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Formatted all, Phone will not boot.

Ok. So my phone was not factory resetting right. Could not mount sd ext was the error. I ended up formatting everything in CWM in advanced menus like an idiot. Do I just re flash something through odin to fix? My phone will not boot past the GS3 screen but I can still get into recovery.

You deleted whatever Rom and kernel you had. Put a Rom on your sd card and flash it through recovery.
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Speedin07si said:
You deleted whatever Rom and kernel you had. Put a Rom on your sd card and flash it through recovery.
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Ok that definitely won't work. Now i plugged my phone into the wall, it wont charge. It will vibrate, show the battery icon with a loading icon inside then go black. Won't boot and looks like its not charging...... am I screwed?
Edit: I mean i guess i could charge the battery on a different s3 so i can boot back into recovery or dl mode but what from there. Is there any way I can restore all of the stock files? I'm at a complete loss for what I should do next...

Odin is your friend
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gtuansdiamm said:
Odin is your friend
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What should i do in odin? I'm a semi noob.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27987936
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what rom did you flash in recovery and what recovery are you using? what was the error you got while flashing a new rom in recovery?
as mentioned earlier, if you want to flash a stock rom, you'll have to odin it. you should still be able to flash other roms in recovery regardless of what you wiped. every time i flash a new rom i wipe system, data, cache, and dalvik-cache.

semi noob?
Think ur a little more than semi noob. If u wiped the system that is why you dont see a battery charging. Those files are in system. Which u wiped. U still have recovery so DL a rom, go there and flash it. You'll be back in buisness. Don't necessarily need Odin here but if you don't know what to with it u shouldn't be here yet. Go back and read up a little b4 u brick.

hey man if you still having problems pm i can help buddy!:laugh:

billard412 said:
Think ur a little more than semi noob. If u wiped the system that is why you dont see a battery charging. Those files are in system. Which u wiped. U still have recovery so DL a rom, go there and flash it. You'll be back in buisness. Don't necessarily need Odin here but if you don't know what to with it u shouldn't be here yet. Go back and read up a little b4 u brick.
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I am always entertained by people being rude while trying to "help" I hope you feel better about yourself now that that is off your chest.
For the record. It is not as simple as flashing a new ROM. Doesn't work. Thanks for your very insightful advice though.
I need to find a way to get my battery charged for now. I will post more when i can get into my phone. Thanks for all the responses so far. I will try ODIN when I get my phone booted up but I'm skeptical about if it will connect to the computer or not since it won't charge. We shall see.

This is what you need to do.
First. The above poster is correct. IF you formatted everything, that means you probably formatted system. If you do this and dont install a ROM immediately afterwards, your phone will just boot loop since it has no system files to load. Flashing a ROM should fix this problem....unless the problem runs deeper. If you ONLY formatted your phone shouldn't be soft bricked....it simply has nothing to load besides CWM. If for some reason you do need to use ODIN to get your phone working again, watch this step by step video by qbking. Since I am new, and apparently an XDA criminal, I cant post a direct link. so search QBKING Galaxy s3 unroot on youtube.
P.S.
For future reference...make sure you know exactly what your doing before you start doing things in clockwork mod.
A 500 dollar paper weight will keep you up for a few nights, trust me.

I accidentally flashed Google wallet AS my recovery. A long 10 mins with odin and a stock root and my phone was exactly how it was before my accidental loss off recovery. Read up on odin, and only use pda function. One mistake and then you learn to check what you're ABOUT to do.
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GF's phone stuck in a boot loop after Kies update

This is the first time I have used Kies to update a phone. My GF doesn't want to root her phone. I used kies, everything looked like it went fine but we only get to the homescreen and afer 3 or 5 seconds her phone just reboots itself. Is there anyway to fix this?
Can I reupdate manually using a External SDcard or something?

try booting into recovery and doing a factory reset

jerrycoffman45 said:
try booting into recovery and doing a factory reset
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THis will work but she'll lose all her data and I didn't back it up. Is there a way I can reapply a update ZIP through recovery?

not that i am aware of you could try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2031840

jerrycoffman45 said:
not that i am aware of you could try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2031840
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I'm sorry for not being able to do all the research myself, but my GF has to meet her parents somewhere, we can't even call them with this problem. Would this method delete her data or just restore Jelly Bean on it?
What is the official model for ATT JB? Is this the stock JB?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1886709

SlimJ87D said:
THis will work but she'll lose all her data and I didn't back it up. Is there a way I can reapply a update ZIP through recovery?
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Do nandroid backup in CWM, then try clear data to factory and restore nandroid..
BTW: in my signature is info how to restore to factory but first do nandroid...

nope thats bell and the link i gave does not wipe

jerrycoffman45 said:
nope thats bell and the link i gave does not wipe
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Thanks guys. I'll give this one a try. I just need to put the phone in download mode and update using the UNROOTED_ATT_i747UCDLK3
It should probably just reapply the update over again and hopefully fix things and keep her root. I hope this is the quickest fix.

SlimJ87D said:
Thanks guys. I'll give this one a try. I just need to put the phone in download mode and update using the UNROOTED_ATT_i747UCDLK3
It should probably just reapply the update over again and hopefully fix things and keep her root. I hope this is the quickest fix.
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if she is rooted after using that one she wont be

jerrycoffman45 said:
if she is rooted after using that one she wont be
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Yes, she is not rooted, she doesn't want her flash counter going up, etc.

ok that one wont trip it but if that is why she doesnt want root triangle away app will reset it

Problem didn't get fixed... I just don't get what could be wrong with the phone. It starts up fine, and for abotu 10 seconds it's fine but then something gets opened that must cause it to reboot. I don't know what service could be causing it to reboot. I wish I could at least backup all her data before the damn phone reboots itself.

download the stock ics firmware odin it that might work but you will probably still bootloop factory reset might be the only answer
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1968625 lg1 is the one you want

jerrycoffman45 said:
download the stock ics firmware odin it that might work but you will probably still bootloop factory reset might be the only answer
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1968625 lg1 is the one you want
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Thank you so much for trying to help me through this. I really should have backed up her data, but I thought it was KIES and I wouldn't have to worry about any stupid problems happening.
First question is, is there anyway I can retrieve and backup her data without rooting? I know it's a longshot, but in recovery can I connect to ADB or something and extract stuff?
Second question, is there a update.zip of the jelly bean I could possibly give a try? I can still put and install update.zips through an external SD card.
I'm going to give the ICS firmware a try, hopefully it retains her data, but I've never downgraded before in hopes of keeping data. I just need to backup her text, phone, apps with kies and try teh update again.

SlimJ87D said:
Thank you so much for trying to help me through this. I really should have backed up her data, but I thought it was KIES and I wouldn't have to worry about any stupid problems happening.
First question is, is there anyway I can retrieve and backup her data without rooting? I know it's a longshot.
Second question, is there a update.zip of the jelly bean I could possibly give a try? I can still put and install update.zips through an external SD card.
I'm going to give the ICS firmware a try, hopefully it retains her data, but I've never downgraded before in hopes of keeping data. I just need to backup her text, phone, apps with kies and try teh update again.
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first question if you can get the computer to see the internal sd card you could copy stuff that way but with it boot looping its not likely
secound question have not seen one but that doesnt meen there isnt one but att didnt do the update ota so i would think there isnt

jerrycoffman45 said:
first question if you can get the computer to see the internal sd card you could copy stuff that way but with it boot looping its not likely
secound question have not seen one but that doesnt meen there isnt one but att didnt do the update ota so i would think there isnt
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screw it... I rooted her phone, I think this is the only way I can fix it. So I am going to try and make a back up using recovery, then factory reset, format system data and then try restoring her phone. I'll let you know how that goes.
Is there a sticky here that gets your phone back to stock and resets the counter? Or does rooting not affect the counter?

SlimJ87D said:
screw it... I rooted her phone, I think this is the only way I can fix it. So I am going to try and make a back up using recovery, then factory reset, format system data and then try restoring her phone. I'll let you know how that goes.
Is there a sticky here that gets your phone back to stock and resets the counter? Or does rooting not affect the counter?
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Root it. Use Triangle Away to reset counter and get rid of the triangle too. Also you could always Odin flash the firmware. Doesn't delete data... Done the same with my I9300. Wanted the XXELKC firmware and didn't delete data. Also worked with GF's I9305.
Its free on XDA from Chain fire and requires Super User. After doing that you can Odin that latest firmware and it'll be on stock.
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the app triangle away will reset it i think you can get it for free here on xda but i bought it in the app store you have to be rooted to use it

weeo said:
Root it. Use Triangle Away to reset counter and get rid of the triangle too. Also you could always Odin flash the firmware. Doesn't delete data... Done the same with my I9300. Wanted the XXELKC firmware and didn't delete data. Also worked with GF's I9305.
Its free on XDA from Chain fire and requires Super User. After doing that you can Odin that latest firmware and it'll be on stock.
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This day just gets worse... I backed up her device using recovery and then continued to format and wipe everything and then guess what. When I go to restore
"MD5 MISMATCH"
Now I'm trying to perform the following to fix it...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1835914

SlimJ87D said:
This day just gets worse... I backed up her device using recovery and then continued to format and wipe everything and then guess what. When I go to restore
"MD5 MISMATCH"
Now I'm trying to perform the following to fix it...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1835914
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Try it. Good luck.
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Help please guys :) stuck on a boot looop

I need help please, ive looked around on the forum for an answer to my problem but to no avail..
The story goes...
Had my lovely note 2 for a while, decided to root used (exynos abuse). (i only needed root for root explorer as i wanted to change the boot animation) i never got around to doing this.
Next thing i was on the playstore and i seen a DPI modifier, i downloaded that and set the DPI to 240 granted su permissions and the phone rebooted..
Now im stuck in the samsung logo boot loop..
Could someone please help my get my note 2 back.. im not bothered about the data on there as all this is backed up.
I have already downloaded odin, but not sure what to go from here as i am still a n00b
I hope you guys don't mind me creating a thread, i have used the search bar intensively before starting this
I look forward to your replies
Kindest of regards
Tom

hurston2510 said:
I need help please, ive looked around on the forum for an answer to my problem but to no avail..
The story goes...
Had my lovely note 2 for a while, decided to root used (exynos abuse). (i only needed root for root explorer as i wanted to change the boot animation) i never got around to doing this.
Next thing i was on the playstore and i seen a DPI modifier, i downloaded that and set the DPI to 240 granted su permissions and the phone rebooted..
Now im stuck in the samsung logo boot loop..
Could someone please help my get my note 2 back.. im not bothered about the data on there as all this is backed up.
I have already downloaded odin, but not sure what to go from here as i am still a n00b
I hope you guys don't mind me creating a thread, i have used the search bar intensively before starting this
I look forward to your replies
Kindest of regards
Tom
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Flash the stock firmware again via Odin that will reset everything....
For odin download the. Tar file and the odin software. Hit pda and select your. Tar file and then flash it. Be sure to be in the download mode by pressing volume down + power+home button
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Devashish Lodh said:
Flash the stock firmware again via Odin that will reset everything....
For odin download the. Tar file and the odin software. Hit pda and select your. Tar file and then flash it. Be sure to be in the download mode by pressing volume down + power+home button
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You are a legend!!. i can't try this right now as i am in work.
I have the latest Odin, where would i get the stock firmware from? samfirmware.com?? (my works computer is currently blocking this site for telephony and sms lol) so i will try it when i get back home.
So i have to make sure that the firmware is a .tar file?
Kindest of regards
Tom

hurston2510 said:
You are a legend!!. i can't try this right now as i am in work.
I have the latest Odin, where would i get the stock firmware from? samfirmware.com?? (my works computer is currently blocking this site for telephony and sms lol) so i will try it when i get back home.
So i have to make sure that the firmware is a .tar file?
Kindest of regards
Tom
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You can get it from sammobile. Com.....
The firmware can also be a .Zip file just extract it and you will get the .Tar file.
Glad I helped you
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Devashish Lodh said:
You can get it from sammobile. Com.....
The firmware can also be a .Zip file just extract it and you will get the .Tar file.
Glad I helped you
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Thats excellent mate
So from what i gather i will need to install the 4.1.1 (United Kingdom) version of my firmware on my GN2,
What would happen if i install the other 4.2 (Poland) versions?
Am im treading into deep water or shall i just leave it with the 4.1.1 and wait for the OTA ??
Kindest of regards
Tom :angel:

hurston2510 said:
Thats excellent mate
So from what i gather i will need to install the 4.1.1 (United Kingdom) version of my firmware on my GN2,
What would happen if i install the other 4.2 (Poland) versions?
Am im treading into deep water or shall i just leave it with the 4.1.1 and wait for the OTA ??
Kindest of regards
Tom :angel:
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Well according to me you should stick to 4.1.1 unless you are not a big fan of the ink effect and wait for the OTA
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hurston2510 said:
I need help please, ive looked around on the forum for an answer to my problem but to no avail..
The story goes...
Had my lovely note 2 for a while, decided to root used (exynos abuse). (i only needed root for root explorer as i wanted to change the boot animation) i never got around to doing this.
Next thing i was on the playstore and i seen a DPI modifier, i downloaded that and set the DPI to 240 granted su permissions and the phone rebooted..
Now im stuck in the samsung logo boot loop..
Could someone please help my get my note 2 back.. im not bothered about the data on there as all this is backed up.
I have already downloaded odin, but not sure what to go from here as i am still a n00b
I hope you guys don't mind me creating a thread, i have used the search bar intensively before starting this
I look forward to your replies
Kindest of regards
Tom
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You could just stick a Build.prop in a Cwm zip and flash that, but u would need Cwm recovery installed to use that. If you don't have Cwm installed, then go to this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2000138
Download the file ending in .tar
Boot your phone in your download mode, open odin on your pc, and in the pda tab, select the path to the Cwm zip.
That would save u from having to flash a stock rom, and u would still keep all your user data.
If u need help making a Cwm zip, i can send u one with a Build.prop later today.
Cheers
Corey
Sent from my GT-N7100

fishingfon said:
You could just stick a Build.prop in a Cwm zip and flash that, but u would need Cwm recovery installed to use that. If you don't have Cwm installed, then go to this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2000138
Download the file ending in .tar
Boot your phone in your download mode, open odin on your pc, and in the pda tab, select the path to the Cwm zip.
That would save u from having to flash a stock rom, and u would still keep all your user data.
If u need help making a Cwm zip, i can send u one with a Build.prop later today.
Cheers
Corey
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Hey Corey thanks for the reply, ive pulled the build.prop via adb and edited it, then pushed it back to the phone. It hasn't changed anything its still stuck on the boot loop, that makes me wonder is anything else has changed in the build.prop..
What would be the best program to edit the build.prop on my computer?
Kind Regards
Tom

hurston2510 said:
Hey Corey thanks for the reply, ive pulled the build.prop via adb and edited it, then pushed it back to the phone. It hasn't changed anything its still stuck on the boot loop, that makes me wonder is anything else has changed in the build.prop..
What would be the best program to edit the build.prop on my computer?
Kind Regards
Tom
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Hi,
If you changed the build.prop back to 320, then the build.prop might not be the only problem. I guess the DPI editor you used must have changed some other things in the rom.
I will attach my build.prop here , so try pushing that to your phone, and see if it boots, if it doesn't boot, then the DPI must have changed some other things somewhere on yhe phone, and you will have to flash a stock rom.
Here is my build.prop
http://db.tt/4idemf7B
Try flashing that, if it doesn't work, then you will have to just flash a stock rom with Odin.
Cheers
Corey
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fishingfon said:
Hi,
If you changed the build.prop back to 320, then the build.prop might not be the only problem. I guess the DPI editor you used must have changed some other things in the rom.
I will attach my build.prop here , so try pushing that to your phone, and see if it boots, if it doesn't boot, then the DPI must have changed some other things somewhere on yhe phone, and you will have to flash a stock rom.
Here is my build.prop
http://db.tt/4idemf7B
Try flashing that, if it doesn't work, then you will have to just flash a stock rom with Odin.
Cheers
Corey
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Hey man thanks again for your help, i pushed the build.prop you provided and still nothing.. im downloading the stock fw now on my works connection so its taking forever (12mins left) so i will flash the stock fw to it.
I understand that i stick the phone in download mode.. open Odin, plug phone in. chuck the .tar into the PDA box and hit start?
What do i do if after flashing the stock fw its still stuck on a boot loop???
I do have the phone insured so i can swap it at the store, but due to the holidays that wont be until the end of next week and i need my phone for work... plus im enjoying the learning curve of sorting the phone myself
Thanks again corey

It is unlikely you will get bootloop after flashing stock firmware.
Even you get it just you have to wipe it from recovery (Vol up+home+power) and wipe cache
If that won't help then you have to wipe data(factory reset) from recovery too.
But here with wiping data you will loss your data.
PS : You can flash any stock ROM.

hurston2510 said:
Hey man thanks again for your help, i pushed the build.prop you provided and still nothing.. im downloading the stock fw now on my works connection so its taking forever (12mins left) so i will flash the stock fw to it.
I understand that i stick the phone in download mode.. open Odin, plug phone in. chuck the .tar into the PDA box and hit start?
What do i do if after flashing the stock fw its still stuck on a boot loop???
I do have the phone insured so i can swap it at the store, but due to the holidays that wont be until the end of next week and i need my phone for work... plus im enjoying the learning curve of sorting the phone myself
Thanks again corey
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Hi,
Before flashing the stock rom, boot the phone up in to recovery (hold home + power + volume up) and wipe data, Cache, ect.
And make sure u don't tick any box's ect in odin, as some of them can potentially brick your phone, so just leave all the check box's as they are.
Seeing u just changed the DPI, flashing a stock rom will fix it. The only way to hard brick a phone, so that flashing a stock rom doesn't fix it, us by stuffing up the /boot partition. Which is not too easy to do. And changing the DPI wouldn't do that.
Just make sure the stock rom u install is the right one for your phone (make sure the model number matches your phone). As a n7105 rom won't work too well on a N7100 ect.
And leave the phone for up to 10 min to boot up after flashing the rom. So don't try restarting ect till you have left it to boot for 10 min.
Cheers
Corey
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fishingfon said:
Hi,
Before flashing the stock rom, boot the phone up in to recovery (hold home + power + volume up) and wipe data, Cache, ect.
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I think this should be reserved unless he gets bootloop, to preserve data. isn't?

fishingfon said:
Hi,
Before flashing the stock rom, boot the phone up in to recovery (hold home + power + volume up) and wipe data, Cache, ect.
And make sure u don't tick any box's ect in odin, as some of them can potentially brick your phone, so just leave all the check box's as they are.
Seeing u just changed the DPI, flashing a stock rom will fix it. The only way to hard brick a phone, so that flashing a stock rom doesn't fix it, us by stuffing up the /boot partition. Which is not too easy to do. And changing the DPI wouldn't do that.
Just make sure the stock rom u install is the right one for your phone (make sure the model number matches your phone). As a n7105 rom won't work too well on a N7100 ect.
And leave the phone for up to 10 min to boot up after flashing the rom. So don't try restarting ect till you have left it to boot for 10 min.
Cheers
Corey
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Thankyou so much man!! if i could buy you a drink i really would!.
Its now flashing the stock rom as we speak so fingers crossed
Ive got the 4.1.1 rom for united kingdom off of sammobile .com
Lets see how it goes
Kindest of regards
Tom
EDIT: OMFG YOU SIR ARE AMAZING!!!!! its worked flawlessly

dr.ketan said:
I think this should be reserved unless he gets bootloop, to preserve data. isn't?
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The data will get wiped anyway. And so will the internal sd card. I just said to do that as that's what I always do.
Corey
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Flashing stock ROM won't wipe data. Neither Internal SD card.

dr.ketan said:
Flashing stock ROM won't wipe data
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I have flashed hundreds of stock roms on the n2 and on my galaxy s2, and it's always wiped data for me.
Corey
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It must be leaked ROM.
Simply flashing official stock ROM with Odin (PC/Mobile) won't erase data.

dr.ketan said:
It must be leaked ROM.
Simply flashing official stock ROM with Odin (PC/Mobile) won't erase data.
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Oh ok, I flashed the leaked 4.1.2 rom quite a few times on my n2 and it always wiped data.
Cheers
Corey
Sent from my GT-N7100

dr.ketan said:
It must be leaked ROM.
Simply flashing official stock ROM with Odin (PC/Mobile) won't erase data.
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I just flashed the stock rom and it wiped internal data, SD card wasn't in the phone
Regards

[Q] Brand new T-mobile GSII want cyanogenmod

Hey all, my sister just got a brand new GSII from T-mobile and wants me to put cyanogenmod on there. I saw that the 4.3 was still a bit buggy so I'm going with 10.1 / android 4.2
All of the stickys for rooting are a bit old so I'm not totally confident choosing one without posting first. She's on 4.1.2, what would you guys say is the best route for rooting? the toolkit? the odin way? or the last method. Speaking of which, is this phone T989 or the D?
Looking forward to answers, thanks guys!
PS - Do these rooting methods also unlock the phone?

Tmob is the t989, the kodo version is the t989D. I used Odin when I rooted mine a few months ago. I'm also on tomb.
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father87 said:
Hey all, my sister just got a brand new GSII from T-mobile and wants me to put cyanogenmod on there. I saw that the 4.3 was still a bit buggy so I'm going with 10.1 / android 4.2
All of the stickys for rooting are a bit old so I'm not totally confident choosing one without posting first. She's on 4.1.2, what would you guys say is the best route for rooting? the toolkit? the odin way? or the last method. Speaking of which, is this phone T989 or the D?
Looking forward to answers, thanks guys!
PS - Do these rooting methods also unlock the phone?
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The best and only way to go is to Odin the latest twrp tar file onto the device the flash superuser zip of ur choice, once u Odin the recovery to the device though u can just flash the cm zip and gain root that way if u want a custom rom, rooting this phone is very easy its all in the recovery
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father87 said:
Hey all, my sister just got a brand new GSII from T-mobile and wants me to put cyanogenmod on there. I saw that the 4.3 was still a bit buggy so I'm going with 10.1 / android 4.2
All of the stickys for rooting are a bit old so I'm not totally confident choosing one without posting first. She's on 4.1.2, what would you guys say is the best route for rooting? the toolkit? the odin way? or the last method. Speaking of which, is this phone T989 or the D?
Looking forward to answers, thanks guys!
PS - Do these rooting methods also unlock the phone?
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I used Odin and flashed a 4.2 rom, If your looking for a stable rom then just stick to 4.2/4.1.2 roms as 4.3 roms aren't stable enough as a DD and probably won't be for a few weeks/months.

Like others said Odin is the easiest way.. Before this phone I rooted my HTC vivid that dam phone was retarded unlocking it had to connect the ground wire to the positive battery on mother board than sync with the file it was stupid hard compared to this phone

gabriel1946 said:
Like others said Odin is the easiest way.. Before this phone I rooted my HTC vivid that dam phone was retarded unlocking it had to connect the ground wire to the positive battery on mother board than sync with the file it was stupid hard compared to this phone
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Yeah my amaze was a pima but odin is like key lime pie. Can't go wrong
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Wow thanks all! Does any of this require of change when you do NOT have an SD card?

I didn't use a sd
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Ok so I rooted with ODIN and flashed CWM. Made a backup, put CM and Gapps on SD card, factory wipe, dalvik/cache wipe, installed zips, and its stuck in boot loop. What went wrong? How can I stop loop? Remove battery?

I also adb pushed the libskia.so file based on some searching and still nothing...
then just tried restoring the backup and that wouldnt work either! going to restore back to stock until hopefully I get some answers

Did you wipe the system partition too or just a factory reset?
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holeindalip said:
Did you wipe the system partition too or just a factory reset?
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just factory I believe, what all the how to's have been saying. Not sure I saw a system reset??

father87 said:
just factory I believe, what all the how to's have been saying. Not sure I saw a system reset??
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wipe data/factory
wipe cache partition
then in advanced we have
wipe dalvik cache
wipe battery stats
thats it for wipes..

Don't mean to hijack the thread, but i have the T989D. I was wondering if i can flash the same twrp versions as the t989. And what version of superuser should i get? Also, is twrp2.4 fine for flashing the latest roms (this is the one i have downloaded right now)?
Thanks in advance!

father87 said:
Ok so I rooted with ODIN and flashed CWM. Made a backup, put CM and Gapps on SD card, factory wipe, dalvik/cache wipe, installed zips, and its stuck in boot loop. What went wrong? How can I stop loop? Remove battery?
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If ur using any newer rom besides 4.3 try using twrp older cwm has a problem flashing the newer roms, it doesnt like to load the preload partition so u will end up with boitloops, if u want 4.3 u need the 4.3 recovery, u can find it in the op, just flash in recovery and then reboot to recovery and flash 4.3
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I have no idea what I'm doing wrong...
Root via Odin, root successful
Flash CWM
wipe every option
install zips from sd (cm10.1 for GS2 Tmob/ and the 10.1 gapps)
reboot, still loops,
push .so, still looping
what else is there?

soupysoup said:
If ur using any newer rom besides 4.3 try using twrp older cwm has a problem flashing the newer roms, it doesnt like to load the preload partition so u will end up with boitloops, if u want 4.3 u need the 4.3 recovery, u can find it in the op, just flash in recovery and then reboot to recovery and flash 4.3
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How can I flash a twrp? Do I have to start from the beginning or where?

father87 said:
How can I flash a twrp? Do I have to start from the beginning or where?
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U can go one of two ways, for twrp u can DL the flashable zip and flash it in cwm, or u can use Odin and DL the tar file for the latest twrp and flash it over cwm with Odin, and the 4.3 recovery zip is flashable right through recovery
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Which cwm are you using?
You have to go to mounts and storage
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FINALLY!!!!!!!! so much old info on here, should really be redone. It was due to the old recovery, thank you! I woulda never figured that out.
HOW TO ROOT AND FLASH CYANOGENMOD 10.1 TO YOUR TMOB GS2 IN 2013!
Download latest 10.1 ROM and put on your SD card or internal storage
CM10.1 nightly
Download latest Google Apps/Gapps under the 10.1 column and put on your SD card or internal storage
Gapps
Download Odin3-v3.307
Odin3-v3.307.zip
If you're already on Android version 4.1.2 then you're fine, continue below, if not;
Download 4.1.2 stock rom
Tmobile GS2 Stock 4.1.2 ROM
1) “Extract” or “unzip” the downloaded stock ROM to get the .tar.md5 file
2) Run Odin3_v3.07.exe on PC desktop
3) In Odin - only check ‘Auto Reboot’ and ‘F-Reset’
4) Click on the PDA button then browse to the folder where you extracted the stock ROM “tar file”
‘T989UVMC6_T989TMB_T989UVMC6_HOME.tar.md5′
5) Connect USB cord to phone and PC and boot into download mode. In Odin, the ID:COM box will change its color and its an indication that the device is connected properly to PC. If you still do not get any results, try another USB port on your computer.
6) Click the Start button to begin flashing.
7) Wait until it finishes or watch out for the word “PASS”.
Once the phone completely reboots, perform wipe/factory reset to get a fresher firmware installation.
1. Hold Power and Volume Up together, this will switch the device into recovery mode.
2. Release Power after holding it for a second but continue to hold the Volume Up button until recovery menu appears.
Select wipe cache
Select wipe data/factory reset.
Select reboot
That’s all! your Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989 now fully installed or restored to the original Android 4.1.2 Jelly bean
Ok, now that you're on 4.1.2, let's continue. The above step is also how to restore the phone back to stock.
Follow this STEP BY STEP noob friendly way to root, using the ODIN v3 provided above
Root Tmob GS2
Flash custom recovery
Download the TWRP recovery mode
TWRP 2.2 for Tmob GS2 aka Hercules recovery.tar.md5
plug phone back into PC and put in download mode
select the pda and select the recovery.tar file, hit start and let it finish
boot into recovery
wipe system, dalvik, cache, etc.
select install
find your cm10.1zip and install
then find your gapps.zip and install
reboot, could take about 2-5 mins.
DONE!

Help! Can't flash any touchwiz roms after cm10.2

I can't flash any TW ROM after flashing cm10.2 I can only flash AOSP ROMs. any advice would help. When I flash TW ROMs it gets stuck on bootloop and yes I do full wipes of everything.
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Jonnyaces187 said:
I can't flash any TW ROM after flashing cm10.2 I can only flash AOSP ROMs. any advice would help. When I flash TW ROMs it gets stuck on bootloop and yes I do full wipes of everything.
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Did you flash the downgrade zip in the op of the cm10 thread?
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kintwofan said:
Did you flash the downgrade zip in the op of the cm10 thread?
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No. I didn't know there was one. Thanks for the info. I'm going to check now.

kintwofan said:
Did you flash the downgrade zip in the op of the cm10 thread?
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Do you have a link for that ZIP? I'm running into a similar problem after flashing CM10.2 and can't flash a TW Rom on my S4.
Thanks!

10.2 sucks
the same thing happened to me, but i am using the stock firmware and using a tutorioal on how to unroot unbrick note 2 i hope that brings my phone to normal. and then refalsh and load jedi x 17. ALSO AT ONE POINT I DONT KNOW WHAT I DID WRONG BUT THE PLAY STORE WANTS INCLUDE IN THE 10.2 ROM THAT I INSTALL AND THE WEB PLAY STORE WOULD RECOGNIZE MY DEVICE AS NEXUS 7, BUT IT IS A NOTE 2. THAT WAS WEIRD.

@BB said:
Do you have a link for that ZIP? I'm running into a similar problem after flashing CM10.2 and can't flash a TW Rom on my S4.
Thanks!
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First page look for restore sd-downgrade.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2105917

downgrade.zip will NOT do ANYTHING to help your issue; all it does it change the files system back to the way it is in 4.12
something else is wrong, but you have to post more info; what rom you flashed, what recovery/version you are on, what the error message/code is when you try to flash, etc...

jon3sh said:
First page look for restore sd-downgrade.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2105917
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wase4711 said:
downgrade.zip will NOT do ANYTHING to help your issue; all it does it change the files system back to the way it is in 4.12
something else is wrong, but you have to post more info; what rom you flashed, what recovery/version you are on, what the error message/code is when you try to flash, etc...
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Thanks even more for letting me know that this won't do the trick. I should start by reiterating that I have a S4 on Sprint and not a Note 2 on AT&T, so I before I get flamed for being in the wrong forum, just wanted to check if I should go further on what I'm running and the "error" I'm experiencing to see if you can help. I'd really appreciate it if you could but don't want to break any rules ...

its not so much about breaking the rules, as it is about giving you advice that could harm your device, since its not the same as this threads'
I would take it to the s4 threads, just to be sure
good luck

So still no luck with this for me. Someone please help. I can only flash non touchwiz ROMs. I am running pacman nightly 4.3 9-7-13 version. I just flashed devil kernel to see if it would fix the issue. No luck but definetly a nice kernel. I try to flash jedix17 16 and even a nandroid I had from 16 no luck. Tried several other tw ROMs but it just gets stuck on bootloop. Hellllllllllp I like pacman but I was flashing roms everyday and I'm going nuts. I brick my gs3 backup phone so I have to be very careful now with only one phone. Advice?????
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Okay. ....do you show correct IMEI Number ?
And do you have data ?
If yes. ..then let's try this. ..(deep breath)..(make a backup)...then the following:
First. ...boot to recovery and wipe data, caches, and internal storage. ..
Basically everything without touching your external card. ..and just to be sure. .take it out and set it aside. .(make sure to unmount it in settings first !!!)
Next. .turn off the device and boot into download mode. ..(ready for Odin)
Then using only your PC...download Mr. Robinsons rooted UCAMA4 build from his thread. .. (in the development section)..
Next. ..push the image you just downloaded to the device via Odin. ..(use the PDA box...and don't change any Odin settings)...
Next. ..wait for the image to automatically boot the device once completed. ....(unplug the device)..
If the device fails to boot. ..pull the battery. ..wait 30 seconds. ..then replace it and boot into the newly flashed 3e recovery and wipe cache and data 2 times each. ..then reboot.....
If the device boots normally then move to the next step. ..and if not. ..repeat the flash process again using Odin and the rom you downloaded. ..
If after two unsuccessful flashes, and wipes using 3e recovery, and battery pulls. ..you still don't get a successful boot. ..you may have partition damage. ..in which case a repair may be needed. ..but for the sake of your phone we'll wait until the above has failed. ..
Next. ...If boot occurs using the above method. ..enter your wifi password and log into the play store and download triangle away if you want your counter reset. .
If not. ..skip the play store after entering the wifi password and move into your settings/about phone/software update. ..
Push the update button and wait for ATT to offer you the update to UCAMC3..then take it. ..
If desired you can then clear the flash counter and unroot...
Let's get that far before worrying about anything else. ..
Please record any errors or messages you get. ..especially while using Odin. ..as this tells us the device partition state. ..especially when PIT files are involved. .
Sorry for the long post. ..but it was necessary. ..I hope. .
Please post back. ...g
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