i dont know how bricked my phone is but while i was tryin to update it to wicked v3 i was doing a full wipe but i accidently formatted the system storage and now the phone is missing a file the data file and it wont boot and it wont let me restore it with my nand back up.. im completly stuck in the recovery.. would going back to stock fix it??? i really need help!!!
lagunas11 said:
i dont know how bricked my phone is but while i was tryin to update it to wicked v3 i was doing a full wipe but i accidently formatted the system storage and now the phone is missing a file the data file and it wont boot and it wont let me restore it with my nand back up.. im completly stuck in the recovery.. would going back to stock fix it??? i really need help!!!
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Relax bro. What recovery are you on? I always format system and everythings runs good. If you can't backup, odin back to stock. If you can get into download mode then you are good. Or you can try reflashing the ROM.
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Relax bro. What recovery are you on? I always format system and everythings runs good. If you can't backup, odin back to stock. If you can get into download mode then you are good. Or you can try reflashing the ROM.
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yea i tryed using the and back up i had in case something went wrong but i have it saved to my extsd card so i selected it and it fails because the
data folder is missing in the intstorage. i tryed reflashing the rom but when it flashes at the end it says UPDATING PARTISIONS E/: NO SUCH FOLDER/FILE FOUND so i cant do anything.... i want know if its safe for me to go back to stock before i make it even worse....
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yea i tryed using the and back up i had in case something went wrong but i have it saved to my extsd card so i selected it and it fails because the
data folder is missing in the intstorage. i tryed reflashing the rom but when it flashes at the end it says UPDATING PARTISIONS E/: NO SUCH FOLDER/FILE FOUND so i cant do anything.... i want know if its safe for me to go back to stock before i make it even worse....
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Yeah I think something happened with SD card. Try using odin. I'm pretty sure you're not bricked. I remember reading somewhere along time ago about something about formatting the system and causing problems idk though lol. Do you happen to have another sd card that you can use? Are you on CWM or TWRP. If on CWM, use odin to put TWRP and try again.
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Yeah I think something happened with SD card. Try using odin. I'm pretty sure you're not bricked. I remember reading somewhere along time ago about something about formatting the system and causing problems idk though lol. Do you happen to have another sd card that you can use? Are you on CWM or TWRP. If on CWM, use odin to put TWRP and try again.
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yea i have twrp so i cant really use it right now im trying to go back to stock so far its going good...
Drama.
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Drama.
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Okay, and I don't see any **** starting, etc so I don't quite understand what you mean...
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Drama.
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Pointless post? Seriously, can't contribute then don't comment!
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Pointless post? Seriously, can't contribute then don't comment!
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sorry man but no i thought i fixed it but no my phone is still messed up..
lagunas11 said:
sorry man but no i thought i fixed it but no my phone is still messed up..
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Have you tried to do another format of the partitions?
Just use odin to install the whole system dump and all solved. So much noise for nothing.
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lagunas11 said:
sorry man but no i thought i fixed it but no my phone is still messed up..
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Ive been in this position a couple times myself unfortunately. I formated everything internal/external SD cards and system, which left me with no bootable rom and no backup to backup from. (awesome)! so what i did one of the times this happended was 1. downloaded a rom TWRP flashable of course. 2. Placed the rom on my USB thumbdrive. 3. i had a usb otg stick that i was able to mount with TWRP and flash. and was back in business!!
another time i did this i used another phone (you could use your computer too if you have an adapter) I downloaded the TWRP flashable rom on to the microsd card, Stuck the card back in my phone and flashed it that way. again back in business!
Then of course there is the above mentioned way to Odin back to the very beginning with stock. Hope this helps and you get it figured out. But it does sound like your phone is totally fine, just need to figure out how to wake her back up. LOL.
Returning everything back to stock via Odin is the answer to your woed. As long as you're able to get into download mode (do not confuse download mode with recovery), you're golden.
omegajester said:
Returning everything back to stock via Odin is the answer to your woed. As long as you're able to get into download mode (do not confuse download mode with recovery), you're golden.
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Amin! Finally somebody else that understands
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omegajester said:
Returning everything back to stock via Odin is the answer to your woed. As long as you're able to get into download mode (do not confuse download mode with recovery), you're golden.
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I know the difference and yes I went back to stock via Odin 6 times and that thing was there.. But I found a solution from the s3 threads thanxs anyways
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just want to let you know that T-Mobile firmware is ready for download
http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SGH-T999
Is this for odin
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Can this be used with the t mobile variant
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If this is for sprint, why does the title say T-Mobile..
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Its for T Mobile.. if you click on the link it says its for the T999
I was wondering the same thing, but if it matters I went to the link and it says it's for T-Mobile T999UVALEM like the title
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Tweezydak1d said:
Is this for odin
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yes it is - same firmware as you would get updting with kies
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Can this be used with the t mobile variant
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ye, it is tmobile version i am tired and made a typo - corrected thnks and gnite
my phone came with this firmware. is this just posted to revert to stock if on a custom rom or is there other significance?
Has anyone tried flashing yet?
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So this must mean we can flash fash back to stock with odin if we have problems.
yup! this is our fall back ROM. now we need a triangle away to reset the counter!
It Works
I decided to be the test monkey on this one.
I had a nandroid backup of when I screwed my system so badly it just boot looped repeatedly. Restored that with cwm, verified it was still hosed, unpacked this zip, used odin to burn the .tar.md5 to the phone as PDA, rebooted.
It does some gear chunking while booting the first time then reboots - don't panic yet! On second boot it does some more rebuilding, then 'WELCOME!'
Bonus: CWM now sees the actual external sdcard as /sdcard and can find things like roms and backups on it. Edit: This CWM finds .zips on the sdcard, but doesn't seem to know how to backup/restore.
So is this for un rooting our phones?
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I decided to be the test monkey on this one.
I had a nandroid backup of when I screwed my system so badly it just boot looped repeatedly. Restored that with cwm, verified it was still hosed, unpacked this zip, used odin to burn the .tar.md5 to the phone as PDA, rebooted.
It does some gear chunking while booting the first time then reboots - don't panic yet! On second boot it does some more rebuilding, then 'WELCOME!'
Bonus: CWM now sees the actual external sdcard as /sdcard and can find things like roms and backups on it. Edit: This CWM finds .zips on the sdcard, but doesn't seem to know how to backup/restore.
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What do you mean "This CWM" ? The tars we're talking about in this thread are completely stock from samsung, there is no CWM in these... please elaborate.
hiazn said:
What do you mean "This CWM" ? The tars we're talking about in this thread are completely stock from samsung, there is no CWM in these... please elaborate.
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After burning this with Odin I ended up with a CWM that I didn't expect - and I've never seen one that actually recognized the external card. However, with all the things I've been trying it's quite possible I ended up burning a boot image I forgot about. I need to try reburning this and see if anything changes, but can't do it right now.
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After burning this with Odin I ended up with a CWM that I didn't expect - and I've never seen one that actually recognized the external card. However, with all the things I've been trying it's quite possible I ended up burning a boot image I forgot about. I need to try reburning this and see if anything changes, but can't do it right now.
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Sounds like a plan, let us know what you find.
is this actually
T999UVALEM
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T999UVLEM
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is this actually
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T999UVLEM
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Mine stock is T999UVLEM, whats the difference between the two?
does this restore everything, including stock recovery, but resetting the counter?
Strange - I had kind of a weird experience with this. I flashed via Odin as usual (as I've done a 100x before) and when it rebooted, it still had remnants of the previous rom I had installed. I didn't get the "welcome" screen as if I was starting from a new factory rom. but at least it got me back to step 1 and I could flash the Lean 2.1 rom again to repair my screw ups.
Ok. So my phone was not factory resetting right. Could not mount sd ext was the error. I ended up formatting everything in CWM in advanced menus like an idiot. Do I just re flash something through odin to fix? My phone will not boot past the GS3 screen but I can still get into recovery.
You deleted whatever Rom and kernel you had. Put a Rom on your sd card and flash it through recovery.
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You deleted whatever Rom and kernel you had. Put a Rom on your sd card and flash it through recovery.
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Ok that definitely won't work. Now i plugged my phone into the wall, it wont charge. It will vibrate, show the battery icon with a loading icon inside then go black. Won't boot and looks like its not charging...... am I screwed?
Edit: I mean i guess i could charge the battery on a different s3 so i can boot back into recovery or dl mode but what from there. Is there any way I can restore all of the stock files? I'm at a complete loss for what I should do next...
Odin is your friend
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Odin is your friend
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What should i do in odin? I'm a semi noob.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27987936
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what rom did you flash in recovery and what recovery are you using? what was the error you got while flashing a new rom in recovery?
as mentioned earlier, if you want to flash a stock rom, you'll have to odin it. you should still be able to flash other roms in recovery regardless of what you wiped. every time i flash a new rom i wipe system, data, cache, and dalvik-cache.
semi noob?
Think ur a little more than semi noob. If u wiped the system that is why you dont see a battery charging. Those files are in system. Which u wiped. U still have recovery so DL a rom, go there and flash it. You'll be back in buisness. Don't necessarily need Odin here but if you don't know what to with it u shouldn't be here yet. Go back and read up a little b4 u brick.
hey man if you still having problems pm i can help buddy!:laugh:
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Think ur a little more than semi noob. If u wiped the system that is why you dont see a battery charging. Those files are in system. Which u wiped. U still have recovery so DL a rom, go there and flash it. You'll be back in buisness. Don't necessarily need Odin here but if you don't know what to with it u shouldn't be here yet. Go back and read up a little b4 u brick.
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I am always entertained by people being rude while trying to "help" I hope you feel better about yourself now that that is off your chest.
For the record. It is not as simple as flashing a new ROM. Doesn't work. Thanks for your very insightful advice though.
I need to find a way to get my battery charged for now. I will post more when i can get into my phone. Thanks for all the responses so far. I will try ODIN when I get my phone booted up but I'm skeptical about if it will connect to the computer or not since it won't charge. We shall see.
This is what you need to do.
First. The above poster is correct. IF you formatted everything, that means you probably formatted system. If you do this and dont install a ROM immediately afterwards, your phone will just boot loop since it has no system files to load. Flashing a ROM should fix this problem....unless the problem runs deeper. If you ONLY formatted your phone shouldn't be soft bricked....it simply has nothing to load besides CWM. If for some reason you do need to use ODIN to get your phone working again, watch this step by step video by qbking. Since I am new, and apparently an XDA criminal, I cant post a direct link. so search QBKING Galaxy s3 unroot on youtube.
P.S.
For future reference...make sure you know exactly what your doing before you start doing things in clockwork mod.
A 500 dollar paper weight will keep you up for a few nights, trust me.
I accidentally flashed Google wallet AS my recovery. A long 10 mins with odin and a stock root and my phone was exactly how it was before my accidental loss off recovery. Read up on odin, and only use pda function. One mistake and then you learn to check what you're ABOUT to do.
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I need major help.. i think i messed up bad..
just like the title says i deleted all files on my internal storage, but i copied it all to my PC. i also reset and wiped all from cwm menu.. now the phone just stays in cwm menu.. i do have a nandroid back up but its on my pc and every time i connect my phone it wont recognize it
can you get it to download mode? if so you can odin back to stock
s_snk3 said:
can you get it to download mode? if so you can odin back to stock
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yeah thats what i am doing now just downloaded the new stock uvalh2 about to PDA the file in odin, hopefully everythings ok... im pretty sure ill loose root
Crisisx1 said:
yeah thats what i am doing now just downloaded the new stock uvalh2 about to PDA the file in odin, hopefully everythings ok... im pretty sure ill loose root
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If you can ODIN without issue then nothing's ever really lost. Worse comes to worst you just have to redo all of your rooting again.
If you connect to your pc does adb recognize it? If so can you push your saved files to the sdcard internal?
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im doing odin but its been on the same process for the past hour.. seems like its stuck
That picture's too blurry for me to make out anything, but it doesn't look like you have auto reboot and f. reset time ticked? They need to be.
Exactly which file are you dumping into the PDA section? You should try the latest version of ODIN, 3.07.
Also, why does it say epic 4G?
Davidion said:
That picture's too blurry for me to make out anything, but it doesn't look like you have auto reboot and f. reset time ticked? They need to be.
Exactly which file are you dumping into the PDA section? You should try the latest version of ODIN, 3.07.
Also, why does it say epic 4G?
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i am putting this file in pda
T999UVALH2_T999TMBALH2_T999UVALH2_HOME.tar idk why it says epic 4g weird, always said that..
ok and something really weird just happened i just unplugged my phone.. rebooted it, and it went back to my aokp rom i had on it before even tho i reset and wiped it all.. this is very weird!!!!!!
So its working?
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mrbmg said:
So its working?
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yup. it seems like it reset my phone to 100% stock like its out the store.. lost root and stock recovery is back on.
Crisisx1 said:
yup. it seems like it reset my phone to 100% stock like its out the store.. lost root and stock recovery is back on.
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looks like you put the complete stock ROM back on, with no root injected.
As long as you reroot and have a backup from before you should be able to restore.
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honestly idk if i wanna root again haha.. this stock uvalh2 is fast and smooth!!!
Just to say, I have rooted a lot of devices and this is the first time this has ever happen to me!
While in recovery, I hit the wipe system button and now the device says that there is no OS on the device and is stuck on the boot screen. Is there any way to correct this? I am so lost without my GN2!
chinadol4 said:
Just to say, I have rooted a lot of devices and this is the first time this has ever happen to me!
While in recovery, I hit the wipe system button and now the device says that there is no OS on the device and is stuck on the boot screen. Is there any way to correct this? I am so lost without my GN2!
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Yes its easy download a return to stock ROM for Odin or flash a ROM using twrp ....or restore a back up
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Epix4G said:
Yes its easy download a return to stock ROM for Odin or flash a ROM using twrp ....or restore a back up
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I have the jellybomb and tried to flash it but it stated that it failed...Unfortunately for me, I did not back up. So out of pocket of me! Any recommendations on a Rom I can use. I really appreciate the help.:good:
You might want to try this http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/showt...-TAR-SPH-L900-LJC-(LJC-Modem-Kernel-ROM-Stock)
Thank you! I will try as soon as I get to my computer. Will keep you posted if that is ok!?
Best bet is odin to stock.
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chinadol4 said:
Thank you! I will try as soon as I get to my computer. Will keep you posted if that is ok!?
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Yeah let us know how it goes even if you take a different route to restore
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Best bet is odin to stock.
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Would you happen to have a link for me. It seems that somehow my memory card I had in the device is currupt or damaged.
My computer is not recognizing my device. It will not recognize on boot screen or in recovery.
Thank you all for the guidance! I am unrooted back to stock but i will not be here long. lol would like to find a nice rom. Jellybomb is cool but to much blue and i can not swap between calls on call-waiting and my pandora wont work. Guess that is something to talk bout in that forum. THANX AGAIN!!!!!
Same phone same problem with a twist
Please help as i have the same problem. In addition, connectin to odin my phone isnt recongnized. Yes drivers are up to date. Im rather green i havent been able to flash a rom yet. Tried flashing diffrent versions of macksrom, but i was successful in flashing perseus kernal.
you could trying start odin then plug up phone while off . and boot in to download mode that way. I find that works sometimes.
rjdhill said:
you could trying start odin then plug up phone while off . and boot in to download mode that way. I find that works sometimes.
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I belive in the mutilple times of trying to connect odin that was done. Im afraid the phone might not be reconized by the pc.
Will try connecting with your method to be sure first thing in the morning
Fastest way. . If you have access to another phone with memory card or put your card in that phone download rom put card in your phone and flash it from recovery
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Results no change
jrags72 said:
Fastest way. . If you have access to another phone with memory card or put your card in that phone download rom put card in your phone and flash it from recovery
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I tried mutiple usb ports odin still not reconizing. There is a rom on extsd. It is Macksrom allstar v5 the latest i belive.
As it fails to install it reads
Finished running boot script.
E:unable to open zip file.
Error flashing zip'/ extsd/
Updating partion details...
In trying to flash previous to this i have never been successful. I have always gottenthis error
Just tried connecting via another computer to odin. Same results, some please guide me.
i am a new rooter and somehow wiped everything with twrp. im stuck at samsung galaxy s 111 screen, or i can boot into twrp. but theres nothing to restore. can someone help me?
balibalistic said:
i am a new rooter and somehow wiped everything with twrp. im stuck at samsung galaxy s 111 screen, or i can boot into twrp. but theres nothing to restore. can someone help me?
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Easiest thing would be to put a ROM on an SD card and flash it in recovery.
Other option is to Odin back to stock in download.
Edit.....
For future reference here is task's full wipe video to avoid wiping something by accident.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dYSumHaxwI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Also please remember to flash and wipe exactly as instructed in the ROM thread
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My computers will not recognize the phone now
With your ROM being wiped your computer won't recognize your phone unless you are in download mode using Odin to go back to stock.
If you don't have a SD card adapter to put in your computer to put a rom on you'll have to Odin back to stock.
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ok, thank you. o i just google.., odin back to stock i suppose?
balibalistic said:
ok, thank you. o i just google.., odin back to stock i suppose?
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I don't know what carrier you are on but use this guide to download the proper stock (unrooted, you'll need to re-root) ROM for your specific carrier.
All the tools and instructions you need are on this site. Unsure how to use Odin? Try a youtube search for your carrier and model.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28019751
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ok, ive got an external sd. anyone interested in helping me step by step install cm10? on here or i will call ya.please
im in rogers (at&t galaxy s3 1747)
ok, so anything i try to load on just fails..., i have no idea why?
well i installed untimatum and now im in a boot loop.man do i suck.
balibalistic said:
ok, so anything i try to load on just fails..., i have no idea why?
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Define fails?
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the word FAILED pops up in red letters immediatly after i swype the bar.
balibalistic said:
well i installed untimatum and now im in a boot loop.man do i suck.
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I find that if you successfully flash a ROM and get stuck in a boot loop to reboot into recovery and factory reset. Seems to work.
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nope, still looping unfortunatly.
Any old nandroids saved?
Happen to flash a 4.2.1 build lately? Or were you basically stock?
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nope, still looping unfortunatly.
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Did you ever consider to get back to stock and start from scrach? If you to try this metod.
would i just try to install that like a rom? ive installed three now successfully, but all boot loop.
i just want to get this damn phone working.., on anything
balibalistic said:
i just want to get this damn phone working.., on anything
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i will paypal anyone $20 to help me get this thing running cm10.., honestly :good:
I hope that you are wiping data, ext, cache, and dalvik-cache before flashing any new Roms.
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balibalistic said:
i will paypal anyone $20 to help me get this thing running cm10.., honestly :good:
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Did you try and follow his link? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1984717
Flashing stock is pretty much your only option. From there, you can flash a custom recovery and then CM10.