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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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>
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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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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.
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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?
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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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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.
I have attempted to install CWM Recovery on the Samsung i747 (Bell Mobility). At first, I flashed the Recovery using Odin and could only access the stock recovery. I soon found out after searching the forums that the phone writes over the recovery on next boot with the stock recovery.
I then read that I should turn off auto-reboot in Odin and after installing the recovery, pull the battery and reboot directly into recovery. Upon doing this (holding volume up, home and power), I get a quick flash of the Samsung boot screen with the blue text at the top and then a blank screen for a few seconds, the phone vibrates and reboots normally. It seems like the recovery is corrupted and no matter how many times I re-flash the recovery in Odin, I can't boot into it.
Download mode works normally and the phone boots normally. I need to be able to fix the recovery, even if that means recovering the stock recovery.
Does anyone have any idea how I could do this?
Thanks!
Are y ou rooted?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426
Follow the proper directions for adb push of clockwork. Two methods easy as it gets. No need for odin past acquiring root.
Yes, rooted.
I am rooted now, yes.
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Are y ou rooted?
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aoverment said:
I have attempted to install CWM Recovery on the Samsung i747 (Bell Mobility). At first, I flashed the Recovery using Odin and could only access the stock recovery. I soon found out after searching the forums that the phone writes over the recovery on next boot with the stock recovery.
I then read that I should turn off auto-reboot in Odin and after installing the recovery, pull the battery and reboot directly into recovery. Upon doing this (holding volume up, home and power), I get a quick flash of the Samsung boot screen with the blue text at the top and then a blank screen for a few seconds, the phone vibrates and reboots normally. It seems like the recovery is corrupted and no matter how many times I re-flash the recovery in Odin, I can't boot into it.
Download mode works normally and the phone boots normally. I need to be able to fix the recovery, even if that means recovering the stock recovery.
Does anyone have any idea how I could do this?
Thanks!
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As soon as you see that Samsung logo with the blue at the top, let go of the power button but continue to hold the volume up plus the home button until it reaches the recovery screen. If u don't let off of the power button at that point it will boot normally.
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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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.
Recently had to replace my E4GT and the new device was sent to me with FI27 firmware. I want to install Blue Kuban or something similar, however I can't get the phone to boot into recovery. I can access download mode, which I used to flash a rooted version of the stock rom, however when I try to boot into recovery (holding power and volume up) the phone displays the samsung boot screen twice then boots like normal. Can I flash to a CWM or something through Odin in download mode, to gain access to custom firmware and recovery mode? Assuming I can, is there a preferred firmware to use now?
Get the el26 kernel that had cwm recovery in it and flash thru odin .
When the phone resets pull out the battery and place it back put the phone then boot into recovery
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beneboi said:
Recently had to replace my E4GT and the new device was sent to me with FI27 firmware. I want to install Blue Kuban or something similar, however I can't get the phone to boot into recovery. I can access download mode, which I used to flash a rooted version of the stock rom, however when I try to boot into recovery (holding power and volume up) the phone displays the samsung boot screen twice then boots like normal. Can I flash to a CWM or something through Odin in download mode, to gain access to custom firmware and recovery mode? Assuming I can, is there a preferred firmware to use now?
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Post 2. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1953783
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Post 2. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1953783
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I really appreciate the guide, and I followed it, installed odin lite, got the right apk for my phone to flash, grabbed the cwm and flashed it, however I still can't boot to recovery and obviously can no longer boot back into the rom I had. I suppose I will wait until I get home and use odin on my pc to flash, as I can access download mode. Can I use the same cwm with the pc version of odin?
Ok, so things have gone from bad to worse.
I was able to flash the stock el26 with odin and got it back to factory, after that i booted into recovery and attempted to install blu kuban (after clearing everything) and it gives me a short write error about not enough space but I have over 10gb free on the phone and 20 on the sd card. I then attempted the mobile odin steps again VERBATIM from your guide and when the phone reset it soft bricked again, however this time it wont boot into recovery or download mode and just sits at the samsung logo screen. When I plug the phone into the pc and attempt to boot into anything the charging animation just freezes on the screen. any help would be greatly appreciated.
(edit) nevermind, im an idiot. figured it out.
I have a Sprint Galaxy S3, rooted, Clockworkmod, ROM Manager and running CM 10.1.1 stable. My phone reception seemed to have taken a dive, so I started researching flashing a new radio in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1787677
At some point in the thread, somebody scared me into doing this:
If youve never backed up youre nvram before u might be SOL but just in case
In terminal emulator type:
Su (press enter)
Reboot nvrestore (press enter)
Which I did (not the brightest move on my part, apparently). Now when the phone starts I get the Samsung sign, the Galaxy S3 sign with the Cyanogenmod man at the bottom, then it buzzes and starts over again. I cannot get into recovery. Any ideas? Am I SOL?
Thanks
Does it boot up to the OS ? If it does you can try loading Recovery again with either Flash Img GUI, or Rom Manager. Also for Firmware / modem / baseband I would suggest heading over to freeza's thread HERE.
..thats right boot into dowload mode..get a stock ONE CLICK restore rom and flash...these nrmaly include...kernal..modem..rom..and stock recovery...always keep a fresh copy on uou laptop for emergancys
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chris-allen said:
..thats right boot into dowload mode..get a stock ONE CLICK restore rom and flash...these nrmaly include...kernal..modem..rom..and stock recovery...always keep a fresh copy on uou laptop for emergancys
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I'd love to but I can't get the PC to recognize the phone. :/
Do you consider yourself to be a great recovery enterer? I'm being totally serious. Took me some time to learn how to do it. Or are you the type that only goes into recovery by holding Power in android, or you click recovery in Rom Manager?
I would suggest to hold Power, Home and the Up Volume Button until you see the samsung logo with Recovery on the top. If that doesn't work, pull battery, and now try download mode, by holding Down Volume button and Power and Home.
Good Luck my friend.
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Do you consider yourself to be a great recovery enterer? I'm being totally serious. Took me some time to learn how to do it. Or are you the type that only goes into recovery by holding Power in android, or you click recovery in Rom Manager?
I would suggest to hold Power, Home and the Up Volume Button until you see the samsung logo with Recovery on the top. If that doesn't work, pull battery, and now try download mode, by holding Down Volume button and Power and Home.
Good Luck my friend.
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Couldn't get into recovery at all. I'm almost done flashing stock ROM through Odin, that was the only way the PC would recognize the phone. Hoping this does the job.
Did you get this sorted out ?