Successfully rooted using Odin, installed ROM Manager and TWRP2 and tried making a ROM backup through ROM Manager before I made any substantial changes to the device. It almost immediately rebooted and didn't seem to do anything. Went back into ROM Manager and changed the recovery to CWM latest, and tried the backup again. It almost immediately shutdown and didn't come back up.
Anything I do to power it on fails (just holding power, or power + Vol Down + home, or power + Vol Up + home). All three methods, I get a very brief screen with the Samsung logo and in the top left corner 'Recovery booting' in blue. It's only there for a split second and it turns back off
It will not boot normally, to recovery, or to download mode... Did I hose it by replacing TWRP2 with CWM somehow?
Any ideas on how to at least get it to boot again to any state?
[Edit: plugging it in to my computer leads to it vibrating briefly every 3 seconds
Thanks,
PK
Interestingly... With it plugged in to my laptop (buzzing every 3 seconds), just holding Vol Down + Home got it to boot to download mode (without touching the power button). Was able to the download the stock ROM and root again through Odin. Still just have to hold Vol Down and Home to get to download mode (using the power button in the combination kills it... :/ )
It's possible you're experiencing a variation of the sudden death syndrome, which is a physical issue with the power button. You can search Google or XDA for it, but if it is the power button failing, you can return it to Sprint for free.
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Silly question, but is the phone powering off?
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Is your battery charged? It happened to me once.
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Hey there.
I am boarding an airplane in a couple hours so I am urgently seeking help.
I am using akop b25. I was installing a Google music apk and my phone restarted. It then went into a boot loop.
When I turn the phone in using power+volume down, it boots into a screen like fast boot except it says ODIN mode in red at the top, under the android picture it says downloading.... do not turn off the target. The only thing I can do from here is battery pull or press the power button to activate "start", which just boots the device and back into boot loop.
Can anyone help me with this situation. Thanks alot
Try another button combo. Volume up and power button?
In recovery, reflash the rom. I'm not sure though how an apk install caused boot loops.
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asb123 said:
Hey there.
I am boarding an airplane in a couple hours so I am urgently seeking help.
I am using akop b25. I was installing a Google music apk and my phone restarted. It then went into a boot loop.
When I turn the phone in using power+volume down, it boots into a screen like fast boot except it says ODIN mode in red at the top, under the android picture it says downloading.... do not turn off the target. The only thing I can do from here is battery pull or press the power button to activate "start", which just boots the device and back into boot loop.
Can anyone help me with this situation. Thanks alot
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To get to fastboot the button combo is Vol Up + Vol Down + Pwr. From there select recovery and reflash.
xIC-MACIx said:
To get to fastboot the button combo is Vol Up + Vol Down + Pwr. From there select recovery and reflash.
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Wow, epic face palm. I could have sworn fast boot was volume down only. Okay, I should be fine then.
Thanks a lot guys
So I messed up...
I flashed the new JB, rooted, and unlocked it(FreeGee) and it was working decently. For some reason (that I can't remember now), I had to go back to ZV7 using LGNPST. When I reupdated to ZVB, I think I forgot to unlock with FreeGee and debloated. (at this point, you're thinking "this guy is a complete idiot") After my next restart, I got the dreaded "security error" bootloop.
I didn't panic yet. I went ahead and tried to downdate to ZV7 again using LGNPST. At 85%, the phone rebooted as normal but after the boot screen, it froze showing the "4GLTE" screen at the end of the animation. I tried waiting it out but no luck.
When I tried downdating again, I'm getting the same boot screen freeze. Worst part is I can't access recovery; the phone just restarts and goes through the boot animation.
So now, I'm panicking. Anyone else encountered this problem and/or can enlighten me please?
Go to recovery and factory reset the phone.
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kc_exactly said:
Go to recovery and factory reset the phone.
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I tried accessing the recovery (Vol up + power?) but it just starts the boot animation. Is there any other way to access it? Also, because I used LGNPST, it should open the stock recovery, right?
Power button 45 seconds
Hold the power button down for about 45 seconds. This will truly turn off the phone.
Access recovery using Vol. Up and Power buttons, then factory reset, and reboot.
You will be good to go.
scottyrick said:
Hold the power button down for about 45 seconds. This will truly turn off the phone.
Access recovery using Vol. Up and Power buttons, then factory reset, and reboot.
You will be good to go.
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No luck :crying:
As soon as I hit the two button combo, I get the red LG globe logo pop up for a second.
If I release as soon as I see the logo, it goes to the boot animation
If I continue to hold the buttons (and wait for the the blind menu on the bottom left), the screen remains black and nothing comes on...even after holding the buttons for 45-60 secs.
arsh89 said:
No luck :crying:
As soon as I hit the two button combo, I get the red LG globe logo pop up for a second.
If I release as soon as I see the logo, it goes to the boot animation
If I continue to hold the buttons (and wait for the the blind menu on the bottom left), the screen remains black and nothing comes on...even after holding the buttons for 45-60 secs.
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hold the vol down+home button+ power at the same time til captive lights flash once and let got. now youre in stock recovery!
javskies said:
hold the vol down+home button+ power at the same time til captive lights flash once and let got. now youre in stock recovery!
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HOT DIGGGGIITTYYY!
It worked! Thank you so much!
I couldn't get into recovery last night either.
This is the simplest way, methinks (from command prompt with adb.exe in same folder):
adb reboot recovery
I cannot find where the button combination is to reboot the phone into recovery for TWRP. I have looked on the site and through several posts on the thread on the forum, and cannot find the button combination. Help would be appreciated to get through this very irritating problem (Im in a boot loop atm)
So it's not only a device-based riddle, but a qte one as well lol
Mexicouger said:
I cannot find where the button combination is to reboot the phone into recovery for TWRP. I have looked on the site and through several posts on the thread on the forum, and cannot find the button combination. Help would be appreciated to get through this very irritating problem (Im in a boot loop atm)
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When phone is completely turned off. Press and hold Vol Up + Power, this will get you into fastboot. Once here, press down twice, then press power.
You will now be in TWRP
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When phone is completely turned off. Press and hold Vol Up + Power, this will get you into fastboot. Once here, press down twice, then press power.
You will now be in TWRP
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I tried that for about 15 mins, and it didn't work. I then tried pressing down 3X instead of 2, and that got me into TWRP recovery. Just to make sure, I got out of recovery and rebooted. Once it started bootlooping again, I tried 2X, didn't work. Went through the procedure but down 3X again, all is well. Using version 2.5.0.0.
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I tried that for about 15 mins, and it didn't work. I then tried pressing down 3X instead of 2, and that got me into TWRP recovery. Just to make sure, I got out of recovery and rebooted. Once it started bootlooping again, I tried 2X, didn't work. Went through the procedure but down 3X again, all is well. Using version 2.5.0.0.
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It should be 2x, only thing I can think of is if you are pressing the dwn button fast and it's not registering one of them. I know I have done that in the past.
GL!
You have to hold both volume up and down while powering up
Then when you get to fastboot press volume down twice and power
DQEight said:
You have to hold both volume up and down while powering up
Then when you get to fastboot press volume down twice and power
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Holding both volumes in is for getting you into download mode, if you are looking to get into recovery from power off it's Vol Up + Power > Vol
Down 2x > Power.
I am currently looping at the LG loading screen. When I hold down up + power it doesn't put me into recovery mode. After a few moments it just turns the phone off. Anyone have any idea of what I can do now??
Volume up and power to fastboot screen, then volume down twice then power
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If you're not unlocked then it won't let you load the fastboot screen, I believe
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Try holding volume down and power. If it takes you to stock (aosp style) recovery then you need to unlock with freegee
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AFschizoid I can't thank you enough for all the help you have been. I think I really did it this time though. Neither up or down brings me anywhere. The phone turns on, shows the LG logo and then after a bit the screen goes off. This happens if I do up, down, or both.
Hold the power button for LITERALLY like 2 minutes straight to let any residual power drain out after turning off. Then go ahead and hold vol down first and then press and hold power at the same time. If that doesn't bring you to stock recovery, repeat the power off then try with vol up. If that doesn't work, again, turn off and hold power button for a couple minutes to discharge then hold both volume buttons and plug in to your computer to see if download mode comes up
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Thank you AFschizoid, trying it now. Will post results when im done.
Let me know
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Yup.....I really F-ed up this time. Tried it all three ways and no change... The odd thing is that I have had my ROM for two days and have been able to get into recovery before. I haven't made any changes. Lost signal earlier today and rebooted my phone to see if it would fix it, now it wont even start.
[EDIT] I think I know what did it. I tried to recover using FreeGee earlier when we were discussing the EFS. It failed but it probably messed up my unlock
So you can't even get download mode? Jeez. I don't know then lol
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Think Sprint would fall for the new ZVC update bricked my phone?
Yeah if there was a bad flash of the SBL stack then you're sol. Download mode is in the SBL stack so if that didn't flash right then it's probably hard bricked
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Doubtful but you can try lol. I'm looking to see if there's a repair for that
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Thank you very much AFschizoid you have been a godsend!
Well... i found this in the teenybins thread... try it
For most soft bricks you will see a LG or Google logo and then a black screen. You can also still get into download mode. If you think download mode may not even work, connect phone to a Windows computer and check device manager... if the phone is detected in a "QHSUSB-DLOAD" then there's a good chance you're perm bricked. Otherwise.. you may just be a n00b and aren't doing download mode correctly.
Well the phone is detected but it just shows as a USB Composite Device. So if it is not hard bricked then maybe it just wont actually shut off. Maybe the screen is just blacking out and when I try the power button again it wakes it up. I can't imagine that I am holding the vol down and power button incorrectly. Only so many ways to do it Thank you for the find!
Are you leaving it plugged in when trying to turn it off? Because that won't work, it will keep booting into 'charge mode' so Unplug it, and retry everything
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It all started last night. So I tried to flash the vanir 4.4.2 ROM and the Carbon rom, but none of them worked. I had CWM recovery and it kept giving me a status 7 error. I was soft bricked, so I wasn't really scared. (Yes i used the correct rom, d2spr). I then used Odin and flashed the twrp custom recovery. Still, failed ROM. I then proceeded to just unroot the whole phone, so I went to this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099
put it on my 32GB sdcard and plugged it in my 16GB s3. I downloaded the new 16GB with md4 count reset yada yada yada. So it flashed smoothly, and it said succesful. But before it rebooted, twrp asked to flash supersu. I said no and it just turned off. It didn't turn back on. Took out the batter, charged it, did everything. It isn't turning on. Any ideas? I flashed ALL correct ROMs yet this happens.
Jessooca said:
Put the latest Philz zip on your sdcard and flash that in twrp, reboot recovery....
Try it with Philz and see if it makes a difference as twrp can be wonky
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Yea, I think I know what happened. I, idiotically, flashed 4.3 update. So that unroot .zip file just hardbricked my phone. Am waiting for a 4.3 debrick image. But thanks for trying to help anyway.
Jessooca said:
Okay this may seem redundant but plug your phone into your wall charger and in 4 hours minimum grab your phone and hold the power button for 30 seconds and then unplug your phone.
-Now hold volume down and home button, while holding them plug your phone in and keep holding them until the screen pops up. You should have life again.
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Wait so this is the sequence?
-Plug phone into wall charger for 4 hours
-Hold power button for 30 seconds while phone is still plugged
-Let go of power button and unplug phone
-Hold volume down and home button and plug phone in (do I also hold power button too?)
-keep holding until (download mode?) pops up.
Sorry if I'm being detailed, but I need exact instructions so I know I didn't mess up.
Jessooca said:
When you're holding volume down and the home button press power for about 5 seconds or however long until the Samsung logo pops up
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If the logo does not appear within ten seconds while holding vol down and the home button let me know if you get any response at all
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Holy ****, this worked. I'm in download mode and Odin recognizes my phone. Thanks jess.
Hey guys..
My phone is stuck at the "Samsung Galaxy S4" screen" where it shows just the letters.
The last thing I remember doing was using taskiller and phone's memory killer to kill memory because it was slow... and when I tried to open up text messages, it wouldn't open.
So I restarted the phone and now it's stuck at the "Samsung Galaxy S4" Screen.
( I also removed some apps days before.. but I had rebooted and phone it was working just fine).
- I haven't tried to reinstall a radio.. I woudn't know which one.
- I can access odin just fine by clicking the 3 keys.
- I Can't access TWRP Recovery. I held the 3 keys, and it shows the message on the left corner like it's going to go, but then just reboots and gets stuck on samsung screen.
Tried to reinstall it, but didn't seem to work I guess.. since it still shows the left corner message, but doesnt go to twrp.
Details about my phone:
SGS4 Rooted.
Rom, Custom Stock Rom.. Jedi S4X ( URL of ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2331942 )
What Can I do?
I dont care what I have to install/remove, but I have very important things on the phone that I CANT have deleted!
HELP ME ??
Can you reflash the recovery using Odin? If so do that and if necessary reinstall the room your running.
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Rom dam keyboard
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Corwinder said:
Can you reflash the recovery using Odin? If so do that and if necessary reinstall the room your running.
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Rom dam keyboard
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Recovery did not want to install!
Just got it back working, and I am about to do as you say.
will keep posted
I keep installing the rom, but it doesn't work.
I keep getting stuck at the "samsung Galaxy screen"
When you boot into TWRP, hold the 3 keys and when you feel the phone vibrate, let go of the power key and remain holding Vol down and home key until the boot screen pops up.
Let me know if this worked
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xologist said:
I keep installing the rom, but it doesn't work.
I keep getting stuck at the "samsung Galaxy screen"
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Boot into Recovery - ( turn off the phone, then hold volume up and press power so it goes on.)
Then when the small blue word comes on at the top left of the screen, let go of the volume button.
when the recovery menu comes up, scroll using the volume button to find factory reset.
when you see that, press the power button once. the phone will boot and do some things and hopefully it will boot up again.
It should be just like when you turned the phone for the first time when it was brand new.
You will have to install any apps you had installed. Do not worry, if you paid for any apps, you can download them again without paying again.
let us know if this helps!
Good Luck and Aloha!
If above doesn't work... Odin stock.
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Out of curiosity, why are you holding power+HOME+volume up/down? Just wanted to throw it in there that there is no need to hold the home button when accessing recovery or download mode. Simply pressing Power+Volume up/down should be sufficient. Also, as someone else pointed out, just release power when you feel the vibrate and once you see "Recovery booting" in the top left-hand corner, let go of the volume key.
Also, if you're still unable to access recovery after all that; I'd recommend using Odin to flash the stock image, boot up, then use Odin to flash whatever recovery you want.
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