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Phone Bricked, Please Help

So I made the dumb mistake of trying to install CWM Recovery through Rom Manager. I chose the Epic 4G Touch as the option. Now when I boot though it boots into some odd recovery saying update file is backed up: reportedted manual mode updating appliction installing apks. successfully updated application. I can move the volume up and down that works, but when I hit the power button it doesn't do anything when I am on the options. I have tried flashing the Stock EG30 that didn't work, I tried flashing the kernals with recovery and those just bring up that recovery all the time, but I still can't hit the power button because nothing happens. Anyone have any idea what I should do?

The newer CWM recoveries use the capacitive touch buttons for selection, did you try pressing those?

Ok now I feel like a noob that seemed to work thanks. It's backup and running

Glad you got it all sorted out

It took me a bit to figure that out. How do I boot into recovery then? I flasged CWM through ROM manager and can't boot into it to flash my ROM's?
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gqstatus0685 said:
It took me a bit to figure that out. How do I boot into recovery then? I flasged CWM through ROM manager and can't boot into it to flash my ROM's?
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Some ways are:
ROM manager, when you choose to "Install ROM from SD Card" then it'll let you choose and boot from there.
Using ADB run
[adb reboot recovery]
make sure "USB Debugging" is checked
Power Off phone.
Hold (Power + Vol-Up Key) That boots into Recovery.
Supposed there are some apps that do it as well.
https://market.android.com/details?...NvbS5zaXJpdXNhcHBsaWNhdGlvbnMucXVpY2tib290Il0.
This is one I keep hearing about.
P.S. You should install that directly from a computer. It's so fun doing that.

Confuse why anybody using Rom Manager for anything other that maybe fix permissions... Sorry just my thoughts on the subject..

May have bricked my GS3

I initially flashed the CM10 JB stable ROM successfully. The only problem I had was that I was unable to transfer files via USB to my computer, so I tried using the toolkit to flash the stock rom, but when it was flashing I got an error message that my phone disconnected.
When I turn my phone on I can only get into download mode. If i just press the power button, I receive a black screen.
I have tried using this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771687 to flash the stock ROM using ODIN but the phone freezes at the Samsung logo screen after the T-Mobile "4G Android" screen.
Any help is truly appreciated

islam.osman said:
I initially flashed the CM10 JB stable ROM successfully. The only problem I had was that I was unable to transfer files via USB to my computer, so I tried using the toolkit to flash the stock rom, but when it was flashing I got an error message that my phone disconnected.
When I turn my phone on I can only get into download mode. If i just press the power button, I receive a black screen.
I have tried using this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771687 to flash the stock ROM using ODIN but the phone freezes at the Samsung logo screen after the T-Mobile "4G Android" screen.
Any help is truly appreciated
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can you get into recovery mode? if you can, try installing a rom from an external micro sd card (that you know previously worked)

islam.osman said:
I have tried using this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771687 to flash the stock ROM using ODIN but the phone freezes at the Samsung logo screen after the T-Mobile "4G Android" screen.
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If you got this far, then you need to do a factory reset.

idlejoe said:
can you get into recovery mode? if you can, try installing a rom from an external micro sd card (that you know previously worked)
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I can not get into recovery mode. I can only get into Download mode for some reason.

Aerowinder said:
If you got this far, then you need to do a factory reset.
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How would I be able to do a factory reset only using Download Mode?

islam.osman said:
How would I be able to do a factory reset only using Download Mode?
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you cant. You need to boot into recovery. Trust me you can get in it, might take a few tries. Try to boot into recovery without the usb cable plugged in.With the phone completely off, and unplugged do the vol-up, home +power combo til it flashes that first screen, it can be a ***** but youll get in

Try turning the device off, remove the battery and leave it there for 60 secs. Make sure the phone is unplug from computer and the hit vol up, home, power until the phone vibrate then release. This should get the phone into the stock recovery.

billard412 said:
you cant. You need to boot into recovery. Trust me you can get in it, might take a few tries. Try to boot into recovery without the usb cable plugged in.With the phone completely off, and unplugged do the vol-up, home +power combo til it flashes that first screen, it can be a ***** but youll get in
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I really do not think I will be able to get in. I have tried it so many times and even previously could only get into CWM recovery through the app on my phone to boot into recovery. I could never actually get in holding the vol-up+home+power.
Is it possible to flash CWM recovery through ODIN and download mode?
I'm not sure why this stock rom is freezing after I flash it through odin.

islam.osman said:
I really do not think I will be able to get in. I have tried it so many times and even previously could only get into CWM recovery through the app on my phone to boot into recovery. I could never actually get in holding the vol-up+home+power.
Is it possible to flash CWM recovery through ODIN and download mode?
I'm not sure why this stock rom is freezing after I flash it through odin.
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pick ur poison--
cwm original--- https://dl.dropbox.com/s/tal5szplmicwfw5/cwm-norm.tar?dl=1
cwm touch--- https://dl.dropbox.com/s/td6q227c2iur53m/cwm-touch.tar?dl=1
twrp--- https://dl.dropbox.com/s/gegn4jfuc74sq1d/TWRP (3).tar?dl=1
i would suggest trying a different cable and if ur gonna use odin again, wipe everything (especially /system!) in recovery before booting into download mode for the odin flash. would also reccomend tryin the legit stock rom in odin (unrooted) if its still freezing on you.

Flash with Odin again, then after it is successfully completed power down phone you have to hold vol up home and power until you see some blue text appear in the top left corner then factory reset from recovery
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Yea getting into recovery is tricky if you don't hold the buttons long enough (let go too soon). These guys really gave you great advice.
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If you couldn't get into CWM recovery before you screwed the rom then you just aren't doing it right.with phone off, hold up and home, then hold powered button for like 3 sec then let go of only power... but i think you are right the download mode skips the Samsung logo.the recovery puts up Samsung logo before booting recovery. Why can't you Odin a recovery partition ?
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chrisram88 said:
Yea getting into recovery is tricky if you don't hold the buttons long enough (let go too soon). These guys really gave you great advice.
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That they have, I took the battery out and let it sit for a little and tried it to get into recovery and it worked! I'm was able to boot up regularly after and I truly thank you all for the help because I was having a heart attack.

[Q] I f'd up and I hate myself help

Ok so I rooted by using Odin and all was good. I downloaded rom manager and proceeded to install clockwork recovery all was still good. But then I was dumb and tried flashing a cyanogen mod nightly build. I didn't want to install it that moment, i was downloading for later use. Well it installed anyway and with only the davlik cache clear checked. So now when I turn on the phone it goes to Samsung screen and then the custom loading screen for cyanogen mod which just circles endlessly. I cannot get it to boot into download or recovery mode by holding all the buttons. I have pulled the battery and even the sim card. I also let the boot screen run until it drained the battery. How f'd am I? Will a jig work?i cant just exchange it because this dumb logo spinning will give me away. I am a dumb noob and I hate myself.

Are you able to get into the Samsung download mode so you can re-flash stock firmware in odin?
Oops, missed that part in your post. Are you actually holding all the buttons? Because you only need vol up + home + power for download mode.

chug said:
Are you able to get into the Samsung download mode so you can re-flash stock firmware in odin?
Oops, missed that part in your post. Are you actually holding all the buttons? Because you only need vol up + home + power for download mode.
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Yea sorry that's what I meant just the three but I've tried both combinations for download or recovery numerous times now

I've read multiple thrasds like this and I believe since you can see your Samsung logo you're fine...
There are other ways to get into download mode by pulling out battery and plunging in usb cable and pressing buttons but on my phone I can't find instructions...
Do a search.. You should be fine though. I wouldn't worry.. Samsung logo means ur good.. I think..
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Flashing a rom without wiping will not cause any harms to the recovery mode or download mode. You must have messed something else with rom manager.
Buy a jigg and see if it can get you into download mode
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liltitiz said:
Flashing a rom without wiping will not cause any harms to the recovery mode or download mode. You must have messed something else with rom manager.
Buy a jigg and see if it can get you into download mode
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Not that he messed something up with ROM manager, its just garbage....on this phone anyway. For future reference only use it to get a recovery, don't use it to download or flash rom's. Do that part manually.
As suggested get a jig and try to get into download mode and flash with Odin back to stock. They are like six bucks on eBay and work on pretty much any Samsung phone, I just ordered one tonight to have just in case.

Its fine and you probably dont need a jig, you need to install adb and use it to reboot to recovery or bootloader hopefully you read to make a nandroid first if not flash a stock image with odin. Flashing a rom cannot brick the phone recovery is still there and in order to get to the logo screen bootloader has to be there too. Try the toolkit in the dev section its stickied and i think it has adb and it will install the drivers you need. Not to be rude but if you don't know what you are doing its best not to mess with it.
If you get adb type adb reboot bootloader in your command prompt to get to bootloader to use odin.

[Q] How do I revert ODIN to custom bootloader and recovery?

I have a toro/i515/Verizon Samsung Galaxy Nexus (the CDMA/LTE one) running a mostly stock (but rooted and with busybox) Jelly Bean JRO03O (Android 4.1.1).
I screwed up my build.prop (and can't boot normally), so I attempted to boot into CWMR 6. To my surprise, cold booting holding the Vol + button started to proceed with a normal boot. So I cold booted with the Vol - button held.
And that shocked me even more. I'm staring at ODIN Mode. WTF? When did ODIN get on my phone? What happened to the bootloader where I could select booting into recovery, or the bootloader, or normal booting?
I've been scouring Google and this forum, and many other forums, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to boot this thing into a custom recovery so I can fix my build.prop through adb.
I'm at a loss. I suck at using ODIN (I only started using it recently when I bought my GTab2 10.1 GT-P5113).
How am I supposed to hack my phone when I can't use ADB, fastboot, or a custom recovery (booting normally hangs also)?
The only thing I don't want to do for a repair is a full wipe. I don't have a way of backing up my data without ADB.
I've tried enclosing various boot, bootloader, and recovery images (img files) into tar files (archives) and sending them to the phone via ODIN using the PDA and/or the BOOTLOADER button(s). I've tried to see if Wug's Toolkit would talk to my phone via ODIN.
Nothing seems to change.
Help!!! Please!!!
Any of the following will do:
1. Tell me how to get adb working.
2. Tell me how to revert ODIN back to the normal boot/bootloader (that works with fastboot) - this would be best. ODIN sucks.
3. Tell me how to get to my files via ODIN.
Please help. This sucks.

*sheepish grin* - I forgot about holding BOTH Vol + and Vol - at the same time while cold booting.
(I can at least get into fastboot mode now)...

From fastboot, boot to custom recovery (use vol keys to highlight, power to select), reflash rom.
Or
From fastboot, flash stock but dont flash userdata.img.
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The very same thing happened to me today.
I was on 4.2 JB (custom stock rom, only rooted) and I received a software update....it failed at doing it and then said something about not losing root. I checked YES and boom....wont boot. Stuck at ODIN...
Odin recognizes it but fails at flashing.
Fastboot works and boots into cwm recovery....but it wont boot into android...
What should I do...?
Sorry if I am rude by asking here.

dragoncius said:
The very same thing happened to me today.
I was on 4.2 JB (custom stock rom, only rooted) and I received a software update....it failed at doing it and then said something about not losing root. I checked YES and boom....wont boot. Stuck at ODIN...
Odin recognizes it but fails at flashing.
Fastboot works and boots into cwm recovery....but it wont boot into android...
What should I do...?
Sorry if I am rude by asking here.
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From fastboot, boot to custom recovery (use vol keys to highlight, power to select), reflash rom.
i said this on the post before yours.

bk201doesntexist said:
From fastboot, boot to custom recovery (use vol keys to highlight, power to select), reflash rom.
i said this on the post before yours.
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But there is nothing in my phone....
Internal is empty.
How can I flash something on the phone...
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dragoncius said:
But there is nothing in my phone....
Internal is empty.
How can I flash something on the phone...
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dont hijack other people's threads;
read the stickies
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1812959

bk201doesntexist said:
dont hijack other people's threads;
read the stickies
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1812959
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Sorry. Didnt mean to hijack...just thought it is the same problem. Already read threads.
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dragoncius said:
Sorry. Didnt mean to hijack...just thought it is the same problem. Already read threads.
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use adb to push a rom while on a custom recovery. it seems you need to read them again, and pay attention to it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1812959

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chriv said:
*sheepish grin* - I forgot about holding BOTH Vol + and Vol - at the same time while cold booting.
(I can at least get into fastboot mode now)...
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After posting the above, I meant to indicate that this thread could be closed. I knew exactly what to do now that I could finally get into fastboot.
Maybe ODIN was on my phone all along, but I could almost swear that I used to get into fastboot by holding Vol - while cold booting, and that I could get into recovery by Holding Vol + while cold booting. I don't remember ODIN being there at all.
Anyway, the bottom line:
Fastboot loads with Vol + AND Vol - held down while cold booting.
I was able to reflash boot, bootloader, and custom recovery with fastboot.
I was able to boot into custom recovery from fastboot.
Once CWMR 6 was running on my phone in recovery mode, I was able to mount /system from the recovery menu, to use adb to pull /system/build.prop, to edit it, to use adb to push build.prop back to /system, and finally to use adb to change permissions on build.prop back to 644.
Am I crazy? Was ODIN always on my VzW GNex?
Was it always loaded when holding Vol - down during a cold boot?
Or were the Vol - and Vol + buttons (individually) originally used for booting fastboot mode and recovery mode?
If I had forgotten that, then I haven't be hacking my phone enough, as I haven't been in fastboot in a long time.

chriv said:
After posting the above, I meant to indicate that this thread could be closed. I knew exactly what to do now that I could finally get into fastboot.
Maybe ODIN was on my phone all along, but I could almost swear that I used to get into fastboot by holding Vol - while cold booting, and that I could get into recovery by Holding Vol + while cold booting. I don't remember ODIN being there at all.
Anyway, the bottom line:
Fastboot loads with Vol + AND Vol - held down while cold booting.
I was able to reflash boot, bootloader, and custom recovery with fastboot.
I was able to boot into custom recovery from fastboot.
Once CWMR 6 was running on my phone in recovery mode, I was able to mount /system from the recovery menu, to use adb to pull /system/build.prop, to edit it, to use adb to push build.prop back to /system, and finally to use adb to change permissions on build.prop back to 644.
Am I crazy? Was ODIN always on my VzW GNex?
Was it always loaded when holding Vol - down during a cold boot?
Or were the Vol - and Vol + buttons (individually) originally used for booting fastboot mode and recovery mode?
If I had forgotten that, then I haven't be hacking my phone enough, as I haven't been in fastboot in a long time.
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Odin is on every Samsung phone I believe
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question/comment to old post
This is an old post I'm responding to but my A500 has been bricked for over a year. I just read, click the lock button and when I did, on the screen is "Bootloader v0.03.12 ICS:: Starting Fastboot USB download protocol and found a related post referencing "Odin". I, too, want to know how that got onto my tablet. Perhaps from the update.zip? Now I can't find any relevant information nor files to download which aren't corrupt or tampered with. Can someone perhaps take a moment to outline a plan of action for me and the significant files? I will gladly "donate" to whomever and by "time". Thx (little grey haired old lady) Smiles4Miles, VMD
chriv said:
I have a toro/i515/Verizon Samsung Galaxy Nexus (the CDMA/LTE one) running a mostly stock (but rooted and with busybox) Jelly Bean JRO03O (Android 4.1.1).
I screwed up my build.prop (and can't boot normally), so I attempted to boot into CWMR 6. To my surprise, cold booting holding the Vol + button started to proceed with a normal boot. So I cold booted with the Vol - button held.
And that shocked me even more. I'm staring at ODIN Mode. WTF? When did ODIN get on my phone? What happened to the bootloader where I could select booting into recovery, or the bootloader, or normal booting?
I've been scouring Google and this forum, and many other forums, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to boot this thing into a custom recovery so I can fix my build.prop through adb.
I'm at a loss. I suck at using ODIN (I only started using it recently when I bought my GTab2 10.1 GT-P5113).
How am I supposed to hack my phone when I can't use ADB, fastboot, or a custom recovery (booting normally hangs also)?
The only thing I don't want to do for a repair is a full wipe. I don't have a way of backing up my data without ADB.
I've tried enclosing various boot, bootloader, and recovery images (img files) into tar files (archives) and sending them to the phone via ODIN using the PDA and/or the BOOTLOADER button(s). I've tried to see if Wug's Toolkit would talk to my phone via ODIN.
Nothing seems to change.
Help!!! Please!!!
Any of the following will do:
1. Tell me how to get adb working.
2. Tell me how to revert ODIN back to the normal boot/bootloader (that works with fastboot) - this would be best. ODIN sucks.
3. Tell me how to get to my files via ODIN.
Please help. This sucks.
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I screwed up a cyanogen install.....

I installed cyanogen mod but no gapps.
Now I have no way to boot recovery from cyanogen to even install the gapps .zip I have downloaded.
I also cant seem to connect my device to my Google account so my contacts, etc can sync up.
Hall please?

What do you mean you have no way to boot into recovery?
How did you flash cm to begin with?
In case you don't know, to boot recovery you have to turn the phone off, then hold volume up, home, and power until you see blue text flash at the top of your screen, then release.
Anyway boot onto download mode and Odin flash the stock firmware. This will get you back to full stock.
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DocHoliday77 said:
What do you mean you have no way to boot into recovery?
How did you flash cm to begin with?
In case you don't know, to boot recovery you have to turn the phone off, then hold volume up, home, and power until you see blue text flash at the top of your screen, then release.
Anyway boot onto download mode and Odin flash the stock firmware. This will get you back to full stock.
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Ah - okay. For some reason that wasn't working before because I Wasn't doing it right; just tried again and now I have Team Win Recovery. THANKS>