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[Q] Stuck on pulsing SAMSUNG

Hi everybody and thank you in advance.
All started today i woke up this morning and my phone has the pulsing samsung logo and the green led of notification flashing.
I tried to restart it but nothing the same. my phone is charging ok.. and also when i am stuck in samsung logo it vibrates when i push the option button.
i can enter the recovery system menu but i want to know if there is a way to save some of my data ?
or my only option is to restore it.
My phone is rooted 3 months now
please help me because i didnt find anything matching my problem

i did a mistake i meant the menu key actually that one at the left

Boot into download mode.
Flash a custom recovery.
Backup data with it.
Wipe data.
Extract data from nandroid with titanium Backup.
Restore the backups.
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also when im pluging my phone to my pc it is recognized but i cant see any of my files. is there any easier way?

Why you need to view your files ?
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UtkarshGupta said:
Why you need to view your files ?
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i just want to grab some files! before restore

u will need flash a custom recovery 1st then will be able to backup,
If you were on stock rom , I've noticed during Boot Loop if you flash the Stock rom will not wipe your data only Messages, contacts and Call log will be wiped.

If you follow my way you won't lose any files.
But you can backup everything via adb.
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UtkarshGupta said:
If you follow my way you won't lose any files.
But you can backup everything via adb.
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is there any guide that i can use for this processes?
for example i cant find how i can Flash a custom recovery
i will need CWM to proceed with this only?
thank you for your time and knowledge!

Download the file from here to flash with odin. The file is .tar
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2028103
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hayabusa08 said:
Download the file from here to flash with odin. The file is .tar
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2028103
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That's a kernel and not a recovery.
Download a recovery in .Tar format.
Flash it the same way you rooted.
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Thats philz recovery my friend
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hayabusa08 said:
Thats philz recovery my friend
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Hmmm saw wanam post so... My mistake.
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Np bro. I myself went to the post 3 times to confirm its a recovery not a kernel. Haha my eyes playing on me too upon looking at the last few posts. :thumbup:
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guys i cant go i recovery in odin all fine but after reboot im going to samsung logo again
any ideas?
and also costum binary download: Yes (4 counts)
from 1 i did the process 3 times

Firstly, before anyone can truly help you you need to mention your phone setup such as the Rom you're using, rooted/not rooted, etc.
If you're rooted and have a custom recovery then just wipe your system and dalvik cache partition and flash the same Rom again. All your personal files will still be intact.
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bushako said:
Firstly, before anyone can truly help you you need to mention your phone setup such as the Rom you're using, rooted/not rooted, etc.
If you're rooted and have a custom recovery then just wipe your system and dalvik cache partition and flash the same Rom again. All your personal files will still be intact.
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thank you for your concern !
i mentioned that i am rooted i didnt say which rom because i am in custom ROM so i didnt think about it

Pull yur battery out. Put it back in and go into recovery by holding power + home button + volume up. Release power button on the first bootscreen. Maybe u pressed the volume down.
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hayabusa08 said:
Pull yur battery out. Put it back in and go into recovery by holding power + home button + volume up. Release power button on the first bootscreen. Maybe u pressed the volume down.
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im in thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!

Backup data with it.
Wipe data.
Extract data from nandroid with titanium Backup.
Restore the backups.
it was the obvious ! thank you very much for all!!!

Upgrading recovery

I'm currently on cwm non touch recovery an want to upgrade. I'm not sure which one I should upgrade but I see a lot of devs suggest twrp touch recovery so I guess that one. Do I just download the recovery an flash it on cwm? An when I do have it installed how do I flash ROMs do I just select the ROM an the recovery will clear caches? Or do I have to flash another zip before like with cwm I flashed the super wipes?
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To flash TWRP you to get Goo Manager from the play store.
Open it up and click on "flash rom"... it will ask you if you want it to find you one. Select that option.
It will then say it will DL TWRP. Once it is done with the DL it will flash TWRP to your phone.
And bam....your in the latest TWRP
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alloycowboy said:
To flash TWRP you to get Goo Manager from the play store.
Open it up and click on "flash rom"... it will ask you if you want it to find you one. Select that option.
It will then say it will DL TWRP. Once it is done with the DL it will flash TWRP to your phone.
And bam....your in the latest TWRP
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Thanks!!!!! I did it already. When I'm going to flash a new ROM what do I have to do? On cwm der was the superwipe zip I had to flash before is it the same on twrp?
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Dont use super wipe. Not good with TWRP.
Do a full backup first of your current rom. Do a complete wipe. When you hit the wipe option it will tell you all that it will wipe.
Next hit install from the main menu...choose you zip for your rom. Let it do its thing then reboot system.
All done
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Installing twrp now, but would it conflict with my old cwm? Or does it get deleted?
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Goliath27 said:
Installing twrp now, but would it conflict with my old cwm? Or does it get deleted?
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you will lose cwm an gain twrp any backups you did will still be there in the cwm folder but you won't be able to use them cause twrp isn't compatible with cwm I have my stock rom backup in cwm folder for safe keeping just incase
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rush420 said:
you will lose cwm an gain twrp any backups you did will still be there in the cwm folder but you won't be able to use them cause twrp isn't compatible with cwm I have my stock rom backup in cwm folder for safe keeping just incase
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Ok so I don't need to remove it, and recovery mode is now controlled by twrp? I'm making a fresh backup now anyway, better safe than sorry.
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[Guide] How to PROPERLY flash a rom

OK guys, lately I've been seeing a little too many people complaining about bootloops and UI crashes, etc when installing/flashing a new rom. This guide includes installing an update of the rom you're currently on that has been re-based as well.
The only reason I'm making this guide is so that users stop filling threads with these issues that are caused by user errors (99% of the time). I haven't bootlooped or had any problems at all when flashing a new rom and I can promise you that I am a huge flashaholic. Here are the steps for a TOUCHWIZ rom:
1. Download rom and calculate md5 checksum (this can be done using ES file explorer from the play store)
2. Reboot into recovery and make a nandroid backup! Can't stress this enough...
3. Do a FULL wipe. This is where I notice the error that most people make. You must do a wipe of data, cache, dalvik cache, preload AND SYSTEM.
- Don't just do a Factory reset, you must manually wipe system as well to prevent any issues. In TWRP this will be under advanced wipe, and in Philz touch recovery this is done by selecting the "Full wipe to install a new rom" option.
4. AFTER wiping all of the above mentioned partitions, then look for the rom in your internal/external SD card and install/flash it.
- if the rom has an aroma installer, sometimes it'll include a full wipe option in there, this doesn't mean that you can skip the full wipe done in step 2 of this guide.
5. Allow the rom to install everything and then choose the reboot option within your chosen recovery.
6. Let the phone reboot, input all of your info in the initial setup and then let the phone sit for a couple minutes. After this I usually reboot the phone again as a habit.
If you follow these steps to the T you shouldn't have any problems. I've yet to bootloop once on this phone with any rom. Now go and flash away!
Other possible issues/fixes:
- if you have a 64gb SD card, your current kernel or the kernel included with the rom you're flashing might not support 64gb SD cards in EXfat format. A fix for this would be to either flash another kernel that has 64gb SD card support or to copy everything from your SD card to a computer, format your EXfat sd card to fat32 format and then retransfer the files back to your sd card.
-some people have reported that moving the zip file from the internal SD to the external SD or vice versa has fixed flashing issues so make sure to try this as well, not sure why this works but it does sometimes.
-if a specific cause can't be diagnosed it's always recommended to restore your phone back to complete stock using Odin to flash stock firmware. Here is a link to the stock firmwares (I take no credit for that thread): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2335109
*Will add more info

Just in case.
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The twrp has the system wipe option. I don't see that with Cwm, just factory rest/data, and the two caches
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shengwang917 said:
The twrp has the system wipe option. I don't see that with Cwm, just factory reset/data, and the two caches
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-Data wipe/Factory reset. In Philz CWM version when you chose this it stated "Wipe phone for new ROM"

Every recovery as far as I've seen has a system wipe option, just have to look for it. Only mention TWRP because I haven't used the other recoveries in a while.
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Question, for restoring nandroid backup : before I first started to flash roms last week. I did the following with Twrp, backup, - wipe data and caches(no system), then I backup again before moving forward with the flash. My question is: can I just restore my second backup with just the system without the data.?
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Why do you backup twice? And why would you restore just the system partition? You might as well just reflash the rom so you don't waste space having a system only backup.
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shengwang917 said:
Question, for restoring nandroid backup : before I first started to flash roms last week. I did the following with Twrp, backup, - wipe data and caches(no system), then I backup again before moving forward with the flash. My question is: can I just restore my second backup with just the system without the data.?
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A nandroid will restore your phone exactly how it was when you made the back up.
If I read it correctly, on the 2nd backup, you did a wipe before you did a backup.
So if you restored that 2nd backup, it will have wiped ROM (no data and will need to set up phone again). Hope that make sense.

Yeah that's what I want, I want to go back to that clean clean rom, I don't need my user data
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Then don't restore a backup for that. Just reflash the rom.
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marcoxx626 said:
Why do you backup twice? And why would you restore just the system partition? You might as well just reflash the rom so you don't waste space having a system only backup.
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Cause I'm OCD when comes to things like this, seriously lol. I move all the backups to the external SD and my computer lol. So not too worried about taking up space. I just want to see if everything is working normally with the clean stock rom. I.e. Able to send MMS. Read and write to ext SD properly.
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shengwang917 said:
Cause I'm OCD when comes to things like this, seriously lol. I move all the backups to the external SD and my computer lol. So not too worried about taking up space. I just want to see if everything is working normally with the clean stock rom. I.e. Able to send MMS. Read and write to ext SD properly.
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Well if you just want to go back to a fresh clean install there's no point in restoring a backup. Just reflash the rom bro. Any kernel changes or system app changes will still be there if you restore a system backup but won't be there if you reflash the rom (after doing full wipe that is).
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marcoxx626 said:
Well if you just want to go back to a fresh clean install there's no point in restoring a backup. Just reflash the rom bro. Any kernel changes or system app changes will still be there if you restore a system backup but won't be there if you reflash the rom (after doing full wipe that is).
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This is it right ? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2267895 , I think there is a Odin back to stock thread on here too
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shengwang917 said:
This is it right ? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2267895 , I think there is a Odin back to stock thread on here too
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Ok, now you lost me. What is your ultimate goal in this? Back to complete stock like out of the box?
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marcoxx626 said:
Ok, now you lost me. What is your ultimate goal in this? Back to complete stock like out of the box?
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Sorry lol, yeah i want to go back to right out of the box stock.
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Yeah follow that thread. Please hit thanks if I helped at all.
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After I flash unwizzed rom in aroma after it installs everything it says assert failed : package_extract_file("boot.img","/temp/boot.img") ?? It boots the Samsung Galaxy S4 screen then turns off then back on then back into recovery.. been doing this for alot of ROMs i try to flash

shengwang917 said:
The twrp has the system wipe option. I don't see that with Cwm, just factory rest/data, and the two caches
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For cwm:
Mounts/Storage - Mount/System.
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Robdizz said:
After I flash unwizzed rom in aroma after it installs everything it says assert failed : package_extract_file("boot.img","/temp/boot.img") ?? It boots the Samsung Galaxy S4 screen then turns off then back on then back into recovery.. been doing this for alot of ROMs i try to flash
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Not sure what that could be. Did you check the md5?
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I've been asking everyone it does this on alot of roms i flash the only one that worked was Alpha 5.0 but tried to go to 7.0 and did same thing. How do u check the Md5?

One x back to stock help

Help please
I have downloaded a nandroid for my device, after restored that the phone works ok.
What is the next step do i flash the stock recovery. After that can the device be reset from the settings tab?
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jsmith_00 said:
Help please
I have downloaded a nandroid for my device, after restored that the phone works ok.
What is the next step do i flash the stock recovery. After that can the device be reset from the settings tab?
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Factory reset from the current custom recovery. Then flash stock recovery
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Thanks however after i reset in custom recovery the phone never boots it hangs just befor sense starts. Is that because the stock recovery is not loaded
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jsmith_00 said:
Thanks however after i reset in custom recovery the phone never boots it hangs just befor sense starts. Is that because the stock recovery is not loaded
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did you flash the boot.img from the nandroid backup

mrbtree98 said:
did you flash the boot.img from the nandroid backup
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No just restored from backup
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jsmith_00 said:
No just restored from backup
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you need to flash the boot.img from your backup for the phone to boot properly. if you're s-off then it should have done it by itself but i'm going with that you're s-on so you need to flash the boot.img from your pc.

and fastboot erase cache ater the boot.img flash, to prevent boot issues

Thanks all for help it all works now
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[Q] i want to flash custome recovery on stock rom

Hi all i was on custome rom i'm back to stock rom i want just to make a root for my rom 4.3 i make the same steps to flash custome recovery and flash a root file but when i flash recovery via odin and open it i just see a official recovery not philz recovery i tried many times but same result ! How to do it please ??
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Go to this site http://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/n7100
and download the md5 file. Put your phone to download mode and flash it via odin. Then you will have philz custom recovery installed.

joy854 said:
Go to this site http://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/n7100
and download the md5 file. Put your phone to download mode and flash it via odin. Then you will have philz custom recovery installed.
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I installed latest philz custom recovery but gives me the same result this photo !!
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I dont know if i can use rom manager to download custom recovery or flash philz recovery .zip by this stock recovery ?!!
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Is there any one to help me
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No body here !! Sleepy developers for note 2 ... in galaxy w there are active developers
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Same happened for me. Use another USB port and disable your Antivirus program. And if that don't work then try flashing with another pc.
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lopman said:
Same happened for me. Use another USB port and disable your Antivirus program. And if that don't work then try flashing with another pc.
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I flashed cf auto root and every thing works fine and now i have philz touch recovery .... thanks for your replied
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You could try TWRP via Odin in download mode. I did it myself, working flawlessly.

I did it i flashed cf auto root then flash philz touch every thing works fine
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