I have a Galaxy S III from Sprint. I rooted my phone, but in doing so, the wifi radio completely broke. I could press the button for wifi, and all it would do is stay grey. I did some reading, and saw that it might need to be put back to its original settings. I then used the sme GS3 toolkit to recover. It is now stuck "booting recovery" Please help!
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I have a Galaxy S III from Sprint. I rooted my phone, but in doing so, the wifi radio completely broke. I could press the button for wifi, and all it would do is stay grey. I did some reading, and saw that it might need to be put back to its original settings. I then used the sme GS3 toolkit to recover. It is now stuck "booting recovery" Please help!
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I pulled the battery from the device for ten minutes, which at least got the phone to boot normally.
Tool kits break wifi. You need to flash a kernel to correct this or if you plan on flashing a custom rom that will fix it.
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My SGH-T999 (T-Mobile Galaxy S3) is soft bricked.
When i try to boot the phone, it vibrates and nothing else.
When I try to go into recovery mode, blue text appears in the upper left corner and nothing else. I use TWRP.
The phone can go into download mode, but the phone shuts down shortly after it boots into download mode.
This happened while trying to flash CM10.1.0 and GAPPS 20130313.
The battery is at full percentage. (checked on friend's phone)
Is there anything i can do?
You can boot into recovery but can't do anything after you do?
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GoldenGrain said:
My SGH-T999 (T-Mobile Galaxy S3) is soft bricked.
When i try to boot the phone, it vibrates and nothing else.
When I try to go into recovery mode, blue text appears in the upper left corner and nothing else. I use TWRP.
The phone can go into download mode, but the phone shuts down shortly after it boots into download mode.
This happened while trying to flash CM10.1.0 and GAPPS 20130313.
The battery is at full percentage. (checked on friend's phone)
Is there anything i can do?
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Since you say you can go into TWRP recovery, try this before doing anything else.
Go into TWRP recovery and do a "factory reset", "Wipe Cache" and "Wipe Dalvik Cache in TWRP recovery.
(do not wipe system yet)
Then reboot the phone see if it boots up all the way...
If it does then you should odin flash the new 4.1.2 Jellybean stock rooted rom before doing anything else.
If you cannot use the Windows Odin, install Mobile Odin on the phone so you can flash the Odin flash stock
rooted official Jellybean 4.1.2 rom. Let me know if you want more help....
My advice is and has been for a long time is not to flash any CM10/AOSP/AOKP or PORTED roms.
Those roms for the most part were always intended for developers who really know what they are doing.
They are also really excellent for any one who likes to do a lot of experimentation with their phones.
The above is just my personal opinion after my own experiences with the ASOP/AOKP/CM10 and PORTED roms.
Good luck!
My opinion is to read and flash things that don't have people complaining constantly, so look back and see which dates people were happy about the nightly or go to milestones instead or even RCs. To a point junky is right but they aren't for devs nor are ports since there are about 4 very stable ports in the dev section.
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Have you tried Odin?
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My SGH-T999 (T-Mobile Galaxy S3) is soft bricked.
When i try to boot the phone, it vibrates and nothing else. When I turn on the phone, it quickly shows a battery with a little circle then shuts down. I can not even turn my phone on. Any hope for my phone?
jam31854 said:
My SGH-T999 (T-Mobile Galaxy S3) is soft bricked.
When i try to boot the phone, it vibrates and nothing else. When I turn on the phone, it quickly shows a battery with a little circle then shuts down. I can not even turn my phone on. Any hope for my phone?
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Unplug phone and try turning on.
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mt3g said:
Unplug phone and try turning on.
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It still does not start. Thanks for your suggestion.
jam31854 said:
It still does not start. Thanks for your suggestion.
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What'd you flash? Do? Need a little more info.
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mt3g said:
What'd you flash? Do? Need a little more info.
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Sorry. I was working in Samsung Galaxy S3 Toolkit V7.00 and was up to rooting options and selected #1 Flash Insecure Boot Image and Root Phone. It ran its course and then rebooted but it has not been able to get past an occasional battery picture with a circle in the middle.
jam31854 said:
My SGH-T999 (T-Mobile Galaxy S3) is soft bricked.
When i try to boot the phone, it vibrates and nothing else. When I turn on the phone, it quickly shows a battery with a little circle then shuts down. I can not even turn my phone on. Any hope for my phone?
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Have you tried leaving it in charge for a while, like 30 minutes without being touched. It sounds like your phone is just out of charge.
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So I recently updated my GS3 to the nightly 8/12/13 build am I am unable to boot my phone into anything except download mode. When booting recovery it says the blue text, shows Galaxy S3 for a second, then crashes to the recharging icon. I've tried flashing a stock MD4 rooted nodata and a stock recovery through Odin, which pass and return no results. Please help me fix this!!!
It rebooted a couple times once and I got the stock recharging battery, not the blue one but the green one. But other than that there's no signs of change.
Questions belong in Q&A section not general. This should get you going in the right direction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypmqJbZqOaU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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FNM
QBKing's site is down, here's an even more in depth explanation of my problem:
I cannot boot past the Sprint Galaxy S3 logo. When it does boot past this, it boots into a battery charging mode, either a blue battery with static circle, or a green touchwiz battery.
I have flashed stock and custom roms without any results, when odin reboots, it simply flashes the galaxy s3 spashscreen again and goes to the battery charging icon. This is true no matter what I do, including entering recovery with the home, power and volume up buttons.
I've tried QBKings tutorials, but in this case without downloads they are not useful. I've tried quite a bit of stuff and I'm not worried about losing data at this point.
I found the link on QBKing's website, so hopefully this will work, I'll update again once I flash.
EDIT: Didn't work after following instructions completely, just stuck in vibrate loop afterwards, and after power cycling it's back to the same thing.
The red light lights up right after I plug it in, and I am unable to run or turn on the phone using battery power, even with a full battery.
Another thing I find exceptionally strange is that it boots into the charging mode, even after trying to enter recovery. The batteries mean nothing at this point and I really don't know what to do.
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Xenthis said:
Another thing I find exceptionally strange is that it boots into the charging mode, even after trying to enter recovery. The batteries mean nothing at this point and I really don't know what to do.
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Hey man, I soft bricked my phone as well. Not with CM but by doing a factory reset on the phone when it was rooted. Im stuck on Galaxy S III screen as well and a vibrate loop. I've tried to unroot/unbrick also but to no avail. Any help anyone?
I just took it to Sprint and it fixed. Not sure what they did.
Xenthis said:
I just took it to Sprint and it fixed. Not sure what they did.
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They didnt ask you about root or nothing??
derryj3 said:
They didnt ask you about root or nothing??
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Nope, they knew too, I had CWM installed when I went in, and it was still there when I came out, with 3 more flashes on the counter. I must have gotten lucky.
Hello everyone,
My phone is NOT rooted. Earlier today it was stuck on the Samsung Screeen when I turned my phone on. I then used the power, camera, volume down button combo to bring me into recovery mode. Now everytime my phone turns on it stays in recovery mode. I can scroll up and down on my choices but there is not a key that I can press that will select a choice. Any ideas for how I can get my phone to work?
Screen I am stuckl on reads: "android system recovery <3e>
enter: OK key, Select : Vol UP/ Vol Down
reboot system now
apply update from SD cared
Wipe Data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
then theres an exclimation mark in a triangle with the android dude below that
#manual Mode#
If you don't care about existing app data, Odin would be a great choice. Either Odin-ing in a custom recovery or a fresh stock system would get you out of the situation.
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Sounds like you tried to do something and the phone didn't like it, hence you boot back into recovery on it's own.
Use Odin and reflash stock.
Much Thanks
Thank you very much for the responses, for some reason I was under the impression that your phone had to be rooted in order to use odin, much thanks!
I do not care about my personal files getting lost, but just out of pure curiosity, roughly, how would one accomplish that?
I'm try out odin now!
Back to my old problem! Any ideas?
So odin passed twice with all the stock software. Now I am back to my old problem that I had before I was stuck on the recovery screen (hardware issue? idk) When my phone boots up it stays on the samsung screen for 2 mins, then it lags like crazy on the 4g screen (sound and video), and it stays frozen at the Galaxy S screen (for over 6 mins). I need a working phone, luckily I am elgible for an upgrade, but really dont see the need to spend 250 to upgrade my phone or spend 100 for insurance to replace it!
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks again for all of your help so far
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So odin passed twice with all the stock software. Now I am back to my old problem that I had before I was stuck on the recovery screen (hardware issue? idk) When my phone boots up it stays on the samsung screen for 2 mins, then it lags like crazy on the 4g screen (sound and video), and it stays frozen at the Galaxy S screen (for over 6 mins). I need a working phone, luckily I am elgible for an upgrade, but really dont see the need to spend 250 to upgrade my phone or spend 100 for insurance to replace it!
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks again for all of your help so far
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Well, first boot of flashing any custom or stock rom takes a bit to fully boot. If you're stuck at the Samsung or Galaxy S screens, then you should reflash. If you have tried that and still having the same issue, then try a few more times. I've read posts of people having constant boot loops on flashes and they finally got one flash to properly stick after many tries.
So odined again and again, this time my phone eventually did turn on but it literally took 30 mins. When it did turn on I had no network connection nor could I use my touchscreen, it eventually shut off. I'ma go get robbed at the sprint store in a bit lol.
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End Thread- I got a Samsung Galaxy Note 3. My god- this phone is amazing. Kinda bull**** that I got nothing for my old phone with full insurance when it seems like it was a hardware failure!
Can't wait to play with this beast of a phone tomorrow!
I recently flashed a Pacman 4.3 ROM and today decided to restore my phone back to my stock/rooted Nandroid file that I made beforehand. Used CWM and, after it said the restore was completed, I went to reboot and have been unable to get past the "Samsung Galaxy Note II" bootscreen. It'll go to that screen for a bit and then the entire screen will go black, requiring me to take out and reinsert the battery to do anything else. I can get it into recovery mode and download mode and have tried using factory resets, cache clears, and Odin to try and reset everything back to the original stock firmware, but so far nothing has worked. Every time, I wind up looking at the "Samsung Galaxy Note II" screen for a bit and then the entire screen shuts off.
Can this phone be saved or am I SOL?
Edit: If I take the battery out and put it back in and don't try to turn on the phone, I can plug my phone into my charger and I get a visual on the screen saying the battery is charging and the LED lights up red. For what it's worth.
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I recently flashed a Pacman 4.3 ROM and today decided to restore my phone back to my stock/rooted Nandroid file that I made beforehand. Used CWM and, after it said the restore was completed, I went to reboot and have been unable to get past the "Samsung Galaxy Note II" bootscreen. It'll go to that screen for a bit and then the entire screen will go black, requiring me to take out and reinsert the battery to do anything else. I can get it into recovery mode and download mode and have tried using factory resets, cache clears, and Odin to try and reset everything back to the original stock firmware, but so far nothing has worked. Every time, I wind up looking at the "Samsung Galaxy Note II" screen for a bit and then the entire screen shuts off.
Can this phone be saved or am I SOL?
Edit: If I take the battery out and put it back in and don't try to turn on the phone, I can plug my phone into my charger and I get a visual on the screen saying the battery is charging and the LED lights up red. For what it's worth.
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This is gonna sound like a long shot, but are you sure your battery has juice? I had something very similar to what happened to you on a tablet I owned. I thought the device was messed up, but it was just really low on battery somehow. Left it sitting on the charger for a few hours and it came back.
cptcliche said:
I recently flashed a Pacman 4.3 ROM and today decided to restore my phone back to my stock/rooted Nandroid file that I made beforehand. Used CWM and, after it said the restore was completed, I went to reboot and have been unable to get past the "Samsung Galaxy Note II" bootscreen. It'll go to that screen for a bit and then the entire screen will go black, requiring me to take out and reinsert the battery to do anything else. I can get it into recovery mode and download mode and have tried using factory resets, cache clears, and Odin to try and reset everything back to the original stock firmware, but so far nothing has worked. Every time, I wind up looking at the "Samsung Galaxy Note II" screen for a bit and then the entire screen shuts off.
Can this phone be saved or am I SOL?
Edit: If I take the battery out and put it back in and don't try to turn on the phone, I can plug my phone into my charger and I get a visual on the screen saying the battery is charging and the LED lights up red. For what it's worth.
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Charge up phone....
Try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2618447
Thanks for the help guys, I managed to fix it. What I did was download the stock ROM file from here: (can't post the URL for some reason) and then opened Odin, put it in the PDA slot, put my phone into Download Mode, connected it to my computer, and ran it. Phone rebooted back to a factory reset version.
The link I used is from a site called "Stockroms" and, after typing stockroms, add the following to the URL: .net/file/GalaxyNote2/SGH-I317/I317UCAMA4_I317ATTAMA4_ATT.zip
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Thanks for the help guys, I managed to fix it. What I did was download the stock ROM file from here: (can't post the URL for some reason) and then opened Odin, put it in the PDA slot, put my phone into Download Mode, connected it to my computer, and ran it. Phone rebooted back to a factory reset version.
The link I used is from a site called "Stockroms" and, after typing stockroms, add the following to the URL: .net/file/GalaxyNote2/SGH-I317/I317UCAMA4_I317ATTAMA4_ATT.zip
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Excellent. Congrats
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Hi,
My phone is the GT-N7100, it's rooted and I'm running the unofficial CM11 Linaro ROM: cm-11-20140324-Linaro-n7100.zip (March 24th edition).
This morning I woke up to find my phone stuck on the bootloader and the "Samsung Galaxy Note II" keeps flashing on and off recursively. It won't boot into RECOVERY mode. However it will do so into DOWNLOAD mode but the problem is none of the volume keys work at that time so I can't press VOLUME UP to go into ODIN mode. The DOWNLOAD mode screen stays for about three seconds after which the phone goes into the bootloader loop again.
The phone is behaving as if the power button is stuck, although I haven't had any issues with the power button in the one year that I've had the device.
Can you please help me? It's my primary phone and I really need to get it to work. I don't mind if I lose all my data.
Thank you!
Might be worth talking to this guy, his power button got stuck
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2696434
[Q] A bootloop without the possibility of getting to download mode?!?
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hi, I'm facing similar problem after flashing a new rom, my got stocked at the first booting animation dont really knw wat to do. can any1 help?