Hi all. Im really stuck. I researched forever but im at a dead end now. Last week my note 2 lte (TMobile Germany) just crashed and then on reboot got stuck at samsung logo. Doesnt get past that anymore. Download mode, recovery mode doesnt. So first thing i flashed cwm and root access via odin. Did a full (dalvik, cashe). Still no reboot. Installing Sammy firmware via odin doesnt work. The installation always gets stuck on "system.img". Tried it several times. Also tried the recovery via Kies. No luck as well. Then i tried to push cm11 zip via adb but adb doesn't recognize the device. I have the sammy drivers but when i comnect the phone in recovery mode it recognizes it as "Galaxy Nexus adb interface" or so. When i switch on the phone i get a small red light blink in the proximity sensor - looks like SDS. Does it mean i have brick now?? I cannot send in the phone cause it has a damage but that was months ago and didnt mess with the system as yet. Guys i have tried everything i could think of so far. HELP. If i could only push a zip to install cm from recovery maybe it would work... Anyone???
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I bricked my Galaxy Ace GT-5830 and I need help un-bricking it with a stock ROM or one of these shiny Cyanogen ROMs. I've got all the tools I need from what I understand and hopefully someone can help guide this noob through the process and perhaps help me upgrade to a new OS. The phone will boot to and hang on the Samsung logo and to recovery mode but there seems to be some issue putting it into download mode so I'm stuck at the point of connecting it to Oden for download mode.
What I have:
Bricked phone
Oden 3.07 and 3.09
SD Card
Stock Firmware S5830XWKPY_S5830CPWKP1_CPW
My issues:
Firstly the stock ROM for a UK Carphone Warehouse phone I need that I found on SamMobile and another hosting site isn't in a tar.md5 format but I'm trying another stock ROM which is in the proper format for another UK provider to see if it will work, I'm not aware of how this would effect the phone if at all.
Secondly booting the phone to download mode doesn't seem to work as no connection is made with Oden. The phone boots to an empty charging battery which will disappear after a minute or so before the phone switches itself off again. Oden does recognise the phone when it boots and hangs on the Samsung boot logo and also when it boots into recovery mode. Multiple installs/versions of the USB drivers and Oden running in admin have been unsuccessfully attempted with various Samsung USB cables. Should I try to start Oden when a connection is made it hangs on setupconnection but I guess that is because it needs to be in download mode?
When attempting to wipe data/factory reset and cache partition it returns with the errors rfs format failed on /dev/stl13 and /dev/stl14.
brianx87 said:
I bricked my Galaxy Ace GT-5830 and I need help un-bricking it with a stock ROM or one of these shiny Cyanogen ROMs. I've got all the tools I need from what I understand and hopefully someone can help guide this noob through the process and perhaps help me upgrade to a new OS. The phone will boot to and hang on the Samsung logo and to recovery mode but there seems to be some issue putting it into download mode so I'm stuck at the point of connecting it to Oden for download mode.
What I have:
Bricked phone
Oden 3.07 and 3.09
SD Card
Stock Firmware S5830XWKPY_S5830CPWKP1_CPW
My issues:
Firstly the stock ROM for a UK Carphone Warehouse phone I need that I found on SamMobile and another hosting site isn't in a tar.md5 format but I'm trying another stock ROM which is in the proper format for another UK provider to see if it will work, I'm not aware of how this would effect the phone if at all.
Secondly booting the phone to download mode doesn't seem to work as no connection is made with Oden. The phone boots to an empty charging battery which will disappear after a minute or so before the phone switches itself off again. Oden does recognise the phone when it boots and hangs on the Samsung boot logo and also when it boots into recovery mode. Multiple installs/versions of the USB drivers and Oden running in admin have been unsuccessfully attempted with various Samsung USB cables. Should I try to start Oden when a connection is made it hangs on setupconnection but I guess that is because it needs to be in download mode?
When attempting to wipe data/factory reset and cache partition it returns with the errors rfs format failed on /dev/stl13 and /dev/stl14.
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You forgot to tell us how you got it bricked in the first place. Was your device rooted and do you have stock recovery or CWM? Try taking out the battery and then put it back. Press and hold Vol Down+ Home+ Power button and see if you enter the Download Mode. Once you are in the Download Mode, there should be a yellow text saying "Downloading". Do post the result.
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You forgot to tell us how you got it bricked in the first place. Was your device rooted and do you have stock recovery or CWM? Try taking out the battery and then put it back. Press and hold Vol Down+ Home+ Power button and see if you enter the Download Mode. Once you are in the Download Mode, there should be a yellow text saying "Downloading". Do post the result.
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I rooted the device and tried installing a custom ROM through recovery mode from what I remember and it's using a stock recovery. I've tried removing the battery and replacing while holding Vol Down+ Home+ Power button and it goes straight to the yellow text saying "Downloading" at which point the usb connection becomes unrecognised by my PC. Tried several different ports with various cables using the USB drivers from Samsung Kies and standalone drivers and I have yet to get it to recognise the device. What about "Emergency Download Mode," the device is recognised then but of course Oden hangs on the "setupconnection."
brianx87 said:
I rooted the device and tried installing a custom ROM through recovery mode from what I remember and it's using a stock recovery. I've tried removing the battery and replacing while holding Vol Down+ Home+ Power button and it goes straight to the yellow text saying "Downloading" at which point the usb connection becomes unrecognised by my PC. Tried several different ports with various cables using the USB drivers from Samsung Kies and standalone drivers and I have yet to get it to recognise the device. What about "Emergency Download Mode," the device is recognised then but of course Oden hangs on the "setupconnection."
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It's just a soft-brick so nothing to very about The reason it was bricked was because you tried to install the custom rom from stock recovery mode. Always make sure to install custom rom from custom recovery mode like CWM. The reason your odin can't identify your device is because the odin is probably outdated and/ or maybe due to drivers. You can never use Emergency Download Mode to flash back stock rom from odin. When you use Emergency Download Mode, your connection will be recognized but you will end up getting set up connection error while flashing. Now to unbrick your device, just use the following thread,
[Share] All Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 Stock Firmwares (2.3.X) Ever Released
First download the required firmware for your region from the first post. Once you have done that, go to the link in the second post. Download all the files (usb drivers, odin and ops) except firmwares (which you have already downloaded from the first post) in the "Preparation" section. Now install the USB drivers and follow the "Single Firmware File Installation". Once you have finished flashing, go to stock recovery mod and do a wipe data/ factory reset & wipe cache (otherwise bootloop might occur). Then restart. Now you have successfully flashed the stock rom. Here is the link for rooting and installing CWM 5 on Samsung Galaxy Ace which you can install from stock recovery mode (always root first and then install CWM),
How To Root and Unroot Samsung Galaxy Ace?
CWM 5.0.2.6 fix for Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830
Once you have installed CWM, you can flash any custom rom. CM 11 (KitKat) roms usually need CWM 6 but there is one CM 11 rom name KitKat for All that works well with CWM 5. Do post the result. Hope I Helped
My GT5830 Galaxy Ace is stuck in bootloop. I was flashing some file using recovery mode. Now the PC can not recognise the phone when it is in downloading mode although the PC recognise it in Emergency Download mode. I have tried all the USB drivers suggested in this forum.
Please help me.
Phone stuck in TWRP, can't access download mode after factory reset
Hello all,
My Samsung Galaxy Note II is stuck in TWRP 2.8.7 after I did a factory reset.
I initially followed this guide (wiki dot cyanogenmod dot org/w/Install_CM_for_t0lte) to install CM, which worked fine. I ran into a slight issue and decided I'd try to flash again as it was pretty easy. Turned out to be a mistake as I can't seem to do anything right now and am stuck in TWRP. Every combination of button and reboots I try just bring me back into TWRP. Plugging the phone in the computer recharges the battery, but the computer (running Windows 7) does not recognize the phone. ADB doesn't detect any device.
I tried a few times to reinstall the roms, to no avail as I was unable to boot into anything else than recovery. I then followed some guide and accidentally wiped the roms from the phone. As stated above, I can't access the phone through ADB so I am unable to push them back on the phone.
Please help, I would be immensely grateful. Thanks to all in advance.
UPDATE : I managed to get into download mode but adb says error:device not found when I try to push the roms in.
Thanks again
Are you stuck in TWRP (with access to the TWRP menu) or stuck ON the TWRP boot screen?
genuflex said:
UPDATE : I managed to get into download mode but adb says error:device not found when I try to push the roms in.
Thanks again
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Download mode does not use adb you need odin or heimdall.
Is there any solution for boot loop in gt-i9192?
My phone was rooted. I was using s5 rom proyect and my recovery was Philz Touch Recovery. I was happily using this rom for arround 8 months. Recently my phone was responding slow and my storage was almost full. One day while watching youtube videos my phone got hang! I just removed the battery and tried to restart. But there was a failure and no vibration. The phone is simply dead. I connected my charger and of :crying:course there was no indication. Later I went through several post to learn how to revive my phone from hard brick. I downloaded debrick.img file and made a bootable memory card. This time I was able to switch on my phone but it went through bootloop. The recovery mode takes too long to load and wiping cache and dalvik cache or even reset was not possible because of some error like E: failed to mount ......
Then I went into the download mode. and installed a firmware from sam mobile. Later I flashed CWM recovery through odin successfully.
But this bootloop still exists. Whenever I try to go into recovery mode it still takes a long time. And istead of loading CWM recovery it loads philz recovery mode that was previously installed
Please help I am tired
mbiotanveer said:
Is there any solution for boot loop in gt-i9192?
My phone was rooted. I was using s5 rom proyect and my recovery was Philz Touch Recovery. I was happily using this rom for arround 8 months. Recently my phone was responding slow and my storage was almost full. One day while watching youtube videos my phone got hang! I just removed the battery and tried to restart. But there was a failure and no vibration. The phone is simply dead. I connected my charger and of :crying:course there was no indication. Later I went through several post to learn how to revive my phone from hard brick. I downloaded debrick.img file and made a bootable memory card. This time I was able to switch on my phone but it went through bootloop. The recovery mode takes too long to load and wiping cache and dalvik cache or even reset was not possible because of some error like E: failed to mount ......
Then I went into the download mode. and installed a firmware from sam mobile. Later I flashed CWM recovery through odin successfully.
But this bootloop still exists. Whenever I try to go into recovery mode it still takes a long time. And istead of loading CWM recovery it loads philz recovery mode that was previously installed
Please help I am tired
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Dude,
I am also having a bootloop problem on my S4 Mini GT-I9192...
My TWRP recovery was working, I was using version 3.0.0.0 for serrano3gxx, but when I tried installing a custom rom, the right rom for gt-i9192!!!! for some stupid reason the twrp recovery keeps thinking that my phone is gt-i9190 !!!! it is so stupid!!!
for this stupid reason I couldn't install the ROM !!!
I decided to install the right recovery for my gt-i9192, so I downloaded openrecovery-twrp-2.8.7.0-serranodsxx-STABLE-signed
now, there was a warning to not install the zip using the recovery, but how could I install the recovery if I am unable to install anything with Odin!!!!
Nothing at all!!! I can't install anything with Odin, it just gets stuck!!!! So frustrating!!!!
And now afer I installed it said the installation completed successfully, but..... I can not even get the phone in recovery mode!!!!
What happened??? can anyone please help!!!
I am stuck in this stupid bootloop problem, and now on top of it I can't even go to recovery mode!!!! Nothing!!!
It is useless to do anything with Odin either, it recognises the phone, it says Added! but cannot install anything, it just gets stuck
WHAT CAN I DO?????
PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN.
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You can try this:
1. Download this file: openrecovery-twrp-3.0.0-0-serranodsxx-STABLE-signed.zip and copy the file in sd card
2. Then go to recovery mood.
3. Install the zip file from sd card.
4. hope you will be able to install the correct recovery mood.
mbiotanveer said:
You can try this:
1. Download this file: openrecovery-twrp-3.0.0-0-serranodsxx-STABLE-signed.zip and copy the file in sd card
2. Then go to recovery mood.
3. Install the zip file from sd card.
4. hope you will be able to install the correct recovery mood.
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I think you didn't understand... My phone is not going into recovery at all!!!
I had this problem once when I flashed an incompatible kernel, but I forgot how I got out of it. Best suggestion I have is take out the battery and put it back.
The "hard brick" you suffer the first time was likely a dead battery. The phone looks hard bricked when a battery is below critical energy, and not enough power is available to charge it with an USB. At that point, you had to wait for the energy in the battery to store up again, and then plug it into the USB to charge. Just a little power was necessary to get it charged again.
If you can still access download mode, flash the stock ROM baseband of your phone (you should know what this is). Your data will be wipe but at least you will be able to use the phone again.
Teracotta said:
I had this problem once when I flashed an incompatible kernel, but I forgot how I got out of it. Best suggestion I have is take out the battery and put it back.
The "hard brick" you suffer the first time was likely a dead battery. The phone looks hard bricked when a battery is below critical energy, and not enough power is available to charge it with an USB. At that point, you had to wait for the energy in the battery to store up again, and then plug it into the USB to charge. Just a little power was necessary to get it charged again.
If you can still access download mode, flash the stock ROM baseband of your phone (you should know what this is). Your data will be wipe but at least you will be able to use the phone again.
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Bro hard brick was not a low battery case. I kept it connected to the charger for almost a day. Can you please just say how to solve the problem. I am totally disappointed.
Samsung Galaxy s4 mini (GT-I9192)
Also help me please i wanted to flash the firmware that i just downloaded from sammobile but if i started flashing, my phone stays the same like nothing happen. please help meee.. I've working on it since last month
Hi, anybody here can solve the problem? I have a S4 Mini I9195, is in a bootloop, can enter Download Mode, but not in Recovery Mode, I try flash stock ROM, Recovery y Custom Recory, I used both ODIN and Haindell, always said OK in both flash, but I still can´t enter in Recovery Mode
Hi,
I was running LineageOS on my Galaxy Tab S tablet (SM-T800). I tried to update LineageOS. I went into the settings and downloaded the lastest version. However, the installation didn't go through. The download was successful, but an error message told me to try and manually install the update. I tried to go into TWRP mode to install manually the update. Instead of going in the recovery mode, I saw a TWRP app on the Google Play store. I tried and install that app. It went ok, however, I needed to reboot my tablet to finish. I did so, but after that, I got stuck in booting mode, between the TWRP logo and the Samsung logo. So the tablet was trying to boot in TWRP mode, but after about 5 seconds on the splash screen of TWRP, the spalsh screen disapear and then the tablet tries to boot in normal mode. It doesn't work, and the tablet reboots in TWRP mode, but, again, unsuccessful. It's a loop, alterning between the two splash screens.
I tryed to go into download mode and flashed the stock ROM (found on Updato) while using Odin on my computer. It worked. However, after the process, my tablet got stucked on the Samsung logo only. Now, it doesn't go in recovery mode (TWRP). I can only go in download mode or regular mode (but not working). Only the download mode works.
I don't really know waht to do. I tryed to redo the process with Odin and the custon ROM, but it didn't work better.
What can I do?
Thank you very much for your help!
Blaccko said:
Hi,
I was running LineageOS on my Galaxy Tab S tablet (SM-T800). I tried to update LineageOS. I went into the settings and downloaded the lastest version. However, the installation didn't go through. The download was successful, but an error message told me to try and manually install the update. I tried to go into TWRP mode to install manually the update. Instead of going in the recovery mode, I saw a TWRP app on the Google Play store. I tried and install that app. It went ok, however, I needed to reboot my tablet to finish. I did so, but after that, I got stuck in booting mode, between the TWRP logo and the Samsung logo. So the tablet was trying to boot in TWRP mode, but after about 5 seconds on the splash screen of TWRP, the spalsh screen disapear and then the tablet tries to boot in normal mode. It doesn't work, and the tablet reboots in TWRP mode, but, again, unsuccessful. It's a loop, alterning between the two splash screens.
I tryed to go into download mode and flashed the stock ROM (found on Updato) while using Odin on my computer. It worked. However, after the process, my tablet got stucked on the Samsung logo only. Now, it doesn't go in recovery mode (TWRP). I can only go in download mode or regular mode (but not working). Only the download mode works.
I don't really know waht to do. I tryed to redo the process with Odin and the custon ROM, but it didn't work better.
What can I do?
Thank you very much for your help!
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Have you tried to reflash twrp via odin ? If that works go into twrp reformat your partitions, then flash a custom rom.
Hi,
Thanks for your answer. I tried to reinstall TWRP with Odin on my computer. The process went well, but the reboot of my tablet that occurs at the end of the process got stuck again on the Samsung logo. It didn't get to TWRP mode. I tried to go manually into recovery mode by holding power+vol up+home, but it didn't work.
What else can I try? Thank you,
Blaccko said:
Hi,
Thanks for your answer. I tried to reinstall TWRP with Odin on my computer. The process went well, but the reboot of my tablet that occurs at the end of the process got stuck again on the Samsung logo. It didn't get to TWRP mode. I tried to go manually into recovery mode by holding power+vol up+home, but it didn't work.
What else can I try? Thank you,
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Are you trying to get to twrp from powered off state ? If not , get to power off state, then use key combo again to try to get into twrp.
Also when you flash twrp, in odi , there is a setting to prevent auto reboot, use that and try to get to twrp via key combo from download. Mode., finally tripple chech the key combo you are using is correct
Hi,
Thanks for the help. I tried to get to TWRP from power off state. The TWRP splash screen appears, and stays on for about 5-10 sec. After that, the splash screen disappear and the tablet reboot to get stuck on the Samsung logo again. It's like if the TWRP booting process doesn't go through...
Thanks again for your help,
Ouch !!
Looks like you got a real problem , and getting into territory I'm not expert in, Ashyx is the real authority with twrp for this device, you can try to pm him and hope he takes pity on you ( he has been helping guys on this qa thread tirelessly for over a year, and is prob taking a well deserved break ).
Otherwise a few more suggestions,
Maybe your PIT is messed up , ( but you prob would not make it to twrp splash screen in that case )
Twrp may still be trying to execute the script from the original linage update and not finding something bails ( total guess ).
Try flashing a stock ( downloaded from sammobile or somwhere you trust ) rom via odin, and see if you can get into the stock recovery. From there do a factory reset and see if you can get stock running.
Try getting into twrp with device connected to pc ( helped in some wierd cases, you never know lol ).
When TWRP splash screen comes up, try some key combos , maybe twrp checks for a script abbort key combo ?
Checkout the TWRP github issues page, see if your bug is there and a solution, create a bug report or mail a dev directly.
Have a look at the TWRP code, maybe some clues ??
Hi,
So not much development here...
I tried to download the stock ROM for my device from Sammobile and tried flashing it with Odin (JOdin actually, I'm on Mac), but it says it need a PIT file. I let Casual fin the PIT file and it finds it. Only, after that my device does not reconnect to Odin even though it's still plugged in my computer. I tried to unplug it then plug it back, but then Odin says the PIT file is corrupted. I tried to restart my device, but still not connecting to Odin...
I tried getting into TWRP with my device connected to my computer. Still the same problem of rebooting while TWRP is booting (while it's on splash page).
No combo key seems to work to keep TWRP open and loading...
Didn't find anything on TWRP github and I'm not saavy enough to look into TWRP code.
So, I'm still stuck with my initial problem. Do any of ou have some advices/suggestions or can help me with my problem please? At this point, I've been without my tablet for more than a month and it S**KS!!
Thanks in advance everyone,
Blaccko said:
Hi,
So not much development here...
I tried to download the stock ROM for my device from Sammobile and tried flashing it with Odin (JOdin actually, I'm on Mac), but it says it need a PIT file. I let Casual fin the PIT file and it finds it. Only, after that my device does not reconnect to Odin even though it's still plugged in my computer. I tried to unplug it then plug it back, but then Odin says the PIT file is corrupted. I tried to restart my device, but still not connecting to Odin...
I tried getting into TWRP with my device connected to my computer. Still the same problem of rebooting while TWRP is booting (while it's on splash page).
No combo key seems to work to keep TWRP open and loading...
Didn't find anything on TWRP github and I'm not saavy enough to look into TWRP code.
So, I'm still stuck with my initial problem. Do any of ou have some advices/suggestions or can help me with my problem please? At this point, I've been without my tablet for more than a month and it S**KS!!
Thanks in advance everyone,
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Use ODIN via Windows or a VM on your Mac.
Flash stock firmware then boot to recovery and factory reset.
Reboot and wait ten minutes.
Hi, thanks a lot for your time.
I will try that at work tomorrow as I don't have Windows at home. However, I did try to flash stock ROM with Windows initially (see first post for more info) and it didn't solve my problem. I wasn't able to access recovery mode after the stock ROM was flashed. Hope it's gonna work now and I'll be able to factory reset.
I'll let you know tomorrow afternoon.
Thanks,
ashyx said:
Use ODIN via Windows or a VM on your Mac.
Flash stock firmware then boot to recovery and factory reset.
Reboot and wait ten minutes.
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WOW!!! Thank you so much Ashyx. I can now finally use my Tab S. I'm so grateful!!! Thousand time thank you! I deeply appreciate your help for resolving my problem.
ashyx said:
Use ODIN via Windows or a VM on your Mac.
Flash stock firmware then boot to recovery and factory reset.
Reboot and wait ten minutes.
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