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[Q] Gnex wont boot. Cant flash from fastboot (too many links error)

CDMA GALAXY NEXUS> Hey guys, I was running Romanbb's 4.0.4 build earlier today. I clicked on a video (which may or may not have been on a porn site) all of a sudden my screen went all wacky. Where it was kind of fuzzy and running diagnal across the screen. I could only see part of it. I thought I might have gotten a virus or something because i have never had one of my devices do this before. So I immideatly rebooted the phone into recovery and wiped eveything including formatting system. I went to flash a nandroid I had of black ice and in the middle of flashing that my phone rebooted itself and stayed there (bootlooping at the google logo) I can get into fastboot and I can get into recovery about one out of every ten times but I cant do anything in recovery because the phone turns itself off insted of booting recovery most of the time (I have clockwork touch) When I do get into recovery without it turning off it reboots if I try to flash anything. It seems to be stable in fastboot (thank god!) but When I get it connected in Wugs Root tool kit and try to flash the stock image it goes through the motions and says FAILED on every step exept the first (which I believe is checking radio). It says ( error too many links) on the first two) and I cant remember the error on the last four but I have tried it a couple times so I can replicate it if needed. Can anyone tell me what to do from here? I really appreciate in advance!!! If this is a hardware error then I would like to get it back to stock to get it replaced. It is weird that it happened while running a rom. Its not like I messed up while flashing or anything.
ADB will recognize it in Fastboot. I already set all of that up when I rooted. when I try to flash the stock+unroot option on wugfresh's toolbox it errors out on every step like there is something wrong with my internal sd on my phone? Im wondering if I should try odin. IDK? Im hoping somebody who has seen this or had this happen before will save the day and tell me what to do.

lol why did you rush into CWM and start wiping things? you should have let it reboot and it probably could have been a one off..
you can try this http://rootzwiki.com/topic/14145-od...actory-odin-restore-402-with-radios-unrooted/

It is stable in fastboot but in cwr it is still geeking out
It still is glitching in cwr. most of the time it either turns off or reboots when I try to go into cwr. i can wipe but if I flash anything it freezes at the point where it starts writing to storage. I have never seen anything like this before.

I have now tried oden as well
It looks like it is a problem with the hardware. The phone is only a couple months old if that. So I really wish I could flash the stock image or at least get rid of cwm. but that is not looking likely. Here are a couple pics of odin showing the problem. Any guidace would be much appreciated. This SUCKS

Why in the heck are you trying to use Odin?

I can only get into fastboot and odin.
CWM wont let me do anything. it crashes and reboots into a bootloop if I try to flash anything. The poster above suggested odin. I dont know what else to do. Please help if you can!

Can you get a screencap of when it fails fastbooting the stock images?

yes
yes, give me couple min and I will post it. Thank you!
I guess I cant. This is all I get now

drumdestroyer said:
yes, give me couple min and I will post it. Thank you!
I guess I cant. This is all I get now
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How are you attempting to access fastboot?

Vol + and Vol - and power all at the same time
Vol + and Vol - and power all at the same time from powered off
And oden was Vol - and power at the same time from powered off
Now no matter what I push it goes to the screen with the yellow triangle.

That screen says you (now) have a corrupt partition.
At this point, you must use Odin, which is unfortunate. What URL did you use to download the image? The current image in that thread was on multiupload.

drumdestroyer said:
Vol + and Vol - and power all at the same time from powered off
And oden was Vol - and power at the same time from powered off
Now no matter what I push it goes to the screen with the yellow triangle.
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during my rooting attempt I had a problem with the two vol buttons. It was quite frustrating. Keep trying them and try pressing the power button a fraction of a second sooner.

I downloaded the one later in the thread
Here's the Modem: http://dl.dropbox.co...15.EK02_LTE.tar
Here's the System: http://dl.dropbox.co...L53F_signed.tar
from this thread on page 3 housry23 posted them from his dropbox:
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/14145-od...restore-402-with-radios-unrooted/page__st__30
there were a couple other posts right around the same time with it but they all were the same file name
I thought I saw the same files in the xda thread i found also
I used that thread because it is the one that the second post linked for me.

drumdestroyer said:
Vol + and Vol - and power all at the same time from powered off
And oden was Vol - and power at the same time from powered off
Now no matter what I push it goes to the screen with the yellow triangle.
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Send it to me. I might be able to fix it. PM me.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

loveubuntu said:
during my rooting attempt I had a problem with the two vol buttons. It was quite frustrating. Keep trying them and try pressing the power button a fraction of a second sooner.
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no luck with that. it seems to only open to the "corupted partision" screen. Thanks for the suggestion.

ljwnow said:
Send it to me. I might be able to fix it. PM me.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
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I pm'd you to ask how you could fix it. Just wondering if I could do it. I can follow instructions well. I have never had a problem and have been flashing stuff for a year or so. IDK what happened here.

I can't help but I wanted to share that I had a similar experience. I was bonne stock and clicked on a you tube video and my phone immediately shut down and tried to reboot itself, but only would boot loop. I had to manually reformat my partitions to recover. Sounds like your case might be even worse. Still don't know what my problem was.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA

Thanks. Any feedback is appreciated.

so you can't get into bootloader or odin screen any more? if so try using a Jig it works to get the phone into odin mode for me. i used the same usb jig i made for the captivate.

I got the same suggestion from someone else. I have to wait until radio shack opens in the morning and I will give it a shot. Otherwise, I went by verizon and they are having samsung send me a replacment. I would much rather keep this one if I can though
I tried flashing the stock image from fastboot and it failed though when I could get there, and I also tried flashing the stock image through oden when I could get there and both failed multiple times so I don't have much hope. I think something broke.
I am headed to radio shack now. Be back soon with a answer as to wheather I can save my baby or not.

Galaxy note 2 WONT BOOT!!!

Really need some assistance here if someone could please help. I downloaded chainfire 3d, because i read it would speed up my game lag/speed. After install, it asked for a reboot....my phone hasnt been able to boot now, it has been stuck on the logo screen. I can get into recovery mode, i did a reset and formatted everything (which i REALLY didnt want to do), but i need my phone on asap. After all that, nothing has worked after reboot. Still stuck on logo screen, someone please give me any ideas to get this back on its really upsetting Thanks a lot, really hope someone has some ideas.

englishguy26 said:
Really need some assistance here if someone could please help. I downloaded chainfire 3d, because i read it would speed up my game lag/speed. After install, it asked for a reboot....my phone hasnt been able to boot now, it has been stuck on the logo screen. I can get into recovery mode, i did a reset and formatted everything (which i REALLY didnt want to do), but i need my phone on asap. After all that, nothing has worked after reboot. Still stuck on logo screen, someone please give me any ideas to get this back on its really upsetting Thanks a lot, really hope someone has some ideas.
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Do you have a nandroid available? Otherwise I'd advise that you use Odin and go back to full stock
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englishguy26 said:
Really need some assistance here if someone could please help. I downloaded chainfire 3d, because i read it would speed up my game lag/speed. After install, it asked for a reboot....my phone hasnt been able to boot now, it has been stuck on the logo screen. I can get into recovery mode, i did a reset and formatted everything (which i REALLY didnt want to do), but i need my phone on asap. After all that, nothing has worked after reboot. Still stuck on logo screen, someone please give me any ideas to get this back on its really upsetting Thanks a lot, really hope someone has some ideas.
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Odin back to stock

skw5115 said:
Do you have a nandroid available? Otherwise I'd advise that you use Odin and go back to full stock
Sent from my SPH-L900 using xda app-developers app
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Thanks for the quick reply, i dont know what a nandroid is...so im assuming i dont lol Ive got odin, how do i go back to full stock?

englishguy26 said:
Thanks for the quick reply, i dont know what a nandroid is...so im assuming i dont lol Ive got odin, how do i go back to full stock?
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Download the toolkit:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1957155
Choose to download factory image and flash through Odin.
Download mode is volume down+home button and hold power button together untill Galaxy Note2 screen comes up, the let go.

englishguy26 said:
Thanks for the quick reply, i dont know what a nandroid is...so im assuming i dont lol Ive got odin, how do i go back to full stock?
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Follow Jed instructions above but in the future please make a backup(nandroid) in recovery so you can restore if necessary.

Note 2 wont boot up
Jed Dignazio said:
Download the toolkit:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1957155
Choose to download factory image and flash through Odin.
Download mode is volume down+home button and hold power button together untill Galaxy Note2 screen comes up, the let go.
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since u know a lot about samsung andriod, etc i could really use some advice and hope you could help me.
I got a note 2, After some crash it woudn't boot up anymore it doesn't get futher than samsung logo. now i want to get it back to stock,
And readed this threat. i downloaded the samsung toolkit , but not sure what option to press, also that's becaus it says i have to get my phone to USB debugg mode or something. in the setting but i can't get to them becaus my phone wont boot? please help me!

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Chainfire 3D doesnt work on Galaxy Note 2, unfortunately.

joeyakascar said:
since u know a lot about samsung andriod, etc i could really use some advice and hope you could help me.
I got a note 2, After some crash it woudn't boot up anymore it doesn't get futher than samsung logo. now i want to get it back to stock,
And readed this threat. i downloaded the samsung toolkit , but not sure what option to press, also that's becaus it says i have to get my phone to USB debugg mode or something. in the setting but i can't get to them becaus my phone wont boot? please help me!
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http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/showthread.php?t=74
Download and instructions to get you back to LJC stock.

joeyakascar said:
since u know a lot about samsung andriod, etc i could really use some advice and hope you could help me.
I got a note 2, After some crash it woudn't boot up anymore it doesn't get futher than samsung logo. now i want to get it back to stock,
And readed this threat. i downloaded the samsung toolkit , but not sure what option to press, also that's becaus it says i have to get my phone to USB debugg mode or something. in the setting but i can't get to them becaus my phone wont boot? please help me!
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If you can still get into Download Mode you can always flash the stock rom back using the Odin tool on your PC. Use the procedure below to get into download mode:
Entering download mode is very simple. First you will need to turn off your device. Once it’s off, you need to press this button combination: volume down, power button and home button. Keep them pressed until the download mode shows up. Once you’re there, you will be requires to press volume up to enter the download mode or volume down to cancel and reboot the device.
Then follow these instructions:

If u have a custom recovery there's always this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2086769
And sadly yes cf3d does not work on any device with touchwiz jellybean

What I did in that situation is first download a stock deodexed rom.
Then connect your phone with your pc and open the Odin program on your computer.
(may or may not have to install Kies)
Then flash the deodexed rom to your phone.
Sent from my SPH-L900 using JellyBombed Tapatalk 2

[Q] Samsung t989 Galaxy S II - Bootloop HELP please :(

I downloaded the Jedi Mind Trick JB 2 ROM and installed it via clocwork mod recovery .. That went fine but it took me a few days to realize I didnt have a working video camera anymore on my phone.. so I thought to flash a stock ROOTed rom instead...
Then I found this threat about an updated version of Jedi Mind Trick's ROM labled JB 3.. So I wiped as much as I could in recovery and chose to format all the options it gave me in recover , Format system , data , cache , emms(or something) .. and now when I boot the phone , it shows the first flash screen , and the samsung logo starts to shimmer then it reboots back to the splash screen and repeats this process everal times before just going black and sitting there..
So I've successfully bootlooped my phone doing this..
MY PROBLEM -- I don't know how to charge my phone or connect to it to install anything else..
Is this a serious problem? How can I charge my phone to continue troubleshooting it? It still has some battery to try some things but I don't know how to hook it up to transfer any other roms to it via USB cable and PC in it's current state..
I'm very computer savvy but I'm trying to learn this phone modding stuff and I realy hope I didn't brick my phone in this process.
Can someone please help me out here? I'll be on the forums religiously until I figure this out.
What should I start doing first??
Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!

still working at it
I think I'm at the point of having to use ODIN to flash a new rom since i cannot simply copy this rom to the sdcard to use clockwork to flash it .. Am I correct on this ?
For some reason this rom I found (should be stock rooted tmobile gSII rom) does not want to open from ODIN's PDA button cause its in .zip and not .tar or anything... I'm not sure how to flash this rom with ODIN ( I'm not even 100% sure this is how its supposed to go) Any suggestions ?

phew
UPDATE - So I managed to research enough to find out that there is no way to flash a CUSTOM rom with ODIN.. SO I had to download a stock (presumably rooted) t-mobile rom and flash THAT ...
Now I'm back up with a rooted rom and will begin re-installing clockwork and then my custom deodexed rooted rom afterward.
Thanks for all who almost kinda tried to care to reply in this past 2 hours =) -- As previously mentioned.. I am a nerd.. I just suck at phone modding. Haha
So , looks like I'm in the clear now and don't need any more support on this particular topic yet.

zarklon said:
UPDATE - So I managed to research enough to find out that there is no way to flash a CUSTOM rom with ODIN.. SO I had to download a stock (presumably rooted) t-mobile rom and flash THAT ...
Now I'm back up with a rooted rom and will begin re-installing clockwork and then my custom deodexed rooted rom afterward.
Thanks for all who almost kinda tried to care to reply in this past 2 hours =) -- As previously mentioned.. I am a nerd.. I just suck at phone modding. Haha
So , looks like I'm in the clear now and don't need any more support on this particular topic yet.
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Is this true? Through a recommendation (haven't done anything to my phone from rooting/flashing KANGSJUGGERNAUT2 years ago), I tried to flash CM10 and ended up with a bootloop myself. Tried flashing through ODIN but it kept crashing; does anyone know why?
Afterward, I tried to reflash it through CWM and from then on bootloops into a installation process that never completes.
For some reason my CWM turned super slow, freezes/hangs and reboots after a few minutes.
I gave the phone to a friend who does this stuff on the regular but he said my initial flash wasn't complete cause in download mode says I'm still running official? No clue.
I was told this via email/chat: "No luck, it won't even boot anymore, I think I'll just bring it back tmrw morn
10:43 PM
Sorry I'm at a wedding (yea I know random) I left my phone with coat check
OK I've narrowed down the reason but not the solution, you had an AOKP based ROM which fundamentally is based on CyanogenMod, but it wasn't correctly flashed as the phone still thought it has factory ROMs still running
11:10 PM
Clockworkmod(even though it was working before) wasn't accessing the partitions of the phone correctly so it wasn't properly wiping or flashing properly.
11:12 PM
So basically from the first time you flashed cwm it didn't flash properly then the next time you flashed using the new recovery it didn't flash anything it was supposed to do itself properly , so basically it was a chain of events in addition to a bad boot loader, that's why it never went to recovery or download mode correctly
11:13 PM
That's something that had to do with the way the phone was built meaning you may of had a bad bootloader from the very begin and are now feeling the synptoms
Basically, and I would hate to be the reason or partially the reason you have a dead phone, basically it was a matter of coincedencr that it happened as this could of happened at anytime, once you have a bad boot loader its pretty much down hill from there"
Any helpful insight as how I can rectify this? is my phone truly dead? Sorry about the quoted format, it was copied and pasted.

If I were in your boat, I'd use Odin and flash the stock 4.1.2 ROM.
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tronmech said:
If I were in your boat, I'd use Odin and flash the stock 4.1.2 ROM.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
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The phone won't turn on, unable to go into recovery and download mode; plugged in usb (hear connection beep but pressing power button plays disconnect button) to no avail. What can I do to unbrick?
Stock 4.1.2? Possible over a hardbricked T989 with old 2.3.6?

JahJahLoO said:
The phone won't turn on, unable to go into recovery and download mode; plugged in usb (hear connection beep but pressing power button plays disconnect button) to no avail. What can I do to unbrick?
Stock 4.1.2? Possible over a hardbricked T989 with old 2.3.6?
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sorry but i have to assume that you are not doing the 3 button recovery or download mode right.
Pull battery, put battery back in, hold power button & Vol +/- untill you see SAMSUNG on the screen ---> let go off power button(keep holding
Vol +/- button) .....u will see recovery. (assuming you did flash cwm before).
Let me know.
hit thanks.

sam.balia1012 said:
sorry but i have to assume that you are not doing the 3 button recovery or download mode right.
Pull battery, put battery back in, hold power button & Vol +/- untill you see SAMSUNG on the screen ---> let go off power button(keep holding
Vol +/- button) .....u will see recovery. (assuming you did flash cwm before).
Let me know.
hit thanks.
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I believe I am doing it correct, I have been entering recovery and download mode many times, right before I soft bricked it.
And sorry, no, I've tried many times, many methods and my phone is confirmed as entirely hard bricked.
SUPAR SAD, but thank you!

dont give up
JahJahLoO said:
I believe I am doing it correct, I have been entering recovery and download mode many times, right before I soft bricked it.
And sorry, no, I've tried many times, many methods and my phone is confirmed as entirely hard bricked.
SUPAR SAD, but thank you!
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you can try using adb and put the phone in dl mode.
sometimes its as easy as pull battery and wait awhile (20 min or more) and try again.
if you've exhausted all possibilities, you can use a jig to force a dl mode.
let me know

sam.balia1012 said:
you can try using adb and put the phone in dl mode.
sometimes its as easy as pull battery and wait awhile (20 min or more) and try again.
if you've exhausted all possibilities, you can use a jig to force a dl mode.
let me know
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I don't know what adb is, or how to use it; I have, however seen my friend RDP to my desktop and do something and used the term 'adb' in his attempt to code through the phone.
I've done that battery waiting period, for nearly an hour and still no result.
After doing some researching, I have found that many people have stated a USB JIG would not be applicable to a 'hard bricked' phone. I really wanted to try as it looked like the most, simple and inexpensive solution.

JahJahLoO said:
I don't know what adb is, or how to use it; I have, however seen my friend RDP to my desktop and do something and used the term 'adb' in his attempt to code through the phone.
I've done that battery waiting period, for nearly an hour and still no result.
After doing some researching, I have found that many people have stated a USB JIG would not be applicable to a 'hard bricked' phone. I really wanted to try as it looked like the most, simple and inexpensive solution.
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If you know for a fact that you bricked your s2, maybe wrong rom or kernel that u flashed by accident then.....
contact these guys.... http://brickedmyphone.com/contact-me/
good like and click thanks if you agree.

sam.balia1012 said:
If you know for a fact that you bricked your s2, maybe wrong rom or kernel that u flashed by accident then.....
contact these guys.... http://brickedmyphone.com/contact-me/
good like and click thanks if you agree.
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Lols, you're really fishing for them "Thanks"; you got it buddy. Very swift responses. :cyclops:
Anyway, I'm still searching the net for anymore possible solutions.
Thanks.

JahJahLoO said:
Lols, you're really fishing for them "Thanks"; you got it buddy. Very swift responses. :cyclops:
Anyway, I'm still searching the net for anymore possible solutions.
Thanks.
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fishing for them ???????
what the hell does that even mean? it seems that brick did hit u in the head!!!

sam.balia1012 said:
fishing for them ???????
what the hell does that even mean? it seems that brick did hit u in the head!!!
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It might as well have... :crying:

How do you hard shut down and then get into recovery?

I got stuck at the boot screen with no OS installed.
Google is finding me ways to reboot but can't find anything on how to do a hard shutdown from here.
EDIT:
Okay one suggestion was to plug the phone into charge, then force a reboot (power + both volume buttons held down 10+ seconds).
Then when it shuts off, you disconnect the power cable after seeing a "battery" on the screen and the tab will remain turned off.
That did not work for me with computer data charging cable.
But it did work with the stock charger. :good:
This helped me get into download using the download mode button shortcuts. But I can't figure out how to get into recovery mode from here? The recovery mode buttons don't work (volume up + power + home).

It looks like this thread has the answer on how to get into recovery mode again.
Too bad I didn't find it before I did an ODIN back to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-s/help/to-event-soft-brick-disaster-t2838473

Actually its even easier than that and have done it countless times.
Next time just hold POWER +VOL DOWN + HOME. As soon as the screen goes blank change to VOL UP whilst still holding POWER +HOME.
Works every time to get into recovery.

ashyx said:
Actually its even easier than that and have done it countless times.
Next time just hold POWER +VOL DOWN + HOME. As soon as the screen goes blank change to VOL UP whilst still holding POWER +HOME.
Works every time to get into recovery.
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Confirmed - this worked for me. Thanks!

I'm in the same situation where all of a sudden my tablet went into reboot and got stuck on the logo screen. I tried the combinations suggested such as : Power butto +Volume down then Volume up when screen is black to get to reboot mode but it just brings me back to the logo screen. Is there some other way I can access the safe mode or recovery mode to try and get this thing working again? I wasn't running any apps for it to cause this either, just checking email. Any help would be much appreciated

casual167 said:
I'm in the same situation where all of a sudden my tablet went into reboot and got stuck on the logo screen. I tried the combinations suggested such as : Power butto +Volume down then Volume up when screen is black to get to reboot mode but it just brings me back to the logo screen. Is there some other way I can access the safe mode or recovery mode to try and get this thing working again? I wasn't running any apps for it to cause this either, just checking email. Any help would be much appreciated
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You're not following the instructions properly. Read post 3 again and hold ALL 3 buttons until recovery boots.
Do not let go of any of the buttons until you see the recovery screen.

ashyx said:
You're not following the instructions properly. Read post 3 again and hold ALL 3 buttons until recovery boots.
Do not let go of any of the buttons until you see the recovery screen.
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Nevermind, I actually got it to work. What do I do after it says "downloading" to fix this issue of it not getting past the boot screen? Please help, I'm not too good with this kind of stuff

casual167 said:
Nevermind, I actually got it to work. What do I do after it says "downloading" to fix this issue of it not getting past the boot screen? Please help, I'm not too good with this kind of stuff
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Well, downloading is not the recovery.
In download mode you would use ODIN to re-flash the firmware from a computer.
In recovery, you would do a factory reset to reset back to defaults to see if that helps boot back into the existing firmware. You'll probably lose everything.

CZ Eddie said:
Well, downloading is not the recovery.
In download mode you would use ODIN to re-flash the firmware from a computer.
In recovery, you would do a factory reset to reset back to defaults to see if that helps boot back into the existing firmware. You'll probably lose everything.
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Yeah I just figured out I was in the wrong mode. I couldn't get it to the recovery mode for some reason but eventually it worked. So I have to go into wipe data/factory reset option? There's nothing else I can do on that screen to fix this without losing everything? I see other opions to Wipe Cache, reboot to bootloader, reboot system now etc..

casual167 said:
Yeah I just figured out I was in the wrong mode. I couldn't get it to the recovery mode for some reason but eventually it worked. So I have to go into wipe data/factory reset option? There's nothing else I can do on that screen to fix this without losing everything? I see other opions to Wipe Cache, reboot to bootloader, reboot system now etc..
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Well, you're not really giving enough info for us to properly help you.
If you have stock recovery then you can try clearing cache but it probably won't fix a no-boot situation.
If you have TWRP recovery then you can try clearing cache and dalvik and fix permissions which probably won't help but gives you a better chance.
Also, if you had TWRP then you could simply re-flash your ROM zip and not lose a whole lot.

CZ Eddie said:
Well, you're not really giving enough info for us to properly help you.
If you have stock recovery then you can try clearing cache but it probably won't fix a no-boot situation.
If you have TWRP recovery then you can try clearing cache and dalvik and fix permissions which probably won't help but gives you a better chance.
Also, if you had TWRP then you could simply re-flash your ROM zip and not lose a whole lot.
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Sorry about that. It's like I said, I'm not too inclined on this type of stuff. Here's what I got and hopefully it helps you more. The tab is completely stocked, never rooted because I wouldn't even know how to do that really. I was on it fine last night and all I did was put it down for literally 30 sec to get something to drink and when I came back it was stuck on the Samsung logo screen. Only apps I had open was gmail, chrome and a word document. There was nothing dowloading, system wise or apps. It's already had Lollipop on it for a week or two and I didn't get any update notices or anything. So I'm guessing the problem is it's somehow stuck in a "boot loop" from what I found searching on google and I don't understand why or what could be causing it so that's the issue I'm trying to fix. I can't get past that screen no matter how many times I restart it. Does that help some?

casual167 said:
Does that help some?
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Yeah, so unfortunately your options are very limited and you're kinda stuck with losing everything.
Try clearing cache first but I doubt it will help.
Then reset to factory defaults. That should work and you probably lose everything.
If not, then search this forum for "ODIN" and "firmware" or let me know and I'll guide you when I get back to my computer in a couple hours.

CZ Eddie said:
Yeah, so unfortunately your options are very limited and you're kinda stuck with losing everything.
Try clearing cache first but I doubt it will help.
Then reset to factory defaults. That should work and you probably lose everything.
If not, then search this forum for "ODIN" and "firmware" or let me know and I'll guide you when I get back to my computer in a couple hours.
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Ok I'll give that a try, thanks. Should I take out my SD card before I reset everything
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casual167 said:
Ok I'll give that a try, thanks. Should I take out my SD card before I reset everything
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So I did the factory reset, it started up now and it's as if I just took it out of the box. Unfortunately I'm at work though so I can't connect to a wifi to complete the set up process so I'll have to wait until tonight when I get home but thanks again for your help. If you could still help me later though with the Odin and firmware stuff I would appreciate it.

casual167 said:
So I did the factory reset, it started up now and it's as if I just took it out of the box. Unfortunately I'm at work though so I can't connect to a wifi to complete the set up process so I'll have to wait until tonight when I get home but thanks again for your help. If you could still help me later though with the Odin and firmware stuff I would appreciate it.
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The factory reset should not touch the external SD card at all. So no worries about leaving it in during that process.
Yeah, starting over.
As long as you're doing that, this is a great time to flash a rooted ROM so you can install Titanium Backup and do regular backups of your apps in case you ever need to reset to factory again.
What model tab do you have? Like, mine is a T705.
If it's an LTE tab, who is your carrier?
The ODIN process depends on this info.

CZ Eddie said:
The factory reset should not touch the external SD card at all. So no worries about leaving it in during that process.
Yeah, starting over.
As long as you're doing that, this is a great time to flash a rooted ROM so you can install Titanium Backup and do regular backups of your apps in case you ever need to reset to factory again.
What model tab do you have? Like, mine is a T705.
If it's an LTE tab, who is your carrier?
The ODIN process depends on this info.
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So I left for lunch and tablet was functional and in the set up process and when I came back, it's back at that damn Samsung logo screen and haven't been able to get back to the recover page. Any idea or suggestions on what to do now? How could that same problem still be here if I did the factory reset?
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So I left for lunch and tablet was functional and in the set up process and when I came back, it's back at that damn Samsung logo screen and haven't been able to get back to the recover page. Any idea or suggestions on what to do now? How could that same problem still be here if I did the factory reset?
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Actually, I just got into the recovery page now
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What should I do ?

CZ Eddie said:
What model tab do you have? Like, mine is a T705.
If it's an LTE tab, who is your carrier?
The ODIN process depends on this info.
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How could that same problem still be here if I did the factory reset?
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Who knows, something is not happy though.
You could try another reset.
Is your battery greater than 50%?
Under a certain percentage, the battery savings feature could possible do weird things.

CZ Eddie said:
Who knows, something is not happy though.
You could try another reset.
Is your battery greater than 50%?
Under a certain percentage, the battery savings feature could possible do weird things.
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Lol yea no kidding. The battery has been plugged in the whole time. I'm actually at 100% now. I was really trying to avoid having to bring it to Geek squad. If I do the reset and it does it again, will going to the download mode and doing the custom OS help at all?

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If I do the reset and it does it again, will going to the download mode and doing the custom OS help at all?
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Unless it's a hardware issue, then re-flashing the firmware via ODIN could definitely help!
You can ODIN the stock, unrooted firmware or you can ODIN a TWRP recovery and flash any ROM you want for your phone.
Would still need to know the model # I asked for a couple times above.

CZ Eddie said:
Unless it's a hardware issue, then re-flashing the firmware via ODIN could definitely help!
You can ODIN the stock, unrooted firmware or you can ODIN a TWRP recovery and flash any ROM you want for your phone.
Would still need to know the model # I asked for a couple times above.
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My bad, its SM-T800
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Leaving now but I'll be back in a couple hrs

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My bad, its SM-T800
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Okay great, so you can ODIN a TWRP recovery and then flash a nice ROM. Same ROM I use on my phone. It's stock Touch Wiz that has been rooted and some small things have been improved. Very stable. IronROM.
Or you can download the stock firmware from sammobile.com and ODIN back to stock.

I need a solution. Can anyone help me to get out of this bootloop hell!?

Hello, I have a HTC 10 and recently while I placed it on the wall charger it went into a bootloop and refuses to come out :crying: It was never rooted or anything, I've tried the volume down and power keys together. This forces it to the small HTC logo, but it refuses to go into download mode. It returns right back to the bootloop :crying: Can anyone help? Is there anything that I can possibly try? I am pretty desperate at this point. Thanks for reading.

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Hello, I have a HTC 10 and recently while I placed it on the wall charger it went into a bootloop and refuses to come out :crying: It was never rooted or anything, I've tried the volume down and power keys together. This forces it to the small HTC logo, but it refuses to go into download mode. It returns right back to the bootloop :crying: Can anyone help? Is there anything that I can possibly try? I am pretty desperate at this point. Thanks for reading.
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Find RUU zip with a correct version same or less than what's in yours now.
Place it on sdCard, named 2PS6IMG.zip
Boot with volume down-power and it will clear everything up.
This will wipe data, but you are pretty much out of choices.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/how-to/2016-05-27-fastboot-flashing-firmware-t3387520

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Find RUU zip with a correct version same or less than what's in yours now.
Place it on sdCard, named 2PS6IMG.zip
Boot with volume down-power and it will clear everything up.
This will wipe data, but you are pretty much out of choices.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/how-to/2016-05-27-fastboot-flashing-firmware-t3387520
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Did you not even read the OP? He cant boot to download mode.
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Sora_sky said:
Hello, I have a HTC 10 and recently while I placed it on the wall charger it went into a bootloop and refuses to come out :crying: It was never rooted or anything, I've tried the volume down and power keys together. This forces it to the small HTC logo, but it refuses to go into download mode. It returns right back to the bootloop :crying: Can anyone help? Is there anything that I can possibly try? I am pretty desperate at this point. Thanks for reading.
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Can you take the phone back for warranty?

Did you not even read the OP? He cant boot to download mode.
Yes, I did. If he is able to power off and and up again, the sdCard install method would at
least be worth a try before sending it away for service.

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Did you not even read the OP? He cant boot to download mode.
Yes, I did. If he is able to power off and and up again, the sdCard install method would at
least be worth a try before sending it away for service.
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Agreed. But seeing he said he cant boot to download mode i dont think there is much he can do. Its not the first time i have seen this happen. Theres a few threads about it.