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Blazer rom may have bricked my phone?

I'm very comfortable with flashing and using custom roms, I've been doing this since the original Droid.
I rooted my GS3 right after I got it, and it was great until the OTA updates started coming out too quickly.
I like having root use, so I decided to flash the new blazer rom, I always liked the one for the gs2.
So I download it, put it on external SD, go to clockworkmod, nandroid backup, wipe data/factory reset twice, flashed the rom.
It won't turn on. It just buzzes, shows the samsung screen and shuts off.
Fine, it doesn't work i guess. So I go to put it back in recovery. NOTHING. just buzzes a few times, that's it.when charging while off it shows the battery icon, but when i hold volup home button and power it acts like it's going into recovery, then shuts off.
I don't know what to do I've never had an issue getting any phone into recovery.
HELP!!!!

Blazer ROM didn't brick your phone, you did.
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Odin. You're not bricked.
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hdnet1 said:
Odin. You're not bricked.
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+1 soft bricked. Use odin to reflash the custom recovery.

dragon_rckr said:
+1 soft bricked. Use odin to reflash the custom recovery.
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No way was it blazer I've used every version. Chalk this up to use error. Odin it and try again
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firstdirection said:
NOTHING. just buzzes a few times, that's it.when charging while off it shows the battery icon, but when i hold volup home button and power it acts like it's going into recovery, then shuts off.
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Did you try unplugging the phone, pull the battery, reinstall battery and then boot to recovery? If that won't work or volume down for download mode then I would say likely bricked.

epic4GEE said:
Did you try unplugging the phone, pull the battery, reinstall battery and then boot to recovery? If that won't work or volume down for download mode then I would say likely bricked.
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Nope, brick is that...a brick, does absolutly nothing, no power, no buzz, no LED, no nothing.
Soft brick, some sign of life, like they describe in OP "Samsung screen come up, then phone buzzes and shuts off".

rgregg504 said:
No way was it blazer I've used every version. Chalk this up to use error. Odin it and try again
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If you notice, I followed the instructions to the exact letter. so not user error.

dragon_rckr said:
+1 soft bricked. Use odin to reflash the custom recovery.
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I'm looking for the file to run in odin to flash back to stock, can anyone help?

Snatched from the dev section... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900492

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099
This is what you want for stock...
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dragon_rckr said:
Snatched from the dev section... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900492
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lol thanks, I tried to odin the clockworkmod .tar, I put it in the pda section of odin, flashed, it passed. still no recovery though! I hold volup home and power until the samsung screen, there is the little blue writing in the top left corner telling me it's booting to recovery but then the screen goes dark, and tries to boot system.

firstdirection said:
lol thanks, I tried to odin the clockworkmod .tar, I put it in the pda section of odin, flashed, it passed. still no recovery though! I hold volup home and power until the samsung screen, there is the little blue writing in the top left corner telling me it's booting to recovery but then the screen goes dark, and tries to boot system.
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If you took any OTA, Samsung patched the stock recovery to rewrite itself everytime it boots. I suggest you odin VALEN (LEN stock 100% stock), and start the rooting process all over again. Look up QBKing77's videos on youtube on how to unroot SGS3 and how to root it and you'll be back to where you want to be.

Blazer didnt brick your phone. You did by accepting the consequences of flashing a 3rd party rom on your device. the warnings are in post 1 of his thread

Overstew said:
If you took any OTA, Samsung patched the stock recovery to rewrite itself everytime it boots. I suggest you odin VALEN (LEN stock 100% stock), and start the rooting process all over again. Look up QBKing77's videos on youtube on how to unroot SGS3 and how to root it and you'll be back to where you want to be.
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Ok i flashed a few things through odin, and finally got cwm installed. I re-flashed Blazer and it still does the boot loop thing. But... CWM is still there. I'm just gonna go back to stock. I'm downloading L710VPALI3_stock_unrooted(ics)7z.crdownload and plan to odin it when my ****ty internet connection finally downloads it.

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stu5797 said:
Blazer didnt brick your phone. You did by accepting the consequences of flashing a 3rd party rom on your device. the warnings are in post 1 of his thread
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The point is that when I flashed that rom, the phone stopped working. period. I understand he isn't liable for anything that happened. but it doesn't mean his rom didn't cause the problem.
I think it's great there are people helping with the issue. You on the other hand came to point fingers. thanks?

firstdirection said:
The point is that when I flashed that rom, the phone stopped working. period. I understand he isn't liable for anything that happened. but it doesn't mean his rom didn't cause the problem.
I think it's great there are people helping with the issue. You on the other hand came to point fingers. thanks?
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Have you checked the md5 checksum of the download? You may have a bad copy downloaded.

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nabbed said:
Have you checked the md5 checksum of the download? You may have a bad copy downloaded.
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I think whoever said that if i had ever accepted an OTA update a few comments ago hit the nail on the head. my kids were playing with the phone and accepted it about a week ago. it didn't work obviously, but i guess it re-wrote something that is causing this issue. I'm going back to stock whenever the VPALEN stock rom is done downloading. It seems sprint or google or samsung doesn't like us to mess with the phones, and keeps putting out "fixes" for people who have rooted. it'd be nice to watch my movies on there without worrying about the drm but at this point I'd just like my too damn expensive phone back lol.

nabbed said:
Have you checked the md5 checksum of the download? You may have a bad copy downloaded.
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This is exactly what I was about to suggest. File corruption is actually quite common and you can get a bad download just by downloading a file straight to your phone. Try re-downloading the file on PC, then transfer it to the device.

I would like some help!?

I have recently purchased a galaxy note 2 and as I was reading the original development forums as a non-member I came across a cyanogen 10.1 port! I flashed this onto my phone along with the gapps for 4.1.2 this caused my phone to boot in and have error messages everywhere and I could not get out of them!!! I am going into panic mode!!! Is there any way to undo what I did?! I have not been able to find a stock rom for ATT that allows for a reset with Odin!? So is there any way to get me out of this predicament!?

mmckenna11 said:
I have recently purchased a galaxy note 2 and as I was reading the original development forums as a non-member I came across a cyanogen 10.1 port! I flashed this onto my phone along with the gapps for 4.1.2 this caused my phone to boot in and have error messages everywhere and I could not get out of them!!! I am going into panic mode!!! Is there any way to undo what I did?! I have not been able to find a stock rom for ATT that allows for a reset with Odin!? So is there any way to get me out of this predicament!?
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Hit the thanks button on accident. Scott aka scrosler posted a rooted deodexed stock rom with the OTA from yesterday in the development section. Do a clean install and you should be ok.
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Can I install this using Odin?

mmckenna11 said:
Can I install this using Odin?
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Really sounds like you need to stop. Read. Read some more. And then some more. Before you brick your phone. The rom jyazzie mentioned is flashed the same way you put cm10.1 on your phone.
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cdshepherd said:
Really sounds like you need to stop. Read. Read some more. And then some more. Before you brick your phone. The rom jyazzie mentioned is flashed the same way you put cm10.1 on your phone.
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I have read as much as possible! the way I put it was incorrect I have no way of accessing my phone because as soon as I boot up it says there was an error starting gapps then it continues to say this indefinitely... so the only way to install any sort of fix for this would be from my computer!

mmckenna11 said:
I have read as much as possible! the way I put it was incorrect I have no way of accessing my phone because as soon as I boot up it says there was an error starting gapps then it continues to say this indefinitely... so the only way to install any sort of fix for this would be from my computer!
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Tell me. How did you put cm 10.1 on your device. How did it get there?
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I flashed the .zip in recovery using the Gapps application...

mmckenna11 said:
I flashed the .zip in recovery using the Gapps application...
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So can you access recovery? Also did you make a backup in recovery before you flashed?
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mmckenna11 said:
I flashed the .zip in recovery using the Gapps application...
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To flash the rom by scrosler is the exact same way you flashed cm10. Before you do anything I suggest you take a few hours and read this over and over until you know what you are doing.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1987541
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Is there a manual way of accessing recovery? because when I boot into it I use the power, home, volume button way but it only brings me to the stock recovery mode...

mmckenna11 said:
Is there a manual way of accessing recovery? because when I boot into it I use the power, home, volume button way but it only brings me to the stock recovery mode...
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If you flashed cm 10.1 on your phone there is no way you have a stock recovery. Unless you've done something else that you haven't told us. I think we need more info.
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cdshepherd said:
If you flashed cm 10.1 on your phone there is no way you have a stock recovery. Unless you've done something else that you haven't told us. I think we need more info.
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I have no idea I have the normal recovery that says: DOWNLOADING please do not disconnect from source

mmckenna11 said:
I have no idea I have the normal recovery that says: DOWNLOADING please do not disconnect from source
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thats not recovery. thats download mode. with the device off use the same button combo but hold volume up instead of volume down.
edit: and busted, you didint do your reading lol.
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thats ok. life is not over. let us know what you find

Need PIT file for this phone (I think)... URGENT REQUEST

All of this to get the stupid Google Wallet working. So pissed off right now.
Anyway tried to reflash my phone I seem to have screwed up the partition I think because it hangs on the Samsung logo. Tried to reboot into stock recovery and it doesn't do it (instead it keeps rebooting).
Trying to reflash the partition info, but for that I think I need a PIT file. Anyone know where I can get that??? I have been Googling the hell out of it and can't find it.

Can you get into download mode?
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jyazzie110 said:
Can you get into download mode?
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Yes.... I have flashed the stock ROM 4 to 5 times. It flashes successfully, reboots, and sticks on the Samsung Logo screen. Tried to reboot into recovery, and as long as I am holding the 3 buttons for recovery, it goes into a boot loop (like it tries to go to recovery, it isn't there, and reboots).

Milkman00 said:
Yes.... I have flashed the stock ROM 4 to 5 times. It flashes successfully, reboots, and sticks on the Samsung Logo screen. Tried to reboot into recovery, and as long as I am holding the 3 buttons for recovery, it goes into a boot loop (like it tries to go to recovery, it isn't there, and reboots).
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Hmmm way beyond my knowledge then. Sorry
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So I am pretty sure I accidentally clicked the re-partition button in Odin, and I am pretty sure I am screwed.
Hoping that someone can help me, if not I guess roadtrip tomorrow to see if a DSC can help me (AT&T DSC) for same day replacement...

Milkman00 said:
So I am pretty sure I accidentally clicked the re-partition button in Odin, and I am pretty sure I am screwed.
Hoping that someone can help me, if not I guess roadtrip tomorrow to see if a DSC can help me (AT&T DSC) for same day replacement...
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If there is any sign on life on your phone your not screwed. I can get you the .pit file but do you know how to use it? No download mode at all? No recovery?
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Milkman00 said:
Yes.... I have flashed the stock ROM 4 to 5 times. It flashes successfully, reboots, and sticks on the Samsung Logo screen. Tried to reboot into recovery, and as long as I am holding the 3 buttons for recovery, it goes into a boot loop (like it tries to go to recovery, it isn't there, and reboots).
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For recovery
- Power Down + Home + Power
- Release Power at first sign of SAMSUNG Logo EXCEPT Power Down + Home
- Release Power Down + Down at first blink of Samsung
- Once in recovery, factory reset, format option
- Reboot, wait for 1-2 mins
BOLDED PART = Has to be precise

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did you also try clearing the cache? i've had a few hangs on the samsung logo, clearing the cache helped it get through

I feel so stupid. I didn't release power while trying to get into recovery. Although I have another problem now, and the searches online don't look good.
My Baseband and IMEI is showing as "Unknown"... Also the phone is very laggy.
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On this thread I started out by saying that I think I clicked Re-partition, but I actually think I accidentally clicked Nand Erase All... I can get to download mode and recovery mode, but my phone shows Baseband and IMEI of unknown. Any help?

More information:
When going to stock recovery I see a few instances of:
Failed to mount /data (Invalid Argument).
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When booting phone I have no internal memory (16Gig).

that happened to me once when clicking a random box in odin without knowing what it did on my epic touch...thank god i work for sprint and was able to just order my own replacement sounds like you wiped your IMEI, and thats a ***** to inject back in...youll need to the help of a true dev to restore, but your best bet is to hard brick and claim warranty, friend.

hapticxchaos said:
that happened to me once when clicking a random box in odin without knowing what it did on my epic touch...thank god i work for sprint and was able to just order my own replacement sounds like you wiped your IMEI, and thats a ***** to inject back in...youll need to the help of a true dev to restore, but your best bet is to hard brick and claim warranty, friend.
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Of course this would happen today, where warranty replacement will take 2 days to get to me.
I already installed and ran (barely) Triangle Away, and got the counter reset so I am good there for warranty. I am begging the community for two things.
If someone knows a "true dev" that may be able to help me, I would sincerely ask that you point them to this thread and see what they can do. I will be monitoring this thread VERY CLOSELY until I say otherwise (in this thread).
Can someone point me in a direction to hard brick my phone???

here is the pit and when you go into recovery you have to factory reset or it stays bricked http://db.tt/gKSxQKWJ
go into odin and place the stock rom in pda then place the pit on the top where it says pit and make sure to click repartition.then when done take the battery out boot into recovery then factory reset and it should work.
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Milkman00 said:
I feel so stupid. I didn't release power while trying to get into recovery. Although I have another problem now, and the searches online don't look good.
My Baseband and IMEI is showing as "Unknown"... Also the phone is very laggy.
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On this thread I started out by saying that I think I clicked Re-partition, but I actually think I accidentally clicked Nand Erase All... I can get to download mode and recovery mode, but my phone shows Baseband and IMEI of unknown. Any help?
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Does using odin to flash the stock firmware restore baseband? Or flashing a moden? Also did you ever make a backup that included your efs folder? If you did restore that backup:thumbup:
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and if you also lost your imei without a backup
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801997
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scroll down a little in that thread and look for lost imei without backup

Just wanted to let you guys know I saw this and am trying. Having some problems connecting phone to QPST, but will keep screwing with it. Thanks for your help.

Milkman00 said:
Just wanted to let you guys know I saw this and am trying. Having some problems connecting phone to QPST, but will keep screwing with it. Thanks for your help.
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QPST?? When I was on the skyrocket forums that meant hard brick! May not be the same for us im not sure. Did you say you can still access recovery and download mode?
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cdshepherd said:
QPST?? When I was on the skyrocket forums that meant hard brick! May not be the same for us im not sure. Did you say you can still access recovery and download mode?
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The directions that you provided to me required QPST installed for an app that they have.
Can't get the program to see the phone though even though I put it into modem mode.
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Yes I can get to recovery and download mode.

did u try the pit I posted
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soft brick need HELP!!!!

i was installing a rom the jellybomb 12.0 then it starting to reboot itself then it shut off it wont start or nothing..! is i bricked fullt? the computer recongize the phone when i was in odin.. i tried flashing a pda md5 file but nothing happen it got stuck at "setup connection" ....NEED HELP!!! PLEASE!!!

Can you not get in your recovery
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az18zz said:
i was installing a rom the jellybomb 12.0 then it starting to reboot itself then it shut off it wont start or nothing..! is i bricked fullt? the computer recongize the phone when i was in odin.. i tried flashing a pda md5 file but nothing happen it got stuck at "setup connection" ....NEED HELP!!! PLEASE!!!
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Was the COM port added before clicking start? And what were you trying to flash?
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az18zz said:
i was installing a rom the jellybomb 12.0 then it starting to reboot itself then it shut off it wont start or nothing..! is i bricked fullt? the computer recongize the phone when i was in odin.. i tried flashing a pda md5 file but nothing happen it got stuck at "setup connection" ....NEED HELP!!! PLEASE!!!
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Yup, you bricked your $700 device
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az18zz said:
i was installing a rom the jellybomb 12.0 then it starting to reboot itself then it shut off it wont start or nothing..! is i bricked fullt? the computer recongize the phone when i was in odin.. i tried flashing a pda md5 file but nothing happen it got stuck at "setup connection" ....NEED HELP!!! PLEASE!!!
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Don't try flashing a rom through ODIN. Use the 1 clock back to stock method. Try this:
1. Download this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2032924
It's an excellent 1 click back to stock tool.
2. Run it.
3. Pull your battery, go into ODIN mode. (Power, home and volume up)
4. Connect the phone via USB.
The program should see the phone now, just click install and it will re-apply stock rom and kernel. I bricked the ^&*% out of my phone about a month ago and this saved my ass big time

bl4ckllama said:
Don't try flashing a rom through ODIN. Use the 1 clock back to stock method
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SMFH. Odin is Odin is Odin. Sure the one click is easier and better for noobs but if regular odin couldn't detect it, neither will the one-click.
bl4ckllama said:
The program should see the phone now, just click install and it will re-apply stock rom and kernel. I bricked the ^&*% out of my phone about a month ago and this saved my ass big time
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You mean soft bricked the sh*t outta ur device. As once again odin isn't magic. If its fully bricked then odin has no value here. Dont give people false hope.
radrian92 said:
Yup, you bricked your $700 device
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And this is based on what exactly? He was flashing a rom meant for the device. What here indicates its a brick.
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Jesus this site is going to hell...

billard412 said:
Jesus this site is going to hell...
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Maybe try being constructive instead of negative. OP stated "the computer recongize the phone when i was in odin"
I assumed that meant he was able to connect in ODIN mode but couldn't get it back to stock.

bl4ckllama said:
Maybe try being constructive instead of negative. OP stated "the computer recongize the phone when i was in odin"
I assumed that meant he was able to connect in ODIN mode but couldn't get it back to stock.
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Great point, i cant stand people who come on forums and sit here and complain and are rude to people just trying to find something to help them out.. That flash back to stock you have works great my buddy used it kudos to you buddy. :good:

Are you sure it was the note 2 version of jelly bomb .... He has the s3 too , could be the problem
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Galaxy S3 Recovery

My SPH-L710 has a broken Up Volume button and after flashing to stock, I can't get to recovery to wipe cache and stuff. I was using a custom rom to get to the download and recovery mode before, but now all I get is bootloop.
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Can't get to download mode either. Will purchase USB Jig if necessary

You're probably gonna have to push a new ROM using Odin
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xXTheLawXx said:
My SPH-L710 has a broken Up Volume button and after flashing to stock, I can't get to recovery to wipe cache and stuff. I was using a custom rom to get to the download and recovery mode before, but now all I get is bootloop. I can get to download mode however.
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If your still rooted, then you can download ROM toolbox from google play, goto tools tab, then all the way down to rebooter. Not sure if you have to have paid version though.
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Soooperstar said:
You're probably gonna have to push a new ROM using Odin
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Explain please? I'm new to this stuff.

xXTheLawXx said:
Explain please? I'm new to this stuff.
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If your new, ODIN is probably not for you, you can severly mess your phone up. If you cant get to download mode even after a battery pull, then it sounds bricked. USB jig may or may not work. All that left is JTAG service.

joeyhdownsouth said:
If your new, ODIN is probably not for you, you can severly mess your phone up. If you cant get to download mode even after a battery pull, then it sounds bricked. USB jig may or may not work. All that left is JTAG service.
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I can get to the warning screen, but I can't click up to get it to the actual mode (for obvious reasons). I just stuck my jig in it and its in download. Do I need to flash a stock rom and then could I use CF Auto Root as it wipes the cache at the end?

xXTheLawXx said:
I can get to the warning screen, but I can't click up to get it to the actual mode (for obvious reasons). I just stuck my jig in it and its in download. Do I need to flash a stock rom and then could I use CF Auto Root as it wipes the cache at the end?
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Ok, if you plug it to your computer and it recognizes it, then i suggest MSkips Toolbox. It automates the whole process for you, but you must read it very carefully.
EDIT: If you were on stock 4.3 with KNOX bootloader, then toolkit won't work without adding proper 4.3 TAR file(not sure if there is one yet), because if you downgrade bootloader to 4.2 or less, your phone will brick.