flash, as I can access download mode. Can I use the same cwm with the pc version of odin?
Ok, so things have gone from bad to worse.
I was able to flash the stock el26 with odin and got it back to factory, after that i booted into recovery and attempted to install blu kuban (after clearing everything) and it gives me a short write error about not enough space but I have over 10gb free on the phone and 20 on the sd card. I then attempted the mobile odin steps again VERBATIM from your guide and when the phone reset it soft bricked again, however this time it wont boot into recovery or download mode and just sits at the samsung logo screen. When I plug the phone into the pc and attempt to boot into anything the charging animation just freezes on the screen. any help would be greatly appreciated.
(edit) nevermind, im an idiot. figured it out.
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I initially flashed the CM10 JB stable ROM successfully. The only problem I had was that I was unable to transfer files via USB to my computer, so I tried using the toolkit to flash the stock rom, but when it was flashing I got an error message that my phone disconnected.
When I turn my phone on I can only get into download mode. If i just press the power button, I receive a black screen.
I have tried using this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771687 to flash the stock ROM using ODIN but the phone freezes at the Samsung logo screen after the T-Mobile "4G Android" screen.
Any help is truly appreciated
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I initially flashed the CM10 JB stable ROM successfully. The only problem I had was that I was unable to transfer files via USB to my computer, so I tried using the toolkit to flash the stock rom, but when it was flashing I got an error message that my phone disconnected.
When I turn my phone on I can only get into download mode. If i just press the power button, I receive a black screen.
I have tried using this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771687 to flash the stock ROM using ODIN but the phone freezes at the Samsung logo screen after the T-Mobile "4G Android" screen.
Any help is truly appreciated
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can you get into recovery mode? if you can, try installing a rom from an external micro sd card (that you know previously worked)
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I have tried using this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771687 to flash the stock ROM using ODIN but the phone freezes at the Samsung logo screen after the T-Mobile "4G Android" screen.
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If you got this far, then you need to do a factory reset.
idlejoe said:
can you get into recovery mode? if you can, try installing a rom from an external micro sd card (that you know previously worked)
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I can not get into recovery mode. I can only get into Download mode for some reason.
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If you got this far, then you need to do a factory reset.
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How would I be able to do a factory reset only using Download Mode?
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How would I be able to do a factory reset only using Download Mode?
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you cant. You need to boot into recovery. Trust me you can get in it, might take a few tries. Try to boot into recovery without the usb cable plugged in.With the phone completely off, and unplugged do the vol-up, home +power combo til it flashes that first screen, it can be a ***** but youll get in
Try turning the device off, remove the battery and leave it there for 60 secs. Make sure the phone is unplug from computer and the hit vol up, home, power until the phone vibrate then release. This should get the phone into the stock recovery.
billard412 said:
you cant. You need to boot into recovery. Trust me you can get in it, might take a few tries. Try to boot into recovery without the usb cable plugged in.With the phone completely off, and unplugged do the vol-up, home +power combo til it flashes that first screen, it can be a ***** but youll get in
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I really do not think I will be able to get in. I have tried it so many times and even previously could only get into CWM recovery through the app on my phone to boot into recovery. I could never actually get in holding the vol-up+home+power.
Is it possible to flash CWM recovery through ODIN and download mode?
I'm not sure why this stock rom is freezing after I flash it through odin.
islam.osman said:
I really do not think I will be able to get in. I have tried it so many times and even previously could only get into CWM recovery through the app on my phone to boot into recovery. I could never actually get in holding the vol-up+home+power.
Is it possible to flash CWM recovery through ODIN and download mode?
I'm not sure why this stock rom is freezing after I flash it through odin.
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pick ur poison--
cwm original--- https://dl.dropbox.com/s/tal5szplmicwfw5/cwm-norm.tar?dl=1
cwm touch--- https://dl.dropbox.com/s/td6q227c2iur53m/cwm-touch.tar?dl=1
twrp--- https://dl.dropbox.com/s/gegn4jfuc74sq1d/TWRP (3).tar?dl=1
i would suggest trying a different cable and if ur gonna use odin again, wipe everything (especially /system!) in recovery before booting into download mode for the odin flash. would also reccomend tryin the legit stock rom in odin (unrooted) if its still freezing on you.
Flash with Odin again, then after it is successfully completed power down phone you have to hold vol up home and power until you see some blue text appear in the top left corner then factory reset from recovery
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Yea getting into recovery is tricky if you don't hold the buttons long enough (let go too soon). These guys really gave you great advice.
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If you couldn't get into CWM recovery before you screwed the rom then you just aren't doing it right.with phone off, hold up and home, then hold powered button for like 3 sec then let go of only power... but i think you are right the download mode skips the Samsung logo.the recovery puts up Samsung logo before booting recovery. Why can't you Odin a recovery partition ?
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Yea getting into recovery is tricky if you don't hold the buttons long enough (let go too soon). These guys really gave you great advice.
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That they have, I took the battery out and let it sit for a little and tried it to get into recovery and it worked! I'm was able to boot up regularly after and I truly thank you all for the help because I was having a heart attack.
so i decided the odin, to get back to stock so i can flash MIUI, coming from Frosty Jb, and Ktoonzer kernal. i used boot-insecure-tmo-t999uvalem-cwm to on ODIN, the phone rebooted, and then a blue LED started Flashing. it vibrated and kept rebooting. i took out battery, and goutt into Cwm, then wanted to flash MIUI, but it failed because of Build.prop, so i went back into download and flashed boot-insecure-tmo-t999uvalem-cwm again. now it wont boot, and let me get into Download mode or Cwm
Edit: im can get back into and CWM now, but not Download mode. it needed to run though one cycle of bootlooping before it let me in. So now im back on the Frosty jb, And i feel like my phone wont let me Flash anything else.
What happens when you try to go into download mode from Frostys reboot menu?
Maybe flash the UVALH2 deodexed stock rom and try odin again.
But use either the regular fw from sammobile or root66 from MrRobinson.
Where did you get the fw you've been trying to flash?
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boot-insecure-tmo-t999uvalem-cwm
Is this just a kernel? You had said you were trying to odin back to stock, but this looks to be a cwm flashable file which I doubt is gonna work in odin.
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A similar thing happened toe when I tried going to stock from JB. Try ODIN back to stock using mrRobinsons file. Then boot into the recovery and do a factory reset. Note that this will probably wipe your internal storage
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nicky9door said:
A similar thing happened toe when I tried going to stock from JB. Try ODIN back to stock using mrRobinsons file. Then boot into the recovery and do a factory reset. Note that this will probably wipe your internal storage
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I've never seen Odin wipe internal or external SD cards. As far as I know, it doesn't even have this capability, which is a good thing.
So i got back into Stock. i Rerooted and everything, i downloading Goomanager and the CodenameAndroid ROM From there. i installed the twcr recovery from goomanager. Then i flashed the CodenameAndroid. it has a boot animation but not booting, i cant get into Cwm or Download mode. it goes into Download mode for 2 seconds virbates and roots. Any Idea??
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I've never seen Odin wipe internal or external SD cards. As far as I know, it doesn't even have this capability, which is a good thing.
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It wasnt ODIN that wiped my storage. It was running the factory reset from the Samsung 3e Recovery (which I got after I used ODIN to go back to stock)
ishred11 said:
So i got back into Stock. i Rerooted and everything, i downloading Goomanager and the CodenameAndroid ROM From there. i installed the twcr recovery from goomanager. Then i flashed the CodenameAndroid. it has a boot animation but not booting, i cant get into Cwm or Download mode. it goes into Download mode for 2 seconds virbates and roots. Any Idea??
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Getting into recovery can be tricky as there's a short window where you have to release the buttons. The most successful way for me is, with the phone off, hold home+power+vol up. When you see the Samsung logo, look at the top of the screen for a line of blue text. If you see this line, immiediately let go of all buttons.
Another option (might be a longshot) would be to try using ADB during the CodenameAndroid (CNA) boot animation. Search for ADB standalone to get the files you need. While your phone is on the CNA bootscreen, plug it intop your computer and try running "adb devices" from the command line (you'll need to be in the same folder as the ADB executable). If you see a serial number, then try running "adb reboot recovery" which should get you into recovery mode
ishred11 said:
So i got back into Stock. i Rerooted and everything, i downloading Goomanager and the CodenameAndroid ROM From there. i installed the twcr recovery from goomanager. Then i flashed the CodenameAndroid. it has a boot animation but not booting, i cant get into Cwm or Download mode. it goes into Download mode for 2 seconds virbates and roots. Any Idea??
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Did you remember to wipe everything including factory reset in recovery?
If you're already rooted just press reboot recovery in goo manager. Otherwise try what the above post says.
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ishred11 said:
so i decided the odin, to get back to stock so i can flash MIUI, coming from Frosty Jb, and Ktoonzer kernal. i used boot-insecure-tmo-t999uvalem-cwm to on ODIN, the phone rebooted, and then a blue LED started Flashing. it vibrated and kept rebooting. i took out battery, and goutt into Cwm, then wanted to flash MIUI, but it failed because of Build.prop, so i went back into download and flashed boot-insecure-tmo-t999uvalem-cwm again. now it wont boot, and let me get into Download mode or Cwm
Edit: im can get back into and CWM now, but not Download mode. it needed to run though one cycle of bootlooping before it let me in. So now im back on the Frosty jb, And i feel like my phone wont let me Flash anything else.
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Did you make a Nandroid (Backup) of your ROMS? Always make a Backup before flashing anything on your phone. If the solutions the users have posted doesn't work, then USB JIG can be used as a last resort. I would also like to let you know some kernels corresponds to some ROMS. For an example, Frosty is based on TW (Touch Wiz) and can only be flashed with kernels that supports Touch Wiz. Flashing Ktoonzer kernel with, for an example, CM10 would only result in the phone not being able to boot due to CM10 ROM not supporting Touch Wiz. Make sure you flash a kernel that supports the ROM and before any flashing, make a backup via recovery.
I recently flashed my phone by odin because its touchscreen didn't work. it got back to work after flashing. But when I want to go in recovery mode the android and box logos appear but nothing written on the screen and after a while it restart itself. So I can't root my phone!
What's the problem?
I think something with your recovery image is wrong with have you tried flashing it again?
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I used a stock firmware package.
I didn't tried again because its a risky procedure.
if you in stock recovery, once the green android logo appear, just press the phone menu button, then your screen will dim...
wait for a while, it will lead you to the recovery menu mode...
You want to root your phone?
but let me know something 1st, when you boot your device to recovery, is there something coming like clockwordmod or stock recovery ?
If NO then dont try to re-flash your stock ROM via ODIN, maybe brick your device,
Simple is that. Download ODIN and ClockwordMOD file and turn your device into Download Mode by following link
http://mygalaxywonder.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to-install-clockworkmod-v5504-for.html
AND Install any custom ROM
if you have still doubt or problem then message me or reply me here.. i'll give you all method step by step.
mat1371 said:
I recently flashed my phone by odin because its touchscreen didn't work. it got back to work after flashing. But when I want to go in recovery mode the android and box logos appear but nothing written on the screen and after a while it restart itself. So I can't root my phone!
What's the problem?
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just flash the CWM from odin instead. i'm pretty sure it will replace that not working recovery
I have a rooted Galaxy S3 that is running the ATT Jelly Bean update.
Last night, while looking at ROM manager I got a popup saying there is a newer version of CWM and did I want to install it.
After installing it, the phone will only boot into recovery. I cannot get it to start. And when I tried to restore from a backup that I have used successfully before, I got an error while restoring data.
At this point, I am thinking that I might have bricked this phone. Searching on the ATT Galaxy S3 forum hasn't turned up anything relevant.
Does anyone have an idea what I can try next?
Thanks
northstar7 said:
I have a rooted Galaxy S3 that is running the ATT Jelly Bean update.
Last night, while looking at ROM manager I got a popup saying there is a newer version of CWM and did I want to install it.
After installing it, the phone will only boot into recovery. I cannot get it to start. And when I tried to restore from a backup that I have used successfully before, I got an error while restoring data.
At this point, I am thinking that I might have bricked this phone. Searching on the ATT Galaxy S3 forum hasn't turned up anything relevant.
Does anyone have an idea what I can try next?
Thanks
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If you a can boot into recovery than you aren't bricked.
You can do a factory reset that might clear it up.
Worst case go into download mode and use Odin to reinstall the stock ROM.
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northstar7 said:
I have a rooted Galaxy S3 that is running the ATT Jelly Bean update.
Last night, while looking at ROM manager I got a popup saying there is a newer version of CWM and did I want to install it.
After installing it, the phone will only boot into recovery. I cannot get it to start. And when I tried to restore from a backup that I have used successfully before, I got an error while restoring data.
At this point, I am thinking that I might have bricked this phone. Searching on the ATT Galaxy S3 forum hasn't turned up anything relevant.
Does anyone have an idea what I can try next?
Thanks
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Im assuming you powered down, did a battery pull and powered back up? Factory reset?
What error message is displayed when trying to restore a backup?
The latest cwm release is 6.0.2.8. If you came from 6.0.2.3, I would download a cwm flashable zip of that recovery and flash that. Perhaps try a reboot then. If it's still a no-go, try restoring a backup with the cwm you had just downloaded and flashed to see if it will restore without an error message
Different CWM
xBeerdroiDx said:
Im assuming you powered down, did a battery pull and powered back up? Factory reset?
What error message is displayed when trying to restore a backup?
The latest cwm release is 6.0.2.8. If you came from 6.0.2.3, I would download a cwm flashable zip of that recovery and flash that. Perhaps try a reboot then. If it's still a no-go, try restoring a backup with the cwm you had just downloaded and flashed to see if it will restore without an error message
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Thanks very much for the advice.
For the record, my phone is displaying "ClockworkMod Recovery v6.0.2.9"
I just has this happen to me as well. I just put the s3 in download mode and used Odin to re flash cwm. I'm using the same version cwm.
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I as well. Tried everything and no go. Will try ODIN and see if it works.
Domoo said:
I just has this happen to me as well. I just put the s3 in download mode and used Odin to re flash cwm. I'm using the same version cwm.
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stranglely pressing the recovery button combo fixed it and im back in CM10.1 #lolwut?
In the end I got the phone working again
For whatever reason, after getting that update to ClockworkMod, the phone would not boot.
I followed the Beginners' Guide to Rooting the Galaxy S3 forum. When I was finished I immediately got an OTA update from ATT.
So now the phone is running again, but I've lost most of my customization and personal data.
What is with this CWM "upgrade?" Or is the problem with ROM Manager?
More likely is that I did something wrong.
At least I can make calls now.
Same here, stay away from that update! Bad things!
This also happened to me. Cwm is showing up as .9 instead of .8. I flashed a previous version of twrp and it still proceeded to go into recovery mode after selecting reboot. I did a factory reset and re flashed aokp and also cm10.1 (along with gapps of course) and it still did it. So I pulled the battery and put it into download mode and reset it from there. That's the only way to get the phone to boot up. From what I see here, is the basic fix for this problem flashing an older cwm in Odin?
Having the same issue, version .9 No amount of clearing data/wipe/reflash/restore will do anything for me either. So much for a lunchtime AOKP update...
I've looked in several different forums on xda and the general fix seems to be flashing a previous version of cwm. No need to reset your phone and flash roms all day long.
Download prior cwm release (.tar)
pull battery and replace
boot to download mode
connect to pc and flash cwm
Disconnect, pull battery, reboot
Here's the 6.0.2.3 release. You can grab the .8 in the Android dev section if you wish
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sfkjtndn7k0urmh/recovery-clockwork-6.0.2.3-d2att.tar
Let me know if this does not work. If your device is not recognized by your pc, you can try flashing this cwm zip in recovery itself (if you have a micro sd card):
http://d-h.st/8qP
I flashed with the same version of cwm I had previously before this issue (6.0.28). It seems to be an issue with 6.0.29 if so many people have this same issue.
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xBeerdroiDx said:
I've looked in several different forums on xda and the general fix seems to be flashing a previous version of cwm. No need to reset your phone and flash roms all day long.
Download prior cwm release (.tar)
pull battery and replace
boot to download mode
connect to pc and flash cwm
Disconnect, pull battery, reboot
Here's the 6.0.2.3 release. You can grab the .8 in the Android dev section if you wish
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sfkjtndn7k0urmh/recovery-clockwork-6.0.2.3-d2att.tar
Let me know if this does not work. If your device is not recognized by your pc, you can try flashing this cwm zip in recovery itself (if you have a micro sd card):
http://d-h.st/8qP
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I flashed the CMW-recovery_ATT-6.0.2.3_zip directly from the external sd card to the phone and the phone is now working. but I did have to reboot phone twice. the first time it stayed in recovery.
THANK YOU!!
xBeerdroiDx said:
I've looked in several different forums on xda and the general fix seems to be flashing a previous version of cwm. No need to reset your phone and flash roms all day long.
Download prior cwm release (.tar)
pull battery and replace
boot to download mode
connect to pc and flash cwm
Disconnect, pull battery, reboot
Here's the 6.0.2.3 release. You can grab the .8 in the Android dev section if you wish
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sfkjtndn7k0urmh/recovery-clockwork-6.0.2.3-d2att.tar
Let me know if this does not work. If your device is not recognized by your pc, you can try flashing this cwm zip in recovery itself (if you have a micro sd card):
http://d-h.st/8qP
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I believe this can even be simplified a bit more. At least for me, some people may find Odin to be the simple way to do things. So you're stuck at recovery:
Hold the power button for 10 seconds to power off.
Boot to download mode by holding volume down and home. The phone will probably start to boot right away after releasing the power button. If it doesn't go to download, then your timing is off, try again.
Hold the power button for 10 seconds to power off and reboot.
It should boot regularly now.
Flash a new recovery. You can download CWM 6.0.2.8 or use this as an opportunity to move to TWRP. Once you have the img file on your phone, go to a terminal and (after su, if needed) run dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18 (replace "/sdcard/recovery.img" with the path and name of the img file you downloaded. You can also flash the recovery using whatever other on-phone method you prefer.
The CWM download page is now showing that 6.0.2.8 is the newest version for many of the S3 variants, so they've certainly noticed the bug.
J M L said:
I believe this can even be simplified a bit more. At least for me, some people may find Odin to be the simple way to do things. So you're stuck at recovery:
Hold the power button for 10 seconds to power off.
Boot to download mode by holding volume down and home. The phone will probably start to boot right away after releasing the power button. If it doesn't go to download, then your timing is off, try again.
Hold the power button for 10 seconds to power off and reboot.
It should boot regularly now.
Flash a new recovery. You can download CWM 6.0.2.8 or use this as an opportunity to move to TWRP. Once you have the img file on your phone, go to a terminal and (after su, if needed) run dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18 (replace "/sdcard/recovery.img" with the path and name of the img file you downloaded. You can also flash the recovery using whatever other on-phone method you prefer.
The CWM download page is now showing that 6.0.2.8 is the newest version for many of the S3 variants, so they've certainly noticed the bug.
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How is this simpler? There are left out bits and errors all through your instructions. My steps were for odin so I'm not sure why you thought they were not.
My phone wasn't recognizing my sim card after trying to update my CM11. I decided to install my stock rom and now when I boot my phone it is stuck on the Samsung logo. I've tried researching tons of forums and can't seem to find a solution. Also, when I try to enter recovery mode, it says recovery manual <3e> ?? Have I completely screwed my phone up?
howlry said:
My phone wasn't recognizing my sim card after trying to update my CM11. I decided to install my stock rom and now when I boot my phone it is stuck on the Samsung logo. I've tried researching tons of forums and can't seem to find a solution. Also, when I try to enter recovery mode, it says recovery manual <3e> ?? Have I completely screwed my phone up?
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What version of ROM were you on and what stock ROM are you trying to flash ?
Is download mode working ? Are you trying to flash it via ODIN ?
I was using cm-11-20150101-NIGHTLY-t0lte nightly and tried to update to CM12. That apparently messed my phone up to where I had to revert back to CM11. When doing this, my phone came on, booted up, and was useable, but wouldn't recognize my sim card. So I thought I would try and flash my stock rom and that apparently just bricked my phone altogether. I can access my download mode but my custom recovery is gone and when I do enter recovery mode it's the manual recovery with a <3e>??
If stock recovery is working then wipe data/factory reset and then flash stock ROM via ODIN.
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ciphercodes said:
If stock recovery is working then wipe data/factory reset and then flash stock ROM via ODIN.
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I just did that and when odin finishes and reboots and passes, my phone just stays on the samsung logo.
howlry said:
I just did that and when odin finishes and reboots and passes, my phone just stays on the samsung logo.
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What @ciphercodes meant to say was that, whiles stuck on the samsung logo, take out the battery, put back and long press home + power+ vol up buttons together to get into stock recovery and wipe/reset data...and reboot...thats all