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So I rooted by phone and tried to install a new ROM, now the phone wont boot, It gets to the flash animation S logo and just keeps doing that, any solutions?

cbbordianu said:
So I rooted by phone and tried to install a new ROM, now the phone wont boot, It gets to the flash animation S logo and just keeps doing that, any solutions?
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Can I get more info, like which rom did you flash, and how did you root your phone, what process did you take? Did you do wipes prior to flashing. Thanks, will try to help you out.

Go back into recovery and flash your backup or use Odin to flash a stock rom, your just in a bootloop. You mustve flashed a bad download.
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Seanster_GBaxe EX v1.4.1:Taste of ICS is the rom... pretty much used odin to install cwm base recovery 5.0.2.6 I dont think i wipe prior to flashing. Once I installed the rom it booted fine but everything was slow and my phone kept getting errors, so then i went back in cwm and wiped all the data, now when i try to install the rom again it just takes like 5 seconds to install, i reboot the phone but it keeps going into a loop.... at this point i am pretty lost. I am new to this stuff... :/

How do i download this rom/kernel/mod........
Oh thats right its in the wrong section ah thats it no wonder i couldnt figure it out (sarcasm)
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Did you try clearing cache , wiping dalvik and fixing permissions?
cbbordianu said:
Seanster_GBaxe EX v1.4.1:Taste of ICS is the rom... pretty much used odin to install cwm base recovery 5.0.2.6 I dont think i wipe prior to flashing. Once I installed the rom it booted fine but everything was slow and my phone kept getting errors, so then i went back in cwm and wiped all the data, now when i try to install the rom again it just takes like 5 seconds to install, i reboot the phone but it keeps going into a loop.... at this point i am pretty lost. I am new to this stuff... :/
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On a more helpful note just wipe and reflash another rom or a backup if you have it, if that fails odin to the stock rooted rom.
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yah man, I am not sure how to go back to the stock rom

cbbordianu said:
yah man, I am not sure how to go back to the stock rom
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Use odin, you used it to flash recovery same process to flash stock rom just find a file to flash through odin
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ebatr8 said:
Use odin, you used it to flash recovery same process to flash stock rom just find a file to flash through odin
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Ok so i got a stock ROM, what do i do in ODIN, the only thing i used odin was for cwm recovery....

cbbordianu said:
Ok so i got a stock ROM, what do i do in ODIN, the only thing i used odin was for cwm recovery....
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I did that and still in a bootloop

Did you goninto recovery and wipe cache dalvik and permissions. Or even better just factory reset after installing stock rom. Odin to stock doesnt faxtory reset your phone. Old files could still be lingering in there.
cbbordianu said:
I did that and still in a bootloop
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chib1panda said:
Did you goninto recovery and wipe cache dalvik and permissions. Or even better just factory reset after installing stock rom. Odin to stock doesnt faxtory reset your phone. Old files could still be lingering in there.
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i did that and the same thing is happening, this blows

Try redownloading the rom, then in recovery make sure you are A. Wipe Factory Data Reset, B. Wipe Cache, C. Advanced Menu Wipe Dalvik D. Advanced Menu Wipe Battery Stats, E. Mounts/Storage Format Cache, System, Boot, Emmc, Then flash the Rom.

Silly question but are you installing 1.4 before flashing 1.4.1? Cause I think that ROM needs the 1.4 full flashed prior to flashing 1.4.1.
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can you give me a link to a stock ROM? the one i am using is SGH-T989-Stock-UVKID
so then I do what you just told me
A. Wipe Factory Data Reset, B. Wipe Cache, C. Advanced Menu Wipe Dalvik D. Advanced Menu Wipe Battery Stats, E. Mounts/Storage Format Cache, System, Boot, Emmc,
Then flash the Rom - Go into Odin and Select the file(click pda), then click start - correct?

Follow this to get to stock. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1462870
if phone isnt stock and you still have files there then do factory reset from phone or stock recovery.
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Royalknight6190 said:
Try redownloading the rom, then in recovery make sure you are A. Wipe Factory Data Reset, B. Wipe Cache, C. Advanced Menu Wipe Dalvik D. Advanced Menu Wipe Battery Stats, E. Mounts/Storage Format Cache, System, Boot, Emmc, Then flash the Rom.
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ok so i did that now its stuck at the first screen "samsung galaxy s2 ANDROID 4G TMOBILE"
I think its because everything is wiped off my phone... i am so lost, i hate doing this stuff

chib1panda said:
Follow this to get to stock. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1462870
if phone isnt stock and you still have files there then do factory reset from phone or stock recovery.
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doing this as we speak, keeping my fingers crossed

me too.
cbbordianu said:
doing this as we speak, keeping my fingers crossed
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[Q] I think i softbricked my galaxy s3.... help please?

Hello, i am a new user here i came into this forum to get help from people.
I was messing around with r/w and r/o related stuff and accidentally moved something in permissions in a folder named /system i think it read something like rw-r-r after i moved it but that wasn't the format i saw before i moved it also everything started not working as soon as i pressed apply for example (Unfortunately -insert any app or program here- has stopped working)... please help
Also my phone vibrates when its connected but no LED lights are on.
Although the orange light did turn on ONCE and the charging battery too when i rebooted or turned phone off from recovery mode... i don't know how it happened
Here is what is happening to my Galaxy S III phone (SPRINT 4G LTE)
I can go into download mode
I can go into Recovery mode
Odin3 doesn't detect my phone (i assume its cuz i moved the r/w and r/o stuff... and jacked everything up)
Wiping data doesn't fix anything
Neither does cache

lordproto said:
Hello, i am a new user here i came into this forum to get help from people.
I was messing around with r/w and r/o related stuff and accidentally moved something in permissions in a folder named /system i think it read something like rw-r-r after i moved it but that wasn't the format i saw before i moved it also everything started not working as soon as i pressed apply for example (Unfortunately -insert any app or program here- has stopped working)... please help
Also my phone vibrates when its connected but no LED lights are on.
Although the orange light did turn on ONCE and the charging battery too when i rebooted or turned phone off from recovery mode... i don't know how it happened
Here is what is happening to my Galaxy S III phone (SPRINT 4G LTE)
I can go into download mode
I can go into Recovery mode
Odin3 doesn't detect my phone (i assume its cuz i moved the r/w and r/o stuff... and jacked everything up)
Wiping data doesn't fix anything
Neither does cache
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Does your computer recognize the phone? You have recovery, which 1? if you can see your internal memory and external sd, you should be able to copy ROM and flash. after wiping completely. of course.

joeyhdownsouth said:
Does your computer recognize the phone?
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It used to before i did this ....

Since you can get into recovery just wipe cache and davlik and reflash your rom.

metalfan78 said:
Since you can get into recovery just wipe cache and davlik and reflash your rom.
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Thats the thing i dont know how to wipe davlik and reflash a rom

Wipe dalvik cache: Advanced > Wipe dalvik cache
Wipe cache: Mounts and format > Format /cache
Reflash rom (you really shouldn't be messing with stuff if you dont know how to reflash your rom):
Boot into recovery and go to Install > Navigate to folder where your rom is stored > Select it > Confirm / Hit yes / Hit install and slide the bar (TWRP only)
Wait for it to finish, then reboot

It's all in recovery. And just some advice, you shouldn't do anything to your phone unless you know how to fix it. I use twrp recovery and all wipe options are in the wipe menu.

CNexus said:
Wipe dalvik cache: Advanced > Wipe dalvik cache
Wipe cache: Mounts and format > Format /cache
Reflash rom (you really shouldn't be messing with stuff if you dont know how to reflash your rom):
Boot into recovery and go to Install > Navigate to folder where your rom is stored > Select it > Confirm / Hit yes / Hit install and slide the bar (TWRP only)
Wait for it to finish, then reboot
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problem is that there is no Advance option. I think my phone goes into its normal Recovery mode. i think the root that it had doesnt work anymore.

The root can not change because you messed with permission, also you should be able to go into your custom recovery, which one do you have? Do you know how to 3 finger into recovery? If you can get into recovery first thing I would do is wipe dalvik, wipe cache and fix permissions and see if it boots. If not then what everyone else said flash a Rom.
Are you sure that is all you did?
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Yeah I think he means that he has stock recovery...
If you can get into download mode, just flash a stock rom and start from scratch. Or you can ODIN a custom recovery and then make a backup so that at least your data is safe

edfunkycold said:
The root can not change because you messed with permission, also you should be able to go into your custom recovery, which one do you have? Do you know how to 3 finger into recovery? If you can get into recovery first thing I would do is wipe dalvik, wipe cache and fix permissions and see if it boots. If not then what everyone else said flash a Rom.
Are you sure that is all you did?
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Oh ok that kind of gives me hope i guess... and as for the the root i had Supersu. I do know how to go into recovery mode/ODIN mode its volume+/volume-, home and power. Odin3 doesnt detect it though. Also i cant go into advance there is no option for advance like i mentioned earlier. There is only 4 options
Rebootsystem now
apply update from external storage
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
apply update from cache

lordproto said:
Oh ok that kind of gives me hope i guess... and as for the the root i had Supersu. I do know how to go into recovery mode/ODIN mode its volume+/volume-, home and power. Odin3 doesnt detect it though. Also i cant go into advance there is no option for advance like i mentioned earlier. There is only 4 options
Rebootsystem now
apply update from external storage
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
apply update from cache
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Volume down power and home gets you into download like you are now., you want volume up, power and home to get into custom recovery. If you rooted your device properly you should have CWM or TWRP installed as one of the two available custom recoveries.
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edfunkycold said:
Volume down power and home gets you into stock recovery like you are now., you want volume up, power and home to get into custom recovery. If you rooted your device properly you should have CWM or TWRP installed as one of the two available custom recoveries.
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That only gets me to Download mode. I never installed any of those 2 or never saw em getting installed. I cant flash anything cuz Odin3 doesnt recognize my phone. Just saying in case more people say to use odin..

lordproto said:
That only gets me to Download mode. I never installed any of those 2 or never saw em getting installed. I cant flash anything cuz Odin3 doesnt recognize my phone. Just saying in case more people say to use odin..
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Ok let's go back then, tell us how you rooted your phone?
But understand volume down, power and home will go to download mode, you have to do volume up, power and home to go recovery.
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edfunkycold said:
Ok let's go back then, tell us how you rooted your phone?
But understand volume down, power and home will go to download mode, you have to do volume up, power and home to go recovery.
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Ok i installed odin3 1.85 and got a CF autoroot.tar file (idk if i can post full file name)
Odin detected my phone perfectly, applied the .tar file using PDA i just waited how it told me i never touched the boxes on the left unless it told me to.
Then my phone went black and some letters came just like a normal successful root.
My phone rebooted and went home rooted.
it worked perfectly i was satisfied until today i accidentally moved those permissions dealing with r/w r/o Rw-r-r on the folder /system.

Ok to clear thing up you rooted your phone for the first time so you were on stock rom and never applied a custom recovery . Correct?
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CrfEpic4g said:
Ok to clear thing up you rooted your phone for the first time so you were on stock rom and never applied a custom recovery . Correct?
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That is exactly what happened. I didnt know about the custom recoveries all these times i rooted my stuff.

Ok have you tried different usb cables? This may be the reason it can't be recognized.
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CrfEpic4g said:
Ok have you tried different usb cables? This may be the reason it can't be recognized.
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you know what... i havent tried that sir/maam. Ill try with different ones
EDIT
I tried 2 other cords. they both worked but computer still did not recognize the device. Its labeled as unknown device. but it successfully installed?... its still unknown device though.
EDIT 2:
Looks like when i connect it. it vibrates and every time it vibrates it disconnects or something cuz the messages of (Device not recognize) Keep popping up and the computer makes a noise as if something connected.

You do have the drivers installed on the computer right?
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[Q] Rooted phone...now some issues

HI Gang....I rooted my note 2 from sprint using the toolkit.......worked well for about a week....then I downloaded a rom for the S translator......Ever since I did that, I cant download anything, the play store force quits and rom manager is not working as well..... I used the toolkit to reflash the root image but no luck...I have deleted the previous apps and reloaded with same results......help! I was using cynaogen 10.1......now i cant do much HELP!!!!!

My suggestion, go into the app manager and force close google play store and clear data. Then reboot to recovery and fix permissions.
If that doesn't Cut it, flash a TouchWiz rom. My recommendation is macksrom 5.0 with perseus kernel.
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RE: Macsrom
I cant push files to my device.......not sure what else to do......

macsrom
I got the file to be pushed to device...but it states it is unable to find a program to open file....

You need to boot into recovery and wipe data/cache/dalvik and then reflash your rom (unless it's a rom that says not to flash data). When you have problems with force closes, as the person above says, you'll need to manually go into the app's info from Application Manager and delete the data for the respective apps you're having trouble with.
Then boot into recovery again, clear cache and dalvik only and fix permissions then reboot into system.
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Recovery
I cant access the recovery.......I tired the power down, then press buttons for the recovery....when device powers up, it goes into download mode....not option for recovery.....when i use the toolkit to get into recovery, device just goes into download mode-------FRUSTRATED!!!!
ArchangelRenzoku said:
You need to boot into recovery and wipe data/cache/dalvik and then reflash your rom (unless it's a rom that says not to flash data). When you have problems with force closes, as the person above says, you'll need to manually go into the app's info from Application Manager and delete the data for the respective apps you're having trouble with.
Then boot into recovery again, clear cache and dalvik only and fix permissions then reboot into system.
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1998fordexp said:
I cant access the recovery.......I tired the power down, then press buttons for the recovery....when device powers up, it goes into download mode....not option for recovery.....when i use the toolkit to get into recovery, device just goes into download mode-------FRUSTRATED!!!!
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Sounds like you have a corrupted system partition or some other sort of data corruption. You'll need to sbf back to a stock setup and start from scratch.

Can i format my internal storage?

Im using twrp recovery, can i format my internal storage without bricking my device? I will still have access to download mode, and recovery?
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Also in twrp recovery we have 2 options to "wipe internal storage" or "format internal storage" isn't that the same?
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Yes you will still have access to DL mode and recovery.
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Thank you for your reply, i still wonder what's the difference between wipe and format? I should be able to flash a rom through recovery after wiping and formating?
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wipe - deletes everything on internal storage preserving partition structure
format - recreates internal storage partition from scratch so to say
Usually wipe is more safe, format might end up with corrupt partition structure if something goes wrong
And NO, you cannot flash ROM after wipe/format unless ROM zip is on your external storage.

Thank you nejil8. I will try to flash this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2468083 because when i try, it boot loops in the very first logo screen it wont go past the very first logo. Ironically, I have installed darthstalker rom several times with no problem.
I always wipe
-cache
-dalvik cache
-system
-data
I will try wiping "internal storage" and see if it boots up. Thank you for your help.

I forgot to mention im using twrp 2.6.3.2 not the latest version. Sometimes i wonder if that's causing the boot loop at very first logo.
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christisnfermin said:
I forgot to mention im using twrp 2.6.3.2 not the latest version. Sometimes i wonder if that's causing the boot loop at very first logo.
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It's very important to update to the latest twrp. I'm not sure how old your version is
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christisnfermin said:
Thank you nejil8. I will try to flash this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2468083 because when i try, it boot loops in the very first logo screen it wont go past the very first logo. Ironically, I have installed darthstalker rom several times with no problem.
I always wipe
-cache
-dalvik cache
-system
-data
I will try wiping "internal storage" and see if it boots up. Thank you for your help.
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Update your recovery, flash the ROM and see this for fixing bootloop. Wiping internal storage wont help.
Use adb to push all files needed to /sdcard and have them available for flashing in recovery.

Thank you to all that were helpful. I decided to go back to stock using this method how to unbrick unroot NOTE 3 I was able to enable unlimited native tethering and rerooted and install this amazing program Xposed framework (you can record calls an many many more tweaks. I don't really need a custom rom, i mainly wanted unlimited tethering that's all. I also have Next launcher 3D NEXT laucher 3D is SICK. I don't need anything esle. That launcher is a major GO.

Unable to Format /data

Hi all, this is my first post here. Unfortunately it is an issue, but I have been flashing roms for a while now.
So last night after flashing Ditto Note for my note 2 on att, I decided I didn't like it and wanted to revert back to my previous rom. However, when I am trying to format data in recovery it just hangs. I have tried both on CWM and TWRP... twrp says: "error too many open files"
And obviously this issue has caused many other issues for me such as being unable to flash anything else as anything else will just get stuck on the bootscreen.
I remember somewhere that there is a flashable zip that will specifically format everything for you, but I dont remember what this was called.
But any help would be great
Flashed stock 4.3 via Odin and it still doesn't boot past samsung screen

Just tried using zoot's super wipe
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1983489
and once again it is stuck on data wipe

xsnes said:
Hi all, this is my first post here. Unfortunately it is an issue, but I have been flashing roms for a while now.
So last night after flashing Ditto Note for my note 2 on att, I decided I didn't like it and wanted to revert back to my previous rom. However, when I am trying to format data in recovery it just hangs. I have tried both on CWM and TWRP... twrp says: "error too many open files"
And obviously this issue has caused many other issues for me such as being unable to flash anything else as anything else will just get stuck on the bootscreen.
I remember somewhere that there is a flashable zip that will specifically format everything for you, but I dont remember what this was called.
But any help would be great
Flashed stock 4.3 via Odin and it still doesn't boot past samsung screen
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Did you make a backup or anything you can try to just do to maybe fix the bad files that didn't wanna delete
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Yes I have tried doing a restore.
IN specifics this is the exact log I am getting from as soon as i start it up TWRP:
E:error opening '/data/data/com.google.android.marvin.talkback////////////////
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E: error: Too many open files
I tried deleting this folder from twrp file manager and the phone just reboots

In twrp try just deleting just that file maybe if you haven't already
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I've tried TWRP and Aroma file manager now. Aroma file manager detected over 998 files in that folder until it froze... I've also tried moving the folder into my external SD card in which case there also happens to be 335 files until it froze as well.
How does a rom manage to install thousands of blank folders??

Are you able to flash a rom or you stuck at the recovery?
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terpin32 said:
Are you able to flash a rom or you stuck at the recovery?
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Yes. I have flashed and booted into a Rom a couple times while having this 'data wipe' issue. However i feel like it is the luck of the draw because sometimes it boots, other times it hangs at the samsung screen lol
Should I go ahead and try to install a rom?

Is the "wipe" command issued by the recovery simply "rm -rf" or an actual format command with mkfs.ext4?

Darkshado said:
Is the "wipe" command issued by the recovery simply "rm -rf" or an actual format command with mkfs.ext4?
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The logs say that it uses "make_ext4fs function"

Can I just go through the data folder with file explorer and delete everything else there?
OR is there another super wipe style zip that I don't know about ?

It probably won't let you
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solved
Issue has been solved. Wiped phone with a script? (i think) from a flashable zip contained from ANDROID HD rom for the note 2
for those that might need it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2040941 (3rd post down)
This script does not use AROMA which has crashed for me everytime I tried to wipe with it. Really useful
Now currently running aosp rom cause I hate the new TW in 4.3 and 4.4 lol