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I'd like to start by apologizing for what is probably the 9,000th "help, I've bricked my phone!" thread. I did some searching, and while I found many, I wasn't able to find one that both dealt with my specific issue, and did so assuming a level of newbishness appropriate for me.
Months ago, I rooted my AT&T Galaxy SIII, and installed CM10. It's been all candy and rainbows since. This morning, I somewhat foolishly decided to update from a nightly I installed in October/November, to the January 7 CM 10.1 nightly, using the built-in updater I had previously used to switch to a nightly.
It worked...sort of. I guess I should have cleared my cache or something ahead of time, because almost all of my GAPPS stopped working. Woops! Figuring that I should probably stop dicking around with my phone until I learned a bit more, I just went back and told the phone to switch back to the nightly I from October/November that I was previously using.
It didn't work. My phone now reaches the CM boot animation and just...sits there. And sits there. And sits there. To complicate the issue, I cannot get the phone to boot into recovery mode (although admittedly, I'm too thick to know what I'm meant to do once I'm there anyway). I CAN get the phone into download mode, but not being sure what I should do there, I thought it best to consult you all on what to do next.
I'm happy to give any additional information needed, and I hope it goes without saying that I am extremely thankful for any help you all can offer.
Try to get it back into recovery by taking the battery out, putting it back in and then holding volume up, home, and power. If you are sure you can't get it into Recovery, but know for sure you can get it into Download, go into Download and flash stock and go from there. These aren't bricks. These are just whoops. Lol.
If you can reach download mode, you'll be okay. What you want to do is use Odin to flash a rooted stock image; from there, you should be able to get back to a point where you can re-install a custom recovery of your choice and try flashing your favourite ROM again.
For the record, it's always a good idea to clear data/cache when changing ROMs, or changing between major revisions of a ROM (such as CM10 -> CM10.1) to avoid this sort of problem.
Actually, you should always wipe cache and dalvik when flashing the update. If it is a major update like 4.1.2 to 4.2.1, then you should wipe cache, wipe dalvik, Factory Reset, Format System then flash your ROM.
Move important files to SD using twrp file manager. Put rom on SD with gapps. Format internal, wipe caches, format system, factory reset, load ROM, load gapps. Reboot.
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If you can reach download mode, you'll be okay. What you want to do is use Odin to flash a rooted stock image; from there, you should be able to get back to a point where you can re-install a custom recovery of your choice and try flashing your favourite ROM again.
For the record, it's always a good idea to clear data/cache when changing ROMs, or changing between major revisions of a ROM (such as CM10 -> CM10.1) to avoid this sort of problem.
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I did this, being careful to follow all the instructions provided. Odin seemed to think everything worked, and after about 10 minutes, it rebooted the phone.
However, it still gets stuck. Now, since CM is no longer installed, it just sits at the SAMSUNG logo forever.
It still boots into download mode, and will now boot into recovery as well. Any suggestions?
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It still boots into download mode, and will now boot into recovery as well. Any suggestions?
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Boot to recovery and clear data and cache.
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Boot to recovery and clear data and cache.
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Worked like a charm, thanks! Can't believe after all that trouble, I didn't think to do that myself. >.<
Moderators, please forgive me in not in the right place...
Came home from a glorious week of camping and decided to check out some 4.4.4 ROM's on my phone...
Already running older version of C-ROM, so backed up and flashed the KK 4.4.4 version. That's where it the wheels came off my bus..
Phone booted so damn slow, then there were hundred's of FC's, rendering the phone unuseable. Rebooted, cleared Dalvik and Cache but same difference. The phone died, the battery would NOT charge! No matter what! Try as I may...NO GO!!! For hours! Feared it was that issue wherein the S3 motherboard dies and the phone has to be replaced by Samsung. Kept trying...finally get the phone to boot into TWRP. Whew!!! Still the phone kept complaining that the battery was dead. WTF?!
Restored the back up I had made...accidentally grabbed another backup from december of last year (Cyanogenmod), so had to recover my C-ROM back instead...RESTORE FAILS! Tried a few times but still failed. Tried to re-flash the latest C-ROM, but STILL fails...everything I'm trying fails.
I read the output and see an error, "Unable to wipe /system" ...found a thread where a user, using TWRP, had the same error with their ROM they were trying to flash. Eventually, the fix was to delete the make_4fs (or whatever it's called) from /sbin directory. Did so and was able to flash my Cyanogen, but could not restore my C-ROM backup. That STILL fails, however, no error in the live output while it's restoring. Just ends up Failing at the end of the restore process. The live logs indicate that it's using the 2fs (or whatever it's called), which was successful in flashing my Cyanogen ROM...why will it not restore my C-ROM back? :crying:
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
kojam said:
Moderators, please forgive me in not in the right place...
Came home from a glorious week of camping and decided to check out some 4.4.4 ROM's on my phone...
Already running older version of C-ROM, so backed up and flashed the KK 4.4.4 version. That's where it the wheels came off my bus..
Phone booted so damn slow, then there were hundred's of FC's, rendering the phone unuseable. Rebooted, cleared Dalvik and Cache but same difference. The phone died, the battery would NOT charge! No matter what! Try as I may...NO GO!!! For hours! Feared it was that issue wherein the S3 motherboard dies and the phone has to be replaced by Samsung. Kept trying...finally get the phone to boot into TWRP. Whew!!! Still the phone kept complaining that the battery was dead. WTF?!
Restored the back up I had made...accidentally grabbed another backup from december of last year (Cyanogenmod), so had to recover my C-ROM back instead...RESTORE FAILS! Tried a few times but still failed. Tried to re-flash the latest C-ROM, but STILL fails...everything I'm trying fails.
I read the output and see an error, "Unable to wipe /system" ...found a thread where a user, using TWRP, had the same error with their ROM they were trying to flash. Eventually, the fix was to delete the make_4fs (or whatever it's called) from /sbin directory. Did so and was able to flash my Cyanogen, but could not restore my C-ROM backup. That STILL fails, however, no error in the live output while it's restoring. Just ends up Failing at the end of the restore process. The live logs indicate that it's using the 2fs (or whatever it's called), which was successful in flashing my Cyanogen ROM...why will it not restore my C-ROM back? :crying:
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Have you tried using ODIN to restore back to stock? If you can get the phone up and running, you may be able to restore from your old backups.
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Have you tried using ODIN to restore back to stock? If you can get the phone up and running, you may be able to restore from your old backups.
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Thanks bud.
Oh, I got the phone up and running on the Cyanogen dated dec/2013.
ODIN? Never thought of it. Been such a long time. I do need to get stock on here so I can all the latest official radios etc, then put custom ROMs.
Been such a loooooong time since used ODIN though. Shouldn't be hard to get back on the horse.
Thanks for the suggestion!!!
any idea why this happened? anyone?
as an fyi, I tried to put the lastest SlimROM on but same difference. (i'm really pressed for time always. so I decided this is the quickest thing to try). seems the only thing that will flash is my Cyanogen from December. Strange...
Will have to give ODIN a try if I can ever get the time some day..
Odin shouldn't be a much longer process. Start flash, walk away. When you return 10 minutes to a few hours later, it'll be sitting there waiting for you, all nice and stock!
Anyway, one thing I dont recall seeing you tried is a factory reset. Chances are, that's what caused all your FC. Roms will always take a while on first boot. But all those FC were likely due to incompatible data. Then you may have encountered more data corruption as the system worked overtime trying to resolve all those conflicts.
Its purely a theory, but there's a good chance you will never be able to find exactly what caused all of your issues. Dont lose sleep over it is my best advice! A couple of tips though....
Never wipe/format system! Had you been able to successfully do so, and then nothing would still flash, there would no longer be an o/s to boot into! All roms will format your system partition as the first step in the flash, so there's just no need to do this manually. Most flash failures occur before the flash actually starts, meaning if there's a problem, most times you'll still be able to reboot normally.
Update your firmware. If its been a while since taking an ota or updating via Odin, you're probably on an older firmware build which is known to cause problems with many more recent roms. Most simply will not flash if not updated.
Also, by flashing your up to date firmware in Odin, you will likely fix any corruption which may have occurred on some of those partitions. Good chance you'll be able to flash whatever you want after an Odin firmware update and factory reset.
Hope that helps! Good luck!
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Odin shouldn't be a much longer process. Start flash, walk away. When you return 10 minutes to a few hours later, it'll be sitting there waiting for you, all nice and stock!
Anyway, one thing I dont recall seeing you tried is a factory reset. Chances are, that's what caused all your FC. Roms will always take a while on first boot. But all those FC were likely due to incompatible data. Then you may have encountered more data corruption as the system worked overtime trying to resolve all those conflicts.
Its purely a theory, but there's a good chance you will never be able to find exactly what caused all of your issues. Dont lose sleep over it is my best advice! A couple of tips though....
Never wipe/format system! Had you been able to successfully do so, and then nothing would still flash, there would no longer be an o/s to boot into! All roms will format your system partition as the first step in the flash, so there's just no need to do this manually. Most flash failures occur before the flash actually starts, meaning if there's a problem, most times you'll still be able to reboot normally.
Update your firmware. If its been a while since taking an ota or updating via Odin, you're probably on an older firmware build which is known to cause problems with many more recent roms. Most simply will not flash if not updated.
Also, by flashing your up to date firmware in Odin, you will likely fix any corruption which may have occurred on some of those partitions. Good chance you'll be able to flash whatever you want after an Odin firmware update and factory reset.
Hope that helps! Good luck!
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What's up, Doc? Sorry for that...
I downloaded Odin this morning. I should have gotten the link from XDA. The site i got it from looked official, however, tons of endless pop-ups after I installed it. Freak!!!
Then found the xda links. Not sure which version to get because i didn't see which one handles the S3. The latest version (3.09) should, no?
As well, where do i get the stock ROM from? Forgive me for all these questions. Been extremely busy with work these past few months. No time to play around with my phone everything. I'm forgetting more than I know.
A full wipe was done. In TWRP, system was check (it's always checked) automatically when wiping to flash a new ROM.
Thanks again!
Everything you need is in my sig. Go to the firmware thread and the stock or root66 firmware listed there us what you flash in odin. Version 3.09 is fine btw.
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Everything you need is in my sig. Go to the firmware thread and the stock or root66 firmware listed there us what you flash in odin. Version 3.09 is fine btw.
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Thanks!
S.O.S!!!
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Thanks!
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Downloaded the rooted firmware from your link and the ODIN (3.09)...
Flashed the firmware (making sure to get the correct one for WIND)...ODIN did it's thing...got a green pass...the phone rebooted...got the Samsung symbol, little swoosh animation, and the accompanying sound effect that goes with the swoosh-thing...THE PHONE NEVER BOOTED UP AN O/S!
Did it at about 11:30 last night, left it, got up this morn, and phone STILL in same status!
Found out that site where I downloaded the firmware had an issue last night. They posted this morn, apologizing to people about a D.O.D attack that may have caused dropped downloads. I downloaded the firmware again this morn, flashed with ODIN, got a pass....SAME THING!!! Phone
Had to quickly pack up my laptop to bring with me to the office. Will try the official, non-rooted firmware to see if I can get it to go.
Problems' that my team went from 12 to 2 people...my partner's off today...and I got a LOUD MOUTH across from me who WILL NOT leave me alone, no matter what I say or do. LOL.
Any suggestions?
In the words of George Costanza:
"I'm BACK, babyyyyyyy!!!!!"
The official firmware worked!
Phone's back online. Thanks for all your help. Will have to see about rooting later...as well, want to see how the battery operates on stock firmware. I've tried EVERYTHING under the sun to preserve batt life and NOTHING worked!!!
Tried EVERY KERNEL noted to be good on battery life, tried TONS of apps that were supposed to help, turned off as much as I could, etc....
batt still not good. I give up. Every diagnostic app says batt is very good. I dunno...
Earplugs! Lol! I definitely feel for you about your work status! Been there!
About the firmware though, if the download had been corrupted, it would've failed the initial check done by Odin. You are probably ok. Dont worry just yet!
If it is hanging up at the Samsung screen, you probably just need to factory reset. Almost always fixes this. (It happens due to incompatible data left from your previous rom)
This will wipe internal sdcard though, so if you haven't backed up yet, the next thing to fo is flash TWRP via Odin. You can then use its built in file manager to copy whst you need first. Or you can then flash an insecure kernel and use adb if you're familiar with that.
The Doc is in!
if the download had been corrupted, it would've failed the initial check done by Odin
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That's EXACTLY my thought too. That was really perplexing...
I am up again...
Facotry Reset? How do I do that if stuck at the Samsung splash though?
Now that i know the official firmware works, maybe i'll, try again with the rooted firmware, try to factory reset when stuck, and continue to flash TWRP as you described above. Don't mind factory resetting. I've taken everything I need.
Oh!!!!
I noticed that all the apps I had before flashing the firmware are STILL on my phone. I would have thought that they would have been wiped out completely when lord ODIN was doing her thing.
....and battery life is STILL pretty bad...
Phone's been charging...became fully charged...unplugged it..it was down to 84% after only about 30/mins.
Will see how it goes after doing the factory wipe.
Again, how do i do a factory wipe if stuck at the Samsung swoosh after I re-flash the rooted firmware ?
Maybe your battery is dying. it happens. That would explain a big drop from the start.
To factory reset if you're stuck at boot up, turn the phone off, then boot up into recovery. Hold volume up, home and power. After it vibrates, release power only, continue holding the other two until you see recovery booting up.
If stock recovery is installed, choose factory reset.
In TWRP (probably similar in cwm) go to Wipe and choose factory reset there. In TWRP and CWM, factory resetting does not wipe your internal sdcard. Stock recovery will.
And as for Odin, it doesn't actually touch the user data partition, so all your apps and data are preserved. This is great when just upgrading from one build to the next, but is the reason a factory reset is required if coming from a non touchwiz rom.
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How old is your battery? The S3 is at the age where people who bought it when it was first released will start to notice the battery is beginning to degrade.
You can also get an app called Better Battery Stats here on xda (paid version in the play store). Its the goto utility for investigating problems with battery drain. Run it for a day after a full charge and then check its logs for persistent wakelocks. The app thread should explain its use better than I can, but if you are having trouble you can always post your bbs log here for one of us to look over. (This isnt my strongest area, but there are a few others around that may also be able to help. )
Hello all!
This is my first foray into the world of custom Android systems, and I'm having a hell of a time with it... if somebody would be able to help me out, I would greatly appreciate it.
First off, the situation:
I am on Sprint, and I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy S3 (SPH-L710) from Sprint to use as a backup phone, I used it for a while on Stock, then deactivated it so I could give it to my wife. First though, I wanted to put a custom ROM on it, and experiment/play around a bit and see what this world of options could do for me. Long story short, I ended up flashing an AICP ROM, and everything seemed to go smoothly, but when I went to activate the phone on my account again and it would not work no matter what I tried (details below). I figured maybe I could activate on the stock setup then just restore my custom setup, so I tried to revert to my stock ROM backup and I couldn't do anything because I was constantly getting messages that various programs had closed... Then I tried to wipe and restore my custom ROM backup and I get stuck in a boot loop... so I tried to flash a stock recovery and I get stuck in a boot loop... I'm out of ideas here, and now I'm stuck with a phone I can't use or do anything with, and I can't activate.
Details:
The initial rooting/install process seemed to work ok, and was fairly straightforward. I followed various guides on http://galaxys3root.com/ to get my phone rooted and backed up (Don't recall which ones now, but I've read through so much by now I don't know if it matters...).
My phone:
Samsung Galaxy S3 (Sprint) SPH-L710
Modem: L710SPRDNJ2
My Desktop:
Debian Linux
Here's the steps I performed:
Rebooted phone in Odin mode
Downloaded CWM S3 Sprint Recovery from the http://galaxys3root.com/ website (can't find the link any more)
Flashed the CWM recovery using Heimdall then rebooted phone into CWM
Installed SuperSU through CWM, then rebooted
Checked that the phone was rooted successfully (it was), then ran Titanium Backup on the whole device to my SD card, then copied the backup files to my desktop computer
Rebooted into CWM, and performed a backup through CWM, then rebooted and copied the CWM backup to my desktop.
Downloaded AICP Rom for my phone from here: http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/GalaxyS3Sprint/roms/AICP/aicp_d2spr_lp-10.0-RELEASE-20150707.zip, put it on my SD card, then installed it through CWM and rebooted
At this point, I was happy with how everything was working, so I did some minor theme customizations then made another backup through CWM, and copied it to my computer, but I did NOT run Titanium this time...
After all of this, I tried to go ahead and activate it through the Sprint web service. This process failed continuously with an unhelpful error message of "Sorry, this device can't be activated right now". I then got on Chat to see if they could activate it manually, and then the problems began. They did their thing activating the phone, but when I booted up I got no data connectivity, and couldn't make calls, and the SIM was not changing over to the new number. I was on the chat with them for over an hour trying to get the situation resolved, but that finally ended when they started asking me to punch in ## codes, because I discovered that none of them worked on my custom ROM. Some quick research told me that this was non-trivial to get around so I had them switch everything back and I started researching the issue.
I found this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626638&highlight=sph-l710 that looked like it would let me do what I needed from the custom ROM, but I couldn't tell if it would fix my problem for sure, so I figured "I'll just restore my stock setup from that backup I took, activate it and update, then start over". This is when things got really frustrating...
First I rebooted into CWM, went to 'backup/restore', and restored my stock backup
Rebooted, and as soon as I got past the lock screen, I get inundated with messages of various apps being closed unexpectedly.
I researched a bit, discovered the issue may be caused by stale dalvik cache, so I rebooted into CWM, cleared the dalvik cache, formatted the /cache partition, then tried to restore the stock backup again, but this time I get stuck in a boot loop.
I then rebooted into CWM, tried to restore the backup of my AICP ROM, only to be stuck in a boot loop as well.
Trying to get into any usable system, I rebooted to CWM, cleared dalvik cache, then formatted /cache, /data, and /system just to be sure, and re-flashed the base AICP ROM I started with. This worked fine, and before long I had stock AICP back
Since I still couldn't get the phone to activate in the custom ROM, and my backups are apparently completely useless, I rebooted into CWM, wiped dalvik, /cache, /data, and /system again and tried to install a different stock ROM I found in the XDA forums (here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-sprint/development/stock-rom-4-4-2-t3010642) only to be greeted by another bootloop
At this point I've spent well over 24 man-hours trying to get this to work, reading, researching, flashing, etc all to no avail. Nothing I do seems to work, and it seems like every article, tutorial, or forum thread I read either has nothing to do with my device, is too old, or doesn't describe my problem.
I'm at wits end, and am so frustrated I'm ready to just give up and smash this device and buy a new one... My questions to the community are as follows:
I know I screwed up on a couple of things, but in my initial research of doing this there was no indication that these were even things I needed to watch out for... Is there any more organized sources of information for doing this sort of thing?
Does anybody else out there use Sprint on a custom ROM, and if so how you you pull this off
Where else have I screwed up, and how can I fix this situation? (My end goal is still to get the S3 onto Sprint with a custom ROM)
What can I do differently next time? I would like to figure this out and do it to other phones and devices I have, but if it's this much trouble every time, I just don't have the time to mess with it.
Thank you in advance, and I appreciate any information that the community can provide.
This sounds like a CWM problem to me. If I were you, I'd boot the phone into Odin Mode and flash TWRP ( www.twrp.me ) then try flashing the latest aicp nightly downloaded from the official site ( www.aicp-rom.com ). Check the md5sums on everything! Then maybe try flashing a touchwiz ROM and activating your phone. Remember that you need to wipe the internal storage when you go between KitKat and lollipop.
I'm fairly certain you have to do activation with the stock Touchwiz roms -- once the phone is activated you can flash a custom.
You should go into recovery and wipe everything (System/data/etc) EXCEPT for the External SD Card
Power off - pull the battery for a few - power on directly into download mode
Odin NJ2 back onto the phone and reboot and activate it (skip through most of the setup since you'll flash a custom after)
Once you know it's activated and working under the stock Touchwiz, then again power off and Odin TWRP recovery
Then you can go back into recovery, wipe everything except External SD, and flash the custom rom back on.
Looks like swapping CWM for TWRP did the trick.
Flashed TWRP no problems, and put CleanBean on there to get the phone activated. Still wouldn't work automatically over the Sprint website, but I got on chat with them and they fixed me right up. Downloading a fresh copy of AICP now...
Is it worth it to keep the CWM backups I made earlier, or should I just go ahead and flush them? I figured just get rid of them since restoring them wasn't working anyway, but I figured I would ask.
Now to move all the data over to the new phone. Thanks so much for your help guys!
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Looks like swapping CWM for TWRP did the trick.
Flashed TWRP no problems, and put CleanBean on there to get the phone activated. Still wouldn't work automatically over the Sprint website, but I got on chat with them and they fixed me right up. Downloading a fresh copy of AICP now...
Is it worth it to keep the CWM backups I made earlier, or should I just go ahead and flush them? I figured just get rid of them since restoring them wasn't working anyway, but I figured I would ask.
Now to move all the data over to the new phone. Thanks so much for your help guys!
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Get rid of them. TWRP can't restore CWM even if the backup is good
All I want..... Is an S3 with AICP on Sprint's network.
Two weeks ago I bought an S3 for $50, started playing with it, easily flashed AICP and TWRP 2.8.7.0 Recovery. Everything was awesome, until Sprint couldn't activate it. I flashed back to stock through Odin, Sprint still couldn't activate it (problems with programming). There was no Sprint boot screen, so assuming that was the main problem I found "SPH-L710_ND8_Full Restore_UNROOTED.exe" that restored the Sprint boot logo and viola! I had Sprint 4GLTE and talk and text.......... But now, this little devil S3 won't flash Roms that are 5.0 or newer. I have tried AICP, PAC-ROM, Vanir, Exodus.... all just boot to the boot logo and stay there, but when i try Gummy 4.4.4 it boots and works fine.
I always wipe cache, dalvik, & use correct gapps. Using TWRP 2.8.7.0 and have tried two other recoveries with same result. Tried flashing L710VPUDNJ2_L710SPRDNJ2_L710VPUDNJ2_HOME.tar.md5 through Odin and then reflashing recovery and retrying ROM, same result.
Right now its working fine with gummy 4.4.4 but I want 5.1-6.0 because that's the only way I will feel ok about having an S3 I'm sure I'm forgetting some details as this has been a two week off and on thing trying to get this phone to work, so if I am please forgive me and have pity (I'm using a blackberry Q10)
Why will lollipop roms not boot?!?!?!
Please..... help me obi wan kenobi...... you're my only hope
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All I want..... Is an S3 with AICP on Sprint's network.
Two weeks ago I bought an S3 for $50, started playing with it, easily flashed AICP and TWRP 2.8.7.0 Recovery. Everything was awesome, until Sprint couldn't activate it. I flashed back to stock through Odin, Sprint still couldn't activate it (problems with programming). There was no Sprint boot screen, so assuming that was the main problem I found "SPH-L710_ND8_Full Restore_UNROOTED.exe" that restored the Sprint boot logo and viola! I had Sprint 4GLTE and talk and text.......... But now, this little devil S3 won't flash Roms that are 5.0 or newer. I have tried AICP, PAC-ROM, Vanir, Exodus.... all just boot to the boot logo and stay there, but when i try Gummy 4.4.4 it boots and works fine.
I always wipe cache, dalvik, & use correct gapps. Using TWRP 2.8.7.0 and have tried two other recoveries with same result. Tried flashing L710VPUDNJ2_L710SPRDNJ2_L710VPUDNJ2_HOME.tar.md5 through Odin and then reflashing recovery and retrying ROM, same result.
Right now its working fine with gummy 4.4.4 but I want 5.1-6.0 because that's the only way I will feel ok about having an S3 I'm sure I'm forgetting some details as this has been a two week off and on thing trying to get this phone to work, so if I am please forgive me and have pity (I'm using a blackberry Q10)
Why will lollipop roms not boot?!?!?!
Please..... help me obi wan kenobi...... you're my only hope
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If you the original Sprint S3 and not the new Sprint Triband S3 then you should not have any problem at all! How long are you waiting on it to boot? I had the new Triband model and I had and I thought the lollipop roms wouldn't boot either but I had to give it 5-10mins sometimes on the 1st boot!
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If you the original Sprint S3 and not the new Sprint Triband S3 then you should not have any problem at all! How long are you waiting on it to boot? I had the new Triband model and I had and I thought the lollipop roms wouldn't boot either but I had to give it 5-10mins sometimes on the 1st boot!
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I have let it sit overnight a few times now.... just to make sure. With the Gumy 4.4.4 Rom it only took about 2 minutes which I was shocked by.
I feel like I have literally tried everything.
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I have let it sit overnight a few times now.... just to make sure. With the Gumy 4.4.4 Rom it only took about 2 minutes which I was shocked by.
I feel like I have literally tried everything.
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Yea Kitkat roms don't take very long on 1st boot anymore. But as for lollipop what all roms have you tried flashing?
There's only 2 reasons I can think of that they might not be working. 1st is your model SPH-710T or SPH-710 and 2nd are trying to flash a custom kernel with it?
Another thing I feel like is worth mentioning.... When I first flashed the AICP Rom I played with it for a few days so i had all my stuff installed. Realized I had to flash to stock to activate on Sprint so i made a Nandroid backup of my AICP 5.1 setup. When i restore this backup it boot loops as well.
Tried restoring everything except data, wiped dalvik and cache, all using the same twrp recovery. So strange...
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Yea Kitkat roms don't take very long on 1st boot anymore. But as for lollipop what all roms have you tried flashing?
There's only 2 reasons I can think of that they might not be working. 1st is your model SPH-710T or SPH-710 and 2nd are trying to flash a custom kernel with it?
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I have tried AICP, PAC-ROM, Vanir, Exodus.... all just boot to the boot logo and stay there. Mine is the SPH-L710 not the triband 710T. The Roms I tried to install, as far as I know, come with the kernel in the ROM zip. I have tried AICP and the pac-rom with just the rom zip and gapps, as well as with a few custom kernels just to see if it would change anything.
Ah another thing, may be unrelated because I only get this when flashing AICP and Pac, it says "unmount of /system failed; no such volume" and then flashes boot img and seems to be successful.
When I flashed exodus and Vanir it does not say this, and all seems to go perfect..... buuuuuut still boot loops/gets stuck at boot animation
Even tried flashing rom and gapps via adb sideload
I have a bad esn l710 in really poor condition. Just flashed the same recovery, same AICP rom, same gapps, all from the same SD card, and this one is working fine. Boots up in just a few minutes.
So i have to be missing something or something is wrong with the one I can actually activate.
EDIT: So "unmount of /system failed; no such volume" error doesn't matter, same thing happened on the bad ESN device that booted up fine.
Update (if anyone cares lol): I flashed both devices completely to stock with the "SPH-L710_ND8_Full Restore_UNROOTED.exe" and then did the exact same thing to both devices, twrp>aicp rom>gapps>dalvik>boot, the bad ESN crap device boots AICP fine, the good condition good ESN one boot loops forever.
I am at a loss here, both devices are exactly the same SPH-L710, flashed to stock completely, but the one with a good ESN that would actually work will not boot lollipop roms. I disassembled both devices to look for hardware differences of any kind, they're identical (with no signs of damage). The only difference is the bad esn one is a slightly deeper shade of blue. I'm pulling my hair out.
I even tried using the force, but my midichlorian levels have never been that good.
Who knows man
I've seen this only a couple times. One guy had luck. When it was stuck, he just kept randomly hitting the power button and eventually long pressed until it was about to reboot (screen freezes for a second) and when it shut off, held home and volume up so it booted recovery when it came on. Then just rebooted system, and this time it booted. Also, sometimes when going back and forth between KitKat and lollipop, you need to wipe internal storage. Make sure you have the latest twrp too (2.8.7.0).
Just shots in the dark, but you never know.
I saw one member who was never able to boot lollipop roms, you would be the second. So its pretty rare.
Well you now know 3 people that cant flash lollipop roms on an l710 NON tri-band.... Ive tried all of them including a couple of Vanir 6.0 roms and the ONLY one i could get to take was a BeanStalk 5.01 rom and a Candykat only after flashing its KitKat predecessor... All KitKat roms work just fine.. Curious,, as I also used the same odin non- rooted rom to get back to stock and after that had trouble flashing lollipop roms period.. Maybe something with the symlinks in that un-rooted rom??? I'm at a loss myself...
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I've seen this only a couple times. One guy had luck. When it was stuck, he just kept randomly hitting the power button and eventually long pressed until it was about to reboot (screen freezes for a second) and when it shut off, held home and volume up so it booted recovery when it came on. Then just rebooted system, and this time it booted. Also, sometimes when going back and forth between KitKat and lollipop, you need to wipe internal storage. Make sure you have the latest twrp too (2.8.7.0).
Just shots in the dark, but you never know.
I saw one member who was never able to boot lollipop roms, you would be the second. So its pretty rare.
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As the only possible solution I have not tried, I will attempt to randomly press/long press the home button as it boots and then boot recovery..... lol
What's even weirder is it worked fine with AICP lollipop just about a month ago, before i had done anything to it. but I repeated all the things i did to it on another s3 and that one still worked fine with lollipop roms.
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Well you now know 3 people that cant flash lollipop roms on an l710 NON tri-band.... Ive tried all of them including a couple of Vanir 6.0 roms and the ONLY one i could get to take was a BeanStalk 5.01 rom and a Candykat only after flashing its KitKat predecessor... All KitKat roms work just fine.. Curious,, as I also used the same odin non- rooted rom to get back to stock and after that had trouble flashing lollipop roms period.. Maybe something with the symlinks in that un-rooted rom??? I'm at a loss myself...
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I used that same unroooted Odin rom on a bad esn s3 and it works fine with lollipop roms. So strange
Edit: no idea what symlinks are
I have similar probl.
After 4 months with CM12.1 I'm flashing NJ2 and upd. to OH1.
After THAT - I cant to flash anything ROM lollipop and higher.
I dont know, what is it.
I was waiting for 4 hours, 8 hours, 12 hours, a day!
I dont know, I dislike TW roms, help anyone!
CyanogenMod 13.0 D2SPR
...I dunno, wanna start from scratch?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-sprint/development/rom-d2spr-cyanogenmod-13-0-t3248561
- Use the Sprint-made TWRP .img in the OP with Flashify (from the Play Store)
- Flash a CM 13, add GApps (from OpenGApps), and a recent SuperSU.
I'm a bit of a half-no0b, so I may be talking out me pants.
Bonne chance!
DavidovDI said:
I have similar probl.
After 4 months with CM12.1 I'm flashing NJ2 and upd. to OH1.
After THAT - I cant to flash anything ROM lollipop and higher.
I dont know, what is it.
I was waiting for 4 hours, 8 hours, 12 hours, a day!
I dont know, I dislike TW roms, help anyone!
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I'm glad I'm not the only one. Someone has to know how to fix this.... somewhere.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one. Someone has to know how to fix this.... somewhere.
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Yep!:crying::crying::crying:
I had the same problem. Try this. It worked for me today.
I have a d2spr (originally from sprint). It is now activated with boost. L710VPUDOH1 bootloader and baseband. CF-Auto-Root-d2spr-d2spr-sphl710.tar.md5 flashed with odin for root. twrp-2.8.7.0-d2spr.img.tar.md5 flashed with odin as recovery. I backed up Apn's with "APN Backup & Restore" app. I wiped system, cache, dalvik, data. Flashed cm-12.1-20151117-SNAPSHOT-YOG7DAO1K7-d2spr.zip... . Flashed pa_gapps-modular-full-5.1-20150315-signed.zip. I Wiped Dalvik. The device booted smoothly within approximately 7 minutes. I had full function as far as I could tell. Everything worked well. Ran this setup for about a month. I decided to restore a stock w/root backup made with twrp2870. Bootlooped until I learned to wipe internal sd when going back to 4.4.2. I wiped the internal sd and successfully booted stock w/root backup. When I tried to go back to cm 12.1 backup, I ran into the same problem... boot loop for hours. Multiple times. Backups and different nightly zips. I found and flashed every custom recovery I could find for this device to try to make it work. Eventually... while I had twrp-2.8.7.2-d2spr.img as my recovery (not sure if it makes a difference or not). I found this...
(apparently the link is not allowed due to my lack of posts with this forum)
im pasting from another page at this point...
Ha! Got it! Visited the #cyanogenmod channel on freenode irc and there were some VERY helpful people there. So I've got a few instructions.
Flash the latest TWRP recovery via ODIN. (2.8.7.0-d2spr at the time of writing).
Flash your CM 12 zip file
On your PC (with adb installed) run the command "adb shell dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist of=/sdcard/persist.img"
Then run "adb pull /sdcard/persist.img" (This will give you a backup of the persist partition in case anything goes wrong)
Run the command "mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist"
Run the command "adb reboot"
If it boots into OS, great! Reboot into recovery and install the lastest gapps package.
I did it from adb in a Cygwin64 Terminal. The device booted my cm12.1 backup the first time I tried. I think it would work just as well with adb from a windows command prompt. I only found this on another page. Credit goes to someone from "#cyanogenmod channel on freenode irc". Hope it is as much help to all of you as it was to me.
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I have a d2spr (originally from sprint). It is now activated with boost. L710VPUDOH1 bootloader and baseband. CF-Auto-Root-d2spr-d2spr-sphl710.tar.md5 flashed with odin for root. twrp-2.8.7.0-d2spr.img.tar.md5 flashed with odin as recovery. I backed up Apn's with "APN Backup & Restore" app. I wiped system, cache, dalvik, data. Flashed cm-12.1-20151117-SNAPSHOT-YOG7DAO1K7-d2spr.zip... . Flashed pa_gapps-modular-full-5.1-20150315-signed.zip. I Wiped Dalvik. The device booted smoothly within approximately 7 minutes. I had full function as far as I could tell. Everything worked well. Ran this setup for about a month. I decided to restore a stock w/root backup made with twrp2870. Bootlooped until I learned to wipe internal sd when going back to 4.4.2. I wiped the internal sd and successfully booted stock w/root backup. When I tried to go back to cm 12.1 backup, I ran into the same problem... boot loop for hours. Multiple times. Backups and different nightly zips. I found and flashed every custom recovery I could find for this device to try to make it work. Eventually... while I had twrp-2.8.7.2-d2spr.img as my recovery (not sure if it makes a difference or not). I found this...
(apparently the link is not allowed due to my lack of posts with this forum)
im pasting from another page at this point...
Ha! Got it! Visited the #cyanogenmod channel on freenode irc and there were some VERY helpful people there. So I've got a few instructions.
Flash the latest TWRP recovery via ODIN. (2.8.7.0-d2spr at the time of writing).
Flash your CM 12 zip file
On your PC (with adb installed) run the command "adb shell dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist of=/sdcard/persist.img"
Then run "adb pull /sdcard/persist.img" (This will give you a backup of the persist partition in case anything goes wrong)
Run the command "mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist"
Run the command "adb reboot"
If it boots into OS, great! Reboot into recovery and install the lastest gapps package.
I did it from adb in a Cygwin64 Terminal. The device booted my cm12.1 backup the first time I tried. I think it would work just as well with adb from a windows command prompt. I only found this on another page. Credit goes to someone from "#cyanogenmod channel on freenode irc". Hope it is as much help to all of you as it was to me.
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I flashed mine back to stock and sold it.... got a good deal on an S5 and flashed MOAR to it.
I found this thread a while back and attempted to do what it says to do, but I couldn't get it to work for me. What exactly does running those commands do that suddenly makes it work?
I think it either reformats or converts the persist partition to ext4. I'm not 100% sure yet bc I haven't had time to look into it.
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I have followed the instructions from Max at galaxynote4root http://galaxynote4root.com/galaxy-note-4-root/how-to-root-unlock-bootloader-on-galaxy-note-4/5/. I got all the way through to the final step which is go into TWRP recovery, install the Oscar kernel and SuperSU zip files. I did not extract these files. Once I did that I got into a boot loop. I get by the Verizon logo to the UI and then it starts rebooting. Since there is not much discussion activity at Max's site, I thought if anyone here could help me.
After the UI comes up and before it goes in the boot loop, I get messages saying "Unfortunately xxxx has stopped." It varies about sometimes it is Knox. S Pen, Google Play, etc.
Try a factory reset by going into recovery and wiping delvik, cache, and data
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Try a factory reset by going into recovery and wiping delvik, cache, and data
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That improved the situation. It is no longer in a constant boot loop, but it will still reboot when I manually start it or reboot it. When it starts it says "unfortunately KNOX has stopped running." It was doing that before, too.
I have confirmed I have root and and unlocked bootloader.
Redownload the rom.
Wipe data, cache, dalvic cache and system.
Install rom
Then kernel
And supersu.
Reboot and you should be fine
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If it continues I'd get a Odin flushable and use the pit file for repatriationing of the system. Maybe something went wrong..... Idk
Just a quick question: Did you use a micro SD card as part of the process? Did you remove this card after you were done unlocking the bootloader?
I know the process has you reformat the card, but I am asking if you have tried booting with the card removed.
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Redownload the rom.
Wipe data, cache, dalvic cache and system.
Install rom
Then kernel
And supersu.
Reboot and you should be fine
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If it continues I'd get a Odin flushable and use the pit file for repatriationing of the system. Maybe something went wrong..... Idk
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Just followed your instructions. Everything was fine until I installed the kernel and supersu. I hate to be stuck when I'm so close.
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Just a quick question: Did you use a micro SD card as part of the process? Did you remove this card after you were done unlocking the bootloader?
I know the process has you reformat the card, but I am asking if you have tried booting with the card removed.[/QUOTE
OK, tried that, and it worked--once. When I reboot with the SD card out, it either won't start or goes back into a boot loop.
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Although it didn't seem very warm to me, I pulled the battery and let it sit for an hour. When I started it back up, everything was fine.
However, how do I re-enable the use of the SD card. I am afraid if I put in back in, I'll go back into the boot loop?
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Although it didn't seem very warm to me, I pulled the battery and let it sit for an hour. When I started it back up, everything was fine.
However, how do I re-enable the use of the SD card. I am afraid if I put in back in, I'll go back into the boot loop?
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You'll need to connect the micro sd card itself to the computer and format it there. I have used Rufus (https://rufus.akeo.ie/) in the past to do this, but you may use any formatting program that you are familiar with. I recommend FAT32 as your format unless you move files over 4 GB to and from the card.
Thanks. I've rebooted it a couple of times after doing this, and it still is working! Now, should I install a 6.0 ROM or leave well enough alone?
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Thanks. I've rebooted it a couple of times after doing this, and it still is working! Now, should I install a 6.0 ROM or leave well enough alone?
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It will depend on what version of firmware you are currently running. Most 6.0 ROMs require that you are using N910VVRU2CPD1 or N910VVRU2CPF3 for proper use. Please go into About Phone in Settings and check the Baseband Version field to make sure that you have one of those two in there. Flashing a 6.0 ROM with 5.1.1 firmware will cause issues with mobile signal and can make it impossible to use wifi.
If you find that you are running 5.1.1 firmware, then you have two choices: Flash a 5.1.1 ROM and call it a day or go through the process of unlocking the bootloader for 6.0.1 firmware. It's important to note that this will be a different process than the one you just went through. Be sure to research it thoroughly before attempting it. Hsbadr is a great developer and I believe he has a process for that, but it's been a while since I did it myself.
Back in a boot loop again. Once I've loaded the system image, I can reboot several times and everything is stable. As soon as I obtain root by installing the Oscar kernel and BetaSU, the phone becomes unstable. It might boot properly at first, but I still get "XXX has failed to start" where XXX can be any of a number of apps. If I let that go on without first shutting it down, it will go into a boot loop. However, if I do shut it down and restart it will also eventually go into a boot loop. Obviously this phone can't be my daily driver until I get it stable.
Before I install the rom each time, I wipe data, cache, dalvic cache and system.
I wonder if the kernel is the issue?
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Back in a boot loop again. Once I've loaded the system image, I can reboot several times and everything is stable. As soon as I obtain root by installing the Oscar kernel and BetaSU, the phone becomes unstable. It might boot properly at first, but I still get "XXX has failed to start" where XXX can be any of a number of apps. If I let that go on without first shutting it down, it will go into a boot loop. However, if I do shut it down and restart it will also eventually go into a boot loop. Obviously this phone can't be my daily driver until I get it stable.
Before I install the rom each time, I wipe data, cache, dalvic cache and system.
I wonder if the kernel is the issue?
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I need more information to help you out. Please answer the following:
What baseband is your phone at right now? (Refer to my post above for where to find it.)
What ROM have you installed? (Be sure to include Android version as well as name)
Oscar Kernel is specifically for use with 6.0.1 Touchwiz ROMs. If you aren't on 6.0.1 and you haven't installed a Touchwiz-based ROM, then there will be issues.
ssj4gogeta2003 said:
I need more information to help you out. Please answer the following:
What baseband is your phone at right now? (Refer to my post above for where to find it.)
What ROM have you installed? (Be sure to include Android version as well as name)
Oscar Kernel is specifically for use with 6.0.1 Touchwiz ROMs. If you aren't on 6.0.1 and you haven't installed a Touchwiz-based ROM, then there will be issues.
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Thank you. I finally figured it out. The problem was with oscar_kernel_v0.2. Instead I am using Emotion-TW-5.1.1-nightly-r21-RC1-SM-N910P. I'm going to stay with 5.1.1. The only trouble I am having now is with My Tracks not showing the map. I know it's been deprecated by Google, but it still is working on my LG G4. However, I'm not trying to hijack this thread. I'll start a new thread for this issue.
This is now the fastest phone I've used after deleting bloatware and running Nova Launcher.
Good to hear. Enjoy the phone.