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AT&T Galaxy S3 won't boot past samsung logo even after flashing stock in Odin

I tried to flash to stock through odin mode and when it's rebooting it shows the Galaxy s3 logo, AT&T logo, and then it reaches the samsung logo and freezes. I'm thinking that the boot image is incorrect but I'm not sure. I tried to use the gs3 toolkit but every option in there requires USB debugging which I can't access since the phone wont boot. Help?
I also cannot find the CWM 5.8.4.7 recovery anywhere I can't restore my nandroid, it says "cannot restore /System" of the nandroid.
The only available CWM i have now is 5.5.X.X.

Nabbu said:
I tried to flash to stock through odin mode and when it's rebooting it shows the Galaxy s3 logo, AT&T logo, and then it reaches the samsung logo and freezes. I'm thinking that the boot image is incorrect but I'm not sure. I tried to use the gs3 toolkit but every option in there requires USB debugging which I can't access since the phone wont boot. Help?
I also cannot find the CWM 5.8.4.7 recovery anywhere I can't restore my nandroid, it says "cannot restore /System" of the nandroid.
The only available CWM i have now is 5.5.X.X.
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I kept trying to flash the stock ROM and it finally worked so disregard this thread or delete it please.
For anyone's information this all happened after I flashed the Ultimatum ROM while I was on CM9 nightly.
The ultimatum rom flashed successfully and i rebooted it and then...nothing, it was a black screen.
I still had access to the custom recovery and odin mode but even after restoring a nandroid it wouldn't boot.
I don't know why it did this but my stress is your knowledge.
Thanks!

In the future, just boot into the factory recovery after flashing in Odin and do a factory reset.
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I'm having this same problem, stuck at the Samsung logo. This all happened when I was trying to restore to my backup after trying out a JB Rom, but it gave me an error when restoring system. I then tried to flash back to stock using Odin and here I am. Also I am trying to get to recovery but holding the 3 buttons isn't doing anything. Can anyone help me out?
nvm got it all fixed thank god

For anybody who flashes back to stock from ANY non stock rom. You must boot into recovery after the flash is done and clear your cache else you will get stuck at the Samsung logo
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I am also having a problem after trying to root the phone with Odin3. Here is the error message that I receive:
tz.mbn
boot.img
recovery.img
system.img.ext4
_XmitData_Read
XmitData Fail
Complete (Write) operation failed.
All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
I tried it several times and rebooted my computer but it still does not work.
Any idea?

ive looked all over for an answer but cant find anything. i tried to root my att s3 with odin. odin gave the successful message and when i unplugged my phone it only shows me either a samsung logo for a second or a drained battery. it cant be drained as i charged it to full before i started and it only took a few minutes. please help

Action Bob said:
ive looked all over for an answer but cant find anything. i tried to root my att s3 with odin. odin gave the successful message and when i unplugged my phone it only shows me either a samsung logo for a second or a drained battery. it cant be drained as i charged it to full before i started and it only took a few minutes. please help
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Here is a quick fix... spent my 8 hours, so now I am officially PHD in stuck at boot fix. If solution work, kindly hit the thnx button:
This thread didnt help. However I was able to fix my phone. Since I was not able to boot the phone, I was not able to turn on USB debugging that many softwares inluding the link you have mentioned required. So this is what I did for the benefit of those who may face this in the future:
1. Booted into the download mode vol- + power+ home key
2. When in download mode, I installed clockwork recovrey for ATT Samsung S3 which can be found at many links. I cant paste her as I dont have the rights to post links yet. But the filename was CF-SGS3-CWM-v5.5-v1.0.tar. The file I downloaded had a .tar.md5 ext, I just deleted the.md5 extension so I was left with CF-SGS3-CWM-v5.5-v1.0.tar
3. Than I used Odin and selected the above file as PDA and left everything else at default
4. The phone rebooted but again was going to go into the unending samsung logo. So shutdown the phone.
5. Than I did vol+ + home + power key and THANKFULLY booted into recovery
6. Thereone it was simple, that is restore factory defaults, wipe cache, wipe delvik cache etc etc. and boom. I am back in my phone.
Thank god, almost had a mini stroke!!!
P.S. Had lost root upon reboot. Did many things but device would keep loosing root. I went to CWM recovery and selected "fix permissions" bang.. phone back to how I used to like it rooted and booted!

thank you magn2o
magn2o said:
In the future, just boot into the factory recovery after flashing in Odin and do a factory reset.
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S III
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omg thank you so much for that. purchased a rooted cynagenmod att s3. was not happy with it. so i flashed it back to stock rom with use of mobil odin. it was stuck on samsung screen while booting up. so i read and researched a bunch of threads. decided to download odin and another tar. samething happened. if i knew it was as easy as a factory reset it would have saved me some time. is there anyway to just post the fix earlier in the thread. or somehow make it come up as the first link when you perform a search? just asking for other people. just in case .thanks again xda. you guys always come through.

Ace_R1 said:
omg thank you so much for that. purchased a rooted cynagenmod att s3. was not happy with it. so i flashed it back to stock rom with use of mobil odin. it was stuck on samsung screen while booting up. so i read and researched a bunch of threads. decided to download odin and another tar. samething happened. if i knew it was as easy as a factory reset it would have saved me some time. is there anyway to just post the fix earlier in the thread. or somehow make it come up as the first link when you perform a search? just asking for other people. just in case .thanks again xda. you guys always come through.
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Not working for me.
I'm stuck at Samsung Logo.
Tried to do the factory reset in stock recovery that's loaded after ROM install with Odin, no go.
Installed CWM recovery and tried to do reset / wipe cache/ wiped davlik/ no go
Tried to re-download ROM and tried again, no go.
Tried to load TeamWin recovery and do the same thing no go.
Still stuck at Samsung logo -
Waited good 15 20 min and still stuck

I just had the same problem. Flashing Samsung logo...thought that I was screwed. I tried to keep calm throughout the whole thing...(kind of helped) and did this. After Odin failed a few times I decided to restart my computer. After that it had to reinstall the drivers for the phone, ran Odin again, succeeded. Phone booted normally after that. I would suggest keeping the default settings in Odin as it appears (AutoReboot, etc) and do it that way. So:
1) If fails, restart computer.
2)Run Odin with defaults
3)Let the magic work
4) Enjoy your working phone, or start with number one again.
Hope this helps!

mookie_33 said:
I just had the same problem. Flashing Samsung logo...thought that I was screwed. I tried to keep calm throughout the whole thing...(kind of helped) and did this. After Odin failed a few times I decided to restart my computer. After that it had to reinstall the drivers for the phone, ran Odin again, succeeded. Phone booted normally after that. I would suggest keeping the default settings in Odin as it appears (AutoReboot, etc) and do it that way. So:
1) If fails, restart computer.
2)Run Odin with defaults
3)Let the magic work
4) Enjoy your working phone, or start with number one again.
Hope this helps!
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PMing probably would have been more efficient. You've revived a 2 month old thread that the user probably is no longer monitoring.
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magn2o said:
In the future, just boot into the factory recovery after flashing in Odin and do a factory reset.
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S III
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does anyone have the s3 stock rom link? my phone also hangs on the s3 boot screen.
Cheers any help would be great!

wheelswisk said:
does anyone have the s3 stock rom link? my phone also hangs on the s3 boot screen.
Cheers any help would be great!
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seriously? search the forum, dude. its in the android dev threads. cheers

need help
Tejh said:
For anybody who flashes back to stock from ANY non stock rom. You must boot into recovery after the flash is done and clear your cache else you will get stuck at the Samsung logo
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I will honestly buy you a beer if you can help. I have tried to get past the samsung logo for a while and am still unable to succeed. Please help.

charlielima43 said:
I will honestly buy you a beer if you can help. I have tried to get past the samsung logo for a while and am still unable to succeed. Please help.
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Pm me if you need help
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hcyplr29 said:
Pm me if you need help
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Still having problems getting past the samsung logo. Ive even tried to wipe the data and perform a factory reset but I am still getting stuck at the samsung logo. Any ideas?

charlielima43 said:
Still having problems getting past the samsung logo. Ive even tried to wipe the data and perform a factory reset but I am still getting stuck at the samsung logo. Any ideas?
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Did you also wipe cache and dalvik cache (in advanced settings)?

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xBeerdroiDx said:
Did you also wipe cache and dalvik cache (in advanced settings)?
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I wiped the cache, I cant find where the dalvik cache is located. the only things I can do are get to the download screen and the factory recovery. If the dalvik cache is in the factory recovery, then I havent been able to locate it.
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hcyplr29 said:
Pm me if you need help
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Yeah could you help me out? I tried wiping the data and cache but im still getting the samsung logo.

charlielima43 said:
Still having problems getting past the samsung logo. Ive even tried to wipe the data and perform a factory reset but I am still getting stuck at the samsung logo. Any ideas?
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I had this exact same situation when I tried to do a restore after i flashed cm 10. It failed on the system folder and the phone was no longer able to connect to computer. I just reflashed the cm10 and it came back to normal boot and would be able to be reverted back to stock threw Odin. If you flashed the stock firmware I'm surprised its not fixed . but I would just somehow flash a new ROM.
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Bricked? or Soft Brick...

Hi guys,
Was trying to install a ROM last night in CWM Recovery, then I was having some difficulty, after each ROM swipe I was doing the Factory Wipe/Dalvik Cache Wipe/Cache Wipe.
Anyways, I ended up having to try and flash the pre-rooted Stock ROM, I used Odin 3.07 to flash it and in Odin it appeared to work fine, the phone was rebooting and Odin was in "Pass" mode, but the phone never gets beyond the Samsung boot screen.
I then tried to see if I could flash CWM Recovery in Odin and try and get into Recovery mode, it flashed fine in Odin and the device rebooted but still stuck in Samsung boot screen.... but I cannot get into Recovery mode manually, I even tried getting in via the Q3 Toolbox kit, and it says it cannot locate the device :/
So today, last desperate option, I tried flashing the un-rooted stock image for my carrier (Rogers), it seemed to work fine in Odin but it STILL just will not boot back up, still stuck in the Samsung boot screen.
Is this what a brick is? Beyond continually trying to re-flash the stock carrier MD5 via Odin, what can I do? Oddly enough the phone does recognize in the Q3 Toolbox for the Root options, just not for the Reboot into Recovery option. Is there something I can try in the Q3 Toolbox?
/Scared / really concerned
Please help, any help is appreciated.
Once again, I CANNOT get into CWM Recovery.

Sianspheric said:
Hi guys,
Was trying to install a ROM last night in CWM Recovery, then I was having some difficulty, after each ROM swipe I was doing the Factory Wipe/Dalvik Cache Wipe/Cache Wipe.
Anyways, I ended up having to try and flash the pre-rooted Stock ROM, I used Odin 3.07 to flash it and in Odin it appeared to work fine, the phone was rebooting and Odin was in "Pass" mode, but the phone never gets beyond the Samsung boot screen.
I then tried to see if I could flash CWM Recovery in Odin and try and get into Recovery mode, it flashed fine in Odin and the device rebooted but still stuck in Samsung boot screen.... but I cannot get into Recovery mode manually, I even tried getting in via the Q3 Toolbox kit, and it says it cannot locate the device :/
So today, last desperate option, I tried flashing the un-rooted stock image for my carrier (Rogers), it seemed to work fine in Odin but it STILL just will not boot back up, still stuck in the Samsung boot screen.
Is this what a brick is? Beyond continually trying to re-flash the stock carrier MD5 via Odin, what can I do? Oddly enough the phone does recognize in the Q3 Toolbox for the Root options, just not for the Reboot into Recovery option. Is there something I can try in the Q3 Toolbox?
/Scared / really concerned
Please help, any help is appreciated.
Once again, I CANNOT get into CWM Recovery.
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You're soft bricked, don't panic just yet. A hard brick is when the device is completely unresponsive. So far this sounds fixable.
To get into recovery, are you holding down the volume up + home key for long enough after the Samsung logo appears?
I'd try that again, but if not: Try to Odin CWM again but uncheck "Auto-Reboot" in Odin. After it's done flashing, pull the battery out, put it back in, and use the key combos to get into recovery. Hopefully you have a nandroid backup saved or another rom saved on your sd that you can restore at this point. (Please note that using this method may increase your flash counter, but that can easily be fixed with Triangle Away).
Hope this helps.

If its just hanging at the samsung logo..pull the battery, put it back in, boot into stock recovery ( vol up+home+power) wipe data/factory reset then reboot.
After that just download one f the one click rooted stock rogers roms. Odin it, Then use the S3 toolkit to flash a recovery only.
Should be goo to go from there

I am flashing the pre-rooted stock ROM's via Odin again, and then will try and flash CMW Recovery again but without the Auto-Reboot selected.
I was pretty certain I was holding the keys long enough previously to try and get back into Recovery but it never would actually go into CWM Recovery.
Will let you guys know how it goes, thanks for replying.

skrambled said:
You're soft bricked, don't panic just yet. A hard brick is when the device is completely unresponsive. So far this sounds fixable.
To get into recovery, are you holding down the volume up + home key for long enough after the Samsung logo appears?
I'd try that again, but if not: Try to Odin CWM again but uncheck "Auto-Reboot" in Odin. After it's done flashing, pull the battery out, put it back in, and use the key combos to get into recovery. Hopefully you have a nandroid backup saved or another rom saved on your sd that you can restore at this point. (Please note that using this method may increase your flash counter, but that can easily be fixed with Triangle Away).
Hope this helps.
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Just tried this.
Flashed the pre-rooted stock ROM, it went to Pass in in Odin, device never booted past the boot screen. Pulled out battery, re-inserted and then flashed CWM Recovery in Odin with Auto-Reboot turned off, that went fine to Pass, pulled battery and did the key combo to enter Recovery. I got the "Booting Recovery" in top left corner in blue for a second, held onto the key combo and nothing, just went back into the same Samsung boot screen and it's stuck there.

Sianspheric said:
Just tried this.
Flashed the pre-rooted stock ROM, it went to Pass in in Odin, device never booted past the boot screen. Pulled out battery, re-inserted and then flashed CWM Recovery in Odin with Auto-Reboot turned off, that went fine to Pass, pulled battery and did the key combo to enter Recovery. I got the "Booting Recovery" in top left corner in blue for a second, held onto the key combo and nothing, just went back into the same Samsung boot screen and it's stuck there.
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Hmmmm...one more thing to try. Re-download the stock firmware image in the unlikely event that you got a bad/corrupted download (also may want to try the version that doesn't have root injected). Then try again.
I'd say to try a different USB port on your pc, but since Odin is saying Pass that doesn't seem likely. Worth a shot though if the above fails (and also worth trying to Odin from a different computer).
Hang in there, you aren't hard-bricked yet! :fingers-crossed:

It has to rebuild cache everytime you flash, if you are clearing things correctly. This can take up to 10 minutes. Also, when the first samsung logo appears take finger off power button and hold the home and appropriate volume button.
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The Q3 Toolbox kit saved me.
I couldn't flash into Recovery (not CWM Recovery, stock Recovery) no matter how long I held the key combo
But I eventually managed to get into Stock Recovery using the Q3 Toolbox.
Thanks for the advice people.
Holy shiiit that was nerve wracking for a while.

[Q] Phone Refuses To Boot

My friend is about to sell his gs3 which was working just fine up until yesterday. It was already rooted and running Liquid Smooth so I flashed a stock ROM from the dev section and got stuck on the Samsung boot screen. No biggly I'll just odin back to stock, accept when I did this the phone still gets stuck on the Samsung screen and it wont allow me to get into recovery. I tried 2 different odin tar and it just wont go past the Samsung screen. Has the phone just thrown in the towel?

regP said:
My friend is about to sell his gs3 which was working just fine up until yesterday. It was already rooted and running Liquid Smooth so I flashed a stock ROM from the dev section and got stuck on the Samsung boot screen. No biggly I'll just odin back to stock, accept when I did this the phone still gets stuck on the Samsung screen and it wont allow me to get into recovery. I tried 2 different odin tar and it just wont go past the Samsung screen. Has the phone just thrown in the towel?
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Which stock version did you ODIN? Have you tried the 3 button method? Vol Up, Home, and Power buttons at the same time, when the device is completely powered down. If that works for you, and you make it into stock recovery(3e), you may have to do a factory reset. This may wipe your internal SD, i'm not certain though. Let us know how it goes man!

TheKucho said:
Which stock version did you ODIN? Have you tried the 3 button method? Vol Up, Home, and Power buttons at the same time, when the device is completely powered down. If that works for you, and you make it into stock recovery(3e), you may have to do a factory reset. This may wipe your internal SD, i'm not certain though. Let us know how it goes man!
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I tried to odin T999UVDMD5_T999TMBDMD5_TMB as well as T999UVDLJA_T999TMBDLJA_TMB
Tried the 3 button combo and blue letters appear saying "entering recovery" then the screen just goes black. Cant get into recovery to do a factory reset. I had done a full wipe before flashing this when all the trouble startred so im not sure what happened. I can get into download mode just fine but even after 3-4 odins it wont boot past the samsung screen.

regP said:
I tried to odin T999UVDMD5_T999TMBDMD5_TMB as well as T999UVDLJA_T999TMBDLJA_TMB
Tried the 3 button combo and blue letters appear saying "entering recovery" then the screen just goes black. Cant get into recovery to do a factory reset. I had done a full wipe before flashing this when all the trouble startred so im not sure what happened. I can get into download mode just fine but even after 3-4 odins it wont boot past the samsung screen.
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Damn.. I'm stumped. I know this is a pretty dumb question, but did you wipe before flashing the ROM you posted?

TheKucho said:
Damn.. I'm stumped. I know this is a pretty dumb question, but did you wipe before flashing the ROM you posted?
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Yes. Factor Reset/wipe dalvik -> Flashed ROM -> Trouble. Never had this happen with any of the phones I've owned. I suppose if the phone refuses to boot after multiple Odins theres no recovering it.

Factory reset again.
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Sorry just saw you can't boot recovery either?
Try Odin once more to see if you get stock recovery. Does Odin say PASS when done? What options are you using? You can also try flashing CWM/TWRP from my Sig. Get the .tar.md5 file and flash in Odin.
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[HELP] Phone stuck in bootloop when trying to revert to stock

I am stuck in a very weird state with my phone. I rooted my phone after the 4.3 MK2 update and flashed CWM and a custom ROM. Everything was fine, except the front camera didn't work. So I was told to flash a kernel to fix it.
After flashing the kernel, it entered a weird state, where the screen was all scrambled, and I could not get into recovery. Trying to enter Recovery would show set warranty: recovery and then a black screen. So I downloaded the MK2 stock Tmo ROM and tried to flash it via ODIN (v3.09). While ODIN says successful, the phone is stuck at the T-Mobile 4G LTE white screen for about 5 minutes.
I tried flashing the root and TWRP/CWM recoveries, but I still can't enter recovery.
Could someone please help? I have done everything I know, and I am beginning to suspect that I've damaged the phone permanently.

Do a factory reset in stock recovery. It sometimes takes a while for first boot. Worked for me.

getsum said:
Do a factory reset in stock recovery. It sometimes takes a while for first boot. Worked for me.
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When I press down Vol up and power, it goes blank. I can't access any recovery, stock or custom. Actually, I take that back. I never tried to access stock recovery. I didn't think I had any options to do a reset in stock. Is there?

You can do a reset there.

getsum said:
You can do a reset there.
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That worked. It looked like I pressed and held the volume up+power and didn't let go at the right time. Once I got into recovery, I was able to do a factory reset and wipe cache and it booted up.
Thanks.

Phone bricked?

I tried going back to stock so that I can do the OTA update to go 5.0. I flashed the Odin tar file and now I am getting a boot loop, it goes to the yellow screen where it says Sprint Spark and it loops there. I can still enter download mode with Down+Home+PWR. Booting to recovery doesn't work with Up+Home+PWR. Tried odin a few more times with NIE and NK2.
Anyone have any ideas before I heard to Sprint tomorrow?

I believe this may be a simple fix if I was able to go to the stock recovery using UP + home + power and clear out the cache. but from day one that stock recovery never worked. Is there any way to clear out cache inside of the Odin?

vuxdu said:
I tried going back to stock so that I can do the OTA update to go 5.0. I flashed the Odin tar file and now I am getting a boot loop, it goes to the yellow screen where it says Sprint Spark and it loops there. I can still enter download mode with Down+Home+PWR. Booting to recovery doesn't work with Up+Home+PWR. Tried odin a few more times with NIE and NK2.
Anyone have any ideas before I heard to Sprint tomorrow?
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vuxdu said:
I believe this may be a simple fix if I was able to go to the stock recovery using UP + home + power and clear out the cache. but from day one that stock recovery never worked. Is there any way to clear out cache inside of the Odin?
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Go back into the stock recovery and select factory reset. Should reboot (and take a while at the spark screen), then boot right up.

millerboy3 said:
Go back into the stock recovery and select factory reset. Should reboot (and take a while at the spark screen), then boot right up.
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Thank you for trying to help.
The problem is, it wont let me enter the stock recovery. I've always entered recovery through software. (yes I know, should have done an exchange when I got the phone)
When I first got the phone the up button was sticking it was hard to increase the volume. Over time I pressed it many times and the volume up key started working again. But the only thing that never worked was going into recovery from a cold boot.

Brought it into sprint today, they were able to reflash the firmware for free. I was ready to pay $200 TEP.

I think if you would have flashed trwp recovery you could have factory reset in there and it would boot.