My SGH-T999 (T-Mobile Galaxy S3) is soft bricked.
When i try to boot the phone, it vibrates and nothing else.
When I try to go into recovery mode, blue text appears in the upper left corner and nothing else. I use TWRP.
The phone can go into download mode, but the phone shuts down shortly after it boots into download mode.
This happened while trying to flash CM10.1.0 and GAPPS 20130313.
The battery is at full percentage. (checked on friend's phone)
Is there anything i can do?
You can boot into recovery but can't do anything after you do?
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GoldenGrain said:
My SGH-T999 (T-Mobile Galaxy S3) is soft bricked.
When i try to boot the phone, it vibrates and nothing else.
When I try to go into recovery mode, blue text appears in the upper left corner and nothing else. I use TWRP.
The phone can go into download mode, but the phone shuts down shortly after it boots into download mode.
This happened while trying to flash CM10.1.0 and GAPPS 20130313.
The battery is at full percentage. (checked on friend's phone)
Is there anything i can do?
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Since you say you can go into TWRP recovery, try this before doing anything else.
Go into TWRP recovery and do a "factory reset", "Wipe Cache" and "Wipe Dalvik Cache in TWRP recovery.
(do not wipe system yet)
Then reboot the phone see if it boots up all the way...
If it does then you should odin flash the new 4.1.2 Jellybean stock rooted rom before doing anything else.
If you cannot use the Windows Odin, install Mobile Odin on the phone so you can flash the Odin flash stock
rooted official Jellybean 4.1.2 rom. Let me know if you want more help....
My advice is and has been for a long time is not to flash any CM10/AOSP/AOKP or PORTED roms.
Those roms for the most part were always intended for developers who really know what they are doing.
They are also really excellent for any one who likes to do a lot of experimentation with their phones.
The above is just my personal opinion after my own experiences with the ASOP/AOKP/CM10 and PORTED roms.
Good luck!
My opinion is to read and flash things that don't have people complaining constantly, so look back and see which dates people were happy about the nightly or go to milestones instead or even RCs. To a point junky is right but they aren't for devs nor are ports since there are about 4 very stable ports in the dev section.
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Have you tried Odin?
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My SGH-T999 (T-Mobile Galaxy S3) is soft bricked.
When i try to boot the phone, it vibrates and nothing else. When I turn on the phone, it quickly shows a battery with a little circle then shuts down. I can not even turn my phone on. Any hope for my phone?
jam31854 said:
My SGH-T999 (T-Mobile Galaxy S3) is soft bricked.
When i try to boot the phone, it vibrates and nothing else. When I turn on the phone, it quickly shows a battery with a little circle then shuts down. I can not even turn my phone on. Any hope for my phone?
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Unplug phone and try turning on.
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mt3g said:
Unplug phone and try turning on.
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It still does not start. Thanks for your suggestion.
jam31854 said:
It still does not start. Thanks for your suggestion.
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What'd you flash? Do? Need a little more info.
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mt3g said:
What'd you flash? Do? Need a little more info.
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Sorry. I was working in Samsung Galaxy S3 Toolkit V7.00 and was up to rooting options and selected #1 Flash Insecure Boot Image and Root Phone. It ran its course and then rebooted but it has not been able to get past an occasional battery picture with a circle in the middle.
jam31854 said:
My SGH-T999 (T-Mobile Galaxy S3) is soft bricked.
When i try to boot the phone, it vibrates and nothing else. When I turn on the phone, it quickly shows a battery with a little circle then shuts down. I can not even turn my phone on. Any hope for my phone?
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Have you tried leaving it in charge for a while, like 30 minutes without being touched. It sounds like your phone is just out of charge.
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I was running the new version of Hyperdrive until the mms stop sending so I decided to go to Goodness. Originally I could not get any rom to flash from the internal or external memory, so I pulled the sd card wiped everything and reinstalled my backup of carbon from trwp. After I confirmed the phone was working properly , i downloaded and placed goodness onto my internal memory (ext sd is not in right now) , and flashed no problem. Now the phone boots the Samsung logo, the goes into the Goodness boot animation, then goes black. I left it sitting for 30 min and nothing. Did a battery pull and nothing. So finally, I tried to get back into recovery mode and i cant. I hold volume up+home+power and the phone displays the blue script that shows recovery, then the samsung logo, then boots right back into the Goodness boot animation. How can I get back into twrp? Ive searched high and low for answers but cannot seem to find the answers to my problem. Thanks
Can you get into download mode? If so, reflash your recovery and try again.
Did you wipe in between flashes?
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CNexus said:
Can you get into download mode? If so, reflash your recovery and try again.
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it pops up until I let go of the buttons then it goes back to the boot animation
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Did you wipe in between flashes?
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between hyperdrive and carbon I did a full wipe. Between carbon and Goodness I didnt. i figured I would be ok since I installed nothing but the os and gapps. I had done it other times with no problems and figured this time would be the same.
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between hyperdrive and carbon I did a full wipe. Between carbon and Goodness I didnt. i figured I would be ok since I installed nothing but the os and gapps. I had done it other times with no problems and figured this time would be the same.
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When you get to goodness boot animation does it not complete and the phone start the process over again?
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When you get to goodness boot animation does it not complete and the phone start the process over again?
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Well I was able to unroot and re root my phone again. To answer the question though the boot animation would go on for 20-30 seconds and then the screen would stay black. No noise, no touch control, no indication that the power was on. When placed on the charger, the led wouldn't even display.
So is it all working now?
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So is it all working now?
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Yes phone if now working. I'm going to try and reflash goodness again and see what happens
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Yes phone if now working. I'm going to try and reflash goodness again and see what happens
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Make sure you redownload it, just in case it was a bad download.. you never know. I know it is time consuming but worth it.
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Whiplashh Rom
Look it up.
there have been a few cases where for some reason the boot animation wouldnt start although the device was booting. simulating the " black screen ". this also has happend to me several times on a " first boot "......id try letting it sit for a few min. if it doesnt finaly boot, then just whipe whipe whipe.....reflash..and possibly redownload and reflash...
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after flashing rom to my lenovo s920 row i see the black screreen n device is vibrating but not responding if i remove the battery n reconnect agai than only it will responding so what can i do.
hitendra002 said:
after flashing rom to my lenovo s920 row i see the black screreen n device is vibrating but not responding if i remove the battery n reconnect agai than only it will responding so what can i do.
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Wrong forum, wrong thread. Go start a new thread in the appropriate forum.
So I recently updated my GS3 to the nightly 8/12/13 build am I am unable to boot my phone into anything except download mode. When booting recovery it says the blue text, shows Galaxy S3 for a second, then crashes to the recharging icon. I've tried flashing a stock MD4 rooted nodata and a stock recovery through Odin, which pass and return no results. Please help me fix this!!!
It rebooted a couple times once and I got the stock recharging battery, not the blue one but the green one. But other than that there's no signs of change.
Questions belong in Q&A section not general. This should get you going in the right direction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypmqJbZqOaU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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FNM
QBKing's site is down, here's an even more in depth explanation of my problem:
I cannot boot past the Sprint Galaxy S3 logo. When it does boot past this, it boots into a battery charging mode, either a blue battery with static circle, or a green touchwiz battery.
I have flashed stock and custom roms without any results, when odin reboots, it simply flashes the galaxy s3 spashscreen again and goes to the battery charging icon. This is true no matter what I do, including entering recovery with the home, power and volume up buttons.
I've tried QBKings tutorials, but in this case without downloads they are not useful. I've tried quite a bit of stuff and I'm not worried about losing data at this point.
I found the link on QBKing's website, so hopefully this will work, I'll update again once I flash.
EDIT: Didn't work after following instructions completely, just stuck in vibrate loop afterwards, and after power cycling it's back to the same thing.
The red light lights up right after I plug it in, and I am unable to run or turn on the phone using battery power, even with a full battery.
Another thing I find exceptionally strange is that it boots into the charging mode, even after trying to enter recovery. The batteries mean nothing at this point and I really don't know what to do.
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Xenthis said:
Another thing I find exceptionally strange is that it boots into the charging mode, even after trying to enter recovery. The batteries mean nothing at this point and I really don't know what to do.
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Hey man, I soft bricked my phone as well. Not with CM but by doing a factory reset on the phone when it was rooted. Im stuck on Galaxy S III screen as well and a vibrate loop. I've tried to unroot/unbrick also but to no avail. Any help anyone?
I just took it to Sprint and it fixed. Not sure what they did.
Xenthis said:
I just took it to Sprint and it fixed. Not sure what they did.
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They didnt ask you about root or nothing??
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They didnt ask you about root or nothing??
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Nope, they knew too, I had CWM installed when I went in, and it was still there when I came out, with 3 more flashes on the counter. I must have gotten lucky.
I have a Galaxy S III from Sprint. I rooted my phone, but in doing so, the wifi radio completely broke. I could press the button for wifi, and all it would do is stay grey. I did some reading, and saw that it might need to be put back to its original settings. I then used the sme GS3 toolkit to recover. It is now stuck "booting recovery" Please help!
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I have a Galaxy S III from Sprint. I rooted my phone, but in doing so, the wifi radio completely broke. I could press the button for wifi, and all it would do is stay grey. I did some reading, and saw that it might need to be put back to its original settings. I then used the sme GS3 toolkit to recover. It is now stuck "booting recovery" Please help!
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I pulled the battery from the device for ten minutes, which at least got the phone to boot normally.
Tool kits break wifi. You need to flash a kernel to correct this or if you plan on flashing a custom rom that will fix it.
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My brother-in-law's SG2 won't boot. All it will do is show the "Samsung Galaxy SII" logo, then show the battery charging. If unplugged, the blue LED faintly lights then the phone does nothing. When plugged in, it shows the battery at 100% but the OS still won't boot. I got it into download mode and Odin'ed Rwilco's stock ROM to try and restore the system. Odin showed that it "Passed" but the phone still won't boot. I even got it into recovery mode, and tried a factory/data reset, but no change.
I heard that the phone has had battery issues, and I tried the spinning it on the table trick. It doesn't spin at all, so I don't think it's bulging... but is it possible that if the battery is dead that the phone would not boot, even if plugged in? Or is the problem even greater?
Has anyone experienced anything like this before?
FWIW, he's on Sprint. (I'm a VZW user)
Nothing had been done to the phone (before he asked me to look at it )
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
gherman222 said:
My brother-in-law's SG2 won't boot. All it will do is show the "Samsung Galaxy SII" logo, then show the battery charging. If unplugged, the blue LED faintly lights then the phone does nothing. When plugged in, it shows the battery at 100% but the OS still won't boot. I got it into download mode and Odin'ed Rwilco's stock ROM to try and restore the system. Odin showed that it "Passed" but the phone still won't boot. I even got it into recovery mode, and tried a factory/data reset, but no change.
I heard that the phone has had battery issues, and I tried the spinning it on the table trick. It doesn't spin at all, so I don't think it's bulging... but is it possible that if the battery is dead that the phone would not boot, even if plugged in? Or is the problem even greater?
Has anyone experienced anything like this before?
FWIW, he's on Sprint. (I'm a VZW user)
Nothing had been done to the phone (before he asked me to look at it )
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
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Have you flashed the matching/compatible kernel for that rom as well? It's been a while since I have worked on one of these phones, but I do remember having to flash the compatible rom and kernel separately from one another otherwise it would cause the phone to boot loop or freeze on boot. If you are running the stock recovery, you may try flashing a kernel with a custom recovery then from recovery use the option to reboot into system. I don't know how that would really make a difference but nothing to lose if nothing else is working.
gherman222 said:
My brother-in-law's SG2 won't boot. All it will do is show the "Samsung Galaxy SII" logo, then show the battery charging. If unplugged, the blue LED faintly lights then the phone does nothing. When plugged in, it shows the battery at 100% but the OS still won't boot. I got it into download mode and Odin'ed Rwilco's stock ROM to try and restore the system. Odin showed that it "Passed" but the phone still won't boot. I even got it into recovery mode, and tried a factory/data reset, but no change.
I heard that the phone has had battery issues, and I tried the spinning it on the table trick. It doesn't spin at all, so I don't think it's bulging... but is it possible that if the battery is dead that the phone would not boot, even if plugged in? Or is the problem even greater?
Has anyone experienced anything like this before?
FWIW, he's on Sprint. (I'm a VZW user)
Nothing had been done to the phone (before he asked me to look at it )
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
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Try to odin the jb gb27 rooted one click from rwilcos repo… use the one that wipes data… outside of that. Good be a hardware issue. Let me know
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Try to odin the jb gb27 rooted one click from rwilcos repo… use the one that wipes data… outside of that. Good be a hardware issue. Let me know
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Got a new battery, and it booted... and the firmware upgraded. $10 and all is well! Thanks for your advice guys!
gherman222 said:
Got a new battery, and it booted... and the firmware upgraded. $10 and all is well! Thanks for your advice guys!
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Glad to hear… funny how batteries can mess with stuff..make sure you flash the jb one click before go trying any of the new custom roms… partitions from ics to jb are different…
I recently flashed a Pacman 4.3 ROM and today decided to restore my phone back to my stock/rooted Nandroid file that I made beforehand. Used CWM and, after it said the restore was completed, I went to reboot and have been unable to get past the "Samsung Galaxy Note II" bootscreen. It'll go to that screen for a bit and then the entire screen will go black, requiring me to take out and reinsert the battery to do anything else. I can get it into recovery mode and download mode and have tried using factory resets, cache clears, and Odin to try and reset everything back to the original stock firmware, but so far nothing has worked. Every time, I wind up looking at the "Samsung Galaxy Note II" screen for a bit and then the entire screen shuts off.
Can this phone be saved or am I SOL?
Edit: If I take the battery out and put it back in and don't try to turn on the phone, I can plug my phone into my charger and I get a visual on the screen saying the battery is charging and the LED lights up red. For what it's worth.
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I recently flashed a Pacman 4.3 ROM and today decided to restore my phone back to my stock/rooted Nandroid file that I made beforehand. Used CWM and, after it said the restore was completed, I went to reboot and have been unable to get past the "Samsung Galaxy Note II" bootscreen. It'll go to that screen for a bit and then the entire screen will go black, requiring me to take out and reinsert the battery to do anything else. I can get it into recovery mode and download mode and have tried using factory resets, cache clears, and Odin to try and reset everything back to the original stock firmware, but so far nothing has worked. Every time, I wind up looking at the "Samsung Galaxy Note II" screen for a bit and then the entire screen shuts off.
Can this phone be saved or am I SOL?
Edit: If I take the battery out and put it back in and don't try to turn on the phone, I can plug my phone into my charger and I get a visual on the screen saying the battery is charging and the LED lights up red. For what it's worth.
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This is gonna sound like a long shot, but are you sure your battery has juice? I had something very similar to what happened to you on a tablet I owned. I thought the device was messed up, but it was just really low on battery somehow. Left it sitting on the charger for a few hours and it came back.
cptcliche said:
I recently flashed a Pacman 4.3 ROM and today decided to restore my phone back to my stock/rooted Nandroid file that I made beforehand. Used CWM and, after it said the restore was completed, I went to reboot and have been unable to get past the "Samsung Galaxy Note II" bootscreen. It'll go to that screen for a bit and then the entire screen will go black, requiring me to take out and reinsert the battery to do anything else. I can get it into recovery mode and download mode and have tried using factory resets, cache clears, and Odin to try and reset everything back to the original stock firmware, but so far nothing has worked. Every time, I wind up looking at the "Samsung Galaxy Note II" screen for a bit and then the entire screen shuts off.
Can this phone be saved or am I SOL?
Edit: If I take the battery out and put it back in and don't try to turn on the phone, I can plug my phone into my charger and I get a visual on the screen saying the battery is charging and the LED lights up red. For what it's worth.
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Charge up phone....
Try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2618447
Thanks for the help guys, I managed to fix it. What I did was download the stock ROM file from here: (can't post the URL for some reason) and then opened Odin, put it in the PDA slot, put my phone into Download Mode, connected it to my computer, and ran it. Phone rebooted back to a factory reset version.
The link I used is from a site called "Stockroms" and, after typing stockroms, add the following to the URL: .net/file/GalaxyNote2/SGH-I317/I317UCAMA4_I317ATTAMA4_ATT.zip
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Thanks for the help guys, I managed to fix it. What I did was download the stock ROM file from here: (can't post the URL for some reason) and then opened Odin, put it in the PDA slot, put my phone into Download Mode, connected it to my computer, and ran it. Phone rebooted back to a factory reset version.
The link I used is from a site called "Stockroms" and, after typing stockroms, add the following to the URL: .net/file/GalaxyNote2/SGH-I317/I317UCAMA4_I317ATTAMA4_ATT.zip
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Excellent. Congrats
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